Session 103.6

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VAE:heya

VAE:and sad to hear you're sick, owl.

Liatai:Ack, still feeling sick? &gt;:

Meany:Never stopped. =3=

VAE:Oh, and another to potentially talk to was that gnome templar. Just to check where hes' from.


 * Meany lurks.

Liatai:Bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast are all good for a diet easy on the stomach. As are bland crackers. Can you keep things down? *fuss fuss motherhen motherhen &gt;: * *brick'd*

VAE:Boiled apples are good.

Meany:Despite being really close some times, haven't puked yet today.

VAE:With some sugar and lemon juice or somesuch.

Meany:I think it was that hamburger yesterday.

VAE:and usually cinnamon is what you put in

VAE:ugh.

Meany:Anyway, you have a mini to do.

VAE:also... activated charcoal

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's good for purging germs

VAE:<font color="#000000">it binds them to surface


 * Liatai drapes a warm blanket over Meany. &quot;Right. Mini. Lemme look at the last part of last log.&quot;


 * Meany has blanket and heating pad.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">They started talking about specialisation, and Miron ended with the story about Analyst Elizabeth Feldmann kissing a ghoul.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">God damnit brain.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I just suddenly imagined Miron encountering an awakened Dire Crocodile who happened to enjoy singing.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iZE6-a9jU

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">you weren't there, but in the last mini, Sszeyl's perspective on Miron was almost spot on


 * VAE read them chatting with Altonor

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">As given to Altonor?

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


 * Meany does victory dance.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Accurate characterization of another person! \o/


 * Meany gets an achievement.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep. Back in Kemmer he was an alchemist apprentice rather than a librarian, but the rest fit.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl would have no way of knowing that.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">As Miron has never actually told Sszeyl that. :p

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">But yey!

VAE:<font color="#000000">The only bit Altonor was right in... he does like knowledge and you dare fuck up with the library at Castleton, but yes, slightly too eager to go up front compared to your usual archivst.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I know he wouldn't

VAE:<font color="#000000">I 'm just assessing where he was right and where he wasn't

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">And I had a good fun reading it. It was very much &quot;Dude what. Here's someone who hates you implicitly since your first meeting and you're going to attempt making amends in ways that'll make him angrier?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">And yes.. i did fuck up the range on wrack back then, thought it was touch, but still. As soon as the other inquisitor went down, Miron was determined to take Altonor down, making his weapon into axiomatic for the job.

VAE:<font color="#000000">(he'd have wrack'd him otherwise, or attempted to.)

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Let me show you why this type of weapon is called a -maul-.&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Curse that Flash video. I have &quot;watashi... watashi... watashi... watashi...&quot; going through my head in a loop. =w=;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which one? the L4d?

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The last part of the song.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">All right, so. Shall Miron start?


 * Meany imagines Miron at a golf tournament. Wtf brain.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lyle Petersen:Oop, yep, there's the laughing fit, followed quickly by the coughing fit. &quot;-- hrmm, pardon, excuse me.&quot; Cough.

VAE:<font color="#000000">that was the last line from last session.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, yeah. It's odd that the Mace necromancers one meets tend to be some of the most fun folk around. Perhaps it's that staring into the face of death every now and then registers as one of the perks of the job.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps. Perhaps.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That said...you might wish to speak to the sanctioned summoner we exorcised at some point. I think Tom was sorting out to.. but always best to have the questions be asked by someone from the furnace rather than from the chimney..&quot;


 * Lyle Petersen taps the ashes off the end of his cigarette. &quot;I believe the lieutenant had asked Analyst Rosalyn to do so as soon as we recieved word she was in a condition to recieve company. They are cousins, after all.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does she know as much fiendish lore as you do, though?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm no expert in these matters. . but then, I wouldn't have you looking over shit left by a hell god cult, either.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;A fair point. However, I'm much better with post-interrogation analysis than delicate direct interrogations. People do have a tendency to refer to me as, oh, what's the word.... 'creepy.'&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps. But often, on our job, asking the right question is half of it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And well..talk is spoken and bread is eaten. Now that I have checked you up, I sort of see why Gradia didn't believe me when I said you were on the traitors' list.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">Ah, if only Inquisitor Lazarus were not distracted by consoling a bard at the moment. *brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wonder.. how did you come to know her?&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Thorngage? I spent a few months serving in Braxton Falls, years ago. Tell me, is Thompson still head archivist there?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh, if it wasn't clear, that idiom is slovak and basically goes for not to attach too much weight to words

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;No. He's dead.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*brick*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A marvellous place, Braxton. And of course he is. Could you bloody imagine the archives without him? &quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;By the Book, he must be ancient.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Sir, we've been informed of alarming news.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;What?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;We were able to tell Archivist Thompson's age...through carbon dating.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*all of the bricks*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either he's one of my fellows overdosing on Enlargement potions, or he's made the bookshelves into a phylactery.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*grins*

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">No.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">He's actually a Golem.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes. A paper golem

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Of a man who died years ago.

