(11:32:47 PM) You have just entered room "Nullspace."

(11:32:58 PM) Sarcazmo47 has entered the room.

Sarcazmo47 (11:33:04 PM): What?

Sarcazmo47 (11:33:19 PM): TOO MANY CHAT!

SirAlexTheFirst (11:33:26 PM): Put on the Verity suit, boyo.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:33:31 PM): Ignore the other chat.

Sarcazmo47 (11:34:08 PM): Yes, commander!

Sarcazmo47 (11:34:14 PM): *turns on E Nomine CD*

(11:34:55 PM) coughingpuppy has entered the room.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:35:16 PM): So.

Sarcazmo47 (11:35:20 PM): So.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:35:23 PM): Nellix and Verity have been talking.

Sarcazmo47 (11:35:25 PM): Verity suit donned.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:35:28 PM): Where'd we leave off with them?

Sarcazmo47 (11:35:31 PM): No idea.

Sarcazmo47 (11:35:38 PM): Wait, I remember.

coughingpuppy (11:35:49 PM): You guys should save transcripts.

Sarcazmo47 (11:35:53 PM): Verity was mentioning that Nellix reminded him very well of another god he once knew.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:35:54 PM): I did

SirAlexTheFirst (11:36:01 PM): I'm too lazy to look it up.

Sarcazmo47 (11:36:06 PM): The inferred statement being that Nellix is a pretentious fuck.

SirAlexTheFirst (11:36:32 PM): ~~~~~~BEGIN~~~~~~

SirAlexTheFirst (11:37:43 PM): Verity gets an interested stare as a reply. "I was under the impression from your friend Aurelia that your gods didn't do much with mortals."

Sarcazmo47 (11:39:23 PM): Verity snorts. "They did when it suited them. And only then."

SirAlexTheFirst (11:40:07 PM): "Interesting."

Sarcazmo47 (11:41:47 PM): "I'm sure you find it very interesting. Would it surprise you to know that I was as loyal to the light as that man you watched Aurelia slaughter? Tyr was as much a part of my life as the sun, or the air I breathed."

SirAlexTheFirst (11:42:00 PM): Nellix, whom I don't think you know the name of yet, just stands there and listens.

Sarcazmo47 (11:43:39 PM): Verity, now. Verity stands tall, but not proud. His eyes and jaw are steeled, not to hide the pain there, but to challenge anyone to question it. Carved into his face, his body, and his soul in letters that probably glare out

Sarcazmo47 (11:44:31 PM): Nellix as clear as day are scars that will never fade. Here is a man that has fought devils and angels in their turn, and has tasted of the most vile and the most pure.

Sarcazmo47 (11:44:53 PM): He is neither apologetic, nor does he take pride in it.

Sarcazmo47 (11:48:04 PM): "I fought for him, and stood for him, and would have died for him. Ane he knew it, and used me as a tool. And I gave myself to be that tool. But he took more than what I offered - he gave me up when it suited him,

Sarcazmo47 (11:48:13 PM): and he gave up everything I loved because he no longer needed it."

Sarcazmo47 (11:49:25 PM): "Since then, I have learned that gods are petty. Gods are children wielding a man's strength. All of you pretend that the power you wield is yours because it is your right, when in fact it exists to serve the world.

Sarcazmo47 (11:49:49 PM): But in your arrogance, you force the world to serve you."

SirAlexTheFirst (11:50:03 PM): Nellix continues to stand and listen. A small smile ghosts across his face.

Sarcazmo47 (11:51:51 PM): "Do you find me amusing? Good. For I also learned that a man can rail against the world all his life and never see a change - that a man can live on hate alone, but in the end has done no more than any other man.

coughingpuppy (11:52:58 PM): ((Verity = much more eloquent than Aurelia.))

Sarcazmo47 (11:53:49 PM): And I have now struck down everything I am not once but twice. I know not what I am now." He takes an abrupt step forward, longsword bare in hand, closing to mere inches from Nellix. "So, God.

Sarcazmo47 (11:54:05 PM): Perhaps I will go from this place and kill and kill for the blood of it until someone strikes me down."

Sarcazmo47 (11:54:28 PM): "Perhaps I will go from this place and disappear into the wilderness."

Sarcazmo47 (11:54:40 PM): "Or perhaps I will not leave at all, but be struck down by you."

Sarcazmo47 (11:55:12 PM): "That is why you are here, correct? To stop an evil? I am such an evil, Creature."

