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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3953089" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Session 48</em></p><p><em>Synopsis of: 6/4/07</em></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">We have to save her, so we can assassinate her ourselves.</span></strong></p><p><strong>We don’t want it to be too obvious.</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By AlwaysToast</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Gareth and A-Dom are sailing towards Markus’ Gift, with their “good friend” Habib, completely ignoring the chaos that is happening in the city of Atlantis. Because Gareth “Has to babysit A-Dom.” The next morning they are getting near Marcus’ Gift, getting towards the port. A-Dom notices that there are a number of Aligators along the coast. He also notices that some of them are albino.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Look Gareth, some of those big buggers are albino.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Is this somehow your fault?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (quite happy) Probably. (Pause) Probably not, I um, (pause) Dragon Bloods, maybe, you see they, (pause) I’m sorry, Jahar took over there for a minute.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Dear god he’s developing ranged powers...</p><p></p><p>They dock, and find out there is a rather large docking fee for docking at this island, being a pleasure resort and all. Gareth spends some time stalling the dock warden. A-Dom dives off the boat, sneaks into town, steals enough money to pay the docking fee, dives back into the water, swims back to the boat and comes up behind Gareth... soaking wet, and hands him the money for the docking fee.</p><p></p><p>Dock Warden: You’re awfully wet.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I like a morning swim.</p><p></p><p>Dock Warden: Whatever floats your boat.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Water.</p><p></p><p>The dock warden walks off confused.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) Mortals are so funny.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Gareth force Habib to come up with were they should stay, and how much that should cost. So on the way to the Inn/Bath House, A-Dom pickpockets multiple people on the way there for small amounts each. So by the time they arrive at the Inn, he has enough to pay for himself and Gareth. Habib has plenty of money with him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (To himself) That’s right, he has lots of money on him. I should be robbing him.</p><p></p><p>Habib: I can hear you.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, sorry. No, I was saying I should open up a bath-house and rob rich people like you, with high prices.</p><p></p><p>Habib: I think you have to be a Dragon-Blood to open up a Bath House on this island.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well, we’ll have to do something about that! Change the way the world works!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom notices that there are a lot of slaves on this island, and all the slaves around him become very nervous when he starts talking about “changing the way the world works” while in the middle of the street.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (To slaves) And by changing, I mean keeping it exactly the same.</p><p></p><p>They enter the Inn/Bath House. Walk up to the Concierge.</p><p></p><p>Habib: Hello my friend! I am hoping you have three rooms avalible for myself and my good friends Gareth and... (Habib realizes he does not know A-Dom’s name).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: A-Dom!</p><p></p><p>Ryan: You know, I keep getting all these wonderful moments to make up a name, and I always end up giving my name.</p><p></p><p>So they pay, and slaves are assigned to them as personal servants, and to show them around. The slaves make good tour guides, telling them about the various entertainments. Baths, sex houses, gladiator pits, hunting expeditions, gambling, etc. A-Dom quizzes them on the gladiator arena and laughs a lot. A-Dom also finds out that according to the slaves albino alligators started appearing amongst the population. They also hear about the “great big one” a huge albino alligator.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Sounds like a nice local attraction.</p><p></p><p>Slave: Yea, sometimes people try to hunt the great big one. They tend to die. He ate a Dragon-Blood last year.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom eventually starts asking a series of complicated questions the slaves can’t possibly answer.</p><p></p><p>Slave: (depressed) I’m sorry, I just don’t know about those things. Would you like to flog me now?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, that’s alright, have a muffin.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom, Gareth and Habib spend the rest of they day hanging around the bathhouse. Their day was uneventful.</p><p></p><p>Back in the Undercity, Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and the kidnapped slave Chris, are sitting around, and pursy spits out Bianca. They then moved around about every 6 hours to make it less likely that anyone would track them down.