You Wouldn't Pirate Life or Stamps

Mar 10 18:54:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Wednesday, May 26th, 10 PM.  The sky is dark, and the moon (in about its half cycle, I believe, but I'm no expert on lunar cycles) hangs high in the sky.  The night is slightly overcast, but you can see plenty of stars, especially since unlike most of the islands, Sepia doesn't have much in the way of night lighting.
Mar 10 18:57:46 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Melanie has found a nice spot by herself to perform her ~ritual~
Mar 10 19:06:39 <Melons>	She drops down a few things: scrap metal from the previous fight, powdered dusk stone she's certainly coaxed or stolen from one of the Mizous, and what would appear to be several buckets of ink, an almost metallic sort surely made from some weird plant or Salamence eye. She traces lines in the dirt, often referring to her grimoire, that interweave, snake, and spiral. The paths are erratic, but it's clear there's some sort of coh
Mar 10 19:06:39 <Melons>	erent symbology. A few shapes here and there look very nearly like the shapes of Unown, but diverge to the point of also very nearly being alien. Of course she realizes she's boxed herself into the middle while drawing it, forcing her to redraw it from the middle out. She then takes the buckets and very carefully begins tracing the lines with the ink. As the moonlight falls upon the ink, it seems to expand slightly and dry. It f
Mar 10 19:06:39 <Melons>	eels an eternity has passed before she rises to gaze upon her sigil.
Mar 10 19:06:40 *	Nakil is now known as Kain
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Mar 10 19:16:52 <Melons>	The sigil itself has several open locations that seem to be spots for further reagents to be placed. If one were to gaze down at it from a high enough vantage point, it would appear to be a mass of swirling faces, with hollowed eyes and mouths open in what one can tangibly feel to be a mournful moan. But attempting to identify any individual face in the sigil is perplexingly impossible. Melanie takes the scrap metal over to one
Mar 10 19:16:52 <Melons>	of the open areas, fussing over small bits of dirt, oil, or any other blemish. She carefully removes any foreign materials from the metal, pulling the grit into her hand before flinging it far outside the area with a disgusted look on her face. She sets it down in the area, moving it around many times, sometimes seemingly into places it had been before. The scrap metal itself seems to have been melted together from much smaller
Mar 10 19:16:52 <Melons>	fragments and has a very intentional shape, although what that shape is exactly remains unknown. Upon feeling the metal to be in a sufficient arrangement, she grabs the powdered dusk stone and walks to another gap in the ink. She dumps the whole bag out, and the pieces seem to swirl of their own accord into location. They roll this way and that as though one was watching a miniature desert get raked by wind. The powder settles i
Mar 10 19:16:52 <Melons>	n what is unmistakably the shape of a Zoroark as Mel gets up again for a break before the main event. And to inform her pokemon that while she's technically killing them, they won't die. A very convincing argument. Dreading this part most, she releases Koa and Sleight from their balls.
Mar 10 19:19:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	ZZZZZZZZZZZZAZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.  They pop out of their balls.  Sleight stays in place, taking occasional deep breaths, seeming to savor them, while Koa fidgets a bit in place.
Mar 10 19:21:42 <Melons>	"So...um...yeah...I THINK the ritual totally does in fact require me to murder you...B-B-BUT!...you should remain as you are. I mean, I don't know how it will feel and all. But I promise I'll always be here! I got something I can do for myself eventually too....so um...just tell me when you're both ready."
Mar 10 19:22:44 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Sleight turns into his edgy teenage boy form that he's amalgamated from soaps and gives a thumbs up.  "Ready is how I was born."
Mar 10 19:25:02 <Melons>	Mel snorts a laugh. "You're...kind of a dork, you know. I should know."
Mar 10 19:25:50 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Dork...good?  Must being good."  He grins, then POOFS back to Zoroark form.
Mar 10 19:26:55 <Melons>	"Well I wouldn't exactly say it's bad...and...you, Koa?" She doesn't look quite as hopeful as with Sleight, considering she's spent much more time with him than with the Lucario.
