SirAlexTheFirst: Lea just keeps her mouth shut, still looking abashed at her earlier behavior.
Dark Japheth: "....Ryuunosuke would understand." He says something that most likely would translate, without a listen check, as "mumblewimble"
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
AndrewRogue: 20-ish
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
SirAlexTheFirst: Higher still.
Dark Japheth: Heh.
Dark Japheth: "I really really hope"
AndrewRogue: *She laughs*
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea still is silent. Yes, you guys could have done this scene by yourselves. :P
Dark Japheth: Aha we could, but it'd feel weird. :P
AndrewRogue: "Zao... I... think I'm finished."
Dark Japheth: His expression is that of shock. "What?"
SirAlexTheFirst: NOW Lea speaks. "Starting. She's starting over."
Dark Japheth: "...why?" His eyes, now yellow, flicker across the room.
AndrewRogue: "Look at what's happened Zao, everything that's happened. I can't keep barely pulling through like this, and..." *she shakes her head* "I can't let the people around me keep doing the same."
Dark Japheth: Zao will look for a chair to sit down in.
AndrewRogue: There's one at the table I presume
Dark Japheth: As a clump of moths slowly begins flitting near Aria.
Dark Japheth: Well Zao sits.
Dark Japheth: Quickly. "Aria... Weaker people have survived more. If anyone can do it, you can."
Dark Japheth: "If I could do half of what you can, I'd be insane, gibbering."
AndrewRogue: "Zao..." *she half-smiles* "I'm part way there already. And I've used up more luck then anyone is entitled to."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea nods.
Dark Japheth: "What of the Okasan no Sakebigoe? The dark twisted soul who nearly died ten times, and even became as the Oni, only to betray them and destroy the dark spirit of Wrath?"
Dark Japheth: "What of the Godslayer, who died twice- one time, his body, so wearied from time, that he dissolved into dust and ashes?"
Dark Japheth: "What of the true Spirit Child, the one who was both spirit and not, who ascended, and his consciousness now contains much beyond all human comprehension?"
Dark Japheth: "They pulled through. I see the same greatness in everyone here. Bandon... You... and You..." he gestures to Lea. "Verity, and Aurelia..."
Dark Japheth: He does not speak of the sixth.
Dark Japheth: "I've been trying to get you to learn, Aria, by focusing my Fea on allowing you to access yours. My mind brushed yours, and I felt strong compassion... but even stronger was your determination."
Dark Japheth: "What.. happened?" He sounds hurt, almost, but mostly spent.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea does. "Hunter didn't pull through. And more to the point, pull through what?"
Dark Japheth: He shakes his head. "This. All of it." He waves his hand, motioning the entire room- or more.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I've been thinking more and more about it myself - that's why I'm going with her. If she'll let me." Lea glances at Aria.
SirAlexTheFirst: "This isn't like the old legends. There isn't a storybook enemy for the wonderful paladins of truth and justice to go and beat."
Dark Japheth: "What are legends to you are truths to the past. Did they not go through the same? Did they not wonder if truly there was only one enemy?"
Dark Japheth: "The whole world was tainted with evils. They were lucky- evil exposed itself and they struck it in its black, withered heart."
Dark Japheth: "Unfortunately, darkness learned. If the great spirits do indeed move, they do not do so overtly. All is subtle. And darkness must be fought with the tools necessary."
Dark Japheth: (*digs up old logs for a sec*)
Dark Japheth: "Forcefulness. Willpower. Desire."
Dark Japheth: "Skill. Training. Determination."
AndrewRogue: "...Zao. Can you tell me what we're doing? Why?"
Dark Japheth: "You are stopping the pillars."
Dark Japheth: "Because it is the will of the greatest spirits of all, those you call gods."
AndrewRogue: "Do you know who the pillars are?"
Dark Japheth: "Must they be people?"
AndrewRogue: "At least one of them is."
Dark Japheth: "Who?"
Dark Japheth: (That should be whom, but I'll write it off as Zao not speaking Common as his base tongue. :P)
AndrewRogue: "Me." (Meh. I can't tell the difference mostly.)
Dark Japheth: (Or... maybe not)
Dark Japheth: Zao raises an eyebrow.
Dark Japheth: "Ok...."
Dark Japheth: "So what does that mean?"
AndrewRogue: "That I'm fufilling part of the job by quitting."
Dark Japheth: Zao considers this for a moment.
SirAlexTheFirst: *nod*
Dark Japheth: (His int 18 beats his players, so he's going to come to a new conclusion)
Dark Japheth: "Assume for a moment this is true."
Dark Japheth: "What if your entire purpose was to stand athwart the other pillars? And because of you, they never fell? A singular pillar may still support her structure to the detriment of all involved."
Dark Japheth: "Then by quitting, you only succeed where other pillars have failed, for you stand still."
SirAlexTheFirst: "So she should carry out her mission by keeping going and failing and probably dying?" Lea shakes her head. "How can you say that with a straight face?"
Dark Japheth: "Lea, why do you give in to despair?"
Dark Japheth: He asks this with genuine sincerity.
coughingpuppy has entered the room.
coughingpuppy: Hey, guys.
Dark Japheth: (Well howdy.)
AndrewRogue: (Heya Staci ^_^)
Dark Japheth: (Zao's talking Aria out of quitting!)
AndrewRogue: (*trying)
coughingpuppy: ((Aurelia was going to try that at some point...))
Dark Japheth: (And by 'talking aria out of quitting', I really mean 'he's just spouting out useless self-help phrases in conjunction with each other and hoping one of them works')
SirAlexTheFirst: (Yo)
AndrewRogue: (Aurelia will get a chance I think. *nods*)
coughingpuppy: ((We'll see. I would not be here if it weren't for a really strange bout of insomnia, so we'll see if I manage to last that long.))
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea gives Zao a strange look and doesn't answer him.
Dark Japheth: "Lea, there is always hope. And there is always despair. Is your nature so Yin that you cannot even see the Yang?"
Dark Japheth: (I hope thats right.)
SirAlexTheFirst: She arches an eyebrow at you. "This doesn't have anything to do with despair. Stop overdramatizing... and while you're at it, follow your own advice. Just what WOULD convince you it's time to throw in the towel?"
Dark Japheth: "Oh? Nothing to do with despair?" He grins at her. The image of Lea appears in the corner where Mab was.
Dark Japheth: "So she should carry out her mission by keeping going and failing and probably dying?" Lea shakes her head. "How can you say that with a straight face?"
Dark Japheth: "Explain to me how that is not despair."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Sure. You said that Aria's mission was to stop the pillars, and by keeping going she would make all the pillars fall. Including herself."
Dark Japheth: "If she's a pillar."
SirAlexTheFirst: "It's not despair, it's nonsense. I don't even know if these pillars exist - and mind you, that's another reason to get out."
Dark Japheth: "So in other words, you have begun to realize you are in a slightly...less advantageous position than you would prefer, and you fold?"
Dark Japheth: Zao will snicker at this.
AndrewRogue: *Aria finally interjects* "Zao... do you know why I'm still here, and not still dead, or in Hell, or wherever?"
Dark Japheth: "Why are you still here, Aria?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's almost shouting now, over Aria. "This isn't poker! We're not playing any sort of game, just getting used by everyone and strung along! I- Aria's lost nearly everything, and for what? For WHAT?"
Dark Japheth: Calmly, Zao will smile. Thats two letters from a smirk, and he's really close to that point.
AndrewRogue: (Hey, it is.)
AndrewRogue: (I never noticed.)
Dark Japheth: "Everyone is used, Lea. You have to accept it. Such is life."
