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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700823" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 80 - Jade's Luck's Try At A Unity Speech</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 80</p><p><em>Synopsis of 11/10/08</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade's Luck's Try At A Unity Speech</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: Fine. I’ll <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 kill the kid myself!</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: I'm Not Making Churches Cause I Wanna!</strong></p><p><strong><em>By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>The villagers were all very happy to be off of the boat. Gareth made a settlement for the people while Jade's Luck went off to create a balanced ecosystem, complete with livestock. Gareth made sure a small village of Voodoo Mice were installed on the far side of the island and were part of the plan.</p><p></p><p>Gareth told A-Dom he had free reign to construct a second church to the Unconquered Sun for the island. Jade's Luck tried to give him a plan, but Gareth told her this was for A-Dom to design and he could build whatever he wanted. A-Dom decided this was a punishment/dare and made a wooden church with a stone foundation, despite having no Craft (Wood). Once he was finished, the building was a very basic square wood design that looked like it would collapse at any moment. Gareth carved into the foundation <strong>A-Dom's Church - Hazardous Area</strong>. It was asked why he hadn't played to his strengths and built a stone building or relabeled (stole) another one for the purpose. A-Dom hadn't thought that was allowed and then asked if it needed to remain standing. The general consensus was that it didn't. As A-Dom went to push it over, a gentle breeze forced it to collapse. He then cleared the wood away and made a stone fence to create a graveyard. Gareth changed the inscription to read <strong>A-Dom's Graveyard Church - Respect the Dead and it won't be a Hazardous Area</strong>.</p><p></p><p>The people liked the island, but found the constant sunlight made it difficult to sleep. The group went to go talk to the new sun. He wasn't sure he could/should move much, since this was all very new to him. He didn't want to go into the ocean overnight, since that would create boiling water. He also didn't like the concept of hiding behind a mountain for the night. They talked about Uk-Sun and how he lived inside of the island. There was much discussion about making a hole in the island so that the sun could go down into the hollow ovoid middle. That was generally considered to be a safety hazard and bad idea. They finally settled on building a Manse right underneath him that he could enter at night so that there would be a period of darkness. Jade's Luck and Gareth then went about building the Manses, as per Tiger's instruction (to be filled in later).</p><p></p><p>There was a brief discussion of what to call this island. They went with Jade's Luck's suggestion of Island of the Younger Sun.</p><p></p><p>Gareth wasn't sure what to do with the <em>Ark of the Covenant</em>. He didn't want to destroy it and wanted it to be able to be used in case of dire emergency, but wanted to put it some place where it wouldn't be likely to be stolen. He finally settled upon placing it on top of one of the mountains. A-Dom decided he could be moody too and said he wasn't going to help. While A-Dom lounged on the diamond beach, the rest of the Circle disassembled the Ark, carried it up the mountain and reassembled it. Once that was done, Gareth commented that this would have been a good idea for A-Dom for his church. They asked if he would have let A-Dom do that to the boat. He shrugged.</p><p></p><p>An arbitrary point was picked to place the island, so that it was out of the MiddleMarches. The spot was off of all trade routes, on the edge of Creation, and well away from Sixth Day Island. On the journey there, the Circle made sure the people knew the lay of the land, how to live on it, and what the special parts of the nine islands were.</p><p></p><p>The group then discussed what they should do next. The things were brought up as possible were:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dealing with the soul repossession list</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fulfilling their obligation to the Whale villagers and Red Oak tribe in the East</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collecting the skull from Sijan</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lighting 100 lanterns in Sijan</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finding the Voodoo Mice</li> </ul><p></p><p>From where they parked the Island of the Younger Sun, they sailed to Elemental Island. Everything was fine on the island. Since they'd be going through the Wyld Portal a lot, Gareth set his village of VooDoo Mice far away from all of the humans on the island.