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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2918170" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis for 6/19/06</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis for 6/19/06 </em></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px">"Thugs are not innocent mortals"</span></p><p>Subtitles: "<em>I'll make them out of Twigs!</em>", <em>"Yes, it’s good to flee the scene of the crime."</em> and "<em>Maybe... we should just summon a Demon.</em>"</p><p>Write up by <em>AlwaysToast</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger gets Ceri to go with him “<em>So I don’t have to fight the mysterious Exalt all by myself.</em>” They go down the 100 ft vertical shaft in the bottom of the bell tower. Ceri flying, and Tiger climbing down. At the bottom they find a tunnel shaft going off horizontally. It’s molded out of the earth, in an archway shape. With around 6 to 7ft ceilings. This cave system looks rather familiar to Tiger.</p><p></p><p>They come to a large room full of mushrooms, which looks even more familiar to Tiger. Tiger points out that the mushrooms are poisonous, which Ceri already knew. So they moved through the room very slowly, then continued along down the tunnel.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately Tiger did not remember what happened next when he was in the similar tunnel. So they set off a rock fall trap. They both raced forward in order to not be crushed. Then Tiger remembered that the entire cave complex eventually collapsed. So they decided to clear enough rocks out, just enough so they could scramble past. Which took them about twenty minutes.</p><p></p><p>They then came to a door at the end of the corridor. Which also looked familiar, but was open. They went through and investigated the rooms beyond. The area was lived in, but had very recently been cleared out. They found evidence of an average man living there, in a workshop out of black clay. They also found a room with a demon summoning circle in it (which was not identical to last time), but the archway had glowing runes around the archway, which looked exceptionally familiar to Tiger. Ceri was able to determine that the archway had some kind of heat and rather painful spell upon it. Tiger explained A-Dom and the boiling blood incident.</p><p></p><p>They decided to not mess with the archway. They decided the best thing to do with this complex was to block it off, in multiple locations, to avoid any random locals from finding or using it. So they wandered out, and blocked the tunnel entirely at the area with the rock fall, went past the mushrooms again, and then put the cover back on the tunnel, so hopefully no one will find it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>So you know what kind of Exalt he was?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Well he’s a short tall guy, who’s kind of skinny-fat, and very average looking.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>So he has charms to blend in-able?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>I have no idea.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>Ok, lets go back to the ship.</em></p><p></p><p>***</p><p>Back at the ship.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (to Jade’s Luck): <em>You know it’s no good yelling at you, because you won’t remember it when I need you to.</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom then summarized (for Gareth) what happened in the Temple when he tried to talk to Jade’s Luck, and she pointed him out as an Anathema.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to Jade’s Luck): <em>When is it a <u>good</u> time to shout Anathema?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>When a lot of Immaculate Monks are already suspicious of you? Especially when some stranger is trying to entrap you into heresy.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>I should note I was <u>not</u> involved in this...</em></p><p></p><p>Then A-Dom and Jade’s Luck describe the Eclipse caste mark appearing on A-Dom’s forehead (for which their stories actually matched).</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to Jade’s Luck): <em><u>Never</u> shout Anathema. (Pause) <u>Never</u>. (Long pause) It <u>never</u> goes well.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>We’ll I’ve learned that now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (Slow and instructional voice): <em>Shouting Demon! OK. Shouting Anathema, <strong><u>BAD</u></strong>.</em> (Pause) <em>Demons are easy to notice.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (talking to himself): <em>Technically demons aren’t <u>that</u> noticeable.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck starts giving her story about the strange man (Not A-Dom) who came up and started talking to her. Trying to explain her actions.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>We need to have him (A-Dom) figure out some way... to...</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth goes into the cabin and gets a piece of parchment to write on. Jahar apparently wanders up behind him to rudely read over his shoulder.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gareth’s hands the note to A-Dom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>That would be a very bad paper to have in existence. We can’t erase you</em> (Gareth).<em> I know you can erase you</em> (A-Dom)<em>, but that paper references Gareth and Jade’s Luck and Anathema in a very familiar manner. I understand what you are trying to do. But that paper’s a risk. A-Dom you have to give that paper back.</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom looks very unsure of this.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (very slow): <em>You have to give that paper back and we’ll give you a new one. Do you agree?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>I refuse to answer that question.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>We’ll give you a better note, if first you give that note back. Do you agree?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>I’m not going to answer that question.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Why won’t you give the note back?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Because I’m going to get screwed. What are you going to put on the second one?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>Umm...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>This person is my trusted friend. -Gareth. Short simple and to the point. And a lot less with the anathema. It’s still bad if someone else gets a hold of it, because you’re not going to remember writing the note for A-Dom. I’m going on what happened last time with the muffins.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger comes up with the idea of making identifying necklaces for the group, so people will know to trust A-Dom the next time no one can remember him. Gareth starts babbling about alligator leather key chains. They decide a nice G would be the best symbol. </p><p></p><p>The group then starts talking about taking over areas.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (to Jahar): <em>Step 1: Take out your mother. Step 2: Take over Atlantis.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>No... Step 1: Build a power base. Step 2: Defeat the army. Step 3: Take over island. My mother is a floating step because she’ll get in the way somehow.