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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700806" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 78 - Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 78</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 10/13/08</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: Tiger Achieves a New Level in Apathy</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p>With the security demons all cleared up, Jade's Luck, Quicksilver Noon and Gareth spent some more time proselytizing before deciding they were done in Little Well for a while. Gareth commented about the dead demon smelling like burnt dog hair. Then he looked up and saw A-Dom had returned, slightly singed. Jade's Luck went about collecting all four of the dead demon's toes. When Quicksilver asked why, she explained a little about Opec and his desire for weird things in exchange for teaching sorcery. Jade's Luck pointed out some of the more 'interesting' items on Opec's list. This lead to a discussion of A-Dom's list.</p><p></p><p>With the fire and brimstone speeches done, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to cook a feast for the people. She failed to adequately explain her reasoning behind this, but he did anyway. A-Dom and Jade's Luck organized the celebration of the other tenant of the religion of the Unconquered Sun.</p><p></p><p>Later on, the Circle picked a spot a mile into the forest as a place to camp for the night. Gareth made huts. In the morning, they stood around for a while and once again discussed their list of demons to kill. They again quickly decided that the Neomah needed to die, but were less sure about Baus’turo and Chok'Thar, Demon Brain. A-Dom yelled for the Neomah to come meet them and the group marched towards the demon compound. Eventually, the group met up with the Neomah. Gareth looked at Tiger expectantly. He did nothing.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom and Quicksilver ordered the Neomah to turn around and close her eyes.</p><p></p><p>Gareth (whisper): Tiger, do your thing.</p><p></p><p>He did nothing. The Neomah was now clearly expecting something, so A-Dom asked Gareth to make a pie for the Neomah (to confuse her). While Gareth was making the pie, Tiger finally sprung into action and stabbed the Neomah with Ghost-Eating Technique. The Neomah was greviously wounded, but alive enough to pop back to Malfeas. When asked why he hadn't just started with the killing, he shrugged. Gareth now had a perfectly good bark and grass pie and no demon to give it to. A-Dom presented it to Quicksilver, who had a piece. He said it wasn't bad, but didn't need another piece.</p><p></p><p>The group then all marched to The Temple and set up camp a mile outside where they discussed for a while if they were going to keep Baus’turo and Chok'Thar. Jade's Luck went on about how she wanted to reeducate the people of The Temple. Gareth brought up that they really didn't want to invalidate the competition and weren't sure that reeducating the people of The Temple was permitted within the rules. She wanted to know why The Temple was different from Little Well, so she was reminded that they had gotten preapproval from the elephant for what they did in Little Well. He argued that, since they hadn't asked the elephant if reeducating the people of The Temple would invalidate the contest, they shouldn't mess with them yet. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver still thought that, since they were going to be removing Chok'Thar, they should put another band-aid on those followers to stop them from killing themselves. A-Dom brought up that the demons hadn't been an original part of the competition and suggested that, as long as they didn't try to change the villager's from their mission statement, they'd be safe. Quicksilver was under the mistaken impression that the Unconquered Sun didn't like human sacrifice. The group explained why he actually did. Quicksilver worked up an age and a procreation requirement for the villagers to fulfill before they could sacrifice themselves. That way, the Unconquered Sun still got his sacrifices and the world wasn't deprived of these fanatical, but misguided worshippers.</p><p></p><p>In the morning, Gareth decided he, Tiger and A-Dom should head off in search of Baus’turo while Jade's Luck and Quicksilver dealt with Chok'Thar. That would allow them to take care of the demons quicker. Jade's Luck asked for them to harvest toes, but no such agreement was made. Jade's Luck went with Quicksilver into the village, where he made a proclamation that he was going to give an important speech at sundown and all the villagers should attend. </p><p></p><p>When Gareth, Tiger and A-Dom arrived at the demon compound, they asked where Baus’turo was. The demon they talked to said it didn't know, because he was all magicy. A-Dom called out to Baus’turo and got a response. When he asked where he was, Baus’turo told him to look up. Up upon a roof was a purpley swirling mist. A-Dom ordered him to come down to the street and face them.