[Exalted] Solar Circle of the West - whole slew of updates 3/8/09

[Ao the Overkitty]

Synopsis of 3/12/06
On the road even!
Subtitle: So we should ALL be tattooed!
Subtitle 2: Hmm... You know we are impatient.
Subtitle 3: Boat are like Mortals.
by AlwaysToast

A-Dom tries to explain to Gareth that the Unconquered Sun sent Gareth a present in the form of the Abyssal that they killed. But in a rambling Jahar like way.


Tiger: A-Dom are you making things worse?

A-Dom: No. I’m making them better. (To Gareth) If you’re making any plans... let me know so I can get my affairs in order.

Gareth: I should start a month of apology. I think from now on, I’ll blame the Primodials until I get better evidence.

A-Dom: Yay Unconquered Sun.

Jade’s Luck, Bianca, and Tiger head off to the barbarian town. A-Dom and Gareth (due to the Don’t leave A-Dom alone with the Mortals rule) stay with the locals from inside the whale. Gareth starts his prayers of apology.

Before they get to town, Jade’s Luck makes herself really beautiful with her artifact scarf. So her appearance is a 5.

Jade’s Luck (to Bianca): You’re going to have to figure out how to talk to these people... soon. If they don’t speak any language we know. What we want is fairly strait forward. I think we should march in there and be straight forward about it.

Bianca: I think that makes sense.

Liz: We wander up to town!

Dan: On the road even!

The group eventually finds out the chief of the village is out in a field working. So they go out into the field to talk to the Chief. Bianca decides to learn the local barbarian language: Red Oak (it’s the Red Oak tribe).

Jade’s Luck: We’re representatives of the Unconquered Sun. (Jade’s Luck points up)

Bianca [Red Oak]: We’re representatives of the Unconquered Sun. The bright thing in the sky.

Tiger: The source of life!

Chief [Red Oak]: What does the Sun want?

Bianca [RO]: He has some... very special people. To bring in and help you guys out.

Chief [RO] (All happy): Slaves?
Bianca [RO]: No, no, not slaves. Their hard workers. Good folk. Fishers.

Chief [RO]: But we’re farmers.

Bianca [RO]: But think of all the fish you could have. And fertilizer!

Chief [RO]: So how many people does the sun want to give us?

Bianca [RO]: 200

The chief wanders off to talk to a number of the other men of the village. Bianca is able to overhear things like ‘Crazy woman is offering me 200 slaves.’ Bianca tells the others what they are talking about.

Jade’s Luck: We are defiantly going to have to flashy thing that non-slaves part. Did you mention to them that on behalf of the Unconquered Sun we will intercede with any arrant spirits in the area. Or the Wyld or monsters, or that we are empowered to help out with stuff like that. Try to mention that. Try to glow too. That helps.

Bianca [RO]: We can also help you with any spirits or monster problems in exchange for letting these people enter your community. As equals... in your community.

Chief [RO]: No can be equals. Can only be one Chief!

Bianca [RO]: No, they will be equal with your people. They will be tribe members. (Bianca was trying to say Citizens but the language didn’t have such a word.)

Chief [RO]: We go discuss with old wise woman. You stay here. We come back.

Bianca (to group): They are going to discuss with their old wise woman.

Jade’s Luck: If they don’t come to a satisfactory resolution, we may have to deal with the old wise woman.

Dan and Ryan get into a discussion about having A-Dom sleep with the old wise woman, which ends with Dan saying: ‘If you drink enough, it smoothes out the wrinkles.’ Which broke Ryan, and disturbed everyone else.

Jade’s Luck: We’re going to pray while we are waiting, since apparently we are in the .

Tiger decides to wait for an hour. Then sneaks into the village. He goes looking for a good hut that the Old Wise Woman might live in. While looking around he eventually figures out that there is a flimsy dilapidated and really crappy looking hut, surrounded by the Chief’s friends. Tiger goes over to the flimsy old wise woman’s hut, and sits in the shade, right next to the hut, so he can listen in on the conversation (in a language he doesn’t speak). Eventually, one of the chief’s friends spots Tiger, starts talking at him angrily. Tiger tries to explain through pantomime that he’s just sitting in the shade. The Chief’s friend goes around into the hut and there is some angry talking. Tiger leaves.

A little while later, Jade’s Luck and Bianca see the Chief and his men walking towards them looking unhappy.

Chief [RO]: We went to talk to old wise woman. She told us to give you test to see if you are wise and patient. (Looks over at Tiger) We will not deal with you.

Bianca (To Tiger): No killing.

Jade’s Luck: Live mortals good. Dead mortals Baaaaaad. Even if they are currently annoying us right now. Hmm... You know we are impatient. Maybe we should go apologize.

Bianca: Good idea.

Jade’s Luck: Then she won’t accept our apology. We may have to sit outsider her hut for several days. They probably have ideas about the higher your status the more humble you are suppose to be or something like that. So living in a crappy hut must be the epitome of virtue. That’s my theory anyway.

Gareth is spending his time making weapons for the Locals from the whale. A-Dom is sitting around singing with them.

Tiger shows the others where the hut is.

Jade’s Luck: Tell her we want to apologize to her.

Bianca [RO] (trying to be sad and pathetic): Hello. We’d like to apologize for our inpatients!

Alex: Impatiently!

This time, the group is willing to wait for as long as it takes. Even Tiger. Two days later, the old Wise Woman comes out of the hut.

Ryan: She’s not really wise. Just really slow.

Old Woman [RO]: All right. I’ll hear your apology now.

Bianca [RO]: We would just like to apologize for our lack of patients and good manners. Please take our people.

Jade’s Luck: We are just anxious for the people our god has entrusted to us.

Tiger: Don’t say Anxious!

Jade’s Luck: Because why?

Tiger: Because we just sat outside for two days to proved how patient we are. Don’t screw it up now.

Jade’s Luck: Anxious means worried. Just apologize for our bad behavior.

Bianca [RO]: We are just trying to find a tribe to take our people into their fold. We are worried for their well fair.

Old Woman [RO]: Very well. I will discuss this again with the chief.

Bianca [RO]: We’ll wait.

The Old Wise Woman wanders off very slowly. Jade’s Luck rushes behind a bush. When finished she goes back to praying. The Chief comes back two hours later.

Chief [RO]: We take your 200 people but you have to do two things. We have some people who passed away. Who must be taken to Sijan.

Dan: Yeehaw! (Dan starts jumping up and down in his seat)

Chief [RO]: You must make sure they get their safely and properly. Two: you must come back in three years. If we are not happy with them, you take them away.

Bianca translates the message for the others.

Jade’s Luck: Get a full explanation of everything that needs to be done for the dead. We also need about a week to explain things to our people. Get them caught up on the last thousand years.

Bianca and the chief arrange for written instructions of what must be done for the dead. She also gets the list of local laws. They then tell them they will be back in a week.

So the deal: In exchange for taking in 200 people as tribesmen, the group will properly transport the dead bodies they have to Sijan, and will return in three years and take away any people the tribe is not happy with.

Bianca, Jade’s Luck, and the Chief all shake on it as Bianca does the flashy thing. They then go back to the people from the whale. They find them much more heavily armed, and playing the A-Dom Olympics. There has been one fatality. Someone tried to emulate A-Dom, and broke his neck. The crowd was convinced the dead guy was an idiot.

Jade’s Luck: We need to Tattoo: Don’t Try This Yourself, across A-Dom’s chest, in every language that we know.

A-Dom: Oh yea... you try that...

Jade’s Luck: Well you are a pretty amazing specimen next to a mere mortal. So it wouldn’t be a bad idea to warn people...

A-Dom: So we should ALL be tattooed!

Jade’s Luck: Probably.

A-Dom: Why don’t we just get matching shirts and let it all go. (Pause) I was just you know... trying to have a games so maybe one of them would Exalt. Then, we could all wander off.

Jade’s Luck then explains what they have been doing and what the deal is.

A-Dom: Do we have to kill a giant fish for them or anything?

Jade’s Luck: We have to take some dead people to Sijan for them.

A-Dom (supper happy voice): Really!?!

Jade’s Luck: I think we might have to get on one of those ‘B’ word things and go up river.

Gareth: Excellent! So we’re walking...

A-Dom: Did they have any brewers?

Jade’s Luck (annoyed but falsely chipper): I didn’t stop to ask.

A-Dom (to Gareth): We’ll be forced to build a crappy boat in front of you. I don’t remember which end is the front.

Tiger: A-Dom will have to hold Gareth, while we build the boat.

A-Dom (to Bianca): How much stone do you want for this boat?

Bianca: Well the more we have the better it should float!

Bianca starts teaching the people from the Whale, the local Red Oak language. At some point Jade’s Luck gives them the ‘abbreviated history’ of the last thousand years. Which has a great deal of omission. Short Version: We were overthrown, Then we all took a nap, and now we are awake and taking things back over.

A-Dom (talking to Gareth): You’re boats are not cursed. Boats are like mortals...

Jade’s Luck: NO they are NOT! Mortals are alive!

Tiger: Let him finish his analogy.

A-Dom (rambling): Boat are like Mortals. There is going to be some collateral damage. If you just make wagons from now on, some day we will be fighting flying fish and when they die they will just fall on your wagons and break them too. You need to learn to be less materialistic! Give me your artifacts! Point being, any mode of travel we take other then walking, can be destroyed. So unless you make a boat that can fight things... or we could steal one from the Realm.

Jade’s Luck: Or we could make one from Jade or Orichalcum.

A-Dom: Cause that’s not hard to hide. (Yelling) Hello Atlantis! We’re perfectly Normal! Ignore our ship! Why yes the path we just took through the ocean is now made of jade. Yes you can walk back to the East now. Thank the Unconquered Su... I mean Dragons.

They send Gareth ahead to make huts at the village. As he is ‘being a great big disappointment’ about the construction of a new boat. Then they move the people from the whale into the village.

While the group is discussing what to do with the ex-pirates, the Chief comes up to Bianca and informs her that she is short. Meaning, Bianca promised exactly 200 new tribesmen (and sanctified it with the Eclipse oath), but they don’t have 200 survivors from the whale at this point. They are down to 190 people. (191 -1 (from the A-Dom Olympics accident) = 190.)

Jade’s Luck gets some of the pirates to ‘volunteer’ to stay behind with the promise that they will be taken back to the west in three years if they don’t like it there. So they get four pirates to stay behind, but 3 of the Pirates want to go with them. Fatty and two others will be going with them.

Still being a little short they tell the chief that they have the right number. As some of the women are pregnant. So they count as two.

Rules for Transporting the Dead of the Red Oak Tribe:
Bodies may not be desecrated in any way. No parts lost, burned, etc.
Bodies must be transported on land only. (Bridges are OK for crossing
rivers, boats are not, however, they are on the right side of the river anyway.)
Bodies may not be touched by the Black Oak Clan.
Bodies must be taken to Sijan whole and must arrive within two months of their death.
Bodies must be buried under a Red Oak in Sijan (money for plots provided).

Jade’s Luck: When did they die?

Cheif’s answer: 3 weeks ago.

Liz: How far away is Sijan?

GM: About a month and a half away.

Jade’s Luck (to Gareth): You want to make nice sturdy boxes? So when we get waylaid by the Black Oak Clan it will be much harder for them to try to reach the bodies?

A-Dom: Boxes within boxes!

Gareth decides to build a Hearse. A wagon, with 4 wheels (and spring suspension), a comfy place on top to sleep, and compartments (6 spots) on the inside, for coffins to go inside. Pained black. Since the realize there will be problems with the pirates keeping up.

A-Dom: Are their red oaks in Sijan?

Gareth: Didn’t you read the brochure?

A-Dom: Only the part with the Wretched Tomb on it. And since we are going to be in the neighborhood...

Jade’s Luck: There is drool on that part.

A-Dom: But it probably has my artifacts in it.

Jade’s Luck: Well if there are any notes, maybe we should let everyone read them before any of the artifacts are picked up.

A-Dom: Can we flashy thing that? Can we PLEASE flashy thing that?

Jade’s Luck: I couldn’t go down the last hole. So we don’t want to flashy thing things that would be bad for us. What if someone is knocked out and can’t read it.

A-Dom: Then we WAIT!

Ryan: I want my Mecha!

Jade’s Luck: Tiger if there is a note, please don’t pick it up and put it in your pocket.

Tiger: Well maybe if someone (looking at A-Dom) was a little more trusting.

A-Dom: Captain Dripping Poison... Shut up!

The three people they are transporting are:

Kael: A housewife.
Wintermoon: Master Brewer.
Joesun: Killer of the Chieftain of the Black Oak Clan.

A-Dom (after hearing Wintermoon the brewer): Really?

Jade’s Luck: No! No! Absolutely not!

A-Dom: What do the rules say about what we do after we drop them off?

Jade’s Luck: You are NOT talking about this in front of two people who just flashy thinged that agreement?

A-Dom: We’ll go over here to talk about that.

Gareth (to A-Dom): Do you want a Harness?

A-Dom: This is going to end badly.

Gareth: To pull the cart?

A-Dom: No to carry the pirates.

Dan: Like Fesik!

Gareth: Well there are 6 slots and only 3 bodies. So I guess they can go in their.

Jade’s Luck: No! That might be sleeping space for us, who won’t get freaked out. But they are not traveling for a month inside a coffin space.

Gareth makes a wagon for the pirates. A three wheeled trailer to go behind the Hearse.

The Pulling teams are:
A-Dom
Gareth and Bianca
Tiger and Jade’s Luck

So whoever just pulled last gets to sleep. As they are planning on basically going non-stop except for essential stops.

A-Dom: Fatty! Be more wind resistant!

Fatty: Don’t you mean less?

A-Dom: Fatty don’t help!
Tiger: A-Dom we should just go acquire some horses.

A-Dom (laughing maniacally): No that would be bad. The horses will tire out or something. Let’s not complicate things any more. This is a Solar powered wagon.

During Gareth and Bianca’s turn at pulling, Tiger spots an ambush up ahead.

Tiger: Ambush ahead.

Jade’s Luck: Should I wake A-Dom?

Tiger: Looks to be about 60 of them. I guess we should wake him up. Ether that or I’ll just take ‘em.

They are traveling along the bottom of a valley with hills on both sides, covered with trees. So there are people in the trees with bows and in the underbrush with spears and swords waiting for them. While Tiger is explaining this, Gareth refuses to stop.

Jade’s Luck: Gareth Stop!

Tiger (dead pan): Or at least slow down.

Gareth: Are they on both sides?

Jade’s Luck: And in front.

A-Dom decides to order the ex-pirates into the hearse. When they fail to show enough enthusiasm, A-Dom activates his Dawn caste power. The other crew members push Fatty into the small compartment. Bianca stops pulling and climbs on top of the Hearse. A-Dom then goes running up ahead of the Hearse, strait into the ambush area.

A-Dom (With his voice projecting for miles, looking really huge, in Sea tongue, as A-Dom doesn’t speak any local languages): We do not appreciate ambushes, you Black-Oak-Sons-Of-Bitches.

Sadly, everyone hears him, but few fear him. The only one who runs in fear is a nine year old boy.

Ryan: I need more Charisma.

Gareth summons his sword and armor and cuts to the right, as Tiger goes left, and A-Dom takes the center. Jade’s Luck, realizing that nobody is pushing (or driving) the cart, jumps down and takes over the cart duty. Once Gareth is far enough away from the cart, he activates his sword, creating the sphere of destruction around him, as he feels removing the underbrush and trees from the area will prevent people from hiding in them. At this point Gareth’s anima Bear is wandering around above him.

A-Dom just kind of wanders forward casually. As Jade’s Luck is not exactly running him over. Gareth, Tiger, and A-Dom basically mowing through the ambush and the forest, with roughly equal levels of destruction. As 20 mooks each really wasn’t slowing them down.

Gareth was the closest to the Dragon-Blooded leader. However, being Gareth, he didn’t notice the Dragon-Blood up in a tree with a powerbow shooting down at Gareth. Also as Gareth is constantly getting pelted by wood and... body parts, that are being shredded around him, he’s failing to notice the arrows that are bouncing off his armor. However, Tiger and A-Dom both spot the Dragon-blood from all the way across the battle, and both decide that it’s most important to kill him.

A-Dom (Still being heard for miles, in Sea tongue): Dragon-Blood! (Then he points at him, to help Gareth spot him. Except Gareth is facing the wrong way.)

Tiger (from the far side of the battle ground): I’ve got him!

Gareth (having botched his check), is charging the wrong man, a man on the ground.

Gareth: Blood, Death and Pain!

Gareth runs up to him... then is confused when he is shredded to bits long before he is able to attack.

Gareth (Yelling, kind of annoyed): That was a wimpy Dragon-Blood.

A-Dom: Not Him!

Tiger (Yelling, as he is flying through the air): I said I got it!

A-Dom: Him! (Still pointing, which is still a crappy way to get one-eyed Gareth to know who you are talking about.)

Tiger Monkey-leap’s at the Dragon-Blood in the tree. A-Dom, Monkey-leaps at the tree that the Dragon-blood is standing on. Tiger gets a number of attacks in before A-Dom even gets there. A-Dom hits the center of the tree, feet first, splitting it in half, sending the top (with Tiger and the Dragon-Blood in it) careening towards the road, apparently perfectly aimed to land on top of the hearse.

Ryan: Excellent... wait, what?

Jade’s Luck tries very hard to get the Hearse out of the way.

Tiger (Yelling): A-Dom, CATCH!

A-Dom looks down and sees the shadow of the top of the tree is right over the hearse. While balancing on the remains of the bottom of the tree grabs turns to grab a hold of the top half of the tree, and tries to muscle the top of the tree back over his shoulder. Tiger decides it would be a good idea to no longer be in this tree.

Ryan (yelling at Dan who told him how many successes he got, which was 9): Stop helping! You’re not helping!

A-Dom with impressive effort has managed to launch the top of the tree far away from him with a mighty heave. Then A-Dom noticed that the tree was hurtling towards a small village community not too far off.

Ryan: oh Jesus. Rinse and repeat!

A-Dom monkey leaps after it, grapples the top of the tree and spikes it into the ground.

Liz: Touchdown!

Alex: Gardening with A-Dom!

Liz: Are the survivors running away yet?

GM: What survivors?

A-Dom manages to spike well over half of it’s height into the ground. Burying the Dragon-Blood deep in the ground. A-Dom then lands next to the tree, just outside the village to stop and catch his breath. He sees a little child. It's important to realize they don't have any language in common.

Child [Black Oak]: Who are you great demon?

A-Dom [Sea-tongue]: Yea, good... (mumbles incoherently ) go play with the tree.

A-Dom hears the kid repeat himself a few times, and eventually figures out the child might be asking his name.

A-Dom (Still projecting his voice for miles. Very slowly, and with a wink and double point (think the Fonz, or Buddy Christ)): Aaaaaaa-Dom

Child [Black Oak]: Aaaaaaa-Dom, slayer of all men! Eater of trees and souls!(Runs back to the village)

A-Dom: Hey, that’s me! Excellent. Need more linguistics. Wonder what he was saying.

Ryan: I take note of where we are so I can come back!

Tiger: Where’s the body?

A-Dom (still projecting his voice for miles): I think I planted it. He may have dropped his stuff... over this mile of forest.

Gareth (Yelling from far off, and having taken back over pushing the cart): You’re lagging behind!

Tiger: Well, I hope that counts as a proper burial. Jade’s Luck, want to say something over the tree?

Gareth: That’s what the village is for!

So, first A-Dom pulls up the tree he planted. But they don’t find anything that wasn’t squished when A-Dom drove it into the ground, including the corpse of the Dragon-Blood. Jade’s Luck scorches the thin red smear, just to be sure. A-Dom then ‘respectfully puts the tree back.’

A-Dom then digs a mass grave next to the road. He and Tiger bury the bodies of all the men of the Black Oak Village in the one hole. Then A-Dom uproots a Black Oak tree and plants it on top of the mass grave. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck’s then say
‘respectful things over the grave.’

A-Dom (at the end of his words): May your corpses feed this beautiful tree.

Tiger: But not in any evil way.

A-Dom, Jade’s Luck and Tiger then go running to catch up with Hearse.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Synopsis of 3/26/07

We corrupted a Death Lord!
Subtitle: I agree with the Death Knight.
Subtitle: He’s a better solar then we are.
-By Always Toast


Ryan: A-Dom has been trying to pray.

Alex: A-Dom is trying. He’s failing, but he’s trying.

Dan: I didn’t get an immediate result, so YOU!

Ryan: See this is why I do bad. Because I hang around with you people, and you’re all pessimists. Then I get caught up in it... and... call god an , and charms stop working.

As Gareth and Bianca are pulling the Hearse along after the fight, Pursy says ‘Oh look! A new person.’ Pursy’s multi chromatic tongue shoots out and swallows Bianca.

Gareth: Would you want to wash that down with a beer Pursy?

Pursy: Oh yes!

Gareth: Sorry, we’re out.

A-Dom: That’s just mean.

Jade’s Luck (to Gareth): Jeez, what’s wrong with you?

Tiger: Taunting people like that. It’s not right.

Gareth: I’m taunting the Wyld artifact.

A-Dom: Don’t taunt the Wyld. It never ends well. We... seemed to have slowed down.

Gareth: Not that much.

A-Dom: It’s the thought that counts really.

Fatty (muffled): Can we get out now? It’s hot in here.

The two ex-pirates climb out.

Ex-Pirate #1 (Pointing at Fatty): We think he’s stuck.

A-Dom: If we blow really hard on one end, he’ll shoot out the other.

Gareth: I’m pushing right now. We’re not stopping.

A-Dom grabs Fatty and ‘gently’ yanks Fatty out from where he is wedged inside the hearse.

The group after many days comes to what appears to be a real road as opposed to cutting cross country, as opposed to cutting cross country.

A-Dom agrees to help Gareth with developing his force of personality while they travel, but has to promise A-Dom that at some point in the future he will build a boat. Which he does.

After two weeks they start coming towards a town.

Gareth: A-Dom, get off and get some real food. Make sure you get some for the pirates too.

Gareth hands A-Dom some jade.

A-Dom: Ok!

Ex-Pirates: Grog!

Gareth: Crap! You can’t speak the language here.

A-Dom: I speak my own language.

Jade’s Luck: I speak the language in nexus, so hopefully, someone speaks that here.

Tiger: I speak all the realm languages.

Gareth: You two are our best luck. (Gareth takes the money back from A-Dom and gives it to Jade’s Luck.) Catch up!

Tiger: We’ll get more food, less beer this way.

Gareth: You want to take A-Dom with you?

Jade’s Luck: If we need to carry any boats, we’ll call for him.

Jade’s Luck and Tiger head into town and find a marketplace to shop at, as the Hearse trundles past without stopping. Jade’s Luck makes herself extra beautiful (appearance 5) with her artifact Scarf.

A-Dom (to Gareth): Did you just get a shiver? Something’s horribly wrong with the universe.

Jade’s Luck uses Frugal Merchant’s Method (and some flirting) to buy everything one merchant has, real cheap.

Merchant: Maybe you’ll be coming back to town someday soon. Looking for a good husband.

Jade’s Luck: Yes, I might come back sometime.

Tiger and Jade’s Luck then run to catch up to the Hearse with their large amounts of goods.

A-Dom (upon seeing Jade’s Luck): What the hell happened to you.

Jade’s Luck: I have this thing that I found somewhere that lets me change how I look.

Gareth: Don’t you remember when she made herself look like a Dragon-blood?

A-Dom: You know I drink a lot.

Gareth: Shortly after we exalted.

A-Dom: With the harbor and stuff?

Jade’s Luck: Yes!

A-Dom: Yea... it’s hard to drink those things out of ya. But I’m trying.

Gareth: Did you get beer? Hand me a mug! Pushing is thirsty work.

A-Dom: Hey there hussy. While we’re running about, you want to teach me performance?

Jade’s Luck: We’ll work on prayer!

Gareth: In two more weeks could you teach me that all over again?

Ryan: This is a great mechanic, cause it actually forces us to use team work. Not enough. But it’s nice.

While running along one day, they see an average old man along the side of the road. The old man waves. Gareth waves back.

Tiger: Relative of yours?

Gareth: No.

Gareth throws him a mug, with Gareth’s name written on it (marketing ploy).

Tiger: Advertising? We’re on the wrong side of the world! You’re never going to see him again. He’s never going to be able to buy from you.

Gareth (to A-Dom): Ok then, you push for a moment!

A-Dom: NO!

The group doesn’t stop so they keep trundling along and don’t stop. They keep going for a few more days. It appears most of the group spends most of their time praying when not pushing.

Eventually they come to a big ravine. Which they have to travel along for a few miles before they spot a bridge across it. As they get closer Tiger and Jade’s Luck see someone on the bridge. A-Dom notices that there is a wounded child who is crying on the bridge.

A-Dom curses a lot then tells the others what he sees.

A-Dom: If we push him off the bridge, Jade’s Luck will get upset. And it’s probably a trap.

Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we stop the hearse here, you and Tiger can go up and see what it is, instead of taking all the stuff we don’t want to lose on the bridge which might be trapped.

