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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700642" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 61 - I’m Sure The Assassinations Will Pick Back Up Now That I’m Here</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 61</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 12/17/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">I’m Sure The Assassinations Will Pick Back Up Now That I’m Here</span></strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: A-dom’s Navel Is The Wyld For Lint</strong></p><p><strong>Alternate Subtitle: Haters of Skelly Are Communists</strong></p><p> <strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Back on Elemental Island, the group assembled in front of the portal.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Okay, before we depart, I want to make sure we’re on the same page here. We’re not talking about Yew. We are absolutely not talking about Yew. The Bodhisattva doesn’t need to know that Jade’s Luck used to be Yew.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck opened up the portal Skullstone to look through it. It was pitch dark on the other side. Jade’s Luck thought about throwing a torch through and immediately realized it was a horrible idea to throw something through the Wyld. As the portal spun around, they were able to make out two walls and pitch dark in two directions.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Tiger, you’re on expedition duty.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I heard what was being said, you know.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Which is why you’re it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’re the one that can hang onto the wall if it turns out there isn’t a floor.</p><p></p><p>Tiger hopped through onto the wall and lit up the area. He immediately noticed he was in the sewer. It smelt worse than a regular sewer, since it had undead poo gas in it. It had the same general look and feel of the sewer they had been in before there. He waved the others through. Jade’s Luck put the portal on hold so her Manse didn’t fill with poo.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yippie! It’s Market day and we’re in a sewer. Oh boy!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Do we want to go towards the source or the outlet?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Outlet. Always the outlet. Cause it might not do much damage to us, but you don’t necessarily want to be covered in poo.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Why don’t we just find a manhole cover and get out of here?</p><p></p><p>They quickly found a manhole cover and exited. A-dom climbed up the ladder and peeked out, seeing a small town. The group walked out onto the street and closed the cover. They found out they were in a random Podunk town two miles from Onyx and headed out.</p><p></p><p>Wandering up to the gate guards of Onyx, Gareth stated his business in town was he had a contract with the Bodhisattva. They were lead to an antechamber and told they could have beer while they waited.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Mmm. Undead Beer.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Nope. Just beer.</p><p></p><p>A-dom amused himself by offering Jade’s Luck beer, which she refused. Gareth pointed out Jade’s Luck could go home for lunch each day.</p><p></p><p>Eventually Master Gareth and his bodyguards were led in to see the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva was delighted to see them and greeted them warmly. He sent a lackey off to get some paperwork detailing the new workshop and materials he’ll need.</p><p></p><p>They found out there had been fewer assassinations since the group had left the island. Some of the apprentices he had trained survived and continued to work. The Bodhisattva inquired about Jahar and they let him know that Jahar had ‘wandered off’ and that they had been cycling through Eclipses lately.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: We’re kind of in between Eclipses at the moment.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva said it was nice to see there were more ‘of you’ around now. When A-dom said there were less, the Bodhisattva clarified.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Yes, but if you’re cycling through Eclipses, that means there is Jahar and another, plus that other fellow.</p><p></p><p>When asked, the Bodhisattva said the other guy was Moonbeam something or other. He said he was in the West somewhere, but he had no clue what caste he was.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva referred to the Mortician as his friend and talked to A-dom about the little black books. A-dom returned volume one to the Bodhisattva. A-dom then pointed out the addition to the book. The Bodhisattva quickly learned the spell and commented that Dark Opec hadn’t given anyone a new spell in a very long time.</p><p></p><p>When asked, the Bodhisattva said it was hard to sift through all of the applicants for the new Shadowland. He said it was hard to find someone willing to move, take on new responsibilities, was trustworthy and good with dealing with the living.</p><p></p><p>When the lackey returned, he had with him details on where Gareth’s new shop was going to be and blueprints for a special project the Bodhisattva had for him. It looked fairly easy to Gareth how to make the thing, he just had no clue what it did. It looked like a modern art sculpture to him. When asked what it was, Gareth was told it was a defensive weapon.