Mar 10 19:27:35 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[D-d-d-do me second.  I-I want to see it work, first.]
Mar 10 19:31:45 <Melons>	"...sure...well...I suppose here it goes." She pulls out a small kitchen knife and identifies a certain location in the glyphs: a star-shaped mass of lines, appearing to be a point of origin for most of the pathways. Like hell was she going to bring Gramps for this, he didn't even think feeding rocks was a good idea. She glances between that location and another of a similar shape, tracing back through the pathways in her head t
Mar 10 19:31:45 <Melons>	o ensure she's got everything lined up correctly. After considerable teeth grinding and well-hidden hyperventilating, she cuts her hand as she did before with the Keystone, a respectable amount of blood falling onto the ink.
Mar 10 19:32:37 <Aori_Radidjiu>	(you don't need any approval for GLOWY MYSTICAL EFFECTS or anything)
Mar 10 19:36:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Sleight's psyching himself up, you tell him to jump, he's gonna' be like "How is high?" or some such
Mar 10 19:38:02 <Melons>	After many tense seconds and a mixture of frustration between it not working and being glad she doesn't have to kill her pokemon, the small amount of blood seems to quickly overtake the runes, which pulses a deep crimson. A black spark suddenly bursts from the starting point, devouring the red as it traces through the lines like dominos. It reaches the powdered dusk stone and releases a brief but vile odor as black and blue flam
Mar 10 19:38:02 <Melons>	es erupt from the powder. The flames distort and seem to be sucked back into the ink. The spark completes its route, engulfing Sleight in a torrent of black and blue spectral flames.
Mar 10 19:39:50 <Aori_Radidjiu>	He was expecting this!  The pain is good!  Right?  Oh god.  There's an unearthly shriek from him as the flames consume him, Koa jumping back in fright.
Mar 10 19:42:08 <Melons>	Melanie forgets to breathe throughout the process and finds herself choking for her inhaler and tearing up as a result of having just murdered her best friend.
Mar 10 19:42:46 <Aori_Radidjiu>	The flames smoulder and crackle, Koa putting her paws up to her face in abject horror as the burning body shrinks down into a few burning embers, leaving a single glowing blue wisp floating where Sleight's body used to be.
Mar 10 19:42:55 <Aori_Radidjiu>	...and then it winks out.
Mar 10 19:44:08 <Melons>	The killer shrinks with the sacrifice, leaving mostly a puddle of snot and tears.
Mar 10 19:46:11 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Koa's trembling in place, her hands buried in her face.  [Y-you...you really killed him.  You killed him, he's gone.  Gone!  I'm glad I didn't trust you with this, to think I could trust you in the first place, I just wanted out of my cave, out of there, and you nearly KILLED me with him, I ought to...]  She's cut off
Mar 10 19:47:32 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Or she just stops, you're not sure which.
Mar 10 19:48:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[I...ought to be glad she took me out, glad she offered to do this, glad for all the experiences and training and oh god quit staring me down.]
Mar 10 19:49:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	I assume now's when Mel gets out of her sobbing, right?
Mar 10 19:49:20 <Melons>	Melanie pulls her face up, figuring she should probably face her impending aurasplosion execution.
Mar 10 19:51:09 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Koa has her arms behind her back, in a sort of feigned innocence posture, with a big ghostly Sleight looking her straight in the face.  He's slightly translucent, with his eyes and the red highlights on his fur replaced with ghastly blue flames.
Mar 10 19:53:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	He turns to face you and then POOFS back into his goofy soapboy form (which isn't any different, since it was an Illusion to begin with) and gives you a thumbs-up.  "Iz good, yes?  Hurt very bad, but now fine!"
Mar 10 19:54:03 <Melons>	"W-Worse than our worst battles?" Still a fair bit of sniffling.
Mar 10 19:54:53 <Aori_Radidjiu>	"Much worst, very painful!  Such misery.  But actually okay!"
