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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3476343" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 3/26/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">We corrupted a Death Lord!</span></strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: I agree with the Death Knight.</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: He’s a better solar then we are.</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Always Toast</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ryan: A-Dom has been trying to pray.</p><p></p><p>Alex: A-Dom is trying. He’s failing, but he’s trying.</p><p></p><p>Dan: I didn’t get an immediate result, so <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!</p><p></p><p>Ryan: See this is why I do bad. Because I hang around with you people, and you’re all pessimists. Then I get caught up in it... and... call god an <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, and charms stop working.</p><p></p><p>As Gareth and Bianca are pulling the Hearse along after the fight, Pursy says ‘Oh look! A new person.’ Pursy’s multi chromatic tongue shoots out and swallows Bianca.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Would you want to wash that down with a beer Pursy?</p><p></p><p>Pursy: Oh yes!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Sorry, we’re out.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s just mean.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck (to Gareth): Jeez, what’s wrong with you?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Taunting people like that. It’s not right.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m taunting the Wyld artifact.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Don’t taunt the Wyld. It never ends well. We... seemed to have slowed down.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Not that much.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It’s the thought that counts really.</p><p></p><p>Fatty (muffled): Can we get out now? It’s hot in here.</p><p></p><p>The two ex-pirates climb out.</p><p></p><p>Ex-Pirate #1 (Pointing at Fatty): We think he’s stuck.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: If we blow really hard on one end, he’ll shoot out the other.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m pushing right now. We’re not stopping.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom grabs Fatty and ‘gently’ yanks Fatty out from where he is wedged inside the hearse.</p><p></p><p>The group after many days comes to what appears to be a real road as opposed to cutting cross country, as opposed to cutting cross country.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom agrees to help Gareth with developing his force of personality while they travel, but has to promise A-Dom that at some point in the future he will build a boat. Which he does.</p><p></p><p>After two weeks they start coming towards a town.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: A-Dom, get off and get some real food. Make sure you get some for the pirates too.</p><p></p><p>Gareth hands A-Dom some jade.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok!</p><p></p><p>Ex-Pirates: Grog!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Crap! You can’t speak the language here.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I speak my own language.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I speak the language in nexus, so hopefully, someone speaks that here.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I speak all the realm languages.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You two are our best luck. (Gareth takes the money back from A-Dom and gives it to Jade’s Luck.) Catch up!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We’ll get more food, less beer this way.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You want to take A-Dom with you?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: If we need to carry any boats, we’ll call for him.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Tiger head into town and find a marketplace to shop at, as the Hearse trundles past without stopping. Jade’s Luck makes herself extra beautiful (appearance 5) with her artifact Scarf.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Gareth): Did you just get a shiver? Something’s horribly wrong with the universe.</p><p></p><p> Jade’s Luck uses Frugal Merchant’s Method (and some flirting) to buy everything one merchant has, real cheap.</p><p></p><p>Merchant: Maybe you’ll be coming back to town someday soon. Looking for a good husband.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yes, I might come back sometime.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and Jade’s Luck then run to catch up to the Hearse with their large amounts of goods.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (upon seeing Jade’s Luck): What the hell happened to you.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I have this thing that I found somewhere that lets me change how I look.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Don’t you remember when she made herself look like a Dragon-blood?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You know I drink a lot.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Shortly after we exalted.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: With the harbor and stuff?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yes!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea... it’s hard to drink those things out of ya. But I’m trying.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Did you get beer? Hand me a mug! Pushing is thirsty work.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hey there hussy. While we’re running about, you want to teach me performance?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We’ll work on prayer!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: In two more weeks could you teach me that all over again?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: This is a great mechanic, cause it actually forces us to use team work. Not enough. But it’s nice.</p><p></p><p>While running along one day, they see an average old man along the side of the road. The old man waves. Gareth waves back.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Relative of yours?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No.</p><p></p><p>Gareth throws him a mug, with Gareth’s name written on it (marketing ploy).</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Advertising? We’re on the wrong side of the world! You’re never going to see him again. He’s never going to be able to buy from you.</p><p></p><p>Gareth (to A-Dom): Ok then, you push for a moment!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: NO!</p><p></p><p>The group doesn’t stop so they keep trundling along and don’t stop. They keep going for a few more days. It appears most of the group spends most of their time praying when not pushing.</p><p></p><p>Eventually they come to a big ravine. Which they have to travel along for a few miles before they spot a bridge across it. As they get closer Tiger and Jade’s Luck see someone on the bridge. A-Dom notices that there is a wounded child who is crying on the bridge.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom curses a lot then tells the others what he sees.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: If we push him off the bridge, Jade’s Luck will get upset. And it’s probably a trap.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we stop the hearse here, you and Tiger can go up and see what it is, instead of taking all the stuff we don’t want to lose on the bridge which might be trapped.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Crap, Tiger and A-Dom are unlikely to be able to speak the language.</p><p></p><p>Gareth decides to stay with the hearse (with the ex-pirates), while the others go up to the bridge.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: Hello, what happened to you?</p><p></p><p>Kid [Riverspeak]: Monsters attacked my village. (He points off to the north where a village is visible in the distance).</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: And you got away?</p><p></p><p>Kid [Riverspeak] (Crying): They ate my puppy.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: That’s terrible.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Clearly a trap.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: You look like you could use some bandaging and maybe a biscuit.</p><p></p><p>Liz: I’m out of cookies. Damn it I want a cup cake now.</p><p></p><p>The small child is very scared, and very confused, especially by the offer of a biscuit. Jade’s Luck picks up the child and takes it to Gareth for medical attention. Jade’s Luck then explains stuff to the group. Gareth fixes up the kid.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Ok let’s head over there.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asks the ex-pirates to take care of the kid.</p><p></p><p>Fatty [River Speak]: Yea, we’ll take dealing with the little kid over the monsters. Come here kid! You know what rum is?</p><p></p><p>Tiger (To Gareth): How do we know he (the child) isn’t a monster.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I was thinking that.</p><p></p><p>Tiger activates All-Seeing Sorcerers Sight, and notices that the child seems to be lacking in life energy. So Tiger gets Jade’s Luck to ask him what the monster looked like.</p><p></p><p>Kid [Riverspeak]: It was 30ft tall and had huge fangs!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We’ll he’s had some kind of life sucked out of him.</p><p></p><p>Tiger turns his caste mark on. Then has Jade’s Luck ask him if he saw one of those, except in blood. The kid answers to the negative, and reaffirm that it was 30 ft tall.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He’s a little kid, he probably thinks I’m 30 ft tall.</p><p></p><p>The group (well everyone but Gareth) notices something hurtling through the air towards them, apparently having been thrown out of the town. Tiger keen eyesight spots that it’s a dead cow.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Gareth! Dodge everyone!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: <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=":)" /> dodge! (A-Dom pulls out his club) I parry!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom tries to bat the cow back towards town.</p><p></p><p>From inside Pursy, Bianca’s voice: Don’t hurt the cow!</p><p></p><p>Pursy: Too late!</p><p></p><p>The cow flies back into town and hits the roof of one of the buildings.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That will teach the building... throw cows at me will ya.</p><p></p><p>The little kid becomes terrified of A-Dom. A-Dom tries to explain, realizes he doesn’t know any languages the kid knows. So he shoots the kid a wink and a double point.</p><p></p><p>The group starts discussing lightning speed and Monkey Leap game mechanics.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Gareth does everything faster.</p><p></p><p>Everyone: This is why he doesn’t have a wife.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Where the hell are the cup cakes!?!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Are we going to be stealthy, or run in their glowy?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom thumps his club into his hand a few times, and yells ‘Huzzah!’ as he charges forwards.</p><p></p><p>So they go charging into town. With animas glowing like mad before they even get there.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: It’s my little secret</p><p></p><p>Liz: What?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: That A-Dom SUCKS at one on one combat. I like groups.</p><p></p><p>As Tiger gets closer he sees a lot of high uses of Essence. He even sees what looks like a 30 ft tall wood aspected Fair Folk with a really big sword made out of snakes. There are also a lot of goblins running around and a few normal sized fae running around.