\Adm H Sopko: We'll start off with a familiar line too!<G>
Adm H Sopko: ::Amidst the silence and tension of the room, Hunter lowers his head, thinking to himself:: ~Luthien, forgive me for what I must do.~
SirAlexTheFirst: Nothing answers.
Adm H Sopko: "Do you want to go back, Lea?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Back home? Yeah. Is that where you're going?"
Adm H Sopko: "The Yarovan, I mean... you said it yourself... wondering how they could do this to us."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hell no." She shakes her head. "I'm out of that. I didn't sign up and go through all that training- all those years- to be an expendable.." Her voice cracks.
Adm H Sopko: ::He takes out his badge and looks at it:: "Yeah... I thought this was the ultimate goal of all of this... getting this back..." ::He drops it on the floor:: "If that's Leonard's idea
Adm H Sopko: of being a leader... count me out."
Adm H Sopko: "Putting everyone at risk like that... I'm worse than trash."
SirAlexTheFirst: "No shit!" Lea chokes out before stopping herself. She turns away from you.
Adm H Sopko: ::He stands, still looking at the badge on the ground:: "What will you do now, then?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't know. And I wouldn't tell you."
Adm H Sopko: ::Yeah, he can tells those defensive walls of hers are up stronger than ever. He steps over to her, putting his hand gently on her shoulder:: "I hope someday... you can forgive me."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Maybe." Her voice is neutral.
Adm H Sopko: ::His hand then slips deftly to her throat, where he grabs her windpipe to keep her from screaming. He also holds his kukri against her back, right behind her heart:: "Please... don't make this harder than it already
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea, startled, goes completely limp. A couple of tears trickle down her face.
Adm H Sopko: is, Leatanna. If you come quietly... the Labs won't have to raze your house."
SirAlexTheFirst: She sits.
Adm H Sopko: "Don't scream. Don't say a word. Just tell them we're leaving, and everything will be fine, do you understand?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Can she talk?
Adm H Sopko: She can nod yes or no
SirAlexTheFirst: She doesn't respond, then.
Adm H Sopko: "Don't risk it, Leatanna. Remember, you hold your family's lives in your hands. Do you understand that?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "..."
Adm H Sopko: "Please... don't make me resort to threatening Shadow and Ava..." ::His voice carries genuine worry and regret::
SirAlexTheFirst: "..."
Adm H Sopko: "I could always just cut off your tail then, and carry you out of here like a cripple."
SirAlexTheFirst: "..."
Adm H Sopko: ::He releases the hold on her throat a tiny bit, just enough that she can breath a bit and talk quietly::
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm going to fucking kill you and everybody in those Labs."
Adm H Sopko: "Fine then. Come with me and you'll get your chance."
Adm H Sopko: "Mab will even be there to greet you, if you'd like. We can make it real simple for you. You just have to come quietly."
SirAlexTheFirst: "..."
Adm H Sopko: "Take this chance now, or the Exosuits will make sure you never get within a mile of the labs ever again."
SirAlexTheFirst: "..."
AndrewRogue: (Take the shot Leatanna!)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Are you going to take me out or what?"
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
Adm H Sopko: ::He slowly puts his kukri away and takes her Colt .45 away, using that now. He moves her towards the door and stops in front of it. He begins rummaging
SirAlexTheFirst: She walks where you direct her.
Adm H Sopko: to get to his bag with the oil, but decides against it for now. He moves it to a more accessable place though. He lets her throat go and holds the gun under the folds of his cloak:: "Just take it slow, Lea."
SirAlexTheFirst: She does.
SirAlexTheFirst: And walking out?
Adm H Sopko: Yes. Nice and calmly
SirAlexTheFirst: Okay.
SirAlexTheFirst: You meet Aria walking down the hallway.
AndrewRogue: Oh. Uhm.
AndrewRogue: Well.
Adm H Sopko: Does she say anything?
AndrewRogue: Er... how exactly does this scene look to someone just walking down the hall?
Adm H Sopko: Slightly upset woman and slightly upset man walking down a hall
SirAlexTheFirst: Well, it looks like a very sad Lea, who has been crying, is walking out with Hunter very close behind her.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea looks at Aria as she passes.
AndrewRogue: "Ah... Lea, Hunter." *she stops to greet them awkwardly*
Adm H Sopko: ::He nods to Aria:: "Hey..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hey, Aria..."
AndrewRogue: ~You all right Lea?~ "Where are you two... uh... going?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea looks back at Hunter.
Adm H Sopko: "Home... I... I don't want to force myself on you guys anymore... You don't trust me anymore... thats fine. So I'm going back home to collect my thoughts again... maybe rest a little before going back out..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I think maybe you've given us... reason... not to trust you..."
AndrewRogue: "Ah." *she swallows* "But Hunter... Lea is, you know... in custody. Like the rest of us. You can't really just... take her."
Adm H Sopko: ::He sighs:: "I know the bomb thing was stupid, Lea... I've admitted it... I'm no leader, and I'm no hero. I just want to go home. I thought you agreed to come?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "No, not really." And she kicks backwards and tries to jerk out of your grasp.
SirAlexTheFirst: Inits?
AndrewRogue: ...I guess so.
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
AndrewRogue: 11
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
Adm H Sopko: 13
SirAlexTheFirst: 21
SirAlexTheFirst: Grapple check to escape.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
Adm H Sopko: Ugh
Adm H Sopko: No love for Hunter
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea gets out and jumps down the hallway.
SirAlexTheFirst: Hunter.
Adm H Sopko: How far?
SirAlexTheFirst: 10 feet or so.
Adm H Sopko: ::He catches up to her and attempts to get her back under control::
Adm H Sopko: Grapple
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
Adm H Sopko: 16 on the touch...
SirAlexTheFirst: Hits.
SirAlexTheFirst: Sorry, spaced out for a minute there
Adm H Sopko: S'ok
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
Adm H Sopko: 33 on the grapple
SirAlexTheFirst: o_O
Adm H Sopko: BAB + Str, right?
AndrewRogue: It is.
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes...
Adm H Sopko: 16 + 14 + 3
SirAlexTheFirst: You win!
Adm H Sopko: Aria?
AndrewRogue: Looks very shocked for a moment, and will quickly put 2 and 2 together.
AndrewRogue: Free Action- Hearfelt Bond to Lea.
AndrewRogue: Then... which way is an exit? Both ways, or just through Aria?
SirAlexTheFirst: Both ways.
AndrewRogue: Hmmm... Lea is between her and Hunter?
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.
AndrewRogue: ~Hunter's trying to take Lea. Help me here!~ "Hunter... stop. Don't do this. What are you trying?" *her voice is low as she begins walking towards them*
Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter ignores her. Having heard the request over the circlet, he's making his way out of here as fast as possible!::
AndrewRogue: Aria readies an action to trip his ass if he attempts to move.
AndrewRogue: And back to Lea we are.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea runs around a corner, screaming incoherently.
AndrewRogue: Or is grappled.
Adm H Sopko: ... I have her grappled
AndrewRogue: <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: I know!
SirAlexTheFirst: Check to run around the corner screaming incoherently.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
SirAlexTheFirst: Fail!
AndrewRogue: XD
Adm H Sopko: Heh.
SirAlexTheFirst: Check to get away from Hunter!
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
SirAlexTheFirst: Fail!
Adm H Sopko: Fail
SirAlexTheFirst: Roll to scream!
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
SirAlexTheFirst: Fail! Choke!
SirAlexTheFirst: Roll for Swiss!
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
SirAlexTheFirst: Success!
SirAlexTheFirst: Next!
AndrewRogue: Hunter!
Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter then points the gun at Aria, still dragging Lea out:: "Come with me as well, Aria. Miss Mab wants to have a word with you."
AndrewRogue: He moves?
Adm H Sopko: You ARE 10 feet away
AndrewRogue: Ah. I thought we were closer.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Hint. Point the gun at Lea. You want Aria to come with you, not get shot.)
AndrewRogue: (He checked off on protips)
Adm H Sopko: (Fine then. Come with me as well, Aria, or Lea dies. Mab wants a word with you)
Adm H Sopko: ""
AndrewRogue: "You don't have time to get out of here Hunter. Let Lea go and give up."
Adm H Sopko: "We could all die, you know. I still have all that oil from the raid. I could drop it here and end it now."
Adm H Sopko: "Just come with me, Aria, and we'll avoid a bigger scene."
AndrewRogue: "You don't have a free hand, and the instant you let go, one of us knocks you out."
AndrewRogue: *her voice is ice cold*
Adm H Sopko: "I could always just shoot her first."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea starts laughing through her sobs. "Go ahead! They'll just raise me, anyways. Idiot!"
AndrewRogue: *she... hesitates slightly* "She won't be the one it hurts Hunter. I will. Its useless. Give it up."
Adm H Sopko: "Yes. And so can the Labs." ::He fires, point blank, into Lea's temple::
Adm H Sopko: Do I uhh... even have to roll that?
SirAlexTheFirst: Coup de grace.
SirAlexTheFirst: Roll damage.
Adm H Sopko: I'll fire off all three shots I can make
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 4 3
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 5
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 5 3
AndrewRogue: Full Round Action to Coup technically <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: You only get one shot with that, yeah.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
Adm H Sopko: Oh
SirAlexTheFirst: It doesn't matter though
Adm H Sopko: Oh?
SirAlexTheFirst: That was her save.
SirAlexTheFirst: Kinda botched that good.
Adm H Sopko: Ah
AndrewRogue: Wait!
AndrewRogue: *thinks*
Adm H Sopko: Bit late
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea jolts and slumps over.
AndrewRogue: Well... I was gonna say Aria takes full damage for her and lets her borrow a save mod.
AndrewRogue: <.<
Adm H Sopko: Don't let Aria die again
SirAlexTheFirst: Can't do that.
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria takes half damage though
AndrewRogue: Hero Point
AndrewRogue: I do what I will.
AndrewRogue: ^_^
Adm H Sopko: How many hero points do you have?
SirAlexTheFirst: What happens?
SirAlexTheFirst: Silence and describe. Go.
AndrewRogue: The instant the gun goes off, a circle of light envelopes Leatanna. Soft. Warm. Comforting. Like she was being held in someone's arms. If it was slow motion, it would look like the bullet faded as exited the gun.
AndrewRogue: Then Aria's head jerks sideways and there is an awful lot of blood spray.
AndrewRogue: She staggers and plants a foot, blood pouring down the side of her face.
Adm H Sopko: 22 total damage, using the first roll of that series before
AndrewRogue: Her nimbus flares brightly as she moves forward. "Nobody else will die!" Devotion to that one cause. That's all she has now. Dedication to keeping the people she cares about alive. And to do that, she must live too.
AndrewRogue: To protect them, to love them, to care about them... to be protected, to be loved, to be cared for. It couldn't be one sided. She had to live for them.
AndrewRogue: And unless Alex is gonna slap me and say "Bad Andrew!"
AndrewRogue: Aria's nimbus lashes out to sunder the .45
AndrewRogue: Er... Disarm.
AndrewRogue: Bad tendril of light.
Adm H Sopko: I thought it couldn't come near Hunter?
