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  1. [19:46:17] <~Aori_Radidjiu> Thursday, May 6th, 3 AM. Dreamscaping took longer than anyone thought it would, leaving our trio here to wake up eeeeaaarly in the morning, feeling nice and rested. WAY rested. Of course, it's hard to tell WHAT time it is, until you check a clock nearby in the sleeproom. 3 AM. Sure is something.
  2. [19:49:04] <~Aori_Radidjiu> The beds there are as comfy as expected, of course, and the room isn't freezing cold despite Mother Swanna's brief messing with reality.
  3. [19:50:46] <Lecia> That's what Lecia was doing before the fade out! And then...well...
  4. [19:50:51] <Lecia> "...12 hours."
  5. [19:51:04] <Lecia> "We were asleep for around 12 hours."
  6. [19:51:12] <Med> Is the room at least SLIGHTLY chilly, though?
  7. [19:51:13] * Aori_Radidjiu is now known as Murphy
  8. [19:51:29] <~Murphy> NOt in the least! It's like the place was NEVER cold to begin with!
  9. [19:51:46] <Med> like, for a girl in a bikini, would she want to not be in that?
  10. [19:52:13] <~Murphy> The man clad in black rises from his bed, rubbing his eyes. "Eh, felt like it! The book sure likes to waste time."
  11. [19:52:34] <~Murphy> It's about as habitable as it was when you went to sleep! Which is to say it's pretty comfortable.
  12. [19:52:43] <~Murphy> Room temperature, I'd say!
  13. [19:53:33] <Lecia> Even though it's in the TOP SECRET part of the laboratory, which generally lacked heating, it's pretty warm in here. Optimal sleeping conditions! There's a temperature control if others end up in here who sleep at different temperatures, or if you want to get Lex Luthor up in this and make it too warm in the covers to get out.
  14. [19:54:23] <Med> so the rest of the lab is chilly, just not the bed room?
  15. [19:54:24] <Med> lewd.
  16. [19:54:33] <Lecia> Isn't it?
  17. [19:55:24] <Lecia> "Well, going to sleep again is kind of out of the question now. Got anything in mind to do while you're around here, or you wanna watch some cool shows with me~?"
  18. [19:55:32] * Med has sat up, and is now rubbing her eyes, yawning and stretching.
  19. [19:58:29] <~Murphy> "Not really, I figured I'd help with your business, after all. Speaking of which, your guest's waking up~!"
  20. [20:01:02] * Med cuddles her cuddlemons before letting out a Knives
  21. [20:01:47] <Lecia> "Ah, right! ...Alright, rev the brain up again, learned a lot today, but I gotta get it all down at once for her~" Gotta wait for her to be 100% awake and COMPLETELY BELIEVING THE NONSENSE THAT HAPPENED IN HER DREAM WAS TOTALLY REAL.
  22. [20:01:59] <~Murphy> Murphy's getting up and stretching. Knives pops out of the Pokeball, also looking a little sleepy, but he shakes his head and straightens his posture
  23. [20:02:42] <Med> "Knives, were you there?"
  24. [20:03:22] <~Murphy> He shakes one of his bladehands a little, an approximation of "kinda'"
  25. [20:03:41] <Med> "Is that true about you?"
  26. [20:04:09] <~Murphy> He blinks and tilts his head. To be fair, none of your pokemon seemed to be reading the book along with you.
  27. [20:04:22] <~Murphy> Most of them were goofing off at the time!
  28. [20:04:34] <Med> e-even though she asked him for permission ;-;
  29. [20:04:55] <~Murphy> oh right.
  30. [20:05:14] <~Murphy> His tilt deepens, deepens, and then there's a sudden realization and he goes back to a straight posture and nods.
  31. [20:06:27] <Med> "Do you want to go back?"
  32. [20:07:32] <~Murphy> Tilt one way. Tilt another. Close eyes. Think.
  33. [20:07:36] <~Murphy> ...Nod.
  34. [20:07:43] <Med> "Do you remember it?"
  35. [20:07:51] <~Murphy> He nods.
  36. [20:08:02] <Med> "Okay. That's settled, then."
  37. [20:12:28] <~Murphy> Murphy seems to have finished stretching his legs and arms. "All right, good to go!"
  38. [20:13:42] <Med> "I could use a shower~"
  39. [20:15:09] <~Murphy> "I could too! Lecia, where's the showers from here, anyway?"
  40. [20:16:06] <Med> "We could take one together!~" :3
  41. [20:16:15] <Lecia> Lecia's quick to rise! Intensely so. Just springs right out of bed, completely spry. Even though she spent 12 hours there! "Alright, I...am not sure if there's even questions left to answer with the test results that the book didn't already answer for us yet, but--ah, follow me~" STOP. Showertime! OK, no stopping, because there Lecia goes! ...Out quickly enough to take a glance at some
  42. [20:16:15] <Lecia> of the results because STILL IMPATIENT, up the stairs--where she stops to make sure everyone else is following, lest everyone get locked out.
  43. [20:17:57] * Med gets up and leads her mons out, or if they are like NO WANNA SLEEP they get put in pokeballs ;(
  44. [20:19:53] <~Murphy> Most of them seem pretty okay! Murphy smirks. "Only girl I take showers with is my Lecia, sorry~!"
  45. [20:20:55] <~Murphy> Actual DNA analysis results...well, a quick glance at the analysis shows that the comparison with the THINGS from the abyss got a non-trivial amount of correlations!
  46. [20:23:46] * zoofman is now known as Nelson
  47. [20:24:09] <~Murphy> there are other things to see too, but you're in a SLIGHT hurry to shower and junk at the moment!
  48. [20:24:51] <Lecia> ...Though once everyone's on the staircase, up she goes and A FEW MORE HALLWAYS AND TURNS and a "~" from the Lecia as to her showering preferences as she ventures forth to THE SHOWERING ROOM. ...It's completely seperated from the bathroom (the place where you dump out your waste and the place you get clean should be two seperate (yet closeby) rooms!), though they still have a sink!
  49. [20:24:51] <Lecia> ...Though there are multiple places one can shower/take a bath, they all seem a lot more pain...well, except for the fact that you can pretty much request whatever kind of soap you need, and if you actually get in it is VERY HARD TO SLIP for some reason, along with a lot of things that won't be apparent until you actually go and take a bath or whatever it is you do in there!
  50. [20:25:00] <Med> "What about you, Le~ci~a?"
  51. [20:25:32] <Lecia> *plain
  52. [20:25:39] <Lecia> They're totally not pain.
  53. [20:26:21] <Lecia> "Hmmmmmm~" ...Still has to think about it anyway. "Depends, does Murphy mind~?" GETTIN LEWD HERE FOLKS.
  54. [20:27:50] * Ramiel is now known as Theo
  55. [20:29:53] <~Murphy> "I don't mind who you shower with~"
  56. [20:33:10] <Lecia> "There's plenty of room in the showers for the two of us, then~!" FIRST THING IN THE MORNING: BE LEWD. That seems to be about right. ...Considering what she got from her small glance, that's pretty gutsy!
  57. [20:36:00] <Med> "Yay~"
  58. [20:36:03] <~Murphy> Murphy winks and goes off to shower ALONE
  59. [20:36:07] * Med grabs Lecia's hand~
  60. [20:36:40] <Lecia> DO WE GOTTA RP THE SHOWER? DO YOU GOTTA PUT ME IN THAT KIND OF SPOT?
  61. [20:37:08] <~Murphy> Up to you.
  62. [20:38:05] <Med> like med would do anything to lecia in the shower
  63. [20:39:32] <Med> that was a joke
  64. [20:40:38] <Lecia> Well, then let it be said that somehow, showers can get high tech too. Want to feel like you're showering in a more open area as opposed to in a confined area? There's a setting for that for both 'only keep the stuff you need to shower' and 'leave that out too'. And then there's anti-peeping functions in case you want to feel open but not actually be open, there's way too many kinds of
  65. [20:40:39] <Lecia> soap and shampoo that leaves one exceptionally clean, so on!
  66. [20:40:53] <Lecia> Also, you totally got a hug. In the shower!
  67. [20:42:53] <Med> lecia got more than a hug >_>
  68. [20:43:27] <Lecia> THEN LET'S SAY THEY HAD A GOOD TIME.
  69. [20:44:17] <~Murphy> Murphy doesn't waste time in the shower, so he's done by the time you two are done and fully dressed and everything.
  70. [20:47:37] <Med> SPEAKING OF WHICH
  71. [20:48:42] <Med> "Hey, Lec," she says while Lecia is getting dressed, just sort of sitting somewhere or whatever all naked and probably automagically dried, or maybe wearing a towel or two if there is no automagic drying machine.
  72. [20:50:23] <Lecia> Of course there's an automagic drying machine! Pretty tingly, Lecia uses it. But there's also a few towels on hand (via machine) anyway. Why is anyone's guess! "Huh~?"
  73. [20:51:08] <Med> "Do you have anything for me to wear?" :3
  74. [20:56:08] <Lecia> "Of course I do~!" Lecia snaps her fingers! An entire closet full of her clothes drops down from the ceiling after a few seconds. It even opens by itself! ...And comes with a screen to preview clothes! (It reacts to Murphy's finger snap differently, by getting his own stuff instead of hers, if he was OK with setting it up like that and does it!)
  75. [20:56:11] <Lecia> Technology!
  76. [21:00:14] <Lecia> ...Though Lecia's tastes may be different than Med's, there's a lot of cute stuff here!
  77. [21:01:04] <Med> wait if lecia's wardrobe didnt exist until just now WHAT WAS SHE PUTTING ON
  78. [21:01:49] <Lecia> A towel.
  79. [21:01:52] <Lecia> Checkmate.
  80. [21:02:09] <Med> clever
  81. [21:02:46] <Lecia> It's a sort of nostalgic feeling, wearing a towel. Can't help it sometimes!
  82. [21:05:07] <Med> "Cool!~" Lecia gets a hug (a lewd hug) before Med starts looking through the wardrobe~
  83. [21:11:33] <Lecia> That said there's even a little side computer that can let you check things out before having to actually find the blasted thing. And to retrieve the blasted thing. And to sort between various aspects of them and getting them out of the way so you can find which particular blasted thing you want. ...Sometimes it's hard deciding what to wear under a labcoat of the highest quality for
  84. [21:11:33] <Lecia> the sake of science.
  85. [21:14:46] * Med totes peeks over lecia's shoulder instead of picking out clothes first.
