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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 4700627" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Session 57 - We need more shiny. Add goats.</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 57</p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 10/08/07</em></p><p></p><p><strong> Apparently He Didn’t Want to Sit Through Another Session of Bickering And Planning</strong></p><p><strong>Subtitle: We need more shiny. Add goats.</strong></p><p><strong><em>-By Ao the Overkitty</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Tiger had been left at Graynery to keep an eye on things while the rest of the group was off negotiating with Jahar’s Father’s Brotherhood. He didn’t have an exact time the grouop would be returning, so he watched, ate and slept. He might have eaten some babies, we don’t know. He wouldn’t share that information anyway.</p><p></p><p>Tiger woke up to the sound of yelling and screaming. He stumbled out of his bed at the Inn to look around. His danger sense wasn’t going off, so there was no immediate danger to him. He looked out the window and saw fire in town. He saw demons walking along the streets. He saw two demons with seaweed stuck to them and dripping wet, like they just came out of the sea. From what he could see, he saw a couple of First Circle Demons and he thought he saw some Second Circle Demons.</p><p></p><p>He immediately hopped up on top of the Inn to get a better view. The fields and storehouses were on fire. It looked like the dragon-bloods plan of torching everything if they got attacked had been implemented. With All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight, he saw three dragon-bloods buffing up and getting ready to block the path of the demons. He could see a row of demons just walking through town. He could see fifteen to twenty demons just walking around. They were mostly first circle with only a few second circle. It didn’t look like anyone was directing the demons.</p><p></p><p>Tiger decided he needed to buff up and ambush the demons. If need be, he felt confident he could run away from the demons. As he approached a group of demons, he could see a six-armed second circle demon in the center pull out a map of the island and look at it. The demon had all sorts of weird tools on a tool-belt around him. </p><p></p><p>Ryan: If they’re independent, I’m going to be pissed.</p><p></p><p>As Tiger charged forward, the six-armed demon turned to him and asked if something was wrong. Tiger quickly learned that they were a work detail dispatched to repair a Wyld Repelling Manse in the vicinity. The Foreman demon said that he needed all of his demons to complete the job and being attacked by dragon-bloods wasn’t in their contract.</p><p></p><p>Liz: Is Tiger Siderealy enough to make the fire not exist anymore?</p><p></p><p>Tiger had problems explaining to the demons that he needed help putting out the fires, because the fires were destroying the stuff mortals eat, and mortals needed to eat to keep from dying. The demons just didn’t care.</p><p></p><p>Tiger finally realized that there was lots of fire here and supposedly a manse in the area, so the manse might get destroyed and explode. He quickly peeked at the foreman’s map and saw that it was underneath the fields somewhere.</p><p></p><p>Tiger headed over towards the dragon-bloods. Well, dragon-blood. Only the commander was still alive. The commander looked like he only had a few wounds, but he was going toe-to-toe with a second circle demon, so things were likely going to go downhill for him quickly. The commander was yelling things like <em>Begone Foul Demons</em> while the demon was yelling something about Union Rules.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: They’re here to fix the Manse! Leave them alone and they won’t hurt anyone.</p><p></p><p>Everyone stopped and looked at him for three seconds with confused looks. Tiger took this opportunity to attack the dragon-blood. The dragon-blood determined that Tiger was clearly controlling the demons and must be stopped. The demons smashed the dragon-blood into goo, then walked over the body.</p><p></p><p>The Demon kicked over a building, looking around for the Manse, but just wasn’t seeing it. Tiger offered to assist in finding it. Looking at the map, he had seen no essence flows in that area. He explained to the Demon that the island had a lot of underground tunnels and that the manse might be underground. The Demon sent Bob, a mole-like demon, underground to investigate. Tiger took the demon’s map with him.