AGWW Online - Log 2003/03/25
Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web
Session 1x13: Finally! Party at MC's
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A.C.Newton (Sons of Ether) - played by Stayka Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones Agent Kevin Grey (NWO) - played by Stayka Dr.Marcello Keagan (OoH bani Thig) - played by Dingo Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven Moonchild Farstrider (Dreamspeaker) - played by Fuzzy Teora (AI of the Meteor) - played by Stayka ST - Fuzzy Session Start: Tue Mar 25 20:43:46 2003
<ST> So where are we?
<AC_Newton> We are still in the Meteor, en route to your house.
<ST> (ok)
<AC_Newton> I think we should just let the Meteor land at MC's place.
HanBringer moves his servos in a nod.
<AC_Newton> Marv and Asmo are still playing pirates, and Teora agreed to give them a Corr uplink to wherever MC's house is.
Marvin_Black is rather sitting around looking depressed as ever with the looks of a voodoo priest ^_^
<MC_Farstrider> Are we arriving in the real world or in the Penumbra?
<AC_Newton> So we have now landed on a free space next to the house, in the Penumbra, I'd say.)
<MC_Farstrider> (ok)
<HanBringer> (Hmm. I wasn't sure Teora could cover that distance through DW to Umbra, otherwise Han might have done the same, but I suppose HanBringer is kinda more fun.)
<AC_Newton> (Han: I just say she can, because it's convenient ^_^)
<HanBringer> (np - like I said, I think HanBringer is kinda fun anyway.)
HanBringer on standby, powersaving feature.
<ST> Ok, in the Penumbra you see a mansion size building, with gardens around it. Circling the building, you come to a small group of trees, one very large Willow and one smaller willow stand here. They both glow with spirit energy.
Marvin_Black is sipping his Black Death.
<ST> There is a calm quiet here, a feeling of safety.
<Teora> Okay people, I landed.
AC_Newton looks at the viewscreen.
Asm0dai is sipping his sunrise and watching the place through the vidscreen.
<MC_Farstrider> From the smaller tree you see someone step out.
<AC_Newton> MC, so this is where you live? It looks ...enchanted.
MC_Farstrider smiles thank you.
Marvin_Black leans back.
<Marvin_Black> Nice view... And so safe.
<ST> You see a young girl, maybe 7-9. She has long pine green hair in a pony tail, and emerald green eyes. She has a slim muscular build, height 4ft, weight about 60 lbs. She is precocious and outgoing. As with all of her race, she is skyclad.
<Maeve> Hello, I'm Maeve, Cethlenn's daughter. Merry meet :) - Who are you, folks?
<MC_Farstrider> Hmmm
<ST> (Is anyone going to answer?)
AC_Newton looks to MC.
Marcello waits until he is properly introduced.
<AC_Newton> Your 'tree' has a *daughter*?
MC_Farstrider inroduces the folks.
Marcello snickers.
<MC_Farstrider> Lots of trees have "sprouts"
<AC_Newton> Oh. That's how it is called nowadays...
AgentGrey can't suppress a grin.
<MC_Farstrider> Maeve, this these are my friends.
MC_Farstrider points to AC. The is Captain AC Newton of the Meteor.
AC_Newton bows and smiles.
<AC_Newton> Hello.
MC_Farstrider points to Grey.
<MC_Farstrider> This is Mr.Grey, AC's... umm, boyfriend.
<AgentGrey> Good day.
<Asm0dai> Teora?
<Teora> Yes, Asmodai?
MC_Farstrider points to HanBringer.
<MC_Farstrider> This is a robot, being run by by a fellow named Hannibal, and this is Marcello, someone visiting with us.
<ST> (Is anyone else here?)
<AC_Newton> (Well, normally there should be projections of Asmo and Marv, too. Teora works as relay.)
<ST> (Into the Penumbra?)
<AC_Newton> (MC: If she doesn't, Asmo and Marv couldn't partake. So she can do it.)
<Asm0dai> (Well, in the Umbra you can easily project holographic images.)
<ST> (Oh well, for introductions...)
MC_Farstrider points to Marv.
<MC_Farstrider> That 'happy fellow' is Marvin and the other person is Asmodai.
Marvin_Black just sits there with an expressionless but yet dark face
Asm0dai boes
<Marvin_Black> Hello.
Marvin_Black looks around.
Marcello is sunk into thought.
Maeve takes AC's hand and leads the way to the entrance.
AC_Newton looks at the girl, but allows her to drag her along.
Marcello follows the rest of the Scooby Gang.
AgentGrey follows, too, of course.
<ST> Following the path, there is a downgrade to a doorway that leads to a small room. Mounted to the wall, is a floor length mirror.
AC_Newton looks curiously around here.
HanBringer powers up from autopilot standby and looks around.
<AC_Newton> This is so totally different from the MoonLab!
<Marvin_Black> I could learn something from here, me thinks.
Asm0dai looks precarously at DAN.
<HanBringer> Interesting place you got here, Moonchild.
HanBringer looks down at Maeve.
MC_Farstrider chants a bit and points to the mirror. Calling on the powers of the elements, she outlines the mirrow with her athame and says "so mote it be".
AC_Newton looks from MC to the others.
HanBringer turns to look at AC.
AC_Newton wonders why MC had to sing all the time and how she got things done by this in the first place.
<HanBringer> (in a childlike robotic voice) Mama!
AC_Newton eeps!
Marvin_Black watches MC closely.
<ST> The mirror image blurs and then clears and you see a room there.
<HanBringer> Neat hologram.
Maeve steps thru the mirror.
MC_Farstrider steps thru the mirror.
AC_Newton sighs.
Asm0dai grins.
<Asm0dai> Sorry, MC?
Maeve reaches for AC and pulls her thru the mirror.
<HanBringer> (in a childlike robotic voice) Mama!
<AC_Newton> He did it again!
HanBringer puts out his arms to AC_Newton.
AC_Newton lets herself be pulled through and wonders if this is some kind of fancy transmitter.
<Asm0dai> Hannibal, STOP that!
Marcello takes a good look at the mirror before stepping through.
HanBringer chuckles a robotic chuckle.
<HanBringer> Aww.
Asm0dai tries to get to MC.
AC_Newton looks angrily at Hanbringer and turns to Kevin, who just stepped through the mirror, for comfort
AgentGrey smiles at Acy and puts his arm around her shoulders.
<Asm0dai> MC...
Marvin_Black follows the others and looks around.
<HanBringer> Just messin' with ya, Newton.
<ST> The sensation is odd, it rather feels like walking through a membrane (think the effect in Timecop).
Marcello sighs deep and looks around the next room.
HanBringer marches through the hologram. He doesn't feel the membrane sensation.
<Marcello> (Snack needed, be back soon, consider me deeply thinking about something.)
Asm0dai goes through reinforcing the hologram with a holo projection procedure. The fact they are in the Umbra really makes it all easy.
Darby bows.
<Darby> Welcome! I am Darby, the butler. Please feel free to ask me for what ever is needed.
<AC_Newton> Hello!
AC_Newton smiles at the butler.
HanBringer lifts up his left arm and points to his 'armpit'.
<HanBringer> Yeah, Darby, I could do with a bit of oil just here.
