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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700771" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 75 - You Can Do What You Want With It</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 75</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 09/1/08</em></p><p></p><p><strong> You Can Do What You Want With It</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: What I Really Want</strong></p><p> <strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>The last thing Gareth remembered was standing on the deck of the <em><strong>Voice of Reason</strong></em> when a multicolored tongue lashed out. Then he heard A-dom's voice and the sound of weeping.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You have NO emotions!</p><p></p><p>Then Gareth was standing in a stone room with Jade's Luck, A-dom, Tiger and a weeping elephant statue.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Uggh. That smelt like cherry flavored minicows.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck told A-dom to stop yelling at the poor statue and quickly filled Gareth in on where they were and what was going on. She explained that there were five villages on sixth day island and it was some kind of contest between them. </p><p></p><p>Gareth asked what had happened to his boat. A-dom said he had put it between two trees, because they didn't want the anchor chain being chopped off by the dome and having it sail aimlessly for 27 days. </p><p></p><p>Jade's luck continued, saying they were shaky on the rules, since the demons enforcing them were fairly tight lipped. There was lots of talk about invalidating the bet by doing something wrong, thus releasing the demons to create havoc. The group wondered just who the bet was between and who was responsible for each village. They mentioned something about there being a sixth village, but it was never described. In her descriptions of the villages, she tried to play up the paranoid village who knew this was a bet of some sort. She made sure to emphasize that these were the best choice of the lot. A-dom made a comment about Markus being responsible for them knowing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Gareth let the others knew what he remembered. They all felt it was much better that they were messing with a bet between other Circles instead of a bet between each other. For some reason they really wanted to end the bet prematurely, but wouldn't say why. A-dom's preferred method for ending the bet seemed to be mass slaughter while Jade's Luck talked about having one village envelope the others by convincing the others to join theirs. The elephant was asked about how the Circle could just end the bet. The elephant said that they'd need to other Solars involved in the bet to do so.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck also spoke of carting off villages of people to other parts of the West for reasons unexplained. She then said that the villages had wells with magical water that suppressed aging and disease or something like that. She wanted to make sure that, if they sent villages off elsewhere, they wouldn't have diseases come out of remission and kill them all. She asked Gareth to check everyone for diseases.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the group left the Manse to go head for the paranoid village. Once they got outside, Gareth saw they were in the bottom of a pit and the sky was an opaque dome. He turned around to see the Manse was a five-sided ziggurat with about twenty doors on each side. The other commented that it was different than when they entered the Manse and said something about only one door being the correct one. Gareth went around the Manse and inspected it thoroughly. He found that each side had a small inscription in Old Realm that designated a village and the doors varied in height slightly.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere along the way, Tiger noticed that he wasn't getting any Essence back from his hearthstone, since they were in Elsewhere. Jade's Luck noticed she wasn't getting any Essence back, but didn't realize why.</p><p></p><p>A-dom brought up a very good question before they went any further. He asked that, since they were on the Sixth Day island and the island was only present in Creation on the Sixth day of the month, was the Seventh Day Manse going to disappear the next day? The group headed in the tallest door on the paranoid village side of the Manse.</p><p></p><p>After a short, slightly trying conversation with the elephant statue, they found out that it didn't know if the Manse went anywhere, since he was inside, Gareth got around to asking about attuning to the Manse. He had learned that this discussion had been what lead A-dom to make the statue cry before, so he approached it differently. When the statue said he didn't know about the Sapphire Sentinels, Gareth described them as bringers of doom and destruction. He then explained that, in order to get them recalled, the Circle needed to be in control of five specific Manses and this was one of them. The statue quickly understood that they needed to attune to the Manse and said there had to be some kind of competition first.