</p><p></p><p>Tiger (Shouting): Looks like a bunch of fair folk guys!</p><p></p><p>Fae failed to notice Tiger shouting over the sounds of battle. </p><p></p><p>Tiger runs in and hacks at the giant Fae’s legs.</p><p></p><p>Big Fae: New Victims!</p><p></p><p>The group attacks, gets attacked back, normal combat stuff. A-Dom did run up and hit the big Fae in the back of his kneecap with his club, which almost, knocks the Fae down.</p><p></p><p>Then a dark shape flies into the battle from over the rooftops. Some of them make out that it’s a man with a sword. A-Dom sees that it’s a man dressed all in black, with a silver face mask, and a Soulsteel Grand DaiKlave. A-Dom even hears what the man whispers under his breath.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black (Whispering): I’m going to kill you, you evil bastards!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (confused): Are you talking to us or him?</p><p></p><p>The man in black cleaves into the Giant Fae with his Grand DaiKlave.</p><p>Cleaving him right in half.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (disgusted) Of course... (Chipper) Hi there. How are you?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Busy!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Trying to sound important) We’re also busy.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Talk to you later then!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: What are you doing here?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Killing fair folk.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Oh good.</p><p></p><p>Alex (about Solar anima banners): It burns like hygiene.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom attempts to bat one of the fae into the three that are attacking Jade’s Luck. However he managed to bury Jade’s Luck under a pile of dead fae.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Sorry ‘bout that!</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Why do people have to get hurt when I’m cool?</p><p></p><p>Alex: Because your coolness is lethal.</p><p></p><p>More combat, many fae die. The Man in Black jumps up onto a goblin’s head, running along the tops of the goblins to get to the last surviving Fair Folk and kills him dead.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Tiger): I already don’t like this guy.</p><p></p><p>The group then clears out the little goblins. Jade’s Luck claws her way out from under the pile of dead Fair Folk, stabbing them at random just in case.</p><p></p><p>Once the battle field starts to clear, the group starts to see a few dead humans in the town. But not as many as one might think.</p><p></p><p>The Man in Black starts mowing through the goblins. A-Dom starts following behind him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s a Cool Mask.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Thanks!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What kind of Death Knight are you?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Are you guys Anathema or Solars?</p><p></p><p>Liz starts laughing hysterically.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Wait, there is a differences?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What do you define as Anathema?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Solars who are not doing what they are suppose to be doing. They are just running around going bwaaahahahaha!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well we are having some problems with the direction we should point our niftiness.</p><p></p><p>He stops talking to A-Dom and walks over to Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black (motioning at A-Dom): So, Anathema?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: He’s our muscle.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He wandered into the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: You should get someone to fix that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m working on that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: She’s mean. She’s going to take it away.</p><p></p><p>The group explains the Dragon Blooded use of the word Anathema. The Man in Black explains that is just the Dragon Blooded perversion of the word, and more educated people know the real use for the word.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Are you sure you’re not an Anathema?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m a Solar.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: A-Dom really thinks he is a good guy.</p><p></p><p>GM: Your delusions are working for you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re going to the place with the tombs.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Sijan?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea! There is loot there.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Do you know where the Wyld came from?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Off to the north a long ways. About two weeks north. They sometimes raid this far south. They move very fast.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’re trying to make a six week journey in five weeks.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Ah, special delivery. Need any help with that?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, but we do appreciate it. Nice Mask!</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Thanks! (Sees Tiger looking around for people) Don’t worry I got most of the people out of the town first. Well, really as many as I could.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So you wander around Creation Saving people?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Yes!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Isn’t that kind of against your nature?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Are you all about making them undead? Or sucking their blood or something?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wait! Do you have a scary face under the mask?</p><p></p><p>The Man in Black pulls his silver mask up to revel that he has an incredibly beautiful face. He smiles with perfect white teeth, a great complexion and bright red lips.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I really hate him now.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: I need to wear the mask so I don’t get Uglified. Plus they really are quite comfortable...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Gareth (Gareth is ignoring her talking to someone else), Gareth, GARETH! You know that thing you do, all the time, to A-Dom. That special thing you do? Are you doing that?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yes.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black (to Gareth): All with the subtlety isn’t she?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black (to A-Dom): Ok do you get the difference between Solars and Anathema now?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I think so.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Ok there are Death Knights who make sure everything runs properly between Creation and the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Right. So like the Bodavista?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Yes! Bodavista, great guy. Then, there are Abyssals. Abyssals are the Anathema of Death Knights. They are the ones that are all ‘Zombies! Arrrahahahah! Kill everyone!?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: They are the ones that run around destroying Creation?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Yes! They are all kinds of <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.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Ok...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hey! Why do you guys have similar symbols as us?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: From what I can tell, the underworld sun borrowed the idea from the Unconquered Sun. Sold him the plans or something.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So it’s like a franchise deal?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: We work for the Sun in the Underworld. I think they are cousins.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Umm... the weapons. They are made out of Souls. Doesn’t that screw up the whole reincarnation thing?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: No, some souls are just completely corrupt and unrepentable. We use those souls that need to be removed. Abyssals will take anybody’s soul.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So if we find Abyssals we could smush their armor and let the souls out?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Well you could probably do that with magic or necromancy.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: The last time we killed one, the armor melted.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: That tends to happen. It falls back into the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So we’d have to keep the armor here somehow.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Or go into the Underworld to get it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’re very interesting.</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: (all heroic) Thank you! I try!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (mumbling to herself) I have never actually met one of you that I haven’t wanted to slaughter.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: What is your name?</p><p></p><p>Man in Black: Shining Heroic Mask of Justice!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: They even have better names then us.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (to A-Dom) You know, you can change your name.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea... that’s for pointing that out. To me. I got to work on more of the good reputation before I change my name because they (motions at the circle) are just going to call me a poop-head.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (to Gareth) So he’s the Anathema you are trying to redeem?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He may have been an Anathema in a previous life.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wretch. Yea, sorry about creating the Underworld. But then you probably like that. So yea... I’m not sure.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I’m really just a care taker.</p><p></p><p>Shining Heroic Mask of Justice and A-Dom talk about how much it sucks that they can’t time travel backwards for a while because it would let them be much more heroic. As they both feel similarly about that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wow, you are really great.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I know.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Once we are done in Sijan, we need to go back to the West. You know any fast ways that we can take back that won’t kill the mortals that are with us? Mortals are really delicate.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Yea, I know. Collateral damage is bad.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m working on a charm to help with that.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I always have to move people off to the side before a fight.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: So you put all the mortals in the woods before the fight. Well at least we did it right this time.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: We? I don’t remember you helping before the fight.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We left our mortals behind with the cart. We also found a stray one.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck goes and gets the kid, and the Shining Heroic Mask of Justice took the kid back to his parents and told the villagers that it was save to go back to the village.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (while SHMoJ is away from the group) I think he should come with. He seems incredibly nice. He’s a better solar then we are.