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Session 50 - Mother! Mission Accomplished!
Session 50
Synopsis of 7/2/07 and sub session 7/4/07
Mother! Mission Accomplished!
by AlwaysToast
Tiger realizes the people who have just walked off will probably be hunted down and killed by the Dragon-Bloods for their association with Anathema. As they walk away.
Tiger: (yelling after them) Have fun at your funeral!
A-Dom: I’m going to go report now! I’ll take care of it! Don’t worry, you won’t remember me at some point.
A-Dom wanders off... ALONE.
Alex: Us incompetent?
Dan: Yes.
Jade’s Luck: So we are taking all these people to the ship?
Tiger: Yes, because anyone left behind will be found, and killed.
The skeleton nods. The group heads off through the sewers to the docks.
Tiger: (to skeleton) You can be the new team mascot.
Jade’s Luck: Too bad A-Dom isn’t with us. We could cover our tracks by destroying the sewers behind us.
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Gareth gets to his sister’s Sara’s house.
Sara: Gareth, it’s awfully late isn’t it? What’s the matter?
Gareth: I’ve heard from a reliable source that there is about to be a House war between the Dragon-Bloods. I think it would be best to get the family out of the city for a little while.
Sara: Where would we go?
Gareth: I know an island nearby where we can go.
Gareth manages to convince his family, and round up most of his family members. He finds out his brother is off 'in the north somewhere.' About an hour later the family is ready to leave. Gareth also gets his apprentices and Joe. Joe is all with the program, the apprentices are confused. Gareth looks at Jade’s Luck’s skycutter... and decides it’s not his problem.
Gareth’s family and the prison escapees arrive at the docks at the same time. Having 19 people, they are approaching the maximum capacity of the ship. So things will be rather cramped.
The group sails to Opec island. On the trip Jade’s Luck tells a story to keep everybody calm. As they are sailing Gareth asks Jade’s Luck to go back to the Elemental Manse to get food for the longer sailing trip ahead. Jade’s Luck agrees. However they discuss if her charm that protects an area from the wyld may in fact cause the Wyld Portal to stop working. So their backup plan becomes multiple trips.
Gareth: I think we are going to need an explanation.
Jade’s Luck: ('some other language’): How much are we going to explain?
Gareth: (Same language): I think we are going to need a full explanation.
Jade’s Luck: There is explain and there is 'explain.’ There is Jahar style explaining where people end up staring at their belly button... and there is real explaining.
Tiger: Why Don’t we take them to elemental island? There is already an uninhabited town.
The group sails for 2 days to Opec Island.
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A-Dom wanders off through the sewers. He heads towards the Sesus controlled area of town. While walking he tries to think of the best person to look like, so they can be blamed for being an Anathema.
Ryan: Gabe is going to be pissed at me. I want to out Jahar. (Pause) Yea, I’m going to blame Jahar, because I can... and I’m A-DOM!
A-Dom 'ninjas’ around the Sesus compound. To get the lay of the land and to find out exactly where Sesus Weijin is.
Weijin: Where is Jahar?!? Someone is going to find him on whatever podknock island he is on and drag him back here by his tongue so he can pay the ransom for Jara. I will not have him destroying our alliance with the Cynis.
While he is skulking about he hears that ‘something’ happened at house Peleps. But there are no good details currently. He also hear:
Dragon-Blood: Crime wave on Marcus’ Gift. Slaves have been stealing money from everyone for days... and none of it can be found. They might be planning a revolt or something.
Guard: Do you really want to bring this to her now?
Dragon-Blood: Ok, you’re right. Dispatch two brigades to Marcus’ Gift. I’ll tell her about it when it’s a successes.
A-Dom follows the man, who leaves with two other guards who start marching, side by side, towards the docks. A-Dom wait’s in an alleyway with his club for them to walk past. A-Dom steps out behind them and takes a might swing at head level. He kills all three guards by obliterating their heads... and shoulders in a spray of blood. A-Dom leaps up to the rooftops before the bodies even hit the ground. The only witness to the slaughter is a small black cat with a white spot on his chest.
A-Dom: Damn it... I’m going to have to come back for him.
A-Dom sneaks off and cleans the blood off himself. A-Dom works on collecting things to make his Jahar disguise. He then goes about shadowing Sesus Weijin trying to find his best opportunity to make his public discussion. She of course is very active as things are going all kinds of wrong. Nobody can find Jahar, some guards exploded, etc.
The next day at around 2pm A-Dom sees a group of Peleps (Who A-Dom figures is there to tell them something happened to the Hostage) and a group of Cynis (Who are probably there to get their allies in house Sesus to actually back them up) heading towards House Sesus from opposite directions.
A-Dom uses his charm to look as similar to Jahar as possible. Skin color, hair color, shape, etc. He then uses the stuff he found to physically disguises himself to look even more like Jahar.
The two groups stop about equal distance from the gates of house Sesus. The representatives of house Sesus (including Weijin) are standing outside the gate.
Before the different groups start talking to each other, A-Dom gets on the rooftop of the building across the street from the Sesus compound and activates his Dawn Caste power, which activates his bracers so everything he says can be heard for miles, and flairs his anima banner at the same time.
GM: It’s really funny because he’s Jahar’s original caste.
Dan: It’s not just funny for that reason.
Jahar-Dom: Mother! Mission Accomplished! Peleps is taken care of!
He salutes and runs like mad! Turning off his anima (since he payed to flair it) and caste power while running. House Peleps rushes the members of House Sesus. House Sesus kind of stands there in shock. The Dragon-Bloods of house Cynis go chasing after Jahar-Dom. They run across the rooftops. Here is where A-Dom’s plan starts to show it’s weak points. As he has no escape plan.
Ryan: I try to take a sharp left turn and then... crap that will make me start glowing. Damn my caste.
The Cynis start firing arrows at Jahar-Dom as they run. One arrow hits him, and Jahar-Dom realizes the arrows have barbs growing out of them.
Ryan: If I can get them to chase me for an hour... I can get away. This is where my plan really ended.
Jahar-Dom starts running towards the northern forest, as he is constantly looking for someplace he can lose them.
GM: In trying to decide where to hide, A-Dom quadruple botches a Int + Larceny check.
Jahar-Dom decides the northern forest is the perfect place to hide. House Cynis will never find him among all those trees. Jahar-Dom found a great place to hide in the canopy of a tree. The Cynis show up and they start looking around. One of them is quite perceptive and it looking at all the trees that Jahar-Dom passed through.
Cynis Tracker: Gee, I Don’t know where he is. I guess we’ll have to start the tree clearing with... That one! (Pointing at the tree Jahar-Dom is in.)
A-Dom then sees what appears to be a thirty foot tall suit of armor made of green jade, and carrying a green jade Great Axe (built to size), land in the forest (as Jahar-Dom didn’t see him heading in by jumping).
Cynis Warstrider: Which one?
Cynis Tracker: (Pointing) That one.
Jahar-Dom: Right, he’s first.
Jahar-Dom goes after the Warstrider. The Warstrider decides to cleave the tree in half, and hit Jahar-Dom at the same time.
Ryan: This is going to hurt.
A-Dom is knocked past incapacitated in one blow. So the Cynis find ‘Wyld A-Dom’ in amongst the split tree. A-Dom starts to glow in his sleep (as he activates his healing charm) so there is no question about what he is.
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At some point during the sailing trip:
Jade’s Luck: While I was having my small fit, a guy with a blue face and a sword put things into my head that we apparently need to know. When is the slave rebellion suppose to start?
Gareth: Next week.
Tiger: Around two o’clock.
Gareth: Next week.
Tiger: Around two o’clock today.
Gareth: Oh! I’ve found out what those bastards name really are. But it’s apparently hard to remember because both Tiger and A-Dom have both forgotten. It was really hard for me to remember too. So pay VERY close attention. If you two fail... I guess I’m all alone here. They are called Sidereals.
5 seconds later
Gareth: Did you remember?
Jade’s Luck: You were saying something about Mother
ers?
Bianca: Sidereals got it.
Gareth: (Laughing) Hahahah, I’m not insane!
Jade’s Luck: Part of the knowledge I got is the motherers serve the 5 maidens like we serve the Unconquered Sun.