</p><p></p><p>The next day, A-Dom finds Habib in the lobby talking to some other rich merchant types Habib apparently knows. A-Dom finds out they are going alligator hunting.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Going after the big one?</p><p></p><p>Hunter: Are you crazy? He ate a Dragon-Blood last year!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It’s true, I heard about that. I still don’t entirely believe it.</p><p></p><p>Hunter: Well then, maybe you’d like to join us, test your skills. You’re a big strapping lad.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (totally fake sounding) Not as big and strapping as a Dragon Blood, gee wiz they are great! I’m far from a Dragon Blood.</p><p></p><p>One of the men in the group appears to be a Dragon-Blood and is looking at A-Dom like he is a prick.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom has at this point just started to pick pocket every person he passes, for small amounts, just so he’ll have enough money to pay for things. So he pays for himself and Gareth to go on the hunting trip. They hand them both a spear and a bow. A-Dom starts playing around with the bow.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wow, cool. I’ve never shot one of these before.</p><p></p><p>GM note: This is sadly true. A-Dom has never fired a bow. He has Archery 5, and he’s never picked up a bow in his life. Silly Dawn caste.</p><p></p><p>Liz: Jade’s Luck is somewhere grinding her teeth for no apparent reason.</p><p></p><p>The hunting trip is taken, by wagon, out into a marshland area near the ocean. A good place to hunt alligators. A-Dom after a while finds an alligator and stabs it with the spear, through the brain.</p><p></p><p>Hunting Guide: I’ve never seen anyone kill one by stabbing it in the brain like that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s the best way to kill it, isn’t it? Maybe it’s just a really good spear!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom pulls the spear out... the spear is making rattling noises like the shaft was split down the center by the force of A-Dom’s blow. A-Dom sees Habib down by the river, washing his hands, and he sees a huge white shape moving swiftly through the water towards Habib. A-Dom goes running towards Habib. Gareth notices that A-Dom has freaked out, and starts asking the Dragon Blood annoying questions to keep him distracted.</p><p>A-dom throws Habib out of the way. However, the big albino aligator bites down on A-Dom’s foot.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Looks at his foot, looks at the crowd) (quietly) Oh right, (Screaming) Ahhhh! Help!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom is then dragged underwater by the alligator. As he gets deeper into the river, A-Dom realizes he should actually start struggling instead of just putting on a show. A-Dom, blinded by the river muck, decides to “communicate” with it by turning on his cast mark. Suddenly he is grabbed by a large hand that is also white and scally, and dragged further and faster into the water.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: I don’t know if this is an improvement or not!</p><p></p><p>Dan: Can you breath water yet?</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Nope.</p><p></p><p>Dan: Then it’s an improvement.</p><p></p><p>He is then able to breath, as he finds himself in a small underground cave with an air pocket, with a large albino Lunar, who looks like half aligator, half man.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Are you a Lunar.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Yes.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So no then.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: No, (pause) yes!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Everybody who is a supernatural starts off by lying to me. Why should you be any different? Aren’t you fae, or demon or something? (The Lunar turns on his Full Moon caste mark) Ok then. How long have you been here?</p><p></p><p>Lunar: In the river... or in the cave?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, in Atlantis, or I guess Marcus’ Gift.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: 200 years.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Damn, not long enough.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: What?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh sorry, you see we have these past lives things, and this island is named after me. I’m Marcus.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Ahh... Marcus the Mad. You’re feeling sane though right?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh yea, I’m fine.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Then what are you doing on MY island?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re trying to keep some guy alive.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Why on my island?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well the Dragon Blood are trying to kill him.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Why?