</p><p> </p><p>Gareth: (When SHMoJ comes back) How do you know Sea tongue.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I have this cousin out west named Dreary.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: With the mittens?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (confused) Yea, you know he wears those even in summer?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: The mittens are a little creepy.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well don’t you get cold when you’re dead?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I’m not dead!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Almost dead.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I’m not even almost dead. I’m not even pale!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck (directed at A-Dom): You don’t DIE when you Exalt. We never DIED. You never DIED.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: This is not the time for that argument.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: There is always time for that argument!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (facing SHMoJ, and pointing at Jade’s Luck): Exaltation anxiety and stuff. She did a very bad thing...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Hey, nice Hearse!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’re transporting dead people.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You want a horse for that?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: It would be nice.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: But horses have to rest and stuff.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: It’s not your familiar is it?</p><p></p><p>The Shining Mask of Justice snaps his fingers and a ghostly horse appears from nowhere.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts gibbering then says: I can make a ship! I can make a spine chain too.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Wow, you really do know necromancy. Me I’m not so good with the books.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom waves around his black book of Necromancy.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We were on our way to return that...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We got puked up by a whale. Long story really.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: They barf really far apparently.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I’ll take your word for that.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Well let’s start moving!</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: So, how fast do you want to go?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: YES!</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I like him.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We do have mortals along! Slow enough for them to survive please.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: That wagon is held on good right?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Of course I built it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He builds very strong things.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You have to drop very large things on them from very high to break them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Like mountains.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You know that really big river south of here? (Pause) We clogged it. (Pause) This isn’t the best way to brag is it?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Can we get going before A-Dom says anything else?</p><p></p><p>The ghost horse starts pulling the wagon really fast.</p><p></p><p>Somehow the group ends up talking about shards and how much personality goes along with them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So the next person who has my shard is going to want to beat the hell out of me. Great.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You could try to improve before you die.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m praying I do.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ex-nay on the ad-bay solar-ay.</p><p></p><p>Liz: Did he just botch his linguistics roll?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Don’t worry, you can’t created the Underworld twice.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh yes you can. I can make the under-underworld.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Then we’ll need lethe knights. Don’t do that. It will make my job really confusing.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It’s ok, I’m getting better, I have a list of things to do.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: So what do you do in your spare time?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Necromancy.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You really haven’t done that much recently.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Don’t do it in Sijan.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: They get angry?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It works really well?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: No, no, no. You end up in the underworld or something. There are protection wards.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Hey, we need the head of a brewer. Know where we can get one?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re trying to make a magical keg of beer.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Grave Robbing is technically against the rules. People like us tend to sneak past those rules. Which is ok as long as we don’t get caught. But you might want to think about how to make people happy with you if your going to do something like that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Like deal with the ex-brewer?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well if you can get someone to will you their skull. That’s fine. We don’t care as long as it’s consensual. Or what you could do is go into the underworld, talk a dead brewer into it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So we go into the underworld, make a deal to get permission, so we can go and steal the skull?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It’s not stealing cause we have permission.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You see ghosts are hanging around the Underworld because they have things that are not done. If you do stuff for them, then they can move on. Just make sure you take someone who can speak the right language, because ghosts don’t pick up new languages.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We also try to right the wrongs of Dragon-Bloods and make the world a better place.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: How’s that going for you?</p><p></p><p>Everyone: Not so well.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re starting in the east... and working our way west. We’re new at this. You know about a lot of soulsteel surrounding our god?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: No. That would be in heaven? (A-Dom nods) Yea, we’re more with the Underworld. Don’t know anything about what’s going on in heaven. Since we don’t have to go there.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But... if you were an evil Abyssal... you could go there and do that right?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is there anything stopping Abyssals from going to heaven?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I heard there are some really big dogs at the door.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, yea, we met them. How do you get a lot of soul steel into Heaven then?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I guess you’d have to be really sneaky.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Oh, god damn it. Really sneaky... short/tall...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Have you met any of those guys? They are so annoying.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Mother<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=":)" />ers...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Do you know what they are called?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We are calling them Mother<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=":)" />ers for now.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck then repeats the groups theories about a certain group of Exalts.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We should call them Planetards.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: They also seem to know when <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=":)" /> is going to happen.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why would they want to <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=":)" /> up a god?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: They haven’t exactly been playing on our side.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: When did your god get <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed up?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Don’t know. Back then.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: So like when you guys lost power?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea probably.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Think those two things might be related?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Probably.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is there Wyld in the Underworld?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Yes.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: If I destroy the Wyld in Creation, does it destroy the Wyld in the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Yes, maybe, sort of. It will once you start to bury people there.</p><p></p><p>The group discusses proper burial, and the Shining Mask of Justice encourages them to bury their property with the bodies. Jade’s Luck keeps referring to it as a Pyramid Scheme.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I think the problem is there are too many rules for Creation. Bury them with their stuff. Don’t desecrate the bodies...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You know how there are all different kinds of Exalts?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well we each have our jobs. If we were all doing our jobs, things would be better.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea, that fell apart long ago.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We need to beat the Dragon-bloods into line.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m learning that I don’t have to kill them all. But I want to.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: How are you guys at Brainwashing? We’re not too good at brainwashing.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Our Brainwasher is indisposed.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I think you guys are suppose to brainwash Dragon-bloods.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You don’t think the whole Brainwashing is a little unethical?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well you could mess up a number of Dragon-bloods lives and save creation. Or you can let them continue being little <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=":)" />-wads, and <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=":)" /> up creation because you are ethical.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I like your explanation better.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Breaking eggs... omelets... </p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Really someone’s got to get <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed up. It might as well be the Dragon-bloods.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I agree with the Death Knight.