For some reason the group realized that Gareth is the only person in the party who actually has Medicine as a skill. Gareth starts threatening to force people into eclipse bound agreements to learn medicine...
Jade’s Luck uses her charms to make everyone to have the emotional state of 'calm'? for the duration of the trip.
Tiger: Once we get them to an island that they can’t escape, then we can scare them.
After two days of sailing, the ship gets to Opec’s island at the superbly well crafted dock.
Random Mortal with them: Why is there such a nice dock here?
Tiger asks the skeleton if he would be willing to hang out on Opec island. The Skeleton doesn’t have much to do, so it agrees. Tiger takes him to Opec and tells him to rest against Opec like he died there. Soon as the skeleton leans on Opec it goes shooting off into the jungle. Tiger runs over and starts to pull him off... then stops.
Tiger: Can you see Opec from here? (The skeleton nods) Great, let me know if anyone other then us visit’s here.
Tiger just leaves the skeleton hanging impaled on the tree.
Jade’s Luck: (to skeleton) Can you tell the difference between mortals and exalts? (Skeleton shrugs) Ok, you know all the people on the boat. We Don’t want them coming over here. Opec is kind of dangerous.
The skeleton does his best 'Oh really?' look, from his location impaled upon the tree. Jade’s Luck helps him down and puts him at the bottom of the tree. The skeleton takes one branch and sticks it through his ribs. Tiger explains the solar circle, and Jahar to the Skeleton, and says he’s ok. Jade’s Luck then goes into a long rant upon why Jahar is like that.
Bianca goes to talk to Opec:
Bianca: Hi Opec! I have pages for you. Where would you like them?
Opec: (Speaking inside Bianca’s head) Just hold them up against me. Oh and just put the rocks down.
Bianca does so, and the pages appear to sink into Opec’s black onyx surface.
Bianca: Oh and we found a book, it’s really big, and it has 50 hearthstone slots on each side.
Opec: That describes four books I know.
Bianca: They do anything cool?
Opec: One of them knows every thing. One of them knows most things, and one of knows things no one is suppose to know.
Bianca: How do you tell them apart?
Opec: You have to talk to them.
Bianca also finds out that they need all of the hearthstone slots filled on a book to talk to it.
Opec: So you want to know more about the Saphire Sentinals. They were created by the Wretch of Winter, Lord Lightbringer of Spring's Courage, and Evening Tide of Autumn. While they were drunk for two years. They thought it was a great idea to created 'emergency devices.' One of the things they built were the Sapphire Sentinals. Once they came out of their drunken haze, The Priestess of Summer's Fortune, ordered them to create strict limitations on when they could be used. I believe they settled upon a serious lack of faith in the true order of things in the west. That and it required that your circle went into Wretches Tomb.
Bianca: Is there anything we can do?
Opec: Convert people faster. As soon as all the non-believers are dead they will go back into stasis.
Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) Situation normal.
Jade’s Luck and Tiger go to the portal on the beach at Opec Island and jump through to Elemental Island. Tiger orders the monkeys to make food.
Jade’s Luck finds out that when she sets the portal to the Island of Atlantis, she can’t control where on the island the portal is. The portal has a set location. The portal appears about 15ft off the ground, at the plateau on top of the highest mountain on the island (between the lake and the City of Yew). So it’s about 400 miles from the City of Atlantis.
Jade’s Luck: (to Tiger) Well, it’s going to be easier for us to get to Yew then we thought. But it’s going to take us a long time to get to Atlantis unless you can cover that distance really fast.
Tiger: (looks through the portal) About 4 hours.
Jade’s Luck: Really?
Tiger: Maybe a little longer.
Jade’s Luck: Could you carry my boomerang back?
Tiger: It will be... kind of obvious.
Jade’s Luck: I’ll take care of the food for people, and you should be back in 8 hours hopefully.
Jade’s Luck starts testing how much food she can carry through the portal without the food becoming mutated. A number of people have noticed Jade’s Luck step out of thin air, put down food and stuff, step back into nothing, come back with more food, etc. Eventually Jade’s Luck notices that many of the mortals with them have noticed. She gets Gareth while Bianca makes sure nobody has run away.
Jade’s Luck: Hey Gareth! Apparently the portal... could have been situated in a more discrete location. But we have food now. So... umm... how much full disclosure are we talking about?
Gareth: Full.
Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should put the boat off shore so the scared mortals Don’t all flee for the boat?
Gareth: I’ll do that at the last second. I’m confident I can get to the
boat before them.
Jade’s Luck makes everyone feel ‘Calm’ before explaining this.
Jade’s Luck tries to explain things ‘in a good way.’ Dragon-Bloods are not doing things right, and the Gods in Heaven sent us to fix things. Most people appear to believe that her story is plausible. The ones who do not believer her story are not running in terror or attacking (they may believe Jade’s Luck is insane, and consorting with Anathema, but not immediately dangerous).
Gareth then explains that living on this island would be very rough. A week away there is a full town set up that they can use.
People: What about the people who use to live there?
Gareth: This village is currently abandoned.
People: Why would it be abandoned?
Gareth: There was a demon attack, which we took care of... They are all gone, and won’t be coming back.
People: How did you survive fighting demons?
Gareth: We’re mighty!
People: So you’re Dragon-Bloods?
Gareth: The Gods needed someone more powerful then the Dragon-Bloods to put them back on the path they are suppose to be.
People: Why didn’t they make the Dragon-Bloods fix themselves?
Jade’s Luck: The Dragon-Bloods have stopped listening to the gods.
The entire crowd starts getting really nervous.
Jade’s Luck: Umm... it’s more like they lost their way. They can’t hear the gods. They arn?t doing their duty for creation.
Gareth: Just most of them.
People: So when are we leaving for the demon sacked town?
They plan to leave about 6 hours later to sale to Elemental island.
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Tiger who took the portal from Opec's Island to Elemental Island, then took the portal from there to Atlantis. Then he ran all the way to the City of Atlantis. Tiger checks Gareth’s shop, which is just fine. Then Tiger went to check out House Sesus. As he figures that is the only place he knew A-Dom was going. He sees that there had been a battle outside the Sesus compound recently. There are a lot of guards on patrols in the area and in the building.
Tiger then starts checking out bars trying to find A-Dom, and find out what’s been going on in the city. He finds out about the ‘Big anathema attack.’ Also house Sesus was employing Anathema. House Cynis captured an Anathema. There are also a lot of public notices about the fact that ‘everything is safe’ and there is ‘no threat of anathema attacks.’
Tiger goes to check out the Cynis area. He sees a big war strider patrolling the area. He sees servants going in and out of the area, and he pays attention to how they get in and out, and what kind of security measures are being taken.
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16 hours after A-Dom was knocked out.
A-Dom wakes up. He is on a Rack, and rapped up, toe to his neck, in razor sharp thorny vines.
GM: Perception + Occult roll
Ryan: Proper burial rights?
A-Dom realizes he is inside a demon warded circle.
Torturer: Ve Vould like to ask you some Questionz.
A-Dom: (Really Chipper) Ok!
Liz & Dan try to play A-Dom by making a barrage of suggestions, and mentioning things he shouldn’t bring up (for the GM to ask about). Ryan thanks them profusely.
Torturer: Vhat is your name?
A-Dom: A-Dom
Torturer: Who do you work for? List all you’re masters.
A-Dom: Memnon, Sesus, the Coral Archipelago, Captain Diamond Eye Tor, and the Unconquored Sun.
Torturer: So... Please explain to me in great detail you’re relationship with house Memnon.
A-Dom: That’s easy, I get abused anded in the ass.
Torturer: You enjoy that sort of thing?
A-Dom: No that’s usually where the killing of a lot of them comes in. I got really really angry and started killing babies, puppies, people, I collapsed a whole bunch of buildings, there was an anathema scare. Do you have any water?
Torturer: No.
A-Dom: Well, I’m kind of uncomfortable.
Torturer: Vell, you’ll be dead soon. We can’t allow people like you running around destroying civilization.
A-Dom: It’s kind of pointless killing us. We just come right back in a different form.
Torturer: (Yelling out the door) Ve may have to think more about permanent storage. (Back to A-Dom) So vhat is your relationship to house Sesus.
