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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700645" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 62 - Apparently I’m A Retarded Baby With Superpowers</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 62</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 12/31/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong> Apparently I’m A Retarded Baby With Superpowers</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: Excellent. Anyone who is stupid enough to attack these is going to die!</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p>A-dom decided he wanted to encourage people to do things on Atlantis that they weren’t allowed to under the dragon-blood regime. Things like making signs.</p><p></p><p>A-dom and Jade’s Luck planned out a cult of bravery for the Unconquered Sun where the initiation ritual would be sneaking into the Cathedral of Yew and worshiping there.</p><p></p><p>The group discussed Essence briefly, chiefly that soon Gareth could once again improve his Essence.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: But this time, you can do it on the boat. You can hide below decks and I’ll be Captain.</p><p></p><p>Alex: See, this is why I never want to train for Essence. It means I’m leaving these yahoos unsupervised.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: We can go get Jahar and he could supervise us.</p><p></p><p>At this point, Liz realized she had forgotten her dice. Ryan loaned her some dice. This was a bad move on his part, since the dice decided Ryan didn’t love him anymore and were going to roll for <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=":)" /> the entire night.</p><p></p><p>Tiger brought the cube back to the group and didn’t tell them what he found out about it. He just said his mentor didn’t know what it did as he handed it over to Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Over the rest of the second month, Gareth finished the doohickey for the Bodhisattva. He even added a red button onto it that said <em>A-dom’s Button</em> on it. A-dom repeatedly pressed the button, sure it was going to do something.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Gareth, the button is broken. It’s not doing anything.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yeah it is. You have to keep at it.</p><p></p><p>Since the button’s purpose was to keep A-dom occupied, it did its job well.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Somewhere in the Wyld, a monkey is dancing.</p><p></p><p>The Bodhisattva put the doohickey up in the center of town. With his contract done, Gareth collected his two month’s pay.</p><p></p><p>The group headed back to Elemental Island, where they pressed forward in their plans to head for the Sapphire Sentinel. Gareth realized that in order to have a boat with a paddlewheel for A-dom on it, he couldn’t use the previously constructed boat sitting upon the island. A slightly disturbing smile crept onto his face as he started wiggling his fingers together, planning his latest creation.</p><p></p><p>His latest boat was big enough to fit fifty people on it, had a single paddlewheel in the back with a corresponding wheel on the inside for A-dom or Tiger to run in it, and had most of a new ship’s worth of spare parts in the hold. The ship was magically reinforced and protected against the Wyld. The wheels and back of the boat were extra reinforced against A-dom.</p><p></p><p>The ship was built next to the other ship and named within its series. Thus, the <strong>Destined For Destruction II</strong> was completed.</p><p></p><p>A-dom offered up his undead monkey butler’s services for the boat, which were accepted.</p><p></p><p>While the monkey butler tarred the boat, Gareth went to visit his family. He received lots of questions about what was going on in Atlantis. In the best way possible, Gareth explained that he was in charge of Atlantis now. He up-played how things had gone to <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, dragon-bloods had destroyed the fields and demons were running amuck. With six successes, they seemed okay with it and he received requests for some cushy government jobs. They requested to move back home, so he told them to pack their things. Besides, this would be a great little test run for the new boat.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck popped back to Atlantis to make sure everything was in order and then popped back to take the boat trip with the group. A-dom spent the boat trip learning Craft (Earth) from Gareth, so he could properly implement his sign program when they got back.</p><p></p><p>The boat trip was uneventful, taking a bit less time than the normal month. They arrived in Atlantis harbor without fanfare.</p><p></p><p>The players got into a brief discussion about how they were presented to the families and the people of Atlantis. Liz was worried about Gareth explaining he was a dictator, but it was explained that he never used that word, they just came up with it on their own.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: My official title is Craftsman of the People. I’m running a Craftocracy.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck was fine with this, since it involved people being more educated and worshipping the Unconquered Sun. Since being against it would involve him caring, Tiger didn’t mind.