VAE:<font color="#000000">In Nethack, when your computer had mail you'd get a paper golem to deliver the message in-game

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Thorngage kept up a correspondence when I returned to Resca, and it continued even after my colleagues insisted I seek a post farther north. Sailors' superstitions.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed... No wonder it's such a fucking mess. You know, we hit up on a Vecnan serving with the pirates there. I still have one of his implements, a candle stand with a mark of their filthy corpse of a god.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Me and Gradia tried to track the fuck down later.. it messed up.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes. I have yet to see an analyst as capable and efficient as her. No wonder she made it to senior rank already.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm, Vecnans are indeed known for their caution. It makes them easy to impersonate when summoning. Fiends tend to dismiss your wards as being ordinary if you appear Vecnan.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, you know what they say about Vecna. He can conceal single-handedly.&quot;


 * Lyle Petersen chuckles.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still, even Vecnans tend to be better than Ebon Triad.. they themselves are too careful and secretive to stir shit up half the time, but add some Hextor and Erythnul to the mix, and trouble is born.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I pray that's not what's going on here... even Hextorian heresy in our ranks would be bad enough&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may rest easier, inquisitor. No signs of demonic influence or summoning have been noted. Well. Disregarding my own.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*grins*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Could have been that smart before Tom called down that blasphemous feathery git.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I half think if Flint was here, he'd give up on Kord in half a day.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Flint?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of our folks back in Big C. Inquisitor Flint Carhan, joined the Mace around the time I arrived from Jones's Rock.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Got to be a decade ago... Hell, I wouldn't have believed it. . the man used to live with gutter scum, and hell, he turned into one of our best inquisitors. Got an itch against the undead, so we ended up working together on most jobs involving some.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Though he does tend to do silly things.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Like keep Barbie from doing what's fun.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ever heard of Blackskulls? Here ,every kid thinks they can bind a devil, and back there, half of them think digging up graves and making dead walk is the best thing since everburning torches.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're still around?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, I ask myself too.And they're taking in like nobody's business.. one of those we got a hempen necktie,probably too young for the Mace to hire her.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If she wasn't a Nerullian prancing about with a couple zombies. That was .. actually a citizen's arrest done by the bunch I ended up following.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes. The shit is still around and strong as ever. But,you tell me. The last I was in these parts, Yoriver used to be a prettier sight.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps one day, it will be again.&quot; Lyle looks at his nearly-burnt-out cigarette. &quot;... hmm. This has turned into quite the lengthy interrogation.&quot; |3 &quot;Did you have any other questions, inquisitor, before your discernment spell ends? That is, if it hasn't already.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wonder how it came to be... I think I heard the Count and your commander are relatives... and it seems both ended with some extra baggage from the nine hells.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh... I think it did give way a bit ago, but that's a little matter. I guess that you're safe for now, from me at least..&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very good. A rare thing to hear in this day and age.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unlikely as a dwarven sailor, but in the end, glad to have met you, Archivist Petersen.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And indeed. Like Senior Inquisitor Dellode used to say. &quot;Trust your superiors, then yourself, then nothing for twenty lines, and maybe your best friend on the twenty first.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Likewise, Inquisitor Steelsprocket. It's so rare to meet someone who enjoys the classics. Perhaps you would care to discuss Hardy's work someday when the situation is a tad less urgent?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hah, now you better get a truth spell ready.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And a ring of feather fall.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, perhaps you'd best hold off on that answer, then. My spells are prepared for combat and exorcism today, not interrogation.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*grins* &quot;Hah. Then you'll have to take my word for it that the old man was our archivist when I joined the Mace almost a century ago. Was already well on his way towards sixty, but had the will for five.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;.......&quot; o_o

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;You knew Peter Hardy?&quot; o.o

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hah, if I did? The man was there when I scribed down my first prayer scroll.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well now that settles it.&quot; *w* &quot;We simply must talk again later.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Settled indeed. I'll bring the ale.&quot;

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

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're a man of surprises, Steelsprocket. I wouldn't have put you a year over sixty.&quot; |3 &quot;Fair enough.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Double that and add twenty seven.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now you see why Cyral pissed me off so much. I have been smashing drow and ghoul skulls wearing a badge when he was sucking on his bitch of a mother.&quot;

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;Granted, Cyral pisses people off globally.&quot;


 * Lyle Petersen is brick'd for plagarizing a lynx's turn of phrase. *brick'd*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Did I say that?

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


 * VAE feels honoured actually

Liatai:<font color="#000000">About Altonor, yes. XP


 * VAE loves Lyle

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, not in Thomas + Ed way


 * VAE begins to protest and flail about vehemently

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. May the Cudgel watch over your path, and ward your soul, Lyle.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now, who does liatai feel like dealing with? Because Miron could just as likely go to any of the remaining folks.

Lyle Petersen:<font color="#000000">&quot;May the Cudgel sweep your path clean, and ward yours as well, Mister Steelsprocket.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;See, if you got a guest ,it'd mean I'd have to get ale for three*

Miron:<font color="#000000">With a laugh, the inquisitor departs.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and like I said.

VAE:<font color="#000000">You choose Lia. Horm, templar, Roy, or hell, even Lyle's colleague if it works out.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Reminds me.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Lia, when you're done, want to plot some? :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">On his way out of the Mace corner, Miron spots a bard wandering around, holding two mugs. &quot;... hmmm. Say, Miron, have you seen Tom around anywhere?&quot;


 * Edaric ties a bow on the timeline. *brick'd*

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">VAE can come in too, since it'll probably be involving the Mace at some point.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom? I think he went to speak with the sanctioned summoner we exorcised... I think he was saying she should be fine by now.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Depends on how late it gets. :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If not.. ask Anise.&quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, haven't seen him.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, well. I'll try upstairs. Thanks anyway.&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">also of course, I'd like to get a brief bit of actual institutional knowledge on the Hooded Lanterns. As in, what does the Veld Mace consider them as. I think you mentioned they worked together mopping up undead at times, for example.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's not necessarily today of course

VAE:<font color="#000000">Just letting you know.. it's something that Miron working there would definitely have knowledge of.. and well, means I need it too to play believably.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean ,on;y if they're going ot come up at some point

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Mmkay, maybe tomorrow if Skylands is slow.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Works fine. Hell, even sometime next week probably would.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And, what's next, you think? I did give you a choice.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Walking by, Miron shoots a murderous glance at the two drow in the corner.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gimme a moment to check the fire and switch muses. I'm thinking Roy.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Mustang.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Roy Mustang.

