[2011-05-26 17::02:08] Dmitriy_Platonov: is in his office. He knows that the storm is gathering but there's still time. And some routine work. He is listing some less important files on his monitor, taking notes and correcting some lines.
[2011-05-26 17::03:23] John_Kilanger: stands in front of Dmitriy's office door and takes a deep breath. after he exhales he knocks on the door. "Sir, are you in?"
[2011-05-26 17::04:42] Dmitriy_Platonov: "Yes, John, come in!" - Dmitriy sounds a bit relaxed, hoping to take rest from boring paperwork.
[2011-05-26 17::05:57] John_Kilanger: john enters the room and sits down in front of Dmitriy's desk. "Sir, I was hoping I could... ask you some questions."
[2011-05-26 17::07:13] Dmitriy_Platonov: "Hmmm. Ask them, I'll see if I can answer them."
[2011-05-26 17::11:37] John_Kilanger: "Well first, I need to show you something." *John hands over a copy of the Email he printed off his computer.* "This was on my terminal when we came back from the last mission."
[2011-05-26 17::14:00] Dmitriy_Platonov: reads the document attentively. Then he sighs and puts it aside. "I see. Well, ask your questions."
[2011-05-26 17::14:56] » padgettish joined the chat room.
[2011-05-26 17::15:00] John_Kilanger: "Well, Would you know what 'Activation' might be refering too?"
[2011-05-26 17::15:15] » padgettish is now known as Henri_DEllaine.
[2011-05-26 17::18:54] Dmitriy_Platonov: "No. I can only speculate, but I have no idea. I'll ask Dr.- Oh, wait. Before you will ask anything else. Yes, I knew. No, I couldn't tell you because I have my orders. And this fact doesn't mean anything at all. You are a normal human for me, and a good pilot too. Ask your other questions, please."
[2011-05-26 17::21:41] John_Kilanger: "I see, I was also going to ask if you knew anything about the other H-types that the document refers too, but it seems I will have to ask the Doctor about them as well."
[2011-05-26 17::22:33] John_Kilanger: "In any case, I felt like I still needed to bring this matter to your attention."
[2011-05-26 17::24:33] » Blast is now known as Mia_al-Misiri.
[2011-05-26 17::24:38] Dmitriy_Platonov: "I guess so. This is the branch of science I am only vaguely familiar with. If you'll need any help with Doctor, ask me. And thank you very much for telling me. I appreciate the trust between us." - a short pause. - "I hope you're not taking it hard, John. We all have our skeletons in closets. If that's yours, it's not the worst case possible."
[2011-05-26 17::27:37] John_Kilanger: "I already knew about my origins, so that is not what was bothering me. What was bothering me was how this information managed to get on my terminal, and what it might mean in the future."
[2011-05-26 17::29:40] Dmitriy_Platonov: "I'll tell you what it means, John. There are people who are trying to sow disorder between us. To make us weak. To make us - and everyone who we protect - lose and die. They can tell the truth or they can lie, but they have only one goal: to hurt us."
[2011-05-26 17::34:03] John_Kilanger: "Still, I feel like I need to speak with Dr. Al-Misiri as soon as I can."
[2011-05-26 17::34:36] Dmitriy_Platonov: "I will notify him that you need a meeting with him."
[2011-05-26 17::37:31] John_Kilanger: gets up from the chair. "Thank you. And before I leave, I should tell you that the other pilots are also aware of what I am, with the exception of Ruru."
[2011-05-26 17::40:15] Dmitriy_Platonov: half-smiles. "I see. Good thing that it's not disrupting your team."
[2011-05-26 17::54:53] Henri_DEllaine: sits in the living room, clicking away at a laptop. Even in all of the excitement, they still for some reason, have schooling to take care of.
[2011-05-26 17::55:57] Ruru_Fields: comes down the stairs with a sigh. She bussies herself to the kitchen and scrounges in the fridge for something.
[2011-05-26 17::58:16] Ruru_Fields: finds a banana, looks a little under-ripe. She peels it with a little difficulty and takes a bite. Her face falls in disgust, depositing the banana and the contents of her mouth into the trash and comes bac into the living room,standing behind Henri and reading over his shoulder.
[2011-05-26 17::59:14] Henri_DEllaine: continues to clack away at the keys. "I swear, why on Earth do I need to know how many valence electrons are in carbon at a time like this."
