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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700647" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 63 - There Will Be No Shaming Of A-dom Today!</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 63</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 01/14/08</em></p><p></p><p><strong> There Will Be No Shaming Of A-dom Today!</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: The less time we spend on the paperwork, the more time we have for baby-killing</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p>They searched around for hours and hours. Eventually Gareth found a hidden room. It took a little bit to figure out how to get the door open. Inside was a circular room with carvings upon the walls. The murals on the wall told a progressive story of one Solar.</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Exaltation: unclear beyond god talking to him</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Freaky carvings (cubism): fighting the Wyld?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dividing up someone’s body into seven pieces and taking it to other places</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scene of the Solar standing in the City of Yew next to Yew (who looked a <strong>LOT</strong> like Jade’s Luck</li> </ul><p></p><p>A-dom (to Gareth): Do we need to sterilize her?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m wearing the stupid chastity belt! I don’t want to be knocked up with some 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 baby.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Oh. Good.</p><p></p><p>The murals continued to show someone trying to assassinate him, which caused a long, climatic battle and sank the island.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Sorry. I’m sure I had a good reason. *pause as A-dom thinks* Oooh. He’s not coming out of the box. He is SOOO not coming out of the box.</p><p></p><p>Gareth then remembered that A-dom didn’t kill him. He was pretty sure Darius did.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: No, you didn’t kill me. Tiger did. You gave it a valiant effort, though.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I thought I killed you right before the war with Yew.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Yes, you <strong>thought</strong> you killed me.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Oh. Good. Mazeltov.</p><p></p><p>Gareth found the carvings were well done, but not made by himself.</p><p></p><p>A-dom postulated that Yew did something and Gareth was on Yew’s side. A-dom knew he and Tiger were on the other side.</p><p></p><p>Paul repeatedly made Ryan roll past lives. He was delighted to fail every single one.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Where’s the loot, man, the loot?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: This is the loot.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You can’t beat someone with a story. Not in Creation, at least.</p><p></p><p>While they ‘agreed’ there was no loot, the door closed. Tiger jumped out before it closed.</p><p></p><p>There was a final carving on the door, depicting Yew putting the Solar to rest in a crypt. A-dom noted that the sarcophagus in the carving was different than the one they went past. The group then postulated who was in the box with the diamond rods.</p><p></p><p>Gareth expressed a desire to take two days to study the carvings. A-dom had no problems with it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asked if anyone was watching the ship. She wasn’t sure if it would stay put or not. Gareth said the ship was anchored, so was fine. Jade’s Luck said he needed to make a smart ship, so they could tell it to stay. Gareth pointed out that, if he made a smart ship, it would sail as far away from them as possible to protect itself.</p><p></p><p>He figured out how to reopen the door and let them go on their way. Over the next two days, he studied the carvings and tried to remember what he could. Sadly, he didn’t remember much.</p><p></p><p>While looking at the carving of him and Yew, he had a brief flash of memory. He remembered standing there, that day, announcing his support for Yew and the newly discovered concept of Necromancy. </p><p></p><p>During that time, Jade’s Luck wanted to explore more buildings. The one they were currently in was the highest up and in the same rough position as Wretch’s Tomb in Sijan. A-dom and Tiger wanted to search for loot.</p><p></p><p>Way down in the tomb, they found a staircase into water. Jade’s Luck saw what she thought was a statue in the water. A-dom saw it was a multi-armed demon with a map, looking around. When Jade’s Luck started heading towards the ‘statue’, A-dom pointed out it was a worker demon.