Session 70

Liatai has connected.

Meany has connected.

TMG has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

Liatai:Good question. Was it ever mentioned in-game? ;3

VAE:wot?

* VAE mroweth

Liatai:Max was at the Pearldust the day before the Cygnet left, at least.

TMG:You could say Max...

* TMG shades

TMG:decided to Head For The Hills :U

Liatai:5.6 out of 10. :P

TMG:yeah, you're right. I'll stick with that I know, I'm not good at this. &gt;.&gt;

VAE:hmm, were the nominations ever dealt with from last week?

TMG:Danman; Liatai is planning to give them at start when everyone's here

GM:I'll hand out the noms once RAM connects, if you like.

VAE:That's why i'm asking, hell

Meany:Just wondering if Max stuck around in Castleton enough to carry a package from Barbie to the group.

* Meany opens log of last game for his noms.

GM:<font color="#000000">Hatari is probably still well asleep, so I'll give him Thomas' noms when he shows up.

TMG:<font color="#000000">um, we still have 20 minutes until usual start time. &gt;.&gt;

<font color="#0000ff">RAM has connected.

TMG:<font color="#000000">and hatari's usually -on- time. I hope we're not suggesting actually starting the game without him? ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No no no, I'm not saying start the game without him. ^^;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm saying if people want to get their EXP bookkeeping out of the way before the game starts, I can give noms now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I tink I gave my noms last time XD

Meany:<font color="#660033">Gnogglebolt for Party Unity (even if it didn't work :P). Tom for Voice of Reason. Tathi for Aelian's bardic madness. Terri, Shankfang, and Miron for Who let da dogz out?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Noms! I like noms! C'mon, gimmie a loremaster! :&gt;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Shankfang and Gnoggle for Brotherly Love/Hate.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Swallowtail for Reality Check.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tathi for Trollishious. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">I LIIIIIIIIIVE!

Meany:<font color="#660033">YoRAM.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - I'm the boss. Or at least, I'm trying to be. 200 XP - Confessional talk! 200 XP - Party Unity Attempt

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - Dogs. :|

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 200 XP - Hidden crush? I am SO all over that. &gt;:3 200 XP - I'm onto you -- CURSE YOU BLUFF CHECKS.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 200 XP - Man, it's hard to hide things like crushes from ninjas. 200 XP - &quot;You do not listen.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 200 XP - PUPPIES! :D 200 XP - Forgiveness!

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 200 XP - Ninjaaaa. =3= Edaric - 200 XP - I get by with a little help from my friends.

GM:<font color="#000000">Aelian - 200 XP - Death happens. Just got to live with it. 200 XP - Oh gods I'm going to die. Again.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh. Hey Ram. Surfing through Tvtropes and saw a mention of how in MechWarrior, Ballistc weapons generate a -lot- less heat than Energy weapons.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Immediately remembered that one mech I made when you were over that I stuck all heavy Lasers on. One shot, and the meach -shut down instantly- from overheating. :B

* Ghostwish hisses.

RAM:<font color="#990000">yEP.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You blew your load, and then went right to sleep.

TMG:<font color="#000000">:[

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

* Meany slaps RAM with a pancreas.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Don't ask whose it is.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">=w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Weird Al's?

* RAM detonates C4 in the Pancreas, as well as Meany's liver.

* Ghostwish fires up a Tateari kinetic-rapid dampener. All human explosives and firearms fail to operate. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway...hmm.

TMG:<font color="#000000">CharQs while we wit for start?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*wait

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Pick a month? :3

* RAM is the BombFox. He doesn't use normal human C4.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. march. :U

Meany:<font color="#660033">(Today we replaced all of RAM's C4 with Playdough Brand Playdough. Let's see if he notices.)

Meany:<font color="#660033">July? :B

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's the average

RAM:<font color="#990000">You forget, Meany. I manifest my own C4. There's nothing to replace.

GM:<font color="#000000">... today's is lauguably simple to answer. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;How well can your character defend himself in a fight? Has he ever had to?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I was gonna say June. The month of the D-Day invasion.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Pfft!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I shoot my attackers in the face.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">They die.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Offense is the best defense. And it's practically the story of my life. War survivor, remember? Also, human nobles. Enough said.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Stay in the back, plink away with whatever toys I have. Though it may not be that way forever...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;These muscles aren't just for show, you know.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I am fairly handy with a sword. And I defend myself more so from my favored enemies than, say, other people.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm an inquisitor. I don't defend just myself but the safe living of every Kellon.&quot;

Vuz:<b><font color="#660033">I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds.

</b>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Except for spiderfuckers, of course.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">March... &quot;Your character gets up one morning in the usual fashion, but the sun never rises. What does she do?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I construct a giant steampunk superlamp and make my own sun.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">*cue the Hallelujah chorus as he consoles Tom over his god's laziness. =3=*

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Holy trees, what!? Start investigating, of course!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Talfeera! You're the magical one! What's going on?!&quot; D: Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm either up early, or I overslept really bad. &quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;This is.. a trick question, yes? Why wouldn't the sun rise?&quot;

* Sszeyl noms sundisk.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;No reason. =3=&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Father Llymic, for one.

VAE:<font color="#000000">There's at least one scenario in the Elder Evils handbook that makes this posssible

GM:<font color="#000000">May... ooh, there are lots of good questions in May.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, Viz is supercute

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's pick a fun one. &quot;Open up your character's kitchen cupboards. What do you see?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Kor.&quot; &gt;:O

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Arrows. Wait what-&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't have a kitchen cupboard.. Gilric has, though.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh that's where I left that wrench.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;A variety of spices, cook books, jars of fruit, and a bag of walnuts.&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Me? :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ammo.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Kor en flambe.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Back when I had one... Maize flour. You can't go wrong with maize.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Yes you can.

Meany:<font color="#660033">When you take a wrong turn in the maize.

Meany:<font color="#660033">And face the minotaur.

Meany:<font color="#660033">=3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I imagine the residents of Kemmer to have a cuisine similar to Romanians. That is as above, lot of corn flour porridge, sheep and goat herding ,and such.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Relevant, perhaps. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mamaliga

GM:<font color="#000000">June... &quot;Does your character know how to hunt or fish? Is he good at it? Does he do it for recreation or for food?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I do seem to be able to hunt birds rather well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I'm not particularly good or keen on either.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=3=

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I am the supreme master of such.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah! I remember that! xD

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;None can match me!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">That's gotta happen again. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Also, I do it for food for my bear neighbor.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Aelian.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He gets the munchies. :|&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Go catch me a fish.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;.. Okay..&quot; Damnit.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I prefer fishing with area-effect spells.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">He catches her a shark.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm pretty good at hunting, I think. As long as I can shoot whatever I'm hunting.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;FEESH.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">*lightning bolts the shark* &quot;FRYED FEESH.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sound burst and a net is all you need to have a fish meal in the evening.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">July... another month full of really good questions.

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's go with a silly one. &quot;What is the worst gift your character ever recieved?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Crossbow.&quot; -_-

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Hmm.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;What is this I use guns.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Wedding rings. Lots of them. From nobles I had only heard of.&quot; &gt;:(

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Need me to shoot them for you?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:3

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Edaric sharing his colds and sniffles with me.&quot; -.-;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I once got a band of advrenturers as a gift from a frenemy.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Absolutely. Here, let me point them out. With a fireball.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Liatai, spell list updated. :&gt;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Worst gift? I can't decide between Sszeyl's painting of that spiderfucking bitch, and Egon binding a demon of some sorts to wish me happy 130th birthday.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi shoots off a series of dazzling bolts, each one as bright as the sun as they go zipping through the air, shaped and flying like autumn leaves, headed right for *! 20 damage!

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;List a few phrases your character is fond of uttering. Where did she pick them up?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh boy, where to begin.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh gracious. Wood elves are full of them. Lots of references to trees, which I often use, and then honor and military lingo, which I don't.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm not inclinded towards phrases and such. I tend to be straight spoken.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi shoots off a series of dazzling bolts, each one as bright as the sun as they go zipping through the air, shaped and flying like autumn leaves, headed right for *! 20 damage!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi shoots off a series of dazzling bolts, each one bright as the sun as they go zipping through the air, shaped and flying like autumn leaves! 5 for *, 5 for *, 5 for * and 5 for *!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll catch up on the lying in our tombs.&quot; in the words of the late Archivist Hardy. I wish Cadamon learned a thing or two from him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmm I got from Zairith. :B I'm trying to intergrate Vandria Gilmadrith's 'May you find peace' into my phrasebook too.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Garl's Gold = common gnommish curse. Shredded gears = common Mazian curse. And then anything and everything vulgar I pick up in a language I don't think anyone else understands, just so I can get away with it...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;I just say whatever comes to mind at the time.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi points her hand at *, &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 9 + 6 = 15&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; and unleashes TWIN beams of fire at them for &#171;  &#160;4d6+4d6 = 9 + 8 = 17&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; points of damage! Geezus. She could have hit them from a whopping 180 feet away!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Done with my macros. pardon me while I go heat up some pizza.

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;6+3+3+6+3+3 = 6 + 3 + 3 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;29-24 = 29 - 24 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, there's that saying... &quot;Time is like ale. Frothy, unclear, and often giving a headache, but hard to do without either.&quot; Unsurprisingly, it's an old dwarven proverb.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I never rolled lvl 8 HP for Gnogglebolt...roll or half...hmm...

TMG:<font color="#000000">Engineer hit die is d6, just like Tinker...

TMG:<font color="#000000">eh, let's go with a roll.

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Gnogglebolt level 8 hp gain!

TMG:<font color="#000000">ookay then. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">3.5 expected value as opposed to 3.. hmm, ths time , universe decided for you

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh crap, did my HP not save...darnit! It didn't!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I am so stealing that quote VAE. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">the heck? -none- of my stats saved...

TMG:<font color="#000000">well, bugger.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.. that one comes from his talk with cadamon

* VAE just loves inventing this sort of folksy stuff

<font color="#0000ff">Visitor has connected.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Well, it's almost 20 minutes past. Shall we start without our doktor?

TMG:<font color="#000000">visitor? o.o we have an audience! :U

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's another dwarven one I know, too. &quot;Ale is a paladin to the throat, a hexer to the head, and a ploughboy to the arse.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey! There he is!

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Visitor is Hatari?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">bwahahahahaha

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">No.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">That's the guest I mentioned earlier.

VAE:<font color="#000000">who the hell is Visitor?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hello there, audience! :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">and what guest you mentioned earlier?

RAM:<font color="#990000">

RAM:<font color="#990000">GAH!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Apparently, he couldn't be assed to give himself a name. :P

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">wait a sec...oh man, I think I know what happened to Hatari.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ghost, identify him.

RAM:<font color="#990000">:O

* VAE compells you by the power of the emperor,

* Ghostwish casts identify.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Much better.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think that he thinks we now actually start the game in half an hour from now. ^^;

* RAM detonates C4 in the Visitor's spleen!

TMG:<font color="#000000">because that's what we've -been- doing for almost a month...he probably adjusted his clock for that

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Visitor, identify yourself.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Okay V. Liatai is the DM, Tathi's my character, Aelian is her cohort (in more ways than one) whom I share with the DM.

Visitor:<font color="#000000">I'm a friend of Ghosts.

RAM:<font color="#990000">IDENTIFY YOURSELF, OR SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR COLON!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Everyone else can introduce themselves first. VAE. *glares*

* VAE agrees with RAM

* RAM waves C4 detonator.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm &quot;techmaster-glitch&quot;. I play this guy: Visitor:<font color="#000000">*Jumps off the bow of the ship*

Meany:<font color="#660033">I am Meany. Manifested spirit of pointless cruelty. Pleasure to meet you.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Now, now, you guys, don't scare the visitor. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The gnome tinker is me, TMG.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Smart boy. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I am Meany's Character.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am VAE. Or VAElynx in some places. I like scaring visitors. Their screams of terror are cute.

Visitor:<font color="#000000">I am NOT cute. &gt;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi Eyllisaearsithek. Don't bother with the last name. You won't get it. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm Liatai, I'm the GM. :3 Nice to meet you.

Miron:<font color="#000000">I am Inquisitor Miron Segras Ironwrit Steelsprocket. VAE controls me, or at least he thinks he does.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh dear. I need to show him how to turn off smilies. They mess with the logs we save, you see.

Visitor:<font color="#000000">Nice to meet all of you.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'm RAM, the Bombfox.

TMG:<font color="#000000">visitor; Smilies don't work well in this client. You can go to Edit --&gt; Preferences --&gt; uncheck the &quot;insert smilies&quot; box

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Und Hy play dis guy.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">yes, there it is, upper right.

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

Visitor:<font color="#000000">thankie.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hey, folks. Question.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Now, IDENTIFY THYSELF!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">So yes, visitor is.. my mom's.. boyfriend's.. son.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, is Visitor on DMFA forums?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">No.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, that explains why he stares oddly.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If Hatari doesn't show up in the next ten minutes or so... do you mind if I head out to deal with the petsitting business then, to get it out of the way?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">He was in another D&amp;D group, that promptly shoved their heads up their asses and tried to my little ponyize D&amp;D.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sure.

Visitor:<font color="#000000">Shut up.

VAE:<font color="#000000">What webcomics doest thee read, Visitor?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Go for it!

* RAM detonates C4 in the Visitor's colon.

Visitor:<font color="#000000">Homestuck, TWB, Order of the Stick, etc.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai: If Hatari doesn't show up in the next ten minutes or so... do you mind if I head out to deal with the petsitting business then, to get it out of the way

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, absolutely!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, Visitor dislikes MLP?

TMG:<font color="#000000">In fact, I'd recommend going right now :o

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's at least one redeemable trait

Visitor:<font color="#000000">Durr.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I don't expect hatari to show up for another half an hour, like I saif

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hrm, this is true.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait, The Whiteboard?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*said

RAM:<font color="#990000">Your hate for MLP has spared your liver.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If that ends up being the case, you guys can probably fill in our audience member on the most recent plot stuffs. Since... well, he is dropping in during a very heavy plot session. ^^;

RAM:<font color="#990000">FOR NOW!

Visitor:<font color="#000000">I only played for 10 minutes before the DM killed my Wolf bard with a rainbow. And yes, I read The Whiteobard.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Wow.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now that actually gives you a small, insignificant plus in my eyes

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh yes, my attempts to summerize Akellon failed hardcore.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tenguson: What's the gist of the campaign so far? Ghostwish: &quot;DSBFUHABVUTYWEQVGTFDSAHJODBVASTUIYVDKASVD HJASLBDUHASBDUYASVDYIAVDUABDUHOASVDTOVASUGDVATVODULYHWBDUYAWVODULAJ&quot; Ghostwish: That was hundreds of hours of gameplay crammed into one sentence.

* VAE happylynx.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There's no combat planned this session, Visitor, so expect lots of dialogue. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ookay, Akellon summary ,in the recent days.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Okay.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aww, my trigger finger is getting itchy!

VAE:<font color="#000000">One of the party, the drow Meany plays is possessed by a dragon spirit. The best course of action was decided to be sealing it with the help of dragons who killed the body the spirit possessed last, and in fact was his own.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... in fact, you know what, I think I am going to go take care of Cheyenne and Piper now. :. Be back in a bit! -- Oh, before I forget. Hatari's noms.

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 200 XP - Confessional talk! 200 XP - &quot;Hey, I'm one of 'those people' too.&quot; &quot;I know. That worries me.&quot; &quot;I would like to know why you're concerned about that.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And now off I go.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Deuces!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">I need XP!! SO close to loremaster!! &gt;:O

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ta.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Miron! C'mere so I can give you a knucklesandwich! That should be worth some XP...

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually, Miron needs XP too, near to levelup

VAE:<font color="#000000">Besides, he wouldn't mind painting the wall with tathi either XD

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Killing rats is a better method. My campaign: 1 rat = 1 xp. Rat soup was the common ration in that horrifically bad campaign.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">for gaining xp

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's very odd GMing

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway; visitor. Do you want to hear a summary of the game so far?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ghost.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Sure!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Meany.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Share the story of Crit Rats.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Now, before I start

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lololololololololololo

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Let Tech tell fo Akellon first.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*picks up a bucket of popcorn and 3d glasses*

TMG:<font color="#000000">to you want to hear a summary of the ENTIRE game, or just what the current arc is?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Current arc/

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">See, this crazy is on the ball. :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways, it all got complicated by the fact that some of the party accepted doing a job for a bloody drow, which let us to encounter more bloody drow

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, current arc.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am summarising already X

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">I still need another 7200 before I can take my level in Gunman.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sadness.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The basic point of it is that the PC Sszeyl, the Drow Monk, is the 'reincarnation' of an old, vey nasty Red Dragon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">This almost caused the party to fracture in the recent days, as one of the bloody drow is a bloody drow anarchist, too XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I am under 3k for my next level. LOOOOREMASTER..

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">The spirit of that dragon lives on in Sszeyl's head.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I need 600 XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">600, you listen?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Hatari! :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">And we--Oh! Well hey, there's hatari

* Ghostwish refuses to nom VAE for the next 6 sessions. :P

* VAE mroweth at Hatari

VAE:<font color="#000000">Kiss my furry arse, ghost.

VAE:<font color="#000000">:3

* Ghostwish brandishes a paddle. &gt;:)

Meany:<font color="#660033">Yodoktor.

* VAE brandishes claws.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*Visitor idly sips coke.*

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; okay, since we figured you'd accidentally set your alarm clock for half an hour from now, because that's what we've been starting the game at for the past month or so even thouh we usually -tired- to start half an hour -ago-, Liatai literally -just- left to do her hour-long petsitting while we waited for you

TMG:<font color="#000000">So if you want, you can sleep in for another 60 minutes.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Explain to me why everybody's on a boat.

VAE:<font color="#000000">because we are travelling down river

TMG:<font color="#000000">Visitor; okay. Anyway.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">oh.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I always set my alarm for 1:30.. I was just really tired.

* Dr. Hatari didn't sleep well.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and walking next to a boat would be stupid

TMG:<font color="#000000">As I was saying, Sszeyl has a dragon in his head.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">got that...

TMG:<font color="#000000">In order to get the draqgon -out- of his head, we need to find five -other- dragons who were the ones who originally killed the Red

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hello visotor~ =w=

TMG:<font color="#000000">When we find them, they each add a piece of an amulet seal to further supress the Red dragon, who keeps trying to take over SSzeyl's mind.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Hello, Doctor. :)

TMG:<font color="#000000">We have the first of five peices

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">You can ignore these mortals. I am all that matters. I am Kor, the mighty and the wise, and I am always right. Bow before my squeaky magnificence. I will destroy my foes, and lay waste to - AUGH WHO'S GRABBING MY TAIL-

TMG:<font color="#000000">we're trying to find a dragon on the coast of this country, and she has the second peice\

TMG:<font color="#000000">so we're travelling down a river to get to the coast

TMG:<font color="#000000">Does that answer your questions, visitor?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because we won a free boat ride?

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'M ON A BOAT!

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Yup. Well said, RAM. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">rIDING ON A DOLPHIN, DOING FLIPS AND SHIT.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I have a question.

Miron:<font color="#000000">In short, these people are all my warband. Except for Thomas, he's a buddy.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Familiars. Do they level solely based on wizard/sorcerer level, or can a prestige class such as loremaster level them too?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is visitor someone from our irc? :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Some prc's can, i think

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's ghost's now-family

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I don't follow your orders.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">No...ask ghost, he's better at explaining. VAE sums it up alright.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost; familiars level solely on Wizard levels, unless a PrC has a specific note for familiar progression

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I see. Welcome then.

TMG:<font color="#000000">so no, loremasters do not improve their familiars

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I am so sorry tech.

TMG:<font color="#000000">In fact, virstally every spellcasting PrC says that -caster level- and -spell progression- increases, but NO other features of the base class improve.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Familiar is one of them

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I just found the passage that proves you wrong. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Levels of different classes that are entitled to familiars (such as sorcerer and wizard) stack for the purpose of determining any familiar abilities that depend on the master&#8217;s level.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Is a loremaster not entitled to a familiar?

TMG:<font color="#000000">hmm? Where does it say that, ghost?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">He has to be. Seeing how he came from either wizard or sorcerer. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">13:05:19 Liatai: ... searching for &quot;nom&quot; in chat logs is turning up a lot of &quot;om nom noms,&quot; &quot;economics,&quot; &quot;chronomancy,&quot; and &quot;gnomes.&quot; :B

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">page 52 of the PHB, in the footnote.

TMG:<font color="#000000">wait a sec

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, ghost. You misunderstand

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">brb, gotta make a grilled cheese.

TMG:<font color="#000000">more WotC silly wording

VAE:<font color="#000000">I dunno. It does seem sensible

TMG:<font color="#000000">they -mean- any class that actually -says- that it has the Familair Class Feature

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">So my familiar stops being a familiar when I become a loremaster?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Proof, tech?

TMG:<font color="#000000">because, take other classes out of splatbooks, liek Complete Arcane. They can qualify for PrCs like loremaster without having familiars

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost; no, your familiar does not -stop- being a familiar

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah, it is an animal companion now XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">it just stops getting new abilities

Meany:<font color="#660033">I'd say.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I'm just messing with ya. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Ultimately, this is a DM-ruling situation, as it always goes with WotC's failure to specify. -.-

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Oh, okay. Cuz I was just about to say 'forget it, go ask Liatai.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yah, see, I could.. strain three different meanings out of that paragraph. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">btu yes, it should work exactly as I described, that's the intention.

Meany:<font color="#660033">:B

* VAE misread lia's chat nick as &quot;liapetshit&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meh, Kor serves his primary purpose as a level 1 familiar for life.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Comedy relief. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">if you have a sorc/wiz, both those classes have the 'Acquire Familiar&quot; class feature, so they stack for familiar progression. the Loremaster does not have the &quot;Acquire Familiar&quot; feature, so it does not stack

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Honestly I would skip the zany system entirely and have familiars be tied to spellcasting level.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Also for example, ranger and druid levels -do- stack for &quot;Animal Companion&quot;, for instance (assuming the Ranger levels are above 4 )

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">That way, PrCs that advance your spellcasting level also advance your familiar.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The whole -point- of these PrCs is that they -don't-. &gt;.&gt;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">It would kind of shoot down the wiz/sorc mix they, but anyone who does that deserves it for being so incredibly stupid.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The increase your spellcasting, and do 0-no-t give you any further improvement of your base classes -usual- abilities in exchange for the PrC's new abilities

TMG:<font color="#000000">ghost; there is the Ultimate Magus PrC that is basically a mystic theurge for sorc/wizards. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I thought the point of them was to be tantalizingly OP for people to buy supplemental books *bricked*

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">level 6 wizard = level 6 sorcerer &gt; 3wiz/3sorc

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">what. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Master of prepared and spontaneous arcane casting

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Orc Chandak.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Nuff said.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Actually Ultimate Magus is one of the most outrageously powerful classes in 3.5.

* Ghostwish goes and has a look.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Like Warblade outrageous?

VAE:<font color="#000000">why so? The added spellslots?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Or Duskblade outrageous?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think Ultimate Magus is in Complete Mage

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Warblade outrageous? Bitch please.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The can cast 24 hour long greater invisibility and haste on the party.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They are punpun outrageos.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Warblade is not outrageous. It makes the melee heavy class competitive.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Duskblade is outrageous.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Doktor, do you concur?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">As Hatari said.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Warblades are just a melee class that can hit as hard on a single target as a wizard can hit 12 targets.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Not eating shit at fighter level does not make them OP. It makes fighters UP.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...anyway.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">While waiting for Liatai to return, I am going to excuse myself from this fascinatingly engaging (tm) conversation and go do something else.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">wow.. swapping spell slots for free metamagic? GEE SURE SMELLS LIKE OP

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">hey, v, next time that dum dum DM comes around? Play this or a duskblade.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's mostly the fact that you get to pick any metamagic you want.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And they've released some very fancy metamagic.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yuuuuuup.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Such as chain and repeat and persistent.

* VAE sortta isn't much good at char optimization. Metamagic is hard.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Persistent especially. Having the entire party hasted for the entire campaign is pretty, uh, good.

TMG:<font color="#000000">hey Ram. OSaS? :U

VAE:<font color="#000000">Though, I might get Miron the one that elevates apparent spell level to the same as the slot you use. Gotta keep the wrack competitive

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">!

* Meany rereads the Martial classes out of Tome of Battle. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Weeaboo fightan mages

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Although I'm still of the opinion that they've released so many spells that any sufficiently tactical full-caster can just be selective and create situations in which they have half a dozen I-Win buttons, class features be damned. =3=

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh I dunno. Persistent takes up a slot six levels higher. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">That would not be an issue for an ultimate magus however. XD

RAM:<font color="#990000">This is exactly why I refused to play magic classes for the longest time.

VAE:<font color="#000000">why?

RAM:<font color="#990000">They're shennanigans.

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's the fun of it XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Well.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Made of OP and &quot;I win at everything forever&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">OSaS while we wait? :U

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">This is looking at the cannon of the tank.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">And not the glass the armor is made of.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">A spellcaster's only sure fire defense against attacks is the rest of the party.

RAM:<font color="#990000">CoDzilla.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That is all.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Now, off to get pizza.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Except clerics. Because fuck clerics.

* VAE likes to think Miron is pretty solid on that front too

VAE:<font color="#000000">second biggest HP in the party :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's a little silly Ghost. Wizards have more than enough tools to ignore attacks vastly better than warriors. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Bullrushing monk wearing an anti-magic belt. &gt;:)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Celerity teleport. =3=

Meany:<font color="#660033">Actually.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ghostwish.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">See? Run the fuck away. XD

Meany:<font color="#660033">Battle Sorcerers.

Meany:<font color="#660033">=3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">WE NEED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. :U

Meany:<font color="#660033">Whitewall tires.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*reads chat log, is officially out-nerded and does the I-Am-Not-Worthy bow*

VAE:<font color="#000000">DnDMFA Weres

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Be quiet tech. We're having fun. :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ghost, remember how Saph 1HKO'd monsters?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">But, yah, splat material is called splat for just this reason. It was just thrown in with no consideration of balance, and the more and more you pile on, the worse and worse the balance suffers.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You can make a fel-draining chain-cast magic missile that automatically level-drains the target by 10 without a saving throw. There isn't even an argument in play. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fel drain is neat

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Uh.. don't think I've ever watched one of your games, VAE.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">So, &quot;Magic SMG&quot;?

VAE:<font color="#000000">you fucking were there

* Ghostwish scratches his head. &quot;I don't remember then.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Your character tried to date Regina, for bastet's sake

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh. What's his face.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Jerico? Back before the great schism?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Skunk boy.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">AH HA.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yah, I kind've sort've remember.

* Dr. Hatari can has lasagna for breakfast. :9

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">(but this is why Tathi's almost purely stock wizard, and I vehemently resist attempts to inject splat into her build. I don't want to break the game.)

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">(I'm here for the characters, not the non-existant win button)

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mmm. pizza...

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Now. I level up a warblade. &gt;:)\

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Give swordsages and crusaders some love too. =3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">Let's see...there's a great VGCats strip for this...

* Dr. Hatari was just emulates a character with the best suited classes available.

Scarlet Brotherhood Warblade:<font color="#7F00FF">I don't multiclass.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Here it is!

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=181

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">What...On...Earth...is that on my token?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">The heck is a &quot;hakutaku?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I should not laugh so hard at his reaction. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A mythological creature from Japan.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They're usually not that adorable.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">okay, my beard is driving me nuts. I am shaving this peice of shit off. &gt;:O

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Looks like a blueberry jam donut with horns and a tail.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's a shitty beard anyway.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In any case, it's just a &quot;camera&quot; token for observers or players that aren't in an area but want to watch whats going on in the map.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They have no canon presence.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">noted.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Doo doo dee doo.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*Whistles &quot;Shaving Cream&quot; by Benny Bell*

* VAE is back from hunt. Was hunting sandwiches

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">SANDVICHES!