</p><p></p><p>Paul: I just see this ending up with Chefs running things.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Wrong character!</p><p></p><p>Paul: I know, but he’s setting up a Craftocracy. That can only lead to chefs.</p><p></p><p>A-dom made a bunch of stone signs with graphics for places in between stone symbols of the Sun. A-dom delighted in making a sign for Jade’s brothel. He then went about placing the signs in the ground throughout the city.</p><p></p><p>Gareth got their families jobs within a couple days. He set Matron Jade up in charge of the Bureau of Recreation. Matron Jade set about Unionizing all of the prostitutes and former slaves of that nature. Joe was put ‘in charge’ of the Public Works Emancipation ‘New Deal’ Bureau. This ended up with everyone wanting a new job having to hear about the cannibal island.</p><p></p><p>Joe: They send you a dinner invitation. Never fall for that!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck considered making sure Wintersun was aware of the Guild’s actions when it came to slavery.</p><p></p><p>Gareth decided he needed to introduce his family to his wife. Jade’s Luck set up the reception. Gareth was mocked by A-dom for not being able to knock up one woman.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I impregnated a whole island in one night. You’d think you could knock up one woman in a year.</p><p></p><p>Once things were set up on Atlantis, they headed off again towards the Sapphire Sentinel, making a quick stop on Hoen-Ba to check on the temple.</p><p></p><p>Since there were no mortals on the boat, Gareth deemed it ‘safe’ to attune the cube artifact to find out what it did. Once it had charged, he knew he couldn’t re-attune it for another hundred years. While looking at it, he saw a little arrow pop up and act like it was pointing towards something specific. It was pointing a bit off from where the Sentinel was, so Gareth informed the others they were taking a slight detour.</p><p></p><p>As they sailed along over the voyage, he noticed that the arrow gradually started to point downward. When it pointed vertically, they stopped the boat.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So, can you breathe water yet?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: No, WHEEE!!!!</p><p></p><p>A-dom jumped into the ocean and started swimming downward. Jade’s Luck, activated her survival charm, took out her boomerang and stepped overboard, sinking like a rock past A-dom. Seeing this, A-dom took out his club and started sinking faster as well. A-dom didn’t intend to talk so he figured he’d last a while.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck thought she noticed something down below them. A-dom only noticed water until he hit something. Jade’s Luck saw A-dom groping the top of a big stone building. She found windows, but failed to find a door. The windows weren’t glassed, so the insides of the building were full of water. She saw corral and seaweed and furniture covered in coral.</p><p></p><p>A-dom swum back up for air and reported what they saw. While they were down there, Jade’s Luck explored a little, seeing it was a fairly large city type place. She swam up and reported further. They consulted their Ancient map and saw they were up near the Tomb Islands.</p><p></p><p>Gareth decided to swim down and take a look for himself. Looking around, he saw a city laid out like Sijan. There was lots of coral on ziggurat type buildings, with lanterns about. He also noticed that the arrow was now pointing towards a particular ziggurat within the city while down there.</p><p></p><p>Gareth swam back up and let them know he knew where they were going and that it was a Sijan type city.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Lead the way, Sightless leader!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck opted to follow them, while Tiger continued to lounge about on deck.</p><p></p><p>While looking around Gareth rolled well and A-dom rolled poorly, both resulting in two successes. Ryan cursed at his dice. Still, Jade’s Luck got a little more warning than them. She noticed a swarm of sharks swimming around the building rather fast. She pointed it out to the other two.</p><p></p><p>Seeing this, Gareth remembered standing outside of the Ziggurat when it was on an island above water, looking at it and seeing flocks of birds flying around it.</p><p></p><p>Previous Gareth (to someone next to him): Excellent. Anyone who is stupid enough to attack these is going to die!</p><p></p><p>Gareth motioned for the others to swim back up and relayed that he thought the Ziggurat attracted flocks of things and relayed the vision. He suggested they not attack the flocks, just swim past.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Come on, Tiger, I’m sure we’ll find air down there somewhere.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Nah.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went down enough to study the flock’s pattern and relayed it to Gareth and A-dom. The three of them swam down towards the building. Gareth swam the most efficient way possible to conserve air and energy past the sharks. Jade’s Luck swum past the sharks without a problem. A-dom swum past the sharks, attracting the attention of three of them, but they failed to bite him.