Session Start: Sat Jul 12 21:11:17 2003 Session Ident: #pvpexaltedrp3 [21:11] * Now talking in #pvpexaltedrp3 [21:13] ok Vanal, you have the dozen or so guilty of whoring Cicada out in your "office" [21:14] * Vanal is sittign behind his desk, hands steepled, appearing much calmer [21:15] "Okay, here's how it's going to work. I am going to find them men who raped her, and they will be executed." [21:15] * Cicada (Hikari@62.79.86.118.ppp1-1.vir.tiscali.dk) has joined #pvpexaltedrp3 [21:16] "Well, sir, we've all had a part in that." one of your liutenanats admits solemnly. [21:16] "I see." [21:17] "If that's the case, then I'm going to have to go to the source." [21:17] * Vanal stands up [21:17] They await, silently. [21:17] * Vanal looks at the guards outside "Escort them back to the stockade. I have a witness to interrogate." [21:19] * Vanal goes to meet with Cicada [21:19] The guards take a hold of the prisoners, 2 per man, and march out. The only sound is the clinking of arms and armor, and the stamping of their feet. [21:21] "This is going to get really, really ugly." [21:24] * Vanal eventually get shis butt there [21:24] "Cicada ?" [21:26] * Cicada lies in bed, face turned towards the wall - completely unmoving. It takes several calls to rouse her. [21:26] "It's Vanal." [21:26] "No! Go away! Don't touch me! Please! No more!" [21:27] "I'm not going to touch you." [21:27] "I found the men who...hurt you." [21:28] "But I need you to show me which ones." [21:28] * Cicada crawls away from Vanal, but then recognize him. [21:28] "Sorry... didn't mean to... to yell... had a bad dream." [21:29] * Vanal nods [21:30] "Cic...I've got somethign to ask you." [21:30] * Cicada nods. [21:31] "About what...happened to you. In Malkor's I mena...how did it start ?" [21:32] "I don't remember... I just arrived here, and then... I was alone and.." [21:33] "Beofre I ask my next question, know that I'm only askign this to be thourough, and don't want to hurt you with what I'm about to ask." [21:33] "...did it start willingly ?" [21:33] * Cicada whimpers. [21:34] "Cicada, if the men who harmed you are to be punished, I need to know." [21:34] * Cicada curls even more into a ball against the wall. "Tala? Did Tala tell?" [21:34] "No, Tala didn't say a thing. She did roudn up a room full of potential culprits last night...and one of them said." [21:35] "I'm not here to pass judgement, Cicada." [21:35] "I'm doing this so I know that I only punish the guilty." [21:36] "I... I'm so sorry, Vanal! Oh gods! I'm so sorry!" [21:36] "I really am what you always said... some common whore..." [21:36] "I never said that, and you know it." [21:37] "If it started willingly is one thing...how it ended is somethign else. Could you point out the individuals who did it ?" [21:37] * Vanal tries to keep his demeanor businesslike [21:38] "I don't... I don't remember! There were so many!" [21:38] "And the women..." [21:38] "I know, I know..." [21:38] "The women were urging the men on... telling them how to make it hurt the most... It was awful..." [21:39] * Cicada 's shoulders heave in a few relentless sobs. [21:39] * Vanal blanches [21:39] (brb) [21:49] (back) [21:49] "Cicada, do you want those who did this to you punished ?" [21:53] (sorry if i am doing this too harshly) [21:53] * Cicada hesitates the nslowly nods. [21:55] (no prob) [21:55] "Then you must try to remember." [21:56] * Cicada turns to stare into the wall again, eyes glittering yellow in the semi-darkness. "I will try... but it is just so very difficult..." [21:57] "Can't we just let it pass and forget about it all..?" [21:57] "Yuo jsut said you wanted them punished." [21:58] "Cicada...they abused you, no matter if you offered yourself willingly to them or not...they crossed the line, and I cannot tolerate that." [21:58] "But! What do you want?! What can I do?" [21:58] * Tabius (~web-Guest@ip68-108-128-145.lv.lv.cox.net) has joined #pvpexaltedrp3 [21:59] "You need to point out the men who abused you, that's all." [21:59] "We cna do it so that they do not see your face." [21:59] "But..." [22:00] "I really don't