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Liatai has connected.

Drayco has connected.

Liatai:Heyo.

VAE:heyo

VAE:Hmm, lia.. is there a way to move tokens between maptool instances?

VAE:still, we have lotsa time until the game starts..two and half hours, i think

Liatai:Move tokens between...?

Liatai:Ah, I think I know what you're driving toward.

Liatai:The only way I know how is to save the token, then drag it from your library into the other instance.

VAE:I see

Saphroneth has connected.

VAE:welcome

VAE:&#171; &#160;1d1 = 1&#160; &#187;

VAE:woo! this works, too

Saphroneth:Yay.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I rolled a Gomboc, for that matter.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Evil question: Do magic attacks get Sneak damage?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Supplemental: Sneak Attack Magic Missile.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Evil answer, don't recall. But, that' be neat.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">(I don't actually have Magic Missile yet, but I might get it next level.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Never-miss, and all that.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Heh. Sneak attack Ray of Frost. That's 1-3 damage, +1-6 from being placed very carefully in an earhole.

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD!

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, I wonder when'll Liatai wake up

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Shall I re-ping?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">She might be waiting for that.

VAE:<font color="#000000">peerhaps

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yeah, she is.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Check IRC.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">So, we're waiting for who else?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Techcubi.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Ah, good, you be awakez.

* Liatai sleepily waves.

* VAE mroweth

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, how did you ping here?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I didn';t.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you in the IRC?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I did not ping.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">She just happened to be awake.

VAE:<font color="#000000">This is kinda like the sniping demo in Last Days of FOXHOUND XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well ,would be if you were in a pranky mood

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Saker does not like that comparison. He is a bird who does not wish to be shot.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Granted, he's from a different iteration of DnDMFA, but given the sniping skills that lot have, that is no defence.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh. Those two were amusing

* VAE has fond memories of saker shouting in zalgoscript and blowing up the door

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Good lord, Carnival Phantasm is hilarious. Watching it while waiting. It's like a gag series version of one of the most ominous, complex setting evar.

VAE:<font color="#000000">himself intact, that is

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Example: Berserker (hercules) defeats the entire rest of the Heroic Spirit cast... by accident... while shopping for batteries.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I kind of miss Tamika, she was fun. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tamika had awesome interactions with Ghost's skunk

<font color="#0000ff">Techubi has connected.

VAE:<font color="#000000">finally

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Right, where are we?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh, and everyone check you have a unique colour. It makes following conversations a bit easier.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Should I change my color?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That's fine.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">My colour is black like... wait, i haven't either soul or conscience... it's black like black.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Lia and VAE both have black at the moment, which is the problem. Mind going green, Liatai?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Or possibly something else.

* VAE whispers : Go dark blue!

Techubi:<font color="#FF0033">This isn't good?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">This is the organization known as S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M. Work hasn't been done in five days because nobody wants to take the colour pink for some reason.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I.. don't really mind, to be honest.

Techubi:<font color="#FF0033">...

Techubi:<font color="#FF0033">Then again, should I go darker/

Techubi:<font color="#FF0033">*?

VAE:<font color="#000000">once again. most colours are fine by me and my monitor.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Anything that's neither eye-hurting nor near-white is okay. Distinction is the only requirement.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Your old cyan-blue was fine, and so is that.

* VAE votes against ultraviolet, too

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also.. there's a bunch of colours that can't be expressed by RGB spectrum. Those aren't fine either.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;DOES THIS TEXT MAKE ME SEEM MORE WARLOCKISH?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...actually, yeah.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">How's this?

VAE:<font color="#000000">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Impossible_colours

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fine, lia

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Testing, testing, am I still here?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

VAE:<font color="#000000">so, if noone objects...

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Yay.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I'm ready.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">So, they're at the church, or...?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Last time on Unlimited Kebre Works, the ragtag group of mostly newly appointed special government operatives visited a militia station, a pub, and the house of an exgineer.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I am the wood of my cosh. Civil disorder is my body and molotov cocktails are my blood. I have created over a thousand riots. Unknown to the police, not known to the unions. And yet, I can't actually influence any politics. All that I have is Unlimited Kebre Works.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(or should it be Le Chevalier d'Veldun ? ) They managed to find out a few bits about the mining catastrophe, Veldun's gryphons, and that Kolina doesn't have salt mines.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saph, that was bloody awesome. Actually began laughing out.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I have a LOT of Soul Arias in my works, one way or another. I'm getting used to writing them.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;So. To the scene of the crime?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...okay, where are you guys? I can't see my character.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Church HQ, at the moment.

VAE:<font color="#000000">still in house, see

VAE:<font color="#000000">Most stuff is gonna be narrated, again

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">How do I go there, then?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Thank you.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sorry for the jaunt, everyone

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Ack.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Folks, sorry, do you mind holding on for a few minutes?

VAE:<font color="#000000">no prob

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Switching locations.

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai is disconnected.

* VAE needs to set up tokens, still

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai has connected.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You missed essentially nothing,

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You know what might be interesting? Music that actually uses the full capabilities of Bat were. You could have an audio-only piece that conveyed an image.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;So a fake Sonar image. I mean, I can already get myself to misinterpret music as sonar echoes, which results in a sort of visualization, but it's just not the same.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Wow!&quot; :O

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;It's very strange, seeing with your ears. But it'd be stranger hearing with one's eyes, I suppose. Be hard to tell where you were in a crowd!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Yeah, yeah, blah blah, bat music.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Not a conniseur of music?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Do you have a better topic of conversation?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;A warlock. A conniseur of music?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You never know. I heard once of a barbarian who was a great artist. Of course, he wasn't much for paintbrushes, but the works of Jackson the Pollock are well-regarded.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;A furrae who uses his darkest powers liking music? ...Well, I guess the screams of my enemies could count.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Artists... strange cases. I remember hearing of a maneating painting from my grandfather once. Ate the painter.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;That whole 'darkest powers' thing sounds a bit off. I mean, you hear of Warlocks who use their powers for good... in fact, you hear of Warlocks who show up as Good on a detect spell.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Your grandfather ate the painter, huh?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Well, it was of a demon, and the painter wasn't very good. Who knows.

Michail:<font color="#000000">My grandfather? No, but he met a few of them in the pub. He worked making paper, see.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Ah, canvassing the locals.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What do you want me to say, my 'Angriest' powers? Oh, sure. HEY, EVERYONE, I USE MY 'ANGRIEST' POWERS!&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Angriest .. powers?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You never spoke a truer sentence. Ever.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Usually power makes calm.

Michail:<font color="#000000">See, afraid people, and dead people aren't angry.

Michail:<font color="#000000">Or if they are, they are very silent about it.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You're a bear...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Though I've heard of a few megalomaniacs in my time. Like Achmed the Very Mad? Remember him? The Anger cubi with the psychosis? Exploded from overload?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;How the heck can you possibly say you aren't tougher when you're mad?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Question -- what skill would you roll to find out about 'cubi clans?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Or possibly Spellfire overchanneling.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Knowledge (nobility) ?

