Adm H Sopko: 15, 14, 12, 14, 14, 10
AndrewRogue: Not bad.
Adm H Sopko: I think I'll take that
AndrewRogue: KIIIIIIIIIIIIRK
AndrewRogue: TAKE ME NOW
AndrewRogue: TAKE ME TO GET ICE CREAM
Dark Japheth: Requests/information = highly irrelevant
Dark Japheth: Ideas... well
Dark Japheth: We like to come up with them first
Dark Japheth: and then we submit them for approval
Dark Japheth: You know all that.
Adm H Sopko: I should be a bard
Dark Japheth: No.
KittenBootsPlus5: Hello, chillins.
KittenBootsPlus5: What's the good word?
Adm H Sopko: Hello fellow chillin
SirAlexTheFirst: Hey, Kirk. Don't kill me.
Dark Japheth: Kill Lea!
AndrewRogue: Kill... uh...
AndrewRogue: Bandon!
KittenBootsPlus5: For the gay?
KittenBootsPlus5: Too late, buddy.
KittenBootsPlus5: The sentence has been decided.
SirAlexTheFirst: Oh. Has it.
SirAlexTheFirst: Oh well.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes.
AndrewRogue: *shifty eyes*
KittenBootsPlus5: Three minutes in the Thunderdome.
KittenBootsPlus5: With Gordon Freeman.
AndrewRogue: ...ow.
AndrewRogue: That's a bad punishment.
KittenBootsPlus5: Blame the jury.
KittenBootsPlus5: Anyway.
SirAlexTheFirst: No it's not.
Adm H Sopko: And you have to change your font to suit us as well, Alex
KittenBootsPlus5: What's going on now?
KittenBootsPlus5: Stat rolling?
KittenBootsPlus5: Who's leaving?
AndrewRogue: Zao left.
AndrewRogue: Hunter left.
KittenBootsPlus5: Actually.
KittenBootsPlus5: Zao.
SirAlexTheFirst: Being in the Thunderdome for three minutes AGAINST Gordy, now that would suck.
KittenBootsPlus5: Left through the hallway.
SirAlexTheFirst: WITH Gordy, that rocks.
AndrewRogue: Good point Alex.
KittenBootsPlus5: Which Verity was standing.
KittenBootsPlus5: In.
KittenBootsPlus5: SO.
KittenBootsPlus5: Zao and Verity need to talk.
KittenBootsPlus5: Unless Gorth would rather have this new character.
Dark Japheth: Nah!
Dark Japheth: Go ahead. Fix Zao. :P
KittenBootsPlus5: First, question for Alex.
SirAlexTheFirst: Sure.
KittenBootsPlus5: Do I get to actually make use of Cyberhunter, or are you saying no to that and I shouldn't bother?
SirAlexTheFirst: Why would I say no to that?
KittenBootsPlus5: I heard Hunter left.
Adm H Sopko: Free will Hunter
SirAlexTheFirst: DAOA Hunter left.
KittenBootsPlus5: Wtf?
Adm H Sopko: CyberHunter =/= Free Will Hunter
SirAlexTheFirst: Cyberhunter is Verity's bitch.
SirAlexTheFirst: Tough words but true.
KittenBootsPlus5: DAOA Hunter got mindraped, if I recall correctly...
Adm H Sopko: Yep
Adm H Sopko: Nope
Adm H Sopko: Not mindraped
Adm H Sopko: Just killed
Dark Japheth: A little different.
Dark Japheth: You'll figure it out.
AndrewRogue: I know the answer!
AndrewRogue: <.<
Adm H Sopko: I do too!
KittenBootsPlus5: So Dark Ages Hunter returned to AND?
Adm H Sopko: No
SirAlexTheFirst: No.
KittenBootsPlus5: Then what the fuck are you all talking about?
KittenBootsPlus5: Hey, I have an idea!
Dark Japheth: :P
Dark Japheth: Urinating in the frozen foo--- *is shot*
KittenBootsPlus5: How about someone actually give me a useful summary so I know what hapened without meaningless intergections!
