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  1. [7/25/2012 3:33:55 AM] Adam: Dates match up roughly with when our lot dropped Mordred, Wannabe Dread Lich, right Dorian?
  2. [7/25/2012 3:34:25 AM] Dorian: Either her or that mad Elf chick who wanted to fuck Driders
  3. [7/25/2012 3:35:09 AM] Adam: We get one of those every other week. Not a pretty sight if you're assigned to cleanup duty.
  4. [7/25/2012 3:35:44 AM] Dorian: Yeesh, I'm glad I got transferred to monitor duty on the Loom of Fate
  5. [7/25/2012 3:35:57 AM] Owen: It just says what COULD have happened.
  6. [7/25/2012 3:36:05 AM] Dorian: And we're saying what did
  7. [7/25/2012 3:36:37 AM] Owen: It's making me desk-flipping mad
  8. [7/25/2012 3:37:04 AM] Adam: Yeah, truth can be a bitch. Monitor duty can't be fun.
  9. [7/25/2012 3:37:14 AM] Dorian: Honestly? Noy as bad as it sounds
  10. [7/25/2012 3:37:31 AM] Adam: All I tend to get these days is damage control and repair. "Stand here, guard these, memory wipe those" all day every day.
  11. [7/25/2012 3:37:44 AM] Dorian: Fuck, not even a break?
  12. [7/25/2012 3:37:55 AM] Adam: Depends on the disaster.
  13. [7/25/2012 3:38:19 AM] Adam: For example, you ever tried stopping a horny drider in an antimagic zone? Damn near impossible, I tell you.
  14. [7/25/2012 3:38:32 AM] Dorian: All I have to do is sit around drinking coffee and making sure nothing fucks up in the bit of the weave I'm keeping an eye on at the time.
  15. [7/25/2012 3:38:47 AM] Dorian: I mean, I see what you guys do, but it just looked sort of easy.
  16. [7/25/2012 3:39:16 AM] Dorian: Hell, last mission I kept an eye on, noone even used any proper Martial Arts
  17. [7/25/2012 3:39:19 AM] Adam: Long periods of easy-boring, punctuated with "ohshit this time I'm really going to die".
  18. [7/25/2012 3:39:59 AM] Dorian: Hah, I remember that.
  19. [7/25/2012 3:40:32 AM] Owen: I hate you guys.
  20. [7/25/2012 3:40:40 AM] Dorian: Got stuck on cleanup one time when shit went batshit over China way. Something about a giant mountain dragon. Turns out, it wasn't dead
  21. [7/25/2012 3:40:59 AM] Adam: We're brilliant, aren't we? Saving your ass day in, day out, and then I go in to make sure we'll never be thanked.
  22. [7/25/2012 3:41:25 AM] Dorian: And I make sure what he does is only mildly life threatening
  23. [7/25/2012 3:42:05 AM] Adam: I'll wave next time, be nice for one of your lot to get some recognition. We explicitly avoid it, for obvious reasons.
  24. [7/25/2012 3:42:36 AM] Dorian: Yeah, I know.
  25. [7/25/2012 3:43:10 AM] Dorian: I'd say drop by the office some time for a cup of coffee, but you haven't had your Loom Acclimitisation Training, have you?
  26. [7/25/2012 3:44:44 AM] Adam: Nah, we don't get high level training. Squadmate forgot to supress before wiping last time. Hit a necklace of spell turning, poor bastard doesn't remember his name.
  27. [7/25/2012 3:44:58 AM] Dorian: Ouch
  28. [7/25/2012 3:45:16 AM] Dorian: Rehab can usually fix that, I think
  29. [7/25/2012 3:46:05 AM] Adam: He's in there, probably didn't help that he was pissed off at something. Spell levels wavering all over the place - we had to get another cleanup squad to clean up after the cleanup squad.
  30. [7/25/2012 3:46:35 AM] Adam: I, personally, teleported out and edited records to say I was in team B. You'd be amazed how many of us do that.
  31. [7/25/2012 3:46:47 AM] Dorian: Hah!
  32. [7/25/2012 3:47:19 AM] Dorian: Want me to fudge the Loom records to show that? It's no biggie, noone gives a fuck what we do with the records.
  33. [7/25/2012 3:47:45 AM] Dorian: For example, I own quite a few... let's call them "explicit" records
  34. [7/25/2012 3:48:14 AM] Adam: Might help - last time somebody got caught, management sent a Zelekhut after them. Not to kill, but enough to teach him his lesson.
  35. [7/25/2012 3:48:35 AM] Dorian: Yeah, fuck Zelekhuts, seriously.
  36. [7/25/2012 3:48:46 AM] Dorian: I'll get right on that, then.
