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[Exalted] Solar Circle of the West - whole slew of updates 3/8/09
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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700764" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 74, Continued</strong></p><p></p><p>The group decides it is best to find out EVERYTHING about the island before changing any of the rules. A-Dom then has the Voodoo doll send someone to the Demon-worshiping village. They also find out the demons can only kill off people, if the population grows to the point where the island can’t sustain all the people. Voodoo suggests that they could turn the manse off and find out what happens when they go to Elsewhere unprotected. A-Dom gets a look.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We are not doing that.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I didn’t say we were going to go to elsewhere unprotected which would probably kill all the mortals...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: But you were thinking about it.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You just think the worst about us. They are going to kill all the mortals! I better lecture them and nag!</p><p></p><p>The finer points of A-Dom vs Tiger and their ways of killing mortals is discussed in relation to how Jade’s Luck deals with them. Voodoo thinks A-Dom is being judged rather harshly.</p><p></p><p>The group finds out that when a tribe gets wiped out, the minimum size of each village is increased. The group then starts discussing Yew, and the practice of using Demons vs undead as servants.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well Undead take orders better.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Undead use to be human. You never use to be human right?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He’s part of a Yozi. Which means he’s part of an idea.</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard there Boss.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I wonder if there are any sneezing demons out there...</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You keep doing what your doing. We are going to visit the other villages.</p><p></p><p>They find out a little about the other villages: Oak Castle which believes this to be a test of faith. They don’t want to be sacrificed, they want to kill everyone. The other village is Big Well. They believe they are part of a giant experiment, and the only way to stop being sent to elsewhere for most of a month is to kill off all the other tribes.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What Yew known for being compassionate?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Could you explain the concept of compassion to me?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Are you asking a non-time spirit about time?</p><p></p><p>The circle then goes to Oak Castle, which looks like a wooden fortified city. They clearly are thinking defensively. The party also realizes that the only weapons they have seen is ceremonial daggers. Nobody has spears or rocks tied to sticks. The group decides it would be a good idea to not introduce weapons to them.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hello! We are Solars! We are here check up on things.</p><p></p><p>The village had already had it’s sacrifice, but they were happy to show them the grave. They also said they just finished their 8 hour ceremony.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wow, 8 hours? You win.</p><p></p><p>Villagers: You will wipe out all the other villages for us?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No... Yew?</p><p></p><p>Villagers: You! Personally!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oh, nevermind. So does the name Wretch of Winter, do anything for ya?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Do you have an Algar here?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I think we got him. What do you do after the sacrifice?</p><p></p><p>Villagers: We have an 8 hour ceremony. Then we have a nap. Then we have another ceremony until the great blue sky comes. Sometimes we whip ourselves. Then we pray for the 27 days, for the sun to shine his radiance down upon us. We think It’s the other villages. They do not have enough faith.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) So..</p><p></p><p>A-Dom<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) When did you learn Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A while ago.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Son of a bitch...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) I’ve been taking care of your children.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Oh yea...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A useful thing to say is that we are conducting an audit of the rules and are not changing any of the rules.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We are evaluating things, what you are doing, how you live, what you do to worship the sun specifically.</p><p></p><p>There is then a long discussion about if self whipping should come before or after a nap. There is then a long discussion about the devout followers trying to get the Solars involved in their version of religious ceremonies, with the Solars not wanting to participate.