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. Emo necromancers?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Dread Necromancer's class stat is charisma, for fuck's sake

* VAE is thinking of Miron's colleague, Archivist Egon Goldsmith.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Dread Necromancer named Egon?

* Dr. Hatari approves.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">I thought being emo was virtually a requirement for being a summoner of notoroiusly stupid piles of flesh.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Nah.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Just really enjoying the sight of zombies eating people is.

Meany:<font color="#660033">So pretty much every fan of Resident Evil. :P

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Or Joanthan Coulton.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I return!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Posted in OSaS for you, Techy.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Ram, would you like to see the beardless ghost? :P

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Tim Curry?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">never mind.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sure. It was shitty beard, anyway.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">stop being so jealous.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Pfft.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You have no idea how awesome of a beard I can grow.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">girly man grows girly beard

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">You seem to be under the impression that I am a girly man.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hail the van dyke.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;My moustache is local to my upper lip.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am not. I know it's the exact opposite

VAE:<font color="#000000">You are a manly girl.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">I'll shut up now. XD

* VAE has a neckbeard. Sidebeard, too

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*gets the sneaking suspicion that a lot of people here are anime fans, judging by their tokens. w00t.*

* VAE likes a few anime shows, draws his own tokens though.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">-- face is from a webcomic. :&gt;

* RAM can't draw worth shit.

* Dr. Hatari shrugs.

* VAE reccommends Le Chevalier d'Eon to every akellon player

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I like using the style for character token art.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">visitor; that's primarily because most of us take our tokens from Liatai's archive, and Liatai has hundreds of tokens made out of anime art, simply because it's so common and prolific

* Dr. Hatari hasn't watched any anime for quite some time really.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">^ That, really.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">noted, TMG.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anime art makes characters look awesome.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's easy to find a character that looks like anything in eastern style.

* RAM finds his own tokens. Or gets Lia to draw them.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And tech, you are ruining the fun of this by injecting unwanted logic and reason.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Plus the entire point of the style in the first place is that it's eye-catching, vibrant, unique, etc. It was a movement that caught on.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">The only experience with Anime I've had was when I drew my character shooting spongebob with a Browning.

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Which reminds me.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I need to poke Lia about that drawing today.

VAE:<font color="#000000">what drawing?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Shankfang and Talfeera together, being cute.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">BTW, Visitor.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">yes?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Talfeera is Shankfang's fiance.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and gnogglebolt's sister

RAM:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is my half-orc motorcycler/gunman.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Talfeera is a gnome sorceress.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yes, and Gnogglebolt's sister.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*Applauds*

VAE:<font color="#000000">out of country gnome XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">The three are filthy foreigners

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually, makes me wonder why people aren't more suspicious of Gnoggleboly

RAM:<font color="#990000">You're a Slovak. You can't talk.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'm from Mordor fucker

Meany:<font color="#660033">Exactly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seriously, though.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Why would anyone actually be suspicious of Gnogglebolt again? :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">YOU CANNOT SIMPLY WALK INTO MORDOR!

Meany:<font color="#660033">We don't speak the black tongue.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Apparently Barad-Dur is in Banska Bystrica

Meany:<font color="#660033">Well.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Gnogglebolt goes into the madness place.

Meany:<font color="#660033">A lot.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Not my fault. DX

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">One of these days.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's my version of Tathi's possesion gem. :B

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Nope, you need 35 cents and the willing loss of an arm to see the Eye of Sauron, Tourist.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well.. why wouldn't they? I mean, he pokes into everything, even very governmental matter,sand is from a foreign land

VAE:<font color="#000000">and he doesn't afraid of anything

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL, AS WE MAKE OUR WAY TO HEAVEN, TO THE NAZI LINES, PRIMO VICTORIA

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's going to come back up in an apron spattered in Gore, with this really strained look of mania on his face and bags under his eyes.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Sorry, what.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I made a functioning God.&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">....................................................This is getting wierd.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprBLCY4UaQ

Meany:<font color="#660033">Welcome to Akellon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So.. he's from the Church of the Broken God?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Populations: Depends on the GM's moood.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">NICE, Doctor.

* Dr. Hatari actually just really likes the mood that soundtrack strikes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">does the moood indicate she's a coww?

RAM:<font color="#990000">ON THE 6TH OF JUNE, ON THE SHORES OF WESTERN EUROPE 1944, D-DAY UPON US!

* VAE doesn't liek what owl implies there

VAE:<font color="#000000">So? By that time, germans were running out of breath running from the soviet army

VAE:<font color="#000000">It was almost official that western front was for recreation of injured soldiers

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hush VAE. Dirty communist. :P

* VAE a clean communist

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Speaking of... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

RAM:<font color="#990000">Just because you showered last Saturday does not mean you are still clean.

VAE:<font color="#000000">This thursday, actually.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I can smell you from here.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, I know that one. Nice music, shitty history.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Why do the related links for this consist of 80% MLP/Soviet propaganda.

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBpQ_7sAM-0

VAE:<font color="#000000">this is better

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Don't ask. I asked the same thing when I first visited the video.

VAE:<font color="#000000">All you need is to watch the imagery

TMG:<font color="#000000">ah yes, soviet tetris. xD

RAM:<font color="#990000">That...is an excellent question.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and the song iss really nice too

* Dr. Hatari catches up on zero punctuation.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">GO YAHTZEE!

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">, \ \ / /

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">no... , \, , /

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In survival horror, small mute autistic girls are second in power only to Jason Vorhees listening to people fucking.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Good olf Yahtzee.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">...er...okay...

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh, someoen made a horror game based on SCP-087, a short one

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thanks to it, the foundation has had a horrid influx of e-diots recently :3 But also some decent newbs.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Liatai's going to come back.

Meany:<font color="#660033">All: &quot;What.&quot;

* TMG finishes watching the video he was already watching, starts watching the soviet tetris vid again

Meany:<font color="#660033">And y'all gonna have some 'splaining to do. =w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">THIS. IS. '''SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! '''

Meany:<font color="#660033">Nooooo.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*hides in the cargo deck underneath a sack of potatoes.*

Meany:<font color="#660033">This is Athens.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Sparta is that way.

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

* VAE gets up and leaves

* VAE returns, angrily

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait, that was Troy, you butt!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Trololol.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*jumps into the bottomless pit, hoping no one turns on the garbage disposal*

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">BANZAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*smacks face on bottom of bottomless pit, sees Darth Maul in a corner*

Meany:<font color="#660033">:B

* RAM detonates C4 in the bottomless pit, the whole thing collapses.

* VAE looking at Fey Winds

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why does it feel Tathi started out as ersatz of Larina

Meany:<font color="#660033">Who? =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">One of their characters. The one she has tokens from

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*pokes hand out of rubble Dawn of the Dead style*

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Disintegrates hand into dust* That's be it. Filthy zombies.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Miron, what have I told you about vaporizing our audience?&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*pokes head out of rubble, clutches cauterized stump* I'm ALIVE, you....

Miron:<font color="#000000">Alive, you say? *Switches to Inflict Serious Wounds*

Miron:<font color="#000000">Die, heretic!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Loot the popcorn afterward!&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*swallows last piece of popcorn and smiles madly*

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">HA!

* RAM detonates C4 in Visitor's stomach.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Too bad that wasn't actually popcorn.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*pulls out dual Kris and proceeds to filet Miron...then is blown in half by plastic explosive popcorn*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hardier men tried that, laddie&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*casts Wrack*

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*takes effect then pole vaults his upper half off of a halberd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside, fuck tokentool

* RAM turns Visitor's halbred into C4 and detonates it while he's pole vaulting.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*head is propelled over Miron*

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">...&quot;Cure&quot;?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">No...&quot;heal&quot;?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*is not used to begging for mercy, is usually doing the threatening in D20*

VAE:<font color="#000000">tokening done

* Dr. Hatari was just listening to the semi-official Akellon Kordite theme; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MISEMo8xxII

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There are probably a lot of things in the world that are a really bad idea to make enemies of.

VAE:<font color="#000000">My character fought a drow that was about double his level, Visitor

VAE:<font color="#000000">Your threats, they fail

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But I cannot even imagine a worse idea than crossing the Kordites.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Fucking lunatic super-warriors that they are.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Kordites?

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh1

VAE:<font color="#000000">church of Kord

* VAE was wondering about wtf is cordite doing there.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">as a fun thing &quot;kord&quot; is slovak for rapier.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">One of my PC's when I was Dming had a +12 double-bladed greatsword. Enchanted the tar out of it and I was a bad DM. :P

* Dr. Hatari was just amused by the thought of a faction that you literally could never discourage from attacking you -- only encourage more.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait ,you were GMing... was the group too small that yu had to have a GMPC there

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">The game was spread over two years in the summers. The first year, The PCs were a drow sorcerer named Omastar, a human wizard named Oswald and a human paladin named Saddam. The next year, only the player with the drow was available.

* VAE headdesk

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

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Wasn't my choice.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'mm more weirded out by7 &quot;saddam&quot; O.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Does that have some significance somewhere I've never heard of or something?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, not that unusual arab name

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">As I understand it Saddam is a common name.

* VAE can totally imagine a middleeastern style sorcerer

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I would probabably just ban any player who tries to come in with a character name like that because i KNOW they're just trying to be a troll

VAE:<font color="#000000">or paladin in fact

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'd probably ban Omastar, true

VAE:<font color="#000000">because using pokemon for charnames usually means the player is a wanker even when not trying to be

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Perhaps they're not trying to troll and you're being oversensitive and leaping to conclusions. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Omastar's kinda funny, at least. Means someone out there is really into Pokemon. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There are probably hundreds of thousands of Saddams.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari' that's true, but if your average -western- gamer tries to make a character like that, well.

VAE:<font color="#000000">This is tech. The hardcore LG guy here.

TMG:<font color="#000000">That's just asking for trouble.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Um, asking for trouble in what way?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I am offended by your non-logic. Ram hit him for me.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's a friggin' common name

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">The entire plot of the campaign was that all of the gods were cardboard cutouts and that the 10th hell underneath the 9th was a twisted, pseudo-political version of Earth. I SUCKED AT MAKING THE PLOT.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That sounds deliciously psychedelic

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">I _write_ better than that in my spare time, that's the sad thing.....*waah*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Um, kudos if you do.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside.. does anyone notice this guy is eerily similar to Drayco?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't know about that.

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">What's your attitude to rabbits, visitor?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He only used comic-style emphasis caps once.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">umm....Adorable?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">good steaks?

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait, steaks?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">roasted rabbit loin

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">with garlic and sage.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">You barely passed the test

VAE:<font color="#000000">Though, roasted with mustard is better, I think.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hm. Didn't Lia say she only expected to be gone a half-hour?

TMG:<font color="#000000">hatari; no, a whole hour

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think it's a mix of western, normal and rough mustard and some preserves.

TMG:<font color="#000000">though now it's been an hour and a half

TMG:<font color="#000000">I assume a longer road trip than she had estimated

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yar.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">One thing that I would love to do is make my own mustard. There's a really good place in Maine that does that. None of this French's crap, GIVE ME THE REAL DEAL! :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">Western mustard is all crappy, IMHO

VAE:<font color="#000000">the real thing is totally different, not the bright yellow crap

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.pamuzinda.com/images/product/64770.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's our mustard there

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Nice.

VAE:<font color="#000000">We slavs have everything better :3

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">This is what I'm accustomed to eating, without the raw egg: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Korean_cuisine-Bibimbap-08.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">So you lot cook a lot of korean stuffs

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Yup.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Well, my family in specific.

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, that was embarrassing. Anyone here? -- Oh, I see Visitor typing. :3

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Hi there. :)

Meany:<font color="#660033">Yo.

TMG:<font color="#000000">HeyoLia!

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">what was embarrassing?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And it looks like I'm not lagging, too. :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">something fucked up?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">She returns!

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, Meany. I realized I forgot to answer.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, Max could deliver a package from Barbarus.

VAE:<font color="#000000">In the meantime, VAE made some tokens that lia might want to save

* RAM attacks Lia wif scritchies!

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay! Let's get a roll call going!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Here!

Alaric Dellode:<font color="#000000">In the name of the Leaden Mace Society, lay down your arms!

* VAE guess that counts as &quot;here&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Present!

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Here and not here!

RAM:<font color="#990000">My Chi is mad focused, yo!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Might as well share the embarrasing story while we wait. ^^;

Elizabeth Feldman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, GM, i'm here too! Did Mr. Bitchhunter over there persuade you not to save me?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">First off, I forgot that a 30-minute drive in clear weather easily extends to a 45-50-minute drive when stuck behind drivers who aren't used to the kind of winters we'd get in the Finger Lakes, and thus drop to a crawl as soon as visibility shrinks a little bit. :/

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Second, I got out there, and realized the door was locked, and I didn't have a key. ^^;

* RAM hates that.

* VAE rofls

RAM:<font color="#990000">XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">laiatai; oooooh man. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">-hate- it when that happens

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So I texted the couple who owned the house, asking where I might find a spare key or if there was another way to get in.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... while I was waiting for their reply...

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">YOU FOUND THE KEY

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... their son answered the door. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Even worse. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">....oh. Wow. Ha. xD

VAE:<font color="#000000">And he promptly whacked Lia with a club and dragged her off into the cave.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...wait, so was your petsitting even -necessary-?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You know, this would be more embarrasing if this was the first time I'd gone to a client's house to find a family member there. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Bweeheehee.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait, why the hell did they need petsitting done then

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Apparently I got the date wrong. -Tomorrow- is the first day they'll need my services.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">BWAHAHAHAHA!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh liatai, you big silly. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So another 45-minute drive back, here I am. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Liasilly!

Meany:<font color="#660033">I appear.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ooooh. Ouch, double-ouch, triple-ouch, and quadruple-ouch. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Remind me to never again take on a client in another county. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">OUCH COMBO ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVED.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh. Back in high school I once attempted going to school on holiday

* RAM did that once. Or twice.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Never mind the attempt when I almost went there at 4AM

RAM:<font color="#990000">Or possibly more.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anywy, refocusing by reading end of last session log...

VAE:<font color="#000000">I just looked at the small hand on the watch, leapt out of bed ,fed the cat and was about to leave when my family woke up and explained it's 4:30 not 7:30

Meany:<font color="#660033">Pancreas. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I've gone to school on snow days before, but again, I'm used to Finger Lakes winters. :B It's hard to tell a snow day from a non-snow-day there tends to be so much snow.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Also, I am forwarding that as I said on thursday, if there is going to really be IC resistance to what's going to happen, then I will just drop it to let the cgame continue. Despite how out-of-character it will be and how it will leave the bonds between the characters to continue rotting. I just won't be the one to force the issue of a split.

VAE:<font color="#000000">never mind the massive scare I had during the exams.

VAE:<font color="#000000">What did you say on thursday?

* VAE never heard it

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, you didn't. Don't worry about it, danman.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, out of character == bad, IMHO

VAE:<font color="#000000">Let it take the natural course.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We'll just see how it goes. Relax, Tech.

Meany:<font color="#660033">But Pancakes = good.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I agree, but it just can't be helped this time.

Meany:<font color="#660033">So go to IHOP.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; yeah, alright. &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">So?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hatari~

Meany:<font color="#660033">I know you're lurking. =w=

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*runs in the opposite direction at the mentioning of internal organs*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways. I went for a nap, before studying for the second exam. Woke up, the watch said 8, and it was still light

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, Meany!

RAM:<font color="#990000">&gt;:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">For about half an hour, I was angry and scared as fuck, thinking it was the morning

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I don't know if you caught it, but I realized I forgot to answer. Max could deliver a package from Barbarus to the party.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lasted until i turned laptop on

Meany:<font color="#660033">Woo!

* Dr. Hatari is caught up.

GM:<font color="#000000">Now then, shall we kick things off?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yes!

Meany:<font color="#660033">FOR.

Meany:<b><font color="#660033">PONY.

</b>GM:<font color="#000000">Today is Yondallon 12th, 1221 CA in Akellon, and a light snow is falling along the Long Road River as the party makes their way along aboard the Cygnet.

RAM:<font color="#990000">HERESY! *BLAM*

GM:<font color="#000000">Unfortunately, tensions seem to have been mounting within the group... is this what Gnogglebolt called a Guardian meeting to address?

TMG:<font color="#000000">A large part of it, yes

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Nope. It was just so we could get everyone nice and clustered and now I FIREBALL-

* VAE wonders what the party will fail by. Fast Fracture, or yielding?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Reflex save!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">BANG BANG!

GM:<font color="#000000">So far, all that's happened is that Gnogglebolt asked who considers themselves a Vigilant Guardian, and asked why they decided to become one.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Indeed.

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's take it away, shall we?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">As the song says.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Let the bodies hit the floor. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Absolutely. Preparing to type...

* Dr. Hatari is still a little delirious, but will try his best. ~=w=~

* Meany harpoons Hatari with soda.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Delirious... VAE is always dumb after waking up

* RAM injects Crack directly into Hatari's bloodstream.

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, before I forget. Audience members are encouraged to ask questions and/or throw popcorn should the mood strike them. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">what about peanuts?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks around. With everyone having said they they joined... &quot;Right then. We all have various and disparate reasons for being together. Some of us have a larger overall personal agenda, some of us do not. But the one thing I did hear as a common cause is that we all just want to 'do good', to help people and fight those who harm innocents. Does anyone have anything different to say on that?&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*pulls out a oil drum of popcorn along with a barrel of peanuts and a litre bottle of sprite*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">More people are allergic to peanuts. :P But peanuts work too.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmhmm. That sounds right.&quot; :3

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands on the table. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Good is subjective. =w= Let's try to avoid a moral quandry and just list 'we help people' in this charter, eh?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's what the Mace has been doing for centuries now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, a century and something, anyhow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Of course, that raises the moral quandry of what is people, but eh. =w=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Sszeyl. &quot;Yes, I know. I was in fact just about to bring that up myself, but I wanted to be sure we're all on the same page so far.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mind gettink on vith it, dere? Hy vas hopink to teach Terri und Matteo how to schoot a movink target today.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sidenote.. I have the unfounded assumption of the Mace being somewhere 180-ish years old

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, that reminds me.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;So what's the verdict, then?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">but that's somethign that ws never discussed, and should be.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over everyone again. &quot;But Sszeyl does in fact bring up that point I was just about to make myself. That's an awfully vague thing to dedicate ourselves to. But other than that, there's not really and long-term overarching goal that we have. So, instead, it would probably behoove us to dynamically assign what the group's goals are as we have them. I have a few suggestios on this.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone please make a Will save?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 18 + 6 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+will = 13 + 9 = 22&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; +2 if its enchantment!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 16 + 10 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">what against? there are stuffs Miron would habe bonuses to

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">o.o???? Will save! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Divination, so no.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 16 + 9 = 25&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+will = 1 + 5 = 6&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; +2 if it's enchantment!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 19 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; will save!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 6 + 8 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Man, I have such a great view down Tathi's- huh?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Damn magic. -3-

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Someone scrying on us, bleh

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... No overarching goal? I thought our overarching goal at the moment was getting rid of the dragon in Sszeyl's head.&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm with this group to help Sszeyl get these goddamn dragons out of his goddamn head.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;There's also the promise of going to help my father bring down a corrupt government, but those are future plans.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Tathi!&quot; &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks to Edaric. &quot;I meant after that. One thing that defines all others. But I will get to that.&quot; Gnogglebolt reaches into his pack and pulls out a tattered notebook

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes Terri?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is a business meetin'! Watch your language!&quot; &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt does stiffen at Tathi. &quot;Tathi, remember what littlew Terri did to Miron...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smirks faintly.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh. Sorry. Could I call them duddy-head dragons instead?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Corrupt government. Because it's best to take the word of a known drowish anarchist at face value.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt raises his hands again. &quot;And hold on, od on please.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;One thing at a time, now.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm here for de duration, vatever de final goal. Hy need de job.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;As long as you mean the one in Mr. Sszeyl's head. That one is a duddy-head.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus leans his elbows on the table and rests his chin atop folded hands. He simply blinks about at speakers and listens.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Idiot Miron, my father is out there fighting devils, and you still think we have not validated these facts? Idiot Miron forever.&quot; Tathi says, rolling her eyes.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your father. If he's anything like his daughter, that's even less of an assurance.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You two can spat after the meeting.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Ugh. Frankly, I've had enough of this.&quot; Tathi says, standing up and putting her hands on the table.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, Thomas.&quot; Gnogglebolt nods to him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Back from entertaining relatives. &gt;:O

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;For right now, I know just one thing.&quot; She says, and rounds on Miron with a glare. &quot;You have directly worked against the goals of this party.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron is standing already, so he just faces her.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Shutup. I don't want to hear your excuses or reasoning. I don't care if it was the Leaden Mace's goal. I don't care if St. Cuthburt himself walked out of the heavens, whapped you upside the head with a judge's cudgel with this mission of yours, and proceeded to align every painting in the room. I don't care. You went against us and that's your first mark in my book.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 2 + 7 = 9&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Will save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, barking dog, BRB.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That means I can't trust you. That means I won't trust you until you redeem yourself.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just buries his hand in his face.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm done.&quot; Tathi says, and promptly leaves.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Even I wasn't going to be THAT hardlined...

* Thomas Lazarus sighs through his fingers.

* Thomas Lazarus glances to Gnogglebolt.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There you have it. She's insane.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Just go on with what you were saying, please.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Anyway.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She heads up the ladder, and up to the deck.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now.&quot; he points to the tattered notebook he put on the table. A few others in the group might recognize it as Granch's old letter. &quot;The first thing that really brought our group together was this. The ledger of the bugbear Redmaw recording all the people he sold to necromancers, and who he sold them to. Until our current troubles, we were workign on rooting out the last few organizations he sold to. Briarclaw's coven, Jonah Restren, and the Hypnotist have all been completely taken out of the list and the victims accounted for.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ghost, tjat was awesome

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat sounded perfectly sane to me, actually...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming you for that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What remains is the remnants of the Blacksull cabal, an unseen agent called the 'Sahuagin Queen', and another completely unidentified icon.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">hahaha, thanks, I had it pre-typed a couple of days ago. I giggled at the thought of a god straightening paintings. XD

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I bloody love it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now. Here is the first thing on the list.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs, rubbing his head..

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm in for vatever hyu guys decide. Now, if hyu vill eksuse me, Hy em gunna go make sure Taddi iz hokay.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do we, the Vigilant Guardians, still consider this to be an objective of this entire group to complete when we are able? Finding and rooting out the last remnants indicaed by this ledger and rescuing any victims, if any are still alive? Raise your hand if so. Majority rules.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please,&quot; Ed says, nodding to Shankfang.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang nods to the group, then stands and follows the elf up to the deck.

* Thomas Lazarus murmurs more quietly than Gnogglebolt, &quot;She'll do whatever she wants regardless of what we say or do, Aelian. Don't let it bother you. You can go check on her if you really want to.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">wait, what the

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hang on

TMG:<font color="#000000">crap, tathi LEFT?!

Miron:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Go with the bitch, if you feel like it.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost, rbing her back! D: TMG:<font color="#000000">i NEED her!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll with it, Tech. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">It made perfect sense for her to leave

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Uh, yah. O.o

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">NO BRINGIE OOC INTO IC

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">She got ticked off, and walked out instead of blowing up the room.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Look ,What happened with Miron wasn't in his plans either

RAM:<font color="#990000">Was that spoken aloud, VAE?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay then. Scracth Gnogglebosl'ts last speech, he hasn't said it yet.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It was a half-silent whisper

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 20 + 10 = 30&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; spot and &#171;  &#160;1d20+11 = 18 + 11 = 29&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; listen!

VAE:<font color="#000000">audible but quiet

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, wha--Tathi!&quot; Gnogglebolt suddenly starts. &quot;Tathi, come back!&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">*falls out of seat laughing, tries to clear throat of popcorn and soda*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He scrambles out of his chair to follow her.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in ,the fact he'd fail so badly at collecting evidence

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">I.. think Aelian caught that whisper.. XD

RAM:<font color="#990000">-_-

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe this teatime is over. Might as well be.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... well, that went off to a great start.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Smashing. =w=&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt scrambles up the trapdoor. &quot;Tathi, Tathi, why are you leaving right now?' he says as he finds her on the top deck.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We just started.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ed folds his hands on the table. &quot;... She's right, though. In a way. What happened to us?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Miron, hush. She made a perfectly valeed point, und hyu hef no right to insult her over it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quickly puts up a hand.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, no, don't answer that.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Sacred Canine Duty. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Brb. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, I knowyou are upset, Tathi.&quot; Gnogglebolt quickly says.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Why!? Because that insult to your species down there has the audacity to insult my father as he fights for life and freedom, just because his precious little organization is implicated in the corruption!&quot; (would you quit bullet posting!? XD)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A perfectly valid point...&quot; *turns head* &quot;You are all with her, aren't you?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's with this culture of secrecy and tension that's been building here?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(No I will not. :P ) &quot;Tathi.&quot; He says slowly. &quot;I honestly completely agree. but.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's no reason for you to leave right now. I'm trying to do something about exactly what you said.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus murmurs, still resting his chin on his knuckles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I can't do it, and you can't be a part of it, if you aren't there.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ookay, it's getting a bit hard to play. I'm laughing so hard I have trouble with serious thoughts

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It's self-evident, isn't it?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, come back.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're like this.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some of it's probably that we've been stuck on the same boat together for a while, but not all of it.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Really, Miron?&quot; Aelian says very levely. &quot;I honestly thought Tathi was over-reacting with that noble, but I'm honestly surprised she didn't just blast you right then and there with you acting like that. I honestly expected someone with your experience to have more discipline than to go insulting someone's family, and talking under your breath behind their backs.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you want this addressed and solved, one way or another, please, come back down. This has to be done with -everyone-.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We can't even agree to sit in one place together for ten minutes without breaking out into fights and tantrums.&quot; He closes his eyes, recounting matter-of-factly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He smiles sheepishly. &quot;Plus I need you to back me up.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Look, Gnogglebolt. I understand what you are doing, and I appreciate it. But face it, Moron won't deal.&quot; And no, I didn't typo. She's doing that on purpose. &quot;He's unmovable! He refuses to admit what he did was outright foolish! What do you expect me to do?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'll bet you ten platinum that dragon in Sszeyl's head is laughing his head off at us.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up at her. 'I expect you to be there if it comes to the entire group deciding whether or not to tell him to go away.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm not taking that bet, thanks.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; No thank you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't particularly want to go that far, but if I have to, you need to be there&gt;&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're the strongest voice on that.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Because her calling me a coward in front of Commander Ashmore was completely proper. &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You want to expel him? Fine. I can help with that.&quot; She says, and then adds. &quot;Without magic. I promise.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe! Maybe!&quot; Gnogglebotl quickly waves his hands.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You were ducking around the issue. Even I caught that.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Allright, let's go.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But let it be worked

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then we'll see.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And blasting me.. i'd want to see her try.&quot; Angry archivist is angry.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And to be honest, that scares me. I can cast a suggestion. And I'm not a centuries-old dragon ghost.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But let it be worked towards first. let the groundwork be laid first.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell schpoken, Gnogglebolt.&quot; Shankfang says, holding the hatch open for the two.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He made a mistake. Let's please just move past that one episode.&quot; He sighs again.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs exasperatedly.. &quot;Wizards do not try, Miron. They do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt returns to his seat with tathi and SHankfang in tow

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So do I.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... though, Miron.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*stares at Tathi with utmost disgust*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, we're back.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why did you go back to that campsite, anyway?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus peers over sleepily. &quot;..What's your suggestion, Ed?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There were reasons.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt takes a moment to look between the folks at the conversation that goes on right now.

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Miron with a slight frown.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look, I'm just trying to get to the bottom if it. Gnogglebolt and Tathi are going to come back in and hold that over Miron's head --&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;The coward does not reveal his intentions, for fear his soul will be seen through his lies.&quot; Tathi recites in elven. &quot;Old battlemage came up with that after he got tired of politicians who couldn't speak straight.