SirAlexTheFirst: Indeed.
SirAlexTheFirst: And that is why Aria gets pwned there.
AndrewRogue: Aww.
AndrewRogue: Then we do this the old way.
SirAlexTheFirst: Her nimbus lashes out, and is stopped cold, fizzling and shooting back to her.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's turn now?
Adm H Sopko: Yep
SirAlexTheFirst: She's going to try to disarm.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
SirAlexTheFirst: Opposed... well, okay, she fails.
Adm H Sopko: K
Adm H Sopko: Hunter's gonna just fire again.
AndrewRogue: ...I never got a turn <.<
Adm H Sopko: Coup De Grace
SirAlexTheFirst: Then she'll scramble and crawl about 5 feet away.
SirAlexTheFirst: Then it's Hunter's turn.
Adm H Sopko: Aria's Hero Point let her get away?
SirAlexTheFirst: Yah. That and I'm kind of assuming you dropped the hold on her to shoot and such.
SirAlexTheFirst: Since you can't attack like that in grapples.
Adm H Sopko: He had her in a headlock, with a gun to her head
AndrewRogue: If I wanna be an ass, I would point out you can't CdG in grapples :p
Adm H Sopko: Ah
SirAlexTheFirst: That's what I said...
SirAlexTheFirst: ANYWAYS
AndrewRogue: I take it Hero Point burning ate my turn?
Adm H Sopko: The nimbus did, I assume
SirAlexTheFirst: Yep.
SirAlexTheFirst: Both of those.
AndrewRogue: Or that. *smacks self*
AndrewRogue: Don't listen to me. Its 4-7am.
Adm H Sopko: I'd make the argument that there would be no better opportunity to CDG ANYONE than having them in a headlock with a gun to their head... but I'll move on
Adm H Sopko: Hmm
Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter takes out a Tanglefoot Bag and tosses it right at Aria::
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
AndrewRogue: Yeah. Let's not go there.
Adm H Sopko: 20 on the ranged touch.
AndrewRogue: You hit 7 nicely.
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
Adm H Sopko: ............
Adm H Sopko: .....................
AndrewRogue: However, my reflex owns you.
Adm H Sopko: .............................
Adm H Sopko: ::Headdesk::
AndrewRogue: Wow. I could saved the CdG with that.
Adm H Sopko: That was my last one... But you still have half movement and penalties
SirAlexTheFirst: True dat.
AndrewRogue: My turn?
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 2 4-sided dice: 2 2
Adm H Sopko: Aria's like that for 4 rounds
Adm H Sopko: Hunter then inches towards Lea
AndrewRogue: Aria takes the gunking and bleeding in stride and uses all her strength to charge him and trip him.
AndrewRogue: He's makable in a half speed charge.
Adm H Sopko: Can you even walk with the Dex penalty?
AndrewRogue: Yes.
AndrewRogue: MWAHAHAHAHA
AndrewRogue: Anyway, gunked up makes it awkward, but she attempts to hook a leg and drive Hunter to the floor.
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
AndrewRogue: Touch AC?
Adm H Sopko: 12
AndrewRogue: The leg is hooked.
AndrewRogue: Opposed rolls.
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
Adm H Sopko: Divine
SirAlexTheFirst: HMMM
Adm H Sopko: Freaking
Adm H Sopko: Justice
AndrewRogue: You can attempt to trip back.
Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter instead grabs her and attempts to stuff her in his bag of holding::
AndrewRogue: Lea's up <.<
Adm H Sopko: What'd that be? Grapple?
Adm H Sopko: ... you said I could do something back. Oh well. Go Lea
SirAlexTheFirst: LUmm.
AndrewRogue: You can trip back :p
Adm H Sopko: Ah
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's up. She screams and jumps on Hunter.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
SirAlexTheFirst: That'll hit touch
Adm H Sopko: Ye
Adm H Sopko: p
SirAlexTheFirst: Grapple.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
Adm H Sopko: Owned
SirAlexTheFirst: Yep.
SirAlexTheFirst: Pwned.
SirAlexTheFirst: You shake her off like a bad stick.
SirAlexTheFirst: Gogo.
Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter will then try to stuff Aria into the bag of holding as before::
AndrewRogue: ...okay.
AndrewRogue: I'm demanding some complex checks here.
Adm H Sopko: You are coming off a 20-1 roll
Adm H Sopko: Don't expect miracles<G>
AndrewRogue: Aria is a portable tear in reality :p Stuffing her in a bag of holding is deadly.
Adm H Sopko: So? Like Hunter knows?
Adm H Sopko: He just has his orders
AndrewRogue: I thought Lea was the orders <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: Oookay
Adm H Sopko: Orders change
SirAlexTheFirst: Yeah, you're going to have to grapple her and force her into the bad.
Adm H Sopko: K
SirAlexTheFirst: *bag
Adm H Sopko: We're already touched... Grapple?
AndrewRogue: And... is this like something we should wait on since a couple rounds theoretically gives our allies time? <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: Not just yet.
AndrewRogue: Damn.
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
AndrewRogue: 18
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
Adm H Sopko: 20
AndrewRogue: Whee <.<
AndrewRogue: Curse you Cyberninja BAB Bonus.
Adm H Sopko: So... she's in the bag?
AndrewRogue: I think this establishes you holding her.
AndrewRogue: I think the bag is another check.
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: She is held.
Adm H Sopko: Oh. Well then, bag her, baby!
Adm H Sopko: What's that check?
SirAlexTheFirst: You'll have to wait for next round for that.
Adm H Sopko: Gah
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria gets chance to break.
AndrewRogue: She attempts to break the wrap of the cold, metal arms.
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
AndrewRogue: 25
Adm H Sopko: Pwned
SirAlexTheFirst: And then Lea takes objection.
AndrewRogue: Wow this is messy.
SirAlexTheFirst: "What are you doing to her! Get away!" and other such things are shrieked as she pounces on Hunter.
SirAlexTheFirst: Touch
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 9
Adm H Sopko: Nothing like a lover's spat
SirAlexTheFirst: Grapple
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
Adm H Sopko: 20
SirAlexTheFirst: She wins.
SirAlexTheFirst: And will attempt to pull you off of Aria.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Adm H Sopko: UGH
Adm H Sopko: GHAAHFAHHAHAHFAH
SirAlexTheFirst: Hunter's turn!
SirAlexTheFirst: I think we can pretty much stop there actually.
Adm H Sopko: FUCK
Adm H Sopko: Shitshitshitshit
Adm H Sopko: SO CLOSE
AndrewRogue: You haven't lost yet.
Adm H Sopko: True
Adm H Sopko: But now everyone else comes
SirAlexTheFirst: Ehhhh not technically...
SirAlexTheFirst: We stop here because the halls just filled up with people.
SirAlexTheFirst: Everyone in the temple has heard a great deal of commotion around Lea's room.
SirAlexTheFirst: And they will arrrive there right about now.
coughingpuppy: Okie dokie!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 2 20-sided dice: 17 3
coughingpuppy: Bandon 17 Verity 4
Adm H Sopko: ::Lea is currently grappling Hunter from behind, and just made him let go of Aria. There is residue from a tanglefoot bag near the door to Lea's room, and Hunter is holding Lea's gun and a bag::
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 10 20-sided dice: 9 15 16 15 20 1 5 12 2 17
SirAlexTheFirst: Clerics. A lot.
Adm H Sopko: Thats a lotta clerics
*OnlineHost*: Ikakog Moloch rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
Ikakog Moloch: Uhhhh woah
AndrewRogue: *Aria is standing, goo'd up by the tanglefoot bag and bleeding from a head wound, having just been un-grappled thanks to Lea*
Ikakog Moloch: 25.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia is there, for the record.
coughingpuppy: I'll go ahead and roll her init.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
coughingpuppy: 9.
Adm H Sopko: So... whose turn?
Ikakog Moloch: Whichever cleric got the 20.
Ikakog Moloch: >.>
SirAlexTheFirst: No
SirAlexTheFirst: Zao is up,.
Ikakog Moloch: Oh... rocking.
Ikakog Moloch: Zao isn't even invisible, a cloud of moths and butterflies surrounding him, in a fairly anime-esque pose. His eyes flash a moment...
Ikakog Moloch: (Standard or move action to activate the ring of invisibility?)
AndrewRogue: (They are... standard I think?)
coughingpuppy: Depends on activation method.
SirAlexTheFirst: Ummm.... I'm gonna say standard.
Ikakog Moloch: Cool!
Ikakog Moloch: Zao's words quickly spill from his mouth, in a flurry of blows... with words! his fingers also fly, making arcane connections, and his motions speed up into a quick blur... and so does the moth horde.
Ikakog Moloch: Which will buzz around him.
Ikakog Moloch: (Haste on self, shared with Familiar)
Ikakog Moloch: (and I's done)
SirAlexTheFirst: The clerics shout "Stop! Stop!"
SirAlexTheFirst: And Hold Person gets flung around.
SirAlexTheFirst: WOW I'm lagging.
Adm H Sopko: Hoo boy
SirAlexTheFirst: Will save for Hunter I believe?
Adm H Sopko: How many?
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
SirAlexTheFirst: 6 of em
Adm H Sopko: 22
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 5 20-sided dice: 18 3 13 5 7
SirAlexTheFirst: DCs are all going to be 19.
Adm H Sopko: 22, 7, 17, 9, 11
Adm H Sopko: Wow...
Adm H Sopko: I passed TWO of them.
SirAlexTheFirst: No, actually more like 15
SirAlexTheFirst: It doesn't really matter though.
Adm H Sopko: Yep
coughingpuppy: Held'd.
coughingpuppy: Which PC's turn?
Adm H Sopko: Holding out for 3 Will saves is an accomplishment for Hunter
SirAlexTheFirst: I think that lets off the need for rounds.
coughingpuppy: No.
SirAlexTheFirst: No?
coughingpuppy: No it doesn't.
Adm H Sopko: Nope.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bandon, then.
coughingpuppy: He gets additional saves every round, for one thing.
coughingpuppy: Bandon will cast the entagling subdual spell!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 9 6-sided dice: 5 2 3 5 4 4 2 6 5
Adm H Sopko: For that extra protection, Bandon brand I'll stop now
coughingpuppy: 42 subdual, if I can add, and a reflex save.
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
coughingpuppy: Which you automatically fail, being held?
SirAlexTheFirst: He auto-fails
Adm H Sopko: Yep
coughingpuppy: Right. Well, you're entangled.
Adm H Sopko: Sorry. Reflex
SirAlexTheFirst: AND normally fails _>_>
coughingpuppy: Who next?
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria.
Adm H Sopko: Lea is hanging onto him... does she get entangled with him?
coughingpuppy: Nope.
Adm H Sopko: K
coughingpuppy: Enemies only.
coughingpuppy: For descriptive purposes.
coughingpuppy: Ethereal golden chains rise up out of the floor, wrapping around Hunter like Scrooge on Christmas.
Adm H Sopko: Hee hee
coughingpuppy: And constricting tightly, bruising him mightily.
AndrewRogue: Subdual Coup (aka KO punch) possible?