</p><p></p><p>He went over the Foreman, who was drinking a cup of steaming liquid while standing over a body. He asked the Foreman to take his crew underground to stop scaring the populace. The Foreman said they’d move once they found the Manse. He didn’t want to go underground if he didn’t have to. A very glowy Tiger went into the Inn and found the Innkeeper and maid. He ordered them to get out of the Inn and take anyone else with them. The two fled out the back door. Tiger then asked the Demons to move into the Inn to wait until Bob got back. He explained what he had to the other demon about the lack of essence flows and underground, so the Foreman ordered everyone into the Inn until Bob got back.</p><p></p><p>Tiger went outside and found a group of soldiers, specifically commanders.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: If you leave the demons alone, they won’t attack you. You need to start putting out the fires!</p><p></p><p>He got some people in the crowd to agree with him, but the lieutenants told the others not to listen to the evil anathema.</p><p></p><p>Tiger: DO what I SAY or SUFFER!</p><p></p><p>The lieutenant attacked Tiger. When all was said and done, Tiger had twenty five alive people left listening to him. Tiger sent one of the living guys off to coordinate other people to start putting out the fires, since his presence was hindering the operation.</p><p></p><p>Soldier: Sure thing, Mister Anathema.</p><p></p><p>Tiger went back to the Inn to keep an eye on the demons.</p><p></p><p>*****</p><p>While on their way back to Graynery, the A-dom, Gareth, and Jade’s Luck noticed the smoke from about four hundred miles away. Bianca noticed nothing, since she was in Pursey.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: Aww man!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Damn it, Tiger!</p><p></p><p>Tiger (from way off stage): Not my fault!</p><p></p><p>Gareth: <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 Sidereals!</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Mother<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=":)" />ers! I agree.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: Mother<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 Sidereals.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Mother<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 Mother<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=":)" />ers?</p><p></p><p>*****</p><p>Back at the Inn, Bob got back. He told the Foreman that he found it and the place was all screwed up. They started talking about massive reconstructive landscaping to fix the problem; moving the river, getting rid of the fields, cliffs, buttes, etc.</p><p></p><p>Tiger gathered from this conversation that the essence flows were messed up at some point when someone did landscaping. To him, it looked like a whole bunch of Gareths standing around talking about building stuff.</p><p></p><p>*****</p><p>As they got closer, the group could see the massive devastating. A-dom grabbed a large rock with plans to make a firebreak. Once they got to town, Jade’s Luck and Gareth monkey-leaped off while A-dom dragged the rock, creating a big ditch/fire break.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Gareth didn’t see anyone on the streets that were alive. There were, in fact, a number of corpses.</p><p></p><p>Gareth took charge of the fire-brigade and made it efficient.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck walked into the Inn to see Tiger and fifteen demons standing around talking. Tiger noticed her and quickly escorted her back outside to talk.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: So, what’s happening here?</p><p></p><p>Dan: Blah! Unless you want me to say it in character.</p><p></p><p>Liz: No, cause this way I learn more.</p><p></p><p>Paul: I love blah.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went to talk to a demon that was putting red Xs on houses. She found out that the river was being redirected at noon and they’d be taking down houses at 9am, but only the marked ones. Jade’s Luck decided they needed to do a massive relocation project.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck found Gareth and took him aside to explain the short version of what was going on. She also let him know they had three hours before houses started coming down. Gareth agreed the town needed to be relocated. </p><p></p><p>Gareth: I have the perfect city for them!</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: NooOoo! We don’t want people living with the Undead yet. We don’t know what it’ll do to them.</p><p></p><p>Gareth kept bringing up the good points of having more citizens in Yew. Jade’s Luck wasn’t having any of it.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: I’m looking them this way. If we’re going to move them, we’re just going to be moving them again later. Because it’s us. Lets just go for the end result now.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck: I was thinking more of moving them to the next town.