A-Dom: Mostly beaten on and degraded, but noted in the ass. Which is why I like them more. I worked for a lot of Mother Sesus? children.
Torturer: Vhich ones?
A-Dom: Jahar and his sister. I think I worked for the mother too.
Torturer: Please list all of the other Anathema that you know.
A-Dom: Wretch of Winter, Autumn Storm, Rosewind, Marcus the Mad, Opec, and there was this blue guy, and a green guy, and the short and ugly one, I Don’t get names all the time. Oh there is the guy in the east. Oh and the Shining Mask of Justice, if you could make sure he dies, in a really painful way, it would be nice. He said something about House Cynis, and it was NOT in a positive context. Oh, oh, oh, Sesus Jahar.
Torturer: Very interesting. Vhat are you’re goals here?
A-Dom: I want to re-arrange creation in my own ideas and image.
Torturer: (While writting notes) Destroy the world. Well at least you’re honest.
A-Dom: No, no, no, raising armies of undead... killing lots of Dragon-Bloods and mortals...
Torturer: So you are a Necromancer then?
A-Dom: Oh yea, yea, yea. Killing lots of mortals, where was I? I like all that stuff.
Torturer: Have you been supernaturally bound by anyone yet? Please list whom you are bound by.
A-Dom: Unconquored Sun.
Torturer: Demon god.
A-Dom: He’s not really a demon. He’s the sun.
Torturer: Flaming demon god.
A-Dom: Bodhivista, Jahar, and probably some people I don’t know about... the Undertaker... in the west... er east, I keep going the wrong direction. He gave me stuff. Plus I have a lot of lists. I probably also have lists from past lives.
Torturer: Anything concerning the safety and security of the Island of Atlantis that I should know about.
A-Dom: (very serious) It’s about to beed up. You’re all going to kill each other, and we are going to help. Then we are going to come in and put things back in the natural order. And that would be with you as our bitches.
Torturer: Is there anything you would like to get off your chest?
A-Dom: (sigh) Well, I’ve stolen a lot of stuff. I really screwed up the island of Abalon because I stole the guys fancy hat and they can’t kill him without his hat. So I had to go back there after like 10, 15 years because the island was alled up and angry, then I went and killed him, then I got thrown into jail for insulting him. But since the volcano was all mellow now, I just went to jail. Also my mom is all unhappy with me because of my choices in life. I tried to explain that I look like an anathema but I’m not really an anathema, but I Don’t know if she understood or not, so she might still think I’m an anathema. Death knights call me an anathema too.
Torturer: That is because you are an Anathema.
A-Dom: NO! I’m a Solar. Not an anathema. See it’s like death knights and anathema. There are Motherers and there are s. The s are if not with us, at least not trying to screw us over. But the Motherers are trying really hard to screw us over, and screw you over too. There was one who helped a number of Dragon-Bloods die, but he got away before I could kill him.
Torturer: And how does one spot these ‘Motherers’ ?
A-Dom: If you look back, and they are gone, you’ve been screwed. So if you look away from me, and you look back, and I’m gone, and you can’t remember what I look like. I’m a motherer.
The torturer leaves. Two other Cynis come in.
A-Dom: (Chipper) Hi
Cynis1: We feel you have been lying to our associate.
A-Dom: OK! You have charms and stuff? How are you going to beat it out of me?
Cynis1: Demons.
A-Dom is irritated that the Cynis use sorcery to summon the demon. A-Dom decides to critique their demon summoning in hopes of irritating them into screwing up. However, the Cynis make no mistakes. A demonic woman with a number of horns on her head appears at the end of the summoning.
A-Dom: I’m going to call you... Horny!
Horny: I’m going to call you my bitch.
A-Dom: I’ve been through this before. It usually ends poorly. It might end poorly for me but (shrug).
Horny: That’s really kind of the idea.
A-Dom: You know if I get free, I’ll probably break the binding circle. I do plan on killing them (he nods towards the two Cynis) you know.
Horny: How nice. Why don’t you tell me about your closest friends, or I take off a leg.
A-Dom: My drinking buddies?
Horny: The people you spend the most time with. Due to religious reasons.
A-Dom: Ok, what do you want to know?
Horny: Their names, where can I find them, what powers do they have?
A-Dom: Ok! We’ll start with Jahar! He’s one of the sons of the Sesus, he had a son with one of you’re guys, (looks at the demon) well not you’re guys, the Cynis guys guys, oh and he summons demons too, I met pointy, and does sorcery and stuff. He’s on a pirate island where you can’t do any violence on the island, but he rules the island now and he’s got a manse and he’s got a death ray, and he can fry boats that he doesn’t like from really far away. I think there are more of those two and they repel the wyld, but I Don’t know if there are more death rays. So I wouldn’t approach any islands that you Don’t know really well. They may have different things on other islands too. Jahar, lets see, Jahar has this thing where he talks, and there is stuff within that stuff, but he’s really saying something else, when he babbles about things that are unrelated, and it all comes out as one sentence, and it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Like he will say ‘I have pants on that are for Workday, but they are slacks because it’s Frenzy day.’
The demon gets bored and cuts off one of A-Dom’s legs. Looks at it.
Horny: I know someone who would like this. (Looks at the cynis) Can I keep it? (The cynis nod)
The demon stuffs the leg behind her back, under her cloak, and it appears to disappear.
A-Dom: I hope it’s not a Yozi.
Horny: No.
A-Dom: You still want to go on about Jahar or you want to change subjects.
Horny: What do you find most painful? Let us visit that.
A-Dom: (false enthusiasm) Great. Yea... that would most likey be then, humiliation and or butt sex. Anything degrading, backflips, saying I should push a boat, having sex with a corpse in public, making me do things I Don’t like to do. Repedative things.
Horny: (to the Cynis) We’re going to need more corpses.
A-Dom: (actual enthusiasm) Yes! That’s a good idea!
Horny: (to Cynis) Possibly any violent sex types you have.
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Tiger has been sneaking around the Cynis part of town, eventually sense A-Dom. However he can’t get an exact location of where he is. But he figures that A-Dom is inside a 5 building compound, and is likely above ground level.
Tiger wait’s for a servant to go out on an errand, then abducts them on their way back. He convinces (torturers) them into telling him what he was doing. After he finds out the person he abducted was a slave he ‘goes light’ on the torture. The slave went out to get milk, and was going back to Cynis Nopo. Tiger finds out how important or liked the slave is. Tiger then steals his cloths, ties him up, and leaves him someplace ‘where he will be found before he starves to death.’
Tiger sneaks into the compound disguised as the slave bringing the milk back. He easily gets past the guards.
Tiger gets inside the compound and can feel that A-Dom is inside a Manse with five towers. Tiger figures out that the Manse is related to Sorcery, and probably has magically shielded rooms in it. The towers also have no windows, and the towers have pointed roofs, not flat tops. So Tiger walks in through the main floor entrance between two braziers which spout green fire every once in a while.
Tiger activates all seeing sorcerers sight, to observer the braziers. He determines that they are essence vents, and they are not an active guardian system. If they are part of a defense system, they need to be activated by the controller of the manse.
Tiger enters a big entrance area. He entered from the north. There are double doors on the west, south and east wall.
A-Dom gets a sense that Tiger is ‘somewhere’ nearby and that he is lower then A-Dom is.
Ryan: I’ve always known Tiger is lower then me.
Tiger goes left. He looks at the door and notices they have slightly different essence flows. One is orange and one is pink. He carefully listens to each door and hears nothing. Tiger opens the door on the left. He finds a waiting parlor.
It’s a square room with double doors on each wall. Tiger decides to go to the edge of the building then follow the edge until he finds a stairway to a tower. However he realizes there is a door on the north wall of this room, but there are no other doors on the north exterior face of the building.
Dan: Now I feel compelled to destroy the building now just because I Don’t like how I think this works.
Tiger doesn’t step through into the Parlor. He closes the door and opens the door on the right. He sees a completely different room, a Kitchen. It is also square, with double doors on each wall. It also appears to be co-locational with the parlor.
Tiger goes to check the other side (west). He opens the right door and finds a guard room, with a number of guards in it.