Dark Japheth: "Do you think that by running away from your problems, you aren't being used? That if someone has a purpose for you, they will subtly input the desire to take action- or inaction- into your skull?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Then I'd rather follow the advice that won't get me killed!" she hisses. "Our lives aren'
SirAlexTheFirst: t something for a corporation or even a god to just throw away without even telling us why!"
Dark Japheth: "You mainlanders!" Zao practically spits. "So many freedoms. Every last one taken for granted."
Dark Japheth: "Living alone in the wilderness won't get you killed."
Dark Japheth: "If you believe that, you are more deluded than you think."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Exactly! That's why we're going to do that!"
Dark Japheth: "What of Verity?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "What about him?"
Dark Japheth: "Didn't he think that, too?"
Dark Japheth: "He was violently proven wrong by enemies none had foreseen."
SirAlexTheFirst: "He came from another world, slaughtered a town, and made himself those enemies. We haven't done anything so outrageous. Only Mab hates us, and she's told us she'll leave us alone if we leave her alone."
Dark Japheth: Zao begins laughing.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea flashes a look at Aria. "Nobody's threatened to eat my soul in hell. That's got to be just as bad."
Dark Japheth: He's going to keep laughing for about twenty seconds, be cut off by that statement, and in return quickly quip...
Dark Japheth: "You threatened to kill my moths, and seemingly hate me, all on the basis that I trusted Mab... and you yourself trust her?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I trust Bandon. He'll get her to keep her word and stay away from Aria."
Dark Japheth: "Can he? Will he? What happens if Bandon-san decides that he wants to improve how his brain works, as well, and also acquires modifications? Will you trust him then, too?"
Dark Japheth: "What if it happens unwillingly? Even better!"
Dark Japheth: "What if Bandon becom...." and he ceases. And shuts up.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why do you think that will happen?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Become? Become WHAT?"
SirAlexTheFirst: With a Sense Motive check of -5 you can tell that Lea is about thiiiis close to killing you.
Dark Japheth: Zao turns red and chibi. "I'm trying to remain civil. I will not mention his name. I think it will happen, or it will not. But either way, you have no control over it."
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
AndrewRogue: She makes it!
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
Dark Japheth: ....Zao does.
Dark Japheth: Barely.
AndrewRogue: XD
Dark Japheth: How fitting.
Dark Japheth: "So why hide? If she wants you, she will have you, and kill you, no matter how hard you try and run. You cannot hide from the eyes of those who want to see."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why do you think that will happen to Bandon? Why not you? Did she do it to you already? Is that why you want us to keep fighting her and not leave?"
Dark Japheth: "Then go find one of your priests, and have them check for lies. I do not serve Mab."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why are you even bringing Mab into this? She's not a pillar! We're agreed to all leave her! It has nothing to do with this! Why are you talking about her?"
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
Dark Japheth: "YOU brought up her name, not me." Zao sighs. "You aren't even paying attention to what you say anymore."
SirAlexTheFirst: Give me a Bluff check on that one.
Dark Japheth: Sure.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
Dark Japheth: Well now.
AndrewRogue: ...ow.
Dark Japheth: Inits I suppose. :P
Dark Japheth: Stupid Zao, had to get cocky.
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria should roll on that one too.
Dark Japheth: For the record thats still a 9.
AndrewRogue: ...what statement is getting SMed?
Dark Japheth: I do not serve mab.
SirAlexTheFirst: Dark Japheth (5:10:57 AM): "Then go find one of your priests, and have them check for lies. I do not serve Mab."
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
AndrewRogue: Yay.
AndrewRogue: 0
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's tail bristles and grows about three times in diameter.
SirAlexTheFirst: "The fuck you don't serve her. That's the worst job of lying I've ever seen. You have five seconds to get out of my room. Starting four seconds ago."
AndrewRogue: *Aria... blinks*
Dark Japheth: Zao clicks on his ring of invisibility. "I was not in here to speak with you."
Dark Japheth: If he can share spells with familiar, and that applies equally to magic items, the moths do as well. If he can't, they fly out or into a ventiliation system.
Dark Japheth: "Shut up. I don't believe I was here to talk to you. Perhaps if you were more than a dishonorable bitch hardly worthy of the spirit in your flesh, I might consider it."
Dark Japheth: "As it stands, you are hardly fucking worth even a moment of my time. I am trying to help you. You do nothing but depress yourself with these thoughts. I try to vanquish them..."
SirAlexTheFirst: Not much of that gets heard.
Dark Japheth: I am fairly aware of that. :P
Dark Japheth: The Major Image Zao clicked on earlier? Thats where the voice is coming from, as well as an image of Zao standing there.
SirAlexTheFirst: As soon as you go invisible, Lea starts screamin-OH
SirAlexTheFirst: Shoulda mentioned that first
Dark Japheth: I should have. I assume she crashes through it.
Dark Japheth: Which leaves visual illusions totally vanished, but the voice still resounds!
AndrewRogue: If Lea moves, she gets Light Tentacle Blocked (TM) <.<
Dark Japheth: Mmmmmm DISEMBODIED VOICE
Dark Japheth: Coming from an area that isn't where I am!
SirAlexTheFirst: She still starts screaming, though still not pouncing. "GET OUT OF MY ROOM, YOU FUCKING TRAITOR! GET OUT AND NEVER COME BACK! I'LL KILL YOU!"
coughingpuppy: ((Um...how loud is this? eg. Can I hear it?))
SirAlexTheFirst: Listen check.
SirAlexTheFirst: You most probably can
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
coughingpuppy: 27.
SirAlexTheFirst: Yeeep.
SirAlexTheFirst: Is Zao actually going invisible?
Dark Japheth: Zao is invisible.
Dark Japheth: The image is still there.
Dark Japheth: Did the moths go invisible or vanish into ventilation?
coughingpuppy: Yeah, Aurelia kind of glances at Verity once and then sprints towards Aria's room to see what's up.
SirAlexTheFirst: Beats me, can you share spells with your familiar? You should know.
AndrewRogue: Its the question of sharing magical item effects.
Dark Japheth: I know you can. I believe you can with magic items. Regardless.
Dark Japheth: They are invisible!
SirAlexTheFirst: You can.
Dark Japheth: Rocking!
SirAlexTheFirst: Is he keeping up an illusion of the moths too, though?
Dark Japheth: Zao will actually walk out, but the image will remain.
Dark Japheth: Hmm. Normally, I'd say no- it fits into his flaw that sometimes he forgets little details, but he did just get +4 int. I'll say yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: And I believe the door is closed, how're you getting out?
Dark Japheth: How does it open? Knob deal and all that?
Dark Japheth: Or is it "physical presence" things?
SirAlexTheFirst: You can open it and walk out.
SirAlexTheFirst: Doing so?
Dark Japheth: before I do... when you said Zao saw what the moths saw, from their perspective... were you being awesomely descriptive or was that also mechanics?
Dark Japheth: I.e. can I leave a moth?
Dark Japheth: And see through it? And thus maintain an illusion?
SirAlexTheFirst: You can leave a moth to see through.
Dark Japheth: Then Zao will indeed leave, leaving that image to repeat itself.
SirAlexTheFirst: What illusion?
SirAlexTheFirst: And are you illusioning up the door opening, too? Cuz if not Lea sees the door open by itself....
Dark Japheth: The illusionary disembodied voice, if Lea pounces the Zao + Moths illusion. Otherwise, its Zao just standing there.
Dark Japheth: Normally, he would. But Zao doesn't care at this point.
Dark Japheth: So sure.
Dark Japheth: She notices.
SirAlexTheFirst: When the door opens, Lea attempts to disbelieve and pounces.
SirAlexTheFirst: DC?