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck activated survival charms and went into the water to talk to the demon. Unfortunately, she found talking under water to be quite problematic, so she just followed him around to an air pocket. He pulled out a bladder and squeezed it to drawn a bright orange X on the wall.</p><p></p><p>She found out he was marking boundaries and that they had found the Manse. He said he wasn’t a tour guide and wouldn’t show her the way. He went back into the water.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went back for A-dom and Tiger, telling them where the next air pocket was. She was pretty sure they could make it if A-dom ran. The tunnels reminded her of the underground of Atlantis. The trio ran to the air pocket.</p><p></p><p>While standing around in the air pocket, they discussed why it mattered that they were demolishing stuff here, since there weren’t any people around. Looking down the corridor, several intersections away, A-dom and Jade’s Luck noticed a duck walk past.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Follow that duck!</p><p></p><p>A-dom ran after the duck, but it wasn’t there when he got to the corner. He then started spouting theories 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=":)" />er ducks. Wandering down the corridor, he found flowers carved into the walls. Following it, they came to a couple sets of stairs and then a room covered in carvings of kittens and puppy dogs.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: What 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=":)" />?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Tiger: Rosewind?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck found no evidence of a duck having been present. She asked some of the structure spirits if they saw a duck. They said they hadn’t.</p><p></p><p>They explored some more, going on the direction the demon had gone in. After a little bit, they found another air pocket. There, there were four demons standing around, drinking coffee and a fifth demon with a shovel. They found out the foreman was at the primary work site, but not where it was. This area was a catacombs type area.</p><p></p><p>They went and explored the unexplored corridor. After a while, they came across the foreman underwater. He was standing around with a bunch of plans all laid out. Jade’s Luck tried to look at the plans. From what she could understand, they were going to raise part of the structures so it would be an island again.</p><p></p><p>Again, conversation under water wasn’t exactly feasible. She did manage to get out him which part he was going to raise and which points were likely to be destroyed in the raising. The puppy dog area and the crypt area were very likely going to be destroyed.</p><p></p><p>The demons weren’t working particularly fast, so they figured they had some time. She detailed which parts to explore first. Eventually they went back and filled Gareth in on what they found out.</p><p></p><p>With Gareth, they explored Rosewind’s area. Gareth was pretty sure this area was designed for actual living space, an underwater addition. It was fairly obvious that a very young Solar lived here. He found a gymnasium full of death traps and various fluffy animal motifs throughout. Along the way, they found a ten by ten foot room with a screw cap in the corner and solar symbols all over the walls. On the cap was written <strong><em>My Loot</em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: My loot?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well, you know, there could be sharing involved.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yeah, this is probably <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=":)" /> I’m going to want to share.</p><p></p><p>A-dom remembered this as kind of being Rosewind’s secret lair. He started to turn the dial and realized that the cap wasn’t meant to be turned with superhuman strength. After the first click, they saw the Dawn Caste symbol sparkling. A-dom tried pushing it, headlamping at it, glaring at it, and licking it. None worked.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What kind of things would a little girl like?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Hug it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I can’t hug it! It’s a wall!</p><p></p><p>A-dom hugged the wall. He heard some tinkling music and the mark stopped glowing. A-dom wasn’t sure he did that exactly right, but he felt warm and fuzzy inside.</p><p></p><p>The Zenith mark was next. Jade’s Luck tried hugging it, but didn’t feel the love.</p><p></p><p>Gareth tried next.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Good stone! Happy stone! We like stone!</p><p></p><p>Tinkling music and it stopped sparkling. Twilight was next and Gareth tried again.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Try thinking about cute, fuzzy things. And flowers.</p><p></p><p>More tinkling music and Night was next.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: How exactly does this work?