Ao the Overkitty
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Placeholder for Session 70, should it ever get written.
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Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Placeholder for Session 71, should it ever get written.
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 72 - One Solution To All Problems
Session 72
Synopsis of 07/21/08
One Solution To All Problems
Subtitle: My Circlemates Have Destroyed That Intimacy
Subtitle: A-dom Has a Good Idea
-By Ao the Overkitty
The group spent just over two weeks on the island. This first week was spent training and a church was built by Gareth & A-dom. Gareth made sure the group knew he could now teach people really fast and he could now empower mortals.
A-dom got to know his cat better and promoted it to familiar status. He named the cat Petunia. A-dom explained a lot of things to his cat… poorly. The group found it weird that A-do was meowing at his cat a lot.
Jade’s Luck had weird dreams, then went around convincing people to worship the Unconquered Sun by saying he was all about the things they were interested in (& using mind
charms). A-dom converted his cat. Jade’s Luck offered Petunia sundrops, which would have been bad for the cat. Gareth offered Petunia ‘Unconquered’ milk in a saucer.
A-dom told Petunia to never trust Tiger. He introduced the group as Gareth (he’s okay), Bad Man (he’ll kill you in your sleep), & Jade’s Luck (she’s a pain in the ass).
Tiger did ‘stuff.’ No babies were reported missing during this time.
The group debated about where to go next. They decided that the people on Atlantis would manage with out them just fine. (Paul: If you go there, I’ll make plot and things will get worse).
The group discussed ‘the list’ Gareth got. Jade’s Luck wanted to go find Fakharu, the Censor of the West. A-dom was suspicious of everything on the list. A-dom asked Gareth to rhyme things as a test to make sure he wasn’t mind-ed. He could. A-dom didn’t like the list because it seemed rather biased against him. They discussed going back to the Coral Archipelago or going to Skullstone, but both got shot down. Jade’s Luck didn’t see the point in going around proselytizing. She much more wanted to head west and smack the Wyld around a lot (i.e. declare war on them).
Gareth then built a boat on the other side of the island. It had lots of nice amenities, like plumbing, heated floors, and hot water. It also had a little wheel for A-dom’s cat, that wasn’t hooked up to anything.
Jade’s Luck went off to go talk to the spirits to find out if they had a working spirit court and to gather information on Fakharu. She talked with rocks and trees and water. And the volcano. He was the grand Poobah of the island and kept the other spirits in line. He had one solution for when spirits got uppity (he explodes). Said it was a good solution. Talking to the other spirits, they said they did their best to solve any problems before they got to the volcano’s attention. They also said his solution wasn’t good for the mortals, but this group seemed alright. Apparently the last group of mortals all died fighting with other mortals on another island.
The group all went back to talk to the volcano to ask who he reported to. He didn’t report to anyone. Jade’s Luck explained how things were supposed to work. He said he solved all the problems. He said he was probably supposed to report to the spirit court of Abalon, but hadn’t heard from them at all, so he felt he was obviously doing a good job. He understood that he couldn’t explode a lot, since then it wasn’t a threat. His basic mode of operation was, “Fix it or I’ll explode!”
Gareth set up some lava breaks so that people were safer from landslides, but wouldn’t be safe if the exploding was directed at them. A-dom had the idea of training the villagers to be able to tell when the volcano is going to explode. Gareth and Jade’s Luck then spent a week training the people in Survival and the Volcanology specialty. A-dom sat in on the Volcanology session. Gareth also organized an incredibly effective evacuation plan for the villagers.
The group then planned to go check out the other island that the people had gone to war with before heading towards Abalone to check out the Spirit Court there.
A-dom asked Gareth what the new boat was named.
A-dom: You’re gonna have to start a new line cause, the ones that were destined, happened.
Gareth named the new boat Voice of Reason.
They sailed to the other island and Gareth put on the parking break. This involved disconnecting A-dom’s wheel from the propulsion system and dropping anchor. This island had two volcanoes.
Jade’s Luck asked the smaller volcano if it had anything in it. It didn’t and wanted to know why it always got asked that. Apparently another group of weird humans asked it that. The other volcano was running the spirit court on this island. When there were problems, they were solved by explosions. Sometimes, they gave the mortals a warning to leave. This group of mortals gave proper sacrifices. The village was nestled between the two volcanoes.
The group stopped in town on the way to the other village. They found out the war was started because the other village wanted their cat. The cat got stolen, but they won the war. The village occasionally sacrificed virgins to the volcanoes. They hadn’t done it in over ten years.
They eventually ended up speaking to the old lady shaman. Jade’s Luck made herself extra pretty with her scarf. The old lady greeted them, saying they were back. Apparently a group of three people that looked like A-dom, Jade’s Luck and Tiger had been there a few years ago. The one that looked like Jade’s Luck was covered in blood (mostly on her hands). They eventually convinced her they weren’t the previous group. She was a mostly blind 90 year old lady in a poorly lit hut, after all. She refused a medical examination (so Gareth couldn’t fix her eyes). A-dom then acted a lot like the previous group (wanting tombs or artifacts or the like).
The little old lady wanted a third volcano, so the village could be surrounded by them. How they won the war was they lured the other village in between the volcanoes, then bribed the volcano to drop lava on them. The old lady didn’t know how the volcanoes felt about another volcano. Jade’s Luck mentioned they were headed to talk to the big volcano and the old lady handed her a chicken. If you’re going anyway, might as well save me the trip.
A-dom found out the other group had lots of blandishments. She hadn’t heard of the Unconquered Sun and didn’t worship him. She said they’d consider worshipping him if the group got them a third volcano. She cast some bones and told Jade’s Luck she was going to go west and find an island. Tiger looked at the bones to confirm this. They also said the group might get all the mortals killed by getting the third volcano. Tiger shared this with Jade’s Luck in High Realm. Jade’s Luck said that she would try to get another volcano, but her first concern was keeping the mortals alive and what the other volcanoes feelings were.
The group then headed off towards the big volcano.
Session 72
Synopsis of 07/21/08
One Solution To All Problems
Subtitle: My Circlemates Have Destroyed That Intimacy
Subtitle: A-dom Has a Good Idea
-By Ao the Overkitty
The group spent just over two weeks on the island. This first week was spent training and a church was built by Gareth & A-dom. Gareth made sure the group knew he could now teach people really fast and he could now empower mortals.
A-dom got to know his cat better and promoted it to familiar status. He named the cat Petunia. A-dom explained a lot of things to his cat… poorly. The group found it weird that A-do was meowing at his cat a lot.
Jade’s Luck had weird dreams, then went around convincing people to worship the Unconquered Sun by saying he was all about the things they were interested in (& using mind
charms). A-dom converted his cat. Jade’s Luck offered Petunia sundrops, which would have been bad for the cat. Gareth offered Petunia ‘Unconquered’ milk in a saucer.A-dom told Petunia to never trust Tiger. He introduced the group as Gareth (he’s okay), Bad Man (he’ll kill you in your sleep), & Jade’s Luck (she’s a pain in the ass).
Tiger did ‘stuff.’ No babies were reported missing during this time.
The group debated about where to go next. They decided that the people on Atlantis would manage with out them just fine. (Paul: If you go there, I’ll make plot and things will get worse).
The group discussed ‘the list’ Gareth got. Jade’s Luck wanted to go find Fakharu, the Censor of the West. A-dom was suspicious of everything on the list. A-dom asked Gareth to rhyme things as a test to make sure he wasn’t mind-
ed. He could. A-dom didn’t like the list because it seemed rather biased against him. They discussed going back to the Coral Archipelago or going to Skullstone, but both got shot down. Jade’s Luck didn’t see the point in going around proselytizing. She much more wanted to head west and smack the Wyld around a lot (i.e. declare war on them).Gareth then built a boat on the other side of the island. It had lots of nice amenities, like plumbing, heated floors, and hot water. It also had a little wheel for A-dom’s cat, that wasn’t hooked up to anything.
Jade’s Luck went off to go talk to the spirits to find out if they had a working spirit court and to gather information on Fakharu. She talked with rocks and trees and water. And the volcano. He was the grand Poobah of the island and kept the other spirits in line. He had one solution for when spirits got uppity (he explodes). Said it was a good solution. Talking to the other spirits, they said they did their best to solve any problems before they got to the volcano’s attention. They also said his solution wasn’t good for the mortals, but this group seemed alright. Apparently the last group of mortals all died fighting with other mortals on another island.
The group all went back to talk to the volcano to ask who he reported to. He didn’t report to anyone. Jade’s Luck explained how things were supposed to work. He said he solved all the problems. He said he was probably supposed to report to the spirit court of Abalon, but hadn’t heard from them at all, so he felt he was obviously doing a good job. He understood that he couldn’t explode a lot, since then it wasn’t a threat. His basic mode of operation was, “Fix it or I’ll explode!”
Gareth set up some lava breaks so that people were safer from landslides, but wouldn’t be safe if the exploding was directed at them. A-dom had the idea of training the villagers to be able to tell when the volcano is going to explode. Gareth and Jade’s Luck then spent a week training the people in Survival and the Volcanology specialty. A-dom sat in on the Volcanology session. Gareth also organized an incredibly effective evacuation plan for the villagers.
The group then planned to go check out the other island that the people had gone to war with before heading towards Abalone to check out the Spirit Court there.
A-dom asked Gareth what the new boat was named.
A-dom: You’re gonna have to start a new line cause, the ones that were destined, happened.
Gareth named the new boat Voice of Reason.
They sailed to the other island and Gareth put on the parking break. This involved disconnecting A-dom’s wheel from the propulsion system and dropping anchor. This island had two volcanoes.
Jade’s Luck asked the smaller volcano if it had anything in it. It didn’t and wanted to know why it always got asked that. Apparently another group of weird humans asked it that. The other volcano was running the spirit court on this island. When there were problems, they were solved by explosions. Sometimes, they gave the mortals a warning to leave. This group of mortals gave proper sacrifices. The village was nestled between the two volcanoes.
The group stopped in town on the way to the other village. They found out the war was started because the other village wanted their cat. The cat got stolen, but they won the war. The village occasionally sacrificed virgins to the volcanoes. They hadn’t done it in over ten years.
They eventually ended up speaking to the old lady shaman. Jade’s Luck made herself extra pretty with her scarf. The old lady greeted them, saying they were back. Apparently a group of three people that looked like A-dom, Jade’s Luck and Tiger had been there a few years ago. The one that looked like Jade’s Luck was covered in blood (mostly on her hands). They eventually convinced her they weren’t the previous group. She was a mostly blind 90 year old lady in a poorly lit hut, after all. She refused a medical examination (so Gareth couldn’t fix her eyes). A-dom then acted a lot like the previous group (wanting tombs or artifacts or the like).
The little old lady wanted a third volcano, so the village could be surrounded by them. How they won the war was they lured the other village in between the volcanoes, then bribed the volcano to drop lava on them. The old lady didn’t know how the volcanoes felt about another volcano. Jade’s Luck mentioned they were headed to talk to the big volcano and the old lady handed her a chicken. If you’re going anyway, might as well save me the trip.
A-dom found out the other group had lots of blandishments. She hadn’t heard of the Unconquered Sun and didn’t worship him. She said they’d consider worshipping him if the group got them a third volcano. She cast some bones and told Jade’s Luck she was going to go west and find an island. Tiger looked at the bones to confirm this. They also said the group might get all the mortals killed by getting the third volcano. Tiger shared this with Jade’s Luck in High Realm. Jade’s Luck said that she would try to get another volcano, but her first concern was keeping the mortals alive and what the other volcanoes feelings were.
The group then headed off towards the big volcano.
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 73 - Interrogating Volcanoes
Session 73
Synopsis of 08/04/08
Interrogating Volcanoes
Subtitle: I Buy Four Successes
-By Ao the Overkitty
The Circle walked up the big volcano, chattering away as they went. Once on top, Jade's Luck did such an exceptional sacrificial prayer to the Big Kahuna that the chicken did its own prayer after words, then did a somersault into the volcano, followed by a little fluttering, a swan dive, a loop de loop, laying an egg and finishing with a triple gator.
Jade's Luck talked to the Big Kahuna for a while, asking about the Spirit Court of the island. He didn't report to anyone either, but was indeed the head of the island's spirit court. They talked about the possibility of another volcano, but he didn't like the idea of more 'paperwork' and a possible usurper. He supported the status quo. A-dom asked about swords and the Big Kahuna said he had three in him. Jade's Luck went down and looked around. She found a scorch mark, some slag, and an intact sword. She brought it up and showed it to the others. Tiger said it wasn't magical. Gareth said it was a rather impressive ceramic sword, good for stabbing people, but would be prone to shatter if parried. The Big Kahuna said it was okay for them to take it.
The Circle wandered back down to the village and talked to the old woman. She was sad about not getting another volcano, but kept coming up with other ideas. Gareth found out (Know the Soul's Price) that in order for her to be loyal to him, he'd have to provide the village with an perfect protector that wouldn't harm the village in any way. There was discussion about going into the Wyld to create such a protector, but that was shelved for now. Gareth then realized he could go into the Wyld to make more Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice. A-dom decided this was the perfect time to tell Petunia she had to get permission from him before she killed, maimed, stalked, terrorized, or 'played' with any mice. He told her there were some mice they wanted alive and well. There was talk about teaching Petunia some linguistics so she could write out responses to others (or use Dex+Linguistics to get her point across).
They left things open as they left the island and headed for Abalon. Once there, Gareth made an appointment for the Circle to talk to the Grand Vizier for the next day. A-dom, Jade's Luck and Gareth went off to see A-dom's mother. She was noticeably shocked when she got to see the book of A-dom's children and annoyed that he couldn't bring one of them to her. A-dom professed he was worried about their or her safety, since they were mortal and fragile. Gareth commented, in Old Realm, that he could empower A-dom's mother so she could make the trip more easily. A-dom was firmly against that idea. It was mentioned that A-dom was a prince, since he was married to a princess and that he was second in line for the throne on that island. She talked about adding mother to the heir apparent of Uk Muck Luck Muck Chuck to her business cards. It was also mentioned that his father-in-law liked him very much and that his wife thought his actions were very manly. It was not mentioned that his wife only knew about the ones on her island. She later mentioned A-dom's cousin Lily was murdered two years ago. She then said a bunch of people were murdered at that time. They chatted for a while, then left.
The Circle spent the rest of the time before the meeting with the Grand Vizier not getting into trouble. The meeting with him went well enough. He liked the concept of having the local spirit court reporting to his island. He had the dragon-bloods working for the Volcano spirit, solving problems so it didn't have to explode. He was actually open to the worship of the Unconquered Sun on the islands of Abalon, just pointed out that the dragon-bloods didn't know they were working for him and that they'd likely get all purgey. Suggested that, if they were going to build a church, it'd be better off on Alagar. He said his major problem with Jade's Luck's actions last time was that she associated with a known criminal (Johan).
The Grand Vizier said there was now a law on the books about hiding the Feathered One's Hat, in addition to the one about stealing it. A-dom had a little chat about not wanting to upset the laws or anymore and promised not to go around breaking them. Gareth offered a three week training course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom (and any other Circle member that wanted to participate).
They mentioned needing to repossess the soul of Toma of Alagar for Heaven. He said he didn't have a problem with that, so long as they didn't break any laws doing it. He suggested they could even get him to break a law so that he'd get chucked in the volcano or just get him out of their influence legally.
They asked about the string of murders from two years ago and were told it was done by the ANATHEMA kind of anathema (henceforth referred to as Deathknights in the conversation). They had a shady description of the extraordinarily beautiful woman and very little description at all of her accomplices. He said their best witness was Old Blind Charlie, who apparently spent several days with them. The Grand Vizier said that they'd be apprehended if they ever returned.
They asked him if he had any information on Fakharu, which he didn't beyond being a dragon. They asked him about the islands on their list of manses they needed to acquire to stop the Sapphire Sentinels. He gave them decent directions to sixth day island (appeared on the sixth day of the month). He said that the Manse Beyond the Floor was past the sea floor; far West, past where the sea stops having a bottom.
He had some other helpful comments on the others.
After their visit with the Grand Vizier, they went to go talk to the volcano. Standard volcano conversation. The group then sailed for Alagar. They discussed how they were going to go about repossessing Toma. Jade's Luck didn't like the idea of just killing him, but the others pointed out that he might be a very bad man or do something horrible in the future. Once on the island, Gareth did a little investigation on Toma. It turned out the guy was a pretty good painter who specialized in portraits, liked to sleep around with women and had a father he didn't visit much. She asked Tiger to do some astrology on him to see what his future holds. Tiger came up with the plan to have Gareth commission the guy to do a panting on his boat and for Jade's Luck to serve tea while they were haggling so that she could bring the tea leaves to him to read.
Gareth properly displayed his wealth and Jade's Luck dressed herself up nicely. The two of them went and talked to Toma. Gareth commissioned him to do two portraits, one of himself and one of his daughter, Jade's Luck, upon his boat. Due to how long it would take him to paint, Gareth stuck into the deal that they'd be making a trade run while he worked. They haggled out a price and time frame for when he would start. Jade's Luck did serve tea and collected his cup afterwards. They left and Jade's Luck brought the used tea leaves to Tiger. He read the leaves and noticed that Toma was destined to have one of his paintings of a nude woman start a war.
They had three days time while Toma gathered his supplies. During that time, they didn't get into trouble. Gareth held the first session of the three part course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom. Toma arrived with his mass of supplies on a donkey. Several comments were made about him needing a donkey for other purposes. A-dom helped him unload the supplies and then Toma returned the donkey to its owner.
They got underway (using the sails instead of paddlewheel) and Gareth showed Toma where he'd be working. He said they'd work on his portrait first. Over the next five days, Toma made an exceptional sketch and then did a great painting of Gareth on the wall of his cabin. Toma also hit on Jade's Luck a lot during this time. Once the portrait was done, A-dom snuck up behind him while he was on deck and squished him with his club. Well, he whiffed the first swing, taking out part of the railing and a chunk of the deck as well as terrify the guy (for five seconds). The second swing did it's job, squishing him. Jade's Luck was told by A-dom to do a proper burial (Zorched by Zenith). Gareth repaired the broken bits of the boat while Jade's Luck swept the ashes off to sea.
Tiger and A-dom then said that they needed to collect all of the guy's portraits of nude women (for the manse the group was going to have to build). A-dom fired up the paddle-wheel to take them back to Alagar. Gareth conducted the second session of the training course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom. Jade's Luck commented that Gareth had a very nice portrait and he should extra reinforce that part of the boat. Gareth looked at her funny and said the entire boat was already extra reinforced with charms.
When they got back to Alagar, Tiger performed mass theft of all of Toma's portraits of nude ladies (and got Gareth his down payment back). The group then set sail for the region Sixth Day Island was in. A-dom postulated that, if Sixth Day Island was only there in the sixth day of the month, the group might end up getting stuck on the island for a month.
Session 73
Synopsis of 08/04/08
Interrogating Volcanoes
Subtitle: I Buy Four Successes
-By Ao the Overkitty
The Circle walked up the big volcano, chattering away as they went. Once on top, Jade's Luck did such an exceptional sacrificial prayer to the Big Kahuna that the chicken did its own prayer after words, then did a somersault into the volcano, followed by a little fluttering, a swan dive, a loop de loop, laying an egg and finishing with a triple gator.
Jade's Luck talked to the Big Kahuna for a while, asking about the Spirit Court of the island. He didn't report to anyone either, but was indeed the head of the island's spirit court. They talked about the possibility of another volcano, but he didn't like the idea of more 'paperwork' and a possible usurper. He supported the status quo. A-dom asked about swords and the Big Kahuna said he had three in him. Jade's Luck went down and looked around. She found a scorch mark, some slag, and an intact sword. She brought it up and showed it to the others. Tiger said it wasn't magical. Gareth said it was a rather impressive ceramic sword, good for stabbing people, but would be prone to shatter if parried. The Big Kahuna said it was okay for them to take it.
The Circle wandered back down to the village and talked to the old woman. She was sad about not getting another volcano, but kept coming up with other ideas. Gareth found out (Know the Soul's Price) that in order for her to be loyal to him, he'd have to provide the village with an perfect protector that wouldn't harm the village in any way. There was discussion about going into the Wyld to create such a protector, but that was shelved for now. Gareth then realized he could go into the Wyld to make more Cannibalistic Voodoo Mice. A-dom decided this was the perfect time to tell Petunia she had to get permission from him before she killed, maimed, stalked, terrorized, or 'played' with any mice. He told her there were some mice they wanted alive and well. There was talk about teaching Petunia some linguistics so she could write out responses to others (or use Dex+Linguistics to get her point across).
They left things open as they left the island and headed for Abalon. Once there, Gareth made an appointment for the Circle to talk to the Grand Vizier for the next day. A-dom, Jade's Luck and Gareth went off to see A-dom's mother. She was noticeably shocked when she got to see the book of A-dom's children and annoyed that he couldn't bring one of them to her. A-dom professed he was worried about their or her safety, since they were mortal and fragile. Gareth commented, in Old Realm, that he could empower A-dom's mother so she could make the trip more easily. A-dom was firmly against that idea. It was mentioned that A-dom was a prince, since he was married to a princess and that he was second in line for the throne on that island. She talked about adding mother to the heir apparent of Uk Muck Luck Muck Chuck to her business cards. It was also mentioned that his father-in-law liked him very much and that his wife thought his actions were very manly. It was not mentioned that his wife only knew about the ones on her island. She later mentioned A-dom's cousin Lily was murdered two years ago. She then said a bunch of people were murdered at that time. They chatted for a while, then left.
The Circle spent the rest of the time before the meeting with the Grand Vizier not getting into trouble. The meeting with him went well enough. He liked the concept of having the local spirit court reporting to his island. He had the dragon-bloods working for the Volcano spirit, solving problems so it didn't have to explode. He was actually open to the worship of the Unconquered Sun on the islands of Abalon, just pointed out that the dragon-bloods didn't know they were working for him and that they'd likely get all purgey. Suggested that, if they were going to build a church, it'd be better off on Alagar. He said his major problem with Jade's Luck's actions last time was that she associated with a known criminal (Johan).
The Grand Vizier said there was now a law on the books about hiding the Feathered One's Hat, in addition to the one about stealing it. A-dom had a little chat about not wanting to upset the laws or anymore and promised not to go around breaking them. Gareth offered a three week training course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom (and any other Circle member that wanted to participate).
They mentioned needing to repossess the soul of Toma of Alagar for Heaven. He said he didn't have a problem with that, so long as they didn't break any laws doing it. He suggested they could even get him to break a law so that he'd get chucked in the volcano or just get him out of their influence legally.
They asked about the string of murders from two years ago and were told it was done by the ANATHEMA kind of anathema (henceforth referred to as Deathknights in the conversation). They had a shady description of the extraordinarily beautiful woman and very little description at all of her accomplices. He said their best witness was Old Blind Charlie, who apparently spent several days with them. The Grand Vizier said that they'd be apprehended if they ever returned.
They asked him if he had any information on Fakharu, which he didn't beyond being a dragon. They asked him about the islands on their list of manses they needed to acquire to stop the Sapphire Sentinels. He gave them decent directions to sixth day island (appeared on the sixth day of the month). He said that the Manse Beyond the Floor was past the sea floor; far West, past where the sea stops having a bottom.
He had some other helpful comments on the others.
After their visit with the Grand Vizier, they went to go talk to the volcano. Standard volcano conversation. The group then sailed for Alagar. They discussed how they were going to go about repossessing Toma. Jade's Luck didn't like the idea of just killing him, but the others pointed out that he might be a very bad man or do something horrible in the future. Once on the island, Gareth did a little investigation on Toma. It turned out the guy was a pretty good painter who specialized in portraits, liked to sleep around with women and had a father he didn't visit much. She asked Tiger to do some astrology on him to see what his future holds. Tiger came up with the plan to have Gareth commission the guy to do a panting on his boat and for Jade's Luck to serve tea while they were haggling so that she could bring the tea leaves to him to read.
Gareth properly displayed his wealth and Jade's Luck dressed herself up nicely. The two of them went and talked to Toma. Gareth commissioned him to do two portraits, one of himself and one of his daughter, Jade's Luck, upon his boat. Due to how long it would take him to paint, Gareth stuck into the deal that they'd be making a trade run while he worked. They haggled out a price and time frame for when he would start. Jade's Luck did serve tea and collected his cup afterwards. They left and Jade's Luck brought the used tea leaves to Tiger. He read the leaves and noticed that Toma was destined to have one of his paintings of a nude woman start a war.
They had three days time while Toma gathered his supplies. During that time, they didn't get into trouble. Gareth held the first session of the three part course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom. Toma arrived with his mass of supplies on a donkey. Several comments were made about him needing a donkey for other purposes. A-dom helped him unload the supplies and then Toma returned the donkey to its owner.
They got underway (using the sails instead of paddlewheel) and Gareth showed Toma where he'd be working. He said they'd work on his portrait first. Over the next five days, Toma made an exceptional sketch and then did a great painting of Gareth on the wall of his cabin. Toma also hit on Jade's Luck a lot during this time. Once the portrait was done, A-dom snuck up behind him while he was on deck and squished him with his club. Well, he whiffed the first swing, taking out part of the railing and a chunk of the deck as well as terrify the guy (for five seconds). The second swing did it's job, squishing him. Jade's Luck was told by A-dom to do a proper burial (Zorched by Zenith). Gareth repaired the broken bits of the boat while Jade's Luck swept the ashes off to sea.
Tiger and A-dom then said that they needed to collect all of the guy's portraits of nude women (for the manse the group was going to have to build). A-dom fired up the paddle-wheel to take them back to Alagar. Gareth conducted the second session of the training course on the Laws of Abalon for A-dom. Jade's Luck commented that Gareth had a very nice portrait and he should extra reinforce that part of the boat. Gareth looked at her funny and said the entire boat was already extra reinforced with charms.
When they got back to Alagar, Tiger performed mass theft of all of Toma's portraits of nude ladies (and got Gareth his down payment back). The group then set sail for the region Sixth Day Island was in. A-dom postulated that, if Sixth Day Island was only there in the sixth day of the month, the group might end up getting stuck on the island for a month.
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 74 - Their wishes and our actions may cross paths
Session 74
8/19/08
Their wishes and our actions may cross paths.
Subtitle: Tiger points at a lot of things.
Subtitle: I’m a Voodoo Doll NOT a mannequin!
-By AlwaysToast
The circle goes looking for the 6th day island. They take the information they have and go to where they think the island will appear and wait for the 6th day of the month. On that day, at midnight, the island appears. It’s not exactly where they thought it would be, but they were able to see it. It was a very large island. Not as large as Atlantis, but still reasonably large.
A-Dom: It’s Magic. Hazzah!
Jade’s Luck: (To A-Dom): Do you still have your Manse detection crystal?
A-Dom: You mean the piece of coal and the snake?
Jade’s Luck: oh yea, I forgot about that. You want to make another one?
A-Dom tries to steal a single virgin hair from Jade’s Luck, who was going to give him one.
A-Dom: Where am I going to get a crystal?
Jade’s Luck: Well you’re really strong. You could probably poop a diamond!
Petunia: That sounds painful boss!
A-Dom: Yes it does!
Petunia: I advise against it!
A-Dom: Thank you Petunia.
Tiger: Why do you need that thing anyway?
Jade’s Luck: Because we need to find the Manse.
Tiger: I can SEE essence flows.
