You have just entered room "AND."

coughingpuppy has entered the room.

Sarcazmo47 has entered the room.

AndrewRogue: A...N...D...?

SirAlexTheFirst: What.

SirAlexTheFirst: Interest? Yes no?

Adm H Sopko: Woo

AndrewRogue: As always.

Dark Japheth: Yep.

Adm H Sopko: My luck hasn't been good lately, but I'll take the shot

Sarcazmo47: I hear you died.

SirAlexTheFirst: Take the shot, Hunter.

SirAlexTheFirst: TAKE THE SHOT.

Adm H Sopko: Yep. Cleaved in half

Dark Japheth: It made my PC a sad panda.

Dark Japheth: :'(

SirAlexTheFirst: Kirk, Staci?

Adm H Sopko: By a level 10 NPC. We won the fight though

coughingpuppy: I'm fine with it.

Adm H Sopko: And I was raised, and have a badass scar

AndrewRogue: Kirk is phoning right now so it'll take him a minute.

SirAlexTheFirst: Phoning?

Adm H Sopko: Whats the most powerful explosive crossbow bolts I could get?

AndrewRogue: He's on the phone.

Dark Japheth: Probably Bolts of Mass

SirAlexTheFirst: Do you really want to know, Soppy? :P

Adm H Sopko: Considering my character in Chrome's game uses a repeating crossbow, yes.

Dark Japheth: When fired, they grow to the size of a ballista bolt, which does 5d4, 5d8, or 5d12, depending on who quotes teh ability.

Adm H Sopko: What about ones that explode with the force of an RPG?<G>

SirAlexTheFirst: You could just get an RPG in Whittyre.

Dark Japheth: Hmm.

Adm H Sopko: I need this for Chrome's game, Alex. Though thanks for the idea

Dark Japheth: Probably Exploding. If I had the Diablerie, I'd tell you.

SirAlexTheFirst: Get Bolts of Slaying.

Adm H Sopko: What do they do?

Dark Japheth: Slay things.

Dark Japheth: They are keyed to a type of monster

Dark Japheth: or type of humanoid

Adm H Sopko: Too specialized

Dark Japheth: and anything hit by them has to make a fort save or die.

SirAlexTheFirst: Bolts of Slaying: Human.

Dark Japheth: Yep.

Dark Japheth: Best bolts evar.

SirAlexTheFirst: 75%+ of People You Will Have To Kill are human, in nearly all RPGs.

SirAlexTheFirst: ANYWAYS though.

SirAlexTheFirst: Let's start.

SirAlexTheFirst: Maybe.

Dark Japheth: Or elf. or monstrous undead shambling golemlike thins.

SirAlexTheFirst: Scene selection?

Adm H Sopko: I have 3500 gold, not to mention what I have at the house, so I can afford lots

SirAlexTheFirst: You only fight elves in Forgotten Realms. And then only Drow.

Dark Japheth: If you have a crappy DM. :P

Dark Japheth: Or a good DM who doesn't reuse PC's.

Adm H Sopko: What was the Blackguard, Gorth? Human?

Dark Japheth: :P

Dark Japheth: Human.

AndrewRogue: List scenes I suppose.

Dark Japheth: Most powerful NPC's will be human- that bonus feat is nasty!

Dark Japheth: Chapter 31- The Stand

Adm H Sopko: Hunter has Favored Enemy: Human... makes me sad

SirAlexTheFirst: Scene selection?

Adm H Sopko: Yup

Adm H Sopko: I suppose it's tradition no

Adm H Sopko: w

SirAlexTheFirst: It's tradition as long as the party is split.

AndrewRogue: And we are.

AndrewRogue: <_<

Dark Japheth: Gorth Advice- Splitting Up = Always Freaking Bad

SirAlexTheFirst: Also, bonus fact for those in doubt - it's Nellix, pronounced exactly as written. No long ees or anything like that. Neelix, in fact, is a Star Trek character.

Adm H Sopko: Ok. I'll do scene selection

AndrewRogue: I'm trying to remember what groups we had <_<

Adm H Sopko: We have Serial Experiments Liadon, Neon Genesis Bandongelion, and Ariauto

SirAlexTheFirst: Well, there's Aria who is dead.

SirAlexTheFirst: And then there's the people in Perenolde.

Dark Japheth: Yep. She suffered through hell Difficulty and pwned it

SirAlexTheFirst: And Bandon.

SirAlexTheFirst: That's about it really.

AndrewRogue: And Zao-Lot!

SirAlexTheFirst: No!

SirAlexTheFirst: Saulot!

Dark Japheth: Yes, mock my lack of good nomenclature

AndrewRogue: Either way... I'm dead, so my scene is irrevelant.

SirAlexTheFirst: :P

SirAlexTheFirst: Your world doc has a character named after a character named after an FFT villain.

Adm H Sopko: I'll rush headfirst into it again, and say Pernolde people!

Dark Japheth: Which one?

AndrewRogue: That works for me. Unless one of our scenes is more important.

Dark Japheth: My world Doc also has Elric Clapton. :P

AndrewRogue: ...

Adm H Sopko: It needed Johani Cash

Dark Japheth: No. :P

Dark Japheth: Johnny Cash is like Jesus. He can't be adequately roleplayed by mortals.

Dark Japheth: Nor would he fit into the alignment system, or even be stattable.

Sarcazmo47: He'd also be dead like Jesus.

Dark Japheth: That is also true. The Dead Template is awesome, thoguh

Dark Japheth: You don't get a con score!

Dark Japheth: And a -20 CR!

Adm H Sopko: Like Teta!

Dark Japheth: Yeah!

AndrewRogue: Go Aria with your mystical (Dead) subtype!

Dark Japheth: her class sucks, too. :P

AndrewRogue: ...I tried to revive her so many times <_<

Adm H Sopko: Lets Mach Go Go!

AndrewRogue: Anyway. Yeah. We were doing that roleplaying thing I heard?

SirAlexTheFirst: Jesus is NOT DEAD. Ahem.

Dark Japheth: Anyway, which guy did I name after a character named after a character named after an FFT villain?

SirAlexTheFirst: Perenolde.

Dark Japheth: (reverts to OOC)

Adm H Sopko: ::Regardless of the wants of certain catgirl lovers, Hunter and Lea do not sleep in the same bed that night::

AndrewRogue: (<_<)

Dark Japheth: (brb)

SirAlexTheFirst: Will does.

Adm H Sopko: ...

AndrewRogue: In the same bed as Hunter, or the same bed as Lea?

coughingpuppy: Aurelia ignores everybody else while she's asleep, because she's been up for probably a good day and a half.

SirAlexTheFirst: Both.

Adm H Sopko: But they get up! All around the same time, in fact. The company keeps regular hours, and it's just habit for them at this point. Hunter and Lea, as well as Will, shuffle downstairs for a probably overpriced breakfast::

SirAlexTheFirst: Will won't go down unless you force him to.

Adm H Sopko: Which I do!

coughingpuppy: Aurelia, being as she's so tired, sleeps in a bit late. Not too late, though. She bathes quickly and then shuffles downstairs to accompany the others.

SirAlexTheFirst: So.

Adm H Sopko: ::They find them silent at the table, contemplating the day to come::

Adm H Sopko: (She finds them even)

SirAlexTheFirst: Will contemplates, nonfuriously.

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter tries again with Bro Joe:: ~Brother Joe?~

coughingpuppy: She sits down and eats a little, waiting for Hunter to get through contacting the guy.

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Hunter? Good morning. What's up?~

Adm H Sopko: ::Actually, he doesn't really tell you he's doing it. He just sort of does:: ~Chaos, death, intrigue... the usual crap that follows us around... we're in sort of a bind here, maybe you can help us?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Sure. What's the problem?~

Adm H Sopko: ~Have you heard anything about a man named Verity?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Of course. Didn't you kill or capture him or some such?~

Adm H Sopko: ~Lots more complicated than that... I'd rather not get into it now... but it seems that everyone wants him for some reason. These people being the pillars. One being Miss Mab, apparantly in charge of the National Labs

Adm H Sopko: in Whittyre, and the other being my old boss from the Yarovan. We're in an extremely delicate position right now and we need a party we can trust. I don't suppose you can offer any help, or point us in that direction?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~THE Pillars? I don't know anything more about them than you do, but, uh, if one of them is your old boss, you should go talk to him maybe. Carefully.~

Adm H Sopko: ~Carefully?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Well, yeah. Aren't the Pillars supposed to be evil and such?~

Adm H Sopko: ~As I understand, yes... but apparantly there are more than five pillars. We're back to square one in our knowledge. And most likely, he already knows whats going on. He... already made someone kill Arianna.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~WHAT?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Rip that bastard apart with your bare hands.~

Adm H Sopko: ~If I was in the position to I would. However, like you said, I'm trying to be careful about it.~

Sarcazmo47: That's very holistic, Joe.

