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Dragcrell (8:30:47 PM): ^_^ oooo that one comic I sent ya is funny Them
Thematrian1 (8:41:00 PM): Jon: what's the word on Adam?
Thematrian1 (8:43:45 PM): and since I'm asking questions anyway, has anyone heard from Matt?
Dragcrell (8:43:55 PM): nope
Umbrafer (8:44:04 PM): Not this time.
Umbrafer (8:44:31 PM): Word on Adam is my phone's charging up to enough to call him, should be another 3-5 minutes.
Umbrafer (8:44:46 PM): One of these days I'll learn to plug it in before it dies rather than after.
Thematrian1 (8:44:59 PM): awesome. Let's see, where were we?
Thematrian1 (8:45:11 PM): (Trying to figure out if there's anything minor that can be resolved in their absence)
Gedeon Ogoun (8:45:50 PM): driving?
Umbrafer (8:46:25 PM): We were heading to pick up Jonahrome
Thematrian1 (8:46:34 PM): ::waves a fist::
Thematrian1 (8:46:36 PM): that's right
Thematrian1 (8:46:43 PM): yeah, they should both be in on this
Thematrian1 (8:46:45 PM): we idle
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Dragcrell (8:52:01 PM): Mike just loged on aim
MilesMk1 (8:52:15 PM): Who's Mike?
MilesMk1 (8:52:20 PM): Evening, all.
Dragcrell (8:52:34 PM): well bettrer late then never eh lol
Umbrafer (8:53:57 PM): Adam ETA 9:00ish
MilesMk1 (8:54:03 PM): Meh... I'm not even the last one here.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:54:05 PM): 8:54 here
MilesMk1 (8:54:31 PM): I figure I need to do it once in a while or risk being taken for granted. ;)
Dragcrell (8:54:38 PM): heheehe 6:59 here :P
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Thematrian1 (8:56:22 PM): aw crap
Dragcrell (8:56:29 PM): lol that was new
Thematrian1 (8:56:33 PM): I just left and endered, didn't I?
Dragcrell (8:56:39 PM): yep
Umbrafer (8:56:41 PM): Yep
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EverGuard4 (8:59:57 PM): hey... sorry about that...
Umbrafer (9:00:16 PM): Off to rescue Jeromah!
Umbrafer (9:00:21 PM): (Ok, ok, I'll stop ;) )
Thematrian1 (9:03:01 PM): piffle
Umbrafer (9:03:09 PM): Piffle?
Thematrian1 (9:03:22 PM): wow, lag
MilesMk1 (9:03:36 PM): It's a side dish commonly served with turducken.
Dragcrell (9:03:41 PM): hehehehe your on the lap top eh
Thematrian1 (9:03:54 PM): Matt, when did you even get here?
Thematrian1 (9:03:59 PM): ok, enough confusion
Thematrian1 (9:04:08 PM): rescue hoi
MilesMk1 (9:04:59 PM): I think I was going to head up, and Gedeon offered to come with me, when we lost connection.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:05:10 PM): ok
Gedeon Ogoun (9:05:26 PM): (who was this guy we're going to see?)
MilesMk1 (9:05:47 PM): Jerome.
Thematrian1 (9:06:23 PM): sooth. Everyone else decided to stay inside?
MilesMk1 (9:06:24 PM): (According to Jon he's my "pet ganger". I prefer to think of him as a protege who doesn't know it yet.)
Thematrian1 (9:06:34 PM): in the no-longer-hot-and-humid van
Gedeon Ogoun (9:06:59 PM): are we "rescuing" him?
Umbrafer (9:07:00 PM): Yeeeah. Still no idea what was up with that.
Dragcrell (9:07:27 PM): yep scaning the area every so often
Umbrafer (9:07:30 PM): I'm hoping someone targeted the van with some pseud-Accident power, 'cause the other possibility is that someone CTed me and I did it myself.
Umbrafer (9:07:44 PM): *pseudo
MilesMk1 (9:07:58 PM): Well, hopefully we're just walking into the apartment (which belongs to me) and saying "Hey. Sorry it took so long. Let's go.
MilesMk1 (9:08:11 PM): "
Thematrian1 (9:08:46 PM): You find the apartment.
Thematrian1 (9:09:00 PM): Everything seems to be in order, from the outside.
Thematrian1 (9:09:09 PM): Trickster, roll perception
Gedeon Ogoun (9:09:23 PM): *strapping monosword onto belt, scanning building*
Dragcrell (9:09:30 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 1 4 6 3 1 6 1
Dragcrell (9:09:38 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 3
Dragcrell (9:09:44 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
MilesMk1 (9:09:47 PM): *getting his AK, looking around*
Thematrian1 (9:09:59 PM): opening the door?
Umbrafer (9:10:38 PM): *Sending the Kimji in with them again*
Thematrian1 (9:10:54 PM): thwipthwipthwipthwipthwipthwipthwip
MilesMk1 (9:11:05 PM): If this is the apartment door, not the buidling door, then I knock.
Thematrian1 (9:11:52 PM): it's the apartment door, yeah; I think we went up last week
Thematrian1 (9:12:06 PM): knock knock
Thematrian1 (9:12:07 PM): no answer
MilesMk1 (9:12:34 PM): I open the door, and say "Jerome? It's Blake."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:12:46 PM): *staying back, watching hall*
Thematrian1 (9:14:07 PM): You open the door. The trid is lying ten feet away, on its side, smashed. The plastic carpet is melted where the wiring is touching it
MilesMk1 (9:14:58 PM): #Well, shit. Something happened here...#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:15:06 PM): *draws pistol*
MilesMk1 (9:15:21 PM): *rolls into the room and scans the place*
Umbrafer (9:15:21 PM): #Need a Strato?#
Thematrian1 (9:15:34 PM): The apartment is too lousy to rate a window, but there are scorch marks on two walls
MilesMk1 (9:16:15 PM): (incidentally, in case someone was wondering, this is *not* the only apartment I have)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:16:32 PM): "Are you going in?"
Thematrian1 (9:16:33 PM): (It's one of the shithole hideouts, yeah)
MilesMk1 (9:16:51 PM): I actually already went in.
MilesMk1 (9:17:20 PM): *looks for signs of Jerome - or failing that, blood, gore, shell casings...*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:17:25 PM): *follows into apartment*
Thematrian1 (9:17:29 PM): the room is free of bodies; the chairs are fine, though one is overturned
Thematrian1 (9:17:32 PM): both of you roll perception
MilesMk1 (9:17:36 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 2 3 5 5 1
Thematrian1 (9:17:37 PM): Gedeon, are you perceiving astrally?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:17:45 PM): (yep)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:17:50 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 5 5 3 1 5 3 1
Thematrian1 (9:18:44 PM): ok. Gedeon: this whole place has a background count of one, more or less
Thematrian1 (9:19:10 PM): but there's nothing astrally special about it.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:19:26 PM): (is there just the one room?)
Thematrian1 (9:19:49 PM): There are bullet holes over the sink; otherwise no
Umbrafer (9:19:50 PM): (No particular emotion associated with it?)
Thematrian1 (9:19:59 PM): (None that Gedeon can discern)
Thematrian1 (9:20:09 PM): Adam, Trickster: perception, please
EverGuard4 (9:20:15 PM): 5 or 9?
EverGuard4 (9:20:21 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 5 2 6 4 6
Dragcrell (9:20:22 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 4 5 5 5 2 3
Thematrian1 (9:21:07 PM): 9
EverGuard4 (9:21:15 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 4 5 5 5 3 6 1 2 4
Thematrian1 (9:21:59 PM): Trickster and Adam: there's a spirit approaching the van. It's in the shape of a cone, with the broad base facing forward and an eye sticking out
Dragcrell (9:22:38 PM): "the hell?"
Thematrian1 (9:23:05 PM): it sort of bobs in the air as it approaches you
Thematrian1 (9:23:10 PM): it's facing Trickster
Gedeon Ogoun (9:23:18 PM): *poking around apartment, searching for anything useful*
Dragcrell (9:23:49 PM): "Rock what you getting about it?"
Umbrafer (9:24:01 PM): *Keeps watch in meatspace, blissfully unaware of any cone-spirits*
Thematrian1 (9:24:04 PM): There are three or four meals in the tiny fridge
Thematrian1 (9:24:11 PM): yeah, Alex, give me passive Sensors
MilesMk1 (9:25:06 PM): "Those scorch marks on the wall... Do they look magical to you, Gedeon?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:25:25 PM): (do they?)
MilesMk1 (9:25:30 PM): *examines the bullet holes over the sink to try to figure out where the shots came from*
Thematrian1 (9:25:31 PM): (They do not)
EverGuard4 (9:25:38 PM): *assense*
Umbrafer (9:25:38 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 1 2 6 5 1 4 3 3
EverGuard4 (9:25:41 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 4 3 5 1 1 1 6 1 1
Umbrafer (9:25:41 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Umbrafer (9:25:50 PM): 5, 3, 2
Thematrian1 (9:26:05 PM): Alex detects nothing much
MilesMk1 (9:26:08 PM): Ah. In that case *tries to determine the reason for the scorch marks*
Dragcrell (9:27:02 PM): "Alex better let them know we have company here cone shaped spiret with a eye on its flat end."
