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the log: game 19

[20:55] [GoldenH] test
[20:55] [DarthTom] yo
[20:55] [Maris] yo
[20:55] [Lethas] Hello.
[20:56] [Hikari] Looking.
[20:56] [Fiat] Random acts of speech.

[20:56] [Maris] hey so what happens. DO I just black out and wake up in the cell?
[20:57] [GoldenH] Pretty much. You drink some wine. You get woken up by the Earth Aspect Guy Dude and get told about you being brainwashed and Tei's weakness right before you pass out from the drug
[20:57] [GoldenH] Then you wake up alone in the room
[20:58] [Maris] ah

[21:05] [Storyteller] Basically you guys wake up back in malkor's guard
[21:05] [Storyteller] You have all your stuff
[21:05] [Storyteller] you're wherever you want to be in the place
[21:05] [Storyteller] you remember everything
[21:06] * Vanal rubs at his eyes
[21:06] [Vanal] "What the flippin' Hell ?"
[21:06] * Vanal has awakened in his chambers in the Cathak Manor
[21:07] * Vanal jerks up, taking in his surroundings
[21:08] [Storyteller] It's your room in the manor, Vanal. Exactly like you remember. Shakel is sleeping in your bed
[21:08] * Tala blinks and looks around as she finds herself in the garden, practicing her forms, as if she had been here all the time, but remembers just being overwhelmed by three anathema
[21:09] * Vanal blinks
[21:09] [Vanal] "The hell...how in Heshish's name did we get HERE ?"
[21:09] [Storyteller] Shakel moans something about going back to sleep
[21:10] * Jynaru rubs his eyes, and sits up. "By the Dragons, I am NEVER smoking that shit again."
[21:10] * Vanal blinks "I dreamt it ?"
[21:11] * Jynaru disentangles himself and heads to the window.
[21:11] * Tala stops and looks around
[21:11] [Storyteller] Shakel moans "Dreamt what?"
[21:12] [Vanal] "Anathema. We fought them....Tei ambushed me, I took him out...Cicada was Blooded...and we lost. Last thing I remember you went down, then Irin and I got swarmed..."
[21:12] * Jynaru stares blearily at the sun. No ruins? No grand processional of the Hunt? Whaaaaa?
[21:12] [Storyteller] She groans. "Bad Dream."
[21:12] [Vanal] "You said it,"
[21:12] * Tala looks over herself, even here wounds from before the battle that may or may not have happened are gone
[21:13] [Vanal] "Maybe I've been working too hard."
[21:14] * Vanal lies back down
[21:14] [Vanal] "It seemed so *real*, though."
[21:14] [Vanal] "Aw, fuck it. we're alive, it obviously didn't happen."
[21:14] * Tala goes to find the others
[21:14] [Storyteller] Shakel rolls over and starts picking at you
[21:14] * Vanal smiles and wraps his arms around Shakel
[21:16] [Storyteller] Vanal you look over and see that Rebecca is in bed next to Shakel
[21:16] * Vanal blinks

[21:13] [Jynaru] Hey, ST boy, this IS a dream, right? My dream?
[21:14] [Jynaru] Or is this some shared dream?
[21:14] [Storyteller] it's kinda like both
[21:15] [Storyteller] you can do what you want, but it's a shared dream
[21:15] [Storyteller] unless you go off on your own and do a private thing
[21:15] [Jynaru] I ask here because I had the realization that the dreambow would be ironic, and also useful.
[21:16] [Storyteller] roll Willpower
[21:17] [Jynaru] !ex 6
[21:17] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 6, 5, 2, 2, 10, 1, 6, Successes : 2
[21:17] [Storyteller] not yet
[21:17] [Jynaru] Ah. Figures....
[21:18] * Jynaru laughs. I'll delay the whole getting armored process till later.
[21:24] [Jynaru] Ah, for the benefits of balanced stats.

[21:17] [Vanal] "Sweet Mela...how much did we DRINK last night ?"
[21:17] [Storyteller] "Hmmm?" skael murmurs.
[21:17] [Storyteller] "A lot." she laughs, getting up and walking over to a nice sheet.
[21:18] [Storyteller] essence flows through her hands as she shapes the sheet into a beautiful evening gown
[21:18] * Vanal smiles and shake his head "Enough that I can't remember dick-all."
[21:19] * Jynaru wanders down to find Kian and ask a few questions.
[21:20] * Vanal idly checks around to make sure that those two, are in fact, everyone in the bed, and that he didn't make like a Cynis majordomo...
[21:20] [Storyteller] Those are the only ones in your bed, though you find at least three pairs of panties.. where is the third, you wonder.
[21:20] * Vanal blinks
[21:21] * Vanal climbs out of the bed to get a robe

[21:21] [Storyteller] Tala roll investigation + charisma
[21:22] [Tala] !ex 4
[21:22] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 4, 5, 6, 6, 2, Successes : 0
[21:22] [Storyteller] Tala you wander through the town, and as you do so it is like the town shifts around you. As you do so, you get sick to the stomach and sit down on a bench, having absolutely no clue where you are

[21:22] [Vanal] *mutter* "Okay, there's Shakel...there's Rebecca...who the hell is the other girl ?"
[21:22] * Jynaru finds Kian's office and knocks on the door. "Hey? Kian? You in there?"

[21:23] [Storyteller] Jynaru roll charisma + investigation
[21:23] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[21:23] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 2, 7, 9, 2, 3, Successes : 2
[21:24] [Storyteller] Jynaru you walk through the streets without incident until you get to the Ledall house. It seems.. bigger than you remember but you can't place it. As you enter the place, you are rather shocked to find that none of the servant woman seem to be wearing any clothes
[21:25] [Storyteller] One of them looks up to you from behind a desk
[21:25] [Storyteller] "Looking for Ledall Kian today?"
[21:25] * Jynaru blinks and nods dumbly.

[21:23] * Vanal tries to find the third lady
[21:25] [Vanal] "Okay, this is going to sound really bad... but...who the heck was the third girl ? My brain's still too foggy form the booze."

[21:26] * Tala closes her eyes and tries to clear her mind

[21:26] [Storyteller] Shakel twirls around in her evening gown. "Malena was here earlier but she had to go check on the prefect."
[21:27] * Vanal does a double-take
[21:27] [Vanal] "MALENA ?!"
[21:27] * Vanal tries to find a chair to stagger into
[21:28] [Vanal] "Okay, someone explain to me what the hell happened last night...."
[21:28] [Storyteller] [Vanal] Rebecca stirs, then moans from the bed. [Shakel] "You drank way too much."
[21:29] [Vanal] "No more cynis booze...EVER."
[21:29] [Storyteller] BTW everything in the dream is at -2 until you get used to the dream
[21:29] * Vanal gives a small smile to Shakel "Although I can't argue with the end results."

[21:28] * Tala opens her eyes again
[21:29] [Storyteller] Tala roll charisma + investigation
[21:29] [Tala] !ex 4
[21:29] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 4, 10, 8, 9, 4, Successes : 4
[21:29] [Vanal] "Let me guess...same stuff I had before our little meeting with Malena ?"

[21:26] [Jynaru] "Well, yes... Aren't you a bit cold?"
[21:28] [Storyteller] The servant laughs and shakes her head no, her long red hair bouncing as she does. "He's in his rooms on the third floor."
[21:30] * Jynaru nods, and heads down the hall... Something seems a bit....off-kilter. Damned experimental blend.

[21:30] [Tala] (oh, never mentioned. Should I reroll?)_
[21:30] [Storyteller] [roll again]
[21:31] [Tala] !ex 2
[21:31] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 2, 10, 2, Successes : 2
[21:31] [Storyteller] [er no\]
[21:31] [Storyteller] [okay]
[21:31] [Storyteller] Tala you make your way through the crowds easier this

[21:31] [Vanal] "Okay now...I can understand you in here, Shakel, I can understand you too, Rebecca...but how in the name of Sextes' Jylis's thousand one one illegitimate children did I convinced Lady Malena into a tryst ?" time... For some reason you end up at Vanal's door in the manor, though the way you got there seems rather strange.
[21:32] * Vanal is obviously still hung over, and slurring his words
[21:33] * Vanal rummages for some sort of aspirin equivalent, and a glass of water
[21:33] [Storyteller] [Shakel puts her hands on her hips looking at you] "You practically carried her here last night, after she fell asleep in the chair. IT was VERY kinky, I must say, but she enjoyed it. Don't you remember?"

[21:33] [Jynaru] I'd give you props for the redhead too, if only I was able to appreciate and not "appreciate".
[21:33] * Jynaru blames Scotland.
[21:35] [Jynaru] Oh... and I think your dice are fucked. Has there been a roll yet that hasn't had 2 successes?
[21:36] [Storyteller] heh, I "fixed" the dice. don't worry about it. And yes, Tala failed her roll.

[21:32] * Jynaru hits the stairs with a vengeance, hoping to clear the cobwebs out of his head.
[21:34] [Storyteller] Jynaru make charisma + athletics roll
[21:34] [Jynaru] !ex 5
[21:34] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 5, 6, 6, 6, 9, 7, Successes : 2

[21:34] * Vanal scrambles through his brain...aw fuck it, he'll just play along
[21:34] [Vanal] "In spots. Remember, I don't handle alcohol all that well."
[21:35] * Tala knocks on the door
[21:35] * Vanal winces as the knocks intensify the pounding in his head
[21:36] [Vanal] *strained* "Who is it ?"
[21:36] * Vanal winces...and it comes back to him
[21:37] [Vanal] "Oh Mela...I hadn't thought it was possible to move that way..."
[21:37] [Storyteller] Rebecca laughs, blushing. "Oh, it is."
[21:37] [Vanal] "Obviously."
[21:37] [Tala] "It is Tala."
[21:37] * Vanal erks
[21:38] [Vanal] "Okay, I *know* she wasn't involved."
[21:39] [Vanal] "So I *didn't* dream that part with the...."
[21:40] [Vanal] "Ohhh man...house Cynis, eat your fuckin' heart out."
[21:40] * Vanal is grinning ear to ear now
[21:40] * Vanal gets up, make sure his robe is tied, and answers the door

[21:39] * Jynaru takes a break at the top of the stairs and rubs his temples.
[21:41] [Storyteller] Jynaru the flight up the stairs was strangely disconcerting but you manage to keep your balance. Walking to the end of the hall, you come to Kain's door. You open it and walk through, and find Kian sitting at his chair drinking some wine. On the other side of the table, "Little Cub Sister" is jumping on the trampoline. You recognize her as a sidereal of the maiden of serenity that you worked with on one.. rather highly undercover assignment.
[21:44] * Jynaru blinks. "Uhhhh..... Kian?"
[21:44] [Storyteller] "Jynaru?"
[21:45] * Jynaru points in the general direction of the bouncing woman. "You see her, right?"
[21:45] [Storyteller] [Kian] "Yea, she is nice isn't she?"

[21:41] * Tala 's eyebrows raise as she sees Vanal's guests
[21:42] [Vanal] "Yeah ?"
[21:43] * Vanal looks like the cat who ate the canary right about now
[21:44] [Tala] "Umm...I ....hmm."
[21:45] [Tala] "Nevermind."
[21:45] [Storyteller] Rebecca bunches up the sheet around her and gets out of bed, walking by her
[21:45] * Vanal runs a hand through his hair...gloriously free of the spirit braid
[21:45] [Vanal] "Same time tomorrow, Rebecca ?"
[21:46] * Tala is about to turn and walk away then turns back
[21:46] [Tala] "Did you see it?"
[21:46] [Tala] "Do you remember?"
[21:47] [Vanal] "I remember lots of things."

[21:45] [Storyteller] Little Cub Sister giggles as her rather nice figure is only accented by the clothes she is wearing.
[21:46] * Jynaru starts to speak... and forgets what he was going to say.
[21:47] [Jynaru] "Uhhhhhh... Yeah, Yes, indeed. So..... the receptionist? Was she?"
[21:49] [Storyteller] [Kian] "Hmmm? No, no, remember you two were posing as a couple at the Imperial Manse last year, when the Mouth of Peace was giving her annual celebration of the immaculate dragons speech."
[21:49] * Jynaru waves a hand and tries to think of the word.
[21:49] [Storyteller] The young sidereal stops jumping on the trampoline and looks pouty at Jynaru
[21:49] [Storyteller] "You don't remember?"

[21:49] [Vanal] "You're going to have to narrow things down, Tala. I'm not exactly at 100% running speed yet."
[21:50] [Tala] "The battle."
[21:50] * Vanal blinks
[21:51] [Tala] "Don't you remember?"
[21:51] [Vanal] "...that was a dream..."
[21:51] [Vanal] "Wasn't it ?"
[21:51] [Vanal] "I mean, I was in *here* last night, Shakel, Rebecca and Male-err...the third lady can vouch for that."
[21:52] * Tala shakes here head in dismay and walks off, trying to find one of the others
[21:53] [Vanal] "Wait...the dream...it was about Anathema..right ?"
[21:53] [Vanal] "Tei and Maris knifed us in the back..."
[21:53] [Vanal] "Why the hell do I *feel* like I was there ?"

[21:50] [Jynaru] "I.... errr.... That's what I'm here to ask about. Things seem... strange. I had this dream, you see."
[21:50] * Jynaru tries to outline the events of the dream.
[21:51] [Storyteller] Little Cub Sister starts jumping on the trampoline again, obviously bored with your story
[21:53] * Jynaru finishes, and returns to idly watching the bouncing beauty. "So.... I'm confused. Any ideas?"
[21:53] [Storyteller] [Kian] just shrugs when you're done recounting the dream. "Must be just a dream. You aren't going anywhere are you? It's still the second of resplendent fire."
[21:54] [Jynaru] "Second of... resplendent fire? But... I would have sworn... I don't think I'm going anywhere. Is something important happening?"
[21:55] [Storyteller] Kian looks at you strangely. "The Tepet Legion is supposed to arrive later today, and then we are going to help them destroy the spirit rebellion. Don't you remember?"