Mar 10 19:56:02 <Melons>	She gets up to tackle hug her best bro. "I'msorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorryI'msorry!"
Mar 10 19:57:29 <Aori_Radidjiu>	You pass right through him and get a nice layer of ectoplasm all over your body.  "Oops!  Not very solidify.  Just second!"  He UNPOOFS back into ghostroark and then the translucency dies down, with his form solidifying.  The flames die down and look like normal fur and eyes (although still blue)
Mar 10 19:59:16 <Melons>	Oh right. Ghosts ARE made of that. Mel is barely able to remain on her feet as she convulses a bit. Just a bit. That's not bad, right? "Ah!....um...um...d-do you feel s-stronger at l-least?"
Mar 10 20:00:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It doesn't shift the form, but projects the voice.  "I felt what die was like!  Very bad, probably not happen again, definitely invin...invisible?  Invincible?  Inconceivable?"
Mar 10 20:01:41 <Aori_Radidjiu>	He blinks at your convulsions.  "Uh...are the Melons okay?"
Mar 10 20:02:53 <Melons>	"S-Still a thousand times better than a few seconds ago." She finishes crying some tears in mostly silence for a few minutes before getting up. "Y-You don't have to do it if you don't want to, Koa..."
Mar 10 20:04:08 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She stomps her foot down, her eyes lighting up.  [No, do it!  I regret being such a coward before!  If Sleight can take it, I certainly can!]
Mar 10 20:05:42 <Melons>	Mel jumps a bit at the stomp. "A-Alright!...a-are you ready?" She shuffles over to the next starting point, pulling the knife out once more but switching hands. This occult stuff gets you soooo many scars.
Mar 10 20:06:00 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She nods.  [Ready!]
Mar 10 20:10:38 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Fire off ROUND TWO of the flames, Mel~
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Mar 10 20:16:25 <Melons>	Pouring blood to the ink once more, the ritual begins just as before, a little quicker this time. The same spark snakes through the labyrinthine inscription, and once again approaches the reagent. This time, however, it seems to flow right into the scrap metal and...disappears. A low sizzling can be heard as the area darkens in the absence of the spark. It grows in intensity until a soft pop is heard, followed by a blinding ligh
Mar 10 20:16:25 <Melons>	t from the metal, brighter than a strip of burning magnesium. Melanie is forced to shut her eyes, though the silhouette of a lucario remains as a blotch in her vision for a bit. Fortunately they're in a place where things like this are probably considered normal. Following the flash, a bright, silver spark rips through the remaining ink. Upon reaching Koa, it explodes through her in another unbearable flash, leaving only the ima
Mar 10 20:16:25 <Melons>	ge of shards of metal hurtling towards the Lucario as Melanie is once again forced to shut her eyes.
Mar 10 20:20:11 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] Oh, right, Sleight had the advantage of not having Aura to SCREAM INTO YOUR MIND OW shit that hurts your brain
Mar 10 20:21:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It dies down adruptly, of course
Mar 10 20:22:47 <Melons>	Melanie takes two sanity damage. Despite having a decent idea of what would happen, she once again channels her inner faucet.
Mar 10 20:23:29 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Thankfully, before your sight returns properly and you can see that Koa's gone, you get a headvoice.  [Saying that hurt very much is probably the understatement of the millenium.  It hurts just thinking about it."
Mar 10 20:23:33 <Aori_Radidjiu>	*]
Mar 10 20:24:56 <Melons>	"I-I'll be sure to get in extra p-pain from here until I feel something l-like it!"
Mar 10 20:25:52 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[Trust me, I don't think it's possible to feel something that painful without dying.]
Mar 10 20:28:36 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She waits for your eyes to fix up before saying anything else
Mar 10 20:30:20 <Melons>	Gradually, Melanie is able to open her eyes, though with a fair bit of whining. She should really have checked to see if her goggles triple as sunglasses. That would have been nice.