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Shoots babies, obviously!</p><p></p><p>Tiger took a look at the blueprint and was pretty sure it channeled necromantic energy to shoot ghosts. It was like the death ray on Jahar’s island, but only targeted ghosts. He kept this information to himself for the time being, since the Bodhisattva had not seen fit to expand upon his own description of the weapon’s use.</p><p></p><p>The group got into a discussion with the Bodhisattva about what happened to a ghost when it was killed. Normally they just reformed twenty four hours later, unless they were tossed into the Void. The group learned a bit about the Void and the Labyrinth in this discussion. The Void was described as being kind of the opposite of the Wyld. While the Wyld randomly created, the Void only destroyed. </p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well, that doesn’t sound all together wonderful.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Well, when things are getting randomly created, sometimes things need to be destroyed. Otherwise everything would be cluttered.</p><p></p><p>The Void existed underneath the Underworld. The Labyrinth was created to protect the Underworld from the Void.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Because, without the Labyrinth, whenever a Shadowland was created, the mortals would see into the Void. And then there would be a lot of screaming and death. Well, not so much death as disappearance.</p><p></p><p>He then went on to say that the Labyrinth was a rather useful, if dangerous thing.</p><p></p><p>A-dom asked what the defensive weapon was for defending against and the Bodhisattva responded ‘other Deathlords’. Not the Mortician, the cranky insane ones.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva was warned that the Sapphire Sentinels had been released. It was kind of the group’s fault, but mostly Wretch’s fault. The Bodhisattva commented about possibly warding his island against Sapphire.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to get some info about history out of the Bodhisattva. He did say Wretch’s time was before he was born.</p><p></p><p>The conversation meandered to talking about the switching of the castes, whose fault that was, and the invite to dinner from the Yozis. They found out that the End of All Knowledge was gagged because he talked too much. Apparently the End of All Knowledge knew everything. He got his slips of paper from his chair, which was made of a collection of all Solar Religious Texts. Comments were made about making a trip there next Calibration. Cause that couldn’t go wrong.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva was let in on just how bad the Circle was at their faith; contractual obligation, swearing and all.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’ve gotten much better than that. I pray everyday. It says so on my character sheet.</p><p></p><p>Gareth thanked the Bodhisattva for his time and were led off towards the new workshop. The servant said he could arrange for more apprentices, if he liked.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You’ve been getting fewer assassination attempts?</p><p></p><p>Servant: Yes. Mostly just simple knives now. The majority of them ceased after the assassination attempt on Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m sure they’ll pick up again now that I’m back.</p><p></p><p>Servant: Ah, good to know. My son didn’t really want to become an apprentice now anyway.</p><p></p><p>Gareth stated he would be happy to train apprentices in his spare time.</p><p></p><p>Once alone, Tiger filled the rest of the group in on what the weapon did.</p><p></p><p>Gareth started working and the others set up guard schedules. They usually had two guards on, one guard off.</p><p></p><p>In his off time, A-dom went drinking. He spent a lot of time with Drunken Raven. At no point during his drinking did he break down and go whoring or ask the Bodhisattva for more necromancy. He went to see the Bodhisattva when he was sober (and alone).</p><p></p><p>A-dom asked where the little black books came from and was told the First Age. He found out that the first volume was written by the Necromancer Yew. He segued into asking about a city that looked like it should exist in the underworld, but didn’t. He explained that it was a city of ghosts in Creation, but not a shadowland. The Bodhisattva stated that that was a very special case of <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed up. With the further explanation of it being created by the death of Yew, the Bodhisattva figured out they were talking about the City of Yew. He explained the Manse the city was built around protected the citizens and did not distinguish between living and dead so long as they were citizens. It defined protects as kept safe in all ways it was able. He postulated that the Manse was preventing the ghosts from going away and it was imbued with necromantic energy to begin with. The Bodhisattva did not see a good way to work around it without taking the Manse apart. He further postulated that all of the necromantic energy of the underworld was sucked out and fed into Creation, thus the lack of anything being in the area. He said that it might be an interesting place to practice Necromancy. A-dom found out the Statue was called the Statue of Divine Inspiration and was designed to divinely inspire necromancers. The Bodhisattva said he thought the statue was destroyed when Yew was, but A-dom told him it was there intact. A-dom then stated his desire to get Dark Opec to become his mentor. The Bodhisattva said that Dark Opec might be interested in doing that for a few random favors; probably random stones from the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yeah, I figured I’d have to collect skulls from various islands in the Underworld.