* Edaric breaks off. &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..You really ought to learn a little diplomatic tact, brother. There's not much reason to withhold the information now. Can't you make some effort to diffuse tensions and get along with the rest of us?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and for one I like to hear all sides of an issue before jumping to conclusions.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt raises his hands again. &quot;Okay, hold on.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's clear these bad feelings are getting the better of us right now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The only ones causing any tension are those who choose to bend over backwards for a bunch of drow.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any you can share?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Back. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But before getting to this issue, let's take care of some more global ones first.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;Great points. Hy, for vun, tink dere are a fev too mhenny secrets beink kept here.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Erp!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Great points. Hy, for vun, tink dere are a fev too mhenny secrets beink kept here.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus quiets back down and returns his attention to the tabletop.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The cat keeps licking my hand.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;We've done maybe a small errand for them. How are we bending over backwards? Near as I can tell, they're just a side-quest in our main objective.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hi Cocoa! :3

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh yah drow. Aelian just sub-catergorized you!!!!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Faerun players everywhere rebel.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, Gnogglebolt, let Miron talk.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss here would perhaps want to choose a language we all understand, too.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're all adults here -- well, most of us. And I'd rather clear the air between us first.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Why do I even bother... Gnogglebolt, seeing that this is going to be done all in the wrong order no matter what he tries, just sits down, slups his head onto an arm, and watches the proceedings with resignation.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Coming up with elaborate wordsoup around calling me a coward is getting old.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">(&quot;But odder languages are fun!&quot;) Said in Orcish.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Sorry dwarf, but apparently I'm too much like my father.&quot; Tathi snaps.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... so, what were you going back there for, Miron?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like a jewish school

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh* &quot;Ask one of them. They clearly know better than myself.&quot;

* Edaric looks over at Aelian with a 'please help me out' look and glance toward Tathi. ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl pinches the bridge of his nose.

* Dr. Hatari should not be so amused by the thought of Sszeyl and Tom having an argument in stereotypical Jewish accents.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of who?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Mesugah!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Tathi. I'd rather be a dwarf than an anarchic pyromaniac.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Now hyu are chust beink difficult...&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian obliges, and pulls Tathi closer to himself, away from Miron. &quot;Answer the question, Miron. You should know how interrogations go. Dodging around the question only makes it worse.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not trying to make this an interrogation, I'm just trying to understand.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So I was right. This is a tar-and-feather tribunal against my person.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Your actions. Not your person.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you want to believe that, though that's not what I was trying to do.&quot; Gnogglebolt says...whoa. He said that in a sort of...hollow tone of voice no one's ever heard before.

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#660033">This is better than cable.

</b>Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;No one's tarrin' an' featherin' anyone!&quot; &gt;:|

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#660033">Zoom in on the elf witch.

</b>* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow and closes his eyes. He murmurs again, &quot;Please, just answer the bloody question, brother. Why are you making this so hard.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well - after all, it's all gone down the shit tank. The sole task of myself and Inquisitor Geas over there was to collect scrying tokens on that spiderfucker, and his winged mule.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scrying tokens?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt...doesn't even react to that. He's still just slumped into his own arm.

* Terri keeps quiet on the bad language. &gt;.&gt;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because what with Senior Analyst Thorngage's many talents such things would only help the town of Braxton defend themselves against his raids. Forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">HEY ELROS WHAT DO YOU THINK.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait... Braxton Falls?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't they say they already had some of the feathers from that pegasus?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. One of the places he terrorises fairly frequently, as I have learnt back in Lorellon.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hete dat place.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( If they did, I don't remember ever catching the info. ^^; ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't recall it being so. Feathers, or his own hair, anything helps,really.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, I shall fetch. :3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Actually...I do think they mentioned having &quot;black feathers&quot;...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Speaking of the drow with the &quot;shining eye&quot; symbol on his shield in mithral armor, there's another mystery. We've had spotty reports of his appearance all over this side of Akellon for the past twenty-five years. Sometimes with the black flying horse, sometimes not. Almost always just before an outbreak of monster attacks or catastrophe, or during such events. He's been a right nuisance in our fair city every time he shows up, too. Helping prisoners escape, abducting citizens... some of those damnable black feathers have even been recovered from the scenes of unsolved crimes! If you can track him down and capture him, the city guard would reward you handsomely, I can tell you that. Every Mace operative and guard in Braxton Falls has orders to apprehend him on sight for questioning and punishment. Not that we've even come close. He's like a Saint-damned pixie the way he seems to play with evading capture. We've been investigating to see if he has an ear on the inside, but no luck on that, either.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We both had orders to that effect.&quot; He murmurs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well then.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That's an end to that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Orders are orders. =w=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Overseeing the letter delivery and subsequent events was pertinent to the law and keeping the peace.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though if it is the case, then he's an idiot, and so am I.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, anyone can make a mistake. And you did have orders?&quot; :.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not to mention the entire ordeal was being orchestrated by mysterious underworld figures.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi looks like she's about to say something, but Aelian gives her a squeeze at just the right time.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We know better now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Of course things could have went more smoothly. But we live in the present, and that's the past.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Right then.&quot; Gnogglebolt sits back up, and his voice seems back to normal.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;May I put this all back on track?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I can understand how the Mace saw it that way. There are disguises, intrigue, and a mysterious messenger involved.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hold on Gnogglebolt. Let Edaric have his peice.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus holds a palm open in the air and gestures to Gnogglebolt with consent.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Piece. ))

* Terri seems to be thinking hard on something.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shrugs at Aelian and and sits back in his chair, a dull expression on his face.

Aelian: <font color="#7f00ff">(( *whaps the grammer nazi* ))

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Do you still have those orders, Mr. Tom, Mr. Miron?&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">''I must message Braxton about this. They had feathers? Why haven't they bloody used them!? The anarchic fuck from the arse of a plagued succubus is just flying around as he pleases.. bloody hell I'd have fucking set up an ambush..''

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you mean?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not from Baxton Falls.&quot; He comments.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;To collect scryin' stuff from Mr. Altonor.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Terri. Any order lasts only as long as there's a reasonable chance of carrying it out.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The entire point of the observation would be to ascertain whether they were threats to the public good or not and act accordingly.&quot;

* Sszeyl files away that information.,

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That isn't what she asked, Miron..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Which we've already managed to do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Aelian, stop harping. =w=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see no reason to bother with Thalinde or Braxton Falls again anytime soon.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then I got an idea.&quot; :3 Terri nods to Thomas.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We failed miserably, which is largely my fault.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs. &quot;It's not that big of a deal anymore, brother. We know the one is the town's pelorite healer and the other is a vigilante do-gooder. Let your bias rest. They're not diabolist marauders.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We have bigger concerns.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vigilante do-gooder?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;If Mr. Altonor's doin' bad stuff and lyin', then getting scrying stuff will be good so we can know the truth. If he's tellin' the truth an' doin' good stuff, scryin' on him will reinforce that an' build his case, makin' it easier for the Raiders to get accepted like they wanna.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now even you start.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt...suddenly shoots a -very- critical eye at Terri.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Huh. Nice catch there, Terri. I'm half tempted to ask him for scrying materials, if just to unravel Miron's plots.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*slaps his forehead* This is just incredible.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He has -never- done -that- before...

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">NOOOOOOOOOOO

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh bugger

VAE:<font color="#000000">Flying Fucks

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">*leaps across the table and strangles Tom* THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai has connected.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yo.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Calm down you two

TMG:<font color="#000000">One sec, sending

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy knev dere vas a reason Hy like dat gurl. She's schmot.&quot; Shankfang shoots Terri a proud, toothy grin.

* Thomas Lazarus clamps his eyes shut and looks irritated. &quot;...&quot; A moment passes before he speaks up again. &quot;That is very wise of you to observe, Terri. I'm glad you see the truth of the matter for what it is. In fact, that is why it has always been fine for us to assist the Mace in observing anyone suspicious. They use judgement. They do not fly wildly off the handle and disrupt everything they find, and accoust the innocent and the virtuous.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, last I saw was Gnogglebolt: Gnogglebolt...suddenly shoots a -very- critical eye at Terri.

TMG:<font color="#000000">already sent lines

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;They have the feathers already... Mr. Gnogglebolt? Can I have the letter, please?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would have liked for this to be known by everyone all along. But if you saying it is what it takes for it to be an accepted idea.. then very well.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What letter?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, Terri, not right this moment.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus peers to Gnogglebolt. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What letter?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*brow furrows*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It seems we have gotten very confused at this point in time now.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmhmm. The Mace fights for justice an' the better of all, too.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll ask everyone last time. May I please get this back on track?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh let her see de letter, Gnogglebolt. She's obviously onto zumddink.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus squints a little disapprovingly.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;People who fight for the same purpose should be able to work together.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Confused, I see. And then she comes along and says I'm the one with plots for unraveling.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially if it's a good purpose.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Go ahead, Gnoggle.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=w=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;She even asked nizely.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I have to agree. I like where Terri is going with this.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As I was originally trying to say, way back before Tathi left.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Gnogglebolt?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why can't I have the letter?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Uh-oh. Kid-eyes activate.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">WILL SAVE! WILL SAVE!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because now is not the proper time, miss Terri. Other things must happen first.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Or chust ignore me entirely und schtart directink de konversation again. Dat vorks, too.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hrm, that was supposed to be small.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why is it not the proper time?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because that's what hypocrisy is like, Terri.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I could have a chance to speak and get this all back on track, it would explain itself.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They accuse me of needless secrecy, and then keep secrets themselves.&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;........... How about this?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus doesn't say a word.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you let me have the letter, an' we get this secret out in the open, too... I'll...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll reveal a secret, too.&quot;

* VAE loves how Edaric is the only voice of reason

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeak!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Terri...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes his head sadly. &quot;No, terri, this is not about you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hey. :x

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yet Gnogglebolt claims to be a good diplomat

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Max said he planned to tell it anyway...&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Beady-eyeballs on Terri. o.o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You don't need to do anything.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes it is!&quot; &gt;:O &quot;I'm a Guardian too!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;This meetin' is for the good of the Guardians, an' we're all Guardians.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt winces. &quot;...So you are. But you aren't the reason for it not being the proper time right now, is what I mean. ^^; &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnogglebolt.. give her the letter.&quot; Tathi says very evenly.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;We all agree, we gotta stop keepin' secrets from each other.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus stares at Gnogglebolt.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. Some people haven't wiped their mouths on me enough.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I agree to, But I need to get this back on track and get things explained first.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I got nothing on how to help this situation.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">What about you?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks around to everyone else. 'Can I do this or not?&quot;

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#660033">A well placed fireball might work.

</b>Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">That's your suggestion for everything.

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#660033">Because it always works. =w=

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

* Edaric rubs his forehead. &quot;... Oh for Fharlanghn's sake, Gnogglebolt, haven't you ever dealt with kids?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;No. Give her the letter.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;She's not going to let you talk until you either give her a good reason or give her the letter. And, she's right.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sometimes things have to happen out of order for the best result.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slans back in his chair again. &quot;Fine then. I can't be responsible for anything Miron is going to do with the things that need to be said first not being said.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yeah, stop being so lawful.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">ack, brb, bio

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Silence, Chaotics.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He waves his hand without concern. &quot;You have the letter Tathi, it's your choice.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Chaos for life. =3=

* Thomas Lazarus squints again. &quot;...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I kill you. =w=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Chest thump.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Tathi?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Preach it, brother!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. Because clearly I am the worst thing in Central Akellon since the Ebon Triad tried to summon an Aspect in the sewers.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;No you're not, Mr. Miron.&quot; &gt;:|

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can't you see we're on your side, too?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You have heard them. Idiot Miron here, coward Miron there, whatever's Miron going to do with the letter. &quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">gotta go. See ya guys!

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Ta.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">See ya!

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Heh, a ten year old gurl iz de voice uf reason here. Vat does dat say about de adults in de room?&quot;

* Terri takes the letter from whoever has it, and hands it to Miron. &quot;A bird arrived earlier today with a message from Mr. Altonor. It's largely for you, Mr. Miron. Here, read it, an' then use it to scry with if you like.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That Tom needs time to recharge his Voice of Reason fuel. =w=&quot;&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I do not truly know what your idea was in calling the meeting, friend.. but the limits of my impartiality are being tested. I wanted pointless conspiracy and suspicion and mistrust to be reduced. For us to come closer together -- to work together, to improve at working together even if it's hard. I really think it'd be best if we just shared that particular matter and came clean on everything. My patience for my friends bickering with each other like children is straining.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Let's give him a break, hmm?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know if it's to do with the fact I wasn't presend during Miss Lundy's rrest since everything took the turn for the shitter back then... &quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now your mission's fulfilled, an' the truth is out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thomas, what I was i&gt;trying to say was entirely everything you just said. If you really mean it, that is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But no one's letting me finish, so you can't see how it was supposed to work.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh well. I just can't care anymore.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You speak the truth, Thomas. But then, you should have known better given who has called the meeting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps you should just speak instead of asking for permission to speak, then. It was easy.&quot; =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No plan survives kontact vith de enemy, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excet that what I wanted to speek required everyone's attention and everyone to respond to at the correct times.&quot;

* Terri holds out the letter for Miron to take.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*speak

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back

Terri:<font color="#000000">Need a repost of the contents, VAE?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which no one is cooperating with.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So forget it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand slightly. &quot;Please relax brother. I'd like to ask you to make a conscious effort to cooperate with this and be civil. For the group. For the mission. If nothing else, then for me.&quot;

* VAE would ppreciate

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;People aren't machines, Gnogglebolt.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You needed something, Terri?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sometimes things just happen.&quot; :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh schtop beink such a child. So it didn' go as hyu planned, big deal. Kry me a river, den build a bridge und get over it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Brother, I was making every effort. In fact, if it was not for our mission, I'd have, if not long ago, left straight after the meeting with him.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In any case.. we are all listening, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Letter: Vigilant Guardians,

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Letter: I wish to express my apologies to Inquisitor Steelsprocket for my behavior on the night of Yondallon 11th in Thalinde. How is he faring? I attempted to heal him to the best of my abilities, though they pale in comparison to a holy person's. I am (and no doubt, he is as well) thankful that he is so hardy. Even with the enchantment on our weapons, it is unfortunately still possible to do lethal damage if the wielder does not control himself, which is what occurred that night.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*takes the letter from Terri* &quot;Thank you.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Letter: Our mutual friend told me that you were told that we shining eyes all carry merciful weapons, though I doubt he told you the entire reason, as it is a painful subject for us all. No one escapes a dominion such as the Spider Queen's, or war, without mental scars. A heightened perception of danger, real or imagined, is but one of them. Beng woken suddenly in the middle of the night by a loud noise, especially by the sound of approaching people, has a tendency in either war or Lolthian society to mean clear and present danger. I reacted reflexively and without thinking, and for that, I am truly sorry. Especially after Inquisitor Steelsprocket informed me that he had not been after my life. Despite his prejudices, he seems to be the sort of person who is not accustomed to lying, so I believe him. (He does seem prone to talking in circles, however. Little wonder the thrush thinks he's fun.)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I hope that this incident does not sully our future relations. If you come to the silk trading center again in the week after the 15th, we may cross paths again. In the meantime, keep your eyes open for a szarkai named Vicigloth of Rilynasek. If you see her, do not speak with her. House Rilynasek is more dangerous with a word or a rumor than any bard. They are the information brokers par excellence of the Underdark, and it seems that they are sending feelers to the surface, as well. If they get wind that you are in contact with anyone with drow or elven blood at all, they will latch on and attempt to suck you dry.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms and looks aside at Miron.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Letter: The raven will return to me if you send it flying with the command &quot;Raena.&quot; Please, pass on my apologies to Inquisitor Steelsprocket.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Letter: The signature is a simple black ink drawing of a feathered wing and a hoofprint.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*reads*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Spot check!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No need to pout over it...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">For that one s-word that you all know and don't understand. :3

* Dr. Hatari always knew what it meant. =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You probably see it if you're reading over Miron's shoulder. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl casually reads over Miron's shoulder. =w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">What'd be the proper roll on Knowledge?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dungeoneering, History, or Local knowledge checks would work.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not anymore you're not.&quot; Gnogglebolt says grimly to Thomas. &quot;None of it matters anymore. It's all over, because no one would listen.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Annoyed stare.*

* Thomas Lazarus looks back and arches a brow. &quot;...?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gestures to Miron reading the letter. &quot;Pointless now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Knowledge (local)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What are you talking about?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">That doesn't cut it XD

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You needed something, Terri?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'll never know unless I actually explain the whole thing, which I cannot do now. So forget it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus frowns. &quot;..I don't understand. Why not explain 'the whole thing'?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-mm. Just the letter. An' I'll keep my end of the bargain, too, once Mr. Gnogglebolt's done.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl's face suddenly goes blank.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Local knowledge yields nothing.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Allright.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Are hyu sure about dat, Terri? Hy'd radder hyu not get in trubbel...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And his eyes turn a brief shade of white while his expression turns into a grimace for a moment.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are correct, you don't understand, and you won't. Not now. Just forget it already.&quot; Gnogglebolt waves at Terri. &quot;It's too late for all of that, miss Terri. You forcing the letter means I can't explain anymore.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">''What the fuck is a szarkain ,anyways. Probably just some frowish title.&quot;''

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not without it being all wrong.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow. &quot;...?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ohhh it doesn't matter, I'll already be in trouble.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What has gotten into you?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Note to self. =w=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Punch Altonor in the face when next I see him.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He has gone insane... over this scrap of paper.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I failed my duty already a few times, anyway... um, you okay, Mr. Sszeyl?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tinks didn' go his vay, now he's beink a petulant child.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Talking like that is no way to coax someone into speaking their mind, friend.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just.. what the fuck did you think I was about to do with it, Gnogglebolt? Summon an ossyluth?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Gnogglebolt. &quot;Please. What's wrong?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He probably thought you'd have a fit.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;For the degree of the fit.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slams his face into his hand again. &quot;Thomas, just stop. Stop being like this. You didn't have this inconsolable urge to hear what I was saying five minutes ago, you're not allowed to want to hear it now that it's too late.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just leave it.&quot;

* Terri frowns quickly at Miron before looking back between Thomas and Gnogglebolt.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Imagine if a Drow woman made advances on you. =w= I speculate on that, though.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*fice minutesa ago when it mattered

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;?!&quot; He recoils slightly and frowns, looking slightly offended.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnogglebolt, what has gotten into you? You're acting like Miron.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Gnogglebolt! Dat's qvite enough!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Beg your pardon.. but if I was distracted five minutes ago, it was because I wanted you to be willing to do this yourself. I was distracted. It did not mean I never wanted to hear your thoughts, friend.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I did show up to the meeting, afterall. Please, we're not shunning your view. I'd like to know what's on your mind.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tinks didn' go how hyu vanted it to, ve get it. But dat iz no reason to get hostile und schtart schnappink at you friends.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt throws up his hands in utter loss. &quot;What is with you people?&quot; Gnogglebolt says, only this time he's looking more at Tathi and Shankfang--though he then ends by looking at Thomas. &quot;&gt;Now everyone wants to listen? Now you all want to hear what I have to say? I'm sorry, but it doesn't work like that. What I wanted to say--which was really a very long sequence of discussions--have no meaning anymore. There. Is. No. Point.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rage? Over what - that a drowish criminal who almost killed me, and Inquisitor Geas is trying to apologise? No, because that's a laughing matter. Over the fact that the letter was kept away from me due to some members' paranoia? No, because that was expected, given their previous conduct. Over the fact that I have learned a few things, and confirmed some more? No, because that's a matter for joy. So, I ask you again. What should have I had a fit about?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Makin' chicken nuggets.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He waves his hand. &quot;It's gone. Dust in the wind. Meaningless chatter. I won't bother wasting everyone's time with it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks annoyed. &quot;..Why're you offended now that we're cooperating and giving you our attention? There was another prevalent matter on the table at the time.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl shrugs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You don't need to clam up and hide your feelings and ideas now. We are all asking, afterall. It'd hardly be a waste.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. All we have to do for now, after all, is reach Resca.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Ask me not. For I did not keep it a secret. =w=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Actually.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am offended because you all have the worst timing ANd it is exactly that 'prevalent matter' that had to wait. Stop asking already. It's nothing now. It has nothing to do with my feelings.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We have a stop to make very soon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;So it'd be best we settle this now.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus rubs the bridge of his nose.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What's next on the agenda then?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's no point in asking about it now, so please, stop asking.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Resca, apparently.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Max's shelter.&quot;

* Ghostwish quietly reminds the DM about Tathi's sent letter. :&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We're stopping by to impose on him, and so Max can make sure we treated Terri decently.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em lookink forvard to meetink him!&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And reminding the GM about that Sending.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, once we arrive to Resca, Miron will be sending letters off, too.

* Thomas Lazarus returns to leaning his chin on folded hands. &quot;...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... yeah... an'... telling my secret will help. Yeah, it will.&quot; Terri seems to be trying to psyche herself up.

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeak squeak squeak. *stare*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Terri, are hyu absolutely sure about dis?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, for next time... bloody hell, why do we have to handle stuff like this at the beginning of session?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt puts a hand on terri's shoulder. &quot;Terri...if you have a personal secret, and it doesn't have anything to do with the issues at hand of where we are going and what we're doing, please, don't feel you have to say anything.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I still feel bad about your father.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Doesn't matter, I promised. I never go back on my promises.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it's anything like that, it's okay, we can live without knowing.&quot;

* VAE is nervous about whether he played Miron right.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;But it does, Mr. Gnogglebolt, it does.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Oh dear.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Here comes another speech.

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

* Thomas Lazarus blinks aside to Terri.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, it iz you choice. Hy chust hope nobody freaks out...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Mr. Sszeyl, do you still have calming charges left on your seal?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;All three for today remain.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Should I smooth out some emotions here? =3=&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang makes his way around the table to stand behind Terri, for moral support.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">He brandishes the seal threateningly. =w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;If noddink else, dis schould konvince everyone to let hyu kome vith us nekst time ve go kill tinks, yah?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Damnit Kor, would you calm down!? You're not supposed to say I told you so until after the fact!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Little People from Les Miserables kinda fits the mood here

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-mm, save 'em. The Red might get mad.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">PRIMO VICTORIAAAA

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#660033">Good luck with that.

</b>RAM:<font color="#990000">THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL, AS WE MAKE OUR WAY TO HEAVEN, THROUGH THE NAZI LINES!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Mm.&quot; Terri nods to Shankfang. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No worries, Terri&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's not really even watching. he's just leaning back in his chair with a blank expression.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shank smiles back, placing a hand on her shoulder.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can take care of it, if he does.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus blinks.

Terri:<font color="#000000">She looks around at everyone. &quot;... Will you promise to keep this within the Guardians an' their allies? ... An' not to scream?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Venever hyu are ready, den.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I swear upon my name. =w=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Yes?&quot; He raises a brow.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und if hyu break dat promise Hy'll schoot hyu.&quot; Shankfang says, more jokingly than anything.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not to scream? ... Okay, I promise.&quot; ''It's probably a gross something she found along the road... &gt;.&gt; ''

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Why would we scream-&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Terri clambers up on the table and sits on it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">She vomits a fountain of molten gold on Edari.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">edaric too.

RAM:<font color="#990000">And if you take even a single copper piece Imma eatchoo. o.o

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. Unless it is something that endangers the public good... &quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Insert transformation sequence here.

Miron:<font color="#000000">0_0

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">:D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">._.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">To his credit, Edaric doesn't scream.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;HOLY-&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">To his Credit Sszeyl doesn't clutch his head.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat is schtill avesome.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 1 + 17 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Knowledge (Arcane) What sort of the hell is that?

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up...and barely raises a dejected eyebrow. &quot;......Miss terri? Can you make me a different promise?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">But the fact that he just scooted his chair back so quickly that it fell over and he fell with it doesn't help. :B

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi just kind of smirks, and holds Kor up. &quot;See? It's because she's young. Her scales aren't to color yet.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright.. that's a neat illusion spell. Is that all of it? That you are a sorceress?&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">SQUEAKSQUEAKSQUEAK- etc, etc..

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Not an illusion.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Ow.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">There was quite a pause before Gnogglebolt spoke, by the way

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nathaniel told us already anyways, I think.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Huh, no screams. Impressiff.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon shakes its head. &quot;It's... not an illusion, Mr. Miron.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well, Kor's screaming, if that counts.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus has fallen silent, staring.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not an illusion? Come on. What's the chance we'd have a dragon among us for the whole time.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And I'm back to being ognored. Of course.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No, Taddi, Kor does not kount.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*ignored

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides, look at the scales here.. see how they glisten?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi snerks. &quot;MIron. Touch her.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You're not being ignored.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Stop being dramatic.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Illusions can be disbelieved, can't they?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;My full real name is Lumisteria.&quot; She looks over to Gnogglebolt. &quot;... What is it, Mr. Gnogglebolt?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's definitely an effect of an illusory spell. Real dragon doesn't look that way.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat sounded very vrong, Taddi.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sure it is, Terri.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And how many have you seen?&quot; She asks Miron, before she gives Shank a cross look. &quot;Quit being such a pervert.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt titls a half-lidded eye up at her. &quot;Promise me you'll ask your family about something called 'timing'. That's twice now you...rather could have used help on it. This would mean a lot more if you did it any other time than now.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu saeed it, not me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All I can say is 'this explains a lot'. I'm betting you were expecting something more dramatic.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;D -- d --&quot; O_O &quot; -- dragon.&quot; Seems there are things that even with an 18 Charisma that can leave you speechless.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. most of them were the degenerate dragon spawn of the sorts that visited us... but there are similarities. Besides, I know a thing or two about dragons.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And suddenly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">The Cynget crew walks in from all the shouting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=w=

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Holy.. holy.. holy mackeral. You're a dragon!?!?&quot; Aelian says, bringing his hand up to his mouth. &quot;I am never trusting a sorcerer again.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;As hyu vere sayink, Gnogglebolt?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Begins laughing.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enough with the comedy, people&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas, apparently numb to the words around him, suddenly breaks his paralysis.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon's wings flare open. &quot;I wasn't supposed to tell you! My duty was to help keep you safe an' keep the group together, calm, an'...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He clambers atop the table. &gt;:|

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What the- Thomas??&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Wait.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Suddenly, Tom. O.o

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon smiles cheekily.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">What's the load setting for that table?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dis iz no trick, Miron. Terri iz, indeed, a dragon...vat are hyu doink, Tomas?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, is Tom a dragon too?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus holds Terri(?) by the face. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*laughng*

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">No way it can handle templar+dragon.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah. There was somethin' I wanted to -- ?!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lumisteria and Tomisterus.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Dragon mooshface. :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The dragon pair&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's just leaning limply back in his chair. NotOneFrakGiven.jpg

* Thomas Lazarus trembles a little and stretches Lumi's face into weird arrangements. &quot;Then..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;All this time.. you've been.. safe?&quot; T_T

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Moosh moosh moosh. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">roflroflrofl

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is trying very hard not to laugh right now.

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi starts giggling uncontrollably.. &quot;Thomas, quit that. Although, I'm sorry, Lumisteria, is it? I'm going to do that later too.&quot;

* Lumisteria chuckles and bumps Thomas lightly with her head. X3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is hillarious. Of course she was safe.. she's better at arcane magic than Tathi if she can do this sort of transformations.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus hugs Lumi. &quot;I've been so worried about you the entire trip!!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You were giving me gray hairs!&quot; Dx

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh and by the way I am totally harvesting scales and talons from you for magical experiements.&quot; She says. Tathi-troll returns, higher CR! &gt;:)

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

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Awwwww!&quot; Dragon hug!