[2011-05-26 18::00:36] Ruru_Fields: shrugs. "Maybe the next, whatever those thigns are, whill be some kind of huge Niehls Bohr model of an atom that shoots lasers and then BLAM, we learned about this in school, piece of cake."
[2011-05-26 18::01:47] Henri_DEllaine: chuckles. "I mean, knowing what little I do know about chemistry, it'll probably just come down to oxidizing it. Everything falls to oxidizing."
[2011-05-26 18::03:42] Henri_DEllaine: saves the work, closes the laptop curtly. "So... where did we leave off in the woods the other day?"
[2011-05-26 18::04:01] Ruru_Fields: "And then Mia will somehow spontaneously generte a stream of flourine and it'll rip off it's electron AT field just in time for me to throw the proton basketbal that makes it into anoble gas. Hmm? Oh..."She looks to the side andclucks a bit.
[2011-05-26 18::05:31] Ruru_Fields: "I was enjoying the whimsy. Uhh... Everyone is aliens. Yeah. So, like,I've been running aroudn collecting favors and that kind of things, I got some information about our eva that has some interesting connotations."
[2011-05-26 18::08:15] Henri_DEllaine: "Well, do tell. It's always scarey to find out something knew when I basically tested for Unit 03 since they started screwing plates to flesh."
[2011-05-26 18::09:39] Ruru_Fields: "So how much do you already know about them?"
[2011-05-26 18::11:38] Henri_DEllaine: "That they're organic in nature, and that they have some kind of mind even if it's kept in sharp control with cybernetics and our controls."
[2011-05-26 18::12:11] » John_Kilanger left the chat room.
[2011-05-26 18::13:16] Ruru_Fields: "Alright, so very quickly on the what. The eva flesh is actually amorpous shapes that reactivelymanifest things like mouthes and whatnot. That's beside the point, the pointistheirflesh wasfound, notmade."
[2011-05-26 18::13:40] Ruru_Fields: point is their flesh was found, not made*
[2011-05-26 18::14:04] » John_Kilanger joined the chat room.
[2011-05-26 18::14:53] Henri_DEllaine: "Mouths like... what? Their flesh is some kind of gibbering mass?"
[2011-05-26 18::17:03] Ruru_Fields: "Yeah that's about right." She puts a hand to her chest in memory. "Poor Kagemaru, he tried so hard." She sakes her head. "That is unimportant. What is important is they found them on the south pole. WHenI insinuated they were alien the response I got was: Not Exactly."
[2011-05-26 18::18:59] Henri_DEllaine: "Like... from the 2nd impact site? And if they're not alien, and we didn't construct them...." he shudders
[2011-05-26 18::19:09] Ruru_Fields: "So, what is a terrestrial giant amorphous blob? Where do they come from? And why can they fight the things we fight?"
[2011-05-26 18::25:10] Ruru_Fields: "Then there were the frescos we saw at the temple with the fish people, do you remember? They were fighting with our eva."
[2011-05-26 18::28:43] Henri_DEllaine: "Hrm..." He thinks back to the time in the temple. "... well, 2nd Impact happened at the South Pole, right?  And the temple was constructed for Cthulhu, so maybe those things always existed on Earth. Maybe they grew to fight all of this stuff from... beyond."
[2011-05-26 18::29:58] Ruru_Fields: "Possible. It raises some interesting questions though, before the impact you could say that the eva had won, so how did they win?"
[2011-05-26 18::31:27] Henri_DEllaine: "Maybe they were in a position like us the last time the stars were aligning. They must have either beaten everything off of the planet or into submission until the right time was over. Then everything just left to wait."
[2011-05-26 18::32:11] Ruru_Fields: "It is worth considering."
[2011-05-26 18::32:42] Henri_DEllaine: "Hell, we could just have Mia ask Cthulhu. If anyone was around then, it'd be him."
[2011-05-26 18::33:23] Ruru_Fields: "And that might provide us the insight we need to prepare our own endgame..."
[2011-05-26 18::36:25] Henri_DEllaine: "Agreed. We might just be able to avoid a third impact if we keep this up.... This whole autonomous zone thing has me worried, though."
[2011-05-26 18::37:34] Mia_al-Misiri: has been eating a sandwich, sitting on the floor watching, for a while.
[2011-05-26 18::39:01] Ruru_Fields: "It's a huge dare. I hate it, it's unsubtle."
[2011-05-26 18::40:29] Henri_DEllaine: "Fighting one of those things when it's the 5 of us is fine, but I wouldn't even know what to do against another squad of Evas..."