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You turn it, it clicks, you hug it. It’s not brain science.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Can you think warm, happy thoughts?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: That’s a problem!</p><p></p><p>A-dom: It doesn’t have to be you! Haven’t you felt any warm tingles when screwing a whore? That’s called, well, like! See, real people get that, but a thousand times more. It’s called love! It’s the opposite of killing them. It’s like stabbing them, repeatedly.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asked if he was speaking from experience. He said sure. She coaxed him into saying he loved his wife, and the children.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (evil voice): Yes, I love the children. I have plans for the children…</p><p></p><p>Everybody but Tiger group hugged the all. Nothing happened.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Come on Tiger. You’re part of our family too. Just the part we don’t quite understand.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Pretend it is a whore that didn’t charge you.</p><p></p><p>The music went off when Jade’s Luck said Tiger was a part of the family too.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Sometimes families kill each other.</p><p></p><p>For the Eclipse mark, A-dom said Jahar was nifty. After about five minutes, the mark finally went off.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I don’t have much compassion. Once you drink from the cup, there’s not much left.</p><p></p><p>A-dom popped the cap up and realized it was a little girl sized hole. Jade’s Luck was able to wiggle her way down. She found the ceiling was very low and there was a wide assortment of stuff. There were lots of crystalline flowers and glass knick knacks and dollies. She starting holding stuff up to Tiger to see if they were artifacty. She found an artifact dress, which she shoved up a sleeve. She also found a golden strap that said Rosewind on it a couple of times. A-dom snagged it. Jade’s Luck was pretty sure the strap was for wrapping it around something to put your name on it. Jade’s Luck handed up gold and tchotchkes. </p><p></p><p>A-dom: Anyone care if I take the strap? You guys are welcome to the dress.</p><p></p><p>Tiger took a look at the strap and determined that it involved possession magic. A-dom botched his past lives roll and became very possessive of the strap. He wrapped it around his club’s handle and there was a gold sizzling noise. When he removed the strap, there was now writing on the handle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Wretch of Winter – Markus the Mad – Rosewind the Compassionate – Dom Kord – Johan</strong></p><p></p><p>A-dom remembered from history lessons that Dom Kord was the ancient that the Dom sea was named after. At one time, he was the ruler of Abalone, who disappeared right before the Great Contagion.</p><p></p><p>A-dom clutched his club tightly and giggled maniacally. Gareth waved a glass tchotchke at him to get his attention. A-dom accused him of looking at his club. Gareth made up some packaging for all of the tchotchkes and they moved on.</p><p></p><p>As they walked along, A-dom noticed a bunny hop by down a hallway. He swore and sped after it, around the corner. Once around the corner, he came face to face with a mirror. In the reflection, he saw himself standing with a giant club, giant robes, and an army of undead behind himself.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Ooooh. Blandishments!</p><p></p><p>Golden lettering appeared upon the mirror.</p><p></p><p><strong>You’re not a very compassionate person. But you’ve taken my things!</strong></p><p></p><p>A-dom started crying.</p><p></p><p><strong>You must do two selfless acts!</strong></p><p></p><p>A-dom: Right now?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck got around the corner to see A-dom staring into a dull mirror. She aw nothing special about the mirror.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You okay?</p><p></p><p>A-dom (muttering): What’s a selfless act? (to Jade’s Luck) I’m happy you’re…</p><p></p><p>Paul: You’re trying too hard.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I don’t know how to try any other way!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck gave A-dom a hug.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: That counts?</p><p></p><p>Paul: No.</p><p></p><p>A-dom cries.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Are you entirely all right?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: No. I don’t know if I’m in trouble…</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: That’s not exactly unusual. What happened?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I got told I wasn’t a very compassionate man and I have to figure out what that means.