AGWW Online - Log 2003/04/15

Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web

Session 1x16: Spirits in the Web?

This page was last modified: 2003/05/13

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 A.C.Newton (Sons of Ether) - played by Stayka
 Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai
 D.A.N. Primus (Orphan) - played by 'Top Hat' Jon
 Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones
 HoodUN (Technoshaman) - played by Asmodai
 Agent Kevin Grey (NWO) - played by Stayka
 Dr.Marcello Keagan (OoH bani Thig) - played by Dingo
 Marshall Phreak (Technoshaman) - played by Nimrod Jones
 Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven
 Moonchild Farstrider (Dreamspeaker) - played by Fuzzy
 Navi (Technofetish of MC's) - played by Asmodai
 Teora (AI of the Meteor) - played by Stayka

 ST - Stayka

 Session Start: Tue Apr 15 20:25:04 2003

<ST> Last session we completed the glorious Virtual Ethership Nova. We are still in front of the Spy's Demise, and are happy that the ship is as cool as it could get. Currently the crew is in the command center of the ship.

Asm0dai is back in 5 - and then he'd like to have a conversation with Hannibal :)

<ST> Asmo and Hanni had a heated discussion and Hanni rushed out in a huff.

<Marshall_Phreak> (Han isn't here to take your call at the moment. Please try again.)

<ST> So this means that Asmo could run after Hanni, and in that case the shakedown cruise of the Nova has to wait.

MC_Farstrider sits in her room in the real ship depressed and upset

Marcello tries to comfort MC.

<Teora> MC?

Teora appears in her usual holographic form. Silver hair frames a snow white face with deep blue-violet eyes. She wears a futuristic black overall with silver boots, belt and gloves.

<MC_Farstrider> "useless"

Marshall_Phreak sits in the Spy's Demise, in the main area.

<Teora> MC, what's up?

Asm0dai will gladly run after Hanni.

<Marshall_Phreak> (Good luck. You don't think Han would have left an easy to follow trail, do you?)

MC_Farstrider thinks positively of Teora, she remeinds her of Amber.

AC_Newton sees half of the crew disappear.

<AC_Newton> Er... Where are they going?

Marvin_Black slithers about.

<AC_Newton> Hm... Maybe they ran into the Demise to drink on the success with the ship?

AgentGrey shrugs and smiles at AC.

<AgentGrey> Maybe?

<AC_Newton> Well, what about going there to check where they are? I can't start with half the crew missing!

<Marvin_Black> Perhaps they just dissappeared and disintegrated?

<MC_Farstrider> (Typical Marv reply)

<Teora> MC, why don't you try to find someone who can really help you there? I'm sure in the Digital Web there will be others that are like you who can help.

MC_Farstrider has been trying to think of any way that her knowledge / skills / magick could be of help.

<Marcello> Thats what I tried to explain to her also, Teora.

<Teora> Well, Marcello, I can offer you an uplink via my VR gear here. You can then try to find someone. I think the Spy's Demise might be a good start.

<MC_Farstrider> You really think there is anyone who could help me?

<Teora> Well, I think so. AC seems to be positive that there are many people with very different Paradigms in the Web. She complains she barely understands half of them.

<MC_Farstrider> Ok -- I'll look.

<Marcello> I'll go with you.

<Teora> I set up the gear for you so that you can uplink.

<MC_Farstrider> (Navi also projects itself along with them.)

Marvin_Black reprogs his icon to a big bat and flaps over the heads of the others.

<Asm0dai> (I'll start Navi)

<AC_Newton> Marv: I don't think so. So why don't we look in the Demise for them? Nova, I take it you can take care of yourself in the time being?

AC_Newton smiles lovingly at Kevin and takes his hand.

Marvin_Black looks at AC and Kevin.

<Marvin_Black> You know it is against human rights to make someone witness Love Boat 24/7 against his will?

<AC_Newton> (smiling brightly) Marv, don't be a spoilsport. We didn't even do anything graphic...

AgentGrey chuckles. He wouldn't mind doing something more than just holding hands with AC.

<Marvin_Black> And I hope you won't. It's sick!

AC_Newton grins.

<AC_Newton> I can't promise that... ^_^

AC_Newton gives Kevin a very suggestive smile.

Marvin_Black flaps to the exit and reprogs to his original icon.

MC_Farstrider appears in the main bar.

<MC_Farstrider> Ma?

<Marcello> Yes.

<MC_Farstrider> Checking to see if you were there.

<Marcello> I'm here.

<MC_Farstrider> I guess I need to figure out what to do now.

<Marcello> Okay. Let's see...

<MC_Farstrider> (as in: does one ask the barkeeper "Seen any shamans?")

<Marcello> That sounds like a good idea.

Barkeep looks at MC and Marcello.

<Barkeep> Can I help you? You look lost.

Marcello smiles.

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, well, I'm looking for a shaman, and don't quite know the right questions to ask?

DAN_Primus goes into the Demise.

<Marcello> Yes, we are new in the neighborhood and we were wondering if there is anyone you could suggest to us who could make us familiar with this place.

<Barkeep> A shaman...

Barkeep looks thoughtful.

<Barkeep> Well, I'm sure I had a short talk with one. Last I saw he was in that booth over there.

Barkeep nods in a direction at the back side of the room.

MC_Farstrider looks there.

Marshall_Phreak is sitting there.

<ST> (Zen, describe your char, please.)

AC_Newton and Kevin walk into the Demise, too, looking for Asmo, Hanni and the rest.

AgentGrey fortunately wears a nondescript black combination right now and isn't immediately giving himself away as the MiB he is.

<DAN_Primus> There's the two mystics, over there, but Han and Asm0 aren't in here either, it looks.

<AC_Newton> Well, we could say hello to them...

<DAN_Primus> I don't think that'd be a good idea, AC.

Marvin_Black walks toward the Demise.

<MC_Farstrider> Ma? Let's go see.

Marshall_Phreak displays a thin, wiry icon, wrapped in a tie-dye colours lined with sparkling electric blue skipping between the colours. His hair is in dreads with tassles of ever changing colours. His eyes are like a pit of a million stars and he is ever lazily looking around him as he speaks to you.

<MC_Farstrider> (Something like Astarte's eyes?)

<Marshall_Phreak> (Don't know who Astarte is.)

<MC_Farstrider> (A rather unsual lady who believes she is the Goddess Astarte.)

AC_Newton wonders where MC and Marcello are headed. Her curiousity lets her follow the two mysticks, and Kev tags along.

<AC_Newton> Dan, I'm curious whom they meet there.

DAN_Primus shrugs and follows.

<DAN_Primus> It's your choice.

Marshall_Phreak sees the strangers approaching.

Marvin_Black enters the Demise and asks if there is any free dark corner around.

<Marshall_Phreak> Hello, Programs.

Navi has joined #agww

MC_Farstrider nods.

<AC_Newton> Dan: Well, that guy sure looks wild.

AC_Newton is glad that she has Kevin here for support. The Digital Web is still somewhat new to her, and Kev is obviously pretty familiar with the surrounding, even though he surely doesn't know as much as Asmodai or Hannibal.

Navi blips next to MC happily.

<Marshall_Phreak> Hey, cool. A bit. Just like outta that film.

AC_Newton reaches MC and Marcello.

<MC_Farstrider> Sir, the barkeep thought you might be able to help me.

<AC_Newton> Hello MC, hello Marcello. - Hello...?

<Marcello> Hello, Captain Newton.

<Marshall_Phreak> AC: Hello, program.

<Marcello> Mr.Grey.

<AgentGrey> Dr.Keagan.

AgentGrey nods towards Marcello and greets the others, too.

<Marshall_Phreak> Grey? You got a colourful name, dude.

AgentGrey grins at the stranger.

<AgentGrey> Well, I can't help it.

HoodUN is lurking in the Demise.

<DAN_Primus> You refer to us as 'program'. Why is that?

<Marshall_Phreak> We are all just programs in the great cosmic mainframe, pal.

<MC_Farstrider> Pardon, have you a "handle/username" I might address you with?

<Marshall_Phreak> Sure... My associates call me Marshall. Marshall Phreak.

MC_Farstrider smiles.

<Marshall_Phreak> That's Phreak with a P H, not an F. It's amazing how people can't read the sound difference.

Marcello smirks.

<MC_Farstrider> I'm Moonchild Farstrider, most people call me MC.

<AC_Newton> (brightly) Hello, Mr.Phreak. I'm A.C.Newton.

<Marshall_Phreak> Greetings.

<HoodUN> (coughHACKERScough)

<Marshall_Phreak> (coughNOTTHEFILMcough)

<DAN_Primus> As in phone phreak, like the infamous Captain Crunch.

<Marshall_Phreak> The man was a genius, ahead of his time, but he had more concepts than just phonelines... He was really onto something.

Marvin_Black sits down alone at a table in some darker spot of the Demise.

HoodUN appears next to the table. He is wearing long dreadlocks over his shoulders, wears black shades and a white/black tailcoat. On his head is a top hat with a skull.

<MC_Farstrider> I'm trying to make better sense of what I find here.

<Marcello> I'm Marcello.

<MC_Farstrider> I used to climb into the DW from the Weaver's Webs, but was taught that was unwise.

HoodUN talks with a slur, extending his syllables, his voice a deep baritone.

<HoodUN> You, called?

<Marshall_Phreak> Houdun: Hey, brother program.

AC_Newton looks interested at the two colourful strangers.

<DAN_Primus> Captain Crunch was also the man that led the VA in the study of the Correspondence sphere.

<Marshall_Phreak> Hell, yeah.