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Drat.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Lack of control, possibly...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">What else would oyu?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Or (magic), or (spellcraft) at a penalty. It has implications for several subjects.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Local could work too

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's a broad topic, see

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Never met a Channeler? I did once. They absorb magic and can shoot it back as fire. Most impressive. Scary, too, for a Mage.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Like &quot;elephants and jewish question&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;They do have this overload problem, though.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">Well, local and arcana I can do. To try and recall information about Clan Taun and its emotional preferences; &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Arcana, &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 10 + 5 = 15&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Local.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That works.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Clan Taun's preferences are Anger and Rage

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I feel like I'm in the middle of an artillery barrage... dang Fifth of November fireworks coupled with open windows...

* Crystal says nothing, but keeps walking toward the mine. |3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Worldbuildy thought. A lot of lower level spells handle the creation or shaping of small amounts of material. So when the techbase in a D&amp;D setting like this one reaches the point where Breechloader rifles are common (Think Sharps rifle, say) then the ability of a low level mage or enchantment to manufacture brass bullets constantly will make it a lot easier to supply an army of such.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Brass cartridges are tricky, but less so for people who can create matter they visualize.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, anyone have any idea when the heck we'll reach the end of this thing?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;When it is significant. As usual.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, any of you guys got any magical equipment or anything?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Are you kidding?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;That stuff costs too much for my pay grade.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way. You lot see the site soon enough - there is a guarded perimeter keeping dozens of angry, sad, or combination of the above people from entering, a few important people chatting in small groups and the continued in and outflux of people, and carts with rock rubble and assorted soil-like material. Occassionaly someone carries something out in a waxed sack.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, what now? Talk to the non-guards?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">What weapons are the guards armed with? Including anything concealed? Spot &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 17 + 2 = 19&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Dang, that should have been +4. Ah well.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Success. of course.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">They don't bother covering things up, either - they have assorted blades, light crossbows, and one of them is carrying a blunderbuss.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Watch out, at least one gun.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Means they probably have some fairly good backing.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Of course. They're city guards.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Riot gun, too.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;And this is a highly emotionally-charged situation.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Agreed.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, and .. while two of them are beings, one has horns. Likely a half-breed

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Sooooooo, if I'm going to be intimidating, do it in a fairly non-berserk way?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Wisdom check

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Are you certain you're not a barbarian, descendant of Taun?&quot; |3

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Wisdom: &#171; &#160;d20 - 3 = 20 - 3 = 17&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 15 - 2 = 13&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; Wisdom of the ages. As in, vintage and out of date.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...that's pretty funn.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...that's pretty funn.y

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">ARG.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 20 + 1 = 21&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 17&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Best rolls ever. We have used up our luck for the evening.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Even animals with brains can be smart too, ya know.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Aaand he lost it again.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Okay. Voltarus, Firo and Crystal, you are fairly confident that if you are going to be intimidating, you will most likely end up outlaws at best, and in one of those sacks at worst.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">These folks are used to intimidation.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...Soooooo, Diplomacy. Or, bluffing...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">Well yeah. City guards.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Or just friends in the right places,&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">If you think I'm going to intimidate anyone with a gun, guv, you've been following the campaign history. Forget that. Not going to mess with people better than me and in formation.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What fun is that?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, plan?&quot;

* Crystal walks closer to the guarded area. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 17 + 3 = 20&#160;  &#187; Listen on conversations...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Adventure, Voltarus, is someone else in deep merde a long way away.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Success, wait a moment

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, if you have skills, why not use them?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, wtf

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I rather like my skin on the outside and everything else on the inside.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#CC0000">WIS: 5

Techubi:<font color="#CC0000">INT: 16

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Being polite and establishing that I am 'in' with the... more important people in the city, encourages that.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(sorry is being disrupted by family)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;It's all about momentum and reputation. It may suit you that people flinch at the sight of your hand pointed towards their nether regions. It suits me much more that people trust me - unless they mess with me.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Riggghhhhhtttttt, because the criminal underworld can blackmail just ANYONE, without worrying about a sword getting stuck in their gut. Does anyone like Affableness in Criminals when they're basically saying, 'HEY, LISTEN TO ME OR DIE?'&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Poor impulse control. You need a new tattoo.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Isn't your thing just like a more subtle version of mine?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Anyway, everything I do is entirely legitimate. And it's not as if intimidation is a foreign tactic to the authorities, either - the key is the insinuation of force without the threat ever actually being made. Much more polite.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Legitimate. Riiiiggggghhhtttttt.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;All civilization, in the end, is a threat to the citizens to play nice.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;In that sense, I am one of the most civilized people in this entire city. Not only is there the threat there, it is most exquisitely veiled.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Whatever. Should we try coming up with a way of getting past the guards that ISN'T a threat? Could be more challenging, that way.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Is he sounding too wise, or, just like a warlock who's not in dark rage mode?)

* Crystal is still patiently waiting for a guard to not be occupied.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Of course. Well, it's a much higher level of threat, one that's not immediately apparent. Simply going through legitimate channels - which carries the subtext that if letigimate channels are not followed, then the authorities will be annoyed. But in any case, I believe that is miss Crystal's area of expertise.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;... um... where'd the cat lady go?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Spot check to see Crystal?)

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Ankles being attacked by kitten &gt;:O

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I thought I left her in my last apartment. It's not a pleasant thing to live next to a Crazy Cat Lady with a dozen or so feral cats when you have just found out you can turn into a bat.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Oh.)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I am not a toy. Or appetiser.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Who knows where the heck she went?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;To speak to the guards. Hence why I said to let her do it - her area of expertise.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Screw it.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Depends what it is.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Fironi, name a type of official and a personality to go with it.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Huh?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Type of official and personality. Name them.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">As a side note, I may phase Firo out of the campaign in a few sessions. He's just not the right fit. :B

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Uh... messenger and dutiful?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;How about versions of those that would get me past the guards?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I don't know, actually. He fits &quot;Plucky comic relief&quot; and &quot;Morality pet&quot;.

* Liatai shrugs.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The latter allowing for interesting development away from cynicism.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Saph, you got any ideas?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Who is saph?

Liatai:<font color="#330066">... it's just more fun to play Crystal in this setting. XP *brick'd*

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">*Karis

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crystal hears following conversation fragments: ... fuck this! Never would have happened when old Karr owned this place. And every year shit like this happens, I swear... ...Let me in! ... I'm sorry miss, no entry to non-delegated people... LET ME IN! MY HUSBAND WAS THERE... *you see her being restrained by one of the guards* 1: Now this'll fuck up our targets for the month 2: Yeah.. and they'll be looking to blame it on someone. Wouldn't want to be the guy in charge of that tunnel's shift.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Perhaps we wait for the proper channels to go through. Much safer.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Do you ever get tired of being BORING?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;On occasion. Then I remind myself that I can fly, and suddenly I feel less boring.&quot;

* Crystal approaches a guard. &quot;Excuse me, sir?&quot; Or ma'am. Substitute proper pronoun here. :B

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, isn't that nice for you? Come on, play along with me, Official type and personality.&quot;

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">What do you want, miss?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;What about a postal postman?