A-Dom: You can see crystals with that?
Tiger sighs and explains things to A-Dom. This leads to a large number of jokes about Jahar.
The ship sales closer, and eventually sees the island. It’s heave jungle, and all around the perimeter are giant stone monoliths (primarily green jade). There is a Monolith approximately every 100 feet around the island. The group sails all the way around.
Jade’s Luck sticks her head underwater to look at the island assuming it will be on a pedestal, instead of a natural mountain shape. However it was stranger then that, the underside of the island was a perfectly smooth hemisphere of rock. The ground under the boat at the time, was so far away that it was out of sight.
Pursey eats Gareth. The circle decides that putting the boat on the island is the best way to not lose the boat. So A-Dom lifts it ashore and parks it.
The group investigates the Monoliths.
Tiger: (Sounding suspiciously like the GM) They aren’t magically active, however they do have a sort of magical residue on them. So they are probably used for some sort of magic on a regular basis. They however are not in use now, and not magical in and of themselves.
A-Dom: So there is somewhere in the north that there is a 27 days mountain that disappears on the 6th day of every month?
The group decides to not break/touch/mess with the monoliths.
Jade’s Luck: Where we going... oh essence sighty one?
Tiger sees a source of magic jutting out from above the jungle canopy. The group goes that way and find a village full of stone huts. There are a number of people wandering around.
Tiger: Something has to be wrong here. Things look too normal.
A-Dom charges forward at the prompting of Jade’s luck and starts speaking to people in Sea Tongue. They all start speaking back to him in Forest Speak (which no one in the party speaks). Jade’s luck runs and catches up, and then starts cycling threw the languages she knows. Sadly the villagers only speak Forest Speak. Jade’s Luck notices that the villagers seem to get disturbed when they speak Old Realm, but they don’t understand it.
A-Dom: (yelling) Damn it, we need a new Eclipse!
Tiger: (responding) Start killing people until one of them exalts!
Jade’s Luck uses shadow puppetry and charades to communicate: We come in peace. Then Yay Unconquered Sun.
The villagers all cheer when she does that, the entire village starts to cheer and more villagers come out of their huts to see them.
A-Dom: What the?
Tiger saunters up to the group, with his caste mark glowing (due to sorcerers sight). A-Dom pops his caste mark on too.
Villagers start chanting in their native language (which nobody understands). They all bow and make motions of supplication before the Solars.
A-Dom: YESSS!!!! (To tiger) So obviously there is something wrong with them. They are all lizard freaks. They eat babies, they do something terribly horrible. Something is wrong here. It will be very bad.
Tiger: You should get along then.
One of the villagers comes up to A-Dom with a ceremonial knife, hands it to A-Dom, then pulls open his shirt.
A-Dom tries to convey the concept of ‘later’ to that man.
A-Dom: He wants me to sacrifice him to the Unconquered Sun. Which I’m willing to do. I just don’t know how!
The man drags A-Dom along to the center of the villager to a big stone slab. Lays himself out on it.
A-Dom: Well OK then! Oh god... For you! *stab*
A-Dom has to root around a little bit to find the heart. But eventually finds it. Tiger sees the soul detach from the body and fly skyward directly towards the Sun.
Jade’s Luck: A-Dom! What are you doing!
A-Dom: Well, umm, I was trying not to be rude... He really wanted... yea...
A bunch of villagers put their hands up, trying to be next. Jade’s Luck tries to get the name of the sacrifice. The villagers all chant his name back to her, however it is not Algar (the man on this island they need to repo the soul from).
A-Dom: Should we hang out here for a week and learn their language?
Jade’s Luck: We could just say we are here for Algar?
The villagers take the body and begin preparing it for burial. Tiger notices that the village Well is the source of the magic he saw from far away.
Tiger: (trying to make Jade’s Luck happy) The Sacrifices go straight to the Unconquered Sun.
A-Dom: It’s a proper form of prayer.
Jade’s Luck: Well...
Tiger: He’s not sending him back I’ll tell you that much.
A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start handing out candy. The villagers seem confused at first, then become very accepting. Jade’s Luck starts scoping the crowd looking for both intelligent and attractive women.
Ryan: That’s right. My Circle is trying to get me laid. I love my circle.
Liz: It’s a bizarre little hobby.
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A-Dom has a very good time taking advantage of the compliance of the pretty ladies Jade’s Luck has found for him. Jade’s Luck tries to find Algar, and finds the villagers are very confused, as nobody knows the name Algar.
The villagers draws the island, and draws in 4 other villages. They then diagrams of demons and other evil symbols near all the other villages. The group tries to draw the symbols of other exalts, but the only the sun symbols get the party. Jade’s Luck asks about the magic well, and the villagers are confused about the magic well. Jade’s Luck tries to ask what other oceans does the island go to, but the locals are confused by her.
A-Dom: Tiger can you got all Woohooodie-Woo at the well?
Tiger makes the same noise while looking at the well. Tiger realizes that all the villagers have a little bit of magic in them. He also notices that everyone looks unnaturally healthy. There is a lack of scars, or signs having had diseases or sickness. Tiger looks out at the island and realizes that there appears to be a magic well at each village. The villages are not organized in a circle or any pattern.
Jade’s Luck asks if there is anyplace the villagers should stay away from. The villagers draw a square in the center of the island. Jade’s Luck suggests they go there.
A-Dom: What if each one of us made a tribe? I’m sure there is something significant about there being 5.
Jade’s Luck: Creation really likes the number 5.
A-Dom: Well it! Let’s go to the next villager. I say we go left.
The villagers seem a bit upset and saddened that they are leaving.
They eventually reach a very similar villager, with stone huts and such. Except this village has a stone temple to the Unconquered Sun. This group also only speaks Forest Speak. The group has their cast marks glowing.
The villagers motion them towards a small square hut. Inside the hut, on a stone table, they see a very large brain (about two feet across) with one eyeball on an eye-stalk.
A-Dom: Greeting... Brain!
Brain: Hello!
Jade’s Luck: Where is the rest of you? Where is your skull at?
Brain: It was removed for... minor indiscretions. I am Chok’Thar Demon Brain! Am I done?
A-Dom: Not yet. How things been?
Chok’Thar: I bet they all want you to sacrifice them now?
A-Dom: Well their wishes and our actions may cross paths.
Jade’s Luck: What’s up with all the sacrificing anyway?
Chok’Thar: Well they all want to be sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. And It’s Sunday. Each village has a sacrifice this day. Only the rules stop this village from sacrificing everybody.
Jade’s Luck: You know the rules?
Chok’Thar: I am the rules!
Jade’s Luck: But then they won’t be anybody left to make sacrifices to the Unconquered Sun.
Chok’Thar: That’s ok, they will be with the Unconquered Sun. Then they will win. None of the other villagers believe that though.
Jade’s Luck: So the other villages take a measured and rational approach to sacrifices?
Jade’s Luck explains the last village they were at.
Chok’Thar: That was Sungra’La. They believe their village is heaven on earth. Their elders are the ones who want to be sacrificed to keep their village strong.
Jade’s Luck: They aren’t like that all the time?
Chok’Thar: No, only on Sunday, when the Sun is in the sky, for the other villages. This village is like that every day.
Jade’s Luck: Is the sun not in the sky the other days?
A-Dom: Where is the island the other 27 days?
Chok: Elsewhere.
A-Dom: That’s what I thought. What happens if you leave the island on one of those days?
Chok: You can’t. That’s what the monolith shielding is for. It prevents elsewhere from getting in, and us from getting out.
Jade’s Luck: Who put you here.
Chok: You, in the general sense.
Jade’s Luck: Ah, so Solars in general? (Chok’Thar’s eyeball nods) So what is your function?
Chok: To make sure this village does not sacrifice themselves all at once.
A-Dom: How do you do that anyway?
Chok: The powers of the MIND!!! I don’t have a mouth by the way. And we are having a conversation. Think about it.
Jade’s Luck: What causes the island to go away and come back?
A-Dom: Magic?
Chok: I’m just an eyeball lady. It’s not my department. (The eyeball points at A-Dom’s answer of Magic)
Jade’s Luck: I really wish we had a manual.
Chok: You don’t? Did you lose them?
A-Dom: Burned them. A long time ago.
Chok: That wasn’t very smart of you. (A-Dom looks at him) Wasn’t very smart of them then.
A-Dom: What do they do to worship the Unconquered Sun?
Chok: Pray, have a sacrifice on Sunday. That’s about it right now. It has been changing over they years. But I don’t pay that much attention. I’m just a brain. Plus I can only... give them a limited amount of advice.
A-Dom: So you mind if I ask about some details about your minor indiscretion?
Chok: Yes. Trust me, they don’t take your body away lightly.
A-Dom: I like this demon.
Chok’Thar: Chok’Thar, Demon Brain! Tell your friends. Maybe you can get me a new job. I’m mostly harmless!
A-Dom: Don’t push it, if you want to keep an eyeball. Who built the well?
Chok: I don’t know. Probably a Solar. It’s a spell.
Jade’s Luck: Keeps them healthy?
Chok: Yea, and they live a long time.
Tiger: Keeps em fertile?
Chok: Nope. That’s what the other demons are for.
A-Dom: How many other demons are there?
Jade’s Luck: Other demons are for making them more fertile or just for population control?
Tiger: Or do they just take little bits from each one and make a new person?
Chok: Yes
Jade’s Luck: So they don’t populate normally?
Chok’Thar explains that the demons just make sure they maintain a minimum population. It also helps because the villages won’t breed with each other. (A-Dom asks about the other villages) The villages just have different beliefs. Sungra’La just wants to wipe out all the other villages so they will have heaven to themselves, and everyone will be part of their tribe. Each village wants to be the only village on the island for one reason or another.
A-Dom: It’s aing contest! You shove people on an island, and this is some sick exalted bet.
Chok: I think the locals would like you to sacrifice someone now. I suggest Franky. He’s kind of old.
Tiger looks at Franky, who looks to be about 40, and then asks Chok’Thar his age, and is told he is 150. The circle then asks if there is an Algar in the village and finds out there is. So they decide to sacrifice Algar instead.
Jade’s Luck: You could sacrifice them both you know.
A-Dom: Lets stick with the rules. Can you make Algar come forward.
Chok’Thar starts to wobble like jello, and a young 16 year old man comes forward. They (specifically Jade’s Luck) sacrifice him inside the temple before a four armed statue.
A-Dom (looks at the statue): So our god is a creature of the wyld. Great.
GM: You are SO happy the villages can’t understand you.
Everyone in the village is very happy about the sacrifice. They then bust out a big party, which is also part wake for the sacrifice.
A-Dom: (to Jade’s Luck) So, you find anymore women for me?
So a few hours later. A-Dom goes back to Chok’Thar.
A-Dom: What happens if they start having too many children on their own?
Chok: Nothing. We just stop replacing the sacrifices.
A-Dom makes sure they don’t have extra sacrifices to keep the populations down. They don’t. However the Demons apparently control how much war the villagers can make based on population.
A-Dom: Who put you here?
Chok’Thar: Silent Wisdom.
A-Dom looks confused, and Jade’s Luck explains that there were other Solars.
A-Dom: Well I knocked up a few chicks and got a guy killed. Lets go to the next town. The next town will understand us... so that gives us all kinds of opportunity to up.
The group considers pretending that they don’t speak Old Realm, when they reach a village that speaks Old Realm. They get to the next village and find buildings made out of crystals.
A-Dom (Old Realm): Hello! We are Solars!
Villagers: Hello! Are you going to bring us more Demons?
Tiger: Not at the moment.
Jade’s Luck: Did you lose the ones you have already?
Villagers: They aren’t paying enough attention to us. Our village is superior. We deserve more attention from the great ones.
The group tries to help with the sacrifice which was already done. A-Dom then has to start threaten to take away demons. The villagers decide It’s best if they stop talking to A-Dom.
Jade’s Luck: (In Sea) We could Just send them all to Malfese.
GM: Yea... and that’s the compassionate one...
A-Dom has one of the villagers take them to the Demons. They travel for several hours to the center of the island. They reach a large square compound. They see two demons, one lizard type one sun bathing, and an Impish one sitting on the wall.
Imp: Who goes there?
A-Dom: A-Dom, the Solar.
Imp (to Lizard): We should have gotten a Gargoyle so we would have a list. (Lizard nods) So you’re back eh? Who’s winning?
A-Dom: I don’t know. What’s the game?
Imp: The Grand experiment.
Jade’s Luck: This Grand Experiment?
Imp: Well we aren’t involved in any other Grand Experiments.
Lizard: What if we are? What if we are part of a greater grand experiment on demons? This could all be a test!!!
Imp: Yozi-kings, you are paranoid.
A-Dom: Take us to your leader!
The imp hops off the wall, then skips along into the compound. Starts yelling something in the Demonic language. Eventually a four foot tall voodoo doll (complete with pins in it) comes walking out.
Baharenunu (The Voodoo Doll): Who is it? Oh crap.
Jade’s Luck: Just tell us about the Grand Experiment.
Baharenunu: We are just care takers. This island was separate out from The Big Island a long time ago. No I don’t know what it was called I was not a resident. Anyway, so they were corralling people here to be sent off further west. So some Solars and Lunars got into an argument about who the best people to send to the west where. Then betting was involved. Then I was employed.
Jade’s Luck: So some people were picked by Solars and some by Lunars?
Baharenunu: No. This is just the Solar island. The problem was the Solars started arguing amongst themselves about how to best beat the Lunars. So they figured out the best way was to make them compete against each other. Then the winners would compete against the Lunars.
Jade’s Luck: So there are 5 villages on this island all competing against each other?
Baharenunu: Six, but one of them already lost.
A-Dom: Hahahah, that’s a shame.
Jade’s Luck: What are the rules?
Baharenunu: Well we’ve been adding them. Keep things even. After the first group got wiped out so fast. So alliances started getting formed, but they were not suppose to be working together in an organized fashion. So we’ve enforced rules so that they can only win if they work together in an unorganized fashion. So once we limited the number of murders per week. Then there was a minimum population based on sacrifices. So every time there is a sacrifice, they get replaced.
A-Dom: We are allowed to break the rules?
Baharenunu: Yes, you can.
Jade’s Luck: That village was complaining because... you have groupies.
Baharenunu: Oh yea, those guys think we are the representatives of the Unconquered Sun. They think you Solars are the ones who are summoned to help us. But because of the rules of the competition, we can’t claim to represent the Unconquered Sun, they never believe us. You could change that rule too! It would make things easier for me.
Jade’s Luck: We are not changing any of the rules until we know how things work. And we are never changing that rule.
Baharenunu: How things going out there?
A-Dom: Poorly!
Baharenunu: Excellent. I love to hear that.
A-Dom: You know that guy... the scare crow... kind of like you...
Baharenunu: Maibee?
A-Dom: Don’t worry I’ll think of his name eventually. Anybody remember his name? From the dinner party? Hmm.... Lies through Omission.
Baharenunu: Maibee, Lies Through Omission. That’s his name.
A-Dom: You know him? Friends? Brothers?
Baharenunu: I’m part of his soul.
Jade’s Luck: Hence the whole constructed mannequin look.
Baharenunu: (angry voice) I’m a Voodoo Doll NOT a mannequin!
Jade’s Luck: I said mannequin look...
Baharenunu: I do not look like a Mannequin! *Voodoo pulls a pin out of his head and starts chanting* Voodoo Doll! Voodoo Doll!
A-Dom: So if I break another part of him, does that hurt you?
Baharenunu: No.
A-Dom: I can kill you, but then you come back don’t you.
Baharenunu: Yea, but not here. You want to kill me? Go ahead! I get out of this job.
Tiger: If I kill you, I’ll kill you dead.
Baharenunu: I don’t like you. You don’t kill me. (Looks at A-Dom) You kill me anytime you want.
Jade’s Luck: Does anything interesting happen when the demons are all gone?
Baharenunu: We don’t enforce the rules, I think that would be very interesting.
Baharenunu eventually explains that a spell sends the island to Elsewhere, not the Demon. The manse protects the island from Elsewhere by putting up a shield before the spell goes off. He’s forgotten where it is exactly, as he was not allowed to use it. He then suggests that they not blow it up... then he thinks about it and suggests that they blow it up as soon as possible.
A-Dom: No promises.
Continued in Next Post
Session 74
8/19/08
Their wishes and our actions may cross paths.
Subtitle: Tiger points at a lot of things.
Subtitle: I’m a Voodoo Doll NOT a mannequin!
-By AlwaysToast
The circle goes looking for the 6th day island. They take the information they have and go to where they think the island will appear and wait for the 6th day of the month. On that day, at midnight, the island appears. It’s not exactly where they thought it would be, but they were able to see it. It was a very large island. Not as large as Atlantis, but still reasonably large.
A-Dom: It’s Magic. Hazzah!
Jade’s Luck: (To A-Dom): Do you still have your Manse detection crystal?
A-Dom: You mean the piece of coal and the snake?
Jade’s Luck: oh yea, I forgot about that. You want to make another one?
A-Dom tries to steal a single virgin hair from Jade’s Luck, who was going to give him one.
A-Dom: Where am I going to get a crystal?
Jade’s Luck: Well you’re really strong. You could probably poop a diamond!
Petunia: That sounds painful boss!
A-Dom: Yes it does!
Petunia: I advise against it!
A-Dom: Thank you Petunia.
Tiger: Why do you need that thing anyway?
Jade’s Luck: Because we need to find the Manse.
Tiger: I can SEE essence flows.
A-Dom: You can see crystals with that?
Tiger sighs and explains things to A-Dom. This leads to a large number of jokes about Jahar.
The ship sales closer, and eventually sees the island. It’s heave jungle, and all around the perimeter are giant stone monoliths (primarily green jade). There is a Monolith approximately every 100 feet around the island. The group sails all the way around.
Jade’s Luck sticks her head underwater to look at the island assuming it will be on a pedestal, instead of a natural mountain shape. However it was stranger then that, the underside of the island was a perfectly smooth hemisphere of rock. The ground under the boat at the time, was so far away that it was out of sight.
Pursey eats Gareth. The circle decides that putting the boat on the island is the best way to not lose the boat. So A-Dom lifts it ashore and parks it.
The group investigates the Monoliths.
Tiger: (Sounding suspiciously like the GM) They aren’t magically active, however they do have a sort of magical residue on them. So they are probably used for some sort of magic on a regular basis. They however are not in use now, and not magical in and of themselves.
A-Dom: So there is somewhere in the north that there is a 27 days mountain that disappears on the 6th day of every month?
The group decides to not break/touch/mess with the monoliths.
Jade’s Luck: Where we going... oh essence sighty one?
Tiger sees a source of magic jutting out from above the jungle canopy. The group goes that way and find a village full of stone huts. There are a number of people wandering around.
Tiger: Something has to be wrong here. Things look too normal.
A-Dom charges forward at the prompting of Jade’s luck and starts speaking to people in Sea Tongue. They all start speaking back to him in Forest Speak (which no one in the party speaks). Jade’s luck runs and catches up, and then starts cycling threw the languages she knows. Sadly the villagers only speak Forest Speak. Jade’s Luck notices that the villagers seem to get disturbed when they speak Old Realm, but they don’t understand it.
A-Dom: (yelling) Damn it, we need a new Eclipse!
Tiger: (responding) Start killing people until one of them exalts!
Jade’s Luck uses shadow puppetry and charades to communicate: We come in peace. Then Yay Unconquered Sun.
The villagers all cheer when she does that, the entire village starts to cheer and more villagers come out of their huts to see them.
A-Dom: What the
?Tiger saunters up to the group, with his caste mark glowing (due to sorcerers sight). A-Dom pops his caste mark on too.
Villagers start chanting in their native language (which nobody understands). They all bow and make motions of supplication before the Solars.
A-Dom: YESSS!!!! (To tiger) So obviously there is something wrong with them. They are all lizard freaks. They eat babies, they do something terribly horrible. Something is wrong here. It will be very bad.
Tiger: You should get along then.
One of the villagers comes up to A-Dom with a ceremonial knife, hands it to A-Dom, then pulls open his shirt.
A-Dom tries to convey the concept of ‘later’ to that man.
A-Dom: He wants me to sacrifice him to the Unconquered Sun. Which I’m willing to do. I just don’t know how!
The man drags A-Dom along to the center of the villager to a big stone slab. Lays himself out on it.
A-Dom: Well OK then! Oh god... For you! *stab*
A-Dom has to root around a little bit to find the heart. But eventually finds it. Tiger sees the soul detach from the body and fly skyward directly towards the Sun.
Jade’s Luck: A-Dom! What are you doing!
A-Dom: Well, umm, I was trying not to be rude... He really wanted... yea...
A bunch of villagers put their hands up, trying to be next. Jade’s Luck tries to get the name of the sacrifice. The villagers all chant his name back to her, however it is not Algar (the man on this island they need to repo the soul from).
A-Dom: Should we hang out here for a week and learn their language?
Jade’s Luck: We could just say we are here for Algar?
The villagers take the body and begin preparing it for burial. Tiger notices that the village Well is the source of the magic he saw from far away.
Tiger: (trying to make Jade’s Luck happy) The Sacrifices go straight to the Unconquered Sun.
A-Dom: It’s a proper form of prayer.
Jade’s Luck: Well...
Tiger: He’s not sending him back I’ll tell you that much.
A-Dom and Jade’s Luck start handing out candy. The villagers seem confused at first, then become very accepting. Jade’s Luck starts scoping the crowd looking for both intelligent and attractive women.
Ryan: That’s right. My Circle is trying to get me laid. I love my circle.
Liz: It’s a bizarre little hobby.
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A-Dom has a very good time taking advantage of the compliance of the pretty ladies Jade’s Luck has found for him. Jade’s Luck tries to find Algar, and finds the villagers are very confused, as nobody knows the name Algar.
The villagers draws the island, and draws in 4 other villages. They then diagrams of demons and other evil symbols near all the other villages. The group tries to draw the symbols of other exalts, but the only the sun symbols get the party. Jade’s Luck asks about the magic well, and the villagers are confused about the magic well. Jade’s Luck tries to ask what other oceans does the island go to, but the locals are confused by her.
A-Dom: Tiger can you got all Woohooodie-Woo at the well?
Tiger makes the same noise while looking at the well. Tiger realizes that all the villagers have a little bit of magic in them. He also notices that everyone looks unnaturally healthy. There is a lack of scars, or signs having had diseases or sickness. Tiger looks out at the island and realizes that there appears to be a magic well at each village. The villages are not organized in a circle or any pattern.
Jade’s Luck asks if there is anyplace the villagers should stay away from. The villagers draw a square in the center of the island. Jade’s Luck suggests they go there.
A-Dom: What if each one of us made a tribe? I’m sure there is something significant about there being 5.
Jade’s Luck: Creation really likes the number 5.
A-Dom: Well
it! Let’s go to the next villager. I say we go left.The villagers seem a bit upset and saddened that they are leaving.
They eventually reach a very similar villager, with stone huts and such. Except this village has a stone temple to the Unconquered Sun. This group also only speaks Forest Speak. The group has their cast marks glowing.
The villagers motion them towards a small square hut. Inside the hut, on a stone table, they see a very large brain (about two feet across) with one eyeball on an eye-stalk.
A-Dom: Greeting... Brain!
Brain: Hello!
Jade’s Luck: Where is the rest of you? Where is your skull at?
Brain: It was removed for... minor indiscretions. I am Chok’Thar Demon Brain! Am I done?
A-Dom: Not yet. How things been?
Chok’Thar: I bet they all want you to sacrifice them now?
A-Dom: Well their wishes and our actions may cross paths.
Jade’s Luck: What’s up with all the sacrificing anyway?
Chok’Thar: Well they all want to be sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. And It’s Sunday. Each village has a sacrifice this day. Only the rules stop this village from sacrificing everybody.
Jade’s Luck: You know the rules?
Chok’Thar: I am the rules!
Jade’s Luck: But then they won’t be anybody left to make sacrifices to the Unconquered Sun.
Chok’Thar: That’s ok, they will be with the Unconquered Sun. Then they will win. None of the other villagers believe that though.
Jade’s Luck: So the other villages take a measured and rational approach to sacrifices?
Jade’s Luck explains the last village they were at.
Chok’Thar: That was Sungra’La. They believe their village is heaven on earth. Their elders are the ones who want to be sacrificed to keep their village strong.
Jade’s Luck: They aren’t like that all the time?
Chok’Thar: No, only on Sunday, when the Sun is in the sky, for the other villages. This village is like that every day.
Jade’s Luck: Is the sun not in the sky the other days?
A-Dom: Where is the island the other 27 days?
Chok: Elsewhere.
A-Dom: That’s what I thought. What happens if you leave the island on one of those days?
Chok: You can’t. That’s what the monolith shielding is for. It prevents elsewhere from getting in, and us from getting out.
Jade’s Luck: Who put you here.
Chok: You, in the general sense.
Jade’s Luck: Ah, so Solars in general? (Chok’Thar’s eyeball nods) So what is your function?
Chok: To make sure this village does not sacrifice themselves all at once.
A-Dom: How do you do that anyway?
Chok: The powers of the MIND!!! I don’t have a mouth by the way. And we are having a conversation. Think about it.
Jade’s Luck: What causes the island to go away and come back?
A-Dom: Magic?
Chok: I’m just an eyeball lady. It’s not my department. (The eyeball points at A-Dom’s answer of Magic)
Jade’s Luck: I really wish we had a manual.
Chok: You don’t? Did you lose them?
A-Dom: Burned them. A long time ago.
Chok: That wasn’t very smart of you. (A-Dom looks at him) Wasn’t very smart of them then.
A-Dom: What do they do to worship the Unconquered Sun?
Chok: Pray, have a sacrifice on Sunday. That’s about it right now. It has been changing over they years. But I don’t pay that much attention. I’m just a brain. Plus I can only... give them a limited amount of advice.
A-Dom: So you mind if I ask about some details about your minor indiscretion?
Chok: Yes. Trust me, they don’t take your body away lightly.
A-Dom: I like this demon.
Chok’Thar: Chok’Thar, Demon Brain! Tell your friends. Maybe you can get me a new job. I’m mostly harmless!
A-Dom: Don’t push it, if you want to keep an eyeball. Who built the well?
Chok: I don’t know. Probably a Solar. It’s a spell.
Jade’s Luck: Keeps them healthy?
Chok: Yea, and they live a long time.
Tiger: Keeps em fertile?
Chok: Nope. That’s what the other demons are for.
A-Dom: How many other demons are there?
Jade’s Luck: Other demons are for making them more fertile or just for population control?
Tiger: Or do they just take little bits from each one and make a new person?
Chok: Yes
Jade’s Luck: So they don’t populate normally?
Chok’Thar explains that the demons just make sure they maintain a minimum population. It also helps because the villages won’t breed with each other. (A-Dom asks about the other villages) The villages just have different beliefs. Sungra’La just wants to wipe out all the other villages so they will have heaven to themselves, and everyone will be part of their tribe. Each village wants to be the only village on the island for one reason or another.
A-Dom: It’s a
ing contest! You shove people on an island, and this is some sick exalted bet.Chok: I think the locals would like you to sacrifice someone now. I suggest Franky. He’s kind of old.
Tiger looks at Franky, who looks to be about 40, and then asks Chok’Thar his age, and is told he is 150. The circle then asks if there is an Algar in the village and finds out there is. So they decide to sacrifice Algar instead.
Jade’s Luck: You could sacrifice them both you know.