Dark Japheth: 24.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
SirAlexTheFirst: The door clicks open of its own accord while Zao just stands there, and Lea blinks and leaps forward at him.
AndrewRogue: She gets gentle tentacle'd
AndrewRogue: You want to actually do the necessary grapples, or assume? And Aurelia should arrive soon. *nods*
Dark Japheth: I figure she'll run into Zao invisibly again. :P
coughingpuppy: Does she, Alex?
SirAlexTheFirst: Aurelia will arrive in a few rounds
SirAlexTheFirst: RP tentacles.
AndrewRogue: I'm sleepy. That made me giggle.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Make one joke abouf that and die.)
Dark Japheth: Me too.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Too late. Die.)
SirAlexTheFirst: Oh
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea also gets Spot vs invisible, but fails
SirAlexTheFirst: ack cat on arms
SirAlexTheFirst: Apparently once more, I make a better bed than beanbags.
Dark Japheth: True.
AndrewRogue: (Dies) "Not here and not again Lea." *Aria doesn't even move as she says it, her nimbus snaking off her to catch Lea around the waist, a seemingly substantial tentacle of light holding her back softly. Not
AndrewRogue: squeezing, just there.* "Please."
SirAlexTheFirst: She keeps screaming. "HE'S LYING! SHE GOT TO HIM! CAN'T YOU SEE IT? THE DOOR! HEEELP!"
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
SirAlexTheFirst: Gimme a Will save, Aria.
AndrewRogue: You're mean <.<
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
AndrewRogue: 18-ish
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
AndrewRogue: That's a naughty number of dice.
AndrewRogue: 19 to be specific
Dark Japheth: Illusion Zao is quiet as he talks. Loudly. "The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair, to turn yourself inside out, and see the whole world with fresh, bloodied eyes."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea lunges forward even with the nimbus, and gets tripped up and falls on her face, still screaming. "DON'T TRUST HIM! GET OUT, GET OUT!"
Dark Japheth: His eyes indeed turn inside out.
Dark Japheth: "A change of worldview can change the world viewed."
Dark Japheth: Does Zao have the time to get out of there?
AndrewRogue: "He's already gone."
SirAlexTheFirst: Aurelia is right there now, you'll have to slip past her to escape down the hall if you want.
Dark Japheth: Actually I was kind of hoping to ram into her like last time.
Dark Japheth: Just so it can still be a Zao scene.
AndrewRogue: That'll make Verity sad.
SirAlexTheFirst: And I'd say she gets Spot if you're running.
Dark Japheth: Yes she does.
SirAlexTheFirst: Or you can just fail the dodge.
SirAlexTheFirst: WHAM!
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
coughingpuppy: Spot 32.
SirAlexTheFirst: DC for invisible is 30, I think? So that is the win.
Dark Japheth: You see Zao. His shirt is bloodied, and his moths are running after him. His hands are over his eyes, and tears fall.
Dark Japheth: Either way, once he's out of the room, the invisibility is off.
coughingpuppy: Does he ram into her?
Dark Japheth: He's not looking where he's going.
SirAlexTheFirst: I'd say more like a transparent outline of Zao, Predator style... or not if he's dropping it.
Dark Japheth: So possibly, he is running down the hall toward his own room.
coughingpuppy: Neither is she, really. She's running.
SirAlexTheFirst: And yes, he does.
coughingpuppy: He probably knocks her over.
Dark Japheth: So bampf!
Dark Japheth: He hits her, and falls backwards, sitting for a moment. Tears cling to his eyes. "I'm.. I'm sorry, Aurelia. I'm really sorry."
Dark Japheth: "For everything."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia goes sprawling and looks at him in surprise, looks over his shoulder at the room, and then back at him. And then lunges at him. "What do you mean you're sorry? What the hell did you do?"
Dark Japheth: "Nothing... I don't know... I just.. I just tried to help.."
coughingpuppy: "Where are they?" Aurelia's tone hints that Zao's answer had better be along the lines of 'safe and well.'
SirAlexTheFirst: You can all too clearly hear Lea still screaming "Don't trust him!" and "I'll kill him!" and various explietives.
Dark Japheth: "They are in their room, Aurelia. I did nothing to them. Nothing."
coughingpuppy: "Then why is she screaming, and where is Aria?"
SirAlexTheFirst: The cleric posse is coming around now, too.
AndrewRogue: (That group is tired of us I bet.)
AndrewRogue: (<.<;; )
coughingpuppy: Aurelia is gripping Zao by the shoulders while she's talking to him. Very tightly.
Dark Japheth: "She's screaming because she hates me... Aria is with her." He's mostly gibbering at this point, doing that incoherent sob thing.
Dark Japheth: Oh, the gripping cancels the incoherent sob.
SirAlexTheFirst: In fact, the Yarovan troops are poking their heads out and running to Lea as well!
Dark Japheth: "I didn't do anything to her, she just hates me and I don't know why..."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia closes her eyes for a moment or two. Fucking kids.
Dark Japheth: "I just... tried to help... was I wrong?"
coughingpuppy: "What did you try to help with?"
Dark Japheth: "Lea... has convinced aria to stop, to do nothing."
coughingpuppy: "To stop?"
Dark Japheth: "To not do anything anymore. To live in the wilds."
coughingpuppy: "And you tried to help how?"
Dark Japheth: "By talking. Just talking. Trying to see the problem clearly from all sides."
Dark Japheth: He's calming down but only slightly.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia's grip on his shoulders loosens considerably. "All right. Just take a moment and calm down. You weren't wrong." Stupid, maybe, but something in her has difficulty telling a sobbing nineteen-year-old boy this.
AndrewRogue: *Aria... stands and she walks to the door and part way out quietly to block the soldiers, tell the clerics to go away and see Zao and Aurelia talk*
SirAlexTheFirst: Whatcha doing to Lea?
Dark Japheth: "Thank you, Aurelia." He's sliding down the calm scale pretty quickly.
AndrewRogue: (And have her player wish she had pants at this moment...) ~Please Lea. Sit and calm down. Blood shed won't help anything, traitor or not.~ *the tentacle fades*
coughingpuppy: ((She's not wearing pants?))
Dark Japheth: (Aria isn't, no.)
Dark Japheth: (...Aurelia is going to kill Zao.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Nope, sure isn't. Don't ask.)
AndrewRogue: (She has a t-shirt on and undies <.<)
Dark Japheth: "I just wanted to help Aria... and though I failed, the road to hell is paved with good intentions." he takes a deep breath
coughingpuppy: Aurelia takes this in, looks at Zao, and immediately sense motives him.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Keep him away! Aria, stay away from him!" Lea shouts from the background.
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
coughingpuppy: 42!
AndrewRogue: "Its actually really sandy." *quietly*
Dark Japheth: 31! You win!
Dark Japheth: He's telling the truth though
Dark Japheth: He's just trying to rationalize what he did as a mistake that he can learn from and correct.
coughingpuppy: "...I'm not going to ask why helping her involved the removal of her pants."
AndrewRogue: (...Staci WINS)
Dark Japheth: "I didn't do that!"
coughingpuppy: "Oh, so you're saying Lea did it, and that makes me feel SO much better."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea takes a breath fora second, and hears her name in Aurelia's voice, huh. "Aurelia! Look out! He's- he's like Hunter! Mab's got him!"
Dark Japheth: Zao doesn't know what to say at all. He knows there is no way he can convince her that he didn't do it, and doesn't know what to say at all.
AndrewRogue: "I was sleeping and asked if he could bring me something to eat."
Dark Japheth: "I am not. I wish she could see that."
coughingpuppy: SMed again!
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
coughingpuppy: 27!
Dark Japheth: Zao isn't even registering the fact that Aria's there.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
Dark Japheth: 25. This rocks.