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">I can't let you in.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...Would that really work?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Not necessarily. But it would be a great distraction.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Oh, SURE, use the Warlock as a distraction.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Depends how many people he could club unconscious with his mailbag.&quot;

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">..Er.. I mean. Employee card.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I didn't know you were a postman.&quot;

* Watchful Security appears rather split-attention, and mildly confused. Too many people to handle.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Karis, would it KILL you to come up with something DECENT?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">Crystal takes her badge out of her pocket and shows it in her palm, careful not to flash it within view of the general populace milling around. &quot;Afraid I left my employee card at home. Will this work instead?&quot;

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">*looks* Ivan! Come over here!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm afraid I don't understand the point of the question. Certainly, for example, a marshal of the armed forces would be able to get in - but that's because he'd be CinC of local forces.

* Crystal folds the badge into her hand and gestures for the rest of the group to come closer.

* Voltarus sighs.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Is this some party-ah, it seems we have an in.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;-- Oh, there she is!&quot;

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">The demon-looking one approaches.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Come on.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Perfect. Just perfect.&quot;

* Voltarus heads over to her.

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">*whispers something for a while*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Listen check?

* Crystal waits patiently. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 8 + 3 = 11&#160;  &#187;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 4 - 2 = 2&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Listen: &#171; &#160;d20 - 3 = 20 - 3 = 17&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Firo and Voltie are the winners: T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Following: Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And Tech, I take it you mean who to impersonate to get in. Just that you never actually said so in character.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Leaving Karis and Firo rather confused.

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">Ivan... a chick showed in here.. she doesn't look like an engineer, and got an odd badge. You worked in the militia, you look at it.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Anyway...)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The most evil part of Germany: the upper Palpatinate.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss, mind showing me your legitimation again?&quot;

* Voltarus chuckle.

* Crystal keeps waiting, with a small, somewhat confused-looking smile. Might as well play a little role, it's fun~

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Of course! I'm so sorry, really forgetful of me to leave the card.&quot; Badge surreptitiously shown again. &quot;Hope it's not too much trouble...&quot;

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">*looks at it, then nods* You are free to pass.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">Do you need to see someone specific?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;And there you go.&quot;

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">*whisper again*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 17 - 2 = 15&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20 - 3 = 5 - 3 = 2&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">d20-3

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Thank you -- well, we'd prefer to talk to someone who isn't helping keep the people out of danger at the moment, would hate to pull you away for a small thing like this.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Listen...

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;d20-3 = 11 - 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Okay, that does still work.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">(whispered) Jegor, I knew you were an idiot, but you just outdone yourself. I wonder why the hell are the spooks sniffing around here though.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">Over there, in the supply shed - we got the wounded being sorted out there. Those folks at least aren't digging.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">If you want to go down ,you'll have to pick up a lamp and a helmet. We don't need any *more* dead.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Last part said out loud?)

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

VAE:<font color="#000000">only the (whisper) being silent

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Of course -- thank you. Sorry to trouble you.&quot; Smile, smile!

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Joy...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'll take a helmet and lamp, but I'll probably be going through shifted.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;To the shed, gentlemen?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Of course.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;If we HAVE to...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;I wonder if they make gryphon helmets...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">To the shed?

VAE:<font color="#000000">(a moment, needing a bit of tokens)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;They have Gryphon miners, so I assume so.&quot;

* Voltarus heads to the shed.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Headed over there as well.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways. In the shed you see blankets on the floor, and about two miners there. One gryphon B with rather unnaturally looking wing and badly bruised side, breathing heavily, and a being whose leg kinda aren't anymore. So far ,the two survivors. There are two robed people tending to them, and two-three others with minor damage, probably due to the recovery effort, waiting for their turn to be fixed up.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;They look in a bad way. It's a pity I have no healing magic, really. More of the opposite.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">D: * Firo is looking over at the Gryphon B -- &#171; &#160;1d20 = 7&#160;  &#187; untrained Heal check to see if it's just HP damage or something else.

Healer.:<font color="#000000">*appears to be focused at some sort of a ritual, placing herbs and sprinkling dust over the gryphon.* &quot;...Sherrana, Lady of the Earth, let me shape this body as you once did...&quot;

* Firo creeps closer, curious.

* Crystal looks around for someone who isn't a healer who might be able to help with helmets.

Alexei Schramm:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our Father, who art Comforter Tester and Intercessor, i plead ,alleviate the pain of your child&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Firo doesn't know enough Gryphon anatomy to find out if it had the plague.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Or the Plaque, for that matter, which is when the teeth have gunk between and on them.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You see a miner, a City Guard guard, and the engineer you seen earlier in the pub.

Firo:<font color="#330066">Retry - &#171; &#160;1d20 = 1&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#330066">Retry! &#171; &#160;1d20 = 16&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Firo thinks that maybe the wings are on back to front.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">I.E. the militia, but someone else kept calling them city guard

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And should be on the head.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Hmm, well there's a fairly familiar face.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Hey, there.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Ooh-kay. The gryphon does have bad HP damage, but is stablilsed, and there's something else... which is probably the reason for the ritual.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Hey! You again?

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Yeah, me again.&quot;

* Firo creeps closer. &quot;Uhm... excuse me, missus healer?&quot; he asks quietly, trying not to interrupt.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I must say, I'm impressed with your ability to put a brave face on this tragedy. Your determination is an inspiration.&quot;

Healer.:<font color="#000000">^^' Sorry.. wait your turn please, this is rather urgent. I'll get to you in a moment.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Is he gonna be okay?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">It's pretty clear this gryphon is too young to be a miner. :B

Firo:<font color="#330066">A minor miner, maybe? *brick'd*

Healer.:<font color="#000000">^^' I hope so. The spirits within him are strong.. and it's a moonless night today.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Should I use a Knowledge(Arcana) check for knowledge on this kind of healing magic?)

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Um...&quot; The gryphon fiddles with his tail, as if trying to decide something.

VAE:<font color="#000000">dunno if it's worth bothering

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Spellcraft to identify the spell, for the lulz.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It'd require me to go through the books XD

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Seeing people hurt like this... it makes me feel a bit powerless, really. Not a feeling I'm used to. I mean, there's no way to get back at a mountain.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Spellcraft: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It seems to be a rather custom version of Restoration, designed to fix the body alone.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;... d'you think he might need this?&quot; The gryphon holds out a potion in his paw; a labeled Cure Light Wounds potion. (Firo, curse your kind nature.)

Healer.:<font color="#000000">Oh, that's nice! We have a short supply, with everyone and their brother being hurt. You're sweet!

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Whattaya know, a creative healer.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">''...nice kid. Not something I'd do, but not something I'll stop, either. Gratitude is a coin all its' own, after all.''

Healer.:<font color="#000000">*continues working on the spell*

* Voltarus looks at Engineer.

* Firo gives the healer the potion. &quot;It's just he's hurt, and I'm not, and he needs it -- I'll get outta the way.&quot; Gryphon retreat!

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, how'd you get here so fast?&quot;

* Liatai gnaws on Firo's ears. Why did you give away 50 GP of potion at this level when there's no healer graaaah! &gt;:E

Firo: <font color="#330066">(( I couldn't help it he needed it ow ow ow! ))

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Character escapes player's control&quot; is a sign of a good character.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">So fast? It's been what, three hours since we last met. And.. got my head whacked by an idiot who can't handle his shovel properly. Nothing a potion can't fix, but my head is still a bit spinning.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We did spend a while waiting at the cordon, but I didn;t think it was that long... or have I lost track of time while arguing again...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(were in the house, and in the mail in the meantime, too)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I know. Karis did, indeed, lose track of time.