[2011-05-26 18::41:05] Ruru_Fields: "Or an army of humans. Would you fight them? Would you kil thousands of men guilty of no major cribe but to follow orders?"
[2011-05-26 18::41:16] Ruru_Fields: crime*
[2011-05-26 18::41:56] Henri_DEllaine: "Would you let a thousand men march right into arkham so some old men end the world?"
[2011-05-26 18::42:26] Ruru_Fields: "Of course not, I'm not the one I'm worried about. You know I've no love of the faceless masses."
[2011-05-26 18::43:28] Henri_DEllaine: "I... don't like it at all. But I'd sooner a few thousand die than the whole world. It's not like they'd stop from shooting at me just because I'm a kid following orders."
[2011-05-26 18::43:48] Ruru_Fields: "So true, so true."
[2011-05-26 18::45:10] Henri_DEllaine: finally notices Mia on the floor. "Oh, hey, how long have you been there?"
[2011-05-26 18::45:50] Mia_al-Misiri: "Two minutes and thirteen seconds!"
[2011-05-26 18::45:55] Mia_al-Misiri: doesn't look at a watch or anything.
[2011-05-26 18::50:12] Ruru_Fields: doesn't look right at Mia, clearly uncomfortable.
[2011-05-26 18::50:27] Mia_al-Misiri: waves at Ruru.
[2011-05-26 18::51:09] Henri_DEllaine: "So, Mia, you think you could ask Cthulhu about those gibbering blobs from the frescos at the temple?"
[2011-05-26 18::51:18] Ruru_Fields: grits her teeth. "Hi Mia" She says evenly as possible.
[2011-05-26 18::51:42] Mia_al-Misiri: just asks him over the telepathy radio instead of fetching him from her room.
[2011-05-26 18::55:41] Doink: It replies a bit groggily that they were the weapons of the...the thought is unclear, not corresponding to any word. Strange images of some sort of creature or plant, a suggestion of age, of having been there before the Great Old One's arrival. It then says those cattle used to drive them against their temples—they were the only weapons they had that could do anything against them.
[2011-05-26 18::57:10] Mia_al-Misiri: "He says people used them before and also that they were here before the... Great Old One got here? I think that's Azathoth."
[2011-05-26 18::57:16] Mia_al-Misiri: shrugs.
[2011-05-26 18::57:27] Mia_al-Misiri: asks him if it is Azathoth
[2011-05-26 18::59:11] Doink: It says... sort of. These beings brought the Fragment (his term is much stranger) here, though they obviously did not know what it was. The Great Old Ones like himself followed soon after.
[2011-05-26 18::59:19] Doink: *itself
[2011-05-26 18::59:33] Mia_al-Misiri: thanks him for the answer!
[2011-05-26 19::00:00] Mia_al-Misiri: "The big thing downstairs, wait. Um, the Great Old Ones followed it."
[2011-05-26 19::01:33] Kazimir_Prochazka: "I take it we're talking about something big and terrible?"
[2011-05-26 19::01:38] Henri_DEllaine: "Wait so... something brought that thing here with... proto-evas. And then the aliens started coming."
[2011-05-26 19::01:43] Kazimir_Prochazka: is hanging over the railing on the top-floor.
[2011-05-26 19::02:07] Kazimir_Prochazka: begins downstairs, saying "Oooh this is terrible."
[2011-05-26 19::04:54] Ruru_Fields: "Aaaand we're out of my depth."
[2011-05-26 19::06:23] Mia_al-Misiri: "Henri where is Jeanne?"
[2011-05-26 19::06:34] Kazimir_Prochazka: "If it offers even the slightest bit of comfort: I have no idea what half of these apocalypse scenarios mean either."
[2011-05-26 19::07:13] Henri_DEllaine: "I don't know... I don't even know if she'd know anything about this. Kind of feels out of Hastur's purview."
[2011-05-26 19::07:31] Henri_DEllaine: "And I think they all end with the world ending, Kaz."
[2011-05-26 19::08:11] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Yes, but there's a very large amount of ifs involved."
[2011-05-26 19::11:56] John_Kilanger: walks downstairs while closing up a book, a bookmark sticking out of it to note the last stopping point. "Hm? what's everyone talking about?"
[2011-05-26 19::13:17] Kazimir_Prochazka: "The end of the world."
[2011-05-26 19::13:22] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Or something similar."
[2011-05-26 19::13:40] Mia_al-Misiri: "Mouth monsters! Hello John and Kaz I forgot!"
