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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3589301" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 5/7/07</em></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Yea. But it’s written in pencil. </span></strong></p><p><strong><em>-By AlwaysToast</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>As A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim away from the boat, Gareth notices that Jade’s Luck is carrying her 4ft long Orichalcum Skycutter on her head. A-Dom is someone nervous about the ‘gold shark fin’ following him.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Jade’s Luck, you know your boomerang isn’t inconspicuous at all?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (really fast) Yea what’s your point?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: It’s not something you should swim into the city with.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m not swimming into the city.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Oh, ok.</p><p></p><p>The boat (with Gareth, Tiger and Bianca) sails off around to the City of Atlantis. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim to the nearest shore (far north of the City of Atlantis).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why are you following me?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m not really sure. Do you mind?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Long as you’re not Tiger. That would have devolved into me waving at the air around Tiger, then he would have started swinging his sword at me. Then things would have become awkward. Not gay awkward, but you know. I suppose we should...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Gareth pointed out that I’m kind of conspicuous with this (points at her skycutter).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You want to hide it in the bushes?</p><p> Jade’s Luck: I’m not sure that’s the best plan?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Want to dig a giant hole for it? Want to dress it up as a child? Hide it on the boat?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You want to go back to the boat?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I was trying to make a point... oh well. We do have work to do here.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well Gareth seemed concerned about it. So he won’t mind us putting it on the boat.</p><p></p><p>So A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start walking along the beach towards the City of Atlantis. They eventually decided that A-Dom should carry it, hoping that with the use of stealth charms no one will notice it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (to her Skycutter) Now, I’m not giving you away. I’m just letting him hold you for a little while. So don’t be nervous.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You’re talking to your boomerang?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I think it would be upset if I gave it away. I don’t know if it can talk to me or not. But I can talk to it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why do all magical items have tudes?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom has to tell Jade’s Luck to walk to the docks of Atlantis, to Gareth’s boat, and he will follow her, because she can’t follow him, as he will be unnoticeable.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So we are going to just walk right into Atlantis?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why the <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=":)" /> not? I’m half ready to just pull out my club and just beat people about the head.</p><p> Jade’s Luck: I thought they were going to go check out that really annoying sorcerer with that really irritating name.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, Gareth wants to check out the crater first.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the first day of walking. A-Dom gets annoyed, not realizing how far he would actually have to walk.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: This is annoying. Jade’s Luck, hop on.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck hops on top of A-Dom’s head. A-Dom activates all his strength and athletics charms, and swims as fast as he can. He manages to only have a light cast mark showing. A-Dom creates a huge wave behind him. The wave destroys the fleet of a small fishing village.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: People eat too much fish anyway!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should swim a little slower? Like bad storm level?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Sorry, didn’t hear that. Want me to swim around again?</p><p></p><p>The rest of the Circle on the boat arrives at Atlantis. Gareth starts to head for his shop.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Oh Bianca, there is a cot in the back of my place. Tiger, do whatever it is you do.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Normally I stayed at Jahar’s place.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You’re welcome to come back to my shop, or do whatever.</p><p></p><p>So they all decide to head back to Gareth’s shop. Gareth actually arrives home ahead of schedule (because they never made it to the destination). Things were going OK at the shop. Not everything Gareth had made before he left had sold. The apprentices had been making money doing their own work, mostly black smithing (not weapon smithing). Taxes are up since he left. Gareth does work and trains his apprentices.</p><p></p><p>Bianca gets bored and goes shopping. Luckily, Gareth lives in the merchant’s district. However Bianca has nether Resources nor Larceny. Which limited her ‘shopping’ ability. She managed to stay out of trouble. She also saw a Dragon-blood wearing armor, carrying a Grand Goremaul, riding a horse towards the neighborhood in which Gareth lives.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and A-Dom are talking about killing children for some reason. While swimming towards the City of Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’re suppose to care about children?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Are you sure? Cause I’m getting none of that. You see if we kill some, that just means we have to make more. Children are like smores. They are really fun to make.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Let me try to explain this in a different way then I’ve been going for. You have to make so many children, that it’s going to be vastly inefficient if you let them get killed off casually. Creation’s population got reduced by a huge amount. You can’t make that many children if you keep killing them off too.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: (sigh) Give me a Valor roll! She’s challenging my manliness.