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Umbrafer (7:45:08 PM): Ahoy
MilesMk1 (7:45:35 PM): Evening.
Dragcrell (7:45:41 PM): Hey guys I well be a little slower on responding
Thematrian1 (7:45:49 PM): good evening everyone-who's-not-CirclMastr
Thematrian1 (7:46:38 PM): I'll probably be a little slow too; it is hot as balls here
Dragcrell (7:47:03 PM): lol ya but lestyour not useing a foren keyboard set up
Thematrian1 (7:47:21 PM): true, very true
MilesMk1 (7:47:23 PM): Wait... So you weren't, until now?
MilesMk1 (7:47:26 PM): ;)
Dragcrell (7:47:57 PM): I'm not at MY comp on my sisteres laptop
Umbrafer (7:48:05 PM): I'm fairly certain balls don't get this hot.
MilesMk1 (7:48:12 PM): It was 91 degrees in our lab today.
Thematrian1 (7:48:21 PM): In the lab? Why, for God's sake?
MilesMk1 (7:49:00 PM): Because the building's fucked up, and without someone tearing out rebuilding the air vents, some rooms get no cool air, while in others, fucking people from Italy complaing it's cold and wear sweaters, that's why.
Dragcrell (7:49:04 PM): lol only 80 here
Thematrian1 (7:49:07 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 9-sided dice: 4 8 1 3 3 4 1 1 8 5 5 3 9 6 9
MilesMk1 (7:49:15 PM): complain
Thematrian1 (7:49:26 PM): wait, is Italy famously cool?
Thematrian1 (7:49:37 PM): are the people nice? Do they speak English?
Thematrian1 (7:49:40 PM): Is Italian easy to learn?
Umbrafer (7:49:44 PM): Northern Italy is indeed
Thematrian1 (7:49:46 PM): or only moderately difficult?
Umbrafer (7:49:50 PM): I mean, not "famously"
Umbrafer (7:50:11 PM): But quite cool--hill country. IIRC we got snow in May when we were there.
Dragcrell (7:50:17 PM): ha ha
Umbrafer (7:50:20 PM): Not that that's typical
Umbrafer (7:50:23 PM): But it happened
Thematrian1 (7:50:38 PM): right
MilesMk1 (7:50:52 PM): Incidentally, 91 degrees is also, apparently, too warm for polyacrylamide gels that take three hours to set up to run properly.
Thematrian1 (7:50:54 PM): they need tech workers, right?
Umbrafer (7:51:12 PM): That part I'm unsure on.
MilesMk1 (7:51:23 PM): Well, they're famous for their negative population growth, so I'm sure they'll need all kinds of people, eventually.
Thematrian1 (7:51:28 PM): Matt: that sounds like the start of a short, unpleasant story :-/
Thematrian1 (7:51:41 PM): Hmm. Lousy economy? Brutal dictatorship?
MilesMk1 (7:51:51 PM): Not sure, really.
Dragcrell (7:51:59 PM): *sighs* hope my contetion starts to work soon >_< I hate this shity new Aim set up
MilesMk1 (7:52:16 PM): I never upgraded. I like seeing my die rolls.
Dragcrell (7:52:42 PM): ya I have the OLD one on my comb but couldn'tget it on sis's ; ;
Umbrafer (7:52:48 PM): On that topic, hopefully within a few weeks we'll have our custom chatclient ready to deploy
Umbrafer (7:53:12 PM): Though I will note that I say this without having tested it at all on Windows, so it could not happen anytime soon. That said, Python usually doesn't care.
MilesMk1 (7:53:20 PM): On the plus side, the foreign keyboard seems to have improved your spelling. :P
Dragcrell (7:53:42 PM): ha ha I hate compact keyboards >_<
MilesMk1 (7:53:54 PM): So, is Dave unresponsive, or are we just Not Talking to Him?
Thematrian1 (7:54:00 PM): he's invited
Dragcrell (7:54:01 PM): brb
Thematrian1 (7:54:08 PM): that's why we're stalling, to
Thematrian1 (7:54:10 PM): let him in
MilesMk1 (7:54:23 PM): Ah.
Thematrian1 (7:54:24 PM): I'll feel bad about calling Jon to roust him if we don't start until 8:30...
Thematrian1 (7:54:26 PM): although
Thematrian1 (7:54:35 PM): I guess Todd didn't enter the Tower of Doom
Umbrafer (7:54:37 PM): No no, it was good
Umbrafer (7:54:41 PM): I was just stewing anyway.
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CirclMastr (7:56:21 PM): I want a Wii.
Thematrian1 (7:57:17 PM): way to blight the conversation
CirclMastr (7:57:40 PM): Nothing can stand before the Wii.
Umbrafer (7:57:52 PM): Nintendo was saved by Apple.
Thematrian1 (7:58:04 PM): anyway, when we left our protagonists, they were variously watching some blonde lady watching them, trying to figure out what to do with the Sperethiel-speaking ex burn victim, and doing both simultaneously
Umbrafer (7:58:05 PM): Only one thing could be worse than changing the name "Revolution" to "Wii"
Umbrafer (7:58:14 PM): Man, Sperethiel…
Umbrafer (7:58:32 PM): Our non-Elven Sperethiel-speaking ex-burn-victim, I should add
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Dragcrell (7:59:00 PM): WOOT I'm back
Dragcrell (7:59:24 PM): and on my comp :3
Thematrian1 (8:00:21 PM): Yep
Thematrian1 (8:00:24 PM): non Elven
CirclMastr (8:01:21 PM): *tries drawing a little stick figure person on the ground, then a bug bigger than the person, then points at the bug then points at my wound*
Umbrafer (8:01:44 PM): ("A bug bigger than a person is going to sprout from your wound?")
CirclMastr (8:02:00 PM): ("Yes, unless you learn English")
Thematrian1 (8:02:33 PM): He was zoning out, but he focuses on you as you begin drawing. There's enough dust and dirt on the ground that you can draw legibly.
CirclMastr (8:02:39 PM): (I swear, I wish shouting was aloud, it would be the perfect time for "ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!")
Thematrian1 (8:02:44 PM): Any instantaneous actions from the group inside?
MilesMk1 (8:03:06 PM): I was going to speak, so I guess, not for me.
Thematrian1 (8:03:07 PM): (Shouting is not forbidden, nor is it quiet)
Thematrian1 (8:03:14 PM): Give me the first worc
Thematrian1 (8:03:14 PM): d
MilesMk1 (8:03:36 PM): "Hello."
Umbrafer (8:03:46 PM): Shielddrone: "Meep"
Thematrian1 (8:04:28 PM): Her pupil dilates a bit. She doesn't move.
Umbrafer (8:04:57 PM): SD: *Really hopes she isn't a bomb*
Thematrian1 (8:05:34 PM): Todd: your prisoner/patient/whatever grabs a stick of his own, and sketches out a box with two wheels and the letters CTA written on the side.
Thematrian1 (8:05:48 PM): Everyone down below: actions?
Thematrian1 (8:05:56 PM): (they need not be instantaneous, this time around)
CirclMastr (8:05:56 PM): #Have we seen any vehicles with CTA on them?#
Thematrian1 (8:06:19 PM): (You have; the burning bus you grabbed him out of was Chicago Transit Authority)
CirclMastr (8:06:34 PM): (Ah)
CirclMastr (8:07:36 PM): *draws some flames around the bus*
MilesMk1 (8:08:08 PM): "Should I assume the lack of vindicator fire indicates you wish to talk?"