  86. [21:15:33] <Lecia> But when it comes to things to wear, there are...so many mecha heroine outfits it manages to not be funny but then go to funny again! Totally bodysuits as well if you want a tight fit for some reason (not that they aren't cute), a good amount of purple and frilly clothes, some clothes that are strangely plain...and probably a few others and wait are any of these even your size how is
  87. [21:15:33] <Lecia> she so confident that it IS the case anyway
  88. [21:19:27] <Lecia> ...Lecia, after consideration, goes with one of the bodysuits. It can still pass as a suit of sorts, ain't even lewd! Take off the towel, then put on the suit~
  89. [21:21:19] <Med> after much thought, med takes ...
  90. [21:21:22] <Med> a lab coat!
  91. [21:24:22] <~Murphy> That's it? Nothing under?
  92. [21:25:50] * Med
  93. [21:29:34] <Lecia> ...Nothing on the lower half of the body either? I mean sure, the labcoat probably covers that, but it never hurts to check!
  94. [21:31:12] * Med
  95. [21:32:33] <Lecia> That says more than one would normally imagine. It's probably slightly bigger than Med's size too, so just wearing a slightly oversized (probably white) lab coat. Lecia notes this! "...You can wear that while you're down here, but for the sake of saving everyone some headaches, be sure to put something on under that before you leave!" At least she's not walking around naked. Take what
  96. [21:32:33] <Lecia> you can get.
  97. [21:32:43] <Lecia> After all, she's welcome to make herself at home, after all!
  98. [21:33:36] * Med - oh wait
  99. [21:34:34] <Med> "I'm making clothes~ but they aren't done being made yet~"
  100. [21:37:56] <Lecia> "Perhaps you can wear them under once you're done~! ...And perhaps that can take up some of our long wait before we get tired again. Buuuuuut, we still gotta eat and discuss the serious business we uncovered earlier. ...In seperate places, cause I still gotta get a better review, and any review in there should be done with a full stomach."
  101. [21:38:37] <Lecia> "...Did you actually get all your answers in there, or do you have more questions? Might be able to skip the serious business if I know that up front~"
  102. [21:39:13] <Med> "Nope~ I still have more~"
  103. [21:40:48] <Lecia> "Then we'll discuss it after a really early breakfast! ...Or really late dinner. At 3 AM, I can never tell which one is appropriate..." ONWARD, ONCE DRESSED! To the kitchen already described! "Anything in mind, or you wanna be surprised~?"
  104. [21:41:16] <Med> "Surprised!~"
  105. [21:41:45] * Med totes links arms with Lecia. she gives Murphy another shot but doesn't bother persuing it if he's like nope. boring champs gonna be borin.
  106. [21:44:25] <Lecia> "Surprised breakfast, dinner, or...double surprise~?" Lecia herself gets a pretty standard complete breakfast (only without the cereal because really what kind of person actually EATS all of that AND cereal, honestly), over easy eggs and fuck the player is hungry gonna microwave some microwavable mini pizzas while crying
  107. [21:45:00] <~Murphy> Murphy is in the kitchen eating hardboiled eggs and bacon. He gives the two girls a nod. "Yo."
  108. [21:45:08] <Med> "Hi!~"
  109. [21:45:17] * Med waves to Murphy~
  110. [21:46:03] <~Murphy> Chew. "Noif biew yer gibin' me." Swallow.
  111. [21:47:21] <Lecia> Clearly this would be the time for uneasy chat between Murphy and Med, cause that breakfast is made quickly and she hungry!
  112. [21:50:02] <Med> ((i am now actively wondering if shukers and/or aori are like unaware that lab coats totes have buttons. i mean just wearing a labcoat isnt exactly the most modest thing to do ever but >_> ))
  113. [21:50:38] <~Murphy> (oh yeah, that's a thing)
  114. [21:50:57] <~Murphy> (I totally expect her to button it so she's got cleavage, though)
  115. [21:52:38] <Med> ((THEN IT TURNED OUT SHE DIDN'T BUTTON IT AT ALLL or something))
  116. [21:52:43] <~Murphy> "Early mornings are the best. You get to sneak up on people and wake them up." He starts gobbling an egg.
  117. [21:55:57] <~Murphy> "Wanna' do that later?" He gobbles another egg.
  118. [21:56:21] <Med> "Wake who up?"
  119. [21:57:03] <Med> without a lecia to surprise her, med just tries to figure out how to get the machine to get her breakfast.
  120. [21:57:10] <Med> except she's a demon so breakfast is cheesecake today.
  121. [21:59:17] <Lecia> It's plain cheesecake, but there's something about it that defies explanation. Maybe cheesecake was better off without additional flavor add-ons after all! DOUBLE SURPRISE IT WAS.
  122. [21:59:43] <Lecia> Also, with lack of explanation, it's totally just wearing something pure white with nothing under it. Can totally be lewd.
  123. [22:00:00] <Lecia> Especially if you intentionally left yourself a bit wet. Lewdmaster.
  124. [22:00:32] * Med didn't plan that far ahead, so she'd only be damp if Lecia's machine is shoddy
  125. [22:01:03] <Lecia> It isn't!
  126. [22:02:42] <~Murphy> "Hrm...I guess there's not really anyone here to do that with...don't you have a crew? Maybe we could wake one of them up with a phone call!"
  127. [22:08:33] <Med> "You guys didn't fire them yet?" :c
  128. [22:09:14] <~Murphy> "Let's see...you're with the Mutiny, Lani's crew, right?"
  129. [22:09:35] * Med nodnod
  130. [22:10:09] <Lecia> "They gotta got their next paycheck before we can review them for things like that properly. Otherwise someone will throw a fit! Also, situations change pretty quickly, so in between the flight, that adventure, the testing...who knows what could have happened!"
  131. [22:10:24] <Lecia> "Protagonists are good at that sort of thing, so..."
  132. [22:10:43] <~Murphy> "Let's see, I believe they caught two groups...and they got something recently too, Lani just sent something about capturing some guy running some shady business, so that's three captures, possibly!"
  133. [22:11:04] <~Murphy> "That puts you guys in a pretty good situation, considering there's other groups that haven't caught anything yet.
  134. [22:11:06] <~Murphy> "
  135. [22:11:38] <Med> "Wow... you guys hired a lot of incompetent people!"
  136. [22:12:14] <Lecia> "The funny thing is, with how there's so much people with special talents that my world would only dream of, this world seems to have less competent people. Or at least that's what the review papers say!"
  137. [22:12:45] <~Murphy> He grimaces. "We...weren't as involved in the selection process as I'd have hoped. The Navy did most of the selection themselves, we just gave them some recommendations and were given the opportunity for some second opinions."
  138. [22:13:16] <Lecia> "At least the government didn't really change between worlds." Sip.
  139. [22:13:31] <Lecia> "...Can only get away with saying that stuff in this lab. It's a wonder I don't spend more time here!"
  140. [22:15:10] <~Murphy> "Besides that, on the other hand, there are plenty of law enforcement people who end up having to spend good stretches of time without work. Just having the PIRATES around sailing and actively looking for criminals works as a prevention measure, as it's harder to get away with crime now."
  141. [22:16:53] <~Murphy> "But eh, it wasn't MY idea to run this thing. I just decided to back it to try and get the people working under it motivated."
  142. [22:18:27] <Med> "I gave them a perfect opportunity to let them infiltrate your enemy, and they blew their cover instead. Now it's even a pain for me!"
  143. [22:18:41] <Lecia> "Maybe the incompetence of the government is Aether's fault as well! Ha ha."
  144. [22:18:56] <Lecia> "...Wait a second, that might actually be true."
  145. [22:19:30] <Med> "Probably. They hired me!~"
  146. [22:19:34] <~Murphy> "Unfortunately."
  147. [22:19:51] <~Murphy> "I can't help but suspect some parts of the government."
  148. [22:21:19] <Lecia> Lecia shrugs! "Well, at least it made things interesting, right? It wouldn't do, having nothing to do but sit around, watch cool shows, slowly advance the technology level of the world...nah, gotta be at least SOME looming disaster when I get here~"
  149. [22:22:08] <Lecia> Lecia finishes eating! "And speaking of looming disaster, whenever you're all ready, we can go down to review the test results, and Med can ask questions~"
  150. [22:22:25] <~Murphy> Murphy scarfs down some more bacon and another egg. "I'm good."
  151. [22:22:37] <Med> "Sure~"
  152. [22:23:06] <Lecia> TO THE LAB. "Won't be able to call anyone in there though, so if you wanna make a call, do it now~"
  153. [22:23:15] * Med gets a banana to eat before going.
  154. [22:23:56] <Med> "Later~ it's not important~"
  155. [22:24:09] <Med> "I'll text them though~"
  156. [22:25:37] <Lecia> "Well, no signals get in or out of there, so do that and come on down~" And there goes Lecia, who'll quickly do the good ol' pace in a slightly different manner to open up THE SECRETER LAB to review dem results in more depth!
  157. [22:25:43] * Med holds banana in her mouth while she texts Mel. "Btw magical interdimensional bad guys rewrote reality and your grand-dad was killed by it."
  158. [22:28:07] <Med> "Done~" she follows along, putting the phone away to eat the banana. totes not suggestive at all. no sir.
  159. [22:31:10] <Lecia> Not at all! IN DEPTH REVIEW TIME. "Alright, while I've got this in front of me, ask any kind of question you'd like! ...Any that's like, relevent to the whole subjecting to testing and maybe even the book and all that! If you run out of questions, I'll bring up things that may not have come up, so don't feel like you're missing too much if you run out of those!""
  160. [22:31:39] <Lecia> - that last " mark, siamese twin quotation marks are forbidden
  161. [22:31:42] <~Murphy> BASIC RESULTS! Med's DNA shows correlation wtih the abyss things, although not a particular heavy one! She's still definitely a human! Just a human THING hybrid of low degree. Tests on her souls show a similar sort of soul pollution to that of Shadow Pokemon, a 70% match. The other differences are due to her being a different species and not seeming to be QUITE as corrupted as most
  162. [22:31:42] <~Murphy> shadow Pokemon.
  163. [22:32:01] <~Murphy> More stuff comes with more specific questions, of course~
  164. [22:32:19] <Lecia> As usual, the screen refuses to be deciphered than anyone other than Lecia. So, there's that!
  165. [22:32:29] <Med> "What am I?"