VAE:<font color="#000000">my estimate was that you did spend quite some time messing with things over there.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Huh. So, should we go ahead and get our gear, and get going?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Probably best.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Where do we get helmets and such to go below?&quot; Crystal looks around curiously.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Oh, that? Come, it's in a shed right next to this.. I mean, this was a supply shed too, just empty, so they made a lazaret in here.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Good initiative.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Well.. let's say this isn't the first time we have trouble.

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment, nature calls

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">*Have had

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Actually, that's a reasonable colloquialism. Dropping of definite articles, and all that. Read it to yourself in a Russian accent.

* Firo slinks out, muttering a &quot;get well soon...&quot; He follows the others to the supply shed.

VAE:<font color="#000000">back

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Supply shed, there is a desk and a fox with a dashboard who surely feels important stops you right as you enter.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Jelena, something went wrong with your lamp again? Not giving you another one.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">What the...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Ah, good to see someone with some appreciation of the proper procedures. Now, we need to sign out four helmets - one gryphon small, and three others - and four lights, to go down into the tunnel. Rest assured, we'll return them as soon as possible.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Flattery is the insincerest form of flattery.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Four!?

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Five, actually.&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">I mean, I can't give four out to one person, just like that... five!?

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Michail needs one, too.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Are you sure he'll fit? I was assuming he wouldn't, really.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Well... worse case, a bucket will do

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;It's not five to one person, it's five to five people.&quot; ^^

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;For that matter, is his current helm as part of his armour good enough?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Deferring to your judgement about such things, of course, sieur.&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Which five people?

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">There is six of you here.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Those of us who you have not seen regularly. Gryphon, bear, bat, chap with extra wings and the woman with glasses.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">There are two women with glasses!

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Are you coming down with us, ma'am?&quot; Crystal asks the engineer, concerned. &quot;Your head hasn't been looked at yet.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What he said.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;The Fo-&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Oh, wait...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Ummmmmmm...&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Can do... have lived through worse.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;The one not wearing the engineer thing.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I didn't actually see that the engineer had glasses as well. Sorry.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;What's your name, anyway?&quot; :.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">It isn't Anyway. It's Fedor.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, only five people here aren't already issued with helmets. It'll make things much smoother if you could see your way to helping us out.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I meant the young lady, Mr. Fedor, but nice to meet you too!&quot; Smile, smile.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*whispers to Crystal*

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Smoother? Does anyone feel this is going any 'Smoother' when he talks like that?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">See, Fedor's more nuts than a pin joint tower, but at least he doesn't attempt to sell stuff to the outside, which is why they still employ him.

* Crystal nods, still smiling. |3

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Ah. Sign your names here. and I'll see if there's something.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Now, now, Voltarus. Smooth goes the path greased by a little courtesy.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*signs. It's the first time he's used his real name in quite some time. No, you can't tell what it is from the squiggles.*

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">*hands you forms then runs back and wanders among the shelves*

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;I'm sure your stealthy tricks are VEERRRYYYYY courteous...&quot;

* Crystal signs the list as &quot;Alison Lekas.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">HAHAHAHAHA

* Firo tries to use the pen. &gt;:d

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Of course. I'm avoiding bothering the sentries with such difficult things as running or shouting.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">that name backwards

Liatai:<font color="#330066">What did I do this time? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">sakel nosila. It's a slovak sentence. &quot;She carried the sack&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Really? XD

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Wow. Completely unintentional. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">it sounds like totally a fake name someone would use

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And then threw it into the canal with weights on the ends.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, mister Alucard...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Voltarus Warlock Aggressive Destroyer.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">I just used one of her usual fake first names and the abbreviated name of her hometown in her original setting. XD

* Firo can't help signing it as *splotch.*

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Karis uses his real name for official and above board stuff. And a fake name for everything else. He just makes the real name juuust too squiggly to actually read.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">*returns with something looking like a rounded crate, Inside it are four helmets and five lamps*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I assume this means my Ursine companion's helmet is already adequate, then?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, we have to actually wear these things, huh?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You don't have to. Being brained by a rock is a most liberating alternative.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Hardy hardy har.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Or, is it Hardy har har?&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">No.. *after unloading, he removes the helmet from the crate. The others just managed to fit into it*

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">*the fifth

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Ah, I see!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;My word, I missed that.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Missed what?&quot;

* Crystal hands over the forms cheerily.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">A common mistake.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;The last helmet. It wasn't easily apparent - it was so large it looked like the inner wall of the crate.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You want your head to look like a hole?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Can we take anything down to the workers when we go? I'm strong, I can carry something.&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">*reads through. So, Mr. Destroyer, Mrs. Lekas, Mr Dolgorukiy, Mr. K..k.. whatever, i remember you, and Mr obviously gryphon here, I hope you will return these on your leave.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Wouldn't dream of doing otherwise.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Of course.&quot; ^^

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Glad to hear it. Because it'd be illegal otherwise. Theft, you know! Robbery!

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Truly heinous crimes.&quot; Smile, smile!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think technically it would be petty theft, but the distinction is irrelevant. It is a Bad Thing.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;-- Ah! Beg your pardon, ma'am, I don't think I caught your name in that list,&quot; Crystal says to the engineer. &quot;It'd be good to know what name to call if one of us accidentally falls down a sinkhole or something, right?&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">They indeed are, Miss Lekas. See, that's how it gets started - small things. And goes onto bigger and bigger.. like that guy who tried to silently carry off a wagon!

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;My word.&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Saint Ilja? No, that's dragon. Sorry.&quot;

* Firo tries to put on the helmet. :d

* Voltarus grabs lamp.

* Voltarus and puts on the stupid helmet.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Jelena Berezovskaja

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Helmet equipped. Lamp equipped. Strangely, the lamp can't be seen - perhaps his overworld model isn't fully customizable.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Nice to meet you, Jelena.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Berezovskaja?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Not like my name's any secret, either way.

* Crystal puts on the helmet.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah. I guess if they ever gave me a badge, it'd have to be extra wide.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">But the badge would be easier to Polish.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">*ba-dum tsh!*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I heard of a northerner saga about someone called Erik Erikssonssonssonssonssonsson. Apparently they weren't all that imaginative.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Hey, actually.. lemme show you something. *shows work legitimation, which lacks last four letters of her surname*

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Berezovs?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*surname due to lack of space

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Way to go, idiots.

* Crystal chuckles. &quot;Makes me glad my last name's short, for once!&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Well, shall we get going below?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Let's go blow off the steam.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, if there are any cubi engineers, might be a good thing.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Lead the way, miss Berezovs the truncated.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Imagine having to read any long name as a cubi.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*laughs*

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Why would it matter if your name's long if you're a cubi?&quot; :.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Hell, if I ever actually become one, I might not even be able to read your full name at all. XD&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Short attention spans.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;At least to some things.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Oh hey! The lamp beam width changes if I do this!&quot; :D

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;And then there are those who have it naturally...&quot;

* Crystal chuckles. x3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Poof!* I am... bat! Not bat-man. But it means I do not need eyes to see. Just ears. Now sending ping to cave wall, with four packets of sound.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;I guess you could be right... XD&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">As you set off, Fedor shouts behind you. &quot;Oh, you wanted to help taking stuff down? I guess we'd need three hundred.. no, crap, thirty.. grah. this calculation is going nowhere&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;What is it?&quot; :o

* Firo peeks back in.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Once I'm a cubi, it might be even HARDER than as is. XD&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">It's a bloody zero.. it shouldn't be there.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;I mean what do you want me to take?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Hang on... I have a flight mode, and a walking mode in which I can use weapons... does this make me a Gundam?