Umbrafer (9:27:19 PM): "A wh—oh." *relays*
Thematrian1 (9:27:23 PM): it's hard to say where exactly, but the kitchen is half-enclosed; there's maybe fifteen feet from the bullet'd wall to the opposite wall
MilesMk1 (9:28:52 PM): #Does it look like the UB eyeballs, or something else? Someone ask it what it wants.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:28:54 PM): (do scorch marks have any pattern to them?)
MilesMk1 (9:29:26 PM): (I didn't give him a gun... I did give him money, though.)
Thematrian1 (9:29:59 PM): They're linear, more or less; about three feet wide and five feet long
MilesMk1 (9:29:59 PM): But no sign those bullets actually passed through something?
Umbrafer (9:30:16 PM): "Does it look like a UB critter?"
Umbrafer (9:30:23 PM): #Doesn't sound like it, but I asked."
Umbrafer (9:30:25 PM): ##
Umbrafer (9:30:27 PM): *#
MilesMk1 (9:30:39 PM): #Yeah, I seem to recall more eyeball and tentacles.#
Dragcrell (9:31:21 PM): "not at all just a cone with a eye. Rock you have anythaing more to add?"
MilesMk1 (9:31:32 PM): Does it look like the burns might have been caused by the trid getting fried? I check it to see how it got busted, and then try to smell / rub at the scorch marks, to get an idea what caused them.
Thematrian1 (9:32:09 PM): it doesn't seem likely, no. They're too big, just for starters
Gedeon Ogoun (9:32:16 PM): "Do you have any other way to contact this guy, anywhere else he might have gone?"
Thematrian1 (9:32:30 PM): The conical eye bops into the van
Thematrian1 (9:32:50 PM): it's opposite end vibrates, and sound emerges:
Thematrian1 (9:33:09 PM): "You didn't come!"
Dragcrell (9:33:43 PM): "Alex I think we'er in deep shit with who ever sent it."
MilesMk1 (9:33:50 PM): "He was in trouble with the people I saved him from, so I told him to lay low until I could get back to him. This doesn't look quite like their work - no blood for one..."
Umbrafer (9:34:04 PM): "Wha?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:34:14 PM): "Maybe looters..."
Thematrian1 (9:34:16 PM): "They're so mad..."
Umbrafer (9:34:55 PM): (Is this audible to us meatworlders?)
MilesMk1 (9:35:07 PM): "Mhmm... The trid was the only semi-valuable thing here. That, and the food which they didn't take either."
Thematrian1 (9:35:09 PM): (Nope)
Dragcrell (9:35:18 PM): "oh hell thats never good to have mages mad at you............."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:35:38 PM): "Could he have fought them off, maybe left to go somewhere else....I don't know, I'm at a loss."
Umbrafer (9:35:50 PM): "Um…"
MilesMk1 (9:35:51 PM): "Besides, unless they were tougher than your usual looter, Jerome would have made at least a couple bleed."
MilesMk1 (9:36:04 PM): #So, what does the cone want?#
Umbrafer (9:36:08 PM): #Trickster's babbling something about mages being mad at us."
Thematrian1 (9:36:09 PM): "You gotta come."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:36:27 PM): #Mages? Why?#
EverGuard4 (9:36:38 PM): (I can't see my own dice roll results, so I don't know the result (if any) of the earlier assensing)
MilesMk1 (9:36:48 PM): #He's right for once, just off on the details... What did we do to *these* mages?#
Dragcrell (9:37:14 PM): "You as in wich of us have to come?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:37:19 PM): "Let's get back downstairs, no?"
Umbrafer (9:37:24 PM): #Well, if it isn't the zombie mages, and it isn't the ones we ran over, it's probably the ones who wanted us to come do something for them.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:37:43 PM): #Zombie mages?#
MilesMk1 (9:37:47 PM): #Ah. Can you tell it we need better directions?#
Umbrafer (9:38:05 PM): #Sorry. Not real zombies, I think, but damned if they were alive.#
MilesMk1 (9:38:16 PM): #Certainly aren't now.#
MilesMk1 (9:38:39 PM): #Work stuff, Gedeon. Sort of a long story.#
MilesMk1 (9:39:16 PM): "Maybe go down, and get a look at the spirit - I'll knock on a couple of doors, see if there are any neighbors who heard anything."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:39:32 PM): *nod, head down stairs*
MilesMk1 (9:40:00 PM): *proceeds to listen for signs of occupation in other apartments on the same floor*
Thematrian1 (9:41:44 PM): you listen
MilesMk1 (9:41:51 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 1 1 5 4 2
Thematrian1 (9:41:58 PM): there are some sounds of movement in the apartment across the hall
MilesMk1 (9:42:19 PM): *knocks on the door - loudly, but short of banging*
Thematrian1 (9:42:56 PM): the sounds stop. Beat.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:42:58 PM): *when I get downstairs, assense spirit*
Thematrian1 (9:43:04 PM): The door opens a crack
Thematrian1 (9:43:11 PM): "Yes?"
MilesMk1 (9:43:18 PM): Ah. I was about to start making threats. Good.
MilesMk1 (9:43:25 PM): Male, female?
Thematrian1 (9:43:32 PM): Spirit: "Trickster? You Trickster?"
Dragcrell (9:43:53 PM): "ya thats me."
Thematrian1 (9:44:13 PM): "They're so mad at you."
Umbrafer (9:44:35 PM): (Oh good, they're only mad at Trickster.)
MilesMk1 (9:44:46 PM): (They are going to shoot you where it don't grow back!)
Dragcrell (9:44:48 PM): "oooo fuck me."
Thematrian1 (9:45:24 PM): "They say, you got to come."
Dragcrell (9:45:33 PM): (shoot my ass >_> I see em just plane blowing my sorry ass in to as meny bits as they can)
MilesMk1 (9:46:13 PM): (I'm sure it's exaggerating. These spirits always do, when the owners get emotional.)
Dragcrell (9:46:25 PM): "Well you tell that to the others then as I'm helping them as well." *points to rock and Alex*
Thematrian1 (9:46:33 PM): "They say, you come, they won't be mad."
Thematrian1 (9:46:37 PM): Gedeon: you reach the street
Thematrian1 (9:46:45 PM): (argh, brb)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:46:58 PM): *heading for van, first sight of spirit: assense*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:07 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 5 4 1 3 6 2 3
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:17 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:22 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 3 1 5
Thematrian1 (9:51:17 PM): "Will you come?"
Thematrian1 (9:51:25 PM): It stares soulfully into your left eye, Trickster
Dragcrell (9:52:19 PM): *nods* "I'll come." *Turns to Alex* "eh should be a intresting adventuer."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:52:29 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 2 3 5 5 5
Gedeon Ogoun (9:53:00 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 10 6-sided dice: 5 4 5 6 1 6 6 3 2 2
Umbrafer (9:53:30 PM): "I… guess so."
MilesMk1 (9:54:21 PM): (Well, we tried coming there once already...)
Thematrian1 (9:54:33 PM): "You gotta come"
Umbrafer (9:54:50 PM): That's right, did we ever figure out rightly who this was?
Dragcrell (9:54:52 PM): "Well better then haveing em send something to blow us up." *turns to the spiret*" well lead on then I'll follow."
MilesMk1 (9:55:22 PM): (Ahem. Dwarf still int the building, ignorant of all this.)
MilesMk1 (9:55:46 PM): (Well, the decision to go, anyway.)
Thematrian1 (9:55:51 PM): (It was widely speculated to be the UB, but you've never proved even that, to my knowledge)
EverGuard4 (9:56:06 PM): ;-)
Dragcrell (9:56:38 PM): (on the eyeballs with tenitcals anyway if nothing else then how they used simmler ones in the building that one time)
MilesMk1 (9:56:46 PM): (Well, that was the tentacled eyeball, right? And that one was a little brighter - or at least more specific - than this thing.)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:57:24 PM): #Blake, this spirit is no slouch. Think you better come down.#
MilesMk1 (9:57:34 PM): (I thought this is the same thing as the people who sent us the winged-rat spirit.)
Umbrafer (9:57:47 PM): (Yeah, that's what I was trying to figure out.)
Dragcrell (9:58:14 PM): (na we showed up to them but they wasn't home never did show up to see what the other one wanted tho
MilesMk1 (9:58:22 PM): #Be there in one minute.# (I'm assuming my conversation is taking place concurrently with this)
Thematrian1 (9:58:29 PM): (Yes)
Thematrian1 (9:58:39 PM): (Blake: what was your question again?)
MilesMk1 (9:59:18 PM): (Ah. Well, I was wondering first who was it that opened a door. If it was a troll, my approach might be different than if it's a 80 year old woman.)
Thematrian1 (9:59:41 PM): (Oh. Yeah)
Thematrian1 (9:59:59 PM): The door's only open a crack, but the voice is a wavering tenor.
MilesMk1 (10:01:38 PM): *holds up a 100 nuyen certified cred chip* "I rent the apartment across the hallway, and someone busted into it. Tell me something useful about what happened there, and you can have it."
MilesMk1 (10:02:08 PM): *waves the chip for emphasis*
Thematrian1 (10:02:25 PM): A pause. "Twelve hours ago, some guys came up here."
Thematrian1 (10:02:44 PM): "About that, I mean. I guess. It was morning."
MilesMk1 (10:02:59 PM): "Yeah? What did they look like?"
Thematrian1 (10:03:09 PM): "You think I poked my head out to look?"