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeeeeeeeeak. &gt;:|

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's so nice of you, Mr. Tom! But I was supposed to be helpin' keep you safe, too.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">{:3

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh HUSH Kor. She's no likely to eat you than the cats are, except.. the hell are you going on about muffins for?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... The table creaks. &quot;&gt;_&gt;;&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Oh, right.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Reality in three.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon grins.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Two.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;One.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm supposed to kidnap you, right?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh ears-&quot; Tathi starts, getting away from the table.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">JUMP ON TABLE! :D

* Lumisteria pounces Thomas, nudging him off the table.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian gets away from said table.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But&quot;--COLLAPSE.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bloody hell.. everyone has gone nuts.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Duh.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This is what happpens when stress goes away. =w=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Antics.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt doesn't even bother to scoot his chair back as the table's legs suddenly collapse and sned splinters and shockwaves up at him.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Nope, still don't care.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">The DM hasn't ruled the table broken yet. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh. Nevermind then.

* Lumisteria puts a paw on Thomas' head playfully. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thought Hatari said it collapsed.

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles a bit nervously. On the one hand, antics..

* Sszeyl nudges Miron forward.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, Terri, how long can you stay in this form?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">..On the other hand I've been tackled by a true dragon hello there. ^^;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;If your so certain it's an illusion, touch and disbelieve.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Illusion, or polymorph spell.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is my natural form, Mr. Miron.&quot; Terri releases Tom. Good grief, even for a young dragon, she's big.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The second you have seen in Thomas.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Spellcraft it then.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Miron, when did she cast a spell, Miron?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">oops, ignore that, player derped.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Detect magic if you like. It's true.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;When... uh,... when did she..&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stilled spells!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She laughs. &quot;That's a wizard's domain, Miron.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;She's an entry-level sorcerer.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Miron Hy svear Hy em gunna bop hyu on de head...&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon snorts with laughter, and the air nearby heats up by a few degrees.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Nudge the balding gnome. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look. You are intent on making me look like an idiot today.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles a little dryly. &quot; It's not as though there was no suspicion.. but.. I assumed dragons were a little further removed, uh, up, in your bloodline.&quot; =w=;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Is there anything more?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just look at her. Scales, Eyes. It's.. almost right, but not quite entirely.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And now...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Scritchies for the dragon!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But fine, if you are so insistent.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*casts detect magic, deliberately exaggerating the gestures needed*

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who was the last dragon you saw, Mr. Miro -- ooooooh that feels good right there behind the wing joing&quot; =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*joint

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She touched you, silly gnome.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">No magic.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Scritchie scritchie scritchie.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And here we can clearly see... uh... 0_0&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The hind foot might be going a little, like a dog getting scratched in just the right spot. |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slowly gets out of his chair. &quot;Well, since any semblance of an actual meeting is gone, let alone any topics that were necessary to bring up now unecessary, unless anyone else has anything to say, I think I'll excuse myself. I need to go talk to the captain for a few minutes.&quot; Gnogglebolt says softly to anyone who's ears are point his way as he walks by them.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tiamat's three arses, you really are a dragon.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy got to scritch a dragon. Dere's anodder item checked uff de bucket list!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Le sigh. =w=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But... bloody hell.. I..&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus pushes himself upright.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll go with you.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; Edaric watches Gnogglebolt go, but doesn't say anything, making a mental note to talk to him later.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*facepalms*

* Swallowtail 's face is stuck like O_O

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi laughs so very hard at Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's... quite a time since I have seen one of your sort... &quot;

* Elros doesn't seem to react beyond a slightly raised eyebrow.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He watches Gnogglebolt go.

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">Annnnd that's right when Miron gets plowed over from behind by a giant puppy.

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">Hi! *sniffsniff* What do you smell like, lizard thing?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets to the deck, and suddenly seems to realize Sszeyl is following him. He turns around. &quot;Yes? Did you need something?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Saffron, incense, soap, and muffins!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I ... must have misremembered .. besides it was a chr-&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">'Argh!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Don' vorry, Gnogglebolt vill be hokay. He doesn' like it ven his plans get derailed, but he vill get over it soon.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks down, and cracks a small smile at the antics.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;GET. OFF. ME.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Scritchie scritchie scritchie.

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

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;None've you have probably had the honor of seeing a dragon my age before, anyway.&quot; |3 &quot;I forgive you, Mr. Miron.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*tries to roll under its weight*

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">Heeee. You should play with the little person sometime. He's silly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Get that stupid dog off me, someone!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Terri again and rests a hand on her head. He smiles softly.

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">The puppy just pants happily, thinking Miron's wrestling with her.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sorry about lying for so long, but I had to. Please understand.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(Meany? You there?)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I really am glad, though. I've been worried sick over this entire trip because of you.. in the dragonspawn battle.. in Braxton..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't care.. just get the dog off me.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vas gunna try und konvince hyu guys to let her kome along vith us de nekst time ve go do adventurer schtuff, but Hy get de feelink dat it iz no longer necessary to do so.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Of course. Most people tend to freak out about dragons.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Jeeze. You could probably beat me up.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I should bloody have realised&quot;

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

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

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

TMG:<font color="#000000">dangit

TMG:<font color="#000000">last line you saw, meany?

* Swallowtail tries to move the dog, snapping back to awareness. ^^;

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">Rrrrrrrr!

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Stands up, dusting off* &quot;Thank you, Swallowtail.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Lumisteria: &quot;I'm sorry about lying for so long, but I had to. Please understand.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">INCOMING SECOND DOG MISSILE- no I'm kidding. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And miss Terri.. may I ask what is truly your age?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, one sec, sending.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;How rude! Asking a lady's age!&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Four!&quot; ^.^

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Cue brain breaking.

* Thomas Lazarus jolts. o_o;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yeah, she's really hyung.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Four, huh? True enough, I haven't seen such a dragon before.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Ow damnit my brain. X_@

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl going to answer Gnogglebolt?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Wha.. four? I thought..&quot; @_@

Meany:<font color="#660033">Gnogglebolt asked a question?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yes he did.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt: Gnogglebolt gets to the deck, and suddenly seems to realize Sszeyl is following him. He turns around. &quot;Yes? Did you need something?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmhmm. Me, Itoranion, an' Vivirakotorphix are all from the same clutch, so we're all four. That's me, Ian, an' Vira.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Everyone else has released a great deal of stress just now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You have not.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus scratches a cheek with his index finger. &quot;... It's kind of hard imaginging Vira as a dragon ...&quot; o_o;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I am here to make sure you remain stable, and to help if needed.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Speak for yourself. I wasn't stressed in the first place.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What are you talking about? Of course I have. I just totally let go of everything.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A young Toris.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Apparently very young.' =w=;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That isn't a constructive way of dealing with stress.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;My little sister. Itoranion hatched first, then me, then Vivirakotorphix.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Nor is it anything but a time-buying solution.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah. As I had said upstairs a while ago, I don't know many of them. Perhaps because they are a rather law-abiding, decent family unlike some.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sideways glance at tathi*

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Her eyes narrow.. and then she opens her mouth and-

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy chust hope hyu don' get in trubbel for schowink everyone, Terri. Hyu vere takink enough a risk ven hyu schowed me.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Amadre. Tavia.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnome.&quot;

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">Incoming double dog missile!!!

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

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The dragon's wings droop a little. &quot; ... ohhh Max is gonna be mad. &quot; .~.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt holds his hands to his head like he has a migrane. 'Well, what do you want from em then? Why does everyone seem to think I still have anything left to say? I do not IF anyone else has anything important to say, I'll go back down and listen, but I have nothing left to say.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus suddenly blanches. &quot;......&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;LET ME GO&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Dogpile. Literally. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;There.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And keep this in mind, ever so kind gnome..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Venting.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;INSHONSHEAE AWLESH BEASHTHS&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;They're only going to get bigger.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Brian is a dragon??&quot; He remarks in a hoarse cracking voice. O_O;;;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh for Garl's sake, Sszeyl, honestly, do you ? Because I have other things to do.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That would make Max a dragon too, wouldn't it?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh for Garl's sake, Sszeyl, honestly, do you actually have anything to say to me or not? Because I have other things to do.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*struggles*

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">TROLLING IS OVER. D: Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And oooo! Papa! I bet he's a big one.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-HMM!&quot; :D

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;GEFF OFF ME&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;An' Grandpa an' Grandma are huuuuuuge!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I bet I could get some GREAT magical incredients off of him!&quot; She says. Crazy elf!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes, actually.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vole family iz dragons.&quot;

* Swallowtail suddenly breaks into a long stream of Amayan and bows deeply toward Terri repeatedly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;FUFK YOU FAFHI AND OUF LOODY OGF&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+0 = 12 + 0 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Strength check to get them off

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;What you did down there did not address the issue. You simply ignored it without resolving it. If you want to be a leader, or a teacher, you must learn to face these issues, and not stop caring.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 2 + 3 = 5&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187;!

* Thomas Lazarus debates intervening. &gt;_&gt;;

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 11 + 3 = 14&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187;!

* Lumisteria blinks at Swallowtail, tilting her head and peering. &quot;... uhm... I'm sorry, I don't speak Amayan...&quot; o.o;;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">So he got Tavia off.. who promptly jumps right back on. XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">*spit*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;She's saying something along the lines of how great of an honor it is to meet a... she's saying 'sea spirit' as often as 'dragon.'&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least she's&quot; *spit* &quot;fucking off my mouth&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus decides not to. |3

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh god. She has smiley face HD. We are so fucked.

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

* Lumisteria leans over and peers at Miron. &quot;Easy on the swearin', okay?&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Pant pant slobber slobber.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oops. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">NINE!?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+0 = 7 + 0 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Again.Strength. bloody dogs, go away

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Haven't you been paying attention to her modifiers..? :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">*heave* Urgh...

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 1 + 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; strength!

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 2 + 3 = 5&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; strength!

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">He got free!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt pinches the bridge of his nose again. &quot;I've said it before, I'll say it again, I don't care about being a 'leader'. And you're right, the issue is yet unresolved. But now it's impossible to do so. Poor children...know nothing about timing. And if you can't trust me in saying that there's no point in trying to explain it anymore--which really is an awful choice of words because it would have required everyone's participation, and thus isn't really an 'explanaion' of anything-- then disagree with me but accept it, and don't bother me anymore.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron suddenly stands up throwing dogs every which way? :B

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Weeeeeeee!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's bloody it. How appropriate. A bitch only deals with bitches.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Hi! Hi! Hi! Wag wag wag. :&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Very well.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Hi! Hi! Hi!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron runs off in the direction of his room, SLAMS THE DOOR SHUT.

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Lick! Hey! You taste like dragon thing!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl walks off.

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Stupid dogs...

</i> Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;... so... you can probably imagine what's in the Hills of Gilforen now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt exhales at finally being left alone.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well... I feel a lot less conflicted about giving you that fortune in gold, now, atleast...&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;On the plus side.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dragons!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Gnogglebolt's no longer interested in taking the lead in things anymore. =w=&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;So.. will dragons actually eat an entire cow whole?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;That went straight in the lair fund.&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;So the job of guild leader is open for grabs.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah.&quot; &gt;:3

* Thomas Lazarus flinches.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I vote Thomas.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Um.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What?&quot; &gt;:O

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt was NEVER the leader, nor did he ever try.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;You haven't lived until you've had whole-cow barbecue.&quot;

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I have to second that. A second vote to Edaric.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Everyone just 'called' him that

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nor did he try?

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">there IS no leader position

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">It was unofficial.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I always recall him trying to boss people abouy

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vote Terri!&quot; :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Besides. This is no time for talk like that.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Mmmm. I'd vote for Terri if she was a little more.. terrifying.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">SQUEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's clearly upset. About what, exactly.. I sort of failed to get out of him..&quot; =3=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But regardless!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You don't count, Kor.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey!&quot; D:{

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Bloody hell, have I made an arse of myself today

</i> Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can be terrifying! Really!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Oh he's upset that no one listened to him.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt walks up to the wheelhead and the captain. He opens his mouht to say something, then smacks his forehead. &quot;Oh, yeah, you said wait until after dinner. Er,&quot; He looks over the water. &quot;I don't suppose we're still in a bredis-field that requires your expertise?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>The thing with the dragon.. and now, running away from two bloody dogs.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That we locked him out of the conversation unintentionally, and resolved it for ourselves. He hasn't resolved it yet.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh? Kan hyu, Terri? Kan hyu really?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*debris-field

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Thus is my theory.'

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Scritchie scritchie scritchie.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Ask him for confirmation.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... holy -- we've been adventuring with a dragon.&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033"><b>&quot;Ahem.&quot; =w=

</b> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Uhg. I don't even want to get into it. I apparently failed to step into the precise spot to fulfill a mechanation that he deliberately kept invisible. It's not as though we were uncooperative all night.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;A real dragon, Sszeyl.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Bloody hell, I have fought necromancers. Demon summoners, for fuck's sake. Why are the fucking dogs messing with me as they please ?!

</i> Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Gnogglebolt likes his plans. It's how he hes alvays been. He hetes it ven dey don' go de vay he plans. He vill get over it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs. &quot;Fine, fine.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus ruffles Terri's head again.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you for trusting us with this, Terri.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;... d'you mind if I go human-shape again? I don't wanna be caught like this if the cook comes in. Oh man I hope Max isn't gonna be too mad. &quot; ;~;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>That's it. I'm going back there. I'm not a bloody joke for that fireblast bitch and her bitches.

</i> TMG:<font color="#000000">Hey, Q. Tathi got the letetr back from Miron, right?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, Terri. Let's see hyu be terrifyink. Gimmee hyu var face!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's no small weight off my shoulders knowing we haven't actually been putting you into insanely irresponsible danger for the whole trip.&quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">or we can assume she did, if it wasn't explicitly said?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathi definitely didn't

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Of course, and we promise to protect you from the big bad max dragon too.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No, Terri gave Miron the letter to keep.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Terri, maybe, though I aren't sure of that , even

TMG:<font color="#000000">does Tathi still have the litttle birdie?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Yup.

Miron:<font color="#000000">With a steady step. Miron walks out of the room and back into the kitchen.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't wanna do that here. You guys are my friends.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, well, I'll just have to recall the letter from memory, then. -3-

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnome!&quot; No, I'm kidding. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">and is the captain going to respond to Gnogglebolt?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kome on, Hy vanna see hyu var face! Grrrrr!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(sorry for pulling you two ways, DM )

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, well. An intriguing sight to see,&quot; a familiar voice muses from thin air in the galley.

* Thomas Lazarus baps Shankfang in the forehead.

* Lumisteria flinches. o_o;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's enough.&quot; =w=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ackpth!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi jumps. &quot;What the-&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And that's bloody i-?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hey Zai.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the fuck?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The gnome freezes.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vhozzat?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Zairith, I want you to pass along something to Altonor when you see him.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian looks around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's a friend of ours.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Zairith the wizard. How're you?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus locks eyes on Miron. &quot;He's my friend.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Tell him that if he lets me see him again, I'll knock his teeth out of his skull with a large, blunt bit of furniture.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pokepokepoke the captain. &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Okay, snoopy snoopy drow, how long have you been scrying us?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow at Sszeyl.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Nev person? HALOO!&quot; :D Wave wave wave!

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I can not tell you. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Not yet.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Truth be told, I was scrying to ask the same thing of you. It has been several weeks since you left Castleton, with no word. Don't worry so much, girl. I already knew. Your family scarcely keeps it secret. The sign of Bahamut and conversation with your grandfather revealed enough.&quot;

* Lumisteria flinches again. &gt;.&gt;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If you say so.&quot; Thomas is apparently used to Sszeyl reacting to Drow news in weird ways. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ooh, he sounds like a schmot guy. Hy bet he vears a monocle.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh don't worry Lummy. He's one of those bookish wizard types. He'd never dare challange a family of dragons.&quot; Tathi says.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...okay, since it seems I'm stuck on an extra-long loading screen, I'm going to the bathroom real quick.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, we are. Though if it's quick, I can talk while I steer. What is it?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh.

TMG:<font color="#000000">whuop

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see you've collected another member for your troupe.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, it's not quick, unfortunately, it's about me going over the maps and charts with you, like before.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you please, however, let me knw when you are no longer needed at the helm.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, schmot guy, do hyu vear a monocle?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Introduce yourself, Shank.&quot; =w=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would like to get this out of the way as soon as possible.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... no, I do not.&quot; The voice sounds a little flat.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Change of shift is after dinner, so that'll be the soonest.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's before we pass the next town, right?&quot;

* Sszeyl whistles.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not all smart people wear monocles.&quot; ^^;

Renia:<font color="#FF0000">A lot do, though. =wQ

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Terri~&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:46 lagcheck.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu schould. Hennyvay, Hy em Shenkfang, de Deffrider, from Mazio. Pleased to meet hyu!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:46

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Going to change before the cat familiar poofs back in?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">lialagcheck at :46

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, good. :3

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :47 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:47 at :46. :B

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh! Okay.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">TIMEWARP

TMG:<font color="#000000">:B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ping: -1500ms.

RAM:<font color="#990000">FLUX CAPACITOR FLUXING!

Terri:<font color="#000000">Ker-shapeshift.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and who is Altonor?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Paladin of Freedom who rides a pegasus.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Acting like you don't know!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I cannot recall the name he has for you.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Terri Hair ruffle, go! :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..He's apparently an associate of Rhylinar's.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That said, it probably is a false name.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Speaking of.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;How is everyone on your end? =3= Rhylinar checked in yet?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I imagine you had more on your mind than answering our questions during your scry, though.&quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">....okay, -now- bathroom for real.

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

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;I cannot say that I know any 'paladins of freedom.' I do not often associate with my brother's veteran compatriots.&quot; The voice is even -- &#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 17 + 11 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Bluff check.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 18 + 1 = 19&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; sense motive!

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 20 + floor((17 - 10) / 2) = 23&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; wisdom check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Sense motive check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">back

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=3=

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">CRITICAL SENSE.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( There are no nat 20's or 1's on skills. :P ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">Does Miron need to roll? He *knows* the bugger is lying

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I know where you sleep. &gt;:O

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in, he heard him being associated straight ouy

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Pfft. &#171; &#160;1d20 = 3&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Sense Motive. As if he can tell.

TMG:<font color="#000000">thank you, hatari. |D

TMG:<font color="#000000">FInally someone other than me remembered that. |D

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He -suspects- that he's lying. Roll Sense Motive. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">He informed the lot in Castleton to watch him, after all

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 20 + 7 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Watch me fail

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lololololol

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">MAXIMUM. Not enough. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pokepokepoke captain again. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, but to him it should have additional mods

TMG:<font color="#000000">Jack Selkirk: &quot;Change of shift is after dinner, so that'll be the soonest.&quot; Gnogglebolt: &quot;That's before we pass the next town, right?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Since it's an unbelievable lie

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think that was - something

TMG:<font color="#000000">...yeah, I do have to chime in and say that Miron -does- get a modifier

RAM:<font color="#990000">I was just about to say that.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everyone here is well. Lethiriss is most anxious to know whether her bread and preserves were enjoyed.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They were. Please tell her thank you.&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Quite. =3=&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, Miron does gain a modifier. That's enough to make it succeed.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Switching to under common.

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Suure you don't, you fuck.

</i> Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well before. We won't be passing Reed until tomorrow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">(&quot;Rhylinar's friend made mention of the ghost spiders in fron of our paranoid, if rightfully so, Gnome Inquisitor.&quot;)

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;(He did, did he. Did he supply a name?)&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, good. I...suppose I'll see you after dinner in the navigation, then.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron doesn't say a word.. but just about any sense motive check would reveal what he thinks about the value of Zairith's statements.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes down to the hold to idly play around with bits of his work.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( brb, bafroom. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">(&quot;Vicigloth of Rilynasek.&quot;)

Miron:<font color="#000000">*recognises name, gets more alert*

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may be interested to know that your assassin adversaries appear to no longer be in Castleton --&quot; The pause is sudden and keenly noticeable. &quot;Rilynasek?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Aaand back. ))

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl. And the rest of you. You must stay as far away as possible from House Rilynasek.&quot; Something's definitely changed about the wizard's tone.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmph. I hope they're going somewhere and not simply following.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Beg your pardon, but..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That's twice we've been told now.. I think the message is clear.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Unless they announce themselves, how would we even know who that is?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides, you should supply an actual reason.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Asides from them being drow, I mean.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look for the sign of a web made of vines with a flower in the center. That is their house crest.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Miron. &quot;You read the letter, didn't you?&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;House Rilynasek is among both the most useful and most dangerous of the drow houses to become involved with. They are information brokers. Worse, they are information brokers with a strict policy of neutrality.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The last thing we need is publicity. Especially feeding directly back to some of our most dangerous antagonists.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;... in other words, they would sell us out to anyone.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or them to us.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any information that lands in their sight or hearing can end up being told or sold to anyone. Orgolloyss. Helvirahel. Any number of great houses.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh no

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sour patch kids package explosion *sour'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>But that means they might know who Cal'tel is, for one.

</i> Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Many houses dealing with them have a similar outlook, inquisitor.&quot; The wizard sounds slightly tired. &quot;That often becomes their doom.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;The price House Rilynasek demands for their information is often more information.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A doom of one is the success of the other, is it not?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It stays the same game, just the stakes go up, in effect.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Regardless, the message is clear.&quot; ^^;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor. Banish the thought from your mind.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;To become involved with House Rilynasek is to make a highly risky political move that you are, frankly, not equipped for.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Oh yes. I'd achieve so very much by taking advice from my adversaries.

</i> Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps so... Either way, there are more pressing tasks at hand.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Thomas.. I hate to put this on you.. but you're going to need to keep a close eye on this gnome for a long time to go. Don't let him anywhere near this House Rilly.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... blast it. Pardon me. While advanced scrying measures lend greater length to the scrying spell, they --&quot; There's a sudden pause.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... ahem. Where was I. They do not lend greater length to the messaging spells used to communicate through them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Interesting. One'd think that with less noise needing to be care of, the messages could be made longer.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand in the air and murmurs, &quot;Miron has been doing this for a lot longer than I've been alive..&quot; =w=;; &quot;I trust him not to go off dealing with Drow mafiaesque information cartels all willy-nilly, even if his statements are always suspicious and suggestive.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You two need to stop letting words get under your skin so easily.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You trust him. I don't. He'll bungle this up, trying to spy on them or something. Mark my words.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way, Tathi, if you feel that I'm all that eager getting involved with *more* bloody drow than I already have, must be out of this mind.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*out of your mind

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Didn't stop you last time, did it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If he were that bad he would have died seventy years ago.&quot; =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Give it a rest.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;To answer your previous question, Sszeyl, I have not heard from my brother as of late.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm &gt;:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seventy years ago, huh&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm assuming they know each other's general backstories. Pardon if that's too presumptuous. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, it works

* VAE HOARDS backstory

VAE:<font color="#000000">besides, even if it wasn't so, now it is, so to say.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regarding your assassins, I did perform a scrying on them as a test of this spell. They appeared to be travelling in a cart. Stolen, most likely.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't suppose there were any revealing landmarks along the way? Riverbank, perhaps?&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;They had a significantly taller cloaked humanoid figure with them. Likely the flesh golem.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Probably. I have plans for him. My greater concern is their destination.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, as an aside, Altonor was apparently right. Miron does have the bad habit of his anger and disdain getting the best of him ,and revealing more of his thoughts than would be good.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;It appeared to be deciduous forest, with several ponds along the path.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus pauses, then shrugs. &quot;So much for my guess. That could be anywhere.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you for the update.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Knowledge(local) Any fitting places such ? &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 2 + 7 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Apparently not.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">All over Akellon. :B

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

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hm.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's sure a lot of useful information.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now I ask for a return. How have your travels been faring?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least we are sure they didn't go to seek us in Moscra.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is difficult to ascertain location by viewing the inside of a ship's galley.&quot;

* Sszeyl taps Aelian on the head.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That they aren't waiting in ambush back home or following this river is enough for now, brother.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This one got hisself killed.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?!?!?!?!&quot; D: Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who knows? They might have split, or recruited more of them.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus flinches.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We're nearing the Hills of Gilforen I think. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Hy assume no vun told Terri?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;SSZEYL.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">:B

Terri:<font color="#000000">D: D: D: Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">He has such a trollface right now.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;We weren't going to.&quot; Tathi says, groaning..

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">No, he has the geenus face. Because he just failed. Hardcore.

Terri:<font color="#000000">D8

VAE:<font color="#000000">No

VAE:<font color="#000000">He has Melvin face

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Not very in the spirit of sharing secrets are we, Tathi?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; =w=; &quot;Things were very unpleasant during the operation in Braxton Falls. But we all came back alive. It is what matters.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The one and only face of spoilsport wankers everywhere

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We did not want to cause a needless panic in our crew and guests.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You died?!?!?!&quot; D8

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;It's allright Terri. I got better.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;I got better.&quot;

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">BEAT YA TO IT. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Monty Pythons for the win

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I wanted to impersonate him, which made me lost precious seconds

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;No it's not all right! You died an' you didn't tell anyone!&quot; D8

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least you didn't tell me.&quot; &gt;8

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We just didn't want you to be sad..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Terri, we didn't want to tell you, because we thought you would get, well, massively upset over it. Also-&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Sniffle. ;~;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;It was Thomas' idea not to tell you.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Troll Tathi has leveled up!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's true. I'm sorry, Terri.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, in his defense, dying isn't the sort of thing one is too eager to talk about.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Right. It wasn't exactly a great experience I'm looking to repeat.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">You know what would have been better than Monty Python?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">because nothing is

Terri:<font color="#000000">Sniff... sniff... ;o; Terri hugs Aelian's waist. &quot;Don't do that agaaaaain!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;Reports of my death are an exaggeration.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Some dumber pop culture reference..? =w=;;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian smiles, placing his hand on Terri's head. &quot;I promise I'll do my best not to.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Pop culture?

* Dr. Hatari scores! *bricked*

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... as touching as this scene is.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in, culture of bearded orthodox russian priests?

* VAE imagines one of them with a balalaika

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Has Sszeyl's... tagalong shown any signs of loosening its bonds?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In a manner of speaking.&quot; He sombers.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He sent off a letter and a sending not too long ago.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And has managed to let go of his anger.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes. That. It's slipping influencial little messages out when we're not looking. Despite our best efforts.&quot; &gt;:|

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or rather, got smarter than raging.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;To be fair.'

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The sending was a flop.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He did not recieve a favorable reply.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;... that is most disconcerting.&quot; Marked understatement.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Best efforts, Thomas? Sszeyl bumped into you, by his own words.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was.. occupied by other matters.. I thought you are watching him.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">okay, need to start a fire. Gonna be afk for a bit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well!&quot; He sighs in exasperation. &quot;It's not like he had reptilian pupils at the time or something!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He was just Sszeyl biding time at night. Same as I.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. Either way.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;From now on, Sszeyl isn't to do anything alone, perhaps except eating and the rest of such.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms and frowns. &quot;...&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">nevermind! it's raining outside. XP

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can't afford to have a fifth column working behind our backs like that.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You and your grill. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Good luck with that.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">MURRCA

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially since with all the other fifth columns, it's getting a bit overstuffed in there.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;The least trustworthy member of this party isn't about to start dictating escort duties.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Ahem.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Focus.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I had the same orders as Miron Tathi.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I had the same orders as Miron Tathi.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The least trustworthy, because I apparently keep communication with madmen up behind everyone's back.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I just didn't get caught.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;After all. Sszeyl just follow us around anyway.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You can start distrusting us equally or get over it. I'm a little weary of hearing you and Gnogglebolt crusade against him like this.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way, if at least a bit of sanity remains in your wooden skull, you'd see how the dragon mailing shit left and right endangers everyone.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What, you snuck out without the rest of us, managed to pluck some feathers, and came back?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In a manner of speaking.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He knew about the whole operation, Tathi.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;So, how come he's successful, and you're a cowardly idiot then?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;See.. that's exactly what I mean. You two are just doing this because of your feelings. Please grow up.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs, shaking his head. &quot;Stop letting her bait you, Miron.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Said the 28 year old to the three-digits-whatever year old. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The same reason why ,say, Gradia Thorngage is a capable wizard, and you a pyromaniac homicidal bitch.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">Fortunately, Zairith is refined enough to not be munching popcorn during this scene. Or if he is munching popcorn, he's being quiet about it.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnome.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">INCOMING!!

