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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3025704" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 8/14/06</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">"I Think We Just Let Loose A Plague Upon Creation… Again!" </span></strong></p><p></p><p>Over the next few days the Circle trained and prepared for their long journey. One night Jade’s Luck threw a dinner party ‘for her friends and business associates,’ namely the Circle.</p><p></p><p>Jahar talked a lot about forwarding the goals of their religion and their business and talked about using different faces for the different tasks, so to speak. He talked about using robes or actually making them look different or some combination of disguise for the spreading of the religion. He didn’t want it getting back to people on Atlantis, or the dragon-bloods in general, that it was us doing this. So there was a good amount of talk about making it a mystery cult.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Yes. We have a nifty, new religion. And the really great part about it is that it is a secret. Only a select few know about it and that makes you special.</em></p><p></p><p>They talked about isolated cells or schools for the religion so that if one group was found it wouldn’t necessarily lead to all of the members getting squished.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>So, who do we plan on blowing up?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Later on, everyone we want to.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s luck:</strong> <em>You need to be more careful with these broad promises.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>You do the whole ding thingy. I agree to that.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar talked about the problem of needing to take the time to train people properly and how the group had not been good about that so far. Jade’s Luck brought up the idea of bringing some apprentices along with the group on their trips to teach them along the way. Gareth’s comment on the high mortality rate of that method was ignored. Gareth brought up the option of the group improving their teaching skills through charms. It would be obvious if they taught a group of mortals in a week, but they weren’t being subtle in that manner anyway. This wouldn’t be useful for training them to defend themselves, but they could do speed training for the initiates and let them go out and train the others the slow way.</p><p></p><p>Somehow they got onto the topic of Abalon and A-dom made the comment that they needed to go back there to kill that vizier, because <em>he was a prick</em>. This led to an argument with Ceri, since she felt the vizier acted perfectly reasonable.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>So, we can’t kill any Lunars even if they’re being pricks?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>He wasn’t being a prick. He said you were being very obvious about the cult building and asked you to tone it down.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>No. He said, ‘You <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 stop now!’ And he did it on our island. Hence why we should kill him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em> You’re not killing him. You go to kill him, you and me are going to have a fight.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>I think that, if we try to kill him, we’ll be squished, so it is kind of mute.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Now what if he were to attack us?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>That would be different. There is self defense and then there is ‘gee, I don’t like that guy, let’s kill him. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Okay, fine. We’re going to provoke him later and then kill him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>That wouldn’t be self defense.</em></p><p></p><p>The conversation went along in this same vein until Jahar was able to steer it away.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>So, over all, would that be an idea that might help us in our prosylization?</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Long silence</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You know, I kind of stopped paying attention.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Paul laughs loudly</em>*</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck summarized up what she and Jahar had discussed and Gareth agreed to it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom proved he was a bad son when the topic of his mother and him needing a wife came up by saying he could just say his wife died of syphilis or gonorrhea or something.</p><p></p><p>They parted ways for the night and, within the next couple of days, set sail. During the first month Jahar brought up the brotherhood spell to the Circle. He managed to convince them by talking about the benefits of the spell and playing down the negatives.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>So, if I accidentally hit you, I’m not going to stab myself in the face?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Correct., However…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (cutting Jahar off) <em>What if you on purpose kill one of us?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Then I will stab myself in the face in mourning.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Can I get that sanctified? Can I get that sanctified? Seriously!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I’m almost tempted to sanctify that. But you likely wouldn’t agree to anything if I did that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <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 over your teammates isn’t with the trusting.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Neither is the killing them on purpose.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I have yet to do that!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>See, it is the yet that gets us.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar set up the spell for six, but Ceri told him that this spell was for the Circle and not her. Jahar failed to convince her that she should be included in it.</p><p></p><p>Somehow A-dom got to asking Ceri how she exalted.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>It’s not that good of a story.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Well, she</em> (gestures to jade’s Luck)<em> killed me and I exalted, so how’d you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>I fell out of a tree.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>A-dom laughs</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>That’s not why I exalted. I dragged myself across the island for several days with a busted leg, trying to save my life. Luna exalts those who fight to survive through difficult odds.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Where as apparently the Unconquered Sun exalts those who die.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I think the unconquered Sun sneezes and happens to give people charms.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Well, he did say he has a little trouble targeting.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I am learning about things. And now I know about Lunars. Now I intend to learn about Celestials. Especially the best way to kill them.</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri went off to have a couple of hours of quiet time. Finally, Jahar got back to setting up the Brotherhood spell, with Tiger and A-dom’s assistance. Jahar then started to set up people in the directions of the compass. Jade’s Luck reminded him that each caste was associated with a direction, so he adjusted where people were situated. He went into a lengthy chant, sprinkling each circle member with shavings of the metal associated with their caste.</p><p></p><p>Once the spell was completed, everyone was feeling very good about their loyalty to the others. Then A-dom activated Vanishing from Mind’s Eye and ceased to be A-dom again. This, of course, lead everyone to be confused, since they had just finished the ritual that this strange man had been included in somehow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (cheerily) <em>Hi! I’m in your brotherhood, can you tell?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> (annoyed and grating voice) <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (cheerily) <em>You know where I am?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> (annoyed and grating voice) <em>You’re right there.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (cheerily) <em> I’m A-dom!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Why are you in our brotherhood?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (cheerily) <em> I don’t know.</em></p><p></p><p>What was really annoying is he was still sitting in the spot marked for the Dawn caste with metal shavings on him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Why’d you include this guy, Jahar?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar figured the guy showed up after the spell, but was somehow included. He also couldn’t remember why he felt the need to learn and cast this spell, beyond having problems with the party.