[21:55] * Vanal scowls...why the hell doe se suddenly *hate* Tei so much ?
[21:56] [Vanal] "Shakel...do you remember anything like what I described to you ?"
[21:56] * Tala turns back
[21:57] [Tala] "Yes...that's the same thing I remember."
[21:57] [Vanal] "I...remember taking down Tei...then going to help Irin."
[21:57] [Vanal] "The fucking bastard tried to cripple me..."
[21:57] [Storyteller] [Shakel] she turns her head to one side. "A little... I remember lots of black.. things.. swarming all over. I don't remember Tei or Maris or anything like that...."
[21:57] [Vanal] "Shit."
[21:58] [Vanal] "I remember those black things."
[21:58] [Storyteller] Shakel looks at you worried
[21:59] [Vanal] "Irin and I were back-to-back. Her scale was down, and we were trying to fight off those....things."
[21:59] * Jynaru has joined #pvpexalted1
[22:00] [Vanal] "You'd gone down a few moments before Shak...I*saw* you go down...Mela, I was pissed."
[22:00] * Vanal looks at Tala "I think you'd better come in. We've got to figure out what's going on."
[22:01] [Tala] "I am going to try and find the others."
[22:01] [Vanal] "If you can."
[22:02] [Vanal] "Maybe we should tag along....*looks at Shkael* Feeling up to it ?"
[22:03] * Vanal heads to his closet and pulls out some suitable clothing
[22:03] [Storyteller] [shakel] just spins around admiring the work her new charm did on the makeshift clothing
[22:04] [Vanal] "I'll take that as a yes."

[21:56] [Jynaru] "Yes, I remember that... That's today?"
[21:56] [Storyteller] Kian nods. "You sure you sleep all well?"
[21:56] * Jynaru chuckles. "I guess I must have experimented a bit much in my garden or something. Stress and all."
[21:58] [Storyteller] [Kian] nods laughing. "Now pull up a seat and have some wine."
[22:03] * Jynaru pulls up a chair and tries to sort through his dream, as acted out by bouncing Sidereal.

[22:04] [Storyteller] [whenever anybody wants to dream something up just private message me about it]

[22:04] [Jynaru] Thanks, oh lenient one.
[22:05] [Jynaru] And eventually I will dream up that bow, dammit. From my dream to Jyn's, it's an op too good to ignore.
[22:06] * Jynaru contemplates whether to try t dream up a whole set of the stuff for the theme...
[22:06] [Storyteller] WP is a pretty good pool.
[22:07] [Jynaru] How many sux does it take to get it, anyway? That's not in the dream combat rules.
[22:07] [Storyteller] 5
[22:08] [Jynaru] Whoa....
[22:08] [Storyteller] creating a level 5 magical artifact out of thin air?
[22:08] [Jynaru] Spending WP would mean you'd lose a health level too... Damn.
[22:08] [Jynaru] level 4, thank you very much ^_^
[22:10] [Jynaru] Still, 9 dice ain't too bad.
[22:10] [Storyteller] nope

[22:04] * Vanal steps into a side-room and gets changed into his typical non-combat, civvie clothing
[22:04] * Vanal emerges
[22:04] * Vanal picks up his daiklaive and straps it to his belt
[22:05] [Vanal] "Shall we ?"
[22:05] [Storyteller] Shakel walks out the door, Rebecca already gone.
[22:07] [Storyteller] (if you want to create something in the dream, the roll WP + Willpower at a difficulty I assign based on our private chat)
[22:07] [Vanal] (WP + willpower ?)
[22:07] * Tala searches for some of the others
[22:07] * Vanal follows the two ladies
[22:07] [Jynaru] (Whaaa? WPX2?)
[22:07] [Vanal] "so what was the dream ? The fight...or last night."
[22:07] [Storyteller] (sorry WP + charisma)
[22:08] [Vanal] "GODS I hope it was the fight."
[22:08] [Storyteller] Tala, Vanal roll charisma + investigation
[22:08] * Tala glances over her shoulder at Tala, I'm sure
[22:08] [Tala] !ex 2
[22:08] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 2, 2, 9, Successes : 1
[22:08] [Vanal] !ex 4
[22:08] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 8, 2, 5, 6, Successes : 1
[22:10] [Storyteller] The world is very strange as you wander the streets, asking people if they've seen Jynaru or any of the others. Although you can't remember exactly what they said, as you walk through the streets you get the distinct impression that only Jynaru has been seen.
[22:12] [Vanal] "Wonderful. So they're probably dead."
[22:12] [Vanal] "Fuck."
[22:13] [Storyteller] After wandering around some more you can roll again.
[22:13] [Vanal] !ex 4
[22:13] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 4, 8, 8, 8, 3, Successes : 3
[22:13] * Tala focuses on the goal of locating the remaining members of the party

[22:14] [Tala] I'd like to "accidentally" bend the dream w/ the cha wp roll to bring her and Van to one of the other partymembers
[22:14] [Storyteller] ok WP + CHA
[22:15] [Tala] w/ penalty?
[22:15] [Storyteller] yes
[22:18] [Storyteller] describe the bending

[22:14] [Storyteller] Jynaru Little Cub Sister gets tired and goes to get some refreshments for herself, her dress flowing around her as she leaves the room leaving Kian and yourself alone.
[22:14] [Storyteller] "Damn Tepets should be here already."
[22:14] * Jynaru thinks... wasn't there something about the Tepets... "Didn't they run into some bandits?"
[22:15] [Storyteller] Kian shrugs. "Haven't heard anything."
[22:16] * Jynaru drinks some more wine. "Isn't that the way it always is? Still, we muddle through." [22:15] * Vanal stops midsearch and just screams up to the heavens : "WHATTHE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE ?!"
[22:15] [Tala] !ex 6
[22:15] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 6, 3, 9, 8, 2, 6, 10, Successes : 4
[22:16] * Tala continues through the crowd, her mind focused on her goal
[22:20] [Vanal] (so um...do we find anything ?)
[22:20] [Storyteller] (Tala...?)
[22:20] [Vanal] (she got a 4)
[22:20] * Tala moves through the crowd, single-minded in her mission to find one of the others.
[22:21] [Tala] (was trying to design something that did not involve an active bending of the dream, since she doesn't know it is one)
[22:22] [Storyteller] (coo)
[22:23] [Storyteller] Anyhow, Vanal eventually finds out that Jynaru was last seen going towards the Ledall house....
[22:24] * Tala focuses on the images of her friends. She calls upon her temple training, to focus on her goal and be relentless yet patient in her path to achieving it, like ocean as it pounds on the shores of the Blessed Isle
[22:24] * Vanal heads over, still wandering what the flying frag is going on...though he's getting pretty sure that the events of last night were, unfortunately, the dream
[22:27] [Storyteller] A few moments later you arrive at the Ledall house... it's rather odd, you thought it would take more time to get here.
[22:27] [Vanal] "This is getting more messed-up by the minute."
[22:28] * Vanal shrugs...and enters the ledall house
[22:29] [Storyteller] as you enter the ledall house you are rather shocked to find that every servant is naked, as they do whatever it is they are doing, and don't seem to even be noticing.
[22:29] * Vanal gapes
[22:29] * Vanal notes that Shakel is glaring at him, and composes himself
[22:30] [Storyteller] 'Hello lord Vanal, how can I help you today?" asks a shortly-cropped blue haired woman, her white skin offsetting her deep hazel eyes
[22:30] * Tala stops "umm..."
[22:30] [Storyteller] Apparently House Ledall does not hire ugly servants.
[22:31] * Vanal fights to keep his gaze from drifting south
[22:31] [Vanal] "We are, um...er....ah..."
[22:32] [Storyteller] The servant raises her eyebrow attractively
[22:32] * Vanal tugs at his collar
[22:32] [Tala] "We seek Jynaru."
[22:33] * Vanal exhales slightly *whispered* "Thanks Tala."
[22:33] [Storyteller] "Ahhh, he is upstairs with Ledall Kian. Shall I Send for him?"
[22:34] [Tala] "No, thank you."
[22:34] [Tala] "What room?"
[22:38] [Storyteller] "Oh we will send for him. Please wait here." she bows slightly and then walks away, her short hair hiding nothing.
[22:38] * Vanal is rather....red
[22:40] [Storyteller] Jynaru, the door opens and the blue haired servant bows to you
[22:41] [Storyteller] "Ledall Jynaru, Cathak Vanal is here to see you."
[22:42] * Jynaru turns to her. "Vanal? Ah! I assume they're waiting downstairs?"
[22:42] [Storyteller] She nods slowly
[22:43] [Jynaru] "Excellent! I'll go down and see them. Kian, I'll see you later."
[22:43] * Jynaru pours a final glass of this excellent wine, and motions for the servant to lead the way.
[22:44] [Storyteller] Kian waves goodbye as Little Cub Sister returns smiling as you leave. "Leaving so soon?" she asks, pecking you on the cheek, before returning to the trampoline
[22:45] * Jynaru sighs. What I do for duty...
[22:45] [Storyteller] The blue haired girl giggles "Oh they're in the lobby... can I stay here?"
[22:46] * Jynaru ponders a moment... lucky bastard, Kian. "Oh, no problem."
[22:47] [Storyteller] She giggles as she goes and sits on Kian's lap
[22:47] [Storyteller] "Thank you Jynaru"
[22:47] [Storyteller] Kian winks at you

[22:47] [Storyteller] Vanal you feel very dizzy all of a sudden
[22:48] * Vanal staggers
[22:48] [Storyteller] roll stamina + resistance
[22:48] [Vanal] !ex 6
[22:48] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 6, 7, 2, 1, 5, 4, 1, Successes : 1
[22:48] [Storyteller] you feel very ill, you cannot stand any more
[22:49] * Vanal falls to his knees
[22:49] [Vanal] "Oh Mela...what's wrong with me."
[22:50] [Storyteller] the room spins around Vanal
[22:50] [Tala] [w/ -2?]
[22:50] [Storyteller] everyone else feels fine
[22:50] [Storyteller] Still -2
[22:51] [Storyteller] Jynaru you get to the bottom of the stairs to see Vanal kneeling on the ground, looking like he's about to throw up.
[22:51] * Jynaru wanders into the lobby. "Hey, you two... Something wrong, Van?"
[22:51] [Vanal] "Oh Gods..."
[22:51] * Vanal twists himself into a sittign position
[22:52] [Storyteller] It passes, Vanal
[22:52] * Vanal slowly gets to his feet
[22:52] [Tala] "What's wrong?"
[22:53] * Jynaru offers him the glass of wine. "Hair of the dog that bit you?
[22:54] * Vanal blanches
[22:55] [Vanal] "alcohol...is not a good thing to offer me."
[22:55] * Jynaru shrugs. "Suit yourself."
[22:56] [Jynaru] "So, are you two here for business, or just the pleasure of my company?"
[22:56] * Tala looks at Jynaru "Where have you been since yesterday?"
[22:57] * Jynaru looks quizzically at her. "Well, I guess I was getting ready for the Tepets showing up and dealing with the spirits... I think I overindulged or something... it's fuzzy. I came here first thing this morning."
[22:58] [Jynaru] "This isn't one of those 'Somebody important died and the Ledaal probably did it!' visits, is it? I hate those."
[22:59] [Vanal] "Hardly."
[23:00] [Jynaru] "Well, that makes me feel much better."
[23:00] * Jynaru sips at the wine. "Would you like to sit down? The garden's blooming quite well today."
[23:01] * Vanal stis down
[23:01] [Tala] "So you have no recolection of a battle?"
[23:02] [Jynaru] "You mean that strange dream? With the Anathema and all that?"
[23:02] [Vanal] "Yes."
[23:02] * Jynaru calls over a servant and tells her to bring him some breakfast.
[23:03] [Jynaru] "Funny you should mention that... you mean you two had one like it?"
[23:03] [Storyteller] a green haired servant brings over a basket of fruit, strategically placed to hide herself, until she puts it down on a small table and smiles, walking away.
[23:04] [Vanal] "Yup."
[23:04] * Jynaru snacks on the fruit. "Strange.... not the stress-relievers, then. I wonder if the spirits had something to do with it, then."
[23:06] [Tala] "I don't remember them in the battle."
[23:06] [Jynaru] "After all, in my experience when you get this sort of thing, magic's involved. Prophecies, warnings, that sort of thing."
[23:07] [Jynaru] "No, no spirits, though those... faceless thingies might count. I mainly remember the Anathema....and somebody surprising me."
[23:08] [Storyteller] (-2 penalties are gone)
[23:09] [Tala] "I remember fighting the Anathema."
[23:09] [Vanal] "I remember fighting Tei."
[23:09] [Tala] "I also remember Tei and Maris."
[23:09] [Jynaru] "Damned depressing dream, too. I prefer the kind that don't end with being triple teamed by Anathema... Well, not like that anyway."
[23:10] * Jynaru sits the empty wine glass aside.
[23:10] [Jynaru] "Yeah.. something to do with Tei... that could be it. Oh, and Tabius showing his true colors and trying to surrender."
[23:11] [Vanal] "Coward."
[23:11] * Jynaru nods. "There was something stopping me from trying to off him... must have popped off one of his spells or something. I hate traitors."
[23:11] * Tala frowns
[23:12] [Tala] "I cannot believe that Tei would do such a thing."
[23:12] [Vanal] "Well he did it. I had to beat the living ta rout of him with my daiklaive to stop him."
[23:13] [Jynaru] "Odd. Then again, does it matter? I mean, even if it was magiclly induced, it was just a dream, after all."
[23:14] [Vanal] "But for all four of us to share the same one ?"
[23:15] [Storyteller] Vanal, one of your servants enters the room, bowing to you hastily, before speaking. "Cathak Vanal, there is a message from the Tepets."
[23:15] [Jynaru] "Portents, warnings, that sort of thing. Never heard of prophecies? What are you suggesting anyway, that the anathema decided to merely knock us out and drop us off here?"
[23:15] * Vanal turns his head
[23:16] [Vanal] "What's the message ?"
[23:16] [Jynaru] "And no one notices anything? That's a bit of a stretch."
[23:16] [Storyteller] "Sir, we just recieved a message via courier. The Tepets have ran into bandits, and they have been forced to send troops to intercept them. They are continuing here now while the troops are in the field."
[23:17] * Vanal blinks
[23:17] [Storyteller] indeed, Vanal's servant is rather out of place since he is fully clothed.
[23:17] [Vanal] "um...thank you."
[23:17] [Tala] "I am not sure what to make of it."
[23:17] [Jynaru] "HAH! I told Kian they ran into bandits!"
[23:17] [Tala] "How ever I was not sleeping."
[23:18] * Vanal shakes his head
[23:18] [Vanal] "What's next? The Roseblakc is in command ?"
[23:18] [Tala] "I was knocked unconsious, and then suddenly I was in the palace garden practicing my forms."
[23:18] * Jynaru ponders momentarily whether to interrupt Kian... nah. Let the poor guy have his fun.
[23:18] [Storyteller] the servant bows and then leaves
[23:19] [Vanal] "I...woke up in bed with shkael and Rebecca...and someone else."
[23:20] * Jynaru levels a piece of fruit at Vanal. "See? I'm telling you, prophecies and portents..."
[23:20] * Vanal catches it
[23:20] [Vanal] "Jynaru...the other person was Lady Malena."
[23:20] * Jynaru chokes on a piece of fruit.
[23:21] [Jynaru] "WHAT?!?"
[23:21] * Vanal nods
[23:21] [Jynaru] "But.... Malena? What the hell was she doing in your bed?"
[23:21] * Tala looks around
[23:22] [Tala] "Jynaru, have your servants always...dressed this way?"
[23:22] [Vanal] "Supposedly enjoying herself with it sother 3 occupants."
[23:22] [Tala] "It has been some time, but other Lydaal households I have visited were not like this."
[23:22] * Jynaru thinks back... "I guess not. It is hot today, though... hadn't really thought about it."
[23:24] * Jynaru looks outraged. "Of course not! We are not the Cynis, after all!"
[23:25] [Tala] "Yet something so common as a hot day, and ....." Tala gestures at the house in general
[23:26] [Storyteller] it is pretty warm in here
[23:26] * Vanal scowls
[23:26] * Jynaru shrugs. "Well, you have a better explanation?"
[23:27] * Tala ponders the situation
[23:27] [Vanal] "Look, right about now I can think of 3 possiblities:
[23:27] [Vanal] One: We're dead, and thsi si eternal paradise
[23:27] [Jynaru] "Besides, Vanal here doesn't seem to mind, do you Van?"
[23:27] [Vanal] two: We're alive, and this is thigns as normal
[23:27] [Vanal] "Of course I don't..."
[23:27] [Vanal] "Three: We're alvie and this is soem kind of collective dream."
[23:27] [Tala] "Vanal, do you remember the details of your....night of passon?"
[23:28] [Vanal] "Vividly."
[23:28] * Tala frowns
[23:28] [Tala] "Hmm."
[23:29] [Tala] "Since I found myself in the garden I have had dificulty remembering simple things. The trip to locate you, walking here."
[23:29] [Tala] "Anything my attention wasn't focused on."
[23:29] [Tala] !ex 6
[23:29] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 6, 9, 4, 7, 4, 2, 3, Successes : 2
[23:30] * Jynaru scoffs. "If this is paradise, why do I have a headache, eh? Dead indeed."
[23:31] [Tala] "I feel.....drugged."
[23:31] [Vanal] "I had troubles remembering, though."
[23:32] [Jynaru] "As for dreams, that doesn't make any sense either. After all, if this was a dream, shouldn't I be able to wave my hand and have my desires or something of the sort?"
[23:32] * Vanal scowls
[23:33] [Vanal] "Well, um..."
[23:33] [Tala] "How often do you manipulate your dreams? Even when you know you are in one?"
[23:33] * Jynaru waves a hand, and announces in a grand voice: "Oh great and powerful dream, I could do with some powdered willow bark right about now!"
[23:33] [Storyteller] nuttin'
[23:33] [Jynaru] !ex 9
[23:33] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 9, 4, 2, 5, 2, 2, 1, 6, 3, 8, Successes : 1
[23:33] [Storyteller] doesn't work