MilesMk1 (10:03:21 PM): "Did you hear any names?"
Thematrian1 (10:03:24 PM): "They started banging on some door, they busted in. I heard some voices, some gunshots, more voices, then they left."
MilesMk1 (10:03:53 PM): "Any cries of pain, that kind of thing?"
Thematrian1 (10:04:02 PM): "More like anger."
MilesMk1 (10:04:15 PM): There were no visible blood stains in the apartment, correct?
Thematrian1 (10:04:19 PM): None
Thematrian1 (10:04:27 PM): scorch marks, bullet marks
MilesMk1 (10:04:32 PM): "Did you hear them use any names?"
MilesMk1 (10:04:44 PM): "What did they sound more like - the cops, or a gang?"
Thematrian1 (10:04:52 PM): "What's the difference?"
Thematrian1 (10:04:57 PM): HE sounds bitter
MilesMk1 (10:05:07 PM): "Technical jargon?"
Thematrian1 (10:05:12 PM): Silence
Thematrian1 (10:05:17 PM): "There was one..."
Thematrian1 (10:05:58 PM): "I mean, they shouted 'Deadeye' a few times. Is that a name?"
MilesMk1 (10:06:21 PM): "Mhmm... Well, it's something, at least."
MilesMk1 (10:07:13 PM): Does that ring any bells? I knew the names of some of Jerome's former associates.
MilesMk1 (10:07:37 PM): Or anything related to the police, like a callsign?
Thematrian1 (10:07:41 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 6 2 4 1 1 1 6 1 6 2 6 3 2 6
Thematrian1 (10:07:52 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 5 2 1 1 6
Thematrian1 (10:07:55 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Thematrian1 (10:08:00 PM): nothing comes to mind
MilesMk1 (10:08:14 PM): I'll have to ask around...
Thematrian1 (10:09:23 PM): "Well?"
MilesMk1 (10:10:14 PM): "Thanks. If a kid named Jerome happens to show up, tell him to meet me at *general area of Buck's office* and I'll owe you another one of those." *hands the chip over*
Thematrian1 (10:10:38 PM): "Sure."
Thematrian1 (10:10:47 PM): He opens the door maybe four inches to admit the credstick
MilesMk1 (10:10:56 PM): Going on the assumption here that he'll figure I'm distinctive enough without getting my name.
Thematrian1 (10:11:19 PM): doesn't seem unfair
MilesMk1 (10:12:17 PM): Ok... Assuming I had a little bit more time while the discussion downstairs happened - quick scratch/sniff on the scorch marks to identify anything like residue from concussion grenade, tear gas, whatever.
Thematrian1 (10:12:40 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 5 3 4 5 2 4 5 4
MilesMk1 (10:12:43 PM): Can flash packs cause burns?
Thematrian1 (10:12:53 PM): Not like that
MilesMk1 (10:13:31 PM): (The times I came to regret not getting the olfactory spectrophotometer in the course of this campaign...)
Thematrian1 (10:13:46 PM): (It's been astonishing)
Thematrian1 (10:14:01 PM): the shape of the burn is weird for a grenade
EverGuard4 (10:14:06 PM): ^^
Thematrian1 (10:14:55 PM): Cone Spirit: "Trickster, are you coming?"
Dragcrell (10:16:01 PM): "yes I'm comeing hey Alex take care of the gear in the pack in the van eh might come back for it some time" *gets out of the van and waits for the spirit to lead the way*
Umbrafer (10:16:21 PM): "Wait, you're going alone?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:17:22 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 6 2 5 1 6 4 3
Dragcrell (10:17:27 PM): "I'm the only one they want to see unless you wish to risk pissing em off?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:17:32 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 3 5 1
MilesMk1 (10:17:56 PM): *heads down*
MilesMk1 (10:18:04 PM): "So, what's happening?"
Umbrafer (10:18:29 PM): "Heh, no thanks. Give us a heads-up when you know what's going on."
MilesMk1 (10:18:52 PM): "Wait, Trickster's leaving?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:18:54 PM): #Trickster's about to leave with the spirit, I think#
MilesMk1 (10:19:43 PM): "What, we're just letting him go by himself? It's not like we're going to leave him behind if he gets in trouble, so why not just go with him?"
Dragcrell (10:20:30 PM): "Well do Alex."
Thematrian1 (10:20:37 PM): The cone bops in place
Gedeon Ogoun (10:20:39 PM): #He's not under any manipulation that I can see...#
Umbrafer (10:20:55 PM): "You said it might piss them off, right?"
Dragcrell (10:21:23 PM): "Ya they only want me to come."
MilesMk1 (10:21:27 PM): "Hey, spirit... Do your master minds if we come too?"
MilesMk1 (10:21:33 PM): Does your master
Thematrian1 (10:21:38 PM): "You're coming?"
MilesMk1 (10:21:39 PM): mind
MilesMk1 (10:22:14 PM): "Does whoever sent you want us all to come, but Trickster most of all, or do they just want Trickster?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:22:55 PM): #Alex: maybe we can trail him electronically?#
Thematrian1 (10:23:30 PM): "They want you" ::bops at Alex:: "they want you" ::bops at Blake:: "they want you" ::bops at Adam:: "they waaaant you" ::bops at Trickster::
MilesMk1 (10:24:05 PM): "Are we popular or what?"
Dragcrell (10:24:14 PM): "Mmm well road trip I would say and ya but in what way?"
MilesMk1 (10:24:59 PM): "Well, I'm willing to come, but I don't have my own wheels..."
Umbrafer (10:25:26 PM): #Oh.#
Dragcrell (10:25:27 PM): "Well theres the Van."
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Umbrafer (10:25:42 PM): "I… guess we can't disappoint them."
Umbrafer (10:25:46 PM): (He'll be back shortly)
MilesMk1 (10:26:20 PM): #Didn't we try this once? What's one more time? I mean, just because Trickster is freaked out about something, and the spirit is making a big deal out of things, doesn't mean this is actually dangerous.#
Umbrafer (10:26:49 PM): #At least this time we have a guide#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:26:55 PM): #um...this spirit is summoned by someone who knows what they're doing. Dangerous? Yes.#
MilesMk1 (10:27:51 PM): #These spirits always do this [Igor voice]Maaaster says you MUST come, yes, come right away. Or master will be angry![/Igor voice] Excepts Samantha's, but she has good taste.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:28:59 PM): #Yeah, but this spirit is powerful. It is relatively rare to see a watcher of this caliber#
Dragcrell (10:29:24 PM): "So what we planing on doing?"
Thematrian1 (10:29:27 PM): bop bop bop
MilesMk1 (10:29:34 PM): #Ah. Well, that changes things a bit, but just being in Chicago is dangerous right now... And if this isn't a trap, getting on the good side of a powerful mage can be damn useful, given the circumstances.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:59 PM): #if this isn't a trap....#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:30:15 PM): #I need more info about this before I come along.#
Thematrian1 (10:30:19 PM): "Come on, I'm gonna be late!"
MilesMk1 (10:31:19 PM): #Perhaps just follow at a distance in the rabbit, so if anything happens to us, you can cut and run.#
Umbrafer (10:31:39 PM): #They won't be looking for you anyway. You'd make a good ace in the hole.#
Dragcrell (10:32:25 PM): "Alex any way you can tag me in case it is a trap it said that if I go they wouldnt be mad that well leave you guys to run or what ever I've been in worse rember the nice building that some one blew up as I was in it?"
MilesMk1 (10:32:34 PM): #And, hell, not to sound overconfident, but the last bunch of powerful mages who underestimated us came to regret it.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:32:45 PM): #Where is it we're going?#
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MilesMk1 (10:33:23 PM): "Hey, spirit - we'll go, but we want to know what part of town we're going to. You need to be patient, and lead us carefully. No flying through buildings."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:33:27 PM): #And I don't usually cut and run from a battle..nor do I prefer to sneak around. If I come with you, I come with you.#
MilesMk1 (10:34:09 PM): #I didn't mean to suggest you'd run from a fight, but not getting involved in one that might not be your own is not the same thing.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:35:25 PM): #When I joined you guys, it was to figure out a way out of this city. If this situation is towards that end, then I am in.#
Dragcrell (10:35:51 PM): "Sprite if I just come well your masters leave the others alone?"
Thematrian1 (10:36:18 PM): It nods in mid-air
Umbrafer (10:36:19 PM): #We're not sure, but if they get mad and decide to come after us it'll be against that end."
Umbrafer (10:36:20 PM): *#
Umbrafer (10:36:29 PM): "I'll take you there.
Umbrafer (10:36:30 PM): "
MilesMk1 (10:37:01 PM): #I think anyone with a lot of magical power might be of use in our quest to get out of here. Presumably, whatever they want from us, they don't hope to get for free.#
Dragcrell (10:37:42 PM): "Ok." *looks at the spiret* "rember the van can't go throw stuff so go slow so she can follow you ok?"
MilesMk1 (10:37:59 PM): #God, did I say "quest"?#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:11 PM): #yep!#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:38 PM): #I hope it won;t be long enough to qualify as "quest"#
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Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:55 PM): #hopefully more of a "jaunt#
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EverGuard4 (10:39:09 PM): thanks
Umbrafer (10:39:18 PM): #I'm afraid the word is "fight"#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:39:46 PM): *getting in jackrabbit* #now that's a word I can live with!#
Dragcrell (10:39:58 PM): *Gets in the van* "Well lets get going befor it trys and drags one of us to its master."