</p><p></p><p>Liz kind of starts laughing and crying at the same time. I suspect Jade’s Luck was not doing the laughing part.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So I have to be more efficient! I have to find ways to make other people more efficient.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: A-Dom every living child is a potential worshiper of the Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Especially my children.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You should be trying to convert them, not kill them. You know how we don’t want to kill worshipers? (A-Dom nods) Children are just like worshipers, but dumber. So they are easier to convince. So we don’t want to kill children.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So we want to kill the adults?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: But the adults can make more children!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But I can make more children.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: But you need to have females around for that!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re just going around in circles!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: This is a productive discussion.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, I mean since we started this conversation, I’ve just been swimming in a circle.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Oh.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I mean it’s not like I’m making a ‘Spear of baby killing’ And lining them up and getting powers from that. I don’t go out actively looking to kill children.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We have to teach you about 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. I have to learn myself. It’s like having a mind-club. Remember what Jahar did to your father-in-law? ‘Yes, Jahar, I will obey you!’</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: If I fall asleep while swimming, you’re going to die!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck realises while riding along on A-Dom’s head. That if the Unconquered Sun didn’t tell them when he stopped them from learning new charms, then he wouldn’t tell them when they could learn them again. Jade’s Luck decides to teach A-Dom about performance using her training charm to see if it works.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I feel funny! Why am I learning things?!? Hey, hit me with some prayer learning next!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Next week I’ll teach you more performance.</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes off looking for his Mentor and for Lodging. He runs into his mentor in the Inn, where he was getting lodging. He spends some time training. He explained (in general terms) what happened on their last trip to his Mentor. His mentor offers to find out where the wyld hole in Creation was created. In return for the location of the Wyld that they created, his Mentor asked him to keep the three people on a list from dying for the next week.</p><p></p><p>List:</p><p>Habib the Rug Merchant</p><p>Chris the Slave of house Cynis.</p><p>Cynis Jara</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We also seem to have this guy that nobody can remember following us around.</p><p></p><p>Mentor: You don’t say? What does he look like?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Short/tall, fat/skinny, kind of normal looking with long hair and a shaved head...</p><p></p><p>Tiger then describes the places and actions that they have taken. Including the one A-Dom saw stab himself in the fact.</p><p></p><p>Mentor: So, what females were in the room at the time?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Jade’s Luck and Bianca, and A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Mentor: I’m going to have to check a few things out about that. I’ll be in touch.</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He then shows Gareth a list, written in Tiger’s handwriting.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We have to keep these people alive for the next week.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Habib works across the street from me. (Sees Jara’s name) So one minute after a week, A-Dom is allowed to kill her?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I’m not telling him that! Anyway, he’s going to find that hole in Creation for us. Once we have the info, I don’t care what he does.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Jade’s Luck finally get to Atlantis. Jade’s Luck decides to put her Skycutter in Gareth’s back room. They get to Gareth’s shop around noon.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Hi Gareth, I need to keep my skycutter here.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hi Gareth!</p><p></p><p>Gareth’s apprentices look up at A-Dom who is holding the skycutter and waving. (They got all 10s on their awareness roll.)</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Backroom fast before anyone notices.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (yelling) Too late!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom walks into the back room.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Hey Gareth, lets go fix a snack...</p><p></p><p>Apprentices: We’re going to take a break now. Ok Gareth?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Oh yea, sure.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (whispering in Gareth’s ear) Get them! They saw A-Dom!</p><p></p><p>Tiger leans against the door to prevent them from leaving.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: On second. I was going to ask you (Jade’s Luck) about helping train my apprentices to they can do better sales pitches. </p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I think I could do that. Certainly a requirement of my stock and trade.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (whispering to Jade’s Luck) I have a plan for this. It’s not a good plan, but I have a plan.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck makes everyone in the room calm by doing a kata. (A performance was required, and subtle, not the circle’s strong point. Sadly, Jade’s Luck botched doing her Kata)</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Hey watch this great new kata. (Botch) Ouch, my nose.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to apprentices) I take it you noticed my craft spirit.</p><p></p><p>Apprentice: (whispering to Gareth) There is an Anathema in the back room. He snuck in with your friends, and now they are all acting crazy. He’s got this giant golden thing with him.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: That’s a craft spirit.</p><p></p><p>Apprentice: Don’t craft spirits look like hammers and stuff?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: He’s more of an anvil.</p><p></p><p>Apprentice: He didn’t look like an anvil.