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

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Pounce!

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

* Thomas Lazarus looks up with a frown.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yep, Cause Fear is prepared

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Was there anything else on your mind, Zairith?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot; Hi kitty. &quot; :3

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Before they move in, he's casting it on at least one of them XD

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 15 + 3 = 18&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, in other words, initiative checks

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not currently. This is rather illuminating, however.&quot; He sounds vaguely amused.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em really schtartink to get tired uf doze tvo schnipink back und forth at each odder.&quot; -_-

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. Thank you again. Good night.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">looks like it would be.. +3 to initiiative.. not sure if Aelian enhances his animal companion yet or not..

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+0 = 12 + 0 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Initiative. Let's see if he can manage anything befoe they pounce

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; init!

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; init!

* Thomas Lazarus walks off to his room with closed eyes and a frown. He ignores the shenanigans below him.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Nope.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless Miss Tathi can pull herself away from sniping at the inquisitor long enough to entertain a query about the grimoire of Asterac.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, are they on him, or not?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh, moment. I'm enjoying this.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not quite yet. They're approaching.

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in.. I wanted to get the initiative in as soon as she called &quot;gnome&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">You have init,.

Meany:<font color="#660033">You act first.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Oh, Zairith.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Has Barbarus stopped by recently?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">5 or gewer hd

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, Terri, vanna get Mateo und go schootink? Hy need to get out uf here before Hy kneecap zumone out uf annoyance.&quot; -_-

* VAE had to look up Cause Fear

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Go ahead. Something you want to know about the spellbook?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which one's Tathi's

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

* VAE wonders. Or would Miron not know?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">He wouldn't. He doesn't even know their names. XD

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Merely passing curiosity as to whether you have managed to glean any arcane secrets from its pages.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">In his room, Thomas crashes on his bunk and growls, escalating up into a cathartic shout. &gt;:O!! &quot;Pelor give me patience, because if you give me strength I will kill them!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus huffs and settles into prayer. =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh, quite a lot. I've been steadily copying. Interesting stuff, to say the least.&quot;

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your one-eyed friend has been by the Ebonwood several times. You may wish to be careful when you return to Castleton.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">DAMNIT BRAIN.

Voice:<font color="#000000">&quot;He purchased a device which had been sold to me by a priest of the Laughing Rogue, among other things.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Oh dear.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh. barbarus

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay.&quot; Terri follows Shankfang, setting the kitten down. &quot; Good kitty. &quot; :3 Pet pet.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang pets the kitty on the way, too.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Otto Werner and Samuel Hartwood aren't in this campaign. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... As PCs, anyways. *shiftyeyes*

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">YES THEY ARE.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">STOP LYING.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Purr in parting.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oi, Mateo! Ready to try hittink a movink target?&quot; Shankfang calls to the boy, drawing his pistol so he can see.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I wonder.. when are the puppies going to 'grow' up?

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure!&quot; :D

Liatai:<font color="#000000">When Aelian hits level 6.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The gnome appears pissed. &quot;Enough!&quot;, he gestures towards the &#171; &#160;1d2 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; th hound. &quot;In the name of the Cudgel, leave!&quot; DC 14 will save on Cause Fear

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Thank you for answering. :3&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">So Amadre got this one.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll leave you wizards to your magic.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">I saw no concentration check. Was that a spell-like ability?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, bugger

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hey, Thomas.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">she s next to him

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Feeling better?&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Gotcha. &gt;:) &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; AoO!

* Thomas Lazarus murmurs, &quot;Hey.&quot;

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

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; AoO!

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Let me know when people are ready to timeskip! :3

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

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 14 + 1 = 15&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; Will save! +2 against enchantment!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">So very ready.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Relieved in one sense, but aggravated in another.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Would snuggling with Vuz help?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Still, shaken for a round

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A favor would suffice.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Okay! Do we have any good moving targets out here?

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Of course.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miss again

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 10 + 2 = 12&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miss again

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Debris floating in the river? :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Mateo would take issue with shooting a living animal.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;This is hilarious. They'll be right hell hounds when they're grown.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Remind me when we return to Lorellon or Castleton, if we've come into any money by that time, to donate to a local school.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kome along, kids! Dis debris field iz full uf targets!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;We should be seeing a growth spurt shortly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I've found in myself a growing respect for people able to put up with fighting children for so long.&quot; ^_^;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Call those beasts off, Tathi. In their own interest.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh so now my name's Tathi, huh? I thought it was bitch earlier.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I assume you do not mean Gnoggle's vocational school.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">:P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But yes, I will.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">A step towards the wall, and a repeat of the spell on the second hound. &quot;In the name of the Cudgel, leave, didn't you hear?&quot; DC 14 again

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, vich uf hyu vants to try first?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose that's a thought. But I assume it is not for children, either.&quot;

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 16 + 1 = 17&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; +2 against enchantments!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Do you mind if we fade to black on the shooting lesson in the interest of timeskipping? ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your name might as well be plankhead. I care little.&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Purr.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Sure.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Ohwait. &gt;.&gt;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">No problem.

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am sleeping with a dragon.&quot; O_O

Amadre:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 11 + 2 = 13&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!!!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miss again.

* Thomas Lazarus gently rubs the kitten's head while he falls into prayer. Atleast it bleeds a little stress.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#660033">*badum kssh*

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; pounce!!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miss again.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">|3

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;They need to work on their form..&quot;

* Edaric stares at Swallowtail for a bit before collecting himself.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As efficient as their owner, it would seem.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Now, ven schootink a movink target, hyu hef to do zumddink kalled leadink de target...&quot; And fade to black.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... you might want to use 'sleeping in the same room with' in the future, Swallowtail.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">can we assume dinner comes and goes?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Says the halfling who can't even intimidate a pair of puppies..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(and that most of the party quietly eats their dinners alone...)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dinner comes and goes. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are lucky I do not wish to hurt them.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That second part is up to them.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Careful step backwards

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes, because impaling you with arrows would be a very unpleasent experience. For you.&quot; Aelian says evenly.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Fuck eating alone. I eat with whoever is willing!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">After the crew has their own dinner, Gnogglebolt goes to see the captain in his cabin

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And we have a grand old time!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Knock knock knock on the cabin door.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come in, it's open!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm sure Terri is willing to eat with him, at the very least.

Meany:<font color="#660033">How close are we to getting to the Hills? =3=

Meany:<font color="#660033">Like, geographically.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;hello, Captain.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Neither would be a few spells I know for you.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Today is the 12th, you're getting to the Hills on the 14th. Check the map. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Let's curtaincall on the dogbattle already. =w=;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I'm actually anxious to move on as well. More RP to be had. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just wanted to go over the rivermaps with you, I wanted to add a few short stops to our journey.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No more than at most a few hours each.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, Assume Miron tried to back off towards the ladder

VAE:<font color="#000000">because dogs can't climb ladders.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">he would definitely get tackled well before that. XP

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yah, if I keep rolling the way I am, he would get to the ladder easy. XD

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pull up a chair. There aren't many other towns along the way that we're not planning to stop at. Reed is the only one.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">anyways.. if anyone is to continue

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">But, really. Liatai? When do the puppies reach their size? :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">after the 5 foot step, 20 ft attempted movement XD gives AoO to Amadre i think

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;I meant by the table, but that's fine if you prefer.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">can't move after a 5ft.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I already said. When Aelian reaches level 6. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, he did nothign else in the turn

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Awwwwww. Everyone! Nom Aelian senseless. :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Meaning he shoukd have either move or std action left

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">a 5ft is a move action.

VAE:<font color="#000000">or is there something that i'm overlooking?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Then he has a std one left

GM:<font color="#000000">Do others have mid-session noms while we wrap up here?

VAE:<font color="#000000">which can be used for movement

RAM:<font color="#990000">You're overlooking something.

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

Meany:<font color="#660033">Hmm.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And if I haven't mentioned already

Meany:<font color="#660033">Terri for Dragon ness.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You -cannot- make a 5 foot step -and- a regular move.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nominating Tathi's opening statement

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tom for catharsis.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over the maps with Jack. Aside from the bigger town Reed, are there any small-time villages or hamlets as well? there should be acouple, but any random single one would do. Gnogglebolt namely asks Jack about which towns have full Aureate Palm outposts--with reed being one of them-- and asks to stop there. He also asks for confirmation that one or two individual Palm members can be found in tiny villages, and requests to stop at just one of those

VAE:<font color="#000000">Precisely RAM

RAM:<font color="#990000">It is specifically stated.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He didn;t make a regular move yet

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nomming Miron for the great dog battle. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's what i'm bloody talkign about

RAM:<font color="#990000">Whether you have more actions or not.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nomming Terri for the big reveal!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Seconding.

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

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">Jack confirms, and acquiesces.

* VAE headdesk

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nomming Edaric for voice of diplomacy! XD

Meany:<font color="#660033">Miron for No Flipout.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Seconding Ed.

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

* VAE did think 5ft move and running away was a ommon tactc

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sszeyl for calm wisdom. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seconding Edaric nom

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">nomming Swallowtail for I'm sleeping with dragons!?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tathi for Expressing Yourself.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Terri I'm a dragon! Really!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">nomming Thomas for MOOSH face. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Seconding everything said so far. :.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">nomming Vae for Dragon!? Pft. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">can't think of anything that's not already being said...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was laughing so hard at Tom mooshing Terri's face. I'll need to draw that. X3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Gnogglebolt for circus conductor. Not as planned. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming gnogglebolt for losing his hsit

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Seconding hatari's nom for gnogglebolt. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There is a batman reaction image I need for this.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'm a DIPLOMAT! I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS, YOU UNDERSTAND?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like that guy from Office Space

Meany:<font color="#660033">Thirding.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...I'm pretty sure what Gnogglebolt did was the precise opposite of 'losing his shit'

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lettin' the dog out, one moment.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">You're pretty wrong. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGS2tKQhdhY

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">He lost it so hard he went into a stupor.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt here

VAE:<font color="#000000">watch it

RAM:<font color="#990000">Gnogglebolt's rage broke.

TMG:<font color="#000000">ghostwish; yes, exactly

TMG:<font color="#000000">Stupod, not rage.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*stupor

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">firefox locked up. -.-

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nomming Tathi for &quot;Call me a bitch, will you? ATTACK, MY PUPPIES!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">as far as I know, in colloquial terms, 'losing one's shit' is rage. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">at 1:00 he flips out

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lololololol

TMG:<font color="#000000">WHich Gnogglebolt did not do.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seen it, ghost?

RAM:<font color="#990000">No no no.

RAM:<font color="#990000">His rage -broke-

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">no, flash crashed. second

RAM:<font color="#990000">You need to watch more DBZ Abridged.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">At first Gnogglebolt was like, http://s18.postimage.org/6jvzl3kxz/1275357853929.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But then he was like, http://s14.postimage.org/wixjxa7bz/1275370501809.png

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;LOOK, I ALREADY TOLD YOU. I DEAL WITH THE GODDAMN CUSTOMERS SO THAT THE ENGINEERS DON'T HAVE TO. I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS, I AM GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE. CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hmm...no noms for Shank? I need to try harder...

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">yeeeah, that sums up gnogglebolt in this session quite well. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">OH CRAP

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nom Shank for scritchies!!!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nom him for target practice!

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

Meany:<font color="#660033">Thirding.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Damnit, there was a third one, I know it..

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Help me out here!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Shankfang for Terri Moral Support!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">BINGO!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Seconding that one!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Third.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Calling Gnogglebolt a &quot;petulant child who needs to quit bitching?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Swallowtail for Revelation.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah, that.

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, not that one. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Right.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That one's seconded

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'm surprised no one confronted him on having already known Terri was a dragon, actually. I was expecting someone to.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I swear to god if we do not get off this boat this session I am going to get out and push. And I am going to grab the faces of everyone talking and take them with me.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Their faces. Not their person.

Meany:<font color="#660033">...

Meany:<font color="#660033">Why is Shogggoth in the ocean on the world map?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">no one confronted Tathi and Kor either.

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Tathi failed her Sense Motive checks.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">OOPS

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hang on one moment.

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">SCREEN-SHOTTED

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron's epic disbelieve check was epic today

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">THE DARK CORNERS OF THE EARTH.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Noone fools the inquisitor

Liatai:<font color="#000000">HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, Shoggoth?

VAE:<font color="#000000">where/

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It was south of Dartane. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ghost, send me the screenshot!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was just my Shoggoth token. xP

VAE:<font color="#000000">or link it, whatever :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lol I was kidding :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">what shoggoth token

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I dropped it there for a joke a few sessions back and forgot to remove it.

* VAE dunno hatari had one

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I sent Liatai a .tell and everything.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I completely forgot about it. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's just some eyeballs in inkiness, not that big a deal.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry sorry mea culpa XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Well, with Gnogglebolt's meeting with the captain about stopping at every place with an actual Palm outpost and at least one place with no outpost but a Palm member concluded, he heads out as the night comes upon the boat and goes down to the hold to sleep.

Meany:<font color="#660033">SO.

Meany:<font color="#660033">There we go!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">As he starts nodding off....

* VAE also likes grues being mentioned in Deeproot Swamp

GM:<font color="#000000">I'll scroll up and tally noms later, at the end of the session. In the meantime... Does anyone have any objections to skipping straight to the 14th?

Meany:<font color="#660033">Burning daylight here.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That said

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Garl's gold, Terri's a DRAGON?!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Just one.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">does Liatainess know where is a grue from?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, nevermind, I'm broke. XD

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ugh.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Timeskip!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Wait, Reed is passed on the 3rd, right?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I do, I've played Zork.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I TOLD YOU, GNOGGLE.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Not actually playing that whole thing out, but.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Reed is passed on the 13th, yes.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why is Hills of Gilforen not loading?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE STAIRS.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">*shot*

* VAE approves So.Very. Much.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you want to play it out, we can do it in a mini-session later.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now she tell us she knows what xyzzy is too

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The next say, the 13th, the boat makes a stop in Reed. Gnogglebolt just says he's stopping for supplies for a personal project, and he'll be back in a few hours.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And sure enough, about two hours later, he returns, with some indeterminant metal parts for an indeterminant new project.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Among some minisessioned information in his head.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The boast casts off after that and continues on.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Mapswitch? :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I know Zabie, but it bothers me that I don't know xyzzy because I -know- the sorcerer in the last Akellon campaign had a familiar named Xyzzyx and said it was a reference to something. =3=;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Zabie, XABY, however you prefer to spell it. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">one of the first textbased games ever

* VAE 's computer has it because it's in the traditional games/joke program pack that's included in the install files for Slackware

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Start loading the hills if you like. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">it was a magic word

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, lia, mind dropping onto the map

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hills already loaded for me.

VAE:<font color="#000000">specifically, charred veld for a moment?

GM:<font color="#000000">Dawn of a New Day - after skipping over the 13th, we dawn on the 14th, a cool, crisp day.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, wait, what?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">huh?

VAE:<font color="#000000">nah, VAE just wanted to .. actually ,wat

VAE:<font color="#000000">i can drop tokens here, can't I?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, you can. :B

* Ghostwish prods the DM about Tathi's letter again. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari, Thomas doesn't try to talk to Gnogglebolt at some point?

TMG:<font color="#000000">either on the 13th or the 14th before the Hills?

* Dr. Hatari was afk.

RAM:<font color="#990000">FINALLY loaded.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Goddamn that took forever.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh. Uhhh I suppose he would have idly talked during the day probably, sure.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...anyone mind if we play that out? &gt;&gt;&gt;

* VAE was just adding the town where Miron joined the Mace

TMG:<font color="#000000">.&gt;.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But there's nothing, like, on the agenda in my head. o.o

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not me

TMG:<font color="#000000">&gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, wait! ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I have soemthign for Miron to do either way - send a send to Braxton about them actually having materials from bloody altonor

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Please let me vworp you, don't drop tokens yet. ^^;

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh sorry. XP

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Half of us already have. ....

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Send your sending, I need to type up narration anyway. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Oops. :x

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well I'm glad you're eager to continue. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Returning to Cygnet map.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yes! Gnogglebolt meets with tathi as well to send a letter back to Altonor.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Hang on, lemme scroll up to reread the letter so I can type up a response.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi sics puppies on him.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Effectively AFK, starting now

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Cuz that's what a Tathi does.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways, unless Lia has a smarter idea, VAE marked what he thinks would be a sensible position for the town Miron joined the Mace in on Veld's map

Terri:<font color="#000000">Terri begins to grow noticeably more nervous as the Hills of Gilforen grow closer over the next few days.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sure it's fine, I'll look at it later. :3

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

</i> Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang does what he can to keep her spirits up.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi checks in on Terri. &quot;You allright dearie? Scared Max is gonna eat you, huh?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, typing up letter response to Altonor. Hatari, we can go ahead and play this out now, I'l...learn to multitask. &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">H'okay.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Those who spend much time in the galley, however, notice that one of its fixtures is back in place. Lute-strumming in the morning is back. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Is this before or after the--to everyone else--unscheduled stop in Reed?

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;About damn time, Edaric. This place was getting way too quiet.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">After, I suppose. Thomas is merely tenetively checking the hold right now for Gnogglebolt tracks.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Max wouldn't eat me,&quot; Terri says, sounding offended. She fidgets. &quot;... but I was supposed to keep it a secret, an' I didn't...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;An' what's worse, I was supposed to keep you safe an' I blew that too. Mr. Aelian died.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's in the hold, working on whatever his new device is.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&gt;: * Edaric smirks and nods to Aelian, continuing playing. |3

* Thomas Lazarus squints in the darkness.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Gnogglebolt?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh, don't worry yourself over it. We literally got blindsided. Heck, Terri, you might have been killed if you had been out there.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can't see you.&quot; *bricked for metajoke* :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">er, hang on.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh please. She's not made out of twigs and straw. Elves.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">LOOK THOMAS THE SCOUT'S RUSHING AHEAD AGAIN.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Back in his room, probably on the same day as the dog attacks took place, Miron sends the following to Gradia Thorngage.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:OOOOOO

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm?&quot; He looks up as Thomas approaches. &quot;Oh, hello. What's up, Thomas?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><b>Apologies for failure. How is Inquisitor Geas? Failed to recall feathers in our hold. However, why isn't Altonor's mule scryed regularly? Forewarned is forearmed. Steelsprocket.

</b> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nothing really.&quot; He folds his hands into his robe sleeves. &quot;I just wanted to check in on you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry for whatever it is I did to upset you so much..&quot; :/

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh...kay.&quot; He blinks at the checking up on. &quot;Eh? Oh, that. No, that wasn't you.&quot; He sighs. &quot;it was...Terri. Bless her child's heart, but she needs to learn timing.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow. &quot;You knew?&quot;

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

</i> Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">I;m back.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We were unable to do what you said you wanted. We were unable to clear up the divide between us.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks utterly baffled for a moment. 'Knew...knew what? Oh! The, uh. Dragon. I...I still can't believe it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand in the air, &quot;No no.. don't worry about that. Besides.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">The reply comes crisply. &quot;Geas in good condition physically, distant mentally. Scrying is frequently attempted, often not successful. Ambushes have been laid, pegasus rider evades. Remain vigilant, Inquisitor Steelsprocket.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We did make some headway on that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He shakes his head. &quot;I can't even fully process that yet. Yes, that was another issue of timing, but that wasn't the one to which I was referring.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks aside and grumbles, &quot;But..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They're still at each other's throats as much as ever. Even if we did have a nice moment.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;She'll never change. And neither will he.&quot; He closes his eyes. &quot;I'll never understand you long-lived races.&quot;

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

</i> Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hi, audience! :D

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Distant mentally.... I hope the drow didn't tamper with his mind.... Oh fuck.

</i> Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Hi Lia. :)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We'll be switching maps soon. If you want to start loading the Hills of Gilforen, you can. :3 I'll throw an audience token up there shortly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I have to say, Thomas, I'm still at Miron's throat.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi si absolutely right in everything she said.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is she? Is he really so guilty of so much that I'm not? Why won't you two blame me?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">because you aren't a paranoid, abrasive arse?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia, I'm prolly gonna need you to draw me that Orc Chandak when we get around to making her. I can't find any good pictures for her. &gt;: Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well granted. *bricked*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I have an orcish shaman I use for one of Kan's forms I can lend you in the interrim? :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ram, you've been pestering Liatai for one drawing or another for like.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Half a year running. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">That would work.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Give it a rest.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, I might try, actually

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, not to put too fine a point on it, you areM/i&gt; guilty of defending him and not seeing the very actions he does right before your eyes.&quot; Gnogglebolt says with a grimslash mouth.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, not to put too fine a point on it, you are guilty of defending him and not seeing the very actions he does right before your eyes.&quot; Gnogglebolt says with a grimslash mouth.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I have done a batch of inquisitors recently, after all

Female Half Orc 2:<font color="#000000">How's this one?

RAM:<font color="#990000">I keep forgetting you already have a bunch of tokens.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps I do see what he does, and don't comment for other reasons.&quot; He stares evenly, calmly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Either way.. there's more sendings to take care of, given there's the day of 13th, too. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">That is, unless Lia rules that he sent the previous one on that day XD Then it will have to wat

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sure!

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">saved, thankies!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">brb! grabbing dinner!

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, One of the former colleagues, probably. Needing to find stuff about Yoriver.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You yourself were telling him to stop being so paranoid and actually be -cooperative- for once at a few points in that conversation. I heard that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You two're angry at him for acting without the interests of the group in mind, aren't you? For damaging our position vis a vis a set of prospective allies?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And still you don't actually see the bigger problem he is causing.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... All he did was fail and get caught. I crossed them too.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Herr Doktor does have a good point. I've been asking for a lot of drawings from you. Don't worry about the Chandak. That token will do quite nicely.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms. &quot;Maybe I &quot;do&quot; see the &quot;problem&quot;. But I will indulge your explanation.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I can try to dig up the image itself, too.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Please tell me what dissent Miron is sowing that Tathi is not also sowing. That you and he butting heads are not also sowing. That she and I butting heads are not also sowing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt points his finger at Thomas. &quot;And that's another thing. You say you and Miron were both ordered to check if Pellan'Zyne and Altonor were truly threats.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Only if it's not too much trouble.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Got it. If you want a larger one, just look up &quot;female half-orc&quot; on Google.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I know exactly how 'nice' he is, and how wildly delusional he is, and how he rationalizes anything and everything into a Drowish conspiracy.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://www.plasticrypt.com/bestiary/images/thumb/1/12/130574-female-half-orc-warden.jpg/360px-130574-female-half-orc-warden.jpg

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why didn't you, oh I don't know, bring one of your own Mace superiors along and just sit them down and talk? WHy go through all the backstabbing?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">That was quick. Thankies!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We were ordered to observe. The chain of command doesn't invite itself to have parlay with a figure when the only information they have to go on is 'suspected vigilante' and 'criminal'.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Uh-oh. I knew I was risking it.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They might, now that we've cleared the waters. In a manner of speaking.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 lagcheck?

Meany:<font color="#660033">:31

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But probably not.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">D'oh.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 at :32, it's not too bad. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think I'm caught up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I know you want to believe he is always automatically wrong. But there's a possibility it actually was dangerous and needed checked out, you know.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I didn't appreciate you trying to slip that letter by without us, for the record. But the past is passed.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;And this would all be why I'm bothered you are 'one of them, Thomas. We don't agree on how to go about things, that is known and accepted.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you did say that you would put them above us if you have to. And that's the problem. You are doing exactly that, putting them above us.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are our own self-made group. We do what we want, and we do it our way.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you are trying to play both sides...it's noble and admirable, but I'm not sure it's wise in this case.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I could resign and remain a close ally, if you feel like you can't trust me anymore..&quot; He frowns a bit.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If people want to start pasting their tokens on the Hills of Gilforen while the priest and the gnome talk, they can. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now hold on just a second there, mister.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's Miron, really, that we don't trust. I really don't know mow much longer we can survive associating with him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 18 + 5 = 23&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Listen check!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You at least think through what you do. Most of the time.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can eavesdrop, Sszeyl.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There you go again insinuating that we can't be trusted. That something bad was going to happen because of our reports. What do you think we're going to do?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'd actually like to participate. :B But not if it musses with their dynamic.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I just meant you can hear them. :B Your call if you want to participate.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Let me guess..

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Cygnet, the hold?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I trust brother Miron to investigate and report anything he wants because the chain of command, Ashmore, does have a level head. He is analytical and rational and fair. You do not need to be afraid of them doing their job.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The mere fact that Pellan'Zyne and Altonor, rightly so, asked that they remain in secret because of what might happen if the knowledge of what they truly are is spread around too much. And now an entire organization knows about them.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they are mad about this, I completely understand them.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They can keep secrets.&quot; He frowns.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hint to thomas. Those who aren't criminals don't need to fear the law XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As I said, the better way would have been to set down an actual meeting between a superior and them. But...nevermind all that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;For instance, they haven't really spread the dragon's location around.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;For what it's worth, now that I know those men, I don't feel we needed to report, either. But we didn't until the end.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tell that to the people in Yoriver

* Thomas Lazarus glances to Sszeyl.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl just drops down into the hold, bypassing the ladder. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let go of Yoriver, you don't know the situation there entirely yet.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks to the side. &quot;...Hello, thomas.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">ER

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl xD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He's Hello.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Ahahaha.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron would totally do that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Indeed, it seems everyone wants to talk to me all of a sudden. Did you need something too, Sszeyl?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... It's all beside the point.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;More like, I feel you two are on polar opposites of the spectrum right now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And feel I can help mediate.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">-- :O Yay! Snow!

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Lucky!~ ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lucky!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There was more I had to say..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I can pause and listen.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I fear I've.. gotten rather riled up, anyways. I only meant to see how you were doing. Not start an argument. However much the subject matter may be nagging at me.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It is best to get those out of the way.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt likewise just puts down his tools and looks up at Sszeyl in an '&quot;I'm listening, but get on with it.' expression

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl takes a deep breath.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#0099CC">mrow.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Gnogglebolt, I am afraid this is another count of you not listening in full detail.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Thomas and Miron are peace keepers. They must follow orders. -Must.- Not choose to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And they are not at fault for it.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;No one is at fault for any of this, except those that enflame it to these heights.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron is paranoid beyond what would be reasonable, yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033"><i>&quot;He is completely justified.&quot;

</i> Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And that's the thing I have problem with, as I already told Thomas. We're a self-made group, and having people in the group who get orders from another source...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's just rotting away at any unity we could have. I'm not sure this is a surmountable obstacle.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms. &quot;I can step down if you'd like.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You forget your own words from many weeks ago.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'Hmm?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This is Akellon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We must obey the laws set forth in Akellon.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...When did I ever say that?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(no, seriously, I don't remember. :B )

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;When I wanted to murder the Baxter brothers out of hand for animating a Drow skeleton.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( rofl their names change every time. Yet we always know who they are. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt presses a palm to his hand. &quot;I don't know if I phrased it wrong or if you misunderstood, I can't quite remember, but you actually could have killed them if you wanted to.&quot;

Baxter/Baum:<font color="#000000">From beyond the grave... &quot;Spindlethorn brothers!&quot; *brick'd*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They were outlaws. Outside of the law.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">:B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Same as the goblin tribe. We could have killed every one of them, too.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus clears his throat gently.

* Sszeyl points at Thomas sharply. :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">To explain for the audience, Baxter and Baum Spindlethorn were a pair of necromancer twins that the PCs defeated much, much earlier in the adventure. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Audience is long gone. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They've been compared to Team Rocket. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">no, wait...oh, he's still ehre

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Audience returned, remember?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*here

TMG:<font color="#000000">nevermind

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">No, I'm here.