Thematrian1 (8:08:11 PM): He nods, and draws a dotted line from the bug you drew to the bus.
Thematrian1 (8:08:48 PM): She speaks, low and carrying: "Maybe. Where are you?"
CirclMastr (8:08:51 PM): #I think he's saying a bug attacked the bus he was on.#
MilesMk1 (8:09:34 PM): (Did she in fact just ask me where I am?)
Thematrian1 (8:09:40 PM): (Yes)
MilesMk1 (8:09:52 PM): #Did that make sense to you, Alex?#
CirclMastr (8:10:07 PM): *draws a stick figure 'lying down', points at him to indicate that it is him, and then draws a question mark*
MilesMk1 (8:10:08 PM): (I am not completely hidden, as far as I can tell, am I?)
Umbrafer (8:10:09 PM): #How many? None, unless she's asking me.#
CirclMastr (8:10:15 PM): (You got ambushed by a blind runner. I laugh at you.)
MilesMk1 (8:11:13 PM): (Or was the assumption I was out of sight behind the shield drone?)
Thematrian1 (8:11:48 PM): Blake: no, you're sure she can see you.
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Thematrian1 (8:12:50 PM): At your hesitation, she adds: "Humor me, will you?"
MilesMk1 (8:14:06 PM): "In the basement of the Ares Tower, in the quarantined city of Chicago."
MilesMk1 (8:14:15 PM): "UCAS."
Thematrian1 (8:15:06 PM): Todd: he points into the empty pocket that he showed you earlier
CirclMastr (8:15:59 PM): *points at the bug, then holds up one finger, then two, then three, looking at him questioningly*
Thematrian1 (8:16:00 PM): She nods. "How are things outside?"
Thematrian1 (8:16:51 PM): Todd: he looks puzzled for a moment, then holds up ten fingers, makes two fists, holds up ten fingers, makes two fists, holds five fingers
CirclMastr (8:17:07 PM): #...Twenty five bugs.#
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Dragcrell (8:17:29 PM): (grumbles)
MilesMk1 (8:17:55 PM): "The insects are a constant problem, but two bit warlords seem a bit more pressing concern at the moment, there's not electricity or water, and the army's shooting anyone trying to leave."
Thematrian1 (8:17:57 PM): He adds an uncertain gesture to his one open hand
Umbrafer (8:18:07 PM): (Not that I saw that, but it could also be 225 bugs.)
MilesMk1 (8:18:26 PM): "And all communications are down, of course."
CirclMastr (8:18:41 PM): (Is there really that big a difference between 25 and 225? We're equally fucked)
Umbrafer (8:18:58 PM): (How impressive it is that he counted them.
Umbrafer (8:18:59 PM): *)
Dragcrell (8:19:22 PM): #ask herrr how long she's been herrre#
Thematrian1 (8:19:31 PM): "And the looters, of course." she adds dryly
Umbrafer (8:20:19 PM): (We're not looters, we're occupiers!)
CirclMastr (8:20:23 PM): #Uh, Cat, if you could get back with that bag you took from this guy, I'd appreciate it.#
Umbrafer (8:20:26 PM): (Actually, we're all white, so I guess we'd be "finders")
CirclMastr (8:20:37 PM): (Explorers)
MilesMk1 (8:20:54 PM): "Yeah. You wouldn't believe the crap I had to go through, trying to buy a generator at Home Despot."
Umbrafer (8:20:54 PM): (New Orleans flooding reference)
Dragcrell (8:21:26 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 1 5 1 3 5
MilesMk1 (8:21:39 PM): "Good thing the automated defenses keep their kind out."
Thematrian1 (8:22:29 PM): She looks thoughtful. "How did you sneak by those?"
Dragcrell (8:22:49 PM): #what is impornted about the bag? and I dont not think I can as I'm unsurrrten if the elevatorrr worrrks now#
CirclMastr (8:23:07 PM): #It has something to do with the bugs, I think.#
Dragcrell (8:24:22 PM): #find out then mmm#
MilesMk1 (8:24:29 PM): "I think they lost track of us amid all the gunfire."
CirclMastr (8:24:50 PM): #You're lucky I can find out anything at all, this clown doesn't speak English, remember?#
Umbrafer (8:25:17 PM): #We'll get it back when we can.#
Umbrafer (8:25:19 PM): #If we can.#
Dragcrell (8:25:28 PM): #netherrr did I at firrrst how you talking to him now?#
MilesMk1 (8:25:29 PM): #What is it with us and strange magicians that don't speak English?#
CirclMastr (8:25:45 PM): #Drawing in the dirt.#
Umbrafer (8:26:05 PM): #The other guy spoke English. Sometimes, at least. I wonder where he went…#
Dragcrell (8:26:29 PM): #well drrraw a bag then and find out#
CirclMastr (8:26:48 PM): #I already know it's the bag, it's the only thing he had in his pocket.#
Thematrian1 (8:27:15 PM): Blake: She speaks. "So if you're not a looter, what are you doing here?"
Dragcrell (8:27:23 PM): #yes but betterrr to know why he wants it firrrst#
CirclMastr (8:29:15 PM): *rolls my eyes at Cat, despite the fact that she can't see*
Thematrian1 (8:29:27 PM): so note
Thematrian1 (8:29:28 PM): d
Umbrafer (8:29:38 PM): I'm going to take the risk of jumping back into the shielddrone.
Umbrafer (8:29:57 PM): Taking a good, close look at the woman. High priority on not moving the drone.
MilesMk1 (8:30:13 PM): (sorry, had to step away. answer coming)
Dragcrell (8:30:20 PM): *slowly and softly moves from ceiling to the floor and sniffs the air*
MilesMk1 (8:30:41 PM): "Looking into various options for getting out of this city."
Thematrian1 (8:30:58 PM): Alex: passives
Umbrafer (8:31:11 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 5 1 2 5 4 2 4
Umbrafer (8:31:13 PM): Ew.
Umbrafer (8:31:18 PM): 3, 3, 2, 2
Thematrian1 (8:32:31 PM): She's there all right.
CirclMastr (8:32:32 PM): *motions for him to draw something*
Thematrian1 (8:33:11 PM): Very slowly and carefully, he draws a bug. Then he draws a stick figure dangling from its legs.
Thematrian1 (8:33:26 PM): He tries to give it x's for eyes, but there isn't enough space and he smudges it.
CirclMastr (8:34:06 PM): *points at the stick figure in its legs, then points at the question mark again* #A bug killed someone and carried them off.#
Thematrian1 (8:34:55 PM): He less carefully draws a second such bug and a second such person.
Dragcrell (8:34:59 PM): #meny bugs do the same with otherrr bugs forrr food forrr a nest.....#
Thematrian1 (8:35:20 PM): Blake: she wasn't expecting that answer
CirclMastr (8:35:44 PM): *points at the question mark again* #Two people.#
Thematrian1 (8:36:34 PM): He starts to draw a third bug, then rubs it out.
CirclMastr (8:36:52 PM): "Huh?"
Dragcrell (8:36:59 PM): #neverrr watch a ant collonie beforrr I take it I use to have fun drrroping bugs in to them and watch the ants attack that tbug *soft purrrr*#
Thematrian1 (8:37:02 PM): Blake: she eventually recovers enough to say "And you're looking in a basement?"