AndrewRogue: (Church of Gabe man. They support that._)

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Made someone, you say. Have you at least ripped them apart?~

Adm H Sopko: ~Heh... you see, thats the fun part. The person he made do it was my own father. I was very tempted to anyway, but I decided against it.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Didn't your father kick you out of the Yarovan or something like that?~

Adm H Sopko: ~No... that was the vice president.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Oh. Well, anyways. It's up to you. I'd raze the place, but that's just me.~

AndrewRogue: (...Brother Joe = BEST PRIEST EVER)

Dark Japheth: (Lan = better)

Dark Japheth: (God, save my friends ass!)

Dark Japheth: (God- ...maybe it isn't best for me to save him!)

Dark Japheth: (Lan- Fuck you then, I'll pick a god who will help me NOW!)

AndrewRogue: (That is indeed awesome. Hmm... tell me more of Lan when we aren't interrupting)

Dark Japheth: (but Joe = badass)

Adm H Sopko: ~If it were that simple, I would do the same... but we need to free Verity, and they are the only party interested in doing so. Albiet, it's most likely for their own plans... if you and the church are up for a bit of razing

Adm H Sopko: we could always hit the National Labs ourselves.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Now, there you're just flat insane. I'm all for razing things, but you can't take that on alone. Gods know what's down there, man. We could raze Yarovan, though!~

Dark Japheth: (selectively badass)

Adm H Sopko: ~I know someone who knows whats down there.~

Adm H Sopko: ~Bandon.~

Sarcazmo47: HAHAHAH

SirAlexTheFirst: ~...Really? How?~

Sarcazmo47: ("Bandon? That tree-hugging pansy?")

Sarcazmo47: ("Bandon couldn't raze a sandcastle!")

SirAlexTheFirst: (Yeah, how DO you know where Bandon is?)

AndrewRogue: (Aria mentioned it I'd think.)

Sarcazmo47: Then ran into each other.

SirAlexTheFirst: Ah, okay.

AndrewRogue: (Or that. It works.)

Adm H Sopko: ~Well, Bandon and I had some conflict when we arrived in Whittyre... and he left. He offered his services to helping the National Labs, and is oblivious to what is going on right now. I think he's still there. If we could

Adm H Sopko: get him out, he could help us.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~He could, except for that leaving you and helping the Labs bit. Stop dancing around the issue and get to burning traders, man.~

Sarcazmo47: HUZZAH

Adm H Sopko: ~I'm all for burning the traders. However, the place is filled with people I know and care about. I want to find out exactly whats going on before we do anything.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Well, do that, then. And then burn them. Have you gotten Arianna raised?~

Adm H Sopko: ~She was thrown off the top of the dome of Whittyre. We didn't get the chance to look for her before we were forced to leave Whittyre.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~You didn't even look for her?! Oy. Don't worry, I'll take care of it.~

Adm H Sopko: ~Trust me. I tried. Certain people weren't for that, and forced me out~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Certain people? You're not making any sense.~

coughingpuppy: fire alamr

SirAlexTheFirst: FIRE DRILL

Adm H Sopko: ~I've made an irritating friend who knows how to use a spell that controls people. She wasn't for looking, so she took control of me and forced me to leave the country. Why? She's Verity's wife, and wants to free him no matter

Adm H Sopko: what the cost.~

Sarcazmo47: That heartless bitch.

Dark Japheth: (Indeed. I vote we stab.)

Dark Japheth: (and sometimes fly)

AndrewRogue: (Or fall.)

Dark Japheth: (into the open mouths of stillborn babies)

Adm H Sopko: (I concur on the falling)

SirAlexTheFirst: Ahhhh Whitmyre. We're home.

SirAlexTheFirst: First day of class, and they burn popcorn in the first floor kitchen.

coughingpuppy: ((Grrrr.))

SirAlexTheFirst: ~She forced you away from looking for Aria, and she wants to free Verity? Why aren't you burning her?~

Adm H Sopko: ~She can stop my heart with a single spell, as well as kill me outright with a spell. I doubt I can kill her before she kills me~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~So, out of one sorceress, the Yarovan who killed Aria, and the National Labs who have done nothing to you, you want to attack the labs. Okay. What did you want me to help with?~

Adm H Sopko: ~The Labs kidnapped Jerriford as well as Verity.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Oh, well then. That makes slightly more sense. What did you want me to help with?~

Adm H Sopko: ~We're looking for allies to fight the Lab and rescue them. I don't trust the company at all right now, so I contacted you. Do you think we could get something going to that effect?~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~We... could.... you'd be talking either an act of war, or a massive sneaky raid against the pinnacles of Whittyre's magic.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~I'm game for it. Which would you prefer?~

coughingpuppy: ((Aurelia would prefer negotiation, actually, but can't interrupt right now.))

Sarcazmo47: ((I like massive sneaky raids.))

Adm H Sopko: ~Massive sneaky raid would be best, I think.~

Dark Japheth: (sneaky raid!)

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Okay. I'll go talk to people and get something together. You should burn Yarovan in the meantime.~

Adm H Sopko: ~We'll at least find out what the hell they're up to.~

SirAlexTheFirst: ~Have fun with that.~

Adm H Sopko: ~Thank you, Brother Joe. I'll get back to you soon.~

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter looks up to everyone else finally, as it looked like he was simply dozing off. He speaks quietly, but not conspiratorially:: "Change of plans."

coughingpuppy: "What's that?" Aurelia looks like she was half-dozing, or maybe just slightly under the weather.

Adm H Sopko: "I've gotten help from a more trusted source."

coughingpuppy: "Is it another group that wants him for something or other?"

Adm H Sopko: "No. It's the Church of Gabriel."

coughingpuppy: "Why do they want to help?"

Adm H Sopko: "They're very much into the chaos and battle aspect of it. They've been getting bored as of late."

Sarcazmo47: (They must go out and ninja in the night.)

coughingpuppy: "Chaos and battle? Exactly what are you planning?"

Adm H Sopko: (Heh. You read my away message, or seen the video?)

AndrewRogue: (That video rocks.)

Sarcazmo47: Both

Adm H Sopko: "Basically what you did, but a bit more intelligently. We're going to get Bandon out, get him to tell us what he knows of the inner workings of the Labs, and try to get Verity out. In the meantime, though, we're still

Adm H Sopko: visiting the company, to see what the hell is going on over there."

coughingpuppy: "I didn't try to get Verity out. Jerriford wanted to go in there to see where he was being kept." Aurelia says this with a bit of irritation; she's getting pretty sick of constantly being reminded of the lab incident.

coughingpuppy: "Anyway, it seems to me that people hate Verity enough as it is. I would prefer to approach this a bit more diplomatically."

Adm H Sopko: "That'd be optimal, but maybe a little less likely at this point. We're still visiting the company. We'll see what they have to offer. If things are different than what my]

Sarcazmo47: ((The time for diplomacy is over! There is only BURNINATION!))

Adm H Sopko: father is saying, we'll take that route. Otherwise, we have another plan in motion."

Adm H Sopko: ::Lea, on the other hand, does not look happy::

SirAlexTheFirst: Will sighs and ignores his son.

SirAlexTheFirst: His dark and tortured soul is out in full force this morning.

MrSuperOblivious has entered the room.

AndrewRogue: (Lurker'd)

Sarcazmo47: Does Will put on dark glasses and start playing a guitar?

Adm H Sopko: "I suppose there is no delaying the inevitable... are we ready?"

SirAlexTheFirst: No. He puts on some Linkin Park and gets a body mod.

Dark Japheth has left the room.

coughingpuppy: She just nods and gets to her feet, then looks down at Will and waits for him.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will gets up and follows Lea.

Adm H Sopko: ::We're off to see the Pillar! The wonderful pillar of Yarovan!::

SirAlexTheFirst: So.

SirAlexTheFirst: Heading up to the main offices?

AndrewRogue: (BRB)

coughingpuppy: Yep.

Adm H Sopko: Yep

SirAlexTheFirst: Righto. Will takes you into the massive circular tower (Yarovan Trading Company: We Make Exchanges Classy!)

SirAlexTheFirst: He walks straight to the front desk and starts talking to the secretary there in low tones, if nobody stops him.

Adm H Sopko: Listen in!

coughingpuppy: Aurelia walks up next to him - not too close, but she makes it obvious that she's there with him. And she can also hear everything being said pretty well.

SirAlexTheFirst: The conversation is as follows.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will: "Good morning. I'd like to request a special audience with the CEO on behalf of my son Hunter. It's regarding the Verity matter, keyword pillars."

SirAlexTheFirst: The secretary: "Very good, Mr. Sopko. He is expecting you, in fact."

SirAlexTheFirst: Will jumps a bit at that. "He is? Oh... well. Thank you. Where can we meet him?"

Adm H Sopko: (Most likely listened in over the circlets... damn)

SirAlexTheFirst: The secretary replies calmly, "In his private offices, of course. He said to tell you that he's very interested in discussing the possibility of rehiring Hunter."

SirAlexTheFirst: She turns to Hunter and winks. "Straighten up, love. It's your lucky day."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter gets a bit defensive hearing that, but Lea just goes wide-eyed. It's indeed a suprise. One usually doesn't hear talk like that. It's dangerous thinking.::

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter nods:: "Thank you."

coughingpuppy: Aurelia, also, regards this with suspicion.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will stands up and murmurs "The private offices are on the tenth floor. Let's go."