</p><p></p><p>Somehow, the issue of A-Dom becoming a Death Knight comes up. The Shining Heroic Mask of Justice explains that it is possible, but would have to be voluntary.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: We don’t brainwash people. Not our job.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We know the Bodavista. He brainwashed one of us.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Did he brainwash him, or just talk him into something really, really well? There is a difference between ‘oogady-boodgady-boogady-mind<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=":)" />’ and having a really good argument.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No he got mind <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. He was double-talking and contradicting himself way more then normal. Ok, I know he’s not all right in the head. He did arrange to be killed in his worst enemies house, so he could be born to her.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I think your friend just has mental problems.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck has a long speech about how Death Knights are way better then Sidereals, because the Death Knights are all above board about things.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Don’t worry, we’ll be there in two days.</p><p></p><p>Group: Wow!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, how much of your life is directly manipulated by your god?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Not a lot. He’s really a hands off kind of god. Here is the power, go do stuff for me.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You ever... no.. probably not.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Does he ever give suggestions?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Sometimes you get a vision or something: Do This NOW. Go rob that tomb.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea, Wretch had a lot of tombs.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: People really didn’t like Wretch apparently.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Anytime your body gets chopped up, it’s not good.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We are hoping for an artifact boat. (Sounded like Bow)</p><p></p><p>Liz: You want me to teach you thrown?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Oh, I have 5 in thrown, and 5 in archery..</p><p></p><p>Liz: Why don’t you ever USE IT!?!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom explains that they are getting a lack of instructions from the Unconquored Sun because he is wrapped up in Soul Steel.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You’d think his emissaries in Creation would be a lot more important for getting things done for him then, taking the initiative and doing things right... I’ll just stop talking as I can see you are about to cry.</p><p> </p><p>A-Dom: We’re new at this.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Have you considered social skills? Being... Charismatic?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m working on it.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Maybe you should talk to The Mortician.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: He might make better suggestions then me.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well sometimes you guys are all ‘Go Team’ and ‘We want you to join our team’ and stuff.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: No. We just want you to help us, help you, help creation.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well you guys think the best way to do that is your way.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: That’s because our way is the best way to do it.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Help us, help you, help creation. I like that.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Listen, we are running the entire Underworld pretty well. We’ve got a city called Sijan where we have convinced almost everyone in the East to send their dead. We haven’t ripped any major holes in creation. Everything for us is running smoothly. How are you guys doing in the West again?</p><p></p><p>Gareth & Jade’s Luck: <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 up.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: See. Our way is clearly working out. Once you guys get a way that is actually working out for you, we’ll consider trying it your way.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We have a way like that. It was called the First age.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: How did that work out for you?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t know! I wasn’t there! I’m just trying to clean up the mess.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Apparently we got overthrown by the Dragon-Bloods.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You got overthrown by the... Dragon-Bloods? That’s sad.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hey there Mr! We’re new at this. We’ve only been doing this for four years.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Three.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Seems like four. We’re just toddlers. We’re learning how to walk and we are wobbling.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Yea, you should talk to The Mortician.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is he like you guys?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Is he like the Bodavista?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Yes! He’s a nice guy. You’ll like him. Although he will size you up for a casket. He does that to everyone.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well he does go by the name ‘The Mortician’ I guess it’s expected.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Gareth): We’re slightly... slightly... trying to avoid the Bodavista... due to the aforementioned mind<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.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I think you’re just overreacting to him having a better plan then you. But I don’t know him personally. But I’m sure he’s not totally evil. You just don’t understand...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well nobody is completely evil.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yes, yes there are. You remember that Calibration Dinner we had?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: There was that one guy nobody wanted to talk to.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: With all really, really scary, non-people, who are Completely COMPLETELY EVIL.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: They didn’t seem all that evil. I’m sure they were, but maybe not.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: What dinner?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We had to go have dinner with the Malfeans, because of some ancient contract.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (looking at A-Dom like he’s a moron) You think some of the Malfeans are OK? You think they might just be miss-understood? The Demons? The Yozi? </p><p>Jade’s Luck: He plays games with Demons.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He was under my control at the time, and I was bored. Of course I played games with the Demon!</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (To Gareth) So, nice Anathema you’re trying to reform. (To A-Dom) Don’t worry, you’ll be a real Solar some day. (Pats A-Dom on the Head.)</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Why does everyone have to Call A-Dom an Anathema.</p><p></p><p>GM: Cause it’s the Truth.</p><p></p><p>Alex: GM shouldn’t talk like a God when he’s making OOC comments.</p><p></p><p>The group arrives in Sijan two days later. The Shinning Heroic Mask of Justice leads them into a very large tomb like government building. As they walk inside the feel that they have entered into a Shadowland.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What happens when a Solar dies? I mean is there a hand in the underworld here or something?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well when an Exalt dies it is very, very important to bury him with enough stuff to keep his ghost happy. Because the ghost knows everything you know. So does your angry ghost. So there are two potential ways to have bad things happen.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asks SHMoJ to go make sure the Black Oak Dragon Blood is buried properly. He writes a note and sends it off.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Now if you haven’t completed what you wanted to do in life, you’re spirit gets stuck in the Underworld. Exalted Spirits tend to have a lot of things they want to do.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, like this list? (Holds up his list of Repentances)</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Oh, yea. Try to not die. If you were to die right now, you would be stuck in the underworld until that list is finished. Plus anything else you wanted to do.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: And you would haunt the next person who has your shard.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: How would he do some of those things if he were dead?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well the next person who has your shard can do them for him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So I’m going to be bugging him?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: If a former you has a list like that... he’s stuck until you finish the list for him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea...</p><p></p><p>Gareth: What kind of idiot would to that to himself... (looks at A-Dom) Oh.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You might want to look into that before it becomes a problem.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So you know any really angry ghosts by the name of Wretch, or something the mad?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: I’ll have to get back to you on that? In the east?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No in the west.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well that’s not us. You’d have to talk to the Bodavista about that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m SO screwed. This is why I have problems. It’s because I come from bad blood.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: You see the shard is drawn towards people who it was like before. You see, you fit a certain mold...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Thank You. I’m feeling so much better...</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Where is this mold so we can break it?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What if he really improves while he’s alive?</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Then the shard will be drawn towards someone who is less like him now. More like how he is when he dies.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So Mr. Runs-around-and-boinks-everything may have changed before I got the shard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I hope she’s not talking about me.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Lets go see the Mortician!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Gareth): No Contracts! Unless you’re going to build us a boat.</p><p></p><p>They walk further into the tomb. They enter an area which looks like a workshop for building caskets. There is also a receptionist with a table for paperwork. The Mortician is a little man with a top hat and wearing morticians robes.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Hello Shining Heroic Mask of Justice! (Starts looking at the group) You’re all going to need tombs. A regular crypt just won’t do. (Looks at A-Dom) Wretch?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Depressed) Yes. I need to know if there are any lists of ‘to-do’s.?</p><p></p><p>Mortician: You’ll find out when you get your stuff back. But yes, you’re tomb is here.