Thematrian1 (8:37:11 PM): He draws a line over his first drawing
Thematrian1 (8:37:15 PM): a line over his second
Thematrian1 (8:37:18 PM): then draws six more lines
CirclMastr (8:38:05 PM): *holds up six fingers, then holds up eight, then points at question mark*
Thematrian1 (8:38:20 PM): Rather hesitantly, he presents 8
CirclMastr (8:38:47 PM): #Eight people carried off by bugs.#
Dragcrell (8:39:19 PM): #what kind orrr can you tell by the drrrawing?#
CirclMastr (8:39:45 PM): #This isn't a fucking art school, it's a drawing in dirt. Giant fucking bugs, what kind do you think?#
MilesMk1 (8:40:30 PM): "Never underestimate the element of surprise?"
MilesMk1 (8:40:52 PM): "Actually, it seemed like a good idea to stopping by a security station first. Someone vandalized the one in the lobby."
MilesMk1 (8:40:59 PM): to stop by
Thematrian1 (8:41:09 PM): She chokes off a giggle. In the setting (red emergency lights when they aren't broken), it's awfully incongruous.
Dragcrell (8:41:15 PM): *growls* #Not all bugs kill the food at firrrst only........makes it so it can't move forrr a long time but otherrrs kills the food off and moves it else wherrre to eat it#
Thematrian1 (8:42:09 PM): (At your first line, that is, not your second)
CirclMastr (8:42:13 PM): #I don't know what the fuck you're trying to say.#
MilesMk1 (8:42:40 PM): BTW, Blake is watching for signs that she's finding his attempts at being disarming annoying, and will change tack if that's the case.
Thematrian1 (8:42:55 PM): "So they really did it."
MilesMk1 (8:43:03 PM): #I think he's saying not all bug prey that looks dead is dead.#
Thematrian1 (8:43:07 PM): "You forced the locks on the stairs, right?"
Thematrian1 (8:43:16 PM): "We...may be able to make a deal, here."
MilesMk1 (8:44:01 PM): "They? No, we took the elevator."
CirclMastr (8:44:11 PM): #Well he is depicting them as dead.#
MilesMk1 (8:44:56 PM): #Hey, I'm just trying to negotiate with someone so she doesn't shoot us with a minigun, excuse me for not following exactly.#
CirclMastr (8:45:48 PM): *motions for him to keep drawing*
Dragcrell (8:46:19 PM): #They would look dead only not......tho the ones that do that some times uses the prrray forrr otherrr uses then food#
CirclMastr (8:46:56 PM): #So what? They still got carried off and he is saying they're dead. I'm disinclined to take another detour to look for them.#
MilesMk1 (8:47:22 PM): "Frankly, I was a bit surprised no one tried to stop us somewhere between floor 31 and 32, after all the time I spent putting in a cutout in the security circuit."
MilesMk1 (8:47:39 PM): make stop us -> send us to
Dragcrell (8:47:47 PM): #that would be walking in to death anyway#
Dragcrell (8:49:45 PM): *sits on her hunches and waits for blake to do something*
CirclMastr (8:49:56 PM): *waits for him to draw something*
Thematrian1 (8:50:15 PM): (We have delioch, but there's a hitch. Would someone else try inviting him, please?)
MilesMk1 (8:50:18 PM): (I'm assuming she's answering, it's just slow in coming due to parallel conversations... patience.)
MilesMk1 (8:50:21 PM): (Or that.)
Thematrian1 (8:50:22 PM): Todd: he seems to be at a loss.
MilesMk1 (8:50:38 PM): (Invite sent.)
An error occurred while trying to invite delioch. Please try again in a few minutes.

Umbrafer (8:51:19 PM): ("An error occurred while trying to invite delioch. Please try again in a few minutes."
Umbrafer (8:51:20 PM): *)
CirclMastr (8:51:21 PM): *draws a simple compass with N S E W, points at the bugs with people, then points at the compass, then the question mark*
CirclMastr (8:51:41 PM): (ugh, brb)
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Thematrian1 (8:52:06 PM): Lady: "I don't know. I don't think anyone understood all the security interconnections, not even the riggers."
Thematrian1 (8:52:39 PM): (somenoe else try inviting him now)
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delioch (8:52:58 PM): (sweet)
Dragcrell (8:52:59 PM): (^_^)
Thematrian1 (8:53:19 PM): good times
MilesMk1 (8:53:29 PM): "Hmm... You mentioned a deal?"
Thematrian1 (8:53:48 PM): "That was assuming you had the stairs open. The elevators only go down, you see."
delioch (8:53:49 PM): did you just start
Dragcrell (8:54:13 PM): (nope we start at a new time)
Thematrian1 (8:54:22 PM): (Not really. I'm swamped; somebody else c&p the chat to him)
Dragcrell (8:54:49 PM): #I can see if I can force em open from this end#
delioch (8:54:54 PM): (what new time)
MilesMk1 (8:55:10 PM): "Well, I'm sure we can do something about the stairs. What kind of locks are we talking about?"
MilesMk1 (8:55:22 PM): BTW, did we see anything down here that looked like a stairwell?
Thematrian1 (8:55:36 PM): "Maglocks, good ones." (Yes. You have your choice of open elevators or tightly locked stairs to get down here)
MilesMk1 (8:55:57 PM): (I remember seeing some upstairs, but not down here. Good times.)
MilesMk1 (8:56:45 PM): "I'd be happy to take a stab at them."
Thematrian1 (8:56:48 PM): (Ah. You haven't seen them, but the building layout suggests that they'd be on the opposite side of the inner square)
Thematrian1 (8:56:57 PM): (And come to think of it, that's what the plans say too)
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CirclMastr (8:59:38 PM): (What'd I miss?)
Thematrian1 (8:59:56 PM): Todd: He looks around, then points uncertainly toward the north.
CirclMastr (9:01:13 PM): (What direction is that relative to the building everyone is in?)
Thematrian1 (9:01:15 PM): She: "Is there still fighting outside? He...we lost our link to the camera inputs a while ago."
MilesMk1 (9:02:10 PM): "Not at the moment. The bugs are being... relatively quiet, too."
delioch (9:02:13 PM): (are we still in radio contact?)
Thematrian1 (9:02:21 PM): (Yes)
delioch (9:04:30 PM): #hey, i'm going to try to fix the security system that way we can use it to our advantage#
MilesMk1 (9:05:26 PM): #Uh... What?!#
Umbrafer (9:05:46 PM): #Wha?#
Umbrafer (9:06:01 PM): *Jumps out of shielddrone now*
Thematrian1 (9:06:21 PM): Lady: "Do they still control the executive suites?"
MilesMk1 (9:06:45 PM): #First of all, I'm talking to one of the people here, so I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't mess with anything in ways that might get me shot... And second, how did you get access?#
delioch (9:07:15 PM): #...trade secert#
MilesMk1 (9:07:34 PM): "The bugs? I don't know, although some of them seemed to be hanging around the top of the building."
Dragcrell (9:07:36 PM): "He can't do any harrrm can he?" *ears flick* "Who arrre they you keep speeking of?"
Thematrian1 (9:10:31 PM): Blake: Hearing this she snarls a bit, a quick curl of her lips. "Damn it."