MilesMk1 (10:40:02 PM): #Meh. How much firepower can the army have? They lost half the country to the NANs. *grin*#
MilesMk1 (10:40:44 PM): *gets in the jackrabbit if Gedeon indicates a will to come with us*
Umbrafer (10:40:48 PM): #If we could only steal a Boomer…#
Thematrian1 (10:41:04 PM): (They're made by Ares)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:41:09 PM): *indicates a will*
MilesMk1 (10:41:13 PM): #The day is young.#
Thematrian1 (10:41:24 PM): bop bop bop
Thematrian1 (10:41:28 PM): "Coming now?"
MilesMk1 (10:41:42 PM): #Dibs on any dwarf-sized military armor.#
Umbrafer (10:42:12 PM): (Just what I was thinking. Though that's as likely to mean that they've got a few on the blockade.)
Thematrian1 (10:42:27 PM): (Would I turn your creation against you?)
Umbrafer (10:42:28 PM): #Don't think anyone's challenging that.#
Umbrafer (10:42:40 PM): (Yes :) )
Dragcrell (10:42:43 PM): "yes pleas lead the way."
Thematrian1 (10:42:44 PM): (I think I'm hurt)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:42:46 PM): '
Dragcrell (10:43:02 PM): (hehehehe only to a exstent ;-))
Thematrian1 (10:43:05 PM): It bops off down the street at maybe fifteen miles an hour. It pauses at the first intersection
Thematrian1 (10:43:19 PM): It is visible only to Rock, Gedeon, and Trickster
Umbrafer (10:43:29 PM): *Follows along to the best of my ability*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:43:40 PM): *ditto*
Dragcrell (10:43:42 PM): *gives instrutions to Alex*
Thematrian1 (10:45:51 PM): The van creeps down the street after the spirit. Time passes. Time passes. Alex, you're two blocks away from the same UB building where Blake had that encounter
Umbrafer (10:46:22 PM): "Aw, crap." *Follow*
Dragcrell (10:46:40 PM): "Well so much for the no danger part"
Thematrian1 (10:46:45 PM): one block away, right out front, spirit is bopping up and down in front of the door
Dragcrell (10:47:01 PM): *gives the building a looking over*
Thematrian1 (10:47:10 PM): this area seems pretty hard-hit by roving mobs, but the building is untouched
Thematrian1 (10:47:26 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 1 2 5 2 2 4 4 2 6 3 1 4 3 4
Dragcrell (10:47:43 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 1 5 2 5 3 4 5
Dragcrell (10:48:29 PM): "Well any one else see the odd one out in this?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:48:33 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 3 6 4 2 6 3 5
Gedeon Ogoun (10:48:39 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 3
MilesMk1 (10:49:04 PM): #I wonder why the spirit looks different if it was sent by the UB people. Curses.#
Dragcrell (10:49:58 PM): "You guys still wanting to go in as well as they would leave you guys alone even if I was the only one to see what they want."
MilesMk1 (10:50:05 PM): #Hey, any of you awakened guys see anything else magical in the area?#
Dragcrell (10:50:36 PM): (mmmmm other then Ged even able to hear that?)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:50:46 PM): #one word: nasty. Make that two: nasty and oily#
MilesMk1 (10:50:57 PM): (I'm hoping Alex will relay it.)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:51:08 PM): To Blake: "This place is really oozing. I don't like it at ALL."
Dragcrell (10:51:10 PM): "thats new theres wards on some of the windows"
Umbrafer (10:51:12 PM): (Done)
MilesMk1 (10:51:42 PM): "It was nasty before, but we walked inside and got out in one piece. Actually."
MilesMk1 (10:52:18 PM): "The problem here is, these people - if they still are the same ones - are showing no inclination to leave us alone."
MilesMk1 (10:52:34 PM): "And seem annoyingly good at finding us."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:18 PM): "The oily feeling is most bad....can't place it..."
Thematrian1 (10:53:42 PM): bop bop bop
MilesMk1 (10:54:09 PM): #Hey, Alex, why not have Trickster tell it to have them meet us outside?#
Umbrafer (10:54:30 PM): "Trickster, are they willing to meet us outside?"
Dragcrell (10:54:32 PM): "I'm heading to the door stay here just in case." *gets out of the van and slowly heads to the building*
MilesMk1 (10:54:46 PM): #Son of a....#
Umbrafer (10:55:03 PM): #What?"
Umbrafer (10:55:05 PM): ##
MilesMk1 (10:55:08 PM): #This is ridiculous. I'm not letting him get killed or mind controlled.#
Thematrian1 (10:55:18 PM): Trickster hops out of the van?
Thematrian1 (10:55:22 PM): Anyone following?
MilesMk1 (10:55:26 PM): *gets out of the jackrabbit and walks up to Trickster*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:55:32 PM): #keeping astral overwatch#
MilesMk1 (10:55:46 PM): #This needs to get worked out one way or another.#
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Dragcrell (10:55:53 PM): (ya but waits for blake)
Dragcrell (10:56:04 PM): ...................oh dear thats not good
EverGuard4 (10:56:05 PM): *hops out as well*
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Thematrian1 (10:56:32 PM): Blake and Trickster heading for the doors
Umbrafer (10:56:47 PM): And Rock.
MilesMk1 (10:56:50 PM): Rock came out as well.
Thematrian1 (10:56:54 PM): check check check
Thematrian1 (10:57:11 PM): It's dark inside, but the doors open easily
MilesMk1 (10:57:21 PM): BTW, I'm going in heavily armed. If they don't like it...
Dragcrell (10:57:33 PM): *looks around* "hello?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:57:58 PM): #Alex, do you want me to leave you alone out here?#
MilesMk1 (10:58:13 PM): (No!)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:58:30 PM): #Don't go in far...keep in my sight, please, so I can defend you.#
Umbrafer (10:58:36 PM): #I've got nothing to guard against spirits myself#
Thematrian1 (10:59:20 PM): Receptionist's desk but no receptionist. High ceiling, plants, all as you remember
Thematrian1 (10:59:27 PM): terribly nasty astral feeling
MilesMk1 (10:59:38 PM): *turns around* "Hey, spirit... Where are your masters? Why don't you go get them."
Umbrafer (10:59:42 PM): To confirm, kimji is with them.
Dragcrell (10:59:55 PM): "eh nasy in here."
Umbrafer (10:59:57 PM): Also going to snag a sensor lock on Blake before he goes in, if I get a chance.
Umbrafer (10:59:59 PM): (From the van)
Umbrafer (11:00:03 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 2 4 1 6
Umbrafer (11:00:06 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (11:00:12 PM): (That's assuming someone told me it's hovering out in front, anyway)
Dragcrell (11:00:25 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 5 5 4 1 5 6 2
Dragcrell (11:00:33 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Thematrian1 (11:02:09 PM): The spirit does not reply, Blake
Thematrian1 (11:02:24 PM): Alex: passive Sensors
Dragcrell (11:02:34 PM): "where are your masters at?"
Thematrian1 (11:03:11 PM): "I'll find them."
Thematrian1 (11:03:16 PM): through the ceiling it goes
Umbrafer (11:03:20 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 5 1 6 3 1 5 3
Umbrafer (11:03:24 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (11:03:31 PM): *measures distances with his rangefinder to figure out where he can fire WP grenades without immolating myself and others*
Umbrafer (11:03:33 PM): 7, 3, 3
Dragcrell (11:03:35 PM): "ok why do I find that some what disurbing?"
MilesMk1 (11:04:25 PM): "Find what? I can't see anything."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:04:39 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 3 5 5 1 5
Thematrian1 (11:04:48 PM): Alex: two human-sized figures are approaching, maybe three hundred meters away, close together
Gedeon Ogoun (11:04:50 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 10 6-sided dice: 1 3 1 6 3 1 2 4 6 4
Dragcrell (11:05:09 PM): "That it left when I asked and not when you did."
MilesMk1 (11:07:48 PM): "Maybe it was just snubbing the mundane."
Umbrafer (11:08:43 PM): Hmm… carrying anything?
Dragcrell (11:08:50 PM): "Hope so but you notes how it said what when it came to me...........and hello who is that?"
Umbrafer (11:08:51 PM): *Pats 250x zoom*
Dragcrell (11:09:22 PM): "did the new guy get a buddy in here Blake?"
Thematrian1 (11:09:49 PM): coneface pops through the ceiling. "They say, send Trickster upstairs!"
EverGuard4 (11:10:26 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 5 2 4 1 2 3 3 2 4
Dragcrell (11:10:36 PM): "Mmm what if the others wish to come?"
MilesMk1 (11:12:06 PM): "He didn't tell me about it."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:12:33 PM): #Blake, I sent a loa in with Trickster to give him some magical protection...but if he goes up into those wards it will be useless.#
MilesMk1 (11:12:48 PM): "Ok, yes."
MilesMk1 (11:13:03 PM): I whisper that.
Thematrian1 (11:13:06 PM): It's focused entirely on Trickster
Dragcrell (11:13:12 PM): "Ahh now about there request you ok with that Blake?"
MilesMk1 (11:14:00 PM): "No. Sounds like a bad idea to me - going into a strange place one at a time. This is no way to do business of any kind. I'm coming with you."
