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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3581238" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 4/23/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of 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=":)" />.</span></strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation?</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: Yes, 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=":)" />er!</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: The Group Unity Speech.</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By AlwaysToast</em></strong></p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts walking around the manse with the hearthstone. He notices that it tends to vibrate at certain times. He eventually figures out that this is a hot/cold message as he looks for where to attune the Hearthstone. He eventually finds a small unused stairway that leads down, and down deep under the manse.</p><p></p><p>He eventually finds a little room with a pedestal that has a skull on top, with a place in the skulls mouth to fit the Hearthstone. A-Dom takes a long time to attune the manse. Eventually he hears a humming noise come from the building.</p><p></p><p>A translucent image of a man appears next to A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Image: The Emergency Protocols have been Activated.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>Image: You have been identified, and as you are activating this tomb, things are clearly going horrible wrong in the west. Repair crews have been released. There are currently 2 functional Manses, in the Wyld repulsion system. The other 18 will be repaired, shortly. Also as per the Wretch of Winter’s instructions, the Sapphire Sentinels have been released to cleanse all non-believers.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh god.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom then sees a counter (written in light in the air):</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 hours</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 days</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 years</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 decades</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: STOP!</p><p></p><p>Image: The emergency protocols can not be stopped once activated. As something is clearly very wrong.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Format c:/</p><p></p><p>Image: Further proof of the emergency. Six of the irremovable objects have been removed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Can we just put those back? Hello? Anything?</p><p></p><p>The image fades.</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=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom looks at the counter again, it is still changing up and down at random. A-Dom runs as fast as he can back up the 30 flights of stairs.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (Yelling and incoherent): Sapphire guards killing everyone. Non-believers. You know. People gonna die!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I attuned the Manse and the Wretch of winter decided that... that... things have gone poorly... and there is a wyld repulsion system.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is it working?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: There is 2 of 18 active.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So we could fix the other 16?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Potentially. But that’s not the problem. The problem is the emergency protocol goes into... something... then the Sapphire guard goes in and kills all non-believers.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What is a Sapphire Guard?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You know, I have as much information as you.</p><p></p><p>Gareth has a vision of a 30ft tall statue. He then tells the others about it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Good! It will be easy to spot.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: As it slaughters everyone?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Just the non-believers. So pretty much everyone these days... Wait, everyone on elemental island, Hoen-ba, and my island are OK!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: And here we thought we hadn’t converted anyone.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You have any other ideas about how this manse works? Since you control it now and are using it to destroy creation?</p><p></p><p>A-dom thinks about it, and figures out there are some easier ways out that he can open up. So they can get back up to the top room of the building. So they could avoid the tubes they came down through, but not the one tube filled with downward pointing pins.</p><p></p><p>The group spends a great deal of time arguing about how to get out of the tomb without the possibility of destroying all of Sijan by accident. This includes discussions of going into the underworld and using Tiger & Jade’s Luck’s Manse to teleport back (and hence causing a random wyld rip in creation).</p><p></p><p>During the arguing Tiger is sent out to do a few things: Get rope. Get money and give it to Fatty and the remaining ex-pirates, and tell them they might be left behind. Tiger also decides to steal a jaunty hat while he’s out around town. He of course looks like someone else while doing this. It’s late at night when he gets out.</p><p></p><p>Tiger sees the Shinning Mask of Heroic Justice patrolling around the Wretched Tomb, in a wide loop, around the very large building. He appears to be re-assuring everyone that the evil tomb is being watched. He can also see there are gangs of people trying to find bodies among the section of Sijan destroyed by pins.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Just think about how <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 the pin market is now!</p><p></p><p>Liz: (deadpan) Yes, you have wrought both economic as well as physical destruction. Go you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Yelling up the shaft at Tiger): DO you see any 50ft tall statues wandering around?</p><p></p><p>Tiger shuts the lid, and ignores A-Dom. He then goes down avoiding anyone who might be a Death Knight. As the group figures the Mortician is probably not happy with them destroying a large part of the city.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’ve let Tiger out alone without a leash. He may never come back. (Pause) Where are the rest of them. That’s the question to ask.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start wandering around the manse looking for anything else of value. After a few hours Jade’s Luck finds a Map Box, just like the old one they had, that was crushed along with the boats (as it was in the Grumpy Craftsman). It has the same ancient map inside. The water and land still look very real on the map. She promptly shows it to the others.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom notices something is different. There are these little tiny blue men. One by the Swiftstone Archipelago in the North East, one by the Island of Tombs (east side of the west), one near Abalon (in the south). And one far out in the west near the Dragon Spine Archipelago.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh god, we’re <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! They are in the west.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You don’t see those tiny blue ant sized things, under the blue water? Owe. I’m confused. The world doesn’t look like this.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Maybe they are too.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So some of them may have already gotten to their targets because their targets are closer.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom grabs the map and shakes it. The water in the map sloshes all over the place. The water eventually settles back down and nothing on the map has changed.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we have 2 weeks for you to learn a spell anymore.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So we are going to use those 2 weeks traveling towards the west?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to Gareth) Is this worth putting a rip in Creation for?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How do we stop 5... I don’t know where anything is... we have ether 2 years or 2 days... but still... they don’t appear to be moving very fast.</p><p></p><p>Dan: I say leave it to the Lunars.</p><p></p><p>Alex: I’m ok with that. But we should warn them at least.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What constitutes a non-believer? Belief in what?