SirAlexTheFirst (11:55:49 PM): "I am not a god," you are softly corrected. "I am named Nellix. Creature? Call me what you will."

Sarcazmo47 (11:57:20 PM): "How fortunate you give me permission to do what I already do."

SirAlexTheFirst (11:59:09 PM): Nellix ignores that. "So you were tossed aside by this Tyr. Who else?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:01:45 AM): Verity looks almost offended. "Who else? Am I competing for a record, that I should lay my life out for you?"

SirAlexTheFirst (12:02:23 AM): "You spoke of all gods. I do trust you are not basing this on your experience with but one."

Sarcazmo47 (12:04:04 AM): Verity laughs. "I have not placed my faith in every god in my life, Creature. I have known some, and listened to others, and known many forsaken by their own. Ask Aurelia of the elf God. Or Ariannya of the moon God.

Sarcazmo47 (12:04:16 AM): Or Archrodon of the death God.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:05:35 AM): "And?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:06:29 AM): Every breath I take proves the unworthiness of any Gods that pretend to the light. Every breath I take refutes Justice. What are you asking me for, Creature? A justification? An excuse?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:06:33 AM): "I owe you nothing."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:08:20 AM): Nellix waits.

Sarcazmo47 (12:08:52 AM): Verity pauses to see if Nellix responds, then snorts and goes to step around him.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:10:11 AM): "Where are you going?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:10:23 AM): "To look for my son. Or proof he was not here."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:11:00 AM): "There's nothing here to find."

Sarcazmo47 (12:11:25 AM): "There are the relics of my fathers."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:12:25 AM): "There's nothing here to find. Except illusions, made by Arryx, and quickly dispelled."

Sarcazmo47 (12:14:32 AM): He spins, and his eyes blaze. "I destroyed the heirloom of my line, Creature, ended as my line is ended. I will at least gather the remians."

Sarcazmo47 (12:14:37 AM): *remains

SirAlexTheFirst (12:17:14 AM): Nellix tosses the small sluglike creature he held earlier at your feet. "That's all that's left of Arryx. Do what you will with it. Your son is not here, and never was."

Sarcazmo47 (12:17:44 AM): For reference, the heirloom of his line was his sword.

Sarcazmo47 (12:17:46 AM): And his armor.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:18:23 AM): His sword was Arryx, as I recall.

Sarcazmo47 (12:18:49 AM): No, his sword was an adamantine bastard sword named the Tounge Of Truth that was POSESSED by Arryx.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:19:06 AM): Oh, really.

Sarcazmo47 (12:19:23 AM): ......yes, really.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:19:34 AM): Well, scratch that last part then.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:20:24 AM): The sword is still in the floor where it was shattered, although you're a ways from it now in the corridors.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:20:37 AM): The armor vanished at some point after the battle.

Sarcazmo47 (12:20:54 AM): That's nice. He doesn't actually know that yet, though.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:21:00 AM): Indeed.

Sarcazmo47 (12:21:24 AM): Anyway, if that last bit is struck, then he'll go looking.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:21:31 AM): So Nellix speaks, behind him. "What will you do with the Excalibur?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:21:54 AM): "A better question would be what I will do with myself." He's walking away as he says it.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:23:28 AM): "Aye. That's your business, though."

Sarcazmo47 (12:24:04 AM): "Then you'll find out when I do." You'd need a listen check, but you're too cool for listen checks.

coughingpuppy (12:24:07 AM): ((Pffft. He didn't seem to think so with Aurelia.))

Sarcazmo47 (12:24:24 AM): Verity doesn't steal divine power.

coughingpuppy (12:24:33 AM): ((Oh, right.))

SirAlexTheFirst (12:25:32 AM): "You want no help?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:25:59 AM): Verity is off looking for stuff at this point.

Sarcazmo47 (12:26:19 AM): For the sake of brevity, we'll say he finds the shattered and melted bits of his sword and collects them?

SirAlexTheFirst (12:26:25 AM): Yes.

Sarcazmo47 (12:26:40 AM): And there's nothing else to be found, really.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:26:44 AM): Nellix comes along with him and helps him gather them, if he allows.

Sarcazmo47 (12:27:06 AM): He doesn't attack him, if that's what you mean. He doesn't seem particularly appreciative.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:29:15 AM): Once that is finished, Nellix again stands and looks Verity in the eye, and says.... nothing.

