Kebre3

''Liatai has connected. ''

''Saphroneth has connected. ''

Saphroneth:Which map should I be on? I see essentially nothing.

Liatai whispers: I'm afraid I've made a bit of an error... I can't see Crystal where I placed her on the map. ^^; Could you do me a favor and check to see if I have ownership of her token?

Liatai whispers: She should be right next to Zora on Map 0001.

You whisper to Liatai: Why you do have/ her ownership :3

Liatai whispers: Now I see her! Thanks. :3

VAE:waiting for techcubi while we do,some tea will the lynx get

VAE:mmrow!

Saphroneth:So, I recall that the Demon was essentially grappled to immobility by a child Gryphon, with his legs being water due to a piece of technically necromantic magic.

VAE:yes.

VAE:it's little less than immobility... he's just soup weak

Saphroneth:Why it's not an Enchantment or a Transmutation... ah well, presumably it works on a metaphysical level rather than just suppressing ATP or something modern.

VAE:i forewent the last casting to save you spells and decided the combat over if you remember, havng liatai roll

Saphroneth:Yeah, I think so.

Saphroneth:So was it total of two Rays or just one/

VAE:lemme check

VAE:i think one, given he's 8/16

Saphroneth:Okay. So that puts me at two lvl1 spells left, unless there's been time since the bar room bawl,.

VAE:not quite ... there probably wil be as soon as you deal with him, hauling him back

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh, I might try a Psion at some later date, they seem fun. Power Points and all that..

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hell, I might with Karis. Still not actually taken any class levels yet.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm... i wonder whether i have actually allowed them

VAE:<font color="#000000">Since i probably don't even have the psionic books

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">They're all SRD.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Actually, some of them seem a better fit for DMFA magic than, well, magic.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and from what i heard, they be borked

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, Michail is in dire need oof a better token

VAE:<font color="#000000">i cringe whenever i look at what i have drawn there

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Perhaps the other one? The Bear 1 one?

VAE:<font color="#000000">which bear 1?

VAE:<font color="#000000">you mean from mapping tools?

Tokens dropped onto map 'dnd_maps_0002'Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That one.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Argh noo

VAE:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Zora and Karis at least don't make me wanna throw up ... at least now

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fine... wanna just dragback too the headquarters for random shenanigans before he comes back

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">After all there's the wholle night to go

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think we can assume that someone with Str 8, nearly unconscious if not actually so and being carried by Michail is not going to be able to escape.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Aw. I can't wait for Voltarus to meet Crys. I kind of want him to try intimidating her. Just try. :B

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Crystal Felarion? That being another member of the... organization

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think i actually narrated that last week

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not the organisation :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">The secret police of Kebre

VAE:<font color="#000000">See, her original incarnation was a bit like that, too

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, what's the Secret Police' official position? In Byzantine Rome, everyone knew the Post Office, the Agentes in Rebus, were the secret police. Made for lousy postal delivery, though.

Firo:<font color="#000000">I'm both! Whee! |3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.. kinda like that... that's why Zora needed you folks

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, they do have some truly secret agents, but most are kinda recognisable...

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's more the facts about what they can do than pure secrecy that gets most folks in a spin.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">The CIA try to sort of half heartedly pretend their real position is as a maintainer of the World Factbook, but they don't really bother.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">These folks... technically they are a branch of the regular militia

VAE:<font color="#000000">Protection from internal threat and the like... hence the name on badges

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh. Most blatant &quot;secret&quot; police ever were the Scythian Slaves in the Athenian Democracy. They were ethnically different AND armed. (Another strange slavery case).

VAE:<font color="#000000">Protectin' public from themselves since &#171; &#160;year = 0&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">There has never not been a time when the secret police were not unprotecting us.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Quite a long-lived organization, then. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually, something like 1970, in this case

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, now

VAE:<font color="#000000">given someone has calculated on the forums that DMFA story started in Furraean 1990 or so

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And since then a few years have elapsed, most of them in the &quot;suddenly: colour&quot; timeskip.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah... but this takes place at sometimes during Dan's youth, since Tamika's tavern is still there and DP is still dead (might not be long though(

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, DP. The Man with the Revolving Door to the Afterlife.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As a total sidenote,.. i was doodling today.. Kallis's species is Siamese cat

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hmm. Black tips on the extremities, right? Wonder how much black there is; that's diagnostic of latitude of growth, or at least temperature.

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. indeed. I guess not much given this part of the world is generally cold, or sometimes colder. (if i remmeber the pigment was heat activated)

VAE:<font color="#000000">regardless, this needs to be inspected

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, provisorial roll call.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think so, yeah. ...hang on, they were bred in THAI.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Rolls, where are you?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Did anyone know they could be white before they were traded?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Also, I have a barrel of rolls here.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's activated by cooler temperatures. That's why they have the markings on their extremities and their nose and ear tips. There were some experiments with Himalayan-pattened rabbits --

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, present. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Okay. So my point stands, in inverse.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I mean, Thailand is pretty close to the equator.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also TC should be here every moment

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

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Alright...

Techubi:<font color="#009999">I am here now.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">All hail the prophet VAE! He got the timing pretty much perfect there.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Finally &gt;:3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Look for &quot;Himalayan rabbit.&quot; :3 http://waynesword.palomar.edu/lmexer6.htm


 * VAE does stuff for prophet routinely

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There he is! :D

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, genetic drift. Fascinating stuff.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">We supposed to put our tokens on MAP B?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">you are supposed to

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">We're on map_0002

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">(i enforced everyone already)

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">We missed slightly. Was that Teleport With Some Acceptable Error?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, which map are we supposed to be on?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">dnd_maps_0002, for now.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Oh.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, we gonna start the session now?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Roll call!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Give me two shakes, got to let the dog out.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Also, give me a break if I didn't exactly continually check the IRC, alright?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Rolls, buns, everyone!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Exactly continually?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Whatever.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Bun Dle!

VAE:<font color="#000000">My furry arse, you were gone for an hour

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Anyway, most of-

Techubi:<font color="#009999">If I may finish...

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's as discontinuous as it gets :3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">...

Techubi:<font color="#009999">ANYWAY...

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Most of the games I've been in haven't ever really actually started until three or later, most commonly later.

VAE:<font color="#000000">one gets the impression as if two people couldn't write at the same time

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's because most of them people aren't in timezones of GMT

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And in my case it is currently nine. We're working from the shores of Fair Blighty here.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Anyway, back to roll call.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And unlike me, Saph actually sleeps during the night *gasp*

Techubi:<font color="#009999">HERE.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes. but liatai went with dof

VAE:<font color="#000000">*dog

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not anymore, I'm here. :3

Karis:''<font color="#993300">They never look up... ''


 * Liatai slides TC a cup of tea. Jeez, calm down a little. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/183224/CDC-Warns-of-Zombie-Apocalypse For geeky goodness

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/183224/CDC-Warns-of-Zombie-Apocalypse

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Not really a tea drinker.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, so you do caffeine intravenously?

VAE:<font color="#000000">:3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">See, I have a semblance of a sleep cycle.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">My mom doesn't even let me get soda all that often.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And now, bloody rolls, i call y'all.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">HERE

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Roll Out.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Running out of puns here.)

Techubi:<font color="#009999">TRANSFORM

Techubi:<font color="#009999">AND ROLL OUT

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Next one will involve a Rick

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll out the barrel~ We'll have a barrel of fun~

VAE:<font color="#000000">sleep cycle? I have that! It goes... Exhaustion =&gt; nap =&gt; work =&gt; timewaste =&gt; exhaustion =&gt; weekend =&gt; timewaste .. wait, it doesn't join

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Anyway, shall we get this show on the road?

Karis:<font color="#993300">Flying air cover whenever they get moving.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways... You managed to successfully drag your less than friendly companion along the streets, mostly avoiding lookenspeepers thanks to KEWS (Karis early warning system) and thanks to making it look he's just a bit socially tired.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo is carrying the bound, unconscious demon, a little slower than usual, but not complaining.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Let's translate back home :3

Voltarus has received initiative.Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'll go first, then the rest of you Echo my Location?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">:p

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Duplex, too?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Mainly send/receive with whistle doppler calculation. Bat Sonar is startlingly sophisticated.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways.. s

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Thanks to Karis making sure none of y're watched, y'all make it safe next to the backdoor to the church add-on which houses the priest... and well, is used for stately purposes.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">As opposed to catholic priests, which would use it for state affairs.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, i guess there are such in furrae too...


 * Firo looks up at the door. &quot;Um, could someone open it for me, please? I can't get it without rearing up, an' then I'd drop Mr. Subin.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Volt sighs. &quot;I'll get it.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He walks toward the door and opens it.

Karis:<font color="#993300">(puff of random smoke)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Surprisingly enough the door opens... seems like they were ready for you inside.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks, Voltie -- Smoke?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I don't know either. Seems to be a cosmetic effect.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*silently* Quick! Got him? Anyone following yas?


 * Firo shifts his wing to display the unconscious demon.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Happens more often in Were from the far east.. and I didn't notice anyone.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*nods* Come in, then! This place is rather well warded, once we shut in it should look alls are asleep.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*as soon as all are inside, shuts the door*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I might want to make that the truth, at least in my case. I rather rely on my spells to make things equal for me in a fight, and lacking them makes me nervous.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*nods* I know that rather well myself

Zora:<font color="#000000">Clawing at folk..isn't quite as effective as a fireball

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Easier fighting someone when they can't stand under the weight of their oh-so-perfect armour&quot;.

Liatai whispers: Let me know when to bring Crystal in. :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Asshole seriously needed whatever claw marks I managed to land.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*smirks* Soo, that's how you made it!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of which, um.&quot; The gryphon shuffles. &quot;Where should we put Mr. Subin?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I .. didn't expect it to go this smoothly... 's why i was waiting.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, an' he said he had a message for you.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh... Ignat here will show you ... there's a room for such &quot;guests&quot; in the basement.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Message? For me?

Zora:<font color="#000000">*surprised*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. He said not to piss him off, an' 'ringtail.'&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Fuck.. i hope he wasn't another agent... we had such a case a few years ago... Don't recognise it.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Codeword of some sort... well, he'll spill it.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">So, Firo .. if i may... pass through the hall, and here, the stairs.. lemme get a lamp


 * Firo follows! &quot;Oh, don' worry about me! I can see without a lamp!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I can bunk up on the ceiling... if there are space concerns, that is.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... isn't classified or anything.. what happened was that a bunch of our folks infiltrated an insurgent group cell... i believe it were Scions of Kallis yet again...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Scions of Kallis?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well, in the end, when they moved in for the arrest... it turned out that all but one member were our folks.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Do we have to do somekind of knowledge check in order to recognize that name?

VAE:<font color="#000000">If you wish, knowledge(local) would do

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 2 + 2 = 4&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; local knowledge (untrained)

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Are they the local bar regulars?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Int check: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 3 = 18 + 3 = 21&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">They bagged him and went for a beer... but really... *laughs*

Firo:<font color="#000000">The gryphon follows the father and puts the demon where he is told to. There, now he feels better about taking the money! A message delievered, a job complete!

