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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819356" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 01/02/06 session - “Surprisingly Productive Little Solars”</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 01/02/06 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Surprisingly Productive Little Solars”</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Gareth returned to the island after a trip to Atlantis on <em>The Grumpy Craftsman II</em>, a small vessel (about 20ft x 5ft) built for speed. He wasn’t sure where the others were, so he sailed around the island. He saw a big glowing pillar of light near a small village that he recognized as the casting of a spell. As he sailed up towards the docks, he saw the glowing figure and several others all run into a building. As he pulled up to the dock, he noticed a guy laying on it, unconscious. He clearly seemed to have been hit in the head with a rock. </p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>A-dom…</em></p><p></p><p>He took a little bit to look around the village, just so something didn’t come back to bite him in the ass later. He found a sacrificed goat and it appeared a number of people had been praying by the goat. Then everyone went into a little tiny building, which was a little strange. He lazily summoned his armor and strolled over towards the building. Opening the doors, he found a long staircase going down and started descending.</p><p></p><p>He then heard Jade’s Luck yell, “And Don’t Kill Them!” Whoever <em>them</em> were, Gareth wasn’t going to kill them. He also heard clanging and yelling and other battle sounds coming from down below.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Ah. Clearly they’ve stopped arguing.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth didn’t bother summoning his sword as he made his way down the stairs. Tiger heard someone coming down the stairs, while A-dom showed he was far too perceptive (9 successes).</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Gareth’s coming!</em></p><p></p><p>By the time Gareth got down there, they had thoroughly whooped the mortals and were standing around. Then, a big, multi-prismatic tongue lashed out from the darkness, grabbed Jahar’s foot, and dragged him further into the cave. Reactions to this varied, with the most common one being the activation of Integrity Protecting Prana. Following after him was done when they got around to it.</p><p></p><p>Gareth looked around to see a lot of people standing around, a lot of inferior weapons laying on the ground, and some people fishing others out of the waterfall.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>So, I take it these are the people we aren’t supposed to kill.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Yeah. We’re here to deal with the sun hating bastards and the Wyld they worship.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>They’re not bastards, they’re just misinformed. I’m sure of it.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth looked over the people and found a guy with a third eye on his neck.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You’re not supposed to have that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (picks up a sword and heads for guy) <em>Right! I’m on it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (stern voice) <em>A-dom!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I’m not sure you should be removing parts of their throats. That generally leads to people dying.</em></p><p></p><p>The guy rather liked his third eye, since it allowed him to look at woman without them noticing. When asked when he got it, he said it was when he went into the holy cave (which was the glowing cave over there). That was the first time a tongue had emerged from it, but they had seen an unarmored penguin before.</p><p></p><p>They found out who the leader was and A-dom told him he’d better be nice to them, because they could make the rain come back, or make the sun shine more. The leader didn’t believe that the island belonged to the group, saying it belonged to the Rain God. The leader called down the power of the rain god to smite the Circle. It didn’t work. A-dom threatened him with a volcano.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I’m personal friends with the rain god.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>We call him Squishy.</em></p><p></p><p>The leader guy was adamant that they didn’t worship the Wyld, just the Rain God. The eventually headed down the sacred cave. It was shiny like it was illuminated by an invisible light source.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Hello Mr. Sacred Cave.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Sacred Cave emits a loud belch</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I think the Sacred Cave just ate Jahar!</em></p><p></p><p>They walked past a sign that said <strong>Welcome to the Sacred Cave</strong> and came to a saloon style door blocking their passage. Off to the side was a barracuda-bird sitting on a porch. Gareth offered it a fish, which is happily gobbled up. Jade’s Luck asked the fish where Jahar was, but it just shrugged. A-dom asked it if there was anything they should know before they went it, but it just shrugged. He thanked it and went on through the door. For some strange reason, the others just stood there watching.</p><p></p><p>Once through, A-dom found the floor moved on the other side, guiding him down the cave.</p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Welcome welcome welcome to the Sacred Cave! The cave of tomorrow, showing you the world today! Everyone now worships the sun god!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Guys, come on in and check this out. There is a video and everything!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth and Jade’s Luck followed. Tiger opted to stay behind, since he wasn’t protected from the Wyld. Silly git kept putting it off, thinking they wouldn’t have to deal with the Wyld again for a while. </p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Welcome welcome welcome to the Wonderful, Fabulous cave of tomorrow!</em></p><p></p><p>Images started flashing up on the wall of temples and shiny people in a field and happiness and A-dom on an undead centipede. Jade’s Luck then went on and on about blandishments.</p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>All blandishments will be outlawed!</em></p><p></p><p>Pictures of a gallows and people being hung. Jade’s Luck said that that wasn’t very nice and asked for another future. The pictures changed to show people being drowned. She demanded another different one, saying she didn’t want people to be killed at all. The picture changed to that of people being thrown into a giant, bottomless pit. A-dom told her to stop arguing with the Wyld. She went on again about blandishments.</p><p></p><p>The tunnel ended in a large room with couches and chairs. A goat was sitting on the couch, smoking a cigar. The furniture didn’t look carnivorous. The goat was trying to get the sacrificing one goats stopped and promote the sacrifice of ostriches. He felt ostriches could be shipped around for this. A-dom thought there could be money in it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Ever met an ostrich? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />s, every one of them!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went on again about blandishments. This was starting to really annoy A-dom. It is times like this that Gareth likes that he has learned to mostly tune them out. The goat wanted to know what a blandishment was. They were no closer to figuring out why she kept going on about them once she defined them. A-dom asked the goat if he had any more cigars. He handed A-dom a cigar, which tasted like rutabagas. They found out there was a guy here that helped with stuff, like the stopping of the sacrificing of goats. The goat was very helpful and gave them the idea of going to heaven to talk to the Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You know, you’re supposed to light those.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Bleh! That’d taste like burnt rutabaga!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Booming Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Now Serving Number 3082!</em></p><p></p><p>A squirrel came running out from underneath the couch and ran through a little door. A-dom stuck his hand underneath the couch and got stabbed. Looking underneath, he saw a dust bunny with a dagger. They argued. A-dom ended up getting another cigar from the goat and giving it to the dust bunny. Smoke started billowing out from underneath the couch. A-dom switched couches. When Jade’s Luck looked, there was a whole family of dust bunnies.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, Jade’s Luck noticed a little ticket dispenser. The goat told her they were to go see the guy. They did find out that the tongue came out the door and brought back Jahar (a strange glowing guy screaming put me down). Above the door, it read ‘<strong>No Admittance Until Number is Called</strong>.'</p><p></p><p>A-dom took a number (3,800,000) while Gareth walked through the door. Gareth went flying back, down the hallway, through the saloon doors, through a front window of a flower shop and landing on some flowers. Gareth bought some flowers from the little old lady. He then talked to Tiger for a while.