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Step 1: Pull plug. Step 2: Watch Atlantis Sink.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong> (angry): <em>Hey!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Step 3: Clean up bodies. Step 4: Raise it back up.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger and Ceri get back to the ship. Tiger explains what happened (Just re-read the first section again).</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Do you think it was the same one?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Pretty likely. He had the shaft, and the mushrooms, and the rock, and the room, and the other room...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>You know what we might want to do... I think there is a 4th side. You know how there are those “other Exalted” that have been mentioned by Opec, and other Opec, and a bunch of other people have referred to as the quiet ones, or “we don’t remember anything about them.”</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Group</strong>: <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Yea, so we should find them and kick their asses.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>We need to figure out what he’s trying to do. He’s hindered Us, he’s hindered a Death Lord, and he’s hindered the Realm. What is he up to?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>He wasn’t disturbing the Realm. He was disturbing Skullstone.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Well their was an attack on the Death Lords.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>No, he was just messing with their operation.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>And his ability to raise a well armed army.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Well the Realm already has the army, and the weapons. But if they don’t have the food for the army. The army isn’t very effective. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>So in my opinion they are going against the Dragon Bloods.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex</strong>: <em>We are already sailing btw.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul</strong>: <em>Yes, it’s good to flee the scene of the crime.</em></p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Tiger discuss flaming skeletons. Which is mostly “<em>Not with Skelly</em>” and “<em>but then we’ll see how it works</em>” repeated.</p><p></p><p>Group sails back to the City of Atlantis. During the sail most of the group does some training.</p><p></p><p>When the group is approaching the City of Atlantis, Tiger notices his Mentor standing on top of a building looking out to sea. His mentor did some very broad pantomiming which got across these ideas: <em>Great Danger. Need to talk to you, alone.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar notices a man riding a bear on one end of the docks and on the side of the docks Jara and the Brotherhood of Horses Irrevocably Cleansing Anathema on their horses. Jahar points this out to the group.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>To Hoen-ba!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>A-Dom! We finally have justification for taking out the city.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>We needed justification?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>So the rest of the circle will say it’s OK.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Now that would be great.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck and Ceri</strong>: <em>We have no problem as long as you are not killing innocent civilians.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (about his wife and her Brotherhood): <em>How could they possibly know?</em></p><p></p><p>So once out of view of the city, Tiger dived off the boat and swam back to Atlantis, while Gareth’s sailed on to Hoen-ba.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and his mentor have a meeting on the top of a building.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>So I take it exciting things have been happening?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Yea, like anathema attacks and...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>You know that’s not very good for you and your friends right?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Yea, things went poorly when I wasn’t around.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>Well a brotherhood of Anathema slaying Dragon Bloods went to Flatfield and did some basic investigation with charms and found some interesting things out. Including the “out-of-towners” who fled immediately afterwards. So Mr. Jahar appears to be guilty, or at least cowardly. Someone was described, and matches the description of one of his business associates, was described as a demon... small girl.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>I suppose we’re being blamed for destroying half the town?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>Technically they are only wanted for “questioning.” Oh, and Jahar’s father and some of his friends have been looking for you since before that happened.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger explains the similarities between the tunnel found in Onyx and the one in Flatfield to his Mentor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>It strongly appears he has framed some of you for being Anathema. As it’s easier to frame guilty people. While I don’t think the situation is completely irresolvable. I don’t think you want to sail directly into the harbor the next time you come back.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Would being away for a while help?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>Well if you’re going to try to cover this up, some sort of... amazing explanation would help. But you will have to fabricate that yourself.</em></p><p></p><p>Gabe and Ryan get into the same argument about who’s fault this is again.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mentor</strong>: <em>That’s all the information I can provide you with.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger and his Mentor then discuss the various Dragon Blood Brotherhood that are after the Circle.</p><p></p><p>Tiger stole a small boat and sailed back to Hoen-Ba island. Tiger explains that they are all screwed.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>A-Dom you had to cause a situation!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>What?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>You had to go and make them ugly instead of just knocking them out.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Why couldn’t I just kill them?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>We wanted them unconscious.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>I think that’s where the mental block came from.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Why would we want to kill random mortals?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>They were not random mortals. They are evil mortals, I can kill them.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Next time, hit them with your fist. Then whether they die or not is up to the Unconquered Sun.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>It’s already done with.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>We have to go over this for the next time.