<ST> You see a smallish room, in the room, there is a floor length mirror, a number of storage shelves and a work tables. There is a tiled circle inscribed on the floor and in the circle there is a pentacle design. There are the usual things one finds in the sacred space of a Witch. There is a smallish iron cauldron with three legs sitting of a small fire pit. There is a handmade broom, standing by the altar. There is an altar draped with an altar cloth, and covered with a an altar tile. There is a small statue of a unicorn watching over some puppies.
AC_Newton thinks this looks very witchy.
<Marvin_Black> Interesting. Too bad this, too, is oblieged to decay and die one day, just like everything else and ourselves.
AgentGrey thinks this looks just like what the Union textbooks say about Superstitionalist Sanctums.
HanBringer still doesn't think that the Agent should be here.
AC_Newton looks darkly at Hanbringer.
<Marvin_Black> Perhaps I can learn something about Spirits here? In some of my books the information isn't complete.
<MC_Farstrider> Hmmm, that's possible, did you want to become my student?
<Marvin_Black> Hmm... Student? What would that mean?
<Asm0dai> Farstrider, are there any Fianna here?
<HanBringer> Fi-what?
<Asm0dai> Nothing, Hannibal. I am asking our host.
<HanBringer> Yeah, I know. I was asking what the hell you meant.
AC_Newton hears Fianna and thinks it was some Irish girl name.
<MC_Farstrider> A tribe of Garou that that love drink and sing. The - umm - Irish Garou.
<Asm0dai> Are there any here? I am looking for some of them.
<HanBringer> Garou?
<Asm0dai> Werewolves...
<HanBringer> Yeah, right.
Marcello shudders.
<MC_Farstrider> I can ask my contacts.
<HanBringer> Here we go with the werewolves again.
<MC_Farstrider> What about them?
AC_Newton looks slightly afraid.
<HanBringer> I mean... Right. Werewolves. Sure.
<Asm0dai> I am looking for any members of the "Web Crew", and one of them named McClude.
<AgentGrey> Werewolves? I only heard about lycanthropes. I haven't met any so far...
<Asm0dai> You have time.
Asm0dai grins in Grey's direction.
Marvin_Black still looks around.
<Marvin_Black> Grey, you still have to learn a lot of things...
AC_Newton heard a lot of things about werewolves, such as they could bite nastily.
<MC_Farstrider> My understanding is that 'Lycanthropes' refers to ALL the Changing Breeds.
<AgentGrey> Well, I'm just fresh from the Academy. It's logical that I still have to learn a lot.
<Asm0dai> You do, kid, you do. Remember our conversation?
AgentGrey looks to him and puts on a wry smile. Strangely enough, he doesn't mind being called "kid" by Asmodai. Compared to him, he really feels very young, even though Asmo's icon doesn't give away any real age.
<AgentGrey> Obviously so.
<Marcello> Grey, you don't wanna meet them. Pretty nasty monsters with a real lack of anger management.
MC_Farstrider grins, humans can bite nastily, too .
HanBringer has seen 'An American Werewolf in London' and 'The Howling'.
<Marcello> Or at least, so I'm told.
<AgentGrey> Well, I think I should try to find out about them first.
HanBringer wonders just how much these Finnians represent Lon Chaney.
<MC_Farstrider> True, many of the them have a problem with Rage. There are also many perfectly nice, friendly folks that happen to be weres.
<Asm0dai> ...when they don't rip apart everyone.
<MC_Farstrider> Hmmmmm.
<Marvin_Black> I never met one. Just read something in "Strange Creatures of a Strange World".
<Asm0dai> So, MC... Fianna... "Web Krew"?
<MC_Farstrider> I can ask, but first lets get upstairs, yes?
<Darby> Ladies, Gentlemen, (whoever else), please follow me.
Asm0dai says something about Glass Walkers being sufficient.
<Marcello> Well, one of my mentors had a run in with the beasts. They ripped off his arm and only through some pretty vulger Magick, he managed to get away to safety. And all he did was investigate the possible location of a Node.
Darby leads the party up a flight of stairs, to the main hallway.
Marvin_Black follows and sighs.
Marcello follows.
AC_Newton and Kev follow the Butler, too.
HanBringer follows everyone else.
<HanBringer> Hmm. Whoever else? I guess that would be me. - Marcello, are you trying to tell me that werewolves are real?
<Marcello> I've never met them, but my Mentor did. And I do believe him.
<MC_Farstrider> Marcello, oh, you must mean they were protecting there "sacred space", their Caern?
<Marcello> Caern, Sacred Space?
<Asm0dai> Marcello, they were guarding their home. They place their "chirches" on Nodes.
<HanBringer> OK. Sure. Werewolf. I'm sure he had a run in with something. But a werewolf?
<Asm0dai> They don't like Mages that try do destroy their homes.
<MC_Farstrider> I wouldn't either.
AC_Newton doesn't understand much of what the others are talking about. She holds to Kevin's hand for comfort.
Darby shows the party to the living room.
<ST> The living room has pale blue walls, the ceiling is painted off white with sparkles to simulate a night sky, and there is soft hidden overhead lighting meant to simulate moonlight with royal blue carpet. There is a working brick fireplace, with the usual tools and a screen in front. There is a small pile of fire wood here. There is a large soft fake fur rug in front of the fireplace. There are matching sofa (three seats) and loveseat (two seats). There is a coffee table between the couches. There are two large soft chairs facing the TV screen. On the table are books about Faeries and Spirits. There are two doors, one leads to the back hallway, (where the clinic is), the other to the front hallway, by the entrance hall. You see two windows with both light gausey curtains and heavy dark drapes, (for darkening the room for better viewing of the video display). There is a water cooler here, with paper cups.
HanBringer goes over and 'sits' on the loveseat.
AC_Newton looks curiously around.
<ST> There is a wet bar setup here, and there are a couple of folks.
AC_Newton thinks this looks all very rustic.
Marcello sits in one of the large chairs facing the TC screen.
Darby is carrying trays of snacks.
HanBringer sits on the loveseat which creaks slightly under his mechanical weight.
<ST> You see flitting about, winged serving girls carrying trays of various finger foods. Darby is behind a wet bar, that appears well stocked with various hard and soft drinks. There are also water coolers always available in the living room, kitchen and library. You can smell the foods in the kichen being prepared by the chef.
AC_Newton looks at the snacks and smiles excitedly.
Marvin_Black seeks for a dark corner to hang out.
Maeve brings Marvin a candle, (with a classic candle holder), to illuminate his way.
Marvin_Black looks at Maeve.
AgentGrey sits down in the other of the chairs, while Acy drapes herself on the armrest of Kev's chair and wraps an arm around his neck.
HanBringer is secretly pleased with himself that he has prevented AC and Grey from sitting in the loveseat.
<AC_Newton> (LOL)
<Marvin_Black> Ehm... I wanted this corner dark.
Marcello decides that the bar is a much better place to hang out.
Asm0dai looks impatiently around...
AgentGrey thinks he might like some of the tasty smelling food in the next time ^_^
Rowan floats over the people on the sofa and the loveseat and offers a tray of snacks.
AC_Newton smiles brightly at Rowan and takes some of the snacks.
Marvin_Black sighs.
AgentGrey nods thanks and takes some, too.
<Asm0dai> (Oh, just a side note. "Web Krew" is 3 Fianna, 2 Glass Walkers, with the 3rd Fianna, McClude, missing.)