Adm H Sopko: "Right." ::Says Hunter softly, with Lea following behind::

SirAlexTheFirst: The secretary calls as you leave. "Don't take the new elevators, they're broken. You'll have to use the stairs."

SirAlexTheFirst: Will ignores her and heads for the huge staircases, and starts climbing.

coughingpuppy: Aurelia, who only just discovered elevators yesterday, is not bothered by this, and follows Will.

Adm H Sopko: "Good old stairs..." ::Hunter and Lea begin climbing::

Sarcazmo47: It's the Shinra Building!

Adm H Sopko: (I was thinking the same)

AndrewRogue: (Oh god... timing games....)

SirAlexTheFirst: So here we go.

SirAlexTheFirst: Up one flight.

SirAlexTheFirst: Two.

SirAlexTheFirst: Three, five, seven.

SirAlexTheFirst: Ten.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will starts turning through the hallways and walking briskly past people and piles of paperwork and cabinets.

Adm H Sopko: ::Lea and Hunter simply follow, not having actually been up here before::

SirAlexTheFirst: Lea has, actually.

Adm H Sopko: Ooo

Adm H Sopko: Okay

SirAlexTheFirst: So after about another minute of walking, Will opens a set of double wooden doors and steps into a large chamber with nice plush carpeting.

SirAlexTheFirst: The walls are covered in graphs, maps, and bookshelves, and there's piles - neat piles, but piles - of papers and folders and such scattered around the perimeter.

SirAlexTheFirst: The center of the room is mostly clear, though, and contains five chairs, four of them facing one. And in this one sits the CEO.

Adm H Sopko: ::Lea and Hunter follow right in behind. Lea keeps her composure, but Hunter looks about the place, taking it in from a tactical standpoint for exits, cover and the like. He's not very obvious about it. It seems like he's

Adm H Sopko: just taking a look around for first glances::

Sarcazmo47: Take the shot.

coughingpuppy: Aurelia walks in after them. She takes note of where the exits are, but is also pretty aware that if they were set up, they might not matter very much anyway.

Sarcazmo47: Suicide MissioN!

SirAlexTheFirst: The CEO himself is about three and a half feet tall, with curly grey hair and an oversized monocle. He is wearing a vest full of pockets of all sizes and shapes, in addition to some nice trousers.

AndrewRogue: (*dies laughing*)

SirAlexTheFirst: With his small, triangular beard and loving smile, he looks like nothing so much as a thin jolly dwarven uncle.

SirAlexTheFirst: Exits you say?

Sarcazmo47: Why, the gates of Death are right over there!

SirAlexTheFirst: There's the doors behind you, and the windows far behind the CEO and his desk at the other end of the room. There might be a few other doors, but you can't see through the bookshelves and clutter well.

SirAlexTheFirst: Spot check if you really want to look.

Adm H Sopko: That'll do.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will walks in without obvious trepidation and sits in one of the chairs, greeting his superior with "Morning, Leonard. How's the baby?"

Adm H Sopko: (Not Lenny!!!)

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter enters as well, taking a seat. As does Lea. They'll wait until greetings are over to speak::

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard replies, in a slightly creaky and rather high-pitched (yet quite jovial) tone, "Just fine, Will. He gained a few pounds last week, and I think he'll start talking soon. Squirrly little thing. Ahh, children."

Sarcazmo47: Now you're radioactive!

SirAlexTheFirst: He laughs, and motions to the rest of the party. "A good morning to you all. Young Master Sopko, Miss Leatanna, Mrs. Liadon."

coughingpuppy: "It's a pleasure."

Adm H Sopko: ::Both Hunter and Lea echo:: "Good morning, Sir."

SirAlexTheFirst: The CEO claps his hands and laughs with glee. "I'm so excited you've all come back here. History in the making, it is. Well, to business - you wished to speak with me, did you not?"

coughingpuppy: "Yes, we did. I'm sure you're very well aware that Verity was taken yesterday by the National Labs in Whittyre and is being held there."

coughingpuppy: "Mr. Sopko has also informed me that your company has some interest in getting him out."

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SirAlexTheFirst: "I am indeed aware, madame, and you are right in that we have a vested interest in rescuing your husband." He nods gravely.

coughingpuppy: "I'm curious as to what that vested interest would be."

AndrewRogue: (What about that vested interest in... I dunno... killing me? Grrr...)

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is a rather complicated economic explanation, I'm afraid, but I shall do my best to summarize. Let me begin with... well, dear dear, you aren't from here, are you? Hmmm...."

SirAlexTheFirst: He rubs his beard before continuing. "To make a very long story short, the last several hundred years of trade in Amaryllis has shown to be exactly that - a long and boring story. It really hasn't changed, at all."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Now, this is hardly a bad thing, as we have been doing quite well along with everybody else. But progress cannot be stopped, you know. Eventually, something was bound to break through and change the world."

SirAlexTheFirst: "This change is now upon us, in the guise of Whittyre."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard pauses. "Do you have any questions thus far?"

coughingpuppy: "No."

Adm H Sopko: ::A chorus of "No, sirs"::

SirAlexTheFirst: Will waves his hand, seemingly familiar with this explanation.

SirAlexTheFirst: And Leonard continues. "You may have noticed that our company here has acquired the exclusive rights to trade in Whittyre technology."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter and Lea nod::

SirAlexTheFirst: "They are not, technically, exclusive, of course, but anyone can clearly see that given the Whittyre mindset they will be effectually so."

coughingpuppy: She nods. "They're very clearly isolationist."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Ah!" He seems delighted at Aurelia's statement. "You hit it on the head, precisely. Why are they isolationist? To answer that we must delve into history a bit."

coughingpuppy: Aurelia nods and waits for him to continue. She is starting to regret asking for an explanation.

MrSuperOblivious has left the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: "Well, not too much, actually," he reconsiders. "You need simply know that the founders of Whittyre seceded from all the other nations and made the country as it is. Intentionally."

SirAlexTheFirst: "They devoted everythign they had to two things - keeping themselves isolated, and developing magic and craftsmanship and technology to levels such as the world has never seen before."

SirAlexTheFirst: He pauses, a serious look on his small face. "Does this seem at all suspicious to you?"

coughingpuppy: "I would assume that if they had that sort of technology, selling it would be extremely profitable. They haven't done so."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter and Lea are pretty familiar with these types of theories already, so they sit back like Will, but still listen::

SirAlexTheFirst: "True enough. But... it simply flies in the face of reason that they would do such a grand thing merely for profit."

Adm H Sopko: (Soon, Nagukor will be able to make it cheaper, better and more efficiently than Whittyre anyway)

AndrewRogue: (*snickers*)

coughingpuppy: "How so?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "The founders of Whittyre, you know, are still alive somewhere in that nation. Their cities hold untold secrets, especially in those Labs you yourself have glimpsed."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It does not make sense that they would devote so much energy to mere profit, when with even a shred of their talents they could be rich for life in the rest of the world."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Nor does it make sense that they would do it for the good of the world, or the sake of craft, because then they would not isolate themselves."

coughingpuppy: "So what do you believe they're doing?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard pauses. "Do you see what I am getting at? Whittyre frightens me, Mrs. Liadon. It frightens me very, very much. If they chose to bend some of their military applications towards conquest..."

SirAlexTheFirst: "...well, they wouldn't actually get very far, as the gods would quash such an uprising nigh quickly. Or rather, most of the gods would."

coughingpuppy: "That's true. I'm surprised the other nations have allowed them to go on this long building their forces as they have." Then again, they did get away with the same thing in Shiz-Rahn.

coughingpuppy: "As for the gods, it doesn't surprise me that they haven't taken a hand in it."

SirAlexTheFirst: The little guy shrugs helplessly. "At first, nobody cared, and by the time we realized what was happening and how far they had gone, it was far too late. Most people still don't realize it, in fact."

AndrewRogue: (BRB)

coughingpuppy: "Sounds familiar."

SirAlexTheFirst: "But that is the other rub, there. Even with all their resources, Whittyre has accomplished in a mere span of decades what the world had not achieved in centuries - and more."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is simply far too fast. As a trading company, we deal in more than just goods - our true business is people, and socieety. Seeing who will buy what, when, and why. What will become popular. Emerging technologies."

coughingpuppy: "Indeed. So you want to bring their technologies to the rest of the world?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Yarovan, and the other major trading industries, have records of society since before the Fall - a very long time ago, to you, madame."

SirAlexTheFirst: He holds up a finger. "Not just yet. Whittyre has grown too fast, you see. Far beyond the normal statistical limits for breakthroughs."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is simply... impossible. They could not develop the things they have in such a short span of time."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Unless they had help. From someplace, or someone, else, with the knowledge or power to speed them up."

coughingpuppy: "My people once said the same of humans." She shrugs. "They might have simply had a series of lucky breakthroughs."

SirAlexTheFirst: "This is where you and your husband, and your late companions, enter the picture, do you see?"

coughingpuppy: "I'm not sure what you're implying."

SirAlexTheFirst: "No..." Leonard shakes his head. "Even moreso than that. This is no mere new race or new type of thought. The gods have monitored things too, you see, and prevented drastic changes."