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (cheerily) <em>Are you properly annoyed yet?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>So, should we tie him up?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Yes!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom decided he didn’t want to participate in bondage fun and dropped his charm.</p><p></p><p>After the month of sailing through rather boring open waters they spotted a rather odd looking island to visit. It had a lot of multicolored spires with large multicolored rocks balancing on top of them. Once Jade’s Luck and Tiger saw the island, they felt it was a good idea to emulate Gareth by putting up Integrity Protecting Prana. Jahar expressed that he didn’t feel it was a good idea for him to go to that island. And thus they learned that Jahar remained without Wyld protection. He said some sorcerous energies were holding the rocks up and he was pretty sure that the island was holding itself up as well. He said it could be the Wyld, but he wasn’t sure.</p><p></p><p>As A-dom rubbed a tusk, a pirate walked by.</p><p></p><p><strong>Random Pirate #6:</strong> <em>I hear masks are in season, sir.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Are you saying you’re an excellent swimmer?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Random Pirate #6:</strong> <em>No. Just making a suggestion, sir.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar put up Spirit Detecting Glance to confirm a few things. He noticed the spirit of the <strong>Grumpy Craftsman</strong> on the ship and a couple of wind spirits helping push the boat. On the island he noticed a lot of gravity spirits hanging out upside down in hammocks, holding up the rocks. After Jahar commented upon this, Jade’s Luck followed suit by putting up this charm.</p><p></p><p>A-dom waved at the spirits.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Hello spirits!</em></p><p></p><p>Of course, A-dom couldn’t see them waving back.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <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=":)" /> you, spirits!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Hey!</em></p><p></p><p>She went to whap A-dom upside the head for being a dumbass, but found she could no longer inflict immediate harm upon him. Ceri saw what Jade’s Luck was trying to do and happily obliged.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (rubbing back of his head) <em>Oww! Meanie.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>We now have the group enforcer.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>It’s not like I was trying to use my fan or something.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We can no longer hit each other at all? What about celebratory claps on the back? Those aren’t meant for harm.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>No. I deny you that definition.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>You telling me you would never clap someone on the back?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>No. I will never touch anyone ever.</em></p><p></p><p>And another perfect screwing pact opportunity was passed up.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and Jahar went to go get a dinghy ready while Gareth got another one ready. The Circle sailed over while Ceri flew.</p><p></p><p>Jahar had a brief conversation with one of the gravity spirits about his purpose there. They were directed to the center of the island to talk who was ordering him to hold up the rock.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>How long have you been holding it up?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gravity Spirit:</strong> <em>I’m not really good with time, sir.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger commented how they needed to get a bunch of time spirits and place them around the world to keep other spirits informed of how long it had been.</p><p></p><p>Jahar asked what the thing ordering him around was called. The gravity spirit replied Koinar. (KOH-i-nar). Apparently he was having the gravity spirits hold up the rocks because it looked good.</p><p></p><p>Jahar suggested to Gareth that he go get a really long rope and tie it to the boat so that when they screwed up the island and it sunk, they didn’t go down with it. This confused Jade’s luck, since she wanted to know why tying the boat to the sinking rock would be a good thing. Jahar explained the rope was for them to hold onto. Jade’s Luck pointed out that that much rope wasn’t feasible. As the group headed inland, Jade’s Luck praised the gravity spirits and made small talk. A-dom noticed that they were walking a much longer distance than visual distance seemed to be. He then put up Integrity Protecting Prana.</p><p></p><p>As they continued walking along, Jahar noticed that there was a mouse following them. It was wearing a voodoo mask and a spear.</p><p></p><p>Jahar stopped dead in his tracks and glanced over his shoulder. The little mouse hid behind a flower and some blades of grass.</p><p></p><p>Tiger noticed that Jahar had fallen behind and asked him what was going on.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>There is a mouse following me.</em></p><p></p><p>When Jahar pointed the mouse out, the mouse tried to hide more.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Oh, that’s cute!</em></p><p></p><p>The others thought it was a cute mouse too. Gareth pulled out a piece of cheese and set it out for the mouse. The mouse stabbed it with its spear and yelled out a little cry in barbarian mouse language. It then grabbed the cheese and ran back to a little mouse village.</p><p></p><p>When they got to a small hut type residence in the center of the island. As they wandered in, they found the inside was much larger than the outside with a granite table in the center of the room with what looked like a map on it. Everyone but Jahar walked over to look at the map. It was a map encased in a box with glass covering. It was a map of the west, but it was all wrong. The islands were made out of rocks and the water was actually water. It had some script on it in Old Realm, which everyone could read by this point.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.chomic.net/exalted/ancientmaps01.html" target="_blank">Ancient Map of the West</a></p><p><a href="http://www.chomic.net/exalted/westmap01.html" target="_blank">Large Current Map of the West</a> (for comparison)</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> (to A-dom) <em>When did you learn Old Realm?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (beaming) <em>Gareth taught me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I am in favor of A-dom becoming a more learned person.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>He can do bad things with knowledge.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>He already does bad things. I figure if he is more intelligent…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> (cutting Gareth off)<em> It’s probably just going to make the problem worse.</em></p><p></p><p>They pondered the map and the changes to the world a great long while. Then they noticed the scale of the map and pondered some more.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck looked around the room for writing on the walls or something to clue her into the mysteries of the map. She noticed a spirit hanging out near the ceiling. Every so often, he pointed towards a gravity spirit and gestured left or right.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Interesting. I wonder if these islands are underground and if we can raise them again.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Oh. Visitors!</em></p><p></p><p>A big, bright, colorful spirit came floating down to the group. Visible to all, he asked them what they thought of his island.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Very nice.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Excellent. What do you think about the color. Not sure about the color.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Very spectacular.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em> Yes, I agree.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Needs more green.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Green?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Green.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>I thought I did enough with the grass outside.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>More.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Green?</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth thought this place was all <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 nuts and not at all aesthetically pleasing, but kept it to himself. Jade’s Luck offered some suggestions for embellishing, which would cause more work for the other spirits. The wind spirit in the room tried to get her to shut up, but Koinar told it to go back to making the room counterclockwise. This confused the group, since they had no clue what clockwise was. Koinar had to explain that a clock was a time device sometimes run by time spirits. Koinar wandered over to a secret cubbyhole, opened it up, and pulled out a little guy to ask him how long the island had been there. The time spirit rattled off an incredibly long digit in seconds, which was slightly shorter than the number rattled off by Rocky on the Elemental Island.