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Hmm… Sounds like an interesting ideas.</p><p></p><p>A-dom filled the Bodhisattva on the saga of Skelly. He then asked about Dragon-Blood ghosts. Since the group had killed a powerful Dragon-blood and hadn’t found her ghost, they were wondering what was going on with that. The Bodhisattva postulated that she might have immediately moved on, depending upon how complete she thought her life was.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: She was a bitch. I don’t suppose she could feel her life was complete blowing half 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=":)" />ing island up… Taking over Atlantis didn’t go so well, but, you know, it’s ours now.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva expressed surprise about A-dom creating a Shadowland in Atlantis. A-dom told him it was a screw-up, but he had learned from the experience. He then clarified that he would ask the Bodhisattva to be his mentor, but there were politics involved and he didn’t want to deal with them yet.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: It’s okay. In a few thousand years, your friends might trust me more.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Well, maybe once we get to know Creation and the Underworld a bit better, we’ll get to learn, well, you and the Undertaker, are, well, the better ones.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Yes. We’re the good guys!</p><p></p><p>Alex: The Undertaker is a bad guy. The Mortician is a good guy. </p><p></p><p>Ryan: Yes. Mortician. Wait, there’s an Undertaker?</p><p></p><p>A-dom asked if the Bodhisattva knew who wrote book number two. He said he’d look into it. A-dom said he’d keep his eye out for book number three.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: After a while, you know, these books might become a little scary.</p><p></p><p>Bodhisattva: Well, they require self-reflection.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yeah, I got some of that.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva then explained that there was nothing inherently wrong with the books, they just require reflecting upon what was wrong in one’s life. A-dom expressed he didn’t really need that, since it kind of happened naturally. The Bodhisattva said it was better to face these things than to let the happen. A-dom then thanked the Bodhisattva for all of his help.</p><p></p><p>Liz: And see, I’m the good son!</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva suggested that A-dom check on paperwork on the Sentinels, since there was probably paperwork on them in heaven somewhere. The Bodhisattva then told A-dom there was a door to Heaven nearby, but he wouldn’t necessarily want to use it. It seems that, when the area became a Shadowland, the door got shunted into the Labyrinth. The door still went to Heaven and the Labyrinth decided who got to use it. The Labyrinth generally only let crazies use it and it tried to help people qualify.</p><p></p><p>During their bodyguarding duty, Gareth taught them the finer points of smithing; they were just not supernaturally compelled to spend xp on the training. A-dom actually decided he wanted to learn a little metalworking and learned a dot in Craft (Fire). </p><p></p><p>Dan: Ah. Ryan spending XP. You never know where it is going to go.</p><p></p><p>Paul: Because having him being able to make the weapons for his undead army can’t be bad.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck used the time to learn Element-Resisting Prana so she could pull stuff out of the forge with her bare hands and hand it to Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Tiger spent his time bodyguarding actually paying attention.</p><p></p><p>Gareth did receive two mortal apprentices to train during the time.</p><p></p><p>A month passed with no assassination attempts. At one point, A-dom thought a guy was trying to kill Gareth, but it turned out the guy was just lost. Thankfully, the guy was a ghost, so he just reformed the next day.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck had Tiger and A-dom search for secret passages in the shop. Surprisingly, they found a passage under the anvil. Strangely, the anvils in this city were designed to slide sideways. Gareth built a lock and attached it to the anvil and the floor and declared the anvil locked.</p><p></p><p>When the servant who visited the forge each day with food arrived, Jade’s Luck asked him why all the anvils had secret passageways under them, the servant responded that they thought it was because the creators of the island were insane. When asked why no one had altered this after the assassination attempts, the servant said they didn’t like messing with first age stuff.</p><p></p><p>Servant: I mean, there is an Inn with a floor that flips over. At random. They suspended all of their furniture.</p><p></p><p>The servant didn’t care if a lock was put on an anvil, since he didn’t live there.