(3:13:54 PM) Kalga: LAST TIME: YOU ALL GOT BACK FROM MERU- IT'S BEEN LIKE A DAY OR TWO, OKAY? AULION, YOU AND ALISIA FIND A CRATE IN FRONT OF YOUR MANSE DOOR. IT'S LIKE 12 CUBIC FEET. BIG.
(3:14:45 PM) Aulion: "Uh...Honey, did you order anything off I AM without telling me?" Aulion calls from the doorwar, eyeing the crate.
(3:15:32 PM) Kalga: "Just a couple of things. Minor, cheap things. Like a new pen set. I didn't think it was important to tell you, why?"
(3:16:24 PM) Aulion: "There's a big crate sitting out here." He slinks closer to it, like he's expecting it to do something.
(3:17:35 PM) Kalga: "Maybe they shipped it all as one item?" She walks out into the foyer, brushing her hair.
(3:18:29 PM) Aulion: "You ordered enough stuff to fill a crate this big?" he sighs. "I'm not angry, I'm just...suprised."
(3:18:54 PM) Kalga: She looks at it for the first time. "O-oh! Gods no! That's way too big!"
(3:19:22 PM) Aulion: "Wait, so you didn't order this?" He rubs his chin. "What in Malfeas is it then?"
(3:19:44 PM) Kalga: She shrugs. "Maybe I accidently ordered too much? Again?"
(3:19:59 PM) Aulion: He sputters. "A-Again?!"
(3:20:44 PM) Kalga: "Y-You remember, back like a decade or two ago? I accidently got 5,000 hair clips instead of 5?"
(3:21:17 PM) Aulion: "You did? Oh, right..." He rubs his head; he's got a few of them on now. "Well then."
(3:21:54 PM) Kalga: She walks over to him, looking at the massive crate. "...What do you think it is? Open it, open it."
(3:23:07 PM) Aulion: "Alright, alright..." He digs his fingers into a joint where the wood meets, tearing it open. "What have we got now..."
(3:25:35 PM) Ranbar_ [Centy@11639CA7.3D357D1B.A170B41C.IP] entered the room.
(3:25:55 PM) Ranbar_ is now known as MELoDee
(3:26:08 PM) MELoDee:  "SUN'S BALLS. I'MA KILL EM" A dainy feminine fist the size of Aulion's face goes right through the crate like it was nothing, missiong Aulion's face by less than an inch
(3:26:20 PM) Ranbar left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(3:26:33 PM) Kalga: Alisia lets out a yelp. "What is that!?"
(3:27:00 PM) Aulion: "Luna's Beard!" Aulion dives back from the narrowly missed fist. "WHY IS THERE A PERSON IN THIS CRATE!"
(3:27:37 PM) Kalga: "T-This isn't m-my fault!"
(3:28:02 PM) Aulion: "I know it's not! But that doesn't change the fact somebody mailed me a person in a crate!"
(3:28:37 PM) Aulion: "Hang on, whoever you are!" Aulion starts tearing the crate apart; can't let some poor soul sit in a crate on a day like this, right?
(3:28:39 PM) MELoDee: Alisia's question is answered momentarily as the bottom of the crate disintigrates and you are greeted by a six and a half foot tall woman holding the 100 lbs remains of the packing like it was nothing.
(3:29:01 PM) Kalga: Alisia checks the side of the crate. "It's not for you. We got the neighbor's mail."
(3:29:11 PM) Aulion: "...What?"
(3:29:20 PM) Aulion: "Okay, not a mortal then?
(3:29:22 PM) Aulion: "
(3:29:34 PM) MELoDee: "THEY SAID IT SPECIAL SAUCE IN THAT SIDE OF MEAT. I'M GOING TO TEAR THAT SLIMY-" She pauses
(3:29:55 PM) MELoDee: "Oh...hi."
(3:30:02 PM) Aulion: "Uhh, hi."
(3:30:10 PM) Kalga: "H-Hello!"
(3:30:35 PM) ***Aulion extends a hand. "So, uh, why were you in a crate being delivered to my, er, the neighbor's house?"