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (muffled from the back room) Shut up, I’m an anvil!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: He’s a bit odd, but he does good work.</p><p></p><p>Apprentice: We should get an immaculate monk to make sure it’s OK.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I’ll go get one. I’ll be right back. (Tiger leaves, and Jade’s Luck leans against the door.)</p><p></p><p>Tiger figures out how far the nearest temple is, then plans to come back in the right amount of time. Then he decides to sneak into the back room to talk to A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You’ve kind of caused a problem. They want a dragon-blood now. I can pretend to be an immaculate monk, but if the monk comes back without me, that’s a problem.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So I have to pretend to be you?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: All you have to do is look like me and be quite.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I can’t look like you. I can look like a person who looks like you but I can’t be you. Hell I can’t even really tell what you look like! Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Ok maybe you can be the monk if we kick the apprentices out.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Jade’s luck do not have another conversation about killing people.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So we’ll walk in together then kick them out of the shop because it might be ‘dangerous.’</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I liked this plan better when I was Tiger...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom goes all monk-y (not all monkey). Tiger helps make suggestions. They both head out of the back and circle around to the front of the shop.</p><p></p><p>The group discusses making a charm that erases you from all history, including your own. So it causes amnesia. Then A-Dom needs to lean charms to brainwash people with writing he does. So he can erase his own memory, then read a book that tells him who he is (that he will magically believe). ‘You’re name is Patient Tiger, and you like to eat babies...’</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (runs back into the shop) There is an immaculate Monk coming. You all need to clear out so he can deal with the spirit.</p><p></p><p>Gareth leads everyone to the courtyard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (disguised as Monk) Oogady boodgady, shook, shook, shook!</p><p></p><p>Tiger sneaks away from the group in the courtyard, and back in through the front door to explain to A-Dom how to pretend to be an Immaculate Monk.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I think you’re going for more detail then we actually need.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I can see and talk to the spirits.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I can do that too. I just have to put blood into my eyes! Jahar showed me!</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-Dom argue for a bit about what they should actually do. Tiger talks to the local craft spirits, who are confused because they look nothing like A-Dom. A-Dom suggest that they stand on each other ‘like Voltron.’ Tiger wants the spirits to materialize, but appear transparent and ‘spirity.’ The spirits do their best. Gareth ushers the apprentices over.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Is that what you saw?</p><p></p><p>Apprentices: NO, it was much uglier. Didn’t look like tools at all.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: That’s what it looks like when you don’t see it out of the corner of your eye.</p><p></p><p>Apprentice: I didn’t see it out of the corner of my eye. I saw it head on, and it was way uglier.</p><p></p><p>Gareth gives the monk a donation and thanks him. The apprentices go on break to a bar. A-Dom shadows them, looking like someone else. He then makes a concerted effort to not go into the bar and blow all of the money Gareth just gave him. A-Dom wanders back to the shop.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, we kill them later?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Nooooo, they are family.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’ll find somewhere else to stay.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I have a question...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No I don’t want to stay at your place.</p><p></p><p>Tiger holds up the list.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: List?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: My mentor offered to find the hole in creation that we made in exchange for keeping these people alive for the next week.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Does he have ‘special’ powers?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Yea, he kind of does.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Does he know those other <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? Can he tell them to cut it out please? As rental for the rest of the group’s services, maybe we can ask him for some help?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You want to know where the hole in Creation is? This is the price of finding out.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Can we talk to him if we promise to not get into any combat-y situations? Pretty please? While you are sucking on his <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=":)" />tard teat.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He could be your mentor and our enemy at the same time...</p><p></p><p>Alex: Because we know Tiger is our enemy.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: If he is concerned about Creation, then they should stop <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 with us.</p><p></p><p>The group goes into a random argument about stuff they don’t know a lot </p><p>about. Primarily concerning the belief that the Dragon-Bloods needed to have had help from someone to overthrow the Solars. Every possible group is blamed including the Lunars.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m pretty sure the Lunars were not in on it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Ok we’ll help with the list.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But on top of that there were other things we wanted to do here yes? (Everyone nods) What were they?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We wanted to visit the crater. Because hey, that hasn’t gone wrong before.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: At some point I want to go see how things are going at the trading company.</p><p></p><p>While Arguing, Tiger hears something out back (triple botch). He runs to investigate. Others hear hoof beats lead up to the merchant across the street, then someone in armor get off the horse and head into the store.