Liatai:<font color="#330066">X3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Nobody mention Gattai.

Firo:<font color="#330066">Delivery? :O

Firo:<font color="#330066">Gryphon messenger is all over that stuff. :O

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Can you pull a carriage?

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Umm... how much does it weigh?&quot; Firo can drag up to 1950 pounds.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That's basically a ton, right?

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">How much... do I look like I put it on a scale?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yea.

VAE:<font color="#000000">divide by two, decrease by 10 percent

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">He can presumably estimate it in hundredweight or something... or perhaps in decitons.

VAE:<font color="#000000">A sane one would.. this one will need more prodding

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You can't guess?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Is it less than a ton?&quot; ^^;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">I can guess!

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">I can bloody do anything!

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;THEN, GUESS ALREADY!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 2 + 7 = 9&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 8 + 1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; resist.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Remember that guy from Snow Crash who had &quot;Poor impulse control&quot; tattooed on his forehead?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...yeah.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">:B

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Same result... Voltarus has the higher modifier, so he wins.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Raven has a nuclear bomb on a dead man's switch on his motorbike side car, and makes sure everyone knows it.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">I guess.. it's about quarter a ton. Not much stuff to go down, asides from the empty wagon, some pick handles, few sticks and some booze for guys down.

VAE:<font color="#000000">dead man's switch.. so he releases and boom

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Good boy.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Oh! Then no problem!&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">He dies, and WHOOM.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's linked to his heart.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah

VAE:<font color="#000000">thought letting go was enough, for some time.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yeah, Raven has other things to do with his hands. Like kill people with glass knives.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Well, let's go then.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">*He takes a crate with stuff, and walks outside, towards one of the empty rail carriages. It has a harness attachment mechanism at either end.. apparently gryphons and other mythos are harnessed for this purpose regularly*

VAE:<font color="#000000">pun ofc intended

* Firo hooks up to the harness just fine.

* Voltarus follows.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Who does this go to, Mister Fedor?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Aerial scout cover! Well, aerial. Probably about head height, but when you're a one foot wingspan bat, there's a lot of air below you at head hight.

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Fine.. now just go down the track. The levers are set right already, just feel where it wants to go. When you pull this thingy with your beak, you pull the brake to slow it down. Neat, isn't it? Modern!

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Cool!&quot;

Nameless Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Who, who.. well, the folks trying to dig up the collapsed section. Everyone else has a free day today.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Okay! You can count on me!&quot;

* Firo starts down the track, with Crystal and hopefully the rest of the ragtag group following.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Going ahead. Because I fly and stuff. Also because bats are kind of used to working in caves.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;How long have you been working here, Jelena?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Me? Pretty much since I finished the academy. It goes in the family, see. My mother did this too, and so did my stepfather. Even my father was a miner.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">I think you can extrapolate the rest of our family well enough.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I suppose so.&quot; x3

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah. It's not that bad. Sure, almost everyone older than thirty or so coughs like a pot, and we got this sort of trouble, but the pay isn't that bad, and you sure as hell don't go jobless. And, it isn't even so physically demanding these days....there are explosives, there are these spells, and some places even use hydraulic diggers.

* Firo trots along proudly. Yay, I'm workin'!

Firo:<font color="#330066">He flicks his tail in Morse; &quot;(See anything suspicious?)&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*negative response.* &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 12 + 4 = 16&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; -Listening for trouble ahead, or in the sonar images for that matter.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*inaudible clicking* ''Technology is a self reinforcing improvement. I wonder if there's been any work recently on breechloaders? Breechloading guns may be harder to keep supplied, and fiddly to boot, but they would also increase potential rate of fire by as much as ten times over rifled muzzle-loaders.'' Everyone has a hobby.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">And people say, during the imperial times, there were self-moving metal machines who dug the ore, and ground it up inside them, returning when full. I doubt they ever existed, but maybe some clever chap will get the idea and we'll have those once again.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">No trouble away, as you descend so far. occassionally you see people peeping from other side tunnels.

* Firo trots along, following the path. :D

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Then, all it will take is a few hundred folks like me to operate a whole mine.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Ah well, am being silly.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*smiles nervously*

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;You know what they say! A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.&quot; ^^

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;And heaven knows we need a little levity after this.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah... sure as hell that.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Did you start seeing those muddy spots around here, or deeper?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Ah, wait just a few minutes.. you'll feel it. And the smell.

* Crystal keeps walking, looking curious.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Testing, am I still here?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yeah.

VAE:<font color="#000000">the two others are writing something, or so did my client insinuate

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Good, good. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">so was waiting for them to finish

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Watch the lights flickering in the bottom right corner.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And I'm not doing anything.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">I don't see anyone typing right now.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I'm basically waiting for something to hapen.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Same. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and I thought both techcubi and Saph are

VAE:<font color="#000000">seemed like the client goy stuck with the &quot;is typing&quot; thing

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, we're looking for muddy spots?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;That's what the engineers said looked a little suspicious. Guess we'll see when we get there if there's anything else.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">''Then there's the problem of overheating. A breechloader can be fired fast enough that the heat of the gun becomes a real issue. Water cooling? Chill Metal would work for a minute or so, but the best thing to do is probably just bear it.''

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way, as you descend deeper you indeed begin to feel an odd smell... definitely out of place in a mine

* Firo has scent, and thus notices it very keenly. What does it smell like?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">''maintaining awareness of everything within 20 feet with Blindsense. This will spot pools of liquid - they look very different on sonar.''

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Something rather sharp, chemical smell, if you get my drift. Karis, you see no pools of liquid yet, but even where you are you can see a weaker response from some bits of wall or roof here and there. only on a single side though.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*morse*One side weaker.*/morse*

* Firo sneezes.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*indicates*

* Firo flicks his tail. Morse: &quot;(Weird...)&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;... is there an acid you use in mining around here that's making this smell?&quot; Crystal's nose twitches as she tries to hold back a sneeze.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Acid? No.. that's only used in processing some ores. Because it'd be too expensive. See, the only producers are in Novzgrad and in Kallisburg, splitting salt and making acid out of it with the electricity they got there.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">''tactically, a breechloader might put paid to the whole concept of a rigid battle line. Like with magic, skirmish order is manageable because the firepower and rate of fire is high enough to prevent anyone reaching the line itself, while skirmish order allows more of that rate of fire to be brought to bear. Still could be useful to form a block battle line in specific situations, but not generally.''

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Clearly somewhat bored?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The question then becomes, what IS the smell...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Indeed

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Can I tell if it's stronger at the differently-reflecting patches?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">If you sniff them... well, it isn't, thankfully. The smell is mainly coming from deeper in.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Listen checks.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Hang on.)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20 - 3 = 7 - 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chirr, when I count to three, Pull! One, two, THREE!&quot; .....&quot;Fuck, another one. Someone bag him and let's go on.&quot; .... &quot;Soften it there and there, Peter&quot; ... &quot;Leave me something in that bottle&quot; ....