[23:33] [Jynaru] I'm rolling for that willow bark.
[23:33] [Storyteller] I know

[23:34] [Jynaru] "See? Sure, I'm not trained, but hell, it's a headache remedy! This is not much to ask! Obviously, there has to be some other explanation."
[23:35] * Tala sighs

[23:36] [Vanal] I'd like to dream up Gehn walking in to see Van...

[22:23] [Storyteller] just because you consciously don't know it's a dream...
[23:24] [Tala] what would I need to roll to "do the math" so to speak
[23:26] [Storyteller] int + lore
[23:29] [Tala] 2 sux
[23:29] * Storyteller shrugs
[23:30] [Storyteller] it's not a dream as far as you know, but it could be something like it
[23:36] * Tala tries to change the dream so that the Ledaal servants are normally clothed
[23:37] [Storyteller] how many of them?
[23:37] [Tala] I want to change the dream so that they are all normal.
[23:37] [Tala] 5 successes
[23:37] [Storyteller] ok

[23:36] * Tala closes her eyes and breathes slowly and evenly, clearing her mind of all but what she wishes to see
[23:36] [Vanal] "Cripes, I wish Gehn were here right now..."
[23:36] [Jynaru] "Collective dream. Besides, I'm not a fan of the alternative, which suggests we're being transported to some remote location for sacrifice to the Anathema's dark gods after losing that fight."
[23:37] [Tala] !ex 8 (willpower point added)
[23:37] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 8 (willpower point added), 8, 6, 4, 10, 8, 2, 2, 2, Successes : 4
[23:37] [Jynaru] (You do realize that's a health level taken away, right?)
[23:37] [Storyteller] all the servants in the room instantly are clothed in simple immaculate order robes. they don't seem to notice.
[23:38] [Vanal] !ex 9
[23:38] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 9, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 4, 4, 1, Successes : 0, Botch
[23:38] [Vanal] ......
[23:38] * Tala opens her eyes slowly and looks up
[23:38] * Tala smiles, satisfied.
[23:38] [Storyteller] You know what that means, Vanal.
[23:38] [Vanal] Renig
[23:38] [Storyteller] yeap
[23:38] [Tala] "You were saying, Jynaru?"
[23:38] * Jynaru looks around and blinks. "Ok, maybe not... That's one hell of a party trick."
[23:39] [Storyteller] Renig walks in, his hand around Rebecca's waist as he walks into the Ledall house
[23:39] [Vanal] ........
[23:39] [Storyteller] "Hey Jynaru, just got a message I thought you'd be interested in," he says, his face grinning widely
[23:39] * Vanal stands up
[23:40] [Vanal] "Well, time to test out our theory."
[23:40] * Vanal winds up...and decks Renig right in the face
[23:40] * Jynaru looks up at the visitor.
[23:40] [Storyteller] roll charisma + brawl
[23:40] [Vanal] !ex 5
[23:40] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 5, 2, 5, 9, 9, 2, Successes : 2
[23:40] [Storyteller] Storyteller : !ex 17, 3, 3, 8, 9, 2, 7, 1, 7, 4, 10, 6, 2, 7, 8, 7, 2, 4, Successes : 9
[23:40] [Storyteller] !ex 17
[23:40] [Storyteller] Renig quickly darts out of the way of your punch laughing
[23:41] [Vanal] ....
[23:41] [Storyteller] "Nice try, Vanal."
[23:41] [Jynaru] "Chill, Van! I want to hear this message..."
[23:41] [Tala] "Gentlemen."

[23:41] [Vanal] I erase his clothes...
[23:42] [Storyteller] heh
[23:43] [Vanal] you hadta throw in the rebecca part, eh
[23:44] [Storyteller] yea

[23:41] * Vanal nods...and closes his eyes...focusing his mind on one singular thought, one goal, one MISSION...
[23:42] [Vanal] !ex 9
[23:42] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 9, 9, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 7, 9, 5, Successes : 3
[23:42] [Tala] "Join me in another experiment?"
[23:42] [Jynaru] "After all, the bandit thing was part of the dream, and it came true. I'd like more evidence this isn't just my dream, poorly written though it might be.
[23:42] [Storyteller] suddenly Renig is completely naked. He looks down, angrily, and then back up. He is *quite* well built.
[23:42] [Storyteller] "What the..."
[23:42] [Tala] !ex 3
[23:42] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 3, 2, 7, 1, Successes : 1
[23:42] * Tala ignores it
[23:43] * Vanal looks like the picture of innocence...
[23:43] [Vanal] "Would you like to borrow my cape, scalemaster ?"
[23:43] [Tala] "Gentlemen. Where are the others?"
[23:43] [Storyteller] Renig looks around him for something to cover him, then rips a curtain off the wall
[23:43] [Storyteller] he quickly makes himself a toga
[23:43] [Tala] "Shall we undertake a little group experiment?"
[23:43] [Storyteller] "Yea, right.."
[23:43] [Vanal] "Let's."
[23:43] * Jynaru groans. "Dammit, I preferred the naked servants. This isn't a dream, it's a nightmare."

[23:44] [Storyteller] hey if you really want to make all the chicks naked again...
[23:45] * Jynaru chuckles. Maybe later.
[23:46] [Jynaru] After all, there's probably time. Though the message would be nice to hear.
[23:46] [Storyteller] maybe if I actually knew what the message was..
[23:48] * Jynaru laughs.

[23:44] [Vanal] "It's a dream."
[23:44] [Tala] "Let us attempt to summon one of the others to us."
[23:44] * Jynaru shrugs. "Might as well."
[23:44] * Vanal shrugs
[23:44] [Tala] "Who shall it be?"
[23:45] [Vanal] "...Cicada ?"
[23:45] [Storyteller] Shakel smiles dreamily. "How about Irin?"
[23:45] * Vanal blinks
[23:45] [Vanal] "Okay, Irin works."
[23:45] * Vanal looks at Shakel "should've mentioned it earlier, dearie."
[23:46] * Jynaru ponders.
[23:46] [Tala] "I think someone we are all familiar with will work better."
[23:46] [Tala] "Maris?"
[23:46] [Vanal] "Cicada then...I've no intention of dealing with Tei, Tabius or Maris..."
[23:46] * Vanal 's lip curls up in digust at each mention of each name
[23:46] [Tala] "I am certainly interested in his interpretation of... the battle."
[23:46] [Storyteller] Renig has meanwhile stormed out, Rebecca following behind with a strange look on her face
[23:46] * Vanal shrugs
[23:47] * Vanal hides a snicker
[23:47] [Storyteller] Shakel meanwhile looks almost disappointed.
[23:47] [Jynaru] "This dream's gone to crap enough for now, Ok? Fun as it might be to beat the living hells out of them, we want someone who might be interested in talking to us."
[23:47] * Vanal looks at Shkael "Don't worry...if this is a dream, maybe we can talk to her when we get back."
[23:48] [Vanal] "I'll go along with whomever you two decide."
[23:48] [Tala] "Maris. We all know him well enough it should be simple to bring him."
[23:49] * Vanal shrugs
[23:49] [Vanal] "Let's do it, then."
[23:49] * Tala closes her eyes again, focusing on Maris entering the room through the door and sitting down.
[23:50] [Tala] !ex 8
[23:50] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 8, 4, 4, 5, 1, 7, 1, 2, 2, Successes : 1
[23:50] * Vanal focuses on Maris as well...
[23:50] [Tala] (poop)
[23:50] [Vanal] !ex 9
[23:50] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 9, 4, 8, 10, 8, 6, 7, 1, 8, 6, Successes : 6
[23:50] * Jynaru focuses on Maris showing up without any weapons or armor.
[23:50] [Jynaru] !ex 9
[23:50] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 9, 7, 6, 10, 1, 2, 9, 8, 7, 7, Successes : 7
[23:52] [Storyteller] Maris appears before you, looking rather confused.
[23:52] [Storyteller] "uhh... hi?"
[23:53] * Jynaru looks at Vanal. "Care to do the honors?"
[23:54] [Vanal] "Are there any questions you two wish to ask ?"
[23:55] [Storyteller] Maris looks around worriedly
[23:56] [Jynaru] "Well, I've got one. Maris, tell us about what happened yesterday."
[23:56] * Vanal stands, and prepares to let his imagination run wild
[23:56] [Storyteller] 'Y.. yesterday? uhhh... we were at the arena."
[23:57] [Storyteller] "And Tabius went and gave away the books that we found in the sewers."
[23:57] [Tala] "And what happened when we were facing the Anathema, and their horde of demons?"
[23:58] [Vanal] "I've just thought up a logical fallacy with this plan."
[23:58] [Storyteller] "I.. don't remember that. What are you talking about?"
[23:58] [Vanal] "He was working with them. He wouldn't be put in a sleep like us. thus, any Maris we conjure will be a Maris of *our* creation."
[23:59] [Storyteller] "What?"
[23:59] [Vanal] (translation: Can I kill him now ?)
[23:59] [Jynaru] "Possibly. Maris, step to your right, would you?"
[00:00] [Storyteller] Maris steps to his right, confused
[00:00] [Vanal] "Warstrider? Or meteor ?"
[00:00] [Tala] "Something less harmful to us?"
[00:00] * Jynaru ponders. "Lightning bolt."
[00:00] [Vanal] "Ah, the classics. Fire away."
[00:01] [Vanal] "I'm wondering. could we *will* ourselves awake ?"
[00:01] [Jynaru] !ex 9 (bolt of DOOOOOM)
[00:01] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 9 (bolt of DOOOOOM), 9, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 8, 10, 1, Successes : 4
[00:02] [Tala] "Were we to do so, we would likely only dream we were awake."
[00:02] [Vanal] "Fuck."
[00:03] [Storyteller] Somehow, lightning explodes through the air, vaporizing the roof above as it strikes down, leaving a charcoaled Maris. He blinks. "Shit."
[00:04] [Jynaru] "Now that feels much better. Would our creations be that tough?"
[00:05] [Vanal] "Renig seemed to duck my punch pretty well."
[00:06] [Jynaru] "I suppose so."
[00:06] * Jynaru "Well, this proves nothing. Maybe we should try someone else?"
[00:07] * Vanal sighs
[00:07] [Vanal] "You want proof ?...How would you like to meet the Scarlet Empress ?"
[00:10] [Jynaru] "Ahem. Proves that the events of yesterday may not be as they seemed. Would Maris or Tei do that normally? It seems strange."
[00:11] [Vanal] "We were fighting ANATHEMA, Jyn."
[00:12] [Vanal] "That should be all the needed explanation"
[00:12] [Jynaru] "Don't lecture ME on Anathema, Vanal. In my experience, they don't leave people alive."
[00:13] [Jynaru] "This is rather pleasant for being captured by Anathema, don't you think? Apparently, I killed the leaders wife. WHY THE FUCK AM I STILL ALIVE THEN?"
[00:13] [Vanal] "there is that."
[00:15] [Jynaru] "I took him out. I felt the life leave him, until some bastard got the idea to heal him with magic. I couldn't do anything. I was held down and knocked out. If you were him, and I did that to you, wouldn't you kill me? Anathema are not noted for their mercy, Vanal."
[00:15] [Vanal] "Yeah, well, I was surrounded by motherfucking demons or something. Don't fucking lecture me."
[00:15] [Tala] "I believe that what is going on now is the....dream, or hallucination."
[00:16] [Tala] "Look at what we have been able to do."
[00:17] [Jynaru] "Wonderful. So, what are we supposed to do about it then, Tala?"
[00:17] [Tala] "I did not say that there was anything we could do about it."
[00:18] [Tala] "However....."
[00:18] * Tala looks like she has an idea.
[00:20] [Jynaru] "Yes? Pleasant as this might possibly be, I wasn't raised to hide in dreams. Waking up sounds good right about now."