</p><p></p><p>Gareth followed the arrow until it let him to what looked like a moray eel cave in the coral, on the building. He stuck his had with the cube into the cave. His hand hit stone and now he couldn’t see the arrow anymore.</p><p></p><p>A-dom pulled Gareth’s hand out and tried to stick his head in, but it was too big. He looked in and saw it was dark. He turned on his castemark and saw the cave turned a corner. He stuck his hand in and could feel text, but couldn’t read it. He grabbed Jade’s Luck’s hand and stuck it in the hole to the text. She couldn’t read the text with her hand either. Since it seemed it was Gareth’s turn, he stuck his other hand in and tried to read the text.</p><p></p><p><em>Craftsman [something] [something] Tool</em></p><p></p><p>Ryan: You need to stick your tool in it.</p><p></p><p>Gareth gestured to A-dom to pull the coral off, which he did.</p><p></p><p>A little sign read: <em>Only the Craftsman With the Ultimate Tool Can Enter</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth tried various things he had on his person before he and A-dom had to swim back up for air. Jade’s Luck didn’t want to swim past the sharks again, so she stayed down there. Gareth once again had no problems getting past the sharks. A-dom attracted the attention of a few more sharks this time, but they still failed to bite him.</p><p></p><p>While they caught their breath, they relayed the information to Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Sounds like you haven’t found crap yet.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: We’ll let you know when we find oxygen, Captain Useful.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Okay, Captain Dumbass.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I don’t think we have the tool.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You think it is an artifact?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Jahar.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (laughing): Jahar would be the ultimate tool.</p><p></p><p>Paul: That’s mean.</p><p></p><p>Liz: But funny.</p><p></p><p>Gareth took a few tools off the ship down with him to try. A-dom stayed up there with Tiger. Gareth had no problems getting past the sharks and started putting tools them up against the building. He then tried putting his hand on the wall and activating <em>Craftsman Need No Tools</em>. He disappeared.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck saw him disappear so she went over and knocked. Inside the tomb, there was air. He heard knocking behind him, so he turned around to see a stone archway. Putting his hand on the stone, he appeared back out in the water. He tried writing the charm name in the water, then just grabbed her arm and went back in the tomb. Since his anima was flaring pretty good at this point, they could see they were in a poorly lit, rather empty tomb. They followed the arrow, finding they were in a fairly large complex. They followed the arrow down a while until they came to a burial crypt. Inside, they found a big, stone crypt will all sorts of tools carved into it. Looking at it, the lid looked like it was pinned down with rods that hooked back up inside.</p><p></p><p>Gareth tried various ways of getting into the crypt, including his charm and setting his tools where they were on the crypt. While he was doing this, Jade’s Luck heard a tapping noise. Concentrating, she heard it coming from inside the crypt.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: There is something in there making a tapping noise.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I am mildly worried about that. I think I’m going to stop trying to get in, since this thing is clearly built to keep something in.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then remembered building this for himself, primarily due to having a long list of things he wanted to get done and was fairly sure he was going to fail to accomplish.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then relayed this to Jade’s Luck. Inspecting the rods further, they were pretty sure the rods were made of diamond.</p><p></p><p>They quickly discussed consulting their Necromancer, but then decided to continue on see what else there was first. Gareth noticed the arrow wasn’t pointing towards the crypt, just past it. They followed it through the crypt area along a long path until then entered a little workshop. Sitting on a table was a perfect, one inch by one inch cube. Gareth put them together and his sucked the other in. His cube immediately became a two inch by two inch perfect cube and the arrow went away. The weight of the cube was doubled, not cubed.</p><p></p><p>Looking around at the tools in the room, he found them really cool, but weird. They also found two really big parabolic mirrors.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck wasn’t sure they wanted to let A-dom down here to see all of the nifty stuff, but they couldn’t move the mirrors without him. Gareth thought he’d be fine.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Apparently I’m a retarded baby with superpowers.