Adm H Sopko: Heh
KittenBootsPlus5: CRAZY!
SirAlexTheFirst: Summary of what?
AndrewRogue: Nothing happened with Hunter in AND
AndrewRogue: Period
AndrewRogue: Its the same as we left it.
Adm H Sopko: Yup
Adm H Sopko: AND =/= DAOA
Dark Japheth: In AND
Dark Japheth: Aria- "Bitch, get me pizza!"
Dark Japheth: Zao- "mmkay."
Dark Japheth: Zao- *does so*
Dark Japheth: Aria, Zao, and Lea talk!
Dark Japheth: Lea is insane!
Dark Japheth: Zao is sane!
Dark Japheth: Lea goes insane when Zao must make a bluff check and botches despite not lying!
Dark Japheth: Zao says "Eh fuck it all I quit. You can all burn in hell!"
Dark Japheth: Clerics making spellcraft checks on 1 and all sorts of crazygonuts action
Dark Japheth: Aria and Lea talk
Dark Japheth: Zao leaves
Dark Japheth: ~fin
Adm H Sopko: Yes... talk
KittenBootsPlus5: What other things have I missed? Last I knew, Zao was upgrade-less.
Dark Japheth: Oh yes!
Dark Japheth: Zao got an upgrade.
SirAlexTheFirst: Zao stayed after school to talk to Teacher Mab.
Dark Japheth: His eyes are now yellow.
Dark Japheth: He has a Bachelors Degree at STF U
KittenBootsPlus5: I assume he didn't get anything nearly as cool as cyberninja?
Dark Japheth: Nah.
AndrewRogue: He got Router to his moths.
AndrewRogue: *a Router
Dark Japheth: +2 Int, an improved connection to the many (including seeing through them) and another +2 int because he was effectively a hivemind with the Many.
coughingpuppy has entered the room.
KittenBootsPlus5: Good thing you're a Wizard.
KittenBootsPlus5: Anyhoo!
KittenBootsPlus5: Now, was there additional DAOA news that I was being informed of?
coughingpuppy: I don't think the chat title can be "AND without lesbians" anymore...
SirAlexTheFirst: The biting irony serves to chastise me.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes it does
coughingpuppy: :-D
AndrewRogue: I'm not gonna get to live this down, am I?
Adm H Sopko: No
Adm H Sopko: Yes
coughingpuppy: As a bi girl, or just a girl period, I take it as my right to tease you all.
Dark Japheth: Not I.
AndrewRogue: Staci does take the right.
AndrewRogue: *nods*
KittenBootsPlus5: Staci, every time you say that it makes me twitch.
SirAlexTheFirst: It's ALWAYS right to tease me.
AndrewRogue: Its more often right to tease me :p
coughingpuppy: I'm surprised you aren't over it by now, Kirk.
Dark Japheth: AND andrew doesn't get mad, either!
AndrewRogue: Nope. I'm full of love.
Adm H Sopko: Heh.
AndrewRogue: <3<3<3<3<3
Dark Japheth: Its so fun!
Dark Japheth: *abuses andrew*
AndrewRogue: <3
KittenBootsPlus5: Hokay, so.
KittenBootsPlus5: Zao!
coughingpuppy: It honestly doesn't bother me, though. I've known so many girls who wrote guy on guy stuff for RP/fanfiction/original fiction it doesn't even matter anymore.
Dark Japheth: UGH SLASH = EVIL
AndrewRogue: SKOCIONxKRIST!
coughingpuppy: ...
Dark Japheth: Really though, I could realistically do SkocioXanything
Dark Japheth: Skocion X Rocks/Trees
coughingpuppy: That's sadly true.
AndrewRogue: ...damn, you beat me Gorth
coughingpuppy: Skocion X Brom!
AndrewRogue: ...
KittenBootsPlus5: That is so NOT true.
AndrewRogue: THANK YOU STACI
Dark Japheth: Why does that thought amuse the hell out of me.
coughingpuppy: I love you, Kirk. :-D
AndrewRogue: NOW I'VE GOT THAT IMAGE IN MY HEAD
AndrewRogue: ARGH
Dark Japheth: Hey Andrew?