  166. [22:33:25] <Lecia> "In the grand scale of things, or specifically? ...Or both, or something else?"
  167. [22:34:42] <Med> "Everything."
  168. [22:43:53] <Lecia> "If you want literally everything we're gonna be here for a very long time. ...So we'll go with both, and additional details on request. Specifically, you're kind of like those things in the Abyss we adventured to once! That...really nasty thing basically wearing a bunch of dead Rattata, yeah, there's a lot of different kinds, but most of them aren't pretty, friendly, and will ask to
  169. [22:43:53] <Lecia> steal your soul in a heartbeat if they're not too busy eating you beforehand. Some of them actually do both! However, the connection is pretty weak, but the similarity is there! In fact, you're probably more human than you are demon! As for your soul, it is very like that of a Shadow Pokemon, though not really identical, about a 70% similarity. The differences come from you actually
  170. [22:43:54] <Lecia> being human and not being quite as corrupted."
  171. [22:45:40] <Lecia> "But, here's the thing! You...well, you actually have a soul, damaged as it is by the shadow. Those things in the Abyss don't even have one! Probably why they take them in the first place."
  172. [22:45:54] <Med> "They don't? I saw one."
  173. [22:46:13] <~Murphy> Aura != soul
  174. [22:46:23] <~Murphy> It's close, but not quite the same!
  175. [22:46:31] <Med> 2d6-1 OCCULT KNOWLEDGE, AORI
  176. [22:46:42] <~Murphy> well shit
  177. [22:46:43] <Med> DON'T EVEN NEED A DICE BOT TO MAKE MY POINT
  178. [22:46:56] * DiceMaid-9001 (DiceMaid-9@sux-EADD5C74) has joined #youareapirate
  179. [22:47:03] <Med> 2d6-1 fine i'll roll :(
  180. [22:47:04] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, fine i'll roll :(: 9 [2d6=6,4]
  181. [22:47:14] <Lecia> That could have been worse!
  182. [22:47:56] <Med> (although i'm pretty sure i've been roleplaying med thinking they were the same thing anyhow)
  183. [22:48:24] <Lecia> Lecia corrects her anyway. "Close, but not quite. They have Auras, but not souls. They have intent, but no real depth to that intent."
  184. [22:48:28] <Kraken> (I also thought they were effectively the same what with your corrupted empathing letting you eat souls D:)
  185. [22:48:41] <~Murphy> From what you could tell wtih your many experiences with Auras, auras are usually intentions and general feelings! Aura's usually reflect the feelings of the soul! Also there's the fact that the one abomination you did see had enslaved Rattata and was maybe keeping them alive to spoof having a soul
  186. [22:50:34] <Lecia> "It makes them ruthless, but it also makes them really easy to predict if you go on knowing that's what you're dealing with. Kinda like AI, I guess, only they're too technical to even get an Aura reading."
  187. [22:51:10] <~Murphy> The main difference to remember is that Auras can change with how someone feels, but souls only change to reflect a person actually changing. The Auras I've described in the game for characters are more reflecting their default state, and change with how they're feeling and what they're intending.
  188. [22:52:59] <~Murphy> For all intents and purposes, and Aura is a soul unless you want to get REALLY technical, or for wrid things like the things int eh Abyss
  189. [22:54:07] <~Murphy> *weird
  190. [22:54:08] <Med> "So I'm part shadow and part monster?"
  191. [22:54:53] <~Murphy> Lecia, roll me an Intuition roll~
  192. [22:55:56] <Med> 3d6+6 can i roll too? i wanna roll too!
  193. [22:55:57] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, can i roll too? i wanna roll too!: 15 [3d6=1,4,4]
  194. [22:57:14] <Lecia> 2d6+1+1 EVEN THREW AN AP THERE CAUSE LECIA'S INTUITION IS LACKING FOR SOME REASON
  195. [22:57:15] <DiceMaid-9001> Lecia, EVEN THREW AN AP THERE CAUSE LECIA'S INTUITION IS LACKING FOR SOME REASON: 9 [2d6=5,2]
  196. [22:57:27] <Lecia> ...If 9 was worth that long essay, surely this should be good.
  197. [23:00:30] <~Murphy> Welll...hrm. You're not sure, but considering those things are so unnatural, you don't think they could BREED, could they? Especially since they're so far away
  198. [23:00:40] <~Murphy> Med lives on a completely different island, after all!
  199. [23:01:14] <~Murphy> Med gets a similar thought. Maybe it's not so much that you're the same thing as you have a similar origin.
  200. [23:02:27] <Lecia> There's...there's a lot of unnatural things. Demons, shadows, or yes?
  201. [23:02:45] <~Murphy> Oh, when I said things, I meant abyssmonsters
  202. [23:02:51] <~Murphy> herp de durrr
  203. [23:06:46] <Lecia> Extensive thought on that from the players side wonders why that was worth a roll. Lecia's smarter than this, dang it. Aether wasn't the best at editing, so demons being elsewhere is just something that should be kept in mind!
  204. [23:07:18] <Lecia> "...Basically, yeah. Though it's more like your body is part monster, and your soul is part shadow. The other halves are still human, so really, you're like, more human than anything~"
  205. [23:09:38] <Lecia> "...Huh, I guess this means I'll really need your mom for testing though, huh? Cause if you're only like you are because SHE'S only like she is, that opens up a new bag of testing."
  206. [23:10:09] <Lecia> "I mean, she might not have a soul as things stand. That's probably a bad thing."
  207. [23:11:46] <Lecia> "Maybe it's alright for science, but aside from that, definitely a bad thing."
  208. [23:12:00] <Med> "Why's it bad?"
  209. [23:16:35] <Lecia> "For Aether to have something not entirely unlike the Abyss's monsters at their disposal...if they at some point like, realize just how much science they can do with that kind of knowledge, and dare I say it, make more half-demon babies to shadowize and perhaps even properly brainwash, to suck the souls out of Pokemon or whatever captures their fancy...that would be a bad situation."
  210. [23:16:41] <Lecia> "...Several bad situations."
  211. [23:18:47] <Med> "You're right. We should be free, not some organization's toys~"
  212. [23:20:53] <Lecia> "Well, in the case that she really doesn't have a soul and I can't change that, she's welcome to be free in the Abyss. At least that place runs deep. Practically another world down there."
  213. [23:21:25] <Lecia> "I mean, if I let her free and her prime directive or whatever is 'be worse than a criminal and eat people's souls' then I kinda don't have much other options!"
  214. [23:22:15] <Med> "That's my mom you're talking about~"
  215. [23:22:25] <~Murphy> Murphy's over in a corner, with a cool-guy pose. He's keeping quiet, at the moment.
  216. [23:24:31] <Lecia> "I know! That's what makes this sort of stuff more important. If it wasn't your mom or anyone special and there was no way to stop them from being a monster with no true depth, I'd probably just blow her up as an act of mercy or something." Shrug! "Afterlife may or may not be pretty free. I'm not about to go check."
  217. [23:25:01] <Med> "Huh?"
  218. [23:25:17] <Med> "No... I mean... she can slaughter Gods... who do you think you're trying to control?"
  219. [23:26:40] <Lecia> "I could probably beat up a god or two." One-two. "Just gotta get out the really big guns."
  220. [23:27:20] * ~Murphy raises a hand. "I'm up for that if it's necessary. Might be fun!"
  221. [23:27:26] <Lecia> "...And if she could slaughter gods, then the question would be why the Mutiny aren't all dead!"
  222. [23:28:03] <Lecia> "Probably wouldn't take too much effort if slaughtering gods was on her able list."
  223. [23:28:14] <Med> "Huh?"
  224. [23:28:19] <Lecia> "If anything, it's a reason not to fire them!"
  225. [23:28:38] <Med> "It's not like you can kill Gods by punching them..."
  226. [23:28:53] <Lecia> "Science!"
  227. [23:29:05] <Lecia> ...That was a serious answer.
  228. [23:29:17] <~Murphy> "Determination!" Murphy's back into grin mode.
  229. [23:29:39] <Med> "You just feed them dark stuff 'til they go crazy and do it for you." '-'
  230. [23:29:51] <Lecia> "Never know what might crop up. Always good to have a back-up plan. The best part is when the science is literally fueled by determination!"
  231. [23:30:02] <Lecia> "...Eh, isn't that just poisoning them?"
  232. [23:30:18] <Lecia> "I can reverse that with science too."
  233. [23:30:35] <Med> "How else do you kill a soul?" '-'?
  234. [23:31:03] <Lecia> "Plenty of ways I won't even get into!"
  235. [23:31:35] <~Murphy> "I'd start by asking a Spiritomb, they know plenty of ways."
  236. [23:32:02] <Lecia> "...That said, that does sound the most efficent, and having enough to drive a god mad is certainly a respectable feat."
  237. [23:32:46] <Med> "And they already did! I wonder if they've infected other Gods too~"
  238. [23:33:28] <~Murphy> "They haven't. I've looked into this, actually."
  239. [23:34:00] <Lecia> "Oh? That saves a lot of time. That could change any moment though, so we should probably stay alert."
  240. [23:34:29] <~Murphy> "Well, at least not any of Wakino's gods. Maybe somewhere else."
  241. [23:35:42] <Lecia> "Got my hands full with Wakino already. But, there's probably other protagonists for other countries, so they'll probably manage alright." Nod nod!
  242. [23:36:55] <Med> "That's kind of disappointing."
  243. [23:38:02] <Lecia> "Well, it's not like it's out of the ballpark yet. There's always ho--wait, I shouldn't be cheering them on."
  244. [23:38:18] <Lecia> "Er-hem! Was the question answered to your liking?"
  245. [23:40:05] <Med> "Not yet."
  246. [23:42:36] <Lecia> "Then ask me to elaborate on specific things, or bring up a sub-question! Or just say that something feels missing, or...however you want to go about it!"
  247. [23:44:09] <Med> "Why am I so watered down?" ._.
  248. [23:44:35] <Lecia> "Cause you took a shower a bit ago."
  249. [23:44:57] <~Murphy> "Badum tiiiish~"
  250. [23:45:00] <Med> "No no!"
  251. [23:45:06] <Lecia> "~"
  252. [23:45:10] <Lecia> "Be a bit more specific~"
  253. [23:45:16] * Med flaps her arms adorably. how much bigger is Lecia than her anyway, ARE THE SLEEVES TOTALLY TOO LONG FOR HER?!
