[Exalted] Solar Circle of the West - whole slew of updates 3/8/09

Ao the Overkitty

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Synopsis of 10/9/06 session

"Make Love, Not DOOM!"
By Alwaystoast

Ceri flies off.

The group starts off, by arguing about what they should be doing. This went on... for a long, long time. Then they went off into tagents. Then they argued some more. Clearly, everything was normal.

Tiger decided to take 6 days off to train (There was much debating and complaining about this for no real reason).

Dan: You know Paul actually said it would be OK if we took a little time off before we went to the other island.

Ryan: Paul is not in the :):):):)ing group! Paul is the :):):):):):):) DM. He’s over there, he decides what we are doing, and then he tells us how we :):):):) it up. We decide when we do it!

Gareth decided taking some time off sounded good too. So mostly he spent his time brewing alcoholic beverages. Banana Beer was his best creation during this time. So Tiger and Gareth hung around Chuck-Chuck’s village. On the up side, at least Chuck-Chuck spoke Seatongue, so they had someone they could talk to. Since nether of them spoke Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck.

Gareth at some point got into a drinking contest with Chuck-Chuck and drank him under the table.

Jade’s Luck, Jahar, and A-Dom went on to the third village. Luk-Muck’s (Uk-Fuju’s cousin) village. They went in, they mingled, made nice, got bored. Nothing really of interest to them in the village. So the group broke up further.

Jahar and Jade’s Luck argue about how to take over the island... without causing Ceri to kill Jahar.

Jade’s Luck decided to go around to the different villages telling stories about the Great Warrior of the Dawn, and working in making A-Dom sound good.

Successes: 5, 7, 7

Liz: Jade’s Luck thinks Mind Control is kind of unfair.

Gabe: I think Mind Control is completely unfair. But damn it, I payed xp for it. So I’m going to use it.

The group gets into an argument about who has more charms, and where people are spending XP.

Jahar decided to do a geomantical survey the island. He took A-Dom with him so he wouldn’t get eaten by any plants. A-Dom decided to become a master in... every skill that was favored or caste for him (instantly of course), because he was bored. So they decided to hire a local guide to show them around. So Jahar and A-Dom spent about 9 days wandering around the island.

During that time the local guide showed them the hole where you can look down and see the dinosaurs and the sun in the cave, and they wanted to know if there was an alternate way in.

Guide: Well... there is the Caverns of Doom. They might lead there. But we don’t go in them, because, you know, it’s the Caverns of Dooooooom.

A-Dom: Excellent!

Jahar: (Jahar says something that everyone wanted put into the synopsis, but it’s completely unintelligible because Gabe was whispering).

A-Dom: We’ll check that out later.

The guide also tells them about the spring at the top of a hill. While walking along with the local guide, Jahar would stop to talk to Spirits, in Old Realm. Of course, only Jahar could see the Spirits, and the Native Guide couldn’t understand him, or why he wanted to stop to talk to inanimate objects.

At the top of the hill there was a water spring. Jahar could see a Water Elemental under the surface blowing the water up and out of the spring. They both decided to talk to the elemental, despite the fact only Jahar could hear the responses.

Jahar: Hello there. How are you?

Elemental: *blowing* Busy! *blowing*

A-Dom: Do you want to be bigger?

Elemental: *blowing* Busy! Very Busy! *blowing*

A-Dom: You dropped one!

The elemental stops to look around for what he dropped. The water level of the spring started to rise visibly, the elemental realizing A-Dom was messing with him went back to blowing the water out.

Jahar: Why can’t you stop to talk to us?

Elemental: Flooding bad. *blowing* Very bad. *blowing* This is my job.

Jahar and A-Dom harass the Elemental with more dumb questions to which the elemental doesn’t know the answer.

The guide then shows them the Caverns of Doom. The outside of the cave looked like a carving of a gigantic dragon mouth.

CoD: (in Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck): Dooooooom!

Jahar: That’s interesting.

A-Dom: There is probably a little tiny wyld area in there.

CoD (In Old Realm): Dooooooom!

Jahar (to A-Dom): Did you hear that?

A-Dom: The Doom in old realm? Yea, it’s called the wyld. We’re going to wait for the others.

Jahar: Can we wait two and a half months?

A-Dom: No.

CoD (in flame tongue): Dooooooom!

A-Dom and Jahar decided to go back to town to get the others, 9 days later.

Jahar (addressing the group): Well... we have a lot of trees.

The group then starts discussing the lack of spirits in the area.

Jade’s Luck: After we summon them, we should interview them. To make sure they are Ok.

Jahar: Oh we found a fountain, and some stuff like that, and some caverns of doom.

Tiger: Lets go there now!

Jahar decides to design a ritual, with A-Dom’s help to summon some kind of elemental. Despite A-Dom’s best efforts, Jahar insisted that no zombies were needed to “help” with the ritual.

Dan: Why didn’t you ask us to help with the summoning? We have hearthstones that help with elementals.

Gabe: Then maybe you should tell us about your Hearthstones sometime.

Ryan: We know exactly what they do, give you bonuses to killing orphans.

After three days in the woods, Jahar and A-Dom finish designing the ritual and summoning diagram, involving a 12 pointed star and a lot of stuff to be burned to create smells designed to attract elementals. They then went back to town and told the group what they were doing, so Jade’s Luck and Tiger offered to help with the ritual.

Jade’s luck explained that her hearthstone helped with dealing with elementals.

Gareth: So Tiger, what are the womanly duties of the manse?

Tiger unsurprisingly ignored Gareth’s comment.

So the group started the ritual (except Gareth who was in town brewing). A day and a half later, they heard something... watery approaching. A water elemental... which was rather large, about the size of a river, rolled out of the ocean, and through the forest to where they were doing the summoning.

A-Dom (waving): Hello Elemental!

Jahar (with caste mark glowing): Hello Great spirit, Welcome to the great island of Uk Muck Chuck Luck (to the group) Did I say that right?

Jade’s Luck: No, Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck.

Jahar: We are here to beseech you on behalf of the residents of this island.

Water Elemental: Ok (sits down) Beseech me!

Jahar motions for Jade’s Luck to step in.

Jade’s Luck: There is a spring with a smaller elemental which is sadly overworked. We were hoping you could help repopulate the island with spirits to help.

Water Elemental: Interesting...

Jahar cuts off Jade’s Luck and starts a rambling explanation of what had happened with the demons on the island, what their current plan was, etc. For about an hour. In the middle of this Gareth showed up and passed out Banana Beers to people.

The Water Elemental was interested in their proposal.

Jahar: Maybe you should go into the hole and find out what is going on down there too.

Water elemental looks confused.

Jade’s Luck: Yea, you can probably just fall right down the hole, just don’t hit the Sun spirit on your way past.

Water Elemental looks even more confused.

Jahar: Oh great spirit, this island is hollow, and it has a sun spirit in the middle of it.

Water Elemental: What did you say?

Jahar: This is a hollow island. There are dinosaurs there too.

Jade’s Luck: Would you care to look?

Water Elemental: Yes.

The water elemental rushes off the island and disappeared into the ocean. The group got the feeling he went over near Uk Fuju’s villiage. A few hours later.

Water Elemental: That’s so strange.

Jahar: Yes.

Water Elemental: Who puts an island inside an island.

Jade’s Luck: The gods do strange things when they are bored.

Jahar: We have seen a number of odd things in our travels great one.

Water Elemental: All the elementals on this island are terribly overworked.

Jahar and Jade’s Luck pander to his greatness until he agrees to take up residence on the island.

Jahar: What should we call you?

Water Elemental: Glurbleburbleglurble

Jahar: Excellent Glurble.

A-Dom: Ok time for the Caverns of Doom?

Tiger: Yea, lets go now!

Jahar: Lets got to sleep first! We’ve been awake for days.

So the next morning, the group went to the Caverns of Doom. Everyone except Jahar put up Integrity Protecting Prana.

CoD (Hoen Ba): Dooooooooom!

Jahar: I may have to turn around if that really is the Wyld.

Jade’s Luck: But it’s so much fun when your delusional.

Jahar: I’m not delusional! You can really zoom in on that map!

A-Dom then extolled the virtues of Wyld mutations. Jahar argued that this would not endear him to his wife, the next time he was arrested... by her.

As the group was walking inside...

A-Dom: Hello Wyld!

CoD: Dooooooom, hello A-Dom.

A-Dom: See wyld.

Tiger: Great, now we can’t sneak up on it.

A-Dom: You can’t sneak up on the wyld. It doesn’t work.

Jahar: Hello there.

CoD: Doooooooom...

A-Dom (laughing): It doesn’t like YOU!

A-dom charged into the cave, generally followed by the rest of the group. The floor of the cave was designed to look like a tongue, and the inside of the cave was designed to look like the inside of a dragons throat. Also the Dooms started getting much louder.

Jade’s Luck: Could you turn that down a bit?

CoD: No (and even louder) Dooooooooom!

Eventually after walking down the hall they came upon a little spirit sitting on a stool, with a megaphone yelling: Doom. Of course only people with Spirit Detecting Glance on could see it. So Jahar and Tiger went to inspect the spirit, and saw that it was waving a little sign that said: Doom! As well. They tried to figure out what kind of spirit it was. Jahar decided it was an announcement spirit. Tiger decided it was a Propaganda Spirit.

Jade’s Luck: So what you doing here?

Propaganda Spirit: Announcing Doom. Duh. (into the megaphone) Doooooooooom!

Jade’s Luck: So is there any actual Doom, other then the sign and the announcements?

Propaganda Spirit: Oh yea, we got doom. Right back there (pointing further into the cave) , all ya want. (into the megaphone) Doooooooom!

Jade’s Luck: What kind of doom?

Propaganda Spirit: I’m not in charge of that. I’m just in charge of announcing it. Dooooooom!

A-Dom: Can I help? (Using his power to yell and be heard for miles): Doom!

The propaganda spirit tried to give A-Dom a button that said “Doom” but A-Dom couldn’t see it, and Jade’s luck couldn’t touch it. However, Tiger was able to take it, so he put it on his shirt.

So the group wanders past the Uvula and into a much larger cave... shaped like a stomach. There was a big lake of acid in the middle, with a thin rock ledge that went around the edge to the tunnel on the other side. So the group started walking along the walkway.

A-Dom realized... the lake was looking at him. A-Dom looked back. Everyone else stopped to see what A-Dom was looking at, and slowly realized that the surface of the lake of acid looked like an eye. So the group decided to continue along the little path.

As they walked along, they started to realize that some of the paving stones in the walkway were looking at them. Then everyone realized that the path started moving away from the wall. They decided to keep moving along. Almost everyone turned on Graceful Crane Stance.

A-Dom: Path? Why are you moving?

Liz: Do Caves often chase you?

Ryan: It’s the :):):):)ing wyld, Barney was in Sigil.

Liz: But you’re expecting it to work.

The path then split in two, along the lenght, and moved like a pair of lips talking. Everyone with graceful Crane stance just went along for the ride. Jahar managed to hold on by brute strength.

The Path: Doom you idiot! Didn’t you listen to the spirit?

Jahar failed his check... and got a wyld mutation. The group started yelling out suggestions. Gabe started yelling at them to stop giving the GM ideas. However, the mutation was not obvious, so the group carried onwards.

The group ran along to path to get off it as fast as possible. Jahar walked as fast as he could, but decided to look back. The far end of the path rolled up into a cow, and started eating the rest of the path.

Liz: When Jade’s Luck learns the charm to fix wyld mutations, I’m just going to hit everyone in the group. Just in case.

When the group reached the other end of the path, a number of them... smelled something... cherries.

Jahar: I really think it’s time I turn around, but the path went away.

Gareth (sniffing Jahar): You using a new soap?

Jahar: Why are you asking me?

Tiger: You smell of cherries!

Jade’s Luck (to Jahar): Do you have cherries? Can I have some cherries?

Jahar: I don’t have any cherries!

A-Dom: Jahar! Lick yourself!

Jahar looks at A-Dom horrified.

A-Dom (looking at Jade’s Luck): As others may be tempted to... who aren’t A-Dom.

Jade’s Luck: Do you want me to see if you taste like cherries? Hold out your hand.

Jahar holds out his hand, and Jade’s Luck licked him. He did not taste like cherries.

Gabe: What kind of cherries do I smell like?

Dan: There are different kinds of cherries?

Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should start a new fashion.

A-Dom: Maybe you should shave all your hair off.

Jahar started investigating himself for hidden cherries. He determined that the cherry smell was primarily coming from his armpits.

Ryan: We should just start dipping people into the wyld. *sniff, sniff* You smell like Pineapple!

The group walked along, through the intestine. It was a long twisty tunnel, lots of climbing and wandering back and forth. Eventually they reached an end, and a little sign.

Sign (in Old Realm) said:
Doom!
You’re Doom may vary.
No I couldn’t build an entire dragon.

The end of the tunnel opened up, in a circular motion. Through the opening was a huge cave full of plants, and dinosaurs, and Uk-Sun. So the group started wandering around.

Off in the distance the group saw a river running uphill. Everyone with spirit detecting glance could see a row of water elementals doing a bucket brigade.

Jade’s Luck (yelling to the elementals): We got you some more help!

A-Dom (Yelling to the elementals that he can’t see): I appreciate all your work!

Tiger: You can’t see them!

A-Dom: I assume whenever anyone talks to nothing there is something there for me to talk to.

Gabe/Liz: I have to urge to talk to myself, so he looks like an idiot.

The group saw big herbivores dinosaurs wandering around eating plants, and fewer carnivorous dinosaurs wandering around eating other dinosaurs.

A-Dom: Hello Dinosaurs! (To the group) I want to ride one.

Tiger: Who’s smarter, the dinosaurs... or A-Dom...

Jahar started taking notes and drawings of the dinosaurs. Jade’s Luck started naming them.

Tiger (to A-Dom): Try not to make too many undead dinosaurs.

A-Dom: No, I’m all about recycling... and, and things having purpose...

Jahar: I think you’re either no longer A-Dom, or you’re just trying to get us to kill a dinosaur so you can animate it.

Gareth: I think he’s a doppleganger. Doppleganger test! A-dom, what’s the doppleganger password?

A-Dom: I am not a doppleganger. (To Tiger) What’s the password!

Tiger: What?

A-Dom decides to go off and “wrestle” a stegosaurus. So he walked up, grabbed it’s leg... then realized how much it weighed.

A-Dom (Holding onto the Stegosaurus’ leg): I’ve got it... Wooooooah! Maybe not...

Eventually A-Dom decided to jump off when the Stegosaurus tried to rub him off against a tree. A-Dom went back to the group.

A-Dom: Yea, if we’re going to steal one, we need to find a smaller one.

Jade’s Luck: Well they are like lizards, do they lay eggs? Wait, why are we stealing one? Did we make a deal with the demon lady?

Jahar: No, but if anyone wants a dinosaur baby... now would be the time.

The group started to do a geomantic survey and realized that the huge growth of plants with giant 10 ft tall flowers directly under Uk-Sun that looked all magical and such was probably the geomantic center of the island. A-Dom also figured that might be where dinosaurs might keep their eggs. So the group went over to investigate it.

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Jahar (to A-Dom): If you want a Manse, you’re going to want to put it there.

As they got closer, A-Dom realized that the plants were growing so fast he could actually see them growing. Everyone who could see spirits, saw that the area was teaming with spirits. Especially Growth and Fertility spirits. So the group talked to them and found out they had no interest in the rest of the island and they were happy where they were.

A-Dom: Spirits! I can not see you... or hear you. But I encourage you to :):):):) and have more!

Spirit: He doesn’t understand does he?

Jahar: No he doesn’t.

Jade’s Luck: He’s a little strange. A-Dom, spirits are not like motals.

Jahar: Spirits don’t make little spirits.

Big leafy spirit walks towards the group.

Leafy spirit: Was he talking about sexual reproduction and having more?

Jahar (pointing at A-Dom): Yes.

The spirit pats A-Dom on the head, and he felt a little tingle.

Jahar: Say “Hi” A-Dom. (To the spirit) What did you just do?

Fertility Spirit: I just blessed him. More children. I’m a fertility spirit.

Gabe: I’m so not going to tell him.

The Fertility spirit wanders off. Jade’s Luck followed the fertility spirit. Which mostly went around to the flowers, and would occasional smack a dinosaur, who would then go off to make merry with the other dinosaurs.

Jade’s Luck: Hey A-Dom would you like the people on your island to be more fertile and have more children?

A-Dom (very slow): Yes. :):):):)ing good. More people good for creation. More followers for the unconquered :):):):):):):).

Jade’s Luck then went to make a deal with the Fertility spirit to go up to bless the human villiagers.

Fertility spirits: Birds! Bring us bird eggs. Twenty to thirty different kinds. No chickens. Then I’ll go and bless the people on the surface for a week.

Jahar ran over and sanctified the deal. Mostly so he could feel important.

Jade’s Luck: A-Dom, we need to go get bird eggs, and the spirit will go make all your people fertile.

A-Dom (confused): How do we get the eggs to this island without them turning into birds?

Gareth: The bigger question is how do we get them from up there, to down here, without going through the wyld?

Eventually, the group who had been looking at a dinosaur egg, saw the egg crack open. A baby stegosaurus crawled out, ate a leaf. Doubled in size. Ate another leaf, doubled in size again.

Ryan & DAN (aka A-Dom and Tiger): I EAT A LEAF!

After eating a single leaf, they both felt very full... and began to feel the call of nature. So they ran off behind some bushes. Jahar pocketed a leaf.

Jade’s Luck (playing with the baby stegosaurus): I want a familiar!

The stegosaurus wandered off to join the full grown stegosaurus.

Jahar: This is the most powerful demanse I’ve found on the island. It will be hard to build a manse with all these dinosaurs wandering around, eating the workers.

Gareth: I can build it.

Jahar: You’ve never built a Manse.

Gareth: I’ve never built a lot of things. That’s not going to stop me.

The group starts discussing how to build a manse using demons. Ryan: I know we summon an extra demon, then halfway through, we let Tiger kill it, to keep the other ones in line.

Jade’s Luck: Can’t we find workers that wouldn’t be appetizing to the dinosaurs? (To A-Dom) You know there are probably dinosaur bones down here...

Jahar starts looking for dinosaur corpses to pick parts off of. A-Dom, who is being shown dinosaur corpses, specifically, breaks down and decides to make a dino-zombie. He specifically decided to make one zombie out of a Triceratops and a T-Rex. Unfortunately, halfway through, A-Dom dropped the T-Rex head onto himself... teeth first. The back legs of the triceratops, and half the spine went running off. Then some of the smaller carnivorous dinosaurs attacked it and it just kept walking off.

Jade’s Luck: We could sell these teeth for a lot of money.

A-Dom (Stuck inside the T-Rex mouth): Not right now! Somebody help me!

Tiger: You’re the strong one...

Jahar decided to check the leaf he put in his pocket, and found it had totally rotted away already. Jahar decided to use a spell to fly out of the hole as a flock of birds, to go find a bird egg.

While Jahar was gone, A-Dom decided to make a spine chain, out of raptors. He decided to make it 5 raptors long. (Dan chanting: More! More! More!) So 8 hours later, A-Dom had a Raptor Spine Chain.

A-Dom: Too bad you can’t swim. But I still love you like all my children.

Jade’s Luck: Did you ask it?

A-Dom: Rappy? Can you swim?

The zombie-raptor-spine-chain just looked at him funny.

A-Dom started cackling like an evil maniac.

Jade’s Luck: Gareth, he’s making that noise again.

A-Dom: What the hell are you doing?

Jahar: Go back to your dead dinosaurs.

A-Dom: Ok. (To gareth) Can I take him with us?

Gareth: No.

A-Dom: You said I could bring spine-E!

Gareth: No, I didn’t. I expressly forbade it.

A-Dom: But... you said I could bring Skelly.

Jade’s Luck (looking at Rappy): Skelly was completely different.

A-Dom (to Rappy): You’re the only undead on the island. So, you’re in charge! Anything that bothers you on the island, you eat ‘em.

A-Dom takes the egg that Jahar brought him, and took it into the demanse at the center of the cave and held it up to the island.

A-Dom (holding the egg up to the sun): GROW!!!!!

Jade’s Luck found a growth spirit and had it go over to the egg. The egg grew, and a sparrow hatched out.

A-Dom (looking at the sparrow): Well it worked. (A-Dom then threw the sparrow over his shoulder) Well what next?

Jade’s Luck (freaking out): Hey! (Grabs the baby sparrow out of the air.) Poor little thing. A-Dom find some worms!

A-Dom finds some worms. Jade’s Luck feeds it to the sparrow. Sparrow started to grow supernaturally fast, then pooped on her hands.

Alex: Yup, birds do that.

A-Dom: We have to bring my son down here!

Jade’s Luck: Why?

A-Dom (laughing): I have no good reason really. Why not?

Jade’s Luck: Well it usually helps if people actually have time to... you know... learn things. Before they become full sized.

A-Dom: oh. We’ll I have two sons. The mortal son is going to be at a disadvantage.

Jade’s Luck: Well I think you should let things take their natural... or unnatural... course.

A-Dom (to Gareth) Oh that’s right, can you make me some clubs? Little ones, for the children?

Jahar: I want to go look at (points way off in the distance). Anyone want to come with me so I don’t get eaten by a dinosaur?

A-Dom: I will! Come on Rappy! (They then realized that they could ride Rappy. They also realized they both had the Ride skill.)

There is basically a ramp which the elementals were pushing the water out.

Jahar: I’ll help you build your giant manse down here if you’ll let me have a manse somewhere on the surface.

A-Dom: I’m leaning towards positive there.

Jahar: Well if you want me to design it, I’d prefer if you agree.

A-Dom: We will make an agreement at another time.

Jahar sanctified THAT “We will make an agreement at another time.”

Gabe: You asked for that.

Jahar: We are now oathbound to make an agreement about a manse, at some other time.

A-Dom (irritated): Yes.

Jade’s Luck decided that dinosaur teeth “longer then my forearm” might be valuable. So she was carrying around a bundle of teeth by the time the group decided to leave.

Once the group got out of the cavern. So a few things happened.

A-Dom went by the Caves of Doom again just to say:

A-Dom: Very nice Caves of Doom. You’re welcome to stay.

Jade’s Luck: You should probably make those go away.

A-Dom: Why?

Jade’s Luck: Wyld Bad. You know normally gods keep telling us Wyld is bad. Maybe you should get rid of it.

A-Dom: Yea, but why this one?

Jade’s Luck: The Wyld is a hole in creation. I’m just saying, maybe we should fix it at some point.

A-Dom: Maybe we will... at some point. But... I’m going to make this one a low priority. If in five thousand years it’s not fixed I’m fine with that. I mean all you did was move Ailee. You didn’t get rid of Ailee.

Jade’s Luck: So? I don’t dislike Ailee, but the Wyld doesn’t belong in creation. It should be at the edge of Creation.

A-Dom: I’m just saying we can practice squishing the Wyld elsewhere. We can come back to this at another time, and then I’ll decide.

So eventually, the group got back to Uk-Fuju’s village. And A-Dom saw his wife...
Then A-Dom botched his temperance roll.
So he had... relations with his wife... and the maid who came by... and then he snuck out in the night and had relations a few other village girls (“I’m the Prince, you know.”)... then he had relations with his wife again...

Liz: Are you being intemperate again?

Ryan: I think there are going to be a few more Uk-Doms. Well... it was bound to happen.

Jade’s Luck then went in to wake A-Dom up in the morning so A-Dom would not scare his wife (who still doesn’t know exactly what he really looks like) and noticed there were more than two pairs of legs sticking out from under the sheets. So she carefully poked A-Dom’s leg.

A-Dom: I’m tired... more later.

Jade’s Luck: A-Dom... your brown is showing...

It turned out seeing Jade’s Luck was the cure for A-Dom’s intemperate thoughts.

Jade’s Luck: Do you need more flowers?

A-Dom: Yea... lots of flowers... and any kind of sweets.

Dan: This isn’t much of a problem.

Ryan: It’s a problem the next time we show up and there are hundreds of kids, and they say “They’re all yours! How are we feeding them?”

Dan: So we start transporting them to the other island we’ve depopulated...

A-Dom waits for his wife to wake up. He gives her flowers.

Uk-Youz: Oh your such a loving husband.

A-Dom: Yes, yes I am. But we have to have a small talk.

Uk-Youz: What about?

A-Dom: Many things have happened. I was chosen by a god... that has powers.

A-Dom summoned his magic club and made his anima banner glow and generally showed off.

Uk-Youz (in adoration): I married such a good man.

A-Dom: Indeed! Anyway... there is this thing called the Wyld. Sometimes it changes you... turns your skin a different color... gives you tusks... I’ve been... umm... affected with it.

Uk-Youz (shocked): What?

A-Dom: I’m not sure... I have a power to look any way I want. I chose to look the way I use to look.


A-Dom, made his skin appear it’s “normal” brown color.

Uk-Youz: Well that’s not so bad...

A-Dom (interrupting): There is more.

A-Dom turns off the disguise over his tusks and claws.

Uk-Youz: Oh. So that’s were the scratches came from.

A-Dom: Yea, I’ll apologize to the maid later.

Uk-Youz: At least that’s all that’s wrong with you.

A-Dom: Umm... Yea well.. I also may have been blessed by a fertility spirit. So we may be pregnant later.

Uk-Youz: I’m pregnant now.

A-Dom: Yea... well there may be... others.

Uk-Youz: We’ll you’re the Prince. As long as you only love me.

A-Dom (trying to sound sincere): I do.

Alex: He only loves her... and his creations.

A-Dom: I have these afflictions and powers, and I’ve been charged with conquering creation.

Jade’s Luck (from outside the window): Pst! Obligations, they are called Obligations....

A-Dom: umm... Obligations to conquer the World.

Uk-Youz: All of it? The world is pretty big.

A-Dom: Yes, that’s why I’m very magical. And I’m going to live for a very long time.

Uk-Youz: Can’t you just conquer it from here?

A-Dom: No. BUT! I can come back... often... very often!

Liz: I need to make charms to help men suck up to their wives... maybe I need a "suck up to the wife spirit."

A-Dom: So I know you were upset when I was away. But I have to go, but I will come back, often.

A-Dom then went over “No summoning demons” with his Wife.

Uk-Youz: But the Great Old Ones brought you back.

A-Dom: No I am a master of my own destiny.

Uk-Youz: They just make you think that because they are very great.

A-Dom: Listen, I killed a Great Old One!

Uk-Youz starts gasping for air... screams and faints.

Jade’s Luck: Do you need more flowers?

A-Dom (steps out of the hut): It’s OK, we’re all right... wait (A-Dom puts his disguise charm back on before freaking out the villagers). (To Jade’s Luck): I think... maybe she could use some water.

Jade’s Luck comes into the tent to check on Uk-Youz. Eventually Uk-Youz comes back around.

Uk-Youz: I had a horrible dream... You were all brown... and there was a maid.

A-Dom: No, that was all real.

Uk-Youz: You killed a Great Old One? You must repent!

A-Dom: No, no, no no no, No. (Screaming) Jahar! Jahar help!

Gabe: Am I in earshot?

Ryan: I can make you be in earshot.

Jahar gets to the hut and finds A-Dom trying to give a history lesson to his wife while his wife his hitting him with the bouquet of flowers yelling “repent!” at him. So Jahar explains to Uk-Youz that not all the Great Old Ones are really all that “Great,” and that killing them is not bad.

A-Dom: Contract! Contract!

So Jahar amended his story, to point out the one Great Old One left (the Purple lady who they had the contract with) was OK, but any other Old Ones may in fact be evil and may have to be destroyed.

A-Dom (to Uk-Youz): How about I go give her some flesh, to make her happy. Will that make you happy?

Uk-Youz agreed that this would be acceptable.

A-Dom: Yea, Ok, umm... so, yea, ok, so I will be back, we’re going to try to do our best to encourage the Unconquered Sun to protect this island, I’m not sure if he can, but we’re going to do what we can to be sure to try and encourage...

Jade’s Luck (Grabbing A-Dom by the Ear): I’ve been working very, very hard on that... and your screwing it up.

A-Dom: The Unconquored Sun WILL be protecting you. Sorry... there is this thing between me and him (looking up). Oh and I want you to encourage the women to get as pregnant as often as possible. It’s a good thing. Good for Creation. From the normal human... business way. Encourage others to bang, and bang, and banging and banging... and babies everywhere.

Jahar: You’ve been working on that?

Jade’s Luck: Didn’t you catch any of my story hours?

Jahar: I was in the woods...

A-Dom: Take care of my kids. Oh yea, and the one you’re about to pop out, probably will be all brown and tusky and shark-eyed.

A-Dom ran off while Jahar continued working on Uk-Youz.

Jahar remembered to go and tell Uk-Fuju that the Purple Lady was ok (due to his hyptnotizing).

A-Dom (to Jahar later): Thanks for mind-:):):):)ing my wife. Lets go drinking.

*****
Later... A-Dom and Tiger went to get flesh from dinosaurs, to give to the Purple lady.

Dan: I want a Triceratops and a (whatever the ones with the tail club are) combination.

So Tiger got his mutant-a-saurus... which came out as an egg, for a couple of pieces of dinoflesh for Zokaz to use.

When Zokaz start trying to bargain with them, A-Dom started looking for other people to donate flesh that were not him.

A-Dom (to random male villager): You there! Want to give flesh to the Great Old One?

A-Dom talked the villager into it... as he really didn’t need all his toes.

A-Dom gave her triceratops flesh to combine with the villager. Zokaz did her thing and produced a child with grey skin and a triceratops head on a mostly human body. Zokaz handed it to A-Dom.

Tiger: Zog! It has to be named Zog.

A-Dom (handing the baby to the villager): You have a... Girl!

Tiger: No! No! It’s ours! He has to raise it for us.

A-Dom: You are charged by the Unconquered Sun to raise this (pause) child, and love it. And find a wife, and :):):):) her, and make babies!

Villager (meekly): Ok...