<ST> These are the maids, Rowan and Tara. They both have blonde hair and blue eyes. There appears to be a breeze wherever either of them are. They are about 5'8" tall, and 100 lbs. One obvious thing you notice about them is they both have gossamer wings. They wear maid's uniforms designed to accommodate their wings. Both of the maids are Sylphs. The maids also double as wait-staff.
AC_Newton looks very startled at the wings. They look... unreal.
<Rowan> They are quiet real.
Rowan flutters her wings in demonstration.
AC_Newton stares at them.
<AC_Newton> Rowan: Which planet do you come from?
<Marcello> (to Darby) Someone mentioned a clinic?
<Darby> Can I get anybody anything?
AC_Newton is stunned by the wings of the maid.
Marvin_Black again starts looking for a dark corner that stays dark.
<AgentGrey> Well, do you have some tea? Darjeeling, if possible.
<Rowan> Have you not seen anyone like me before?
AC_Newton looks at Rowan and shakes her head.
<AC_Newton> Never!
<HanBringer> So, Rowan, I guess you don't sleep on your back.
Asm0dai thinks that this looks like one of the trips he had in the 60s.
Darby nods, goes to kitchen, returns with a small pot of tea and cup as requested.
AgentGrey smiles at he butler.
<AgentGrey> Thank you very much, Darby.
Darby smiles in recognition.
MC_Farstrider wonders.
<MC_Farstrider> So, Asmo, you believe in weres but not the spirits?
Asm0dai appears behind MC.
<Asm0dai> Garou? Glass Walker? Fianna? "Web Krew"?
AC_Newton sees them all as some weird aliens.
HanBringer sees them as cool holograms.
<AC_Newton> May I have a hot chocolate, Darby? That would be very nice of you!
<Marcello> (mutters) Pour in some more aphrodisiacs...
AC_Newton really needs something sweet and chocolatey now.
<HanBringer> Asmo, what the hell are you babbling about?
Rowan nods.
<Rowan> I wonder if I could become a naturalized citizen? I would not be an alien then?
Marvin_Black observes the scene and lurks in a hopefully dark corner.
<HanBringer> Glass Walkers? Are they anything like fire walkers?
AC_Newton doesn't understand the stuff Asmo tells either.
<Asm0dai> No, they are technology oriented Weres.
<HanBringer> Where what?
<Rowan> Glasswalkers are Techie Garou.
AgentGrey raises an eyebrow.
<AgentGrey> Techie Garou?
<Asm0dai> Anyhow I am sure I have been here in the 70s. I was with this girl and we got stoned with some nasty trips.
<HanBringer> Warez? I thought all warez were technological.
<Rowan> Think something like a Garou that was VA (well not quiet, but close).
<Asm0dai> I am sure I was here for a while.
<HanBringer> Again with this garou word. That's French or something isn't it?
AC_Newton thinks Han could have a point with the warez. ^_^
<Rowan> Garou is what the werewolves call themselves.
<AC_Newton> Han, Francois said it was French. He has this cute French accent anyway...
<HanBringer> Oh right. Frankly I would have thought that anyone who called themself a werewolf should be calling themselves insane.
Marvin_Black listens closely.
Asm0dai thinks that peole here are surely on psychodelics.
AgentGrey is just on tea.
Marvin_Black is on deep depression as usual.
<MC_Farstrider> Marcello, you asked about the clinic?
<Marcello> MC: Yes, I did.
<MC_Farstrider> I could show it you, if you like.
<Marcello> I'd like that very much.
<AC_Newton> May I have a look, too?
<Darby> Sure.
Darby leads an expedition to the clinic.
AgentGrey looks to Acy and thinks it's a pity that she wants to run around again.
Darby is walking back thru the hallway, through a another connecting door and you're in the hallway of the clinic.
AgentGrey follows Acy as she follows the butler.
Marcello glares at Grey.
Asm0dai starts wandering around, looking around and trying to see what is interesting around here.
AC_Newton thinks this is a very big house.
Marvin_Black still hangs out in his dark corner and sits down on the ground.
HanBringer crashes to the floor as the loveseat finally gives way under his weight.
<HanBringer> Hmm.
<AC_Newton> (LOL! No loveseat anymore? Shame on you!)
<Marvin_Black> Another proof of decay getting everything and everyone.
<HanBringer> Stormbringer's a lot heavier than I thought.
Asm0dai thinks this reminds him of the house in the dreaming.
<AC_Newton> (afk 5 min - AC spends the time making doe eyes at Kev, I'd say.)
<MC_Farstrider> (the descriotion is too long to echo here)
Asm0dai wanders around.
HanBringer wanders over to the bar and looks for some motoroil.
<ST> There are two ground floor rooms, set up as private patient rooms. The walls are painted pale blue. The ceiling is off-white. There is a TV suspended on a wall bracket, with a wired remote control on the night stand. There is a small dresser, a small closet and a small night stand. Each room has a hospital bed, fitted with restraints (should that be needed), a private half-bath, (toilet and sink), a roll away bed-desk / table. There are pegs to hang up a bathrobe or jacket. On the night stand there is a lamp, a pitcher of water and several disposable drinking glasses. There is an overhead light for general lighting as well as a dim light (night light) along the baseboard, pointing out the location of the bathroom. There is a trash can with a plastic bag liner and a laundry hamper with a plastic bag liner. There are no smoking signs in all the rooms. There is a roll-in batheing room, with a large stall shower, the stall has a built in bench and a captive handheld shower head. This room is intended to be the batheing facility for the patients in the patient rooms. There are no smoking signs in all the rooms. There are emergancy call buttons or chains in each of the patient rooms, the associated half baths, and the batheing room. There is a linen closet between the two rooms containing a supply of sheets, pillow cases, towels, washcloths, drainage pads, chucks (disposable drainage pads), light blankets, hospital gowns, hospital robes and slippers. There is a fully equiped locked and *warded* medicine room, including an office size refrigerator for drugs, (with all the samples of drugs the
<AC_Newton> And what kinds of patients do you treat here, MC?
Marvin_Black sighs.
<MC_Farstrider> Mainly the referals from the "Angels in the Garden".
<AC_Newton> Referals? And what garden angels?
<HanBringer> (Marv, are you still in the main area with the bar?)
<Marvin_Black> (Yup)
<MC_Farstrider> Yes, my arrangment with the group the originally rescued me was I would provide short term housing and medical care to other rescuees.
<AC_Newton> Rescues from where? Wars?
Marvin_Black still sits on the ground in a dark corner.
<HanBringer> Marv, I spy with my electronic eye something beginning with... P
Marvin_Black looks around.
<Marvin_Black> The paper cups?
<HanBringer> Nope.
<Marvin_Black> The pile of junk that used to be the love seat?
<HanBringer> Marvin... You are just too good at these games.
<MC_Farstrider> Mainly Nephandi backed cult groups and the like.
<AC_Newton> And how do you get themout from there? Nephandi are not only evil, but also very dangerous.
<MC_Farstrider> They make the arrangements for the next step. Or are you asking how to they come to be in the care of the Angels?
<Asm0dai> Nephandi are uncurable once the Cauls get them.
AgentGrey hears "Nephandi" and is all ears.
<Asm0dai> All Nephandi are to be terminated.
AC_Newton looks at Asmo.
<AC_Newton> Cauls? What's that?