Sarcazmo47 (12:33:00 AM): "What? What, God? What, Nellix? What do you want of a done man?"

SirAlexTheFirst (12:34:02 AM): "I want you to live. And to be happy."

Sarcazmo47 (12:34:47 AM): Verity snorts. "Why?"

SirAlexTheFirst (12:36:13 AM): Nellix shrugs. "Happiness is its own reason."

Sarcazmo47 (12:38:14 AM): "Indeed? I imagine Aurelia would be happy if you died. But no matter. I am as happy as I can be. Worry yourself not at all for my happiness."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:40:00 AM): Heh.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:40:05 AM): Sense Motive.

*OnlineHost* (12:40:16 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 10

*OnlineHost* (12:40:21 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 11

Sarcazmo47 (12:41:01 AM): He's as happy as he thinks he can be. Which, as it happens, is not at all.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:41:29 AM): Total... do you want to know?

Sarcazmo47 (12:41:33 AM): Yes.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:41:36 AM): 75

coughingpuppy (12:41:43 AM): ....

Sarcazmo47 (12:41:56 AM): You take 20 as a God, right?

SirAlexTheFirst (12:42:22 AM): He can.

coughingpuppy (12:42:36 AM): I'd imagine he doesn't really need to, with a SM like that.

Sarcazmo47 (12:42:58 AM): Gods get to have a 20 on everything. All the time.

Sarcazmo47 (12:43:05 AM): Anyway.

Sarcazmo47 (12:43:08 AM): You sensed his motive.

Sarcazmo47 (12:43:14 AM): And there it was.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:44:30 AM): "Are you happy, Verity? What makes you happy?"

Sarcazmo47 (12:44:57 AM): Verity glares at him.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:47:01 AM): Nellix glares back.

Sarcazmo47 (12:47:35 AM): "What man can be happy that has killed his own future? Enough of your pretentions, Creature. What do you want from me? Or, if you want nothing, and will not even destroy me as you came here to do, then leave me."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:49:25 AM): "I want you to be happy. Is your future killed? Another world awaits you, here. Your friends await you. Your child awaits you. Excalibur is yours to wield."

Sarcazmo47 (12:49:40 AM): "My child is dead."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:05 AM): "Only the first one."

Sarcazmo47 (12:50:13 AM): Verity blinks.

Sarcazmo47 (12:50:16 AM): "What?"

SirAlexTheFirst (12:50:57 AM): "Aurelia."

Sarcazmo47 (12:51:20 AM): Verity's "getting it" check.

*OnlineHost* (12:51:27 AM): Sarcazmo47 rolled 1 20-sided die: 12

Sarcazmo47 (12:51:33 AM): What's the modifier we add here?

SirAlexTheFirst (12:52:50 AM): Knowledge: Nature.

Sarcazmo47 (12:53:02 AM): No ranks, so straight Int mod.

Sarcazmo47 (12:53:18 AM): Does he get it?

SirAlexTheFirst (12:53:45 AM): Yes.

Sarcazmo47 (12:54:56 AM): His eyes widen.

Sarcazmo47 (12:55:12 AM): "Where is she?"

SirAlexTheFirst (12:56:35 AM): "Speaking with me someplace else."

Sarcazmo47 (12:57:10 AM): "...she said nothing to me...."

SirAlexTheFirst (12:58:05 AM): "She didn't know herself until a few seconds ago."

coughingpuppy (12:58:32 AM): ((Yes she did. It happened a couple of months ago game time. But whatever.))

SirAlexTheFirst (12:58:40 AM): Oh

SirAlexTheFirst (12:58:48 AM): Nix that then.

SirAlexTheFirst (12:59:11 AM): Replace it with "Perhaps you should ask her."

Sarcazmo47 (12:59:31 AM): Verity snorts. "Friends? I have none. This is not my world, and this is not my blade." He hefts Excalibur. "You say that name like it should mean something to me. But it does not."

Sarcazmo47 (1:00:10 AM): "I have no battles left to fight, nor armies to lead."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:01:35 AM): "This is your world now, and that is your blade - if you want it."

Sarcazmo47 (1:02:24 AM): "An empty thing to say, creature. My life is mine- if I want it. What is this blade, and why do I have it?"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:03:34 AM): "It is a concentration of the lives, light and love of all the people of this world who have perished in the service of the same. You have it because you sought it out."

Sarcazmo47 (1:04:41 AM): "And what did the devils want with it, if it is all you say?"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:06:18 AM): "They wanted its power. It can kill gods and other such things that mere weapons cannot."