</p><p></p><p>It took them a while to find their way back to the entrance, since they no longer had the arrow to guide them. Once there, Gareth brought Jade’s Luck outside, then swam up to the boat on his own. He told A-dom & Tiger that he found the way in. He said they found a way to a workshop with parabolic mirrors. He said they passed a crypt which he was pretty sure he was in side. A-dom suggested they could talk to himself without opening it. He then figured that it was probably just an angry body, so it likely wouldn’t be very talky.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then plunked all of the tools he had taken with him on the deck along with some of the new tools. A-dom thought they were wood-working tools. A-dom went and got some sacks from the hold to take with him.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Tiger, come with us.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well, now that there is actually somewhere to go, I will.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: There’s your sense of adventure. Prick.</p><p></p><p>A-dom lost a sack to the sharks. Luckily, he brought three.</p><p></p><p>The four of them entered the tomb and headed down to the crypt area. A-dom & Tiger gave the room a once over. While looking at the crypt, A-dom heard a voice.</p><p></p><p>Voice (whisper): Hey. Hey. Let me out.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (whisper): Who’s there?</p><p></p><p>Voice (whisper): It’s me.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (whisper): You who?</p><p></p><p>Voice (whisper): No, not Yew!</p><p></p><p>A-dom (whisper): You’re not Mii, right?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Who are you talking to?</p><p></p><p>Voice (whisper): Come on, Wretch. Let me out!</p><p></p><p>A-dom (loud laughter): He thinks I’m Wretch.</p><p></p><p>Tiger then asked again who he was talking to and A-dom replied the thing in the crypt.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: It’s not Mii and its not Yew. Who are you? Is that you, Evening Tide?</p><p></p><p>Voice (whisper): No. Hurry up.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (whisper): Who were you? I can let you out once I know who you are.</p><p></p><p>A-dom them asked the voice why it wanted to come out. It said so it could help him do whatever he needed to do. A-dom then confused the voice by talking about killing 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. Eventually A-dom was prompted to say servants of the maidens. When A-dom showed he was incapable of remembering the word Sidereals, the voice offered to fix his head when they let him out. A-dom said he wasn’t going to let him out because he didn’t have a soul. The voice said he had a soul, in the box.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Nice talking to you. I hope there is no me like you somewhere.</p><p></p><p>The voice then cackled manically.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then showed off the cube to the rest of the group. There was marveling involved.</p><p></p><p>The voice then offered to show A-dom where all of the artifacts are. A-dom asked him if he could help them get all of the people to worship the Unconquered Sun and deal with the Sapphire Sentinels. It said yes.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Wow, you can do anything, can’t you?</p><p></p><p>Voice: No.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Can’t get out of this box, can you?</p><p></p><p>They felt the entire building shake a bit. They decided to move on now. They made it to the worskshop where they saw all the nifty stuff. A-dom found a full mummification set in the corner. He was pretty sure it was for mummifying someone with cloth made out of threads of Orchalcum.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Oooh. Artifact mummy. Yeah. That’s a very bad thing in the box. It is never coming out by our hands. I shouldn’t taunt those.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck postulated on praying for the mummy to rest.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: At the worst, it just keeps filling me with those things the Wyld likes to fill me with.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Hope?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: No. No one can fill me full of hope. That sack is thoroughly empty.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Blandishments?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yes. Thank you. That’s all I think he’s got in there. Aside from being an artifact mummy.</p><p></p><p>The group looked over the stuff, deciding which things to loot. They then deiced to explore the rest of the building before taking stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700645, member: 9758"] [b]Session 62 - Apparently I’m A Retarded Baby With Superpowers[/b] Session 62 [i]Synopsis of 12/31/07[/i] [b] Apparently I’m A Retarded Baby With Superpowers Subtitle: Excellent. Anyone who is stupid enough to attack these is going to die! [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] A-dom decided he wanted to encourage people to do things on Atlantis that they weren’t allowed to under the dragon-blood regime. Things like making signs. A-dom and Jade’s Luck planned out a cult of bravery for the Unconquered Sun where the initiation ritual would be sneaking into the Cathedral of Yew and worshiping there. The group discussed Essence briefly, chiefly that soon Gareth could once again improve his Essence. A-dom: But this time, you can do it on the boat. You can hide below decks and I’ll be Captain. Alex: See, this