(3:31:10 PM) MELoDee: She smiles. "I'm the Most Elegant Locus of Destructive Etherial Energies. Everyone calls me Mel. How are you?" M extends the same giant fist to Aulion in friendship as her castemark erupts on her forehead
(3:32:04 PM) Aulion: "Uh, pretty good I guess. This is just a little wierd, though. Do you know the neighbors, the...the uh..." He turns to Alisia for help. "What was their name?"
(3:32:38 PM) Kalga: "Reana? She was a Lunar, like you. I can't recall what caste though..."
(3:33:05 PM) Aulion: "Hmm. Thanks, honey." He turns back to Mel. "Uh, do you know a Reana?"
(3:34:44 PM) MELoDee: "Nope, can't say I do" ^_^ She flicks her wrist and the crate fliu
(3:35:08 PM) MELoDee: *crate is hurled in a random direction
(3:35:35 PM) Aulion: "...Okay. Well, you were addressed to them, might as well see if they know where you're from, I guess." He turns to Alisia. "You want to go meet the neighbors? Seems as good a time as any."
(3:36:37 PM) Kalga: "The name on the crate said 'Eighth Master Vai'."
(3:38:16 PM) Aulion: "Hmm. Is that Reana's husband's name?" Aulion rubs his chin some more. "Whatever, we'll find out I guess!"
(3:38:41 PM) MELoDee: "Okay...they told me I had to take a vacation. There was an incident. I don't really recall what happened but they said I had to go out and not come back until later." She shrugs as she runs a hand through her moonsilver hair, the arm is easily the size of someone's leg.
(3:39:06 PM) Aulion: "Incident?"
(3:39:11 PM) Kalga: She shrugs. "It's possible, I think she said so." She heads back inside the manse. "Just let me go get changed." She returns, a minute or two later, in a sundress and acompanying hat. It's really nice out.
(3:42:20 PM) MELoDee: Mel explains the incident involving Wyldhand, her absolute horror with its premise, her subsequent charm fuelled moral rampage, and most of all, her great disappointment that she wasn't invited along.
(3:43:27 PM) Aulion: "...Wow. Well then, seems a good enough reason for a vacation as any!" Aulion doesn't mention his disgust at Wyldhand; not a topic for polite company. "In any case, are we all ready then?" He hooks an arm through Alisia's and turns to Mel.
(3:43:53 PM) Kalga: (TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE TOWER OF LOVE?)
(3:45:06 PM) MELoDee: "Works for me"
(3:45:19 PM) Kalga: TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE TOWER OF LOVE
(3:45:38 PM) Kalga: Kyrk, Tina is entertaining herself by seeing what kind of stuff you will or won't sign. She's trying to get you to sign a tissue-box right now
(3:45:53 PM) Blinkdog left the room.
(3:45:56 PM) ***Kyrk obligingly signs the tissue box and pulls out the forth pen from his pocket, "... I'm sure theres a limit on what you can sell on iBay, Tina."
(3:46:14 PM) Vai: "You'd be surprised."
(3:46:34 PM) Kalga: Tina replies by picking up the last pen, tossing the tissuebox in the Signed Pile, and then holding the pen up for him to sign.
(3:47:38 PM) ***Kyrk signs the pen and then cracks his knuckles, "Watch this..." and even though you watch him, you're not sure how he did it, but Kyrk manages to sign the pen he's holding with the pen itself.
(3:48:23 PM) Kalga: Tina takes both pens, and tosses them into the Signed Pile. She looks around, and then holds out her own arm.
(3:48:58 PM) Kalga: Vai, you're currently wondering why Reana got such an annoying doorbell, and why in the God of Doorbells name is it ringing. Because it's ringing.
(3:49:32 PM) ***Kyrk picks a pen out of the pile and signs her arm, "Is there a reason you want all of this signed?"
(3:50:02 PM) Kalga: She thinks for a moment, and then shakes her head no. "Not really." she murmurs.
(3:50:10 PM) Vai: "For the love of..." Vai stomps through the tower and opens the front door.
(3:50:34 PM) ***Kyrk nods, "Fair enough, anything else you want me to do for you?"
(3:50:45 PM) Kalga: Vai is greeted by a tall Southern man, a short southern woman, and a WHOA FUCKTALL DAWN.