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s always a complicated question.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: They always are.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You see it was one of those guys that you see, then can’t remember.</p><p></p><p>The Lunar says something, that A-Dom forgets. The Lunar gets a little depressed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He’s the only one of them that has not tried to screw us over, and has apparently helped one of us many times.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Do you have any friends around?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: YES!</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Are they smarter then you?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom describes Gareth, primarily pointing out the missing eye.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: You stay here, I’ll be back.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What you going to do? Cause they don’t know we’re Solar, and I’m all dead now because I got dragged into the water.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: Don’t worry. I’ll be subtle. (The Lunar swims away)</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t like people telling me they are going to be subtle. That’s what I say before I mess things up...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom looks around the small cave for something to amuse himself with. He finds to corpses which are devoid of possessions.</p><p></p><p>Back on land:</p><p></p><p>Dragon Blood: (to Gareth) I’m sorry your friend is dead. But you get to keep his kill.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (somber) I’ll take it to his family.</p><p></p><p>Dragon Blood: We’d best be heading back now.</p><p></p><p>While on the wagon ride back to the city, various animals try to get Gareth’s attention. However, Gareth is... Gareth and doesn’t notice. Eventually a bird lands in his lap, dropping a piece of paper, then flies off.</p><p></p><p>Note:</p><p>You’re friend is alive.</p><p>Please leave the party.</p><p>Damn you are blind.</p><p></p><p>Gareth gets off the wagon to releave himself and tells the rest of the hunting party that he will walk the rest of the way back to town. Gareth goes behind a tree.</p><p></p><p>Lunar: You would be Gareth?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yes.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I am Wintersun. Lets go back and have a talk.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun and Gareth swim into the cave and find A-Dom with a skull in each hand.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Skull1)“What’s your name” (Skull 2) “I don’t know, what’s your name?” (Skull 1) “I don’t know. Hey you’re kind of stinky.” (Skull 2) “So are you. I blame the cave...” Oh hi there!</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: He tells me you have been dealing with Sidereals. (A-Dom forgets this too. But Gareth remembers.)</p><p></p><p>Gareth: So that’s what they are called! We’ve been calling them <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=":)" />heads.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Lot of people call them that too. You see one of them payed me to try to kill some fellow named Habib, but not try too hard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ahhhh! So he must have wanted us to meet. You’re here to explain stuff to us.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I am?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Tiger asked 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=":)" />head to tell us stuff. But he couldn’t so he got some 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=":)" />head to explain things to us.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: So you think I’m just going to explain things to you?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We are the Solar Circle of the West, and we really need more information so we don’t screw up as much.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I thought you were all gone.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re BACK! I was also Wretch. One of use was Yew. Yew the Necromancer, but we’re not sure who that was. And I was a little girl once. (Pause) So I heard you killed a Dragon Blood. What did that taste like?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Chicken.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I like you. Anyway, we are just down on our luck Solars trying to take over the world, and we figured we would start with Atlantis first.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Our god is encased in soulsteel.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun pulls out a little scroll and starts taking notes.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Well you see I’m overthrowing this island. More specifically I’m having the slaves overthrow it for me.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We could maybe help you with that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yea we’re all for helping with that. Slave revolts! Yay!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’d like to retake Atlantis.