[2011-05-12 18::46:29] Doink: [DATE: MARCH 29th, 2016]
[2011-05-12 18::52:25] Henri_DEllaine: is in his room, jazz playing softly, as he fingers the red, leather tome that appeared in his room when he returned.
[2011-05-12 18::53:19] Mia_al-Misiri: pushes the door open with great force and strides in, having preprepared the guy in the jar in advance to show himself to Henri.
[2011-05-12 18::53:29] Mia_al-Misiri: "HENRIIIII! LOOK AT THIS!"
[2011-05-12 18::53:54] Henri_DEllaine: quickly fumbles the book into a drawer and turns to Mia as she bursts into the room
[2011-05-12 18::54:05] Mia_al-Misiri: pulls the top of the jar off with a moment's struggle and then dumps it on the floor, and presents its contents to Henri with both hands.
[2011-05-12 18::55:00] Mia_al-Misiri: is distracted by Henri's stereo.
[2011-05-12 18::55:04] Mia_al-Misiri: "I like this song!"
[2011-05-12 18::57:27] Doink: The thing inside the jar falls halfway to the floor before it rights itself, undulating in mid-air over the carpet. It's a small, squid-like creature, except it has a ring of tiny black eyes surrounding its skull and far, far to many tentacles. Some of them seem to be passing through eachother as they move.
[2011-05-12 18::58:01] Henri_DEllaine: nearly falls backwards out of his chair. "What the hell is that thing, Mia?"
[2011-05-12 18::58:11] Mia_al-Misiri: "Cthulhu!"
[2011-05-12 18::58:15] Mia_al-Misiri: beams at Henri.
[2011-05-12 18::59:25] Henri_DEllaine: "What? Just... what?"
[2011-05-12 19::00:42] Mia_al-Misiri: continues beaming.
[2011-05-12 19::00:44] Mia_al-Misiri: "Get Jeanne, I want to show her!"
[2011-05-12 19::01:28] Henri_DEllaine: "Just... close the door." He stares at the little thing squirming on his floor before thinking "Jeanne, you better come see this."
[2011-05-12 19::01:29] Doink: Inside Mia's head, it comments, a little surprised, that this particular cattle might actually have some sense.
[2011-05-12 19::01:46] Mia_al-Misiri: nods at Cthulhu.
[2011-05-12 19::01:49] Mia_al-Misiri: "Yeah, he's really cool!"
[2011-05-12 19::02:10] Mia_al-Misiri: closes the door and then, as normal, starts stroking Cthulhu gently.
[2011-05-12 19::02:41] Mia_al-Misiri: "He's from France!"
[2011-05-12 19::03:17] Doink: "...Do I have to?" Jeanne is sitting on the windowsill, frowning.
[2011-05-12 19::04:04] Mia_al-Misiri: holds Cthulhu forward and advances happily toward Jeanne.
[2011-05-12 19::04:06] Mia_al-Misiri: "Look!"
[2011-05-12 19::04:13] Henri_DEllaine: turns to her. "Mia brought some little squiddy thing home."
[2011-05-12 19::05:39] Doink: Jeanne hops down off the sill and gives a polite bow. "Hello, Mia. And the High Priest. It's been quite some time."
[2011-05-12 19::06:26] Mia_al-Misiri: talks to Cthulhu.
[2011-05-12 19::06:38] Mia_al-Misiri: "Jeanne is sort of a different person to before."
[2011-05-12 19::07:14] Doink: The squid-thing undulates in response. Jeanne's eyes narrow. "...I see. I won't interfere, of course. You don't have to worry."
[2011-05-12 19::07:44] Doink: In Mia's head, it responds that it can tell. It's met this particular One before several times.
[2011-05-12 19::08:00] Henri_DEllaine: "Would someone please tell me what exactly is going on?" Surely, this is an odd lot assembled.
[2011-05-12 19::08:09] Mia_al-Misiri: responds back with a little more subtlety. She wonders if he likes her!