Gareth: Crap, Tiger and A-Dom are unlikely to be able to speak the language.

Gareth decides to stay with the hearse (with the ex-pirates), while the others go up to the bridge.

Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: Hello, what happened to you?

Kid [Riverspeak]: Monsters attacked my village. (He points off to the north where a village is visible in the distance).

Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: And you got away?

Kid [Riverspeak] (Crying): They ate my puppy.

Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: That’s terrible.

Alex: Clearly a trap.

Jade’s Luck [Riverspeak]: You look like you could use some bandaging and maybe a biscuit.

Liz: I’m out of cookies. Damn it I want a cup cake now.

The small child is very scared, and very confused, especially by the offer of a biscuit. Jade’s Luck picks up the child and takes it to Gareth for medical attention. Jade’s Luck then explains stuff to the group. Gareth fixes up the kid.

Gareth: Ok let’s head over there.

Jade’s Luck asks the ex-pirates to take care of the kid.

Fatty [River Speak]: Yea, we’ll take dealing with the little kid over the monsters. Come here kid! You know what rum is?

Tiger (To Gareth): How do we know he (the child) isn’t a monster.

Gareth: I was thinking that.

Tiger activates All-Seeing Sorcerers Sight, and notices that the child seems to be lacking in life energy. So Tiger gets Jade’s Luck to ask him what the monster looked like.

Kid [Riverspeak]: It was 30ft tall and had huge fangs!

Tiger: We’ll he’s had some kind of life sucked out of him.

Tiger turns his caste mark on. Then has Jade’s Luck ask him if he saw one of those, except in blood. The kid answers to the negative, and reaffirm that it was 30 ft tall.

A-Dom: He’s a little kid, he probably thinks I’m 30 ft tall.

The group (well everyone but Gareth) notices something hurtling through the air towards them, apparently having been thrown out of the town. Tiger keen eyesight spots that it’s a dead cow.

Tiger: Gareth! Dodge everyone!

A-Dom: dodge! (A-Dom pulls out his club) I parry!

A-Dom tries to bat the cow back towards town.

From inside Pursy, Bianca’s voice: Don’t hurt the cow!

Pursy: Too late!

The cow flies back into town and hits the roof of one of the buildings.

A-Dom: That will teach the building... throw cows at me will ya.

The little kid becomes terrified of A-Dom. A-Dom tries to explain, realizes he doesn’t know any languages the kid knows. So he shoots the kid a wink and a double point.

The group starts discussing lightning speed and Monkey Leap game mechanics.

Alex: Gareth does everything faster.

Everyone: This is why he doesn’t have a wife.

Ryan: Where the hell are the cup cakes!?!

Jade’s Luck: Are we going to be stealthy, or run in their glowy?

A-Dom thumps his club into his hand a few times, and yells ‘Huzzah!’ as he charges forwards.

So they go charging into town. With animas glowing like mad before they even get there.

Ryan: It’s my little secret

Liz: What?

Ryan: That A-Dom SUCKS at one on one combat. I like groups.

As Tiger gets closer he sees a lot of high uses of Essence. He even sees what looks like a 30 ft tall wood aspected Fair Folk with a really big sword made out of snakes. There are also a lot of goblins running around and a few normal sized fae running around.

Tiger (Shouting): Looks like a bunch of fair folk guys!

Fae failed to notice Tiger shouting over the sounds of battle.

Tiger runs in and hacks at the giant Fae’s legs.

Big Fae: New Victims!

The group attacks, gets attacked back, normal combat stuff. A-Dom did run up and hit the big Fae in the back of his kneecap with his club, which almost, knocks the Fae down.

Then a dark shape flies into the battle from over the rooftops. Some of them make out that it’s a man with a sword. A-Dom sees that it’s a man dressed all in black, with a silver face mask, and a Soulsteel Grand DaiKlave. A-Dom even hears what the man whispers under his breath.

Man in Black (Whispering): I’m going to kill you, you evil bastards!

A-Dom (confused): Are you talking to us or him?

The man in black cleaves into the Giant Fae with his Grand DaiKlave.
Cleaving him right in half.

A-Dom: (disgusted) Of course... (Chipper) Hi there. How are you?

Man in Black: Busy!

A-Dom: (Trying to sound important) We’re also busy.

Man in Black: Talk to you later then!

Tiger: What are you doing here?

Man in Black: Killing fair folk.

Jade’s Luck: Oh good.

Alex (about Solar anima banners): It burns like hygiene.

A-Dom attempts to bat one of the fae into the three that are attacking Jade’s Luck. However he managed to bury Jade’s Luck under a pile of dead fae.

A-Dom: Sorry ‘bout that!

Ryan: Why do people have to get hurt when I’m cool?

Alex: Because your coolness is lethal.

More combat, many fae die. The Man in Black jumps up onto a goblin’s head, running along the tops of the goblins to get to the last surviving Fair Folk and kills him dead.

A-Dom (to Tiger): I already don’t like this guy.

The group then clears out the little goblins. Jade’s Luck claws her way out from under the pile of dead Fair Folk, stabbing them at random just in case.

Once the battle field starts to clear, the group starts to see a few dead humans in the town. But not as many as one might think.

The Man in Black starts mowing through the goblins. A-Dom starts following behind him.

A-Dom: That’s a Cool Mask.

Man in Black: Thanks!

A-Dom: What kind of Death Knight are you?

Man in Black: Are you guys Anathema or Solars?

Liz starts laughing hysterically.

Tiger: Wait, there is a differences?

A-Dom: What do you define as Anathema?

Man in Black: Solars who are not doing what they are suppose to be doing. They are just running around going bwaaahahahaha!

A-Dom: Well we are having some problems with the direction we should point our niftiness.

He stops talking to A-Dom and walks over to Gareth.

Man in Black (motioning at A-Dom): So, Anathema?

Gareth: He’s our muscle.

Jade’s Luck: He wandered into the Wyld.

Man in Black: You should get someone to fix that.

Jade’s Luck: I’m working on that.

A-Dom: She’s mean. She’s going to take it away.

The group explains the Dragon Blooded use of the word Anathema. The Man in Black explains that is just the Dragon Blooded perversion of the word, and more educated people know the real use for the word.

Man in Black: Are you sure you’re not an Anathema?

A-Dom: I’m a Solar.

Ryan: A-Dom really thinks he is a good guy.

GM: Your delusions are working for you.

A-Dom: We’re going to the place with the tombs.

Man in Black: Sijan?

A-Dom: Yea! There is loot there.

Jade’s Luck: Do you know where the Wyld came from?

Man in Black: Off to the north a long ways. About two weeks north. They sometimes raid this far south. They move very fast.

Gareth: We’re trying to make a six week journey in five weeks.

Man in Black: Ah, special delivery. Need any help with that?

A-Dom: No, but we do appreciate it. Nice Mask!

Man in Black: Thanks! (Sees Tiger looking around for people) Don’t worry I got most of the people out of the town first. Well, really as many as I could.

Tiger: So you wander around Creation Saving people?

Man in Black: Yes!

Tiger: Isn’t that kind of against your nature?

Jade’s Luck: Are you all about making them undead? Or sucking their blood or something?

A-Dom: Wait! Do you have a scary face under the mask?

The Man in Black pulls his silver mask up to revel that he has an incredibly beautiful face. He smiles with perfect white teeth, a great complexion and bright red lips.

Ryan: I really hate him now.

Man in Black: I need to wear the mask so I don’t get Uglified. Plus they really are quite comfortable...

Jade’s Luck: Gareth (Gareth is ignoring her talking to someone else), Gareth, GARETH! You know that thing you do, all the time, to A-Dom. That special thing you do? Are you doing that?

Gareth: Yes.

Man in Black (to Gareth): All with the subtlety isn’t she?

Gareth: No.

Man in Black (to A-Dom): Ok do you get the difference between Solars and Anathema now?

A-Dom: I think so.

Man in Black: Ok there are Death Knights who make sure everything runs properly between Creation and the Underworld.

A-Dom: Right. So like the Bodavista?

Man in Black: Yes! Bodavista, great guy. Then, there are Abyssals. Abyssals are the Anathema of Death Knights. They are the ones that are all ‘Zombies! Arrrahahahah! Kill everyone!?

Jade’s Luck: They are the ones that run around destroying Creation?

Man in Black: Yes! They are all kinds of ed up.

Jade’s Luck: Ok...

A-Dom: Hey! Why do you guys have similar symbols as us?

Man in Black: From what I can tell, the underworld sun borrowed the idea from the Unconquered Sun. Sold him the plans or something.

A-Dom: So it’s like a franchise deal?

Man in Black: We work for the Sun in the Underworld. I think they are cousins.

Jade’s Luck: Umm... the weapons. They are made out of Souls. Doesn’t that screw up the whole reincarnation thing?

Man in Black: No, some souls are just completely corrupt and unrepentable. We use those souls that need to be removed. Abyssals will take anybody’s soul.

Jade’s Luck: So if we find Abyssals we could smush their armor and let the souls out?

Man in Black: Well you could probably do that with magic or necromancy.

Jade’s Luck: The last time we killed one, the armor melted.

Man in Black: That tends to happen. It falls back into the Underworld.

Jade’s Luck: So we’d have to keep the armor here somehow.

Man in Black: Or go into the Underworld to get it.

Jade’s Luck: You’re very interesting.

Man in Black: (all heroic) Thank you! I try!

Jade’s Luck: (mumbling to herself) I have never actually met one of you that I haven’t wanted to slaughter.

Gareth: What is your name?

Man in Black: Shining Heroic Mask of Justice!

A-Dom: They even have better names then us.

SHMoJ: (to A-Dom) You know, you can change your name.

A-Dom: Yea... that’s for pointing that out. To me. I got to work on more of the good reputation before I change my name because they (motions at the circle) are just going to call me a poop-head.

SHMoJ: (to Gareth) So he’s the Anathema you are trying to redeem?

Jade’s Luck: He may have been an Anathema in a previous life.

A-Dom: Wretch. Yea, sorry about creating the Underworld. But then you probably like that. So yea... I’m not sure.

SHMoJ: I’m really just a care taker.

Shining Heroic Mask of Justice and A-Dom talk about how much it sucks that they can’t time travel backwards for a while because it would let them be much more heroic. As they both feel similarly about that.

A-Dom: Wow, you are really great.

SHMoJ: I know.

Jade’s Luck: Once we are done in Sijan, we need to go back to the West. You know any fast ways that we can take back that won’t kill the mortals that are with us? Mortals are really delicate.

SHMoJ: Yea, I know. Collateral damage is bad.

Jade’s Luck: I’m working on a charm to help with that.

SHMoJ: I always have to move people off to the side before a fight.

Gareth: So you put all the mortals in the woods before the fight. Well at least we did it right this time.

SHMoJ: We? I don’t remember you helping before the fight.

A-Dom: We left our mortals behind with the cart. We also found a stray one.

Jade’s Luck goes and gets the kid, and the Shining Heroic Mask of Justice took the kid back to his parents and told the villagers that it was save to go back to the village.

A-Dom: (while SHMoJ is away from the group) I think he should come with. He seems incredibly nice. He’s a better solar then we are.

Gareth: (When SHMoJ comes back) How do you know Sea tongue.

SHMoJ: I have this cousin out west named Dreary.

Gareth: With the mittens?

SHMoJ: (confused) Yea, you know he wears those even in summer?

Jade’s Luck: The mittens are a little creepy.

Tiger: Well don’t you get cold when you’re dead?

SHMoJ: I’m not dead!

Tiger: Almost dead.

SHMoJ: I’m not even almost dead. I’m not even pale!

Jade’s Luck (directed at A-Dom): You don’t DIE when you Exalt. We never DIED. You never DIED.

A-Dom: This is not the time for that argument.

Jade’s Luck: There is always time for that argument!

A-Dom (facing SHMoJ, and pointing at Jade’s Luck): Exaltation anxiety and stuff. She did a very bad thing...

SHMoJ: Hey, nice Hearse!

Gareth: We’re transporting dead people.

SHMoJ: You want a horse for that?

Tiger: It would be nice.

Jade’s Luck: But horses have to rest and stuff.

Tiger: It’s not your familiar is it?

The Shining Mask of Justice snaps his fingers and a ghostly horse appears from nowhere.

A-Dom starts gibbering then says: I can make a ship! I can make a spine chain too.

SHMoJ: Wow, you really do know necromancy. Me I’m not so good with the books.

A-Dom waves around his black book of Necromancy.

Gareth: We were on our way to return that...

A-Dom: We got puked up by a whale. Long story really.

Jade’s Luck: They barf really far apparently.

SHMoJ: I’ll take your word for that.

Gareth: Well let’s start moving!

SHMoJ: So, how fast do you want to go?

Gareth: YES!

SHMoJ: I like him.

Jade’s Luck: We do have mortals along! Slow enough for them to survive please.

SHMoJ: That wagon is held on good right?

Gareth: Of course I built it.

Jade’s Luck: He builds very strong things.

A-Dom: You have to drop very large things on them from very high to break them.

Jade’s Luck: Like mountains.

A-Dom: You know that really big river south of here? (Pause) We clogged it. (Pause) This isn’t the best way to brag is it?

Tiger: Can we get going before A-Dom says anything else?

The ghost horse starts pulling the wagon really fast.

Somehow the group ends up talking about shards and how much personality goes along with them.

Jade’s Luck: So the next person who has my shard is going to want to beat the hell out of me. Great.

SHMoJ: You could try to improve before you die.

Jade’s Luck: I’m praying I do.

A-Dom: Ex-nay on the ad-bay solar-ay.

Liz: Did he just botch his linguistics roll?

Tiger: Don’t worry, you can’t created the Underworld twice.

A-Dom: Oh yes you can. I can make the under-underworld.

SHMoJ: Then we’ll need lethe knights. Don’t do that. It will make my job really confusing.

A-Dom: It’s ok, I’m getting better, I have a list of things to do.

SHMoJ: So what do you do in your spare time?

A-Dom: Necromancy.

Gareth: You really haven’t done that much recently.

SHMoJ: Don’t do it in Sijan.

A-Dom: They get angry?

Jade’s Luck: It works really well?

SHMoJ: No, no, no. You end up in the underworld or something. There are protection wards.

Gareth: Hey, we need the head of a brewer. Know where we can get one?

A-Dom: We’re trying to make a magical keg of beer.

SHMoJ: Grave Robbing is technically against the rules. People like us tend to sneak past those rules. Which is ok as long as we don’t get caught. But you might want to think about how to make people happy with you if your going to do something like that.

Jade’s Luck: Like deal with the ex-brewer?

SHMoJ: Well if you can get someone to will you their skull. That’s fine. We don’t care as long as it’s consensual. Or what you could do is go into the underworld, talk a dead brewer into it.

A-Dom: So we go into the underworld, make a deal to get permission, so we can go and steal the skull?

Jade’s Luck: It’s not stealing cause we have permission.

SHMoJ: You see ghosts are hanging around the Underworld because they have things that are not done. If you do stuff for them, then they can move on. Just make sure you take someone who can speak the right language, because ghosts don’t pick up new languages.

A-Dom: We also try to right the wrongs of Dragon-Bloods and make the world a better place.

SHMoJ: How’s that going for you?

Everyone: Not so well.

A-Dom: We’re starting in the east... and working our way west. We’re new at this. You know about a lot of soulsteel surrounding our god?

SHMoJ: No. That would be in heaven? (A-Dom nods) Yea, we’re more with the Underworld. Don’t know anything about what’s going on in heaven. Since we don’t have to go there.

A-Dom: But... if you were an evil Abyssal... you could go there and do that right?

Jade’s Luck: Is there anything stopping Abyssals from going to heaven?

SHMoJ: I heard there are some really big dogs at the door.

A-Dom: Oh, yea, we met them. How do you get a lot of soul steel into Heaven then?

SHMoJ: I guess you’d have to be really sneaky.

Gareth: Oh, god damn it. Really sneaky... short/tall...

SHMoJ: Have you met any of those guys? They are so annoying.

Jade’s Luck: Motherers...

SHMoJ: Do you know what they are called?

Jade’s Luck: We are calling them Motherers for now.

Jade’s Luck then repeats the groups theories about a certain group of Exalts.

A-Dom: We should call them Planetards.

SHMoJ: They also seem to know when is going to happen.

A-Dom: Yea...

Jade’s Luck: Why would they want to up a god?

A-Dom: They haven’t exactly been playing on our side.

SHMoJ: When did your god get ed up?

A-Dom: Don’t know. Back then.

SHMoJ: So like when you guys lost power?

A-Dom: Yea probably.

SHMoJ: Think those two things might be related?

A-Dom: Probably.

Jade’s Luck: Is there Wyld in the Underworld?

SHMoJ: Yes.

Jade’s Luck: If I destroy the Wyld in Creation, does it destroy the Wyld in the Underworld.

SHMoJ: Yes, maybe, sort of. It will once you start to bury people there.

The group discusses proper burial, and the Shining Mask of Justice encourages them to bury their property with the bodies. Jade’s Luck keeps referring to it as a Pyramid Scheme.

A-Dom: I think the problem is there are too many rules for Creation. Bury them with their stuff. Don’t desecrate the bodies...

SHMoJ: You know how there are all different kinds of Exalts?

A-Dom: Yea.

SHMoJ: Well we each have our jobs. If we were all doing our jobs, things would be better.

A-Dom: Yea, that fell apart long ago.

Jade’s Luck: We need to beat the Dragon-bloods into line.

A-Dom: I’m learning that I don’t have to kill them all. But I want to.

SHMoJ: How are you guys at Brainwashing? We’re not too good at brainwashing.

Gareth: Our Brainwasher is indisposed.

SHMoJ: I think you guys are suppose to brainwash Dragon-bloods.

Jade’s Luck: You don’t think the whole Brainwashing is a little unethical?

SHMoJ: Well you could mess up a number of Dragon-bloods lives and save creation. Or you can let them continue being little -wads, and up creation because you are ethical.

Jade’s Luck: I like your explanation better.

Tiger: Breaking eggs... omelets...

SHMoJ: Really someone’s got to get ed up. It might as well be the Dragon-bloods.

A-Dom: I agree with the Death Knight.

Somehow, the issue of A-Dom becoming a Death Knight comes up. The Shining Heroic Mask of Justice explains that it is possible, but would have to be voluntary.

SHMoJ: We don’t brainwash people. Not our job.

A-Dom: We know the Bodavista. He brainwashed one of us.

SHMoJ: Did he brainwash him, or just talk him into something really, really well? There is a difference between ‘oogady-boodgady-boogady-mind’ and having a really good argument.

Jade’s Luck: No he got mind ed. He was double-talking and contradicting himself way more then normal. Ok, I know he’s not all right in the head. He did arrange to be killed in his worst enemies house, so he could be born to her.

SHMoJ: I think your friend just has mental problems.

Jade’s Luck has a long speech about how Death Knights are way better then Sidereals, because the Death Knights are all above board about things.

SHMoJ: Don’t worry, we’ll be there in two days.

Group: Wow!

A-Dom: So, how much of your life is directly manipulated by your god?

SHMoJ: Not a lot. He’s really a hands off kind of god. Here is the power, go do stuff for me.

A-Dom: You ever... no.. probably not.

Jade’s Luck: Does he ever give suggestions?

SHMoJ: Sometimes you get a vision or something: Do This NOW. Go rob that tomb.

A-Dom: Yea, Wretch had a lot of tombs.

Jade’s Luck: People really didn’t like Wretch apparently.

SHMoJ: Anytime your body gets chopped up, it’s not good.

A-Dom: We are hoping for an artifact boat. (Sounded like Bow)

Liz: You want me to teach you thrown?

Ryan: Oh, I have 5 in thrown, and 5 in archery..

Liz: Why don’t you ever USE IT!?!

A-Dom explains that they are getting a lack of instructions from the Unconquored Sun because he is wrapped up in Soul Steel.

SHMoJ: You’d think his emissaries in Creation would be a lot more important for getting things done for him then, taking the initiative and doing things right... I’ll just stop talking as I can see you are about to cry.

A-Dom: We’re new at this.

SHMoJ: Have you considered social skills? Being... Charismatic?

Gareth: I’m working on it.

SHMoJ: Maybe you should talk to The Mortician.

A-Dom: Why?

SHMoJ: He might make better suggestions then me.

A-Dom: Well sometimes you guys are all ‘Go Team’ and ‘We want you to join our team’ and stuff.

SHMoJ: No. We just want you to help us, help you, help creation.

A-Dom: Well you guys think the best way to do that is your way.

SHMoJ: That’s because our way is the best way to do it.

Tiger: Help us, help you, help creation. I like that.

SHMoJ: Listen, we are running the entire Underworld pretty well. We’ve got a city called Sijan where we have convinced almost everyone in the East to send their dead. We haven’t ripped any major holes in creation. Everything for us is running smoothly. How are you guys doing in the West again?

Gareth & Jade’s Luck: ing up.

SHMoJ: See. Our way is clearly working out. Once you guys get a way that is actually working out for you, we’ll consider trying it your way.

A-Dom: We have a way like that. It was called the First age.

SHMoJ: How did that work out for you?

A-Dom: I don’t know! I wasn’t there! I’m just trying to clean up the mess.

Jade’s Luck: Apparently we got overthrown by the Dragon-Bloods.

SHMoJ: You got overthrown by the... Dragon-Bloods? That’s sad.

A-Dom: Hey there Mr! We’re new at this. We’ve only been doing this for four years.

Tiger: Three.

A-Dom: Seems like four. We’re just toddlers. We’re learning how to walk and we are wobbling.

SHMoJ: Yea, you should talk to The Mortician.

Jade’s Luck: Is he like you guys?

A-Dom: Is he like the Bodavista?

SHMoJ: Yes! He’s a nice guy. You’ll like him. Although he will size you up for a casket. He does that to everyone.

Tiger: Well he does go by the name ‘The Mortician’ I guess it’s expected.

A-Dom (to Gareth): We’re slightly... slightly... trying to avoid the Bodavista... due to the aforementioned minding.

SHMoJ: I think you’re just overreacting to him having a better plan then you. But I don’t know him personally. But I’m sure he’s not totally evil. You just don’t understand...

A-Dom: Well nobody is completely evil.

Jade’s Luck: Yes, yes there are. You remember that Calibration Dinner we had?

A-Dom: There was that one guy nobody wanted to talk to.

Jade’s Luck: With all really, really scary, non-people, who are Completely COMPLETELY EVIL.

A-Dom: They didn’t seem all that evil. I’m sure they were, but maybe not.

SHMoJ: What dinner?

Jade’s Luck: We had to go have dinner with the Malfeans, because of some ancient contract.

SHMoJ: (looking at A-Dom like he’s a moron) You think some of the Malfeans are OK? You think they might just be miss-understood? The Demons? The Yozi?
Jade’s Luck: He plays games with Demons.

A-Dom: He was under my control at the time, and I was bored. Of course I played games with the Demon!

SHMoJ: (To Gareth) So, nice Anathema you’re trying to reform. (To A-Dom) Don’t worry, you’ll be a real Solar some day. (Pats A-Dom on the Head.)

Ryan: Why does everyone have to Call A-Dom an Anathema.

GM: Cause it’s the Truth.

Alex: GM shouldn’t talk like a God when he’s making OOC comments.

The group arrives in Sijan two days later. The Shinning Heroic Mask of Justice leads them into a very large tomb like government building. As they walk inside the feel that they have entered into a Shadowland.

A-Dom: What happens when a Solar dies? I mean is there a hand in the underworld here or something?

SHMoJ: Well when an Exalt dies it is very, very important to bury him with enough stuff to keep his ghost happy. Because the ghost knows everything you know. So does your angry ghost. So there are two potential ways to have bad things happen.

Jade’s Luck asks SHMoJ to go make sure the Black Oak Dragon Blood is buried properly. He writes a note and sends it off.

SHMoJ: Now if you haven’t completed what you wanted to do in life, you’re spirit gets stuck in the Underworld. Exalted Spirits tend to have a lot of things they want to do.

A-Dom: Oh, like this list? (Holds up his list of Repentances)

SHMoJ: Oh, yea. Try to not die. If you were to die right now, you would be stuck in the underworld until that list is finished. Plus anything else you wanted to do.

Jade’s Luck: And you would haunt the next person who has your shard.

Gareth: How would he do some of those things if he were dead?

SHMoJ: Well the next person who has your shard can do them for him.

A-Dom: So I’m going to be bugging him?

SHMoJ: If a former you has a list like that... he’s stuck until you finish the list for him.

A-Dom: Yea...

Gareth: What kind of idiot would to that to himself... (looks at A-Dom) Oh.

Jade’s Luck: You might want to look into that before it becomes a problem.

A-Dom: So you know any really angry ghosts by the name of Wretch, or something the mad?

SHMoJ: I’ll have to get back to you on that? In the east?

A-Dom: No in the west.

SHMoJ: Well that’s not us. You’d have to talk to the Bodavista about that.

A-Dom: I’m SO screwed. This is why I have problems. It’s because I come from bad blood.

SHMoJ: You see the shard is drawn towards people who it was like before. You see, you fit a certain mold...

