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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819433" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis for 3/20/06 session - "We can make any day seem like Calibration!"</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis for 3/20/06 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"We can make any day seem like Calibration!"</strong></span></p><p><strong>by Alwaystoast</strong></p><p></p><p>The group decided to sail back to Atlantis, and along the way try to collect the assorted thing Jahar (with the help of Opec) has decided he will need to repair the Artifact that is in the Elemental Manse.</p><p></p><p>Jahar, being Jahar, decided to write the list of things he will need down (in a different order and wording than the very specific list of required items). Then he gave the list to A-Dom. A-Dom gave the list to Gareth. Gareth decided that nobody else should see that list. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom, Gareth and Jahar began discussing a number of things on the list, and A-Dom pointed out that most of them could be covered by the corpse of one little old lady. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>The energy of what we use will go into the ritual. We really don’t want any ancient old lady themed teleportation devices.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth of course sets course for Atlantis in the most straight course possible. Which basically means they will not see land again until they reach Atlantis. Nothing like several thousands miles of open ocean to make the trip seem fun. So the crew plans accordingly and adds additional barrels of water to the stores. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom decides after about a week at sea, that the crew needs to be introduced to Skelly (and vice versa). So at noontime, A-dom brings Skelly’s bucket up onto deck, and gets everyone is on deck at the time.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>We’re perfectly normal. Everyone knows this.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Crew & Pirate Crew:</strong> <em>Yes</em> :thumbup: (much nodding and agreement)</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Very good. Alright... Now there is a part of this that you don’t know yet.</em></p><p></p><p>The crew starts looking nervous.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Don’t freak out.</em> (Very authoritative) <em>I have a Skeleton.</em> </p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Umm... we all have skeletons. </em></p><p></p><p>Crew begings agreeing with the logic of Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Do you mean, like, in a closet?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>In a bucket. He has a hat.</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom takes the lid off the bucket and Skelly stands up and waves to everyone with his hat. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>This is Skelly, he helps me do things. It’s Ok.</em> (pause) <em>He’s not evil.</em> (Long pause) <em>My God said I could. </em></p><p></p><p>Gareth starts laughing. </p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>I believe his god said “I have bigger things to worry about right now.”</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Yea, well he’s not thrilled with the idea, but he’s got other problems. So I’m allowed to zap it if it gets out of line.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Not Skelly!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar comes out onto the deck, in front of the entire crew. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>A-Dom! Oh, Hi Skelly.</em> (Pause, then addressing A-Dom) <em>How do you make a ghost bleed?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I can make a ghost fry!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> (after a botch int + occult roll): <em>You stab ‘em! Lets kill some people and find out.</em> (Back to addressing the Crew) <em>Anyway, if you see an Undead trying to attack you, let us know. My undead will not try to attack you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>And if you see any other undead, you totally have my permission to run away.</em></p><p></p><p>A few days later at around noon, A-Dom is on deck, just looking around, kind of boared, when he looks over the side of the ship. He sees the shadow of the ship, and deep under water he sees there is something very large swimming under the ship, with flippers. It looks somewhat familiar to him. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>GARETH <u>STOP</u> THE BOAT!!!</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone looks at A-Dom like he is crazy.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You want me to drop anchor?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (panic in his voice): <em>No! No... NO! Umm...</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom points over the side of the ship. Gareth looks over the side of the ship and, being good old one-eyed Gareth, doesn’t see anything unusual. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> (still pointing under the ship) <em>The thing... pushing... pirate boat. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I don’t see anything.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Do something!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Like what?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Skelly! Skelly! There’s a thing under the boat...</em></p><p></p><p>Skelly wanders off. The first person he runs into is Jahar, who is sitting on deck reading. Skelly starts poking jahar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (looks up): <em>Can’t you see I’m reading?</em></p><p></p><p>Skelly looks as stupified as it is possible for a skeleton to look. Then he starts pointing down. Which appears to Jahar as though he is pointing at the boat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Awfully odd behavior for a skeleton.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar walks over to where Skelly is standing and looks down at a rather normal looking deck plank. Skelly gives up and runs off to find someone else. Jahar then looks over the side of the ship, sees nothing, and goes back to reading his book. Skelly finds Jade’s Luck, makes like he will poke her, thinks better of it when she looks at him, then starts pointing down. Jade’s Luck assumes this means A-Dom needs to talk to her.</p><p></p><p>Gareth wanders off to tell Ceri.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (talking to Jade's Luck): <em>Remember when we met you and the thing that was pulling the boat?