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Session 62: A Trip to Grandma's Web.

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  1. May 05 20:09:55 <zooftop> Okay, so a few days have passed for you guys to rest up!
  2. May 05 20:11:40 <zooftop> Over the last few days you've caught up with Alice and Anna bit...and also plan your next actions.
  3. May 05 20:16:06 »» Chase has been gearing up for a possible treck out of venomtalon, and got Anna to slap together a few things for his guitar, now on his sheet as the AXE OF TENACIOUS RIFFS
  4. May 05 20:18:14 »» Rosetta has gotten her gear upgraded as well! She's back to the kusarigama rather than using her sword for now, especially in case of nasty flammable bugs out in the wilds near Venomtalon.
  5. May 05 20:20:04 <zooftop> Anna seemed pretty thrilled to be asked for help for this - and she seems a lot better at it than she was in the past as well. That and she appreciated the chance to do something other than bake cookies for a while.
  6. May 05 20:20:36 <zooftop> It's also worth noting that it seems that Sandeep went to the airport to pick up extra hands...there's a lot of his cousins and kinsmen helping with his accessory shop now.
  7. May 05 20:20:53 <Chase> Oh my
  8. May 05 20:24:36 <Chase> Chase has been rather curious about this shop in general, but unfortunately he's been kind of running low on funds.
  9. May 05 20:24:42 <Chase> Between all the things
  10. May 05 20:24:56 <Chase> (Actually wait)
  11. May 05 20:25:04 <Chase> (I don't think I ever added that 8k to my sheet, nevermind)
  12. May 05 20:26:20 <Chase> SCRATCH THAT, he's been pretty damn curious and has some booties to burn, but doesn't particularly want to take everyone's time up with shopping!
  13. May 05 20:26:44 <Rosetta> Go ahead and shop. Domo's still not here.
  14. May 05 20:26:52 <Chase> He probably has been hanging out with Alice or Anna, or whoever else in the off-time though.
  15. May 05 20:27:46 <Chase> Ehhh, Zoof probably doesn't have a list for us anyway.
  16. May 05 20:27:57 <Chase> But one thing Chase DID want to cover was sharing a certain secret with Alice.
  17. May 05 20:31:18 <zooftop> The other familiar faces around are The Thundercocks, the rest of the Regalia, and Jeramiah - Allice, more or less, is usually hanging out with Anna after hours.
  18. May 05 20:31:47 <Chase> While she shared the story about what happened with Saryx and whatnot, Chase probably told her, with the condition of keeping it a secret because he thinks higher ups would flip if they heard - they have a way over to this other world she may have heard about if she got wind of the whole thing with Harbinger - and that's where the last bit of her soul is. He explains the deal with
  19. May 05 20:31:47 <Chase> the Unown and what they represent as well, and mentions the last one, E for Escape, seems to be on the back of some star named Steel Wing working for Grant, who looks an awful lot like Alice. He basically covers allll of that, the dealings with Hildibrand, the linkshell thing, and the suspicions that Steel Wing IS the unown and it's kind of an enormous mess because he's not entirely
  20. May 05 20:31:48 <Chase> sure what they should do. He also mentions the tour thing Grant's apparently going to take her on and the whole deal with that. And after that long-winded explanation, Chase is honestly really curious what Alice thinks.
  21. May 05 20:32:20 <Chase> TELLING ALL OF THIS TO ALICE IS PROBABLY A LOT SAFER BET THAN KENT ANYWAY
  22. May 05 20:33:23 <Chase> He spreads this story out so it's more cohesive, at least, and that said he'll probably wait until at least Rosetta is present too?
  23. May 05 20:34:43 <Chase> urgh, hold on then
  24. May 05 20:34:49 <Chase> PUT ALL OF THAT ON HOLD
  25. May 05 20:35:01 »» zooftop gets the white erase marker
  26. May 05 20:35:08 »» zooftop squirts Chase with the cleaning liquid for good measure
  27. May 05 20:35:53 <Chase> Chase is not pleased
  28. May 05 20:38:13 <Chase> Leeeet's stop by Sandeep's in the meantime
  29. May 05 20:38:35 ---» Domovoi (Domo@sux-6E40BFE5.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
  30. May 05 20:38:47 »» Domovoi is now known as Genevieve
  31. May 05 20:39:21 <zooftop> »» castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
  32. May 05 20:39:21 <zooftop> <zooftop> Okay, so a few days have passed for you guys to rest up!
  33. May 05 20:39:21 <zooftop> <zooftop> Over the last few days you've caught up with Alice and Anna bit...and also plan your next actions.
  34. May 05 20:39:21 <zooftop> »» Chase has been gearing up for a possible treck out of venomtalon, and got Anna to slap together a few things for his guitar, now on his sheet as the AXE OF TENACIOUS RIFFS
  35. May 05 20:39:22 <zooftop> »» Rosetta has gotten her gear upgraded as well! She's back to the kusarigama rather than using her sword for now, especially in case of nasty flammable bugs out in the wilds near Venomtalon.
  36. May 05 20:39:27 <zooftop> <zooftop> Anna seemed pretty thrilled to be asked for help for this - and she seems a lot better at it than she was in the past as well. That and she appreciated the chance to do something other than bake cookies for a while.
  37. May 05 20:39:31 <zooftop> <zooftop> It's also worth noting that it seems that Sandeep went to the airport to pick up extra hands...there's a lot of his cousins and kinsmen helping with his accessory shop now.
  38. May 05 20:40:57 <Chase> Chase would probably be curious what Sandeep thinks would fit Sibelius out, the poor underused psychic terror. Really should get more attack moves on him, too...
  39. May 05 20:41:07 <Chase> But that can be put on hold now that Domo's here, so!
  40. May 05 20:45:06 »» Genevieve has mostly been resting up after the gym battle after snapchatting Chione a picture of the 7+1 badges with a blank spot for hers. She checks on Mu before heading to meet the others as well.
  41. May 05 20:46:09 <zooftop> The Mew egg is wobbling around every now and then, by this point, and on occassion lifts itself up telekinetically for a second or two! Roll me Pokemon Education.
  42. May 05 20:46:15 <Rosetta> "Heya." Rosetta waves to the others as she meets up with them, probably on the boat.
  43. May 05 20:46:35 <zooftop> Chione's been all [Get at me bitch!]
  44. May 05 20:48:50 <Genevieve> 6d6+5 why did I have to look this up
  45. May 05 20:48:50 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, why did I have to look this up: 25 [6d6=5,1,6,4,3,1]
  46. May 05 20:49:37 <Chase> Chase nods as he meets up with Rose. "Sup."
  47. May 05 20:50:16 <zooftop> It's looking like it's within a week or so of hatching! The floating's a bit weird, but the wobbling is around the average time of maturity most eggs reach when they got about a week left of 'eggyness.'
  48. May 05 20:50:25 »» Rosetta tilts her head. "Hey, you think we should actually bring the book along when we explain stuff to Alice? Maybe she'd react to part of her soul being on the other side."
  49. May 05 20:50:56 <Genevieve> "Sure. We can at least use it to help visualize."
  50. May 05 20:51:07 <Chase> He thinks about it. "I guess there wouldn't be harm in it."
  51. May 05 20:51:32 <Rosetta> "We just have to make sure she doesn't actually read it, right?"
  52. May 05 20:51:59 <Genevieve> "Right, though at least we know where she'll end up now."
  53. May 05 20:52:40 <Rosetta> "Shiny."
  54. May 05 20:52:42 «--- Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Left #easternislesrhapsody (Leaving)
  55. May 05 20:52:48 ---» Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
  56. May 05 20:52:52 <Rosetta> "Ready to go then?"
  57. May 05 20:53:24 <Chase> "Yeah."
  58. May 05 20:53:33 »» Genevieve goes and retrieves the grimoire. "Ready."
  59. May 05 20:53:39 <Chase> "How's the egg, by the way?" he asks Gen, figuring that was probably what she was doing.
  60. May 05 20:55:29 <Chase> This is on the way, of course
  61. May 05 20:55:45 <Genevieve> "Looks like it should hatch within a week."
  62. May 05 20:55:53 <Genevieve> "It's floating, mostly."
  63. May 05 20:56:16 <zooftop> Alice is usually a bit all over the place, but if you catch her before 2 PM she's probably just crawling out of bed.
  64. May 05 20:56:19 <Rosetta> "Whoa, I've never heard of a Pokemon egg doing that, even if it's a psychic type. Guess that's how strong they are."
  65. May 05 20:57:18 <Genevieve> "Between Mew's natural aura, the long incubation time, and proximity to Jenks, it's probably fairly aware of its surroundings already."
  66. May 05 20:58:14 <zooftop> Jenks has been babysitting when you needed him - for a dude who runs a school in a damn desert retreat, he gets around easily enough.
  67. May 05 20:58:29 <Chase> "Huuh. Sounds good. I doubt it'll injure itself at least."
  68. May 05 20:59:03 <Chase> Aaaand there's a knock on Alice's door~
  69. May 05 20:59:06 <Rosetta> "How does Jenks find the time to travel all this way? Did Shark Fighter set up an Unown gate in Sandseeker for him?"
