You Wouldn't Pirate a Wet Dream

Nov 15 19:00:52 <Aori_Radidjiu> ALL RIGHT, SO, you look around town and you find a GNARLY skate park.  There's a bunch of guys (and a few girls) tearing up the half pipes and rails, some people watching, the crowd here is mainly late teens early twenties.  There are a SMALL number of parents for some of the younger ones.
Nov 15 19:03:28 <Ululane> Wearing her new duds, she's certainly a sight to behold. Melanie gazes over the park, surveying the particular madnasty obstacles and looking for anyone that seems like they're having a shitty time with confidence.
Nov 15 19:07:42 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's one guy who seems to be a bit unused to skateboardin', he's going up and down a halfpipe, and trying to grind on the lip of the pipe and falling over
Nov 15 19:07:51 <Aori_Radidjiu> He looks PRETTY FRUSTERATED
Nov 15 19:09:56 <Ululane> She carefully makes her way over, maneuvering around the actual skaters. Arriving just after one of his falls, she offers a hand with a smile. Not that her can be seen with the mask up, but maybe he can figure it out from the rest of her face. "Need some help?"
Nov 15 19:12:55 <Aori_Radidjiu> His eyes get kind of big.  "U-uh...well...I guess..."
Nov 15 19:13:22 <Ululane> She pulls him to his feet. "How long have you been skateboarding?"
Nov 15 19:13:43 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Um, a little over a few months."
Nov 15 19:15:11 <Ululane> "Are you trying a new trick, or is it just a bad day?"
Nov 15 19:15:28 <Aori_Radidjiu> "...new stuff...bad day...I guess both?"
Nov 15 19:17:11 <Ululane> "Would you like some help?"
Nov 15 19:18:56 <Aori_Radidjiu> He scratches the back of his neck.  "I...guess?"
Nov 15 19:19:20 <Ululane> 6d6+4 Explain this acro shit to him
Nov 15 19:19:20 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, Explain this acro shit to him: 25 [6d6=5,3,2,4,3,4]
Nov 15 19:22:45 <Aori_Radidjiu> You explain some bits about moving, counterweight, all sorts of stuff, and he listens carefully.
Nov 15 19:24:52 <Ululane> "Does that...does that make sense? Would you like me to demonstrate?"
Nov 15 19:25:10 <Aori_Radidjiu> "...yeah that'd probably be for the best."
Nov 15 19:32:35 <Ululane> Melanie sets the cloak aside and takes great care to secure all loose cloth. She closes her eyes for a second, thinking how to proceed.
Nov 15 19:32:38 <Ululane> 6d6+4 Magic stuff
Nov 15 19:32:39 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, Magic stuff: 24 [6d6=3,2,2,1,6,6]
Nov 15 19:32:52 <Ululane> (I should remember to skill stunt)
Nov 15 19:33:34 <Aori_Radidjiu> (you should)
Nov 15 19:34:35 <Ululane> (Is that a "You should reroll with it" or "I agree you are a dumb, cracky"?)
Nov 15 19:34:43 <Aori_Radidjiu> (the former)
Nov 15 19:34:49 <Ululane> 5d6+4+6 But I am a dumb
Nov 15 19:34:49 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, But I am a dumb: 37 [5d6=6,4,5,6,6]
Nov 15 19:34:53 <Ululane> ...what
Nov 15 19:35:01 <Aori_Radidjiu> what the christ
Nov 15 19:36:07 <Aori_Radidjiu> w-well, take a +4 to your Acrobatics
Nov 15 19:36:16 <Aori_Radidjiu> And say what kind of FLUFF RITUAL you doin girl
Nov 15 19:42:19 <Ululane> She puts her foot on the skateboard testing it out, it has certainly been a long time. After ensuring her path is clear, she hops down the halfpipe. As she moves forward and back, gaining height, her hair (and some of the still-loose clothing) begin to move in strange, hypnotic manners. Rather than a simple back and forth, her path fluctuates between an ellipse or a figure eight as she launches up the ramp on each side.