[2011-05-12 19::10:50] Doink: Jeanne turns back to Henri. "Oh, he's just an old friend of you-know-who. I guess he's taken a liking to Mia."
[2011-05-12 19::11:37] Mia_al-Misiri: "Of who?"
[2011-05-12 19::11:41] Henri_DEllaine: "Well... so, Mia, how'd you even meet him? Don't tell me he crawled out of that box we brought back/."
[2011-05-12 19::12:02] Doink: It replies to Mia that this One is... difficult. Not a friend, but unlikely to interfere. It could never really understand it's motives.
[2011-05-12 19::12:28] Mia_al-Misiri: "No I let him out."
[2011-05-12 19::12:35] Doink: Jeanne sighs. "Hastur, who else?"
[2011-05-12 19::12:52] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh! Right okay."
[2011-05-12 19::23:15] Henri_DEllaine: "So... this little guy is what we tried to keep from forming on that mission? How's he different now than from any of the other ones?"
[2011-05-12 19::24:14] » Kazimir_Prochazka left the chat room.
[2011-05-12 19::27:39] Mia_al-Misiri: "Because we put him in the cage box thing it meant I could go
[2011-05-12 19::27:55] Mia_al-Misiri: and talk to him and stop him from being all stompy!"
[2011-05-12 19::31:15] Doink: Jeanne nods. "That's... basically what he told me. He's an awfully well-behaved little guy."
[2011-05-12 19::32:24] Mia_al-Misiri: "I love him, he's really nice!"
[2011-05-12 19::32:52] Henri_DEllaine: scratches the back of his head. "Well, I guess if you've got him under control, there's nothing really to worry about."
[2011-05-12 19::33:29] Mia_al-Misiri: "No he's just helpful and teaches me stuff!"
[2011-05-12 19::40:24] Mia_al-Misiri: stops stroking him and looks at Jeanne.
[2011-05-12 19::40:33] Mia_al-Misiri: "Jeanne are you an Avatar?"
[2011-05-12 19::41:36] Doink: Jeanne looks to Mia. "...Sort of. Hastur doesn't really work the same way that your friend does. I'm more of a.... Herald would be a good word for it."
[2011-05-12 19::41:58] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh okay. Can I talk to Hastur then?"
[2011-05-12 19::42:35] Doink: Jeanne nods. "You're already talking to it. Or, a part of it."
[2011-05-12 19::43:22] Mia_al-Misiri: pauses.
[2011-05-12 19::43:33] Mia_al-Misiri: "So you're an Avatar then?"
[2011-05-12 19::43:41] Doink: Jeanne: "The being you'd call 'Hastur' is made up of... many parts. Separately we're different things, but together we're all Hastur."
[2011-05-12 19::44:04] Mia_al-Misiri: "Is there not a big one? Like a big man?"
[2011-05-12 19::44:43] Doink: Jeanne nods her head. "When your friend there makes an Avatar, he builds it from scratch and controls it. A single entity in a bunch of "bodies", at least in this set of dimensions."
[2011-05-12 19::45:19] Doink: Jeanne: "Hastur is different. It's a... sort of a gestalt, if you know that word. A bunch of parts that, together, make up a being."
[2011-05-12 19::45:42] Mia_al-Misiri: "Ah!"
[2011-05-12 19::45:47] Mia_al-Misiri: is interested!
[2011-05-12 19::45:54] Doink: She grins. "There are weirder things out there. Not every, what's your word... 'Great Old One' works the same, you know."
[2011-05-12 19::46:12] Mia_al-Misiri: "So how do I meet other talky ones? You all seem cool!"
[2011-05-12 19::53:25] » Dmitriy_Platonov left the chat room.
[2011-05-12 19::55:00] » Kazimir_Prochazka joined the chat room.
[2011-05-12 19::57:28] Doink: Jeanne turns back towards the window. "I'm sure they'll just be /lining up/ to meet you soon enough." She gives a wave over her shoulder. "Sorry, but I have to run. A herald's work is never done."