Tiger: I have milk to take to the kitchen, but I Don’t know where that is. This place is confusing.
Guard: Come in here.
Tiger walks in, and the door closes on it’s own behind him. The guards take him to the left (south), through the right door, and he ends up in the kitchen. However Tiger can’t tell what side he’s on (but it’s the west die). The guards tell him to drop the milk off, and go back through the door he came through on the right side. As that will return to the main entrance.
Tiger thanks the guard. The guard goes across the room (east) and through the right hand door.
Tiger looks up the chimney in the kitchen, and doesn’t see sky. Tiger starts to wonder if A-Dom is worth this much irritation.
Tiger eventually figures out essence flow colors by poking through different doors. Pink is public areas, brown are transitional or causeways (halls, stairs, etc), orange doors are utility (kitchens, bathrooms, etc), and red are living areas (bed rooms, guard rooms, dinning rooms, etc).
Tiger starts going through brown doors. He finds a long corridor full of doors, with three other brown doors in it. He searches the brown doors until he finds a set of stairs that go up. At the top of the stairs he finds an archway, not a door.
Tiger looks in and sees an alchemy lab, that is square, with double doors on the other three walls. He finds sparkly brown, sparkly pink and sparkily orange doors. Tiger opens a sparkly orange door, and he sees an alchemy lab. He also sees the back of someone who looks... suspiciously like him.
Tiger grabs some supplies from the Alchemy room, so he has something to ‘deliver’ if he is caught by anyone. He grabs some ‘acid,’ and viscous goo, and a jar of eyeballs. He then tries to burn a book with the acid he’s found. He puts that acid down and tries to find better acid and tests all his likely acid until he actually finds acid.
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Horny: Good News! We’ve found someone to watch you be tortured.
A-Dom: Oh, it needs to be witnessed?
Horny: Because you need to be humiliated.
A-Dom: Oh, yes, yes, yes, I’m with you now. But you already have two people watching this already.
Horny: But we wanted your mother to see this.
A-Dom: Of course.... (To Horney) That was a good one. I’m impressed. Was it you’re idea or the Dragon-Bloods?
Horny: Mine! They can’t come up with this kind of evil.
A-Dom: Good, congratulations, I’m impressed.
Horney: We will have to heal you a bit so you can survive the torture.
A-Dom: I once got healed by a Death Lord. It hurt like a motherer.
A-Dom starts screaming as the demon heals him and it feels like lava running through his veins.
A-Dom: Oh... ahh... that?s some loving right there.
Horney starts to get ready to torture A-Dom some more.
A-Dom limit breaks.
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Tiger opens another sparkly orange door. He can see a room with two archways and two double doors (one that he is looking through). One archway goes to a set of stairs, the other goes to a room from which he can hear A-Dom screaming. Tiger can also see the backs of two Cynis who are looking through the archway.
Liz: Maybe if you die, you’re mom will Exalt with you’re shard!
Ryan: You know you’re suppose to be on my side.
Tiger gets out his artifacts, including Diplomacy.
Tiger: I take it the Anathema is in there?
Cynis1: (without turning around) Oh yea. Getting ready to have some fun with him.
Tiger: Oh really, I guess I showed up just in time to rescue him then.
The two cynis turn around, Tiger waves at them, steps back threw the door slams it shut, then runs to the brown door and runs threw that before the Cynis can get into the room he is currently in. A very complicated chase starts in a non-linear space. Tiger’s plan is to double back to the room A-Dom is in. However, Tiger realizes that the doors change color after door has been opened and closed. Tiger however has the advantage, as he is looking for a place and the Cynis are looking for Tiger who is constantly moving.
A-Dom flexes all his muscles at once, then tries to slide out of his bonds really fast when he contracts them. He manages to get all the way out of the vines and freed his hands. His one leg is still attached to the torture table.
Dan: Flail around like Jar-Jar in Episode one.
Ryan: You’re not helping my case.
Liz: You should never really use a combat description with ‘like Jar-jar’ if you want it to work.
A-Dom hops off the table, and then picked up the table, then throws himself, and the table at the Dragon-Bloods in the room with him. However A-Dom totally misses (1 success on his attack).
Ryan: Am I nude? Why do I ask? I always end up nude when I limit break.
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Tiger enters a storage room with a lot of stuff in it. Some of it looks familiar, like A-Dom’s armor, cloths, etc. Tiger stuffs everything he can into his backpack then starts looking for another orange door.
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Horny: Why Don’t you come back inside the circle?
Of the two Dragon-Bloods in the room, one tries to run, and one tries to say and deal with A-Dom. A-Dom hops up and whacks the one that is going to fight him with the table, and misses (he is less proficient at flailing things attached to his leg then Jar-jar), then summons his club and swung the Dragon-Blood that is running. The Club hit’s the Dragon-Blood, but doesn’t take him down.
The courageous Dragon-Blood tries to grapple and throw A-Dom (not realizing how dumb this is). A-Dom counter attacks. The fleeing Dragon-Blood got away and closed the door. So A-Dom slams the Dragon-Blood in front of him into the door the other Dragon-Blood fled threw, hoping to destroy the door. Tiger, running towards an orange door, sees the door fly off it’s hinges as a body flies past him. Tiger also sees essence starting to sparkle around the doorway. Tiger then sees A-Dom smash the demon binding circle on the floor to free the demon (as A-Dom figures the Demon will kill people if it is freed). The entire floor falls away where the demon summoning circle was. The demon (with A-Dom's Leg) falls out the hole that was just created.
A-Dom looking down out the hole sees the city as if he were at the top of a very tall tower. Mortals running around like little ants.
Tiger: Are you ready to leave yet?
A-Dom jumps threw the hole in the floor giggling manically. The table still attached to his leg, goes with him. Tiger also notices the essence crackling in the building is getting worse. Tiger realizes the building is going to go kaboom if Gareth is not here, which he is not.
Tiger runs over to the hole and looks out, and sees the ground far below. So of course he jumps out. As he looks back he sees there is a hole in the middle of the air.
Tiger has a Past Life vision (due to a botch):
Ryan: I’m getting Yozi points. Totally.
A-Dom as he’s falling decides to collapse the area, by plowing threw the lower exterior of the manse, which is below him, and possibly continuing into the sewers. He smashes threw the top of the manse. He enters into three or four different room, at one time, it’s very confusing, and he blows threw that room too, and lands on the floor, which appears to be solid earth. A-Dom notices people outside, and has the overwhelming urge to kill. Instead of going threw the door, A-Dom hit’s the wall with his club and tries to hit the people outside, baseball style. He kills two people. A-Dom goes hoping out of the Manse, with the table still attached to his leg.
Tiger comes out of his vision as he takes a header into the ground. Luckily Tiger doesn’t take too much damage. Tiger sees the Manse appears to be ‘falling out of elsewhere’ into itself. He sees the essence flairs begin.
Tiger gains two points of Limit, as his rescue plan has been totally ruined.
A-Dom monkey leaps into the air, looking for mortals to smash. He sees the large residential area near the manse, jumps up again. On his way down he smashes the table into the mortals/ground, smashing the table into pieces. A-Dom begins attacking buildings trying to knock them over.
Tiger chases after A-Dom, and uses the power of his Manse and opens the Wyld Portal right in front of A-Dom as he is charging a building. A-Dom finds himself standing inside the Manse on Elemental Island (A-Dom did not activate IPP until he was on the other side). A-Dom turns around, sees the portal, and the people who he wants to kill, and tries to runs right back threw.
Tiger tries to jump threw portal (also without activating IPP). Tiger and A-Dom run into each other, in the middle of the Wyld Portal. Tiger attempts to do a flurry of attacks on A-Dom. A-Dom uses Counter Attack.
Massive rules lawyering about how the combat resolves takes a half hour to actually deal with this one exchange of blows. Many, many, many dice are rolled.
Tiger manages to knock A-Dom unconscious. A-Dom only manages to wound Tiger. Tiger lands inside the manse, grabs A-Doms ankles and drags him back into the manse one second before the portal closes.
Tiger drags A-Dom to one of the rooms and drops him on a bed.
Ryan: You know, Tiger is always around to knock people unconscious when they limit break. Clearly Tiger is causing us to limit break.
