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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3581210" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 4/9/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Lets go Tomb Robbing!</span></strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite.</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By AlwaysToast</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Gareth is trying to sort out the best braggers of the brewers. He gets it down to two equally impressive brewers. One of them wants Gareth to tell people how great a brewer he is, every year (group suggests a yearly kegger). The other one wants vast sums of money for his surviving relatives.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: If we start our own country, we can just make it a national holiday. It will take care of itself after that.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: It will go along very good with your sex cult.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I think the only members of my sex-cult are monkeys.</p><p></p><p>Alex: Sex & Candy will work. Cause people will follow sex and candy cause it’s a much better idea then following the Sun. But I’m not having that conversation because Gareth is trying to be better. Alex isn’t, Gareth is.</p><p></p><p>Gareth actually picks the Brewer who wants to be remembered every year. Hugor Beerfield.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You’re the one who’s going to be drinking out of it. Not me.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Quote that for posterity.</p><p></p><p>The group makes their deal with Hugor Beerfield official and make sure everything is taken care of with the Mortician so they can get Hugor’s head. As soon as the group gets out of the Underworld, Pursy spits Bianca back out.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Lets go Tomb Robbing!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I object. It’s just item re-acquisition.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I have philosophical problems with this, but shinny <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> is always cool. You see we are trying to disown all the stupid stuff they did, while trying to get back all the stuff they did it with.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Just think of it as just compensation for all the stuff we did to ourselves.</p><p></p><p>The group decides to go to the Wretched Tomb during the day, because A-Dom is a Dawn (ignoring the fact that Wretch was a Night Caste). The Wretched Tomb here is a large, 500 ft tall pyramid, as the group gets closer they see that the surface is not smooth as they had thought, but is in fact made out of pins. Little regular sized, pins (like for sewing). Pins are set, pointy side out.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: First question: Who the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> builds these? Second question, how did I build the first tomb?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I think I designed it at least.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Do you remember how to get in?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: You could have made the tomb, for when you died. You know, ahead of time.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: And people liked you SO MUCH that they decided to build you extras.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Good point.</p><p></p><p>Gareth decides that there is a door at ground level hidden in the pins. A-Dom and Tiger spot that there is an entrance all the way near the top. They also note that every once in a while, there is a pin that is sticking out a little further then the others, which has it’s blunt tip exposed. On the pin head are solar cast marks.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom activates graceful crane stance and starts leap/monkey leaping from one blunt headed pin to another till he reaches the top. Tiger does the same thing following him up. At the top they find a circular metal cover set into the stone. Very reminiscent of the other Wretched Tombs they have been to. On the lid it says ‘Depository of the Wretch of Winter’s Teeth.’</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Their might be a LOT of these.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Do you want us to come up?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: If we start screaming, we’ll need your help.</p><p></p><p>Tiger manages to unscrew the cap without setting off any traps (as there were no traps). The lid then slides up vertically on a pair of vertical poles. Below them they see a long deep shaft. Lined with needles, all pointing diagonally down.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Come on guys! It will be fun. Come on up!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Get stuck on the inside!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I don’t think I’m getting up there.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I can carry you!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom jauntily jumps down to Gareth. Unfortunately he wasn’t as careful on his way down as he was on his way up, and he missed one of the pins for standing on, and put his foot down on some of the regular pointy pins. The entire side of the pyramid that A-Dom is standing on, shoots off as a hail of millions of pins.</p><p></p><p>Ryan, hysterical yet sad laugher.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom manages to jump again, and twist out of the way. Mostly taking needles in the buttocks and leg. Then making it down the rest of the way safely.</p><p></p><p>The pins launched with a great deal of force (Think Death of Obsidian Butterflies, but with pins, and much larger area). A path of destruction through Sijan approximately 500 feet across and almost a mile long has been hit by the pins. Only the strong stone tombs are standing. A number of wooden buildings (for living residents) have been completely removed.</p><p></p><p>Gareth and Jade’s Luck, watching the pyramid, sees another row of pins slide into place.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, you want me to carry you back up... now that I’m down here? I’m going back anyway, you all might as well come.</p><p></p><p>So, Gareth, Bianca and Jade’s Luck all activate Graceful Crane Stance, stand on top of A-Dom as he makes his way up. A-Dom tries to juggle them while he’s bouncing up the side of the pyramid.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: This isn’t fun for anyone but you!</p><p></p><p>While they are doing this, Tiger climbs down the vertical tunnel finding it to be 100 ft deep, using Spiderfoot style. Down at the bottom he finds a 50ft by 50ft room (only 10 ft tall) with 5 caps on the floor, each with a cast mark on it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck (at the top): Does anyone have something so mundane as rope?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I can make rope.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Up here?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Maybe not. Pursy how long is your tongue?</p><p></p><p>Pursy: Not that long.</p><p></p><p>Liz: Have we attracted any notice yet?</p><p></p><p>GM: Yes, the locals have noticed that large swath of the city was destroyed or highly damaged, and is now covered in pins.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom (Yelling down the hole): Tiger? You ready for me to throw them down yet?</p><p></p><p>Tiger (Yelling back up): Throw them down whenever, I’m not catching them.</p><p></p><p>So A-Dom jumps down the hole. Gareth doesn’t get off A-Dom. Jade’s Luck and Bianca watch them. Halfway down Gareth considers summoning his armor. But decides crushing A-Dom might not be good. They both basically break their ankels at the bottom.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Owe! All clear! Come on down.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m still concerned about going down without having a plan to get back out. What with the pins and all.