Zora:<font color="#000000">Local bar regulars? Why, there might be some indeed.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, does my Int check count for anything?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Am getting to it

VAE:<font color="#000000">i can only write so fast :3

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Techcubi: You recall that the above is one of the several separatist groups in Kebre ... this one seeks the splitting of Kallisburg and associated lands from the country. Others such as Golden Paw seek the union with Kingdom of HollyAnn instead.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(union for the southwest of the state i meant)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, now I remember...It's a Kebre separatist group.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, politics. Third most confusing of human affairs. Second is war (being politics where everyone participates) and first is whatever your current degree course is.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You also *don't* recall Kallis ever getting pregnant ... but whatever, their name choice.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Saph is utterly right... the first gives this lynx the creeps

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. you could call them that. A bunch of bloody buggers... but whatever - without their like i'd be jobless.

Zora:<font color="#000000">And yeah...wait.. you can spend a whole night as a bat?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Not just a while like those druids?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;All three forms are equally natural once unlocked. It's like... clothes, really.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;There's always Work. Normal work is hard to get hold of, but Work... not until humans return will that stop being necessary.&quot; (Idiom, meaning never)

Zora:<font color="#000000">*facepaws* ... indeed i might have some use for that later on.

Zora:<font color="#000000">And there is always Work, but it'd probably involve sewing in a factory like my mother did.

Zora:<font color="#000000">My back hurts bad enough as is.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's everybody talkin' about work for?&quot; The gryphon wanders back into the room, freed from his demonic load.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Soooooooooo.........What now?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;No, Work The kind of Work that involves meeting a Client and giving a Warning.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Ah, i see. *grins*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I hear that in the far north you actually have some Were born primal. They don't unlock their anthropomorphic form until the same stage of development I got my Primal.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Also came back. &quot;Really? That is.. most curious..&quot;

Liatai whispers: Is Crys in the church right now, or elsewhere?

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">From what i knew, the natural form was of he Furre, of our father.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Such things happen. Who is to say what they mean, after all? Only the soul matters, in the end. All else is dross.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Sorry. will get to it in the morning.. there's a gag i have prepared for it, see ^^;

Liatai whispers: Okay.


 * Firo looks up at the rafters and stretches out his wings. He stretches back... then forward... then crouches...

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">You might be right... *sigh* the whole tri-unity concept is rather hard to understand for us less blessed.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'm new to it myself. The way I understand it, the second form is related to physical maturity, the third to mental. I hope that helps.&quot;


 * Firo jumps and tries to reach for a rafter! His wings flap, but don't grant him much, if any lift. &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 10 + 7 = 17&#160;  &#187;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*nods* Yes... that's what the church teaches indeed .. the Comforter the Tester an the Intercessor...one of magic pure, one who gave his for our sins and the Lord, both at once but a separate entity &quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, by the way, Jump result seems to be about 2 feet.


 * Firo lands on the floor with a *fwump* and a few loose feathers.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Running start would help there, I think. And I hope to find more as I grow older - that's the point, I suppose.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Not another theology debate... it gets surprising how long can you keep it up.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*yawns*


 * Firo backs up and wiggles his hind quarters, stretching his wings again.... run run run JUMP! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 12 + 7 = 19&#160;  &#187;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Fwump.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Almost five feet there.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&gt;:

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Could have reached something about nine or ten high, though, counting vertical reach.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... if anyone's hungry we have more sausages... Apropo.. what did you do to Sergej? He seemed rather.. shaken. &gt;:3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, I forget my manners. Who is this... er... person, who I unaccountably failed to see until just now?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Gave me a discount barely asking.

Firo:<font color="#000000">No one's reacting to the gryphon leaping in the air trying to grab the rafters? :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">comical ignorance :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; One more time!

VAE:<font color="#000000">One day more!


 * VAE plays Les Miserables on mp3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Eccept for in my case throwing advice over my shoulder. And that one, counting vertical reach, makes about ten or eleven feet.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Climb check to scrabble and grab ahold of the rafters --

Michail:<font color="#000000">*sighs* Come'ere kitty


 * Firo hangs from the rafters by his forepaws and dangles his hind feel. &quot;Nuh-uh, I got it now!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh...It's the meat kitty.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Vertical reach is actually about 8 feet for a medium sized creature, but Firo's long not tall. And it's 4 points per foot.)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Meat guy

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I gotta practice or I'll never be able to fly!&quot; Scrabble scrabble Climb check - &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah, meat guy... cheapest in town, unless the one buyin's you &gt;:3

Karis:<font color="#993300">*steps out of the way of air-ground ballistic gryphon flight path*


 * Firo manages to pull himself up onto the rafters and crouches there, panting and grinning. &quot;I... I did it!&quot; :D

Michail:<font color="#000000">I thought they could fly *confused bear

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not yet, is my guess. Maturity, that sort of thing. Same as how you could only lift HALF a ton when you were eight.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">There was one of them in our village...

Michail:<font color="#000000">when i was eight? *counts on fingers* Ah, that's when i got my axe from grandpa!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, shut up, and don't bring that up ever again.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">*lifts up the rat furre steel contraption*

Michail:<font color="#000000">*rat furre -sized

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yes, the Axe. Given it a name yet?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Or does it already have one, I forget.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*smirks* Ooh.. so he *didn't* pay back?

Michail:<font color="#000000">I dunno.. i never had a head for them


 * Firo lays on the rafter like a jaguar on a tree limb and gives a contented chrrr.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Zzzzzz... |3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I got some of my money back from him, alright?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Perhaps just 'Thwack'. Nice, simple, descriptive.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Now, SHUT. UP.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*grins at angry cubi*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Cubi-spawn

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hee.. touchy,are we?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">He's technically not really a cubi until level six, is he?


 * Firo lets his tail and a few paws dangle. Watch your heads, passersby below. |3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hmm... microsaur (feathered dinosaur) phoenix, with cubi heritage. Tri wing. Ten limbs, all of them wings.

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">Grandpa's had a name ... Headbreaker Lena ... but then... his killed more wolves, bears and brigands than i have chopped wood with this one.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">pity i can't ggive XP rewards for OOC jokes like this

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Fair enough. It must earn a name, then. Seems to be appropriate.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ooh, a dangling cord. And we're in a church. I wonder... would pulling it make the bells ring? Must be nice bells, to have a tassel on the rope...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Zzzzz... |3

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... i'll go lock our friend downstairs... and make sure all is safe.. and we can rest i guess. Don't try anything stupid - you probably have heard of Alarm? and Fireball, for that matter.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Besides, you have no idea where we keep cash , either, and it's ...concealed well.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Wouldn't even dream of it.&quot; ''Consider? Yes. Contingency plans? Yes. Game out possible outcomes in head? Yes. But dream? No.''

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now this technically correct speech IS getting a nomination. Why yes i startedreading Jhereg

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh.. i don't care what you dream of, sweetie. I just care that you don't *try* ..

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Got to love characters like that. They think crooked.


 * Firo dreams of shinies. |3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;No trying, either.&quot; Like I'd ever open hostilities with a superior combatant unless certain of winning..

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And so, the company dissipates around the compound for a probably peaceful *i'm lookin' at you, Karis* night.

Karis:<font color="#993300">Bat furre have a strange sleep cycle. Best defined as &quot;whenever&quot;.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo sleeps right there in the rafters. Only when morning starts to come does he open his eyes, yawn, and stretch. He blinks blearily around at his surroundings, then stretches his wings. DM, do pre-flight gryphons glide, or just fall? ^^;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">DM declares an acrobacy check bee in order

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Zzzzzzzz........&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">or rather, Dex

Karis:<font color="#993300">*Up on another rafter, dreaming in monochrome polytexture*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">but it isn't such a high DC... well he falls

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That's going to leave a mark.

Firo:<font color="#000000">CRASH!

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It was DC 10

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">He tried .. he almost glided... then fell

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He wakes up and is looking all around.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;BUH, HUH, WHA?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*jumps up*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... ow...&quot; the gryphon whimpers, tail over teakettle on one of the pews. @.@

Zora:<font color="#000000">Pchh! Attack!? *sneaks upstairs all battle ready*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Chirp?&quot; ''Oh. Well, falling out of bed isn't exactly unheard of...''

Karis:<font color="#993300">*falling leaf*

Zora:<font color="#000000">STOP IT WHOEVER WHERE YOU ARE! I'M AIMING AT YA!

Zora:<font color="#000000">*looks around*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;EEP I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!&quot; The gryphon dives for cover behind a pew! O.O

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He runs to where he hears Zora yelling.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*rubs eyes*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait.. where is he?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, sure, not like it's bad enough JUST to be waken up by a crash...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Just a morning mishap involving a certain Gryphon and the harsh mistress of Gravity.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh... so .. nobody broke in?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I have to hear a crazy person yelling about attacks, too.&quot;


 * Firo peeks over the pew. &quot;I'm really sorry...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're not gonna fry my cojones, are you?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* I really should..but you are too useful

Zora:<font color="#000000">Besides, you are a bloody bird.. they have none.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;In, no. Possibly somehing broke, but mainly I think just wood chips from a pew, a bruised ego, and flight feathers everywhere.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well... but my timing *was* good, right?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;He's also part cat, ya know.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">If he broke in i'd have totally cooked his tail from behind the door, right?


 * Firo grooms his feathers nervously, tail twitching around in his embarrasment.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Or, feline, or whatever.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;A most rapid response. Good approach to take, though be assured we would be making more of a fuss if such occurred.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I dunno.. from what i know, they do lay eggs.. so i thiink their. bits should be appropriate.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Nothing like as strange as some. Hyena, for example, are just wierd.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*looks like she won a pageant* See! Requires a bit of practice, but iit pays! Never know what hit'em!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, you work with the magic of learning, then? Gets results, certainly, but there's something nice about forcing the universe to obey you by sheer force of personality.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">The priest comes back from his study, apparently having woken up ages ago. &quot;For the love of Saint Ilya, can you make less noise?&quot;


 * Firo lowers his head, tail low and ears folded. &quot;M'really sorry, Father, I won't do it again.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Probably, if we really work at it.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh... well ... i suppose it's nice... though i actually prefer *understanding* what i do.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Didn't get to bloody academy, though... See, they had me cast Owl's Wisdom at the exam... and for some fucking reason they all thought i messed it up.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, I suppose there's something in that. But the feeling of magic dancing, it's indescribable. I actually wonder what it'll be like when I gain my third form, to be able to just nullify magic... will it feel different? Such questions.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">The idiots... it's a trivial spell... i can do it in my sleep!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I wonder if they should just ask for a simpler Prestidigitation or something. I mean, it proves you have the talent, yes?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And it's not as if it's hard to miss.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well... their idea was to prevent someone just messing with an invocation or something.

Zora:<font color="#000000">They just had you randomly read a spell, memorise it and cast it later.


 * Firo continues to groom himself, putting his flight feathers back in order.

Zora:<font color="#000000">You picked the scroll from a pile.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Randomised exams, or whatever was their fun idea.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you sleep well, Voltie?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well, i guess we get paid better than bloody academicians.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Plus, sometimes we get to arrest them.. fun times.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yes, that would keep out Sorcerors. I don't really understand how magic on paper works. I can use a scroll... but memorizing? Words can hold power, but the mental impression of them just doesn't for me.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Bloody dissent-spreading lot.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;A little dissent keeps you on your toes. 'But I prefer marmalade', that sort of thing, means you have to plan ahead.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">It's... you have to.. sort of understand how the thing works...


 * Firo then takes out a pouch and starts counting coins... then trots up to Karis. &quot;Mr. Karis, you should have this.&quot; He nudges five gold coins toward the bat were.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, thanks. Most kind of you.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Eh, I got a decent amount of sleep, I guess.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's part of what Mr. Subin gave me last night, an' you helped with that... Here, Voltie, you should have some, too, an' so should Michail.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean.. it's hard to retain the spell for too long a time.. but once you understand it and see it again, it just sort of jumps together.