Sarcazmo47 (1:07:22 AM): "Well, I have no lust for the blood of gods, and have no more needs of power."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:08:22 AM): "Then what will you do with it?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:09:14 AM): "Perhaps I'll build a home with it. It has an edge - I could cut wood with it."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:10:31 AM): Nellix nods thoughtfully. "An excellent idea. Would that make you happy?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:10:39 AM): Verity snorts.

Sarcazmo47 (1:11:30 AM): "You are irritatingly persistent. Very well, I will be candid. Creature, God, Nellix, whatever you are. I would be happy if I had died a year ago. I would be happy if my line were to continue. I would be happy if

Sarcazmo47 (1:11:52 AM): light struck me down at this very moment and proved that it could and would stand against the darkness as it is meant to."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:12:51 AM): "You are alive. Your line is continuing. And what do you think just happened?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:13:27 AM): "I fought a demon. And YOU stood by and watched."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:14:15 AM): "Was the darkness struck down?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:16:40 AM): He grins savagely. "Was it? I wonder."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:17:41 AM): "The darkness without was. What of the darkness within? Do slaughter and misery and death continue to bring you pleasure? Did they ever?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:18:03 AM): "And what buisness is it of yours?"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:19:44 AM): "If, after all that you have just gone through, you remain evil, then you are irredeemable and I will destroy you utterly."

Sarcazmo47 (1:20:32 AM): He grins, half-madly, and spreads his arms wide. "THEN DO IT!"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:21:05 AM): "Are you evil?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:21:34 AM): He snarls. "Make your own judgement, Creature!"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:22:27 AM): "I'm doing so. Make yours. Are you evil?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:22:30 AM): If, by the way, you use any sort of magical detection, I would say his alignment to be TN at the moment. But that's me.

Sarcazmo47 (1:22:51 AM): "All men are." But he lowers his arms, and the madness fades from his eyes.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:24:25 AM): "Do you want to be evil?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:25:18 AM): "I want nothing. Nothing that can be had."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:27:25 AM): SM

*OnlineHost* (1:27:26 AM): SirAlexTheFirst rolled 1 20-sided die: 2

SirAlexTheFirst (1:27:30 AM): 67

Sarcazmo47 (1:28:20 AM): He wants the past, really.

Sarcazmo47 (1:28:30 AM): He wants to have had faith kept with him.

Sarcazmo47 (1:28:45 AM): He wants to fight for rightousness and justice and whatall, but doesn't believe that he can.

Sarcazmo47 (1:29:02 AM): Because, really, he doesn't believe in rightousness and justice anymore.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:30:28 AM): "Or do you want to be good?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:30:44 AM): "There is no such thing."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:31:00 AM): "Isn't there?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:31:19 AM): "No."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:31:37 AM): "Isn't there?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:32:36 AM): Verity snorts again. "There is a dream. A hope. And ultimately, a lie. There is an illusion."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:32:45 AM): Nellix seems to perhaps be losing a bit of his composure, for the first time.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:34:49 AM): "There is a dream. Dreams can become reality. Hope has foundations in what can be. Lies? Illusions? True good deals not in these things - they are the province of evil."

Sarcazmo47 (1:34:58 AM): Verity nods.

Sarcazmo47 (1:35:12 AM): "And so I say to you. There is no such thing."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:35:52 AM): "Then what am I? What is this world? What happened to the evil?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:37:28 AM): He smiles a sad smile. "What, did you think it dead? You are evil, after a fashion. You are arrogant and powerful and do not use that power to help every time you can. You allow suffering. Everything does."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:38:38 AM): "Anything powerful is evil?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:39:11 AM): "Everything is evil, or allows evil to remain. Power maginfies that."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:39:18 AM): Nellix shakes his head. "Suffering is a part of life. I do my utmost to remove it, though - to make people happy. Have I not said this?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:40:51 AM): "And what of the dead? No, do not answer. This is pointless. I am far seperated from Good, Nellix. It has no more use for a man like me, and I am well done with darkness in its stead."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:41:01 AM): "I do not allow evil to remain. I use my power to crush it, in the best ways possible. If this makes me arrogant, in your terms, then so be it. Every drop of power I have has been wrenched from the jaws of evil

SirAlexTheFirst (1:41:32 AM): and I am now using it for good. Good has a use for all of it, for everything and for everyone. It has a use for you - if you will let it."