A-Dom: Thank You. I’m feeling so much better...

Tiger: Where is this mold so we can break it?

Jade’s Luck: What if he really improves while he’s alive?

SHMoJ: Then the shard will be drawn towards someone who is less like him now. More like how he is when he dies.

Jade’s Luck: So Mr. Runs-around-and-boinks-everything may have changed before I got the shard.

A-Dom: I hope she’s not talking about me.

SHMoJ: Lets go see the Mortician!

A-Dom (to Gareth): No Contracts! Unless you’re going to build us a boat.

They walk further into the tomb. They enter an area which looks like a workshop for building caskets. There is also a receptionist with a table for paperwork. The Mortician is a little man with a top hat and wearing morticians robes.

Mortician: Hello Shining Heroic Mask of Justice! (Starts looking at the group) You’re all going to need tombs. A regular crypt just won’t do. (Looks at A-Dom) Wretch?

A-Dom: (Depressed) Yes. I need to know if there are any lists of ‘to-do’s.?

Mortician: You’ll find out when you get your stuff back. But yes, you’re tomb is here.

Jade’s Luck: Is any of me here?

Mortician: Some of Wretch’s friends things were buried there ‘In Case of Emergency.’ Is this an Emergency?

A-Dom: Oh God YES! We’re in the East it is an Emergency.

Mortician: Yes, yes, that will be fine. Just don’t tell the locals.

Jade’s Luck: We try to not tell the locals things like that.

Gareth: We need to find a good brewer.

Jade’s Luck: We need to make a barrel of infinite beer...

Everyone else: Always full NOT infinite!

Jade’s Luck: Right, Always full. We don’t want to drown creation in beer.

A-Dom: Why are there no Solar Tombs? Why are they always Anathema tombs?

Mortician: Well that is a hold over from when the Realm controlled everything.

A-Dom: But why are you Death Knights not calling them Solar tombs.

Mortician: Listen, you start controlling more of Creation, and work on a better PR campaign so Mortals like you more, we’ll start calling them Solar tombs again.

A-Dom rambles incoherently for a few minuets.

Mortician: So, A-Dom, do you want to borrow volume #2? (Holds up a little black book)

A-Dom: (Sounding incredibly constipated) YES!

Liz: Does he get a roll to resist?

Ryan: I’m sure he would let me roll to resist. But I want to borrow volume 2.

A-Dom: Do you want me to take it back to the Bodavista or to you? I’m confused.

Mortician: You can bring it back to me.

Jade’s Luck: We have to come back in three years.

Mortician: Remember, if you have to bury and important people, we have the BEST tomb site around.

Gareth asks about nearby islands, and finds out that there is a river nearby, so the group can probably find an island that is much closer.

A-Dom: Now, If I take this to Dark OPEC and he writes in it, that’s ok? He wrote Necromancy stuff in the last one, I’m hoping the Bodavista is OK with that. It’s good stuff.

Mortician: Extra information is fine by me. Spells are added, that’s fine.

Ryan: One step forward, two steps back.

Jade’s Luck: Well at least you’re not getting it from Hero Shinny Face.

A-Dom: Yea, but Hero Shinny Face doesn’t make me look good.

Jade’s Luck: Well he did rescue a village.

A-Dom: Well we think he rescued a village. We really only saw a handful of mortals...

SHMoJ: (interrupting): I’m still standing, right here. And the name is Shining Heroic Mask of Justice.

A-Dom: Well we think you rescued the Village because you told us. And you proved that your good and all, apparently. But I can’t trust anyone who’s... who’s as...

SHMoJ: Good looking, Heroic, Dashing, and reasonable as me?

A-Dom: Yes, well anyone who has Exalted powers tends to have issues.

SHMoJ: Maybe it’s you.

A-Dom: Oh, no, it’s me. Don’t worry about that.

Jade’s Luck: One time there was this Dragon-blood who...

SHMoJ: Well you can’t put everyone else in the same boat as Dragon Bloods. You can’t even put all Dragon-Bloods in the same boat.

A-Dom starts laughing maniacally.

Jade’s Luck: I think he wants to put them all in the same boat and light it on fire.

A-Dom points at Jade’s Luck because he is laughing too hard.

SHMoJ: Well that wouldn’t be all bad. Not enough burials on Boats these days. We have a real shortage of boats in the Underworld.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) That’s why they keep stealing our boats! We can stop that! We can flood the market! Bury everyone on boats!

Gareth: Are there any types of things your people could use created?

Mortician: Well we can always use more tombs.

Gareth: Well, I’m looking to make a little bit more cash. In a purely non-contractual way.

Morticians: Name plates. Survival kits for the dead would be great, but might be a hard sell. You know a knife and a blanket, few other things. Always hard to sell to the mourners.

Gareth: Clearly you need to sell it as a package deal. You make it part of the burial.

Tiger: Hide it in the paperwork.

Mortician: I’m kind of worried that you all might be better at the burial scamming thing then I am. But then, I’m rather honest.

Gareth: It’s part of our training.

Ryan: I want a cup cake.

So the group (specifically Gareth, Tiger and Jade’s Luck) spends some more time explaining to the Mortician how to scam grieving people into buying more then they really want for their dearly departed.

GM: This was a honest Death Lord here until you guys corrupted him.

Liz: We’re the worst Solars ever.

Ryan: We corrupted a Death Lord! Yay!

Alex: That must be the title of this session.

A-Dom: Do you know how to get back to the West?

Mortician: You are really lost, aren’t you?

Gareth: Of course not. We know where we are.

Jade’s Luck: We just have no idea how to get back to where we should be. Plus we have mortals with us, and they are fragile.

A-Dom: God damn it, Creation is way too complicated. I don’t understand anything.

Mortician: That’s because you are suppose to be in charge. If you were just a mortal, everything would appear to be fine.

A-Dom: I kind of miss being mortal.

The group explains Jahar’s mating habits to the Mortician, and how they plan to kill his wife. They then start discussing burial rates. The Mortician gives them the Dragon-Blood brochure (it has different prices and some different options on it).

A-Dom: I’d go wenching and whoring. But... It seems a little dead around here.

Fatty: We checked, there isn’t one.

So the group gets the Red Oak people buried. Set up the ex-pirates in an Inn. Then at night they go through the shadowland into the underworld. The underworld turned out to be, kind of lively, what with all the ghosts around. The group talks to a small kid, who offers to show them where the brewers are, in return for lighting 100 lamps for him (street lamps on the streets of Sijan, without causing a major fire). A-Dom agrees (A-Dom (failed his check) does not remember that there were no street lamps in Sijan when they came in). The lamp boy then led them to the section of town where all the brewers were buried. Most of them were in a gigantic tomb built by the Brewers Guild, which in the afterlife, was a beer-hall.

A-Dom happily notes that there are a lot of lamps on the street in the Underworld.

Gareth starts to smooze with the brewers. Then he starts explaining the magic beer barrel to the ghost brewers. He then explains that he needs the skull of a great brewer. Gareth manages (8 successes with Charisma + Craft) to convince pretty much everyone that this is the most important and best idea ever. A riot starts, as every brewer in the beer-hall (about 150) wants Gareth to use their skull.

Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Get their attention.

Jade’s Luck: How do you mean? (Clearly thinking of frying a few undead)

Gareth: Quiet them down, get attention. Like, Hey everybody, stop rioting.

Jade’s Luck: Everybody QUIET, and listen to Gareth! (Backed up by Terrifying Apparition of Glory)

Gareth: There is a better way to settle this...

A-Dom: A Dance off!

There is a slight pause as A-Dom is thrown out of the beer hall.

Gareth: Bragging Contest about your accomplishments!

A week later, Gareth has heard all the stories. Narrowing the field down to 5 potentials.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Synopsis of 4/9/07

Lets go Tomb Robbing!
Subtitle: I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite.
-By AlwaysToast

Gareth is trying to sort out the best braggers of the brewers. He gets it down to two equally impressive brewers. One of them wants Gareth to tell people how great a brewer he is, every year (group suggests a yearly kegger). The other one wants vast sums of money for his surviving relatives.

Tiger: If we start our own country, we can just make it a national holiday. It will take care of itself after that.

Jade’s Luck: It will go along very good with your sex cult.

A-Dom: I think the only members of my sex-cult are monkeys.

Alex: Sex & Candy will work. Cause people will follow sex and candy cause it’s a much better idea then following the Sun. But I’m not having that conversation because Gareth is trying to be better. Alex isn’t, Gareth is.

Gareth actually picks the Brewer who wants to be remembered every year. Hugor Beerfield.

Tiger: You’re the one who’s going to be drinking out of it. Not me.

Ryan: Quote that for posterity.

The group makes their deal with Hugor Beerfield official and make sure everything is taken care of with the Mortician so they can get Hugor’s head. As soon as the group gets out of the Underworld, Pursy spits Bianca back out.

Gareth: Lets go Tomb Robbing!

A-Dom: I object. It’s just item re-acquisition.

Jade’s Luck: I have philosophical problems with this, but shinny is always cool. You see we are trying to disown all the stupid stuff they did, while trying to get back all the stuff they did it with.

Tiger: Just think of it as just compensation for all the stuff we did to ourselves.

The group decides to go to the Wretched Tomb during the day, because A-Dom is a Dawn (ignoring the fact that Wretch was a Night Caste). The Wretched Tomb here is a large, 500 ft tall pyramid, as the group gets closer they see that the surface is not smooth as they had thought, but is in fact made out of pins. Little regular sized, pins (like for sewing). Pins are set, pointy side out.

A-Dom: First question: Who the builds these? Second question, how did I build the first tomb?

Gareth: I think I designed it at least.

Jade’s Luck: Do you remember how to get in?

Tiger: You could have made the tomb, for when you died. You know, ahead of time.

Jade’s Luck: And people liked you SO MUCH that they decided to build you extras.

A-Dom: Good point.

Gareth decides that there is a door at ground level hidden in the pins. A-Dom and Tiger spot that there is an entrance all the way near the top. They also note that every once in a while, there is a pin that is sticking out a little further then the others, which has it’s blunt tip exposed. On the pin head are solar cast marks.

A-Dom activates graceful crane stance and starts leap/monkey leaping from one blunt headed pin to another till he reaches the top. Tiger does the same thing following him up. At the top they find a circular metal cover set into the stone. Very reminiscent of the other Wretched Tombs they have been to. On the lid it says ‘Depository of the Wretch of Winter’s Teeth.’

A-Dom: . Their might be a LOT of these.

Jade’s Luck: Do you want us to come up?

A-Dom: If we start screaming, we’ll need your help.

Tiger manages to unscrew the cap without setting off any traps (as there were no traps). The lid then slides up vertically on a pair of vertical poles. Below them they see a long deep shaft. Lined with needles, all pointing diagonally down.

A-Dom: Come on guys! It will be fun. Come on up!

Tiger: Get stuck on the inside!

Gareth: I don’t think I’m getting up there.

A-Dom: I can carry you!

A-Dom jauntily jumps down to Gareth. Unfortunately he wasn’t as careful on his way down as he was on his way up, and he missed one of the pins for standing on, and put his foot down on some of the regular pointy pins. The entire side of the pyramid that A-Dom is standing on, shoots off as a hail of millions of pins.

Ryan, hysterical yet sad laugher.

A-Dom manages to jump again, and twist out of the way. Mostly taking needles in the buttocks and leg. Then making it down the rest of the way safely.

The pins launched with a great deal of force (Think Death of Obsidian Butterflies, but with pins, and much larger area). A path of destruction through Sijan approximately 500 feet across and almost a mile long has been hit by the pins. Only the strong stone tombs are standing. A number of wooden buildings (for living residents) have been completely removed.

Gareth and Jade’s Luck, watching the pyramid, sees another row of pins slide into place.

A-Dom: So, you want me to carry you back up... now that I’m down here? I’m going back anyway, you all might as well come.

So, Gareth, Bianca and Jade’s Luck all activate Graceful Crane Stance, stand on top of A-Dom as he makes his way up. A-Dom tries to juggle them while he’s bouncing up the side of the pyramid.

Gareth: This isn’t fun for anyone but you!

While they are doing this, Tiger climbs down the vertical tunnel finding it to be 100 ft deep, using Spiderfoot style. Down at the bottom he finds a 50ft by 50ft room (only 10 ft tall) with 5 caps on the floor, each with a cast mark on it.

Jade’s Luck (at the top): Does anyone have something so mundane as rope?

Gareth: I can make rope.

Jade’s Luck: Up here?

Gareth: Maybe not. Pursy how long is your tongue?

Pursy: Not that long.

Liz: Have we attracted any notice yet?

GM: Yes, the locals have noticed that large swath of the city was destroyed or highly damaged, and is now covered in pins.

A-Dom (Yelling down the hole): Tiger? You ready for me to throw them down yet?

Tiger (Yelling back up): Throw them down whenever, I’m not catching them.

So A-Dom jumps down the hole. Gareth doesn’t get off A-Dom. Jade’s Luck and Bianca watch them. Halfway down Gareth considers summoning his armor. But decides crushing A-Dom might not be good. They both basically break their ankels at the bottom.

A-Dom: Owe! All clear! Come on down.

Jade’s Luck: I’m still concerned about going down without having a plan to get back out. What with the pins and all.

A-Dom: Just get down here and stop worrying.

Jade’s Luck notices that there is a little ring on the underside of the circular cap. Which might be idea for attaching a rope (which they don’t have) to.

Gareth: You know what happened the last time we left these knuckle heads alone?

Tiger: I can get rope later!

A-Dom: Come on down! I’ll catch you!

Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Is he lying?

Gareth: I don’t have that on right now. I’m healing.

A-Dom: I promise on the Unconquered Sun... and... the... borrowed black books... and beer... and... OH on my Zombies! That I’ll try to catch you.

Jade’s Luck: Want to try and catch both of us?

A-Dom: At once!?! YES!

Jade’s Luck and Bianca decide to go down one at a time. A-Dom manages to catch them with only minor bruising. So the group sits around for two hours while A-Dom and Gareth heal.

Written on the floor in Old Realm by the (man-hole sized) caps on the floor, are the words: ‘Only a perfect circle from the west may enter in unison.’ At this point everyone can read it (Ryan: I believe the last tomb is why I learned how to read Old Realm).

A-Dom: Everyone find your symbol! (A-Dom goes to the Dawn Caste symbol) I suggest we open them all at the same time.

Jade’s Luck: And hop in all at the same time?

A-Dom: We don’t know what’s under there. There could be buttons, or dead people...

Tiger goes to the Night, Gareth goes to Twilight, Jade’s Luck goes to Zenith, and Bianca goes to the Eclipse.

Gareth: Ok everyone turn slowly in unison. Turn on three...

Tiger: Wait, wait wait... do you mean 1, 2, 3 do something or ON three.

Gareth: On 3

Jade’s Luck: So 1, 2, Do something.

A-Dom: Why do you even say 3 then?

Gareth: Why are we even having this conversation?

The group manages to turn in unison on 3. At a certain point, the lids slid up on vertical poles. Below the caps are vertical stone tubes. A-Dom starts heading down into his. Everyone realizes there is no way to stop him, and heads into their tubes. The lids close on top of them.

All of the following things happen simultaneously. But they are each separated from the others.

A-Dom gets down to the bottom. Written on the wall is: Why did you chose to be born of House Sesus?

A-Dom: Ah, ! Cause I hate my mom!

A-Dom hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.

Gareth sees Written on the wall: What force do you continually fail to account for?

Gareth: GOD!

Gareth hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.

Tiger sees Written on the wall: What should have brought you to your tomb?

Tiger: Greed!

Tiger hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.

Jade’s Luck sees Written on the wall: What does your group lack that leads to your acts of hubris?

Jade’s Luck: (long pause) Humility!

Jade’s Luck hears a ding, and light comes on over her, and the floor drops out from under her.

Bianca sees written on the wall: Do you enjoy killing?

Bianca: No

Bianca hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under her.

The group now finds themselves in a clear tube, where they can see each other, the rest of the area is dark. Jade’s Luck’s tube is lit up.

A-Dom’s tube has a blue light come on. And he hears a ghostly voice.

Voice: Truthfully answer one question from each of your circle mates, without double talk, self contradiction, and without confusing the person who asked the question.

A little light comes on over each Circle member as they get to ask the question.
Gareth: Will you ever learn to accept Jade’s Luck?

A-Dom: Wow, that’s a really weird question that I can’t necessarily answer... but most likely Yes.

Tiger: So, what question are you going to ask me?

A-Dom: Where were you born?

Jade’s Luck: What was the deal you made with Duke Dew-key, the whole thing, all of it?

A-Dom: I get to throw 200 bad mortals into the wyld in 5 lifetimes... hold on, I need to find my list...

Jade’s Luck: What did you get out of this?

A-Dom: We got out people out of the wyld, and into the East. Although I didn’t specify the east, I got it cheaper because I didn’t specify where we would end up. I saved 50 lives! Well maybe not, I do get to kill 50 less people. But Dragon-Bloods count as 3 if they are tied up. I was planning on mostly throwing Dragon-Bloods into the Wyld. Oh, and Kids count as 2, but I’m not throwing in any kids.

Bianca: Why do you act like you’re brain dead all the time?

A-Dom: My dad said when I was a kid I shoved a fish up my nose. Since then I just don’t think right. It’s adventure!

A-Dom’s tube lights up in a golden light like Jade’s Luck’s tube. A
blue light comes on over Gareth.

Voice: Name the group of Exalts who infuriate you the most.

Gareth: The Solar Circle of the West!

Liz: I’m glad I didn’t get that question for Jade’s Luck.

Gareth’s tube lights up like A-Dom and Jade’s Luck. A blue light comes
on over Tiger.

Voice: Define a serious religious doctrine which you will henceforth be responsible for enforcing.

Tiger: (long, long pause) The first day of High Summer will be a holy holiday. There will be no drinking or drug use on that day. So people will have to stay sober on that day.

Alex: You’ve created Lent.

The light above Tiger turns gold. The blue light comes on over Bianca.

Voice: Honestly and completely answer one question from each of your circle mates, using complete sentences (or entire stories if necessary). Circumvention of giving an honest answer by giving a purely truthful answer will count as incorrect.

A-Dom: Why mini-cows???

Bianca: Long ago my family bred big cows. Then they had to move to a smaller ranch. So my Great Grand Father started breeding the cows to be smaller and smaller and smaller. I was just carrying on the family tradition of Mini-cows.

Gareth: Why haven’t you run screaming away from us already?

Bianca: Umm... I find there to be a lot of entertainment when you are all around.

Tiger: (long pause) What’s your favorite food?

Bianca: If you take 5 mini-cows, and put them on skewers, and roast them over a fire... oh it’s so good. So mini-cow kebabs.

Jade’s Luck: What do you think we could be doing better?

Everyone one else shows silent signs of outrage that Jade’s Luck could ask such a mean question of poor Bianca.

Bianca: I think we could really do a better job of NOT killing mortals. Less collateral damage.

Bianca’s light turns golden. So every ones tube is lit up in a golden light. The floors drop out from under everyone and they land in at room.

Voice: You have all been Identified. You may pass into the tombs to face the trials.

The group is in a circular room with three exits.

A-Dom: Lets see if we can figure this out. I’m Jahar, You’re (pointing at Tiger) A-Dom, and You’re (pointing at Bianca) Tiger! You... (pointing at Jade’s Luck) You’re still Jade’s Luck.

Gareth: Ok A-Dom, lead the way.

A-Dom: (looks at the three tunnels) Math bad! (A-Dom heads down the ‘middle one’ which is only the middle in relation to A-Dom.)

Group gets down to a square room, full of sapphire statues. The statues are all roughly human sized, but some are of goats, and crabs and stuff.

Tiger: We’re rich!

A-Dom: It’s a manse, I’m pretty sure we can’t take them.

The circle starts to notice that the statues occasionally move, or shift in position. A-Dom walks into the room and pokes the first statue he comes to.

A-Dom: Why are you pretending you are a statue? Who do I talk to?

The statue points at another statue at the far side of the room. A-Dom walks over to it. The rest of the circle follows into the room. As Tiger (the last one in) enters the door slams shut behind him.

A-Dom: Figures. So how are you going to be messing us up today?

Statue: With pointy things! (The statues draw swords and spears and such)

A-Dom: There are over five thousand ways of hurting people will pointy things.

Statue: Really? I guess we’ll do our best to try them all.

A-Dom: Wonderful.

The group makes reasonable quick work of the statues. Once they are all destroyed, all the statues crumble into very fine dust. (This sums up an hour of game time.) All the doors to the room open up.

This is a square room with four doors (one which they just came through), one on each wall. A-Dom chooses to go through the middle one.

They climb down a long stairway and come into a circular room with a number of paintings on the walls, as well as a number of personal possessions strewn about, including, a number of painting supplies. There is also an old man sitting there.

Old Man: You’re finally here!

The old man gets up runs across the room and dives into a painting. A-Dom attempts to follow. He runs across the room and slams face first into the painting. However, while he is close to the painting, he gets a good look at it (9 successes).

The painting is very odd. It is done in an overhead perspective of a town built on a hill, much as a bird might see it when flying overhead. In the painting he can see the old man falling, down... further... and further, until he punches through the ground at the very top of the hill. Underneath the crust, through the crack that the old man mad, A-Dom can see bubbling lava. A-Dom sees the old man in the lava, grab a sword and stab himself in the face.

A-Dom: Hubbawabbawah... He just dived into lava and stabbed himself in the face with a sword.

Tiger: Where was it?

A-Dom: Wha... some island!

Jade’s Luck and Tiger study the painting trying to memorize landmarks and note worthy buildings, thinking it will be important at some point. The painting however now appears completely normal.

A-Dom: I don’t know what the just happened.

Jade’s Luck: Why don’t you try to describe it in your own words?

A-Dom: He fell down into through the painting, and I think people are upset because he made a big hole in the ground, and there is lava there, and then he stabbed himself in the face. So I’m guessing he’s coming back sometime...

Jade’s Luck: So Like Jahar?
A-Dom: I’m not sure if that’s location, or person, or how that works.

Tiger: He must have thought you were Jahar.

A-Dom: I’m not sure what anything means anymore.

Tiger goes to look at the other paintings. One looks like Elemental Island. One looks like the underworld. One that is half finished is Nexus, with a bridge going over the river. While they are doing this, A-Dom realizes that the Old man was really rather non- descript.

A-Dom: Son of a BITCH! What did he look like?

Jade’s Luck: We didn’t see him, you were in the way.

A-Dom: Skinny/fat, short/tall ing annoying er. He was like ‘Hello, You’re here’ and then he was like...

Jade’s Luck: Stabbed himself in the face. Does that mean he’s going to try to get reborn in your house or something?

A-Dom: I don’t have a house! Wait... I do have a house. (A-Dom remembers something about the artifact sword.)

Jade’s Luck: Didn’t the last Jahar stab himself in Jahar’s room so he could get reborn into crap like that?

A-Dom: So, One of you two (waves at Jade’s Luck and Bianca) is ed. Ether that or he knows my mom.

Jade’s Luck: Could you explain in greater detail?

A-Dom: Umm.. The sword, I believe, doesn’t let you choose your father. It lets you choose your Mother. Now, he’s not expecting you (Bianca) I don’t think. Hard to tell what the hell is going on really... But you (Jade’s Luck) haven’t changed caste or anything. So, don’t have a baby!

Jade’s Luck: I wasn’t planning on it.

A-Dom: Well, you’re going to pop out one of those ed up ones.

Tiger: A-Dom, I think you’re just confusing the issue.

Gareth: Couldn’t he have picked your wife?

A-Dom: But she’s not here.

Tiger: Maybe he was planning for your reincarnation. When you’re a woman.
Jade’s Luck: You were a cute little girl earlier.

A-Dom: Moving on.

A-Dom walks through the central doorway, down another set of stairs. He comes to a room with a bowl suspended by chains, like one side of a scale, with an Orichalcum Grand GrimScythe.

A-Dom: Oooooooh... we need a really big sand bag. (Shouting behind him) I found a thingy.

Gareth: I’m surprised he isn’t just grabbing it.

A-Dom carefully inspects the area, looking for notes or traps. He comes to the conclusion that it’s a trap of some kind. But he has no idea how it works.

A-Dom: Tiger, it’s a trap.

Tiger: Yes, it’s a trap. We should do more exploring before we mess with it. So we are going to have to do something other then take the middle every time.

The group goes back up then down one of the other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a small purple hearthstone sitting in the middle of it.

A-Dom: Woah-ho-ho-ah-hahaha-yea...

The group goes back up then down one the last other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a Orichalcum Dai Skycutter.

A-Dom: OK we need to figure out more about the manse before anyone takes it and becomes a demon, or has to a demon, or has to have a demon us. I know how this world works!

Tiger: So to get this manse you have to bend over and take it in the ass?

A-Dom: Possibly, with pins. I think it’s more of a get it over quickly unlike yours which is ‘torture them over their lifetime.’

The group goes back up two rooms, and down another passage, finding another square room with three hallways. It also looks like someone has been living here. There are supplies for painting, a bed roll, food, etc. They go down to the first room and find a large bag on the scale. They go back up and down to another room and find a white book.