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, it gets worse

VAE:<font color="#000000">Last session I almost wrote Ray Comfort instead of Roy Stanford

VAE:<font color="#000000">He'd be Lieutenant Banana

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C6X9vOEkU

VAE:<font color="#000000">Owl never disappoints

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh. This took a little long.. on the other paw, it doesn't happen too often for Miron to meet characters that sit with him this well

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like, if Lyle used perform abuse the way minmaxed bards can, he couldn't have built rapport quicker.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... actually, Roy Mustang was a partial inspiration for Roy Stanford. Partial. Very partial. So none of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KQ_sA9-X4&amp;feature=related

VAE:<font color="#000000">What about Ray Comfort

VAE:<font color="#000000">Does Roy have a thing for bananas?


 * Liatai doesn't know who Ray Comfort is. ^^;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Ray_Comfort

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Banana_argument

VAE:<font color="#000000">This specifically

VAE:<font color="#000000">He tried to argue in a superfail manner that banana is proof of intelligent design

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I was thinking this more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZc5WKC411U

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lia, tell me when you done reading

VAE:<font color="#000000">the second link is the funny one

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">VAE, Roy in that vid I linked kinda reminds me of miron.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Confirm/deny?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... I may only be two minutes into that video, Meany, but -yes.- That's what I was talking about.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">DMCA'd here

VAE:<font color="#000000">the vid Owl linked

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:c

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I'll look for an alternative.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgwYNjUVZI

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It's an amv.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Roy Mustang is the one who's snapping.

VAE:<font color="#000000">screwed too

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWnMNFjt70

VAE:<font color="#000000">is htis one good?

VAE:<font color="#000000">like, is it the same?

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Is blocked, yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">the one i linked I can see

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU0CBtt3Hkg

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, just the first half. The second half gets into Mironville a fair bit.

VAE:<font color="#000000">owl, that's borked too

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I can't help then. Not without finding the full episode hosted somewhere.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">i linked one that i'm watching though

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Basically, Roy Mustang killing a non-human with fire.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Lots of it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">a non human, or a number of them?

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Singular.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Roy Mustang Vs. Envy.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">The Roy Mustang Vs. Lust fight also works.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It shows off the Determinator side.

VAE:<font color="#000000">now the homunculus is taunting him

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">You'll know when it starts.

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everything you said is fuel on your funeral pyre.&quot; Yes. That sounds like Miron allright.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... dangit. It's a shame Lieutenant Stanford can't cast Flame Strike. =3= *brick'd*

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Custom Magic items.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Gloves of the Funeral Pyre.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">As a side note, I found a picture in my folders of the character I chose for Roy without the glowy eye of doom.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He looks downright Thomasy. It's funny. XD http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&amp;illust_id=16297682

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;This is your Thomas.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;This is your Thomas on Yoriver.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I don't see any pic there

VAE:<font color="#000000">but still, finished watching the vid.. and yes. That was kinda like pissed off Miron

VAE:<font color="#000000">Say, when off to arrest Altonor a few sessions ago

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Here's the glowy-eye-of-doom version. http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&amp;illust_id=17592885

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://i2.pixiv.net/img44/img/argrim/16297682_m.jpg

VAE:<font color="#000000">403 forbidden

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">That explains it.

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">That's the direct View link.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Mm, and VAE doesn't have a Pixiv account. One moment.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Non-glowy-eye-of-doom. http://postimage.org/image/sucq8gs53/

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Glowy-eye-of-doom. http://postimage.org/image/5vztibegr/

VAE:<font color="#000000">hahah ,the bugger *is* tom without hte eye

VAE:<font color="#000000">what's it, a game or an anime he's from?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Neither. Pixiv Fantasia.

VAE:<font color="#000000">woss that

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Collaborative art project.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Basically a bunch of artists getting together and saying &quot;hey let's make a world and populate it with characters. With ART. |D&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways. I suppose with him standing in the middle of the hall, Roy is fairly spottable.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So kinda like the Foundation, just more anime and less creepypasta

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lyle's token is another Pixiv Fantasia character.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... come to think of it a lot of Yoriver Macers get their art from Pixiv Fantasia. |D;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">they do. Whitaker does, and so doe Cyral, I think

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And Ansramil... and Stephen... And Leila... and Rhoda...

Miron:<font color="#000000">Anyways, failing to kill the two drow with a stare, Miron wanders on further, looking for the lieutenant.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Fortunately, it's not like he's holed up somewhere steepling his hands and plotting.

Martin Sawyer:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well. Let's reconvene in a few hours to talk squad arrangements, then?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Well, there's plotting, but no Ashmore finger-steepling.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lieutenant Stanford, if you mind a word.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The short inquisitor approaches from behind.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Seems this group in the corner was discussing the night's mission. The lieutenant nods. &quot;Before then, I would seek Sheythsanthi's counsel on this plan. His intelligence will be invaluable.&quot; He nods to those assembled, turning... and nearly walking right over the gnome. &quot;-- ?!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">POP QUIZ.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">What is the requirement for being a High King?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Several kingdoms

VAE:<font color="#000000">like, three

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Having other kings under you, and yes, several kingdoms.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Excellent.