  254. [23:45:27] <Med> 6d6+6+2 moe attack roll
  255. [23:45:27] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, moe attack roll: 19 [6d6=4,1,1,1,3,1]
  256. [23:45:30] <Med> 6d6+6+2 moe damage roll
  257. [23:45:31] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, moe damage roll: 36 [6d6=4,6,4,3,5,6]
  258. [23:46:12] <Lecia> If you picked a long sleeved labcoat, the sleeves are slightly long enough to pull that off. If you picked the adorably oversized labcoat, they are very long enough!
  259. [23:47:19] <Med> why would med not pick the adorably oversized labcoat
  260. [23:47:28] <Lecia> Exactly.
  261. [23:47:53] <Lecia> HEAVY DAMAGE MOE
  262. [23:47:53] <~Murphy> http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/tabanam/fun%20stuff/random.gif moe labcoat attack
  263. [23:49:35] <Med> "How come I can't take over people's souls, corrupt Gods, turn things into my mindless slaves, or do other cool stuff?"
  264. [23:49:39] * Med POUTS ADORABLY :(
  265. [23:51:06] <Med> 3d6+6 intuition to realize she's still a member of mutiny and thus part of its usual incompetence
  266. [23:51:07] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, intuition to realize she's still a member of mutiny and thus part of its usual incompetence: 15 [3d6=1,6,2]
  267. [23:51:39] <Lecia> "That would require a comparison between you and your mother! For now, all I can say is that you lack the raw power to do that sort of stuff! The world isn't fair sometimes, cause otherwise we'd have a lot of people like me and it'd be pretty chaotic, or maybe everyone'd be plain and boring."
  268. [23:52:15] <Lecia> "But hey, you have the protagonist spot! Just deal with the rough beginning arc and things should get cooler."
  269. [23:53:26] <Med> "Why do you keep calling me a protagonist? That's Lain, not me."
  270. [23:54:11] <~Murphy> Not only do you realize you might be as incompetent as the rest of them, it occurs to you that you have no real basis for believing your mom did any of the things you listed! Stupid Intuition.
  271. [23:54:39] <Med> hero worship is a basis :(
  272. [23:54:55] <Lecia> "Well, in the protagonist group. Close enough, really!"
  273. [23:55:00] <~Murphy> IT's not a real basis!
  274. [23:55:51] <Lecia> "As for a figurehead protagonist...from what I read, that does sound right, he could probably do that sort of thing. The question would be if he should be dragged along too!
  275. [23:56:11] <Med> "Huh?"
  276. [23:56:30] <Lecia> "I answered that Lain thing seriously~"
  277. [23:56:39] <~Murphy> "While he could be a protagonist, he's probably not the protagonist of the story you're in, is what she's saying."
  278. [23:56:55] <Lecia> Nod nod! See, he gets it.
  279. [23:57:49] <Med> ...
  280. [23:57:51] <Med> ...
  281. [23:57:53] <Med> ...
  282. [23:57:54] <Med> "Huh?"
  283. [23:58:11] <Med> 3d6+6 intuition, tell me what the fuck they are saying
  284. [23:58:12] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, intuition, tell me what the fuck they are saying: 14 [3d6=1,6,1]
  285. [23:58:57] <~Murphy> Lain is the protagonist of another story that you have no real part in! But you're in the middle of a story, and you're a driving force in it, so that could make you a protagonist!
  286. [23:59:37] * Nelson is now known as zoofman
  287. [00:00:28] <Lecia> "I should probably stop talking like that, but I still haven't been wrong about that sort of stuff yet, so it's hard not to."
  288. [00:02:00] <Med> "I'm not a protagonist though. I don't have any impact at all if I try to be good. It's boring."
  289. [00:02:29] <~Murphy> "How do you know that?"
  290. [00:02:50] <~Murphy> "If you believe something like that, you won't get anything done, good or bad."
  291. [00:04:47] <~Murphy> "Trust me, I've seen people with less spark than yours and more uncertainty rise up to do great things, so you definitely can."
  292. [00:06:01] <Med> murphy should totes roll intuition
  293. [00:06:03] <Med> or have rolled
  294. [00:06:05] <Med> or something
  295. [00:06:14] <~Murphy> 6d6+3 okay
  296. [00:06:14] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, okay: 31 [6d6=5,4,3,5,5,6]
  297. [00:06:15] <Med> to notice the subtle, unmentioned emphasis on the word 'good'
  298. [00:06:41] <Lecia> And get the in depth profile on it, while he's at it.
  299. [00:06:52] <Med> oh that's only a 31
  300. [00:06:54] <Med> not a 9 at all
  301. [00:07:00] <Med> such a terrible roll. no paragraph for you.
  302. [00:07:04] <~Murphy> ;_;
  303. [00:07:26] <~Murphy> (to be fair, it was something Med had a lot of experience with, so she sort of had a circumstantial bonus to it)
  304. [00:07:37] * Med very clearly thinks she can do a lot more by being malevolent and causing trouble or problems than she could ever to by cooperating.
  305. [00:08:09] <Lecia> Probably not hard to think like that when your crew is shit at cooperating.
  306. [00:08:24] * Med also seems to have some sort of hero worship thing for her mom, and laments her inabilities to match her or the other terrors she shares a small degree of metaphysical lineage with.
  307. [00:09:46] <Med> It's pretty likely that Med wants to fuck things up, and already thinks she is quite capable of it with enough effort, although she's still thoroughly aware of her shortcomings.
  308. [00:09:51] <~Murphy> "Being good isn't easy, you often get more immediate and sometimes more satisfying results by being bad, but being good is something you can be proud of, no matter how badly you do at it. If you do enough good, and try hard enough, people will come to respect and look up to you, whereas if you do bad things, people won't want anything to do with you, and only deal with you because
  309. [00:09:52] <~Murphy> they're scared of you. You only get genuine things by being good! But being good takes work, which is why not everyone does it."
  310. [00:10:21] <~Murphy> "That's my cheesy hero speech of the day~!" He snaps his fingers and points, grinning.
  311. [00:10:40] <Med> "See? Humans don't understand me at all!"
  312. [00:10:45] <Med> more moe sleeve flapping
  313. [00:10:48] <Med> 6d6+6+2 ATTACK ROLL
  314. [00:10:49] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, ATTACK ROLL: 26 [6d6=4,2,5,1,5,1]
  315. [00:10:50] <Med> 6d6+6+2 DAMAGE ROLL
  316. [00:10:50] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, DAMAGE ROLL: 31 [6d6=4,5,3,3,2,6]
  317. [00:11:25] <~Murphy> Murphy was attacked by MOE. "Do you really think so?"
  318. [00:12:10] <~Murphy> "What do you think you're going to accomplish by being bad? Do you really think you can do it? Especially with me and Lecia and me looking for monsters to crush all the time?"
  319. [00:13:12] <~Murphy> "You wanna' do some work here, Lec?" Gringrin?
  320. [00:13:37] <~Murphy> *-and me
  321. [00:14:39] <Lecia> Lecia seems unsure! Deep in thought. "Hm...that kind of satisfaction...I can see why she's claiming a lack of understanding, if it's because she doesn't really feel that kind of stuff. That's probably the shadowy parts of her, yeah. She'd have to work even harder to even really feel the results!"
  322. [00:15:12] <Lecia> "But if she's gonna be that shortsighted about it, wellll, it'd probably hurt!"
  323. [00:17:05] <Lecia> "Demonic blood probably doesn't help either. Still, it has a lot less impact than the soul!"
  324. [00:17:13] <Lecia> "Since it's, you know, there."
  325. [00:17:25] <Med> "Pain's what woke me up." :3
  326. [00:18:24] <Lecia> "This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if she should also transfer ships, at least for the time being..."
  327. [00:19:09] <~Murphy> "Hmmmm, who would take her, though, hrm..."
  328. [00:19:27] <Lecia> "The one thing that would make things easier for everyone would be to be with a group that knows better than to beat up their own crew!" Sigh.
  329. [00:19:50] * Aori_Radidjiu (Revolution@sux-87385B3C.dsl.sbndin.sbcglobal.net) has joined #youareapirate
  330. [00:19:50] * UboaServ sets mode: +qo Aori_Radidjiu Aori_Radidjiu
  331. [00:21:42] <~Aori_Radidjiu> "Hrm, who would be good. Maybe the S.S. VICTORY? They're pretty stable, and pretty nice guys!"
  332. [00:22:11] <Med> "What's wrong with me waking up?"
  333. [00:22:19] * ~Murphy (Revolution@sux-87385B3C.dsl.sbndin.sbcglobal.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
  334. [00:22:25] * Aori_Radidjiu is now known as Murphy
  335. [00:22:35] <~Murphy> "You didn't wake up, you fell asleep, silly."
  336. [00:23:11] <Med> "That's just what a human'd think."
  337. [00:23:40] <~Murphy> "Then I'll go ask a Vampire what she thinks."
  338. [00:24:11] <Lecia> "You're totally a human, you know!"
  339. [00:24:50] <~Murphy> "From what Lecia's said, you're much more human than anything else."
  340. [00:27:57] <~Murphy> "...where IS that Vampire, anyway?"
  341. [00:29:28] <Lecia> "Vampires gonna vamp. It's getting closer to morning, we'd probably have had more luck a few hours ago, but now..."
  342. [00:29:40] <~Murphy> "Yeah, I guess you're right, she's probably going to sleep now."
  343. [00:29:57] <~Murphy> "Or she's found some dust in some remote place."
  344. [00:30:35] <Lecia> "Either or. We were eating earlier, maybe she's cleaning the kitchen!"
  345. [00:31:11] <Med> "Why is the vampire a vampire?"
  346. [00:31:29] <~Murphy> "She came from another world where vampires are real. It's complicated."
  347. [00:31:29] <Lecia> Definitely Murphy's field.
  348. [00:31:43] <Lecia> Dreamlaaaaaaand!
  349. [00:31:54] <Med> "I'm from a world where demons are real."
  350. [00:32:13] <Lecia> "And tell me that isn't complicated!"
  351. [00:32:23] <~Murphy> Nodnod.
  352. [00:32:40] <Med> "Then stop calling me a human."
  353. [00:33:37] <~Murphy> "A vampire sucks blood and tomato juice and are generally female, from what I heard of her world. What makes your demon a demon?"
  354. [00:33:59] <Lecia> "Just cause demons are real doesn't mean everyone's a demon, though. Nor is she a half vampire, or 1/4th of a vampire, or have at--er, what have you."
