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Saphroneth has connected.

Drayco has connected.

Liatai has connected.


 * VAE mroweth

Liatai:Using HughesNet, so may lag at some point.

VAE:Like your new headquarters folks?

VAE:one of the few things i actually managed during the summer

Drayco:One of these days... MapTools needs FLOOR LAYERS...

VAE:Background is good enough for meh

VAE:okay, now I wonder who of you actually dinged

Liatai:Now where the heck did I put my character sheet?

VAE:since the tokens lack XP or so it seems

Saphroneth:I'm at 1300/LVL2.

VAE:nice

Saphroneth:And it looks like I did level post-last session, since my HP wasn't updated. So now Were1/Rog1.

Liatai:Ah, here they are.

VAE:Roll, or half die? what you choose?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I rolled for it, got 4.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">1d8, right?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">d6 for Rogues.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Question... how many skill points does a gryphon B get per level again?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm not sure if I levelled Firo, and can't find where the page went. ^^;;;

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">2+int mod.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://dndmfa.wikia.com/wiki/Gryphon_B

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


 * VAE has it in print now

VAE:<font color="#000000">took a while to find the print though :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Looks like the church is highly icon-oclastic.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope, didn't level skills.

VAE:<font color="#000000">See any broken icons?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Not sure. I mean, at low levels Michail is broken, but that's because of his all-out damage design.

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">Am not broken, comrade, just a little scratched.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Fortunately, instead of lacking a fourth wall the church has instead installed an OOC-permeable ceiling.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">How do you think our prayers get listened to, son?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">I didn't say anything.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*looks suspiciously* Then why are ya talking?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Note to self... when game is over... put Firo and Crystal onto TangledWeb. =3=;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Ask the good Father. He just started in on the middle of the conversation. It seems we do it a lot here.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">It was .. er.. a spiritual matter. That it was, my children.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Heh, I just found the &quot;Evil OVerlord's code of honour&quot;. Fun stuff.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You only break your word in large matters, and in a way which causes your victims to curse your treacherous nature; if you make smaller promises, you will keep them, as of course the destined ruler of the world can afford to do so. Never ignore an insult to yourself, your schemes, or the symbols of your rule; rant a lot at whoever is responsible, and then take a complicated revenge.

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

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

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Got a map, huh?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=2919

VAE:<font color="#000000">only this one. Since you'll spend lotsa time here

Liatai:<font color="#000000">17 Strength and 18 Dex, woo!

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">We do. All craftlynxship is of the highest quality. It menaces with spikes of plot.

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

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Spikes of plot? *takes out a trieder* With this thingy, they look like mountains! Instant win!

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's well worth any player or GM who's planning to play a Dark Lord printing off the Evil Overlord List, reading through it carefully -- and then carefully ignoring every word.

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">ANybody you're missing?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alternately they can print out *interrupts* No, all here *end interrupt* The old evil overlord list, and go by it

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in, the one how to avoid blatant errors

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That's the one the article means. A TRUE evil overlord should committ every error on the list.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Must... get... food...

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's a matter of style.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Style is important, but so's staying alive (ah ah ah ah)

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, recalling of events, they're where?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The church used by the local secret police, on detachment from whatever to same.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">IF you're this kind of evil overlord, you get heroes just about not catching you as you ride off into the night. Heroes have rules too.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Indeed. And a clever one can mess with them. Look at Vetinari

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Vetinati is no evil overlord.

VAE:<font color="#000000">THough his allignment is Competent Neutral


 * VAE wonders whether an evil overlord would actually bother with Ankh Morpork

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seems like entirely too much mess to run

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">They've tried. They end up getting assassinated (Winder; Snapcase)

VAE:<font color="#000000">As in.. kinda like trying to build a hydroelecric plant onriver Ankh

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Adventurers on the Disc consist of &quot;small mixed parties of thugs, kleptomaniacs, god-botherers and UU rejects, for some reason.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, intro thing?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways. Brief recap. Last time, you indeed ended up pulling some useful information from a demon whose life expectancy became unexpectedly short... *growls*.. Going with it, and liatai is gone anyways for foodz

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Through the cajone blast thing?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I think yes.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Back, updating Firo's sheet.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">129.0

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259.5

26081.5

Liatai:<font color="#000000">129.0

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259.5

390.0

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You found out a few fun details ... there's a bunch of suspicious stuff going around the Kotva shipyard/factory, there are suspicions things going about the mines as well... actually there are suspicious things just about everywhere in this bloody town. Either way, through the will of the high command interjecting too, there are two likely paths. Either find out more about what the hell blew up in the mines, and make sure nothing fishy's going on in there, or pursue the mine shift leader the demon actually talked about.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, bloody drayco didn't turn on proper roll showing again


 * T3h GM hisses

Techubi:<font color="#009999">(Roll showing?)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">780

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1950

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">yep. As in, showing the expression used as well as result

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh, got it. You're doing encumberance values?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">We're supposed to roll what, exactly?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Liatai's finishing up char sheet

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's whenever someone uses the chat client to roll dice, that the rolls should show. Lia's just using the chat client as a calculator.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">In the meantime, i guess it's time for some usual silly. Also, those should show too, Saph

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's just that drayco didn't check that on when starting server

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">Aw frig...

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I know. Was making sure that whatever Techubi was actually asking would be answered.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes. Aw frig. Or aw thor

VAE:<font color="#000000">or aw Tyr

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">No, it's something that needs checked OFF.

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">Not ON.

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">Do you want me to restart?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Don't care that much. Vote?

VAE:<font color="#000000">There's three of you

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">May as well, we've not actually started properly yet.

VAE:<font color="#000000">one for. Lia ? TC?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Does this have much bearing on what happens in game?


 * Liatai doesn't care either way.

VAE:<font color="#000000">the logs look a bit nicer

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">It makes rolls easier to see.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and it's easier to see typos

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Heh. I'm beginning to wonder if anyone will ever take Mounted Combat in this group, given how Firo's Strength score keeps climbing... x3

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">...

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Go forth, my griffie companion! together, we shall bust a cap!&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Evil idea: Microraptor cubi. AKA, &quot;kite.&quot;

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Every limb is a wing, and the tail is two.


 * VAE likey

Techubi:<font color="#009999">How do you whisper again? /w name or?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh, and with a stroke of genius, *yep*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Question for VAE, because I forgot. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think i solved the trouble with defining phoenix B

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

Player &quot;name&quot; is not connected.Player &quot;name&quot; is not connected.VAE:<font color="#000000">yep, /w name

VAE:<font color="#000000">oka, what, lia?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Do creatures need to stay within their &quot;creature class&quot; until they reach the end of it, not multiclassing, or can they multiclass early?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think we had them able to multiclass early ,yes

VAE:<font color="#000000">at least as temporary solution

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I'm assuming they can multiclass early, as I'm, well, doing it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">because otherwise, how come Saph is doing it :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Because I just remembered I had plans to make Firo a bard at some point... perhaps level 3. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I am a Rogue/Bat were. I am not the night. I cannot breathe in space.

Techubi whispers: So, do you have any set in stone plans for this session, and, is there any chance you could add anything for character development for Vol?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways. Phoenix B, if mainly Saph as my current partner in crime agrees, can use their Wild Shape if druid (and if not, they'll get limited one) to turn into a dire animal instead of normal when using it.. some percentage of the time

You whisper to Techubi: You could.. i mean, there's stuff planned, but hard to say.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Might be easier to assign what Aliyka does as &quot;Druid class levels&quot;,, really.

You whisper to Techubi: besides, he hasn't been quite getting enough exposure yey

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well ,yes. That's what i try to deal with it as

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One character down, one to go. http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=54108

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because it's not a normal wild shape

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I mean, the Druid Wild Shape is already so amazingly powerful that a class with JUST that power is more powerful than almost all other classes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Some percentage, i meant perhaps a third of the Wild Shapes you get for a day


 * VAE is asking precisely for that reason.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I think there's the ability to go Dire at a certain level anyway.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, consider that other things became more powerful ,too.

Techubi whispers: Enough exposure? You mean, he hasn't done enough yet, or he needs to develop background?

You whisper to Techubi:. I mean, he wasn't talked about all that much ,so if you change something about his background no retcon needed.

You whisper to Techubi: which is natural since we're just about starting, technically

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yeah, the &quot;Plant&quot; wild shape on the druid table used to be &quot;dire&quot;.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And there's a left-over epic feat that enables &quot;plant&quot; in the SRD.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, we'll see about it later then.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way.. while things are being sorted, who says there can't be some usual random fun.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*yawns* Feels like we've been standing here for months!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Strange. I seem to abruptly be better at several things and know how to dismantle traps.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Slowly and carefully, if anyone's wondering.!

Michail:<font color="#000000">'s odd.. I don't feel a thing.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Don't know. I wonder how one might go about using a lockpick while a bat.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">If you have a bat, friend, why need a lockpick?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I am a bat. And I can turn into a micro-bat.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Ah.didn't think of that.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You know what music is awesome? Music from Madlax. The two main characters have different themes, and when the two of them merge (It's complicated) near the end, they have a combined version called &quot;We are one&quot;.