Mar 10 20:32:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Koa's turned similar to your picture, although substitute WHITE for TRANSLUCENT.  Her eyes burn with white aura flame
Mar 10 20:33:38 <Melons>	"OHGODIBURNEDYOUREYESI'MSORRY!"
Mar 10 20:34:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[I can still see.  Kind of.  Did  you really have to use that bright stuff, though?]
Mar 10 20:34:38 <Melons>	"It just said I needed some sort of metal, I didn't know what it was!" ;-;-;-;
Mar 10 20:35:26 <Aori_Radidjiu>	She facepalms.  [Shouldn't you be a bit more careful with rituals that involve killing things?  Whatever.  I'm dead.  Sleight's dead.  We done here?]
Mar 10 20:36:04 <Melons>	"Um...um..." She looks at the ink, which seems to have lost all luster, but is still quite conspicuous. Oh well. "...I think so."
Mar 10 20:37:36 <Aori_Radidjiu>	[Good, I think I need a nap or something to forget the pain of dying.]
Mar 10 20:38:47 <Melons>	Sufficiently burdened with guilt, the soggy Melons holds up their pokeballs, not forcing them back in since holyshitmetaphysicalmetamorphosis, but as an offer.
Mar 10 20:39:14 <Aori_Radidjiu>	In they both go.
Mar 10 20:40:21 <Kain>	After a moment, there's a bit of clapping from a ways off.
Mar 10 20:40:24 *	Kain is now known as Knox
Mar 10 20:40:44 <Knox>	It's sufficiently slow, but not exactly sarcastic.
Mar 10 20:42:05 <Melons>	She pulls her...broom out defensively, ready to combust mysterious strangers, though she's still having a hard time adjusting to the dark once more and squints.
Mar 10 20:42:17 *	Knox seems to have been well hidden in the dark of the area, with only a half moon out, but he just walks forward.
Mar 10 20:42:20 <Knox>	"It's me."
Mar 10 20:43:11 <Melons>	"How long have you been watching?" Her voice is completely flat.
Mar 10 20:45:05 <Knox>	Knox has put his shirt back on and such but is still all bandaged up. "I went to find you to follow up on that conversation we had back at the mansion, but noticed you leaving. So I followed." he shrugs. "You didn't exactly pick a very private spot or sneak out, so I didn't think you'd mind. Impressive stuff there... Literally raising the dead..."
Mar 10 20:46:19 <Melons>	"You'll tell no one exactly what was required for it." She lowers the broom, but her knuckles are still quite visibly white.
Mar 10 20:46:31 <Knox>	"Sure thing."
Mar 10 20:47:36 <Knox>	"See, I'm kind of an asshole, but one thing I don't joke about is other peoples' secrets. I keep them pretty well."
Mar 10 20:48:10 <Knox>	He walks forward and has a look at the remains of the sigil.
Mar 10 20:48:43 <Melons>	"...it was in one of the books I found in the mansion."
Mar 10 20:49:20 <Knox>	He nods. "Kind of cool,  really. The setup and results, anyway."
Mar 10 20:53:28 <Knox>	"I wanted to show you how a Gather works, but if you need a bit to yourself, I'll be back at the ship." he says, before turning.
Mar 10 20:54:07 <Melons>	"...go ahead."
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Mar 10 21:03:52 <Knox>	He pauses, then and nods, gesturing for you to come over. He waits a bit until the clouds get out of the moon's way and rolls up his left sleeve, showing off more of those unown tattoos. He lets QUA out of its ball again before touching the tattoo, and murmuring in Kantonese, "[Come to me, scion of the unknown, to join with me. All life is born of the meeting of two other lives.]" His
Mar 10 21:03:52 <Knox>	pronunciation is actually PRETTY GOOD.