</p><p></p><p>In the room, A-dom dove behind a couch and found himself crouched over a sleeping mummy. He then made himself look like one of Jahar’s family members. When he emerged from behind the couch, Jade’s Luck confronted him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Hey! What’d you do with A-dom?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>He’s napping.</em></p><p></p><p>She found the mummy and proceeded to disturb him, thinking he was A-dom, having turned himself undead. A-dom tried to stop her. Like that was going to happen. When asked, A-dom said he was Z-dom. The mummy wasn’t amused with being woken up and was adamant that he was not A-dom. She demanded to know why Z-dom was wearing A-dom’s stuff.</p><p></p><p>Gareth headed back down through the cave of tomorrow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Welcome welcome welcome to the cave of tomorrow!</em> The announcer talked about the wonders and technologies and how much better things will be when the builders take over. The only true leaders are the ones who build things.</p><p></p><p>Gareth got back to find Jade’s Luck beating on Z-dom. He wasn’t amused and tried to stop her by giving her a flower. Didn’t work. She wanted to beat up this guy whom she claimed said he killed A-dom (he never did). She clearly has some unresolved issues. Various creatures in the waiting room started moving away from those two.</p><p></p><p>The announcer called the next number and a little frog ran through the door. A-dom went up and demanded the door open in the name of house Cynis (which is funny, because he was claming to be Jahar’s long lost brother, who is of House Sessus). A-dom took a trip down the hall and into the flower shop. A-dom paid for some squished flowers.</p><p></p><p>Gareth offered the mummy a flower. The mummy wasn’t amused. </p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>People used to be so civilized. Now they let anyone into the Wyld.</em></p><p></p><p>On that note, A-dom re-entered looking like A-dom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Welcome welcome welcome to the cave of tomorrow! When necromancers will take over the world! And worship the Unconquered Sun at the same time!</em> </p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Hey guys. What’s going on?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>What happened to the guy who stole your armor?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>He’s back there.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom walked over to the mummy, pulled out his club, and started beating him.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Give me your number!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>May the lice of a thousand camels rest in your loins!</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone who wasn’t A-dom backed away. A-dom just hit the mummy again. Gareth offered the dust bunnies a flower. The big one ate the flower and passed the leaves around. A-dom argued with the Mummy and hit him some more.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>Don’t make me call security!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>They have security?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>Yeah.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Couple of big guys? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>Actually, they’re very small.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Give me your number. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>No!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I’ll give you mine. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>No! Your number sucks! You know how long I’ve been here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>But you’re a mummy. You’ll never die. We will. Eventually.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> <em>This is why you should consider investing in mummification.</em></p><p></p><p>The mummy was trying to encourage the practice of mummification and wanted more religions to incorporate it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom just wanted to hit the guy and told the other two it’d go faster if they helped. Luck and Gareth both didn’t want to hit him. The Announcer called the next number and the mummy went in. Gareth tried to go in with the mummy, but got flung back to the flower shop. He complemented the little old lady on her flowers, then went to talk to Tiger.</p><p></p><p>A-dom started yelling for security. A small field of maggots crawled into the room. They told A-dom was this close to being eaten from the inside out.</p><p></p><p>A-dom collected tickets, then ripped one off so it read 3008. When the number was called, A-dom and Jade’s Luck headed for the door, faster than the dust bunnies. But, once inside the door, they waited for Gareth, watching the dust bunnies hop past. A few seconds later, Luck and A-dom ended up in the flower shop. They chatted with Gareth and Tiger for a while.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I could just take the whole ticket roll and throw it at the door. ‘The right number is in there somewhere, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> head. Open up!’</em></p><p></p><p>They tried to convince Tiger to come in with them, but for some reason he didn’t want to enter the Wyld.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Are you really that clueless without me?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Yes! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I have an idea! It’s… Evil. But it’s an idea. I must be channeling A-dom.</em></p><p></p><p>The three left Tiger behind and went back into the room. Looking around, only the goat was visible. Gareth brought his thumb and pointer fingers up so he was looking at the goat’s head through them, then pressed the fingers together. The goat’s head squished together flat. When Gareth separated his fingers again, the goat’s head regained its normal shape.</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Oww! Why’d you do that? That hurt a lot. Oww, my sinuses.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>What number did they just call?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>3012.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Aww <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>What number do YOU have?</em></p><p></p><p>(pause)</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Uhh… You don’t need to know that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Oh yes I do. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Oh no. Not again.</em></p><p></p><p>The goat held up two of his, um, fingers, in front of him to block Gareth’s fingers from closing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>I can do this all day!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth brought up his other hand and crushed the goat’s head horizontally instead of vertically.</p><p></p><p>The goat tried to stop Gareth, but he could only block one direction at a time. The goat’s head reshaped into a square, and then a triangle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Oww! Stop! My sinuses!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (crazy bucky voice) <em>Give us your ticket and we’ll stop. Muwahaha!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>What is your number? </em></p><p></p><p>(pause)</p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> (meekly) <em>Three thousand (pause) fifteen?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (crazy bucky voice) <em>Give it too us. It is ours now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> (meekly) <em>No.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (crazy bucky voice) <em>Then we’ll stop crushing your head.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> (meekly) <em>Will you talk to him about stopping goat sacrificing?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth & A-dom:</strong> <em>Yes. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Goat:</strong> <em>Do you have an Eclipse around? Bring him in here and sanctify this.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck ran out and grabbed Tiger. Somehow, she convinced him to come back with her.</p><p></p><p><strong>Echoing Announcer Voice:</strong> <em>Welcome welcome to the future of tomorrow! Where your brain will be eaten by a thousand monsters.</em></p><p></p><p>Only Tiger heard this and saw a thousand monsters trying to eat his brain. He managed to ignore it, though. Once in the room, Tiger grabbed a whole bunch of numbers before getting dragged over to the goat to sanctify the pact. Once sanctified, the goat handed over his ticket and Tiger ran back out of the cave.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Once their number was called, the trio headed through the door. As it shut behind them, they found where they were to be a dark place. For all of two seconds. Then Gareth activated his caste mark. They were in a room above the waiting room, where they could look up and see the waiting room above them. A-dom fell down, because he wanted to.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>See! Things like this are why I wanted Tiger along. </em></p><p></p><p>There were all sorts of knick-knacks and what not around the room. There was a small, grayish, ‘person’ with black oval eyes and no nose sitting in a chair.</p><p></p><p><strong>Wyld Official:</strong> <em>Hello there! And what will we be discussing today?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> A couple of things. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Wyld Official:</strong> <em>Oh. I’ll make a list. Now, what are the orders if business?