Zora:<font color="#000000">''Does he ever? Oh hell, some animals are just *dumb* ''

Techubi whispers: You think you could make for him a rival Taun Spawn? Maybe a Paladin? A more mature Paladin?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? How nice to have another person in the group who knows how to dismantle a trap. Maybe we should have a race someday.&quot; Smile, smile.

You whisper to Techubi: Changing class?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm not all that good. I was more interested in the shanking seminar.

Voltarus whispers: Should I have said, 'Paladin who's more mature than him?'

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't like that sort of fiddly stuff myself.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see!&quot; ^^

Player &quot;Techcubi&quot; is not connected. You whisper to Techubi: Perhaps :3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Their motto was &quot;Carpe jugulum.&quot; Makes sense.&quot;

You whisper to Techubi: Also, why aren't you Techcubi? I keep misspelling you!

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought it was 'Sectio Aorta' or something.&quot;

Voltarus whispers: Haven't I used Techubi in most of the sessions already?

You whisper to Techubi: No idea, honest. That sort of thing evades me

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Maybe they try to change it around every so often. Not like I attended last year.&quot;


 * Voltarus VAE Anyway, wouldn't a Paladin be kind of the opposite of a Warlock, ergo, making a perfect rival? Or, am I thinking too cliche?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">DAMNIT

VAE:<font color="#000000">Taun clan Paladin? Not really.. but it'd be awesome enough. Remember, this world works a bit differently

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You can have CG Warlocks, but then Paladin of Freedom is also available.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">I have his alignment set as Chaotic Good on the sheet, but, does he seem to act more Neutral Good?

VAE:<font color="#000000">more like Chaotic Cubi

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">All gamers are Chaotic Neutral by default, aren't they?


 * VAE thinks that should TOTALLY be an allignment

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Or, wait.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Not Neutral Good.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Lawful Stupid, Chaotic Stupid...

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">AKA Paladin and Munchkin.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, not all paladins are that sort

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tech has a normal one in Cold War i think

VAE:<font color="#000000">and of course Cadamon, while LG, passes for an intelligent human when inspected.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, anyone here bored?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Not after I found that 'proof of a loving god' manual in the loft. I have to admit, 'he didn't make us like Neveria' is a pretty good argument.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Doesn't this book count as the Necronomicon, though?&quot; *holds up book emblazoned with the initials F.A.T.A.L

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Neveria?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not me.. bloody hell, there's paperwork to fill.. and then I might probably investigate our prisoner a bit more .. thoroughly *nasty smile* .. .As for you lot, I think there's stuff to earn your pay &quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Now, how did *that* get in here?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Neveria is the *cough* setting of the infamously hellish RPG FATAL.

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Incineration best?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">It's for .. research purposes!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Should I even have Voltarus be paying attention to most of this, or roll for a listen check?)

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">You'd wonder how much negative energy you can muster after reading a single page.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">As you see fit, I think.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well then. What shall we do?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">I used half a chapter to summon a ghoul once.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I don't think half of the character generation page is even anatomically possible, and I'm a shapeshifter.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I must say, the mines sound promising. Perhaps we'll get some more evidence to bring before the corrupt leader.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Stop with the bullshit, we both know we use it for psychic torture.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Okay, that is nasty.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Listen:

<font color="#009999">23

Zora:<font color="#000000">Thank you, I try &gt;:3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;A ghoul? Seriously?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Either way.. you lot should go ask what the hell happened down there, true.

Zora:<font color="#000000">At least it'll get boss's attention off us ... blah, i'd like to know how that bugger does it.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm available for covert insertion and/or finding out what this person does for a living. Chiropterans aren't quite UAVs... whatever they are... but I'm up for it.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=54109

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/profiler/view_char.php?cid=54108

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Both character sheets done and ready for inspection if needed. :3

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah, no Volty. Let me explain more closely. Imagne yourself sitting in that cell down there, while friend holier-than-thou Ignat reads in his droning voice from that abomination. It cracked more suspects than electrocution.


 * VAE inspects

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;What the hell? This stuff looks like it could implode reality!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Even more than my eldritch blasts?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heating - Transforms coal into happiness.&quot; x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside.. Techcubi, ever came across that stuff?

VAE:<font color="#000000">F.A.T.A.L is truly so.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/FATAL?from=Main.FATAL


 * Firo is asleep in a chair. Zzz...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Only good thing about that setting is that the miscast rules are so draconian that the place would explode inside an hour.&quot;


 * Firo starts running in his sleep, feet pawing the air. |3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Draconian = Explosive?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Draconian = strict.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way. There are about two sane routes to try to find out about, both likely narrated as I didn't have *that* much time for mapmaking. You can either go to see the Flameless Torch, the pub miners tend to go to, or the North Star Mine's HQ. Or actually, ask at the militia, since well, they've been forced to help with the bloody rescue effort

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;No, random casting of spells on miscast. There's a &quot;nuke the world&quot; spell.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Comes from Draco, a clever greek chap who thought to himself that all offences against the law threaten the public good equally, and so they should all warrant execution.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Well, to be fair, he felt there should be a stricter penalty for worse offences. Stricter than death.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">He'd fit right in here...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Sheesh, look at Fironi Macaroni over there. Cuddly and carefree as a lark.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed. which translates well to Kebre too.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah... I hope he's housebroken

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps the militia first, then a pub crawl in the afternoon? Come to think of it... are all of you of legal age to drink?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;When are sentients not housebroken?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Getting in too much trouble with the law isn't good business, after all.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;And I'm willing to follow instructions on this, to a point. Oh, legal age? Pretty sure I am, Were can't transform in their mid teens or their houses would literally explode during temper tantrums.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Legal age? They gave me beer in our pub since I was ten.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;True. What's illegal age?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Might be because I went there with dad and other miners.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Since you were TEN?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, not like we can drink the water in most cities. This whole legal age for alcohol thing is a hangover from when the Empire had drinkable water. Right?

Michail:<font color="#000000">*counts on fingers, holding all up* Think so.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">True indeed, or so the rumours say.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good point. We'll just have to keep an eye on the gryphon, then.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Is the water THAT bad?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Not everywhere, but some places.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">But then, the rumours say that the Empire had a lot of things. Like money.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Would you want to drink from a stream that had cows upstream of it?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Depends on whether or not you're sick enough to like that sort of thing.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Part of the reason is because at 10, Michail was about the size of the rest of you. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">But yeah, the water is crappy and ale they give to anyone.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Historically, the average country kid in the Late Roman Empire had a truly mythical tolerance for booze.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sick? *sweety voice* Never seen one of our &quot;guests&quot; downstairs complaining. Well, not after three days or so.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You serve cow pee?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;After three days, they're reconsidering the continued application of effort to their own vitality.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">It's not *entirely* cow pee..See, cows wouldn't quite last long enough in Veldun.


 * Firo wakes up with a yaaaaaawn and stretch, peering at the world upside-down. Did the gryphon get a little bigger overnight?

Zora:<font color="#000000">More like Eau de Ratte

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;O_o; You serve RAT pee?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Some people swear by Chateau de chateau. Or at, not sure. Come to think of it, it could be chat eau...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Gee wiz. And, people complain about Cubi and other Creatures doing evil things...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;No, not horse. Rat.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">That gryphon is ... Did you close the cold room's door?

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside, almost lost it.Karis is getting a GM nomination for that.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think it's the same reason why most mages abruptly unlock several new spells at a time. We increase in ability in discrete jumps, why not mass?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, you honest to goodness serve that? There's not a single damn place of decent water nearby?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pray you never have to find out.&quot; ^^

Zora:<font color="#000000">Discrete gains in mass you say? See, the last time someone gained discrete amount of mass here was when a &quot;colleague&quot; took off with half of our food.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Welcome to the Middle Ages. So called because they're not as depressiong as the low ages, but not as nice as the golden ages.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though if I'm not mistaken...&quot; Crystal turns to the good Father with a cool smile. &quot;Servants of the gods learn from an early age how to create clean water, don't they?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You mean, not as depressing as the DARK ages.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">We do indeed. Do you require some?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm a flying creature. Inconsistent terminology is expected, we're a bit flighty.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, not at the moment, just curious~&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Dark isn't that depressing.. you don't see half of the mess that's around... and what's more important, it doesn't see you.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Greaaaattttt. Living crap.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What're we doing?&quot; :.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, hey, Fironi Macaroni.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Well then. Asking the right questions at the right time is a virtue after all.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Very little. But what we're going to be doing is looking into these rumors about people being argumentative and stirring up trouble.&quot;

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

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

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed...&quot; That sounds a little cryptic, but she doesn't elaborate, turning back to the others.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Are we still allowed to do rolls on other players?)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">You can if you like.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh., lord, not this again. I think it's a bad idea to do so as interaction stats are for NPCs. But if it's for RP only, then sure.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(What, it hasn't produced decent results before?)