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to explain selfless acts to A-dom. It left A-dom very confused.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: See, the problem I see with this is, if you think about this too hard, then you’re doing it because there is something in it for you.</p><p></p><p>A-dom cried some more and said that wasn’t fair. He asked the mirror a couple more questions. He found out the time frame he had was soon and that he couldn’t take the mirror with him. He muttered about selfless acts and heard a little girl laughing. He tried to find out what would happen if he didn’t do the selfless acts soon. He saw Rosewind in the mirror where he should be, pointing and laughing at him.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: A-dom, why are you flipping off the mirror?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Because the mirror is trying to make me a better person and I <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 hate that!</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Wait! Does it count if I started something, but didn’t finish it and finish it now?</p><p></p><p>A-dom reached into his sack. (Obviously A-dom has a sack because everyone in the West has a sack). He said he had realized what he had been doing wrong when praying. He figured free forming was bad for him because he usually ended up swearing at god.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I made a little prayer to the Unconquered Sun that we could use and give to people. <em>You’re good for armies, you’re good for us. Something something something Unconquered Sun. Yeah!!!</em> It’s a work in progress. I was going to finish it up and give it to you to spruce up a bit. It would help to give to people. I don’t get anything out of this, does that count? (A-dom sounds really pathetic). Apparently it doesn’t.</p><p></p><p>Gareth explained to him that he was trying to make it count for him, so it wouldn’t.</p><p></p><p>The mirror read <strong>You’re trying to hard</strong></p><p></p><p>A-dom eventually walked away sulking.</p><p></p><p>They explored some more, found some self-flushing bathrooms. A-dom felt they should install some of them on Atlantis and charge people jade to use them. Then he got the idea that they’d make eight of them and have one of them randomly be free each hour. Tiger suggested the free one should always be in the shadowland. Gareth said the one in the Cathedral should always be free.</p><p></p><p>They wandered around the catacombs, finding some money, some jade, and some statues they might be able to sell sometime. They didn’t find much else of note.</p><p></p><p>They carted all of the stuff they were taking back to the ship. Then stood on the section of the city that was going to be raised, hoping it would count as standing on the island.</p><p></p><p>A-dom did not put the two selfless acts on the list.</p><p></p><p>Tiger went and stole the work order from the demon foreman. From reading the order, they determine that this job was going to take quite a long time and might want to check back in half a year to a year.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (to Tiger): What ever happened to that holiday of yours?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: My what?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Solar lent. You are supposed to create it.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I am?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Yessssss.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I was ordered to?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: By the tomb of the East.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Oh yeah. I created it. Now I just have to enforce it…</p><p></p><p>Tiger went and returned the work order.</p><p></p><p>Tiger (to A-dom): Are you sure you don’t want your little dress back. You’ve got your little strappy thing.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Might as well. I can wear it as a hat. (to Jade’s Luck) May I borrow the dress for a moment? I have nothing left to lose.</p><p></p><p>A-dom turned into She-Dom, the took the dress, stuck it over ‘his’ head and attuned it. The dress dropped down over She-Dom’s body, growing to fit. He then noticed that he was no longer wearing his armor. They quickly figured out that the dress ate his armor.</p><p></p><p>It was then pointed out by Paul that it would have been a selfless act to give the dress to someone else.</p><p></p><p>Much cursing ensued.