 * Firo passes five gold coins to Voltarus and five gold coins to Michail.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I have heard of some that are able to cast from memory at any time... even stuff they read... i suppose it takes a lot more smarts than i have. Or some bloody stuck-up academicians.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;So a decaying mental structure with informational antimemetic properties related to the expenditure of information fueling the casting?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Spellcraft training. He doesn't use memorized magic, but he's got some sense of it)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He takes the coins. &quot;Thanks, Fironi Macaroni.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah... bloody hell, where did you learn all that? You read Practical Wizardry ,too?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Picked it up here and there. Mainly there, in practice. I mean, they say that a knife to the shoulder blades cramps the style of even the most subtle wizard, but you have to know how to get close enough to do it.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot; The gryphon nods, fastening the pouch back onto his harness. &quot;So... where's food?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I think a lot of spells have it as a fail-safe .. as in, to prevent accidental activation.

Zora:<font color="#000000">You have to expend direct mental effort to make it run.. and this is a kind of the flip side.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Otherwise.. well, imagine the spell messing up the insides of your head due to only *parts* being activated?

Zora:<font color="#000000">After all, memories do decay with time - i suppose this makes sure it's stored uncorrupted.

Liatai whispers: Let me know when you want Crys brought in. I'm sorry, I'm just itching to bring her in x3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I've seen a spectacular pyrotechnic display once. Wizards that used the approach of memorizing spells that were fully self contained and suppressed by unconscious will. They could point cast anything, but you knife one of them and everything uncast just detonates.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not even a major wound, it was the shock.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*looks surprised*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey, guys, Fironi asked where the food is.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Bloody hell... you &quot;organisation boys&quot; sure do travel a lot

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Strange as all get out. I think they got the idea from the 'Dishworld' series.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Dishworld, eh? I read a bit of that here and there...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think they're payin' any attention to us, Voltie. Wanna go hunting for food ourselves?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">:3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;It was during my apprenticeship, learning anti caster tactics. My instructor didn't expect that, though - the entire place just got blown apart. Suppose it's what happens when you experiment.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'd rather get their attention by firing something, but, this IS a church, so...Fine.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ehe... I don't wanna have Miss Oakrana yell at me again. That was scary.&quot; ^^;

Zora:<font color="#000000">heh... i liked the Assasin's guild...and their watch, for that matter.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Come on, let's go.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He heads out the door.

Zora:<font color="#000000">It's funny how people deal with stuff like being sneaky where magic functions poorly.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, yes. Most impressive lot. You have to admire a man who was so good at making ingenious traps that he was blacklisted by the assassins.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Between your you-ness and my beak, we'll find somethin'!&quot; And Firo follows!

Firo:<font color="#000000">Survival check for the heck of it - &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 5 + 2 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wouldn't like to live there, though.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yeah, probably.&quot; He starts walking down a street to the east, looking for somewhere to get some grub.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean.. didn't the bunch that did essentially our line of work get massacred in an uprising?


 * Firo sniffs the air, following, and sneezes.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;The Cable Street lot? They were too sadistic. They were repoened later on, though - the business at the opera.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(We can probably elide any amount of *book totally-not-geekery*)

You whisper to Liatai: And yes, it's coming as soon as me and Saph finish this particular bit.

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;See anything yet?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 15 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I smell breakfast!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">you do

VAE:<font color="#000000">but i need my GM token which .. is gone?

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah, here it is

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ooh, fun idea: aim for Arcane trickster on my part.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you went outside, right?

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Are there streets on the INSIDEs of buildings? *SHOT*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yes.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">They have invented the Mall here.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The gryphie manages to find another public foodseller... this one looks like he uses less rats.

VAE:<font color="#000000">The GUM you meant... State Universal Market... like a mall, just mostly empty

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait, organizacia member lectures me on sadism? *snerk* you can say that to my tail... i have seen some of your guys' work.


 * Firo buys breakfast for himself and Volt. &quot;What do you want to eat, Voltie? I'll pay for it this time.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Sadism and professionalism mix poorly. If you're torturing someone, you better have a purpose behind it. That nutcase just didn't like the look of someone's ear.&quot;


 * Firo deducts 1 GP for two common meals.

Mary:<font color="#000000">Mary, the owner of Mary's Marvellous Munchies, hands you over a quite large herring, and about quarter a loaf of bread.

Mary:<font color="#000000">Enjoy and come back!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'll take a-&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Nevermind.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ooh, Smorgas bed and board!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's like smorgasboard, but you put it on something.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks, ma'am!&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">herrings are kinda the common decent food, i guess

VAE:<font color="#000000">salted, they do last.


 * Firo splits the fish and the bread, handing half to Voltarus.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Ah welll, but then.. even back when my dad served in the militia, phrenology was thought as legitimate. I mean, they did catch that bloody murdering cultist by something like that, he said.. well, probably was an accident, but hard to say.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He continues heading away from the church.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I think retrophrenology has more behind it. You can change someone's personality hy whacking them on the head, after all.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;They become amazingly agreeably.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;D'you think Miss Oakrana and Mr. Karis will still be talking magic when we get back? ... Where you going?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">*able.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*grins* I absolutely ag-

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Suddenly, a rather loud voice fills the room


 * Firo munches fish. :9

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Eh, wouldn't hurt to walk around some more.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;They'll probably be talking about magic when we get back.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Munch munch. &quot;I guess. Mm, this is way better than those sausages.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Where you go in the city?

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He continues going east.


 * Firo follows, polishing off his bread in between bites of fish.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Zora, password is swordfish, as usual... I'll make it short. You probably heard of the North Star mine FUBAR yesterday... well, we need you to watch over that as well.. public unrest or the like.. there seems to be a lot of shout about working conditions as always when this happens.

Liatai whispers: Gnarrrr I'm so tempted to have Crystal run into Volt and Firo right about now. This gag had better be worth it. :B

Zora:<font color="#000000">Fuck this, fuck you! I have the bloody factory to mind and they throw more...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, so much for that pleasant interlude... You going to want me to come, or what?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You too...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. I'll grab a snack on the way.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Regardless, we should be sending you another operative ... she needs some more field experience...

Zora:<font color="#000000">Another ? *sigh*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;You gonna be eating the rest of that?&quot; The gryphon peers at Voltarus' fish. :.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Yes, another. This one received the *updated* handbook ,though. Expect her at any time...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Roll a Spellcraft check, Karis

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Eh, here.&quot; He gives the gryphon what's left of his fish.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 5 + 6 = 11&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Enough :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">:O &quot;Thanks!&quot; Nom nom nom.

VAE:<font color="#000000">You recognise the voice as Whispering Wind spell... the other side of the message was entirely pre-recorded :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tryin' to fly always makes me hungry.&quot; Nom nom nom.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That's very, very impressive and a little irritating.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Clearly, some people are slightly predictable.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;It's less humiliating when it happens on Doctor What - you know, the time travelling Cubi who never has the sme baseform twice?&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Now you can have her run in, whenever... i guess it'd have been slightly funnier if others were about ,too

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;But never mind.&quot;

You whisper to Liatai: Also, what you should know, she has a side purpose... keeping public peace, yes, but also investigate for potential sabotage

Feline Woman whispers: Run in? Not Crystal's style. =3= &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 19 + 4 = 23&#160;&#187; Move Silently, &#171;&#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160;&#187; Hide.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He looks around for some interesting place to go to.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, as you walk east, you slowly leave the more populous streets and notice the residences of the poorer class - small houses stuck together.

Karis:''<font color="#993300">I like the current Doctor, though. A ferret, and apparently permanently on a sugar rush... ''

Liatai whispers: You can have Zora and Karis roll Spot and Listen, should they want to.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. that bloody bastard somehow always gets the timing right... never heard of Doctor What, though... was it Doctor Watt, perhaps?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I thought it was What. A pun on how he's always something different.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">You know, the one who invented Watt cycle...

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 7 - 1 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot..

Feline Woman whispers: Crystal is entering the church quietly, shutting the door silently behind her, and eavesdropping.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 1 + 4 = 5&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; Spot

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Unobservant bunch...

Zora:<font color="#000000">Someone clearly needs glasses.. two of them &#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 16 - 1 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nothing, either.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Strangely, I get no Listen bonus in furre - best I could manage is an 18. &#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 12 - 2 = 10&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... no.. doctor what, you say?

Feline Woman whispers: Ninja! x3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Pretty sure.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm.. where did you see it?

You whisper to Liatai: Was the Ninja! IC?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Wow, looks like some pretty crappy living places.&quot;

Liatai whispers: Nope. x3

You whisper to Liatai: .. ah, allright

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Locally, I think I caught an episode or two. On stakeout, actually.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least they've got houses, I guess. Some folks don't even have that.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crappy places indeed... though slightly better than the mass habitations for the miners.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Here live the various craftsmen, marketers , and the lot. Sometimes mining engineers - folk who either know math, can cast earthworking spells, or best, both.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh? Who were you hunting for?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I forget. I don't pay much attention, it's easier that way.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Stakeouts.. they are kinda exciting... well, unless you are sitting somewhere, cold, hungry and needing a litterbox...

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wonder if anybody here has a grappling hook for sale... it would make climbin' up onto the rafters easier.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Roll either search, or gather information

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; either way!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, if you're trying to get enough information on a Job to know what his spell preferences are, it's boring. You have to notice what kind of motions he prefers, what way his hands twitch when he's startled... paid off, though, I cancelled his first two spells on that job and by that point Michail was close enough for a little friendly dialogue.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way works awesomely -folks tell you about the fact that there's a steelworker nearby who can either sell or make you one... miners need stuff from him all the time. A bit to the southeast.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Clever...I generally don't bother with that much info..Helps that some spells i can do without moving... it's way harder, but possible.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Like I say, paid off on that one. And there's always the syllables, facial muscle twitches tell the same thing. It's why I normally cast in Primal, prevents people getting the same on me.&quot;


 * Firo buys a grappling hook!

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">He does indeed... The owner seems quite happy.

Zora:<font color="#000000">True.. but then... good luck anyone trying to sneak up on me, right?

Zora:<font color="#000000">He'd get blasted, just like the gryphon almost did in the morning.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yeah, true.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;I wonder if there's someone around who we could do something for for at least a few coins.&quot;

Feline Woman whispers: The feline woman smirks, keeping quiet.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh. Two low Wis characters, not noticing that their idea of &quot;observant&quot; is such a low bar.

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

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, shall we get going? It sounded urgent.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah, he always does.. i guess i should get Father here to help me with the ... talking to the guy you grabbed yesterday. The other stuff, i guess we can wait for whenever the &quot;reinforcement&quot; shows his arse up here. I mean, doesn't seem too urgent to them...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, the right paw never knows what the left paw's doing. And if the boss is a creature, that's at least two more limbs to not know what to do.&quot;

Feline Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ouch. He didn't even get my gender right?&quot; a voice says from the area near the altar.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Gah!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Fironi, do you see anyone who looks like they may need help?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Doing work for people in around these parts? well, if anyone could afford giving work, they wouldn't live here, right? You do see a bunch of folks talking

Zora:<font color="#000000">*PCHHH!*

Feline Woman:<font color="#000000">A black-furred feline woman with white hair and rectangular-framed spectacles is leaning on the pulpit, smirking.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Oh, and could Lia change text colour? It's going to be... confusing... otherwise)

Liatai:<font color="#003300">Better?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sabotage! Stand back wherever whoever! *fur standing on tip, looking around nervously*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Hang on.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">How the hell did you get here? There was a warding spell!