  355. [00:34:22] <Med> "I can do this."
  356. [00:34:27] <Med> 1d2 murphy vs lecia
  357. [00:34:28] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, murphy vs lecia: 1 [1d2=1]
  358. [00:34:32] <Med> SOULSTEALER AT MURPHY
  359. [00:40:40] <~Murphy> YOu reach in and pull out a piece of Murphy's soul. Ow. His eyebrow raises, but he doesn't look particularly hurt or surprised. In rushes a bunch of goofy optimism and oneliners into the core of your being.
  360. [00:41:28] <Lecia> YOU HAVE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
  361. [00:42:32] <Lecia> For some reason, the entire room glows a bit (and the screen dims a bit). Something else clearly triggered the moment that happened, but it isn't clear what it is!
  362. [00:42:59] <~Murphy> "Oh, that trick. Huh. Kind of like what I do in the dream world. I can't do it in real life, I'm kind of jealous. What ability did you SOUL STEAL from me, hm? Is it a cool one? A Bullet soul? A Guardian? Enchant?" He seems almost GIDDY that you did that.
  363. [00:43:11] * Theo is now known as Ramiel
  364. [00:43:53] <Med> 3d6+6+2 try to resist it ;-;
  365. [00:43:54] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, try to resist it: 23 [3d6=6,4,5]
  366. [00:44:28] <~Murphy> 5d6+3 Murphycharm
  367. [00:44:29] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, Murphycharm: 14 [5d6=2,4,3,1,1]
  368. [00:44:46] <~Murphy> It doesn't TAKE OVER you but you feel a sudden sense of elation!
  369. [00:46:13] <~Murphy> "I would be careful about doing that again, though, I think something here noticed." Eyebrow waggle
  370. [00:47:08] <Lecia> "Yeah, this IS a pretty secure room! It's VERY CAREFUL about making sure things don't blow up the wrong way."
  371. [00:48:58] <~Murphy> You're definitely not affected by the emotion which pervades Murphy's soul most. Some of his BLATANT OPTIMISM and DO-GOOD ATTITUDE and GOOFINESS seeps into you, even if it doesn't take over you!
  372. [00:49:06] <~Murphy> Er
  373. [00:49:17] <~Murphy> Those sentences contradicted each other
  374. [00:49:19] <~Murphy> *-not
  375. [00:49:21] <~Murphy> why did I put that in
  376. [00:49:26] <Med> "Oh..."
  377. [00:49:32] <Med> "This is why you said those things..."
  378. [00:52:15] <~Murphy> "Go on~"
  379. [00:54:19] <Med> "Your soul is programmed to work that way. You just don't have any choice or freedom at all."
  380. [00:54:40] <Med> "And you look down on other people because they do."
  381. [00:54:43] <~Murphy> "False."
  382. [00:54:56] <~Murphy> "I was miserable in my elementary school years, actually"
  383. [00:55:13] <Med> "And I was a human in mine."
  384. [00:55:34] <~Murphy> "And then got into Pokemon battling and training and learned to discipline myself and learned how fun things could be!"
  385. [00:56:16] <~Murphy> "Well if you're gonna' be that way, how do you know you have any choice to be the way you are? Did you choose to be a demon?"
  386. [00:56:41] <Med> "No, but I am one."
  387. [00:57:07] <Lecia> "There's a PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE between changing and throwing away the ability to change..."
  388. [00:58:04] <~Murphy> "And so you're going to choose to succumb to what you are rather than be something bigger? All you've said is 'I'm a demon this', 'I'm a demon that', but that sounds more like an excuse to me if anything! Like you're not even trying."
  389. [00:58:15] <Med> "I am trying."
  390. [00:58:18] <Med> "To be a demon."
  391. [00:58:51] <~Murphy> "Then why haven't you eaten me and Lecia yet?"
  392. [00:59:17] <Med> "I did!"
  393. [00:59:18] <Med> "Both of you!"
  394. [00:59:25] <Med> "What do you think we did in the shower?" '-'
  395. [00:59:43] <~Murphy> "I meant like the way those things do."
  396. [01:00:19] <Lecia> Just get a bit red and let Murphy continue from there.
  397. [01:00:34] <~Murphy> "Why haven't you taken over the minds of several things and added them to your collective and gained their information and used their minds as another node in your network like those things if you're saying you're not any different from them?"
  398. [01:01:22] <~Murphy> "Those Abyss monsters are the most pure form of 'Demon' we have, so if you want to be them, you have to be them."
  399. [01:04:58] <Med> "B-because I haven't learned how yet! That's all! I bet they had to work hard to get to where they are too!"
  400. [01:05:01] <Med> DETERMINATION
  401. [01:05:14] <Med> 3d6+6+2 +murphybonus DETERMINATION
  402. [01:05:14] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, +murphybonus DETERMINATION: 21 [3d6=6,4,3]
  403. [01:05:41] <~Murphy> "Why are you clinging on to human values like clothes and love and all that if you want to be one of those? They don't have those."
  404. [01:07:01] <Med> "L-love?"
  405. [01:07:29] <~Murphy> "Love! Like what Lecia and I have! Like what you were asking for from us and your crew!"
  406. [01:07:48] <Med> "Huh?"
  407. [01:08:39] <~Murphy> Why else have you tried to hold my and Lecia's hand and asked for food and clothes and hugs? It's because you need that from other people, that's a very human thing."
  408. [01:08:45] <~Murphy> "Probably the most human thing about you!"
  409. [01:09:19] <Med> "No, it's just because you feel warm and nice." '-'
  410. [01:09:26] <~Murphy> "Why else do you leave all your pokemon outside their Pokeballs and wanted to take them with you?"
  411. [01:09:37] <~Murphy> "To the dream world, that is."
  412. [01:09:45] <Med> "Because they're mine."
  413. [01:10:29] <~Murphy> "Then why don't you keep them in your pokeballs and use them only when convenient? That's a terrible excuse."
  414. [01:11:00] <Med> "What good pokemon trainer abuses their pokemon?" '-'
  415. [01:11:05] <Med> "Do you abuse yours?" '-'
  416. [01:11:28] <Med> "You're the champion, so I guess if you do, I should start doing it too." '-'
  417. [01:11:34] <~Murphy> "I don't, but I've heard of groups that get very good results from it!"
  418. [01:11:54] <Med> "I dunno how to do that."
  419. [01:12:35] <Med> "It's a lot easier to take care of them and make them feel happy." '-'
  420. [01:12:45] <~Murphy> "Why do you care if they're happy?"
  421. [01:12:55] <Med> "Because then they work for me better!" :D
  422. [01:13:38] <~Murphy> "Why did you have them sleep with you?"
  423. [01:13:47] <Med> "They're soft and cuddly." '-'
  424. [01:13:55] <~Murphy> "Why do you like things being soft and cuddly?"
  425. [01:14:02] <Med> "It feels good." '-'
  426. [01:14:42] <~Murphy> "That's a human thing, to think something feels good. Those THINGS in the abyss don't care what feels good or not, and you do. Your mother, from waht I gather, doesn't care if things feel good or not, but you do."
  427. [01:14:52] <Med> "Then why do they eat souls?"
  428. [01:15:41] <~Murphy> "Not because it feels good, but because they think they have to. The demons in the abyss want to be more, bigger, because that's all they know, expanding."
  429. [01:17:11] <Lecia> "They certainly don't feel the souls. Souls do make pretty good fuel for demons, though."
  430. [01:17:34] <Med> "Aren't pleasure and pain just your body's way of telling you what you should and shouldn't do?" '-'
  431. [01:17:44] <~Murphy> "Ah, that's another thing. You said something about how my soul felt, right? How could you feel that?"
  432. [01:18:18] <Lecia> "That was why that soul checker tried nibbling on your own, you see. Sort of hard to make a thing even run without using souls, but I managed that with science. But even then, that's advanced stuff. For ME."
  433. [01:19:21] <Med> "I don't know. I liked having my soul nibbled on, so maybe it's because I still have a soul. Maybe if I got rid of all of it..."
  434. [01:19:24] <~Murphy> "Yes, and isn't choosing to feel pain or pleasure regardless of what you think human? Animalistic? Not demonic?"
  435. [01:19:55] <Med> "But Lecia said that demons don't think, they just behave."
  436. [01:20:11] <~Murphy> "You said something about choosing to do things earlier."
  437. [01:20:17] <~Murphy> "Demons don't choose."
  438. [01:21:25] <~Murphy> "You're right, they just behave. Just behaving means not choosing."
  439. [01:21:46] <Med> 3d6+6 INTROVERTED INTUITION OR SOMETHING
  440. [01:21:47] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, INTROVERTED INTUITION OR SOMETHING: 23 [3d6=5,6,6]
  441. [01:21:54] <Med> shit i think i failed by 1
  442. [01:21:59] <Lecia> God damn.
  443. [01:22:06] <Lecia> ...That's pretty far from a 9.
  444. [01:22:23] <Med> it's two over a blackjack, so i think i failed
  445. [01:22:59] <Med> however the goal was to understand a demon, so off by 1 from 6,6,6 is pretty good
  446. [01:23:56] <Med> "Huh... you're right~"
  447. [01:23:58] <~Murphy> You realize that the more shadowy you got, the less you chose things. But you still seem to value choice somehow, despite the constant urge to do what's more immediate. Despite your mind muddling and everything, despite you making less choices, you've still valued choosing.
  448. [01:24:06] <~Murphy> yadayada
  449. [01:24:08] <~Murphy> You already know
  450. [01:24:26] <Med> "The closer I get, the more I just sort of... behave..."
  451. [01:34:30] <Med> "Things feel so natural and easy."
  452. [01:35:20] <Med> "Like... I want to be more of a demon... so it's just natural that I should make them hate me, right?"
  453. [01:35:54] <Med> "I want to have fun, so... I do."
  454. [01:41:21] <~Murphy> "Mmmhmmm, go on."
  455. [01:41:51] <Med> "But... how do you separate wanting to do things from making decisions anyway?"
  456. [01:43:24] * Break (Break__@sux-2D9000F0.lsanca.fios.verizon.net) has joined #youareapirate
  457. [01:46:09] <~Murphy> "By know that you can deny yourself from doing the things you want, if something more important is at stake. Like wanting to wait on eating two candy bars so you can share one of them with a friend!"
  458. [01:46:47] <Med> "So... you want to share it with your friend more than you want to eat both."
  459. [01:46:58] <~Murphy> "Yeah."