A-Dom: You might want to write that down.

Villager: I don’t know how to write.

A-Dom: Might want to learn.
 

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Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 10/16/06
Moral of the story: Adultery is not a sin.
By AlwaysToast

The group sails to the Pirate Island several days away. On the way the group starts discussing how best to scout the island. Jahar promotes the idea of sending his Shadow instead of letting A-Dom and Tiger sneak onto the island.

Somehow this conversation happened:

A-Dom: I don’t want you killing all my drinking buddies!

Jahar: But then you can raise them and they can drink with you forever!

A-Dom: But then you get booze all over the floor.

The group then discussed ways to build various devices inside of zombies so as to not waste beer that the zombies would be drinking.

A-Dom: What am I going to do with 4 exalted skeletons anyway?

*****Once the group got back on track.****

A-Dom: I’ve been there before... but again with the drinking. I don’t remember much.

Jade’s Luck then explained to the crew (the “ex-pirates”) that there may be pirates at the next island, and this may cause some uncomfortableness and head explosions, and asked them what they wanted to do. The crew decided that they wanted to stay on the ship. As they really didn’t like the idea of getting left on the island with barbarians.

A-Dom (to the crew): And WHAT is wrong with barbarians?!?

Fatty: Umm... we can’t speak to them. None of use speak their language. Plus when we try the whole “sign language” thing, we tend to be miss understood, as people have some bad misconceptions about pirates.

A-Dom: Oh, yea, I can see that.

Jahar: Translational errors go bad?

Fatty: Yea, I ask for a scrub brush, and the next thing you know they think I’m asking to rape there women or something. Never goes well. I end up married and being burned at the stake. We don’t want that.

Before the group left, they found out that Ceri had taken the “slaves” that the group had traded for monkeys, and took them back to Spider Island on a small boat at some point.

So the ship sails over to the “Pirate island.” It was a 3 day trip total. When they were still 50 miles away from it, at night, they could see a light on the top of the island that was shining out to sea. The beam of light went around in a circular motion, but it also searched the sea at different distances away from the island in a seemingly random pattern. At it’s furthest it was shining up to 50 miles away from the island.

Dan: Does it look like an Anima Banner?

GM: No.

Gabe: That would be an impressive way to power a light house.

Ryan: Yea, my job is to sit on top of a tower and glow all night. My god’s really pissed at me.

The group then became all paranoid about the light “spotting them.” So they had Gareth sail the ship so they would avoid ever entering into the beam of light. They managed to do it, but they had a number of close calls.

As they got closer to the island, and as dawn began to break, the light disappeared. They could see a major port town, and further along the beach a small fishing village.

Alex: I don’t really have a plan other then “Argh! Pirates! Kill!”

So Gareth was sailing the ship towards the docks of the major town, with a homicidal gleam in his eye and a smile on his lips. The rest of the group slowly realized that Gareth might not be his calm and rational self today.

A-Dom: You didn’t see this coming?

Jahar: No. (Pause) Noooo. No. Not at all.

A-Dom: The last time we mentioned Pirates Gareth went all Rawh *A-Dom makes a whole bunch of angry sounds* and foamed at the mouth.

Jahar: Ok, but I thought he would do it intelligently.

Jade’s Luck: I think his plan is to sail up to the dock, get off our boat and start killing people.

Gareth smiles.

Jahar (to Gareth): Maybe we should find someplace to park the ship... hidden. Then go and slaughter people.

Tiger (to Gareth): Yea, sneak in, then lay waste.

Jahar (to Gareth): If you just walk right in, we’re going to have all kinds of problems with innocent mortals and stuff.

As they get closer Gareth sees that there are two ships. One has light blue sails (the hardest to spot on the ocean), and one with black sails. Which is the classic combination for two pirate ships that work together.

A-Dom (walks up to Gareth): Argh!

Gareth (squinting at A-Dom): You’re not going Pirate on us are you? Cause that’s something we have to nip in the bud!

A-Dom (bashful): Umm... no, not at all.

Gareth: OK, I’ll try to find some kind of hiding place for us to dock the ship.

A-Dom (wandering away): I’d just like to point out that nothing that happens on this island is my fault.

Gareth: Ok, what we do is we invade. We walk up, and we say “Are you a Pirate?” And if they say “yes” we skewer them! If they say “No”... *Gareth shrugs*

Jade’s Luck (to A-Dom): Gareth has a masterful plan! You should come here it!

Jade’s Luck (to A-Dom): We walk up to someone and say “Are you a Pirate?”

Gareth (cutting in): And if they say “yes” we skewer them!

A-Dom: So really you’re just going to wait until you hear a Ye or Ne sound and which ever you hear first determines if they die?

Gareth (giggling): Yup.

The group presses A-Dom for information.

A-Dom: They had good beer. That’s what I remember. There may have been some Dragon Bloods, but I avoided them. I don’t really remember any Demons walking around. So I don’t expect there to be any.

Tiger: So... all you remember is the beer.

Gareth found a cove to leave the ship at which was out of sight of the town and village. As soon as the anchor was dropped, Gareth got into his Ship into his row boat and started heading to shore.

Tiger: Maybe someone should go ahead of Gareth... (looking around) is he gone already? Crap...

A-Dom jumped into the water and started swimming along next to Gareth’s row boat. Jahar, Tiger, and Jade’s Luck both jumped down into Gareth’s row boat.

A-Dom: So we’re just going to kill them all?

Gareth: You got a better plan?

A-Dom: So maybe we should have a talk about who we are going to kill first. Because... you know... sometimes there are problems... with you know... children and (pause) puppies.

Jahar: Yes, we need a system for who we want to attack.

A-Dom: I think he’s already come up with his “system.”

Jahar: I think we should kill the leaders of the Pirates and not worry about the populous.

A-Dom: Dragon Blood!

Gareth: Yup if they’re pirates.

A-Dom: I don’t care if they are pirates or not, if they are Dragon Bloods, they die.

Gabe: You see the problem is some of us still believe in the Dynasty, not the Dragon Bloods.

Alex: Why are you using the plural?

Tiger: What about the ships?

Gareth: Burn them to the waterline!... wait... we could just have (pause) more ships.

Jahar: Yes we can save them, then they can be useful to us later.

Gareth: A-Dom, go break those ships.

Jahar: Just break the hull not the keel!

A-Dom (still swimming along): Ok!

A-Dom swims off, just off the beach. A-Dom swims past a few boys swimming. A-Dom waves.

Kid 1: That shark was sure swimming fast.

Kid 2: I saw an arm. He got someone.

A-Dom approched the docks... and realized that it was very familiar. He was confident he knew where two bars were. As he got closer to the ships, he saw the ship with blue sails was The Sea Diamond, and he had a vague recollection of working on that ship.

So, A-Dom dove through the first one (the black ship named Hunger’s Revenge), in one side and out the other. He then swam over to The Sea Diamond, and for sentimental reasons, he punched one “small” fist sized hole in the bottom of the hull. Then he swam back to join the group.

The rest of the group was in a forced march down the beach, well just off the beach in the forested area, heading towards town, following Gareth. Tiger was running ahead of the group. Tiger noticed the island was basically one big hill, and there was a large white building on the top of the hill, with very strange “arcane” architecture, with a large shinny object on top. Tiger stopped and waited for the group to show up.

Tiger: I think we should go up there!

The entire group stopped, looked at it, and nodded in agreement. Walking at a 90 degree angle away from the beach. This of course made it much harder for A-Dom to find the group, who he expected to be walking right along the beach, or at least heading towards town.

Jahar: We should go there. I think I like this one.

Tiger: Sure you don’t want mine? You get monkeys and elementals!

Ryan (speaking like Tiger): I’ll trade ya!

Tiger: He is just assuming Gareth doesn’t want it.

Jahar: I am just assuming only Gareth and I want it. Plus he wants to kill everyone on this island. (To Gareth): Genocide is not an acceptable reason to own an island.

Gareth: I only want to kill the pirates.

Tiger: But... they are all pirates. Clearly the leader of the Pirates is up there!

Gareth: Oh yea, I’m with you! shiny...

So the group continued to head towards the Manse by walking up the hill. A-Dom realises the group must have wandered off the beach and went to find them.

In the woods something poked Gareth on the shoulder.

Tree (accountant voice): Excuse me. What are you doing?

Jahar: Do they all have to be like this...

Gareth: We’re going up there (pointing up at the manse).

Tree: Why?

Gareth: Why not?

Tree: Well you see (sighs) this area is off limits.

Gareth: By who’s orders.

The tree pulls out a little scroll of paper. Jahar desperately tries to find a way to get a look at it, but is foiled by the tree’s lack of shoulders to read over.

Tree: By the authority of the last owner.

Jahar: When was that order given?

Tree: I don’t understand time.

Jade’s Luck: They never understand time.

Jahar then proceeded to badger the tree with a number of time related questions it couldn’t possible answer.

Jade’s Luck (to Jahar): Why do you insist on asking all the guardians of every magic building everywhere questions about time that they can’t answer. Are you trying to drive them all insane?

Gareth and Tiger then quizzed it on the current owner (or lack there of) but got stonewalled with the answer “I’m not allowed to divulge that kind of information.” In spite of asking it in several different ways.

Jahar: What happens if we keep going up the hill.

Tree: I can’t tell you that. But it wouldn’t be pleasant. (Pause) Why don’t you just go to the mayor’s office?

Jahar: What’s at the mayor’s office that will get us inside that?

Tree: The front door.

Tiger bolts for town. Everyone else follows as best they can. On his way Tiger run’s past A-Dom.

Tiger: This way! We’re going to town again!

A-Dom and Jahar start arguing about how things are going to go bad if they just start killing people (A-Dom is the Anti-killing side of the argument for those who are confused).

Ryan (while getting cake): Everything is going to go wrong. Arr! Paranoia!

Tiger (Looking like a pirate: Argh!), A-Dom (looking like a pirate: Argh!) and Jade’s Luck (looking like herself: Argh?) ran ahead into town ahead of Gareth (walking along the beach holding his artifact sword and smiling at it) and Jahar (with his grey skin and clearly magical red robes).

The first few people they come to are gambling outside a building.

A-Dom: Afternoon (pause) Argh!

Tiger: Arrmurghlurfal.

A-Dom: Sorry he just ate a parrot. (Look’s at Jade’s Luck) You’re not here. (Jade’s Luck looks at A-Dom funny.)

Local: Where you come from?

A-Dom: We woke up in the forest.

The locals look at them funny... then go back to playing dice. So Tiger, A-Dom, and Jade’s Luck keep going into town. Jade’s Luck looked around at the town, which was fairly normal, including children and puppies, and such, just with a few more “pirate-like” people then one would expect in a nice law abiding town.

Jade’s Luck: You know, I think Gareth’s on the verge of a homicidal temper tantrum.

A-Dom: OooOOOoooOOOoooo! Hide the bricks!

Tiger slaps himself on the forehead. Jade’s Luck headed back to talk to Gareth.

Gareth and Jahar are still walking along, having a conversation which is almost entirely centered on killing pirates. Jade’s Luck tries to convey to Gareth that not everybody in the town is a pirate and that after he kills the first few people will probably stop answering his question.

Gareth: So, they’re PIRATES. They deserve to die.

Jade’s Luck: But...

Gareth: Pie - RATS!

Jade’s Luck: Hasn’t the crew been a pretty good crew? They were pirates.

Gareth: Yes, but they are “former pirates.”

Jade’s Luck: Don’t you think you should give more pirates time to reform?

Gareth: They’ll be reformed when they are dead.

A-Dom and Tiger got to the mayors office. Two guards were sitting outside, drinking beers.

Guard: What you want?

Tiger: To see the Mayor.

Guard: Why?

A-Dom and Tiger just kind of wave their arms around.

Guard: Land Grants?

A-Dom: Yea! Land Grants!

Guard (yelling inside): Mayor people to see you. Better put some pants on.

A-Dom: I love this town. When I have an island, I’m never wearing pants.

Mayor (yelling from inside): Yes, yes, come in!

The mayor had clearly just woken up, as his bed was also in his office. As well as the fact that it was around 8:30 am. The Mayor was a rather pudgy fellow, who was in fact wearing pants, and just pants.

Gareth, Jahar, and Jade’s Luck walk past the gamblers.

Local (upon seeing more strangers): Where the hell are you guys from?

Gareth (jerking his thumb over his shoulder): That way.

They just kept walking past the gamblers. Much to everyone’s surprise, Gareth didn’t ask them if they were pirates.

Mayor: Come in boys! (To A-Dom) You look familiar.

A-Dom: How long you been mayor?

Mayor: Eight Years!

A-Dom: Oh... yea, I came through about 5 years ago. I got married to a princess a few islands over.

Mayor: Good for you!

A-Dom: We got a few questions about the big shinny rock thing. What’s the story with that.

Mayor: Well supposedly if you go inside and defeat all the traps and puzzles and stuff, you get to control this great and powerful island.

A-Dom: The whole island?

Mayor: Well, the person who owns the Fortress of Doom, puts down all these rules (the mayor pulls back a wall hanging to reveal a bookcase full of books) and we have to follow them. But you know, most of them are pretty reasonable.

Tiger: Why is it called the Fortress of Doom? I don’t hear anyone yelling DOOOoooooom!

Mayor: Well that’s just what we call it. (Mayor goes over an pulls back another curtain to reveal a wall full of human skulls) These are the last people who tried to take it over.

A-Dom: How you get the skulls?

Mayor (mater of fact-ly): Spits ‘em out.

A-Dom: Cool! They all mortals... or?

Mayor: Well these (his hand waves at a number of skulls) were all Dragon Bloods, and this guy said something about “Death was his guide” and yadda yadda, I really didn’t pay attention to him.

Tiger: Did he have a title instead of the name?

Mayor: Yea... something like that. Oooh, and this one (points at the very bottom one) was even an Anathema. He got killed too. Hence, we call it the “Fortress of Doom.” It probably has other names, what with the light an all. But you know, as long as we obey the laws and such, it’s a pretty nice place to live. We even get to have elections for Mayor!

A-Dom: How many people actually vote?

Tiger: How’s that work?

Mayor: Oh, almost everybody. You see we have these boxes that you go in...

A-Dom: And you think about who you want to vote for. And if someone isn’t suppose to vote... or vote twice, they... (kind of hand gestures disintegration) don’t come out.

Mayor: (looking at the hand gestures) yea...

A-Dom (under his breath): Damn Gareth...

Mayor: You guys know about the big rule right?

A-Dom: Umm... nope.

Mayor: No violence. Ever.

A-Dom: On the whole island?

Mayor: Yea.

A-Dom: What about in the test place (pointing at the Manse)

Mayor: Oh it’s ok in there. Just nowhere out on the island.

Tiger: What happens if there is violence?

Gareth has just walked up to an obvious pirate... and is trying to pick a fight.

A-Dom (not waiting for the answer): We’ll be right back.(A-Dom walks outside. Activating his dawn caste power so his artifact will make his voice carry for miles) GARETH! DON’T KILL ANYONE! THIS IS OURS! NO. NO. Nonono. No!

Tiger (to the Mayor): Really, what happens if there is violence?

Tiger, suddenly has a flash from a Past Life.

Vision of Better Times said:
A small woman, standing on the beach of this island, shaking with rage: “That’s it, no more violence, on MY island! EVER!”

Then someone in a crowd of people threw a rock at her. A brilliant white light came out of the top of the Manse overlooking the beach and burned the rock into ash. Then it burned the person who threw the rock into ash, and kept burning. In the end there was nothing left of the person, but there was a small sheet of bubbled glass from where the sand had been melted.

Ryan (Dr. Evil voice): “LASER”

Tiger (to the Mayor who is about to explain about the death ray): Hold on a second, I’ll be right back.

Tiger then explains the death ray to A-Dom as they run down the street heading for Gareth. A-Dom runs past Jahar and Jade’s Luck. Gareth is toe to toe with the pirate who he is trying to pick the fight with when A-Dom runs up to him, picks him up, and starts carrying him towards the Mayors house.

Jahar walks up to the Mayors office, but is stopped by the guard.

Guard: Hey! Where you think your going?

Jahar: To see the Mayor.

Guard: Why?

Jahar: Same reason.

Guard (Yelling inside): Another one to see you Mayor. Might want to put a shirt on.

A-Dom gets back to the Mayors house, carrying Gareth.

Gareth: You can put me down now.

A-Dom: You not... hurt anyone.

Tiger: You can’t do violence here.

Gareth (Gareth basically sees the same past life vision as Tiger): Well that takes all the fun out of it. (To Jade’s Luck) This is your fault!

Jahar walks into the mayor’s office. He looks at the wall of skulls which is still exposed. He then has a vision from a past life.
Jahar botched his past life roll.

Vision of Worse Times said:
A very vivid vision of his head being cut off and his skull being polished. It was the part with his skull being polished which was very weird... and unpleasant.

Gareth: How am I suppose to kill pirates if we can’t have any violence? Hmm... maybe if I go off the island, and taunt them. They’ll come off the island so I can kill them...

People on the street near the Mayor’s house start looking at Gareth like he’s a crazy man.

Tiger: Just sneak onto their ship and hide. Then when they go out to sea, kill them.

Gareth (thinking): That could work too.

Jahar (Trying to talk to the Mayor who can clearly hear Gareth outside): So... how many of the ships that dock here are Pirate Ships?

Mayor (looking down the street towards the docks): Less and less today.

A-Dom (to Mayor): So are there any rules for invading the building or just... Woo-HA!

The mayor pulls out the last book of the Books of Law.

Mayor: Lets see... You have to go in during daylight. You have to tell the duly elected Mayor, that’s me, that you are going in, and leave any burial, last of kin notification, etc information with me. As well as pay the tax.

Gabe starts thinking about what kind of note Jahar will leave for his wife.

Ryan: Leave her your penis.

Gabe: I did not hear you say that.

Alex: With a nice little inscription: :):):):) you!

Jahar: What was your name mayor?

Mayor: I am officially the Mayor of Crull-Tay, Quogo-Nazo

Jahar: Again, how many pirates are around?

Mayor Quogo: Well yesterday, I would have said two ships worth. But looks like one really full ship now. Wait.. Maybe less then that.

Jahar: Why less and less?

The group realized the Mayor is looking down the street at the docks where the pirate ship with black sails is clearly sinking.

Jahar: How many supernaturals captain a ship? Dragon Bloods and such.

Mayor Quogo: Well my brother Captains a ship.

Jahar: He was chosen by the Dragons?

Mayor Quogo (who’s Water Aspect mark turns on): Yes. As well some say that Admiral Bloodsky is a Dragon Blood. I don’t have any official records of anyone else.

Jahar noted Quogo’s lousy breeding.

Jahar: Seems odd that you have official records of pirate ships.

Mayor Quogo: We have records of ships that make port. (Looks at the group) You wouldn’t be trying to avoid our taxes on incoming ships would ya?

Jahar: Not from what I’ve been told.

Mayor Quogo: How did you get to our island?

Tiger: We woke up in the forest.

Ryan (laughing hysterically): You know... I play hard and fast with explanations. But that’s just not a good “mayor explanation.” That’s what you tell to drunks on the beach.

Mayor Quogo: No really, where did you come from?

Gareth (interrupting): What’s there fun to do on this island?

Mayor Quogo: Well our major activities are: Drinking, whoring, gambling. Some people like gardening. We have some nice gardens. We have a very popular game with a ball.

Jahar: What’s it called?

Mayor Quogo: “Hurt the guy with the ball.” You have to play it just off shore. Ankle deep water is best.

Jahar: Do you have a barge set up to play on?

Mayor Quogo (kind of surprised): No... Good idea. (Mayor starts to write down Barge, then crosses it out and puts “anchored raft for playing violent sports on.”)

A-Dom: What do you get when you defeat the fortress of doom?

Mayor Quogo: I don’t know. Nobody’s done it in my lifetime.

Jahar: What do we have to do to let you let us into the Fortress of Doom?

Mayor Quogo: Well you have to pay the “Fortress of Doom Tax” which is 5 jade apiece.

A-Dom (to Jahar): Pay the man!

Jahar pulls out 5 jade to pay the Mayor.

Mayor Quogo: That’s 5 jade, apiece.

Jahar: I know, that’s for me.

Mayor Quogo: Ok, you can come with me. (He puts the money into a drawer)

A-Dom pulls out 10 jade (from what he has looted from bodies over time) and pays for himself and Gareth.

Tiger stole 5 jade from the drawer, payed the mayor, found out Jade’s Luck didn’t have 5 jade, so he waited for the mayor to put the rest of the money into the drawer, then stole another 5 jade from the drawer to pay for her too.

A-Dom: Ok when I die, just throw my head onto Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck.

Mayor Quogo: That will be a literal throwing. They don’t like us much there.

A-Dom: Yea, that’s fine with me.

Jade’s Luck and Gareth gave instructions for their remains to be returned to their familes on Atlantis.

Jahar gave strict instructions for his note (and only his note) to be delievered to Cynis Jara in exactly 19 years. The note read “I am still alive. -Sesus Weijin Jahar” [20 years after a spouse goes missing, they can be presumed dead and the remaining spouse can re-marry. So Jahar’s plan is to force his wive to stay unmarried for 39 years instead of 20, just to tick her off]

There is a little more idle conversation. At some point:

Mayor Quogo: Well, only your head gets polished. The rest of your body will just be found somewhere on the island.

Jahar (gives a little shutter): I feels really unpleasant when it gets polished.

The Mayor looks at Jahar funny. A-Dom looks at Jahar funny. Gareth looks at Jahar like he’s Jahar.

A-Dom: Good to know.

Jahar: So where do we go?

Mayor Quogo: Follow me!

The Mayor pulls back yet another curtain, to reveal a white marble door, which he opens. It leads into a rather large white room with a gold line on the floor.

Mayor Quogo: Alright, everybody stand on the gold line.

Everybody in the party stood on the gold line. Gareth noticed that it was real gold inlayed into the floor. The Mayor stands before them, and opens this book.

Mayor Quogo (in old realm, in a deadpan voice): These worthy adventurers, etcetera, seek to conquer this building, etcetera, so they can become good and worthy rulers, etcetera, and they will succeed or forfeit their lives. There is only victory or death. Etcetera.

Then there was a big sparkle of lights, and the wall behind the mayor faded away. The group then thanked the mayor and walked through.

A-Dom: Thanks Mayor! See you on the other side!

Mayor Quogo: Probably not!

A-Dom: Oh... we’ll you’ll see my nice shinny skull!

Mayor Quogo: Got a point there.

Once inside, the see the wall is solid on this side. So the group activated charms and put on armor, and stopped looking like pirates, etc. They were standing in a long narrow hallway, with a floor that sloped upwards. The area was lite by an ambiguous light source.

Jahar: You ever been here Roedy?

Roedy (in text on the sleeve): Yes, but never came in this way.

Jahar: Well let me know if you think anything is going to crush us.

So, after quite a long walk, they got to a large room, with a big white tree, with a face on it.

Gareth: Hello Mr. Tree!

Mr. Tree: Hello!

Gareth: What happens in here?

Mr. Tree: Paperwork & Questions!

Jahar: What’s your name?

Mr. Tree: I am The Guardian Tree.

Tiger: What is this place actually called?

Mr. Tree: The Fortress of Light.

Jade’s Luck: See that makes much more sense.

A-Dom: What’s with the skulls?

Mr. Tree: Well you see... I like bowling. (And the Tree nods towards the long narrow corridor.)

Jahar: Do you polish the skulls?

Mr. Tree: Well sometimes I do, sometimes other people do it. Mostly that’s just so they roll better.

Jahar: Ok, well you’d better let us have the paperwork.

Paperwork was just a simple form:
Name:
Occupation:
God of Preference:

***
Name: Gareth
Occupation: Smith, Merchant
God of Preference: I am contractually obligated to write down Unconquered Sun.

Name: Sesus Weijin Jahar
Occupation: Trader, Noble, Sorcerer
God of Preference: Unconquered Sun

Name: A-Dom
Occupation: Guy, Prince (after someone reminded him he was a Prince)
God of Preference: Unconquered Sun

A-Dom (to Tiger): Remember to write down “orphan killer!”

Name: Patient Tiger
Occupation: Bodyguard
God of Preference: Unconquered Sun

Name: Jade’s Luck
Occupation: Assistant Procurer
God of Preference: Unconquered Sun

The Tree then collected the paperwork and looked through it.

Mr. Tree: Well... there are 5 of you, and normally there is just one. So, just in case, this manse can only be controlled by one person. So I’m going to give you some time to figure this out amongst yourselves. Feel free to murder each other, or whatever. Violence is perfectly acceptable during the trial.

Tiger: Do we have to figure this out now? Rock, paper, Scissors?

Mr. Tree: Yes, you need to know now.

Jahar (to the tree): We have pointy objects, thank you very much.

Mr. Tree: Well, (happy) Go at it then! I’ll just watch.

Jahar then tried to ask the tree who lived inside a single room with no doors or windows, what the rest of the island was like, how it was designed, and how it was held up. The tree didn’t give him any useful information. The group then questioned A-Dom on how he dismantled the pirate ships. Because that was clearly important to the situation at hand. This also ended up with the group explaining to A-Dom what a Keel is in great detail.

Tiger tried to trade his Manse to A-Dom, so he could try to get this Manse.

A-Dom: I don’t want a Manse with her! She smells! But I probably want to build one on my island.

Jahar: I love this Manse. It seems very aspected towards... my way of thought.

Jade’s Luck (surprised): You have a way of thought?

The Tree kind of looks at Jahar funny.

Tiger: Well this place is kind of long and twisty, and it takes a long time to get anywhere...

Gareth: But, I could turn the Beam of DEATH on pirates!

Jahar: Well we can re-write the rules, then ether kill the pirates, or kill them if they don’t convert.

A-Dom: Well I’m not going to win this... so it’s between you two. (To Tiger) It’s called picking your battles.

Tiger: Why?

A-Dom: Well really I’m just getting Jahar to leave my island alone.

Gareth and Jahar agreeded that “Jahar can have the island if he will at least turn the Death Ray on “some” of the Pirates.” (They did not sanctify this oath)

Tiger: I didn’t agree to that!

Jahar: You’re not in this!

Tiger: You can’t exclude me!

A-Dom (to Tiger): Look, it’s ether we all win, or we all get our heads chopped off and shined.

Jahar: And that hurts! Trust me.

Tiger: You don’t know that.

Alex: Then we start making new characters! The funny thing is my back up character... is a Pirate!

Jahar: We have decided Tree!

Tiger: No we haven’t!

Mr. Tree (looking back and forth between Jahar and Tiger): Everyone has decided?

Jade’s Luck then started explaining the issues involved to the tree with way too much detail.

Mr. Tree: I DO NOT CARE! I just need you to pick one person. That’s it. Stop explaining.

A-Dom: I vote Gahar, Jahar, whatever.

Jahar: I accept!

Alex: Who else is scared that we’re giving the “Beam of Death” to Jahar?

Mr. Tree: What about you (looking at Tiger).

Tiger: I want it.

A-Dom: You already have one!

Tiger: I’m willing to trade.

Mr. Tree: Well you’re going to have to figure this out. Just start murdering each other. It will go faster.

Jahar and Tiger then started arguing more. Tiger decided to argue with Jahar for two hours before he woudl give up. Jahar managed to cut the conversation time down to one hour. So Tiger decided to stand in stonefaced disagreement for an additional hour.

Dan: Well we didn’t argue endlessly for 2 hours in-character. (GM note: It still took like 20 minutes).

So Jahar was in the end, the person they all agreed upon.

Mr. Tree: All right! First round of questions. What does the Sun, represent? Discuss among yourselves, I’m not going anywhere.

The group started arguing... because they didn’t know.

Jahar: The Great God: the Unconquered Sun.

Mr. Tree: Well then. What is he a God of? What is his power?

The group starts giggling uncontrollably because, they aren’t sure what their God is a god of. So they start arguing.

A-Dom: [/b] Maybe we deserve to all die here.

After the group had been arguing for a while:

Mr. Tree: Just so you know this is a timed event. If you don’t finish with all the trials by the time the sun sets, you all die.

A-Dom: Well good to know, nice to learn the rules in the middle...

Mr. Tree: You could have read them before you came in.

Jahar: Light, Life, Leadership, he’s the king of the gods...

Mr. Tree: Is that your final answer?

Jahar (with confidence): Yes!

Mr. Tree: I’m sorry...

A-Dom: Is this a 4 out of 5 situation?

Mr. Tree: No... more of a trial by fire.

A-Dom: Oh...

A number of small holes opened in the walls around the room and small balls of fire started shooting out at the group. Eventually Tiger came up with breaking off branches from the tree, and giving them to the others, so they could plug the holes that the balls of fire were being shot from. Really the only thing that happened was Gareth’s head got lit on fire just a little bit. Gareth was also the fire magnet, but once he turned on his caste power, he stopped taking all damage from the fireballs. So it stopped mattering that he was constantly getting hit. Eventually the got all the holes plugged up.

A-Dom: So, what is the Unconquered Sun the god of?

Mr. Tree: Well now, that’s the question you still have to answer, now isn’t it...

A-Dom (Depressed): Oh...

Mr. Tree: Well there are more physical challenges if you can’t figure it out...

A-Dom: I vote for death...

The group then put their heads together (and Jade’s Luck’s Lore dice pool +1 dice from everyone in the party)

A-Dom: I remind you... he’s called the Unconquered Sun...

(Gabe’s phone rings, and I go deaf listening to the recording.)

So, the group with 6 successes to come up with (A-Dom was right): Unconquerability. [/I]

Gareth: Our God sucks.

Jahar: I can’t believe I helped you come up with that.

Tiger: I can. (Looking to the sky) Can I switch gods?

Jahar: Don’t say that again! I get a twinge every time you say that.

Mr. Tree: Well you go on to the next room.

The wall fades away, and the group can see the next room, with a book in it. The group (especially Jahar) runs into the next room.

Gareth (to the tree): Maybe some day we’ll come back for bowling!