 * Meany passes out cookies.


 * VAE noms.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Ah. The more outspoken inquisitor from Braxton Falls.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Precisely. Steelsprocket by name. Now, with formalities out of the way, we can proceed to the core of the matter.&quot;

Jay Sawyer:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. Namely the fact that neither of you have drinks.&quot; The Olidamarran grins as the lieutenant shoots him a look.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">WITH LASER EYE BEAMS.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have interrogated your subordinate, Archivist Petersen, using some of the more effective divine means of recognising the truth. While it does make the situation a lot clearer in your group's favour, I do need to corroborate that account.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;What did you want to discuss, inquisitor? ... I see.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/07/01/episode-302-that-was-a-mistake/

Miron:<font color="#000000">*grins* &quot;While drinks are something that current time definitely lacks, I'd leave it for after we're done. Lieutenant Stanford, I am going to ask you to lower any and all wards that may interfere with the inquest.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;An inquisitor, subjecting a lieutenant commander to inquest. Hrm. Strange times.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unfortunately, at present I report solely to Senior Analyst Thorngage, unless you can present yourself with a Letter of Command entrusting you with the resources of the Braxton Falls branch, of course.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Omake: Stanford pulls one out, then annulls all charges against Altonor. Miron and Gradia go down foam in mouth.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;And she has been made aware of this inquest, I trust. An inquisitor with your years would not be dismissing the chain of command, one would hope.&quot; That glowing eye is trained on Miron. ... yyyyyep, that's definitely a commander-tier glare.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Here's a nightmare for Miron.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Altonor recieves mail from the King.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Oh, another letter of pardon!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;She is implicitly aware of this inquest, as she should be, given the precarious position of you and your people. According to the circulatory sent around Akellon's branches, you and your men should be considered traitors and fugitives, after all.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor doesn't flinch.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is she? Accompany me a moment, inquisitor.&quot; And the lieutenant begins to walk off toward the east.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Senior Analyst Thorngage?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron goes slightly paler than usual, but in general keeps a poker face.

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

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;This inquisitor under your command has asserted that he has your implicit permission to submit me to inquest. Is this true, and if so, would you care to make it explicit?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have been aware of your approval to submit the members of the Yoriver branch to inquest as deemed necessary.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Danger.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Danger Wil Robinson.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Danger.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And while the answers of Archivist Petersen have been found satisfactory...&quot;


 * Gradia Thorngage looks between gnome and human. &quot;... Inquisitor Steelsprocket is correct. I hereby grant him explicit permission to interrogate above his rank with regards to this interrogation.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well. Pardon our interruption, Senior Analyst.&quot; The lieutenant walks back toward the west.


 * VAE nitpick. She should have mentioned &quot;Acting on behalf of Commander blah&quot;, simply because stanford outranks her, too, I suspect. Not something that bothers me much, just that Gradia is the sort of person to get this stuff spot on :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">True. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, normally would. It doesn't quite apply cross-branch unless circumstances.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">*Acting on behalf of Commander Coisurn of Braxton Falls,

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">* in absentia,

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">* legalese *BRICK'D*

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, I lost it


 * VAE LOL

VAE:<font color="#000000">See ,this is one of the reasons Miron admires her... gets it all carefully and precisely.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Reminds me.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">RANDOM POLICING TIDBIT OF THE DAY.


 * Roy Stanford kneels to gnome level. &quot;You may commence your examination, inquisitor.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see you are an exacting, careful person yourself, Lieutenant. Now, lower any and all wards that might interfere with the inquest. After all, a man of pure mind has nothing to hide.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron utters a word of command and waves his hand over the Lieutenant, sensing. Detect magic and &#171; &#160;1d20+19 = 9 + 19 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spellcraft

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It was determined in the 1973 Kansas City experiment that the number of police officers patrolling a given area of town has no effect upon the crime rate in that area of town.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Various magical items, mostly martial in flavor, and that eye glows a little brighter under magic-detection, but nothing that would interfere with Discern Lies. The temple's Magic Circle Against Evil effect is still hanging over everyone, of course.

Miron:<font color="#000000">The short gnome nods and grabs a hold of his cross. &quot;Saint Cuthbert, you who weighs every word spoken, grant me the sight to discern truth from lie. For thus it stands in thy holy writ - &quot;In my name the wise man shall pick the grain of truth from the seeds of lie like a bird chooses grain over gravel.&quot;&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Discern Lies in effect, DC I think 18, if as usual, Will. And of course, Sense Motive, which Miron has +8 in.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That is, if you wish for secret rolls

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">The lieutenant's not one to lie, so it's not likely to come into effect.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, let us begin. State your true name, your race and your rank.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">There's a roof map?

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Holy hells, I didn't notice that.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Read: more ranks in Intimidate and Diplomacy than Bluff. =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's incomplete, and is normally hidden by fog. Mostly sick rooms and templar barracks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh. Now these two likely won't get along any time soon.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Roy Stanford, human, Lieutenant Commander and current acting commander of the Yoriver Leaden Mace Society.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good. What faith do you truly follow?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... this is not appropriate music for this scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cz9nvPtySI

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

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Saint Cuthbert of the Cudgel is my patron.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excellent. Now, to the core of the matters. Lieutenant Stanford, why did you and your men defect from the command of Commander Charles Whitaker?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh, that sentence does sound a bit department of redundancy department but well, such are mace ranks.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It could be worse.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It could have followed the Dark Brotherhood rank system.