Karis:<font color="#993300">*primal, Spot/Listen/whatever check*

Feline Woman:<font color="#003300">The woman laughs, walkng casually around to the front of the pulpit. &quot;Through the front door, of course.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 11 + 4 = 15&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">*Furre*

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 16 - 1 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Wisdom

Zora:<font color="#000000">Zora actually thinks with her head for a moment... Wait.. means you have a badge, right?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Now, that IS impressive. Mind, we were a bit preoccupied...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">You are one of us...

Feline Woman:<font color="#006600">The woman bows. &quot;Got it in one!&quot; She straightens, displaying her badge. &quot;Crystal Felarion. I heard you were waiting on me.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Now, there's an ornate name.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Zora Kalugina... Enchanted *frowns somewhat*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Just.. how long were ya standing around?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, my apologies. Karis.&quot;

Crystal Felarion:<font color="#006600">&quot;No surname?&quot; she asks with a smile, not answering Zora's question.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not that I care to mention, where there are prying noses, ears, tongues... everything but prying eyes.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh, you folk don't get residence documents .. made so easily, right?

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Think we should be heading back soon?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, Voltie, roll a listen check

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not like I need a house anymore. I have rather impressively tough clothes, I can sleep anywhere, and food is no longer a problem.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. but good luck using that as a proof of identity :3


 * Crystal leans on the pulpit, quite at ease.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;They accept my credentials. Whichever ones I'm using this week - did you know there are actually seventeen streets in this city that only exist on paper?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And three that only exist in reality. And one that's neither, mapmaking error that one.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sixteen, actually.. .. that other one exists too.. just not enttirely here

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, interesting.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">A magic mishap.. *counts* about what, 3 years ago?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah. Fae?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Or Dimanaka clan?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">I'll roll if Voltie's not. &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 19 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Listen!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Could be that young Daryil chap, he's got a 'flee on sight' order from the Organization after the Ramen incident.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* More like bloody Daryil.... You *don't* experiment with Permanency and Teleport...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, I did wonder. Anyone consider it strange that we refer to a two thousand year person as young? Must be the mental age. I have a life barely longer than a being, and already I have more restraint than that fruit loop.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh, listen check.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Um, hang on.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20 - 3 = 10 - 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You hear some guys discussing something. &quot;No way.. with their safety, this could have happened any day regardless&quot; &quot;I.. dunno&quot; &quot;wasn't that fast&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;With great power comes great immaturity, some people say,&quot; she says with a smirk.

Zora:<font color="#000000">But sometimes, the immaturity comes alone, so to say.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Can't argue with that. Especially not as it makes me seem childish, and I don't have the power to back it up.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Wonder what they're talkin' about?&quot; Firo headtilts.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... we can all agree the less cubi and whatever sorts in the city, the better!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Better the nutter you know, some would say.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Oh, I don't know about that. They do make things interesting.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">They appear to be common workers, miners perhaps. one has an old green hat ugly as two hells, but otherwise unremarkable.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Some guys are talking about safety.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;So, where might the rest of the team be? The report I got said that you'd requisitioned some outside help, Zora.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;They're on the longest lunch trip in the history of - no, wait, that's cubi and pastry. They're getting lunch.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">They stand for a moment more... then the second one s &quot;Of course you have some? we could use a beer.&quot; &quot; &quot;well... suppose you're right&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*nods, not s

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait, the bugger knows that already... ? Well, the two boys here are a part... the one i requisitioned. The rest got... assigned.

Zora:<font color="#000000">They are... surprisingly effective.

Zora:<font color="#000000">The rest... crap!? Where did they go?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Come on, Zora, you should know best how effective our information network is,&quot; she says, looking over her spectacles at the other feline with a smile.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, lovely thing, coincidence. And you can't beat a creatively applied utility spell. Did you know that the pipistrelle bat and many of its' close relatives weigh much less than a pound? Because I do, and it means Prestidigitation can lift me when I don't even bother to flap. Lovely on a lazy day.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Anyway, maybe we should just head back, Fironi.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Mm.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sighs* It's nice to think it gets used on the *others*... supposed ssomeone seen me with this lot? Crap, gotta improve my technique.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns around, and starts heading back toward the church.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">A thought. Prest. has a weight limit of a pound. So, could it catch a bullet as a reaction if it was already up?

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean... the other two.. they are mainly worth their salt for being unknown... Whatever. Our... guest should have woken up... and get.. softened a bit.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Eh, later.

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

Firo:<font color="#006600">The gryphon follows, adjusting his shiny new grappling hook on his pack saddle. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">At least, if you had it as a reaction, and perhaps roll an appropriate dex check i'd allowo it

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Grappling Hook + Animate Rope = ?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'm thinking Fine target, ranged attack.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">After abit of walking back, they finally arrive back at the church.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">But later.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Exactly that

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He walks in. &quot;Hey.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, afternoon.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;We're back!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;What? It is still morning? Ah, the time you took was not so long as it seemed after all.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*knocks on the library door* Ignat... i think the .. .spcimen is ready.


 * Crystal watches them enter, arching an amused eyebrow. A... it looked like a young demon and a young gryphon. Unknowns, indeed.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He blinks at her. He turns toward Zora. &quot;Who's this?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Oh well... I suppose we can discuss the matters with him in a christian spirit.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Importance of spiritual contemplation. Values of confessing one's sins, that sort of thing.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh... yeah... he's a fan of literature about the Inquisition the church of christ the Furry had running.. as if his own lot didn't do much the same

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;HEY, MAGIC NERDS!&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">The woman steps lightly down the aisle and holds out a hand with a smile to Voltarus. &quot;The name's Crystal, and I'll be your resident stagehand this evening.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*frowns*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sweet enough

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;As I say, only the soul matters in the end. And this isn't MAGIC, it's SPIRITUALITY!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns back toward Crystal. &quot;Stage hands?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The lot of three walk down the stairs

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Of course. What is it they say, all the world's a stage?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns his head back. &quot;That doesn't mean you can just ignore my question.&quot;

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns back toward Crystal. &quot;Soooooooo...What do you do, exactly?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;She can introduce herself, she needs the practice.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;And stagehands keep the production rolling.&quot; She smiles.

Tokens dropped onto map 'dnd_maps_0001'TMG:<font color="#000000">only four people including the DM? o.o

Zora:<font color="#000000">*bang* *bang* Alive there?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yes, but one DMNPC, and Lia's running two characters.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, does it make sense for a warlock to be calling Zora and Karis magic nerds?

TMG:<font color="#000000">also; enforce map plz, DM?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">dnd_maps_0001

VAE:<font color="#000000">It sortta did

Crystal:<font color="#006600">She lowers her hand. Hmm, no handshake? Very well. &quot;I just told you. But what about you? I haven't even gotten a name from either of you two yet!&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">You do it, we read publications.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, i have two persistent NPC's so far.. though really Michail isn't that smart so far.

VAE:<font color="#000000">er., that outspoken, imeant


 * VAE getting silly

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Voltarus, descendant of Taun.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;I'm Firo! I'm a messenger!&quot;


 * Crystal whistles. &quot;Taun! Incubus, then?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Karis, descendant of Ug. Well, there had to be one of them called that...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Possibly soon to be.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*growls* Fuck you!

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Or succubus. Hard to tell sometimes,&quot; she quips with a wink.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Ah, he has woken up.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Rude chap, isn't he?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*opens the door*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Is it really all that hard to tell my gender?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Still tied,and still weakened.. &quot;Who the hell are you, and where the hell am i?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Second question... would it change anything if you knew?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">His ears go up for a moment. &quot;Um, excuse me for a second.&quot; He heads over to where Nikola is.


 * Crystal laughs! &quot;A simple jest regarding your kind's mutable nature, nothing more! So, what is it you do, Voltarus of clan Taun?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*smirks*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">She tilts her head, then follows.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns his head back and says, &quot;I'm a warlock.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will pay! I said i'll get it together by the 15th!&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;An' I'm a messenger!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*whisper, to Karis* Heh.. it seems he recognises you/

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He turns toward Zora and Ignat. &quot;Um, would it be ok if I added at least a few more claw marks to his face?&quot;


 * Crystal looks to the little gryphon. &quot;My, and a fine messenger I'm sure you are!&quot; A kid? Hoo boy.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh, it would... but a while later. We don't want to seem *excessively* violent.

Karis:<font color="#993300">(aside)&quot;I have something of a reputation. Hanging from the ceiling over the head of someone as they wake up. Just a little trick.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, this guy and his guards were 'Excessively' getting on my nerves...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;First the guard spitting, then the demon guy himself not taking a hint.&quot;


 * Firo stays hidden away from the demon's line of sight. &gt;.&gt;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">I'm afraid, son, that the only thing you owe us is some knowledge.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Son?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;He's a priest, dimwit.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;They're all for the 'Familial titles'&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Priest... wait... was this the stuff that gryphon was prattling on about?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I knew a Brother Brutha once. Was really rather confusing when he got promoted.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Fucker... who'd have said it was a trap.


 * Crystal leans over and whispers to Firo. &quot;Is your friend always so charming, little Firo?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">answer.. .everyone with more than 7 wisdom

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually, more than 9

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I've got only 7.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, you kind of forced us to decide to be in keeping with the possibly trap plan...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Mm... sometimes?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Wait, so does that mean Volt's answer doesn't exist?

VAE:<font color="#000000">what volt's answer

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Just means that anyone with a non negative Wis mod would have known it was a trap.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i know

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's a confusion of terms, VAE, don't worry. He didn't catch the sarcasm.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">So he thought you meant &quot;only those with Wis of 10 or above may answer the demon&quot;.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fuck! Iam the foreigner around here!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yes. And you may have phrased that better.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It took me a while.


 * Crystal continues to listen quietly, blending in to the background... &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 14 + 5 = 19&#160;  &#187; Hide, &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 11 + 5 = 16&#160;  &#187; Move Silently.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Anyway, you're going to tell the father here what you know. Or else...&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...do bats get a move silently bonus in primal to go with the hide? Or is the idea flapping makes noise?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways *coughs* We aren't some of your cronies out in the street. And, with the aid of Father here, you will tell us what we need to know... and maybe you won't end as badly as you'd otherwise.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Flapping makes noise, but a bat that isn't flapping would.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey, I'm the intimidater around here, remember?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Put it this way, mister. These guys, they impress me.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, the confusion has to do with the fact that in slovak, the noun answer and the verb are different

Zora:<font color="#000000">Ignat.. well, do your thing.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He mutters, &quot;Why is everyone ignoring me today...?&quot; Bluff to not be heard: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 6 = 7 + 6 = 13&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;


 * Crystal peers over Voltarus' shoulder, silently. Oh-ho~ so you fancy yourself an intimidator, huh? &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 18 + 2 = 20&#160;  &#187; Listen.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think torture is actually in the Stronghold Builder's Guide. It's something like Con damage of 1d2 and a +2 bonus on the Intimidate check per hour.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, hey, why WOULDN'T a warlock be intimidating?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*lifts up his cross* As spoke one of the saints, &quot;But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more than these is from evil.&quot; By these words i bind your tongue and your mind to reject all falsehoods.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Zone of Truth!

Liatai:<font color="#006600">That wasn't said, that was thoughts. x3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Will to resist if she's caught in it.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 10&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Will resist: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 4 = 17 + 4 = 21&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">My Will is rubbish.