remember... only glimses..." [22:00] "Maybe seeign their faces will jog your memory ?" [22:00] "It might.." [22:01] * Cicada does not seem to be happy at that thought at all. [22:01] * Tabius comes round a corner about this time. [22:01] "Look, it's not going to be easy or pleasant." [22:01] "If you truly don't want to, I can find another way..." [22:02] (gyah, brb again) [22:07] * Tabius points to his forhead and the hearthstone that is there, "Things will be easier, just by them looking at you." [22:09] (back) [22:10] "Tha-that would be a good help. I simply don't know if I could look at them... speak even a word to them..." [22:11] "But it would have to be one at a time of course." [22:12] "Don't worry...we'll both be in there." [22:13] "If one of them so much as leers at you..." [22:15] "Well there will be pain enough to make the rounds. When should be start?" [22:15] * Cicada nods hurriedly. [22:15] "Anytime you are both ready." [22:17] "When lets be about it." [22:18] * Vanal nods [22:18] "Y-yes." [22:18] * Vanal goes off to make the preparations [22:18] * Tabius comforts Cicada while the preperations are being made. [22:21] * Cicada is clearly nervous and insists on it taking place in another room. She does not want them, their smell or their memory in this room. [22:21] "I think that the entire process will take place in the barracks near the brig." [22:22] * Vanal wasn't gonan bring them HERE...are you nuts ? [22:22] * Vanal returns some time later [22:22] "We've got a room prepared." [22:22] "Ready ?" [22:23] * Tabius stands up with a hand out to Cicada and a questioning look. [22:23] * Cicada glances at Tabius, then slowly nods. [22:24] "Let's go." [22:24] * Tabius helps Cicada as needed to where ever they are going getting himself mentaly prepaired for the toture of sifting through the memory of men who have raped his love. [22:28] * Vanal leads them into a small interview room, with a simple table, with 3 chair son one side...and a single chair against the wall facing them [22:29] * Vanal also has guards posted outside the doors [22:31] "Should we begin ?" [22:32] * Tabius signals that he is ready and pulls out parchment and pen. [22:32] "Lets get it over with..." [22:32] * Cicada swallows nervously. [22:32] "When they come in if we could get name rank and number it would be helpful." [22:33] "No problem." [22:34] * Vanal turns to his aide [22:34] "Or well before they leave. I want to get their first impressions when they see Cicada." [22:34] "Send the first one in." [22:34] * Tabius will follow the gaze of the men as they come in, when they first see Cicada will be their most vlunerable time and he will get their thoughts then. [22:41] (Yo ?GH ? Where's contestant #1 ?) [22:41] * gerald (~vinnie@81.196.69.160) has joined #pvpexaltedrp3 [22:41] * gerald (~vinnie@81.196.69.160) has left #pvpexaltedrp3 [22:41] (?) [22:41] (lok) [22:41] (lok ?) [22:41] (...which server ?) [22:41] oos... [22:41] :) [22:41] ... [22:43] lets say... Lorien, one of the female soldiers. She was transferred from the 8th Legion (Mnemon) after having woke up one night too many from a cynis party. She apparently volunteered to be the first one interrogated. [22:44] * Vanal waits for her to walk in, sit down, notice Cic and gives tabs a minute to read her before he starts his spiel [22:44] "Please state your name, rank, and service number, for the record." [22:45] * Tabius watches the ladies eyes and when she is looking at Cicada tries to pull her surface thoughts. [22:46] !ex 11 [22:46] * Cicada tries to avoid the woman's eyes. [22:46] * *Tabius (11)* 7, 10, 10, 7, 3, 2, 3, 8, 3, 2, 8, Successes : 8 [22:46] * Vanal nods and pulls out a small file from under the table [22:46] "Mnemon Lorien, light infantry, commission of the Flaming Dragons." [22:46] * Vanal nods and pulls out a small file from under the table [22:47] * Vanal leafs through it for a few moments [22:47] "As you can see...you have been following your career now for some time now, Ms. Lorien." [22:47] *we have been [22:48] * Vanal continues speakign, his voice emotionless "You are familiar with the incident that occuring on (dat eof the incident)."