</p><p> </p><p>The next 8 hour ceremony starts. The worshipers do a lot of begging the Unconquered Sun to not abandon them for the next 27 days of misery and darkness without him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We really should just kill them. So they won’t have to suffer like this.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No killing the worshipers of the Unconquered Sun. I’m considering a refugee program at this point.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What if It’s a Mass sacrifice? Wouldn’t that be like butter for the Un...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No, no, no. No mass slaughter, no butter.</p><p></p><p>The group argues about ending the game. The group discusses if the people have souls or not. A-Dom thinks the worshipers are really miserable. Tiger backs up the mass slaughter idea. A-Dom realizes that maybe he could use the different villages to settle 5 new islands...</p><p></p><p>The Solars walk away from the 8 hour service after twenty minutes of watching.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We shale return! Keep worshiping! Go... You!</p><p></p><p>Tiger mumbles a plan that makes everyone laugh their evil laugh.</p><p></p><p>The circle then moves onto the village of Big Well. They were doing their sacrifice at sundown. Jade’s Luck noticed that the person who was about to be sacrificed did not belong to the village. The victim was clearly from a different village, probably the demon worshipers.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I can’t argue with the smart ones.</p><p></p><p>Priest: Oh Unconquered Sun! We sacrifice this evil-doer onto you to bring favor unto our village. *stab, dig, dig, dig* No that’s the liver *dig* Yay the heart!</p><p></p><p>The Solars pop their caste marks and walk into town.</p><p></p><p>Priest: The Great ones have returned! (To the Solars) Is the game over yet?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How did you realize you were playing a game?</p><p></p><p>Priest: We are the smart ones. We are smarter then all of the other villages. Do we get to rule the world now?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: At best you get to rule the island. (All the villagers look confused.) There is a world outside the island you know... (gasp from crowd) Really, It’s true.</p><p></p><p>Priest: But we die if we go off the island!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Really, is that what happens?</p><p></p><p>Priest: Well you can go off on Sunday for a little bit. But if you are off when the shield forms you die.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So if you are off when the island goes away you die?</p><p></p><p>Priest: Yes! Every time someone has tried to stay off the island in a boat, when we return, we find them dead in the boat.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: That could be because... you know... they didn’t have water for 27 days.</p><p></p><p>Priest: We aren’t magical doctors. We don't know what killed them.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Theoretically speaking... we are conducting an audit, we are evaluating. If you could leave the island and go to a different island where there is sunshine all the time, how would you feel about it?</p><p></p><p>Priest: We don’t want to die! Take all the other villages off our island!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You won’t die if we take you off.</p><p></p><p>Priest: We would need proof first. Take a few villages off the island first. Then bring some of them back alive a month or two later.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We are evaluating...</p><p></p><p>Priest: We require proof first. We suggest the demon worshiping nutjobs to perform your experiments on.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So tell us about life in your village!</p><p></p><p>Priest: Pretty good. We do our prayers. Plot how to win. Try to murder someone from another village every week and frame it on a different village.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Have you tried to form alliances with other villages?</p><p></p><p>Priest: We’ve tried but they are all nutjobs. Can’t be trusted. Hence the lies and misdirection.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Randomly assigning blame...</p><p></p><p>Priest: We’ve been pitting them against each other.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: You should probably pit the majority of them against one.</p><p></p><p>Priest: OOOoooo...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (annoyed voice) A-Dom</p><p></p><p>Priest: It’s ok! Solars are allowed to break the rules.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m just pushing things forward. Does it really matter how things end?</p><p></p><p>There is a discussion of the idea that they won’t be changing the rules until they know what’s going on.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (T) While these seem to be the least annoying... we aren’t in the position to be picky. We should try to get as many of them as possible off this island. So encouraging them, or giving them hints is a really bad idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (T) I will not give anymore hints. I can’t retract that hint. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well you guys are doing pretty good. I hope you win soon.</p><p></p><p>Priest: I hope you are not pandering to us.</p><p></p><p>There is a lot of double talk about if they were really playing a game, if the Solars are lying, and if the Solars can read their minds, then there would make the levels of double-talk and misdirection really complicated.</p><p></p><p>Priest: (looking at Tiger) Why does that one not talk?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He usually just kills people.</p><p></p><p>Priest: (To Tiger) You go visit the other villages. They all need your services.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He rarely kills the way others want him to. Best not to talk to him at all. We won’t be killing anyone for you.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck starts suggesting that A-Dom sleep with some women. When the villagers find out his children may be magically powerful, they line up all their child bearing women.</p><p></p><p>At midnight (A-Dom is still busy), Jade’s Luck and Tiger see a big blue sphere form around the island. It’s all blue and sparkly. Jade’s Luck asks Tiger to look for the manse. Tiger can see power lines going from the Manse (in the north) to each monolith. He also sees the dome is made out of pure magic, so it looks pretty much like what his normal eyes see.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I wonder when A-Dom will be done.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (Yelling) Bark like a sheep! (A-Dom comes stumbling out a few minutes later) We find the Manse yet? (Tiger does a broad wave) Excelent... It’s somewhere between Jade’s Luck and Tiger... (A-Dom starts lifting up rocks to look under them) So you want to lead the way.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-Dom go zooming across the island. It still takes several hours to make it to the manse. On the way there they stop to see the demons. They find Baharenunu sleeping at a desk.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hey wake up!</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: yea?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Do they have souls?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Maybe.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Don’t Maibee me, this is important.</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: They don’t when they are created. They do when the paperwork gets filed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Go to heaven once in a while, do paperwork.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Can you put these names on your list?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: (Very happy) Absolutely! (Jade's Luck hands over the list)</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Son of a bitch... (Baharenunu starts giggling) Why are you giggling?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Was I giggling?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom & Tiger: YES!</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Umm... no reason.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Are you allowed to lie to us?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: He’s not lying... he’s just omits things.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Lets take the names back from captain pin cushion. (Jade's Luck takes the list back)</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: They really would have souls... perfectly good ones.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: And?!?</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: And violate my contract by your order and I’d be free.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (starts laughing): Ok you are not allowed to violate your contract, even by direct order.</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: But you can directly order me to ignore that order. I mean I can put a whole lot of people on one list for you. Only costs you the freedom of one demon.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: One day when we don’t need you anymore, we might kill you.</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: Thanks.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How long does that usually take? The whole process.</p><p></p><p>Baharenunu: I’m not good with time... a couple of years. They live longer then normal humans. So usually before they die.</p><p></p><p>The Circle runs off to find the Manse. They get to where Tiger saw the essence lines come from. But they didn’t find the manse. Tiger came to realize that the manse was probably overgrown, due to lack of use.</p><p></p><p>Tiger points at the ground and makes a sweeping motion. Thankfully A-Dom comments on it.</p><p></p><p>Liz: The recorder can not pick up pantomime.</p><p></p><p>Paul: You get to guess what Dan did based on the reaction of everyone else.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom starts digging away the dirt and vegetation, carefully. About 20 ft down, he finds a big slab of finished wood. A-Dom digs around the perimeter (he is using a lot of charms, so there is a giant glowing shark digging in the jungle). He determents it is the top step of a ziggurat like structure.