[2011-05-26 19::13:47] Mia_al-Misiri: "Kazzzz!"
[2011-05-26 19::13:57] Ruru_Fields: flinches.
[2011-05-26 19::14:36] John_Kilanger: "So same old same old?" John turns to Mia. "Hello Mia."
[2011-05-26 19::15:26] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Hey Mia."
[2011-05-26 19::17:10] Henri_DEllaine: "So, remember those engravings at the temple? The mouth blobs?"
[2011-05-26 19::18:35] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Yeah?"
[2011-05-26 19::19:09] Henri_DEllaine: "Turns out our Evas are made of those."
[2011-05-26 19::19:43] Ruru_Fields: "And it raises a lot of interesting questions because of it."
[2011-05-26 19::21:09] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...I thought we already knew we were piloting lobotomized meat popsicles?"
[2011-05-26 19::22:02] Henri_DEllaine: "But these are lobotomized meat popsicles covered in mouths used by a previous race to do what we're doing now... Also they brought that thing in the basement here."
[2011-05-26 19::24:03] Henri_DEllaine: "... wait, Mia. Just what is Azathoth, again?"
[2011-05-26 19::24:23] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...hmm..."
[2011-05-26 19::24:24] Mia_al-Misiri: "The dreaming one that if he wakes up everyone else stops because everything is his dream."
[2011-05-26 19::25:48] Henri_DEllaine: looks at Ruru and mumbles "... like this whole reality is wrong..."
[2011-05-26 19::26:28] Ruru_Fields: hugs her own arms and shivers. "Don't wanna talk about it right now."
[2011-05-26 19::27:14] John_Kilanger: "W-wait... So everything is just a dream of the thing living downstairs?"
[2011-05-26 19::28:09] Henri_DEllaine: "I guess if you think of reality as the creation of a God... so the people trying to reach the fragment are the trying to wake him up from this "dream?"
[2011-05-26 19::29:36] Ruru_Fields: "What kind of crazy god would imagine this reality up?"
[2011-05-26 19::29:43] Mia_al-Misiri: "Azathoth!"
[2011-05-26 19::30:05] Mia_al-Misiri: "I don't know if he chooses what he dreams though."
[2011-05-26 19::30:26] Mia_al-Misiri: "I mean I like it when you get the funny dreams where you can pick what you are doing, those are cool! But that doesn't always happen."
[2011-05-26 19::31:25] Henri_DEllaine: looks to Mia, then Ruru, and back to Mia. "Mia... aren't you made from the fragment?"
[2011-05-26 19::31:34] Mia_al-Misiri: shakes her head.
[2011-05-26 19::31:38] Mia_al-Misiri: "I don't think so."
[2011-05-26 19::32:37] Kazimir_Prochazka: "If i remember correctly, Mia is like part god or something. So she'll be around when we all go poof. If we go poof."
[2011-05-26 19::33:08] Henri_DEllaine: "Mia, what if... you ARE Azathoth. What if you're the dreamer in all of this."
[2011-05-26 19::33:15] Mia_al-Misiri: "That would be cool!"
[2011-05-26 19::33:52] Kazimir_Prochazka: "If that's the case we just need to make sure Mia doesn't accidentially break reality."
[2011-05-26 19::34:02] Kazimir_Prochazka: points sternly at Mia: "Be fucking careful!"
[2011-05-26 19::34:17] Mia_al-Misiri: "I can do that on purpose if I try."
[2011-05-26 19::34:23] Henri_DEllaine: "... I wonder if you would remember this dream if you woke up."
[2011-05-26 19::35:29] Mia_al-Misiri: "I like to remember good dreams when I have them but I dunno?"
[2011-05-26 19::36:00] Ruru_Fields: rubs at her face. "Suddenly I don't want this to be real, really badly, really really badly, or is it I don't wan't this to be not-real, oh god is therea differece?"
[2011-05-26 19::36:32] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Whatever exists for you is reality. If you can question it yourself, you are real."
[2011-05-26 19::36:50] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Whether or not everyone else is just a sophisticated automation...well...that's for gods to decide."
[2011-05-26 19::37:03] Mia_al-Misiri: shrugs.
[2011-05-26 19::37:06] Kazimir_Prochazka: stops trying to regurgitate sci-fi worlds-within-worlds stuff.
[2011-05-26 19::37:11] Mia_al-Misiri: "I think it is just a different way of being alive."