AC_Newton doesn't let go of Kevin's hand.

Marcello sits back and listens.

<HoodUN> Phreak, you went to teach these noobs? You know da spirits is she searcher for.

Marvin_Black orders a black coffee.

<Marshall_Phreak> MC: Lady, that's quite a climb.

<MC_Farstrider> (nods) It is.

HoodUN bows waving his top hat in a wide arc.

Barkeep arrives at the table.

<Marshall_Phreak> It's a real dangerous climb too, if you're not careful.

<Barkeep> Can I get you anything?

<MC_Farstrider> That was how I was taught, though.

<HoodUN> HoodUN (pronunced Voodoo)

<Marshall_Phreak> You come through Spider City?

<MC_Farstrider> (I think you refer to Dystopia and its connection, yes?)

AC_Newton hears "Spiders" and is somewhat alarmed.

<Marcello> Barkeep: Some scotch.

HoodUN sits down to the others and orders a mashed piton.

Barkeep nods.

<Marcello> MC, darling, want anything to drink ?

<HoodUN> Da web be covering all...

<AC_Newton> I'd like a Frozen Marguerita.

<AgentGrey> Some scotch, too

<Marshall_Phreak> Whatever you wanna call it. Uptown ain't easy to get into.

<MC_Farstrider> A Glass Walker associate showed me the way to what looks like a run down city which has a connection to the Digital Web.

Barkeep relays the orders immediately.

Marvin_Black sips his coffee and sighs.

<HoodUN> Is it a city with machines that are amalgamated with men - and spirits?

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, it is. Sort of making a fetish of ones body.

HoodUN has a shadowy presence around him when he says the word "Spirits".

AC_Newton finds that somewhat uncanny and snuggles against Kevin.

Marshall_Phreak nods sagely.

<HoodUN> That be the Cyberhole.

Marshall_Phreak has the smell of sage about him, too.

Marcello smirks about the special effects.

<HoodUN> There you can enter here, but it is easier to simply send your soul.

<DAN_Primus> (Had bad thoughts just now about fetishes...)

<HoodUN> (heh ;))

<Marcello> (hehe)

<AC_Newton> (LOL)

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, as Teora and AC showed me.

Marvin_Black closes his eyes and holds his cup in his hands.

AC_Newton smiles brightly at MC.

<Marshall_Phreak> So what can I help you with, programs?

<HoodUN> But we have missed introductions. I am Count HoodUN, lord of the zombi of Carribean - at least in the Web.

<DAN_Primus> I am known as Dan. I am here merely to aid my captain.

<HoodUN> Your capt'n?

MC_Farstrider points to AC and says "This is Captain AC Newton, of the Meteor.

<AC_Newton> Yeah, I'm A.C.Newton, Captain of the Ethership Meteor.

Marshall_Phreak makes a little mimick of a puppet while Hoodun speaks and stops sharply as he looks in his direction.

AC_Newton smiles even more brightly.

Marshall_Phreak smiles happily at Hoodun.

HoodUN grins, showing bone white teeth.

<Marshall_Phreak> Nice whites.

<Marcello> Marcello.

<HoodUN> Why you be needink the spirits?

<DAN_Primus> Yes, my captain. Voodoo.

<AgentGrey> I'm Kevin Grey.

AgentGrey still feels somewhat weird not to introduce himself as "Agent Grey", but in this company it was definitely wiser.

HoodUN looks with distrust at Grey.

<HoodUN> Your taste in clothes... is not nice.

AgentGrey just wears a black combination, not a suit ^_^

<Marshall_Phreak> Grey, you need a more colourful handle, dude.

<HoodUN> You look like a technofreak.

<AgentGrey> Well, I am not a mystick, if you ask me that.

Marcello laughs.

AC_Newton isn't a Mystick either.

<AC_Newton> I'm a Scientist!

Marcello coughs.

Marvin_Black could almost be glad he is left alone for some time, if he wouldn't be so bored.

<HoodUN> Science and magic are simply ways. The path is same, as is my voodoo.

<MC_Farstrider> So, Marshall, my problem is I find I cannot reach my spirits and my healing does not work.

Navi chirps happily around the white emanations above HoodUN.

<Marshall_Phreak> Hmm. Well, spirits ain't the easiest of entities to summon here in the Web.

HoodUN is accompanied by an ominous thounder.

<Marshall_Phreak> It's kind of an electrical domain.

Marshall_Phreak snaps open an umbrella.

<HoodUN> Of course. They be staying out... and watching.

<MC_Farstrider> One would think that Weaver spirits would be about (web spiders and such).

HoodUN takes out a bag with bones and scatters them on the table.

<AC_Newton> Eep! Bones?

HoodUN points at the bones and they form into a crude map showing the Web as a sphere and the pattern web and the cyberrealm on the borders.

MC_Farstrider nods in understanding.

<Marshall_Phreak> What the bones say?

AgentGrey watches the display in utter fascination

AC_Newton doesn't understand much of what the colourful guys tell.

<HoodUN> The thing is dat da spirits not be liking here. The Web expells them, but it also takes a part of them inside it.

Marvin_Black leans back and takes another sip.

MC_Farstrider wonders.

<MC_Farstrider> Would not an information geomid be right at home, though?

Navi chirps and shows a huge red light.

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, Navi?

Navi appears before MC scrolling the next text:

<Navi> No, I cannot be here. I must stay away, only The NAVI keeps me partialy here.

AC_Newton wonders what an "information geomid" is and asks that, too.

<MC_Farstrider> It's a weaver spirit of information.

<Marshall_Phreak> Sure. The Web is information. You are information. I am information. Human existence thrives on information.

Barkeep brings the ordered beverages.

<Marshall_Phreak> Barkeep, I'll have a nice tall glass of ice cold information, please.

Barkeep grins at Phreak.

<Barkeep> In a sec.

<AC_Newton> But what are "geomids"?

<HoodUN> They be forms of mathematics.

<AC_Newton> Oh, mathematics I can understand.

Marcello smiles.

<HoodUN> They be information looking like mathematical forms and presences.

Navi turns green.

<Marshall_Phreak> Our existence is pure binary. Life/Unlife, Death/Undeath, One/Zero, On/Off.

Barkeep returns with a tall glass that is filled with sparkling green binary numbers and puts it down in front of the shaman.

Marshall_Phreak thanks Barkeep with a smile.

Navi continues scrolling.

<Navi> Web is not Umbra. It is a section of the Umbra that was not formed by the Great Spinner.

<HoodUN> The little one have knowledge.

<Marshall_Phreak> This drink is pure binary.

AC_Newton marvels at the weird drink.

Marshall_Phreak drinks it in one.

<Marshall_Phreak> Full/Empty.

Marshall_Phreak grins.

Navi chirps and goes on.

<Navi> The Web is compatible with our goals, but it was created by a human.

Marvin_Black listens to the other people around.

AgentGrey follows the discussion intently.

<HoodUN> Da messiah. Turing.

<AC_Newton> Yes, I know about Alan Turing! He invented a lot of great stuff in computer sciences.

<Marcello> I know of him too.

<Marshall_Phreak> Turing messed it up. He did it wrong. He got caught by the changelings.

<HoodUN> He died and in dying created the Web.

MC_Farstrider wonders how I can serve the purpose of Unicorn, without the ability to heal and to work with the spirits?

<HoodUN> You are wrong, spirit talker.

Marcello frowns

<HoodUN> Your purpose is to go and heal the others in service of your totem. Yet healing is not only physical or spiritual. It is also mental and this is the plane where you turn.

MC_Farstrider listens.

<HoodUN> Here there be the ultimate irreality. Here you can do what you want, but the key is in working inside the world.

<AC_Newton> I heard that Turing was killed in 1954 or so - and he got incorporated into the Digital Web.

Navi bleeps and shows that AC seems to be wrong.

AC_Newton looks at the Bit - er, Navi.

<Marshall_Phreak> Healing is more than mojo, program. Healing is talking, healing is finding the problems of another and helping one to heal themselves. Rewrite their code, reprogram their lives.

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, Ma is a Mind Healer.

Navi continues sprouting that Turing is the Creator of The Web and that is why the Spinner's minions can not enter.

Marcello_Keagan thinks this just turned interesting.

<HoodUN> The Web is free. It has the freedom of chaos, but the constraints of pseudo science.

<Marshall_Phreak> Not in some countries.

Marshall_Phreak grins.

<Marshall_Phreak> In some countries you gotta pay. If you're in one of those countries, you gotta move.

<HoodUN> Still your magick can work. You cannot have spirits, but you can make spirits.

<HoodUN> Watch!

MC_Farstrider watches.

AC_Newton, too.

AgentGrey as well.

Marcello_Keagan watches.

Marshall_Phreak watches... everything.

Marvin_Black progs himself a mini Cthulhu sitting on his shoulder.

<Marshall_Phreak> (LOL)

<DAN_Primus> (So that's why Marv likes it so much...)

<Marshall_Phreak> MC, so you want to code yourself into the web?

HoodUN chants and takes out a serpent from his jacket... he stil chants and next to him a shadow forms into a thin man with taut skin and an empty look.

<HoodUN> Here: a Zombi.

AC_Newton looks warily at the "Zombie"

<HoodUN> I can make me servants even here.

Marshall_Phreak conjures a cocktail in front of him.

m0ep0r has joined #agww

<Marshall_Phreak> I prefer this zombie.

<HoodUN> (It isn't the standard rotting corpse.)

<AC_Newton> (But it is a zombie ^_^)

m0ep0r has left #agww

Marshall_Phreak points at m0ep0r.