SirAlexTheFirst: "I am afraid I cannot reveal to you the exact details of this, it is not my place. But rest assured that they have. Whatever has accelerated Whittyre's.... growth... has done so trumping even the gods."

coughingpuppy: "So explain to me how we are involved in this."

SirAlexTheFirst: "There are three possibilities that we can think of for how this could occur." He ticks them off. "The gods helped Whittyre themselves. Unlikely, since they have that poilcy against such things."

SirAlexTheFirst: "If that is true, then one or more of them has gone rogue - or the evil ones are resurfacing, powerfully."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Two - something else, something the gods have no jurisdiction over, came in. There have always been tales of other worlds, other universes. It is possible that they exist. There were always a few sworn witnesses."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Never enough to be taken seriously, but it was a possibility. Now, you and Verity have proven that possibility a certainty - there ARE other worlds, and other things in those worlds, such as your 'Asmodeus'."

coughingpuppy: "Asmodeus wasn't within the world, precisely. He was accessible through a portal, much like the one through which we came to your world."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is possible that some spark, or some being, came from another world. Maybe yours, maybe not, and Whittyre got a hold of it and lept on it."

SirAlexTheFirst: *nod*

SirAlexTheFirst: "Worlds within worlds."

SirAlexTheFirst: "The third and final possibility is simply both of the above together."

coughingpuppy: "So there are suspicions that we had something to do with this change? Or simply that we might know something about it?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, no, not you. You and Verity are a very recent phenomenon. I very much doubt you are connected to this, although the Asmodeus might be."

coughingpuppy: "Asmodeus, I would assume, has far too much interest invested in our own world to worry about others just yet."

SirAlexTheFirst: "But..." he sighs again. "Whittyre is not stupid. They know the truth of whatever it is they have, and they have to have thought of these alternatives more than us. This is why they are interested in YOU."

coughingpuppy: "And what do they think we can do for them?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "You, Verity, and everything that came through your portal represents another potential leap forward for Whittyre, if they got their hands on you. And they have."

coughingpuppy: "I don't understand how we are a potential leap, exactly."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Being from another world... you could have anything. Some technology, some magic, some concept, some spark that Amaryllis has not yet had."

coughingpuppy: "Little, from what I've seen...other than a knowledge of portals. And Verity doesn't seem to know much about them, himself."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Something that might seem very commonplace to you, maybe you even think it is here already. Maybe it IS here, but no living being in this world has recognized it."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Like magic itself, say, to a world that did not know how to use it, or even that it existed."

coughingpuppy: "I see. And they thought that assaulting our house would be the best way to question us about this?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard nods. "Your knowledge of portals seems like the most probable such thing, yes."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Whittyre has shown themselves willing to go to any length to capture you and Verity. Any."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter gives a nod to that, as it's what he expected::

SirAlexTheFirst: "One more thing."

coughingpuppy: "Yes?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Whittyre has never sold any of its technology or magic before. Ever. Yet it decided to do so, suddenly. To make everything totally open for bids."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It did this a few weeks before you and Verity arrived on this world."

coughingpuppy: "Hm. So what does your company want from us, since you seem to be opposing Whittyre?"

Sarcazmo47: Ninja raid!

SirAlexTheFirst: "In fact..." Leonard looks pointedly at Hunter. "Their timing coincided almost exactly with the death of Called - a major religious figure whose passing has gone almost unnoticed, outside of his own church."

SirAlexTheFirst: "I'm getting there, madame, I'm getting there!" He chuckles. "Patience for an old man, please!"

SirAlexTheFirst: He takes a deep breath and begins speaking quickly.

coughingpuppy: She gives him a small smile. "I'm sorry. I've been impatient lately."

SirAlexTheFirst: "In summary, then, there is more than one way to take over a world. Through military force... or through commerce, and we know the latter most thoroughly."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter chuckles inwardly at that::

SirAlexTheFirst: "Whittyre selling all of their technology... it will very likely put them at the top of the world social structure. They control the technology. They built everything. They control all of their inventions."

SirAlexTheFirst: "ANd they will be reaping the huge amounts of money, giving them unlimited economic and political power."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter makes the connection, and doesn't like it. He's seen what the citizens of Whittyre were like, and thats not a future he wants::

SirAlexTheFirst: "Think! They isolate themselves, they develop suddenly, then right now, they start to sell everything and make what amounts to a soft world conquest, without bloodshed."

Adm H Sopko: "It would be welcomed... people would submit without even knowing, and become complacent. I've seen firsthand the common man of Whittyre... that isn't something I wish to happen to the rest of Amaryllis."

SirAlexTheFirst: "And they do this before you arrive, Mrs. Liadon! Whatever their plan is, it is independant of you personally, and Verity. You are something they obviously did not expect."

SirAlexTheFirst: "You are therefore a danger to the forces behind Whittyre, as well as a potential. THAT is why they want you in those labs, in a cage, or worse."

SirAlexTheFirst: "They let Verity die once, and all of your followers too. They are willing to kill you as well as capture you."

coughingpuppy: "Do you think he may be dead, then?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is possible, but I think it unlikely, given how they captured him. If they wanted you dead, their exosuits would have blasted you and your house into a smoking crater."

SirAlexTheFirst: "And WHittyre's technology would have gotten the public relations boost from it. No... they wanted him alive."

coughingpuppy: Aurelia nods, trying not to show how reassured she is by that.

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard has been nearly shouting, and now collapses back in his chair. "Now. Do you see?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Whatever Whittyre's plan is, it is against what the Gods have decided, and against the knowledge and consent of the rest of the world."

SirAlexTheFirst: "We are trying to stop them. That is why we have gone to such measures as we have regarding them. There were more than a few...."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard looks distressed.

SirAlexTheFirst: ".... shameful acts, that we committed to get the Whittyre contract, and to shore up Yarovan's position. And those acts, the ones we revealed at least, just seemed to make us all the more popular with them."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Myself and a small group of other, like minded individuals have been forming an alliance. A conspiracy, if you wish to see it as such, to counter Whittyre's hidden masters."

SirAlexTheFirst: "We are the Ten Sounding Pillars."

Dark Japheth has entered the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: (Gorth!)

SirAlexTheFirst: (You just missed the revelation of most of the main plot.)

Dark Japheth: (sorry about earlier.)

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter tries to take it all in, the depth of the plot he has been embroiled in for so long now becoming clear to him::

Dark Japheth: (eh. ill get it in logs.)

coughingpuppy: Aurelia looks around over her shoulder at Hunter, almost wishing that she could ask him what he thinks of all this. All she really knows is that he was sent against the Pillars.

Adm H Sopko: ::He looks rather shocked, and is doing a terrible job of hiding it::

SirAlexTheFirst: "As such, one of our clear goals is to keep you and your husband and associates out of Whittyre's hands. Rescuing him is one of our top priorities."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard turns to Hunter now.

Adm H Sopko: ::Lea looks to Hunter sympathetically, but paying attention::

SirAlexTheFirst: "Young man, I offer you my sympathies on the death of your lover. And furthermore," he continues to Will,

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter looks back up when he notices Leonard looking at him::

SirAlexTheFirst: "I offer YOU a great and sincere apology, the depths of which I cannot even describe, for what I have made you do."

SirAlexTheFirst: "It is necessary to the plan, obviously, that anyone - ANYONE! - who is found to know about the Pillars, or worse yet oppose them, be dealt with, swiftly and harshly."

Adm H Sopko: ::It helps Hunter a bit to hear those words, but to hear everything that he's been doing and fought, won and lost for has now come to this::

SirAlexTheFirst: "We are not so arrogant as to believe that Whittyre does not know about us by now, but we can hope to at least conceal some of our plans, and halt their countermeasures."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Miss Arianna mentioned Pillars, and opposition to them. William did... as he must, but the situation was riven by a tragic misunderstanding."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter lowers his head into his hands, trying to sort things out in his mind. Too many memories are coming back to him at the moment::

SirAlexTheFirst: "And that is yet another matter... but please. You must have a great many questions."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard finishes at last, and looks at those before him expectantly.

Adm H Sopko: "Where do my friends and I fit into this... both before and after Verity's arrival?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Ah... that's yet another matter. I mentioned the possibility that one of the gods has gone rogue, turning against the policies of the others?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Maybe more than one. Nellix is the obvious candidate, and we have... evidence that implicates him greatly in many matters. He has set up your little group."

Adm H Sopko: "I... don't know... we were originally brought into this by Gabriel... and Nellix has been helping us since then... but... Nellix has said the gods were in consensus about this..."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Perhaps with help from the other gods... perhaps he faked that. Perhaps he is tricking them and concealing himself. He has the power to... at least, I believe he might."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Think, Hunter. You saw a man calling himself Lester, or Gabriel. What did you really see? Was that truly Gabriel? Is it not within the powers of mortals to disguise themselves?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Let alone the god of magic..." Leonard shakes his head.

coughingpuppy: "But Nellix has been rather helpful to Verity and myself. If he were allied with Whittyre, I don't see why he would be."