</em> (A-Dom points down)</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Right, why don’t we tell everybody?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (very irritated high pitched voice): <em>That’s what I’m doing!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong> (yelling across the deck): <em>Jahar, Tiger! You know the pushing creature from the pirate boat?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Yea?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>It’s beneath us. A-Dom SAW it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>A-Dom why the hell did you send Skelly to tell me?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (to skelly): <em>Skelly went to Jahar? Good Skelly! Good Boy!</em> (A-dom scratches Skelly’s skull near the ear hole).</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Gareth can you maneuver so we are not directly above it? So you know, it doesn’t capsize us?</em> (Pause, then yelling) <em>Ceri, Ceri! There a...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>Yea, he told me... in a really long winded way. It would have been better if...</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom feels the ship drop ever so slightly, as A-dom gets the impression the sea demon just dived to get read to attack the ship from below. </p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>It’s directly beneath us?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>That’s the impression I got.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>We’re under attack!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to the crew): <em>Evasive action now!</em> (Pause) <em>A-Dom, we might need you to push, quick. </em></p><p></p><p>Gareth looks at the back of the boat. A-Dom looks at him horrifed.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Un-un, I’m not getting in there.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Jahar butterfly... <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=":)" /> that will hurt my boat. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I’m not going to destroy the boat.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>You are destined to destroy the boat. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Can we put him in a dingy?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>We don’t have that much time.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth, yelling orders at the crew, barely manages to get the ship to dodge to the left as the giant sea demon launches itself out of the water (having missed the ship). As the sea demon tries to flop back down onto the ship, Gareth manages to steer the ship to the right, under the sea demon while it’s in the air, saving the ship from all harm.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunatly, upon seeing the giant sea demon flying overhead, half of the pirate crew went running below decks. Half of the normal crew, completely panicked and abandoned ship. The rest of both crews stayed at their posts. </p><p></p><p>A number of the circle attack the sea demon while it’s on the surface. But they mostly irritated it, before it dove back down into the water. A-Dom, who was well off the ship, decided to Monkey Leap back onto the ship. Unfortunately, he couldn’t jump off the water. So he used one of the panicked sailors as a stepping stone. </p><p></p><p>The sea demon does another dive and attack pattern, and this time Gareth fails to get the ship out of the way. So the sea demon hits the ship dead center and launches it out of the water and about 50 feet into the air. This caused “bad things” to happen to the ship when it hit the water again, at a less then ideal angle. </p><p></p><p>Eventually Jade’s Luck managed to hit the sea demon with her anima power, causing it aggravated damage, with her demon scaring anima power up. So the demon fled deep into the ocean. Around three crew members were in fact eaten by the demon during the combat.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then went to go survey the damage of the ship. He finds that the keel is seriously shattered in one place, and there is water slowly seeping into the boat (as Gareth’s boat is terrifying well built). Skelly and some of the pirate crew started to bail.</p><p></p><p>Jahar and A-Dom start discussing whether or not they should be animating the remains of the half eaten crew members. Jade’s Luck turns them to ash so they are “properly buried” instead. </p><p></p><p>Gareth then realizes that a number of the water barrels either lost some of their content or were smashed entirely when they went flying through the air. So, water rationing for the Exalted people on the ship started so that the mortals would have water.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck lead a “Thank the Unconquered Sun prayer session” for the crew after the demon was gone. </p><p></p><p>So, the group decides that the best way to find fresh water in the middle of the ocean, is to send Ceri off in raven form to fly around looking for water. After a week of flying around every day, Ceri finds a very small island with a fresh water spring on it. </p><p></p><p>The island was fairly barren, with some driftwood and small plants on it. It would take about two days to sail to it.</p><p></p><p>On the way there, Jahar started looking for spirits. Unfortunately, he decided to only look ahead of the ship, so he failed to notice the angry wind spirit sneaking up behind the ship. The angry wind spirit started to form a tornado around the boat. Most people noticed there was a strange wind. Gareth noticed that the wind was acting very odd, and that probably meant that there was an angry wind spirit around. Gareth then announced this to the group (and crew). </p><p></p><p>Unfortunatly there was no livestock in the cargo to sacrifice.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Maybe we should sacrifice a pirate.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Don’t make me beat you. I have obligations to the pirate.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar Summons a hound of wind and earth, and tells it to “Go get big Fish.” </p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Oh great wind spirit, what have we done to anger you? </em></p><p></p><p>The ship begins to spin around, as the wind starts to whip into a tornado. The group can hear the word “Respect...” in the howl of the wind. Everyone starts getting nauseated by the spinning.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Everybody start praying! NOW!