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Just get down here and stop worrying.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck notices that there is a little ring on the underside of the circular cap. Which might be idea for attaching a rope (which they don’t have) to.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: You know what happened the last time we left these knuckle heads alone?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I can get rope later!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Come on down! I’ll catch you!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Is he lying?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I don’t have that on right now. I’m healing.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I promise on the Unconquered Sun... and... the... borrowed black books... and beer... and... OH on my Zombies! That I’ll try to catch you.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Want to try and catch both of us?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: At once!?! YES!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Bianca decide to go down one at a time. A-Dom manages to catch them with only minor bruising. So the group sits around for two hours while A-Dom and Gareth heal.</p><p></p><p>Written on the floor in Old Realm by the (man-hole sized) caps on the floor, are the words: ‘Only a perfect circle from the west may enter in unison.’ At this point everyone can read it (Ryan: I believe the last tomb is why I learned how to read Old Realm).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Everyone find your symbol! (A-Dom goes to the Dawn Caste symbol) I suggest we open them all at the same time.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: And hop in all at the same time?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We don’t know what’s under there. There could be buttons, or dead people...</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes to the Night, Gareth goes to Twilight, Jade’s Luck goes to Zenith, and Bianca goes to the Eclipse.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Ok everyone turn slowly in unison. Turn on three...</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Wait, wait wait... do you mean 1, 2, 3 do something or ON three.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: On 3</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So 1, 2, Do something.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why do you even say 3 then?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Why are we even having this conversation?</p><p></p><p>The group manages to turn in unison on 3. At a certain point, the lids slid up on vertical poles. Below the caps are vertical stone tubes. A-Dom starts heading down into his. Everyone realizes there is no way to stop him, and heads into their tubes. The lids close on top of them.</p><p></p><p>All of the following things happen simultaneously. But they are each separated from the others.</p><p></p><p> A-Dom gets down to the bottom. Written on the wall is: Why did you chose to be born of House Sesus?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Ah, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />! Cause I hate my mom!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.</p><p></p><p> Gareth sees Written on the wall: What force do you continually fail to account for?</p><p></p><p>Gareth: GOD!</p><p></p><p>Gareth hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.</p><p></p><p> Tiger sees Written on the wall: What should have brought you to your tomb?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Greed!</p><p></p><p>Tiger hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him.</p><p></p><p> Jade’s Luck sees Written on the wall: What does your group lack that leads to your acts of hubris?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: (long pause) Humility!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck hears a ding, and light comes on over her, and the floor drops out from under her.</p><p></p><p> Bianca sees written on the wall: Do you enjoy killing?</p><p></p><p>Bianca: No</p><p></p><p>Bianca hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under her.</p><p></p><p>The group now finds themselves in a clear tube, where they can see each other, the rest of the area is dark. Jade’s Luck’s tube is lit up.</p><p></p><p> A-Dom’s tube has a blue light come on. And he hears a ghostly voice.</p><p></p><p>Voice: Truthfully answer one question from each of your circle mates, without double talk, self contradiction, and without confusing the person who asked the question.</p><p></p><p>A little light comes on over each Circle member as they get to ask the question.</p><p> Gareth: Will you ever learn to accept Jade’s Luck?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wow, that’s a really weird question that I can’t necessarily answer... but most likely Yes.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So, what question are you going to ask me?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Where were you born?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What was the deal you made with Duke Dew-key, the whole thing, all of it?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I get to throw 200 bad mortals into the wyld in 5 lifetimes... hold on, I need to find my list...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What did you get out of this?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We got out people out of the wyld, and into the East. Although I didn’t specify the east, I got it cheaper because I didn’t specify where we would end up. I saved 50 lives! Well maybe not, I do get to kill 50 less people. But Dragon-Bloods count as 3 if they are tied up. I was planning on mostly throwing Dragon-Bloods into the Wyld. Oh, and Kids count as 2, but I’m not throwing in any kids.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Why do you act like you’re brain dead all the time?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: My dad said when I was a kid I shoved a fish up my nose. Since then I just don’t think right. It’s adventure!</p><p></p><p> A-Dom’s tube lights up in a golden light like Jade’s Luck’s tube. A</p><p>blue light comes on over Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Voice: Name the group of Exalts who infuriate you the most.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: The Solar Circle of the West!</p><p></p><p>Liz: I’m glad I didn’t get that question for Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p> Gareth’s tube lights up like A-Dom and Jade’s Luck. A blue light comes</p><p>on over Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Voice: Define a serious religious doctrine which you will henceforth be responsible for enforcing.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (long, long pause) The first day of High Summer will be a holy holiday. There will be no drinking or drug use on that day. So people will have to stay sober on that day.</p><p></p><p>Alex: You’ve created Lent.</p><p></p><p> The light above Tiger turns gold. The blue light comes on over Bianca.</p><p></p><p>Voice: Honestly and completely answer one question from each of your circle mates, using complete sentences (or entire stories if necessary). Circumvention of giving an honest answer by giving a purely truthful answer will count as incorrect.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why mini-cows???</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Long ago my family bred big cows. Then they had to move to a smaller ranch. So my Great Grand Father started breeding the cows to be smaller and smaller and smaller. I was just carrying on the family tradition of Mini-cows.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Why haven’t you run screaming away from us already?</p><p></p><p>Bianca: Umm... I find there to be a lot of entertainment when you are all around.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (long pause) What’s your favorite food?