A-Dom: I’m confused now... I want to flip the book open...

Jade’s Luck: We need to figure out the trap FIRST.

The go up and down to the last room, and find a feather.

Tiger: Oh, you could stick it in you’re hat and look really sporting.

A-Dom: I need a hat. (thinking about the bag and the feather) Oh! Oh! Oh! Someone’s been here! ! We’ve been robbed!
Tiger: They probably stole the good thing too!

A-Dom: (to Gareth) So Crappy McCrappy Pants. We need some appropriately filled bags of sand.

Tiger tries to figure out things with All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight. The bag and feather are non-magical. The scales and chains are magical parts of the manse. The book has sorcerous emanations of essence. The Skycutter and GrimScythe are clearly artifacts. The Hearthstone appears to be related to this build, and death.

Dan: I do not tell this to ANYONE.

Ryan: This is why I’m a bad Dawn.

A-Dom: What you see tiger?

Tiger: I can tell how powerful they are. Only moderately powerful.

A-Dom: So, we have a Book, two weapony-thingies and a Hearthstone. And we have a bag of sand.

Tiger: It’s a bag of something, not sand.

Jade’s Luck: We need a Dragon Blood to hunt down our missing stuff, because they are good at tracking.

A-Dom: We need a Dragon Blood in a bag!

Jade’s Luck: Yea! We do.

Pursy: Hold on a minute... Haha, just kidding.

A-Dom: That’s not funny.

Gareth: (Grabs Pursy and yells inside) Empty Bucket come out!

A little eye on a stock comes out of Pursy on a multi-chromatic stalk and looks back into itself.

Pursy: Nope, no buckets in here.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Crafty McCraftyperson, craft stuff that is the perfect weight.

The group discusses the trap in great detail making wild guesses. Gareth goes about looking for materials to make an item that will weigh the same as the items they want to take. Gareth gets a jar of paint for the hearthstone, and a pile of papers to replace the book.

Tiger: I say we take the stack of stuff, just in case there is Jade in it or something.

The group goes back up two rooms, and down the last passage and find the residential part of the manse. They spend a lengthy time exploring the residential section (kitchens, dinning rooms, bed rooms, etc). Every once in a while there is a room with a wall made out of pins.

Gareth: Ah the pleasure room.

A-Dom: That little was watching us. Brain... thinking... bad... All the paintings were places we’ve been too, except for the one I’m not sure. He was painting stuff, but one was half finished because we were just there.

Jade’s Luck: We know they are annoying sneaks and we would like to hold them down and beat them.

A-Dom: A-Dom, brain... tired.

They find a pathway to a storage section (furniture and stuff), and they find a scale model of the tomb (with sections cut apart on different tables so each level can be seen).

A-Dom: (to Gareth) This is all you’re fault.

Gareth: I’m sure it’s partially you’re fault.

A-Dom: What?

While they are arguing, Tiger figures out that the scale model is a working model that works, and is enchanted in the same way as the manse. Tiger grabs the little GrimScythe off the balance. All the pins on the outside of the manse explode outwards. All the pins on the inside of the manse explode inward, blocking all the tunnels and hallways, and making many of the rooms filled with pins.

Jade’s Luck: That’s really, really annoying. It doesn’t just kill off an entire city. It makes us...

Tiger: (interrupting) I wasn’t thinking annoying so much as deadly.

A-Dom: It would be annoying to us.

The group then has to rest the model, by putting all the pins back into place. This takes a several hours to reset the model so they can try it another way. They try to take all the things at once, which causes an explosion of pins. They reset again. They then try weight substitution. They determine that it is best to do all the weigh substitution at the same time, as the scales appear to become more and more sensitive each time an item is taken off. Tiger also sees that there is a sparkle when something is taken.

The group then starts arguing about if they should take the bag or the feather as they have to leave one thing behind. Tiger thinks the bag of stuff is important. The group starts to divide up stuff. Gareth wants the Grand GrimScythe. Bianca would like the Sorcery related book.

Jade’s Luck: Here is the question, I have something I can throw if I want to. (To A-Dom) You may want to consider branching out into the world of ranged weaponry. It’s a great way to hurt things far away.

Dan: Remember, A-Dom doesn’t know about the ‘death part.’

Ryan: Oh, ho, ho, ho, don’t think I have forgotten THAT.

Liz: I could teach you thrown.

Ryan: Oh, A-Dom has had a 5 thrown for almost a year.

Liz: WHAT!?!

Jade’s Luck: Ok, I’ll take the throwing weapon, and Tiger can get the bag.

Tiger: I’m not too fond of this ‘Tiger gets the bag’ idea. We don’t even know how much it weighs. It’s bad idea.

Jade’s Luck: This is what Gareth is for.

A-Dom: Gareth is magic.

Tiger: Can’t see worth crap, how is he going to figure out what is in the bag?

Jade’s Luck: I’m sure he has calipers or something.

A-Dom: (To Tiger) You already have a manse.

Jade’s Luck: Can we pry the bag open and take a look?

A-Dom: (To Tiger) Can’t you put your head in it and look around?

Tiger very carefully and delicately (and buying a lot of successes with second Excellency, and getting a total of 10 successes), opens the top of the bag and peaks in.

Liz: You put your charm list in your ipod?

Dan: Like you wouldn’t if you could?

A-Dom: I am not sharing a manse with Jade’s Luck.

Jade’s Luck: What?

A-Dom: He’s eyeballing my hearthstone.

Jade’s Luck: You would get monkey servants.

Inside the bag Tiger sees a block of Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, and Jade.

Tiger: So, A-Dom, you can have what’s in this bag, or the Hearthstone.

A-Dom: Hearthstone!

Tiger: Sure?

A-Dom: YES!

A-Dom guards his hearthstone. Tiger takes Gareth and Jade’s Luck to another room, and explains the that the Hearthstone is related to death. He also tells Gareth what is in the bag so he can find a proper replacement weight.

Tiger: Do we really want him to have that?

Jade’s Luck: Well on the one hand, we rightfully don’t trust A-Dom. As he is a total up...

Gareth: We are all ups. There is no real distinction there.

Jade’s Luck: Well the rest of us don’t barter away mortal’s lives that he doesn’t even have...

Tiger: I feel like taking this hearthstone just because he wouldn’t let me have the one I wanted before.

Ryan: That was my fault? That Jahar got it?

Jade’s Luck: I don’t want this hearthstone, he seems really attached to the idea. And if he finds out that you knew the nature of the stone... or if he find out the nature of the stone (which he will) and then jumps to the conclusion that you kept this information from him intentionally, which would be totally correct, he’s going to be even pissier, and more loose cannon then he already is.

Gareth: He already knows that Tiger hides things from him. He already
suspects it. Remember the notes...

Jade’s Luck: I would say if you want to keep this hearthstone away from
A-Dom, you need to make a very good argument for Gareth or Bianca to have it. Because if you take it, it won’t go well at all.

Ryan: Ah, Dan’s Achilles’ Heel: Thinking and Talking.

Tiger: Well I actually don’t care, I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite.

So the group decides that A-Dom will get the Hearthstone, and Tiger will get the bag of magic materials (Which he will promptly give to Gareth), and that all the other arrangements would stay the same.

Dan: We’re going FORWARD now.

Ryan: At this time, but we are going to come back to this point again and again and again, because you are a bastard.

The group successfully removes all the items and replaces them with Gareth’s weight substitutions, in perfect unison. Gareth and Jade’s luck bobble theirs a little bit, but the pins don’t explode.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Synopsis of 4/23/07

DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of mind-.
Subtitle: So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation?
Subtitle: Yes, Motherer!
Subtitle: The Group Unity Speech.
-By AlwaysToast

A-Dom starts walking around the manse with the hearthstone. He notices that it tends to vibrate at certain times. He eventually figures out that this is a hot/cold message as he looks for where to attune the Hearthstone. He eventually finds a small unused stairway that leads down, and down deep under the manse.

He eventually finds a little room with a pedestal that has a skull on top, with a place in the skulls mouth to fit the Hearthstone. A-Dom takes a long time to attune the manse. Eventually he hears a humming noise come from the building.

A translucent image of a man appears next to A-Dom.

Image: The Emergency Protocols have been Activated.

A-Dom: Oh .

Image: You have been identified, and as you are activating this tomb, things are clearly going horrible wrong in the west. Repair crews have been released. There are currently 2 functional Manses, in the Wyld repulsion system. The other 18 will be repaired, shortly. Also as per the Wretch of Winter’s instructions, the Sapphire Sentinels have been released to cleanse all non-believers.

A-Dom: Oh god.

A-Dom then sees a counter (written in light in the air):
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes
Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 hours
Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 days
Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 years
Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 minutes

A-Dom: Oh .

Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating
Time till Cleansing Complete: 2 decades
Time till Cleansing Complete: Calculating

A-Dom: STOP!

Image: The emergency protocols can not be stopped once activated. As something is clearly very wrong.

Ryan: Format c:/

Image: Further proof of the emergency. Six of the irremovable objects have been removed.

A-Dom: Can we just put those back? Hello? Anything?

The image fades.

A-Dom: .

A-Dom looks at the counter again, it is still changing up and down at random. A-Dom runs as fast as he can back up the 30 flights of stairs.

A-Dom (Yelling and incoherent): Sapphire guards killing everyone. Non-believers. You know. People gonna die!

Jade’s Luck: What?

A-Dom: I attuned the Manse and the Wretch of winter decided that... that... things have gone poorly... and there is a wyld repulsion system.

Jade’s Luck: Is it working?

A-Dom: There is 2 of 18 active.

Jade’s Luck: So we could fix the other 16?

A-Dom: Potentially. But that’s not the problem. The problem is the emergency protocol goes into... something... then the Sapphire guard goes in and kills all non-believers.

Jade’s Luck: What is a Sapphire Guard?

A-Dom: You know, I have as much information as you.

Gareth has a vision of a 30ft tall statue. He then tells the others about it.

A-Dom: Good! It will be easy to spot.

Jade’s Luck: As it slaughters everyone?

A-Dom: Just the non-believers. So pretty much everyone these days... Wait, everyone on elemental island, Hoen-ba, and my island are OK!

Tiger: And here we thought we hadn’t converted anyone.

Jade’s Luck: You have any other ideas about how this manse works? Since you control it now and are using it to destroy creation?

A-dom thinks about it, and figures out there are some easier ways out that he can open up. So they can get back up to the top room of the building. So they could avoid the tubes they came down through, but not the one tube filled with downward pointing pins.

The group spends a great deal of time arguing about how to get out of the tomb without the possibility of destroying all of Sijan by accident. This includes discussions of going into the underworld and using Tiger & Jade’s Luck’s Manse to teleport back (and hence causing a random wyld rip in creation).

During the arguing Tiger is sent out to do a few things: Get rope. Get money and give it to Fatty and the remaining ex-pirates, and tell them they might be left behind. Tiger also decides to steal a jaunty hat while he’s out around town. He of course looks like someone else while doing this. It’s late at night when he gets out.

Tiger sees the Shinning Mask of Heroic Justice patrolling around the Wretched Tomb, in a wide loop, around the very large building. He appears to be re-assuring everyone that the evil tomb is being watched. He can also see there are gangs of people trying to find bodies among the section of Sijan destroyed by pins.

Ryan: Just think about how ed up the pin market is now!

Liz: (deadpan) Yes, you have wrought both economic as well as physical destruction. Go you.

A-Dom: (Yelling up the shaft at Tiger): DO you see any 50ft tall statues wandering around?

Tiger shuts the lid, and ignores A-Dom. He then goes down avoiding anyone who might be a Death Knight. As the group figures the Mortician is probably not happy with them destroying a large part of the city.

A-Dom: We’ve let Tiger out alone without a leash. He may never come back. (Pause) Where are the rest of them. That’s the question to ask.

A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start wandering around the manse looking for anything else of value. After a few hours Jade’s Luck finds a Map Box, just like the old one they had, that was crushed along with the boats (as it was in the Grumpy Craftsman). It has the same ancient map inside. The water and land still look very real on the map. She promptly shows it to the others.

A-Dom notices something is different. There are these little tiny blue men. One by the Swiftstone Archipelago in the North East, one by the Island of Tombs (east side of the west), one near Abalon (in the south). And one far out in the west near the Dragon Spine Archipelago.

A-Dom: Oh god, we’re ed! They are in the west.

Jade’s Luck: What?

A-Dom: You don’t see those tiny blue ant sized things, under the blue water? Owe. I’m confused. The world doesn’t look like this.

Gareth: Maybe they are too.

Jade’s Luck: So some of them may have already gotten to their targets because their targets are closer.

A-Dom grabs the map and shakes it. The water in the map sloshes all over the place. The water eventually settles back down and nothing on the map has changed.

Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we have 2 weeks for you to learn a spell anymore.

A-Dom: So we are going to use those 2 weeks traveling towards the west?

Jade’s Luck: (to Gareth) Is this worth putting a rip in Creation for?

A-Dom: How do we stop 5... I don’t know where anything is... we have ether 2 years or 2 days... but still... they don’t appear to be moving very fast.

Dan: I say leave it to the Lunars.

Alex: I’m ok with that. But we should warn them at least.

Jade’s Luck: What constitutes a non-believer? Belief in what?

Gareth remembers Wretch being a Zealot for the worship of the Unconquered Sun.

Gareth: (to A-Dom) He’s opposite of you. He’s fanatical.

A-Dom: We have things we have to do here.

Jade’s Luck: We can come back here later.

A-Dom: We need the skull (GM note: they have the agreement, but haven’t dug it up yet), there are the lanterns...

Jade’s Luck: We could write a non-binding list of things to come back and do.

A-Dom: You have no idea how lists work, do you? Lists: DO NOT MAKE LISTS. They are like little pieces of mind-. If you make a shopping list and die on the way to the store, you’re ed.

Gareth: Who came up with these rules.

A-Dom: Probably me.

The group starts arguing about taking Bianca back with them. The group decides to risk it (after a LONG argument) thinking that Bianca might have been to Elemental Island in a past life.

Jade’s Luck (to Bianca): OK, this might work. But you might land in the ocean if the island has moved.

A-Dom: This map was made by Khodak. We should find them!

Gareth: Which one of us was Khodak?

Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) And if it doesn’t work you may be stuck here for a month.

A-Dom: (to Bianca) Does your book talk to you?

Bianca: What?

A-Dom: Not talk to you, out loud. But you know, talk to you. Address you by name? Hey how are you? It apparently reads me like a book...

Dan: In Soviet Sijan the book reads you?

Jade’s Luck: A-Dom is a book?

A-Dom: One that should never be read by anyone. So... ripping a hole in creation huh?

Jade’s Luck: Well I think we should all talk about this first...

A-Dom: Welcome to the dark side.

Jade’s Luck: I’m going to fix it too. Later.

A-Dom: I’m sure it won’t appear somewhere full of mortals. (Everyone groans)

Ryan: (to Liz) Bet I limit break before you!

Tiger comes back, ties the rope off, lowers the rope down and climbs
down into the room.

Tiger: Hey I got a kicking new hat!

Jade’s Luck: We found a map, and there are little blue guys swimming to assorted islands. If they are the sapphire killers of all non-believers, this might be worth ripping a hole in creation to get back.

Tiger: Well if they kill all the non-believers it will be much easier to take over.

Gareth: Number of believers... VERY SMALL!

Jade’s Luck: The whole wyld encroaching on areas that are not populated.

Tiger: This map was made by someone named Khodak!

A-Dom: Yea we noticed that. So we going sit around here all day or rip a hole in Creation? Boy, don’t get to say that every day. How long will it take to get back normally?

Everyone: Months!

A-Dom: Rip that puppy open.

A-Dom goes down to the lowest room and finds the countdown:
Time till Cleansing Complete: 29 years, 3 days, 6 hours, 9 seconds.

A-Dom runs back upstairs.

A-Dom: Ok, this thing is not totally accurate. But it looks like it will take 29 years until all the non-believers are dead.

Tiger: That’s when it’s done. I think it’s starting the work right now.

A-Dom babbles incoherently, sounding a lot like Jahar.

Tiger: Did that make any sense to anyone?

Jade’s Luck: I think that would have made sense to Jahar if he were here.

Gareth: I understood it!

Jade’s Luck: You poor, poor man.

Gareth: What he’s saying is if we rip a hole and go through, we can come back much easier next time.

A-Dom: We need to come back and make nice nice with the Mortician. Maybe not in public. But you know, try to not upset him.

The group realizes that the closest island they have visited to Sijan is a month’s travel to the south. So Tiger is sent out again to give the Pirates a note, to tell them that they are definitely being left behind, and to visit an island near Sijan.

A-Dom: Who here can I throw really high into the air and they would survive? Or at least find a way to survive on the way down?

Gareth: Why?

A-Dom: I want to throw someone out of the hole.

Gareth: Why wouldn’t they just use the rope?

A-Dom: What rope?

Tiger (who is climbing the rope): You know they would splatter against the lid at the top right?

A-Dom: Oh right.

Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we just portal out from here?
A-Dom: Portal?!? I don’t understand what you are saying.

Jade’s Luck: We go East, YES?

Tiger: (To A-Dom) Go sit in a corner while we make decisions.

Jade’s Luck: Why do you want to leave the manse before we teleport?

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Do you remember that guy you threw a mug to? What did he look like?

Gareth: Yea he was kind of short/tall... he was a motheer.

A-Dom: See I knew it when I saw him.

Gareth: But he had a beard.

A-Dom: They all have beards, or don’t. STOP giving things to THEM.

Jade’s Luck: They would be a lot less annoying if they were actually trying to do something for creation.

A-Dom: What if there are s and there are just holes...

Gareth: There are s and buttholes?

Jade’s Luck: Like Solars and Anathema?

A-Dom: (Very happy): YES! There are Motherers and Those guys. Two different groups with the same powers. I need to write that one out. It makes perfect sense.

Tiger goes out and visits the nearby island (would be 2 hours walk each way) and talks to the ex-pirates. When he gets back, the group argues more about going out first before using the portal.

Jade’s Luck: I would rather have to travel for a month later then risk killing all the mortals in Sijan now.

Tiger: What’s the problem? We already killed a quarter of them.

Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Help!

Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) I’m with you on this.

A-Dom: Lets just rip a hole in creation.

Jade’s Luck: YES!

The used the Elemental Island Hearthstone to rip a hole in creation, a giant Wyld portal opens up in the room with them.

Jade’s Luck: Integrity Protecting Prana! Now!

Tiger: That includes you A-Dom!

A-Dom: This is going to close right? The hole in creation isn’t going to be left inside my manse right?

Everyone runs through.

They end up on Elemental Island in the portal room. A monkey butler comes running into the room with a tray full of lemonade.

MB: Drinks? You look parched.

Jade’s Luck: (to butler) Thanks. (To Bianca) See monkey butlers.

A-Dom: You haven’t seen any dead monkeys recently have you?

MB: What a terrifying thought!

Jade’s Luck: A-Dom stop scaring my monkeys.

A-Dom: But I want a monkey zombie.

The butler monkey goes running away in fear.

A-Dom: (Yelling after it) Not you! Unless you die soon.

Jade’s Luck: You’ll have to go find your own monkey.

A-Dom: Ok.

Gareth: Off this island.

Jade’s Luck looks at the map. She notices there is a ‘You are Here’ X on the map. On the map they are south of the Tomb Islands, and north of The Neck. The group argues for a while and realizes that the map has changed a great deal, and hence the Sapphire Sentinels are way far away from actual human settlements. As at least 2 of them are in the wyld.

A-Dom: We need to pick up a few of these and drop them on the blessed isle.

Tiger: Why do we want to give them maps?

Gareth: He means giant statues that kill non-believers.

Tiger: That makes more sense then giving them maps.

Gareth: Didn’t you say something about wyld repulsors?

A-Dom: There are 18, and 2 working. I don’t know.

Gareth: Well if they start working the map is going to change again.

A-Dom: Ok, well I guess I’ll just have to take on 16 more manses. I don’t mind.

Gareth: NO. No doubling up until everyone has one.

A-Dom: What?

Gareth: We’ve had this discussion before. It always revolves around Tiger wanting another manse.

A-Dom: I guess that in general sounds fair.

Gareth: I’m going out into the forest now. A-Dom, come along.

A-Dom: Why? You don’t get blind faith anymore. That’s right because you tried to get me killing pirates.

Gareth: Carry lumber.

A-Dom: Oh, ok. Umm... what are we doing with the lumber?

Gareth: Building a bridge.

A-Dom: So you’re making a ship!

Gareth: Yes.

A-Dom: Excellent. I’ll be right back.

Jade’s Luck takes Bianca around to talk to the elementals. Tiger realizes that when the Demon was picking the poisonous plants for Jahar he was carefully picking them, not eradicating their root systems. Jade’s Luck orders a special dinner to be made by the staff. Everyone gets their favorite food. Jade’s Luck orders Eggs for A-Dom.

Ryan: Eggs. It’s like a baby that never was.

Tiger goes to bed.

A-Dom runs off into the woods to find where the monkeys bury their dead. He does in fact find the ‘Monkey Graveyard.’ He then promptly builds a 4 armed skeleton monkey. As he wants to have a 4 armed monkey butler, for his manse... in the east.

So the scout monkeys come to find Jade’s Luck and Tiger.

Scouts: Evil! Black Magic! Graveyard!

Jade’s Luck: Who?

Scouts: Evil Black Magic Person!

Tiger gets up, upset. Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the monkeys back to the Monkey Graveyard. They can see necromantic spell casting in the distance. They show up just as A-Dom finishes.

A-Dom: Moohahahaha! My greatest creation ever! A butler with 4 arms! Now you do what I say! (A-Dom looks at Jade’s Luck) I had to carry tar for Gareth.

Jade’s Luck: And you had to do that here, and freak out all of my staff?

Zombie Monkey Butler waves at them with both of his right arms.

A-Dom: Who’s upset now?

Jade’s Luck: The monkeys!

Tiger: You defiled their graveyard. You had your chances to have this manse. But Nooooooo....

A-Dom: I wanted an Undead monkey. (To the monkey) Flip him off! All 4 of them.

Jade’s Luck: (to the Scout Monkey): What would be the right repentance for this?

Scout: I don’t know! I’m just a monkey! That’s freaky! It’s up to you.

A-Dom: But I do it with Humans all the time.

Scout: Humans, not our business.

A-Dom: I’m not picking on you guys.

Jade’s Luck: I’m setting this down here and now: No poaching on the Monkey Graveyard.

A-Dom: So if a monkey dies outside the graveyard...

Tiger sends the monkeys to go off. In the distance they can hear the scout monkeys telling the other monkeys to not die.

Jade’s Luck: No creating undead monkeys on this island.

A-Dom: Oh I got my monkey.

Jade’s Luck: Because you might end up with something in your food you don’t like.

Tiger: You have to keep him out of sight of the monkeys.

Jade’s Luck: Could you make him a big hat to hide under?

A-Dom: A yellow one?

A-Dom then starts explaining to the undead four armed monkey about how he will be butling.

Jade’s Luck: (to Bianca) This is why we don’t encourage him. I would also think about a deep and thorough burial of anything you don’t want him to think about animating. (To A-Dom) No more!

A-Dom: I just wanted one. I need to get tar. An undead’s place is to carry tar.

Jade’s Luck: Is Gareth around?

A-Dom: He’s over there, planning, talking about math, boring stuff. But this should be a huge bridge. I’m looking forward to it. (A-Dom walks over) Gareth I got that monkey butler you wanted.

The four armed monkey butler zombie waves at Gareth.

Gareth: I hope you don’t upset Jade’s Luck with that. Oh, Hi Jade’s Luck.

Jade’s Luck: I assume he’s blaming you as usual. Cause that’s what he does. Bridge? I don’t think we have enough wood for you to build a bridge to Atlantis.

Gareth: You people don’t understand the concept of Jokes, do you? You see... there is this concept called Jokes. A-Dom wants to make them...

Jade’s Luck: He’s not very good is he?

A-Dom: Have you seen the Underworld? Joke gone too far...

Jade’s Luck: So it’s? actually a different B word. Like a Bar, or a Brothel.

A-Dom starts looking really confused.

Tiger: Boat.

A-Dom: Obviously these are your circle-mates. Because I don’t remember any of you. So there must be another circle out there that I’m in.

Gareth: You’re part of another circle?

A-Dom: You’re part of another circle!

Gareth: Really! Excellent! Hey, maybe Jahar just mind-ed us into thinking he was part of our circle. Maybe we’re not a circle at all.

A-Dom: That makes so much paranoid sense. (A-Dom rambles incoherently about Bianca for about five minutes. Until everyone is looking at him strange.) I am not Jahar now!

Dan: So is Jahar’s Circle Abyssals or Infernals? I wonder who he sold
out to.

Jade’s Luck says she is going off to check on the towns on the island, including the uninhabited ones.

A-Dom: (Blurts out) There is a demon summoning circle down there! I’m telling you now because Jahar isn’t around anymore.