  37. [7/25/2012 3:49:36 AM] Adam: Damn right. As somebody who's job it is to lie about stuff happening, overzealous Zeleks are a death sentence. Got to the point that bellowing "Code Z" means "Just teleport the fuck away, one of us has been targeted."
  38. [7/25/2012 3:51:11 AM] Dorian: Well, that seems... fair.
  39. [7/25/2012 3:51:22 AM] Dorian: You risk your lives daily, I just drink coffee
  40. [7/25/2012 3:52:36 AM] Adam: Not so much daily. It's usually just planting UFO stories and wiping memories because somebody's forgotten their invisibility before going topside.
  41. [7/25/2012 3:52:57 AM] Dorian: Nice
  42. [7/25/2012 3:53:44 AM] Dorian: Back when I was doing routine Field Ops, it was more along the lines of thunerbolts, lightning, and "OBEY ME, MORTAL, FOR I AM YOUR GOD!"
  43. [7/25/2012 3:53:55 AM] Dorian: Things have changed
  44. [7/25/2012 3:54:47 AM] Adam: Oh, we all wish we could get a manifest. But nope, running shit from behind the scenes, relying on people like me to sort things when somebody peeks through the curtain.
  45. [7/25/2012 3:55:46 AM] Dorian: Hey, did you hear about that tall fucker who lost it and started following people around?
  46. [7/25/2012 3:55:47 AM] Owen: Night guys, I'll return to read more of this tomorrow.
  47. [7/25/2012 3:55:54 AM] Dorian: Night, then.
  48. [7/25/2012 3:56:02 AM] Adam: Night!
  49. [7/25/2012 3:56:11 AM] Adam: No, go on?
  50. [7/25/2012 3:56:13 AM] Dorian: Keep an eye out for the... you know what, you probably don't want to know.
  51. [7/25/2012 3:56:33 AM] Dorian: Yeah, he did it all stealthy and screwed with their tech and stuff.
  52. [7/25/2012 3:56:52 AM] Adam: Ah, that fucker? We've got a squad on him, don't worry.
  53. [7/25/2012 3:57:36 AM] Dorian: Hmm? I put out a Grade 83 Tactical Erasure hit on him.
  54. [7/25/2012 3:57:58 AM] Adam: Shit, I'll get them to back off a little. Safe radius?
  55. [7/25/2012 3:58:32 AM] Dorian: Erm.... a few miles?
  56. [7/25/2012 3:58:53 AM] Adam: Got it. A good mind-mage is a terrible thing to lose to collateral.
  57. [7/25/2012 4:01:32 AM] Dorian: Seriously, though, watch out for Varakhuts if you're near him, a grade 83 consists of about three of them.
  58. [7/25/2012 4:02:39 AM] Adam: Dear god. I've only ever seen two deployed, and we had to hurry the Manhatten Project up by several years just to stop the fuckers.
  59. [7/25/2012 4:02:55 AM] Dorian: Yeah, they ain't nice.
  60. [7/25/2012 4:03:09 AM] Dorian: Still, HQ considered it necessary
  61. [7/25/2012 4:03:31 AM] Adam: Not at all. Thankfully, they die to nukes, which is helpful. Saved us working out a spell that could drop it.
  62. [7/25/2012 4:04:00 AM] Dorian: Manhatten Project? This was '45, right?
  63. [7/25/2012 4:04:14 AM] Dorian: They've had a LOT of upgrades since then.
  64. [7/25/2012 4:05:01 AM] Adam: Yeah. I shudder to think. Tell me an abort was one?
  65. [7/25/2012 4:05:22 AM] Dorian: Oh, we can call them off, don't worry
  66. [7/25/2012 4:05:34 AM] Dorian: At least, we could the last lot.
  67. [7/25/2012 4:05:58 AM] Dorian: Huh. I'm now slightly worried.
  68. [7/25/2012 4:06:36 AM] Adam: I don't want to have to nuke the next lot. Passing that by command was a ball-ache, but I didn't really have another option.
  69. [7/25/2012 4:07:10 AM] Dorian: I'll make sure to check that I'm good for a Grade X1 on them.
  70. [7/25/2012 4:08:18 AM] Adam: Perfect. And if that entails sending more out to kill them, rethink.
  71. [7/25/2012 4:09:16 AM] Dorian: It entails... you know what? I'm pretty certain you don't want to know. As in, you'll probably be killed if I tell you.
  72. [7/25/2012 4:09:31 AM] Dorian: The best I can do is say "think Acererack"
  73. [7/25/2012 4:11:00 AM] Adam: My gods. Not something I want to be on the same continent as.
  74. [7/25/2012 4:11:22 AM] Dorian: We'll probably end up doing a total planar recall, if it comes to it.