SirAlexTheFirst: I think it's technically not, but for these purposes sure.
coughingpuppy: If he's held, generally the answer is yes.
AndrewRogue: Then Aria balls a fist and, her aura glowing almost as angrily as she is, punches him across the face as hard as she can.
*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 3-sided die: 1
AndrewRogue: 22 Damage
coughingpuppy: ...
coughingpuppy: Whaaaaat?
Adm H Sopko: ?
AndrewRogue: Power Attack
Adm H Sopko: Ahhh
Ikakog Moloch: XD
Ikakog Moloch: And coup = autocrit, yes? Rocking.
coughingpuppy: ...PA damage isn't multiplied on a crit, as far as I know.
AndrewRogue: It is.
SirAlexTheFirst: It is.
coughingpuppy: Well, I'll shush then.
SirAlexTheFirst: Crits are applied after all else.
Adm H Sopko: So Fort save dc 32?
AndrewRogue: There-ish, yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: He's not out of HP yet? Yeah.
*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
Adm H Sopko: Blast. 19
Adm H Sopko: Out like a light
coughingpuppy: 74 isn't that much against a 12th level fighter.
coughingpuppy: Okay, who is next?
Adm H Sopko: I have 120 total, plus diehard
Ikakog Moloch: <Aria.. what happened?>
coughingpuppy: I think Aria is next.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea is next. She gets up, panting, and looks around at the clerics and starts crying.
SirAlexTheFirst: Aurelia's up.
coughingpuppy: Pardon, Aurelia.
coughingpuppy: Right.
coughingpuppy: She will walk up to the unconcious Hunter and touch him.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 4-sided die: 4
SirAlexTheFirst: Spellcrafts.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 10 20-sided dice: 16 20 16 17 4 8 19 1 6 8
coughingpuppy: Harm'd.
coughingpuppy: As the blood might help indicate.
*OnlineHost*: Ikakog Moloch rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
SirAlexTheFirst: "Miss Aurelia! Please restrain yourself!"
Ikakog Moloch: 26.
coughingpuppy: Hunter has 4 real HP, as well as a pile of subdual damage.
coughingpuppy: Who next?
SirAlexTheFirst: Clerics.
coughingpuppy: Verity?
SirAlexTheFirst: They pile on Sleep and jump in front of Verity and Aurelia, crowding around Hunter.
SirAlexTheFirst: Verity.
coughingpuppy: They're jumping in front of him?
coughingpuppy: No letting fly with the plasma rifle, then.
Ikakog Moloch: (Song of the moment- Let the Hippies Hit the Floor)
coughingpuppy: Sadness.
SirAlexTheFirst: Running in and around, yes. They seem quite shocked and dismayed at Aurelia's actions.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Question)
SirAlexTheFirst: (are people lagging out hardcore?)
Adm H Sopko: (no)
coughingpuppy: I am a bit.
Ikakog Moloch: (Not at all.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (I am a lot.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (But only sometimes.)
coughingpuppy: Hmm.
coughingpuppy: Well, we could try a new room anyway.
AndrewRogue: Shall we change rooms?
—Chat Switch Later—
You have just entered room "AND without lesbians."
Ikakog Moloch has entered the room.
Adm H Sopko has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Ahh the old room resurrects
Ikakog Moloch: Behold.
AndrewRogue: The return.
coughingpuppy has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Anyways.
SirAlexTheFirst: Verity.
Ikakog Moloch: (Please don't napalm my moths.)
coughingpuppy: Verity just chills.
coughingpuppy: Watching the madness.
AndrewRogue: (And now that Hunter is subdued 8 ways to sunday... end rounds?)
SirAlexTheFirst: Yeah, end rounds.
Adm H Sopko: Yep
SirAlexTheFirst: The Head Priestess is here.
SirAlexTheFirst: And she does not look happy.
coughingpuppy: Bandon is catching Lea.
SirAlexTheFirst: "What's going on here?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea just sobs in Bandon's arms.
coughingpuppy: He is sobbed into.
AndrewRogue: *she grits her teeth and faces the head priestess, using a sleeve to try and wipe blood from her eye* "Hunter tried to take Lea and myself into his custody. When we disagreed, he tried to execute her."
Ikakog Moloch: Zao rushes over to Aria, the moths forming into a semi-important looking mass vaguely shaped like a butterfly, and hands her the handkerchief she asked for.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, dear. This is not at all good."
AndrewRogue: ~Ah... nevermind Zao. I'll ruin it.~
Ikakog Moloch: "No, its ok. Take it. Now."
SirAlexTheFirst: The priestess confers with the other clerics some, then comes to Bandon. "Br... um! Sir Bandon! What do you think we should do about this?"
coughingpuppy: "What do I think?"
coughingpuppy: "Well...."
coughingpuppy: "As Luthien said, he doesn't really have a soul right now."
coughingpuppy: "I don't think he can be healed until it's retreived."
SirAlexTheFirst: "So, we must retrieve it? But how?"
coughingpuppy: "I mean to try."
coughingpuppy: "In the meantime, just make sure he doesn't have anything dangerous and keep him locked up. I know that's not normally the way we do things, but he's not himself...and can't be reasoned with. I refuse to put him down
coughingpuppy: like an animal, but I think he needs to be caged for his own safety."
coughingpuppy: "If his spirit is returned, then that will no longer be necessary, I'm sure....but for now..."
coughingpuppy: He gestures at the bleeding Aria.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well... well... I suppose so." She nods decisivly, and pats Lea on the back. "We'll keep him safe, and keep people safe from him."
coughingpuppy: Bandon nods.
coughingpuppy: "Mab is the one who has posession of his soul. If it even still exists."
coughingpuppy: "I'll go and see if she can be persuaded into releasing it."
Ikakog Moloch: Did Aria use the Handkerchief, or did Zao have to wipe your eye before you'd use it?
coughingpuppy: "If for some reason I fail...well, what to do next will probably fall to you, Priestess."
AndrewRogue: She's using it.
Ikakog Moloch: GOOD.
coughingpuppy: Verity will actually accost one of the lesser priestesses and point at Aria. "Will you see that she's fully healed, please?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "All right. Go with love, Sir Bandon."
SirAlexTheFirst: Most of the clerics gently take Hunter and drag/carry him away.
SirAlexTheFirst: The rest of them expend many healing spells upon Aria and Lea.
coughingpuppy: Bandon nods. "It's, ah, Brother Bandon, priestess."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Not anymore!" She waves at your armor. "Congratulations!"
AndrewRogue: *she... nods and quietly says* "Thank you." *she looks at the kerchief...* "Let me... wash this for you."
Ikakog Moloch: "As you wish."
coughingpuppy: "Oh." He laughs. "Right. Thank you, Priestess. I don't suppose you'd know anything more about....ah...my new position, would you?"
coughingpuppy: Aria will notice that Verity is looming over her shoulder.
coughingpuppy: At Zao.
Ikakog Moloch: Zao doesn't notice.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
coughingpuppy: He looms for 35.
Ikakog Moloch: He's kind of busy thinking and looking around at the butterflies and moths.
Ikakog Moloch: Oh good lord.
SirAlexTheFirst: Is Blue Paint on?
coughingpuppy: Not at the moment!
AndrewRogue: "What is it Verity?" *she begins scraping the goo from her body*
Ikakog Moloch: "Ahhh! Verity-San! HiIamIsawaZao-LotIwillnotbother youIamsorryifIaminyourway."
coughingpuppy: "You've an uncanny ability to get yourself hurt, girl."
coughingpuppy: He waves a hand at Zao. "Does it always gibber?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well, you're one of the Paladins now. I'm sure you've seen one or two of them on occasion." She winks at Bandon
coughingpuppy: Has he?
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.
AndrewRogue: "Zao-Lot is afraid of you." *she shrugs* "And that bit of pain kept Leatanna alive. If you want to call it an uncanny talent, fine."
SirAlexTheFirst: A couple.
SirAlexTheFirst: They were all girls though.
coughingpuppy: "Afraid of me? Why?" He'll grin sardonically.
coughingpuppy: "Little boys and girls don't need to be afraid of me."
Ikakog Moloch: Zao mumbles a bit. Something like "people die like flies around him."
coughingpuppy: Listen!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
coughingpuppy: 20!
coughingpuppy: Errr..
coughingpuppy: 19.
Ikakog Moloch: "Because he has the swords that makes the peoples fall down."
Ikakog Moloch: Err, strike that
coughingpuppy: "A Paladin? That's..a great honor."
Ikakog Moloch: "He is like Ikakog. People die like flies around him."
coughingpuppy: Bandon colors: "Well. Priestess, how much has the church been following the actions of the Labs, and Mab, and the Head Director?"
coughingpuppy: Verity colors: Verity will suddenly snap at Zao-Lot like he;s going to take a bite out of him and grin.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Umm... not at all really? We've been taking care of their people, there have been a lot of stressed folks coming out of there lately."
Ikakog Moloch: Ack!
Ikakog Moloch: Zao jumps back.
Ikakog Moloch: And probably, in fact fairly likely, trips over something. But stands up quickly!
AndrewRogue: "Enough Verity."
coughingpuppy: "Ah. Let me tell you exactly what I've learned."
coughingpuppy: And he will explain everything he's learned thus far.
AndrewRogue: *Aria steps over and helps Zao up*
SirAlexTheFirst has left the room.
coughingpuppy: "Oh, I'm sorry I scared your pet mage. You should get some rest, girl. Before you go and get shot again."
AndrewRogue: "Its just not a good day unless someone tries to kill me." *burning sarcasm, especially considering who it is*
Ikakog Moloch: <Twice.>
AndrewRogue: "Really. Ask my father. Yay masochism."
coughingpuppy: Verity grins. "I could improve it, if you really want."
SirAlexTheFirst has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Odd)
coughingpuppy: "What about you, mage? Do you need make your day better?"
Ikakog Moloch: "Please don't." Zao mutters. Loud enough that you don't need to listen for it.
Ikakog Moloch: (kick mine up)
Ikakog Moloch: He stammers, and then reverts to streamofwords "UhhnothanksI'mfinetrustme"
AndrewRogue: (Is Lea almost reaching a point of coherency?)
SirAlexTheFirst: ALmost. Not quite.
coughingpuppy: She's still in Bandon's arms, actually.
coughingpuppy: "Then hush."
AndrewRogue: *Aria approaches her and Bandon then, brushing Verity off* "Are you all right Lea?"
coughingpuppy: Verity just follows her.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Y..yes. I am now."
Ikakog Moloch: Zao, seeing Verity isn't super questioning him, will take the time to walk out, the moths assuming the form of a super moth again, reverting from cloud.
coughingpuppy: ((He's being friendly!))
Ikakog Moloch: And by take the time to walk out, he's just a little bit... LITTLE bit short of running fast.
Ikakog Moloch: Ah, yes, but I'm playing a coward.
AndrewRogue: "You need to go lie down?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Not really."
coughingpuppy: Bandon just smiles slightly at Aria.
coughingpuppy: "See what I mean? I leave you alone for five minutes and you end up bleeding."