Jade’s Luck: Is this something Jahar made? (A-Dom nods) Was this before or after I told him No Demon Summoning on my island?

A-Dom: I’m not sure.

Jade’s Luck: Yea... so where is this exactly?

A-Dom explains where it is in the cave city of Vancouver. He then offers to show Jade’s Luck exactly where it is. He then gives a rambling explanation of how Jahar used it to summon a demon, including sound effects for the demon. The summoning circle is carved into the floor of a building. Jade’s Luck has A-Dom smash the circle into dust.

A-Dom: Hahahaha! I’m doing evil for good! Wait...

Jade’s Luck: I thought you were doing it because it was Jahar’s?

A-Dom: Yea, whatever.

A-Dom goes back to help build ‘the floating brothel.’ Jade’s Luck starts thinking about how that would be a viable business idea.

A-Dom gets back to Gareth.

A-Dom: Sorry Gareth, I got distracted. I was busy destroying the Circle. Not the Circle circle, but the summoning Circle that Jahar had.

Gareth builds a small (capable of carrying 15 people) fast boat. Which can be sailed or rowed. There are a set of oars designed for A-Dom to row with. He then builds all the parts for a second boat (basically identical to the first), which will be stored inside the first boat.

Jade’s Luck visits the town of London and everything is going OK there. She hangs out with them for a few days. She works on reinforcing their religious beliefs in the Sun.

A random discussion comes up which Liz basically states: Mind ing one person is ok if it saves you from killing them. Mind ing an entire congregation is a bad long term plan.

After a few days, after the boat is finished:

Gareth decides to talk to Dillon (Ceri’s Mentor) about the Sapphire Sentinels coming to kill all the non-believers. Tiger decides that he doesn’t want to be anywhere near Dillon when Gareth tells him this information. This ends in A-Dom accusing Tiger of being a Motherer. Jade’s Luck points out that they can omit that the giant statues are in fact their fault.

Jade’s Luck: Lets go Ask Opec if he’s a big blue statue first! ‘Hey Opec, are you a big blue thing? Oh and this is Bianca!’

So the circle decides to travel to Opec’s island, using the Wyld Portal, before they go to talk to Dillon. The group remembers, when they get there, that Gareth’s small boat is still tied up at the dock on Opec’s island. Jade’s Luck tries to talk to Opec. She gets a mumbly incoherent response. Bianca puts her hand on Opec after being encouraged to by Jade’s Luck.

Bianca: You know anything about the big sapphire guys who are trying to crush non-believers?

Opec: Yup.

Bianca: Would you like to share? Help us stop them?

Opec: Yup

Bianca: Will you?

Opec: You have to do something for me first.

Bianca: Oh.

Opec: Yea, my rock experiment seams to be falling through.

Bianca: (to Jade’s Luck) He wants something.

Jade’s Luck: Everyone wants something from us. Find out what.

Opec: Bring me 3 pages from the Great Library on Atlantis.

Bianca: When do you want them by?

Opec: When do you want the information?

Jade’s Luck is trying to figure out why Opec won’t talk to her, but will talk to Bianca.

Jade’s Luck: Why does he talk to her and not me?

A-Dom finally makes a past life roll.

GM: Do you want to buy Past Lives now?

Ryan: Yes Motherer!

A-Dom’s eyes roll back into his head as he has a past life vision.

A-Dom: You have to WANT to learn Sorcery!

Gareth: How do you know that?

A-Dom: Cause I saw it! I was standing next to a Dawn caste. He told me. I was shorter. I don’t have a lot of details.

Bianca: (to Opec) Is the Library in the Underworld? Will it count if we bring pages out of the underworld to you?

Opec: Yes it is in the underworld. No it won’t count.

Bianca: Do you know anything about the 18 non-functional Wyld Repelling thing station maybe?

Alex: Well she is filling Jahar’s roll.

Bianca: We here there were two buildings that were repelling the wyld and 18 more that were non-functional. What do I need to do for you to find out about those? Yes?

Liz: See we were worried that you would miss Jahar.

GM: I can hardly tell the difference.

Opec: The Statue from the Town Square of Yew.

Bianca (to Jade’s Luck) The Statue from the Town Square of You.

Jade’s Luck: Is it still existing or we going to have to put it back together from chunks?

Bianca: Does it exist?

Opec: Far as I know.

A-Dom (to Gareth) We’re ready to get going right?
Jade’s Luck: (to Opec) Nice mumbling to you again.

A-Dom (to Gareth) So what’s your Solar name going to be?

Gareth: Gareth?

A-Dom: That’s not special enough. You need to be "Gareth of the Creation" or something. "Gareth Creator of the World."
Jade’s Luck: I don’t think we want to go there.

Tiger: Gareth Cries Over Spilt Boats.

Gareth: We have two places we defiantly should go now.

A-Dom: Yay we actually have a purpose now!

Jade’s Luck: We had a purpose before. There was a purpose to all our traveling...

A-Dom: I don’t believe you. (Pause) Hey what happens if you walk into the portal and can’t see it?

Jade’s Luck: It sucks a whole lot for you.

A-Dom: Maybe we shouldn’t portal directly to Atlantis then. Someone may wander into it.

The group goes back to Elemental island to eat dinner. Then prepare to travel to Atlantis. A-Dom makes a ‘barrel’ by hollowing out a tree and tells his four armed monkey butler, that it is his home now. Then he puts the log on the ship that Gareth just build. Then they travel back to Opec’s island. Then they started sailing back to Atlantis.

During the trip to Atlantis, A-Dom is staring at Gareth’s Scythe. Mostly because it’s shinny and he wants it.

A-Dom: Holy ! Don’t bring that into heaven!

Gareth: Huh?

A-Dom: Some things are better not seen in heaven!

Jade’s Luck: It’s invisible in heaven?

A-Dom: It’s written right there! (Pointing at the Scythe)

Gareth: I don’t see it.

A-Dom: Use BOTH of your eyes!

Jade’s Luck: That’s really mean. Why don’t you just make him a zombie eye he can see out of?

A-Dom: Maybe I will... solar zombie eye... (to Gareth) You don’t have any lists do you?

Gareth: Yes, building churches.

A-Dom: Oh yea, I should get on that before you die.

Gareth: (to Jade’s Luck) Yes, I know what he’s implying.

A-Dom: Oh come on. I’ve threatened to kill everyone here except for Bianca, and that’s because she’s new. (To Bianca) I’ll get to you eventually. Don’t feel left out!

Bianca: Great...

A-Dom: Apparently fate in heaven is missing fate and something something, and it shouldn’t be seen.

Jade’s Luck: Is there writing all over it?

A-Dom: Just there!

Tiger is the only one who also sees the tiny, tiny writing on the blade of the scythe.

Tiger: A-Dom’s actually telling the truth.

A-Dom: (hurt) What do you mean by that?

Jade’s Luck: You two question each other’s veracity on a regular basis.

A-Dom: Well there is a good reason for it! He doesn’t have Veracity! He just avoids lying by not talking!

Tiger: You can’t trust him (pointing at A-Dom). He’s always stealing stuff. You can’t trust people who are always stealing stuff.

A-Dom breaks out in laughter.

Jade’s Luck: It’s not that he lies. It’s that he doesn’t volunteer information in any way shape or form. Anyway, (to Gareth) make sure people don’t see it if you take it to Heaven.

Tiger: You know, we never made it to Skullstone.

Gareth: I know.

Jade’s Luck: I know not all of you have family obligations, but I’ve been wanting to get back.

Gareth: I have apprentices I need to look after.

Jade’s Luck: You were the one who didn’t want to build us a boat to get back.

Gareth: We were in the middle of ing LAND!

A-Dom: That would have been a better argument back then.

Gareth: That was my argument back then.

Jade’s Luck: We were right by a river. (Pause, then to Gareth) You remember that little question and answer session we had in that tomb?

Gareth: Maybe.

Jade’s Luck: Do you remember what question I got right?

Gareth: No?

Tiger: None of us heard it. You got the first one right.

Jade’s Luck: Your (A-Dom) tomb, well the Wretches tomb, ask me ‘What does your group lack that leads to your acts of Hubris?’ My answer was Unity. It apparently liked it. Probably we should correct that.

Gareth: That would be a good idea.

A-Dom: I was wondering how we are breaking up over a box that holds cigars.

Jade’s Luck: Not humidor. Hubris!

A-Dom: Why are we breaking up over that?

Jade’s Luck: Hubris is pride. It’s not the ‘Hey I made a neat thing’ kind of pride, it’s the ‘haha you all’ kind of pride.

A-Dom: Ok

Jade’s Luck: Possibly something we should correct.

A-Dom: Ok, I think I get ya now.

Jade’s Luck: Hubris is also acts that upset your god, because of your pride or stupidity.

A-Dom: More sucking up. Right. We could take over Atlantis, then he’s be like...

Jade’s Luck: I don’t think sucking up is the right sentiment. Possibly: true REPENTANCE for our stupidity and actual genuine attempt to make things right...

A-Dom: You see this? (Holding up his list) It has things crossed off of it! Only two, but damn it, that’s SOME!

Jade’s Luck: Not only repentance of deeds. But actual internal repentance.

Gareth says something only A-Dom can hear. (and the recorder didn't pick it up)

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Did I wake up one morning and in your breakfast cereal? What the hell did I do months ago to make you turn on me like this?

Gareth: You turned first!

A-Dom: I did not, what did I do?

Tiger: You learned Necromancy.

A-Dom: (to Tiger) You know, you sit there and say NOTHING for months at a time! I quit!

A-Dom jumps off the side of the boat and starts swimming towards Atlantis. Jade’s Luck jumps off the ship too and swims after A-Dom.

Bianca: I feel closer to everyone already. Good unity speech.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Synopsis of 5/7/07
Yea. But it’s written in pencil.
-By AlwaysToast

As A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim away from the boat, Gareth notices that Jade’s Luck is carrying her 4ft long Orichalcum Skycutter on her head. A-Dom is someone nervous about the ‘gold shark fin’ following him.

Gareth: Jade’s Luck, you know your boomerang isn’t inconspicuous at all?

Jade’s Luck: (really fast) Yea what’s your point?

Gareth: It’s not something you should swim into the city with.

Jade’s Luck: I’m not swimming into the city.

Gareth: Oh, ok.

The boat (with Gareth, Tiger and Bianca) sails off around to the City of Atlantis. A-Dom and Jade’s Luck swim to the nearest shore (far north of the City of Atlantis).

A-Dom: Why are you following me?

Jade’s Luck: I’m not really sure. Do you mind?

A-Dom: Long as you’re not Tiger. That would have devolved into me waving at the air around Tiger, then he would have started swinging his sword at me. Then things would have become awkward. Not gay awkward, but you know. I suppose we should...

Jade’s Luck: Gareth pointed out that I’m kind of conspicuous with this (points at her skycutter).

A-Dom: You want to hide it in the bushes?
Jade’s Luck: I’m not sure that’s the best plan?

A-Dom: Want to dig a giant hole for it? Want to dress it up as a child? Hide it on the boat?

Jade’s Luck: You want to go back to the boat?

A-Dom: I was trying to make a point... oh well. We do have work to do here.

Jade’s Luck: Well Gareth seemed concerned about it. So he won’t mind us putting it on the boat.

So A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start walking along the beach towards the City of Atlantis. They eventually decided that A-Dom should carry it, hoping that with the use of stealth charms no one will notice it.

Jade’s Luck: (to her Skycutter) Now, I’m not giving you away. I’m just letting him hold you for a little while. So don’t be nervous.

A-Dom: You’re talking to your boomerang?

Jade’s Luck: I think it would be upset if I gave it away. I don’t know if it can talk to me or not. But I can talk to it.

A-Dom: Why do all magical items have tudes?

A-Dom has to tell Jade’s Luck to walk to the docks of Atlantis, to Gareth’s boat, and he will follow her, because she can’t follow him, as he will be unnoticeable.

Jade’s Luck: So we are going to just walk right into Atlantis?

A-Dom: Why the not? I’m half ready to just pull out my club and just beat people about the head.
Jade’s Luck: I thought they were going to go check out that really annoying sorcerer with that really irritating name.

A-Dom: No, Gareth wants to check out the crater first.

At the end of the first day of walking. A-Dom gets annoyed, not realizing how far he would actually have to walk.

A-Dom: This is annoying. Jade’s Luck, hop on.

Jade’s Luck hops on top of A-Dom’s head. A-Dom activates all his strength and athletics charms, and swims as fast as he can. He manages to only have a light cast mark showing. A-Dom creates a huge wave behind him. The wave destroys the fleet of a small fishing village.

A-Dom: People eat too much fish anyway!

Jade’s Luck: Maybe you should swim a little slower? Like bad storm level?

A-Dom: Sorry, didn’t hear that. Want me to swim around again?

The rest of the Circle on the boat arrives at Atlantis. Gareth starts to head for his shop.

Gareth: Oh Bianca, there is a cot in the back of my place. Tiger, do whatever it is you do.

Tiger: Normally I stayed at Jahar’s place.

Gareth: You’re welcome to come back to my shop, or do whatever.

So they all decide to head back to Gareth’s shop. Gareth actually arrives home ahead of schedule (because they never made it to the destination). Things were going OK at the shop. Not everything Gareth had made before he left had sold. The apprentices had been making money doing their own work, mostly black smithing (not weapon smithing). Taxes are up since he left. Gareth does work and trains his apprentices.

Bianca gets bored and goes shopping. Luckily, Gareth lives in the merchant’s district. However Bianca has nether Resources nor Larceny. Which limited her ‘shopping’ ability. She managed to stay out of trouble. She also saw a Dragon-blood wearing armor, carrying a Grand Goremaul, riding a horse towards the neighborhood in which Gareth lives.

Jade’s Luck and A-Dom are talking about killing children for some reason. While swimming towards the City of Atlantis.

Jade’s Luck: You’re suppose to care about children?

A-Dom: Are you sure? Cause I’m getting none of that. You see if we kill some, that just means we have to make more. Children are like smores. They are really fun to make.

Jade’s Luck: Let me try to explain this in a different way then I’ve been going for. You have to make so many children, that it’s going to be vastly inefficient if you let them get killed off casually. Creation’s population got reduced by a huge amount. You can’t make that many children if you keep killing them off too.

Ryan: (sigh) Give me a Valor roll! She’s challenging my manliness.

Liz kind of starts laughing and crying at the same time. I suspect Jade’s Luck was not doing the laughing part.

A-Dom: So I have to be more efficient! I have to find ways to make other people more efficient.

Jade’s Luck: A-Dom every living child is a potential worshiper of the Unconquered Sun.

A-Dom: Especially my children.

Jade’s Luck: You should be trying to convert them, not kill them. You know how we don’t want to kill worshipers? (A-Dom nods) Children are just like worshipers, but dumber. So they are easier to convince. So we don’t want to kill children.

A-Dom: So we want to kill the adults?

Jade’s Luck: But the adults can make more children!

A-Dom: But I can make more children.

Jade’s Luck: But you need to have females around for that!

A-Dom: We’re just going around in circles!

Jade’s Luck: This is a productive discussion.

A-Dom: No, I mean since we started this conversation, I’ve just been swimming in a circle.

Jade’s Luck: Oh.

A-Dom: I mean it’s not like I’m making a ‘Spear of baby killing’ And lining them up and getting powers from that. I don’t go out actively looking to kill children.

Jade’s Luck: We have to teach you about Mind-ing. I have to learn myself. It’s like having a mind-club. Remember what Jahar did to your father-in-law? ‘Yes, Jahar, I will obey you!’

A-Dom: If I fall asleep while swimming, you’re going to die!

Jade’s Luck realises while riding along on A-Dom’s head. That if the Unconquered Sun didn’t tell them when he stopped them from learning new charms, then he wouldn’t tell them when they could learn them again. Jade’s Luck decides to teach A-Dom about performance using her training charm to see if it works.

A-Dom: I feel funny! Why am I learning things?!? Hey, hit me with some prayer learning next!

Jade’s Luck: Next week I’ll teach you more performance.

Tiger goes off looking for his Mentor and for Lodging. He runs into his mentor in the Inn, where he was getting lodging. He spends some time training. He explained (in general terms) what happened on their last trip to his Mentor. His mentor offers to find out where the wyld hole in Creation was created. In return for the location of the Wyld that they created, his Mentor asked him to keep the three people on a list from dying for the next week.

List:
Habib the Rug Merchant
Chris the Slave of house Cynis.
Cynis Jara

Tiger: We also seem to have this guy that nobody can remember following us around.

Mentor: You don’t say? What does he look like?

Tiger: Short/tall, fat/skinny, kind of normal looking with long hair and a shaved head...

Tiger then describes the places and actions that they have taken. Including the one A-Dom saw stab himself in the fact.

Mentor: So, what females were in the room at the time?

Tiger: Jade’s Luck and Bianca, and A-Dom.

Mentor: I’m going to have to check a few things out about that. I’ll be in touch.

Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He then shows Gareth a list, written in Tiger’s handwriting.

Tiger: We have to keep these people alive for the next week.

Gareth: Habib works across the street from me. (Sees Jara’s name) So one minute after a week, A-Dom is allowed to kill her?

Tiger: I’m not telling him that! Anyway, he’s going to find that hole in Creation for us. Once we have the info, I don’t care what he does.

A-Dom and Jade’s Luck finally get to Atlantis. Jade’s Luck decides to put her Skycutter in Gareth’s back room. They get to Gareth’s shop around noon.

Jade’s Luck: Hi Gareth, I need to keep my skycutter here.

A-Dom: Hi Gareth!

Gareth’s apprentices look up at A-Dom who is holding the skycutter and waving. (They got all 10s on their awareness roll.)

Gareth: Backroom fast before anyone notices.

A-Dom: (yelling) Too late!

A-Dom walks into the back room.

Jade’s Luck: Hey Gareth, lets go fix a snack...

Apprentices: We’re going to take a break now. Ok Gareth?

Gareth: Oh yea, sure.

Jade’s Luck: (whispering in Gareth’s ear) Get them! They saw A-Dom!

Tiger leans against the door to prevent them from leaving.

Gareth: On second. I was going to ask you (Jade’s Luck) about helping train my apprentices to they can do better sales pitches.

Jade’s Luck: I think I could do that. Certainly a requirement of my stock and trade.

Gareth: (whispering to Jade’s Luck) I have a plan for this. It’s not a good plan, but I have a plan.

Jade’s Luck makes everyone in the room calm by doing a kata. (A performance was required, and subtle, not the circle’s strong point. Sadly, Jade’s Luck botched doing her Kata)

Jade’s Luck: Hey watch this great new kata. (Botch) Ouch, my nose.

Gareth: (to apprentices) I take it you noticed my craft spirit.

Apprentice: (whispering to Gareth) There is an Anathema in the back room. He snuck in with your friends, and now they are all acting crazy. He’s got this giant golden thing with him.

Gareth: That’s a craft spirit.

Apprentice: Don’t craft spirits look like hammers and stuff?

Gareth: He’s more of an anvil.

Apprentice: He didn’t look like an anvil.

A-Dom: (muffled from the back room) Shut up, I’m an anvil!

Gareth: He’s a bit odd, but he does good work.

Apprentice: We should get an immaculate monk to make sure it’s OK.

Tiger: I’ll go get one. I’ll be right back. (Tiger leaves, and Jade’s Luck leans against the door.)

Tiger figures out how far the nearest temple is, then plans to come back in the right amount of time. Then he decides to sneak into the back room to talk to A-Dom.

Tiger: You’ve kind of caused a problem. They want a dragon-blood now. I can pretend to be an immaculate monk, but if the monk comes back without me, that’s a problem.

A-Dom: So I have to pretend to be you?

Tiger: All you have to do is look like me and be quite.

A-Dom: I can’t look like you. I can look like a person who looks like you but I can’t be you. Hell I can’t even really tell what you look like! Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet? Do I look like you yet?

Tiger: Ok maybe you can be the monk if we kick the apprentices out.

A-Dom and Jade’s luck do not have another conversation about killing people.

Tiger: So we’ll walk in together then kick them out of the shop because it might be ‘dangerous.’

A-Dom: I liked this plan better when I was Tiger...

A-Dom goes all monk-y (not all monkey). Tiger helps make suggestions. They both head out of the back and circle around to the front of the shop.

The group discusses making a charm that erases you from all history, including your own. So it causes amnesia. Then A-Dom needs to lean charms to brainwash people with writing he does. So he can erase his own memory, then read a book that tells him who he is (that he will magically believe). ‘You’re name is Patient Tiger, and you like to eat babies...’

Tiger: (runs back into the shop) There is an immaculate Monk coming. You all need to clear out so he can deal with the spirit.

Gareth leads everyone to the courtyard.

A-Dom: (disguised as Monk) Oogady boodgady, shook, shook, shook!

Tiger sneaks away from the group in the courtyard, and back in through the front door to explain to A-Dom how to pretend to be an Immaculate Monk.

A-Dom: I think you’re going for more detail then we actually need.

Tiger: I can see and talk to the spirits.

A-Dom: I can do that too. I just have to put blood into my eyes! Jahar showed me!

Tiger and A-Dom argue for a bit about what they should actually do. Tiger talks to the local craft spirits, who are confused because they look nothing like A-Dom. A-Dom suggest that they stand on each other ‘like Voltron.’ Tiger wants the spirits to materialize, but appear transparent and ‘spirity.’ The spirits do their best. Gareth ushers the apprentices over.

Gareth: Is that what you saw?

Apprentices: NO, it was much uglier. Didn’t look like tools at all.

Gareth: That’s what it looks like when you don’t see it out of the corner of your eye.

Apprentice: I didn’t see it out of the corner of my eye. I saw it head on, and it was way uglier.

Gareth gives the monk a donation and thanks him. The apprentices go on break to a bar. A-Dom shadows them, looking like someone else. He then makes a concerted effort to not go into the bar and blow all of the money Gareth just gave him. A-Dom wanders back to the shop.

A-Dom: So, we kill them later?

Gareth: Nooooo, they are family.

A-Dom: I’ll find somewhere else to stay.

Jade’s Luck: I have a question...

A-Dom: No I don’t want to stay at your place.

Tiger holds up the list.

Jade’s Luck: List?

Tiger: My mentor offered to find the hole in creation that we made in exchange for keeping these people alive for the next week.

Jade’s Luck: Does he have ‘special’ powers?

Tiger: Yea, he kind of does.

Jade’s Luck: Does he know those other s? Can he tell them to cut it out please? As rental for the rest of the group’s services, maybe we can ask him for some help?

Tiger: You want to know where the hole in Creation is? This is the price of finding out.

A-Dom: Can we talk to him if we promise to not get into any combat-y situations? Pretty please? While you are sucking on his tard teat.

Jade’s Luck: He could be your mentor and our enemy at the same time...

Alex: Because we know Tiger is our enemy.

Jade’s Luck: If he is concerned about Creation, then they should stop ing with us.

The group goes into a random argument about stuff they don’t know a lot
about. Primarily concerning the belief that the Dragon-Bloods needed to have had help from someone to overthrow the Solars. Every possible group is blamed including the Lunars.

A-Dom turns to a Lunar and says ‘Do you know what’s going on?’ As hundreds of thousands of Dragon Bloods are charging towards him.

A-Dom: I’m pretty sure the Lunars were not in on it.

Jade’s Luck: Ok we’ll help with the list.

A-Dom: But on top of that there were other things we wanted to do here yes? (Everyone nods) What were they?

Gareth: We wanted to visit the crater. Because hey, that hasn’t gone wrong before.

Jade’s Luck: At some point I want to go see how things are going at the trading company.

While Arguing, Tiger hears something out back (triple botch). He runs to investigate. Others hear hoof beats lead up to the merchant across the street, then someone in armor get off the horse and head into the store.

A-Dom: Urge to kill... rising...

Jade’s Luck: I have developed an urge to go shopping in that store RIGHT NOW!

Jade’s Luck, Gareth, and A-Dom (pulling Bianca) head towards the rug merchant’s shop. Jade’s Luck stops to give the horse an apple.

A-Dom: (to the horse) What’s 2+2?

The horse writes the number 4 on the ground with his hoof.

A-Dom: That’s awesome. (To Bianca) Same horse.

The group sees that Jara is screaming at Habib inside the rug shop. She has her Grand Goremaul out. Jade’s Luck runs in as a ‘singing telegram’ from Jahar to Jara, trying to instill the emotion of Calm using her charm again. Everyone in the shop becomes very calm.

The singing telegram is about how Jahar holds Jara in the highest regards, admires and respects her, and wishes her well, and how he setting up a trading outpost that will do credit to their families.

Gareth: (to himself quietly) I don’t need to get the rug merchant out... everything’s cool...

Tiger finds 2 cats fighting in the back alley. Jara tips Jade’s Luck. Then she tells the merchant she’ll be back later, and she wanders off to her horse and rides off.

Gareth: (to Habib) Hey man, what was the mater?

Habib: She was really upset because I sold her a booby trapped rug.

A-Dom starts laughing hysterically.

Habib: But I got paid a lot of money by a Pelpse.

Jade’s Luck: Maybe you have a grandmother you need to go visit?