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is any of me here?</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Some of Wretch’s friends things were buried there ‘In Case of Emergency.’ Is this an Emergency?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh God YES! We’re in the East it is an Emergency.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Yes, yes, that will be fine. Just don’t tell the locals.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We try to not tell the locals things like that.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We need to find a good brewer.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We need to make a barrel of infinite beer...</p><p></p><p>Everyone else: Always full NOT infinite!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Right, Always full. We don’t want to drown creation in beer.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why are there no Solar Tombs? Why are they always Anathema tombs?</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Well that is a hold over from when the Realm controlled everything.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But why are you Death Knights not calling them Solar tombs.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Listen, you start controlling more of Creation, and work on a better PR campaign so Mortals like you more, we’ll start calling them Solar tombs again.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom rambles incoherently for a few minuets.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: So, A-Dom, do you want to borrow volume #2? (Holds up a little black book)</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Sounding incredibly constipated) YES!</p><p></p><p>Liz: Does he get a roll to resist?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I’m sure he would let me roll to resist. But I want to borrow volume 2.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Do you want me to take it back to the Bodavista or to you? I’m confused.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: You can bring it back to me.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We have to come back in three years.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Remember, if you have to bury and important people, we have the BEST tomb site around.</p><p></p><p>Gareth asks about nearby islands, and finds out that there is a river nearby, so the group can probably find an island that is much closer.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Now, If I take this to Dark OPEC and he writes in it, that’s ok? He wrote Necromancy stuff in the last one, I’m hoping the Bodavista is OK with that. It’s good stuff.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Extra information is fine by me. Spells are added, that’s fine.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: One step forward, two steps back.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well at least you’re not getting it from Hero Shinny Face.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea, but Hero Shinny Face doesn’t make me look good.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well he did rescue a village.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well we think he rescued a village. We really only saw a handful of mortals...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: (interrupting): I’m still standing, right here. And the name is Shining Heroic Mask of Justice.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well we think you rescued the Village because you told us. And you proved that your good and all, apparently. But I can’t trust anyone who’s... who’s as...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Good looking, Heroic, Dashing, and reasonable as me?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yes, well anyone who has Exalted powers tends to have issues.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Maybe it’s you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, no, it’s me. Don’t worry about that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: One time there was this Dragon-blood who...</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well you can’t put everyone else in the same boat as Dragon Bloods. You can’t even put all Dragon-Bloods in the same boat.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts laughing maniacally.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I think he wants to put them all in the same boat and light it on fire.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom points at Jade’s Luck because he is laughing too hard.</p><p></p><p>SHMoJ: Well that wouldn’t be all bad. Not enough burials on Boats these days. We have a real shortage of boats in the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) That’s why they keep stealing our boats! We can stop that! We can flood the market! Bury everyone on boats!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Are there any types of things your people could use created?</p><p></p><p>Mortician: Well we can always use more tombs.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Well, I’m looking to make a little bit more cash. In a purely non-contractual way.</p><p></p><p>Morticians: Name plates. Survival kits for the dead would be great, but might be a hard sell. You know a knife and a blanket, few other things. Always hard to sell to the mourners.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Clearly you need to sell it as a package deal. You make it part of the burial.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Hide it in the paperwork.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: I’m kind of worried that you all might be better at the burial scamming thing then I am. But then, I’m rather honest.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: It’s part of our training.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I want a cup cake.</p><p></p><p>So the group (specifically Gareth, Tiger and Jade’s Luck) spends some more time explaining to the Mortician how to scam grieving people into buying more then they really want for their dearly departed.</p><p></p><p>GM: This was a honest Death Lord here until you guys corrupted him.</p><p></p><p>Liz: We’re the worst Solars ever.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: We corrupted a Death Lord! Yay!</p><p></p><p>Alex: That must be the title of this session.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Do you know how to get back to the West?</p><p></p><p>Mortician: You are really lost, aren’t you?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Of course not. We know where we are.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We just have no idea how to get back to where we should be. Plus we have mortals with us, and they are fragile.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: God damn it, Creation is way too complicated. I don’t understand anything.</p><p></p><p>Mortician: That’s because you are suppose to be in charge. If you were just a mortal, everything would appear to be fine.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I kind of miss being mortal.</p><p></p><p>The group explains Jahar’s mating habits to the Mortician, and how they plan to kill his wife. They then start discussing burial rates. The Mortician gives them the Dragon-Blood brochure (it has different prices and some different options on it).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’d go wenching and whoring. But... It seems a little dead around here.</p><p></p><p>Fatty: We checked, there isn’t one.</p><p> </p><p>So the group gets the Red Oak people buried. Set up the ex-pirates in an Inn. Then at night they go through the shadowland into the underworld. The underworld turned out to be, kind of lively, what with all the ghosts around. The group talks to a small kid, who offers to show them where the brewers are, in return for lighting 100 lamps for him (street lamps on the streets of Sijan, without causing a major fire). A-Dom agrees (A-Dom (failed his check) does not remember that there were no street lamps in Sijan when they came in). The lamp boy then led them to the section of town where all the brewers were buried. Most of them were in a gigantic tomb built by the Brewers Guild, which in the afterlife, was a beer-hall.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom happily notes that there are a lot of lamps on the street in the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>Gareth starts to smooze with the brewers. Then he starts explaining the magic beer barrel to the ghost brewers. He then explains that he needs the skull of a great brewer. Gareth manages (8 successes with Charisma + Craft) to convince pretty much everyone that this is the most important and best idea ever. A riot starts, as every brewer in the beer-hall (about 150) wants Gareth to use their skull.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Get their attention.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: How do you mean? (Clearly thinking of frying a few undead)</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Quiet them down, get attention. Like, Hey everybody, stop rioting.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Everybody QUIET, and listen to Gareth! (Backed up by Terrifying Apparition of Glory)</p><p></p><p>Gareth: There is a better way to settle this...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: A Dance off!</p><p></p><p>There is a slight pause as A-Dom is thrown out of the beer hall.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Bragging Contest about your accomplishments!</p><p></p><p>A week later, Gareth has heard all the stories. Narrowing the field down to 5 potentials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3476343, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 3/26/07[/i] [b][size=5]We corrupted a Death Lord![/size] Subtitle: I agree with the Death Knight. Subtitle: He’s a better solar then we are. [i]-By Always Toast[/i][/b] Ryan: A-Dom has been trying to pray. Alex: A-Dom is trying. He’s failing, but he’s trying. Dan: I didn’t get an immediate result, so :):):):) YOU! Ryan: See this is why I do bad. Because I hang around with you people, and you’re all pessimists. Then I get caught up in it... and... call god an :):):):):):):), and charms stop working. As Gareth and Bianca are pulling the Hearse along after the fight, Pursy says ‘Oh look! A new person.’ Pursy’s multi chromatic tongue shoots out and swallows Bianca. Gareth: Would you want to wash that down with a beer Pursy? Pursy: Oh yes! Gareth: Sorry, we’re out. A-Dom: That’s just mean. Jade’s Luck (to Gareth): Jeez, what’s wrong with you? Tiger: Taunting people like that. It’s not right. Gareth: I’m taunting the Wyld artifact. A-Dom: Don’t taunt the Wyld. It never ends well. We... seemed to have slowed down. Gareth: Not that much. A-Dom: It’s the thought that counts really. Fatty (muffled): Can we get out now? It’s hot in here. The two ex-pirates climb out. Ex-Pirate #1 (Pointing at Fatty): We think he’s stuck. A-Dom: If we blow really hard on one end, he’ll shoot out the other. Gareth: I’m pushing right now. We’re not stopping. A-Dom grabs Fatty and ‘gently’ yanks Fatty out from where he is wedged inside the hearse. The group after many days comes to what appears to be a real road as opposed to cutting cross country, as opposed to cutting cross country. A-Dom agrees to help Gareth with developing his force of personality while they travel, but has to promise A-Dom that at some point in the future he will build a boat. Which he does. After two weeks they start coming towards a town. Gareth: A-Dom, get off and get some real food. Make sure you get some for the pirates too. Gareth hands A-Dom some jade. A-Dom: Ok! Ex-Pirates: Grog! Gareth: Crap! You can’t speak the language here. A-Dom: I speak my own language. Jade’s Luck: I speak the language in nexus, so hopefully, someone speaks that here. Tiger: I speak all the realm languages. Gareth: You two are our best luck. (Gareth takes the money back from A-Dom and gives it to Jade’s Luck.) Catch up! Tiger: We’ll get more food, less beer this way. Gareth: You want to take A-Dom with you? Jade’s Luck: If we need to carry any boats, we’ll call for him. Jade’s Luck and Tiger head into town and find a marketplace to shop at, as the Hearse trundles past without stopping. Jade’s Luck makes herself extra beautiful (appearance 5) with her artifact Scarf. A-Dom (to Gareth): Did you just get a shiver? Something’s horribly wrong with the universe. Jade’s Luck uses Frugal Merchant’s Method (and some flirting) to buy everything one merchant has, real cheap. Merchant: Maybe you’ll be coming back to town someday soon. Looking for a good husband. Jade’s Luck: Yes, I might come back sometime. Tiger and Jade’s Luck then run to catch up to the Hearse with their large amounts of goods. A-Dom (upon seeing Jade’s Luck): What the hell happened to you. Jade’s Luck: I have this thing that I found somewhere that lets me change how I look. Gareth: Don’t you remember when she made herself look like a Dragon-blood? A-Dom: You know I drink a lot. Gareth: Shortly after we exalted. A-Dom: With the harbor and stuff? Jade’s Luck: Yes! A-Dom: Yea... it’s hard to drink those things out of ya. But I’m trying. Gareth: Did you get beer? Hand me a mug! Pushing is thirsty work. A-Dom: Hey there hussy. While we’re running about, you want to teach me performance? Jade’s Luck: We’ll work on prayer! Gareth: In two more weeks could you teach me that all over again? Ryan: This is a great mechanic, cause it actually forces us to use team work. Not enough. But it’s nice. While running along one day, they see an average old man along the side of the road. The old man waves. Gareth waves back. Tiger: Relative of yours? Gareth: No. Gareth throws him a mug, with Gareth’s name written on it (marketing ploy). Tiger: Advertising? We’re on the wrong side of the world! You’re never going to see him again. He’s never going to be able to buy from you. Gareth (to A-Dom): Ok then, you push for a moment! A-Dom: NO! The group doesn’t stop so they keep trundling along and don’t stop. They keep going for a few more days. It appears most of the group spends most of their time praying when not pushing. Eventually they come to a big ravine. Which they have to travel along for a few miles before they spot a bridge across it. As they get closer Tiger and Jade’s Luck see someone on the bridge. A-Dom notices that there is a wounded child who is crying on the bridge. A-Dom curses a lot then tells the others what he sees. A-Dom: If we push him off the bridge, Jade’s Luck will get upset. And it’s probably a trap. Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we stop the hearse here, you and Tiger can go up and see what it is, instead of taking all the stuff we don’t want to lose on the bridge which might be trapped. Gareth: Crap, Tiger and A-Dom are unlikely to be able to speak the language. Gareth decides to stay with the hearse (with the ex-pirates), while the others go up to the bridge. Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: Hello, what happened to you? Kid [Riverspeak]: Monsters attacked my village. (He points off to the north where a village is visible in the distance). Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: And you got away? Kid [Riverspeak] (Crying): They ate my puppy. Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: That’s terrible. Alex: Clearly a trap. Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: You look like you could use some bandaging and maybe a biscuit. Liz: I’m out of cookies. Damn it I want a cup cake now. The small child is very scared, and very confused, especially by the offer of a biscuit. Jade’s Luck picks up the child and takes it to Gareth for medical attention. Jade’s Luck then explains stuff to the group. Gareth fixes up the kid. Gareth: Ok let’s head over there. Jade’s Luck asks the ex-pirates to take care of the kid. Fatty [River Speak]: Yea, we’ll take dealing with the little kid over the monsters. Come here kid! You know what rum is? Tiger (To Gareth): How do we know he (the child) isn’t a monster. Gareth: I was thinking that. Tiger activates All-Seeing Sorcerers Sight, and notices that the child seems to be lacking in life energy. So Tiger gets Jade’s Luck to ask him what the monster looked like. Kid [Riverspeak]: It was 30ft tall and had huge fangs! Tiger: We’ll he’s had some kind of life sucked out of him. Tiger turns his caste mark on. Then has Jade’s Luck ask him if he saw one of those, except in blood. The kid answers to the negative, and reaffirm that it was 30 ft tall. A-Dom: He’s a little kid, he probably thinks I’m 30 ft tall. The group (well everyone but Gareth) notices something hurtling through the air towards them, apparently having been thrown out of the town. Tiger keen eyesight spots that it’s a dead cow. Tiger: Gareth! Dodge everyone! A-Dom: :):):):) dodge! (A-Dom pulls out his club) I parry! A-Dom tries to bat the cow back towards town. From inside Pursy, Bianca’s voice: Don’t hurt the cow! Pursy: Too late! The cow flies back into town and hits the roof of one of the buildings. A-Dom: That will teach the building... throw cows at me will ya. The little kid becomes terrified of A-Dom. A-Dom tries to explain, realizes he doesn’t know any languages the kid knows. So he shoots the kid a wink and a double point. The group starts discussing lightning speed and Monkey Leap game mechanics. Alex: Gareth does everything faster. Everyone: This is why he doesn’t have a wife. Ryan: Where the hell are the cup cakes!?! Jade’s Luck: Are we going to be stealthy, or run in their glowy? A-Dom thumps his club into his hand a few times, and yells ‘Huzzah!’ as he charges forwards. So they go charging into town. With animas glowing like mad before they even get there. Ryan: It’s my little secret Liz: What? Ryan: That A-Dom SUCKS at one on one combat. I like groups. As Tiger gets closer he sees a lot of high uses of Essence. He even sees what looks like a 30 ft tall wood aspected Fair Folk with a really big sword made out of snakes. There are also a lot of goblins running around and a few normal sized fae running around. Tiger (Shouting): Looks like a bunch of fair folk guys! Fae failed to notice Tiger shouting over the sounds of battle. Tiger runs in and hacks at the giant Fae’s legs. Big Fae: New Victims! The group attacks, gets attacked back, normal combat stuff. A-Dom did run up and hit the big Fae in the back of his kneecap with his club, which almost, knocks the Fae down. Then a dark shape flies into the battle from over the rooftops. Some of them make out that it’s a man with a sword. A-Dom sees that it’s a man dressed all in black, with a silver face mask, and a Soulsteel Grand DaiKlave. A-Dom even hears what the man whispers under his breath. Man in Black (Whispering): I’m going to kill you, you evil bastards! A-Dom (confused): Are you talking to us or him? The man in black cleaves into the Giant Fae with his Grand DaiKlave. Cleaving him right in half. A-Dom: (disgusted) Of course... (Chipper) Hi there. How are you? Man in Black: Busy! A-Dom: (Trying to sound important) We’re also busy. Man in Black: Talk to you later then! Tiger: What are you doing here? Man in Black: Killing fair folk. Jade’s Luck: Oh good. Alex (about Solar anima banners): It burns like hygiene. A-Dom attempts to bat one of the fae into the three that are attacking Jade’s Luck. However he managed to bury Jade’s Luck under a pile of dead fae. A-Dom: Sorry ‘bout that! Ryan: Why do people have to get hurt when I’m cool? Alex: Because your coolness is lethal. More combat, many fae die. The Man in Black jumps up onto a goblin’s head, running along the tops of the goblins to get to the last surviving Fair Folk and kills him dead. A-Dom (to Tiger): I already don’t like this guy. The group then clears out the little goblins. Jade’s Luck claws her way out from under the pile of dead Fair Folk, stabbing them at random just in case. Once the battle field starts to clear, the group starts to see a few dead humans in the town. But not as many as one might think. The Man in Black starts mowing through the goblins. A-Dom starts following behind him. A-Dom: That’s a Cool Mask. Man in Black: Thanks! A-Dom: What kind of Death Knight are you? Man in Black: Are you guys Anathema or Solars? Liz starts laughing hysterically. Tiger: Wait, there is a differences? A-Dom: What do you define as Anathema? Man in Black: Solars who are not doing what they are suppose to be doing. They are just running around going bwaaahahahaha! A-Dom: Well we are having some problems with the direction we should point our niftiness. He stops talking to A-Dom and walks over to Gareth. Man in Black (motioning at A-Dom): So, Anathema? Gareth: He’s our muscle. Jade’s Luck: He wandered into the Wyld. Man in Black: You should get someone to fix that. Jade’s Luck: I’m working on that. A-Dom: She’s mean. She’s going to take it away. The group explains the Dragon Blooded use of the word Anathema. The Man in Black explains that is just the Dragon Blooded perversion of the word, and more educated people know the real use for the word. Man in Black: Are you sure you’re not an Anathema? A-Dom: I’m a Solar. Ryan: A-Dom really thinks he is a good guy. GM: Your delusions are working for you. A-Dom: We’re going to the place with the tombs. Man in Black: Sijan? A-Dom: Yea! There is loot there. Jade’s Luck: Do you know where the Wyld came from? Man in Black: Off to the north a long ways. About two weeks north. They sometimes raid this far south. They move very fast. Gareth: We’re trying to make a six week journey in five weeks. Man in Black: Ah, special delivery. Need any help with that? A-Dom: No, but we do appreciate it. Nice Mask! Man in Black: Thanks! (Sees Tiger looking around for people) Don’t worry I got most of the people out of the town first. Well, really as many as I could. Tiger: So you wander around Creation Saving people? Man in Black: Yes! Tiger: Isn’t that kind of against your nature? Jade’s Luck: Are you all about making them undead? Or sucking their blood or something? A-Dom: Wait! Do you have a scary face under the mask? The Man in Black pulls his silver mask up to revel that he has an incredibly beautiful face. He smiles with perfect white teeth, a great complexion and bright red lips. Ryan: I really hate him now. Man in Black: I need to wear the mask so I don’t get Uglified. Plus they really are quite comfortable... Jade’s Luck: Gareth (Gareth is ignoring her talking to someone else), Gareth, GARETH! You know that thing you do, all the time, to A-Dom. That special thing you do? Are you doing that? Gareth: Yes. Man in Black (to Gareth): All with the subtlety isn’t she? Gareth: No. Man in Black (to A-Dom): Ok do you get the difference between Solars and Anathema now? A-Dom: I think so. Man in Black: Ok there are Death Knights who make sure everything runs properly between Creation and the Underworld. A-Dom: Right. So like the Bodavista? Man in Black: Yes! Bodavista, great guy. Then, there are Abyssals. Abyssals are the Anathema of Death Knights. They are the ones that are all ‘Zombies! Arrrahahahah! Kill everyone!? Jade’s Luck: They are the ones that run around destroying Creation? Man in Black: Yes! They are all kinds of :):):):)ed up. Jade’s Luck: Ok... A-Dom: Hey! Why do you guys have similar symbols as us? Man in Black: From what I can tell, the underworld sun borrowed the idea from the Unconquered Sun. Sold him the plans or something. A-Dom: So it’s like a franchise deal? Man in Black: We work for the Sun in the Underworld. I think they are cousins. Jade’s Luck: Umm... the weapons. They are made out of Souls. Doesn’t that screw up the whole reincarnation thing? Man in Black: No, some souls are just completely corrupt and unrepentable. We use those souls that need to be removed. Abyssals will take anybody’s soul. Jade’s Luck: So if we find Abyssals we could smush their armor and let the souls out? Man in Black: Well you could probably do that with magic or necromancy. Jade’s Luck: The last time we killed one, the armor melted. Man in Black: That tends to happen. It falls back into the