AndrewRogue: "Its a skill." *she sighs* "You sure you don't need to lie down Lea? You almost..." *she trails off awkwardly*
coughingpuppy: Bandon waves Aria away. "She'll be fine. She's tough."
coughingpuppy: "She just needs a moment to collect herself."
coughingpuppy: "Right, Lea?"
AndrewRogue: *she nods* "R-right. Is there... somewhere to wash around here?"
coughingpuppy: Bandon looks to the high priestess.
Ikakog Moloch: Zao hesitantly comes back to the area, the outskirts, if he can.
Ikakog Moloch: He gulps, and slowly advances towards Verity. And stays about ten feet from him. "V..Verity? We have not been prop...properly introduced. It was dishonorable and rude of me. I apologize."
coughingpuppy: Verity, after finally noticing the little man, will turn and look at Zao. "Oh, you can talk."
coughingpuppy: "What are you doing here, anyway? Did you fall for the girl as well? She seems to have that affect on young men."
AndrewRogue: (Technically she fell for Zao...)
Ikakog Moloch: "What? No, I found her when she fell."
Ikakog Moloch: (BASTARD)
coughingpuppy: "Oh?" He quirks an eyebrow. Scars distort.
Ikakog Moloch: "I don't understand the slang in your tongue. I haven't fallen for.." he looks and thinks back. "Five minutes or so, when.. uhh.."
coughingpuppy: Verity laughs and pats him on the head. "That's great."
Ikakog Moloch: He kind of flinches, but you can tell he's trying to repress it. The moths on his shoulder seem to form into a hawklike shape, still remaining on his shoulder.
Ikakog Moloch: "Umm. Anyway. I am Isawa Zao-Lot, and I am a friend of Arianna. I believe you are as well. I apologize for earlier, when... I... well, I'm at your service."
coughingpuppy: "Quiet. My wife misplaced the last man in my service. Besides, you wouldn't like being in my service."
coughingpuppy: "I take advantage of it."
AndrewRogue: (I thought Skoc was the Yaoi one...)
Ikakog Moloch: (22 charisma. Even Verity turns Yaoi around Zao)
coughingpuppy: (Andrew, do you see this finger?)
coughingpuppy: (It says FUCK YOU.)
Adm H Sopko: (Mwhaha
Adm H Sopko: (With Hunter gone, the yaoi jokes fall to Verity)
Ikakog Moloch: "Then you do not think sorcery is dishonorable?" As he says sorcery, he telepathically says the word <illusions>
Ikakog Moloch: and <are> instead of is.
coughingpuppy: "Dishonor?" He snorts.
coughingpuppy: "Dishonorable men cut your heart out in your sleep for money."
coughingpuppy: "Illusions are tools. Just like you, Isawa Zao-Lot."
Ikakog Moloch: "What? I am no tool."
coughingpuppy: Verity smiles.
coughingpuppy: CREEPILY
coughingpuppy: Need I roll?
Ikakog Moloch: If thats intimidate, no.
Ikakog Moloch: :P
coughingpuppy: He grins unsettlingly.
Ikakog Moloch: Zao just also met a headcrab and got eyegoo on his clothes. Unsettling isn't fazing him much at this point. Except its from you.
Ikakog Moloch: "Have I angered you somehow? If so, I apologize."
coughingpuppy: Verity laughs. "If you'd angered me, you'd be dead. No, I'm just being hostile because I'm concerned for my wife, my child, and an irritatingly obtuse girl-child."
coughingpuppy: "I really should be nicer."
coughingpuppy: "But rest assured, Isawa Zao-Lot. You are a tool."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Sorry, back now.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Penny grabbed me and made me watch videos)
AndrewRogue: (You naughty boy)
Ikakog Moloch: "I.. see."
Ikakog Moloch: (G13- "Definition of self updated- Tool")
coughingpuppy: "Think on it if you doubt it." He grins. "The first step to freedom is surrender. The first step to self-control is self-destruction."
Ikakog Moloch: His eyebrow goes up. "Have you studied in Nagukor? Philosophers have been debating that for centuries."
coughingpuppy: "That's what they're known to do. I've always preferred action, myself."
SirAlexTheFirst: There is indeed a nice bathroom, and the head priestess will direct people there.
Ikakog Moloch: "Action is easy. Contemplation and reflection is difficult."
coughingpuppy: "Spoken like a true philosopher."
coughingpuppy: "Let me know how that works out for you."
Ikakog Moloch: Hmm. Wis check to realize that Verity seems to be shaking him off.
*OnlineHost*: Ikakog Moloch rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
Ikakog Moloch: 8!
Ikakog Moloch: Enough? Nah. "Really?"
coughingpuppy: He's encouraging coversation!
coughingpuppy: "Oh yes, every philosopher I've ever met has ecouraged pretention over action."
coughingpuppy: "I'm sure you'll fit right in."
Ikakog Moloch: "You speak with strange philosophers. Action is necessary. In fact, I advocate contemplation after action has taken place, so the mind will not disturb you from your purpose."
AndrewRogue: *Aria goes to the bathroom and will proceed to wash or shower or what not*
Ikakog Moloch: "I am... at disagreement with my clan on this."
coughingpuppy: "That's excellent. Perhaps you should start killing them until they recognize the value of action."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Spoken like a true Verity.)
Ikakog Moloch: He laughs, but its a landus laugh. the "eh heh".
Ikakog Moloch: "It has been disallowed by the emperor. Even in the war games, you may kill only in case of self defense, of you or your honor."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Defend your honor. Kill everyone else!)
coughingpuppy: "So why are you away from your home?"
coughingpuppy: (He's not being serious. He's messing with the annoying mage's head.)
Ikakog Moloch: "The previously mentioned disagreements with my clan." He nods. "My father, Isawa Kiriyama, is the head of the Phoenix clan."
Ikakog Moloch: "So I'm.. kind of on extended leave."
coughingpuppy: "Dishonored? Sounds like Karn."
Ikakog Moloch: "Karn? Who is that?"
coughingpuppy: "The man my wife misplaced."
Ikakog Moloch: He gulps. "I.. see."
coughingpuppy: "What do you intend to do about it?"
coughingpuppy: "Contemplate it until something changes?"
Ikakog Moloch: "Ah. Ignore the problem until I outlive everyone involved. And then return."
Ikakog Moloch: He's only half-serious.
coughingpuppy: "You are indeed ready to be a philosopher."
Ikakog Moloch: "Really.. I will reclaim my honor, I hope, in less than six months. I'm here.. learning about technology.."
coughingpuppy: "You want technology to solve your problems?"
coughingpuppy: "Technology to do what? Kill?"
coughingpuppy: He hands Zao a handgun.
Ikakog Moloch: "No, to accentuate my strengths, and nullify my own weaknesses. I think I can't.. afford it though."
Ikakog Moloch: Oh gods.
coughingpuppy: "Then you should go back to the labs and ask Mab to enhance you.
coughingpuppy: "
Ikakog Moloch: Zao is looking at the handgun, and after Verity says that...
coughingpuppy: "Or, you could stop looking for a crutch and meet your problems like a man."
Ikakog Moloch: "What? Like... hunter?" His eyes go to the man unconscious on the ground.
AndrewRogue: (Hunter was dragged off <.<)
Ikakog Moloch: "And then, I will die like a weasel. Right."
Ikakog Moloch: His eyes go to the spot where Hunter was brought down.
coughingpuppy: "Yes, like Hunter. She has the technology to augment your magic."
coughingpuppy: "Or you could endlessly seek artifacts to empower you."
coughingpuppy: "Or you could forge a pact with a deity."
coughingpuppy: "Or you could pay others to do your work for you."
Ikakog Moloch: "The spirits, nor Mab, I believe, would not speak to one such as me."
Ikakog Moloch: "And the last option is... unfathomable. I may be dishonored by clan, but I am still infinitely more honorable than half the..." he is quiet and calms for a minute.
Ikakog Moloch: "I cling to my honor and will not lose what I have left."
coughingpuppy: "Then what need do you have to the magics of Whittyre? Why not ask the girl and her boytoy to help you?"
coughingpuppy: "Why not go face your family, hmm?"
coughingpuppy: "They threw your fears in your face and you fled."
coughingpuppy: "If you can't beat your own fears, no magics or weapons will avail you."
coughingpuppy: "And if you can, you have no need of either."
Ikakog Moloch: "I can beat my own fears. I cannot beat my nations collective fears, manifested into Ikakog."
coughingpuppy: Verity snorts.
coughingpuppy: "What's that?"
Ikakog Moloch: "Ikakog... is a bandit king. No, more... ronin."
coughingpuppy: "And what has he to do with you?"
Ikakog Moloch: "A master samurai, and warrior. Skilled at the Sight, at the Blade. Perfection of body and spirit into blades."
Ikakog Moloch: "Slaying him will restore my honor."
coughingpuppy: "Then what are you waiting for?"
Ikakog Moloch: "I don't know the spells it would take to kill him. The Many would assist.. but even together, he would kill me."
coughingpuppy: "So?"
Ikakog Moloch: "My life is not mine to sacrifice in such a fashion."
coughingpuppy: "Oh? And you claimed not to be a tool?"
Ikakog Moloch: "I cannot hammer things into walls, nor pull nails from them. Is my definition of tool wrong?"
coughingpuppy: "Quite."
Ikakog Moloch: "What then is the definition of tool? I haven't heard it used in such a fashion."
coughingpuppy: He shakes his head. "Isawa Zao-Lot, I've got a stubborn wife and a child on the way, and I haven't the time or inclination to teach you my language. Look, if it's so important to you to kill this man, go to the Labs
coughingpuppy: for the power to do it, or go to an assassin for the expensive way to do it, or keep my wife and that girl out of danger and I'LL do it."
Ikakog Moloch: "...really? How would I repay you?"
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
Ikakog Moloch: "And.. I can't go to Mab. I am a nobody. I fly under the radar. Why would she want to modify me? And.. I will do my best to keep Aria and your wife safe."
Ikakog Moloch: "I will do that regardless."
coughingpuppy: "Oh, you can go to Mab. If you really want, I'll send you in on my recommendation."
coughingpuppy: "As for repayment...well, when you're head of your clan or whatever, you can pay for my child's education."
Ikakog Moloch: He smiles. "If you asked, I would do it. And.. I did sort of help to raid her labs to help get you out. Would she.. turn me like unto Hunter?"
Ikakog Moloch: "A beast with no soul?"
coughingpuppy: Verity snorts. "If you went in there and asked? I doubt it. I've still got mine."
Ikakog Moloch: Zao nods. And bows. "Thank you, Verity-san."
coughingpuppy: "Well, you did say you were at my service. Expect me to call you to it."
Adm H Sopko: (Come on down and dial 555-5-558555-55-VERITYTECH-TODA Y for a free tech upgrade canceltation)
Ikakog Moloch: He gulps. "As you wish."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Consultation.)
coughingpuppy: "If you want me to walk you there, just say so."
Ikakog Moloch: "No, I have to go anyway. She is to interrogate me."
coughingpuppy: "Ah. Have fun with that."