<Marshall_Phreak> See how tempramental this place is? Programs come, programs go. Only the careful survive.

Marshall_Phreak gives the zombie to the zombie.

Cthulhu has joined #agww

Marvin_Black looks at his Cthulhu.

<Marvin_Black> Hi.

<Cthulhu> Hello.

<AC_Newton> (LOL)

MC_Farstrider stares at the zombi, chanting quietly.

<HoodUN> You see, spirit talker, the spirits can follow.

HoodUN looks at the Cthulhu.

<HoodUN> Hello, lord of the depths...

<MC_Farstrider> (mind/spirit/life/prime scan of the zombi)

Cthulhu is sitting in Marv's booth

HoodUN turns back to MC.

<Marshall_Phreak> Hail, mighty old one. I see thou has risen from your deep slumber in R'yleh. Had enough dreaming?

AC_Newton thinks she understands at best a third of all of this and looks to Kev for comfort, and he gives her a gentle kiss on the lips. This definitely isn't his territory either.

<MC_Farstrider> >r 4

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (10,9,8,3) SUCCESS : 3 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.

<HoodUN> (MC - It seems to be a construct from Forces and Prime, but still it seems that it is powered by a shard of a spirit.)

Marvin_Black looks at Marshall Phreak and HoodUN then back at Cthulhu.

<Marvin_Black> You see? You are well known in this place.

Cthulhu has quit IRC (Quit: Returning to R'yleh)

DAN_Primus decides to sit down on the ceiling just for the change in perspective, and brings his drink with him, driking it upside down.

<HoodUN> You see, in the Web you can do anything, but the trick is to show it as technology.

HoodUN disolves the Zombi.

Marvin_Black starts chatting with Cthulhu on his shoulder.

HoodUN puts down the snake on the table... as it withers, you notice that it is made from 1's and 0's and that through it code constantly flickers.

AC_Newton finds this somewhat disconcerting.

<Marshall_Phreak> Show it as technology? What you talking about Voodoo? It *is* technology. You wanna summon something, you code its Name into the hardwire.

<HoodUN> The Web wants you to work in its way. You cannot summon a spirit, but you can make a shadow of a spirit here, and it can be as powerful as any other.

<Marshall_Phreak> That's why you hardwire it, dude. Code it, download it.

<HoodUN> Da problem is in choosink the right spirit.

<Marcello_Keagan> Do you mean you code something that looks like a spirit and smells like a spirit?

<Marshall_Phreak> And tastes like a spirit.

DAN_Primus says "And feels like a spirit" from up on the cieling.

HoodUN has quit IRC (*.net *.split)

Marvin_Black sips his coffee and looks at the Cthulhu.

<MC_Farstrider> That would require knowledge of computers and some knowledge of Forces, yes?

<ST> (HoodUN obviously chose the wrong spirit.)

<Marshall_Phreak> Dat's what ya get for arguin' with da Phreak!

<Marcello_Keagan> But do you?

<Marshall_Phreak> He should have chosen a zombie made from rum and not decomposing flesh.

HoodUN has joined #agww

<MC_Farstrider> That would require knowledge of computers and some knowledge of Forces, yes?

<Marshall_Phreak> Greetings, program.

<HoodUN> (Who netsplit except for me?)

<Marcello_Keagan> (Just you)

<ST> (Only you, Asmo)

<Marcello_Keagan> (Perhaps Marv.)

<Marvin_Black> (I started no Entropy Prog.)

<HoodUN> (I roar)

<Marshall_Phreak> Well, you ain't gonna code yourself beyond a mere Four Circuit human, if you don't understand a bit about your environment.

<HoodUN> No, spirit talker. You can use a tool to code, as your little Zombi flowing around you.

<MC_Farstrider> The Navi?

<Marshall_Phreak> The bit.

<HoodUN> Yes, spirit talker. The little one can focus your wishes onto this realm.

<MC_Farstrider> I know he can change my appearence and create mundane things from the ambienbt energy here.

<Marshall_Phreak> The Bit is your gateway to the Fifth Circuit.

<HoodUN> The little one is your tool to be as the machine in the machines' Web.

AC_Newton thinks the two guys speak as much in riddles as MC usually does.

<Marcello_Keagan> And in Noob English?

<MC_Farstrider> Hmmm -- I'm thinking you mean he can serve as a techno-focus?

<Marshall_Phreak> Yeah, that's the one. It's your gateway.

<HoodUN> Dat be correct, spirit talker.

Marvin_Black empties his cup and discusses with Cthulhu who starts talking in a strange language.

<HoodUN> Just as my snake, your bit is your tool to the machines' Web.

Marshall_Phreak starts talking with Cthulhu in the same strange language. Suddenly, Marshall_Phreak laughs.

DAN_Primus thinks that all mystics speak in riddles unintentionally. It comes with the territory.

<MC_Farstrider> But to create, one needs to know Matter (or Life, but that doesn;t apply).

<Marshall_Phreak> Cthulhu made a funny.

<AC_Newton> Matter doesn't work here.

AC_Newton looks somewhat sad - after all, Matter is the special Sphere of her Tradition.

<AC_Newton> Trust me, I tried.

<HoodUN> No, there is no Matter.

<Marcello_Keagan> And Life ?

<HoodUN> There is only power and will.

<Marshall_Phreak> Matter does not mind. Mind does not matter.

<HoodUN> Life is irrelevant where all is power.

Marvin_Black looks at Phreak.

Marcello_Keagan nods.

Marvin_Black sighs.

<Marvin_Black> Even my own progs start ignoring me.

<Marcello_Keagan> Since there is no Matter or Life here, does Forces take it all over?

Marvin_Black progs himself a fallen dark angel on his other shoulder.

AC_Newton moves closer to Kev and lays her head against his shoulder. At least he is a bastion of reason and stability among these guys sputtering wild esoteric stuff.

DAN_Primus drops back down from the ceiling, accidentally dropping his drink on Marv's head as he flips over.

MC_Farstrider wonders... (thinking of startrek style holodecks and using forces to create pseudomatter and pseudolife)

<Marshall_Phreak> We are beings of electricity. We ascend our physical and flawed state of human existence by coding ourselves into a binary existence with which we can reprogram ourselves towards perfection.

<Marcello_Keagan> (MC: That was exactly what I was thinking too.)

<DAN_Primus> In other words, yes.

AgentGrey smiles at AC, while he tries to follow the conversation - albeit not very successfully either. But it proves to him that there are several sorts of Reality Deviants, some of them definitely uncomprehensible, while others seem to be almost fully sane.

Marvin_Black looks up and then on himself, als the Angel and Cthulhu start debating adequate ways of revenge.

Marvin_Black sighs.

<Marshall_Phreak> Electricity is the spirit of the perfect. You ever spoken with spiritual electricity? It is completely pure and indiscriminate in all that it does.

Marcello_Keagan wonders what these guys smoked.

MC_Farstrider nods.

Marcello_Keagan starts looking around a little bit bored.

Marvin_Black reprogs his icon to be dry again.

AC_Newton thinks it is way easier to think of the web as purely technological realm.

MC_Farstrider attempts to make a glass of water.

<Marshall_Phreak> This is the digital mindscape. Stripped away of all unnecessarily spheres of existence and breaking down to the essential building blocks of existence. Ones and Zeroes.

AC_Newton smiles.

<AC_Newton> Ones and zeroes I understand. I just don't understand all of this spirit talk.

<Marshall_Phreak> Zero = Two

<MC_Farstrider> >r 4

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (9,4,5,3) SUCCESS : 1 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

Marcello_Keagan grins.

<Marcello_Keagan> and how about the speculated availabillity of somethings that is neither 0 or 1

<MC_Farstrider> (Comp+Int)

<MC_Farstrider> >r 4

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (1,5,7,2) FAILURE : 0 sux., 0 tens, 1 botches.

<MC_Farstrider> *sigh*

<ST> (MC, you need to practice ^_^)

<HoodUN> You see, spirit talker, the little one is your tool. Your knowledge of the computer is only a little help, though your Life and Matter will not work.

Marvin_Black orders another coffee and an umbrella.

<HoodUN> You will still be able to do what you wish. Da spirits may be constrained, but da spirits can help if you can focus them properly.

AgentGrey plays idly with the long vividly red braid of AC's, while he tries to follow the discussion.

<MC_Farstrider> As I understand it, to "heal" an Icon program, one needs to understand computers.

<Marshall_Phreak> Use them as your gateway to the higher circuits of human existence.

<HoodUN> Icons are not what needs healing. The human freedom and human minds are the one that need protection and healing from us.

DAN_Primus wonders if these two know about trinary computers.

<Marshall_Phreak> To survive in the water you need to learn how to swim, or at least stay afloat. The Computer is your friend. Trust the Computer.

<Marcello_Keagan> It's the mind and souls of the humans that need healing.

Marshall_Phreak chuckles.

Marvin_Black sits in the middle of the heated discussion of the dark angel and the Cthulhu on his shoulders and feels ignored again.

AgentGrey grins at the comment.

<Marcello_Keagan> Since they are not limited by the human shell here.

<HoodUN> The computer is a machine, a tool, Phreak. Tools are not friends.

<MC_Farstrider> (Paranoia, right?)

<AC_Newton> (Yup)

<Marshall_Phreak> Yeah, sure, Trinary. One, Zero and Zero = Two.

<Marshall_Phreak> (MC: :) )

Marcello_Keagan gets up and walks over to Marv's booth.

<MC_Farstrider> Or learn to breathe water...