(3:50:56 PM) Aulion: "Hi, are you Eighth Master Vai?" Aulion is still arm-in-arm with Alisia.
(3:50:58 PM) MELoDee: "HAI" ^_^
(3:51:27 PM) Kalga: She shakes her head. "No, not really." She starts gathering up all of the signed stuff. "Gave me an idea though."
(3:51:48 PM) Vai: "Uh, yes... Yes I am. Are, uh, are you the new neighbors who just moved in?"
(3:52:17 PM) Aulion: "Yeah, we got some of your mail." He points to Melodee. "She...uh...she was in a crate addressed to you."
(3:52:37 PM) Vai: "Ohhhh. Well please, come in."
(3:52:53 PM) ***Kyrk cocks his head, "Oh, whats that?"
(3:54:08 PM) MELoDee: "Thank you!"
(3:54:11 PM) Vai: "Everyone, we have guests!" It's becoming more apparent that Vai is getting very nervous.
(3:54:39 PM) Kalga: Tina continues dragging the stuff ofscreen. To iBay!
(3:55:08 PM) Kalga: Alisia looks at Aulion. "Are we done unpacking?"
(3:55:47 PM) Aulion: "Thank you." Aulion leads Alisia inside, taking off his old kiffiyeh he kept from after he Exalted (it's full of holes). "Nice to meet you finally, we met Reana a few days ago." he turns to Alisia. "Uhh, I think so?" He shrugs.
(3:57:26 PM) Vai: "Yes, she told me a little about you. How do you like it on this side of the island?"
(3:58:04 PM) Aulion: "It's very nice, the mantis network around here kind of reminds me of home."
(3:58:59 PM) Kalga: Alisia takes off her hat as she enters. "Reana /did/ say she's from the South."
(3:59:07 PM) MELoDee: "It's nice. Are we on the East side of the isle?"
(3:59:30 PM) ***MELoDee scans for where Meru is from here
(3:59:42 PM) Kalga: Meru is over there.
(4:01:01 PM) Kyrk: "Who is it, Vai?" Kyrk calls from inside the house, wandering over slowly.
(4:01:37 PM) Kalga: (It's not Caena, you don't care.)
(4:01:40 PM) Vai: "This is Aulion and Alisia, the neighbors who just moved in, and this is, uh..."
(4:02:01 PM) Kalga: Alisia: "She said her name was Mel."
(4:02:06 PM) ***MELoDee shrugs again, one of her braids hardens into a toothpick and she idly picks out a piece of yeddim barbeque as she extends her hand. "Hello, I'm the Locus of Destructive Etherial Energies. People call me Mel. Maybe you're heard of me?" She extends the giant hand to Vai and Kyrk
(4:03:30 PM) ***Vai shakes Mel's hand, trying to not show the least bit of fear. He's seen what could happen if you show fear around large cats, maybe she's the same.
(4:03:54 PM) ***Kyrk is a bit taken back by the dawn but extends his hands regardless, politely shaking it. "Neighbours? Welcome."
(4:03:57 PM) MELoDee: Mel just smiles back. "So what do you do around here?"
(4:04:10 PM) Kalga: (We play the vidya.)
(4:04:15 PM) ***Aulion takes Kyrk's hand. "Nice to meet you."
(4:05:06 PM) Vai: "Hang out, play video games, shoot the shit, and get berated by my own daughter."
(4:05:44 PM) Kalga: Nariana: "Hey!" Alisia giggles.
(4:07:34 PM) ***Vai just nods.
(4:07:52 PM) Kalga: Alisia: "Why does she do that?"
(4:08:50 PM) Vai: "Loooong story. But please, come in, have a seat, I'll get something to drink. Is lemonade alright?"
(4:09:41 PM) Aulion: "Sounds perfect to me." He slides down onto the nearest comfy-looking seating, leaving plenty of room for Alisia to sit next to him.
(4:10:25 PM) ***Vai goes to freak out in the kitchen.
(4:10:49 PM) Vai: "AAAA THEY DROPPED A MONSTER ON ME!"