</p><p></p><p>Bianca: If you take 5 mini-cows, and put them on skewers, and roast them over a fire... oh it’s so good. So mini-cow kebabs.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What do you think we could be doing better?</p><p></p><p>Everyone one else shows silent signs of outrage that Jade’s Luck could ask such a mean question of poor Bianca.</p><p></p><p>Bianca: I think we could really do a better job of NOT killing mortals. Less collateral damage.</p><p></p><p>Bianca’s light turns golden. So every ones tube is lit up in a golden light. The floors drop out from under everyone and they land in at room.</p><p></p><p>Voice: You have all been Identified. You may pass into the tombs to face the trials.</p><p></p><p>The group is in a circular room with three exits.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Lets see if we can figure this out. I’m Jahar, You’re (pointing at Tiger) A-Dom, and You’re (pointing at Bianca) Tiger! You... (pointing at Jade’s Luck) You’re still Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Ok A-Dom, lead the way.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (looks at the three tunnels) Math bad! (A-Dom heads down the ‘middle one’ which is only the middle in relation to A-Dom.)</p><p></p><p>Group gets down to a square room, full of sapphire statues. The statues are all roughly human sized, but some are of goats, and crabs and stuff.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: We’re rich!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It’s a manse, I’m pretty sure we can’t take them.</p><p></p><p>The circle starts to notice that the statues occasionally move, or shift in position. A-Dom walks into the room and pokes the first statue he comes to.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Why are you pretending you are a statue? Who do I talk to?</p><p></p><p>The statue points at another statue at the far side of the room. A-Dom walks over to it. The rest of the circle follows into the room. As Tiger (the last one in) enters the door slams shut behind him.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Figures. So how are you going to be messing us up today?</p><p></p><p>Statue: With pointy things! (The statues draw swords and spears and such)</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: There are over five thousand ways of hurting people will pointy things.</p><p></p><p>Statue: Really? I guess we’ll do our best to try them all.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wonderful.</p><p></p><p>The group makes reasonable quick work of the statues. Once they are all destroyed, all the statues crumble into very fine dust. (This sums up an hour of game time.) All the doors to the room open up.</p><p></p><p>This is a square room with four doors (one which they just came through), one on each wall. A-Dom chooses to go through the middle one.</p><p></p><p>They climb down a long stairway and come into a circular room with a number of paintings on the walls, as well as a number of personal possessions strewn about, including, a number of painting supplies. There is also an old man sitting there.</p><p></p><p>Old Man: You’re finally here!</p><p></p><p>The old man gets up runs across the room and dives into a painting. A-Dom attempts to follow. He runs across the room and slams face first into the painting. However, while he is close to the painting, he gets a good look at it (9 successes).</p><p></p><p>The painting is very odd. It is done in an overhead perspective of a town built on a hill, much as a bird might see it when flying overhead. In the painting he can see the old man falling, down... further... and further, until he punches through the ground at the very top of the hill. Underneath the crust, through the crack that the old man mad, A-Dom can see bubbling lava. A-Dom sees the old man in the lava, grab a sword and stab himself in the face.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hubbawabbawah... He just dived into lava and stabbed himself in the face with a sword.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Where was it?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Wha... some island!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Tiger study the painting trying to memorize landmarks and note worthy buildings, thinking it will be important at some point. The painting however now appears completely normal.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t know what the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> just happened.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Why don’t you try to describe it in your own words?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He fell down into through the painting, and I think people are upset because he made a big hole in the ground, and there is lava there, and then he stabbed himself in the face. So I’m guessing he’s coming back sometime...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So Like Jahar?</p><p> A-Dom: I’m not sure if that’s location, or person, or how that works.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: He must have thought you were Jahar.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m not sure what anything means anymore.</p><p></p><p>Tiger goes to look at the other paintings. One looks like Elemental Island. One looks like the underworld. One that is half finished is Nexus, with a bridge going over the river. While they are doing this, A-Dom realizes that the Old man was really rather non- descript.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Son of a BITCH! What did he look like?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We didn’t see him, you were in the way.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Skinny/fat, short/tall <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ing annoying <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />er. He was like ‘Hello, You’re here’ and then he was like...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Stabbed himself in the face. Does that mean he’s going to try to get reborn in your house or something?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I don’t have a house! Wait... I do have a house. (A-Dom remembers something about the artifact sword.)</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Didn’t the last Jahar stab himself in Jahar’s room so he could get reborn into crap like that?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, One of you two (waves at Jade’s Luck and Bianca) is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed. Ether that or he knows my mom.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Could you explain in greater detail?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Umm.. The sword, I believe, doesn’t let you choose your father. It lets you choose your Mother. Now, he’s not expecting you (Bianca) I don’t think. Hard to tell what the hell is going on really... But you (Jade’s Luck) haven’t changed caste or anything. So, don’t have a baby!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I wasn’t planning on it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Well, you’re going to pop out one of those <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed up ones.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: A-Dom, I think you’re just confusing the issue.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Couldn’t he have picked your wife?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: But she’s not here.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Maybe he was planning for your reincarnation. When you’re a woman.</p><p> Jade’s Luck: You were a cute little girl earlier.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Moving on.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom walks through the central doorway, down another set of stairs. He comes to a room with a bowl suspended by chains, like one side of a scale, with an Orichalcum Grand GrimScythe.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Oooooooh... we need a really big sand bag. (Shouting behind him) I found a thingy.