</p><p></p><p>Paul: So, what do other people do in their free time?</p><p></p><p>Dan: Eat babies.</p><p></p><p>The group devolved into talking about Tiger’s first age artifacts having baby themes.</p><p></p><p>Paul: Okay, so Tiger is eating babies, what are the rest of you doing?</p><p></p><p>Since there were no libraries on the island for her, Jade’s Luck spent a lot of her off time going back to Elemental Island, to eat and do errands. She borrowed a few books at a time from Jahar’s library.</p><p></p><p>An indeterminate time of the way through the final month of the contract, A-dom heard a high pitched whistling noise coming from the outside and up. He opened the door and looked out, hearing the noise coming from a ways away. Tiger went over and looked out too. A-dom noticed a little gold thing traveling at several hundred miles an hour coming towards the house. A-dom grabbed everyone but Tiger and evacuated the city. Jade’s Luck yelled for Tiger to evacuate.</p><p></p><p>About a minute later the object hit the forge and the resulting huge explosion. After the dust cleared, A-dom ran them back to see what it was.</p><p></p><p>Paul (describing a thirteen success investigation roll made by Gareth): So, this small orchalcum cube, travelling exactly nine hundred and twenty two miles per hour, fell from Heaven, or the sky or something, and hit the building you were in, breaking the main beam of the roof, which snapped the beam like that with parts flying out both ways, came in, hit the anvil, shattering it into a million pieces and sending all of those bits flying outwards, blowing out most of the walls, went down into the sewer and back out, back ricocheting back out of the top lip of the tunnel, went through the chimney, shattering it, bounced off of a big stone rock monolith type thing across the street, came back through with considerably less energy several more times, blowing up most of the things in the shop. It, however, did not touch the thing that the Bodhisattva had you building. That is still sitting there right in the middle of what used to be the shop. Oh, and you know exactly where it landed.</p><p></p><p>Gareth picked up the absolutely perfect orchalum cube (one inch by one inch by one inch) and looked it over.</p><p></p><p>Gareth remembered looking at the perfect cube in a past life and placing it on a shelf. He was pretty sure he was saving it for later, when it would be useful. Gareth repeated this to the others.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Is this something that can be attuned to?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’ll find out. Gareth stood around and tried to attune to it. After an hour, he was finally attuned to it. He could feel it was connected to him, but he had no clue what it did. Tiger noted that it was indeed drawing in essence.</p><p></p><p>Along the way to talk to the Bodhisattva, Dark Raven came by to investigate. Gareth explained in detail exactly what had happened. Dark Raven had to write it all down.</p><p></p><p>Dark Raven: Do you know why this happened?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Mother<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ers.</p><p></p><p>Dark Raven (writing): Possible mother<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />er cause.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yup. Sidereals.</p><p></p><p>Dark Raven (almost makes the necessary number of successes): Si-mother<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ers.</p><p></p><p>They explained that the anvil was destroyed along with the building, but the machine was untouched. Dark Raven commented that they were running out of anvils. Gareth decided Dark Raven could report this all back and declared he was going to go repaire the shop.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Uhh… You want me to go get lunch?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Sure.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Okay…</p><p></p><p>A Giant Bear worked quickly on the house as he used his building combo to repair all of the wooden parts. A-dom followed Dark Raven to ask about Mother<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ers.</p><p></p><p>Dark Raven felt ‘reassured’ that the rock was on Gareth and commented that the rock might have supernatural ‘you want me’ powers and complemented A-dom on the group’s bodyguard abilities.</p><p></p><p>A-dom asked if Dark Raven had ever run into a little girl that might have hooked up with the Bodhisattva or another Deathlord in the area. Dark Raven was left with the distinct impression that hanging around with A-dom and probably the others wasn’t good for his health.</p><p></p><p>Dark Raven went off to report to the Bodhisattva and A-dom returned to express concerns about the rock trying to kill or eat Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Tiger examined the cube and that it was drawing in a lot of essence. Not sure what this meant, they figured it might be charging to explode. </p><p></p><p>A-dom: Isn’t this like all artifacts, really?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No.</p><p></p><p>Tiger suggested they take it to someone who might know more about it. Jade’s Luck suggested Gareth de-attune it, so he did.</p><p></p><p>Tiger didn’t tell Gareth that it stopped sucking in essence, since he felt Gareth would just re-attune to it.