[2011-05-26 19::37:21] Ruru_Fields: "Right but Kaz, that's what we're talking about. There is a god, whoo decides, and that's Mia."
[2011-05-26 19::37:43] John_Kilanger: "Er.. I might just be thick, but does this really change anything? I mean we still have to defend this Fragment thing from whatever wants to destroy existence, right?"
[2011-05-26 19::38:05] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Pretty much. And we just have to hope Mia doesn't suddenly wish for us all to wink out of existance."
[2011-05-26 19::38:07] Henri_DEllaine: "John's right, all it does is give us some mechanics. We're still fighting for our lives."
[2011-05-26 19::39:01] Ruru_Fields: ""It is still horrifying. So we should figure out how the last bunch of people fought off the... whatever things are... and replicatethat."
[2011-05-26 19::39:39] John_Kilanger: "True, learning from the past is always a good idea."
[2011-05-26 19::39:43] Mia_al-Misiri: asks Cthulhu how they did it before.
[2011-05-26 19::42:51] Kazimir_Prochazka: "I bet they did it with bullets."
[2011-05-26 19::42:57] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Bullets seem to be working."
[2011-05-26 19::42:59] Doink: It stirs again, saying a little irritably that they didn't 'win.' Their army of cattle and beast managed to hold them off at the south pole just long enough for the stars to leave their proper alignment and force the Great Old Ones to leave. Had they had had a little more time, they would have been crushed completely, rather than merely crushed /mostly/.
[2011-05-26 19::43:53] Doink: And look what good it did them, it says, a little smugly. They're all gone, and their cattle try to run the show themselves. It's kind of sad, really.
[2011-05-26 19::44:23] Mia_al-Misiri: asks him if the beasts were the sort-of-Evangelions and what they were like then.
[2011-05-26 19::45:37] Doink: They were giant amorphous creatures that consumed whatever they could grasp. Not all that powerful on their own, but... they had AT fields, it admits rather hesitantly, so they could attack beings such as itself.
[2011-05-26 19::46:21] Doink: It says it doesn't know anything about their inner workings, of course. It was too busy eating them to worry about seeing how they worked.
[2011-05-26 19::46:28] Mia_al-Misiri: asks what they were called then!
[2011-05-26 19::48:10] Mia_al-Misiri: pauses and thinks out lous.
[2011-05-26 19::48:12] Mia_al-Misiri: loud*
[2011-05-26 19::48:19] Mia_al-Misiri: "So they were Shoggoths?"
[2011-05-26 19::48:25] Doink: How would it know? It can barely understand the cattle's annoying sound-language.
[2011-05-26 19::48:27] Henri_DEllaine: "Showhats?"
[2011-05-26 19::48:28] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Snuggie-pugs?"
[2011-05-26 19::48:47] John_Kilanger: "what?"
[2011-05-26 19::48:56] Mia_al-Misiri: "Shoggoths! The big things. People used them before!"
[2011-05-26 19::49:24] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...huh."
[2011-05-26 19::50:43] Ruru_Fields: "Shoggoths... Hmph. Mine is named Kagemaru. But maybe... we just need more of these things."
[2011-05-26 19::51:48] Henri_DEllaine: "The last time we tried to do that, well, Jeanne got a hold of it. And as helpful as she is, I don't see her helping in a fight any time soon."
[2011-05-26 19::52:06] Kazimir_Prochazka: muses over this and says out loud: "Maybe just calling mine 04 is hurting it's feelings..."
[2011-05-26 19::52:56] Mia_al-Misiri: "Ooh maybe someone is dreaming this all!"
[2011-05-26 19::53:05] Mia_al-Misiri: "You know when you have a dream a lot of times?"
[2011-05-26 19::56:37] Ruru_Fields: "Could have just been a one time thing with Jeanne... I don't know, we don't have a lot else to goon."
[2011-05-26 19::57:35] John_Kilanger: The problem comes from finding people who are able to pilot them.
[2011-05-26 19::57:39] Mia_al-Misiri: "No I mean, if this stuff happened before with people riding Shoggoths and stuff!"
[2011-05-26 19::57:50] Mia_al-Misiri: "Like a.... recurring dream1"
[2011-05-26 19::57:53] Mia_al-Misiri: *!"
[2011-05-26 19::58:13] Ruru_Fields: "That's a thought isn't it? More to swallow."
[2011-05-26 20::02:57] » Henri_DEllaine left the chat room.
[2011-05-26 20::07:57] Doink: [SESSION END]
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