Dark Japheth: I'm not lying.
Dark Japheth: Wow, what a bunch of useless skill points. :P Stupid me having to be cute and be super awesome when chibi!
coughingpuppy: Having confirmed for herself that Zao did not, in fact, remove Aria's pants, Aurelia sighs and stands up. "What's this she's saying about Mab?"
SirAlexTheFirst: (I'd have to slightly object to that.... for all you know, Hunter did sell his soul as a 'favor'. By this and the earlier one she's got to know something's up...)
Dark Japheth: "Like Verity. I asked if she could help me like Verity. She did. She made me smarter, more able to see things.."
Dark Japheth: "But it came with pride.." he sighs and sobs.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia looks at him and seems genuinely puzzled. "You would let them do that to you voluntarily?"
Dark Japheth: He nods. "I have obstacles I need to overcome... and I can't do them on my own. Couldn't."
Dark Japheth: Sob. Good lord I am starting to hate Zao. "I wanted to be strong."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's still utterly hysterical. "He said he became something, and he's lying! He works for her!"
coughingpuppy: "If you want to be strong, you have to make yourself strong. Enhancements from the Labs won't do that for you." She ignores Lea.
Dark Japheth: Zao, however, doesn't. His head turns slightly. "I can kill you with a few words and a few twitches of my fingers, Lea. If I worked for Mab, I'd have done it to you a long time ago." Its whispered.
Dark Japheth: Mostly to himself.
Dark Japheth: Aurelia naturally hears it because she's right there.
Dark Japheth: Said with a lot of hate.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea won't hear it.
Dark Japheth: I know.
Dark Japheth: Zao's on semi-soliloquoy mode.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia looks at him, stares at him for a moment. "Stop accusing him," she says to Lea. "You won't get anywhere with it."
Dark Japheth: The moths are fluttering to the ceiling, like they once did.
Dark Japheth: Cacophanous, not at all organized.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Where's Bandon? Get Bandon! We have to warn him about this! He's lying! Use a truth spell or something, can't you see?"
coughingpuppy: "Both of you, calm down."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea collapses against the doorframe, short of breath and hoarse now.
SirAlexTheFirst: Aria is dispersing the clerical horde?
AndrewRogue: "Everything's fine. I'm sorry we're causing such a racket again, but we don't need help."
AndrewRogue: *and she waves them off*
SirAlexTheFirst: Mass Sense Motive.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
AndrewRogue: Singular bluff.
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
AndrewRogue: Aw <.<
AndrewRogue: Its pretty evident that things are not fine (except in the fucked-up insecure neurotic and emotional way), but she's pretty relaxed.
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
coughingpuppy: 15.
AndrewRogue: You win too <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: They're going to stick around, then.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia sighs. "All of you into the room. Now."
SirAlexTheFirst: The commandos are sticking around, too.
SirAlexTheFirst: And Lea emphatically blocks the door at the merest mention of Zao coming in.
Dark Japheth: "Dotou no hibi wa tsuzuku, doko made motengoku to jigoku, yukitsu modoritsu."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia gives her a glare of death. "Move and let him in."
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
Dark Japheth: (In common, thats... "Daily life is like an angry waveA cycle of heaven and hell")
Dark Japheth: (AIM hates awesome scenes.)
coughingpuppy: ((Wow, does she ever fail that intimidat.e))
AndrewRogue: *she sighs* "Lea, move. He won't be able to do anything with all of us here."
KittenBootsPlus5 has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea responds with a....
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 17
SirAlexTheFirst: GLARE OF DOOM
KittenBootsPlus5: My mouse doesn't work! Argh!
Dark Japheth: At this point. The moths touch Zao.
Dark Japheth: Spellcraft on any who want it.
SirAlexTheFirst: "FUCK NO HE'S NOT COMING IN!"
AndrewRogue: Spellcraft is one of those things requiring ranks, right?
Dark Japheth: Haste on himself. I am going to assume I'm going to get a billion dispel magics as counterspells.
AndrewRogue: <.<
Dark Japheth: Yep!
KittenBootsPlus5: Indeed, sir.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
Dark Japheth: I'd let you do it, actually, because ironically of what Zao's been teaching you.
SirAlexTheFirst: Okay that's an odd mass spellcraft.
AndrewRogue: AIM is botch happy tonight.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 10 20-sided dice: 11 1 4 17 16 19 9 16 9 1
coughingpuppy: Actually, if Aurelia manages to realize that what Zao is casting is a spell, he gets punched in the fac.e
KittenBootsPlus5: Verity lends Aurelia his Intimidate check!
SirAlexTheFirst: And oh yea, the commandos will grab him too.
coughingpuppy: She's getting really tired of being patient.
Dark Japheth: Do they.
AndrewRogue: You know what?
Dark Japheth: Thats downright awesome! Zao will, being grappled, automatically fail the concentration check and be grabbed.
Dark Japheth: Nah, he'll just let them grab him. He's not strong enough to resist.
SirAlexTheFirst: Zao-Lot goes down under massive dispelling blasts and a footbal tackel-like mass of soldiers and a few clerics trying to sort it out.
KittenBootsPlus5: Soldiers?
KittenBootsPlus5: What?
AndrewRogue: ...you know what. Aria does her best to look dignified. And then she does the Diplomacy thing.
coughingpuppy: Yarovan commandos who were summoned by Lea's yelling.
SirAlexTheFirst: Soldiers.
SirAlexTheFirst: The Yarovan troops.
Dark Japheth: (Most awesome botch ever.)
coughingpuppy: ((Good luck doing diplomacy WITHOUT PANTS))
coughingpuppy: ((Though that may actually aid you, who knows.))
AndrewRogue: (I deserve a bonus <.<) "All of you! Get off him and back to your rooms. You four get in the stupid room and you Clerics... just... do whatever."
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 9
AndrewRogue: Darn.
AndrewRogue: 18
coughingpuppy: ((Right, I forgot that Kirk can't look at IMs without a mouse...I was trying to fill him in...))
Dark Japheth: (Alt Tab)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Alt Tab is your friend)
coughingpuppy: ((...That's incredibly nifty. I didn't know you could do that.))
Dark Japheth: (My nerd-fu is stronger than your nerd fu)
coughingpuppy: Aurelia sighs and starts towards Aria's room, waiting for Zao to get un-soldiered and get up.
SirAlexTheFirst: With the help of a couple of spells, the mob of people dissipates quickly, but Zao gets Hold Person'd by a couple of clerics. (They repeat until he fails.)
Dark Japheth: Whats the average DC on that?
SirAlexTheFirst: Unless someone heavily objects.
AndrewRogue: Aria does.
coughingpuppy: So does Aurelia.
Dark Japheth: If its <15, I autosucceed.
Dark Japheth: Except on a one, but meh.
SirAlexTheFirst: One of them attempts to explain. "Ma'ams, he's casting Haste. That's often a prelude to fighting, and we can't really have that in here. Are you really sure this is all right?"
AndrewRogue: "There won't be any more damn fights."
Dark Japheth: (Wow, thats fucking AWESOME spellcraft that they got that on a 1)
Dark Japheth: (I've gotta join this clergy.)
coughingpuppy: "He's all right, he's just confused. He won't be casting anything else."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea: "KEEP HIM AWAY! DON'T LET HIM NEAR THEM!"
SirAlexTheFirst: Clerics: *confusion*
coughingpuppy: Aurelia is starting to wonder if this is what raising children will be like and is starting to have second thoughts.
AndrewRogue: (Abortion. Now.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Ladies, are you sure this is all right? Maybe it would be better if you moved somewhere else..."
coughingpuppy: "We're fine."