</p><p></p><p>When asked, Koinar explained that this place was his own artistic vision and no one asked him to make it look this way. Then Tiger asked about the map.</p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Oh. That. Some guy dropped it off. Asked if he could leave it here. Said somebody would be coming to pick it up later.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Okay if we take it, then?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Are you here to pick it up?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Yeah.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em> Oh, well, fine. Get it the hell out of here. Take the table too. It is disrupting my muse.</em></p><p></p><p>Koinar said the guy who dropped off the map liked building things.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (pointing at Gareth) <em>Does he remind you at all of the guy who dropped it off?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>No. He’s not wearing a dress.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth confirmed the length of the ‘dress’ and said it was a kilt and the man was Pollus.</p><p></p><p>Jahar asked him about the map and Koinar said he had never looked at it. Looking at it, he said it was all wrong and chucked it into the air. Gareth caught it.</p><p></p><p>Jahar inquired more about the guy who dropped off the map. Koinar said he was a terrible dresser. Said he was leaving the table and map there.</p><p></p><p>Koinar said he’d like people to come visit so they could see his latest work. Ceri commented that is wasn’t safe for normal people to come visit. Jade’s Luck added that she thought they might turn into mice. Koinar walked out to the mice village where the mice had a nice cheese fondue pot going. Koinar questioned them about if people would turn into them if they showed up or if they had been people at one point. The mice didn’t know on either account.</p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Back to your cheese!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck said they might be able to find people to visit or relocate here. Koinar suggested art critics. Jade’s Luck asked if the whole island was held up by spirits. Koinar paused briefly and then told her not to worry about it. Koinar then said it wouldn’t sink and not to worry about it. She seemed okay with that answer.</p><p></p><p>Jahar said he should head back to the ship. Gareth and A-dom decided to accompany him. They discussed the map for a while and the movement of islands. Gareth commented on how Atlantis and at least a couple of other islands had anchors and could be moved.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>What’s holding them up? Um, what’s holding them up?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Um, the power of our minds?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I don’t like that answer. I don’t like it at all.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar kept looking at the map very closing, trying to see the fine detail. He became convinced that he could zoom in on images within the map.</p><p></p><p>As Tiger decided he wanted to go exploring, Gareth, A-dom and Jahar headed back to the ship. A-dom carried the granite table while Gareth carried the map. Jahar kept trying to zoom in while they were walking. Jahar kept going on about zooming in on the map. A-dom called Jahar a loony.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>We’re going to focus on walking back to the boat now and not talking.</em></p><p></p><p>When they got back to the boat, they put the granite table in the galley and the map in Gareth’s room.</p><p></p><p>As Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and Ceri wandered around the island, Jade’s Luck found that one of the pillars was a big, hollow column in sandy soil. Tiger pushed the sand away from the bottom of it and found it was part of the island. Searching around for a while, he found a pillar that had a large hole in it about fifteen feet up. Tiger turned on his headlight and decided he wanted to check out the inside of the column. He deftly scrambled down before anyone could say anything. Jade’s Luck turned on her headlamp and watched after him. Once he was about twenty feet down she followed. The inside corkscrewed down a ways and widened. After a while the tunnel curved back up and he stopped seeing the walls. Looking around, he found he was in a large cave and he felt his danger sense telling him this wasn’t a safe place. He heard breathing and saw a bunch of bug-like people sleeping. Tiger started circling in the other direction to go back up. Unfortunately, he wasn’t really his usual stealthy self. He hit a rock wrong while climbing back up and all the head swung in unison to look at him.</p><p></p><p>One of the scarab people spoke some weird form of Old Realm. He was pretty sure he heard them chanting <em>the prison is open!</em> as the two to three hundred of them moved en masse towards him.</p><p></p><p>Tiger activated lightening speed as he headed up the tunnel. As he approached Jade’s Luck, she tried back-pedaling. He picked her up and continued on. She activated Graceful Crane Stance to help him out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Why are we running away so fast?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>There is a whole boatload of badness behind me.</em></p><p></p><p>With Jade’s Luck, Tiger wasn’t moving as fast he wanted. The scarab people started gaining on them. Tiger started yelling out to Ceri that they needed to collapse the tunnel. She yelled back that she had a spell to seal the hole. Jade’s Luck and Tiger tried blocking the hole and killing those trying to escape while Ceri worked her magic mojo.</p><p></p><p>They were less than effective in keeping all of the scarab people within the hole. Tiger managed to kill lots of them and wound even more, but they weren’t playing fair and stopping to fight. With each wave, a couple got past and headed for the beach..</p><p></p><p>Back on the boat, Gareth was busy kicking Jahar out of his quarters for the third time. A-dom called down from on deck that something was going on on the island. As Gareth and Jahar made it on deck, the most noticeable thing from the boat was the drawing of Essence by Ceri. Jahar noticed a couple of black spots moving onto the beach and into the water. Gareth ordered the crew to the ready.</p><p></p><p>A-dom noticed that the tribe of mice were on the beach waving a flag for help. They pulled out a little canoe and started rowing towards the boat.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Can we keep them?</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth told A-dom he was needed on shore and to throw the mice to the ship so he could catch them. For some reason it had completely slipped his mind how far the mice were from the boat. A-dom monkey leapt a chunk of the way to the island and started swimming.</p><p></p><p>Back on the island, Jade’s Luck left the hole and chased after the escaping scarab men. As some of the scarab people jumped into the water, they yelled <em>We’re Free!</em> in their weird tongue. Jade’s Luck was completely ineffective in stopping the ones that got out from getting away. Well, she managed to kill the horribly wounded one.</p><p></p><p>As a final wave of three came out, Ceri finished up her spell and repaired the hole. A total of fourteen scarab people made it out alive and into the water. A-dom noticed that when they dove into the water they were splitting up into two different directions and disappearing. He knew this wasn’t good, but was concentrating on the mice.</p><p></p><p>A-dom made it to the mice. He picked up their little canoe and lobbed it at the deck of the boat. As the mice canoe sailed over the railing and headed towards the mast, Gareth skillfully plucked them out of the air. He even caught the little, old mouse with his other hand as it kept going. The mice all started bowing at Gareth in worship. Gareth welcomed them onto the ship.</p><p></p><p>Those on and near the island noticed Koinar come running out of the hut.</p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Oh my! What? What happened? What’s going on? What Ooooh. Oooh. Very bad. TAKE ME WITH YOU! TAKE ME WITH YOU!</em></p><p></p><p>As Koinar came running towards them, Jade’s Luck turned Spirit Detecting Glace back on. She then noticed all of the gravity spirits taking off.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (to random gravity spirit)<em> Where are you going?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gravity Spirit:</strong> <em>To safety!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>That’s not good.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>Told you. Rope.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>TAKE ME WITH YOU! TAKE ME WITH YOU!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Can you tell us what is going on while we leave?