Mar 10 21:04:01 <Knox>	(And I'll let Aori handle this part)
Mar 10 21:04:47 <Aori_Radidjiu>	There's a rustle in some bushes...then it dies down
Mar 10 21:04:53 <Aori_Radidjiu>	then a rustle in a different set of bushes
Mar 10 21:05:22 <Aori_Radidjiu>	and then finally one just pops out from behind a big rock that was near Mel's MYSTIC CIRCLE
Mar 10 21:05:35 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It seems to be a K
Mar 10 21:06:57 <Knox>	He frowns. "...Oh. They... usually don't just... pop out from behind a rock." His usually stoic demeanor is a bit embarassed now. "...It's usually a little fancier than that. Whatever, it works."
Mar 10 21:07:29 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It comes up, floating slowly over, going up and down slightly as it bobs along to you.  It stops a few feet away from you and then starts rotating about its eye, the eye itself looking right at you, but the rest of the body swiveling.
Mar 10 21:08:32 <Melons>	Melanie is making a pretty weird face that looks like she's trying not to barf or something, but is otherwise quiet as she waits for the Unown to do whatever it's doing.
Mar 10 21:10:10 <Knox>	He looks it over and meets its gaze, walking around it with interest. "K... yeah, I think I see where this is going, now... You'll be a nice addition... You'll join up, riiiight?" he sort of leers at it, but in lieu of an Intimidate check he's actually going to let QUA handle winning it over. Knox is more intent on getting ready to Letter Press.
Mar 10 21:10:22 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It stops, and then tilts a little back and forth.  QUA floats forward and spins around horizontally, then vertically, then some kind of diagonally to it, then they both turn to you kind of expectantly
Mar 10 21:12:18 <Aori_Radidjiu>	QUA backs up a bit, and K moves forward, going up and down as it sizes you up, then it goes behind you and starts orbiting you in a pattern similar to an electron orbit, its eye locked on to you.
Mar 10 21:14:21 <Aori_Radidjiu>	It speeds up, blurring in the air as it orbits you, going this way and that, before eventually coming to a stop in front of you, its eye partially closed now.
Mar 10 21:15:20 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Seems to be squinting? Eh, who knows, these things are weird.  It stays there, as if in wait for something.
Mar 10 21:15:32 <Knox>	Assuming that's the signal for the letter pressing, he nods and then raises his arm again. Every tattoo on it sudden opens its eyes, and their outlines glow. A rune sigil starts to draw itself in the air like it did before with his Hidden Power, but it culminates into a glowing dot in the center. He reaches up, and his hand vanishes INTO the rune circle for a bit, before he pulls out a
Mar 10 21:15:33 <Knox>	rather large, fancy inkpen. It's about two to three times the size of a normal one. With the other hand he guides QUA and K together and begins writing words in unown characters where their borders meet. The letters act like... stitches in sewing and seem to actually fuse or weld the Unowns' flesh together.
Mar 10 21:15:56 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Perfect.
Mar 10 21:15:57 <Knox>	The glowing words fade after they're joined, leaving no sign of the deed.
Mar 10 21:16:09 <Knox>	And he tosses the pen back up into the circle, where it all vanishes.
Mar 10 21:17:44 <Knox>	Now, it's a QUAK.
Mar 10 21:17:48 <Aori_Radidjiu>	QUAK tilts forward in a simulacrum of a nod.
Mar 10 21:18:18 <Knox>	"QUAKE, maybe?" he wonders aloud, amused. "Or maybe I'll be able to fit the next letter between A and K." he then looks over at Melanie.
Mar 10 21:18:35 <Knox>	1d20 Hidden Power
Mar 10 21:18:40 <Knox>	oops
Mar 10 21:19:17 <Aori_Radidjiu>	what a meido
Mar 10 21:20:10 <Knox>	"And that's how this works." he nods, satisfied.
Mar 10 21:20:39 <Melons>	Melanie is unable to contain herself and bursts into laughtears. Once she's calmed down a bit, she's able to speak through gasps. "First it just...and you were all..." There are accompanying hand motions to show the Unown hopping from the bushes and Knox's reaction, but it would be incredibly difficult to get any meaning from them if you weren't there. "...and then...QUACK!"