[2011-05-12 19::57:36] Doink: She vanishes.
[2011-05-12 19::57:48] Mia_al-Misiri: frowns.
[2011-05-12 19::57:50] Mia_al-Misiri: "Aw."
[2011-05-12 20::01:45] Doink: How rude, the squid thinks.
[2011-05-12 20::02:18] Mia_al-Misiri: talks to it.
[2011-05-12 20::02:34] Mia_al-Misiri: "What does she mean 'lining up'? Do you know where they are?"
[2011-05-12 20::05:27] Doink: It assumes that once more like them discover your existence, that they will respond in the same way it did. Given what you are.
[2011-05-12 20::06:34] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh cool!"
[2011-05-12 20::07:34] Henri_DEllaine: "Wait, so... we might not have to fight the rest off?"
[2011-05-12 20::09:00] Mia_al-Misiri: looks at Cthulu for an answer, and wonders if that's possible.
[2011-05-12 20::12:00] Doink: It honestly doesn't know. As it said before, it only knew what you were because you were the one who contained it, and because it (and it thinks this rather smugly) knew enough to recognize you. Not every One like it will be able to tell, at this point, it thinks.
[2011-05-12 20::14:40] Mia_al-Misiri: "Could we show them? Could you come too as the big manifestation to talk to them? Dmitriy might say okay!"
[2011-05-12 20::16:35] Doink: It's not so simple, it thinks. They are not anywhere that you could reach in your current state, and it does not know where they may choose to manifest.
[2011-05-12 20::17:01] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh, ok."
[2011-05-12 20::17:04] Mia_al-Misiri: looks up.
[2011-05-12 20::17:26] Mia_al-Misiri: "He says they are mostly stupider than him and also he doesn't know when they might appear..."
[2011-05-12 20::18:26] Henri_DEllaine: lets out a sigh. "Well, it was worth asking I guess... maybe an opportunity will present itself
[2011-05-12 20::25:00] » Kazimir_Prochazka left the chat room.
[2011-05-12 20::32:39] » Kazimir_Prochazka joined the chat room.
[2011-05-12 20::39:09] John_Kilanger: knocks on Henri's door
[2011-05-12 20::39:37] Henri_DEllaine: closes a sketch book. "Yeah? It's open."
[2011-05-12 20::41:27] John_Kilanger: opens the door enough to poke his head in "Do you think you two can meet me in my room? I need to talk to you about something. I'm going to go fetch kaz so he can join in too."
[2011-05-12 20::41:48] Mia_al-Misiri: cradles Cthulhu.
[2011-05-12 20::41:57] Mia_al-Misiri: "...What is it?"
[2011-05-12 20::42:07] Henri_DEllaine: "Sure. Guess today's just one for revelations."
[2011-05-12 20::42:44] John_Kilanger: looks at Mia. "I'll tell you when when we're all there."
[2011-05-12 20::43:07] John_Kilanger: heads to Kazimir's oor, and knocks.
[2011-05-12 20::43:08] Mia_al-Misiri: "Okay!"
[2011-05-12 20::43:27] Henri_DEllaine: "Mia... have you introduced him to anyone else but me?"
[2011-05-12 20::43:47] Mia_al-Misiri: nods enthusiastically.
[2011-05-12 20::44:00] Mia_al-Misiri: "Yeah! Albert and Dmitriy!"
[2011-05-12 20::48:03] Kazimir_Prochazka: pops his head out.
[2011-05-12 20::48:12] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Hmm?"
[2011-05-12 20::48:40] Mia_al-Misiri: goes to John's room with Henri, and goes in without waiting for anyone, and sits on the bed.
[2011-05-12 20::48:53] Henri_DEllaine: "Maybe you should hide him for a little, this might not be the best time to introduce him."
[2011-05-12 20::49:08] Henri_DEllaine: he follows Mia, waiting in John's room.