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> That would be goat sacrificing. Ostrich sacrificing. Movement of the Wyld. Ownership of the island. The stop sucking of our power.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Where our friend Jahar went when some multi-colored tongue snatched him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Oh yeah. Jahar. That can be a footnote. Anything else? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Why toes are so great.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>What’s with all the blandishments?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Oh and artifacts all around. Anything else?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Why A-dom should not be allowed any more undead?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> No. I don’t like that one. Don’t put that one on the list.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>How about a quick Q&A at the end?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Sounds good.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom made sure it was noted that the goats were against the goat sacrifices and would like it to stop. Especially the goat out on the waiting room (Milo). It was stated Milo was in favor of the ostrich sacrificing. Apparently, no one sacrifices ostriches, which A-dom felt there should be more of that. The Wyld Official said they could work on that. A-dom felt that the Circle could be able to help in the transportation of ostriches for sacrifices, for a small fee, of course.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Movement of the Wyld. That would be the physical displacement of the Wyld to a completely different place. Like, say, the middle of Atlantis.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth & Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>No! No. Bad A-dom.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Alright. Below Atlantis.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I have family there, thank you very much!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Below Atlantis?</em></p><p></p><p>The Wyld Official explained that the Wyld does not exist in physical location, it merely borders with it. So, they discussed the relocation of the borders on this particular island. The Official didn’t really want to, stating they had done a good job of not going willy nilly and expanding everywhere. Once the problem was explained, the Official didn’t feel the Wind Elemental really needed power, but agreed to consider moving if a suitable location was found.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Like, maybe, O-pec’s island? There is a lovely tomb there.</em></p><p></p><p>As Gareth once again told A-dom no, the Wyld Official’s eyes bugged out in terror. He adamantly refused to move to Opec’s island or go anywhere near him. After lots more discussion, A-dom suggested Highwatch. The Wyld Official readily agreed.</p><p></p><p>Outside, Tiger watched the cave as it stopped glowing. When he looked in, there was just a little, tiny cave there now. Completely normal looking. Tiger began subjugating the nearby mortals. He convinced them that if they worshipped the Unconquered Sun, he wouldn’t burn them anymore. If also told them that, if they spent more time outside, he’d stop burning them, because they’d get used to the sun. he did promise to slowly ween them off the darkness with rain.</p><p></p><p>When they got to the topic of Jahar, a small purse was brought out. A tongue popped out and it dropped Jahar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Why aren’t we on the staircase anymore? Oooh, shiny!</em> </p><p></p><p>Jahar seemed perfectly normal, so they let him wander over to the bookshelf to poke at books. The Official couldn’t read his own handwriting, so they had to figure out what the other points were.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Okay. There were a few more things on the agenda. We all agree that A-dom is a dick. Yup. No problem there. Umm, Turnips are great. Everyone on board there? Good.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Nope. Turnips bad.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Oh okay. There. Can you make note of that? Oh and, um, would you like a lemon drop?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Wyld Official:</strong> <em>Sure…</em></p><p></p><p>*Someone hands over a lemon drop*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Worship the Unconquered Sun.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> There. I believe we’re up to the questions and answers section. Good.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom asked if he could transport them back to the island or if anyone here could. The answer was no. Gareth asked how he could get A-dom and Jade’s luck to stop bickering. He had no idea and suggested godly intervention, other than locking them in a box together until they work it out on their own.</p><p></p><p>Back on the island, Tiger went outside and found Gareth’s boat. He moved the boat over to the abandoned village side of the island, then headed for the manse.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asked him who he was, to which he responded Aylee. He had no idea where Kiki was or who Kiki was. Luck warned him to keep things quiet or some dragon-bloods might show up to try shut him down. He said he had things nice and contained. Plus, he only let in people who wanted to be there.</p><p></p><p>Luck asked him if he knew where any doors to heaven were. He said he knew where 32 were. They narrowed the list to the closer ones.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> You know one where it opens up on the Unconquered Sun’s doorstep?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Aylee:</strong> <em> You know where the Imperial Manse is? There is a door right in there. Goes right where you want.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em> Yeah, but that’d be death to us, so we don’t want to go there. Is there one where we’d be slightly less likely to get slaughtered by dragon-bloods? Or death knights or whatnot?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Aylee:</strong> <em> There’s one in the Coral Archipelago. It’s in a bar. You have to be drinking whiskey to go through it. I don’t know which bar.</em></p><p></p><p>Chorus of ‘Bar hopping!’</p><p></p><p><strong>Aylee:</strong> <em>There is one on Nexia. It’s the closet in the Bodhisattva’s bedroom. He always keeps it closed. *sarcasm* wonder why. There is one in the cave in The Neck. I believe you need to be carrying a burning torch to walk through that one. There is one underwater in a temple in the Bay of Blood. You have to be bleeding to go through it. There is one on a fairly nameless island about halfway between the Bay of Blood and Abalone that is in the well. I don’t know if there is anything special about that one. And there is one in a little old lady’s house in Abalone. It’s right near the volcano, you can’t miss it. You could ask the little old lady if there is a special key for that one.</em></p><p></p><p>Aylee had no problem with A-dom being a necromancer. He said it was all how you used it. This seemed to annoy Jade’s luck. She felt that wasn’t right, since he gave her all these powers to zap undead, US must not like them and therefore A-dom shouldn’t be a necromancer.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Well, he’s given me many powers to heal, and yet he’s given the rest of you lots of abilities to hurt and squish.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> Ha!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Well, okay. Gareth has a point. </em>(points at A-dom) <em>You don’t</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>You think that, cause the Death Knight…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Lord.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yeah, Death Lord, gave this too me that there would be negative consequences?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Aylee:</strong> <em> Probably.</em></p><p></p><p>Aylee didn’t know what they would be. A-dom asked him how he was. Aylee said he was okay and that he had a nice tuna sandwich for lunch. Luck asked him about other Exalts. He told them about the Lunars. He said they liked hanging out in the Wyld and were friendly. But they weren’t friendly in general, since they tended to rip people’s heads off in general. When asked what they did in the before time, he said he didn’t even know what Solars did. He had heard of the other guys, but they pretty much just hung out in heaven. He didn’t know anything about them.</p><p></p><p>Gareth asked him if he had read any good books lately. He said yes. <em>How to Make Friends and Influence Mortals</em>. He agreed to let Gareth borrow it. He’d just have to leave it with security in the waiting room when he brought it back. A-dom asked if they had any more questions to ask. Aylee said they didn’t. He also said they couldn’t get their hand stamped to come back later.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Do you think my nether region will be cover in…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Aylee:</strong> (cuts A-dom off) <em>Indubitably. Avoid camels like the plague. The moment you get near them, you’re screwed.</em></p><p></p><p>They thanked him for his time and Gareth wished him a good century. Before they left, the Purse, Pursey, convinced Jade’s Luck to take it with him. It lashed out and swallowed Jahar again.