Sarcazmo47 (1:43:02 AM): "If I will let it use me? I have been used all my life. It does not bother me. The only thing I ever wanted in return was faith. Now what use do you have in mind?"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:44:54 AM): "I have nothing in mind. Good has nothing in mind. Good does not have a mind. Its use for you is for you to have freedom, and to do good."

Sarcazmo47 (1:45:25 AM): Verity snorts. "Then let it find me, and convince me. Or manipulate me, it makes no difference. Are we finished?"

SirAlexTheFirst (1:47:47 AM): "I'm right here representing it. What more do you need to be convinced?"

Sarcazmo47 (1:48:53 AM): "Good question. When I find out, I'll be sure to send you a message."

SirAlexTheFirst (1:51:17 AM): Nellix extends his hand to you.

Sarcazmo47 (1:52:27 AM): Verity...looks at it.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:54:38 AM): "I have a few memories for you, if you'd care to experience them."

Sarcazmo47 (1:56:42 AM): Verity looks mildly confused, but reaches out and siezes Nellix by the wrist with his free hand.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:58:26 AM): The world falls away again, and you find yourself within a man calling himself Nellix.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:58:40 AM): Time to start the somewhat long description. Get some popcorn.

SirAlexTheFirst (1:59:53 AM): First there is nothing. A haze, and drifting, and time flashing rapidly before you as the man whose body you are sharing lives and... does nothing.

Sarcazmo47 (2:00:00 AM): Out of curiosity, why are we doing this without the rest of everybody?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:00:11 AM): Look at the other chat.

Sarcazmo47 (2:00:21 AM): Good point.

Sarcazmo47 (2:00:23 AM): Carry on.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:00:54 AM): And also look at what happened to the other session of awesome, with Chrome and Gil whining every minute or so.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:00:59 AM): Carrying on.

(2:01:31 AM) AndrewRogue has entered the room.

AndrewRogue (2:01:37 AM): ...wah?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:02:11 AM): (The real session has been in here. People who would disrupt the RP aren't invited. I'm letting you in to watch now if you like.)

SirAlexTheFirst (2:02:35 AM): (Nellix is showing Verity some memories.)

AndrewRogue (2:02:38 AM): (Ah. All right. *sits down and shuts up*)

SirAlexTheFirst (2:03:32 AM): You're on a boat, speaking to a woman with your companions.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:04:14 AM): She turns around, and says with a gleam in her eyes like you've never seen, "That one in the robes looks kinda cute."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:04:48 AM): Time speeds up again, and you're traveling with her, getting drunk with her, laughing and doing well.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:05:34 AM): Then she's on the ground with an arrow in her chest, coughing blood as her body stiffens and turns black around the wound.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:06:18 AM): So you wander, and don't care.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:07:07 AM): You wander in the towers of your worst enemies, the people who are soon to be mass murderers, and you don't care.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:07:28 AM): They don't care, either. They know you'll serve them of your own will if they but ask.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:08:01 AM): A familiar man taps you on the shoulder. "Nellix? What are you doing here? We've been looking for you."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:08:43 AM): You shove him away and start walking again, going nowhere. He continues. "You're our friend. Come with us." And you don't care and want to make him shut up, so you do.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:10:23 AM): Time flies, again, and you see other people are sad. They call themselves your friends, but that doesn't mean much. There's no real purpose to what they're doing.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:11:49 AM): One of the gods calls to you. You don't care. She lies and shows you visions and tries to make you do things. You don't care. You don't even particularly care that there's a demon in your room trying to kill you at that very '

SirAlexTheFirst (2:11:51 AM): moment.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:12:27 AM): Time flies again.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:13:39 AM): Your 'friends' are scattered and broken. One has found the evil within himself to be more than a phantom, as you expected. You can control fate. You know this, though not why. And the ruler of the universe,God himself, is here.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:14:31 AM): He offers you even more, your love back, and an assured victory if you will serve him.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:15:01 AM): (by the way, you can ask me to go in more detail on any of this. I don't want to go suck up too much time and space if it's boring people or seeming stupid)

Sarcazmo47 (2:15:30 AM): Sounds cool to me.

Sarcazmo47 (2:16:07 AM): By which I mean, what you've got so far seems cool.