</p><p></p><p>Baus’turo appeared on the street in full form. He was about ten feet tall and had arms on both his front and back. Gareth presented Baus’turo with a pie, confusing him. Then Tiger stabbed the demon with Ghost-Eating Technique. As Baus’turo's skin was punctured, crackling, electric blood spilled out doing aggravated damage to Tiger. Then Baus’turo keeled over, dead. With that blood, no one wanted to harvest any toes, so Gareth made a stone sled for A-Dom to pull and they carefully put the bleeding demon on it. They noticed the blood was eating through the stone, so it was suggested that A-Dom run for The Temple. Tiger and Gareth ran to the side of A-Dom as he ran through the forest, pulling the sled. Gareth took that time to use Wound-Cleansing Technique, changing Tiger's aggravated wounds into lethal wounds. After a little ways, A-Dom noticed that the dripping blood was causing fires behind him. They stopped and put out the fires. A-Dom decided that transporting the demon just wasn't happening and Jade's Luck would have to come here if she wanted the toes. He dug a hole and put Baus’turo in, head first. The blood started eating away at the ground, making him sink lower. They then continued heading back towards The Temple.</p><p></p><p>Sundown came around at The Temple and a lot more people than Jade's Luck had seen previously were gathered. Since Quicksilver knew Forestspeak and Jade's Luck did not, he did all of the talking and kept up a running translation for her. He told the villagers how great of worshippers of the Unconquered Sun they were, but that they had become misguided in some of their ways. He talked of sacrifice and stated that they would all be allowed to sacrifice themselves to the Unconquered Sun. He paused a bit too long at this point and then continued, saying that they needed to wait and fulfill certain criteria before doing so. Not everyone had waited during that pause. The poor guy bleeding to death in the back was mostly ignored by Quicksilver and Jade's Luck, since neither had any medical training. He laid out several rules about when they could sacrifice themselves. They boiled down to being both fifty years of age and having produced three children who have reached adulthood (defined as being 18 years of age). He again took too long a pause as Jade's Luck told him he should add that they only should sacrifice themselves on the Sixth day, and also only one person a month. A couple of mortally wounded people later, he added Jade's Luck's suggestions. He explained that the Unconquered Sun only looked in on them one day a month because they were doing so well and there were other, bad people who required much more of his attention. Jade's Luck pointed out that he had just told the people that they should be bad to get more attention from god. He did his best to correct himself, causing Jade's Luck to need to correct him further. The people were very gung-ho about demons being bad, so he thought they should witness or participate in the killing of Chok'Thar. So he told them all to return at Sunrise the next day.</p><p></p><p>When the trio returned to the Temple, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to heal the poor bleeding guy. When shown to him, Gareth found the guy had been dead for a couple hours. They headed back to their camp and Quicksilver discussed his plan to have the villagers help with killing Chok'Thar. This was generally considered to be a bad plan and led to lots of discussion and explanations about how Chok'Thar wasn't a piñata and how mortals up against demons was lethal for mortals and they shouldn't be taught to think if they hit demons with sticks, candy would come out. A-Dom got ideas about expanding the limits of Necromancy by making Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Brain. There were lots of comments about how undead decompose and that he'd become Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Rotting Puddle. The Circle went to sleep for the night, sticking at least to killing Chok'Thar in the morning.</p><p></p><p>During the night, A-Dom decided he did want Chok'Thar DEAD, so wandered off to talk to him. Chok'Thar made comments about Quicksilver's speech and said it didn't sound like they were going to need him anymore. He also said that they'd been going around killing demons and asked when he was being killed. Chok'Thar didn't like the Undead Demon Brain concept and that he didn't think A-Dom had the right spells to make an Undead Demon anyway. A-Dom made comments about Exalting Chok'Thar as a Solar. Chok'Thar said that there were specific rules against that. He also said that he had lost a lot of respect with other demons already, having his body taken away from him. He said that he had once been a crab-like demon with a large head. A-Dom said that sounded cool.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom told Chok'Thar about how he had sent Flamey back to Malfeas. Chok'Thar said Flamey was a prick. A-Dom said that he had liked him and he liked Chok'Thar too.