(4:11:03 PM) Kalga: Nariana follows him. "Are you okay?" Alisia sits down next to Aulion. "They seem...nice..."
(4:11:12 PM) ***Kyrk settles in a seat opposite the rest of them, "So, are you enjoying it here?"
(4:11:40 PM) MELoDee left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(4:12:10 PM) Aulion: "They do, don't they?" He turns to Kyrk. "We're still unpacking, but everything's been perfect out here. There's room in the Manse for my warstrider, thankfully, so I don't have to leave it outside anymore." he laughs.
(4:12:26 PM) Vai: "Am I okay? HAHAHAH! She looks like she could destroy the place by walkign funny!"
(4:12:32 PM) Kalga: Alisia nods. "We haven't really had time to see or do anything. Unpacking. And it's pretty much just the two of us. 50 years is a lot of stuff."
(4:12:43 PM) Ranbar [Centy@11639CA7.3D357D1B.A170B41C.IP] entered the room.
(4:12:48 PM) Ranbar is now known as Mel
(4:12:50 PM) Kalga: "...Um...Maybe she...won't? You used to be a good fighter, didn't you?" Nariana asks.
(4:12:53 PM) Aulion: "It really, really is." He smiles.
(4:13:33 PM) ***Vai takes some deep breaths, "Okay, I just need to put this in perspective... I once wrestled a warstrider on foot, I can handle this if things ever get out of hand..."
(4:13:44 PM) ***Kyrk smiles warmly, these people are nice, it's nice to be around nice people, "I'd be more than glad to help if you ever need it."
(4:14:00 PM) Kalga: "Oh, n-no! That won't be needed. We're more or less done."
(4:14:57 PM) Aulion: "I think all that's left is the recreation room and the kitchen utensils, it's fine."
(4:14:58 PM) ***Vai does a quick kata, centering his mind with his body. His face suddenly breaks into an amiable smile, "Time to make that lemonade." (c. monkey form)
(4:15:38 PM) ***Kyrk nods, "Well, we're only a house over if anythings needed. I wonder where Vai is..."
(4:16:07 PM) Kalga: "Didn't he say he was making lemonade? I could do it, if he wanted..."
(4:17:02 PM) ***Vai comes out with a small barrell of lemonade and a few glasses, one twice the size of the others.
(4:17:04 PM) Aulion: "Probably finishing up the lemonade now, he's gotta make plenty, after all." He pats Alisia. "No, honey, don't worry about it. We're getting a chance to relax and meet new people, enjoy it!" He smiles widely at her.
(4:17:42 PM) ***Kyrk sighs quietly, one of those happy sighs that old people do when young people are enjoying themselves.
(4:20:26 PM) Mel left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(4:20:40 PM) ***Vai pours glasses for everyone, giving the extra big glass to Mel. (who disconnected as i was about to hit enter)
(4:21:22 PM) Kalga: Alisia's eyes go wide at the sight of the barrel of lemonade. "Did you really need to make that much?" She takes a drink. "...Hrm. It's pretty good." It sounded a lot meaner then she meant it. But she's still Comp 4, so it doesn't sound very mean at all.
(4:22:26 PM) ***Vai takes absolutely no offence, half his mind is fluffy la la land. The other half is practically on autopilot.
(4:22:31 PM) ***Aulion takes a sip. "It's very good, I think." He nudges Alisia; gotta be nice to the neighbors, not everybody's had 50 years to learn the perfect lemonade recipe.
(4:23:31 PM) Mel [Centy@11639CA7.3D357D1B.A170B41C.IP] entered the room.
(4:24:48 PM) ***Mel takes a sip from the glass. "Thank you, it's very good" As she swallows you swear you can hear gears turning
(4:24:50 PM) Kalga: (He's had three times that many years!)
(4:25:55 PM) Vai: "Thank you, I'm glad you all like it."
(4:27:25 PM) Kalga: Alisia nods. "It /is/ very good. I just would have added a pinch more sugar."
(4:28:23 PM) ***Vai just nods, still smiling.
(4:28:47 PM) ***Aulion nods with Alisia. "I suppose."