Dragcrell (9:12:27 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 3 3 2 6 1
Dragcrell (9:12:32 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (9:14:42 PM): "Look, I realize that this is a lot to ask, given the situation, but perhaps you could explain some of these things you've been referring to? If we can help you, it'd go a long way to putting us on better footing,
MilesMk1 (9:15:08 PM): but we can't do that if we don't know what it is you need. Aside from maglock removal."
Dragcrell (9:15:47 PM): #Yourrr coment coused herrr to become enrrraged betterrr be carrrefull#
MilesMk1 (9:16:14 PM): #Which one? The one about bugs up top, or the last one?#
delioch (9:16:15 PM): and who... wait what?#
Dragcrell (9:16:38 PM): #about the bugs being at the top of the building#
MilesMk1 (9:17:28 PM): #Can you tell if she's angry at me, or angry because the bugs are occupying the place?#
CirclMastr (9:17:32 PM): #Wait a minute, any chance whoever you're talking to knows whoever I'm talking to?#
Thematrian1 (9:17:47 PM): Todd: The Tower is east of here, IIRC.
MilesMk1 (9:18:18 PM): #I don't know... I'm trying to get her to relax a little. If I have a chance, I'll ask.#
Umbrafer (9:18:20 PM): #Small.#
delioch (9:18:47 PM): #who are you people talking to? and what in the world have you gotten yourself into?#
CirclMastr (9:19:16 PM): #Just ask her about a mage who speaks Sperethiel.#
Umbrafer (9:19:57 PM): #You don't want to know.#
delioch (9:20:52 PM): #i might#
Thematrian1 (9:20:58 PM): Lady: "When the executives figured out what was going on, they promised it would be business as usual. But when they and their pets left, they locked us in."
MilesMk1 (9:22:18 PM): *nods knowingly* "Many people in my line would say they kept their word... in a manner of speaking."
MilesMk1 (9:22:24 PM): my line of work
Dragcrell (9:22:33 PM): "pets??? and we who?" *stands up* "and why is it you cant see?"
delioch (9:22:36 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 3 4 4
MilesMk1 (9:22:42 PM): and "they kept their word, then..."
Umbrafer (9:23:07 PM): I'm going to keep the cable connected, but return to the meatworld and check on the kids.
Thematrian1 (9:23:24 PM): She smiles again. "I couldn't have left anyway. But the defenses turned against us; I don't know who's running them."
delioch (9:23:27 PM): delioch rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 3
Thematrian1 (9:23:38 PM): "They didn't promise a thing, did warn us of anything. It just happened."
MilesMk1 (9:25:03 PM): "You do seem to be in control of some of them, still."
MilesMk1 (9:25:25 PM): *points in the general direction of the assumed vindicator minigun*
Thematrian1 (9:27:32 PM): "That isn't building security, just mine."
delioch (9:27:35 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 3 6 5
MilesMk1 (9:27:46 PM): "I see."
MilesMk1 (9:28:59 PM): "Well, I might be able to get through the maglocks. It's by no means what I do best, but I am fairly good at it."
Thematrian1 (9:29:32 PM): "We had a guy who was better than fairly good. After he gave up, he took an elevator down. The last we heard, he was searching one of the research labs for tools."
MilesMk1 (9:30:26 PM): "Yeah, but I'm lucky... And I have several kilograms of thermite, if that fails."
delioch (9:30:44 PM): #question.....does anyone have a company card handie?#
Dragcrell (9:31:39 PM): "Should we trrry and find this man?" #some why#
Umbrafer (9:31:42 PM): #What?#
delioch (9:32:23 PM): #i need a card with a access code so that i can get this system going.#
Umbrafer (9:33:01 PM): #Where are you?#
delioch (9:34:01 PM): # like i said in the sercurty room#
MilesMk1 (9:34:26 PM): #Which one?#
Dragcrell (9:34:41 PM): "Blake would not the elevatorrrs have to go up to pick up someone wishing to come down herrre?"
delioch (9:34:41 PM): #the main one on the map#
delioch (9:34:58 PM): delioch rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
delioch (9:35:22 PM): delioch rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (9:35:54 PM): #Alex, you've got the map... What is he talking about?#
Umbrafer (9:36:08 PM): Which one's "the main one", as far as I can tell from the map?
delioch (9:36:25 PM): 3well i hasd to rewire some stuff and hook my own com up but...#
delioch (9:37:20 PM): #i just not a decker#
delioch (9:37:48 PM): #wait...i may have it now....#
delioch (9:38:24 PM): #wow...#
Umbrafer (9:38:57 PM): #Are we dead?#
delioch (9:39:20 PM): #no...thats a strange thing to say#
Thematrian1 (9:39:53 PM): The lady finally addresses Shadow Cat: "Are you...another of the experiments?"
Umbrafer (9:40:07 PM): #I don't feel dead. What happened?#
delioch (9:40:34 PM): #oh..nothing.. i wont need that code for right now is all.#
MilesMk1 (9:40:56 PM): #Uh... Alex? What happened?#
Umbrafer (9:41:37 PM): #It just sounds like I'm hearing good news all of a sudden.#
MilesMk1 (9:42:00 PM): #Oh. Right.#
Dragcrell (9:42:19 PM): *ears fliker* "Experrriments? No I'm with the perrrrson that you have been speeking with."
MilesMk1 (9:42:50 PM): #I'm sure she didn't mean anything by that, SC.#
Thematrian1 (9:43:33 PM): Lady: "We have...we've seen some strange things, since the lockdown."
delioch (9:43:43 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 1 2 5
Dragcrell (9:44:55 PM): "Ah but arrre they something we sould be worrrying about?"
MilesMk1 (9:45:23 PM): "Let
delioch (9:45:31 PM): #this would be so much easier if i had a decker here.#
MilesMk1 (9:45:33 PM): 's not get ahead of ourselves..."
MilesMk1 (9:45:44 PM): "Let
MilesMk1 (9:45:59 PM): (scratch that last "let")
MilesMk1 (9:46:21 PM): "Why don't I talke a look at the stairs, and then we'll talk some more?"
MilesMk1 (9:46:24 PM): take
Thematrian1 (9:46:37 PM): She nods. "Very well."
Dragcrell (9:47:35 PM): *looks at the lady* "Do you need any help orrr wish to come with us any help we can get would be helpfull and speed up ourrr geting out of herrre."
delioch (9:47:44 PM): ( portland,or is beautiful by the by)
MilesMk1 (9:47:49 PM): *nods, and heads towards the stairs* "Alex, cover me, would you?"
delioch (9:48:03 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 3 4 2
MilesMk1 (9:48:07 PM): Gah... That would have been in ##
Umbrafer (9:48:18 PM): #Right.# *Goes back into the shielddrone, does some covering*
Umbrafer (9:48:26 PM): (Aside from all the elves.)
delioch (9:48:44 PM): (its ok too)
MilesMk1 (9:48:44 PM): #Uh... SC... I think she, uh, isn't looking for a ride, just yet.#
MilesMk1 (9:49:08 PM): *goes to the stairway*
delioch (9:49:18 PM): #well, i got one camra on line#
Dragcrell (9:49:19 PM): #yes but she may know of any hiden suprrrises that we may not know of#
Thematrian1 (9:49:25 PM): Lady: "This building is very dangerous. Even now, don't underestimate it."