</p><p></p><p>Alex: The mad scientist of the group was clearly Jahar, not Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Paul: I’ll agree with that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck suggested they show it to the Bodhisattva. A-dom suggested they show it to Opec. Tiger suggested they show it to Opec and his mentor ‘before showing it to the Deathlord.’</p><p></p><p>A-dom expressed disapproval at Tiger’s tone when he talked about the Deathlord.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: There is nothing wrong with showing it to the Deathlord. We’re not GIVING it to the Deathlord.</p><p></p><p>Tiger made accusations about A-dom being a step away from Deathlords.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Allies. Need one. Could be one. You’re a poophead.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asked for the cube to show it to Opec, so Gareth handed it over. Visiting him, Opec was now willing to talk to Jade’s Luck. It seemed that her new desire to learn Solar Circle Sorcery to destroy the Shadowland made her interesting to him. He postulated that the cube might have been thrown to get it to Gareth instead of to kill him. It might have just been thrown in a such a way as to get his attention. It might have even been thrown by one of them in a previous life and only just came down. Could have been thrown into Elsewhere. Opec stated that it couldn’t be a risk if it wasn’t attuned.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck took it back to the Elemental Manse and told Tiger what Opec said. Tiger then took it to his Mentor to ask him about it. Tiger’s mentor explained that sucking in essence was what artifacts did. After examining it, he stated that he didn’t think it was booby trapped, it just probably had a long recharge time. But he felt it was obvious someone chucked it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700642, member: 9758"] [b]Session 61 - I’m Sure The Assassinations Will Pick Back Up Now That I’m Here[/b] Session 61 [i]Synopsis of 12/17/07[/i] [b][size=5]I’m Sure The Assassinations Will Pick Back Up Now That I’m Here[/size] Subtitle: A-dom’s Navel Is The Wyld For Lint Alternate Subtitle: Haters of Skelly Are Communists [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] Back on Elemental Island, the group assembled in front of the portal. Gareth: Okay, before we depart, I want to make sure we’re on the same page here. We’re not talking about Yew. We are absolutely not talking about Yew. The Bodhisattva doesn’t need to know that Jade’s Luck used to be Yew. Jade’s Luck opened up the portal Skullstone to look through it. It was pitch dark on the other side. Jade’s Luck thought about throwing a torch through and immediately realized it was a horrible idea to throw something through the Wyld. As the portal spun around, they were able to make out two walls and pitch dark in two directions. Gareth: Tiger, you’re on expedition duty. Tiger: I heard what was being said, you know. Gareth: Which is why you’re it. Jade’s Luck: You’re the one that can hang onto the wall if it turns out there isn’t a floor. Tiger hopped through onto the wall and lit up the area. He immediately noticed he was in the sewer. It smelt worse than a regular sewer, since it had undead poo gas in it. It had the same general look and feel of the sewer they had been in before there. He waved the others through. Jade’s Luck put the portal on hold so her Manse didn’t fill with poo. A-dom: Yippie! It’s Market day and we’re in a sewer. Oh boy! Jade’s Luck: Do we want to go towards the source or the outlet? A-dom: Outlet. Always the outlet. Cause it might not do much damage to us, but you don’t necessarily want to be covered in poo. Gareth: Why don’t we just find a manhole cover and get out of here? They quickly found a manhole cover and exited. A-dom climbed up the ladder and peeked out, seeing a small town. The group walked out onto the street and closed the cover. They found out they were in a random Podunk town two miles from Onyx and headed out. Wandering up to the gate guards of Onyx, Gareth stated his business in town was he had a contract with the Bodhisattva. They were lead to an antechamber and told they could have beer while they waited. A-dom: Mmm. Undead Beer. Gareth: Nope. Just beer. A-dom amused himself by offering Jade’s Luck beer, which she refused. Gareth pointed out Jade’s Luck could go home for lunch each day. Eventually Master Gareth and his bodyguards were led in to see the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva was delighted to see them and greeted them warmly. He sent a lackey off to get some paperwork detailing the new workshop and materials he’ll need. They found out there had been fewer assassinations since the group had left the island. Some of the apprentices he had trained survived and continued to work. The Bodhisattva inquired about Jahar and they let him know that Jahar had ‘wandered off’ and that they had been cycling through Eclipses lately. A-dom: We’re kind of in between Eclipses at the moment. The Bodhisattva said it was nice to see there were more ‘of you’ around now. When A-dom said there were less, the Bodhisattva clarified. Bodhisattva: Yes, but if you’re cycling through Eclipses, that means there is Jahar and another, plus that other fellow. When asked, the Bodhisattva said the other guy was Moonbeam something or other. He said he was in the West somewhere, but he had no clue what caste he was. The Bodhisattva referred to the Mortician as his friend and talked to A-dom