</p><p></p><p><strong>Pursey:</strong> <em>He wasn’t paying attention.</em></p><p></p><p>At least he wouldn’t get left behind. When they exited the cave of tomorrow, they found themselves just outside of Highwatch. Looking around, A-dom decided he didn’t want to be seen. So, in front of Gareth and Jade’s Luck, his face fuzzed over. He faded out and a little old lady faded in (still wearing A-dom’s armor).</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (high pitched voice) <em>I’m a little old lady!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck felt this would be more believable if he covered up the armor. He did look a little odd wearing leather armor, but not as bad as if he was wearing Gareth’s.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (high pitched voice) <em>I’m rough! Grrrrrrrrrr!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck patronized him, as is par the course. The town looked pretty prosperous, since the group had left it alone for a while. Since they were two days walk from Atlantis, Jade’s Luck tried to figure out if she could afford a horse. She decided she couldn’t. Gareth could, but he didn’t want one (he tended to fall off of them). A-dom didn’t offer to steal her a horse, so they would walk.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck worried about returning to Atlantis because she felt Jahar’s family would approach them about Jahar’s whereabouts. Gareth said that he’d been around for a month and no one had approached him about that. Besides, they could then just produce Jahar and let him deal with it. A-dom didn’t want to go Atlantis, just because. He much preferred the idea of sailing back to the Manse island. Jade’s Luck thought this was a better idea once A-dom brought up having to explain how they got back not on a boat. They ignored Gareth’s comment about blaming the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>So. Gareth went into giving A-dom a shopping list of stuff he’d need to make a boat. He said he’d need a hammer, chisel, material for a sail, some tar (or some other sealant). A-dom made sure he was a little old lady no one would notice. He found bed sheets for a sail and honey for a sealant.</p><p></p><p>When A-dom returned and handed over the goods, Jade’s Luck snatched up the honey to eat. Gareth quickly took it back and hid it from her. It wouldn’t work as a sealant, but it would be tasty.</p><p></p><p>A-dom got the idea to just steal an entire boat. He knew a town about a day’s walk towards Atlantis that probably fished. So, they walked. Gareth wasn’t exactly for the stealing of an entire boat, but since he couldn’t crap tar, it’d have to do.</p><p></p><p>Once at the town, they found it had a small dock and four boats. A-dom took a look and pointed out the ship that was least likely to be missed, since it was in terrible condition. Gareth was okay with this. A-dom came up with a good idea for a charm he’d like to learn. It started with just replacing the object with a cardboard cutout so no one would notice and ended with an illusion double that would last for twelve hours or so. Since a little old lady walking into town and walking out carrying a boat wasn’t something someone looked for the first time around, A-dom made himself unlikely to be noticed and retrieved the boat, bring it inland to be repaired.</p><p></p><p>Gareth made the boat as functional as it would ever be. Once it was ready, A-dom ordered everyone in the boat. They quickly reworked <em>The Leaky Tub</em> into <em>The Less Leaky Tub of Doom</em>. Then A-dom carried the boat to the sea and they sailed off.</p><p></p><p>Back on the Manse island, Tiger retired to the Manse. The Air Elemental was all happy power was coming in. They celebrated by making it snow and sleet.</p><p></p><p>They stopped at Hoen-ba island to check things out and get tar. A-dom finally understood that Gareth had made a small fleet of ships back on the Manse island that all needed to be sealed. Everything was cool in the village. Everyone loved the shaman’s new hut. Everyone hangs out there Friday nights and other huts were trying to recreate the image (like the rock garden). There were no new followers at the temple. Jade’s Luck handed out candy to the three kids and gave them more candy to hand out to others. They followed their example in saying, <em>‘Worship the Unconquered Sun’</em> when they handed it out later. When Jade’s Luck wasn’t looking, Gareth handed the honey over to the kids.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>The Unconquered Sun loves you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Kids:</strong> (slightly mind controlled sounding drone)<em> Yes…</em></p><p></p><p>The Unconquered Sun is sweet. The Unconquered Sun gives you diabetes.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> (laughing) <em>You guys are the worst at running a religion ever.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Yes! We Win!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth made lots of barrels for tar. Jade’s Luck visited the shaman. She gave her a lemon drop, but didn’t follow up with the saying. She gave Luck a weird look. Luck asked if there were any ostriches around. Hoen-ba-ba-den didn’t know what one was, but got that it was an ugly bird. A-dom talked to her about not sacrificing goats, but strange birds instead.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, they sailed back to the Manse island. They found Gareth’s other boat was now parked closer to where the other boats were in dry dock. Gareth and A-dom carted the barrels of tar in to where the boats were and set Skelly up tarring them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck yelled for a monkey. When one monkey showed up, she sent it running off to tell Tiger they were back. About half an hour later, she realized that she should have told Tiger they were headed to the other village to check them out. So, she sent another monkey to tell Tiger to meet them there.</p><p></p><p>Ranger approached Tiger twice, relaying both messages. He also relayed that Luck tired out two ‘men’ sending those messages. One of the scouts led Tiger to the other village, since he’d just get lost on his own.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck realized that she should have made flying monkeys while she had access to the Wyld. Too late now. Close to the village, the two groups met up. Tiger relayed that the other town (Vancouver) was doing better now. They were living outside more. Some still didn’t like it, but they were doing better.</p><p></p><p>While they discussed how to approach the island, Gareth suggested just coming in with stuff to give and trade to them. You know, be nice and handing out presents. It worked for them before.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-dom went to scout the town (of London). It appeared to be a fairly normal town that lived in an area where it rained all the time. There were huts with lots and lots of awnings and overhangs. The people were walking outside the buildings a lot and they seemed to be much happier than the other village about recent events. They seemed to be enjoying the sun and its warmth (people lying down in the sun). They appeared to be fishers and hunter/gatherer types (no farms). There were a couple of caves used for growing mushrooms. No wacky mushrooms, though.</p><p></p><p>Gareth made some spoons, bowls, pitchforks, shovels, rakes, rope, torches, canoes, dreidal type tops with each side being a solar caste mark, little dolls with solar caste marks (at least one of each). </p><p></p><p>When Tiger and A-dom returned, they relaying info about the town. A-dom asked if the Circle should really be arming them and suggested leaving the pitchforks where they were. So, Gareth concentrated more on the rakes and shovels for compost heaps. A-dom suggested putting little sun signs on all of the stuff, which Gareth liked and did. Jade’s Luck came up with caste marks for the dolls. She then made a little song for the top. Gareth wished he could have made the dolls say something.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (squeaky voice) <em> ‘Worship the Unconquered Sun!’ ‘Bring A-dom dead bodies!’</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em> I was thinking the A-dom one could go ‘Would you like a zombie?’</em></p><p></p><p>He really didn’t like Jade’s Luck idea of putting spirits inside the dolls, but Tiger’s suggestion of magic might work. A-dom asked Gareth if he could make several extras for him. A-dom didn’t share his idea about sneaking into homes in Atlantis and planting the toys for children, so Gareth made him the toys.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck’s song sounded fine to the rest of the Circle, but they weren’t music critics. A-dom got the idea for Solar booze.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em> ‘Worship the Unconquered Sun! Get blitzed!’ ‘The Unconquered Sun wishes you to get <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />-faced!’</em></p><p></p><p>They went into town, handed out stuff, took credit for the rain backing off, and let on that Luck & Tiger now ‘ruled’ the island. They were generally well received. The kids liked the toys. They got applause for making the rain stop. The kids picked up on the dreidal song. The people traded Gareth fish and mushrooms for the rest of his stuff.</p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> *hands Bucky a cookie* <em>Worship the Unconquered Lori!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em> Yes sir!