</p><p></p><p>Gareth: We haven’t conquered the next town yet.</p><p></p><p>They tabled the city of Yew discussion for now.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck suggested Gareth just unbuild the buildings, move them, and rebuild them. Gareth suggested A-dom just pick up the buildings, move them, and he would then repair them once that was done.</p><p></p><p>During this conversation, Tiger went and found A-dom to explained what was going on. A-dom went looking for an entrance to the underground. Amazingly enough, he found a hole in the middle of the street.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Wheee!</p><p></p><p>Tiger followed. Down below, they found the mole demon walking around, looking at stuff and making comments. A-dom dubbed him Moley, since he didn’t know its name was Bob. Or he didn’t care. He asked Moley where the Manse was and if it was in pieces or not.</p><p></p><p>Bob: It’s all there, its just not operational right now. No power.</p><p></p><p>A-dom asked if he could attune to it now or if he needed to wait for them to finish. He was told he needed to wait for it to be running to make a Hearthstone.</p><p></p><p>Bob: Do you like Buttes or Cliffs?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Which is which?</p><p></p><p>Bob: A Butte is a beautiful thing. It is kind of like a cliff, but totally different.</p><p></p><p>A-dom voted for a butte, unless there was a wyld area near it, then cliff.</p><p></p><p>Bob pointed them towards the mane, but said there wasn’t much to see at the moment. A-dom and Tiger went in the direction of the Manse and soon agreed Bob was right.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Gareth went to the Inn and found all of the tables had been pushed together and covered in maps. A lot of the maps made no sense at all and looked like they had been made by Jahar. Comments were made on them, like <em>We need more shiny. Add goats</em> and <em>Mini-cow graveyard should be moved three feet to the left</em>.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck talked to the Foreman, asking him how far away they needed to move the town. The Foreman told them twenty four miles, but they had to leave the buildings with the brown Xs. The red Xs could go. They said they could give where new buildings could be built after they’re done, but there would be paperwork. The foreman gave a rough estimate of two months before they would complete the job.</p><p></p><p>Tiger suggested the first thing they should do is round up anyone who had escaped and stop them from bringing word to other towns. Jade’s Luck didn’t care about that, but the others agreed it was a good idea. When the Foreman heard there might be people coming to attack them, he ordered Scruffy to find some Human suits for them to wear. <strong>THEN</strong> Jade’s Luck thought it was a good idea to contain the escapees.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-dom were given the task of retrieving escapees while Gareth and Jade’s Luck evacuated people. After that was done, it was A-dom’s job to move the buildings with the red Xs. Jade’s Luck tried to inspire him, but he was having none of it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You can suck my exalted cock later. I don’t need this smoke blowing up my ass.</p><p></p><p>Gareth & Jade’s luck took their own sections of town, first moving the people in the red X houses to the brown Xs before moving everyone in a mass exodus.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-dom split up the ways out of town to more efficiently capture people. They were mildly disturbed that one dragon-blood was missing. They suspected he was a Sidereal. A-dom went on the road towards Atlantis and found about twenty farmers fleeing with two possible soldiers. A-dom ran ahead of them and stopped them.</p><p></p><p>Soldier: Are you a demon?</p><p></p><p>A-dom: No I’m a Solar.</p><p></p><p>The people stopped to discuss what that meant. A-dom told them to sht up and said he needed them to go back to Graynery. A-dom explained that the fire was out, that they were rebuilding part of town and the demons would be gone in two months. A-dom had to resort to violence. Pretty soon, he had a pile of unconscious farmers. He found two ‘medium’ tree and tied as many as he could to them. He then tied up the rest by the side of the road to come back for them later.</p><p></p><p>A-dom then ran back to town at normal speed. He lost a total of four people (two off each tree). Some ropes went up around necks, after all. A-dom saw where Jade’s Luck and Gareth were and planted the trees.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: These are your problem now.</p><p></p><p>Villagers yelled Anathema and started running away. Gareth and Jade’s Luck stopped them. Jade’s Luck projected calm. Gareth untied the people from the tree and saved the corpses for burial later. Jade’s Luck cleared up the other corpses for later, during the evacuation. They dubbed a brown X building ‘the morgue.’