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  1. [2012-04-26 18:52:25] <padri> Ren walks into the dive room.
  2. [2012-04-26 18:52:32] <Holben> Sabrina enters too.
  3. [2012-04-26 18:52:46] <Uncandescent> Terrance enters the dive room, wherever that is.
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  5. [2012-04-26 18:53:26] <Daedalize> Having retrieved her gear bag, Velia slips in alongside the others.
  6. [2012-04-26 18:55:17] <PresidentEvil> As you arrive, you can see a team of dive technicians swarming around 4 divesuits, running checks and making adjustments. They take your gear and start packing it in drybags. Also there is Dr. Corbette, and one of his assistants.
  7. [2012-04-26 18:55:20] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks over the others, faintly glad to see Velia as back up but neutral about the others/
  8. [2012-04-26 18:55:49] <Holben> Sabrina lets her gear be packed. She stands a little awkwardly.
  9. [2012-04-26 18:56:18] <padri> Ren lets her gear be packed. She doesn't glare at Corbette /yet,/ but she's ready to.
  10. [2012-04-26 18:56:20] <Uncandescent> Terrance lets his gear be taken and packed.
  11. [2012-04-26 18:57:51] <Daedalize> "What's going on? We in a hurry?"
  12. [2012-04-26 18:57:59] <PresidentEvil> "Get those seismic records out of archival, run them against the latest signature. Dismissed." He says to his assistant, who walks off. He then turns to address you. "We have a potential emergence event on our hands, people."
  13. [2012-04-26 18:58:20] <Daedalize> Velia doesn't pay much heed to the others. She's been reading enough mission reports to be kept up to date.
  14. [2012-04-26 18:58:36] <padri> "Involving the seismic records? What's going on?"
  15. [2012-04-26 18:59:26] <PresidentEvil> "An hour ago we had a seismic event emanating from the pool, accompanied by a spike in the usual energy signatures. Once they tapered off, we sent a man in. He found this down below." Dr. Corbette says, keying up some video on a flatscreen.
  16. [2012-04-26 19:00:24] <PresidentEvil> It's murky, dim, red. Taken from inside the pool. You can barely see a tunnel, which looks like it might be made of stone? ...In one of the banks."
  17. [2012-04-26 19:00:25] <padri> Ren watches! She's a little skeptical of Corbette's forthcomingness.
  18. [2012-04-26 19:00:39] <PresidentEvil> "Nobody's been through yet. You will be the first."
  19. [2012-04-26 19:00:41] <Uncandescent> Terrance watches intently.
  20. [2012-04-26 19:00:47] <Holben> Sabrina feels awkward.
  21. [2012-04-26 19:01:06] <Uncandescent> "Will our weapons work underwater?"
  22. [2012-04-26 19:01:31] <PresidentEvil> "We have no idea if you'll be underwater once you're through and on the other side. Also, no."
  23. [2012-04-26 19:01:54] <Daedalize> "Is the tunnel the emergence event, or does it lead to the emergence event? I don't wanna be swimming through and have it suddenly sprout teeth and decide to chow down."
  24. [2012-04-26 19:02:15] <padri> Ren doesn't look pleased at this thought.
  25. [2012-04-26 19:02:51] <Uncandescent> Terrance doesn't like the thought of being defenseless for a length of time.
  26. [2012-04-26 19:02:59] <PresidentEvil> "The tunnel hasn't taken a bite out of any of our instruments, if that's what you're asking."
  27. [2012-04-26 19:03:18] <PresidentEvil> "It should be about as safe as any other ad-hoc connection to another reality."
  28. [2012-04-26 19:04:02] <Uncandescent> "And if we're attacked in the water?"
  29. [2012-04-26 19:04:08] <padri> She nods. Nothing about the pool is safe or predictable.
  30. [2012-04-26 19:04:20] <Daedalize> "Right. Great." Velia checks to make sure her cane is secured to her leg.
  31. [2012-04-26 19:04:26] <padri> She goes to stand with Sabrina.
  32. [2012-04-26 19:04:33] <Uncandescent> He says rather grimly.
  33. [2012-04-26 19:04:45] <Holben> Sabrina looks a little happier now.
  34. [2012-04-26 19:04:56] <padri> Ren smiles at her.
  35. [2012-04-26 19:05:05] <Holben> "Sorry I've.... been away..."
  36. [2012-04-26 19:05:19] <Daedalize> "And nothing's come through yet? No idea what or who's on the other side?"
  37. [2012-04-26 19:05:55] <padri> She nods. "It's okay." ~Poor Sabrina. Has she heard about Erik?~
  38. [2012-04-26 19:05:58] <PresidentEvil> "Well that's your department isn't it, Miss De Luca?" Corbette smiles.
  39. [2012-04-26 19:06:11] <PresidentEvil> *smiles pleasantly.
  40. [2012-04-26 19:06:52] <Daedalize> "I don't hear about it until the paperwork gets filed. Which is too late, in most cases." Velia turns away, going to suit up for the dive.
  41. [2012-04-26 19:07:31] <PresidentEvil> "Well it looks as if you got lucky this time, Agent. Dismissed." Corbette leaves you with the dive techs.
  42. [2012-04-26 19:08:04] <Uncandescent> Terrance goes and suits up as well, then reclaims his dry-proofed equipment.
  43. [2012-04-26 19:08:14] <padri> Ren does so, too!
  44. [2012-04-26 19:08:28] <Holben> Sabrina puts on the suit too, then
  45. [2012-04-26 19:09:44] <PresidentEvil> Everyone's ready. I assume you dive now?
  46. [2012-04-26 19:10:11] <padri> Ren stands with Sabrina, ready to follow the others into the pool.
  47. [2012-04-26 19:10:20] <Uncandescent> Terrance dives in, getting a feel for the Pool's consistency.
  48. [2012-04-26 19:10:43] <Daedalize> Velia lines up with the others, dipping a foot into the water before easing in. "So, how've things been?"
  49. [2012-04-26 19:11:10] <padri> "They've . . . they've been." Ren wades in.
  50. [2012-04-26 19:11:22] <Uncandescent> Terrance takes a few practice strokes downward, then looks up toward the others.
  51. [2012-04-26 19:11:30] <Holben> Sabrina stays with Ren.
  52. [2012-04-26 19:11:55] <padri> Ren makes that easy.
  53. [2012-04-26 19:12:29] <Daedalize> "Hm." Velia shrugs before fastening her mask on and slipping beneath the surface.
  54. [2012-04-26 19:13:27] <padri> Ren checks to make sure Sabrina's ready and does the same.
  55. [2012-04-26 19:13:41] <Holben> Sabrina dives down with Ren.
  56. [2012-04-26 19:14:05] <padri> Ren hums Sam's lullaby to herself.
  57. [2012-04-26 19:15:00] <PresidentEvil> As you dive, you can see what looks like a dark spot, on the banks. About 20 meters down.
  58. [2012-04-26 19:15:12] <padri> Ren heads for it.
  59. [2012-04-26 19:15:24] <Uncandescent> Terrance swims for it purposely, but cautiously.
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  61. [2012-04-26 19:15:31] <Holben> Sabrina follows.
  62. [2012-04-26 19:15:54] <Daedalize> Velia remains in back of the group, glancing around as they descend for signs of trouble.
  63. [2012-04-26 19:16:03] =-= Scantron1 is now known as Scantron
  64. [2012-04-26 19:16:13] =-= Mode #redpool +o Scantron by ChanServ
  65. [2012-04-26 19:16:35] <Uncandescent> Terrance abruptly realizes he's been delegated to front man, and does not like that. He proceeds anyway.
  66. [2012-04-26 19:17:03] <padri> Ren's right behind him.
  67. [2012-04-26 19:17:15] <PresidentEvil> It's a tunnel, alright. And it's made of blocks of some dark, carved stone you don't recognize. It's red for a few meters, then dilutes out to an ominous blackness.
  68. [2012-04-26 19:17:37] <PresidentEvil> the water is red, I mean.
  69. [2012-04-26 19:18:29] <padri> Ren shivers. That's creepy.
  70. [2012-04-26 19:18:30] <Uncandescent> Terrance stops in front of the tunnel. Is there a light on his suit he can activate?
  71. [2012-04-26 19:18:31] <PresidentEvil> You've got a headlamp, yes.
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  73. [2012-04-26 19:18:39] <Uncandescent> Terrance turns on his headlamp and proceeds, trying not to touch the walls.
  74. [2012-04-26 19:18:49] <padri> Ren, too.
  75. [2012-04-26 19:18:56] <Holben> Sabrina, as well.
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  77. [2012-04-26 19:19:31] <Daedalize> Velia lingers outside the entrance of the tunnel, examining the edges, trying to determine how it's connected to the bank in which it's set.
  78. [2012-04-26 19:19:54] <PresidentEvil> Your lamp does little to pierce the blood red murk. Are you going all the way through or just into the mouth a little?
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  80. [2012-04-26 19:20:09] <padri> Ren goes into the mouth a little.
  81. [2012-04-26 19:20:23] <PresidentEvil> Velia, the tunnel actually juts out beyond the banks a little. Almost as if it was abruptly thrust through the bank from the other side.
  82. [2012-04-26 19:21:01] <Uncandescent> Terrance dived right on into it.
  83. [2012-04-26 19:21:25] <padri> Ren looks around at the walls inside the tunnel and into the black before proceeding.
  84. [2012-04-26 19:21:34] <Holben> Sabrina stays close to Ren...
  85. [2012-04-26 19:22:08] <PresidentEvil> Terrence, the water is only red for a few meters in. As you enter, you feel a momentary disorientation, as if you're suddenly upside down. Probably because you are.
  86. [2012-04-26 19:22:09] <Daedalize> Velia narrates for the recorder system that she's wearing under her dive suit. "Tunnel walls protrude slightly from the bank. It didn't originate within the waters of the pool, rather, underground within the banks."
  87. [2012-04-26 19:22:32] <PresidentEvil> Everyone else who goes in feels the same. And now, I will hand the keys over to my co-conspirator. Sequence?
  88. [2012-04-26 19:22:41] <Daedalize> She then swims after the others, not wanting to lose track of them.
  89. [2012-04-26 19:22:56] <Sequence> Indeed. As you rise, the tunnel walls smoothly widen, the banks flattening out.
  90. [2012-04-26 19:23:18] <Uncandescent> Terrance stops for a moment at the sudden vertigo, then continues in the same way. Upside-down doesn't mean much underwater.
  91. [2012-04-26 19:23:44] <padri> Ren heads for a bank.
  92. [2012-04-26 19:24:08] <padri> She's gotta cash a check!
  93. [2012-04-26 19:24:10] <Holben> Sabrina /keeps/ /close/
  94. [2012-04-26 19:24:40] <padri> Ren doesn't make that difficult.
  95. [2012-04-26 19:24:44] <Sequence> Terrance, you are heading away from the surface. Ren, you break the surface of the water. It's a beautiful day out.
  96. [2012-04-26 19:24:52] <Daedalize> "Gravitational anomaly, full inversion, been there done that." As she talks, Velia keeps a hand on the radio switch in case she needs to communicate with the others.
  97. [2012-04-26 19:25:05] <Uncandescent> I thought we were still in the tunnel.
  98. [2012-04-26 19:25:05] <Sequence> Sabrina, you do as well. Gravity feels normal, just flipped directions.
  99. [2012-04-26 19:25:41] <Sequence> Tunnel has started moving up, Terrance.
  100. [2012-04-26 19:25:42] <Uncandescent> Are we not in the tunnel anymore?
  101. [2012-04-26 19:25:50] <Uncandescent> Alright then.
  102. [2012-04-26 19:25:55] <Uncandescent> He follows that.
  103. [2012-04-26 19:26:25] <Daedalize> Velia lingers below the surface, clicking her radio on. <<Everybody here? Nothing new as we crossed over?>>
  104. [2012-04-26 19:26:43] <Uncandescent> <<Roger.>>
  105. [2012-04-26 19:26:46] <padri> <<No. It's beautiful out. Come on up to the surface.>>
  106. [2012-04-26 19:26:50] <padri> Ren heads for shore.
  107. [2012-04-26 19:26:52] <Holben> <<...here.>>
  108. [2012-04-26 19:27:06] <Holben> Sabrina does the same.
  109. [2012-04-26 19:27:09] <Sequence> Ren, it's just a tiny little pond, in the middle of a lovely courtyard.
  110. [2012-04-26 19:27:30] <Sequence> Surrounded by towering castle walls, made of some solid gray stone.
  111. [2012-04-26 19:27:40] <padri> Ren gets out of the pond, then, and looks around.
  112. [2012-04-26 19:27:41] <Sequence> Sabrina, you can make it easily.
  113. [2012-04-26 19:27:51] <Holben> Sabrina makes it easily, then.
  114. [2012-04-26 19:27:56] <Uncandescent> Terrance lingers just below the surface as well, and looks around the aquatic environment. Does the tunnel hole comprise the entirety of the bottom, or is it just a hole?
  115. [2012-04-26 19:28:15] <Daedalize> <<If you say so.>> Velia raises her head out, just enough to see the sky and surrounding area, then heads for whichever shore provides the most cover.
  116. [2012-04-26 19:28:16] <Sequence> Just a hole. Pretty shallow besides the hole, by the way. After all, it's just a pond.l
  117. [2012-04-26 19:28:36] <Sequence> There's a willow on one side of the pond, and Velia heads for that.
  118. [2012-04-26 19:29:08] <Uncandescent> Terrance breaches the surface then, and scans his surroundings. What's the courtyard like?
  119. [2012-04-26 19:29:53] <Sequence> Small, and pleasant, a few simple dirt paths wandering around it and passing through the center and past the pond on their way to a couple small, wooden doors.
  120. [2012-04-26 19:29:56] <padri> Ren gets outta the wet suit and unpacks her stuff. She's gunna want to be able to get at it and she probably won't need to protect it from water anymore.
  121. [2012-04-26 19:30:04] <Sequence> A few trees dot the edges of it, but mostly it's just grass.
  122. [2012-04-26 19:30:15] <Holben> Sabrina also unsuits and gets the important things out.
  123. [2012-04-26 19:30:17] <padri> "Shall we go inside?"
  124. [2012-04-26 19:30:27] <Holben> "...sure..."
  125. [2012-04-26 19:30:46] <Daedalize> "I'd rather stay out here until we know what's going on."
  126. [2012-04-26 19:30:51] <padri> Smiles all around.
  127. [2012-04-26 19:31:06] <Uncandescent> Terrance climbs out and readies himself. What are the doors set in?
  128. [2012-04-26 19:31:09] <padri> She shrugs. "I just thought we might like to see who's home."
  129. [2012-04-26 19:31:29] <Uncandescent> *readies his stuff
  130. [2012-04-26 19:32:38] <Daedalize> Velia unpacks her own gear, assembling her rifle to be carried on her back. "Probably best to see them /before/ they see us. I'm sure Vlad the Impaler had a very nice castle, too. With very nice dungeons."
  131. [2012-04-26 19:32:41] <Sequence> The doors are set in plain, gray stone. Looks metamorphic, if Terrance knows anything about stones.
  132. [2012-04-26 19:33:23] <Uncandescent> He does not. His weapons are placed on the appropriate spots on his body and his equipment stored in their appropriate pockets.
  133. [2012-04-26 19:33:27] <padri> Well, Ren doesn't. She looks around for any way they could be seen standing here.
  134. [2012-04-26 19:33:58] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks for somewhere to go other than the doors.