</p><p></p><p>Gareth remembers Wretch being a Zealot for the worship of the Unconquered Sun. </p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to A-Dom) He’s opposite of you. He’s fanatical.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We have things we have to do here.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We can come back here later.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We need the skull (GM note: they have the agreement, but haven’t dug it up yet), there are the lanterns...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We could write a non-binding list of things to come back and do.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You have no idea how lists work, do you? Lists: DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of 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=":)" />. If you make a shopping list and die on the way to the store, you’re <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.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Who came up with these rules.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Probably me.</p><p></p><p>The group starts arguing about taking Bianca back with them. The group decides to risk it (after a LONG argument) thinking that Bianca might have been to Elemental Island in a past life.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck (to Bianca): OK, this might work. But you might land in the ocean if the island has moved.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: This map was made by Khodak. We should find them!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Which one of us was Khodak?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) And if it doesn’t work you may be stuck here for a month.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Bianca) Does your book talk to you?</p><p></p><p>Bianca: What?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Not talk to you, out loud. But you know, talk to you. Address you by name? Hey how are you? It apparently reads me like a book...</p><p></p><p>Dan: In Soviet Sijan the book reads you?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: A-Dom is a book?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: One that should never be read by anyone. So... ripping a hole in creation huh?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well I think we should all talk about this first...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Welcome to the dark side.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m going to fix it too. Later.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m sure it won’t appear somewhere full of mortals. (Everyone groans)</p><p></p><p>Ryan: (to Liz) Bet I limit break before you!</p><p></p><p>Tiger comes back, ties the rope off, lowers the rope down and climbs </p><p>down into the room.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Hey I got a kicking new hat!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We found a map, and there are little blue guys swimming to assorted islands. If they are the sapphire killers of all non-believers, this might be worth ripping a hole in creation to get back.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well if they kill all the non-believers it will be much easier to take over.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Number of believers... VERY SMALL!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: The whole wyld encroaching on areas that are not populated.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: This map was made by someone named Khodak!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea we noticed that. So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation? Boy, don’t get to say that every day. How long will it take to get back normally?</p><p></p><p>Everyone: Months!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Rip that puppy open.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom goes down to the lowest room and finds the countdown:</p><p>Time till Cleansing Complete: 29 years, 3 days, 6 hours, 9 seconds.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom runs back upstairs.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok, this thing is not totally accurate. But it looks like it will take 29 years until all the non-believers are dead.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: That’s when it’s done. I think it’s starting the work right now.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom babbles incoherently, sounding a lot like Jahar.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Did that make any sense to anyone?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I think that would have made sense to Jahar if he were here.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I understood it!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You poor, poor man.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: What he’s saying is if we rip a hole and go through, we can come back much easier next time.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We need to come back and make nice nice with the Mortician. Maybe not in public. But you know, try to not upset him.</p><p></p><p>The group realizes that the closest island they have visited to Sijan is a month’s travel to the south. So Tiger is sent out again to give the Pirates a note, to tell them that they are definitely being left behind, and to visit an island near Sijan.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Who here can I throw really high into the air and they would survive? Or at least find a way to survive on the way down? </p><p></p><p>Gareth: Why?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I want to throw someone out of the hole.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Why wouldn’t they just use the rope?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What rope?</p><p></p><p>Tiger (who is climbing the rope): You know they would splatter against the lid at the top right?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh right.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we just portal out from here? </p><p>A-Dom: Portal?!? I don’t understand what you are saying.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We go East, YES?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (To A-Dom) Go sit in a corner while we make decisions.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why do you want to leave the manse before we teleport?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) Do you remember that guy you threw a mug to? What did he look like?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yea he was kind of short/tall... he was a mothe<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=":)" />er.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: See I knew it when I saw him.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: But he had a beard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: They all have beards, or don’t. STOP giving things to THEM.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: They would be a lot less annoying if they were actually trying to do something for creation.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What if there are <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />s and there are just holes...</p><p></p><p>Gareth: There are <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />s and buttholes?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Like Solars and Anathema?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Very happy): YES! There are 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 and Those guys. Two different groups with the same powers. I need to write that one out. It makes perfect sense.</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes out and visits the nearby island (would be 2 hours walk each way) and talks to the ex-pirates. When he gets back, the group argues more about going out first before using the portal.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I would rather have to travel for a month later then risk killing all the mortals in Sijan now.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: What’s the problem? We already killed a quarter of them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Help!</p><p></p><p>Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) I’m with you on this.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Lets just rip a hole in creation.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: YES!</p><p></p><p>The used the Elemental Island Hearthstone to rip a hole in creation, a giant Wyld portal opens up in the room with them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Integrity Protecting Prana! Now!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: That includes you A-Dom!