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Urge to kill... rising...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I have developed an urge to go shopping in that store RIGHT NOW!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck, Gareth, and A-Dom (pulling Bianca) head towards the rug merchant’s shop. Jade’s Luck stops to give the horse an apple.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to the horse) What’s 2+2?</p><p></p><p>The horse writes the number 4 on the ground with his hoof.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s awesome. (To Bianca) Same horse.</p><p></p><p>The group sees that Jara is screaming at Habib inside the rug shop. She has her Grand Goremaul out. Jade’s Luck runs in as a ‘singing telegram’ from Jahar to Jara, trying to instill the emotion of Calm using her charm again. Everyone in the shop becomes very calm.</p><p></p><p>The singing telegram is about how Jahar holds Jara in the highest regards, admires and respects her, and wishes her well, and how he setting up a trading outpost that will do credit to their families. </p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to himself quietly) I don’t need to get the rug merchant out... everything’s cool...</p><p></p><p>Tiger finds 2 cats fighting in the back alley. Jara tips Jade’s Luck. Then she tells the merchant she’ll be back later, and she wanders off to her horse and rides off.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (to Habib) Hey man, what was the mater?</p><p></p><p>Habib: She was really upset because I sold her a booby trapped rug.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts laughing hysterically.</p><p></p><p>Habib: But I got paid a lot of money by a Pelpse.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Maybe you have a grandmother you need to go visit?</p><p></p><p>Habib: No. All my grandmothers are dead.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Then you need to go to their shrine.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Habib): Hey, you dropped this bag of money. I suggest you fund a vacation.</p><p></p><p>GM: Where did you get a bag of money?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I took it from Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Gareth doesn't have that much money.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I took it from under his counter.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I strongly suggest you take a vacation for a week or two until the lady has calmed down. </p><p></p><p>Habib: That’s a good idea. When should I leave?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Right NOW!</p><p></p><p>Habib: Who’s going to run my shop?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We will.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I have an apprentice, I’ll send him over.</p><p></p><p>Habib: (still calm) Ok</p><p></p><p>While the batteries in the recorder were being changed:</p><p>Ryan: Our God is NOT a Sex position! Yes he likes to be on top. But he’s always on top!</p><p></p><p>Tiger shows up at the rug merchant shop. He has All Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight on and sees a Death Spirit wandering off. Tiger tells the others and follows the spirit. Jade’s Luck follows Tiger and fills him in on what happened.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t think they death spirit is going to have much to say other then ‘I was here to get someone who was going to die.’</p><p></p><p>Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the Death Spirit until it is in a dark alleyway, as they don’t want to talk to spirits on the street.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: The Dragon Blood and Mortal, were you there for a reason?</p><p></p><p>Death: The mortal was going to die. You guys stopped that. Nothing for me to do there. I think a pigeon is going to be dying a few blocks away, can we hurry this up?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So you don’t cause it, you’re just there?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’re just like a Craft Spirit, you just be there?</p><p></p><p>Death: No, I’m completely different.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You don’t cause anything, you’re just there when it happens.</p><p></p><p>Death: Yea, basically. There are like 12 of us that have to walk around.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So if there was no Death Spirit around they wouldn’t die?</p><p></p><p>Death: No they would still die.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It just wouldn’t happen properly.</p><p></p><p>Death: Depends. Sometimes one gets summoned.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Summoned by?</p><p></p><p>Death: Heaven? I don’t know.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What if there is some kind of strange sorcery that prevents the Death Spirit from showing up?</p><p></p><p>Death: I don’t know! I’m just in charge of being there. It’s my job.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Got a list?</p><p></p><p>Death: Yea. But it’s written in pencil.</p><p></p><p>Tiger gets a look at Death’s list. He sees ‘Merchant killed by Dragon-blood.’ As well as ‘Slave dies at Cynis party’ quite a ways down on the list.</p><p></p><p>Death: I got to go, I’ve missed the pigeon, and now there is an old guy. I really can’t miss that one.</p><p></p><p>Death Spirit wanders off.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I guess the best way to find out about a Cynis party is to ask Mother dear. That might take a while. You want to be an innocuous bodyguard? So If I get the information you can just wander off without me being horribly rude to my family.</p><p></p><p>So they go back to the Rug shop and explain what’s going on to the others. A-Dom is busy trying to steal everything he can from the rug merchant. But not rugs because those are bulky.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’re trying to get Gareth’s apprentices to take the fall for your thefts?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: There were not that many thoughts involved with it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Steal from people we don’t know. Not those we are in buisness with.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom walks next door to steal money to replace the money he just stole. When he gets back he finds out that the next door neighbor is Gareth’s contact. So he robs the merchant next to the contact to replace money he stole from Gareth’s contact.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m going to go take a nap. I was swimming for days.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Who’s fault is that?</p><p></p><p>So Tiger and Jade’s Luck go to Matron Jade Fox’s establishment.