  70. May 05 21:00:10 »» Genevieve puts a finger to her lips and winks. "It's a secret to everybody."
  71. May 05 21:05:31 <zooftop> There's about a thirty second delay before the door to Thomas's place opens. Alice is standing there in sweatpants and a t-shirt, yawning. Bed head and all. You guys probably woke her up. "yeah who - oh, mornin' guys."
  72. May 05 21:06:50 <Chase> He laughs. "Night noctowl sleep schedule, huh. Sorry if we woke you. Mind if we come in? We wanted to discuss something pretty important."
  73. May 05 21:06:52 »» Rosetta tilts her head. "You always wake up this late? I thought driving Thomas nuts was an all day job."
  74. May 05 21:08:34 <zooftop> "...It's a bit earlier than normal, actually. Uh...okay, c'mon in? Don't think he's here at the moment anyway."
  75. May 05 21:09:27 <zooftop> She heads back into the apartment, ducking into the kitchen to throw a pack of poptarts into a toaster. The apartment is a bit cleaner than Thomas claims it normally is - though maybe it was just cleaned this morning.
  76. May 05 21:11:29 <Chase> He kicks back on the first available sitting surface. "Shit, where do we even start with this."
  77. May 05 21:12:30 <Rosetta> "We could lay it in a good news / bad news way?"
  78. May 05 21:12:33 <Chase> "So, basically, uh. The whole thing with your split soul and all. The unowns and everything. We've found out where the last one is."
  79. May 05 21:12:44 <Chase> "Yeah, I guess that's the good news part."
  80. May 05 21:12:45 <Rosetta> "That's the good news." Rosetta chimes in.
  81. May 05 21:13:11 <zooftop> "I'm not going to like where this is going am I."
  82. May 05 21:14:11 »» Genevieve sets the book in her lap as she sits down.
  83. May 05 21:14:13 <Chase> "So the bad news is, it may or may not have taken the form of a singer on an alien planet in the employee of Grant."
  84. May 05 21:14:15 <Rosetta> "Well, uhh..."
  85. May 05 21:14:20 <Rosetta> "Yeah. That."
  86. May 05 21:15:10 <zooftop> "Oh that's not that bad."
  87. May 05 21:15:12 <Rosetta> "You know, it's like each of the Unowns making up your soul represents a single thing, like A is for Adolescence, that sorta thing. E was for...Escape."
  88. May 05 21:15:12 <Chase> "This is mostly a fucking weird situation, a hundred and twenty percent of all this sounds like bullshit. But hey, that's the order of the day lately, right?"
  89. May 05 21:15:25 <zooftop> "Wait a minute..." pop. The poptarts are ready.
  90. May 05 21:15:53 <Genevieve> "Alien planet is a little misleading, but technically correct."
  91. May 05 21:17:10 <zooftop> "This is disturbingly alluring and also terrifying...um...what should I do about it, then?"
  92. May 05 21:17:36 <Rosetta> "Well, we had a plan in mind. But uh, we wanted to run it by you first, of course."
  93. May 05 21:18:02 <Rosetta> "But we think we can probably fuse you back together with her. Kinda like how I can click Unowns together."
  94. May 05 21:18:22 <Chase> "If you happaned to hear about all that mess with Harbinger after the island, it's the same place. Anyway... here's the deal. There's this chick named Steel Wing there. She looks a lot like you, actually, claims she was a farmgirl, kind of dodged the question when I asked from where, but she doesn't seem to actually know anything. She has the unown on her back, and I figure it's
  95. May 05 21:18:22 <Chase> a 90% chance she's an incarnation of it and about a 10% chance that some really bizarre coincidence happened."
  96. May 05 21:19:21 <Chase> "We mostly wanted to let you in on what was going on - that we happen to have an in over there, though we're keeping that a secret because I'm pretty sure guys like Kent would go ballistic if they heard - and listen to what you thought about it."
  97. May 05 21:19:51 »» Rosetta turns to Gen. "Hey Gen, there any reaction from the book?"
  98. May 05 21:19:57 <Genevieve> "It is kind of possible that Alice's soul is piggybacking that girl the way Shiva is with Alice here."
  99. May 05 21:20:11 »» Genevieve opens the book up and looks it over for any kind of changes.
  100. May 05 21:20:12 <zooftop> She's clearly putting all these puzzle pieces together in her head, slackjawed as she gets a paper plate for her poptarts.
  101. May 05 21:20:14 <Chase> "(She does an upbeat, modern swing sort of style, by the way, it's actually pretty classy)."
  102. May 05 21:21:12 <Rosetta> "If the Unown is just piggybacking, this is a lot easier. I know how to get an Unown off someone easy enough, but lego-ing someone who -is- a manifestation of an Unown as a person is new territory."
  103. May 05 21:21:56 <zooftop> "She...looks like me? And says she's got a similar hometown...and...what the hell is the plan exactly here? How does this even work? Stick us together like magnets?"
  104. May 05 21:22:34 <Chase> "Hey, don't look at me. You've got this girl preparing to perform soul surgery on you." he points to the birdbrain.
  105. May 05 21:22:50 <zooftop> The book doesn't seem to be having any direct reaction to being by Alice, no. Though she is curious what the heck it's for.
  106. May 05 21:22:56 <Chase> Does Chase happen to have, say, a copy of the newspaper clipping Hildibrand showed them?
  107. May 05 21:23:18 »» Genevieve snaps the book shut. "Careful. If you try to read it, the spell activates."
  108. May 05 21:23:21 <zooftop> Sure that woulda persisted
  109. May 05 21:23:27 <zooftop> "...What spell?"
  110. May 05 21:23:29 <Chase> He gets that out then and shows her the picture.
  111. May 05 21:23:34 <zooftop> (You coulda also taken pictures of it)
  112. May 05 21:23:37 <Chase> "Oh, that's our gateway to the other world."
  113. May 05 21:23:40 <Chase> Either way!
  114. May 05 21:23:41 <Rosetta> "The teleportation spell that brings you to that planet."
  115. May 05 21:23:56 <zooftop> Alice looks at the picture. "Holy shit it's me with skitty ears."
  116. May 05 21:24:01 <Chase> "Fuck me if I know the origin of this thing but it's kind of a miracle we got it."
  117. May 05 21:24:11 <Chase> "Yeah, see what I mean?"
  118. May 05 21:24:25 <Rosetta> "Anyway, Grant's actually planning on bringing Steel Wing to Earth to perform at..." Rosetta puses for a moment. "NekoCon. The Shiverwing Anime Con."
  119. May 05 21:24:29 <Rosetta> *pauses
  120. May 05 21:24:36 <Chase> "Apparently on the other side Grant runs this sort of... entertainment business or whatever. Steel Wing works for him."
  121. May 05 21:25:06 <Chase> "And only a handful of people seem to really know just what Grant's up to."
  122. May 05 21:25:39 <zooftop> "...I look good with those. Ahem, anyway...So reading that book teleports you to another world, where Grant Null has stuff going on, and is employing cat-me."
  123. May 05 21:25:52 <zooftop> "And cat-me is going to do a concert here. At...oh hey that's the thing Anna wanted to go to isn't it."
  124. May 05 21:26:13 <Rosetta> "Is it? I didn't take her for an anime fan."
  125. May 05 21:26:26 <Chase> "Are you kidding? She definitely seemed the type."
  126. May 05 21:26:36 <Chase> Of course, Chase actually saw her watching things that one time
  127. May 05 21:26:50 <Rosetta> "Oh." Rosetta shrugs. Pathetic Intuition does that.
  128. May 05 21:27:26 <Genevieve> "What kind of terrorist targets an anime convention?"
  129. May 05 21:27:26 <Chase> "Anyway yeah, that's the extent of this bullshit. Apparently Grant has no idea who she really is, and probably wants to show off his connections at a public event."
  130. May 05 21:27:41 <zooftop> "This is a hell of a way to start the day...I appreciate you guys telling me this, but not sure what you want me to do about it? Other than I guess...being in Shiverwing when she is?"
  131. May 05 21:28:16 <Chase> "Nah, I wasn't really expecting you to do anything in the immediate, just wanted to let you in on all of this and hear what you had to say."
  132. May 05 21:28:34 <Rosetta> "Well, that's the thing. Our plan's to bring you there and interrupt Grant's concert to lego you back together. But well, I can understand if that sounds risky, yeah? So there ar other options we could discuss."
  133. May 05 21:28:40 <Chase> "I've been trying to figure out if we should go for her BEFORE the Con, but... Probably a good way to kill a flock of pidgeys with one stone."
  134. May 05 21:29:11 <Rosetta> "See, Grant's whole deal with this concert is to show off his power by bringing in stuff from another world, all that nonsense."
  135. May 05 21:29:40 <Genevieve> "Personally, I think waiting is a bad idea. There's no reason to bring here back over without wanting to do something Grant-y."
  136. May 05 21:29:42 <Rosetta> "I kinda figured if we hijacked that and used it to lego you back together, the public spectacle might strengthen belief in you or something?"
  137. May 05 21:31:17 <zooftop> The way you word that gets a weird gaze from Alice, Rosetta.
  138. May 05 21:32:08 <zooftop> "I sorta dig the whole throwing his live concert idea off track. It's risky, and a bit scary - but I think I could get behind that..."