[00:16] [Jynaru] Just how are we supposed to get out of this dream, anyway?
[00:17] [Storyteller] it'll end on it's own, or YOU can end it.
[00:17] [Storyteller] actually any of you can.. it's not easy though
[00:18] [Storyteller] you have to be woken up outside at difficulty 3
[00:18] [Storyteller] and you have to pass a stamina + resistance roll at difficulty 3
[00:18] [Storyteller] then you have to try to wake up for a unmodified willpower roll at difficulty 3
[00:25] [Jynaru] Christ! All I've got is fucking three dice for that second one!!
[00:27] [Storyteller] damn
[00:28] [Jynaru] I mean, hell. Can't I wake up from the fucked-up dream into a normal dream or something? Be physically exhausted but not trapped?
[00:29] [Storyteller] if you pass the stamina + resistance roll it beats off the drug
[00:29] [Storyteller] if you can't beat off the drug then you can't wake up
[00:29] [Storyteller] unless you wait for the drug to run out
[00:30] [Jynaru] Argh. And I assume that would take ages, and willpower is based off of current WP, not permanent.
[00:31] [Storyteller] Days probably.
[00:31] [Jynaru] Fuck.
[00:32] [Storyteller] Difficulty goes down by one each day
[00:32] [Storyteller] you can add your like, conviction or something I guess.
[00:33] [Jynaru] Screw that. Autosux.
[00:34] [Storyteller] heh

[22:23] [Storyteller] just because you consciously don't know it's a dream...
[23:24] [Tala] what would I need to roll to "do the math" so to speak
[23:26] [Storyteller] int + lore
[23:29] [Tala] 2 sux
[23:29] * Storyteller shrugs
[23:30] [Storyteller] it's not a dream as far as you know, but it could be something like it
[23:36] * Tala tries to change the dream so that the Ledaal servants are normally clothed
[23:37] [Storyteller] how many of them?
[23:37] [Tala] I want to change the dream so that they are all normal.
[23:37] [Tala] 5 successes
[23:37] [Storyteller] ok
[00:19] [Tala] !roll 1d10
[00:19] [Storyteller] Tala : Tala : 1d10, 5 , Total: 5
[00:19] [Storyteller] ?
[00:19] [Tala] I had to choose which of them I am going to kill
[00:20] [Storyteller] ah
[00:20] [Tala] After all, when was the last time you died in a dream?
[00:20] [Storyteller] two nights ago
[00:21] [Tala] I mean and didn't wake up instantly
[00:21] [Storyteller] Always
[00:22] [Storyteller] even if my body is torn and my soul is ripped to shreads and I can't even perceive the dream, I have never woken up due to death.
[00:22] [Storyteller] but it might work. let's finds out.
[00:22] * Tala is skeptical
[00:22] [Storyteller] I am a bit odd. over 90% of my dreams are lucid.
[00:23] * Tala imagines Vanal being swallowed by a pit and falling over 50' with nothing to grab on to face down onto spikes
[00:24] [Storyteller] roll another 2 dice
[00:24] [Tala] stunt?
[00:24] [Storyteller] yea
[00:25] [Tala] I take back a wp
[00:25] [Storyteller] sweet

[00:20] * Tala takes a deep breath
[00:23] [Tala] !ex 11 (adding conviction)
[00:23] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 11 (adding conviction), 6, 9, 2, 9, 3, 3, 8, 4, 9, 1, 2, Successes : 4
[00:24] [Tala] !ex 2
[00:24] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 2, 4, 5, Successes : 0
[00:24] [Storyteller] Vanal a pit opens under your feet and the very fabric of the floor reaches up to consume you.
[00:24] [Vanal] ......."WHAT !?"
[00:25] [Vanal] "YOU TOO ?!"
[00:25] [Storyteller] care to abort to a dodge?
[00:25] [Vanal] ...no
[00:25] * Vanal looks up at Tala, anger filling his eyes
[00:25] [Storyteller] okay you fall into the pit, becoming impaled on a pit of spikeses...
[00:25] [Vanal] ..............
[00:26] * Vanal screams curses as he falls
[00:26] [Storyteller] roll stamina + resistance
[00:26] [Vanal] !ex 6
[00:26] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 6, 6, 7, 1, 9, 3, 1, Successes : 2
[00:26] [Storyteller] Storyteller : !ex 5, 10, 3, 2, 5, 9, Successes : 3
[00:26] [Storyteller] !ex 5
[00:26] [Storyteller] you take 2 temporary WP of damage. You feel .. impaled, but alive.
[00:26] * Jynaru looks at Tala. "You should have a good explanation for that."
[00:26] [Vanal] .........
[00:27] [Vanal] "YOU BACKSTABBING CONNIVING LITTLE BITCH !"
[00:27] * Tala closes her eyes, and tries to undo it.
[00:27] * Vanal wills himself out of the pit
[00:27] [Tala] !ex 8
[00:27] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 8, 1, 4, 8, 5, 8, 8, 8, 8, Successes : 5
[00:27] [Vanal] !ex 9
[00:27] [Storyteller] Vanal : !ex 9, 6, 4, 4, 4, 9, 8, 8, 10, 1, Successes : 5
[00:27] * Tala was first, Van was never injured
[00:28] [Storyteller] Vanal rises out of the pit, bleeding from his open wounds, and the floor reforms underneath his feet.
[00:28] [Jynaru] "Oh, be quiet, Vanal. You're alive, aren't you?"
[00:28] * Tala sighs,
[00:28] [Vanal] "YOU WEREN'T FUCKING IMPALED !"
[00:28] * Vanal scowls
[00:28] [Tala] "I thought the imminent death would shock you awake."
[00:28] * Vanal looks at his wounds
[00:28] [Vanal] ...
[00:28] [Vanal] "Well....I think I'll just let myself pass out now."
[00:29] * Vanal does so

[00:28] [Tala] he doesn't heal from my 5 successes?
[00:31] [Storyteller] no WP damage can't be healed
[00:46] [Tala] no stunt?

[00:29] [Tala] "I couldn't very well do it to myself?"
[00:29] [Jynaru] "Or, of course, kill him. THere is that option."
[00:29] [Vanal] ('night)
[00:29] * Vanal has quit IRC (Quit: My name is Chris ! And I. AM. *CANADIAN* !)

[00:29] * Tala shakes her head
[00:30] [Tala] "If I did it to myself I would most likely have remained in the dream"
[00:30] [Tala] "It would have been like willing myself to wake up."
[00:30] [Tala] "I would simply dream that I did so."
[00:31] [Jynaru] "Now, about this willing ourselves awake. You know that might work. I don't think this dream was constructed so as to prevent that sort of thing...
[00:31] [Jynaru] "After all, why would we want to go back, ordinarily?"
[00:33] [Tala] "Be my guest."
[00:39] [Tala] "Well? It appears to me you did not succeed in willing yourself awake."
[00:40] [Jynaru] !ex 9
[00:40] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 9, 9, 3, 7, 6, 3, 10, 3, 8, 6, Successes : 5
[00:41] [Storyteller] Jynaru disappears for a second

[00:41] [Jynaru] Is that enough to go for the Stamina+resistance roll?
[00:43] [Storyteller] higher difficulty, but yea
[00:44] [Jynaru] BEEYATCH! SAY MY NAME! ANGER-FU!!!!
[00:44] [Storyteller] other room
[00:45] * Jynaru sings along. "It's the eye of the Dragon it's the something something something...."

[00:41] [Storyteller] Jynaru, you are in a room
[00:41] [Storyteller] you're on a bed
[00:42] [Storyteller] you feel very sleepy
[00:42] [Storyteller] roll stamina + resistance
[00:43] [Jynaru] !ex 3 (Burn three willpower for autosux. Dammit, I will not let some punkass Anathem I took out kep me like this!!!!!)
[00:43] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 3 (Burn three willpower for, 9, 10, 2, Successes : 3
[00:44] [Storyteller] Jynaru you are awake
[00:44] [Storyteller] but you don't know for how long
[00:44] [Storyteller] you're lying in the bed
[00:45] * Jynaru staggers up and looks around.
[00:45] * Tala closes her eyes and begins clearing her mind. She blocks out everything. The feeling of the chair beneath her, the building around her, every sound, every smell. She completely eliminates the dreamworld.
[00:46] [Storyteller] roll WP +1
[00:47] [Tala] !ex 7
[00:47] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 7, 6, 9, 2, 2, 3, 1, 5, Successes : 1
[00:47] [Storyteller] nottin'
[00:47] * Tala continues.
[00:47] [Storyteller] you feel a little more awake
[00:47] [Storyteller] Difficulty +1
[00:47] [Storyteller] roll again
[00:47] [Jynaru] Do I have to burn WP to stand up? I need to move, burn this shit out of my system.
[00:47] [Tala] !ex 10 (adding temperance)
[00:47] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 10 (adding temperance), 7, 3, 2, 9, 10, 10, 3, 5, 6, 3, Successes : 6
[00:47] [Storyteller] ahh, you succeed.
[00:48] [Storyteller] okay roll stamina + resistance
[00:48] [Tala] !ex 4
[00:48] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 4, 1, 4, 7, 9, Successes : 2
[00:49] [Tala] [umm... you can't burn 3 wp by the way]
[00:49] [Jynaru] (Bah. Did enough to get out even without it. Diff was 3, after all.)
[00:51] [Storyteller] Tala you wake up on a bed, but you are only able to roll off of it before you hit the floor and fall back to sleep
[00:52] [Storyteller] Vanal looks surprised as the two of you fade out of existance, and then Tala falls back in.
[00:53] * Tala looks at Van
[00:54] [Tala] "Apparently it was simpler than I thought."
[00:54] [Storyteller] Jynaru appears next to Tala
[00:54] [Tala] "Just make it all go away."
[00:54] * Tala looks at Jynary
[00:54] [Tala] "What happened?
[00:54] [Tala] "
[00:54] [Tala] "Did we fail? I was somewhere else, but I couldn't stay awake."
[00:55] [Storyteller] Vanal looks at the two of you unconvinced
[00:55] [Jynaru] "Goddamned motherfucking bastard... He's wandering around the ship with Tabius!"
[00:55] [Storyteller] "Maris?
[00:55] * Tala closes her eyes, working slowly and more carefully this time."
[00:55] [Tala] [can I do an extended action?]
[00:55] [Storyteller] not really.
[00:56] [Jynaru] "Yes, Maris! When I missed, he jumped on me... Oh, when I can stay awake...."
[00:56] [Storyteller] even if you wake up again, with the drug still in your system you'll fall asleep.
[00:57] [Tala] !ex 3 (Conviction)
[00:57] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 3 (Conviction), 6, 7, 3, Successes : 1
[00:57] * Tala doesn't give up
[00:58] * Jydan has quit IRC (Connection reset by peer)
[00:58] [Tala] !ex 6 (willpower)
[00:58] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 6 (willpower), 9, 7, 8, 4, 2, 6, Successes : 3
[00:58] [Storyteller] okay give it another shot. Difficulty 7 WP + charisma roll
[00:58] [Tala] (oh add Cha now)
[00:58] [Tala] (jesus
[00:58] [Tala] !ex 8
[00:58] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 8, 6, 9, 2, 10, 4, 5, 4, 1, Successes : 3
[00:59] [Storyteller] Nope, the world around you shimmers a bit but nothing happens.
[00:59] [Jynaru] "We're drugged, Tala. Burning that effort didn't do anything, and we're only weakened. Need to bide our time..."
[00:59] [Tala] !ex 3
[00:59] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 3, 4, 7, 3, Successes : 1
[01:00] [Tala] "Patience."
[01:00] [Tala] "Tenacity."
[01:00] * Tala says as if reciting some list
[01:01] [Tala] "Relentless, like the great sea."
[01:01] [Jynaru] "Something like that, yes."
[01:01] [Tala] "I will not give up."
[01:02] * Tala moves herself to an environment which will be easier to meditate and focus
[01:03] * Jynaru contemplates a piece of fruit, absentmindedly listening to Tala. "Wasn't suggesting you do. Unless they continue to drug us, it'll only get easier. I'm saying don't exhaust your mental strength now."
[01:03] [Storyteller] anyhow you can try that all night
[01:05] * Tala reaches back into the depths of her memory and recreates her cliff-side meditation spot near the Temple of Daana'd's Whispering Voice.
[01:06] [Storyteller] \
[01:07] [Tala] !ex 8 (cha +wp to take her to this place where she can meditate more easily and clear her mind)
[01:07] [Storyteller] Tala : !ex 8 (cha +wp to take, 6, 9, 2, 9, 3, 1, 10, 4, Successes : 4
[01:08] [Tala] (not a wp point)
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[01:13] [Storyteller] lol okay
[01:13] [Tala] [Hello?]
[01:13] * Storyteller points to OOC
[01:14] * Tala was reading the GAME
[01:14] [Storyteller] heh

[21:06] [Storyteller] Cicada and Tei are free, but Cicada has nothing but her clothes, shield bracer, and Puuhda
[21:06] [Storyteller] Tei has all his equipment and is under orders to foil any escape attempt
[21:07] [Cicada] (Puuhda, the soon to be deadliest throwing weapon in Creation)
[21:07] [Storyteller] Maris and Tabius wake up in a small cell, three walls of wood, no door visible (but chalk circles inscribed on the floor of one wall) and the fourth wall is some kind of glass, overlooking the sea
[21:07] [Storyteller] the sleeping bodies are in there with you
[21:08] [Storyteller] In the cell, nobody has anything but their clothes
[21:09] [Storyteller] Cicada is currently walking around on deck.
[21:09] [Storyteller] Tei is wandering some halls, probably getting into trouble
[21:10] [Cicada] (has any of us met each other aboard?)
[21:10] [Storyteller] Cicada and Tei have likely ran into each other numberous times, but this is the first time Tabius and Maris are awake.
[21:11] * Cicada has been trying to avoid Tei.
[21:11] [Cicada] [Has Cicada seen the others imprisoned?]
[21:12] [Storyteller] yes, Cicada has been feeding them while they slept, under the watch of Tei to make sure she doesn't kill anyone
[21:12] [Cicada] [And just exactly how has Tei been treating Cicada?]
[21:12] [Storyteller] ask Tei
[21:13] [Tei] [avoidance]

[21:19] [Storyteller] you've got a necklace artifact talisman thingy that lets you pass through the walls of the cell, and anyone who is touching you can pass through with you if you please
[21:20] [Tei] allrighty