</p><p></p><p>A-dom went and carried the other four back.</p><p></p><p>A-dom (to the four): Don’t leave again. I’ll do worse!</p><p></p><p>Gareth and A-dom then set about moving the buildings. Gareth let A-dom know they didn’t have to remain whole, he could fix them later.</p><p></p><p>In the direction of Flatfields, Tiger found four farmers fleeing. He was less nice than A-dom when trying to convincing them. They ran in different directions. He knocked them out, tied them up, and then waited for them to wake up. When one of them woke up, he started screaming. Tiger ordered him to shut up, but he didn’t. Tiger pulled out his sword and started sharpening the blade. The guy shut up.</p><p></p><p>Tiger threatened the guy with much violence and insinuated death. He promised the demons were just doing some landscaping. They were just defending themselves. He got looked at like he was Jahar a lot. Tiger eventually force marched them back to town with their begrudging agreement.</p><p></p><p>Eventually Tiger ran into A-dom and asked him where the people were going. A-dom pointed it out to him while Tiger got them some water.</p><p></p><p>Chain-Gang Villager #2 (to A-dom): He broke my arm!</p><p></p><p>A-dom: You were able to tell me he broke your arm. That means he was nice.</p><p></p><p>Tiger asked A-dom to pick up the mortals and take them to Jade’s Luck so he could go on patrol. A-dom asked him if he could take the building he was carrying. When Tiger responded no, A-dom put down the building and picked up the tied together mortals and ran them to Jade’s Luck. He dropped them off and told her they were a gift from Tiger. She asked A-dom to relay to Gareth that there were people in need of medical attention. On his next pass, A-dom relayed that Gareth said he could fix them at the next town. Jade’s Luck found some townsfolk that had basic medical training to treat the wounded.</p><p></p><p>Tiger found one other guy while on patrol.</p><p></p><p>Once the group got the people transplanted, they discussed for a while about what they were going to do. Tiger felt they needed to stick around for the next two months to protect the demons. Gareth felt they really needed to strike Atlantis now. The quicker they take over, the sooner they don’t have to worry about the demons’ safety anymore. The group eventually decided they needed to take over as quickly as possible.</p><p></p><p>Tiger and A-dom took two days to check out things in Flatfields while Gareth and Jade’s Luck set up the people in the new town and quelled as much discontent as they could. They found no soldiers in Flatfields.</p><p></p><p>A full week after this all started, the people were settled and quelled.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: I like stabbing the dark. Especially with a club.</p><p></p><p>The entire group went and visited the unpowered Manse. It looked like a building within a large cavernous room. It was rather unimpressive unpowered. Also the doors didn’t work, so A-dom had to use strength charms to open them. They found weird, orchalchum structures in the first room (abstract art?). They found stone furniture in the second room with no doors going out. There was a big shaft (fifty feet up, forty feet across) in there. Tiger climbed up and found a couple more rooms that were living quarters. The rooms were connected, but there were no doors out of them.</p><p></p><p>A-dom: Okay. So I declare this, kind of a waste of time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 4700627, member: 9758"] [b]Session 57 - We need more shiny. Add goats.[/b] Session 57 [i]Synopsis of 10/08/07[/i] [b] Apparently He Didn’t Want to Sit Through Another Session of Bickering And Planning Subtitle: We need more shiny. Add goats. [i]-By Ao the Overkitty[/i][/b] Tiger had been left at Graynery to keep an eye on things while the rest of the group was off negotiating with Jahar’s Father’s Brotherhood. He didn’t have an exact time the grouop would be returning, so he watched, ate and slept. He might have eaten some babies, we don’t know. He wouldn’t share that information anyway. Tiger woke up to the sound of yelling and screaming. He stumbled out of his bed at the Inn to look around. His danger sense wasn’t going off, so there was no immediate danger to him. He looked out the window and saw fire in town. He saw demons walking along the streets. He saw two demons with seaweed stuck to them and dripping wet, like they just came out of the sea. From what he could see, he saw a couple of First Circle Demons and he thought he saw some Second Circle Demons. He immediately hopped up on top of the Inn to get a better view. The fields and storehouses were on fire. It looked