Dark Japheth: Orificer.
KittenBootsPlus5: Skocion is a whore only insomuch as he can use sex to manipulate people.
AndrewRogue: AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH HHHHHHHHHHHh
AndrewRogue: DIE GORTH
AndrewRogue: DIE
AndrewRogue: DIE
Dark Japheth: God its fun to fuck with you.
Dark Japheth: :P
AndrewRogue: DIE
AndrewRogue: DIE
AndrewRogue: <3
AndrewRogue: <3
Adm H Sopko: So he's as much of a whore as say, Paris Hilton?
Dark Japheth: See? He still lubz me.
Dark Japheth: Nah
SirAlexTheFirst: ANYWAYS
Dark Japheth: She's just in it to piss off daddy
Adm H Sopko: Heh
SirAlexTheFirst: Let's down the sex quotient of this chat by looking at Bandon.
KittenBootsPlus5: ...
Adm H Sopko: HOW?
AndrewRogue: *watches it skyrocket*
KittenBootsPlus5: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SirAlexTheFirst: Sadly.
AndrewRogue: Anyway. GO GO BANDON
SirAlexTheFirst: Bandon wanted to talk to Mab after Zao was done, right?
KittenBootsPlus5: What about Zao and Verity?
KittenBootsPlus5: And yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: And he's got a meeting scheduled with church leaders.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes.
AndrewRogue: Kirk has lots of RP to do.
SirAlexTheFirst: I'm just getting straight what all has to happen here.
SirAlexTheFirst: And Zao and Verity.
SirAlexTheFirst: And then Verity and Aurelia after that?
coughingpuppy: Sure.
KittenBootsPlus5: .Rockin
KittenBootsPlus5: Kirk and his busted computer and no mouse are ready to ROCK
AndrewRogue: Go go Kirk!
SirAlexTheFirst: So wherefore first?
SirAlexTheFirst: brb
Adm H Sopko: The dawn, and Ariete is the sun.
Adm H Sopko has left the room.
KittenBootsPlus5: Uh....
KittenBootsPlus5: Someone else pick.
Dark Japheth: Bandon and Mab
Dark Japheth: Thats fairly important.
AndrewRogue: Let's just get things all up to date. Bandon stuff first.
KittenBootsPlus5: Okay!
KittenBootsPlus5: He tells Zao "Don't leave the church" as he comes out!
KittenBootsPlus5: And goes in!
Dark Japheth: Rocking!
Dark Japheth: Then Zao's scene occurs and he doesn't even care!
Dark Japheth: Rocking, keep RPin
KittenBootsPlus5: He goes over to Mab, conjuring a cookie as he does so.
KittenBootsPlus5: The armor is off at the moment.
KittenBootsPlus5: He's looking less official.
KittenBootsPlus5: He offers it to her and conjures one for himself
SirAlexTheFirst: This is after Zao has left?
SirAlexTheFirst: Right.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab accepts the cookie.
SirAlexTheFirst: "You wanted to talk to me, hon?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Well, of course."
KittenBootsPlus5: "How are you feeling?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Very well. This temple is much nicer than I expected it to be." She smiles at Bandon. Spot check.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
OnlineHost: KittenBootsPlus5 rolled 1 20-sided die: 19
KittenBootsPlus5: Umm....
SirAlexTheFirst: The cookie flips up her sleeve as she brushes her hair back and puts her other arm around Bandon.
KittenBootsPlus5: 2.....7.
KittenBootsPlus5: Anyway.
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods and smiles.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Sit with me in the gazebo."
SirAlexTheFirst: She does so. "What a lovely little sanctuary this is. I'm so glad you brought me in here."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I am, too."
KittenBootsPlus5: "What is it you're afraid of, Mab?"
Dark Japheth: (Cast phantasmal killer! We'll find out!)
Adm H Sopko has entered the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why, whatever do you mean?"
KittenBootsPlus5: He gives her the "you're bluffing unecessarily again" look.