  139. May 05 21:32:14 <Rosetta> "Er..." Rosetta looks to Chase to explain that a bit better.
  140. May 05 21:33:30 <Chase> "She wants people to see the ascension of a goddess to get more support for the Outer Gods." he says, while Rose was looking at him. He figures Alice is weirded out by Rosetta referring to Alice directly as the newborn.
  141. May 05 21:34:04 «--- Aori_Radidjiu (Revolution@sux-1B6987ED.hsd1.in.comcast.net) has Quit (Connection reset by peer)
  142. May 05 21:34:08 ---» Aori_Radidjiu (Revolution@sux-1B6987ED.hsd1.in.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
  143. May 05 21:34:41 <Chase> He nods at Gen. "It definitely is risky, either way..." he ponders. "But honestly, Grant has more support in Hydaelyn, and it's the opposite over here."
  144. May 05 21:34:57 <Genevieve> "We should probably ask One or DC to make sure that ascension won't, like, suddenly kill everyone nearby."
  145. May 05 21:35:44 <Rosetta> "We've got three Outer Gods we're in touch with between the three of us. I'd have figured at least one of them would've mentioned it if that was the case?"
  146. May 05 21:35:56 <zooftop> "Right...for once we're seperated," is what her response to that is. "I would sorta want to get a chance to talk to this girl myself before this happens. Could be AT the show, though."
  147. May 05 21:35:58 <Genevieve> "Grant has a battleship full of Russian terrorists who know who we are here. Hydaelyn gives us surprise."
  148. May 05 21:35:59 <Chase> "Either way, I do have this 'linkshell' thing if we want to directly contact Steel Wing for whatever reason, so backup plans I guess."
  149. May 05 21:36:07 <Rosetta> "But yeah, the other option is to bring you into the other world and try to do things on that side."
  150. May 05 21:36:42 <zooftop> ...You mean to contact her from earth all the way there?
  151. May 05 21:36:57 <Chase> Not necessarily what he meant, no
  152. May 05 21:37:03 <Chase> I typed that before Alice's line
  153. May 05 21:37:59 <Chase> "I bet we could use it if Alice can't get close to her at the Con, at least."
  154. May 05 21:38:19 <Chase> Either way, he seems to be agreeing with what Alice is saying.
  155. May 05 21:38:45 <Chase> "Hmm."
  156. May 05 21:38:50 <Chase> He considers Gen's words a bit more.
  157. May 05 21:39:22 <Chase> "Well, at the very least, I guess we have some time before we have to come to a decision on it, yeah?"
  158. May 05 21:39:37 <Genevieve> "Exactly. So we can think about it."
  159. May 05 21:40:23 <Rosetta> "Well, if we do wanna go over to the other world before the con and handle it..." Rosetta pulls out her phone to look up the schedule - when's the next performance in Hydaelyn?
  160. May 05 21:41:33 <zooftop> You guys got about 2 weeks or so till the convention, yup.
  161. May 05 21:42:00 <Chase> totally wasn't what he asked
  162. May 05 21:42:14 <zooftop> "I dunno I'm really likin' rubbin' in his face on this side myself. But I also am literally the embodiment of rebellion at the moment, so."
  163. May 05 21:42:17 <zooftop> "Probably not the best judge."
  164. May 05 21:42:21 <Chase> (But that's good to know too)
  165. May 05 21:42:42 <zooftop> Next performance on that side, Rosetta? every few days, really.
  166. May 05 21:42:45 <Chase> "Don't get me wrong, I'm leaning on that side too at the moment. But Gen's always been a voice of reason in this team."
  167. May 05 21:42:49 <zooftop> it's a tour after all
  168. May 05 21:43:15 <Rosetta> "We've got two weeks til he heads Earth-side and a concert over there every couple days cause they're on tour. So plenty of time, really."
  169. May 05 21:44:05 <Chase> "I'm generally in favor of being a big damn hero, and Gen is more in favor of just getting shit done." he laughs.
  170. May 05 21:44:11 <Rosetta> "Look, I think it'd just be really cool to fuck up Grant's plans at the anime con and then follow it up with smashing his dumb fort right after. But I guess I kinda got chosen by the avatar of Inconsequence, soo."
  171. May 05 21:44:20 »» Rosetta shrugs.
  172. May 05 21:45:39 <Chase> "But either way... I think the Con at least has the upside of being able to completely smear his public image more. Even if we grab Steel Wing early, we'll have to likely deal with the convention anyway. I doubt she's central to his plans."
  173. May 05 21:45:51 <Chase> "Plenty of time to decide, either way..."
  174. May 05 21:45:55 »» Chase gets up.
  175. May 05 21:46:06 <Chase> "So... time to head out to Venomtalon, I guess?"
  176. May 05 21:46:08 <Rosetta> "He'll probably be more ready when it comes time for the con if we snag Steel Wing early."
  177. May 05 21:46:13 »» Genevieve chuckles. "Yeah, I think both of you are a little too fixated on the show and not on the substance here. The con will work, but we'll need more Kawaiibots."
  178. May 05 21:46:26 <Genevieve> "Sure."
  179. May 05 21:46:31 <Rosetta> "I mean, that'll tip him off that someone knows about his operation in the other world, yeah?"
  180. May 05 21:46:53 <Rosetta> "Guess we might as well stew on it. Sorry for dumping all this on you Alice. Let us know if you've got more thoughts, yeah?" Rosetta hops up.
  181. May 05 21:47:33 <zooftop> "...What are you guys doing in Venomtalon?"
  182. May 05 21:47:57 <Genevieve> "Looking for your dad's clubhouse."
  183. May 05 21:48:04 <Chase> "Oh, uh... well, we heard your dad had a hideaway near there or something. We were going to do a little scouting. Hopefully not anything too involved, but..."
  184. May 05 21:48:32 <zooftop> "Oooooh....he has a club house? Anyway I'll leave the pros and cons of this to you guys. I've said my part on it."
  185. May 05 21:48:59 <Rosetta> "Hehe, pros and -cons-."
  186. May 05 21:49:03 <Chase> "Thanks, we appreciate it. That's all we were after, really." he grins. "Thanks for putting your trust in us."
  187. May 05 21:50:02 <Genevieve> "Not that you have much of a choice, huh?"
  188. May 05 21:50:31 <zooftop> "Oh I didn't even mean to make that pun." she fist bumps Rosetta.
  189. May 05 21:50:39 »» Rosetta fist bumps. :>
  190. May 05 21:51:35 <zooftop> "It's cool - you guys have helped me enough thus far, got no reason to doubt you."
  191. May 05 21:52:11 <Rosetta> "You got any idea what we should be looking for by the way? Regarding your dad's clubhouse I mean."
  192. May 05 21:53:32 <Chase> He stretches, getting up and getting ready to leave in the meantime.
  193. May 05 21:53:46 <zooftop> She nibbles on a poptart as she thinks on that...and her gaze slumps a bit as she does so. "Spider webs. And silk."
  194. May 05 21:54:04 <zooftop> She shudders and snaps back to normal. "That was weird..."
  195. May 05 21:54:18 <Rosetta> "Huh?" Rosetta tilts her head.
  196. May 05 21:56:04 <zooftop> "I'm not sure whose memories that was. Had a sudden recollection of a place..."
  197. May 05 21:56:14 <zooftop> "Lots of webs...a petrified tree..."
  198. May 05 21:56:24 »» Rosetta leans against a wall to listen.
  199. May 05 21:56:39 <zooftop> "A loom. Lots of looms."
  200. May 05 21:58:59 <Chase> "Well, I remember lots of damn webs but that was more because of that huge-ass Galvantula."
  201. May 05 21:59:37 <Genevieve> "Husk knew about Shiva before pretty much anyone else, right? Then there's a good chance she's been wherever we're looking for."
  202. May 05 21:59:39 <Chase> He hrms. "I guess it's a start. Thanks, Alice."
  203. May 05 21:59:59 <Chase> He nods at Gen.
  204. May 05 22:00:24 <Rosetta> "Shiny. Let's get going then."
  205. May 05 22:01:14 <zooftop> "Good luck guys - sure you'll find it if you look around enough...got a feeling the bugs out there won't bug ya."
  206. May 05 22:01:48 <Rosetta> "That's a relief, after the gym battle." Rosetta grins.
  207. May 05 22:02:59 <Chase> He nods.
  208. May 05 22:03:02 »» Genevieve gets up and tucks the grimoire into her bag. "We're off!"
  209. May 05 22:03:06 <Chase> Aaaand off they go!
  210. May 05 22:04:42 <zooftop> She has a coy look about her like she totally doesn't have anything to do with why you guys won't be harassed. "Oh and might wanna avoid perfumes or strong scented antipersperant for a little while!"
  211. May 05 22:05:25 <Rosetta> "Uh, sure alright!"
  212. May 05 22:06:38 <zooftop> Annnd with that we'll fastforward a bit to the next day because this long of travel, across the isles to Darkfeather and the last train to Venomtalon - would take a good chunk of time.
  213. May 05 22:07:49 <Chase> Oh boy, this pheremone shit again
  214. May 05 22:09:00 <zooftop> You guys arrive pretty late into the evening. The small little farming town is more or less asleep, except for the one or two breweries and taverns in town, which you can hear general merriment from. The train wasn't super crowded either, maybe twenty passengers or so.