about the little black books. A-dom returned volume one to the Bodhisattva. A-dom then pointed out the addition to the book. The Bodhisattva quickly learned the spell and commented that Dark Opec hadn’t given anyone a new spell in a very long time. When asked, the Bodhisattva said it was hard to sift through all of the applicants for the new Shadowland. He said it was hard to find someone willing to move, take on new responsibilities, was trustworthy and good with dealing with the living. When the lackey returned, he had with him details on where Gareth’s new shop was going to be and blueprints for a special project the Bodhisattva had for him. It looked fairly easy to Gareth how to make the thing, he just had no clue what it did. It looked like a modern art sculpture to him. When asked what it was, Gareth was told it was a defensive weapon. A-dom: Shoots babies, obviously! Tiger took a look at the blueprint and was pretty sure it channeled necromantic energy to shoot ghosts. It was like the death ray on Jahar’s island, but only targeted ghosts. He kept this information to himself for the time being, since the Bodhisattva had not seen fit to expand upon his own description of the weapon’s use. The group got into a discussion with the Bodhisattva about what happened to a ghost when it was killed. Normally they just reformed twenty four hours later, unless they were tossed into the Void. The group learned a bit about the Void and the Labyrinth in this discussion. The Void was described as being kind of the opposite of the Wyld. While the Wyld randomly created, the Void only destroyed. Jade’s Luck: Well, that doesn’t sound all together wonderful. Bodhisattva: Well, when things are getting randomly created, sometimes things need to be destroyed. Otherwise everything would be cluttered. The Void existed underneath the Underworld. The Labyrinth was created to protect the Underworld from the Void. Bodhisattva: Because, without the Labyrinth, whenever a Shadowland was created, the mortals would see into the Void. And then there would be a lot of screaming and death. Well, not so much death as disappearance. He then went on to say that the Labyrinth was a rather useful, if dangerous thing. A-dom asked what the defensive weapon was for defending against and the Bodhisattva responded ‘other Deathlords’. Not the Mortician, the cranky insane ones. The Bodhisattva was warned that the Sapphire Sentinels had been released. It was kind of the group’s fault, but mostly Wretch’s fault. The Bodhisattva commented about possibly warding his island against Sapphire. Jade’s Luck tried to get some info about history out of the Bodhisattva. He did say Wretch’s time was before he was born. The conversation meandered to talking about the switching of the castes, whose fault that was, and the invite to dinner from the Yozis. They found out that the End of All Knowledge was gagged because he talked too much. Apparently the End of All Knowledge knew everything. He got his slips of paper from his chair, which was made of a collection of all Solar Religious Texts. Comments were made about making a trip there next Calibration. Cause that couldn’t go wrong. The Bodhisattva was let in on just how bad the Circle was at their faith; contractual obligation, swearing and all. Gareth: I’ve gotten much better than that. I pray everyday. It says so on my character sheet. Gareth thanked the Bodhisattva for his time and were led off towards the new workshop. The servant said he could arrange for more apprentices, if he liked. Jade’s Luck: You’ve been getting fewer assassination attempts? Servant: Yes. Mostly just simple knives now. The majority of them ceased after the assassination attempt on Gareth. Gareth: I’m sure they’ll pick up again now that I’m back. Servant: Ah, good to know. My son didn’t really want to become an apprentice now anyway. Gareth stated he would be happy to train apprentices in his spare time. Once alone, Tiger filled the rest of the group in on what the weapon did. Gareth started working and the others set up guard schedules. They usually had two guards on, one guard off. In his off time, A-dom went drinking. He spent a lot of time with Drunken Raven. At no point during his drinking did he break down and go whoring or ask the Bodhisattva for more necromancy. He went to see the Bodhisattva when he was sober (and alone). A-dom asked where the little black books came from and was told the First Age. He found out that the first volume was written by the Necromancer Yew. He segued into asking about a city that looked like it should exist in the underworld, but didn’t. He explained that it was a city of ghosts in Creation, but not a shadowland. The Bodhisattva stated that that was a very special case of :):):):)ed up. With the further explanation of it being created by the death of Yew, the Bodhisattva figured out they were talking about the City of Yew. He explained the Manse the city was built around protected the citizens and did not distinguish between living and dead so long as they were citizens. It defined protects as kept safe in all ways it was able. He postulated that the Manse was preventing the ghosts from going away and it was imbued with necromantic energy to begin with. The Bodhisattva did not see a good way to work around it without taking the Manse apart. He further postulated that all of the necromantic energy of the underworld was sucked out and fed into Creation, thus the lack of anything being in the area. He said