Session 50
Synopsis of 7/2/07 and sub session 7/4/07
Mother! Mission Accomplished!
by AlwaysToast
Tiger realizes the people who have just walked off will probably be hunted down and killed by the Dragon-Bloods for their association with Anathema. As they walk away.
Tiger: (yelling after them) Have fun at your funeral!
A-Dom: I’m going to go report now! I’ll take care of it! Don’t worry, you won’t remember me at some point.
A-Dom wanders off... ALONE.
Alex: Us incompetent?
Dan: Yes.
Jade’s Luck: So we are taking all these people to the ship?
Tiger: Yes, because anyone left behind will be found, and killed.
The skeleton nods. The group heads off through the sewers to the docks.
Tiger: (to skeleton) You can be the new team mascot.
Jade’s Luck: Too bad A-Dom isn’t with us. We could cover our tracks by destroying the sewers behind us.
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Gareth gets to his sister’s Sara’s house.
Sara: Gareth, it’s awfully late isn’t it? What’s the matter?
Gareth: I’ve heard from a reliable source that there is about to be a House war between the Dragon-Bloods. I think it would be best to get the family out of the city for a little while.
Sara: Where would we go?
Gareth: I know an island nearby where we can go.
Gareth manages to convince his family, and round up most of his family members. He finds out his brother is off 'in the north somewhere.' About an hour later the family is ready to leave. Gareth also gets his apprentices and Joe. Joe is all with the program, the apprentices are confused. Gareth looks at Jade’s Luck’s skycutter... and decides it’s not his problem.
Gareth’s family and the prison escapees arrive at the docks at the same time. Having 19 people, they are approaching the maximum capacity of the ship. So things will be rather cramped.
The group sails to Opec island. On the trip Jade’s Luck tells a story to keep everybody calm. As they are sailing Gareth asks Jade’s Luck to go back to the Elemental Manse to get food for the longer sailing trip ahead. Jade’s Luck agrees. However they discuss if her charm that protects an area from the wyld may in fact cause the Wyld Portal to stop working. So their backup plan becomes multiple trips.
Gareth: I think we are going to need an explanation.
Jade’s Luck: ('some other language’): How much are we going to explain?
Gareth: (Same language): I think we are going to need a full explanation.
Jade’s Luck: There is explain and there is 'explain.’ There is Jahar style explaining where people end up staring at their belly button... and there is real explaining.
Tiger: Why Don’t we take them to elemental island? There is already an uninhabited town.
The group sails for 2 days to Opec Island.
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A-Dom wanders off through the sewers. He heads towards the Sesus controlled area of town. While walking he tries to think of the best person to look like, so they can be blamed for being an Anathema.
Ryan: Gabe is going to be pissed at me. I want to out Jahar. (Pause) Yea, I’m going to blame Jahar, because I can... and I’m A-DOM!
A-Dom 'ninjas’ around the Sesus compound. To get the lay of the land and to find out exactly where Sesus Weijin is.
Weijin: Where is Jahar?!? Someone is going to find him on whatever podknock island he is on and drag him back here by his tongue so he can pay the ransom for Jara. I will not have him destroying our alliance with the Cynis.
While he is skulking about he hears that ‘something’ happened at house Peleps. But there are no good details currently. He also hear:
Dragon-Blood: Crime wave on Marcus’ Gift. Slaves have been stealing money from everyone for days... and none of it can be found. They might be planning a revolt or something.
Guard: Do you really want to bring this to her now?
Dragon-Blood: Ok, you’re right. Dispatch two brigades to Marcus’ Gift. I’ll tell her about it when it’s a successes.
A-Dom follows the man, who leaves with two other guards who start marching, side by side, towards the docks. A-Dom wait’s in an alleyway with his club for them to walk past. A-Dom steps out behind them and takes a might swing at head level. He kills all three guards by obliterating their heads... and shoulders in a spray of blood. A-Dom leaps up to the rooftops before the bodies even hit the ground. The only witness to the slaughter is a small black cat with a white spot on his chest.
A-Dom: Damn it... I’m going to have to come back for him.
A-Dom sneaks off and cleans the blood off himself. A-Dom works on collecting things to make his Jahar disguise. He then goes about shadowing Sesus Weijin trying to find his best opportunity to make his public discussion. She of course is very active as things are going all kinds of wrong. Nobody can find Jahar, some guards exploded, etc.
The next day at around 2pm A-Dom sees a group of Peleps (Who A-Dom figures is there to tell them something happened to the Hostage) and a group of Cynis (Who are probably there to get their allies in house Sesus to actually back them up) heading towards House Sesus from opposite directions.
A-Dom uses his charm to look as similar to Jahar as possible. Skin color, hair color, shape, etc. He then uses the stuff he found to physically disguises himself to look even more like Jahar.
The two groups stop about equal distance from the gates of house Sesus. The representatives of house Sesus (including Weijin) are standing outside the gate.
Before the different groups start talking to each other, A-Dom gets on the rooftop of the building across the street from the Sesus compound and activates his Dawn Caste power, which activates his bracers so everything he says can be heard for miles, and flairs his anima banner at the same time.
GM: It’s really funny because he’s Jahar’s original caste.
Dan: It’s not just funny for that reason.
Jahar-Dom: Mother! Mission Accomplished! Peleps is taken care of!
He salutes and runs like mad! Turning off his anima (since he payed to flair it) and caste power while running. House Peleps rushes the members of House Sesus. House Sesus kind of stands there in shock. The Dragon-Bloods of house Cynis go chasing after Jahar-Dom. They run across the rooftops. Here is where A-Dom’s plan starts to show it’s weak points. As he has no escape plan.
Ryan: I try to take a sharp left turn and then... crap that will make me start glowing. Damn my caste.
The Cynis start firing arrows at Jahar-Dom as they run. One arrow hits him, and Jahar-Dom realizes the arrows have barbs growing out of them.
Ryan: If I can get them to chase me for an hour... I can get away. This is where my plan really ended.
Jahar-Dom starts running towards the northern forest, as he is constantly looking for someplace he can lose them.
GM: In trying to decide where to hide, A-Dom quadruple botches a Int + Larceny check.
Jahar-Dom decides the northern forest is the perfect place to hide. House Cynis will never find him among all those trees. Jahar-Dom found a great place to hide in the canopy of a tree. The Cynis show up and they start looking around. One of them is quite perceptive and it looking at all the trees that Jahar-Dom passed through.
Cynis Tracker: Gee, I Don’t know where he is. I guess we’ll have to start the tree clearing with... That one! (Pointing at the tree Jahar-Dom is in.)
A-Dom then sees what appears to be a thirty foot tall suit of armor made of green jade, and carrying a green jade Great Axe (built to size), land in the forest (as Jahar-Dom didn’t see him heading in by jumping).
Cynis Warstrider: Which one?
Cynis Tracker: (Pointing) That one.
Jahar-Dom: Right, he’s first.
Jahar-Dom goes after the Warstrider. The Warstrider decides to cleave the tree in half, and hit Jahar-Dom at the same time.
Ryan: This is going to hurt.
A-Dom is knocked past incapacitated in one blow. So the Cynis find ‘Wyld A-Dom’ in amongst the split tree. A-Dom starts to glow in his sleep (as he activates his healing charm) so there is no question about what he is.
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At some point during the sailing trip:
Jade’s Luck: While I was having my small fit, a guy with a blue face and a sword put things into my head that we apparently need to know. When is the slave rebellion suppose to start?
Gareth: Next week.
Tiger: Around two o’clock.
Gareth: Next week.
Tiger: Around two o’clock today.
Gareth: Oh! I’ve found out what those bastards name really are. But it’s apparently hard to remember because both Tiger and A-Dom have both forgotten. It was really hard for me to remember too. So pay VERY close attention. If you two fail... I guess I’m all alone here. They are called Sidereals.
5 seconds later
Gareth: Did you remember?
Jade’s Luck: You were saying something about Mother
ers?Bianca: Sidereals got it.
Gareth: (Laughing) Hahahah, I’m not insane!