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Morse: Sneaky time for me?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(of course, every fragment is a different voice there)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That's all from downstairs, where you are going, by the way.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 6 + 2 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*hears nothing*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Morse: *Will scout, back soon*

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Sounds like we're getting closer.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">*tailflick affirmative*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Flies ahead, keeping out of sight.* Hide check: &#171; &#160;1d20+19 = 13 + 19 = 32&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Bats are VERY hard to spot.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">What with being tiny and all.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That's elephant hide.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I hope not!

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">They can't,

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">32 millimeters or something XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Except in flat grey forests with stubby trees.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">:B

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">not even elephant, that. Ankylosaur?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">On back, i mean. Where the platelets are.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I think this Metaphor may need to be taken out and shot.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Well, you folks work for the secret police. Serve yourself.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">So, what do I see? Or do I need to provide spot/listen?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Spot &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; Listen &#171;  &#160;1d20+4 = 8 + 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;. Bat-vision goooo. And bat ears, but they're already in use since I haven't crashed.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, you see an engineer, a gryphon, one obvious miner and one guy with militia uniform pants. The militionary is drinking from a bottle, and near him is another of those waxed sacks. The miner is shovelling material into the carriage, the gryphon is resting near a boulder, and the engineer is looking at a large rock, gesturing above it with his paw, utterly concentrated. Here and there you do notice said slime patches here, also, you see a whole lot more of previously mentioned weaknesses.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*return*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*squeh sq-* ''oh, screw it. ''transform back to Furre. &quot;There seem to be four people, trying to clear everything up.&quot; *goes into specifics*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Generally speaking, it looks like the whole area is infested with some sort of slime and might be bad rock to boot.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;All of these slime patches...&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Knowledge arcana to identify?

Firo:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 9 + 4 = 13&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; same?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">I saw them in two ways! &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 18 + 6 = 24&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah... so you seen it. Most other folks are now either waiting for their potion, or having time off. The intensity of the dig has dropped, because, basically at this stage, there is pretty sure to be noone alive, see.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I see. So it's more along the lines of damage control and retrieving the bodies for burial, cremation or exposure?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I suppose there might still be undead 'alive' in there... though you raise a good point...&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yes.At first, there was about fifty. I mean, one entire branch of tunnel with more folks in it got blocked off, but luckily didn't fall.. it was very close to the end of the cave-in. They basically just had a scare and got out after three-four hours.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm still worried about that slime, though...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(moment.. can't write for two folks at the same time, and had to reply)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Karis, you did excellent. The sludge has traces of magic above natural level.. kinda like the bodies of creatures or mythos.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">If you want, you can throw in a knowledge nature, too.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I mean, it had actual magical properties. That's not normally good news.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 15 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(Mind if I try Knowledge Arcana, or too late?)

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Go ahead.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Arcana: &#171; &#160;d20 + 7 = 18 + 7 = 25&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That's enought to say that it seems like a mixture of something at least partly organic, and what used to be rock.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(for Karis)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;One possibility is some sort of magical lichen... it was digesting the rock somehow.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Voltarus essentially finds out the same as Karis before, confirming it.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, Dark magic experiment?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Bloody hell.. that sounds nasty as fuck.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Or, accidental magic mishap?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Or, something even worse?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Whatever it is, it's bad news.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">I dunno.. don't think any spell I can do has potential for this kind of mess.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Especially as it might have actually made the area unsafe in the first place. This whole place is food to it.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Please, Arcane energy is Arcane energy.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Wonder if there's a way to transport a sample back to the surface for analysis, without having it eat through the container.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I seem to be all out of ironwood bags.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Int check, Karis

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Er, containers. Not sure how you'd make a bag...&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Ow.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Maybe if we had somekind of magic device to help us with this...&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You consider the slime eats everything. Furthermore it's bent on eating you.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crystal, int check.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">actually

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 13 + 3 = 16&#160; <font color="#330066">&#187; Int check?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Staying as far away from that stuff as possible... I might try to burn it if I have to go close.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">(You mind if I do an Int check, too?)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You realise, that if the stuff eats through rock, and it's now resting on rock, it must have reacted or otherwise saturated itself.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">In other words, it shouldn't be unsafe at this stage.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;.. hmm...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Well, if you're not getting close, may I have the honors? Where's the nearest patch?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Go ahead.&quot; *shudder*

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">About two metres left and deeperwards.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(diagonal)

* Crystal approaches the patch, taking something out of her pack; a clay mug. It's cheap and easily replacable -- more so than the bottle of fine wine and the potions she has in there. :B

* Crystal touches the slime with the mug, then inspects the mug for damage.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">No damage. Some has stuck to it though. Jelena told you it's a bitch to clean off.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">The time-honored scientific tradition of poking things with other things and seeing what happens. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">indeed

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Pretty sure that's what even isotope spectroscopy is - just that the &quot;other thing&quot; is a particle cannon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I like such other things.

VAE:<font color="#000000">they are very other indeed.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;That's fine, that's what I was hoping for.&quot; ^^ Crystal scoops up some of the slime with the mug. &quot;Does anyone have a sack, or some kind of case for this to go in?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(would have worked better in slovak. There other and different are really the same word)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You think this was intentional?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">The folks down there, ask them to chop you off a bit.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">They have sacks in there.. you just wrap it with waxed cloth, and it'll do.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Large amounts of slimy magical residue don't tend to just appear for no reason -- unless there are fae involved, of course,&quot; she adds with a joking tone.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*visions of what's basically &quot;The Blob&quot;* ''Ah well. Worst to worst, I can fly off.''

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Imagine what someone could do with that stuff.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Indeed.. bloody hell, who'd do this.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">I mean.. if the whole area is weakened...

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Let's go see the people down lower, then!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Do the owners have any magical abilities, or magical friends?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Well, you indeed reach your destination down there, causing a minor commotion.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It all returns to nothing, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down -Kohm, Susser Todd, from End of Evangelion

* Crystal holds her cup-o-slime out of the way.

Militionary:<font color="#000000">Supplies? Finally. What took you so long up there?

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Neremath? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Few hundred pounds of supplies.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">there's a mild lack of suitably looking tokens, see.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;They're here now!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Everyone gets their cameo

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chiii! Chii! (Heya and thanks!)

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chii!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Here Chii go again...&quot;

* Firo gasps! &gt;:O

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Sorry. Just a little pun.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Be nice! That's a bad word!&quot; &gt;:O

Peter:<font color="#000000">Yeah, welcome.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;-Oh. Oh. That'll teach me to say things in a language I don't know yet.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What makes it a bad word?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;The usual list is bodily functions or blasphemy.&quot;

Miner:<font color="#000000">Hope you brought something to drink. Josif there finished the bottle off.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;With a side order of bizarre boinking, alliteratively...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, have you guys seen any sludge stuff down here?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I knew we could get you interested in foreign language, Voltarus. You just need there to be a chance of swearing.&quot;

Militionary:<font color="#000000">'s because I also had to put the body away. You'd have thrown your guts up.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I think there are a few bottles in there! You wouldn't happen to have a sack to spare, would you? I'm saving some for later.&quot; Crystal gives a joking smile and holds up the cup.

Miner:<font color="#000000">Ick. You want to actually keep that shit?