<Marcello_Keagan> Hello, Mr.Black.

<Marshall_Phreak> Voodoo, you ain't never spoken with spirit of a computer, have you?

Marvin_Black still sits there in the middle of the discussion

<HoodUN> The computer have no spirits worth mention. They are not who I traffick with. They need not my services.

<Marshall_Phreak> They do if you wake them up. They are just like the sleepers in the masses.

<HoodUN> Me be knowing, o loud one.

<AC_Newton> I have never ment a Computer with a "Spirit" My computers at best have AIs.

<AgentGrey> I think I am most comfortable with "normal" computers and AIs, too.

Marvin_Black looks at Marcello.

Marshall_Phreak scratches his head.

<Marshall_Phreak> Loud?

<Marvin_Black> Yes?

<HoodUN> Yet, I need them not.

<MC_Farstrider> I'd not thought to rouse the spirit of the computer in my office.

<Marshall_Phreak> Dude, you need to turn your whisper phone down.

<MC_Farstrider> (hmms) Maybe that's a way to learn more about computers. Ask it.

<Marcello_Keagan> You'd love those guys.

<Marvin_Black> Why that?

<Marcello_Keagan> Because they seem to be talking in riddles like you are most of the time.

<Marvin_Black> I'm not talking riddles, but mere reality.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, since we are all going to run to our doom in that encounter with the Nephandi, perhaps you'd like to teach me how to survive in here.

<Marvin_Black> You wanna learn how to survive? Life is the best teacher. Hard, cruel, painful.

<Marcello_Keagan> But gentle at times too, and caring. But I do not have time to learn how to handle myself in this place the hard way.

<Marvin_Black> Gentle? You mean those short passages life gives you, so you can be hit by the pain much harder later on? So what do you want to know?

<Marcello_Keagan> I'm just curious how to use magic in this place.

<Marvin_Black> Magic? No big deal. Bring up lines of code and imbue them with the right signs, sigils and stuff, then empower them.

<Marcello_Keagan> Do you imbue the code with the right stuff, or do you program the right stuff here in the DW and use magic then?

<Marvin_Black> Both.

<HoodUN> AI's can be spirits or constructs or data.

<AgentGrey> I guess the ones I know are mainly constructs. Although, I'm not sure about Teora - she seems very much alive for an AI.

<AC_Newton> Teora is just an AI, Kev. My Dad built her, and Random - a Virtual Adept I met a while ago - modified her a bit.

<HoodUN> What you need to know is more important, spirit talker. There is one more thing...

<MC_Farstrider> Yes?

<HoodUN> You can create bodies from power that your little companions will use, but their power will be constrained to the power of The Web, and you should use shards of your friends to power their spiritual rides.

<Marshall_Phreak> Beware the changelings that wear our faces, speak our talk, but seek to change our minds.

<MC_Farstrider> I'm not following.

<AC_Newton> I have to admit, I only understand tiny parts, if anything...

AC_Newton sighs and leans against Kevin.

MC_Farstrider tries to understand.

<HoodUN> Simple, Spirit talker, if you are to call on the power of your spirits you would fail.

<MC_Farstrider> (Wits+Enigmas)

<MC_Farstrider> >r 6

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 6 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (4,4,9,5,8,9) SUCCESS : 3 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

Marshall_Phreak conjures a glass of water.

AgentGrey puts an arm around AC's shoulders and sips on his scotch.

<Marshall_Phreak> This is your spirit, friends, program. This...

Marshall_Phreak conjures a bowl.

<Marshall_Phreak> ...is the web.

<HoodUN> But here you can construct bodies from essence of the web (Forces and Prime) and move those bodies with the shards of your spirits.

<Marshall_Phreak> Wait, I got that the wrong way round. This....

Marshall_Phreak indicates the bowl which is now full of water.

<Marshall_Phreak> ...is your spirit friend. - This...

Marshall_Phreak indicates the empty glass.

<Marshall_Phreak> ...is the web.

<MC_Farstrider> Right, that's what "astral immersion" is.

<HoodUN> Yes, what you will do is immerse spirits into the web. What you need to watch is what spirits and bodies you try to put into the "iconz".

Marshall_Phreak fills the glass with the water from the bowl leaving plenty still in the bowl.

AgentGrey is only comfortable with alcoholic "spirits"

<Marshall_Phreak> That's about as much of your spirit as can exist in the web. Doesn't mean that it ain't still spirit, but it needs a container. You follow, program?

AC_Newton looks at the shaman and mutely shakes her head. He could as well have spoken in Chinese or Martian to her.

<HoodUN> Loud one, you may speak trash, but there is wisdom in your story.

Marshall_Phreak gives Hoodun a loud middle finger.

<Marcello_Keagan> (Oh how I love metaphors *g*)

Marshall_Phreak grins and chuckles as his middle finger blasts out a tune.

DAN_Primus is amazed that he understands what the phreak is saying.

AC_Newton looks somewhat scandalized at the vulgarity.

HoodUN suddenly eats the finger and the tune with a huge cobra made from 0's and 1's.

MC_Farstrider sighs.

Marshall_Phreak respawns his finger and turns back to MC.

HoodUN retracts the huge serpent.

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: Contact with Teora from this place ?)

<ST> (Marcello: You have a Corr 2 uplink via her.)

<Teora> Marcello? You want to talk to me?

Marcello_Keagan blinks

<Marcello_Keagan> Ehrm, yes, I think I forgot to code myself a computer, can you provide me with one?

<Teora> That shouldn't be a problem.

Teora downloads the appropriate datafile to Marcello.

<Marshall_Phreak> OK. Make a glass, program.

<MC_Farstrider> >r 4

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (5,4,5,4) FAILURE : 0 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<MC_Farstrider> *sigh*

<HoodUN> So, Spirit Talker, all you need to do is summon your little ones into the bodies of force your helper will create.

<MC_Farstrider> Hmmm.

<HoodUN> And that is how your summnoning works in the web.

<MC_Farstrider> Navi, create a body that looks like Moira.

AC_Newton takes place on Kev's lap and wraps her arms around his neck. All this spirit talk makes her desperately long for some comfort.

Navi looks at a spot and starts projecting an outline of Moira.

<Navi> (Do an Arete roll, Forces 3 / Prime 2)

<Marvin_Black> Marc, look at these two discussing icons on my shoulders. Just progs, but still I could use them to show others what the world is about: Death, decay, pain.

Marcello_Keagan ponders.

<Marvin_Black> So, what's the unclear part of it?

<HoodUN> The problem is that your powers over spirits are lessened by the Web. But powered by your and liltle one's creation, they will become your allies again. But they will need time to adapt, so go with them.

<MC_Farstrider> (Doesn't it roll Gnosis?)

<Navi> (Nope. You are the one that does magic. NAVI only is a focus, he cannot do magic.)

<Marshall_Phreak> (MC: You failed to make a glass?)

<MC_Farstrider> Yes, the Comp+Int had 0 sux

<Navi> (She is using NAVI. That is the idea that we created the last session, so just let me do this right, Nim)

<Marshall_Phreak> Try again, program. You still need practice.

<MC_Farstrider> >r 4

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (1,3,2,5) BOTCH : 0 sux., 0 tens, 1 botches.

Navi starts creating Moira. Suddenly he sputters and disappears.

<ST> (This attempt turned into another cute Cthulhu.)

<Marshall_Phreak> (Heh-heh... OK, this exercise ain't gonna happen in a hurry.)

Navi has left #agww

<ST> (No glass. No Moira either... :-)

<Marshall_Phreak> (Navi: We're trying to explain different things.)

<HoodUN> I am sorry, Spirit talker. You will have to try again later.

<MC_Farstrider> (Me is confused. Navi was unable to do the effect?)

<ST> (MC, you botched.)

<HoodUN> (MC, you also got 1 paradox :))

<ST> (Thus there is no Moira, but a cute Cthulhu figure...)

<Marcello_Keagan> (You were... Navi is just your focus. You need Forces 3 to make this work (here, Forces 2).)

<MC_Farstrider> Navi does things on its own.

<Marshall_Phreak> (Why the paradox? She was only trying to code a glass.)

<MC_Farstrider> From using a knowledge?

<HoodUN> (She was using magick through NAVI)

<HoodUN> So, Spirit talker...

<ST> (Actually, I checked - MC only has Forces 1 at the moment, thus 2 in the DW.)

<MC_Farstrider> (To borrow from Harry Belafonte: it's as clear as mud.)

<HoodUN> Wait for your little helper, and then you will be able to retry.

<MC_Farstrider> She hasn't the understanding to create things. Navi always was able to create web only things.

AC_Newton thinks this would be easy by simply programming it properly.

<ST> The cute Cthulhu sitting on the floor gives off some squeaky sounds.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, I think I understand the concept....

Marvin_Black progs himself his pentagram compass.

<Marvin_Black> (The thing is looking wierd with one point of the star blood red.)

<Marvin_Black> You see?

<Marcello_Keagan> That is coding an item? Something that could reasonably exist here in the DW? I could do that.

<Marvin_Black> Don't hope keeping it. It will rot away some time, too. Now to the magic in it.

Marcello_Keagan codes himself a nice fat cigar.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (7,8,10,7) SUCCESS : 4 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.

<Marcello_Keagan> (Cuban Quality)

<Marvin_Black> (Forces / Corr to make the compass point to the exit?)

<Marvin_Black> >r 4 d4

suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (7,8,10,5) SUCCESS : 4 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.

<Marvin_Black> (The red point of the star turns around and points to the exit)

Marcello_Keagan codes himself some matches and lights his cigar.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (1,8,9,1) FAILURE : 0 sux., 0 tens, 2 botches.