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>You’re making a big thing out of this. Hey, your Mentor is OK with all this?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>What?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Him knowing you are an Anathema?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Because he didn’t know already?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>How did you tell him, and how did he not kill you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Maybe he likes Anathema?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong> (to A-Dom): <em>You don’t have a Mentor. Do you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Nooooo...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>You know all that nifty stuff I do? Who do you think taught me?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (very confused): <em>How?</em> (Pause) <em>What?</em> (Long pause) <em>Umm... </em>(Long pause) <em>Fine. Whatever.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to A-Dom): <em>You’re skelly’s mentor just like he’s your mentor.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Who?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>The guy who gave you the book?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>The Silver Prince.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Who? Skelly! Punch that wood really fast!</em> (Skelly looks confused)</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>In the future we need you to not do that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>I know it’s fun to make them ugly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (very happy): <em>Yes, yes it is. It actually is.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>Try to not have your fun in public.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: (Rambles incoherently for a few minutes.)</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Why? WHY was I NOT killing them?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>:<em> Because they are just innocent mortals!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Noooooooooo! Thugs are not “innocent mortals.” I was a thug, I know better.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Are we really going back to this?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>What?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Yea, exactly. Thank you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Here is a question, A-Dom: When you were a mortal, were you an innocent mortal?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Oh <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=":)" /> no.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Would you have liked it if some exalt came along and beat you up and killed you? And these mortals, the ones you uglied, they were like you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Well after they got hit with the ugly stick they were like you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>I’m talking about temperament and being. That’s what I’m going for.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Deaths in a tiny village would have been a big thing.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>I would have hid the bodies.</em></p><p></p><p>*********</p><p>The group then explains to Ceri that the only thing that upsets people on Hoen-ba is proselytizing.</p><p></p><p>Most of the group decided to go talk to Hoen-ba-ba-den. A-Dom realizing he is close to Opec Island, so he could go get “his ride.” So A-Dom just started swimming. A-Dom refused to explain “his ride” to anyone.</p><p></p><p>The group started discussing what to do now. Gareth pointed out that he was going to go to Skullstone, to fulfill the rest of his contract. Jahar pointed out that he wanted to go to Opec Island first.</p><p></p><p>The group then got into a discussion about where the “Big” boats were parked. Specifically the Grumpy Craftsman II. The answer (that was decided upon) was, at Opec Island, one at the dock in Atlantis, and the rest of them were currently traveling as part of Jahar’s trade company (Skullstone, Abalon, and Local routes).</p><p></p><p><strong>Liz</strong>: <em>We have too many <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 boats.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong> (to Jahar): <em>How the hell did you get another boat?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>I bought it! I got sick of you lording it over me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex</strong>: <em>Is it at least crappier then my boats?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul</strong>: <em>Of course it is.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth wanted to go back to Atlantis, to “tie up loose ends” before going off to Skullstone.</p><p></p><p>So the next day they sailed over to Opec island. Except Tiger, who stayed on Hoen-Ba. The Ex-Pirate, and surviving old Crew were happy to see the circle return, and informed them they had been sitting around for over a month, playing cards, and none of them had been harmed, eaten by demons, etc. They were all quite happy.</p><p></p><p>The group starts discussing what to do in relation to the Dragon Bloods.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>I say we “kind of” hang Jahar out to dry.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>All my backgrounds, influences, resources, you shouldn’t hang me out to dry.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>Yea, it was just your bad idea.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>But what do we get out of that?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Do they have physical evidence?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>The Dragon Blood who investigated probably had charms.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>So it’s physical in that we have to kill off that Dragon Blood?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Group</strong>: <em>Yea pretty much.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe</strong>: <em>I’m starting to look for the time requirements for mass demon summoning.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong> (to Jahar): <em>Is there any way we can distract or lure off your wife so we can “deal” with her?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Off her!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar then explains that if BOHICA finds out his father’s group is looking for them, and that BOHICA would probably become competitive if they were to find this out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Maybe Tiger or A-Dom could plant some kind of evidence, that would lead them away from us.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>You mean like having me “pretend” to be an Anathema going on a wild rampage through the city?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>You know that worked last time.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>You know I actually have family on that island that I want to live.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Dan</strong>: <em>We have other islands we can move them to.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (high feminine voice): <em>Wah, waaaah, wah, waaaaah, Waah...