<Asm0dai> I think you are doing a huge error. Nephandi have their souls inverted. They are evil through and through.
MC_Farstrider is puzzled.
<MC_Farstrider> Quite so, I know from personal exposure.
Marcello nods.
<Asm0dai> Farstrider, you are curing Nephandi victims here?
<Marcello> That's what she told me she does.
<MC_Farstrider> rEscuees from cults backed by them, not barabbi or other "converts".
<Asm0dai> How the heck do you get them to the Umbra? Wouldn't Earth be better?
<Marvin_Black> I'm used to see death and decay.
<Asm0dai> Of course...
<MC_Farstrider> Many are initially treated at the CoG homeland and then brought here. The - umm - "strike teams" are Garou.
Marcello gives MC a quick look.
<HanBringer> Marv, well, eyes of the beholder, and your eyes behold only death and decay. My left eye currently beholds a visual glitch.
HanBringer smacks the side of his head.
<HanBringer> That's better.
<Marvin_Black> As I said. Everything will break down eventually. Nothing is immune to the last touch of decay.
AgentGrey listens very intently. He doesn't know much more about Nephandi other than that they need to be destroyed.
<Marcello> Mr. Asmodai, how is it that you know so much about the Nephandi?
<HanBringer> Marv, nah, it's just I'm not used to... well, controlling this thing.
<Asm0dai> I had time to fight them, more then any of you kids did...
AgentGrey looks questioningly at Asmodai.
<MC_Farstrider> Where was I? Oh yes...
<Asm0dai> What I am wondering is are there any "strike teams" here I could talk to?
<ST> This is a smallish room with many chairs and various magazines in racks. This is where a patient waits for the doctor. There are no smoking signs in all the rooms. This is a smallish room with an examination table, (fitted with a drop out and fold down sterups for OB/GYN). There is a sink fitted with knee controls as well as the usual knobs. There is a cabinet with the usual medical paraphenalia, (sterile swabs, gauze, cotton, bandaids and misc bandages are here as well, alcohol swabs for skin cleansing before administering an injection, or taking a blood sample). There is a sphigmanometer with adjustable cuffs. A doctors scale with a capacity of 500lbs. A thermometer with disposable probe covers. A box of vinyl non-sterile examination gloves is conected to the wall, A sharps disposal container is next to it. There is a box of tissues here. On the outside of the door there is a place to put a filefolder, (a chart). There are no smoking signs in all the rooms.
<Asm0dai> (Too much! STOP!)
<MC_Farstrider> (The whole thing is on the website.)
<AC_Newton> (Well, but on the other hand, if you play in a channel, it's better to have some short description right at the location there, too)
<Marcello> (Any patients or doctors around?)
<Marvin_Black> Han, don't be so sure. Even this heap of metal will fall apart sooner or later. As we will. Our flesh will rot, our bones will crack and turn to dust, our blood will dry up...
<Asm0dai> I wouldn't agree. From my explorations it seems that Umbra is a constant, and it will be here forever, unless the Wyrm devours it.
<AgentGrey> MC, have you ever had another patient who got those bracelets, too?
<Glenn> This is Glenn, he's a clinical nurse for the clinic. He's usually found wearing surgical scrubs and carrying a stethescope. He's usually found in the clinic either with a patient or in the office. He's about 6ft tall, weight 220, muscular and strong. He helps with patients with special needs. He's a very friendly guy. Easy to talk with.
<HanBringer> Well, speak for yourself, Marvin. I intend to live forever. Like the man falling past the windows of the Empire State building as he falls. "So far so good. So far so good."
<Rowan> How can we help you?
AgentGrey looks at Rowan.
<AgentGrey> Did you ever encounter other victims of those Nephandic bracelets, too?
<MC_Farstrider> No, the only time I saw them was in the DW.
<AgentGrey> Oh, I see. Thank you.
AgentGrey ponders how far they may be distributed by now.
<Glenn> Was there something you needed?
AgentGrey shakes his head.
<AgentGrey> No, thanks.
AC_Newton thinks Marcello wanted to know some stuff.
<Glenn> Yes -- Marcello is it? How can we help you?
AC_Newton looks at Glenn.
<AC_Newton> Are you the doctor here?
<Glenn> I'm a nurse. (points to MC) She's the doctor.
<AC_Newton> Oh!
AC_Newton smiles at MC.
MC_Farstrider smiles at Acy.
Marvin_Black sighs again.
AC_Newton walks over to MC.
<AC_Newton> MC, I wanted to ask you something...
MC_Farstrider listens.
AC_Newton blushes and leans closer to whisper something in her ear .
<Glenn> Err, so how can we help?
<Marcello> (I was just wondering if there were any doctors or patients around, didn't neccessarilly want to talk to one)
<Glenn> Oh -- that's ok then. Right now we have no one in care.
AC_Newton looks expectantly to MC.
<MC_Farstrider> (I'm a little lost. Is anyone but AC, Grey, MC and Glenn in the clinic?)
<Marcello> (I'm there.)
HanBringer is with Marv in the main room.
Marvin_Black looks around.
AC_Newton followed the butler to the tour, and so did Kevin.
Marcello is just looking around.
Glenn walks to Marcello and starts talking shop.
<Marvin_Black> Stones will shatter and crumble, steel will bend and break, iron will rust away, stuff rots and decays...
MC_Farstrider takes AC to the office room.
AC_Newton follows her, still slightly blushing.
Marcello has probably a nice conversation with Glenn, even though he isn't a clinical psychiatrist.
Asm0dai is still looking around quite interested.
AC_Newton has a little consultation with MC on some important matter. ^_^
AgentGrey wonders why Acy disappeared there with MC.
<Marvin_Black> Hair will fall out, skin will break up and peel itself from the flesh, trees fall, mountains erode to nothingness, water gets tainted, the air polluted...
HanBringer looks at Marvin.
Marvin_Black looks back at Han. His ramblings about the faces of decay seem even gloomier with him sitting in a dark corner.
<Marvin_Black> Yes?
MC_Farstrider gets her bag and returns. She is glad to be of assistance. Then she rejoins the party in the clinic hall.
AC_Newton comes out of the office, too.
<MC_Farstrider> Ok. - So, Doc, was there anything else I can show you?
Glenn returns to the paperwork in the office.
AC_Newton rejoins Kev.
AgentGrey looks quizzically to her, but Acy appears just somewhat flushed and takes his hand.
<MC_Farstrider> Ok, then we all return to the living room.
<HanBringer> Some things remain static. Whether you like it or not.
<Marcello> Nothing I can think of.
Asm0dai has created a big book in his hands. Its covers look like a toxic waste tank. On the cover it is etched: Werewolf the Apocalypse.
<Marvin_Black> Han, And what are those things? Definitely nothing living.
MC_Farstrider chats with Darby.
AC_Newton follows MC back to the living room.
MC_Farstrider is curious about Asmo's book.
Asm0dai asks MC to come and see a nice illustration that shows a Garou shapeshifting into all the forms.
<HanBringer> What about stuff that has been converted from living matter? If you will pardon the pun, electricity can remain static.
<Marvin_Black> Can, but will it remain static? Where's the electricity from the lightning hiting the tree? Turn the switch and it will fade... You have to repower it, or else it will be gone...
Darby takes his notepad, and asks each person in turn about dinner.