...it's a statement, not a question [22:48] * *Lorien* seems to not be taking in your gestopo crap, but actually hides her emotions quite well [22:48] "We have requested your presence here because we need your help in identifying the culprits in that incident." [22:49] "My collegues beleive I am wasting my time with you...but I beleive you wish to do the right thing." [22:50] "I am offering you two opportunities. The first to is confess what you know, truthfully...and perhaps get off with a lighter sentance." [22:50] <*Lorien*> "I have already admitted to being part of the group. What more do you want to know?" [22:51] "The identities of the rapists...not the scapegoats you and your comrades beat into submission." [22:53] "I am offering you a *choice*, Ms. Lorien. you can come clean, fully and truthfully..." [22:53] "...or you can face the consequences." [22:55] <*Lorien*> "The 'scapegopes', my lord, myself included, did engage in sexual relations," she notes, "originally willfully. But I'm afraid me and my companions were a bit too.. enamoured of her to let her go." [22:56] * *Lorien* bats her eyes shyly. [22:56] <*Lorien*> "She ended up escaping, I guess we know now, to the sewers. I guess she didn't appreciate our attentions." [22:57] * Vanal nods, keeping his emotions steady [22:57] "Very well then, you have made your choice." [22:57] * Cicada moans softly. [22:57] * Vanal has the guard take her to a holding cell seperate from the other prisoners [22:59] * Vanal waits until she's gone and turns to tabius [22:59] "Well ?" [23:01] "She remembers things vividly....." [23:01] "I see. And ?" [23:02] * Cicada draws her breath in shallow heaves. [23:02] "She remembers that Cicada was rather reluctant at fiorst, then she eventually consented under the preasure...... [23:02] * Vanal nods [23:02] She was anxious to leave the town always wondering what day it was." [23:03] "Right." [23:03] "They were looking to pick up woman" [23:03] * Vanal scowls [23:04] "Is there anything else ? Names, faces ?" [23:05] "I was just her surface thoughts Vanal, not deep memory I am sorry." [23:06] * Vanal nods [23:06] "Right." [23:06] "Send in the next one." [23:07] (this could get bloody effin' tedious, and Van is gonna go through the same routine with each guy...) [23:07] yea... [23:08] there's really not much more to learn.. Basically... their minds show that Cicada was willing in one way or another until a certain point; at that point, it could be called rape, and even kidnapping, but that period was for a week at most. [23:08] (*Of course it is....... was actually thinking GH would have us roll a bunch of times and synimaticly tell us what happens?_ [23:08] (Just keep this as the example scene and assume rolls and so works down the line? Then get some results?) [23:08] right [23:09] okay, so Vans' got the lsit of rapists ? [23:09] yes, maybe 3 of them at the start, 17 at the end. [23:09] so 17 people [23:09] right [23:10] * Vanal looks at the list [23:10] !roll 1d17 [23:10] * *Storyteller* 1d17, 11 , Total: 11 [23:10] what's that ? [23:10] * Storyteller was just thinking it was odd if they all admitted guilt; luckily 11 of them will. [23:11] cool [23:11] so 11 confessors, 6 liers [23:11] "Well 11 out of the 17 admitted guilt. Hard labor for them I think. The 6 that didn't should die for being rapists and liars. [23:12] * Vanal nods [23:12] * Cicada nods, shuddering as if cold. [23:12] "Cicada...is all this good ?" [23:12] "do you agree ?" [23:13] * Cicada nods hurriedly. [23:14] "Should it be public or private Vanal? [23:15] "Public. This is going to be an example." [23:15] "My legion, my rules...and rape will NOT be tolerated." [23:15] * Cicada looks about to protest, but relents. [23:16] "Your identity will be kept under wraps, of course, Cicada." [23:17] * Cicada just nods. [23:18] "If there's anythign you want me to do or not do, Cicada, now is the time to tell me." [23:19] * Tabius looks betwnee Cicada and Vanal and then back again. [23:20] * Vanal WILL go thorugh with this [23:20] "I.. I don't know..." [23:20] "I want them dead!" [23:20] "But..." [23:20] "But ?" [23:20] * Cicada shudders. [23:20] "But nothing." [23:21] * Vanal nods [23:21] "Very well then." [23:21] "All 17 or just the 6?" [23:23] * Cicada buries her head in her remaining hand and shakes it silently. [23:23] "Let me go back. Please let me go back to my room." [23:25] (*Would it be OK to scan Cicada and find out what she is thinking about killing them so we don't have to have her say it?