KittenBootsPlus5: The youthful but wise cleric knows all!
KittenBootsPlus5: "I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the cookie. I think they're pretty good. Do you not want to talk about it?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I enjoy the thought of you giving it to me, hon. But what are you talking about now?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Why you sounded afraid when Aria asked you what you wanted to do."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You're awfully strong, you know. It was probably hard for them to notice."
SirAlexTheFirst: (brief pause for me to detatch cat from leg, father from back and look up the exact lines)
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes, Bandon used his super powers.
SirAlexTheFirst: Sorry, resuming now.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Well..." Mab shakes her head. "You brought me over here."
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods.
KittenBootsPlus5: And prepares to sense motive!
SirAlexTheFirst: She'
SirAlexTheFirst: s not saying anything more at the moment.
KittenBootsPlus5: "And?"
SirAlexTheFirst: If left alone for a bit, Mab sighs. "Well, we're in the sanctuary here. She's a very patient lady, but declaring what I'm really doing, here of all places, is a little bit rude."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I think the kinds of things you're talking about go beyond the boundaries of rude and polite, Mab."
KittenBootsPlus5: "It's much ruder hide the truth."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Especially from someone that loves you."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I don't care whether the body you show here is your real one or not. I just wish you wouldn't feel like you had to hide things from me."
KittenBootsPlus5: Do you need a Dip check there?
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab's smile fades a bit. "Bandon, hon, a lot of people want to kill me right now, and even more people would if they knew some things about me. What I'm afraid of is that even you might."
KittenBootsPlus5: He looks a little hurt.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Mab....I don't hide what I am from anyone. I will never kill you. I will never kill anyone. I will never hate anyone. Especially not you."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You will never be in danger from me. I'm here to save you."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Save me from what?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Everyone that endangers you."
KittenBootsPlus5: That includes herself.
SirAlexTheFirst: "What if Luthien endangers me?" She sounds like she's joking.
KittenBootsPlus5: "She won't. But my task is not just to serve my deity, but to serve the things she stands for."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Protection, love, healing."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Not destruction."
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab looks around at the trees and grass surrounding the gazebo. "You're completely opposed to my duty."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I don't think so."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I just think we see healing differently."
KittenBootsPlus5: "How do surgeons heal people?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "They don't." Mab looks a bit puzzled; this might be the first time you've seen her this way.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Exactly."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Their patients heal themselves."
SirAlexTheFirst: "What do you mean?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "You want to be a surgeon, Mab."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You want to cut the broken parts out of the world."
KittenBootsPlus5: "And sometimes, that has to be done.
KittenBootsPlus5: "But you don't heal your patient by killing them."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You can't."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Somewhere along the line, you've gotten confused."
KittenBootsPlus5: "And I think that Director Atkinson has to do with that."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I think you have a very different view on what the world is than I or Director Atkinson does."
KittenBootsPlus5: "My dear....Atkinson is Satan."
KittenBootsPlus5: "He is the Father of Lies."
KittenBootsPlus5: "He is a greater one than you or me."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Your hubris has been in believing you can control him."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You want to make the world a better place. Lke anyone."
KittenBootsPlus5: "But somehow you've been brought to believe that the Father Of Lies can help you do that."
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab digests this for a minute, and her eyes go wide. "Bandy, what have you been thinking? I'm not trying to control him."
KittenBootsPlus5: "No?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm trying to help him."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Becase you think he can heal the world?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "No. He's one of the so-called gods. My duty is to kill all of them, including him."
KittenBootsPlus5: "The duty he gave you?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "The duty he gave me was to serve him. The best service I can give him is killing him here."
KittenBootsPlus5: ""Why would you accept a duty laid on you by him?"
coughingpuppy: ((Mrrrrk...I think I'm going to have to go to bed, guys. I'm getting so tired...blarg. 'Night!))
SirAlexTheFirst: (Good night.)
AndrewRogue: (Night Staci)
SirAlexTheFirst: "It is my duty. I owe my existence today to him."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Why is that?"