Jade’s Luck: Part of the knowledge I got is the mother
ers serve the 5 maidens like we serve the Unconquered Sun.For some reason the group realized that Gareth is the only person in the party who actually has Medicine as a skill. Gareth starts threatening to force people into eclipse bound agreements to learn medicine...
Jade’s Luck uses her charms to make everyone to have the emotional state of 'calm'? for the duration of the trip.
Tiger: Once we get them to an island that they can’t escape, then we can scare them.
After two days of sailing, the ship gets to Opec’s island at the superbly well crafted dock.
Random Mortal with them: Why is there such a nice dock here?
Tiger asks the skeleton if he would be willing to hang out on Opec island. The Skeleton doesn’t have much to do, so it agrees. Tiger takes him to Opec and tells him to rest against Opec like he died there. Soon as the skeleton leans on Opec it goes shooting off into the jungle. Tiger runs over and starts to pull him off... then stops.
Tiger: Can you see Opec from here? (The skeleton nods) Great, let me know if anyone other then us visit’s here.
Tiger just leaves the skeleton hanging impaled on the tree.
Jade’s Luck: (to skeleton) Can you tell the difference between mortals and exalts? (Skeleton shrugs) Ok, you know all the people on the boat. We Don’t want them coming over here. Opec is kind of dangerous.
The skeleton does his best 'Oh really?' look, from his location impaled upon the tree. Jade’s Luck helps him down and puts him at the bottom of the tree. The skeleton takes one branch and sticks it through his ribs. Tiger explains the solar circle, and Jahar to the Skeleton, and says he’s ok. Jade’s Luck then goes into a long rant upon why Jahar is like that.
Bianca goes to talk to Opec:
Bianca: Hi Opec! I have pages for you. Where would you like them?
Opec: (Speaking inside Bianca’s head) Just hold them up against me. Oh and just put the rocks down.
Bianca does so, and the pages appear to sink into Opec’s black onyx surface.
Bianca: Oh and we found a book, it’s really big, and it has 50 hearthstone slots on each side.
Opec: That describes four books I know.
Bianca: They do anything cool?
Opec: One of them knows every thing. One of them knows most things, and one of knows things no one is suppose to know.
Bianca: How do you tell them apart?
Opec: You have to talk to them.
Bianca also finds out that they need all of the hearthstone slots filled on a book to talk to it.
Opec: So you want to know more about the Saphire Sentinals. They were created by the Wretch of Winter, Lord Lightbringer of Spring's Courage, and Evening Tide of Autumn. While they were drunk for two years. They thought it was a great idea to created 'emergency devices.' One of the things they built were the Sapphire Sentinals. Once they came out of their drunken haze, The Priestess of Summer's Fortune, ordered them to create strict limitations on when they could be used. I believe they settled upon a serious lack of faith in the true order of things in the west. That and it required that your circle went into Wretches Tomb.
Bianca: Is there anything we can do?
Opec: Convert people faster. As soon as all the non-believers are dead they will go back into stasis.
Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) Situation normal.
Jade’s Luck and Tiger go to the portal on the beach at Opec Island and jump through to Elemental Island. Tiger orders the monkeys to make food.
Jade’s Luck finds out that when she sets the portal to the Island of Atlantis, she can’t control where on the island the portal is. The portal has a set location. The portal appears about 15ft off the ground, at the plateau on top of the highest mountain on the island (between the lake and the City of Yew). So it’s about 400 miles from the City of Atlantis.
Jade’s Luck: (to Tiger) Well, it’s going to be easier for us to get to Yew then we thought. But it’s going to take us a long time to get to Atlantis unless you can cover that distance really fast.
Tiger: (looks through the portal) About 4 hours.
Jade’s Luck: Really?
Tiger: Maybe a little longer.
Jade’s Luck: Could you carry my boomerang back?
Tiger: It will be... kind of obvious.
Jade’s Luck: I’ll take care of the food for people, and you should be back in 8 hours hopefully.
Jade’s Luck starts testing how much food she can carry through the portal without the food becoming mutated. A number of people have noticed Jade’s Luck step out of thin air, put down food and stuff, step back into nothing, come back with more food, etc. Eventually Jade’s Luck notices that many of the mortals with them have noticed. She gets Gareth while Bianca makes sure nobody has run away.
Jade’s Luck: Hey Gareth! Apparently the portal... could have been situated in a more discrete location. But we have food now. So... umm... how much full disclosure are we talking about?
Gareth: Full.
Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should put the boat off shore so the scared mortals Don’t all flee for the boat?
Gareth: I’ll do that at the last second. I’m confident I can get to the
boat before them.
Jade’s Luck makes everyone feel ‘Calm’ before explaining this.
Jade’s Luck tries to explain things ‘in a good way.’ Dragon-Bloods are not doing things right, and the Gods in Heaven sent us to fix things. Most people appear to believe that her story is plausible. The ones who do not believer her story are not running in terror or attacking (they may believe Jade’s Luck is insane, and consorting with Anathema, but not immediately dangerous).
Gareth then explains that living on this island would be very rough. A week away there is a full town set up that they can use.
People: What about the people who use to live there?
Gareth: This village is currently abandoned.
People: Why would it be abandoned?
Gareth: There was a demon attack, which we took care of... They are all gone, and won’t be coming back.
People: How did you survive fighting demons?
Gareth: We’re mighty!
People: So you’re Dragon-Bloods?
Gareth: The Gods needed someone more powerful then the Dragon-Bloods to put them back on the path they are suppose to be.
People: Why didn’t they make the Dragon-Bloods fix themselves?
Jade’s Luck: The Dragon-Bloods have stopped listening to the gods.
The entire crowd starts getting really nervous.
Jade’s Luck: Umm... it’s more like they lost their way. They can’t hear the gods. They arn?t doing their duty for creation.
Gareth: Just most of them.
People: So when are we leaving for the demon sacked town?
They plan to leave about 6 hours later to sale to Elemental island.
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Tiger who took the portal from Opec's Island to Elemental Island, then took the portal from there to Atlantis. Then he ran all the way to the City of Atlantis. Tiger checks Gareth’s shop, which is just fine. Then Tiger went to check out House Sesus. As he figures that is the only place he knew A-Dom was going. He sees that there had been a battle outside the Sesus compound recently. There are a lot of guards on patrols in the area and in the building.
Tiger then starts checking out bars trying to find A-Dom, and find out what’s been going on in the city. He finds out about the ‘Big anathema attack.’ Also house Sesus was employing Anathema. House Cynis captured an Anathema. There are also a lot of public notices about the fact that ‘everything is safe’ and there is ‘no threat of anathema attacks.’
Tiger goes to check out the Cynis area. He sees a big war strider patrolling the area. He sees servants going in and out of the area, and he pays attention to how they get in and out, and what kind of security measures are being taken.
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16 hours after A-Dom was knocked out.
A-Dom wakes up. He is on a Rack, and rapped up, toe to his neck, in razor sharp thorny vines.
GM: Perception + Occult roll
Ryan: Proper burial rights?
A-Dom realizes he is inside a demon warded circle.
Torturer: Ve Vould like to ask you some Questionz.
A-Dom: (Really Chipper) Ok!
Liz & Dan try to play A-Dom by making a barrage of suggestions, and mentioning things he shouldn’t bring up (for the GM to ask about). Ryan thanks them profusely.
Torturer: Vhat is your name?
A-Dom: A-Dom
Torturer: Who do you work for? List all you’re masters.
A-Dom: Memnon, Sesus, the Coral Archipelago, Captain Diamond Eye Tor, and the Unconquored Sun.
Torturer: So... Please explain to me in great detail you’re relationship with house Memnon.
A-Dom: That’s easy, I get abused and
ed in the ass.Torturer: You enjoy that sort of thing?
A-Dom: No that’s usually where the killing of a lot of them comes in. I got really really angry and started killing babies, puppies, people, I collapsed a whole bunch of buildings, there was an anathema scare. Do you have any water?
Torturer: No.
A-Dom: Well, I’m kind of uncomfortable.
Torturer: Vell, you’ll be dead soon. We can’t allow people like you running around destroying civilization.
A-Dom: It’s kind of pointless killing us. We just come right back in a different form.
Torturer: (Yelling out the door) Ve may have to think more about permanent storage. (Back to A-Dom) So vhat is your relationship to house Sesus.