  215. May 05 22:09:29 <zooftop> The sound of kricketots is the most prominant sound you hear - chirping all over the place.
  216. May 05 22:10:36 <Chase> Chase isn't even worried about bugging (hah) Queen Rhasha at the moment. If this guy knew how to hide things from anyone, it'd be his own wife. Besides, it's probably too late to call in on her.
  217. May 05 22:10:39 <Genevieve> "Even with pheromones, I'm not super pumped about exploring Venomtalon jungle at night."
  218. May 05 22:11:11 <Chase> "The cover of night would help us move unseen at least." he considers.
  219. May 05 22:11:28 <Chase> "But we'd also get jumped easier."
  220. May 05 22:12:05 <zooftop> when I say tavern I do mean straight up hotel/bar combo, mind you
  221. May 05 22:12:21 <Genevieve> "Spiders hunt pretty well at night."
  222. May 05 22:12:24 <Chase> "I guess we can go ahead and get a room."
  223. May 05 22:12:40 »» Chase starts heading over towards one of these above places.
  224. May 05 22:13:04 <Rosetta> "No offense, but even at night, I think I'm the only one here who wouldn't be really obvious moving through that forest. Waiting til tomorrow's not a bad plan at all."
  225. May 05 22:13:35 <Chase> "Yeaaah, point."
  226. May 05 22:13:54 <Genevieve> "Let's get some sleep."
  227. May 05 22:15:25 <zooftop> The tavern in particular seems to be the usual hangout for the younger crowd in town - folks in their late teens and early twenties. It's nothing special but doesn't have a very country feel to it. More like something you'd expect to see in Darkfeather. You're reminded of where you are, though, by a Heracross buzzing around, collecting empty glasses from tables and stands near pool tables and such.
  228. May 05 22:15:33 <zooftop> A normal one, not a super murderous one.
  229. May 05 22:16:22 <zooftop> The oldest guy working here sets you guys up with rooms for the night after a short exchange. Pretty normal hotel affair with them as well.
  230. May 05 22:18:50 »» Genevieve goes to bed. #yolo
  231. May 05 22:19:26 <zooftop> Wjhether you guys mingled a bit or not, the rooms were surprisingly sound proof, and sleep came easy. Next morning, however, you heard the terrifying sounds of Butterfrees making rooster calls.
  232. May 05 22:19:31 <zooftop> Right at the crack of dawn.
  233. May 05 22:19:50 <zooftop> ...One could probably sleep through if they pressed it, though.
  234. May 05 22:19:56 <Rosetta> "What...why?" Rosetta sits up and rubs her eyes.
  235. May 05 22:21:03 »» Genevieve has Gundam Newton set to bark at any bugs outside the window.
  236. May 05 22:22:36 <zooftop> Newton barks until the Butterfrees shut up, and then flops onto the free half of the bed, but not without making three circles before lowing himself down.
  237. May 05 22:22:51 <Chase> "Nnngh."
  238. May 05 22:23:07 <Chase> "Remind me not to live here."
  239. May 05 22:24:43 <zooftop> The place has a breakfast menu, wasn't really included in your room fair, but other than that it looks like a warm sunny day for exploring the jungles.
  240. May 05 22:25:03 »» Genevieve eventually gets up anyway though, gets some breakfast, and waits.
  241. May 05 22:27:07 »» Rosetta grabs some breakfast and some heavily sugared up coffee to wake up.
  242. May 05 22:27:22 »» Chase gets up, breakfasts, and gets ready to head the fuck out! Once the initial FUCK of butterroosters wears off he's pretty hype to get out there.
  243. May 05 22:29:48 <zooftop> It's also worth noting, a skill check isn't really needed, that most the bugs around town seem really drawn/friendly to you guys. Even more so than they normally would be. Like a random Caterpie crawls over and offers a peach to one of you.
  244. May 05 22:30:26 <Rosetta> "This is kinda nice, actually."
  245. May 05 22:31:21 <Chase> He pets the Caterpie. "Aw, thanks." he grins. "Yeah, it is. We can probably even get help from the wilds if need be.."
  246. May 05 22:32:42 »» Chase sees about actually asking some bugs via aura or whatnot, if they heard of any place like Alice described.
  247. May 05 22:33:09 »» Genevieve uses Symbolsight to look over the city, expecting Shiva signs everywhere.
  248. May 05 22:33:43 <zooftop> Neither of you can really 'see' what she did to you, even if you got a good feeling she did some sort of pheromone related thing to you.
  249. May 05 22:33:48 »» Rosetta doesn't have supernatural vision of any sort, so she just scouts out the path into the forest.
  250. May 05 22:36:08 <zooftop> And actually you -don't-, really, Genevieve...least nothing super obvious or immediate. Chase, what exactly are you asking?
  251. May 05 22:37:18 <Chase> Hmm, probably something to the extent of asking if they'd seen a 'giant, petrified tree'
  252. May 05 22:37:40 <Chase> or something like that.
  253. May 05 22:38:20 <Chase> If not, no big, they can just start scouting.
  254. May 05 22:38:32 <Chase> (Or if that's too vague)
  255. May 05 22:38:57 <zooftop> That wouldn't get you any responses. They don't really know what you mean by that. As for Rosetta, the jungles are pretty immediate, right off the bat - surrounding the village. What are you looking to try there?
  256. May 05 22:39:29 <Rosetta> For now, just looking for the easiest path to take entering the jungle so we can start looking around.
  257. May 05 22:39:53 <Chase> Chase's first instinct would probably be to check near the place they fought the Galvantula FOE
  258. May 05 22:40:25 <zooftop> Some paths are more trod than others, but one thing I'll add that when Oya mentioned this, she suggested this was southeast.
  259. May 05 22:40:42 <Chase> Oya mentioned this? Huh. I thought it was a cherub
  260. May 05 22:40:55 <zooftop> (They actually BOTH did)
  261. May 05 22:40:59 <Chase> (Ohh)
  262. May 05 22:41:24 <Chase> Well, Rose gets to be on point, then! Chase hangs back and lets the others do their work.
  263. May 05 22:42:03 »» Rosetta leads the way southeast then!
  264. May 05 22:42:48 <zooftop> There do seem to be paths that people have taken into the jungle before, so getting your bearings isn't that terrible. It's a bit unusually quiet for a good while. Roll me Survival!
  265. May 05 22:43:51 <Genevieve> 1d6+1 no
  266. May 05 22:43:51 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, no: 6 [1d6=5]
  267. May 05 22:43:55 <Rosetta> 2d6+5
  268. May 05 22:43:56 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 2d6+5: 11 [2d6=5,1]
  269. May 05 22:45:19 <Chase> 2d6+1
  270. May 05 22:45:19 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 2d6+1: 8 [2d6=6,1]
  271. May 05 22:48:02 <zooftop> Within the first two or so hours, you guys are swiftly reminded of why you normally stick to cities or fly around. You wouldn't say you're lost, but you can't really tell this tree from another tree, this rock from another rock, and might have gone in circles a few times. This said you do eventually come across a ravine, and it's the first one you've seen, so it's safe to say it's a unique landmark. The water is about k
  272. May 05 22:48:02 <zooftop> nee deep and looks to be a commonly used watering hole. Rosetta can make out a few insect-like tracks in the ground near it.
  273. May 05 22:48:36 «--- zooftop (zoofsama@sux-D2CC63B3.hsd1.nj.comcast.net) has Quit (Connection reset by peer)
  274. May 05 22:48:42 <Rosetta> "Hey," Rosetta stoops down for a closer look. "Think this has anything to do with what we're lookin' for?"
  275. May 05 22:49:03 <Chase> "Shiit, we suck at this." He goes over to have a look, himself.
  276. May 05 22:49:59 <zoofdude> Rosetta, roll me Perception. Chase, roll me Pokemon Education.
  277. May 05 22:50:03 »» Genevieve turns up the Symbolsight again.
  278. May 05 22:50:12 <zoofdude> Gen can roll Poke Edu as well!
  279. May 05 22:50:14 <Genevieve> "I don't see any webs."
  280. May 05 22:50:14 <Rosetta> 5d6+1
  281. May 05 22:50:15 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 5d6+1: 19 [5d6=4,1,6,4,3]
  282. May 05 22:50:19 <Genevieve> 6d6+5
  283. May 05 22:50:19 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, 6d6+5: 24 [6d6=5,6,2,2,1,3]
  284. May 05 22:50:24 <Chase> 3d6-2
  285. May 05 22:50:24 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 3d6-2: 10 [3d6=4,5,3]
  286. May 05 22:51:47 <zoofdude> You swear the water glows a bit green, Gen. Either way, you look at the prints and figure they are made by something with long, thin legs. Which fits the profile of a good number of Bug Pokemon. Mostly the weaker, lesser evolved ones.
  287. May 05 22:51:56 <zoofdude> Rosetta, you smell something familiar but you can't exactly put a finger on it.
  288. May 05 22:52:07 <zoofdude> It's sweet.
  289. May 05 22:52:41 <Rosetta> "I smell something sweet." Rosetta tilts her head. "Not sure what though. Should we keep going?"