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p>They started swimming for the <strong>Grumpy Craftsman</strong>, leaving the dinghy behind.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Speak quickly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Things holding up island gone.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>How?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>You let them out. Or they got out.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>The hole is plugged. They aren’t getting out anymore.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>No, no, no. Need all of them to keep the island floating. Had two spare.</em></p><p></p><p>They start hearing the rocks that were being held up by gravity spirits falling, smashing pillars. The island began crashing in on itself. Those sitting on the boat could see a fountain of scarab people coming out of the ground a fleeing for the ocean, sinking into the water.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Are these bug people going to hurt people being out?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>I don’t know. Gods trapped them there.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Gods are annoying like that.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck said she had an island she could put him on. He asked it it needed decorating. She said she could find a section of it for him to decorate.</p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>Excellent. I like very large rocks suspended from high places.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck said she’d need to limit that section of the island, since that sort of thing upset mortals.</p><p></p><p>Once they were on the <strong>Grumpy Craftsman</strong>, Gareth pulled the ship further away from the sinking island.</p><p></p><p><strong>Koinar:</strong> <em>By the way, you need more pastilles. This ship, all wrong, needs pastilles.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Too Bad! My ship!</em> (to Jade’s Luck) <em>What is he doing here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>We rescued him. By the way Gareth, can you please welcome the nice spirit onto the ship so that bad things won’t happen to him? We’re going to be dropping him at Elemental island.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>As long he doesn’t do anything to my boat, he’ll be fine.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth then wandered off below decks with the mice.</p><p></p><p>Jahar wanted to keep one of the scarab people for study, so summoned his hound of the wind and told it to fetch one of them. The hound dove under water and a few seconds later, they heard yelping. He knew the hound wasn’t coming back. He felt bad.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck jotted down a quick sketch of the scarab people to show Opec some time. Jahar tried to describe the scarab people to Roedy (his robes), but didn’t get a good look. Jade’s Luck held up the picture to the robes, but apparently they couldn’t see it. Jahar described the picture <em>man sized, eight legs, antennae, bunch of mandibles, chitinous shell</em>.</p><p></p><p>Jahar then had to explain where they were. He went down below to the map to find where they were. He found Gareth setting the mice up in a corner of his room.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Jahar, what are you doing in my quarters again?</em></p><p></p><p>With the help of the map and the information about the gods locking them up, Roedy was able to piece it together. The rest of the group eventually trickled down to Gareth’s room as well.</p><p></p><p><strong>Roedy:</strong> <em>There were some things created before humans. They were found to be unacceptable. They were put into storage.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Well, apparently a couple hundred of them just got out.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Roedy:</strong> <em>Whoops. They are an abomination against god and were found to be inferior. Await further orders?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar shared all of this with the others by saying <em>Those were bad.</em></p><p></p><p>With prying from Jade’s Luck, he explained that they were inferior. With more prying, he said they were an abomination against Creation and could probably eat it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Okay. See, abomination against creation is very different from inferior beings that will probably die in a couple of days and we could probably ignore it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I said nothing about dieing.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Maybe we’ll luck out and the sea demon will eat them.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>You said they were inferior!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>So, next time we go see US we should…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Not mention this? I agree.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Since there apparently seem to be more pockets of similar things, I think we should ask the gods what t do about it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em>Okay. Group prayer. If you would like to lead our sermon, Jade’s Luck, we’ll all be sitting down now.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck continued on about the abomination part. Jahar went into saying that they wouldn’t die, they’d just keep living. And eating.</p><p></p><p>Gareth could see she wasn’t going to get down to the prayer for a while, so he picked up some spare materials he had lying around (it was his room, after all) and started constructing a little village for the mice. It didn’t take him too long.</p><p></p><p>Ceri turned into a fish and went for a swim to see what was up with the scarab people. They seemed to be spreading out and were aquatic.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I think we just let loose a plague upon Creation.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Yes. I was trying to determine the nature of the plague. Do they breed?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Interesting. I don’t know.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I’m starting to think the dragon-bloods might have the right idea about us.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Well, just us five.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>This is actually our first plague. Real plague, at least.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (praying) <em>God, you may want to smite us before we screw up some more. Actually, I’m kind of serious about that one.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Wow. I’ve never had a player pray for a reset.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck started wondering why the gods didn’t just destroy the abominations in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Ceri walked into the room, having returned from her swim.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> (looking at Gareth) <em>We’ve just let loose a plague upon Creation and you’re building the mice a little home?</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> (laughing) <em>Apparently your god has exalted mice before.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Shocked I am not at all.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> (laughing) <em>No standards!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Not disagreeing with you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> (laughing) <em>One of you did in the past.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar walked over to the mice and asked them if they spoke. One of them raised his spear and responded in their barbarian mouse language. Jahar asked if they knew how to write in mouse. One of the mice ran over to Gareth and tugged on his pant leg. It pointed at Jahar and made confused and disturbed looks at him while saying something to Gareth.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em>Jahar, what are you doing to my mice?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>If we’re going to keep the mice, we might as well teach them to communicate.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>They can communicate perfectly well.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (to Jahar) <em>They just said you’re nuts.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (to Gareth) <em>Hey! Who said they were your mice?</em> (raises his arms high and to the mice) <em>My fellow Wyld brethren!</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Mice raise their spears and chant back at him in their little language</em>*</p><p></p><p>Gareth finished the little mouse village before they were ready for the group prayer. In the middle of the village was a little shrine to the Unconquered Sun. The mice all bowed down to worship the sun symbols of the shrine.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Ceri gather the others in a group and led them in a prayer of guidance to the Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Oh God, we <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=":)" />ed up. How do you fix things? Oh God, why didn’t you just step on the bugs in the first place if you didn’t want them in Creation?