(4:30:16 PM) Mel: "Have you tried it with firedust and fuel bolt launcher oil? It explodes when it hits your stomach. It's very interesting"
(4:30:17 PM) Kalga: (He's only saying that cause that's how Alisia always makes it. :V)
(4:30:38 PM) Kalga: Alisia squeaks. "N-No. I haven't. I don't...I don't think...Is that even safe...?"
(4:31:10 PM) Aulion: "...Can't say i have, no. I think another Lunar I know tried that once, but he's got protection from that sort of thing." He sort of awkwardly grins.
(4:31:14 PM) Mel: "Why wouldn't it be?"
(4:31:49 PM) Kalga: "I don't think sto- Oh wait." She blushes and looks down into the glass. "Nevermind me."
(4:32:03 PM) Vai: "I've been known to have an iron stomache, but I don't think it's that literal enough to hold up to firedust."
(4:32:42 PM) Aulion: "I've had firedust-seasoned meat before, but not mixed with other alchemical fire-type things."
(4:34:28 PM) ***Kyrk crosses his legs and pulls his sanxian out from under the couch, he plays quiet music that backdrops the entire meeting well.
(4:34:36 PM) Mel left the room (quit: Quit: <GM> Kuhulin enters the tower and sees the others holding a delayed blast fireball).
(4:35:48 PM) Mel [Centy@11639CA7.3D357D1B.A170B41C.IP] entered the room.
(4:36:20 PM) Kalga: Alisia looks up. "Oh, you play?"
(4:36:53 PM) ***Kyrk nods, "Since before my exaltation."
(4:37:06 PM) Kalga: "Um...How long ago was that?"
(4:38:00 PM) Kyrk: "About 150 years." He nods, "I've made a few records too."
(4:38:46 PM) Kalga: She blinks. "Wow. That's a long time. I've been playing since I was a little girl. So...68 years?" She doesn't look a day over 25.
(4:39:34 PM) Aulion: "All I can do is public speaking and a bit of dancing, I'm afraid, and I'm pretty rusty at both..." Aulion sighs.
(4:39:56 PM) Kalga: She hits him lightly on the shoulder. "Oh, you're a fine dancer."
(4:41:11 PM) Aulion: "Am not! It's been how long, 10, 20 years since I did any dancing?"
(4:41:44 PM) Kalga: "Not even!"
(4:41:57 PM) Kyrk: "Perhaps you've heard of some of my music? Stairway to Yu Shan, Hotel Malfeas, Smells like Pasiap Spirit?"
(4:41:58 PM) Mel: "I enjoy beating things to a pulp and breaking them. Sometimes I build things too"
(4:42:37 PM) Kalga: Alisia nods. "Oh, yes, I've heard of that second one."
(4:44:29 PM) ***Kyrk chanes his playing slightly, to a medley between the three of them, heavy on the one she's heard of.
(4:44:30 PM) Mel: "OH YEAH, now that you mention it"
(4:45:00 PM) Mel: "My internal Cranial soundwave processor sometimes picks up the essence broadcasts."
(4:45:03 PM) Aulion: "Yeah, I've heard those before, I just never knew the names until now."
(4:45:16 PM) Mel: "I heard your music intermixed with status, non stop, for an entire 5 year period"
(4:47:04 PM) Kalga: "Me either." Alisia tries for a smile, she's just the simple uneducated housewife, e-yep. She totally doesn't have a higher Lore then Aulion, either. Nope.
(4:47:35 PM) ***Kyrk stutters the pace, rolling from high pitched peak to grinding bass lines, "Got a favourite?"
(4:48:43 PM) Kalga: "A f-favourite? Of...Your music...?"
(4:49:14 PM) Mel: "Do that one you did in concernt back in '78. The one where you smashed that Raksha groupie in the face"
(4:50:36 PM) ***Kyrk can't help but break into a smile, he stands on the seat, on foot up on the arm of the chair, the song itself is a story of great battles, epic quests and a solo that brings the dead plant in the corner back to life.
(4:52:09 PM) ***Vai just smiles and listens to everyone talk. It was easier to find out what made people tick when they let themselves talk than to ask too many questions.
(4:52:47 PM) Kalga: Alisia sits awestruck. Her mouth hangs open a little bit. "...That's..."