</p><p></p><p>The group popped over to Uk-Luk-Muk-Muk-Chuk, so that A-Dom could visit his family (and Tiger could take care of the child that needed to be repo'd). Gareth wandered off to find a privy. A-Dom greeted his wife and children. He tossed some candy into a pile and told the kids to 'have at it.' There was some comment about survival of the fittest. Concussions and broken bones ensued. When Gareth got back, he was told there were several wounds that needed healing that were beyond Jade's Luck's ability. Children were healed.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom asked Gareth to make a statue of him for the kids. Gareth made a perfectly accurate representation of A-Dom (complete with club and dress). A-Dom "thanked" Gareth for the statue and said he didn't want to give that one to his kids. Gareth asked if they should give it to Chuck-Chuck. A-Dom said no, they should put it somewhere it wouldn't be seen. They ended up taking it to the Cave of Doom. They had a brief conversation with the Doom Spirit. He asked if the statue was full of Doom. A-Dom said that it wasn't but that sounded cool. The Doom Spirit told him to put it closer to the Doom then. That was ultimately decided to be a bad idea.</p><p></p><p>Before they left, Jade's Luck realized the ulterior reason for coming to the island and thwarted all attempts to deal with the list Tiger & A-Dom's way. Tiger tried to stay behind and Jade's Luck tried to send the others along to the East while she tried to figure out the whole soul thing without killing. It was pointed out that she was the one who made the contractual agreement with the Red Oak tribe, so her presence was kind of needed. She dropped all subtlety and told them she wasn't going to let them just go around killing the people on the list. Large, drawn out, circular argument ensued. Gareth got significantly closer to Limit Breaking. Since A-Dom and his trustworthiness were insulted several times, so did he.</p><p></p><p>It was pointed out that she wouldn't trust A-Dom and Tiger not to go behind her back without an Eclipse to sanctify an agreement.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck: Fine. I’ll <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 kill the kid myself!</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck wanted an indefinite amount of time to figure out how to repo the souls without killing the people that were using them. A-Dom pointed out that this was unreasonable since, if it took her 70 years or so, the point would be moot anyway given the people with the bad souls would just die (and so would the ones she wanted to give souls to). She finally said that she wanted one year to try and figure out how to do things her way.</p><p></p><p>Jade's Luck: <strong><u>One year from today, if I haven't figured out how to repossess the souls safely, then we'll do things your way</u></strong>.</p><p></p><p>Tiger shrugged. Gareth didn't really care; pointing out it was Jade's Luck's legal agreement with Heaven anyway. A-Dom agreed to this, but also pointed out that the painter guy had been about to do something very bad and the other souls might also be about to do something. One year might be too late. He postulated about things his kid might do in that time to kill off his island. </p><p></p><p>Gareth grumbled about his reason for the group going back to Atlantis had just been destroyed. Jade's Luck said that, if he wanted to go to Atlantis, then he should just tell the group he wanted to go there. He responded that he had, but had been vetoed already.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the group headed back to Elemental Island. A-Dom collected Foursey to take him to the Manse in the East. He said that, if something weird happened to him in the portal, Jade's Luck could just slap it out of him. Foursey proved he could resist the Wyld on his own. Jade's Luck pointed out that, since her charm specified beings of Creation, she wasn't sure it would it would have affected Foursey anyway.</p><p></p><p>Since they couldn't take Foursey into the village, A-Dom knocked over a tree, hollowed it out, and put it over the undead monkey butler. He said they'd pick him up on the way out. They remembered that Bianca was the one who spoke Red Oak, so figured they'd need a translator if need be. They wandered into the village and found some of the Whale villagers. They were adjusting nicely. They liked vegetables and had integrated to a non-fishing lifestyle. There wasn't as much water as they'd like, but they had a river at least. They had learned enough Red Oak to be able to converse with the other villagers. Those that hadn't liked the lifestyle had left. They went and talked to the Red Oak elders (with a translator). They were happy with the new members of the tribe and the nonslave thing was working out nicely. They did have one problem child that didn't fit in. The kid was a little terror, had Shark Eyes, Fangs and Claws. His name was in Red Oak, which roughly translated to 'Hey! Stop That! No No!' They wanted the group to take the child off their hands. A-Dom said they'd take him back to his wife for her to deal with. The rest of the Circle felt bad for his wife.