 * VAE listening to Dark Blade btw. Not bad music for the situation

VAE:<font color="#000000">er, Black Blade

VAE:<font color="#000000">owl did jedi mind trick on me

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Charles Whitaker has fallen to heresy and is no longer worthy of the title of Commander. Spare your tongue from sharing in his damned state and do not refer to him by that title. He has willfully and with malice aforethought directly endangered the lives, souls, and wellbeing of those under his command, in addition to countless innocents by proxy, in pursuit of diabolic Hextorian goals.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What evidence do you possess supporting this claim?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;A direct confession on his part when confronted with Hextorian artifacts removed from a shrine hidden beneath the very inquisitorial barracks served well toward that end, before he attacked me.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Malice of forethought.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can you repeat his words?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Is that what it is? ^^;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Last I looked aforethought isn't a word.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh, it is

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Yeah. :o

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's a different thing

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It's the requirement for 1st degree murder.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was just repeating what I'd heard from a show. I've never actually seen it in print. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lia is right, but that applies to crims like murder.

VAE:<font color="#000000">basically, the mens rea requirement

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, soul murder counts as murder, so I guess it still applies. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">that the person did it wilfully, and was willing to go and conceal the act etc, rather than short-circuit action.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean... it's hard to imagine someone committing heresy etc unwillingly and so on.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">See this is why I'm glad you guys are here. XD

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">You're doing well

VAE:<font color="#000000">definitely better than when I had to run you lot through an interrogation back in Kebre

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Miron has asked for treacherous ground.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Roy has to have the words written down, or recall them verbatim.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or it is reasonable doubt.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">This is just confirming things after Lyle. Watch out when the second stage will come


 * Roy Stanford closes his eyes. Well, the left one doesn't quite close all the way. You can see the glow through the eyelid... creepy. &quot;The latter half of the conversation is somewhat shrouded in doubt, as he was trying to kill me, but I shall repeat them as best I am able.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That will suffice, Lieutenant.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... it's difficult to write only one half of a conversation, but Roy isn't the type to sock-puppet both parts... XD

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Major Image project it on the wall? =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Take as much time as you need, I guess. I mean.. it's not like I'm trying to make you suffer deliberately.

VAE:<font color="#000000">as an aside, the mental image of troy with sock puppets on his hands is delicious

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Troy is a SCP Wiki admin

VAE:<font color="#000000">well,, his persona, Agent Troy Lamen

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

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Upon being presented with the Hextorian idol... 'Well done. It took you longer than I expected to encounter the shrine, but no matter. More time to plant evidence among your belongings has only served to further seal your fate. I have not been unaware of your investigation, lieutenant. Truthfully, I must thank you. Your loyal, dogged adherence to the oudated Cuthbertine ethos has provided us a wonderful set of scapegoats. ... In order for true order to be attained, first those too weak or too willful to adhere to the letter of the law willingly must be crushed. Such is the Law of Hextor. You have quite handily gathered most, if not all, dissidents defying his Great Law in one place, saving me quite a lot of work. The rest will fall shortly. The traitorous Lieutenant, anarchic infiltrator or heretic priest. Which do you think will make a better tale for the papers? Choose wisely. It will be your epitaph. By the Law, I brand you criminal, dissident, and foe of the county, and I condemn you to death, 'lieuenant!'&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">At the mention of &quot;outdated Cuthbertine ideals&quot; the inquisitor's jaw audibly grinds and his temples bulge.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is when he commanded two inquisitors to hold me still while he attacked with the Hand of Saint Cuthbert. Had I not trained in hand-to-hand combat so extensively, we would not be speaking currently, as I am certain beyond any doubt he would have had my remains cremated to prevent raising or spell-facilitated conversation.&quot;

Miron: <font color="#000000">&quot;Ninefold cursed heretical swine of a man.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Not that would really slow anyone down who 'really' wanted him back.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:p

Miron:<font color="#000000">After a few moments of visibly forced slow breathing. &quot;And what a testimony indeed. No pyre burns hot enough for traitors of this grade. Regardless, Lieutenant. Do you know whether Charles Whitaker is possessed, or acts of his own will?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm trying to think of the methods of detecting possession, and what Roy would have at his disposal at CL 4 to work with. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's got 12 HD

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah wait, he's multiclass

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or he's gained lots of levels.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:p

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Well.

VAE:<font color="#000000">A dozen levels in a week.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Negative, inquisitor. I do not know. Charles Whitaker has, for as long as I have known him, worn a ring that projects a ward that deflects the most reliable forms of detection of possession.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">A Cuthbertine relic would be pure law. Hextor is pure law and evil.