Militionary:<font color="#000000">'llright *takes out a knife and cuts you off a sizable chunk.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, Chii to you, Bat boy.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Who knows, it might be valuable someday.&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Those who do disgusting things between accidents are less likely to have more accidents.&quot;

* Firo giggles.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Do I even want to know what I said?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Similarly, the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. And the more you bleed in peace, the less you die in war.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Probably not.&quot;

Militionary:<font color="#000000">There you go, miss.

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;No, it's 'chii.' Not 'chii.' You just called him a cauliflower.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Do I have to say it more angrily?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Thank you -- Josif?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Noblest of the strange white fluffy-looking vegetables.&quot;

Militionary:<font color="#000000">Yep... and you'd be?

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Alison. Here escorting the gryphon cart. Nice to meet you.&quot; ^^

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Voltarus Warlock Aggressive Destroyer.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm mumblemumble,&quot; was there a consonant in there? Possibly.

Militionary:<font color="#000000">Nice to meet you too.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;My friends with a good sense of humour call me &quot;mumblembumble the indistinct.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chii chii?&quot; (Where'd all this slimy stuff come from?)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, ummm...CHIII you, Bat Boy?&quot;

Militionary:<font color="#000000">Well... it'd be nicer on the surface, but still.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I know that one! It means 'town'!&quot;

* Firo snickers!

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiiiiii?&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chii? Chii-chi. (Fuck if I know. Though, there's a lot of it showing up in this section.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Second person declarative of the verb 'to insinuate'&quot;.

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chi-chii. Chii. Chii chii. (Looks like a lot of it came from what used to be the roof here.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiii-cha?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;No, that's just a noise.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chii chii, chii?&quot; (These people are so silly, huh?) &quot;Chii, chiii chii...&quot; (Man, I wish I knew what it was...)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiii-cha is just a noise?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;It's a dance.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chiii-cha-cha!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiii-Chi-chi?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Belgium, I think. Though I'm not sure.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What the heck's a Belgium?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;My momma was not a hamster, you take that back!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Oh, got it. Inflective languages are hard.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chii-chiii-cock-chi-KA-DOOLE-Chi.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I don't know either, by the way. I understand it;s a very strange place.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;That's just nonsense.&quot; =3=

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What did I say?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I thought he was asking the time...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Hehe; and here you thought you were just getting supplies. A free comedy show, too!&quot; |3

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chi. (Dummies.) Chii-chirp. Chirp-chiiirp chii Quirr chirp chirp .chi-chirr (I don't care.. mainly wish we're done and Quirr is allright. They pulled 'er out earlier looking bad as hell.)

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chii Quirr? Chii chii chii. Chii chii, chii, chii!&quot; (Is Quirr another gryphon? I think I saw her up on the surface. She had a healer with her, and I gave her my potion, too!)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chii chirp cha chi chiii chirp.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chii! Chii-chi? chiirp? (Yeah! purplish one! Is she doing well? )

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Gentlemen... ladies... the only man in history to try to learn an invective language by trial and error.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Is there anything better to do at the moment?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#330066">&quot;Chii chirp! Chii.&quot; (The healer was still tending to her but she'll get better! I'm sure of it.)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, no. But it's still funny to hear - and to watch. Besides, I'm naturally sarcastic, comes of being overdosed on all four humours.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chii! (At least.)

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chii chiiii Chirp chiirrppp.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Chi. Chirp-chi. Fuck you. And the horse you came on.

Chirr:<font color="#000000">(he says the end in &quot;common&quot; )

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;You'd best practice more. You got out 'my teeth-spacers are baleen flavored and I'm wearing my centipede's pants' earlier.&quot; |3

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You think I actually know this language yet?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I think it's obvious.&quot; |3

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Someone just gave you a language example, Voltie.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">XD

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;So, the slime's mostly been coming from the ceiling?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I am reminded of Firefly...&quot;

Peter:<font color="#000000">Stop being silly, Chirr, and help me haul this one off.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, multiple words in one word, huh?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Hmmmmmm......&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Sudden inspiration! Uses Detect Magic cantrip on some of the slime. This should let me know what schools of magic it consists of.

Militionary:<font color="#000000">Seems so.. I'm starting to wonder if that's what made it collapse.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiii chirp Chirp Squawk chiirp Chiii Chii Chirrp Chii-chiii.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">He writes.. mail order bride Squawk.. garbage collector?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Sounds like a good short story to me.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">At least it made sense this time round. Seriously. Your gryphon sucks.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">As for the above.. not sure it's the right question.. It doesn't seem to be cast magic as much as natural stuff.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You are even surer. As before this is either the trouble in itself or the secretion of something. living

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, maybe one day I'll actually understand it, and, be able to one up you feather brains. Now...Chiii Chiiirppp chiii chichi Chiiiiaaa tweet?&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">You want to do *what* with a runcible spoon?

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;You do that.&quot; |3

Chirr:<font color="#000000">*shakes head*

Chirr:<font color="#000000">That's just wrong.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, it doesn't seem to be artificial, at least not directly.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Chiii chii Chirp chiii chirp chichiirp.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">Anyways. *gets himself harnessed*

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Heh - in the Neal Asher books, the Runcible is a warp gate and the Spoon is where it stores the energy to maintain the space portal. Energy can be dumped out of the Spoon of the Runcible to cause a very big bang.

* Firo is unharnessed?

VAE:<font color="#000000">nah, it's for removal of material

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Separate cart, I assume. Oh - are there rails? I might have missed it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">While you are speaking the miner there is shovelling the loose stuff. And there are.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, that one I just said means what?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">And not cart.. the engineer was simply messing around with one of those rocks there.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Ah, Ok.

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;I don't think you want to know.&quot; |3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Driving some metal eyes into it. It was a bigger chunk.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*slowly sweeps around the cone of Detect Magic to try to get some idea of the distribution of the stuff. Is is alongside? Above? I have a 60-foot radius of knowledge.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Oh, really?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Apparently you can see paths of distribution, sometimes under existing walls, even. Quite thick ones, too.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Guys... this isn't good...&quot; Explains the pattern as best I am able. &quot;There's a hell of a lot of this stuff, in summary.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;So, new challenge.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Test out eldritch blasts on sludge, while yelling out Gryphon words I don't even know the meaning of.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*cone flickers off - one minute has elapsed*

Chirr:<font color="#000000">*pulls* Ch-CHII! (heey rup!)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I... don't really have the words. You want to attack the walls when we're underground in an unstable area?&quot;

* Crystal readies a sleep spell. &gt;.&gt;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You got anything better for me to do, besides that, or the trial and error Gryphon thing?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;This isn't a better thing to do. This is a worse thing to do. It's worse than nothing. It is an active negative.&quot;

Chirr:<font color="#000000">*rock moves away*

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Well, Chiii-chiiiii you.&quot;

Peter:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the fuck.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Have you noticed anything else weird aside from the slime and the smell?&quot;

Peter:<font color="#000000">. . . yes.

Peter:<font color="#000000">Come look.

* Crystal flicks an ear and looks curiously. :.