  290. May 05 22:52:56 »» Rosetta start floating off that way without waiting for an actual answer.
  291. May 05 22:53:21 <zoofdude> It's coming from the ravine itself.
  292. May 05 22:54:38 »» Rosetta peers over the edge to see if there's an obvious source.
  293. May 05 22:54:46 <Rosetta> Fruit? Nectar? DANGER SYRUP?
  294. May 05 22:55:04 »» Chase rubs his head a bit as he just waits for the girls to do their ANALYSIS.
  295. May 05 22:55:04 <zoofdude> Ding ding. It's Danger Syrup.
  296. May 05 22:55:32 <zoofdude> You see a blueish, shaking thing at the bottom of the ravine. It looks like it's trying to pretend to be a rock.
  297. May 05 22:56:00 <Rosetta> "Hey," Rosetta waves the others over and points.
  298. May 05 22:57:00 <Genevieve> "Yeah thats a bug."
  299. May 05 22:57:43 <zoofdude> Gen, you wouldn't call it 'blessed' but this thing has sort of greenish glow off it from your symbolsight
  300. May 05 22:58:03 »» Chase has a look, himself. <Hey there... you don't gotta be scared. Relax a bit.> he calls down to the Surskit.
  301. May 05 22:58:05 <Genevieve> "Looks a little green, which I think is usually Shiva-related."
  302. May 05 22:58:43 <Rosetta> "Nifty. Y'all got rides to get down there, or you need to borrow one?" Rosetta herself just looks for footholds and starts slowly warping and floating down there.
  303. May 05 22:58:44 <zoofdude> The voices in its head cause it to skitter up with alarm, jumping out of the water and spraying out syrup in surprise. Now it CERTAINLY smells like breakfast.
  304. May 05 22:58:54 <zoofdude> It lands on the waters surface and freezes up, looking at you three.
  305. May 05 22:59:37 <Chase> Was it just hiding from us, or...? Chase looks around for other auras.
  306. May 05 23:00:20 <Chase> "Sheez, poor thing."
  307. May 05 23:00:32 <zoofdude> <They see me. Disguise failed. Will scare for sryup.> is what it's thinking, Chase. Like it's talking to itself.
  308. May 05 23:01:49 <Chase> <They won't try to scare you...> he calls down, trying to keep things simple. He has Brahms to ride down but bats probably eat surskrits so not likely the best choice. He says where he is.
  309. May 05 23:02:00 <Chase> "The little thing's terrified and thinks we're here to collect its syrup."
  310. May 05 23:02:20 <Rosetta> "That's not a half bad ide- I mean, er, can you calm it down then?"
  311. May 05 23:02:45 <Chase> "Well, I'm trying, but... Why don't you get a little closer and see if Alice's pheremones calm it down some?"
  312. May 05 23:03:14 <Rosetta> "Okay, sounds shiny." Rosetta continues to warp down, trying to look as friendly as possible.
  313. May 05 23:03:52 »» Chase looks over at Gen. "So it's infused with.. what, bug energy?"
  314. May 05 23:03:57 <zoofdude> It squirts out more syrup as you warp down onto a rock near it. Surskit Sniffle Level: 4||||||||||
  315. May 05 23:04:02 <zoofdude> (Doh.)
  316. May 05 23:04:12 <Rosetta> (good job gooflord)
  317. May 05 23:04:13 <zoofdude> (Was supposed to be 7 reds and 3 whites ;-;)
  318. May 05 23:04:26 <Rosetta> ||||||||||
  319. May 05 23:04:39 <Genevieve> 7d6+5 actual room
  320. May 05 23:04:39 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, actual room: 35 [7d6=5,4,4,3,5,5,4]
  321. May 05 23:05:09 <Rosetta> "Hey, hey, come on, I'm not gonna hurt or scare ya." Rosetta holds out a hand.
  322. May 05 23:05:40 <zoofdude> You think it means it's been someplace with enough latent energy about it that it's...coated in the stuff. It suffices to say it's been someplace that -is- strongly associated or tied to something about Alice or the goddess inside her.
  323. May 05 23:06:02 <zoofdude> Roll me Charm, Rosetta
  324. May 05 23:06:20 »» Chase starts wondering if he shoulda picked Bliss over Truth but either way. "You wouldn't happen to know good ways to calm these things down, would you?" he asks Gen. "Man, I don't even think I've seen a wild surskit before."
  325. May 05 23:06:32 <Rosetta> 2d6-1 doh
  326. May 05 23:06:33 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, doh: 2 [2d6=2,1]
  327. May 05 23:06:43 <zoofdude> Rosetta looks HUNGRY
  328. May 05 23:06:48 <zoofdude> she's even drooling a little
  329. May 05 23:06:53 <zoofdude> Sniffle Level increases by 1.
  330. May 05 23:06:57 <Rosetta> 2d6-1 Probability Control ;-;
  331. May 05 23:06:58 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, Probability Control: 4 [2d6=4,1]
  332. May 05 23:07:06 <zoofdude> Still droolin'
  333. May 05 23:07:18 <Genevieve> "It's been somewhere important to Alice-slash-Shiva, so it may have been at Husk's place."
  334. May 05 23:07:36 <Rosetta> "I don't think it likes me." :<
  335. May 05 23:09:06 »» Chase starts trying to climb down into the ravine at this point.
  336. May 05 23:09:10 <zoofdude> <No good. Stay here, get scared. Go back, get scared. Leave, get eaten. No good.>
  337. May 05 23:09:24 <zoofdude> Only Chase can percieve that, but the thing is clearly scared out of its wits.
  338. May 05 23:09:46 <Chase> "Yeah, I can hear what's going on. You're just making it more scared, I think..."
  339. May 05 23:10:08 »» Genevieve lets out Fabre. Maybe another Water-type that's been touched by Alice will calm it down.
  340. May 05 23:10:09 <Chase> 2d6+1 athletics? 6d6+1 Acrobatics?
  341. May 05 23:10:10 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, athletics? 6d6+1 Acrobatics?: 12 [2d6=5,6]
  342. May 05 23:10:10 »» Rosetta sighs and backs up, hands in the air.
  343. May 05 23:10:15 <Chase> 6d6+1
  344. May 05 23:10:16 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 6d6+1: 22 [6d6=2,3,6,1,4,5]
  345. May 05 23:10:50 <Chase> He waits a bit back though if he manages to get down there, long enough for Fabre to come down.
  346. May 05 23:11:28 <zoofdude> Chase gets down without falling on his butt. Rosetta backing away from the Surskit decreases its sniffles by 1. Fabre showing up alarms it at first...but then it looks long and hard at the buggy Starmie and relaxes a bit more. Surskit Sniffle Level : 5
  347. May 05 23:13:15 <Chase> He waves at it gently, trying to get its attention. <Hey little guy. Or girl. Don't be afraid. No afraid, okay? No syrup.> He repeats this with his mouth, too. "No syrup, no scaring, no eating."
  348. May 05 23:13:55 <Chase> 6d6+6 Let's try a charm check.
  349. May 05 23:13:56 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, Let's try a charm check.: 23 [6d6=5,1,4,2,1,4]
  350. May 05 23:14:59 <zoofdude> It stops looking scared, but still wimpers a little. <No scared or eating.>
  351. May 05 23:15:42 <Chase> He flashes a thumbs up to Gen. <I think Fabre's helping.>
  352. May 05 23:16:58 <Chase> He tries to communicate with the surskit again. <We just need help. We're looking for a place.> he spreads his words out simply. <Webs, lots of webs. Stone tree. Looms? Do you know where?>
  353. May 05 23:18:01 <zoofdude> It freezes up, and makes a mewling sound. <Old home. Now scary. No like it.>
  354. May 05 23:18:49 <Chase> <Not taking you back. No danger for you. Would just like to know where. Please.>
  355. May 05 23:19:04 <Chase> He lets Gen and Rose hear his words here as well so they can get the gist.
  356. May 05 23:19:55 <zoofdude> It points one of its little spiny arms downstream.
  357. May 05 23:21:11 <Chase> <Thank you.> he considers a moment. "Either of you feel like trying to offer this little one a safe new home?"
  358. May 05 23:21:36 <Rosetta> "I think it's adorable, but I don't think it likes me." :<
  359. May 05 23:21:56 <Genevieve> "Because you'll drain him and leave him an empty husk."
  360. May 05 23:22:06 <Rosetta> "H-hey!"
  361. May 05 23:22:10 <Chase> "It thinks it's going to get eaten if it leaves here, or scared for its syrup."
  362. May 05 23:22:12 <Rosetta> "Well, it seems to like Fabre."
  363. May 05 23:22:39 <Chase> "Up to you guys, but I'd feel bad just leaving it like this..."
  364. May 05 23:22:57 <Chase> He gets up and gets ready. "Anyway, apparently we're looking for the place downstream."
  365. May 05 23:24:20 <Genevieve> "Makes sense, looks like a lot of smaller bugs are moving from there."
  366. May 05 23:24:33 <Rosetta> "Gen, you wanna take it back and let it pal with Fabre then?"
  367. May 05 23:26:04 <Genevieve> "Sure." She whistles for Fabre to come pick her up so she can float over to the surface of the water and offer a hand out to the Surskit. "Hey guy, heard you need a place to stay."