Karis:''<font color="#993300">Ooh, active truth compulsion field. Well, I never really lie if I can help it. ''

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">The DC, ladies and gentlemen is probably 16, that is, if it is calculated from wisdom and spell level, like everything else.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*wisdom modifier

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

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Testing, testing... I am a bat.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I meant to say I was a fish. It's working.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">It indeed is! How wonderful! Who'd have said...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Wow. You guys are actually that weak willed?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now, Michail, if you mind adjusting the guy's stature...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Um, Techcubi

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;My will is like iron. It's just very, very rusty iron.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">if you have a negative wis modifier, it substracts from the save

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">You forgetting the force of personality feat, VAE?

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, right

VAE:<font color="#000000">you use charisma

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Wow, that's really cool that people can just do that...&quot; The gryphon doesn't seem much different. :B

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I need that feat.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Voltie is like a televangelist

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That feat would literally increase my save modifier by five.

Michail:<font color="#000000">*grabs the demon and stands him up, tied as he is*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now.. let's start with some obvious stuff... Are you in any contact with the TTC?


 * Crystal ghosts a hand over Voltarus' wing claw from behind him. &quot;You know, it's not wise to belittle your comrades...&quot; she whispers, an evil gleam in her eye. Intimidate &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 7 + 8 = 15&#160;  &#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 16 + 2 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Counter intimidate time.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">No? Why would i be? Enough contacts elsewhere! Bluff &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 2 + 5 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sense motive everyone

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He looks back, his eyes glaring at her. &quot;It's not wise to-&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; sense motive.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">VAE...

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 1 - 2 = -1&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Please let me get my counter intimidate speech and roll out first, please.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I believe him. Also everyone else in here.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">you can deal with that.. i am not saying your char has to bloody pay attention

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also.. it's more like you try to convince everyone :3

Firo:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 17&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Sense Motive.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He glares at her. &quot;And, its not wise for you to be fighting a taun descendant, EITHER...&quot; Counter intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 18 + 7 = 25&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I mean, it's a truth field, right? He can't lie?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Who said anything about fighting~?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Not how it works... you first have to save against her attempt, yeah?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Opposed checks.

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 10 - 1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense Motive

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, i suspect something messed up with the field

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, opposed intimidate works as well?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No, that's the NORMAL method.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Intimidate is opposed by Intimidate.


 * T3h GM facepaws.... should have used it back with sergej *head bash bash bash*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Though you do have some fire in you, it seems. I'm impressed, descendant of Taun.&quot; Good grief, does this cat ever stop smiling?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's a &quot;who is most scary&quot; contest when everyone's statted.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*sigh* He may just have enough willpower to resist it.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He frowns...But, then adds a half-smile. &quot;Thanks.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">..FISK it's hard to remember how Intimidate works. Apparently it's the modified level check method. Ah well, I suppose this works true... sort of like a trained version of the level check.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... we are not buying into this kind of crap, mister. Either you'll stop with your crap... or i can go get a cubi who'll drag it out in a way that works.

Zora:<font color="#000000">And works *painfully*

VAE:<font color="#000000">see, Saph?

VAE:<font color="#000000">You stated it last week, that's how i remembered.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And what would happen if both had failed their level check?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Both scared of each other?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">They were having a clash of wills, which is why I didn't remember. If only people would check the SRD themselves before or during doing something...

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 1 + 7 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Intimidate

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Wow, this guy has fate warping powers.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Can't we just stick with it being intimidate versus intimidate, at least when it comes to players?

Zora:<font color="#000000">It seems that even in this part of the universe, overweight cats aren't scary.

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 6 + 1 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; For our large friend?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah, opposed intimidate works for inter party stuff... perhaps it should take a margin of victory to actually frighten someone.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Or, PCs or whatever?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; &quot;Remember me? That time you remember me from... I wasn't trying.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*snorts* You know, if i wasn't so screwed up, this would be funny.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Enhanced persuasive tecnhiques, perhaps? Concussive persuasion?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Ma'am, if I may. You do catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, after all.&quot; The cat smiles. &quot;Look at it this way, sir. The sooner you answer and the more truthfully you do, the sooner you'll be free to go about your business.&quot; Diplomacy &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 5 + 7 = 12&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187;, and add in a Will save versus DC 14.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 7 + 2 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Charm'd!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now someone's talkin!

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;That's the spirit! Now, who in the TTC have you been talking to, Mister...?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;I'm afraid I didn't catch your name.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I s'ppose i can tell you some stuff... after all they bloody missed a payment for the last operation... that's where the debt comes from.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, hang on. Bard?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Beguiler. :3

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Nikola Subin... er.. used to do business a bit eastern.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Well.. who... like they told me.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Along the coast? Lovely area, I've been there a few times.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#006600">ERK

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Crystal's a beguiler, huh?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">I messed up East and West again. *FACEDESK*

VAE:<font color="#000000">guess what, Lia

VAE:<font color="#000000">so did i *headdesk*

VAE:<font color="#000000">make it IC.. noone says they have to be good at geography

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. nice, got a bit hot under the paws, if you get what i mean.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Like who told you? You must forgive me, I'm ignorant of these things.&quot; The cat continues to smile in a friendly way. You'd almost swear one of her ancestors was named Cheshire.

Karis:<font color="#993300">(muses)&quot;Mercy can have its own sharp point. Keener than any lance or blade; and even deadlier to the foe.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Oh, yes, I understand completely.&quot; Smile, smile.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I was pointed to them by an associate.. see, i had some contacts around here.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Lia, have you been reading the Belisarius series? I'm reading stuff here that's practically the same as what you're saying.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Grinning, grinning: &quot;Oh, yes. There's real soldier business, too, in addition to all the Senatorial fooferaw. &quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">I haven't. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Nice books, very good for banter.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">They... needed someone to deal with some minor stuff.. I mean.. for one, white horses of sorts. They...with my .. er aid.. bought some property on unsuspecting folks' names.. just random beggars and the like... transferred to the corporation to gain a stake in Kebrean economy.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Who's the author?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Eric Flint/David Drake. Co authors.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/23-TheEasternFrontCD/1635TheEasternFrontCD/

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Under &quot;Belisarius Saga&quot;.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">they got a few bucks for their papers' lended for a moment... there was a cubi who dealt with the rest.. well, i have no idea what's his name ,and the looks of him probably won't help ya.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Abbu sneered. &quot;Lakhmids. Stinking Lakhmids are not bedouin, general Belisarius. River-rats. Oasis-huddlers. Die of fright in the good desert. I'm sure most of them are scurrying down this bank of the Euphrates. Doesn't matter. You won't see them again. Not for days, if ever. Nothing else, they'll get lost.&quot; An exquisite sneer. &quot;Camel-f******, the lot. Don't even have the excuse of being perverts. Lakhmids are just too stupid to know the difference between a woman and a camel.&quot; A royal sneer. &quot;Hard to blame them, of course. Lakhmid women are uglier than camels. Meaner, too.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;We'll see about that...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Unfortunately,&quot; she says with a sigh. &quot;Such a shame... What did he act like?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Or was it a she? So difficult to tell with 'cubi.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;IT'S NOT THAT DAMN DIFFICULT!&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Act like? what we needed... the guy was a pro... or yeah ,could have been a she.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Any hint of a clan mark you saw? Tattoos?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">He'd talk to the folks, and even pick up their mannerisms... then the usual stuff... buying the plot of land we had on the lookout.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now, as long as you have documents and cash... not like they care. Clan marks? Nah, didn't see that... but he always wore a scarf. Though, who knows.. it does get cold about these parts.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, did he have any interesting physical traits?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Cubi can shapeshift you MORON!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs, and draws his mace.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, the eternal punchline.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Or, wait.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Morningstar

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">He had plenty of interesting physical traits.. just that he swapped them day by day.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'm about to get excessively violent here...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;What about the others? You said 'they.'&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">er... well

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;While it's good that you're telling us about the 'cubi, I'm afraid that's likely to be a bust without something more concrete... more details can only help you.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yes, asshole, please tell us.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Good Cop/Psycho Cop?

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. i tell y'all of it, and then you bap me with that piece of steel.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You want me to do it anyway?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;You'll need to forgive Vo. He's terribly impulsive.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;But I guarantee you I won't be doing any bashing as long as you keep being as cooperative as you are.&quot; Smile, smile!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Why do you need to know, anyways?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;That's a very good question.&quot; Crystal looks to Zora and arches an eyebrow.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Let's say... we and your employers have... unfriendly relations.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nothing to do with you.. so far.. but that's easily corrected.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now, why keep messing around. What do you know of the local shipmaking company, Kotva?

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">They make ship parts?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Correct... Someone reward him!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Why reward him for telling us something obvious?&quot;


 * Crystal sits back and lets Zora take the lead for now, but lets her charmed friendly presence stay around... It should help things go smoother.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Or, is that sarcasm?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Why, yes! Now it is your turn for a reward.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Bloody hell, kitty.. where did you take this lot from?


 * Firo chitters in an amused way.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">They are so dumb... one'd think its the militia.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*redface*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Now, now.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;We all started somewhere.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls. &quot;That does it.&quot; He raises his Morningstar high. &quot;IF YOU DON'T TELL US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW, RIGHT NOW, I'M GOING TO HIT YOU WITH THIS SO HARD, YOU'RE GOING TO BE THINKING YOU GOT SLAPPED BY YOUR ANCESTORS!&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 13 + 7 = 20&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; level check, right?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yep. And he is failed.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*gulp*


 * Crystal raises an eyebrow. My, what they said about 'cubi being emotion-driven, impatient creatures seems correct so far.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Well, HD+Wis+Fear save mods.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Fine! fine! I wasn't assigned on that one, anyways!

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Assigned, hm~? Who was your superior?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;You're scary sometimes, Voltie...&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, Yakkety Sax. Theme tune of the slightly more enthusiastic than competent everywhere.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I said. i dunno his *identity* ... but then, I wasn't the only one working... see, i got a bit pro-active,messed around those parts myself - they make firearms and stuff too..it gives for a nice buck.

Karis:<font color="#993300">(aside to Zora) &quot;Manufacturing firearms? Sounds like the sort of thing that's normally under state control, if you see what I mean.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Anyways... whoever they have on the inside, doesn't seem to get in touch by.. normal means. I had my .. contacts watch just about everyone there more important than a spit puddle... see, having possible info like that helps... yet noone nothing.. they didn't meet anyone... you know in what way i mean... any of them.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">And well.. &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 8 + 2 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What kind of check is that?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Are there any of your contacts that we can get in touch with?&quot; Sense Motive &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Not like i did anything el- well i did.

VAE:<font color="#000000">no, it was him against the truth field

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, do say these stuffs out of character, TC

VAE:<font color="#000000">it gets not nice on the logs.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Do I really have to switch everytime I have something to say OOC...?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I do

VAE:<font color="#000000">and so does everyone else

Liatai:<font color="#006600">You can type /ooc and then whatever you want to say something OOC, if it's easier.