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: So you think you could pull that off by say... next week?</p><p></p><p>Pause as the group laughs hysterically.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m sorry, we hadn’t met before. That’s just not possible.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’d like to take over the city of Yew first. See if we can harness the army that is there.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: The Undead?</p><p></p><p>Gareth & A-Dom: Yea.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Unfortunately the Sapphire Sentinels have been let loose. You should probably tell you’re higher ups that. (Wintersun takes more notes)</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Well you see the slaves are all ready to revolt next week. If you could take over Atlantis at the same time, it would probably work out much better.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You’re doing a good job leading and all. All the slaves are with you, well they are all with each other.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I’m not a solar, I’m not leading them. I’m just giving them good ideas to work with.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: And you’re doing a great job in your place in the order of things, very appropriate...</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: You don’t know what you are talking about, do you?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: It’s generally best to just ignore him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom really rambles on for a while.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: So you guys really don’t know anything about Sidereals.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We’ve been picking things up as we go along. We know they are like us.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: And they have been trying to kill us, and impregnate us with themselves.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Oh that’s never good.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, no, no, yea. I’m not sure how that works.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Have they been <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 your fate at all?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I think so. They always seem to show up when something bad is about to happen.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How do we tell?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Do you know what Fate is?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No, but I’m currently outside of Fate.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: That’s cool. Fate is an actual thing. It exists.</p><p></p><p>Liz: We can break it!</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Think of it like a building full of rope.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: A-Dom, you are not going into it.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun pulls out some string and pokes some sticks into the mud vertically.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Imagine every person is a string. Every time a string meets another string they affect each other. Sometimes they cross, sometimes they entangle then separate, sometimes they entangle forever, and sometimes one cuts the other one off. Fate is everything that has happened, and is a roadmap for things that might happen.</p><p></p><p>So after a while Wintersun has a huge mass of string wound between the various sticks in a big spider web type creation. Then he takes some reeds and wraps them together.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: This is a Circle of Solars.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun whacks the reed rope down onto the spiderweb breaking strings everywhere and making the whole thing fold in on itself.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: That’s what you guys look like in fate. So some things are outside of Fate, like undead and fae. So when an undead kills someone. (Wintersun pulls out a knife and slashes off a string, causing the entire web to shift) Fate gets screwed up for no apparent reason that they can see. So their ability to predict fate gets screwed up whenever somebody outside of fate does something to someone who has fate.</p><p></p><p>Gareth starts laughing.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: As far as I can tell they make most of their plans based on this thing that is Fate.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So if we raise an army of undead and kill a lot of people, that <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 up their plans something sever?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Yes.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why do you care about your fate after you’re dead?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: You’re fate affects the fate of everyone else. So if you die when you’re not suppose to, then you won’t be around to save a baby. Then the baby dies when he’s not suppose to, and the baby was suppose to rule the world.