Jahar (to the room): Good Morning!

The white marble book on the white marble pedistil, in the white marble room, looked at them.

Book: Well, hello there!

Gareth: Are you the book that knows everything?

Book: No. He’s my third cousin.

Jahar: If you’re related to him, can you find him, if we help you?

Book: I ask the questions here!

The group then barrages the book with questions, most of which don’t make much sense.

Book: Which one of you, wishes to be the owner? (Jahar raises his hand) You see a man kicking a puppy. What do you do?

Jahar: Stop him.

Book: Why?

Tiger: We like puppies!

Book (Looking at Tiger): Shhhh! He’s answering the questions.

Jahar: Because he is injuring a creature which is most likely helpless.

Book: What if the puppy is demon possessed?

Jahar: Then we deal with that when we find out. Please ignore my companions.

Book: Ah-ha. What do you like to do in your spare time?

Jahar: Read books.

Things whispered quietly behind Jahar’s back by everyone else: Worship demons. Worship the Unconquored Sun. Summon Demons. Kick Puppies.

Jahar: And in the rest of my time I teach my acolytes, and worship myself. (I’m pretty sure he meant he himself takes time to worship, not that he had his own cult to himself.)

Book: Do you tolerate the company of Demons?

Jahar: I do not tolerate their company. I do however force them to serve me.

Book (confused): ooooooh-Kay.

Jade’s Luck: Is this going to be an “issue?”

Book: Issue? Yes, you could call it that. Ok then, you can go onto the next room.

Tiger: Wait... if we want to change owners do we have to go through the entire process again?

Book: During the process: You all have to agree in front of one of the guardians to change your mind.

The group then goes onto the next room, which has a large alter to the Sun.

They group walks in and all kneel. A-Dom starts praying first. Jahar starts praying. Everyone else starts praying too.

Dan: I do better not praying.

Jade’s Luck gets the long answer to one of her previous prayers.

Gareth got the feeling that this manse had something to do with destroying demons.

Jahar gets the words “Try HARDER” in response to his prayer about how to spread the religion better.

After everyone prayed, the far wall disappeared, and the group moved on. The next room was up a couple of steps. In the middle of the white marble room, was a white marble cat. The group of course charged over to pet it.

Kitty (waking up): Hey! People. Wait a minute!

The cat gets up, wanders over to a book, flips it open with his paw, reads a few pages, flips the book closed again, then wanders back to the group.

Jahar: Been a long time hasn’t it kitty? What’s your name?

Kitty: Kitty Cat.

Jahar: Well that makes sense.

A-Dom (looking at the empty room with the rather small white kitty cat in it): How do people die here?

Jahar: They all died in the first room!

Kitty: No there was one fellow who died here.

A-Dom: Oh... how did he die?

The kitty yawned, and it’s head expanded and it’s jaw grew until it was more then large enough to bite a human being in half. Then it shrunk again when the kitty was done yawning.

Ryan: Oh so like a normal cat.

Jahar: Was that one of us?

Kitty (looking at Jahar): Hey! You look familiar!

Jahar: That hurt!

Kitty: Well I had to clean all the flesh off. (The cat licked it’s marble fur with it’s marble cat tongue).

A-Dom: So do you ask us questions?

Kitty: No. I make Moral Judgements.

Ryan (panicking): Are there doors in this room?

GM: No, no there are not.

Tiger: Could we repent now?

Kitty: Well I suppose so. What do you want to repent for?

A-Dom: Oh... I want to repent. I killed a baby with a brick, a puppy...

Gareth: This is going to take a long time.

A-Dom: ...some folks, some innocents...

Kitty: Ok we can say we’ve covered: Killed Innocents.

Tiger: Do we need to consider stuff from before we were chosen?

Kitty: I’m not going to answer that question.

A-Dom: ...oh god... I was weak, cowardly, craven, greedy, I slept with a lot of women, not my wife...

Kitty: Oh that’s fine.

Tiger: The women part?

Kitty: Yea, I don’t care about that.

A-Dom: ... I lied, (long pause while A-Dom thought about it) a lot, piracy (Gareth starts giving A-Dom the evil eye, everyone else kind of nods), theft, I ate human flesh...

Tiger (shocked): Wait... WHAT?

Gareth: Nothing wrong with cannibals.

A-Dom: ...yea, I think that covers it.

Jahar: What about raising the dead?

A-Dom (confused): Is that really a sin? Raising the dead. Necromancy?

Kitty: No, not the last time I checked.

A-Dom (Happy): Well then, there you go. But maybe I should repent for that too. Oh wait, I assisted in summoning a demon.

Kitty: Ok killing innocent mortals: You must bring life and civilization to five islands that don’t have it.

A-Dom: Wait... so I plant women there then screw them?

Kitty: Yea whatever, it’s a repentance. You’re suppose to try to the best of your ability. I don’t really care if they are “civilized” or barbarians. I really don’t care what kind of civilization as long as they have a civilization. You’re going to have to impregnate at least 10 more women...

A-Dom starts laughing.

Jahar: Well at least he won’t have a problem with that one.

Tiger: Can he impregnate them with other mens’s seed?

Kitty: I guess so. I don’t really know how you would do that. Really, just you need to get 10 babies born.

A-Dom: Can I impregnate one women ten times?

Kitty: I suppose. But you need to let women finish with getting one out before you start trying to impregnate them again. Can’t do them all at once.

Gareth: No sex with undead.

Tiger: They have to be living women.

A-Dom: Yea, with this group you have to clarify that kind of thing.

Kitty: Ok, I didn’t know I had to clarify that: you must have 10 babies with living human women.

Jahar: Yea, he just had a child with another man.

Kitty: That’s just weird...

A-Dom then explained how Zokaz made a baby out of human and dinosaur flesh, which really just confused the kitten.

Tiger (to A-Dom): Hey did you repent for that?

A-Dom (to Tiger): SHUT UP!

Kitty: You must return 5 stolen things to their rightful owner.

Tiger (all happy): Well I can help ya with that!

Kitty: They can not be stolen just so he can return them.

Tiger: Ok... I suppose we do that with things that have already been stolen.

Kitten: Eating human flesh: You need to fast for a week.

Tiger: So how many times you do the eating human flesh thing?

A-Dom: Well you lose track after the first time... you know you hang out with some cannibals and you know “everyone’s doing it” and it would be rude to refuse...

Kitty: You have to save one maiden.

A-Dom: Does it have to be a “real” maiden?

Kitty: Can’t be a guy in a dress if that’s what you mean.

There was a brief discussion about how A-dom would have to do a thorough inspection of each woman he would have to save. Comments were made about her not remaining a maiden in order to fulfill one of his other repentance.

Then the kitty “sanctified” A-Dom’s repentance.

Kitty: Anyone else want to repent?

Gareth: I’ve taken my god’s name in vain (pause) a lot.

Kitty: Anything else?

Gareth: Nope.

Kitty (to Gareth): Build five churches. (Then he sanctified it.)

Jahar: I will repent for...

Gareth: Summoning demons.

Jahar: ...being full of anger and hatred towards my wife. Believing in a treasonous blasphemy that is a perversion of the natural order. And for summoning a demon.

Gabe: I’m pretty sure I’ve never killed a single mortal.

GM: You know... you’ve caste Death of Obsidian Butterflies at a ship full of Pirates.

Gabe: Oh, yea. Well at least I’ve never killed an innocent mortal.

Kitty (to Jahar): You have to go to a good and proper church every week for a month.

Jade’s Luck points out that Jahar’s wife... isn’t the best wife.

Jahar: She is a blasphemer who tries to kill me.

Kitty: That’s no reason to be rude to her.

Jahar: I suppose.

Kitty: You will bring your wife a present that she will really like. Like an Artifact.

Jahar: Do I actually have to give it to her?

Kitty: Yes... and not in a violent axe like manner.

A-Dom (to Jade’s Luck): What the hell do you have to repent for?

Jade’s Luck: I make my mothers worry about me a lot.

A-Dom (angry): You’re sin SUCKS!

Jade’s Luck: Well I haven’t been alive as long as you have to screw things up. (To the kitten) I haven’t been as good a daughter as I should have been. I have failed to save numerous mortals from bad things...

Gareth: A-Dom.

Jade’s Luck: ...that happened to them.

Kitten: Make everyone on the island muffins. (This is an edit from how it was originally phased: Make everyone muffins. As while the group assumed that meant everyone in the room, the way it was phrased would mean everyone in all of creation, which would be a little bit too hard.)

Tiger: What about me?

The Kitten wanders over to his book. Looked something up. Made a kind of Umph noise.

Kitten: Yea your next.

A-Dom: I’m sure you have something to repent for.

Tiger (to A-Dom): I don’t kill orphans! Other people, yea, sure... I suppose, I’ve killed a few people, who were mostly kind of bad people...

A-Dom: Do I get some kind of bonus for honesty?

Jahar: Tiger I think you’re head is about to get eaten. It’s licking it’s lips. I don’t want any blood on my floor.

Jade’s Luck: That’s cold.

A-Dom: But Honest.

Tiger: Blasphemed by god a little bit. I guess I’ve stolen some things...

Gareth: The suns going to be going down soon Tiger...

Tiger: I think I’ve covered it. Killing people, stealing things... (Tiger figures something out) ...oh, I maybe have lied... To a few people.

Kitty (to Tiger): You must tell the absolute Truth for one week.

Gareth: Oh that will be the death of him.

Jade’s Luck: Does he actually have to answer questions people ask of him?

Kitten: He must say the truth if he wishes to speak.

Jahar: He’s going to be mute for a week.

Gareth: No, but we are going to hear him say things like “The sky is blue” a lot.

Kitten (to Tiger): And you have to populate two islands, and make everyone here cookies.

Gareth: Make sure you specify that they can’t be poisoned. (Everybody but Tiger nods)

Kitten: Ok, they must be good and honest cookies and tasty cookies that will not cause sickness, death or other bad effects.

Tiger: Can I get help?

Kitten: Of course, I don’t expect you to populate two entire islands all by yourself.

Jade’s Luck: He means with the cookies.

Kitten (sighing): Yes, you can have someone help you bake them, or pay someone to bake them. We wouldn’t want you to force people to eat bad cookies.

Jahar: Can Tiger’s island be the same as A-Dom’s islands?

The kitten then tries to explain that repentance is all about the intent and making an effort. Most of the group ignored him and talked about other things.

Ryan: I really am the evil party member.

Alex: But you’re the loveable evil party member.

A-Dom: Need to make some amendments to my confession: (talking really fast) Taking my gods name in vain, cruelty, lying, asking to go back in time... that really upset him. Speaking about the destruction of creation...

Jahar: Horse thief!

A-Dom: Hey, I got punished for that!

The kitty cat walked over to it’s book, flipped a couple of pages.

Kitty (looking kind of disturbed): Yes, you were punished quite enough for that. No need to repent there.

A-Dom (to Jahar): Thanks for bringing that one up.

Kitty: You have to help him (Gareth) build churches. You should pray once a month, minium. You need to be Helpful and Cheery to your circle for a whole week.

The entire group starts laughing at the last line.

Ryan: I want to keep my head.

Dan: You’re head will be the first part to go, but it won’t be the last part.

A-Dom: ok I agree.

Kitty: I’m just going to ask this once more: Who is getting this manse?

Jahar: I am!

Kitty: Just wanted to make sure you’re not giving it to him (pointing at A-Dom).

Tiger: You sure you want it?

Jahar: YES!

A-Dom: Do we have to go through this part every time we change who owns the island?

Kitty: Oh yes! We can’t have sinners take control of the island unrepentant.

A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start talking about how to talk the Hoen-ba to spread out to more islands.

Jahar is pointed towards a door that only he can see, and told to go alone. He goes off alone. Leaving the rest of the party in a room with no visible exits. Jahar finds a glowing arrow of light that leads him through the Manse: Jahar goes along a hallway, up a set of stairs, along another hallway, down another set of staires. He eventually reaches a big shinny room that is all white except for the large multi color crystals. Jahar walks into the room, and the doorway closes behind him.

A ghostly image of a little woman, dressed as a priestess, with a Zenith caste mark. He kneeled down before her.

Ghostly image: You failed to confess one of your sins.

Dan: I didn’t! Cause I cheated!

Liz: Rambling is a sin?

Ghostly Image: You are arrogant.

Jahar (kind of surprised): Oh, yea, I guess you’re right.

Ghostly Image: How do YOU choose to repent?

Jahar: Well the opposite of arrogant is humble. So I will be humble for a month.

Ghostly Image: Do you think this is enough?

Jahar: I believe it would be if I took on strict vows of aetheticsism and remove myself from my worldly possessions.

A kitten appears and “sanctifies” the repentance with Jahar.

Jade’s Luck and Gareth dig out some string and start playing with the kitten (who at no point disappeared).
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis for 10/23/06 session

Bizzaro World!

Subtitles:

You know, this is all very creepy.
Can you use the kitchen? I have to use the bathroom!
Repenting is HARD!



So the group (except Jahar) are stuck in a room with no exits, no doors, no windows. They decided to talk to the Kitty cat.

Kitty: So, how's your redemption going?

Gareth: Ok, I guess. Look, string!

Kitty cat plays with Gareth's string much to their amusement.

For some Gabe causes a tangent about making robes out of :):):):), literally, and how Gareth could accomplish this, and how it could be used for profit, and how everyone could contribute.

Jahar mostly plays around with the powers of his Manse for a while. Then he decided to find a garden to meditate in, not realizing the rest of the group is stuck.

Gareth pulls out a block of wood and starts whittling a small church.

A-Dom (Hopeful): You need any help with that?

Gareth (Concerned): Are you on drugs?

On his way to find a garden, Jahar saw the library of the Manse. Jahar stops, blinks, walks in. Jahar sends his robes elsewhere because they are too opulent, then goes in, and started checking out the books.
Gabe: I'm not even going to make the temperance roll, I just go in.

So a few hours later, the rest of the group starts to get hungry. Jahar however doesn't notice, since he has no need to eat while inside the Manse.

Jade's Luck (to Kitty): Umm... is there a way out? Or could we have some food and water?

Kitty: That would be up to the Master.

Jade's Luck: Could you maybe let the Master know we're stuck in here and would like to get out so we don't starve to death.

Kitty: Yea, I'll pass that along.

Tiger of course spends time searching the room for exits.

Jahar spends some time reading the titles of every book in the library, finding them to be on philosophy and magical theory, for about four hours.

Gareth: If the Sun goes down when we are in here, do we die?

Kitty: No, you're safe now.

Tiger: Yea, we completed the challenge.

A-Dom (to Kitty): So what do you know about the Unconquered Sun?

Kitty: That he is a great and powerful god.

A-Dom: Do you know what time it is?

Kitty: No.

A-Dom: Do you know how long you've been here?

Kitty: I'm a cat.

Gareth (to A-Dom): Why are you asking Jahar questions?

A-Dom: It's tradition...

Dan: It's like a David Letterman joke, just keep repeating it.

Jahar finally decided to take one book with him, and go looking for the rest of the group. Eventually he is stopped by a mirror. The animated Mirror frame told him people were staring in the Chamber of Redemption. Jahar felt the need to ask if it was the people who came in with him. Jahar is given some basic instructions on how to find the Chamber.

Jahar: What do you do here?

Mirror: Mostly, I help people reflect on things.

Jahar: Do all the objects here speak?

Mirror: Some. Is this important to you?

Jahar is stunned by the question, and spends an hour trying to figure out if the Mirror is trying to somehow trick him. Gareth's church gets smaller and smaller. Tiger tries to use Door Evading Technique, on the wall where Jahar went through... and found the wall to be rather solid. Jahar finally follows the instructions back to the group. As Jahar approaches he sees the wall fade away, but he is on the opposite side of a one way illusion (i.e. the group in the room sees an illusion of a Wall where the wall had been). So Jahar walks through the illusion into the room. Tiger and Jade's Luck are arguing about if it's worth using the power of their Manse to make a portal out of the room.

Tiger: It might not be that bad, it might just cause Wyld appear in the Empresses' thrown room. And you know, I'm OK with that.

A-Dom (to Jahar as he enters): Has the cat taking over your soul?

Jahar: You're confusing the hell out of me.

A-Dom (Enthusiastic and happy): Yay! You're the best when confused!

Jahar: How are you doing?

Gareth (sad): I ran out of wood.

Jahar: Oh, I guess you've been in here a while?

Gareth: There is no bathroom in here.

Ryan: It's an RPG who the :):):):) cares about bathrooms?

Jahar: Oh. Well I haven't found one yet ether. Why didn't you guys leave? Oh well, follow me.

Jahar walks through the illusionary wall. Puts his hand through the wall to wave to the group to follow him.

Jahar: Aren't you coming?

A-Dom: The hand is talking to us! All hail the Wyld!

The rest of the group follows him into the rest of the Manse. So does the Kitty Cat.

Jahar: Sorry they only told me that you were stuck in here a little while ago.

Tiger: What have you been doing that they couldn't find you?

Jahar: Reading a book (shows them the book he is carrying)

A-Dom: Where is the Kitchen?

Jahar: I don't know.

A-Dom (all happy): I'm happy that you don't know. I'm happy about this.

Jahar: Do you happen to know where the kitchen is?

Kitten: What "kitchen"?

Jade's Luck said something to A-Dom.

A-Dom (Happy): I don't give a :):):):). But I'm happy about that.

Jahar (to A-Dom): Are you ok?

A-Dom (forced happy): I'm Happy!

Tiger (to the cat, explaining kitchens): It's like Time. It's a concept you don't understand.

Kitty: Ah, excellent.

The group looks around, trying to find an Exit, and finds there is.

A-Dom: I love this manse, it's the best ever!

Jahar: What do you want?

A-Dom: We have to go find food! Muffins have to be had.

Jahar: I guess I should let you out.

Entire group in unison: YES!

A-Dom: And I'm happy to put her repentance in front of mine!

Jade's Luck offers to buy A-Dom beer and dinner. A-Dom cheers. Jahar starts leading the group out of the Manse.

A-Dom (casual): So Tiger, how many people have you assassinated?

Tiger: You think I keep count?

A-Dom (to Jahar): Can you turn off the beam? You know, the Death Ray?

Jahar (stops in his tracks): I'm fairly sure, you can't break those rules.

A-Dom (happy to Jade's Luck): Do you want to go look for muffins... OFF this island? I bet they have better muffins on some of the other islands!

Jahar: A-Dom... what do you want to attack?

A-Dom: YES!

Gareth (to A-Dom): What's your problem A-Dom?

A-Dom (hyper high pitched voice): Nothings wrong. I'm happy and cheerful!

Gareth: Why are you nervous?

Jade's Luck (to A-Dom): You know how they have spear fishing? I bet club fishing would be even more challenging!

Jahar: Tiger, can you make any sense out of this. (waving at A-Dom and Jade's Luck).

Tiger (deadpan): Just let us out. The sooner, the better.

Jahar finally gets moving, and opens the wall to the final hallway. Jahar then turns and questions the tree on where the normal front door is. He finds out that the "Front Door" is on the other side of the island.

Jahar (to Kitty): Do you want to follow us?

Kitty: I don't care. As long as you're alive, I don't have a job to do.

Jahar: A-Dom, that last door, you can go and open it.

A-Dom: I don't want to touch it. It looks like part of the manse. If I break a manse the monkeys will get upset and fire and stuff.

Jahar goes and opens the door for A-Dom. They walk into the Mayor's office, the mayor looks up from his paperwork.

Mayor: Are you A-Dom?

A-Dom: Yea.

Mayor: May I see your hand for a minute?

A-Dom shows the Mayor his hands. The Mayor examines them closely and then pulls a teeny tiny sliver of wood, from one of his knuckles.

Mayor: Sir, I'm going to have to place you under arrest for the destruction of Ships.

A-Dom (kind of happy): O. K.

Jahar: How do you know he did it?

A-Dom: Cause he's a :):):):)ing dragon blood!

Mayor: Because this splinter of wood here happens to match exactly this exemplar piece of wood from one of the sunken ships. It proves that this man put his fist through the hull of the Sea Diamond and there is great suspicion that he sunk Hunger's Revenge.

A-Dom: Does it matter if the Ruler of the Island told me to do it?

Mayor: Was he the ruler of the island when he told you to do it?

A-Dom: Kind of, no, not really.

Jahar: I don't think I told you...

A-Dom: Shhhhh!

Jahar: We must subject ourselves to the good islands laws.

A-Dom (forced happy): I'm happy to be arrested!

Jahar: What are the penalties for that?

Mayor: Well we have to talk to the captains...

A-Dom (interrupting): I'm hoping Death!

Jahar: A-Dom?

Mayor: There is not a death penalty for destruction of property. Normally it's re-compensation, possibly indenture to the people whom you owe the money.

Group starts laughing like mad.

Gareth: You don't want him!

Jade's Luck: You really don't want him for an indentured servant. It would be... bad... for all concerned.

Jahar: He was abused when he was a servant.

A-Dom: What was that house? Mnemon? Yea... worked for them for awhile. Didn't go well.

Jahar looks for any signs of recognition of the house name, but the Mayor doesn't have any noticeable response.

Mayor: Well, Captain Diamond Eye Tor, isn't a member of House Mnemon to my knowledge.

Jahar: Well we must subject ourselves to the will of the people.

Mayor: Well yes, I'm going to have to take you to jail now. Then arrange a court date.

A-Dom: I'm sorry I can't help my group more... If the laws of the land say I have to go to jail... I'll do my best to help you all. From Jail! (Pause, then to the mayor, kind of happy) Will it be a long incarceration?

Mayor: Well I have to get a jury...

A-Dom: How long does that take? What's involved? How can I muddy that up?

Mayor: Well I need to find 10 sober people.

Jade's Luck: Hmm... free beer for everyone?

Jahar (completely confused): Will someone please tell me what is going on with him?

Jade's Luck: Can I bring him dinner?

Mayor: Sure, I don't care about that. Come on you, going to jail.

A-Dom (making small talk with the Mayor): You know, I've been to jail on six or seven island now.

Jahar (completely confused): Will someone please tell me what is going
on?


Mayor: According to our records, you've been to this jail three times.

Tiger: You don't remember that either?

A-Dom: Oh no, I remember those. I would wake up there.

Jahar (completely confused): What the hell am I missing?

Gareth halls Jahar to the side and explains to try to explain to him...

Jahar: Why is he act so crazy?

Tiger: It's A-Dom.

Jahar: I know he sunk the ship.

The Mayor stops and turns around.

Mayor (to Jahar): So, you're a witness?

Jahar: No, he (pointing at A-Dom) told me.

Mayor: Oh, so he confessed.

Tiger: See, we can skip the whole trial thing.

Jahar (to A-Dom): You told them in my presence what you did.

Mayor (to A-Dom, serious): Well that doesn't look good for your trial then Sir. As he (pointing at Jahar) is a very reputable witness at this point. What with owning the Island and all.

Gareth (to A-Dom): You need to learn to stop hanging out with Jahar.

A-Dom (to the mayor, extremely happy and upbeat): Death penalty? Yes? (Cheesy grin) I'll punch someone!

Mayor: No, I'm sorry Sir. But if you keep this up, you're going to be resisting arrest.

Tiger: Come on A-Dom, punch me. You'll feel better.

Jahar: Don't worry A-Dom, you'll feel better in the morning.

A-Dom: Nooo.... I need a good six morning, that's what I would need.

A beam of light shoots out from the top of the Manse hits A-Dom in the head and knocks him unconscious. The mayor grabs him before he falls.

Jahar looks for the cat who is back by the door. Jahar looks back and forth between A-Dom and the cat. Jahar goes back to the Manse to talk to the Kitty cat who stopped at the doorway.

Jahar: What is he currently serving?

Kitty: A-dom must bring life and civilization to five islands that don't have it. A-dom must have 10 babies with living human women. A-dom must return 5 stolen things to their rightful owner. A-dom needs to fast for a week. A-dom has to save one maiden. A-dom has to help him (Gareth) build churches. A-dom should pray once a month, minimum. A-dom needs to be Helpful and Cheery to his circle for a whole week.

Jade's Luck: How long is he going to be out for?

Mayor: Two, maybe three hours.

Gareth: Lets go get something to eat.

Tiger borrows a few of the Law books of the island to read during dinner.

The Mayor leads A-Dom to the Jail, which seems oddly familiar to A-Dom.

Jade's Luck: Now I feel bad about trying to drag him to a tavern for food and beer.

Jahar: He's scary when he's being cheerful.

A-Dom is taken to a small jail, right between a bar and a whore house.

Ryan: (to Alex) This is all your fault! You're the one who's not suppose to lead me astray! You're the moral compass. :):):):) Head.

Dan: I thought Tiger was the moral compass of the group.

Ryan: No, Tiger's my drinking buddy.

Dan: But we never go drinking.

Ryan: Well that's because there is no good Euphemism for "Killing buddy."

Paul: I call them "Adventuring partners."

Gareth decides to go to the "nice looking tavern" in hopes of a good meal. Jahar follows him, and sits outside the tavern.

Jade's Luck (to Jahar): Why are you just sitting out here?

Jahar: I can't afford it.

Jade's Luck: Now... I know you're in a little bit of debt due to paying fines. I wasn't aware you were reduced to pennilessness.

Jahar: I've taken a vow of poverty.

Tiger: Can I have all your crap now?

Jade's Luck: Do you want dinner?

A-Dom wakes up in a very familiar looking jail. So familiar, he even remembered the drunk on the cot next to him.

A-Dom: What's your name?

Goldtooth: I'm Goldtooth! (Gives A-Dom a smile so he can see his one gold tooth) Hey, you're dom-boy or dom something aren't ya..

A-Dom: Yea, A-dom.

Goldtooth: Haven't seen ya for a few years. How you been.

A-Dom: I Exalted.

Goldtooth: Ya what?

A-Dom: I'm an Anathema.

Goldtooth (confused): Well, umm, good to see a young man like yourself get ahead in the world.

Liz: We should just start the cult of the Anathema, and :):):):) all this Sun :):):):).

The group discusses re-appropriating the word Anathema to become a good word.

Jade's Luck goes into the tavern and buys food for Jahar. She then goes in and does a A-Dom shadow puppet story. A slightly modified version of the 8 armed demon ape fight. Really only changing it, so A-dom actually wins.

Liz: I figure I can prejudice the jury if I have enough time.

A-Dom: You know, Goldtooth, I always get caught for the really crappy stuff. Never anything like Murder or anything like that. I get caught for stuff that really pisses people off, but is never bad enough to get them to kill you strait out for. So... what are you, a Lunar?

Goldtooth: I don't think so. I got arrested for taking a piss in this guy's breakfast cereal.

A-Dom breaks down laughing.

Goldtooth: It was a bowl, and I had to go.

A-Dom: It's a need, I'm with ya. :):):):).

Goldtooth: No, if I'd done that I'd be in more
trouble.


A-Dom: You know on any other island, that would
get you punched in the tate.


Goldtooth: So who's ship ya sailing on now?

A-Dom: The Grumpy Craftsman.

Goldtooth: Never heard of that pirate ship.

A-Dom (sucking wind noise): Um, ah, no, he's not a "pirate ship" guy. Merchant.

A-Dom starts telling stories about how he's sinking ships, starting with the first pirate ship he sank and going from there.

A-Dom: Hey, you wouldn't be like, a material witness against me would you?

Goldtooth (patting himself): I think I'm material.

A-Dom: I mean like testify against me.

Goldtooth: Well you could tell on me for the whole breakfast cereal thing. I think we're in trouble together.

A-Dom: Oh yea. I like you.

The jail door opens, and some people come into the jail. A-Dom turns around to see Diamond Eye Tor.

Tor: A-Dom! I hear you sunk my ship!

A-Dom: It's a Loooooooooong story. Don't worry, I'll fix it.

Tor: And, how are you going to do that?

A-Dom: Well, first I'll drag it out of the water. Then we'll patch the hole. Then I'll put it back in the water. I'm an Athama now.

Dan: Are you just going to tell everyone now? (Ryan nods) We can not take him to the realm now.

Tor: So, you're a Demon?

A-Dom: No, not really. We just got a really bad rap. But I met a ship once that was.

A-Dom and Diamond Eye Tor have a nice private talk.

Gabe (yelling into the recorder): Can you use the kitchen? I have to use the bathroom!

Jade's Luck (to Tiger): I think we should stay here for a long party week or so.

Tiger: Wouldn't that be more like punishment?

Jade's Luck: No he wants to stay in jail for a week or so. I heard him say it. You know, give A-Dom a little vacation. Cause you know, if the mayor can't find 10 sober people to make a jury, A-Dom will be able to stay in jail until we stop getting everybody drunk.

Tiger, Gareth, and Jade's Luck start discussing what is Fun... to A-Dom.

Gareth (to Tiger): So, what did you do before you met us?

Tiger: Stuff.

Gareth: Not very helpful.

Tiger: No, but it's the truth.

Gareth: Do you remember what you did beforehand?

Tiger: Yes. Is there some reason I wouldn't? I'm not a drunkard like A-Dom.

Jade's Luck: I'm just wondering. Is your mentor the kind of person who would be helpful to all of us? In any way, shape or form?

Tiger: He might be helpful.

Jade's Luck: You see, we have this "thing" where we get into trouble on a regular basis, and it might be helpful to have some... connections. And you someone from before, who knows your evil scum anathema, and is OK with that. And isn't a barbarian.

Alex: Come on, you know Tiger enough that was Evil Scum beforehand.

Dan: I have never been Evil, or Scum...

Jade's Luck: You know how none of my contact want to talk to any of your friends. We know he associates with criminal people. Not that he was evil criminal scum.

Gabe: You know, Jahar doesn't know how to be humble.

Jade's Luck: As much as my mother loves me and everything. I think she would disown me if she found out.

(Long pause in the in-game conversation)

Jade's Luck expresses some concern about the crew of the Grumpy Craftsman.

Jahar: How is it that a island, that firmly (jahar mumbles: Something like "defeats thieves") Has so many affiliated pirates?