Habib: No. All my grandmothers are dead.

Jade’s Luck: Then you need to go to their shrine.

A-Dom: (to Habib): Hey, you dropped this bag of money. I suggest you fund a vacation.

GM: Where did you get a bag of money?

Ryan: I took it from Gareth.

Alex: Gareth doesn't have that much money.

Ryan: I took it from under his counter.

A-Dom: I strongly suggest you take a vacation for a week or two until the lady has calmed down.

Habib: That’s a good idea. When should I leave?

A-Dom: Right NOW!

Habib: Who’s going to run my shop?

Tiger: We will.

Gareth: I have an apprentice, I’ll send him over.

Habib: (still calm) Ok

While the batteries in the recorder were being changed:
Ryan: Our God is NOT a Sex position! Yes he likes to be on top. But he’s always on top!

Tiger shows up at the rug merchant shop. He has All Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight on and sees a Death Spirit wandering off. Tiger tells the others and follows the spirit. Jade’s Luck follows Tiger and fills him in on what happened.

A-Dom: I don’t think they death spirit is going to have much to say other then ‘I was here to get someone who was going to die.’

Tiger and Jade’s Luck follow the Death Spirit until it is in a dark alleyway, as they don’t want to talk to spirits on the street.

Jade’s Luck: The Dragon Blood and Mortal, were you there for a reason?

Death: The mortal was going to die. You guys stopped that. Nothing for me to do there. I think a pigeon is going to be dying a few blocks away, can we hurry this up?

Tiger: So you don’t cause it, you’re just there?

Jade’s Luck: You’re just like a Craft Spirit, you just be there?

Death: No, I’m completely different.

Tiger: You don’t cause anything, you’re just there when it happens.

Death: Yea, basically. There are like 12 of us that have to walk around.

Jade’s Luck: So if there was no Death Spirit around they wouldn’t die?

Death: No they would still die.

Jade’s Luck: It just wouldn’t happen properly.

Death: Depends. Sometimes one gets summoned.

Tiger: Summoned by?

Death: Heaven? I don’t know.

Jade’s Luck: What if there is some kind of strange sorcery that prevents the Death Spirit from showing up?

Death: I don’t know! I’m just in charge of being there. It’s my job.

Tiger: Got a list?

Death: Yea. But it’s written in pencil.

Tiger gets a look at Death’s list. He sees ‘Merchant killed by Dragon-blood.’ As well as ‘Slave dies at Cynis party’ quite a ways down on the list.

Death: I got to go, I’ve missed the pigeon, and now there is an old guy. I really can’t miss that one.

Death Spirit wanders off.

Jade’s Luck: I guess the best way to find out about a Cynis party is to ask Mother dear. That might take a while. You want to be an innocuous bodyguard? So If I get the information you can just wander off without me being horribly rude to my family.

So they go back to the Rug shop and explain what’s going on to the others. A-Dom is busy trying to steal everything he can from the rug merchant. But not rugs because those are bulky.

Jade’s Luck: You’re trying to get Gareth’s apprentices to take the fall for your thefts?

A-Dom: There were not that many thoughts involved with it.

Jade’s Luck: Steal from people we don’t know. Not those we are in buisness with.

A-Dom walks next door to steal money to replace the money he just stole. When he gets back he finds out that the next door neighbor is Gareth’s contact. So he robs the merchant next to the contact to replace money he stole from Gareth’s contact.

A-Dom: I’m going to go take a nap. I was swimming for days.

Tiger: Who’s fault is that?

So Tiger and Jade’s Luck go to Matron Jade Fox’s establishment.

Matron Jade Fox: You have to stop going on business trips like this. Business always goes down when you’re not around.

Jade’s Luck: Lord Jahar is off on some island setting up a trading post. He’s got a good touch with the natives there. He will be back at some point. I’m going to be taking care of things here. There may be business trips around Atlantis.

Matron Jade Fox: Terrible luck without you around.

Jade’s Luck: I heard the Cynis are having a party. I was hoping to further our business contacts.

Matron Jade Fox: I can get you one invitation.

Jade’s Luck: When is it?

Matron Jade Fox: Tonight.

Jade’s Luck: Just enough time to freshen up.

Jade’s Luck spends some more time chatting with Matron Jade Fox, then goes to change her cloths, that have been sprayed by sea salt for the last few days. She finds out that 2 girls broke their legs dancing at a party, one girl got a sociable disease and had to retire. A drunk set a fire in one of the rooms. There were two brawls in the house.

Jade’s Luck: I'm trying to make this venture profitable for all of us. It’s a lot harder then I thought it would be.

Matron Jade Fox: Maybe you should consider settling down.

Jade’s Luck: I’m still young yet. For a while I was thinking it might be better to be Jahar’s mistress for a while.

Tiger: (when alone with Jade’s Luck): Maybe we should keep A-Dom away from Cynis parties.

Jade’s Luck: Oh, yea, good idea.

Tiger: We should send A-Dom and Gareth after the Merchant to keep him safe. We can take Bianca with us to the party as another servant.

Tiger goes back to Gareth’s shop. He finds Gareth dealing with the Apprentice who noticed all the money at the rug shop was stolen and replaced with the same amount of money, but different money.

Tiger: You two should watch the merchant. Make sure he doesn’t get killed on vacation. He only has a 2 hour head start.

A-Dom: I could steal a horse...

Gareth: Where are you going to get Oars?

A-Dom: Gareth can't hear ether.

Tiger: We found out where the slave is going to be tonight at a party. So we’ll go deal with the slave. Anyway I need to get Bianca back so Jade’s Luck can find her some appropriate clothing.

Jade’s Luck explains Cynis parties to Bianca: It’s like a lot of large mini-cows in heat running around. So watch your ass.

Tiger: Don’t pull an A-Dom.

Jade’s Luck: Cynis are very indiscriminate about what they mate with.

Gareth and A-Dom run off to find the Merchant Habib. Given the amount of money and what Gareth knows about Habib, he probably would go to island of Marcus’ Gift for his vacation. So they raced to the Docks as Habib would have to get passage on a boat to get there. A-Dom spots him as he is arranging passage. He then sees Jara on the other side of the dock.

A-Dom: Which one do we kill first?

Gareth: No killing. You are going to usher him to my boat.

A-Dom: Excellent. (Evil/crazed look in his eye) Ushering...

Gareth: We need them alive.

A-Dom: (to Habib) I suggest you take passage with us.

Gareth: Your life may be in danger!

A-Dom: In many ways!

Gareth: (Eyeing A-Dom) No, only in one very serious way. Come with us if you want to live.

Habib: Ok!

Gareth welcomes Habib onto his ship in old realm. Then they set sail towards Markus’ gift.

A-Dom: (after being on the boat for about 2 minutes) I’m bored.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Session 47
Synopsis of 5/14/07
Lets find your friend and leave before I feel obliged to do something...
-By Always Toast.

Ryan: Squirrels are a Sidereal plot! Day by day we are getting closer to finding out their names...

Gareth and A-Dom are on the boat with Habib sailing towards Marcus’ Gift. They are “sailing casual” to not draw attention to themselves.

Gareth: A-Dom make sure we’re not being followed...
Liz: Re-word that! You’re wording has to be very precise or he will sink every ship that could possibly follow you.

Gareth: A-Dom keep an eye out, and tell me if we are being followed.

A-Dom: What if they are going to the same place we are?

Gareth: Then look to see if Jara is onboard.
Liz: Remember only you are allowed to kill Jara. In a week.

Ryan: I want that flashy thingied.

Liz: I’m not with you, and I have no intention of killing Jara. She’s all yours.

A-Dom thinks there is a ship behind them that is traveling to the same location. So it’s kind of following them.



While prepping for the Cynis party, Pursy’s multi-chromatic tongue lashes out and swallows Bianca, again. Jade's Luck and Tiger shrug and go to the Cynis party. They decide to go at the start of the party before the full festivities are in swing. The party is basically in the same complex as the last Cynis party, there are a number of chambers, baths, lounges, etc.

When the get past the guards who checked their invitation, they saw the next room was full of orange smoke which was spewing from pots sitting around in the room. The room was completely full of smoke. One of the hostesses noticed that Jade’s Luck and her servant (Tiger) paused just outside the smoke.

Hostess: Oh it’s perfectly safe, go on in.

Jade's Luck: What is it?

Hostess: I’m not entirely sure. But it’s something Cujug made up for everyone’s enjoyment.

Jade's Luck: (really fake happy voice) Oh great. I heard a rumor about some fertility potion he made...

Hostess: Oh no, it’s not that. That’s purple. Down the hall, three rooms to the left.
Liz: I’ll be avoiding that room.

Jade’s Luck takes a nice deep breath and then walks inside. The first room is about 50ft by 50ft room with a number of tables for food and drink set up. Everyone in the room is acting normally, relaxing, talking, etc. Off one side of the room is the entrance to the baths, and pink smoke can be seen in that area. On the other side is a long hallway with a multitude of rooms each full of a different colored smoke. The smoke was wafting out of the rooms and mixing in the hallway forming a multi-colored haze. Third one on the right had purple smoke coming out of it.

Jade’s Luck starts breathing the smoke, and starts to relax a little bit. Tiger becomes really relaxed. Everything’s OK for Tiger. Jade’s Luck notices that they have good booze (and failed her temperance check) and starts drinking.

Jade’s Luck decides to interrogate (non-A-Dom style) various slaves about where the slave Chris was to be found. She starts with the slave bartender, as that is where she is getting drinks. The bartender is very relaxed... and eventually starts giving Jade's Luck information. She finds out the different rooms have been set up with different colored smokes which encourage different kinds of behaviors. She also finds out there is a slave by that name in the purple room.
Liz: We'll send tiger.

Ryan: (Speaking as Tiger): Are you a slave named Chris? Excellent. I slaughter everyone else.

Dan laughs.

Jade’s Luck wanders up to Tiger and explains things.

Tiger: Purple is the anti-pregnancy one?

Jade's Luck: Noooooo... remember how they are blaming Jahar’s interesting offspring on that potion? Remember that whole little side issue we have to deal with? I’m taking herbs, but I don’t know if they can withstand magical... yea...

Tiger: So, you want to sneak her out now?

Jade's Luck: Do you know how to identify this person or you just have a name?

Tiger: Name on a list.

Jade's Luck: Lets find her. Then see what we can do. Can you be all sneaky? Maybe pretend to be someone who is re-assigning her to someplace that is not in this damn smoke? Pretend to be Jahar maybe?

Tiger: Umm... no.

Jade's Luck and Tiger hear screams of pain and wimping coming from one of the rooms down the corridor.

Jade's Luck: I think we should go check that out. I think that’s our cue.

Tiger: Whatever.

They go down the hallway and find a side room full of red smoke, from which the screams and whimpering are coming. It appears to be a pain and torture fetish room.

Jade's Luck: (to Tiger) Lets find your friend and leave before I feel obliged to do something... about...
Liz: Well I rolled 4 successes on 3 dice. Limit break time.

Ryan: Damn it. I lost. She limit broke first.

Jade’s Luck goes into the Red Rage of Compassion. She turns from Tiger and throws her bottle full of booze at the head of the nearest torturer, using Cascade of Cutting Terror.

Tiger: (still mellow) I’ll go check out the purple room then...

Jade's Luck: (thinks she is screaming) Stop that can’t you see you’re hurting them! (However everyone just hears an incoherent scream of rage.)

The bottle smashes into a male torturer’s head, and the man starts screaming in pain, as his water aspect anima starts to flair. Jade’s Luck launches herself at him, runs up him, kicks him in the face (she misses), doing a flip, and punching him in the face (which also missed).
All other players makes suggestions on how she should attack various parts of his anatomy and/or organs.

Liz: Wow, I associate with some rather disturbed individuals.

Jade's Luck grabs him and slams him into a table full of torture weapons then elbow him in the back (despite the fact that he is already dead). Various people attempt to attack Jade’s Luck with assorted torture implements. Jade’s Luck’s starts to glow.

A-Dom, on Gareth’s boat, feels there is something wrong with the world.

As Tiger is moving towards the room with the purple smoke, right before he reaches it, he notices that sunlight starts coming out of the room with the Red smoke.

Tiger: (Yells) Chis!

Tiger then looks for anyone who responds. She appears to be “busy.” She is in a “good old fashioned fun” kind of room. She does have one arm chained to the wall. The room appears to be a normal orgy, and nobody appears to be in risk of dying anytime soon.

Tiger: (to the room in general) Enh, you can wait.

Tiger heads back towards the room full of purple smoke.

Jade's Luck is surrounded by various people trying to attack her for breaking up their torturing fun. One of them is standing on top of a slave who is on the floor. Jade's Luck grabs two different peoples heads as supports for he hands, and uses them like balance bars, while kicking the man on the slave twice. Killing him and sending him flying out of the room right in front of Tiger.

Tiger kills both the men Jade's Luck is holding onto by cutting them in half vertically.

Tiger: We have to go. (Jade's Luck hears incoherent mumbling from someone who is helping her against “the Oppressors.”)

Tiger hears: “I’m having such a bad day. Bring me a slave to beat! One that looks like my husband.” The voice sounds familiar. He also notices people from various rooms are looking into the corridor, due to the death screams. He also notices Jade’s Luck is smiling. Jade’s Luck goes looking for more oppressors. She finds Jara, as she is heading towards them.

Tiger tries to bonk Jade’s Luck on the head. He does very little damage. Luckily, Jade's Luck knows Tiger is not someone who is torturing people, but she does stop to look at him.

Tiger: (thinking fast): There are people in the purple room being tortured. Go help them! (Tiger points down the hall. Jade’s Luck appears to get the jest of it.) There is a girl we have to save... she’s being hit by some guy... repeatedly.

Jade's Luck starts heading for the purple room. Jara comes into the hallway from the room with the orange smoke.

Jara (screaming): Anathema!

Tiger: Where?
Ryan: Good cover.

Back on the Boat with Gareth and A-Dom

A-Dom: I still think Jara might be on the boat behind us. She’s sneaky.


Jara is not wearing armor, and not carrying her gore maul. So Tiger tries to knock out Jara by punching her. While he gives her a number of small bruises, he doesn’t knock her out. Jara grabs a hold of the stone wall, and pulls out a Gore Maul (formed of stone). She attacks Jade's Luck the obvious anathema. This makes Jade's Luck notice her, and Jara is filed under Cynis and “evil oppressors” in Jade Luck’s mind, so she happily goes after Jara. While she doesn’t manage to hit Jade's Luck, he does manage to knock them both down, as her weapon causes small earthquakes.

Tiger: Don’t kill her! She has to live! (Jade's Luck only hears gobbly gook.)
Dan: Wait... she doesn’t have a weapon out... she does bashing... woohoo!

Jade's Luck attacks ineffectually, but ends up standing on Jara’s Gore Maul. Tiger hops up, attacks her a few times and draws Diplomacy again. Tiger swings at Jara, but his attack is redirected towards Jade’s Luck, who he misses. Jara tries to beat Jade's Luck into the wall to get Jade's Luck off her Gore Maul. Jade's Luck soaks it but is thrown off. Tiger stops messing around and starts hitting Jara for more bashing damage. Jade's Luck grabs one of the smoking pots and throws it at Jara’s head. The smoking pot explodes in shower of essence, and doing a tiny amount of aggravated damage. As they all realized the smoke pots are in fact magical artifacts. Tiger hits Jara again knocking her unconscious. At this point, Tiger is glowing.
Alex: Tiger, glowing? Is it like the light of stars?

Red Rage of Compassion... is rather uncompassionate. Jade’s Luck grabs Jara and runs down the hall into the room full of purple smoke. She sees a number of slaves and a number of oppressors “abusing” them. So Jade's Luck uses Cascade of Cutting Jara to hit one of them. Jade’s Luck goes Totemic, so the big glowing Fox shows up. Tiger tries to grab Jara... but that doesn’t work so well. As there are hundred of images of Jara. He does manage to grab her arm as she is flying. Luckily, Tiger manages to make her hit feet first, instead of head first. So Jara was alive, although both her legs were now broken. The man she hit was dead. The slave under the dead man, was perfectly safe.

Tiger sees three guards run into the room and try to stab Jade’s Luck, and all fail. Jade’s Luck doesn’t seem to notice the guards. The fox anima image does look at them. Tiger throws Jara over his shoulder then tries to point at Chris.

Tiger: Save that one! (Waving randomly (he botched his persuasion roll).)

Jade’s Luck grabs one of the men (nearest), and uses him “Like a seven section staff” to beat one of the other men. Chris no longer has someone on top of her.
GM: (to Ryan) I don’t know how you sleep at night.

Ryan: With a locked door.

Tiger jams a lockpick into the lock on Chris’ manacle, and pops it open, grabs Chris, throws her over his other shoulder, and runs out the door carrying both her and Jara. Tiger heads for a back entrance, by running along the walls to avoid the congestion in the hallway.

Jade’s Luck finishes up the rest of the oppressors in the room.


Still on the boat sailing.

A-Dom: Ok, Maybe Jara isn’t on that boat. Unless she’s being really sneaky.



While Jade's Luck is standing there trying to decide who to kill next. A man in black appears from nowhere, pulls out a sword and stabs upwards, towards the celling. A body of a large man falls down. Jade's Luck tries to figure out if she knows the man in black, in any way shape or form. All she sees is a glowing ball of blue light where his face should be. A number of ideas pop into her head fully formed.

Mildly stunned from this experience, Jade's Luck goes running from the room and the building.

Tiger (who is still glowing), upon seeing a patrol of Dragon Bloods, throws Jara at them and yells “Here take care of her!” Then runs off, still carrying Chris.

A-Dom and Gareth notice a daylight like glow coming from the middle of the city of Atlantis.

Gareth: That can’t be good.

Tiger and Jade's Luck both head into the sewers, then Tiger has a memory of the hollow area under the city. Jade's Luck eventually finds the area by following Tiger. Tiger put Chris somewhere in the undercity. Then Tiger and Jade's Luck ran into each other.

Jade's Luck: Hello.

Tiger: Are you all psycho still?

Jade's Luck: No. Oh you have Chris? That’s good. We got her out.

Tiger: I got her out.

Jade's Luck: There is all this stuff in my head.

Tiger: You were killing “bad people.”

Jade's Luck: Not kicking puppies?

Tiger: No, just bad people.

Jade's Luck: Well we never do anything! We’re always like “we should do something about that.” Then we don’t. Well damn it, things got fixed. I’ve got this thing in my head.

Tiger: You think about that. I’ll be right back. (Tiger goes and gets Chris)

Jade's Luck: Remember the Auditor who didn’t like how we were handling the elementals? Yea, like that but kind of a Judge. That’s what I saw. With a hood on. Put stuff in my head about what we should be doing. I’ve got all these arrows...

Tiger: Someone sent us an instruction book? Do you know how we can find him so we can thank him?

Jade's Luck: Maybe go to Heaven? We need to re-arrange stuff. I think this was a sign of approval of my moving and shaking today.

Tiger: Maybe it was a kick in the pants to get us going.

Jade's Luck: That could be true.

Tiger looks at Chris, decides she’s freaked out. But “We arn’t glowing... as much.” So she should be OK about being kidnapped into the undercity by two anathema.

Still sailing towards Marcus' Gift:

Gareth: You see them any more?

A-Dom: No, but it looks like the city is in Anathema mode. Probably best I’m not around.

Tiger and Jade's Luck wait around for a few hours in the undercity, then start moving around in case investigating Dragon Bloods found the way into the undercity chasing them.

Jade's Luck: I don’t know if anybody saw us being all shinny. Someone might be looking for us.

Tiger: Oh, I’m pretty sure people saw us.

Jade's Luck: I don’t have the sneaky stuff that A-Dom has... I might want to learn some of that.
For the record: The undercity is mostly made out of large room, about fifty feet tall, hundreds of feet long, full of giant pillars.

Jade's Luck tries to explain that the “Blue faced guy” stabbed a Dragon Blood who was against the ceiling. But she was kind of rambling, and Tiger didn’t seem to care much.

Jade's Luck: Should I make he feel Happy or Calmly terrified? Which do you think would be better?
GM: So you’re having this conversation in front of her.

Liz: Yes, it so won’t make a difference.

Tiger: So, Happy and freaked out, or Calm and freaked out?

Jade's Luck: Yea, I can’t make her not be freaked out, but I can fix her emotional state.

So Jade’s Luck decides to make her Calm.

Tiger: So... this is day one of the week of keeping people alive.

Jade's Luck: Like when Jara tried to kill the Rug Merchant. That was terrible, since we have to keep both of them alive.

Tiger: I was referring to something much more recent.

Jade's Luck: Like what?

Tiger: Like how after she was already unconscious, you tried to kill Jara.

Jade's Luck: I tried to kill Jara?

Tiger: Yes. Repeatedly. You attacked someone else with her.

Jade's Luck: I’m sorry I missed that. That sounds very fun... I mean like A-Dom. I wonder if it’s contagious?

Tiger: Have you two been spending special time together?

Jade's Luck: No, no, no, nonononono... Especially until we sort out the guy with the face stabbing, cause I don’t want a motherer baby.

Tiger goes to get supplies, and starts walking through the sewers. On his trip through the sewers, he ran into his Mentor.

Mentor: Since you seem to be doing well, I’m giving you the information early. But I still expect you to finish the week. The Wyld Zone appeared in the Coral Archipelago (and he gives Tiger a little map). You may want to move around some more. Whole Anathema scare. People looking for you.
Tiger: Would it be possible for my friends to meet you sometime?

Mentor: Why do they want to meet me?

Tiger: They have some questions. About people who are hard to remember.

Mentor: I could explain it all to them. Then they will forget it. What I can do is find someone who can explain it. So No, they can’t meet me. It will just upset them. But I’ll work on arranging for them to meet someone who can explain some things to them so they can remember it.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Session 48
Synopsis of: 6/4/07
We have to save her, so we can assassinate her ourselves.
We don’t want it to be too obvious.
-By AlwaysToast

Gareth and A-Dom are sailing towards Markus’ Gift, with their “good friend” Habib, completely ignoring the chaos that is happening in the city of Atlantis. Because Gareth “Has to babysit A-Dom.” The next morning they are getting near Marcus’ Gift, getting towards the port. A-Dom notices that there are a number of Aligators along the coast. He also notices that some of them are albino.

A-Dom: Look Gareth, some of those big buggers are albino.

Gareth: Is this somehow your fault?

A-Dom: (quite happy) Probably. (Pause) Probably not, I um, (pause) Dragon Bloods, maybe, you see they, (pause) I’m sorry, Jahar took over there for a minute.

Gareth: Dear god he’s developing ranged powers...

They dock, and find out there is a rather large docking fee for docking at this island, being a pleasure resort and all. Gareth spends some time stalling the dock warden. A-Dom dives off the boat, sneaks into town, steals enough money to pay the docking fee, dives back into the water, swims back to the boat and comes up behind Gareth... soaking wet, and hands him the money for the docking fee.

Dock Warden: You’re awfully wet.

A-Dom: I like a morning swim.

Dock Warden: Whatever floats your boat.

A-Dom: Water.

The dock warden walks off confused.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Mortals are so funny.

A-Dom and Gareth force Habib to come up with were they should stay, and how much that should cost. So on the way to the Inn/Bath House, A-Dom pickpockets multiple people on the way there for small amounts each. So by the time they arrive at the Inn, he has enough to pay for himself and Gareth. Habib has plenty of money with him.

A-Dom: (To himself) That’s right, he has lots of money on him. I should be robbing him.

Habib: I can hear you.

A-Dom: Oh, sorry. No, I was saying I should open up a bath-house and rob rich people like you, with high prices.

Habib: I think you have to be a Dragon-Blood to open up a Bath House on this island.

A-Dom: Well, we’ll have to do something about that! Change the way the world works!

A-Dom notices that there are a lot of slaves on this island, and all the slaves around him become very nervous when he starts talking about “changing the way the world works” while in the middle of the street.

A-Dom: (To slaves) And by changing, I mean keeping it exactly the same.

They enter the Inn/Bath House. Walk up to the Concierge.

Habib: Hello my friend! I am hoping you have three rooms avalible for myself and my good friends Gareth and... (Habib realizes he does not know A-Dom’s name).

A-Dom: A-Dom!

Ryan: You know, I keep getting all these wonderful moments to make up a name, and I always end up giving my name.

So they pay, and slaves are assigned to them as personal servants, and to show them around. The slaves make good tour guides, telling them about the various entertainments. Baths, sex houses, gladiator pits, hunting expeditions, gambling, etc. A-Dom quizzes them on the gladiator arena and laughs a lot. A-Dom also finds out that according to the slaves albino alligators started appearing amongst the population. They also hear about the “great big one” a huge albino alligator.

A-Dom: Sounds like a nice local attraction.

Slave: Yea, sometimes people try to hunt the great big one. They tend to die. He ate a Dragon-Blood last year.

A-Dom eventually starts asking a series of complicated questions the slaves can’t possibly answer.

Slave: (depressed) I’m sorry, I just don’t know about those things. Would you like to flog me now?

A-Dom: No, that’s alright, have a muffin.