Dragcrell (11:14:51 PM): "well beter let em know that he's comeing as well." *waits for Blake to head up as well*
MilesMk1 (11:15:16 PM): *comes with Trickster when he goes*
MilesMk1 (11:16:14 PM): #Alex, if you have a lock on me, do me a favor and keep track of the closest way from my position to a window, ok?#
Dragcrell (11:16:30 PM): *heads on up slowly keeping a look out as I do so*
MilesMk1 (11:16:31 PM): #Or rather, the direction.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:16:41 PM): #leave the front door open#
MilesMk1 (11:16:56 PM): *follows after leaving the front door open*
Umbrafer (11:17:32 PM): #Got it.# *Proceeds to do so*
Thematrian1 (11:18:10 PM): ok. There are several doors, but also a discreet elevator
Dragcrell (11:18:48 PM): "well stairs or elevator?" *looks at Blake*
MilesMk1 (11:19:11 PM): "I vote for the stairs."
Thematrian1 (11:19:22 PM): you have not seen stairs
Thematrian1 (11:19:25 PM): just doors
Thematrian1 (11:19:38 PM): and, if you recall your last visit, a maze with dolphin-mural walls
MilesMk1 (11:19:54 PM): "But since I have no idea where the stairs are..."
MilesMk1 (11:20:06 PM): "I guess it'll have to be the elevator."
Dragcrell (11:21:01 PM): "Right...................well if you see some flashing lights and me hitting the floor like a lead weight you know there was a barior in the elvator shaft." *hits the button for the elvator*
Thematrian1 (11:21:33 PM): pause
Thematrian1 (11:21:34 PM): ding!
Thematrian1 (11:21:38 PM): and the doors slide open
Thematrian1 (11:21:42 PM): the elevator is tiny
Thematrian1 (11:21:45 PM): the three of you can barely fit
Thematrian1 (11:21:55 PM): Gedeon's spirit crouches by the ceiling
Dragcrell (11:22:43 PM): "eh you think they would make it bigger" *looks at the buttons for the floors then hits the one thats needed if I can reach it that is*
Thematrian1 (11:23:13 PM): Your choice of buttons: B1, 1, 2, 3
Umbrafer (11:23:42 PM): But they don't go over the weight limit?
Dragcrell (11:23:47 PM): mmm well the spiret close by?
Thematrian1 (11:23:49 PM): nope
Thematrian1 (11:23:50 PM): sure is
Dragcrell (11:24:04 PM): "What floor are they on?"
Thematrian1 (11:24:26 PM): "They're up."
Dragcrell (11:24:50 PM): "how far?"
Thematrian1 (11:25:20 PM): "I'll show you?"
Dragcrell (11:25:37 PM): "can you fit in here?"
Dragcrell (11:26:01 PM): (getting very crowded in this thaing lol)
Thematrian1 (11:26:14 PM): It's by the ceiling, opposite corner from the shining man
Dragcrell (11:26:42 PM): "ok show me where they are."
Thematrian1 (11:27:00 PM): It waits
Thematrian1 (11:27:05 PM): "Go up!"
Dragcrell (11:27:34 PM): *pushes the button for floor 2* "well only one of two can be it ya"
Thematrian1 (11:27:49 PM): whiiiir. Ding!
Thematrian1 (11:28:02 PM): Conespirit bops in place. "Up!"
Dragcrell (11:28:39 PM): *hits the button for the 3rd floor* "could have said top."
EverGuard4 (11:29:11 PM): eep, I'll brb
Thematrian1 (11:29:31 PM): whiir. Ding!
Thematrian1 (11:30:35 PM): Door opens on...oh, wow, this is a nice room. Marble walkway to a wall cum giant flatscreen display device
MilesMk1 (11:31:10 PM): *scans the place for security devices*
MilesMk1 (11:31:33 PM): and anything else hidden
Dragcrell (11:31:34 PM): *pokes head out the door and looks around* "hello? Blake and Co. is here."
MilesMk1 (11:31:40 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 2 1 1 3 6
MilesMk1 (11:31:45 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 4
Thematrian1 (11:31:54 PM): on either side of the walkway is a...swimming pool? Pond? The water clear and deep
Thematrian1 (11:31:59 PM): the walkway perhaps five feet wide
MilesMk1 (11:32:55 PM): "Nice try, but it's still you they were asking for first..."
Dragcrell (11:32:56 PM): *steps out* "ok thats odd why but a ward on the flatcreen?"
Thematrian1 (11:32:57 PM): Blake: there are fish in the pond
MilesMk1 (11:33:12 PM): Carnivorous looking?
MilesMk1 (11:33:19 PM): *follows Trickster*
Thematrian1 (11:33:22 PM): Not really. Big and billowy and rainbow-colored
Dragcrell (11:33:23 PM): "And your idea to come up as well"
Thematrian1 (11:33:44 PM): On the far end of the walkway it opens out onto a dias, at the top of which is the bald ten-year-old boy you met earlier
MilesMk1 (11:34:03 PM): #It's the bald boy wonder again.#
Dragcrell (11:34:22 PM): *wispers to Blake* "mmmmmmm how fast can you run again?"
MilesMk1 (11:35:06 PM): *whispers back* "Probably slower than anyone else here."
Umbrafer (11:35:35 PM): (Bet Trickster is relieved)
Dragcrell (11:35:49 PM): *looks at the boy* "Well we'er here what is it you need?"
Thematrian1 (11:35:53 PM): "Hi."
MilesMk1 (11:35:58 PM): "Ok - we're here. What is it that you'd like to talk to us about..."
MilesMk1 (11:36:13 PM): (said at the same time as Trickster's line, I guess.)
Thematrian1 (11:36:16 PM): He sits down on the dias. "It's about a job."
EverGuard4 (11:36:18 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 5 4 2 4 2 6 5 4 2
Dragcrell (11:36:26 PM): (not realy >_> how fast can a simple ward be thrown up?)
Dragcrell (11:37:19 PM): "whats it intell?"
Umbrafer (11:37:29 PM): *entail
Dragcrell (11:37:38 PM): (bla)
Thematrian1 (11:37:54 PM): "Well, your group has some friends in a group of Russian arms dealers."
Umbrafer (11:38:05 PM): Them.
Thematrian1 (11:38:08 PM): He smiles. He looks embarassed.
Dragcrell (11:38:50 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 2 2 2 4 1 6 1
Thematrian1 (11:38:53 PM): "We've had a busy few days, just like everyone."
MilesMk1 (11:38:59 PM): "Yeah, I'm sure you feel real bad about digging through our memories."
Dragcrell (11:39:07 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (11:39:08 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 5 3 5 6 4 2 5 1 4 2 1 2 5 2
MilesMk1 (11:39:10 PM): (this following his embarassed look)
Thematrian1 (11:39:12 PM): he looks puzzled
Thematrian1 (11:39:29 PM): "They're not the kind of people we normally contact."
MilesMk1 (11:39:37 PM): "Or not... Please go on."
Thematrian1 (11:39:40 PM): "But we're meant for a peaceful world, a better world."
Dragcrell (11:40:24 PM): "Ya heard that befor so why do you need us for?"
Thematrian1 (11:40:39 PM): "Anyway, there are some things in this building that are important to the whole movement."
Thematrian1 (11:40:56 PM): "Not just the Universal Brotherhood in Chicago, but worldwide!"
Thematrian1 (11:41:20 PM): "Texts, astral impressions, things I don't even understand yet."
Thematrian1 (11:41:34 PM): "We're afraid of what will happen if we leave them here."
Thematrian1 (11:41:45 PM): "Your Russian friends told us you've got some skill at smuggling."
Thematrian1 (11:41:49 PM): "What do you say?"
Umbrafer (11:42:50 PM): (I should not be this excited at the prospect of spreading the bug infestation to another city.)
Dragcrell (11:42:51 PM): *looks at Blake then back at the kid* "not like it well be easy more so now then befor with the quarten and all."
Thematrian1 (11:43:31 PM): "We know. We're a world-wide organization, with lots of resources in lots of places."
Thematrian1 (11:43:40 PM): "We're willing to pay what it takes."
Thematrian1 (11:43:48 PM): (That's a hell of a suspicion, Jon)
Umbrafer (11:44:04 PM): (I'm just a suspicious guy :) )
Dragcrell (11:44:19 PM): "must have as your building is the only one retively untouched by the shit thats going on out side."
Thematrian1 (11:44:36 PM): He shrugs. "We're peaceful people, with a good reputation around here."
Thematrian1 (11:44:44 PM): "But that won't protect us forever."
Thematrian1 (11:44:52 PM): "It's been two days. Barely even that."
Dragcrell (11:45:40 PM): "ya last I checked bugs dont realy under stand the whole "good reputation" and "peacfull"." *smiles*
Umbrafer (11:46:17 PM): (You're going to get us all killed, you know that?)
Thematrian1 (11:46:26 PM): "We have a few mages building wards for us. If some of you are astrally aware, maybe you noticed them."
Umbrafer (11:46:32 PM): (I say that in the nicest way possible :) )
Thematrian1 (11:46:49 PM): (Says the guy who's excited about potentially dooming humanity)
Dragcrell (11:46:51 PM): (Naaaaa still needs you guys ;3 who else well drive the van and stuff)
MilesMk1 (11:46:59 PM): "From what I've seen, these things seem pretty attracted to magic. Lucky they've left you alone so far."