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700647, member: 9758"] [b]Session 63 - There Will Be No Shaming Of A-dom Today![/b] Session 63 [i]Synopsis of 01/14/08[/i] [b] There Will Be No Shaming Of A-dom Today! Subtitle: The less time we spend on the paperwork, the more time we have for baby-killing [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] They searched around for hours and hours. Eventually Gareth found a hidden room. It took a little bit to figure out how to get the door open. Inside was a circular room with carvings upon the walls. The murals on the wall told a progressive story of one Solar. [list][*]Exaltation: unclear beyond god talking to him [*]Freaky carvings (cubism): fighting the Wyld? [*]Dividing up someone’s body into seven pieces and taking it to other places [*]Scene of the Solar standing in the City of Yew next to Yew (who looked a [b]LOT[/b] like Jade’s Luck [/list] A-dom (to Gareth): Do we need to sterilize her? Jade’s Luck: I’m wearing the stupid chastity belt! I don’t want to be knocked up with some mother:):):):)er baby. A-dom: Oh. Good. The murals continued to show someone trying to assassinate him, which caused a long, climatic battle and sank the island. A-dom: Sorry. I’m sure I had a good reason. *pause as A-dom thinks* Oooh. He’s not coming out of the box. He is SOOO not coming out of the box. Gareth then remembered that A-dom didn’t kill him. He was pretty sure Darius did. Gareth: No, you didn’t kill me. Tiger did. You gave it a valiant effort, though. A-dom: I thought I killed you right before the war with Yew. Gareth: Yes, you [b]thought[/b] you killed me. A-dom: Oh. Good. Mazeltov. Gareth found the carvings were well done, but not made by himself. A-dom postulated that Yew did something and Gareth was on Yew’s side. A-dom knew he and Tiger were on the other side. Paul repeatedly made Ryan roll past lives. He was delighted to fail every single one. A-dom: Where’s the loot, man, the loot? Gareth: This is the loot. A-dom: You can’t beat someone with a story. Not in Creation, at least. While they ‘agreed’ there was no loot, the door closed. Tiger jumped out before it closed. There was a final carving on the door, depicting Yew putting the Solar to rest in a crypt. A-dom noted that the sarcophagus in the carving was different than the one they went past. The group then postulated who was in the box with the diamond rods. Gareth expressed a desire to take two days to study the carvings. A-dom had no problems with it. Jade’s Luck asked if anyone was watching the ship. She wasn’t sure if it would stay put or not. Gareth said the ship was anchored, so was fine. Jade’s Luck said he needed to make a smart ship, so they could tell it to stay. Gareth pointed out that, if he made a smart ship, it would sail as far away from them as possible to protect itself. He figured out how to reopen the door and let them go on their way. Over the next two days, he studied the carvings and tried to remember what he could. Sadly, he didn’t remember much. While looking at the carving of him and Yew, he had a brief flash of memory. He remembered standing there, that day, announcing his support for Yew and the newly discovered concept of Necromancy. During that time, Jade’s Luck wanted to explore more buildings. The one they were currently in was the highest up and in the same rough position as Wretch’s Tomb in Sijan. A-dom and Tiger wanted to search for loot. Way down in the tomb, they found a staircase into water. Jade’s Luck saw what she thought was a statue in the water. A-dom saw it was a multi-armed demon with a map, looking around. When Jade’s Luck started heading towards the ‘statue’, A-dom pointed out it was a worker demon. Jade’s Luck activated survival charms and went into the water to talk to the demon. Unfortunately, she found talking under water to be quite problematic, so she just followed him around to an air pocket. He pulled out a bladder and squeezed it to drawn a bright orange X on the wall. She found out he was marking boundaries and that they had found the Manse. He said he wasn’t a tour guide and wouldn’t show her the way. He went back into the water. Jade’s Luck went back for A-dom and Tiger, telling them where the next air pocket was. She was pretty sure they could make it if A-dom ran. The tunnels reminded her of the underground of Atlantis. The trio ran to the air pocket. While standing around in the air pocket, they discussed why it mattered that they were demolishing stuff here, since there weren’t any people around. Looking down the corridor, several intersections away, A-dom and Jade’s Luck noticed a duck walk past. Jade’s Luck: Follow that duck! A-dom ran after the duck, but it wasn’t there when he got to the corner. He then started spouting theories about Mother:):):):)er ducks. Wandering down the corridor, he found flowers carved into the walls. Following it, they came to a couple sets of stairs and then a room covered in carvings of kittens and puppy dogs. A-dom: What the :):):):)? Jade’s Luck and Tiger: Rosewind? Jade’s Luck found no evidence of a duck having been present. She asked some of the structure spirits if they saw a duck. They said they hadn’t. They explored some more, going on the direction the demon had gone in. After a little bit, they found another air pocket. There, there were four demons standing around, drinking coffee and