  460. [01:47:28] <Med> "So you're not really deciding anything... you're just going with the stronger desire..."
  461. [01:48:12] <~Murphy> "You have the choice to eat both of the candy bars before you go to your friend."
  462. [01:48:18] <~Murphy> "You really want these candy bars."
  463. [01:48:25] <~Murphy> "You're really hungry, in fact."
  464. [01:48:37] <~Murphy> "And it's SO TEMPTING to eat both, it gnaws at you."
  465. [01:48:43] <~Murphy> "But you share with your friend anyway."
  466. [01:48:45] <Med> "But you're still just doing whatever one you want to do more."
  467. [01:49:15] <~Murphy> "But you had to think about that decision, and weigh it against the other."
  468. [01:49:24] <~Murphy> "And choose between the two."
  469. [01:49:27] <~Murphy> "That's choice."
  470. [01:50:36] <Med> "So... am I really making less choices? I'm thinking about it less... but it's just more obvious now..."
  471. [01:51:34] <~Murphy> "Since you're thinking about it and considering and weighing the options less, and the options don't seem as balanced, you're making less choices."
  472. [01:54:48] <~Murphy> "If you don't even consider the other choice, if things are 'obvious', then it's not a choice."
  473. [01:54:50] <Med> "Isn't that just because there are less factors? I mean... I don't have to worry about things like being happy or sad."
  474. [01:57:11] <~Murphy> "Why don't you want to be happy or sad?"
  475. [01:57:24] <Med> "Why would I want to be?"
  476. [01:58:12] <~Murphy> "Because it makes life worth living. What's the point of doing something if it doesn't make you happy or make you feel accomplished? If you have no real feeling about anything, that means there's no reason to be motivated or do anything."
  477. [01:59:04] * Break (Break__@sux-2D9000F0.lsanca.fios.verizon.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
  478. [01:59:07] <Med> "Yes there is. I'm motivated to do things."
  479. [01:59:32] <~Murphy> "That means you still have some feelings. You still like to do things. That means you're still human."
  480. [01:59:32] <Med> "You keep saying things like you understand me, but then they aren't true at all." '-'
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  482. [01:59:57] <Med> "No it doesn't. Everything that does things is motivated to do things, or else it wouldn't do them."
  483. [02:00:21] <~Murphy> "I didn't say you didn't have them, I said that not having them was desirable."
  484. [02:00:34] <~Murphy> "So why did you pick those clothes? Why did you bother putting on any clothes?"
  485. [02:00:52] <Med> "So you two think I'm cute." '-'
  486. [02:03:24] <~Murphy> 6d6+3 INTUITION MAGIC
  487. [02:03:25] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, INTUITION MAGIC: 26 [6d6=2,4,4,6,2,5]
  488. [02:03:45] * Med thinks Murphy's asking pretty dumb questions.
  489. [02:04:25] <Lecia> "Hold on. You...just earlier, you said that you're motivated to do things, and that everything that does things is motivated."
  490. [02:04:28] <Med> Also, in spite of her RECENT HEART GROWTH, she still is pretty well afflicted with a strong self-centered worldview. Strangely, she seems to have managed to fit kindness in there, but it only makes sense given that she can
  491. [02:04:34] <Med> 6d6+6+2 OUTCHARM THE FUCKING CHAMPION
  492. [02:04:34] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, OUTCHARM THE FUCKING CHAMPION: 26 [6d6=5,2,2,2,1,6]
  493. [02:04:47] <Med> so it's, like... probably her most useful survival tool imaginable.
  494. [02:04:58] <~Murphy> 5d6+3
  495. [02:04:58] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, 5d6+3: 19 [5d6=3,2,5,4,2]
  496. [02:05:04] <Lecia> Awful.
  497. [02:05:12] <Med> 19? i dont even think med can roll that low o/~
  498. [02:05:28] <~Murphy> 8+6=14
  499. [02:05:33] <~Murphy> That's her minimum roll
  500. [02:05:47] <Lecia> "And that's like, pretty wrong, you know! Just because it's what it does doesn't mean it has motivation!"
  501. [02:06:08] <Med> She has a 0.99% chance of rolling 19 or lower.
  502. [02:06:18] <~Murphy> dat curve
  503. [02:06:27] * Med has SOME curves ;-;
  504. [02:06:39] <Lecia> To consider a 1% chance neglible...is a sign that you haven't played Fire Emblem.
  505. [02:07:26] <Med> "Then what's motivation?" '-'
  506. [02:07:36] <~Murphy> 6d6+3 mite as well
  507. [02:07:37] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, mite as well: 32 [6d6=6,5,6,4,2,6]
  508. [02:08:01] <Med> that '-' means Lecia's being semantic about semantical words and med's not very good with semantical words so she's just like, god, you're trying to argue that?
  509. [02:08:04] <Med> also
  510. [02:08:26] <Med> arguing with her probably isn't helping, since it's establishing yourself as antagonistic to her worldview.
  511. [02:08:47] <Med> since she thinks you're wrong on some points, it's easy for her to just shut you out as entirely wrong
  512. [02:09:27] <Lecia> "Desire! Reasons. So on! Kinda the opposite of just doing without thinking, which is what demons do."
  513. [02:10:23] <Lecia> And this is the sort of thing that makes putting her in a purification chamber room and reinforcing/locking it a good idea. ;_;
  514. [02:11:33] <Med> "Then why do demons do stuff?"
  515. [02:11:40] <Med> "If they have auras, they must have intent."
  516. [02:12:06] <~Murphy> "They have auras they stole from something else, and their intent is simply to grow and get bigger and exist."
  517. [02:12:31] <Med> "That's still a motivation, though!"
  518. [02:12:48] <~Murphy> "They don't do it for its sake, though, they do it because they're programmed."
  519. [02:12:50] <Med> "No wonder you think they're monsters. You don't even try to understand them!
  520. [02:12:51] <Med> "
  521. [02:14:41] <~Murphy> "What's your motivation?"
  522. [02:14:57] <~Murphy> "If you want me to try to understand you, then tell me your motivations!"
  523. [02:17:47] <Med> "To grow, get bigger, exist, and have fun in the process~"
  524. [02:19:33] <Lecia> "I understand them pretty well! They're a lot like machines. I know a lot about machines! Machines don't have desire. They just do! There's not really anything more to understand. They do a thing, and for demons, that thing is to basically expand. There's sometimes wiggle room for how they go about that, but in the end it's always the same. Just because they do a thing doesn't mean
  525. [02:19:33] <Lecia> they're motivated! There is no 'thought'. Only do. No fun, no reason, just a goal."
  526. [02:25:35] <Med> "Maybe they're just dumber versions of me then."
  527. [02:26:45] * Vandaeron (Vandaeron@sux-15FBD0A0.altnpa.east.verizon.net) Quit (Quit: )
  528. [02:29:01] <~Murphy> 5d6+3
  529. [02:29:02] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, 5d6+3: 18 [5d6=5,2,3,1,4]
  530. [02:29:43] <~Murphy> wait that's charm
  531. [02:29:48] <~Murphy> 6d6+3
  532. [02:29:49] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, 6d6+3: 29 [6d6=5,6,4,3,5,3]
  533. [02:29:54] <Lecia> "If you think you understand demons with all your maybes, then you know less than I do, cause I know I understand demons! And frankly, to be a demon is to be dumb. Same deal with machines! There's a reason Gran is like...a work of art, here! And also a reason he didn't fly the plane."
  534. [02:31:18] <Lecia> "To be honest, you'd probably accomplish more of that expansion nonsense with a human mindset. However, you'd also have to think more about it."
  535. [02:32:03] <Lecia> "Only reason demons get away with what they do most of the time is because they're pretty tough. And maybe they're only tough because the weak ones already died to their own reckless, dumb behavior, so we only see the tough ones."
  536. [02:35:26] <Med> "But I'm not human."
  537. [02:37:08] <Lecia> "You're totally human, and at this point everyone knows it, especially you. It's just that you're part something else as well. Being human and being pure human are two related but different things!"
  538. [02:37:28] <Med> "I don't want to be human."
  539. [02:38:49] <Lecia> "Just because you don't want to be something doesn't mean you're not. And while you can probably shake off the mind that your human side has given you...well, in any other situation, you would be dead."
  540. [02:39:19] <Lecia> "In this one, however, you would probably be zapped by a few lasers and forcibly purified, because that would be a waste!"
  541. [02:39:41] <Lecia> "I mean, to go full demon is practically to die anyway, so technically I'd be reviving the dead. That'd be a first!"
  542. [02:39:48] <Med> "Stop trying to make me human. It didn't work, because I'm not human."
  543. [02:40:27] <~Murphy> "How are you so sure you're not?"
  544. [02:41:52] <Med> "Because I could read people's auras and thoughts, and even after that man's interference, I didn't match up at all."
  545. [02:42:48] <Lecia> "Isn't that sort of thing par for the course for some of these humans? It's hard to know when none of the ones back where I live could do anything like that."
  546. [02:44:37] <~Murphy> 6d6+3 Does she mean match up thoughtwise or abilitywise or what
  547. [02:44:37] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, Does she mean match up thoughtwise or abilitywise or what: 24 [6d6=5,3,4,1,4,4]
  548. [02:45:14] <Lecia> "...Also, for all intents and purposes, to be half-human is to be human. Likewise, I guess to be half-demon is to also be a demon, but in this case the two sides seem to be fighting for supremacy, so simple true/false statements aren't all that simple at all. I suppose we could say 'half-human' if you really want to."
  549. [02:45:21] * Med DID say people's auras and thoughts. She probably meant it literally!
  550. [02:45:42] <~Murphy> "Have you ever seen two beings with the complete same aura?"
  551. [02:46:45] <Med> 3d6+6+2 focus: how many people's auras were even remotely as distinct and odd as Med's?
  552. [02:46:45] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, focus: how many people's auras were even remotely as distinct and odd as Med's?: 22 [3d6=6,6,2]
  553. [02:47:29] <~Murphy> For one, there's Mel's! You can barely get a handle on it because it's always shifting to try to be indistinct, but it clearly has a shape in your peripheral vision!
  554. [02:49:58] <~Murphy> Murphy's aura is actually kind of batshaped, and a stately sort of purplish grey. You couldn't see how distinct it was when you could see it because you were at a distance. It has a distinct shape and is a bit odd! Lecia's is purple and like a clockwork factory when you actually focused on it, although you usually weren't focusing hard. Lesieli's looked like a pair of angel wings and
  555. [02:49:58] <~Murphy> a halo, shining bright yellow, which also was a very distinct and odd shape!