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST ??)

<ST> (Marcello, the matches just didn't light up. Retry, diff +1)

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4 d7

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (2,4,9,10) SUCCESS : 2 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.

Marcello_Keagan has a nice smoke.

<MC_Farstrider> As to the glass - MC attempted to program a glass with Int+Computer and got 0 sux.

<HoodUN> Spirit talker, here.

<MC_Farstrider> That's not magic, that's science?

<AC_Newton> Programming is of course Science!

HoodUN gives MC a strangely shaped bone.

MC_Farstrider examines the bone.

<MC_Farstrider> (Int+Medicine whats it from?)

<HoodUN> If you ever have a question crush that bone and wait.

<MC_Farstrider> >r 7

suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 7 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (8,2,5,2,7,7,3) SUCCESS : 3 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<HoodUN> (This is a computer generated bone. You will have to give it to NAVI if you want to keep it.)

Navi has joined #agww

Navi spins wildly around MC's head.

AgentGrey looks curiously at the superstitionalist items the two guys produce.

<MC_Farstrider> Ok - hoodun gave me a "web construct" bone that appears to be a talen, yes?

<HoodUN> (Nope, it is a Forces/Prime construct with a Correspondence link.)

AC_Newton thinks she has in fact far more in common with Kev who is supposed to be "the enemy" than with those guys who are supposed to be "allies".

<HoodUN> (HoodUN is a member of the Bataa. He couldn't care less about the Ascension War.)

<MC_Farstrider> I'm still lost. It's not a talen, it's a Forces/Prime construct?

<Marvin_Black> Marcello, you see? The techie stuff is just flashy stuff. It looks cool and fits the surroundings. The pentagram makes it work. For a while. Nothing lasts forever.

<Marcello_Keagan> But this wasn't magic, this was just coding it?

<DAN_Primus> (I think Marvin's having better luck with Keagan than Phreak and Voodoo are with MC.)

<Marcello_Keagan> Some primitives would consider this magic?

<Marvin_Black> This was magic coding...

AC_Newton is somewhat annoyed at her utter failure to understand either HoodUN or Phreak.

<Marcello_Keagan> (I take it there's some extensive libraries on mundane objects available in the DW?)

<Marvin_Black> The code is this thing in my hand. the magic makes it point.

<MC_Farstrider> If I understand enough of Forces, it will vanish on it own when it runs out of time, yes?

<HoodUN> You see, spirit talker, what you need to do is focus. Your little one can help with mojo and your knowledge of da machines can help with other things.

<ST> (Marc: Yes, there is a lib - but we'd need to visit it. It's a cool area)

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: I mean a data library ?)

<Marvin_Black> (Prog it, save it reuse it. ;) )

<ST> (Marc: It's in a certain sector and a really cool place to visit :-)

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: Objects that are already coded so you don't have to prog everything again, that's what I mean. /lib /bin /whatever in unix talk)

<ST> (Oh, that. Personalized stuff must be personally coded, but can be stored with you as Rote.)

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: Copy pasting works best for making quick code as a beginner. That's why I asked.)

<HoodUN> I am not a master of things machinae, but I manipulate the power of the Web and I am also powerful. Still I would be more powerfull home then here. This limits me too much.

<MC_Farstrider> Hmm, it's a construct, then it's information, and Navi stores information.

<Marshall_Phreak> (MC: Use Navi as your focus in the DW.)

<HoodUN> If you wish to tread the Web, then you must leave your power and spirits behind. They can only help you minimally and power the constructs you created.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, I could light this cigar with magic too..

<ST> (Marcello: Well, I guess easy stuff should be possible without rolling. Only newbies might get fun ^_^)

Marcello_Keagan places his cigar in the ashtray and codes a new one.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (4,1,3,4) BOTCH : 0 sux., 0 tens, 1 botches.

<Marcello_Keagan> (Okay, tobacco leaves :)

<ST> (This was a fish, sorry. Marc, you hold a silvery trout in your hands.)

<Marvin_Black> Marc, sure. If you have the right stuff, with the right insignia, words, sigils and practise...

<Marcello_Keagan> Okay. This trout, in the real world I could use magic to roast it...

<Marvin_Black> Here, too.

<Marcello_Keagan> So...

<MC_Farstrider> Navi, is it against the rules, to summon a Prime weapon here?

<Navi> It is. No weapons are allowed in the Web. The consequences can be... deadly.

<MC_Farstrider> (wonders about the ship out there bristling with weaponry.)

Marcello_Keagan chants a handy dandy spell he learned a long time ago to cook some food.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (9,5,2,6) SUCCESS : 2 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: Magic, Forces 2, Prime 2 effect roasting my fish.)

<ST> (Now you have a nice roasted trout, complete with a slice of lemon on a plate :-)

<HoodUN> (I'd be honored to eat your brains... ROTFL)

<Marcello_Keagan> (LEMON ???)

<ST> (Hm... Do you prefer mustard/honey sauce?)

<MC_Farstrider> Navi, you're saying I cannot summon a staff?

Marshall_Phreak nabs the lemon and changes it into an orange.

<Marshall_Phreak> MC: You can load up a staff program, program.

<Navi> I can help you make the staff.

<MC_Farstrider> But, you just said that weapons were not allowed?

<Marcello_Keagan> (ST: Ehrm, I did a spell in Enochian too cook the fish, and now I get lemon on the side and a plate? That means something really went haywire)

<ST> (Marcello: I thought you wanted to cook it properly *g* In that case some additions would have been helpful - and anyway, this is the Web :-)

<Navi> You can have a staff as a part of your icon..

<Marshall_Phreak> No I didn't. He did.

<Navi> That is easy.

<MC_Farstrider> I'm more confused than ever.

<Navi> But I cannot make you a staff you can attack someone with.

<Marshall_Phreak> (Cool. A water smear has caused a perfect Yin-Yang at the bottom of my glass!)

<Marvin_Black> Marc: You see? That's as easy as dying.

<Marcello_Keagan> Ehrm... Is it supposed to add lemon and seasoning and a plate?

Marvin_Black looks at the dark angel and the Cthulhu who are now discussing about which demon God is the most powerful and sighs.

<Marvin_Black> You have to practise it, just as you have to practise to endure the suffering of life.

<MC_Farstrider> (That function is one of the items in the email you sent me though. Create a weapon that would do 2-8 dice damage (cost=damage dice))

<HoodUN> (But the Demise doesn't allow offensive weapons unless it is a special part of it. This is the goddamn lounge!)

<MC_Farstrider> I'm thinking you're saying I can't summon a Prime only weapon shaped as a melee weapon.

<HoodUN> (You can get ANY weapon - but not HERE.)

<ST> (MC: The Demise doesn't allow fights inside, thus weapons are banned here. That's why Techies and Trads and whoever intermingle here peacefully.)

<Marcello_Keagan> (This is the Demise, no weapons allowed.)

<MC_Farstrider> (Here as in Demise or here as in the DW?)

<DAN_Primus> (Navi answered incorrectly - it said the WEB, not the DEMISE.)

<HoodUN> (Okay, typo.)

<DAN_Primus> (More like brain fart, but whatever.)

AC_Newton sees the others are occupied explaining stuff to MC, so she turns to kiss Kevin.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, I think I'm getting the hang of this now. Any ideas on how to code the right pentagrams? It would be a neat trick to use them in my code, instead of in the DW.

<Marvin_Black> Marc, you want pentagrams? I have loads of them.

<MC_Farstrider> I was trying to think of an effect I have the knowledge and skill to pull off.

<Marcello_Keagan> (MC: scrying??)

<MC_Farstrider> I have the equivalent of Corr3/Forces2/Prime3. I can create a odyllic pattern (Prime only as I haven't the skill in Forces).

<HoodUN> (You cannot. You need Forces 2 to at least try. you get +1 Forces in the Web.)

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv: Can I have a look see?

Marvin_Black progs himself a black laptop with a pentagram on its backside, a skull lock and some inscriptions on it.

<MC_Farstrider> I was trying to think of an effect I have knowledge and skill to pull off.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv: Before that, what's the policy on spying on someone here?

<ST> (MC has Forces 1 now - thus Forces 2 in the DW.)

<MC_Farstrider> Right. Forces 2 changes an existing force. Forces 3 creates one, yes?

<DAN_Primus> Minor only.

<HoodUN> (Okay, MC, what you need is Forces 3.)

Marvin_Black snaps it open and brings up a small library of pentagrams, most are dark and eerie.

Marcello_Keagan looks at Marvins code.

<Marcello_Keagan> (Marv: Or are they pictures?)

<Marvin_Black> (Those are pics of the pentagrams he has the code for.)

<Marvin_Black> Here they are. Symbols of power, to bring the world her own.

<Marcello_Keagan> Do you use these inside the DW, or just as code in your computer?

Marvin_Black sighs.

Marcello_Keagan looks at the pentagrams and mutters to himself.

<Marcello_Keagan> Junk, junk, more junk, might be something, junk, junk, might be something, new age crap, junk...

<Marvin_Black> It's the same. You prog it, you use it. If you start the routine it's real here. Those are the ones to empower the magic.

<Marcello_Keagan> Can you show me that one? *points at one he didn't classify as junk*

<Marvin_Black> What do you want me to show you?

Marvin_Black feels somehow uneasy someone notices him for so long. or perhaps those two creatures almost getting into each others faces are the cause.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, the code of that one?

Marvin_Black turns the laptop around hits some keys and turns it back to Marcello showing him some lines of code.