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m surprised he isn’t just grabbing it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom carefully inspects the area, looking for notes or traps. He comes to the conclusion that it’s a trap of some kind. But he has no idea how it works.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Tiger, it’s a trap.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Yes, it’s a trap. We should do more exploring before we mess with it. So we are going to have to do something other then take the middle every time.</p><p></p><p>The group goes back up then down one of the other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a small purple hearthstone sitting in the middle of it.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Woah-ho-ho-ah-hahaha-yea...</p><p></p><p>The group goes back up then down one the last other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a Orichalcum Dai Skycutter.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: OK we need to figure out more about the manse before anyone takes it and becomes a demon, or has to <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> a demon, or has to have a demon <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> us. I know how this world works!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So to get this manse you have to bend over and take it in the ass?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Possibly, with pins. I think it’s more of a get it over quickly unlike yours which is ‘torture them over their lifetime.’</p><p></p><p>The group goes back up two rooms, and down another passage, finding another square room with three hallways. It also looks like someone has been living here. There are supplies for painting, a bed roll, food, etc. They go down to the first room and find a large bag on the scale. They go back up and down to another room and find a white book.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I’m confused now... I want to flip the book open...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We need to figure out the trap FIRST.</p><p></p><p>The go up and down to the last room, and find a feather.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Oh, you could stick it in you’re hat and look really sporting.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I need a hat. (thinking about the bag and the feather) Oh! Oh! Oh! Someone’s been here! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />! We’ve been robbed! </p><p>Tiger: They probably stole the good thing too!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) So Crappy McCrappy Pants. We need some appropriately filled bags of sand.</p><p></p><p>Tiger tries to figure out things with All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight. The bag and feather are non-magical. The scales and chains are magical parts of the manse. The book has sorcerous emanations of essence. The Skycutter and GrimScythe are clearly artifacts. The Hearthstone appears to be related to this build, and death.</p><p></p><p>Dan: I do not tell this to ANYONE.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: This is why I’m a bad Dawn.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What you see tiger?</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I can tell how powerful they are. Only moderately powerful.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: So, we have a Book, two weapony-thingies and a Hearthstone. And we have a bag of sand.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: It’s a bag of something, not sand.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We need a Dragon Blood to hunt down our missing stuff, because they are good at tracking.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: We need a Dragon Blood in a bag!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Yea! We do.</p><p></p><p>Pursy: Hold on a minute... Haha, just kidding.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That’s not funny.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: (Grabs Pursy and yells inside) Empty Bucket come out!</p><p></p><p>A little eye on a stock comes out of Pursy on a multi-chromatic stalk and looks back into itself.</p><p></p><p>Pursy: Nope, no buckets in here.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) Crafty McCraftyperson, craft stuff that is the perfect weight.</p><p></p><p>The group discusses the trap in great detail making wild guesses. Gareth goes about looking for materials to make an item that will weigh the same as the items they want to take. Gareth gets a jar of paint for the hearthstone, and a pile of papers to replace the book.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I say we take the stack of stuff, just in case there is Jade in it or something. </p><p></p><p>The group goes back up two rooms, and down the last passage and find the residential part of the manse. They spend a lengthy time exploring the residential section (kitchens, dinning rooms, bed rooms, etc). Every once in a while there is a room with a wall made out of pins.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Ah the pleasure room.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: That little <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> was watching us. Brain... thinking... bad... All the paintings were places we’ve been too, except for the one I’m not sure. He was painting stuff, but one was half finished because we were just there.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: We know they are annoying sneaks and we would like to hold them down and beat them.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: A-Dom, brain... tired.</p><p></p><p>They find a pathway to a storage section (furniture and stuff), and they find a scale model of the tomb (with sections cut apart on different tables so each level can be seen).</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (to Gareth) This is all you’re fault.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m sure it’s partially you’re fault.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: What?</p><p></p><p>While they are arguing, Tiger figures out that the scale model is a working model that works, and is enchanted in the same way as the manse. Tiger grabs the little GrimScythe off the balance. All the pins on the outside of the manse explode outwards. All the pins on the inside of the manse explode inward, blocking all the tunnels and hallways, and making many of the rooms filled with pins.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: That’s really, really annoying. It doesn’t just kill off an entire city. It makes us...</p><p></p><p>Tiger: (interrupting) I wasn’t thinking annoying so much as deadly.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: It would be annoying to us.</p><p></p><p>The group then has to rest the model, by putting all the pins back into place. This takes a several hours to reset the model so they can try it another way. They try to take all the things at once, which causes an explosion of pins. They reset again. They then try weight substitution. They determine that it is best to do all the weigh substitution at the same time, as the scales appear to become more and more sensitive each time an item is taken off. Tiger also sees that there is a sparkle when something is taken.</p><p></p><p>The group then starts arguing about if they should take the bag or the feather as they have to leave one thing behind. Tiger thinks the bag of stuff is important. The group starts to divide up stuff. Gareth wants the Grand GrimScythe. Bianca would like the Sorcery related book.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Here is the question, I have something I can throw if I want to. (To A-Dom) You may want to consider branching out into the world of ranged weaponry. It’s a great way to hurt things far away.</p><p></p><p>Dan: Remember, A-Dom doesn’t know about the ‘death part.’