A-Dom, Gareth and Habib spend the rest of they day hanging around the bathhouse. Their day was uneventful.

Back in the Undercity, Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and the kidnapped slave Chris, are sitting around, and pursy spits out Bianca. They then moved around about every 6 hours to make it less likely that anyone would track them down.

The next day, A-Dom finds Habib in the lobby talking to some other rich merchant types Habib apparently knows. A-Dom finds out they are going alligator hunting.

A-Dom: Going after the big one?

Hunter: Are you crazy? He ate a Dragon-Blood last year!

A-Dom: It’s true, I heard about that. I still don’t entirely believe it.

Hunter: Well then, maybe you’d like to join us, test your skills. You’re a big strapping lad.

A-Dom: (totally fake sounding) Not as big and strapping as a Dragon Blood, gee wiz they are great! I’m far from a Dragon Blood.

One of the men in the group appears to be a Dragon-Blood and is looking at A-Dom like he is a prick.

A-Dom has at this point just started to pick pocket every person he passes, for small amounts, just so he’ll have enough money to pay for things. So he pays for himself and Gareth to go on the hunting trip. They hand them both a spear and a bow. A-Dom starts playing around with the bow.

A-Dom: Wow, cool. I’ve never shot one of these before.

GM note: This is sadly true. A-Dom has never fired a bow. He has Archery 5, and he’s never picked up a bow in his life. Silly Dawn caste.

Liz: Jade’s Luck is somewhere grinding her teeth for no apparent reason.

The hunting trip is taken, by wagon, out into a marshland area near the ocean. A good place to hunt alligators. A-Dom after a while finds an alligator and stabs it with the spear, through the brain.

Hunting Guide: I’ve never seen anyone kill one by stabbing it in the brain like that.

A-Dom: That’s the best way to kill it, isn’t it? Maybe it’s just a really good spear!

A-Dom pulls the spear out... the spear is making rattling noises like the shaft was split down the center by the force of A-Dom’s blow. A-Dom sees Habib down by the river, washing his hands, and he sees a huge white shape moving swiftly through the water towards Habib. A-Dom goes running towards Habib. Gareth notices that A-Dom has freaked out, and starts asking the Dragon Blood annoying questions to keep him distracted.
A-dom throws Habib out of the way. However, the big albino aligator bites down on A-Dom’s foot.

A-Dom: (Looks at his foot, looks at the crowd) (quietly) Oh right, (Screaming) Ahhhh! Help!

A-Dom is then dragged underwater by the alligator. As he gets deeper into the river, A-Dom realizes he should actually start struggling instead of just putting on a show. A-Dom, blinded by the river muck, decides to “communicate” with it by turning on his cast mark. Suddenly he is grabbed by a large hand that is also white and scally, and dragged further and faster into the water.

Ryan: I don’t know if this is an improvement or not!

Dan: Can you breath water yet?

Ryan: Nope.

Dan: Then it’s an improvement.

He is then able to breath, as he finds himself in a small underground cave with an air pocket, with a large albino Lunar, who looks like half aligator, half man.

A-Dom: Are you a Lunar.

Lunar: Yes.

A-Dom: So no then.

Lunar: No, (pause) yes!

A-Dom: Everybody who is a supernatural starts off by lying to me. Why should you be any different? Aren’t you fae, or demon or something? (The Lunar turns on his Full Moon caste mark) Ok then. How long have you been here?

Lunar: In the river... or in the cave?

A-Dom: No, in Atlantis, or I guess Marcus’ Gift.

Lunar: 200 years.

A-Dom: Damn, not long enough.

Lunar: What?

A-Dom: Oh sorry, you see we have these past lives things, and this island is named after me. I’m Marcus.

Lunar: Ahh... Marcus the Mad. You’re feeling sane though right?

A-Dom: Oh yea, I’m fine.

Lunar: Then what are you doing on MY island?

A-Dom: We’re trying to keep some guy alive.

Lunar: Why on my island?

A-Dom: Well the Dragon Blood are trying to kill him.

Lunar: Why?

A-Dom: That’s always a complicated question.

Lunar: They always are.

A-Dom: You see it was one of those guys that you see, then can’t remember.

The Lunar says something, that A-Dom forgets. The Lunar gets a little depressed.

A-Dom: He’s the only one of them that has not tried to screw us over, and has apparently helped one of us many times.

Lunar: Do you have any friends around?

A-Dom: YES!

Lunar: Are they smarter then you?

A-Dom describes Gareth, primarily pointing out the missing eye.

Lunar: You stay here, I’ll be back.

A-Dom: What you going to do? Cause they don’t know we’re Solar, and I’m all dead now because I got dragged into the water.

Lunar: Don’t worry. I’ll be subtle. (The Lunar swims away)

A-Dom: I don’t like people telling me they are going to be subtle. That’s what I say before I mess things up...

A-Dom looks around the small cave for something to amuse himself with. He finds to corpses which are devoid of possessions.

Back on land:

Dragon Blood: (to Gareth) I’m sorry your friend is dead. But you get to keep his kill.

Gareth: (somber) I’ll take it to his family.

Dragon Blood: We’d best be heading back now.

While on the wagon ride back to the city, various animals try to get Gareth’s attention. However, Gareth is... Gareth and doesn’t notice. Eventually a bird lands in his lap, dropping a piece of paper, then flies off.

Note:
You’re friend is alive.
Please leave the party.
Damn you are blind.

Gareth gets off the wagon to releave himself and tells the rest of the hunting party that he will walk the rest of the way back to town. Gareth goes behind a tree.

Lunar: You would be Gareth?

Gareth: Yes.

Wintersun: I am Wintersun. Lets go back and have a talk.

Wintersun and Gareth swim into the cave and find A-Dom with a skull in each hand.

A-Dom: (Skull1)“What’s your name” (Skull 2) “I don’t know, what’s your name?” (Skull 1) “I don’t know. Hey you’re kind of stinky.” (Skull 2) “So are you. I blame the cave...” Oh hi there!

Wintersun: He tells me you have been dealing with Sidereals. (A-Dom forgets this too. But Gareth remembers.)

Gareth: So that’s what they are called! We’ve been calling them heads.

Wintersun: Lot of people call them that too. You see one of them payed me to try to kill some fellow named Habib, but not try too hard.

A-Dom: Ahhhh! So he must have wanted us to meet. You’re here to explain stuff to us.

Wintersun: I am?

A-Dom: Tiger asked his head to tell us stuff. But he couldn’t so he got some other head to explain things to us.

Wintersun: So you think I’m just going to explain things to you?

Gareth: We are the Solar Circle of the West, and we really need more information so we don’t screw up as much.

Wintersun: I thought you were all gone.

A-Dom: We’re BACK! I was also Wretch. One of use was Yew. Yew the Necromancer, but we’re not sure who that was. And I was a little girl once. (Pause) So I heard you killed a Dragon Blood. What did that taste like?

Wintersun: Chicken.

A-Dom: I like you. Anyway, we are just down on our luck Solars trying to take over the world, and we figured we would start with Atlantis first.

Gareth: Our god is encased in soulsteel.

Wintersun pulls out a little scroll and starts taking notes.

Wintersun: Well you see I’m overthrowing this island. More specifically I’m having the slaves overthrow it for me.

Gareth: We could maybe help you with that.

A-Dom: Yea we’re all for helping with that. Slave revolts! Yay!

Gareth: We’d like to retake Atlantis.

Wintersun: So you think you could pull that off by say... next week?

Pause as the group laughs hysterically.

A-Dom: I’m sorry, we hadn’t met before. That’s just not possible.

Gareth: We’d like to take over the city of Yew first. See if we can harness the army that is there.

Wintersun: The Undead?

Gareth & A-Dom: Yea.

Gareth: Unfortunately the Sapphire Sentinels have been let loose. You should probably tell you’re higher ups that. (Wintersun takes more notes)

Wintersun: Well you see the slaves are all ready to revolt next week. If you could take over Atlantis at the same time, it would probably work out much better.

A-Dom: You’re doing a good job leading and all. All the slaves are with you, well they are all with each other.

Wintersun: I’m not a solar, I’m not leading them. I’m just giving them good ideas to work with.

A-Dom: And you’re doing a great job in your place in the order of things, very appropriate...

Wintersun: You don’t know what you are talking about, do you?

Gareth: It’s generally best to just ignore him.

A-Dom really rambles on for a while.

Wintersun: So you guys really don’t know anything about Sidereals.

Gareth: We’ve been picking things up as we go along. We know they are like us.

A-Dom: And they have been trying to kill us, and impregnate us with themselves.

Wintersun: Oh that’s never good.

A-Dom: No, no, no, yea. I’m not sure how that works.

Wintersun: Have they been ing with your fate at all?

Gareth: I think so. They always seem to show up when something bad is about to happen.

A-Dom: How do we tell?

Wintersun: Do you know what Fate is?

Gareth: No, but I’m currently outside of Fate.

Wintersun: That’s cool. Fate is an actual thing. It exists.

Liz: We can break it!

Wintersun: Think of it like a building full of rope.

Gareth: A-Dom, you are not going into it.

Wintersun pulls out some string and pokes some sticks into the mud vertically.

Wintersun: Imagine every person is a string. Every time a string meets another string they affect each other. Sometimes they cross, sometimes they entangle then separate, sometimes they entangle forever, and sometimes one cuts the other one off. Fate is everything that has happened, and is a roadmap for things that might happen.

So after a while Wintersun has a huge mass of string wound between the various sticks in a big spider web type creation. Then he takes some reeds and wraps them together.

Wintersun: This is a Circle of Solars.

Wintersun whacks the reed rope down onto the spiderweb breaking strings everywhere and making the whole thing fold in on itself.

Wintersun: That’s what you guys look like in fate. So some things are outside of Fate, like undead and fae. So when an undead kills someone. (Wintersun pulls out a knife and slashes off a string, causing the entire web to shift) Fate gets screwed up for no apparent reason that they can see. So their ability to predict fate gets screwed up whenever somebody outside of fate does something to someone who has fate.

Gareth starts laughing.

Wintersun: As far as I can tell they make most of their plans based on this thing that is Fate.

A-Dom: So if we raise an army of undead and kill a lot of people, that s up their plans something sever?

Wintersun: Yes.

A-Dom: Why do you care about your fate after you’re dead?

Wintersun: You’re fate affects the fate of everyone else. So if you die when you’re not suppose to, then you won’t be around to save a baby. Then the baby dies when he’s not suppose to, and the baby was suppose to rule the world.

A-Dom: Somebody killed the wrong person, now Dragon Blood are in control!

Wintersun: Something like that.

A-Dom: How do we get outside of fate?

Wintersun: Beats me?!? If I could do it, I would. But I have no idea.

A-Dom: I need to find something nifty to trade him (points at Gareth). Where can we go that is totally outside of fate?

Wintersun: Totally outside of fate? The deep wild.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Is that deeper then we have been? (Gareth nods) Wow, nooooo... we’re not going there. (To Wintersun) I’m really glad you’re not an . Do you know Cerie?

Gareth: Dillan?

Wintersun: Oh I know Dillan.

Gareth: Dillan is Ceries master. Oh could you tell him that Sapphire Sentinels are cleansing non-believers. Thankfully they are very lost. But that is why we are trying to take over Atlantis quickly.

A-Dom: Quickly being in the next one hundred years. Not next week.

Wintersun: Are you sure you can’t push that up to next week? Sometime this month?

Gareth: A-Dom, A-Dom, we have a plan...

A-Dom: No we don’t. We sat down to have a plan, and Tiger interrupted, and then we went on our jolly little adventure of not killing Habib and Jara’s soon to be dead wife and a slave and... (to Wintersun) Adventure just happens to us and it just pisses me off!

Wintersun: See you’re problem is that you need to be more pro-active. Pick your adventure and go with it!

A-Dom: We’re trying to. We’re trying to inflict our adventure all over Atlantis. (A-Dom rambles about going to the East, all the wile calling it the West.)

Wintersun: I just try to talk people into things.

A-Dom: I can do that too. Just not on a large scale.

Wintersun: I like to work with the slaves. They are oppressed.

A-Dom: We intend to screw up the whole social order. Probably do something fun with the slaves. I like slaves too. I use to be a slave in a past life.

Gareth: Not so much Past Life...

A-Dom: No, not a literal Past Life, (to Garth) SHUT UP.

Gareth: Far as we know all the unbelievers will be wiped out in 27 years.

A-Dom: We plan to have Atlantis all settled by then, and control a couple other islands.

Gareth: Yea, if you can get that to Dillian as soon as possible, we’d appreciate it.

A-Dom: Say are there any other Lunars hanging around here we could talk to?

Wintersun: There is one who lives in the City of Atlantis. But he’s hard to find.

A-Dom: We’ll we’re all “hard to find.”

Wintersun: No, he’s really hard to find. He could be in the room with you, and you wouldn’t know it.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Session 48 Continued

Gareth: So he’s like an insect.

Wintersun: No I could spot him if he were an insect.

A-Dom: I have the ability to not be me, so everything that I did before that didn’t really happen the right way.

Wintersun: REALLY? Overthrow governments, then turn on the power, so people forget that you overthrew the government.

Gareth: People remember when he turns the power back off.

Wintersun: How long can you keep that power on? Years? Years would be good...

Gareth: The problem is we all forget about him too.

A-Dom: Yes, we’d never have this conversation according to you.

Wintersun: But if you overthrow the Dragon Bloods on Atlantis, I won’t have to remember you, because everything will be going well.

A-Dom: It would be really annoying for me. Since there are things that need me to be around... We’re working on it. If I go do it alone, the Dragon Bloods will kick my ass. If my circle all comes we can deal with the Dragon Bloods, but they don’t all have the power I have.

Wintersun: Could you maybe just get the Dragon Bloods to fight each other?

A-Dom: Huh?

Wintersun: Well they don’t like each other anyway. Start a civil war.

A-Dom: That’s a very good idea actually. But I don’t think we can do that by next week.

Wintersun: Why not? You don’t think positively enough!

A-Dom: I don’t think positively at all!

Wintersun slaps A-Dom.

Wintersun: What the hell is wrong with you?!? You’re a Solar. Think Positive!

Gareth: Please don’t do that.

A-Dom: Please don’t do that. I don’t deal well with being slapped. We came here for help.

Wintersun: I’m giving you help! Clearly you need a swift kick in the butt.

A-Dom: Gareth, you need to talk to him now. (Back to talking to Wintersun) So if we’re going to take over Atlantis we’ll figure it out! We’re Solars you’re... a lunar.

Wintersun: Stop twiddling your thumbs.

A-Dom: We’ve only been doing this for 3 years! We’ve got like 997 years to go. We’re planning, thinking, evaluating, we haven’t even seen the entire island yet?

Gareth: We’d be taking over by now, but we got sidetracked by this quest from the Sidereal to keep people alive.

Wintersun: Why are you on that quest again? Oh because of a Sidereal. Have you ever thought he’s ing with you? I’ll give you a little hint, if you’re talking to them, they are ing with you.

A-Dom: His big favor is that he arranged for us to talk to you. There might also be a hole in creation that we’ve lost.

Wintersun: So your goal is to keep merchant boy alive?

Gareth: Yea, for 3 more days. We left the other two with two other people. I don’t know how that went... but I did see one of their anima flairs walking through the city.

Wintersun: Ok, I’ll keep him alive for three more days.

A-Dom: Thank you! We’ll go back to Atlantis then.

Wintersun: He’s not allergic to rope is he?

A-Dom: (Giggling) Not that I know of. (Stops giggling) He doesn’t actually know we are protecting him.

Wintersun: Well as long as Dragon Bloods or something don’t come after him, he won’t know I’m there. If he does, he’s getting tied up for his own safty.
Gareth then describes Jara, and tells Wintersun that they have to keep her alive as well.

Gareth: I don’t care what condition she is in, as long as she is alive.

Wintersun: Maiming... good... (he writes himself a note)

A-Dom: After a week, feel free to eat her.

Gareth: I thought you wanted to kill her.

A-Dom: She killed Skelly! If someone else kills her it just saves me time.

Wintersun: Ok, I’ll watch Habib, you go take over Atlantis Faster!

A-Dom: I’ll start swimming!

Gareth: We have a boat. Just don’t look like yourself. Remember you’re dead.

A-Dom changes his appearance to look kind of like Jahar, then wanders to the boat jabbering to himself. “Five even pieces, sometimes they are cherry and sometimes they are lemon.”

Gareth goes and tells Habib that they are leaving and to enjoy the rest of his vacation. Gareth and A-Dom then sail back to Atlantis.


Back in the undercity below Atlantis, the day after Jade’s Luck’s Limit Break: Tiger, Jade’s Luck, Chris the slave (who is constantly being magically calmed), and Bianca is spit out of Pursy. Tiger was just coming back from having scouted out what was going on above ground.

Bianca: What happened?

Tiger: She (point at Jade’s Luck) had an A-Dom moment.

Jade’s Luck: There were oppressors. I don’t remember much.

Tiger, Bianca and Jade’s Luck decide to have all of their conversations in Old Realm to not scare the hell out of Chris any more then they already had.

Bianca: Maybe best if you don’t remember.

Jade’s Luck: There were these slaves being tortured in a room... I guess I got a little mad. Oh Tiger you’re back. So was there any damage?
Tiger: Well you didn’t kill Jara.

Jade’s Luck: Huh? Wut?

Tiger: You seemed rather intent on that.

Jade’s Luck: Are you sure?

Tiger: YES! I had to run away with her.

Jade’s Luck: That’s not good. She’s ok?

Tiger: NO! She’s not dead.

Jade’s Luck: She gave birth to a flaming baby, I’m sure she heals fast.

Tiger: If you want to look on the bright side she won’t be going after Habib.

Jade’s Luck: That’s good! So how is the city?

Tiger: Yea... probably going to want to stay down here for a while.

Jade’s Luck: I shouldn’t really disappear for a week just after I got back... I guess I can come up with some excuse of the Anathema scare... Maybe I ran around lost... did I really attack Jara?

Tiger: Yes! Then after she was unconscious you threw her at someone.

Jade’s Luck: Did other people get hurt?

Tiger: I didn’t take a body count. I was busy running away.

Pursy: I didn’t count ether. I’m just a bag.

Jade’s Luck: (to Pursy) That’s ok, you’re a bag we don’t expect that much from you.

Tiger: We should probably move around.

Pursy: The slave looks upset. I don’t know what could be upsetting her.

Jade’s Luck tries to convince Pursy to stop scaring the mortal by talking. By talking to it at length. Tiger orders Chris to eat some food.

Jade’s Luck: There was this weird guy who showed up. I think he was from Heaven.

Tiger: Are you getting Audited again?

Jade’s Luck: It’s not some elemental civil suit this time at least. I was right those motherers are Exalts of the five maidens! I’ll explain later, lets go find someplace else to hide.

So they wander around in the undercity for eight hours. They travel through a number of gigantic caverns hundreds of yards long, with hundreds of columns holding up the ceiling.

Tiger and Bianca both get the feeling that they have traveled far, and might be outside the city. Likely heading towards the are of old library (The Great Crater on the map of Atlantis). They rest for the evening, the continue moving towards the area under the old library.

Jade’s Luck magically calms Chris again. Then she tries to be nice to her.

Jade’s Luck: I’m sure under better cercomstances we could have been good friends.

Chris: Yes, I’m sure before the demon ate your soul out you were a very nice person.

Tiger: We don’t eat people’s souls. Just those of Dragon Bloods.

Jade’s Luck: Tiger! We don’t eat anybody’s souls!

Back to talking Old realm:

Bianca: I think we are getting near the old library.

Tiger: Why would we want to go there?

Jade’s Luck: Opec wanted something from there.

Tiger: Opec is a mute . Why would we do that for him?

Jade’s Luck: Oh, Opec explained that. Unless you want to learn sorcery he won’t talk to you.

Bianca: He was going to give us information about the Sapphire Sentinals.

Jade’s Luck: Information is always good.
Liz: (without pause from the sentence above) Oooo... my dice are shinny... (pause) sorry I got distracted.

Alex: And this is why we never take over the world.

They find a lot of areas where the ceilings are crushed in, and many of the pillars are crushed or partially broken. There is lots of dust and debris around here. Like there was a giant explosion above them. They manage to find a few pages from different books. But each pages is horribly out of context.

While wandering around Bianca finds a book on a stone shelf along one wall. The book is about four and a half feet tall, three feet wide, and about 5 inches thick. It has slots for 50 hearthstones on each side. Bianca picks up the book and starts carrying it towards the others.

Book with Bianca’s legs and fingers sticking out: Look! I found a book!

Jade’s Luck: Holy crap.

Bianca: We so have to keep THIS!

Jade’s Luck: I hope there are a hundred manses on Atlantis that we can take away from Dragon Bloods. So where are we going to keep this book?

Tiger: Down here. We are not walking through town with that.

Jade’s Luck: I wonder if this is the annoying book that knows everything.

Bianca: We HAVE to take it with us.

Jade’s Luck: It’s kind of conspicuous. Maybe we should hide it somewhere. Is there someplace you would like to put it?

Bianca: Somewhere secret.

So the three of them argue about how to get the book to Gareth’s boat, and more importantly which idea is best and who can claim credit for which idea.

While killing time for the next couple days, Jade’s Luck explains this chart to Tiger and Bianca in great detail. There are circles and arroWintersun and charts.

Jade’s Luck: So I think we should start telling spirits to report to Dragon Bloods.

Tiger: I like this idea.

Jade’s Luck: That’s apparently what the Dragon Bloods are suppose to be doing. So we are going to help. Especially the really annoying ones. We’ll help them a lot. (Pause) So are we still suppose to keep Jara alive for a few more days?

Tiger: Yea...

Jade’s Luck: So what if someone is still trying to kill her...

Tiger: We’ll you’re here... and she’s being held for ransom by house Peleps. So yea, I guess I should be going back now.

Jade’s Luck: Well you’re really good at being sneaky, and you’re not know as a crazy anathema. So you can keep an eye on her.


A-Dom and Gareth get back to Atlantis, the night before the last day of keeping people alive. They find out there is an Anathema scare. A Cynis party was attacked by Anathema. Cynis Cujug was killed. The Anathema then tried to kill Cynis Jara, but she was rescued by members of House Peleps. House Peleps is holding Jara for ransom, which by tradition must be payed by her husband. House Cynis is getting irritated with house Sesus as they are unable to find Jahar.

Alex: Gareth is not laughing. Gareth has a lot of temperance.

There is a lot of stress in the city between house Cynis, Sesus, and Peleps.

A-Dom starts thinking about how to use this to their advantage to assassinate Jara while she is in custody of house Peleps and blame it on house Memnon. He then realizes that if he thought of this in a few seconds, someone in house Memnon probably already thought of assassinating Jara while she was in the custody of house Peleps and blaming it on House Sesus. Since they still had to keep Jara alive for another full day.

A-Dom: We have to save her, so we can assassinate her ourselves.

Dan: Just become a Death Knight. You’re halfway there.

Ryan: Thank you.

A-Dom explains this to Gareth.

A-Dom: My plan is to find these s, kill them, then wait, the kill Jara ourselves, because it’s easier to... something something... if they are guilty.

Gareth: What?

A-Dom: I’m sorry that was my idea. The whole timing thing is messing with me. I just want her dead.

A-Dom and Gareth head to the Peleps area of town. A-Dom spots a heavily guarded compound. A-Dom figures out that Jara is most likely in a well guarded tower. A-Dom doesn’t look like himself and “keeps watch.” Gareth goes off to make something.

Alex: Yes I know I just left A-Dom alone. It was unavoidable.

As A-Dom is waiting around, every once in a while he feels a tiny, almost imperceptible “ting” through the ground. A-Dom stares at the ground for a bit. The ground is stone, and rather solid. Even when A-Dom knocks on the ground, which sounds solid. The “tinging” noise stops for a few minutes.

A-Dom: They are digging their way in? ing Dragon Bloods.

Ryan: This is SO against my nature. I want to push them through the rock FASTER. Go kill, kill, KILL!

A-Dom runs to Gareth’s shop to get Gareth.

A-Dom: They are digging through the ground. I need you. Now!

A-Dom and Gareth rush over to the Peleps part of town, by running through the sewers. As they are approaching they sense the Tiger is on the road above. As he is checking out house Peleps as well. Tiger checks out the tower to see what ways there are to get into the tower. There is a heavily guarded front door, and windows on the third floor and higher. Then he notices A-Dom and Gareth, and heads down into the Sewers to meet them.

A-Dom: They are below us still. I hear lots of tinging.

Gareth: Oooooookay.

Gareth remembers that this is a hollow island. That there are chambers below the sewers held up by colums. If someone were to take out one of those colums below the tower, it would be very bad for the tower. He however can’t remember where specifically there is an entrance to the undercity from here.

Gareth: There has to be a door around here somewhere.

A-Dom: I’ll spread out!

A-Dom actually finds and entrance to the undercity just as Tiger comes running up to them inside the sewers.

A-Dom: Tiger! I found a door!

Gareth: Tiger they are trying to take out support beams under the city! We have to stop them.

Tiger: Oh, ok.