[21:08] * Maris opens his eyes and curses loudly and virulently as he takes in his surroundings.
[21:08] * Tabius looks about the cell at the sleeping bodies.
[21:09] * Tabius eyes narrow as he sees Maris, but also the gears of his mind start moving double time.
[21:09] * Maris gets up and looks out over the glass trying to figure out where they are.
[21:10] * Maris sees Tab's eyes, "They fucked with my brain Tabius."
[21:10] * Tabius has come to the conclusion that the group is fucked.
[21:10] [Maris] "Changed my memories."
[21:10] [Storyteller] As you look out over the ocean you can't see anything. Just water. Lots, and lots of water. By the way you feel it...
[21:10] [Storyteller] The cell is in the stern of the ship
[21:10] [Maris] "Still haven't changed them back even though they threw me on this ship with you.
[21:11] * Tabius eyes unnarrow and his face becomes calm.
[21:11] * Maris sees Cicada and Tei are missing from the bodies and tries to open the door.
[21:12] * Tabius opens his mouth as if to say something, but seems to decide not to and closes it. Instead he stands
[21:12] * Tabius and rubs his wrists and angles cracking his neck and stretching a bit.
[21:15] [Tei] [tei has been using the time to train when not on gaurd duty or attending to the master]

[21:12] [Storyteller] There is no door, Maris
[21:12] [Maris] No way out of the cell?
[21:13] [Storyteller] Not that you can see.
[21:13] [Storyteller] There's the aforementioned chalk circles
[21:13] [Maris] So Tei and Cicada are no where in sight and there's no exit from the cell?
[21:13] [Storyteller] all the bodies are lying in a semicircle around that chalk circle
[21:13] [Storyteller] that's correct
[21:13] * Maris walks over to the chalk circles and moves inside them to see if they do anything.
[21:13] * Tabius walks over and hesitantly taps on the window.
[21:13] [Storyteller] Maris you walk into the chalk circle but nothing happens
[21:14] * Maris heads over to a wall and sits down leaning against it.
[21:14] [Storyteller] Tabius tapping on the window results in absolutely no sound, but you can hear the waves crashing against each other and see the wake of the ship.
[21:15] * Maris looks the room over to see if he can pick out any secret entrances.
[21:15] * Tabius snaps his fingers suggesting, eh I tried.
[21:15] * Tabius uses his feeble medical skills to examine the bodies of his comrades, noting that two of them are missing.
[21:15] [Storyteller] Maris the walls look exactly like the walls that you broke through to get into the anathema's secret lair. You don't see any seams, however.
[21:16] * Cicada has been continuously caring for any wounded.
[21:16] [Maris] "I'm not sure if Cicada is on their side but Tei got hit with some sort of spell."
[21:16] [Maris] "Until he touches his own reflection he's their slave."
[21:17] * Tabius looks up at Maris, "Cicada was also defending me, she is not theirs, yet."
[21:17] [Maris] "If your sure."
[21:17] [Maris] "I don't know what to trust right now though."
[21:17] [Maris] "My memories seem real. Yet apparently they're completely fucked up."
[21:17] * Tabius smiles knowingly at Maris and continues to check the bodies.
[21:18] [Maris] "I don't understand it."
[21:18] [Tabius] "Understand what?"
[21:18] [Maris] The glass have any reflection to it?
[21:18] [Storyteller] nope
[21:19] [Maris] "What the hell is going on anymore."
[21:19] [Maris] "One of them is..was...wasn't....my lover. I think."
[21:19] [Tabius] "Perhaps a complete examination of the past would help you with the present."
[21:20] * Maris sits and tries to sort through his memories.
[21:21] * Tabius ponders the use of the chalk circles.
[21:21] [Storyteller] Maris none of your memories seem to support what you were told. All you know is that you are here now.
[21:22] [Maris] "Well fuck it all. Next anathema I see dies. Or I die."
[21:23] * Maris seems to say this meaning it but mostly just feels betrayal from Shel.
[21:23] * Maris murmurs to himself, "It has to be true. She can't be an anathema, she can't be dead."
[21:23] * Tabius shakes his head at Maris, "It would seem that our courses of action are limited most severely. Rash promises to oneself are ill advised."
[21:24] [Maris] "Well I've lied before and I'll lie again."
[21:24] [Maris] "The rash promise makes me feel better."
[21:25] * Tabius continues to study the chalk circles trying to find their use.

[21:18] [Cicada] Can I show up with food and fresh bandages while Tabius and Maris talk?
[21:18] [Storyteller] yeap
[21:19] [Storyteller] You'll have to find Tei to let you in
[21:37] [Cicada] BTW, Tei was wounded too. Have I been treating his wounds too?
[21:38] [Storyteller] probably a bit
[21:38] [Storyteller] Tei likely tends his own wounds, ask him.
[21:42] [Cicada] Tei was likely healed by Red Bloom, but Cicada has insisted on giving him a through examination too.
[21:43] [Cicada] Which raises the question, is the scar he got protecting her from a Dynast 'mirrored', on the wrong side?
[21:43] [Storyteller] coo
[21:43] [Cicada] Cicada might only think of this later. :)
[21:43] [Storyteller] yes, such things would all be mirrored as he is the mirror image
[21:43] [Cicada] Cool...

[21:20] * Cicada is preparing food to put in the sleepers and fresh bandages for their wounds. Then she sets out to find Tei and have him let her into their cell.
[21:26] [Storyteller] [Tei, you around?]
[21:26] * Cicada hates having to see Tei in order to get into the cell, he is strange somehow. But she searches for him anyway.
[21:26] [Tei] [yeah I'm here]
[21:26] [Storyteller] Cicada roll investigation + wits to find Tei
[21:26] [Cicada] !ex 3
[21:26] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 3, 9, 8, 3, Successes : 2
[21:27] [Tei] [that should be enough I'm not hiding]
[21:27] [Storyteller] indeed... Cicada you search through the passageways of the ship until you come across Tei practicing his martial arts
[21:29] * Cicada stops a little away from him. "umh.. Sir Tei. I apologize for interrupting, but it is time for me to treat the others again..."
[21:29] * Cicada avoids eyecontact.
[21:29] * Tei continues to practice until he completes the kata
[21:29] [Tei] "yes then let's go."
[21:30] * Cicada collects the food and medical supplies and follow Tei.

[21:30] [Storyteller] Everyone in the cell is at -2 due to remaining sleepiness. Everyone on the ship must pass a sail+stamina check or you are at an additional -2 due to sea sickness.
[21:30] [Storyteller] awake, at least
[21:30] [Cicada] !ex 4 (seasickness)
[21:30] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 4 (seasickness), 7, 9, 3, 3, Successes : 2
[21:30] [Tabius] !exa 3
[21:30] [Storyteller] Tabius : !exa 3, 9, 7, 6, Successes : 2
[21:31] [Maris] !ex 5 (SeaSickness)
[21:31] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5 (SeaSickness), 1, 9, 5, 9, 3, Successes : 2
[21:31] [Tei] !exa 3
[21:31] [Storyteller] Tei : !exa 3, 1, 9, 7, Successes : 2
[21:31] [Tei] er no
[21:31] [Tei] !ex 2
[21:31] [Storyteller] Tei : !ex 2, 9, 7, Successes : 2
[21:31] [Storyteller] looks like everyone's feeling fine

[21:33] * Tabius is still studying the chalk circles looking for anything at all.

[21:32] [Cicada] (Tei) ".... Sir Tei... What has happened? I don't understand anything anymore... Why are we acting like jailers..?"
[21:32] [Tei] "That's easy"
[21:32] [Cicada] (Tei)"... Please forgive my impertinence.."
[21:33] [Tei] We *are* jailors"
[21:33] [Cicada] (Tei) "But why..?"
[21:33] [Tei] [cicada]"It is the masters wishes"
[21:34] [Cicada] [Tei] "You keep saying that... But I do not know this .. 'master'.."
[21:35] [Storyteller] you come out to the entrance to the cell. It is a plywood wall, with two concentric ellipses of different sizes, intersecting only at the wall.
[21:36] [Tei] [cicada]"Red bloom, my master"
[21:36] [Cicada] [Tei] "Red Bloom... is an Immaculate..?"
[21:37] [Tei] [cicada]"Red bloom, is my master." I
[21:38] * Tei thinks seems to believe that should be enough
[21:38] * Cicada nods, not understanding anything, but Tei has always looked out for her before so she forces herself to trust him.
[21:38] [Storyteller] the entrance to the cell awaits
[21:39] [Storyteller] Inside, Maris and Tabius hear nothing
[21:39] * Cicada waits for Tei to open the 'door' and let her in.
[21:42] [Tei] "take my hand cicada"
[21:44] * Cicada takes Tei's hand, somewhat reluctantly as usual.
[21:44] [Storyteller] Irin spits. "Yea, sure, and ... where's my sword?"
[21:44] * Tei leads cicada very matter-of-factly through the door

[21:40] * Tabius continues after continuing to continue to look at and examine the chalk lines.
[21:42] [Storyteller] Tabius though looking at the chalk lines you can see nothing of much interest
[21:42] [Storyteller] Irin starts stirring on the floor
[21:42] [Maris] ((Irin?))
[21:43] [Storyteller] Irin is Vanal's scalemaster whom fought with you in the battle. She is a young exalt, newly graduated from the house of bells.
[21:43] * Maris sees her getting up, "Hey Irin. Glad to see your getting up.
[21:43] * Tabius goes over and sees to Irins health and wellbeing.
[21:43] [Storyteller] Irin groans as she sits up, her eyes narrowing when she sees Maris.
[21:43] [Storyteller] "YOU!"
[21:44] [Storyteller] she tries to get to her feet, but only manages to fall across the room.
[21:44] [Tabius] "HOLD!!"
[21:44] * Maris looks at her, "They fucked my mind up Irin.
[21:44] * Tabius goes and helps Irin to a sitting position holding her as much to keep her back as to support her.
[21:44] [Maris] "They took all the weapons.

[21:46] [Storyteller] Tei and Cicada pass right through the wall and into the cell. You now see that three of the "prisoners" are awake
[21:46] * Cicada utters a half-scream at seeing the awake people and drop her trays on the floor.
[21:46] * Tabius eyes quickly pass from Tie to Cicada and back again.
[21:46] * Maris gets up seeing Tei and goes over to Cicada to help her up
[21:47] * Cicada runs to her lord and interpose herself between him and Maris.
[21:47] [Storyteller] Cicada's try falls to the floor, the clay dishes with already premashed food shattering as they do so
[21:47] * Maris sighs and goes to pick up the food

[21:47] [Maris] The Tray Reflective?
[21:47] [Storyteller] no, it's very dull
[21:47] [Maris] darn

[21:47] [Storyteller] Irin props herself up against the wall, glaring at you all.
[21:48] * Tei stares blandly at the whole seen hands on his blades
[21:48] * Tabius stands and says, "How does your master?"
[21:48] * Maris puts it back on the tray and hands it to Cicada.
[21:48] * Cicada glares at Maris, teeth slightly bared.
[21:48] [Maris] "They fucked with my mind Cicada."
[21:48] [Tei] "he's fine if since you ask, and he sends his greetings."
[21:49] [Maris] "I'm still not sure what exactly they did."
[21:49] [Tabius] "He has not killed us, so he must have plans for us. Would we be allowed to know these plans?"
[21:50] [Tei] "The master has not deigned to reveal his plans to me."
[21:50] * Cicada snatches the tray out of Maris hands.
[21:51] [Tabius] "Of course. Your just a jail guard then, how quant."
[21:51] * Maris goes over to the wall and sits down again.
[21:51] [Storyteller] Irin glares at Maris as you come a bit too close
[21:51] [Tei] "I'm sure you, of all people, realize all servants have a place"
[21:52] [Tabius] "What of Maris here. Has his facilities been returned to him?"
[21:52] * Maris looks to the glass to make sure there is no reflection.
[21:52] * Cicada looks back and forth between Tabius and Tei, her shaking hands making the plates on the tray rattle.
[21:52] [Storyteller] Maris there isn't really any reflection, but you can give it a shot.
[21:52] * Maris blows on it to see if his breath makes a fog.
[21:53] [Maris] "You think we could get out of here so we can get some exercise Tei?"
[21:53] [Tei] "you are not to be move until red bloom gives orders."

[21:53] [Storyteller] Well they can have a bit of exercise
[21:54] [Storyteller] but not yet....

[21:54] * Maris looks at Tei, "So could you go ask him then?"
[21:54] * Maris checks his pockets for his usual packet of drugs.
[21:54] [Storyteller] Maris your pockets are completely empty
[21:54] * Tabius grimaces at the futility of Maris's question.
[21:54] [Tei] "If he wishes you moved he will inform me of it, till then you must stay here."
[21:55] [Maris] "Yes well he can't very well inform you here can he?"
[21:55] * Tabius looks to Cicada, "Could we have that food now, I know I am famished.
[21:56] * Cicada looks down at the tray. "My lord, I am sorry I did not know you were awake. I mashed it all to feed it to you.."
[21:56] [Cicada] "I will go immediately and make new food.."
[21:56] [Tabius] "Its not as if we haven't been eating that gruel for weeks now anyways. At least its nourishing"
[21:57] [Tei] "make it quick, I must return to practice to better serve the master."
[21:57] * Cicada splits the food up in portions for everybody.
[21:58] [Maris] "Go now then Tei."
[21:58] * Cicada then frets over her lord for him not to overstrain himself so quickly after recovering. Only when told off does she feed the still sleeping ones, all the while keeping an eye on Maris.
[21:59] * Maris gets up and knocks on the wall that Tei just came through.
[21:59] [Tei] "when you are ready cicada"
[21:59] [Storyteller] Maris knocking on the wall seems to have no effect
[22:00] [Maris] "How hard do you think it would be to tear a hole in the wall Tei?"
[22:01] * Cicada checks the bandages of everyone, changing them and recleaning wounds. Then she turns around the sleepers so they don't get bed sores.
[22:01] [Tei] "I wouldn't try it you are on a ship far out to sea surrounded by the masters loyalist troops
[22:02] * Maris smirks at Tei, "Unlike you I can breathe underwater."
[22:02] [Tabius] "Another words Maris, our doom is ultimate."
[22:02] * Maris goes back to his seat
[22:02] [Tei] "how far can you swim while dodging arrows?"
[22:03] * Cicada sends her lord a glance full of self-doubt.
[22:04] [Maris] "First off I was subtly threatening to tear a hole in the ship itself so you and your master would drown as it goes down. Second off all I would have to do would be to swim down 20 or 30 feet and your arrows would be useless."
[22:04] [Tabius] "But not yet complete. They either mean to sacrifice us, imprison us, or somehow make us their slaves like Tei here.