<Darby> We have roast beef, fish and a vegan plate available.
AC_Newton orders the roast beef.
AgentGrey orders the fish.
AC_Newton wonders if MC has some music for her party, too.
MC_Farstrider points to the well stocked shelves with both CDs and videos, as to the playing devices in the living room.
AC_Newton looks at the CDs.
<AC_Newton> (What kind of music?)
MC_Farstrider usually listens to quiet listening, celtic, folk that sort of thing, I'm sure there are a few of Moira's there too tho, usual teen sound (too loud).
<HanBringer> Marv, but electricity is self perpetuating. Lightning existed long before we built power stations. With the right elements there will always be electricity.
<Marvin_Black> The Earth was there before the humans too, but still it decays. Lightning is created to be destroyed, just like everything else.
<HanBringer> Hmm.
<Asm0dai> Of course...
<AC_Newton> (MC: No synthesizer music? *g*)
AC_Newton looks through the CDs and discovers she doesn't know any of the artists.
MC_Farstrider sighs.
AgentGrey looks at the others.
<AgentGrey> Shouldn't we not use the nice secluded place here to plan how to get at the barabbi in my Construct?
Marcello sits at the bar.
<HanBringer> Well, we can change that. We can create a self-perpetuating electronic world in which we can eternally inhabit. No death, no hunger, no disease.
<Marvin_Black> There is no way to get there. We are bound to die. Death *will* take its toll. Every watched Final Destination?
<HanBringer> However, if we were to obliterate the cause of such corruption then we are somewhat better off towards creating that world. And the source of the corruption is the same, it stems from these corrupt sectors. These Nephandi. If we can stop them, we can move towards the creation of our perfect world.
<Marvin_Black> You can just slow down the rate of decay thus making the time of suffering and pain longer. There is no place as paradise, no perfect world. If there would be one it wuld be bound to be destroyed.
<HanBringer> Well, you see the hard drive as half full, I see it as half free. :)
<Marvin_Black> No, you see it as half intact and I realistically say it's almost broken and will break.
MC_Farstrider asks Grey if he and Acy would like to see the library?
AgentGrey smiles at MC.
<AgentGrey> Of course!
AgentGrey is an NWO Agent after all, and he is always interested in collecting information.
MC_Farstrider guides them to the library. Opening the door, you see a large room.
AgentGrey looks around in the library.
Asm0dai suddenly appears behind Grey's shoulder.
The librarian is here, working on papers. The library is a two tier affair. The lower level has shelves around the outer walls, and an internal spiral staircase leading to the second tier. The middle of the main level is a few soft chairs with reading lamps, a couple of tables with lamps and straight back chairs, (for doing research), and some standalone bookcases. Around the outside of both levels there is a track for a captive ladder for access to the higher shelves. There is a standard card catalog, describing the libraries contents. The upper level has door leading to the second floor hallway. You see a matronly woman sitting at a desk, working on some paperwork.
This is Erin, the librarian. She walks very quietly, always speaking in a whisper. She is about 5'8" with greying red hair, pulled into a bun, and sparkling blue eyes. She sits at her desk in the library waiting to help a researcher. Erin wears an archaic but professional dress with flat heeled shoes.
<Asm0dai> You wouldn't be planning to misuse anything you found here, would you?
AgentGrey looks to Asmodai and looks somewhat caught.
<AgentGrey> Err, old habit of mine...
<Erin> Hello, I'm Erin, the librarian.
<Asm0dai> Besides, when you see guys like these, isn't it obvious that not all RDs are bad and the Techies are too exclusive?
<Erin> How may I help you?
AgentGrey smiles at Erin.
<AgentGrey> Hello. I'm Kevin Grey.
Erin nods.
<Erin> Nice to meet you, Mr.Grey.
AgentGrey feels a bit weird not to use "Agent Grey" to introduce himself.
<Asm0dai> Hi. And I am Asmodai. I am his professional watchdog.
<AgentGrey> What kinds of books do you have here, Miss Erin?
<Erin> A bit of this and that.
Erin points to the card catalog
<Erin> Everything is catalogued.
AgentGrey looks to Asmo and grins wryly.
<Asm0dai> Nice organisation.
Asm0dai goes to the catalog and takes a look what can be found.
AgentGrey looks through the catalogue, Acy standing by his side and watching, too.
<AC_Newton> (MC: Anything technical/Scientific in there?)
<HanBringer> We have the power to rebuild the world. We can make it better. We can make it stronger. It won't break.
<Marcello> And you have the arrogance to presume that you can do it?
<HanBringer> The Six Billion Gigabytes.
<Erin> (Only lay stuff, except for medical and herbolog.y)
<AC_Newton> (Hehe)
AC_Newton is somewhat disappointed that there is nothing along her venue.
<AgentGrey> (Erin: Anything RD there?)
Erin looks at Grey in puzzlement.
<Erin> what is RD, please?
<Asm0dai> Reality Deviant. Garou, Magi, Wyrm, spirits... the works.
<AgentGrey> (Erin, he didn't say that! It was just a player question - anything about Mysticks and Magick in there?)
<Asm0dai> Give him any of the books on fighting the Wyrm.
<Marvin_Black> Han, as I told you: You can run, but you can't hide. All you can do is make the suffering longer and bring up more pain to endure. And everything you ran from will come back at you with a strong backlash
<Erin> Anything that isn't mundane human is RD?
<Asm0dai> Yes.
<AgentGrey> (Erin: Sort of ^_^)
<Asm0dai> Just give him the books on combatting the Wyrm; that will make him happy. Besides, that is just what he currently needs.
AgentGrey looks puzzled at Asmodai.
<Erin> There are a number of books on Cosmology and the Otherworlds...
<AgentGrey> Wyrm?
<Erin> Books on the health and caring of Changing Breeds...
<Asm0dai> Umm, skip that.
<HanBringer> (Heh-heh... Surely you need to see a vet about worms.)
<AgentGrey> (LOL)
<Erin> Books on spirits in general...
<Asm0dai> He is a Technocracy Agent, Erin. Do you want him to know that garlic kills Werebears?
Asm0dai smiles in Erin's direction.
AgentGrey looks somewhat fatalistically at Asmo and Erin.
<Erin> The Wyrm is what the Garou call the entropic element of the Triat.
AC_Newton stands on the tips of her toes and gives Kevin a fleeting kiss on the cheek.
<HanBringer> (No, bad sales figures killed Carebears. Oh, wait, you said Werebears.)
<Asm0dai> (LOL)
<Asm0dai> Well, since you still haven't picked a side, I do have to watch it.
<AgentGrey> Triat?
<Erin> It's supposed to be a force of entropy and has become of force of destruction.
<Asm0dai> Umm, let's go simply... The world is based on interaction of creation, stasis and entropy.
<Erin> Right. That is what Gaia intended.
<Asm0dai> The forces of stasis and entropy have gone rampant, and the forces of entropy have developed a very nasty streak.
<AgentGrey> Gaia? I think I remember she is a Greek Goddess.
<Erin> And two elements of the Triat are running wild.
<Asm0dai> All the Nephandi technically fight for the cause of the Wyrm. The 3rd is already wild, but that is natural for it.
<Erin> The Weaver is Naming everything and crystallizing reality.
<AgentGrey> Well, furthering entropy isn't in the interest of the Union. That's why we are especially wary of Euthanatos RDs, too.