A-Dom: Lets stick with the rules. Can you make Algar come forward.
Chok’Thar starts to wobble like jello, and a young 16 year old man comes forward. They (specifically Jade’s Luck) sacrifice him inside the temple before a four armed statue.
A-Dom (looks at the statue): So our god is a creature of the wyld. Great.
GM: You are SO happy the villages can’t understand you.
Everyone in the village is very happy about the sacrifice. They then bust out a big party, which is also part wake for the sacrifice.
A-Dom: (to Jade’s Luck) So, you find anymore women for me?
So a few hours later. A-Dom goes back to Chok’Thar.
A-Dom: What happens if they start having too many children on their own?
Chok: Nothing. We just stop replacing the sacrifices.
A-Dom makes sure they don’t have extra sacrifices to keep the populations down. They don’t. However the Demons apparently control how much war the villagers can make based on population.
A-Dom: Who put you here?
Chok’Thar: Silent Wisdom.
A-Dom looks confused, and Jade’s Luck explains that there were other Solars.
A-Dom: Well I knocked up a few chicks and got a guy killed. Lets go to the next town. The next town will understand us... so that gives us all kinds of opportunity to
up.The group considers pretending that they don’t speak Old Realm, when they reach a village that speaks Old Realm. They get to the next village and find buildings made out of crystals.
A-Dom (Old Realm): Hello! We are Solars!
Villagers: Hello! Are you going to bring us more Demons?
Tiger: Not at the moment.
Jade’s Luck: Did you lose the ones you have already?
Villagers: They aren’t paying enough attention to us. Our village is superior. We deserve more attention from the great ones.
The group tries to help with the sacrifice which was already done. A-Dom then has to start threaten to take away demons. The villagers decide It’s best if they stop talking to A-Dom.
Jade’s Luck: (In Sea) We could Just send them all to Malfese.
GM: Yea... and that’s the compassionate one...
A-Dom has one of the villagers take them to the Demons. They travel for several hours to the center of the island. They reach a large square compound. They see two demons, one lizard type one sun bathing, and an Impish one sitting on the wall.
Imp: Who goes there?
A-Dom: A-Dom, the Solar.
Imp (to Lizard): We should have gotten a Gargoyle so we would have a list. (Lizard nods) So you’re back eh? Who’s winning?
A-Dom: I don’t know. What’s the game?
Imp: The Grand experiment.
Jade’s Luck: This Grand Experiment?
Imp: Well we aren’t involved in any other Grand Experiments.
Lizard: What if we are? What if we are part of a greater grand experiment on demons? This could all be a test!!!
Imp: Yozi-kings, you are paranoid.
A-Dom: Take us to your leader!
The imp hops off the wall, then skips along into the compound. Starts yelling something in the Demonic language. Eventually a four foot tall voodoo doll (complete with pins in it) comes walking out.
Baharenunu (The Voodoo Doll): Who is it? Oh crap.
Jade’s Luck: Just tell us about the Grand Experiment.
Baharenunu: We are just care takers. This island was separate out from The Big Island a long time ago. No I don’t know what it was called I was not a resident. Anyway, so they were corralling people here to be sent off further west. So some Solars and Lunars got into an argument about who the best people to send to the west where. Then betting was involved. Then I was employed.
Jade’s Luck: So some people were picked by Solars and some by Lunars?
Baharenunu: No. This is just the Solar island. The problem was the Solars started arguing amongst themselves about how to best beat the Lunars. So they figured out the best way was to make them compete against each other. Then the winners would compete against the Lunars.
Jade’s Luck: So there are 5 villages on this island all competing against each other?
Baharenunu: Six, but one of them already lost.
A-Dom: Hahahah, that’s a shame.
Jade’s Luck: What are the rules?
Baharenunu: Well we’ve been adding them. Keep things even. After the first group got wiped out so fast. So alliances started getting formed, but they were not suppose to be working together in an organized fashion. So we’ve enforced rules so that they can only win if they work together in an unorganized fashion. So once we limited the number of murders per week. Then there was a minimum population based on sacrifices. So every time there is a sacrifice, they get replaced.
A-Dom: We are allowed to break the rules?
Baharenunu: Yes, you can.
Jade’s Luck: That village was complaining because... you have groupies.
Baharenunu: Oh yea, those guys think we are the representatives of the Unconquered Sun. They think you Solars are the ones who are summoned to help us. But because of the rules of the competition, we can’t claim to represent the Unconquered Sun, they never believe us. You could change that rule too! It would make things easier for me.
Jade’s Luck: We are not changing any of the rules until we know how things work. And we are never changing that rule.
Baharenunu: How things going out there?
A-Dom: Poorly!
Baharenunu: Excellent. I love to hear that.
A-Dom: You know that guy... the scare crow... kind of like you...
Baharenunu: Maibee?
A-Dom: Don’t worry I’ll think of his name eventually. Anybody remember his name? From the dinner party? Hmm.... Lies through Omission.
Baharenunu: Maibee, Lies Through Omission. That’s his name.
A-Dom: You know him? Friends? Brothers?
Baharenunu: I’m part of his soul.
Jade’s Luck: Hence the whole constructed mannequin look.
Baharenunu: (angry voice) I’m a Voodoo Doll NOT a mannequin!
Jade’s Luck: I said mannequin look...
Baharenunu: I do not look like a Mannequin! *Voodoo pulls a pin out of his head and starts chanting* Voodoo Doll! Voodoo Doll!
A-Dom: So if I break another part of him, does that hurt you?
Baharenunu: No.
A-Dom: I can kill you, but then you come back don’t you.
Baharenunu: Yea, but not here. You want to kill me? Go ahead! I get out of this job.
Tiger: If I kill you, I’ll kill you dead.
Baharenunu: I don’t like you. You don’t kill me. (Looks at A-Dom) You kill me anytime you want.
Jade’s Luck: Does anything interesting happen when the demons are all gone?
Baharenunu: We don’t enforce the rules, I think that would be very interesting.
Baharenunu eventually explains that a spell sends the island to Elsewhere, not the Demon. The manse protects the island from Elsewhere by putting up a shield before the spell goes off. He’s forgotten where it is exactly, as he was not allowed to use it. He then suggests that they not blow it up... then he thinks about it and suggests that they blow it up as soon as possible.
A-Dom: No promises.
Continued in Next Post
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 74, Continued
The group decides it is best to find out EVERYTHING about the island before changing any of the rules. A-Dom then has the Voodoo doll send someone to the Demon-worshiping village. They also find out the demons can only kill off people, if the population grows to the point where the island can’t sustain all the people. Voodoo suggests that they could turn the manse off and find out what happens when they go to Elsewhere unprotected. A-Dom gets a look.
Jade’s Luck: We are not doing that.
A-Dom: I didn’t say we were going to go to elsewhere unprotected which would probably kill all the mortals...
Jade’s Luck: But you were thinking about it.
Tiger: You just think the worst about us. They are going to kill all the mortals! I better lecture them and nag!
The finer points of A-Dom vs Tiger and their ways of killing mortals is discussed in relation to how Jade’s Luck deals with them. Voodoo thinks A-Dom is being judged rather harshly.
The group finds out that when a tribe gets wiped out, the minimum size of each village is increased. The group then starts discussing Yew, and the practice of using Demons vs undead as servants.
A-Dom: Well Undead take orders better.
Jade’s Luck: Undead use to be human. You never use to be human right?
A-Dom: He’s part of a Yozi. Which means he’s part of an idea.
Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard there Boss.
A-Dom: I wonder if there are any sneezing demons out there...
Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard.
A-Dom: You keep doing what your doing. We are going to visit the other villages.
They find out a little about the other villages: Oak Castle which believes this to be a test of faith. They don’t want to be sacrificed, they want to kill everyone. The other village is Big Well. They believe they are part of a giant experiment, and the only way to stop being sent to elsewhere for most of a month is to kill off all the other tribes.
A-Dom: What Yew known for being compassionate?
Baharenunu: Could you explain the concept of compassion to me?
Jade’s Luck: Are you asking a non-time spirit about time?
The circle then goes to Oak Castle, which looks like a wooden fortified city. They clearly are thinking defensively. The party also realizes that the only weapons they have seen is ceremonial daggers. Nobody has spears or rocks tied to sticks. The group decides it would be a good idea to not introduce weapons to them.
A-Dom: Hello! We are Solars! We are here check up on things.
The village had already had it’s sacrifice, but they were happy to show them the grave. They also said they just finished their 8 hour ceremony.
A-Dom: Wow, 8 hours? You win.
Villagers: You will wipe out all the other villages for us?
A-Dom: No... Yew?
Villagers: You! Personally!
A-Dom: Oh, nevermind. So does the name Wretch of Winter, do anything for ya?
Tiger: Do you have an Algar here?
Jade’s Luck: I think we got him. What do you do after the sacrifice?
Villagers: We have an 8 hour ceremony. Then we have a nap. Then we have another ceremony until the great blue sky comes. Sometimes we whip ourselves. Then we pray for the 27 days, for the sun to shine his radiance down upon us. We think It’s the other villages. They do not have enough faith.
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) So..
A-Domin Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) When did you learn Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck?
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A while ago.
A-Dom (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Son of a bitch...
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) I’ve been taking care of your children.
A-Dom: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Oh yea...
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A useful thing to say is that we are conducting an audit of the rules and are not changing any of the rules.
A-Dom: We are evaluating things, what you are doing, how you live, what you do to worship the sun specifically.
There is then a long discussion about if self whipping should come before or after a nap. There is then a long discussion about the devout followers trying to get the Solars involved in their version of religious ceremonies, with the Solars not wanting to participate.
The next 8 hour ceremony starts. The worshipers do a lot of begging the Unconquered Sun to not abandon them for the next 27 days of misery and darkness without him.
A-Dom: We really should just kill them. So they won’t have to suffer like this.
Jade’s Luck: No killing the worshipers of the Unconquered Sun. I’m considering a refugee program at this point.
A-Dom: What if It’s a Mass sacrifice? Wouldn’t that be like butter for the Un...
Jade’s Luck: No, no, no. No mass slaughter, no butter.
The group argues about ending the game. The group discusses if the people have souls or not. A-Dom thinks the worshipers are really miserable. Tiger backs up the mass slaughter idea. A-Dom realizes that maybe he could use the different villages to settle 5 new islands...
The Solars walk away from the 8 hour service after twenty minutes of watching.
A-Dom: We shale return! Keep worshiping! Go... You!
Tiger mumbles a plan that makes everyone laugh their evil laugh.
The circle then moves onto the village of Big Well. They were doing their sacrifice at sundown. Jade’s Luck noticed that the person who was about to be sacrificed did not belong to the village. The victim was clearly from a different village, probably the demon worshipers.
Jade’s Luck: I can’t argue with the smart ones.
Priest: Oh Unconquered Sun! We sacrifice this evil-doer onto you to bring favor unto our village. *stab, dig, dig, dig* No that’s the liver *dig* Yay the heart!
The Solars pop their caste marks and walk into town.
Priest: The Great ones have returned! (To the Solars) Is the game over yet?
A-Dom: How did you realize you were playing a game?
Priest: We are the smart ones. We are smarter then all of the other villages. Do we get to rule the world now?
A-Dom: At best you get to rule the island. (All the villagers look confused.) There is a world outside the island you know... (gasp from crowd) Really, It’s true.
Priest: But we die if we go off the island!
A-Dom: Really, is that what happens?
Priest: Well you can go off on Sunday for a little bit. But if you are off when the shield forms you die.
Jade’s Luck: So if you are off when the island goes away you die?
Priest: Yes! Every time someone has tried to stay off the island in a boat, when we return, we find them dead in the boat.
Jade’s Luck: That could be because... you know... they didn’t have water for 27 days.
Priest: We aren’t magical doctors. We don't know what killed them.
Jade’s Luck: Theoretically speaking... we are conducting an audit, we are evaluating. If you could leave the island and go to a different island where there is sunshine all the time, how would you feel about it?
Priest: We don’t want to die! Take all the other villages off our island!
A-Dom: You won’t die if we take you off.
Priest: We would need proof first. Take a few villages off the island first. Then bring some of them back alive a month or two later.
Jade’s Luck: We are evaluating...
Priest: We require proof first. We suggest the demon worshiping nutjobs to perform your experiments on.
Jade’s Luck: So tell us about life in your village!
Priest: Pretty good. We do our prayers. Plot how to win. Try to murder someone from another village every week and frame it on a different village.
A-Dom: Have you tried to form alliances with other villages?
Priest: We’ve tried but they are all nutjobs. Can’t be trusted. Hence the lies and misdirection.
A-Dom: Randomly assigning blame...
Priest: We’ve been pitting them against each other.
A-Dom: You should probably pit the majority of them against one.
Priest: OOOoooo...
Jade’s Luck: (annoyed voice) A-Dom
Priest: It’s ok! Solars are allowed to break the rules.
A-Dom: I’m just pushing things forward. Does it really matter how things end?
There is a discussion of the idea that they won’t be changing the rules until they know what’s going on.
Jade’s Luck: (T) While these seem to be the least annoying... we aren’t in the position to be picky. We should try to get as many of them as possible off this island. So encouraging them, or giving them hints is a really bad idea.
A-Dom: (T) I will not give anymore hints. I can’t retract that hint.
A-Dom: Well you guys are doing pretty good. I hope you win soon.
Priest: I hope you are not pandering to us.
There is a lot of double talk about if they were really playing a game, if the Solars are lying, and if the Solars can read their minds, then there would make the levels of double-talk and misdirection really complicated.
Priest: (looking at Tiger) Why does that one not talk?
A-Dom: He usually just kills people.
Priest: (To Tiger) You go visit the other villages. They all need your services.
A-Dom: He rarely kills the way others want him to. Best not to talk to him at all. We won’t be killing anyone for you.
Jade’s Luck starts suggesting that A-Dom sleep with some women. When the villagers find out his children may be magically powerful, they line up all their child bearing women.
At midnight (A-Dom is still busy), Jade’s Luck and Tiger see a big blue sphere form around the island. It’s all blue and sparkly. Jade’s Luck asks Tiger to look for the manse. Tiger can see power lines going from the Manse (in the north) to each monolith. He also sees the dome is made out of pure magic, so it looks pretty much like what his normal eyes see.
Jade’s Luck: I wonder when A-Dom will be done.
A-Dom: (Yelling) Bark like a sheep! (A-Dom comes stumbling out a few minutes later) We find the Manse yet? (Tiger does a broad wave) Excelent... It’s somewhere between Jade’s Luck and Tiger... (A-Dom starts lifting up rocks to look under them) So you want to lead the way.
Tiger and A-Dom go zooming across the island. It still takes several hours to make it to the manse. On the way there they stop to see the demons. They find Baharenunu sleeping at a desk.
A-Dom: Hey wake up!
Baharenunu: yea?
A-Dom: Do they have souls?
Baharenunu: Maybe.
A-Dom: Don’t Maibee me, this is important.
Baharenunu: They don’t when they are created. They do when the paperwork gets filed.
A-Dom: How?
Baharenunu: Go to heaven once in a while, do paperwork.
Jade’s Luck: Can you put these names on your list?
Baharenunu: (Very happy) Absolutely! (Jade's Luck hands over the list)
A-Dom: Son of a bitch... (Baharenunu starts giggling) Why are you giggling?
Baharenunu: Was I giggling?
A-Dom & Tiger: YES!
Baharenunu: Umm... no reason.
A-Dom: Are you allowed to lie to us?
Jade’s Luck: He’s not lying... he’s just omits things.
A-Dom: Lets take the names back from captain pin cushion. (Jade's Luck takes the list back)
Baharenunu: They really would have souls... perfectly good ones.
Jade’s Luck: And?!?
Baharenunu: And violate my contract by your order and I’d be free.
A-Dom (starts laughing): Ok you are not allowed to violate your contract, even by direct order.
Baharenunu: But you can directly order me to ignore that order. I mean I can put a whole lot of people on one list for you. Only costs you the freedom of one demon.
A-Dom: One day when we don’t need you anymore, we might kill you.
Baharenunu: Thanks.
A-Dom: How long does that usually take? The whole process.
Baharenunu: I’m not good with time... a couple of years. They live longer then normal humans. So usually before they die.
The Circle runs off to find the Manse. They get to where Tiger saw the essence lines come from. But they didn’t find the manse. Tiger came to realize that the manse was probably overgrown, due to lack of use.
Tiger points at the ground and makes a sweeping motion. Thankfully A-Dom comments on it.
Liz: The recorder can not pick up pantomime.
Paul: You get to guess what Dan did based on the reaction of everyone else.
A-Dom starts digging away the dirt and vegetation, carefully. About 20 ft down, he finds a big slab of finished wood. A-Dom digs around the perimeter (he is using a lot of charms, so there is a giant glowing shark digging in the jungle). He determents it is the top step of a ziggurat like structure.
A-Dom: I hope all the tribes don’t go to war because the ‘sign of the glowing shark as was foretold!’
Liz: Stop giving Paul ideas.
A couple villagers (who only speak forest speak) show up to watch the giant glowing shark. A-Dom scares them away. Jade’s Luck starts clear cutting jungle around where A-Dom is working with Cascade of cutting terror. A-Dom piles all the dirt up in a wall like pile all the way around where they are working.
They dig to the bottom of the Manse. At the bottom there is nothing but doors. The building is a pentagon, with 20 doorways on each side. So they pick a doorway (the 80th doorway) and go in. They follow a long tunnel, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, and the feeling that the walls are just thin wooden screens.
They reach a room with a small elephant statue.
Elephant: Hello
A-Dom: That’s weird.
Jade’s Luck: No It’s not. We talk to statuary all the time and it frequently answers us.
Elephant: Talking to a statue that doesn’t talk back, that’s just weird.
A-Dom: I’m A-Dom, who are you.
Elephant: Imastatue.
A-Dom: Ah a tribal name. What do you do here?
Imastatue: Did you decide a winner?
Jade’s Luck: If you could explain the tunnels...
Imastatue: You see there are tunnels in each village based on which villages are left in the game.
Jade’s Luck: How do we ascertain which tunnel goes with which tunnel.
Imastatue: I’ve been told It’s self evident.
A-Dom: Who told you this and how may I hurt them?
Imastatue: I suppose you could find his current incarnation and hurt him a great deal. He is a Zenith.
There is a long discussion about A-Dom, and how he is circlecentric (which is a new word according to A-dom).
A-Dom: I’m so confused.
Jade’s Luck: So each tunnel leads to someone else.
Imastatue: No, each tunnel represents a village and a level of success. You just told me tribe #4 is doing very well.
A-Dom: What do you do with these numbers?
Imastatue: I evaluate them.
A-Dom: How do you communicate with the demons?
Imastatue: I yell really loud. They think I’m really really big.
A-Dom: How do you do that underground?
Imastatue: (Yelling so loud everyone goes deaf) Situation normal! Carry on!
A-Dom: So where is the important part of this manse? Where is your hearthstone?
Imastatue: Very forward of you. I don’t even know if I like you yet.
A-Dom: Well you aren’t going to like me, so I’m out of the running. So It’s one of them.
Imastatue: Excellent, saves me time.
A-Dom: (turns to Tiger) I’m going to DIE here.
Imastatue: I’ve never seen that happen. May I watch?
A-Dom: Yes while I stop breathing, speaking and eating, I may die in a thousand years.
Imastatue: A few thousand years? Is that long? I don’t know I’m not good with time.
A-Dom: I’m not good with time ether...
Jade’s Luck: Yes you are!
A-Dom: No I’m not. I’m a statue now! I just need to figure out some way to stick my feet into the floor then we will stand here and evaluate numbers.
Imastatue: I like him.
A-Dom: What happens when the game is over?
Imastatue: Someone wins. Some solar is owed a lot of money.
A-Dom: What if they all join hands and become a community.
Imastatue: There are rules against that.
Jade’s Luck: But we are Solars.
Imastatue: There are core rules you are not allowed to break and situational rules that can be changed.
A-Dom: Is there a rulebook?
Jade’s Luck: How do we not break the rules?
Imastatue: You can’t break the rules. You made them that way. You are very inventive.
A-Dom: No I am not.
Jade’s Luck: Yew as in?...
A-Dom: No, You, not Yew. Who was involved in the bet may I know?
Imastatue: Silent Wisdom, Markus the mad... and some other ones. Not everyone introduced themselves. Whoever wins this, gets to compete against the Lunars. The winners get to colonize the West.
A-Dom: The West is already colonized.
Imastatue: No, MORE West.
Jade’s Luck: They don’t want to go more West. It’s all wyld.
Imastatue: That’s why you make it not wyld, then you put them there. Because they are the best of the best. Then you put them there. Then you move even further West. And hence creation expands.
A-Dom: Can we make the west go east?
Imastatue: These people make the west go west.
Jade’s Luck: I want to make the smart people win.
A-Dom: Can we give the smart ones good advice, and let them win.
Imastatue: Only if It’s not agaist the rules that you can’t break.
A-Dom: I need to give the paranoid ones the opposite adivce to what I want them to do.
Imastatue: So you are Markus the mad then? You need about 8 more levels of complications. Or you can just wait here until the experiment ends.
Jade’s Luck: What happens if we take them off the island?
Imastatue: They would all die.
Jade’s Luck: How?
Imastatue: Old age, disease, or accident probably. They are immune to disease as long as they drink the water.
The group starts discussing how the end of the contest works. They find out that when one village wins, all involved Solars will be alerted, so they can pay off their bets. They also found out the bets are not sitting in trust, as all Solars are fantastically wealthy (in real creation wealth). So the bets are primarily in artifacts and nations (because that is what Solars bet with).
A-Dom: So we should just make sure nobody ever wins.
Imastatue: What happens if you win? Wouldn’t that be good?
A-Dom: Bad things will happen. Bad things always happen. Daily, hourly, every minute. I’m having aing conversation with you.
Imastatue: Really? I didn’t realize I was so horrible.
Jade's Luck: You're upsetting him!
A-Dom: He doesn’t have emotions.
Imastatue: (Starting to cry) I don’t have emotions.
The group decides it is best to find out EVERYTHING about the island before changing any of the rules. A-Dom then has the Voodoo doll send someone to the Demon-worshiping village. They also find out the demons can only kill off people, if the population grows to the point where the island can’t sustain all the people. Voodoo suggests that they could turn the manse off and find out what happens when they go to Elsewhere unprotected. A-Dom gets a look.
Jade’s Luck: We are not doing that.
A-Dom: I didn’t say we were going to go to elsewhere unprotected which would probably kill all the mortals...
Jade’s Luck: But you were thinking about it.
Tiger: You just think the worst about us. They are going to kill all the mortals! I better lecture them and nag!
The finer points of A-Dom vs Tiger and their ways of killing mortals is discussed in relation to how Jade’s Luck deals with them. Voodoo thinks A-Dom is being judged rather harshly.
The group finds out that when a tribe gets wiped out, the minimum size of each village is increased. The group then starts discussing Yew, and the practice of using Demons vs undead as servants.
A-Dom: Well Undead take orders better.
Jade’s Luck: Undead use to be human. You never use to be human right?
A-Dom: He’s part of a Yozi. Which means he’s part of an idea.
Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard there Boss.
A-Dom: I wonder if there are any sneezing demons out there...
Baharenunu: Don’t think about it too hard.
A-Dom: You keep doing what your doing. We are going to visit the other villages.
They find out a little about the other villages: Oak Castle which believes this to be a test of faith. They don’t want to be sacrificed, they want to kill everyone. The other village is Big Well. They believe they are part of a giant experiment, and the only way to stop being sent to elsewhere for most of a month is to kill off all the other tribes.
A-Dom: What Yew known for being compassionate?
Baharenunu: Could you explain the concept of compassion to me?
Jade’s Luck: Are you asking a non-time spirit about time?
The circle then goes to Oak Castle, which looks like a wooden fortified city. They clearly are thinking defensively. The party also realizes that the only weapons they have seen is ceremonial daggers. Nobody has spears or rocks tied to sticks. The group decides it would be a good idea to not introduce weapons to them.
A-Dom: Hello! We are Solars! We are here check up on things.
The village had already had it’s sacrifice, but they were happy to show them the grave. They also said they just finished their 8 hour ceremony.
A-Dom: Wow, 8 hours? You win.
Villagers: You will wipe out all the other villages for us?
A-Dom: No... Yew?
Villagers: You! Personally!
A-Dom: Oh, nevermind. So does the name Wretch of Winter, do anything for ya?
Tiger: Do you have an Algar here?
Jade’s Luck: I think we got him. What do you do after the sacrifice?
Villagers: We have an 8 hour ceremony. Then we have a nap. Then we have another ceremony until the great blue sky comes. Sometimes we whip ourselves. Then we pray for the 27 days, for the sun to shine his radiance down upon us. We think It’s the other villages. They do not have enough faith.
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) So..
A-Dom
in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) When did you learn Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck?Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A while ago.
A-Dom (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Son of a bitch...
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) I’ve been taking care of your children.
A-Dom: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) Oh yea...
Jade’s Luck: (in Uk-luk-muck-muck-chuck) A useful thing to say is that we are conducting an audit of the rules and are not changing any of the rules.
A-Dom: We are evaluating things, what you are doing, how you live, what you do to worship the sun specifically.
There is then a long discussion about if self whipping should come before or after a nap. There is then a long discussion about the devout followers trying to get the Solars involved in their version of religious ceremonies, with the Solars not wanting to participate.
The next 8 hour ceremony starts. The worshipers do a lot of begging the Unconquered Sun to not abandon them for the next 27 days of misery and darkness without him.
A-Dom: We really should just kill them. So they won’t have to suffer like this.
Jade’s Luck: No killing the worshipers of the Unconquered Sun. I’m considering a refugee program at this point.
A-Dom: What if It’s a Mass sacrifice? Wouldn’t that be like butter for the Un...
Jade’s Luck: No, no, no. No mass slaughter, no butter.
The group argues about ending the game. The group discusses if the people have souls or not. A-Dom thinks the worshipers are really miserable. Tiger backs up the mass slaughter idea. A-Dom realizes that maybe he could use the different villages to settle 5 new islands...
The Solars walk away from the 8 hour service after twenty minutes of watching.
A-Dom: We shale return! Keep worshiping! Go... You!
Tiger mumbles a plan that makes everyone laugh their evil laugh.
The circle then moves onto the village of Big Well. They were doing their sacrifice at sundown. Jade’s Luck noticed that the person who was about to be sacrificed did not belong to the village. The victim was clearly from a different village, probably the demon worshipers.
Jade’s Luck: I can’t argue with the smart ones.
Priest: Oh Unconquered Sun! We sacrifice this evil-doer onto you to bring favor unto our village. *stab, dig, dig, dig* No that’s the liver *dig* Yay the heart!
The Solars pop their caste marks and walk into town.
Priest: The Great ones have returned! (To the Solars) Is the game over yet?
A-Dom: How did you realize you were playing a game?
Priest: We are the smart ones. We are smarter then all of the other villages. Do we get to rule the world now?
A-Dom: At best you get to rule the island. (All the villagers look confused.) There is a world outside the island you know... (gasp from crowd) Really, It’s true.
Priest: But we die if we go off the island!
A-Dom: Really, is that what happens?
Priest: Well you can go off on Sunday for a little bit. But if you are off when the shield forms you die.
Jade’s Luck: So if you are off when the island goes away you die?
Priest: Yes! Every time someone has tried to stay off the island in a boat, when we return, we find them dead in the boat.