</p><p></p><p>Lots of questions were asked about what kind of competition and how many needed to participate. It boiled down to there had to be at least two people or it wasn't a competition. Otherwise, it could be anything. Lots of possibilities were discussed. The competition almost became a drinking contest without the use of charms, but Tiger ruined that by saying the competition was going to be a joke. The elephant didn't want his competition to be a joke, so nixed that idea. The group finally settled on every circle member bringing the elephant a gift and the elephant choosing the best one. No other rules or time limit were set.</p><p></p><p>A-dom immediately left. Tiger used his knowledge of occult to figure out a few things and left. Gareth used <strong>Know the Soul's Price</strong> to find out that the elephant wanted an immortal companion more than anything and then left. Jade's Luck sat around for the next day and talked to the elephant.</p><p></p><p>Tiger went and got a daisy, trampled it a few times. A-dom went and made a crude rock statue of an elephant (or possibly a slug with ears). Gareth went and built a perfect, beautiful elephant statue of the opposite sex that could nod and give imprinted responses, thanks to some reeds and air bladders.</p><p></p><p>Tiger brought his flower back. The elephant was not at all impressed, not that Tiger cared. A-dom brought his statue back. The elephant was slightly impressed. Gareth brought his statue back. The elephant thought it was nifty, but hadn't decided yet. Jade's Luck then left and walked around the island for three days, talking to spirits, trying to convince them to go talk to the elephant and keep him company. She eventually convinced the river spirit to go visit him if she could alter the course of the river. She convinced a water elemental to make the river flow uphill.</p><p></p><p>In the mean time, Gareth and Tiger had wandered off to go do whatever. Gareth had wanted to train for dealing with the Wyld, but there wasn't any Wyld inside the dome. A-dom sat inside the Manse, awaiting a verdict. When water started to flow into the Manse, A-dom asked if that was normal. The elephant had never seen water before and asked if it was dangerous. A-dom didn't give him a definitive answer and booked it out of the Manse, seriously worrying the elephant.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck eventually went into the Manse and found a panicky elephant. She explained that the water shouldn't harm anything, especially not him. She told him she had gotten the river spirit to come visit him so he'd have a friend. She said it would take a few days for the water to fill in enough for the river spirit to visit. He said it'd be a few days after that before he could decide.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck met up with the rest of the Circle and said it'd be a few days before the decision was made. No one else seemed to be happy with the now flooded Manse, though Tiger really didn't seem to care.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck reiterated her desire to show Gareth the other villages. He didn't really care about this bet and no one had explained to him why it was important that the bet be ended, but it was something to do. he sighed and said that they might as well visit the paranoids (Big Well) first.</p><p></p><p>The villagers were suitably paranoid and didn't trust the Circle. They especially didn't trust A-dom when he said he used to be Markus the Mad. They said he didn't look like Markus. When A-dom said he had died and reincarnated since then, they asked him how he died. he didn't initially remember, but then Tiger made a comment about him probably dying cause of an accident or a [limit break].</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A-dom then roughly explained what happened. The villagers found this amusing and started chanting.</p><p></p><p>Paranoid Villagers: Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye!</p><p></p><p>The Circle quickly figured out that that was what Ceri was named back then. A-dom didn't like this, so he started acting up. Jade's Luck convinced a few of the women of the village that A-dom would go away if they gave him muffins. The women of the village then set about a plan to lead A-dom away from the village using a trail of muffins.</p><p></p><p>A-dom noticed a muffin at the edge of the village with a little sign that said <strong>For Markus the Mad</strong>. He went over and ate the blueberry muffin. Then he noticed another muffin in the forest that also had a sign. He went over and ate the chocolate chip muffin. He kept up following this trail of muffins, eating as he went. About every third muffin had a sign in it. Eventually he got close to Oak Castle, the village of crazy religious nuts, and noticed a guy eating the last muffin.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Hey! You're eating my Muffin!</p><p></p><p>Guy: I di-- *SQUISH!