  135. [2012-04-26 19:34:05] <padri> "I'm worried they'll think worse if they find us just lurking here. I don't think we're likely to see them if we just wait here."
  136. [2012-04-26 19:34:15] <Sequence> Nope. The stonework is in good repair, no places to climb.
  137. [2012-04-26 19:34:42] <Uncandescent> Terrance turns around. Do the dirt paths appear to go anywhere?
  138. [2012-04-26 19:35:19] <Sequence> To doors.
  139. [2012-04-26 19:35:23] <Sequence> Plain wooden doors.
  140. [2012-04-26 19:35:38] <padri> Any way they could be watched in here?
  141. [2012-04-26 19:35:41] <Sequence> Kind of small, against those huge walls.
  142. [2012-04-26 19:36:02] <Uncandescent> No other doors, or stairs, or anything are visible in the courtyard?
  143. [2012-04-26 19:36:02] <Sequence> Someone /could/ be looking down from the walls.
  144. [2012-04-26 19:36:08] <Daedalize> What exactly faces onto this courtyard? Windows, balconies, or is it just walls with doors?
  145. [2012-04-26 19:36:32] <Holben> Is the vegetation recognisable?
  146. [2012-04-26 19:36:34] <Sequence> There are a few small windows with shutters, dotting where a third story would be.
  147. [2012-04-26 19:36:42] <Sequence> The vegetation is grass. And a couple trees.
  148. [2012-04-26 19:37:04] <Daedalize> "Odd. You'd think with a courtyard this fancy, they'd want more of a view to it."
  149. [2012-04-26 19:37:05] <padri> Ren walks to the doors.
  150. [2012-04-26 19:37:22] <Holben> Sabrina comes after her.
  151. [2012-04-26 19:37:37] <Uncandescent> Terrance moves to cover Ren and Sabrina, taking cover behind a tree.
  152. [2012-04-26 19:37:47] <Uncandescent> 6df+7 Sneeeeeak
  153. [2012-04-26 19:37:48] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Sneeeeeak: 7 (6df+7=3+, 3+, 0, 0, 4-, 4-)
  154. [2012-04-26 19:38:07] <padri> "They'll see us before we see them here. I'm all for checking things out."
  155. [2012-04-26 19:38:40] <Uncandescent> Terrance watches and waits.
  156. [2012-04-26 19:38:49] <Sequence> Ren, the door is so very simple. Just push!
  157. [2012-04-26 19:38:55] <Sequence> Terrance, nobody can see you.
  158. [2012-04-26 19:39:06] <padri> She waits for Velia's approval, but with a hand on the door.
  159. [2012-04-26 19:39:29] <Daedalize> Velia continues watching the shuttered windows up above. "Go ahead, just be quiet with them."
  160. [2012-04-26 19:39:43] <padri> She nods and pushes the door open and looks through.
  161. [2012-04-26 19:41:33] <Sequence> It's a plain, ill-lit stone corridor, leading into a larger hallway.
  162. [2012-04-26 19:42:08] <padri> She opens the door all the way and steps through.
  163. [2012-04-26 19:42:14] <Sequence> A rough torch adorns the corner, filling the low ceiling with a faint haze of smoke and the scent of burning animal fat.
  164. [2012-04-26 19:42:19] <Uncandescent> <<Report.>>
  165. [2012-04-26 19:42:28] <Holben> Sabrina creeps in behind her.
  166. [2012-04-26 19:42:36] <padri> <<Just a corridor.>>
  167. [2012-04-26 19:42:48] <padri> She walks to the end of the corridor and looks down the hall.
  168. [2012-04-26 19:43:07] <Uncandescent> Terrance takes a quick glance around the courtyard once more. Is there any sign of it being used recently?
  169. [2012-04-26 19:43:20] <Sequence> More badly-made torches, and a longer, /much/ taller corridor- like this hallway was made for giants.
  170. [2012-04-26 19:43:38] <Sequence> None at all, Terrance.
  171. [2012-04-26 19:43:52] <padri> <<This corridor there is /huge./>>
  172. [2012-04-26 19:43:56] <padri> She takes a torch.
  173. [2012-04-26 19:44:32] <Daedalize> Velia moves towards the doors, looking to Terrance. "C'mon, best to stick together. We'll close the doors behind us, in case anyone does come along out here."
  174. [2012-04-26 19:44:39] <Sequence> It sputters faintly in your hand, Ren. The torches barely illuminate the hallway, their light only faintly brushing the cobwebby walls and ceiling.
  175. [2012-04-26 19:44:44] <padri> <<Y'all coming in, or should I head on without you?>>
  176. [2012-04-26 19:44:46] <Uncandescent> Terrance nods at her and follows.
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  178. [2012-04-26 19:45:00] <Daedalize> <<We're coming in, wait up for us.>>
  179. [2012-04-26 19:45:06] <padri> <<Waiting.>>
  180. [2012-04-26 19:45:33] <Uncandescent> Terrance backs into the corridor after Velia, gently closing the doors behind them.
  181. [2012-04-26 19:45:44] <Daedalize> Velia closes the doors from the inside, then heads off down the corridor to regroup, examining the torches and architecture as she goes.
  182. [2012-04-26 19:45:53] |<-- AgentXerxes has left irc.synirc.net (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
  183. [2012-04-26 19:45:55] <Sequence> The door creaks a little as you close it Terrance.
  184. [2012-04-26 19:46:20] <padri> Ren's standing in the hall at the end of the corridor.
  185. [2012-04-26 19:46:27] <Sequence> Velia, the architecture is the time-honored architecture of castles everywhere. Stone stacked on stone, with mortar in between.
  186. [2012-04-26 19:46:27] <Holben> With Sabrina.
  187. [2012-04-26 19:46:30] <padri> And Sabrina too, I assume.
  188. [2012-04-26 19:46:35] <Holben> Yes.
  189. [2012-04-26 19:46:42] <Uncandescent> Terrance turns, staying behind Velia and scanning the corridor as he walks for any indication of what might live in the castle.
  190. [2012-04-26 19:46:57] <Daedalize> Are all the torches burning equally? Have any gone out?
  191. [2012-04-26 19:47:07] <Uncandescent> Scratch marks, discarded objects, anything...
  192. [2012-04-26 19:47:22] <Sequence> A few of them have burned lower than the others, leaving thick sooty marks on the wall.
  193. [2012-04-26 19:47:34] <Sequence> The dusty floor hasn't been swept recently.
  194. [2012-04-26 19:47:38] <Sequence> Perception, Terrance.
  195. [2012-04-26 19:47:55] <Holben> Sabrina looks for evidence too.
  196. [2012-04-26 19:48:01] <Uncandescent> 6df+6 eye powers, go!
  197. [2012-04-26 19:48:02] <Glacon> Uncandescent: eye powers, go!: 7 (6df+6=3+, 3+, 4-, 3+, 4-, 0)
  198. [2012-04-26 19:48:08] <Daedalize> "Cobwebs and dust, but all the torches are kept lit. Whoever lives here cares for the light, but doesn't care for cleanliness."
  199. [2012-04-26 19:48:13] <padri> Ren looks into the huge hall. Does it look different in any other way? Grander, maybe
  200. [2012-04-26 19:48:16] <padri> ?
  201. [2012-04-26 19:48:32] <Sequence> Terrance! There are
  202. [2012-04-26 19:48:34] <Sequence> rat footprints.
  203. [2012-04-26 19:48:47] <Uncandescent> Well. That's something.
  204. [2012-04-26 19:49:02] <Uncandescent> Regular sized rat footprints?
  205. [2012-04-26 19:49:07] <Sequence> No, Ren, it's just a big hallway.
  206. [2012-04-26 19:49:10] <Sequence> Yes, Terrance.
  207. [2012-04-26 19:49:13] <Sequence> Normal rat footprints.
  208. [2012-04-26 19:49:19] <Sequence> A good few of them, there must not be any cats here.
  209. [2012-04-26 19:49:23] <Daedalize> Velia looks for any signs of passage left by who- or whatever keeps the torches lit.
  210. [2012-04-26 19:49:33] <Uncandescent> Alright then. He arrives amongst the females at the end of the hall.
  211. [2012-04-26 19:49:57] <Uncandescent> He slips on his Gas Mask as an afterthought.
  212. [2012-04-26 19:50:08] <Sequence> There are a few large spots where the dust looks stirred up a bit, but they're old and you can't figure out what might have made them.
  213. [2012-04-26 19:50:52] <Daedalize> "No signs of recent passing. That bodes well for us, less chance we'll get caught by the butler."
  214. [2012-04-26 19:51:11] <Daedalize> Velia's mask is already on, has been since she got in the pool.
  215. [2012-04-26 19:51:13] <Sequence> The torches sputter faintly.
  216. [2012-04-26 19:51:24] <Holben> "A breeze?"
  217. [2012-04-26 19:51:48] <Daedalize> "Wouldn't be surprising, given the condition the place is kept in."
  218. [2012-04-26 19:51:51] <padri> "Well that's good, cause the butler did it."
  219. [2012-04-26 19:52:26] <padri> She's ready to head to the big hall.
  220. [2012-04-26 19:53:03] <Uncandescent> Terrance is ready to cover her.
  221. [2012-04-26 19:53:13] <Holben> Sabrina is ready to tag along.
  222. [2012-04-26 19:53:28] <padri> She goes towards it to peek down the hall.
  223. [2012-04-26 19:53:41] <Sequence> Got a few more halls there, with /enormous/ doors.
  224. [2012-04-26 19:53:42] <padri> She looks for signs of people.
  225. [2012-04-26 19:54:07] <padri> Any small doors? Or all enormous?
  226. [2012-04-26 19:54:21] <Uncandescent> Terrance follows a fair distance behind, making himself as unnoticable as possible.
  227. [2012-04-26 19:54:30] <Sequence> In a few of them, small doors have been tucked into the large ones.
  228. [2012-04-26 19:54:42] <Uncandescent> 6df+7 I'm ready for an ambush.
  229. [2012-04-26 19:54:44] <Glacon> Uncandescent: I'm ready for an ambush.: 6 (6df+7=0, 0, 0, 4-, 4-, 3+)
  230. [2012-04-26 19:54:50] <Holben> "People and another race co-existed here?"
  231. [2012-04-26 19:54:55] <padri> Any signs of people doing stuff
  232. [2012-04-26 19:54:59] <Uncandescent> That was Sneak, by the way.
  233. [2012-04-26 19:55:05] <Sequence> Torches bracket them, and as you walk, you pass into pockets of darkness, where the faint torchlight fails.
  234. [2012-04-26 19:55:07] <padri> ?
  235. [2012-04-26 19:55:38] <Sequence> No, just the faint crackle and sputter of the bad-smelling torches.
  236. [2012-04-26 19:55:59] <padri> She turns to Sabrina. "Want to pick a door?"
  237. [2012-04-26 19:56:21] <Holben> "I... um..." Sabrina points at the middle door if there is one.
  238. [2012-04-26 19:56:45] <padri> Is there a little door in that one?
  239. [2012-04-26 19:56:52] <Sequence> There is.
  240. [2012-04-26 19:57:10] <Daedalize> "Servants, maybe? Or they transport stuff through here, but not recently."
  241. [2012-04-26 19:57:39] <padri> Ren heads towards it and listens at the door.
  242. [2012-04-26 19:57:53] <Sequence> Nothing, Ren.
  243. [2012-04-26 19:58:15] <Uncandescent> Terrance watches her intently, ready to spring into action at the first sign of hostiles.
  244. [2012-04-26 19:58:32] <padri> Ren opens the little door and looks through.
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  246. [2012-04-26 19:58:51] <Daedalize> Velia remains calm, though she detaches the cane from her leg and leans on it.
  247. [2012-04-26 19:59:45] <Sequence> More hallway, though there's another door tucked into an alcove.
  248. [2012-04-26 19:59:49] <Sequence> A small one.
  249. [2012-04-26 20:00:14] <padri> Ren sighs. These hallways are frusterating.
  250. [2012-04-26 20:00:34] <Daedalize> She sidles up alongside the door Ren has open, peeking around the corner. "Anything?"
  251. [2012-04-26 20:00:45] <padri> "Just more halls."
  252. [2012-04-26 20:01:23] <Uncandescent> Terrance is across from Ren, watching her.
  253. [2012-04-26 20:01:30] <Uncandescent> Across the hall, I mean.
  254. [2012-04-26 20:01:49] <padri> "So. Explore this one or check out another door?"
  255. [2012-04-26 20:02:54] <Daedalize> "Might as well explore our options." Velia moves to another of the small doors, and attempts to open it, just a crack.
  256. [2012-04-26 20:03:30] <Uncandescent> Terrance goes to a different small door, and puts his ear to it.
  257. [2012-04-26 20:03:43] <Sequence> It leads to a hallway, ending in a large door.
  258. [2012-04-26 20:03:49] <Sequence> Terrance, it's thick wood, you can't hear anything.
  259. [2012-04-26 20:04:36] <Uncandescent> Terrance opens the door just a crack then.
  260. [2012-04-26 20:05:24] <Sequence> Another hallway, this one smaller.
  261. [2012-04-26 20:05:46] <Daedalize> "Big hallway over here. Terrance?"
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  264. [2012-04-26 20:06:24] <Uncandescent> "Smaller hallway." Terrance lets it close just as gently and looks around the hall. How many doors are there in the hall?
  265. [2012-04-26 20:06:43] <Sequence> 3. You've checked them all.
  266. [2012-04-26 20:07:04] <padri> "So which way?"
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  269. [2012-04-26 20:07:36] <Uncandescent> Was there a door in Terrance's hallway?
  270. [2012-04-26 20:07:52] <Sequence> Just an enormous one.
  271. [2012-04-26 20:08:21] <Uncandescent> How enormous?
  272. [2012-04-26 20:08:57] <padri> Enormously enormous.
  273. [2012-04-26 20:08:59] <Sequence> Enormous like all the other ones have been so far.
  274. [2012-04-26 20:09:02] <Sequence> padri, hush.
  275. [2012-04-26 20:09:35] <Daedalize> "So. Big hallway, small hallway, hallway with an us-sized alcove?"
  276. [2012-04-26 20:10:03] <Uncandescent> "Third one." Terrance puts forward.
  277. [2012-04-26 20:10:28] <padri> Isn't Ren's hall the one with the us-sized alcove?
  278. [2012-04-26 20:10:35] <Uncandescent> Indeed.
  279. [2012-04-26 20:10:49] <padri> "Okay." She heads down the hall.
  280. [2012-04-26 20:11:27] <Uncandescent> Terrance watches her through the open door, then carefully follows after, a fair distance behind.
  281. [2012-04-26 20:11:34] <Holben> Sabrina follows too.
  282. [2012-04-26 20:11:50] <Daedalize> "Alright. Stick close, still. Don't want to be split up."
  283. [2012-04-26 20:11:55] <padri> She listens at the door. She won't hear anything, but still.
  284. [2012-04-26 20:12:15] <Daedalize> Velia closes the other two doors, then follows the other into the hallway of choice, closing the door to it behind her.
  285. [2012-04-26 20:12:40] <Sequence> The torches in this one are a bit more recent, and a touch better made.
  286. [2012-04-26 20:12:44] <Sequence> Still stink.
  287. [2012-04-26 20:13:05] <padri> Ren's glad of that. She trades out her torch.
  288. [2012-04-26 20:13:19] <padri> She opens the door and peeks through.
  289. [2012-04-26 20:13:20] <Holben> Sabrina takes a torch.
  290. [2012-04-26 20:13:25] <Sequence> Well, that alcove has a you-sized door.