(4:53:07 PM) Aulion: "Wow."
(4:55:12 PM) ***Kyrk howls and smashes the sanxian into the wall for the climax of the song, it bounces off and neither are harmed, he drops into his chair laughing quietly. "That. That was a good show."
(4:55:41 PM) Vai: "Do you need to keep hitting the wall with it though?"
(4:55:55 PM) Kalga: Alisia claps.
(4:56:45 PM) Kyrk: "I don't, but it's a 'caught in the moment thing', I apologise~"
(4:57:06 PM) Kalga: "Caught in the moment? So you do that often...?"
(4:57:26 PM) Aulion: "Understandably. It was a good song, after all."
(4:58:19 PM) Vai: "I mean, if you rigged one up with, like, firedust pyrotechnics so it makes a flaming arc through the air and a big mushroom cloud when it hits, that would be something."
(4:58:19 PM) Mel: "Eeeeeee..." ^_^
(4:58:33 PM) Kalga: "...Wh-what?"
(4:58:36 PM) Mel: "I can do that"
(4:58:56 PM) Mel: "All you need to do is rip out the manse's essence condiuits, attach it to a dust charge and..."
(4:59:57 PM) Kyrk: "I don't play as much as I used to, and I don't play that song much either. So it's very rare." He replies with a smile, playing lovely slow music.
(5:05:14 PM) Kalga: "Me and Aulion mostly listen to orchestral music."
(5:06:18 PM) Vai: "Kyrk, I think you've gotten better since your contract was reevaluated."
(5:07:22 PM) ***Kyrk nods, switching to orchestral music as you can't displease a fan, "It's given me a lot more spare time, the muscles in my fingertips are growing back and everything."
(5:07:44 PM) ***Aulion continues to sip his lemonade.
(5:10:35 PM) Kalga: "Wow. You're really good. I could never even hope to be that good..."
(5:13:48 PM) ***Kyrk holds the sanxian out to her, "Nonesense~"
(5:13:57 PM) Kalga: "Huh?"
(5:14:49 PM) ***Aulion nudges Alisia. "Give it a try, honey! I know you can play just fine." he leans over and kisses her on the cheek.
(5:15:55 PM) Kalga: She takes it. "Oh. Um...Okay." She starts playing a random tune, switching between several, trying to figure out which one to play. She eventually lands on one, and plays it. After a short opening, she begins singing in Flametongue to accompany it.
(5:19:58 PM) Aulion: "Oh, this song..." Aulion gets misty for a moment before joining in in Flametongue, singing a duet with the love of his life.
(5:28:12 PM) Vai: "That's very lovely, I wish Reana was here to hear it."
(5:28:37 PM) Kalga: She stops, having finished the song. She smiles at Vai, and asks "Really? Are you sure?"
(5:29:29 PM) Kyrk: Doesn't sound like words to Kyrk, but he writes it off as some new language, they're popping up everywhere. "Lovely, lovely."
(5:33:34 PM) Kalga: Alisia looks at Kyrk, and blushes. "It really isn't.../that/ good..."
(5:35:46 PM) Vai: "The talent is there, and that's what counts."
(5:36:11 PM) Kalga: "Maybe I should have just played something you know, and not something I wrote myself..."
(5:36:29 PM) ***Aulion pats Alisia's shoulder. "It was very good, honey, and don't you worry about it."
(5:37:22 PM) Kyrk: "I thought it was good~"
(5:37:59 PM) Kalga: She hands the sanxian back to Kyrk. "Here, you can play some more..."
(5:38:17 PM) Kalga: (She can't play for hours on end like Kyrk. Not everyone has Essence 4.)
(5:40:05 PM) ***Kyrk takes it back and plays softly, "Any requests? :3"
(5:40:59 PM) Vai: "Play the theme from Sijan Jones and The Temple of Potential Danger."
(5:41:55 PM) ***Kyrk does so, with gusto!
(5:46:30 PM) ***Kyrk plays the Bruyce Van'ner piano theme when he's walking away, but with a sanxian~
(5:46:37 PM) Kalga: dohoho~
(5:46:54 PM) Aulion: "I love this song..."