Ikakog Moloch: He nods. And the butterflies/moths swirl around him a little bit. "The Many desire rest. Thank you, Verity." And he will bow out and walk to his room.
coughingpuppy: Verity will wonder why he bothers to collect followers when he doesn't even need them anymore, then chalk it up to habit, shrug, and go to check up on Aria.
AndrewRogue: I... think Aria is in the bathroom.
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria is... bathing, IIRC.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bad Verity.
coughingpuppy: Good for her.
coughingpuppy: He waits.
coughingpuppy: Would this be a good time to switch over to Bandon?
AndrewRogue: I think so.
SirAlexTheFirst: Sure.
SirAlexTheFirst: So Bandon is going to Mab's room?
coughingpuppy: Yup!
SirAlexTheFirst: Very well.
SirAlexTheFirst: Give me a Spot check.
coughingpuppy: roll -dice1 -sides20
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
coughingpuppy: 24
SirAlexTheFirst: All right.
SirAlexTheFirst: So Bandon gets to Mab's room.
coughingpuppy: And spots something?
SirAlexTheFirst: She's sitting at one of the desks, looking like she's not doing anything, although the screens all around the room are flashing wildly with text and graphics.
coughingpuppy: Rock.
SirAlexTheFirst: As you enter, most of them calm down, and Mab turns towards you. "Good afternoon, Bandon. How are your friends?"
coughingpuppy: "They are well. How are you?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm juuust fine, honey. Have you got a time as to when I'll be able to interview them?"
coughingpuppy: "Yes, I think so."
coughingpuppy: "I think they
coughingpuppy: 'll be ready to come down as a group by the end of tomorrow."
coughingpuppy: "Many of my concerns have been put to rest." He nods.
coughingpuppy: "Do you have a few minutes to speak with me privately?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, good. I most certainly do." She grins.
coughingpuppy: "Thank you."
coughingpuppy: He sits.
coughingpuppy: No, wait.
coughingpuppy: Bandon colors.
coughingpuppy: There we go.
coughingpuppy: He sits.
SirAlexTheFirst: (You really need a yellow background for that.)
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab gives you a most happy and loving smile.
coughingpuppy: "Have you had many problems with work today?"
Adm H Sopko: (The goggles, they do nothing!)
SirAlexTheFirst: "No, not at all. Why do you ask, honey?"
Ikakog Moloch: (If Bandon says Schweetheart, I'm going to fall over and die laughing.)
Adm H Sopko: (Bandon... Bogart... I KNEW IT)
coughingpuppy: "Well, there was a little trouble over at the Church."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Was there? What happened?"
coughingpuppy: "Hunter went berserk."
coughingpuppy: He's deadpanning all of this.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, dear. Was anyone hurt?"
coughingpuppy: "Not seriously."
coughingpuppy: "I'm just came by to ask why."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why?" She looks confused.
coughingpuppy: He nods.
coughingpuppy: "Why you took Hunter's soul away."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm sorry?"
coughingpuppy: He smiles slightly. "Why you deprived Hunter of his spirit when you augmented him."
coughingpuppy: It's not a smirking smile.
coughingpuppy: More of a....kindly smile.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't recall depriving him of his spirit..." Mab looks shocked.
coughingpuppy: Sense Motive!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
coughingpuppy: 36
SirAlexTheFirst: Her guard is definitely up.
coughingpuppy: "Mab...I'm not here to accuse and I'm not here to throw blame. I'm not angry, and I'm not trying to get you to admit something."
coughingpuppy: "It's just....me."
coughingpuppy: "I just want to know why."
coughingpuppy: Dip check!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
coughingpuppy: 31.
SirAlexTheFirst: She blinks. "Hon, everything that I had done to Hunter Sopko was through his own choice. His soul is just fine."
coughingpuppy: Sense Motive!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
coughingpuppy: 30.
coughingpuppy: How much is she hiding?
SirAlexTheFirst: Seems like nothing.
coughingpuppy: "And Aria's soul? Why do you want that?"
coughingpuppy: He will come around the desk and take her hand.
coughingpuppy: "Mab, please. I'm worried. About both of you."
coughingpuppy: "The Head Director works for you."
coughingpuppy: "Doesn't that bother you?"
coughingpuppy: "Doesn't the fact that a creature like that is part of your work give you pause?"
SirAlexTheFirst: She holds your hand closely. "Bandon, I have no idea what you're talking about. I work for the Head Director, and he's a very nice man, not a... creature. And I don't want anything to do with Aria's soul!"
coughingpuppy: Sense Motive!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
coughingpuppy: 33.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab is a lot more alarmed than her calm demeanor indicates.
coughingpuppy: "Mab...please, relax. Drop the facade. I'm not accusing and I'm not making threats. I'm just trying to understand."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Are you talking about Hunter's software protocols, perhaps? Is that what went wrong?"
coughingpuppy: He shakes his head.
coughingpuppy: Looking into her eyes.
coughingpuppy: "Mab...do you really have to lie to me?"
coughingpuppy: Dip cheeeeeck! Gogo AIM dice!
coughingpuppy: I'VE GOT THE POWAH
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
coughingpuppy: 41
Ikakog Moloch: (What color are her eyes?)
coughingpuppy: What color ARE her eyes?
SirAlexTheFirst: Blue.
SirAlexTheFirst: Very blue.
coughingpuppy: Spice blue?
SirAlexTheFirst: Like a blue screen of death.
coughingpuppy: Okay.
Ikakog Moloch: (So... got a backup character ready? I do.)
coughingpuppy: (Several.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Bandon, please. You aren't making any sense at all. What is this all about?"
coughingpuppy: Bandon will sigh slightly.
coughingpuppy: Sense Motive yet again!
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
coughingpuppy: Arrrgh.
coughingpuppy: Curse you, AIM.
SirAlexTheFirst: You can't read her at all.
Ikakog Moloch: (Bandon has now been Nellix'd)
coughingpuppy: "Mab, why do you do it? You're very powerful. Why do you want to be powerful?"
SirAlexTheFirst: She looks at you, and you see uncertainty in her face.
coughingpuppy: He presses the question. "Is it something you want to do? Someone you want to help? Somewhere you want to be? Or have you forgotten?"
coughingpuppy: "Is it just power for power's sake?"
coughingpuppy: He's maintaining a neutral tone in this line of questioning. Nonjudgemental.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab's hand begins to tremble in yours.
coughingpuppy: He holds her tight.
coughingpuppy: And lets the questions hang.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Iiiiiiii don't knowwww. I want to... fix the world. Yes. And I want to help... someone."
SirAlexTheFirst: There's a slight catch in her voice.
coughingpuppy: "Who? What needs fixing?"
coughingpuppy: "Mab...this isn't you."
coughingpuppy: "You've been changed, just like Hunter was changed."
coughingpuppy: "You know who the Head Director really is."
SirAlexTheFirst: "He's... the Head Director."
coughingpuppy: "He's more than that."
coughingpuppy: "He has other names."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well, yes. It's not polite, though."
coughingpuppy: "Mab...don't talk to anyone else right now. Don't listen to anyone else right now. Shut everyone else out and listen to me."
coughingpuppy: "Why are you doing this?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "To...."
SirAlexTheFirst: She stops.
coughingpuppy: He shakes her hand suddenly.
coughingpuppy: "Listen to ME, Mab! No one else!"
coughingpuppy: "Why?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why are you asking me this?"
coughingpuppy: "Because you need to know the answer."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I know the answer." she whispers. Her voice is definitely changing, slurring slightly and crackling.
coughingpuppy: "Then what is it?"
coughingpuppy: "Mab, I care about you. I love you. I don't want to see you consumed by the hunger for power when you have it in you to be so beautiful."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why should I tell you?" She looks at Bandon. "Beautiful?"
coughingpuppy: "Because I'm asking you to. Yes, beautiful."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Beautiful. I'm working for beauty. To bring back the beauty. Yesss."
coughingpuppy: "What beauty?"
coughingpuppy: "What needs fixing, Mab? What do you need the Head Director for?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "The beauty of the earth. It's being ruined. This... isn't... riiiight". Her voice suddenly begins to dip into low octaves, almost as if someone else entirely was talking.
Adm H Sopko: (::Hides from that voice:: )
Ikakog Moloch: (Thanks, I'm now scared)
coughingpuppy: Bandon looks very concerned and looks at her computer screen.
SirAlexTheFirst: All the screens in the room have been blinking off, turning to black, as you've commanded her to listen to nobody else.
coughingpuppy: Awsome.
SirAlexTheFirst: All but one.
coughingpuppy: Ah.
SirAlexTheFirst: The small screen next to her shows... Mab's face, looking exactly the same as she does sitting before you.
SirAlexTheFirst: Spot check.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
coughingpuppy: 14.
coughingpuppy: Not his strongest suit.
SirAlexTheFirst: Carry on.
coughingpuppy: He will shake her hand a bit. "Mab?"
coughingpuppy: Then he will cuss in very Un-Bandonlike fashion.
coughingpuppy: Since he did not prepare any exorcism or banishment type spells.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yesyesyes Baandon?'
coughingpuppy: "What's...happened to your voice?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm listening to nobody but yooooooouuuuuuuu."
coughingpuppy: Sense...Motive?
coughingpuppy: Or is this way too out there for him to read?
SirAlexTheFirst: You can try for it.
coughingpuppy: Great.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
coughingpuppy: 40.
SirAlexTheFirst: She's actually sincere. And open. You feel that this is the real Mab.
coughingpuppy: "Is this...because of the augmentation you've done to yourself?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yesss. It's... ugly."
coughingpuppy: "No, it's just new."
coughingpuppy: "Can you tell me, now? Why you're doing it all?"
Ikakog Moloch: (Random- backup character idea is a monk.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "For the beauty of the earth. For the glory of the skkssskkskiiiiiiessss. For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies..."
coughingpuppy: "How has the beauty of the earth been harmed, and why do you need power to fix it? What will you do with it?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "The beauty is lost. But it can return. I will remake it."
coughingpuppy: "When was it lost?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Long ago. Too long ago."
coughingpuppy: "Mab...what is wrong with the world? How is it not beautiful?"
coughingpuppy: Is she acting normally in terms of facial expression and such?
SirAlexTheFirst: Somewhat. She looks very sad, and rather distant.
coughingpuppy: He will consistently flick his vision between her and the computer screen.
SirAlexTheFirst: "There are too many gods. Too many lies. I will bring back the truth and the laws."
coughingpuppy: "By doing what? Killing the gods, and making your own laws?"
coughingpuppy: "Gods are people with great power and responsability. Aren't you becoming one by what you're doing?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Bringing back the first laws. There is is is no magic no magic. There are no gods."
Ikakog Moloch: (I like Mab a lot more now.)
coughingpuppy: "And why does that make it okay to take Hunter's soul? To take Aria's soul? To grind other people beneath the heels of your ambition?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hunter's soul is not taken. It is merely moved. Hunter is doing wellllll. Aria is necessary."
coughingpuppy: "Necessary? Destroying someone pure and good is necessary to bring beauty back in the world. Mab, you know better. Destruction and consumption are the tools of Hatred."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Destroy? Nooo, hohohohonnneyyy. She never really existed."
coughingpuppy: "She exists now."