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Somebody killed the wrong person, now Dragon Blood are in control!</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Something like that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How do we get outside of fate?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Beats me?!? If I could do it, I would. But I have no idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I need to find something nifty to trade him (points at Gareth). Where can we go that is totally outside of fate?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Totally outside of fate? The deep wild.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) Is that deeper then we have been? (Gareth nods) Wow, nooooo... we’re not going there. (To Wintersun) I’m really glad you’re not an <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Do you know Cerie?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Dillan?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Oh I know Dillan.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Dillan is Ceries master. Oh could you tell him that Sapphire Sentinels are cleansing non-believers. Thankfully they are very lost. But that is why we are trying to take over Atlantis quickly.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Quickly being in the next one hundred years. Not next week.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: Are you sure you can’t push that up to next week? Sometime this month?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: A-Dom, A-Dom, we have a plan...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No we don’t. We sat down to have a plan, and Tiger interrupted, and then we went on our jolly little adventure of not killing Habib and Jara’s soon to be dead wife and a slave and... (to Wintersun) Adventure just happens to us and it just pisses me off!</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: See you’re problem is that you need to be more pro-active. Pick your adventure and go with it!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’re trying to. We’re trying to inflict our adventure all over Atlantis. (A-Dom rambles about going to the East, all the wile calling it the West.)</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I just try to talk people into things.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I can do that too. Just not on a large scale.</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: I like to work with the slaves. They are oppressed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We intend to screw up the whole social order. Probably do something fun with the slaves. I like slaves too. I use to be a slave in a past life.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Not so much Past Life...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, not a literal Past Life, (to Garth) SHUT UP.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Far as we know all the unbelievers will be wiped out in 27 years.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We plan to have Atlantis all settled by then, and control a couple other islands.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yea, if you can get that to Dillian as soon as possible, we’d appreciate it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Say are there any other Lunars hanging around here we could talk to?</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: There is one who lives in the City of Atlantis. But he’s hard to find.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We’ll we’re all “hard to find.”</p><p></p><p>Wintersun: No, he’s really hard to find. He could be in the room with you, and you wouldn’t know it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3953089, member: 9758"] [i]Session 48 Synopsis of: 6/4/07[/i] [b][size=5]We have to save her, so we can assassinate her ourselves.[/size] We don’t want it to be too obvious. [i]-By AlwaysToast[/i][/b][i][/i] Gareth and A-Dom are sailing towards Markus’ Gift, with their “good friend” Habib, completely ignoring the chaos that is happening in the city of Atlantis. Because Gareth “Has to babysit A-Dom.” The next morning they are getting near Marcus’ Gift, getting towards the port. A-Dom notices that there are a number of Aligators along the coast. He also notices that some of them are albino. A-Dom: Look Gareth, some of those big buggers are albino. Gareth: Is this somehow your fault? A-Dom: (quite happy) Probably. (Pause) Probably not, I um, (pause) Dragon Bloods, maybe, you see they, (pause) I’m sorry, Jahar took over there for a minute. Gareth: Dear god he’s developing ranged powers... They dock, and find out there is a rather large docking fee for docking at this island, being a pleasure resort and all. Gareth spends some time stalling the dock warden. A-Dom dives off the boat, sneaks into town, steals enough money to pay the docking fee, dives back into the water, swims back to the boat and comes up behind Gareth... soaking wet, and hands him the money for the docking fee. Dock Warden: You’re awfully wet. A-Dom: I like a morning swim. Dock Warden: Whatever floats your boat. A-Dom: Water. The dock warden walks off confused. A-Dom: (to Gareth) Mortals are so funny. A-Dom and Gareth force Habib