Umbrafer (9:49:30 PM): #Where?#
delioch (9:49:45 PM): #55th floor bathroom#
delioch (9:49:58 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 6 1 4
delioch (9:50:06 PM): uops sorry
delioch (9:50:13 PM): delioch rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Dragcrell (9:50:26 PM): *tilts head to the left* "You speek of it as if its alive? You have yet to to say who they arrre as well."
Umbrafer (9:50:30 PM): #Anything interesting in it?#
delioch (9:50:51 PM): #i'm a little busy to do that#
delioch (9:51:30 PM): #interesting..#
Umbrafer (9:52:18 PM): #What?#
Thematrian1 (9:52:43 PM): Blake: you reach the stairs. All the other doors are shut, and you hear no revving Vindicators.
Thematrian1 (9:52:55 PM): The door is locked and sealed, like the one on the ground floor.
delioch (9:53:12 PM): #someone or thing put all the camras on the exterier into different programs hense why they don't work#
Umbrafer (9:53:21 PM): #Does she have all the vindies, or just the one?#
MilesMk1 (9:53:52 PM): #Who knows how many there are... Maybe she's got it on a drone, and moves it around?#
delioch (9:54:05 PM): ok, fixed... we have exterors#
MilesMk1 (9:54:13 PM): 1. Does it look even remotely feasible for me to be able to crack the lock?
delioch (9:54:16 PM): #117 of them#
MilesMk1 (9:54:34 PM): 2. Is the door thin enough that I could simply open it with a burning bar?
delioch (9:54:50 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 4 2 2
Thematrian1 (9:54:54 PM): Blake: #1: you could try, nothing's impossible.
Thematrian1 (9:55:24 PM): Lady, to Shadow Cat: "If I speak strangely...I haven't slept in almost three days. I trust you understand."
Thematrian1 (9:55:39 PM): "In fact...if you're willing to leave your drone behind, I have something I'd like to show you
Umbrafer (9:56:16 PM): Shielddrone: *Sad sound*
Dragcrell (9:57:12 PM): "The guy worrrking on the doorrrs has it but I can come and look at it" #she has something to show us I'm going to take a look at it# "lead away." *follows the lady but keeping a eye out for potental threats*
Thematrian1 (9:57:37 PM): She beckons you toward the door.
Dragcrell (9:58:10 PM): *moves slowly to the door paws on the longs in case*
CirclMastr (9:58:14 PM): (She's hitting on Blake, she's going to strip for him)
delioch (9:58:29 PM): #a...floating...elven...baby?#
delioch (9:58:39 PM): (fun)
MilesMk1 (9:58:58 PM): (Blake? That's SC she's talking to now.)
Thematrian1 (9:59:07 PM): She steps aside and invites you into her room. If you go, she shuts the door behind you.
CirclMastr (9:59:09 PM): (Oh)
Umbrafer (9:59:15 PM): #What?#
delioch (9:59:25 PM): (even better)
Dragcrell (10:00:02 PM): *moves in to the room but keeps back to a wall ears layed back and tence ready to pounce and attack if threatend*
delioch (10:00:03 PM): #interesting..its talking#
CirclMastr (10:00:44 PM): *is beyond confused by what he's hearing over the radio*
Thematrian1 (10:00:55 PM): Yeah, the radio is full of chaos right now.
delioch (10:01:17 PM): (what)
Thematrian1 (10:01:23 PM): Blake #2: you think so, yes
CirclMastr (10:01:52 PM): *decides to check on Alice*
Thematrian1 (10:02:36 PM): Your new friend lurches to his feet and follows you.
Dragcrell (10:03:11 PM): #she has some kind of tech shop in herrre#
MilesMk1 (10:03:16 PM): Ok, I'm going to try to open the door using electronics first. (who knows?)
CirclMastr (10:04:13 PM): *motions for him to wait*
Thematrian1 (10:04:41 PM): Blake: go for it
MilesMk1 (10:04:57 PM): Electronics or B/R?
Thematrian1 (10:05:02 PM): B/R, then Electronics
MilesMk1 (10:05:05 PM): Ok...
MilesMk1 (10:05:08 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 3 6 6 4 6
MilesMk1 (10:05:14 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 4 2
MilesMk1 (10:05:17 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Thematrian1 (10:05:20 PM): once again, Blake comes through in the clutch
MilesMk1 (10:05:29 PM): Well, that was just B/R
Thematrian1 (10:05:33 PM): yeah, true
MilesMk1 (10:05:34 PM): Electronics:
MilesMk1 (10:05:37 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 6 4 6 3 4
MilesMk1 (10:05:41 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 6
MilesMk1 (10:05:43 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 5
Thematrian1 (10:05:45 PM): Still, the case pops right off. You think you could even put it on again after ward
Umbrafer (10:05:46 PM): *Cackle*
Thematrian1 (10:05:49 PM): sweet holy God
MilesMk1 (10:05:50 PM): Heheheheheh....
CirclMastr (10:05:58 PM): ?
MilesMk1 (10:06:20 PM): Blake has yet to fail when trying to use electronics to crack something really hard.
Thematrian1 (10:06:27 PM): One moment, Blake
MilesMk1 (10:06:38 PM): Oh. Or maybe...
Umbrafer (10:06:41 PM): You know, I really need to start some electronic warfare, because otherwise my puny Electronics 6 is perpetually going to be rendered obsolete by Blake's Electronics-5.
delioch (10:07:00 PM): ya
MilesMk1 (10:07:41 PM): Though if you're going to tell me that 17 +2 for microscopic vision fails, I'm coming to... wherever it is you live, with blood on my mind. ;)
Thematrian1 (10:08:00 PM): Hah! Change of address! Evading irate players forever!
delioch (10:08:58 PM): (i don't think he means it... )
MilesMk1 (10:09:39 PM): (I think he knows I don't. :))
delioch (10:10:17 PM): (ya cause the very thought of viloince gives you a nose bleed)
CirclMastr (10:11:08 PM): #Did you guys ask her about the mage yet?#
Thematrian1 (10:11:16 PM): Blake: the lock obediently clicks open, and the reinforced bars behind the door recede into the frame
delioch (10:11:21 PM): #what mage?#
MilesMk1 (10:11:49 PM): #Sorry, couldn't yet.#
delioch (10:12:03 PM): #hey, after i'm done with the camras i'll try to get the doors opened#
Dragcrell (10:12:03 PM): #shes not useing a drrrone to carrrrry the gun she is holding it I dont think she can move verrry easly as well#
MilesMk1 (10:12:29 PM): #Got one opened already.#
Thematrian1 (10:12:47 PM): Todd: you find Alice and Duncan in the van, having...a conversation or something. The bit you hear goes like this: "e-six." ::long pause:: "d-five takes e-six"
Umbrafer (10:13:02 PM): #Holding it?#
MilesMk1 (10:13:13 PM): Ok... I'll open the door - carefully, in case something is lurking in the stairway.
CirclMastr (10:13:17 PM): *smiles gently* "Hey guys, how are you holding up?"
MilesMk1 (10:13:46 PM): #That settles it, I'm in love. Hey, Alex - according to the plans, how many more of these doors between me and the lobby?#
Dragcrell (10:13:50 PM): #yes holding it with a large cyperrr amrrr and she has a tail as well to help I think#
Umbrafer (10:14:08 PM): (Depending on whether or not Alex plays chess, which I haven't decided on yet, she is either pleased or thinks "oh, battleship" and goes back to dronewatching)
MilesMk1 (10:14:15 PM): #Is there one on every floor I'd need to get past, or is the stairwell open all the way to the lobby door?#
Thematrian1 (10:14:30 PM): Todd: Duncan smiles at you, miracle of miracles. Alice speaks: "I'm getting tired, I think."