</p><p></p><p>The group was shown the child. In many ways, it was a lot like Steggy; liked to bash into things and was very impulsive. He was also very demanding. After spending a little time with NoNo, they learned he wasn't very bright. Since he only spoke Red Oak, Jade's Luck taught him Uk-Luk-Muk-Muk-Chuk and Sea tongue, so that he could converse with the group and his future surrogate mother. A-Dom explained to the kid that he was his father and that he'd be going with the group. The kid said that he didn't look like his dad. A-Dom explained that he used to look like him when he was his dad. This confused the child (and others). A-Dom failed to correct himself, but made himself look like he did when he was Wyld Mutated before switching back to normal. Gareth made comments about teaching the child Temperance. Jade's Luck was against that, saying the kid was just acting like a little kid and would learn Temperance. Gareth reminded her who his father was, but said he'd just teach the child Intelligence for now. There were lots of comments of him, Steggy and possible matchmaking coming from Jade's Luck. He said girls were icky.</p><p></p><p>They left the village and went back to collect Foursey. Since the child was now smarter, he was a little afraid of Foursey. A-Dom explained that Foursey was okay. They discussed for a little bit about how they would get NoNo back through the Portal. Gareth suggested he empower the child and teach him Integrity Protecting Prana. This was decided to be a bad idea (due to the increasing xp deficit of the child). They settled on creating a coffin sized artifact that would be impervious to the Wyld. That way they could get the Mice through too. Plus, if it was a coffin, they'd be able to find everything they needed to build it in Sijan. Jade's Luck objected to calling it a coffin. It was explained that that was just for proportion descriptive purposes. </p><p></p><p>A-Dom picked up Gareth, Jade's Luck, Foursey and NoNo and sped off towards Sijan. Tiger went back through the Portal and then reset it to the island next to Sijan. He hung out in Sijan until the others arrived.</p><p></p><p>When they got to the outskirts of Sijan. A-Dom slowed down and let the others off. Up ahead, they saw the Silver Mask of Heroic Justice walking on the road. A-Dom tried to mock him, but failed. Silver Mask said he was walking because he felt like it. When A-Dom asked him if he knew of any maidens that needed saving, he said he didn't and had already saved 6 maidens that day. Silver Mask asked about Foursey and A-Dom said he was going to put him in his manse. Silver Mask asked if he could do it delicately this time. He said yes. He asked where the lanterns were to be lit. Silver Mask said that Sijan didn't have any lanterns. A-Dom commented on needing to talk to the Mortician about things. They asked him about the whereabouts of the 'mortals they left here last time' (pirates). He said the fat one now owned the Inn. The previous owner had died under mysterious circumstances. He figured that he'd know where the others were. They said goodbye and headed into town to the Mortician's dwelling.</p><p></p><p>Tiger sensed them and met up with the group before heading in to see the Mortician. They entered the Shadowland at noon, so they would not be emerging into the Underworld with NoNo. The Mortician greeted them cheerfully. He said that the grave goods scheme was working nicely. A-Dom apologized for the destruction last time. Mortician said that it had caused some problems, since he hadn't been able to implement the Grave Goods charges yet. A-Dom told him he was going to install Foursey in the Manse, but would be the only one going up and would do it carefully.</p><p></p><p>They talked about the coffin sized artifact that they wanted to build. He suggested that they get an air spirit to reside inside so that people always had air. He suggested that it knock people out so that those inside wouldn't freak out about being inside for a long period of time. He said that it should probably be armored so that it wasn't destroyed by things trying to break in. He also suggested it create food so that they don't starve to death over long periods of time. They explained that it was for very short trips, so they didn't feel it needed to create food for the people. Windows were discussed but discarded, since people can go insane from looking at the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>Finally, he suggested that it be padded inside for comfort. This got into a discussion about how he was trying to get people to buy into padded coffins, but was having trouble. A-Dom asked if the people had a residence when they died. The mortician responded only if their house had burnt down. So A-Dom explained that they could be sold as a place to sleep for the dead while they waited to move on. The Mortician liked that idea.