  291. [2012-04-26 20:13:26] <Uncandescent> Terrance presses himself against the wall next to the door, and nods at Ren.
  292. [2012-04-26 20:13:43] <padri> She smiles at Terrance and looks through the door.
  293. [2012-04-26 20:13:52] <padri> ~Thank you Terrance.~
  294. [2012-04-26 20:14:10] <Uncandescent> Terrance's flesh burns a little as Ren smiles at him, but he powers through it.
  295. [2012-04-26 20:14:39] <Daedalize> Velia does not take a torch, leaving her hands free for fighting.
  296. [2012-04-26 20:15:04] <Daedalize> She waits a ways back from the door, so as not to get caught in any ambushes.
  297. [2012-04-26 20:15:17] <Uncandescent> But not really, he's not actually allergic to happiness.
  298. [2012-04-26 20:15:22] <padri> What's through the door?
  299. [2012-04-26 20:16:01] <Sequence> Ren, it's a kitchen! Very small, very plain- a cold fireplace is tucked inside one door, and there's a giant table in the center, for working on. There's also a large box against one wall, with condensation on it's sides.
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  302. [2012-04-26 20:16:39] <Holben> Sabrina inspects the fireplace... recently used?
  303. [2012-04-26 20:16:43] <padri> Ren walks in. She looks around and walks to the box.
  304. [2012-04-26 20:16:53] <Sequence> Very recently- the coals are still a bit warm.
  305. [2012-04-26 20:17:02] <Sequence> There's grease on the table, and Ren, that box is cold!
  306. [2012-04-26 20:17:04] <Daedalize> <<What's up?>>
  307. [2012-04-26 20:17:17] <padri> <<Kitchen.>>
  308. [2012-04-26 20:17:23] <Holben> <<...recent fire, we think...>>
  309. [2012-04-26 20:17:25] <Uncandescent> Terrance peeks around the corner as the girls go in, then quietly slips in himself.
  310. [2012-04-26 20:17:37] <padri> Any sign of what's in the box?
  311. [2012-04-26 20:17:57] <Sequence> Something that needs to be kept cold! There's some dried stuff around the edges, red. Maybe meat?
  312. [2012-04-26 20:18:07] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks to the ground around the center table. Any stray food scraps to indicate what the table was last used for?
  313. [2012-04-26 20:18:09] <Sequence> *inside one wall
  314. [2012-04-26 20:18:18] <Daedalize> Velia maintains a lookout outside the room. <<Any other exits from there?>>
  315. [2012-04-26 20:18:31] <padri> Are there?
  316. [2012-04-26 20:18:38] <Sequence> There's a door in the opposite wall from where you entered.
  317. [2012-04-26 20:18:54] <padri> <<Door opposite yours, Velia.>>
  318. [2012-04-26 20:18:56] <Sequence> A double-door, in fact, made so it'll swing open and shut if someone rushes through it.l
  319. [2012-04-26 20:19:30] <Daedalize> <<Then that's where whoever made the fire has to have gone. Be careful.>>
  320. [2012-04-26 20:19:34] <padri> Ren looks for a way to open cold box. ~Please don't be giants that eat people.~~
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  322. [2012-04-26 20:19:50] <Sequence> It's a simple box with a lid, Ren! To open, push up!
  323. [2012-04-26 20:20:04] <padri> She does!
  324. [2012-04-26 20:20:18] <Uncandescent> Does Terrance's examination produce any results?
  325. [2012-04-26 20:20:20] <Sequence> There's meat in there! A lot of it, too.
  326. [2012-04-26 20:20:29] <padri> What kind?
  327. [2012-04-26 20:20:33] <padri> Can she tell?
  328. [2012-04-26 20:20:40] <padri> And how big is this box?
  329. [2012-04-26 20:21:11] <Sequence> About as big as a bed. Big enough to hold several people.
  330. [2012-04-26 20:21:29] <Sequence> It's just meat, Ren. No bones or anything to really tell you what it's made of.
  331. [2012-04-26 20:22:09] <padri> She frowns and closes the cold-box. Didn't tell her much. . .
  332. [2012-04-26 20:22:15] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks at the center table.
  333. [2012-04-26 20:22:17] <Sequence> Well, maybe if you tasted the meat.
  334. [2012-04-26 20:22:26] <Uncandescent> Any signs of being used?
  335. [2012-04-26 20:22:44] <padri> Ren's not tasting raw meat!
  336. [2012-04-26 20:22:47] <Sequence> It's been used, yeah.
  337. [2012-04-26 20:22:54] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks to the ground around the center table. Any stray food scraps to indicate what the table was last used for?
  338. [2012-04-26 20:23:01] <padri> That's a good way to get sick!
  339. [2012-04-26 20:23:11] <Sequence> There's a few scraps of cooked meat on the table, actually, from when the unknown butler chopped some meat.
  340. [2012-04-26 20:23:43] <Uncandescent> Can Terrance roll Medical to tell what kind of meat?
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  342. [2012-04-26 20:23:47] <Sequence> Uncooked meat has obviously been slung around this place, there's blood drips.
  343. [2012-04-26 20:23:48] <padri> She heads over to the table. Is there any veggies anywhere?
  344. [2012-04-26 20:23:53] <Daedalize> Velia continues watching the hall, just outside the door. She takes a moment to examine the floors for any signs of food being carted through.
  345. [2012-04-26 20:24:09] <Sequence> No, he can't. Meat is meat until you taste it, after all.
  346. [2012-04-26 20:24:12] <Sequence> No, Ren.
  347. [2012-04-26 20:24:38] <padri> Nuh uh. You can tell by looking usually . . .
  348. [2012-04-26 20:24:43] <Uncandescent> Not tasting that. Anything else in the room?
  349. [2012-04-26 20:25:04] <Sequence> Nope, but something has spiced that meat. It smells delicious.
  350. [2012-04-26 20:25:38] <Sequence> *redact, it looks like pork.
  351. [2012-04-26 20:25:41] <Sequence> Smells like it too.
  352. [2012-04-26 20:25:46] <Daedalize> Does Velia's examination of the hall turn up anything?
  353. [2012-04-26 20:25:48] <Uncandescent> We're not eating the goddamn meat. Terrance carefully moves over to the double doors.
  354. [2012-04-26 20:26:11] <Holben> Sabrina heads over too.
  355. [2012-04-26 20:26:25] <Sequence> Footprints, Velia.
  356. [2012-04-26 20:26:33] <Uncandescent> Are these doors just as thick as the other doors?
  357. [2012-04-26 20:26:35] <Sequence> Bare footprints.
  358. [2012-04-26 20:26:39] <Sequence> Yes.
  359. [2012-04-26 20:26:56] <Daedalize> Bare footprints? Leading where?
  360. [2012-04-26 20:27:15] <Uncandescent> Terrance drops down and tries to peer through the crack underneath the door. Does he see anything?
  361. [2012-04-26 20:27:18] <Sequence> In and out the doors, stopping by the table, and the fireplace, and the coldbox.
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  363. [2012-04-26 20:28:22] <Daedalize> Where do they go in the hall? Back the way the team came, or down towards the other big door?
  364. [2012-04-26 20:28:35] <padri> Ren's hungry. And the pork smells delicious.
  365. [2012-04-26 20:30:09] <Sequence> Light, Terrance.
  366. [2012-04-26 20:30:14] <Sequence> You get dust up your nose.
  367. [2012-04-26 20:30:50] <Uncandescent> Well crap. He blows his nose on his sleeve and wipes it off on the fireplace, discreetly.
  368. [2012-04-26 20:31:33] =-= Scantron has changed the topic to ``Current Location: A castle or something.''
  369. [2012-04-26 20:31:48] <Sequence> Your nose still itches a bit, Terrance, and your snot leaves a clear trail on the fireplace stones.
  370. [2012-04-26 20:31:54] <Daedalize> <<Guys, there's footprints out here in the hall. Bare footprints, so probably the servants.>>
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  372. [2012-04-26 20:32:07] <Uncandescent> Terrance carefully, ever so carefully, cracks open the doors. In fact, it's so careful, I'm rolling Sneak to avoi
  373. [2012-04-26 20:32:09] <Daedalize> Velia continues looking to see where the footprints go in the hall.
  374. [2012-04-26 20:32:33] <Uncandescent> Whatever, he wipes it on his pants. Then Terrance carefully, ever so carefully, cracks open the doors. In fact, it's so careful, I'm rolling Sneak to avoid detection.
  375. [2012-04-26 20:32:41] <Uncandescent> 6df+7
  376. [2012-04-26 20:32:42] <Glacon> Uncandescent: 6 (6df+7=3+, 4-, 4-, 3+, 4-, 0)
  377. [2012-04-26 20:33:09] <Sequence> Nobody sees you open those doors! Ren and Velia and Sabrina will be so surprised!
  378. [2012-04-26 20:33:23] <Sequence> The doors lead to another hallway, this one with a curved ceiling.
  379. [2012-04-26 20:33:30] <Sequence> Humansized, but it looks like the ceiling rises.
  380. [2012-04-26 20:33:37] <Uncandescent> Curved how?
  381. [2012-04-26 20:34:15] <Sequence> Curved like a tunnel.
  382. [2012-04-26 20:34:33] <Holben> What kind of tunnel?
  383. [2012-04-26 20:35:14] <Scantron> A curved one.
  384. [2012-04-26 20:35:25] <padri> Ren looks around. Is this a kitchen or a butchers? Any signs of one way or the other?
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  388. [2012-04-26 20:36:00] <Uncandescent> Terrance lets the doors close.
  389. [2012-04-26 20:36:10] <Sequence> Velia, they go down to a corner and stop, and there's a brushing of the dust there like someone curled up and slept there.
  390. [2012-04-26 20:36:18] <Sequence> Terrance, more footsteps down there.
  391. [2012-04-26 20:36:26] <Sequence> Ren, it's a kitchen.
  392. [2012-04-26 20:36:33] <Holben> What shape is the brushed area?
  393. [2012-04-26 20:36:47] <Sequence> But there is a part of the table that looks like it was used as a butcher's.
  394. [2012-04-26 20:36:48] <padri> With no veggies. Only mystery pork. Ren's worried by this.
  395. [2012-04-26 20:36:54] <Holben> And what size?
  396. [2012-04-26 20:36:58] <Sequence> The shape of a person, Holben, and small.
  397. [2012-04-26 20:37:17] <Holben> What position is the person shape in?
  398. [2012-04-26 20:37:22] <Uncandescent> Then Terrance does not close the doors. Do the footprints extend to the end of the hall?
  399. [2012-04-26 20:37:28] <Sequence> Yes.
  400. [2012-04-26 20:37:52] <Daedalize> <<Looks like the servants sleep in these halls. Probably sleeping on the job, at that, which means these halls are rarely used by the masters.>>
  401. [2012-04-26 20:38:36] <Uncandescent> <<Roger. Footsteps here as well.>>
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  404. [2012-04-26 20:40:27] <padri> Soup pots? Anything to suggest they aren't carnivores?
  405. [2012-04-26 20:40:52] <Sequence> Nope. Plates are stacked against one wall.
  406. [2012-04-26 20:40:56] <Sequence> Platters, more like.
  407. [2012-04-26 20:41:46] <padri> So they're carnivores. . . She hopes the pork is pork.
  408. [2012-04-26 20:41:57] <Sequence> She could tell if she tasted it.
  409. [2012-04-26 20:42:36] <Uncandescent> Terrance slips through the doorway and heads down the hall, carefully.
  410. [2012-04-26 20:43:09] <Uncandescent> <<Surveilling hallway.>>
  411. [2012-04-26 20:43:43] <padri> She tastes a tiny bite of it when no one's looking.
  412. [2012-04-26 20:43:56] <Uncandescent> He noiselessly transverses the length of the hall, then presses his back against the wall just before the corner, and peeks out.
  413. [2012-04-26 20:44:04] <Daedalize> <<I'm moving into the kitchen now. Keep us informed.>>
  414. [2012-04-26 20:44:15] <Sequence> padri, that is some damn good meat.
  415. [2012-04-26 20:44:19] <Sequence> Bit bland, though.
  416. [2012-04-26 20:44:24] <Sequence> Smells better than it tasted.
  417. [2012-04-26 20:44:28] <Daedalize> Velia slips inside the room with Renee and Sabrina, closing the door behind her as usual.
  418. [2012-04-26 20:44:34] <Sequence> Tastes like... sugared pork.
  419. [2012-04-26 20:44:38] <Daedalize> "So, what've you two found?"
  420. [2012-04-26 20:44:45] <Sequence> Velia, you see what everyone else sees.
  421. [2012-04-26 20:44:46] <padri> But it tastes like pork?
  422. [2012-04-26 20:44:58] <Holben> "Some pots, and platters..."
  423. [2012-04-26 20:45:05] <Sequence> Terrance, in the interests of sanity, I will describe that later.
  424. [2012-04-26 20:45:30] <padri> "They probably don't eat their fruits and veggies."
  425. [2012-04-26 20:45:41] <Daedalize> "Any signs of what they cook? Or how they deliver it?" Velia pokes about the table and the coldbox.
  426. [2012-04-26 20:46:12] <padri> "Pork."
  427. [2012-04-26 20:46:26] <Sequence> Velia, you see the previous descriptions of the table and coldbox.
  428. [2012-04-26 20:46:41] <Uncandescent> <<Nothing to report. GM refuses to describe.>>
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  431. [2012-04-26 20:48:09] <Daedalize> "Weird. You'd think they'd at least have more than one kind of meat. And we haven't seen any signs of animals being brought through."
  432. [2012-04-26 20:48:48] <padri> "We should go after Terrance. Maybe we'll find something new."
  433. [2012-04-26 20:49:02] <Daedalize> <<Hey, Terrance. Any sign of a feedlot down there? Anywhere they could keep pigs?>>
  434. [2012-04-26 20:49:29] <Holben> "I think so too, Ren..."
  435. [2012-04-26 20:49:31] <Sequence> AHEM.
  436. [2012-04-26 20:49:55] <Sequence> Terrance, the corridor turns a bit and rises again, widening more. You are hit with the most /awful/ stench.
  437. [2012-04-26 20:50:34] <Sequence> It's warm here, and there's the scent of shit, and the sharp smell of blood, and sweat and urine have made their marks on the stone.
  438. [2012-04-26 20:51:06] <Uncandescent> Terrance wrinkles his nose and steps back. <<Affirmative.>>
  439. [2012-04-26 20:51:09] <Sequence> It's dark here, so you can't quite see what's around you. Torches much further down the hall.
  440. [2012-04-26 20:51:26] <Uncandescent> Wait, I'm wearing a gas mask.
  441. [2012-04-26 20:51:33] <Sequence> Oh right, you can't smell this.
  442. [2012-04-26 20:51:44] <Sequence> All you smell is something like cat urine in another room, and it's really dark here.
  443. [2012-04-26 20:52:09] <Uncandescent> <<Negative.>> Terrance says, not wrinkling his nose at all.
  444. [2012-04-26 20:52:13] <padri> "Let's go see?"
  445. [2012-04-26 20:52:46] <Holben> "ok..."
  446. [2012-04-26 20:53:22] <padri> Ren heads after Terrance. When she smells it, she wants to wretch.
  447. [2012-04-26 20:53:30] <Uncandescent> Terrance slips out his flashlight and shines it down the corridor.
  448. [2012-04-26 20:53:44] <Holben> Sabrina is similiarly affected by the stench
  449. [2012-04-26 20:54:04] <Sequence> Ren.
  450. [2012-04-26 20:54:11] <padri> Ren?