AndrewRogue: "Right."
KittenBootsPlus5: "They're fine."
KittenBootsPlus5: Verity, who is now arriving, reinforces the point.
KittenBootsPlus5: With looming.
KittenBootsPlus5: LOOM
coughingpuppy: "If he tries anything else, I'll make sure he dies horribly." She gives Zao a wide and only half-joking grin.
Dark Japheth: Zao can't see you, he's tackled under the horde of soldiers.
AndrewRogue: (I thought he got de-soldiered.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'M NOT FINE! NEITHER IS HE! GET HIM OOOOUT!"
SirAlexTheFirst: He did get de-soldiered.
Dark Japheth: Oh, so he did
Dark Japheth: Alrighty. Zao is expressionless.
KittenBootsPlus5: Verity looks at Aurelia. "She's hysterical. Do you want me to shut her up?"
Dark Japheth: <YES.>
coughingpuppy: "Please. Though not violently, I doubt that would help."
KittenBootsPlus5: He'll roll his eyes.
Dark Japheth: He's not even filtering it JUST to Verity. Pretty much Aria, Verity, and Aurelia.
KittenBootsPlus5: Then go over to Lea, grab a pillow, and say "Quiet the fuck down or you're going to waste a lot of time and energy trying not to be gagged with this pillow. Loud noises are bad for pregnant women."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia rolls her eyes at him and offers Zao a hand up.
Dark Japheth: Zao takes it, and stands.
Dark Japheth: But meets no ones eyes.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Soulless monsters are worse! I'm warning you, he's not right! She's got him! Ask him, you can see it in his eyes!"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Oh, do shut up."
KittenBootsPlus5: He waves the pillow.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea grabs the pillow, kicks Verity out of the room unless he violently objects...?
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes he dose.
KittenBootsPlus5: While his wife is in there.
AndrewRogue: If Verity violently objects, he gets tentacled.
KittenBootsPlus5: ..
coughingpuppy: Aurelia drops her head into her hands. Life was so much simpler when she could just kill people.
SirAlexTheFirst: Ah... most everybody else is in the hallway...
KittenBootsPlus5: What is she gonna do, grab him?
KittenBootsPlus5: He is unmoved.
KittenBootsPlus5: Do you want opposed grapple checks?
SirAlexTheFirst: "Get out!"
Dark Japheth: To Aurelia- "I'm so sorry, Aurelia...."
SirAlexTheFirst: If he still doesn't get out, then yes.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Shut UP."
KittenBootsPlus5: Sure.
coughingpuppy: "It's not your fault," she says to Zao, rather tiredly. "Well...indirectly, but you aren't the problem at the moment."
OnlineHost: KittenBootsPlus5 rolled 1 20-sided die: 12
KittenBootsPlus5: 32.
coughingpuppy: She looks at the clerics. "A little help, here?"
SirAlexTheFirst: The Paste content is too big by 80505 character(s).The limit is 1996 characters (including markup).
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
KittenBootsPlus5: I shall pin her.
SirAlexTheFirst: Less than 32.
KittenBootsPlus5: And choose not to allow her to speak.
KittenBootsPlus5: As per pinning rules.
SirAlexTheFirst: The clerics strongly object to this. "Sir! Please remove yourself from the lady and her room!"
AndrewRogue: "VERITY. Get up, and get the hell out."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I will. When the immediate threat of violence is past. You should be more concerned about her trying to murder Isawa."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Oh, for the love of....all, of you, SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
KittenBootsPlus5: He bellows as only a man trained on the front line can do.
AndrewRogue: (Good man.)
KittenBootsPlus5: "NOW. AURELIA,WHAT IS GOING ON? NO ONE ELSE ANSWER ME."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Sir, she hasn't done anything violent yet. I'm going to have to ask you to leaveeeep/
SirAlexTheFirst: "
SirAlexTheFirst: Is Verity unpinning Lea?
coughingpuppy: "Let us handle this. No one will be hurt, I promise you." Aurelia says this to the clerics.
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
coughingpuppy: With a Diplomacy of 25.
KittenBootsPlus5: Is she being stupid and trying to gnaw on him and otherwise be a total pain in the ass?
SirAlexTheFirst: She's trying to throw you off and out, yes.
KittenBootsPlus5: Then no.
SirAlexTheFirst: I'm not going to bother rolling her checks, she can't win.
KittenBootsPlus5: Neither is he directing violence toward her.
KittenBootsPlus5: Just holding her.
SirAlexTheFirst: Cleric: "Miss Liadon, please get your husband off of Miss Scarlett. I'm afraid we really can;t have this."
SirAlexTheFirst: He looks a little distressed.
coughingpuppy: "Can you subdue her some other way?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Not without either unconciousness or a ballgag."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Or drugs."
coughingpuppy: "I'm talking to the priest, dear."
KittenBootsPlus5: He shrugs.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Not as long as she stays in her room, ma'am." Muttered, "I can paralyze everyone here, though, and that might be best..."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Don't drop threats, son. You're not suited for it."
coughingpuppy: "I'm afraid things won't be resolved otherwise."
AndrewRogue: "We can resolve them elsewhere then."
SirAlexTheFirst: Whuf.
Dark Japheth: Will saves, or for the sake of plot are we all paralyzed?
SirAlexTheFirst: He nods at Aurelia's agreement, and... Zao, Aria, Aurelia, Verity, Lea.
SirAlexTheFirst: Will saves.
Dark Japheth: Cool!
SirAlexTheFirst: Two each.
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
coughingpuppy: 21.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
OnlineHost: KittenBootsPlus5 rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
OnlineHost: coughingpuppy rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
Dark Japheth: 27 and 17.
KittenBootsPlus5: Good.
coughingpuppy: And 33.
KittenBootsPlus5: I take that excuse to go to sleep.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 2 20-sided dice: 19 7
SirAlexTheFirst: DCs are all 15.
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 18
Dark Japheth: Hey sweet.
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
AndrewRogue: Double pass.
Dark Japheth: Zao, however, will stand there completely motionless, his lips moving somewhat.
Dark Japheth: Actually, I don't have Still Spell
coughingpuppy: So Verity loses, and no one else?
Dark Japheth: I have Still spell!
Dark Japheth: Nix that plan.
Dark Japheth: *have silent spell*
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea and Verity fail.
coughingpuppy: Good, they were the people who needed to fail.
SirAlexTheFirst: It's all Hold Person obviously
Dark Japheth: Hey, considering I'm actually lying this time, can I do a bluff check to make it look like I'm paralyzed?
Dark Japheth: Eh screw it, bluff anyway.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 20-sided die: 5
SirAlexTheFirst: Not really, because the caster knows his spell failed.
Dark Japheth: Oh, didn't know that
Dark Japheth: Cool.
Dark Japheth: Either way, I fail.
SirAlexTheFirst: The clerics....
SirAlexTheFirst: will be satisfied with this and settle for just another shot or two of Hold on Zao.
AndrewRogue: "Would you please quit throwing magic around? You're not helping matters either."
SirAlexTheFirst: Which he succeeds at except on a 1
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 2 20-sided dice: 10 16
AndrewRogue: *to clerics*
SirAlexTheFirst: They pretty much ignore Aria and go into Lea's room, dragging Verity out and propping him against the hallway wall, and setting Lea on her bed.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia sighs and heads into Aria's room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Then they vacate and ask "Are you all going to be civil now?"
Dark Japheth: Zao shrugs and nods.
AndrewRogue: "Yes."
coughingpuppy: "I have been civil."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Okay, then. I'm going to go get Brother Bandon. Please try to work things out peacefully."
Dark Japheth: "So have I. I just wanted to go home." Zao murmurs.