Jade’s Luck: That could be because... you know... they didn’t have water for 27 days.
Priest: We aren’t magical doctors. We don't know what killed them.
Jade’s Luck: Theoretically speaking... we are conducting an audit, we are evaluating. If you could leave the island and go to a different island where there is sunshine all the time, how would you feel about it?
Priest: We don’t want to die! Take all the other villages off our island!
A-Dom: You won’t die if we take you off.
Priest: We would need proof first. Take a few villages off the island first. Then bring some of them back alive a month or two later.
Jade’s Luck: We are evaluating...
Priest: We require proof first. We suggest the demon worshiping nutjobs to perform your experiments on.
Jade’s Luck: So tell us about life in your village!
Priest: Pretty good. We do our prayers. Plot how to win. Try to murder someone from another village every week and frame it on a different village.
A-Dom: Have you tried to form alliances with other villages?
Priest: We’ve tried but they are all nutjobs. Can’t be trusted. Hence the lies and misdirection.
A-Dom: Randomly assigning blame...
Priest: We’ve been pitting them against each other.
A-Dom: You should probably pit the majority of them against one.
Priest: OOOoooo...
Jade’s Luck: (annoyed voice) A-Dom
Priest: It’s ok! Solars are allowed to break the rules.
A-Dom: I’m just pushing things forward. Does it really matter how things end?
There is a discussion of the idea that they won’t be changing the rules until they know what’s going on.
Jade’s Luck: (T) While these seem to be the least annoying... we aren’t in the position to be picky. We should try to get as many of them as possible off this island. So encouraging them, or giving them hints is a really bad idea.
A-Dom: (T) I will not give anymore hints. I can’t retract that hint.
A-Dom: Well you guys are doing pretty good. I hope you win soon.
Priest: I hope you are not pandering to us.
There is a lot of double talk about if they were really playing a game, if the Solars are lying, and if the Solars can read their minds, then there would make the levels of double-talk and misdirection really complicated.
Priest: (looking at Tiger) Why does that one not talk?
A-Dom: He usually just kills people.
Priest: (To Tiger) You go visit the other villages. They all need your services.
A-Dom: He rarely kills the way others want him to. Best not to talk to him at all. We won’t be killing anyone for you.
Jade’s Luck starts suggesting that A-Dom sleep with some women. When the villagers find out his children may be magically powerful, they line up all their child bearing women.
At midnight (A-Dom is still busy), Jade’s Luck and Tiger see a big blue sphere form around the island. It’s all blue and sparkly. Jade’s Luck asks Tiger to look for the manse. Tiger can see power lines going from the Manse (in the north) to each monolith. He also sees the dome is made out of pure magic, so it looks pretty much like what his normal eyes see.
Jade’s Luck: I wonder when A-Dom will be done.
A-Dom: (Yelling) Bark like a sheep! (A-Dom comes stumbling out a few minutes later) We find the Manse yet? (Tiger does a broad wave) Excelent... It’s somewhere between Jade’s Luck and Tiger... (A-Dom starts lifting up rocks to look under them) So you want to lead the way.
Tiger and A-Dom go zooming across the island. It still takes several hours to make it to the manse. On the way there they stop to see the demons. They find Baharenunu sleeping at a desk.
A-Dom: Hey wake up!
Baharenunu: yea?
A-Dom: Do they have souls?
Baharenunu: Maybe.
A-Dom: Don’t Maibee me, this is important.
Baharenunu: They don’t when they are created. They do when the paperwork gets filed.
A-Dom: How?
Baharenunu: Go to heaven once in a while, do paperwork.
Jade’s Luck: Can you put these names on your list?
Baharenunu: (Very happy) Absolutely! (Jade's Luck hands over the list)
A-Dom: Son of a bitch... (Baharenunu starts giggling) Why are you giggling?
Baharenunu: Was I giggling?
A-Dom & Tiger: YES!
Baharenunu: Umm... no reason.
A-Dom: Are you allowed to lie to us?
Jade’s Luck: He’s not lying... he’s just omits things.
A-Dom: Lets take the names back from captain pin cushion. (Jade's Luck takes the list back)
Baharenunu: They really would have souls... perfectly good ones.
Jade’s Luck: And?!?
Baharenunu: And violate my contract by your order and I’d be free.
A-Dom (starts laughing): Ok you are not allowed to violate your contract, even by direct order.
Baharenunu: But you can directly order me to ignore that order. I mean I can put a whole lot of people on one list for you. Only costs you the freedom of one demon.
A-Dom: One day when we don’t need you anymore, we might kill you.
Baharenunu: Thanks.
A-Dom: How long does that usually take? The whole process.
Baharenunu: I’m not good with time... a couple of years. They live longer then normal humans. So usually before they die.
The Circle runs off to find the Manse. They get to where Tiger saw the essence lines come from. But they didn’t find the manse. Tiger came to realize that the manse was probably overgrown, due to lack of use.
Tiger points at the ground and makes a sweeping motion. Thankfully A-Dom comments on it.
Liz: The recorder can not pick up pantomime.
Paul: You get to guess what Dan did based on the reaction of everyone else.
A-Dom starts digging away the dirt and vegetation, carefully. About 20 ft down, he finds a big slab of finished wood. A-Dom digs around the perimeter (he is using a lot of charms, so there is a giant glowing shark digging in the jungle). He determents it is the top step of a ziggurat like structure.
A-Dom: I hope all the tribes don’t go to war because the ‘sign of the glowing shark as was foretold!’
Liz: Stop giving Paul ideas.
A couple villagers (who only speak forest speak) show up to watch the giant glowing shark. A-Dom scares them away. Jade’s Luck starts clear cutting jungle around where A-Dom is working with Cascade of cutting terror. A-Dom piles all the dirt up in a wall like pile all the way around where they are working.
They dig to the bottom of the Manse. At the bottom there is nothing but doors. The building is a pentagon, with 20 doorways on each side. So they pick a doorway (the 80th doorway) and go in. They follow a long tunnel, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs, and the feeling that the walls are just thin wooden screens.
They reach a room with a small elephant statue.
Elephant: Hello
A-Dom: That’s weird.
Jade’s Luck: No It’s not. We talk to statuary all the time and it frequently answers us.
Elephant: Talking to a statue that doesn’t talk back, that’s just weird.
A-Dom: I’m A-Dom, who are you.
Elephant: Imastatue.
A-Dom: Ah a tribal name. What do you do here?
Imastatue: Did you decide a winner?
Jade’s Luck: If you could explain the tunnels...
Imastatue: You see there are tunnels in each village based on which villages are left in the game.
Jade’s Luck: How do we ascertain which tunnel goes with which tunnel.
Imastatue: I’ve been told It’s self evident.
A-Dom: Who told you this and how may I hurt them?
Imastatue: I suppose you could find his current incarnation and hurt him a great deal. He is a Zenith.
There is a long discussion about A-Dom, and how he is circlecentric (which is a new word according to A-dom).
A-Dom: I’m so confused.
Jade’s Luck: So each tunnel leads to someone else.
Imastatue: No, each tunnel represents a village and a level of success. You just told me tribe #4 is doing very well.
A-Dom: What do you do with these numbers?
Imastatue: I evaluate them.
A-Dom: How do you communicate with the demons?
Imastatue: I yell really loud. They think I’m really really big.
A-Dom: How do you do that underground?
Imastatue: (Yelling so loud everyone goes deaf) Situation normal! Carry on!
A-Dom: So where is the important part of this manse? Where is your hearthstone?
Imastatue: Very forward of you. I don’t even know if I like you yet.
A-Dom: Well you aren’t going to like me, so I’m out of the running. So It’s one of them.
Imastatue: Excellent, saves me time.
A-Dom: (turns to Tiger) I’m going to DIE here.
Imastatue: I’ve never seen that happen. May I watch?
A-Dom: Yes while I stop breathing, speaking and eating, I may die in a thousand years.
Imastatue: A few thousand years? Is that long? I don’t know I’m not good with time.
A-Dom: I’m not good with time ether...
Jade’s Luck: Yes you are!
A-Dom: No I’m not. I’m a statue now! I just need to figure out some way to stick my feet into the floor then we will stand here and evaluate numbers.
Imastatue: I like him.
A-Dom: What happens when the game is over?
Imastatue: Someone wins. Some solar is owed a lot of money.
A-Dom: What if they all join hands and become a community.
Imastatue: There are rules against that.
Jade’s Luck: But we are Solars.
Imastatue: There are core rules you are not allowed to break and situational rules that can be changed.
A-Dom: Is there a rulebook?
Jade’s Luck: How do we not break the rules?
Imastatue: You can’t break the rules. You made them that way. You are very inventive.
A-Dom: No I am not.
Jade’s Luck: Yew as in?...
A-Dom: No, You, not Yew. Who was involved in the bet may I know?
Imastatue: Silent Wisdom, Markus the mad... and some other ones. Not everyone introduced themselves. Whoever wins this, gets to compete against the Lunars. The winners get to colonize the West.
A-Dom: The West is already colonized.
Imastatue: No, MORE West.
Jade’s Luck: They don’t want to go more West. It’s all wyld.
Imastatue: That’s why you make it not wyld, then you put them there. Because they are the best of the best. Then you put them there. Then you move even further West. And hence creation expands.
A-Dom: Can we make the west go east?
Imastatue: These people make the west go west.
Jade’s Luck: I want to make the smart people win.
A-Dom: Can we give the smart ones good advice, and let them win.
Imastatue: Only if It’s not agaist the rules that you can’t break.
A-Dom: I need to give the paranoid ones the opposite adivce to what I want them to do.
Imastatue: So you are Markus the mad then? You need about 8 more levels of complications. Or you can just wait here until the experiment ends.
Jade’s Luck: What happens if we take them off the island?
Imastatue: They would all die.
Jade’s Luck: How?
Imastatue: Old age, disease, or accident probably. They are immune to disease as long as they drink the water.
The group starts discussing how the end of the contest works. They find out that when one village wins, all involved Solars will be alerted, so they can pay off their bets. They also found out the bets are not sitting in trust, as all Solars are fantastically wealthy (in real creation wealth). So the bets are primarily in artifacts and nations (because that is what Solars bet with).
A-Dom: So we should just make sure nobody ever wins.
Imastatue: What happens if you win? Wouldn’t that be good?
A-Dom: Bad things will happen. Bad things always happen. Daily, hourly, every minute. I’m having a
ing conversation with you.Imastatue: Really? I didn’t realize I was so horrible.
Jade's Luck: You're upsetting him!
A-Dom: He doesn’t have emotions.
Imastatue: (Starting to cry) I don’t have emotions.
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 75 - You Can Do What You Want With It
Session 75
Synopsis of 09/1/08
You Can Do What You Want With It
Subtitle: What I Really Want
-By Ao the Overkitty
The last thing Gareth remembered was standing on the deck of the Voice of Reason when a multicolored tongue lashed out. Then he heard A-dom's voice and the sound of weeping.
A-dom: You have NO emotions!
Then Gareth was standing in a stone room with Jade's Luck, A-dom, Tiger and a weeping elephant statue.
Gareth: Uggh. That smelt like cherry flavored minicows.
Jade's Luck told A-dom to stop yelling at the poor statue and quickly filled Gareth in on where they were and what was going on. She explained that there were five villages on sixth day island and it was some kind of contest between them.
Gareth asked what had happened to his boat. A-dom said he had put it between two trees, because they didn't want the anchor chain being chopped off by the dome and having it sail aimlessly for 27 days.
Jade's luck continued, saying they were shaky on the rules, since the demons enforcing them were fairly tight lipped. There was lots of talk about invalidating the bet by doing something wrong, thus releasing the demons to create havoc. The group wondered just who the bet was between and who was responsible for each village. They mentioned something about there being a sixth village, but it was never described. In her descriptions of the villages, she tried to play up the paranoid village who knew this was a bet of some sort. She made sure to emphasize that these were the best choice of the lot. A-dom made a comment about Markus being responsible for them knowing.
Gareth let the others knew what he remembered. They all felt it was much better that they were messing with a bet between other Circles instead of a bet between each other. For some reason they really wanted to end the bet prematurely, but wouldn't say why. A-dom's preferred method for ending the bet seemed to be mass slaughter while Jade's Luck talked about having one village envelope the others by convincing the others to join theirs. The elephant was asked about how the Circle could just end the bet. The elephant said that they'd need to other Solars involved in the bet to do so.
Jade's Luck also spoke of carting off villages of people to other parts of the West for reasons unexplained. She then said that the villages had wells with magical water that suppressed aging and disease or something like that. She wanted to make sure that, if they sent villages off elsewhere, they wouldn't have diseases come out of remission and kill them all. She asked Gareth to check everyone for diseases.
Eventually the group left the Manse to go head for the paranoid village. Once they got outside, Gareth saw they were in the bottom of a pit and the sky was an opaque dome. He turned around to see the Manse was a five-sided ziggurat with about twenty doors on each side. The other commented that it was different than when they entered the Manse and said something about only one door being the correct one. Gareth went around the Manse and inspected it thoroughly. He found that each side had a small inscription in Old Realm that designated a village and the doors varied in height slightly.
Somewhere along the way, Tiger noticed that he wasn't getting any Essence back from his hearthstone, since they were in Elsewhere. Jade's Luck noticed she wasn't getting any Essence back, but didn't realize why.
A-dom brought up a very good question before they went any further. He asked that, since they were on the Sixth Day island and the island was only present in Creation on the Sixth day of the month, was the Seventh Day Manse going to disappear the next day? The group headed in the tallest door on the paranoid village side of the Manse.
After a short, slightly trying conversation with the elephant statue, they found out that it didn't know if the Manse went anywhere, since he was inside, Gareth got around to asking about attuning to the Manse. He had learned that this discussion had been what lead A-dom to make the statue cry before, so he approached it differently. When the statue said he didn't know about the Sapphire Sentinels, Gareth described them as bringers of doom and destruction. He then explained that, in order to get them recalled, the Circle needed to be in control of five specific Manses and this was one of them. The statue quickly understood that they needed to attune to the Manse and said there had to be some kind of competition first.
Lots of questions were asked about what kind of competition and how many needed to participate. It boiled down to there had to be at least two people or it wasn't a competition. Otherwise, it could be anything. Lots of possibilities were discussed. The competition almost became a drinking contest without the use of charms, but Tiger ruined that by saying the competition was going to be a joke. The elephant didn't want his competition to be a joke, so nixed that idea. The group finally settled on every circle member bringing the elephant a gift and the elephant choosing the best one. No other rules or time limit were set.
A-dom immediately left. Tiger used his knowledge of occult to figure out a few things and left. Gareth used Know the Soul's Price to find out that the elephant wanted an immortal companion more than anything and then left. Jade's Luck sat around for the next day and talked to the elephant.
Tiger went and got a daisy, trampled it a few times. A-dom went and made a crude rock statue of an elephant (or possibly a slug with ears). Gareth went and built a perfect, beautiful elephant statue of the opposite sex that could nod and give imprinted responses, thanks to some reeds and air bladders.
Tiger brought his flower back. The elephant was not at all impressed, not that Tiger cared. A-dom brought his statue back. The elephant was slightly impressed. Gareth brought his statue back. The elephant thought it was nifty, but hadn't decided yet. Jade's Luck then left and walked around the island for three days, talking to spirits, trying to convince them to go talk to the elephant and keep him company. She eventually convinced the river spirit to go visit him if she could alter the course of the river. She convinced a water elemental to make the river flow uphill.
In the mean time, Gareth and Tiger had wandered off to go do whatever. Gareth had wanted to train for dealing with the Wyld, but there wasn't any Wyld inside the dome. A-dom sat inside the Manse, awaiting a verdict. When water started to flow into the Manse, A-dom asked if that was normal. The elephant had never seen water before and asked if it was dangerous. A-dom didn't give him a definitive answer and booked it out of the Manse, seriously worrying the elephant.
Jade's Luck eventually went into the Manse and found a panicky elephant. She explained that the water shouldn't harm anything, especially not him. She told him she had gotten the river spirit to come visit him so he'd have a friend. She said it would take a few days for the water to fill in enough for the river spirit to visit. He said it'd be a few days after that before he could decide.
Jade's Luck met up with the rest of the Circle and said it'd be a few days before the decision was made. No one else seemed to be happy with the now flooded Manse, though Tiger really didn't seem to care.
Jade's Luck reiterated her desire to show Gareth the other villages. He didn't really care about this bet and no one had explained to him why it was important that the bet be ended, but it was something to do. he sighed and said that they might as well visit the paranoids (Big Well) first.
The villagers were suitably paranoid and didn't trust the Circle. They especially didn't trust A-dom when he said he used to be Markus the Mad. They said he didn't look like Markus. When A-dom said he had died and reincarnated since then, they asked him how he died. he didn't initially remember, but then Tiger made a comment about him probably dying cause of an accident or a [limit break].
A-dom then roughly explained what happened. The villagers found this amusing and started chanting.
Paranoid Villagers: Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye!
The Circle quickly figured out that that was what Ceri was named back then. A-dom didn't like this, so he started acting up. Jade's Luck convinced a few of the women of the village that A-dom would go away if they gave him muffins. The women of the village then set about a plan to lead A-dom away from the village using a trail of muffins.
A-dom noticed a muffin at the edge of the village with a little sign that said For Markus the Mad. He went over and ate the blueberry muffin. Then he noticed another muffin in the forest that also had a sign. He went over and ate the chocolate chip muffin. He kept up following this trail of muffins, eating as he went. About every third muffin had a sign in it. Eventually he got close to Oak Castle, the village of crazy religious nuts, and noticed a guy eating the last muffin.
A-dom: Hey! You're eating my Muffin!
Guy: I di-- *SQUISH!*
A-dom didn't let the guy explain himself at all and smashed him into paste. He then started ranting at the people on the parapets about them owing him a muffin. The people of the village started praying to the Unconquered Sun because his representative was angry with them and increased their self-flagellation. A-dom went inside and berated them, demanding muffins. They prayed to the Unconquered Sun for muffin recipes. Even though A-dom knew how to bake muffins, he didn't tell them, since it sounded like too much work. He went on yelling at them.
Back at the paranoid village, Jade's Luck and Gareth were trying to convince the villagers that Gareth was a doctor and wanted to make sure they didn't have any diseases that would harm them when the contest ended. Jade's Luck wanted to cut herself and have Gareth heal it, but it was pointed out that these were a very paranoid group and they'd suspect that was a trick. Gareth asked if they had anyone in the village who had lost the use of one of their limbs or their eyesight. Mike the one-armed warrior was brought to Gareth. Gareth cause the arm to start regrowing. After a couple hours, they noticed this and decided Gareth was indeed a doctor, so they first guy let him inspect him for diseases.
Gareth used Flawless Diagnosis Technique to help diagnosis the guy, which was hard because all symptoms were suppressed. Gareth was sure he was sick with several diseases and proceeded to treat him using Contagion-Curing Touch. The next day, Gareth repeated diagnosing the guy with FDT and determined he had gotten rid of all of the diseases but one, the Great Contagion.
This led Gareth and Jade's Luck to discuss for a while what to do about this, since once the villagers were moved away from the wells, they'd likely all die from the disease. Also, since the Great Contagion was a partially magical disease, they could just keep catching it. Gareth said he could go through the island and, using a quarantine procedures, cure everyone on the island of it, but as soon as they met up with a carrier of the disease, they'd just get reinfected. Tiger mentioned reshaping the people using the Wyld to make them immune to the Great Contagion, like everyone else left in the world. They seemed to think that was a good idea.
While this was all going on, a Purple Demon wandered into town and ordered everyone to line up. The demon inspected the graves and noticed Mike's arm was regrowing. Mike pointed out Gareth to the demon. It commented that Gareth hadn't been there before and Jade's Luck confused it by agreeing and saying he just got there. The demon said Gareth would get to choose. Jade's Luck quickly explained that they sacrifice villagers on Sun Day (the sixth day is the only day of the month that they get to see the Sun). As a means of keeping the population up, they had a Purple Demon go around and make new villagers to replace the sacrificed.
Gareth went through the village and chose the two people who were already immune to the Great Contagion, who happened to be two women. The Purple Demon did its thing and made a girl. Gareth interviewed the women to make sure they were capable of raising the child and then convinced them that this was a special baby that would be able to survive better than anyone else in the outside world, when the time came.
While this was going on, A-dom was still ranting at the religious nuts. A Purple Demon came to the village, saying it was there to replace the sacrifices. A-dom told it to get to it and went back to yelling. The demon ended up choosing two men to make a child out of and handed the newborn to A-dom.
A-dom: What am I supposed to do with this? I don't want it!
Purple Demon: I don't care. You can do whatever you want to do with it.
A-dom then looked down at the squirming thing in his hands and shrugged. He then looked up and wondered what the dome was made of and if things could pass through it. Then he threw the newborn feet first at the side of the dome a good ways up. The newborn flew and hit the dome wall. The dome was like jello, allowing the newborn to pass halfway through it.
Across in Big Well, no one noticed.
The Purple Demon looked shocked at A-dom and told him he was a horrible person. it did think it was hilarious, though and moved on.
The newborn started to scream. A-dom didn't want to hear this, so he picked up a decent sized rock and threw it, trying to knock the baby through the rest of the way into Elsewhere. He was more or less accurate and the rock pushed the baby further into the dome, leaving only one hand sticking out. The rock was now stuck into the middle of the dome.
Back in the paranoid village, Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck heard a baby screaming, and then it stopped. Tiger heard the baby screaming and looked up to see a rock fly and hit a part of the dome. Looking at that part of the dome, he saw a tiny arm sticking out the dome, moving.
Tiger pointed this out to Jade's Luck, which she could then see. Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck convinced a few air spirits to bring her up to that part of the dome so she could get the baby out. She had to promise them they had a really windy day. They were told they could have one, so long as nothing/no one was harmed or damaged. They were allowed to mess with people wearing dresses, and were told by Gareth to especially mess with the guy wearing one.
They brought Jade's Luck up to the baby and she could see it in the dome. They instructed her not to touch the dome. It took her five hours to fully dislodge the baby as gently as possible. Three of those hours were spent listening to the baby wailing. She then brought the baby down to Gareth to check it out. Any injuries sustained were fixed by Gareth and he clothed it, since Jade's Luck had no clue what to do with the baby.
Gareth tried to foist the baby off on Big Well, but they wouldn't have it, because it belonged to the other village. Even attempts to describe it as a perfect spy, since it looked like it belonged in the other village failed. They were also freaked out by the baby already having some stubble. They said if Gareth could make one of their children look like it belonged in another village, it'd be a great spy. Jade's Luck's idea of getting other villages to join the paranoid one were squashed, since it seemed there were very specific rules about not being able to switch villages. When asked how they dealt with people who wanted to marry into another one, the answer was they were met with death. For demon-created children, the child belonged to the village it was created in. They found out just which village the child belonged to and headed that way.
When they got to Oak Castle, A-dom got chewed out big time by Jade's Luck and Gareth. he tried to claim he didn't do it, but the Circle were the only ones on the island capable of hurling a baby that high and three of them were accounted for when it happened. He then threw the village into mass despair by telling the villagers that the Unconquered Sun wasn't listening to them. Since he was a representative of the god, they felt what he said must be true and started wailing. Gareth and Jade's Luck quickly did their best to stop all of the horribly attempted suicides by telling them all that the Unconquered Sun heard them on Sun Day. Once they calmed down, he told them that the child was a special one and must be cared for. He told them it should receive the best parenting and shouldn't be flayed and could eat what it wanted and be allowed to stay up as late as it wanted. The child was foisted off on someone.
Jade's Luck told the villagers that A-dom wasn't to be listened to and should only be followed if another of the Circle agreed.
With there still being a few days before the Elephant was finished and the Manse now being flooded, the group wandered off to do whatever. Gareth went off to sleep in his boat and found it mostly inside the dome. A few feet of the prow were missing inside the dome. Gareth went and got A-dom to move it so he could fix it. When A-dom got there, They got into an argument about the missing part of the Voice of Reason. A-dom ended up getting disinvited from the ship. A-dom felt uneasy on the ship and slipped as he was leaving, but used Graceful Crane Stance to steady himself.
The Circle eventually met back up at the Manse after a few days to hear the Elephant's verdict. Looking at the small lake that was now around the Manse, there was grumbling about it now being uninhabitable to everyone but Jade's Luck. She really didn't care. Jade's Luck dove down and went inside. Tiger stated he really didn't care. A-dom noted that he hadn't seen Tiger's gift to the Elephant. Tiger said what it was and relayed that he had figured out a few things about the island and the Manse and didn't want it. Gareth and A-dom held their breath and swam in. Tiger stayed outside.
Inside, Gareth could see that his statue nodded in the water and realized the air bladders really wouldn't work in these conditions, if again.
Elephant declared Jade's Luck the winner of the competition. Gareth shrugged and swam up to get some air. He hadn't really card about the Manse, he was just presented with a competition. A-dom kicked his statue and it's head fell off. He then swam up to get air. Jade's Luck went off to attune to the Manse.
While she was inside, Tiger explained that, since they weren't getting Essence from their hearthstones while they were inside Elsewhere, he figured that 27 days of the month the hearthstone to this Manse would be useless. Jade's Luck eventually came out. She wasn't too worried about the hearthstone not being accessible 27 days of the month since she already didn't have enough hearthstone slots on her equipment for the ones she did have. She was tight-lipped about what the Hearthstone powers were. She turned herself green and said something about not needing to breath while in the Manse. She then complained about now being responsible for the all of the insane villagers on the island. She did comment that the spell putting the island in Elsewhere wasn't part of the Manse. Tiger postulated that the spell doing that was a Solar Circle Sorcery spell.
Jade's Luck did, however, seem to want more than ever to get the bet ended and appealed to Gareth to find out what the rules were. Gareth agreed to go find out from the demons what the rules were using Irresistible Questioning Technique. After all, he was bored and didn't want to invalidate anything. They hiked off to the demon encampment and walked in. They were greeted by a teddy bear demon whom Gareth was told was a relative of Maibee. Gareth said he'd use Judge's Ear Technique as well.
Session 75
Synopsis of 09/1/08
You Can Do What You Want With It
Subtitle: What I Really Want
-By Ao the Overkitty
The last thing Gareth remembered was standing on the deck of the Voice of Reason when a multicolored tongue lashed out. Then he heard A-dom's voice and the sound of weeping.
A-dom: You have NO emotions!
Then Gareth was standing in a stone room with Jade's Luck, A-dom, Tiger and a weeping elephant statue.
Gareth: Uggh. That smelt like cherry flavored minicows.
Jade's Luck told A-dom to stop yelling at the poor statue and quickly filled Gareth in on where they were and what was going on. She explained that there were five villages on sixth day island and it was some kind of contest between them.
Gareth asked what had happened to his boat. A-dom said he had put it between two trees, because they didn't want the anchor chain being chopped off by the dome and having it sail aimlessly for 27 days.
Jade's luck continued, saying they were shaky on the rules, since the demons enforcing them were fairly tight lipped. There was lots of talk about invalidating the bet by doing something wrong, thus releasing the demons to create havoc. The group wondered just who the bet was between and who was responsible for each village. They mentioned something about there being a sixth village, but it was never described. In her descriptions of the villages, she tried to play up the paranoid village who knew this was a bet of some sort. She made sure to emphasize that these were the best choice of the lot. A-dom made a comment about Markus being responsible for them knowing.