Jade's Luck: Well we're just assuming that they are affiliated.

Jahar: Well I'm just going on what you said about a potential conflict of interest.

Jade's Luck: Well A-Dom said things about his drinking buddies might be related to some other kinds of things. And I'm pretty much just going with the theory that anyone we don't know for sure is not affiliated with our merry little band of ex-pirates, it might be easier on (pause) their skulls, if we avoid any potential complications.

Jahar: We have to figure out a way around this.

Jade's Luck: Cause they swore an oath of loyalty to me, but I swore an oath of loyalty to them too.

[GM and A-Dom come out of other room.]

Ryan: So is that contracted signed in my blood or someone else's? Will puppies do?

Gabe: ...mixed with small child.

The group sitting in the tavern, notices there is a commotion off in the distance.

Liz: Does it sound A-Dom related?

GM: Probably not you know A-Dom is safely in jail.

Liz: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight, it must be A-Dom.

The group (except Tiger, who stays at the Tavern reading his book and eating dinner) goes out to investigate the commotion. They find a boat, walking out of the water.

Jade's Luck (waving): Oh hi A-Dom.

A-Dom sets the ship down gently on the beach. Then points at Gareth.

A-Dom (forceful to Gareth): YOU!

Gareth: What?

A-Dom: You owe me BIG. I want the help with da fixing.

Gareth: Why are we fixing pirate vessels?

A-Dom: So I don't get red hot pokers up the ass.

Diamond Eye Tor: Umm... you know we don't really do that here.

The rest of the group gets their first look at Diamond Eye Tor. He's a tall and dashing looking pirate, with a large diamond in his empty eye socket. He's got a large captains hat with a big feather in it, and is generally very well dressed. Jahar could not spot any noticeable signs of Dragon-blooded breeding.

A-Dom (Point at Tor, and the Sky Diamond): Friend of mine's boat. (To Gareth) Come on, you got me in big trouble. You got me arrested. You know, I listened to you...

Gareth (angry): I'll fix the bloody boat.

Tor: There are two actually.

A-Dom then goes into the ocean and carries out the other ship, Hunger's Revenge.

Gareth: You want to remove that shark before I get to work?

A-Dom grabs the shark that had been swimming around inside Hunger's Revenge, pets it a little and then tosses it back in the ocean.

The group discusses skeet shooting with the Death Ray. Which leads to:

A-Dom: I would be (forced happy voice) Happy not to throw Tiger into the Death Ray.

Alex: He'd just Dodge it anyway.

There was a large group of people who came down to watch the ships being carried out of the water. So the group decided to play to the crowd.

Jade's Luck: That's A-Dom, isn't he great.

A-Dom: I'm a Solar!

Tor: I thought you said you were an Anathema.

A-Dom: Well really the name is...

Tor: ...interchangeable?

A-Dom: Yea.

At some point while Gareth is fixing the boats, Jahar goes up to Diamond Eye Tor.

Jahar: Good Evening Sir. I'm sorry my companion damaged your boat is there anything we can do to make up for it?

A-Dom (jerks a thumb at Jahar): He's the island owner now.

Tor: Oh, nice to meet ya. And your name would be?

Jahar: Jahar

Tor: Nice island ya have here. We likes it quite a lot. But no, A-Dom's taking care of everything. He's getting the boats fixed, and putting them back in the water. We'll drop the charges when he's done with all that.

A-Dom (to Jahar): Yup, it's all good. Impress him with the talk of the family and the business and all that.

Jahar just shakes his head.

A-Dom: What do you mean, "No" ? But (flustered pause) but with (flustered pause) and the diamond eye (flustered pause) You're the owner of the island! You should be all "Hey, look at me! I'm great!" (flustered pause) Unconquered whatever... (talking real fast) He's a member of a big Dragon-Blood family and he's got all kind of power and owns a trading company!

Jahar (solemn) : A-Dom... please.

A-Dom: You are!

There is some murmuring in the crowd, and a few blades being loosened in their scabbards, and a lot of cursing under their breath, at the mention of "Dragon-Blooded family."

Jahar: Now would be a good time for a speech on the tyranny of the Dynasts society.

Jade's Luck (afraid): You want to make it worse?

Jahar: Not me, somebody else. (To A-Dom): I don't think it's a good idea to incite the crowd so much that they all get burned up.

A-Dom: I just want you would impress my old captain.

Jahar (to Tor): He use to serve under you?

Tor: Yup.

A-Dom (Happy): Yea, isn't life Ironic?

Gareth (to Tor): Have you ever thought of not being a Pirate?

Tor: YES! I have a plan to be a harbor master someday.

A-Dom (to Gareth): I need a Harbor.

Tor: A-Dom is considering installing a "merchant town" on his island.

A-Dom (whispering to Tor): Don't use the quotes!

Tor: Apparently he has to wait until he owns the whole island. Apparently he's just a prince right now...

Jahar: You know there is a Harbor here already.

Tor: Yes, but this is a "pirate island." Merchants won't come here. A "merchant town" now, merchants would come to that... and buy things. Things that may have been transported from ships that make port here. But they wouldn't know that.

Jahar: Have you ever considered a system of privateering?

Tor: That sir is a dirty word! It's called Piracy! Privateers work for evil governments!

Jahar: But what if they prey on evil governments? But not on legitimate merchants...

Gareth (forceful): We are NOT condoning piracy here Jahar.

Jahar: I'm condoning piracy on the Realm ships.

Tor (to Jahar): So you’re talking about some kind of... pirates with morals... I guess? I've never had anyone ask me that kind of question.

A-Dom: Usually when someone asks me that kind of question, I kill them. But.. He's Jahar... so he.. Ya know...

Gareth: Cause he's so wonderful?

Tor and Jade's Luck get into a side discussion about this. Eventually the crowd calls for an old man.

Tor (to old man): What do you call a Pirate, that preys only on government ships?

Old Man (confused, then a flash of insight): Ethical?

The crowd kind is all impressed by the wisdom of the old man. Lots of "Arr! Ethical..."

Tor: So that's what your proposing?

Jade's Luck: Maybe Ethical Pirates are ok? Especially maybe if they ransom prisoners instead of torturing and maiming and killing?

Tor: Oh... ransoming... does that make you more money?

Jahar: Yes, yes it does.

Jade's Luck (pointing at Gareth): He's a little upset because of his eye.

Tor: Oh, (pause) yea, well look on the bright side. It makes you look dashing!

Gareth lifts up his eyepatch revealing his scar.

Gareth: Cause that's not dashing!

Tor (deflated): Oh. Maybe you should get a diamond. Ladies love it.

A-Dom (Happy to Gareth): You are suppose to get married.

Jahar (to Tor): Could you live with us for a while?

The group sees another ship pulling into the Harbor. Some of them can read it's name: The Artisan's Cargo.

Jahar: Jade's Luck. This is the time you should start your speech, so the new ship hears it.

Jade's Luck (confused): Ok...

Jade's Luck remembered that the Artisan's Cargo was captained by Admiral Blood Sky. She also remembered the name Captain Blood Sky in connection with stories she's heard Gareth tell about losing his Eye.

Jade's Luck (to Gareth): Umm... Maybe Tiger should be down here for this. Go get him.

Gareth wanders off towards the tavern.

Jahar (to Jade's Luck): The more people that hear the speech the better. Now is the perfect time to start.

Jade's Luck (grabs Jahar and whispers into his ear): That's Admiral Blood Sky, he took his (nod's to Gareth) eye.

Jahar: Well whatever you think is best. But I think...

Jade's Luck starts her speech about how the Dynasts and the Realm are bad, and explaining that Jahar may be from a Dynast family he does not support their rule. During her speech, the third ship's crew comes along the dock and stops to watch the speech. Then after the speech.

Tor: A-Dom, come and meet my friend, Admiral Blood Sky!

Gareth's gets to the Tavern (also known as the good inn). Goes in sits down next to Tiger, and starts bitching about how this night can't get any worse.

A-Dom, meeting Blood Sky, gets the distinct impression that he is a Dragon-Blood from his breeding. Green hair, blue skin.

A-Dom: Hi.

Blood Sky: Hello, (to Tor) Who's this?

Tor: This is my good friend A-Dom.

Blood Sky: You the fellow that was lifting the boats?

A-Dom: Yea, (pointing at himself) Anathema.

Blood Sky (cheerful): Well, good for you! Looking for work?

A-Dom: No, no, got a whole Solar, Conquering the world thing going. I already have a whole island.

Tor: And he's working on this whole "ethical piracy" idea thing.

A-Dom: Yea, we're just trying to destroy the Realm. We're OK with the Dragon-bloods being around and all. We just think the world should be organized different. Of course, everybody feels that way.

A-Dom and Jahar get into a short and totally incoherent argument.

Admiral Blood Sky, gets confused, then says to Tor: I need a Beer. Then he wanders off into town. Going of course towards the good inn in town. A-Dom, watches them leave, realizes where they must be going, so he goes running past them as fast as he can. A-Dom gets to the good in, runs inside, picks up the stool that Gareth is sitting on and runs out of the Tavern with him on it out the back door.

A-Dom (to bartender): I'll bring back the stool!

Jahar tries to humbly teach the pirates about the Unconquered sun. He does very poorly, as he expected he would.

A-Dom (to Gareth who he is still holding up): You know, you probably don't want to use that inn.

Gareth (angry): Why not?

A-Dom: I hear people pee in the breakfast cereal there... (pause) and maybe other stuff.

The front door of the Inn opens and Admiral Blood Sky walks in along with a large number of his crew. They all sit down. As it happens Blood Sky ends up sitting very near to where Tiger is sitting. Tiger recognizes a few things about him.

Gareth: You know, I'm having a progressively bad day. You want to put me down.

A-Dom: I, I, I will put you down. (Really cheery voice) I am also having a very bad day you know. I was in jail for a while. I almost you know... very much... made a good person... angry with me. Once... I would LOVE to cook you dinner!

Gareth: Do you have ANY cooking skill what so ever?

A-Dom: No. But I may find a cook, and ask them nicely. How about, we go back to the Manse? Yes? No? I'll then bring you your food and we can hang out. Away from the pirates. I know this great game with a stick and a ball. It's called "stick ball." And we'll hang out, and tell stories...

Gareth: Why can't we do this back at the inn?

A-Dom: Because there are pirates there. And I know you don't like pirates.

Gareth: You know, this is all very creepy.

A-Dom: It's not my fault. I have to help or else I'll fall down and poke my other eye out. I have to be Cheery and helpful.

Gareth: You could just smile some more.

A-Dom smiles in a very frightening way.

Gareth: Ok then...

Jade's Luck finds A-Dom and Gareth, with A-Dom still holding the stool in the air with Gareth on it. About a block away from the inn.

Jade's Luck: Do you want me to go to the Inn to...

A-Dom (interrupting, in his forced happy voice): I was thinking we could use the Manse, away from the inn and all the uncomfortable pirates. (Long pause) Maybe we could talk to the Trees! (Very fast) The Trees seemed to have a lot to say!

Jade's Luck: Why don't I go get some food and wrap it up and bring it along to you.

Gareth (to A-Dom): You need to spend less time with Jahar. Seriously. (To Jade's Luck) We're going back to the Manse because A-Dom just did a very scary smile.

A-Dom puts Gareth on his shoulders, then hands Jade's Luck Gareth's mug and stool. Jahar wanders around town, looking for a temple. He doesn't find one.

Jade's Luck: A-Dom? Are you eating or fasting?

A-Dom: Fasting.

Jade's Luck: Then I probably shouldn't bring you a dinner. I'm Sorry.

A-Dom: I could always give it to Gareth. (To Gareth who is still slung over his shoulder. Happy voice:) Have two dinners, please!

Gareth: I know why he's being aggressively nice. We'll I don't, but I think I do.

Ryan: It's called a Compassion 1 trying to be Compassion 5 and skipping 2, 3, and 4.

Gabe: This is why Jahar doesn't know how to be humble.

Jade's Luck goes back to the inn, puts the stool down in the empty spot on the other side of Tiger. She then found "portable food" to take to Gareth. She put it in a basket for Gareth, and took it out to him.

Gareth (still over A-Dom's shoulder): I know why he's acting like this. Why are you acting like this?

A-Dom: She always acts like this. But that's a good thing.

Jade's Luck: I'm suppose to be nice to everybody too... and make muffins. I can't make muffins yet. Also I'm a little worried about you, as you seem a little... anxious about things on this island.

A-Dom: And I'm suppose to make you cheery.

Gareth: What? It's my fault that killing Pirates is a stress relief?

Dan: YES!

A-Dom: Well really there was only that one time that we got to kill pirates. So you must be tense all the time.

Gareth: YES!

A-Dom: You really do need a wife!

Jade's Luck: Hey, now that you're prince, you could probably find him a really nice wife.

A-Dom (very happy): Yes!

Gareth: No that's OK.

A-Dom: How many wives do you want?

Dan: Just ask if you can knock them up first.

Gareth just shakes his head.

A-Dom (kind of sad): Well, OK, if you don't want a wife, that's fine. You can just get visited by your Grandmother... again.

Dan (whispering to Ryan): Ask 'em if he wants a Husband instead.

A-Dom: Come on, we'll hang out at the Manse. Maybe we can get Captain Humble to open the door... just need to find Jahar so he can open the door.

A-Dom wanders around town, carrying Gareth, looking for Jahar. Luckily their brotherhood spell makes it easy to find each other.

A-Dom: Jahar! (Points at Gareth) We're... with the not... With the finding and the pirate killing and the not being grumpy... and wanting people to be happy... I know your doing the whole thing your doing here. But could you let us into the manse, so not with the stabby and the death and the whole pile of ashes thing and the reincarnation.

Jahar: Well I would not want to inconvenience you, so I will go with you.

Note: They would have to walk to the other side of the island to use the other door. As the door in the Mayor's office can only be effectively used by Jahar (to make the walls fade out of the way).

A-Dom: I appreciate it. Would you like dinner?

Jahar: No. However I wish you would eat it.

A-Dom: I CAN'T. I'm fasting. You know... the whole not eating. I'm sorry.

Jahar: That's quite alright. Ok lets go.

As they walk along.

A-Dom: Maybe later we can do the whole stick and ball game. Where you put the stick in the ground, then you throw the ball at it. If your good you get them to stay together, because you use a sharp ball.

GM breaks at the comment "sharp ball."

Gareth: Do you know what you are saying?

A-Dom (happy voice): I know exactly what I'm saying, always. And I'm happy to do it. Because you know... you were expecting the stick to be sharp.

Jade's Luck finds them to ask about getting permission to enter the Manse.

Jahar: I could give you permission, but then you would have to use the far door. And I would not want to inconvenience you by making you walk all the way over there. So please come with me.

Gareth falls asleep.

Jade's Luck: Well it might be good if we had permission to use the manse... without you around.

Jahar: I don't think there are any issues with you moving about inside the manse. As long as you don't use this door.

A-Dom: This door, is the trappy door.

The group heads into the Manse. Jade's Luck heads off somewhere else.

A-Dom (to the Tree inside the Manse): So do you know anything else about the Unconquered Sun? You know, other then what we...

Jahar (interrupting): A-Dom! Don't pester the poor tree. It's rude.

A-Dom (cheerful): You're absolutely right! (To the tree): Would you like to throw fireballs at me?

Tree: Yes!

Gareth: You can put me down now.

A-Dom stands there taking fireballs to the face until he is partly wounded then asks the tree to stop. Puts him self out.

Jahar (to the Tree): Are there any rooms where I possibly might attire myself?

Tree: Oh yes, there are a number of rooms where you can get dressed. Usually off the living rooms.

Jahar: Perhaps you have a Map in here?

Tree: Nope, no map. Just wander around. It's your house.

Jahar: Are the others free to wander around without being injured?

A-Dom (annoyingly cheerful): Where would you like to eat Gareth?

Gareth: Well I doubt any of the kitchens have any food left in them.

Jahar wanders off to find a dressing room to store his good cloths in. He realizes that all the clothing that was left in the manse has rotted away. As the Manse apparently has not been lived in for a long time.

Ryan: There is a giant "bat-moth!"

A-Dom notices that Gareth is holding the basket of food that Jade's Luck gave him.

A-Dom: Oh the food has arrived.

Gareth: Yes, I made it magically appear.

A-Dom: Do you have a charm to make food appear?

Gareth: Yes... but it only works when Jade's Luck is around.

A-Dom: I'm glad you've learned this new charm.

Gareth: It doesn't cost any essence ether.

A-Dom: WOW!

Jahar finds A-Dom and Gareth.

A-Dom (to Jahar): Whenever Jade's Luck is around he can make a basket of food appear.

The next day. Jahar goes to town and trades his good clothing for more "humble cloths."

Ryan goes off on a tangent about destroying Creation. The group starts arguing if Creation would be destroyed if the 5 Elemental Dragons were killed.

Apparently Jade's Luck and Tiger spent the night at the Inn, or at
least they started having this conversation the next day.

Jade's Luck (to Tiger): So should we be sucking up to these pirates?

Tiger (deadpan): If you want. Knock yourself out.

Jade's Luck (enthusiastic): I think not killing people is an excellent start.

Jahar goes to the Mayors office to look at the Laws. He looks specifically for Eye loss, and for crimes committed off the island. Strangely, the laws only pertain to crimes committed "on the island." Also there was no specific punishment for causing "Eye Loss." Jahar then went to the Library of the Manse, to try to find out "What humble is." Jahar then tries to figure out if a Humble individual would tell Gareth about Admiral Blood Sky. Jahar decides to tell him. Jahar shaves his hair off. Then he goes to find Gareth.

Jahar finds Gareth still asleep, sits down, and stairs at him, waiting for him to wake up. A-Dom walks past.

A-Dom: Jahar... What are you doing?

Gareth wakes up to Jahar and A-Dom talking. Then makes hand gestures at Jahar questioning his lack of hair. They then start discussing the Manse's magical plumbing and how interesting it is.

Jade's Luck and Tiger start discussing the laws. Notably there is no mention of Piracy, gambling, or similar things in the laws of the island. Most of the Laws are related to the Mayor and what he needs to do to keep the island running. They also found that the Mayor can make temporary laws for the public good.

Jahar (to Gareth): Want to take a walk. I would like to speak to you privately.

Gareth: I guess so.

A-Dom: Can I come with?

Jahar: I feel that it is most honorable that Gareth can talk to me alone.

A-Dom: I happily agree.

Jahar and Gareth go to a room alone.

Jahar: Gareth I feel you should know that the last ship that sailed into harbor last night is captained by Admiral Blood Sky. So I want you to remember there is no violence, ON the island.

Gareth: So?

Jahar: There is no violence ON the island. Just wanted to remind you of that.

Gareth: I'm heading back to the ship.

Jahar: I'm going to go meditate.

Gareth wanders around until he finds the other door. It's only five miles away. Which took some time to find. Then once outside, he figured out the ship was about 3 miles away from the door, and headed there.

Jahar meditates, then practices martial arts (because Immaculate Monks are humble, and do martial arts, so he must do martial arts, to be humble). Then he goes to the library.

Later in the day, Jade's Luck goes to the front door and knocks. Jahar is in the library at this point. The kitty cat walks up to him and informs him that someone is knocking at the front door.

Jahar: Do you know who it is?

Kitty: I'm not a door Sir!

Jahar: Does the door know who it is?

Kitty: No, the door is kind of shy.

Jahar: I probably have to introduce people to the door. Don't I? Might I impose upon you to lead me to the door.

Kitty: Oh, sure.

Jahar and the Kitty cat eventually find the front door. Of course, the cat doesn't lead him in a totally strait line. Jahar can sense where members of the circle are, so he knows it's Jade's Luck on the other side of the door.

Jahar (to the door): Hello

The door which is ornately carved on this side waves back with a pair of small arms near the bottom of the door.

Jahar: I understand that a friend of mine is on the other side of this door. Would you mind opening up for her?

Door (sad-ish): Oh, I guess not.

The door uses its little arms near the floor to grab the cracks in the floor and slowly and painfully drag itself open by clawing it's away along the floor.

Gabe: Oh my god, I feel bad for the door... I help him.

Jahar: So you know in the future, this is Jade's Luck.

Jade's Luck waves to the door who says hello back.

Jahar (to Jade's Luck): Come on inside.

After Jade's Luck gets inside, the door starts pushing himself slowly closed. Jade's Luck helps him get himself closed.

Door (to Jade's Luck): Sorry, I don't have a face on the outside, side.

Jahar: How do you know when someone is outside?

Door: It's kind of like someone breathing on the back of your neck.

Jahar: Do you know who it is?

Door: If they come often enough, I can tell what they are like.

Jahar: I would like you to be able to identify my circle mates so they can get in.

Door (to Jahar): Well you're easy to spot. You smell like cherries.

Jahar: I hope there are other reasons you know me as well.

Door: Yea, but the cherry smell is so easy to notice.

Jahar tries to lead Jade's Luck to the Library by a different route. However he finds A-Dom instead. A-Dom is playing with the plumbing by walking in and out of the bathroom to make the "magic bowl of water" flush.

A-Dom: It's cool! And it's drinkable too! It's not putrid or nothing.

Jahar: Are you ok?

A-Dom: YES! Yes I am. Watch this! *flush*

Jahar: I could find the library but we found you instead.

A-Dom: That's not sad at all.

Jahar: The front door is three miles away.

A-Dom: My legs (pause) are brown.

Jahar: Can I help you with anything?

A-Dom: Can you help me smell like the Wyld?

Jahar: I don't think I can answer that. Very well... the library is this way!

A-Dom: I'll be in the bathroom!

Jahar: You might want to keep an eye on Gareth.

A-Dom (very force happy voice): I'd be happy too.

A-Dom waders around until he finds the door out. The door says hello to him.

A-Dom: Hi, I'm A-Dom, I'm incredibly miserable right now.

Door: Really, tell me about it.

A-Dom: Well I'm forced to be nice to these people want to smack around some times.

Door: Oh and the whole non-violence thing?

A-Dom: That's not even the half of it. I've been charged by an agent of my god to be "Nice and cheery" for a whole week! Otherwise my other eye is going to get poked out or my genitals fall of or something.

Door: Oh. You ever just.... consider going off and having a few hours to yourself?

A-Dom: Yea, but they can still find me. (Pause) Anyway, thanks for listening to me bitch. Now, get out of the way.

Door: All right.

The door starts slowly clawing his way along the floor to open himself. The door, not going fast enough for A-Dom, who slams it open, then slams it closed behind him.

Door (Softly from the other side): Ow... my spine...

Gabe: Maybe I should make him exercise. Three opens and three shuts a day.

Liz: Oh god the poor door!

A-Dom wanders down to the ship to check on Gareth.

Gareth (way to excited): Ah, good A-Dom. We're going to need some of your "little friends."

A-Dom (confused): Circle members?

Gareth (sounding like a used-car salesman): How do you feel about making a spine chain?

A-Dom: But... but... bu...

Gareth: Go find us some nice sharks. You can make a spine chain out of sharks!

A-Dom: That's a surprisingly good idea... (Pause) But if I make these, with the specific purpose of killing specific people... won't be happy... with the... thingy... and the pile of dust. While I'm getting there. I think I'm ready for reincarnation.

Gareth: Who said we're doing this on the island?

A-Dom: I think sharks won't work well because they are mostly cartalige.

Group then discusses spine chains, and that they are more zombie then skeletons. Hence, sharks should actually work disturbingly well.

Gareth: We can improve that. I have faith in you.

A-Dom's face goes into slack jawed amazement as he can not believe the words that are coming out of Gareth's mouth.

Jahar decides to use the power of the Manse to look around through the light of the lighthouse. So he takes a look at the ship, and sees Gareth and a stunned A-Dom standing on deck. The entire ship lights up under the light of the lighthouse, even though it's in the middle of the day. A-Dom notices.

A-Dom (to the Manse): Umm. NO! Sorry! We'll stop thinking about ideas like that now.

Jahar blinks when he sees A-Dom apparently trying to talk to him, even though he can't hear him. The spotlight goes off and on. A-Dom breaks down and starts crying. Jahar stops looking and goes back to reading his book. So the light goes off.

Liz (about A-Dom): At what point does he have to roll valor because "the world hates ME?"

A-Dom (whispering to Gareth): We can't talk about this stuff! We're going to get fried! I'm happy to be fried...

Gareth: Come on, we've got work to do!

A-Dom: I'm going to go below decks and lie down.

A-Dom goes into the Hull, and tries to find a barrel to hide in, near where Skelly died. Looking in the first barrel he sees, he finds one of the "ex-pirate" crew hiding in it.

Crew member: Hey, this is my hiding spot! Get your own!

A-Dom: You're not a demon are ya?

Crew member: Noooo.... but did you hear the way the Captain was talking?

A-Dom: Wow! I know for a fact that you are not a demon because your head didn't melt. That's cool.

A-Dom finds another barrel... one full of water. He just gets in regardless. Gareth decides to let A-Dom have a five minute rest. Gareth then goes to get him. But when he finds A-Dom hiding in a water barrel, he decides to give him another five minutes.

Gareth goes off and searches the bay looking for "bones" for A-Dom to animate.

Ryan: I don't think he really knows how this works...

Tiger (reading the laws) has figured out that Demon summoning is illegal, but that there are no rules for Necromancy.

Gareth decides to go and search the island for bones, since there was a significant lack of them in the bay.

Gareth managed to triple botch his roll to search for bones.

GM: I have to think up a good triple botch for "searching for dead bodies."

Jahar starts making a daily schedule for being humble.

Wake, wash, Martial Arts, Wander among the people, Lunch, Meditate in the woods. Explore the manse or the library. Wander among the people again. If I find anyone who's likely to be dying, I'll offer to take them to Skullstone. Sleep.

Gabe: Is it bad that I'm writing my daily schedule on the back of the yozi oath?

Gareth finds an area with some disturbed ground. Following the
disturbed ground he finds a sea cave, and spots a few men (4 total) inside carrying torches, and they have with them a large chest. One of them... looks kind of familiar... But couldn't really remember where.

Liz: He would look more familiar to your other eye...

Blood Sky (Noticing Gareth): You there! Get away from here. This is our cave! (Pause) You look familiar. Hmm... (pause) can't quite place it. Maybe if you snivel!

Gareth ignores the pirates and starts examining the structure of the cave. Gareth determines the exact point that is the structural keystone of the cave. He then gets his sword from elsewhere, jumped up to the center of the ceiling and drove his sword into the keystone area, collapsing the entire cave, then sliding out hole that was caused by the keystone getting destroyed so he was safe. The Cave collapsed down upon the pirates. Everyone on the Grumpy Craftsman hears a earth shattering kaboom.

A-Dom continues to stay in his bucket of water, treating it like a very small bath tub. Have a good time, not investigating.

A-Dom (to the crew in the barrel next to him): You! Get out of Skelly's barrel!

Crew Member: What?

A-Dom: Out! NOW!

Crew member gets out of the barrel.

Crew Member: Where am I suppose to hide?

A-Dom: Next barrel over.

Crew Member: It's full of apples...

A-Dom: Start eating! Apples prevent scurvy! Or go hide under Fatty!

The crew member decides to just hide behind the barrel. A-Dom breaks the barrel the crew member just climbed out of. "Skelly's barrel."

A-Dom: Skelly says no!

The crew who are hiding in the hull, start getting very nervous. Fatty goes up on deck and talks to Gareth when he gets back.

Fatty: Sir. I thought you should be made aware of this. A-Dom appears to be going insane. He's scaring the men.

Gareth: I'll go down and have a talk with him.

Fatty: Maybe you could have the talk with him, up here. Where less of us are likely to get hurt.

A-Dom (screaming): Nobody touches Skelly's barrel! I declare this Skelly's barrel now! (Crashing noise as apples go flying when A-Dom smashes the barrel.)

Gareth: A-DOM!

A-Dom: What?

Gareth: Are you OK?

A-Dom (very stressed out voice): I'm happy! Aren't you happy?

Gareth: It's OK not to be happy.

A-Dom (Angry): No! It's NOT! I have to be happy! This one's Skelly's barrel now!

Liz: Oh god, this is Paranoia and A-Dom is the Happiness officer!

Gareth: Ok, lets get something to write "skelly's barrel" on. Then only you can touch it.

A-Dom: No! (A-Dom breaks that barrel too, tar goes spilling all over.) That's Skelly's Tar! He collected it and nobody cared!

Gareth: You cared.

A-Dom (little angry kid voice): I cared and I'm happy. I have to make a spine chain out of (pause) spiders, so I can be fried to a crisp. Then you (pointing at Gareth) can be happy!

At this point Alex is laughing so hard, Gareth can't respond.

A-Dom: I know! We'll spine chain boats together, then just run over everyone!

Gareth: I don't think that will work.

A-Dom: I know, we can spine chain Pirates! We'll have one big pirate, made out of little pirates, connected at the ass!

Crew: We'd prefer not sir!

A-Dom: Yes, most of them don't but I do it anyway!

Gareth: You know, if I thought it would work... (Pause) A-Dom you should go lie down.

A-Dom: I'm happy to lie down!

The crew by this point has left the hull area for their own safety.

A-Dom (ranting like a madman): I have to be helpful, and helpful, and cheerful, and helpful... Do you need help? I'll help! I'll kill somebody for ya right now! I know! I'll go under the island and destroy it and it will sink and we'll all die! Will that help?

Gareth: I think you would be most helpful with your wife right now.

Liz: That's just evil. His poor wife...

A-Dom (still crazy ranting): I know! I'll dig a hole right in the middle, and that will sink the island. That will work. You'll be happy then!?! Won't you? Maybe I'll go kidnap an Earth Elemental! I can put blood in my eyes and I can see things!

Liz (sounding like A-Dom): Hi Dad! I'm in Jail! I'm calling you from JAIL!

Just because Gabe asked what was the Design Spirit doing, he was up on deck with the pirate crew saying things like "So... attached at the ass... might not be that bad for all of you..."

Gareth: How about you stay right here. I'll be back.