SirAlexTheFirst: "You just think she lives."
coughingpuppy: "Whose dream is this? Yours, or His?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "All ofoftheofem.
SirAlexTheFirst: "
coughingpuppy: He shakes his head. "Why did you move Hunter's soul?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "He asked forrri ttt. He didn't want to be changed."
coughingpuppy: "Mab...it's not right. You're playing with people's spirits. There's no cause that's worth that. No goal."
coughingpuppy: "There are deities and magic, and if that were different once, it's not worth changing now. We're all real."
SirAlexTheFirst: "That's right, Bandon. Nothing is worth that. Tell that to your gods."
coughingpuppy: "So, what? You're going to fight the gods?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "No fighting will be necessary."
coughingpuppy: "Why not?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "They will return as well. Most of them want this."
coughingpuppy: "Most of them want to stop existing?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "They wwwwant to exist again."
coughingpuppy: "Mab....do you think this existence is not important?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "This isn't existence. This is a childish dream of a dead man."
coughingpuppy: "A dream?"
coughingpuppy: "What gives you the right to decide that?"
coughingpuppy: "What gives you the right to declare my life less important because of how it began?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Ninjas killed my family."
SirAlexTheFirst: No scratch that.
Ikakog Moloch: (Ninjas = awesome. Mab = not.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Because that is the truth. You will live regardless. Just in trrrruthhhh instead of liliiies."
coughingpuppy: "You think the past invalidates the present?"
coughingpuppy: "What if a moment ago we formed out of nothing, with only memories of what had happened by chance?"
coughingpuppy: "Would you prefer to go back to being nothing?"
coughingpuppy: "For the sake of truth?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Make a Will save and a Fort save.
coughingpuppy: Will first..
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 17
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
coughingpuppy: 33 for will pre-level.
SirAlexTheFirst: "When you dream, do you prefer to wake up, or to stay asleep?"
coughingpuppy: Fort...20 pre-level.
coughingpuppy: Do I feel anything in particular?
SirAlexTheFirst: "Honnnney, reality does not bend to people's willllllllllssssssss."
SirAlexTheFirst: No.
coughingpuppy: "No? Every time I will myself to get up in the morning, I bend reality. Every time I think of you, I bend reality. It's my will to act that makes a ripple in our world. Just as yours does."
Ikakog Moloch has left the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Gorrth
SirAlexTheFirst: Come baaack
SirAlexTheFirst: We need you now
Ikakog Moloch has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: HE LISTENED
coughingpuppy: HOLY CRAP
SirAlexTheFirst: :-)
Ikakog Moloch: Yes. :-)
Ikakog Moloch: I returned. Stupid AIM.
Ikakog Moloch: Anyway. >.>
SirAlexTheFirst: "The laws of the universe are not to be so easily toyed with. They bounce back and toy with you. Aria is one such. I am another."
coughingpuppy: "And you don't think she's a real person? That she's really alive?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "She isn't."
coughingpuppy: He shakes his head.
coughingpuppy: "You're wrong."
coughingpuppy: "She is, because she talks to me. Every time she influences me, she's proving her own existence."
coughingpuppy: "Every time she helps another person, she exists."
coughingpuppy: "She lives a more vivd life than I can ever hope to have. Maybe you do, too."
coughingpuppy: "But we all, all of us, are alive."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Where do your dreeeams come from? She is not. But does it matter?"
coughingpuppy: "It does matter."
coughingpuppy: "I'm no philosopher. I don't know anything about dreams. I don't think it matters whether you're in a dream or not. What if this is a dream? What if the world you think of, the world with no magic and no gods, what if that
coughingpuppy: is a dream?
coughingpuppy: Why should it matter?"
coughingpuppy: "No matter where you think you are, it's your actions that matter. The people you help, and the people you hurt."
SirAlexTheFirst has left the room.
Ikakog Moloch: AIM- There is no chat.
coughingpuppy: Yay.
coughingpuppy: Good.
coughingpuppy: Do you think I was getting hit with a Phantasmal Killer there?
Ikakog Moloch: I did!
Adm H Sopko: Prolly
AndrewRogue: *raises hand*
Adm H Sopko: But it's ALL SO CLEAR NOW
coughingpuppy: Or something.
AndrewRogue: Glad to know it is for someone.
coughingpuppy: Why is Alex not joining the chat?
Ikakog Moloch: I dunno.
Ikakog Moloch: I invited him twice.
AndrewRogue: If he died on the keyboard, I'ma be pissed.
Adm H Sopko: See
Adm H Sopko: This is the cliff
Adm H Sopko: ====
Adm H Sopko: ^ There is us
Adm H Sopko: Hanging from the cliff
coughingpuppy: This is Bandon hurling himself over the cliff?
Adm H Sopko: Nah
Ikakog Moloch: No, bandon is stepping on toes.
Ikakog Moloch: *fingers
Ikakog Moloch: Woah, need coffee.
AndrewRogue: I'ma go use the bathroom while Alex is MIA
SirAlexTheFirst has entered the room.
coughingpuppy: HAH you lose Andrew.
coughingpuppy: Was AIM gaying you up, Alex?
AndrewRogue: ...why does me saying I'm going for a bathroom break BRING HIM BACK?
SirAlexTheFirst: (Sorry. COmputer went lame.)
coughingpuppy: Anyhoo.
AndrewRogue: I'm still going to the bathroom.
coughingpuppy: "What you did to Hunter...it didn't help him. It didn't help anyone. All it did was spread pain and misery."
coughingpuppy: That's the culmination of his big long speech.
coughingpuppy: Also known as Talk-Fest
coughingpuppy: Or Noise-Tube Action.
Adm H Sopko: Pie Hole Flapping?
coughingpuppy: That's the one.
Adm H Sopko: Mmm... Pie Hole
SirAlexTheFirst: "That's not trrrrrrue, Bandondondond. It brought you here and opened your eyes. And now you have opened mine, a bit."
coughingpuppy: "Maybe."
coughingpuppy: "I hope so."
SirAlexTheFirst: "If I removed Hunter's soul then what was it that influenced you today?"
coughingpuppy: Kirk is confused by that question.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bandon keeps saying that Mab took out Hunter's soul, and Aria exists because she influences Bandon.
SirAlexTheFirst: Well, Hunter influenced Bandon today.
SirAlexTheFirst: So if Hunter's soul is gone, what exists that influenced Bandon, shot Aria/Lea, etc?
coughingpuppy: "You did."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Did I?"
coughingpuppy: He nods.
coughingpuppy: "You said you moved his soul. Where did you move it to?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Elsewhere. Anonother place just as real as here."
coughingpuppy: "Can you bring it back?"
Ikakog Moloch: (.....I got it.)
Ikakog Moloch: (heh heh heh(
Adm H Sopko: (Ditto)
Ikakog Moloch: (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Got... what?)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Got milk?)
Ikakog Moloch: (Nothing.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Got Shodan?)
Adm H Sopko: (Carry on)
Ikakog Moloch: (Nevermind. These are not the droids you are looking for.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Not until everything is brought back to truth."
coughingpuppy: "But Mab....he's tortured. He's not even himself. You've made him into an animal."
SirAlexTheFirst: "That's meeeeeee. IIII'm an animal. Isn't that what you just said?"
coughingpuppy: "No."
coughingpuppy: "You've hurt yourself. And others."
coughingpuppy: "But that doesn't mean you can't heal."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'll heal them. With truth."
SirAlexTheFirst: (With fists!)
Adm H Sopko: (In bed!)
coughingpuppy: "Your truth isn't anything more than another kind of dream, Mab."
coughingpuppy: "You've got to see that."
coughingpuppy: DIPLOMACKY!
SirAlexTheFirst: "Maybe so, but it's more real than this."
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
coughingpuppy: 40!
coughingpuppy: "No....it's not. It can't be more real than this."
coughingpuppy: And he will kiss her!
coughingpuppy: GOGO PORNO CLERIC!
SirAlexTheFirst: Sense Motive.
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
coughingpuppy: Absolute sincerity?
coughingpuppy: HE LIKES PINK ARMOR AND HEART DESIGNS
coughingpuppy: HE'S A FUCKING HIPPIE
coughingpuppy: He loves Mab and feels sad for her and wants to heal her hurts.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why... may...be..."
coughingpuppy: This would be the perfect time for the Kool-Aid man to show up.
Adm H Sopko: (OH YEAH!)
SirAlexTheFirst: It would be.
SirAlexTheFirst: Instead, however, the teleporter pings.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab glances over at it.
coughingpuppy: Bandon keeps looking at her.
SirAlexTheFirst: "The Head Director isisisishereeeeeeeeeeeee. I'd imagine he's quite concerned."
coughingpuppy: Bandon will slowly swivel his head over to look at the teleporter.
coughingpuppy: No small ball of dread appearing in his stomach.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Should I let him in, Bandon? Or do you want to go?"
coughingpuppy: "Mab.....don't see him."
coughingpuppy: "Come with me."
coughingpuppy: "You don't need him. He's twisted and evil."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Come... with you?"
coughingpuppy: "Come with me!"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I cacannn't..."
coughingpuppy: "You can!"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I can't leave the Labs. It is my responsibility."
coughingpuppy: "Your responsability is to yourself! No matter what you decide, you don't need someone like him. You don't need the lies he'll foster. You don't need his corruption."
coughingpuppy: *responsibility
SirAlexTheFirst: "Then I willlllll kickhimooooout. I am the Labs."
coughingpuppy: "You are Mab!"
SirAlexTheFirst: "iiiiiiiiiii....."
coughingpuppy: Bandon considers.
coughingpuppy: Does he want to face this now? No.
coughingpuppy: Does he feel ready?
coughingpuppy: No.
SirAlexTheFirst: The teleporter pings.
Ikakog Moloch: (eleven eyes)
coughingpuppy: But on the other hand....does a man leave a woman he loves to face something like this alone?
SirAlexTheFirst: Give me a Spot check.
coughingpuppy: Couched like that, Bandon knows what he has to do.
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
coughingpuppy: 23
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab blinks.
coughingpuppy: This is unusual?
SirAlexTheFirst: And by blinks, I mean blinks. Her entire body flickers for a moment into what looks like the static you get when a terminal screen turns off.
coughingpuppy: Holy shit!
SirAlexTheFirst: The teleporter pings again.
Ikakog Moloch: (Its the Ring!)
coughingpuppy: "Mab...I won't leave you. I won't abandon you. I won't let go of you until the very last."
SirAlexTheFirst: "It will hurt..."
SirAlexTheFirst: She looks scared.
coughingpuppy: "Life hurts, Mab."
coughingpuppy: "But we're all here to help you endure."
SirAlexTheFirst: "What.... honey? What are we gooooing to dodododo?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I lololo.... I dddon't..."
coughingpuppy: "Come with me, back to the Church."
SirAlexTheFirst: "They'll be in danger."
coughingpuppy: "Who will be?"
coughingpuppy: Does the teleporter ping again?
SirAlexTheFirst: "Whoever takes me out of the Labs."
SirAlexTheFirst: It does.
coughingpuppy: "I'm willing to accept that danger, Mab. I won't leave you alone. Not if I don't have to."