like the dragon-bloods plan of torching everything if they got attacked had been implemented. With All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight, he saw three dragon-bloods buffing up and getting ready to block the path of the demons. He could see a row of demons just walking through town. He could see fifteen to twenty demons just walking around. They were mostly first circle with only a few second circle. It didn’t look like anyone was directing the demons. Tiger decided he needed to buff up and ambush the demons. If need be, he felt confident he could run away from the demons. As he approached a group of demons, he could see a six-armed second circle demon in the center pull out a map of the island and look at it. The demon had all sorts of weird tools on a tool-belt around him. Ryan: If they’re independent, I’m going to be pissed. As Tiger charged forward, the six-armed demon turned to him and asked if something was wrong. Tiger quickly learned that they were a work detail dispatched to repair a Wyld Repelling Manse in the vicinity. The Foreman demon said that he needed all of his demons to complete the job and being attacked by dragon-bloods wasn’t in their contract. Liz: Is Tiger Siderealy enough to make the fire not exist anymore? Tiger had problems explaining to the demons that he needed help putting out the fires, because the fires were destroying the stuff mortals eat, and mortals needed to eat to keep from dying. The demons just didn’t care. Tiger finally realized that there was lots of fire here and supposedly a manse in the area, so the manse might get destroyed and explode. He quickly peeked at the foreman’s map and saw that it was underneath the fields somewhere. Tiger headed over towards the dragon-bloods. Well, dragon-blood. Only the commander was still alive. The commander looked like he only had a few wounds, but he was going toe-to-toe with a second circle demon, so things were likely going to go downhill for him quickly. The commander was yelling things like [i]Begone Foul Demons[/i] while the demon was yelling something about Union Rules. Tiger: They’re here to fix the Manse! Leave them alone and they won’t hurt anyone. Everyone stopped and looked at him for three seconds with confused looks. Tiger took this opportunity to attack the dragon-blood. The dragon-blood determined that Tiger was clearly controlling the demons and must be stopped. The demons smashed the dragon-blood into goo, then walked over the body. The Demon kicked over a building, looking around for the Manse, but just wasn’t seeing it. Tiger offered to assist in finding it. Looking at the map, he had seen no essence flows in that area. He explained to the Demon that the island had a lot of underground tunnels and that the manse might be underground. The Demon sent Bob, a mole-like demon, underground to investigate. Tiger took the demon’s map with him. He went over the Foreman, who was drinking a cup of steaming liquid while standing over a body. He asked the Foreman to take his crew underground to stop scaring the populace. The Foreman said they’d move once they found the Manse. He didn’t want to go underground if he didn’t have to. A very glowy Tiger went into the Inn and found the Innkeeper and maid. He ordered them to get out of the Inn and take anyone else with them. The two fled out the back door. Tiger then asked the Demons to move into the Inn to wait until Bob got back. He explained what he had to the other demon about the lack of essence flows and underground, so the Foreman ordered everyone into the Inn until Bob got back. Tiger went outside and found a group of soldiers, specifically commanders. Tiger: If you leave the demons alone, they won’t attack you. You need to start putting out the fires! He got some people in the crowd to agree with him, but the lieutenants told the others not to listen to the evil anathema. Tiger: DO what I SAY or SUFFER! The lieutenant attacked Tiger. When all was said and done, Tiger had twenty five alive people left listening to him. Tiger sent one of the living guys off to coordinate other people to start putting out the fires, since his presence was hindering the operation. Soldier: Sure thing, Mister Anathema. Tiger went back to the Inn to keep an eye on the demons. ***** While on their way back to Graynery, the A-dom, Gareth, and Jade’s Luck noticed the smoke from about four hundred miles away. Bianca noticed nothing, since she was in Pursey. Jade’s Luck: Aww man! Gareth: Damn it, Tiger! Tiger (from way off stage): Not my fault! Gareth: :):):):)ing Sidereals! A-dom: Mother:):):):)ers! I agree. Gareth: Mother:):):):)ing Sidereals. A-dom: Mother:):):):)ing Mother:):):):)ers? ***** Back at the Inn, Bob got back. He told the Foreman that he found it and the place was all screwed up. They started talking about massive reconstructive