Gareth's Vision of Better Times said:
Gareth let the others knew what he remembered. They all felt it was much better that they were messing with a bet between other Circles instead of a bet between each other. For some reason they really wanted to end the bet prematurely, but wouldn't say why. A-dom's preferred method for ending the bet seemed to be mass slaughter while Jade's Luck talked about having one village envelope the others by convincing the others to join theirs. The elephant was asked about how the Circle could just end the bet. The elephant said that they'd need to other Solars involved in the bet to do so.
Jade's Luck also spoke of carting off villages of people to other parts of the West for reasons unexplained. She then said that the villages had wells with magical water that suppressed aging and disease or something like that. She wanted to make sure that, if they sent villages off elsewhere, they wouldn't have diseases come out of remission and kill them all. She asked Gareth to check everyone for diseases.
Eventually the group left the Manse to go head for the paranoid village. Once they got outside, Gareth saw they were in the bottom of a pit and the sky was an opaque dome. He turned around to see the Manse was a five-sided ziggurat with about twenty doors on each side. The other commented that it was different than when they entered the Manse and said something about only one door being the correct one. Gareth went around the Manse and inspected it thoroughly. He found that each side had a small inscription in Old Realm that designated a village and the doors varied in height slightly.
Somewhere along the way, Tiger noticed that he wasn't getting any Essence back from his hearthstone, since they were in Elsewhere. Jade's Luck noticed she wasn't getting any Essence back, but didn't realize why.
A-dom brought up a very good question before they went any further. He asked that, since they were on the Sixth Day island and the island was only present in Creation on the Sixth day of the month, was the Seventh Day Manse going to disappear the next day? The group headed in the tallest door on the paranoid village side of the Manse.
After a short, slightly trying conversation with the elephant statue, they found out that it didn't know if the Manse went anywhere, since he was inside, Gareth got around to asking about attuning to the Manse. He had learned that this discussion had been what lead A-dom to make the statue cry before, so he approached it differently. When the statue said he didn't know about the Sapphire Sentinels, Gareth described them as bringers of doom and destruction. He then explained that, in order to get them recalled, the Circle needed to be in control of five specific Manses and this was one of them. The statue quickly understood that they needed to attune to the Manse and said there had to be some kind of competition first.
Lots of questions were asked about what kind of competition and how many needed to participate. It boiled down to there had to be at least two people or it wasn't a competition. Otherwise, it could be anything. Lots of possibilities were discussed. The competition almost became a drinking contest without the use of charms, but Tiger ruined that by saying the competition was going to be a joke. The elephant didn't want his competition to be a joke, so nixed that idea. The group finally settled on every circle member bringing the elephant a gift and the elephant choosing the best one. No other rules or time limit were set.
A-dom immediately left. Tiger used his knowledge of occult to figure out a few things and left. Gareth used Know the Soul's Price to find out that the elephant wanted an immortal companion more than anything and then left. Jade's Luck sat around for the next day and talked to the elephant.
Tiger went and got a daisy, trampled it a few times. A-dom went and made a crude rock statue of an elephant (or possibly a slug with ears). Gareth went and built a perfect, beautiful elephant statue of the opposite sex that could nod and give imprinted responses, thanks to some reeds and air bladders.
Tiger brought his flower back. The elephant was not at all impressed, not that Tiger cared. A-dom brought his statue back. The elephant was slightly impressed. Gareth brought his statue back. The elephant thought it was nifty, but hadn't decided yet. Jade's Luck then left and walked around the island for three days, talking to spirits, trying to convince them to go talk to the elephant and keep him company. She eventually convinced the river spirit to go visit him if she could alter the course of the river. She convinced a water elemental to make the river flow uphill.
In the mean time, Gareth and Tiger had wandered off to go do whatever. Gareth had wanted to train for dealing with the Wyld, but there wasn't any Wyld inside the dome. A-dom sat inside the Manse, awaiting a verdict. When water started to flow into the Manse, A-dom asked if that was normal. The elephant had never seen water before and asked if it was dangerous. A-dom didn't give him a definitive answer and booked it out of the Manse, seriously worrying the elephant.
Jade's Luck eventually went into the Manse and found a panicky elephant. She explained that the water shouldn't harm anything, especially not him. She told him she had gotten the river spirit to come visit him so he'd have a friend. She said it would take a few days for the water to fill in enough for the river spirit to visit. He said it'd be a few days after that before he could decide.
Jade's Luck met up with the rest of the Circle and said it'd be a few days before the decision was made. No one else seemed to be happy with the now flooded Manse, though Tiger really didn't seem to care.
Jade's Luck reiterated her desire to show Gareth the other villages. He didn't really care about this bet and no one had explained to him why it was important that the bet be ended, but it was something to do. he sighed and said that they might as well visit the paranoids (Big Well) first.
The villagers were suitably paranoid and didn't trust the Circle. They especially didn't trust A-dom when he said he used to be Markus the Mad. They said he didn't look like Markus. When A-dom said he had died and reincarnated since then, they asked him how he died. he didn't initially remember, but then Tiger made a comment about him probably dying cause of an accident or a [limit break].
A-dom's Vision of Better Times said:A-dom was Markus the Mad talking to Ceri. He made some bad comment which resulted in her going ape
A-dom then roughly explained what happened. The villagers found this amusing and started chanting.
Paranoid Villagers: Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye! Jay-Nay-Aye!
The Circle quickly figured out that that was what Ceri was named back then. A-dom didn't like this, so he started acting up. Jade's Luck convinced a few of the women of the village that A-dom would go away if they gave him muffins. The women of the village then set about a plan to lead A-dom away from the village using a trail of muffins.
A-dom noticed a muffin at the edge of the village with a little sign that said For Markus the Mad. He went over and ate the blueberry muffin. Then he noticed another muffin in the forest that also had a sign. He went over and ate the chocolate chip muffin. He kept up following this trail of muffins, eating as he went. About every third muffin had a sign in it. Eventually he got close to Oak Castle, the village of crazy religious nuts, and noticed a guy eating the last muffin.
A-dom: Hey! You're eating my Muffin!
Guy: I di-- *SQUISH!*
A-dom didn't let the guy explain himself at all and smashed him into paste. He then started ranting at the people on the parapets about them owing him a muffin. The people of the village started praying to the Unconquered Sun because his representative was angry with them and increased their self-flagellation. A-dom went inside and berated them, demanding muffins. They prayed to the Unconquered Sun for muffin recipes. Even though A-dom knew how to bake muffins, he didn't tell them, since it sounded like too much work. He went on yelling at them.
Back at the paranoid village, Jade's Luck and Gareth were trying to convince the villagers that Gareth was a doctor and wanted to make sure they didn't have any diseases that would harm them when the contest ended. Jade's Luck wanted to cut herself and have Gareth heal it, but it was pointed out that these were a very paranoid group and they'd suspect that was a trick. Gareth asked if they had anyone in the village who had lost the use of one of their limbs or their eyesight. Mike the one-armed warrior was brought to Gareth. Gareth cause the arm to start regrowing. After a couple hours, they noticed this and decided Gareth was indeed a doctor, so they first guy let him inspect him for diseases.
Gareth used Flawless Diagnosis Technique to help diagnosis the guy, which was hard because all symptoms were suppressed. Gareth was sure he was sick with several diseases and proceeded to treat him using Contagion-Curing Touch. The next day, Gareth repeated diagnosing the guy with FDT and determined he had gotten rid of all of the diseases but one, the Great Contagion.
This led Gareth and Jade's Luck to discuss for a while what to do about this, since once the villagers were moved away from the wells, they'd likely all die from the disease. Also, since the Great Contagion was a partially magical disease, they could just keep catching it. Gareth said he could go through the island and, using a quarantine procedures, cure everyone on the island of it, but as soon as they met up with a carrier of the disease, they'd just get reinfected. Tiger mentioned reshaping the people using the Wyld to make them immune to the Great Contagion, like everyone else left in the world. They seemed to think that was a good idea.
While this was all going on, a Purple Demon wandered into town and ordered everyone to line up. The demon inspected the graves and noticed Mike's arm was regrowing. Mike pointed out Gareth to the demon. It commented that Gareth hadn't been there before and Jade's Luck confused it by agreeing and saying he just got there. The demon said Gareth would get to choose. Jade's Luck quickly explained that they sacrifice villagers on Sun Day (the sixth day is the only day of the month that they get to see the Sun). As a means of keeping the population up, they had a Purple Demon go around and make new villagers to replace the sacrificed.
Gareth went through the village and chose the two people who were already immune to the Great Contagion, who happened to be two women. The Purple Demon did its thing and made a girl. Gareth interviewed the women to make sure they were capable of raising the child and then convinced them that this was a special baby that would be able to survive better than anyone else in the outside world, when the time came.
While this was going on, A-dom was still ranting at the religious nuts. A Purple Demon came to the village, saying it was there to replace the sacrifices. A-dom told it to get to it and went back to yelling. The demon ended up choosing two men to make a child out of and handed the newborn to A-dom.
A-dom: What am I supposed to do with this? I don't want it!
Purple Demon: I don't care. You can do whatever you want to do with it.
A-dom then looked down at the squirming thing in his hands and shrugged. He then looked up and wondered what the dome was made of and if things could pass through it. Then he threw the newborn feet first at the side of the dome a good ways up. The newborn flew and hit the dome wall. The dome was like jello, allowing the newborn to pass halfway through it.
Across in Big Well, no one noticed.
The Purple Demon looked shocked at A-dom and told him he was a horrible person. it did think it was hilarious, though and moved on.
The newborn started to scream. A-dom didn't want to hear this, so he picked up a decent sized rock and threw it, trying to knock the baby through the rest of the way into Elsewhere. He was more or less accurate and the rock pushed the baby further into the dome, leaving only one hand sticking out. The rock was now stuck into the middle of the dome.
Back in the paranoid village, Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck heard a baby screaming, and then it stopped. Tiger heard the baby screaming and looked up to see a rock fly and hit a part of the dome. Looking at that part of the dome, he saw a tiny arm sticking out the dome, moving.
Tiger pointed this out to Jade's Luck, which she could then see. Gareth noticed nothing. Jade's Luck convinced a few air spirits to bring her up to that part of the dome so she could get the baby out. She had to promise them they had a really windy day. They were told they could have one, so long as nothing/no one was harmed or damaged. They were allowed to mess with people wearing dresses, and were told by Gareth to especially mess with the guy wearing one.
They brought Jade's Luck up to the baby and she could see it in the dome. They instructed her not to touch the dome. It took her five hours to fully dislodge the baby as gently as possible. Three of those hours were spent listening to the baby wailing. She then brought the baby down to Gareth to check it out. Any injuries sustained were fixed by Gareth and he clothed it, since Jade's Luck had no clue what to do with the baby.
Gareth tried to foist the baby off on Big Well, but they wouldn't have it, because it belonged to the other village. Even attempts to describe it as a perfect spy, since it looked like it belonged in the other village failed. They were also freaked out by the baby already having some stubble. They said if Gareth could make one of their children look like it belonged in another village, it'd be a great spy. Jade's Luck's idea of getting other villages to join the paranoid one were squashed, since it seemed there were very specific rules about not being able to switch villages. When asked how they dealt with people who wanted to marry into another one, the answer was they were met with death. For demon-created children, the child belonged to the village it was created in. They found out just which village the child belonged to and headed that way.
When they got to Oak Castle, A-dom got chewed out big time by Jade's Luck and Gareth. he tried to claim he didn't do it, but the Circle were the only ones on the island capable of hurling a baby that high and three of them were accounted for when it happened. He then threw the village into mass despair by telling the villagers that the Unconquered Sun wasn't listening to them. Since he was a representative of the god, they felt what he said must be true and started wailing. Gareth and Jade's Luck quickly did their best to stop all of the horribly attempted suicides by telling them all that the Unconquered Sun heard them on Sun Day. Once they calmed down, he told them that the child was a special one and must be cared for. He told them it should receive the best parenting and shouldn't be flayed and could eat what it wanted and be allowed to stay up as late as it wanted. The child was foisted off on someone.
Jade's Luck told the villagers that A-dom wasn't to be listened to and should only be followed if another of the Circle agreed.
With there still being a few days before the Elephant was finished and the Manse now being flooded, the group wandered off to do whatever. Gareth went off to sleep in his boat and found it mostly inside the dome. A few feet of the prow were missing inside the dome. Gareth went and got A-dom to move it so he could fix it. When A-dom got there, They got into an argument about the missing part of the Voice of Reason. A-dom ended up getting disinvited from the ship. A-dom felt uneasy on the ship and slipped as he was leaving, but used Graceful Crane Stance to steady himself.
The Circle eventually met back up at the Manse after a few days to hear the Elephant's verdict. Looking at the small lake that was now around the Manse, there was grumbling about it now being uninhabitable to everyone but Jade's Luck. She really didn't care. Jade's Luck dove down and went inside. Tiger stated he really didn't care. A-dom noted that he hadn't seen Tiger's gift to the Elephant. Tiger said what it was and relayed that he had figured out a few things about the island and the Manse and didn't want it. Gareth and A-dom held their breath and swam in. Tiger stayed outside.
Inside, Gareth could see that his statue nodded in the water and realized the air bladders really wouldn't work in these conditions, if again.
Elephant declared Jade's Luck the winner of the competition. Gareth shrugged and swam up to get some air. He hadn't really card about the Manse, he was just presented with a competition. A-dom kicked his statue and it's head fell off. He then swam up to get air. Jade's Luck went off to attune to the Manse.
While she was inside, Tiger explained that, since they weren't getting Essence from their hearthstones while they were inside Elsewhere, he figured that 27 days of the month the hearthstone to this Manse would be useless. Jade's Luck eventually came out. She wasn't too worried about the hearthstone not being accessible 27 days of the month since she already didn't have enough hearthstone slots on her equipment for the ones she did have. She was tight-lipped about what the Hearthstone powers were. She turned herself green and said something about not needing to breath while in the Manse. She then complained about now being responsible for the all of the insane villagers on the island. She did comment that the spell putting the island in Elsewhere wasn't part of the Manse. Tiger postulated that the spell doing that was a Solar Circle Sorcery spell.
Jade's Luck did, however, seem to want more than ever to get the bet ended and appealed to Gareth to find out what the rules were. Gareth agreed to go find out from the demons what the rules were using Irresistible Questioning Technique. After all, he was bored and didn't want to invalidate anything. They hiked off to the demon encampment and walked in. They were greeted by a teddy bear demon whom Gareth was told was a relative of Maibee. Gareth said he'd use Judge's Ear Technique as well.
Ao the Overkitty
First Post
Session 76 - You can’t hear us now, you er!
Session 76
Synopsis of 09/15/08
You can’t hear us now, youer!
Subtitle: Blah Does NOT Convey Knowledge
Alternate Subtitle: I'm a Sphere, Not a Cone
Alternate Subtitle: I'm a Sign of Disorder
By – Ao the Overkitty
The group wandered into the demon settlement and headed up to Baharenunu. With Irresistible Questioning Technique and Judge’s Ear Technique active, Gareth questioned the demon.
Gareth: What invalidates the competition?
Baharenunu: Any violation of the original agreement.
Gareth: What does the demonic contract involve and what can cause it to be invalidated?
Baharenunu: Well, I don’t know all of the details involved with every villager, but I can tell you what my contract involves. My contract involves not inflicting fun upon any of the villagers, although I am allowed to watch if somebody else has fun with them. I am under a standard ‘non-world domination and/or apocalypse contract and a diplomatic contract with Heaven. I am required to make sure all paperwork from the people who first came to life on this island are properly filed and dealt with. Due to their unique situation and being out of fate, their paperwork is kind of complicated. I get to work until the competition is over and then I get to go to Heaven and finish straightening out all of the paperwork that I currently have filed. After that I get to go home.
Gareth: What happens when the competition gets invalidated?
Baharenunu: Forfeiture of all parties involved in the invalidation. Their stakes in the agreed upon bet will be spread out among all parties that have not invalidated the competition. Any further legal complications and punishments will be determined by the Solar Deliberative.
Gareth: What will end the competition?
Baharenunu: All but one village no longer having a reasonable population. And no, I don’t know what a reasonable competition is.
Gareth: What happens when the competition ends?
Baharenunu: The spell sending the island to Elsewhere ends. All demons are released and returned to Malfeas, although some have addendums like I have to go to Heaven. I wasn’t rally informed of what happens on the island after my contract is up because my services will no longer be required. Based on my theory, I understand it you Solars will use the population of the island to spread humans towards the West.
Gareth: Who knows what will happen on the island after the competition ends?
Baharenunu: The Maiden of Secrets? There might be other people that know, but she is the only one I know would know.
Gareth: Is the contract filed somewhere?
Baharenunu: Malfeas.
Jade’s Luck: I was thinking the contract between the Solars.
Baharenunu: I don’t know, I wasn’t there.
Gareth: Is there a way for one village to win that does not involve four villages dying out/being killed, etc.
Baharenunu: Yes. Do you want me to tell you about it?
Gareth said yes and Baharenunu disappeared. Jade's Luck swore and realized they should actually tell Gareth what they had done and learned while he had been in Pursey.
A-dom: Lets just slaughter half of them now and take the ones we want.
They headed off to question the Brain Demon next. There was a lot of praying going on outside in a language none of the group understood.
Chok’Thar: Hello, you’re new. I’m Chok’Thar, Demon Brain. Tell your friends.
Chok’Thar wasn’t speaking out loud, but Gareth heard him in his brain.
Gareth: What are the rules for the competition?
Chok’Thar: I don’t know the rules for the entire competition. I know the rules for this village. This village is not allowed to sacrifice themselves all at once. Because that would make them lose. Even if they don’t know it.
Gareth activated his interrogation charms again and questioned Chok’Thar.
Gareth: What will invalidate your contract?
Chok’Thar: Being ordered to do anything that is beyond the scope of the competition invalidates the contract because I am here just to serve the competition. We are not allowed to do anything that isn’t involved in the competition. Any order that invalidates or is trying to invalidate the competition frees us. Any order to help/plan/invent/explain a way to invalidate the spirit of the competition or help invalidate the competition frees us. Any order that is self-destructive frees us. And any order that involves leaving the island into Creation frees us.
A-dom: So you could leave the island into Elsewhere.
Chok’Thar: That would not be pleasant.
A-dom: It might be self-destructive.
Chok’Thar: Not sure. We’d have to get there and find out.
A-dom: We’ll get you a cart.
Chok’Thar: I don’t like him. [Lie!]
Chok’Thar was sad to find out that A-dom threw a baby into the field and he missed it. It should be noted that A-dom was talking out loud instead of thinking, so everyone was hearing half the conversation.
Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we explore the piñata some more before we resume poking at it and making it explode?
Tiger: But if we don’t make it explode, how do we get the candy out?
They decided to introduce Gareth to the inhabitants of Little Well next.
On the way, Jade's Luck remembered a weird dream she had had the previous night. She dreamed she was reading the journal of some Solar named Quicksilver Noon.
Because Jade's Luck has perfect recall of her dreams she told the Circle all about it.
In the safety of Elsewhere, Jade's Luck repeatedly openly blasphemed. Gareth made no such comments, chanting quietly that he was a good Solar several times. A-dom proclaimed that Jade’s Luck’s dreams were lame. He said that, whenever he dreamed, he was doing something cool like running Creation, not something stupid like reading a book.
Since she could recall the dream perfectly, she relayed it all to the rest of the group. Gareth was the only one who actually listened to all of it. A-dom took a nap during her discussion.
In his dream Quicksilver Noon saw that guy juggling babies again. A-dom noticed a wiry young man with skin darkened by the sun dressed in loose, all white clothing, including pants. The guy also had a knife.
A-dom: You don’t lactate booze, do you?
The man said he didn’t, last time he checked and stated he hadn’t lactated anything by this point. Petunia pointed out that guys don’t generally lactate. It was weird that Petunia spoke out loud in Old Realm, so that everyone could understand. Quicksilver Noon noticed a small black and white cat on A-dom’s shoulder.
There was much discussion about whose dream it was. Petunia declared it it’s own dream and started looking for its tuna. Petunia jumped down and wandered off, coming back carrying a full sized tuna. A-dom stated that it must be Petunia’s dream.
There was a short conversation about white as a fashion statement versus practicality. When asked, Quicksilver stated that he had never had to make his own clothing, let alone fast. He said he preferred to find a good tailor.
Quicksilver Noon: I’ve been looking for you.
A-dom: Oh CRAP! Are you that lost one who has been wandering around and not finding Jahar?
Quicksilver’s response was fairly verbose and rambling, which caused A-dom to state that he MUST know Jahar after all. A-dom confirmed that Jahar was a guy who felt like he had the weight of an entire island on his back, so Quicksilver stated he was looking for him too. A-dom told him not to. A-dom explained that they were currently in a bubble in Elsewhere. Quicksilver said that would explain why he couldn't find them. Quicksilver said he was currently in the West and A-dom gave really directions for how Quicksilver could find them, once they were back in Creation. He also stated that they might end up in the East tomorrow, since things tended to go poorly. There was much more talking and using of big words that A-dom half understood. A-dom jumped on the idea of building a better future.
A-dom: YES! I like that! Very good. Yes. We will build, together, with a future that we all want, mostly me.
A-dom really wasn't sure if he should like or hate this guy, given his diplomatic approach to most things. Plus Quicksilver wasn’t really down with the whole making someone their undead puppet. He did determine Quicksilver was a Solar, just not what caste. He found out Quicksilver’s thoughts on sex and candy.
A-dom: Don’t let the dress fool you, I’m all man!
A-dom woke up from his nap and asked if Jade's Luck was done being boring yet.
Petunia: Meow (That was weird)
He briefly mentioned that he had just dreamed of 'that Quicksilver guy' but didn't go into it.
A-dom: He obviously has never associated with the Circle because he was all ‘the Unconquered Sun is great’ and had obviously never met the guy.
A-dom and Jade’s Luck openly blasphemed some more, just for fun. Gareth continued to not take part in that.
They discussed the potential ramifications of there no longer being a paperwork demon. Petunia suggested that they make the competition end so that no more unsouled mortals got made. A-dom stated that his cat was right and they needed to take out the purple demon so no more unsouled people get made. Petunia meowed loudly about how he got that wrong.
Gareth was not at all impressed by the inhabitants of Little Well and felt it was a very good thing his weapons were in Elsewhere so he couldn't remove the demon-worshippers from existence. Well, somewhere else in Elsewhere; not with him, that is.
The Circle decided to head off towards the final village, Sun'gra'la. Partway there, it became night, so Gareth made them all huts so they could sleep.
Jade’s Luck dreamed of being on the Voice of Reason. She saw Gareth was ordering around a bunch of mortal crew, A-dom was drinking and hitting on all of the female crewmembers and Tiger was hiding from everyone. She also noticed a wiry man dressed in white standing at the prow.
Quicksilver Noon: Wow. I seem to have upgraded my boat.
She wandered over and started talking to him. He made some comments about his boat having changed and not understanding why it had a paddle wheel. Jade's Luck told him they were on Gareth's boat and the paddle wheel was for A-dom when they needed to go faster, or if he was bored. Petunia walked past with an over-sized tuna and asked why everyone was in her/his dream. Jade's Luck found it weird that Petunia could talk to her in the dream and told the cat it should learn to communicate while they were awake. Petunia said his/her bigger half was in charge of the charms. Quicksilver walked up to A-dom and greeted him. Up until this point, A-dom hadn’t noticed the others and was started by someone ‘sneaking’ up on him. A-dom asked if this was some kind of nightmare where they were going to force him to read or something. Pursey, who was perched on Jade’s Luck’s shoulder wanted to know what everyone was talking about and said it was weird everyone was in her dream.
Quicksilver greeted Pursey and A-dom told him Pursey would likely eat him at some point. Pursey asked if he looked tasty. A-dom said he probably did. Pursey then whipped out her psychedelic tongue and ate Quicksilver.
A-dom: Well, there’s a show stopper.
Jade’s Luck told Pursey to put him back.
Quicksilver found himself standing in a very nicely built hut with a woman sleeping next to him. He also sensed the lingering smell of cherries and cattle. He shook the Jade’s Luck awake. She found this all very weird. Quicksilver asked if there were any more giant, sentient, man-eating purses. He found the concept of them breeding and covering Creation to be a very horrifying idea. Pursey said she was an artifact and asked if Jade’s Luck could make more of her. Jade’s Luck said it was possible.
They introduced each other finally and he stated he was a Zenith.
Jade’s Luck: Oh goody. Somebody else gets to be the priest.
She walked around to A-dom’s hut and asked if he was the guy A-dom had dreamed of the previous day. Quicksilver said that he had shared a dream with him, yes. As they wandered around the camp, she asked if he had ever been to Heaven. He stated that he was in no hurry to die, so hadn’t ventured there through the normal means of travel. Several comments were made by Jade's Luck of how screwed up heaven was and how it would break Quicksilver too.
Jade’s Luck: You know how badly in need of reforming Creation is? Heaven needs it worse.
Liz: All the gods are Paul!
Quicksilver rebutted that the things would improve in heaven as they improved in Creation, so their best bet was to convert people to give the Unconquered Sun more power to put the other gods back in line. Jade's Luck laughed and told him good luck with that.
She talked about how past lives kept coming back to bite them in the ass. He said that every new reincarnation was it’s own self and he never looked back. She told him that sanctified contracts were attached to the shards and he probably had a to-do list. He stated that that sounded like a poor design choice. She talked about where they were and described the island to him, including the current situation, plans for the immediate future, the wells and Great Contagion. He had no knowledge of Purple Demons, Neoma, and their method of baby-making.
Back in A-dom’s hut, Petunia jumped up and down on A-dom to wake him up.
Petunia: Hey boss! That weird guy from my dream is here. He’s out there cavorting with the enemy.
A-dom: Ugh. Who the hell taught you cavorting?
Petunia stated that A-dom had used the word. A-dom stumbled out and saw Jade’s Luck talking to Quicksilver Noon.
A-dom: Damn cat. Use smaller words!
Petunia: Co-conspiring?
A-dom went and kicked Gareth’s hut. When that did nothing but hurt his foot a little, he walked into the hut and kicked Gareth, telling him to wake up because they had another Solar.
Jade’s Luck: He’s a priest. Try not to break him.
Tiger was also woken at this point. They introduced themselves. A-dom decided to also tell him his real name.
A-dom: Usually when you hear it used, I‘m in trouble or there is a law on the books to be arrested or thrown in the volcano or something, so I usually go with A-dom.
Quicksilver commented about having been sailing while he was dreaming and he had left somebody behind on the boat. He said the boat wasn’t important to him, but his familiar was. Comments were made about someone in Heaven liking to destroy Gareth’s stuff. Quicksilver did not remember the word Sidereals. Quicksilver said that he had stolen his boat from a Dragon-blood and put his own nameplate on it.
Quicksilver: Just as a side note, if some guy called the Abbot of the First Upper Locks comes for a boat, yeah, tell him I have it.
A-dom: I’m not sure if I’m supposed to like you or not. I don’t like the Zenith part, but the boat gloating is getting you lots of points.
The great horse theft was brought up and A-dom stated he had a song to sing him later. The conversation meandered back to their current situation and what they were going to do with the island. Comments were made about enjoying pissing off heaven. Gareth stated they pissed the group off equally. A-dom made a comment about how god never did anything in Heaven. Gareth checked the Circle and Quicksilver over to see if any of them were carriers of the Great Contagion. He found Quicksilver, Jade's Luck, and A-dom were all carriers. He also found A-dom had picked up a large assortment of venereal diseases on the island. Gareth went about removing all of the diseases from the Solars and started making plans for the quarantine and curing the populace of their diseases.