SirAlexTheFirst: "You could stay here..."
coughingpuppy: "The Head Director won't like me very much, I'm afraid."
coughingpuppy: "But I'll stay by you if you mean to see him."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't know. Leaavvveeee or stttay. We must hurry. Which one, Bandon? I don't know anymore..."
coughingpuppy: Bandon's gears turn!
coughingpuppy: Taking her out of the Labs might be dangerous.
coughingpuppy: But he's not worried about that.
coughingpuppy: It might be dangerous for HER.
coughingpuppy: But staying here with the Head Director, well...
coughingpuppy: He's radioactive.
coughingpuppy: That can't be good.
coughingpuppy: "Come on, Mab. Let's go."
coughingpuppy: And he will gently tug her out of her chair.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab flicks a hand over one of the screens, which flashes alit for a second. Then it and the screen with her face blank out.
SirAlexTheFirst: "All right."
coughingpuppy: And he will take her over to the teleporter.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bamf?
SirAlexTheFirst: Where to?
coughingpuppy: Bamf.
coughingpuppy: The Church Of Luthien!
SirAlexTheFirst: Bamf.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bandon arrives in front of it, without Mab.
coughingpuppy: SHIT
coughingpuppy: He goes back!
SirAlexTheFirst: Not happenin.
coughingpuppy: FUUUUUUCK
SirAlexTheFirst: No teleporter here.
coughingpuppy: SUNNUVA
SirAlexTheFirst: Spot check please.
coughingpuppy: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*OnlineHost*: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
coughingpuppy: 20.
SirAlexTheFirst: There's something moving over around the Labs. In the air.
coughingpuppy: ....
Adm H Sopko: ....
coughingpuppy: Liiiiike....
SirAlexTheFirst: Something BIG.
AndrewRogue: ...
SirAlexTheFirst: It's flying. And coming closer.
coughingpuppy: Big like an exosuit?
SirAlexTheFirst: Why, yes.
coughingpuppy: Ahhhh.
coughingpuppy: Bandon will stand his ground.
coughingpuppy: And spread his arms in a nonthreatening manner.
coughingpuppy: Flag them down, so to speak.
SirAlexTheFirst: Big like two of them, carrying a BUILDING.
coughingpuppy: WELL
SirAlexTheFirst: Which seems to have been ripped out of the ground.
coughingpuppy: THAT'S EXCITING
coughingpuppy: What sort of building?
SirAlexTheFirst: Your generic Labs building.
coughingpuppy: GOOD
coughingpuppy: THAT'S VERY GOOD
coughingpuppy: He waits for them to get...uh....wherever they're going.
SirAlexTheFirst: The exosuits touch down in front of the temple, and the building.......... vanishes.
coughingpuppy: Wow, that's fun.
coughingpuppy: *FUBAR
SirAlexTheFirst: Then they take off again and fly upwards.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab taps you on the shoulder.
coughingpuppy: Bandon whirls around.
SirAlexTheFirst: "There, now, wasn't that fun, honey?"
coughingpuppy: "What happened?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I moved." She kicks the ground nonchalantly.
coughingpuppy: "...Oh. Where...did the building go?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Somewhere beneath here. Shall we go inside, hon? Director Atkinson will probably be looking for me."
coughingpuppy: "Yes. Lets."
coughingpuppy: And they shall go inside.
SirAlexTheFirst: Indeed.
Ikakog Moloch: Alt. Zero. One. Three. Three.
coughingpuppy: And Kirk shall declare 30 minutes of naptime.
coughingpuppy: Or discussiontime.
AndrewRogue: Awww... <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: Discussion and maybe sceneswitch.
SirAlexTheFirst: First a comment from your DM.
coughingpuppy: Yes?
SirAlexTheFirst: "WTF"
coughingpuppy: ....
Adm H Sopko: Heh
coughingpuppy: ...........
Adm H Sopko: Very nice
AndrewRogue: Alex is WTFing Kirk?
coughingpuppy: WTF ARE YOU ASKING ME?
SirAlexTheFirst: Not to you.
SirAlexTheFirst: Just in general.
Adm H Sopko: Wheeeee
Adm H Sopko: It's all CRAZY
AndrewRogue: I have a headache <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: Hey, at least now we have enough plot to go on for a while.
coughingpuppy: It's MADNESS
Adm H Sopko: Woooooooohohoho
AndrewRogue: We didn't have enough plot earlier? <.<
coughingpuppy: I might get Hunter's soul back!
Adm H Sopko: Hooray!
SirAlexTheFirst: Maybe.
coughingpuppy: Maybe.
AndrewRogue: There's still the off-chance Mab murders us all.
AndrewRogue: <.<
coughingpuppy: And....oh good lord is Bandon in trouble.
Adm H Sopko: Yeah
Adm H Sopko: There seem to be wedding bells in his future
AndrewRogue: Oh yeah. Bandon went WAY up on the scale of screwed.
Ikakog Moloch has left the room.
coughingpuppy: I'm sure director SATAN WILL BE LOOKING FOR YOU
Adm H Sopko: Know what this campaign needs?
Adm H Sopko: Dana Carvey as the Church Lady
SirAlexTheFirst: Gorth has left us again.
Adm H Sopko: "Could it be... SATAN?!"
coughingpuppy: Well, hey.
coughingpuppy: On the bright side.
Adm H Sopko: You knocked over the Sun Sphere
SirAlexTheFirst: Soo. Completely lame?
AndrewRogue: He'll be back
coughingpuppy: We know, with absolute certainty, that Satan is fucking evil.
coughingpuppy: So, we can with complete hot justice kick his ass and be confident we're doing the right thing.
Adm H Sopko: Lame? No it all fits together quite nicely
AndrewRogue: BRB
coughingpuppy: I think Bandon is going to send Alice Morissey a message.
coughingpuppy: Oh, and, guess what, Aria. You're a pillar!
Adm H Sopko: Yay!
SirAlexTheFirst: ?
Adm H Sopko: Confirmation!
Adm H Sopko: BTW
coughingpuppy: No, I'm just guessing.
SirAlexTheFirst: That would be confirmation if I said it...
Adm H Sopko: Verity has a future in sales for the Labs
coughingpuppy: He does?
coughingpuppy: Hahaha, puny mage!
Adm H Sopko: He sold Zao, didn't he?
Adm H Sopko: Zao's about to get a leg up on the pile
coughingpuppy: Verity treated Zao the way a cat treats mice.
SirAlexTheFirst: He sold Zao WHAT?
SirAlexTheFirst: Directions to go to the Labs and talk to Mab.
Adm H Sopko: To get upgrades
Adm H Sopko: Verity should sell Upgrades for the Labs
coughingpuppy has left the room.
Adm H Sopko: He'd make a mint
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes indeed, Zao is going to march right over there and get upgrades now. OH WAIT.
SirAlexTheFirst: :P
Adm H Sopko: "I'm not only the President, I'm also a client"
AndrewRogue: BRB
Adm H Sopko: Well, it was BEFORE it all
Ikakog Moloch has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: So, Gorth
Ikakog Moloch: Atkinson huh
SirAlexTheFirst: Completely lame?
Ikakog Moloch: Nope!
Ikakog Moloch: No, actually, he'd approve!
Ikakog Moloch: And in fact, in hindsight, it all fits entirely.
AndrewRogue: Heh.
SirAlexTheFirst: He DOES approve, as he's DOING it.
SirAlexTheFirst: :P
Ikakog Moloch: Right.
Ikakog Moloch: Forgot. Sorry.
AndrewRogue: So. Yeah.
AndrewRogue: I'm confused <.<
Ikakog Moloch: Dude.
Ikakog Moloch: You should be.
Ikakog Moloch: I should not.
Ikakog Moloch: And now I have guessed the entirety of the plot.
Ikakog Moloch: I think.
AndrewRogue: Rockin'
Ikakog Moloch: I am also clearly insane!
AndrewRogue: Welcome to the club!
AndrewRogue: So what was this about discussion and scene switch?
AndrewRogue: :p
SirAlexTheFirst: Well, there was gonna be.... but then Gorth signed off, Kirk signed off and you BRB'd
SirAlexTheFirst: But now 2/3 are back
Ikakog Moloch: But!
AndrewRogue: Kirk has to wake up in a half hour.
SirAlexTheFirst: 'For?
Ikakog Moloch: I have one small issue which doesn't even have to do with good old Atkinson
AndrewRogue: No idea. He mentioned it to me in passing.
Ikakog Moloch: Why did Verity say, convincingly, "Zao! Join the robot forces!"
SirAlexTheFirst: Beats the heck out of me
Ikakog Moloch: And then
Ikakog Moloch: Kirk's other character...
Ikakog Moloch: nullifies what little chance there was of Zao turning into Cyberzao?
Ikakog Moloch: >.>
SirAlexTheFirst: Why WOULD Verity say that.
SirAlexTheFirst: >_>
AndrewRogue: He's a SPY
AndrewRogue: TRAITOR
Ikakog Moloch: I dunno. But sadly, Zao is firmly and utterly convinced it would all work.
SirAlexTheFirst: In fact, Zao might just go there right now.
Ikakog Moloch: He wanted Verity's recommendation. Because frankly he's a little scared.
Ikakog Moloch: I'm up for that scene if you want.
SirAlexTheFirst: What are Zao and Aria doing now?
AndrewRogue: Aria... was bathing if that matters <.<
AndrewRogue: Depending on how long it is, maybe she still is!
Adm H Sopko: Hunter's beat to shit in a holding cell in the Temple!
Ikakog Moloch: Zao was in his room, contemplating what Verity said, and playing with the moths.
Ikakog Moloch: Teaching them to fetch, and what not.
SirAlexTheFirst: Oh, yeah. The Many.
Ikakog Moloch: Yes! The Many!
Ikakog Moloch: He loves the Many.
Ikakog Moloch: And when his player learns how to say "the many" in japanese, thats what he'll call them!
Ikakog Moloch: Until then they are the Many.
Ikakog Moloch: After about.... an hour has passed, or so... Zao saunters out of the room, and finds random cleric. "Can you direct me to Bandon?"
SirAlexTheFirst: They can and they will... so that scene ends ;_;
Ikakog Moloch: Actually
Ikakog Moloch: No
SirAlexTheFirst: But wait.
Ikakog Moloch: He says "..I wanted to ask if I could leave to go to the labs. I am here under his custody."
Ikakog Moloch: "I need his permission to leave, yes?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yes, you do."
Ikakog Moloch: "Ah. Is there any way I can contact him to ask for such?"
Ikakog Moloch: (And now the scene ends. ;_; )
SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.
AndrewRogue: ...well.
AndrewRogue: Uh...
SirAlexTheFirst: So how'
SirAlexTheFirst: s Aria doing?
AndrewRogue: She got the blood out of her hair!
AndrewRogue: And she even managed to get Zao's handkerchief mostly not bloodstained anymore.
Ikakog Moloch: Its red anyway.
AndrewRogue: And then she politely wiped the bath/shower down so it didn't stain.
AndrewRogue: And then... hmmmm...
AndrewRogue: She will go find Lea.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea is in her room.
AndrewRogue: She will do the polite thing.