  368. May 05 23:27:17 <zoofdude> It's calm enough by now that it slowly scuttles across the water surface toward you.
  369. May 05 23:28:16 »» Genevieve taps the Surskit with a Pokeball.
  370. May 05 23:28:59 <zoofdude> It's easily captured! Poor little thing was quite helpless on its own.
  371. May 05 23:30:34 <Chase> "Alright, good. Let's get going, then." he calls out Brahms to help him get down the ways without getting soaking wet.
  372. May 05 23:31:24 »» Rosetta floats along over the water.
  373. May 05 23:32:59 <zoofdude> Now that you have some direction...after a good distance trek down the ravine, you start to see webbing amongst the trees.
  374. May 05 23:34:21 <zoofdude> It gets worse and worse as you progress, until you essentially reach a wall of spider web. The ravine ducks under it, but the area within looks heavily webbed. The whole place has Gen's Symbolsight going off...green, and in the distance, shades of pink.
  375. May 05 23:35:35 <Rosetta> "Guess we found it. Uh, now what though?"
  376. May 05 23:35:48 <Rosetta> "Getting in and taking a look around might be kinda tough."
  377. May 05 23:36:31 <Chase> "Holy shit."
  378. May 05 23:36:40 <zoofdude> Well, it does look like you can WALK around in there Rosetta...it's just...webs all over the place.
  379. May 05 23:36:59 <Genevieve> "If Husk can get through here, we can too."
  380. May 05 23:37:27 <Rosetta> "Alright, it's just...sort of a perfect set-up to be ambushed, if there's any security around here. You know, webs and all."
  381. May 05 23:38:11 »» Chase keeps on his aura sight and remains wary as he carefully looks for a way through
  382. May 05 23:38:27 <zoofdude> Hahahaha.
  383. May 05 23:39:40 <zoofdude> Chase sees thousands of little pings from countless Joltiks and Spinaraks within the webbed compound...they see you, but do not have a hostile aura about them. In fact they seem inviting.
  384. May 05 23:40:04 <Chase> "...oh fuck. Alice's pheremones are probably the only thing keeping us safe." he says quietly.
  385. May 05 23:40:32 <Chase> "At least we're 'welcome'..." he proceeds carefully. "Just know we gotta looot of watchers."
  386. May 05 23:40:37 <Rosetta> "That's juuust shiny."
  387. May 05 23:41:35 <zoofdude> A Galvantula begins to work its way down the outside of the wall, looking over you all.
  388. May 05 23:42:47 <zoofdude> It waits for a few moments, waiting for any reaction.
  389. May 05 23:42:55 <Genevieve> "Maybe this is where Shiva was born, then."
  390. May 05 23:42:57 <Chase> He nods at it.
  391. May 05 23:43:19 <Rosetta> "Oh hey, that makes sense."
  392. May 05 23:43:48 <zoofdude> It seems to wave with one of its little front hands, and lowers down a...roll of parchment, it has a silk thread around it.
  393. May 05 23:43:53 <Chase> He's not entirely sure if this thing is waiting for a passcode or something that they don't know and that's probably not in the scope of his channeling.
  394. May 05 23:44:03 »» Chase has a look.
  395. May 05 23:44:13 <Rosetta> "What's it say?"
  396. May 05 23:44:49 »» Genevieve takes the parchment.
  397. May 05 23:45:25 <zoofdude> Gen, on closer look...it looks like it's just really aged notebook paper. Like someone brought a journal with them, ripped out a page and wrote a note.
  398. May 05 23:46:07 »» Genevieve takes off the silk thread and unrolls the note to read it out to the others.
  399. May 05 23:46:54 <Chase> "I swear, if he knew we were coming..."
  400. May 05 23:47:11 <zoofdude> It reads, "For Whoever this may concern - Hello. My name is Husk. I'm 21 years old, and born and raised in Venomtalon. The year I'm writing this is (20 years ago)."
  401. May 05 23:47:23 <Rosetta> "Whoa."
  402. May 05 23:47:34 <Chase> "...well now."
  403. May 05 23:47:45 <Rosetta> "That's before I was born."
  404. May 05 23:47:50 <Genevieve> "Oh, here we go. Diary of a bad dad."
  405. May 05 23:48:01 <Chase> "Girl, you too young."
  406. May 05 23:49:10 <zoofdude> "If you're reading this, it's because I couldn't believe what I myself had found, and felt it was my duty as the first one to stumble upon this place in years to elaborate to you. I likely have never met you, but you should know that the fact you're reading this is a small blessing. The arachnids of this place have instinctively fought off any who approach it for centuries."
  407. May 05 23:49:43 <zoofdude> "They gave this to you, because I asked them to give it to the next individuals they permitted to enter. They knew you were coming."
  408. May 05 23:50:49 <zoofdude> "I currently understand very little of this place...but within the hour or so I've been here I've learned that my arrival was predetermined four hundred years ago, within a year I will be married to Divya Rhasha - who I have scarcely interacted with throughout my youth - and she will be with child. Our daughter."
  409. May 05 23:52:17 <zoofdude> "I came to it as a fluke, being chased by rabid Beautiflies while hunting. May whatever had brought you been less taxing. Don't worry, the spiders won't bite."
  410. May 05 23:52:24 <zoofdude> That's all that's written.
  411. May 05 23:53:12 <Genevieve> "Alright."
  412. May 05 23:53:21 <Rosetta> "Oh boy, more of that predestination shit. Well, uh...Let's look further in then, if it's safe."
  413. May 05 23:53:24 <Genevieve> "Who the hell arranged this then."
  414. May 05 23:53:44 <Chase> He nods. "Yeah, let's go. Seems like we're going to finally get some answers about Husk."
  415. May 05 23:54:50 <Chase> "And... well, about a lot of other things too, maybe."
  416. May 05 23:54:53 »» Chase moves on.
  417. May 05 23:55:01 <zoofdude> The Galvantula climbs back up, and the webbing seems to...part, a little, giving you more room to enter.
  418. May 05 23:55:17 <Chase> "Thanks." he says up to the Galvantula, and heads on in.
  419. May 05 23:55:44 »» Rosetta follows behind, looking all around.
  420. May 05 23:56:56 <zoofdude> Roll me General Education once you guys are inside. The ravine leads up to a small lake, and there's a bit of a clearing before several old, stone-like trees stand. Webs coat most their canopy, but each of them seems to have large openings by their roots, almost like doors.
  421. May 05 23:57:04 <zoofdude> One of these trees, towers above the others.
  422. May 05 23:57:11 <Genevieve> 5d6+6 the last one to level
  423. May 05 23:57:12 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, the last one to level: 24 [5d6=2,2,6,3,5]
  424. May 05 23:57:12 <Rosetta> 2d6+1 herp
  425. May 05 23:57:12 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, herp: 7 [2d6=4,2]
  426. May 05 23:57:22 <Chase> 2d6-2+1
  427. May 05 23:57:22 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 2d6-2+1: 2 [2d6=1,2]
  428. May 05 23:57:58 <Chase> "This is kind of awesome, really."
  429. May 05 23:59:22 <zoofdude> Well, two of you are derptastic, but Gen, you get the feeling this wasn't just a patch of land, but a settlement. The trees are actually stonework. This is further confirmed by a close look up, and seeing most the branches are not only bare, but intersect like walkways. Thin, taught walkways that you'd have to be fairly lithe to traverse.
  430. May 06 00:01:05 <Genevieve> "Ancient Egyptian spider elves."
  431. May 06 00:01:18 <Rosetta> "What?"
  432. May 06 00:01:34 <Chase> "I don't get it."
  433. May 06 00:02:39 »» Chase starts heading towards the biggest tree, since that's where his eyes naturally gravitated to.
  434. May 06 00:02:41 »» Genevieve gestures at one of the trees. "These are stone. This isn't a grove, it's some kind of town."
  435. May 06 00:03:05 <Chase> "Oh shit. Like... ancient ancient venomtalon? Back in the tribal days or something? Or before that?"
  436. May 06 00:03:18 <Rosetta> "Oh! So these are..." Rosetta peeks inside one of the 'doors'.
  437. May 06 00:03:22 <zoofdude> One of the closer trees seems to have something painted on it. "They made hempen textiles here - scrolls as well. Ink from shells."
  438. May 06 00:04:02 <zoofdude> Inside Rosetta sees some...long abandoned, ancient tools that she could only assume were used for the purposes the text describes.
  439. May 06 00:04:08 <zoofdude> Roll me Occult Edu, Rosetta.
  440. May 06 00:04:39 <Genevieve> "Yes. Something like that, anyway."
  441. May 06 00:04:43 <Rosetta> 4d6+1
  442. May 06 00:04:43 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 4d6+1: 11 [4d6=5,1,3,1]
  443. May 06 00:07:25 <zoofdude> There's some pictograms and carvings on the interior wall. They depict people sailing away from an isle with...what look like Unowns on it, toward another island. And then the people are surrounding a big Galvantula, kneeling before it. Far above the Galvantula is a Venomoth.
  444. May 06 00:08:02 <Rosetta> "Hey, Rune Masters used to live here." Rosetta beckons the others to look.
  445. May 06 00:08:53 »» Genevieve comes over to see.
  446. May 06 00:09:32 »» Chase has a look, too.
  447. May 06 00:09:51 <Chase> "Wouldn't that be Mirage Island though?"
  448. May 06 00:10:00 <Genevieve> "Yeah, this is older than old. Like birth of the original outer gods old."
  449. May 06 00:10:34 <Rosetta> "You think this is depicting the orginals?"
  450. May 06 00:10:58 <Chase> "They could have sailed away from Mirage Island... and settled here to worship a different god than the Broken Lord."