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I hope all the tribes don’t go to war because the ‘sign of the glowing shark as was foretold!’</p><p></p><p>Liz: Stop giving Paul ideas.</p><p></p><p>A couple villagers (who only speak forest speak) show up to watch the giant glowing shark. A-Dom scares them away. Jade’s Luck starts clear cutting jungle around where A-Dom is working with Cascade of cutting terror. A-Dom piles all the dirt up in a wall like pile all the way around where they are working.</p><p></p><p>They dig to the bottom of the Manse. At the bottom there is nothing but doors. The building is a pentagon, with 20 doorways on each side. So they pick a doorway (the 80th doorway) and go in. They follow a long tunnel, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, and the feeling that the walls are just thin wooden screens.</p><p></p><p>They reach a room with a small elephant statue.</p><p></p><p>Elephant: Hello</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s weird.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: No It’s not. We talk to statuary all the time and it frequently answers us.</p><p></p><p>Elephant: Talking to a statue that doesn’t talk back, that’s just weird.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m A-Dom, who are you.</p><p></p><p>Elephant: Imastatue.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ah a tribal name. What do you do here?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Did you decide a winner?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: If you could explain the tunnels...</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: You see there are tunnels in each village based on which villages are left in the game.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: How do we ascertain which tunnel goes with which tunnel.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I’ve been told It’s self evident.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Who told you this and how may I hurt them?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I suppose you could find his current incarnation and hurt him a great deal. He is a Zenith.</p><p></p><p>There is a long discussion about A-Dom, and how he is circlecentric (which is a new word according to A-dom).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m so confused.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So each tunnel leads to someone else.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: No, each tunnel represents a village and a level of success. You just told me tribe #4 is doing very well.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What do you do with these numbers?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I evaluate them.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How do you communicate with the demons?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I yell really loud. They think I’m really really big.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: How do you do that underground?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: (Yelling so loud everyone goes deaf) Situation normal! Carry on!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So where is the important part of this manse? Where is your hearthstone?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Very forward of you. I don’t even know if I like you yet.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well you aren’t going to like me, so I’m out of the running. So It’s one of them.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Excellent, saves me time.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (turns to Tiger) I’m going to DIE here.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I’ve never seen that happen. May I watch?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Yes while I stop breathing, speaking and eating, I may die in a thousand years.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: A few thousand years? Is that long? I don’t know I’m not good with time.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m not good with time ether...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yes you are!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No I’m not. I’m a statue now! I just need to figure out some way to stick my feet into the floor then we will stand here and evaluate numbers.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: I like him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What happens when the game is over?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Someone wins. Some solar is owed a lot of money.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What if they all join hands and become a community.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: There are rules against that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: But we are Solars.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: There are core rules you are not allowed to break and situational rules that can be changed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Is there a rulebook?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: How do we not break the rules?