is why I never want to train for Essence. It means I’m leaving these yahoos unsupervised. Ryan: We can go get Jahar and he could supervise us. At this point, Liz realized she had forgotten her dice. Ryan loaned her some dice. This was a bad move on his part, since the dice decided Ryan didn’t love him anymore and were going to roll for :):):):) the entire night. Tiger brought the cube back to the group and didn’t tell them what he found out about it. He just said his mentor didn’t know what it did as he handed it over to Gareth. Over the rest of the second month, Gareth finished the doohickey for the Bodhisattva. He even added a red button onto it that said [i]A-dom’s Button[/i] on it. A-dom repeatedly pressed the button, sure it was going to do something. A-dom: Gareth, the button is broken. It’s not doing anything. Gareth: Yeah it is. You have to keep at it. Since the button’s purpose was to keep A-dom occupied, it did its job well. A-dom: Somewhere in the Wyld, a monkey is dancing. The Bodhisattva put the doohickey up in the center of town. With his contract done, Gareth collected his two month’s pay. The group headed back to Elemental Island, where they pressed forward in their plans to head for the Sapphire Sentinel. Gareth realized that in order to have a boat with a paddlewheel for A-dom on it, he couldn’t use the previously constructed boat sitting upon the island. A slightly disturbing smile crept onto his face as he started wiggling his fingers together, planning his latest creation. His latest boat was big enough to fit fifty people on it, had a single paddlewheel in the back with a corresponding wheel on the inside for A-dom or Tiger to run in it, and had most of a new ship’s worth of spare parts in the hold. The ship was magically reinforced and protected against the Wyld. The wheels and back of the boat were extra reinforced against A-dom. The ship was built next to the other ship and named within its series. Thus, the [b]Destined For Destruction II[/b] was completed. A-dom offered up his undead monkey butler’s services for the boat, which were accepted. While the monkey butler tarred the boat, Gareth went to visit his family. He received lots of questions about what was going on in Atlantis. In the best way possible, Gareth explained that he was in charge of Atlantis now. He up-played how things had gone to :):):):), dragon-bloods had destroyed the fields and demons were running amuck. With six successes, they seemed okay with it and he received requests for some cushy government jobs. They requested to move back home, so he told them to pack their things. Besides, this would be a great little test run for the new boat. Jade’s Luck popped back to Atlantis to make sure everything was in order and then popped back to take the boat trip with the group. A-dom spent the boat trip learning Craft (Earth) from Gareth, so he could properly implement his sign program when they got back. The boat trip was uneventful, taking a bit less time than the normal month. They arrived in Atlantis harbor without fanfare. The players got into a brief discussion about how they were presented to the families and the people of Atlantis. Liz was worried about Gareth explaining he was a dictator, but it was explained that he never used that word, they just came up with it on their own. Gareth: My official title is Craftsman of the People. I’m running a Craftocracy. Jade’s Luck was fine with this, since it involved people being more educated and worshipping the Unconquered Sun. Since being against it would involve him caring, Tiger didn’t mind. Paul: I just see this ending up with Chefs running things. Alex: Wrong character! Paul: I know, but he’s setting up a Craftocracy. That can only lead to chefs. A-dom made a bunch of stone signs with graphics for places in between stone symbols of the Sun. A-dom delighted in making a sign for Jade’s brothel. He then went about placing the signs in the ground throughout the city. Gareth got their families jobs within a couple days. He set Matron Jade up in charge of the Bureau of Recreation. Matron Jade set about Unionizing all of the prostitutes and former slaves of that nature. Joe was put ‘in charge’ of the Public Works Emancipation ‘New Deal’ Bureau. This ended up with everyone wanting a new job having to hear about the cannibal island. Joe: They send you a dinner invitation. Never fall for that! Jade’s Luck considered making sure Wintersun was aware of the Guild’s actions when it came to slavery. Gareth decided he needed to introduce his family to his wife. Jade’s Luck set up the reception. Gareth was mocked by A-dom for not being able to knock up one woman. A-dom: I impregnated a whole island in one night. You’d think you could knock up one woman in a year. Once things were set up on Atlantis, they headed off again towards the Sapphire Sentinel, making a quick stop on Hoen-Ba to check on the temple. Since there were no mortals on the boat, Gareth deemed it ‘safe’ to attune the cube artifact to find out what it did. Once it had charged, he knew he couldn’t re-attune it for another hundred years. While looking at it, he saw a little arrow pop up and act like it was pointing towards something specific. It was pointing a bit off from where the Sentinel was, so Gareth informed the others they were taking a slight detour. As they sailed along over the voyage, he noticed that the