*</p><p></p><p>A-dom didn't let the guy explain himself at all and smashed him into paste. He then started ranting at the people on the parapets about them owing him a muffin. The people of the village started praying to the Unconquered Sun because his representative was angry with them and increased their self-flagellation. A-dom went inside and berated them, demanding muffins. They prayed to the Unconquered Sun for muffin recipes. Even though A-dom knew how to bake muffins, he didn't tell them, since it sounded like too much work. He went on yelling at them.</p><p></p><p>Back at the paranoid village, Jade's Luck and Gareth were trying to convince the villagers that Gareth was a doctor and wanted to make sure they didn't have any diseases that would harm them when the contest ended. Jade's Luck wanted to cut herself and have Gareth heal it, but it was pointed out that these were a very paranoid group and they'd suspect that was a trick. Gareth asked if they had anyone in the village who had lost the use of one of their limbs or their eyesight. Mike the one-armed warrior was brought to Gareth. Gareth cause the arm to start regrowing. After a couple hours, they noticed this and decided Gareth was indeed a doctor, so they first guy let him inspect him for diseases.</p><p></p><p>Gareth used <strong>Flawless Diagnosis Technique</strong> to help diagnosis the guy, which was hard because all symptoms were suppressed. Gareth was sure he was sick with several diseases and proceeded to treat him using <strong>Contagion-Curing Touch</strong>. The next day, Gareth repeated diagnosing the guy with <strong>FDT</strong> and determined he had gotten rid of all of the diseases but one, the Great Contagion.</p><p></p><p>This led Gareth and Jade's Luck to discuss for a while what to do about this, since once the villagers were moved away from the wells, they'd likely all die from the disease. Also, since the Great Contagion was a partially magical disease, they could just keep catching it. Gareth said he could go through the island and, using a quarantine procedures, cure everyone on the island of it, but as soon as they met up with a carrier of the disease, they'd just get reinfected. Tiger mentioned reshaping the people using the Wyld to make them immune to the Great Contagion, like everyone else left in the world. They seemed to think that was a good idea.</p><p></p><p>While this was all going on, a Purple Demon wandered into town and ordered everyone to line up. The demon inspected the graves and noticed Mike's arm was regrowing. Mike pointed out Gareth to the demon. It commented that Gareth hadn't been there before and Jade's Luck confused it by agreeing and saying he just got there. The demon said Gareth would get to choose. Jade's Luck quickly explained that they sacrifice villagers on Sun Day (the sixth day is the only day of the month that they get to see the Sun). As a means of keeping the population up, they had a Purple Demon go around and make new villagers to replace the sacrificed.</p><p></p><p>Gareth went through the village and chose the two people who were already immune to the Great Contagion, who happened to be two women. The Purple Demon did its thing and made a girl. Gareth interviewed the women to make sure they were capable of raising the child and then convinced them that this was a special baby that would be able to survive better than anyone else in the outside world, when the time came.</p><p></p><p>While this was going on, A-dom was still ranting at the religious nuts. A Purple Demon came to the village, saying it was there to replace the sacrifices. A-dom told it to get to it and went back to yelling. The demon ended up choosing two men to make a child out of and handed the newborn to A-dom.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: What am I supposed to do with this? I don't want it!</p><p></p><p>Purple Demon: I don't care. You can do whatever you want to do with it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom then looked down at the squirming thing in his hands and shrugged. He then looked up and wondered what the dome was made of and if things could pass through it. Then he threw the newborn feet first at the side of the dome a good ways up. The newborn flew and hit the dome wall. The dome was like jello, allowing the newborn to pass halfway through it.</p><p></p><p>Across in Big Well, no one noticed.</p><p></p><p>The Purple Demon looked shocked at A-dom and told him he was a horrible person. it did think it was hilarious, though and moved on.</p><p></p><p>The newborn started to scream. A-dom didn't want to hear this, so he picked up a decent sized rock and threw it, trying to knock the baby through the rest of the way into Elsewhere. He was more or less accurate and the rock pushed the baby further into the dome, leaving only one hand sticking out. The rock was now stuck into the middle of the dome.</p><p></p><p>Back in the paranoid village, Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck heard a baby screaming, and then it stopped. Tiger heard the baby screaming and looked up to see a rock fly and hit a part of the dome. Looking at that part of the dome, he saw a tiny arm sticking out the dome, moving.</p><p></p><p>Tiger pointed this out to Jade's Luck, which she could then see. Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck convinced a few air spirits to bring her up to that part of the dome so she could get the baby out. She had to promise them they had a really windy day. They were told they could have one, so long as nothing/no one was harmed or damaged. They were allowed to mess with people wearing dresses, and were told by Gareth to especially mess with the guy wearing one.</p><p></p><p>They brought Jade's Luck up to the baby and she could see it in the dome. They instructed her not to touch the dome. It took her five hours to fully dislodge the baby as gently as possible. Three of those hours were spent listening to the baby wailing. She then brought the baby down to Gareth to check it out. Any injuries sustained were fixed by Gareth and he clothed it, since Jade's Luck had no clue what to do with the baby.</p><p></p><p>Gareth tried to foist the baby off on Big Well, but they wouldn't have it, because it belonged to the other village. Even attempts to describe it as a perfect spy, since it looked like it belonged in the other village failed. They were also freaked out by the baby already having some stubble. They said if Gareth could make one of their children look like it belonged in another village, it'd be a great spy. Jade's Luck's idea of getting other villages to join the paranoid one were squashed, since it seemed there were very specific rules about not being able to switch villages. When asked how they dealt with people who wanted to marry into another one, the answer was they were met with death. For demon-created children, the child belonged to the village it was created in. They found out just which village the child belonged to and headed that way.</p><p></p><p>When they got to Oak Castle, A-dom got chewed out big time by Jade's Luck and Gareth. he tried to claim he didn't do it, but the Circle were the only ones on the island capable of hurling a baby that high and three of them were accounted for when it happened. He then threw the village into mass despair by telling the villagers that the Unconquered Sun wasn't listening to them. Since he was a representative of the god, they felt what he said must be true and started wailing. Gareth and Jade's Luck quickly did their best to stop all of the horribly attempted suicides by telling them all that the Unconquered Sun heard them on Sun Day. Once they calmed down, he told them that the child was a special one and must be cared for. He told them it should receive the best parenting and shouldn't be flayed and could eat what it wanted and be allowed to stay up as late as it wanted. The child was foisted off on someone.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck told the villagers that A-dom wasn't to be listened to and should only be followed if another of the Circle agreed.</p><p></p><p>With there still being a few days before the Elephant was finished and the Manse now being flooded, the group wandered off to do whatever. Gareth went off to sleep in his boat and found it mostly inside the dome. A few feet of the prow were missing inside the dome. Gareth went and got A-dom to move it so he could fix it. When A-dom got there, They got into an argument about the missing part of the <strong><em>Voice of Reason</em></strong>. A-dom ended up getting disinvited from the ship. A-dom felt uneasy on the ship and slipped as he was leaving, but used <strong>Graceful Crane Stance</strong> to steady himself.</p><p></p><p>The Circle eventually met back up at the Manse after a few days to hear the Elephant's verdict. Looking at the small lake that was now around the Manse, there was grumbling about it now being uninhabitable to everyone but Jade's Luck. She really didn't care. Jade's Luck dove down and went inside. Tiger stated he really didn't care. A-dom noted that he hadn't seen Tiger's gift to the Elephant. Tiger said what it was and relayed that he had figured out a few things about the island and the Manse and didn't want it. Gareth and A-dom held their breath and swam in. Tiger stayed outside.</p><p></p><p>Inside, Gareth could see that his statue nodded in the water and realized the air bladders really wouldn't work in these conditions, if again. </p><p></p><p>Elephant declared Jade's Luck the winner of the competition. Gareth shrugged and swam up to get some air. He hadn't really card about the Manse, he was just presented with a competition. A-dom kicked his statue and it's head fell off. He then swam up to get air. Jade's Luck went off to attune to the Manse.</p><p></p><p>While she was inside, Tiger explained that, since they weren't getting Essence from their hearthstones while they were inside Elsewhere, he figured that 27 days of the month the hearthstone to this Manse would be useless. Jade's Luck eventually came out. She wasn't too worried about the hearthstone not being accessible 27 days of the month since she already didn't have enough hearthstone slots on her equipment for the ones she did have. She was tight-lipped about what the Hearthstone powers were. She turned herself green and said something about not needing to breath while in the Manse. She then complained about now being responsible for the all of the insane villagers on the island. She did comment that the spell putting the island in Elsewhere wasn't part of the Manse. Tiger postulated that the spell doing that was a Solar Circle Sorcery spell.