[22:04] [Storyteller] actually he isn't even on the ship
[22:04] [Storyteller] there are some.. uhh "enchanted" folks around.
[22:05] [Storyteller] You know that spell in Bo3C that lets you imbue items into mortals?
[22:05] [Storyteller] there's maybe a half dozen here
[22:05] [Storyteller] you can contact Red Bloom through an artifact that will explode if you fail in your mission and the PCs take the ship

[22:05] [Tei] "threaten all you like, it does no good. Cicada we are going now."
[22:05] * Maris stays at his seat.
[22:05] [Cicada] "Yes, sir Tei.."
[22:06] * Maris looks to Tei to look for any changes in his wardrobe since he saw him last.
[22:06] * Cicada turns to leave, then suddenly turns to her lord and prostate herself before him, wordlessly knocking her forehead to the floor in front of him several times.
[22:07] [Tabius] "Rise Cicada, do your duty."
[22:07] * Tei hauls her up by the wrist We are leaving. Now!"
[22:08] [Cicada] (whispers, tearfully) "But I no longer know what that is..."
[22:08] * Cicada gets dragged away by Tei.
[22:08] [Cicada] (allows herself to be dragged away by Tei, that is)
[22:08] * Tabius has a single tear fall from his left eye as she is dragged away.
[22:09] * Maris hurries fast to try and cross the barrier while Cicada is being pulled through and Tei is on the other side.
[22:10] [Storyteller] Cicada and Tei disappear through the wall and though you try to follow you merely run face first into the solid wall
[22:10] [Tei] [cicada]"I must speak with the master now, leave me."
[22:10] * Maris will have it hit his shoulder instead of his face if his hands don't go through.
[22:11] [Maris] How much give does the wall have?
[22:12] [Storyteller] almost n give, Maris. it seems to be exactly like the wall that you were up against in the sewers.

[22:11] [Cicada] "Yes, sir Tei..."
[22:11] [Cicada] "But, sir Tei... one question.."
[22:11] * Tei turns "What?"
[22:12] [Cicada] "please explain what is going on. I feel like we are serving the Anathema..."
[22:13] [Tei] "I serve my master The Red Bloom Exalted of the unconquered Sun and lord of sorcery"
[22:15] * Cicada stares at Tei. "what....?"
[22:20] [Tei] "This is all you need to know."
[22:20] * Tei leaves to speak to red bloom
[22:20] * Cicada falls to her knees and stare after Tei as he leaves.

[22:23] [Cicada] Btw, if Irin is there then what about the NPC Immaculates?
[22:24] [Storyteller] The other NPCs are nowhere to be seen
[22:24] [Storyteller] I forget to say.. uhh your dreams have been more accurate and you know now that your father is the earth aspect, and is the one that was carrying you, and your mother is a stone-faced bitch when she has to be.
[22:25] [Cicada] Hmmm... I still think I am going to need Tabius to tell me that before i believe it. :)
[22:25] [Storyteller] ^_^
[22:25] [Cicada] Just because it will make such a great scene. :)
[22:27] [Storyteller] it will....
[22:27] [Storyteller] oh, and the white jade artifact now has your house sigil permanently engraved on it
[22:27] [Storyteller] any ideas what it looks like yet?
[22:28] [Cicada] No, but I will have to make it up if you don't have any ideas.
[22:28] [Storyteller] I could get ideas but if you have any "seed ideas" I'd be most grateful
[22:29] [Cicada] I will have to think about it a little.

[22:21] * Tabius activates Elemental Concentration Method and sits in a corner studying in detail the minor--
[22:21] [Maris] !ex 5
[22:21] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 6, 10, 4, 4, 3, Successes : 2
[22:21] * Tabius --effects even such a small use of essence has.
[22:21] [Storyteller] Irin wakes up and Maris finds himself being hurled through the air as the vengeful Irin starts elbowing him in the face
[22:22] * Maris will roll from the hurling and get to his feet uninjured.
[22:22] [Maris] "Just trying to keep you from going back to sleep on us."
[22:22] [Storyteller] Irin mutters at Maris "If I could get up..."
[22:23] [Maris] "Get up then."
[22:24] [Storyteller] Irin looks angrily at Maris and then slowly stands, using the wall for support.
[22:25] * Maris stands on the other side of the room, "Good."
[22:25] [Maris] "Now if you don't mind we're trying to plan an escape.

[22:26] [Storyteller] Tei, you go to talk to red bloom. Leaving Cicada and climbing to the deck you walk to the main mast and kneel down next to a large, oval artifact made of orichulum and jade. As you approach it, the sailors give you a wide berth so that they do not interfere with you. After a few moments of waiting, an image of Red Bloom is projected into the air in front of you. "Hello Tei, is everything well?" the image asks.
[22:27] [Tei] "the prisoners have woken my master and they grow restless
[22:27] * Cicada , disbelieving what she has been told, sneaks after Tei.

[22:29] [Storyteller] roll wits + stealth
[22:30] [Cicada] !ex 7
[22:30] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 7, 2, 10, 10, 8, 8, 3, 7, Successes : 7
[22:30] [Cicada] Hmmmm, impressive...
[22:31] [Storyteller] quite
[22:32] [Cicada] Heh, I could dance naked in front of him and he wouldn't notice. :)
[22:32] [Storyteller] yeap :)
[22:44] [Cicada] Almost sad, I would like to see SOME reaction if I did that..
[22:45] [Storyteller] well maybe you would botch your performance roll.
[22:46] [Cicada] Now, THAT would be due cause for my suicide. :)
[22:46] [Storyteller] lol

[22:28] [Storyteller] "Hmmm, that is not good" says red bloom, pacing back and forth on the deck. "They must be working up a resistance to the drug."
[22:29] [Tei] "it would appear so. Also I fear the one called Cicada has become suspicious of me."
[22:31] [Storyteller] Red Bloom looks unhappily at you. "Hmm... well none of them know your weakness as yet so be careful. Which ones are awake?"
[22:31] [Storyteller] Tei roll per+awe
[22:32] [Tei] !exa 5
[22:32] [Storyteller] Tei : !exa 5, 3, 9, 8, 3, 1, Successes : 2
[22:32] [Storyteller] the deck has been all but deserted, the sailors getting to work as far away from you as possible.
[22:33] [Tei] "the sorcerer, Tabius, and the large warrior Maris
[22:34] [Storyteller] "Hmmm... well very well. Be careful of Tabius... he can become invisible and may has other spells that could be dangerous to you."
[22:35] [Storyteller] "The other should cause you no trouble. Maris should still be loyal to us, though he is no doubt confused as to why we have betrayed him."
[22:36] [Tei] "Yes my lord. Cicada will be a sticking point. Do you still feel it wise to allow her to roam free?"
[22:36] [Storyteller] "Still you cannot trust him, the magics we used to bind him do not change others from convincing him to change sides, though I doubt it."
[22:36] [Storyteller] Red Bloom nods.
[22:37] [Storyteller] "Cicada will not risk the death of you or her lord. As long as Tabius does not command her to fight, she will not.
[22:38] * Tei seems hesitant
[22:38] [Storyteller] "Is there something wrong?"
[22:39] [Tei] "The sorcerer may know of my weakness, I am aware of the training methods of the heptagram. This spell is not unknown among my kind."
[22:40] [Storyteller] "Hmmm, I do not believe so. He would certainly be aware of lesser magics, but in your case, the spell is beyond the abilities of his kin."
[22:41] [Tei] "but You said the Chosen of the maidens run that school. They may keep all the students aware of the powers of you're kind."
[22:43] [Storyteller] Red bloom waves his hand. "Even in the first age this spell was rarely used. Also, my informants tell me that much of what they teach is hidden in myth. Even if he did know, he would be unable to separate truth from fiction."
[22:43] [Maris] "Tabius you think you could try and wake one of the others?'
[22:44] [Tei] "As you wish, Master. I must bow to you're wisdom.
[22:47] [Tei] "What should I do if the others awake?"

[22:41] * Maris looks to the 3 asleep and decides he probably doesn't want to wake any of them just yet.
[22:45] * Maris will try and wake up Vanal since Tabius isn't responding.
[22:46] [Tabius] "Huh, what?
[22:46] * Maris is trying to wake Vanal
[22:46] [Tabius] "What are you doing Maris, trying to get yourself killed?
[22:47] [Storyteller] roll medicine + wits
[22:47] [Maris] !ex 3
[22:47] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 3, 10, 7, 10, Successes : 5
[22:48] [Maris] "I can restrain him long enough to explain it to him.
[22:48] [Tabius] "Not if you don't want to get burned to a crisp when his anima ignites.
[22:48] [Maris] "Well then help me hold him then."
[22:48] [Maris] "And you too Irin."
[22:48] [Storyteller] Vanal groans and tosses in his sleep but does not wake up
[22:48] [Storyteller] Irin is sleeping
[22:49] * Maris sighs and goes over to Irin to juggle her awake again.
[22:49] [Maris] "It starting to look like we've been drugged.
[22:49] [Tabius] "of course we were drugged, I was conscious when I drank mine."
[22:50] [Tabius] "I was conscious while the Anathema explained about your lover and her ship as well Maris."
[22:50] [Maris] "Yes well it might have been magic."
[22:51] [Storyteller] Irin's eyes don't open as she starts cursing in firetounge
[22:51] [Tabius] "Care to explain where we might be going on it?"
[22:51] [Maris] "Shel is Anathema. Or isn't. I'm not sure. The Earth Aspected Dragonblooded told me that Shel isn't really Anathema."
[22:52] [Maris] "And this isn't Shel's ship."
[22:52] [Maris] "Stay awake Irin."
[22:52] [Tabius] "Then the Anethema have more resources than I thought.
[22:52] * Maris pulls her to her feet.
[22:53] [Storyteller] Irin grumbles as she is pulled to her feet and looks at you angrily
[22:53] [Storyteller] "Lemme go!
[22:53] [Maris] "Then Stay awake!"
[22:53] * Maris says letting her stand on her feet.
[22:54] [Tabius] "She has obviously not shirked the full effects of the intoxicant. Being rough with her will get neither of you anywhere"
[22:54] [Storyteller] Irin looks at you angrily as she stumbles over to the window and leans against it
[22:55] [Maris] "She stays awake and is angry the drug will work off faster then if she's asleep."
[22:56] [Maris] "And I'd rather have 3 of us here then 2 two if Tei decides to get violent."
[22:56] [Tabius] "Very unlikely. If they wanted us dead or near permanently incapacitated we would already be such.

[22:54] [Tei] What are you're orders master, if the others wake?"
[22:56] [Storyteller] "They'll need to exercise to stay well. Give them private quarters, allow them to walk the decks and the first floor, but keep an eye on them. Do not allow them any weapons or such, and try to keep them in small groups. subdue them if they interfere. Kill them if necessary."
[22:56] [Tei] "yes master."
[22:57] [Storyteller] "Is that all?"
[22:57] [Tei] "Unless you need to say something."
[22:57] [Storyteller] Red Bloom nods. "That will be all"
[22:57] [Storyteller] his image disappears.
[22:59] * Tei goes to inform the prisoners
[22:59] * Cicada sits behind the pile of rope a few meters away, staring into space in disbelief and trying to make her heart stop beating loud enough to be heard across the deck.
[23:01] [Storyteller] Tei you do not even notice Cicada as you pass

[23:00] [Tabius] It might be unwise to let Tabs out of the confines of the cell. FG is a bitch if he has any distance
[23:00] [Storyteller] true, but it DOES take a full turn to cast.
[23:01] [Tabius] Yeah..... so.... if he casts MoBL in his quarters and walks out on deck, who is going to stop him
[23:01] [Tabius] and most can't move across an entire deck in 1 turn.... so there is a chance
[23:01] [Storyteller] you'll find out
[23:01] [Tabius] It seems like a horrible risk to take knowing at least 2 of the things he can do.
[23:02] [Tabius] Hrmmm, I guess I shall indeed ;-)

[23:01] * Maris stands near Irin to make sure she doesn't go back to sleep.
[23:01] [Storyteller] Irin glares at you as she adjusts her uniform
[23:02] * Tei enters the cell "listen up."
[23:02] * Maris looks to Tei and moves over to the wall where he is.
[23:02] * Tabius looks up from his medications.
[23:03] [Tei] "You will each be given you're own room and allowed to walk the deck and first floor of the ship. You will not be allowed weapons and cannot gather in groups larger than two. All on pain of Death."
[23:04] [Maris] "Good."
[23:04] [Storyteller] Irin glares at Tei
[23:04] [Tabius] "How interesting. Do we get to hold your hand on the way out?
[23:04] [Maris] "Can we leave now then?"
[23:05] [Tei] "Soon the rooms must be prepared."
[23:05] * Maris grunts and stands arms crossed.
[23:06] [Tei] Within the hour at least. I will begin now."
[23:06] * Tei leaves
[23:07] * Maris looks to the others, "Well now we have a better chance. We all know what to look for then?"

[23:07] * Tei returns on deck and calls over a few slaves
[23:07] [Storyteller] several of the slaves reluctantly approach you. All seem strong and fit.

[23:08] [Tabius] "As long as he has his items of power there is little we are going to be able to do with him and troops on board.
[23:09] [Tabius] "Perhaps if I knew Death of Obsidian Butterflies we might have a chance to take out the troops."

[23:09] [Tei] "you are to refit the cabins on the first floor for our guests. And remove all weapons from the room, not even a letter opener. Also take any mirrors on the ship and make sure they are locked down tight somewhere secure. Understand?"
[23:09] [Storyteller] The slaves bow to you and quickly get to work
[23:10] * Tei goes back to training untill the refit is over."

[23:10] [Storyteller] anything you guys wanna do in the meantime?
[23:10] * Cicada gets away from her hideout before the sailors return. Finding a secluded spot (on the top of a mast) she sits down to think, and to despair a little.
[23:12] * Tabius will concentrate on his manipulations of the essencial energies of the universe.