 * VAE isn't that hard against it

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which people, where?&quot; :.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Listen on Crystal:

<font color="#009999">4

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is it the mine people?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I meant social stats like Diplo and Intimidate.

VAE:<font color="#000000">though, still waiting. just, writing sentence fragments is easier

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Yes, them.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ohh.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah,those. I mean.. Lia does it in her game plenty

VAE:<font color="#000000">We had Calrach bluff Miron last time

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Oh, wait. Plus + 4 would be 8. Would that be enough to catch the crypticness?)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Plus 4

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Reminds me, I should hop on IRC and remind the Kellons of something.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That would be more of a Sense Motive check.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Listen just means &quot;yep. Someone's talking over there.&quot; -3-

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Sense Motive:

<font color="#009999">5

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...how bad is your CHA?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, not enough. x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sense Motive is Wis.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Wis, then.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Clearly MINE's not all that good.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">Though for the heck of it,

<font color="#000000">14

opposed Bluff.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think we touched on this last time we played in Kebre... the highest Wis in the group, I think, is a 12. :B

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And it's the muscle guy.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You're like a snake or spider with that tongue, ya know that?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's the lack of Divine casters, is what it is.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">Is it? Is your Wis higher than 12, my ursine friend? :.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Spiders don't have tongues, descendant of Taun.&quot; Smile, smile!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Then tongue of a snake then.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... where're we goin' to talk to the argumentative guys?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Completely unforked, I assure you.&quot; |3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Keep telling yourself that.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think the plan is to go to the pub.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;In any case, I'd reccomend talking to the militia involved in the rescue effort first, especially if it might turn up physical evidence of corruption.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Such things are, after all, time-sensitive.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Physical evidence of corruption can sometimes mean a sword wound in the chest from the militia - who, surprise, turn out to be corrupt themselves.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Can't we just intimidate them?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't reccomend it.&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I forsee a career as an interrogator. Voltarus Ballslayer.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Ballslayer, huh?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;By popping them?&quot; Oh poor naive gryphon. =3=

Voltarus whispers: So, you going to roll up that Paladin, or wait until another session?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We'll go with that.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Intimidation?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;No, the PG version of your apparently new title.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Doesn't sound that intimidating. Unless you pop them right by someone's ear. Then it hurts.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Firo?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think it's because these are the person's favorite.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You know what Peepee tank is, right?&quot;


 * Crystal just shakes her head in the corner, amused. Where do you find these people, Zora? |3

VAE:<font color="#000000">call ended, finally

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment, need to read up

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Goes to wash hands of oncoming corruption of innocent*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh-uh. I don't know much about tanks and armies and stuff.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Bladder?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ohhh. Yeah. Why?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Bats can have showers in the sink*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What do the round things on your bladder LOOK like?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heh... well, if you all have the same reservations as the good sir Karis, I can always go speak to the militia by myself.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Aviform. They may be internal.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* I dunno.. They looked a lot more useful.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno, I can't see inside my belly.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beg your pardon?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Either way.. the station is just down the main road ... *explains*

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I think it's the &quot;where do you fnd these people&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That wasn't said aloud. ^^;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I have good ears :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No quotes = not said aloud. ^^;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(Was just about catching up... use /ooc please)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">An expression conveys a thousand exasperated words.

VAE:<font color="#000000">or italics for thoughts

Crystal:<font color="#000000">And I have a mind shield. So unless you're secretly a succubus...? :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry -- it was more an internal monologue or expression than thoughts. ^^;;;

Zora:<font color="#000000">You are a succubus yourself, thought Zora.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, think of an anthromorphic bladder as a set of two balls.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(okay, i doubt any of you catches this. Was an old russian joke about a tv series of spionage)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. -- Owww!&quot; D: &quot;That would hurt!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;And, then, think of how much it hurts, when said balls are used to another's advantage?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">A fascist soldier patrolling sees a light on a tree. &quot;An owl&quot; thought the soldier. &quot;you're an owl yourself&quot; thought Stierlitz

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Then again, it may be kind of a cheap manuever.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;And where would the Flameless Torch be, miss Zora?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*clenched paws* One more word about balls ...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm a professional volunteer in making sure inconvenient people are less inconvenient, and even I think that was just horrible, Voltarus.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Flameless torch? In the miner's district.. down *again points out directions*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Warlock, what do you expect?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Discresion, since you have apparently avoided lynching thus far.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Discretion.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you. Now, if you'll excuse me... unless anyone else feels like they can avoid exploding other people's body parts for a little while?&quot; ^^

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Please, who in their right mind would mess with a Taun Spawn?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Come on, Karis. This guy's less discrete than an exponential curve.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;A more image-conscious Taun cubi, perhaps. Or a demon with something to prove?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you're not at the Flameless Torch by sundown, I'll come back here to meet you.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">At least someone here gets a job done 

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Sense Motive Crystal threat:

<font color="#009999">15

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Oh, wait.)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(-3)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">No threat, just a statement of fact. :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(12)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm willing to go where I'm told... as long as it makes sense, of course.&quot;


 * VAE in the meantime looks for fitting tokens

VAE:<font color="#000000">So, where it'll be first?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">I'm off to speak to the militia about what they've seen in the mines... though it's up to the rest of the group where they want to go.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We may as well.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">neat. We'll have to use the normal map, though. Hope you no mind.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Anyone else agree?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, who wants to go intimidate some tavern peeps for info?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Seriously?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We can go get nasty, soused and brutish after we've spoken to the Militia, yes?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">''Ah, youth. No respect for the dance.'' |3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Seriously? You guys don't just want to face the situation straight on, like a sane person?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Call it a healthy appreiation of my own mortality, which you seem to lack. Academy kids...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You don't want to learn what lies ahead before acting, like a cautious person?&quot;

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Whatever. Should we just split up, make things faster, or whatever?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Strangely, things go no faster if we split up. It's some sort of quantum thing about the number of significant events happening in parallel...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Should I care about the Quantum thing?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps!&quot; ^^

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Ask a cat in a box.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Big bear, you wanna come with?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Am having a name. It is Michail. But, if Karis does not mind..

Michail:<font color="#000000">*cough*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;But the cat's right here, she's not in a box.&quot; :.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Yeah, go a head and keep him out of trouble. If things get massively out of hand, send up a smoke signal. Of course, by that point half the city will be on fire anyway, so don't bother.&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">You look beat up something nasty!

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're most familiar with the miners' lexicon, so it would be a boon to have you at the Torch, Michail.&quot; :3

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">In the name of our Father, become whole like his three parts!

<font color="#000000">8

Michail:<font color="#000000">*cough* Now, that is feelink better!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Who are you going to listen to?&quot;

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

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Intimidate:

<font color="#009999">10

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Or ME?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">what's the save, agiain?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you even listen to yourself?&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;The Torch is the bar.&quot;

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">12

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You are arguing with yourself. And it seems you tried to intimidate yourself out of agreeing with yourself. I am impressed.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm confused.&quot; :.

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">I think you have a lot of time until others need be listenink to you.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We all are, Firo...&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">In the meantime, let the older and wiser do the talk.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where should I go, then?&quot; :.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Why don't you come with me, Fironi Macaroni? See how real men do things.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're a little young to be drinking, but you have a good head on your shoulders. Try to keep the young Taun out of trouble, hm?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Am I off today, or was that believable?)


 * Firo looks at Michail and nods in response to Voltarus' statement. &quot;Mm!&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">You want to see how real men do things? *laughs* Should have seen my father!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Wasn't he the one who was known as 'the eclipse'?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shall we be off, then, Mister Karis?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Of course. Do you want me walking or flying?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;How skilled are you feeling at wordcraft today?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Once he took down three men by himself in the forest. They had an old gun with them, so he let them tie him to a tree, about this tall *shows with hand about a metre above his forehead* While they were busy, he just pulled it out, took it by both hands, and beat them up such they had trouble walkink.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Woooooow!&quot; :O

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;+7. I mean, somewhat verbose.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That's Bluff. Diplo is +3.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">So, who goes where, just to be clear?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How about Gather Information?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Militia.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Bar

Crystal:<font color="#000000">Militia.

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

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Since sadly, not much map. Ah well, Militia will get their deal first, i think.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I can canvass a crowd for rumors, but only in an amateurish fashion.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">(+3)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(can't be two places at once)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Every little bit helps.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;It's just that if I'm flying aerial cover, it's a trump card against... unpleasantness.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hopefully, there won't be much of that.&quot; ^^

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is just a fact-finding mission, after all.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;True enough. Very well, if you think it best.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sacred canine duty, BRB.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Never mind, back. ^^;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Well. After following the directions - city layout is one of the things Zora seems unexpectedly competent at, you arrive at a battered brick and mortar building which has however been given a fresh calcium oxide (?) coating recently. The windows are barred, the door are iron, and there's a bronze coat of arms with a two-headed eagle on the front of two crossed hammers. stating &quot;Militia of Gubernia Kebre, Veldun office&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Limey peels in a limestone building. How apt.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you ever been here before, Karis?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">*looks confused*

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">(Limey is slang for Englishman, and the English slang for the police used to be Peelers. Bit obscure, but then it's slang.)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I've been here, but not in a... professional capacity.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see.&quot; ^^ The feline woman holds the door open. &quot;After you, sir?&quot;

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">Lucky you. They had me here for a while. Missed two months' pay because of it!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;How are you talking to us?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Michail, weren't you with Voltarus and Firo?&quot; :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Didn't he go along?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I'm honestly interested. Aren't you off to the pub?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">I thought I was to follow you, as usual. That's at least what the small Cubi said.