Umbrafer (11:47:20 PM): (I'm sure humanity could handle a few more bug infestations.)
Umbrafer (11:47:29 PM): (We'd probably only doom the UCAS or something.)
Dragcrell (11:47:55 PM): "ya seen that tho why have one on the screen there is a tad odd I would say."
Thematrian1 (11:47:59 PM): "Not at all. We don't actually use very much magic. Our meditation and wholeness techniques have existed since before the Awakening."
Thematrian1 (11:48:47 PM): He looks behind him. "We sometimes use this place for special meetings. It's peaceful."
MilesMk1 (11:48:49 PM): "...as did the wards and spirits? I doesn't really matter, though... How much are you offering, precisely?"
Umbrafer (11:48:57 PM): (This is technically true.)
Dragcrell (11:49:35 PM): "Tho I'm suprised they didn't tell you about the oily oozy feeling your building has of late."
Thematrian1 (11:49:55 PM): "Given the importance of the items you'd be transporting, and the good words that your Russian friends shared with us..."
Thematrian1 (11:50:27 PM): "My parents, and brothers here have asked me to offer you one million nuyen. Certified."
MilesMk1 (11:50:49 PM): (Aargh... It's been so long, I'm completely failing to distinguish between IC and OOC knowledge here, when trying to figure out what reason we have to completely distrust these guys...)
EverGuard4 (11:51:08 PM): (the kid is as creepy as all heck. And then some.)
MilesMk1 (11:51:20 PM): #I really... whaaa? This can't be for real.#
Dragcrell (11:51:26 PM): (hehehe well Trick has his own theriy and there is the creepy ness of the kid ya)
EverGuard4 (11:51:28 PM): (and he might be able to (literally and figuratively) eat us for lunch)
Dragcrell (11:51:46 PM): "what you think of this Rock?"
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MilesMk1 (11:52:11 PM): #Especially since I really don't think the Russians gave us that good of a reccomendation... From what I remember, they were the ones who pointed us to that setup of a job that got Sam killed...#
MilesMk1 (11:52:46 PM): #And the Johnson who ran that said he "had no reason to believe we were comepetent" when we put the squeeze on him.#
Umbrafer (11:52:48 PM): (If this gets relayed, Alex starts drooling)
Umbrafer (11:53:07 PM): (Suspiciously drooling, but drooling nonetheless)
MilesMk1 (11:53:09 PM): Oh, yeah. It gets relayed.
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Thematrian1 (11:53:39 PM): (The Russians were originally involved with the UCLA run, that resulted in Martha and Shojo's trip to Vegas and all that)
Dragcrell (11:54:11 PM): *thinks* "mmmm how do we know your on the up and up?"
Umbrafer (11:54:16 PM): #Maybe they didn't care about gerbil-guy.#
MilesMk1 (11:54:23 PM): (Right. Which is why I really don't think they'd honestly reccommend us.)
MilesMk1 (11:55:31 PM): #I still don't believe they thought too highly of us, if they pointed someone looking for cannon fodder towards us. Damn Shojo's latent maternal instincts.#
Dragcrell (11:55:47 PM): (I think its safe to say this one falls under "If it sounds to good to be true it might be all bull shit" ya)
Thematrian1 (11:56:13 PM): (Alex suspected the Russians of setting you up with Zephyr, but as far as I'm aware it never rose above base paranoia)
Thematrian1 (11:56:16 PM): (Anyway)
Thematrian1 (11:56:33 PM): "I can only offer two hundred thousand right away. It's all we have!"
Umbrafer (11:56:52 PM): (Indeed. We never really dug that heavily.)
Umbrafer (11:57:10 PM): (Speaking of whom, we may want to check on him. If he wasn't airlifted out of the city on the first night.)
MilesMk1 (11:57:17 PM): "And the rest of it? We'd have no intention of coming back to Chicago anythime soon to collect the rest."
Dragcrell (11:57:20 PM): "And the stuff we are to smuggle how large is it and how easy is it to hide?"
Dragcrell (11:57:47 PM): (brb have to get some small quakers in -_-)
Thematrian1 (11:58:08 PM): "The Universal Brotherhood is worldwide. Just find one of our branches, and they'll set things up for you."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:58:13 PM): (got to go. good night all!)
MilesMk1 (11:58:20 PM): (Good night.)
Umbrafer (11:58:27 PM): (Sleep well)
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MilesMk1 (11:58:42 PM): (Small quakers?)
Umbrafer (11:59:41 PM): (He apparently has diminutive religious friends.)
Thematrian1 (12:00:04 AM): (ducklings)
Thematrian1 (12:00:11 AM): (The ducklings need to be brought inside)
MilesMk1 (12:00:31 AM): (Oh. Quackers.)
Thematrian1 (12:02:25 AM): "There are two crates. Each is quite large..." he makes a few gestures, sketching a cube one Strato by one Strato by two Stratos, more or less
Dragcrell (12:02:27 AM): (lol back and yes Ducklings hehehe had a late hatching)
Thematrian1 (12:02:42 AM): (ducks don't hatch in the spring?)
Dragcrell (12:03:14 AM): (ya but we had a odd ball that waited untill fall to do it >_<)
Umbrafer (12:03:37 AM): (Some people just have to be different.)
Dragcrell (12:03:44 AM): "mmmmm Can they even fit in the Van?"
MilesMk1 (12:03:45 AM): "We just waltz up to a UB building, tell them we have something of theirs and ask for 800,000 in certified cred? And then what, get reported to the local PD for what sounds an awful lot like extortion?"
Dragcrell (12:04:10 AM): "Mmmm good point on that one Blake."
Thematrian1 (12:04:30 AM): "It's the other half of a business transaction. But I see your point."
Thematrian1 (12:04:36 AM): He thinks a moment.
Thematrian1 (12:04:42 AM): "How about this."
MilesMk1 (12:04:44 AM): "Or are we supposed to deliver it somewhere first, and then stop by any UB building and ask for nearly a million in certified cred?"
Thematrian1 (12:06:00 AM): "I'll go with you when you leave. Then, when you deliver our artifacts, I'll be able to make sure that you get paid."
MilesMk1 (12:07:06 AM): *blink*
Thematrian1 (12:07:38 AM): "I know your job doesn't leave much room for trust."
MilesMk1 (12:08:02 AM): "I think we all will need a little time to confer and come to a decision on this. I'm sure you're familiar with 'if it's too good to be true...'."
Umbrafer (12:08:10 AM): (This is such a bad idea that I'm almost giddy about the prospect of doing it.)
Dragcrell (12:08:57 AM): "Ummm I in agrement with that one."
Thematrian1 (12:09:01 AM): He nods. "I understand. Do you have a radio, or something, that we can use to reach you? The mages tell me that watchers aren't very reliable."
MilesMk1 (12:09:26 AM): "And I have to admit to being curious on one point... Now that we know you have something of great value, and are apparently able to find us at will... What happened if we decide we're not willing to risk this run?"
Thematrian1 (12:10:01 AM): He looks unhappy. "We look for someone else."
MilesMk1 (12:10:23 AM): "Just let us know when you need it, and we'll stop by with our answer."
Thematrian1 (12:10:31 AM): "And we can't find you at will. Only the watchers can, and they're not very smart."
Thematrian1 (12:10:47 AM): "Could you have it by the day after tomorrow?"
MilesMk1 (12:10:54 AM): "Our rigger tells me radio isn't very reliable, what with the state of the comm grid."
Dragcrell (12:11:23 AM): "mmm why not ask one of your followers with this surrly they would be better coneted to say get the stuff out more discretly?"
MilesMk1 (12:11:31 AM): (that was meant to directly follow my previous line)
Thematrian1 (12:11:43 AM): (check)
Thematrian1 (12:11:58 AM): He shakes his head sadly. "Our followers are all peaceful people, unused to violence and subterfuge."
MilesMk1 (12:12:34 AM): "We'll let you know by then, provided the bugs haven't eaten us."
Dragcrell (12:12:44 AM): *thinks*
Dragcrell (12:13:17 AM): (question what there any signs of any of there followers haveing been there of late when we came in?
Thematrian1 (12:13:43 AM): Not that you saw. Dark and immaculate.
Thematrian1 (12:13:56 AM): "You're resourceful. I'm sure you'll manage."
MilesMk1 (12:14:15 AM): "Thank you."
Dragcrell (12:15:14 AM): *looks at Blake* "acutly I'm supprised there wasn't any of his followers to great us when we came in like last time but then there most likly takeing refuge in there homes."
MilesMk1 (12:15:25 AM): (Now comes the part when we do the sensible thing, and try to use our captives to establish contact with the NG and tell them about a dangerous plot to smuggle something magical out of Chicago, and is there a reward?)
Thematrian1 (12:15:29 AM): "We didn't require anyone to stay."
Thematrian1 (12:15:59 AM): "Many people stayed here; they're meditating downstairs."
MilesMk1 (12:16:10 AM): "I suppose they'll feel more comfortable coming back once the wards are up."
Thematrian1 (12:16:38 AM): "It's a big building."
MilesMk1 (12:16:52 AM): (Oh, fuck... And I still have no clue how I'm going to get Jerome out of whatever trouble he's in.)
Umbrafer (12:17:04 AM): (We need to find him first.)
MilesMk1 (12:17:19 AM): (Well, yeah. I was abbreviating.)