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It should have some effect on the magical item.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roy is a cleric 4/ranger 4/justiciar 4. So... technically CR 4 and 2. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's not a relic, it's just an axiomatic mace. =3=;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">SEMANTICS.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*brick*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, they needed them in fairly large supply.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Basically he's got just enough cleric to do some decent off-healing when he's not wrestling heretics to the ground. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">There might, *might* be an actual similar relic somewhere in devil's arse that the original templars had, but the Hands used by the commanders are plain magic items.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Question for the forgetful owl.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">How many paladins have survived up here?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any idea of how long is it since Charles Whitaker has abandoned faith and reason?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well... currently in the temple alone there are about seven to ten... :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">and heh. This particular confession will make the fight with the Commander, if Miron is there, very interesting

VAE:<font color="#000000">I might have to borrow lines from that FMA video.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Notice how he suddenly ceased to refer to him as commander. :3

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;At the very least, twelve months.&quot; Note: the Kellon year has 15 24-day months plus New Years' Week.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Again, what evidence do you have of this?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is when the basement was renovated, and the secret shrine added without our knowledge, though the summoning circles were, according to our dwarven archivist, no more than six months old.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who was responsible for the renovation of the basement?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I expect you and your colleagues had other duties than such labour.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whitaker, through a contract and grant from the offices of Montclaire.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understandable, and a damning circumstance more so.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;The workers were chosen through a joint conference of Whitaker and Montclaire, without the presence of any other Leaden Mace operatives.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;How is it that none of your colleagues versed in spellcraft have sensed the presence of the shrine?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A joint conference to choose workers... that is most unusual.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I expect the excuse was ensuring quality of work.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;At the time, I suspected mere nepotism. Would that that were the sole reason for the conference. The shrine itself was shrouded with numerous anti-divination wards.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was the mason responsible another relative of Count Montclaire?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. Another cousin, or so said Whitaker.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know of his name and location?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The capture of such a man could shed some light into what is going on, after all.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Make the DM come up with more details why don'tcha. =3= &quot;Hector Whitaker, and he has taken up temporay residence within the count's hall. Overseeing a renovation project, or so say the papers.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Needless to say, myself and Gradia are versed in scrying.. the name might be.. at a later time I might ask you to describe his appearance.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah well, worst case of all, we'll deal with him later.. just a note to capture him alive.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our men have attempted scrying on the residence of the count, to be met with a false vision. A good thought, inquisitor, but that line of inquiry has been pursued.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understandable. Thank you. Now.. as far as your men go.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know whether there are Hextorians other than Charles Whitaker within the branch? For that matter, are all of your colleagues remaining behind possessed?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*subordinates

Miron:<font color="#000000">not colleagues

VAE:<font color="#000000">See, I fail too

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;That question may need to wait until Senior Inquisitor Simtherzairvin's reports have been analyzed. I am certain that the two inquisitors who were commanded to detain me, Inquisitor Jared Hanson and Inquisitor Hruk Tremain, were either Hextorian or possessed by fiends accustomed to deep undercover infiltration.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A matter most unsettling. Anything you would like to add of your own will to the issue at hand?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;At the moment, no, beyond an oath sworn to see Whitaker stand bound before the Council of High Commanders for his heresy and treason.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Has Lia even plotted out who the High Commanders are yet? :b

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


 * Meany resists the urge to suggest High Commander Daveak Tarmikos. *brick*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No *BRICK'D*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">DON'T TEMPT ME. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The Moscran High Commander, maybe? Oh gods why am I giving this serious thought *brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Commendable, and I myself swear by Saint Cuthbert, my badge of office and the memory of my family that I will not rest until the heretics stand judgement. However, there is another matter yet.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I cannot apologize enough to my fellow High Commanders enough that this occurred in my jurisdiction.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I shall now go personally to see it resolved.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually, I'd so want to see that happen.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Dullahan would certainly enjoy drinking Fiend blood.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... except Yoriver's not in the Moscra district... ^^;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It isn't? :v

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yoriver's in the Veld district.

VAE:<font color="#000000">The high commander is usually someone who went above and over the call of duty as a commander, and was skilled enough when the former high commander was retired, died or the situation merited the creation of a new high command.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Oh right, it's part of the Veld district.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Of fucking course it is, Owl.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">In my defense.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hence why Miron was foaming in mouth since when Altonor mentioned getting his filthy hands into the matter.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">There is actually little besides Yoriver and scattered farms up here to warrant a district.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">=3=

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Hey now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's him, a drow, once again causing trouble in *his* Veld, the one he has seen recover over the decades.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">I wash. =w=; *brick'd*

Viceth:<font color="#000000">And when's the last time you cleaned that armor, toror'amin? |3

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Oh, lol.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">Last night, thank you very much. :P

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Everyone in the party assumes Dave is like the messenger or attendant of the High Commanders when they first meet him.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Suddenly he's up in the big chairs.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Oh shit. |D;;;;&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sure, his reports are a bit of a legend much like the ALIENS guy, but still, Miron does still have a fair amount of friends and familiarity all around the Veld

VAE:<font color="#000000">Once again, Sszeyl got it right.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It has been reported, Lieutenant that you willfully associate yourself with a certain drow by the name of Altonor. Is this true?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">And here comes the first punch.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know the drow is a convicted criminal in a number of counties and towns, Braxton Falls including?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor. Half of our branch consists of convicted criminals.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;While that is true, I highly doubt that your interactions with said drow consisted of attempting to force subordination, adherence to law, and Leaden Mace doctrine down his gullet.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tell me yourself, to what purpose did you associate yourself with the drow?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Altonor is... unruly, and his methods leave much to be desired, but he acts in good faith. With a more disciplined hand guiding his actions and keeping his wild tendencies in check, he is a capable ally.&quot; Aaaaand the dog's whining, BRB.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Right, take care of her.