 * Crystal chuckles, shaking her head.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;The torch is the pub, Michail.&quot;


 * Voltarus achoo.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sure. He probably wants to get himself in trouble without adult supervision.&quot; ^^

Michail:<font color="#000000">Ah...

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you do us a favor and go check on him, Michail?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Of course!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Should I be having a feeling someone's talking about me?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">*goes off, whistling a happy tune*

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you.&quot; ^^

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;He's a good fellow, just a little vague at times. Fortunately, never when people need to be percussively re-educated.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way, with one less of you, and far better prospects at crossing through the door.. hell in a handbasket, how did they even arrest him back then? .. you stand before the fine institution.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Shall we actually go in this time? I believe we were in the process of doing so.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's hope it doesn't come to that with the young Taun descendant. I have the feeling it would end badly for the incubus-to-be.&quot; ^^

VAE:<font color="#000000">As an aside. Shade Slide is an excellent vocaloid

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course. After you.&quot; ^^

Annoyed militionary:<font color="#000000">Is that you, Jegor? More corpses. or another fucking fight?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You appear to have the disadvantage of me.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(assuming someone knocked)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm afraid you have the wrong number, good sir.&quot; ^^

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Like having the advantage, but a wrong name. ;)

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

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just a concerned citizen curious about the mine disaster.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;And a curious one with concerns.&quot;

Annoyed militionary:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Concerned citizen, eh? Tell me your name and i'll tell ya if we found anyone from your bloody family yet.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Shut up, Ivan.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Sorry.. he's a bit ..strained today.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Always the case when things are busy. Thank you for meeting with us.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, no, no family involved, thank heavens. Quite all right, and understandable! It's not every day a disaster of this magnitude happens. Is it?'

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Anyways. Senior Guardmaster Voska.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">I .. believe I haven't seen you around these parts, miss?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Crystal Felarion, a pleasure. I'm new in town, though what a day to come in, eh?&quot; ^^;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Indeed... though it does happen more often than would be good.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;What happened this time?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;If it never happened, it would be good. Any occurrence is more often than good.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">We are still digging out.. luckily they got some engineers down there working on softening the rock. A tunnel collapsed apparently.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">There's lot of noise about it being in poor condition.. but I don't know.. this one wasn't opened that long ago.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;So it wasn't an old tunnel...?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Faults are extremely hard to find, no matter the rock. If one of those gave way, it would of course be more likely to in a new tunnel because in an old one the faults might already have given way.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">This one.. It was a branch, opened something like, a year ago? I'm not sure myself.. that's what the owner says, anyways.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">In case you were wondering, I'm doing Geology. I'm trying to avoid lecture mode...

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Who is the owner, if you don't mind my asking?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Fucking demons... profit and all.. but if it turns to shit it'll be us squelching the protests.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Were there any signs of sabotage?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">A guy named Arak...

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;There's an old saying about a whiff of saltpeter, I believe?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Arak? An angular name, to be sure.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Firo, do you sense any hints of racial stereotyping out there?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">That happened a few times... Oh, angular name?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beg your pardon, what happened a few times?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Well, rumour has it his father was drunk when picking up the name.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Just something that struck me about the vowel ratio.&quot;


 * Firo is too busy asking Michail more about his father. :D

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

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Oh, attempts at blowing stuff up. Usually disgruntled workers.. not like much else anyone has access to explosives, either. So far we caught pretty much every one of those.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Hypothetically, it would be much easier to damage the workings of a mine by just flooding the place. Hypothetically, of course.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless you were a water-breathing Mythos or had access to spells that could let you breathe water.&quot; :.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">That'd probably work.. but I'm afraid those guys down there just don't have the heads for that sort of stuff.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;You try swinging a pick underwater. And true, I suppose we should be glad.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">See... they work with the powder, so it's the first thing that comes to their mind.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">But so far, no signs of a blowup.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;How many casualties have there been so far? Mostly miners, I'd assume...&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">How many? Luckily it wasn't a main shaft.. but still, we got about twenty men missing.. .we dug up six so far, one of them's doing well.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">he was about to swap shift, see.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;From the news, you'd suspect thirty brazillion of them were trapped.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Well, see... that's the unions at work. Though, I aren't surprised. Last year it was sixty three.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">When you count in the usual injuries... working for the bloody army seems safer.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">16

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Depends on if there's a war, doesn't it. More places in the army in war, but more danger with it.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Though, speaking of the water reminds me..

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">There might have been some of that. I remember one of the guys digging in telling me they found some mud, or slurry or what bloody thing.

Liatai whispers: Um... minor grammar thing, I'm sorry. ^^;; &quot;I aren't&quot; = &quot;I are not&quot; which isn't grammatical. &quot;I am not&quot; is the way to put it, or &quot;I'm not&quot; if you want to use a contraction.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;If there's an aquifer down there, it could lead to quite the flood.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mud?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you had any mages down there to check for magical signatures?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Something like that, yeah.. Like I understand this shit.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Miss, you know who our engineers are?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Afraid not, I'm new in town.&quot; ^^;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">All of them magicky guys. See, you gotta know softening rock at the least - they go around and help the men dig through deaf rock.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see!&quot; :.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;So, is that rock sonic attacks don't work on? ...sorry.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Nah.. i mean deaf... like, not having anything of worth in it.

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

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">See.. that's the way Jurij told me at the pub. When you soften it, you'd turn the ore into slurry too, and magical slurry is hard to work with.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know if it was just in one patch, or a trail?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">So you only use it for the gross work.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">It was a branch from the main shaft,see... That's half the reason everyone's so head-in-the-arse about it.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Was this 'Eclipse' THAT great?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">A rather rich one, too. Think it had rock coal.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">A cave in! Urist McCloset Incubus cancels Dig: interrupted by cave in.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Anthracite?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Sorry!&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;It just reminded me of my brother Maiza.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Yah. Antacide, that one.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Am I not cool enough? Did I not make that guy jizz his pants in that bar? Are the eldritch blasts not good enough?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh dear. Well, I hope no one did decide to use explosives down there. Imagine all the coal dust in the air catching fire.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh???&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Indeed. Though, makes me wonder. Why do you need to know all this?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think that's called thermobaric. And is how the epic level combat spell Warfire works.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Last fifty people around here, everyone was shouting like we killed their brother, uncle, horse or whoever *sighs*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What're you going on about, Voltie? I just said that Eclipse reminded me of Maiza...&quot; .-.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Curiosity, primarily. We're interested in what happened and the wider implications, to make sure that all this chaos doesn't lead into longer term... issues..&quot;


 * Crystal takes her badge out of her pocket and shows it surreptitiously, in the palm of her hand. &quot;Call it professional interest.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">I fucking hope so..

<font color="#000000">15

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Ah.. I see. Professional interest.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...You know what, forget it. I'm just going to go into the bar, and, make these chumps fear for their very LIVES.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Any sign from Voska of recognizing the badge?

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">''Pretty... easy going.. who'd have thought she's a spook? ''

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep. That was the 15 for

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*shudders* I felt a tremor. As if millions of brain cells cried out in terror... and were suddenly silenced. Oh, you seem to understand. Good.&quot;


 * Crystal pockets the badge.

VAE:<font color="#000000">search check

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">For us?

VAE:<font color="#000000">No. She kinda inconspicuously showed him badge of office

VAE:<font color="#000000">for him

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh, I see.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;DID SOMEONE JUST MAKE A CRACK ABOUT MY INTELLIGENCE?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">see? this is why this server setting is so fucking annoying

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's easier to understand when it shows the roll.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I saw it was a roll, just wasn;t sure if you were calling for a search check from us.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah. noep. Sorry

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Voltie... are you okay?&quot; The gryphon looks genuinely concerned.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Would probably use GM cat for that

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">This one, see

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Anyways, any more questions you lot?

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">*looks a little more tired*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;As soon, we get to the bar, I will be.&quot;


 * Voltarus evil grin.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;OH, yesssssssss...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think there's little to say. Just to ask that you keep an eye on disturbances in case the situation erupts.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">As usual....

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've answered the questions I had, though if more come to light, will there be someone here to ask?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Forewarned is forearmed. Nobody can be alert all the time.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">The station has to have at least on of us guarding the cells. Other than that, you can go on site perhaps...