Crystal: <font color="#6600">(( Like so. ))

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Testing. ))

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 9 - 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Wisdom

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">enough for this, actually :3 &quot;See, now that brings an idea across&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now... i guess i am screwed over either way.. they must have noticed i am missing... i can give you some.. interesting names related to.. other activity.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;That would be wonderful, Mr. Subin.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;More details can only help you.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yeah, help you from receiving blunt trauma...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Why am I now picturing Voltarus as Axe Cop? :B http://axecop.com/

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I mean, once again, a few businessmen and such here and there.. not all that opposed to some ideas common with our employer. The idea was, making stockpiles.. and preparing... see, we can't get many guns but well, that's about where the limit stands... with stuff like Ironwood composites you can make wonderful crossbows and such...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Will you hurry up and drop some names, already?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">all in all, then if it erupted, they'd be perhaps the most ready.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That's not normal... activity, for anyone wondering. That sort of stuff's too unwieldy. That sort of thing is what you use to build an army. Getting ready for Insert Random Revolution Trigger, are they?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now you talking.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now, i know some of the names.. but not so easy. After all, if i straight-out told ya, no use keeping me alive, would you?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Hm. Now, it's better to let adenturers and mercenaries bring their own weapons, so it must be a popular uprising they're hoping for. But you can't have a popular uprising without a rallying point, anything else is a fantasy. There's someone ready to take the reins and guide this uprising where it wants to go. So! Who will it be..?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, come on. He must have laid the groundwork well enough there are hundreds of people with him in the back of their minds, so that they trust him. Can't have any old bloke show up off the street and suddenly take control.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, as a n total aside, the bear getting a low intimidate was kinda fitting.. after all, he coughs and wheezes all the time.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He raises his morningstar again. &quot;TALK! NOW!&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 20 + 7 = 27&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;No, any good spontaneous uprising has a great deal of work behind it. So -ah!&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*scared*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">That... actually got the smile to falter for a bit. &quot;Goodness. Are you sure you're a warlock and not a barbarian, Vo?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Taun clan, remember?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now, there were some our folks in the union as well...i don't know too much about that side of the operation,seriously.. But think about it.. a miners' union, when they get pissed off...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And then they all rally to the union leader, he's the one who they trust. Is my reasoning... correct?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">To whoever is the leader at the time,yes

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">And of course, we'd make sure the correct guy was.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Even we cubi spawn who aren't acutally Cubi yet can be pretty intimidating and brutal, if need be.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right! So we have a lead. Union leader, mining guild. Anyone got anything on that subject to add?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">a bit hard... see, quite a sizable part of them seem to have Grounders supporttoo

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*too

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Grounders, grounders... the nutters who only like Beings, yes? Wonder how they'd have taken me before my First Shift.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;The anti-wing Grounders, right?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I mean, that's one of the reasons i didn't deal with them... half of them would try to break my face once they seen my leather jacket.. and other half once they seen my leather wings.

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;I hope they don't take my wings!&quot; The gryphon crouches and cowers a little. &quot;I dun' care what people say, gryphon wings are not good eats!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, you were out in the market today, weren't you. Notice anything?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">But then.. i suppose it doesn't matter.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;You know, I don't think we've heard the names of any people actually listed, yet...&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I mean, enough of a mess in this city messes up the whole country... no matter who's doin' the messin'.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, please kindly start listing some.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;We have a position, the name's not necessary for the Miner's Union lead. Now, what about the Grounders? Where's your contact for that?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(It seems Karis gets a bit hyper when he's trying to work something out. Probably because bats put twenty times the effort into catching moths when they're nearly caught)

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

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Contact... heh, there was this short ratty guy there, worked for us, really. Nothing high-rank though. base-level informant, if anything.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;His name?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yes, please tell us what his name is.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Better than nothing... Firo. I'm sorry to ask this, but did you hear anything in the market? It could be important, more approaches we have on this the better. It's the angles, see.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;I didn't hear much. Just some miners talkin' about safety.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Stil, that was mostly my job.. see.. some of those i dealt with were creatures, and all of them just about affluent enough to be considered by some. Helped to organise security and such.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I was the one who heard it.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;The guys talking about safety, I mean.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">one of you rolled a 7, the other a 18 or so

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;He asked me.&quot; :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">guess who heard

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Or, wait...Was that result for- ))

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Oh. ))

Crystal:<font color="#006600">'Mr. Subin, evasiveness isn't helping your case any.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 11 + 7 = 18&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Diplomacy. &quot;His name?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Ivan Klaga... he's a shift leader in one of the mines.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Finally.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Thank you. That wasn't so hard, was it?&quot; Smile!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, okay. Safety... but safety of what? Could be another approach, best thing about being paranoid is when you're right. Pity we can't just ask a random person - aha! And a safety meeting, the perfect place to discuss other things with a selected clientele.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">Who calls such a meeting? Why, I would guess it's the shift leaders. And we have a fairly airtight way of coordinating things, as well as a name, a rank and generally a motive - such as it is.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Oh Lady Z,&quot; Crystal says, still doing her best not to use names around the suspect, &quot;Was there not news of a mine collapse lately?&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, at this point, who would you guys say is the leader of the group.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">*?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Why ,yes, there was.. just about yesterday.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Dunno, to be honest. We have a Big Guy, a soft touch, an enthusiast, a short tempered guy and an innocent one.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">... yesterday?

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, who's the innocent one?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Firo.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Yesterday. Speaking of which, what were you doing yesterday?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ahm right

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Yesterday... i went to the club.. and before *sigh* trying to get some cash together.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">See, bloody buggers. remember the mining explosives i told you about?

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

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Refresh my memory. I'm awfully forgetful, you see.&quot; Smile, smile!


 * Liatai waves to the Tech. :3

Liatai:<font color="#006600">... Saph, is Karis Small-sized? x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No, Medium.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Ah. His token seemed a little on the Small side.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Goes to Diminutive when Primal, though.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">So I have to resize it every time.

TMG:<font color="#000000">what map is everyone on?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">dnd_maps_0001

Liatai:<font color="#006600">dnd_maps_0001

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Ninja'd!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Was my work the amount got written off as faulty and supposedly destroyed.. a bit of cash one side, a threat other, you know how it goes. Now, the thing is, somehow, they ended up thinking there was supposed to be .. about a third or so more, and they refused to pay .... See, another reason i think their numbers come from somewhere up. Who knows, maybe someone's leeching off a bit and covering it in paper.. Regardless, I racked up a few expenses, the whole operation. I thought you were up to collect those. Either that or they scammed me over and want to get rid off me. Regardless, screw them.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Embezzlement within embezzlement... did someone steal a Matrioshka doll?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">My brother, Ilja did, once.

Michail:<font color="#000000">KInda funny, those.... small, fiddly things.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh... I am reminded of something where a Big Guy was shut up by telling him &quot;Yammy, think of clouds.&quot; And it stopped him talking for a good hour.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">x3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Bleach, right?

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah, a hilarious fanfic called Uninvited Guests. It has its' own Funny moments page on TvTropes. By chapter.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Quite fun, really. Layers within layers.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">yeah... like french potato, just with crap instead of sausage.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;So. We have here a possible lead, this Ivan Klaga, and a few minor ones. Care to put any more names out there?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;French potato? Sausage in potato? It sounds yummy.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">While being tied and held by a guy whose fist is bigger than my head? Really?

Michail:<font color="#000000">Hey! Not my fault you got such a small head!

Michail:<font color="#000000">Like that matrioska, really... just more horned

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;You'd think that would give you a greater impetus to answer,&quot; she muses, still smiling.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Just hurry up and tell us whatever other names you have.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;That, plus the morningstar I have her.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Here

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Greater impetus? Am not suicidal.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 4 + 8 = 12&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Intimidate, since I imagine that unwavering smile is getting a little creepy by now.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Good, then hurry up and tell us some more names.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Cursed by the low rolls! Ouch!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Would Volt just staring at him count as intimidate?

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 18 + 3 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">As i said.. at least until i keep them, he won't *do* anythin' with those fists.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">After all, Volt's already succeeded in two intimidate rolls against him, right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">true.. and he did talk.. though the trouble is, intimidate doesn't make someone an imbecile, at least if not backed by force, i'd say.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ever heard of a mind-rip? Aka, mind reading? It's possible. We'd have to go to the trouble of finding a 'cubi, of course, and that would take time. But then, the inconvenience would make it a lot less likely that this 'cubi in the hypothetical sense would be... careful.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He gets right up in Nikola's face, and narrows his eyes. &quot;Tell us. Tell us if there're anymore names you haven't told us yet. Or else...&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 8 + 7 = 15&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Does that count?

Karis:<font color="#993300">Oh, and because that's probably intimidating itself... &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 14 + 3 = 17&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; yay multiple Intimidate checks.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. that cow over there mentioned it already.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;My, Lady Z. Wherever did you find these upstarts?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, notice

VAE:<font color="#000000">he has a completely messed up perception of the cchain of command :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">he thinks the ones in charge are Crystal and Karis

VAE:<font color="#000000">i just find it hillarious

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Hehehe. x3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. He backs up alittle bit. His eyes start glowing purple.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">See.. the thing is, it's a lot harder to find a cubi than deal in.. other means.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, Charisma.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">&quot;&#8230; Gin, what happened to you? You used to be a magnificent bastard. Even I had trouble keeping up with all the crazy scheming that went through your twisted mind. Now&#8230; now you just wander around Las Noches complaining and creeping out the Arrancar.&quot; &quot;Is that a problem?&quot; &quot;Well, not in and of itself. I mean, let's face it, it's fun to scare them, and you're better at it than anyone. You even creep out Ulquiorra, although he won't admit it.&quot; &quot;He doesn't scare me.&quot; Ulquiorra said impassively. Gin turned to look directly at Ulquiorra, smiling his creepiest smile. Ulquiorra took a step back. &quot;&#8230; I didn't do that because I was scared,&quot; He claimed. &quot;I just felt like stepping back.&quot; Aizen nodded approvingly. &quot;See, that? That was classic Gin.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">This is the sense I get from all the smiling going on.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Then I'm doing it right. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">See IRC for another example.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I mean.. all i need is some guarante i won't end up as worm chow.. hell i could even work for you lot/

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, that does it...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He points his palm at Nikola.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;At ease, Vo.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;He's going to start hurting, unless we get more names.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">getting physical, eh? that gives you a +2 to intimidate, usually

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Your heritage shows.&quot; Was that an insult? Who can tell?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;But, Father, Lady, in a way, he is correct.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;What do you plan to do with him?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He goes ahead and fires an eldritch blast at the demon. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 1&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;If he wants to sit here, perhaps we could amuse him. I do hear that rats enjoy the taste of leather so very much. And let's not forget your standard assortment of rots and fungi that grow in holding cells... why, I'll bet that quite a few have bled, relieved themselves, or vomited on almost every square corner of his accomodations...&quot; Intimidate &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 11 + 8 = 19&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; casually.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">She sighs.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Youth these days. No respect for the dance.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*uses the Message cantrip* Do we really need to talk about it around here? You know ,with the bloody truth zone thing going on. Ah well.. original plan was just to force-pump what we could, then..er.. use him to finish up the image that it was just a mob dealing or a mugging... you know, to make it all clean.... Ah well.. that's what we usually do, anyways.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ofc, officially that was to Crystal only.. it's just i am too unbothered to use whispers

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">OUCH! FUCK!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'll use more power next time...&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*hardens skin reflexively*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'm not certain, but I think magic skips DR. Will check.