a fifth demon with a shovel. They found out the foreman was at the primary work site, but not where it was. This area was a catacombs type area. They went and explored the unexplored corridor. After a while, they came across the foreman underwater. He was standing around with a bunch of plans all laid out. Jade’s Luck tried to look at the plans. From what she could understand, they were going to raise part of the structures so it would be an island again. Again, conversation under water wasn’t exactly feasible. She did manage to get out him which part he was going to raise and which points were likely to be destroyed in the raising. The puppy dog area and the crypt area were very likely going to be destroyed. The demons weren’t working particularly fast, so they figured they had some time. She detailed which parts to explore first. Eventually they went back and filled Gareth in on what they found out. With Gareth, they explored Rosewind’s area. Gareth was pretty sure this area was designed for actual living space, an underwater addition. It was fairly obvious that a very young Solar lived here. He found a gymnasium full of death traps and various fluffy animal motifs throughout. Along the way, they found a ten by ten foot room with a screw cap in the corner and solar symbols all over the walls. On the cap was written [b][i]My Loot[/i][/b]. A-dom: My loot? Jade’s Luck: Well, you know, there could be sharing involved. A-dom: Yeah, this is probably :):):):) I’m going to want to share. A-dom remembered this as kind of being Rosewind’s secret lair. He started to turn the dial and realized that the cap wasn’t meant to be turned with superhuman strength. After the first click, they saw the Dawn Caste symbol sparkling. A-dom tried pushing it, headlamping at it, glaring at it, and licking it. None worked. Jade’s Luck: What kind of things would a little girl like? Gareth: Hug it. A-dom: I can’t hug it! It’s a wall! A-dom hugged the wall. He heard some tinkling music and the mark stopped glowing. A-dom wasn’t sure he did that exactly right, but he felt warm and fuzzy inside. The Zenith mark was next. Jade’s Luck tried hugging it, but didn’t feel the love. Gareth tried next. Gareth: Good stone! Happy stone! We like stone! Tinkling music and it stopped sparkling. Twilight was next and Gareth tried again. Jade’s Luck: Try thinking about cute, fuzzy things. And flowers. More tinkling music and Night was next. Tiger: How exactly does this work? A-dom: You turn it, it clicks, you hug it. It’s not brain science. Gareth: Can you think warm, happy thoughts? Tiger: That’s a problem! A-dom: It doesn’t have to be you! Haven’t you felt any warm tingles when screwing a whore? That’s called, well, like! See, real people get that, but a thousand times more. It’s called love! It’s the opposite of killing them. It’s like stabbing them, repeatedly. Jade’s Luck asked if he was speaking from experience. He said sure. She coaxed him into saying he loved his wife, and the children. A-dom (evil voice): Yes, I love the children. I have plans for the children… Everybody but Tiger group hugged the all. Nothing happened. Jade’s Luck: Come on Tiger. You’re part of our family too. Just the part we don’t quite understand. A-dom: Pretend it is a whore that didn’t charge you. The music went off when Jade’s Luck said Tiger was a part of the family too. A-dom: Sometimes families kill each other. For the Eclipse mark, A-dom said Jahar was nifty. After about five minutes, the mark finally went off. A-dom: I don’t have much compassion. Once you drink from the cup, there’s not much left. A-dom popped the cap up and realized it was a little girl sized hole. Jade’s Luck was able to wiggle her way down. She found the ceiling was very low and there was a wide assortment of stuff. There were lots of crystalline flowers and glass knick knacks and dollies. She starting holding stuff up to Tiger to see if they were artifacty. She found an artifact dress, which she shoved up a sleeve. She also found a golden strap that said Rosewind on it a couple of times. A-dom snagged it. Jade’s Luck was pretty sure the strap was for wrapping it around something to put your name on it. Jade’s Luck handed up gold and tchotchkes. A-dom: Anyone care if I take the strap? You guys are welcome to the dress. Tiger took a look at the strap and determined that it involved possession magic. A-dom botched his past lives roll and became very possessive of the strap. He wrapped it around his club’s handle and there was a gold sizzling noise. When he removed the strap, there was now writing on the handle. [b]Wretch of Winter – Markus the Mad – Rosewind the Compassionate – Dom Kord – Johan[/b] A-dom remembered from history lessons that Dom Kord was the ancient that the Dom sea was named after. At one time, he was the ruler of Abalone, who disappeared right before the Great Contagion. A-dom clutched his club tightly and giggled maniacally. Gareth waved a glass