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck did, however, seem to want more than ever to get the bet ended and appealed to Gareth to find out what the rules were. Gareth agreed to go find out from the demons what the rules were using <strong>Irresistible Questioning Technique</strong>. After all, he was bored and didn't want to invalidate anything. They hiked off to the demon encampment and walked in. They were greeted by a teddy bear demon whom Gareth was told was a relative of Maibee. Gareth said he'd use <strong>Judge's Ear Technique</strong> as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700771, member: 9758"] [b]Session 75 - You Can Do What You Want With It[/b] Session 75 [i]Synopsis of 09/1/08[/i] [b] You Can Do What You Want With It Subtitle: What I Really Want [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] The last thing Gareth remembered was standing on the deck of the [i][b]Voice of Reason[/b][/i][b][/b] when a multicolored tongue lashed out. Then he heard A-dom's voice and the sound of weeping. A-dom: You have NO emotions! Then Gareth was standing in a stone room with Jade's Luck, A-dom, Tiger and a weeping elephant statue. Gareth: Uggh. That smelt like cherry flavored minicows. Jade's Luck told A-dom to stop yelling at the poor statue and quickly filled Gareth in on where they were and what was going on. She explained that there were five villages on sixth day island and it was some kind of contest between them. Gareth asked what had happened to his boat. A-dom said he had put it between two trees, because they didn't want the anchor chain being chopped off by the dome and having it sail aimlessly for 27 days. Jade's luck continued, saying they were shaky on the rules, since the demons enforcing them were fairly tight lipped. There was lots of talk about invalidating the bet by doing something wrong, thus releasing the demons to create havoc. The group wondered just who the bet was between and who was responsible for each village. They mentioned something about there being a sixth village, but it was never described. In her descriptions of the villages, she tried to play up the paranoid village who knew this was a bet of some sort. She made sure to emphasize that these were the best choice of the lot. A-dom made a comment about Markus being responsible for them knowing. Gareth let the others knew what he remembered. They all felt it was much better that they were messing with a bet between other Circles instead of a bet between each other. For some reason they really wanted to end the bet prematurely, but wouldn't say why. A-dom's preferred method for ending the bet seemed to be mass slaughter while Jade's Luck talked about having one village envelope the others by convincing the others to join theirs. The elephant was asked about how the Circle could just end the bet. The elephant said that they'd need to other Solars involved in the bet to do so. Jade's Luck also spoke of carting off villages of people to other parts of the West for reasons unexplained. She then said that the villages had wells with magical water that suppressed aging and disease or something like that. She wanted to make sure that, if they sent villages off elsewhere, they wouldn't have diseases come out of remission and kill them all. She asked Gareth to check everyone for diseases. Eventually the group left the Manse to go head for the paranoid village. Once they got outside, Gareth saw they were in the bottom of a pit and the sky was an opaque dome. He turned around to see the Manse was a five-sided ziggurat with about twenty doors on each side. The other commented that it was different than when they entered the Manse and said something about only one door being the correct one. Gareth went around the Manse and inspected it thoroughly. He found that each side had a small inscription in Old Realm that designated a village and the doors varied in height slightly. Somewhere along the way, Tiger noticed that he wasn't getting any Essence back from his hearthstone, since they were in Elsewhere. Jade's Luck noticed she wasn't getting any Essence back, but didn't realize why. A-dom brought up a very good question before they went any further. He asked that, since they were on the Sixth Day island and the island was only present in Creation on the Sixth day of the month, was the Seventh Day Manse going to disappear the next day? The group headed in the tallest door on the paranoid village side of the Manse. After a short, slightly trying conversation with the elephant statue, they found out that it didn't know if the Manse went anywhere, since he was inside, Gareth got around to asking about attuning to the Manse. He had learned that this discussion had been what lead A-dom to make the statue cry before, so he approached it differently. When the statue said he didn't know about the Sapphire Sentinels, Gareth described them as bringers of doom and destruction. He then explained that, in order to get them recalled, the Circle needed to be in control