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Unconquered Sun:</strong> <em>Do you know what the paperwork is for genocide? It goes on for ever! So much easier to put people in a prison.</em></p><p></p><p>In response to who bad these things were, the only response she got was <em>Mostly Annoying</em>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Well, he didn’t go ‘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=":)" />, 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=":)" />. Fix that, you dumbasses!’ He just called us dumbasses a couple times.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth went up on deck and gathered the pirate crew together.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>We rescued a little tribe of mice.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Pirate #6:</strong> <em>Tribe?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Tribe.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>They have a shaman and stuff.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>They have little masks and spears.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Pirate #3:</strong> <em>Oh. They’re perfectly normal!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Exactly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Don’t kill them unless absolutely necessary. So, unless they attack you en masse, don’t kill them.</em></p><p></p><p>The architect spirit wandered around the deck having trouble coming up with what the right color scheme for the boat would be. Gareth was happy that he was having problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3025704, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 8/14/06[/i] [b][size=18]"I Think We Just Let Loose A Plague Upon Creation… Again!" [/size][/b] Over the next few days the Circle trained and prepared for their long journey. One night Jade’s Luck threw a dinner party ‘for her friends and business associates,’ namely the Circle. Jahar talked a lot about forwarding the goals of their religion and their business and talked about using different faces for the different tasks, so to speak. He talked about using robes or actually making them look different or some combination of disguise for the spreading of the religion. He didn’t want it getting back to people on Atlantis, or the dragon-bloods in general, that it was us doing this. So there was a good amount of talk about making it a mystery cult. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Yes. We have a nifty, new religion. And the really great part about it is that it is a secret. Only a select few know about it and that makes you special.[/i] They talked about isolated cells or schools for the religion so that if one group was found it wouldn’t necessarily lead to all of the members getting squished. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]So, who do we plan on blowing up?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Later on, everyone we want to.[/i] [b]Jade’s luck:[/b] [i]You need to be more careful with these broad promises.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]You do the whole ding thingy. I agree to that.[/i] Jahar talked about the problem of needing to take the time to train people properly and how the group had not been good about that so far. Jade’s Luck brought up the idea of bringing some apprentices along with the group on their trips to teach them along the way. Gareth’s comment on the high mortality rate of that method was ignored. Gareth brought up the option of the group improving their teaching skills through charms. It would be obvious if they taught a group of mortals in a week, but they weren’t being subtle in that manner anyway. This wouldn’t be useful for training them to defend themselves, but they could do speed training for the initiates and let them go out and train the others the slow way. Somehow they got onto the topic of Abalon and A-dom made the comment that they needed to go back there to kill that vizier, because [i]he was a prick[/i]. This led to an argument with Ceri, since she felt the vizier acted perfectly reasonable. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]So, we can’t kill any Lunars even if they’re being pricks?[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]He wasn’t being a prick. He said you were being very obvious about the cult building and asked you to tone it down.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]No. He said, ‘You :):):):)ing stop now!’ And he did it on our island. Hence why we should kill him.[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i] You’re not killing him. You go to kill him, you and me are going to have a fight.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]I think that, if we try to kill him, we’ll be squished, so it is kind of mute.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Now what if he were to attack us?[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]That would be different. There is self defense and then there is ‘gee, I don’t like that guy, let’s kill him. [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Okay, fine. We’re going to provoke him later and then kill him.[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]That wouldn’t be self defense.[/i] The conversation went along in this same vein until Jahar was able to steer it away. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]So, over all, would that be an idea that might help us in our prosylization?[/i] *[i]Long silence[/i]* [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You know, I kind of stopped paying attention.[/i] *[i]Paul laughs loudly[/i]* Jade’s Luck summarized up what she and Jahar had discussed and Gareth agreed to it. A-dom proved he was a bad son when the topic of his mother and him needing a wife came up by saying he could just say his wife died of syphilis or gonorrhea or something. They parted ways for the night and, within the next couple of days, set sail. During the first month Jahar brought up the brotherhood spell to the Circle. He managed to convince them by talking about the benefits of the spell and playing down the negatives. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]So, if I accidentally hit you, I’m not going to stab myself in the face?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Correct., However…[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (cutting Jahar off) [i]What if you on purpose kill one of us?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Then I will stab myself in the face in mourning.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Can I get that sanctified? Can I get that sanctified? Seriously![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I’m almost tempted to sanctify that. But you likely wouldn’t agree to anything if I did that.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]:):):):)ing over your teammates isn’t with the trusting.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Neither is the killing them on purpose.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I have yet to do that![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]See, it is the yet that gets us.[/i] Jahar set up the spell for six, but Ceri told him that this spell was for the Circle and not her. Jahar failed to convince her that she should be included in it. Somehow A-dom got to asking Ceri how she exalted. [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]It’s not that good of a story.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Well, she[/i] (gestures to jade’s Luck)[i] killed me and I exalted, so how’d you?[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]I fell out of a tree.[/i] *[i]A-dom laughs[/i]* [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]That’s not why I exalted. I dragged myself across the island for several days with a busted leg, trying to save my life. Luna exalts those who fight to survive through difficult odds.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Where as apparently the Unconquered Sun exalts those who die.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I think the unconquered Sun sneezes and happens to give people charms.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Well, he did say he has a little trouble targeting.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I am learning about things. And now I know about Lunars. Now I intend to learn about Celestials. Especially the best way to kill them.[/i] Ceri went off to have a couple of hours of quiet time. Finally, Jahar got back to setting up the Brotherhood spell, with Tiger and A-dom’s assistance. Jahar then started to set up people in the directions of the compass. Jade’s Luck reminded him that each caste was associated with a direction, so he adjusted where people were situated. He went into a lengthy chant, sprinkling each circle member with shavings of the metal associated with their caste. Once the spell was completed, everyone was feeling very good about their loyalty to the others. Then A-dom activated Vanishing from Mind’s Eye and ceased to be A-dom again. This, of course, lead everyone to be confused, since they had just finished the ritual that this strange man had been included in somehow. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (cheerily) [i]Hi! I’m in your brotherhood, can you tell?