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom encouraged them to worship the Unconquered Sun. They thought that was a little odd, but said okay. A couple of people were interested and wanted to learn more. Gareth offered to build them a temple. They liked that. Jade’s Luck talked to them about what they’d pray for.</p><p></p><p><strong>Random Villager:</strong> <em> Rain is a sometimes thing!</em></p><p></p><p>After Gareth built them a temple, the Circle went back to the Manse. Jade’s Luck checked in on the Elementals. Things were pretty good. The Earth Elemental still wanted a bit more support for the island. So, they began talking out things with the Fire Elemental about making more pillars. They eventually settled on a tripod system of stability. This would need three volcanoes. They used the two existing volcanoes to start with. There was a little rumbling for a couple of days and then they were informed that had two pillars going down to the ocean floor near the center of the island. They had the sense to have A-dom and Gareth go and move the now tarred fleet to the ocean before having another created over where the abandoned town was. A-dom also cleared out anything of value (i.e. not nailed down) from the abandoned town onto the ships. They used Squishy and the Air Elemental to help keep all the flora and fauna safe from the ash and lava (thoroughly wetting down areas and blowing ash out to sea). They had Fire do his best not to go near the villagers, but he said to tell the people to run if necessary.</p><p></p><p>With all that taken care of, they quickly discussed their plans for what to do next. No one objected to going to Heaven for a quick trip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819356, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 01/02/06 session - “Surprisingly Productive Little Solars”[/b] [i]Synopsis of 01/02/06 session[/i] [size=5][b]“Surprisingly Productive Little Solars”[/b][/size] Gareth returned to the island after a trip to Atlantis on [i]The Grumpy Craftsman II[/i], a small vessel (about 20ft x 5ft) built for speed. He wasn’t sure where the others were, so he sailed around the island. He saw a big glowing pillar of light near a small village that he recognized as the casting of a spell. As he sailed up towards the docks, he saw the glowing figure and several others all run into a building. As he pulled up to the dock, he noticed a guy laying on it, unconscious. He clearly seemed to have been hit in the head with a rock. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]A-dom…[/i] He took a little bit to look around the village, just so something didn’t come back to bite him in the ass later. He found a sacrificed goat and it appeared a number of people had been praying by the goat. Then everyone went into a little tiny building, which was a little strange. He lazily summoned his armor and strolled over towards the building. Opening the doors, he found a long staircase going down and started descending. He then heard Jade’s Luck yell, “And Don’t Kill Them!” Whoever [i]them[/i] were, Gareth wasn’t going to kill them. He also heard clanging and yelling and other battle sounds coming from down below. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Ah. Clearly they’ve stopped arguing.[/i] Gareth didn’t bother summoning his sword as he made his way down the stairs. Tiger heard someone coming down the stairs, while A-dom showed he was far too perceptive (9 successes). [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Gareth’s coming![/i] By the time Gareth got down there, they had thoroughly whooped the mortals and were standing around. Then, a big, multi-prismatic tongue lashed out from the darkness, grabbed Jahar’s foot, and dragged him further into the cave. Reactions to this varied, with the most common one being the activation of Integrity Protecting Prana. Following after him was done when they got around to it. Gareth looked around to see a lot of people standing around, a lot of inferior weapons laying on the ground, and some people fishing others out of the waterfall. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]So, I take it these are the people we aren’t supposed to kill.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Yeah. We’re here to deal with the sun hating bastards and the Wyld they worship.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]They’re not bastards, they’re just misinformed. I’m sure of it.[/i] Gareth looked over the people and found a guy with a third eye on his neck. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You’re not supposed to have that.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (picks up a sword and heads for guy) [i]Right! I’m on it.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] (stern voice) [i]A-dom![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I’m not sure you should be removing parts of their throats. That generally leads to people dying.[/i] The guy rather liked his third eye, since it allowed him to look at woman without them noticing. When asked when he got it, he said it was when he went into the holy cave (which was the glowing cave over there). That was the first time a tongue had emerged from it, but they had seen an unarmored penguin before. They found out who the leader was and A-dom told him he’d better be nice to them, because they could make the rain come back, or make the sun shine more. The leader didn’t believe that the island belonged to the group, saying it belonged to the Rain God. The leader called down the power of the rain god to smite the Circle. It didn’t work. A-dom threatened him with a volcano. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I’m personal friends with the rain god.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]We call him Squishy.[/i] The leader guy was adamant that they didn’t worship the Wyld, just the Rain God. The eventually headed down the sacred cave. It was shiny like it was illuminated by an invisible light source. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Hello Mr. Sacred Cave.[/i] *[i]Sacred Cave emits a loud belch[/i]* [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I think the Sacred Cave just ate Jahar![/i] They walked past a sign that said [b]Welcome to the Sacred Cave[/b] and came to a saloon style door blocking their passage. Off to the side was a barracuda-bird sitting on a porch. Gareth offered it a fish, which is happily gobbled up. Jade’s Luck asked the fish where Jahar was, but it just shrugged. A-dom asked it if there was anything they should know before they went it, but it just shrugged. He thanked it and went on through the door. For some strange reason, the others just stood there watching. Once through, A-dom found the floor moved on the other side, guiding him down the cave. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Welcome welcome welcome to the Sacred Cave! The cave of tomorrow, showing you the world today! Everyone now worships the sun god![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Guys, come on in and check this out. There is a video and everything![/i] Gareth and Jade’s Luck followed. Tiger opted to stay behind, since he wasn’t protected from the Wyld. Silly git kept putting it off, thinking they wouldn’t have to deal with the Wyld again for a while. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Welcome welcome welcome to the Wonderful, Fabulous cave of tomorrow![/i] Images started flashing up on the wall of temples and shiny people in a field and happiness and A-dom on an undead centipede. Jade’s Luck then went on and on about blandishments. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]All blandishments will be outlawed![/i] Pictures of a gallows and people being hung. Jade’s Luck said that that wasn’t very nice and asked for another future. The pictures changed to show people being drowned. She demanded another different one, saying she didn’t want people to be killed at all. The picture changed to that of people being thrown into a giant, bottomless pit. A-dom told her to stop arguing with the Wyld. She went on again about blandishments. The tunnel ended in a large room with couches and chairs. A goat was sitting on the couch, smoking a cigar. The furniture didn’t look carnivorous. The goat was trying to get the sacrificing one goats stopped and promote the sacrifice of ostriches. He felt ostriches could be shipped around for this. A-dom thought there could be money in it. [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Ever met an ostrich? :):):):):):):)s, every one of them![/i] Jade’s Luck went on again about blandishments. This was starting to really annoy A-dom. It is times like this that Gareth likes that he has learned to mostly tune them out. The goat wanted to know what a blandishment was. They were no closer to figuring out why she kept going on about them once she defined them. A-dom asked the goat if he had any more cigars. He handed A-dom a cigar, which tasted like rutabagas. They found out there was a guy here that helped with stuff, like the stopping of the sacrificing of goats. The goat was very helpful and gave them the idea of going to heaven to talk to the Unconquered Sun. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You know, you’re supposed to light those.