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, why don't you go ahead and violate your contract. (pause) Without killing people.</p><p></p><p>Chok'Thar: Too late! *pop*</p><p></p><p>With Chok’Thar returned to Malfeas, A-Dom headed out into the village to find everyone in The Temple dead. He ran back to the Circle's huts.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Guys! Wake Up! I accidently killed the whole village!</p><p></p><p>Once the Circle was roused, they headed to The Temple to verify this. Questions were asked about what happened. Explanations were given about Flamey and Chok'Thar. A-Dom was very sorry (that he was going to get away with this). Tiger checked the well with Sorcerer's Sight and confirmed that the well was now off. A-Dom made mention about Chok'Thar once having a body.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Quicksilver relayed this. A-Dom said that Chok'Thar was probably now whole again in Malfeas. Quicksilver talked about his plans to become a sorcerer and summon demons for the express purpose of killing them dead.</p><p></p><p>Quicksilver and Jade's Luck started seeing to the bodies, but knew they'd quickly run out of Essence zorching the bodies. Tiger ran off in one direction to check on villages while A-Dom and Gareth ran off in the other direction. Tiger visited Little Well and Sun'gra'la while A-Dom and Gareth visited Oak Castle and Big Well.</p><p></p><p>They found the following:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The Temple</strong> - All dead.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Little Well</strong> - 100 survivors. 80 male and 20 female.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Sun'gra'la</strong> - All alive and fine.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Oak Castle</strong> - 100 survivors, all female.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Big Well</strong> - 50 survivors. 20 male and 30 female.</li> </ul><p></p><p>This didn't look good for the competition, but at least it meant clearing up disease on the island would go faster for Gareth. Worst of all, all these people weren't even sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. They discussed for a while what they were going to do with thousands of the bodies. A-Dom initially suggested they put the bodies in 'long term storage' outside the bubble. This was rejected. He then suggested the maintenance cavern where the security demons used to hang out. They worked up a plan involving a cart for each village capable of surviving A-Dom speeds, Gareth making clear paths to the hatch, and long funeral processions. They talked about needing to go to see the Elephant now that the villages no longer had sufficient populations. Gareth brought up that he really needed to cure everyone before they ended the competition, in case the wells turned off and said he needed two and a half days to more quickly finish the quarantine procedures. Jade's Luck wanted the quarantine to be promoted after the necessary period, so that the villages wouldn't wipe each other out. A-Dom pointed out that that would needlessly prolong the competition. They tabled that discussion until after they had talked to the elephant.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom took Jade's Luck back to Baus’turo's body. The body had mostly depleted of blood by that point and was in a significantly deeper hole. She harvested toes.</p><p></p><p>Gareth drew up plans for a quick and orderly project to store/bury the bodies in the cavern and plans for the quarantine procedures. The next several days involved Gareth training for two and a half days and activating Bureau-Rectifying Method twice to make both projects as efficient as possible. Jade's Luck worked on the burial project and also played essence battery for Gareth for the quarantine project. </p><p></p><p>Once both projects were done, they convened at the Manse. Gareth made airbladders for himself and Tiger, since A-Dom and Quicksilver already had ones. They talked it out what doors they were going to go in to give accurate reports. Since The Temple was empty, it was decided that one would get the worst rating. It was decided Oak Castle would get the second worst rating, since they could no longer procreate on their own. While Little Well had a larger population than Big Well, they had a worse male to female ratio (and fewer females), so they got the third worst rating. Big Well, with the smallest, but still alive, population at least had a decent male to female ratio, so got the fourth worst rating. Since Sun'gra'la was all fine, it got the best rating. Each Solar went through their assigned door.</p><p></p><p>Imastatue was elated to be getting reports on all villages. He said that the well was off in The Temple, so that must mean that they were all dead. There was a lot of crunching sounds and the Manses shook a bit. The room they were all standing in was now a square. They then brought up Oak Castle and it was declared a loser, since it was no longer viable. More crunching sounds, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now a triangle. Little Well was then brought up and it was decided that they should be declared a loser, due to not being able to sustain a population after a generation or two. There was more crunching noises, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now shaped like an eye.