A-Dom (Happy voice): Would that make you HAPPY? Cause if I'm not there, I can't help you.

Gareth: Guard the boat.

A-Dom (crazy voice): Yessss... Guard the boat.... Am I in charge then? I'M CAPTAIN A-DOM!

Gareth hears a lot of splashing noises as the entire crew of the grumpy craftsman jumps overboard and swims for shore.

Jahar decides to look again through the lighthouse. He looks at the boat at the exact time that the crew is leaping off the boat in terror. Jahar turns off the light.

A-Dom: This is Skelly's Boat!

Gareth: We can make Skelly his own boat.

A-Dom: Noooooo this boat belongs to Skelly!

Jahar double speaks the kitty cat into getting the various intelligent objects in the manse to find Jade's Luck and Tiger, to tell them that there may be a problem onboard the Grumpy Craftsman, probably caused by A-Dom. He also asks if the kitty cat wants anything, and the cat says "string" so Jahar unravels about 20ft of string off his humble robe.

A skull in the Mayor's office suddenly lights up and starts talking.

Skull (to Tiger): Hey, hey you!

Tiger (like this is totally normal): Yea?

Skull: The owner of the manse says some guy named A-Dom is having problems on a boat.

Tiger: What boat?

Skull (thinks about it for a minute): His boat!

Tiger: Ok, thanks!

The kitty cat then tells Jahar that Tiger is on his way. Jahar then turns himself into a flock of birds with a spell and flies as far as he can, which got him outside of the manse, but not all the way to the ship.

Jade's Luck also gets the message, but just runs off towards the ship.

A-Dom: You there! Design Spirit! You're my Second Mate!

Design Spirit (with enthusiasm): Aye Aye Captain!

A-Dom starts laughing like a maniac. The Design Spirit pulls out a pastel tri-quarter hat and puts it on.

A-Dom: You guard the... Pointy end! I'll guard the big end!

Design Spirit: Aye!

A-Dom (crazy rant): Don't let Skelly in! Cause he's Dead! DEAD dead!

Design Spirit: Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Gareth heads to the island to find the group, not knowing they are coming. At this point, A-Dom decides to guard the most vulnerable part of the ship. The bottom of the boat. So he dives into the water, and "ties" himself to the bottom of the ship. When we way "tie" we mean he wraps himself up with rope because he has chosen to be crazy at this point. For the record, A-Dom can not breath under water.

Tiger reaches the beach near ship first. He sees a very wet and kind of scared looking Gareth standing on the beach with most of the crew nearby.

Tiger: So, what's going on?

Gareth: Apparently being happy and cheerful, has caused A-Dom to snap. He's currently guarding the... (very long pause while Gareth tries to figure out how to explain it. Then he just gives up.) He's under the water. I think he needs to be knocked out.

Tiger: Oh, that again. Couldn't you just touch him and make him happy?

Gareth explains that A-Dom has been declaring things to belong to Skelly, then smash it. Jahar gets there, to see Tiger walking towards the ship.

Jahar (to Gareth): What going on?

Gareth: A-Dom snapped. Apparently being helpful and cheerful doesn't agree with him. He needs to be knocked out. Tiger is going to go "talk" to him.

Jahar: Where is he?

Gareth: Under the boat.

Jahar: How is he going to talk to him under the water.

Gareth: I have no clue.

Jahar: Why don't we leave him there until he passes out?

Gareth: Because that can't be good.

It turns out A-Dom can hold his breath for 4 minutes. Then starts taking damage.

Tiger goes into the ship to get a beer.

Liz: This is A-Dom! Not Campan!

Jade's Luck finally arrives while Tiger is searching the boat for beer.

Jade's Luck: Well I picked the right boat.

Gareth: A-Dom snapped. Tiger is dealing with the situation.

Jade's Luck looks horrified at the words "Tiger is dealing with the situation."

Jade's Luck: Where is he?

Gareth: Under the boat. He's guarding the boat.

Tiger then jumps into the water with the mug of beer.

Tiger (yelling through the water): Hey A-Dom! Beer!

Unfortunately, A-Dom just hears Tiger yelling something incoherent, then "Beer!" A-Dom's response is to throw a "happy fish" at Tiger, while yelling "Happy fish!" Unsurprisingly, Tiger dodges it.

Alex (to GM): Why did you bring Paranoia into your Exalted game?

Jade's Luck dives into the water and can see that A-Dom is "tied" to the ship. He is also turning blue. Jade's Luck decides to flash her boobs at him.

At this point A-Dom botches his conviction roll to drown himself to death. So he goes blasting to the surface for air. On his way up, he sees Jade's Luck.

A-Dom bursts out of the water, touches the boat and monkey leaps away from "the boobs of scariness!" A-Dom ends up landing on the beach next to Gareth and Jahar. He breaks down and starts crying.

Jahar: A-Dom, calm down!

A-Dom: I lost the ship! I can't find it. There were scary thing there!

Gareth: Calm down, we are going to take you back to your island.

A-Dom: No, I'm here. I'm HAPPY to be here.

Gareth: Yes, but you'll be happy to be there.

One of the crew members tried to sneak up on A-Dom with a blackjack.

Jahar (to crew member): Don't do that!

A-Dom noticed the crew member, swings and hits the crew member with his fist while screaming the battle cry "Rhyme it!" A-Dom however managed to do no damage on the attack.

Ryan: Oh my god! He'll be famous! He got hit by A-Dom and lived!

Gareth stood between the pirate and A-Dom.

A-Dom: You rhyme it! Rhyme with Skelly!

A-Dom tries to dig a hole on the sand of the beach to burry himself. Tiger walks up.

Tiger: A-Dom, you're not being helpful. Why don't you go be by yourself for a while.

Jahar: A-Dom it would be very helpful for us if you would relax.

A-Dom: I have to be HELPFUL!

Jahar: You can be happy and helpful by going and doing whatever you want to do, where ever you want to do it.

Tiger: Like in the forest, by yourself.

A-Dom, starts to swim to his island. Through the sand.

A-Dom: Not working! The water is hard!

Jahar: Would you like to be alone for a little while?

Gareth picks A-Dom up and throws him into the water, where upon A-Dom starts swimming off as fast as he can.

Jahar (to Gareth): I don't think he has the stamina to make it back to his island. He was blue and twitching...

Tiger (to Gareth): What did you do to set him off?

Jade's Luck gets a few crew into a row boat, to chase after A-Dom at a distance.

Crew (to Jade's Luck): We don't like this idea, but we have to follow your orders.

Gareth: All I did was talk about creating a few things.

Tiger: For the purpose of?

Jahar starts calming down the crew and "treating them like valuable human beings." Which the group all finds to be a strange idea.

Gareth notices Jade's Luck has rowed off with a few of the crew chasing A-Dom. Gareth's conviction towards A-Dom wins out, and he gets everybody to get onboard the Grumpy Craftsman to chase after them.

A-Dom finally fails a few dozen miles away from land. The crew in the row boat grab him and pull him in, and wait for the Grumpy Craftsman to pick them up. The crew then strongly suggests A-Dom be chained up for safety reasons. Mummification of A-Dom with chains and ropes happens as nobody stops the crew.

A-Dom (mumbling in his sleep): Repenting is HARD!
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 11/06/06 session

So... Decoy am I? I thought I was special...

Subtitle: It's :):):):)ing story time :):):):):):):), tell us!
By AlwaysToast


The Grumpy Craftsman II pulls along side the rowboat which had just rescued A-Dom, and everyone gets onboard.

Gareth: OK! Everyone not going to Uk Luk! There is the Dingy! Everybody else to Uk Luk!

Jade's Luck: So, A-Dom's going into the Dingy?

Gareth: NO, A-Dom's going to Uk Luk.

Jade's Luck: Because you want him to kill his family?

Gareth: No, because that's where A-Dom wanted to go. He requested to go there.

Jahar decides to go back to Crull-Tay. The Grumpy Craftsman sails back to Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck.

Gareth: No one goes into A-Dom's room!

Gareth then put one of the ex-pirates on guard in A-Dom's room (with A-Dom mummified by chains and ropes hanging in his hammock) with strict orders to run and get Gareth when A-Dom awoke.

Quite a few hours later, A-Dom woke up, heard a door slam, realized where he was and decided to increase his strength and bust all the chains and ropes off. Gareth arrived as A-Dom was getting the last of the ropes off himself.

Gareth: We're going to Uk Luk. You're staying in here. Nobody is going to bother your.

A-Dom (confused): Oh.

Gareth: This is how you are helping the group.

A-Dom (like a little kid): YAY!

Gareth made sure that Fatty knew to give A-Dom water. The group then sailed, and trained on their way to Uk Luk. A-Dom, stuck inside his very dull and boring room, got bored. So he started swinging in his hammock. So once he broke his only form of entertainment, he got even more bored.

[Failed Temperance check]

A-Dom: Well... It's not a Manse...

A-Dom kicks the door off its hinges (without even checking to see if he was locked in) and started wandering around the ship. The crew ran to tell Gareth that A-Dom was out. Gareth seemed unconcerned. The crew informed him they were going to avoid A-Dom.

A-Dom went to visit Fatty. Which wasn't the smartest thing when fasting. A-Dom had a lovely subject of conversation...

A-Dom (To Fatty): You're my favorite Pirate. If I were to kill all the Pirates. You'd be the last to die.

A-Dom decides to be "anywhere where there is not a circle-mate, with charms if I need to." Since he could sense everyone's location, this was an interesting "game" for him to play for the three day trip. A-Dom spends some time with the Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice, and the design spirit, as long as the rest of the circle are not around. Jade's Luck does shadow puppet theater for the mice, and Gareth gave them the little church that he whittled while waiting for Jahar to let them out of the manse.

The group arrives back at Uk Luk Muck Muck Chuck, three days later. Which happened to be the last day of A-Dom's penance.

Ryan: What pisses me off the most is that it wasn't my god's idea. It was the Zenith's idea thousands of years ago.

A-Dom is very happy to be back on the island (where everyone was happy to see him), and see his wife.

A-Dom (to wife): You! Hut!

The group then discusses that A-Dom should really stop breeding until he's gotten his Wyld mutations cleared up. Of course this doesn't stop A-Dom from sleeping around, but almost entirely with women he'd already knocked up.

The next day Gareth wanders into town and finds A-Dom lying in a gutter, his natural brown color showing... with a suspicious absence of pants. Gareth wakes him up.

Gareth: Take off your eye patch!

Gareth takes him to a hut, then pokes and prods at A-Dom's eye socket for an hour.

A-Dom: What the hell are doing? Captain Insane-O

Gareth (when finished): That should grow back in a day or two. Your Father in law want his toes back too? I'm interested to find out if the toes will regrow.

A-Dom (confused): I guess. What's your angle?

Gareth: I have a nifty new ability, I want to try it out.

A-Dom: Hey, Uk-Pa! Come here, he's going to poke you for a while... in a good way.

So they bring in Uk-Fuju and do the same thing. Gareth goes all glowy, but Uk-Fuju is kind of forced to not panic.

A-Dom get into an argument about what they are going to be doing, and A-Dom's aversion to being magically compelled. Highlights:

A-Dom: Are you going to try to recruit me to kill more pirates? Especially when I'm magically compelled to agree with you?

Gareth: You're not right now. What if you had to wait twenty years to do something, then find out "Hey, he's on the island!" Aren't you going to think "Now's the right time?" You lived without your eye for a couple of months?

A-Dom: Yea?

Gareth (point at his eye socket): Twenty years!

A-Dom: Well, I don't procrastinate. The guy who killed me. I pulled his heart out. Right there. Don't ever do that again, or else I'll take you down with me, while I'm poking both my eyes out, and half my spleen, and a lung. Don't ever try to make me do that again!

GM: Did A-Dom just order Gareth to never ask him to make undead?

Gareth: I was just playing to your strong points, since you were having a crappy time.

A-Dom: You are a nitwit! You wanted me to slaughter my friends and smile while I did it!

Gareth: Was Bloodsky a friend of yours?

A-Dom: Potentially. He was probably a friend of some of my friends. (Pause, then in a firm tone of voice) Bad Gareth!

Gareth: You realize, I still plan on killing them.

A-Dom: That's fine. Just don't magically compel me to help you and I'll probably help you.

Gareth: I won't magically compel you to help you.

The argument then devolves into an argument which pirates in the world are A-Dom's friends and which are not, and how best to not kill them. Somehow, this devolves into A-Dom and Gareth deciding to make a church together. Nice wooden church at the edge of Uk-Fuju's village. This took them a week. During that time A-Dom's Eye and Uk-Fuju's toes grew back.

Jade's Luck spent her time learning to cook muffins from Fatty.

Tiger stole all the ingredient and made a batch of cookies for the circle. The cookies actually came out ok. Gareth reviewed the cookie, found it to be inferior and ate it anyway. A-Dom gave away his cookie right away. Both working on the assumption that if the Assassin in the party gives you a cookie, even if you know he's magically compelled to not make it non-poisonous, you shouldn't eat it out of habit.

Then Tiger ran around the island while training his new charms. He also did a fast geomantic survey, and found out that Jahar was completely correct.

Back on Crull-Tay Jahar manages to get known among the people (while trying his best to be humble). He also got to read all the laws for Crull-tay and did a lot of complaining about Jade's Luck.

Liz: I'm really sick of people complaining about me, for things I did in my past life.

Dan: They are your fault.

Liz: No they are the GM's FAULT!

The group then goes into a long argument on several different subjects, for about a half hour.

As Jahar spends time in the Manse, he realizes that the library in the Manse is organized in an odd way. Each book has a slot or cubby that is specifically fitted for the book. The books were in a specific order, but it was unclear why the books were in that order. Jahar then went to ask the mirror what the order of the books mean?

Mirror: Is it important to you to know the order?

Gabe: I figured as much...

Ryan: Well you've never answered the mirror. Give it a try.

Jahar: YES! It is important to me.

Mirror: Why?

Ryan: My bad. You were right.

Jahar then went to discuss the library with the Tree... and walked past the talking book and didn't think to ask it. After that part of his daily routine involved reading books from the library. He also spends a lot of time talking about the idea of "ethical piracy."

Liz: How arrogantly is he being humble?

At some point Gabe realizes he can use the death ray of the manse to kill people at a whim and it doesn't count as "violence."

Ryan: Yes! Good god man, you are The Law! If A-Dom only had this manse... he's be carving his name in things... like boats... and people. He's just blow things up! *crazed laughter*

Tiger took his mutant-demon-spawned-dino egg down to the center of the island to make it hatch faster. Then he wandered around following it for a few days (protecting it from other dinosaurs) until it was full grown. At some point, Jade's Luck wanders past Tiger mumbling about "Jahar and his :):):):)ing rock fetish."

The group then sailed back to Crull-Tay, and got there three days later. The Grumpy Craftsman then docked off shore. Everyone (Except Gareth) went to shore. Garth noticed The Artisans Cargo was no longer at the dock.

Gareth: Ok, we're here. Go have fun.

A-Dom: Woohoo! I'm gonna go wench me a whore!

A-Dom dives overboard, ignoring the dingy that the other characters are taking.

GM: You know, the whores aren't going to get pregnant...

Ryan: Why are people always assuming I'm repenting? I don't care! I mean, it's on the list, but no time frame...

So A-Dom goes off to have A-Dom fun.

Tiger went off to find Jahar, and give him his cookie. Jahar looked at the cookie for a split second, then handed it to the first small child he could find (regardless of if the child wanted it).

Jahar: Thank you. Little Jimmy thanks you too.

Tiger: Thanks for not eating it.

Jahar: Why? Was I suppose to?

Tiger (depressed): Well I just made cookies for everyone... so they could give them away...

Jahar looks totally confused, because he forgot what Tiger's penances were to be. Jahar then tries to get Tiger to bring Gareth to shore. Tiger explains that Gareth still has "pirate issues." Jahar then used the ability to look through the beam of light from his manse to look at Gareth on the ship. Gareth flipped him off. Tiger said something about A-Dom being off having A-Dom fun. Jahar using his magical knowledge of A-Dom's location, then turned the beam of light to look at A-Dom, through the window of the whore house. Giving the lady whom A-Dom was with quite a fright.

A-Dom (to the beam of light): :):):):) OFF!

Jahar then went back to talking to Tiger so the light went off.

Jade's Luck goes to the Mayor to find out how many people are on the island. With a combination of the Census of residents, and talking to the Pirate Captains for a headcount. As she was trying to figure out how many muffins she had to make.

Jahar then went to talk to Jade's Luck, while she is talking to the pirate captains. A-Dom shows up to talk to Diamond Eye Tor. He found out that the Pirates did in fact disguise themselves as natives of Yuk Glor, since even if the Manse kills the angry native who kills you, you're still dead. So much easier to get them to attack someone else.

Jade's Luck and Jahar discussed setting up a school for "Ethical Piracy" and a trading post. Somehow this was worked into a conversation about A-Dom's history.

Gabe: When I said I was looking for some good candidates, and you said I found 3... what did you think I was asking?

GM: For arranging passage... (Gabe looks puzzled) To somewhere you're already going... (Gabe looks puzzled) For a "Friend" of yours. (Gabe looks puzzled)

Ryan (to Gabe): Do you want me to tell you?

GM: It was spelled out in your email. That I actually responded to...

Gabe: I haven't seen that email in a long time...

So Ryan and Gabe go off with the GM to discuss this. It turns into a Jahar and A-Dom discussion.

Ryan: You explained to me that your going to collect dying people for the Bodhisattva...

Gabe: OH! Yes! That's what I was doing... Oh, yea, hey, good stuff.

A-Dom: So, how far into his pocket are you?

Jahar: I'm not in his pocket. I'm simply promoting the natural order of life and death.

A-Dom: Why?

Jahar: We'll they business is unfinished

A-Dom: What? The people your taking or the people who you are taking them to?

Jahar: The people who have things left undone. They'll be made happier this way.

A-Dom: By the Death Lord?

Jahar: Well you saw how that works.

A-Dom: Yea, but... Why? Is he going to give you something nifty? What are you getting? (Looking at Jahar carefully) Although, you don't have to answer that question if it will make your brain explode...

Jahar: I'm not getting anything. It just seemed perfectly sensible to me.

A-Dom: You've been mind :):):):)ed!

Jahar: I think I would know if I'd been mind :):):):)ed.

A-Dom (sounding very sure of himself): Mind :):):):)ed.

Ryan (looking at the GM): So... Decoy am I? (Yelling) I thought I was special...

Everyone goes back to the group.

Ryan: Wow... A-Dom's world view has just changed... a lot.

A-Dom stops wenching and goes to "sit in a corner." The corner of an alley way. Eventually Jade's Luck wanders by him.

Jade's Luck: Are you ok?

A-Dom (really depressed): Yea... I guess... I'm not as well liked as I thought.

Jade's Luck: Well your wife likes you. Your father in law likes you...

A-Dom: Yea but he's easy.

Jade's Luck: The Unconquered Sun likes you. He let you rip that guys heart out.

A-Dom: He really just sneezed in my direction and when "oh A-Dom, guess that's good enough."

Gabe: You know the end of my month of Humility, is the end of my Manipulation training.

Ryan: That's retarded.

GM: Clearly he's been trying to manipulate people into thinking he's humble. Not actually being Humble. Since Jahar really doesn't know what Humble is.

Jade's Luck: Well if you want to talk about it later... or have a muffin. Let me know.

A-Dom: I don't know. I might want to talk about it later. I'm not sure anymore.

Ryan: It's like someone took an Intimacy and went: Ahhahhhahahhahahah HA! No. That's a lie.

A-Dom: You kind of realize what's going on, but not how bad it is.

Tiger (wanders by): Wife cheating on you?

A-Dom: No, that would be fine. Natural order of things...

Tiger: What the hell is going on?

A-Dom (still depressed): I'll tell you later. If I feel like it. I probably could talk about it. But it's just kind of weird.

Jade's Luck: I'll be making muffins if you want to talk about it.

A-Dom: Yea... well I guess I'll go finish off the whore house.

A-Dom to support his whoring, steals money from the whore house across the street, to pay for the ones he is going to.

A-Dom: I have my own little moral code.

Somehow the group starts talking about homing-seagulls so they can communicate between themselves and the trading ships.

Ryan (to Gabe): You're dead to me.

Gabe (not getting it): Why? Because I'm perverting piracy?

Ryan: That's ok, Gabe understand even if Jahar does not.

Gabe: NO, I really don't understand.

Ryan: Daddy loves you MORE!

Gabe: Oh. You're still going on about that?

Alex (gets a completely horrified look on his face): I think I'm missing large parts of this conversation.

Gabe (to Alex): You've been missing this private conversation for over a year.

Jade's Luck, working on the theory that everything has a god or a spirit, she decides to try to pray to the "female god of creation." [She got 6 successes] The main part of her prayer was "How can we help?" After she was done praying, an Earth Elemental popped up out of the ground in front of her.

Jade's Luck: Hi

Elemental: Hello

Jade's Luck: I'm not sure...

Elemental: Oh, I'm sorry then. (Elemental starts to leave)

Jade's Luck: Wait! I have a question. (Elemental turns back around) Is there any one god for like Creation embodied? Like you're earth embodied. Is there one for Creation?

Elemental: Yup.

Jade's Luck: How can I talk to that one?

Elemental: Why you want to know?

Jade's Luck: Well a friend of mine had a dream that she was in trouble. And I want to help. As apparently it's our job to help.

Elemental (thinks about it for a second): Yup. That's your job.

Jade's Luck: Was there anything we could do right away? Any specifics on helping?

Elemental: Nope. (Wanders away)

Jade's Luck: Hey that was actually informative!

Group goes into a tangent about how badly they want to find a Sidereal and beat information out of it, in the most violent manners possible.

A-Dom asks Jahar if he's going to be reading books for a few more weeks. Jahar tells him that he really does want to do that. So two weeks later (Jade's Luck managed to hand out all her muffins during that time, and people actually ate them. Unlike Tiger's cookies.), A-Dom has a meeting with the rest of the group on the Grumpy Craftsman, while Jahar is busy reading. Gareth has been very bored during all the waiting.

A-Dom (rambling): So, like... way back when... (game 6 or so) when we were on Skullstone. I thought I was daddy's favorite, cause I got the book and a magic stone. You know...

Jade's Luck: That's not necessarily..

A-Dom: Shut up. So Jahar got a card. So I figured that Jahar just got a really retarded present. But you know, he's Jahar. So, he's gathering dead people to talk to the death lord for Soulsteel. Although I don't know that for a fact.

Tiger: Wait? He's :):):):)ing dead people? Where is he putting them?

A-Dom: I don't know!

Jade's Luck: How do you know this?

A-Dom: Because he told me! He's taking dying people to there, so they can die on the island and get :):):):)ed. But the real thing is: He's doing it for no good reason. You ask him (rambling fast) What you getting out of it? Artifact? Something spiffy? (Mocking Jahar's voice): Oh nothing.

Jade's Luck: So he's encouraging people to go to the death realm?

Tiger: What does this have to do with the Card?

A-Dom: I don't know. I assumed it was a card that did lame Jahar things.

Tiger: Where does he keep the card?

A-Dom: On his person. Although if you steal it you'll probably get mind :):):):)ed into collecting bones or something. Yea, so apparently I was the decoy! So you would all go "Ooooooo Naughty!"

Gareth: Yea, and it worked too.

The group argues about what they know about Soulsteel. As while they don't know how it's made, they do know what it looks like and that it's called Soulsteel. So it's not a terrible leap in logic to think it might be made out of souls.

A-Dom: He is so no longer my mentor now.

Tiger runs off to steal Jahar's "Card" then puts it back. He used charms that Jahar didn't have defense against. Tiger finds it to be a Tarot card with a picture of the Bodhisattva on it, and realizes that it probably needs to be attuned for it to be used. He looked at it with All Encompassing Sorcerer Sight, to try and figure out how powerful it was. He realized it was low powered.

Tiger then told the group what he found.

Jade's Luck: I suppose we could ask him about it... like with words and stuff.

Gareth: Like Jahar's going to answer.

During the last week (after he no longer has to be Humble), Jahar goes out amongst the people to promote three ideals: Knowledge, Ethical Piracy, and the Unconquered Sun. In that order. He hears a lot of people comment "You seem different..." As Jahar has gone back to his arrogant self. He then magically reinforced the Ethical Piracy.

Ryan (to Gabe): You're just A-Dom with an education. You realize this?

A-Dom and Jahar get into an argument about why Gareth won't come on the island. A-Dom slowly explains to Jahar that Gareth managed to indirectly kill some people, and the Mayor, being a Dragon-Blood is likely going to want to enforce the mortal laws of the island and arrest Gareth, even if the island doesn't know.

Jahar: You know because I own the island, and you just explained it to me, the Island now knows?

A-Dom (totally freaked out): What?

Jahar: You didn't realize that?

A-Dom: I've never met anyone with a direct mental link to an island! I thought you were one of my accomplices!

Jahar: Wait, you have two eyes! What happened to you?

A-Dom: Unconquered Sun!

Jahar continues to constantly pester A-dom about how he got his eye back.

A-Dom: Let's just NOT tell Gareth.

Jahar: Tell him what?

A-Dom: Exactly!

A-Dom tries to wander off but Jahar follows him asking him more questions about is eye and trying to poke at it. A-Dom just screams back "Unconquered sun" as his constant response.

So the group gets Jahar to come out to the Grumpy Craftsman.

A-Dom: Gareth! The island knows!

Jahar: Gareth can you build me a church on the island so I can lead these people away from those ways that you hate so much?

Gareth: Can it be a floating church?

Jahar: Yea, sure.

Jade's Luck (to Gareth): Why don't you have him explain that little sweet-heart picture in his pocket for a church?

A-Dom starts laughing like a madman.

Jahar's head snaps around.

Jahar (to A-Dom): You know about my Card?

A-Dom (to Jahar): I know you have it. I don't know what it does. God Damn it I'm jealous.

Jade's Luck: We can make sure he tells the truth. We're all very interested.

Jahar: I'm here to be questions because your jealous?

A-Dom: No, because they want to know things. Well really I'm just working on my own petty revenge thing right now.

Gareth: We have a few concerned questions...

Jahar: Shoot.

Gareth: What does this thing you received from the Bodhisattva DO?

Jahar: Lets me communicate, with him.

Gareth: So it's like what the card to the undead pirate card worked?

Jahar: Basically.

The group then discussed if the portal was a two way portal devise. Jahar basically explained that things could not be sent between them because the Silver Prince did not have a card for him. They could only communicate. Of course Jahar explained this in such a way that the group was extremely confused.

Jade's Luck: Maybe we should discuss you collecting souls for the Death Lord.

Jahar: One quest at a time. And I will have you know, I haven't successfully collected a single soul yet!

A-Dom starts laughing.

Gareth: It's the YET part that kind of... worries us.

Jahar: I really wasn't thinking of it in terms of souls anyway. Just people. Now back to your question... We can't go there unless the person the card depicts wants you to go there.

Jade's Luck: So he can't come to us through your sweet-heart picture?

Jahar: That's a very odd phrase.

Gareth: Onto Jade's Luck's question about sending people on.

Jahar: Oh, your referring to the souls that have unfinished business?

A-Dom: I don't know what that means, but he keeps repeating it. I think this stuff was burned into his brain.

Jahar (to A-Dom): You know, it's curious that you're involved in this since you were more involved in this whole process in general.

Jade's Luck: Well, A-Dom wasn't playing with souls really. Just ugly disgusting remains. While thoroughly unpleasant... not as bad.

Jahar: That's completely false. Only the lowest levels of necromancy only have to deal with the body. That and the body has a lower soul in it. That's how you get Hungry Dead. The higher levels of Necromancy focus heavily the higher soul. That's why I haven't played with it. That much...

Jade's Luck (interrupting): That much?!?

Jahar: To be fair, I haven't played with it at all. But I was speaking.

A-Dom(at Jahar): My shtick! MINE!

Jahar: I don't have time to learn Necromancy!

A-Dom: Keep it that way!

Jade's Luck: Well you see we have concerns about souls that should be moving on.

Jahar: Oh they are still part of the cycle.

Gareth: Like most other Exalted, we don't know what their motives are, what they do, why they do them.

Jahar: I would never bring souls there. I was just finding old people who doesn't have their goals accomplished, and take them to someplace where they can accomplish their goals, so they can move on and reincarnate. So they don't become ghosts who can't move on when they die and might become hungry ghosts.

A-Dom: Oh crap. I just understood what he said.

Jade's Luck (very sympathetic to A-Dom): Poor thing.

Jahar: In essence it is continuing the cycle of reincarnation. Because once they accomplish their goals they will be able to fade away and reincarnate again.

Gareth was very annoyed that his lie detecting spell was not triggered by Jahar's comments.

A-Dom: I don't know if that's how Creation worked. But damn it sounded pretty.

Jahar: You're the one who dabbles in Necromancy!

A-Dom: Yea but whenever I make something, it gets broken by someone. (Pointing at Jade's Luck) Usually her! There is a whole big cycle of stuff right there. Doesn't have nothing to do with the Upper soul as far as I know.

Jahar (to Jade's Luck): What does happen when the upper soul is stuck somewhere, like a dinosaur body... do you know?

A-Dom: What the :):):):) are you talking about?

The group is completely confused by brining undead dinosaurs into the conversation.

Jahar: How does animating the body and trapping the Po, affect the upper soul? Can the Hun move on when the Po is trapped?

Gareth: :):):):)ed if I know. But it doesn't matter.

A-Dom: I'm pretty sure I could animate a former body of ours. If I were to find Wretch, god help us, I could animate him.

Jahar: Yes but would that pull the Hun back?

GM: You know there is someone you could ask?

Liz: Roeby?

Rest of group: Nooooooo...

Ryan: Daddy

Gabe: I will never call him Daddy. I care a lot less about him then you do.

Ryan: That's the problem. You do care more about him then I do. The sad thing is you don't know you care.

Alex: You're a sleeper agent!

Ryan: Exactly. One day he's going to say Bob to you, and then your outer shell is going to fall off and you'll come swinging out as a death knight.