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Dear god.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yes?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just didn't want to kill the goblins because they were only pickpockets and didn't deserve death, and as for the SPindlethorn brothers...&quot; Gnogglebolt stops and scratches his head.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...It's been so long I can't even remember the reason why I didn't want them dead right then.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You want &quot;dear god&quot; inducing necromancers, get someone to tell you about Pamela Lundy. :3

* Liatai is a little proud of Pamela as a villain. =w= *brick'd*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway, no Sszeyl, the law is not some sacred inviolable thing.&quot; He nods to Thomas. &quot;The organization members we have with us just treat it as such.&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">...I said that because I can't imagine a situation where those two amateur anime doodles and their pet calico would be a good comparison for anything. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost; still around?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Look.&quot; He closes his eyes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..My point was.. that not even a few days ago, Tathi blew up a man for calling her a whore.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">yes?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to Thomas. 'And yes, I do agree that was completely wrong of her.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That as early as last night, your little secret with the letter revealed itself through no effort of my own and caused cross feelings.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And yes, Miron's fumble caused NO small amount of hard feelings to avalanche down on him.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">does Tathi want to say anything in the letter back to Altonor?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I just wish you all would stop trying to villainize each other and get along.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Why are you asking me?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF"><i>Ask here.

</i> Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">*her

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I concur.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">DO NOT ANGER CHRONOS THE TIMEKEEPER DX

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're beginning to rationalize him into a larger threat than he is. Does that, perhaps, sound like familiar behavior?&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">And Lia, the most recent Pokemon season is the spawn of Satan and every bad anime artist in existence...In my opinion.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I am not playing out Gnogglebolt in two different points in time. DX

* Ghostwish randomly inserts a bunch of dates and inane information.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I haven't seen the Pokemon anime since... uhm....

* VAE dunno

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I don't know what season. The Safari Zone episode. :B

* VAE has only seen seasons 1 and 2

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Old old old.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see Miron as a great threat, not because of any words he's said or things about who or what he is, but upon actions he is done. That is how I judge, by actions.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron attempts a sending to Jones's rock, Analyst Eli Feldman. I wasn't making these folks up just for show :3

Miron:<font color="#000000"><b>Swillbucket sending. Learned how weeks ago. How's the rock? Spiderfucker spreads shit 'bout Yoriver, devils, Maces on the take. You lot know anything ?

</b> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Are there some extra actions he has undertaken that I am forgetting about?&quot; He folds his arms.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Because as I said, I was on the same mission as him and am not getting any of the blame. I practically want it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt buries his face in his hand. &quot;And right there is what I've been saying about how you're turning a blind eye to it.&quot;

Liatai whispers: Got any tips for Eli's voice for me? :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;No, he's not. =3=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Give me an example!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Like what? Surely it's not just his hateful remarks.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Voice? What do you mean?

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Lia, once someone starts to trade their lv. 100 pokemon for 100 dollars a pop to some desperate mega-nerd (not the D&amp;D player nerds, of course), the franchise has hit the fan and cannot be scraped back together.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You tolerate the behavior in which he treats Sszeyl, and every potential drow ally we meet, and Zairith.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is intolerable, yet you do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;No, it is not.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Need to specify better.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I tolerate it, so it is not intolerable.&quot; He frowns.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He. Is. Justified.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He has held philosophical discussions with Sszeyl.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh don't you start with the wordplay on me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll give you such a gnommish mindtwister, see if I don't.&quot;

Liatai whispers: How she talks. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Drow have a natural inclination toward deception and causing general havoc for the fun of it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe you're the one that doesn't see things the way I do. I think you and Tathi want to hate him. That you want to be able to say he's this much of a destructive influence.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron has just recently started meeting any individuals that say different.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Give him time to consider that information.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think you're getting carried away. And frankly, I've stopped caring about everyone's reasons.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: You mean, talking style, or actual voice recording?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I just want you all to shut up and behave.&quot; Ooh. Snippy Thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;So, what is it you ultimately wanted to say...ah.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not denying that. Still good for the nostalgia factor, though. *looks over at DS with Soul Silver in it*

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">QUICK. SCREENSHOT HIM.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My only response to that;&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As long as he does in return.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus scoffs.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi wanders about, seeing if she can have a word with Terri when they're out of earshot of the crew.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We already did try to give him a chance, and it was blown. But hey, if you want, he'll get one more from me.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But no more.&quot;

Liatai whispers: Does she use big words often? ... Let me put it this way. Do you imagine her speaking more like Richter or Anise? :B

* Thomas Lazarus leaves the hold.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(oh heck, that reminds me, i DID want to have Gnogglebolt sit down and talk with Miron.)

TMG:<font color="#000000">(like everyone was suggesting)

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">I suppose, Lia. My Sapphire version is lying in my sock drawer. where it has been for the past 2 years. Still, it's a momento. *Shrugs*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl shakes his head.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You do not listen.&quot;

Visitor:<font color="#0099CC">Gotta go. See ya, everybody!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Ta.

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

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

</i> Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, I listen very well, I have working ears. Thomas wants us to ignore the things Miron does and just 'work' with him. Unfortunately...even I am not that much of a hopeless idealist.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well. That's that for now. Timeskip ready here. =w=

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Unfortunately, you are.&quot;

Liatai whispers: Talking style, sorry. x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But not for that reason.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You listen with your ears but you do not consider the information.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Tell me.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lagcheck. :01

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:01\

TMG:<font color="#000000">anyway fine, to get this out of the way

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Why would someone be so very paranoid as Miron is/&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lia and--crap

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">?*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs and closes his eyes. &quot;because his entire life, his home, and everyone he has ever known was burned down by your kind.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. I know.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Now, stop and ask this question.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Why did they do that?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shrugs. &quot;How in the world am I supposed to know the motivations behind a hundred-and-twenty-year-old war? All I know is that your kind was driven by the goddes lolth, who I've only heard scraps of.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck :03

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Then I shall tell you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Because it was strategically advantageous.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Ah, that. The style is sort of more like Anise - after all as a geometer her spells are mostly drawn. Uses big words ,but only when talking to superiors or trying to look &quot;important&quot; as a joke to greenhorns and such, so irrelevant. Tends to joke about, the nicknames are pretty much her invention. An illustration of speech.. favourite disclaimer is &quot;No you don't&quot; after counterspelling someone's spell.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033"><i>&quot;And it amused them to do so.&quot;

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron is actually, factually right to believe as he does.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:01 at :04. ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Frankly, you should all be like him, it would have stopped much of the guerilla warfare that Lolthians have become trademarked for.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shrugs again. &quot;So? That was then, this is now. And besides, even I would hardly consider forgiveness for those who actually participated in that war in an actual position of command.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I could, I would probably kill them just as surely as Miron would.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: To the important - one of the favourite abuses of divination asides from scrying misuse is predicting something sufficiently absurd, then pranking those who don't know in betting against it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I stop at slaughtering those who have no choice.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, gonna reconnect.... in a bit, I'm intrigued by the discussion.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Meanwhile, a frustrated Thomas stands drumming his fingers along the wall of his room, staring out the window.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I am afraid the world does not always work like that.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus remarks to Miron without turning his head.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We need to talk later. About a lot of things.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe it doesn't, but that won't stop me from at least giving it a shot.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Did you overhear any of what I said to Swallowtail, perchance?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I don't think so.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about, brother?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and this is good discussion meany, but let's try and get to a conclusion point so I can have Gnogglebolt talk directly to Miron and get -that- all cleared up in the air. &gt;.&gt; )

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I shared with her, that in order to earn the title Terror, a Horror student is required to kill their best friend in single combat.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">:|

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was sorting out a few things.. let's say that where you have your family, I have old colleagues.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Tomorrow maybe. When I've cooled my head. Mostly Sszeyl.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That is duty. It is heavier than a mountain.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...wait...you're...are you saying you had to do that?&quot; Gnogglebolt says slowly, then waves his hand. &quot;I honestly don't remember what your rank was.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, this is, in a way, awesome

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I am Terror.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. I stand by what I have said - he needs to be watched.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt closes his eyes and takes a deep, slightly shuddering breath.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033"><i>&quot;What is your duty?&quot;

</i> Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am so sorry.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Do not be. I made my choice.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The person who Miron likes the least, is one who actually understands him.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But that is the kind of thing I want to try and help end in the world....&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I agree. But this was about something else.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well ,least. A lot has been changing since.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is my duty?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My duty is what I say it is.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron has duty.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Something of growing importance.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus squints at the water.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Thomas has duty.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;-Tathi- has duty.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Tell me you understand what it means to have duty.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nominating sszeyl for this. So hard.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Same.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know where you're going with this one. But if your point is that people with 'duty' have to do things just because someone else says so, despite how bad it might be, then that's exactly why I said my duty is whatever I want it to be. I forge my own path.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd like to help others do the same, especially since the way you are describing it makes it sound like something to be avoided at all costs.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you mean? The only thing of importance is to stop the dragon messing with our attempts at containing him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl shakes his head.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">But ultimately, I'd say my duty is to get the city built.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;There. Good.'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, only thing to do with Sszeyl.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Tell me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;What do you know of Gnome stereotypes.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There are other matters to consider. Means to ends. As I said, I'll ... continue this thought tomorrow.&quot; He lowers his arm and sits down on his bunk.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As you wish, brother.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck :12

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :12 ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Er, in the eyes of everyone else?&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Vuz lounges.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That is what a stereotype is, yes.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside, to earlier talks

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Also, a point of clarification.

Elizabeth Feldman:<font color="#000000">Reply: &quot;Hey Swillbucket! Good to hear from you. Yoriver's a mess -- got some diabolists around, some Mace malconvokers against 'em. I'll write to the Big C!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Pamela was a good villain, but in my opinion, both the spindlethorns, and Jonah Restren were better.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shugs. &quot;I can't say I know for sure. The culture here in Akellon is mostly the same, but slightly different than at home, not that I ever cared how others looked at me or my kind anyway.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:13 lagcheck!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">If I type something that sounds like a question but has no question mark, it is meant to declare.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Then I shall tell you.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Whee! Lagcheck to confirm! :14

Dr. Hatari whispers: To spotlight a little in advance, Thomas is alluding to telling Miron about Sszeyl's interest in becoming a Mace trainee. And he feels it is of indirect mission-critical importance for an unusual reason.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl strides forward, face dark.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You are imps.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You eat at the bedrock of the shorter and longer lived kinds.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You cause them pain and havoc for -amusement.-&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>That explains it. For fuck's sake... those two fuckheads have been fighting against both the demons and our men.. .and against each other. Fuck and fuck again.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You go amongst children to then torment them with spells because -why not.-&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Is thomas asleep already?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:12 at :15. At least it's getting better. ^^;

Dr. Hatari whispers: Miron will either totally reject this unyieldingly, forever, in a huge disastrous debacle that proves everyone else right about him -- or he'll grudgingly, slowly come to terms with Sszeyl and order him about as a subordinate, teach him, etc. And more or less reduce some tension over time.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You are the whirling storm, unable to be stopped or predicted.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He is not.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He appears to be in meditation.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The only way to remain safe with you is to -leave- and -quickly.-'

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, since Liatai kinda-sorta might get this

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghostwish!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">What?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;M..may I interrupt for a moment, brother?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;There are those that lived long enough to remember this.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">At some point during the day, Gnogglebolt goes to Tathi with a prepared letter to send back on the little magic birdie.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So booooooored...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus opens his eyes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Who remember -every- greivance Kemmer ever gave to it's neighbors.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">For when Liatai manages to catch up, this is the letter: Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">'Who, while sad, were partially glad it was gone because it meant they were safer.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:14 at :16 !

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.. let's say that some news went in faster than i'd have thought.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">To Altonor from Gnogglebolt Sparkgear on behalf of the guardians: To be greatly unfortunate, but to no one's surprise, Miron refused your apology. He said, and I quote, that you 'should be ashamed of your life'. Of course, his view is shared by no one else in our group, and we are nearing the point of disavowing association with him. I apologize for all his actions, but there is more you must know. He and Thomas, as well as that other inquisitor in the failed attemtp to infiltrate your camp, did breif the Mace on everything they learned from and about you, Pellan'Zyne, and the jungle city. The Mace organization is now aware of all of it, your desire for secrecy has, sadly, been compromsied due to our group. I don't think any apology can make up for that, if you are furious, I understand. And if Pellan'Zyne does not wish me to continue with the idea of having him meet and ally with the Palm, I understand as well, though I would think it is now even more important to move that along. If that is not a critical problem, though, this incident has not sullied your relations with any of us, however, and I look forward to meeting you again. We may indeed be passing by Thalinde on our way back from Resca, we might see you then. And supposing that Pellan'Zyne is still agreeable to meeting with the Palm, I have been told that the Palm keeps at least one knight in every town, and in fact there are likely a few in Thalinde. Can you please ask Pellan'Zyne why he did not mention this when I was offering to broker a meeting between them, and also why he hasn't tried to approach them before? It seems awkward that I would bring a Palm member from another outpost rather than go to one right in town. Still, Thomas has agreed to be a conduit for Sending messages for an added layer of making sure I select a good candidate for the meeting, in that these messages can be used to check with Pellan'Zyne if he likes the details of the person. Please ask him for a time of day in which he can be sure to be absolutely safe to receive such a Sending? On a last note, we do take heed of your warning, but with difficulty. What is a 'szarkai'? None of us know of any such thing. How can we avoid it if we don't know what it is? Any physical descriptions rather than names of this person would be useful as well.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He looks up.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">tl;dr

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay then.

TMG:<font color="#000000">now does Tathi add anything?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;They will stop you. Because it is their duty to do so. To the people they love and wish to protect that the Gnomes never gather in those numbers again.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">If so, add it. If not, send that little birdie away :U

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron's duty is that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He will not allow the Drow to hurt anyone if he can allow it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's eyebrow continually climbs higher and higher as Sszeyl speaks.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Since you asked, again, she adds a little part at the end about Gnogglebolt professing his massive drow fetish gay love for him.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">And then sends it.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just got a send from an old colleague from Jones's Rock that shed a little light into what the fuck is going on in Yoriver.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmph! Well, if anyone truly thinks that about us gnomes, then they are deluded, but entitled to that. Just as long as they don't be a bother.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl pinches his brow.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know who a malconvoker is, brother?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Did you..?&quot; His face lightens.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yes, I see your point.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You are young. And I am not a gnome enough to speak in a way you will understand.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I.. think so..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's how others see us, you say, and that's how Mirons ees you, you say.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That still doesn't make it right.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Unfortunately, it does.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have to try and be better than that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Right and wrong are subjective.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Diabolists that bind fiends? But without striking fel pacts?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron has done this for -hundreds- of years.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You expect change in -weeks?-&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;More precise than that. They are those who dupe fiends into their services, without becoming damned themselves.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...No, not really. Which is why I more expect sooner or later, something will happen that will make us stop working together.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He frowns. &quot;Then, yes, I have read about them.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I'll breath easier when that happens. But, as Thomas wants, I'll give him another chance.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I will withhold my thoughts on them. Why do you ask?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way... there are indeed diabolists in Yoriver, and the Mace there has a bunch of malconvokers there, because a large hole needs a thick plug.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Except that is not what Thomas wants.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You have not listened.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;What Thomas wants, what you should want too, is to be wiser. Less idealistic.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think you can see what's been happening.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Swallow your objections, and let time do it's work.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Taddiiiiiii, Hy'm boooooored! Everyone's hevink deep und meaninkful talks und dey're takink so long und dere's noddink to dooooooo.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus furrows his brow. &quot;Diabolists..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Please spell it out for me. What were you told?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Taddiiiiiii, Hy'm boooooored! Everyone's hevink deep und meaninkful talks und dey're takink so long und dere's noddink to dooooooo.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You will have to deal with thousands of Mirons soon enough.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think it would be far from truth that just as they fought among themselves, the anarchic drow and his insane elven ally are fighting both the diabolists, and us &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">I know. But oh well. I work on my games in the meantime. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...'less idealistic'? I honestly am utterly speechless at such a suggestion.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You must learn how to handle them if you want this New Kemmer to get off the ground.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Otherwise I'd be barging in and trolling the -shit- out of them.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I cannot formulate any kind of response to that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Soooooo tempiiiiiing...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl considers.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Send to Talfeera, and your parents.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Do it. You got nothing holding you back.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck :23, did you get the letter, Liatai?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Get your elder's view and wisdom.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides... if the place is such a fucking mess, the strict laws he was talking about make a whole lot of sense... an attempt to regain control.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus squints. &quot;I don't exactly follow.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're afraid Raerarael and Altonor will attack us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That is all I can offer to help you now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... 'Us' including his daughter?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Us. The Yoriver Leaden Mace.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Miron!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yoriver or elsewhere... they are our people. In the same fight as you and me.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">But they're roleplaying and that would be mean...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If that place is overrun with devils, they are not Mace!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hell.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Perhaps Shankfang will be able to help you.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I just went there.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">*shades*

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Brb. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Are you suggesting that corrupt officials trafficking with devils and fiends are still our brothers..?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">You are safe from trolling.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They are stuck there fighting someone else's fiends, and two dangerous vigilantes with bound fiends on their own.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">FOR NOW.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They aren't corrupt.. Malconvokers aren't diabolists, I thought you have heard.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Since when did either of them bind fiends?&quot; He frowns.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:26 lagcheck?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Leave the inquest to commander Ashmore. We will hear about how pure they are or are not.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:27

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Er, :27. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I cannot believe what I am hearing. Why would you assume demon summoners are still our kindred?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have .. .Eli has sent him a more elaborate report. She's an analyst, for fuck's sake.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Do you forget your oaths?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">hm. time to take a break.

* Ghostwish dons troll hat.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Knock knockidy knock knock on Thomas' door.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;My oath is but one. Do what needs to be done. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">NOT. NOW.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:23 at :27, yes I got the letter.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">BANG BANG FIREBALL.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;If Thomas can be bothered about it. And I know I'll likely be dealing with many gnomes still hurt because of the drow when I start making my nw cit, and I will deal with that. but there's not really going to be may drow in the pciture in the first place, is there? Not unless I decide it's a good idea to get rescuees of your people in on helping the build. But I know you'll say that's a horrible idea, which is why I'm not seriously considering it. It's just that here is on a much smaller scale and does necessitate peaceful interaction with individual drow. But, whatever. If everyone wants me to put up with Miron's fits, I will.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why..?&quot; He squints. &quot;Why would we defend them if they've been subverted by fel forces?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If there are Erinyes killing people in their bloody streets? Innocents swaying by noose?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just don't be surprised if try to avoid giving him reasons for them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They haven't been. They are fighting the fel forces,for cudgel's sake.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Then that is what we'll learn when we investigate.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Listen, Thomas.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 4&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Listen check! I'm eavesdropping!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Except my ears suck, apparently.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll not be.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;People are being killed daily, In Castleton, remember the dozens of corpses in Francis York's house?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;In Braxton. In Redree. Despite our best efforts.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...hmm. if you want, I'll go talk to miron. Or rather, I'll let him talk to me. I'll let him say anything and everything he can think of, then walk away to consider it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;WOuld that make everyone happy?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I would say wait.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The issue is still hot.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms. &quot;..?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Once again, for all I know, nothign that can be said of Yoriver isn't something that doesn't apply to any other branch in the country.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;very well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It might break before it anneals.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything else?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl closes his eyes and sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can sure say there aren't reports of multiple fiends being corroborated from Castleton, brother.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Just something to consider.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And I do not like what I think you're trying to do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;When Miron is more calm, I'll be telling him I intend to join the Mace when we return to Castleton.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'll be one of -them- too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">And he turns on his heel.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;True enough. But one doesn't choose his enemy.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, what?!&quot; Gnogglebolt shoots to his feet.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I say that calls for Listen checks. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I want you to approach this situation with eyes and ears wide open. We are Inquisitors. It is our duty to hunt corruption. Whatever its form, and wherever it nests, and to rip it out.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">and brb, I've been -really- needing to go afk for a minute for the past hour or so. &gt;.&gt;

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">man, you know you're a troll when the thought of your character's dad rolling in and wiping out the branch in question makes you grin ever so evilly... :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That is, in fact, in one of our hostels.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 3&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Listen check! Are my ears working yet?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Then it's still our duty. And I will do it.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:27 at :32. ^^; Gonna DC and reconnect. Keep playing.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">-_-

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

</i> Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thomas...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dammit, talk louder so I can hear you guys!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus squints at the door.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you even listening for Cudgel's sake? Don't tell me you have taken on Gnogglebolt's disease.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus ignores the shenanigans.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I am listening. And if I'm wrong, I'll adapt.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I will observe whatever's actually happening, brother. I'm not sticking to assumptions.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's an investigation.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">back

Meany:<font color="#660033">Wb.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So am I. And the information point clearly, so far.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Emphasis on so far.

Meany:<font color="#660033">:B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It also means the sooner we'll be in Yoriver, the better.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have no idea why you suspect those two of.. whatever, though.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because just like a baron's shit smells the same as a pauper's, a demon bound by a malconvoker looks the same as one a diabolist has pacted with.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If it's any consolation, my sis'll be there before us. If there're 'diabolists' about, they'll be getting a plateful of trouble. Whosever faces they're wearing.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..And for the record..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't think all that highly of malconvokers, either.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, Thomas. Have you ever met one?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;No.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There we have it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus furrows his brow.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You have your Drow.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have my fiends.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Tech? :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I cannot promise I'm going to be a reasonable guy if I see one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You might want to tell your friend that before we meet.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah well. Perhaps it is so.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, she isn't one.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Going to resume?

TMG:<font color="#000000">meany; eh?

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Poor Liatai. =w=;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We're never gonna get to that damn shelter.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, Egon from that branch is a necromancer just like Pamela. Except he has brought a good two dozen of what others would call his kin to the noose.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You...you're going to...&quot; Gnogglebolt takes a moment, closes his eyes, and counts out under his breath.

Meany:<font color="#660033">=w=;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">tell me about it. -.-

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why...would you....do that?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Because.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I must do my duty.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I know enough about Necromancers to know that you do not have to use the art to profane the dead and keep a bunch of Ghouls around. It can be used to fight them effectively, too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And it is the right thing to do on top of that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And what in the name of gods above and below is

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And what in the name of gods above and below is your 'duty', in this case?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Ooo, see, this would be a perfect Topic for thomas to answer the door concerning.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I refuse to say the same about someone who has chosen to chanel the cosmic embodiments of hate and evil where golems or celestial animals would suffice.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">.. I capitilized the wrong t...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose you will have to see yourself, then.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus throws a pillow at the door.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What??&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And right back at you about the 'right thing' being subjective.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus has spent a great deal of the day worked up!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I must do what is right for my people. My research must be complete in this instance.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:I

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF"><i>Throughout Miron and Thomas' entire conversation, there has been an earthbound level annoying knock at the door.

</i> Tathi: <font color="#7f00ff">(( XP ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;As a researcher, I must learn how Miron came to be the way he is.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">And now lynx is tempted to make at least one malconvoker NPC from somewhere.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And how to diffuse him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And yes, it is.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Just for the history, and possible shenanigans

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;I said talk louder, dammit! You're making it really hard to eavesdrop!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But to me, it is right.&quot;

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

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Even when the seal is complete, I will be a threat.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt piches his nose again and sighs.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I already think Thomas was too hasty about joining them.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just to clarify, the character's thoughts and feelings on all matters today do not necessarily reflect the player's. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hey, lia is back

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't you go and do the same thing.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I know, Hatari

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">brb, bio

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;By anchoring myself to them while I idol in their domain is just.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hasty?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I would be fine with a Malconvoker or whatever. Thomas would probably haul off and attack them. =w=;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liaatai; preparing to send a backlog to you. it's big

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hasty?!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">from the last 27 you saw

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">The Drow whirls around, eyes red.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's what keeps the game fun, isn't it?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thomas Lazarus: &quot;But I cannot believe what I am hearing. Why would you assume demon summoners are still our kindred?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:43 lagcheck. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033"><b>&quot;Hasty??&quot;

</b> TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai8; sending log, one moment.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 19&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Listen check, dammit!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Apaparenly, Miron managed to poke thomas's buttons

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Much betta, tenk hyu!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It certainly takes a lot..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">..a lot ..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">To upset Thomas.

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>Of all the people I'd have expected Thomas to see what's going on .... Ah well.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I have been planning this for -weeks.- All of this, for -months.-&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... and apparently I'm still lagging. =w=;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah well.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I have my intinerary planned -hundreds of years- into the future.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I have considered even my loyalties to Orgolloyss.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll live with it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt covers his eyes with a hand. &quot;Sszeyl....&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;How they might conflict with all of this.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I meant have you bothered to explore any alternative options first?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl takes a deep breath.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Anyways..&quot; He murmurs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The one that takes the most stress off of Thomas and Miron, and in Akellon in General is to quit this particular human realm altogether.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There are casters like that in the Mace? Dread Necromancers and Malconvokers?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Where did you work?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;While the Palm, for example, is an order of paladins, I'm sure they employ varied support staff. Not to mention you could just, I don't know, keep finding things out for yourself.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just cannot comprehend why anyone feels the need to join this nebulous organization for the sake of getting something done.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I was sort of gunning for a 'wind down' to timeskip..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But Liag happened. =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Then perhaps.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You need to contemplate, as I have.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So apparently we're on this boat another week.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;All over the Veld, brother. Those are hard lands, though beautiful. Remember me talking with Cadamon?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck :47

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;About what, pray-tell?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I need to go to bed soon, too. I have a mort op in the morning.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:48 lagcheck?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;About... well, Sszeyl was the main topic. What i told him about the Veld is true. For most time ,you don't have trouble finding who's the foe, but defeating him.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:48 response

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :49 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Please let this work, I don't want to risk jostling that dish anymore tonight. -.-

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:49, I should say.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs again. &quot;I'm just saying, it's getting harder and harder to operate with some bigger organization over our shoulder. I'm not sure how much more we can take before we have no choice but to part ways. I'd rather you not be included with the people who need to part. But whatever. I need to get back to my work.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless there was anything else you had to say...?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You have not considered one thing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That it is effectively impossible to split from them at this point.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That -they will always be there.-&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And just what is that supposed to mean?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And that if there was a parting, I would be obligated to leave regardless.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:47 at :51. -.-

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I am host to a dragon spirit that has not been tamed, and may never be so in their life time.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Or yours.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay, folks, apparently HughesNet is being a pain, and RAM needs to go to bed anyway.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;As long as I am here, in this realm, they -must- keep up with me.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Castleton has a stable network of crime, most of the time. There, the biggest problem is often to find out it has happened, as scum of Spindlethorns' type chooses people who lmost noone notices missing.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">What say we start winding up with final noms and timeskip at the beginning of next session?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back!

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Cool. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">CYYYYYGGGGNEEEEEETTT!!!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:49 at :52.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( I have to nom Gnoggle for this talk. ))

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Darnit. Well. She keeps on knocking until next session. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We were doing just fine on our own with Nathaniel's guidence before they got involved. Don't ever think you couldn't do this without them. That is the entire point of everything I'm saying, we don't need them for anything. But if you think that, well, I can't stop you.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( He's tryng, he really is. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas did answer the door in an earlier line.. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl palms his face.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Up there, towns are smaller, people know each other. However, outside of our influence, there isn't any law. Bandits, cults of death and slaughter, strange beasts both summoned and natural..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Throwing a pillow doesn't count!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I'm not saying I couldn't.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I could probably kill several of them before calling out the Dragon.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then don't say 'it's impossible to split'.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You have seen what has gone on in Redree, haven't you?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But they will not allow it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That is why it is impossible.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Because we are in Akellon, and Akellon's laws are upheld by the Mace.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Depends what you mean by 'what has gone on.'&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pish posh, they can 'not allow' necromancers and theives and bandits to live, but they do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Those that they catch certainly suffer for it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The mad druid? The devil and his hellhound that almost murdered me? The blood of people torn apart?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And not just the mace. Have you forgotten that every town has it's own comissioned guard, under the actual command of the government that goes up to the king?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Of course I remember that part.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But nevermind all that. I need to work now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">allright, nomming Thomas, Gnogglebolt, Sszeyl, and Miron for WORDS WORDS WORDS FARTS

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now think of towns having problems of such a scale, regularly. Whenever you keep your watch down.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">.. nomming Shank for stewing it out with me. XP

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Not the least of which is perhaps speaking to your political relatives on the sovreignty of foreign nations.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Either way, I need to go shower and bed right about now.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl leaves.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nomming Tathi/Aelian for the same.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It is not our fault you guys sit in the hold not RPing amongst yourselves. :P

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hello, Shankfang.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I've been totally out of it and have missed everything adjacent since Gnogglebolt and Thomas started talking. @_@

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh,, hey!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Excuse me won't answer the damn door? I actually had something planned besides trolling, ya jerk. :P

Meany:<font color="#660033">Seconding Thomas, Miron, and Shank's noms.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vasn' eavesdroppink, Hy svear.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Adding further noms.