</p><p></p><p>The conversation then shifted to whether or not they wanted to prolong the competition or just end it. They decided to just end it, since Big Well was clearly going to lose and they didn't want to wait for more people to die. The Manse rumbled, crunched and shook some more and then the room they were standing in was now a circle. Imastatue proclaimed surprise, stating he was now in charge of the Wells. The group asked him to not turn them off. He said that he wanted to make them into gushing fountains and shoot water between the fountains. He was told he could so long as he didn't hurt any mortals doing so. Warning spirits were discussed.</p><p></p><p>Since he received no notification of what he owed, A-Dom went outside to look around at the Manse. He noticed that the manse was now round and they were back in Creation. While looking around, a Golden Monkey wandered up to A-Dom.</p><p></p><p>Golden Monkey: Hello Loser!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom conceded that he had lost the competition and asked the monkey what he owed. The monkey said he'd take the deed for one nation of one million people now or he could drop it off at the Bureau of Magical Contests. A-Dom said he didn't have a nation. When asked when he would, A-Dom said he would some time within the next 200-300 years. The monkey said that would definitely involve some interest, but they hadn't even found the winner yet to inform him. The monkey then wandered off.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the group filtered out of the Manse as well and discussed what to do with the other villages. A-Dom wanted to use the people to populate other islands, thus marking another thing off of one of his many lists. This was agreed to be a good idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom wanted the job of playing father for Oak Castle. Gareth said that they still needed to take the people out into the Wyld to shape them into being immune to the Great Contagion anyway, so some of the women could come out men. The face A-Dom made at that suggestion was quite amusing. It was decided that recruiting mortal men to join the village would be a better idea than those proposed.</p><p></p><p>The group wandered off to Big Well to check on things. While there, Quicksilver was approached by the Golden Money. He had a much longer list of things to provide, since his village (The Temple) was second to last.</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One nation of 1 million (or more) people</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Three artifacts</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One Magical transportation device</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One amusing toy</li> </ul><p></p><p>The group then set out to train for the upcoming trips into the Wyld. Jade's Luck asked Gareth to teach her Medicine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700806, member: 9758"] [b]Session 78 - Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident[/b] Session 78 [i]Synopsis of 10/13/08[/i] [b]Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident Subtitle: Tiger Achieves a New Level in Apathy [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] With the security demons all cleared up, Jade's Luck, Quicksilver Noon and Gareth spent some more time proselytizing before deciding they were done in Little Well for a while. Gareth commented about the dead demon smelling like burnt dog hair. Then he looked up and saw A-Dom had returned, slightly singed. Jade's Luck went about collecting all four of the dead demon's toes. When Quicksilver asked why, she explained a little about Opec and his desire for weird things in exchange for teaching sorcery. Jade's Luck pointed out some of the more 'interesting' items on Opec's list. This lead to a discussion of A-Dom's list. With the fire and brimstone speeches done, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to cook a feast for the people. She failed to adequately explain her reasoning behind this, but he did anyway. A-Dom and Jade's Luck organized the celebration of the other tenant of the religion of the Unconquered Sun. Later on, the Circle picked a spot a mile into the forest as a place to camp for the night. Gareth made huts. In the morning, they stood around for a while and once again discussed their list of demons to kill. They again quickly decided that the Neomah needed to die, but were less sure about Baus’turo and Chok'Thar, Demon Brain. A-Dom yelled for the Neomah to come meet them and the group marched towards the demon compound. Eventually, the group met up with the Neomah. Gareth looked at Tiger expectantly. He did nothing. A-Dom and Quicksilver ordered the Neomah to turn around and close her eyes. Gareth (whisper): Tiger, do your thing. He did nothing. The