*) [23:26] (Van would have no prob with that) [23:26] (sure, roll it) [23:27] !ex 11 [23:27] * *Tabius (11)* 5, 6, 6, 2, 4, 7, 4, 1, 10, 4, 6, Successes : 3 [23:27] (Is that good enough?) [23:27] (*4 is everything, 3 is close) [23:28] * Cicada 's mind is a blurry mess as it has been ever since you found her. Full of confusing and frightning images. And she truly wish for somebody to die, just not the attackers, but Cicada - herself. [23:34] "Guards, please escort Cicada to her room, thank you." [23:35] they do, gently... [23:35] now you and Vanal, alone. [23:35] "So, what do we do ?" [23:36] "She is confused and guilty. I think our original idea works just fine. [23:37] "Make the example out of the 6 liars and give the rest the station in life they deserve as slaves." [23:37] "Perfect." [23:37] "Keep an eye on her, Tabs...I don't trus ther not to try to harm herself." [23:38] "I will. This entire thing is vastly disturbing Vanal." [23:39] "On one side we have this Cicada, the Cicada that has it seems all the negative aspects of the woman we knew on the island. [23:39] "You're telling me ?" [23:39] "On the other aspect, we had the Cicada that was in the Imperial City with us, all the seeming positive [23:39] "Things that were Cicada." [23:39] "Bad shit went down, Tabius...with Sanyet and all..." [23:39] "Plus *this*..." [23:40] "I'm not sure *I'd* stand up to it all." [23:40] "Yes, but they seem like 2 different people Vanal, completely different parts of a whole." [23:40] * Tabius frowns/ [23:40] "You're the magic geek, not me..." [23:41] "Is it possible some mojo got put on her ? [23:42] "Thats what I am starting to think, like the Mojo that was put on Tei, rest his soul." [23:42] "You know, the kind that is beyond anything even I can really put together." [23:42] "Yeah." [23:43] "Do some digging..." [23:43] "I knwo you've got a lot on your plate as is, with the little altar we dug up..." [23:43] "I will." [23:43] "Oh....and get her to touch a mirror." [23:44] "Interesting idea, I will." [23:48] * Tabius leaves and gets a small mirror, then goes to Cicada's room and just sits and observes unless she needs something. [23:48] * Tabius he puts all his mystic senses into a hieightened awareness while with her this time. [23:52] if there's something messed up with her, it's nothing you can see in a mirror; her skin looks more perfect than you remember, but perhaps that is just your mind playing tricks on you. [23:52] (or maybe an echo of the 'shine' she has lost from when she was truly beautiful and happy?) [23:59] * Tabius is lost in thought of the mystical things that could leave no signature and what to do to reconsile things if there was some kind of split or personality change. [00:06] roll per + occult [00:06] +1 stunt [00:06] !ex 18 +wp [00:06] * *Tabius (18+1)* 2, 6, 2, 1, 8, 8, 8, 6, 5, 10, 9, 3, 8, 2, 9, 5, 1, 5, Successes : 9 [00:21] * Tabius comes away with some ideas, but has to think some more on what in specific they might be. [00:22] * Disconnected [00:26] * Now talking in #pvpexaltedrp3 [00:27] * Tabius looks to be very deep in concentration, you can see his eyes darting beneath his eyelids as if franticaly serching for something he can not see. [00:28] * Cicada curls up under the blanket, as if to hide from his scrutiny. [00:30] * Tabius puts his head in his hands and rubs his eyes, the mirror sitting on his leg. [00:33] * Tabius afterwords he gets up with the mirror in one hand and paces a little bit. [00:34] * Tabius then leans over Cicada to see if she is awake. [00:35] * Cicada looks nervously up at him, fidgeting. [00:35] "Y-yes..?" [00:36] "did