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom said he wasn't done with book 2 yet and asked if he knew who had book 3. The Mortician said he didn't know, but would keep his eye out for it. A-Dom asked the Mortician where the lanterns were stored. The Mortician explained that they had stopped being used after the First Age, had fallen into disrepair and were now gone. A-Dom expressed a desire to build, place and light exactly 100 of them in the city. The Mortician said that he'd want them evenly spaced and he'd have a guy check them over to give an okay before they were allowed to light any. He said he'd have a map drawn up for placements.</p><p></p><p>They thanked him for his time and left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700823, member: 9758"] [b]Session 80 - Jade's Luck's Try At A Unity Speech[/b] Session 80 [i]Synopsis of 11/10/08[/i] [b]Jade's Luck's Try At A Unity Speech Subtitle: Fine. I’ll :):):):)ing kill the kid myself! Subtitle: I'm Not Making Churches Cause I Wanna! [i]By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] The villagers were all very happy to be off of the boat. Gareth made a settlement for the people while Jade's Luck went off to create a balanced ecosystem, complete with livestock. Gareth made sure a small village of Voodoo Mice were installed on the far side of the island and were part of the plan. Gareth told A-Dom he had free reign to construct a second church to the Unconquered Sun for the island. Jade's Luck tried to give him a plan, but Gareth told her this was for A-Dom to design and he could build whatever he wanted. A-Dom decided this was a punishment/dare and made a wooden church with a stone foundation, despite having no Craft (Wood). Once he was finished, the building was a very basic square wood design that looked like it would collapse at any moment. Gareth carved into the foundation [b]A-Dom's Church - Hazardous Area[/b]. It was asked why he hadn't played to his strengths and built a stone building or relabeled (stole) another one for the purpose. A-Dom hadn't thought that was allowed and then asked if it needed to remain standing. The general consensus was that it didn't. As A-Dom went to push it over, a gentle breeze forced it to collapse. He then cleared the wood away and made a stone fence to create a graveyard. Gareth changed the inscription to read [b]A-Dom's Graveyard Church - Respect the Dead and it won't be a Hazardous Area[/b]. The people liked the island, but found the constant sunlight made it difficult to sleep. The group went to go talk to the new sun. He wasn't sure he could/should move much, since this was all very new to him. He didn't want to go into the ocean overnight, since that would create boiling water. He also didn't like the concept of hiding behind a mountain for the night. They talked about Uk-Sun and how he lived inside of the island. There was much discussion about making a hole in the island so that the sun could go down into the hollow ovoid middle. That was generally considered to be a safety hazard and bad idea. They finally settled on building a Manse right underneath him that he could enter at night so that there would be a period of darkness. Jade's Luck and Gareth then went about building the Manses, as per Tiger's instruction (to be filled in later). There was a brief discussion of what to call this island. They went with Jade's Luck's suggestion of Island of the Younger Sun. Gareth wasn't sure what to do with the [i]Ark of the Covenant[/i]. He didn't want to destroy it and wanted it to be able to be used in case of dire emergency, but wanted to put it some place where it wouldn't be likely to be stolen. He finally settled upon placing it on top of one of the mountains. A-Dom decided he could be moody too and said he wasn't going to help. While A-Dom lounged on the diamond beach, the rest of the Circle disassembled the Ark, carried it up the mountain and reassembled it. Once that was done, Gareth commented that this would have been a good idea for A-Dom for his church. They asked if he would have let A-Dom do that to the boat. He shrugged. An arbitrary point was picked to place the island, so that it was out of the MiddleMarches. The spot was off of all trade routes, on the edge of Creation, and well away from Sixth Day Island. On the journey there, the Circle made sure the people knew the lay of the land, how to live on it, and what the special parts of the nine islands were. The group then discussed what they should do next. The things were brought up as possible were: [list] [*]Dealing with the soul repossession list [*]Fulfilling their obligation to the Whale villagers and Red Oak tribe in the East [*]Collecting the skull from Sijan [*]Lighting 100 lanterns in Sijan [*]Finding the Voodoo Mice[/list] From where they parked the Island of the Younger Sun, they sailed to Elemental Island. Everything was fine on the island. Since they'd be going through the Wyld Portal a lot, Gareth set his village of VooDoo Mice far away from all of the humans on the island. The group popped over to Uk-Luk-Muk-Muk-Chuk, so that A-Dom could visit his family (and Tiger could take care of the child that needed to be repo'd). Gareth wandered off to find a