<Marcello_Keagan> Hmm, I think I get it.

<HoodUN> Ah, I see, spirit talker, you do not understand the powers of the Forces that create this Web. You need to learn more, little spirit talker, or you will not be able to commune.

<MC_Farstrider> Ok - that I understand. MC hasn't the skill to do anything useful in the DW.

<HoodUN> So, Spirit talker, let us see what I have told you in short. There be NO spirits in the Web and you cannot call on them, but you can create simulacra similar to your spirits. And you need to use technology magics to use your spirit arts, therefore your little companion will be necessary.

DAN_Primus decides that the exchange between Keagan and Marv is more interesting and goes over there.

<HoodUN> Go and learn more. When you know more, then call me again. Then I shall help you more.

<MC_Farstrider> But that requires Forces 3 (to create from nothing).

<HoodUN> (Yep)

HoodUN gets up and shakes his dreadlocks.

<MC_Farstrider> Navi, please store this for me.

Navi takes the bone and eats it.

AC_Newton looks from Kev to Hoodun.

HoodUN takes the snake from the table and gets away from the table and leaves.

HoodUN has left #agww

<AC_Newton> Hm... Doesn't even say goodbye.

Marshall_Phreak has been staring at a spot on the wall.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv, what's the policy... - Oh, hello, Mr. Primus - ...on spying on someone in here?

<Marvin_Black> Marc: You need to put it into the objects you want to use, else your magic won't work and fizzle like life in Death's grasp.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv: Hmm?

<DAN_Primus> Are you helping Dr.Keagan to create foci for use within the Web, Mr.Black?

<Marvin_Black> Marc: You need some of that stuff to empower your objects. This compass won't work without the pentagram, just as my TV set won't work without the inscriptions, the pentagrams, symbols and sigils. Those are the true power, the rest is for the looks and the DW.

Marcello_Keagan nods.

<ST> (Okay, so now we have to get to Asmodai chasing Hannibal I think.)

Marcello_Keagan starts typing on his keyboard (he has a nice laptop in front of him) and codes himself his pentagram that he needs for scrying purposes.

<Marvin_Black> Marc, the DW doesn't take kindly on magic used without the flashy cool looking stuff. So this is needed, too. But the true power lies here.

Marvin_Black taps on the pentagram.

<ST> (Zen, you still here?)

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv: Okay, this is what I need to scry on someone - but I get from your words I need to "cheat" the DW?

<Marshall_Phreak> (Yeah. Engaged in PM with MC.)

<ST> (Zen: Ok...)

Marvin_Black nods.

Marcello_Keagan ponders.

<Marvin_Black> Just as you have to cheat Death to survive.

<Marcello_Keagan> Any suggestions?

<Marvin_Black> Give me an example for a situation.

<Marcello_Keagan> The TV isn't my style as a scrying tool, usually I myself focus on this tool and I get an image in my head of the person I'm scrying on.

<ST> (Dan: Hm, it seems to me you don't really get involved here? Any suggestion how to change this?)

<Marcello_Keagan> (Dan is involved, he can give comments if he wants...)

<DAN_Primus> (I don't actually have anything to do. I'm currently watching Marv show Marc how to do mystic magic in the DW.)

<ST> (Dan: Okie :-)

<DAN_Primus> (Once we get back to the main plot line I'm sure I'll have loads to do. Nephandi are notoriously hard to kill, after all.)

<ST> (Dan: First we need to get into that Nephy plant.)

<Marvin_Black> Marc: What about a crytall ball being held by a staff made of metall, organic components and wires?

<ST> (Zen: If you feel like it, you might let Hanni appear, so that Asmo can chase you down ^_^)

AC_Newton is busy smooching around with Kevin ^_^

<Marshall_Phreak> (ST: Well, let's see Asmo try. When we left it, Han vanished off somewhere else and Asmo walked away. If he wants to find me he's going to have to find me.;) )

<ST> (Ok, Zen)

Marcello_Keagan starts coding again. This time he codes himself a small gem on a chain. He links this code to his code of the pentagram to be used on scrying.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (4,9,2,7) SUCCESS : 2 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

Marcello_Keagan saves this piece of code. It's a nice focus for his magic.

<Marcello_Keagan> Marv: What is the rule on scrying inside the Demise?

<Marvin_Black> (Yeah? What's the rule about scrying in the Demise? *g*)

<ST> (Marv: It is very impolite to scry on people of course.)

<Marvin_Black> (K.. As if Marv would care ^_^)

<ST> (Asmo, heard it? Hanni wants you to get on the chase for him :-)

Asm0dai closes down the Nova and puts her safely away. He has to find Hannibal. It is obvious that he is troubled by something that is too important to let be passed.

<Marvin_Black> Marc: It's not forbidden...

Marcello_Keagan nods.

AC_Newton looks up from Kev. His hair is somewhat tousled and he has a very content smile on his face.

Asm0dai is sitting in the Web. He looks at the adress Zen supplied for contact with him.

<ST> (Zen, you have to guide Asmo - or not - if he is to find you ^_^)

Marcello_Keagan draws the crystal from his neck and focusses for a while.

<Marcello_Keagan> >r 4

suxbot --> Marcello_Keagan rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (8,9,8,9) SUCCESS : 4 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<Marvin_Black> Marc: The flashy stuff... Don't forget... Ah, what the heck. He will learn like anyone else. He can learn the true pain this way.

<Marcello_Keagan> A small viewscreen thingy appears right above the crystal on his hand. It shows himself and Marv sitting at a table.

<Marshall_Phreak> (Asmo: Who the hell is Zen? ;) )

<DAN_Primus> You seem to be pretty good as a teacher, Mr.Black. You've already enabled Dr.Keagan to use his full ability within the Web.

Marcello_Keagan smiles.

<Marcello_Keagan> Is this too flashy, Mr.Black?

<Marvin_Black> Marc: Ah... You see? As easy as dying, suffering or getting eaten by a demon.

<Marcello_Keagan> Mr.Black, I think it's wiser not to use any verbal Enochian things right now. How do you handle such things as magic spells?

Asm0dai tries to get Hannibal on the adress he supplied.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Asmo: You get a message service.)

Marcello_Keagan ponders.

Marvin_Black loads up another screen of graphics with Enochian inscriptions and carvings.

<Marvin_Black> Marc, that's easy. Just think. But you can die alone, can't you?

Marvin_Black shows the pics to Marc.

Asm0dai leaves a message that he would like to talk with Hannibal on neutral ground and that he promises that he won't put on anything. He also leaves an address on the web where he can be contacted.

Marcello_Keagan ponders.

<Marcello_Keagan> And how do you implement this without being too flashy?

Asm0dai leaves the service and starts to scan the section of the Web where the Nova was.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Asmo: Where is the neutral ground?)

<Asm0dai> (The Demise, of course ;))

Marvin_Black progs his MarvTV with all the inscriptions, symbols and stuff.

<Marvin_Black> You see?

<AC_Newton> (Nicely neutral here :-)

Marvin_Black points to the TV set.

Asm0dai starts an application that analyses the fabric of the Web around it.

<Asm0dai> (and away from the others of course.)

Marcello_Keagan nods.

<Asm0dai> (Corr and Forces scan for tears where Hannibal might have jumped from the sector.)

<Asm0dai> >r 4

suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (3,8,3,1) FAILURE : 0 sux., 0 tens, 1 botches.

<Marcello_Keagan> One more question? Do I have to code everything over and over again after each use, or can I just hit the load button and "do the trick"?

<DAN_Primus> Mr.Black, do you think it would be possible for a person like myself to use his devices within the Web, or would they only work as well for me in here as they would in the physical realm?

<MC_Farstrider> *sighs*

Marcello_Keagan hears MC's hard sigh and looks her way.

<Marvin_Black> Marc: You have to reload the stuff and reempower it. But that's fast and easy. Nothing lasts forever.. Not even code. It all is going to vanish into nothingness.

<MC_Farstrider> It appears that there is a answer, but it depends on learning Forces 2.

Asm0dai swears loudly.

<Asm0dai> Doesn't matter.

Asm0dai scans for lingering of the presence he felt with the HUD scanner.

<Asm0dai> (Forces, Entropy, Prime)

<Asm0dai> >r 4

suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (6,10,6,9) SUCCESS : 4 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Asmo: You get a message back from Han agreeing to meet.)

<Marcello_Keagan> Thank you Mr.Black, if there's anything I don't understand I'll ask...MC seems to be in some emotional distress now.

Marcello_Keagan walks over to MC, sits down next to her and kisses her MC on the cheek.

<MC_Farstrider> Hey, Ma.

<Marcello_Keagan> Hello.

<Marcello_Keagan> I think I've got the hang of it now. The rest comes with experience, or as Mr.Black so colorfully names it, by learning by pain, death and despair.

Marvin_Black looks after Marcello and then back to Cthulhu and dark angel.

Marcello_Keagan grins.

<Marvin_Black> It should be possible for you too. After all it is the symbols and stuff empowering the thingy.

<Marvin_Black> (Marv doesn't think of any real techie paradigm *g*)

<DAN_Primus> Could I try your TV, in that case?

<Marvin_Black> Dan: Give it a try...

<Asm0dai> (Okay, what does my scan give me? 4 suxx)

<Hannibal_Golux> (What were you scanning?)

<Asm0dai> (The presence that was there. A Prime, Entropy and Forces scan.)

<Hannibal_Golux> (I suspect that presence is long, long gone.)

<Asm0dai> (Yes, but I am looing for residues. There is resonance from it, so I should get something...)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, ask ST on that.)