arrow gradually started to point downward. When it pointed vertically, they stopped the boat. Tiger: So, can you breathe water yet? A-dom: No, WHEEE!!!! A-dom jumped into the ocean and started swimming downward. Jade’s Luck, activated her survival charm, took out her boomerang and stepped overboard, sinking like a rock past A-dom. Seeing this, A-dom took out his club and started sinking faster as well. A-dom didn’t intend to talk so he figured he’d last a while. Jade’s Luck thought she noticed something down below them. A-dom only noticed water until he hit something. Jade’s Luck saw A-dom groping the top of a big stone building. She found windows, but failed to find a door. The windows weren’t glassed, so the insides of the building were full of water. She saw corral and seaweed and furniture covered in coral. A-dom swum back up for air and reported what they saw. While they were down there, Jade’s Luck explored a little, seeing it was a fairly large city type place. She swam up and reported further. They consulted their Ancient map and saw they were up near the Tomb Islands. Gareth decided to swim down and take a look for himself. Looking around, he saw a city laid out like Sijan. There was lots of coral on ziggurat type buildings, with lanterns about. He also noticed that the arrow was now pointing towards a particular ziggurat within the city while down there. Gareth swam back up and let them know he knew where they were going and that it was a Sijan type city. A-dom: Lead the way, Sightless leader! Jade’s Luck opted to follow them, while Tiger continued to lounge about on deck. While looking around Gareth rolled well and A-dom rolled poorly, both resulting in two successes. Ryan cursed at his dice. Still, Jade’s Luck got a little more warning than them. She noticed a swarm of sharks swimming around the building rather fast. She pointed it out to the other two. Seeing this, Gareth remembered standing outside of the Ziggurat when it was on an island above water, looking at it and seeing flocks of birds flying around it. Previous Gareth (to someone next to him): Excellent. Anyone who is stupid enough to attack these is going to die! Gareth motioned for the others to swim back up and relayed that he thought the Ziggurat attracted flocks of things and relayed the vision. He suggested they not attack the flocks, just swim past. A-dom: Come on, Tiger, I’m sure we’ll find air down there somewhere. Tiger: Nah. Jade’s Luck went down enough to study the flock’s pattern and relayed it to Gareth and A-dom. The three of them swam down towards the building. Gareth swam the most efficient way possible to conserve air and energy past the sharks. Jade’s Luck swum past the sharks without a problem. A-dom swum past the sharks, attracting the attention of three of them, but they failed to bite him. Gareth followed the arrow until it let him to what looked like a moray eel cave in the coral, on the building. He stuck his had with the cube into the cave. His hand hit stone and now he couldn’t see the arrow anymore. A-dom pulled Gareth’s hand out and tried to stick his head in, but it was too big. He looked in and saw it was dark. He turned on his castemark and saw the cave turned a corner. He stuck his hand in and could feel text, but couldn’t read it. He grabbed Jade’s Luck’s hand and stuck it in the hole to the text. She couldn’t read the text with her hand either. Since it seemed it was Gareth’s turn, he stuck his other hand in and tried to read the text. [i]Craftsman [something] [something] Tool[/i] Ryan: You need to stick your tool in it. Gareth gestured to A-dom to pull the coral off, which he did. A little sign read: [i]Only the Craftsman With the Ultimate Tool Can Enter[/i] Gareth tried various things he had on his person before he and A-dom had to swim back up for air. Jade’s Luck didn’t want to swim past the sharks again, so she stayed down there. Gareth once again had no problems getting past the sharks. A-dom attracted the attention of a few more sharks this time, but they still failed to bite him. While they caught their breath, they relayed the information to Tiger. Tiger: Sounds like you haven’t found crap yet. A-dom: We’ll let you know when we find oxygen, Captain Useful. Tiger: Okay, Captain Dumbass. Gareth: I don’t think we have the tool. A-dom: You think it is an artifact? Tiger: Jahar. A-dom (laughing): Jahar would be the ultimate tool. Paul: That’s mean. Liz: But funny. Gareth took a few tools off the ship down with him to try. A-dom stayed up there with Tiger. Gareth had no problems getting past the sharks and started putting tools them up against the building. He then tried putting his hand on the wall and activating [i]Craftsman Need No Tools[/i]. He disappeared. Jade’s Luck saw him disappear so she went over and knocked. Inside the tomb, there was air. He heard knocking behind him, so he turned around to see a stone archway. Putting his hand on the stone, he appeared back out in the water. He tried writing the charm name in the water, then just grabbed her arm and went back in the tomb. Since his anima was flaring pretty good at this point, they could see they were in a poorly lit, rather empty tomb. They followed the arrow, finding they were in a fairly large complex. They followed the arrow down a while until they came to a burial crypt. Inside, they found a big, stone crypt will all sorts of