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: You can’t break the rules. You made them that way. You are very inventive.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No I am not.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yew as in?...</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: No, You, not Yew. Who was involved in the bet may I know?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Silent Wisdom, Markus the mad... and some other ones. Not everyone introduced themselves. Whoever wins this, gets to compete against the Lunars. The winners get to colonize the West.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: The West is already colonized.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: No, MORE West.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: They don’t want to go more West. It’s all wyld.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: That’s why you make it not wyld, then you put them there. Because they are the best of the best. Then you put them there. Then you move even further West. And hence creation expands.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Can we make the west go east?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: These people make the west go west.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I want to make the smart people win.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Can we give the smart ones good advice, and let them win.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Only if It’s not agaist the rules that you can’t break.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I need to give the paranoid ones the opposite adivce to what I want them to do.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: So you are Markus the mad then? You need about 8 more levels of complications. Or you can just wait here until the experiment ends.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What happens if we take them off the island?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: They would all die.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: How?</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Old age, disease, or accident probably. They are immune to disease as long as they drink the water.</p><p></p><p>The group starts discussing how the end of the contest works. They find out that when one village wins, all involved Solars will be alerted, so they can pay off their bets. They also found out the bets are not sitting in trust, as all Solars are fantastically wealthy (in real creation wealth). So the bets are primarily in artifacts and nations (because that is what Solars bet with).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So we should just make sure nobody ever wins.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: What happens if you win? Wouldn’t that be good?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Bad things will happen. Bad things always happen. Daily, hourly, every minute. I’m having a <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 conversation with you.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: Really? I didn’t realize I was so horrible.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck: You're upsetting him!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He doesn’t have emotions.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue: (Starting to cry) I don’t have emotions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700764, member: 9758"] [b]Session 74, Continued[/b] The group decides it is best to find out EVERYTHING about the island before changing any of the rules. A-Dom then has the Voodoo doll send someone to the Demon-worshiping village. They also find out the demons can only kill off people, if the population grows to the point where the island can’t sustain all the people. Voodoo suggests that they could turn the manse off and find out what happens when they go to Elsewhere unprotected. A-Dom gets a look. Jade’s Luck: We are not doing that. A-Dom: I didn’t say we were going to go to elsewhere unprotected which would probably kill all the mortals... Jade’s Luck: But you were thinking about it. Tiger: You just think the worst about us. They are going to kill all the mortals! I better lecture them and nag! The finer points of A-Dom vs Tiger and their ways of killing mortals is discussed in relation to how Jade’s Luck deals with them. Voodoo thinks A-Dom is being judged rather harshly. The group finds out that when a tribe gets wiped out, the minimum size of each village is increased. The group then starts discussing Yew, and the practice of using Demons vs undead as servants. A-Dom: Well Undead take orders better. Jade’s Luck: Undead use to be human. You never use to be human right? A-Dom: He’s part of a Yozi. Which means he’s part of an idea. Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard there Boss. A-Dom: I wonder if there are any sneezing demons out there... Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard. A-Dom: You keep doing what your doing. We are going to visit the other villages. They find out a little about the other villages: Oak Castle which believes this to be a test of faith. They don’t want to be sacrificed, they want to kill everyone. The other village is Big Well. They believe they are part of a giant experiment, and the only way to stop being sent to elsewhere for most of a month is to kill off all the other tribes. A-Dom: What Yew known for being compassionate? Baharenunu: Could you explain the concept of compassion to me? Jade’s Luck: Are you asking a non-time spirit about time? The circle then goes to Oak Castle, which looks like a wooden fortified city. They clearly are thinking defensively. The party also realizes that the only weapons they have seen is ceremonial daggers. Nobody has spears or rocks tied to sticks. The group decides it would be a good idea to not introduce weapons to them. A-Dom: Hello! We are Solars! We are here check up on things. The village had already had it’s sacrifice, but they were happy to show them the grave. They also said they just finished their 8 hour ceremony. A-Dom: Wow, 8 hours? You win. Villagers: You will wipe out all the other villages for us? A-Dom: No... Yew? Villagers: You! Personally! A-Dom: Oh, nevermind. So does the name Wretch of Winter, do anything for ya? Tiger: Do you have an Algar here? Jade’s Luck: I think we got him. What do you do after the sacrifice? Villagers: We have an 8 hour ceremony. Then we have a nap. Then we have another ceremony until the great blue sky comes. Sometimes we whip ourselves. Then we pray for the 27 days, for the sun to shine his radiance down upon us. We think It’s the other villages. They do not have enough faith. Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) So.. A-Dom:(in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) When did you learn Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck? Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A while ago. A-Dom (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Son of a bitch... Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) I’ve been taking care of your children. A-Dom: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Oh yea... Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A useful thing to say is that we are conducting an audit of the rules and are not changing any of the rules. A-Dom: We are evaluating things, what you are doing, how you live, what you do to worship the sun specifically. There is then a long discussion about if self whipping should come before or after a nap. There is then a long discussion about the devout followers trying to get the Solars involved in their version of religious ceremonies, with the Solars not wanting to participate. The next 8 hour ceremony starts. The worshipers do a lot of begging the Unconquered Sun to not abandon them for the next 27 days of misery and darkness without him. A-Dom: We really should just kill them. So they won’t have to suffer like this. Jade’s Luck: No killing the worshipers of the Unconquered Sun. I’m considering a refugee program at this point. A-Dom: What if It’s a Mass sacrifice? Wouldn’t that be like butter for the Un... Jade’s Luck: No, no, no. No mass slaughter, no butter. The group argues about ending the game. The group discusses if the people have souls or not. A-Dom thinks the worshipers are really miserable. Tiger backs up the mass slaughter idea. A-Dom realizes that maybe he could use the different villages to settle 5 new islands... The Solars walk away from the 8 hour service after twenty minutes of watching. A-Dom: We shale return! Keep worshiping! Go... You! Tiger mumbles a plan that makes everyone laugh their evil laugh. The circle then moves onto the village of Big Well. They were doing their sacrifice at sundown. Jade’s Luck noticed that the person who was about to be sacrificed did not belong to the village. The victim was clearly from a different village, probably the demon worshipers. Jade’s Luck: I can’t argue with the smart ones. Priest: Oh Unconquered Sun! We sacrifice this evil-doer onto you to bring favor unto our village. *stab, dig, dig, dig* No that’s the liver *dig* Yay the heart! The Solars pop their caste marks and walk into town. Priest: The Great ones have returned! (To the Solars) Is the game over yet? A-Dom: How did you realize you were playing a game? Priest: We are the smart ones. We are smarter then all of the other villages. Do we get to rule the world now? A-Dom: At best you get to rule the island. (All the villagers look confused.) There is a world outside the island you know... (gasp from crowd) Really, It’s true. Priest: But we die if we go off the island! A-Dom: Really, is that what happens? Priest: Well you can go off on Sunday for a little bit. But if you are off when the shield forms you die. Jade’s Luck: So if you are off when the island goes away you die? Priest: Yes! Every time someone has tried to stay off the island in a boat, when we return, we find them dead in the boat. Jade’s Luck: That could be because... you know... they didn’t have water for 27 days. Priest: We aren’t magical doctors. We don't know what killed them. Jade’s Luck: Theoretically speaking... we are conducting an audit, we are evaluating. If you could leave the island and go to a different island where there is sunshine all the time, how would you feel about it? Priest: We don’t want to die! Take all the other villages off our island! A-Dom: You won’t die if we take you off. Priest: We would need proof first. Take a few villages off the island first. Then bring some of them back alive a month or two later. Jade’s Luck: We are