Mar 10 21:21:17 <Knox>	Snrrrrk. "I fucking HOPE it's not QUACK." he says with a grin. "But I guess I'll deal if it is." he pats the unown.
Mar 10 21:21:22 <Aori_Radidjiu>	QUAK floats over to face Melanie
Mar 10 21:21:54 <Aori_Radidjiu>	Then the Q and K bend downward, as if to frown, as all the eyes squint at her.
Mar 10 21:22:38 <Knox>	"At least QUALM is ruled out."
Mar 10 21:23:32 <Melons>	Still quite covered in ink and sweat, and a bit of blood from the previous battle as well as her hands, she smiles at it...them...whatever. "Hi, I'm Melanie!"
Mar 10 21:25:19 <Knox>	"Until it's got all its letters, I've just taken to calling it Q."
Mar 10 21:25:19 <Aori_Radidjiu>	The eyelids raise a little...then it turns around and shakes itself, bristling, before it goes over to Knox's hip and taps his ball to go inside
Mar 10 21:26:09 <Melons>	"How many letters is it supposed to have?"
Mar 10 21:26:12 <Aori_Radidjiu>	*its ball, *Knox's ball on his hip, whatever
Mar 10 21:26:19 <Knox>	"Heh. I think you offended it a little. Don't worry too much though."
Mar 10 21:26:39 <Knox>	"As many as I want, really, but they stop becoming more powerful at five."
Mar 10 21:27:23 <Knox>	"At that point, unless you're trying for something fancy, it's better to start making a separate one, I think." he notes.
Mar 10 21:27:30 <Knox>	"I'm still kind of new to this myself."
Mar 10 21:29:35 <Melons>	"What, you don't want so many that it shifts the planet's orbit or something?"
Mar 10 21:31:54 <Knox>	He rubs his chin a moment, as if considering it.
Mar 10 21:32:17 <Knox>	"Well, even if you wanted to just pile them on, it takes about a week to recharge."
Mar 10 21:33:09 <Melons>	"Oh, then you're probably better off going where they come from and getting them yourself."
Mar 10 21:35:04 <Knox>	"So if I lived until 80 and called out one a week for the rest of my life that's still like..." he pauses, figuring up the math, frowning, calculating and just shrugs, giving up. "Well.... yeah, that's actually how I caught the original Q. And it was around here in Sepia, too. I'd show you where, exactly, but we're setting off tomorrow or something, right?"
Mar 10 21:35:44 <Melons>	"Wait, like, you actually went to their world or whatever?"
Mar 10 21:36:21 <Knox>	"No, no, no, I meant I found a place they had gathered."
Mar 10 21:36:53 <Melons>	"Oh, that's different...but yeah...we're going to Conch to check in with Lecia."
Mar 10 21:37:10 <Knox>	"I guess MOST of them live in some other dimension or whatever, but sometimes they gather in ruins."
Mar 10 21:37:40 <Knox>	"Right..."
Mar 10 21:38:05 <Melons>	"...a shame pirates don't generally hide out in mystic ruins, I've never gotten to see anything cool like that."
Mar 10 21:38:12 <Melons>	"...or do they?"
Mar 10 21:39:34 <Knox>	"Not all pirates are exactly the same, you know. Especially nowadays with high speed travel and internet to spread culture. Pretty much any group could be as different from another as day and night. No one really regulates that shit." he shrugs. "I bet there are a group or two or thought shacking up in some ancient place of power would be pretty fucking nice."
Mar 10 21:40:56 <Knox>	"Hell, that sounds like it might had been fun for our crew, if we'd found a place like that..."
Mar 10 21:41:33 <Melons>	"Hmmmm...it'd be out of the way and I imagine superstition would keep many away...but it's probably not exactly advantageous for moving around in...also the traps...surely there are traps. Or all kinds of unusual pokemon. Yes, I don't think I'd ever want to make something like that my base unless I could definitively know what all was in it."
Mar 10 21:42:27 <Knox>	He goes quiet for a moment, but shakes his head. "Kind of like how if you're camping, you don't just shack up in a cave until you know if an Ursaring lives there."