Underworld. Jade’s Luck: So we’d have to keep the armor here somehow. Man in Black: Or go into the Underworld to get it. Jade’s Luck: You’re very interesting. Man in Black: (all heroic) Thank you! I try! Jade’s Luck: (mumbling to herself) I have never actually met one of you that I haven’t wanted to slaughter. Gareth: What is your name? Man in Black: Shining Heroic Mask of Justice! A-Dom: They even have better names then us. SHMoJ: (to A-Dom) You know, you can change your name. A-Dom: Yea... that’s for pointing that out. To me. I got to work on more of the good reputation before I change my name because they (motions at the circle) are just going to call me a poop-head. SHMoJ: (to Gareth) So he’s the Anathema you are trying to redeem? Jade’s Luck: He may have been an Anathema in a previous life. A-Dom: Wretch. Yea, sorry about creating the Underworld. But then you probably like that. So yea... I’m not sure. SHMoJ: I’m really just a care taker. Shining Heroic Mask of Justice and A-Dom talk about how much it sucks that they can’t time travel backwards for a while because it would let them be much more heroic. As they both feel similarly about that. A-Dom: Wow, you are really great. SHMoJ: I know. Jade’s Luck: Once we are done in Sijan, we need to go back to the West. You know any fast ways that we can take back that won’t kill the mortals that are with us? Mortals are really delicate. SHMoJ: Yea, I know. Collateral damage is bad. Jade’s Luck: I’m working on a charm to help with that. SHMoJ: I always have to move people off to the side before a fight. Gareth: So you put all the mortals in the woods before the fight. Well at least we did it right this time. SHMoJ: We? I don’t remember you helping before the fight. A-Dom: We left our mortals behind with the cart. We also found a stray one. Jade’s Luck goes and gets the kid, and the Shining Heroic Mask of Justice took the kid back to his parents and told the villagers that it was save to go back to the village. A-Dom: (while SHMoJ is away from the group) I think he should come with. He seems incredibly nice. He’s a better solar then we are. Gareth: (When SHMoJ comes back) How do you know Sea tongue. SHMoJ: I have this cousin out west named Dreary. Gareth: With the mittens? SHMoJ: (confused) Yea, you know he wears those even in summer? Jade’s Luck: The mittens are a little creepy. Tiger: Well don’t you get cold when you’re dead? SHMoJ: I’m not dead! Tiger: Almost dead. SHMoJ: I’m not even almost dead. I’m not even pale! Jade’s Luck (directed at A-Dom): You don’t DIE when you Exalt. We never DIED. You never DIED. A-Dom: This is not the time for that argument. Jade’s Luck: There is always time for that argument! A-Dom (facing SHMoJ, and pointing at Jade’s Luck): Exaltation anxiety and stuff. She did a very bad thing... SHMoJ: Hey, nice Hearse! Gareth: We’re transporting dead people. SHMoJ: You want a horse for that? Tiger: It would be nice. Jade’s Luck: But horses have to rest and stuff. Tiger: It’s not your familiar is it? The Shining Mask of Justice snaps his fingers and a ghostly horse appears from nowhere. A-Dom starts gibbering then says: I can make a ship! I can make a spine chain too. SHMoJ: Wow, you really do know necromancy. Me I’m not so good with the books. A-Dom waves around his black book of Necromancy. Gareth: We were on our way to return that... A-Dom: We got puked up by a whale. Long story really. Jade’s Luck: They barf really far apparently. SHMoJ: I’ll take your word for that. Gareth: Well let’s start moving! SHMoJ: So, how fast do you want to go? Gareth: YES! SHMoJ: I like him. Jade’s Luck: We do have mortals along! Slow enough for them to survive please. SHMoJ: That wagon is held on good right? Gareth: Of course I built it. Jade’s Luck: He builds very strong things. A-Dom: You have to drop very large things on them from very high to break them. Jade’s Luck: Like mountains. A-Dom: You know that really big river south of here? (Pause) We clogged it. (Pause) This isn’t the best way to brag is it? Tiger: Can we get going before A-Dom says anything else? The ghost horse starts pulling the wagon really fast. Somehow the group ends up talking about shards and how much personality goes along with them. Jade’s Luck: So the next person who has my shard is going to want to beat the hell out of me. Great. SHMoJ: You could try to improve before you die. Jade’s Luck: I’m praying I do. A-Dom: Ex-nay on the ad-bay solar-ay. Liz: Did he just botch his linguistics roll? Tiger: Don’t worry, you can’t created the Underworld twice. A-Dom: Oh yes you can. I can make the under-underworld. SHMoJ: Then we’ll need lethe knights. Don’t do that. It will make my job really confusing. A-Dom: It’s ok, I’m getting better, I have a list of things to do. SHMoJ: So what do you do in your spare time? A-Dom: Necromancy. Gareth: You really haven’t done that much recently. SHMoJ: Don’t do it in Sijan. A-Dom: They get angry? Jade’s Luck: It works really well? SHMoJ: No, no, no. You end up in the underworld or something. There are protection wards. Gareth: Hey, we need the head of a brewer. Know where we can get one? A-Dom: We’re trying to make a magical keg of beer. SHMoJ: Grave Robbing is technically against the rules. People like us tend to sneak past those rules. Which is ok as long as we don’t get caught. But you might want to think about how to make people happy with you if your going to do something like that. Jade’s Luck: Like deal with the ex-brewer? SHMoJ: Well if you can get someone to will you their skull. That’s fine. We don’t care as long as it’s consensual. Or what you could do is go into the underworld, talk a dead brewer into it. A-Dom: So we go into the underworld, make a deal to get permission, so we can go and steal the skull? Jade’s Luck: It’s not stealing cause we have permission. SHMoJ: You see ghosts are hanging around the Underworld because they have things that are not done. If you do stuff for them, then they can move on. Just make sure you take someone who can speak the right language, because ghosts don’t pick up new languages. A-Dom: We also try to right the wrongs of Dragon-Bloods and make the world a better place. SHMoJ: How’s that going for you? Everyone: Not so well. A-Dom: We’re starting in the east... and working our way west. We’re new at this. You know about a lot of soulsteel surrounding our god? SHMoJ: No. That would be in heaven? (A-Dom nods) Yea, we’re more with the Underworld. Don’t know anything about what’s going on in heaven. Since we don’t have to go there. A-Dom: But... if you were an evil Abyssal... you could go there and do that right? Jade’s Luck: Is there anything stopping Abyssals from going to heaven? SHMoJ: I heard there are some really big dogs at the door. A-Dom: Oh, yea, we met them. How do you get a lot of soul steel into Heaven then? SHMoJ: I guess you’d have to be really sneaky. Gareth: Oh, god damn it. Really sneaky... short/tall... SHMoJ: Have you met any of those guys? They are so annoying. Jade’s Luck: Mother:):):):)ers... SHMoJ: Do you know what they are called? Jade’s Luck: We are calling them Mother:):):):)ers for now. Jade’s Luck then repeats the groups theories about a certain group of Exalts. A-Dom: We should call them Planetards. SHMoJ: They also seem to know when :):):):) is going to happen. A-Dom: Yea... Jade’s Luck: Why would they want to :):):):) up a god? A-Dom: They haven’t exactly been playing on our side. SHMoJ: When did your god get :):):):)ed up? A-Dom: Don’t know. Back then. SHMoJ: So like when you guys lost power? A-Dom: Yea probably. SHMoJ: Think those two things might be related? A-Dom: Probably. Jade’s Luck: Is there Wyld in the Underworld? SHMoJ: Yes. Jade’s Luck: If I destroy the Wyld in Creation, does it destroy the Wyld in the Underworld. SHMoJ: Yes, maybe, sort of. It will once you start to bury people there. The group discusses proper burial, and the Shining Mask of Justice encourages them to bury their property with the bodies. Jade’s Luck keeps referring to it as a Pyramid Scheme. A-Dom: I think the problem is there are too many rules for Creation. Bury them with their stuff. Don’t desecrate the bodies... SHMoJ: You know how there are all different kinds of Exalts? A-Dom: Yea. SHMoJ: Well we each have our jobs. If we were all doing our jobs, things would be better. A-Dom: Yea, that fell apart long ago. Jade’s Luck: We need to beat the Dragon-bloods into line. A-Dom: I’m learning that I don’t have to kill them all. But I want to. SHMoJ: How are you guys at Brainwashing? We’re not too good at brainwashing. Gareth: Our Brainwasher is indisposed. SHMoJ: I think you guys are suppose to brainwash Dragon-bloods. Jade’s Luck: You don’t think the whole Brainwashing is a little unethical? SHMoJ: Well you could mess up a number of Dragon-bloods lives and save creation. Or you can let them continue being little :):):):)-wads, and :):):):) up creation because you are ethical. Jade’s Luck: I like your explanation better. Tiger: Breaking eggs... omelets... SHMoJ: Really someone’s got to get :):):):)ed up. It might as well be the Dragon-bloods. A-Dom: I agree with the Death Knight. Somehow, the issue of A-Dom becoming a Death Knight comes up. The Shining Heroic Mask of Justice explains that it is possible, but would have to be voluntary. SHMoJ: We don’t brainwash people. Not our job. A-Dom: We know the Bodavista. He brainwashed one of us. SHMoJ: Did he brainwash him, or just talk him into something really, really well? There is a difference between ‘oogady-boodgady-boogady-mind:):):):)’ and having a really good argument. Jade’s Luck: No he got mind :):):):)ed. He was double-talking and contradicting himself way more then normal. Ok, I know he’s not all right in the head. He did arrange to be killed in his worst enemies house, so he could be born to her. SHMoJ: I think your friend just has mental problems. Jade’s Luck has a long speech about how Death Knights are way better then Sidereals, because the Death Knights are all above board about things. SHMoJ: Don’t worry, we’ll be there in two days. Group: Wow! A-Dom: So, how much of your life is directly manipulated by your god? SHMoJ: Not a lot. He’s really a hands off kind of god. Here is the power, go do stuff for me. A-Dom: You ever... no.. probably not. Jade’s Luck: Does he ever give suggestions? SHMoJ: Sometimes you get a vision or something: Do This NOW. Go rob that tomb. A-Dom: Yea, Wretch had a lot of tombs. Jade’s Luck: People really didn’t like Wretch apparently. SHMoJ: Anytime your body gets chopped up, it’s not good. A-Dom: We are hoping for an artifact boat. (Sounded like Bow) Liz: You want me to teach you thrown? Ryan: Oh, I have 5 in thrown, and 5 in archery.. Liz: Why don’t you ever USE IT!?! A-Dom explains that they are getting a lack of instructions from the Unconquored Sun because he is wrapped up in Soul Steel. SHMoJ: You’d think his emissaries in Creation would be a lot more important for getting things done for him then, taking the initiative and doing things right... I’ll just stop talking as I can see you are about to cry. A-Dom: We’re new at this. SHMoJ: Have you considered social skills? Being... Charismatic? Gareth: I’m working on it. SHMoJ: Maybe you should talk to The Mortician. A-Dom: Why? SHMoJ: He might make better suggestions then me. A-Dom: Well sometimes you guys are all ‘Go Team’ and ‘We want you to join our team’ and stuff. SHMoJ: No. We just want you to help us, help you, help creation. A-Dom: Well you guys think the best way to do that is your way. SHMoJ: That’s because our way is the best way to do it. Tiger: Help us, help you, help creation. I like that. SHMoJ: Listen, we are running the entire Underworld pretty well. We’ve got a city called Sijan where we have convinced almost everyone in the East to send their dead. We haven’t ripped any major holes in creation. Everything for us is running smoothly. How are you guys doing in the West again? Gareth & Jade’s Luck: :):):):)ing up. SHMoJ: See. Our way is clearly working out. Once you guys get a way that is actually working out for you, we’ll consider trying it your way. A-Dom: We have a way like that. It was called the First age. SHMoJ: How