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (to A-Dom): <em>I don’t understand why you want to get rid of this island. It would make an excellent power base. Kill the army, take over the island. We’re done.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Done?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Two years ago you would have said “Make this person ugly” and you’re done. But you do now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (completely confused): <em>What? Hun? WHAT?!?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Lori</strong>: <em>Soon I’ll be able to buy “Jahar” as a language. It will allow me to speak to him and understand him clearly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe</strong>: <em>yea, but you only get half of that language per dot of Linguistics.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>I want a divorce. I’m going to form my own circle. I’ll make them out of twigs.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong> (looking at A-Dom): <em>Me too. But I think it’s too late.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (to Ceri): <em>What? I’m married to you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong> (changing the subject): <em>You’re married to the circle, it’s too late.</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone looks mildly confused. Gareth is even more confused because he is using Judge’s Ear.</p><p></p><p><strong>Alex</strong>: <em>I need Judges Ear to be on all the time. I’m serious.</em></p><p></p><p>The group then has another long argument about how to take over the island, using demons, but without killing any mortals. Which completely confused A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Tiger alone on Hoen-Ba, is awakened in the middle of the night. He sees (9 successes) off in the distance a large ship sailing towards him. On the ship at the very prow, was a man he recognized as a Dragon Blood who he had seen around the Sesus house once or twice. He is occasionally making waving motions, apparently directing the ship.</p><p></p><p>Tiger grabbed his small stolen boat, and sailed strait for Opec Island. He arrived six hours later, at around dawn. He find’s Gareth.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Gareth! We have trouble.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>More?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>It seems to have followed us.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>They coming here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Maybe, they were heading to Hoen-ba. We don’t have much time. We need to leave immediately, if not sooner.</em></p><p></p><p>So, of course, the group got into an argument for several hours.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom arrived at the ship with his Spine Chain (caterpillar made out of dead torsos), Spine-E.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>People we’re going to have company.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>How much company?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>They have a big boat.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Should we race them to Onyx?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>Isn’t that just a little far?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>We could have A-Dom disguise himself in the water, and just knock a hole in their ship.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong> (to Ceri): <em>Can’t you make giant flaming birds?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>Maybe we should just go out and fight them at sea. There is nobody (random mortals) to get hurt from the fighting.</em></p><p></p><p>This starts the: Fight on the Island, vs Fight on the boat next to the island, vs Fight on the boat at sea, vs Run for it, argument.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>Where are they now?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Getting closer.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar then casts his Bones of Stone spell to prepare for he believes is the approaching combat.</p><p></p><p>Then the group argues about if they should leave the crew on the island (where they might be captured or killed), or take them to fight the Dragon Bloods crew (where they might be killed). [This paragraph covers over a half hour of arguing.]</p><p></p><p>Jahar then ran off to talk to Opec.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>There is a ship full of Dragon Bloods coming to attack us.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Opec</strong>: <em>Why?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Would it be bad to fight on this island?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Opec</strong>: <em>I don’t think so. It wouldn’t hurt me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>That was one of my questions.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar heads back to the boat.</p><p></p><p>Back at the boat:</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Maybe we could tell them we were investigating the island for mineral rights.</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone looks at the sandy small island, and realizes this isn’t a great cover story.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul</strong> (feeling the need to point this out): <em>You could try to come up with a convincing lie to tell them, and not fight.</em></p><p></p><p>Feelings from group:</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri</strong>: <em>Lets fight them.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck</strong>: <em>Lets deal with them now, at sea.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong> (Jahar mocking voice): <em>We could just knock them out. And interview them first to make sure they are not innocents.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger</strong>: <em>Kill them now, later, whatever.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>I don’t want to fight them. I don’t like our chances.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth being the only one who has seen BOHICA, describes them as best he can.</p><p></p><p>Cynis Jara (Jahar’s wife). Earth Aspect. Wears armor and carries a Gore Maul.</p><p></p><p>Water aspected Monk type. Who Jahar identified as Peleps Aulric.</p><p></p><p>Brother Falling Leaf (whom he had met at a number of occasions related to Jahar’s wedding, he is also a Cynis), Wood Aspect.</p><p></p><p>One dressed entirely in jade armor, including a helmet. Probably female due to the small stature.</p><p></p><p>One dressed entirely in long robes, long cloak, with hood, who he hadn’t gotten a good look at.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>We have problems if they all die.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-Dom</strong>: <em>They could “re-appear” in Atlantis at some point.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>If you ever masquerade as my wife...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: (sarcastic tone) <em>Maybe... we could just summon a demon!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>Wrong time of day. All kinds of other problems.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: (sarcastic tone) <em>But then you would have a Demon!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth then explained to the group that it’s better for the group to fight upon their ship. Cause he’s all with the sail voodoo.