SirAlexTheFirst: The clerics leave the area and null the spells.
Dark Japheth: Awesome. Where are the soldiers?
Dark Japheth: Gone, or they still there waiting?
SirAlexTheFirst: They got shoved back into their rooms.
Dark Japheth: Awesome!
Dark Japheth: Zao leaves.
Dark Japheth: Dropping the circlet on the floor first.
SirAlexTheFirst: Is anyone stopping him?
coughingpuppy: Aurelia lets him go.
Dark Japheth: Zao shrugs. "She wanted it this way. You don't trust me. I was here to help you. I have no purpose here." And will leave.
Dark Japheth: Whats Lea doing?
SirAlexTheFirst: Watching Zao from her doorway.
Dark Japheth: Awesome.
Dark Japheth: One of the moths flits probably past her head, trying to reconnect with the horde as Zao leaves.
Dark Japheth: Zao speaks in a somewhat mocking tone. "Is it trueeeee?" He speaks in his own tone. "No, you know me better than that."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea screeches and slams her door when she sees the moth.
Dark Japheth: "I know Isawa Zao-Lot better than that."
Dark Japheth: Awesome.
Dark Japheth: Zao will leave.
SirAlexTheFirst: Many locks click inside.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia squeezes her eyes shut. "Was that necessary?"
Dark Japheth: Oh, by leave, I don't mean the hallway, and going back to his room. Anyone going to stop him when he leaves the temple?
coughingpuppy: ((Well, the door has kind of been shut...but maybe Verity will accost you. I don't know because Kirk just went to sleep.))
SirAlexTheFirst: The clerics will probably stop you at the door, but that's up to Bandon.
SirAlexTheFirst: Bandon's meetings and such need to get RP'd.
Dark Japheth: Very likely.
Dark Japheth: Either way.
Dark Japheth: Once he's out of the hallway, invisibility ring goes on.
Dark Japheth: So mrr.
coughingpuppy: ((Are we stopping, or no?))
AndrewRogue: *Aria seats herself on the corner of the bed*
coughingpuppy: Aurelia looks at the two of them and seems to be trying to find something to say.
AndrewRogue: (I'm now wide awake with a mild headache, so if people want to keep going.)
AndrewRogue: (*shrugs*)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Why would we? I have to get to bed soon, but not urgently...)
coughingpuppy: ((I'm pretty awake too. Let's keep going.))
SirAlexTheFirst: Two of who>
coughingpuppy: "What did Zao-Lot mean when he said that you were planning to stop?"
SirAlexTheFirst: ?
coughingpuppy: ((Lea and Aria.))
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's alone in her room with many locks...
AndrewRogue: (Ah. We got hallway'd)
AndrewRogue: (...my poor pants were in that room.)
coughingpuppy: ((Hm...I thought Aurelia had gone in...))
coughingpuppy: She will say that to Aria alone, then.
SirAlexTheFirst: (You went in Aria's room.)
AndrewRogue: (Ah. I never corrected. Staci thought we were in Aria's room.)
coughingpuppy: ((I thought they had been in Aria's room. But nevermind, it doesn't matter.))
AndrewRogue: "What he said, and this all just reinforces it."
AndrewRogue: "I'm done."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia looks at her a moment. "Do you want a pair of pants?"
AndrewRogue: *she has the decency to look half-way embarassed* "I'm... fine. Let's just move this conversation out of the hall."
coughingpuppy: "Agreed." She heads into her room or Aria's, whichever is nearer.
SirAlexTheFirst: They're about the same distance
OnlineHost: AndrewRogue rolled 1 2-sided die: 1
AndrewRogue: Aurelia's.
coughingpuppy: Yes, they go there.
coughingpuppy: Aurelia shuts the door.
coughingpuppy: "Why are you quitting?"
coughingpuppy: "If it's from frequent homicidal urges, I understand completely."
AndrewRogue: "I just can't do this anymore. All it does is hurt my friends, and I'm very like to kill someone if it keeps up."
AndrewRogue: "If this is all that's going to result from it, what's the point?"
AndrewRogue: "What's the point to begin with?"
coughingpuppy: Aurelia mulls this over. "Sit down, it's storytime."
AndrewRogue: *Aria seats herself*
coughingpuppy: Aurelia leans back against her desk. "I'm going to tell you what I know, and you may draw your own conclusions from it. I told you how I fell, didn't I?"
AndrewRogue: "I... don't think you ever elaborated."
coughingpuppy: "Ah. I'll be as clear as possible, then. I believe I told you I was sent to a city for missionary work and the like...my friend from childhood accompanied me. She was in training to be a bladesinger."
coughingpuppy: "We crashed a slave ring because we believed it to be the right thing to do based upon what we had been taught. Few elves would disagree with us still, I think. Later, we were accosted by those same former slaves.
coughingpuppy: Life was hard, they said. They couldn't find jobs, the city was inhospitable. At least as slaves they were fed and had their basic needs taken care of."
coughingpuppy: "One thing led to another. My friend was killed. I began supporting the laws of the city in favor of keeping things as they were. And gradually, I began losing my abilities."
coughingpuppy: "I reasoned that they had brought only harm to those around me anyway, so I went home."
coughingpuppy: Aurelia studies her for a moment, waiting for that bit to sink in, though she still seems like she has more to say.
AndrewRogue: *Aria is getting good at expressionlessness. She sits quietly and nods.*
coughingpuppy: "It's occurred to me that perhaps the reason I stay with you is that you remind me of my older brother. He was quite a bit like you." She changes subjects very quickly and doesn't seem to think much of it.
coughingpuppy: "Very selfless, and others could admire him for that. He adventured and helped people until he fell ill. Very ill, in fact. He slowly wasted away over ten years. A very short time for us."
AndrewRogue: "I'm sorry." *she says it quietly*
coughingpuppy: Aurelia just nods. "I'd hoped that my gifts would be enough to cure him after I returned. I returned without."
coughingpuppy: "I tried to regain favor later on, but it was too late by then. I gave up because one person I loved died, and in so doing, I lost another."
Dark Japheth: (Considering that at this point, barring exceptional RP, Zao's out, I'm going to roll stats now.)
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 6 1 3
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 3 6 2
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 3
coughingpuppy: "Gods care very little for our suffering, from what I've experienced. But sometimes people are given power to be better than they are. And that's hard."
Adm H Sopko: I should too... that might help me.
Dark Japheth: 13, 14, 12.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 2 5 6
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 4 5 1
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 3 6 4
Dark Japheth: 13, 14, 11!
Dark Japheth: Yay mediocrity. I feel like Hunter already. :P
Adm H Sopko: Those are a little better than his initial stats
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 1 5 4
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 2 3 5
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 4 2 6
Adm H Sopko: 14, 10, 12...
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 1 1 4
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 1 6 2
OnlineHost: Adm H Sopko rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 5 2 4
Adm H Sopko: 6, 9, 12
SirAlexTheFirst: (um, hey. Maybe want to save that till RP is done?)
Adm H Sopko: (Sorry)
AndrewRogue: *she nods*
coughingpuppy: "I suppose I'm essentially asking you not to make my mistakes...but take what you will from it."
AndrewRogue: "I'm trying not to. But I think its this entire... this entire stupid quest that's the mistake."
AndrewRogue: "Look at what its done to all of us? We can barely sit civilly and talk."
coughingpuppy: "What it's done to us won't end because we sit and pretend it didn't happen."
AndrewRogue: "No. And that's why I'm going to change it, take everything I've learned and quit."
coughingpuppy: She shakes her head. "Verity and I tried that already. Do you think they would leave you alone any more than they left us alone?"
coughingpuppy: "You're a pawn in something greater, Aria, whether you like it or not...and you may as well accept it and deal with it as best you can."