that it might be an interesting place to practice Necromancy. A-dom found out the Statue was called the Statue of Divine Inspiration and was designed to divinely inspire necromancers. The Bodhisattva said he thought the statue was destroyed when Yew was, but A-dom told him it was there intact. A-dom then stated his desire to get Dark Opec to become his mentor. The Bodhisattva said that Dark Opec might be interested in doing that for a few random favors; probably random stones from the Underworld. A-dom: Yeah, I figured I’d have to collect skulls from various islands in the Underworld. Bodhisattva: Hmm… Sounds like an interesting ideas. A-dom filled the Bodhisattva on the saga of Skelly. He then asked about Dragon-Blood ghosts. Since the group had killed a powerful Dragon-blood and hadn’t found her ghost, they were wondering what was going on with that. The Bodhisattva postulated that she might have immediately moved on, depending upon how complete she thought her life was. A-dom: She was a bitch. I don’t suppose she could feel her life was complete blowing half the :):):):)ing island up… Taking over Atlantis didn’t go so well, but, you know, it’s ours now. The Bodhisattva expressed surprise about A-dom creating a Shadowland in Atlantis. A-dom told him it was a screw-up, but he had learned from the experience. He then clarified that he would ask the Bodhisattva to be his mentor, but there were politics involved and he didn’t want to deal with them yet. Bodhisattva: It’s okay. In a few thousand years, your friends might trust me more. A-dom: Well, maybe once we get to know Creation and the Underworld a bit better, we’ll get to learn, well, you and the Undertaker, are, well, the better ones. Bodhisattva: Yes. We’re the good guys! Alex: The Undertaker is a bad guy. The Mortician is a good guy. Ryan: Yes. Mortician. Wait, there’s an Undertaker? A-dom asked if the Bodhisattva knew who wrote book number two. He said he’d look into it. A-dom said he’d keep his eye out for book number three. A-dom: After a while, you know, these books might become a little scary. Bodhisattva: Well, they require self-reflection. A-dom: Yeah, I got some of that. The Bodhisattva then explained that there was nothing inherently wrong with the books, they just require reflecting upon what was wrong in one’s life. A-dom expressed he didn’t really need that, since it kind of happened naturally. The Bodhisattva said it was better to face these things than to let the happen. A-dom then thanked the Bodhisattva for all of his help. Liz: And see, I’m the good son! The Bodhisattva suggested that A-dom check on paperwork on the Sentinels, since there was probably paperwork on them in heaven somewhere. The Bodhisattva then told A-dom there was a door to Heaven nearby, but he wouldn’t necessarily want to use it. It seems that, when the area became a Shadowland, the door got shunted into the Labyrinth. The door still went to Heaven and the Labyrinth decided who got to use it. The Labyrinth generally only let crazies use it and it tried to help people qualify. During their bodyguarding duty, Gareth taught them the finer points of smithing; they were just not supernaturally compelled to spend xp on the training. A-dom actually decided he wanted to learn a little metalworking and learned a dot in Craft (Fire). Dan: Ah. Ryan spending XP. You never know where it is going to go. Paul: Because having him being able to make the weapons for his undead army can’t be bad. Jade’s Luck used the time to learn Element-Resisting Prana so she could pull stuff out of the forge with her bare hands and hand it to Gareth. Tiger spent his time bodyguarding actually paying attention. Gareth did receive two mortal apprentices to train during the time. A month passed with no assassination attempts. At one point, A-dom thought a guy was trying to kill Gareth, but it turned out the guy was just lost. Thankfully, the guy was a ghost, so he just reformed the next day. Jade’s Luck had Tiger and A-dom search for secret passages in the shop. Surprisingly, they found a passage under the anvil. Strangely, the anvils in this city were designed to slide sideways. Gareth built a lock and attached it to the anvil and the floor and declared the anvil locked. When the servant who visited the forge each day with food arrived, Jade’s Luck asked him why all the anvils had secret passageways under them, the servant responded that they thought it was because the creators of the island were insane. When asked why no one had altered this after the assassination attempts, the servant said they didn’t like messing with first age stuff. Servant: I mean, there is an Inn with a floor that flips over. At random. They suspended all of their furniture. The servant didn’t care if a lock was put on an anvil, since he didn’t live there. Paul: So, what do other people do in their free time? Dan: Eat babies. The group devolved into talking about Tiger’s first age artifacts having baby themes. Paul: Okay, so Tiger is eating babies, what are the rest of you doing? Since there were no libraries on the island for her, Jade’s Luck spent a lot of her off time going back to Elemental Island, to eat and do errands. She borrowed a few books at a time from Jahar’s library. An indeterminate time of the way through the final month of the contract, A-dom heard a high pitched whistling noise coming from the outside and up. He opened the door and looked out, hearing the noise coming from a ways away. Tiger went over and looked