  451. [2012-04-26 20:54:19] <Sequence> This scent is /old/, and new, overlaying layers of the most awful stench.
  452. [2012-04-26 20:54:25] <Sequence> Hints of puke in there too, but it's well hidden.
  453. [2012-04-26 20:54:32] <Daedalize> "I'll follow behind you guys." Velia grabs a small strip of the meat, the bloodiest she can find, and slips it into a sampling vial.
  454. [2012-04-26 20:54:45] <padri> So it's been here over and over again?
  455. [2012-04-26 20:55:07] <Sequence> Terrance, there are yelps as you swing your light around, sobs as someone's- several someones- eyes are blinded by the sudden flash of light.
  456. [2012-04-26 20:55:21] <Daedalize> She then pulls out her phone to take a few pictures before following the others, closing the doors behind /as usual/.
  457. [2012-04-26 20:55:43] <Sequence> There are people chained to the walls, some in horrible, disfiguring postures, some upside down so their faces are close to the filthy floor.
  458. [2012-04-26 20:55:56] <Sequence> Yes, Ren.
  459. [2012-04-26 20:56:03] <padri> Is there a way to get them down?
  460. [2012-04-26 20:56:05] <Uncandescent> Terrance jumps back a bit, then steadies his light so that he can see them better.
  461. [2012-04-26 20:56:24] <padri> Now she really wants to puke.
  462. [2012-04-26 20:56:25] <Uncandescent> Are they human?
  463. [2012-04-26 20:57:11] <Sequence> The one you shine your light on, Terrance, is a woman, but that's hard to tell. Part of her breast has been carved off, and her face is mangled, her tongue seeming to loll outside of her mouth, her left arm twisted out so her shoulder hunches against the gently bleeding section of her chest.
  464. [2012-04-26 20:57:35] <Sequence> She turns her face away from the light, not a sound coming from her, though the people surrounding her yelp and stifle hisses of pain.
  465. [2012-04-26 20:58:05] <Sequence> Her legs... stained with shit, and piss, and blood.
  466. [2012-04-26 20:58:16] <Uncandescent> Terrance feels the sharp sting of bile rise up from the back of his throat, but he quickly swallows it down.
  467. [2012-04-26 20:58:19] <Daedalize> Velia hurries to catch up with the others, then skids to a halt as she comes up behind them. "Anyth-" She shuts up quick on seeing the sights.
  468. [2012-04-26 20:58:46] <padri> Ren pukes. Everything she's eaten today comes back up.
  469. [2012-04-26 20:58:56] <Holben> Sabrina freezes still.
  470. [2012-04-26 20:58:58] <Sequence> Did Ren bend over?
  471. [2012-04-26 20:59:05] <padri> Yes.
  472. [2012-04-26 20:59:18] <Sequence> Ren, that just brings you closer to that /disgusting/ stench, and you can see places on the floor where others have brought up food as well.
  473. [2012-04-26 20:59:38] <Uncandescent> Terrance does a brief sweep with the flashlight to ensure a lack of hostiles, and then switches off his flashlight.
  474. [2012-04-26 20:59:56] <padri> She stands as soon as she's done. And she has nothing left to throw up, but she /would/ if she did.
  475. [2012-04-26 21:00:02] <Sequence> Terrance, more muffled shouts follow your light, and you see more monstrosities.
  476. [2012-04-26 21:00:12] <Sequence> A man with no legs, held up by his fingers.
  477. [2012-04-26 21:00:39] <Daedalize> "Fucking. Fuck." Velia just turns around, preferring not to look at these things.
  478. [2012-04-26 21:00:39] <Sequence> Someone, off to side, in the dark, starts to say something and then stops.
  479. [2012-04-26 21:00:41] <Sequence> "Please..."
  480. [2012-04-26 21:00:42] <padri> Holy . . .
  481. [2012-04-26 21:01:06] <padri> Ren turns to it. "Please? We'll help. We're here to help."
  482. [2012-04-26 21:01:22] <Uncandescent> Terrance uses his disgust to focus his drive into a razor sharp point. He flips on his flashlight again and searches for one that looks like they can walk.
  483. [2012-04-26 21:01:28] <Sequence> "Shut up! Don't! You'll just get them caught!" Another voice shouts.
  484. [2012-04-26 21:01:40] <padri> "How?"
  485. [2012-04-26 21:01:48] <Sequence> "No, please, you have to help me, get me out of here, /please/." The first speaker sobs, voice cracking with desperation.
  486. [2012-04-26 21:01:49] <padri> "Who caught?"
  487. [2012-04-26 21:02:18] <Daedalize> Taking several deep breaths behind her gas mask to help her focus, Velia turns around once more, scanning the area for other exits.
  488. [2012-04-26 21:02:19] <Sequence> " /He'll/ find you, and hurt you! Get away, now!"
  489. [2012-04-26 21:02:36] <Sequence> Velia, a rat scurries over your feet.
  490. [2012-04-26 21:02:38] <padri> "We're going to help you. Tell me who he is."
  491. [2012-04-26 21:03:13] <Uncandescent> Terrance shines his light over the speaker.
  492. [2012-04-26 21:03:23] <Daedalize> With her boots on, she barely feels it, but she whips her foot up in a kicking motion anyway.
  493. [2012-04-26 21:03:25] <Sequence> "I- I can't. I've said too much. He'll hurt me. Just- don't listen to Lilian. She'll get you caught by Him. Run."
  494. [2012-04-26 21:03:52] <padri> "Lilian? Who is he?" Soothing, comforting Renee.
  495. [2012-04-26 21:03:58] <Sequence> The rat's too fast for you, Velia, but the finger it had in it's mouth drips a little blood onto your boot, a single glinting droplet.
  496. [2012-04-26 21:03:59] <Uncandescent> The one who wants out, that is.
  497. [2012-04-26 21:04:10] <Sequence> "I'm Lilian! Please, get me out of here!"
  498. [2012-04-26 21:04:14] <padri> She takes a step towards Lilian.
  499. [2012-04-26 21:04:19] <Sequence> "No, shut up! Shut up and be quiet, Lilian!"
  500. [2012-04-26 21:04:25] <padri> Is there a way to get her out?
  501. [2012-04-26 21:04:27] <Sequence> "Shut up or he'll hear us!"
  502. [2012-04-26 21:04:35] <Daedalize> "Guy keeping them here, don't listen to anyone named Lillian, got it." Velia isn't looking down at her boots, certainly not. She's looking for a way out of this place that doesn't lead back to the kitchen full of... /fuck/.
  503. [2012-04-26 21:04:37] <Sequence> Terrance, the second speaker was a man.
  504. [2012-04-26 21:04:55] <Uncandescent> Terrance shines his light on Lilian.
  505. [2012-04-26 21:05:00] <Sequence> The first speaker is a woman, stomach horribly distended and sagging, arms bound behind her so she leans forward, away from the walls.
  506. [2012-04-26 21:05:19] <padri> "Who is he, Lilian? We can't help unless we know."
  507. [2012-04-26 21:05:29] <Sequence> Her face looks like it was heated wax, melting over her eyes and nose and lips.
  508. [2012-04-26 21:05:32] <Sequence> She can barely talk.
  509. [2012-04-26 21:05:54] <Sequence> "It's... /Him/." She whispers fearfully.
  510. [2012-04-26 21:05:59] <padri> She tries not to look like she's going to vomit at the sight of her.
  511. [2012-04-26 21:06:03] <Daedalize> "Where's the way out, somebody find a way out, we need to get /out/ of this... [/slaughterhouse/]."
  512. [2012-04-26 21:06:09] <Uncandescent> Terrance's eye twitches behind his gas mask. "Why do you fear him."
  513. [2012-04-26 21:06:13] <padri> "Sh. Calm down."
  514. [2012-04-26 21:06:22] <padri> Gentle voice Renee.
  515. [2012-04-26 21:06:49] <Sequence> "He... does this to us. When we displease Him. Or because he can." Her voice trails away into a sob.
  516. [2012-04-26 21:07:00] <Holben> Sabrina is still frozen still.
  517. [2012-04-26 21:07:07] <padri> "What does he look like, Lilian?"
  518. [2012-04-26 21:07:22] <Sequence> "I- I can't. Please. I can't stand this. Get me out, please."
  519. [2012-04-26 21:07:33] <Daedalize> Velia begins proceeding through the room, past the people hanging on the walls, ignoring them as best she can. She wants an /exit/, she wants /out/, she would not say no to having something to /stab/.
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  521. [2012-04-26 21:07:44] <padri> She nods. She searches for a way to free lilian.
  522. [2012-04-26 21:07:56] <PresidentEvil> Jumping in for just a moment.
  523. [2012-04-26 21:08:03] <Uncandescent> "Does he have guards?" Terrance persists, fixing the woman with an intense gaze that she probably can't see.
  524. [2012-04-26 21:08:04] <Sequence> Her cuffs aren't locked, just pinned in a way that she can't free herself.
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  526. [2012-04-26 21:08:35] <padri> "Terrance, hold her while I unpin her."
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  528. [2012-04-26 21:08:48] <PresidentEvil> Velia, walking down only rewards you with more horrors.
  529. [2012-04-26 21:09:09] <Uncandescent> Terrance moves forward and does so.
  530. [2012-04-26 21:09:24] <Sequence> Lilian sobs, relieved, but the man across the hall shouts out.
  531. [2012-04-26 21:09:27] <Sequence> "No, stop!"
  532. [2012-04-26 21:09:36] <padri> "Alright, I'm letting you out." Whispers.
  533. [2012-04-26 21:09:41] <PresidentEvil> The ones here are... misshapen. Or reshapen. Like terrible experiments with no point but sadism.
  534. [2012-04-26 21:09:45] <padri> She unpins Lilian.
  535. [2012-04-26 21:09:57] <PresidentEvil> As you pass one, he manages to call out "Wait, please! You have to help!"
  536. [2012-04-26 21:10:16] <padri> "Lilian. Can you stand?"
  537. [2012-04-26 21:10:21] <Uncandescent> Terrance holds her up as she is unpinned.
  538. [2012-04-26 21:10:22] <Sequence> padri, -1 Body.
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  540. [2012-04-26 21:10:51] <Sequence> Your skin and flesh feel like they're melting.
  541. [2012-04-26 21:11:11] <padri> She stumbles back, looking shocked.
  542. [2012-04-26 21:11:13] <Sequence> Something runs into your eyes, and your hands feel fragile, unsteady.
  543. [2012-04-26 21:11:19] <Daedalize> She doesn't bother responding, as she thinks she might throw up if she tried to speak. ~Keep walking, keep walking, don't look, find the way out. No time to stop. No time, gotta keep walking.~
  544. [2012-04-26 21:11:24] <padri> She looks at her hands. Do they look like they're melting?
  545. [2012-04-26 21:11:34] <Sequence> Lilian collapses to the ground, hands cradling her disgustingly large belly.
  546. [2012-04-26 21:11:44] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks over to Ren as she stumbles back, keeping his hold on Lilian.
  547. [2012-04-26 21:11:44] <Sequence> Yes, like wax, rivulets running down your fingertips.
  548. [2012-04-26 21:11:50] <padri> "Holy. . ."
  549. [2012-04-26 21:11:53] <PresidentEvil> "No, please, you have to kill me for god's sake!"
  550. [2012-04-26 21:11:57] <Sequence> A fingernail drops to the ground.
  551. [2012-04-26 21:12:13] <padri> Is there anything she can do to stop it?
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  553. [2012-04-26 21:12:20] <padri> She starts crying.
  554. [2012-04-26 21:12:26] <Sequence> No.
  555. [2012-04-26 21:12:27] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks at her. Is she melting from his perspective?
  556. [2012-04-26 21:12:27] <padri> No, just tearing up.
  557. [2012-04-26 21:12:32] <Sequence> Yes, she is, Terrance.
  558. [2012-04-26 21:12:37] <Daedalize> ~Killing, killing's a good plan, mercy killing's a bad plan. Keep walking, find something worth killing, kill it.~
  559. [2012-04-26 21:12:57] <Holben> Stiiiill frozen in position
  560. [2012-04-26 21:13:12] <PresidentEvil> As you walk away, he collapses into incoherent sobbing.
  561. [2012-04-26 21:13:13] <Daedalize> Velia keeps walking, trying to force herself to develop tunnel vision.
  562. [2012-04-26 21:13:14] <padri> "I'm melting," she says. She sounds terrified.
  563. [2012-04-26 21:13:20] <PresidentEvil> PresidentEvil out.
  564. [2012-04-26 21:13:37] <Sequence> It slows a little, your flesh freezing in place in strange parts of your body.
  565. [2012-04-26 21:13:51] <Sequence> In a few places, muscle is visible, flexing strangely around it's new burden.
  566. [2012-04-26 21:14:19] <Sequence> Velia, as you walk, more cry out for help, or for death, or for you to escape.
  567. [2012-04-26 21:14:22] <padri> She almost touches it, afraid, but doesn't, also because she's afraid.
  568. [2012-04-26 21:14:28] <Uncandescent> Terrance backs up a few steps with Lilian in tow. He looks over Lilian's sunken face. "What's happening." He says forcefully.
  569. [2012-04-26 21:14:41] <Sequence> Some's voices are like crow's, harsh with pain and damage.
  570. [2012-04-26 21:14:56] <padri> She turns to the person who told her not to. "What is this?" She's scared.
  571. [2012-04-26 21:15:21] <Sequence> Lilian looks up at him as best she can, eyes still hidden with melted flesh. "I... I don't know. I haven't... been here for long."
  572. [2012-04-26 21:15:47] <Sequence> "I told you not to free her. I told you." The hidden male scoffs, then coughs, and keeps coughing.
  573. [2012-04-26 21:16:05] <padri> "Why?"
  574. [2012-04-26 21:16:11] <padri> "What's happening?"
  575. [2012-04-26 21:16:20] <Sequence> Ren, you've finally stopped melting.
  576. [2012-04-26 21:16:39] <Sequence> "He... He does this. To keep us here. So no one will save us."
  577. [2012-04-26 21:17:05] <padri> "But we have to leave you?"
  578. [2012-04-26 21:17:15] <padri> She's not happy about any of this.
  579. [2012-04-26 21:17:35] <Sequence> "You..." He coughs again, longer. "You'll get our injuries. And you don't have His /Blessing/, to keep you alive."
  580. [2012-04-26 21:17:52] <Sequence> He turns the word blessing into a curse.
  581. [2012-04-26 21:18:09] <padri> "What's his blessing?"
  582. [2012-04-26 21:18:13] <Daedalize> Velia looks at the ceiling. Then down to the floor. She's mostly trying to avoid looking at the walls, and the people chained to them, but having something else to focus her attention on helps. Any signs worth noting?
  583. [2012-04-26 21:18:40] <Sequence> More footsteps, and rat traces. Bits of shit and blood and puddles of urine and dried vomit, Velia.
  584. [2012-04-26 21:18:46] <Sequence> "This. This is his Blessing."
  585. [2012-04-26 21:18:54] <Uncandescent> Terrance lets Lilian down onto the ground, trying to be gentle but not succeeding very much. "He looks to her deformed face and devotes his inner chaos towards finding answers. "Does he have guards." He says, speaking slowly and clearly.
  586. [2012-04-26 21:18:54] <Sequence> *His
  587. [2012-04-26 21:19:02] <padri> What's This?
  588. [2012-04-26 21:19:09] <Daedalize> Footprints. That's something. Where do they go?
  589. [2012-04-26 21:19:18] <Sequence> "He doesn't need them." Lilian whispers.