A-Dom: Look, your doing tasks for a whole other deity!
Jahar: But they can work together. And I disagree about the whole Deity thing.

A-Dom: The guy that's running the Silver Prince.

The group argues more about stuff (parts of which Gabe forgot). Including dead gods and such. Which they mostly didn't remember or didn't understand.

Gareth: Ok, yes when we first went there, I made a mistake. I made a pact with this guy. We don't need to further...

A-Dom: I made a pact too...

Jahar: Me too...

Jade's Luck: I didn't!

A-Dom: You didn't touch Captain Mittens? Anyway I'm just saying we're getting :):):):)ed left right and center.

Jade's Luck: You took gifts from the Death Lord.

A-Dom: Gift, singular, I took the magic rock. The book is just a loaner. I'm giving it back. And he is totally not teaching me anything else.

Jahar: There are untold numbers of shadowlands creeping across the lands, and there are Death Lords who are far more evil and malicious then the one we have found. The one we have dealt with wants to have our realm and his realm co-exist peacefully. If we can have a peaceful existence with him, then we can focus on dealing with the ones that are destroying other places. Angry undead armies are way more dangerous to creation then the Silver Prince. He has even said the other ones are evil...

Jade's Luck (mocking voice): Oh yes! Please go kill those ones over there. They are evil. Over there, don't pay any attention to me... You should just go over there.

Jahar: Have you any proof of such deceptions?

A-Dom: I'd like to point something out right now. Remember Ailee?

Jahar: I was in a purse. So NO.

A-Dom: I pointed out that I like Ailee, but she (Jade's Luck) was all like "he has to go."

Jahar: But Ailee was a Wyld Creature!

A-Dom: The Wyld and the shadowlands are on the same damn caliber.

Jahar: NO they are not. The Underworld is natural, just the connection to Creation that's the problems.

A-Dom: The Underworld is NOT natural!

Tiger’s Vision of Better Times said:
He sees himself and the Wretch standing over the corpse of a dead being.

Jade's Luck: How do you know the Underworld is a Natural thing?

Jahar: I've been reading. It's where souls go before they reincarnate.

Tiger comes out of his trance.

Tiger: A-Dom! It's all your fault!

A-Dom: What?

Tiger: The whole underworld.

A-Dom: How? Wait, that proves it's not a natural part of existence if I :):):):)ing made it. (To Tiger) It's :):):):)ing story time :):):):):):):), tell us!

Tiger starts telling his story.

Jahar: Now that just contradicts what I read that you (pointing at Jade's Luck) wrote.

Jade's Luck (angry screeching voice): I didn't :):):):)ing write anything! I'm 19 years old! Oh MY GOD! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!

Tiger finishes his story that nobody heard.

A-Dom (to Tiger): Could you repeat that? I was deafened by a woman screeching.

Tiger: Well you kill a primordial, and I think you made the underworld.

Jahar: Oh so you were the one who made the void?

A-Dom: I'll try not to do that again. My bad. My point being, I killed it.

Jahar: That's the problem, the killing part of it. We weren't suppose to destroy anything. It ruined the world.

A-Dom: Thank you! Yes I agree! Flashy thing it! He just stated the exact opposite of what he's been arguing. We killed things and made the underworld. Underworld bad. Baaaaaaad. Underworld Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad...

Jahar: No the Void not the Underworld.

A-Dom: Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad....

Jade's Luck: Ok we can be sure they are not part of the natural order of Creation as ordained by the Gods.

The group goes off on this argument for a long time. Eventually Jahar tires to explain something.

Jahar: The Wyld and Creation form one total value.

Jade's Luck: You're totally making things up. I call :):):):):):):):)!

Gareth: Clearly my charm doesn't work on Jahar.

Jade's Luck: You make Creation from the Wyld, that is true.

Group goes back into argument about Jade's Luck being responsible for doing stuff in past lives, which she freaks out about. Jahar eventually goes back to trying to explain.

Jahar (very condescending): A long time ago there was only the Wyld. There was no Creation, there was no destruction. Then they made Creation out of the Wyld. And they were both.

Jade's Luck: Can you go back to being Humble?

Jahar: I'm trying to be simple. Not everyone in the group is as educated.

Jade's Luck: Do you want me to explain this to you?

Jahar: You already have! Just from work of your past self.

Jade's Luck: Clearly I need to do it better!

Jahar: Over time, Creation got bigger, and the Wyld got smaller, but they were still made from one value. There is still a finite amount. Creation and the Wyld are still the same amount of the world. Then the Exalts came along and we started destroying things. Permanently. The spirits went away, the demons went away, and every time creation got a little or a lot smaller.

A-Dom: We need to get Primordials to :):):):).

Jahar: It doesn't work that way.

A-Dom: Spirits are confusing.

Jahar: The void was formed when we destroyed things. Unfortunately the work referenced the book that knows everything.

Jade's Luck: I want to kill all our predecessors and dance on their graves.

Jahar: As proof of the fact that there is a finite amount of both Wyld and creation. We need to make more of the Wyld into Creation, ya ya ya...

Liz: He just said "Ya, ya, ya..." to our PRIME DIRECTIVE!

Jade's Luck: This does not mean we should be sucking up to Death Lords! I don't mind peaceful co-existence...

The group goes into more random arguing.

Jade's Luck: Anyway, the man in the pretty picture in your pocket who you've gone all gaga for.

Jahar: I hardly tell him everything we've been doing.

Jade's Luck: We shouldn't be running errands for somebody else, when we don't know who he works for. I think that's Gareth and my concern.

Jahar: Well we've been doing that all along. Half the stuff we do is at the behest of someone else.

Jade's Luck: Well I am curious about Tiger's mentor. But that's another discussion entirely.

A-Dom: Yea, that really freaks me out. The whole supernatural mentor that we don't really know. So not cool.

The group starts arguing about Opec and where he came from and why doing things for him is a good idea and Tiger's mentor, over each other so I can't understand any of the conversations involved.

Jahar: We don't even know what the purpose of Demons is. So when we destroy them, we don't know what the world loses. And this was written by a woman who made a manse that hates demons. She wants them banished, not destroyed. That is why things are not destroyed, they just get imprisoned forever.

Jade's Luck: I'm perfectly happy with "imprisoned forever." I'm fine with sending things away.

Jahar: You also can't make an unbreakable prison because sometimes the world changes.

Jade's Luck: Fair enough. Cause we're out now. You know, some day we need to go to Heaven, find out who put us in prison and kick their asses.

A-Dom: I'd like to point out that he (Jahar) completely changes his beliefs to accommodate his argument.

Jahar: What?

A-Dom: You totally 360'ed on the Wyld.

Everyone starts laughing.

Ryan: Oh, 180'ed!

Jahar: I've never stated an original belief about the Wyld. (Pause) Wait. (Long pause, then totally confused) What?

A-Dom: Yay!

Liz: A-Dom should get a drama point for confusing Jahar!

A-Dom: You were against the Wyld. Then I pointed out the Wyld is a lot like the Underworld. Suddenly you were all "I like the Wyld!"

Jahar: No, I never liked the Wyld. I'm just pointing out that the Wyld and Creation are the same thing. I know this from her (Jade's Luck) predecessor research. But then I don't know if her predecessor was right. I think we need to make more Creation and less Wyld.

Jade's Luck: Well maybe you shouldn't be all "you're my friend" with someone who may be involved in the manufacture of the material that is currently imprisoning our benefactor?

Jahar: Wow, that's a good point.

Gareth (depressed): I figured this out two years ago...

A-Dom: Jahar I want to make a point.

A-Dom takes the bag from around his neck and opened it and dumped it over the side.

Jahar: What was in the bag?

A-Dom: Skelly.

Jahar (confused): You were wearing Skelly? Why didn't you look like a hump back?

Jade's Luck: Because when we collect Skelly's remains all there was, was dust and a finger bone.

A-Dom: Skelly's not coming back now.

Jahar: I should pray on this. You have some interesting observations things.

Jade's Luck decides to dance up and down in frustration and flair her anima in irritation as Jahar walks off. Gareth decides to label/mark out a specific section of the ship for this activity.

Jade's Luck: I have to go over there?

Gareth: It's for the safety of the boat. It's nice to have a little section for spazing out.

Somehow the group starts arguing about who broke Maibee's neck.

Ryan: You ratted me out you bastard! I just read that synopsis!

Gabe: I hope the rest of you have pieced together what Jahar can't piece together right now.

A-Dom and Jahar get into an argument about "How do you know a ghost moves on when it finishes it's existence" if you can't question one that's done it? Jahar tries to explain that when they finish, they are done, they reincarnate, the move one, hence you can't question them.

A-Dom: I need to die to figure out how this works... or I could just kill all of you...

Jahar: A-Dom! We could just summon a ghost and ask it directly.

A-Dom: So we're still going to the place where I'm going to get mind :):):):)ed?

Gareth: Sadly, yes.

Gabe: You have time!

Liz: They are called "Integrity charms."

A-Dom (checking his notes): Nope, those aren't on the list.

Gareth: Lists change. We're going to teach him integrity.

Jahar: A-Dom! How did you get your eye back!

Group goes back to harassing Jahar about collecting souls.

A-Dom: Do you need a scythe for that? There is a Mr. Jahar here, for the reaping...
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Well, that definitely wins the prize for most swearing in a session. Alwaystoast needs to refuel his GMing creativity so we are taking a short break from Exalted. He has decided to run a short Call of Cthulhu/All Flesh Must Be Eaten mini-campaign (4 or 5 sessions) starting this coming monday. So the Solar Circle of the West should be back in eight to ten weeks.
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 01/08/07
My name is Byonca, you killed my cows. Prepare to die.
By Alwaystoast

Beyonca, a rare herder of mini-cows (3-4 foot tall cattle) on the Island of Atlantis. A good peasant, liked by the other local farmers, who attended church regularly, and is extremely skilled with a bow (to protect her herd).

She had heard rumors of livestock going missing. Someone had been sent to get a Dragonblood to investigate.

One night Beyonca was out guarding her mini-cows, when she heard a strange noise in the darkness. She began to feel that she was being watched. She decided to hide behind a mini-cow.

GM note: Low Valor.

Beyonca doesn't see anything wrong... until the mini-cows start to stampede. Beyonca manages to stay on her feet, as her herd spreads out in all directions. She notices that there is a downed mini-cow surrounded by things that kind of look like bunny rabbits. One of them starts hopping towards her... She can eventually see that it's a Shrabbit!

Beyonca pulls out her bow and shoots a Shrabbit. She wounds it, it squealed in pain, and went hopping out into the darkness. Three Shrabbits then were charging at her. She could see the shrabbit fins weaving towards her through the tall grass. Beyonca manages to dodge away from the shrabbits attacks and manages to kill the school of shrabbits by making a shrabbit-cabob.

Beyonca realizes that her entire herd has run off. She starts to cry. Then she collects the shrabbits for cooking. "A peasant's got to eat!" Then she goes off looking for her herd. She slowly rounds up her heard, collecting them one by one. She's still looking as the sun comes up. She realizes that many of her cows went towards the Wretched Swamp.

Beyonca decides to wander into the Wretched Swamp looking for her mini-cows. As she's looking around, a hand comes down on her shoulder. She jumps and screams. She turns around to see a skeleton covered in moss holding a sword.

Beyonca: I've lost my cows. Have you seen them?

Skeleton: Cows???

Beyonca: About this big. *makes hand jestures* Black and white.

Skeleton: Oh, yes I saw those.

Beyonca: Which way did they go.

Skeleton: Into the swamp.

Beyonca starts walking off in that direction.

Skeleton (Depressed): You're JUST going to get your cows?

Beyonca: Yes, I'm just going to get my cows.

Skeleton: You're not going to any of the buildings?

Beyonca: I didn't know there were any buildings.

Skeleton (hopeful): Oh yes, there are buildings!

Beyonca: I just want my cows.

Skeleton (Depressed): Oh, ok.

The skeleton sits down against a tree and stabs his sword through his own ribcage. Beyonca promptly runs off deeper into the Wretched Swamp. Beyonca starts seeing large and strange creatures. Giant mosquitos, 30ft tall chickens.

Beyonca: I hope I'm seeing things.

Eventually Beyonca finds two cow corpses (well really just heads), and then finds two of her cows alive a little ways off. She leashes them and starts trying to find her way out. As she is walking she sees an old man walking along through the swamp.

Old Man: Oh hello! Nice day isn't it? Walking your cows through the swamp I see.

Beyonca: They ran off I had to go get them. They were being chased.

Old Man: By What?

Beyonca: Anathema Rabbits.

Old Man: Well you shouldn't go that way.

Beyonca: Why not?

Old man: Swamp Dragons.

Beyonca: Which way should I go?

Old man: Follow the path to the left.

Beyonca: And that will take me out?

Old man (very confident): Oh yea.

Beyonca: Thanks, I'll go that way.

Beyonca went off on the path to the left. She came to this big square stone building, surrounded by snow. A snow covered skeleton stood up from next to a tree.

Skeleton: Where are you going?

Beyonca: I'm trying to get out of the swamp.

Skeleton: Are you SURE?

Beyonca: Yes, I'm trying to get back home to my other cows. I really want to get out.

Skeleton: Oh, ok.

Beyonca: This is the way out, right?

The skeleton starts laughing at Beyonca.

Beyonca: Which way is the way out?

Skeleton: You're not here to see the Wretched Tomb?

Beyonca: No I want to get back home. To my other cows.

Skeleton (depressed): You don't want to see the Wretched Tomb?

Beyonca: No I think I want to get out.

Skeleton: Ok.

Beyonca: This is the way out right?

The skeleton starts laughing at Beyonca.

Beyonca: Ok, which is the way out?

Skeleton: You're not here to see the Wretched Tomb. I can't tell you that.

Beyonca: If I see the wretched tomb will you show me the way out?

Skeleton (happy): Oh yes. If you go in and see the tomb and make it out alive, I have to escourt you out.

Beyonca: But that's defiantly not the right way?

Skeleton: You know, you don't ask as many dumb questions as the last people.

Beyonca: So you have to show me out if I go see the tomb and come back?

Skeleton: Oh yea... alive. You come out looking like me, I don't have to show you anywhere.

Beyonca: Is there a big chance of that happening?

Skeleton: I don't know actually. You'd have to talk to somebody inside about that. I don't know the probability.

Beyonca: Ok, I'll go inside... the building...

Skeleton: Excelent!

The skeleton leads Beyonca to the Wretched Tomb, and opens a door (which is the stones disolved out of the way) for Beyonca to go in. Beyonca pushes her two cows ahead of her.

Harry (Confused and frightened): Moo?!?

Beyonca and the mini-cows (Petunia & Harry) head down the stairs into the wretched tomb. As they are inside the door behind them solidifies. There is a dull blue glow coming from the ceiling. They reach a large room full of glasses all over the place, on the floor, walls, etc. In the center of it is a big statue.

Statue: Fools who think they are worthy! Oh... only one of you, oh well I have a script. Any of you cowards have the guts to challenge me to single combat?

Beyonca: I will if I means I'll get out.

Statue: Well you can't continue onwards until someone fights me. It's ether you or the cow. I think I can take the cow.

Petunia (pathetic): Moo?!?

Beyonca: ok

Beyonca pulls out her bow and shoots at the statue. The statue lunges forward as far as he can (Beyonca realises his feet are stuck to the floor) and grabs Petunia's leash.

Petunia (shocked): Mooooooooooooooo?

And then pulls himself back upright and whips Petunia at Beyonca smashing her into the stone stairs with the cow.

GM: I'm going to assume Cows are lethal damage.

Ryan (to Ariann): You're gonna die to a bag of meat. *maniacal laughter*

Beyonca is smashed into the stone with cow shattering force, breaking every bone in her body.

Ryan: And the Cow Exalts!

GM: I am not exalting the cow! You guys would give up on your god.

Beyonca hears a voice.

US: Beyonca, do you want to live?

Beyonca: Yes

US: Are you willing to worship the Unconquored Sun?

Beyonca: Umm... if I get to live, YES!

Beyonca realizes that she is alive, glowing gold, and covered in cow guts.

Statue: Oh good. Now this will be a real fight.

Beyonca starts filling the statue with arrows. The statue lunges forward again and grabs Harry's leash, and wipes him into a wall, covered in glasses. Shattering Harry in a rain of cow guts, and all the glasses. All the wounds on the statue heal up.

Beyonca: My name is Beyonca, you killed my cows, prepare to die.

Beyonca keeps shooting him full of arrows. The statue eventually runs out of glasses he can reach to smash to heal himself and loses the duel to the barrage of arrows.

Alex: You need to take Familiar: Cow

Ryan: That's just wrong.

A pair of doorways open up when the stone disolves away. Beyonca goes through one of them and down a set of stairs, into a crypt type area. As she's walking around she sees what looks like part of an eyeball... but it's black and shark like. Eventually Beyonca hears a "tap, tap, tap" noise, which she recongizes as a walking stick.

The same little old man she saw walking through the swamp walks up to her.

Beyonca: You said this is the way out!

Old Man: Oh?

Beyonca: I'm not seeing that. My cows are gone.

Old Man: You won't be needing them so much anymore.

Beyonca: Which way is out?

Old Man (points up): If you just climb up that shaft, you'll end up outside, and the skeletons will escort you out of the swamp. Although I will point out that people will have issues with you now that you are glowing.

Beyonca: Oh...kay... that's good to know.

Old Man: Have you ever considered going on a little trip?

Beyonca: I think this trip is enough for me.

Old Man: Are you sure?

Beyonca: Why do you ask?

Old Man: We'll it's not too save with you glowing and all.

Beyonca: But where would I go? I have to take care of my mini-cows.

Old Man: I think you're going to have to re-prioritize what you think is important now.

Beyonca: What kind of trip would I go on?

Ryan: EXCELLENT! Not asking any of the right questions! You're going to fit in SO well.

Old Man starts walking down a corridor and Beyonca follows him as they are talking. As they are walking the stone starts to become lighter and lighter, until it becomes all white. Beyonca realises she is no longer underground, and she can hear the ocean.

Old Man: Why don't you talk to this mirror for a minute and I'll be right back.

Beyonca: Talk to a mirror?

Mirror: Hi! How are you doing?

Beyonca (looking at her reflection): Wow I really am glowing!

Mirror: How does that make you feel?


Beyonca: Strange, cause I'm glowing and I wasn't twenty minutes ago...

Mirror: Does that make you feel special?

Beyonca: Yes, cause their aren't that many glowing people.

Mirror: Their aren't? I've seen a lot of glowing people. Today.

Beyonca: Oh? Really? Where were they?

Mirror: Well there is the one that goes between the library and his room and the other ones are around the island. Would you like to talk to the Master?

Liz: SAY NO!

Beyonca: I just want to get out.

Mirror: Strait down this corridor, talk to the door.

Beyonca walks down the corridor (about a mile of walking) to find the fancy carved double door with a face on it.

Door: Hello there. Who are you?

Beyonca: I want to get out.

Door (depressed): Oh all right.

Two little spindly arms come out and slowly start clawing their way along the floor. As the door slowly opens making all kinds of creaking and growing noises. The door gets open enough for Beyonca to get out.

Door: Is that ok? Or would you like me to open all the way.

Beyonca: That's fine.

Beyonca goes out and can hear the door struggling to close itself behind her. She decides to help the door (and doesn't slam him). She hears a muffled "thank you."

Beyonca realizes that she's outside on a jungle island. She starts wandering around trying to figure out where she is. Eventually she spots a town. She walks into town. She can see there is a dock with two boats at it, and a third boat anchored off shore.

************
The group, who were mostly on the ship, noticed there was an eclipse that day. Then about an hour after the eclipse, A-dom was on the deck and saw a solar anima bondfire walk out of the jungle and heading towards town, covered in cow guts.

A-Dom: Crap! He made another! She's covered in small cow guts.

Garth: What are you talking about?

A-Dom: He made another. She's covered in little tiny cow guts. She's so gonna die. She's gonna hit somebody....

Garth: Maybe someone should go talk to her.

Jade's Luck: I'll go get her.

A-Dom: You're not going alone!

Jade's Luck: Cause I might read a book?

A-Dom: I don't want another tree hugging, people loving, skelly killing bastards!

Gareth: Jahar killed skelly.

So A-Dom and Jade's Luck monkey leap (a couple of leaps each) to the dock then to where Beyonca is standing at the edge of town.

A-Dom: Where you killing cows?

Beyonca (confused): No.

Jade's Luck: Are you ok?

Beyonca: Not really.

Jade's Luck: I know where there is a bar. Do you want a drink?

A-Dom: He talked to you... didn't he?

Beyonca: The voice?

A-Dom pulls out one of the dolls he had Gareth make for him to give to children.

A-Dom: Show me on the doll where the Unconquered Sun touched you.

Jade's Luck: Oh before we do anything. Rule number 1 on the island, infoced by a ray of doom: No violence.

Beyonca: Well I only try to hurt people who attack my cows.

Jade's Luck: I don't see any cows here, so that's good. RAY OF DOOM.

A-Dom: Are these cows... still in existence?

Beyonca: Not Harry and Petunia.

Jade's Luck: Come on, I'll get you a beer.

Beyonca: Am I glowing?

Jade's Luck: Yea, we all do that on occasion.

A-Dom: You got a little something on your forhead.

Beyonca: Cow guts?

A-Dom: No... you're not going to be able to wipe that off. Marked... for life.

Jade's Luck: Which will be a lot longer now. But let me get you a beer before we get into that. Maybe two or three.

A-Dom & Jade's Luck: Or twelve.

Jade's Luck drags Beyonca into the bar.

A-Dom: Do you know what "Sins of the Father" means?

Jade's Luck tries to force beers on Beyonca as fast as possible as they talk to her.

Jade's Luck: I imagine once the stun wears off, you'll have some questions. Have another beer.

A-Dom: So, how'd ya die?

Jade's Luck: She didn't die. She's still alive.

Beyonca: I tried to catch a cow.

A-Dom: I think you succeeded. Was the cow coming at you at a high velocity?

Jade's Luck: So... little voice said: You want to live?

A-Dom: What was the name he gave after that? I want to be sure.

Jade's Luck: She's gold you idiot. Ok that voice you heard was the Unconquored Sun. He's a god, and you're now serving him. Now the good news is you're not an Anathema. But everyone will scream point and run away from you.

A-Dom: Well not everyone.

Bartender: We're OK with Anathema here at my bar.

Jade's Luck: Barbarians are ok, the realm not so much.

A-Dom: Did we get a name yet?

Jade's Luck (to Beyonca): Have another beer. (To A-Dom): I don't want her to be able to remember her name right now.

A-Dom (ignoring Jade's Luck): When you came out of the womb... what did they call you? Cause it's good to know.

Beyonca: Beyonca.

A-Dom: Hi, I'm A-Dom. You... haven't heard of me, have you?

Beyonca: Umm.... no.

A-Dom: Oh good. Better that way.

Jade's Luck: Do you have any family that you need to care for?

Beyonca: My cows.

Jade's Luck: Where were your cows?

Beyonca: Atlantis.

Jade's Luck: Hopefully your neighbors will take care of your cows, cause we are a couple of months away from Atlantis right now. You have done some traveling without knowing it.

A-Dom (talking to himself): Maybe they will go feral. *evil moo noise*

Jade's Luck (to Beyonca): Have another beer.

A-Dom starts babbling about a pool of ever full wine. In his ramblings he mentions skeletons.

Beyonca: More skeletons?

A-Dom: Oh... you like skeletons do you?

Beyonca: Skeletons got me into this.

A-Dom: Yea, that's usually how I get in trouble.

Jade's Luck: So you were fighting for your life.

Beyonca: And my cows lives.

A-Dom: Hey you're about as effective as we are.

Jade's Luck starts questioning Beyonca on how she got to this island.

Beyonca: The old man said it was ok to glow.

Jade's Luck: Old man?

A-Dom: Was he attacking you with cows?

Beyonca: No the statue was throwing cows.

A-Dom: Is your last name Weijin?

Beyonca: No. There was a statue of a man, and glasses...

A-Dom starts drinking now.

Beyonca: All I remember was I went down, and there was this eye on the floor... it was black.

A-Dom (Drops his disguise so Beyonca can see what he looks like): Like this (pointing at his eye).

Beyonca: Yea!

A-Dom drinks some more.

Jade's Luck: And this is why we don't go through the wyld unprotected.

Beyonca: Then I walked down this hallway and there was a mirror.

A-Dom: So you found the Wretched tomb. Which is MY tomb by the way.

Beyonca: Now I see why it was wretched.

A-Dom: Easy now! You're the new one here. So... you.. Um... got past him, then you found an old man. Did the old man kill your cows?

Beyonca: No the statue killed my cows.

A-Dom: Can you describe the old man?

Beyonca: He was kind of average. A short tall man, with skinny fat features. I can't really describe him.

Jade's Luck: :):):):)...

A-Dom rips the arm off the chair he's sitting at. Then throws it behind him.

Jade's Luck: Well he probably wasn't :):):):)ing with her too much if he brought her here.

A-Dom: You didn't happen to kick him in the shins did ya?

Beyonca: He seemed like a nice old man.

A-Dom: Yea... he would have.

Jade's Luck: Do you have any plans for your future?

Beyonca: I need more beer.

A-Dom: You didn't happen to be wandering around with four of your friends?

Jade's Luck: None of us were wandering around with four of our friends.

A-Dom: Ok... umm... you didn't happen to bumb into 4 other shinny people? I guess you can hang with us. We are solars too. (A-Dom winks at her.)

Jade's Luck: Have MORE beer! You're not a pirate are you?

Beyonca: Pirates are BAD.

Half the people in the bar turn to look at them.

Jade's Luck: No, pirates are ok, but Gareth has a thing about pirates, which is why he's not in this bar with us.

A-Dom (to the crowd): Don't worry boys! We're going to teach her right. Arr!

Crowed: Arr!

A-Dom and Jade's Luck then have a long argument about losing eyes and why you should never pick up an artifact. "I picked up an artifact, lots an eye. It happens!"

Jade's Luck (once Beyonca is good and drunk): Ok we are suppose to save Creation, but he's not big on directions.

A-Dom: Or Time frames.

Jade's Luck: But we figure we have at least a thousand years.

Beyonca: A thousand years?

A-Dom: You're going to be morning your cows for a while...

Jade's Luck: Think of the breeding program you could have in a thousand years. You could have lap cows.

A-Dom: Little tiny zombie cow army...

Jade's Luck: NO!

A-Dom: And they wouldn't rip a hole in creation because they are tiny...

Jade's Luck: NO! NO! NO!

A-Dom (as they are leaving): Bill the owner of the island for our tab!
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 1/20/ 07
Not so much with living up to expectations.
By Alwaystoast

A-Dom, Bianca, and Jade's Luck go to the Grumpy Craftsman. Tiger Comes up on deck.

Jade's Luck: We found another one.

Tiger: Oh.

Jade's Luck: She's been in shock, so I got her drunk on beer.

Tiger: How does this help?

Gareth: I'm still working on the banana beer.

Tiger: Are you trying to get monkeys drunk?

Gareth: No.

Jade's Luck then recaps what she learned from Bianca about her exaltation.

Jade's Luck: This is Tiger, Patient Tiger.

A-Dom: He's my Killing Buddy.

Jade's Luck: Don't ask him to solve things with Diplomacy. You'll be sorry. This is Gareth.

Gareth : Has her name come up yet?

Jade's Luck: This is Bianca.

A-Dom sees large white spikes all around the boat start to come out of the water. Everyone notices the ship start to raise up.

A-Dom: Demon.

Others on the ship notice that the entire ship is surrouned by a strange wall.

A-Dom: DEMON!

The large spikes are clearly teeth, and are starting to close high above the top of the ship.

A-Dom (quietly): Jade's Luck? Demon...

The mouth closes overhead, as the creature, which came up from below the ship and shot out of the water into the air, flops back downwards. Gareth starts glowing like mad, and everyone can see his anima animal of a Golden Bear. As the ship starts to slosh around and start sliding down the throat in a maelstrom of water.

A-Dom (to Beyonca): Our animas are natural enemies, he's a bear, and I'm a shark.

Bianca (totally confused): What?

Gareth manages to steer the ship (which at the time was invulnerable to damage), and scream orders at the group to keep things in control.

Bianca (to Jade's Luck): Is there more beer?

Gareth: Now is not the time for beer. A-Dom! Kill it!

A-Dom looks kind of confused as he watches the ship slide further and further down the giant throat. He pops his giant club into existence... then stands there scratching his head with one of the spikes on the club, while mumbling "Can't reach..." Jade's Luck throws her chakram at the wall of the throat with Cascade of cutting terror... and doesn't do very much. The group starts to realize they are inside something that is very... very large.

Gareth's eyes roll back in his head.

Gareth's Vision of the Past said:
Gareth remembers standing on the edge of the Blessid Isle, looking out at a sea of Wyld just a few miles off shore, and looking at this colossally large behemoth of a whale/fish thing. He then turned to the Unconquored Sun, who was standing next to him.

Past Gareth: Where are we going to put THAT?

US: We'll just have to make the water... bigger.

Gareth looks upwards after his vision.

Gareth: :):):):) YOU!

Tiger jumps off the boat and runs along the wall attacking it. Realizing it he's not doing much he jumps back to the ship.

Liz: See combats tend to make us want to kill the GM.

Gareth: I so need a new god.

Jade's Luck: This is really not the time or place to be talking about that.

Liz: Gareth is so going to be the first one to go Abyssal.

Alex: No, screw that, I'm going Lunar.

Ryan: I'm going to join the Wyld.

Jade's Luck (to Gareth): Do you know this thing?

Gareth: A-Dom throw out the anchors!

A-Dom tosses out the anchors, and the ship eventually drags to a stop, and the water starts to calm down.

A-Dom (to Gareth): Any idea of what's going on?

Gareth: I just remember this really big fish. Turned to our God asked him what to do with it, and he said "make the oceans bigger."