[2011-05-12 20::49:11] John_Kilanger: "If you could, I'd like for you to go to my room, I have something I'd like to show you.
[2011-05-12 20::49:17] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh, ok."
[2011-05-12 20::49:32] Mia_al-Misiri: asks Cthulhu to vanish.
[2011-05-12 20::49:55] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...sure?"
[2011-05-12 20::49:57] Doink: It is no longer visible.
[2011-05-12 20::50:17] Kazimir_Prochazka: heads out of the room and follows John. Sure has been a long time since Kaz was around.
[2011-05-12 20::51:32] John_Kilanger: moves toward his terminal once he get's back into his room.
[2011-05-12 20::52:16] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...so are we going to be watching ridiculous cat videos or something?"
[2011-05-12 20::53:05] John_Kilanger: "I wish, After we got back from the last mission, I found a strange message waiting for me on my terminal. A lot of it contains information about me and well... just look."
[2011-05-12 20::53:37] John_Kilanger: turns his terminal around so everyone can see, and the following message appears on the screen.
[2011-05-12 20::53:38] John_Kilanger:  http://www.mediafire.com/?ox6kywzfptc44au
[2011-05-12 20::53:42] Mia_al-Misiri: bounces a little on the bed.
[2011-05-12 20::54:54] Kazimir_Prochazka: reads with a grim expression on his face before finally turning to John...and patting him on his back.
[2011-05-12 20::55:03] Mia_al-Misiri: looks at John.
[2011-05-12 20::55:09] Mia_al-Misiri: "But you're older than seven!"
[2011-05-12 20::55:11] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Congratulations. You're too much for them to handle."
[2011-05-12 20::55:39] Henri_DEllaine: "Heh, you mean to tell me there are 2 more of you out there?"
[2011-05-12 20::55:51] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...wait...he's older tha--"
[2011-05-12 20::57:23] Mia_al-Misiri: "It says he was born in two thousand and n- John do you sometimes go in a tank of LCL and float?"
[2011-05-12 20::57:50] Kazimir_Prochazka: 's mouth hangs open.
[2011-05-12 20::58:03] John_Kilanger: "I plan to show this to Dmitriy as well, but I thought I should show you guys first.
[2011-05-12 20::58:08] Henri_DEllaine: "Wait, what are you guys talking about?"
[2011-05-12 20::58:13] John_Kilanger: looks at Mia "Uh, no?
[2011-05-12 20::58:21] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh ok."
[2011-05-12 21::01:02] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...So John is seven. Does that mean Mia is like...three?"
[2011-05-12 21::01:11] John_Kilanger: "Right now, I'm curious as to who H4 and H7 are, and what 'Activation' means."
[2011-05-12 21::02:08] Mia_al-Misiri: "I don't know about this stuff really."
[2011-05-12 21::02:13] Mia_al-Misiri: "I could ask dad!"
[2011-05-12 21::02:18] Mia_al-Misiri: "He might know who Dr N is!"
[2011-05-12 21::02:30] Kazimir_Prochazka: grunts uncomfortably at the mention of Mia's dad.
[2011-05-12 21::02:39] John_Kilanger: "I'd appreciate it if you could."
[2011-05-12 21::02:53] Henri_DEllaine: "Activation probably has something to do with the activation of your Evangelion, I'd assume."
[2011-05-12 21::04:20] Kazimir_Prochazka: "That could be the case, unless this is more recent than that.
[2011-05-12 21::04:27] John_Kilanger: "Except the creation date on the file has it put down as a few hours before we returned from the mission.
[2011-05-12 21::05:26] Mia_al-Misiri: "...Where did this come from?"
[2011-05-12 21::05:44] John_Kilanger: "...I don't know."
[2011-05-12 21::05:46] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Ok then..."
[2011-05-12 21::06:19] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...maybe it's a deranged Third Branch worker? It wouldn't be unusual for them to keep your contact info, and it IS part of NERV..."