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Or in the bar.. there ought to be someone washing it down.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would hate to get in the way of a rescue effort. What would be the best way to approach the site to make sure that doesn't happen?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Well... they have marked the unsafe zone with some flashy spell of theirs. Besides.. there are certain people noone shoos off...

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">Attention!

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Good to know. Normal channels, then, and avoid standing in people's way.&quot;

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">Just an FYI, I'm running out to the grocery store.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">If only that was the life motto of more people, we'd have so much less work, Mr ?

Drayco:<font color="#6600CC">So, if the server goes down, it's break time until I get back.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sacred canine duty.

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Just Karis, please. I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of doing things as smoothly as possible.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Glad to hear that, Mr. Karis.

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Can be said we have the lathe up here.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Sorry. Lathe?&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Lathe indeed. Smoothing it all out.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Motto #3 of the Organization:

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">If the facts are against you, pound on the law. If the law is against you, pound on the facts. And if both are against you, pound on the table! &#8212; Legal aphorism

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">where's that from?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CourtroomAntic

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I browse Tropes in between turns.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Even in between conversational turns.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Scene switch?)

VAE:<font color="#000000">not quite yet

VAE:<font color="#000000">(there's a bit to deal with)

VAE:<font color="#000000">(needing Lia to be around, see)

VAE:<font color="#000000">as an aside, totally brilliant

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/communication-log-magenta

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">On the courtroom theme of above:

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Several chapters of Brian Clevinger's novel Nuklear Age are devoted to a lengthy courtroom fiasco. For starters, the heroes' (who are being prosecuted by their arch-nemesis) lawyer happens to be their nemesis' boyfriend, the entire jury is made up of people whose lives the heroes have ruined, and the judge is a bloodthirsty man named Hangemall Letgodsortitout. It needs to be read to be believed.

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh. Nice name

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...was that thing you just posted an apocalypse in IRC?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">And hi, Liatai.

VAE:<font color="#000000">A story clearly inspired by it

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hits close to home :3 Not even our network is safe. I especially like how Grape became Berry

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, Dr. Large might be cypher for Magnus

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm a little scared, Mr. Michail.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, still in the office up there, or leaving?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Are we done here, then, lady of the facets?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Perhaps we should repair to the pub. Of course, by the time we get there the good mr. Voltarus will have been there for almost twenty minutes, so we might have to simply repair the pub.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">.. *eyes him*

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Then i'll pretend that the world is fair and allows me to get some sleep.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;A jest, no more. The fellow is somewhat uncouth compared to the rest of our little band.2

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe we are. Thank you for your time, good sir.&quot;

Vlastimil Voska:<font color="#000000">Pleasure on my side, Miss. Free to drop in any time.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll keep that in mind.&quot; ^^

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, as you leave, you almost bump into a woman going in.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, roll listen checks.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">11

Crystal:<font color="#000000">5

<font color="#000000"> Listen check.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oops! Sorry, miss.&quot; ^^

Anna :<font color="#000000">*gives an angry glance then goes in*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;They should have an in and an out door, just to prevent this kind of thing.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, for the rolls, which were sliightly prematurely called for.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crystal, not a word. Karis: hears one of the militia members: You again? Look miss,... bet my hat he ... FUCKING THREE MONTHS

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;It seems that the lady with the blue hair has been annoying the militia.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... no sleep for the poor militia man for a little while longer, it seems.&quot;

<font color="#000000">12

Listen check.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Crystal also hears some snippets: (female) But ... wouldn't! .. (male) Bloody hell would! ... you! ... Now!? (female) ...ple's problems! ....asses! (male) ..rve ..rself! (female) *unintelligible*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">I compare notes with Crystal. &quot;Think it's worth going back and listening? Militia building's public space inside hours except in a state of emergency.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;May be. One moment, though... you may want to go aerial. To make it seem as though 'we' haven't been listening.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Aye, aye.&quot; Transformation sequence!

VAE:<font color="#000000">(this is what makes DnDMFA so much awesomer. Racial abilities are fun)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">It takes about a quarter of a second and mostly involves shrinking. It's less impressive than it sounds.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As Zora said: Sweetie, but who'd suspect a mere bat?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">A wink of a spell, and there's a koala here instead of a cat, in a different outfit.

VAE:<font color="#000000">(also, sorry Techcubi, but there are kinda two things i had to deal with, and they had to get their side's)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Koala? In a mountain town? Someone's been taking disguise advice from Discworld.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Wombats are like Dwarves. Same principle.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">It was the closest token I could find be quiet. XP Fine, one moment.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">(As in, so odd it'll work)

VAE:<font color="#000000">leave it!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Shows you haven't read discworld books.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Nah, I didn't get the reference either.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Listen

<font color="#CC6600">6

Bats have better hearing when they're smaller! Like a magical shotgun mike.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">...well, that sucked.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">11

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think something like that happened somewhere. As in, disguise so outlandish nobody trusted himself to see it.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">This is Furrae, good man. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">*somewhere there.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Refuge in Audacity, you mean.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... dare I roll a Disguise check for the lulz? =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">30

<font color="#000000"> due to spell.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Holy -- XD

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Refuge in audacity indeed! XD

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">where did you go?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed. You could basically slip inside the office, and noone'd notice

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">or ratheer, everyone'd think he's getting really fucking tired, and yet has mountains of work ahead and fucking koalas don't exist anyways, sheer propaganda.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Like vampires.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">especially sparkly ones.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">I turn into a bat. Your argument is invalid.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Shall i baptise you Edward Karren?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">...yeah, actually I have a surprising number of vampiric traits... well, I would if I had some higher level Necro spells. And HELL NO! Those things aren't vampires.


 * T3h GM found a GM punishment better than baleful polymorph, it seems.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">Shall we get back to the plot before Voltarus blows up the bar? =3=

<font color="#000000">9

Listen check.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Twilight doesn't have vampires. It has teenagers with strange practices - they have one vampire trait.

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Listen again (Via the BBC):

<font color="#CC6600">23

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Karis actually outdid himself: (female) I will complain! This is unprofessional! (male) Feel free to, it'll be your ass that gets arrested. Look, miss, for the last time. In the fifteen years i work here, I yet have to see someone hijack a fucking miner. If he was dead we'd have BLOODY CALLED you in. AND WHY THE FUCK SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN IN THE MINE? What you'll ask me next? Was he in the airship that crashed in fucking Surastan? He's probably somewhere far with a girlfriend who isn't as good at bothering people as you. Now, by order of the city militia, get the hell out of here. There are people who actually need us.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*door slam*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Catches Crystal's attention and flies off, to transform back out of sight*

Anna :<font color="#000000">*leaves in a huff*


 * Crystal nods, but stays where she is for a moment more, until the woman leaves. She then follows Karis.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">Proceeds to repeat the conversation back. &quot;Sounds like the lady's been quite the nuisance.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hijack a miner...? I wonder what she was talking about. Possession?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">ouch, my bad word

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Kidnap?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah! That!


 * VAE facepaws


 * VAE was reading the hungarian dictionary

VAE:<font color="#000000">I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Good thing this isn't FATAL, or I'd have to check if I could remember the words. Even without the shock value stuff, that game is no good at all, with a &quot;maximum length of word&quot; that a given character can think of.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">By syllable.


 * VAE facepaws

VAE:<font color="#000000">See why it was used for torture?

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, it won't hurt to keep our eyes open, regardless.&quot;

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Now, to the bar before things get too out of hand?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, focus should slowly transfer to the other half of the party, since this was happening kinda simultaneously, yep


 * T3h GM needs to get some tokens ready, too.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Just bring us back in when we arrive.


 * Voltarus shoves the bar doors open.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Or, should it be door? Or, does it matter?)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Pubs tend to have a single, full door.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Or double full doors. One thing this isn't is a saloon.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Hmmmmm...If this is medievalish, would it hurt to type old English any?)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed.. this is a proper pub, smelling of smoke, ethanol, sweat and coal dust. And something which by an act of goodwill could be called food.

VAE:<font color="#000000">More like 19th century, TC

VAE:<font color="#000000">early ,but still

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Early Modern, so medieval attitude with later objects and tech.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah, just about.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Society in transition.

VAE:<font color="#000000">slightly better than medieval, but not a lot. Yes

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Can I roll to intimidate the entire room, or does it have to be on a person by person basis?)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Oh, here we go.

VAE:<font color="#000000">If any of you read newspaper, there are plans in place to get the first Kebrean railroad finished by end of year.


 * Firo stays out of sight for now. Behind Michail. &gt;.&gt;;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, who here knows anything about collapsing tunnels?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment, looking for a few more tokens

Firo:<font color="#000000">14

<font color="#000000"> Hide check for the lulz...

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The subtlety of a certain bull in a certain palace in Ha-Kuhn.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually, am gonna put that song on

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

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">As you open the door, and shout in, your voice is partially drowned in the noise inside. Partially is the key word.

Miner:<font color="#000000">Who the hell is that?

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

Annoyed Miner:<font color="#000000">Must be a new kid.