VAE:<font color="#000000">depends what DR

VAE:<font color="#000000">his, definitely

Crystal:<font color="#006600">*reply through the cantrip* &quot;I would have thought that one such as you would have resisted with ease. I saw no alternative. Merely acting within my area of expertise, Zora. I am, after all, new in town.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">since it's just +1 ATM... but this was more a reflex than anything

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...The creature takes normal damage from energy attacks (even nonmagical ones), spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural abilities.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;You want to test me? Fine...&quot; He fires yet another one at the demon. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 4&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">yeah. for DR against energy types and magic, you actually want Energy Resistance

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah, but see above... it's more of a reaction. and since /+1 is equivalent to /magic... it'd have worked anyways

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Any attack listed penetrates all DR.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's a part of the concept of DR itself.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nods* useful to know

VAE:<font color="#000000">especially for stuff like barbarians with a DR of -

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*gnashes teeth*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You want me to do it again?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Come now, Vo. There needs to be something left of him in order for him to answer.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">See? ...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He frowns. &quot;Well, see, he's kind of refusing to talk right now. So, why not start actually using force?&quot; He fires another one at him. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 6&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;So impulsive. I thought creatures were supposed to be more patient than beings with their longer lifespans.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*ssshk* The bolt causes a what, 4th degree burn on impact and burnt fur begins smelling around the room.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">FUCK YOU !

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, you're basically saying you can handle the pain...?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;But, now you see that we are not averse to using force whether you answer or not, Mr. Subin.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I... suppose

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I've got relatively short time on this world. Were live a little longer than Beings, but when they hit old age... it all hits at once. You go from as fit as a fiddle to gone in about a year.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You ready to spill more names now?&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Only thing i'd like to spill is your guts, you imbecile.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He fires again. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 5&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, at least he will hit unconsciousness before death... anyone here a qualified healer?&quot;

Nikola Subin:''<font color="#000000">I'm screwed, bad. but perhaps... if i cause enough mess between them.. ''

VAE:<font color="#000000">makes me actually think which of the demon spell list stuff lacks somatic components :3

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Sense Motive &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 20 + 3 = 23&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Most unwise, Mr. Subin.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Now, that worked well enough!

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You do guess what is he up to.. it isn't a sane plan, but then, not like he has many options.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;You want I should handle him?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He goes right up to him.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Perhaps it is time for all of us to take a step back and relax.&quot; The woman's hand glimmers with a faint white light, watching.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He points his palm right toward the demon's jewel area.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Perhaps so... we have learnt quite enough for the moment

Zora:<font color="#000000">Maybe some time to enjoy the nice atmosphere will make him reconsider...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You want to lose these...?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Voltarus, I think he understands his situation. We'll give him a few hours to stew, and then if he still doesn't... well, then we can handle him as per normal.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Michail, do make sure he won't be up to something dumb in the following hours.. we'll try again tomorrow or so.


 * Crystal watches, still holding the charge of her spell.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'll take your silence as a yes.&quot; He fires. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 5&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Of course! Michail grabs the demon and slams his head against the wall a few times... let's count it as a nonlethal attack, right? Let's see how many we need...

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d3+7 = 3 + 7 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d3+7 = 3 + 7 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( OH, COME ON. ))

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Why ruin the whole actual frying his cojones thing? ))

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...Let's hope Firo wasn't watching that. And we DID say we're going to wait and try again later.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;No respect for the dance at all.&quot; The woman sighs, playing with the spell energy.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because i was writing it already?


 * Firo winces and cowers at the crunching sounds, staring wide-eyed.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Well, it's not like Voltie missed... this guy probably will have difficulty getting offspring... until someone heals him, anywaysd

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( XD ))

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Sorry you had to see that. Some people just don't listen to reason... but better it's now than on the battlefield, I suppose. Better to be shocked now than when the other person's trying to hurt you.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now let's go.. enough time wasted with this bugger. Bloody demons, they got hard heads.

Michail:<font color="#000000">Not as hard as the wall, it seems.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;And, their cojones don't seem to have much endurance.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well.. not like those things are built to endure spell damage.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Really, Zora, you must tell me where you found these people.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I know it's not much of a salve... but this is the sort of thing Monks train to be good at.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;These people can hear, ya know.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Dash it all, I can't remember name nor gender of Firo's elder sibling.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">the other guy from Baccano


 * Firo swallows hard and looks at the bat. &quot;I... I know. Brother Maiza fought off rival gryphons all the time...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;But they always attacked us first.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... we got stuff to do.. and we do have some hints as to what sort.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Also.. if he's right about the remote communication...

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Then perhaps these people with large ears can answer for themselves?&quot; Smile, smile!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yeah. And this guy was involved in planning to attack the entire country. Hundreds of people with no way to fight back.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Talk to the miners' union leader?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Of course, everyone is walking upwards at the moment.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey, sue me. Aren't most people supposed to buckle under pain?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Mm...&quot; The gryphon is still oddly silent, however.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;It'll seem better once you're over the shock of it. I always am.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">They are... but not if you make it *obvious* you;ll carry on at a rate that'll kill them in .. what, 10 minutes? Besides..

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;Although, I guess I could have just tried to use more intimidation, considering Firo probably just saw all that...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">aw crap...should have cast a Suggestion on him.. *sigh*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;You know, there are always other venues to try, my young Taun friend.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That was my main concern. I hope he holds up well... things like this are hard to bounce back from.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Not my best day.. bloody gryphons.. and bloody colleagues... never mind.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Like what?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Wait, perhaps?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Accept his offer of turning his coat?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Exactly what I wished to confer with the good Lady Z about.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now, see.. the bugger probably wasn't lying.. if he didn't royally eff up about the watching, he might have done a chunk of our job for us.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now, sweetie.. you said you can change into a bat at *all* times, right?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Er... yeeees?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Any attempt at getting him to work for us has likely been sullied by our incubus friend's zealous overuse of magic.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Not really an incubus yet.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ooh, a nit. Want to pick it?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You want to try shutting up?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;And yet you act like a member of clan Taun already. My, my.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Smile, smile.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I tried shutting up once. Ran straight into a wall - I'm a freaking BAT!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And you have experience in ..er .. certain matters. Now, the whole factory is warded, and quite well.. he definitely couldn't get any such spell working from the inside - it's done against military scrying.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;So what if I do?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Buut.. that means whoever does that sort of thing, must do it somewhere else.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. And you want me to find where that place is, then.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">The idea is.. find some suspects, watch them around for ..er... places private enough..

Zora:<font color="#000000">And then pay those places a little visit *wink*

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Oh, nothing... I'm just curious what your clan leader makes of you hiding behind her name.&quot; And she walks off, choosing to listen to Zora and Karis instead.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls. &quot;Was I bringing up her name a whole lot when I was trying to get the demon to talk?&quot;


 * Crystal doesn't respond. Is she selectively ignoring you? :/

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. I'm hard to find in Primal, but not impossible. Anyone good enough could spot me. Catching me, that's the real trick.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;ANSWER ME, DAMNIT!&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Dangit... ))

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Please keep the volume down... I need these ears to steer.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh, sweetie, but you are asking entirely the wrong question. The thing is... why would he *suspect* a mere bat? Your sort isn't quite common around here.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Of course. My mistake.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 5 + 8 = 13&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; Intimidate resut as she whips around, hand glimmering with white energy... and then taps Voltarus' shoulder. Roll a Will save versus DC 14.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Will save: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 4 = 1 + 4 = 5&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">touch of idiocy?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Nap time!

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( ...AGAIN? ))

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

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( ANOTHER LOW ROLL? ))

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And nap he does.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Welcome to my life, Techcubi

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What the heck did you just-?&quot; He falls asleep on the floor...Purring again.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lia, mention Miron to him once we finish.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">We all get them. Remember when the suspect convinced ME?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Same with Michail and Zora during the talk

VAE:<font color="#000000">But in Liatai's game, i get this *constantly*

VAE:<font color="#000000">I have a ratio of 20:1 of about 0.2

Crystal:<font color="#006600">She discharges the Sleep spell she had been preparing to use on Subin, and then lifts up the young incubus-to-be as best she can, propping him against the wall. &quot;Subin wasn't the only one who needed to calm down,&quot; she muses.

VAE:<font color="#000000">that is... just about 5 ones for every 20.. i

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He falls asleep, purring.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Young messenger? Your friend seems to have had a little bit of a nap attack!&quot; ^^;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Eh? A what?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;He fell asleep on his feet. Must have been dead tired from all that spellcasting.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Would you carry him, please?&quot; Bluff &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 2 + 6 = 8&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187; ~

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Isn't the eldritch blast technically a spell-like ability? ))

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sighs* ... This *really* reminds me of a particular comic, dealing with Kleinian inquisition

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Let me know when I should get going, then. And where I should start.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Whatever, *picks the bat up*

Michail:<font color="#000000">*cat

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No, it was Firo being asked.

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, right

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Michail is down in the cellar as a guard, I thought.


 * Firo positions himself to pick up Voltarus and drape him over his back. Gryphon strength go! Sense Motive &#171; &#160;1d20 = 16&#160;  &#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The door are spell-proofed (they had worse incidents)... i think Michail of all went up as he isn't that hot on defense

Michail:<font color="#000000">Michail places the cat on Firo.. If you wish...

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;...&quot; The gryphon gives the smiling woman a look, but picks up Volt nonetheless.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He's still purring...

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... we should probbably screen through the higher personell there.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Thank you. I'm sure he'll appreciate it.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean...the workers are under a spell not to.. but anyone else might, in theory be a leak if paid enough.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;The mentioned boss first, then? Right. Back here for the rendezvous, I assume then.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait a moment...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Purrrrrrrrrrrr...........&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Boss would be nice.. especially if he's out. but.. can you carry stuff with you while you change shape?

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean.. eating moths filled you in both forms.. it's slightly weird stuff going on.


 * Firo makes a soft and comfy mattress. =3=

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Anything I have on me, but I have to change back to get it again, it goes hyperdimensional. It's all spacey-wacey. I can lift 1 pound with Prestidigitation without shifting back.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">That... would be enough i mean. A couple of lockpicks might be handy.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That would help were I able to open locks.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Also.. what .. what about your magic? Can you deal with warding spells and the like?

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;You can't?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I won't be the one walking around someone's house. *snerks*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'm a Were, not a trained Rogue. I'm working on natural talent.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, so not either. Never mind.. best bet is to do it while he's at the factory.. sometimes morning or so.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;As for spells... not really. No Dispel magic, nothing like that. I am, however, rather small. Most wards I've heard of have a mass limit on triggering to avoid alerting the owner needlessly.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#006600">By the way. Sleep at Crystal's level lasts for 2 minutes. So, feel free to have Voltarus wake up any time. :3

Zora:<font color="#000000">Mass limit, see?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Volume changes... but does mass?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Have you SEEN how small my wings are in Primal?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Simple solution to that. Who has a scale?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;We can find out.&quot; :3

Zora:<font color="#000000">I... the only thing i am familiar with is alter self.. .. and yeah, that makes sense.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He wakes up. &quot;Huh, wha...?'

Zora:<font color="#000000">I .. didn't notice ,really.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I am NOT more dense in Primal than damn Osmium!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">^^;

Firo:<font color="#006600">You are face-down in a fluffy deep blue ruff of fur. It's comfy. =3=

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He blinks. He tries to get up.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways...plan is... you try going through as you say... best when he's at work .. early morning and the like.

Zora:<font color="#000000">If you mess up,.. just break stuff and haul away valuables. Robbery, see?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. And since it's the late morning..? That's a near whole day wait.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Oh -- you're awake again? That was a short nap.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I think she put a temporary sleeping spell on me...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, I see. Torch the place too? I can read the wards, and if they don't contain a detect magic spell I'll just eliminate all traces of my presence through fire.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well, the idea is that the neigbours don't rise a fuss... besides a bat during daytime *is* unusual

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( So, is the party going to need a rogue? ))

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed... now you thinkin' right. And really.. if he does have kit there, all we need as evidence is one-two bits, and what you hold in your had.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Early morning? You mean, when it's dark? And in mines or roofs it is always dark.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*head

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Crys has some ranks in Disable Device and Open Lock... and Trapfinding.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">But no sneak attack or other roguey things. =3=;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I might have Karis go into Rogue, actually. And then Arcane Trickster.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's basically what he is already...