[2011-05-12 21::06:47] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...huh...I wonder what happened with H-5."
[2011-05-12 21::07:02] Kazimir_Prochazka: taps the screen between 'H-4' and H-7'
[2011-05-12 21::07:12] Mia_al-Misiri: "Try putting them into Google."
[2011-05-12 21::07:15] Henri_DEllaine: "Well, it says something about strain of contact? Maybe they intend to have you contact an avatar or something? ... Mia, why don't we want anyone getting to the obelisk downstairs again?"
[2011-05-12 21::07:41] Mia_al-Misiri: "Because if... the thing. If Azathoth wakes up then everyone who is part of his dream stops existing."
[2011-05-12 21::07:59] John_Kilanger: "that's what I thought too, but I shouldn't have any connection to them, at least not of the same level as Mia."
[2011-05-12 21::08:28] Kazimir_Prochazka: "But we'll all stop existing if it wakes up. Maybe everything is connected to it, Mia just has them on speed-dial or something."
[2011-05-12 21::08:58] Mia_al-Misiri: "Cthulhu said that I wouldn't stop existing if he woke up."
[2011-05-12 21::09:07] Henri_DEllaine: "There has to be more to it. If touching it just made everything end, why would anyone want to?"
[2011-05-12 21::09:07] Mia_al-Misiri: is bit quiet, kind of guilty in saying this.
[2011-05-12 21::09:35] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...because of what Mia just said. Certain things will continue existing. They'd be gods over all...uh...nothingness."
[2011-05-12 21::11:01] Henri_DEllaine: "Then... Dmitriy told me that people backing Nerv wanted at that thing. Maybe they intend to use John as some kind of key to godhood."
[2011-05-12 21::11:38] Mia_al-Misiri: "Well John would be a good god but I don't think everyone at Nerv would be."
[2011-05-12 21::11:43] Kazimir_Prochazka: pauses for a moment, then points at Mia, then to the rest of everyone here...
[2011-05-12 21::12:06] John_Kilanger: "Uhh... thank you...?"
[2011-05-12 21::12:08] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...Godchild, Potential God-child, Frenchman, War Criminal, and socialite with a stabbing problem.
[2011-05-12 21::12:19] Kazimir_Prochazka: "I feel like I'm missing something here."
[2011-05-12 21::13:39] John_Kilanger: "You know, it's kinda funny. All this information about my creation, and they still spelled my name wrong.
[2011-05-12 21::13:45] Henri_DEllaine: "Dmitriy said we only had to hold out until the stars... dealigned or something. But if we can't last that long... maybe it'd be better if we forced it. I mean, who would have humanities interests at heart more than us? Barring Ruru anyways."
[2011-05-12 21::14:07] Kazimir_Prochazka: "..."
[2011-05-12 21::17:35] Mia_al-Misiri: "Henri can you get Jeanne back please."
[2011-05-12 21::17:42] Mia_al-Misiri: "She is good at this stuff I think."
[2011-05-12 21::17:53] John_Kilanger: "Who"
[2011-05-12 21::17:55] John_Kilanger: ?
[2011-05-12 21::18:07] Mia_al-Misiri: "Oh right she's invisible."
[2011-05-12 21::18:12] Mia_al-Misiri: slumps a bit.
[2011-05-12 21::20:27] Henri_DEllaine: "Um...." Henri is just kind of utterly speachless.
[2011-05-12 21::20:58] Mia_al-Misiri: "She's an Avat- Herald of Hastur that Henri is friends with!"
[2011-05-12 21::21:17] Mia_al-Misiri: "She's cool!"
[2011-05-12 21::21:20] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...I feel like I'm REALLY missing something."
[2011-05-12 21::21:56] John_Kilanger: "Oh good, I thought it was just me that was out of the loop."