out too. A-dom noticed a little gold thing traveling at several hundred miles an hour coming towards the house. A-dom grabbed everyone but Tiger and evacuated the city. Jade’s Luck yelled for Tiger to evacuate. About a minute later the object hit the forge and the resulting huge explosion. After the dust cleared, A-dom ran them back to see what it was. Paul (describing a thirteen success investigation roll made by Gareth): So, this small orchalcum cube, travelling exactly nine hundred and twenty two miles per hour, fell from Heaven, or the sky or something, and hit the building you were in, breaking the main beam of the roof, which snapped the beam like that with parts flying out both ways, came in, hit the anvil, shattering it into a million pieces and sending all of those bits flying outwards, blowing out most of the walls, went down into the sewer and back out, back ricocheting back out of the top lip of the tunnel, went through the chimney, shattering it, bounced off of a big stone rock monolith type thing across the street, came back through with considerably less energy several more times, blowing up most of the things in the shop. It, however, did not touch the thing that the Bodhisattva had you building. That is still sitting there right in the middle of what used to be the shop. Oh, and you know exactly where it landed. Gareth picked up the absolutely perfect orchalum cube (one inch by one inch by one inch) and looked it over. Gareth remembered looking at the perfect cube in a past life and placing it on a shelf. He was pretty sure he was saving it for later, when it would be useful. Gareth repeated this to the others. Jade’s Luck: Is this something that can be attuned to? Gareth: I’ll find out. Gareth stood around and tried to attune to it. After an hour, he was finally attuned to it. He could feel it was connected to him, but he had no clue what it did. Tiger noted that it was indeed drawing in essence. Along the way to talk to the Bodhisattva, Dark Raven came by to investigate. Gareth explained in detail exactly what had happened. Dark Raven had to write it all down. Dark Raven: Do you know why this happened? A-dom: Mother:):):):)ers. Dark Raven (writing): Possible mother:):):):)er cause. Gareth: Yup. Sidereals. Dark Raven (almost makes the necessary number of successes): Si-mother:):):):)ers. They explained that the anvil was destroyed along with the building, but the machine was untouched. Dark Raven commented that they were running out of anvils. Gareth decided Dark Raven could report this all back and declared he was going to go repaire the shop. Jade’s Luck: Uhh… You want me to go get lunch? Gareth: Sure. Jade’s Luck: Okay… A Giant Bear worked quickly on the house as he used his building combo to repair all of the wooden parts. A-dom followed Dark Raven to ask about Mother:):):):)ers. Dark Raven felt ‘reassured’ that the rock was on Gareth and commented that the rock might have supernatural ‘you want me’ powers and complemented A-dom on the group’s bodyguard abilities. A-dom asked if Dark Raven had ever run into a little girl that might have hooked up with the Bodhisattva or another Deathlord in the area. Dark Raven was left with the distinct impression that hanging around with A-dom and probably the others wasn’t good for his health. Dark Raven went off to report to the Bodhisattva and A-dom returned to express concerns about the rock trying to kill or eat Gareth. Tiger examined the cube and that it was drawing in a lot of essence. Not sure what this meant, they figured it might be charging to explode. A-dom: Isn’t this like all artifacts, really? Jade’s Luck: No. Tiger suggested they take it to someone who might know more about it. Jade’s Luck suggested Gareth de-attune it, so he did. Tiger didn’t tell Gareth that it stopped sucking in essence, since he felt Gareth would just re-attune to it. Alex: The mad scientist of the group was clearly Jahar, not Gareth. Paul: I’ll agree with that. Jade’s Luck suggested they show it to the Bodhisattva. A-dom suggested they show it to Opec. Tiger suggested they show it to Opec and his mentor ‘before showing it to the Deathlord.’ A-dom expressed disapproval at Tiger’s tone when he talked about the Deathlord. A-dom: There is nothing wrong with showing it to the Deathlord. We’re not GIVING it to the Deathlord. Tiger made accusations about A-dom being a step away from Deathlords. A-dom: Allies. Need one. Could be one. You’re a poophead. Jade’s Luck asked for the cube to show it to Opec, so Gareth handed it over. Visiting him, Opec was now willing to talk to Jade’s Luck. It seemed that her new desire to learn Solar Circle Sorcery to destroy the Shadowland made her interesting to him. He postulated that the cube might have been thrown to get it to Gareth instead of to kill him. It might have just been thrown in a such a way as to get his attention. It might have even been thrown by one of them in a previous life and only just came down. Could have been thrown into Elsewhere. Opec stated that it couldn’t be a risk if it wasn’t attuned. Jade’s Luck took it back to the Elemental Manse and told Tiger what Opec said. Tiger then took it to his Mentor to ask him about it. Tiger’s mentor explained that sucking in essence was what artifacts did. After examining it, he stated that he didn’t think it was booby trapped, it just probably had a long recharge time. But he felt it was obvious someone chucked it. [/QUOTE]
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