MilesMk1 (10:14:32 PM): #A tail? Ok, I'm coming to my senses.#
CirclMastr (10:14:45 PM): "What's wrong?"
delioch (10:14:48 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 5 4 5
Dragcrell (10:15:09 PM): #whats wrrrong with a tail?#
Thematrian1 (10:15:53 PM): Alice: "I'm losing at chess. To him." Duncan: "Not that there's anything new about that."
delioch (10:16:42 PM): #hey, something in the system says that nothing belongs here.. as in people#
MilesMk1 (10:17:00 PM): #Nothing, as such... But on human women, it's not quite my thing.#
Thematrian1 (10:17:04 PM): Alice: "And who just walked into my trap last game, huh?" Duncan: "I got out of it!" This has the feel of a familiar, well-worn piece of friendly bickering.
CirclMastr (10:17:53 PM): *smiles* "Well, you two get some sleep if you need it."
delioch (10:18:11 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 4 4 5
Thematrian1 (10:18:14 PM): Alice looks disgusted. "Sleep now? Everyhthing's happening now!"
Dragcrell (10:18:21 PM): #mmmm if you say so#
Thematrian1 (10:18:46 PM): Blake. The stairwell immediately at this floor seems innocent. Like the hall, it's lit emergency-style and heads both up and down.
CirclMastr (10:18:50 PM): "Maybe inside, but not out here. I've communicated about all I can with our friend out there."
MilesMk1 (10:19:45 PM): Ok... I'll see if I can reach the lobby door through it.
Thematrian1 (10:20:29 PM): Ok. Perception.
MilesMk1 (10:20:37 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 2 2 6 5
MilesMk1 (10:20:41 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
delioch (10:22:32 PM): #hey i might need help here.. alex are you free?"
delioch (10:22:35 PM): #
Umbrafer (10:22:53 PM): #Define "free".#
delioch (10:23:37 PM): #able to come to this location...(i give directions#
delioch (10:23:48 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 3 6 2
Umbrafer (10:25:09 PM): #What, on foot?#
delioch (10:25:24 PM): #is there any other way?#
Umbrafer (10:25:47 PM): The tone of that statement was similar to what you would expect if you'd just asked her to hike across the moon's surface
Umbrafer (10:26:03 PM): #What do you need?#
delioch (10:26:10 PM): #oh, and can you get ahold of a deck?#
Thematrian1 (10:27:50 PM): Blake: everything's sorta red. You don't detect anything special, though.
Umbrafer (10:28:40 PM): #I've got one, not many programs. What do you need?#
MilesMk1 (10:28:41 PM): I'll head up to the lobby door, then.
MilesMk1 (10:28:49 PM): Carefully, gun ready.
delioch (10:29:27 PM): # i have a problem-some baby online#
MilesMk1 (10:30:32 PM): #Not to harp, or anything, but you could have told us where you were going.#
Thematrian1 (10:31:07 PM): Blake: You reach the door. Through the window and bars, you see the lobby. All seems to be as you left it.
delioch (10:31:25 PM): #told you what?#
MilesMk1 (10:31:36 PM): I don't suppose the fact this is an emergency stairwell means I can just open it from this side?
Thematrian1 (10:31:56 PM): You can try.
Umbrafer (10:31:58 PM): If it didn't mean you could just open it from the other side, probably not.
MilesMk1 (10:32:19 PM): #What you were up to. Then we could have coordinated things. As it is, I'm bartering locksmith services for information.#
MilesMk1 (10:32:32 PM): Ok, I'll see if it opens from the inside.
delioch (10:33:04 PM): #busy#
Thematrian1 (10:34:29 PM): No dice.
MilesMk1 (10:35:18 PM): Ok, same approach as below, then. (does the fact I opened one just like it help any? ;))
Thematrian1 (10:35:33 PM): (Just roll your dice ;-))
MilesMk1 (10:35:41 PM): Ok... B/R.
MilesMk1 (10:35:44 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 4 4 4 4 3
MilesMk1 (10:35:46 PM): Bah.
MilesMk1 (10:35:49 PM): Karma.
Thematrian1 (10:35:54 PM): reroll 5
MilesMk1 (10:35:56 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 4 6 2 1 4
MilesMk1 (10:35:59 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (10:36:02 PM): ...?
MilesMk1 (10:36:05 PM): Electronics.
MilesMk1 (10:36:08 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 6 6
MilesMk1 (10:36:11 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 4
Thematrian1 (10:36:15 PM): It's not as neat as last time, but you work the casing off.
MilesMk1 (10:36:32 PM): So, 2 adjusted 12s on the electronics... *crosses fingers*
Thematrian1 (10:37:02 PM): *bzzzt* The bars recede, the door opens.
Thematrian1 (10:37:33 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 3 1 6 4 1
Thematrian1 (10:37:36 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 6 4 2 3 2
delioch (10:37:55 PM): #hey anyone there got a way to check your mail...or recieve mail#
Umbrafer (10:38:23 PM): #Yeah. Matrix service. Kinda down right now.#
delioch (10:38:24 PM): :-D
delioch (10:38:43 PM): #try to patch into a building link then#
MilesMk1 (10:39:44 PM): I'll make sure the door isn't going to accidentally re-close (lodge something in it, if necessary) and head down.
MilesMk1 (10:40:07 PM): #Got the doors in the lobby and the 3rd floor basement open.#
MilesMk1 (10:40:20 PM): *goes back to the area where he talked to the woman*
delioch (10:40:37 PM): #hey guys don't use the elevators ok..#
MilesMk1 (10:40:41 PM): #SC, let the woman know. If you're still intact... What's she showing you?#
delioch (10:40:43 PM): he sounds worried
MilesMk1 (10:40:56 PM): #Let me guess, they only go down?#
delioch (10:41:21 PM): #yes and its not good ether#
MilesMk1 (10:41:41 PM): #You mean there's something else to it?#
delioch (10:41:52 PM): #if theres a computer near you i can send you something#
MilesMk1 (10:42:11 PM): #I'll let you know if I see one.#
Dragcrell (10:42:20 PM): #herrr self and I well#
delioch (10:42:35 PM): #whos 'Mr. Rayner'?#
MilesMk1 (10:42:50 PM): #Well, tell the woman I cracked the maglocks.#
Thematrian1 (10:43:05 PM): Corp Politics knowledge from everyone who hears that name.
delioch (10:43:25 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 3 3 2
MilesMk1 (10:43:55 PM): Default to Int?
MilesMk1 (10:43:58 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 2 4 6 1 5
MilesMk1 (10:44:01 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Umbrafer (10:44:47 PM): Let me know if it's defaultable or related to Drone or AI R&D.
Thematrian1 (10:44:59 PM): I will accept AI R&D
Umbrafer (10:45:08 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 3
delioch (10:45:09 PM): (see its not good)
Umbrafer (10:45:13 PM): 2.
Umbrafer (10:45:43 PM): ("Isn't that the mountain they tried to have those autonomous drones scale near Seattle…")
delioch (10:48:08 PM): # ok, either theres a AI in here or some kid hooked up to a machian that patchs him in to the system periment like#
Umbrafer (10:48:22 PM): (Dr. Halberstam!)
delioch (10:48:36 PM): (what?)