[23:12] [Storyteller] Okay then, in about 40 minutes the slaves return to you Tei and bow. Their servant in charge bows as well. "The rooms have been cleared, my lord, and all mirrors have been removed."
[23:13] [Tei] "good come with me to relocate the prisoners."
[23:13] [Tei] "arm yourselves."
[23:14] [Storyteller] the slaves wander around picking up clubs and the like. Two of Red Bloom's imbued servants join you.
[23:15] [Tei] "Stay here I will bring them out one at a time."
[23:15] [Storyteller] They nod to you.
[23:15] [Storyteller] and follow
[23:15] * Tei enter the cell
[23:16] [Storyteller] Tei passes through the wall of the cell.
[23:16] * Maris looks up to him.
[23:16] [Tei] "Tabius Come with me."
[23:16] * Tabius stands and walks over to Tei.
[23:17] * Tei takes tabs by the wrist not ungently and leads him through the wall to the waiting servants
[23:18] * Tabius cooperates.
[23:18] * Tei is holding a blade in his other hand
[23:18] [Storyteller] Tabius you leave the room to find yourself surrounded by several slaves with long knifes and clubbed and a couple.. rather strange individuals. Axeblades jut out of their forearms and their skin shines like steel as they watch you wearingly.
[23:19] [Tei] Now I shall show you your quarters

[23:19] [Storyteller] Maris is now alone with Irin
[23:20] [Storyteller] "What the hell is with you, anyway" she curses
[23:20] * Maris looks up to him.
[23:20] [Maris] "What do you mean?"
[23:20] [Storyteller] "I thought you were helping us."
[23:20] [Maris] "I am."
[23:21] [Maris] "They fucked with my mind. They messed up my memories."
[23:21] [Storyteller] she shakes her head. "Right. And they convinced you to do their dirty work for you."
[23:21] [Maris] "I'm only now starting to realize it. And only because I was told of it."
[23:22] [Maris] "If you found out the love of your life was anathema and needed your help to live what would you do then?"
[23:23] [Maris] "And all I can remember of House Cynis which I used to love is all the horrors I've witnessed there."
[23:23] [Maris] "And all I can think of the Realm is all the disgusting and idiotic things it's done."

[23:24] * Tei has led tabs to his room and is returning for Maris
[23:24] [Tei] [I do the same one by one carrying the sleeping players]

[23:23] [Storyteller] Irin shakes her head. "Who was it?"
[23:23] [Maris] "Shel Stormwind."
[23:24] [Storyteller] "That bitch?!
[23:24] [Maris] "You know her?"
[23:24] [Storyteller] "Met her a few years back in a brawl. Long story."

[23:25] [Storyteller] Tei returns, grabs Vanal, and then leaves
[23:25] [Storyteller] Tabius your room is completely barren, but at least you have a bed.
[23:25] [Maris] "Hehe. Who won?"
[23:25] [Storyteller] "Her men, actually. Bloody underhanded pirates."
[23:26] * Maris chuckles, "That sounds like Shel."
[23:26] [Tei] leaves each in room with a stern warning to be good, and orders to the slaves to keep them from bunching up

[23:26] * Tabius thinks 'OH Goody a Bed.' then sits on it and meditates on the creative uses of essence.
[23:27] * Maris will leave his room pretty soon after looking through it and heads up to the deck.
[23:27] [Storyteller] "Didn't realize she was anathema, but hell."
[23:27] * Maris looks for mirrors as he goes.
[23:27] [Storyteller] Maris there are no mirrors anywhere
[23:28] [Storyteller] Irin is left alone
[23:28] [Maris] K
[23:28] * Maris will go back to find Irin then afterwards.
[23:28] [Maris] "She masqueraded as a Dragon Blooded for while."
[23:28] [Maris] "Had everyone fooled."
[23:29] [Maris] "But I've been told she wasn't anathema at all."
[23:29] [Storyteller] Irin shrugs unknowingly.
[23:29] [Storyteller] "I heard stories, but I don't know."
[23:29] * Maris sits in Irin's room talking with her.

[23:27] * Tei will return to practice after giving orders for someone to find cicada an eye on her
[23:28] [Tei] keep and eye on her
[23:29] * Cicada will climb down to the deck after some time. Still looking miserable, but with her mind made up.
[23:29] [Storyteller] Tei you have now completed the moving of everyone
[23:29] [Storyteller] Guards have been posted at each door

[23:31] [Cicada] Question. Do we have our luggage in our rooms? All the non-weapon stuff, that is.
[23:31] [Storyteller] probably not, but you've been around long enough to weedle certain things out
[23:32] [Cicada] ok.
[23:32] [Cicada] The things I will be looking for are very harmless. A change of clothes and maybe some cosmetics.

[23:30] [Maris] How many guards are there?
[23:30] [Storyteller] one each. yours follows you as you leave, and one at her door, so now two outside your door.
[23:30] [Maris] "What stories you hear?"
[23:32] [Storyteller] [Irin] "Just that she was very good at what she did. which seems to be stealing cargo from the realm."
[23:33] * Maris nods
[23:33] [Maris] "My father had to pay her to keep her off his back most of the time."
[23:34] * Cicada goes to Tabius room, standing outside the door for a while she cannot make herself knock.
[23:34] [Storyteller] the guard outside tabius' room eyes you uneasily
[23:34] * Cicada then gives up and goes to her own cabin.
[23:34] [Tei] [should be a gaurd following you by now]
[23:34] [Maris] "One of the only people I know who makes the Realm bend to her desires instead of the other way around."
[23:34] [Cicada] [likely]
[23:35] [Storyteller] Okay Cicada you notice your shadow
[23:35] * Cicada closes the door to her room behind her. Leaning on the door she takes a few deep breaths.
[23:36] [Tei] [though I guess if anyone avoids the gaurds it would be yo
[23:36] * Cicada then sets to work. She puts on a new set of clothes and some of the few cosmetics and perfume she has scrounged

[23:34] [Tei] unless something massive is planned for later tonight I'm going to get off now
[23:34] [Storyteller] allright...
[23:34] [Storyteller] cya next week?
[23:35] [Tei] as of now. I'm going to be here as much as possible. And I just want you to know this has nothing to do with the plot line I 'm loving every minute of it
[23:35] [Storyteller] that's good :)
[23:36] [Storyteller] anyhow.. I really would suggest you do that thing which is impossible.
[23:36] [Storyteller] it was the only solution for me.
[23:36] * Storyteller points at the home network set up
[23:36] [Tei] cya
[23:37] [Storyteller] w3rd [23:37] [Tei] [tei spends the rest of the session in deep meditation locked in his room, AS I will be going now]
[23:37] [Cicada] [Bye, see you next week]
[23:38] * Tei has quit IRC (Quit: )

[23:38] * Cicada , finally ready, goes to Tabius's cabin again and drawing a deep breath knocks on the door.
[23:40] * Tabius somewhat disoriented, "Who is it?
[23:40] * Cicada calls out a feeble "your servant, Sable Cicada" from her dry throat.
[23:41] [Tabius] "You may enter if its OK with the guard"
[23:41] * Cicada looks to the guard.
[23:41] [Storyteller] the guard nods silently, metal plates on either side of his head looking like a beard.
[23:42] * Cicada enters the cabin, dressed in the best silk kimono she could get and carrying with her the slight fragrance of perfume.
[23:43] [Cicada] "My lord, I have come to tell you dire news."
[23:43] [Tabius] "Oh, this should be most interesting."
[23:43] * Cicada closes the door behind her. Her otherwise nimble fingers fumbling with the key as she locks it.
[23:43] * Tabius is wondering what could be more dire than essentially being a prisoner on a ship in the middle of nowhere--
[23:44] [Cicada] "My lord, I must tell you of treason..."
[23:44] * Tabius -- and having a Martial Arts Master peaking in on you waiting for you to screw up so he could kick your ass.
[23:44] [Tabius] "Treason?
[23:44] [Cicada] This disloyal servant has betrayed her lord.."
[23:45] * Maris sits in Irin's room talking of trivial things about the realm and trying o figure out what was real and what was fake.
[23:45] [Cicada] "In my heart and body my allegiance has become divided..."
[23:45] [Cicada] "I have consorted with a servant of demons..."
[23:45] [Storyteller] Maris is doesn't seem like they've changed very much.
[23:46] [Storyteller] If they changed anything, you can't tell.
[23:46] [Cicada] "So my lord, I must beg you a favor, though I in no way deserve it.."
[23:47] * Cicada is shaking lightly and appear short of breath.
[23:47] * Tabius looks disturbed for only a moment then his face changes back to its non-expressive self.
[23:48] [Tabius] "Who is the Servant of Demons with whom you have consorted?"
[23:48] [Cicada] "My lord... I must beg you to set my heart straight, so that I again can serve my lord without thought for anything else..."
[23:48] [Cicada] "It is the monk Tei, my lord...."
[23:49] [Tabius] "And you have you given yourself to him?
[23:49] * Cicada undoes her belt. There is the sound of soft fabric on even softer fabric as her kimono falls to the floor leaving her naked before Tabius.
[23:49] [Storyteller] Tabius roll temperance
[23:50] [Tabius] !exa 4
[23:50] [Storyteller] Tabius : !exa 4, 6, 3, 3, 5, Successes : 0
[23:50] [Cicada] "No, my lord, not yet. I beg you take me and extinguish the spark of treason inside me."
[23:50] [Tabius] (*OH SH!T)
[23:50] [Storyteller] cicada roll presence + appearance
[23:50] [Cicada] "Make me yours... So that I can never fail again"
[23:50] [Cicada] (Willpower, my lord, willpower)
[23:50] [Cicada] !ex 6
[23:50] [Storyteller] Cicada : !ex 6, 5, 3, 7, 2, 1, 8, Successes : 2
[23:51] [Storyteller] Tabius, you seduced man.

[23:47] [Storyteller] [anything you want to do Maris?]
[23:48] * Maris is more or less trying to justify himself to Irin for now.
[23:49] [Storyteller] Maris roll wits + socialize
[23:50] [Maris] ((Not presence?))
[23:51] [Storyteller] No, wits + socialize Maris
[23:51] [Maris] !ex 5
[23:51] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 5, 3, 5, 2, 9, 5, Successes : 1
[23:51] [Storyteller] Storyteller : !ex 3, 3, 10, 9, Successes : 3
[23:51] [Storyteller] !ex 3
[23:51] [Storyteller] Maris you don't seem to be convincing irin
[23:52] * Maris keeps trying feeling guilty and looking for some redemption.

[23:51] * Cicada is shaking as if cold as she stands before her lord with her eyes closed.
[23:51] [Storyteller] Cicada's body is just too good
[23:52] * Cicada looks away with closed eyes and gritted teeth,
[23:52] [Storyteller] you can roll a WP to roll WP
[23:52] * Tabius moves up and embraces Sable rapping his arms around leaving her covered as he looks into her eyes.
[23:52] [Storyteller] spend a WP even if you want to
[23:52] [Tabius] "Look at me Sable."
[23:52] * Cicada has a shock pass through as she had been hit. Gulping she looks up at her lord.
[23:53] [Tabius] "What sin have you committed that would require you to make this sacrifice?"
[23:53] [Tabius] "Make this choice?"
[23:54] [Cicada] "Your servant has been disloyal, she fears that she can no longer serve her lord..."
[23:54] * Tabius takes every fiber of his being and shunts the rising sexual desire in his loans (*IE WP*)
[23:54] [Cicada] "She is afraid..."
[23:55] * Cicada leans against Tabius, all of her body shaking, her arms folded over her chest.
[23:55] [Storyteller] roll WP tabius
[23:55] [Tabius] !exa 7
[23:55] [Storyteller] Tabius : !exa 7, 8, 5, 3, 8, 8, 7, 4, Successes : 4
[23:55] [Storyteller] you can resist... for now
[23:55] [Tabius] "In truth, you are not my servant, but a member of the House Cathak."
[23:56] [Tabius] "When you were forced to reveal yourself to save my life in the forest fighting against the Anethema it became so.
[23:56] * Cicada stands there like a prisoner awaiting judgment, her breath small quick inhales.
[23:56] [Tabius] "Your willingness to cover me in your shield then proved that."
[23:57] * Tabius does not hold Sable like a prize or lover, but as a guardian or defender would. His eyes looking at hers wondering nowhere.
[23:58] * Cicada looks into Tabius eyes, showing fear and worry, as she tries to comprehend his words as they come to her like faint echoes spoken in another world.
[23:58] [Tabius] "How now, have you committed Treason against house Cathak. Your charge is still alive and seems to be well."
[23:58] [Cicada] (her own eyes showing fear and worry)
[23:58] [Tabius] "You are still alive and while not well, certainly fit enough to become such."
[23:59] [Tabius] "I see not how you have failed to care for either of us or our companions to the best of your abilities considering the situation that we have
[23:59] [Tabius] "Been recently......'
[23:59] [Tabius] "Your heart betrayed you into working with a man who is not the man that you have feelings for."
[00:00] [Tabius] "I tell you this because I overheard much after our defeat when everyone but Maris were unconscious or near death.
[00:00] * Cicada just stares blindly, her lower lip trembling.
[00:01] [Tabius] "Tei as you know him on this ship is not the Tei that we knew when we walked into this Malkors Guard.
[00:01] [Tabius] "He is under a spell so powerful that is all but beyond my comprehension."
[00:01] [Cicada] "My lord, does not desire to help his servant..?"
[00:02] [Tabius] "I.......I....... wish very much to feel your affections, but not this way, not because you have been hurt
[00:02] * Cicada suddenly shakes herself loose from Tabius and grapping her clothes from the floor races out the door, nearly tearing it from its hinges as she do.
[00:03] [Tabius] "or feel you have to make something up to me or the house."
[00:04] * Cicada runs straight to her room, smashing the door shut behind her she throws herself on the bed and cries without end.
[00:05] * Tabius walks out his own door, looks at the guard to say he is walking down the hall then heads to Cicadas room.
[00:07] * Tabius once to Cicada's door knocks on it softly.
[00:16] * Cicada is not going to move from her room for quite a while. Tabius can find her without any problems. But we might want a Maris scene as an interlude first. :)
[00:18] * Tabius has already knocked on the door lightly, but will do so more heavily this time.