KittenBootsPlus5: FLASHBACK SEQUENCE INITIATED
SirAlexTheFirst: She gives you a blank look.
SirAlexTheFirst: Eh?
KittenBootsPlus5: "What existence do you owe him?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "This one."
SirAlexTheFirst: She waves at you.
KittenBootsPlus5: "What happened?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "He made me the Director of the Labs."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You owe him a position?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I owe him quite a bit, including that."
SirAlexTheFirst: (Whoa, sorry. Crazygonuts and window not blinking.)
KittenBootsPlus5: "Tell me about it."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I started out as just an assitant, then an interrogation officer, then I met Director Atkinson and he put me into the research I felt I belonged in."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Tell me more about it."
KittenBootsPlus5: He's trying to get her to fade to flashback!
SirAlexTheFirst: Oh, WELL then
KittenBootsPlus5: Oh yeah, and Sense Motive.
OnlineHost: KittenBootsPlus5 rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
KittenBootsPlus5: Blarg.
Dark Japheth: SHE'S GREEL
AndrewRogue: (AIM is really botch happy lately)
KittenBootsPlus5: At least for me.
SirAlexTheFirst: This chat is cursed with 1's.
SirAlexTheFirst: It's trying to make up for the lesbianism with phallic numerals.
SirAlexTheFirst: Or maybe not.
AndrewRogue: (Its AIM protesting the li... ... ...)
KittenBootsPlus5: Anyway,
KittenBootsPlus5: Flashback sequence go.
SirAlexTheFirst: The gazebo fades and Bandon flies into flashback land.
SirAlexTheFirst: The cityscape of Whittyre appears, and your view flashes into one of the towers, where a slightly younger Mab appears to be graduating from something, walking across a stage in a nice robe.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab narrarates to Bandon. <It's so hard to remember those days. I always wanted to adventure as a child - but there isn't much of that going on in Whittyre. Traveling was so unsafe.>
SirAlexTheFirst: <I got into the computer systems to learn about the world outside of Whittyre, and realized how marvelous life there really was, so I took advantage of it. I think I went to some sort of scientific school.>.
SirAlexTheFirst: <School was a facade, as so much here is, and I was one of the lucky few to realize that. I learned more outside of school in one year than most of the classmates did before graduating.>
SirAlexTheFirst: <That's how I got to the Labs, I think. They seemed so exotic at the time. The only place in the world where truly new things could be discovered.>
SirAlexTheFirst: The scene fades to a slightly older Mab sitting in a padded room and talking to... someone, constantly changing, running through a great many different people as she sits there.
KittenBootsPlus5: Can I take 10's on sense motiving all this?
SirAlexTheFirst: No.
KittenBootsPlus5: Great.
KittenBootsPlus5: *starts counting sentences*
SirAlexTheFirst: You can just make one check for the whole thing if you want.
KittenBootsPlus5: With AIM dice?
KittenBootsPlus5: HAH no.
SirAlexTheFirst: <There was only one problem. I can't quite remember what it was. Anyways, I became an interrogation officer. I applyed for the job, even though it was hard, and I learned to keep a straight face.>
SirAlexTheFirst: <I also learned a great deal more than any one person should about many different subjects. The officers are supposed to get their memory wiped from time to time. Ah, silly.>
SirAlexTheFirst: Bits of static and weird colors drift into the happy room as Mab's voice drifts out.
KittenBootsPlus5: Bandon counters with waves of Happy and Comfort.
SirAlexTheFirst: The scene changes again to a blurry recreation of Mab, looking almost as she does now, talking to an indistinct figure.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab is crystal clear, and looks exactly as she does now.
SirAlexTheFirst: The panels and equipment she's standing by are slightly fuzzy and blinking, while the man she's talking to is just a blue haze with one oversized arm.
KittenBootsPlus5: Like undead baby oversized?
SirAlexTheFirst: No.
SirAlexTheFirst: Like he's holding something, or has a really big hand.
KittenBootsPlus5: Ah.
KittenBootsPlus5: Carry on.