Neomah was now clearly expecting something, so A-Dom asked Gareth to make a pie for the Neomah (to confuse her). While Gareth was making the pie, Tiger finally sprung into action and stabbed the Neomah with Ghost-Eating Technique. The Neomah was greviously wounded, but alive enough to pop back to Malfeas. When asked why he hadn't just started with the killing, he shrugged. Gareth now had a perfectly good bark and grass pie and no demon to give it to. A-Dom presented it to Quicksilver, who had a piece. He said it wasn't bad, but didn't need another piece. The group then all marched to The Temple and set up camp a mile outside where they discussed for a while if they were going to keep Baus’turo and Chok'Thar. Jade's Luck went on about how she wanted to reeducate the people of The Temple. Gareth brought up that they really didn't want to invalidate the competition and weren't sure that reeducating the people of The Temple was permitted within the rules. She wanted to know why The Temple was different from Little Well, so she was reminded that they had gotten preapproval from the elephant for what they did in Little Well. He argued that, since they hadn't asked the elephant if reeducating the people of The Temple would invalidate the contest, they shouldn't mess with them yet. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver still thought that, since they were going to be removing Chok'Thar, they should put another band-aid on those followers to stop them from killing themselves. A-Dom brought up that the demons hadn't been an original part of the competition and suggested that, as long as they didn't try to change the villager's from their mission statement, they'd be safe. Quicksilver was under the mistaken impression that the Unconquered Sun didn't like human sacrifice. The group explained why he actually did. Quicksilver worked up an age and a procreation requirement for the villagers to fulfill before they could sacrifice themselves. That way, the Unconquered Sun still got his sacrifices and the world wasn't deprived of these fanatical, but misguided worshippers. In the morning, Gareth decided he, Tiger and A-Dom should head off in search of Baus’turo while Jade's Luck and Quicksilver dealt with Chok'Thar. That would allow them to take care of the demons quicker. Jade's Luck asked for them to harvest toes, but no such agreement was made. Jade's Luck went with Quicksilver into the village, where he made a proclamation that he was going to give an important speech at sundown and all the villagers should attend. When Gareth, Tiger and A-Dom arrived at the demon compound, they asked where Baus’turo was. The demon they talked to said it didn't know, because he was all magicy. A-Dom called out to Baus’turo and got a response. When he asked where he was, Baus’turo told him to look up. Up upon a roof was a purpley swirling mist. A-Dom ordered him to come down to the street and face them. Baus’turo appeared on the street in full form. He was about ten feet tall and had arms on both his front and back. Gareth presented Baus’turo with a pie, confusing him. Then Tiger stabbed the demon with Ghost-Eating Technique. As Baus’turo's skin was punctured, crackling, electric blood spilled out doing aggravated damage to Tiger. Then Baus’turo keeled over, dead. With that blood, no one wanted to harvest any toes, so Gareth made a stone sled for A-Dom to pull and they carefully put the bleeding demon on it. They noticed the blood was eating through the stone, so it was suggested that A-Dom run for The Temple. Tiger and Gareth ran to the side of A-Dom as he ran through the forest, pulling the sled. Gareth took that time to use Wound-Cleansing Technique, changing Tiger's aggravated wounds into lethal wounds. After a little ways, A-Dom noticed that the dripping blood was causing fires behind him. They stopped and put out the fires. A-Dom decided that transporting the demon just wasn't happening and Jade's Luck would have to come here if she wanted the toes. He dug a hole and put Baus’turo in, head first. The blood started eating away at the ground, making him sink lower. They then continued heading back towards The Temple. Sundown came around at The Temple and a lot more people than Jade's Luck had seen previously were gathered. Since Quicksilver knew Forestspeak and Jade's Luck did not, he did all of the talking and kept up a running translation for her. He told the villagers how great of worshippers of the Unconquered Sun they were, but that they had become misguided in some of their ways. He talked of sacrifice and stated that they would all be allowed to sacrifice themselves to the Unconquered Sun. He paused a bit too long at this point and then continued, saying that they needed to wait and fulfill certain criteria before doing so. Not everyone had waited during that pause. The poor guy bleeding to death in the back was mostly ignored by Quicksilver and Jade's Luck, since neither had any medical training. He laid out several rules about when they could sacrifice themselves. They boiled down to being both fifty years of age and