TMG:<font color="#000000">He -did- answer the door, ghostwish. &gt;.&gt;

* Dr. Hatari handwaves.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Bad timing. ;P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">where!? I was afk!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thomas threw a pillow at it. &quot;Whaaaaaat?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Thomas for Having a Vice now.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&gt;.&gt;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Shankfang for I wanna play too!

TMG:<font color="#000000">That was all the answer Tathi was gonna get. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">Miron for Voice of Reason.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">okay I missed the what and thought the pillow toss was a joke. XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's put it this way&quot; *holds up his mace* &quot;In the hands of a villain, this can break an innocent man's head. However, wielding it doesn't make me evil, does it?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas was in the middle of a life-altering critical argument.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Also, good people, I am apparently missing some of the log.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He didn't feel like answering the door for Trollthi. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The line that I last saw is not in the chunk Tech gave me.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; at :58, I have the entire log. I can upload it for you.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Aw crap! Really?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I could upload a log too.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Can someone give me between Thomas Lazarus: &quot;But I cannot believe what I am hearing. Why would you assume demon summoners are still our kindred?&quot; and Tathi: BANG BANG FIREBALL.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I thought for sure...one moment. Though you wont' get this for about 5 minutes. :B

* Thomas Lazarus watches flatly.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Please? :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">... what a line to leave off at. XD

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Knockidy. &quot;Thomas? Sorry to bother, but do you have a sending prepped?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A fair point br--&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We can finish this tomorrow, I guess. I'll have more to speak with you about anyways.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus gets up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A power over death, or even those deep in nine hells is much the same. Blessed be Saint Cuthbert's name, you have seen *me* use spells that would get people arrested.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus stretches in the hall.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I do, Tathi.&quot; He looks about. =3=?

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There you are.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey I was on the other map XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck again, for the heck of it. :01

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Right, sorry to be a bother, but.. I'm still a bit worried about my dad. Silly, right? Worried about a sorcerer that could sink everyone on this boat and then the boat just for kicks.. but still..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's quite alright.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would be happy to relay another message for you.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh thank you! What was it, twenty eight words?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Twenty-five.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll need about twenty-five minutes or so, too, to get the spell ready.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You've time to think it up.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh! Good! Twenty-five.. ugh, okay, I'll think of something.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron, in the meantime, climbs on his own bed.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wonder if he'll begin wondering who this strange human is that keeps sending him Sendings..&quot; He smirks faintly.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:01 at :03, though I'd scrolled up.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well, if you're really, really lucky..&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:03 lagcheck?

Meany:<font color="#660033">:03

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;.. he won't accuse you of being my boyfriend.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, are we doing much more? Because I'm kinda putting off my shower and bed right now...

TMG:<font color="#000000">lagcheck at :03!

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">My soul just screamed. What-

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|3

TMG:<font color="#000000">ach! Ram!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hrm?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Will you be around for Greedverse tomorrow?

RAM:<font color="#990000">I should be.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mort ops don't usually take very long.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi snickers. &quot;Yeah, up until he drags you off to meet my mother. She's the one Aelian should be worried about!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Unless we find something and have to go digging through organs and stuff to get it out.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It sounds like a fun visit.&quot; &gt;|3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's like a scavenger hunt, but with warheads and gore!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yep!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Please can we hurry? &gt;.&gt;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Some of us have a game tomorrow morning.

Meany:<font color="#660033">:B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:03 at :06

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Allright, she's got a message ready.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nothing much more, we'll be ending soon.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then give your noms and disc. &gt;:P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Collecting noms...

Meany:<font color="#660033">I did.

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>I'll have to speak to him again, later, when he's calmed down.. He's a good man, I can't have him fall into delusions like them. &quot;

</i> Meany:<font color="#660033">Also, RAM.

TMG:<font color="#000000">lialagcheck at :07

* Meany harpoons RAM.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Thomas for Personal Beef: Devils

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hrm?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'll give my noms tomorrow morning

Meany:<font color="#660033">Will you be able to make ArrPirates?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming, as I said, Sszeyl for &quot;What's your duty, soldier&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Maybe. WHat time is it at again?

Meany:<font color="#660033">10amcst.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It takes some time of preparing a new prayer from open slot, and then another tedious ritual, but a half hour later, Thomas is ready to relay a Sending.

Meany:<font color="#660033">To 3pm cst.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Dad, are you allright? Last message was cut short. How bad are things there? Want to know you're safe. Send back soon. Love you, Tathi.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mort op starts at 7:45-ish EST and ends whenever the fuck it ends.

RAM:<font color="#990000">But I should be done in time for pirates.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Weee.

Meany:<font color="#660033">=3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, Lia - was Miron giving a reasonable description of the Veld as a region?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That's funny. The message is lagging by like five minutes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Where does your dad live? =3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lili'u already has two kills in Pirates, too!

* Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

GM:<font color="#000000">Here are the noms I have. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck at :09 as well

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 200 XP - I'm sleeping with a dragon! Edaric - 200 XP - Voice of Diplomacy! Aelian - 200 XP - Controlling the girlfriend. ^^;

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 200 XP - &quot;Pelor give me patience -- &quot; 200 XP - MOOSH.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - LOOK JUST DROP IT ALL RIGHT. 200 XP - Words words words.

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - Why would I freak out about this? 200 XP - You're a dragon? Yeah right.

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 200 XP - Go forth, my canine minions! 200 XP - You people talk too much. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 200 XP - Calm Wisdom. 200 XP - Attempted Mediator.

VAE:<font color="#000000">gnogglebolt's should have been &quot;I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS DON&quot;T YOU UNDERSTAND?&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 200 XP - Scritchie scritchie scritchie! 200 XP - Dragon Moral Support. 200 XP - Tathiiiiii, I'm boooooored.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:07 at :09.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">At :10, I mean.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Woo!

VAE:<font color="#000000">145 XP to level up

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck at :10

RAM:<font color="#990000">Woohoo! 600 closer to first level of Gunman!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">2000 away. T_T

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 200 XP - You have drow, I have devils.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 200 XP - Talk of Duty.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Talk of Duty 3: Black Ops. *bricked*

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll send Raerarael's response... next Saturday. ;3

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">HELLO KITTY DEVALS!?&gt;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Aww. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">6600 left. =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saving log

RAM:<font color="#990000">We need to kill things. That always nets good xp.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck at :11 If you catch this, stick around on the server after everyone else leaves to let the last lines catch up with you

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I like talky sessions too

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:09 at :12.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Same, same.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:10 at :12, please stop checking.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Roleplaying is good.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well.. one thing kind of lead to another.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and honestly, this session was bloody awesome in that respect XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Originally we were in the hills.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oops, just got your stop checking message. -2-

TMG:<font color="#000000">-3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Like, finished, there.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">rofl

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:11 at :12 -- O_O

VAE:<font color="#000000">Log is saved

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then Gnogglebolt and Tom pulled back and talked..

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">and then, like a damn train wreck. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">GODS DANGIT AM I CATCHING UP.

* Liatai facepalms.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then Sszeyl came in.. =w=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then Tom talked with Miron while Sszeyl talked with Gnogglebolt..

TMG:<font color="#000000">.....when you get this, Lia, shall I continue checking? &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">If anyone wants to talk further, IRC at #argument_atrium is free for all X3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Then Tathi came in.. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I got it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This happens every week.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways, need to take care of needsof nature.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One last check, :13.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh owow

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">and that was the wildest orgy ever.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We never get anywhere. =w=;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagchec at :13. I think you're caught up.

* Ghostwish dies in the brick revolt of '44.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dangit. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, question.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yes?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Wow. Hi there, Liatai, welcome back. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Does anyone want any RP with any NPCs before the server goes down? :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">At the moment, no.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Now that I'm paradoxically back up to date? :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yes. Tathi's dad. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">(gotcha. :&gt;)

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">All Miron needs to sort out today, is the rest of stuff with Thomas

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I could RP all night. :.

* VAE too

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dangit I need to find his token again. XD

Meany:<font color="#660033">I cannot, I'm afraid. =3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">I need to head off to shower and bed about now.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meany and Ram go to bed. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">So no.

Raerarael:<font color="#7F00FF">YOU. CLERIC! ARE YOU COURTING MY DAUGHTER!?!?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Maaayybe. :&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay thank you. x3

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">^_^

RAM:<font color="#990000">And so, goodnight everyone!

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ta.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll work on that response.

RAM:<font color="#990000">See you all tomorrow!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm... well. I gotta go to take care of the needs imposed by nature.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">night!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm a Lazarus we doesn't afraid of any elf. =w=

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

</i> VAE:<font color="#000000">If you want to finish the talk between Miron and Thomas after tthe sending is done, I'm free to do so.

VAE:<font color="#000000">but after I return that is.

* VAE brb's

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">In fact.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Thomas grab's Tathi's boobs.

Meany:<font color="#660033">&quot;Honk honk.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I had been idly imagining the encounter in my head of Tomiko meeting Raerarael.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Where at first.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's just mugshots.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Tomi: *Flat stare* Rae: *Quizzical stare* *frame exchanges 3 times*

TMG:<font color="#000000">reading back...ooh! I've got a nom, though it's basically a &quot;second&quot; to &quot;you have drow, I have devils&quot;. Thomas: &quot;Wait what you say us using fiends is a -good- thing?&quot; Now you see the depth of his delusion, thomas! :U

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">6 times at least.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*Zoom out to see Tomi standing twice as tall as Raerarael.* &quot;=3=;;;&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Are you seriously as strong as Dad?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">XD!!!!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Nice ti- I mean. Yes.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Bigby's bitchslapping hand.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Enough, tech. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I knew all along OOC, you know.

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi! This is a much better time. Fighting diabolists in service of mad Yoriver count. Safe, continuing battle tonight! What have you been up to?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I assume in elven again.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, in Elven. :3

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">WAKKA HONK IN YOUR EAR, HUMIE.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">What is this moonspeak?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Italicize the have, if you will. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;What have you been up to?&quot; :3

* Thomas Lazarus pauses a moment after the message. &quot;...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Atleast he sounded calmer. There were no explosions.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh, he's quite fine tonight. Apparently resting for another attack tonight.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Now, he asked what I have been up to.. so now a very pressing question.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus rubs his chin. &quot;...&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot; How in hells do I compress all that into twenty-five words? &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You could probably learn to scry yourself, and communicate with him better than with this silly sending spell.&quot; =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi smirks, and nods. &quot;Yes, I should get on that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Scrying is a level 5 Cleric / level 4 Wizard spell. :B ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">need money.. could so buy a damn scroll of it.

Zairith:<font color="#000000">I fairly overtly hinted before she left Castleton that she should look into learning it. Tsk, tsk. =w=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. I'm afraid that's all I have for today. We can continue tomorrow if you'd like.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You know..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We should just show up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">In Zairith's school.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Allright, thank you for this, Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">In chairs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Just dimension door down there and wait for him to show up for lesson. =w=

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hi Mr. Tom, hi Miss Tathi.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hi Terri!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

* Thomas Lazarus waves a bit.

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

Zairith:<font color="#000000">Do that and expect back homework to catch up to the other students.

Zairith:<font color="#000000">You have been warned.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I don't do my homework. |3

B&#228;rli:<font color="#FF0000">It's true, he's a horrible pupil! &gt;|O

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">It was all in draconic. I scribbled all over the pages.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">And by scribbles I mean explosive runes.

* VAE facepaw at Tech

* VAE just uses Mirons's words again. A big hole needs a thick plug.

Zairith:<font color="#000000">Fifty points from Griffindor. *brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D: Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;How're you today?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances up and sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A little tired.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Pretty good. Just heard back from my dad. He's been very busy.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aw... I wish I had a fatigue-killing spell. Have you taken any naps today? Naps are almost always good.&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;What does your dad do, Miss Tathi?&quot; :.

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles weakly. &quot;I don't think it's that kind of fatigue, dear.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll be alright, I think.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well, for the most part, he goes around fighting evil with copious amounts of firepower. If he's not doing that, he's helping my mom best he can with the necromatic stuff.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus boggles. O.o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is your mother a Necromancer?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your dad's a superhero?&quot; :O

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She smirks. &quot;Depends. She's not a necromancer in the sense that she goes around defiling tombs. She's actually the opposite. She's a tomb guardian. I'm.. not sure how to translate it to common, but it means 'Spirit Watcher'.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And, yes, Terri, he imagines himself so.&quot; She says, giggling. &quot;He believes his second chance at life was solely for him to right wrongs and destroy evil. Which he does. Destructively so.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus holds up a palm. &quot;..I think I understand. Do not worry. I know that it is not something exclusively used to dredge up marauding undead and the like. I was just telling brother Miron I'm well aware of the difference between black and white necromancy. Besides.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I bet Vaerithosgix would know something about the copper dragons.&quot; :.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Oh hey, Mr. Tom, I had a question for you real quick.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The Baelnorn are a rather well-known phenomena amongst healers and agents of the church trained to combat the damned. The Elves have different, ahh.. 'traditional' uses for that art than Humans. Unfortunately.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus blinks aside. &quot;..Is that so?&quot;

* Terri looks up at Thomas from her teeny human kid height.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Is Tathi's father a Deathless?

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Am I still banned from the top deck an' crow's nest?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No, he's alive.

VAE:<font color="#000000">because the urge to kill is rising

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh thank goodness. See, I don't even want to think of mentioning this around Miron. He'd go off and try and arrest her, maybe even break into a tomb. And my mother? NOT a forgiving woman. She'd kill him for that. Geez.. now I want to bother you for a sending to talk to her. No, forget it. I'm learning how to scry. I coud do it flawlessly on any of them, even if she was at the bottom of a crypt.&quot;

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

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Pounce.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">he'd go off and arrest her

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas was referring to the Baelnorn; elven liches that watch over communities, live in public libraries, etc.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 13 + 3 = 16&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Not evil undead.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I love how this must look to Thomas in light of their discussion

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You know.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Vuzzy fuzzy!&quot; :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, those

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I hear scrying requires hugh mirrors for wizards. ^^;&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 17 + 3 = 20&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But.'

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Or a crystal ball.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;There's something called a scrying shard, too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Less expensive than a crystal ball.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And more transportable than a mirror.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hrm. Which one is cheapest, and what are its limitations?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Imma be shot in five...four... ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#660033">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would not mind trying if you wished. But I'll leave you to your studies.&quot; He looks back to Terri.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Shard, I'd say is cheapest.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And smiles. &quot;... No. You're not banned anymore, Terri.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And it's limits is that it's the size of like.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Your fist.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">:D &quot;Yaaaaay!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. If only Gnogglebolt were there.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You could probably beat me up, so, you can technically do anything you want. The only consequence is I could give you a mean look.&quot; |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">'Wait. Thomas. Think.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;But, yes, my mother is a necromancer. She doesn't entrap the dead, no, she beseeches them. And they answer in a very deadly fashion. It's the reason the tombs stayed safe even through the wars. Wizards like my mom.&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Purrr.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Snuggle purr.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">stop saying if and get him up here. :P

Vuz:<font color="#660033">You smell like happy. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;How are we going to explain to the crew we're suddenly letting Terri have run of the crow's nest again?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:38 lagcheck?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh don't be silly. She's -asking- your permission, Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom: We're wildly irresponsible? =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialacgheck at :39

Meany:<font color="#660033">&gt;:O

Meany:<font color="#660033">:39

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yay, okay. :3

* Thomas Lazarus smirks a little.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:39 at :39.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I know. Just making light.&quot;

* Terri snuggles the kitty and bounces up and down a little. ^.^

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">:3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'mma go up right now!&quot; :D &quot;Mr. Sszeyl, is Vuz allowed up top, too?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt comes wandering up to the middeck, taking a breather from his work.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Just don't let Swoop near her.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, a partying going on here--&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Going up? Going up where, miss Terri?&quot; Gnogglebolt says, looking at her.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000"><i>...She's a DRAGON. I...still can't believe that.

</i> Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course not! She'll be like my parrot. You know, pirates have parrots, I'll have a shoulderkitten!&quot; ^.^

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Say, Terri..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Take Kor. He's been bad lately..&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Tom said I'm not banned from the top deck anymore!&quot; :D

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. |3

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">WHAT THE SQUEAK BITCH!? WHAT THE SQUEAK!?

TMG:<font color="#000000">....Lialagcheck at :42 ?

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">nevermind

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:42 at :42.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Er, I didn't think we banned you from the top deck as long as it was -daytime-...it's just the crow's nest we told you you couldn't be in...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Kor, this look on this kid's face.

Terri:<font color="#000000">It should inspire a touch of terror. &gt;:3

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

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">=O_O=

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea-

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Bye Kor.&quot; &gt;:)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait. Thomas, do you mean to say you're letting her up in the crow's nest now because of...well...herself?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt says, shuffling his feet.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;She asked me permission.&quot; He offers a slightly defeated shrug.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Suddenly, in a low sultry woman's tone.

Vuz:<font color="#660033"><b>Why hello there, Mister.

</b> Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on Vuz, an' Kor, let's have deck adventures! Kor can swab the deck.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He continues shuffling his feet. &quot;Not that I, erm, want to put a damper on the fun, but...&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeak! What are you doing here!? Doncha know she's a giant lizard rat eating thing!?

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Yes I know.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">I just do not care. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">In the meantime, Miron is flipping pages in his book of everything, and thinking.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even though Terri can handle herself...part of the reason the captain and crew were okay wit us was the whole thing about how our own little one was in danger with their own...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm.. are you worried what the crew will think?&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">T_T;;; I'm surrounded by crazy fucking squeaks.

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Join us, Kor.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Language, Mr. Kor! &gt;:O

Vuz:<font color="#660033">Jooooooooiiiin us.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, um. If we start all of a sudden letting Terri have the run of the place...don't you think they'll start asking questions?&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">SQUUUUEAK!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Elros will be up there, anyways.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow. &quot;No. Although, they may say things.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">Elros is here and everywhere.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Now and always.

Meany:<font color="#660033">For he is.

Meany:<font color="#660033">*shades*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Think us poor guardians. Irresponsible.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That kind of thing.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">The most Interesting Half-Man in the world.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He ISN'T the fucking elder god

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like, 'I thought you cared about your own charge as much as I do mine, now I see this? How can I trust my own son is safe'?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">because Kain gutted that one

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Which I don't mind them thinking in the least.&quot; He smirks.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, erm... I do rather mind them thinking that...because it's them thinking we -were- responsible is I think part of the reason they didn't kick us off their ship.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus scoffs lightly. &quot;Terri being allowed in the crow's nest is going to make them fear for Mateo and get us kicked off the ship?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not gonna go up to the crow's nest, anyway.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;How are you, Miron?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well maybe not right now. I'm just thinking to back then. If they see--oh!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. &quot;Very well then.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay then, I suppose that settles that. Deck is fine as long as it's daytime.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I went up there to try an' build rapport with the crew, an' protect Mateo if somethin' happened.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Apparently. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( I need to stay up, and make sure parents come home, if at all. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Rassafrasin. &gt;:/ ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Yaaaay ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( I mean oh sorry. ))

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yay!&quot; :D

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

* Liatai gives tea.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*turns head up*

Terri:<font color="#000000">Dragonkid awaaaaaay!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now Kor.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeaaaak. @_@

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't blame you for talkin' to Tathi.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeak! She lies! I said every- I mean nothing! =&gt;.&gt;=

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;But small squeaky spies and snitches still should swab.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">=T_T=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's just say it's better than when that hellhound almost baked me alive, but not by much.&quot;

* Terri takes out a bucket and some soap.

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Squeaking slave driver...

* Terri begins to scrub Kor and sets him down sopping wet on the deck. &gt;:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I see.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">ACKPFT. WHAT MADNESS IS THIS-

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

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">He squeaks indignantly.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't give me that look, a mop sized for you wouldn't clean one plank.&quot; =3=

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now you are a mop!&quot; ^^

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">You cannot be squeaking serious.. &gt;:(

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">My squeak she is serious.

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh the vermanity. T_T

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

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">So now there's this sodden rat rubbing along the planks. I can only imagine how utterly confused the crew must be.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The gnome returns to reading, though appears distracted.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...If I must say, you seem calmer now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Perchance, would you like to dicuss theology?&quot;

Stanley Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;'''Hey, Connor, look! A rat's doing your job!'''&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.&quot; He nods and excuses himself from the hallway.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Dammit sszeyl, I thought I was going to talk to him. ;~;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot; 'Ni te pharkalu quo lun verra lu' as my old folk would say. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh well

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And what is it you wish to discuss?&quot;

* Edaric is still strumming away. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well, the differences between Orgolloyss and Cuthbertine afterlives would be enlightening.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus settles in and opens a book.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This couch is awesome. |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our afterlives, huh?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Where did you say your folks live?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh, Oakridge. Little town between Drakesbow Lake and Kista Pass.&quot;

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">Wait a second.

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">WAIT A SECOND.

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">KOR IS...

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">DAMAGED D:

Liatai:<font color="#000000">D: Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">My ego bleeds profusely.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I thought you were going to say he was a bilge rat. :B

* Liatai is brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like most things of our faith, it is a pretty straightforward thing.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus considers.. :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know where any of those are without a map.&quot; ^^;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Kor tries to hide on the other side of the mast from the dragonnette. &gt;&gt;

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 19 + 14 = 33&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; Hey, where'd that rat go?

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmm?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Testing. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Testing. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( One two. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Can you hear me, Queen Latifah? ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">yomeany

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Saint Cuthbert allows his followers a stay within his residence on Arcadia, one of the heavenly planes. There... in a way, they often work much like they did on earth, aiding justice by answering the faithfuls' prayers, helping their spells and efforts.... some of his champions even return as spirits in times of great need... such as at the call of warpriests leading a crusade.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(...I thought, as an LN diety, St. Cuthbert was on Mechanus. &gt;.&gt; )

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Check Deities and Demigosa

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Mechanus is just for machines, isn't it? ^^;

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Constructs. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( It's where intelligent magic items go. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">no, mechanus is the only total LN plane that I know of...

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :B ))

Terri:<font color="#000000">... you do realize that I have blindsense?

TMG:<font color="#000000">and I do know Formians live there, for instance

TMG:<font color="#000000">the ant-people

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;His residence, it is said is the triumph of order and form.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...That's it?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Formians do indeed

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">Me? No. Int of 8. :P

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. Okay. Remember Kethanis from Redtree?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm barely smarter than Kor?! &gt;:O

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

Kor:<font color="#7F00FF">JUST BARELY MORTAL.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are other points.. but i'm not a theologian as much as a practitioner.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You just...die, and get to go on to paradise?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Drakesbow Lake is the druid sanctuary he said he came from. It's northwest of Castleton.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides.. it wouldn't be against the rules of our faith to simplify the matters which the mortals find hard to comprehend.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kista Pass is the valley between the Girn Mountains and the Metora Plateau -- think between dwarf territory and elf territory. It's the main pass between Akellon and Mazio, too.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know - the most important book of our faith is called Saint Cuthbert and Common Sense... as that is what he expects from all of us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And... yes. You die, and unless you are ressurected soon, that is it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I really wish I could teleport.. {:3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;How monstrously unfair. But eh.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either you are taken, or cast off... and then, the other gods have a pass.. good, evil.. and last, like the vultures and crows ,come the devils.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They drag the souls of those not even the evil gods want, and shape them into their own... that's why there's so much of them.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Come to think of it... I don't know much about priest magic.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;How odd.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Imagine all the people that ever died.. even a hundredth of them, if they were vile, would make for an impressive army.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not much about most formal magic, really, I just know how to work my own spells. ... Can you learn to teleport?&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why it is so? &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;By the terms you defined as afterlife, I guess.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know arcanists can, since -- were you there when Zairith teleported into Guardian HQ?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;We of Orgolloyss don't -have- one per se.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;How so? What happens to your souls?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well. I imagine some specialized priests can. Those of the gods whose portfolios include travel and wander.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises his brows.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I don't remember.

* Thomas Lazarus is bricked :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;By and large they are not our souls to begin with.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">(*Correct response*) :BB

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They must be. They are what makes you yourself.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That's why I say by and large.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thomas came in afterward. He arrived with Miron to see Zairith and Lethiriss having tea with the rest of the Guardians and catnipped LiNeer. x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose not.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;All the Orgolloyss that exist reincarnate as they die and live.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So.. it's the same people all over again?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This was done to unshakle ourselves from Lolth's afrerlife.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Not really.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It's more akin to the same people playing different parts in a play.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;In different costumes.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I do know a lot about divine magic. And I know what we, ah, can't typically do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But the same actor.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.. see. If you really believe so.. It would explain your.. blind lack of self-preservation at times...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Every so often, a particular incarnation gains the wisdom and metaphysical power to break from the cycle, and become a new actor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;My lack of self-preservation comes from a lack of fear, Miron.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The popular notion amongst magi is that we ask nicely and believe really hard and get our miracles handed to us on a silver platter as a reward for good service..&quot; =w=; &quot;But it's not truly that simple.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though... standing against a drow that a whole branch couldn't capture... I'm perhaps not the best to talk about it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*worried smile*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You did your duty.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But anyway.'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As the dog said to the cow 'My conscience is the will of my master.'&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Our incarnations allow us to see the world from hundreds of different perspectives.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And when we die, we cease to exist as an individual, as our memories and 'self' are absorbed into our First.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We still practice dweomercraft like Wizards. Admittedly most of the work is done for us well in advance, by our ancient forefathers in the clergy and the gods themselves. But it is still magical energy trapped in a construction of mystical rules, shapes, and interworking effects. Even a priest can engage in 'magical engineering' and change their own spells, or research and invent new ones.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;The First is the one who actually has claim to the soul, and what is done with it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Admittedly, I've never dared to touch that part.&quot; =w=;;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's... wait.&quot;

* Edaric is listening curiously. :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's enough that Pelor helps me as much as he does.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The first is still yourself, right? One soul, one person.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, cat's gone impmode. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He is me, and yet not.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He is me laden with the memories and minds of millions of people.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That is not hyperbole.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But that is why, for example, we cannot simply just ask for whatever we want at any given moment and get some divine intervention all willy-nilly. They're still carefully constructed, specific spells being cast by ourselves.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Millions.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And.. you'll just melt into the millions like a chunk of beet sugar in a bowl of sweet gruel?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yet... you say our afterlife is unfair?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...To me, it is.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...I think Miron's misunderstanding what Sszeyl means by &quot;unfiar'&gt; Either that or I am.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least when I die, I'll still stay myself.. hell, I might even meet my family, all the colleagues that have died.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just, unlike, say.. Tathi.. I do not pour over the rituals myself every night. I do not align the invocation phrases, trace runes of cosmic significance, pre-arrange charges of mana.. and.. well.. whatever else it is that goes into making a spell work from scratch.&quot; =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;My First has decided that after I die, He will move on to what lies beyond.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But she does.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">the way I'm reading it, Sszeyl's saying &quot;it's nto fair you get that paradise and I dont'&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It is quite the backhand to be aware of this while still alive.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">that's the way I read it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, Miron might have misunderstood

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">am I right, or way off base? :B

* VAE has noo idea

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Not at all.