More comments about past exploits were made, including the caste swapping. Jade’s Luck’s reason for having the island be permanently in creation brought up the Sapphire Sentinels. The Circle completely neglected to inform Quicksilver that they were the cause of the Sentinel's release. This discussion led to a large discussion about the Circle's breaking of their first Zenith and their lack of faith. Quicksilver stated he was sure that Jade’s Luck was as good at her job as everyone else. Gareth agreed that she was very good at what she did, it was just that proselytizing wasn’t it. Quicksilver asked why they didn’t just work to convert the people to the Unconquered Sun. A-dom said that was too difficult and it was just easier to stop the Sentinels. Jade’s Luck bitched for a while.
Tiger: I don’t fight against her, I just don’t help.
This prompted A-dom to bring up several of his stories about Tiger’s origin. Tiger stated his parents were both dragon-bloods and he didn’t eat them. Quicksilver talked about how great the Unconquered Sun was and how to preach to people. Jade’s Luck snarked and told him to have fun doing that. He talked about worshipping the correct divinities instead of the low-level gods. A-dom and Jade’s Luck blasphemed some more. Gareth resumed his ‘I’m a good Solar’ chant.
A-dom brought out his lists and talked about little pieces of mind-. He talked about how they were screwing him over and eventually he’d be bound to save everyone in Creation and, since people were dying all the time, he was royally screwed. Quicksilver said he should then strive to make sure they were spiritually saved. Gareth said he’d still be screwed then.
The conversation wandered back to talking about how to recall the Sentinels and they talked about needing control specific Manses and needing to make a Manse. Gareth brought up the logistics of how long it was going him to build a Level 5 Manse. It was figured out that, with the use of his Craft speed charms and Wyld Shaping charms, he could cut a 1,000 year job down to 1.11 years of 16 hours a day work.
Quicksilver brought up having notes on his boat that he needed to get back to. Jade’s Luck pulled out her dream journal and handed him the transcribed pages of his own journal. He thought that was creepy, but said it was another set of notes he needed. Gareth quickly determined that Quicksilver's boat and familiar were nearby (Gareth knew the island).
Jade’s Luck asked Pursey if she could put Quicksilver back where she got him from. She said maybe. When asked why she didn’t eat demons, Pursey said it was because they taste funny. Pursey had never tasted anything from a Shadowland, so told the group to remind her when they were in one to taste something. Quicksilver was told to be afraid of Pursey’s ability to lose people. He commented on the smell of cows. A-dom corrected him, telling him it was mini-cows. A-dom went on to describe mini-cows and his plans to animate one, preferably in front of some woman named Bianca. A-dom asked Pursey if she had eaten any mini-cows. Pursey said she’d check, then spit up a mini-cow. A-dom quickly snapped its neck and started casting necromancy. The mini-cow got up, its head lulling a bit.
Jade’s Luck: That’s really gross. Can I?
A-dom told her no. When she asked about Quicksilver, he said no again.
A-dom: That’s Mini-Dom. I’ve named it and I’m keeping it.
To change the subject, Gareth proposed they build a church. Quicksilver asked if anyone had a pen. Gareth walked over to a tree and made one.
Jade’s Luck could not allow Mini-Dom to continue, so she zorched it. A-dom was understandably upset and told her she was incredibly closed-minded.
Tiger: You know what you have to do, A-dom? Steal her chastity belt. That would really pay her back.
Gareth asked what the sanctified agreement involving the creation of undead and Jade’s Luck’s ability to zorch them. A-dom dug out some notes and started talking about the now zorched mini-cow had been made by the power and glory of the Unconquered Sun and gave the Unconquered Sun all of the credit.
They decided, to not promote any favoritism, the church needed to be built in a location equally out of the way from the five villages. It was determined that a point on some cliffs on the northeast part of the island would be best for that. Gareth and Quicksilver designed what turned out to be a Cathedral made to fit 500 people at a time. Quicksilver insisted that there be an altar to Luna, since both Celestial deities should be represented. Jade's Luck pointed out that they should also have an altar to the Maidens, since they were also Celestial deities, no matter what anyone thought of their servants. These were incorporated into the design. During the conversations about design, the Coral Archipelago building debacle was brought up. Quicksilver was told he needed to visit to see the words for himself.
It was asked if Quicksilver had any crafting skills, to which he replied Craft (Air) with a little Craft (Water). Gareth said he wasn’t going to get into the uselessness of Craft (Air). A-dom brought up the Craftocracy. It was stated that you got one vote per dot of craft. The rest of the Circle realized just how much power Gareth potentially had. The only one that seemed to actually care about this was A-dom and it turned out he was the Assistant Craftsman of the People.
Jade’s Luck asked how long it was going to take them to build the church, since she wanted to train. She talked about wanting to train for speed charms. She again stated her desire to have Gareth teach her an Investigation specialty with regards to Supernatural Beings, so that she could remember more about Sidereals, though she didn't say the word Sidereals. He asked if anyone else was interested in learning those specialties. Other trainings, including Intelligence, were also discussed. Also, Gareth told her it would take them five hours to build the Cathedral. She decided it wasn’t worth wandering off then and would enjoy the show.
Somehow soul-reclamation was brought up briefly, so Quicksilver was fully informed. Quicksilver had some interesting ideas about how Heaven was supposed to jump to the Solars’ tune, not the other way around. This made A-dom and Jade’s Luck laugh. A-dom mocked Quicksilver greatly for these ideas, saying it’ll be fun the next time they go to Heaven. Gareth said that’d be a year from now, since he was banned.
Quicksilver: This is just another of those signs of disorder. We can deal with it like anything else.
A-dom (amused): I’m a sign of disorder!
A-dom noticed Quicksilver's weapon, an orchalchum Klaive, and remembered something. Quicksilver asked if A-dom's eyes rolled up into his head often.
A-dom told Quicksilver it was a very good looking knife.
Quicksilver thanked him for the compliment and said it was a present from an ancestor shard of his and that it was called The Needle.
When Gareth saw the Needle, he remembered his very first Vision, where that very same knife flew at Evening Tide of Autumn's head and narrowly missed. Gareth commented that the knife once belonged to Wretch of Winter.
A-dom said that was true, and explained how he got it, but Quicksilver could keep it. This shocked Jade’s Luck. Eventually Quicksilver got shown the book of A-dom’s children. Oh, and the disputed fact that Jade’s Luck killed A-dom.
The cathedral was completed.
er!Session 76
Synopsis of 09/15/08
You can’t hear us now, you
er!Subtitle: Blah Does NOT Convey Knowledge
Alternate Subtitle: I'm a Sphere, Not a Cone
Alternate Subtitle: I'm a Sign of Disorder
By – Ao the Overkitty
The group wandered into the demon settlement and headed up to Baharenunu. With Irresistible Questioning Technique and Judge’s Ear Technique active, Gareth questioned the demon.
Gareth: What invalidates the competition?
Baharenunu: Any violation of the original agreement.
Gareth: What does the demonic contract involve and what can cause it to be invalidated?
Baharenunu: Well, I don’t know all of the details involved with every villager, but I can tell you what my contract involves. My contract involves not inflicting fun upon any of the villagers, although I am allowed to watch if somebody else has fun with them. I am under a standard ‘non-world domination and/or apocalypse contract and a diplomatic contract with Heaven. I am required to make sure all paperwork from the people who first came to life on this island are properly filed and dealt with. Due to their unique situation and being out of fate, their paperwork is kind of complicated. I get to work until the competition is over and then I get to go to Heaven and finish straightening out all of the paperwork that I currently have filed. After that I get to go home.
Gareth: What happens when the competition gets invalidated?
Baharenunu: Forfeiture of all parties involved in the invalidation. Their stakes in the agreed upon bet will be spread out among all parties that have not invalidated the competition. Any further legal complications and punishments will be determined by the Solar Deliberative.
Gareth: What will end the competition?
Baharenunu: All but one village no longer having a reasonable population. And no, I don’t know what a reasonable competition is.
Gareth: What happens when the competition ends?
Baharenunu: The spell sending the island to Elsewhere ends. All demons are released and returned to Malfeas, although some have addendums like I have to go to Heaven. I wasn’t rally informed of what happens on the island after my contract is up because my services will no longer be required. Based on my theory, I understand it you Solars will use the population of the island to spread humans towards the West.
Gareth: Who knows what will happen on the island after the competition ends?
Baharenunu: The Maiden of Secrets? There might be other people that know, but she is the only one I know would know.
Gareth: Is the contract filed somewhere?
Baharenunu: Malfeas.
Jade’s Luck: I was thinking the contract between the Solars.
Baharenunu: I don’t know, I wasn’t there.
Gareth: Is there a way for one village to win that does not involve four villages dying out/being killed, etc.
Baharenunu: Yes. Do you want me to tell you about it?
Gareth said yes and Baharenunu disappeared. Jade's Luck swore and realized they should actually tell Gareth what they had done and learned while he had been in Pursey.
A-dom: Lets just slaughter half of them now and take the ones we want.
They headed off to question the Brain Demon next. There was a lot of praying going on outside in a language none of the group understood.
Chok’Thar: Hello, you’re new. I’m Chok’Thar, Demon Brain. Tell your friends.
Chok’Thar wasn’t speaking out loud, but Gareth heard him in his brain.
Gareth: What are the rules for the competition?
Chok’Thar: I don’t know the rules for the entire competition. I know the rules for this village. This village is not allowed to sacrifice themselves all at once. Because that would make them lose. Even if they don’t know it.
Gareth activated his interrogation charms again and questioned Chok’Thar.
Gareth: What will invalidate your contract?
Chok’Thar: Being ordered to do anything that is beyond the scope of the competition invalidates the contract because I am here just to serve the competition. We are not allowed to do anything that isn’t involved in the competition. Any order that invalidates or is trying to invalidate the competition frees us. Any order to help/plan/invent/explain a way to invalidate the spirit of the competition or help invalidate the competition frees us. Any order that is self-destructive frees us. And any order that involves leaving the island into Creation frees us.
A-dom: So you could leave the island into Elsewhere.
Chok’Thar: That would not be pleasant.
A-dom: It might be self-destructive.
Chok’Thar: Not sure. We’d have to get there and find out.
A-dom: We’ll get you a cart.
Chok’Thar: I don’t like him. [Lie!]
Chok’Thar was sad to find out that A-dom threw a baby into the field and he missed it. It should be noted that A-dom was talking out loud instead of thinking, so everyone was hearing half the conversation.
Jade’s Luck: Why don’t we explore the piñata some more before we resume poking at it and making it explode?
Tiger: But if we don’t make it explode, how do we get the candy out?
They decided to introduce Gareth to the inhabitants of Little Well next.
On the way, Jade's Luck remembered a weird dream she had had the previous night. She dreamed she was reading the journal of some Solar named Quicksilver Noon.
Because Jade's Luck has perfect recall of her dreams she told the Circle all about it.
Jade's Luck's Dream said:
In the safety of Elsewhere, Jade's Luck repeatedly openly blasphemed. Gareth made no such comments, chanting quietly that he was a good Solar several times. A-dom proclaimed that Jade’s Luck’s dreams were lame. He said that, whenever he dreamed, he was doing something cool like running Creation, not something stupid like reading a book.
Since she could recall the dream perfectly, she relayed it all to the rest of the group. Gareth was the only one who actually listened to all of it. A-dom took a nap during her discussion.
In his dream Quicksilver Noon saw that guy juggling babies again. A-dom noticed a wiry young man with skin darkened by the sun dressed in loose, all white clothing, including pants. The guy also had a knife.
A-dom: You don’t lactate booze, do you?
The man said he didn’t, last time he checked and stated he hadn’t lactated anything by this point. Petunia pointed out that guys don’t generally lactate. It was weird that Petunia spoke out loud in Old Realm, so that everyone could understand. Quicksilver Noon noticed a small black and white cat on A-dom’s shoulder.
There was much discussion about whose dream it was. Petunia declared it it’s own dream and started looking for its tuna. Petunia jumped down and wandered off, coming back carrying a full sized tuna. A-dom stated that it must be Petunia’s dream.
There was a short conversation about white as a fashion statement versus practicality. When asked, Quicksilver stated that he had never had to make his own clothing, let alone fast. He said he preferred to find a good tailor.
Quicksilver Noon: I’ve been looking for you.
A-dom: Oh CRAP! Are you that lost one who has been wandering around and not finding Jahar?
Quicksilver’s response was fairly verbose and rambling, which caused A-dom to state that he MUST know Jahar after all. A-dom confirmed that Jahar was a guy who felt like he had the weight of an entire island on his back, so Quicksilver stated he was looking for him too. A-dom told him not to. A-dom explained that they were currently in a bubble in Elsewhere. Quicksilver said that would explain why he couldn't find them. Quicksilver said he was currently in the West and A-dom gave really
directions for how Quicksilver could find them, once they were back in Creation. He also stated that they might end up in the East tomorrow, since things tended to go poorly. There was much more talking and using of big words that A-dom half understood. A-dom jumped on the idea of building a better future.A-dom: YES! I like that! Very good. Yes. We will build, together, with a future that we all want, mostly me.
A-dom really wasn't sure if he should like or hate this guy, given his diplomatic approach to most things. Plus Quicksilver wasn’t really down with the whole making someone their undead puppet. He did determine Quicksilver was a Solar, just not what caste. He found out Quicksilver’s thoughts on sex and candy.
A-dom: Don’t let the dress fool you, I’m all man!
A-dom woke up from his nap and asked if Jade's Luck was done being boring yet.
Petunia: Meow (That was weird)
He briefly mentioned that he had just dreamed of 'that Quicksilver guy' but didn't go into it.
A-dom: He obviously has never associated with the Circle because he was all ‘the Unconquered Sun is great’ and had obviously never met the guy.
A-dom and Jade’s Luck openly blasphemed some more, just for fun. Gareth continued to not take part in that.
They discussed the potential ramifications of there no longer being a paperwork demon. Petunia suggested that they make the competition end so that no more unsouled mortals got made. A-dom stated that his cat was right and they needed to take out the purple demon so no more unsouled people get made. Petunia meowed loudly about how he got that wrong.
Gareth was not at all impressed by the inhabitants of Little Well and felt it was a very good thing his weapons were in Elsewhere so he couldn't remove the demon-worshippers from existence. Well, somewhere else in Elsewhere; not with him, that is.
The Circle decided to head off towards the final village, Sun'gra'la. Partway there, it became night, so Gareth made them all huts so they could sleep.
Jade’s Luck dreamed of being on the Voice of Reason. She saw Gareth was ordering around a bunch of mortal crew, A-dom was drinking and hitting on all of the female crewmembers and Tiger was hiding from everyone. She also noticed a wiry man dressed in white standing at the prow.
Quicksilver Noon: Wow. I seem to have upgraded my boat.
She wandered over and started talking to him. He made some comments about his boat having changed and not understanding why it had a paddle wheel. Jade's Luck told him they were on Gareth's boat and the paddle wheel was for A-dom when they needed to go faster, or if he was bored. Petunia walked past with an over-sized tuna and asked why everyone was in her/his dream. Jade's Luck found it weird that Petunia could talk to her in the dream and told the cat it should learn to communicate while they were awake. Petunia said his/her bigger half was in charge of the charms. Quicksilver walked up to A-dom and greeted him. Up until this point, A-dom hadn’t noticed the others and was started by someone ‘sneaking’ up on him. A-dom asked if this was some kind of nightmare where they were going to force him to read or something. Pursey, who was perched on Jade’s Luck’s shoulder wanted to know what everyone was talking about and said it was weird everyone was in her dream.
Quicksilver greeted Pursey and A-dom told him Pursey would likely eat him at some point. Pursey asked if he looked tasty. A-dom said he probably did. Pursey then whipped out her psychedelic tongue and ate Quicksilver.
A-dom: Well, there’s a show stopper.
Jade’s Luck told Pursey to put him back.
Quicksilver found himself standing in a very nicely built hut with a woman sleeping next to him. He also sensed the lingering smell of cherries and cattle. He shook the Jade’s Luck awake. She found this all very weird. Quicksilver asked if there were any more giant, sentient, man-eating purses. He found the concept of them breeding and covering Creation to be a very horrifying idea. Pursey said she was an artifact and asked if Jade’s Luck could make more of her. Jade’s Luck said it was possible.
They introduced each other finally and he stated he was a Zenith.
Jade’s Luck: Oh goody. Somebody else gets to be the priest.
She walked around to A-dom’s hut and asked if he was the guy A-dom had dreamed of the previous day. Quicksilver said that he had shared a dream with him, yes. As they wandered around the camp, she asked if he had ever been to Heaven. He stated that he was in no hurry to die, so hadn’t ventured there through the normal means of travel. Several comments were made by Jade's Luck of how screwed up heaven was and how it would break Quicksilver too.
Jade’s Luck: You know how badly in need of reforming Creation is? Heaven needs it worse.
Liz: All the gods are Paul!
Quicksilver rebutted that the things would improve in heaven as they improved in Creation, so their best bet was to convert people to give the Unconquered Sun more power to put the other gods back in line. Jade's Luck laughed and told him good luck with that.
She talked about how past lives kept coming back to bite them in the ass. He said that every new reincarnation was it’s own self and he never looked back. She told him that sanctified contracts were attached to the shards and he probably had a to-do list. He stated that that sounded like a poor design choice. She talked about where they were and described the island to him, including the current situation, plans for the immediate future, the wells and Great Contagion. He had no knowledge of Purple Demons, Neoma, and their method of baby-making.
Back in A-dom’s hut, Petunia jumped up and down on A-dom to wake him up.
Petunia: Hey boss! That weird guy from my dream is here. He’s out there cavorting with the enemy.
A-dom: Ugh. Who the hell taught you cavorting?
Petunia stated that A-dom had used the word. A-dom stumbled out and saw Jade’s Luck talking to Quicksilver Noon.
A-dom: Damn cat. Use smaller words!
Petunia: Co-conspiring?
A-dom went and kicked Gareth’s hut. When that did nothing but hurt his foot a little, he walked into the hut and kicked Gareth, telling him to wake up because they had another Solar.
Jade’s Luck: He’s a priest. Try not to break him.
Tiger was also woken at this point. They introduced themselves. A-dom decided to also tell him his real name.
A-dom: Usually when you hear it used, I‘m in trouble or there is a law on the books to be arrested or thrown in the volcano or something, so I usually go with A-dom.
Quicksilver commented about having been sailing while he was dreaming and he had left somebody behind on the boat. He said the boat wasn’t important to him, but his familiar was. Comments were made about someone in Heaven liking to destroy Gareth’s stuff. Quicksilver did not remember the word Sidereals. Quicksilver said that he had stolen his boat from a Dragon-blood and put his own nameplate on it.
Quicksilver: Just as a side note, if some guy called the Abbot of the First Upper Locks comes for a boat, yeah, tell him I have it.
A-dom: I’m not sure if I’m supposed to like you or not. I don’t like the Zenith part, but the boat gloating is getting you lots of points.
The great horse theft was brought up and A-dom stated he had a song to sing him later. The conversation meandered back to their current situation and what they were going to do with the island. Comments were made about enjoying pissing off heaven. Gareth stated they pissed the group off equally. A-dom made a comment about how god never did anything in Heaven. Gareth checked the Circle and Quicksilver over to see if any of them were carriers of the Great Contagion. He found Quicksilver, Jade's Luck, and A-dom were all carriers. He also found A-dom had picked up a large assortment of venereal diseases on the island. Gareth went about removing all of the diseases from the Solars and started making plans for the quarantine and curing the populace of their diseases.
More comments about past exploits were made, including the caste swapping. Jade’s Luck’s reason for having the island be permanently in creation brought up the Sapphire Sentinels. The Circle completely neglected to inform Quicksilver that they were the cause of the Sentinel's release. This discussion led to a large discussion about the Circle's breaking of their first Zenith and their lack of faith. Quicksilver stated he was sure that Jade’s Luck was as good at her job as everyone else. Gareth agreed that she was very good at what she did, it was just that proselytizing wasn’t it. Quicksilver asked why they didn’t just work to convert the people to the Unconquered Sun. A-dom said that was too difficult and it was just easier to stop the Sentinels. Jade’s Luck bitched for a while.
Tiger: I don’t fight against her, I just don’t help.
This prompted A-dom to bring up several of his stories about Tiger’s origin. Tiger stated his parents were both dragon-bloods and he didn’t eat them. Quicksilver talked about how great the Unconquered Sun was and how to preach to people. Jade’s Luck snarked and told him to have fun doing that. He talked about worshipping the correct divinities instead of the low-level gods. A-dom and Jade’s Luck blasphemed some more. Gareth resumed his ‘I’m a good Solar’ chant.
A-dom brought out his lists and talked about little pieces of mind-
. He talked about how they were screwing him over and eventually he’d be bound to save everyone in Creation and, since people were dying all the time, he was royally screwed. Quicksilver said he should then strive to make sure they were spiritually saved. Gareth said he’d still be screwed then.The conversation wandered back to talking about how to recall the Sentinels and they talked about needing control specific Manses and needing to make a Manse. Gareth brought up the logistics of how long it was going him to build a Level 5 Manse. It was figured out that, with the use of his Craft speed charms and Wyld Shaping charms, he could cut a 1,000 year job down to 1.11 years of 16 hours a day work.
Quicksilver brought up having notes on his boat that he needed to get back to. Jade’s Luck pulled out her dream journal and handed him the transcribed pages of his own journal. He thought that was creepy, but said it was another set of notes he needed. Gareth quickly determined that Quicksilver's boat and familiar were nearby (Gareth knew the island).
Jade’s Luck asked Pursey if she could put Quicksilver back where she got him from. She said maybe. When asked why she didn’t eat demons, Pursey said it was because they taste funny. Pursey had never tasted anything from a Shadowland, so told the group to remind her when they were in one to taste something. Quicksilver was told to be afraid of Pursey’s ability to lose people. He commented on the smell of cows. A-dom corrected him, telling him it was mini-cows. A-dom went on to describe mini-cows and his plans to animate one, preferably in front of some woman named Bianca. A-dom asked Pursey if she had eaten any mini-cows. Pursey said she’d check, then spit up a mini-cow. A-dom quickly snapped its neck and started casting necromancy. The mini-cow got up, its head lulling a bit.
Jade’s Luck: That’s really gross. Can I?
A-dom told her no. When she asked about Quicksilver, he said no again.
A-dom: That’s Mini-Dom. I’ve named it and I’m keeping it.
To change the subject, Gareth proposed they build a church. Quicksilver asked if anyone had a pen. Gareth walked over to a tree and made one.
Jade’s Luck could not allow Mini-Dom to continue, so she zorched it. A-dom was understandably upset and told her she was incredibly closed-minded.
Tiger: You know what you have to do, A-dom? Steal her chastity belt. That would really pay her back.
Gareth asked what the sanctified agreement involving the creation of undead and Jade’s Luck’s ability to zorch them. A-dom dug out some notes and started talking about the now zorched mini-cow had been made by the power and glory of the Unconquered Sun and gave the Unconquered Sun all of the credit.
They decided, to not promote any favoritism, the church needed to be built in a location equally out of the way from the five villages. It was determined that a point on some cliffs on the northeast part of the island would be best for that. Gareth and Quicksilver designed what turned out to be a Cathedral made to fit 500 people at a time. Quicksilver insisted that there be an altar to Luna, since both Celestial deities should be represented. Jade's Luck pointed out that they should also have an altar to the Maidens, since they were also Celestial deities, no matter what anyone thought of their servants. These were incorporated into the design. During the conversations about design, the Coral Archipelago building debacle was brought up. Quicksilver was told he needed to visit to see the words for himself.
It was asked if Quicksilver had any crafting skills, to which he replied Craft (Air) with a little Craft (Water). Gareth said he wasn’t going to get into the uselessness of Craft (Air). A-dom brought up the Craftocracy. It was stated that you got one vote per dot of craft. The rest of the Circle realized just how much power Gareth potentially had. The only one that seemed to actually care about this was A-dom and it turned out he was the Assistant Craftsman of the People.
Jade’s Luck asked how long it was going to take them to build the church, since she wanted to train. She talked about wanting to train for speed charms. She again stated her desire to have Gareth teach her an Investigation specialty with regards to Supernatural Beings, so that she could remember more about Sidereals, though she didn't say the word Sidereals. He asked if anyone else was interested in learning those specialties. Other trainings, including Intelligence, were also discussed. Also, Gareth told her it would take them five hours to build the Cathedral. She decided it wasn’t worth wandering off then and would enjoy the show.
Somehow soul-reclamation was brought up briefly, so Quicksilver was fully informed. Quicksilver had some interesting ideas about how Heaven was supposed to jump to the Solars’ tune, not the other way around. This made A-dom and Jade’s Luck laugh. A-dom mocked Quicksilver greatly for these ideas, saying it’ll be fun the next time they go to Heaven. Gareth said that’d be a year from now, since he was banned.
Quicksilver: This is just another of those signs of disorder. We can deal with it like anything else.
A-dom (amused): I’m a sign of disorder!
A-dom noticed Quicksilver's weapon, an orchalchum Klaive, and remembered something. Quicksilver asked if A-dom's eyes rolled up into his head often.
A-dom's vision of better times said:
A-dom told Quicksilver it was a very good looking knife.
Quicksilver thanked him for the compliment and said it was a present from an ancestor shard of his and that it was called The Needle.
When Gareth saw the Needle, he remembered his very first Vision, where that very same knife flew at Evening Tide of Autumn's head and narrowly missed. Gareth commented that the knife once belonged to Wretch of Winter.
A-dom said that was true, and explained how he got it, but Quicksilver could keep it. This shocked Jade’s Luck. Eventually Quicksilver got shown the book of A-dom’s children. Oh, and the disputed fact that Jade’s Luck killed A-dom.
The cathedral was completed.
Ao the Overkitty
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Session 77 - Some Demons Are As Bad At Being Demons As We Are At Being Solars
Session 77
Date: 9/29/08
Some Demons Are As Bad At Being Demons As We Are At Being Solars
Subtitle: Tiger Has A Plan!
Alternate Subtitle: Don't Mess With A Competition Spirit!
By Ao the Overkitty
The group stood around and discussed for quite a while just what they were going to do on the island. A-dom wanted to slaughter until the contest ended. Gareth felt the demons were prolonging the competition and at least the Neomah needed to be removed in order for it to continue on it's proper course without further interference (like slaughtering villagers). Quicksilver was all for the destroying of demons and said he could kill them dead. Tiger said Jade's Luck just wanted the island in Creation so she could have access to her new Manse every day of the month.
They explained what they knew about the competition to Quicksilver, Mostly revolving around ending the competition and what happened if someone invalidated it. There were explanations about the spoils of the contest and how the competition was probably sanctified by an Eclipse.
Gareth relayed this vision to the others, saying it sounded like they were enforced by magic instead of a sanctified oath. The group didn't really formally decide anything about how much they were going to interfere with the competition, but it seemed like they agreed they weren't going to force the competition to end, just make it so it could actually end. It was, at least, agreed that if the Neomah stayed around, this competition would not end in 20 years. Plus, with the Neomah gone, it would stop any mortals from being created without souls.