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>: <em>If we are going to do this, we actually have to fight as a team.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck started looking for spirits to help. Unfortunately, the only spirit around was a great big mellow Calm Air spirit.</p><p></p><p>Then the group decides that it should start working on an explanation. To try before the fight. The big sticking point being that Jade’s Luck was seen by a lot of townsfolk doing a number of strange things. The group decided that demon possession (and she’s all better now) was the more reasonable explanation (of the ones they came up with).</p><p></p><p>Their ship then came into view heading towards them.</p><p></p><p>Jahar realized that he was all made out of stone. Which hurt his ability to talk to his wife and convince her he is not an anathema, and that nothing strange was not going on. This irritated Jahar because in order to talk to his wife, he had to “Not be ready for combat.”</p><p></p><p>Spine-E was sent off into the jungle of Opec Island to hide at some point (since he would kind of hurt the believability of some of their stories).</p><p></p><p>So they pulled away from the dock and started sailing away from the other ship in order to stall for time. Unfortunately due to the calm air, they didn’t manage to speed away as fast as they hoped.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth</strong>: <em>Well we aren’t arguing as much as normal.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar</strong>:<em> We are making progress.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2918170, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis for 6/19/06[/b] [i]Synopsis for 6/19/06 [/i] [size=6]"Thugs are not innocent mortals"[/size] Subtitles: "[i]I'll make them out of Twigs![/i]", [i]"Yes, it’s good to flee the scene of the crime."[/i] and "[i]Maybe... we should just summon a Demon.[/i]" Write up by [i]AlwaysToast[/i] Tiger gets Ceri to go with him “[i]So I don’t have to fight the mysterious Exalt all by myself.[/i]” They go down the 100 ft vertical shaft in the bottom of the bell tower. Ceri flying, and Tiger climbing down. At the bottom they find a tunnel shaft going off horizontally. It’s molded out of the earth, in an archway shape. With around 6 to 7ft ceilings. This cave system looks rather familiar to Tiger. They come to a large room full of mushrooms, which looks even more familiar to Tiger. Tiger points out that the mushrooms are poisonous, which Ceri already knew. So they moved through the room very slowly, then continued along down the tunnel. Unfortunately Tiger did not remember what happened next when he was in the similar tunnel. So they set off a rock fall trap. They both raced forward in order to not be crushed. Then Tiger remembered that the entire cave complex eventually collapsed. So they decided to clear enough rocks out, just enough so they could scramble past. Which took them about twenty minutes. They then came to a door at the end of the corridor. Which also looked familiar, but was open. They went through and investigated the rooms beyond. The area was lived in, but had very recently been cleared out. They found evidence of an average man living there, in a workshop out of black clay. They also found a room with a demon summoning circle in it (which was not identical to last time), but the archway had glowing runes around the archway, which looked exceptionally familiar to Tiger. Ceri was able to determine that the archway had some kind of heat and rather painful spell upon it. Tiger explained A-Dom and the boiling blood incident. They decided to not mess with the archway. They decided the best thing to do with this complex was to block it off, in multiple locations, to avoid any random locals from finding or using it. So they wandered out, and blocked the tunnel entirely at the area with the rock fall, went past the mushrooms again, and then put the cover back on the tunnel, so hopefully no one will find it. [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]So you know what kind of Exalt he was?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Well he’s a short tall guy, who’s kind of skinny-fat, and very average looking.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]So he has charms to blend in-able?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]I have no idea.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]Ok, lets go back to the ship.[/i] *** Back at the ship. [b]A-Dom[/b] (to Jade’s Luck): [i]You know it’s no good yelling at you, because you won’t remember it when I need you to.[/i] A-Dom then summarized (for Gareth) what happened in the Temple when he tried to talk to Jade’s Luck, and she pointed him out as an Anathema. [b]Gareth[/b] (to Jade’s Luck): [i]When is it a [u]good[/u] time to shout Anathema?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]When a lot of Immaculate Monks are already suspicious of you? Especially when some stranger is trying to entrap you into heresy.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]I should note I was [u]not[/u] involved in this...[/i] Then A-Dom and Jade’s Luck describe the Eclipse caste mark appearing on A-Dom’s forehead (for which their stories actually matched). [b]Gareth[/b] (to Jade’s Luck): [i][u]Never[/u] shout Anathema. (Pause) [u]Never[/u]. (Long pause) It [u]never[/u] goes well.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]We’ll I’ve learned that now.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b] (Slow and instructional voice): [i]Shouting Demon! OK. Shouting Anathema, [b][u]BAD[/u][/b].[/i] (Pause) [i]Demons are easy to notice.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b] (talking to himself): [i]Technically demons aren’t [u]that[/u] noticeable.[/i] Jade’s Luck starts giving her story about the strange man (Not A-Dom) who came up and started talking to her. Trying to explain her actions. [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]We need to have him (A-Dom) figure out some way... to...[/i] Gareth goes into the cabin and gets a piece of parchment to write on. Jahar apparently wanders up behind him to rudely read over his shoulder. Gareth’s hands the note to A-Dom. [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]That would be a very bad paper to have in existence. We can’t erase you[/i] (Gareth).[i] I know you can erase you[/i] (A-Dom)[i], but that paper references Gareth and Jade’s Luck and Anathema in a very familiar manner. I understand what you are trying to do. But that paper’s a risk. A-Dom you have to give that paper back.[/i] A-Dom looks very unsure of this. [b]Jahar[/b] (very slow): [i]You have to give that paper back and we’ll give you a new one. Do you agree?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]I refuse to answer that question.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]We’ll give you a better note, if first you give that note back. Do you agree?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]I’m not going to answer that question.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Why won’t you give the note back?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Because I’m going to get screwed. What are you going to put on the second one?[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]Umm...[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]This person is my trusted friend. -Gareth. Short simple and to the point. And a lot less with the anathema. It’s still bad if someone else gets a hold of it, because you’re not going to remember writing the note for A-Dom. I’m going on what happened last time with the muffins.