AndrewRogue: *she shrugs unenergetically* "It seems the main reason most people want me is because I'm part of this. Maybe they won't give me peace, but I want the chance."
AndrewRogue: "I can't do this anymore Aurelia."
AndrewRogue: "I'm this close to snapping already, and now Zao is gone too. I'm tired of tallying the loss of people I care about."
coughingpuppy: "You'll tally their loss whether you're a part of this or not. People die, and they leave."
AndrewRogue: "Of course, but like this?" *she sighs* "Maybe I'm just being stupid again. It certainly seems to be a talent of mine. But if I leave, then no one else will suffer because they're involved because of or with me."
AndrewRogue: "I can't guard them on this 'quest.' Maybe I can make a difference when I'm not mired in it."
coughingpuppy: "I think anyone reasonable would be rethinking this just as you are, with what you've been through. And sometimes launching a great quest for the benefit of others doesn't quite end up the way you'd hoped anyway."
coughingpuppy: "It's your decision, and if you choose to end this, I don't see weakness in that."
AndrewRogue: *she bows her head slightly* "Thank you Aurelia."
coughingpuppy: "I might suggest that you stay near where Verity and I will be. Numbers would be safer."
AndrewRogue: "Then are you intending to try and go back to rest?"
coughingpuppy: "We don't want our child born into the middle of this."
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 1 10-sided die: 4
AndrewRogue: *she nods* "I don't think Verity would much appreciate me being local. Or Lea. But I'll think about it. Thank you."
coughingpuppy: "Verity wants to protect you for saving my life, actually, so he may prefer it if you were nearby."
coughingpuppy: She extends a hand for Aria to shake. "But that's also your decision, and I don't want to keep you. Thank you for the help you've given me."
AndrewRogue: *she takes the hand, and then with barely a split second delay, turns it to a hug* "You're welcome. And thank you too Aurelia." *her voice is almost shakey*
AndrewRogue: "I wish we all could have met under better circumstances."
SirAlexTheFirst: (You're still not wearing pants...)
Dark Japheth: (Thanks for pointing that out)
Dark Japheth: (By the way, backup character is *also* a female character.)
AndrewRogue: (...how'd you guess I wasn't wearing pants right now Alex?)
coughingpuppy: Aurelia is slightly uncomfortable with the hug, especially since Aria is still not wearing pants, but she hugs her back anyway and straightens. "They were the best circumstances possible."
coughingpuppy: "If you happen to stay nearby, come say hello." And, uncomfortable with goodbyes and self-expression, she leaves.
AndrewRogue: "I will."
coughingpuppy: ((Sorry if my RP sucked at all. I'm sleeeeepy.))
AndrewRogue: (You did well.)
AndrewRogue: (Better'n me.)
AndrewRogue: (^_^)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Twas good. Sleep well, if you're leaving)
coughingpuppy: ((I think I'm gonna go to bed. 'Night, guys.))
Adm H Sopko: (Night)
AndrewRogue: (Night)
coughingpuppy has left the room.
Dark Japheth: Niiii
Dark Japheth: *cries*
AndrewRogue: *Aria shall sigh awkwardly, being left in Aurelia's room and stand. And then see if Lea will let her get her pants back*
Dark Japheth: How many feat levels are there between level 6 and 10? One, right?
AndrewRogue: Level 9
SirAlexTheFirst: Yeh
SirAlexTheFirst: More RP or no?
AndrewRogue: Eh... I'm good a little longer.
AndrewRogue: Not a ton, but a little.
SirAlexTheFirst: Going to Lea's room?
AndrewRogue: That would be where the pants are.
SirAlexTheFirst: The door is closed.
OnlineHost: Dark Japheth rolled 4 12-sided dice: 12 8 12 4
Dark Japheth: Yay!
AndrewRogue: *Knock, knock*
SirAlexTheFirst: No response.
AndrewRogue: ~Lea?~
SirAlexTheFirst: Muffled, you hear "Aria? Is he gone?"
AndrewRogue: *she sighs* "Yes."
SirAlexTheFirst: Click click clack click snip zip ring snap click.
SirAlexTheFirst: The door opens a crack.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Aria?"
AndrewRogue: "Me."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea opens it further so you can come in.
SirAlexTheFirst: And shuts the door behind you and relocks it.
SirAlexTheFirst: Then she turns around and holds her hand out, apologetically. "Aria... I'm... I'm sorry..."
AndrewRogue: "Its all right. I understand what happened."
AndrewRogue: "I... just wish it hadn't had to go that way."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm sorry... but..." she shakes her head. "I... I'm not wrong. His face, his voice... it was just like Hunter. She's got him. I know she's got him."
AndrewRogue: *Aria... stands up to take her around the waist and guide her to sit on the bed* "I understand."
SirAlexTheFirst: "You don't believe me, huh?"
AndrewRogue: "I'm stuck not knowing what to believe again." *she sighs* "Its hard. I... know that you're better at identifying lies than me."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea doesn't say anything, but if you look, she's started crying.
AndrewRogue: *Aria readjusts her position so she's kneeling behind her and loops her arms gently around her, resting her head on her shoulder* "Please don't cry Lea. I might start too."
SirAlexTheFirst: She quickly wipes her face. "Sorry. Um.... do you...still want to go live with me?"
Dark Japheth: (Only if you give me that sweet, sweet loving)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Gorth, it's time to learn.)
AndrewRogue: "Yes. We have an invitation to move in near Aurelia and Verity if we wanted." *she holds her a little tighter* "Promise me though. Promise you won't leave me alone?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea seems startled. "Leave? No! I thought you'd want to leave me..."
AndrewRogue: *she sorta shakes her head, considering its awkward position* "No."
AndrewRogue: "I won't leave you."
Dark Japheth has left the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: Now Lea starts crying in earnest and throws herself into a tight hug.
SirAlexTheFirst: (Hahahahhahhaa Gorth just misses the degeneration)
AndrewRogue: (I'm not sure if he should be laughed at as opposed to praised for that <.<)
SirAlexTheFirst: (True. Argh, lovies make my skin crawl.)
AndrewRogue: "We'll go far away from all this." *she holds her gently as she thinks to herself- They may be right. Perhaps quitting won't change anything, and maybe Bandon will fail and Mab will come for me. I don't care.*
SirAlexTheFirst: "Stay by me, Aria! Please!" Lea just sobs as the DM's head slowly melts.
AndrewRogue: (Turn on the air conditioning. That helps.)
AndrewRogue: (<.<)
AndrewRogue: "I will Lea. I promise you. You'll never be alone, no matter where you go."
Adm H Sopko: (Andy gets +5 cool points)
AndrewRogue: (Thank you. Thank you. *bows*)
SirAlexTheFirst: "I.. don't think I want to live near Verity and Aurelia. Actually, it might be better if we didn't even know where they were living, and vice versa. Mab... she won't STOP! Zao..."
AndrewRogue: "I understand. If there's anyone who can recover Mab's soul and convince her to stop, its Bandon."
AndrewRogue: *though should be somewhere in that sentence.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea chokes out a laugh through her crying. "So he's the only danger to her. There's nothing we can do..."
AndrewRogue: "Perhaps. He's defenitely the most prominent and the one I'd trust most."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Maybe he was right. Maybe we are giving in." Lea changes topics without warning. "I... I don't know."
AndrewRogue: "I can't answer that Lea. Perhaps we do have the power to stop Mab. Then again, maybe we don't."
SirAlexTheFirst: "But... fighting Mab... isn't what we're giving up. What ARE we giving up?"
AndrewRogue: "A duty? A job? A quest?" *she shakes her head gently* "I don't know honestly. I think we all lost sight some time ago."