</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Oh, ho, ho, ho, don’t think I have forgotten THAT.</p><p></p><p>Liz: I could teach you thrown.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Oh, A-Dom has had a 5 thrown for almost a year.</p><p></p><p>Liz: WHAT!?!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Ok, I’ll take the throwing weapon, and Tiger can get the bag.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I’m not too fond of this ‘Tiger gets the bag’ idea. We don’t even know how much it weighs. It’s bad idea.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: This is what Gareth is for.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Gareth is magic.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Can’t see worth crap, how is he going to figure out what is in the bag?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I’m sure he has calipers or something.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (To Tiger) You already have a manse.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Can we pry the bag open and take a look?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: (To Tiger) Can’t you put your head in it and look around?</p><p></p><p>Tiger very carefully and delicately (and buying a lot of successes with second Excellency, and getting a total of 10 successes), opens the top of the bag and peaks in. </p><p></p><p>Liz: You put your charm list in your ipod?</p><p></p><p>Dan: Like you wouldn’t if you could?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: I am not sharing a manse with Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: What?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: He’s eyeballing my hearthstone.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: You would get monkey servants.</p><p></p><p>Inside the bag Tiger sees a block of Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, and Jade.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: So, A-Dom, you can have what’s in this bag, or the Hearthstone.</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: Hearthstone!</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Sure?</p><p></p><p>A-Dom: YES!</p><p></p><p>A-Dom guards his hearthstone. Tiger takes Gareth and Jade’s Luck to another room, and explains the that the Hearthstone is related to death. He also tells Gareth what is in the bag so he can find a proper replacement weight.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Do we really want him to have that?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well on the one hand, we rightfully don’t trust A-Dom. As he is a total <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> up...</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We are all <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ups. There is no real distinction there.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Well the rest of us don’t barter away mortal’s lives that he doesn’t even have...</p><p></p><p>Tiger: I feel like taking this hearthstone just because he wouldn’t let me have the one I wanted before.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: That was my fault? That Jahar got it?</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I don’t want this hearthstone, he seems really attached to the idea. And if he finds out that you knew the nature of the stone... or if he find out the nature of the stone (which he will) and then jumps to the conclusion that you kept this information from him intentionally, which would be totally correct, he’s going to be even pissier, and more loose cannon then he already is.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: He already knows that Tiger hides things from him. He already</p><p>suspects it. Remember the notes...</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I would say if you want to keep this hearthstone away from</p><p>A-Dom, you need to make a very good argument for Gareth or Bianca to have it. Because if you take it, it won’t go well at all.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: Ah, Dan’s Achilles’ Heel: Thinking and Talking.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: Well I actually don’t care, I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite.</p><p></p><p>So the group decides that A-Dom will get the Hearthstone, and Tiger will get the bag of magic materials (Which he will promptly give to Gareth), and that all the other arrangements would stay the same.</p><p></p><p>Dan: We’re going FORWARD now.</p><p></p><p>Ryan: At this time, but we are going to come back to this point again and again and again, because you are a bastard.</p><p></p><p>The group successfully removes all the items and replaces them with Gareth’s weight substitutions, in perfect unison. Gareth and Jade’s luck bobble theirs a little bit, but the pins don’t explode.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3581210, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 4/9/07[/i] [b][size=5]Lets go Tomb Robbing![/size] Subtitle: I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite. [i]-By AlwaysToast[/i][/b] Gareth is trying to sort out the best braggers of the brewers. He gets it down to two equally impressive brewers. One of them wants Gareth to tell people how great a brewer he is, every year (group suggests a yearly kegger). The other one wants vast sums of money for his surviving relatives. Tiger: If we start our own country, we can just make it a national holiday. It will take care of itself after that. Jade’s Luck: It will go along very good with your sex cult. A-Dom: I think the only members of my sex-cult are monkeys. Alex: Sex & Candy will work. Cause people will follow sex and candy cause it’s a much better idea then following the Sun. But I’m not having that conversation because Gareth is trying to be better. Alex isn’t, Gareth is. Gareth actually picks the Brewer who wants to be remembered every year. Hugor Beerfield. Tiger: You’re the one who’s going to be drinking out of it. Not me. Ryan: Quote that for posterity. The group makes their deal with Hugor Beerfield official and make sure everything is taken care of with the Mortician so they can get Hugor’s head. As soon as the group gets out of the Underworld, Pursy spits Bianca back out. Gareth: Lets go Tomb Robbing! A-Dom: I object. It’s just item re-acquisition. Jade’s Luck: I have philosophical problems with this, but shinny :):):):) is always cool. You see we are trying to disown all the stupid stuff they did, while trying to get back all the stuff they did it with. Tiger: Just think of it as just compensation for all the stuff we did to ourselves. The group decides to go to the Wretched Tomb during the day, because A-Dom is a Dawn (ignoring the fact that Wretch was a Night Caste). The Wretched Tomb here is a large, 500 ft tall pyramid, as the group gets closer they see that the surface is not smooth as they had thought, but is in fact made out of pins. Little regular sized, pins (like for sewing). Pins are set, pointy side out. A-Dom: First question: Who the :):):):) builds these? Second question, how did I build the first tomb? Gareth: I think I designed it at least. Jade’s Luck: Do you remember how to get in? Tiger: You could have made the tomb, for when you died. You know, ahead of time. Jade’s Luck: And people liked you SO MUCH that they decided to build you extras. A-Dom: Good point. Gareth decides that there is a door at ground level hidden in the pins. A-Dom and Tiger spot that there is an entrance all the way near the top. They also note that every once in a while, there is a pin that is sticking out a little further then the others, which has it’s blunt tip exposed. On the pin head are solar cast marks. A-Dom activates graceful crane stance and starts leap/monkey leaping from one blunt headed pin to another till he reaches the top. Tiger does the same thing following him up. At the top they find a circular metal cover set into the stone. Very reminiscent of the other Wretched Tombs they have been to. On the lid it says ‘Depository of the Wretch of Winter’s Teeth.’ A-Dom: :):):):). Their might be a LOT of these. Jade’s Luck: Do you want us to come up? A-Dom: If we start screaming, we’ll need your help. Tiger manages to unscrew the cap without setting off any traps (as there were no traps). The lid then slides up vertically on a pair of vertical poles. Below them they see a long deep shaft. Lined with needles, all pointing diagonally down. A-Dom: Come on guys! It will be fun. Come on up! Tiger: Get stuck on the inside! Gareth: I don’t think I’m getting up there. A-Dom: I can carry you! A-Dom jauntily jumps down to Gareth. Unfortunately he wasn’t as careful on his way down as he was on his way up, and he missed one of the pins for standing on, and put his foot down on some of the regular pointy pins. The entire side of the pyramid that A-Dom is standing on, shoots off as a hail of millions of pins. Ryan, hysterical yet sad laugher. A-Dom manages to jump again, and twist out of the way. Mostly taking needles in the buttocks and leg. Then making it down the rest of the way safely. The pins launched with a great deal of force (Think Death of Obsidian Butterflies, but with pins, and much larger area). A path of destruction through Sijan approximately 500 feet across and almost a mile long has been hit by the pins. Only the strong stone tombs are standing. A number of wooden buildings (for living residents) have been completely removed. Gareth and Jade’s Luck, watching the pyramid, sees another row of pins slide into place. A-Dom: So, you want me to carry you back up... now that I’m down here? I’m going back anyway, you all might as well come. So, Gareth, Bianca and Jade’s Luck all activate Graceful Crane Stance, stand on top of A-Dom as he makes his way up. A-Dom tries to juggle them while he’s bouncing up the side of the pyramid. Gareth: This isn’t fun for anyone but you! While they are doing this, Tiger climbs down the vertical tunnel finding it to be 100 ft deep, using Spiderfoot style. Down at the bottom he finds a 50ft by 50ft room (only 10 ft tall) with 5 caps on the floor, each with a cast mark on it. Jade’s Luck (at the top): Does anyone have something so mundane as rope? Gareth: I can make rope. Jade’s Luck: Up here? Gareth: Maybe not. Pursy how long is your tongue? Pursy: Not that long. Liz: Have we attracted any notice yet? GM: Yes, the locals have noticed that large swath of the city was destroyed or highly damaged, and is now covered in pins. A-Dom (Yelling down the hole): Tiger? You ready for me to throw them down yet? Tiger (Yelling back up): Throw them down whenever, I’m not catching them. So A-Dom jumps down the hole. Gareth doesn’t get off A-Dom. Jade’s Luck and Bianca watch them. Halfway down Gareth considers summoning his armor. But decides crushing A-Dom might not be good. They both basically break their ankels at the bottom. A-Dom: Owe! All clear! Come on down. Jade’s Luck: I’m still concerned about going down without having a plan to get back out. What with the pins and all. A-Dom: Just get down here and stop worrying. Jade’s Luck notices that there is a little ring on the underside of the circular cap. Which might be idea for attaching a rope (which they don’t have) to. Gareth: You know what happened the last time we left these knuckle heads alone? Tiger: I can get rope later! A-Dom: Come on down! I’ll catch you! Jade’s Luck: Gareth! Is he lying? Gareth: I don’t have that on right now. I’m healing. A-Dom: I promise on the Unconquered Sun... and... the... borrowed black books... and beer... and... OH on my Zombies! That I’ll try to catch you. Jade’s Luck: Want to try and catch both of us? A-Dom: At once!?! YES! Jade’s Luck and Bianca decide to go down one at a time. A-Dom manages to catch them with only minor bruising. So the group sits around for two hours while A-Dom and Gareth heal. Written on the floor in Old Realm by the (man-hole sized) caps on the floor, are the words: ‘Only a perfect circle from the west may enter in unison.’ At this point everyone can read it (Ryan: I believe the last tomb is why I learned how to read Old Realm). A-Dom: Everyone find your symbol! (A-Dom goes to the Dawn Caste symbol) I suggest we open them all at the same time. Jade’s Luck: And hop in all at the same time? A-Dom: We don’t know what’s under there. There could be buttons, or dead people... Tiger goes to the Night, Gareth goes to Twilight, Jade’s Luck goes to Zenith, and Bianca goes to the Eclipse. Gareth: Ok everyone turn slowly in unison. Turn on three... Tiger: Wait, wait wait... do you mean 1, 2, 3 do something or ON three. Gareth: On 3 Jade’s Luck: So 1, 2, Do something. A-Dom: Why do you even say 3 then? Gareth: Why are we even having this conversation? The group manages to turn in unison on 3. At a certain point, the lids slid up on vertical poles. Below the caps are vertical stone tubes. A-Dom starts heading down into his. Everyone realizes there is no way to stop him, and heads into their tubes. The lids close on top of them. All of the following things happen simultaneously. But they are each separated from the others. A-Dom gets down to the bottom. Written on the wall is: Why did you chose to be born of House Sesus? A-Dom: Ah, :):):):)! Cause I hate my mom! A-Dom hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him. Gareth sees Written on the wall: What force do you continually fail to account for? Gareth: GOD! Gareth hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him. Tiger sees Written on the wall: What should have brought you to your tomb? Tiger: Greed! Tiger hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under him. Jade’s Luck sees Written on the wall: What does your group lack that leads to your acts of hubris? Jade’s Luck: (long pause) Humility! Jade’s Luck hears a ding, and light comes on over her, and the floor drops out from under her. Bianca sees written on the wall: Do you enjoy killing? Bianca: No Bianca hears a buzzing noise and the floor drops out from under her. The group now finds themselves in a clear tube, where they can see each other, the rest of the area is dark. Jade’s Luck’s tube is lit up. A-Dom’s tube has a blue light come on. And he hears a ghostly voice. Voice: Truthfully answer one question from each of your circle mates, without double talk, self contradiction, and without confusing the person who asked the question. A little light comes on over each Circle member as they get to ask the question. Gareth: Will you ever learn to accept Jade’s Luck? A-Dom: Wow, that’s a really weird question that I can’t necessarily answer... but most likely Yes. Tiger: So, what question are you going to ask me? A-Dom: Where were you born? Jade’s Luck: What was the deal you made with Duke Dew-key, the whole thing, all of it? A-Dom: I get to throw 200 bad mortals into the wyld in 5 lifetimes... hold on, I need to find my list... Jade’s Luck: What did you get out of this? A-Dom: We got out people out of the wyld, and into the East. Although I didn’t specify the east, I got it cheaper because I didn’t specify where we would end up. I saved 50 lives! Well maybe not, I do get to kill 50 less people. But Dragon-Bloods count as 3 if they are tied up. I was planning on mostly throwing Dragon-Bloods into the Wyld. Oh, and Kids count as 2, but I’m not throwing in any kids. Bianca: Why do you act like you’re brain dead all the time? A-Dom: My dad said when I was a kid I shoved a fish up my nose. Since then I just don’t think right. It’s adventure! A-Dom’s tube lights up in a golden light like Jade’s Luck’s tube. A blue light comes on over Gareth. Voice: Name the group of Exalts who infuriate you the most. Gareth: The Solar Circle of the West! Liz: I’m glad I didn’t get that question for Jade’s Luck. Gareth’s tube lights up like A-Dom and Jade’s Luck. A blue light comes on over Tiger. Voice: Define a serious religious doctrine which you will henceforth be responsible for enforcing. Tiger: (long, long pause) The first day of High Summer will be a holy holiday. There will be no drinking or drug use on that day. So people will have to stay sober on that day. Alex: You’ve created Lent. The light above Tiger turns gold. The blue light comes on over Bianca. Voice: Honestly and