Sarcazmo47 (2:16:23 AM): I don't think we need the whole rundown on the Amaryllis campaign at this exact moment.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:16:39 AM): Indeed.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:16:51 AM): This is just what Verity is being shown.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:17:52 AM): Anyways... your memory sparks, and you recall what that other god said. God, the real one, doesn't deny it. He will rule in pain, and the world will live in sorrow.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:18:47 AM): You ask "Why? Why not make the world happy? Why are you causing more pain when life has enough?"

SirAlexTheFirst (2:19:32 AM): God answers "Because pain is life. They are the same. Good and happiness are illusions."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:21:16 AM): But you've been miserable for a long time. It's not fun. You want to die every day, but she wouldn't want that, so you keep on going.... but it's not pleasant.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:21:41 AM): Even an illusion looks good at this point. Anything to escape the clutches of this sadness.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:22:28 AM): So you say "No." And leave. And you begin to help your friends, and try to make them happy, even if it's only a lie, because they're all going to die anyways.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:23:24 AM): It's true. They all die. You die, too, in an agony of terror and pain as your 'friend' snuffs your life out without a second thought.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:24:10 AM): You come back, as a last ditch effort by the misguided and desperate gods, and his wife. You don't think they're gods at all at this point. They can't stop what's happening. Nobody can.'

SirAlexTheFirst (2:25:10 AM): But you still want to make her happy before she dies, so you go with her, down through a blur that reeks of the pain of billions, into what must surely be Hell or a reasonable facsimile.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:25:59 AM): And you keep telling her that it's not in vain, that there is hope, that good does exist, to make her happy. You have trouble making her believe it. You don't really believe it yourself.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:27:14 AM): But you do it anyways, and throw everything away in a final try to make her happy, because it might be true despite all of what life has told you.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:27:45 AM): And it is.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:28:16 AM): The impossible happens, and the great demon you're fighting is not as pure as it seems.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:28:54 AM): Your friend is there. He fights, and breaks out, and says it is because you and the rest came here for him, and cared.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:29:50 AM): And you question - if it is all an illusion, a dream, and there is no good, then why was he still there in the heart of the beast? Where did this come from? And you realize that you have influenced the others near you

SirAlexTheFirst (2:30:37 AM): in a way illusions can't - they've found it within themselves, too. Could an illusion really have done all this? Is this power at your fingertips "nothing", or "evil in diguise"?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:30:45 AM): So you strike at the evil.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:30:53 AM): And it falls.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:32:06 AM): You see God, the one who spoke to you earlier, before you in his true form - an indescribable monstrosity. And you strike at it, and it falls. (You've read this story in somewhat more detailed form, Kirk.)

SirAlexTheFirst (2:32:56 AM): It ends there and Verity is back in his own mind.

Sarcazmo47 (2:33:51 AM): Now, was Verity acting as a spectator here, or was he feeling it like it was his own?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:34:14 AM): Nellix shakes his hand, and drops it. "If I am a lie and an illusion, then pierce me with steel, rend me with claw and fang and expose the truth."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:34:21 AM): Both.

Sarcazmo47 (2:34:32 AM): In that case, he's crying at the moment.

Sarcazmo47 (2:34:43 AM): And can't look Nellix in the eye.

Sarcazmo47 (2:35:42 AM): "I am lost...and I do not know the way back..."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:36:31 AM): "Live. Love. Bring light. That's the only way I know back."

Sarcazmo47 (2:36:52 AM): "But I have no light left in me to bring..."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:37:48 AM): "Then bring out what others have, and in doing so bring some to yourself."

Sarcazmo47 (2:39:36 AM): He just looks away.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:42:03 AM): "You're wrong, though, even so. There is light in you."

Sarcazmo47 (2:42:22 AM): Not so much with the responding.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:45:11 AM): "I'm sorry I can't bring you your old family back. I'm sorry the gods in your world tossed you aside. I'm sorry to have to show you all that pain. But if you can find a new happiness because of and in spite of it...

SirAlexTheFirst (2:45:36 AM): ....there's no reason not to. If you have need, ask, and I will be there."

SirAlexTheFirst (2:46:43 AM): Nellix gives you a pat on the back and walks away, vanishing after a few feet.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:05 AM): The sword he called Excalibur rests on the carpet where he left.

Sarcazmo47 (2:47:36 AM): It disappeared from Verity's hand?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:47 AM): It was in his hand?

Sarcazmo47 (2:47:51 AM): It was.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:47:55 AM): He's been gathering the pieces of his other sword.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:48:02 AM): The family heirloom one.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:48:09 AM): Okay then. It's in his hand.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:49:04 AM): Soliloquy if you've got one.