landscaping to fix the problem; moving the river, getting rid of the fields, cliffs, buttes, etc. Tiger gathered from this conversation that the essence flows were messed up at some point when someone did landscaping. To him, it looked like a whole bunch of Gareths standing around talking about building stuff. ***** As they got closer, the group could see the massive devastating. A-dom grabbed a large rock with plans to make a firebreak. Once they got to town, Jade’s Luck and Gareth monkey-leaped off while A-dom dragged the rock, creating a big ditch/fire break. Jade’s Luck and Gareth didn’t see anyone on the streets that were alive. There were, in fact, a number of corpses. Gareth took charge of the fire-brigade and made it efficient. Jade’s Luck walked into the Inn to see Tiger and fifteen demons standing around talking. Tiger noticed her and quickly escorted her back outside to talk. Jade’s Luck: So, what’s happening here? Dan: Blah! Unless you want me to say it in character. Liz: No, cause this way I learn more. Paul: I love blah. Jade’s Luck went to talk to a demon that was putting red Xs on houses. She found out that the river was being redirected at noon and they’d be taking down houses at 9am, but only the marked ones. Jade’s Luck decided they needed to do a massive relocation project. Jade’s Luck found Gareth and took him aside to explain the short version of what was going on. She also let him know they had three hours before houses started coming down. Gareth agreed the town needed to be relocated. Gareth: I have the perfect city for them! Jade’s Luck: NooOoo! We don’t want people living with the Undead yet. We don’t know what it’ll do to them. Gareth kept bringing up the good points of having more citizens in Yew. Jade’s Luck wasn’t having any of it. Gareth: I’m looking them this way. If we’re going to move them, we’re just going to be moving them again later. Because it’s us. Lets just go for the end result now. Jade’s Luck: I was thinking more of moving them to the next town. Gareth: We haven’t conquered the next town yet. They tabled the city of Yew discussion for now. Jade’s Luck suggested Gareth just unbuild the buildings, move them, and rebuild them. Gareth suggested A-dom just pick up the buildings, move them, and he would then repair them once that was done. During this conversation, Tiger went and found A-dom to explained what was going on. A-dom went looking for an entrance to the underground. Amazingly enough, he found a hole in the middle of the street. A-dom: Wheee! Tiger followed. Down below, they found the mole demon walking around, looking at stuff and making comments. A-dom dubbed him Moley, since he didn’t know its name was Bob. Or he didn’t care. He asked Moley where the Manse was and if it was in pieces or not. Bob: It’s all there, its just not operational right now. No power. A-dom asked if he could attune to it now or if he needed to wait for them to finish. He was told he needed to wait for it to be running to make a Hearthstone. Bob: Do you like Buttes or Cliffs? A-dom: Which is which? Bob: A Butte is a beautiful thing. It is kind of like a cliff, but totally different. A-dom voted for a butte, unless there was a wyld area near it, then cliff. Bob pointed them towards the mane, but said there wasn’t much to see at the moment. A-dom and Tiger went in the direction of the Manse and soon agreed Bob was right. Jade’s Luck and Gareth went to the Inn and found all of the tables had been pushed together and covered in maps. A lot of the maps made no sense at all and looked like they had been made by Jahar. Comments were made on them, like [i]We need more shiny. Add goats[/i] and [i]Mini-cow graveyard should be moved three feet to the left[/i]. Jade’s Luck talked to the Foreman, asking him how far away they needed to move the town. The Foreman told them twenty four miles, but they had to leave the buildings with the brown Xs. The red Xs could go. They said they could give where new buildings could be built after they’re done, but there would be paperwork. The foreman gave a rough estimate of two months before they would complete the job. Tiger suggested the first thing they should do is round up anyone who had escaped and stop them from bringing word to other towns. Jade’s Luck didn’t care about that, but the others agreed it was a good idea. When the Foreman heard there might be people coming to attack them, he ordered Scruffy to find some Human suits for them to wear. [b]THEN[/b] Jade’s Luck thought it was a good idea to contain the escapees. Tiger and A-dom were given the task of retrieving escapees while Gareth and Jade’s Luck evacuated people. After that was done, it was A-dom’s job to move the buildings with the red Xs. Jade’s Luck tried to inspire him, but he was having none of it. A-dom: You can suck my exalted cock later. I don’t need this smoke