to come up with were they should stay, and how much that should cost. So on the way to the Inn/Bath House, A-Dom pickpockets multiple people on the way there for small amounts each. So by the time they arrive at the Inn, he has enough to pay for himself and Gareth. Habib has plenty of money with him. A-Dom: (To himself) That’s right, he has lots of money on him. I should be robbing him. Habib: I can hear you. A-Dom: Oh, sorry. No, I was saying I should open up a bath-house and rob rich people like you, with high prices. Habib: I think you have to be a Dragon-Blood to open up a Bath House on this island. A-Dom: Well, we’ll have to do something about that! Change the way the world works! A-Dom notices that there are a lot of slaves on this island, and all the slaves around him become very nervous when he starts talking about “changing the way the world works” while in the middle of the street. A-Dom: (To slaves) And by changing, I mean keeping it exactly the same. They enter the Inn/Bath House. Walk up to the Concierge. Habib: Hello my friend! I am hoping you have three rooms avalible for myself and my good friends Gareth and... (Habib realizes he does not know A-Dom’s name). A-Dom: A-Dom! Ryan: You know, I keep getting all these wonderful moments to make up a name, and I always end up giving my name. So they pay, and slaves are assigned to them as personal servants, and to show them around. The slaves make good tour guides, telling them about the various entertainments. Baths, sex houses, gladiator pits, hunting expeditions, gambling, etc. A-Dom quizzes them on the gladiator arena and laughs a lot. A-Dom also finds out that according to the slaves albino alligators started appearing amongst the population. They also hear about the “great big one” a huge albino alligator. A-Dom: Sounds like a nice local attraction. Slave: Yea, sometimes people try to hunt the great big one. They tend to die. He ate a Dragon-Blood last year. A-Dom eventually starts asking a series of complicated questions the slaves can’t possibly answer. Slave: (depressed) I’m sorry, I just don’t know about those things. Would you like to flog me now? A-Dom: No, that’s alright, have a muffin. A-Dom, Gareth and Habib spend the rest of they day hanging around the bathhouse. Their day was uneventful. Back in the Undercity, Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and the kidnapped slave Chris, are sitting around, and pursy spits out Bianca. They then moved around about every 6 hours to make it less likely that anyone would track them down. The next day, A-Dom finds Habib in the lobby talking to some other rich merchant types Habib apparently knows. A-Dom finds out they are going alligator hunting. A-Dom: Going after the big one? Hunter: Are you crazy? He ate a Dragon-Blood last year! A-Dom: It’s true, I heard about that. I still don’t entirely believe it. Hunter: Well then, maybe you’d like to join us, test your skills. You’re a big strapping lad. A-Dom: (totally fake sounding) Not as big and strapping as a Dragon Blood, gee wiz they are great! I’m far from a Dragon Blood. One of the men in the group appears to be a Dragon-Blood and is looking at A-Dom like he is a prick. A-Dom has at this point just started to pick pocket every person he passes, for small amounts, just so he’ll have enough money to pay for things. So he pays for himself and Gareth to go on the hunting trip. They hand them both a spear and a bow. A-Dom starts playing around with the bow. A-Dom: Wow, cool. I’ve never shot one of these before. GM note: This is sadly true. A-Dom has never fired a bow. He has Archery 5, and he’s never picked up a bow in his life. Silly Dawn caste. Liz: Jade’s Luck is somewhere grinding her teeth for no apparent reason. The hunting trip is taken, by wagon, out into a marshland area near the ocean. A good place to hunt alligators. A-Dom after a while finds an alligator and stabs it with the spear, through the brain. Hunting Guide: I’ve never seen anyone kill one by stabbing it in the brain like that. A-Dom: That’s the best way to kill it, isn’t it? Maybe it’s just a really good spear! A-Dom pulls the spear out... the spear is making rattling noises like the shaft was split down the center by the force of A-Dom’s blow. A-Dom sees Habib down by the river, washing his hands, and he sees a huge white shape moving swiftly through the water towards Habib. A-Dom goes running towards Habib. Gareth notices that A-Dom has freaked out, and starts asking the Dragon Blood annoying questions to keep him distracted. A-dom throws Habib out of the way. However, the big albino aligator bites down on A-Dom’s foot. A-Dom: (Looks at his foot, looks at the crowd) (quietly) Oh right, (Screaming) Ahhhh! Help! A-Dom is then dragged underwater by the alligator. As he gets deeper into the river, A-Dom realizes he should actually start struggling instead of just putting on a show. A-Dom, blinded by the river muck, decides to “communicate” with it by turning on his cast mark. Suddenly he is grabbed by a large hand that is also white and scally, and dragged further and faster into the water. Ryan: I don’t know if this is an improvement or not! Dan: Can you breath water yet? Ryan: Nope. Dan: Then it’s an improvement. He