Sarcazmo47 (2:50:14 AM): Not at the moment, no..

SirAlexTheFirst (2:51:04 AM): We can wrap this if you don't. Don't feel rushed, though.

Sarcazmo47 (2:51:39 AM): Real life has just taken such a turn as I'm not feeling much with the RP right now.

SirAlexTheFirst (2:52:00 AM): Oh.

Sarcazmo47 (2:59:17 AM): You wanna call it a night?

SirAlexTheFirst (2:59:33 AM): Ooh, chat still works.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:00:03 AM): May I ask what's wrong, if you're willing to share? Apparently you're not getting my IMs. Or you're ignoring them in which case feel free to ignore this too.

Sarcazmo47 (3:00:32 AM): No, I am not getting them.

Sarcazmo47 (3:01:10 AM): It seems I do not treat my Dad with enough respect to deserve his help in going back to school.

Sarcazmo47 (3:01:18 AM): So he has withdrawn his support for said endeavor.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:02:40 AM): Oh.

AndrewRogue (3:02:41 AM): ...

Sarcazmo47 (3:03:01 AM): Which leaves me in something of a predicament.

coughingpuppy (3:04:05 AM): Which leaves me in a mindset to fly to Oregon and yell at him.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:04:10 AM): He'd prefer you to work at the UPS store forever?

Sarcazmo47 (3:04:18 AM): It would seem so.

Sarcazmo47 (3:04:32 AM): As long as I learn my lesson to show him proper respect.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:06:39 AM): Well, that's interesting.

AndrewRogue (3:06:55 AM): Indeed...

Sarcazmo47 (3:08:58 AM): XP?

SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:13 AM): 0

Sarcazmo47 (3:10:29 AM): Bummer.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:10:48 AM): Verity's already level 11

Sarcazmo47 (3:11:20 AM): That's true.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:11:32 AM): He can convert his back levels to fighter and/or paladin if he so chooses.

Sarcazmo47 (3:12:12 AM): At any time?

SirAlexTheFirst (3:12:46 AM): Any time in the reasonable near future.

Sarcazmo47 (3:12:55 AM): Okie.

Sarcazmo47 (3:13:12 AM): Any other interesting rewards?

Sarcazmo47 (3:13:25 AM): Does his stuff work again?

SirAlexTheFirst (3:13:45 AM): All the nonevil magic gear works again.

Sarcazmo47 (3:14:13 AM): Which bits were evil?

SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:31 AM): Not sure

SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:37 AM): I don't have the sheet handy

SirAlexTheFirst (3:14:48 AM): It's in one of those boxes in brent's garage....

SirAlexTheFirst (3:15:04 AM): I THINK that none of it was, actually, but don't quote me on it.

Sarcazmo47 (3:18:02 AM): And no more nifty electricity immunity.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:18:12 AM): No more armor, actually.

Sarcazmo47 (3:18:18 AM): Right.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:18:40 AM): Well.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:18:52 AM): Comments and questions welcome as always.

Sarcazmo47 (3:19:26 AM): Did I manage to have Verity br cool? Or did he just suck.

Sarcazmo47 (3:19:28 AM): ?

SirAlexTheFirst (3:20:26 AM): I think this scene rocked, but I may be alone in that.

coughingpuppy (3:20:35 AM): Hey, I liked it.

AndrewRogue (3:20:38 AM): I'd comment, but I came in near the end.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:22:02 AM): Verity was cool

Sarcazmo47 (3:22:23 AM): I tried to make him not suck. I dun know how successful I was.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:24:19 AM): He did not suck.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:24:39 AM): He sucked a lot less than Nellix did at any rate

SirAlexTheFirst (3:27:54 AM): It was awesome.

AndrewRogue (3:29:32 AM): Indeed, it seemed pretty neat. I'd like to see the whole thing sometime if I could get the chance.

SirAlexTheFirst (3:32:29 AM): Sure.

Sarcazmo47 (4:01:36 AM): What does Andrew think?

AndrewRogue (4:03:36 AM): Huh?

Sarcazmo47 (4:04:16 AM): Did you get the log?

AndrewRogue (4:04:24 AM): ...ah, no <_<

SirAlexTheFirst (4:04:53 AM): Oh

AndrewRogue (4:05:00 AM): If somebody wants to shoot it to me before bed... ah, thanks Kirk.