Adm H Sopko: "It's possibility... he called himself Lester. And Called... he confirmed it." ::Hunter is at a loss for words, definately his most vulnerable:: "Ah... but then... he mentioned we have 5 pillars to take care of...

coughingpuppy: ((Alex...sorry to ask, but can we wrap things up sometime soon? I have an eight AM tomorrow morning.))

Adm H Sopko: not 10... what could that mean?"

SirAlexTheFirst: The CEO rubs ihis beard again. "Nellix is far beyond our ken. To be honest, I have no idea why he has taken many of his recent documented actions."

Adm H Sopko: "The Hummers as well... and the incident with the Marquis... are they just red herrings?"

SirAlexTheFirst: (From experience, I'd say.. prolly not. We can certainly turn it to soft RP and not do anything Aurelia needs to be here for, so you can go to bed anytime.)

coughingpuppy: ((Okay. That would be fine.))

SirAlexTheFirst: "I would like to have an answer to everything, but the truth is we simply don't know. We have no idea why they speak of five pillars. We also don't know WHAT Nellix has done with you and Verity."

coughingpuppy: "What do you mean?"

Adm H Sopko: "Could... they be playing a deeper game... with the Labs actually just being a single pillar on their list?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Everyone in the Church of Christ disappeared into... somewhere.... for a short time. Anything coudl have happened there. All we have are some vague descriptions."

SirAlexTheFirst: "And later on, you died yourself and were brought back - by Nellix, I presume?"

coughingpuppy: Aurelia frowns at him. "How do you know what went on in the church?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard gives you a wry smile. "Remember that paladin you killed? He heard a fair bit of what went on, and we have ties to his sister."

coughingpuppy: "But he was dead."

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter nods knowingly::

SirAlexTheFirst: "The dead are not entirely dead. Especially when they are Nellix's chosen."

SirAlexTheFirst: "But furthermore - you yourself have experience with domination spells, mind control, and the like, do you not?"

coughingpuppy: "Yes."

AndrewRogue: (*chuckles*)

SirAlexTheFirst: "Do you realize, then, how easy it would be for a god - a mage god! - to use such things on you, if he wanted to? Anything could have happened in those times, and your memories simply altered afterwards."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Your new body he... gave.... you. Who knows what latent surprises it might be holding?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "We are taking a huge risk simply by allowing you to live, much less to tell you these things and bring you here. At any moment, you could do anything. You could BE Nellix... or worse."

coughingpuppy: Aurelia laughs. "I've noticed a few changes, but not many. I've simply become a resident of this plane."

Dark Japheth: (they seem to have mistaken nellix for greel)

Adm H Sopko: (That WAS a joke in the beginning of the campaign)

SirAlexTheFirst: "We have no way to tell. But... I have chosen to trust you, Aurelia Liadon. You were killed out of nowhere and brought back - then Whittyre tried to grab you. After that!"

Adm H Sopko: (How many times did I call out IT'S NELLIX! ?)

SirAlexTheFirst: "If you were a bomb, or the like, they would not have done so.............. although your escape was.... highly improbable."

SirAlexTheFirst: "I can only hope that I - we- are not making a fatal error. For the world."

SirAlexTheFirst: He turns back to Hunter.

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter looks down, ashamed a bit::

Adm H Sopko: ::Then looks back up as Leonard turns to him once again::

SirAlexTheFirst: "The Marquis' daughter, Marion, has been inexorably tied to the creatures known as Hunters. It is no secret that the Hunters are connected with Nellix; he purportedly made them."

SirAlexTheFirst: "You have seen yourself both the Hunters in action, and all of Marion's significant activity that we know of. Draw what conclusions you will... but know that the Hunters greatly resemble some of Whittyre's technologies."

coughingpuppy: ((So sleepy...okay, I'm going to go to bed now, unless there's anything really important I need to stay up for.))

SirAlexTheFirst: (I think that's all the huge stuff. Good night)

Adm H Sopko: "The Marquis discovered the way to help Marion and turn her into that through a leak in the company... was that leak ever discovered?"

coughingpuppy: (('Night, guys.))

AndrewRogue: (night)

coughingpuppy has left the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard shuts his eyes, leans back, and does not respond to this.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will, meanwhile, has been looking... like a frantic puppy through all this, finally seeming to find some shred of justification and redemption.

SirAlexTheFirst: At this, however, he too sinks back and bows his head.

Adm H Sopko: ::He looks to both of them, and nods his head in understanding as they do not speak:: "Okay then... how do the Hunters resemble Whittyre technology?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard opens his eyes again. "Well... you've seen much of their files. It's very technical, but they are not in fact living organisms."

SirAlexTheFirst: "I don't really want to share too much of the details with you... for your own sake."

SirAlexTheFirst: "In fact, I barely understand much of it myself. I'm a planner, not a scientist."

Adm H Sopko: "I suppose..." ::He nods, pulling out the crystal rose and examining the purplish tint for a bit::

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard visibly winces when you take it out.

Adm H Sopko: ::He looks up and puts it away:: "Oh... I apologize..."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard sighs.

*OnlineHost*: SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 2

SirAlexTheFirst: "Hunter, there's something else you should know."

Adm H Sopko: "Yes?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Will leans over and holds his head in his hands.

SirAlexTheFirst: "We knew about Marion's case a good while before all this happened. We were responsible for cutting off most of the Marquis' funds and aid."

SirAlexTheFirst: "We did, however, know that Marion was connected to the crystal rose held by Queklain.

SirAlexTheFirst: "

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter just goes back into the state of shock he was in before, his mind again being overcome by memories and emotions of betrayal::

SirAlexTheFirst: "There was a person in our organization that disagreed with how we were treating the Marquis.... and Marion. In fact, it was her who discovered that the crystal rose had somethign to do with the girl."

Dark Japheth: (If you say Melanie, I don't know what I'm going to do.)

Dark Japheth: (Probably cry.)

Adm H Sopko: (If you say Lea, I'm probably gonna cry.)

Dark Japheth: (Say Mary Magdalene and make Jesus cry.)

AndrewRogue: (If you say Kate... I'm gonna be amazed.)

Adm H Sopko: (Oh shit...)

AndrewRogue: (?)

SirAlexTheFirst: "Her name was Melanie Sopko. Your mother."

Dark Japheth: (*cries*)

AndrewRogue: (...)

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter grows cold, his sense of betrayal deepening::

SirAlexTheFirst: "Her maiden name was-" Leonard is cut off by a harsh whisper from Will.

SirAlexTheFirst: "Melanie Elamdri Atalmira. The most beautiful woman in the world."

Dark Japheth: (....The plot THICKENS)

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard pauses a moment, but Will says nothing more, so he picks up again.

SirAlexTheFirst: "She was Queklain's... friend, for a while, in her younger days. In fact, her breakup with him was what drove her to a career with us, and eventually to finding your father."

Dark Japheth: (This just in)

Dark Japheth: (Hunters dad = bitch)

SirAlexTheFirst: "She researched and researched, outside of company time, to find something that could help Marion, and eventually was led to the conclusion that Queklain's rose somehow could."

SirAlexTheFirst: "She delivered a report on the subject, and we confirmed that she seemed to be right. But, well. We didn't want to 'help' Marion at that time. Your mother did not know about... the things I've told you today."

Adm H Sopko: ::His jaw just drops and he somehow just cannot seem to get the words out:: "The accident... it wasn't.... and the... he was after the rose... not the blood..."

SirAlexTheFirst: "She argued bitterly that we should help the child, but to no avail. Finally she stopped, and went on another mission, and... a bridge broke."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard gets out of his chair, and walks over to Hunter, puts his hands on Hunter's hips and leans forward.

SirAlexTheFirst: "It. WAS. An. Accident."

SirAlexTheFirst: "A complete freak occurance. A tragedy. Or if it was somehow orchestrated, it was beyond my and anyone in the Yarovan's knowledge."

Adm H Sopko: ::He nods dumbly. He'll accept that fact enough:: "I'm... but with everything being revieled... my mind lept... I'm sorry, Sir..."

SirAlexTheFirst: "We investigated that bridge time and time again, at your and your father's insistence - his mainly because it looked a HELL of a lot like we DID.... stop her from going to Queklain."

SirAlexTheFirst: "We found nothing. Your father supervised the tests himself. You know this."

Adm H Sopko: "Would I have even met Queklain at all if I had not run away after the bridge broke? Or was... he there to meet her?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "In her will, there was a letter to the Marquis, telling him about the rose. Your father insisted we send it, and I finally agreed."

Adm H Sopko: ::He nods::

SirAlexTheFirst: "Queklain had always been drawn to her, maybe unconsciously, maybe not. He hung around and eventually met you... as she predicted he would. And the Marquis, who had been told to look for you, did so."

SirAlexTheFirst: "After, mind you, after the Hunters tried to destroy the rose, and then killed Queklain."

Adm H Sopko: "I understand... it was that misunderstanding that lead to the incident..."

SirAlexTheFirst: Will, after his one utterance, has just been crying a lot. He's done that a lot lately.

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard is finished.

Adm H Sopko: ::Hunter sits back, despirately trying to assimilate all this information. Lea offers a comforting shoulder and he gladly takes it:: "There is something you should know then..."