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: This is going to close right? The hole in creation isn’t going to be left inside my manse right?</p><p></p><p>Everyone runs through.</p><p></p><p>They end up on Elemental Island in the portal room. A monkey butler comes running into the room with a tray full of lemonade.</p><p></p><p>MB: Drinks? You look parched.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to butler) Thanks. (To Bianca) See monkey butlers.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You haven’t seen any dead monkeys recently have you?</p><p></p><p>MB: What a terrifying thought!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: A-Dom stop scaring my monkeys.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But I want a monkey zombie.</p><p></p><p>The butler monkey goes running away in fear.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Yelling after it) Not you! Unless you die soon.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’ll have to go find your own monkey.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Off this island.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck looks at the map. She notices there is a ‘You are Here’ X on the map. On the map they are south of the Tomb Islands, and north of The Neck. The group argues for a while and realizes that the map has changed a great deal, and hence the Sapphire Sentinels are way far away from actual human settlements. As at least 2 of them are in the wyld.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We need to pick up a few of these and drop them on the blessed isle.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Why do we want to give them maps?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: He means giant statues that kill non-believers.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: That makes more sense then giving them maps.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Didn’t you say something about wyld repulsors?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: There are 18, and 2 working. I don’t know.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Well if they start working the map is going to change again.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok, well I guess I’ll just have to take on 16 more manses. I don’t mind.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: NO. No doubling up until everyone has one.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’ve had this discussion before. It always revolves around Tiger wanting another manse.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I guess that in general sounds fair.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m going out into the forest now. A-Dom, come along.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why? You don’t get blind faith anymore. That’s right because you tried to get me killing pirates.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Carry lumber.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, ok. Umm... what are we doing with the lumber?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Building a bridge.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So you’re making a ship!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yes.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Excellent. I’ll be right back.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck takes Bianca around to talk to the elementals. Tiger realizes that when the Demon was picking the poisonous plants for Jahar he was carefully picking them, not eradicating their root systems. Jade’s Luck orders a special dinner to be made by the staff. Everyone gets their favorite food. Jade’s Luck orders Eggs for A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Eggs. It’s like a baby that never was.</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes to bed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom runs off into the woods to find where the monkeys bury their dead. He does in fact find the ‘Monkey Graveyard.’ He then promptly builds a 4 armed skeleton monkey. As he wants to have a 4 armed monkey butler, for his manse... in the east.</p><p></p><p>So the scout monkeys come to find Jade’s Luck and Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Scouts: Evil! Black Magic! Graveyard!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Who?</p><p></p><p>Scouts: Evil Black Magic Person!</p><p></p><p>Tiger gets up, upset. Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the monkeys back to the Monkey Graveyard. They can see necromantic spell casting in the distance. They show up just as A-Dom finishes.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Moohahahaha! My greatest creation ever! A butler with 4 arms! Now you do what I say! (A-Dom looks at Jade’s Luck) I had to carry tar for Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: And you had to do that here, and freak out all of my staff?</p><p></p><p>Zombie Monkey Butler waves at them with both of his right arms.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Who’s upset now?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: The monkeys!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You defiled their graveyard. You had your chances to have this manse. But Nooooooo....</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I wanted an Undead monkey. (To the monkey) Flip him off! All 4 of them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to the Scout Monkey): What would be the right repentance for this?</p><p></p><p>Scout: I don’t know! I’m just a monkey! That’s freaky! It’s up to you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But I do it with Humans all the time.</p><p></p><p>Scout: Humans, not our business.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m not picking on you guys.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m setting this down here and now: No poaching on the Monkey Graveyard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So if a monkey dies outside the graveyard...</p><p></p><p>Tiger sends the monkeys to go off. In the distance they can hear the scout monkeys telling the other monkeys to not die.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No creating undead monkeys on this island.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh I got my monkey.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Because you might end up with something in your food you don’t like.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You have to keep him out of sight of the monkeys.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Could you make him a big hat to hide under?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: A yellow one?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom then starts explaining to the undead four armed monkey about how he will be butling.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) This is why we don’t encourage him. I would also think about a deep and thorough burial of anything you don’t want him to think about animating. (To A-Dom) No more!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I just wanted one. I need to get tar. An undead’s place is to carry tar.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is Gareth around?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He’s over there, planning, talking about math, boring stuff. But this should be a huge bridge. I’m looking forward to it. (A-Dom walks over) Gareth I got that monkey butler you wanted.</p><p></p><p>The four armed monkey butler zombie waves at Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I hope you don’t upset Jade’s Luck with that. Oh, Hi Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I assume he’s blaming you as usual. Cause that’s what he does. Bridge? I don’t think we have enough wood for you to build a bridge to Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You people don’t understand the concept of Jokes, do you? You see... there is this concept called Jokes. A-Dom wants to make them...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He’s not very good is he?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Have you seen the Underworld? Joke gone too far...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So it’s? actually a different B word. Like a Bar, or a Brothel.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts looking really confused.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Boat.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Obviously these are your circle-mates. Because I don’t remember any of you. So there must be another circle out there that I’m in.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You’re part of another circle?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You’re part of another circle!