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] (annoyed and grating voice) [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (cheerily) [i]You know where I am?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] (annoyed and grating voice) [i]You’re right there.[/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (cheerily) [i] I’m A-dom![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Why are you in our brotherhood?[/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (cheerily) [i] I don’t know.[/i] What was really annoying is he was still sitting in the spot marked for the Dawn caste with metal shavings on him. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Why’d you include this guy, Jahar?[/i] Jahar figured the guy showed up after the spell, but was somehow included. He also couldn’t remember why he felt the need to learn and cast this spell, beyond having problems with the party. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (cheerily) [i]Are you properly annoyed yet?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]So, should we tie him up?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Yes![/i] A-dom decided he didn’t want to participate in bondage fun and dropped his charm. After the month of sailing through rather boring open waters they spotted a rather odd looking island to visit. It had a lot of multicolored spires with large multicolored rocks balancing on top of them. Once Jade’s Luck and Tiger saw the island, they felt it was a good idea to emulate Gareth by putting up Integrity Protecting Prana. Jahar expressed that he didn’t feel it was a good idea for him to go to that island. And thus they learned that Jahar remained without Wyld protection. He said some sorcerous energies were holding the rocks up and he was pretty sure that the island was holding itself up as well. He said it could be the Wyld, but he wasn’t sure. As A-dom rubbed a tusk, a pirate walked by. [b]Random Pirate #6:[/b] [i]I hear masks are in season, sir.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Are you saying you’re an excellent swimmer?[/i] [b]Random Pirate #6:[/b] [i]No. Just making a suggestion, sir.[/i] Jahar put up Spirit Detecting Glance to confirm a few things. He noticed the spirit of the [b]Grumpy Craftsman[/b] on the ship and a couple of wind spirits helping push the boat. On the island he noticed a lot of gravity spirits hanging out upside down in hammocks, holding up the rocks. After Jahar commented upon this, Jade’s Luck followed suit by putting up this charm. A-dom waved at the spirits. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Hello spirits![/i] Of course, A-dom couldn’t see them waving back. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]:):):):) you, spirits![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Hey![/i] She went to whap A-dom upside the head for being a dumbass, but found she could no longer inflict immediate harm upon him. Ceri saw what Jade’s Luck was trying to do and happily obliged. [b]A-dom:[/b] (rubbing back of his head) [i]Oww! Meanie.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]We now have the group enforcer.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]It’s not like I was trying to use my fan or something.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We can no longer hit each other at all? What about celebratory claps on the back? Those aren’t meant for harm.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]No. I deny you that definition.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]You telling me you would never clap someone on the back?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]No. I will never touch anyone ever.[/i] And another perfect screwing pact opportunity was passed up. Tiger and Jahar went to go get a dinghy ready while Gareth got another one ready. The Circle sailed over while Ceri flew. Jahar had a brief conversation with one of the gravity spirits about his purpose there. They were directed to the center of the island to talk who was ordering him to hold up the rock. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]How long have you been holding it up?[/i] [b]Gravity Spirit:[/b] [i]I’m not really good with time, sir.[/i] Tiger commented how they needed to get a bunch of time spirits and place them around the world to keep other spirits informed of how long it had been. Jahar asked what the thing ordering him around was called. The gravity spirit replied Koinar. (KOH-i-nar). Apparently he was having the gravity spirits hold up the rocks because it looked good. Jahar suggested to Gareth that he go get a really long rope and tie it to the boat so that when they screwed up the island and it sunk, they didn’t go down with it. This confused Jade’s luck, since she wanted to know why tying the boat to the sinking rock would be a good thing. Jahar explained the rope was for them to hold onto. Jade’s Luck pointed out that that much rope wasn’t feasible. As the group headed inland, Jade’s Luck praised the gravity spirits and made small talk. A-dom noticed that they were walking a much longer distance than visual distance seemed to be. He then put up Integrity Protecting Prana. As they continued walking along, Jahar noticed that there was a mouse following them. It was wearing a voodoo mask and a spear. Jahar stopped dead in his tracks and glanced over his shoulder. The little mouse hid behind a flower and some blades of grass. Tiger noticed that Jahar had fallen behind and asked him what was going on. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]There is a mouse following me.[/i] When Jahar pointed the mouse out, the mouse tried to hide more. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Oh, that’s cute![/i] The others thought it was a cute mouse too. Gareth pulled out a piece of cheese and set it out for the mouse. The mouse stabbed it with its spear and yelled out a little cry in barbarian mouse language. It then grabbed the cheese and ran back to a little mouse village. When they got to a small hut type residence in the center of the island. As they wandered in, they found the inside was much larger than the outside with a granite table in the center of the room with what looked like a map on it. Everyone but Jahar walked over to look at the map. It was a map encased in a box with glass covering. It was a map of the west, but it was all wrong. The islands were made out of rocks and the water was actually water. It had some script on it in Old Realm, which everyone could read by this point. [url=http://www.chomic.net/exalted/ancientmaps01.html]Ancient Map of the West[/url] [url=http://www.chomic.net/exalted/westmap01.html]Large Current Map of the West[/url] (for comparison) [b]Tiger:[/b] (to A-dom) [i]When did you learn Old Realm?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (beaming) [i]Gareth taught me.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I am in favor of A-dom becoming a more learned person.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]He can do bad things with knowledge.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]He already does bad things. I figure if he is more intelligent…[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] (cutting Gareth off)[i] It’s probably just going to make the problem worse.[/i] They pondered the map and the changes to the world a great long while. Then they noticed the scale of the map and pondered some more. Jade’s Luck looked around the room for writing on the walls or something to clue her into the mysteries of the map. She noticed a spirit hanging out near the ceiling. Every so often, he pointed towards a gravity spirit and gestured left or right. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Interesting. I wonder if these islands are underground and if we can raise them again.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Oh. Visitors![/i] A big, bright, colorful spirit came floating down to the group. Visible to all, he asked them what they thought of his island. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Very nice.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Excellent. What do you think about the color. Not sure about the color.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Very spectacular.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i] Yes, I agree.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Needs more green.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Green?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Green.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]I thought I did enough with the grass outside.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]More.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Green?