SirAlexTheFirst: "Do tell?"

Adm H Sopko: "We weren't exactly sure what to expect by coming here. I think you understand the situation we were in... so I contacted a source that I trusted about helping with Verity. Brother Joe of the Church of Gabriel."

Adm H Sopko: "He seemed very willing to help... and if you got in contact with him, if you trust him and his organization that is, I'm sure they would help."

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard nods. "I'll keep that in mind and get in touch with him as soon as possible."

Adm H Sopko: "Is there anything else we should know, Sir? Outside of this... regarding the other countries, recent happenings, etc?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Not particularly. I believe that is all at this time."

Adm H Sopko: ::He nods again, the dazed look still on his face:: "And... I was told something about being reinstated into the company?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "If you want to be. It really doesn't matter."

Adm H Sopko: ::He considers it for a while, remembering back. Various points conflict in his mind, but in the end, he simply nods once more:: "I would, Sir."

SirAlexTheFirst: "So be it, Trader."

Dark Japheth: (how ironic that, when said out loud, that sounds like Traitor.)

AndrewRogue: (Oh, it does.)

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard pulls a Yarovan ID out of one of his vest pockets and hands it to Hunter.

SirAlexTheFirst: (It's also a RotJ reference)

Dark Japheth: (I did not recognize it initially.)

Adm H Sopko: ::He accepts the ID graciously and stares at it for a long time. Lowering his head in thankfullness and tucking it back into it's rightful place in his left side pouch. Lea hugs him a bit tighter and he sits there... feeling

Adm H Sopko: an odd mix of accomplishment, shame, fullfillment and anger. It's from this point now that he'll draw his plans. But thats for later. Now, the emotion overwhelms him as simple tears fall::

SirAlexTheFirst: ~~~~END~~~~

SirAlexTheFirst: *collapses*

Adm H Sopko: ::Collapses::

Adm H Sopko: ::For a different reason::

Dark Japheth: Probably the mescaline.

AndrewRogue: *stays on his seat*

AndrewRogue: YAY! Good session.

AndrewRogue: And good sessions make Andrew happy.

Adm H Sopko: My first thought was you were going to make OK's character the leak,

Sarcazmo47: I'm invigorated.

Sarcazmo47: I'm really curious to find out what the first thing Verity sees is going to be.

Adm H Sopko: And her amnesia and the photos in the dungeons... SHIT. I shoulda asked

SirAlexTheFirst: You can ask that next session.

Adm H Sopko: I will

AndrewRogue: Now I don't trust anyone!

SirAlexTheFirst: Comments? Questions?

Adm H Sopko: Wait...

Adm H Sopko: Does that make Hunter a half-elf?

SirAlexTheFirst: ....hahahahhahahah!

SirAlexTheFirst: I wondered if someone would spot that.

Dark Japheth: I did.

AndrewRogue: ...I wouldn't.

SirAlexTheFirst: Do you want him to be?

AndrewRogue: Because I'm still confused in some regards.

AndrewRogue: <_<

Dark Japheth: Queklain was evil because of Melanie. Melanie married that moron because of Queklain. God, its a vicious circle.

Dark Japheth: But it makes me miss Queklain bad.

Dark Japheth: :P

SirAlexTheFirst: Melanie's sheet says that her elven blood was pretty diluted.

Dark Japheth: Yeah. :P

Adm H Sopko: Ok... He's human then

SirAlexTheFirst: I could see her child with a human not making it to the Half-Elf scale.

Dark Japheth: At most, you've slightly got pointed ears, and maybe green eyes.

Dark Japheth: Its like if Will married a 1/4 hippy.

SirAlexTheFirst: Hunter retains the elven trait of pimping.

Adm H Sopko: Heh

AndrewRogue: *snickers*

Dark Japheth: Which is a unique elven lifestyle, although orcs bring to it the "Wheres my money, ho" aspect of it.

AndrewRogue: Heh!

Adm H Sopko: Heh. Queklain "I coulda been your daddy."

Dark Japheth: Either way. GG alex I miss queklain a lot now.

AndrewRogue: But yes. I have a question Alex-

AndrewRogue: When can I expect the check for the medical care from the brain hemmoraghe I'm having?

Dark Japheth: About five days after I announce my entrance to the Jesuit priesthood.

SirAlexTheFirst: Heh.

AndrewRogue: Well get to it, because Alex has now ruined my ability to sleep.

SirAlexTheFirst: so um

SirAlexTheFirst: did you alll'

SirAlexTheFirst: er

SirAlexTheFirst: like it?

Adm H Sopko: Yes

Sarcazmo47: Yes.

AndrewRogue: XD Yeah. Once it got going it was good.

Dark Japheth: I did, but my timing is impeccably bad

Adm H Sopko: I feel an odd sort of closure with every issue I had before

Dark Japheth: And you made me miss playing my old character. A lot.

Dark Japheth: So. *prays you choke*

SirAlexTheFirst: Rawr.

SirAlexTheFirst: Yay plot.

Sarcazmo47: My only concern is that you might feel like you've done something you didn't really want to do in order to suit the players.

SirAlexTheFirst: Are you being sarcastic?

Dark Japheth: *points to his name*

Sarcazmo47: No.

SirAlexTheFirst: Why would you think that?

Sarcazmo47: Uh...

Sarcazmo47: Intuition.

Sarcazmo47: Yes.

SirAlexTheFirst: Well. I've been building up to that for a while, and it was a huge plot sequence, lots of talking, and really odd, and really ups the suspense and plot twists.

SirAlexTheFirst: I didn't think the PCs would like it.

SirAlexTheFirst: *I* like it.

Adm H Sopko: I do... it explains so much of why we've been frustrated and what's been going on

Adm H Sopko: We've been working against our own goal to reach it

Adm H Sopko: Sort of.

SirAlexTheFirst: This was the main reason for the long hiatus too

SirAlexTheFirst: I had to get very straight exactly who all the players were

SirAlexTheFirst: Who believed what

SirAlexTheFirst: Who saw what

SirAlexTheFirst: Who did what

SirAlexTheFirst: WHat everyone's motives are

SirAlexTheFirst: And what everyone is willing to tell anyone else.'

Adm H Sopko: ::Nods:: Well, kudos.

Adm H Sopko: And snickers, M&Ms and starbursts too

Sarcazmo47: I'll get the Reses Peanut Butter Cups.

Dark Japheth: And I'll get another cup of coffee.

SirAlexTheFirst: Except the part about Hunter's mother = Melanie.

Adm H Sopko: How'd that come about?

SirAlexTheFirst: That was the one part I had nothing figured out for.

SirAlexTheFirst: Until tonight.

Dark Japheth: It sounded way too much like retconning for my typical taste, but I'm as guilty of it as anyone.

SirAlexTheFirst: Retconning?

SirAlexTheFirst: Not really.

SirAlexTheFirst: Hunter never gave his mother a name, or any backstory, or anything.

SirAlexTheFirst: Melanie didn't show up.

SirAlexTheFirst: It worked.

Adm H Sopko: I left most of those events purposely open

Dark Japheth: Melanie *did* show up.

SirAlexTheFirst: Did she?

Dark Japheth: Both in the rose, and in a marketplace.

Dark Japheth: The rose I'll reach and say "Queklain is just fucking crazy"

SirAlexTheFirst: Well, the rose is the freakin rose.

Dark Japheth: But we rolled spot checks and everything.

Dark Japheth: I'm *still* confused about that, man.

SirAlexTheFirst: Are you sure of what you saw there?

Dark Japheth: I am. Queklain never made the spot check.

Dark Japheth: :P

Dark Japheth: But regardless. Its all irrelevant. Greel is involved so our memories are altered.

Sarcazmo47: Dare I say it....

Sarcazmo47: A wizard did it?

SirAlexTheFirst: If I wanted to retcon something.....

SirAlexTheFirst: Leonard brought up the point of memory alteration.

Sarcazmo47: He'd retcon your FACE

Sarcazmo47: OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Dark Japheth: Yeah.

Dark Japheth: Thats why I say "Greel is involved so all that has happened is easily explained away."

Dark Japheth: :P

AndrewRogue: Heh!

Sarcazmo47: Bandon already subscribed to willing memory alteration once.

Sarcazmo47: That he remembers.

SirAlexTheFirst: Think. Would it really be beyond me to RP a scene when I had already determined that something else would happen and the character's memory would be of this?

SirAlexTheFirst: Indeed.

Dark Japheth: All mages who may or may not have memory alteration spells are Greel.

Adm H Sopko: Yes

Dark Japheth: Or channeling Greel to the point that I just won't ever trust spellcasters.

Dark Japheth: :P

Dark Japheth: ....backup character idea- noncaster. Fighter. Mmm. Good backup idea.

Adm H Sopko: The maze... the CoC...

Adm H Sopko: The cave

Dark Japheth: Alex, I'm having a problem really developing Zao-Lot's backstory.

Dark Japheth: I'd like to say "He faked Golconda and sired the baali" but I already stole the name. :P

AndrewRogue: Can't help you there. Back-stories are a weak point with me.

Dark Japheth: No they aren't.