[2011-05-12 21::22:36] Henri_DEllaine: supplants his face firmly in his hands, mumbling "jesus christ i didn't want it to come out this way"
[2011-05-12 21::23:18] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...am I the only person here without something terrifyingly alien happening to him on a daily basis? Beyond sharing your company?"
[2011-05-12 21::25:07] Henri_DEllaine: takes his face out of his hands, but with a long wipe. He blinks a few times. "So... I guess the easiest way to put it is... Jeanne and I didn't exactly... split up."
[2011-05-12 21::27:52] Kazimir_Prochazka: remains stone-faced. "...That doesn't explain much."
[2011-05-12 21::32:40] Henri_DEllaine: "Jeanne is still Jeanne, but she's a part of Hastur now... she can show up if she wants to but remain invisible to whoever. She's kind of been helping me out here and there."
[2011-05-12 21::37:38] Kazimir_Prochazka: "The whole 'gods of the stars' thing still eludes me, but it's a good thing we have a handful on our side, right?"
[2011-05-12 21::37:50] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...unless she's lying and Mia secretly wants to kill me."
[2011-05-12 21::38:04] Mia_al-Misiri: is shocked!
[2011-05-12 21::38:09] Mia_al-Misiri: "No I don't!!"
[2011-05-12 21::39:20] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Thank you Mia."
[2011-05-12 21::39:20] Henri_DEllaine: "Mia, maybe you should introduce them to Cthulhu..."
[2011-05-12 21::39:40] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Call-whoo-hoo?"
[2011-05-12 21::39:46] Mia_al-Misiri: "Do you... yeah okay!"
[2011-05-12 21::39:55] Mia_al-Misiri: politely asks him to reveal himself.
[2011-05-12 21::42:32] Doink: There's a strange /twist/ in the air in front of her, and the creature appears—a small, squid-like thing, undulating in the air. It's a strange, sickly green color, its "head" ringed by small, beady eyes and its underside a writhing mass of tentacles, far more than should conceivably fit on such a being. They seem to pass through each other as they wriggle.
[2011-05-12 21::42:50] Mia_al-Misiri: "Isn't he cool!"
[2011-05-12 21::43:05] Kazimir_Prochazka: eyes widen and he stiffens up but doesnt move.
[2011-05-12 21::43:23] Mia_al-Misiri: plucks him from the air and begins stroking him gently, cradled in her arm.
[2011-05-12 21::43:33] Mia_al-Misiri: looks very content doing this.
[2011-05-12 21::43:55] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...I feel like I should be terrified and running away right now...but with everything else that's happened? This is just a bit weird."
[2011-05-12 21::44:22] John_Kilanger: cant do nothing else but stare at it, too shocked to really say anything.
[2011-05-12 21::44:27] Henri_DEllaine: "We've become a bit jaded, haven't we?"
[2011-05-12 21::45:05] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Jaded is putting it mildly! The hell is that? Is that call-for-a-yoo-hoo?"
[2011-05-12 21::45:32] Henri_DEllaine: "Cthulhu. It's the thing we boxed up 2 weeks ago."
[2011-05-12 21::46:17] Mia_al-Misiri: "Yeah! He can't talk with this body though and he says if he talks to other people through their heads they will go crazy, so he can only talk to me right now."
[2011-05-12 21::46:38] Kazimir_Prochazka: "...uh...huh."
[2011-05-12 21::47:43] Doink: It wonders if these cattle will ever stop asking the same questions every time this happens...
[2011-05-12 21::48:24] John_Kilanger: "...Uh, is it okay for it to be out like this?"
[2011-05-12 21::48:40] Mia_al-Misiri: nods.
[2011-05-12 21::48:49] Mia_al-Misiri: "He feels nice."
[2011-05-12 21::49:20] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Nope, not touching it."
[2011-05-12 21::50:36] Mia_al-Misiri: "Dmitriy did but Cthulhu didn't like it."
[2011-05-12 21::51:33] Kazimir_Prochazka: "Well, the precedent has been set. I don't plan on fondling the squid-baby."