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

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Witches.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Acting in good faith doesn't free one from responsibility towards the law.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is better to have a wild, yet controlled ally than an uncertain element held at the mercy of your foe. Senior Inquisitor Warner also vouched for him, having encountered him in the past.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides, if my acquaintance with him is anything to go by, even that is very doubtful.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am not certain if you have noticed, inquisitor, but we are hardly in a position to be choosy about our allies.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps..but my sources indicate that your alliance with him is more than a matter of convenience in the recent troubled times.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have interrogated him myself, and he clearly manifests divine power akin to that of a paladin. He has offered to make reparations toward legitimate crimes committed against the people of Yoriver... which are very few in number and consist solely of property damage.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As if I were to believe that, considering that in our jurisdiction, he dared to assault Leaden Mace officers, debase the honour our office holds, release prisoners and in general commit crimes against public order.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;And who, pray tell, are your 'sources,' inquisitor?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Uh-oh. There's the commander-tier glare again.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He told me himself, Lieutenant.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Debasement of honor is only a crime if against nobility.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or royalty.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">=3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Or a public office.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then we will cease gossiping like schoolgirls in a playground.&quot; The lieutenant straightens. &quot;Altonor!&quot;

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


 * VAE is laughing now

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron probably partially detests him, but Stanford just gained lynx stamp of approval.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes sir.&quot; The drow glances across the room. &quot;You called?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*glares at the drow*

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;This inquisitor is inquiring as to the nature of our alliance. Care to have a word?&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure, coming.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*focuses the spell on Altonor, for the moment*


 * Altonor waits for the passing celestial to move on by... tying another knot in the timeline.

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">his responses were brilliant though.


 * Roy Stanford glances at Miron, then holds up a hand in Altonor's direction. &quot;Hold one moment, Altonor. Inquisitor Steelsprocket has a truth-detection spell active, and may subject you to a soul-scanning spell should he not believe you or me.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Right. Hold on.&quot; There's a clinking and clatter of mithril for a moment, a little higher-pitched and musical than your standard steel, as Altonor removes one gauntlet and pockets a ring off that hand, slipping the gauntlet back on before approaching. &quot;Thanks. Always forget to take that off.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">He won't believe the spell either.


 * Roy Stanford nods. &quot;Inquisitor Steelsprocket, this is your interrogation. Commence at will.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fine. Once again, a formality. Your true name, race and ... and...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Religious.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Someone's list bork'd

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Affiliation.

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, see, first one used to be rank.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">because it were obvious things, usually, to callibrate.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;And?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Oh, Miron.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Sheogorath would love to spend a few years in your head.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:3

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And .. say, the name of your mount.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's the best way to say &quot;you so crazy&quot; I've heard yet. XP

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not presume you hold any rank in the Mace, or any office as a matter of fact.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's the dragon, is it?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Elder Scrolls reference.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">The Mad God.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sheogorath is the Daedric prince of madness.

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

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">He talks in an Irish accent.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">He's just awesome.


 * VAE just played first elder scrolls ,and not even that for long

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;It's a family title. Gets passed down from me to meself every few thousand years.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">That sounds almost like Daryil

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;But you, you can call me: Ann Marie....that is if you like being flayed alive while an angry immortal skips rope with your entrails.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Altonor, formerly of House Iphyl, now houseless, of the Sun Raiders. And you know full well I'm a drow.&quot; =3= &quot;Kep'salion, Kep for short. Now what's on the table, again?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do know full well you are a drow, these questions are a formality related to the way the spell works. But I digress. What is the nature of your relationship with Lieutenant Roy Stanford of the Yoriver branch of Leaden Mace Society?&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">*brick'd*

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Comrades in arms.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Altonor with Roy, Tom with Edaric, Miron makes out with Gnogglebolt, Tathi with Aelian, Anise with Ansramil, Lyle with Gradia

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COh-DVxqI9g

VAE:<font color="#000000">And that is how Akellon ends

VAE:<font color="#000000">with a big bang


 * VAE brick'd with a million bricks

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elaborate. For how long have you known Lieutenant Stanford?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... frig, VAE, help me out here.

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I forgot to note when exactly I told you Altonor first started coming up to Yoriver to help with this crisis. Do you remember? ^^;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, sorry for stretching you for silly amounts of time, but this is stuff that had to get out of way.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I can find out

VAE:<font color="#000000">session 67 waiting for wiki

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">VAE:Instead it goes like 'Are you playing in the evening again?&quot; (aunt) Lynx: Yes. Her: &quot;Why do you bother, even?&quot; Me:&quot;Why do you bother with stupid questions? And I play a lot less ofen than you ask them.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think I told you in IRC... Ah well, if it's wrong, who cares. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">i'm looking for it

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Tech, the timekeeper cares.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;About seven months now, personally. I forget, Roy, did it start with the arrest, or did Grant introduce you first, and then the arrest happened?&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah, he didn't specif

VAE:<font color="#000000">and yes, this doesn't need to-day accuracy

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;What were you arrested for?&quot; &quot;Kep got friendly with one of the count's mares.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*ALL OF THE BRICKS*

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

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;He pointed you out, I 'arrested' you and submitted you to an informal inquest, and you were released to be 'arrested' on a future day for additional information exchange.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;I knew there were a few 'arrests' in there. Roy's got a better right hook than Sszeyl does, though don't tell him I said that.&quot; ;3


 * Roy Stanford folds his arms. &quot;You make a worthy sparring partner.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, was the purpose of your alliance information exchange? If so, on what subject?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl isn't afraid to admit when he's beaten.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Because if he's actually beaten he starts negotiating with Vargie about 'terms of release.'