</p><p></p><p>Matron Jade Fox: You have to stop going on business trips like this. Business always goes down when you’re not around. </p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Lord Jahar is off on some island setting up a trading post. He’s got a good touch with the natives there. He will be back at some point. I’m going to be taking care of things here. There may be business trips around Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Matron Jade Fox: Terrible luck without you around.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I heard the Cynis are having a party. I was hoping to further our business contacts.</p><p></p><p>Matron Jade Fox: I can get you one invitation.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: When is it?</p><p></p><p>Matron Jade Fox: Tonight.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Just enough time to freshen up.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck spends some more time chatting with Matron Jade Fox, then goes to change her cloths, that have been sprayed by sea salt for the last few days. She finds out that 2 girls broke their legs dancing at a party, one girl got a sociable disease and had to retire. A drunk set a fire in one of the rooms. There were two brawls in the house.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I'm trying to make this venture profitable for all of us. It’s a lot harder then I thought it would be.</p><p></p><p>Matron Jade Fox: Maybe you should consider settling down.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m still young yet. For a while I was thinking it might be better to be Jahar’s mistress for a while.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (when alone with Jade’s Luck): Maybe we should keep A-Dom away from Cynis parties.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Oh, yea, good idea.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We should send A-Dom and Gareth after the Merchant to keep him safe. We can take Bianca with us to the party as another servant. </p><p></p><p>Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He finds Gareth dealing with the Apprentice who noticed all the money at the rug shop was stolen and replaced with the same amount of money, but different money.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You two should watch the merchant. Make sure he doesn’t get killed on vacation. He only has a 2 hour head start.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I could steal a horse...</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Where are you going to get Oars?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Gareth can't hear ether.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We found out where the slave is going to be tonight at a party. So we’ll go deal with the slave. Anyway I need to get Bianca back so Jade’s Luck can find her some appropriate clothing.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck explains Cynis parties to Bianca: It’s like a lot of large mini-cows in heat running around. So watch your ass.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Don’t pull an A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Cynis are very indiscriminate about what they mate with.</p><p></p><p>Gareth and A-Dom run off to find the Merchant Habib. Given the amount of money and what Gareth knows about Habib, he probably would go to island of Marcus’ Gift for his vacation. So they raced to the Docks as Habib would have to get passage on a boat to get there. A-Dom spots him as he is arranging passage. He then sees Jara on the other side of the dock.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Which one do we kill first?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No killing. You are going to usher him to my boat.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Excellent. (Evil/crazed look in his eye) Ushering...</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We need them alive.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Habib) I suggest you take passage with us.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Your life may be in danger!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: In many ways!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (Eyeing A-Dom) No, only in one very serious way. Come with us if you want to live.</p><p></p><p>Habib: Ok!</p><p></p><p>Gareth welcomes Habib onto his ship in old realm. Then they set sail towards Markus’ gift.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (after being on the boat for about 2 minutes) I’m bored.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3589301, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 5/7/07[/i] [b][size=5]Yea. But it’s written in pencil. [/size] [i]-By AlwaysToast[/i][/b] As A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim away from the boat, Gareth notices that Jade’s Luck is carrying her 4ft long Orichalcum Skycutter on her head. A-Dom is someone nervous about the ‘gold shark fin’ following him. Gareth: Jade’s Luck, you know your boomerang isn’t inconspicuous at all? Jade’s Luck: (really fast) Yea what’s your point? Gareth: It’s not something you should swim into the city with. Jade’s Luck: I’m not swimming into the city. Gareth: Oh, ok. The boat (with Gareth, Tiger and Bianca) sails off around to the City of Atlantis. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim to the nearest shore (far north of the City of Atlantis). A-Dom: Why are you following me? Jade’s Luck: I’m not really sure. Do you mind? A-Dom: Long as you’re not Tiger. That would have devolved into me waving at the air around Tiger, then he would have started swinging his sword at me. Then things would have become awkward. Not gay awkward, but you know. I suppose we should... Jade’s Luck: Gareth pointed out that I’m kind of conspicuous with this (points at her skycutter). A-Dom: You want to hide it in the bushes? Jade’s Luck: I’m not sure that’s the best plan? A-Dom: Want to dig a giant hole for it? Want to dress it up as a child? Hide it on the boat? Jade’s Luck: You want to go back to the boat? A-Dom: I was trying to make a point... oh well. We do have work to do here. Jade’s Luck: Well Gareth seemed concerned about it. So he won’t mind us putting it on the boat. So A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start walking along the beach towards the City of Atlantis. They eventually decided that A-Dom should carry it, hoping that with the use of stealth charms no one will notice it. Jade’s Luck: (to her Skycutter) Now, I’m not giving you away. I’m just letting him hold you for a little while. So don’t be nervous. A-Dom: You’re talking to your boomerang? Jade’s Luck: I think it would be upset if I gave it away. I don’t know if it can talk to me or not. But I can talk to it. A-Dom: Why do all magical items have tudes? A-Dom has to tell Jade’s Luck to walk to the docks of Atlantis, to Gareth’s boat, and he will follow her, because she can’t follow him, as he will be unnoticeable. Jade’s Luck: So we are going to just walk right into Atlantis? A-Dom: Why the :):):):) not? I’m half ready to just pull out my club and just beat people about the head. Jade’s Luck: I thought they were going to go check out that really annoying sorcerer with that really irritating name. A-Dom: No, Gareth wants to check out the crater first. At the end of the first day of walking. A-Dom gets annoyed, not realizing how far he would actually have to walk. A-Dom: This is annoying. Jade’s Luck, hop on. Jade’s Luck hops on top of A-Dom’s head. A-Dom activates all his strength and athletics charms, and swims as fast as he can. He manages to only have a light cast mark showing. A-Dom creates a huge wave behind him. The wave destroys the fleet of a small fishing village. A-Dom: People eat too much fish anyway! Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should swim a little slower? Like bad storm level? A-Dom: Sorry, didn’t hear that. Want me to swim around again? The rest of the Circle on the boat arrives at Atlantis. Gareth starts to head for his shop. Gareth: Oh Bianca, there is a cot in the back of my place. Tiger, do whatever it is you do. Tiger: Normally I stayed at Jahar’s place. Gareth: You’re welcome to come back to my shop, or do whatever. So they all decide to head back to Gareth’s shop. Gareth actually arrives home ahead of schedule (because they never made it to the destination). Things were going OK at the shop. Not everything Gareth had made before he left had sold. The apprentices had been making money doing their own work, mostly black smithing (not weapon smithing). Taxes are up since he left. Gareth does work and trains his apprentices. Bianca gets bored and goes shopping. Luckily, Gareth lives in the merchant’s district. However Bianca has nether Resources nor Larceny. Which limited her ‘shopping’ ability. She managed to stay out of trouble. She also saw a Dragon-blood wearing armor, carrying a Grand Goremaul, riding a horse towards the neighborhood in which Gareth lives. Jade’s Luck and A-Dom are talking about killing children for some reason. While swimming towards the City of Atlantis. Jade’s Luck: You’re suppose to care about children? A-Dom: Are you sure? Cause I’m getting none of that. You see if we kill some, that just means we have to make more. Children are like smores. They are really fun to make. Jade’s Luck: Let me try to explain this in a different way then I’ve been going for. You have to make so many children, that it’s going to be vastly inefficient if you let them get killed off casually. Creation’s population got reduced by a huge amount. You can’t make that many children if you keep killing them off too. Ryan: (sigh) Give me a Valor roll! She’s challenging my manliness. Liz kind of starts laughing and crying at the same time. I suspect Jade’s Luck was not doing the laughing part. A-Dom: So I have to be more efficient! I have to find ways to make other people more efficient. Jade’s Luck: A-Dom every living child is a potential worshiper of the Unconquered Sun. A-Dom: Especially my children. Jade’s Luck: You should be trying to convert them, not kill them. You know how we don’t want to kill worshipers? (A-Dom nods) Children are just like worshipers, but dumber. So they are easier to convince. So we don’t want to kill children. A-Dom: So we want to kill the adults? Jade’s Luck: But the adults can make more children! A-Dom: But I can make more children. Jade’s Luck: But you need to have females around for that! A-Dom: We’re just going around in circles! Jade’s Luck: This is a productive discussion. A-Dom: No, I mean since we started this conversation, I’ve just been swimming in a circle. Jade’s Luck: Oh. A-Dom: I mean it’s not like I’m making a ‘Spear of baby killing’ And lining them up and getting powers from that. I don’t go out actively looking to kill children. Jade’s Luck: We have to teach you about Mind-:):):):)ing. I have to learn myself. It’s like having a mind-club. Remember what Jahar did to your father-in-law? ‘Yes, Jahar, I will obey you!’ A-Dom: If I fall asleep while swimming, you’re going to die! Jade’s Luck realises while riding along on A-Dom’s head. That if the Unconquered Sun didn’t tell them when he stopped them from learning new charms, then he wouldn’t tell them when they could learn them again. Jade’s Luck decides to teach A-Dom about performance using her training charm to see if it works. A-Dom: I feel funny! Why am I learning things?!? Hey, hit me with some prayer learning next! Jade’s Luck: Next week I’ll teach you more performance. Tiger goes off looking for his Mentor and for Lodging. He runs into his mentor in the Inn, where he was getting lodging. He spends some time training. He explained (in general terms) what happened on their last trip to his Mentor. His mentor offers to find out where the wyld hole in Creation was created. In return for the location of the Wyld that they created, his Mentor asked him to keep the three people on a list from dying for the next week. List: Habib the Rug Merchant Chris the Slave of house Cynis. Cynis Jara Tiger: We also seem to have this guy that nobody can remember following us around. Mentor: You don’t say? What does he look like? Tiger: Short/tall, fat/skinny, kind of normal looking with long hair and a shaved head... Tiger then describes the places and actions that they have taken. Including the one A-Dom saw stab himself in the fact. Mentor: So, what females were in the room at the time? Tiger: Jade’s Luck and Bianca, and A-Dom. Mentor: I’m going to have to check a few things out about that. I’ll be in touch. Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He then shows Gareth a list, written in Tiger’s handwriting. Tiger: We have to keep these people alive for the next week. Gareth: Habib works across the street from me. (Sees Jara’s name) So one minute after a week, A-Dom is allowed to kill her? Tiger: I’m not telling him that! Anyway, he’s going to find that hole in Creation for us. Once we have the info, I don’t care what he does. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck finally get to Atlantis. Jade’s Luck decides to put her Skycutter in Gareth’s back room. They get to Gareth’s shop around noon. Jade’s Luck: Hi Gareth, I need to keep my skycutter here. A-Dom: Hi Gareth! Gareth’s apprentices look up at A-Dom who is holding the skycutter and waving. (They got all 10s on their awareness roll.) Gareth: Backroom fast before anyone notices. A-Dom: (yelling) Too late! A-Dom walks into the back room. Jade’s Luck: Hey Gareth, lets go fix a snack... Apprentices: We’re going to take a break now. Ok Gareth? Gareth: Oh yea, sure. Jade’s Luck: (whispering in Gareth’s ear) Get them! They saw A-Dom! Tiger leans against the door to prevent them from leaving. Gareth: On second. I was going to ask you (Jade’s Luck) about helping train my apprentices to they can do better sales pitches. Jade’s Luck: I think I could do that. Certainly a requirement of my stock and trade. Gareth: (whispering to Jade’s Luck) I have a plan for this. It’s not a good plan, but I have a plan. Jade’s Luck makes everyone in the room calm by doing a kata. (A