having produced three children who have reached adulthood (defined as being 18 years of age). He again took too long a pause as Jade's Luck told him he should add that they only should sacrifice themselves on the Sixth day, and also only one person a month. A couple of mortally wounded people later, he added Jade's Luck's suggestions. He explained that the Unconquered Sun only looked in on them one day a month because they were doing so well and there were other, bad people who required much more of his attention. Jade's Luck pointed out that he had just told the people that they should be bad to get more attention from god. He did his best to correct himself, causing Jade's Luck to need to correct him further. The people were very gung-ho about demons being bad, so he thought they should witness or participate in the killing of Chok'Thar. So he told them all to return at Sunrise the next day. When the trio returned to the Temple, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to heal the poor bleeding guy. When shown to him, Gareth found the guy had been dead for a couple hours. They headed back to their camp and Quicksilver discussed his plan to have the villagers help with killing Chok'Thar. This was generally considered to be a bad plan and led to lots of discussion and explanations about how Chok'Thar wasn't a piñata and how mortals up against demons was lethal for mortals and they shouldn't be taught to think if they hit demons with sticks, candy would come out. A-Dom got ideas about expanding the limits of Necromancy by making Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Brain. There were lots of comments about how undead decompose and that he'd become Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Rotting Puddle. The Circle went to sleep for the night, sticking at least to killing Chok'Thar in the morning. During the night, A-Dom decided he did want Chok'Thar DEAD, so wandered off to talk to him. Chok'Thar made comments about Quicksilver's speech and said it didn't sound like they were going to need him anymore. He also said that they'd been going around killing demons and asked when he was being killed. Chok'Thar didn't like the Undead Demon Brain concept and that he didn't think A-Dom had the right spells to make an Undead Demon anyway. A-Dom made comments about Exalting Chok'Thar as a Solar. Chok'Thar said that there were specific rules against that. He also said that he had lost a lot of respect with other demons already, having his body taken away from him. He said that he had once been a crab-like demon with a large head. A-Dom said that sounded cool. A-Dom told Chok'Thar about how he had sent Flamey back to Malfeas. Chok'Thar said Flamey was a prick. A-Dom said that he had liked him and he liked Chok'Thar too. A-Dom: So, why don't you go ahead and violate your contract. (pause) Without killing people. Chok'Thar: Too late! *pop* With Chok’Thar returned to Malfeas, A-Dom headed out into the village to find everyone in The Temple dead. He ran back to the Circle's huts. A-Dom: Guys! Wake Up! I accidently killed the whole village! Once the Circle was roused, they headed to The Temple to verify this. Questions were asked about what happened. Explanations were given about Flamey and Chok'Thar. A-Dom was very sorry (that he was going to get away with this). Tiger checked the well with Sorcerer's Sight and confirmed that the well was now off. A-Dom made mention about Chok'Thar once having a body. Quicksilver relayed this. A-Dom said that Chok'Thar was probably now whole again in Malfeas. Quicksilver talked about his plans to become a sorcerer and summon demons for the express purpose of killing them dead. Quicksilver and Jade's Luck started seeing to the bodies, but knew they'd quickly run out of Essence zorching the bodies. Tiger ran off in one direction to check on villages while A-Dom and Gareth ran off in the other direction. Tiger visited Little Well and Sun'gra'la while A-Dom and Gareth visited Oak Castle and Big Well. They found the following: [List] [*][b]The Temple[/b] - All dead. [*][b]Little Well[/b] - 100 survivors. 80 male and 20 female. [*][b]Sun'gra'la[/b] - All alive and fine. [*][b]Oak Castle[/b] - 100 survivors, all female. [*][b]Big Well[/b] - 50 survivors. 20 male and 30 female.[/list] This didn't look good for the competition, but at least it meant clearing up disease on the island would go faster for Gareth. Worst of all, all these people weren't even sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. They discussed for a while what they were going to do with thousands of the bodies. A-Dom initially suggested they put the bodies in 'long term storage' outside the bubble. This was rejected. He then suggested the maintenance cavern where the security demons used to hang out. They worked up a plan involving a cart for each village capable of surviving A-Dom speeds, Gareth making clear paths to the hatch, and long funeral processions. They talked about needing to go to see the Elephant now that the villages no longer had sufficient populations. Gareth brought up that he really