<Asm0dai> No, there is such thing as "normal entropy".
<Marcello> Actually, Kevin, Gaia isn't a goddess. She's a Titan.
<AgentGrey> Sorry, I'm not really into mythology. I'm a scientist.
Erin has lots of books about mythology and legends.
<Asm0dai> Weaver is what you would love. She wants to keep everything neat and tidy and give everyone many kisses and technology.
<HanBringer> (Celestial)
Asm0dai suddenly looks at Acey in horror.
<Asm0dai> OMG!
Asm0dai screams and runs away.
<Asm0dai> (not ;))
<AgentGrey> (LOL)
<Erin> Yes, Gaia is a Celestine.
Asm0dai grabs one of the books on the changing breeds. McClude never told him much about the others.
<Asm0dai> Erin, that is too much for Grey.
AgentGrey nods quietly.
<Asm0dai> Give him something that details the fight against the Wyrm.
<ST> (Can holograms actually manipulate real matter outside the DW?)
<Marcello> (Think the Doctor from Voyager.)
<AC_Newton> (Hm, only if they are enhanced with tractive/thrust beams ^_^)
<Asm0dai> (Yes, thanks to magic :)
<AC_Newton> (That is Forces 3)
<ST> (Teora can't, but he can?)
<Asm0dai> (I can simply use Correspondence and Mind to feel every letter on the pages without even opening it.)
<ST> (That's not picking up the book physically.)
<AC_Newton> (Teora prefers to be holographic. As she is the ship, she can do anything there, like she materialized the drinks last time etc.)
<Asm0dai> (Okay, you just asked how I could read it, no? :) and I CAN teleport it into the DW, with a lot of suxx.)
<ST> (The doctor on Voyager uses a 26th century weaver tech thing to do it though.)
<Asm0dai> (Well, I am using funny reality :))
<AC_Newton> (The Meteor uses SF High Tech that is way beyond Star Trek :-)
AC_Newton looks up to Kevin and notices that one can neatly see where she gave him the kiss on the cheek. She giggles.
<AC_Newton> (Asmo, MC just told me she has this house explicitly warded against stuff like Forces usage etc for non-corporeal visitors.)
<Asm0dai> (I am not using Forces, so I don't care :) All I need is Corr and Mind.)
<AC_Newton> (Asmo: Well, remember MC thinks you are a Fallen. She applied preventive countermeasures so that you can't run rampant ^_^)
Erin looks again at her clients.
<Asm0dai> Erin, please put the book on the counter. I'll nead a few minutes.
<Marvin_Black> There is no place as Paradise, no place to run. Nothing is safe.
HanBringer polishes a slightly tarnished spot on his arm as he talks to Marvin and accidentally shoots a chair.
<HanBringer> Ooops.
<Asm0dai> (Khm, you said it is warded against Forces. If she wants to ward against the rest let her do her stuff and ward it, in the meantime I want my char to learn about the Fera. And if she thinks I am Fallen, then she is clearly not dealing with a full deck.)
<MC_Farstrider> Ok, then it's hopeless.
<Asm0dai> (And if she really thought I was Fallen, would she let me even see the CoG homeland?)
MC_Farstrider is now known as Kat.
<AC_Newton> (Asmo, I asked MC to tell you explicitly why she acts as she acts. I hope she'll do it.)
Kat wanders down to her workroom.
<Marcello> But aren't we here to talk about the Barabbi in Agent Grey's Construct?
AgentGrey looks to Marcello.
<Marvin_Black> Han, you wanted to prove my point, eh?
<Asm0dai> (No, we are here to see this nice place, so I could go and spread Wyrm taint all around it.)
<AgentGrey> That's what I tried to start at least twice, but you people did a Marvin on me...
<Asm0dai> (The player is getting a bit riled, but Asmo mustn't, since he has no clue that MC is a bit... unhinged.)
<HanBringer> Hmm. I hope Moonchild doesn't mind.
<ST> (MC told you many times that the ONLY people that can separate her from her spirits are Fallen.)
<HanBringer> Well, this robot was designed for destruction, not delicacy.
<Asm0dai> (I didn't sepearate her. The DW did.)
<ST> (And you are able to circumvent her Spirit4/Life4 effects.)
<Asm0dai> (I have no power over Spirit.)
<Marvin_Black> The whole humanity is designed for destruction, self-inflicting pain and suicidal behavior.
<ST> (Then I would be able to reach the spirit realms. Since I could not, that's that.)
<Asm0dai> (Right, and what happened with Life and Spirit getting -1 in DW?)
<ST> (She got NO save and Countermagick. She was overrideen completely, and when she tried to use her stuff, she was no allowed to.)
<Asm0dai> (You were trying to combat a security measure of the DIGITAL WEB. You would have probably gotten a hard derez.)
<ST> (What happens is you get dumped.)
<Asm0dai> (Yes, o holy one. I will abide to your rules, but if you give Grey access to the library, you are even more hypocritical then I would ever be.)
<HanBringer> Well... OK, you might have a point, Marv, but I still think that we can change that.
<ST> (As it is, since you insist that Asmo can do whatever he feels like, with no controls at all...)
<Marcello> (Katfight *G*)
<Asm0dai> (Hmmm, that is something that comes with living too long and getting as cocky as Asmo is. But as I said, if you want to run it like that, I will go after your rules. Just don't be absurd and give a Techie files on the Fera.)
<ST> (Kat is working on what she believes is a doomsday class defence, as none of her normal defences have worked.)
<Marvin_Black> (Destroy every living thing on Earth and let nature start anew?)
<Asm0dai> (I don't care. You are getting revenge for me trapping you in the DW, please do... Just be rational while doing it.)
<HanBringer> It needn't be that drastic.
AC_Newton looks at Kev and wonders if she should give him a neat lipstick mark on the other cheek, too.
<Marvin_Black> It's not drastic, just realistic. A drastic measure would be a toal reset of the universe.
<ST> (Either my shield with Spirit4/Life4/Prime2 works or it doesn't.)
<Asm0dai> (So let's stop this petty bickering. I won't get to the book and you will continue this.)
Marcello goes and gets a bottle of scotch and a glass.
<ST> (Your spirit is warded from this house.)
<Asm0dai> (Right, whatever you say, boz!)
AC_Newton grins and does give Kev a kiss on the other cheek. Now he's properly marked as her property ^_^
Asm0dai shrugs after he notices that his magic doesn't work here.
Marcello decides he doesn't need his glass.
Asm0dai whispers in Grey's ear that this is not the time to be looking at things like these and that he really won't be needing to see it now.
<Asm0dai> (Meaning Kevin seeing stuff on the Garou...)
AgentGrey looks to Asmodai.
<AgentGrey> Well, *she* offered to show me them.
<Asm0dai> (The player goes to get a bit of water to stop himself from overreacting.)
Marcello decides he doesn't need the bottle either.
<Asm0dai> But Grey, how can I trust you not to go and kill a shapeshifter with the data found here?
<AgentGrey> Well, *you* have to decide whether you want to trust me or not...
<Asm0dai> I already told you all on that, and I really wouldn't be comfortable with you knowing the weaknesses of the only real friends I ever had.
Asm0dai crosses his arms.
MC_Farstrider asks who is here (in the library)?