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Really! Excellent! Hey, maybe Jahar just 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 us into thinking he was part of our circle. Maybe we’re not a circle at all.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That makes so much paranoid sense. (A-Dom rambles incoherently about Bianca for about five minutes. Until everyone is looking at him strange.) I am not Jahar now!</p><p></p><p>Dan: So is Jahar’s Circle Abyssals or Infernals? I wonder who he sold</p><p>out to.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck says she is going off to check on the towns on the island, including the uninhabited ones.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Blurts out) There is a demon summoning circle down there! I’m telling you now because Jahar isn’t around anymore.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is this something Jahar made? (A-Dom nods) Was this before or after I told him No Demon Summoning on my island?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m not sure.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yea... so where is this exactly?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom explains where it is in the cave city of Vancouver. He then offers to show Jade’s Luck exactly where it is. He then gives a rambling explanation of how Jahar used it to summon a demon, including sound effects for the demon. The summoning circle is carved into the floor of a building. Jade’s Luck has A-Dom smash the circle into dust.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hahahaha! I’m doing evil for good! Wait...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I thought you were doing it because it was Jahar’s?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea, whatever.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom goes back to help build ‘the floating brothel.’ Jade’s Luck starts thinking about how that would be a viable business idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom gets back to Gareth.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Sorry Gareth, I got distracted. I was busy destroying the Circle. Not the Circle circle, but the summoning Circle that Jahar had.</p><p></p><p>Gareth builds a small (capable of carrying 15 people) fast boat. Which can be sailed or rowed. There are a set of oars designed for A-Dom to row with. He then builds all the parts for a second boat (basically identical to the first), which will be stored inside the first boat.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck visits the town of London and everything is going OK there. She hangs out with them for a few days. She works on reinforcing their religious beliefs in the Sun.</p><p></p><p>A random discussion comes up which Liz basically states: 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 one person is ok if it saves you from killing them. 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 an entire congregation is a bad long term plan.</p><p></p><p>After a few days, after the boat is finished:</p><p></p><p>Gareth decides to talk to Dillon (Ceri’s Mentor) about the Sapphire Sentinels coming to kill all the non-believers. Tiger decides that he doesn’t want to be anywhere near Dillon when Gareth tells him this information. This ends in A-Dom accusing Tiger of being a 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=":)" />er. Jade’s Luck points out that they can omit that the giant statues are in fact their fault.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Lets go Ask Opec if he’s a big blue statue first! ‘Hey Opec, are you a big blue thing? Oh and this is Bianca!’</p><p></p><p>So the circle decides to travel to Opec’s island, using the Wyld Portal, before they go to talk to Dillon. The group remembers, when they get there, that Gareth’s small boat is still tied up at the dock on Opec’s island. Jade’s Luck tries to talk to Opec. She gets a mumbly incoherent response. Bianca puts her hand on Opec after being encouraged to by Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: You know anything about the big sapphire guys who are trying to crush non-believers?</p><p></p><p>Opec: Yup.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Would you like to share? Help us stop them?</p><p></p><p>Opec: Yup</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Will you?</p><p></p><p>Opec: You have to do something for me first.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Oh.</p><p></p><p>Opec: Yea, my rock experiment seams to be falling through.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) He wants something.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Everyone wants something from us. Find out what.</p><p></p><p>Opec: Bring me 3 pages from the Great Library on Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: When do you want them by?</p><p></p><p>Opec: When do you want the information?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck is trying to figure out why Opec won’t talk to her, but will talk to Bianca.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why does he talk to her and not me?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom finally makes a past life roll.</p><p></p><p>GM: Do you want to buy Past Lives now?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Yes 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=":)" />er!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom’s eyes roll back into his head as he has a past life vision.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You have to WANT to learn Sorcery!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: How do you know that?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Cause I saw it! I was standing next to a Dawn caste. He told me. I was shorter. I don’t have a lot of details.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: (to Opec) Is the Library in the Underworld? Will it count if we bring pages out of the underworld to you?</p><p></p><p>Opec: Yes it is in the underworld. No it won’t count.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Do you know anything about the 18 non-functional Wyld Repelling thing station maybe?</p><p></p><p>Alex: Well she is filling Jahar’s roll.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: We here there were two buildings that were repelling the wyld and 18 more that were non-functional. What do I need to do for you to find out about those? Yes?</p><p></p><p>Liz: See we were worried that you would miss Jahar.</p><p></p><p>GM: I can hardly tell the difference.</p><p></p><p>Opec: The Statue from the Town Square of Yew.</p><p></p><p>Bianca (to Jade’s Luck) The Statue from the Town Square of You.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is it still existing or we going to have to put it back together from chunks?</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Does it exist?</p><p></p><p>Opec: Far as I know.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Gareth) We’re ready to get going right?</p><p> Jade’s Luck: (to Opec) Nice mumbling to you again.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (to Gareth) So what’s your Solar name going to be?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Gareth?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s not special enough. You need to be "Gareth of the Creation" or something. "Gareth Creator of the World."</p><p> Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we want to go there.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Gareth Cries Over Spilt Boats.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We have two places we defiantly should go now.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yay we actually have a purpose now!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We had a purpose before. There was a purpose to all our traveling...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t believe you. (Pause) Hey what happens if you walk into the portal and can’t see it?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It sucks a whole lot for you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Maybe we shouldn’t portal directly to Atlantis then. Someone may wander into it.</p><p></p><p>The group goes back to Elemental island to eat dinner. Then prepare to travel to Atlantis. A-Dom makes a ‘barrel’ by hollowing out a tree and tells his four armed monkey butler, that it is his home now. Then he puts the log on the ship that Gareth just build. Then they travel back to Opec’s island. Then they started sailing back to Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>During the trip to Atlantis, A-Dom is staring at Gareth’s Scythe. Mostly because it’s shinny and he wants it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Holy <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=":)" />! Don’t bring that into heaven!