Thematrian1 (10:49:15 PM): Blake, where are you now?
Umbrafer (10:49:32 PM): (From Virtual Realities 2.0, IIRC. Mad scientist who hooked a bunch of kids up to the Matrix from birth for all kinds of experiments. One person named, IIRC, Renny was a character in a few vignettes.)
delioch (10:50:19 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 6 3 1
Thematrian1 (10:50:26 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 6 4 5 5 5 2 6 4 5
MilesMk1 (10:50:35 PM): I was heading for the area where I talked to the woman.
Thematrian1 (10:52:22 PM): Back down the stairs, then?
Thematrian1 (10:52:25 PM): Ok, perception again.
MilesMk1 (10:52:42 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 5 2 2 1 1
delioch (10:54:10 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 5 1 3
Thematrian1 (10:54:16 PM): Blake: you see a small hole appear in the stairway wall, just as you're touching down on the third basement level.
Dragcrell (10:54:43 PM): #Blak I have the code to enterrr the safe but if it is tamperrred with it well destrrroy the contents. therrre is a medical lab below us as well.#
MilesMk1 (10:55:05 PM): #Hold on...#
delioch (10:55:15 PM): #hi, blake i see you#
MilesMk1 (10:55:23 PM): I dodge away in case something terrible is about the come out...
MilesMk1 (10:55:43 PM): But relax if, on closer inspection, it turns out to be a camera.
delioch (10:55:57 PM): #theres a weapon system down there#
Thematrian1 (10:56:00 PM): You dodge away. It shins like a lens; it might be a camera.
MilesMk1 (10:56:27 PM): #Did you just activate a camera?#
delioch (10:56:35 PM): its in the wall what ever it is#
delioch (10:56:43 PM): #no#
MilesMk1 (10:57:02 PM): #What is this, then?#
Thematrian1 (10:57:56 PM): Several things happen at once.
Thematrian1 (10:58:37 PM): First, the bars that blocked off the doorway try to spring back into place. They only make it about half-way, though.
Thematrian1 (10:58:59 PM): Second, the lights start flashing.
delioch (10:59:06 PM): #????#
Thematrian1 (10:59:21 PM): Third, a voice starts blaring "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!"
Thematrian1 (10:59:43 PM): Fourth and last, another aperture opens above you. It's not emitting anything yet. Reaction from Blake if he wishes to act.
MilesMk1 (10:59:59 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 10 6-sided dice: 1 4 1 2 6 4 5 3 4 2
Umbrafer (11:00:02 PM): Is Blake going to get haloned?
CirclMastr (11:00:10 PM): (Congrats, you activated the halon system)
MilesMk1 (11:00:17 PM): (Not me...)
MilesMk1 (11:00:21 PM): (I don't think.)
delioch (11:00:26 PM): (not me)
MilesMk1 (11:00:30 PM): (Hah.)
Thematrian1 (11:00:42 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 3 1 4 2 6 4 6 2 2 6 6 1 5 4 4
delioch (11:01:11 PM): #sorry blake#
Dragcrell (11:01:58 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 3 6 5 2
Dragcrell (11:02:04 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Thematrian1 (11:02:06 PM): Blake, you have a chance to act. The new opening isn't emitting anything yet, but it's only been a small fraction of a second since the party started.
Dragcrell (11:02:11 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
delioch (11:02:15 PM): #frak!!that explains a lot#
MilesMk1 (11:02:36 PM): I get out of the stairwell, and onto the 3rd floor.
delioch (11:03:53 PM): #hey blake knock out the fire control sysem near you ...pleaSE#
Thematrian1 (11:03:55 PM): You leap out, shortly ahead of the halon. It's a stairwell with lots of open space in both directions, so it's pretty dispersed.
MilesMk1 (11:04:28 PM): Can I do that? Knock out the fire control system?
delioch (11:05:15 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 5 4 1
Thematrian1 (11:05:31 PM): Blake: you can shoot it. Beyond that...who can say?
delioch (11:05:33 PM): delioch rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Dragcrell (11:05:38 PM): #What is going on? Arrre you safe Blake?#
MilesMk1 (11:06:10 PM): #Why? I'm out of it, now.#
delioch (11:06:17 PM): #i suggest everyone stay togather#
delioch (11:06:36 PM): #he may try to do it again#
MilesMk1 (11:06:37 PM): #Yeah, something set off the fire suppression system in the stairway.#
MilesMk1 (11:06:54 PM): #You know who did it, SF?#
Dragcrell (11:07:06 PM): #He what are you talking about Pup?#
delioch (11:08:03 PM): "like i said theres a Ai or kid perimently hooked up to the system who beleives that everything not hooked up is not real#
delioch (11:08:56 PM): #like in a video game#
MilesMk1 (11:10:08 PM): #Great...#
MilesMk1 (11:10:17 PM): *shoots the fire suppression nozzle*
MilesMk1 (11:10:25 PM): or... no.
MilesMk1 (11:10:28 PM): Never mind.
delioch (11:10:30 PM): #i told him if he stops trying to kill you i will take him with us#
MilesMk1 (11:10:49 PM): AV bullets, for all I know it'll just rupture something and make halon leak forever.
delioch (11:10:50 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 3 5 3
MilesMk1 (11:11:00 PM): So, the door's still open?
Thematrian1 (11:12:04 PM): yeah
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MilesMk1 (11:14:36 PM): *Blake heads for the area where he last saw the woman*
MilesMk1 (11:14:56 PM): muttering under his breath about kids of various kinds
Thematrian1 (11:15:29 PM): You head for the door where she first peeked out. It's closed now.
delioch (11:15:52 PM): delioch rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 4 4 1 1
CirclMastr (11:16:11 PM): (She's having furry sex with Shadowcat or something)
delioch (11:16:24 PM): #hey did you guys meet anyone in the building that may know about this kid?#
MilesMk1 (11:16:31 PM): *knocks on the door* #Hey, SC, tell her I'm back.#
delioch (11:16:36 PM): (fun)
Dragcrell (11:16:43 PM): (your a regaler smartass and if we was woundt tell ya ;3 )
MilesMk1 (11:16:51 PM): #Well, there's this woman I've been dealing with.#
delioch (11:17:11 PM): (two tails meet in the darkness type stuff hu?)
delioch (11:17:27 PM): #ask her about this#
delioch (11:18:11 PM): #i'm frak out with a deck at the moment#
Dragcrell (11:19:04 PM): *Opens the door* "be nice." *steps to the side so blake can enter*
MilesMk1 (11:19:17 PM): "When am I not nice?"
delioch (11:19:25 PM): delioch rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 3 4 3 2
Thematrian1 (11:19:29 PM): As advertised, the lady has both a long, lashing tail and a third arm sprouting from her back. It's a huge arm, holding the threatened minigun.
delioch (11:19:46 PM): (i want one)
CirclMastr (11:20:39 PM): (A minigun or an arm coming from your back?)
Dragcrell (11:20:43 PM): (you would fall flat on your ass if you did)
CirclMastr (11:20:48 PM): (It'd be a bitch to try to shirts)
MilesMk1 (11:20:53 PM): "Told you I was lucky."
Thematrian1 (11:20:54 PM): She's leaning it against the wall right now. It's fairly disproportionate to the rest of her body.