of five specific Manses and this was one of them. The statue quickly understood that they needed to attune to the Manse and said there had to be some kind of competition first. Lots of questions were asked about what kind of competition and how many needed to participate. It boiled down to there had to be at least two people or it wasn't a competition. Otherwise, it could be anything. Lots of possibilities were discussed. The competition almost became a drinking contest without the use of charms, but Tiger ruined that by saying the competition was going to be a joke. The elephant didn't want his competition to be a joke, so nixed that idea. The group finally settled on every circle member bringing the elephant a gift and the elephant choosing the best one. No other rules or time limit were set. A-dom immediately left. Tiger used his knowledge of occult to figure out a few things and left. Gareth used [b]Know the Soul's Price[/b] to find out that the elephant wanted an immortal companion more than anything and then left. Jade's Luck sat around for the next day and talked to the elephant. Tiger went and got a daisy, trampled it a few times. A-dom went and made a crude rock statue of an elephant (or possibly a slug with ears). Gareth went and built a perfect, beautiful elephant statue of the opposite sex that could nod and give imprinted responses, thanks to some reeds and air bladders. Tiger brought his flower back. The elephant was not at all impressed, not that Tiger cared. A-dom brought his statue back. The elephant was slightly impressed. Gareth brought his statue back. The elephant thought it was nifty, but hadn't decided yet. Jade's Luck then left and walked around the island for three days, talking to spirits, trying to convince them to go talk to the elephant and keep him company. She eventually convinced the river spirit to go visit him if she could alter the course of the river. She convinced a water elemental to make the river flow uphill. In the mean time, Gareth and Tiger had wandered off to go do whatever. Gareth had wanted to train for dealing with the Wyld, but there wasn't any Wyld inside the dome. A-dom sat inside the Manse, awaiting a verdict. When water started to flow into the Manse, A-dom asked if that was normal. The elephant had never seen water before and asked if it was dangerous. A-dom didn't give him a definitive answer and booked it out of the Manse, seriously worrying the elephant. Jade's Luck eventually went into the Manse and found a panicky elephant. She explained that the water shouldn't harm anything, especially not him. She told him she had gotten the river spirit to come visit him so he'd have a friend. She said it would take a few days for the water to fill in enough for the river spirit to visit. He said it'd be a few days after that before he could decide. Jade's Luck met up with the rest of the Circle and said it'd be a few days before the decision was made. No one else seemed to be happy with the now flooded Manse, though Tiger really didn't seem to care. Jade's Luck reiterated her desire to show Gareth the other villages. He didn't really care about this bet and no one had explained to him why it was important that the bet be ended, but it was something to do. he sighed and said that they might as well visit the paranoids (Big Well) first. The villagers were suitably paranoid and didn't trust the Circle. They especially didn't trust A-dom when he said he used to be Markus the Mad. They said he didn't look like Markus. When A-dom said he had died and reincarnated since then, they asked him how he died. he didn't initially remember, but then Tiger made a comment about him probably dying cause of an accident or a [limit break]. A-dom then roughly explained what happened. The villagers found this amusing and started chanting. Paranoid Villagers: Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye! The Circle quickly figured out that that was what Ceri was named back then. A-dom didn't like this, so he started acting up. Jade's Luck convinced a few of the women of the village that A-dom would go away if they gave him muffins. The women of the village then set about a plan to lead A-dom away from the village using a trail of muffins. A-dom noticed a muffin at the edge of the village with a little sign that said [b]For Markus the Mad[/b]. He went over and ate the blueberry muffin. Then he noticed another muffin in the forest that also had a sign. He went over and ate the chocolate chip muffin. He kept up following this trail of muffins, eating as he went. About every third muffin had a sign in it. Eventually he got close to Oak Castle, the village of crazy religious nuts, and noticed a guy eating the last muffin. A-dom: Hey! You're eating my Muffin! Guy: I di-- *SQUISH!