evaluating... Priest: We require proof first. We suggest the demon worshiping nutjobs to perform your experiments on. Jade’s Luck: So tell us about life in your village! Priest: Pretty good. We do our prayers. Plot how to win. Try to murder someone from another village every week and frame it on a different village. A-Dom: Have you tried to form alliances with other villages? Priest: We’ve tried but they are all nutjobs. Can’t be trusted. Hence the lies and misdirection. A-Dom: Randomly assigning blame... Priest: We’ve been pitting them against each other. A-Dom: You should probably pit the majority of them against one. Priest: OOOoooo... Jade’s Luck: (annoyed voice) A-Dom Priest: It’s ok! Solars are allowed to break the rules. A-Dom: I’m just pushing things forward. Does it really matter how things end? There is a discussion of the idea that they won’t be changing the rules until they know what’s going on. Jade’s Luck: (T) While these seem to be the least annoying... we aren’t in the position to be picky. We should try to get as many of them as possible off this island. So encouraging them, or giving them hints is a really bad idea. A-Dom: (T) I will not give anymore hints. I can’t retract that hint. A-Dom: Well you guys are doing pretty good. I hope you win soon. Priest: I hope you are not pandering to us. There is a lot of double talk about if they were really playing a game, if the Solars are lying, and if the Solars can read their minds, then there would make the levels of double-talk and misdirection really complicated. Priest: (looking at Tiger) Why does that one not talk? A-Dom: He usually just kills people. Priest: (To Tiger) You go visit the other villages. They all need your services. A-Dom: He rarely kills the way others want him to. Best not to talk to him at all. We won’t be killing anyone for you. Jade’s Luck starts suggesting that A-Dom sleep with some women. When the villagers find out his children may be magically powerful, they line up all their child bearing women. At midnight (A-Dom is still busy), Jade’s Luck and Tiger see a big blue sphere form around the island. It’s all blue and sparkly. Jade’s Luck asks Tiger to look for the manse. Tiger can see power lines going from the Manse (in the north) to each monolith. He also sees the dome is made out of pure magic, so it looks pretty much like what his normal eyes see. Jade’s Luck: I wonder when A-Dom will be done. A-Dom: (Yelling) Bark like a sheep! (A-Dom comes stumbling out a few minutes later) We find the Manse yet? (Tiger does a broad wave) Excelent... It’s somewhere between Jade’s Luck and Tiger... (A-Dom starts lifting up rocks to look under them) So you want to lead the way. Tiger and A-Dom go zooming across the island. It still takes several hours to make it to the manse. On the way there they stop to see the demons. They find Baharenunu sleeping at a desk. A-Dom: Hey wake up! Baharenunu: yea? A-Dom: Do they have souls? Baharenunu: Maybe. A-Dom: Don’t Maibee me, this is important. Baharenunu: They don’t when they are created. They do when the paperwork gets filed. A-Dom: How? Baharenunu: Go to heaven once in a while, do paperwork. Jade’s Luck: Can you put these names on your list? Baharenunu: (Very happy) Absolutely! (Jade's Luck hands over the list) A-Dom: Son of a bitch... (Baharenunu starts giggling) Why are you giggling? Baharenunu: Was I giggling? A-Dom & Tiger: YES! Baharenunu: Umm... no reason. A-Dom: Are you allowed to lie to us? Jade’s Luck: He’s not lying... he’s just omits things. A-Dom: Lets take the names back from captain pin cushion. (Jade's Luck takes the list back) Baharenunu: They really would have souls... perfectly good ones. Jade’s Luck: And?!? Baharenunu: And violate my contract by your order and I’d be free. A-Dom (starts laughing): Ok you are not allowed to violate your contract, even by direct order. Baharenunu: But you can directly order me to ignore that order. I mean I can put a whole lot of people on one list for you. Only costs you the freedom of one demon. A-Dom: One day when we don’t need you anymore, we might kill you. Baharenunu: Thanks. A-Dom: How long does that usually take? The whole process. Baharenunu: I’m not good with time... a couple of years. They live longer then normal humans. So usually before they die. The Circle runs off to find the Manse. They get to where Tiger saw the essence lines come from. But they didn’t find the manse. Tiger came to realize that the manse was probably overgrown, due to lack of use. Tiger points at the ground and makes a sweeping motion. Thankfully A-Dom comments on it. Liz: The recorder can not pick up pantomime. Paul: You get to guess what Dan did based on the reaction of everyone else. A-Dom starts digging away the dirt and vegetation, carefully. About 20 ft down, he finds a big slab of finished wood. A-Dom digs around the perimeter (he is using a lot of charms, so there is a giant glowing shark digging in the jungle). He determents it is the top step of a ziggurat like structure. A-Dom: I hope all the tribes don’t go to war because the ‘sign of the glowing shark as was foretold!’ Liz: Stop giving Paul ideas. A couple villagers (who only speak forest speak) show up to watch the giant glowing shark. A-Dom scares them away. Jade’s Luck starts clear cutting jungle around where A-Dom is working with Cascade of cutting terror. A-Dom piles all the dirt up in a wall like pile all the way around where they are working. They dig to the bottom of the Manse. At the bottom there is nothing but doors. The building is a pentagon, with 20 doorways on each side. So they pick a doorway (the 80th doorway) and go in. They follow a long tunnel, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, and the feeling that the walls are just thin wooden screens. They reach a room with a small elephant statue. Elephant: Hello A-Dom: That’s weird. Jade’s Luck: No It’s not. We talk to statuary all the time and it frequently answers us. Elephant: Talking to a statue that doesn’t talk back, that’s just weird. A-Dom: I’m A-Dom, who are you. Elephant: Imastatue. A-Dom: Ah a tribal name. What do you do here? Imastatue: Did you decide a winner? Jade’s Luck: If you could explain the tunnels... Imastatue: You see there are tunnels in each village based on which villages are left in the game. Jade’s Luck: How do we ascertain which tunnel goes with which tunnel. Imastatue: I’ve been told It’s self evident. A-Dom: Who told you this and how may I hurt them? Imastatue: I suppose you could find his current incarnation and hurt him a great deal. He is a Zenith. There is a long discussion about A-Dom, and how he is circlecentric (which is a new word according to A-dom). A-Dom: I’m so confused. Jade’s Luck: So each tunnel leads to someone else. Imastatue: No, each tunnel represents a village and a level of success. You just told me tribe #4 is doing very well. A-Dom: What do you do with these numbers? Imastatue: I evaluate them. A-Dom: How do you communicate with the demons? Imastatue: I yell really loud. They think I’m really really big. A-Dom: How do you do that underground? Imastatue: (Yelling so loud everyone goes deaf) Situation normal! Carry on! A-Dom: So where is the important part of this manse? Where is your hearthstone? Imastatue: Very forward of you. I don’t even know if I like you yet. A-Dom: Well you aren’t going to like me, so I’m out of the running. So It’s one of them. Imastatue: Excellent, saves me time. A-Dom: (turns to Tiger) I’m going to DIE here. Imastatue: I’ve never seen that happen. May I watch? A-Dom: Yes while I stop breathing, speaking and eating, I may die in a thousand years. Imastatue: A few thousand years? Is that long? I don’t know I’m not good with time. A-Dom: I’m not good with time ether... Jade’s Luck: Yes you are! A-Dom: No I’m not. I’m a statue now! I just need to figure out some way to stick my feet into the floor then we will stand here and evaluate numbers. Imastatue: I like him. A-Dom: What happens when the game is over? Imastatue: Someone wins. Some solar is owed a lot of money. A-Dom: What if they all join hands and become a community. Imastatue: There are rules against that. Jade’s Luck: But we are Solars. Imastatue: There are core rules you are not allowed to break and situational rules that can be changed. A-Dom: Is there a rulebook? Jade’s Luck: How do we not break the rules? Imastatue: You can’t break the rules. You made them that way. You are very inventive. A-Dom: No I am not. Jade’s Luck: Yew as in?... A-Dom: No, You, not Yew. Who was involved in the bet may I know? Imastatue: Silent Wisdom, Markus the mad... and some other ones. Not everyone introduced themselves. Whoever wins this, gets to compete against the Lunars. The winners get to colonize the West. A-Dom: The West is already colonized. Imastatue: No, MORE West. Jade’s Luck: They don’t want to go more West. It’s all wyld. Imastatue: That’s why you make it not wyld, then you put them there. Because they are the best of the best. Then you put them there. Then you move even further West. And hence creation expands. A-Dom: Can we make the west go east? Imastatue: These people make the west go west. Jade’s Luck: I want to make the smart people win. A-Dom: Can we give the smart ones good advice, and let them win. Imastatue: Only if It’s not agaist the rules that you can’t break. A-Dom: I need to give the paranoid ones the opposite adivce to what I want them to do. Imastatue: So you are Markus the mad then? You need about 8 more levels of complications. Or you can just wait here until the experiment ends. Jade’s Luck: What happens if we take them off the island? Imastatue: They would all die. Jade’s Luck: How? Imastatue: Old age, disease, or accident probably. They are immune to disease as long as they drink the water. The group starts discussing how the end of the contest works. They find out that when one village wins, all involved Solars will be alerted, so they can pay off their bets. They also found out the bets are not sitting in trust, as all Solars are fantastically wealthy (in real creation wealth). So the bets are primarily in artifacts and nations (because that is what Solars bet with). A-Dom: So we should just make sure nobody ever wins. Imastatue: What happens if you win? Wouldn’t that be good? A-Dom: Bad things will happen. Bad things always happen. Daily, hourly, every minute. I’m having a :):):):)ing conversation with you. Imastatue: Really? I didn’t realize I was so horrible. Jade's Luck: You're upsetting him! A-Dom: He doesn’t have emotions. Imastatue: (Starting to cry) I don’t have emotions. [/QUOTE]
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