performance was required, and subtle, not the circle’s strong point. Sadly, Jade’s Luck botched doing her Kata) Jade’s Luck: Hey watch this great new kata. (Botch) Ouch, my nose. Gareth: (to apprentices) I take it you noticed my craft spirit. Apprentice: (whispering to Gareth) There is an Anathema in the back room. He snuck in with your friends, and now they are all acting crazy. He’s got this giant golden thing with him. Gareth: That’s a craft spirit. Apprentice: Don’t craft spirits look like hammers and stuff? Gareth: He’s more of an anvil. Apprentice: He didn’t look like an anvil. A-Dom: (muffled from the back room) Shut up, I’m an anvil! Gareth: He’s a bit odd, but he does good work. Apprentice: We should get an immaculate monk to make sure it’s OK. Tiger: I’ll go get one. I’ll be right back. (Tiger leaves, and Jade’s Luck leans against the door.) Tiger figures out how far the nearest temple is, then plans to come back in the right amount of time. Then he decides to sneak into the back room to talk to A-Dom. Tiger: You’ve kind of caused a problem. They want a dragon-blood now. I can pretend to be an immaculate monk, but if the monk comes back without me, that’s a problem. A-Dom: So I have to pretend to be you? Tiger: All you have to do is look like me and be quite. A-Dom: I can’t look like you. I can look like a person who looks like you but I can’t be you. Hell I can’t even really tell what you look like! Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet? Tiger: Ok maybe you can be the monk if we kick the apprentices out. A-Dom and Jade’s luck do not have another conversation about killing people. Tiger: So we’ll walk in together then kick them out of the shop because it might be ‘dangerous.’ A-Dom: I liked this plan better when I was Tiger... A-Dom goes all monk-y (not all monkey). Tiger helps make suggestions. They both head out of the back and circle around to the front of the shop. The group discusses making a charm that erases you from all history, including your own. So it causes amnesia. Then A-Dom needs to lean charms to brainwash people with writing he does. So he can erase his own memory, then read a book that tells him who he is (that he will magically believe). ‘You’re name is Patient Tiger, and you like to eat babies...’ Tiger: (runs back into the shop) There is an immaculate Monk coming. You all need to clear out so he can deal with the spirit. Gareth leads everyone to the courtyard. A-Dom: (disguised as Monk) Oogady boodgady, shook, shook, shook! Tiger sneaks away from the group in the courtyard, and back in through the front door to explain to A-Dom how to pretend to be an Immaculate Monk. A-Dom: I think you’re going for more detail then we actually need. Tiger: I can see and talk to the spirits. A-Dom: I can do that too. I just have to put blood into my eyes! Jahar showed me! Tiger and A-Dom argue for a bit about what they should actually do. Tiger talks to the local craft spirits, who are confused because they look nothing like A-Dom. A-Dom suggest that they stand on each other ‘like Voltron.’ Tiger wants the spirits to materialize, but appear transparent and ‘spirity.’ The spirits do their best. Gareth ushers the apprentices over. Gareth: Is that what you saw? Apprentices: NO, it was much uglier. Didn’t look like tools at all. Gareth: That’s what it looks like when you don’t see it out of the corner of your eye. Apprentice: I didn’t see it out of the corner of my eye. I saw it head on, and it was way uglier. Gareth gives the monk a donation and thanks him. The apprentices go on break to a bar. A-Dom shadows them, looking like someone else. He then makes a concerted effort to not go into the bar and blow all of the money Gareth just gave him. A-Dom wanders back to the shop. A-Dom: So, we kill them later? Gareth: Nooooo, they are family. A-Dom: I’ll find somewhere else to stay. Jade’s Luck: I have a question... A-Dom: No I don’t want to stay at your place. Tiger holds up the list. Jade’s Luck: List? Tiger: My mentor offered to find the hole in creation that we made in exchange for keeping these people alive for the next week. Jade’s Luck: Does he have ‘special’ powers? Tiger: Yea, he kind of does. Jade’s Luck: Does he know those other :):):):):):):)s? Can he tell them to cut it out please? As rental for the rest of the group’s services, maybe we can ask him for some help? Tiger: You want to know where the hole in Creation is? This is the price of finding out. A-Dom: Can we talk to him if we promise to not get into any combat-y situations? Pretty please? While you are sucking on his :):):):)tard teat. Jade’s Luck: He could be your mentor and our enemy at the same time... Alex: Because we know Tiger is our enemy. Jade’s Luck: If he is concerned about Creation, then they should stop :):):):)ing with us. The group goes into a random argument about stuff they don’t know a lot about. Primarily concerning the belief that the Dragon-Bloods needed to have had help from someone to overthrow the Solars. Every possible group is blamed including the Lunars. A-Dom: I’m pretty sure the Lunars were not in on it. Jade’s Luck: Ok we’ll help with the list. A-Dom: But on top of that there were other things we wanted to do here yes? (Everyone nods) What were they? Gareth: We wanted to visit the crater. Because hey, that hasn’t gone wrong before. Jade’s Luck: At some point I want to go see how things are going at the trading company. While Arguing, Tiger hears something out back (triple botch). He runs to investigate. Others hear hoof beats lead up to the merchant across the street, then someone in armor get off the horse and head into the store. A-Dom: Urge to kill... rising... Jade’s Luck: I have developed an urge to go shopping in that store RIGHT NOW! Jade’s Luck, Gareth, and A-Dom (pulling Bianca) head towards the rug merchant’s shop. Jade’s Luck stops to give the horse an apple. A-Dom: (to the horse) What’s 2+2? The horse writes the number 4 on the ground with his hoof. A-Dom: That’s awesome. (To Bianca) Same horse. The group sees that Jara is screaming at Habib inside the rug shop. She has her Grand Goremaul out. Jade’s Luck runs in as a ‘singing telegram’ from Jahar to Jara, trying to instill the emotion of Calm using her charm again. Everyone in the shop becomes very calm. The singing telegram is about how Jahar holds Jara in the highest regards, admires and respects her, and wishes her well, and how he setting up a trading outpost that will do credit to their families. Gareth: (to himself quietly) I don’t need to get the rug merchant out... everything’s cool... Tiger finds 2 cats fighting in the back alley. Jara tips Jade’s Luck. Then she tells the merchant she’ll be back later, and she wanders off to her horse and rides off. Gareth: (to Habib) Hey man, what was the mater? Habib: She was really upset because I sold her a booby trapped rug. A-Dom starts laughing hysterically. Habib: But I got paid a lot of money by a Pelpse. Jade’s Luck: Maybe you have a grandmother you need to