  590. [2012-04-26 21:19:32] <padri> "The chains? What do you mean?"
  591. [2012-04-26 21:19:33] <Uncandescent> "Why."
  592. [2012-04-26 21:19:37] <Sequence> Towards a large door, at the end of this long, long tunnel.
  593. [2012-04-26 21:19:41] <Daedalize> Are they barefoot prints, or shoeprints?
  594. [2012-04-26 21:19:43] <Sequence> "The chains. The torture."
  595. [2012-04-26 21:19:44] <Sequence> Barefoot.
  596. [2012-04-26 21:20:21] <padri> "The chains are keeping you alive?"
  597. [2012-04-26 21:20:51] <Sequence> "He's keeping us alive. I don't know. Just don't save us, please. We're hopeless. Nothing for us now but to... suffer. Until He gets hungry."
  598. [2012-04-26 21:20:52] <padri> She's so squicked out.
  599. [2012-04-26 21:21:08] <Daedalize> She hurries towards that door. As she walks, she clicks the radio switch, then takes a deep breath to stave off the urge to vomit long enough to speak. <<Found a way out, going for it. Footprints, probably servers. Gonna find the thing doing this.>>
  600. [2012-04-26 21:21:29] <Holben> Sabrina runs after Velia.
  601. [2012-04-26 21:21:31] <padri> "No, no I can't do that. We'll stop him. And then Lilian can let you all out. And it'll be safe."
  602. [2012-04-26 21:21:36] <Uncandescent> "Why." Terrance asks, keeping his voice steady and coming out a bit abrupt.
  603. [2012-04-26 21:21:39] <Sequence> Another low moan from the walls, Velia.
  604. [2012-04-26 21:21:40] <padri> She's reassuring herself, too.
  605. [2012-04-26 21:21:51] <Sequence> "Ha. Like Lilian would help anyone, the self-serving bitch."
  606. [2012-04-26 21:22:05] <Sequence> "She'd leave us to rot and run away to wherever you came from."
  607. [2012-04-26 21:22:19] <Sequence> Lilian winces from the speaker's words, flinching away from Terrance.
  608. [2012-04-26 21:22:27] <Sequence> "I... don't know."
  609. [2012-04-26 21:22:36] <padri> "Then we'll come back. You'll all be okay."
  610. [2012-04-26 21:23:01] <Uncandescent> "You are here. He does this to you. How."
  611. [2012-04-26 21:23:34] <Sequence> Velia, There's a man chained to the door, across the split between the halves of it. He's so mutilated as to be almost unrecognizable, scars and wounds slashed across his chest and legs. He's muttering something, something melodic and nonsensical. Like a nursery rhyme.
  612. [2012-04-26 21:24:01] <padri> She rushes out and down the hall. She has to get out of there.
  613. [2012-04-26 21:24:39] <Daedalize> Velia slows to a halt. Is it possible to open the door without... /touching/ the man?
  614. [2012-04-26 21:24:53] <Uncandescent> Terrance turns for a moment as Ren runs off, but quickly turns his attention back to Lilian.
  615. [2012-04-26 21:25:09] <Sequence> "He..." Lilian grabs her stomach, shouting. Then she starts shaking, then spasming, convulsing and throwing her head back so it crunches against the wall.
  616. [2012-04-26 21:25:35] <Uncandescent> Terrance curses and tries to stop her convulsing. Roll Ath?
  617. [2012-04-26 21:25:39] <Sequence> Something in her stomach distends it again, then goes still, as her back arches again, eyes rolling back in her head.
  618. [2012-04-26 21:25:47] <Sequence> You can roll, but it looks like a seizure, and a deadly one.
  619. [2012-04-26 21:26:29] <Uncandescent> Terrance grabs at her, trying to keep her still. "Tell me! What can he do!"
  620. [2012-04-26 21:26:31] <Uncandescent> 6df+5
  621. [2012-04-26 21:26:32] <Glacon> Uncandescent: 9 (6df+5=3+, 3+, 3+, 3+, 0, 0)
  622. [2012-04-26 21:27:19] <Sequence> Terrance can hold her down, but Lilian makes another, choked noise, and is still, eyes staring widely and blankly straight at him.
  623. [2012-04-26 21:27:35] <Sequence> Her body relaxes, and after a moment, a rattle comes from deep within her chest.
  624. [2012-04-26 21:27:38] <Sequence> She's dead.
  625. [2012-04-26 21:27:46] <padri> And I guess Ren, who's running, catches up to Velia and Sabrina. She tilts Don's hat so they can't see her melted face.
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  627. [2012-04-26 21:28:49] <Sequence> Ren, Velia, and Sabrina, you all see that man, and hear him muttering his lullaby. There's no way through that door without touching him- his chains look like one half is meant to come off the door at a time, like a living lock.
  628. [2012-04-26 21:29:23] <padri> Can they get through without taking him down?
  629. [2012-04-26 21:29:47] <Sequence> Not without taking down half of him. You can leave the other half attached to the other side of the door.
  630. [2012-04-26 21:30:19] <padri> Ren looks frightened. She takes a hesitant step up to take him down.
  631. [2012-04-26 21:30:40] <Sequence> He doesn't respond, but another person, hidden in darkness, pleads in a slurred voice for death.
  632. [2012-04-26 21:30:45] <Daedalize> Velia takes another couple of deep breaths, then heads forward and begins struggling with the chains on the side of the door opposite the hinges.
  633. [2012-04-26 21:31:00] <padri> "No, let me, Velia."
  634. [2012-04-26 21:32:14] <Uncandescent> "Fuck!" Terrance yells, letting her fall down ungraciously. "Fuck!" He yells again, running his hands through his close shaven hair. He stays like that for a long moment, letting his rage and frustration and... outrage?... send his body quivering. After a long moment, he stills, and his grimy hands fall to his sides as he stares up at the ceiling.
  635. [2012-04-26 21:32:46] <Sequence> Lilian's body stares at him, eyes wide and mouth gaping.
  636. [2012-04-26 21:32:58] <padri> Ren tries to do it instead of Velia. No point in getting two of them like Ren is.
  637. [2012-04-26 21:32:59] <Daedalize> Would it be possible to shoot the chains off? Velia would prefer that if it means not touching the man.
  638. [2012-04-26 21:33:05] <Sequence> Her hands, no longer pinned by his body, slide off her stomach and to the ground, with soft thumps.
  639. [2012-04-26 21:33:13] <Sequence> It would be possible, Velia, but you'd shoot the man too.
  640. [2012-04-26 21:33:55] <padri> Ren lets him out half way, since Velia's trying to shoot and, i assume, leaving room.
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  643. [2012-04-26 21:34:13] <Uncandescent> He pulls out his pistol and marches over to the man that was talking before. He presses the barrel of his gun against the man's temple and stares into his eyes from behind his mask. "Tell me everything you know about your captor." He says, slowly and purposefully.
  644. [2012-04-26 21:34:28] <Sequence> Pause a bit for description, guys.
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  646. [2012-04-26 21:35:02] =-= Mode #redpool -m by Sequence
  647. [2012-04-26 21:36:12] <Sequence> Terrance, the man you just put your gun to, the reason he was coughing is because he's got a spike driven through one side of his throat, keeping his chin up and straining. Similar spikes keep his palms together, above his head, holding his weight up.
  648. [2012-04-26 21:36:56] <Sequence> Unpause
  649. [2012-04-26 21:37:25] <Uncandescent> Terrance is unflinching even as his barrel vibrates against the man's temple.
  650. [2012-04-26 21:38:28] <Sequence> "He's... the Devil, or something." His voice is rough from the coughing he's done, trying to dislodge that spike. "He likes our pain. He likes our flesh. We are His prisoners."
  651. [2012-04-26 21:39:08] <Sequence> He glances over to Lilian. "Some have escaped, we think. But not ones that He's put his... special mark in. They die without His Blessing."
  652. [2012-04-26 21:39:18] <Daedalize> Velia isn't about to shoot through the guy, knowing the damage her bullets'd do to his flesh. She curses to herself as she returns to struggling with the chains, trying to detach him from the door enough to open it.
  653. [2012-04-26 21:39:33] <Uncandescent> His eyes bounce from the overhead spikes back down to his throat everytime he doesn't focus on staring the man in the eye. "Tell me about his Blessing."
  654. [2012-04-26 21:41:16] <Sequence> "The chains, or whatever. Keeps us here, with Him. So we don't die from what He does to us.
  655. [2012-04-26 21:41:26] <Sequence> All He has to do is tuck us back in here before we die..."
  656. [2012-04-26 21:41:58] <Uncandescent> His eyes flick to the chains again. "The chains make you immortal?"
  657. [2012-04-26 21:42:26] <Sequence> "I don't know. Maybe. Dunno how..." He starts coughing.
  658. [2012-04-26 21:42:58] <Sequence> "Long we've..."
  659. [2012-04-26 21:43:06] <Uncandescent> Terrance draws back slightly as the coughing ensues, then holsters his weapon. "What else can he do."
  660. [2012-04-26 21:43:55] <Sequence> "Knows secrets."
  661. [2012-04-26 21:44:11] <Sequence> Blood flecks his mouth, and spatters a little against Terrance.
  662. [2012-04-26 21:44:54] <Uncandescent> Terrance flinches instinctively, slightly. "Can he be killed."
  663. [2012-04-26 21:45:13] <Sequence> "Dunno."
  664. [2012-04-26 21:45:44] <Uncandescent> "Does he have any abilities."
  665. [2012-04-26 21:46:14] <Sequence> "Knows secrets. Big fucker. Fucks us up bad."
  666. [2012-04-26 21:47:14] <Uncandescent> Sudden realization widens Terrance's eyes a bit. "The doors. They're his size." He says.
  667. [2012-04-26 21:47:49] <Sequence> "Yeah." The man whispers, too tired and pain-filled to say anything else.
  668. [2012-04-26 21:48:22] <Uncandescent> "He can change size then."
  669. [2012-04-26 21:49:00] <Sequence> "Dunno."
  670. [2012-04-26 21:49:53] <Uncandescent> "He fits in here." Terrance says, gesturing to the realatively small space of their current quarters.
  671. [2012-04-26 21:50:22] <Sequence> "His hands do. He might, I don't know."
  672. [2012-04-26 21:51:05] <Uncandescent> Terrance can tell the man is running out of steam. "What does he look like."
  673. [2012-04-26 21:51:45] <Sequence> "Dun..." The man faints.
  674. [2012-04-26 21:54:50] <padri> With trembling hands, Ren opens the half of the man's chains so they can get through.
  675. [2012-04-26 21:54:57] <Uncandescent> Terrance stares at him for a moment, watching him breathe to make sure he's not dead. He turns to question another prisoner, when his foot knocks against Lilian's body. He looks down, and suddenly he's ripping off his gas mask and down on all fours in corner as he violently pukes out all of the insto-crap and military rations he'd stuffed in his body over...
  676. [2012-04-26 21:56:23] <Uncandescent> ...the past day. The overwhelming stench hits him like a sledgehammer and he heaves even harder, until he finds himself nearly on the ground as he dry-heaves hard enough to give him chest pains.
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  678. [2012-04-26 21:57:41] <Sequence> Your puke spatters over the floor, and your hands skid in some disgusting combination of blood and feces, catching under your fingernails and in the grooves of your hand. Some flies onto Lilian, speckling her face with your rejected food.
  679. [2012-04-26 21:58:57] <Uncandescent> He takes a few deep, halting breathes as his esophagus calms down, and he wipes the sweat off of his forehead with his sleeve. He gets to his feet, and stills himself. He gathers and focuses himself, and slips the mask back on.
  680. [2012-04-26 21:59:28] <Sequence> You can feel some blood smearing over your forehead, where your sleeve dragged on the floor.
  681. [2012-04-26 22:00:06] <Sequence> Ren and Velia are waiting on you, Terrance.
  682. [2012-04-26 22:00:58] <Uncandescent> Terrance grabs his radio and brings it up to his encased mouth. <<Status.>> He says, unwavering.
  683. [2012-04-26 22:01:39] <Daedalize> <<Door's blocked. Guy chained across it. We're getting the chains out of the way.>>
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  685. [2012-04-26 22:02:52] <Uncandescent> <<Roger. Moving to your position.>> He makes his way down the filth encrusted hall,striding purposefully past the disheveled masses.
  686. [2012-04-26 22:03:09] <Sequence> A few beg him for death.
  687. [2012-04-26 22:03:19] <Sequence> The rest... they heard what happened with Lilian, and that unnamed man.
  688. [2012-04-26 22:03:28] <Sequence> They know you won't free them.
  689. [2012-04-26 22:04:51] <Uncandescent> It's true. He catches sight of the girls at the end of the hall.
  690. [2012-04-26 22:05:12] <Daedalize> Velia is continuing her struggle with the chains, ignoring the man as best she's able.
  691. [2012-04-26 22:05:26] <Sequence> And now I hand you over to my lovely co-GM, PresidentEvil.
  692. [2012-04-26 22:05:28] <padri> Ren's trying to free the man. Get back, Velia. You don't want these scars.
  693. [2012-04-26 22:06:21] <Sequence> Wait.
  694. [2012-04-26 22:06:27] <Sequence> Is Ren trying to free him /completely/ ?
  695. [2012-04-26 22:06:42] <padri> Is there another way? If there is, then /no./
  696. [2012-04-26 22:06:56] <Sequence> You can free him halfway, letting him hang solely from his left side.
  697. [2012-04-26 22:07:01] <PresidentEvil> Velia, Ren, the chains wind into his torso. Struggle all you want, you're not taking them apart without taking /him/ apart.
  698. [2012-04-26 22:07:35] <padri> Ren turns and vomits again. Which /hurts,/ cause she's already heaved everything she's eaten.
  699. [2012-04-26 22:07:52] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks on, keenly aware of how much he likes his flesh to not melt.
  700. [2012-04-26 22:07:54] <Daedalize> Velia ceases struggling with the chains. "We're not getting these off of him. But we have to get past them."
  701. [2012-04-26 22:08:23] <padri> Ren doesn't turn back around. She squeezes her eyes shut. She can't look.
  702. [2012-04-26 22:08:43] <Uncandescent> Is there no way past the door without killing him?
  703. [2012-04-26 22:09:12] <Sequence> Note: Pres is your GM now, if he disagrees with me, listen to him.
  704. [2012-04-26 22:09:34] <Daedalize> She draws her sidearm, loading it with that wonderful quick-freeze ammo.
  705. [2012-04-26 22:10:12] <Uncandescent> "The doors are made for the master." Terrance says clearly.
  706. [2012-04-26 22:10:47] <padri> "The big ones?" She's scared. And her eyes are /squeezed shut./
  707. [2012-04-26 22:11:06] <PresidentEvil> Terrence, every single prisoner mumbles "The doors are made for the master." in unison, before going back to their screams and sobs of agony.
  708. [2012-04-26 22:11:19] <PresidentEvil> Like they're repeating your words back at a mass. It's really creepy.
  709. [2012-04-26 22:11:28] <Uncandescent> Terrance looks around, taken aback. It is indeed creepy.
  710. [2012-04-26 22:11:37] <Uncandescent> -looks +turns
  711. [2012-04-26 22:11:42] <Sequence> The man on the door keeps mumbling his lullaby.
  712. [2012-04-26 22:12:02] <padri> Ren starts humming Sam's lullaby.
  713. [2012-04-26 22:12:31] <Daedalize> Velia raises her sidearm, leveling it at the man's head. "One shot. Quick. Painless. Just like all the others." Does she need to roll, or just shoot?