[/i] Tiger comes up with the idea of making identifying necklaces for the group, so people will know to trust A-Dom the next time no one can remember him. Gareth starts babbling about alligator leather key chains. They decide a nice G would be the best symbol. The group then starts talking about taking over areas. [b]Gareth:[/b] (to Jahar): [i]Step 1: Take out your mother. Step 2: Take over Atlantis.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]No... Step 1: Build a power base. Step 2: Defeat the army. Step 3: Take over island. My mother is a floating step because she’ll get in the way somehow.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Step 1: Pull plug. Step 2: Watch Atlantis Sink.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b] (angry): [i]Hey![/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Step 3: Clean up bodies. Step 4: Raise it back up.[/i] Tiger and Ceri get back to the ship. Tiger explains what happened (Just re-read the first section again). [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Do you think it was the same one?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Pretty likely. He had the shaft, and the mushrooms, and the rock, and the room, and the other room...[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]You know what we might want to do... I think there is a 4th side. You know how there are those “other Exalted” that have been mentioned by Opec, and other Opec, and a bunch of other people have referred to as the quiet ones, or “we don’t remember anything about them.”[/i] [b]Group[/b]: [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Yea, so we should find them and kick their asses.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]We need to figure out what he’s trying to do. He’s hindered Us, he’s hindered a Death Lord, and he’s hindered the Realm. What is he up to?[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]He wasn’t disturbing the Realm. He was disturbing Skullstone.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Well their was an attack on the Death Lords.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]No, he was just messing with their operation.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]And his ability to raise a well armed army.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Well the Realm already has the army, and the weapons. But if they don’t have the food for the army. The army isn’t very effective. [/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]So in my opinion they are going against the Dragon Bloods.[/i] [b]Alex[/b]: [i]We are already sailing btw.[/i] [b]Paul[/b]: [i]Yes, it’s good to flee the scene of the crime.[/i] A-Dom and Tiger discuss flaming skeletons. Which is mostly “[i]Not with Skelly[/i]” and “[i]but then we’ll see how it works[/i]” repeated. Group sails back to the City of Atlantis. During the sail most of the group does some training. When the group is approaching the City of Atlantis, Tiger notices his Mentor standing on top of a building looking out to sea. His mentor did some very broad pantomiming which got across these ideas: [i]Great Danger. Need to talk to you, alone.[/i] Jahar notices a man riding a bear on one end of the docks and on the side of the docks Jara and the Brotherhood of Horses Irrevocably Cleansing Anathema on their horses. Jahar points this out to the group. [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]To Hoen-ba![/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]A-Dom! We finally have justification for taking out the city.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]We needed justification?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]So the rest of the circle will say it’s OK.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Now that would be great.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck and Ceri[/b]: [i]We have no problem as long as you are not killing innocent civilians.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b] (about his wife and her Brotherhood): [i]How could they possibly know?[/i] So once out of view of the city, Tiger dived off the boat and swam back to Atlantis, while Gareth’s sailed on to Hoen-ba. Tiger and his mentor have a meeting on the top of a building. [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]So I take it exciting things have been happening?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Yea, like anathema attacks and...[/i] [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]You know that’s not very good for you and your friends right?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Yea, things went poorly when I wasn’t around.[/i] [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]Well a brotherhood of Anathema slaying Dragon Bloods went to Flatfield and did some basic investigation with charms and found some interesting things out. Including the “out-of-towners” who fled immediately afterwards. So Mr. Jahar appears to be guilty, or at least cowardly. Someone was described, and matches the description of one of his business associates, was described as a demon... small girl.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]I suppose we’re being blamed for destroying half the town?[/i] [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]Technically they are only wanted for “questioning.” Oh, and Jahar’s father and some of his friends have been looking for you since before that happened.[/i] Tiger explains the similarities between the tunnel found in Onyx and the one in Flatfield to his Mentor. [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]It strongly appears he has framed some of you for being Anathema. As it’s easier to frame guilty people. While I don’t think the situation is completely irresolvable. I don’t think you want to sail directly into the harbor the next time you come back.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Would being away for a while help?[/i] [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]Well if you’re going to try to cover this up, some sort of... amazing explanation would help. But you will have to fabricate that yourself.[/i] Gabe and Ryan get into the same argument about who’s fault this is again. [b]Mentor[/b]: [i]That’s all the information I can provide you with.[/i] Tiger and his Mentor then discuss the various Dragon Blood Brotherhood that are after the Circle. Tiger stole a small boat and sailed back to Hoen-Ba island. Tiger explains that they are all screwed. [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]A-Dom you had to cause a situation![/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]What?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]You had to go and make them ugly instead of just knocking them out.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Why couldn’t I just kill them?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]We wanted them unconscious.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]I think that’s where the mental block came from.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Why would we want to kill random mortals?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]They were not random mortals. They are evil mortals, I can kill them.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Next time, hit them with your fist. Then whether they die or not is up to the Unconquered Sun.