go visit? Habib: No. All my grandmothers are dead. Jade’s Luck: Then you need to go to their shrine. A-Dom: (to Habib): Hey, you dropped this bag of money. I suggest you fund a vacation. GM: Where did you get a bag of money? Ryan: I took it from Gareth. Alex: Gareth doesn't have that much money. Ryan: I took it from under his counter. A-Dom: I strongly suggest you take a vacation for a week or two until the lady has calmed down. Habib: That’s a good idea. When should I leave? A-Dom: Right NOW! Habib: Who’s going to run my shop? Tiger: We will. Gareth: I have an apprentice, I’ll send him over. Habib: (still calm) Ok While the batteries in the recorder were being changed: Ryan: Our God is NOT a Sex position! Yes he likes to be on top. But he’s always on top! Tiger shows up at the rug merchant shop. He has All Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight on and sees a Death Spirit wandering off. Tiger tells the others and follows the spirit. Jade’s Luck follows Tiger and fills him in on what happened. A-Dom: I don’t think they death spirit is going to have much to say other then ‘I was here to get someone who was going to die.’ Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the Death Spirit until it is in a dark alleyway, as they don’t want to talk to spirits on the street. Jade’s Luck: The Dragon Blood and Mortal, were you there for a reason? Death: The mortal was going to die. You guys stopped that. Nothing for me to do there. I think a pigeon is going to be dying a few blocks away, can we hurry this up? Tiger: So you don’t cause it, you’re just there? Jade’s Luck: You’re just like a Craft Spirit, you just be there? Death: No, I’m completely different. Tiger: You don’t cause anything, you’re just there when it happens. Death: Yea, basically. There are like 12 of us that have to walk around. Jade’s Luck: So if there was no Death Spirit around they wouldn’t die? Death: No they would still die. Jade’s Luck: It just wouldn’t happen properly. Death: Depends. Sometimes one gets summoned. Tiger: Summoned by? Death: Heaven? I don’t know. Jade’s Luck: What if there is some kind of strange sorcery that prevents the Death Spirit from showing up? Death: I don’t know! I’m just in charge of being there. It’s my job. Tiger: Got a list? Death: Yea. But it’s written in pencil. Tiger gets a look at Death’s list. He sees ‘Merchant killed by Dragon-blood.’ As well as ‘Slave dies at Cynis party’ quite a ways down on the list. Death: I got to go, I’ve missed the pigeon, and now there is an old guy. I really can’t miss that one. Death Spirit wanders off. Jade’s Luck: I guess the best way to find out about a Cynis party is to ask Mother dear. That might take a while. You want to be an innocuous bodyguard? So If I get the information you can just wander off without me being horribly rude to my family. So they go back to the Rug shop and explain what’s going on to the others. A-Dom is busy trying to steal everything he can from the rug merchant. But not rugs because those are bulky. Jade’s Luck: You’re trying to get Gareth’s apprentices to take the fall for your thefts? A-Dom: There were not that many thoughts involved with it. Jade’s Luck: Steal from people we don’t know. Not those we are in buisness with. A-Dom walks next door to steal money to replace the money he just stole. When he gets back he finds out that the next door neighbor is Gareth’s contact. So he robs the merchant next to the contact to replace money he stole from Gareth’s contact. A-Dom: I’m going to go take a nap. I was swimming for days. Tiger: Who’s fault is that? So Tiger and Jade’s Luck go to Matron Jade Fox’s establishment. Matron Jade Fox: You have to stop going on business trips like this. Business always goes down when you’re not around. Jade’s Luck: Lord Jahar is off on some island setting up a trading post. He’s got a good touch with the natives there. He will be back at some point. I’m going to be taking care of things here. There may be business trips around Atlantis. Matron Jade Fox: Terrible luck without you around. Jade’s Luck: I heard the Cynis are having a party. I was hoping to further our business contacts. Matron Jade Fox: I can get you one invitation. Jade’s Luck: When is it? Matron Jade Fox: Tonight. Jade’s Luck: Just enough time to freshen up. Jade’s Luck spends some more time chatting with Matron Jade Fox, then goes to change her cloths, that have been sprayed by sea salt for the last few days. She finds out that 2 girls broke their legs dancing at a party, one girl got a sociable disease and had to retire. A drunk set a fire in one of the rooms. There were two brawls in the house. Jade’s Luck: I'm trying to make this venture profitable for all of us. It’s a lot harder then I thought it would be. Matron Jade Fox: Maybe you should consider settling down. Jade’s Luck: I’m still young yet. For a while I was thinking it might be better to be Jahar’s mistress for a while. Tiger: (when alone with Jade’s Luck): Maybe we should keep A-Dom away from Cynis parties. Jade’s Luck: Oh, yea, good idea. Tiger: We should send A-Dom and Gareth after the Merchant to keep him safe. We can take Bianca with us to the party as another servant. Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He finds Gareth dealing with the Apprentice who noticed all the money at the rug shop was stolen and replaced with the same amount of money, but different money. Tiger: You two should watch the merchant. Make sure he doesn’t get killed on vacation. He only has a 2 hour head start. A-Dom: I could steal a horse... Gareth: Where are you going to get Oars? A-Dom: Gareth can't hear ether. Tiger: We found out where the slave is going to be tonight at a party. So we’ll go deal with the slave. Anyway I need to get Bianca back so Jade’s Luck can find her some appropriate clothing. Jade’s Luck explains Cynis parties to Bianca: It’s like a lot of large mini-cows in heat running around. So watch your ass. Tiger: Don’t pull an A-Dom. Jade’s Luck: Cynis are very indiscriminate about what they mate with. Gareth and A-Dom run off to find the Merchant Habib. Given the amount of money and what Gareth knows about Habib, he probably would go to island of Marcus’ Gift for his vacation. So they raced to the Docks as Habib would have to get passage on a boat to get there. A-Dom spots him as he is arranging passage. He then sees Jara on the other side of the dock. A-Dom: Which one do we kill first? Gareth: No killing. You are going to usher him to my boat. A-Dom: Excellent. (Evil/crazed look in his eye) Ushering... Gareth: We need them alive. A-Dom: (to Habib) I suggest you take passage with us. Gareth: Your life may be in danger! A-Dom: In many ways! Gareth: (Eyeing A-Dom) No, only in one very serious way. Come with us if you want to live. Habib: Ok! Gareth welcomes Habib onto his ship in old realm. Then they set sail towards Markus’ gift. A-Dom: (after being on the boat for about 2 minutes) I’m bored. [/QUOTE]
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