you say something earlier, I was deep in meditation?" [00:36] "I.. I just called to you..." [00:37] * Tabius sits down on the edge of the bed, "I am sorry I missed it." [00:37] * Tabius smiles at Cicada with an expression that looks much like a husband does of a pregnant wife appreciating the glow. [00:38] * Cicada turns away, red-faced with shame. [00:38] "Please. please don't look at me like that..." [00:38] "As you wish." [00:39] * Tabius changes his expression to that of a Doctor with a patient. [00:39] "I need you to do something, look into this mirror and touch it for me." [00:41] "What..? What for..?" [00:41] * Cicada turns and looks in the mirror, obviously not liking what she sees. [00:41] * Cicada then stetches out her hand and touches its reflective surface. [00:42] nothing happens!~ [00:42] * Tabius looks on with no appearent expression. [00:42] "Well that norrows things down at least." [00:42] * Cicada lets her hand fall down limply and turns away from the mirror." [00:43] "Tabius, I want you to leave me and forget about me." [00:44] "That is a wish I can not fullfill. There is something very not right and I will get to the bottom of it or die in the trying." [00:45] "Tabius... I .. I shame you by being with you.. You do not deserve this..." [00:46] "Deserve, fair, equality. These are all terms that do not apply to this imperfect world be abide in, not while the Anathema roam free to distrut the natural order of things. [00:47] "And... I'm still Sanyet's wife... You shouldn't look at me the way you do.. I belong only to him..." [00:47] "He told me so... and..." [00:47] "Until he that imprisoned us can be brought down, nothing can be right it seems." [00:47] * Cicada begins crying quietly. [00:48] "He did...... and what, its important....... [00:50] * Tabius in an insistant voice, "And what Cicada........and what," [00:50] * Tabius the last in a whisper. [00:52] "And then he did this." [00:52] "Made me the way he wanted me to be!" [00:52] "Do you remember how he did it, any words, incantations, gestures........your a sorceress, a gift of the dragons, [00:53] "You would hopefully recognize a spell being cast on you?" [00:54] * Cicada shakes her head. "I don't know... It's all so blurry..." [00:54] "Maybe I'll remember... I don't know." [00:54] "Tabius... I'm married to him and I owe him loyalty..." [00:54] "If you do, let me know, if at all possible so I can find out what was done and how it can be corrected. [00:55] * Retrieving #pvpexaltedrp3 info... [00:55] "He maimed you and sent you almost to your death. Legaly speaking that is grounds for divorce and any magistrate would grant it. [00:56] "Di.. divorce? Could that be done?" [00:56] "We have but to ask the Prefect and perhaps a Monk about it. [00:57] "Yes. Please!" [00:58] "As you wish" [00:58] * Tabius gives Cicada's shoulder a reassuring squeze and literaly hops and skips out of the room. [01:00] Tabius, you find out Vanal has been looking for you. [01:00] I have ? [01:00] * Tabius was skipping until he bumps uncerimoniously into Vanal and falls on his ass. [01:02] (Um, si van meeting in tala's office now, maybe ?) [01:02] er, Tala, not Vanal. [01:02] sorry. [01:02] Tabius, Vanal is in his office. [01:03] (*Erm.... so Tabs bumps into Tala?) [01:03] no bumping into them. [01:03] they're DRAGON BLOODED, for christ's sake ;) [01:03] and hu.. you weren't in #pvpexaltedrp so you missed all of Tala exploration [01:04] (*is looking for a Monk or the Prefect whichever comes first..... just tell me where and what or are we ended for the night? [01:04] they are in Vanal's office. [01:05] * Tabius heads to Vanals office and knocks on the door. [01:05] * Tabius after finding out that information. [01:05] go to #pvpexaltedrp [01:06] * Vanal (~ltermac@HSE-QuebecCity-ppp3496765.sympatico.ca) has left #pvpexaltedrp3 [01:06] Tala didn't tell anyone she's in a meeting with Vanal right now [01:06] tha's why I tell you to go there, hmmm.... [01:07] * Tabius (~web-Guest@ip68-108-128-145.lv.lv.cox.net) has left #pvpexaltedrp3 Session Close: Sun Jul 13 01:08:12 2003