Big miner:<font color="#000000">Kinda loud, isn't he?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Or, at least spawn of one of her descendants.&quot;

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">He's a spaw-n to himself. (Law unto)

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Collapsing tunels? I'm afraid those who know about them the most aren't among us anymore.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Seriously?&quot;

Miner:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Like my bro. Fuck them bloody assholes. Barman! A beer for every one! I swear, one day...


 * Firo sneaks in past Voltarus. Ignore the bright blue gryphon. &gt;.&gt;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Huh. That must suck.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">13

<font color="#000000"> Hide for the lulz.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Silly idea: a Were couple with one another as familiars.


 * Voltarus takes a seat next to the miner.

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

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah. I bet some of the fuckers finds a way how to throw it on us.

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

Barman:<font color="#000000">That will be, twelve ales.. marking it up.

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Spot on, Eva.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Where, perchance, could I find one of these 'Fuckers?'&quot;

Gus:<font color="#000000">20

<font color="#000000"> Spot

Gus:<font color="#000000">Another gryphon? *looks excited*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What happened in the mines?&quot; -- :O ! &quot;Chii!&quot;

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chii! Chi-chii!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii Firo chii. Chii?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, great. Bird talk.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Twitter!

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

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chiiiii.&quot; Firo sticks his tongue out at Voltarus. |P

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">#Mining

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, anyway, you guys know where I could find one of the owners?&quot;

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chii? Chi-chii-i Chi-o-chii? Chii Gus chii-chii *points*.

Gus:<font color="#000000">Spot check? :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(For just Firo?)

Firo:<font color="#000000">26

Gus: <font color="#0">(( mainly ))


 * Firo sees all. *_*

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You see that the gryphon has a Gryphon Mail badge.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Ceiling Gryphon... until he falls off, anyway.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Do I have to do a gather info check?)

Firo:<font color="#000000">:O ! &quot;Chii!&quot; Firo sits up proudly displaying his (relatively new) messenger's badge. :D

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Dunno.. we can handle it normally i gues.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It's just.. giving someting to do to the gryphon I suppose

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chiii-chi!!!


 * Liatai is having far too much fun making chii conversations. :B

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Who? You're new here, kid, aren't ya.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I swear, one of these days the Gryphon B are going to lead the C in a Chii-had.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*snrk*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Might happen in the game, even XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...Am I missing something?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Tokyo tower is the first destroyed.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Even though it doesn't exist in this setting. It's a rule of giant monster attacks,.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Remember. When you talk about silly things in DMFA ,you are giving the DM ideas

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

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii chi-chii chii? Chii chii chii!&quot; (How long have you been a messenger? I only just started!)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Encounter: Shadow of the Chii-lossus.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">By the makers of Ico, and that one game with the boy and the baby gryphon... heeeey.

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chi? Chii Chi-chirp! (How long? Suppose twenty - who counts! )

Firo:<font color="#000000">:O &quot;Chiiiiii!&quot; (Woooow!)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Guardian Gryph-tastic game, still in development.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You're not saying anything about me to your friend, are you, Fironi?&quot;

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Guardian

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">This doesn't autoclose URLs, it seems.

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chii !chi-chii! chirp-chirp? (Say, is that small dummy-cat with you?)

Michail:<font color="#000000">Michail, in the meantime has slipped by, and already is ordering a drink, the air above which waves suspiciously with vapours.


 * Firo clicks his beak amusedly. &quot;Chii, chii... Chii chii chii.&quot; (Yeah, well... we got assigned to work together this time.)

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Missing? How can I know?

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chi.(Sucks)


 * VAE has entirely too much fun with this

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chi.&quot; (Mm.)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Currently playing: Misato. The theme of the original Bottle Fairy character in anime.

VAE:<font color="#000000">chi seems to be like ook


 * VAE playing atlantis. Because he loves that song

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">This is a comedy moment, to me.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It is, hopefully.

Gus:<font color="#000000">Ch-chi? (What brings you?)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You ARE talking about me, aren't you?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Anyways,got two hours left, and then... Fucking luck. Just on my sister's birthday.

Annoyed Miner:<font color="#000000">Well, at least you get eight off no matter what happens!

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Shut up, you wouldn't cast a plaster, not talking spells at all.

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Surprised I don't see Kaz though... is he scared they'd harness him into it again?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Who the hell is Kaz?&quot;

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Well, but agree, fuckery to fire him like that.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Heh.. he's probably laughing his ass off at our expense.. he slipped out of this.

Big miner:<font color="#000000">Another of those bloody &quot;engineers&quot; boy.

Big miner:<font color="#000000">They just faff around with spells, and order about, and we have to do the hard work.


 * Voltarus sighs.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Do I have to bring out my scary voice?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It would seem mister Voltarus is done &quot;Mit trying de sootil.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;WHO. IS. KAZ?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...listening comprehension has never been one of his strong points, right?

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Faff about. Because you'd be so much happier cutting through solid quartz.

Barman:<font color="#000000">..ey, no shouting in 'ere.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii, chii chii, chii chii chii, chii 'chii' chii.&quot; (Well, we started off delivering a message, but now we're wondering about the mine collapse earlier, so that's why we're 'here' here.)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii?&quot; (Have you heard anything about it?)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, wait...He's an engineer?&quot;

Gus:<font color="#000000">Chii? Chi-chi chio-chirp chiochii! (That? 'course I did. Those all are here on break from the rescue. )

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii?&quot; (What happened?)

Gus:<font color="#000000">Ch-Chiiiii. chii... Chi-chii. (Fuckup. One of the tunnels went down)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I look forward to next level, when Firo will start being able to raise allies' spirits simply by chii-ing. :B

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">He *was* an engineer, and a bloody good one. The cunts fired him about a week ago. Some stupid excuse... he was pissed as hell.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;And, where could I find him?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Well, he stayed here for a few days, just drinking and swearing at everyone, but I guess he finally got a word from us, and went home. I bet he won't be jobless for long either.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You don't know where his home is?&quot;

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. they need bloody woodshapers like salt in Kolina. The work is harder, most of the time, but pays better, too.

Firo:<font color="#000000">5

<font color="#000000"> Knowledge (geography) about Kolina... do they need salt there, or is there a lot of it?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">ONE'D.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I assume it's an idiom,myself.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You now are persuaded Kolina's well known for their salt mines.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Could I use an intelligence check?)

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Knowledge untrained is Int, yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah, same thing

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Was the Kalina thing to Firo?)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm assuming the same... but is it like &quot;taking coal to Newcastle?&quot; Or are woodshapers actually direly needed?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not really. YOu both hear it

VAE:<font color="#000000">They are needed

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, i shouldn't be saying

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah, okay. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">until he rolls, that is

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Intelligence:

<font color="#009999">8

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I can keep IC and OOC seperate. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's OOC obvious. A 1 is AKA &quot;this is false&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">MICHAIL SAVE US. XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Ooh-kay. You actually know they don't have salt mines in there. Not much else, mind you.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Why, oh, why is the Muscle the brains of the group?

Michail:<font color="#000000">17

<font color="#000000"> Untrained Int

* T3h GM giggles

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Laughing. So hard. XD

Michail:<font color="#000000">If someone asked me, I could tell you all about that city. After all, Grandpa worked in one of the sawmills.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That is just the perfect irony.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sawmills? I thought they were known for their salt mines.&quot; :.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, you going to enlighten us, or what?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(that was a thought)

VAE:<font color="#000000">am as bad as liatai now

VAE:<font color="#000000">not using italics

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Quotations please? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">The &quot;if someone asked me&quot;, see

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sorrry. .was laughing too bad to pay attention

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Out of sight, out of mind. Translated to Russian and back? Blind idiot. Similarly, here we have &quot;Blind idiom.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, who knows alot about Kalina?&quot;

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Were you.. like..

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">raised in a cave?

Michail:<font color="#000000">Kolina. Kalina's a flower.

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

Michail:<font color="#000000">And my mother's name, too.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wonder who would kidnap a miner...? It isn't as though most of them are known for their high socioeconomic status.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was!&quot; :D

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Expertise, though.&quot;

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

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where would a miner's expertise be needed outside of a mine...?&quot; the feline woman muses.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Explosives?&quot;

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">The city southwest of here. Kolina. Near the Kalniy Forest.


 * Voltarus mutters &quot;To show off Eldritch blast, or to NOT show off Eldritch blast...That is the question.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;True.&quot;

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">The biggest bloody producer of wood in bloody Kebre. And you ask who it is.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good call, I hadn't thought of that.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Or contacts, of course.!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Has anyone seen an Eldritch blast before?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Would anyone LIKE to see it?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie, nooooo.&quot; ^^;;;;

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">*rolls eyes*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually, no. only the other half of the group knows legit.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually do a Spellcraft check, because I feel nice.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">All of us?