  75. [7/25/2012 4:12:30 AM] Adam: I like those. The lads at the office slip a few days aside in the temporal flux, we get a little holiday amidst the confusion. It's nice have a chronoturgist in the lab.
  76. [7/25/2012 4:14:19 AM] Dorian: I'll see if we can't send you to Bytopia or something. You know, somewhere nice.
  77. [7/25/2012 4:15:05 AM] Adam: That'd be pretty sweet. Or hell, just mess with the logs - we get plane shifters, but they're all tracked.
  78. [7/25/2012 4:17:52 AM | Edited 4:18:00 AM] Dorian: Yeah, but Plane Shifters just use an unauthorised transport detection system, with no actual logs. Can't really dick with those safely, sorry.
  79. [7/25/2012 4:18:52 AM] Adam: I'll have to get down to the artificer's guild sometime, surely they could hook me up. I mean, I get to see a lot, but I'm usually there to scrub some poor sod's mind, not sightsee, you know?
  80. [7/25/2012 4:19:13 AM] Dorian: Yeah, you're probably owed YEARS of overtime.
  81. [7/25/2012 4:19:52 AM] Adam: Damn right. And knowing the chronologician's office, they'll probably hand it to me in a cup. Suppose that's a perk of the job.
  82. [7/25/2012 4:20:23 AM] Dorian: You want it converted into luck?
  83. [7/25/2012 4:20:58 AM] Dorian: I can get you all the cushy jobs that get you more departmental rep, if you want.
  84. [7/25/2012 4:22:23 AM] Adam: Luck would be pretty sweet. Rep helps, but not the cushy job. Crazy as it sounds, I like the colours finger makes on my deathblock. The thrill of trying to wipe somebody who really would rather you dropped dead.
  85. [7/25/2012 4:23:16 AM] Dorian: Never got that outside of basic fate combat, really.
  86. [7/25/2012 4:24:30 AM] Adam: You'd be amazed. Even if it does so often come down to forcecage grenades.
  87. [7/25/2012 4:25:59 AM] Dorian: Hah, lucky bastard getting GEAR when someone tries to kill you. You know, I could get you a reccommendation for a promotion to Feild ChronoFate Manipulator, if you want.
  88. [7/25/2012 4:27:25 AM] Adam: Yeah, custom loadouts too after a while. Glad to say I requested the forcecage 'nades first, they're now standard issue. A promotion should be useful - standard mind-mages are a little... forgettable.
  89. [7/25/2012 4:29:04 AM] Dorian: Yeah, putting that through now. Basic fate combat should be interesting for you. Tell me, have you ever faced down a Balor with no weapons at all?
  90. [7/25/2012 4:29:57 AM] Adam: Not and supressed it. Just dropped a Lock and ported out of there, called reinforcements. Don't think that counts.
  91. [7/25/2012 4:32:02 AM] Dorian: Not really, no. This is a port-locked, kill or be killed situation. I mean, you get the five months of SpatioWyrd and ChronoWyrd Manipulation training first, but the sheer scale of what you're doing is almost overwhelming
  92. [7/25/2012 4:33:48 AM] Adam: I can imagine, usually the most intense thing we have to deal with traps and guards. Artificer here, so we're sorted as long as somebody brings an invisibility.
  93. [7/25/2012 4:35:07 AM] Dorian: I started my lot out as a Monk, believe it or not, and eventually branched out into a tad of Psion
  94. [7/25/2012 4:35:24 AM] Dorian: But hey, we all end up at a desk eventually
  95. [7/25/2012 4:36:01 AM] Adam: Hah, not if I'm killed first. Which, believe me, I'm high on a few lists. Along with my squad, of course.
  96. [7/25/2012 4:36:44 AM] Dorian: Oh god, their faces when you come back as a fully qualified CF Manipulator
  97. [7/25/2012 4:37:43 AM] Adam: Should be worth seeing, assuming they'll take the bloody masks off. Keep faces covered while on duty, stops sympathetic magic working on your squad when you're accessing memories.
  98. [7/25/2012 4:38:09 AM] Dorian: Well, their psychic expressions, at any rate.
  99. [7/25/2012 4:38:14 AM] Dorian: Hold on a sec.
  100. [7/25/2012 4:38:37 AM] Dorian: Ah, shite. Something's come up, and I'm gonna have to deal with this.
  101. [7/25/2012 4:38:56 AM] Adam: Good luck.
  102. [7/25/2012 4:39:00 AM] Dorian: I'll need it.
  103. [7/25/2012 4:39:27 AM] Dorian: At any rate, you too. See you tomorrow, hopefully!
  104. [7/25/2012 4:39:53 AM] Adam: Assuming the chronologicians are working, sure!
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