</em></p><p></p><p>So the group and the crew all begin praying to the “Great Wind Spirit” as best they could. Everyone continues to pray as the boat begins spinning faster, and faster. Jahar starts leading the group in organized prayer. The ship eventually stops spinning and Jahar and Jade’s Luck can see the less angry wind spirit wander off. Jahar continues to lead the crew in prayer to make sure it doesn’t come back anytime soon. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I didn’t hear the Unconquered Sun say anything about polytheism being bad.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Thank the Unconquered Sun for letting us know how to pray to other spirits!</em></p><p></p><p>There is some more damage to the cargo, and the water supply. Luckily the group is getting closer. </p><p></p><p>Once the ship arrived, which was several days later. Everyone goes to have a drink at the spring.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We should filter this water somehow.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Why?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>So it won’t make us go blind!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>How would fresh water make us go blind?</em> (Pause, then very slowly to Jahar) <em>This water is fresh water, it won’t make you go blind. It’s perfectly fine to drink. </em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom held up the ship while Gareth made the best repairs he could with the materials he had (meaning he took apart some other parts of the ship to reinforce the keel). Ceri also demonstrated she could repair the water barrels with sorcery. Which actually required less material then if Gareth were to fix them.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the group searches around the island. A-dom and Tiger find a plaque. When Gareth is shown the plaque he has a Past Lives memory of being on the island with Wretch. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s luck:</strong> <em>Is this something else that’s Gareth’s fault?</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A-Dom decides to walk into the ocean and find some coral. Unfortunatly he relizes that he island is a vertical pilar that rises strait from the ocean floor.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (to Gareth): <em><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=":)" />ing eh. Where did you learn to build an island?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I don’t have that skill yet.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>It’s like tall and round.</em> (Pause) <em>I don’t know what to do with this.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I take it there is no coral?</em> (Pause, then to Gareth) <em>Did you like build anti-coral defenses into your islands?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>We should put up like a sign or something. Water here!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Let me see this plaque you mentioned. </em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom runs over to the stone plaque and tries to tear it out of the ground.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Don’t remove it!</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom is actually shocked to discover that he can not lift the plaque. So he starts activating more strength charms, then thinks better of it.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (kind of sad): <em>I don’t want to sink the island.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Think of that like a wine cork. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to A-Dom): <em>I have a feeling you set that in place, that’s why it’s so hard.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>I’m stronger than Me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I don’t think you’re stronger then you were. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>We need to get stronger than we were, then we can go back in time and kick our own asses. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (very excited): <em>We can do that!?!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Maybe...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> (cackling like a mad man) <em>Time travel...</em> (more cackling)</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (pointing at something invisible): <em>You see that? That’s time. We go this way in time.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>No we go that way</em> (pointing in the oposite direction from Jahar) <em>down time!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Don’t mess with it.</em> (Jahar starts babbling about how bad an idea time travel is. Everyone ignores him.)</p><p></p><p>Inside A-Dom’s Head, he hears the angry voice of the <strong>Unconquered Sun:</strong> <em>No time travel!</em> (Pause) <em>Backwards!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (all excited): <em>Hey... HEY! I just heard from the Unconquered Sun.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Really? What did he say?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>He said, No Time Travel.</em> (Pause) <em>But hey, I know I really pissed him off.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar is still babbling about how bad an idea time travel is.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (to Jahar): <em>You can keep talking, but I’m not going to do it now.</em> (Pause) <em>All hail the Unconquered Sun what told me “No Time Travel.” </em></p><p></p><p>Jahar goes over and reads the plaque. He then has a past life memory of being here with Wretch. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (to A-Dom): <em>You wrote this.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>He use to be a little girl!</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom tries to dig around the plaque. He finds stone (actually Granite), and more stone, and more stone, and then he finds some very large stone hinges. </p><p> </p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>I found Hinges.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Don’t break anything!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>I’m digging in the sand, woman. I haven’t broken anything.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (pointing at something else that is invisible): <em>Whatever you do, don’t mess that up.</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom realizes that the reason he couldn’t lift the plaque was that it is basically the handle to the trap door, and he was standing on the trap door. A-Dom finally opens it. The Trap door is three feet wide, three feet long, and three feet thick, and made of Granite (slitly curved on one side so it can be opened on the hinges). Everyone looks down and see a dark shaft going strait down into the ground. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Wheeee!</em> (As he jumps into the shaft)</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, A-Dom didn’t open the trap door all the way, just enough for him to get inside. So the trap door began to close again. Tiger gets in and starts crawling down the shaft. Jade’s Luck gets in and starts climbing down the shaft. Jahar tries to climb down the shaft... but has a serious lack of Athletics. So he begins his unplanned face first plummet down the shaft. Tiger and Jade’s Luck both managed to dodge out of the way of the falling Jahar. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (as plummeting past): <em>You made it look so easy!</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom decided to catch Jahar at the bottom, and actually managed to do so without letting Jahar get hurt. </p><p></p><p>Gareth and Ceri just watched the trap door close. </p><p></p><p>Looking around, the group found themselves in small room. There was writing on the walls. Jade’s Luck reads it out loud so A-Dom would understand.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The group immediately decides to look around for a tomb to rob. They eventually find a circular stone fitted into a hole, which appeared to be the seal on the tomb. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>This better not be a plug...</em></p><p></p><p>The group eventually decided that it was probably a vertical storage tomb, as the island was rather vertical to begin with. So A-Dom decides to “whip off” the lid. Which is much harder then he thought, as it turned out that the “lid” was screwed into the hole, and was several feet thick. So A-Dom started unscrewing it as fast as he could with his super strength (which was still pretty slow). </p><p></p><p>As A-Dom was unscrewing it, he started hearing noises. *click.* Click.* CLICK.* A-Dom and Tiger realized that some traps may have just been armed. The entire group then began to hear a grinding noise.</p><p></p><p>Gareth and Ceri then realized that the island was sinking.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>Get the sailors back on the boat.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Everyone! Back on the boat! NOW!</em></p><p></p><p>The group in the tomb, simultaneously realized the ceiling was starting to lower down onto them.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to Ceri): <em>Ok, open it up.</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri tries to open it, but a cloud of green gas poofs out at her. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>I’m going to try to get this open.</em> (Looking at the lowering ceiling) <em>If you have any better suggestions Tiger...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>We could disarm it first!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (mildly shocked): <em>Oh.</em> (Pause) <em>Ok.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar and Jade’s Luck, went to stand under the large shaft, so they wouldn’t be crushed by the ceiling. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Tiger figure out that every time there is a *click* a caste mark symbol pops out somewhere in the room, and it has to be touched, very quickly. Unfortunatly, they have failed to do this three times already. </p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Uh, oh, there aren’t many castes left...</em></p><p></p><p>So they did this for the last two (Night and Eclipse symbols). Then A-Dom tried to lift the cap. Unfortunately, he found it to be... VERY heavy. Eventually with the help of Tiger and Jade’s Luck, they managed to inch it out of the way. </p><p></p><p>Then A-Dom stuck his head into the tomb shaft, and began disabling traps. He disabled the poison gas trap (the one that already fired). He then got out of the way so Tiger could try. Tiger disabled the sinking island/crushing room trap. Then everything was... OK. </p><p></p><p>At the bottom of the tomb was ash. But it wasn’t just a pile, the ash was shaped like skull eyes, nose, and teeth. As well as a little rolled up piece of paper. A-Dom grabbed the paper. He then tried to read it (it was in old realm, so A-Dom was the only one who couldn’t read it), while everyone else tried to read it over his shoulder. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Ok, lets get out of here if we can...</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom and friends put the cap back into place, and screws it back down. A-Dom got the impression that the traps were re-arming. While he was doing this, Gareth heard a sliding/grinding noise from the trap door. Ceri, Gareth, and Tiger manage to get the trap door opened up all the way. Everyone climbed out... except Jahar who flew out as a flock of birds. </p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (upon seeing the note):<em> Oh crap, I made that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Of course you did.</em> (Happy voice) <em>I made the island! Do you remember the password?</em></p><p></p><p>After some trial and error and past live rolls, the group figures out that Wretch’s 'magic words' were “Give Me Stuff” in old realm. A-Dom wraps the paper around The Ugly Stick and *shaboigan* his club became much, much larger, and had more orchalum spikes sticking out of it. A-Dom just starts swinging it around.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Now, you can make that go away, right?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (confused): <em>Why?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Like I can make my sword go away.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>We are going to Dragon Blood Central remember.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (maniacal voice and giggling): <em>Ooo, hoo, hoo, That’s right...</em> (starts making like he’s smashing Dragon Bloods with his club.) <em>I can make them go away...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We’re talking about your club, not the Dragon Bloods.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Remember what they were saying about being discrete? You know, what they normally say right before becoming all shinny?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Can I play with my new toy and NOT get a lecture?</em>:barb: </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, the group then realized that the island didn’t raise back up (although it was not sinking anymore). As they were all standing knee deep in water (although there was no water flooding into the tomb hole, it appeared to be magically held back). They could also see the fresh spring bubbling up... into the salt water. So they closed the trap door on the tomb.