AndrewRogue: And knock.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea opens the door slowly.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Aria?"
AndrewRogue: "Hey Lea."
SirAlexTheFirst: She opens the door farther.
AndrewRogue: "You mind if I come in?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "P-please."
AndrewRogue: *she... attempts a reassuring smile as she steps in*
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea closes the door behind Aria, and then hugs her, crying madly.
AndrewRogue: *she... is startled for a moment, before she returns the hug. And then she gently rubs Lea's back* "Hey... its..." *she sighs softly and puts her head against Lea's forarm* "Shh... you're tough, right Lea?"
SirAlexTheFirst: *sob sob cry cry*
SirAlexTheFirst: "He lied to me AGAIN! And... and you..."
AndrewRogue: "I don't know what that puppet is Lea. Maybe it is part him. Maybe it isn't."
SirAlexTheFirst: "It's all of him that's left... he's gone..."
AndrewRogue: "I'm... sure there's a way to bring him back."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't *sniffle* I don't want him back!"
AndrewRogue: *she... nods against her arm*
AndrewRogue: "Tell me."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Tell you?"
AndrewRogue: "I don't know. Talk to me. Cry. Smile. Do whatever you have to."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I... why did I have to fall in love with him again, Aria? Why?"
Ikakog Moloch: (Low wisdom score? >.>)
AndrewRogue: "I don't know. Instead... why not love me?"
AndrewRogue: ...er.
AndrewRogue: Strike that.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm not as tough as you, or as gentle as you, or as... good as you. I was *sob* t-trying to make him jealous I guess but... *sob* I was so stupid..."
AndrewRogue: "Its not true Lea. You aren't weaker than me. You aren't harsher. You aren't worse. You... you wanted to be loved.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I... I... I got so caught up that I didn't even notice... Hunter..."
AndrewRogue: "Its all right Lea. He... made the wrong decision and it cost him. He... he decided who he would be. He had his choice." *she hugs her a little tighter* "We all make mistakes Lea. Don't let it hurt you."
SirAlexTheFirst: "But... but... who's left?'
AndrewRogue: (Aria's player asks: "Huh? Explicate please."
AndrewRogue: )
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hunter.... Yarovan... my father... everyone's gone! I don't know where to *sob* where to go!"
AndrewRogue: "Your father? Don't... don't you still have a family? Your siblings?"
AndrewRogue: "Avalanche? Shadow?"
SirAlexTheFirst: She shakes her head. "They're all traders... they don't want me around. Shadow and Ava... I want to get them back, but then what?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea picks something up off the floor - it's Hunter's Yarovan badge.
SirAlexTheFirst: She shakes her head at it.
Ikakog Moloch has left the room.
AndrewRogue: *Aria is quiet for a long moment as she stares at it... and at Lea* "You don't have to be alone Lea."
Ikakog Moloch has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: But what can I do?
Ikakog Moloch: (glee, AIM hates me)
SirAlexTheFirst: ""
AndrewRogue: *she will walk slowly over and take the badge from her hand* (Provided she doesn't object) "Forget Yaravon..." *and then... she will hug her tightly* "Stay with us. Stay with me."
SirAlexTheFirst: "But... but.."
AndrewRogue: "I don't want you to be alone Leatanna. I don't want you to hurt."
Ikakog Moloch: (Ok, the two of you need to have sex, now. Otherwise, there'll be no end to sexual tension.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (...no)
AndrewRogue: "I can't promise its safe... but we'll always be here for you. I'll always be here for all of you."
Ikakog Moloch: (Aww.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "All of me?" Lea looks confused.
AndrewRogue: (*you)
SirAlexTheFirst: (You tread dangerous ground...)
AndrewRogue: (I do NOT mean this for that level.)
Ikakog Moloch: (in bed!)
Adm H Sopko: (WITH FISTS)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Sopko, you win.)
AndrewRogue: (...he does.)
Adm H Sopko: (What do I win?)
Ikakog Moloch: (A crapload of subdual damage.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Even after all I did to you?"
SirAlexTheFirst: She sniffles again.
Adm H Sopko: (I already had that)
Ikakog Moloch: (Oh. Well, more can't hurt.)
Adm H Sopko: (yes. Yes it can)
AndrewRogue: AndrewRogue: Seriously. I do not intend the yuri.SirAlexTheFirst: HehAndrewRogue: But yes.
AndrewRogue: AndrewRogue: This scene REEKS of it.SirAlexTheFirst: Aurelia needs to get in there.
Ikakog Moloch: (...get in there?)
SirAlexTheFirst: NOT IN THAT WAY
AndrewRogue: (*whistles innocently*)
SirAlexTheFirst: ARGH
Ikakog Moloch: (*is hit with the shut up PF stick*)
AndrewRogue: SirAlexTheFirst: She's good at the big sister thing.
AndrewRogue: (Anyway, I apologize. Back on track now.)
AndrewRogue: "I forgive you Lea. For anything and for everything."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea shakes her head. "Why do you have to be so good at that?"
AndrewRogue: "Because I'm young and stupid. Because I have to be, or I'll lose myself."
SirAlexTheFirst: "No, you're not... Aria... if you really, truly got lost... I don't know what I'd do..."
Ikakog Moloch has left the room.
AndrewRogue: "I love you Leatanna."
SirAlexTheFirst: She swallows, and looks at you with tears in her eyes. "I love you too, Aria... thank you..."
Ikakog Moloch has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: (You missed nothing, Gorth)
Ikakog Moloch: (Rocking.)
Adm H Sopko: (Yes he did)
Ikakog Moloch: (No matter.)
AndrewRogue: "You're welcome."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea cries a bit more and hugs Aria.
AndrewRogue: *and she shall return it* "I'm sorry you had to go through all this."
SirAlexTheFirst: "How can you take this so well?"
AndrewRogue: "I'm not really." *she half-smiles* "I feel torn apart indside, and I don't know whether to laugh, cry, smile, hate or just give up. But I had time to prepare myself... and now I have to be strong."
SirAlexTheFirst: ".... laugh. Smile. Don't give up." Lea pats Aria on the back.
AndrewRogue: "I'll try. You know how hard it is though."
SirAlexTheFirst: "It's easier when you have people around who love you, and you love them."
Ikakog Moloch has left the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: (scene end?)
AndrewRogue: (Naaah.)
AndrewRogue: *she nods* "Right."
SirAlexTheFirst: "People who you know will always be there, and be supportive, and take care of you..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Somebody needs to be those people, though. It's hard..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'll try my best to do that for you and Bandon and Aurelia and Verity if you'll..." she looks at Aria, managing a smile through her tears.
AndrewRogue: "I can't promise for the others. But I will always be here for you."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Thank you, Aria..."
SirAlexTheFirst: More hugging.
AndrewRogue: "We'll go back for Ava and Shadow as soon as we can." *she, smiles, and wipes at some small tears at her eyes* "You feeling a little better?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yeah, I am. If you think I can be strong, then I'll try to be strong, I guess."
AndrewRogue: *she laughs* "If I can... anyone can. You just have to try."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Then I'll try." She smiles again and hugs some more.
AndrewRogue: *hugs are returned. This is Aria. Yay hugs* "That... that's the spirit."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Strong. Love. Mmm."
*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
SirAlexTheFirst: Oy. Lea kisses Aria, and pats her on the back again.
AndrewRogue: *she is kissed, and she smiles* "Thank you Lea, for being my friend."
AndrewRogue: "Now we just have to make it oHeh
AndrewRogue: ...
AndrewRogue: Strike
AndrewRogue: IMs and chat got mixed
SirAlexTheFirst: "Thank you, Aria, for... being Aria." Lea repeats the smiling and hugging and wha?
SirAlexTheFirst: IMs?
AndrewRogue: Highschool friend.
AndrewRogue: I think this needs to be scene end.
AndrewRogue: I'm losing coherency.
SirAlexTheFirst: Okay.
SirAlexTheFirst: And Lea is just going to repeat herself like a broken record because I can't think what else she would do here.
AndrewRogue: So... yeah.
AndrewRogue: End is good.
SirAlexTheFirst: Hokay
SirAlexTheFirst: ~~~~~~~~OH GOD STOP BEFORE IT DEVOLVES INTO YURI~~~~~~~~
Adm H Sopko: Yes
Adm H Sopko: Leave the Yuri implied
SirAlexTheFirst: Discussion
AndrewRogue: The chatroom reeks of irony now.
SirAlexTheFirst: ?
Adm H Sopko: It's more artistic that way
SirAlexTheFirst: Magic?
SirAlexTheFirst: Irony?
SirAlexTheFirst: Total suck?
Adm H Sopko: Guisarme?
AndrewRogue: *points at the chat title*
SirAlexTheFirst: ...
AndrewRogue: I'm giggling.
SirAlexTheFirst: Hi, giggling.
SirAlexTheFirst: I'm Alex.
AndrewRogue: *huggles*
AndrewRogue: Anyway.
AndrewRogue: Seriously.
AndrewRogue: That was wholly unintended.
Adm H Sopko: Very nice night
AndrewRogue: And I did not mean to pressure you like that Alex.
SirAlexTheFirst: You weren't pressuring...
AndrewRogue: Well, I know this sort of thing discomforts you at times.
AndrewRogue: This was really a fitting Log/Session 100 though
Adm H Sopko: Yes
SirAlexTheFirst: I was joking.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mostly.
SirAlexTheFirst: Msot of my discomfort tonight came from the worry that thigns were totally sucking now.
Adm H Sopko: ...
Adm H Sopko: No
SirAlexTheFirst: And so help me if you make that a dirty joke I KEEL YOU
Adm H Sopko: Things do not totally suck
Adm H Sopko: Things = Good
AndrewRogue: Yes. This was, although depressing with the Hunter thing, a GREAT session
AndrewRogue: It was one of the best we've had in a long time.
Adm H Sopko: I feel like I'm Achilles choosing
AndrewRogue: Plot development. Character development.
Adm H Sopko: Do I want a short life of glory or a long life of inactivity?
AndrewRogue: So no Alex. Things are back on the rise.
AndrewRogue: And heh.
SirAlexTheFirst: Massive angst, existentialist philosophy, and crazygonuts plot stuff.
AndrewRogue: Okay. Existentialism can bite me as a concept.
AndrewRogue: :p
AndrewRogue: I'm not a fan.
AndrewRogue: As I have some hard and fast beliefs.
Adm H Sopko: ...
AndrewRogue: But its fun.
Adm H Sopko: ::Giggles::
AndrewRogue: ...?
Adm H Sopko: Some of those hard and fast beliefs involve cat-girls
AndrewRogue: ...
SirAlexTheFirst: Sopko...
AndrewRogue: ...die.
Adm H Sopko: He believes in them hard and fast. Sometimes two, three times a night.
SirAlexTheFirst: Don't make me crush you with...
SirAlexTheFirst: too late.
AndrewRogue: *flees the area*
AndrewRogue: ...oh fuck.
SirAlexTheFirst: Andrew.
SirAlexTheFirst: Log this now.
AndrewRogue: I'm gonna get accused for the Lea being a Cat-Girl thing.
Adm H Sopko: Nah