  714. [2012-04-26 22:12:46] <Sequence> Just shoot.
  715. [2012-04-26 22:12:51] <PresidentEvil> No roll to shoot him point blank.
  716. [2012-04-26 22:12:57] <Uncandescent> Terrance doesn't give Velia a second glance. She's doing what needs to be done.
  717. [2012-04-26 22:13:19] <Daedalize> She pulls the trigger. Bang.
  718. [2012-04-26 22:13:50] <padri> Ren doesn't, either. And it's Renee.
  719. [2012-04-26 22:14:26] <PresidentEvil> As the bullet pierces his skull, Velia, you're assaulted by horrible... voices that rush screaming into your head. Thousands of them. Each one a moment of perfect agony. His agony.
  720. [2012-04-26 22:14:53] <PresidentEvil> And you relive every moment, simultaneously, in perfect detail, as if they were just being inflicted on you now. -1 Mind.
  721. [2012-04-26 22:16:14] <PresidentEvil> Everyone else, you see the chains snake out of his insides. The metal is somehow woven into his intestines, so that you cannot see where metal ends and guts begin. As they drop bloody to the floor, the man slides into two halves.
  722. [2012-04-26 22:16:17] <PresidentEvil> The way is clear.
  723. [2012-04-26 22:17:03] <Daedalize> Velia's jaw clamps down, her teeth grinding together as she drops to one knee, clutching her head. The sidearm falls to the floor, abandoned. She doesn't scream, though, feeling too sick to make any sound.
  724. [2012-04-26 22:17:08] <padri> Except Ren doesn't, cause she's /not/ /looking./
  725. [2012-04-26 22:18:46] <PresidentEvil> But Terrence is, right?
  726. [2012-04-26 22:19:16] <Uncandescent> Terrance is looking at the prisoners that were doing Mass.
  727. [2012-04-26 22:19:22] <padri> She's so not looking it hurts.
  728. [2012-04-26 22:19:43] <PresidentEvil> They've all gone back to their pain, Terrence.
  729. [2012-04-26 22:20:27] <Uncandescent> He turns now, and looks at the torn apart man for a moment, a very scant moment, before moving past the quivering Velia and through the doors beyond.
  730. [2012-04-26 22:21:02] <Uncandescent> What is in beyond the doors?
  731. [2012-04-26 22:22:03] <PresidentEvil> The doors are well oiled. You try not to think about what with. Beyond is darkness, so black that it seems to cut the beams of your lights down to a mere flicker.
  732. [2012-04-26 22:22:19] <padri> When she hears Terrance move past, she reaches out for him. She doesn't want to open her eyes, to see this.
  733. [2012-04-26 22:22:35] <PresidentEvil> From what little you can see, the floor is some sort of black, polished stone like obsidian.
  734. [2012-04-26 22:23:27] <Daedalize> Velia starts slow, moving her fingers one by one. From there, she moves up to an arm, before getting all her limbs back under control and staggering to her feet, just long enough to get through the doors and into the cleaner hall on the other side.
  735. [2012-04-26 22:23:57] <Uncandescent> Terrance makes no move to dislodge Ren, but doesn't acknowledge her either.
  736. [2012-04-26 22:24:07] <Daedalize> She isn't terribly concerned about the darkness, at this point.
  737. [2012-04-26 22:24:08] <padri> Ren follows her hand on Terrance.
  738. [2012-04-26 22:25:16] <Uncandescent> Terrance swallows back the unnamable lump in his throat and flicks his flashlight back on, trying to discern something about their new location.
  739. [2012-04-26 22:25:52] <padri> She opens her eyes when she's sure they've left that God-awful place.
  740. [2012-04-26 22:26:00] <PresidentEvil> Once Ren is through, the doors swing softly shut of their own volition.
  741. [2012-04-26 22:26:51] <PresidentEvil> If you were to look back now, you'd see nothing but the polished black stone you stand on. The doors are gone, leaving no features but the floor, the darkness, and the god-awful voice that addresses you now. "At last."
  742. [2012-04-26 22:27:18] <padri> Ren does /not/ look back. But she looks for the source of the voice.
  743. [2012-04-26 22:27:37] <PresidentEvil> It's inside your head, Ren. It's inside your head and it won't leave.
  744. [2012-04-26 22:27:38] <Uncandescent> Terrance flinches and his knuckles turn white as he grips his flashlight.
  745. [2012-04-26 22:27:46] <padri> No. . .
  746. [2012-04-26 22:28:30] <padri> No. She can handle a voice in her head. This she can take. It's just a different communication.
  747. [2012-04-26 22:29:09] <PresidentEvil> Everyone else, it's in your head too. It's deep and sonorous and it hates.
  748. [2012-04-26 22:29:41] <PresidentEvil> Not regular hate such as mortals are capable of. No. This hate is like an ocean. Deep; endless.
  749. [2012-04-26 22:29:53] <PresidentEvil> You could drown in it.
  750. [2012-04-26 22:29:57] <Daedalize> Slowly, Velia manages to raise her head. She goes for her sidearm, first, but it isn't there. So she grabs the rifle off her back instead, bringing it to bear on... nothing, really. She just points it straight ahead of her, into the darkness.
  751. [2012-04-26 22:30:09] <padri> She doesn't like the hate. Hate is not something she likes. She quivers. She doesn't do hate. The voice is fine, but not the hate. Ren doesn't hate anyone. Take it away. . .
  752. [2012-04-26 22:30:20] <Uncandescent> Terrance grasps his sniper rifle with his free hand as he stares out into the impenetrable darkness. "Show yourself." He says, throwing his words forward like a life buoy.
  753. [2012-04-26 22:30:37] <padri> She doesn't take her hand off Terrance.
  754. [2012-04-26 22:31:21] <Uncandescent> The last word come out almost breathlessly.
  755. [2012-04-26 22:31:36] <PresidentEvil> "Why? You've seen my work. You know me already. And I know you, friends. I know your innermost secrets better than you do."
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  757. [2012-04-26 22:31:42] <Daedalize> Velia doesn't have time for words, and it quite clearly knows they're there already. She just fires off a single shot into the dark, not really thinking to hit anything, just for the sound of it. The recoil is... empowering.
  758. [2012-04-26 22:31:53] <padri> ~NO go away stop it.~
  759. [2012-04-26 22:32:19] <PresidentEvil> The voice chuckles with disdain at your shot, Velia. "Oh, you poor dear. Were you hoping to see me bleed?"
  760. [2012-04-26 22:32:21] <Uncandescent> Terrance turns to glare at Velia, but the shot is comforting. He just nods and brings up his rifle as well.
  761. [2012-04-26 22:32:26] <padri> But she has no secrets to hide.
  762. [2012-04-26 22:32:30] <PresidentEvil> "You would enjoy that, wouldn't you?"
  763. [2012-04-26 22:34:56] <Daedalize> Okay, /that/ gets to her. "No thanks... [bastard]. Yours... probably even worse than... all the people you had hanging... back there. Theirs was... mixed with shit... but yours was shit right from the start."
  764. [2012-04-26 22:35:18] <Uncandescent> Terrance switches off his flashlight and slips it into a pocket, before bringing to bear his flare gun and shooting a few rounds up into the all-encompassing blackness.
  765. [2012-04-26 22:36:19] <PresidentEvil> "So you admit you enjoyed my handiwork, then?" Terrence, the flares gutter and die in seconds. You don't hear them land.
  766. [2012-04-26 22:36:42] <padri> "Handiwork?" The hate is getting to her. She's pissed.
  767. [2012-04-26 22:37:04] <padri> "You call that /handiwork?/!
  768. [2012-04-26 22:37:07] <padri> *"
  769. [2012-04-26 22:37:34] <PresidentEvil> "Oh, child. Deny it to others, but you cannot deny yourself to me. You saw not an abomination, but the hand of an artist on my walls."
  770. [2012-04-26 22:37:37] <Uncandescent> The disparaging reaction throws him off for a moment.
  771. [2012-04-26 22:38:20] <padri> She scowls so much that she looks like a wild animal growling, she's so angry. "Artist? You think you're an artist?"
  772. [2012-04-26 22:38:21] <PresidentEvil> And he's right, Velia. Even if you didn't admit it to yourself, their blood stirred something in you.
  773. [2012-04-26 22:38:37] <PresidentEvil> "Strong words from a cannibal, dear.
  774. [2012-04-26 22:38:52] <PresidentEvil> "Or did you really think mere beasts graced my kitchens?"
  775. [2012-04-26 22:39:00] <Uncandescent> He holsters the gun and pulls out an actual flare, lighting it and holding it high above his head.
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  777. [2012-04-26 22:39:34] <padri> That /almost/ gets to her, but the /hate/ is stronger. "Yes. They do. They're your kitchens, aren't they."
  778. [2012-04-26 22:40:04] <Daedalize> Velia gets to her feet again, rifle still held tightly in her hands. She starts walking. Forward. Closer. So she can shoot it. Or cut it. Either would do.
  779. [2012-04-26 22:40:30] <Uncandescent> Terrance grabs onto Velia's shoulder as she goes past. "Don't."
  780. [2012-04-26 22:40:32] <PresidentEvil> "Yes, and you supped in them just as I have, and even better, you /liked/ it!"
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  782. [2012-04-26 22:41:36] <PresidentEvil> Terrence, the flare does about as much good as your flashlight. It flickers, almost as if the light itself is scared to be here.
  783. [2012-04-26 22:42:03] <padri> She did, didn't she. But she didn't know. How could she know. No. No way. No. She falls to her knees and wretches again. She /did,/ didn't she.
  784. [2012-04-26 22:42:14] <Daedalize> Velia shrugs him off. "Gotta get closer. So we can see it. So we can shoot it. Sitting around here's no good."
  785. [2012-04-26 22:42:46] <padri> She shakes violently as she heaves
  786. [2012-04-26 22:43:16] <PresidentEvil> "Oh, child. Such a shame. You will die here, and you will die hating him for what he did to you. And he will know it." Ren, you somehow know he's talking about Don.
  787. [2012-04-26 22:43:49] <Uncandescent> "Neither is giving in." He says. He chucks the flare forward in an attempt to illuminate the space in front of them.
  788. [2012-04-26 22:44:01] <padri> "No. No, I don't hate. You hate. I don't hate." She cries.
  789. [2012-04-26 22:44:29] <PresidentEvil> The flare sputters and dies after a few seconds.
  790. [2012-04-26 22:45:10] <padri> "Not me. Not Don. I don't hate Don. I couldn't hate Don."
  791. [2012-04-26 22:45:18] <Daedalize> "What're you, a demigod? We've fought at least three of those. One got scared off by a bigger asshole than himself, one we told off like a trained beast, one's running and hiding, throwing puppets at us to slow us down. You're no different than them."
  792. [2012-04-26 22:46:24] <padri> She mutters a prayer silently to herself for forgiveness.
  793. [2012-04-26 22:47:40] <PresidentEvil> "There's no use, child. I am your god now."
  794. [2012-04-26 22:48:11] <padri> "No. No. The /Lord/ is my shepherd."
  795. [2012-04-26 22:49:25] <PresidentEvil> "Your Shepherd has abandoned you, like he has abandoned so many to me."
  796. [2012-04-26 22:49:46] <Daedalize> "Live in a pretty castle, torture people like a sociopath kid tortures ants. You don't even /have/ an afterlife for them, you just stick them in a box and gnaw on them occasionally. If you're a god, then I'm an angel, and [I am sure as hell not a fucking angel so fuck you]."
  797. [2012-04-26 22:50:16] <padri> "No. You're wrong there." Ren looks up. She's stopped shaking and crying.
  798. [2012-04-26 22:50:28] <Uncandescent> Terrance grits his teeth in determination and pulls his flashlight back out.
  799. [2012-04-26 22:51:29] <PresidentEvil> "Am I?"
  800. [2012-04-26 22:52:15] <padri> She stands up. "Yes. Question me all you want, but he'll still be here after we've ended you."
  801. [2012-04-26 22:52:50] <PresidentEvil> "I do not think so. I know your kind, very well. They are all the same, they'll cling to anything that denies them their torment for a few precious seconds."
  802. [2012-04-26 22:53:09] <PresidentEvil> "Tell me, Terrence... why did you turn on her?"
  803. [2012-04-26 22:53:56] <Uncandescent> Terrance decides that lighting the are is a futile effort. He releases Velia and begins walking forward. He ignores the voice, the correlation not jumping to his mind immediately.
  804. [2012-04-26 22:54:24] <PresidentEvil> "Well? I'm sure you had a very compelling reason, to do such harm to the one who gave you life."
  805. [2012-04-26 22:54:54] <Uncandescent> He starts and his flashlight drops, rolling away into the darkness.
  806. [2012-04-26 22:55:05] <Uncandescent> "You know nothing about that."
  807. [2012-04-26 22:55:15] <Uncandescent> He says, almost reflexively.
  808. [2012-04-26 22:55:21] <PresidentEvil> "I know everything about you, child."
  809. [2012-04-26 22:55:30] <Daedalize> Velia darts ahead of Terrance into the dark as soon as she's released, replacing her rifle on her back and drawing her sword from the cane.
  810. [2012-04-26 22:55:32] <padri> Ren goes to Terrance. "Look at me. Don't listen to him."
  811. [2012-04-26 22:56:05] <PresidentEvil> "Yes, Terrence. I'm lying to turn them against you!" the voice laughs cruelly.
  812. [2012-04-26 22:56:25] <Uncandescent> "You don't. I'm //not// " he says as he strides forward.
  813. [2012-04-26 22:57:03] <PresidentEvil> "But it doesn't matter does it? You can keep no secrets from me. Do you know why?"
  814. [2012-04-26 22:57:06] <padri> Ren goes after Terrance. "Listen to /me,/ Terrance. Whatever it is, you're right. He's playing on your doubts."
  815. [2012-04-26 22:57:54] <padri> "He's wrong. Whatever's happened, you're okay."
  816. [2012-04-26 22:58:13] <PresidentEvil> "Because we are alike, you and I. We are cruel, we are petty, we are selfish. Squirm and plead with your feeble god all you like, you cannot deny that you are in *my* image."
  817. [2012-04-26 22:58:17] <padri> Now she's got someone to focus on. She can turn away from herself.
  818. [2012-04-26 22:59:24] <Uncandescent> "And what would you do in my place?" Terrance almost spits out, his teeth baring as he forms the words, and staring defiantly out into the abyss.
  819. [2012-04-26 22:59:40] <Daedalize> Velia stops running after a moment, breathing heavily. She just wants something to hit, or at least something to look at, and stares around into the darkness.
  820. [2012-04-26 23:00:10] <padri> She shouts. "What do you want from us, you bastard? You're breaking us down, and then what? What will you do then? Chain us up? Do you think you can? Show yourself and we'll see." Wow. Ren cursed. She must be pissed.
  821. [2012-04-26 23:00:30] <PresidentEvil> "Exactly what you did, Terrence. You were right. She already gave you everything, didn't she? Why not merely *take* just a little more?"
  822. [2012-04-26 23:00:47] <PresidentEvil> "Surely she would not miss it?"
  823. [2012-04-26 23:00:52] <Daedalize> ~Calm down. Calm down.~ "Fuck you. Fuck this. Fuck your sermon and your preaching and all this."
  824. [2012-04-26 23:02:00] <padri> "Stop it. Stop it!" She screeches. There's nothing threatening in her screeching. She's just scared.