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;Want me to check it out too?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Put simply, that stuff eats rock - at least - and there's a lot of it here. We might need to get the mine owners to abandon the entire offshoot, and somehow determine if this is going to affect other tunnels. And now there's something else? This is a disaster of a health and safety report, right here.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Now, it appears that the rock Chirr just shifted revealed that the collapse has bared basically the end section of a u-turn in a tunnel about two feet in diameter, entirely covered in the stuff.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">This is at the right wall.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;This stuff is being somehow deposited in tunnels. Right. I think the appropriate words for this are probably in Black Urugu.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;...So what now?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, something seems to be burrowing around down here, with rock-dissolving slime, and leaving it around. It seems there is an infestation.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Is there any record of burrowing creatures around here? Because this seems like a scene from Tremors.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;What the hell are you talking about?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">There's a tunnel. It is two feet in diameter. The tunnel is full of rock-eating slime. This makes me think of a creature using a slime to eat through rock. This make sense?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;'Tremors?'&quot;

Peter:<font color="#000000">Burrowing creatures? Hell, nothing asides from moles. I mean, odd shit sometimes takes residence in existing tunnels if left unused, and has to be gotten rid of, but don't know anything that fucking burrows through fucking rock.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">... if only I had planar knowledge on a character. XD

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">&quot;You guys got any magical substances down here?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">*stares*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Oh. A silly series of films. Small town gets attacked by various gribblies, fights them off with increasingly high powered magic and the odd gunpowder explosive. I think in the second film they had a ten-inch smoothbore carronade full of drop shot.&quot;

* Crystal looks at the tunnel. Might as well try Arcana... &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 18 + 4 = 22&#160;  &#187;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">What in the unholy pits of hell's arsehole did this.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 13 + 2 = 15&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; untrained Knowledge check.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 3 + 6 = 9&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; if arcana.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh. It seems I skipped that lecture ;)

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;...&quot; Crystal tentatively touches the wall of the tunnel. Is it warm? Does it cause damage?

Voltarus:<font color="#CC0000">Arcana: &#171; &#160;d20 + 7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#CC0000">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Don't! It'll-&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It isn't damaging, and it isn't warm, at least not anymore.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;-oh. It seems it's not going to try and dissolve us.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">As for the checks.. Arcana doesn't seem to tell you much new. As for untrained knowledge check..karis faintly remembers hearing about rock eating things before, but this looks odd even for them.

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai is disconnected.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">We are at IRC for now.

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai has connected.

VAE:<font color="#000000">welcome back.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">FINALLY.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Right. To the surface, then quit? I think we have some information of interest.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">(As Lia has mentioned her Akellon needs.)

VAE:<font color="#000000">Within the British Indian Army, the Dum Dum arsenal produced its now infamous solution - the jacketing was removed from the nose of the bullet, creating the first soft point bullets

VAE:<font color="#000000">British name, it seems

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">There's two types - hollow and soft.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">I'll try and remember noms...

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Voltarus for Chii you too!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah, those are important

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Actually, I think everyone deserves one for the Chii incident.

VAE:<font color="#000000">nominations first of all, you can throw in between

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Karis for &quot;Don't touch the --!! Oh I guess it's safe.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Karis also for &quot;mumblemumble the indistinct.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Voltarus: &quot;Even animals with brains can be smart&quot; and the following rant about how I'm a criminal. Good thing nobody noticed.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, anyone looking down the holes does have a light?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">As in, aimed parallel enough.

* T3h GM is starting to be idiotic in formulations.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Firo's noble sacrifice of his potion in the name of his character design.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">I suppose so, given as the lights are on the helmets.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Crystal: time-honoured scientific methodology. Poke it with something.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*looky down the hole. Also go Primal and Sonar down it - are there echoes from anything in either direction at the far ends?*

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">In that case ,you notice one of the tunnels, after some good few metres, seems to expand suddenly (that is, you see a bit of an edge to it)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Spot &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 18 + 4 = 22&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187; and listen &#171;  &#160;1d20+4 also = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#CC6600">&#187;

* Crystal looks at the miners to see if they react to the sudden battening. |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*back to furre* &quot;I see one of the tunnels (indicates) has some kind of edge. I think it might have cut into another one - is there another excavation that way?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">See the above. You hear a larger open space, ten-twenty metres, maybe? (my distance guess is poor at this time morning)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I meant an official oe.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">One.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone has stopped working in the meantime.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Another excavation.. lemme think about where we are ...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Because if there isn't an official excavation that way, it's an unofficial one. And if it's an unofficial one, someone had a reason for it - which wouldn't be good news. And if it was, we can go and have a look to see if it's left a trail there. Because if it hasn't, that would mean it was released from there. Also not good news.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#330066">&quot;Maybe you can fit... but unless we all lose some weight, especially our gryphon friend, a two-foot-diameter tunnel is going to be a tight squeeze.&quot; ^^;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;If it's an official one, we can go out and come back down the appropriate tunnel.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">See, hmm.. it's kinda both. There was a tunnel that was set for reconstruction quite some time ago.. well, it wasn't yet done, see. But it used to be shorter, definitely shorter.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Or was it?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Most interesting. I think we have a lead, ladies and gentlemen. Would you be so kind as to give us the relevant details? I hear the path of foul play.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">I'd have to check the papers.. But I can show you where.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">(being a bat, Karis tends to chase down moths by their sound-trace.)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;That would be most helpful, thank you.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;And, of course, we can probably ask at some local collegiate what might leave slime like this.&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Basically, it's like this. Some of the supports there came from a bad series, and it was to be reinforced again. Then someone bright thought up that we can simply alter the direction of digging here slightly, and we'll get what we want anyways without the bother. So it was just sealed up with tape and left.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I see. But we'll need to get in there one way or another, whether it's because the place has been illicitly opened up or it's infested with thing.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Sure as hell.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Okay, folks, I'm sorry, I've got to go.

VAE:<font color="#000000">All OK

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Okay.

VAE:<font color="#000000">we are sealing up, basically

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Need to get maps ready, then sleep.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Closing words

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Heh, I think I went Tennant again on that little mystery.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Some of the kids are descending upon this place in less than 11 hours.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You folks are now walking up, and off to a different tunnel, and well, better be ready for some clatter, too.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Now, nominations

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Firo: 100 XP Gryphontropist

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Karis: 50 XP Bat Assisted Tomography 50 XP Man of the City, but not police.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Ah, that was the bit where I went off on one about the nature of civilization?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">yep

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Bat Assisted Tomography, AKA BAT.

Liatai:<font color="#330066">XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Voltarus: 50 XP Angry magic for the angry marine, 50 XP Hungarian-chii dictionary

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crystal: 50 XP for STAND BACK, I'M GONNA TRY SCIENCE

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, everyone gets another 400 XP for roleplaying.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I have to say, I thought the entire Chii episode was absolute comedy gold.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Da Ann'd for today. Next session there'll be actual combat, unless you are real slow.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It was pretty awesome.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Heh.. am starting to have some mental rules about what some segments actually mean.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Log saved.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">though it seems to be as contextual as numbers.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Like.. &quot;chi&quot; either added or alone is generally some sort of insult

Liatai:<font color="#330066">Okay. Liatai, signing off. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">night, Lia

<font color="#0000ff">Liatai is disconnected.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Night.

Additional nominations carried through in chat: +50 XP Karis - The slime, it menaces. +50 XP Voltarus - YOU BIG EBIL BULLY CRIMINAL 1!111!