[00:01] * Maris keeps talking with Irin but eventually stops and heads out the door to look for mirrors
[00:02] [Storyteller] roll investig + perception maris
[00:03] [Maris] !ex 6
[00:03] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 6, 7, 8, 5, 3, 5, 4, Successes : 2
[00:03] [Storyteller] Maris you look for a long time but you find no mirrors.
[00:03] [Storyteller] You are, however, not allowed below the first deck.
[00:04] [Maris] Is it guarded?
[00:04] [Storyteller] Yeap by some more of these imbued thingies.
[00:04] [Maris] How many total now?
[00:04] [Storyteller] and the one behind you watches as they turn you back
[00:04] [Storyteller] 12
[00:04] * Maris goes upstairs to check out what kind of vessel this is.
[00:05] * Maris tries to figure out how many levels the ship has and how many guards are visible.
[00:07] [Storyteller] Maris, it is a deep sea sailing vessel. After wandering around you see that it is in fact one of the Fire Fleet, which works to control the seas of the south. This ship is clearly out of it's jurisdiction, but it means that somewhere, there are trained soldiers just waiting to fight. Watching, you suspect that the ship holds maybe two talons of troops, and many of these troops are occasionally trading shifts on the deck for shifts below deck.
[00:07] * Maris also looks for a mirror on the deck.
[00:07] [Storyteller] Maris you still don't see a mirror.
[00:08] [Storyteller] It's getting late in the day. It will be sunset soon.
[00:09] [Maris] I see the thing that Tei was using?
[00:09] [Storyteller] yea
[00:09] * Maris checks it over. Is it reflective?"
[00:10] [Storyteller] it is pretty shiney
[00:10] [Storyteller] but not reflective, per say
[00:10] * Maris tries to see if he can get his reflection to show in it by shining it with his hand and some spit.
[00:12] [Storyteller] Wandering around, you see a calendar. Today is the 24th of descending fire
[00:12] [Storyteller] And no, you can't see your reflection
[00:12] [Maris] How long have we been out then?
[00:12] [Storyteller] A chuckle comes from behind you
[00:12] [Storyteller] (almost 2 months)
[00:12] * Maris looks behind him.
[00:12] [Storyteller] "I wouldn't touch that if I were you." says the man with axe blades jutting out of his arm that has been following you since you left your room.
[00:13] [Storyteller] "Might explode."
[00:13] [Maris] "What's your story? Someone hit you with the ugly stick of steel?"
[00:13] * Maris says giving him an annoyed look.
[00:13] [Storyteller] He holds up his arms and looks at the blades before shrugging.
[00:14] [Storyteller] "My master rewards us well for our deeds."
[00:14] [Maris] "That's a reward?"
[00:14] * Maris chuckles
[00:14] [Storyteller] he grins.
[00:14] [Storyteller] "Strange reward, yes."
[00:15] [Maris] "He made you a freak so you can't ever leave him. Sounds like he doesn't trust you very much at all."
[00:15] [Storyteller] He shrugs. "It is rather unsightly, but his influence ranges far enough for me to live my life how I please."
[00:16] [Maris] "He make you some metal girls to sleep with then?"
[00:16] [Storyteller] He laughs
[00:16] [Storyteller] "No, but there are plenty of girls on this ship."

[00:16] * Maris looks about, "Yeah?"
[00:16] [Storyteller] the crew seems to be 50/50 men women
[00:17] [Maris] "And they'll sleep with you?"
[00:17] [Storyteller] they're actually wearing clothes though. This weather is like A/C compared to what they're used to.
[00:17] [Storyteller] "If they know what's good for them. My master is very powerful."
[00:17] [Maris] "Rape then."
[00:17] * Maris shakes his head.
[00:18] [Maris] "You should check your priority list."
[00:18] [Storyteller] he laughs
[00:19] [Storyteller] "Funny to hear that from a Cynis."
[00:19] [Maris] "Not all Cynis are perverted Rapists."
[00:19] [Maris] "A lot are. But not all."
[00:20] [Storyteller] "Sure thing."
[00:20] [Storyteller] He looks at you, arms crossed.
[00:20] [Maris] "Where were you recruited?"
[00:21] [Maris] "Personally if I were you I'd of asked to be made Dragon Blooded."
[00:21] [Storyteller] "You really want to know?"
[00:21] [Maris] "I'm curious as to what would make a person choose to serve a monster?"
[00:23] * Maris watches the guard and tries to pick out features that would tell him the region the guard was from.
[00:23] [Storyteller] He just shrugs and looks at Maris. "It's a life. Really, the Solars aren't as bad as they've been put out to be. Sure, they can be kinda weird at times, but so can any Exalted."
[00:25] [Maris] "You happen to see the town they slaughtered?
[00:26] [Maris] "Or the one they wanted to slaughter?"
[00:26] [Maris] "Or the cliff wall that they collapsed ruining the economy of another town?"
[00:26] [Maris] "They're evil people. Especially that Red Bloom person."
[00:28] [Maris] "You don't happen to have some cards do you? I feel like gambling."
[00:29] * Vanal has quit IRC (Quit: My name is Chris ! And I. AM. *CANADIAN* !)
[00:30] [Storyteller] He shrugs. "So a few people have to die in order for the world to become a better place."
[00:30] [Storyteller] "I can get some cards.
[00:30] [Storyteller] "Come with me."
[00:30] * Maris nods and gets up.
[00:33] [Storyteller] The guy calls out to one of the soldiers going downstairs and she stops, pulling a small package from her shirt pocket, and throwing them up at the man. He grabs it with one arm then smiles at Maris.
[00:33] [Storyteller] "They don't mind so much."
[00:34] [Maris] ((He go downstairs to get them?))

[00:19] * Cicada lies sobbing on her bed inside. She is not going to open the door. It is, however, not locked.
[00:20] * Tabius checks to see if the door is locked, if not he peers inside.
[00:21] * Cicada lies curled up like a ball on the bed, her discarded kimono in a heap on the floor.
[00:22] * Tabius enters the room with his eyes to the floor, closes the door, picks up the kimono and drapes it on Cicada/
[00:22] [Tabius] "I think you dropped something dear."
[00:23] * Cicada reacts in shock and quick as a flash pull her blanket over her naked form.
[00:24] * Cicada 's sobbing quiets. She lies curled up facing into the wall, away from Tabius.
[00:24] [Tabius] "Want to talk about this?"
[00:26] * Cicada starts shaking again as she tries to hold back her tears. "I have failed my lord, he does not desire his servant's company... What is there to talk about" She manages to get out between sobs.
[00:27] [Cicada] "My lord is shaming both his servant and himself by being here..."
[00:27] [Tabius] "Oh I desire your company more than any others in creation, but not as my servant. "
[00:28] [Tabius] "I have always tried to be good to you, been as much of a friend as I could as the circumstances allowed.
[00:28] * Cicada pulls herself further towards the wall and tries to cover her ears with the pillow.
[00:29] * Tabius touches Cidada's leg around the calf area.
[00:30] * Cicada reacts as if burned and pulls her leg up under her.
[00:31] * Tabius in a loud enough voice to be heard through a pillow:
[00:31] [Tabius] "I will be waiting in my room for you when you are done with your pouting."
[00:32] [Tabius] If you come to me for the right reasons and offer yourself, it will be my honor.
[00:32] [Tabius] If you wish to continue with our relationship as it has been in the past, that as well will be my privilege .
[00:32] [Tabius] While I might prefer one over the other, I can be content with either.
[00:33] [Tabius] Your father would not accent to give any man your hand, so I will not force nor allow you
[00:33] [Tabius] force yourself to make that decision for the wrong reasons.
[00:33] * Tabius gets up and quickly leaves the room.
[00:33] * Cicada still hides herself, but her sobbing has quieted down.

[00:34] [Maris] "Coo. Any one else want to play?"
[00:35] [Storyteller] Maris you see Tabius coming outside of Cicada's room
[00:35] [Maris] "Hey Tab you want to play cards?"
[00:35] * Tabius is rather upset.
[00:36] [Tabius] "Sorry Maris, I am not in the mood to participate, but thank you for the offer."
[00:36] [Maris] "Ok."
[00:36] * Maris goes to knock on Cicada's door.
[00:37] * Cicada does not answer. It is quiet in her room.
[00:37] * Maris shrugs and looks to the guards at her door, "Hey you want to play some cards?"
[00:38] [Storyteller] they look at each other, than shake their heads no
[00:38] [Storyteller] "Gotta do our jobs."
[00:38] [Maris] "What you can't watch us while playing cards?"
[00:39] [Storyteller] "What, you want to play right here?"
[00:39] [Storyteller] [the rooms are spread over a long hallway]
[00:39] [Storyteller] [4 on each side]
[00:39] [Storyteller] [you could pull a table or something out but nothing like that right now.
[00:40] [Maris] "Well look one of you could watch the doors and the rest of us could go into my room and play."
[00:40] [Maris] "Anyone leaves their rooms the guard gets up and follows em."
[00:40] [Maris] "You really think you need 8 guards to watch a hallway?"
[00:40] * Cicada cries herself to sleep. And she remains asleep till next morning.
[00:41] [Storyteller] "8 dragon bloods that could wake up at any moment? yea."
[00:41] [Maris] "Bah. Two of them just had sex, the other 4 are drugged and then there's just me and Irin."
[00:41] * Tabius enters his room and does his best to concentrate on the esoteric nature of essence and its
[00:42] [Maris] "I get Irin to play and your only dealing with maybe two awake dragon blooded at the most."
[00:42] [Maris] "Hey if you got any booze on board you could get us drunk. That always takes the buzz out of punches."
[00:42] * Tabius manipulation, but can't seem to get Sables curvaceous form and perfect and supple breasts out of his mind.
[00:42] * Maris smirks at them harmlessly.
[00:43] [Storyteller] he calls over a servant and tells her to bring them some wine.
[00:43] * Maris looks to the other guards to see if they're game.
[00:44] * Maris will also knock on Irin's door and ask if she wants to play.
[00:45] [Storyteller] Irin'll come out and play
[00:46] * Maris tries to set the game up in his room but notices something, "Hey you guys got some tables downstairs I can bring up? I hate playing on the floor."
[00:46] [Storyteller] you hear banging around coming from one of the rooms
[00:47] * Maris swears and goes over to the room and opens the door, "Jyn you want to play some cards?"
[00:47] [Storyteller] more thumping from the other rooms
[00:48] [Jynaru] "Cards? uh.... Wait! YOU!!!!"
[00:48] * Jynaru leaps at the traitorous bastard, or at least tries to.
[00:48] [Storyteller] roll attack at -4
[00:48] * Maris will step to the side of Jyn tries it, "Look let me explain before you decide to get all punchy."
[00:49] [Storyteller] Maris dodge?
[00:49] * Maris remembers Tei's warning.
[00:49] [Tabius] !eza 7
[00:49] [Storyteller] Tabius : !eza 7, 8, 5, 9, 8, 4, 8, 2, Successes : 4
[00:49] [Maris] !ex 6
[00:49] [Storyteller] Maris : !ex 6, 2, 8, 6, 7, 6, 7, Successes : 3
[00:49] [Jynaru] !ex 4
[00:49] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 4, 9, 1, 9, 5, Successes : 2
[00:49] * Tabius notices the commotion and the loud YOU and realized that somebody else must have woken up.
[00:49] * Tabius then steps out of the room and into the hallway.
[00:50] [Maris] "Damnit Jyn could you stop this shit and let me explain?!'
[00:50] [Storyteller] Maris steps to the side as Jynaru falls past him and lands on the floor in the hallway. Looking around he sees the guards, one amicably holding a deck of cards.
[00:50] [Storyteller] Tabius comes out of his room across from you
[00:50] * Maris steps on Jyn's back and keeps on the ground.
[00:50] * Jynaru groans.
[00:51] * Tala looks around
[00:51] [Storyteller] Roll stamina + endurance
[00:51] [Storyteller] Jynaru
[00:51] [Maris] "Look the anathema messed with my mind. A lot of memories are screwed up."
[00:51] [Tabius] "Oh, its another of us waking up. You think you can explain it all to him without my help Maris?"
[00:51] [Maris] "Yeah I'll deal with it."
[00:52] [Tabius] "Just make sure you remember that he is still intoxicated with the sleeping drug. You may have to
[00:52] [Jynaru] !ex 6 (WP for conviction)
[00:52] [Storyteller] Jynaru : !ex 6 (WP for conviction), 4, 2, 2, 5, 1, 1, Successes : 0, Botch
[00:52] [Tabius] "Repeat things loudly a couple of times to get it across."
[00:52] [Maris] "Jyn do you understand this?"
[00:52] * Tala tries to figure out where she is
[00:52] [Jynaru] (Nope. Nighty-night time....)
[00:53] * Maris sighs as Jyn starts snoring again.
[00:53] [Maris] "Jeez I'm going to have to explain it to him again later."
[00:53] [Jynaru] (I guess.... I hope not. Goddamned nuisance.)
[00:53] * Maris lifts him up and puts him back on his bed.
[00:53] [Tabius] "I will check on the others while you put him in his room. OK."
[00:53] [Maris] "Well guess he isn't playing."
[00:54] [Maris] "So let's see about those tables alright?"
[00:54] * Maris looks at the guards expecting them to lead the way.
[00:55] [Storyteller] One of the guards opens Tala's door to find her lying on the ground, and so picks her up and puts her back on the bed
[00:56] [Storyteller] The other picks up Jynaru and throws him back on the bed.
[00:56] * Maris helps them.
[00:56] * Tabius checks on the other rooms, if possible.
[00:56] [Storyteller] "Kinda a fire hazard."
[00:56] * Maris put Jyn on his bed.
[00:56] [Storyteller] the rest are still sleeping soundly.
[00:57] [Maris] "Not if we put them in my room."
[00:57] [Storyteller] The other shrugs, and tells the servant who brought then wine to get a table and some chairs.
[00:57] [Storyteller] "Nah, forget the table," he calls after her "Just get us an extra stool."
[00:57] * Tabius just to be on the safe side stays in the hall sitting in his doorway meditating, as well as one can with a hankerin for the wonders of the female body
[00:58] * Maris sets up the chairs in his room then and passes around the wine.
[00:59] * Maris then starts dealing out a game of cards.
[00:59] * Maris will also ask names as he goes around the table with the cards.
[01:00] [Maris] Or the Stool even.
[01:00] [Maris] "I'm telling you that a table would be better.
[01:00] [Maris] "But it's your call."
[01:00] [Storyteller] Bob, Jydan, Erik, Sametin. The rest our sitting outside. Sametin is the one who was guarding you.
[01:01] [Storyteller] "Eh, if we're in here we can use this for a table." Bob says, pulling a desk away from the wall
[01:01] [Maris] Oh I thought there was just a bed in my room.
[01:01] * Maris helps him move the table.
[01:01] [Maris] "Didn't know that was moveable."
[01:01] [Storyteller] nah there's a bed... it's very sparsely decorated to be sure, but there's a chair or two and a desk type thing
[01:02] [Storyteller] he chuckles, looking at the cracked wooden legs. "It isn't. Going to have to nail it back down before we get a storm."
[01:02] * Maris chuckles himself.
[01:02] [Storyteller] anyhow
[01:03] * Maris will be a good host and ingratiate himself with his guards.
[01:04] * Maris asks about their life stories and their reasons for joining with the evil anathema master.
[01:04] [Storyteller] I'll get back to you about that ;)