is then able to breath, as he finds himself in a small underground cave with an air pocket, with a large albino Lunar, who looks like half aligator, half man. A-Dom: Are you a Lunar. Lunar: Yes. A-Dom: So no then. Lunar: No, (pause) yes! A-Dom: Everybody who is a supernatural starts off by lying to me. Why should you be any different? Aren’t you fae, or demon or something? (The Lunar turns on his Full Moon caste mark) Ok then. How long have you been here? Lunar: In the river... or in the cave? A-Dom: No, in Atlantis, or I guess Marcus’ Gift. Lunar: 200 years. A-Dom: Damn, not long enough. Lunar: What? A-Dom: Oh sorry, you see we have these past lives things, and this island is named after me. I’m Marcus. Lunar: Ahh... Marcus the Mad. You’re feeling sane though right? A-Dom: Oh yea, I’m fine. Lunar: Then what are you doing on MY island? A-Dom: We’re trying to keep some guy alive. Lunar: Why on my island? A-Dom: Well the Dragon Blood are trying to kill him. Lunar: Why? A-Dom: That’s always a complicated question. Lunar: They always are. A-Dom: You see it was one of those guys that you see, then can’t remember. The Lunar says something, that A-Dom forgets. The Lunar gets a little depressed. A-Dom: He’s the only one of them that has not tried to screw us over, and has apparently helped one of us many times. Lunar: Do you have any friends around? A-Dom: YES! Lunar: Are they smarter then you? A-Dom describes Gareth, primarily pointing out the missing eye. Lunar: You stay here, I’ll be back. A-Dom: What you going to do? Cause they don’t know we’re Solar, and I’m all dead now because I got dragged into the water. Lunar: Don’t worry. I’ll be subtle. (The Lunar swims away) A-Dom: I don’t like people telling me they are going to be subtle. That’s what I say before I mess things up... A-Dom looks around the small cave for something to amuse himself with. He finds to corpses which are devoid of possessions. Back on land: Dragon Blood: (to Gareth) I’m sorry your friend is dead. But you get to keep his kill. Gareth: (somber) I’ll take it to his family. Dragon Blood: We’d best be heading back now. While on the wagon ride back to the city, various animals try to get Gareth’s attention. However, Gareth is... Gareth and doesn’t notice. Eventually a bird lands in his lap, dropping a piece of paper, then flies off. Note: You’re friend is alive. Please leave the party. Damn you are blind. Gareth gets off the wagon to releave himself and tells the rest of the hunting party that he will walk the rest of the way back to town. Gareth goes behind a tree. Lunar: You would be Gareth? Gareth: Yes. Wintersun: I am Wintersun. Lets go back and have a talk. Wintersun and Gareth swim into the cave and find A-Dom with a skull in each hand. A-Dom: (Skull1)“What’s your name” (Skull 2) “I don’t know, what’s your name?” (Skull 1) “I don’t know. Hey you’re kind of stinky.” (Skull 2) “So are you. I blame the cave...” Oh hi there! Wintersun: He tells me you have been dealing with Sidereals. (A-Dom forgets this too. But Gareth remembers.) Gareth: So that’s what they are called! We’ve been calling them :):):):)heads. Wintersun: Lot of people call them that too. You see one of them payed me to try to kill some fellow named Habib, but not try too hard. A-Dom: Ahhhh! So he must have wanted us to meet. You’re here to explain stuff to us. Wintersun: I am? A-Dom: Tiger asked his :):):):)head to tell us stuff. But he couldn’t so he got some other :):):):)head to explain things to us. Wintersun: So you think I’m just going to explain things to you? Gareth: We are the Solar Circle of the West, and we really need more information so we don’t screw up as much. Wintersun: I thought you were all gone. A-Dom: We’re BACK! I was also Wretch. One of use was Yew. Yew the Necromancer, but we’re not sure who that was. And I was a little girl once. (Pause) So I heard you killed a Dragon Blood. What did that taste like? Wintersun: Chicken. A-Dom: I like you. Anyway, we are just down on our luck Solars trying to take over the world, and we figured we would start with Atlantis first. Gareth: Our god is encased in soulsteel. Wintersun pulls out a little scroll and starts taking notes. Wintersun: Well you see I’m overthrowing this island. More specifically I’m having the slaves overthrow it for me. Gareth: We could maybe help you with that. A-Dom: Yea we’re all for helping with that. Slave revolts! Yay! Gareth: We’d like to retake Atlantis. Wintersun: So you think you could pull that off by say... next week? Pause as the group laughs hysterically. A-Dom: I’m sorry, we hadn’t met before. That’s just not possible. Gareth: We’d like to take over the city of Yew first. See if we can harness the army that is there. Wintersun: The Undead? Gareth & A-Dom: Yea. Gareth: Unfortunately the Sapphire Sentinels have been let loose. You should probably tell you’re higher ups that. (Wintersun takes more notes) Wintersun: Well you see the slaves are all ready to revolt next week. If you could take over Atlantis at the same time, it would probably work out much better. A-Dom: You’re doing a good job leading and all. All the slaves are with you, well they are all with each other. Wintersun: I’m not a solar, I’m not leading them. I’m just giving