Dragcrell (12:17:39 AM): "Ya that it is well untill we meet again" *Turns and slowly makes for the elvator*
MilesMk1 (12:17:55 AM): "Good day."
Thematrian1 (12:17:58 AM): He smiles at you all. "Thank you for coming."
MilesMk1 (12:18:04 AM): *follows Trickster*
Thematrian1 (12:18:28 AM): He gets up and walks toward you, doing the good host thing and not-quite following you out
EverGuard4 (12:18:56 AM): Creepy
Thematrian1 (12:20:17 AM): ding! ding! And you're in the lobby
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Dragcrell (12:20:42 AM): lol dame we need to nail his ass down >_<
MilesMk1 (12:21:03 AM): *walks out, trying to cleanse his soul*
MilesMk1 (12:21:12 AM): The kid, or our GM?
Umbrafer (12:21:20 AM): Both.
Dragcrell (12:21:39 AM): GM more then the kid tho
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Dragcrell (12:22:27 AM): (gets out some spikes and nails the GM down)
Thematrian1 (12:22:33 AM): Heading back to the van?
MilesMk1 (12:22:43 AM): (I think we should try duct tape first.)
MilesMk1 (12:22:48 AM): Blake is.
Dragcrell (12:23:01 AM): *makes for the door then the van*
Thematrian1 (12:23:28 AM): Rock?
MilesMk1 (12:23:53 AM): #This is making my head hurt. Well, at least we have something to talk about as we continue our round-up...#
EverGuard4 (12:24:18 AM): ?
EverGuard4 (12:24:26 AM): I'm following everyone to the exit
Thematrian1 (12:24:39 AM): check. We'll pick it up from here
Thematrian1 (12:24:42 AM): next week
Thematrian1 (12:24:50 AM): thank you all for coming, see you then at the latest
Dragcrell (12:25:07 AM): *comforts the GM*
Umbrafer (12:25:09 AM): *Wavewave*
MilesMk1 (12:25:10 AM): See you.
Thematrian1 (12:25:17 AM): although
Umbrafer (12:25:22 AM): Oh!
Thematrian1 (12:25:29 AM): Jon had a house rule to add
Umbrafer (12:25:32 AM): Before people leave, there's a houserule proposal.
Umbrafer (12:25:34 AM): Yeah.
Umbrafer (12:25:47 AM): As it stands, the rules for being pressed through an astral barrier are…
Umbrafer (12:25:53 AM): Um, forgiving, shall we say.
Umbrafer (12:25:55 AM): Overly so.
Dragcrell (12:26:10 AM): >_> ya the D stun is a tad over kill
Thematrian1 (12:26:22 AM): well, it's more "under" kill, is Jon's concern
Umbrafer (12:26:24 AM): Not only do they provide a way of going through a ward that doesn't involve entering astral combat to it, it doesn't involve the possibility of physical damage.
Umbrafer (12:26:56 AM): Therefore, I propose changing it to an iterated astral combat until the ward breaks or the individual being pressed through dies.
Dragcrell (12:28:05 AM): mmmmmm would be nice for SS's tho long in the combat I would think
Thematrian1 (12:28:40 AM): it's unlikely to come up in practice, but if there had been a ward in that elevator shaft...
Umbrafer (12:28:47 AM): Indeed.
Umbrafer (12:29:17 AM): Though, if there had been a ward in the shaft Blake probably would have been able to hit the E-Stop at the first sign of Trickster being forced down to the floor
Dragcrell (12:29:34 AM): hehehe
MilesMk1 (12:30:34 AM): Hmm...
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MilesMk1 (12:30:58 AM): Well, I don;t have strong feelings on the subject, since I don't see myself playing an awakened character anytime soon...
MilesMk1 (12:31:07 AM): Sounds fine to me in principle, though.
MilesMk1 (12:31:29 AM): We just need a large bug net and a ward to force the bastards through...
MilesMk1 (12:31:52 AM): I have a couple of questions of my own, BTW.
Thematrian1 (12:32:02 AM): ah?
Dragcrell (12:32:05 AM): *shurges* no worrys here about the change coudl be intresting
Thematrian1 (12:33:11 AM): questions?
MilesMk1 (12:33:42 AM): Yeah... I'm tricky that way. :)
Thematrian1 (12:34:01 AM): I'd complain, but...
MilesMk1 (12:35:06 AM): 1. I'm starting to think I might do something stupid for the sake of staying in character (like going into dangerous places with Trickster out of a misguided sense of loyalty ;)), so could I - once again - bug you about what'd
MilesMk1 (12:35:29 AM): happen if Blake died, and I had to make a new character? (Starting from zero, starting with some Karma...)
MilesMk1 (12:36:10 AM): 2. Do we actually get any of the aforementioned Karma for all this stuff we've been doing since Home Despot that's not exaclty runs per se?
Thematrian1 (12:36:19 AM): oh. You'd start with some karma, I don't know exactly how much. Not as much as Blake has; probably half that, or something along those lines
Thematrian1 (12:36:43 AM): 2. Yes. Finding the right time to award it will be tricky, but I'll perservere.
MilesMk1 (12:37:01 AM): I admire your dedication. :)
Thematrian1 (12:37:50 AM): hehe. I'm sure there'll be some kind of transition point in the group's goals or mood, and I'll award some then
Dragcrell (12:37:55 AM): *cough* ya sticking with Trick could be mmmmmmmmm what the word I'm looking for?
MilesMk1 (12:39:26 AM): Stupid?
MilesMk1 (12:39:29 AM): :p
Thematrian1 (12:39:47 AM): yeah, yeah. Well, you've got all week to think about the stuff that came up this game.
MilesMk1 (12:40:04 AM): Heh... Ok, I'll let you get to sleep.
Thematrian1 (12:40:13 AM): well, I'm awake for many hours yet
Thematrian1 (12:40:40 AM): I'm just enjoying the way that layers naturally accrue in shadowrun games
Umbrafer (12:40:56 AM): It's so true.
Umbrafer (12:41:13 AM): That's one of the things about modern life. Stuff doesn't go away just because you shot some of it.
Umbrafer (12:41:19 AM): Unless you shoot enough of it.
Thematrian1 (12:41:26 AM): right
Thematrian1 (12:41:28 AM): like heroin
Dragcrell (12:41:31 AM): *snickes* or how stuff never turns out as you think
Umbrafer (12:41:54 AM): It'll be interesting to find out if we shot enough of the zombie mages.
Umbrafer (12:42:00 AM): Incidentally, have I learned any more Russian?
Thematrian1 (12:42:20 AM): You may gain a point of Russian if you wish, sure
Thematrian1 (12:42:24 AM): haha
MilesMk1 (12:42:26 AM): Heh... Yeah, I don't mind the ever-growing complexity, but Blake needs *something* he can feel good about, or he's going to have problems.
Umbrafer (12:42:31 AM): \/\/007.
Thematrian1 (12:42:54 AM): ::nod:: Fair point, Matt.
MilesMk1 (12:42:55 AM): Though this might be the wrong city for this.
Thematrian1 (12:42:59 AM): heh
Thematrian1 (12:43:06 AM): all the more reason to get the hell out
Thematrian1 (12:43:11 AM): rescuing your contacts as you go
Umbrafer (12:43:14 AM): Now here's the question. Do I feel like speaking it at higher than 4, or do I just go for Read/Write?
Umbrafer (12:43:36 AM): I need to go back and reread some of the stuff in that deck…
Thematrian1 (12:43:56 AM): heh heh heh. I was sure you guys had forgotten all about that...
Umbrafer (12:44:21 AM): Nope
Umbrafer (12:44:30 AM): Been remembering it all along.
Umbrafer (12:44:46 AM): Now we'll get to discover all the stuff that would have let us know to get the hell out if we'd read it a week previously ;)
MilesMk1 (12:44:53 AM): I think at this point, he's getting pretty close to considering getting out, taking an intensive paramedic course to get to professional level. and applying for legitmate work with Doc Wagon. Gets to do.
MilesMk1 (12:45:08 AM): what he's good at, but it's morally acceptable. Reasonably so.
Umbrafer (12:45:26 AM): Aww…
Thematrian1 (12:45:33 AM): Yeah, if you want moral work you have to think outside the box a bit.
Umbrafer (12:45:38 AM): Going legit is such a sad end to a life of crime.
Thematrian1 (12:45:42 AM): A job with DocWagon certainly qualifies
MilesMk1 (12:45:51 AM): Of course, I like the character too much to retire him like that. :)
Umbrafer (12:45:55 AM): We'd actually do well at a DocWagon campaign
Umbrafer (12:46:02 AM): Well
Dragcrell (12:46:05 AM): lol
Umbrafer (12:46:16 AM): Until Alex blowtorched a patient for something or somesuch
Umbrafer (12:46:20 AM): *es
MilesMk1 (12:46:42 AM): We'd keep Alex in an armored cocoon, for what we'd claim would be her protection.
Umbrafer (12:46:53 AM): (I have a few paramedic friends. They have plenty of tales of interacting with the patients.)
Thematrian1 (12:47:30 AM): (Maybe we can retcon her backstory, eh Jon?)
Umbrafer (12:48:12 AM): (Hehehe)
Umbrafer (12:48:21 AM): (That would be an interesting reason for her to have fallen out of legit work…)
Umbrafer (12:48:51 AM): (But I suspect after the test-piloting went sour for whatever reason it did legit work just didn't have the attraction.)