SirAlexTheFirst: 'Mab' speaks, overly formally. "Director, I'd like to let you know that I really appreciate you letting me do this. I know that my lack of... talent might be a burden on this project, but- huh?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, I see. Goodness gracious. I'll be sure and try my best, then."
KittenBootsPlus5: "What did he tell you?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Ha! You sure know how to make a girl feel special, hon."
SirAlexTheFirst: "I, I mean, Director. Sir."
KittenBootsPlus5: He s quiet.
SirAlexTheFirst: It breaks up as Mab drifts back in to answer you. <What, hon?>
KittenBootsPlus5: "What did he say to you?"
coughingpuppy has left the room.
SirAlexTheFirst: <That I was going to be an anchor of the project, and my talents were unique and necessary to the line of enhancement research.>
SirAlexTheFirst: <He was right, of course, but I didn't know what exactly the project was back then.>
KittenBootsPlus5: "What talents?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <Knowing a lot, finding things out from people, keeping secrets safe, and.>
KittenBootsPlus5: "And?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <I never studied spellcasting.>
SirAlexTheFirst: <I remember that.>
Dark Japheth: (ooooooh)
KittenBootsPlus5: "How long has Shaitan been director of the Labs?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Was he the Head Director for as long as you remember?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <Yes. He's always been there.>
KittenBootsPlus5: "Okay. Go on with the story."
SirAlexTheFirst: <There isn't much more. I finished the enhancements project, and it succeeded beyond expectations. You've seen some of its fruits in Verity and the Sopko child - and, now, Zao-Lot.>
KittenBootsPlus5: "And yourself?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <At the conclusion of the first stage, he appointed me Director. Suddenly, I had access to every record, every person, every bit of research, and it all came through me as new things were discovered.>
KittenBootsPlus5: "Have you been enhanced yourself?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <It's the best thing I could ever hope for. I know more than even Director Atkinson does....what?>
KittenBootsPlus5: "Have you been enhanced?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "How have you changed that you need a room from the Labs just to show yourself?"
SirAlexTheFirst: <Of course. Most of the department heads have... have....
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods.
SirAlexTheFirst: The scene flashes and flickers up and down a few seconds, dissolving into fuzzy static.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab herself remains crystal clear, now looking at a tall orange shape.
KittenBootsPlus5: Like, here in the room?
SirAlexTheFirst: The blue man-shape, presumably Director Atkinson, stands next to her.
KittenBootsPlus5: Or is it a different image of the past?
SirAlexTheFirst: Different image.
KittenBootsPlus5: Oka.
SirAlexTheFirst: A soft whisper reaches your ears from Mab. "We're done. The enhancements are ready for public use, although we can't break them onto market immediately. We'll keep researching the rest, of course, but...
SirAlexTheFirst: ... the project is finished. This is the last conditioned test. I thought you might like to see it, Director. You brought me here, after all."
SirAlexTheFirst: She turns and smiles.
KittenBootsPlus5: At Bandon or at the Director?
SirAlexTheFirst: "What? Don't be silly. I wouldn't even be here without your help." She nods. "Right. Of course, we still need you."
SirAlexTheFirst: Both.
KittenBootsPlus5: Ah.
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hon- Director, sir... I can't thank you enough."
SirAlexTheFirst: Her tone drops exceedinly low, although Bandon can still hear it clearly.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I know about you. Thank you for coming here and helping us. It's nice to know you care."
SirAlexTheFirst: She laughs and turns back to the orange thing. "Watch this, now."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Power to stage one emitters in three, two, one, now!" She reaches forward and the orange shape distorts and crackles.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm seeing predictable phase arrays. Stage two emitters activating.... now." "Yes, hon, of course it's necessary."
KittenBootsPlus5: Antimass Spectrometer running at 105%?
Dark Japheth: Does she need more jiggowatts?
SirAlexTheFirst: "The subject will be here in a minute, ho- Dire- oh, come on."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Looks like a nice one. The best of the best, huh? I hope you picked him well."
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab looks down at something in front of her as the orange shape expands. "Should be here by now. Hmm."