Dark Japheth: Me- "...uhh. I'm vaguely angsty."

*OnlineHost*: Dark Japheth rolled 1 3-sided die: 2

Dark Japheth: It appears this character is angsty about love!

AndrewRogue: Sure they are. Kick mine hard enough and watch the character crumble :p

Dark Japheth: I did.

Dark Japheth: And you survived.

Dark Japheth: And thrived. You are relatively sane now.

Sarcazmo47: All it took was a little slapping.

Dark Japheth: Hey Alex? Remember the Orb of Schism?

Sarcazmo47: And an couple of explosions.

Dark Japheth: Whatever happened to that in AND?

Dark Japheth: Two.

Adm H Sopko: Mine do fine I think... they are all so different from each other

AndrewRogue: I FIGURED OUT THE METAPLOT

AndrewRogue: WE ARE TOMATOES!

Adm H Sopko: NO

AndrewRogue: </random Big O-ness>

Adm H Sopko: WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE! WE DESERVE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD!

Adm H Sopko: ::Clapping:: Congratulations! And to all the children, Congratulations

SirAlexTheFirst: What Orb?

SirAlexTheFirst: :P

Dark Japheth: Oh. Right. If Nellix was holding it when the giant knight stomped him, its probably toast.

Dark Japheth: Or did he give it to chrome before it all happened?

Sarcazmo47: I thought he gave it to Throkk in the last session.

Dark Japheth: Throkk. Right.

Dark Japheth: Ok. :P

SirAlexTheFirst: Yep.

Adm H Sopko: So

Adm H Sopko: I suppose we must ask ourselves this

Adm H Sopko: Did we REALLY see the Ladder of Throkk?

AndrewRogue: INDEED!

Sarcazmo47: No.

Sarcazmo47: You were mindraped into THINKING you saw the Ladder.

Sarcazmo47: When what you really did was sit around in the wilds and eat strange dancing mushrooms.

Adm H Sopko: Yep

SirAlexTheFirst: Deus Amaryllis: The Invisible Counter-Conspiracy War.

Dark Japheth: Poor myconids

Adm H Sopko: The Hummers are actually just figments created by the facist bourgiouse

Dark Japheth: No, the Hummers are clockwork Judicators

Dark Japheth: Wind em up, they sing a song, like a jukebox

Sarcazmo47: No, the Hummers are obviously Greel

Dark Japheth: No, Nellix is obviously Greel. That would make the Hummers... what, Greel's little pod-babies?

Adm H Sopko: No... I think the Hummers signal exactly when we're having a sequence of altered mind

Adm H Sopko: Like Called.

Adm H Sopko: And then the maze they appeared again

Adm H Sopko: And before we met Throkk

Adm H Sopko: AND Nellix was humming the song in the CoC

AndrewRogue: But...

Sarcazmo47: A wheelchair?

Sarcazmo47: How did this get here?

Dark Japheth: Aha

Dark Japheth: Nellix is obviously crippled

Sarcazmo47: Alex gets it.

AndrewRogue: That would make me feel better, getting mauled by demon children.

SirAlexTheFirst: :P

Sarcazmo47: Yeah...

AndrewRogue: I'm... so... confused...

SirAlexTheFirst: Confused by what, exactly?

Sarcazmo47: SLEEP

Sarcazmo47 has left the room.

AndrewRogue: Nellix is bad.

AndrewRogue: Yaravon is bad.

AndrewRogue: 5 Pillars are bad.

AndrewRogue: 10 Pillars are bad.

AndrewRogue: Whittyre is bad.

SirAlexTheFirst: Gosh golly.

SirAlexTheFirst: Someone must be lying.

AndrewRogue: ...Aria shoulda stuck with Sahkmeht.

AndrewRogue: <_<

Adm H Sopko: Yarovan and 10 Pillars = Good at the time being. Nellix = Neutral, I think. Most likely good.

SirAlexTheFirst: I almost wish you would have,

SirAlexTheFirst: That would have been fun.

Dark Japheth: No, someone isn't lying.

Dark Japheth: Everyone tells the truth completely

Dark Japheth: All is bad.

Dark Japheth: "If you meet the buddha in a random encounter, kill him!"

SirAlexTheFirst: Oy.

AndrewRogue: Of course, this is going to lead to fun inter-party stuff ^_^

SirAlexTheFirst: Gorth, I know you don't like this game and you think I've stolen and am raping your world.

SirAlexTheFirst: Are you at least having fun?

Dark Japheth: Well. To be honest

Dark Japheth: Not yet.

Adm H Sopko: So... the question is... is Miss Mab the leader of the Lab, and one of the 5 pillars... or good and one of the 10 pullars...

Dark Japheth: I see the potential for fun.

Dark Japheth: I think that you raped my world most nastily with the catgirls. Church of Christ, ok. Mindgames? Hell, thats the SPIRIT of Amaryllis right there

Adm H Sopko: I see Tarin as one of the 10 Pillars

Dark Japheth: Other than that, it fits, and I like it.

SirAlexTheFirst: Ey, yeah. You did bring the Church of Christ on yourself. :P

AndrewRogue: Hey Alex, did you save my list o' pillars?

SirAlexTheFirst: I still like that backstory.

Dark Japheth: However, the only time I've spent playing other than Queklain who, despite being evil, was *fun* because he stole the show.

SirAlexTheFirst: Yeah

SirAlexTheFirst: We need to have you play more.

Dark Japheth: I have not had fun with Zao-Lot yet. This is because my scene was...

Dark Japheth: *Sees body hit ground*

SirAlexTheFirst: Nagukor has done NOTHING yet.

Dark Japheth: Me- "Well shit. Someone help me?"

SirAlexTheFirst: That will change soon.

Dark Japheth: People- "No, its ok, we won't even notice."

Dark Japheth: Me- "...well shit."

Dark Japheth: *drags body miles and miles to get it rezzed*

Dark Japheth: Mmm, books

SirAlexTheFirst: The most traditional country in the world, let Whittyre spread tech all over? Haaaa right.

Adm H Sopko: They need to discover Whittyre technology and make it better, smaller and more efficiant

Dark Japheth: I'm a heretical nagukorian. I sense this is going to be *bad*

Dark Japheth: No, Nagukor is going to freaking EXPLODE.

Adm H Sopko: I'm obviously joking

Dark Japheth: In Zao's roleplaying questionairre, it says something that I really think applies well and I love it

Dark Japheth: "Was your family rich?"

Dark Japheth: Zao- "..We were unstatably rich. We had the world at our command with our money."

Dark Japheth: "But compared to here, we lived in such dire poverty that I wonder how I can go back to my country and not scream."

SirAlexTheFirst: Ahh plot. Ahh Comm Media. Major of Mind Control.

Dark Japheth: But no, Alex.

Dark Japheth: The only thing I hate is that your game is a repository of furries.

Dark Japheth: Furries are evil, and suck.

Adm H Sopko: Lea hates you too

Dark Japheth: Exceptions- Furries who are also ninja

Dark Japheth: Such as turtles

SirAlexTheFirst: Furries?

Dark Japheth: There are CATGIRLS

Adm H Sopko: Catgirls

Dark Japheth: ARGH CATGIRLS

SirAlexTheFirst: Catgirls are not furries.

AndrewRogue: See... I distinguish Furry and Cat-Girl.

SirAlexTheFirst: Believe me. One of my friends back in Texas was a HUGE furry. He knows.

SirAlexTheFirst: Also, there's a reason for the catgirls.

Dark Japheth: Yeah. Alex, when Zao invariably dies because he's got a sense of humor and no self-esteem or pride to be worried about (so no angst), I'll be playing a tortured bishounen

Dark Japheth: Who hates mages and fears mental control

Dark Japheth: and had his parents killed by catgirls.

SirAlexTheFirst: It's just that nobody ever does anything with them.

SirAlexTheFirst: They've played, like ZERO part in the story so far.

AndrewRogue: *insert Hunter/Lea/sex-tonight joke here*

Dark Japheth: Like dwarves in my game!

SirAlexTheFirst: One waitress has had a tail to characterize Penoscot.

SirAlexTheFirst: Lea's tail has flicked for emotion a couple of times.

Dark Japheth: I know. :P

SirAlexTheFirst: That's IT.

Dark Japheth: If you can't tell

Dark Japheth: If my biggest problems with the world are that... small and not important

Adm H Sopko: Well... I should get to bed. Congrats on a great session, Alex.

Dark Japheth: Actually.

Adm H Sopko: I'll leave the room open to get everything

Dark Japheth: Wait. I owe you a scene with the Capuchin

Dark Japheth: A few scenes, I think

Adm H Sopko: Later... Tomorrow... I'm freaking tired.

SirAlexTheFirst: If you can't tell, I'm overly sensitive about all this because it's my baby and I want to do a good job and make something special.

SirAlexTheFirst: Thanks, Soppy.

SirAlexTheFirst: Gnight

Dark Japheth: And now you see why I spazzed when you went all nutso on me.

Dark Japheth: :P

Dark Japheth: Night.

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes, but you're criticizing me on having freaking catgirls.