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]It’s already done with.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]We have to go over this for the next time.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]You’re making a big thing out of this. Hey, your Mentor is OK with all this?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]What?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Him knowing you are an Anathema?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Because he didn’t know already?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]How did you tell him, and how did he not kill you?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Maybe he likes Anathema?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b] (to A-Dom): [i]You don’t have a Mentor. Do you?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Nooooo...[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]You know all that nifty stuff I do? Who do you think taught me?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (very confused): [i]How?[/i] (Pause) [i]What?[/i] (Long pause) [i]Umm... [/i](Long pause) [i]Fine. Whatever.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b] (to A-Dom): [i]You’re skelly’s mentor just like he’s your mentor.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Who?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]The guy who gave you the book?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]The Silver Prince.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Who? Skelly! Punch that wood really fast![/i] (Skelly looks confused) [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]In the future we need you to not do that.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]I know it’s fun to make them ugly.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (very happy): [i]Yes, yes it is. It actually is.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]Try to not have your fun in public.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: (Rambles incoherently for a few minutes.) [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Why? WHY was I NOT killing them?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]:[i] Because they are just innocent mortals![/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Noooooooooo! Thugs are not “innocent mortals.” I was a thug, I know better.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Are we really going back to this?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]What?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Yea, exactly. Thank you.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Here is a question, A-Dom: When you were a mortal, were you an innocent mortal?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Oh :):):):) no.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Would you have liked it if some exalt came along and beat you up and killed you? And these mortals, the ones you uglied, they were like you?[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Well after they got hit with the ugly stick they were like you.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]I’m talking about temperament and being. That’s what I’m going for.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Deaths in a tiny village would have been a big thing.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]I would have hid the bodies.[/i] ********* The group then explains to Ceri that the only thing that upsets people on Hoen-ba is proselytizing. Most of the group decided to go talk to Hoen-ba-ba-den. A-Dom realizing he is close to Opec Island, so he could go get “his ride.” So A-Dom just started swimming. A-Dom refused to explain “his ride” to anyone. The group started discussing what to do now. Gareth pointed out that he was going to go to Skullstone, to fulfill the rest of his contract. Jahar pointed out that he wanted to go to Opec Island first. The group then got into a discussion about where the “Big” boats were parked. Specifically the Grumpy Craftsman II. The answer (that was decided upon) was, at Opec Island, one at the dock in Atlantis, and the rest of them were currently traveling as part of Jahar’s trade company (Skullstone, Abalon, and Local routes). [b]Liz[/b]: [i]We have too many :):):):)ing boats.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b] (to Jahar): [i]How the hell did you get another boat?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]I bought it! I got sick of you lording it over me.[/i] [b]Alex[/b]: [i]Is it at least crappier then my boats?[/i] [b]Paul[/b]: [i]Of course it is.[/i] Gareth wanted to go back to Atlantis, to “tie up loose ends” before going off to Skullstone. So the next day they sailed over to Opec island. Except Tiger, who stayed on Hoen-Ba. The Ex-Pirate, and surviving old Crew were happy to see the circle return, and informed them they had been sitting around for over a month, playing cards, and none of them had been harmed, eaten by demons, etc. They were all quite happy. The group starts discussing what to do in relation to the Dragon Bloods. [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]I say we “kind of” hang Jahar out to dry.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]All my backgrounds, influences, resources, you shouldn’t hang me out to dry.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]Yea, it was just your bad idea.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]But what do we get out of that?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Do they have physical evidence?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]The Dragon Blood who investigated probably had charms.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]So it’s physical in that we have to kill off that Dragon Blood?[/i] [b]Group[/b]: [i]Yea pretty much.[/i] [b]Gabe[/b]: [i]I’m starting to look for the time requirements for mass demon summoning.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b] (to Jahar): [i]Is there any way we can distract or lure off your wife so we can “deal” with her?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Off her![/i] Jahar then explains that if BOHICA finds out his father’s group is looking for them, and that BOHICA would probably become competitive if they were to find this out. [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Maybe Tiger or A-Dom could plant some kind of evidence, that would lead them away from us.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]You mean like having me “pretend” to be an Anathema going on a wild rampage through the city?[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]You know that worked last time.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]You know I actually have family on that island that I want to live.[/i] [b]Dan[/b]: [i]We have other islands we can move them to.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (high feminine voice): [i]Wah, waaaah, wah, waaaaah, Waah...[/i] [b]Jahar[/b] (to A-Dom): [i]I don’t understand why you want to get rid of this island. It would make an excellent power base. Kill the army, take over the island. We’re done.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Done?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Two years ago you would have said “Make this person ugly” and you’re done. But you do now.