<Asm0dai> Still I seem to have no power here, therefore I can do nothing to stop you or at least control you.
<AgentGrey> Well, I prefer to be well informed about whoever might want to attack me.
<Marvin_Black> Han, being happy is an illusion. A dangerous one, for you will feel the full force of the backlash that reality will give you.
AgentGrey is in the library.
AC_Newton too.
<Asm0dai> Therefore I'll leave it to your conscience and memory of our conversation.
<HanBringer> Marv, I never said I was happy.
<Marvin_Black> But you seem to long for this illusion.
<HanBringer> The world is imperfect, so we always aspire towards perfection.
<ST> (You hear a bell ring a few times.)
<AgentGrey> Asmo: Well, I could have killed M.Dupres when you freed Dr.Keagan. I didn't.
Asm0dai turns and exits the library leaving Grey and Acey.
AC_Newton looks to Erin.
<AC_Newton> What's that ringing?
<Darby> Dinner is served!
AC_Newton smiles and drags Kevin with her to the living room.
MC_Farstrider directs everyone into the dining room.
AgentGrey still doesn't realize Acy did leave quite some lipstick marks on him ^_^
<Marvin_Black> Han, it's all lost effort, for there is no perfect world. It's an illusion, a trap set up by reality.
<Marcello> (Mind 3 effect to Grey) Hey, Kevin, you have quite some lipstick on your cheeks.
<Marcello> !dice 4
<agww-dice> Marcello rolls the dice and gets the following results: 6 9 8 10
AgentGrey looks shocked at Marcello.
<AgentGrey> I have?
Marcello grins.
AgentGrey rummages through his pockets to find a handkerchief.
AC_Newton giggles.
<ST> Each place setting has a service plate with a linen napkin, folded into a three sided figure which holds itself in place. The silverware is arranged in a formal place setting, three forks (four tines, dinner, three tines, salad, two tines shrimp), there is an array of knives and spoons on the other side of the plate. There is an additional teaspoon across the top of the plate. In the center of the table, there is a nice floral centerpiece. There large candleabras providing light. There is smell of sweet incense offering a calming touch. By the table there are a couple of wine coolers, filled with ice and and a couple of larger wine bottles, cooling. For people who are not drinkers of alcohol, there are various juices, soda/soda pop/pop and bottled water.
Asm0dai tries to get Farstrider a bit to the side of the others.
AgentGrey rubs at his checks and looks somewhat embarassed.
<Marcello> Whats for dinner, MC?
<MC_Farstrider> Which ever you requested.
<HanBringer> I doubt reality is so devious. Reality is ours for the taking. We are the masters of our own reality, not its slaves.
<Marvin_Black> Reality is a bitch. And the worst thing is, reality loves to be one. Just as life does.
<ST> The staff is very quiet, although there is a feeling of a refreshing breeze here.
AC_Newton gets her roast beef.
AgentGrey looks at the fish he ordered.
<ST> Before starting, Moonchild offers a prayer of thanks to Gaia, Unicorn, the spirits here, and the spirits of the foods we eat tonight. Blessed Be.
Marcello forgot to order. He was busy thinking too much.
<ST> At this point the initial courses are served.
Asm0dai tries to get Farstrider a bit to the side of the others.
<HanBringer> Reality is *our* bitch.
<Marvin_Black> That will cheat you whenever it is able to
<Darby> The options are roast beef, fish or vegan.
Asm0dai is standing in holo looking like a dandy pirate leant to the wall and trying to call the host for a short conversation.
<Marcello> I'll take vegan.
Marcello smirks.
<HanBringer> Perhaps. We just need to keep taming it.
<ST> The staff remove the centerpeice, making room for service plates. The appetizers are served, shrimp cocktail for most people, alternative for vegans. The sylphs remove the service plates while giving the diners their requested choice of dinner. The wait-staff brings larger serving plates of the main choices, and various vegetables. Darby offers the wines to whomever wants, and suggests other options. When everyone has been served, the wait-staff wait near the kitchen door.
<Asm0dai> (Marv, how does a hologram eat?)
<AC_Newton> (Asmo: electronically.)
<Marvin_Black> (Dunno)
<Asm0dai> (I am asking since you and me are at home, our VA representations on a pirate ship and holographic projection of us in this realm :))
AgentGrey hopes he managed to get rid of the lipstick and looks somewhat reproachful at Acy.
<ST> Sean, in his whites, stands by for comments.
<Marvin_Black> Han: Life will kick your ass every time she has the opportunity. No matter how hard you want to tame her, she will kick your butt for your efforts.
AC_Newton takes a heavy red wine to the roastbeef. She smiles at Kev who looks considerably freed of the bright red lipstick kiss marks.
Marcello enjoys his meal and drinks a glass of water with it.
<ST> This is Sean, he's the chef. He's about 6ft tall and weighs around 200. He's strong and ruggedly handsome. He has red hair and blue eyes. He likes talking to visitors and is willing to show off his kitchen. He wears the usual whites including the puffy chef's hat, with sneakers.
<HanBringer> (Sorry for the delay - needed to get some real food.)
<AC_Newton> (Not only virtual one? :-)
<Marcello> My compliments, Sean, this tastes delicious.
Sean smiles.
AgentGrey concentrates on the fish and doesn't talk much.
<HanBringer> Well, you just need to be persuasive in the right way.
MC_Farstrider eats her dinner.
Tara flies by, checking if anyone needs anything.
AC_Newton is still very much taken aback by the flying maids.
<Marvin_Black> And she will lure you to feel safe and then smack a frying pan over the back of your head.
MC_Farstrider excuses herself and walks over to the Asmo image.
<HanBringer> Again, I think you give reality too much credit. She is a harsh mistress, but treat her right and she will bend to your will.
<Marvin_Black> Reality and life have teamed up to tease you and pain you. No chance in hell to be safe
<MC_Farstrider> How can we help you?
<Asm0dai> Well!
Asm0dai sounds loud enough so everyone can hear them.
HanBringer would sigh but robots can't sigh.
<Asm0dai> Why are some of us disconnected from Magick here? At least I have noticed that I am, and it is not beacuse I am a projection.
<MC_Farstrider> Are you asking why I have protective wards agaist hostile magick?
<Asm0dai> Hmm, sensory Magick is hostile since when? And why is it that you even dared to do something like that. One might think that you don't trust us.
<MC_Farstrider> Just as my Magick works poorly in tech environments, tech magick (except weaver tech, but thats a special case) works poorly in spiritual settings.
<Marvin_Black> Han, we are shackled to chains of pain and drag around a ball of suffering, bound to die.
<Asm0dai> Hmmm, I wouldn't agree, since I was not using tech magic. Yes, and I still think that what I did was possible. I went to the Green Meadows with McClude and the Krew, and my magic worked completely normal. Which leads me to conclude that someone cut out the magick here, and you didn't even warn us. It seems to me you had some plans with us... Ah, Farstrider?
<HanBringer> It's always a pleasure talking to you, Marvin. You have a way of always looking on the bright side of life.
<Asm0dai> (Eric Idle voice: Ooooooooooh... annnnnnnd Always...)
Asm0dai looks a bit riled up.
<MC_Farstrider> Since we KNOW that only a Spirit master or a Fallen can block the spirits from me, and you were able to do that without any recourse at all... I tried countermagick and it failed and tried a unweaving and that failed, too -- clearly you used some sort of "gift" of the fallen to do it.