needed to cure everyone before they ended the competition, in case the wells turned off and said he needed two and a half days to more quickly finish the quarantine procedures. Jade's Luck wanted the quarantine to be promoted after the necessary period, so that the villages wouldn't wipe each other out. A-Dom pointed out that that would needlessly prolong the competition. They tabled that discussion until after they had talked to the elephant. A-Dom took Jade's Luck back to Baus’turo's body. The body had mostly depleted of blood by that point and was in a significantly deeper hole. She harvested toes. Gareth drew up plans for a quick and orderly project to store/bury the bodies in the cavern and plans for the quarantine procedures. The next several days involved Gareth training for two and a half days and activating Bureau-Rectifying Method twice to make both projects as efficient as possible. Jade's Luck worked on the burial project and also played essence battery for Gareth for the quarantine project. Once both projects were done, they convened at the Manse. Gareth made airbladders for himself and Tiger, since A-Dom and Quicksilver already had ones. They talked it out what doors they were going to go in to give accurate reports. Since The Temple was empty, it was decided that one would get the worst rating. It was decided Oak Castle would get the second worst rating, since they could no longer procreate on their own. While Little Well had a larger population than Big Well, they had a worse male to female ratio (and fewer females), so they got the third worst rating. Big Well, with the smallest, but still alive, population at least had a decent male to female ratio, so got the fourth worst rating. Since Sun'gra'la was all fine, it got the best rating. Each Solar went through their assigned door. Imastatue was elated to be getting reports on all villages. He said that the well was off in The Temple, so that must mean that they were all dead. There was a lot of crunching sounds and the Manses shook a bit. The room they were all standing in was now a square. They then brought up Oak Castle and it was declared a loser, since it was no longer viable. More crunching sounds, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now a triangle. Little Well was then brought up and it was decided that they should be declared a loser, due to not being able to sustain a population after a generation or two. There was more crunching noises, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now shaped like an eye. The conversation then shifted to whether or not they wanted to prolong the competition or just end it. They decided to just end it, since Big Well was clearly going to lose and they didn't want to wait for more people to die. The Manse rumbled, crunched and shook some more and then the room they were standing in was now a circle. Imastatue proclaimed surprise, stating he was now in charge of the Wells. The group asked him to not turn them off. He said that he wanted to make them into gushing fountains and shoot water between the fountains. He was told he could so long as he didn't hurt any mortals doing so. Warning spirits were discussed. Since he received no notification of what he owed, A-Dom went outside to look around at the Manse. He noticed that the manse was now round and they were back in Creation. While looking around, a Golden Monkey wandered up to A-Dom. Golden Monkey: Hello Loser! A-Dom conceded that he had lost the competition and asked the monkey what he owed. The monkey said he'd take the deed for one nation of one million people now or he could drop it off at the Bureau of Magical Contests. A-Dom said he didn't have a nation. When asked when he would, A-Dom said he would some time within the next 200-300 years. The monkey said that would definitely involve some interest, but they hadn't even found the winner yet to inform him. The monkey then wandered off. The rest of the group filtered out of the Manse as well and discussed what to do with the other villages. A-Dom wanted to use the people to populate other islands, thus marking another thing off of one of his many lists. This was agreed to be a good idea. A-Dom wanted the job of playing father for Oak Castle. Gareth said that they still needed to take the people out into the Wyld to shape them into being immune to the Great Contagion anyway, so some of the women could come out men. The face A-Dom made at that suggestion was quite amusing. It was decided that recruiting mortal men to join the village would be a better idea than those proposed. The group wandered off to Big Well to check on things. While there, Quicksilver was approached by the Golden Money. He had a much longer list of things to provide, since his village (The Temple) was second to last. [list] [*]One nation of 1 million (or more) people [*]Three artifacts [*]One Magical transportation device [*]One amusing toy[/list] The group then set out to train for the upcoming trips into the Wyld. Jade's Luck asked Gareth to teach her Medicine. [/QUOTE]
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