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Now it’s a “hidden island.”</em> (Long long pause.) <em>I’m totally going to bury myself here... again. </em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Assorted quotes that were made at the game:</p><p></p><p><strong>Dan:</strong> <em>We need a larceny charm that can steal the salt out of the water...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>If you can’t torture your undead minions who can you torture?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom:</strong> <em>Thank the Unconquered Sun for the warmth that is killing us slowly. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>It’s like we are the itty bitty mom & pop store trying to compete against Walmart. We need to <strong>blow up</strong> Walmart. </em></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>Welcome to the Daniel School of Analogies. </em>(Daniel the character in Firefly not the player)</p><p><strong>Dan:</strong> <em>No that actually makes sense. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>That would be awesome if I was our arch nemesis! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>This is totally something he</em> (A-Dom) <em>would make.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819433, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis for 3/20/06 session - "We can make any day seem like Calibration!"[/b] [i]Synopsis for 3/20/06 session[/i] [size=5][b]"We can make any day seem like Calibration!"[/b][/size] [b]by Alwaystoast[/b] The group decided to sail back to Atlantis, and along the way try to collect the assorted thing Jahar (with the help of Opec) has decided he will need to repair the Artifact that is in the Elemental Manse. Jahar, being Jahar, decided to write the list of things he will need down (in a different order and wording than the very specific list of required items). Then he gave the list to A-Dom. A-Dom gave the list to Gareth. Gareth decided that nobody else should see that list. A-Dom, Gareth and Jahar began discussing a number of things on the list, and A-Dom pointed out that most of them could be covered by the corpse of one little old lady. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]The energy of what we use will go into the ritual. We really don’t want any ancient old lady themed teleportation devices.[/i] Gareth of course sets course for Atlantis in the most straight course possible. Which basically means they will not see land again until they reach Atlantis. Nothing like several thousands miles of open ocean to make the trip seem fun. So the crew plans accordingly and adds additional barrels of water to the stores. A-Dom decides after about a week at sea, that the crew needs to be introduced to Skelly (and vice versa). So at noontime, A-dom brings Skelly’s bucket up onto deck, and gets everyone is on deck at the time. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]We’re perfectly normal. Everyone knows this.[/i] [b]Crew & Pirate Crew:[/b] [i]Yes[/i] :thumbup: (much nodding and agreement) [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Very good. Alright... Now there is a part of this that you don’t know yet.[/i] The crew starts looking nervous. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Don’t freak out.[/i] (Very authoritative) [i]I have a Skeleton.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Umm... we all have skeletons. [/i] Crew begings agreeing with the logic of Jade’s Luck. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Do you mean, like, in a closet?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]In a bucket. He has a hat.[/i] A-Dom takes the lid off the bucket and Skelly stands up and waves to everyone with his hat. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]This is Skelly, he helps me do things. It’s Ok.[/i] (pause) [i]He’s not evil.[/i] (Long pause) [i]My God said I could. [/i] Gareth starts laughing. [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]I believe his god said “I have bigger things to worry about right now.”[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Yea, well he’s not thrilled with the idea, but he’s got other problems. So I’m allowed to zap it if it gets out of line.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Not Skelly![/i] Jahar comes out onto the deck, in front of the entire crew. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]A-Dom! Oh, Hi Skelly.[/i] (Pause, then addressing A-Dom) [i]How do you make a ghost bleed?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I can make a ghost fry![/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] (after a botch int + occult roll): [i]You stab ‘em! Lets kill some people and find out.[/i] (Back to addressing the Crew) [i]Anyway, if you see an Undead trying to attack you, let us know. My undead will not try to attack you.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]And if you see any other undead, you totally have my permission to run away.[/i] A few days later at around noon, A-Dom is on deck, just looking around, kind of boared, when he looks over the side of the ship. He sees the shadow of the ship, and deep under water he sees there is something very large swimming under the ship, with flippers. It looks somewhat familiar to him. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]GARETH [u]STOP[/u] THE BOAT!!![/i] Everyone looks at A-Dom like he is crazy. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You want me to drop anchor?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (panic in his voice): [i]No! No... NO! Umm...[/i] A-Dom points over the side of the ship. Gareth looks over the side of the ship and, being good old one-eyed Gareth, doesn’t see anything unusual. [b]A-Dom:[/b] (still pointing under the ship) [i]The thing... pushing... pirate boat. [/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I don’t see anything.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Do something![/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Like what?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Skelly! Skelly! There’s a thing under the boat...[/i] Skelly wanders off. The first person he runs into is Jahar, who is sitting on deck reading. Skelly starts poking jahar. [b]Jahar[/b] (looks up): [i]Can’t you see I’m reading?[/i] Skelly looks as stupified as it is possible for a skeleton to look. Then he starts pointing down. Which appears to Jahar as though he is pointing at the boat. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Awfully odd behavior for a skeleton.[/i] Jahar walks over to where Skelly is standing and looks down at a rather normal looking deck plank. Skelly gives up and runs off to find someone else. Jahar then looks over the side of the ship, sees nothing, and goes back to reading his book. Skelly finds Jade’s Luck, makes like he will poke her, thinks better of it when she looks at him, then starts pointing down. Jade’s Luck assumes this means A-Dom needs to talk to her. Gareth wanders off to tell Ceri. [b]A-dom:[/b] (talking to Jade's Luck): [i]Remember when we met you and the thing that was pulling the boat?[/i] (A-Dom points down) [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Right, why don’t we tell everybody?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (very irritated high pitched voice): [i]That’s what I’m doing![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b] (yelling across the deck): [i]Jahar, Tiger! You know the pushing creature from the pirate boat?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Yea?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]It’s beneath us. A-Dom SAW it.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]A-Dom why the hell did you send Skelly to tell me?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (to skelly): [i]Skelly went to Jahar? Good Skelly! Good Boy![/i] (A-dom scratches Skelly’s skull near the ear hole). [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Gareth can you maneuver so we are not directly above it? So you know, it doesn’t capsize us?[/i] (Pause, then yelling) [i]Ceri, Ceri! There a...[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]Yea, he told me... in a really long winded way. It would have been better if...[/i] A-Dom feels the ship drop ever so slightly, as A-dom gets the impression the sea demon just dived to get read to attack the ship from below. [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]It’s directly beneath us?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]That’s the impression I got.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]We’re under attack![/i] [b]Gareth[/b] (to the crew): [i]Evasive action now![/i] (Pause) [i]A-Dom, we might need you to push, quick. [/i] Gareth looks at the back of the boat. A-Dom looks at him horrifed. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Un-un, I’m not getting in there.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Jahar butterfly... :):):):) that will hurt my boat. [/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I’m not going to destroy the boat.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]You are destined to destroy the boat. [/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Can we put him in a dingy?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]We don’t have that much time.[/i] Gareth, yelling orders at the crew, barely manages to get the ship to dodge to the left as the giant sea demon launches itself out of the water (having missed the ship). As the sea demon tries to flop back down onto the ship, Gareth manages to steer the ship to the right, under the sea demon while it’s in the air, saving the ship from all harm. Unfortunatly, upon seeing the giant sea demon flying overhead, half of the pirate crew went running below decks. Half of the normal crew, completely panicked and abandoned ship. The rest of both crews stayed at their posts. A number of the circle attack the sea demon while it’s on the surface. But they mostly irritated it, before it dove back down into the water. A-Dom, who was well off the ship, decided to Monkey Leap back onto the ship. Unfortunately, he couldn’t jump off the water. So he used one of the panicked sailors as a stepping stone. The sea demon does another dive and attack pattern, and this time Gareth fails to get the ship out of the way. So the sea demon hits the ship dead center and launches it out of the water and about 50 feet into the air. This caused “bad things” to happen to the ship when it hit the water again, at a less then ideal angle. Eventually Jade’s Luck managed to hit the sea demon with her anima power, causing it aggravated damage, with her demon scaring anima power up. So the demon fled deep into the ocean. Around three crew members were in fact eaten by the demon during the combat. Gareth then went to go survey the damage of the ship. He finds that the keel is seriously shattered in one place, and there is water slowly seeping into the boat (as Gareth’s boat is terrifying well built). Skelly and some of the pirate crew started to bail. Jahar and A-Dom start discussing whether or not they should be animating the remains of the half eaten crew members. Jade’s Luck turns them to ash so they are “properly buried” instead. Gareth then realizes that a number of the water barrels either lost some of their content or were smashed entirely when they went flying through the air. So, water rationing for the Exalted people on the ship started so that the mortals would have water. Jade’s Luck lead a “Thank the Unconquered Sun prayer session” for the crew after the demon was gone. So, the group decides that the best way to find fresh water in the middle of the ocean, is to send Ceri off in raven form to fly around looking for water. After a week of flying around every day, Ceri finds a very small island with a fresh water spring on it. The island was fairly barren, with some driftwood and small plants on it. It would take about two days to sail to it. On the way there, Jahar started looking for spirits. Unfortunately, he decided to only look ahead of the ship, so he failed to notice the angry wind spirit sneaking up behind the ship. The angry wind spirit started to form a tornado around the boat. Most people noticed there was a strange wind. Gareth noticed that the wind was acting very odd, and that probably meant that there was an angry wind spirit around. Gareth then announced this to the group (and crew). Unfortunatly there was no livestock in the cargo to sacrifice. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Maybe we should sacrifice a pirate.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Don’t make me beat you. I have obligations to the pirate.[/i] Jahar Summons a hound of wind and earth, and tells it to “Go get big Fish.” [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Oh great wind spirit, what have we done to anger you? [/i] The ship begins to spin around, as the wind starts to whip into a tornado. The group can hear the word “Respect...” in the howl of the wind. Everyone starts getting nauseated by the spinning. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Everybody start praying! NOW![/i] So the group and the crew all begin praying to the “Great Wind Spirit” as best they could. Everyone continues to pray as the boat begins spinning faster, and faster. Jahar starts leading the group in organized prayer. The ship eventually stops spinning and Jahar and Jade’s Luck can see the less angry wind spirit wander off. Jahar continues to lead the crew in prayer to make sure it doesn’t come back anytime soon. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I didn’t hear the Unconquered Sun say anything about polytheism being bad.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Thank the Unconquered Sun for letting us know how to pray to other spirits![/i] There is some more damage to the cargo, and the water supply. Luckily the group is getting closer. Once the ship arrived, which was several days later. Everyone goes to have a drink at the spring. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We should filter this water somehow.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Why?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]So it won’t make us go blind![/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]How would fresh water make us go blind?[/i] (Pause, then very slowly to Jahar) [i]This water is fresh water, it won’t make you go blind. It’s perfectly fine to drink. [/i] A-Dom held up the ship while Gareth made the best repairs he could with the materials he had (meaning he took apart some other parts of the ship to reinforce the keel). Ceri also demonstrated she could repair the water barrels with sorcery. Which actually required less material then if Gareth were to fix them. Eventually the group searches around the island. A-dom and Tiger find a plaque. When Gareth is shown the plaque he has a Past Lives memory of being on the island with Wretch. [b]Jade’s luck:[/b] [i]Is this something else that’s Gareth’s fault?[/i] A-Dom decides to walk into the ocean and find some coral. Unfortunatly he relizes that he island is a vertical pilar that rises strait from the ocean floor. [b]A-Dom[/b] (to Gareth): [i]:):):):)ing eh. Where did you learn to build an island?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I don’t have that skill yet.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]It’s like tall and round.[/i] (Pause) [i]I don’t know what to do with this.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I take it there is no coral?[/i] (Pause, then to Gareth) [i]Did you like build anti-coral defenses into your islands?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]We should put up like a sign or something. Water here![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Let me see this plaque you mentioned. [/i] A-Dom runs over to the stone plaque and tries to tear it out of the ground. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Don’t remove it![/i] A-Dom is actually shocked to discover that he can not lift the plaque. So he starts activating more strength charms, then thinks better of it. [b]A-Dom[/b] (kind of sad): [i]I don’t want to sink the island.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Think of that like a wine cork. [/i] [b]Gareth[/b] (to A-Dom): [i]I have a feeling you set that in place, that’s why it’s so hard.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]I’m stronger than Me.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I don’t think you’re stronger then you were. [/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]We need to get stronger than we were, then we can go back in time and kick our own asses. [/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (very excited): [i]We can do that!?![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Maybe...[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] (cackling like a mad man) [i]Time travel...[/i] (more cackling) [b]Jahar[/b] (pointing at something invisible): [i]You see that? That’s time. We go this way in time.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]No we go that way[/i] (pointing in the oposite direction from Jahar) [i]down time![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Don’t mess with it.[/i] (Jahar starts babbling about how bad an idea time travel is. Everyone ignores him.) Inside A-Dom’s Head, he hears the angry voice of the [b]Unconquered Sun:[/b] [i]No time travel![/i] (Pause) [i]Backwards![/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (all excited): [i]Hey... HEY! I just heard from the Unconquered Sun.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Really? What did he say?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]He said, No Time Travel.[/i] (Pause) [i]But hey, I know I really pissed him off.[/i] Jahar is still babbling about how bad an idea time travel is. [b]A-Dom[/b] (to Jahar): [i]You can keep talking, but I’m not going to do it now.[/i] (Pause) [i]All hail the Unconquered Sun what told me “No Time Travel.” [/i] Jahar goes over and reads the plaque. He then has a past life memory of being here with Wretch. [b]Jahar[/b] (to A-Dom): [i]You wrote this.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]He use to be a little girl![/i] A-Dom tries to dig around the plaque. He finds stone (actually Granite), and more stone, and more stone, and then he finds some very large stone hinges. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]I found Hinges.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Don’t break anything![/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]I’m digging in the sand, woman. I haven’t broken anything.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b] (pointing at something else that is invisible): [i]Whatever you do, don’t mess that up.[/i] A-Dom realizes that the reason he couldn’t lift the plaque was that it is basically the handle to the trap door, and he was standing on the trap door. A-Dom finally opens it. The Trap door is three feet wide, three feet long, and three feet thick, and made of Granite (slitly curved on one side so it can be opened on the hinges). Everyone looks down and see a dark shaft going strait down into the ground. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Wheeee![/i] (As he jumps into the shaft) Unfortunately, A-Dom didn’t open the trap door all the way, just enough for him to get inside. So the trap door began to close again. Tiger gets in and starts crawling down the shaft. Jade’s Luck gets in and starts climbing down the shaft. Jahar tries to climb down the shaft... but has a serious lack of Athletics. So he begins his unplanned face first plummet down the shaft. Tiger and Jade’s Luck both managed to dodge out of the way of the falling Jahar. [b]Jahar[/b] (as plummeting past): [i]You made it look so easy![/i] A-Dom decided to catch Jahar at the bottom, and actually managed to do so without letting Jahar get hurt. Gareth and Ceri just watched the trap door close. Looking around, the group found themselves in small room. There was writing on the walls. Jade’s Luck reads it out loud so A-Dom would understand. The group immediately decides to look around for a tomb to rob. They eventually find a circular stone fitted into a hole, which appeared to be the seal on the tomb. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]This better not be a plug...[/i] The group eventually decided that it was probably a vertical storage tomb, as the island was rather vertical to begin with. So A-Dom decides to “whip off” the lid. Which is much harder then he thought, as it turned out that the “lid” was screwed into the hole, and was several feet thick. So A-Dom started unscrewing it as fast as he could with his super strength (which was still pretty slow). As A-Dom was unscrewing it, he started hearing noises. *click.* Click.* CLICK.* A-Dom and Tiger realized that some traps may have just been armed. The entire group then began to hear a grinding noise. Gareth and Ceri then realized that the island was sinking. [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]Get the sailors back on the boat.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Everyone! Back on the boat! NOW![/i] The group in the tomb, simultaneously realized the ceiling was starting to lower down onto them. [b]Gareth[/b] (to Ceri): [i]Ok, open it up.[/i] Ceri tries to open it, but a cloud of green gas poofs out at her. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]I’m going to try to get this open.[/i] (Looking at the lowering ceiling) [i]If you have any better suggestions Tiger...[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]We could disarm it first![/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (mildly shocked): [i]Oh.[/i] (Pause) [i]Ok.[/i] Jahar and Jade’s Luck, went to stand under the large shaft, so they wouldn’t be crushed by the ceiling. A-Dom and Tiger figure out that every time there is a *click* a caste mark symbol pops out somewhere in the room, and it has to be touched, very quickly. Unfortunatly, they have failed to do this three times already. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Uh, oh, there aren’t many castes left...[/i] So they did this for the last two (Night and Eclipse symbols). Then A-Dom tried to lift the cap. Unfortunately, he found it to be... VERY heavy. Eventually with the help of Tiger and Jade’s Luck, they managed to inch it out of the way. Then A-Dom stuck his head into the tomb shaft, and began disabling traps. He disabled the poison gas trap (the one that already fired). He then got out of the way so Tiger could try. Tiger disabled the sinking island/crushing room trap. Then everything was... OK. At the bottom of the tomb was ash. But it wasn’t just a pile, the ash was shaped like skull eyes, nose, and teeth. As well as a little rolled up piece of paper. A-Dom grabbed the paper. He then tried to read it (it was in old realm, so A-Dom was the only one who couldn’t read it), while everyone else tried to read it over his shoulder. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Ok, lets get out of here if we can...[/i] A-Dom and friends put the cap back into place, and screws it back down. A-Dom got the impression that the traps were re-arming. While he was doing this, Gareth heard a sliding/grinding noise from the trap door. Ceri, Gareth, and Tiger manage to get the trap door opened up all the way. Everyone climbed out... except Jahar who flew out as a flock of birds. [b]Gareth[/b] (upon seeing the note):[i] Oh crap, I made that.[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Of course you did.[/i] (Happy voice) [i]I made the island! Do you remember the password?[/i] After some trial and error and past live rolls, the group figures out that Wretch’s 'magic words' were “Give Me Stuff” in old realm. A-Dom wraps the paper around The Ugly Stick and *shaboigan* his club became much, much larger, and had more orchalum spikes sticking out of it. A-Dom just starts swinging it around. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Now, you can make that go away, right?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (confused): [i]Why?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Like I can make my sword go away.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]We are going to Dragon Blood Central remember.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (maniacal voice and giggling): [i]Ooo, hoo, hoo, That’s right...[/i] (starts making like he’s smashing Dragon Bloods with his club.) [i]I can make them go away...[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We’re talking about your club, not the Dragon Bloods.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Remember what they were saying about being discrete? You know, what they normally say right before becoming all shinny?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Can I play with my new toy and NOT get a lecture?[/i]:barb: Unfortunately, the group then realized that the island didn’t raise back up (although it was not sinking anymore). As they were all standing knee deep in water (although there was no water flooding into the tomb hole, it appeared to be magically held back). They could also see the fresh spring bubbling up... into the salt water. So they closed the trap door on the tomb. [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Now it’s a “hidden island.”[/i] (Long long pause.) [i]I’m totally going to bury myself here... again. [/i] Assorted quotes that were made at the game: [b]Dan:[/b] [i]We need a larceny charm that can steal the salt out of the water...[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]If you can’t torture your undead minions who can you torture?[/i] [b]A-Dom:[/b] [i]Thank the Unconquered Sun for the warmth that is killing us slowly. [/i] [b]Liz:[/b] [i]It’s like we are the itty bitty mom & pop store trying to compete against Walmart. We need to [b]blow up[/b] Walmart. [/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]Welcome to the Daniel School of Analogies. [/i](Daniel the character in Firefly not the player) [b]Dan:[/b] [i]No that actually makes sense. [/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]That would be awesome if I was our arch nemesis! [/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]This is totally something he[/i] (A-Dom) [i]would make.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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