A-dom called Impy to come to the Circle. Once Impy arrived, he asked the demon how many purple demons there were. Impy looked pensive. A-dom clarified on the island and then further clarified Neomah. Impy said there was only one Neomah on the island, but there were three purple demons. A-dom asked where the Neomah was and Impy said it was in the Demon Compound. This prompted needing to explain to Quicksilver about the demon compound. Impy was asked to lead them back to the compound. After walking a while, the group decided they needed to discuss some more, so they told Impy to keep going and catch up.
The group discussed for a while the scale of what they were going to do. They were largely unsure if they were going to invalidate contracts or kill the demon or kill all the demons or what. It mostly boiled down to not knowing just what the demons part in the competition was. During this conversation, Petunia killed a chipmunk and offered part of his/her dinner to A-dom. He passed on it. Quicksilver commented about missing his familiar. When asked what it was, he said she was a Mantis.
They realized that they had never asked the elephant about the demons and decided to go do that. So, the group trekked to the Manse. Quicksilver decided he wanted to go in with Jade's Luck, but was unsure about the doors. While explaining the doors, they decided to go through the smallest door for Little Well this time. Quicksilver took a deep breath and swam down with Jade's Luck. Once they finally got to the elephant's room, he was worried about running out of air if he started talking. Looking around, he saw A-dom's statue, Gareth's statue, and Tiger's trampled flower. Elephant greeted them and asked if there was a plague in Little Well or something. When told there wasn't, he asked if they had lost their faith in the Unconquered Sun. Basically, he wanted to know why Little Well was doing so abysmally. Jade's Luck explained that Little Well still praised the Unconquered Sun, but they were worshipping the demons and thought they were the Unconquered Sun's messengers. Elephant said that Little Well worshipped the most powerful things around. Since the Solars had disappeared, that was the demons, so they hadn't exactly strayed from their original concept. It was suggested that they'd stop praising the demons now that the Solars were around, since they were more powerful than the demons.
Quicksilver was starting to look a little blue from speaking, so Jade's Luck pointed out that there was probably some air still trapped in the air bladders of Gareth's statue. Quicksilver started sucking the air out of the female elephant statue through its mouth. Jade's Luck asked if there were any questions they could ask him that would invalidate the competition. Elephant said no, but there were questions he couldn't answer. She never asked what those questions were.
Jade's Luck asked about the demons purpose on the island. She found out they weren't originally part of the competition. Security demons were brought in to keep intruders off the island, then they needed demons to watch the security demons, and it all kind of ballooned from there. They asked about the security demons and were told that there were four of them that lived under the island and only came out on the Sixth day, since their purpose was to guard the island from intruders. This made them very bored and they drooled a lot. He said they came out the bottom of the island and swam up.
She asked if they could get rid of the demons without mucking up the competition. She told him that the demons were prolonging the competition and increasing the population of the villages faster than the death rate. Elephant said that was bad. He said that the Neomah was brought in to replace the sacrificed people, since the Unconquered Sun liked sacrifices every once in a while, but they shouldn't be doing more than that. He said Chok'Thar was brought in as a prop for the Temple village, since the people there were a little unstable. He asked if they could leave Frank alone. He explained that Frank was a construction demon that kept the Manse in good repair. He said Frank called himself the Foreman, though there were no demons under him. He described Frank as a being kind of rocky/concretey and kind of boring to talk to, but he was useful. Jade's Luck asked what demons were on the island. The elephant pulled out a list.
Jade's Luck was worried about releasing the demons from the contract, since she didn't want them wandering around Creation free (which proved she didn't pay attention to when Gareth questioned the demons). Quicksilver asked how they were going to get to the security demons. Elephant said there was an access hatch 100 meters from the Manse and told them where to find it. He then remembered they had told him the Manse had been underground, so he added the hatch would be under a lot of ground, so they'd need to dig.
Quicksilver and Jade's Luck rejoined the others outside and told them about the hatch. They told the group about what they had found out. When asked Gareth told Jade's Luck that the demons weren't getting out into Creation if their contracts were invalidated. They would go straight back to Malfeas, unless they had a proviso to go somewhere else. He gave the example that Baharennu was supposed to be currently in Heaven working on fixing the paperwork he had filed.
Gareth looked over the list and they discussed which demons to off. It was decided that they would get rid of most of the demons on the island. Frank, Impy, [Wyld destruction demon], and [plant & animal demon] served a purpose and would be kept. The others would serve the purpose of being destroyed in front of the inhabitants of Little Well, to show the superiority of Solars and put them back on the right track. The group figured this would require proselytizing for a bit. Jade's Luck suggested the Temple could survive without Chok'Thar if the group was able to convince them not to sacrifice themselves. Gareth voiced he wasn't sure if this would constitute invalidating the competition, but was still for getting rid of Chok'Thar.
Quicksilver asked Gareth if he could build a tunnel to the hatch. Gareth pointed at A-dom and said he was the digger. A-dom grabbed a tree, hollowed it into a shovel and started digging. About 30 meters down, A-dom hit the hatch. It was a very nice looking hatch. Quicksilver inspected it, finding writing in Old Realm saying something about Authorized Personnel Only, made by some Tide person. A-dom wrenched the hatch open, breaking it. Gareth bemoaned this, saying he was just going to have to fix that. There was a long shaft down. Quicksilver started climbing down.
A-dom: He hasn't learned yet. Hey, New Guy! Duck!
Quicksilver flattened himself against the wall as A-dom dove down the shaft. The others made their way down at a more leisurely pace, taking the time to have a discussion about demons (and A-dom) on the way down. The shaft was very dark, so A-dom put on his caste-mark. Eventually he saw ahead the shaft opening up into a large cavern. Directly below the shaft was another hole and then the nothing of Elsewhere. He could also see a couple of demons hanging around down there.
A-dom: Oh crap!
A-dom grabbed a hold of the lip of the shaft, ripped the stone out of the ceiling, and continued plummeting towards the hole.
A-dom (to demons): Catch me!
The fire demon ran over and caught A-dom before he could fall through the hole into Elsewhere.
A-dom: Owowow. Thank you. Good demon!
A-dom chatted with the demons for a little bit. That never goes well, so the others quickened their pace. When they got to the bottom of the shaft, Gareth accessed that it was a 100ft drop to the floor of the cavern, so he couldn't get back up on his own, but could with help. He monkey-leapt down. Tiger walked down the wall to join them. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver decided to stay in the shaft. The three talked to the demons, asking them what they did and if they were contractually allowed up on the island when it was in Elsewhere and such. Gareth was shocked when the demon answered completely honestly and stated such.
Demon #2: You idiot. You're supposed to lie! You're a bad demon!
Since this wasn't a lie either, Gareth told Demon #2 that he hadn't lied either. Demon #1 & #2 turned to the purple shadowy demon and told it to lie. It did, but Gareth told them it didn't just to mess with them. Tiger told the demons to go to Little Well in two days time and go to the social center of the island. They had problems with the two days time concept, so Tiger came up with a plan to toss a rock down the shaft to tell them when it was time. Then the person could beat the demons to Little Well. A-dom commented how much he liked Flamey and then chucked Gareth up into the shaft before leaping up. Tiger walked back up the wall. Everyone climbed back up the shaft.
Once outside, Gareth repaired the hatch. Jade's Luck had some questions about just what would invalidate the demons contract. They knew that giving the demons a suicidal command would invalidate the contract and send it back to Malfeas, but Tiger, Quicksilver, and Jade's Luck really wanted to kill the demons dead. A-dom expressed his desire to just send Flamey back to Malfeas. Jade's Luck wanted to go back and talk to Elephant some more. Quicksilver and A-dom expressed a desire to accompany her. Quicksilver & Jade's Luck told Gareth about using the air bladders in his statue for air, so Gareth built two large air bladders. Petunia asked A-dom if he/she should accompany him, then realized they were going into the water and asked to remain outside 'with the one-eyed enemy.'
The three swam down to the smallest door for Little Well and went inside while Gareth, Tiger and Petunia waited outside. They talked with Elephant for a while, gleaning information about the usefulness of the demons and went over their 'kill' list with him. They found out that the island used to be the Eastern tip of a very large island (bigger than Atlantis). Elephant was worried that the rest of the island was gone, but agreed that, if they really were in the middle of nowhere, the security demons weren't really necessary.
They found out what the original concept of each village was, as detailed by the contest.
A-dom, of course, got into another argument with the Elephant. He was getting competitive with the Elephant and finished smugly by stating he could move and the Elephant couldn't. The Elephant got a determined look on his face and the Manse started to shake. Shortly thereafter, the Manse lurched and then stopped shaking. The water quickly started draining and they had to fight not being flushed out the doors. A-dom asked what the Elephant had done.
Elephant: I moved the Manse. Don't mess with a competition spirit. We always win.
They went outside and saw they were on the East side of the island. They walked back into the soggy Manse. Jade's Luck asked Elephant to move the Manse back.
Elephant: Can't. Too tired. You know how hard it is to move a Manse across the island?
They hung around for a little while longer, asking about the end of the competition. Elephant didn't know a lot about it, since once he chose the winner, the Solars didn't really care to clue him in on what happened next. He did say that, if you invalidate the competition, you forfeit your claim to the spoils (which is significantly different from what they had previously learned). Eventually they hopped aboard the A-dom express and headed back towards the Manse.
Back on the other side of the island, Gareth, Tiger and Petunia watched the Manse start to shake and then disappear. The water level in the hole dropped immediately. Petunia became distraught over his/her boss disappearing. Gareth told Petunia A-dom had abandoned her. He/She growled and wandered off into the woods to hunt chipmunks. Gareth and Tiger figured they'd show up eventually and decided to train. After a day or so, Tiger headed off for Little Well while Gareth & Petunia stayed behind and waited.
A day and a half after the Manse disappeared, Gareth finished training and the others showed up. Petunia was annoyed that A-dom had abandoned him/her and told him what 'the one-eyed enemy' had said. A-dom told him/her that he would always come back for him/her.
Gareth: Wow. He doesn't even tell his wife that.
Jade's Luck told Gareth what happened to the Manse and filled him in on what they had learned. Gareth told them Tiger had already left for Little Well.
A-dom opened the hatch properly and dropped a pebble down the shaft. He waited a few minutes, but nothing happened. He grumbled and then found a huge rock and dropped it down the shaft. He waited a few minutes and then looked. He noticed the rock had gotten stuck so he dropped down and punched the rock into lots of tiny rocks. Waiting a few more minutes, he climbed down the shaft to see what the hold up was. The demons were arguing about if they had been given the signal or not, since more than one rock had dropped down and they were unsure if those rocks were large enough to qualify as a rock.
A-dom: Hey morons! That was the signal! The signal is now me yelling!
Demons: Okay.
Half a minute passed with the demons just standing there.
A-dom: Go already!
A-dom then sped out of the shaft as four demons flew up through the shaft very, very fast. The group watched them fly towards Little Well much faster than A-dom could move. Everyone jumped aboard the A-dom Express and headed off.
Tiger was standing in Little Well when the four security demons arrived. They commented about how it was a nice little village and how they normally couldn't visit the town, because of orders. The villagers bowed down and worshipped the demons a lot while Tiger stood by. The others eventually got to Little Well and got off of A-dom.
Jade's Luck, Gareth, and Quicksilver activated several rather showy scene-long charms with their animas burning brightly. While Jade's Luck made pronouncements about the villagers having strayed from the true path, A-dom sped forward at lightening speed and grabbed a hold of Flamey, taking him out of the village.
A-dom: Owowowowowowow!
Jade's Luck chastised the village inhabitants for not recognizing the true glory of the Solars and Gareth preached. Quicksilver, Jade's Luck, and Tiger attacked the demons, doing aggravated damage. Tiger killed his demon dead while the other two were wounded. Mere seconds after they were attacked, the wounded demons mouthed swears and popped back to Malfeas. The dead demon remained dead on the ground. Jade's Luck and Gareth continued chastising and preaching.
Away from the village, A-dom stopped running and let go of Flamey, cursing his burnt arms. He told Flamey that he rather liked him and wanted to just send him back to Malfeas instead of killing him. Flamey thanked him for that and said he was cool. A-dom asked how he could invalidate his contract. Flamey told him several options that the group already knew.
A-dom (looks menacing): I'm going to kill you!
Flamey (looking a bit hurt): Really?
A-dom: No.
Flamey: You know, you have to actually mean it to breach my contract.
A-dom told Flamey to hold his breath. That didn't work. A-dom told Flamey to eat himself. Flamey just looked at him funny. Eventually A-dom told Flamey to just go to Creation. Flamey popped back to Malfeas. Left alone now, A-dom eventually realized that he could have ordered Flamey to invalidate the competition and Flamey would have done so in a direct manner, since he actually seemed to like A-dom. Then the competition would have been invalidated by someone other than the Circle and they wouldn't have forfeited their share of the spoils. Oh well.
Session 77
Date: 9/29/08
Some Demons Are As Bad At Being Demons As We Are At Being Solars
Subtitle: Tiger Has A Plan!
Alternate Subtitle: Don't Mess With A Competition Spirit!
By Ao the Overkitty
The group stood around and discussed for quite a while just what they were going to do on the island. A-dom wanted to slaughter until the contest ended. Gareth felt the demons were prolonging the competition and at least the Neomah needed to be removed in order for it to continue on it's proper course without further interference (like slaughtering villagers). Quicksilver was all for the destroying of demons and said he could kill them dead. Tiger said Jade's Luck just wanted the island in Creation so she could have access to her new Manse every day of the month.
They explained what they knew about the competition to Quicksilver, Mostly revolving around ending the competition and what happened if someone invalidated it. There were explanations about the spoils of the contest and how the competition was probably sanctified by an Eclipse.
Gareth's Vision of Better Times said:
Gareth relayed this vision to the others, saying it sounded like they were enforced by magic instead of a sanctified oath. The group didn't really formally decide anything about how much they were going to interfere with the competition, but it seemed like they agreed they weren't going to force the competition to end, just make it so it could actually end. It was, at least, agreed that if the Neomah stayed around, this competition would not end in 20 years. Plus, with the Neomah gone, it would stop any mortals from being created without souls.
A-dom called Impy to come to the Circle. Once Impy arrived, he asked the demon how many purple demons there were. Impy looked pensive. A-dom clarified on the island and then further clarified Neomah. Impy said there was only one Neomah on the island, but there were three purple demons. A-dom asked where the Neomah was and Impy said it was in the Demon Compound. This prompted needing to explain to Quicksilver about the demon compound. Impy was asked to lead them back to the compound. After walking a while, the group decided they needed to discuss some more, so they told Impy to keep going and catch up.
The group discussed for a while the scale of what they were going to do. They were largely unsure if they were going to invalidate contracts or kill the demon or kill all the demons or what. It mostly boiled down to not knowing just what the demons part in the competition was. During this conversation, Petunia killed a chipmunk and offered part of his/her dinner to A-dom. He passed on it. Quicksilver commented about missing his familiar. When asked what it was, he said she was a Mantis.
They realized that they had never asked the elephant about the demons and decided to go do that. So, the group trekked to the Manse. Quicksilver decided he wanted to go in with Jade's Luck, but was unsure about the doors. While explaining the doors, they decided to go through the smallest door for Little Well this time. Quicksilver took a deep breath and swam down with Jade's Luck. Once they finally got to the elephant's room, he was worried about running out of air if he started talking. Looking around, he saw A-dom's statue, Gareth's statue, and Tiger's trampled flower. Elephant greeted them and asked if there was a plague in Little Well or something. When told there wasn't, he asked if they had lost their faith in the Unconquered Sun. Basically, he wanted to know why Little Well was doing so abysmally. Jade's Luck explained that Little Well still praised the Unconquered Sun, but they were worshipping the demons and thought they were the Unconquered Sun's messengers. Elephant said that Little Well worshipped the most powerful things around. Since the Solars had disappeared, that was the demons, so they hadn't exactly strayed from their original concept. It was suggested that they'd stop praising the demons now that the Solars were around, since they were more powerful than the demons.
Quicksilver was starting to look a little blue from speaking, so Jade's Luck pointed out that there was probably some air still trapped in the air bladders of Gareth's statue. Quicksilver started sucking the air out of the female elephant statue through its mouth. Jade's Luck asked if there were any questions they could ask him that would invalidate the competition. Elephant said no, but there were questions he couldn't answer. She never asked what those questions were.
Jade's Luck asked about the demons purpose on the island. She found out they weren't originally part of the competition. Security demons were brought in to keep intruders off the island, then they needed demons to watch the security demons, and it all kind of ballooned from there. They asked about the security demons and were told that there were four of them that lived under the island and only came out on the Sixth day, since their purpose was to guard the island from intruders. This made them very bored and they drooled a lot. He said they came out the bottom of the island and swam up.
She asked if they could get rid of the demons without mucking up the competition. She told him that the demons were prolonging the competition and increasing the population of the villages faster than the death rate. Elephant said that was bad. He said that the Neomah was brought in to replace the sacrificed people, since the Unconquered Sun liked sacrifices every once in a while, but they shouldn't be doing more than that. He said Chok'Thar was brought in as a prop for the Temple village, since the people there were a little unstable. He asked if they could leave Frank alone. He explained that Frank was a construction demon that kept the Manse in good repair. He said Frank called himself the Foreman, though there were no demons under him. He described Frank as a being kind of rocky/concretey and kind of boring to talk to, but he was useful. Jade's Luck asked what demons were on the island. The elephant pulled out a list.
- Baharennu, paperwork demon (Voodoo Doll)
- Bob'Bob , in charge of making sure there were no dangerous plants or animals on the island (the Lizard like demon).
- Zho'lar (aka "Impy"), messenger demon
- Chok'Thar Demon Brain, in charge of keeping the Temple inhabitants from sacrificing themselves en masse
- Frank, Manse repair demon
- four security demons
- Jafa'lu'kar Destroyer of Wishes: Wyld Repulsion Specialist
- Neomah
- Baus'turo Executioner of Sorcerers: Warden of Magic: demon in charge of dealing with sorcerous threats to the competition
Jade's Luck was worried about releasing the demons from the contract, since she didn't want them wandering around Creation free (which proved she didn't pay attention to when Gareth questioned the demons). Quicksilver asked how they were going to get to the security demons. Elephant said there was an access hatch 100 meters from the Manse and told them where to find it. He then remembered they had told him the Manse had been underground, so he added the hatch would be under a lot of ground, so they'd need to dig.
Quicksilver and Jade's Luck rejoined the others outside and told them about the hatch. They told the group about what they had found out. When asked Gareth told Jade's Luck that the demons weren't getting out into Creation if their contracts were invalidated. They would go straight back to Malfeas, unless they had a proviso to go somewhere else. He gave the example that Baharennu was supposed to be currently in Heaven working on fixing the paperwork he had filed.
Gareth looked over the list and they discussed which demons to off. It was decided that they would get rid of most of the demons on the island. Frank, Impy, [Wyld destruction demon], and [plant & animal demon] served a purpose and would be kept. The others would serve the purpose of being destroyed in front of the inhabitants of Little Well, to show the superiority of Solars and put them back on the right track. The group figured this would require proselytizing for a bit. Jade's Luck suggested the Temple could survive without Chok'Thar if the group was able to convince them not to sacrifice themselves. Gareth voiced he wasn't sure if this would constitute invalidating the competition, but was still for getting rid of Chok'Thar.
Quicksilver asked Gareth if he could build a tunnel to the hatch. Gareth pointed at A-dom and said he was the digger. A-dom grabbed a tree, hollowed it into a shovel and started digging. About 30 meters down, A-dom hit the hatch. It was a very nice looking hatch. Quicksilver inspected it, finding writing in Old Realm saying something about Authorized Personnel Only, made by some Tide person. A-dom wrenched the hatch open, breaking it. Gareth bemoaned this, saying he was just going to have to fix that. There was a long shaft down. Quicksilver started climbing down.
A-dom: He hasn't learned yet. Hey, New Guy! Duck!
Quicksilver flattened himself against the wall as A-dom dove down the shaft. The others made their way down at a more leisurely pace, taking the time to have a discussion about demons (and A-dom) on the way down. The shaft was very dark, so A-dom put on his caste-mark. Eventually he saw ahead the shaft opening up into a large cavern. Directly below the shaft was another hole and then the nothing of Elsewhere. He could also see a couple of demons hanging around down there.
A-dom: Oh crap!
A-dom grabbed a hold of the lip of the shaft, ripped the stone out of the ceiling, and continued plummeting towards the hole.
A-dom (to demons): Catch me!
The fire demon ran over and caught A-dom before he could fall through the hole into Elsewhere.
A-dom: Owowow. Thank you. Good demon!
A-dom chatted with the demons for a little bit. That never goes well, so the others quickened their pace. When they got to the bottom of the shaft, Gareth accessed that it was a 100ft drop to the floor of the cavern, so he couldn't get back up on his own, but could with help. He monkey-leapt down. Tiger walked down the wall to join them. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver decided to stay in the shaft. The three talked to the demons, asking them what they did and if they were contractually allowed up on the island when it was in Elsewhere and such. Gareth was shocked when the demon answered completely honestly and stated such.
Demon #2: You idiot. You're supposed to lie! You're a bad demon!
Since this wasn't a lie either, Gareth told Demon #2 that he hadn't lied either. Demon #1 & #2 turned to the purple shadowy demon and told it to lie. It did, but Gareth told them it didn't just to mess with them. Tiger told the demons to go to Little Well in two days time and go to the social center of the island. They had problems with the two days time concept, so Tiger came up with a plan to toss a rock down the shaft to tell them when it was time. Then the person could beat the demons to Little Well. A-dom commented how much he liked Flamey and then chucked Gareth up into the shaft before leaping up. Tiger walked back up the wall. Everyone climbed back up the shaft.
Once outside, Gareth repaired the hatch. Jade's Luck had some questions about just what would invalidate the demons contract. They knew that giving the demons a suicidal command would invalidate the contract and send it back to Malfeas, but Tiger, Quicksilver, and Jade's Luck really wanted to kill the demons dead. A-dom expressed his desire to just send Flamey back to Malfeas. Jade's Luck wanted to go back and talk to Elephant some more. Quicksilver and A-dom expressed a desire to accompany her. Quicksilver & Jade's Luck told Gareth about using the air bladders in his statue for air, so Gareth built two large air bladders. Petunia asked A-dom if he/she should accompany him, then realized they were going into the water and asked to remain outside 'with the one-eyed enemy.'
The three swam down to the smallest door for Little Well and went inside while Gareth, Tiger and Petunia waited outside. They talked with Elephant for a while, gleaning information about the usefulness of the demons and went over their 'kill' list with him. They found out that the island used to be the Eastern tip of a very large island (bigger than Atlantis). Elephant was worried that the rest of the island was gone, but agreed that, if they really were in the middle of nowhere, the security demons weren't really necessary.
They found out what the original concept of each village was, as detailed by the contest.
- Big Well - They know they are in a contest and they want to win
- Little Well - Follow the most powerful beings present
- Oak Castle - This is a trial of faith. They must endure these hardships, be penitent, and never waiver from their faith.
- Sun'gra'la - This is paradise. They don't have a goal of getting rid of the other villages. But they would be very happy if they all left or died as the only problem with paradise is the other villages.
- The Temple - Fanatical Faith is the basis of their society.
- Destroyed village - Might Makes Right: Everyone else should be wiped out as quickly as possible.
A-dom, of course, got into another argument with the Elephant. He was getting competitive with the Elephant and finished smugly by stating he could move and the Elephant couldn't. The Elephant got a determined look on his face and the Manse started to shake. Shortly thereafter, the Manse lurched and then stopped shaking. The water quickly started draining and they had to fight not being flushed out the doors. A-dom asked what the Elephant had done.
Elephant: I moved the Manse. Don't mess with a competition spirit. We always win.
They went outside and saw they were on the East side of the island. They walked back into the soggy Manse. Jade's Luck asked Elephant to move the Manse back.
Elephant: Can't. Too tired. You know how hard it is to move a Manse across the island?
They hung around for a little while longer, asking about the end of the competition. Elephant didn't know a lot about it, since once he chose the winner, the Solars didn't really care to clue him in on what happened next. He did say that, if you invalidate the competition, you forfeit your claim to the spoils (which is significantly different from what they had previously learned). Eventually they hopped aboard the A-dom express and headed back towards the Manse.
Back on the other side of the island, Gareth, Tiger and Petunia watched the Manse start to shake and then disappear. The water level in the hole dropped immediately. Petunia became distraught over his/her boss disappearing. Gareth told Petunia A-dom had abandoned her. He/She growled and wandered off into the woods to hunt chipmunks. Gareth and Tiger figured they'd show up eventually and decided to train. After a day or so, Tiger headed off for Little Well while Gareth & Petunia stayed behind and waited.
A day and a half after the Manse disappeared, Gareth finished training and the others showed up. Petunia was annoyed that A-dom had abandoned him/her and told him what 'the one-eyed enemy' had said. A-dom told him/her that he would always come back for him/her.
Gareth: Wow. He doesn't even tell his wife that.
Jade's Luck told Gareth what happened to the Manse and filled him in on what they had learned. Gareth told them Tiger had already left for Little Well.
A-dom opened the hatch properly and dropped a pebble down the shaft. He waited a few minutes, but nothing happened. He grumbled and then found a huge rock and dropped it down the shaft. He waited a few minutes and then looked. He noticed the rock had gotten stuck so he dropped down and punched the rock into lots of tiny rocks. Waiting a few more minutes, he climbed down the shaft to see what the hold up was. The demons were arguing about if they had been given the signal or not, since more than one rock had dropped down and they were unsure if those rocks were large enough to qualify as a rock.
A-dom: Hey morons! That was the signal! The signal is now me yelling!
Demons: Okay.
Half a minute passed with the demons just standing there.
A-dom: Go already!
A-dom then sped out of the shaft as four demons flew up through the shaft very, very fast. The group watched them fly towards Little Well much faster than A-dom could move. Everyone jumped aboard the A-dom Express and headed off.
Tiger was standing in Little Well when the four security demons arrived. They commented about how it was a nice little village and how they normally couldn't visit the town, because of orders. The villagers bowed down and worshipped the demons a lot while Tiger stood by. The others eventually got to Little Well and got off of A-dom.
Jade's Luck, Gareth, and Quicksilver activated several rather showy scene-long charms with their animas burning brightly. While Jade's Luck made pronouncements about the villagers having strayed from the true path, A-dom sped forward at lightening speed and grabbed a hold of Flamey, taking him out of the village.
A-dom: Owowowowowowow!
Jade's Luck chastised the village inhabitants for not recognizing the true glory of the Solars and Gareth preached. Quicksilver, Jade's Luck, and Tiger attacked the demons, doing aggravated damage. Tiger killed his demon dead while the other two were wounded. Mere seconds after they were attacked, the wounded demons mouthed swears and popped back to Malfeas. The dead demon remained dead on the ground. Jade's Luck and Gareth continued chastising and preaching.
Away from the village, A-dom stopped running and let go of Flamey, cursing his burnt arms. He told Flamey that he rather liked him and wanted to just send him back to Malfeas instead of killing him. Flamey thanked him for that and said he was cool. A-dom asked how he could invalidate his contract. Flamey told him several options that the group already knew.
A-dom (looks menacing): I'm going to kill you!
Flamey (looking a bit hurt): Really?
A-dom: No.
Flamey: You know, you have to actually mean it to breach my contract.