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (completely confused): [i]What? Hun? WHAT?!?[/i] [b]Lori[/b]: [i]Soon I’ll be able to buy “Jahar” as a language. It will allow me to speak to him and understand him clearly.[/i] [b]Gabe[/b]: [i]yea, but you only get half of that language per dot of Linguistics.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]I want a divorce. I’m going to form my own circle. I’ll make them out of twigs.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b] (looking at A-Dom): [i]Me too. But I think it’s too late.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (to Ceri): [i]What? I’m married to you?[/i] [b]Ceri[/b] (changing the subject): [i]You’re married to the circle, it’s too late.[/i] Everyone looks mildly confused. Gareth is even more confused because he is using Judge’s Ear. [b]Alex[/b]: [i]I need Judges Ear to be on all the time. I’m serious.[/i] The group then has another long argument about how to take over the island, using demons, but without killing any mortals. Which completely confused A-Dom. Tiger alone on Hoen-Ba, is awakened in the middle of the night. He sees (9 successes) off in the distance a large ship sailing towards him. On the ship at the very prow, was a man he recognized as a Dragon Blood who he had seen around the Sesus house once or twice. He is occasionally making waving motions, apparently directing the ship. Tiger grabbed his small stolen boat, and sailed strait for Opec Island. He arrived six hours later, at around dawn. He find’s Gareth. [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Gareth! We have trouble.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]More?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]It seems to have followed us.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]They coming here?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Maybe, they were heading to Hoen-ba. We don’t have much time. We need to leave immediately, if not sooner.[/i] So, of course, the group got into an argument for several hours. A-Dom arrived at the ship with his Spine Chain (caterpillar made out of dead torsos), Spine-E. [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]People we’re going to have company.[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]How much company?[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]They have a big boat.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Should we race them to Onyx?[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]Isn’t that just a little far?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]We could have A-Dom disguise himself in the water, and just knock a hole in their ship.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b] (to Ceri): [i]Can’t you make giant flaming birds?[/i] [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]Maybe we should just go out and fight them at sea. There is nobody (random mortals) to get hurt from the fighting.[/i] This starts the: Fight on the Island, vs Fight on the boat next to the island, vs Fight on the boat at sea, vs Run for it, argument. [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]Where are they now?[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Getting closer.[/i] Jahar then casts his Bones of Stone spell to prepare for he believes is the approaching combat. Then the group argues about if they should leave the crew on the island (where they might be captured or killed), or take them to fight the Dragon Bloods crew (where they might be killed). [This paragraph covers over a half hour of arguing.] Jahar then ran off to talk to Opec. [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]There is a ship full of Dragon Bloods coming to attack us.[/i] [b]Opec[/b]: [i]Why?[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Would it be bad to fight on this island?[/i] [b]Opec[/b]: [i]I don’t think so. It wouldn’t hurt me.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]That was one of my questions.[/i] Jahar heads back to the boat. Back at the boat: [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Maybe we could tell them we were investigating the island for mineral rights.[/i] Everyone looks at the sandy small island, and realizes this isn’t a great cover story. [b]Paul[/b] (feeling the need to point this out): [i]You could try to come up with a convincing lie to tell them, and not fight.[/i] Feelings from group: [b]Ceri[/b]: [i]Lets fight them.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck[/b]: [i]Lets deal with them now, at sea.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b] (Jahar mocking voice): [i]We could just knock them out. And interview them first to make sure they are not innocents.[/i] [b]Tiger[/b]: [i]Kill them now, later, whatever.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]I don’t want to fight them. I don’t like our chances.[/i] Gareth being the only one who has seen BOHICA, describes them as best he can. Cynis Jara (Jahar’s wife). Earth Aspect. Wears armor and carries a Gore Maul. Water aspected Monk type. Who Jahar identified as Peleps Aulric. Brother Falling Leaf (whom he had met at a number of occasions related to Jahar’s wedding, he is also a Cynis), Wood Aspect. One dressed entirely in jade armor, including a helmet. Probably female due to the small stature. One dressed entirely in long robes, long cloak, with hood, who he hadn’t gotten a good look at. [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]We have problems if they all die.[/i] [b]A-Dom[/b]: [i]They could “re-appear” in Atlantis at some point.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]If you ever masquerade as my wife...[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: (sarcastic tone) [i]Maybe... we could just summon a demon![/i] [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]Wrong time of day. All kinds of other problems.[/i] [b]Gareth[/b]: (sarcastic tone) [i]But then you would have a Demon![/i] Gareth then explained to the group that it’s better for the group to fight upon their ship. Cause he’s all with the sail voodoo. [b]Jahar[/b]: [i]If we are going to do this, we actually have to fight as a team.[/i] Jade’s Luck started looking for spirits to help. Unfortunately, the only spirit around was a great big mellow Calm Air spirit. Then the group decides that it should start working on an explanation. To try before the fight. The big sticking point being that Jade’s Luck was seen by a lot of townsfolk doing a number of strange things. The group decided that demon possession (and she’s all better now) was the more reasonable explanation (of the ones they came up with). Their ship then came into view heading towards them. Jahar realized that he was all made out of stone. Which hurt his ability to talk to his wife and convince her he is not an anathema, and that nothing strange was not going on. This irritated Jahar because in order to talk to his wife, he had to “Not be ready for combat.” Spine-E was sent off into the jungle of Opec Island to hide at some point (since he would kind of hurt the believability of some of their stories). So they pulled away from the dock and started sailing away from the other ship in order to stall for time. Unfortunately due to the calm air, they didn’t manage to speed away as fast as they hoped. [b]Gareth[/b]: [i]Well we aren’t arguing as much as normal.[/i] [b]Jahar[/b]:[i] We are making progress.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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