tchotchke at him to get his attention. A-dom accused him of looking at his club. Gareth made up some packaging for all of the tchotchkes and they moved on. As they walked along, A-dom noticed a bunny hop by down a hallway. He swore and sped after it, around the corner. Once around the corner, he came face to face with a mirror. In the reflection, he saw himself standing with a giant club, giant robes, and an army of undead behind himself. A-dom: Ooooh. Blandishments! Golden lettering appeared upon the mirror. [b]You’re not a very compassionate person. But you’ve taken my things![/b] A-dom started crying. [b]You must do two selfless acts![/b] A-dom: Right now? Jade’s Luck got around the corner to see A-dom staring into a dull mirror. She aw nothing special about the mirror. Jade’s Luck: You okay? A-dom (muttering): What’s a selfless act? (to Jade’s Luck) I’m happy you’re… Paul: You’re trying too hard. A-dom: I don’t know how to try any other way! Jade’s Luck gave A-dom a hug. Ryan: That counts? Paul: No. A-dom cries. Jade’s Luck: Are you entirely all right? A-dom: No. I don’t know if I’m in trouble… Jade’s Luck: That’s not exactly unusual. What happened? A-dom: I got told I wasn’t a very compassionate man and I have to figure out what that means. Jade’s Luck tried to explain selfless acts to A-dom. It left A-dom very confused. Jade’s Luck: See, the problem I see with this is, if you think about this too hard, then you’re doing it because there is something in it for you. A-dom cried some more and said that wasn’t fair. He asked the mirror a couple more questions. He found out the time frame he had was soon and that he couldn’t take the mirror with him. He muttered about selfless acts and heard a little girl laughing. He tried to find out what would happen if he didn’t do the selfless acts soon. He saw Rosewind in the mirror where he should be, pointing and laughing at him. Gareth: A-dom, why are you flipping off the mirror? A-dom: Because the mirror is trying to make me a better person and I :):):):)ing hate that! A-dom: Wait! Does it count if I started something, but didn’t finish it and finish it now? A-dom reached into his sack. (Obviously A-dom has a sack because everyone in the West has a sack). He said he had realized what he had been doing wrong when praying. He figured free forming was bad for him because he usually ended up swearing at god. A-dom: I made a little prayer to the Unconquered Sun that we could use and give to people. [i]You’re good for armies, you’re good for us. Something something something Unconquered Sun. Yeah!!![/i] It’s a work in progress. I was going to finish it up and give it to you to spruce up a bit. It would help to give to people. I don’t get anything out of this, does that count? (A-dom sounds really pathetic). Apparently it doesn’t. Gareth explained to him that he was trying to make it count for him, so it wouldn’t. The mirror read [b]You’re trying to hard[/b] A-dom eventually walked away sulking. They explored some more, found some self-flushing bathrooms. A-dom felt they should install some of them on Atlantis and charge people jade to use them. Then he got the idea that they’d make eight of them and have one of them randomly be free each hour. Tiger suggested the free one should always be in the shadowland. Gareth said the one in the Cathedral should always be free. They wandered around the catacombs, finding some money, some jade, and some statues they might be able to sell sometime. They didn’t find much else of note. They carted all of the stuff they were taking back to the ship. Then stood on the section of the city that was going to be raised, hoping it would count as standing on the island. A-dom did not put the two selfless acts on the list. Tiger went and stole the work order from the demon foreman. From reading the order, they determine that this job was going to take quite a long time and might want to check back in half a year to a year. A-dom (to Tiger): What ever happened to that holiday of yours? Tiger: My what? Gareth: Solar lent. You are supposed to create it. Tiger: I am? A-dom: Yessssss. Tiger: I was ordered to? Gareth: By the tomb of the East. Tiger: Oh yeah. I created it. Now I just have to enforce it… Tiger went and returned the work order. Tiger (to A-dom): Are you sure you don’t want your little dress back. You’ve got your little strappy thing. A-dom: Might as well. I can wear it as a hat. (to Jade’s Luck) May I borrow the dress for a moment? I have nothing left to lose. A-dom turned into She-Dom, the took the dress, stuck it over ‘his’ head and attuned it. The dress dropped down over She-Dom’s body, growing to fit. He then noticed that he was no longer wearing his armor. They quickly figured out that the dress ate his armor. It was then pointed out by Paul that it would have been a selfless act to give the dress to someone else. Much cursing ensued. [/QUOTE]
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