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Bleh! That’d taste like burnt rutabaga![/i] [b]Booming Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Now Serving Number 3082![/i] A squirrel came running out from underneath the couch and ran through a little door. A-dom stuck his hand underneath the couch and got stabbed. Looking underneath, he saw a dust bunny with a dagger. They argued. A-dom ended up getting another cigar from the goat and giving it to the dust bunny. Smoke started billowing out from underneath the couch. A-dom switched couches. When Jade’s Luck looked, there was a whole family of dust bunnies. Eventually, Jade’s Luck noticed a little ticket dispenser. The goat told her they were to go see the guy. They did find out that the tongue came out the door and brought back Jahar (a strange glowing guy screaming put me down). Above the door, it read ‘[b]No Admittance Until Number is Called[/b].' A-dom took a number (3,800,000) while Gareth walked through the door. Gareth went flying back, down the hallway, through the saloon doors, through a front window of a flower shop and landing on some flowers. Gareth bought some flowers from the little old lady. He then talked to Tiger for a while. In the room, A-dom dove behind a couch and found himself crouched over a sleeping mummy. He then made himself look like one of Jahar’s family members. When he emerged from behind the couch, Jade’s Luck confronted him. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Hey! What’d you do with A-dom?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]He’s napping.[/i] She found the mummy and proceeded to disturb him, thinking he was A-dom, having turned himself undead. A-dom tried to stop her. Like that was going to happen. When asked, A-dom said he was Z-dom. The mummy wasn’t amused with being woken up and was adamant that he was not A-dom. She demanded to know why Z-dom was wearing A-dom’s stuff. Gareth headed back down through the cave of tomorrow. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Welcome welcome welcome to the cave of tomorrow![/i] The announcer talked about the wonders and technologies and how much better things will be when the builders take over. The only true leaders are the ones who build things. Gareth got back to find Jade’s Luck beating on Z-dom. He wasn’t amused and tried to stop her by giving her a flower. Didn’t work. She wanted to beat up this guy whom she claimed said he killed A-dom (he never did). She clearly has some unresolved issues. Various creatures in the waiting room started moving away from those two. The announcer called the next number and a little frog ran through the door. A-dom went up and demanded the door open in the name of house Cynis (which is funny, because he was claming to be Jahar’s long lost brother, who is of House Sessus). A-dom took a trip down the hall and into the flower shop. A-dom paid for some squished flowers. Gareth offered the mummy a flower. The mummy wasn’t amused. [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]People used to be so civilized. Now they let anyone into the Wyld.[/i] On that note, A-dom re-entered looking like A-dom. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Welcome welcome welcome to the cave of tomorrow! When necromancers will take over the world! And worship the Unconquered Sun at the same time![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Hey guys. What’s going on?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]What happened to the guy who stole your armor?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]He’s back there.[/i] A-dom walked over to the mummy, pulled out his club, and started beating him. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Give me your number![/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]May the lice of a thousand camels rest in your loins![/i] Everyone who wasn’t A-dom backed away. A-dom just hit the mummy again. Gareth offered the dust bunnies a flower. The big one ate the flower and passed the leaves around. A-dom argued with the Mummy and hit him some more. [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]Don’t make me call security![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]They have security?[/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]Yeah.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Couple of big guys? [/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]Actually, they’re very small.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Give me your number. [/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]No![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I’ll give you mine. [/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]No! Your number sucks! You know how long I’ve been here?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]But you’re a mummy. You’ll never die. We will. Eventually.[/i] [b]Mummy:[/b] [i]This is why you should consider investing in mummification.[/i] The mummy was trying to encourage the practice of mummification and wanted more religions to incorporate it. A-dom just wanted to hit the guy and told the other two it’d go faster if they helped. Luck and Gareth both didn’t want to hit him. The Announcer called the next number and the mummy went in. Gareth tried to go in with the mummy, but got flung back to the flower shop. He complemented the little old lady on her flowers, then went to talk to Tiger. A-dom started yelling for security. A small field of maggots crawled into the room. They told A-dom was this close to being eaten from the inside out. A-dom collected tickets, then ripped one off so it read 3008. When the number was called, A-dom and Jade’s Luck headed for the door, faster than the dust bunnies. But, once inside the door, they waited for Gareth, watching the dust bunnies hop past. A few seconds later, Luck and A-dom ended up in the flower shop. They chatted with Gareth and Tiger for a while. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I could just take the whole ticket roll and throw it at the door. ‘The right number is in there somewhere, :):):):) head. Open up!’[/i] They tried to convince Tiger to come in with them, but for some reason he didn’t want to enter the Wyld. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Are you really that clueless without me?[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Yes! [/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I have an idea! It’s… Evil. But it’s an idea. I must be channeling A-dom.[/i] The three left Tiger behind and went back into the room. Looking around, only the goat was visible. Gareth brought his thumb and pointer fingers up so he was looking at the goat’s head through them, then pressed the fingers together. The goat’s head squished together flat. When Gareth separated his fingers again, the goat’s head regained its normal shape. [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Oww! Why’d you do that? That hurt a lot. Oww, my sinuses.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]What number did they just call?[/i] [b]Goat:[/b] [i]3012.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Aww :):):):)![/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]What number do YOU have?[/i] (pause) [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Uhh… You don’t need to know that.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Oh yes I do. [/i] [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Oh no. Not again.[/i] The goat held up two of his, um, fingers, in front of him to block Gareth’s fingers from closing. [b]Goat:[/b] [i]I can do this all day![/i] Gareth brought up his other hand and crushed the goat’s head horizontally instead of vertically. The goat tried to stop Gareth, but he could only block one direction at a time. The goat’s head reshaped into a square, and then a triangle. [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Oww! Stop! My sinuses![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (crazy bucky voice) [i]Give us your ticket and we’ll stop. Muwahaha![/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]What is your number? [/i] (pause) [b]Goat:[/b] (meekly) [i]Three thousand (pause) fifteen?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (crazy bucky voice) [i]Give it too us. It is ours now.[/i] [b]Goat:[/b] (meekly) [i]No.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (crazy bucky voice) [i]Then we’ll stop crushing your head.[/i] [b]Goat:[/b] (meekly) [i]Will you talk to him about stopping goat sacrificing?[/i] [b]Gareth & A-dom:[/b] [i]Yes. [/i] [b]Goat:[/b] [i]Do you have an Eclipse around? Bring him in here and sanctify this.[/i] Jade’s Luck ran out and grabbed Tiger. Somehow, she convinced him to come back with her. [b]Echoing Announcer Voice:[/b] [i]Welcome welcome to the future of tomorrow! Where your brain will be eaten by a thousand monsters.[/i] Only Tiger heard this and saw a thousand monsters trying to eat his brain. He managed to ignore it, though. Once in the room, Tiger grabbed a whole bunch of numbers before getting dragged over to the goat to sanctify the pact. Once sanctified, the goat handed over his ticket and Tiger ran back out of the cave. Once their number was called, the trio headed through the door. As it shut behind them, they found where they were to be a dark place. For all of two seconds. Then Gareth activated his caste mark. They were in a room above the waiting room, where they could look up and see the waiting room above them. A-dom fell down, because he wanted to. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]See! Things like this are why I wanted Tiger along. [/i] There were all sorts of knick-knacks and what not around the room. There was a small, grayish, ‘person’ with black oval eyes and no nose sitting in a chair. [b]Wyld Official:[/b] [i]Hello there! And what will we be discussing today?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] A couple of things. [/i] [b]Wyld Official:[/b] [i]Oh. I’ll make a list. Now, what are the orders if business?