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea starts laughing. "Now you're the one playing mommy. This is never going to work."
AndrewRogue: "Do you want a turn?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hm?"
AndrewRogue: "I can cry in your arms for a while." *she half-smiles*
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea giggles again, then stops, turns off the light, throws the covers up over Aria and herself and hugs Aria tightly. (IN A COMPLETELY NON-DIRTY WAY, MIND YOU.)
Adm H Sopko: (Suuure)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Tell mommy, now." She can't restrain another giggle. "How are you feeling?"
SirAlexTheFirst: (Head... explode... yuri.... awg...)
AndrewRogue: (Must. Not. Burts. Laughing. Mother. Looking. At. Me. Funny.)
AndrewRogue: "I'm... sad. But at the same time, I think I'm the happiest I've been in a long, long time."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why?"
AndrewRogue: *she can't quite keep a smile from creeping onto her face* "Because sometimes everyone is a little sad when they look back. And happy when they look forward."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Aw. Baby daughter's growing up."
AndrewRogue: (Arghle. Too many horrible must never be said lines just came into my head.)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Your head? I'm TYPING them. IN CHARACTER.)
AndrewRogue: (Hey, those are only slightly inferable. The things in my head burn :p) "You reeeeally think I'm growing up?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "You're not the little Aria I first met, that's for sure. Hunter talks-talked about how ditzy you used to be all the time..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well, not all the time, but some of the time. The time we talked after he knew you. Actually, now that I think back, it wasn't that much time." She giggles.
AndrewRogue: "It was all the time." *she grins* "It really does feel like it was a long time ago, doesn't it though?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yeah. It's like a few years have passed in the last week."
AndrewRogue: "Is poor mommy starting to feel older than she should?"
SirAlexTheFirst: *sigh* "You were right, poor mommy's lost pretty much everything she had. But she'll be all right as long as she has dear daughter.... gods, this is creepy. No more, Aria."
AndrewRogue: *she can't keep herself from giggling* "All right. I'm sorry."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Let's just... go to sleep and... forget about what happened to Zao. We thought it would anyways..."
SirAlexTheFirst: (....daughter of man....)
Adm H Sopko: (HA)
AndrewRogue: "We can't really do anything about it anyway."
AndrewRogue: (I am not being Adora.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Nope. At least... I don't think so."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Cmon, babe, be the Adora to my Jacynth)
Adm H Sopko: (Thats perhaps the dirtiest thing thats been said all night)
AndrewRogue: (We're deteriorating :p Been up too long ^_~)
SirAlexTheFirst: (Cmon, babe, be the Beth to my Gil.)
SirAlexTheFirst: <-- dirtier
AndrewRogue: (Beth hates Gil these days :p)
AndrewRogue: "So I guess all we've got to do is put the past behind us, take our lessons with us and move on. We'll be out of this damned city before we know it."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Country...."
AndrewRogue: "Corner of the world."
SirAlexTheFirst: "There are...four other cities like this one, and a good number of towns."
AndrewRogue: "And here I just thought the whole place was just one stupid desert."
SirAlexTheFirst: "That scares me... a bit."
AndrewRogue: "It... is a bit worrying to think about, isn't it?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "What could possibly go wrong? Five times the Mab, five times the giant metal things, five times the giant... pillars... in the... middle... of the cities...." Lea trails off, and you feel her shake her head.
SirAlexTheFirst: "No more. Penobscot. Mm, Penobscot. Nice country. Far out, oozing vigilantes to protect a couple of cute girls settling down alone, nobody asks questions."
AndrewRogue: "Its way north right? Cool, wet... does it ever snow?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Sure, especially in the mountains. Hey, that's another reason to have a tail! Keeps the back warm!"
AndrewRogue: *she blinks* "It... can't really keep the back that warm, can it?"
SirAlexTheFirst: (*shoots self*)
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea responds by curling her tail up under Aria's shirt and making a nice little coil, which acts as a warm plush cushion.
AndrewRogue: "It tickles... but it is warm. And soft."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Yes, Aria. That's what a tail is. It has fur on it."
AndrewRogue: "Well... cats have a lot more fur."
AndrewRogue: "I just didn't think you could really use it that way."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hm. Cats have too much fur. I only have fur where it counts."
AndrewRogue: (*headdesk*)
SirAlexTheFirst: (....yeah, your line there... you had to have done that on purpose...)
AndrewRogue: (No. No I didn't >_<)
AndrewRogue: "Liiiike on this cute little tail." *she giggles* (And her player winces.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Cute? CUTE? Are you insinuating that tails are little childish decorations?"
AndrewRogue: "No more than any other cute little part of a body."
SirAlexTheFirst: "What's THAT supposed to mean?"
AndrewRogue: *she shrugs emphatically, smiling* "Who knows. I've been told I have a cute nose."
SirAlexTheFirst: "So, you're saying my nose isn't cute? It's too small?"
AndrewRogue: "Well... maybe a little. But you make up for it by making it fit the way you look." *she teases, sticking her tongue out at Lea*
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea can't see this because the room is dark and you two are under the covers.
AndrewRogue: Well :p
SirAlexTheFirst: (*shoots self*)
Adm H Sopko: (Lick her!)
AndrewRogue: (*kicks Sopko*)
SirAlexTheFirst: (*shoots Sopko*)
AndrewRogue: (*licks Sopko*)
SirAlexTheFirst: (*Shoots Andrew*)
AndrewRogue: (Owwww...)
AndrewRogue: (Whoah font color change.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "What way I look? Are you saying that I'm overall not cute and too small? With a kiddy toy tail? I am NOT tiny, and this is a quite adult and healthy tail, thank you!"
Adm H Sopko: (Heh. Reminds me of the new Anime Arcadia)
AndrewRogue: "Fiiine. A cute, quite adult and healthy tail fitting to a not tiny Lea."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Much better."
AndrewRogue: (*laughs at new AA* Ahem.) *she yawns and stretches out* "We'll need a bed like this. Its almost as soft as you are."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Is that flattery? Or are you saying I'm too soft?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Lea giggles.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm just joking around with you. But you know, if you work at a temple of Luthien, we can live there..."
AndrewRogue: "That would save piles of money. And we could have a comfy bed."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Money's not that big of a problem. I have... enough."
AndrewRogue: "That's good. I'm... um... flat broke."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Didn't you guys have that big pile of money? What happened to it?"
AndrewRogue: "I... don't know. I lost most of my possessions between the messes of dying. The money shifted hands a few times in the group and... well... no idea what happened."
SirAlexTheFirst: (DM memory hint: You put it into the Whittyre ATMs)
AndrewRogue: (Oooh... we did?)
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well, no matter. We'll be fine."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Yah.)
Adm H Sopko: (Just some of it)
AndrewRogue: (I thought we had kept the vast majority in solid form) "Yep. We'll have to go back to Pernolde to get your kitties and whatever else you need... then I need to go home so I can have at least a little more than
AndrewRogue: this shirt on my back."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Now why would you want more than that shirt on your back?" Lea laughs. "I know, I know. Short stops on the teleport system."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Aight, I need to go, and this is going nowhere but into the gutter.)
SirAlexTheFirst: Comments/questions/discussion/logging time
AndrewRogue: Hey, we managed to directly avoid the gutter <.<
SirAlexTheFirst: Not... really...
AndrewRogue: Okay. So we didn't.
SirAlexTheFirst: Some of those lines had to have been obvious to Lea at least, if not Aria.
SirAlexTheFirst: Head hurts.
AndrewRogue: It was quite obvious. So to just get the pain out of the way...
AndrewRogue: <INSERT YURI RIGHT THERE>