  556. [02:50:18] <Med> I MEANT IN GENERAL T_T
  557. [02:50:23] <Med> NOT AMONGST THE FREAK LORDS T_T
  558. [02:50:34] <Lecia> Lecia's aura is totally electrifying too, of course. I'LL FREAK YOUR LORD.
  559. [02:50:45] <Lecia> I'LL FREAK HIM THE FUCK OUT.
  560. [02:51:33] <~Murphy> You'd see one every now and then! they weren't COMMON, but they were definitely there and you'd definitely find one with a distinct shape and color and everything every now and then. Usually it was people with a very strong personality, or who were very strongly motivated about something, or some such.
  561. [02:54:33] <Med> "Usually, if someone's aura is distinct, it means they're character is stronger and stuff, but for me it's the opposite."
  562. [02:55:27] <~Murphy> "Hate to say it, but your aura isn't as distinct as it used to be, actually."
  563. [02:56:09] <Med> "Huh?"
  564. [02:56:17] <Med> "Show me!"
  565. [02:56:29] * Med searches Murphy for aura glasses.
  566. [02:56:43] <~Murphy> "Sure!" He hands over his aura glasses.
  567. [02:56:48] * Med apparently gives no fucks about literally just going through his pockets and clothes and stuff if he's not fast eno-fuck
  568. [02:57:02] * Med puts them on!
  569. [02:57:16] <Med> 2d6-1 tech ed HOW THE FUCK DO THESE EVEN WORK I DONT KNOW
  570. [02:57:17] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, tech ed HOW THE FUCK DO THESE EVEN WORK I DONT KNOW: 6 [2d6=4,3]
  571. [02:57:22] <~Murphy> They're already on!
  572. [02:57:30] <~Murphy> So you don't need to see that
  573. [02:57:34] <~Murphy> er, figure out that
  574. [02:57:48] * Med looks at herself and stuff. it's awkward given that her most prominent aura features were behind her.
  575. [02:58:19] <~Murphy> Looking at the parts of your aura you can see, you can see they've lost some of their distinct shape and more just sort of stream out black stuff, rather than contain it into a shape.
  576. [02:59:01] <Med> "Is it 'cause I did this?"
  577. [02:59:04] * Med does the weird self-soul fuckery.
  578. [02:59:45] <~Murphy> It also seems to have lost some of its particular color, just becomign a more generic black. YOu shift your soul around (it looks gross) but it still looks the same
  579. [03:00:04] <Lecia> "That...that probably doesn't help, but it's not a major one!"
  580. [03:01:04] * Med thinks back to how her mom/sister's auras looked.
  581. [03:03:22] <~Murphy> Your sisters had a shape, like yours used to, it had horns and claws and a sort of exoskeleton over her body. Your mom's was in a sort of inbetween place, it had some bits bursting out, but it also had a shape, its general shape was that of a bunch of snakes eating their own tail, with darkness streaming out from where the mouths were. Yours...doesn't have any kind of shape.
  582. [03:04:09] <Med> "Why am I broken?" ._.
  583. [03:05:03] <~Murphy> "I can't say for sure, you'll have to find an answer to that. I remember at that opening ceremony thing I saw you and your aura had a distinct shape back then."
  584. [03:05:40] * Med looks to Lecia.
  585. [03:08:53] <Lecia> "Maybe they still have more humanity left than you do even though your mother might be full demon, I can't say for sure either, but that's my biggest guess. Maybe even though Aether made her into a demon, they forgot to remove the soul that humans come with, still leaving her with enough humanity to actually have a drive. You're so damned determined to break that part of you, and pretty
  586. [03:08:53] <Lecia> much everything you are with it, it's a wonder there's any determination left to break your determination with!" She seems upset! In a sad way.
  587. [03:10:06] <Med> "I can't be both. It doesn't work."
  588. [03:12:15] <~Murphy> Murphy takes his glasses back now.
  589. [03:14:54] <Lecia> "You are, but in the end, you can only really have one of their mindsets or they'll clash like this, and it's kind of a mess that we have been trying to wade through for what feels like several hours. To think like a human and open up potential, the thing that got us as a race to where we are in countless other worlds, a potential that can be used for good or evil, or to think like a
  590. [03:14:54] <Lecia> demon, which technically is to stop thinking, which is easier, I suppose, but it's only easier because it's pretty much nothing."
  591. [03:16:11] <Med> "It does clash, but this side of me is the inevitable one anyway. Even when I was more 'human,' I understood that."
  592. [03:17:02] <~Murphy> "Shadow Pokemon can get rid of that side of themselves, not without assistance, mind you, but they can, so why can't you?"
  593. [03:17:21] <Med> "The other me only worked by forgetting I was a demon at all, and pretending I was normal, even though I knew I wasn't."
  594. [03:17:51] <Med> "And all it took was a single fight to bring me back." :3
  595. [03:18:44] <Med> "So... how is that being a human either?"
  596. [03:18:56] <Med> "Isn't it just me pretending to be one?"
  597. [03:21:26] <Lecia> "For you, being a human is a lot harder than being a demon even moreso than anyone else would feel even if they were half demon, because your ability to feel on levels humans would be doing is sealed away. The choice would be a lot easier to make if the shadow within you wasn't busy sealing important parts of that off, which is why it's so hard not to just do something I'll end up
  598. [03:21:26] <Lecia> regretting later and throw you in a purification machine since your crew is awful at being nice."
  599. [03:24:19] <Lecia> "And with the demon part taking over, making it harder and harder for you to experience what it would take to reverse that entirely because of that nihilism, it's a wonder I haven't done that already, honestly!"
  600. [03:24:38] <Med> "You said you wouldn't. It was part of our deal."
  601. [03:26:48] <Lecia> "Right, that's what it was. ...That's probably why I would have regretted it! It's hard to remember that stuff."
  602. [03:27:12] <Lecia> "Especially when...wasn't that in place because you feared you might be removed from existence?"
  603. [03:27:45] <Med> "I would be! I'm the shadow, after all - the thing it removes!"
  604. [03:28:59] <Lecia> "No, you're the demon. Or at least, you're the remaining bit of human trying to give itself up to the demon, which would wipe the shadow out anyway, because the shadow is still part of the soul."
  605. [03:29:41] <Lecia> "If anything, I would be acting in the interest of its survival if I were to purify you only part of the way!"
  606. [03:29:49] <Lecia> "It doesn't seem like a long term thinker."
  607. [03:29:56] <~Murphy> "Don't."
  608. [03:30:14] <~Murphy> "Well, the bit with the purification machine."
  609. [03:31:05] <Lecia> "Nnng. This is hard to do! It's like...no matter what we do, it's just...going in a downwards spiral until there's nothing left!"
  610. [03:31:06] <Med> "Huh?"
  611. [03:31:16] * Med confusion at Murphy. no wait, that's a move. Med is confused.
  612. [03:32:18] <~Murphy> "We had a deal not to put you in the purification machine, so we're not putting you in. I know Lecia is frustrated, and I'm a little frustrated too, but you have my word that if Lecia tries to put you in the purification machine I'll fight her myself."
  613. [03:32:58] <Lecia> "Even if it means she throws her very being out the window instead?"
  614. [03:33:21] <Med> "I dunno why you're frustrated. You're the ones arguing with everything I say!"
  615. [03:34:41] <Med> "I've been super patient answering all of your questions too!"
  616. [03:35:17] <Lecia> "And what would change if we agreed with you? I...can't just accept this as it is!"
  617. [03:35:38] <Med> "Even though some of your answers are shoddy... like... you can't even tell me why I'm inferior to my mom or my sister, or other shadows, or creatures of the abyss."
  618. [03:35:53] <Med> "You haven't even told me what I really am, you just made some vague comparisons, like... you're like these things, but also different!"
  619. [03:36:04] <~Murphy> "It's not...quite arguing. I mean, in a sense, it's the same thing, but we're trying to simply point out things you haven't thought about, not tear them down. That's why I was asking all the stupid questions like 'why did you pick those clothes?' and the like is because I want you to think about yourself in ways you haven't."
  620. [03:36:59] <Med> "But they were all really simple questions, it's not like they're things I don't know!"
  621. [03:37:29] <~Murphy> "As for what from what I can tell you're not any one thing, so we can't definitively say you're 'x'."
  622. [03:38:05] <Med> "So I'm a demon. I get to call myself that, 'cause that's what me and my mom and my sister look like, and that's what we're here to be, isn't it?"
  623. [03:39:02] <~Murphy> "We haven't been able to look at your mom and sister, so we can't say you're the same as them either! You could be different."
  624. [03:39:22] <Med> "I'm similar enough! I think..."
  625. [03:39:27] * Med thinks about it.
  626. [03:39:34] <Med> w-would this be an intuition check?!
  627. [03:39:41] <~Murphy> yes?
  628. [03:39:46] <~Murphy> I'm not sure myself!
  629. [03:39:53] <~Murphy> I guess I'd say it's one, yeah.
  630. [03:39:54] <Med> obv. athletics.
  631. [03:40:20] <Med> 3d6+6
  632. [03:40:20] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, 3d6+6: 12 [3d6=3,2,1]
  633. [03:40:46] <~Murphy> Well, they seemed similar, but your aura is so different from those two!
  634. [03:41:02] <Med> in a way other than being ridiculously outclassed?
  635. [03:41:40] <~Murphy> You have no clue
  636. [03:42:05] <Med> "They're just... stronger than me, that's all."
  637. [03:42:13] <~Murphy> Not even if the outclassed thing si right
  638. [03:42:15] <Med> "But everyone's stronger than me, so that's not really different."
  639. [03:45:38] <~Murphy> "How do you know that? Why would you be picked for PIRATES if you weren't pretty strong to begin with?"
  640. [03:46:10] <Med> "Well... you guys did hire a lot of incompetent people!"
  641. [03:46:12] <~Murphy> "Can I see your trainer's ID?"
  642. [03:46:18] <Med> "Huh?"
  643. [03:46:25] <~Murphy> "It has badges on it, right?"
  644. [03:46:30] * Med searches herself to see if she even has it on her. there's a realistic chance she doesn't!
  645. [03:46:51] <Med> but she probably puts it with her useful item things like her mons' pokeballs, so she probably does.
  646. [03:46:58] * Med gives it over to Murphy.