A-Dom: (opens the door and screams) ASS SAS SINS!

The door opens onto a long stone staircase which doesn’t have any handrails or supports on ether side of it. It goes down about 50 ft. There are two obvious Dragon Bloods, watching two demons pound away at a gigantic column which is clearly positioned right below the tower the Jara is in.
Oddly, they all look up when A-Dom screamed ASS SAS SINS, into the giant cavernous room.

The Dragon Bloods draw weapons and prepare for combat.

A-Dom slides down the stairs as fast as he can without falling off. He summons his giant club.

Dragon Blood 1: Anathema!

A-Dom: Yup! A-Dom Anathema!

Dragon Blood 2: Wait, Why are Anathema trying to stop us?

A-Dom: Politics.

Dragon Blood 1: Politics?

A-Dom: Un-huh.

Dragon Blood 1: I guess we fight then.

Tiger: Could you wait a day?

A-Dom: Yea, actually if you wouldn’t mind waiting a day. We just need 24 hours.

Dragon Blood 1: If we wait, would you help?

Tiger: SURE! She just has to survive the week.

Dragon Blood 2: Ok, we can wait till tomorrow. (To the Demons) Take five!

Demons: Thanks boss!

Dragon Blood 1: We were kind of worried about having this thing land on us when we take it out. Can you help with that.

Tiger: Just run really fast.

Dragon Blood 2: We were just going to let the demons get crushed.

Demons: For the record, we don’ t like this idea.

Tiger: It won’t kill you permanently.

Demons: It still hurts.

Dragon Blood 1: Hey if somebody could make sure she’s in the building when we drop it, that would help a lot too. Make sure we get her. We’d hate to miss... that looks bad.

A-Dom: Yea that wouldn’t be good.

Gareth starts figuring out if this will be dangerous for the island, and he was pretty sure that would just cause a local sink hole above.

Tiger: So do you normally destroy towers to kill people?

Dragon Blood 1: No, a good political assassination like this is kind of rare.

A-Dom starts making small talk with the demons while Gareth and Tiger went back up to the sewers to talk about something.

Gareth tells Tiger about the slave revolt on Marcus’ Gift and how a civil war between the houses would be good for them and for their plans to take over Atlantis.

Gareth: We also ran into the guy your mentor sent to talk to us. He also told us a whole bunch of stuff which is really important. But A-Dom can’t remember it because he is a head. So pay very close attention when I say this. The motherers are called Sidereals.

Tiger: I’ll remember that. (3 seconds later) Motherers are motherers. Got it.

Gareth: I’ll try someone else then... anyway we found out a lot of things.

Tiger: How are we going to frame Memnon for this? Do we have anything from Memnon to plant on these guys?

Gareth: We don’t want it to be too obvious.

Tiger: That’s why I don’t want to just stab one and leave the body laying there. I guess I’ll go steal something from a Memnon and plant it on them.

Gareth: While we were away... what was up with the fox?

Tiger: What? (long Pause) Oh yea. She had an A-Dom moment. We went to a party and there was some abuse of slaves, and she didn’t take kindly to that. So she started to try to kill Jara. That’s how Jara got beaten the crap out of, and I threw her to some Dragon Bloods, who turned out to be of the wrong house.

Gareth: Oh. So you know, we didn’t abandon Habib. We left him with Wintersun.

Gareth heads back down to A-Dom and the assassins. Tiger heads off to steal something from a Memnon. He found a cufflink that he stole off a high ranking Memnon.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Session 49
Synopsis 6/18/07
Assassins 2
Subtitle: Shortly Atlantis may be becoming an unsafe place to live.
By Always Toast

Tiger and A-Dom decide to try and get into the tower to make sure Jara is inside. Gareth stays with the Dragon Blood Assassins, and demons. Jade’s Luck and Bianca are still wandering around in the underground areas with the slave Chris. Jade’s Luck and Bianca are still speaking in Old Realm to avoid scaring Chris.
Tiger: (To Gareth) You’re job is to make sure the Dragon Blood assassins don’t leave before we get back.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Yea! You... be a Solar!

Gareth: I can manage.
Ryan: We get our ninja on!

Liz: Now I have an image of A-Dom wearing the skin of a ninja.

Ryan: Well if we ever kill a ninja... that would be cool.

Liz: That would be a really disgusting artifact.

Dan: How else do you get the essence of a ninja in an artifact?

Ryan: Yea, severed heads are just too hard to carry.

Liz: I think our problem is that we would make such good bad guys.

GM: I’ve asked you to achieve world domination through any means you choose. I never said you were the good guys.

Alex: The problem is we are trying...

Dan & Ryan: Maybe YOU are trying to be a good guy. We are not.

Tiger and A-Dom sneak up to the top of a building in the Peleps complex that is near the tower. The run and jump through one of the third story windows without being spotted. They land in a dark bedroom. They realize they are in a room full of sleeping children. They find that there are very few doors in this tower. All the doorways are covered in beaded curtains. Tiger and A-dom stop right in front of the doorway with the beaded curtains.

Tiger: (Whispering) Do we need to kill all these children?

A-Dom: (Whispering) No, no, no. If we are going to kill children we are going to take them to the wyld.
Ryan: I’m trying to figure out how this will not destroy our plans. God damn it... a beaded curtain. Damn it, we are Exalts!

A-Dom and Tiger manage to sneak through the beaded curtain as quietly as they can. But they do hear some stirring in the room full of children. So they head away from that room down the hallway. Tiger figures Jara is probably being held near the top of the tower. So they sneak along. A-Dom keeps hiding behind tapestries... “Because that’s what you do.”

They find a set of stairs just as people are coming down them. A-Dom jumps up and pins himself between the walls of the corridor, and activates Invisible Statue Spirit. Tiger jumps up onto the doorframe that leads to the stairway, between the wall and A-Dom... just barely fitting.

A set of guards walks underneath them. The two guards are complaining.

Guard: Why would someone try to assassinate our hostage? We already kidnaped her. This is just silly.

A-Dom starts wondering if he can sleep without moving... so he can sleep invisible.

A-Dom and Tiger drop down and continue up the stairs. Walking through the hallway on the fourth floor... Tiger hears “They are gone now. Lets go” as two men dressed all in black ninja outfits, sneak out of a room with a beaded curtain.

For the record it’s 9pm. They have to keep Jara alive until midnight on this day.

Tiger: (Whispering) Maybe we should follow them to find out where she is first.

A-Dom: (Whispering) We ninja the ninjas? I like it.

The two ninjas sneak along the corridor peaking in each room then moving along.

A-Dom: (Whispering) Oh they don’t know where they are going ether.

Tiger: (real loud) Shhhhh!

One of the Ninjas whips around, and they both draw swords. A-Dom summons his club and tries to look intimidating and menacing. One of them starts to back away from A-Dom slowly. The other one screams, wets himself and starts running away from A-Dom.

Tiger, reacting much faster then anyone else, moves into the room between them and the ninjas, and slides to the side as fast as he can to not be silhouetted against the doorway. He then realizes it’s a baracks like room where there are a number of guards sleeping. Tiger sneaks around the room sliding under beds and behind furnature to reach the far side of the room where there is a window. The guards do not notice him as they all looking towards the doorway where the screaming is. Tiger jumps out the window and runs up the wall using Spider Foot Style.

A-Dom smacks the screaming one in the side of the head with his club. A-Dom smashes his head clean off in one blow. There is just a giant spray of blood against on wall. A-Dom then steps right next to the door to the barracks, pressing himself against the wall, and holding his club upright agaisnt the wall. He then activated Invisible Statue Spirit.

The Ninja who kept his head (in both ways) dived through the curtain into the room across from the barraks and disappeared into the shadows.

The guards come running out of the barrack room half dressed to see the the headless body fell over.

Guard 1: (Confused) Assassins?

Guard 2: (more confident) ASS SAS SINS!

There is a flurry of activity by the guards.

Outside Tiger finds a small arrow slit like window that looks into the 5h floor. He can see Jara is lying on a bed, still beat up. There is a Dragon Blood dressed as a monk standing over her, poking at her with small sticks. There are also two other guards in the room. He then climbs up onto the roof, avoiding the one guard on the roof. It’s a flat roof with crenelations along the top. Tiger moves along the side of the wall avoiding the guard.

Standing in the hallway A-Dom gets to stand around watching the guards. The guards call for a Dragon Blood to investigate the strange decapitation.

Tiger climbs over the wall and down the hatch onto the 5th floor. Tiger sees the stairs that go down has a window on it, and he sees a familiar looking ninja sneaking in through that window. Tiger hides and lets the Ninja go ahead of him. Planning to save Jara if the Monk and Guards can’t handle him. The Ninja gets to the door of the room Jara is in. He starts fiddling with the lock, picking it. The door swings inwards. Tiger sees a huge wave of earth blow the Ninja backwards into the wall then slams him against the wall. The Monk jumps out of the room, bounces off the ceiling and drives his knee through his skull.

Tiger: (to himself) She seems pretty safe in there.

Monk: Drag this scum off.

A-Dom gets to stand around with the guards waiting for the Dragon Blood to show up.

Guard 1: What do you think killed him?

Guard 2: I think it was some giant guy. Serial Headcrusher. We should expect to see a lot of these.

Eventually an immaculate monk shows up. A-Dom is pretty sure he’s seen him before. He’s a member of Jara’s brotherhood, and a member of house Peleps. A-Dom thinks he may be their brotherhoods investigator. Realizing this. A-Dom decides to erase himself from all memory with Vanish from Minds Eye. So the invisible unmoving man just erased himself from all memory.

Tiger was wondering what was going on with A-Dom... then he forgot who A-Dom was. But he could still sense a member of his brotherhood, who he didn’t know, was still in the room.

Investigator: Clearly the work of an Anathema with a big club... (A-Dom activates the charm) No... never mind. I got nothing. This is incomprehensible. His head exploded from a great deal of force... Yes, clearly anathema related. The anathema who attacked the Cynis party earlier. That’s who did it. I’ll have to go interrogate the prisoners. (To the guards) Make sure that body is properly burned.

A-Dom starts wondering why he said prisoners not prisoner. He then sees the investigator monk walking off, and heading down the tower, not up.

Tiger starts checking things out on the 4th floor. He sees a captain of the guard yelling at the guards in the barracks room.

Captain: An assassin gets decapitated right outside the guard room and nobody saw it or knows anything?!?

Tiger eventually moves into the room across from the barracks room. It appears to be someone’s bed room which is empty. As soon as the guards clear out of the hallway, A-Dom steps over the puddle of blood and slides through the beaded curtain into the room with Tiger.

A-Dom: (to Tiger) I am Surf-Hawk of the Five Rivers. I’m from the East!

Then A-Dom turns Vanish From Minds Eye off so Tiger can remember him. Tiger looks confused for a few moments then figures out what A-Dom did.
Ryan: I finally used a name from my huge list of aliases.

Tiger and A-Dom move away from the door and towards the window. Tiger explains what happened to the other ninja. He then describes the monk who was in the room with Jara.

A-Dom: No my monk was completely different.

Tiger: She’s pretty well guarded. All we have to do is make sure they don’t sneak her out. But that’s a conversation for elsewhere.

A-Dom: My monk said there were prisoners downstairs in the basement. They might be someone that we like. Or someone that we want to be dead. He was going to ask them about what happened, so obviously they are anathema. We got to check it out. We got time to kill.
GM note: Can you say Assumptions?

Tiger and A-Dom search the room for uniforms. They find Captain’s uniforms. They decide that a Captain is too hard to fake being. So they decide they need normal guard uniforms.

Nothing happens outside that they see. A-Dom wipes his club off on the drapes by the window. A-Dom can see that there is a lot of activity outside on the ground. He points it out to Tiger, who agrees with him.
Ryan: I think I blew my wad on that ninja.

Tiger: I think it’s time to just leave.

10pm

Tiger sneaks back up to the 5th floor and finds a servants room with livery of house Peleps. He also sees where a mop and bucket would normally sit, but they were gone. Tiger steals livery and other clothing for himself and A-Dom and heads back to A-Dom.

A-Dom: I’ll be... a large servant.

Tiger: Guard uniforms would be better?

A-Dom: I think we should give up and go home. Because you see it’s ether going to lead to combat, or it’s going to lead to combat, or it’s going to lead to combat.

A-Dom and Tiger jump out the window onto a roof across the way. Tiger heads down to talk to Gareth. A-Dom stays on the rooftop and watches the room where Jara is being kept.

Tiger explains about the assassins attempt was foiled. There is a serial headcrusher in the city. Amazingly Tiger didn’t mention that there were children in the building to Gareth for some reason.

A-Dom doesn’t see anything strange or note able happen while they wait for midnight to pass.
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12:01am

Gareth: Ok you guys can start again.

Demons: (deadpan) Yay.

Tiger: (to Gareth) Don’t you have to tell them how to do it “right” ?

Gareth, watching them, thinks they are doing it wrong. He thinks they are going to knock the building over sideways, not make it collapse strait down. Which might not kill Jara on the top floor. Gareth explains this to the demons.

Dragon Blood 1: (Yelling at the demons) You idiots! Do it right!

Gareth explains how to do it better. He then starts thinking it would be a lot faster if A-Dom was here. Gareth mentions this, so Tiger goes and switches places with A-Dom.

Tiger: It would speed things up if you were down there. Switch places with me.

A-Dom: They all look like Dragon Bloods from up here.

Tiger: We’re on the 3rd floor...

A-Dom: There is enough blur... they are all Dragon Bloods. They all should die.

A-Dom heads down to where Gareth is. Gareth explains things. He basically wants A-Dom to yank the column out quickly.

A-Dom: (to Gareth) Is there some way we can do this and destroy everything but the basement? There are some prisoners that I think might be interesting.

Gareth thinks about it real hard. If the column were to fall strait down crushing the demons, then be yanked to the side with incredible force, it might shear the basement off before the rest of the tower fell strait down onto where the column had been. He explains it to A-Dom, including the risks of getting squished.
Dan: Back up character ready? Spent all your xp?

Ryan: My back up plan is to be a shining anathema that nobody remembers.

So they wait for the column to collapse upon the demons. Then A-Dom grabed the pillar and runs backwards with it slicing off the basement, guards start falling down just ahead of the rest of the tower falling strait down.

Tiger sees the tower shake once, then falls strait down. The 1st floor hits, gets pancaked, then the 2nd floor pancakes, 3rd, 4th, and finally the 5th floor hits and pancakes on top of all the others.

A-Dom gets the pillar and basement stuck upright between the floor and the ceiling.

A-Dom: (screaming to Gareth to be heard over the colapsing) We have two problems. There are no exits to the basement, and I think I just saved an Immaculate Monk.
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Jade’s Luck and Bianca hear a crashing noise far off in the underground.

Jade’s Luck: That’s not good.
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A-Dom and Gareth see an Immaculate Monk (the one who was in the room with Jara) stand up from the rubble with his earth aspect anima banner flaring. They also fail to notice the two Dragon Blooded assassins who were controlling the Demons, sneaking away.

Up above, Tiger sees the hole where the tower was. Then he sees giant cracks start radiating out from the hole. Then he sees other buildings that were near the tower sliding towards the hole. One building is not moving (because the basement and pillar have been wedged under it, giving it temporary support).

The Dragon Blood monk, jumps out of the way as another building falls down the hole on top of the tower. A-Dom throws his giant club at the monk, but misses, and the monk disappears behind a cloud of dust and rubble.

A-Dom monkey leaps and punches a hole in the wall of the basement (which is against the ceiling). A-Dom and Gareth jump up and climb into the basement. They find two servants inside.

Gareth: The entire compound is collapsing.

Servant 1: The stairway disappeared, where did you guys come from?

The servants apparently assumed that A-Dom and Gareth were Dragon Bloods, as their caste marks were glowing, and they are rather confused.

A-Dom: Where do you keep the prisoners?

Servant 2: We make sure the toilets don’t overflow. We kind of do waste management. What prisoners?

Gareth and A-Dom search the floor and find it to be mostly for storage, servants and waste management of the building.

A-Dom: We were looking for some kind of prisoners what were being interrogated... ummmmmmm.... yeahhhhhh..... umm..... Alrick, albert, some guy in Jara’s horse pack...

Gareth: Auric!

Servant 1: He was investigating the anathema. His prisoners would be at the jail.

A-Dom: Where is the jail?

Servant 2: The government section of town... near the courts.

A-Dom: (depressed) So... not this building... but a different building... yeah....

Gareth: (to the servants) You guys should leave.

Servants: Can you get us out?

A-Dom: On one condition. You tell all the slaves you were saved by Solars.

Servants: Sure we can do that!

A-Dom: And the Solars are here to save you... from the Dragon Bloods.

Servants: Sure, whatever.

A-Dom and Gareth each grab one and jump out. On the way down, they see that one of the additional buildings that fell onto the tower is on fire. Green fire.

Gareth: A-Dom there is green fire over there.

A-Dom: Duh, duh, da, duh, yup. Things got demon-ed up. Won’t create a wyld zone or anything. Don’t worry about it.

Gareth: Do you know where Jade’s Luck is?

A-Dom: Do I know where Jade’s Luck is? No! I’ve been with you! We need to find Tiger. What should we do with them?

Tiger goes down to the sewers, as A-Dom and Gareth are coming up.

Tiger: You found more pathetic life forms to take care of?

A-Dom: Yea we saved these two. The Dragon blood got away.

Tiger: What about the ones with the demons?

A-Dom: What ones with demons? Oh... the ones we needed to frame.

Tiger: So you left all kinds of witnesses? Good job...

A-Dom: Only one witness.

Tiger: The Dragon Bloods, the Dragon Blood monk, the demons, those two...

A-Dom: Demons died.

Tiger: Not permanently. (Sigh) I suppose we should leave, and not worry about framing anyone anymore because that’s obviously not going to work anymore. Find Jade’s Luck... You didn’t even look for the Dragon Blood assassins did you?

A-Dom: Hey there was a lot of stuff going on. Thing falling. Trying to save things that weren’t really there.

Tiger: So you didn’t even save the prisoners in the basement?

A-Dom: They weren’t in the basement. They are in the jail.

Tiger just walks off to find Jade’s Luck. A-Dom and Gareth go running after him.

Gareth: (irritated) Where are we going?

Tiger: To Jade’s Luck and Bianca.

Gareth: (more irritated) Where are they?

Tiger: This way!

Gareth: I need to learn a charm... right now...
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Jade’s Luck works on telling Chris about how great the Unconquered Sun is while they are sitting around. Chris starts to really enjoy hearing about the Unconquered Sun. Since things are going well Jade’s Luck tells her, that she won’t be a slave anymore.

Tiger, A-Dom, and Gareth find Jade’s Luck, Bianca and Chris in the undercity. It is around 2am.

Jade’s Luck: (Old Realm) This is my friend Chris. Do your best not to scare her.

A-Dom: (Old Realm to Chris) Hello Chris! I’m A-Dom! (He waves to her too)

Chris looks confused and waves back. Jade’s Luck sums up recent events for Gareth. Gareth sums up more recent events. The group continues the conversation in Old Realm.

Jade’s Luck: I was confused as to why buildings were falling down here.

Gareth: Assassins.

A-Dom: Anathema.

Tiger: A-Dom thinks there are some Anathema prisoners we should go rescue.

Gareth: We rescued two slaves...

Tiger: There is a serial beheader running around the city. (A-Dom starts laughing hysterically)

A-Dom: I’m assuming the prisoners are going to be executed tonight. After what happened... you know... .... there is going to be a shark running around Atlantis.

Gareth: Shortly Atlantis may be becoming an unsafe place to live.

Jade’s Luck: Is this “we should be evacuating our relatives RIGHT NOW” as in “Mother I need you to go on a vacation.”

Gareth: You see just yesterday we were on the edge of a house war.

Tiger: But now they can blame anathema. So that’s out the window.

A-Dom comes up with the idea of making the houses keep fighting by being seen publically, as an anathema working for a House. The group decides... House Sesus is the best option. Because, they know who the leader of the house is and where to find her, and they have a long tradition of actually working for House Sesus.

Gareth and Jade’s Luck decide that it would be best to get their families out of the city as quickly as possible. Taking them to Opec island, then deciding where to go from there.

Tiger volunteers to go break into Jail to find out about the prisoners, A-Dom goes to be in the same area in case Tiger needs backup. Gareth goes to get his family. Jade’s Luck goes to get her family. Bianca takes Chris to Gareth’s boat.

Jade’s Luck: Oh we have a really neat book we need to get onto your boat.

Gareth: Put it in your pocket and lets go!

Jade’s Luck shows them the book.

Jade’s Luck: I think this is your fault Gareth.

Gareth: I bet that’s the condescending book.

Jade’s Luck: Someone has to carry this to the boat, and I’m assuming we don’t want to walk along the streets.

A-Dom: You know, we need an entrance to the sewers in Gareth’s Shop. Someplace where mortal’s couldn’t use it... we could hide it under the anvil.

The group decides to stash the book in the undercity and come back for it at some later date.

So the group heads out. There is a lot of patrols on the streets, etc.
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3am
As Jade’s Luck gets closer to Jade Fox’s Tea House, she realizes something is wrong. As she gets closer she can see that the tea house is nothing more then a pile of ash and rubble.

Jade’s Luck: Oh .

Jade’s Luck starts running strait for the jail.
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3:15 am
Tiger and A-Dom get to the Jail through the sewers. Tiger decides to look like someone else. A-Dom decides to do the same.

Tiger: If trouble breaks out, I’m not sticking around. I’m going to escape as quickly as possible.

A-Dom: (deadpan) Shocking.

Tiger gets out of the sewers and sneaks up to the less used (the door on a secondary street, not the door on a major street) of the doors to the jail. Finding the door barred from the inside, Tiger walks through the door. The goes down to the lowest level below ground. He finds a very bored guard throwing cards into a hat. Tiger uses Spiderfoot style to crawl along the ceiling above the guard. He goes to the hallway with a long series of cell doors. He realizes the cell doors appear to be made of enchanted Jade. He starts looking through the slots in the doors and finds skeletons, old guy and skeletons, crying older woman, some of the women who are employed at the tea house, skeleton, and three other people he didn’t recognize in various cells.

A-Dom sense Jade’s Luck approching through the sewers at a very high rate of speed.

A-Dom: Oh that’s not according to plan. (Very chipper to Jade’s Luck) Hi!

Jade’s Luck: (very nervious and talking fast) Theteahousewasburneddown and Ithinktheyhavemymother wehavetorescuethem.

A-Dom: Tiger’s looking in on things. So I’m sure he’ll be running away soon.

Jade’s Luck: After he runs away we can break down the walls and rescue them?

A-Dom: (Shrugs) Sure.

Tiger sneaks up on the guard and fatally stabs him through the chest. He then checks the prisoners log. Tiger out of pure paranoia looks up the old man first. Ulie “assisted an anathema who broke up a bar.” All the other prisoners have notes related to Anathema or heratics.

Tiger goes up to the next level and waits for a guard to get bored. Then he sneaks up and kills that guard in one blow too.

Tiger decides that it would be unreasonable and unnecessary to kill the guard dog. So he makes a muzzle out of what the guards had on them, sneaks up on the dog, muzzles it, and drags it into one of the ground floor cells before it fully wakes up.

Tiger unbarred the door he came through then heads all the way down again, gets the keys from the guard and proceeds to let out the people on the lowest level of the jail. He finds Matron Jade and identifies her. He drops his disguise and explains they are escaping. Tiger then sends her to unlock the other employees of the Tea house.

Tiger goes into Ulie’s cell.

Tiger: Why are you here?

Ulie: I was drinking with this really ugly woman one night. Next morning I wake up and they are dragging me down here. I don’t know!

Tiger: If you can be quite and don’t make any noise I’ll let you out. Raise your hand if you agree.

Ulie and one of the skeletons raises their hand. Tiger looks at the skeleton for a second, then opens the shackle on the skeleton and Ulie.

Tiger makes the same deal with all the other prisoners. He then leads them outside and to the sewer grate where A-Dom and Jade’s Luck are standing.

Jade’s Luck: (to Matron Jade) Where is mother?

Matron Jade just starts weeping uncontrollably.

Tiger: (to A-Dom) I’m betting it’s not good then.

They get everyone into the sewers and close the sewer grate.

Tiger: You all can leave now, unless she (Jade’s Luck) wants to bring you with us.

Ulie: (looking at A-Dom) Do you have a sister that’s kind of ugly?

Tiger: Kind of?

A-Dom: Yea.
Ulie: All I was doing was buying her a beer...

A-Dom: That will teach ya.

Tiger: Hit on better looking women.

Ulie and a few of the others wander off.

Jade’s Luck: Should we try and rescue mother? (Matron Jade cries harder)

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

There. Now this storyhour is "up to date."

Paul fell behind in the synopses. We've got a backlog to the tune of 11 sessions. I've started working on the synopses to catch back up, but I'm working on them out of order. I finished sessions 60 and 61 today. I'm going to be working backwards until they're all caught up, so the next session I'll working on will be 59.

Paul supposedly has session 50 halfway done. I'll post it when he finishes it.