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Which usually boils down to: &quot;I free you, you destroy him.&quot; *w*

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;On what subject? On the fiendish invasion, of course. I'd been working independently on trying to solve the problem for a while, but when the Mace started to look like it was becoming more and more involved, I knew I'd need an inside ear if I wasn't going to fall for the fiends' traps and accidentally hurt the wrong people. I thought about seeking Grant out, but had no idea whether he was alive or still in Yoriver. Turns out he beat me to the punch and told the lieutenant about me before I could find him.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is Inquisitor Warner an acquaintance of yours?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Actually.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Senior Inquisitor Warner.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Warner is an alias.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;That I use often.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Correct. Is Senior Inquisitor Warner an acquaintance of yours?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">And so the Mironworld imploded.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Owl, ewhy do you do this ot me

VAE:<font color="#000000">you bork my spelling

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Because it amuses me.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Also I'm insane.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah. We crossed paths a few times on the Kaduan border. Routed some undead, brought down a covey of hags, good times. That's when I was passing more as a mercenary for a few years, and before he lost his leg. Good man. Knows his steel. Loves cats, too.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">It doesn't take an empath to deduce disapproval from Miron's expression.

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm serious.&quot; =w=;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">If by cats you mean dire tigers and dire lions.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Actually, he keeps cats. Big ones.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will get over the pillaging and disorder that you likely have caused along the way and neglected to mention.. but ehough of that.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did either Senior Inquisitor Warner or Lieutenant Stanford aid you in committing crimes against the Kellon law as represented by the laws of its constituent counties and free cities in any way? Did they shield you from the consequences of your actions? If so ,state how.&quot;


 * Altonor looks Miron square in the eye. &quot;I did not pillage or cause undue disorder during my sojourns in Kaduar.&quot; ... no lie.

Miron:''<font color="#000000">Is this spell broken, or is the spiderfucker that good.. :| ''

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*Figures. XD

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=292

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Too way too long to find that link.

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

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;That would depend on whether you count the corrupted perversion of law used to torture good citizens and terrorize the populace into blind compliance utilized by Count Montclaire of Yoriver.&quot; :|

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;First of all, answer as related to your activities outside the County of Yoriver.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;No.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. And as for the county of Yoriver, specifically?&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;With regards to the county of Yoriver, currently, even you are breaking the law.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Mironbrain: &quot;Warning: System Crash....Warning: System Crash...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unfortunately, that is true.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">&quot;If this city is to be free from the tyranny of Hextor's ilk, then people need to break the law. So your question is unfairly weighted and unclear.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regardless... if I were to interrogate you on those matters, we'd be here for weeks on end...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">That reminds me.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">-Does- Montclaire have a military rank? :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose that is a matter that can be settled once this crisis is over.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Because if he doesn't, he neither has grounds to declare martial law, nor the authority to act during such a declaration.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">This lends to the case of him being a thrall.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Not exactly possessed.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I've purposefully left it unclear... because plot. =3=

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">=3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Last question... did either of you cooperate with Raerael Eyllisearsithek and Tomiko Lazarus?&quot;


 * Altonor huffs. &quot;Before or after he stopped trying to blow me up?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is more a question of when.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Currently you are also cooperating with them, inquisitor. I will caution you against alienating allies.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If he had shown a greater skill in blowing you up, we wouldn't be forced to talk now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And they were among the list of people we were attempting to arrest, at least one of them a convicted criminal in other counties than this one.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">No one is forcing anyone to talk..

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

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">There is always a choice.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Even if that choice is to defy one's own beliefs.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Arrests and interrogations toward this end may commence when we are not in mortal and immortal danger, inquisitor. Unless you can acquiesce to that, you place this entire operation and the lives of your fellow inquisitors in jeopardy.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">With a definition of choice like that, I wonder what forcing looks like.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A point I am sadly forced to concede. I believe my duty here is done as such.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;May Saint Cuthbert watch over your path, Acting Commander Stanford.&quot;

Altonor:<font color="#000000">A celestial's laughter begins to fill the basement, lifting the spirits of those nearby.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Except those of us with undead in our heads.

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yours as well, inquisitor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">You bastard.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">Inquisitor Steelsprocket leaves without a word to Altonor, and of course, seeks out Gradia.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I suspect that the report of his findings is best done OOC :3


 * Altonor sighs, shakes his head, and heads over to his pre-Serrierr-mini position.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I don't suppose you're willing to call it here? Given it is midnight where Lia is, and five am where you are?

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:p

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Also, oh well. No plottingz.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">4AM where I am

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">More extraneous mentions of drow. Granted, it is a wanted criminal, but this is a tad excessive, inquisitor. *BRICK'D*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I just imagine his face if Gradia actually said it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">but yes. Both Roy and Lyle passed through flying colours, though Miron will definitely mention and emphasize the possibility of his spell being inadeqate when dealing with altonor

VAE:<font color="#000000">That said, should I kill this, or do you two want to do stuff?

VAE:<font color="#000000">and sorry for taking so bloody long

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry about dragging Altonor in, but Roy's honor wouldn't let him gossip with the man standing less than thirty feet away. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why be sorry? It was perfectly reasonable and the rebuke made me like Roy even more.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways, what of my question?

VAE:<font color="#000000">You two want server up? because lynx is super sleepy and gonna go napz

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can kill it. I'm going to be going to bed soon. ^^;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, Meany. We'll plot tomorrow. ^^;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">It's alright.

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh. The other things can be handled in actual time... and glad this is out of the way.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">You need sleep for this anyway.

VAE:<font color="#000000">At least, it'll make cooperation easier ,if nothing else.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Topic: Barbiegang's adventures in Castleton.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:3

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh good lord. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">And that's a good dramatic place to end this.


 * Meany explodes into kittens.

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