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


 * T3h GM is a sweet, loving lynx GM today.. well, not, only less evil than usually.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where did Mr. Kaz go home to?&quot; Firo does not have Spellcraft.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Spellcraft:

<font color="#009999">9

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And doesn't want to roll stats quite yet... and he'll probably need to.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That.. kinda lacked info value, did it

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


 * VAE headdesks

VAE:<font color="#000000">lia's network down or sumthing

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Unlike before, I have a wide open Saturday. I am no longer the limiting factor on the game's length.


 * VAE purrs happily.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Welcome back. Not much happened.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fffff-- I can't believe it.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Unlike before, I have a wide open Saturday. I am no longer the limiting factor on the game's length. That's about the only thing you missed.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I knocked my power cord out of my computer. Lost the whole log. ^^;;;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The last thing I recall seeing is VAE talking about rolling stats and looking like he may need to.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yeah, that's it.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">There's some small discussion of &quot;Lia's network down or something&quot;, my message, and that's it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay. Lia

VAE:<font color="#000000">get onto Trillian

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Contacts... I wonder. Perhaps we'll see that woman again at the mines. She seemed about ready to take matters into her own hands.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'll save the partial

VAE:<font color="#000000">and send to you..

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nah, it's fine.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just upload the finished log to the Swap or something like it when the game's done. :3

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">MAN am I glad I saved my Akellon work...

VAE:<font color="#000000">it'll go on the wiki

VAE:<font color="#000000">like usual

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">...I keep hearing the Okami option selection noise. Nothing else from the game, just that.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Coming in through the window or something. IDK.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(So, the spellcraft check was for what exactly?)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">As I was saying. Firo doesn't quite find out.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You got a 9. You can't tell.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Untrained Int for lulz.

<font color="#000000">15

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Firo actually does. He feels magic emanating from the three engineers. As is supported by what they were saying earlier.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... uh, Voltie. Let's just say it'd be a really bad idea to start a magic bar fight.&quot; ^^;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...Seriously? And, you know that because...?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where did Mr. Kaz go when he went home?&quot;


 * Firo whispers, &quot;Because they're all mages.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Magical bar fights are bad. Like that guy.. I kept saying it was magic he slipped and fell head on onto my club three times, but the militionary arrested me anyways.

Big miner:<font color="#000000">Know what you mean, brother.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Maybe this is why they call it the Flameless Torch. It's hard to find in low light.&quot; |3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I actually think we only just left the Militia.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">These are concurrent, not consecutive.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think so, too... just making a joke. ^^;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">But well, can go along either.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">you are stumbling on streets, let's say

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Ashen's law, remember?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Time moves at the speed of plot?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">dt/dt = c_plot

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*nods*

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">dt/dt_0 = c_plot

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">That's correct

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I did wonder.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me, miss engineer? Mister engineer? Missus engineer? Where did Mr. Kaz go when he went home? Does he live in town here?&quot;

<font color="#000000">16

Diplomacy... dice don't fail me now!

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Where? Hmm, suppose it's public anyways. He lives.. north of here, just as you are about to.. You know where Hammer and Anvil is?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-mm.&quot; Firo shakes his head 'no.'

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Okay.. lemme see... you're a gryphie. Local Gryphon Mail?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(What town are they from again?)

VAE:<font color="#000000">These? Here!

VAE:<font color="#000000">They work here,

VAE:<font color="#000000">You .. play Voltie well. All i say.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! I think I know where that is.&quot; :D

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Fine.. you pass about two streets south, and then go left. The house has a new-ish roof, he's put in some ironwood tiles on.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Perks of the job, i suppose.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's a shame this spell only lasts for a little while~ it might have been fun to spook the Taun boy a little.&quot; |3

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay! Thanks!&quot; :D

Crystal:<font color="#000000">Already, the koala ears are sharpening back into their pointed feline shape.

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">No prob, kid. Give him greetings from the unfortunate.. perhaps say we got paid extra wage. :3

Engineer in white:<font color="#000000">Like he'll take that in. Everyone knows you don't get shit for emergencies.

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">At least we get free drinks for the stomach. Urf, the mess down there.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... How bad is it?&quot; &gt;:

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Well, we now got onto the bit where it fell on the guys. That and there's some odd shit in there.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Odd stuff?&quot;

Smiley Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Yeah, something slimey.. on parts of the rock. Fuck, you know what a chore it was to get off my work robe?

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">Suppose we'll know more when we clear off the cave-in.

Mining Engineer:<font color="#000000">But, yeah.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... well, I can't think of anything more to say. ^^; TC?


 * Voltarus stands up.

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

Gus:<font color="#000000">CHII! (May your winds be lucky!)


 * Voltarus exits.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Requiescat In Pacem ?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Nobody's running in fear, no buildings are on fire. My word, it seems they actually avoided making a scene.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii!&quot; (Same to you!)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Is it really that hard to guess what I meant?)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">(Or, just a joke?)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll be. There are such things as miracles.&quot; |3


 * VAE just found the meaning of exitus funny together with this

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Generally, Exit is no longer linked to death directly in English.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Do you suppose a high Favoured of one of the gods was responsible for this one?&quot;!

VAE:<font color="#000000">in slovak medical slang, it kinda is .. such as &quot;exol&quot; (he exited)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey. What took you two so long?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Hence my clarification.

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

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;We managed to both find out the militia's stance and position with regard to this, and that some woman's annoyed that the Militia aren't investigating the disappearance of her significant other, who shouldn't have been in the mine to hear the militia tell it.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Then we walked. Which takes non-zero time.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps most importantly, we got clearance to investigate the scene.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh. That's an actual line from me writing to one of our supervisors. As in, why was the planned time unfitting

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;We met a messenger named Gus! And lotsa engineers. There was one that wasn't happy and maybe got fired and went missing-ish recently.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Interesting. Correlation or coincidence? Either way, it seems a lot of people are disappearing.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...Nefarious purposes, you think?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dunno, but we learned where the engineer lives if we wanna go say hi and see if he's okay.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's always safer to assume nefarious purposes. It makes it all the more relief when you're wrong.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;There are worse approaches. Better ones, too, I should say, but this one does have the advantage that skilled schemers can't imagine someone taking the straight line.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh/ This gotta be out of Brust

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">You mean this:

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/06/14

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;And, you think it's NOT for Nefarious purposes? Maybe ones of some delusional being or creature?&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Jheregs look nothing like dragons, though, i think


 * VAE imagines them kinda like winged, legged snakes


 * VAE did a sketch once, gotta have it somewhere.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">I know. But the point does stand to some degree. I imagine Jhereg as more like the Pernese Fire-Lizards.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and of course, i'd totally want one

VAE:<font color="#000000">Or a warp-aci, but jhereg are smarter

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Delusions and nefarity go hand in hand, much of the time. Who in their right mind would annoy many people except in entirely aboveboard business dealings involving voluntary contributions in return for security?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">is true that Dzur are kitties, but a bit too big :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...Someone in their RIGHT mind couldn't want power?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;No, someone in their right mind would go for power through the extant structure. It annoys fewer... vested interests.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://kestrelwings.deviantart.com/art/WHO-COOKS-FOR-YOU-244492637

VAE:<font color="#000000">Liatai alert

VAE:<font color="#000000">Supercute gryphie

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hypothetically speaking, of course.&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;But of course. Though among the vested interests that would be annoyed are the government itself.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://sigu.deviantart.com/art/Jhereg-76011982

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">French cover.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, we heading to this Kaz' place now?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Seems to be the case, unless Crystal objects?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;On the contrary, it sounds like a fine idea.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Then we are in concordance.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">To be honest, i liked the other depiction rather more.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Want me to link it again?

VAE:<font color="#000000">(the one Karis was inspired on)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">http://shardglass.deviantart.com/art/Vlad-Taltos-52372917

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep, dat one

VAE:<font color="#000000">Vlad Taltos after all, isn't excessively grimderp looking.. he's a honest assassin

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">But on the other hand, it IS permanently overcast in the Empire.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. by the way.. its' the second time i have read something because of your DnD portrayal of it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">First was Daryil and PF/CJP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry to say this, guys, but I'm starting to fade. I still need to write a few letters for Akellon. ^^;

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in - ETA an hour, ETA half hour ETA KETER OH GOD KILL IT

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Shall we switch to OOC for however long people want to keep going, then? I wants to use me shiv. (It is not a healing shiv.)

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Unless that would impose on Drayco, of course.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Don't think he is even home

Liatai:<font color="#000000">ETA half hour.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Right. That enough time for anything IC?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I guess so.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Enough time to get to a good breakpoint, sure.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Will the guy's house be relatively quick, then?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Let's go there.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*cough* Ehm, so

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You advance through the streets, breathing fresh Veldunian smog, and soon enough, you do find said house.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Somewhat old walls, a roof made of new, greyish looking tiles.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Not something luxurious, but well, there's a LOT of worse housing around this city.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, then. Who would like to knock?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;A sign of, if not wealth, at least affluence. The lack of effluence, see...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Shall I?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Nok nok*

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Quoth the portal. Four-oh-four.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Inhabitant not found?&quot;

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

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed. Sure you wish MuzzleBook with its incessant status updates existed in Kebre.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, it seems that it may be a good idea to either seek out a forwarding address - or to obtain some form of warrant. We want to do this all aboveboard.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Oh, by the way. To go along with Lia's wishes, you can already begin posting nominations OOC

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Cuts down on waiting time.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Voltarus: &quot;I want answers again, damnit!&quot; Missing the answer to a question because he was too busy attempting to get it.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Little messenger?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uhm! Yes?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can get a forwarding adress if you have a letter to deliver to a person, right?&quot;


 * Crystal takes out a piece of paper and a pen, writing the adress of the place where they're standing on it with a short message; 'Checking in.'