A-dom told Flamey to hold his breath. That didn't work. A-dom told Flamey to eat himself. Flamey just looked at him funny. Eventually A-dom told Flamey to just go to Creation. Flamey popped back to Malfeas. Left alone now, A-dom eventually realized that he could have ordered Flamey to invalidate the competition and Flamey would have done so in a direct manner, since he actually seemed to like A-dom. Then the competition would have been invalidated by someone other than the Circle and they wouldn't have forfeited their share of the spoils. Oh well.
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Session 78 - Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident
Session 78
Synopsis of 10/13/08
Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident
Subtitle: Tiger Achieves a New Level in Apathy
-By Ao the Overkitty
With the security demons all cleared up, Jade's Luck, Quicksilver Noon and Gareth spent some more time proselytizing before deciding they were done in Little Well for a while. Gareth commented about the dead demon smelling like burnt dog hair. Then he looked up and saw A-Dom had returned, slightly singed. Jade's Luck went about collecting all four of the dead demon's toes. When Quicksilver asked why, she explained a little about Opec and his desire for weird things in exchange for teaching sorcery. Jade's Luck pointed out some of the more 'interesting' items on Opec's list. This lead to a discussion of A-Dom's list.
With the fire and brimstone speeches done, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to cook a feast for the people. She failed to adequately explain her reasoning behind this, but he did anyway. A-Dom and Jade's Luck organized the celebration of the other tenant of the religion of the Unconquered Sun.
Later on, the Circle picked a spot a mile into the forest as a place to camp for the night. Gareth made huts. In the morning, they stood around for a while and once again discussed their list of demons to kill. They again quickly decided that the Neomah needed to die, but were less sure about Baus’turo and Chok'Thar, Demon Brain. A-Dom yelled for the Neomah to come meet them and the group marched towards the demon compound. Eventually, the group met up with the Neomah. Gareth looked at Tiger expectantly. He did nothing.
A-Dom and Quicksilver ordered the Neomah to turn around and close her eyes.
Gareth (whisper): Tiger, do your thing.
He did nothing. The Neomah was now clearly expecting something, so A-Dom asked Gareth to make a pie for the Neomah (to confuse her). While Gareth was making the pie, Tiger finally sprung into action and stabbed the Neomah with Ghost-Eating Technique. The Neomah was greviously wounded, but alive enough to pop back to Malfeas. When asked why he hadn't just started with the killing, he shrugged. Gareth now had a perfectly good bark and grass pie and no demon to give it to. A-Dom presented it to Quicksilver, who had a piece. He said it wasn't bad, but didn't need another piece.
The group then all marched to The Temple and set up camp a mile outside where they discussed for a while if they were going to keep Baus’turo and Chok'Thar. Jade's Luck went on about how she wanted to reeducate the people of The Temple. Gareth brought up that they really didn't want to invalidate the competition and weren't sure that reeducating the people of The Temple was permitted within the rules. She wanted to know why The Temple was different from Little Well, so she was reminded that they had gotten preapproval from the elephant for what they did in Little Well. He argued that, since they hadn't asked the elephant if reeducating the people of The Temple would invalidate the contest, they shouldn't mess with them yet. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver still thought that, since they were going to be removing Chok'Thar, they should put another band-aid on those followers to stop them from killing themselves. A-Dom brought up that the demons hadn't been an original part of the competition and suggested that, as long as they didn't try to change the villager's from their mission statement, they'd be safe. Quicksilver was under the mistaken impression that the Unconquered Sun didn't like human sacrifice. The group explained why he actually did. Quicksilver worked up an age and a procreation requirement for the villagers to fulfill before they could sacrifice themselves. That way, the Unconquered Sun still got his sacrifices and the world wasn't deprived of these fanatical, but misguided worshippers.
In the morning, Gareth decided he, Tiger and A-Dom should head off in search of Baus’turo while Jade's Luck and Quicksilver dealt with Chok'Thar. That would allow them to take care of the demons quicker. Jade's Luck asked for them to harvest toes, but no such agreement was made. Jade's Luck went with Quicksilver into the village, where he made a proclamation that he was going to give an important speech at sundown and all the villagers should attend.
When Gareth, Tiger and A-Dom arrived at the demon compound, they asked where Baus’turo was. The demon they talked to said it didn't know, because he was all magicy. A-Dom called out to Baus’turo and got a response. When he asked where he was, Baus’turo told him to look up. Up upon a roof was a purpley swirling mist. A-Dom ordered him to come down to the street and face them.
Baus’turo appeared on the street in full form. He was about ten feet tall and had arms on both his front and back. Gareth presented Baus’turo with a pie, confusing him. Then Tiger stabbed the demon with Ghost-Eating Technique. As Baus’turo's skin was punctured, crackling, electric blood spilled out doing aggravated damage to Tiger. Then Baus’turo keeled over, dead. With that blood, no one wanted to harvest any toes, so Gareth made a stone sled for A-Dom to pull and they carefully put the bleeding demon on it. They noticed the blood was eating through the stone, so it was suggested that A-Dom run for The Temple. Tiger and Gareth ran to the side of A-Dom as he ran through the forest, pulling the sled. Gareth took that time to use Wound-Cleansing Technique, changing Tiger's aggravated wounds into lethal wounds. After a little ways, A-Dom noticed that the dripping blood was causing fires behind him. They stopped and put out the fires. A-Dom decided that transporting the demon just wasn't happening and Jade's Luck would have to come here if she wanted the toes. He dug a hole and put Baus’turo in, head first. The blood started eating away at the ground, making him sink lower. They then continued heading back towards The Temple.
Sundown came around at The Temple and a lot more people than Jade's Luck had seen previously were gathered. Since Quicksilver knew Forestspeak and Jade's Luck did not, he did all of the talking and kept up a running translation for her. He told the villagers how great of worshippers of the Unconquered Sun they were, but that they had become misguided in some of their ways. He talked of sacrifice and stated that they would all be allowed to sacrifice themselves to the Unconquered Sun. He paused a bit too long at this point and then continued, saying that they needed to wait and fulfill certain criteria before doing so. Not everyone had waited during that pause. The poor guy bleeding to death in the back was mostly ignored by Quicksilver and Jade's Luck, since neither had any medical training. He laid out several rules about when they could sacrifice themselves. They boiled down to being both fifty years of age and having produced three children who have reached adulthood (defined as being 18 years of age). He again took too long a pause as Jade's Luck told him he should add that they only should sacrifice themselves on the Sixth day, and also only one person a month. A couple of mortally wounded people later, he added Jade's Luck's suggestions. He explained that the Unconquered Sun only looked in on them one day a month because they were doing so well and there were other, bad people who required much more of his attention. Jade's Luck pointed out that he had just told the people that they should be bad to get more attention from god. He did his best to correct himself, causing Jade's Luck to need to correct him further. The people were very gung-ho about demons being bad, so he thought they should witness or participate in the killing of Chok'Thar. So he told them all to return at Sunrise the next day.
When the trio returned to the Temple, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to heal the poor bleeding guy. When shown to him, Gareth found the guy had been dead for a couple hours. They headed back to their camp and Quicksilver discussed his plan to have the villagers help with killing Chok'Thar. This was generally considered to be a bad plan and led to lots of discussion and explanations about how Chok'Thar wasn't a piñata and how mortals up against demons was lethal for mortals and they shouldn't be taught to think if they hit demons with sticks, candy would come out. A-Dom got ideas about expanding the limits of Necromancy by making Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Brain. There were lots of comments about how undead decompose and that he'd become Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Rotting Puddle. The Circle went to sleep for the night, sticking at least to killing Chok'Thar in the morning.
During the night, A-Dom decided he did want Chok'Thar DEAD, so wandered off to talk to him. Chok'Thar made comments about Quicksilver's speech and said it didn't sound like they were going to need him anymore. He also said that they'd been going around killing demons and asked when he was being killed. Chok'Thar didn't like the Undead Demon Brain concept and that he didn't think A-Dom had the right spells to make an Undead Demon anyway. A-Dom made comments about Exalting Chok'Thar as a Solar. Chok'Thar said that there were specific rules against that. He also said that he had lost a lot of respect with other demons already, having his body taken away from him. He said that he had once been a crab-like demon with a large head. A-Dom said that sounded cool.
A-Dom told Chok'Thar about how he had sent Flamey back to Malfeas. Chok'Thar said Flamey was a prick. A-Dom said that he had liked him and he liked Chok'Thar too.
A-Dom: So, why don't you go ahead and violate your contract. (pause) Without killing people.
Chok'Thar: Too late! *pop*
With Chok’Thar returned to Malfeas, A-Dom headed out into the village to find everyone in The Temple dead. He ran back to the Circle's huts.
A-Dom: Guys! Wake Up! I accidently killed the whole village!
Once the Circle was roused, they headed to The Temple to verify this. Questions were asked about what happened. Explanations were given about Flamey and Chok'Thar. A-Dom was very sorry (that he was going to get away with this). Tiger checked the well with Sorcerer's Sight and confirmed that the well was now off. A-Dom made mention about Chok'Thar once having a body.
Quicksilver relayed this. A-Dom said that Chok'Thar was probably now whole again in Malfeas. Quicksilver talked about his plans to become a sorcerer and summon demons for the express purpose of killing them dead.
Quicksilver and Jade's Luck started seeing to the bodies, but knew they'd quickly run out of Essence zorching the bodies. Tiger ran off in one direction to check on villages while A-Dom and Gareth ran off in the other direction. Tiger visited Little Well and Sun'gra'la while A-Dom and Gareth visited Oak Castle and Big Well.
They found the following:
This didn't look good for the competition, but at least it meant clearing up disease on the island would go faster for Gareth. Worst of all, all these people weren't even sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. They discussed for a while what they were going to do with thousands of the bodies. A-Dom initially suggested they put the bodies in 'long term storage' outside the bubble. This was rejected. He then suggested the maintenance cavern where the security demons used to hang out. They worked up a plan involving a cart for each village capable of surviving A-Dom speeds, Gareth making clear paths to the hatch, and long funeral processions. They talked about needing to go to see the Elephant now that the villages no longer had sufficient populations. Gareth brought up that he really needed to cure everyone before they ended the competition, in case the wells turned off and said he needed two and a half days to more quickly finish the quarantine procedures. Jade's Luck wanted the quarantine to be promoted after the necessary period, so that the villages wouldn't wipe each other out. A-Dom pointed out that that would needlessly prolong the competition. They tabled that discussion until after they had talked to the elephant.
A-Dom took Jade's Luck back to Baus’turo's body. The body had mostly depleted of blood by that point and was in a significantly deeper hole. She harvested toes.
Gareth drew up plans for a quick and orderly project to store/bury the bodies in the cavern and plans for the quarantine procedures. The next several days involved Gareth training for two and a half days and activating Bureau-Rectifying Method twice to make both projects as efficient as possible. Jade's Luck worked on the burial project and also played essence battery for Gareth for the quarantine project.
Once both projects were done, they convened at the Manse. Gareth made airbladders for himself and Tiger, since A-Dom and Quicksilver already had ones. They talked it out what doors they were going to go in to give accurate reports. Since The Temple was empty, it was decided that one would get the worst rating. It was decided Oak Castle would get the second worst rating, since they could no longer procreate on their own. While Little Well had a larger population than Big Well, they had a worse male to female ratio (and fewer females), so they got the third worst rating. Big Well, with the smallest, but still alive, population at least had a decent male to female ratio, so got the fourth worst rating. Since Sun'gra'la was all fine, it got the best rating. Each Solar went through their assigned door.
Imastatue was elated to be getting reports on all villages. He said that the well was off in The Temple, so that must mean that they were all dead. There was a lot of crunching sounds and the Manses shook a bit. The room they were all standing in was now a square. They then brought up Oak Castle and it was declared a loser, since it was no longer viable. More crunching sounds, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now a triangle. Little Well was then brought up and it was decided that they should be declared a loser, due to not being able to sustain a population after a generation or two. There was more crunching noises, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now shaped like an eye.
The conversation then shifted to whether or not they wanted to prolong the competition or just end it. They decided to just end it, since Big Well was clearly going to lose and they didn't want to wait for more people to die. The Manse rumbled, crunched and shook some more and then the room they were standing in was now a circle. Imastatue proclaimed surprise, stating he was now in charge of the Wells. The group asked him to not turn them off. He said that he wanted to make them into gushing fountains and shoot water between the fountains. He was told he could so long as he didn't hurt any mortals doing so. Warning spirits were discussed.
Since he received no notification of what he owed, A-Dom went outside to look around at the Manse. He noticed that the manse was now round and they were back in Creation. While looking around, a Golden Monkey wandered up to A-Dom.
Golden Monkey: Hello Loser!
A-Dom conceded that he had lost the competition and asked the monkey what he owed. The monkey said he'd take the deed for one nation of one million people now or he could drop it off at the Bureau of Magical Contests. A-Dom said he didn't have a nation. When asked when he would, A-Dom said he would some time within the next 200-300 years. The monkey said that would definitely involve some interest, but they hadn't even found the winner yet to inform him. The monkey then wandered off.
The rest of the group filtered out of the Manse as well and discussed what to do with the other villages. A-Dom wanted to use the people to populate other islands, thus marking another thing off of one of his many lists. This was agreed to be a good idea.
A-Dom wanted the job of playing father for Oak Castle. Gareth said that they still needed to take the people out into the Wyld to shape them into being immune to the Great Contagion anyway, so some of the women could come out men. The face A-Dom made at that suggestion was quite amusing. It was decided that recruiting mortal men to join the village would be a better idea than those proposed.
The group wandered off to Big Well to check on things. While there, Quicksilver was approached by the Golden Money. He had a much longer list of things to provide, since his village (The Temple) was second to last.
The group then set out to train for the upcoming trips into the Wyld. Jade's Luck asked Gareth to teach her Medicine.
Session 78
Synopsis of 10/13/08
Sometimes Mass Murder is an Accident
Subtitle: Tiger Achieves a New Level in Apathy
-By Ao the Overkitty
With the security demons all cleared up, Jade's Luck, Quicksilver Noon and Gareth spent some more time proselytizing before deciding they were done in Little Well for a while. Gareth commented about the dead demon smelling like burnt dog hair. Then he looked up and saw A-Dom had returned, slightly singed. Jade's Luck went about collecting all four of the dead demon's toes. When Quicksilver asked why, she explained a little about Opec and his desire for weird things in exchange for teaching sorcery. Jade's Luck pointed out some of the more 'interesting' items on Opec's list. This lead to a discussion of A-Dom's list.
With the fire and brimstone speeches done, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to cook a feast for the people. She failed to adequately explain her reasoning behind this, but he did anyway. A-Dom and Jade's Luck organized the celebration of the other tenant of the religion of the Unconquered Sun.
Later on, the Circle picked a spot a mile into the forest as a place to camp for the night. Gareth made huts. In the morning, they stood around for a while and once again discussed their list of demons to kill. They again quickly decided that the Neomah needed to die, but were less sure about Baus’turo and Chok'Thar, Demon Brain. A-Dom yelled for the Neomah to come meet them and the group marched towards the demon compound. Eventually, the group met up with the Neomah. Gareth looked at Tiger expectantly. He did nothing.
A-Dom and Quicksilver ordered the Neomah to turn around and close her eyes.
Gareth (whisper): Tiger, do your thing.
He did nothing. The Neomah was now clearly expecting something, so A-Dom asked Gareth to make a pie for the Neomah (to confuse her). While Gareth was making the pie, Tiger finally sprung into action and stabbed the Neomah with Ghost-Eating Technique. The Neomah was greviously wounded, but alive enough to pop back to Malfeas. When asked why he hadn't just started with the killing, he shrugged. Gareth now had a perfectly good bark and grass pie and no demon to give it to. A-Dom presented it to Quicksilver, who had a piece. He said it wasn't bad, but didn't need another piece.
The group then all marched to The Temple and set up camp a mile outside where they discussed for a while if they were going to keep Baus’turo and Chok'Thar. Jade's Luck went on about how she wanted to reeducate the people of The Temple. Gareth brought up that they really didn't want to invalidate the competition and weren't sure that reeducating the people of The Temple was permitted within the rules. She wanted to know why The Temple was different from Little Well, so she was reminded that they had gotten preapproval from the elephant for what they did in Little Well. He argued that, since they hadn't asked the elephant if reeducating the people of The Temple would invalidate the contest, they shouldn't mess with them yet. Jade's Luck and Quicksilver still thought that, since they were going to be removing Chok'Thar, they should put another band-aid on those followers to stop them from killing themselves. A-Dom brought up that the demons hadn't been an original part of the competition and suggested that, as long as they didn't try to change the villager's from their mission statement, they'd be safe. Quicksilver was under the mistaken impression that the Unconquered Sun didn't like human sacrifice. The group explained why he actually did. Quicksilver worked up an age and a procreation requirement for the villagers to fulfill before they could sacrifice themselves. That way, the Unconquered Sun still got his sacrifices and the world wasn't deprived of these fanatical, but misguided worshippers.
In the morning, Gareth decided he, Tiger and A-Dom should head off in search of Baus’turo while Jade's Luck and Quicksilver dealt with Chok'Thar. That would allow them to take care of the demons quicker. Jade's Luck asked for them to harvest toes, but no such agreement was made. Jade's Luck went with Quicksilver into the village, where he made a proclamation that he was going to give an important speech at sundown and all the villagers should attend.
When Gareth, Tiger and A-Dom arrived at the demon compound, they asked where Baus’turo was. The demon they talked to said it didn't know, because he was all magicy. A-Dom called out to Baus’turo and got a response. When he asked where he was, Baus’turo told him to look up. Up upon a roof was a purpley swirling mist. A-Dom ordered him to come down to the street and face them.
Baus’turo appeared on the street in full form. He was about ten feet tall and had arms on both his front and back. Gareth presented Baus’turo with a pie, confusing him. Then Tiger stabbed the demon with Ghost-Eating Technique. As Baus’turo's skin was punctured, crackling, electric blood spilled out doing aggravated damage to Tiger. Then Baus’turo keeled over, dead. With that blood, no one wanted to harvest any toes, so Gareth made a stone sled for A-Dom to pull and they carefully put the bleeding demon on it. They noticed the blood was eating through the stone, so it was suggested that A-Dom run for The Temple. Tiger and Gareth ran to the side of A-Dom as he ran through the forest, pulling the sled. Gareth took that time to use Wound-Cleansing Technique, changing Tiger's aggravated wounds into lethal wounds. After a little ways, A-Dom noticed that the dripping blood was causing fires behind him. They stopped and put out the fires. A-Dom decided that transporting the demon just wasn't happening and Jade's Luck would have to come here if she wanted the toes. He dug a hole and put Baus’turo in, head first. The blood started eating away at the ground, making him sink lower. They then continued heading back towards The Temple.
Sundown came around at The Temple and a lot more people than Jade's Luck had seen previously were gathered. Since Quicksilver knew Forestspeak and Jade's Luck did not, he did all of the talking and kept up a running translation for her. He told the villagers how great of worshippers of the Unconquered Sun they were, but that they had become misguided in some of their ways. He talked of sacrifice and stated that they would all be allowed to sacrifice themselves to the Unconquered Sun. He paused a bit too long at this point and then continued, saying that they needed to wait and fulfill certain criteria before doing so. Not everyone had waited during that pause. The poor guy bleeding to death in the back was mostly ignored by Quicksilver and Jade's Luck, since neither had any medical training. He laid out several rules about when they could sacrifice themselves. They boiled down to being both fifty years of age and having produced three children who have reached adulthood (defined as being 18 years of age). He again took too long a pause as Jade's Luck told him he should add that they only should sacrifice themselves on the Sixth day, and also only one person a month. A couple of mortally wounded people later, he added Jade's Luck's suggestions. He explained that the Unconquered Sun only looked in on them one day a month because they were doing so well and there were other, bad people who required much more of his attention. Jade's Luck pointed out that he had just told the people that they should be bad to get more attention from god. He did his best to correct himself, causing Jade's Luck to need to correct him further. The people were very gung-ho about demons being bad, so he thought they should witness or participate in the killing of Chok'Thar. So he told them all to return at Sunrise the next day.
When the trio returned to the Temple, Jade's Luck asked Gareth to heal the poor bleeding guy. When shown to him, Gareth found the guy had been dead for a couple hours. They headed back to their camp and Quicksilver discussed his plan to have the villagers help with killing Chok'Thar. This was generally considered to be a bad plan and led to lots of discussion and explanations about how Chok'Thar wasn't a piñata and how mortals up against demons was lethal for mortals and they shouldn't be taught to think if they hit demons with sticks, candy would come out. A-Dom got ideas about expanding the limits of Necromancy by making Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Brain. There were lots of comments about how undead decompose and that he'd become Chok'Thar, Undead Demon Rotting Puddle. The Circle went to sleep for the night, sticking at least to killing Chok'Thar in the morning.
During the night, A-Dom decided he did want Chok'Thar DEAD, so wandered off to talk to him. Chok'Thar made comments about Quicksilver's speech and said it didn't sound like they were going to need him anymore. He also said that they'd been going around killing demons and asked when he was being killed. Chok'Thar didn't like the Undead Demon Brain concept and that he didn't think A-Dom had the right spells to make an Undead Demon anyway. A-Dom made comments about Exalting Chok'Thar as a Solar. Chok'Thar said that there were specific rules against that. He also said that he had lost a lot of respect with other demons already, having his body taken away from him. He said that he had once been a crab-like demon with a large head. A-Dom said that sounded cool.
A-Dom told Chok'Thar about how he had sent Flamey back to Malfeas. Chok'Thar said Flamey was a prick. A-Dom said that he had liked him and he liked Chok'Thar too.
A-Dom: So, why don't you go ahead and violate your contract. (pause) Without killing people.
Chok'Thar: Too late! *pop*
With Chok’Thar returned to Malfeas, A-Dom headed out into the village to find everyone in The Temple dead. He ran back to the Circle's huts.
A-Dom: Guys! Wake Up! I accidently killed the whole village!
Once the Circle was roused, they headed to The Temple to verify this. Questions were asked about what happened. Explanations were given about Flamey and Chok'Thar. A-Dom was very sorry (that he was going to get away with this). Tiger checked the well with Sorcerer's Sight and confirmed that the well was now off. A-Dom made mention about Chok'Thar once having a body.
Quicksilver's Vision of Better Times said:
Quicksilver relayed this. A-Dom said that Chok'Thar was probably now whole again in Malfeas. Quicksilver talked about his plans to become a sorcerer and summon demons for the express purpose of killing them dead.
Quicksilver and Jade's Luck started seeing to the bodies, but knew they'd quickly run out of Essence zorching the bodies. Tiger ran off in one direction to check on villages while A-Dom and Gareth ran off in the other direction. Tiger visited Little Well and Sun'gra'la while A-Dom and Gareth visited Oak Castle and Big Well.
They found the following:
- The Temple - All dead.
- Little Well - 100 survivors. 80 male and 20 female.
- Sun'gra'la - All alive and fine.
- Oak Castle - 100 survivors, all female.
- Big Well - 50 survivors. 20 male and 30 female.
This didn't look good for the competition, but at least it meant clearing up disease on the island would go faster for Gareth. Worst of all, all these people weren't even sacrificed to the Unconquered Sun. They discussed for a while what they were going to do with thousands of the bodies. A-Dom initially suggested they put the bodies in 'long term storage' outside the bubble. This was rejected. He then suggested the maintenance cavern where the security demons used to hang out. They worked up a plan involving a cart for each village capable of surviving A-Dom speeds, Gareth making clear paths to the hatch, and long funeral processions. They talked about needing to go to see the Elephant now that the villages no longer had sufficient populations. Gareth brought up that he really needed to cure everyone before they ended the competition, in case the wells turned off and said he needed two and a half days to more quickly finish the quarantine procedures. Jade's Luck wanted the quarantine to be promoted after the necessary period, so that the villages wouldn't wipe each other out. A-Dom pointed out that that would needlessly prolong the competition. They tabled that discussion until after they had talked to the elephant.
A-Dom took Jade's Luck back to Baus’turo's body. The body had mostly depleted of blood by that point and was in a significantly deeper hole. She harvested toes.
Gareth drew up plans for a quick and orderly project to store/bury the bodies in the cavern and plans for the quarantine procedures. The next several days involved Gareth training for two and a half days and activating Bureau-Rectifying Method twice to make both projects as efficient as possible. Jade's Luck worked on the burial project and also played essence battery for Gareth for the quarantine project.
Once both projects were done, they convened at the Manse. Gareth made airbladders for himself and Tiger, since A-Dom and Quicksilver already had ones. They talked it out what doors they were going to go in to give accurate reports. Since The Temple was empty, it was decided that one would get the worst rating. It was decided Oak Castle would get the second worst rating, since they could no longer procreate on their own. While Little Well had a larger population than Big Well, they had a worse male to female ratio (and fewer females), so they got the third worst rating. Big Well, with the smallest, but still alive, population at least had a decent male to female ratio, so got the fourth worst rating. Since Sun'gra'la was all fine, it got the best rating. Each Solar went through their assigned door.
Imastatue was elated to be getting reports on all villages. He said that the well was off in The Temple, so that must mean that they were all dead. There was a lot of crunching sounds and the Manses shook a bit. The room they were all standing in was now a square. They then brought up Oak Castle and it was declared a loser, since it was no longer viable. More crunching sounds, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now a triangle. Little Well was then brought up and it was decided that they should be declared a loser, due to not being able to sustain a population after a generation or two. There was more crunching noises, Manse shaking and then the room they were standing in was now shaped like an eye.
The conversation then shifted to whether or not they wanted to prolong the competition or just end it. They decided to just end it, since Big Well was clearly going to lose and they didn't want to wait for more people to die. The Manse rumbled, crunched and shook some more and then the room they were standing in was now a circle. Imastatue proclaimed surprise, stating he was now in charge of the Wells. The group asked him to not turn them off. He said that he wanted to make them into gushing fountains and shoot water between the fountains. He was told he could so long as he didn't hurt any mortals doing so. Warning spirits were discussed.
Since he received no notification of what he owed, A-Dom went outside to look around at the Manse. He noticed that the manse was now round and they were back in Creation. While looking around, a Golden Monkey wandered up to A-Dom.
Golden Monkey: Hello Loser!
A-Dom conceded that he had lost the competition and asked the monkey what he owed. The monkey said he'd take the deed for one nation of one million people now or he could drop it off at the Bureau of Magical Contests. A-Dom said he didn't have a nation. When asked when he would, A-Dom said he would some time within the next 200-300 years. The monkey said that would definitely involve some interest, but they hadn't even found the winner yet to inform him. The monkey then wandered off.
The rest of the group filtered out of the Manse as well and discussed what to do with the other villages. A-Dom wanted to use the people to populate other islands, thus marking another thing off of one of his many lists. This was agreed to be a good idea.
A-Dom wanted the job of playing father for Oak Castle. Gareth said that they still needed to take the people out into the Wyld to shape them into being immune to the Great Contagion anyway, so some of the women could come out men. The face A-Dom made at that suggestion was quite amusing. It was decided that recruiting mortal men to join the village would be a better idea than those proposed.
The group wandered off to Big Well to check on things. While there, Quicksilver was approached by the Golden Money. He had a much longer list of things to provide, since his village (The Temple) was second to last.
- One nation of 1 million (or more) people
- Three artifacts
- One Magical transportation device
- One amusing toy
The group then set out to train for the upcoming trips into the Wyld. Jade's Luck asked Gareth to teach her Medicine.