<ST> (Hanni: With 4 sux he should at least get a trace of you ^_^)

<Hannibal_Golux> (It's not me he was trying to detect. He failed that roll.)

<Asm0dai> (Residues of the presence. I want to know more about it, not Hannibal for now :))

Asm0dai wonders if he will ever learn anything about the evil thing that wanted to wipe the AI's :)

<ST> (Well, you get this malevolent dynamic resonance on it again that you had last time, too.)

DAN_Primus turns the TV on, and plugs into the tuner to locate the Forces pattern of AC's icon (Forces 1 Corr 2)

<DAN_Primus> >r 3 d5

suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (7,2,5) SUCCESS : 2 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<DAN_Primus> Hello, Captain.

Marvin_Black again starts to explain the need for occult stuff on the progs.

<DAN_Primus> (I might not know much about the symbols and thingies, but I know very well how a TV works.)

<Marvin_Black> (But Marv doesn't know that you don't know *g*)

<Marvin_Black> You see? The pentagram here channels interferences, those sigils keep Death at bay so he can't find us, these words are for locating the desired position, these over here empower the TV set and these carvings bring the pictures to life.

<DAN_Primus> So those words over there are the RF tuner? Or they make the RF tuner work?

<Marvin_Black> Umm? Those words are the locating magic.

<DAN_Primus> Do you know what an RF tuner is, Marv?

<Marvin_Black> Nope...

<DAN_Primus> In a regular TV, radio waves are sent through the air, a TV has a Radio Frequency Tuner to grab the information at a radio frequency. The different frequencies are the channels.

<Marvin_Black> We are talking magic here.

<DAN_Primus> The information is sent to the vacuum tube - what those carvings probably represent - and the speakers to display the info as video and audio I just tuned the RF tuner in your TV to AC's icon's frequency.

<Marvin_Black> Hey, it's design. It doesn't matter, just as life doesn't matter. It looks nice and has all it needs. No waves, magic. Magic.

DAN_Primus points to the picture of AC getting freaky with Grey.)

Marvin_Black doesn't look. He definitely doesn't look at this.

<AC_Newton> (Hey, they just smooch around a little ^_^)

<DAN_Primus> (That's still getting freaky in my book.)

Asm0dai tries to make a correlation with any other data in his data banks with that kind of resonance.

<DAN_Primus> Marv, I know what you're saying. I'm telling that I didn't do it your way - with the magical explanation and all. I just used your tools in my own way.

<Marvin_Black> It won't work without the insignia.

<DAN_Primus> Sure, it's magical words instead of an RF tuner, but I could use it the same way I would a normal TV.

<Marvin_Black> This is no normal TV.

<DAN_Primus> I just used it like one, though.

<Marvin_Black> So how do you use this one?

Marvin_Black hands his pentagram compass to Dan.

<DAN_Primus> I told you - I tuned the RF Tuner - these words over here, to AC's icon's frequency.

<Marvin_Black> And I told you, there is no frequency.

<DAN_Primus> There is because I believe there is, Marv.

DAN_Primus looks at the compass.

<DAN_Primus> I couldn't begin to tell you how I'd use this. I don't know what it does.

Hannibal_Golux appears in the Demise.

<ST> (Hanni: You see that AC is somewhat occupied with Grey, when you look at a certain booth.)

Hannibal_Golux shakes his head and tuts.

AC_Newton looks up from Kevin's gorgeous deep green eyes. She sees Hanni and blushes very furiously.

<AC_Newton> Hello Hannibal...

<Hannibal_Golux> Do we really have time for this? Shouldn't we be preparing for something else?

<AgentGrey> Hello, Mr.Golux.

Hannibal_Golux completely ignores Grey.

<AC_Newton> Oh, well, MC wanted to hear about spirits in the Web. I didn't really understand it, I have to admit.

Asm0dai does a compillation of data where he saw Hannibal.

MC_Farstrider learned quite a bit.

Hannibal_Golux sighs.

<Hannibal_Golux> More mumbo-jumbo.

Asm0dai uses Entropy 3 to see what is the most probable location for Hannibal at this time ;)

<Asm0dai> >r 4

suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (3,2,4,9) SUCCESS : 1 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<ST> (Spy's Demise)

<Asm0dai> Ahh ,let us head there.

<Hannibal_Golux> Look, we need to get organised and act quickly. We have wasted enough time.

<AC_Newton> Well, you have been gone... Asmodai was looking for you

<Hannibal_Golux> He left me a message. I came. We need to keep moving with this.

Asm0dai starts his spinner and gets to the Demise with the speed of light. He enters and looks for Hannibal.

Hannibal_Golux is standing just outside a booth with AC and Grey inside.

AC_Newton gets up from Kev's lap, not before giving him another passionate kiss.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Oh dear... I sooooooooo need to get my mind out of the gutter.)

Asm0dai sees the group and he joins them, standing exactly behind Hannibal.

<Asm0dai> Hannibal, do you have a moment? I have a small suggestion to give you before we head from here.

<Hannibal_Golux> More needless talk, Asmodai? Or shall we get on with something productive?

<Asm0dai> Productive, I assure you Hannibal. And no preaching this time.

Hannibal_Golux sighs.

<Hannibal_Golux> What is it?

<Marvin_Black> And if I believe Zeus will walk through this door over there, he will come in?

Marcello_Keagan beams proudly.

<Marcello_Keagan> At least I've seem to get the hang of this whole DW stuff now.

<Marvin_Black> (ST: Am I allowed a unconscious Entropy roll to see if someone with a Zeus icon walks in just in time?)

<ST> (Marv sure)

<DAN_Primus> No, Mr.Black. You can't just believe it. You have to put your belief into an act of will as well.

<Marvin_Black> (Entropy 2 or 3?)

<DAN_Primus> You should know this better than I do. You're the mystic, after all.

<ST> (Marv: 2 should suffice)

<Marvin_Black> >r 4 d5

suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (1,8,4,4) FAILURE : 0 sux., 0 tens, 1 botches.

<Marvin_Black> (Nope. No Zeus.)

<ST> (Marv *g* Hera comes in, sees you and starts to berate you. Obviously she mistakes you for someone with the handle Zeus.)

Marvin_Black sighs.

<Marvin_Black> Dan, you see?

<Marcello_Keagan> Nice tricks you can do here.

Marvin_Black tries to convice this woman he is not Zeus.

<Marcello_Keagan> (If you were, you weren't hiding away in a corner with Dan, but instead sat there with at least 2 females.)

Hera stands in front of Marv, arms akimbo.

<Hera> Zeus, you have tried to trick me twice already!

<Hera> Masquerading as a depressed Goth doesn't get you far!

<DAN_Primus> This man is not Zeus, madam.

Hera looks to DAN.

<Hera> And what makes you so sure?

<Marvin_Black> What is it, lady? I am not Zeus. We were just talking about him.

<Hera> This rogue cheated on me with two girls, barely 18...

<DAN_Primus> Zeus is currently in a bath with thirteen young maidens.

<Hera> In a bath? Where??

<DAN_Primus> If you want, I can show you.

<Marvin_Black> Me? I cheat no one and I do not get involved with ladies or gentlemen at all. It only brings suffering.

<DAN_Primus> >r 3 d7

suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (3,6,8) SUCCESS : 1 sux., 0 tens, 0 botches.

<DAN_Primus> (Illusion Forces 3 - The TV gets a fuzzy, barely able to be seen image of Zeus as Hera knows him in a hot tub with 13 women of about the age of 18/19.)

Hera looks at Dan, then decides Marv was not Zeus after all and walks away in a huff.

<Marvin_Black> Dan, you see? Believe is nothing. Believe is but a spit sizzling away in the heat of reality's cruelty.

Marcello_Keagan starts typing on his keyboard.

<DAN_Primus> No, Mr.Black. Belief is what makes you able to do what you can do.

Marcello_Keagan walks to the table with Mr.Black and Mr.Primus again.

<DAN_Primus> If you don't believe you can do something, you will /not/ be able to do it.

<Marcello_Keagan> Hmm...

<Marvin_Black> Dan, those symbols, sigils and so on give me the power.

<DAN_Primus> Because you believe they do, yes

<Marvin_Black> Dan: No belief. It is a fact, just as it is fact life is a bitch.

<DAN_Primus> Every fact is a belief, Mr.Black.

<Marcello_Keagan> The power comes from you Mr.Black, the symbols, sigils and so on are just a way of focussing that power. Mr. Primus, you cannot use his television, because you cannot focus your power through his symbols, sigils and so on.

<DAN_Primus> I just did use his TV. Twice, in fact.

<Marvin_Black> Dan: Oh yeah, sure. And if you don't believe the fact won't come true, eh? Let's give it a try. You place yourself under 10 tons of steel and I will let them drop on you, while you believe not being crushed to Death.

<DAN_Primus> Not exactly. It depends on the 'fact'.

Asm0dai takes Hannibal aside from the group.

<Asm0dai> Hannibal...

Hannibal_Golux listens impatiently.

<Asm0dai> I understand that you have problems with something from your past, and if you don't want me to help with this, I will drop it till you want to talk about it. But one thing bothers me. You said you are trapped in the Web... Do you know what happened to your body?

<Hannibal_Golux> What part of not wanting to talk about this don't you understand? I don't have time for this. *We* don't have time for this.

<Asm0dai> I wanted to offer something, Han. I can try and find your body, even if it is dead. And maybe we can get you back into it.

<Hannibal_Golux> What? Good luck. As far as I know it was completely disintegrated.