  451. May 06 00:11:54 <zoofdude> The Galvanula from before is looming above you guys, clinging to the stoney tree's exterior walls.
  452. May 06 00:12:25 <Chase> He looks up at it again. <Hey. You don't have anything to add about this picture, do you?>
  453. May 06 00:14:37 <Genevieve> "It's a Venomoth, so yes."
  454. May 06 00:15:11 <Chase> He isn't really sure what the galvantula in the picture represents, though, but maybe the one hanging around will shed light on that.
  455. May 06 00:15:36 <zoofdude> <Many stories. Endless stories. First men feared eye-men. Preferred Old Mothers.>
  456. May 06 00:17:11 <Chase> "The first men feared eye men, and preferred the Old Mothers... They... were afraid of the unown and...?" he thinks.
  457. May 06 00:17:34 <Chase> "I guess that explains the migration at least."
  458. May 06 00:18:12 <zoofdude> <Oldest Mother known as Dirge. Old Mother first Daughter. Both gone. Long gone.>
  459. May 06 00:18:35 <Rosetta> "Let's keep looking. Husk didn't mention it in that note, but there must be something here that relates to how he found Shiva too."
  460. May 06 00:18:42 <Chase> "Old mothers..." he looks at the carving of a galvantula again, wondering. He nods at t he spider and relays its words.
  461. May 06 00:19:01 <Chase> "Thanks again." he says to it. "And yeah... I guess so."
  462. May 06 00:19:24 <zoofdude> Some of the other close by trees also have old, painted notes...
  463. May 06 00:20:13 <Genevieve> "Looks like he was pretty thorough."
  464. May 06 00:20:19 »» Rosetta peeks out of the tree, then lets out ZODIAC. "Hey, uh, do the compass thing?"
  465. May 06 00:20:37 <zoofdude> 'They made weapons here - and poisons. Arrows, blow darts. Throwing weapons. Small sickles.' 'A ladder up this one led to a home - the upper canopy was all houses. You'd have to be an acrobat to traverse them. It seems all residents were.'
  466. May 06 00:20:38 »» Chase has a look at these other notes.
  467. May 06 00:21:19 <Chase> "People were a lot healthier back then, I bet. No sodas and funnel cakes... not like it's stopped her any." he pokes Rose in the stomach teasingly.
  468. May 06 00:21:36 <Rosetta> "H-hey." :<
  469. May 06 00:21:50 <Genevieve> "More wild Surskit though."
  470. May 06 00:21:58 <Chase> "I suppose that's true."
  471. May 06 00:22:47 <zoofdude> There's another note along the way, 'How they developed a similar fighting style to what developed in the Imperial age of Ransei several hundred years after they vanished, I do not know.'
  472. May 06 00:23:20 <Chase> "Ransei...?"
  473. May 06 00:23:24 <Chase> He hrms.
  474. May 06 00:23:49 <zoofdude> He's referring to ancient Kanto.
  475. May 06 00:23:52 <Chase> "Man, Husk musta really been some kinda scholar."
  476. May 06 00:24:08 »» Rosetta looks upward, then decides to try hopping up to one of the houses up in the canopy to see if there's anything of note.
  477. May 06 00:24:26 <Chase> He keeps moving on towards the large tree, himself.
  478. May 06 00:25:54 <zoofdude> On the way to the large tree, most the markings are like, 'another house, 'they cooked here,' 'here they made dyes'. The largest tree actually has some small steps leading into it's "door."
  479. May 06 00:25:55 »» Genevieve heads to the large tree, too.
  480. May 06 00:26:00 <zoofdude> The Galvantula is waiting here with another scroll.
  481. May 06 00:26:48 <Chase> Such dyes
  482. May 06 00:26:55 <Chase> much cooking
  483. May 06 00:27:00 <Chase> very pancake
  484. May 06 00:27:24 <Chase> THAT ASIDE
  485. May 06 00:27:37 <Chase> Chase will take the scroll if Gen doesn't.
  486. May 06 00:28:43 <Chase> Let's unbind that bitch and have a look at it.
  487. May 06 00:30:05 <zoofdude> "Hello again. This is also from Husk. Husk Rhasha now. I have studied this lost village in greater detail since I last wrote a note to the next to find it. I've since learned quite a bit more about the divine entities in our world than I ever thought I would know about, but also that these individuals splintered from another, highly pscionic tribe at some point, and crossed the sea to find a new home."
  488. May 06 00:30:38 »» Chase starts reading this one out loud too.
  489. May 06 00:30:51 »» Rosetta hops down from the canopy as Chase starts reading so she can listen.
  490. May 06 00:31:30 »» Aori_Radidjiu is now known as Aori_Radisleep
  491. May 06 00:31:37 <zoofdude> "While they had a knack for clairvoyance, they also were greatly wary of the dangers a rogue human with supernatural powers could cause. Their kinsmen did not share their fear, and it caused them to split. They also developed a martial arts style to combat supernaturals. One I believe is my duty to ressurect. I believe it roughly translates to 'Silencing.'"
  492. May 06 00:32:57 <Chase> Oh, so they didn't fear unowns but oracles, or something. Huh.
  493. May 06 00:33:01 <zoofdude> "I believe these people found comfort around Bug Type Pokemon for their natural ability to combat Dark, Fighting, and Psychic Types. And over time, learned to commune with them via pheramones. I believe it goes without saying, these people were the ancestors of The Venomtalon bloodline."
  494. May 06 00:33:03 <Rosetta> "Oh! That's where he picked that up."
  495. May 06 00:34:58 <zoofdude> "I will stress that some of the things you will find in this village's main hut are disturbing, if you haven't made it that far already. And don't fear the locals here. They actually enjoy visitors. Well, the ones they permitted to enter, at least."
  496. May 06 00:35:06 <zoofdude> It ends there. 18 years ago.
  497. May 06 00:35:28 <Chase> He rolls that back up. "Well, that's interesting..."
  498. May 06 00:35:43 <Rosetta> "So, guess we're going to the main hut then."
  499. May 06 00:35:53 <Chase> He carefully heads in and up the stairs.
  500. May 06 00:35:55 <zoofdude> The Galvantula hops down, and scurries in across the floor.
  501. May 06 00:36:00 <Rosetta> "I wonder if they left any notes here on how to fight -against- Silencing..."
  502. May 06 00:36:02 <Genevieve> "I wonder what qualified as disturbing to Husk."
  503. May 06 00:36:32 <zoofdude> It's dark inside, outside of the reflection from the Galvantula's eyes.
  504. May 06 00:36:59 »» Rosetta slips on her darkvision goggles.
  505. May 06 00:37:19 <Rosetta> Then after a moment's thought, she just releases Anima and has her light up the place from outside.
  506. May 06 00:37:35 <Chase> Ah shit. Chase's one weakness. Places darker than he is.
  507. May 06 00:38:14 <zoofdude> There's Joltiks and Spinaraks all around you :D. Though they seem friendly enough. Anima, technically still a bug, is a welcome sight as well.
  508. May 06 00:38:28 <zoofdude> Inside is a large room with several ancient silk looms.
  509. May 06 00:38:58 <zoofdude> It's a pretty sizable workshop, and the silk seems to have been fed down from a hollowed out tunnel down the center of the treehouse.
  510. May 06 00:39:02 <Rosetta> "I wonder why they kept the Surskit outta here." Rosetta remarks, seeing Anima not get jumped on.
  511. May 06 00:39:34 <zoofdude> There's a staircase leading up, coiling up the right wall.
  512. May 06 00:39:44 <Chase> "This part doesn't seem disturbing... yet, I guess." he starts heading up.
  513. May 06 00:39:55 <zoofdude> But there's something pretty alarming here too - you guys recall, way back when, those depictions of events in history in that temple?
  514. May 06 00:41:46 <Genevieve> "Weaving is pretty heinous."
  515. May 06 00:42:04 <zoofdude> There's really only one super noticable carving in the wall to tip that something's weird here, one by the stairs.
  516. May 06 00:42:12 <zoofdude> A man being crucified.
  517. May 06 00:42:33 <zoofdude> With a crown of thorns, of course.
  518. May 06 00:42:49 <Genevieve> "Oh look, it's homeboy of Nazerath."
  519. May 06 00:43:03 »» Chase goes closer to have a look.
  520. May 06 00:43:38 <Rosetta> "I'm not really sure how that fits here. Uh, let's keep going up." Rosetta goes up the stairs two at a time.
  521. May 06 00:44:38 <zoofdude> The second level...
  522. May 06 00:44:51 <Chase> "Well, it's not completely out of the question if this was just four hundred years ago, but it does seem pretty weird..." he tries to intuit on WHY t his would be super out of place? Or maybe not, he'll just follow Rose up.
  523. May 06 00:45:56 <zoofdude> It looks like a printing press. They have a large machine with little blocks they can change out, buckets with black stained interiors, bindings made from glittery gemstones...and the walls depict things you swear you could have seen out of the Gran Grimoire.