SirAlexTheFirst: :P

Dark Japheth: Which means I like the fundamentals, I'm just expected to have a negative opinion, and rather than say "I don't have a negative opinion"

Dark Japheth: I have to make something up and blow it way out of proportion

SirAlexTheFirst: And this is the beginning.

Dark Japheth: If I had said "Alex, I don't see anything really fucked up with the world", you'd say "He's lying to make me feel better."

Dark Japheth: :P

Dark Japheth: Beginning? Most PC's are level 9-11

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes they are.

AndrewRogue: I'm just insanely happy that that scene shall never need to be recapped for Aria <_<

Dark Japheth: See, Alex, initially, I had a lot more problems. But in seeing a little more, it fit with the nature of the world.

Dark Japheth: A few things seemed needlessly chopped on- Faerun, for example. A world I loathe and hate.

Dark Japheth: But then it made sense within the context

Dark Japheth: And it didn't infest Amaryllis and infect it with High Level Magery From Barkeeps and other Faerunian bullshit, so it was cool.

SirAlexTheFirst: Faerun has an explanation, too.

SirAlexTheFirst: Even though it doesn't really need one

Dark Japheth: Its irrelevant. You made it fit.

SirAlexTheFirst: It could just be random alternate dimension #5863

Dark Japheth: For the record

Dark Japheth: My evil game is assuming that all things happen.

SirAlexTheFirst: For the record

SirAlexTheFirst: I'm tracking your evil game.

Dark Japheth: And that when Fate exploded, the parallel universe theory expounded by Hawking and a few other theorists actually happens, and multiple things happen.

Dark Japheth: I believe you.

Dark Japheth: Note the number of cheesy references to the old game.

SirAlexTheFirst: I'd like to play Nellix in it if Nellix ever appears.

SirAlexTheFirst: Which for the sake of your game means Nellix should not appear.

Dark Japheth: To be fair.

Dark Japheth: I'm going to take *this* part to IM and explain a little further.

AndrewRogue: Keep it civil you two.

Adm H Sopko: Feh

Adm H Sopko: I return

Adm H Sopko: I can't sleep

Dark Japheth: Heh, gave up on sleep?

Dark Japheth: Heh.

SirAlexTheFirst: Oh, we're civil. :P

Dark Japheth: Heh heh heh!

Adm H Sopko: Heh

SirAlexTheFirst: Soooo

Adm H Sopko: Soo

Dark Japheth: Yeah, stab catgirls. :P

AndrewRogue: ;_;

SirAlexTheFirst: Crazy plot twists ahoy.

Adm H Sopko: :::Takes the knife for Lea::

SirAlexTheFirst: There are more on the way.

Adm H Sopko: Woo boy

AndrewRogue: *prays they have advil in Amaryllis*

SirAlexTheFirst: Many more.

SirAlexTheFirst: I wasn't kidding when I said this was the beginning.

Adm H Sopko: So...

SirAlexTheFirst: Lots of heavy conspiracy/intrigue/mystery to come.

Adm H Sopko: That means another year of gameplay is assured

SirAlexTheFirst: Maybe not a YEAR....

AndrewRogue: *chuckles*

SirAlexTheFirst: Oh,. and

SirAlexTheFirst: SOmeone said above...

SirAlexTheFirst: Okay I guess it was in IM

SirAlexTheFirst: Someone mentioned that maybe Miss Mab is one of the TSP.

Adm H Sopko: Me

AndrewRogue: I did too ;_;

SirAlexTheFirst: I will tell you right now that that ain't true.

SirAlexTheFirst: That's too screwed up even for me.

AndrewRogue: Blast. Have to re-work my Pillar list then.

Dark Japheth: Miss Mab is the queen of fairies.

Adm H Sopko: What? A sleeper agent?<G>

SirAlexTheFirst: If the TSP had someone inside Whittyre, they wouldn't need to be a conspiracy!

Adm H Sopko: Anyway, I had her figured as the head of the labs and on the list of Nellix's 5 Pillars

Adm H Sopko: I'd bet Tarin is a TSP

AndrewRogue: He's... 4 on my list.

AndrewRogue: Or maybe a bit higher.

SirAlexTheFirst: Hmm.

SirAlexTheFirst: Oh yeah.

SirAlexTheFirst: Player XP, for suffering through all that.

AndrewRogue: That or the TSP did away with him <_<

SirAlexTheFirst: Ask me one question.

Adm H Sopko: What was with OK's character and the amnesia, and the pictures in the bandit hideouts

SirAlexTheFirst: And here's your honest answer. OK's character was a Hummer.

Adm H Sopko: ...

Dark Japheth: HEH!

Adm H Sopko: Thats where MY head goes pop

*OnlineHost*: Adm H Sopko rolled 1 20-sided die: 20

SirAlexTheFirst: Critical pop.

Adm H Sopko: Your head a splode

AndrewRogue: Roll the confirm.

Adm H Sopko: Care to... elaborate?

SirAlexTheFirst: I think that gives sufficient information without spoiling that plotline.

Adm H Sopko: Ok, fair enough

SirAlexTheFirst: I will point out that Leonard never did answer your question about the Hummers.

Adm H Sopko: ::Nods:::

Adm H Sopko: And I forgot to ask what was in the book we returned

SirAlexTheFirst: What book?

Adm H Sopko: The one with the Snake Sigils

SirAlexTheFirst: Oh, that one.

SirAlexTheFirst: Clues about the Hummers and whatall's goingon there.

Adm H Sopko: ahhh

SirAlexTheFirst: With the information you all now have OOC, you might be able to figure something out

Adm H Sopko: The Hummers, the bringing together, it was all a plot by Nellix?

Dark Japheth: anyway I must go or I die from parental death.

Dark Japheth: later.

Dark Japheth has left the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: La-tass....

Adm H Sopko: Latass indeed

SirAlexTheFirst: No, actually. NEllix has nothing to do with that plot.

SirAlexTheFirst: ...well, next to nothing.

Adm H Sopko: Ooo

Adm H Sopko: The Yarovan are summoning the hummers?

SirAlexTheFirst: Maybe.

Adm H Sopko: OOC question. Have you utilized the backstory about the other trade companies or Lea's family, or plan to?<G>

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes actually. I hinted at it in this session.

Adm H Sopko: Coo

Adm H Sopko: Well... I'm dry then

SirAlexTheFirst: "There were more than a few...... shameful.... acts we committed to get the Whittyre contract...."

SirAlexTheFirst: You think the other trading companies are going to stand for that?

SirAlexTheFirst: Or are they part of the TSP?

SirAlexTheFirst: They do after all have the same resources and mindsets that Yarovan does....

Adm H Sopko: I figured something with the toher trade companies with that

SirAlexTheFirst: Surely some of their people have come to the same conclusions.

Adm H Sopko: Anything involving Lea, so I know?

SirAlexTheFirst: Oh, sure.

SirAlexTheFirst: ...by that I mean that there will be plot involving Lea.

SirAlexTheFirst: She has not gone out and committed any of these shameful acts.

Adm H Sopko: Oh, not in the future. I mean regarding the stuff. Okay

SirAlexTheFirst: You know

SirAlexTheFirst: That guy who did the Oracle SSCC

SirAlexTheFirst: It's pretty dang clear to me that he's lying about it

AndrewRogue: Oh?

SirAlexTheFirst: You cannot blaze through Velius and all of CHapter 4 in 4 days.

SirAlexTheFirst: You just can't.

SirAlexTheFirst: Okay, I can buy a crit on Velius. I got one, after all.

SirAlexTheFirst: I can buy a strat for Meliadoul, I got a crit early and didn't try that much.

SirAlexTheFirst: Balk?

SirAlexTheFirst: Ha. Ha.

SirAlexTheFirst: He doesn't sit and waste turns.

AndrewRogue: Heh. He shoots every turn almost, doesn't he?

SirAlexTheFirst: Every turn.

SirAlexTheFirst: If he can.

SirAlexTheFirst: Bethla, okay.

SirAlexTheFirst: Finath, okay I guess. *I* sure couldn't beat it at a high level.

SirAlexTheFirst: Germinas Peak....

SirAlexTheFirst: 3 resets?

SirAlexTheFirst: Bull.

SirAlexTheFirst: Poeskas Lake... 4 resets? BULL.

SirAlexTheFirst: Outside Limberry strat is improbable but believeable. 12 resets though?

Adm H Sopko: Is he using Generic Oracle, or Ramza Oracle?

SirAlexTheFirst: Ramza is assumed for all SSCCs

Adm H Sopko: K

Adm H Sopko: I think... I'll really sleep now

SirAlexTheFirst: Elmdor strategy is bull

Adm H Sopko: Night

AndrewRogue: Night then Soppy.

SirAlexTheFirst: Night

SirAlexTheFirst: Zalbag strategy is... hahahaha.

AndrewRogue: What is it?

SirAlexTheFirst: Make the demons line up and hit them all with one Paralyze.

SirAlexTheFirst: Then hit Zalbag with Berserk.

AndrewRogue: ...I don't see that happening.

SirAlexTheFirst: Then he levels to 99.

SirAlexTheFirst: Or claims to.

SirAlexTheFirst: And still has resets.

SirAlexTheFirst has left the room.