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Huh?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Some things are better not seen in heaven!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It’s invisible in heaven?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It’s written right there! (Pointing at the Scythe)</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I don’t see it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Use BOTH of your eyes!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: That’s really mean. Why don’t you just make him a zombie eye he can see out of?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Maybe I will... solar zombie eye... (to Gareth) You don’t have any lists do you?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yes, building churches.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh yea, I should get on that before you die.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Yes, I know what he’s implying.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh come on. I’ve threatened to kill everyone here except for Bianca, and that’s because she’s new. (To Bianca) I’ll get to you eventually. Don’t feel left out!</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Great...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Apparently fate in heaven is missing fate and something something, and it shouldn’t be seen.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is there writing all over it?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Just there!</p><p></p><p>Tiger is the only one who also sees the tiny, tiny writing on the blade of the scythe.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: A-Dom’s actually telling the truth.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (hurt) What do you mean by that?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You two question each other’s veracity on a regular basis. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well there is a good reason for it! He doesn’t have Veracity! He just avoids lying by not talking!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You can’t trust him (pointing at A-Dom). He’s always stealing stuff. You can’t trust people who are always stealing stuff.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom breaks out in laughter.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It’s not that he lies. It’s that he doesn’t volunteer information in any way shape or form. Anyway, (to Gareth) make sure people don’t see it if you take it to Heaven.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You know, we never made it to Skullstone.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I know.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I know not all of you have family obligations, but I’ve been wanting to get back.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I have apprentices I need to look after.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You were the one who didn’t want to build us a boat to get back.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We were in the middle 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=":)" />ing LAND!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That would have been a better argument back then.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: That was my argument back then.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We were right by a river. (Pause, then to Gareth) You remember that little question and answer session we had in that tomb?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Maybe.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Do you remember what question I got right?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: None of us heard it. You got the first one right.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Your (A-Dom) tomb, well the Wretches tomb, ask me ‘What does your group lack that leads to your acts of Hubris?’ My answer was Unity. It apparently liked it. Probably we should correct that.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: That would be a good idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I was wondering how we are breaking up over a box that holds cigars.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Not humidor. Hubris!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why are we breaking up over that?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Hubris is pride. It’s not the ‘Hey I made a neat thing’ kind of pride, it’s the ‘haha <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 all’ kind of pride.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Possibly something we should correct.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ok, I think I get ya now.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Hubris is also acts that upset your god, because of your pride or stupidity.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: More sucking up. Right. We could take over Atlantis, then he’s be like...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I don’t think sucking up is the right sentiment. Possibly: true REPENTANCE for our stupidity and actual genuine attempt to make things right...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You see this? (Holding up his list) It has things crossed off of it! Only two, but damn it, that’s SOME!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Not only repentance of deeds. But actual internal repentance.</p><p></p><p>Gareth says something only A-Dom can hear. (and the recorder didn't pick it up)</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) Did I wake up one morning 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=":)" /> in your breakfast cereal? What the hell did I do months ago to make you turn on me like this?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You turned first!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I did not, what did I do?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You learned Necromancy.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Tiger) You know, you sit there and say NOTHING for months at a time! I quit!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom jumps off the side of the boat and starts swimming towards Atlantis. Jade’s Luck jumps off the ship too and swims after A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: I feel closer to everyone already. Good unity speech.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3581238, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 4/23/07[/i] [b][size=5]DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of mind-:):):):).[/size] Subtitle: So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation? Subtitle: Yes, Mother:):):):)er! Subtitle: The Group Unity Speech. [i]-By AlwaysToast[/i][/b] A-Dom starts walking around the manse with the hearthstone. He notices that it tends to vibrate at certain times. He eventually figures out that this is a hot/cold message as he looks for where to attune the Hearthstone. He eventually finds a small unused stairway that leads down, and down deep under the manse. He eventually finds a little room with a pedestal that has a skull on top, with a place in the skulls mouth to fit the Hearthstone. A-Dom takes a long time to attune the manse. Eventually he hears a humming noise come from the building. A translucent image of a man appears next to A-Dom. Image: The Emergency Protocols have been Activated. A-Dom: Oh :):):):). Image: You have been identified, and as you are activating this tomb, things are clearly going horrible wrong in the west. Repair crews have been released. There are currently 2 functional Manses, in the Wyld repulsion system. The other 18 will be repaired, shortly. Also as per the Wretch of Winter’s instructions, the Sapphire Sentinels have been released to cleanse all non-believers. A-Dom: Oh god. A-Dom then sees a counter (written in light in the air): Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 hours Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 days Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 years Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes A-Dom: Oh :):):):). Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 decades Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating A-Dom: STOP! Image: The emergency protocols can not be stopped once activated. As something is clearly very wrong. Ryan: Format c:/ Image: Further proof of the emergency. Six of the irremovable objects have been removed. A-Dom: Can we just put those back? Hello? Anything? The image fades. A-Dom: :):):):). A-Dom looks at the counter again, it is still changing up and down at random. A-Dom runs as fast as he can back up the 30 flights of stairs. A-Dom (Yelling and incoherent): Sapphire guards killing everyone. Non-believers. You know. People gonna die! Jade’s Luck: What? A-Dom: I attuned the Manse and the Wretch of winter decided that... that... things have gone poorly... and there is a wyld repulsion system. Jade’s Luck: Is it working? A-Dom: There is 2 of 18 active. Jade’s Luck: So we could fix the other 16? A-Dom: Potentially. But that’s not the problem. The problem is the emergency protocol goes into... something... then the Sapphire guard goes in and kills all non-believers. Jade’s Luck: What is a Sapphire Guard? A-Dom: You know, I have as much information as you. Gareth has a vision of a 30ft tall statue. He then tells the others about it. A-Dom: Good! It will be easy to spot. Jade’s Luck: As it slaughters everyone? A-Dom: Just the non-believers. So pretty much everyone these days... Wait, everyone on elemental island, Hoen-ba, and my island are OK! Tiger: And here we thought we hadn’t converted anyone. Jade’s Luck: You have any other ideas about how this manse works? Since you control it now and are using it to destroy creation? A-dom thinks about it, and figures out there are some easier ways out that he can open up. So they can get back up to the top room of the building. So they could avoid the tubes they came down through, but not the one tube filled with downward pointing pins. The group spends a great deal of time arguing about how to get out of the tomb without the possibility of destroying all of Sijan by accident. This includes discussions of going into the underworld and using Tiger & Jade’s Luck’s Manse to teleport back (and hence causing a random wyld rip in creation). During the arguing Tiger is sent out to do a few things: Get rope. Get money and give it to Fatty and the remaining ex-pirates, and tell them they might be left behind. Tiger also decides to steal a jaunty hat while he’s out around town. He of course looks like someone else while doing this. It’s late at night when he gets out. Tiger sees the Shinning Mask of Heroic Justice patrolling around the Wretched Tomb, in a wide loop, around the very large building. He appears to be re-assuring everyone that the evil tomb is being watched. He can also see there are gangs of people trying to find bodies among the section of Sijan destroyed by pins. Ryan: Just think about how :):):):)ed up the pin market is now! Liz: (deadpan) Yes, you have wrought both economic as well as physical destruction. Go you. A-Dom: (Yelling up the shaft at Tiger): DO you see any 50ft tall statues wandering around? Tiger shuts the lid, and ignores A-Dom. He then goes down avoiding anyone who might be a Death Knight. As the group figures the Mortician is probably not happy with them destroying a large part of the city. A-Dom: We’ve let Tiger out alone without a leash. He may never come back. (Pause) Where are the rest of them. That’s the question to ask. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start wandering around the manse looking for anything else of value. After a few hours Jade’s Luck finds a Map Box, just like the old one they had, that was crushed along with the boats (as it was in the Grumpy Craftsman). It has the same ancient map inside. The water and land still look very real on the map. She promptly shows it to the others. A-Dom notices something is different. There are these little tiny blue men. One by the Swiftstone Archipelago in the North East, one by the Island of Tombs (east side of the west), one near Abalon (in the south). And one far out in the west near the Dragon Spine Archipelago. A-Dom: Oh god, we’re :):):):)ed! They are in the west. Jade’s Luck: What? A-Dom: You don’t see those tiny blue ant sized things, under the blue water? Owe. I’m confused. The world doesn’t look like this. Gareth: Maybe they are too. Jade’s Luck: So some of them may have already gotten to their targets because their targets are closer. A-Dom grabs the map and shakes it. The water in the map sloshes all over the place. The water eventually settles back down and nothing on the map has changed. Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we have 2 weeks for you to learn a spell anymore. A-Dom: So we are going to use those 2 weeks traveling towards the west? Jade’s Luck: (to Gareth) Is this worth putting a rip in Creation for? A-Dom: How do we stop 5... I don’t know where anything is... we have ether 2 years or 2 days... but still... they don’t appear to be moving very fast. Dan: I say leave it to the Lunars. Alex: I’m ok with that. But we should warn them at least. Jade’s Luck: What constitutes a non-believer? Belief in what? Gareth remembers Wretch being a Zealot for the worship of the Unconquered Sun. Gareth: (to A-Dom) He’s opposite of you. He’s fanatical. A-Dom: We have things we have to do here. Jade’s Luck: We can come back here later. A-Dom: We need the skull (GM note: they have the agreement, but haven’t dug it up yet), there are the lanterns... Jade’s Luck: We could write a non-binding list of things to come back and do. A-Dom: You have no idea how lists work, do you? Lists: DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of mind-:):):):). If you make a shopping list and die on the way to the store, you’re :):):):)ed. Gareth: Who came up with these rules. A-Dom: Probably me. The group starts arguing about taking Bianca back with them. The group decides to risk it (after a LONG argument) thinking that Bianca might have been to Elemental Island in a past life. Jade’s Luck (to Bianca): OK, this might work. But you might land in the ocean if the island has moved. A-Dom: This map was made by Khodak. We should find them! Gareth: Which one of us was Khodak? Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) And if it doesn’t work you may be stuck here for a month. A-Dom: (to Bianca) Does your book talk to you? Bianca: What? A-Dom: Not talk to you, out loud. But you know, talk to you. Address you by name? Hey how are you? It apparently reads me like a book... Dan: In Soviet Sijan the book reads you? Jade’s Luck: A-Dom is a book? A-Dom: One that should never be read by anyone. So... ripping a hole in creation huh? Jade’s Luck: Well I think we should all talk about this first... A-Dom: Welcome to the dark side. Jade’s Luck: I’m going to fix it too. Later. A-Dom: I’m sure it won’t appear somewhere full of mortals. (Everyone groans) Ryan: (to Liz) Bet I limit break before you! Tiger comes back, ties the rope off, lowers the rope down and climbs down into the room. Tiger: Hey I got a kicking new hat! Jade’s Luck: We found a map, and there are little blue guys swimming to assorted islands. If they are the sapphire killers of all non-believers, this might be worth ripping a hole in creation to get back. Tiger: Well if they kill all the non-believers it will be much easier to take over. Gareth: Number of believers... VERY SMALL! Jade’s Luck: The whole wyld encroaching on areas that are not populated. Tiger: This map was made by someone named Khodak! A-Dom: Yea we noticed that. So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation? Boy, don’t get to say that every day. How long will it take to get back normally? Everyone: Months! A-Dom: Rip that puppy open. A-Dom goes down to the lowest room and finds the countdown: Time till Cleansing Complete: 29 years, 3 days, 6 hours, 9 seconds. A-Dom runs back upstairs. A-Dom: Ok, this thing is not totally accurate. But it looks like it will take 29 years until all the non-believers are dead. Tiger: That’s when it’s done. I think it’s starting the work right now. A-Dom babbles incoherently, sounding a lot like Jahar. Tiger: Did that make any sense to anyone? Jade’s Luck: I think that would have made sense to Jahar if he were here. Gareth: I understood it! Jade’s Luck: You poor, poor man. Gareth: What he’s saying is if we rip a hole and go through, we can come back much easier next time. A-Dom: We need to come back and make nice nice with the Mortician. Maybe not in public. But you know, try to not upset him. The group realizes that the closest island they have visited to Sijan is a month’s travel to the south. So Tiger is sent out again to give the Pirates a note, to tell them that they are definitely being left behind, and to visit an island near Sijan. A-Dom: Who here can I throw really high into the air and they would survive? Or at least find a way to survive on the way down? Gareth: Why? A-Dom: I want to throw someone out of the hole. Gareth: Why wouldn’t they just use the rope? A-Dom: What rope? Tiger (who is climbing the rope): You know they would splatter against the lid at the top right? A-Dom: Oh right. Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we just portal out from here? A-Dom: Portal?!? I don’t understand what you are saying. Jade’s Luck: We go East, YES? Tiger: (To A-Dom) Go sit in a corner while we make decisions. Jade’s Luck: Why do you want to leave the manse before we teleport? A-Dom: (to Gareth) Do you remember that guy you threw a mug to? What did he look like? Gareth: Yea he was kind of short/tall... he was a mothe:):):):)er. A-Dom: See I knew it when I saw him. Gareth: But he had a beard. A-Dom: They all have beards, or don’t. STOP giving things to THEM. Jade’s Luck: They would be a lot less annoying if they were actually trying to do something for creation. A-Dom: What if there are :):):):):):):)s and there are just holes... Gareth: There are :):):):):):):)s and buttholes? Jade’s Luck: Like Solars and Anathema? A-Dom: (Very happy): YES! There are Mother:):):):)ers and Those guys. Two different groups with the same powers. I need to write that one out. It makes perfect sense. Tiger goes out and visits the nearby island (would be 2 hours walk each way) and talks to the ex-pirates. When he gets back, the group argues more about going out first before using the portal. Jade’s Luck: I would rather have to travel for a month later then risk killing all the mortals in Sijan now. Tiger: What’s the problem? We already killed a quarter of them. Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Help! Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) I’m with you on this. A-Dom: Lets just rip a hole in creation. Jade’s Luck: YES! The used the Elemental Island Hearthstone to rip a hole in creation, a giant Wyld portal opens up in the room with them. Jade’s Luck: Integrity Protecting Prana! Now! Tiger: That includes you A-Dom! A-Dom: This is going to close right? The hole in creation isn’t going to be left inside my manse right? Everyone runs through. They end up on Elemental Island in the portal room. A monkey butler comes running into the room with a tray full of lemonade. MB: Drinks? You look parched. Jade’s Luck: (to butler) Thanks. (To Bianca) See monkey butlers. A-Dom: You haven’t seen any dead monkeys recently have you? MB: What a terrifying thought! Jade’s Luck: A-Dom stop scaring my monkeys. A-Dom: But I want a monkey zombie. The butler monkey goes running away in fear. A-Dom: (Yelling after it) Not you! Unless you die soon. Jade’s Luck: You’ll have to go find your own monkey. A-Dom: Ok. Gareth: Off this island. Jade’s Luck looks at the map. She notices there is a ‘You are Here’ X on the map. On the map they are south of the Tomb Islands, and north of The Neck. The group argues for a while and realizes that the map has changed a great deal, and hence the Sapphire Sentinels are way far away from actual human settlements. As at least 2 of them are in the wyld. A-Dom: We need to pick up a few of these and drop them on the blessed isle. Tiger: Why do we want to give them maps? Gareth: He means giant statues that kill non-believers. Tiger: That makes more sense then giving them maps. Gareth: Didn’t you say something about wyld repulsors? A-Dom: There are 18, and 2 working. I don’t know. Gareth: Well if they start working the map is going to change again. A-Dom: Ok, well I guess I’ll just have to take on 16 more manses. I don’t mind. Gareth: NO. No doubling up until everyone has one. A-Dom: What? Gareth: We’ve had this discussion before. It always revolves around Tiger wanting another manse. A-Dom: I guess that in general sounds fair. Gareth: I’m going out into the forest now. A-Dom, come along. A-Dom: Why? You don’t get blind faith anymore. That’s right because you tried to get me killing pirates. Gareth: Carry lumber. A-Dom: Oh, ok. Umm... what are we doing with the lumber? Gareth: Building a bridge. A-Dom: So you’re making a ship! Gareth: Yes. A-Dom: Excellent. I’ll be right back. Jade’s Luck takes Bianca around to talk to the elementals. Tiger realizes that when the Demon was picking the poisonous plants for Jahar he was carefully picking them, not eradicating their root systems. Jade’s Luck orders a special dinner to be made by the staff. Everyone gets their favorite food. Jade’s Luck orders Eggs for A-Dom. Ryan: Eggs. It’s like a baby that never was. Tiger goes to bed. A-Dom runs off into the woods to find where the monkeys bury their dead. He does in fact find the ‘Monkey Graveyard.’ He then promptly builds a 4 armed skeleton monkey. As he wants to have a 4 armed monkey butler, for his manse... in the east. So the scout monkeys come to find Jade’s Luck and Tiger. Scouts: Evil! Black Magic! Graveyard! Jade’s Luck: Who? Scouts: Evil Black Magic Person! Tiger gets up, upset. Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the monkeys back to the Monkey Graveyard. They can see necromantic spell casting in the distance. They show up just as A-Dom finishes. A-Dom: Moohahahaha! My greatest creation ever! A butler with 4 arms! Now you do what I say! (A-Dom looks at Jade’s Luck) I had to carry tar for Gareth. Jade’s Luck: And you had to do that here, and freak out all of my staff? Zombie Monkey Butler waves at them with both of his right arms. A-Dom: Who’s upset now? Jade’s Luck: The monkeys! Tiger: You defiled their graveyard. You had your chances to have this manse. But Nooooooo.... A-Dom: I wanted an Undead monkey. (To the monkey) Flip him off! All 4 of them. Jade’s Luck: (to the Scout Monkey): What would be the right repentance for this? Scout: I don’t know! I’m just a monkey! That’s freaky! It’s up to you. A-Dom: But I do it with Humans all the time. Scout: Humans, not our business. A-Dom: I’m not picking on you guys. Jade’s Luck: I’m setting this down here and now: No poaching on the Monkey Graveyard. A-Dom: So if a monkey dies outside the graveyard... Tiger sends the monkeys to go off. In the distance they can hear the scout monkeys telling the other monkeys to not die. Jade’s Luck: No creating undead monkeys on this island. A-Dom: Oh I got my monkey. Jade’s Luck: Because you might end up with something in your food you don’t like. Tiger: You have to keep him out of sight of the monkeys. Jade’s Luck: Could you make him a big hat to hide under? A-Dom: A yellow one? A-Dom then starts explaining to the undead four armed monkey about how he will be butling. Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) This is why we don’t encourage him. I would also think about a deep and thorough burial of anything you don’t want him to think about animating. (To A-Dom) No more! A-Dom: I just wanted one. I need to get tar. An undead’s place is to carry tar. Jade’s Luck: Is Gareth around? A-Dom: He’s over there, planning, talking about math, boring stuff. But this should be a huge bridge. I’m looking forward to it. (A-Dom walks over) Gareth I got that monkey butler you wanted. The four armed monkey butler zombie waves at Gareth. Gareth: I hope you don’t upset Jade’s Luck with that. Oh, Hi Jade’s Luck. Jade’s Luck: I assume he’s blaming you as usual. Cause that’s what he does. Bridge? I don’t think we have enough wood for you to build a bridge to Atlantis. Gareth: You people don’t understand the concept of Jokes, do you? You see... there is this concept called Jokes. A-Dom wants to make them... Jade’s Luck: He’s not very good is he? A-Dom: Have you seen the Underworld? Joke gone too far... Jade’s Luck: So it’s? actually a different B word. Like a Bar, or a Brothel. A-Dom starts looking really confused. Tiger: Boat. A-Dom: Obviously these are your circle-mates. Because I don’t remember any of you. So there must be another circle out there that I’m in. Gareth: You’re part of another circle? A-Dom: You’re part of another circle! Gareth: Really! Excellent! Hey, maybe Jahar just mind-:):):):)ed us into thinking he was part of our circle. Maybe we’re not a circle at all. A-Dom: That makes so much paranoid sense. (A-Dom rambles incoherently about Bianca for about five minutes. Until everyone is looking at him strange.) I am not Jahar now! Dan: So is Jahar’s Circle Abyssals or Infernals? I wonder who he sold out to. Jade’s Luck says she is going off to check on the towns on the island, including the uninhabited ones. A-Dom: (Blurts out) There is a demon summoning circle down there! I’m telling you now because Jahar isn’t around anymore. Jade’s Luck: Is this something Jahar made? (A-Dom nods) Was this before or after I told him No Demon Summoning on my island? A-Dom: I’m not sure. Jade’s Luck: Yea... so where is this exactly? A-Dom explains where it is in the cave city of Vancouver. He then offers to show Jade’s Luck exactly where it is. He then gives a rambling explanation of how Jahar used it to summon a demon, including sound effects for the demon. The summoning circle is carved into the floor of a building. Jade’s Luck has A-Dom smash the circle into dust. A-Dom: Hahahaha! I’m doing evil for good! Wait... Jade’s Luck: I thought you were doing it because it was Jahar’s? A-Dom: Yea, whatever. A-Dom goes back to help build ‘the floating brothel.’ Jade’s Luck starts thinking about how that would be a viable business idea. A-Dom gets back to Gareth. A-Dom: Sorry Gareth, I got distracted. I was busy destroying the Circle. Not the Circle circle, but the summoning Circle that Jahar had. Gareth builds a small (capable of carrying 15 people) fast boat. Which can be sailed or rowed. There are a set of oars designed for A-Dom to row with. He then builds all the parts for a second boat (basically identical to the first), which will be stored inside the first boat. Jade’s Luck visits the town of London and everything is going OK there. She hangs out with them for a few days. She works on reinforcing their religious beliefs in the Sun. A random discussion comes up which Liz basically states: Mind :):):):)ing one person is ok if it saves you from killing them. Mind :):):):)ing an entire congregation is a bad long term plan. After a few days, after the boat is finished: Gareth decides to talk to Dillon (Ceri’s Mentor) about the Sapphire Sentinels coming to kill all the non-believers. Tiger decides that he doesn’t want to be anywhere near Dillon when Gareth tells him this information. This ends in A-Dom accusing Tiger of being a Mother:):):):)er. Jade’s Luck points out that they can omit that the giant statues are in fact their fault. Jade’s Luck: Lets go Ask Opec if he’s a big blue statue first! ‘Hey Opec, are you a big blue thing? Oh and this is Bianca!’ So the circle decides to travel to Opec’s island, using the Wyld Portal, before they go to talk to Dillon. The group remembers, when they get there, that Gareth’s small boat is still tied up at the dock on Opec’s island. Jade’s Luck tries to talk to Opec. She gets a mumbly incoherent response. Bianca puts her hand on Opec after being encouraged to by Jade’s Luck. Bianca: You know anything about the big sapphire guys who are trying to crush non-believers? Opec: Yup. Bianca: Would you like to share? Help us stop them? Opec: Yup Bianca: Will you? Opec: You have to do something for me first. Bianca: Oh. Opec: Yea, my rock experiment seams to be falling through. Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) He wants something. Jade’s Luck: Everyone wants something from us. Find out what. Opec: Bring me 3 pages from the Great Library on Atlantis. Bianca: When do you want them by? Opec: When do you want the information? Jade’s Luck is trying to figure out why Opec won’t talk to her, but will talk to Bianca. Jade’s Luck: Why does he talk to her and not me? A-Dom finally makes a past life roll. GM: Do you want to buy Past Lives now? Ryan: Yes Mother:):):):)er! A-Dom’s eyes roll back into his head as he has a past life vision. A-Dom: You have to WANT to learn Sorcery! Gareth: How do you know that? A-Dom: Cause I saw it! I was standing next to a Dawn caste. He told me. I was shorter. I don’t have a lot of details. Bianca: (to Opec) Is the Library in the Underworld? Will it count if we bring pages out of the underworld to you? Opec: Yes it is in the underworld. No it won’t count. Bianca: Do you know anything about the 18 non-functional Wyld Repelling thing station maybe? Alex: Well she is filling Jahar’s roll. Bianca: We here there were two buildings that were repelling the wyld and 18 more that were non-functional. What do I need to do for you to find out about those? Yes? Liz: See we were worried that you would miss Jahar. GM: I can hardly tell the difference. Opec: The Statue from the Town Square of Yew. Bianca (to Jade’s Luck) The Statue from the Town Square of You. Jade’s Luck: Is it still existing or we going to have to put it back together from chunks? Bianca: Does it exist? Opec: Far as I know. A-Dom (to Gareth) We’re ready to get going right? Jade’s Luck: (to Opec) Nice mumbling to you again. A-Dom (to Gareth) So what’s your Solar name going to be? Gareth: Gareth? A-Dom: That’s not special enough. You need to be "Gareth of the Creation" or something. "Gareth Creator of the World." Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we want to go there. Tiger: Gareth Cries Over Spilt Boats. Gareth: We have two places we defiantly should go now. A-Dom: Yay we actually have a purpose now! Jade’s Luck: We had a purpose before. There was a purpose to all our traveling... A-Dom: I don’t believe you. (Pause) Hey what happens if you walk into the portal and can’t see it? Jade’s Luck: It sucks a whole lot for you. A-Dom: Maybe we shouldn’t portal directly to Atlantis then. Someone may wander into it. The group goes back to Elemental island to eat dinner. Then prepare to travel to Atlantis. A-Dom makes a ‘barrel’ by hollowing out a tree and tells his four armed monkey butler, that it is his home now. Then he puts the log on the ship that Gareth just build. Then they travel back to Opec’s island. Then they started sailing back to Atlantis. During the trip to Atlantis, A-Dom is staring at Gareth’s Scythe. Mostly because it’s shinny and he wants it. A-Dom: Holy :):):):)! Don’t bring that into heaven! Gareth: Huh? A-Dom: Some things are better not seen in heaven! Jade’s Luck: It’s invisible in heaven? A-Dom: It’s written right there! (Pointing at the Scythe) Gareth: I don’t see it. A-Dom: Use BOTH of your eyes! Jade’s Luck: That’s really mean. Why don’t you just make him a zombie eye he can see out of? A-Dom: Maybe I will... solar zombie eye... (to Gareth) You don’t have any lists do you? Gareth: Yes, building churches. A-Dom: Oh yea, I should get on that before you die. Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Yes, I know what he’s implying. A-Dom: Oh come on. I’ve threatened to kill everyone here except for Bianca, and that’s because she’s new. (To Bianca) I’ll get to you eventually. Don’t feel left out! Bianca: Great... A-Dom: Apparently fate in heaven is missing fate and something something, and it shouldn’t be seen. Jade’s Luck: Is there writing all over it? A-Dom: Just there! Tiger is the only one who also sees the tiny, tiny writing on the blade of the scythe. Tiger: A-Dom’s actually telling the truth. A-Dom: (hurt) What do you mean by that? Jade’s Luck: You two question each other’s veracity on a regular basis. A-Dom: Well there is a good reason for it! He doesn’t have Veracity! He just avoids lying by not talking! Tiger: You can’t trust him (pointing at A-Dom). He’s always stealing stuff. You can’t trust people who are always stealing stuff. A-Dom breaks out in laughter. Jade’s Luck: It’s not that he lies. It’s that he doesn’t volunteer information in any way shape or form. Anyway, (to Gareth) make sure people don’t see it if you take it to Heaven. Tiger: You know, we never made it to Skullstone. Gareth: I know. Jade’s Luck: I know not all of you have family obligations, but I’ve been wanting to get back. Gareth: I have apprentices I need to look after. Jade’s Luck: You were the one who didn’t want to build us a boat to get back. Gareth: We were in the middle of :):):):)ing LAND! A-Dom: That would have been a better argument back then. Gareth: That was my argument back then. Jade’s Luck: We were right by a river. (Pause, then to Gareth) You remember that little question and answer session we had in that tomb? Gareth: Maybe. Jade’s Luck: Do you remember what question I got right? Gareth: No? Tiger: None of us heard it. You got the first one right. Jade’s Luck: Your (A-Dom) tomb, well the Wretches tomb, ask me ‘What does your group lack that leads to your acts of Hubris?’ My answer was Unity. It apparently liked it. Probably we should correct that. Gareth: That would be a good idea. A-Dom: I was wondering how we are breaking up over a box that holds cigars. Jade’s Luck: Not humidor. Hubris! A-Dom: Why are we breaking up over that? Jade’s Luck: Hubris is pride. It’s not the ‘Hey I made a neat thing’ kind of pride, it’s the ‘haha :):):):) you all’ kind of pride. A-Dom: Ok Jade’s Luck: Possibly something we should correct. A-Dom: Ok, I think I get ya now. Jade’s Luck: Hubris is also acts that upset your god, because of your pride or stupidity. A-Dom: More sucking up. Right. We could take over Atlantis, then he’s be like... Jade’s Luck: I don’t think sucking up is the right sentiment. Possibly: true REPENTANCE for our stupidity and actual genuine attempt to make things right... A-Dom: You see this? (Holding up his list) It has things crossed off of it! Only two, but damn it, that’s SOME! Jade’s Luck: Not only repentance of deeds. But actual internal repentance. Gareth says something only A-Dom can hear. (and the recorder didn't pick it up) A-Dom: (to Gareth) Did I wake up one morning and :):):):) in your breakfast cereal? What the hell did I do months ago to make you turn on me like this? Gareth: You turned first! A-Dom: I did not, what did I do? Tiger: You learned Necromancy. A-Dom: (to Tiger) You know, you sit there and say NOTHING for months at a time! I quit! A-Dom jumps off the side of the boat and starts swimming towards Atlantis. Jade’s Luck jumps off the ship too and swims after A-Dom. Bianca: I feel closer to everyone already. Good unity speech. 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