blowing up my ass. Gareth & Jade’s luck took their own sections of town, first moving the people in the red X houses to the brown Xs before moving everyone in a mass exodus. Tiger and A-dom split up the ways out of town to more efficiently capture people. They were mildly disturbed that one dragon-blood was missing. They suspected he was a Sidereal. A-dom went on the road towards Atlantis and found about twenty farmers fleeing with two possible soldiers. A-dom ran ahead of them and stopped them. Soldier: Are you a demon? A-dom: No I’m a Solar. The people stopped to discuss what that meant. A-dom told them to sht up and said he needed them to go back to Graynery. A-dom explained that the fire was out, that they were rebuilding part of town and the demons would be gone in two months. A-dom had to resort to violence. Pretty soon, he had a pile of unconscious farmers. He found two ‘medium’ tree and tied as many as he could to them. He then tied up the rest by the side of the road to come back for them later. A-dom then ran back to town at normal speed. He lost a total of four people (two off each tree). Some ropes went up around necks, after all. A-dom saw where Jade’s Luck and Gareth were and planted the trees. A-dom: These are your problem now. Villagers yelled Anathema and started running away. Gareth and Jade’s Luck stopped them. Jade’s Luck projected calm. Gareth untied the people from the tree and saved the corpses for burial later. Jade’s Luck cleared up the other corpses for later, during the evacuation. They dubbed a brown X building ‘the morgue.’ A-dom went and carried the other four back. A-dom (to the four): Don’t leave again. I’ll do worse! Gareth and A-dom then set about moving the buildings. Gareth let A-dom know they didn’t have to remain whole, he could fix them later. In the direction of Flatfields, Tiger found four farmers fleeing. He was less nice than A-dom when trying to convincing them. They ran in different directions. He knocked them out, tied them up, and then waited for them to wake up. When one of them woke up, he started screaming. Tiger ordered him to shut up, but he didn’t. Tiger pulled out his sword and started sharpening the blade. The guy shut up. Tiger threatened the guy with much violence and insinuated death. He promised the demons were just doing some landscaping. They were just defending themselves. He got looked at like he was Jahar a lot. Tiger eventually force marched them back to town with their begrudging agreement. Eventually Tiger ran into A-dom and asked him where the people were going. A-dom pointed it out to him while Tiger got them some water. Chain-Gang Villager #2 (to A-dom): He broke my arm! A-dom: You were able to tell me he broke your arm. That means he was nice. Tiger asked A-dom to pick up the mortals and take them to Jade’s Luck so he could go on patrol. A-dom asked him if he could take the building he was carrying. When Tiger responded no, A-dom put down the building and picked up the tied together mortals and ran them to Jade’s Luck. He dropped them off and told her they were a gift from Tiger. She asked A-dom to relay to Gareth that there were people in need of medical attention. On his next pass, A-dom relayed that Gareth said he could fix them at the next town. Jade’s Luck found some townsfolk that had basic medical training to treat the wounded. Tiger found one other guy while on patrol. Once the group got the people transplanted, they discussed for a while about what they were going to do. Tiger felt they needed to stick around for the next two months to protect the demons. Gareth felt they really needed to strike Atlantis now. The quicker they take over, the sooner they don’t have to worry about the demons’ safety anymore. The group eventually decided they needed to take over as quickly as possible. Tiger and A-dom took two days to check out things in Flatfields while Gareth and Jade’s Luck set up the people in the new town and quelled as much discontent as they could. They found no soldiers in Flatfields. A full week after this all started, the people were settled and quelled. A-dom: I like stabbing the dark. Especially with a club. The entire group went and visited the unpowered Manse. It looked like a building within a large cavernous room. It was rather unimpressive unpowered. Also the doors didn’t work, so A-dom had to use strength charms to open them. They found weird, orchalchum structures in the first room (abstract art?). They found stone furniture in the second room with no doors going out. There was a big shaft (fifty feet up, forty feet across) in there. Tiger climbed up and found a couple more rooms that were living quarters. The rooms were connected, but there were no doors out of them. A-dom: Okay. So I declare this, kind of a waste of time. [/QUOTE]
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