them good ideas to work with. A-Dom: And you’re doing a great job in your place in the order of things, very appropriate... Wintersun: You don’t know what you are talking about, do you? Gareth: It’s generally best to just ignore him. A-Dom really rambles on for a while. Wintersun: So you guys really don’t know anything about Sidereals. Gareth: We’ve been picking things up as we go along. We know they are like us. A-Dom: And they have been trying to kill us, and impregnate us with themselves. Wintersun: Oh that’s never good. A-Dom: No, no, no, yea. I’m not sure how that works. Wintersun: Have they been :):):):)ing with your fate at all? Gareth: I think so. They always seem to show up when something bad is about to happen. A-Dom: How do we tell? Wintersun: Do you know what Fate is? Gareth: No, but I’m currently outside of Fate. Wintersun: That’s cool. Fate is an actual thing. It exists. Liz: We can break it! Wintersun: Think of it like a building full of rope. Gareth: A-Dom, you are not going into it. Wintersun pulls out some string and pokes some sticks into the mud vertically. Wintersun: Imagine every person is a string. Every time a string meets another string they affect each other. Sometimes they cross, sometimes they entangle then separate, sometimes they entangle forever, and sometimes one cuts the other one off. Fate is everything that has happened, and is a roadmap for things that might happen. So after a while Wintersun has a huge mass of string wound between the various sticks in a big spider web type creation. Then he takes some reeds and wraps them together. Wintersun: This is a Circle of Solars. Wintersun whacks the reed rope down onto the spiderweb breaking strings everywhere and making the whole thing fold in on itself. Wintersun: That’s what you guys look like in fate. So some things are outside of Fate, like undead and fae. So when an undead kills someone. (Wintersun pulls out a knife and slashes off a string, causing the entire web to shift) Fate gets screwed up for no apparent reason that they can see. So their ability to predict fate gets screwed up whenever somebody outside of fate does something to someone who has fate. Gareth starts laughing. Wintersun: As far as I can tell they make most of their plans based on this thing that is Fate. A-Dom: So if we raise an army of undead and kill a lot of people, that :):):):)s up their plans something sever? Wintersun: Yes. A-Dom: Why do you care about your fate after you’re dead? Wintersun: You’re fate affects the fate of everyone else. So if you die when you’re not suppose to, then you won’t be around to save a baby. Then the baby dies when he’s not suppose to, and the baby was suppose to rule the world. A-Dom: Somebody killed the wrong person, now Dragon Blood are in control! Wintersun: Something like that. A-Dom: How do we get outside of fate? Wintersun: Beats me?!? If I could do it, I would. But I have no idea. A-Dom: I need to find something nifty to trade him (points at Gareth). Where can we go that is totally outside of fate? Wintersun: Totally outside of fate? The deep wild. A-Dom: (to Gareth) Is that deeper then we have been? (Gareth nods) Wow, nooooo... we’re not going there. (To Wintersun) I’m really glad you’re not an :):):):):):):). Do you know Cerie? Gareth: Dillan? Wintersun: Oh I know Dillan. Gareth: Dillan is Ceries master. Oh could you tell him that Sapphire Sentinels are cleansing non-believers. Thankfully they are very lost. But that is why we are trying to take over Atlantis quickly. A-Dom: Quickly being in the next one hundred years. Not next week. Wintersun: Are you sure you can’t push that up to next week? Sometime this month? Gareth: A-Dom, A-Dom, we have a plan... A-Dom: No we don’t. We sat down to have a plan, and Tiger interrupted, and then we went on our jolly little adventure of not killing Habib and Jara’s soon to be dead wife and a slave and... (to Wintersun) Adventure just happens to us and it just pisses me off! Wintersun: See you’re problem is that you need to be more pro-active. Pick your adventure and go with it! A-Dom: We’re trying to. We’re trying to inflict our adventure all over Atlantis. (A-Dom rambles about going to the East, all the wile calling it the West.) Wintersun: I just try to talk people into things. A-Dom: I can do that too. Just not on a large scale. Wintersun: I like to work with the slaves. They are oppressed. A-Dom: We intend to screw up the whole social order. Probably do something fun with the slaves. I like slaves too. I use to be a slave in a past life. Gareth: Not so much Past Life... A-Dom: No, not a literal Past Life, (to Garth) SHUT UP. Gareth: Far as we know all the unbelievers will be wiped out in 27 years. A-Dom: We plan to have Atlantis all settled by then, and control a couple other islands. Gareth: Yea, if you can get that to Dillian as soon as possible, we’d appreciate it. A-Dom: Say are there any other Lunars hanging around here we could talk to? Wintersun: There is one who lives in the City of Atlantis. But he’s hard to find. A-Dom: We’ll we’re all “hard to find.” Wintersun: No, he’s really hard to find. He could be in the room with you, and you wouldn’t know it. [/QUOTE]
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