  647. [03:46:59] <~Murphy> That's a pretty basic thing like Pokeballs and your phone, I doubt you'd lose it
  648. [03:47:02] * Med TOTES NEVER GOT HER THIRD BADGE
  649. [03:47:05] <~Murphy> "You have...two badges?"
  650. [03:47:18] <~Murphy> "There are plenty of people out there who can't even get one, you know."
  651. [03:47:36] <Med> "Well, yeah. The first one's the easiest one to get, and the second one was a weird group battle."
  652. [03:47:55] <~Murphy> "Do you know anyone who didn't get one of those badges?"
  653. [03:48:02] <Med> "Huh?"
  654. [03:48:21] <Med> "Well... I doubt Siet or Lain did, they don't care about pokemon battles."
  655. [03:50:17] <~Murphy> "YOur brother, Shadow Claw, he's a Gym Leader, right?"
  656. [03:50:20] <Med> "But they're really strong too!"
  657. [03:50:23] * Med nodnods.
  658. [03:50:51] <~Murphy> "I heard he had a lot of trouble getting his first badge"
  659. [03:51:02] * Med plays with her lab coat buttons. Murphy can probably sense she's starting to get bored of answering his questions, what with his medcharm-level intuition.
  660. [03:51:28] <Med> "I used Knives to get mine, and it turns out he was a person - and a soldier."
  661. [03:51:42] <~Murphy> "Oh yeah,t he book said that, didn't it?"
  662. [03:52:17] * Med nods. she made sure to try and remember mel stuff, but knives's stuff was probably the most important to her!!
  663. [03:53:38] <~Murphy> "I wonder why he stays with you if he's smart enough to get along on his own, then, becuase he had to be pretty capable to be a soldier as a person! The entry requirements are a lot harder than those for PIRATES, you know!"
  664. [03:54:48] <Med> "He's my guardian."
  665. [03:55:10] <~Murphy> "He must really care for you, then!"
  666. [03:55:22] * Med nods.
  667. [03:55:34] <Med> "He's my only real ally."
  668. [03:55:35] <~Murphy> "How do you feel about him?"
  669. [03:57:00] * Med tries to think, really reeaalllyy hard, now that she's all shadowy and not repressing memories and shit, if she can remember human knives.
  670. [03:57:20] <~Murphy> You can't.
  671. [03:57:43] <Med> ok but i totes spent an AP on that check
  672. [03:57:45] <Med> that i didnt make :(
  673. [03:58:11] <~Murphy> In fact, you distinctly remember seeing Knives as a Pawniard before the time that the book has scrambled
  674. [03:58:33] <Med> "But I don't remember him being my brother..."
  675. [04:05:16] <~Murphy> "Do you remember if his name was different or anything from the book?"
  676. [04:05:53] <Med> "Huh?"
  677. [04:06:00] <Med> "Knives was his nickname, his real name was..."
  678. [04:06:10] <Med> 3d6+6+1 FOCUS with AP AGAIN BECAUSE WHY NOT
  679. [04:06:11] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, FOCUS with AP AGAIN BECAUSE WHY NOT: 16 [3d6=2,4,3]
  680. [04:06:32] <~Murphy> Eilert "Knives" Mizou
  681. [04:06:45] <Med> "Eilert."
  682. [04:07:05] <~Murphy> "Huh. Your mom has interesting taste in names!"
  683. [04:07:22] <~Murphy> "That's a pretty cool name, I'm kind of jealous."
  684. [04:08:31] <~Murphy> Actually, Roary, roll that memory roll from before for real, I think I have SOMETHING to give you, even if it's not a memory
  685. [04:08:45] <Med> 3d6+6+1 ok
  686. [04:08:46] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, ok: 17 [3d6=5,2,3]
  687. [04:09:17] <~Murphy> While you can't remember him actually being your big brother, you do realize that you've always kind of thought of him kind of like a brother
  688. [04:10:20] <~Murphy> But it never really occured to you until it was pointed out that he USED to be your big brother. It was one of those feelings that you can't put a finger on.
  689. [04:10:51] <~Murphy> But now you have!
  690. [04:15:17] <Med> "I only remember him as a pawniard... but he says he remembers otherwise..."
  691. [04:15:41] <~Murphy> There's a taptap from behind you by Knives himself.
  692. [04:16:50] <~Murphy> 6d6+3 FINE
  693. [04:16:51] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, FINE: 20 [6d6=3,4,4,3,2,1]
  694. [04:17:28] * Med turns to the pawniard
  695. [04:17:57] <~Murphy> He waves. Then makes a motion for you to come down to him, since he's so small
  696. [04:18:07] <~Murphy> well, not super small, but kiddie sized
  697. [04:18:08] * Med does so!
  698. [04:18:24] <Med> (pawniards are like not even 2ft tall)
  699. [04:18:28] <Med> (he's p small)
  700. [04:19:01] <~Murphy> He gently grabs onto one of your hands (so as not to scratch it) and holds it in his hands.
  701. [04:19:35] <~Murphy> And starts narrowing his eyes in thought, a little unsure of what to do!
  702. [04:20:22] * Med is probably pretty used to getting scratched by knives. i mean, she hugs him and stuff a lot. probably doesn't cuddle with him to bed because that's just asking for trouble, but, you know!
  703. [04:21:29] <Med> "I can't do empathy stuff anymore, if that's what you wanted..."
  704. [04:21:34] <~Murphy> Finally he looks up to you and says something in a whisper, in a deep voice you've never heard but feel like you've known all your life. "It's all right, I can remember for you."
  705. [04:23:32] <~Murphy> Roll me another focus check now that you have a sort of catalyst~
  706. [04:23:55] <Med> 3d6+6+1 BURN ALL THIS AP, IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'LL BE A SUDDEN BOSS BATTLE IN THE NEXT FOURTEEN HOURS
  707. [04:23:56] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, BURN ALL THIS AP, IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'LL BE A SUDDEN BOSS BATTLE IN THE NEXT FOURTEEN HOURS: 16 [3d6=2,4,3]
  708. [04:26:07] <~Murphy> YOu remember...a big man, as big as daddy or mommy, maybe a bit bigger, who'd show you tricks whenever you were down, and tucking you in at night and occasionally reading you bedtime stories. He was a lot more sociable than Siet, funnier than Lain, and not as severe as [REDACTED], and was probably your favorite brother back then, who knows! Not to say they were bad, or uncaring,
  709. [04:26:07] <~Murphy> but he did so much for you back then.
  710. [04:28:38] <~Murphy> Those were times when your mind was unmuddled by the haze that permeates it now, and things were generally pretty happy!
  711. [04:30:23] * Med hugs knives ;-;
  712. [04:30:25] <~Murphy> Probably happier than you've ever been, because you didn't have that haze muddling everything!
  713. [04:30:30] <~Murphy> Knives hugs Med!
  714. [04:30:45] * Med adds like 50 injuries to her character sheet ;-;
  715. [04:31:01] <~Murphy> He's pretty gentle, for what it's worth!
  716. [04:31:18] <Med> oh only PRETTY gentle
  717. [04:31:22] * Med adds like 500 injuries ;-;
  718. [04:36:57] <~Murphy> Knives lets go and gives a little nod.
  719. [04:40:16] <~Murphy> 2d10+9 heart restored
  720. [04:40:17] <DiceMaid-9001> Murphy, heart restored: 20 [2d10=8,3]
  721. [04:40:25] <~Murphy> 20 IT IS
  722. [04:40:33] <Med> i could just be tired
  723. [04:40:35] <Med> but i feel like
  724. [04:40:36] <Med> we spent about
  725. [04:40:40] <Med> five minutes deciding what dice to use
  726. [04:40:46] <Med> and then it was that anyway
  727. [04:40:51] <~Murphy> and it picked the number I was gonna' use anyway
  728. [04:41:01] <Med> ~ROLEPLAYING AT 5 AM~
  729. [04:42:53] <~Murphy> Murphy has been quiet for a bit. There's a sound of someone blowing their nose in the background now, with a feeble sob.
  730. [04:48:30] * Med totes is just gonna hug it up with the pawniard un(less/til) murphy/lecia/knives does something. maybe she might stop after a while, but that'd take a while!
  731. [04:49:05] <~Murphy> Knives has let go, I mentioned it in an earlier line. He pats you on the head and backs off a bit.
  732. [04:49:21] <~Murphy> And if you don't let go he squirrrrrms
  733. [04:49:46] <~Murphy> In a really gentle way because oh god don't want to cut up Med
  734. [04:50:04] <Med> oh he DID.
  735. [04:50:09] <Med> ~ROLEPLAYING AT 5 AM~
  736. [04:50:40] * Med lets him go though!
  737. [04:51:10] <~Murphy> He gets in rank and file with the other pokemon, giving them all SIGNALS to get into formation and everything!
  738. [04:58:07] <Med> "I wanna... go lie down... I still have questions, but..."
  739. [05:01:45] <Lecia> Lecia is pretty busy...er, not sure what, but once she realized she probably had the opposite of the right mindset here, she managed to quietly escape to those nice dream world beds to do the good ol' self-reflect/be upset at yourself cycle. Maybe she fell asleep too, who's to know until one goes in! (And who's to know if she turned it on, that's a lot less likely!)
  740. [05:02:24] <~Murphy> YOu hear Murphy fumbling with something and then speaks up. "Sure! Lecia had to as well! I'm fine though! Perfectly fine! Didn't tear up or anything! That was Lecia!"
  741. [05:02:41] <~Murphy> roll me intuition
  742. [05:02:55] <Med> 3d6+6
  743. [05:02:56] <DiceMaid-9001> Med, 3d6+6: 18 [3d6=4,6,2]
  744. [05:03:08] <~Murphy> He totally was the one tearing up.
  745. [05:03:24] <Med> oh i forgot +2 to my last focus check.
  746. [05:03:29] <Med> that was actually 18 not 16.
  747. [05:03:45] <Med> CLEARLY THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
  748. [05:06:08] <~Murphy> clearly
  749. [05:06:34] <~Murphy> Murphy gets you over to a bed as best he can and then goes off to ELSEWHERE. It might have to be in a different room because of Lecia's security stuff
  750. [05:07:03] <~Murphy> But it's prolly still comfy!
  751. [05:07:50] <~Murphy> And from there we fade...out...for a bit! That's the mini, folks!
  752. [05:08:09] * Med probably prefers being alone with her mons, right now, anyway!
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