Thematrian1 (11:21:07 PM): "So was I, it seems. Finally..."
MilesMk1 (11:21:52 PM): Uh... Is she saying this as she aims the gun at me, starting to laugh maniacally? Or with a wistful smile directed at SC? ;)
Thematrian1 (11:22:30 PM): Neither. She's almost smiling at you, though not quite.
MilesMk1 (11:22:47 PM): "Though someone plugged into the building seems to enjoy playing with the fire suppression system, but I assume you have a respirator around here somehwere, right?"
delioch (11:23:26 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 4 4 2
delioch (11:23:55 PM): #tell her that a guy with green hair was killed down stairs#
Thematrian1 (11:24:03 PM): She points. There's a whole rack on the wall, next to a miscellaneous pile of electronics equipment.
MilesMk1 (11:24:26 PM): #How?#
delioch (11:24:48 PM): #drone#
MilesMk1 (11:24:53 PM): "Do you, by any chance, know someone with green hair?"
Dragcrell (11:25:15 PM): "Eh I dont think you have one that well fit me all that well." *leans agenst the wall and waits*
delioch (11:25:21 PM): #bring up mr reyners name too#
Thematrian1 (11:25:27 PM): She winces. "Yes?"
Dragcrell (11:25:57 PM): #want me to open the safe therrres plans for weapons in it she said stuff forrr laserrr weapons orrr some such#
delioch (11:25:59 PM): 'Mr. Rayner'
MilesMk1 (11:26:24 PM): "One of our people has patched into parts of the camera network. I'm sorry, but it seems that he was killed by a drone, downstairs."
Thematrian1 (11:27:24 PM): Her lip twists. "I guess I'd better leave while I can. I hope you steal everything you find, and get rich."
MilesMk1 (11:28:40 PM): "Beats rolling over, and getting killed by the bugs while they keep the quarantine up and tell the rest of the country this is a HMHVV outbreak."
MilesMk1 (11:29:01 PM): "Good luck out there."
Thematrian1 (11:29:09 PM): She hesitates. "Do you know what it is really?"
Thematrian1 (11:29:36 PM): "I was wondering if we caused it somehow." By "we", she clearly means "Ares"
Dragcrell (11:29:50 PM): *looks down* "Some what the bugs arrre some sorrrt of spirrrt but not like any I have seen befor"
Thematrian1 (11:30:30 PM): She looks relieved.
Umbrafer (11:30:57 PM): (Ares doesn't get to cause bug outbreaks for another five years)
MilesMk1 (11:31:03 PM): "All I know is what I've seen fighting some of them. They're spirits of some kind, and we came across at least one... nest-like area, which seemed to be controlled by someone awakened. Not quite human, thought, he seemed to
MilesMk1 (11:31:13 PM): think like an insect would..."
MilesMk1 (11:31:18 PM): though
Dragcrell (11:31:29 PM): *looks up and at the lady* "Be carrefull they arrre takeing people off the strrreets."
Thematrian1 (11:31:32 PM): "So there are lots of...nests...?"
Thematrian1 (11:31:50 PM): She pats her minigun. "I'm not worried."
delioch (11:32:15 PM): delioch rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 3 3 5
MilesMk1 (11:32:37 PM): "I've only seen the one, but there's certainly enough bugs out there..."
Dragcrell (11:33:22 PM): "Thats good but trrry and not be to be to big..." *winks at the lady*
MilesMk1 (11:34:52 PM): "As for guns... I've seen some that were <x feet long> be barely hurt by a Ex-Ex burst from this thing *points to the AK*, and I've also seen some that were the size of vans."
Thematrian1 (11:35:30 PM): "How annoying. But I can't stay, so..."
MilesMk1 (11:36:02 PM): "It ought to be more then enough for most... Just don't pick fights with anything car-sized, I guess."
Dragcrell (11:36:11 PM): *looks to blake* "We could use the help and she did help us with the info."
MilesMk1 (11:36:50 PM): *looks at the woman to see how she reacts to this*
Thematrian1 (11:36:54 PM): "That's always good advice."
Thematrian1 (11:37:11 PM): She shifts herself off the wall, and manages to walk through the door erect, unless you stop her.
MilesMk1 (11:37:12 PM): #Well, it
MilesMk1 (11:37:44 PM): #Heh... SC wants to recruit her, everyone.#
Umbrafer (11:37:52 PM): *Shielddrone watches in awe*
Dragcrell (11:38:11 PM): *holds out a hand to her* "Wolfs arrre wise in therrre ways of a pack therrre is something to be said of numberrrs."
CirclMastr (11:38:35 PM): #As if this shindig wasn't crowded enough.#
Thematrian1 (11:38:48 PM): "Thanks, but...you're staying, at least long enough to grab everything you can carry. I'm not."
delioch (11:38:56 PM): #hey, i got a job for you guys#
delioch (11:39:34 PM): #i give direction to the floor the kid is on#
delioch (11:39:59 PM): #floor 38#
MilesMk1 (11:40:06 PM): *nods* "Good luck."
Dragcrell (11:40:41 PM): "I only agrrread to help them I stay by my worrrd as I was shown to and we could use the extrrra help and you ourrr self woudl have betterrr luck on leaveing this place we have some people out side this place if you would...
delioch (11:40:43 PM): #the map insists is part of the plumbing stack#
Dragcrell (11:40:53 PM): rrratherrr say therrre.'
MilesMk1 (11:41:27 PM): "Unless, of course, you wanted to hang around, but I can understand the need to get going..."
MilesMk1 (11:41:36 PM): (speaking of which, I need to go)
MilesMk1 (11:41:42 PM): (Must sleep.)
Dragcrell (11:42:01 PM): (lol)
Thematrian1 (11:42:09 PM): (Ok. Sleep well, we'll wrap up here momentarily."
Thematrian1 (11:42:10 PM): )
delioch (11:42:18 PM): (later)
MilesMk1 (11:42:39 PM): (Ok... See you guys. I'll try to make it this Thursday.)
Thematrian1 (11:42:40 PM): SC: she just shakes her head at you. Unless prevented, she takes a respirator from the far wall, straps it on, and heads up the stairs.
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Dragcrell (11:43:33 PM): *nods to her* "be carrrefull and maby we well meet again and I hope you well be much happyerrr then."
delioch (11:43:40 PM): #do what yoiu can so that i don't have to struggle for control#
delioch (11:44:45 PM): #there are apparently more than one of these guys#
Dragcrell (11:44:48 PM): #ok ok I'll see if I can get to him just be shourrre he knows what to exspet ok I'm in no mood to be shot at.# *moves off to the area given stoping by the safe to loot it*
delioch (11:47:04 PM): #there seems to be two more of these guys in here but i cant' acount for anything they will do..just so you know#
Thematrian1 (11:47:30 PM): You crack open the safe. It has various things, the details of which I will describe next week, but what first catches your eye is the long rifley-looking weapon with "Ares SHO Laser Mark Four"
Thematrian1 (11:47:31 PM): stenciled in red on the side.
Thematrian1 (11:47:44 PM): Here's where we break. Next week: more!
Dragcrell (11:47:55 PM): #Nice well just let them know I'm comeing...........mmmmm intresting#
Dragcrell (11:48:05 PM): cool cool ^_^b
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delioch (11:48:12 PM): ok later then..
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