Nov 15 19:42:19 <Ululane> She begins to gyrate in the air, once again using her telekinesis to assist in her tricks. She doesn't seem to stop picking up momentum as she goes, gradually seeming to be an inspirational conduit, inspiring the sense that one can improve themself.
Nov 15 19:42:34 <Ululane> 6d6+4+4 And then I do terrible on the actual acro roll
Nov 15 19:42:35 <PsychoRoll> Ululane, And then I do terrible on the actual acro roll: 25 [6d6=3,1,3,2,2,6]
Nov 15 19:43:48 <Aori_Radidjiu> Well enough!  You manage the sicknasty tricks and there's a few people clapping.  "Wonder who she's cosplaying as!"  Someone in the area says.
Nov 15 19:48:41 <Ululane> Finally, Melanie begins to reel it in, dropping back into the pipe before her student. "Well...any questions?"
Nov 15 19:50:25 <Aori_Radidjiu> "How did you learn to be so crazy?"
Nov 15 19:50:50 <Ululane> "A lot of practice with a pinch of insanity!"
Nov 15 19:51:20 <Aori_Radidjiu> Nodnodnod.  A few other people have stopped what they're doing to look at you, and are nodding as well.  "Sweet."
Nov 15 19:51:43 <Ululane> "Now...who waas it that asked who I was cosplaying as?"
Nov 15 19:52:20 <Aori_Radidjiu> Some other guy raises his hand.
Nov 15 19:54:12 <Ululane> "Have you not heard? No one has told you of Ululane?"
Nov 15 19:54:30 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Nope.  What anime is she from?"
Nov 15 19:55:39 <Ululane> Melanie grins beneath the mask and allows her tattoos to glow ominously. "She is no more from an anime than you are."
Nov 15 19:56:22 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a bit of murmuring in the crowd.  At least one of the people in it says something like "Wow, she must be something like Luna.
Nov 15 19:56:23 <Aori_Radidjiu> "
Nov 15 19:57:39 <Ululane> "An inspiring girl to be sure, but Ululane is so much more. Tell me...when was the last time one of you prayed or offered sacrifice to one of the gods in the Wakinese pantheon?"
Nov 15 19:59:15 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Uh, never."  "Not really." "Eh." "I did...once."  "Oh, what'd you do?" "I prayed to Kanaloa to help me be fabulous enough to pick up a girl.  It didn't really work out."
Nov 15 20:00:12 <Ululane> "And why do you all suppose they aren't very important in the modern age?"
Nov 15 20:02:07 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Prayer isn't a hard science that you can get consistent results from." "All the art of the gods is old and looks kind of bad.  Except Pele, she keeps getting art." "Aren't there people who'd like, strip naked and dance in the moonlight in worship?  that's...kind of weird.  It's also hot though."
Nov 15 20:05:16 <Ululane> Melanie begins to walk as she talks, heading for a more open part of the park, but still near the crowd. "Interesting, no one actually implied they weren't real. Did most of you feel something...inspiring a second ago?"
Nov 15 20:06:31 <Aori_Radidjiu> "People will worship stuff that isn't real." "I felt something!  ...wait htat's just my boner." "I feel like I could kick Billy's ass." "I feel like I could kick YOUR ass Jenny!"
Nov 15 20:14:06 <Ululane> Idiots and children...the perfect starting place for rumors! "Well, children, I'm here to tell you...the gods are quite real. But most of them are...well...lazy. There is a reason you would have heard of a lot more divine intervention in the past and little today. But their presence is an important part of the culture...and they are by no means mutually exclusive with science or technology! If anything, they need to be p
Nov 15 20:14:06 <Ululane> ulled into the modern age." She stops in a particularly open area. Static begins to emanate from her and obscure the area as she shifts into her legendary form. A skeletal gyarados unfurls its tongue, revealing Melanie, though between a Melkini and some intentionally placed static she's covering up more than normal. "Behold the goddess of rebirth: Ululane!"
Nov 15 20:15:18 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a collective "Gnarly."
Nov 15 20:19:53 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Is it comfy in there?"  It's a girl asking this time, but then there's a deluge of question like "Why a gyarados?" "By rebirth do you mean change in a person or actually killing them and reincarnating them as a baby?" "Is it hot in there?" "How do we even pray to you anyway and what for?"