did that work out for you? A-Dom: I don’t know! I wasn’t there! I’m just trying to clean up the mess. Jade’s Luck: Apparently we got overthrown by the Dragon-Bloods. SHMoJ: You got overthrown by the... Dragon-Bloods? That’s sad. A-Dom: Hey there Mr! We’re new at this. We’ve only been doing this for four years. Tiger: Three. A-Dom: Seems like four. We’re just toddlers. We’re learning how to walk and we are wobbling. SHMoJ: Yea, you should talk to The Mortician. Jade’s Luck: Is he like you guys? A-Dom: Is he like the Bodavista? SHMoJ: Yes! He’s a nice guy. You’ll like him. Although he will size you up for a casket. He does that to everyone. Tiger: Well he does go by the name ‘The Mortician’ I guess it’s expected. A-Dom (to Gareth): We’re slightly... slightly... trying to avoid the Bodavista... due to the aforementioned mind:):):):)ing. SHMoJ: I think you’re just overreacting to him having a better plan then you. But I don’t know him personally. But I’m sure he’s not totally evil. You just don’t understand... A-Dom: Well nobody is completely evil. Jade’s Luck: Yes, yes there are. You remember that Calibration Dinner we had? A-Dom: There was that one guy nobody wanted to talk to. Jade’s Luck: With all really, really scary, non-people, who are Completely COMPLETELY EVIL. A-Dom: They didn’t seem all that evil. I’m sure they were, but maybe not. SHMoJ: What dinner? Jade’s Luck: We had to go have dinner with the Malfeans, because of some ancient contract. SHMoJ: (looking at A-Dom like he’s a moron) You think some of the Malfeans are OK? You think they might just be miss-understood? The Demons? The Yozi? Jade’s Luck: He plays games with Demons. A-Dom: He was under my control at the time, and I was bored. Of course I played games with the Demon! SHMoJ: (To Gareth) So, nice Anathema you’re trying to reform. (To A-Dom) Don’t worry, you’ll be a real Solar some day. (Pats A-Dom on the Head.) Ryan: Why does everyone have to Call A-Dom an Anathema. GM: Cause it’s the Truth. Alex: GM shouldn’t talk like a God when he’s making OOC comments. The group arrives in Sijan two days later. The Shinning Heroic Mask of Justice leads them into a very large tomb like government building. As they walk inside the feel that they have entered into a Shadowland. A-Dom: What happens when a Solar dies? I mean is there a hand in the underworld here or something? SHMoJ: Well when an Exalt dies it is very, very important to bury him with enough stuff to keep his ghost happy. Because the ghost knows everything you know. So does your angry ghost. So there are two potential ways to have bad things happen. Jade’s Luck asks SHMoJ to go make sure the Black Oak Dragon Blood is buried properly. He writes a note and sends it off. SHMoJ: Now if you haven’t completed what you wanted to do in life, you’re spirit gets stuck in the Underworld. Exalted Spirits tend to have a lot of things they want to do. A-Dom: Oh, like this list? (Holds up his list of Repentances) SHMoJ: Oh, yea. Try to not die. If you were to die right now, you would be stuck in the underworld until that list is finished. Plus anything else you wanted to do. Jade’s Luck: And you would haunt the next person who has your shard. Gareth: How would he do some of those things if he were dead? SHMoJ: Well the next person who has your shard can do them for him. A-Dom: So I’m going to be bugging him? SHMoJ: If a former you has a list like that... he’s stuck until you finish the list for him. A-Dom: Yea... Gareth: What kind of idiot would to that to himself... (looks at A-Dom) Oh. Jade’s Luck: You might want to look into that before it becomes a problem. A-Dom: So you know any really angry ghosts by the name of Wretch, or something the mad? SHMoJ: I’ll have to get back to you on that? In the east? A-Dom: No in the west. SHMoJ: Well that’s not us. You’d have to talk to the Bodavista about that. A-Dom: I’m SO screwed. This is why I have problems. It’s because I come from bad blood. SHMoJ: You see the shard is drawn towards people who it was like before. You see, you fit a certain mold... A-Dom: Thank You. I’m feeling so much better... Tiger: Where is this mold so we can break it? Jade’s Luck: What if he really improves while he’s alive? SHMoJ: Then the shard will be drawn towards someone who is less like him now. More like how he is when he dies. Jade’s Luck: So Mr. Runs-around-and-boinks-everything may have changed before I got the shard. A-Dom: I hope she’s not talking about me. SHMoJ: Lets go see the Mortician! A-Dom (to Gareth): No Contracts! Unless you’re going to build us a boat. They walk further into the tomb. They enter an area which looks like a workshop for building caskets. There is also a receptionist with a table for paperwork. The Mortician is a little man with a top hat and wearing morticians robes. Mortician: Hello Shining Heroic Mask of Justice! (Starts looking at the group) You’re all going to need tombs. A regular crypt just won’t do. (Looks at A-Dom) Wretch? A-Dom: (Depressed) Yes. I need to know if there are any lists of ‘to-do’s.? Mortician: You’ll find out when you get your stuff back. But yes, you’re tomb is here. Jade’s Luck: Is any of me here? Mortician: Some of Wretch’s friends things were buried there ‘In Case of Emergency.’ Is this an Emergency? A-Dom: Oh God YES! We’re in the East it is an Emergency. Mortician: Yes, yes, that will be fine. Just don’t tell the locals. Jade’s Luck: We try to not tell the locals things like that. Gareth: We need to find a good brewer. Jade’s Luck: We need to make a barrel of infinite beer... Everyone else: Always full NOT infinite! Jade’s Luck: Right, Always full. We don’t want to drown creation in beer. A-Dom: Why are there no Solar Tombs? Why are they always Anathema tombs? Mortician: Well that is a hold over from when the Realm controlled everything. A-Dom: But why are you Death Knights not calling them Solar tombs. Mortician: Listen, you start controlling more of Creation, and work on a better PR campaign so Mortals like you more, we’ll start calling them Solar tombs again. A-Dom rambles incoherently for a few minuets. Mortician: So, A-Dom, do you want to borrow volume #2? (Holds up a little black book) A-Dom: (Sounding incredibly constipated) YES! Liz: Does he get a roll to resist? Ryan: I’m sure he would let me roll to resist. But I want to borrow volume 2. A-Dom: Do you want me to take it back to the Bodavista or to you? I’m confused. Mortician: You can bring it back to me. Jade’s Luck: We have to come back in three years. Mortician: Remember, if you have to bury and important people, we have the BEST tomb site around. Gareth asks about nearby islands, and finds out that there is a river nearby, so the group can probably find an island that is much closer. A-Dom: Now, If I take this to Dark OPEC and he writes in it, that’s ok? He wrote Necromancy stuff in the last one, I’m hoping the Bodavista is OK with that. It’s good stuff. Mortician: Extra information is fine by me. Spells are added, that’s fine. Ryan: One step forward, two steps back. Jade’s Luck: Well at least you’re not getting it from Hero Shinny Face. A-Dom: Yea, but Hero Shinny Face doesn’t make me look good. Jade’s Luck: Well he did rescue a village. A-Dom: Well we think he rescued a village. We really only saw a handful of mortals... SHMoJ: (interrupting): I’m still standing, right here. And the name is Shining Heroic Mask of Justice. A-Dom: Well we think you rescued the Village because you told us. And you proved that your good and all, apparently. But I can’t trust anyone who’s... who’s as... SHMoJ: Good looking, Heroic, Dashing, and reasonable as me? A-Dom: Yes, well anyone who has Exalted powers tends to have issues. SHMoJ: Maybe it’s you. A-Dom: Oh, no, it’s me. Don’t worry about that. Jade’s Luck: One time there was this Dragon-blood who... SHMoJ: Well you can’t put everyone else in the same boat as Dragon Bloods. You can’t even put all Dragon-Bloods in the same boat. A-Dom starts laughing maniacally. Jade’s Luck: I think he wants to put them all in the same boat and light it on fire. A-Dom points at Jade’s Luck because he is laughing too hard. SHMoJ: Well that wouldn’t be all bad. Not enough burials on Boats these days. We have a real shortage of boats in the Underworld. A-Dom: (to Gareth) That’s why they keep stealing our boats! We can stop that! We can flood the market! Bury everyone on boats! Gareth: Are there any types of things your people could use created? Mortician: Well we can always use more tombs. Gareth: Well, I’m looking to make a little bit more cash. In a purely non-contractual way. Morticians: Name plates. Survival kits for the dead would be great, but might be a hard sell. You know a knife and a blanket, few other things. Always hard to sell to the mourners. Gareth: Clearly you need to sell it as a package deal. You make it part of the burial. Tiger: Hide it in the paperwork. Mortician: I’m kind of worried that you all might be better at the burial scamming thing then I am. But then, I’m rather honest. Gareth: It’s part of our training. Ryan: I want a cup cake. So the group (specifically Gareth, Tiger and Jade’s Luck) spends some more time explaining to the Mortician how to scam grieving people into buying more then they really want for their dearly departed. GM: This was a honest Death Lord here until you guys corrupted him. Liz: We’re the worst Solars ever. Ryan: We corrupted a Death Lord! Yay! Alex: That must be the title of this session. A-Dom: Do you know how to get back to the West? Mortician: You are really lost, aren’t you? Gareth: Of course not. We know where we are. Jade’s Luck: We just have no idea how to get back to where we should be. Plus we have mortals with us, and they are fragile. A-Dom: God damn it, Creation is way too complicated. I don’t understand anything. Mortician: That’s because you are suppose to be in charge. If you were just a mortal, everything would appear to be fine. A-Dom: I kind of miss being mortal. The group explains Jahar’s mating habits to the Mortician, and how they plan to kill his wife. They then start discussing burial rates. The Mortician gives them the Dragon-Blood brochure (it has different prices and some different options on it). A-Dom: I’d go wenching and whoring. But... It seems a little dead around here. Fatty: We checked, there isn’t one. So the group gets the Red Oak people buried. Set up the ex-pirates in an Inn. Then at night they go through the shadowland into the underworld. The underworld turned out to be, kind of lively, what with all the ghosts around. The group talks to a small kid, who offers to show them where the brewers are, in return for lighting 100 lamps for him (street lamps on the streets of Sijan, without causing a major fire). A-Dom agrees (A-Dom (failed his check) does not remember that there were no street lamps in Sijan when they came in). The lamp boy then led them to the section of town where all the brewers were buried. Most of them were in a gigantic tomb built by the Brewers Guild, which in the afterlife, was a beer-hall. A-Dom happily notes that there are a lot of lamps on the street in the Underworld. Gareth starts to smooze with the brewers. Then he starts explaining the magic beer barrel to the ghost brewers. He then explains that he needs the skull of a great brewer. Gareth manages (8 successes with Charisma + Craft) to convince pretty much everyone that this is the most important and best idea ever. A riot starts, as every brewer in the beer-hall (about 150) wants Gareth to use their skull. Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Get their attention. Jade’s Luck: How do you mean? (Clearly thinking of frying a few undead) Gareth: Quiet them down, get attention. Like, Hey everybody, stop rioting. Jade’s Luck: Everybody QUIET, and listen to Gareth! (Backed up by Terrifying Apparition of Glory) Gareth: There is a better way to settle this... A-Dom: A Dance off! There is a slight pause as A-Dom is thrown out of the beer hall. Gareth: Bragging Contest about your accomplishments! A week later, Gareth has heard all the stories. Narrowing the field down to 5 potentials. [/QUOTE]
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