A-Dom: Mostly beaten on and degraded, but not
ed in the ass. Which is why I like them more. I worked for a lot of Mother Sesus? children.Torturer: Vhich ones?
A-Dom: Jahar and his sister. I think I worked for the mother too.
Torturer: Please list all of the other Anathema that you know.
A-Dom: Wretch of Winter, Autumn Storm, Rosewind, Marcus the Mad, Opec, and there was this blue guy, and a green guy, and the short and ugly one, I Don’t get names all the time. Oh there is the guy in the east. Oh and the Shining Mask of Justice, if you could make sure he dies, in a really painful way, it would be nice. He said something about House Cynis, and it was NOT in a positive context. Oh, oh, oh, Sesus Jahar.
Torturer: Very interesting. Vhat are you’re goals here?
A-Dom: I want to re-arrange creation in my own ideas and image.
Torturer: (While writting notes) Destroy the world. Well at least you’re honest.
A-Dom: No, no, no, raising armies of undead... killing lots of Dragon-Bloods and mortals...
Torturer: So you are a Necromancer then?
A-Dom: Oh yea, yea, yea. Killing lots of mortals, where was I? I like all that stuff.
Torturer: Have you been supernaturally bound by anyone yet? Please list whom you are bound by.
A-Dom: Unconquored Sun.
Torturer: Demon god.
A-Dom: He’s not really a demon. He’s the sun.
Torturer: Flaming demon god.
A-Dom: Bodhivista, Jahar, and probably some people I don’t know about... the Undertaker... in the west... er east, I keep going the wrong direction. He gave me stuff. Plus I have a lot of lists. I probably also have lists from past lives.
Torturer: Anything concerning the safety and security of the Island of Atlantis that I should know about.
A-Dom: (very serious) It’s about to be
ed up. You’re all going to kill each other, and we are going to help. Then we are going to come in and put things back in the natural order. And that would be with you as our bitches.Torturer: Is there anything you would like to get off your chest?
A-Dom: (sigh) Well, I’ve stolen a lot of stuff. I really screwed up the island of Abalon because I stole the guys fancy hat and they can’t kill him without his hat. So I had to go back there after like 10, 15 years because the island was all
ed up and angry, then I went and killed him, then I got thrown into jail for insulting him. But since the volcano was all mellow now, I just went to jail. Also my mom is all unhappy with me because of my choices in life. I tried to explain that I look like an anathema but I’m not really an anathema, but I Don’t know if she understood or not, so she might still think I’m an anathema. Death knights call me an anathema too.Torturer: That is because you are an Anathema.
A-Dom: NO! I’m a Solar. Not an anathema. See it’s like death knights and anathema. There are Mother
ers and there are s. The s are if not with us, at least not trying to screw us over. But the Motherers are trying really hard to screw us over, and screw you over too. There was one who helped a number of Dragon-Bloods die, but he got away before I could kill him.Torturer: And how does one spot these ‘Mother
ers’ ?A-Dom: If you look back, and they are gone, you’ve been screwed. So if you look away from me, and you look back, and I’m gone, and you can’t remember what I look like. I’m a mother
er.The torturer leaves. Two other Cynis come in.
A-Dom: (Chipper) Hi
Cynis1: We feel you have been lying to our associate.
A-Dom: OK! You have charms and stuff? How are you going to beat it out of me?
Cynis1: Demons.
A-Dom is irritated that the Cynis use sorcery to summon the demon. A-Dom decides to critique their demon summoning in hopes of irritating them into screwing up. However, the Cynis make no mistakes. A demonic woman with a number of horns on her head appears at the end of the summoning.
A-Dom: I’m going to call you... Horny!
Horny: I’m going to call you my bitch.
A-Dom: I’ve been through this before. It usually ends poorly. It might end poorly for me but (shrug).
Horny: That’s really kind of the idea.
A-Dom: You know if I get free, I’ll probably break the binding circle. I do plan on killing them (he nods towards the two Cynis) you know.
Horny: How nice. Why don’t you tell me about your closest friends, or I take off a leg.
A-Dom: My drinking buddies?
Horny: The people you spend the most time with. Due to religious reasons.
A-Dom: Ok, what do you want to know?
Horny: Their names, where can I find them, what powers do they have?
A-Dom: Ok! We’ll start with Jahar! He’s one of the sons of the Sesus, he had a son with one of you’re guys, (looks at the demon) well not you’re guys, the Cynis guys guys, oh and he summons demons too, I met pointy, and does sorcery and stuff. He’s on a pirate island where you can’t do any violence on the island, but he rules the island now and he’s got a manse and he’s got a death ray, and he can fry boats that he doesn’t like from really far away. I think there are more of those two and they repel the wyld, but I Don’t know if there are more death rays. So I wouldn’t approach any islands that you Don’t know really well. They may have different things on other islands too. Jahar, lets see, Jahar has this thing where he talks, and there is stuff within that stuff, but he’s really saying something else, when he babbles about things that are unrelated, and it all comes out as one sentence, and it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Like he will say ‘I have pants on that are for Workday, but they are slacks because it’s Frenzy day.’
The demon gets bored and cuts off one of A-Dom’s legs. Looks at it.
Horny: I know someone who would like this. (Looks at the cynis) Can I keep it? (The cynis nod)
The demon stuffs the leg behind her back, under her cloak, and it appears to disappear.
A-Dom: I hope it’s not a Yozi.
Horny: No.
A-Dom: You still want to go on about Jahar or you want to change subjects.
Horny: What do you find most painful? Let us visit that.
A-Dom: (false enthusiasm) Great. Yea... that would most likey be then, humiliation and or butt sex. Anything degrading, backflips, saying I should push a boat, having sex with a corpse in public, making me do things I Don’t like to do. Repedative things.
Horny: (to the Cynis) We’re going to need more corpses.
A-Dom: (actual enthusiasm) Yes! That’s a good idea!
Horny: (to Cynis) Possibly any violent sex types you have.
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Tiger has been sneaking around the Cynis part of town, eventually sense A-Dom. However he can’t get an exact location of where he is. But he figures that A-Dom is inside a 5 building compound, and is likely above ground level.
Tiger wait’s for a servant to go out on an errand, then abducts them on their way back. He convinces (torturers) them into telling him what he was doing. After he finds out the person he abducted was a slave he ‘goes light’ on the torture. The slave went out to get milk, and was going back to Cynis Nopo. Tiger finds out how important or liked the slave is. Tiger then steals his cloths, ties him up, and leaves him someplace ‘where he will be found before he starves to death.’
Tiger sneaks into the compound disguised as the slave bringing the milk back. He easily gets past the guards.
Tiger gets inside the compound and can feel that A-Dom is inside a Manse with five towers. Tiger figures out that the Manse is related to Sorcery, and probably has magically shielded rooms in it. The towers also have no windows, and the towers have pointed roofs, not flat tops. So Tiger walks in through the main floor entrance between two braziers which spout green fire every once in a while.
Tiger activates all seeing sorcerers sight, to observer the braziers. He determines that they are essence vents, and they are not an active guardian system. If they are part of a defense system, they need to be activated by the controller of the manse.
Tiger enters a big entrance area. He entered from the north. There are double doors on the west, south and east wall.
A-Dom gets a sense that Tiger is ‘somewhere’ nearby and that he is lower then A-Dom is.
Ryan: I’ve always known Tiger is lower then me.
Tiger goes left. He looks at the door and notices they have slightly different essence flows. One is orange and one is pink. He carefully listens to each door and hears nothing. Tiger opens the door on the left. He finds a waiting parlor.
It’s a square room with double doors on each wall. Tiger decides to go to the edge of the building then follow the edge until he finds a stairway to a tower. However he realizes there is a door on the north wall of this room, but there are no other doors on the north exterior face of the building.
Dan: Now I feel compelled to destroy the building now just because I Don’t like how I think this works.
Tiger doesn’t step through into the Parlor. He closes the door and opens the door on the right. He sees a completely different room, a Kitchen. It is also square, with double doors on each wall. It also appears to be co-locational with the parlor.
Tiger goes to check the other side (west). He opens the right door and finds a guard room, with a number of guards in it.