* A-dom didn't let the guy explain himself at all and smashed him into paste. He then started ranting at the people on the parapets about them owing him a muffin. The people of the village started praying to the Unconquered Sun because his representative was angry with them and increased their self-flagellation. A-dom went inside and berated them, demanding muffins. They prayed to the Unconquered Sun for muffin recipes. Even though A-dom knew how to bake muffins, he didn't tell them, since it sounded like too much work. He went on yelling at them. Back at the paranoid village, Jade's Luck and Gareth were trying to convince the villagers that Gareth was a doctor and wanted to make sure they didn't have any diseases that would harm them when the contest ended. Jade's Luck wanted to cut herself and have Gareth heal it, but it was pointed out that these were a very paranoid group and they'd suspect that was a trick. Gareth asked if they had anyone in the village who had lost the use of one of their limbs or their eyesight. Mike the one-armed warrior was brought to Gareth. Gareth cause the arm to start regrowing. After a couple hours, they noticed this and decided Gareth was indeed a doctor, so they first guy let him inspect him for diseases. Gareth used [b]Flawless Diagnosis Technique[/b] to help diagnosis the guy, which was hard because all symptoms were suppressed. Gareth was sure he was sick with several diseases and proceeded to treat him using [b]Contagion-Curing Touch[/b]. The next day, Gareth repeated diagnosing the guy with [b]FDT[/b] and determined he had gotten rid of all of the diseases but one, the Great Contagion. This led Gareth and Jade's Luck to discuss for a while what to do about this, since once the villagers were moved away from the wells, they'd likely all die from the disease. Also, since the Great Contagion was a partially magical disease, they could just keep catching it. Gareth said he could go through the island and, using a quarantine procedures, cure everyone on the island of it, but as soon as they met up with a carrier of the disease, they'd just get reinfected. Tiger mentioned reshaping the people using the Wyld to make them immune to the Great Contagion, like everyone else left in the world. They seemed to think that was a good idea. While this was all going on, a Purple Demon wandered into town and ordered everyone to line up. The demon inspected the graves and noticed Mike's arm was regrowing. Mike pointed out Gareth to the demon. It commented that Gareth hadn't been there before and Jade's Luck confused it by agreeing and saying he just got there. The demon said Gareth would get to choose. Jade's Luck quickly explained that they sacrifice villagers on Sun Day (the sixth day is the only day of the month that they get to see the Sun). As a means of keeping the population up, they had a Purple Demon go around and make new villagers to replace the sacrificed. Gareth went through the village and chose the two people who were already immune to the Great Contagion, who happened to be two women. The Purple Demon did its thing and made a girl. Gareth interviewed the women to make sure they were capable of raising the child and then convinced them that this was a special baby that would be able to survive better than anyone else in the outside world, when the time came. While this was going on, A-dom was still ranting at the religious nuts. A Purple Demon came to the village, saying it was there to replace the sacrifices. A-dom told it to get to it and went back to yelling. The demon ended up choosing two men to make a child out of and handed the newborn to A-dom. A-dom: What am I supposed to do with this? I don't want it! Purple Demon: I don't care. You can do whatever you want to do with it. A-dom then looked down at the squirming thing in his hands and shrugged. He then looked up and wondered what the dome was made of and if things could pass through it. Then he threw the newborn feet first at the side of the dome a good ways up. The newborn flew and hit the dome wall. The dome was like jello, allowing the newborn to pass halfway through it. Across in Big Well, no one noticed. The Purple Demon looked shocked at A-dom and told him he was a horrible person. it did think it was hilarious, though and moved on. The newborn started to scream. A-dom didn't want to hear this, so he picked up a decent sized rock and threw it, trying to knock the baby through the rest of the way into Elsewhere. He was more or less accurate and the rock pushed the baby further into the dome, leaving only one hand sticking out. The rock was now stuck into the middle of the dome. Back in the paranoid village, Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck heard a baby screaming, and then it stopped. Tiger heard the baby screaming and looked up to see a rock fly and hit a part of the dome. Looking at that part of the dome, he saw a tiny arm sticking out the dome, moving. Tiger pointed this out to Jade's Luck, which she could then see. Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck convinced a few air spirits to bring her up to that part of the dome so she could get the baby out. She had to promise them they had a really windy day. They were told they could have one, so long as nothing/no one was harmed or damaged. They were allowed to mess with people wearing dresses, and were told by Gareth to especially mess with the guy wearing one. They brought Jade's Luck up to the baby and she could see it in the dome. They instructed her not to touch the dome. It took her five hours to fully dislodge the baby as gently as possible. Three of those hours were spent listening to the baby wailing. She then brought the baby down to Gareth to check it out. Any injuries sustained were fixed by Gareth and he clothed it, since Jade's Luck had no clue what to do with the baby. Gareth tried to foist the baby off on Big Well, but they wouldn't have it, because it belonged to the other village. Even attempts to describe it as a perfect spy, since it looked like it belonged in the other village failed. They were also freaked out by the baby already having some stubble. They said if Gareth could make one of their children look like it belonged in another village, it'd be a great spy. Jade's Luck's idea of getting other villages to join the paranoid one were squashed, since it seemed there were very specific rules about not being able to switch villages. When asked how they dealt with people who wanted to marry into another one, the answer was they were met with death. For demon-created children, the child belonged to the village it was created in. They found out just which village the child belonged to and headed that way. When they got to Oak Castle, A-dom got chewed out big time by Jade's Luck and Gareth. he tried to claim he didn't do it, but the Circle were the only ones on the island capable of hurling a baby that high and three of them were accounted for when it happened. He then threw the village into mass despair by telling the villagers that the Unconquered Sun wasn't listening to them. Since he was a representative of the god, they felt what he said must be true and started wailing. Gareth and Jade's Luck quickly did their best to stop all of the horribly attempted suicides by telling them all that the Unconquered Sun heard them on Sun Day. Once they calmed down, he told them that the child was a special one and must be cared for. He told them it should receive the best parenting and shouldn't be flayed and could eat what it wanted and be allowed to stay up as late as it wanted. The child was foisted off on someone. Jade's Luck told the villagers that A-dom wasn't to be listened to and should only be followed if another of the Circle agreed. With there still being a few days before the Elephant was finished and the Manse now being flooded, the group wandered off to do whatever. Gareth went off to sleep in his boat and found it mostly inside the dome. A few feet of the prow were missing inside the dome. Gareth went and got A-dom to move it so he could fix it. When A-dom got there, They got into an argument about the missing part of the [b][i]Voice of Reason[/i][/b]. A-dom ended up getting disinvited from the ship. A-dom felt uneasy on the ship and slipped as he was leaving, but used [b]Graceful Crane Stance[/b] to steady himself. The Circle eventually met back up at the Manse after a few days to hear the Elephant's verdict. Looking at the small lake that was now around the Manse, there was grumbling about it now being uninhabitable to everyone but Jade's Luck. She really didn't care. Jade's Luck dove down and went inside. Tiger stated he really didn't care. A-dom noted that he hadn't seen Tiger's gift to the Elephant. Tiger said what it was and relayed that he had figured out a few things about the island and the Manse and didn't want it. Gareth and A-dom held their breath and swam in. Tiger stayed outside. Inside, Gareth could see that his statue nodded in the water and realized the air bladders really wouldn't work in these conditions, if again. Elephant declared Jade's Luck the winner of the competition. Gareth shrugged and swam up to get some air. He hadn't really card about the Manse, he was just presented with a competition. A-dom kicked his statue and it's head fell off. He then swam up to get air. Jade's Luck went off to attune to the Manse. While she was inside, Tiger explained that, since they weren't getting Essence from their hearthstones while they were inside Elsewhere, he figured that 27 days of the month the hearthstone to this Manse would be useless. Jade's Luck eventually came out. She wasn't too worried about the hearthstone not being accessible 27 days of the month since she already didn't have enough hearthstone slots on her equipment for the ones she did have. She was tight-lipped about what the Hearthstone powers were. She turned herself green and said something about not needing to breath while in the Manse. She then complained about now being responsible for the all of the insane villagers on the island. She did comment that the spell putting the island in Elsewhere wasn't part of the Manse. Tiger postulated that the spell doing that was a Solar Circle Sorcery spell. Jade's Luck did, however, seem to want more than ever to get the bet ended and appealed to Gareth to find out what the rules were. Gareth agreed to go find out from the demons what the rules were using [b]Irresistible Questioning Technique[/b]. After all, he was bored and didn't want to invalidate anything. They hiked off to the demon encampment and walked in. They were greeted by a teddy bear demon whom Gareth was told was a relative of Maibee. Gareth said he'd use [b]Judge's Ear Technique[/b] as well. [/QUOTE]
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