VAE:<font color="#000000">it can be interpreted both ways

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany; mathematician's answer. -3-

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">@ TMG.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I bet that was his intention :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You are correct.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">That was his meaning, Tech.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, I -do- have it right? Okay.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Cool.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">But yes, it has subtext.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It amazes me that anyone can even do that at all, really. It's way beyond me.&quot; {:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Remember, Miron is used to seeing Sszeyl throw disparaging remarks at his ideology

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mom tried to teach me once. It helped to give me an idea of how it works for 'everybody else'. I'm kind of in your boat on that one, though.&quot; ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">so he interpreted it that way

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl also meant that there are souls the gods don't want being unfair.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But Pelor seems to trust me with magic just fine. I simply try to do my best deciding where and when to put it to use.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It must be. Not much to look towards.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..How in the world do Bards perform magic, anyways?&quot; :. &quot;You don't pray or practice magery, do you?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Just like sorcerers

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">They don't understand what they do, it just works

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes and no.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I know my word doesn't mean much compared to a god's, but I'd say you're doing a great job so far.&quot; :3 &quot;... huh. Hard question to answer. Let me think a bit.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Y'all got nuthin on artificers. :U

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;When I am one with First, I will have all of his understanding.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see it more as the First having all of yours.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It can be seen as both.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But who knows.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Maybe I'll be lucky enough to break off and become a new First.'

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Tom makes a metaphor to explain magic: &quot;You see.. wizards are like engineers, and laboriously, exhaustively assemble their spells from scratch to exacting specifications each night. And Clerics just kind of shop for their spells at the divine corner store. They're ultimately the same spells. |3 *smite'd* ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heh. Knowing. On a better day I'd lunge at you for peddling heresy.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Today... I just don't have the strength.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;So this is not a good day?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;In a way it is, in others it isn't.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...You know that I agree with you, right?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Agree with me? By the Cudgel, what on?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;That you are actuallly justified in thinking as you do about the Drow?&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You... do?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But.. they are your kin.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">relevant to Tomtalk;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: In Dungeons And Dragons, this is what separates Wizards from other spellcasters. To a greater extent, this is separates Archmages and practicers of metamagic from other spellcasters. To a much, much greater extent, this is what separates Artificers from all other practitioners of magic.

TMG:<font color="#000000">:U

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;My kin are monsters on one end, whirling psychopaths on the other.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That looks like trope format.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.. sure.. I don't agree with Gnogglebolt on a lot of things...at the moment, almost everything... &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000"><i>Is that trope.

</i> VAE:<font color="#000000">it is

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Yes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000"><i>NOT IN MY HOUSE, BOY.

</i> * Dr. Hatari chambers shotgun.

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.&quot; &#8212; Larry Niven, riffing on Clarke's Third Law &quot;Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!&quot; &#8212; Agatha Heterodyne / Cinderella (explaining what Niven meant), Girl Genius

* TMG builds tropeshrines everywhere! Nyah hah hah!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But.. back when I joined the group, he was pretty much the reason why I have even considered dealing with you. &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I agree with the notion, anyways. I've always been an opponent of Ghost's &quot;It's magic, IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE SENSE OF BY DEFINITION :PPPPPPPP&quot; :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I know.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Magic is weird, and arcane, and whimsical, and capricious, and mysterious. It does not mean there are no underlying causes, effects, patterns and applicable theories.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Exactly! :&gt;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is strange.. on one end, I agree your kin are monsters.... I will do anything in my strength to thwart most of them&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'm with Hatari, too

* VAE does stuff for the foundation, bitches. We have the Bag of holding analyzed.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's hard to describe without sounding cheesy,&quot; he says with a chuckle. &quot;It just comes naturally. Like... You know how I play every morning, right? Usually it's just getting thoughts out in the open, but sometimes I'll hit on something that's really stirring, or hit a font of inspiration. That sort of thing sticks with you, and if you can remember it, remember the feeling behind what you're playing at that time, and convince or inspire someone else to feel that same way, then bam, you've got something magical.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see..&quot; :o

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can probably infer the rest.... but, you admitting it yourself ... you call yourself and everyone you knew a monster outhand?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...I am a terror, not a monster.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But I will admit.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I see the steps that must be taken to control the Drow that Lolth bred.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Who know nothing but do whatever pleases a demon spider hag.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have met worst necromancers that claimed their dark god is the only hope of this world, folks protecting monsters because of whatever personal feeling towards them..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It sounds like you're tapping into some kind of powerful primordial stuff I don't even begin to understand!&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Preying on people's insecurities makes them monsters.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But it does sound really nice.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And following Lolth, and teaching her precepts makes them monsters too.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lolthians are the worst scum the earth has stood to bear.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nods*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;On that we agree.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But...I know some individuals who are not monsters.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pretty much all bardic magic is based on emotions and perception, really. Say you want to create an alarm spell. I know when I'm casting an alarm spell, I try and conjure up a feeling of overwhelming security, and reinforce the idea that something's watching out for you, and that it'll let you know if danger's coming. Practice, focus, and a touch of spellcraft later, and bam. Spell.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But yes, you are right to suspect on the degree you do.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Such as?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Tebryn of Orgolloyss. A Nightmare.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know of him not.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;You will soon, if we are lucky.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You make it sound easy.&quot; owo;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He is being summoned.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What for? And summoned?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;My people...have departed from Orgolloyss' core teachings I believe.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;This takes a bit of backstory to explain, if you want to really know.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not so different from regular performing, just... well. More intense.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">It's like sex.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">With music.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">*shot*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;With mana dna colors flying everywhere.&quot; He remarks with a smirk.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*and not dna

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh no. JURRASIC PARK D: * Thomas Lazarus is bricked

Edaric:<font color="#000000">The DM pictured As, Ts, Gs, and Cs spiralling in colorful double helixes through the air, man. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Orgolloyss did not start as an evil man.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He probably is not one to this very day.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't mind, I guess. Nothing to do either.. besides the others seem to view me less than a nut from devil's arse.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Heh.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heh...start. It is mostly dismissed as unfounded heresy, but some say Saint Cuthbert used to be a man one time, too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Orgolloyss taught our people how to survive in the dark corners of the world, with Lolth's actions weighing down on us despite us not having anything to do with it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;A parallel then.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pretty much.&quot; |3 &quot;Remember how I said yesterday that if you're not really feeling what you're performing, it's hollow and you're doing yourself and everyone around you a disservice? That's kind of the core of bardic music. You've got to be able to feel it yourself, imagine it, pull it out of the air, then be able to convince others to see and feel the same way.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Orgolloyss saw that Lolth was slowly killing us. Killing herself.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well.. on the matter of easy magic.. I'm told our family has a divine forebear.&quot; =w=; &quot;So I have on occasion wondered if it's actually, ah.. actually a lot harder for my brothers than me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He decided that perhaps, to stop the former, he should quicken the latter.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps so.. the orthodoxy is that he was the heavenly spirit who first understood that justice must be enforced. &quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hmmm. Perhaps the two knew each other.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;After seeing your dad lift Gnogglebolt's pile of metal with one arm, I can believe it.&quot; =w=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe so... For the gods ,even heavens are small like a town is for a man.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm pretty sure I'm as strong as I am because of Pelor's blessing. ... Pretty sure. :.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I can never really know, I suppose. It's not as though I've had any experience being someone else.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>I am talking with a drow. What the hell are you doing, Miron?

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Dad and Sis can just kind of naturally uproot trees and burst through stone walls... no spells or anything...&quot; =w=;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm half expecting Tathi to burst in and announce that there's a spell to do that. Be someone else, I mean.&quot; =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;At some point, it was decided that for the time being, we of Orgolloyss had to be as monsters to get them to listen to us.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>But... he bloody seems to understand quite a lot. Is this a ploy by him to gain my trust? The dragon even? To get me to abandon the idea of watching him?

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And now, it has been so for so long, that no one even considers that it is no longer the time to be monsters.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Slightly more nervous archivist again.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Man, I hope that when Gnogglebolt gets a chance to talk to Miron, Miron brings up the qwuote &quot;an open mind is like a fortress with it's gates open&quot;. I've got the -perfect- rebuttal to that.

* Thomas Lazarus taps his fingers together. ^^;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;For instance, imagine if Commander Ashmore declared a state of emergancy to stop a blatant threat in Castleton.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe.. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to chance that though.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And Cadamon refused to call it off while Ashmore was away.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can see that happen.. in fact that is what Braxton, and...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;After the threat had passed, of course.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Me neither. Imagining is more fun anyway.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, Sszeyl. What do you think of Altonor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...I think I want to pick up something heavy.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And strike him with it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I feel much the same. Care to tell me why, however?'

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I can not go into details.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He seems to have turne his back on the Drow. Doing good is well and good.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But he no longer cares for whom he hurts in so doing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He is quite like Lolth in that regard. He doesn't care anymore.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You hear me, Altonor?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I just compared you to Lolth.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now... you have heard my and Thomas's report to Ashmore... I guess if I keep out the details you can hear this too.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">HIS DRILL WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS. *bricked*

Altonor:<font color="#000000">I hear you, I don't like it, and now I need to go hide from the GM again before she pushes me into the offscreen bin again -- whoops! *flee*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have old friends and colleagues all over the Veld. Today I had sent to one of them, asking about Yoriver.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The part I can tell you.. apparently, much like what you just told me, they are in such a state of emergency, over a real threat.. and our people are fighting it in... much the same ways, unsurprisingly.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It seems to me that Altonor and his lot sees no difference between the two sides, and fights both, much like he does Tathi's father.'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I tried to explain it to Thomas... so far, I have failed. Never mind as Commander Ashmore is the one who decides, and he's getting a better report than I have received... it's just worrying me sick more than before.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I know that worry.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;For I have it as well for my friends and colleagues back in the City of Web.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I still can't believe that little girl was a dragon the whole time. &quot; =w=;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Would you consider some advice from a younger mind?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It means my brothers up there are fighting demon summoners... and there come this anarchic fuck, and makes the situation even worse.... I had said it once.. he's like the soldier shielding his rotting leg from the medic, because all he sees is that he'll cut it off.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It makes you wonder. How many other shapeshifted people have we run into and not even realized it?&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But what he doesn't realise is that to not use such methods will only bring death.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus rubs the back of his head. &quot; I figured.. her grandfather, probably. Maybe her dad. But... I did her chores for her once. We swept up their attic together. '''Me and a dragon. =w=;;;;;;;;;&quot;'''

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;To say nothing of the fact you got hugged by a dragon just yesterday.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If there wasn't the trouble with the dragon in your head.. I wanted to go there, to investigate ,warn, help... but now it's even worse. It's... like when I was laying sick knowing that Thomas.. Cadamon,.. all of you were in a fight with the necromancer, Lundy.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;How many adventurers can say they got hugged by a four-year-old dragon?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Takes his head into arms*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And.. I can't bloody imagine i'm telling it to you, out of every fucking person on this fucking ship.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Maybe.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It is because I care to listen.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Much as you cared to listen today.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It was a big relief knowing she wasn't....... well....... gosh, I don't even know. She is still 'little' and young. Way younger than I expected. But she's.. you know.. a dragon.&quot; ^^;;; &quot;It's like.. if Tavia or someone was worried about me. I feel silly for acting like I even have business telling her to brush her teeth at night now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's the feeling I can't stand. Knowing what's going on, and not being able to do anything. Just like when the dwarves put me back together.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas blindly stumbles into a matter of ethical philosophy the likes of which the modern world is not prepared for. How to treat animals higher in enlightenment than humans. &quot;|X&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;...The only advice I can give would not help you, I think.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But perhaps there is something else that might at least show progres.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Just a second.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Hey I--nyaa*squashed*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl reaches over the bookshelf and taps Tom.

* Edaric has a brief distant look at the mention of Tavia.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh. Yes?&quot; He looks over.

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>This is just.. odd. Just so odd...

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Two things.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">He looks about to say something, but stops as Sszeyl enters. :. ?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;One: Miron could really use a friend right now.&quot;

* Ghostwish jerks awake.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">:o

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Two: I think he might be ready to hear that idea we had now.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside, this is what you get when listening to Ballad of Springhill when writing for Miron.

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

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He did what Gnogglebolt and Tathi, and a slight bit you couldn't.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He listened.&quot; :3

* Ghostwish blinks foggy like.

* Thomas Lazarus stands.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just leave the server up a little while longer, you don't have to play. XD

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Ololol.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I...&quot; He glances to Ed hesitantly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright. This is important. This may be the beginning of a solution to our problems.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Okay ,the sheer absurdity of this situation makes me laugh

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We shall see.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lulz.. gonna go get a snack. then shower. then we'll talk about pulling the server down. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">What's even more funny is that it happened all legit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Pardon me Ed.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Never ever would have I planned ths.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I can keep the server up myself.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yay. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I lol at y'all.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lemme quickly join as a DM and save the file.

* Thomas Lazarus steps in.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No problem, good luck.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Greetings, brother.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods at Miron, takes a seat on the bed.

* Edaric keeps strumming contemplatively. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Hello hello, Miron.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And greetings to you, too.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry to cut our talk off before. Tathi was concerned about her family.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">See? =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... oh crud.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So am I, in a way.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ghost what's the DM password. I forgot. XD

Meany:<font color="#660033">Trololol.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. I think.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But that's perhaps digressing.&quot; He glances aside.

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</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Forest for the trees.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">erp

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Yo. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">from*

TMG:<font color="#000000">joined as player. :x

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Forest *from* the trees.

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</i> Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll be back in two shakes, going to get something to eat.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Have you two been talking this whole time?&quot; :.

campaigndownload:<font color="#000000">There we go, saving campaign file...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I assumed you were both resting.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yep.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Miron is quite informative.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was reading... then he showed up..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Then we discussed theology. =3=&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment, nature calls. A minute only

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">We're leaking people!

* Dr. Hatari sets up music. &gt;:9

* Ghostwish comes back with pbj. blinks at screen.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No we just have people leaking. *bricked*

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

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</i> Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I takle it you remembered the password then? XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">aw hell, campaign file download didn't work

TMG:<font color="#000000">Need to try again

Meany:<font color="#660033">&gt;:U

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</i> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well plan B is to just play.. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oie. Keep playin.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Don't worry this has happened before. Lats time, third time was the charm. Keep going folks, I'll let you knwo when it works

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, I'm glad to hear you've been atleast passing the time together.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs. &quot;I was a little worked up earlier from.. various things..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Inquisitor Steelsprocket has quite the absentminded stare at the moment. Not that the glasses let much pass.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry for my impatience brother.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*shrug*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any time longer and the bitch would have knocked the door over.&quot;

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</i> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmph.&quot; He smirks a little for a moment.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..The thing I wanted to talk to you about tomorrow with Sszeyl..&quot; He rubs his chin and watches the floor a moment with knit brow.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sweet, it worked this time

Meany:<font color="#660033">Yay. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">So, whenever Ghost wants to brign it down, I can bring it right back up

TMG:<font color="#000000">...just don't alter or move around any tokens right now. :B

Meany:<font color="#660033">QUICK.

Meany:<font color="#660033">MACRO SPELLS.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It only saved at this instance in time

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He and I talked about it for a while. I wasn't sure at first.. but.. I've come around to the idea since. So I put it to your thoughts now. Sszeyl tells me he's developed an interest in becoming a trainee Inquisitor in the Mace.&quot; He glances up quickly and carries on a moment. &quot;--Not just for it's own sake, mind you. Our situation.. well. You know what it's been like.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Miron's head exploding in 3.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">2.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">1.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Ignition.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms. &quot;Learning a bit more of the ways of the world.. and being under your watch and the commander's a bit more full-time.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">The hell is that screaming..

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs faintly and waits.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Him.. one of...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I know.&quot; He closes his eyes and sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But we know Sszeyl.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>That perhaps explains why he was talking to me.. trying to insinuate himself in....

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Bitch, I have Tom on my side.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I'm already insinuated.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just think on it for a moment, if you could. For all of us. There were, sure, moments of a bit of reckless tactical movements in combat.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000"><i>But then.... a lot of what he says seems honest. Altonor *is* on the same path to hell as the lolthians.. .chaos destroys, it doesn't build..

</i> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But beyond that, I think he's exuding a lot of wisdom. Especially lately.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;It's the seal. =3= Helps a lot.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.... that much is true.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs slightly and looks to Sszeyl. &quot;Care to comment for yourself?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though... I do hope it isn't the dragon speaking in his place.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Nah.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks to Miron. &quot;I sat down with him and talked about this for a long time the other day. When I asked you to get lunch.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Vargie's trying to come to grips with the fact I've cut off any late night letter runs. =3=&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I recall. I did leave it to your judgement.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was skeptical at first. But I actually think he knows what he's getting into. And it wouldn't be such a terrible idea.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Gnogglebolt disagrees.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But then, he doesn't actually agree on much these days.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus frowns a little. &quot;..Told him, huh?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps not. He knows the drow...as the wise say, the thief makes for the best warde-&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I tried to get through to him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And I made progress.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*laughs a little* &quot;If Gnoggelbolt disagrees, the idea might not be all that unsound.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..He hasn't been very approving of the Mace lately.. I'm nor very surprised.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;But in the end, I had to refer him to speak with elders of Maizo to come to grips with reality.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;His parents especially.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus clams up and raises his brows. Huh.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;In a way, I aren't, either. But it isn't the Mace's fault it is so.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus leans over and rests his elbows on his legs. &quot;Well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You can probably see why I wanted to wait till you were in a good mood to talk about this.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you wanted me in a good mood, brother, it would have been hard to pick a worse moment.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles a little. &quot;Is that so..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Atleast you're tired, then. I'll take that.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus pauses and looks at the Gnome.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;However, as the wise say, a broken wall is often better than a new, locked door.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... and my current soundtrack is Miracle~Hinacle. What the heck, Winamp.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..What's bugging you, anyways?&quot;

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

* VAE not know that song

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The most unMace song ever.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's bugging me? I told you earlier.. most of it... I told Sszeyl too.. as much as I found reasonable to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Perhaps I can translate? =3=;&quot;

* Dr. Hatari scratches his chin a moment. Scritch scritch. &quot;..Mm.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Feel free to try. At least someone else will be talking for once.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry I wasn't listening so well at the time. I was.. getting fired up I guess.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry I wasn't listening so well at the time. I was.. getting fired up I guess.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Thomas, you feel that anyone who deels with Devils is not your Brother?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It hasn't struck me so much how you might be feeling.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;None of us is perfect, Thomas.If it was so, we'd be out of job.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances aside. &quot;... ... ... I don't know. I might be able to come to terms with that. I was angry when I spoke.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*out of work

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Well, Miron is afraid for his friends with that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I... suppose I leapt to conclusions. That Miron must be trying to protect our associates and was ... I don't know. Rationalizing a defense.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;He's afraid you won't try to tell the difference between the actual threats, and those that happen to disagree with you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I feel a little judgemental now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I think.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Is that correct, Miron?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Thomas.. perhaps so. It's.. the straw that broke the mule's back, i suppose.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Tech.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of all the people, when I got the send, I thought he'd be the person to understand.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I still can't grasp why one would ever resort to such a tool, in lieu of other powers.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus rubs the back of his neck.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">I certainly hope you delete the whispers from the log before you give it to Lia or Vae.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess it wasn't anything he did... more the fact that I didn't expect it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But.. if, indeed.. someone could somehow do that and not be guilty of corruption themselves..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have told it twice and shall say it for the third time. A large hole needs a thick plug.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I may be laggy, but here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpRT855-DI

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know. I can use my judgement. See true colors.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's the song.

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand in the air.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's save that bit of philosophy for a new day. I'll hear it. But for now, I'll.. give you my assurance I'll try to help. Whoever it is that's deserving of help there.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least that much is said.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

* Dr. Hatari is listening to Ghost's track still.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPDO3Tfab0&amp;feature=autoplay&amp;list=WL92EF79A2EACC1B6B&amp;lf=BFp&amp;playnext=2

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">rofl

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;See.. diabolists are one of the worst enemies one can face.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">mesmerizing, ain't it?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's good for srs bsns

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">reminds me of a funny story.. this dude on steam was trying to get me to listen to dubstep, and I was like, dude.. what's your favorite classical piece? He goes and links a fucking remix. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Do not speak to me concerning music again.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A large part of our usual powers is aimed against chaos, as much as it is against evil. Devils.. a lot of it just.. fails to work.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660033">You should have punched him in the throat.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides, they have powers. You know more about those than I do.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands and rests his chin on the knuckles.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes.&quot; He pauses a moment, looking somber.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fighting such threats.. and not trying everything you have at hand, everything you can, equals to treason&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... It's not an idea I think I can get used to right away. But I will meditate on it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Progress.'

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I imagine I will need to see these men and women with my own eyes and behold their work before I can fully reach one conclusion or the other. But I'm willing to wait for that, now, before leaping to judgement.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess so. It is perhaps that you have been a Pelorite for so long.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm a little vexed, though, brother. It seems like the kind of thing you would hate, all things considered. And yet you do not seem bothered, even seeing evil in as many shadows as you do.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's an odd thing... perhaps more to do with how my life flowed.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Are you some kind of... ''Heroes of Horror class? ''

* Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;When I joined the Mace, all I saw in it was a chance to fight the drow, directly, something I was too young and weak for even when in the army.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I..became a follower of Saint Cuthbert, and became one with them.. in quite a short time. Perhaps for the same reasons. Both.. how would I say it... &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The folk there.. they were my folk. I have been fucked over by the drow.. but about half of them were too, in different ways. Others by demons, others by something else entirely.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">... -man- this is dragging on. &gt;.&gt; almost 10:00 for me, 2am for you eastern folks. :B

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

* Dr. Hatari shrugs.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We played till 2:00 the other week. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You can always step out if you're tired.

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Tech, wrongo. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( It's nearly midnight for me, thus 1am for they. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">12:42 :.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Oh, right. Three hours, not four. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Still!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;By the time I did care about other things... our faith in justice .. overall justice, my books of lore... friends perhaps... I guess enough time has passed for me not to worry about such.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Have pity for VAE. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( It's nearly six am on his end. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">I know. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;...perhaps because I have seen it do the food work at the hands of good men.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*good work!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now I have the image of WhiteCaste burger stands in charred veld

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">doing the food work using demons and devils

VAE:<font color="#000000">DMFA readers will understand

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( All of us are such. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He watches the floor, apparently imagining that.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*snrk* Fast food fiends. x3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;See.. I can wield negative energy at will... a trait that's rare even among Nerull's servants.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;yet, without that power... I felled the devil for a second time moments before you cut his head off, remember?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It's still strange, to me.. ... ..but if you say it is so, then perhaps I simply need to see more of the world.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I imagine it is quite the same issue a sword faces.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I don't suppose there's anyone left awake for me to talk to, huh? &gt;.&gt;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;People like Gnogglebolt, many in the Palm... they are hypocrites. They care about he way something is done more than whether it is done at all.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm kind of falling asleep, otherwise I'd offer an NPC. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ghost? LoLnope. Maybe Liatai. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( I think we're wrapping up here anyway. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And I'm pretty sure I'm lagging because I visited Youtube. :48

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( :48 ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lialagcheck :48

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... huh. I'm not. :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How about that. :3

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow and glances aside. &quot;... Methodology has certainly... been a topic, lately.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#660033">(( Isn't it capless time for you anyway? ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:48 at :48 across the board.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nah, I've got an hour and 12 minutes to go toward that.

TMG:<font color="#000000">So, wrapping up, huh? I need to know if I need to keep this backup server on standby. Kinda hoping I don't though, this is going on a lot later than I thought...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We do not. Sure, there are regulations, and whatnot, but it ultimately boils down to what I had told Sszeyl best emphasizes our faith. Common Sense.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances back.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl nods. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;'Evil prevails where the good folk do nothing.' Those holy words are known to every single one of the faithful. &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... you know, a thought occurs to me.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That.. actually brings me to a thing on the side.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Will Miron be stepping up his attempts to recruit Terri to the Mace now that he knows she's a dragon? =3= *BRICK'D*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">There's a clanking and banging sound from below. Oh, looks like Gnogglebolt's making progress on another device.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Madness place!

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">He most likely will

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl, you say you wish to join us. The thing is... you, of all folks appear to understand the duty of such a man.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Duty is heavier than a mountain. =3=&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nods* &quot;You.. have seen it yourself. An oath sworn to someone standing in the way of duty lacks a meaning, it is a tool. Same goes for deeds.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I DON'T WANNA SAVE THE UNIVERSE. &gt;:E

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Quiet lazy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You're not, Tomikinz.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">You're saving yourself.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">=3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The thing... at this time that worries me the most. If your attempt isn't honest, but just a ploy by the Orgolloys... we won't find out, we can't, because you will do anything to &quot;prove&quot; yourself until the time to strike comes.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because you are like us, in that respect.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I can say it would be a stupid ploy, but yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">'That is why I say you are justified in your vendetta.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus snorts very gently and smiles.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which is why this is something that must be judge by the commander, I guess. Because I don't think I could bear the responsibility.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Fair enough.&quot; He tolds his arms casually.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't, in any way come with a criterion that would prove you loyal, short of yourself dying in our services.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even then, it could be a fluke.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..You don't forwardly oppose the idea, though?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Come on, come on, come on come on, allmost....argh! Need someone to hold this... &quot; Thump thump thump! &quot;Hey up there, can someone gimme a hand with this?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Go go Shankbot.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Should I go help him? =3=&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances to the door. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.... It seems I might not .. though the dragon has to be exorcised first.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;With any luck, First will eat him soon.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Go ahead, Sszeyl.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Ta.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If that is such...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;One more thing, Sszeyl&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus turns and leans his back on the wall, still idly watching Miron.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Yes?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*opens the door*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you ever betray us, I will find you even if I had to walk out of Malebolge's gut to do it, rip off your head ,and stuff it into a spider's arse.&quot; *smile*

* Thomas Lazarus huffs in amusement.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I would be shocked with less.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">'But something to consider, Miron.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;After two-hundred years of service, if I live that long.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;I -will- have to retire.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;And continue on to the Dwarf and Elf domains.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot; I see... Though, the man who trained me never retired.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">&quot;Just letting you know. :3&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was older than Thomas's father too. But yes.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus observes silently with folded arms, from under the shadow of his bunk.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*door open*

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... That's a heck of a lot more than I expected of you, brother.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660033">Le help.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I.. don't know anymore.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Color me impressed. Maybe we won't all come flying apart at the seams afterall.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">IMMA TERNIN U AHL INTA TOODS.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">ohai.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I'm going to bed. ^_^

Meany:<font color="#660033">Ta.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not sure about that. There's still Tathi and Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With Sszeyl's arrival, Gnogglebolt just directs him to hold down several bits of some new inscrutable contraption, just using Sszeyl as an extra pair of hands as he does the work of makign the parts bind together

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

Meany:<font color="#660033">Sszeyl's +4 strengh thelps.

Meany:<font color="#660033">=3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just as Sszeyl has perhaps changed for the better during the time with us, those two took a turn for the worse.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Indeed. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But maybe if this keeps going..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Maybe they'll have less reason to be averse.&quot;

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

Dorf Aias:<font color="#7F00FF">He STARES.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D: Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D8

Meany:<font color="#660033">The Mace absorbs the Guardians.

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

Teeny Rin:<font color="#000000">I think that's the cue to go to bed. :B

Dorf Aias:<font color="#7F00FF">He reaches up and prods Thomas in the nose.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay Jesus. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If this keeps going... I 'm afraid we might end up fighting on other sides of the barricade, so to say.&quot;

Dorf Aias:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Why ainchu sleepin' yet!?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">WRONG UNIVERSE &gt;:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">Bloody hell, you look... Oskar? The hammersmith?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign...

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saving log

Meany:<font color="#660033">It would be a real dick move to ask for noms out of all that.

Meany:<font color="#660033">Let's do it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That was a fun bit of development to end on.