Tiger: I have milk to take to the kitchen, but I Don’t know where that is. This place is confusing.
Guard: Come in here.
Tiger walks in, and the door closes on it’s own behind him. The guards take him to the left (south), through the right door, and he ends up in the kitchen. However Tiger can’t tell what side he’s on (but it’s the west die). The guards tell him to drop the milk off, and go back through the door he came through on the right side. As that will return to the main entrance.
Tiger thanks the guard. The guard goes across the room (east) and through the right hand door.
Tiger looks up the chimney in the kitchen, and doesn’t see sky. Tiger starts to wonder if A-Dom is worth this much irritation.
Tiger eventually figures out essence flow colors by poking through different doors. Pink is public areas, brown are transitional or causeways (halls, stairs, etc), orange doors are utility (kitchens, bathrooms, etc), and red are living areas (bed rooms, guard rooms, dinning rooms, etc).
Tiger starts going through brown doors. He finds a long corridor full of doors, with three other brown doors in it. He searches the brown doors until he finds a set of stairs that go up. At the top of the stairs he finds an archway, not a door.
Tiger looks in and sees an alchemy lab, that is square, with double doors on the other three walls. He finds sparkly brown, sparkly pink and sparkily orange doors. Tiger opens a sparkly orange door, and he sees an alchemy lab. He also sees the back of someone who looks... suspiciously like him.
Tiger grabs some supplies from the Alchemy room, so he has something to ‘deliver’ if he is caught by anyone. He grabs some ‘acid,’ and viscous goo, and a jar of eyeballs. He then tries to burn a book with the acid he’s found. He puts that acid down and tries to find better acid and tests all his likely acid until he actually finds acid.
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Horny: Good News! We’ve found someone to watch you be tortured.
A-Dom: Oh, it needs to be witnessed?
Horny: Because you need to be humiliated.
A-Dom: Oh, yes, yes, yes, I’m with you now. But you already have two people watching this already.
Horny: But we wanted your mother to see this.
A-Dom: Of course...
. (To Horney) That was a good one. I’m impressed. Was it you’re idea or the Dragon-Bloods?Horny: Mine! They can’t come up with this kind of evil.
A-Dom: Good, congratulations, I’m impressed.
Horney: We will have to heal you a bit so you can survive the torture.
A-Dom: I once got healed by a Death Lord. It hurt like a mother
er.A-Dom starts screaming as the demon heals him and it feels like lava running through his veins.
A-Dom: Oh... ahh... that?s some loving right there.
Horney starts to get ready to torture A-Dom some more.
A-Dom limit breaks.
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Tiger opens another sparkly orange door. He can see a room with two archways and two double doors (one that he is looking through). One archway goes to a set of stairs, the other goes to a room from which he can hear A-Dom screaming. Tiger can also see the backs of two Cynis who are looking through the archway.
Liz: Maybe if you die, you’re mom will Exalt with you’re shard!
Ryan: You know you’re suppose to be on my side.
Tiger gets out his artifacts, including Diplomacy.
Tiger: I take it the Anathema is in there?
Cynis1: (without turning around) Oh yea. Getting ready to have some fun with him.
Tiger: Oh really, I guess I showed up just in time to rescue him then.
The two cynis turn around, Tiger waves at them, steps back threw the door slams it shut, then runs to the brown door and runs threw that before the Cynis can get into the room he is currently in. A very complicated chase starts in a non-linear space. Tiger’s plan is to double back to the room A-Dom is in. However, Tiger realizes that the doors change color after door has been opened and closed. Tiger however has the advantage, as he is looking for a place and the Cynis are looking for Tiger who is constantly moving.
A-Dom flexes all his muscles at once, then tries to slide out of his bonds really fast when he contracts them. He manages to get all the way out of the vines and freed his hands. His one leg is still attached to the torture table.
Dan: Flail around like Jar-Jar in Episode one.
Ryan: You’re not helping my case.
Liz: You should never really use a combat description with ‘like Jar-jar’ if you want it to work.
A-Dom hops off the table, and then picked up the table, then throws himself, and the table at the Dragon-Bloods in the room with him. However A-Dom totally misses (1 success on his attack).
Ryan: Am I nude? Why do I ask? I always end up nude when I limit break.
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Tiger enters a storage room with a lot of stuff in it. Some of it looks familiar, like A-Dom’s armor, cloths, etc. Tiger stuffs everything he can into his backpack then starts looking for another orange door.
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Horny: Why Don’t you come back inside the circle?
Of the two Dragon-Bloods in the room, one tries to run, and one tries to say and deal with A-Dom. A-Dom hops up and whacks the one that is going to fight him with the table, and misses (he is less proficient at flailing things attached to his leg then Jar-jar), then summons his club and swung the Dragon-Blood that is running. The Club hit’s the Dragon-Blood, but doesn’t take him down.
The courageous Dragon-Blood tries to grapple and throw A-Dom (not realizing how dumb this is). A-Dom counter attacks. The fleeing Dragon-Blood got away and closed the door. So A-Dom slams the Dragon-Blood in front of him into the door the other Dragon-Blood fled threw, hoping to destroy the door. Tiger, running towards an orange door, sees the door fly off it’s hinges as a body flies past him. Tiger also sees essence starting to sparkle around the doorway. Tiger then sees A-Dom smash the demon binding circle on the floor to free the demon (as A-Dom figures the Demon will kill people if it is freed). The entire floor falls away where the demon summoning circle was. The demon (with A-Dom's Leg) falls out the hole that was just created.
A-Dom looking down out the hole sees the city as if he were at the top of a very tall tower. Mortals running around like little ants.
Tiger: Are you ready to leave yet?
A-Dom jumps threw the hole in the floor giggling manically. The table still attached to his leg, goes with him. Tiger also notices the essence crackling in the building is getting worse. Tiger realizes the building is going to go kaboom if Gareth is not here, which he is not.
Tiger runs over to the hole and looks out, and sees the ground far below. So of course he jumps out. As he looks back he sees there is a hole in the middle of the air.
Tiger has a Past Life vision (due to a botch):
Ryan: I’m getting Yozi points. Totally.
A-Dom as he’s falling decides to collapse the area, by plowing threw the lower exterior of the manse, which is below him, and possibly continuing into the sewers. He smashes threw the top of the manse. He enters into three or four different room, at one time, it’s very confusing, and he blows threw that room too, and lands on the floor, which appears to be solid earth. A-Dom notices people outside, and has the overwhelming urge to kill. Instead of going threw the door, A-Dom hit’s the wall with his club and tries to hit the people outside, baseball style. He kills two people. A-Dom goes hoping out of the Manse, with the table still attached to his leg.
Tiger comes out of his vision as he takes a header into the ground. Luckily Tiger doesn’t take too much damage. Tiger sees the Manse appears to be ‘falling out of elsewhere’ into itself. He sees the essence flairs begin.
Tiger gains two points of Limit, as his rescue plan has been totally ruined.
A-Dom monkey leaps into the air, looking for mortals to smash. He sees the large residential area near the manse, jumps up again. On his way down he smashes the table into the mortals/ground, smashing the table into pieces. A-Dom begins attacking buildings trying to knock them over.
Tiger chases after A-Dom, and uses the power of his Manse and opens the Wyld Portal right in front of A-Dom as he is charging a building. A-Dom finds himself standing inside the Manse on Elemental Island (A-Dom did not activate IPP until he was on the other side). A-Dom turns around, sees the portal, and the people who he wants to kill, and tries to runs right back threw.
Tiger tries to jump threw portal (also without activating IPP). Tiger and A-Dom run into each other, in the middle of the Wyld Portal. Tiger attempts to do a flurry of attacks on A-Dom. A-Dom uses Counter Attack.
Massive rules lawyering about how the combat resolves takes a half hour to actually deal with this one exchange of blows. Many, many, many dice are rolled.
Tiger manages to knock A-Dom unconscious. A-Dom only manages to wound Tiger. Tiger lands inside the manse, grabs A-Doms ankles and drags him back into the manse one second before the portal closes.
Tiger drags A-Dom to one of the rooms and drops him on a bed.
Ryan: You know, Tiger is always around to knock people unconscious when they limit break. Clearly Tiger is causing us to limit break.