SirAlexTheFirst: "No, it'll be fine. Let's see..."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Subject... 4591235... Name, Mabel L-... why... this is.... me?"
SirAlexTheFirst: The visions waver and fade into blackness.
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab says nothing more.
KittenBootsPlus5: He is quiet for a moment as well.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Mab, can you tell me something about computers?"
KittenBootsPlus5: He's not looking at her right now.
SirAlexTheFirst: <What, hon?>
KittenBootsPlus5: "Computers are programmed."
KittenBootsPlus5: "And that programming can be changed."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Even really smart computers can be rewritten. Not only that, but they can be written so that they don't know they have been."
KittenBootsPlus5: "They can be rewritten so they CAN'T know."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You can make a computer think a certain way and make sure that it believes it got to thinking that way on its own."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You said you know more than Director Atkinson does."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Where did you go to school?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "What were the names of you childhood friends?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Think about all those things you can't remember."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Shaitan knows all those things, I promise you."
KittenBootsPlus5: "He won't let you kill him. You know he won't. It's obvious he won't. He's the father of lies and destruction, even a cursory glance at history proves it, but you don't believe it."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You can't believe it."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Why not?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "He will."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Mab....listen to me."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You are not a computer."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You are a person. And you can beat any programming he may have tried to give you."
KittenBootsPlus5: "But you can't do it if your eyes are always outward."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You have to look. Look deep into yourself....at the things you can't see."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You have to find them."
KittenBootsPlus5: "No one else can do it."
SirAlexTheFirst: <But I don't want to."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I know you don't want to. You've been made not to want to."
KittenBootsPlus5: "But you have to. For yourself. For love."
KittenBootsPlus5: "For me."
KittenBootsPlus5: NOW he's looking at her.
SirAlexTheFirst: ~But you're wrong.>
KittenBootsPlus5: With LOOK OF INTENSITY
Dark Japheth: (Awwwwwwwww)
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab is nowhere to be seen.
KittenBootsPlus5: Whoa!
SirAlexTheFirst: Neither is the gazebo. You're kinda floating in blackness.
KittenBootsPlus5: Also whoa!
KittenBootsPlus5: Do I still feel like I'm in the Happy Room?
SirAlexTheFirst: A little.
KittenBootsPlus5: I've been eaten by the gazebo!
KittenBootsPlus5: Crap!
KittenBootsPlus5: "Wrong about what?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Killing Director Atkinson. I know he'll let me because he already has."
KittenBootsPlus5: "He seems awfully active for a dead guy."
Dark Japheth: (Why does that sound familiar.)
SirAlexTheFirst: "He hasn't done anything for years."
KittenBootsPlus5: (Shouldn't you be in a gymnasium, teasing naked boys?)
KittenBootsPlus5: "Then who was it at the teleporter?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Who did you see there?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "Nothing."
KittenBootsPlus5: "But what did you mean when you said that he was there?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I hoped you'd ask me to come with you."
KittenBootsPlus5: "How much of Atkinson is part of you now?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Nothing is left of him."
KittenBootsPlus5: SEEEENSE THE OLD MOTIVE
OnlineHost: KittenBootsPlus5 rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
KittenBootsPlus5: 29.
OnlineHost: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab seems completely and utterly certain of what she says. You think.
KittenBootsPlus5: Riiiight.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Then why are you afraid to look inside yourself to see what is there?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't know..."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Mab, shine a light on the dark places and look!"
KittenBootsPlus5: With all the emphasis a nineteen-year-old cleric can muster.
KittenBootsPlus5: All the determination and force that exists in his personality.
KittenBootsPlus5: If he could take her head in his hands and make her look, he would.
KittenBootsPlus5: A nova of Love and Peace bursts out of him, a burning desire to illuminate the dark places and find what is hidden.
KittenBootsPlus5: To heal Mabel.
SirAlexTheFirst: Light returns to the Happy Room, which is now just a room with nice colors on the walls.
SirAlexTheFirst: No gazebo. And no Mab.
KittenBootsPlus5: Frustration!