privy. A-Dom greeted his wife and children. He tossed some candy into a pile and told the kids to 'have at it.' There was some comment about survival of the fittest. Concussions and broken bones ensued. When Gareth got back, he was told there were several wounds that needed healing that were beyond Jade's Luck's ability. Children were healed. A-Dom asked Gareth to make a statue of him for the kids. Gareth made a perfectly accurate representation of A-Dom (complete with club and dress). A-Dom "thanked" Gareth for the statue and said he didn't want to give that one to his kids. Gareth asked if they should give it to Chuck-Chuck. A-Dom said no, they should put it somewhere it wouldn't be seen. They ended up taking it to the Cave of Doom. They had a brief conversation with the Doom Spirit. He asked if the statue was full of Doom. A-Dom said that it wasn't but that sounded cool. The Doom Spirit told him to put it closer to the Doom then. That was ultimately decided to be a bad idea. Before they left, Jade's Luck realized the ulterior reason for coming to the island and thwarted all attempts to deal with the list Tiger & A-Dom's way. Tiger tried to stay behind and Jade's Luck tried to send the others along to the East while she tried to figure out the whole soul thing without killing. It was pointed out that she was the one who made the contractual agreement with the Red Oak tribe, so her presence was kind of needed. She dropped all subtlety and told them she wasn't going to let them just go around killing the people on the list. Large, drawn out, circular argument ensued. Gareth got significantly closer to Limit Breaking. Since A-Dom and his trustworthiness were insulted several times, so did he. It was pointed out that she wouldn't trust A-Dom and Tiger not to go behind her back without an Eclipse to sanctify an agreement. Jade's Luck: Fine. I’ll :):):):)ing kill the kid myself! Jade's Luck wanted an indefinite amount of time to figure out how to repo the souls without killing the people that were using them. A-Dom pointed out that this was unreasonable since, if it took her 70 years or so, the point would be moot anyway given the people with the bad souls would just die (and so would the ones she wanted to give souls to). She finally said that she wanted one year to try and figure out how to do things her way. Jade's Luck: [b][u]One year from today, if I haven't figured out how to repossess the souls safely, then we'll do things your way[/u][/b][u][/u]. Tiger shrugged. Gareth didn't really care; pointing out it was Jade's Luck's legal agreement with Heaven anyway. A-Dom agreed to this, but also pointed out that the painter guy had been about to do something very bad and the other souls might also be about to do something. One year might be too late. He postulated about things his kid might do in that time to kill off his island. Gareth grumbled about his reason for the group going back to Atlantis had just been destroyed. Jade's Luck said that, if he wanted to go to Atlantis, then he should just tell the group he wanted to go there. He responded that he had, but had been vetoed already. Eventually the group headed back to Elemental Island. A-Dom collected Foursey to take him to the Manse in the East. He said that, if something weird happened to him in the portal, Jade's Luck could just slap it out of him. Foursey proved he could resist the Wyld on his own. Jade's Luck pointed out that, since her charm specified beings of Creation, she wasn't sure it would it would have affected Foursey anyway. Since they couldn't take Foursey into the village, A-Dom knocked over a tree, hollowed it out, and put it over the undead monkey butler. He said they'd pick him up on the way out. They remembered that Bianca was the one who spoke Red Oak, so figured they'd need a translator if need be. They wandered into the village and found some of the Whale villagers. They were adjusting nicely. They liked vegetables and had integrated to a non-fishing lifestyle. There wasn't as much water as they'd like, but they had a river at least. They had learned enough Red Oak to be able to converse with the other villagers. Those that hadn't liked the lifestyle had left. They went and talked to the Red Oak elders (with a translator). They were happy with the new members of the tribe and the nonslave thing was working out nicely. They did have one problem child that didn't fit in. The kid was a little terror, had Shark Eyes, Fangs and Claws. His name was in Red Oak, which roughly translated to 'Hey! Stop That! No No!' They wanted the group to take the child off their hands. A-Dom said they'd take him back to his wife for her to deal with. The rest of the Circle felt bad for his wife. The group was shown the child. In many ways, it was a lot like Steggy; liked to bash into things and was very impulsive. He was also very demanding. After spending a little time with NoNo, they learned he wasn't very bright. Since he only spoke Red Oak, Jade's Luck taught him Uk-Luk-Muk-Muk-Chuk and Sea tongue, so that he could converse with the group and his future surrogate