A-Dom (yelling): Fellow Creature of the Wyld! Please Regurgitate us! I'll put in a good word with Aliee!

Gareth: It's one of the Behemoths.

The group then discusses what they know about Behemoths (Being really big versions of normal things (Mammal/fish/human/bird) that were made apparently for the hell of it, by the things that came before the Gods). They also know it's effectively immortal, there is only one of each, and they may not eat.

Jade's Luck: You know, I find all of our past employers extremely annoying. Ok, we probably shouldn't kill it. As that would be geno-somethingacide

Gareth: You know what the paperwork would be on that?

Jade's Luck: So, do we want to find our way out?

Tiger: Umm... yea!

The group takes some time to look around, and realises they are basically in the stomach area. The ship is in water (sea water), not acid. Gareth can't see much, but then he is the major light source. Off in the distance A-Dom sees an island made out of floatsam and jetsam. With human people on it. They appear to be using some kind of glowing moss for a weak light source.

A-Dom: Oh this is going to be interesting. There is a whole colony of people who apparently have been swallowed and survived. This is going to be fun. I can tell.

Jade's Luck: So we can get them to worship something they have never seen.

A-Dom: I expect them to all be Dragon-bloods or Lunars or something.

Jade's Luck: I expect some of them to be Pirates, since Pirates sail on the ocean, so they are likely to be eaten. (To Gareth) But I think now that they have been swallowed by this thing, maybe we can forgive them for being pirates and not kill them.

A-Dom: You know this really wasn't a problem until we hit the island full of pirates.

Jade's Luck: Yes, well now it's a problem. Despite the fact that he grew your eye back, so clearly he could grow his eye back if he wanted to.

Gareth (pissed off): NO, no I can't! I can heal other people. Not me.

A-Dom: The Unconquered Sun is... fun with powers like that.

Gareth: A-Dom, pull up the anchors.

The group approches the island, they can see that all the people on the island are pasty white, like they had never seen the sun. The people on the island start to form a crowd (curious crowd, not a torches and pitchfork kind of crowd). A-Dom waves, they wave back.

Jade's Luck (Seatongue): Hello there! (Then in barbarian languages the same thing with no response).

Tiger (in Old Realm): Hello there!

Crowd (in Old Realm): Hello!

Gareth: Oh, they've been here a really long time.

A-Dom: Oh this isn't good.

Crowd: The Lightbringers have returned to save us!

A-Dom: Very not good. Crap.

Dan: This is the plot you came up with in those 5 minutes?

Liz (to Ariann): We don't like having mortals around. Not because we don't like mortals. But because of collateral damage.

Ryan: Not so much with living up to expectations.

Gareth: How many generations have you been here?

Crowd: We'll have to consult the old ones!

A-Dom: Do you know what an Anathema is?

Crowd (confused): No

A-Dom: Good.

Crowd: You've finally retured!

A-Dom: Yes, we were stuck somewhere... else, but now we have returened.

Jade's Luck: How did you get in here?

Local: We were in a great fleet following our great sun god leaders. Part of the fleet was swallowed. Our leader said she would be "right back" and swam out.

A-Dom: What was her name?

Local: Pathfinder!

Tiger vaguely remembers an Eclipse named Patherfinder... something something.

A-Dom: How many people are there? Here on your island?

Local: About 250.

Gareth: I didn't make my ship that big.

Tiger: I could thin them out a little.

Jade's Luck: That's not nice.

Gareth notices that the island is made out of hundreds of ships that have smashed together, then been manipulated by the locals. He sees lots of really nice pieces of wood, along with some that are ancient (first age) ship parts.

Gareth: We need to talk to your elders.

Fatty sticks his head out of a hatch.

Fatty: Everything OK?

Gareth: NO.

Fatty (looks around for a second): We'll be below decks then.

Jade's Luck (to Bianca): We need to tell the crew that you're also "perfectly normal." It's important. That way fatty will tell your Mother your normal with a strait face, instead of saying you're a baby eating demon.

A-Dom: These people are going to sun-burn like crazy.

Gareth: I can cure that.

The group walks along the island, towards the center where things get nicer. All the buildings are partial ships. Lots of figureheads, etc. They finally reach a sun temple.

Tiger: Ready made converts.

A-Dom: Fish in a barrel.

Jade's Luck: Fish in a barrel that have already been shot. We just have to NOT :):):):) IT UP.

A-Dom: There is always a catch. This is where we find out the catch. Like they are worshiping the Unconquered Sun and the Spider Demon.

The group (Bianca and Gareth are still glowing) walk into the temple to talk to the elders.

Elders: Where is Pathfinder?

A-Dom: Probably dead.

Elder: Where is her soul?

A-Dom (Motions at Bianca): We don't know. Not me. Well she's an eclipse.

Elder (to Bianca): Pathfinder!

It turns out that Bianca magically speaks Old Realm (yay being an Eclipse).

Elder: We have your things.

A-Dom (all excited): Oh, I'm Pathfinder!

Tiger: No! No! I am!

Jade's Luck starts bonking A-Dom on the back of the head.

Jade's Luck (to A-Dom): You have stuff.

A-Dom: I want more stuff.

Tiger: Actually, let him put it on. I want to see what happens.

The Elder takes Bianca to the back of the temple where the temple artifacts have been stored. Showing her a Orichalcum powerbow, Reaver DaiKlave, and a Green Reinforced Buff Jacket.

Bianca: Thank you for taking care of them all this time.

Jade's Luck (looking at the stuff): Shinny!

The group then explains to Bianca how to attune an artifact with essence. Except not very clearly. Bianca spends some time... "getting to know" her artifacts. She didn't quite know what she was doing... and upset her sword. [triple botching the attunement roll]

Ryan: Must not pwn n00bs and take their stuff.

Gareth: Oh, you should get use to wearing white.

A-Dom: Maybe the sword just doesn't like cow guts.

Bianca starts crying.

Jade's Luck: Maybe you should stop trying to make the prophet cry. It's going to look bad in front of the Elders that we want to be able to talk to.

Gareth: How are we going to get these people out?

Tiger: Oh I've got a way to get them out. They just might end up all looking like A-Dom afterwards.

Jade's Luck: Maybe we should try to refrain from ripping holes in Creation. Creation is already upset about all the holes. Or Luna's upset about the holes in Creation. I don't know, I'm kind of confused about it.

Tiger: Who cares, she's not our god.

Jade's Luck: We may want to convert someday. She seems more reasonable.

A-Dom: See we're screwed no matter what. I don't think it matters wether we worship the Unconquered Sun or not. But will we still have the power?

Jade's Luck: He can give us head-aches.

A-Dom: Oh yea, I know that.
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 01/29/07
Whale Puke
90% babbling, 10% content actually transcribed.

By Alwaystoast



Gareth asks the group if he can train for an indeterminate amount of time.

Tiger: This is your trip. You’re the once who decides.

Jade’s Luck: We’re going to see a Death Lord. Really we are just coming along to make sure you don’t get mind :):):):)ed.

A-Dom: Yea... that’s why I’m coming along... yea.

Liz: Oh my god, Arianne is going into a sugar binge.

Jade’s Luck: You know maybe we should train when we are not around all these people who we don’t want to know that we don’t have any idea about what exactly we are doing.

Tiger: I know exactly what I’m doing.

So Gareth decides to train for 30 days.

Jade’s Luck: Will this training make it faster for us to get out?

Gareth: No. I could build a ship faster then 30 days. But it will make it faster, for the next time this happens.

Jade’s Luck tries to find out how the locals worship the unconquered sun, without revealing that the group has no organized religion. They worship the great sun in the sky (which they have never seen). Jade’s Luck finds out they don’t have any religious texts, and the priests appear to be ‘winging it.’ But on the up side, they are religious fanatics, and are not doing anything really ‘bad’ in accordance with the groups beliefs.

A-Dom works on impregnating someone.

Dan: Someone, not someones?

Ryan: Yea, I’m going to do it slowly. Wait... that came out wrong...


A-Dom: Oh we need to get out of here before 9 months are up.

Jade’s Luck: Are you making more wyld tainted babies?

A-Dom: Maybe.

Group discusses explaining to the locals that the world has changed while they were in the belly of a whale for a thousand years. Jade’s Luck starts her story hours, about great heroes that save innocent mortals and stuff.

While that discussion is going on, this is going on as well:

Tiger (to A-Dom): Want to just divide them in half?

A-Dom: What? I don’t think the others will like it if we start chopping them up.

Tiger: No, we each get half, and then we can each populate one island with them.

A-Dom: Can I have the Women?

Tiger: I think that will kind of keep the population of my island down.

A-Dom: But I want an island that is just full of my babies.

Tiger: I don’t think the rest of the world wants that.

Jade’s Luck: Can we fix your wyld mutations first please, before you try to impregnate half of creation?

A-Dom (to Jade’s Luck): You better hurry up on that then. (A-Dom winks and grins at the most recent woman he’s impregnated.)

Bianca asks the religious leaders to tell her about her past self. The details were a little fuzzy after a thousand years other then Pathfinder was a great leader who said ‘I’ll be right back.’ Just before swimming out.

[5 minutes of game, didn’t actually happen.]

A-Dom feels a chill go down his back.

Alex: I want that... it’s #32 on the list. Wait, now it’s #28 on the list.

The group decides that they should take turns standing on the deck of the ship and glowing. To get people use to sunlight. Also to reassure the crew of their ship. Eventually Fatty has a conversation with Jade’s Luck.

Fatty: I hate to bother you, but we are pretty sure we are missing somebody.

Jade’s Luck: Really who?

Fatty: One of the crew members. Everybody knows he was here before we got swallowed. But we can’t find him now.

Jade’s Luck: What did he look like.

Fatty: Well he was this short-tall guy who...

Jade’s Luck (with contempt): Oh, one of those. Fatty, people who are short and tall are special...

Fatty: Well he seemed so normal when he was here.

Jade’s Luck: Yea, well you should tell us when there has been someone like that around.

Fatty: Oh, ok. We’ll I just told you.

Jade’s Luck: Thank you.

Fatty: And we’ll let you know in the future, when we notice.

Jade’s Luck: I owe you a beer at some point.

Fatty: We’d like to get paid at some point.

Gareth and Jade’s Luck get into an argument about who should be paying the ex-pirate crew. It appears as though Jade’s Luck will be paying them from now on. There are two non-pirate crew members, who do actually get paid on a regular basis by Gareth. They don’t like to talk about that with the rest of the crew.

Jade’s Luck mentions to everyone that a short-tall guy is missing. This confuses Bianca. Jade’s Luck sums up for her.

A-Dom (to Bianca): While we are overwhelming you with information. (A-Dom drops his disguise charm) This what I really look like.

Jade’s Luck: This is why you don’t want to go into the wyld without that
charm.

A-Dom: The Wyld is Awesome! Hey, have you ever considered having kids?

Bianca (with great conviction): NO!

Jade’s Luck starts explaining what the Sun looks like. Gareth decides to take Jahars good from the hold of the ship, to make big hats and berkas for everyone of the whale people.

Gareth: Worship him with adverted reverence! Where a hat!

A-Dom: Don’t look at god!

Gareth whacks A-Dom on the head. Jade’s Luck starts walking up to A-Dom and whacking him at random.

A-Dom: Hey, don’t do that. I’ll impregnate more! Not... that I’ve started.

During the month, Gareth builds a boat out of the best parts of the island. This plan is explained in great detail to the locals, before Gareth starts ripping apart their homes.

Gareth: I want to test to see what activating my sword will do next to a wall.

Jade’s Luck: If you give it digestion, and it cramps up, all the mortals are going to be crushed, and we will be the only survivors.

Tiger: That’s what Gareth’s boat is for.

A-Dom: Oh man, if we get this thing to puke we are going to end up in the North. I just know it.

The ship: Whale Puke. Is basically a water tight arc with a rudder. It has no propulsion system (no oars, no sails, no masts etc). It’s passenger space is crowded (the ship is nothing but passenger space for the 250 locals), but well padded. There are also seat belts for everyone.

A great deal of math is then done to figure out how long it will take to build.

Dan: Get this to work before I start killing people. (If there are less people, the ship doesn’t need to be as big, and it will go faster.)

Liz: You know we are pro-life bible thumpers. Oh the irony.

A-Dom decides to pray during that month. His primary prayer is: ‘How we doing’?

A-Dom and Tiger start talking more about dividing up the people. Gareth points out that they should wait and see how many survive.

Bianca is mildly confused by Gareth building the arc, as he is using Craftsman Needs No Tools. So he’s doing all of the construction bare handed.

It takes Gareth 20 days to build the Arc. It is very nice on the inside. There are nameplates for every seat. Each seat is perfectly fitted for each person. There are also hidden symbols of the Unconquered Sun (and castes). ‘It’s like a little game for them to play while they are inside.’ He also adds little dioramas that are things the group did. Not all good.

A-Dom goes around explaining to people that they all need to pray real hard to the Unconquered Sun, and if you die, it’s because you didn’t pray hard enough. Jade’s Luck tries to minimize the damage A-Dom is doing.

Gareth officially names the ship: Whale Puke.

Gareth, A-Dom and Bianca are on Whale Puke. Jade’s Luck and Tiger are on the Grumpy Craftsman. The masts of the Grumpy Craftsman are taken down, so they don’t get stuck on anything or break off. Jade’s Luck tells the pirate crew to secure everything and get ready to hold on.

Gareth: The Plan: If it works, we go out the front. If it fails, we go out the back.

Gareth starts swimming towards the wall of the stomach.

Gareth: This is going to have an effect. I don’t know what kind, but it will have an effect.

Gareth activates his sword, as the magic shards start flying around him the area around him starts to bubble and froth. Some slime starts coming down the wall to cover the hole, but Gareth keeps moving along next to the wall. Gareth starts giggling.

Gareth: We’re going out the front!

The wall of the stomach starts to convulse in and out towards Gareth. It starts spazaming. The water in the stomach starts to slosh back and forth. Gareth monkey-leaps off the wall, to land on Whale Puke, turning his sword off while flying there. However, Gareth mistimed his jump, and the ship when sliding out from underneath him. A-Dom pointed and laughed.

A-Dom (Yelling to Gareth): You Missed!

Gareth sees Whale Puke sliding back towards him, and jumps off a confused shark to land on the deck of Whale Puke.

A-Dom: Welcome Aboard Admiral!

Both ships start rushing towards the throat out. Everyone realizes they are about to both hit the narrow part at the same point in time. Tiger manages to stear the Grumpy Craftsman ahead of Whale Puke (while Gareth manages to slow whale puke). They both go shooting up the throat at a tremendous speed.

*bwoosh*

Both of the ships are puked out and up into the air. High in the air. Very High.

A-Dom realizes (from his perspective high in the air) that they are much further west then they had been previously. That they are being puked even further into the west. Ie: Into the wyld. He sees the pink ocean below them, as they are falling into a pure wyld zone.

A-Dom (to Gareth): Here their be monsters, Sir! (A-Dom activates Integrity Protecting Prana)

Gareth: :):):):), I didn’t save enough essence for that.

A-Dom: Welcome to the Tentacle Club Sir!

Tiger and Jade’s Luck realize they are flying and about to hit something hard soon. And island. Actually a floating island of plants. Tiger and Jade’s Luck activate integrity protecting prana.

Whale Puke missed the flying island of plants and when plummeting towards the pink ocean below.

Gareth: A-Dom! Below deck! Quickly!

Gareth and A-Dom dive below deck, A-Dom drags Bianca with them, and slam the hatches shut. Tt hits the ocean, like a dart. Goes down, bounces back up, goes into the air again, then comes down on the ocean. The mortals lose their lunch, but survive.

Gareth: A-Dom, check to make sure everyone’s ok!

Dan: Don’t you have a better candidate?

Alex: Oh yea!

Gareth: Bianca! Go with A-Dom, make sure everyone is actually OK. Puking is acceptable. Dead is not.

A-Dom (to a puking passenger): You have stronger faith now!

Tiger decides that the wyld plant life is not particularly dangerous, other then being wyld in nature. He checks out the ship and finds it is full of holes and damage. Tiger figures Gareth can fix it.

Design Spirit(to Jade’s Luck): Mam! Mam! Have you realized we are in the Wyld?

Jade’s Luck: Yes, that is why I have this nifty charm up. Are you OK with the wyld?

Design Spirit: No.

Jade’s Luck: What do you think we should do about it?

Design Spirit: Make Reality. I’m thinking... giant floating rocks...

Jade’s Luck: How about I just try for an island.

Gareth tells everyone to bail.

Jade’s Luck starts to glow like mad. She starts warping the wyld into a large hill (or small mountain sticking out of the water. But due to being in the west, IE in the middle of the ocean. It's actually a very large mountain, with only a bit sticking out above the water. This is important next session.) to form to hold the ships where they are (so one on the top of the mountain the other on the base). The hill does have grass on it. The large hill takes 5 hours to form completely. As A-Dom is helping bail out the ship he starts seeing the Wyld being replaced by a mountain.

A-Dom (kind of scared): Oh, I hope we did that.

Gareth (to A-Dom): How are the passengers doing?

A-Dom (calmly): Vomiting, and cowering. Usually ones who are cowering are yelling. We might have a few Wyld ones.

Gareth: We’ll have Jade’s Luck deal with them.

A-Dom finds out the woman he impregnated got wyld mutated. She has an extra arm, growing out of her hip.

A-Dom (talking to himself): Well I’m off the hook now. Not my fault it’s a Wyld baby.

Gareth realizes the boat is on land.

A-Dom (to Gareth): Well it makes bailing easier. But you notice the mountain is covered in grass? That’s not right.

Gareth then fixes Whale Puke. Jade’s Luck starts yelling for A-Dom. She then has him carry the ship down to the bottom of the hill. A number of parts fall off the Grumpy Craftsman while A-Dom is jogging down the mountain with the ship.

The group realizes that they are basically in a bubble of Creation, surrounded by Wyld, looking in at them like they are inside a fishbowl.

A-Dom: How get creation inside Wyld?

Jade’s Luck: I though we could use some Creation. So I made it.

A-Dom becomes very confused.

A-Dom: Can you make people?

Jade’s Luck: Not yet.

A-Dom: I encourage you to make people the next time you make Creation.

The group decides to keep most of the mortals inside the boats to avoid
letting them going insane by looking out into the Wyld.

Jade’s Luck: I have a plan!

Gareth (whose totemic bear is still glowing around him): Good. I have a plan too. Fix a boat, rest, fix a boat, rest.

Liz: I give the bear some damn essence. How does that charm work?

Ryan: So, you’re like a big exalted pez dispenser?

Gareth: Could you make, like an orange grove? We’re going to need to feed a bunch of people.

Luck: I can try again somewhere else, later.

GM: A-Dom, you realize you appear to be least 800 miles from any island you know of.

A-Dom (to the group): We be :):):):)ed.

The group then starts arguing about how to travel through the Wyld for a month.
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 02/12/07
We’ll throw some bad mortals back into the Wyld for you.
This is so much fun when the rest of you are not around.

By Alwaystoast


The group starts arguing about how to best use Wyld Shaping Technique to get them out of their current problem. Jade’s Luck eventually decided upon making a Floating Island (hollow), in the shape of a large boat (ie designed to be pushed through the water) with edible kelp (which are basically full of vitamins) growing on the bottom. Then find something in the wyld, and use it for propulsion.

Dan: You know we are going through all this trouble, but it’s the Wyld, so it might only take 5 minutes.

Jade’s Luck: Someone needs to find a form of propulsion that doesn’t involve me making an animal so it can be killed and animated to push us.

A-Dom: I’ll do it!

The group decides Tiger should go with A-Dom, just in case.

Jade’s Luck takes a dingy out into the wyld and starts to make her Island out of the Wyld (‘I will worry about propulsion later.’). She will finish in 10 hours. Gareth starts training by making statues out of rock, and then throwing them into the Wyld.

A-Dom and Tiger starts swimming through the water into the wyld at the same time as when Jade’s Luck starts using her charm. The water starts tasting like butterscotch. The water starts getting more solid, so Tiger starts walking on top of it. A-Dom keeps swimming. The water starts smelling like pine cones and feeling like oil. Eventually A-Dom stops to talk to sparkly multi-colored cloud.

A-Dom: Hello Clouds! Say, who’s running things around here?

Cloud: Why should we tell you?

A-Dom: I'm a creature of the wyld too!

Cloud: No your not!

A-Dom: I got some wyld in me. (Flashes his fangs at the cloud).

Cloud: Drop that... thingy, and we’ll make you all better.

A-Dom: Umm... no, people get upset when I’m all like Yay wyld, and they are like No unconquered sun and I’m like (real depressed) oh, yea. (Still depressed)Yay sun.

Cloud: Can’t you be like: Yay Wyld Unconquered Sun?

A-Dom: No there is all this creation and worshipers and stuff. And I get headaches. I know, cause we’re such nice guys.

Cloud: Nice guys? You blew up an entire island!

A-Dom: That’s tiger’s fault.

Tiger: What? What island?

Cloud: The floating one that you destroyed.

A-Dom: Oh, that was Jade’s Luck.

Cloud: See! You’re hanging around with island killers! That island had a family!

A-Dom: I kill a lot of things with families.

Cloud: Good for you. Try to do that more in creation.

A-Dom: Oh yea, I do that a lot. But for everything I kill...

Tiger: You make another one?

A-Dom: No, I don’t really.

Cloud (to A-Dom): Well then. Good for you.

A-Dom: But at the moment, we are trying to get some good mortals back to creation. We’ll throw some bad mortals back into the Wyld for you.

Cloud: Really?

A-Dom: Absolutely!

Cloud: You need to see the Duke now. Walk this way!

The cloud forms into a humanoid shape and shambles off. A-Dom follows it shambling just like it. Tiger tries to walk behind him normally but loses sight of them. Deciding he has lost them, he goes back to the group.

Alex: Well it’s better then if we sent Jahar.

Ryan: I like this scale!

A-Dom arrives at the Duke’s castle after walking down into the water (he can breath under water for some reason). A-Dom makes small talk with the Cloud. He gets to the front door. The door is made out of woven children.

A-Dom: Wow!

The cloud walks up and knocks on a child’s head, it screams. A-dom laughs. Then the children start swiming (more flailing) to make the door open up. As A-Dom walks through he slaps one of them. It howls in pain and suffering.

A-Dom: Hahahaha... yea, that sucks for you.

A petunia walks out.

Petunia: Yes, yes! What’s this about?

A-Dom: I’m here to see the Duke! I’m here to negotiate.

Cloud: He’s offered to throw mortals into the wyld for us, in exchange for getting his mortals back to creation.

A-Dom (all happy): Yea, that sounds good.

Petunia: You need to see the Duke right away!

A-Dom: I get to pick the mortals right?

Petunia: You’ll have to negotiate with the Duke.

The Petunia leads A-Dom down a corridor made of Violet (the color).

A-Dom: I like your door.

Petunia: We like it too.

A-Dom: If I make one, it will have to be undead children. Cause people would be upset if I actually killed children. So I’ll just wait around until we have enough for a door.

Petunia: We could sell you dead children.

A-Dom: This is the wyld, not so much a problem for you as for me. Since if they have tenticals and eat live children, I get blamed.

Petunia: No, no, no. We can sell you real, creation preserved dead children. Off the door.

A-Dom: Those are Creation children?

Petunia: Yes. Extra tasty.

They reach the thrown room of the Duke. The Duke is a tiny six inch tall man sitting on a giant thrown. A-Dom kneels while chuckling madly to himself.

A-Dom: Hello Duke! I’m A-Dom.

Duke: Hello Solar. What are you doing in my part of the Wyld?

A-Dom: Puked up by a whale.

Duke: I hate that when that happens.

A-Dom: Almost as bad as getting killed by shrabbits.

Duke: Are you responsible for blowing up my west duchy?

A-Dom: NO! No I am not!

Duke: One of your friends is.

A-Dom: Jade’s Luck. She’s to blame. Always.

The petunia pulls off a petal and writes: Jade’s Luck is always to blame for blowing up the Wyld.

A-Dom (reading over the petunia’s shoulder): And Jahar helped her. Write that down too. And Jahar’s wife. I don’t remember her name... and the dragonbloods.

Duke: I understand you have a problem.

A-Dom: Yes, I have mortals I want to get back to Creation. Does it help that I know Ailee?

Duke: A little. How many mortals do you have?

A-Dom: Fifty. No, wait. Two fifty, plus the crew. So about two seventy. Roughly.

Duke: You want to get them to creation. Which part? You see wyld isn’t linear, so we can arrange different exit points.

A-Dom: So... we could drop them in the east. Where else is there...

Liz: God no... do any of us speak that language?

Duke turns to the wall and it turns into a map.

Duke: I can get you about 500 miles within most places, other then the Blessed Isle. Gem! Do you want to go to Gem? I hear someone is going to blow it up. You should see it before it goes away.

A-Dom: Hmm... God damn it I’m going to get in trouble.

Duke: Don’t worry, you can blame it on me.

A-Dom: Don’t worry, I was going to. What’s the cheapest place to end up?

Duke: Cheapest? Where-ever I want. You just go on faith. I’ll give you half price for that.

A-Dom: Then I just have to throw a certain amount of mortals into the wyld. How many?

Duke: We’ll if we are going where you want, it’s one for one. You get to pick the mortals, but they have to be alive.

A-Dom: Now how many mortals count for special things. Like Dragon Bloods.

Duke: Dragon Bloods are worth 3 if they are restrained. Only 2 if not, cause I have to send people to fight them.

A-Dom: What’s the time frame on this? Do I have to do it right away or can I get a mortal lifetime?

Duke: I’ll give you two mortal lifetimes. I don’t age. You don’t age that much.

A-Dom: Let’s make it Five then.

Duke: Five mortal lifetimes?

A-Dom: Yea! What, you got somewhere to be?

Duke: Well I’m going to need a minium of two people every ten years, and you mush finish payment in five mortal lifetimes.

A-Dom: Yea! I’ll add that to my list.

Liz: This is going to cause issues.

Ryan: This is so much fun when the rest of you are not around.

A-Dom: Now, what about say children?

Duke: Children count as two.

A-Dom: Really?

Duke: Yes. Old people count as half. For 60+.

A-Dom: So you’re eating the soul of the young?

Duke: No, no, no. Joy.

A-Dom: That’s fine.

Duke: Where you want to go, it’s one for one. Where I want to send you, it’s half price.

A-Dom: Want to give me any clues where you want to send me?

Duke: It will be ‘in Creation.’

A-Dom: Can I ask that you at least put me in water. What with boats and all. I owe Gareth at least that much, to drop the boats in the water.

Duke: Ok, how about 200 people for ‘in water.’

Liz: Sooooo :):):):)ed. Totally.

Duke: When do you want this done and how long do you want the trip to take?

A-Dom: As soon as I get back. How long does it have to take?

Duke: About five minutes.

A-Dom: Sounds good. No extra charge for that fast right?

Duke: No extra charge.

A-Dom: Can we take the mountain with us?

Duke: The one you blew up my East Duchy for?

A-Dom: Yes.

Duke: Sure.

A-Dom: Thanks Dookey.

A-Dom and Duke Dew-key shake hands.

Duke: How did you know my name? I am, Duke Dew-key.

A-Dom: Of course you are. Excelent.

A-Dom heads back to the group (lead out by the cloud). The GM starts laughing maniacally. A-Dom gets back to the group twenty minutes after he left. Off in the distance he can see a great glow coming from where Jade’s Luck is shaping the wyld.

A-Dom swims right onto the island and up to the shore near Gareth.

A-Dom: I fixed it!

Gareth: What?

A-Dom: I fixed it, I negotiated passage. We’ll get back to Creation soon. And it’s CHEAP!

Tiger: What’s it going to cost?

A-Dom: Some Dragon Bloods.

Gareth: If you can’t tell me the number immediately, it’s too many.

While they are talking, a swallow flys overhead and drops a coconut.

Gareth (yelling): Jade’s Lu...

Gareth Catches the coconut and sees carved on it: Tell everyone to Hold On.

Gareth (still yelling): HOLD ON!

Then below that is a number that keeps changing: 10...9...8...

The entire island starts to spin really fast. As the entire island is flushed out of the wyld.

A-Dom: I only did what I was told!

Go back and read the first thing Jade's Luck said <#fubar> this session and decide for yourself.

Jade’s Luck fails to notice that the bubble of creation is flushed away while she is working.

The rest of the group falls what it feels like 20 feet, then there is a great sploosh. Gareth first sees green. Not see green, but tree green.

A-Dom and Tiger realize they are in the middle of a river, with a forest on one side, and a gigantic city on the other bank. With a great many people looking at them. A-Dom waves.

The entire island of Creation (the size of a mountain, due to most of it being underwater) crashed down in the middle of a very large river. The mountain, not designed to be dropped, spread out quite a bit when it fell.

Gareth [Sea tongue]: Where are we? (No response from crowd)

Tiger [low realm]: Where are we?

Locals: Nexus. You appear lost. YOU’RE BLOCKING THE RIVER!

Tiger (to A-Dom): Did you see what you did?

A-Dom: At least I didn’t rip a hole in creation and create the underworld?

Tiger: That was your fault.

Gareth: Does anybody see Jade’s Luck?

Great chorus of: NO

A-Dom: I’m sure she’s just hiding.

Tiger: You’re going to have to move this island.

A-Dom: We are going to have to turn it into chocolate, then give it to her. That might save me.

The group noticing that the island is really clogging the middle of the river. Flooding is starting on both sides of the island.

A-Dom and Gareth decide the best thing to do is to tunnel under the island to let the river get past. So they then alter there plan to turn the island into a large archway bridge over the river. Luckily with A-Dom’s strength, and Gareth’s super crafting charms, this is possible. They specifically leave their boats (Grumpy Craftsman and Whale Puke) on the top of the bridge.

Eventually a spokesman for Nexus comes out to talk to them.

Spokesman [Low Realm]: I don’t want to interrupt or anything. We are going to wait until you finish to decide on any punishments.