  825. [2012-04-26 23:02:12] <Daedalize> "I am sick of listening to you. In fact, I'm not listening to you now. YOU HEAR THAT? NOT LISTENING! FUCK YOU."
  826. [2012-04-26 23:02:30] <Uncandescent> "She gave me //nothing// ! She took everything away from me! And I'm going to do the same thing to you!"
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  828. [2012-04-26 23:03:33] <PresidentEvil> "And at last, we meet the /real/ you. A spoiled little brat, a scared little girl, and an ignorant child, too terrified to admit the truth."
  829. [2012-04-26 23:03:45] <PresidentEvil> As he says this, the room begins to brighten, almost imperceptibly.
  830. [2012-04-26 23:04:18] <Daedalize> Velia stops shouting for a moment, catching her breath. "What the fuck are you gonna do? You haven't done shit to us, all you do is hide in the dark and bitch about /our/ lives? Who's the one with a cellar full of torture victims? I've done a lot of shit, but we never had a cellar full of torture victims."
  831. [2012-04-26 23:04:40] <PresidentEvil> "You have been my most... /interesting/ prey in ages, and yet, they are all the same in the end."
  832. [2012-04-26 23:05:05] <PresidentEvil> The cavernous emptiness continues to brighten. Slowly, walls start to resolve.
  833. [2012-04-26 23:05:18] <Daedalize> "Bitch at me all you like, you don't even have a good reason for doing this. What, you enjoy it? There's only so many ways to torture a guy, believe me, I know."
  834. [2012-04-26 23:05:24] <padri> "No. No. . ." But she doesn't believe it, cause she's /scared./ "
  835. [2012-04-26 23:05:40] <PresidentEvil> "No matter. You have still earned a place of honor on my wall." as he says this, you find yourselves standing right next to each other, in front of an enormous throne.
  836. [2012-04-26 23:05:47] <Uncandescent> Terrance barely notices through his tunnel vision, but when he does, he stops and readies his rifle.
  837. [2012-04-26 23:05:49] <Daedalize> "What're you gonna do in the end, huh? Gonna do this forever? Fuck, what kinda life is that?"
  838. [2012-04-26 23:05:50] <PresidentEvil> PAUSE FOR DESCRIPTION.
  839. [2012-04-26 23:06:33] <PresidentEvil> The throne appears to moving, vibrating. As it comes into focus you see that it's made of *people*, twisted and brutalized even moreso than the ones you passed.
  840. [2012-04-26 23:07:07] <PresidentEvil> A few of the luckier ones are human enough to sob pathetically in agony. Most just squirm.
  841. [2012-04-26 23:07:42] <PresidentEvil> And atop the throne... Him. He's all claws and mandibles and sick rancor and oh god you don't want to look.
  842. [2012-04-26 23:08:28] <PresidentEvil> And as you look up, He stands. "I am Asbrath. And there is no hope for you."
  843. [2012-04-26 23:08:37] <PresidentEvil> Combat start. Who wants to go first?
  844. [2012-04-26 23:09:11] <Uncandescent> Terrance can't not look. He stares up into the writhing mass even as he falls to his knees and the grenade clutched in his hand clatters to the floor.
  845. [2012-04-26 23:09:47] <Daedalize> Velia is just staring at the floor, half sobbing and half laughing. She hefts her sword in one hand. "Nice to meet you, Ass-breath. I'm Velia. We're both gonna die eventually, but you go first."
  846. [2012-04-26 23:09:53] <padri> Ren takes a step back and falls to her knees, unable to hold herself up in front of this monstrosity. No tears, but she sobs. She /doesn't/ look. No way. She doesn't want to see anything here.
  847. [2012-04-26 23:10:18] <PresidentEvil> So does everyone spend their combat turn sobbing and praying for death?
  848. [2012-04-26 23:10:35] <Uncandescent> His mind bends and twists as he tries to comprehend it but all the roads lead to //her// and she abandoned him and took away his future all for her own happiness... she didn't deserve happiness!
  849. [2012-04-26 23:10:37] <Daedalize> How close are they to the throne?
  850. [2012-04-26 23:11:02] <PresidentEvil> It's hard to tell. Asbrath's not big on ordered reality.
  851. [2012-04-26 23:11:10] <PresidentEvil> So I guess it doesn't matter.
  852. [2012-04-26 23:11:37] <Daedalize> Velia would really like to stab him. Is reality good with that?
  853. [2012-04-26 23:12:02] <PresidentEvil> Sure. Asbrath, on the other hand...
  854. [2012-04-26 23:12:27] <Uncandescent> He tries to move but he doesn't, it's like his brain is clockwork and it's missed a gear, and it can't catch it, and she left them all alone.
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  856. [2012-04-26 23:14:19] <Uncandescent> But maybe she deserved it. Maybe she was allowed to be happy. He didn't matter. Not now. Especially not now. Not after all those people...
  857. [2012-04-26 23:14:20] <Daedalize> 6df+8 tagging Flos Duellatorum || Having achieved consensus with reality, Velia goes in for a slash. She'll try drawing some blood, maybe see if she can confirm her earlier insult.
  858. [2012-04-26 23:14:21] <Glacon> Daedalize: tagging Flos Duellatorum || Having achieved consensus with reality, Velia goes in for a slash. She'll try drawing some blood, maybe see if she can confirm her earlier insult.: 7 (6df+8=0, 4-, 4-, 3+, 4-, 3+)
  859. [2012-04-26 23:15:44] <PresidentEvil> 6df+8 Asbrath lunges at her, mocking laughter ringing from his horrid mouths.
  860. [2012-04-26 23:15:45] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Asbrath lunges at her, mocking laughter ringing from his horrid mouths.: 8 (6df+8=4-, 3+, 0, 4-, 0, 3+)
  861. [2012-04-26 23:15:53] <PresidentEvil> (PDef.)
  862. [2012-04-26 23:16:12] <Daedalize> 6df+4
  863. [2012-04-26 23:16:13] <Glacon> Daedalize: 6 (6df+4=3+, 0, 4-, 3+, 0, 3+)
  864. [2012-04-26 23:16:32] <PresidentEvil> Something that might be carapace barely turns her sword. Next?
  865. [2012-04-26 23:17:45] <Uncandescent> But the past was the past. Regrets are nothing but empty weight. A decision that keeps you alive is all the morality that counts. And Terrance decides to win. He rises his rifle and aims.
  866. [2012-04-26 23:18:03] <Uncandescent> 6df+6 You're so ugly it hurts to look at you. literally.
  867. [2012-04-26 23:18:04] <Glacon> Uncandescent: You're so ugly it hurts to look at you. literally.: 6 (6df+6=3+, 4-, 4-, 4-, 3+, 3+)
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  869. [2012-04-26 23:18:45] <PresidentEvil> 6df+8 Brave words from an /insect/
  870. [2012-04-26 23:18:45] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Brave words from an /insect/: 8 (6df+8=0, 4-, 4-, 3+, 3+, 0)
  871. [2012-04-26 23:20:21] <PresidentEvil> Asbrath's chitinous hide again turns the attack. Padri?
  872. [2012-04-26 23:20:40] <padri> Ren braves the /awful/ sight. She looks up and aims.
  873. [2012-04-26 23:20:48] <padri> 6df+5 perc to ranged
  874. [2012-04-26 23:20:49] <Glacon> padri: perc to ranged: 7 (6df+5=3+, 3+, 3+, 4-, 4-, 3+)
  875. [2012-04-26 23:21:20] <Uncandescent> The bullet clangs off harmlessly, but it hits //something// and that's what counts. If it can be hit, it can die. Terrance gets to his feet.
  876. [2012-04-26 23:21:20] <PresidentEvil> Ren, you sight on what looks like a crack in its armor.
  877. [2012-04-26 23:22:01] <padri> Can she share this information with others? Or will she have to shoot it herself?
  878. [2012-04-26 23:22:33] <PresidentEvil> She can point it out if she wants to.
  879. [2012-04-26 23:22:47] <Uncandescent> Terrance is standing right next to her too.
  880. [2012-04-26 23:23:07] <PresidentEvil> But right now Velia has to worry about Asbrath raking her with his hideous, venom dripping claws!
  881. [2012-04-26 23:23:16] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6
  882. [2012-04-26 23:23:16] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: 4 (6df+6=0, 4-, 0, 0, 0, 4-)
  883. [2012-04-26 23:23:59] <padri> "Terrance, right there." She points it out to him.
  884. [2012-04-26 23:24:05] <PresidentEvil> Ball's in your court, Daedalize!
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  886. [2012-04-26 23:24:09] <padri> whispers
  887. [2012-04-26 23:26:47] <PresidentEvil> Velia manages to roll clear of those huge talons. Fucker's big, but he's not too agile.
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  889. [2012-04-26 23:28:19] <PresidentEvil> Anyways, yeah. Your turns, guys.
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  891. [2012-04-26 23:29:48] <Daedalize> "Come on, brainiac. You're so big and tough, but you can't even hit a little mortal girl like me?"
  892. [2012-04-26 23:30:07] <Uncandescent> Terrance focuses on the crack as a constant point of attention among the creature's writhing form. "Thanks." He barely whispers, then runs toward the creature. He rolls forward, positioning himself a few feet from one of its grotesque talons, and fires up into the crack.
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  894. [2012-04-26 23:30:23] <PresidentEvil> "Laugh, insect. You will be squashed in due time."
  895. [2012-04-26 23:30:48] <Uncandescent> 6df+14 Tagging Theatrical and Ren's manuever. You tried mental scars. Let me give you some real ones.
  896. [2012-04-26 23:30:49] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Tagging Theatrical and Ren's manuever. You tried mental scars. Let me give you some real ones.: 15 (6df+14=0, 0, 0, 3+, 4-, 3+)
  897. [2012-04-26 23:30:52] <padri> 6df+5 perc to ranged again Is there another weak spot?
  898. [2012-04-26 23:30:52] <Glacon> padri: perc to ranged again Is there another weak spot?: 6 (6df+5=3+, 3+, 0, 4-, 0, 0)
  899. [2012-04-26 23:31:10] <PresidentEvil> padri, I'll resolve your action after Uncs.
  900. [2012-04-26 23:31:17] <padri> sure.
  901. [2012-04-26 23:31:39] <PresidentEvil> 6df+8 OH NO YOU DIDNT
  902. [2012-04-26 23:31:39] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: OH NO YOU DIDNT: 7 (6df+8=3+, 0, 4-, 3+, 4-, 4-)
  903. [2012-04-26 23:32:25] <PresidentEvil> Terrence, Asbrath's armor /shatters/ from your shot, flinging scales and chitin and leathery hide everywhere as the devil screams in pain. Asbrath's PDef -2!
  904. [2012-04-26 23:32:49] <Uncandescent> Terrance smirks as he makes the tormentor scream.
  905. [2012-04-26 23:33:44] <Daedalize> 6df+9 tagging E la gaia || Velia dances back out of the way, smirking as Terrance breaks the thing's armor. "That's better. Now, let's see you /bleed/."
  906. [2012-04-26 23:33:45] <Glacon> Daedalize: tagging E la gaia || Velia dances back out of the way, smirking as Terrance breaks the thing's armor. "That's better. Now, let's see you /bleed/.": 11 (6df+9=3+, 0, 4-, 3+, 3+, 0)
  907. [2012-04-26 23:34:20] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 You'd like that wouldn't you
  908. [2012-04-26 23:34:20] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: You'd like that wouldn't you: 7 (6df+6=0, 0, 4-, 3+, 3+, 0)
  909. [2012-04-26 23:35:03] <padri> redact
  910. [2012-04-26 23:37:00] <PresidentEvil> DON'T YOU DARE.
  911. [2012-04-26 23:37:10] <PresidentEvil> Velia tears a long gash in the beast's flank.
  912. [2012-04-26 23:37:20] <padri> Redact. Fuck it, she'll just do a wimp shot.
  913. [2012-04-26 23:37:28] <padri> 6df+3 Blam Imma miss!
  914. [2012-04-26 23:37:29] <Glacon> padri: Blam Imma miss!: 0 (6df+3=4-, 0, 4-, 4-, 0, 0)
  915. [2012-04-26 23:39:57] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Yes you are.
  916. [2012-04-26 23:39:57] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Yes you are.: 5 (6df+6=0, 4-, 3+, 4-, 4-, 3+)
  917. [2012-04-26 23:40:13] <PresidentEvil> Asbrath ducks the shot, turns, and makes toward you now Renee!
  918. [2012-04-26 23:40:44] <padri> Oh no you don't!
  919. [2012-04-26 23:41:52] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 now his huge mandibles loom, hot, rancid breath bellowing at you.
  920. [2012-04-26 23:41:53] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: now his huge mandibles loom, hot, rancid breath bellowing at you.: 2 (6df+6=0, 4-, 4-, 0, 4-, 4-)
  921. [2012-04-26 23:42:02] <PresidentEvil> Roll your PDef?
  922. [2012-04-26 23:42:09] <padri> 6df+6 Ew. Brush your teeth, mister.
  923. [2012-04-26 23:42:10] <Glacon> padri: Ew. Brush your teeth, mister.: 9 (6df+6=3+, 3+, 3+, 0, 0, 0)
  924. [2012-04-26 23:43:16] <PresidentEvil> So Ren manages to scramble clear of Asbrath's maw. It's your turn again, folks!
  925. [2012-04-26 23:44:27] <padri> 6df+5 I'mma aim at you cause i can! Perc maneuver
  926. [2012-04-26 23:44:27] <Glacon> padri: I'mma aim at you cause i can! Perc maneuver: 6 (6df+5=0, 4-, 0, 3+, 0, 3+)
  927. [2012-04-26 23:44:56] <Uncandescent> Terrance follows after Asbreth and chucks a grenade into the hole created by the previous turn's shattering.
  928. [2012-04-26 23:45:32] <PresidentEvil> Roll throwing, Terrence.
  929. [2012-04-26 23:45:41] <Uncandescent> 6df+4 Tagging Theatrical Overhand (because it looks cool)
  930. [2012-04-26 23:45:41] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Tagging Theatrical Overhand (because it looks cool): 6 (6df+4=0, 0, 3+, 0, 0, 3+)
  931. [2012-04-26 23:45:50] <Daedalize> Velia loads an insta-freeze round into the chamber, taking aim at the portion where the flesh is exposed.
  932. [2012-04-26 23:45:55] <Daedalize> 6df+9
  933. [2012-04-26 23:45:56] <Glacon> Daedalize: 9 (6df+9=0, 0, 3+, 3+, 4-, 4-)
  934. [2012-04-26 23:47:02] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 As Terrence rolls away from the beast's underside (I assume he tries to get clear) the grenade explodes, and...
  935. [2012-04-26 23:47:03] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: As Terrence rolls away from the beast's underside (I assume he tries to get clear) the grenade explodes, and...: 3 (6df+6=4-, 4-, 0, 0, 0, 4-)
  936. [2012-04-26 23:47:15] <Daedalize> (That is a 7, you saw nothing.)
  937. [2012-04-26 23:47:51] <PresidentEvil> Shrapnel lances out of the creature, leaving gaping, ragged holes.
  938. [2012-04-26 23:47:59] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 And velia's boolet...
  939. [2012-04-26 23:48:00] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: And velia's boolet...: 5 (6df+6=0, 4-, 3+, 4-, 4-, 3+)
  940. [2012-04-26 23:48:32] <PresidentEvil> A portion of the creatures flesh flash-freezes. Heh. Flesh flash-freezes.
  941. [2012-04-26 23:49:45] <PresidentEvil> No more weakpoints like that one, Ren, but you do sight on a particularly juicy wound. Looks delicate. Shame if something were to happen.