<AgentGrey> A Fallen?
<Marvin_Black> That's just reality, nothing more and nothing less.
<Asm0dai> Oh, fascinating when did I do that?
AgentGrey looks alert now.
<MC_Farstrider> Presumably in creating the cave setting.
<Asm0dai> Interesting... What do you know about the Digital Web.
<MC_Farstrider> Very little -- a Glasswalker friend showed me how to climb the Weaver's webs to get there.
AgentGrey listens intently.
<MC_Farstrider> I do know that Life Magick only appears to work on those whove climb into it.
<Asm0dai> Do you know that it is an Umbral Realm based on formatted Weaver spirits? And do you know that it completely works according to the ideas of Virtual Adepts and technomancers. Okay... Now, if VAs create rooms for PRIVATE conversations, would they be protected from any sort of intrusion and hearing? Especially with all the net combat that has been happening for the Virgin Web lately...
<MC_Farstrider> Are you saying that your magic is exempt from unweaving?
<Asm0dai> No, but the stuff that the people did in the Demise is.
<HanBringer> Hmm. Where have the others got to?
AC_Newton looks for a dessert.
AgentGrey listens to Asmodai.
MC_Farstrider does not understand.
<Asm0dai> The protection of the cave has been working since the Demise exists.
<MC_Farstrider> YOU did the cave.
<Asm0dai> I did the visuals.
<MC_Farstrider> It's your Magick.
<Marvin_Black> Han: Dunno. Perhaps they won free tickets to hell and went for a ride?
<Asm0dai> The protetion protocols are courtesy of the Demise. You cannot do anything against them.
<HanBringer> Well, they may be going to hell in a bucket, but at least they'll enjoy the ride.
<Asm0dai> Haven't you noticed that everyone who is there is watched and checked upon entry? And that everyone is entitled to total privacy?
<MC_Farstrider> I don't believe it's impossible to unweave a weaving. If you can create it, I can try to uncreate it.
<Asm0dai> Oh, but can you explain to me what the Web is exactly? And what created it? Moreover, what is the Demise itself?
<MC_Farstrider> How would I know? The whole place is creepy.
<Asm0dai> The Demise is something no VA - not me, not Dante, not anyone - has ever comprehended. And if a little spirit caller here thinks that she can do whatever she thinks of in a place that even the masters of its way cannot get, then you really have an attitude problem.
<HanBringer> (I'm still with Marv. I believe we're still in the bar room, actually.)
<MC_Farstrider> Since the rest of the Demise has no problems with the spirits. It was ONLY your creation that did. It should have been unweavable.
<Asm0dai> Fascinating. Want to join me to any protected area of the Demise?
<MC_Farstrider> Since it wasn't, it's clearly a gift of the Fallen.
<Asm0dai> Want to try use spirits to pass Maxine?
<Marvin_Black> Han, they are looking for spectacular way to die.
<HanBringer> Oooh. I hope it's pretty.
<Marvin_Black> They could simply blow their heads.
<HanBringer> Hmm. That's not particularly spectacular.
<Marvin_Black> But easier by far.
<Asm0dai> Wonderful. I am Fallen because a place is more powerful then your magic?
<MC_Farstrider> I will not go there again. It's too unsafe.
<Asm0dai> Riight... And I will not go to places where people try to block my powers.
<MC_Farstrider> So mote it be.
<Asm0dai> And if I was Fallen, why was I even allowed to this hallowed place?
<MC_Farstrider> I allowed your image as a concession to AC and company.
<Asm0dai> And why do I have no problems with Garou trusting me, but an overzealus spirit jockey thinks I am Nephandi because she thinks she can do anything?
<MC_Farstrider> given the wards I thought it was safe
<Asm0dai> Well, since it is obvious that I am unwanted - next time simply say that it is unwanted and I will not bother you with my presence.
Asm0dai bows to the table.
<Asm0dai> Ladies, gentlemen...
Asm0dai disappears from the room
AC_Newton thinks next time we'd better meet at the Meteor.
Asm0dai is back on the Cogliostro sailing towards another pirate ship... time for some stress management.
MC_Farstrider breathes. Thank the Goddess!
Asm0dai starts singing dirty pirate songs and waving his flintlocks jumping happily on board a ship filled with scurvy ridden maggots.
<AC_Newton> (Ok, I think we should call it a day now.)
Asm0dai notices that Marv's image is still on the bridge, surrounded by a horde of fighting pirates, him oblivious to all the fighting and clamor around him.
<ST> On the dessert cart, you see various kinds of fruit pies, custard pies and cakes. Both Italian style and cream cheese cheesecakes. Chocolate mousse, various pastries, and other desserts. You also see another cart stacked with fresh fruits from all around the world. For dessert beverages, we offer black and green hot teas, regular and decaffeinated coffees, as well as various expresso and expresso based steamed milk drinks. Cocoa both with cinnamon and without. As always there are water coolers in the living room, and library and kitchen.
<AC_Newton> Chocolate mousse!
MC_Farstrider grins.
AC_Newton definitely wants to have one of that!
Sean nods.
Tara flies over with the dessert.
<Tara> For Acy.
<AC_Newton> Thanks...
AgentGrey would like some fruit.
<Marcello> Miss Farstrider, what you did wasn't exactly subtle. His explanation was indeed logical, and perhaps his knowledge of the Fallen stems indeed from a long time fighting them. Just because someone is an asshole, that doesn't make them Fallen.
<MC_Farstrider> I am sorry that the Asmo/Kat conflict appears to be unresolvable.
<AC_Newton> (MC, well, that's a problem of Paradigm etc. It's to be expected among headstrong Mages.)
<MC_Farstrider> I'm not at odds with him, Kat is.
<Marcello> Ah yes, your protector self.
<Asm0dai> (Well, that is to be seen. And still I think that Asmo has seen more shit than you guys ever will...)
<MC_Farstrider> She says he says "that what he did was in proctection" and she feels he stripped her of her protection.
<Asm0dai> (And saying he is a Fallen is a fast way to piss him off. Stayka knows why.)
<AC_Newton> (Nod)
MC_Farstrider is now known as Kat.
<Kat> (I tried to explain this to you many times already. You clearly do not understand me or mine,)
<Marcello> Does Miss Farstrider actually need you? She seems like a capable woman, able to protect herself.
<Asm0dai> (Is it time for a regular Grey fight?)
AgentGrey looks at Asmodai... Again?
<Kat> (And I cannot allow anyone to make us undefendable.)
<HanBringer> (Are we wrapping up?)
<Asm0dai> (I am just checking...)
<Marcello> Undefendable, or is it just that you are affraid of disappearing ?
AC_Newton gets up and wraps her arms protectively around Kevin.
<AC_Newton> He's *mine* - Don't you dare kill him!
<Asm0dai> (Do I need to setup a ring in the DW and prepare to comment or should I simply continue slaying pirates?)
<AC_Newton> (Han: Hm... I guess so :-)
<Marcello> (Darn game seems over. Bah.)
<AC_Newton> (Next time we'd better get back on the ship ^_^)
Asm0dai yawns and prepares the ring and his groomed suit to prepare for commenting. Pirate killing will be left for later.
Session Close: Wed Mar 26 00:08:17 2003
-- To Be Continued --
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