Mar 10 21:42:56 <Knox>	"Speaking of which, did I see..."
Mar 10 21:43:48 <Melons>	"Oh, on the boat? Yeah. There's a talking Growlithe and some other fun stuff like that too."
Mar 10 21:44:58 <Melons>	"Bear is Akuman Bearington, and the dog is Mister Puppy." Mel doesn't even consider that she never asked if Mister Puppy had a real name.
Mar 10 21:46:54 *	Knox scratches his head. "Good to know so I won't think I'm tripping on my own damn toxins somehow."
Mar 10 21:47:36 <Knox>	And then he gets a bit of a mischevious look. "Which reminds me. You said something earlier about metaphysical drugs?"
Mar 10 21:50:07 <Melons>	Mel looks over herself quickly. "Oh...hm...guess it all dissolved or was absorbed or whatever the fuck. Ectoplasm. I've got a few ghosts on me that didn't possibly literally go through hell if you want to see what that's like. Other stuff was some spirit incense stuff that let me see terrifying nethergods."
Mar 10 21:51:38 <Knox>	"Might be interesting..."
Mar 10 21:53:19 <Melons>	"Of course you could also end up severely addicted to it which is bad and all that. There's a doctor in Conch that can deal with it, so you might want to hold off until we're there. Or so I've heard, I mean." Shifty eyes. Mel would hide it better if she wasn't distracted by pondering whether Eliza uses ectoplasm.
Mar 10 21:54:07 <Knox>	"Uh-huh. I'm just glad this crew isn't as straight-laced as I thought it was going to be."
Mar 10 21:54:24 <Melons>	"What, why would you think that?"
Mar 10 21:55:04 <Melons>	"I mean, we might be if I hadn't gotten this one pretty cool dude killed and then we lost another dude that probably could have kept us in line, but presumably he just had enough of our shit."
Mar 10 21:56:08 <Knox>	He snorts. "A group with any sort of official backing? Yeah, I was thinking you guys would be all professionalism and no fun. Glad to see I was wrong." He seriouses up a bit when you mention losing people, though. "I... see. Sorry to hear that."
Mar 10 21:57:06 <Melons>	"The best part is he was like chosen by Raijin or something, so I've probably permanently made enemies with a god. I mean another god? It's hard to keep these separate."
Mar 10 21:57:28 <Knox>	"If his god gave that much of a shit then he'd have gotten divine protection."
Mar 10 21:58:29 <Knox>	"You sound like you're blaming yourself, though."
Mar 10 21:58:53 <Melons>	"...you know...I was just assuming he was dead because a completely different divine being flooded a cave to help us escape and he never turned up...I mean that could be a thing I guess. Bastard still could have called or something..." Melanie's eyes brighten a bit and it seems pretty clear she just got a load off her back.
Mar 10 22:00:12 <Melons>	She finds herself staring up at him, actually looking him in the eyes for once, before going red and quickly averting her gaze.
Mar 10 22:00:29 <Melons>	"I should go see if Mirai is doing better now..."
Mar 10 22:03:10 <Knox>	He nods. "Yeah, alright. Good night, then and good luck with that. I might considering hitting you up for some of that ecto, sometime. Depends on how good it is."
Mar 10 22:04:06 <Melons>	"Um...sure." She quickly scurries away, snatching up any belongings left aside during the ritual and returns to the boat.
Mar 10 22:04:31 *	You are now known as Kraken
Mar 10 22:04:31 -NickServ-	This nickname is registered and protected.  If it is your
Mar 10 22:04:31 -NickServ-	nick, type /msg NickServ IDENTIFY password.  Otherwise,
Mar 10 22:04:31 -NickServ-	please choose a different nick.
Mar 10 22:04:36 -NickServ-	Password accepted - you are now recognized.
Mar 10 22:05:13 <Knox>	He walks along, himself, more lazily meandering.
Mar 10 22:05:41 <Aori_Radidjiu>	</mini>