  524. May 06 00:46:09 <Chase> "Wait what."
  525. May 06 00:47:36 <zoofdude> There's another stairway up, to another level. The Galvantula is sitting on the staircase, though, and guaging your reactions.
  526. May 06 00:47:37 <Chase> "Oh goddammi- I KNEW IT. Somehow I knew it. The moment that note said four hundred years ago... these dates aren't coincidences. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that ship Pi found wasn't that much more recent. Did these guys print the book?"
  527. May 06 00:48:02 <Genevieve> "Seemingly. Why though?"
  528. May 06 00:48:10 <Rosetta> "Maybe?"
  529. May 06 00:48:15 <zoofdude> <First men older than four centuries>
  530. May 06 00:48:19 <Rosetta> "But then they had access to that world some other way before then."
  531. May 06 00:48:30 »» Chase looks at the galvantula. "Older than that, huh..."
  532. May 06 00:48:33 <Rosetta> "Which probably means there was some way to get there with Unown alone."
  533. May 06 00:48:53 <Rosetta> "Presumably, the way Grant's using now."
  534. May 06 00:49:20 <Chase> "Let's not assume too much just yet, I guess... but this is some pretty confounding stuff." He hrms.
  535. May 06 00:49:22 <Rosetta> "Y'know, if we could figure that out and I could learn how to do it, we actually could turn the book over to the Guild without much trouble, yeah?"
  536. May 06 00:50:17 <Chase> "And a printing press, like... what year were those even made? Oracles, man..."
  537. May 06 00:50:22 »» Chase starts to head up.
  538. May 06 00:50:31 <zoofdude> The Galvantula holds up a little arm, asking you to halt.
  539. May 06 00:50:41 »» Chase stops and looks at it. "What's up?"
  540. May 06 00:51:33 <zoofdude> <Next floor, far as friend Husk allowed for many years. Last floor he had to win honor of.>
  541. May 06 00:51:49 <zoofdude> <You different. You smell of Talespinner.>
  542. May 06 00:51:53 <zoofdude> He leads you on up.
  543. May 06 00:52:17 <Chase> He follows with a nod and goes up. He'll try to show more respect here.
  544. May 06 00:52:25 »» Rosetta tilts her head and gives a quizzical look as the Galvantula stops Chase and then lets him pass. "What's up?"
  545. May 06 00:52:36 <zoofdude> Third floor is a hatchery. It's major art piece includes a depiction of Husk and Divya, and Divya's holding a young girl. There's metric asstons of spider eggs here.
  546. May 06 00:52:55 <Genevieve> "This is a lot of spiders."
  547. May 06 00:52:58 <zoofdude> Roll me Perception.
  548. May 06 00:52:59 <Genevieve> "Or soon to be spiders."
  549. May 06 00:53:01 <Chase> "Apparently Husk had to earn the right to go up as far as he did, but he noted we smell like 'the Talespinner'. Alice again I guess."
  550. May 06 00:53:06 <Genevieve> 2d6+5
  551. May 06 00:53:06 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, 2d6+5: 12 [2d6=4,3]
  552. May 06 00:53:07 <Rosetta> 5d6+1
  553. May 06 00:53:07 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 5d6+1: 23 [5d6=4,5,6,2,5]
  554. May 06 00:53:14 <Chase> 2d6-2+1
  555. May 06 00:53:15 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 2d6-2+1: 5 [2d6=2,4]
  556. May 06 00:53:26 <Rosetta> "Ohh, so we're VIP, huh?"
  557. May 06 00:53:35 <zoofdude> Rosetta, you hear heavy breathing from the final floor, the one above you.
  558. May 06 00:53:51 <Chase> "I dunno, the last floor might still be special..."
  559. May 06 00:53:52 <zoofdude> To the others, it might just sound like the wind rustling a branch.
  560. May 06 00:53:53 <Rosetta> "There's something up there, by the way." Rosetta points up.
  561. May 06 00:54:02 <Rosetta> "It's breathing, can you hear it?"
  562. May 06 00:54:21 <Chase> "Aw man." he has a horrid idea that it's probably a gigantic galvantula or something. He keeps his cool though.
  563. May 06 00:54:40 <zoofdude> The normal sized Galvantula seems ready to lead you up.
  564. May 06 00:54:43 <Chase> "This is... yeah, totally a ton of spiders." he agrees with Gen.
  565. May 06 00:55:00 <Rosetta> "That's a pretty nice piece there." Rosetta gestures to Husk and Divya.
  566. May 06 00:55:18 <Genevieve> "In before dying giant Venomoth."
  567. May 06 00:55:23 <Rosetta> "Must've been a real shocker to run into though, for Husk."
  568. May 06 00:55:25 <Chase> He nods at the Galvantula and quietly follows along.
  569. May 06 00:55:30 <Chase> "No kidding..."
  570. May 06 00:56:51 <zoofdude> You're lead up to an open canopy - where a large web makes a dome above you. On the ground rests a giant, bloated Galvantula. It's not as large as the one you fought, Chase. But you can tell by looking at it that it's far older, and wiser. Roll me Pokemon Education!
  571. May 06 00:57:10 <Chase> 3d6-2
  572. May 06 00:57:11 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 3d6-2: 8 [3d6=5,4,1]
  573. May 06 00:57:26 <Genevieve> 6d6+5
  574. May 06 00:57:26 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, 6d6+5: 23 [6d6=2,6,4,4,1,1]
  575. May 06 00:57:59 <Rosetta> 2d6+1 herp
  576. May 06 00:58:00 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, herp: 10 [2d6=3,6]
  577. May 06 00:59:03 <zoofdude> This Galvantula...isn't ill, Gen, but she's old, very old. And passing. It looks like she's in a mild pain, just laying there. Even if she wished to defend herself, she likely could not. You doubt she even has the motor skills to walk, as oppose to crawl.
  578. May 06 00:59:36 <zoofdude> The normal sized Galvantula makes a short little spider bow and leaves you four alone.
  579. May 06 01:01:08 <Chase> He bows his head in respect to the old galvantula grandmother.
  580. May 06 01:01:18 »» Genevieve walks over and kneels next to the giant spider and sets her medigun to a low setting to dull the pain.
  581. May 06 01:01:39 »» Rosetta glances at Chase and then gives a quick bow to the Galvantula herself.
  582. May 06 01:02:01 <Chase> He watches Gen a bit curiously, but nods.
  583. May 06 01:03:08 <zoofdude> There's a sigh as Genevieve does this. <Thank you, Child. I might not have a skeleton in the same sense as your kin do, but I believe I understand the dull pain of arthritis just as well. Even a minor relapse is a welcome one.> it's a warm...grandmaish Aura.
  584. May 06 01:04:14 <Chase> He smiles a bit. "It seems like we've been expected for a long time. Thank you for having us, ma'am... I'm Chase."
  585. May 06 01:04:51 <Chase> (Just to clarify she's projecting to all of us?)
  586. May 06 01:04:58 <zoofdude> Yes, she is.
  587. May 06 01:05:01 <Rosetta> "Rosetta Whitacre." She says with a nod.
  588. May 06 01:05:48 <Rosetta> "Um, I guess like Husk before us, we've been 'predestined' to come here, yeah?"
  589. May 06 01:06:33 <zoofdude> <No, not you in particular, but those who would carry your burden. Those who have harbored and protected our most cherished daughter - The Talespinner. We did not expect you in the same sense we did Husk. I imagine this is not the secret you expected Husk to be hinding away, was it?>
  590. May 06 01:07:10 <Chase> He shakes his head.
  591. May 06 01:07:25 <zoofdude> <I suppose you could say, I am her Mother.>
  592. May 06 01:07:25 <Rosetta> "Nope, not really."
  593. May 06 01:08:34 <Chase> He's somehow simultaneously surprised and not surprised.
  594. May 06 01:09:17 <Genevieve> "I sort of expected an explanation on why he's acting like such an ass. This is a little underwhelming by comparison if you can forgive me."
  595. May 06 01:09:53 <zoofdude> <I imagine you have questions aplenty, then. Take your time. I will not survive the fall, that is for certain, but you are in no rush for the moment. Husk is unlikely to return again, as well. The fool never even remembered the notes he wrote, so many years ago.>
  596. May 06 01:10:55 <Genevieve> "What exactly does he think he's doing?"
  597. May 06 01:11:00 <Rosetta> "Do you have any idea why he turned then?"
  598. May 06 01:11:41 <Chase> He relaxes a bit and lets their questions go first.
  599. May 06 01:12:48 <zoofdude> <He acts in what he believes to be his daughter's best interest. And yes, I do. Though neither of these answers helps you much without more context, do they not?"
  600. May 06 01:12:53 <zoofdude> (-" +>)
  601. May 06 01:13:38 <Chase> He nods. "Yeah, let's not put the cart in front of the ponyta."
  602. May 06 01:14:00 <Rosetta> "Sure, where to start then?"
  603. May 06 01:17:49 <zoofdude> She laughs. <One day, a sage fortold two propheies. The first is that one day, one of my offspring would ascend to godhood, and be titled The Talespinner, the second, a man would come to this village - a man named Husk, whose daughter would be the catalyst of this great occassion...>
  604. May 06 01:18:05 <zoofdude> And there, I'm going to pause for the night.
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