Zora:<font color="#000000">On the other hand.. the rest of you should try figuring out what the hell happened yesterday, and make sure nothing messes up.. That bugger's talk gets me scared.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;And what about the rest of us, Zora? I can always find out the word on the street.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Ah, we're on the same wavelength, it seems.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*nods* you seem to be .. particularly good at it, yeah.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Is there a plan discussion going on right now?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">No... planes haven't been invented yet,except for sci-fi

Zora:<font color="#000000">Everyone uses warp-aci

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Or Gryphon, or personal wings, or whatever. We're pretty over provided with flight means, basically.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* I wish i had one.

Zora:<font color="#000000">They..are kinda cute, and bloody useful.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not bonded a Familiar yet?&quot;

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Volt said 'Plan' ))

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( Not plane. ))

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yes. We know.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nah... i was trying to get an 'aci... the spell's hard as hell.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I once managed to conjure a bloody vasuthant.. they are from the same shadow dimension, see?

Zora:<font color="#000000">what can i say, ouch.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh. From the name... less friendly?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Sounds like it.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">a bloody hungry ball of shadow...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I've already got my marching orders, if you will. So for me the discussion is academic. I'll work on making sure I have everything.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Hmm... a Familiar bigger than I am... interesting ideas, they are there.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">he dropped, blah

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

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;As do I. So, we meet back here when?&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">What'd I miss?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'll Whisper him. That's slash w name, right?

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

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, For you.. when you find out something interesting, or by the evening. As for Karis...when he deals with the thing is up to him.. i imagine he'd need at least some time to prepare. and then, best pick a good time.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, anyway...Do I fit into this plan any?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Yes, ma'am!&quot; Crystal salutes.

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Or me?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yes.. you and Firo will accompany Crys... and spread around as well

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'll report back when the target's asleep, if I can swing it. Should be at least one report every 48 hours - I'd say 24, but things could go banana shaped. If there's a random fire, it could well be me.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean, a messenger gryphon is best for handling some sorts of questions... never mind Voltie here.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I got him talking to some degree, didn't I?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Who knows, maybe I could teach you some tricks of the trade that don't leave behind scars?&quot; Smile, smile.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Random... let's say stochastic, sweetie. It has a calculable probability nearing one.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, a fire with no seeming cause, let's say.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">Great. Stuck with the kids. What did I do wrong, Zora? &gt;.&gt;;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed. If you are going for the director first, be careful... he knows some nasty stuff

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Any hard intelligence?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">For one, he reads thoughts...

Zora:<font color="#000000">Kinda hard to conceal your presence around that...

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I have a mind shield. All-up.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;How old are you, anyway, Voltarus?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And then.. assorted magics... i mean, he's easily as good as me, if not better.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;24 going on 25 soon.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;It's so hard to tell with creatures.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. So, I better start with that suspicious shift leader.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Legal for alcohol, then. Good. Makes gathering information easier...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Add in the fact he's probably older than all of us summed up... As i said.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Best pay his house a visit when he isn't around, if you need to.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Firo probably isn't, though.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Uh-uh.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Just to check I have no crossed wires - the shift leader, is he also the Director of which you speak?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Hmm... Well, there's sure to be something else you can do.&quot; Smile, smile!

Zora:<font color="#000000">*whispers to Crystal* Not so much you mainly got stuck with them so that they learn somehting useful.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait, which one?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Could you please stop smiling?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Beg your pardon?&quot; Blink blink.

Zora:<font color="#000000">there's .. .several people we need to sort out.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You're smiling. Creepily.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Both at the mines, and at the factory.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;You mentioned a Director who is old and skilled. Is that the shift leader whose name we got out of our guest, or not? It was unclear.&#163;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Am I?&quot; She laughs. &quot;Sorry~&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Not him, no.. that would be our demon friend. The shift leader, Ivan? I have heard of him.. what, second time - the first time when he got involved in a street fight.. well, if you can call five against one a fight.

Zora:<font color="#000000">but that was a few years ago.

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;When the world's a stage, you find comedies everywhere.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yeah, right...Although, for some reason, it seemed weirdly attractive alittle bit.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Only remember it.. well, nothing to you, that. *strange expression*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Was he on the five or the one? If he's the one, I'm leery of someone who survived that.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;It's all in the subtleties, my friend~&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nah... the one was a particular peddler.. i think he was half-creature or such. Key word is *was*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. I have my motivation, I think.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean.. we were going after him for bringing in some .. substances to the city... and someone did the fun part of our work before we could find out more.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;The unsubtle can be just as effective, sometimes.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Killed to prevent him spilling, do you think?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Effective? Maybe. But nowhere near as fun. Much harder to trace, as well. But, it takes all kinds...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Could be.. after all buggers like the Grounders have to get money somewhere... could be. I mean, the militia handled it, and they all claimed that the other guy attacked one of them and it was aided self-defense

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What do you want me to try then? Alittle deceit?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, aided self defence. A term on the same level of subtlety as private enterprise.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#006600">&quot;Just follow my lead when we get out on the street. You'll do just fine.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">all remaning in for us was to grind the teeth.. but then i hadn't an idea this guy was anything but a drunk then.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;If you say so...When are going to get out on the street, anyway?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Right. And Voltarus, try for Deceit instead of Dacoit&quot;.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'll set off as soon as it's dark, then.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#006600">&quot;Da... coit?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Dacoit...?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And yeah... private enterprise ... too enterprisey and too private all too often around here.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Eastern thugs. Gangs of low-caste furs, who assault people. No finesse.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hee..that kinda fits the guy!

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Are we approaching a good place to leave off?

VAE:<font color="#000000">possibly.. i mean, quite a lot did get done.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I certainly hope so.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i assume Crystal will meddle around with folks up.. and Karis has wisely decided to first examine the shifty shift leader.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">By shifting!

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Crystal will be rolling Gather Information while teaching the two kids to do the same. x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah.. he's a shift leader at one of the mines.

Voltarus: <font color="#9999">(( So, this the end of the session, then? ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">And yeah, can be called that.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Nomination for Voltarus - Eldritch Interrogation!

VAE:<font color="#000000">went a little better than last week.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Nomination for Karis - Wordplay and Magic Talk.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saph, nominations?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Crystal for just not. Stopping. Smiling!

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Karis also for paying attention to the plot details, and for the hyperactive planning. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Major creep factor there. Also possibly Firo for being just not quite able to move as lithely as he wants yes.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">*yet

VAE:<font color="#000000">Techcubi?

Crystal:<b><font color="#006600">:)

</b>Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">GAH!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Firo for feathery bed?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Soo... this was rather dragged out, but still

VAE:<font color="#000000">Everyone 200 XP for successful interrogation, 100 XP for roleplaying.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Right, so that's 300 for the session, and I don't know how much I got last time.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I forgot...

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, there we go.

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, game's wrapping up? :o

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">550 last time. Woo.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Yep.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">*ding*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Crystal - 50 XP Channeling Faye Whitaker 50 XP Actually capable interrogator

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Yaaaay, gryphon level up! :D

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Faye Whitaker?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Firo: 50 XP win by fail.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">*THUD*

VAE:<font color="#000000">A particular single Questionable Content strip.

VAE:<font color="#000000">to do with a smile like this

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think more Ichimaru Gin, actually. There are about three shots of him NOT smiling, in a manga/anime stretching about a decade.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Voltie: 50 XP Intimidator 50 XP Torture is an arcane art

Techubi:<font color="#009999">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Karis: 50 XP Crooked mental processes 50 XP If someone wanted to sneak in, we'd totally fry him, right Zora? 50 XP The Planner.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">XD

Liatai:<font color="#006600">By the way, in case anyone was curious. Crystal sneaked in just shortly after the message about her arrival ended.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I thought so

VAE:<font color="#000000">it was meant to be kinda like that

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That was the Tenth Doctor impersonation phase, yes? The Plan phase.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">You knew so, you got the Hide and Move Silently checks! XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, that's what made me think so, wise-ass :3

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Nyeh! Nyeh, I say. :P

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d6+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...dang.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That was the HP roll.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I don't get another until level 4.

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Oh right, HP. :O

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, special thanks to Liatai for being initiative and taking the (i realised) interrogation over.... because trying to do it between two characters i possess is bloody hard.

VAE:<font color="#000000">or three

VAE:<font color="#000000">or four, really

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Do PCs completely heal when they level up?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">&#171; &#160;1d10-1 = 6 - 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#006600">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">not surre.. this isn't WoW after all

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think no, but the new HP doesn't have to be regained.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, sorry for the interrogation dragging on a bit.... asides from trying to RP it sensibly i had to invent quite a few chunks of stuff in such a way that'd fit in with the general plot, then filter them through what the particular demon saw/noticed

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Heh, I know how it is. ^^;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Right, going off asap. Night, everyone.

VAE:<font color="#000000">night ,Saph

Liatai:<font color="#006600">That happens every time Miron interrogates someone. :B

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Good night!

VAE:<font color="#000000">you indeed do.. but then, there were less characters with Miron... and the whole thing wasn't so bloody complicated./

Liatai:<font color="#006600">So you think. ^^;

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VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, i mean, the parts that the characters knew weren't

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Also, TC, I'm sorry. But Crystal saw Voltarus and thought &quot;now I see a bunch of big shiny buttons to press aaaaaaaall over this guy. =3= &quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hee, that's what's supposed to happen

Techubi:<font color="#009999">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">She did worse with Vladim last year at about this time

VAE:<font color="#000000">Remember Apples to Apples?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Yes indeed. x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Between her and Dosve, i think he had a mental breakdown at one point.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Wait, Crystal's been used before?


 * VAE facepaws

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Not in a D&amp;D campaign. But I've used her as a character and written about her for nigh on five years now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Crystal is as close to liatai's fursona /signature char as it gets

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Really?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Really. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Unless you count Terri Torris :3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Terri Torris?

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Terri's not a fursona! XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">The comic in question

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1215

VAE:<font color="#000000">the bottom panel, namely

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh well, what about Papa then?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Persona/signature char, then! xD

Liatai:<font color="#006600">Terri's not a persona character, I don't care what you say. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">TC; Terri is this unbelievable adorable NPC in the Akellon game

VAE:<font color="#000000">If anything, the gryphon.. what was she called, was closer

VAE:<font color="#000000">In DtD

TMG:<font color="#000000">also; Nyeh. Terri will always be your DMPC. ;P

VAE:<font color="#000000">messenger gryphon

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nevar! XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">memory is airy

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Kittrick?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh... DMPC's

VAE:<font color="#000000">I made Michail with the explicit idea of him adding muscle instead of wits, so that i don't have to think for the party

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If anything, the one character who I would claim is a DMPC, I've purposefully NOT included in Akellon. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah, Farin.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, seen the comic?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I have. :B And Saph's impression was more what I was aiming for.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, this was what the DM saw, anyways :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Reminded again of your joke with the fox

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Joke with the fox?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://s581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/Liatai/?action=view&amp;current=Friskmadesawplayed.jpg

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">the same sort of thing

VAE:<font color="#000000">anyways... to the IRC now?

VAE:<font color="#000000">license to kill.. this server, anyways

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Righto!

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