VAE:<font color="#000000">(also, ofc. more than one nomination per person acceptable. we are using the chunk system)

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if this doesn't bring up anything... well, you'd be surprised what kind of carte blanche you can have with a badge.&quot; |3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Firo: &quot;Twitter feed&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Karis - the Information Game. That banter was fun. :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Firo again: &quot;What's innuendo?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Voltarus for Oblivious and Violent.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Crystal: &quot;I am a Koala. Your spot check is invalid.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">To save time, Firo runs back to the local messenger outpost and asks where he can deliver this letter to.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Michail for somehow being the smartest of us all. :B

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Yes, that was hilarious.

Kwik:<font color="#000000">*looks at letter*

VAE:<font color="#000000">hm, where it's to?


 * VAE didn't quite infer, though he thinks HQ

Firo:<font color="#000000">It's adressed to Kaz, at the house that the rest of the party is in front of.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Voltarus: &quot;Don't drink the water, you don't know who it's been in&quot;.

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

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

Kwik:<font color="#000000">. . . chi? chirp-chi? (You.. know that's a block from here?)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii, chii chii.&quot; (I didn't, but I do now!)

<font color="#000000">7

Bluff check. ^^;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Crystal generally for being juuust vaguely creepy. From casually discussing the possibility of a fuel-air explosion to suggesting a trap-disabling race.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Also, owtch.

Kwik:<font color="#000000">21

<font color="#000000"> Sense Motive

Crystal: <font color="#0">(( Vaguely creepy is what I do best. |3 ))

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Double owtch. Crit.

Kwik:<font color="#000000">Chi. Chee-chirp! (Yeah, you didn't. Now, stop pulling my feathers!)


 * Firo looks sheepish.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii. Chii chii chii, chii chii. Chii, chii.&quot; (Sorry. The truth is, I'm worried about the guy. The house seemed abandoned, or just really quiet.)

Kwik:<font color="#000000">Chi-chee. Chee-chii-chirp. (Hmm, It's allright then. We'll send someone.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Karis for Listening Via the BBC - Bat Broadcasting Channel?

Firo:<font color="#000000">Possible backup gryphon get? :O

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">That works. It was a reference to the well-recieved Listen Again function on the BBC, though, which was the forerunner to the iPlayer - now allowing people to basically Tivo things on their computer.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii!&quot; (Thanks!)


 * Firo runs back to the group. &quot;There wasn't a forwarding adress, but they're sending somebody to look and see if the house is abandoned!&quot;

Kwik:<font color="#000000">Chi-cheerp! Chi. (Next time don't lie. You suck at it)


 * Crystal frowns. &quot;Well, unexpected, but a fine way to obtain a warrant.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">The sad thing is that Firo's modifiers are higher.


 * Firo grins sheepishly. &quot;Chiiiii...&quot; (I try not to lie, I guess it shows...)

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think in the navy, the equivalent of Sergeant-majors is 'Warrant officer'. I wonder if they can search houses...&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Investigators can.&quot; |3

Michail:<font color="#000000">Don't they live on ship?

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Well, usually. But when they're at port, they... it was just a passing fancy. You get a lot of them this time of year.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think they're migratory.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the house is deemed abandoned, then a missing-persons case should be opened... and we just so happen to have an investigator of sorts here.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Ah. Never saw port myself...

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;How long until they arrive, Firo?&quot;

Twree:<font color="#000000">Soon enough, a gryphon with a messenger badge shows up.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I think there's a river port relatively nearby.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shouldn't be long! Mesengers are fast. Chii!&quot; :D

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Turn around, Firo.&quot;

Twree:<font color="#000000">Chii!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii-chii.&quot;

Twree:<font color="#000000">Chii-chi?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii.&quot; Firo gestures to the house.

Twree:<font color="#000000">Chi. *moves around, attempts knocking*

Twree:<font color="#000000">CHII-CHIRP!

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Ichi, ni, san... chii... I can't escape them, can I

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

Twree:<font color="#000000">CHII-CHIRP!

Twree:<font color="#000000">CHII-CHIRPCHIRPCHIRPCHIRP! *hard gryphon clawing - it's a catlike creature after all*

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;A Great Gryphon would certainly be able to tell if the house was occupied. Be a bit of a destruct-test, though.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Agh! My oversized yet delicate chiropteran ears!&quot;

Twree:<font color="#000000">21

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii?&quot; (Any luck, sir?) No, that's not a mis-impersonated line.

Twree:<font color="#000000">. . . The door actually bows out of the way somewhat.


 * Firo double-takes.

Twree:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii... Chi?&quot; (Crap.. i think it gave way)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... chiiiiiiii?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*hands over ears.*


 * Crystal shrugs to Firo. &quot;Chii.&quot; |3

Twree:<font color="#000000">*pulls away, with a slightly guilty look*

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if someone was in there, he should have responded to that.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*tests for a moment, then takes hands off ears* &quot;Shall we go in to see if he's been in recently? If there's no evidence of recent habitation, we can know he's not just out for the day.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Ya think?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">5

<font color="#000000"> Search to see if there's mail piled up outside, or any other sign that the inhabitant hasn't been active in a while, before anyone goes in.

Firo:<font color="#000000">14

<font color="#000000"> Let's try that again. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">What is it with you and 2s today?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">(That's natural 2s and 1s, for those reading the log)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">No pile-up.. given how often mail is delivered, one'd guess that he's gone no longer than two-three days.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">looking up the modifiers?

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Hover mouse over number.

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

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... guess it wouldn't hurt to look in the window...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Any windows within easy reach?

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

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Kitchen window.. the place seems meticulously cleaned. Someone was clearly something of a neat freak.


 * Firo peeks in.

11

Spot check on signs of recent habitation! Or

18Search.

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*Primal*, up to window and does same Search

<font color="#CC6600">9

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You done so well you got your answer before the rolls.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Either way, you see that there isn't dust settled on any of the surfaces, not a visible layer, that is.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">So yes, this was lived in, fairly recently.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Looks like someone was here, and really clean.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Click squeeee~&quot; *Furre* &quot;Sorry. I meant, everything's tidied away. It looks neater than where I live. Not that that's hard...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">*lives normally in rafters. Used development of Were form as an excuse to stop paying rent*

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose we can just leave a note and come back later.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;This is true. Shall I watch for him?&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii, chii.&quot; (Thank you for your time, messenger.) ^^

Twree:<font color="#000000">Chiiii! (No prob! )


 * VAE 'll get pissed off one day and name a gryphon Chirpetta

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;If we're going to check out the site tonight, it wouldn't be wise to split up too much.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;I defer to your superior knowledge of small unit tactics. Michail and I tended to act as a single operation, so I have less experience of commanding such.&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You flatter me, good sir. I usually work alone.&quot; |3

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Then perhaps you have a hidden talent. Either that or we're both hopeless, but in that case we'll be acting so outside expectations we'll fool them all!&quot;

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you think; a note asking him to meet us at the church?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;That seems workable.#&quot;


 * Crystal writes it and affixes it to the door.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Note digs in without so much a squeak.

Crystal:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. Shall we go underground?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#CC6600">&quot;Sounds like a plan. I will plan to use sound.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And... good place to cut? ^^;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">An OK place indeed.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">400 XP for RP, since we did literally nothing else

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now, nominations

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Last nom - Karis for My Delicate Batty Ears!

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">It's one thing to have ears sensitive to pick up echoes from across the room, and another to have to deal with the consequences of high sensitivity.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Firo: &quot;I cannot tell a lie! Even when I'm trying...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Voltarus - 50XP i want to ask a question, not hear the answer. 50XP Let's Ultraviolence

Liatai:<font color="#000000">X3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Firo - 50XP Twitter! 50XP - I like colourful feathers and cannot lie.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Karis: 50 XP I talk like a pro 50 XP I listen like one as well. 50 XP - However, not to chirping.

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

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Quoth the Griffin: ...don't ask me, my eardrums were bleeding! Go find someone else!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Michail : 50 XP One bear to outwit them all

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">Not just muscle, but also brawn.

Saphroneth:<font color="#CC6600">(Brawn being, of course, an old term for 'brain' in the cooking sense)

VAE:<font color="#000000">Finally, Crystal: 100XP - oozing competence. 50XP The Invisible Pink Coala

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tweedledee... that's all folks!