KittenBootsPlus5: "Mab?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Bandon?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab puts her hand on your shoulder from behind. "Are you all right?"
KittenBootsPlus5: He turns.
KittenBootsPlus5: "Me? I'm fine. What about you?"
SirAlexTheFirst: Mab's standing there looking just fine.
KittenBootsPlus5: And, of course, looks are all that matter.
SirAlexTheFirst: "A bit sad, hon. I'm not that pretty on the inside, and that's a little scary sometimes."
KittenBootsPlus5: "You're beautiful on the inside, Mab. And that's all that matters."
KittenBootsPlus5: "What...happened?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "You saved me, a little bit, maybe. And her."
KittenBootsPlus5: "Her?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Why, Luthien, of course."
KittenBootsPlus5: "What do you mean? What did you see?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Bandy hon, please, listen to me. Now, I know I said that Luthien was a nice girl, but that doesn't mean she's exempt from my duty." Mab's eyes sparkle.
KittenBootsPlus5: That's a totally awsome thing to tell a cleric.
KittenBootsPlus5: Anyway.
KittenBootsPlus5: "What did you see?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Hm? When?"
KittenBootsPlus5: He shakes his head. "What's the last thing you remember?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "You got kind of upset."
KittenBootsPlus5: He sighs.
KittenBootsPlus5: "You didn't see."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, you mean inside myself?"
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods, but then shakes his head.
KittenBootsPlus5: In disappointment, or sadness.
SirAlexTheFirst: "I saw... solidity in myself." She smiles. "A hard, unbreakable pillar at the center. Around the edges, a lot of confusion and sadness. Can you help me with those?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "I'll do everything I can."
SirAlexTheFirst: "You'll stay here with me, then?"
KittenBootsPlus5: "I'll always be with the people that need me."
SirAlexTheFirst: "Thanks, hon. I know I can count on you."
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods.
KittenBootsPlus5: "I have to go to a meeting."
KittenBootsPlus5: "I'll be back soon, okay?"
SirAlexTheFirst: "Sure thing. I'll be fine here."
KittenBootsPlus5: He nods.
KittenBootsPlus5: And goes.
SirAlexTheFirst: End of that scene.
SirAlexTheFirst: Discuss. And, up for more, or not?
Dark Japheth: More!
SirAlexTheFirst: GJ on saving the world again.
KittenBootsPlus5: I have a question!
KittenBootsPlus5: What the fuck happened?
KittenBootsPlus5: Did she change in some way?
SirAlexTheFirst: What happened when?
KittenBootsPlus5: Between Bandon and Mab.
KittenBootsPlus5: And the looking.
KittenBootsPlus5: And the saving the world?
KittenBootsPlus5: What?
SirAlexTheFirst: Beats me. Bandon made Mab look at herself.
SirAlexTheFirst: She was rather obviously angling to kill Luthien, and apparently hasn't yet, so hey, that's good.
KittenBootsPlus5: So she's been talked out of killing a god?
SirAlexTheFirst: For the moment. And you scored some good points about her memories.
KittenBootsPlus5: Good points?
SirAlexTheFirst: Well, maybe. I'm just throwing out snap personal judgements.
SirAlexTheFirst: Lag?
SirAlexTheFirst: Or just silence.
SirAlexTheFirst: Just silence.
Dark Japheth: I want more scene.
SirAlexTheFirst: There should be Verity/Zao scene then?
Dark Japheth: Why yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: Is Kirk still there?
Dark Japheth: Yes.
KittenBootsPlus5: Yes.
SirAlexTheFirst: Well then.
SirAlexTheFirst: Gogo.
SirAlexTheFirst: Or don't.
KittenBootsPlus5: We will.
SirAlexTheFirst: ...?
SirAlexTheFirst: Mmmkay, I'ma go to bed now, then. Dunno what the heck is going on here.
SirAlexTheFirst: Phoning and setting yourselves on fire, huh? Funfun.
SirAlexTheFirst: Save logs! ^_^
SirAlexTheFirst: And gnight
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