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] That would be goat sacrificing. Ostrich sacrificing. Movement of the Wyld. Ownership of the island. The stop sucking of our power.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Where our friend Jahar went when some multi-colored tongue snatched him.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Oh yeah. Jahar. That can be a footnote. Anything else? [/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Why toes are so great.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]What’s with all the blandishments?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Oh and artifacts all around. Anything else?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Why A-dom should not be allowed any more undead?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] No. I don’t like that one. Don’t put that one on the list.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]How about a quick Q&A at the end?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Sounds good.[/i] A-dom made sure it was noted that the goats were against the goat sacrifices and would like it to stop. Especially the goat out on the waiting room (Milo). It was stated Milo was in favor of the ostrich sacrificing. Apparently, no one sacrifices ostriches, which A-dom felt there should be more of that. The Wyld Official said they could work on that. A-dom felt that the Circle could be able to help in the transportation of ostriches for sacrifices, for a small fee, of course. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Movement of the Wyld. That would be the physical displacement of the Wyld to a completely different place. Like, say, the middle of Atlantis.[/i] [b]Gareth & Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]No! No. Bad A-dom.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Alright. Below Atlantis.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I have family there, thank you very much![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Below Atlantis?[/i] The Wyld Official explained that the Wyld does not exist in physical location, it merely borders with it. So, they discussed the relocation of the borders on this particular island. The Official didn’t really want to, stating they had done a good job of not going willy nilly and expanding everywhere. Once the problem was explained, the Official didn’t feel the Wind Elemental really needed power, but agreed to consider moving if a suitable location was found. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Like, maybe, O-pec’s island? There is a lovely tomb there.[/i] As Gareth once again told A-dom no, the Wyld Official’s eyes bugged out in terror. He adamantly refused to move to Opec’s island or go anywhere near him. After lots more discussion, A-dom suggested Highwatch. The Wyld Official readily agreed. Outside, Tiger watched the cave as it stopped glowing. When he looked in, there was just a little, tiny cave there now. Completely normal looking. Tiger began subjugating the nearby mortals. He convinced them that if they worshipped the Unconquered Sun, he wouldn’t burn them anymore. If also told them that, if they spent more time outside, he’d stop burning them, because they’d get used to the sun. he did promise to slowly ween them off the darkness with rain. When they got to the topic of Jahar, a small purse was brought out. A tongue popped out and it dropped Jahar. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Why aren’t we on the staircase anymore? Oooh, shiny![/i] Jahar seemed perfectly normal, so they let him wander over to the bookshelf to poke at books. The Official couldn’t read his own handwriting, so they had to figure out what the other points were. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Okay. There were a few more things on the agenda. We all agree that A-dom is a dick. Yup. No problem there. Umm, Turnips are great. Everyone on board there? Good.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Nope. Turnips bad.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Oh okay. There. Can you make note of that? Oh and, um, would you like a lemon drop?[/i] [b]Wyld Official:[/b] [i]Sure…[/i] *Someone hands over a lemon drop* [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Worship the Unconquered Sun.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] There. I believe we’re up to the questions and answers section. Good.[/i] A-dom asked if he could transport them back to the island or if anyone here could. The answer was no. Gareth asked how he could get A-dom and Jade’s luck to stop bickering. He had no idea and suggested godly intervention, other than locking them in a box together until they work it out on their own. Back on the island, Tiger went outside and found Gareth’s boat. He moved the boat over to the abandoned village side of the island, then headed for the manse. Jade’s Luck asked him who he was, to which he responded Aylee. He had no idea where Kiki was or who Kiki was. Luck warned him to keep things quiet or some dragon-bloods might show up to try shut him down. He said he had things nice and contained. Plus, he only let in people who wanted to be there. Luck asked him if he knew where any doors to heaven were. He said he knew where 32 were. They narrowed the list to the closer ones. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] You know one where it opens up on the Unconquered Sun’s doorstep?[/i] [b]Aylee:[/b] [i] You know where the Imperial Manse is? There is a door right in there. Goes right where you want.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i] Yeah, but that’d be death to us, so we don’t want to go there. Is there one where we’d be slightly less likely to get slaughtered by dragon-bloods? Or death knights or whatnot?[/i] [b]Aylee:[/b] [i] There’s one in the Coral Archipelago. It’s in a bar. You have to be drinking whiskey to go through it. I don’t know which bar.[/i] Chorus of ‘Bar hopping!’ [b]Aylee:[/b] [i]There is one on Nexia. It’s the closet in the Bodhisattva’s bedroom. He always keeps it closed. *sarcasm* wonder why. There is one in the cave in The Neck. I believe you need to be carrying a burning torch to walk through that one. There is one underwater in a temple in the Bay of Blood. You have to be bleeding to go through it. There is one on a fairly nameless island about halfway between the Bay of Blood and Abalone that is in the well. I don’t know if there is anything special about that one. And there is one in a little old lady’s house in Abalone. It’s right near the volcano, you can’t miss it. You could ask the little old lady if there is a special key for that one.[/i] Aylee had no problem with A-dom being a necromancer. He said it was all how you used it. This seemed to annoy Jade’s luck. She felt that wasn’t right, since he gave her all these powers to zap undead, US must not like them and therefore A-dom shouldn’t be a necromancer. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Well, he’s given me many powers to heal, and yet he’s given the rest of you lots of abilities to hurt and squish.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] Ha![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Well, okay. Gareth has a point. [/i](points at A-dom) [i]You don’t[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]You think that, cause the Death Knight…[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Lord.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yeah, Death Lord, gave this too me that there would be negative consequences?[/i] [b]Aylee:[/b] [i] Probably.[/i] Aylee didn’t know what they would be. A-dom asked him how he was. Aylee said he was okay and that he had a nice tuna sandwich for lunch. Luck asked him about other Exalts. He told them about the Lunars. He said they liked hanging out in the Wyld and were friendly. But they weren’t friendly in general, since they tended to rip people’s heads off in general. When asked what they did in the before time, he said he didn’t even know what Solars did. He had heard of the other guys, but they pretty much just hung out in heaven. He didn’t know anything about them. Gareth asked him if he had read any good books lately. He said yes. [i]How to Make Friends and Influence Mortals[/i]. He agreed to let Gareth borrow it. He’d just have to leave it with security in the waiting room when he brought it back. A-dom asked if they had any more questions to ask. Aylee said they didn’t. He also said they couldn’t get their hand stamped to come back later. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Do you think my nether region will be cover in…[/i] [b]Aylee:[/b] (cuts A-dom off) [i]Indubitably. Avoid camels like the plague. The moment you get near them, you’re screwed.[/i] They thanked him for his time and Gareth wished him a good century. Before they left, the Purse, Pursey, convinced Jade’s Luck to take it with him. It lashed out and swallowed Jahar again. [b]Pursey:[/b] [i]He wasn’t paying attention.