Nov 15 20:19:59 <Ululane> "I come with a favor to ask of you all: please...start visiting the shrines once again. They're old, yes...but without receiving any attention, of course they can't modernize! Help bring them up into the light of technology. I intend to bring the gods closer to mankind again. And you will be paid in kind for your actions. I personally vow to watch over you, helping you change as you desire. But mind you, I'm not the only
Nov 15 20:19:59 <Ululane>  god, there are plenty to help with all manner of things...including finding a soulmate or attracting others"
Nov 15 20:21:06 <Ululane> She looks between the questioners...questioneers? Young inquisitors!...with amusement.
Nov 15 20:23:48 <Ululane> Pointing to each in turn, she answers,"Yes; personal reasons, he was close to me but broken, so I made him whole; ...both, technically, but I don't mean I kill you, it's more of at the moment of death or something; if I were wearing more clothing, it might be; simply ask me for help, ideally as you're going to sleep, and concentrate on that thought. As the most active, just ask me for whatever and we'll see what sticks."
Nov 15 20:28:04 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Can I climb in?"  "Naw it'll probably kill you and then it'll shit you out as a baby, man." "Pshaw, dare YOU to go in, then."  "Maybe she's like those fish parasites that replace the tongue." "I guess that's a rebirth, one day you're eating for yourself, the next something ate off your tongue and you're eating ofr them." "How long have you been in business?  I haven't heard of you
Nov 15 20:28:04 <Aori_Radidjiu> before and I took a mythology class recently!"
Nov 15 20:29:51 <Ululane> "No climbing in until you're older. I have only just begun to...operate within the last couple weeks, so of course there hasn't been much history to include me in yet."
Nov 15 20:30:16 <Aori_Radidjiu> "How old?"  Like 5 guys and one girl say that
Nov 15 20:31:38 <Ululane> "...um...okay, no climbing in until you've been to a shrine and prayed to or made offerings to a known god."
Nov 15 20:32:56 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Fiiiiine."  Bunch of pouting faces.
Nov 15 20:32:59 * Mackenzie has quit ()
Nov 15 20:33:24 <Ululane> "...or pray to me tonight, and we'll see what happens." Smirk.
Nov 15 20:34:29 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a ridiculous number of faces int he crowd lighting up now.
Nov 15 20:34:44 * Knox is now known as Kain
Nov 15 20:34:49 * Kain is now known as Kaingaskhan
Nov 15 20:36:49 <Ululane> "Or hell, you can pray even if you just want to talk, I'm not picky."
Nov 15 20:39:50 <Ululane> Melanie slims down into her compact form.
Nov 15 20:41:12 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a lot of nodding.  "Cool." "Awesome." "Eh, I don't need it."  That last one tips his fedora and walks out.
Nov 15 20:42:53 <Ululane> She makes a rather concerned face as he leaves. "...especially if you're hurting. I will be very upset if you're feeling gloomy, isolated, and so forth and you don't reach out to me."
Nov 15 20:43:20 <Aori_Radidjiu> "Naw, I'd say I'm euphoric."  He bows out.
Nov 15 20:43:30 <Aori_Radidjiu> But the rest of the group nodnodnods
Nov 15 20:45:05 <Ululane> "Well...any other questions?"
Nov 15 20:46:42 <Aori_Radidjiu> "So we go to shrines and...sit down and pray?" "Offer money maybe?" "None of that stripping in the moonlight and dancing, right?" "Do we have to kill any goats?"
Nov 15 20:48:33 <Ululane> She points to each again,"Should work; if you're so inclined, but it's not required; if you're so inclined, but it's not required; ...no."
Nov 15 20:49:19 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a bunch of nodding then. "I'm good!" "I'm good too." "You're good, I'm good,w e're all good."
Nov 15 20:50:03 <Ululane> "Alright then..." She shifts back into people form. "Have a wonderful day!"
Nov 15 20:51:54 <Aori_Radidjiu> There's a bunch of waving and "Bye!"s and whatnot as you sashay out~