Thematrian1 (12:49:06 AM): (It'd make a good story for another, non-Alex rigger)
Umbrafer (12:49:21 AM): (Sooth.)
Umbrafer (12:50:35 AM): Gah.
Umbrafer (12:50:39 AM): They're following me.
Thematrian1 (12:50:51 AM): (?)
Umbrafer (12:51:05 AM): I finally gain the good sense to stop reading the SR4 forums, and some of the annoying people from there decide to come join the main section.
Umbrafer (12:52:53 AM): (Mostly just FrankTrollman, I guess Blakkie never left)
Umbrafer (12:54:30 AM): But yeah, any thoughts as to where we go after this?
MilesMk1 (12:54:53 AM): You mean, where our characters go after Chicago?
Umbrafer (12:54:58 AM): Yep
Umbrafer (12:55:04 AM): Providing we make it out.
MilesMk1 (12:55:36 AM): Seattle?
MilesMk1 (12:55:38 AM): :)
Umbrafer (12:55:41 AM): Denver, Seattle, and DC seem like the most obvious choices
Umbrafer (12:55:57 AM): DC has a bit too much police presence for my taste
MilesMk1 (12:56:00 AM): Get work cleaning up the huge mess our other characters are now helping create?
Umbrafer (12:56:13 AM): Say, that's right.
Umbrafer (12:56:19 AM): The news blackout is really convenient.
Thematrian1 (12:56:26 AM): heh heh heh
Umbrafer (12:56:42 AM): That way I don't have to come up with a reason for why none of the stuff that'll happen in a month in the Thursday game is getting reported today
Umbrafer (12:56:57 AM): There's Boston and the exchange, but that also will have too many feds
Thematrian1 (12:57:15 AM): There's always CFS.
Umbrafer (12:57:16 AM): Seattle is logical, but increases continuity problems
Umbrafer (12:57:22 AM): That's true
MilesMk1 (12:57:33 AM): We go to Europe, and help liberate Poland from Russian occupation.
Umbrafer (12:57:38 AM): But I'm not sure I'm cut out for CFS work
Umbrafer (12:57:56 AM): I'd…
Thematrian1 (12:58:02 AM): hm
Umbrafer (12:58:06 AM): Like to stay away from Europe for a few more years.
Umbrafer (12:58:18 AM): Long memories over there.
MilesMk1 (12:58:20 AM): Hehe.
Umbrafer (12:58:56 AM): Especially Germany.
MilesMk1 (1:00:04 AM): I'd not be able to handle any game set in Poland anyway - unless maybe I ran it. I'd never be able to suspend the disbelief and/or keep myself from nitpicking. :)
Umbrafer (1:00:24 AM): :)
Umbrafer (1:00:36 AM): To be fair, your knowledge would all be sixty years out of date.
Thematrian1 (1:00:38 AM): Yeah, I've been trying not to bring that up, but all of Europe has the disadvantage that I haven't the foggiest clue what it's like
Thematrian1 (1:00:45 AM): in SR, or in RL, really
Umbrafer (1:01:55 AM): We could always run to Canada
Umbrafer (1:02:03 AM): Or get a boat and become pirates
Thematrian1 (1:02:05 AM): why? What happened to Canada?
Umbrafer (1:02:42 AM): Not much. In another half-decade some stuff will start going down in the Algonkian-Manitou Council, but that's in a half-decade—there's naught but the barest whispers of that yet
MilesMk1 (1:03:05 AM): I tried reading through a Twilight 2000 book once, and I just kept going: "What the hell? That's a woman's last name. That doesn't even sound Polish. This whole Mad-Max behind the iron curtain flavor is great, but I'm pretty
MilesMk1 (1:03:23 AM): sure assless chaps are really sort of out of national character..."
Thematrian1 (1:03:43 AM): hah
Umbrafer (1:04:15 AM): We could get in on the ground floor of the Yucatan rebellion
Umbrafer (1:04:24 AM): Or go to Madagascar
Umbrafer (1:04:30 AM): And after that make new characters
Umbrafer (1:04:45 AM): What's your opinion on Australia?
MilesMk1 (1:04:55 AM): Drop Bears.
Umbrafer (1:05:26 AM): Bah, they owe me their allegiance anyawy.
Umbrafer (1:05:29 AM): *way
Umbrafer (1:05:52 AM): We could always go corrporate and get access to the good gear.
Umbrafer (1:05:59 AM): None of us really seem like the company man type, though.
MilesMk1 (1:06:03 AM): Mhmm...
MilesMk1 (1:06:05 AM): Nah.
MilesMk1 (1:06:26 AM): I could see joining a mercenary company, but not a corp.
Umbrafer (1:07:19 AM): Indeed.
MilesMk1 (1:07:46 AM): What I've been wondering about is - are the organisations holding Chicago in quarantine interested at all in doing business with people with experience with the bugs and what's on the inside?
Umbrafer (1:07:48 AM): Alex has joined corps and might again someday, but not in black ops.
Umbrafer (1:07:56 AM): Hm…
Umbrafer (1:08:13 AM): That's actually a relative unknown in the stuff I've found.
Umbrafer (1:08:22 AM): Ares is interesting in doing business with the bugs themselves…
MilesMk1 (1:08:50 AM): That's basically the only way I'd consider going back into Chicago - equipped with military-grade gear, and paid an absurd sum of money to kill bugs.
Umbrafer (1:09:26 AM): Ares might do that. This may be too serious for them to use outside contractors, though, at least shadow contractors.
MilesMk1 (1:09:30 AM): I just need to get my willpower to 10, charisma to 6, and polearms/staffs to 9 or 10...
MilesMk1 (1:10:25 AM): So just another 100 karma or so...
MilesMk1 (1:10:54 AM): Ah... I'm starting to really lose it, and it'd been a long day... See you guys Thursday?
Thematrian1 (1:10:59 AM): and you'll be a lean, mean, bug-killing machine
Thematrian1 (1:11:00 AM): natch
Umbrafer (1:11:03 AM): *Nods* Sounds good.
MilesMk1 (1:11:10 AM): Goodnight.
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Umbrafer (1:11:24 AM): Still need to figure out whether or not it's valuable to be fluent in Russian.
Umbrafer (1:11:33 AM): I've got a 4 now, that should be fairly competent
Umbrafer (1:11:48 AM): But the next level at which I'd get R/W is 6…
Dragcrell (1:11:57 AM): hehehehehe bloody hell tho you guys are so dame paraniod tho hehehehe
Umbrafer (1:12:11 AM): I will call upon you to witness our continued existence.
Dragcrell (1:12:53 AM): ya point given but *cough* not like Tricks THAT EASY TO KILL!!!!
Umbrafer (1:13:12 AM): On the contrary, he's very easy to kill.
Umbrafer (1:13:18 AM): Just use a nasty spirit or a projecting mage.
Dragcrell (1:13:47 AM): *looks at Them* hehehehehehe ^_^
Umbrafer (1:13:53 AM): And he's got a one-in-six chance of failure.
Dragcrell (1:15:18 AM): eh weapon foci would work better makes it a 1-2 death then
Umbrafer (1:15:41 AM): We have five days of sanity left.
Umbrafer (1:16:33 AM): You prepared for this, Seiler?
Thematrian1 (1:17:03 AM): potentially
Thematrian1 (1:17:12 AM): what do you mean?
Umbrafer (1:17:22 AM): NaNoWriMo.
Thematrian1 (1:17:24 AM): oh
Thematrian1 (1:17:26 AM): ohhh
Umbrafer (1:18:06 AM): The light dawns :)
Umbrafer (1:18:19 AM): Been trying not to think about it?
Thematrian1 (1:18:44 AM): I've had other things to occupy my attention
Thematrian1 (1:18:48 AM): but I think I'm prepared
Umbrafer (1:19:12 AM): Fair enow. Likewise for me; I remembered it abruptly a day and a half ago and checked the calendar to make sure I wasn't late.
Dragcrell (1:20:15 AM): hehehe gets kinda nuts around the 31st where you are at eh
Umbrafer (1:20:45 AM): Not so much, usually pretty quiet. It's after that that hell starts breaking loose.
Dragcrell (1:21:28 AM): ahhhhhh ya quiet here as well but then liveing 3.5 miles out of town and never keeping treats around for the buggers works wonders
Umbrafer (1:21:49 AM): (Incidentally, we didn't ask in all of it—are there any cities in particular that you think are good candidates for post-Chicago play, or would you rather not risk interfering with the players' process of choice as it were?)
Thematrian1 (1:22:27 AM): Not Europe. Please God, not Europe. The Yucatan would involve a lot of me making stuff up. Other than that, go nuts.
Thematrian1 (1:22:42 AM): I mean, I certainly have preferences, but I don't want to disturb your free will.
Umbrafer (1:22:51 AM): The Yucatan always involves a lot of making stuff up.
Thematrian1 (1:23:33 AM): oh. Ok then
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Dragcrell (1:23:37 AM): *chucles* well if some stuff goes down right dont think it would matter to much to me as well
Dragcrell (1:25:25 AM): hehehehe has yet to get eh lap top fixed I take it
Umbrafer (1:25:34 AM): Ah well. Time to catch some shuteye, sleep well
Umbrafer (1:25:37 AM): Indeed.
Dragcrell (1:25:44 AM): ok have fun
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