[/i] Gareth thought this place was all :):):):)ing nuts and not at all aesthetically pleasing, but kept it to himself. Jade’s Luck offered some suggestions for embellishing, which would cause more work for the other spirits. The wind spirit in the room tried to get her to shut up, but Koinar told it to go back to making the room counterclockwise. This confused the group, since they had no clue what clockwise was. Koinar had to explain that a clock was a time device sometimes run by time spirits. Koinar wandered over to a secret cubbyhole, opened it up, and pulled out a little guy to ask him how long the island had been there. The time spirit rattled off an incredibly long digit in seconds, which was slightly shorter than the number rattled off by Rocky on the Elemental Island. When asked, Koinar explained that this place was his own artistic vision and no one asked him to make it look this way. Then Tiger asked about the map. [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Oh. That. Some guy dropped it off. Asked if he could leave it here. Said somebody would be coming to pick it up later.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Okay if we take it, then?[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Are you here to pick it up?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Yeah.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i] Oh, well, fine. Get it the hell out of here. Take the table too. It is disrupting my muse.[/i] Koinar said the guy who dropped off the map liked building things. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (pointing at Gareth) [i]Does he remind you at all of the guy who dropped it off?[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]No. He’s not wearing a dress.[/i] Gareth confirmed the length of the ‘dress’ and said it was a kilt and the man was Pollus. Jahar asked him about the map and Koinar said he had never looked at it. Looking at it, he said it was all wrong and chucked it into the air. Gareth caught it. Jahar inquired more about the guy who dropped off the map. Koinar said he was a terrible dresser. Said he was leaving the table and map there. Koinar said he’d like people to come visit so they could see his latest work. Ceri commented that is wasn’t safe for normal people to come visit. Jade’s Luck added that she thought they might turn into mice. Koinar walked out to the mice village where the mice had a nice cheese fondue pot going. Koinar questioned them about if people would turn into them if they showed up or if they had been people at one point. The mice didn’t know on either account. [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Back to your cheese![/i] Jade’s Luck said they might be able to find people to visit or relocate here. Koinar suggested art critics. Jade’s Luck asked if the whole island was held up by spirits. Koinar paused briefly and then told her not to worry about it. Koinar then said it wouldn’t sink and not to worry about it. She seemed okay with that answer. Jahar said he should head back to the ship. Gareth and A-dom decided to accompany him. They discussed the map for a while and the movement of islands. Gareth commented on how Atlantis and at least a couple of other islands had anchors and could be moved. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]What’s holding them up? Um, what’s holding them up?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Um, the power of our minds?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I don’t like that answer. I don’t like it at all.[/i] Jahar kept looking at the map very closing, trying to see the fine detail. He became convinced that he could zoom in on images within the map. As Tiger decided he wanted to go exploring, Gareth, A-dom and Jahar headed back to the ship. A-dom carried the granite table while Gareth carried the map. Jahar kept trying to zoom in while they were walking. Jahar kept going on about zooming in on the map. A-dom called Jahar a loony. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]We’re going to focus on walking back to the boat now and not talking.[/i] When they got back to the boat, they put the granite table in the galley and the map in Gareth’s room. As Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and Ceri wandered around the island, Jade’s Luck found that one of the pillars was a big, hollow column in sandy soil. Tiger pushed the sand away from the bottom of it and found it was part of the island. Searching around for a while, he found a pillar that had a large hole in it about fifteen feet up. Tiger turned on his headlight and decided he wanted to check out the inside of the column. He deftly scrambled down before anyone could say anything. Jade’s Luck turned on her headlamp and watched after him. Once he was about twenty feet down she followed. The inside corkscrewed down a ways and widened. After a while the tunnel curved back up and he stopped seeing the walls. Looking around, he found he was in a large cave and he felt his danger sense telling him this wasn’t a safe place. He heard breathing and saw a bunch of bug-like people sleeping. Tiger started circling in the other direction to go back up. Unfortunately, he wasn’t really his usual stealthy self. He hit a rock wrong while climbing back up and all the head swung in unison to look at him. One of the scarab people spoke some weird form of Old Realm. He was pretty sure he heard them chanting [i]the prison is open![/i] as the two to three hundred of them moved en masse towards him. Tiger activated lightening speed as he headed up the tunnel. As he approached Jade’s Luck, she tried back-pedaling. He picked her up and continued on. She activated Graceful Crane Stance to help him out. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Why are we running away so fast?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]There is a whole boatload of badness behind me.[/i] With Jade’s Luck, Tiger wasn’t moving as fast he wanted. The scarab people started gaining on them. Tiger started yelling out to Ceri that they needed to collapse the tunnel. She yelled back that she had a spell to seal the hole. Jade’s Luck and Tiger tried blocking the hole and killing those trying to escape while Ceri worked her magic mojo. They were less than effective in keeping all of the scarab people within the hole. Tiger managed to kill lots of them and wound even more, but they weren’t playing fair and stopping to fight. With each wave, a couple got past and headed for the beach.. Back on the boat, Gareth was busy kicking Jahar out of his quarters for the third time. A-dom called down from on deck that something was going on on the island. As Gareth and Jahar made it on deck, the most noticeable thing from the boat was the drawing of Essence by Ceri. Jahar noticed a couple of black spots moving onto the beach and into the water. Gareth ordered the crew to the ready. A-dom noticed that the tribe of mice were on the beach waving a flag for help. They pulled out a little canoe and started rowing towards the boat. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Can we keep them?[/i] Gareth told A-dom he was needed on shore and to throw the mice to the ship so he could catch them. For some reason it had completely slipped his mind how far the mice were from the boat. A-dom monkey leapt a chunk of the way to the island and started swimming. Back on the island, Jade’s Luck left the hole and chased after the escaping scarab men. As some of the scarab people jumped into the water, they yelled [i]We’re Free![/i] in their weird tongue. Jade’s Luck was completely ineffective in stopping the ones that got out from getting away. Well, she managed to kill the horribly wounded one. As a final wave of three came out, Ceri finished up her spell and repaired the hole. A total of fourteen scarab people made it out alive and into the water. A-dom noticed that when they dove into the water they were splitting up into two different directions and disappearing. He knew this wasn’t good, but was concentrating on the mice. A-dom made it to the mice. He picked up their little canoe and lobbed it at the deck of the boat. As the mice canoe sailed over the railing and headed towards the mast, Gareth skillfully plucked them out of the air. He even caught the little, old mouse with his other hand as it kept going. The mice all started bowing at Gareth in worship. Gareth welcomed them onto the ship. Those on and near the island noticed Koinar come running out of the hut. [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Oh my! What? What happened? What’s going on? What Ooooh. Oooh. Very bad. TAKE ME WITH YOU! TAKE ME WITH YOU![/i] As Koinar came running towards them, Jade’s Luck turned Spirit Detecting Glace back on. She then noticed all of the gravity spirits taking off. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (to random gravity spirit)[i] Where are you going?[/i] [b]Gravity Spirit:[/b] [i]To safety![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]That’s not good.[/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]Told you. Rope.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]TAKE ME WITH YOU! TAKE ME WITH YOU![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Can you tell us what is going on while we leave?[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Yes.[/i] They started swimming for the [b]Grumpy Craftsman[/b], leaving the dinghy behind. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Speak quickly.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Things holding up island gone.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]How?[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]You let them out. Or they got out.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]The hole is plugged. They aren’t getting out anymore.