<Asm0dai> Ok, I will still look. I just need you to give me somewhere to start. Who where you before you were trapped here? I can easily contine from that point. So, Hannibal, are you willing to let me try?

<Hannibal_Golux> Maybe. But let's get this done first with this Nephandi construct.

AgentGrey has stood up now, too, and looks where Hanni, Asmo and the rest are.

<Asm0dai> I heartily agree. We should strike soon. It is obvious that too many meetings only make us targets. Let's get back to the others.

<Hannibal_Golux> The more we delay, the more ground we lose.

Asm0dai joins the others with Han.

<Asm0dai> Ladies and gentlemen, we need to move. The Nova is waiting, and time is being wasted.

AC_Newton and Kevin Grey walk out of their booth and join Asmo, Hanni, Marv, Marcello and Dan.

Marcello_Keagan nods.

DAN_Primus stops debating and walks over to Asm0 and Han.

<AC_Newton> Well, I was ready to move all the time. You just disappeared.

<Asm0dai> Acey, *you* disappeared, so I packed up the Nova and I was seaching for Hanni.

MC_Farstrider whispers to AC.

AC_Newton turns to MC.

<AC_Newton> ?

<Marvin_Black> Sure. The moment he doesn't know what to say he walks out.

<Asm0dai> Ok, let us move. We have Nephandic ass to kick.

Marvin_Black looks at his shoulder. The Angel and Cthulhu got into an all out brawl in the meantime.

<Marvin_Black> Dammit...

<Hannibal_Golux> Um. Marvin. What the hell are those?

Marvin_Black looks at the two.

<Marvin_Black> Cthulhu and a dark fallen angel.

<Hannibal_Golux> What the hell is a Cthulhu when it's at home?

AC_Newton sees the Cthulhu and Angel.

<AC_Newton> Cute!

AC_Newton smiles at Marv.

Asm0dai fights the urge to hug Cthulhu.

<Marvin_Black> They got into a fight over who the most powerful demon God is.

Asm0dai rings Deadalus and tells her to start a mundane search on Hannibal's physical location and identification. Also she is under orders to not connect to the DW unless there are problems, and that email's and flatlines are for contacting him.

MC_Farstrider disconnects from the DW (and observes from the Meteor, with Teora's help).

<ST> (MC: It doesn't make sense for you to disconnect. You are uplinked via Teora all the time.)

<Marcello_Keagan> Okay, let's go and kick some Nephandi butt.

<Marvin_Black> Oh.. Bring more Death and decay to the world and show someone what I is all about?

Hannibal_Golux is glad that things are slowly seeming to take form.

Marvin_Black's Cthulhu stops the fight as he hears something about bringing Death and decay

DAN_Primus flicks the angel's butt when it's not looking so that it'll think the Cthulhu did it.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Heh-heh... I'm considering throwing a Hello Kitty at Cthulhu.)

<ST> (LOL)

Marvin_Black's Angel flies back and gets into Cthulhu's face. The brawl restarts.

<Marvin_Black> Gosh... My own progs are ignoring me.

Marvin_Black sighs.

AC_Newton stands in a nicely heroic pose and looks at her crew.

MC_Farstrider is now known as MC_on_Meteor.

<AC_Newton> So now we will board the ship and take on the Nephandi?

<Marcello_Keagan> Aye Aye.

<Hannibal_Golux> To the Nova!

AgentGrey smiles. He thinks AC is cute when she acts the space heroine.

<Marvin_Black> Do I have a choice?

<Hannibal_Golux> Marv: No. We never have a choice.

<Marcello_Keagan> Yes, Mr.Black, you do have a choice. The choice is to stay here and ponder about all the amusement we will have, or another chance to see more death and suffering.

DAN_Primus puts the two into a shoe box made to look like a boxing ring and turns a camera on them, broadcasting the fight all over the Web on channel 3764.

AC_Newton storms out of the Demise.

<Asm0dai> Marv, we start dying the moment we are born. Now it is time to head into more danger and accelerate our time.

AC_Newton stops and turns back to the crew.

DAN_Primus heads to the Nova.

<Marvin_Black> Marc: There will be no fun. There is no fun at all.

<Hannibal_Golux> Our first stop should be to pick up your fighting crew.

<Asm0dai> The AI army?

<AC_Newton> Marv, who but you can man the Entropy cannon?

Marvin_Black looks at AC.

<Marvin_Black> You did this on purpose, didn't you?

<AC_Newton> Huh?

<Marvin_Black> Let me prog the Plague Cannon, so I *have* to go with you.

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes.

<AC_Newton> Hm... It never occurred to me that way... But it's a practical reason indeed.

Asm0dai starts the Nova right in front of the Demise and starts the extending bridge towards the group. He grins and looks at Hannibal.

<AC_Newton> I really love that ship!

Marvin_Black sighs.

<Asm0dai> See, we may even stop her from being naive ;)

Hannibal_Golux boards the ship.

AC_Newton storms on board.

AgentGrey sighs and walks into the ship in a somewhat calmer style.

Marvin_Black follows with a sigh.

DAN_Primus leaves the Angel and Cthulhu fighting in the Demise and boards the Nova, going to his seat.

AC_Newton sits in the command seat and looks at Hannibal, who was designated the helmsman.

<AC_Newton> You have the coordinates, Hanni? Then - Engage!

<Hannibal_Golux> You expect me to be a mere helmsman?

AC_Newton looks at him.

<AC_Newton> Er... What would you like to be otherwise?

Marvin_Black stands in the command centre looking somewhat lost.

AC_Newton blinks.

<Hannibal_Golux> It's voice commanded. It doesn't need steering.

<AC_Newton> Oh.

Hannibal_Golux goes off to another part of the ship.

<AC_Newton> Hm... Ah yes, I think computer specialist was the other job for you.

Asm0dai makes himself comfortable in the first officer chair.

<Hannibal_Golux> (as he disappears round the door) Fine. Whatever.

<Marvin_Black> And where am I supposed to die?

<AC_Newton> Well, at the weapons console of the Entropy cannon.

<DAN_Primus> I think Han wants to be Chief Engineer.

<AC_Newton> Hm, I think that post wasn't taken either. Dan, and you wanted to be science officer?

Asm0dai changes the chair into a comfy padded post with ice cold Tequila sunrises and a HUD.

<DAN_Primus> It's what I'm best at.

AC_Newton thinks Lt.Commander DAN :-)

Marvin_Black walks slowly over to the console and sits down.

<Marvin_Black> And it's still the *Plague Cannon*.

<Asm0dai> (ROTFL)

<DAN_Primus> (All your base are belong to us.)

AC_Newton looks at Marv.

<AC_Newton> "Plague" sounds somewhat unScientific.

<Marvin_Black> It is what it is. A Plague Cannon, rotting away what is hit by it. It is a symbol of the world. Breakdown.

<ST> (Is Marcello on board here, or did he return to the Meteor?)

<DAN_Primus> (I should have known - spaceship, android - I'm going to get a lot of jokes involving Data.)

<AC_Newton> (Dan: Sure *giggle*)

Marcello_Keagan is here. He just stands around.

<AC_Newton> Ah. Hm... Dr.Keagan, what about you getting the job of Ship's Councelor?

<Marcello_Keagan> Affirmative, Captain.

Asm0dai twitches at the suggestion of someone crazy enough to put someone into him as a counselor.

<AC_Newton> You do work in that profession after all.

AC_Newton still wonders what to make of Kev. Suddenly her face lights up. Sure!

<DAN_Primus> (Kevin would be the security officer if anything. But I don't know if a security officer is needed - or if it could be trusted to be held by Grey.)

<AC_Newton> Ok. Kev, you are of course the Intelligence officer here.

<Marvin_Black> I'm on the frigging DW version of the Enterprise.

AC_Newton grins at Marv.

<AC_Newton> Sure, Mr.Worf, er, Marv.

<Marvin_Black> First Love Boat, then Enterprise. What's next? Jeopardy?

<Asm0dai> Marv, next up is Mortal Kombat.

Asm0dai starts the system playing the theme.

<DAN_Primus> No, it's Earth: Final Conflict. You have to stick to TV shows. Putting movies in ruins the pattern.

<Marvin_Black> Or something like that. We are doomed... You drag us all to eternal damnation. I have the feeling I will meet my ancestors soon. And I am not pleased with it.

Asm0dai grins as the song gets to the part of naming the characters and uses the chance to look at each of the crew when a name is summoned.

<DAN_Primus> (Oh no, here it comes.)

<Marcello_Keagan> Well, are we leaving?

<Hannibal_Golux> (Need I remind you, Han is not on the deck.)

<DAN_Primus> (No, Mr.Engineer, sir, you need not.)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Engineer? Gah!)

<DAN_Primus> (Heh heh.)

<AC_Newton> Hm... Where did Hanni go now?

Marvin_Black adjusts the controls for the Plague Cannon to his needs and sighs.

<Marvin_Black> I always thought I would die a horrible death after a horrible life. But not of being ripped apart by Nephandi.

DAN_Primus starts scanning for any signs of Nephandic influence within the Nova's range, then looks pointedly at AC.

<AC_Newton> Well, Let's start! The coordinates are known.

<Hannibal_Golux> (Are we actually going to start this right now or leave the action itself until next week?)

<Asm0dai> (I'd leave it for next week - and kill off all the Star Trek references.)

<ST> (I thought we should cut here!)

ST thinks it's a nice cliffhanger :-)

Asm0dai grins.

Hannibal_Golux agrees.

Session Close: Tue Apr 15 23:59:03 2003

-- To Be Continued --

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