completely answer one question from each of your circle mates, using complete sentences (or entire stories if necessary). Circumvention of giving an honest answer by giving a purely truthful answer will count as incorrect. A-Dom: Why mini-cows??? Bianca: Long ago my family bred big cows. Then they had to move to a smaller ranch. So my Great Grand Father started breeding the cows to be smaller and smaller and smaller. I was just carrying on the family tradition of Mini-cows. Gareth: Why haven’t you run screaming away from us already? Bianca: Umm... I find there to be a lot of entertainment when you are all around. Tiger: (long pause) What’s your favorite food? Bianca: If you take 5 mini-cows, and put them on skewers, and roast them over a fire... oh it’s so good. So mini-cow kebabs. Jade’s Luck: What do you think we could be doing better? Everyone one else shows silent signs of outrage that Jade’s Luck could ask such a mean question of poor Bianca. Bianca: I think we could really do a better job of NOT killing mortals. Less collateral damage. Bianca’s light turns golden. So every ones tube is lit up in a golden light. The floors drop out from under everyone and they land in at room. Voice: You have all been Identified. You may pass into the tombs to face the trials. The group is in a circular room with three exits. A-Dom: Lets see if we can figure this out. I’m Jahar, You’re (pointing at Tiger) A-Dom, and You’re (pointing at Bianca) Tiger! You... (pointing at Jade’s Luck) You’re still Jade’s Luck. Gareth: Ok A-Dom, lead the way. A-Dom: (looks at the three tunnels) Math bad! (A-Dom heads down the ‘middle one’ which is only the middle in relation to A-Dom.) Group gets down to a square room, full of sapphire statues. The statues are all roughly human sized, but some are of goats, and crabs and stuff. Tiger: We’re rich! A-Dom: It’s a manse, I’m pretty sure we can’t take them. The circle starts to notice that the statues occasionally move, or shift in position. A-Dom walks into the room and pokes the first statue he comes to. A-Dom: Why are you pretending you are a statue? Who do I talk to? The statue points at another statue at the far side of the room. A-Dom walks over to it. The rest of the circle follows into the room. As Tiger (the last one in) enters the door slams shut behind him. A-Dom: Figures. So how are you going to be messing us up today? Statue: With pointy things! (The statues draw swords and spears and such) A-Dom: There are over five thousand ways of hurting people will pointy things. Statue: Really? I guess we’ll do our best to try them all. A-Dom: Wonderful. The group makes reasonable quick work of the statues. Once they are all destroyed, all the statues crumble into very fine dust. (This sums up an hour of game time.) All the doors to the room open up. This is a square room with four doors (one which they just came through), one on each wall. A-Dom chooses to go through the middle one. They climb down a long stairway and come into a circular room with a number of paintings on the walls, as well as a number of personal possessions strewn about, including, a number of painting supplies. There is also an old man sitting there. Old Man: You’re finally here! The old man gets up runs across the room and dives into a painting. A-Dom attempts to follow. He runs across the room and slams face first into the painting. However, while he is close to the painting, he gets a good look at it (9 successes). The painting is very odd. It is done in an overhead perspective of a town built on a hill, much as a bird might see it when flying overhead. In the painting he can see the old man falling, down... further... and further, until he punches through the ground at the very top of the hill. Underneath the crust, through the crack that the old man mad, A-Dom can see bubbling lava. A-Dom sees the old man in the lava, grab a sword and stab himself in the face. A-Dom: Hubbawabbawah... He just dived into lava and stabbed himself in the face with a sword. Tiger: Where was it? A-Dom: Wha... some island! Jade’s Luck and Tiger study the painting trying to memorize landmarks and note worthy buildings, thinking it will be important at some point. The painting however now appears completely normal. A-Dom: I don’t know what the :):):):) just happened. Jade’s Luck: Why don’t you try to describe it in your own words? A-Dom: He fell down into through the painting, and I think people are upset because he made a big hole in the ground, and there is lava there, and then he stabbed himself in the face. So I’m guessing he’s coming back sometime... Jade’s Luck: So Like Jahar? A-Dom: I’m not sure if that’s location, or person, or how that works. Tiger: He must have thought you were Jahar. A-Dom: I’m not sure what anything means anymore. Tiger goes to look at the other paintings. One looks like Elemental Island. One looks like the underworld. One that is half finished is Nexus, with a bridge going over the river. While they are doing this, A-Dom realizes that the Old man was really rather non- descript. A-Dom: Son of a BITCH! What did he look like? Jade’s Luck: We didn’t see him, you were in the way. A-Dom: Skinny/fat, short/tall :):):):)ing annoying :):):):) :):):):)er. He was like ‘Hello, You’re here’ and then he was like... Jade’s Luck: Stabbed himself in the face. Does that mean he’s going to try to get reborn in your house or something? A-Dom: I don’t have a house! Wait... I do have a house. (A-Dom remembers something about the artifact sword.) Jade’s Luck: Didn’t the last Jahar stab himself in Jahar’s room so he could get reborn into crap like that? A-Dom: So, One of you two (waves at Jade’s Luck and Bianca) is :):):):)ed. Ether that or he knows my mom. Jade’s Luck: Could you explain in greater detail? A-Dom: Umm.. The sword, I believe, doesn’t let you choose your father. It lets you choose your Mother. Now, he’s not expecting you (Bianca) I don’t think. Hard to tell what the hell is going on really... But you (Jade’s Luck) haven’t changed caste or anything. So, don’t have a baby! Jade’s Luck: I wasn’t planning on it. A-Dom: Well, you’re going to pop out one of those :):):):)ed up ones. Tiger: A-Dom, I think you’re just confusing the issue. Gareth: Couldn’t he have picked your wife? A-Dom: But she’s not here. Tiger: Maybe he was planning for your reincarnation. When you’re a woman. Jade’s Luck: You were a cute little girl earlier. A-Dom: Moving on. A-Dom walks through the central doorway, down another set of stairs. He comes to a room with a bowl suspended by chains, like one side of a scale, with an Orichalcum Grand GrimScythe. A-Dom: Oooooooh... we need a really big sand bag. (Shouting behind him) I found a thingy. Gareth: I’m surprised he isn’t just grabbing it. A-Dom carefully inspects the area, looking for notes or traps. He comes to the conclusion that it’s a trap of some kind. But he has no idea how it works. A-Dom: Tiger, it’s a trap. Tiger: Yes, it’s a trap. We should do more exploring before we mess with it. So we are going to have to do something other then take the middle every time. The group goes back up then down one of the other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a small purple hearthstone sitting in the middle of it. A-Dom: Woah-ho-ho-ah-hahaha-yea... The group goes back up then down one the last other tunnels, which leads to a identical room with a large scale bowl suspended from the ceiling, and a Orichalcum Dai Skycutter. A-Dom: OK we need to figure out more about the manse before anyone takes it and becomes a demon, or has to :):):):) a demon, or has to have a demon :):):):) us. I know how this world works! Tiger: So to get this manse you have to bend over and take it in the ass? A-Dom: Possibly, with pins. I think it’s more of a get it over quickly unlike yours which is ‘torture them over their lifetime.’ The group goes back up two rooms, and down another passage, finding another square room with three hallways. It also looks like someone has been living here. There are supplies for painting, a bed roll, food, etc. They go down to the first room and find a large bag on the scale. They go back up and down to another room and find a white book. A-Dom: I’m confused now... I want to flip the book open... Jade’s Luck: We need to figure out the trap FIRST. The go up and down to the last room, and find a feather. Tiger: Oh, you could stick it in you’re hat and look really sporting. A-Dom: I need a hat. (thinking about the bag and the feather) Oh! Oh! Oh! Someone’s been here! :):):):)! We’ve been robbed! Tiger: They probably stole the good thing too! A-Dom: (to Gareth) So Crappy McCrappy Pants. We need some appropriately filled bags of sand. Tiger tries to figure out things with All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight. The bag and feather are non-magical. The scales and chains are magical parts of the manse. The book has sorcerous emanations of essence. The Skycutter and GrimScythe are clearly artifacts. The Hearthstone appears to be related to this build, and death. Dan: I do not tell this to ANYONE. Ryan: This is why I’m a bad Dawn. A-Dom: What you see tiger? Tiger: I can tell how powerful they are. Only moderately powerful. A-Dom: So, we have a Book, two weapony-thingies and a Hearthstone. And we have a bag of sand. Tiger: It’s a bag of something, not sand. Jade’s Luck: We need a Dragon Blood to hunt down our missing stuff, because they are good at tracking. A-Dom: We need a Dragon Blood in a bag! Jade’s Luck: Yea! We do. Pursy: Hold on a minute... Haha, just kidding. A-Dom: That’s not funny. Gareth: (Grabs Pursy and yells inside) Empty Bucket come out! A little eye on a stock comes out of Pursy on a multi-chromatic stalk and looks back into itself. Pursy: Nope, no buckets in here. A-Dom: (to Gareth) Crafty McCraftyperson, craft stuff that is the perfect weight. The group discusses the trap in great detail making wild guesses. Gareth goes about looking for materials to make an item that will weigh the same as the items they want to take. Gareth gets a jar of paint for the hearthstone, and a pile of papers to replace the book. Tiger: I say we take the stack of stuff, just in case there is Jade in it or something. The group goes back up two rooms, and down the last passage and find the residential part of the manse. They spend a lengthy time exploring the residential section (kitchens, dinning rooms, bed rooms, etc). Every once in a while there is a room with a wall made out of pins. Gareth: Ah the pleasure room. A-Dom: That little :):):):) was watching us. Brain... thinking... bad... All the paintings were places we’ve been too, except for the one I’m not sure. He was painting stuff, but one was half finished because we were just there. Jade’s Luck: We know they are annoying sneaks and we would like to hold them down and beat them. A-Dom: A-Dom, brain... tired. They find a pathway to a storage section (furniture and stuff), and they find a scale model of the tomb (with sections cut apart on different tables so each level can be seen). A-Dom: (to Gareth) This is all you’re fault. Gareth: I’m sure it’s partially you’re fault. A-Dom: What? While they are arguing, Tiger figures out that the scale model is a working model that works, and is enchanted in the same way as the manse. Tiger grabs the little GrimScythe off the balance. All the pins on the outside of the manse explode outwards. All the pins on the inside of the manse explode inward, blocking all the tunnels and hallways, and making many of the rooms filled with pins. Jade’s Luck: That’s really, really annoying. It doesn’t just kill off an entire city. It makes us... Tiger: (interrupting) I wasn’t thinking annoying so much as deadly. A-Dom: It would be annoying to us. The group then has to rest the model, by putting all the pins back into place. This takes a several hours to reset the model so they can try it another way. They try to take all the things at once, which causes an explosion of pins. They reset again. They then try weight substitution. They determine that it is best to do all the weigh substitution at the same time, as the scales appear to become more and more sensitive each time an item is taken off. Tiger also sees that there is a sparkle when something is taken. The group then starts arguing about if they should take the bag or the feather as they have to leave one thing behind. Tiger thinks the bag of stuff is important. The group starts to divide up stuff. Gareth wants the Grand GrimScythe. Bianca would like the Sorcery related book. Jade’s Luck: Here is the question, I have something I can throw if I want to. (To A-Dom) You may want to consider branching out into the world of ranged weaponry. It’s a great way to hurt things far away. Dan: Remember, A-Dom doesn’t know about the ‘death part.’ Ryan: Oh, ho, ho, ho, don’t think I have forgotten THAT. Liz: I could teach you thrown. Ryan: Oh, A-Dom has had a 5 thrown for almost a year. Liz: WHAT!?! Jade’s Luck: Ok, I’ll take the throwing weapon, and Tiger can get the bag. Tiger: I’m not too fond of this ‘Tiger gets the bag’ idea. We don’t even know how much it weighs. It’s bad idea. Jade’s Luck: This is what Gareth is for. A-Dom: Gareth is magic. Tiger: Can’t see worth crap, how is he going to figure out what is in the bag? Jade’s Luck: I’m sure he has calipers or something. A-Dom: (To Tiger) You already have a manse. Jade’s Luck: Can we pry the bag open and take a look? A-Dom: (To Tiger) Can’t you put your head in it and look around? Tiger very carefully and delicately (and buying a lot of successes with second Excellency, and getting a total of 10 successes), opens the top of the bag and peaks in. Liz: You put your charm list in your ipod? Dan: Like you wouldn’t if you could? A-Dom: I am not sharing a manse with Jade’s Luck. Jade’s Luck: What? A-Dom: He’s eyeballing my hearthstone. Jade’s Luck: You would get monkey servants. Inside the bag Tiger sees a block of Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, and Jade. Tiger: So, A-Dom, you can have what’s in this bag, or the Hearthstone. A-Dom: Hearthstone! Tiger: Sure? A-Dom: YES! A-Dom guards his hearthstone. Tiger takes Gareth and Jade’s Luck to another room, and explains the that the Hearthstone is related to death. He also tells Gareth what is in the bag so he can find a proper replacement weight. Tiger: Do we really want him to have that? Jade’s Luck: Well on the one hand, we rightfully don’t trust A-Dom. As he is a total :):):):) up... Gareth: We are all :):):):) ups. There is no real distinction there. Jade’s Luck: Well the rest of us don’t barter away mortal’s lives that he doesn’t even have... Tiger: I feel like taking this hearthstone just because he wouldn’t let me have the one I wanted before. Ryan: That was my fault? That Jahar got it? Jade’s Luck: I don’t want this hearthstone, he seems really attached to the idea. And if he finds out that you knew the nature of the stone... or if he find out the nature of the stone (which he will) and then jumps to the conclusion that you kept this information from him intentionally, which would be totally correct, he’s going to be even pissier, and more loose cannon then he already is. Gareth: He already knows that Tiger hides things from him. He already suspects it. Remember the notes... Jade’s Luck: I would say if you want to keep this hearthstone away from A-Dom, you need to make a very good argument for Gareth or Bianca to have it. Because if you take it, it won’t go well at all. Ryan: Ah, Dan’s Achilles’ Heel: Thinking and Talking. Tiger: Well I actually don’t care, I mostly want to keep it away from him out of spite. So the group decides that A-Dom will get the Hearthstone, and Tiger will get the bag of magic materials (Which he will promptly give to Gareth), and that all the other arrangements would stay the same. Dan: We’re going FORWARD now. Ryan: At this time, but we are going to come back to this point again and again and again, because you are a bastard. The group successfully removes all the items and replaces them with Gareth’s weight substitutions, in perfect unison. Gareth and Jade’s luck bobble theirs a little bit, but the pins don’t explode. [/QUOTE]
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