mother. A-Dom explained to the kid that he was his father and that he'd be going with the group. The kid said that he didn't look like his dad. A-Dom explained that he used to look like him when he was his dad. This confused the child (and others). A-Dom failed to correct himself, but made himself look like he did when he was Wyld Mutated before switching back to normal. Gareth made comments about teaching the child Temperance. Jade's Luck was against that, saying the kid was just acting like a little kid and would learn Temperance. Gareth reminded her who his father was, but said he'd just teach the child Intelligence for now. There were lots of comments of him, Steggy and possible matchmaking coming from Jade's Luck. He said girls were icky. They left the village and went back to collect Foursey. Since the child was now smarter, he was a little afraid of Foursey. A-Dom explained that Foursey was okay. They discussed for a little bit about how they would get NoNo back through the Portal. Gareth suggested he empower the child and teach him Integrity Protecting Prana. This was decided to be a bad idea (due to the increasing xp deficit of the child). They settled on creating a coffin sized artifact that would be impervious to the Wyld. That way they could get the Mice through too. Plus, if it was a coffin, they'd be able to find everything they needed to build it in Sijan. Jade's Luck objected to calling it a coffin. It was explained that that was just for proportion descriptive purposes. A-Dom picked up Gareth, Jade's Luck, Foursey and NoNo and sped off towards Sijan. Tiger went back through the Portal and then reset it to the island next to Sijan. He hung out in Sijan until the others arrived. When they got to the outskirts of Sijan. A-Dom slowed down and let the others off. Up ahead, they saw the Silver Mask of Heroic Justice walking on the road. A-Dom tried to mock him, but failed. Silver Mask said he was walking because he felt like it. When A-Dom asked him if he knew of any maidens that needed saving, he said he didn't and had already saved 6 maidens that day. Silver Mask asked about Foursey and A-Dom said he was going to put him in his manse. Silver Mask asked if he could do it delicately this time. He said yes. He asked where the lanterns were to be lit. Silver Mask said that Sijan didn't have any lanterns. A-Dom commented on needing to talk to the Mortician about things. They asked him about the whereabouts of the 'mortals they left here last time' (pirates). He said the fat one now owned the Inn. The previous owner had died under mysterious circumstances. He figured that he'd know where the others were. They said goodbye and headed into town to the Mortician's dwelling. Tiger sensed them and met up with the group before heading in to see the Mortician. They entered the Shadowland at noon, so they would not be emerging into the Underworld with NoNo. The Mortician greeted them cheerfully. He said that the grave goods scheme was working nicely. A-Dom apologized for the destruction last time. Mortician said that it had caused some problems, since he hadn't been able to implement the Grave Goods charges yet. A-Dom told him he was going to install Foursey in the Manse, but would be the only one going up and would do it carefully. They talked about the coffin sized artifact that they wanted to build. He suggested that they get an air spirit to reside inside so that people always had air. He suggested that it knock people out so that those inside wouldn't freak out about being inside for a long period of time. He said that it should probably be armored so that it wasn't destroyed by things trying to break in. He also suggested it create food so that they don't starve to death over long periods of time. They explained that it was for very short trips, so they didn't feel it needed to create food for the people. Windows were discussed but discarded, since people can go insane from looking at the Wyld. Finally, he suggested that it be padded inside for comfort. This got into a discussion about how he was trying to get people to buy into padded coffins, but was having trouble. A-Dom asked if the people had a residence when they died. The mortician responded only if their house had burnt down. So A-Dom explained that they could be sold as a place to sleep for the dead while they waited to move on. The Mortician liked that idea. A-Dom said he wasn't done with book 2 yet and asked if he knew who had book 3. The Mortician said he didn't know, but would keep his eye out for it. A-Dom asked the Mortician where the lanterns were stored. The Mortician explained that they had stopped being used after the First Age, had fallen into disrepair and were now gone. A-Dom expressed a desire to build, place and light exactly 100 of them in the city. The Mortician said that he'd want them evenly spaced and he'd have a guy check them over to give an okay before they were allowed to light any. He said he'd have a map drawn up for placements. They thanked him for his time and left. [/QUOTE]
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