  942. [2012-04-26 23:50:40] <padri> Heh heh heh. Yes, what a /shame./ See it, Velia and Terrance? Wouldn't you hate to hit that? I'll point it out, so you can avoid it. Wink wink nudge nudge.
  943. [2012-04-26 23:51:01] <PresidentEvil> And as you guys do all that, Asbrath sucks in breath and lets forth a scream so fell and terrible that its psychic wave invades your very thoughts!
  944. [2012-04-26 23:51:05] <PresidentEvil> Roll MDef.
  945. [2012-04-26 23:51:36] <padri> 6df+6 No these are mine. Back off you fucker.
  946. [2012-04-26 23:51:36] <Glacon> padri: No these are mine. Back off you fucker.: 7 (6df+6=0, 0, 3+, 0, 4-, 3+)
  947. [2012-04-26 23:51:54] <padri> *Of course, these aren't ren's thoughts. She wouldn't think like that.
  948. [2012-04-26 23:51:58] <Uncandescent> Terrance smirks as the shrapnel streaks out of the creature, then grasps his head as it cries out.
  949. [2012-04-26 23:52:07] <Uncandescent> 6df+5 Psionic barrier, go!
  950. [2012-04-26 23:52:08] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Psionic barrier, go!: 10 (6df+5=3+, 3+, 0, 3+, 3+, 3+)
  951. [2012-04-26 23:52:29] <PresidentEvil> Oh, and Velia, almost forgot.
  952. [2012-04-26 23:52:50] <PresidentEvil> She only loaded the one instafreeze, right?
  953. [2012-04-26 23:52:58] <Daedalize> She loads one at a time.
  954. [2012-04-26 23:53:10] <Daedalize> 6df+5
  955. [2012-04-26 23:53:13] <PresidentEvil> Kay. Roll your MDef.
  956. [2012-04-26 23:53:13] <Glacon> Daedalize: 5 (6df+5=4-, 0, 3+, 3+, 0, 4-)
  957. [2012-04-26 23:54:21] <PresidentEvil> Terrence, you manage, through sheer force of will, to shove Asbrath's thoughts out of your head. Everyone else, your mind is clouded by the psychic assault. No tagging aspects or maneuvers this turn.
  958. [2012-04-26 23:55:25] <Uncandescent> Terrance stands strong, clenching the mental invasion with the force of his will and tossing it out with the rest of the trash.
  959. [2012-04-26 23:55:25] <padri> Ren pointed it out to Terrance and Velia, though! Yay!
  960. [2012-04-26 23:55:51] <PresidentEvil> Except they can't use it, because Asbrath's psychic invasion makes it impossible for them to focus.
  961. [2012-04-26 23:55:54] <Daedalize> Velia's knuckles go white as she grips her rifle. Releasing it to hang in one hand, she takes up her sword again, though it's more of a flail than a proper slash.
  962. [2012-04-26 23:55:55] <PresidentEvil> Well, Terrence can.
  963. [2012-04-26 23:56:33] <Daedalize> 6df+3 Swording at random
  964. [2012-04-26 23:56:33] <Glacon> Daedalize: Swording at random: 4 (6df+3=0, 3+, 3+, 4-, 0, 0)
  965. [2012-04-26 23:56:38] <padri> Ren clutches at her head. No, get out. Get out of my head.
  966. [2012-04-26 23:57:00] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Nice try, insect.
  967. [2012-04-26 23:57:01] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Nice try, insect.: 4 (6df+6=3+, 0, 4-, 4-, 4-, 0)
  968. [2012-04-26 23:57:11] <padri> She looks up at it and shouts. "Is that the best you've got?"
  969. [2012-04-26 23:57:42] <padri> 6df+6 persuasion to make it get mad at /me,/ focus on /me/ in your anger, don't look at them.
  970. [2012-04-26 23:57:43] <Glacon> padri: persuasion to make it get mad at /me,/ focus on /me/ in your anger, don't look at them.: 10 (6df+6=3+, 0, 3+, 0, 3+, 3+)
  971. [2012-04-26 23:58:08] <Uncandescent> Terrance is grinning like a mad man as he pulls out his latest toy. He takes the Tear Gas Grenade and chucks it up at a portion of it's smashed shoulder carapace where it should land and get caught in snugly.
  972. [2012-04-26 23:58:25] <Uncandescent> 6df Hey, I just need a 0 or higher.
  973. [2012-04-26 23:58:25] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Hey, I just need a 0 or higher.: 2 (6df=3+, 3+, 0, 0, 0, 0)
  974. [2012-04-26 23:59:07] <PresidentEvil> 6df+5 Surprise ath to dodge
  975. [2012-04-26 23:59:08] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Surprise ath to dodge: 5 (6df+5=4-, 0, 0, 0, 3+, 0)
  976. [2012-04-26 23:59:33] <PresidentEvil> Asbrath suddenly leaps out from above you, and your "toy" clatters to the floor harmlessly.
  977. [2012-04-27 00:00:50] <PresidentEvil> And oh my god he's coming straight down on you ren holy shit
  978. [2012-04-27 00:00:57] <Uncandescent> Terrance is a bit startled by this sudden display of athleticism.
  979. [2012-04-27 00:01:10] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Roll your PDef, or Ath to jump out of the way.
  980. [2012-04-27 00:01:11] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Roll your PDef, or Ath to jump out of the way.: 8 (6df+6=3+, 0, 3+, 3+, 4-, 0)
  981. [2012-04-27 00:01:20] <padri> Yeah. Come at me. Velia and Terrance will shoot you.
  982. [2012-04-27 00:01:26] <padri> 6df+6 pdef
  983. [2012-04-27 00:01:27] <Glacon> padri: pdef: 4 (6df+6=0, 4-, 3+, 4-, 0, 4-)
  984. [2012-04-27 00:02:04] <PresidentEvil> I doubt that's much consolation when you've been /skvooshed/, Lebowski. -1 Body.
  985. [2012-04-27 00:02:32] <PresidentEvil> Before the players start up.
  986. [2012-04-27 00:02:38] <Uncandescent> Is she stepped on? or what?
  987. [2012-04-27 00:03:04] <PresidentEvil> She's crushed into the ground. Probably with heavy bruising and a broken rib.
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  989. [2012-04-27 00:03:14] <PresidentEvil> Now BEFORE you go.
  990. [2012-04-27 00:03:45] <PresidentEvil> Anyone who has not shaken off the psychic attack, MDef again. Target number is 8.
  991. [2012-04-27 00:04:27] <Uncandescent> Terrance watches as Ren gets crushed, not rolling because he's too awesome for that.
  992. [2012-04-27 00:04:41] <padri> 6df+6 get outta my head or i'll keep teasing you! It's all I'm good at if I can't think!
  993. [2012-04-27 00:04:41] <Glacon> padri: get outta my head or i'll keep teasing you! It's all I'm good at if I can't think!: 7 (6df+6=0, 3+, 0, 0, 0, 0)
  994. [2012-04-27 00:04:56] <PresidentEvil> Ohh, bad luck padri! Dae?
  995. [2012-04-27 00:04:57] <Daedalize> 6df+5 Who needs mental fortitude when you have raw anger and petty insults?
  996. [2012-04-27 00:04:58] <Glacon> Daedalize: Who needs mental fortitude when you have raw anger and petty insults?: 5 (6df+5=3+, 0, 3+, 4-, 0, 4-)
  997. [2012-04-27 00:05:05] <PresidentEvil> Apparently you do, Velia.
  998. [2012-04-27 00:05:30] <PresidentEvil> Okay, move as usual.
  999. [2012-04-27 00:06:11] <Daedalize> Can Velia do a maneuver this turn, or does the scream prevent anything but attacking?
  1000. [2012-04-27 00:06:33] <Uncandescent> Terrance aims at whatever could be construed to be the creatures kneecap on the leg holding down Ren.
  1001. [2012-04-27 00:06:36] <Uncandescent> 6df+6
  1002. [2012-04-27 00:06:38] <Glacon> Uncandescent: 9 (6df+6=4-, 3+, 3+, 3+, 3+, 0)
  1003. [2012-04-27 00:07:03] <PresidentEvil> The scream prevents using maneuvers or tagging aspects. That's all.
  1004. [2012-04-27 00:07:09] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Kneecapped?
  1005. [2012-04-27 00:07:10] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Kneecapped?: 4 (6df+6=0, 0, 0, 0, 4-, 4-)
  1006. [2012-04-27 00:07:22] <PresidentEvil> Kneecapped. Asbrath's leg jerks up and off Ren.
  1007. [2012-04-27 00:07:33] <padri> 6df+6 pers "You're not very strong and you're not very smart. You can see what happened in my head, but you can't see how I feel." Keep focus on me while they shoot you.
  1008. [2012-04-27 00:07:34] <Glacon> padri: pers "You're not very strong and you're not very smart. You can see what happened in my head, but you can't see how I feel." Keep focus on me while they shoot you.: 8 (6df+6=0, 0, 3+, 3+, 4-, 3+)
  1009. [2012-04-27 00:07:48] <padri> And don't forget Ren showed you where to hit, Terrance.
  1010. [2012-04-27 00:08:03] <Daedalize> 6df+5 Ath to Melee || Velia charges the godling atop Ren, attempting to climb on its back and hold on tight.
  1011. [2012-04-27 00:08:04] <Glacon> Daedalize: Ath to Melee || Velia charges the godling atop Ren, attempting to climb on its back and hold on tight.: 3 (6df+5=4-, 4-, 0, 4-, 3+, 0)
  1012. [2012-04-27 00:08:43] -->| AgentXerxes (Mibbit@synIRC-C4F302E7.hsd1.co.comcast.net) has joined #redpool
  1013. [2012-04-27 00:08:44] <PresidentEvil> Uh, no maneuvers until you can shake off the mental attack.
  1014. [2012-04-27 00:08:53] <PresidentEvil> Remember?
  1015. [2012-04-27 00:09:04] <Uncandescent> Terrance's slightly manic smile dims to a look of fierce determination as the creature's kneecap explodes.
  1016. [2012-04-27 00:09:09] <padri> Terrance isn't mentalled, though . . .
  1017. [2012-04-27 00:09:16] <PresidentEvil> But Velia is.
  1018. [2012-04-27 00:09:17] <Uncandescent> Velia is.
  1019. [2012-04-27 00:09:18] <padri> oh
  1020. [2012-04-27 00:09:20] <padri> derp
  1021. [2012-04-27 00:09:49] <PresidentEvil> Asbrath throws you off! You thump onto the floor.
  1022. [2012-04-27 00:10:29] <Daedalize> Velia rolls as she hits the ground, practically snarling and ready for another go.
  1023. [2012-04-27 00:11:17] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 And then he charges. roaring, at her. Hot blood splatters your face. Hot... blood. Compelling È la gaia pioggerella a far crescer l'erba bella which I think is the blood one.
  1024. [2012-04-27 00:11:19] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: And then he charges. roaring, at her. Hot blood splatters your face. Hot... blood. Compelling È la gaia pioggerella a far crescer l'erba bella which I think is the blood one.: 5 (6df+6=4-, 3+, 3+, 4-, 4-, 0)
  1025. [2012-04-27 00:11:31] <PresidentEvil> Spend an AP or be at -4, your choice.
  1026. [2012-04-27 00:13:23] <Daedalize> 6df accepting compel || Velia just wants to cut this thing's head off, defending herself is a petty concern.
  1027. [2012-04-27 00:13:23] <Glacon> Daedalize: accepting compel || Velia just wants to cut this thing's head off, defending herself is a petty concern.: -1 (6df=3+, 0, 4-, 0, 4-, 0)
  1028. [2012-04-27 00:14:33] <PresidentEvil> Ouch, Velia! Since you rolled negatives, you are incapped one turn as the attack knocks the wind out of you.
  1029. [2012-04-27 00:15:14] <PresidentEvil> In addition to the -1 body, sorry.
  1030. [2012-04-27 00:15:19] <Uncandescent> Terrance aims for the Wound Ren pointed out earlier, exposed by its attack.
  1031. [2012-04-27 00:15:28] <Uncandescent> 6df+10 Tagging Maneuver
  1032. [2012-04-27 00:15:29] <Glacon> Uncandescent: Tagging Maneuver: 11 (6df+10=4-, 0, 0, 3+, 3+, 0)
  1033. [2012-04-27 00:15:48] |<-- AgentXerxes has left irc.synirc.net (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
  1034. [2012-04-27 00:17:03] <padri> Roll mdef again?
  1035. [2012-04-27 00:17:09] <PresidentEvil> Sure.
  1036. [2012-04-27 00:17:28] <Daedalize> 6df+5 Not that it matters, but...
  1037. [2012-04-27 00:17:28] <Glacon> Daedalize: Not that it matters, but...: 6 (6df+5=0, 4-, 4-, 3+, 3+, 3+)
  1038. [2012-04-27 00:17:29] <padri> 6df+6 outta my head!
  1039. [2012-04-27 00:17:30] <Glacon> padri: outta my head!: 4 (6df+6=4-, 0, 0, 0, 4-, 0)
  1040. [2012-04-27 00:17:49] <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 does he make the shot?
  1041. [2012-04-27 00:17:50] <Glacon> PresidentEvil: does he make the shot?: 8 (6df+6=4-, 0, 0, 3+, 3+, 3+)
  1042. [2012-04-27 00:18:04] <PresidentEvil> Ohh, bad luck Terrence! Ren, what do you do?
  1043. [2012-04-27 00:18:28] <Uncandescent> What? I rolled an 11.
  1044. [2012-04-27 00:18:47] <PresidentEvil> What the... ohh, sorry. I was looking at one of the MDef rolls.
  1045. [2012-04-27 00:18:51] <PresidentEvil> Redact that.
  1046. [2012-04-27 00:19:35] <PresidentEvil> AND DOWN. HE. GOES!
  1047. [2012-04-27 00:19:47] <PresidentEvil> As Asbrath collapses, the chamber begins to rumble.
  1048. [2012-04-27 00:20:00] <padri> Ren stands up painfully.
  1049. [2012-04-27 00:20:22] <Uncandescent> The shot rips through the wound, bursting out of his skull and sending the beast crashing to the ground.
  1050. [2012-04-27 00:20:33] <padri> She goes over to his body and kicks it. "Hate Don, do I? Not likely. The only thing I've ever hated is your guts."
  1051. [2012-04-27 00:20:37] <PresidentEvil> Asbrath thrashes in agony, his voice assaulting your minds again. "You have won nothing, do you hear me? NOTHING! THIS IS BUT A SETBACK!"
  1052. [2012-04-27 00:21:12] <PresidentEvil> "I WILL CREATE AN ETERNITY OF TORMENTS JUST FOR EACH OF YOU!!!" it says, swatting Ren back a few paces. The rumbling intensifies.
  1053. [2012-04-27 00:21:13] <Daedalize> Velia clambers out from underneath the possible-corpse, then turns to face it.
  1054. [2012-04-27 00:21:39] <padri> "I don't think so."
  1055. [2012-04-27 00:22:15] <PresidentEvil> "WHAT YOU THINK IS IRRELEVANT NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE FROM ME!" The rumbling becomes almost unbearable, before abruptly, the chamber's walls burst open!
  1056. [2012-04-27 00:22:29] <padri> "How does it feel to be in pain, Asbrath?"
  1057. [2012-04-27 00:22:53] <PresidentEvil> A torrent of red, bloodlike water crashes down on the survivors and sweeps them, retching and gurgling, to the shores of #farrecon
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