[/i] At least he wouldn’t get left behind. When they exited the cave of tomorrow, they found themselves just outside of Highwatch. Looking around, A-dom decided he didn’t want to be seen. So, in front of Gareth and Jade’s Luck, his face fuzzed over. He faded out and a little old lady faded in (still wearing A-dom’s armor). [b]A-dom:[/b] (high pitched voice) [i]I’m a little old lady![/i] Jade’s Luck felt this would be more believable if he covered up the armor. He did look a little odd wearing leather armor, but not as bad as if he was wearing Gareth’s. [b]A-dom:[/b] (high pitched voice) [i]I’m rough! Grrrrrrrrrr![/i] Jade’s Luck patronized him, as is par the course. The town looked pretty prosperous, since the group had left it alone for a while. Since they were two days walk from Atlantis, Jade’s Luck tried to figure out if she could afford a horse. She decided she couldn’t. Gareth could, but he didn’t want one (he tended to fall off of them). A-dom didn’t offer to steal her a horse, so they would walk. Jade’s Luck worried about returning to Atlantis because she felt Jahar’s family would approach them about Jahar’s whereabouts. Gareth said that he’d been around for a month and no one had approached him about that. Besides, they could then just produce Jahar and let him deal with it. A-dom didn’t want to go Atlantis, just because. He much preferred the idea of sailing back to the Manse island. Jade’s Luck thought this was a better idea once A-dom brought up having to explain how they got back not on a boat. They ignored Gareth’s comment about blaming the Wyld. So. Gareth went into giving A-dom a shopping list of stuff he’d need to make a boat. He said he’d need a hammer, chisel, material for a sail, some tar (or some other sealant). A-dom made sure he was a little old lady no one would notice. He found bed sheets for a sail and honey for a sealant. When A-dom returned and handed over the goods, Jade’s Luck snatched up the honey to eat. Gareth quickly took it back and hid it from her. It wouldn’t work as a sealant, but it would be tasty. A-dom got the idea to just steal an entire boat. He knew a town about a day’s walk towards Atlantis that probably fished. So, they walked. Gareth wasn’t exactly for the stealing of an entire boat, but since he couldn’t crap tar, it’d have to do. Once at the town, they found it had a small dock and four boats. A-dom took a look and pointed out the ship that was least likely to be missed, since it was in terrible condition. Gareth was okay with this. A-dom came up with a good idea for a charm he’d like to learn. It started with just replacing the object with a cardboard cutout so no one would notice and ended with an illusion double that would last for twelve hours or so. Since a little old lady walking into town and walking out carrying a boat wasn’t something someone looked for the first time around, A-dom made himself unlikely to be noticed and retrieved the boat, bring it inland to be repaired. Gareth made the boat as functional as it would ever be. Once it was ready, A-dom ordered everyone in the boat. They quickly reworked [i]The Leaky Tub[/i] into [i]The Less Leaky Tub of Doom[/i]. Then A-dom carried the boat to the sea and they sailed off. Back on the Manse island, Tiger retired to the Manse. The Air Elemental was all happy power was coming in. They celebrated by making it snow and sleet. They stopped at Hoen-ba island to check things out and get tar. A-dom finally understood that Gareth had made a small fleet of ships back on the Manse island that all needed to be sealed. Everything was cool in the village. Everyone loved the shaman’s new hut. Everyone hangs out there Friday nights and other huts were trying to recreate the image (like the rock garden). There were no new followers at the temple. Jade’s Luck handed out candy to the three kids and gave them more candy to hand out to others. They followed their example in saying, [i]‘Worship the Unconquered Sun’[/i] when they handed it out later. When Jade’s Luck wasn’t looking, Gareth handed the honey over to the kids. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]The Unconquered Sun loves you.[/i] [b]Kids:[/b] (slightly mind controlled sounding drone)[i] Yes…[/i] The Unconquered Sun is sweet. The Unconquered Sun gives you diabetes. [b]Paul:[/b] (laughing) [i]You guys are the worst at running a religion ever.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Yes! We Win![/i] Gareth made lots of barrels for tar. Jade’s Luck visited the shaman. She gave her a lemon drop, but didn’t follow up with the saying. She gave Luck a weird look. Luck asked if there were any ostriches around. Hoen-ba-ba-den didn’t know what one was, but got that it was an ugly bird. A-dom talked to her about not sacrificing goats, but strange birds instead. Eventually, they sailed back to the Manse island. They found Gareth’s other boat was now parked closer to where the other boats were in dry dock. Gareth and A-dom carted the barrels of tar in to where the boats were and set Skelly up tarring them. Jade’s Luck yelled for a monkey. When one monkey showed up, she sent it running off to tell Tiger they were back. About half an hour later, she realized that she should have told Tiger they were headed to the other village to check them out. So, she sent another monkey to tell Tiger to meet them there. Ranger approached Tiger twice, relaying both messages. He also relayed that Luck tired out two ‘men’ sending those messages. One of the scouts led Tiger to the other village, since he’d just get lost on his own. Jade’s Luck realized that she should have made flying monkeys while she had access to the Wyld. Too late now. Close to the village, the two groups met up. Tiger relayed that the other town (Vancouver) was doing better now. They were living outside more. Some still didn’t like it, but they were doing better. While they discussed how to approach the island, Gareth suggested just coming in with stuff to give and trade to them. You know, be nice and handing out presents. It worked for them before. Tiger and A-dom went to scout the town (of London). It appeared to be a fairly normal town that lived in an area where it rained all the time. There were huts with lots and lots of awnings and overhangs. The people were walking outside the buildings a lot and they seemed to be much happier than the other village about recent events. They seemed to be enjoying the sun and its warmth (people lying down in the sun). They appeared to be fishers and hunter/gatherer types (no farms). There were a couple of caves used for growing mushrooms. No wacky mushrooms, though. Gareth made some spoons, bowls, pitchforks, shovels, rakes, rope, torches, canoes, dreidal type tops with each side being a solar caste mark, little dolls with solar caste marks (at least one of each). When Tiger and A-dom returned, they relaying info about the town. A-dom asked if the Circle should really be arming them and suggested leaving the pitchforks where they were. So, Gareth concentrated more on the rakes and shovels for compost heaps. A-dom suggested putting little sun signs on all of the stuff, which Gareth liked and did. Jade’s Luck came up with caste marks for the dolls. She then made a little song for the top. Gareth wished he could have made the dolls say something. [b]A-dom:[/b] (squeaky voice) [i] ‘Worship the Unconquered Sun!’ ‘Bring A-dom dead bodies!’[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i] I was thinking the A-dom one could go ‘Would you like a zombie?’[/i] He really didn’t like Jade’s Luck idea of putting spirits inside the dolls, but Tiger’s suggestion of magic might work. A-dom asked Gareth if he could make several extras for him. A-dom didn’t share his idea about sneaking into homes in Atlantis and planting the toys for children, so Gareth made him the toys. Jade’s Luck’s song sounded fine to the rest of the Circle, but they weren’t music critics. A-dom got the idea for Solar booze. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i] ‘Worship the Unconquered Sun! Get blitzed!’ ‘The Unconquered Sun wishes you to get :):):):)-faced!’[/i] They went into town, handed out stuff, took credit for the rain backing off, and let on that Luck & Tiger now ‘ruled’ the island. They were generally well received. The kids liked the toys. They got applause for making the rain stop. The kids picked up on the dreidal song. The people traded Gareth fish and mushrooms for the rest of his stuff. [b]Alex:[/b] *hands Bucky a cookie* [i]Worship the Unconquered Lori![/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i] Yes sir![/i] A-dom encouraged them to worship the Unconquered Sun. They thought that was a little odd, but said okay. A couple of people were interested and wanted to learn more. Gareth offered to build them a temple. They liked that. Jade’s Luck talked to them about what they’d pray for. [b]Random Villager:[/b] [i] Rain is a sometimes thing![/i] After Gareth built them a temple, the Circle went back to the Manse. Jade’s Luck checked in on the Elementals. Things were pretty good. The Earth Elemental still wanted a bit more support for the island. So, they began talking out things with the Fire Elemental about making more pillars. They eventually settled on a tripod system of stability. This would need three volcanoes. They used the two existing volcanoes to start with. There was a little rumbling for a couple of days and then they were informed that had two pillars going down to the ocean floor near the center of the island. They had the sense to have A-dom and Gareth go and move the now tarred fleet to the ocean before having another created over where the abandoned town was. A-dom also cleared out anything of value (i.e. not nailed down) from the abandoned town onto the ships. They used Squishy and the Air Elemental to help keep all the flora and fauna safe from the ash and lava (thoroughly wetting down areas and blowing ash out to sea). They had Fire do his best not to go near the villagers, but he said to tell the people to run if necessary. With all that taken care of, they quickly discussed their plans for what to do next. No one objected to going to Heaven for a quick trip. [/QUOTE]
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