tools carved into it. Looking at it, the lid looked like it was pinned down with rods that hooked back up inside. Gareth tried various ways of getting into the crypt, including his charm and setting his tools where they were on the crypt. While he was doing this, Jade’s Luck heard a tapping noise. Concentrating, she heard it coming from inside the crypt. Jade’s Luck: There is something in there making a tapping noise. Gareth: I am mildly worried about that. I think I’m going to stop trying to get in, since this thing is clearly built to keep something in. Gareth then remembered building this for himself, primarily due to having a long list of things he wanted to get done and was fairly sure he was going to fail to accomplish. Gareth then relayed this to Jade’s Luck. Inspecting the rods further, they were pretty sure the rods were made of diamond. They quickly discussed consulting their Necromancer, but then decided to continue on see what else there was first. Gareth noticed the arrow wasn’t pointing towards the crypt, just past it. They followed it through the crypt area along a long path until then entered a little workshop. Sitting on a table was a perfect, one inch by one inch cube. Gareth put them together and his sucked the other in. His cube immediately became a two inch by two inch perfect cube and the arrow went away. The weight of the cube was doubled, not cubed. Looking around at the tools in the room, he found them really cool, but weird. They also found two really big parabolic mirrors. Jade’s Luck wasn’t sure they wanted to let A-dom down here to see all of the nifty stuff, but they couldn’t move the mirrors without him. Gareth thought he’d be fine. Ryan: Apparently I’m a retarded baby with superpowers. It took them a while to find their way back to the entrance, since they no longer had the arrow to guide them. Once there, Gareth brought Jade’s Luck outside, then swam up to the boat on his own. He told A-dom & Tiger that he found the way in. He said they found a way to a workshop with parabolic mirrors. He said they passed a crypt which he was pretty sure he was in side. A-dom suggested they could talk to himself without opening it. He then figured that it was probably just an angry body, so it likely wouldn’t be very talky. Gareth then plunked all of the tools he had taken with him on the deck along with some of the new tools. A-dom thought they were wood-working tools. A-dom went and got some sacks from the hold to take with him. A-dom: Tiger, come with us. Tiger: Well, now that there is actually somewhere to go, I will. A-dom: There’s your sense of adventure. Prick. A-dom lost a sack to the sharks. Luckily, he brought three. The four of them entered the tomb and headed down to the crypt area. A-dom & Tiger gave the room a once over. While looking at the crypt, A-dom heard a voice. Voice (whisper): Hey. Hey. Let me out. A-dom (whisper): Who’s there? Voice (whisper): It’s me. A-dom (whisper): You who? Voice (whisper): No, not Yew! A-dom (whisper): You’re not Mii, right? Tiger: Who are you talking to? Voice (whisper): Come on, Wretch. Let me out! A-dom (loud laughter): He thinks I’m Wretch. Tiger then asked again who he was talking to and A-dom replied the thing in the crypt. A-dom: It’s not Mii and its not Yew. Who are you? Is that you, Evening Tide? Voice (whisper): No. Hurry up. A-dom (whisper): Who were you? I can let you out once I know who you are. A-dom them asked the voice why it wanted to come out. It said so it could help him do whatever he needed to do. A-dom then confused the voice by talking about killing Mother:):):):)ers. Eventually A-dom was prompted to say servants of the maidens. When A-dom showed he was incapable of remembering the word Sidereals, the voice offered to fix his head when they let him out. A-dom said he wasn’t going to let him out because he didn’t have a soul. The voice said he had a soul, in the box. A-dom: Nice talking to you. I hope there is no me like you somewhere. The voice then cackled manically. Gareth then showed off the cube to the rest of the group. There was marveling involved. The voice then offered to show A-dom where all of the artifacts are. A-dom asked him if he could help them get all of the people to worship the Unconquered Sun and deal with the Sapphire Sentinels. It said yes. A-dom: Wow, you can do anything, can’t you? Voice: No. A-dom: Can’t get out of this box, can you? They felt the entire building shake a bit. They decided to move on now. They made it to the worskshop where they saw all the nifty stuff. A-dom found a full mummification set in the corner. He was pretty sure it was for mummifying someone with cloth made out of threads of Orchalcum. A-dom: Oooh. Artifact mummy. Yeah. That’s a very bad thing in the box. It is never coming out by our hands. I shouldn’t taunt those. Jade’s Luck postulated on praying for the mummy to rest. A-dom: At the worst, it just keeps filling me with those things the Wyld likes to fill me with. Gareth: Hope? A-dom: No. No one can fill me full of hope. That sack is thoroughly empty. Jade’s Luck: Blandishments? A-dom: Yes. Thank you. That’s all I think he’s got in there. Aside from being an artifact mummy. The group looked over the stuff, deciding which things to loot. They then deiced to explore the rest of the building before taking stuff. [/QUOTE]
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