Gareth: No abla Jahar.

Tiger translates for them for the rest of these conversations.

Spokesman [Low Realm]: This man is Jahar?

Tiger: No

Gareth: Jahar.

Spokesman [Low Realm]: This is Jahar’s fault?

Tiger: Apparently.

Spokesman [Low Realm]: Who are these people?

A-Dom, Gareth and Tiger introduce themselves. A-Dom is freaked out that the Spokesman has heard of the Dom Sea.

A-Dom: Know any quick ways to get back to the west?

Spokesman [Low Realm]: Quick?

A-Dom: I’ll just keep digging. Do you know what an Anathema is?

Spokesman [Low Realm]: Yes

A-Dom: Do you kill them?

Spokesman [Low Realm]: Only if they break the laws. Disrupting Trade is a violation of the most important law...

A-Dom: Still digging. Don’t worry.

Tiger (to A-Dom): Work faster!

A-Dom: If your City isn’t on an island, how do we know where the rules stop?

Bianca moves the people from the whale to the forested bank of the river.

A-Dom and Gareth keep working for about ten hours.

Jade’s Luck fails to notice that the bubble of creation is flushed away while she is working. So she keeps working, for nine hours and forty more minutes. After she is finished:

Jade’s Luck (Yelling): Hey Gareth look what I made!

Jade’s Luck realizes she is alone, and where the island had been there is a crew of giant lady bugs trying to construct a flying island out of plants.

Jade’s Luck: Crap. This must be A-Dom’s fault. (To lady bugs): Did you see what happened to the island that was there?

Bug: Yes! This giant whale spit out a ship and it hit the island. Then someone destroyed it with creation. It was horrible.

Jade’s Luck: What happened to the big weird creation thing?

Bug: It was moved. Zoning violations. I don’t know. You’d have to go talk to the Duke.

Ryan (to Liz): I gave you chocolate!

Alex: That won’t save A-Dom.

Jade’s Luck: Hey Pursy... how familar are you with the wyld?

Pursy: I’m a local?

Jade’s Luck: Are you a creature of the wyld or an artifact or what?

Pursy: I’m just and artifact, not a specialist on what I am.

Jade’s Luck: You know any influential beings in this area?

Pursy: No, but I’m sure there are some. Just ask for whoever is in charge. Be Diplomatic. But not like Tiger.

Jade’s Luck: Nobody can be diplomatic just like Tiger. He’s got a ‘special’ ability.

Jade’s Luck eventually gets escorted to the Duke’s castle by a hunk of water that tells her to ‘walk this way’ and struts off. Jade’s Luck struts off following. Climbing into the air to a gate made out of flower petals. The water knocks, the flowers starts to sing. A petunia walks out.

Petunia: Yes, who are you?

Jade’s Luck: I’m Jade’s Luck.

Petunia (serious): Oh... you blew up the south duchy.

Jade’s Luck: It’s possible... the whale was...

Petunia: We have documented evidence from A-Dom.

Jade’s Luck: Oh. And what did this A-Dom tell you? The most honest of Solars...

Petunia: That you destroyed the North Duchy by installing this large rock like thing.

Jade’s Luck: What did the South Duchy look like?

Petunia: A big flying island of plants.

Jade’s Luck: Oh. I, I, I apology for that. You see our boat hit it when the whale barfed us up.

Petunia: Yes, yes, whale barf we have that. It’s on record already. Are you here to apologize to Duke Dew-key?

Jade’s Luck: I would like to apologize, I was just looking for a place for my mortal subjects to stand.

Petunia: Oh yes, they have been taken care of.

Jade’s Luck: Oh, is that where they went?

Petunia: Yes, a deal was made.

Jade’s Luck: What kind of deal did A-Dom make?

Petunia: I am not at liberty to say. A deal was made.

Jade’s Luck: Please, lead on.

Jade’s Luck is taken to meet Duke Dew-Key, and apologized for blowing up the dew-chy.

Duke: Well we made a deal to get rid of those miscreants you had trespassing here. We sent them back to Creation.

Jade’s Luck: Would you care to tell me where you sent them?

Duke: To a river. Rivers are water. That was part of the deal.

Jade’s Luck [in River Speak]: Do they speak this language there?

Duke: Yes.

Jade’s Luck [Seatongue]: Do they speak this?

Duke: Not so much.

Jade’s Luck: That could be interesting for them. I don’t think any of them speak that langage.

Duke: Would you care to join them?

Jade’s Luck: What would the cost be? Actually what was the deal you made with A-Dom?

Duke: You’ll have to take that up with him. As the Duke of this area, I’d like to make a non-destruction agreement. I get you to them. You don’t blow up any more of my Duchy.

Jade’s Luck: Well I did just make another island. As a boat to sail out.

The Duke sends the Petunia off to find out where Jade’s Luck built her new island. After a few minutes the Petunia comes back with some papers that are handed to the Duke.

Petunia: It’s fine. It’s in the Earl’s land.

Jade’s Luck: I hope I didn’t hurt anyone. That wasn’t my intent.

Duke: You killed, Boab, Fred, Petunia’s Cousin, a nice nameless rock, but he was a nice guy.

Jade’s Luck: So you want me to not destroy anymore of your dew-chy?

Duke: Duchy. My name is Duke Dew-Key, I control a Duchy. Try to get it strait.

Jade’s Luck mades to deal to no longer blow up any more of the Duchy, in exchange for sending her and her island to where the rest of the group went. After she gets back to her island a bird flies over with a coconut, that says: Hold On. She and her island are then flushed out of the Wyld.

While Gareth and A-Dom are almost done turning the island into a land bridge, A-Dom and Tiger look up, and see a little tiny pin-prick of wyld floating in the sky over the river.

Ryan: Oh Jesus Christ.

A little tiny bird flies out of the wyld and Drops a coconut. Tiger catches it. It reads: Coming threw in 9...8...7...

Tiger: EVERYBODY OUT OF THE WAY!

Gareth: Oh crap the boats!

Jade’s Luck and her hollow floating hollow island (build to hold 500 people) falls onto the bridge, directly onto the Grumpy Craftsman and Whale Puke, squishing them flat. Then it slides off the land bridge into the water. Luckily the hollow floating island is much smaller then the mountain, so it’s only blocking part of the river. It is however stuck into the river mud, and no longer floating.

A-Dom (to Gareth): You ever have a bad day?

Gareth: I’m going to go cry now.

Design Spirit: This bridge needs more pillars.

Gareth gives up, and walks into Nexus looking for a bar.

Jade’s Luck: Hey A-Dom! I hear you played Lets make a Deal!

A-Dom: Could we fight later? I have to stop the river from flooding the world.

A-Dom decides to dig a channel out of the bank to allow the river to get past Jade’s Luck’s floating island (stuck in the mud).

A-Dom: If I break your boat, you can be extra, extra angry.

Jade’s Luck tries to help, by moving small stones out of the way. While A-Dom moves giant boulders and large amounts of land.

Gareth gets to a bar. He holds up a Jade coin. The bartender puts 4 drinks in front of him. Gareth tries to drink them all at once. He then pulls out more coins.

A-Dom: You boat is now an island. Sorry. It’s not getting out. You know when you were in school, and you would fall asleep...

Jade’s Luck: I would never fall asleep during...

A-Dom: ...and one time I fell asleep and had a nightmare that they were telling me about water that flows over land, it’s called a River. I think this is one of them. So things get stuck. If they want to kill us, we are stuck, because this island is very big.

A-Dom then punches holes in the hollow island so the water can go threw.

Jade’s Luck starts to map the river so she can sell the maps.

Tiger: I think to get away without getting killed, we’ll have to give the maps away for free.

Eventually Gareth gets the bartender to start bringing him barrels.

Tiger: This isn’t an island. This is land that surrounds water.

A-Dom: So all the men go to the middle to do work?

Jade’s Luck: Yes. But lets chart this now, then we’ll deal with your whole repentance thing later.

A-Dom: I’d turn to Gareth now, but he’s not here.

Jade’s Luck then talks to the Spokesman and blames the Wyld for everything.

A-Dom: They must have a lot of hungry people. There won’t be enough fish to go around.

Jade’s Luck goes looking for Gareth, and finds him in a bar, next to a pile of empty kegs.

Jade’s Luck: We don’t need a repetition of that right now. We have to chart the river. We need a boat.

Gareth starts to cry.

Jade’s Luck: Aren’t you the one who builds them?

Gareth (Still crying): What’s the point? My boats are cursed! I build one it gets broken. I build one it gets stolen. I build one it gets broken. I build one it gets broken.

Jade’s Luck: *cough* A-Dom *cough*

Gareth: Where the hell are we?

Jade’s Luck: Nexus

Gareth: Where the hell is that?

Jade’s Luck: The East. You know our families. We won’t be seeing them for a while. Don’t worry we only need to go past the Blessed Isle to get back.

Jade’s Luck & Tiger: We can drop in on Jahar’s kid along the way.

A-Dom makes a boat out of mud and gives it to Gareth.

A-Dom: I’m sorry. But look at the bright side. There is lots of trees here. Lots of materials. We can make the next one out of rubber tree plants.

Gareth: Remember how we got drunk for a year?

A-Dom: You want to do that?

Gareth: Yes!

A-Dom: First, we need a pool...

Jade’s Luck: I’d like to get back to my mother a little sooner then that.

Tiger: You don’t have to wait for us.

A-Dom: We need a magic barrel... Tiger can help. A booze barrel artifact.

Gareth has the Craft, Tiger has the Occult, A-Dom has the desire... A Magic Beer Barrel was planned.

Gareth (Very quite and sad): I’m going to miss the mice.

A-Dom: No... no... no.. NO!

Jade’s Luck: Maybe they survived...

Tiger: The Pirates wouldn’t have left the Mice behind! They value their lives.

A-Dom runs off to find the mice. They have tied one of the crew members to a tree, and appear to be planning a sacrifice.

A-Dom: Mice! Mice!

Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice Shaman: Oogah Chacka, Oogah Chacka!

A-Dom: No Oogah Chacka, Oogah Chacka right now. No.

Shaman: Shwoona! (Makes thrusting justures with his spear)

A-Dom: Shwoona?

Shaman: Shwoona! Shwoona!

A-Don: No, No Shwoona!

A-Dom cuts the crew members free and carries him off.

Tiger (to Jade’s Luck): This is all your fault.

Jade’s Luck: How exactly is THIS my fault that we are in nexus?

Tiger: Because we choose to blame you.

A-Dom keeps having a long argument with the voodoo shaman mouse. Despite nether of them speaking the same language. A-Dom eventually calms the mice down, and figures out they are freaked out by the lack of water, and want to perform a sacrifice to bring the water back. A-Dom sadly agrees with them. A-Dom takes the Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice back to Gareth.

A-Dom: I found the mice!

Gareth makes them little tables and mugs and gives them beer. The bartender is totally freaked out. But Gareth keeps giving him money.

Ryan: We want to make an ever-full barrel of beer. Not an Infinite Barrel of Beer. Because that would cause us to be running around screaming: What do we do? What do we do? It’s just spraying beer everywhere! It won’t stop! There is only so much I can :):):):) up in one session.

Tiger plans out an ever-full barrel of beer require:
Skull of a Brewer
Perfect Beer Barrel
5 gallons of beer (flavoring)
Blessing of a spirit related to Beer production
+Put it together in the right way.

While mapping the river, Jade’s Luck quizzes A-Dom about the deal he made with the Duke.

A-Dom: I know nothing, NOTHING!

Jade’s Luck: So everything’s my fault still?

A-Dom: Not everything. Some things might be other people’s fault. Some people who might have been born near the Dom sea, might take the blame for some things.

They then give the charts to the Spokesman. The Spokesman tells them that he has to talk to his superiors, and there will probably be a fine.

Spokesman: Don’t leave town right away.

A-Dom: I can’t. I broke the boat.

Jade’s Luck: Duke Dew-Key might have something to do with it. I believe you met him.

A-Dom: Oh yea, the little guy. We fought. I did my best.

Jade’s Luck double botches her roll to notice him lying through his teeth.

Ryan: Other then landing in Nexus, this game is going very well.

Gareth learns Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice as a language. While they (him and the mice) are drunk. Well, the mice anyway. Gareth couldn’t seem to get drunk no matter what he drank.

The group then wastes a lot of time trying to collect these ingredients. But other then having Gareth make the perfect Barrel (out of a few remaining parts of first age ship parts, and a few good trees). They don’t do anything other then scare some local brewers. (This sums up an entire hour of the game.)

They start arguing about death rituals, since they don’t know if people are cremated, or buried around here. Jade’s Luck is sent to find out. She finds out about Sijan, city of tombs. She gets directions to the Morticians Order. She finds out more about Sijan and gets a brochure.

Liz: I’m trying to not scare bureaucrats with my creepy requests for people’s skulls.

Dan: I suppose we can kill just one, as long as it’s not wanton violence.

Liz: Umm... umm... umm... killing someone at random is the definition of wanton violence especially if you just want their skull.

Jade’s Luck eventually finds out about the dangerous Anathema Tombs in Sijan. Which greatly upsets her, knowing it will make A-Dom very happy. Jade’s Luck then explains this to the group.

Jade’s Luck: So there is this city 800 miles north of here, where they keep their dead people. It also looks like there are places of interest within this city. As there are Anathema tombs.

A-Dom: Really? Are they labeled?

Jade’s Luck shows them the brochure. There is a Tomb of blood, knives, and The Wretched Tomb.

Gareth: Now remember, not everything is for you.

A-Dom: Yes, but then there will be notes.

Jade’s Luck: You see they don’t like angry anathema ghosts, so you have to respectfully steal their stuff.
 

Ao the Overkitty

First Post
Synopsis of 02/26/07
Wait... Are you saying HE has a plan?
Subtitle: The Arguing Session

By Alwaystoast

Jade’s Luck becomes concerned with the welfare of the locals from inside the Whale.

Gareth realizes he was 20 minutes into his training of Chaos Resisting Prana, when A-Dom interupted him by sending the group to Nexus.

Gareth: :):):):), I’ve lost my method of training.

Liz: Can I have the book?

Ryan (while handing her the book): We should go back to the west at some point.

Liz: You shouldn’t say stuff like that after handing me a heavy object.

Jade’s Luck spends a week learning the training charm: Harmonious Method Methodology.

Group argues about what to do with the 250 mortals for a bit. Argument ends with Jade’s Luck saying: I could just take all 250 of them to the Death Lord and switch sides, because he seems to be a lot more pragmatic about this sort of thing.

Group starts arguing about how fast they could break laws in Nexus, and how many laws they could break per minute in 15 minutes.

A-Dom and Tiger start arguing about how to get a brewer’s skull. The argument was: Do we get a dead one, or do we get the skull out of a live one.

Jade’s Luck realizes that she has failed to develop the charm she was training for. She finds this irritating. She then promptly goes off to deal with the locals from inside the whale.

A-Dom: So we need to find a brewer’s skull, and ether take these people with us, or dump them off here.

Liz: Who is A-Dom talking to? Everyone walked off, except Gareth who doesn’t care.

Ryan: The bartender.

GM: Which is especially funny since A-Dom doesn’t speak the local language.

Jade’s Luck explains collateral damage to mortals that happens around the circle to Bianca.

A-Dom: Could it be that Fair Folk screwed me over after all?

Eventually a middle aged weasely looking bureaucrat looking guy in long robes walks into the bar, sits down next to A-Dom. Starts talking to him in a language A-Dom doesn’t understand. Tries a few more languages. Eventually tries Old Realm that A-Dom and Gareth do understand.

Pieter: So what are you doing?

Gareth: Drinking.

Pieter: Oh, for how long?

Gareth: About 5 days now.

A-Dom: We’re really bad at it.

Pieter (to A-Dom): What are YOU doing?

A-Dom: I’m just kind of... in the East.

Pieter: Yea, I noticed.

A-Dom: How do you know Old Realm? Dragon Blood? Lunar?

Pieters Eclipse Caste make starts to glow.

Pieter: One day I thought about it for a few seconds and I knew it.

A-Dom: Oh, so how’s the whole thing working for ya here?

Pieter: We’re doing OK. What are YOU doing HERE?

A-Dom: Umm... I thought it would be a Fun Adventure to see where the Wyld would drop us. Dropped us on the other side of Creation. It’s kind of boring here.

Pieter (to Gareth): So, he’s the idiot in the group?

Gareth: He’s just mentally challenged.

Pieter slaps A-Dom upside the head.

Pieter (to A-Dom): West! GO WEST. You’re not suppose to be here in the East. We’ve got enough of us here as it is. We don’t need an even bigger concentration of us to :):):):) things up.

A-Dom: Wait! Are you saying... HE has a plan?

Pieter: Wait a minute. Are you guys the unfaithful?

Gareth: Huh?

A-Dom: Who’s that?

Pieter: Well you see there is a group that has been bitching and moaning about how the boss hasn’t been doing anything for them. So much that he stopped letting them have access to new powers. Yea, I don’t want to deal with you people. Get the hell out of my direction.

A-Dom: Do you know a quick way to get back to the West?

Pieter: No. That’s your problem. I’ll give you an hour to get out of the city.

A-Dom: Hey! You’re a solar. You want some worshipers? We’ve got some we want to unload.

Pieter: You brought them here, they are your problem.

Gareth: A-Dom, Come on.

Gareth leads A-Dom and the mice out of the bar. They go back to the camp across the river and find Jade’s Luck teaching the locals from inside the whale about things like weather and trees.

Gareth: Jade’s Luck! We’re getting kicked out of the city.

Jade’s Luck: I’m not in the city. So that’s fine with me.

Gareth: So lets get moving.

Jade’s Luck: So we have a boat?

Gareth: No. We’re walking.

Jade’s Luck: We are not walking.

Gareth: Oh yes we are. We’re being kicked West.

A-Dom: He didn’t want our worshipers ether. Pain in the ass.

Jade’s Luck: Why were you trying to give them away? We are responsible for them!

A-Dom rambles to himself.

Gareth: Apparently we are the Unfaithful.

A-Dom: We have a group name! Awesome!

Tiger: Is this his way of saying: Find new sponsor ship?

Gareth: I think it’s his way of saying; Stop pissing me off.

Jade’s Luck: Gareth, what did you guys have to pay to get shipped over here from the wyld? I had to agree not to blow up his stuff. But I don’t think you made the same deal with Duke Dew-Key.

Gareth: I’ve been too busy to find that out.

Tiger: We didn’t agree to anything. A coconut fell from the sky, and here we are.

Gareth: A-Dom?

A-Dom: I just dropped Ailees name, and told him people were :):):):)ing with his :):):):). And he was all like ‘I don’t want you to be here’ and I was all like ‘ok thank you!’

Gareth’s charm detects A-Dom statement is chock full of lies. Gareth sighs.

Jade’s Luck: So, we going to find out the truth?

Gareth: We’ll find out while we are walking. Everyone! We are going on a pilgramage! That way!

Gareth starts to walk west. The group starts to argue that Sijan is more west then their current possition... if slightly to the north. But it still counts as going West.

Jade’s Luck: You know it can’t be too subtle to march 250 mortals to a city we plan to steal :):):):) from. Plus the Unconquered sun, since we apparently pissed him off...

A-Dom (interrupting her): WE?

Jade’s Luck: Ok, YOU. ... might be upset if we lead them into another collateral damage situation, since they are already worshiping the Unconquered Sun, and all we have to do is maintain...

A-Dom argues about random stuff. With himself. And loses.

A-Dom: If we go to check out the tombs, we might find an Artifact Boat.

Gareth: No Boats!

Tiger (to A-Dom): You know it might be better if we don’t take them (motions at the group) with us.

A-Dom: Yes! Let’s split the group up by 800 miles! What could go wrong?

Jade’s Luck and A-Dom argue about grave robbing may not be polite. A-Dom starts rambling about Pieter.

A-Dom: He said we had to go back West! He didn’t say we couldn’t divert to the north and piss off the Solars in the North first. Is there... like a News Letter we are missing?

Jade’s Luck: Apparently.

Gareth: That guy just thinks he is holy-er then us.

A-Dom: HE IS! Hello! (Points at the group) The Unfaithful. Are we going to the tombs are not?

Gareth: Nope.

Group starts arguing that they will never get the chance to rob these tombs again. Jade’s Luck points out that if they can find an island that they can all stand on, they can get back here by using the Manse Jade’s Luck and Tiger control. The group wanders off to find an island in the river (a nice stable one, with a tree). They all stand on it. So the group can get back to the east.

The group then goes back to walking West, along the river. Jade’s Luck draws maps for everyone so they feel better. Gareth looks at the map and decides they should head for Lookshy. Tiger points out this is a bad idea. As they are a military power. The group then discusses their options. At some point Thorns comes up.

Jade’s Luck: Didn’t someone mention something about that place that time we had that dinner with those lovely people?

Tiger: How about some details instead of a random string of words?

Jade’s Luck: And this from specifics man. We had dinner with the Malfeans, didn’t they make a snide remark about Thorns. I mean they were full of the snide remarks really.

Gareth seriously limits their options by his steadfast refusal to use boats. The group argues that a boat will come in at some point, when going back to the West.

Gareth: We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Right now. NO BOATS!

Group discusses if they can get Gareth on a boat, by knocking him out. But since Gareth won’t make a new boat for them, they will have to steal one first. They eventually abandon this line of thought.

Jade’s Luck: Apparently we need to suck up to the Unconquered Sun.

A-Dom: We’ve got faith! That’s what those two are for!

Gareth: I think it’s supposed to be all of us.

A-Dom: What? Excuse me? Mr. Atheist.

Jade’s Luck: Mr. Contractually Obligated to call him my god.

Gareth: Yup, cause it’s true.

Jade’s Luck: His pointy black feelings may have been hurt.

A-Dom: Hey, I’m working on building up my faith. I’ve prayed to him a couple of times.

Group continues to argue.

A-Dom: Hey Gareth can you make us a church?

Gareth: I guess.

Jade’s Luck: Can it be big enough for 250 worshipers?

Gareth: Yes.

A-Dom: Can it be a floating church?

Gareth: No. No Boats! Well, I mean, it will annoy Jahar. So I’ll consider a floating church. Ok, I’ll make it. But I’m never going on it.

A-Dom: Come on, not all your ships have been destroyed. That first one got stolen.

Gareth: It’s still not in my possession.

Group continues with insane argument about what direction they are going. Also somehow the idea of a Floating Wheeled Church, came up.

Gareth: At this point, subtlety hasn’t been working for us. So :):):):) Subtlety!

Ryan: Do we really need a reboot this badly?

Group then discusses how to get back in good with the Unconquered Sun. Spiritual sucking up, etc. A-Dom just gives up and starts praying for Help. Then the group starts arguing about how obvious the Church Boat will be. As some of the group thinks it could be a ‘subtle church.’ Others (A-Dom) think churchs are suppose to be obvious about what god they are dedicate to. They then explain this crazyness to Gareth, who sides with A-Dom’s crazy talk, instead of Tiger’s crazy talk.

A-Dom (Praying inside his head): :):):):)! Help us you :):):):):):):)!

Group discusses finding local barbarians and dropping off the followers from inside the whale, then going back to the West by whatever crazy/dangerous way possible. Since it will be much easier if they don’t have followers with them. The idea of cutting through Heaven or Malfeas also is discussed. For some reason, there are objections about taking shortcuts through Malfeas.

A-Dom starts blaming Gareth for telling him to kill pirates, which caused this whole situation.

Ryan (to GM): Remember that time we went to talk to that guy then that guy died?

GM: What?

Dan: He’s talking about the Ghost Blooded.

Ryan: Thank you.

GM: Cause nobody you’ve gone to talk to has died.

Ryan (same argument, but talking to liz): You have a pop Gun. If we give you a bazooka, thing’s won’t get better.

A-Dom and Tiger start trying to one-up each other with what information they are clearly with-holding from the group. Mr. Won’t tell us how we got to the East Vs Mr. Where were you born again? Gareth is unable to find any lies in the statements that A-Dom is not really making about the agreement he made to get them to the East.

Jade’s Luck: I think A-Dom is learning to speak more like Tiger. That’s not a good thing.

A-Dom (trying to sound stupid): I like purple shoes.

Gareth decides to stop walking to give the mortals a break.

Locals mumbling: Clearly we are not devout enough. We should have prayed for better heroes.

A-Dom: See even our faithful are already turning away. You know, we really don’t want him to get out of his little shell. Because then he’ll be much more powerful, and we’ll be in danger. He can’t do more while he is in there... so ether way we’re :):):):)ed.

Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we need to worry about our progress. I don’t hear choruses from the other directions.

A-Dom: Man one day the south is going to flip and he’s going to say ‘:):):):) what’s going on in the west?’ and we are all just going to melt. We don’t know what his powers are.

Group then explains (to A-Dom) that their god isn’t the god of conquering. He’s the god of Un- conquer-ability. Which is not the same as conquering things.

Gareth: Really it’s finding that out that made us the Unfaithful. Clearly we need to get him a larger portfolio.

A-Dom: You know we don’t know that. We just know that is what a past us knew at the time of the vision.

Tiger: You know he’s right. He is stuck in soul-steel.

A-Dom (to Tiger): STOP HELPING! You’re not getting any new powers ether. You’re in the same boat!

Gareth: NO BOATS!

Tiger: OK, we are going to stop, find a place for these people to live. Put them there. Then go on our way.

Jade’s Luck: I’d made that plan a while ago, but we got told to get our worshipers and our sad little asses moving.

Tiger: No we got told they are our problem. But part of helping people is helping them help themselves. So we help ourselves by helping them help themselves.

A-Dom: Oh god... jahar speak... oh god... oh god...

Tiger: We can’t be trekking 250 people across creation.

A-Dom: The fishing people are probably better off in the forest actually.

Gareth & Jade’s Luck: Because it’s so easy to fish in the forest?

Tiger: Because it’s darker. More cover from the sun.

Ryan: Oh god, my plan must be bad, only Dan is on my side.

A-Dom: These people don’t belong to us. They really belong to the Unconquered Sun.

Jade’s Luck: You catch me actually agreeing with you.

A-Dom: So lets sit around and ask HIM what to do with them.

Locals: We’re hungry.

A-Dom shakes a tree till something falls out.

A-Dom: Eat that!

The group goes out (in different directions) to gather provisions to provide for all the people. This happens on a regular basis for basically every meal from now on.

While out in the forest, A-Dom runs into a pale pasty guy.

A-Dom: Hi! Who are you?

Pale Guy: Porpoising Worm of Anger. But you can call me Bob.

A-Dom: Did you use to be out West with some friends?

PWoA: Yea, but they were all killed. So I sailed out here. But I can’t get back because I wrecked the boat.

A-Dom: Well I might be able to help you. I got some friends over here. We are heading back West. Going by the north.

PWoA: Land Route? Odd. Say, would you like to Sijan? I got this brochure...

A-Dom: Yea, we were thinking about it.

A-Dom leads the Porpoising Worm of Anger back to where the mortal worshipers are. He then called over the other solars (in a very un-subtle way). Sadly Tiger wasn’t there because he got lost in the woods. A-Dom introduces the Porpoising Worm of Anger.

PWoA: You all look familiar...

Jade’s Luck thinks to evacuate the mortals... at about the very moment it’s too late for that. Jade’s Luck tries to make all the mortals run away in fear from her. The mortals run in fear. Sadly, mortals don’t react as fast as Solars. Gareth and A-Dom simultaneously attack the PorpoisingWorm of Anger. There is a wave of life destroying force, which kills 58 mortals.

Alex: Well we’re are under 200 now!

All the mortals run in terror. The group then properly murders Porpoising Worm of Anger.

Jade’s Luck scorches the body.

Jade’s Luck: I need to start making funeral arrangements.

A-Dom: Ooo Ooo! I can help with that!

Jade’s Luck: Actual help or Necromantic help? Cause I’m not letting you...

A-Dom: No! Actual help. I know stuff. No Necromancy today. I promise.

Gareth: At least there are survivors this time.

A-Dom uses his bracers to be hear for miles: Children of the Unconquered Sun! RETURN!

Tiger and Jade’s Luck argue about the appropriate use of charms in combat.

A-Dom (still projecting his voice for miles): No arguing now!

Then all of the other Solars go off in search of mortals who fled off in random directions. 140 are brought back the first time. Gareth makes them freshly baked pie (using craftsman needs no tools) while the others go off to find more. After the second round they are only missing 3. One died while fleeing. One is found by A-Dom across the river, and just carried the tree that he was up, back to the camp. A-Dom also finds the burned remains of Gareth’s ship (only the burn keel remains). Group is down to 191 mortals from inside the whale.

A-Dom: Yay Pie! Praise the Unconquered Sun.

Jade’s Luck: Worship the Unconquered Sun.

Gareth (dead pan): Yea, do that.

Jade’s Luck argues with A-Dom about the wisdom of bringing any evil being back towards the mortals.

The bodies are all buried properly, and none of them got up and ate anyone or anything like that.

The Next morning:

A-Dom (to Jade’s Luck): Do you think the Unconquered Sun did that? Not the part where I screwed up and got mortals killed. That was going to happen anyway. But you know giving us the evil guy to beat on. I’d like to give him credit for that. It’s a really weird coincidence that we meet him all the way out in the East.

Jade’s Luck: Next time you meet someone who might have valuable information, and is hideously dangerous to mortals, why don’t you beat the snot out of them out in the woods first. Getting the information while you are alone.

A-Dom: Cause I have a secret.

Jade’s Luck: And what is this secret?

A-Dom: I SUCK at one on one combat. It’s true... I like fighting gangs.

Gareth: Kegs are empty.

A-Dom: I don’t think you were suppose to drink that beer...

Gareth: Too late now.

Later On.

A-Dom: Why does the Unconquered sun keep talking to me?

Gareth: Cause you’re his favorite?

A-Dom: No.

Gareth: Cause you’re the jester?

A-Dom: Yea...

Eventually: Tiger runs off and finds a barbarian village and scopes it out.
 

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