[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]No, no, no. Need all of them to keep the island floating. Had two spare.[/i] They start hearing the rocks that were being held up by gravity spirits falling, smashing pillars. The island began crashing in on itself. Those sitting on the boat could see a fountain of scarab people coming out of the ground a fleeing for the ocean, sinking into the water. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Are these bug people going to hurt people being out?[/i] [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]I don’t know. Gods trapped them there.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Gods are annoying like that.[/i] Jade’s Luck said she had an island she could put him on. He asked it it needed decorating. She said she could find a section of it for him to decorate. [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]Excellent. I like very large rocks suspended from high places.[/i] Jade’s Luck said she’d need to limit that section of the island, since that sort of thing upset mortals. Once they were on the [b]Grumpy Craftsman[/b], Gareth pulled the ship further away from the sinking island. [b]Koinar:[/b] [i]By the way, you need more pastilles. This ship, all wrong, needs pastilles.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Too Bad! My ship![/i] (to Jade’s Luck) [i]What is he doing here?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]We rescued him. By the way Gareth, can you please welcome the nice spirit onto the ship so that bad things won’t happen to him? We’re going to be dropping him at Elemental island.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]As long he doesn’t do anything to my boat, he’ll be fine.[/i] Gareth then wandered off below decks with the mice. Jahar wanted to keep one of the scarab people for study, so summoned his hound of the wind and told it to fetch one of them. The hound dove under water and a few seconds later, they heard yelping. He knew the hound wasn’t coming back. He felt bad. Jade’s Luck jotted down a quick sketch of the scarab people to show Opec some time. Jahar tried to describe the scarab people to Roedy (his robes), but didn’t get a good look. Jade’s Luck held up the picture to the robes, but apparently they couldn’t see it. Jahar described the picture [i]man sized, eight legs, antennae, bunch of mandibles, chitinous shell[/i]. Jahar then had to explain where they were. He went down below to the map to find where they were. He found Gareth setting the mice up in a corner of his room. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Jahar, what are you doing in my quarters again?[/i] With the help of the map and the information about the gods locking them up, Roedy was able to piece it together. The rest of the group eventually trickled down to Gareth’s room as well. [b]Roedy:[/b] [i]There were some things created before humans. They were found to be unacceptable. They were put into storage.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Well, apparently a couple hundred of them just got out.[/i] [b]Roedy:[/b] [i]Whoops. They are an abomination against god and were found to be inferior. Await further orders?[/i] Jahar shared all of this with the others by saying [i]Those were bad.[/i] With prying from Jade’s Luck, he explained that they were inferior. With more prying, he said they were an abomination against Creation and could probably eat it. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Okay. See, abomination against creation is very different from inferior beings that will probably die in a couple of days and we could probably ignore it.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I said nothing about dieing.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Maybe we’ll luck out and the sea demon will eat them.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]You said they were inferior![/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]So, next time we go see US we should…[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Not mention this? I agree.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Since there apparently seem to be more pockets of similar things, I think we should ask the gods what t do about it.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b][i]Okay. Group prayer. If you would like to lead our sermon, Jade’s Luck, we’ll all be sitting down now.[/i] Jade’s Luck continued on about the abomination part. Jahar went into saying that they wouldn’t die, they’d just keep living. And eating. Gareth could see she wasn’t going to get down to the prayer for a while, so he picked up some spare materials he had lying around (it was his room, after all) and started constructing a little village for the mice. It didn’t take him too long. Ceri turned into a fish and went for a swim to see what was up with the scarab people. They seemed to be spreading out and were aquatic. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I think we just let loose a plague upon Creation.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Yes. I was trying to determine the nature of the plague. Do they breed?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Interesting. I don’t know.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I’m starting to think the dragon-bloods might have the right idea about us.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Well, just us five.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]This is actually our first plague. Real plague, at least.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] (praying) [i]God, you may want to smite us before we screw up some more. Actually, I’m kind of serious about that one.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Wow. I’ve never had a player pray for a reset.[/i] Jade’s Luck started wondering why the gods didn’t just destroy the abominations in the first place. Ceri walked into the room, having returned from her swim. [b]Ceri:[/b] (looking at Gareth) [i]We’ve just let loose a plague upon Creation and you’re building the mice a little home?[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] (laughing) [i]Apparently your god has exalted mice before.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Shocked I am not at all.[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] (laughing) [i]No standards![/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Not disagreeing with you.[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] (laughing) [i]One of you did in the past.[/i] Jahar walked over to the mice and asked them if they spoke. One of them raised his spear and responded in their barbarian mouse language. Jahar asked if they knew how to write in mouse. One of the mice ran over to Gareth and tugged on his pant leg. It pointed at Jahar and made confused and disturbed looks at him while saying something to Gareth. [b]Gareth:[/b][i]Jahar, what are you doing to my mice?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]If we’re going to keep the mice, we might as well teach them to communicate.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]They can communicate perfectly well.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (to Jahar) [i]They just said you’re nuts.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (to Gareth) [i]Hey! Who said they were your mice?[/i] (raises his arms high and to the mice) [i]My fellow Wyld brethren![/i] *[i]Mice raise their spears and chant back at him in their little language[/i]* Gareth finished the little mouse village before they were ready for the group prayer. In the middle of the village was a little shrine to the Unconquered Sun. The mice all bowed down to worship the sun symbols of the shrine. Jade’s Luck and Ceri gather the others in a group and led them in a prayer of guidance to the Unconquered Sun. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Oh God, we :):):):)ed up. How do you fix things? Oh God, why didn’t you just step on the bugs in the first place if you didn’t want them in Creation?[/i] [b]Unconquered Sun:[/b] [i]Do you know what the paperwork is for genocide? It goes on for ever! So much easier to put people in a prison.[/i] In response to who bad these things were, the only response she got was [i]Mostly Annoying[/i]. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Well, he didn’t go ‘oh :):):):), oh :):):):). Fix that, you dumbasses!’ He just called us dumbasses a couple times.[/i] Gareth went up on deck and gathered the pirate crew together. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]We rescued a little tribe of mice.[/i] [b]Pirate #6:[/b] [i]Tribe?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Tribe.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]They have a shaman and stuff.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]They have little masks and spears.[/i] [b]Pirate #3:[/b] [i]Oh. They’re perfectly normal![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Exactly.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Don’t kill them unless absolutely necessary. So, unless they attack you en masse, don’t kill them.[/i] The architect spirit wandered around the deck having trouble coming up with what the right color scheme for the boat would be. Gareth was happy that he was having problems. [/QUOTE]
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