Session 57: Into FF World They Go

Apr 03 19:55:54 <zooftop>	It's been a few days since the battle on Mirage Island wrapped up.  Which gave you guys plenty of time to recover, while others handled a lot of the clean up.  The big relevant pieces of information from the aftermath are that both the combatents on Rapture's side, and Grant's side, are in max security facilities in Red Blade City.  And the staff at these facilities have been taking extra effort to...ditto proof them.
Apr 03 19:56:57 <zooftop>	As for the tribesmen on the isle itself, there's a small group that's continuing to have a base set up there and keep both sides at bay - this detatchment is under Kent's command and largely just keeping things calm while this whole thing is looked into further.
Apr 03 19:57:25 <zooftop>	This goes for questioning and interrogating Harbinger and Tialoc as well, so there will be more to come on those topics in the next few weeks.
Apr 03 19:58:19 <zooftop>	The other big thing is people took...significant notice of that stunt Gabriella pulled off, so there's been a lot of whispering about that around those who were present, but the whole situation is still very hush hush.
Apr 03 19:59:47 <zooftop>	Far as the media went, it just looked like a terrible storm, and the Stag Lord village has been quarentined.  There's a lot of swirl on just what the aftermath of this is going to be.  The only other big bit of info is Father Ruth has also moved out to Mirage Isle for the time being.
Apr 03 20:03:24 <zooftop>	Father Ruth's big objective with the move is to keep an eye on the temple where, hopefully, Alice will have the young Goddess safely unplugged from her, and have it ascend properly.
Apr 03 20:03:38 »»	Kain is now known as Chase
Apr 03 20:03:53 <zooftop>	In the mean time he's also trying to help as a mediator between the Forest and Mountain Tribe, as well as touch base with many of the Sirens.  He has a certain Mew's assistance with this as well.
Apr 03 20:05:05 <zooftop>	The Matiarch, La Sirena, was freed when the ball that bound her was broken, though there's a lot of uncertainty on how to treat and help victims of those devices.  Most of them are still on Mirage Island, recouperating and getting counceling as needed / possible.
Apr 03 20:06:13 <zooftop>	Where you guys are is up in the air, at the moment.  Last we left off your ship was at Goldcloud.  Saryx has since head back to Bravescar after recieving a letter from Yvonne that sent him into a rage.
Apr 03 20:09:10 »»	castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
Apr 03 20:09:26 <zooftop>	Other than that...you have been advised not to break your personal balls quite yet since it isn't confirmed their inventory of them is completely gone, but the big threats at hand have been halted
Apr 03 20:09:36 <zooftop>	No word from Pi quite yet
Apr 03 20:12:50 »»	Chase has probably spent a significant amount of time resting and recovering from his really painful injuries. It was his turn to play stuck in the hospital like when everyone else was in Thundercry. And he may have gotten visited, maybe not, but eventually he's able to get up and about again, and probably not straying too far from Goldcloud at the moment.
Apr 03 20:14:29 <Chase>	He's been enjoying the sort of growing commerce and atmosphere of the pirate port with its recent safari tourism thing. In fact, he actually has two more safari balls so he might have even gone to pick up a couple of new friends, but he's been mostly waiting to see what everyone else was gonna do.
Apr 03 20:14:46 ---»	DiceMaid-9001 (DiceMaid-9@sux-EADD5C74) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
Apr 03 20:16:42 <zooftop>	Roll me Perception or General Edu, by the way.
Apr 03 20:17:01 <Rosetta>	Both of us?
Apr 03 20:17:26 <zooftop>	Well what's Rosetta been up to?
Apr 03 20:17:31 <zooftop>	Just Chase first
Apr 03 20:18:25 <Chase>	3d6-2+1 Guess who ranked up Perception? One AP.
Apr 03 20:18:25 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, Guess who ranked up Perception? One AP.: 14 [3d6=6,4,5]
Apr 03 20:19:21 <Rosetta>	Rosetta's been chilling with whoever first offered to put her up, which I would guess is either Gabby, Norina, or Annette. She wanted some time to stretch and spend time with her Pokemon since they took a lot of risks for her this last mission, and the boat's a bit too cramped for that.
Apr 03 20:21:09 <Rosetta>	She'd pay visits to Chase in the hospital of course, and anyone else who got heavily injured in the island op.
Apr 03 20:22:47 <Rosetta>	Oh, and she'd check in with the other Keepers Cult people and see if there was anything new there.
Apr 03 20:23:02 »»	Domovoi is now known as Genevieve
Apr 03 20:23:09 <zooftop>	During the time you and others were hospitalized, Chase, there was a lot of chance to just sit back and watch tv, read, listen to the radio.  You noticed two songs really catching on during this time, nurses and docters humming them, hearing them pretty commonly.  One you heard Arnaldo humming about a week ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxvrfGsxhA , and the other you haven't heard before but it sounds awefully fucki
Apr 03 20:23:09 <zooftop>	ng familiar for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYkmXKqSJwo . Female vocalist for each.  You're pretty sure who the vocalist is.
Apr 03 20:24:02 <zooftop>	Rosetta, roll me Guile or Occult Education.
Apr 03 20:24:23 <Rosetta>	5d6+1 Guile then
Apr 03 20:24:23 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, Guile then: 15 [5d6=2,2,2,5,3]
Apr 03 20:27:18 »»	Genevieve has taken some off time work on some background research tasks, as well as helping Ruth with the Mountain Tribe and Sirens.
Apr 03 20:28:51 <Chase>	He's definitely been enjoying the songs - and he's honestly impressed Alice got her material on the radio and all - all in all it's going to end up Panic!'s playing with HER though instead of the other way around, haha. Not that he really minds - he'll be sure to congratulate her next time he sees her.
Apr 03 20:30:53 <zooftop>	While hanging out with the gals in urban areas you noticed a few things that made you stop and look every now and then.  Lots of graffiti popping up.  Not just boring signitures either but elaborate artsy pieces.  There's a theme to them but it's subtle unless you knew what it was - a red haired man in a white suit, sitting upon a throne.  A whiscash slumbering atop a horde of gems and shiny things, a shadowy guitarist, a
Apr 03 20:30:53 <zooftop>	clockwork tower with eyes in the clock faces, a blue haired woman in a white dress, sitting atop a snowy mountain...
Apr 03 20:31:34 <zooftop>	Genevieve, roll me Charm or Intuition.
Apr 03 20:31:48 <Genevieve>	3d6+1 Charm
Apr 03 20:31:48 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, Charm: 12 [3d6=2,6,3]
Apr 03 20:34:25 <zooftop>	While helping Father Ruth with the fallout at the island, you pick up on a few bits of information while helping the injured.  You hear Tialoc's daughter is somewhere around the isle but being coy since her father was at the heart of this.  And you also learn a bit about the Forest Tribe's motivation here, from the Mountain Tribe's perspective.
Apr 03 20:36:17 <zooftop>	Around five years ago the Forest Tribe got really aggressive as their chief had this vision that they would soon be visited by a prophet.  Shortly after, the Sundown Coarsair's ship washed up there, and they only got MORE hostile.  The root of it, far as they knew, was a belief that one day a Young Goddess would come to the isle and inflict a plauge on their people.
Apr 03 20:37:22 <zooftop>	At least, that was the Mountain Tribe's take on it, didn't have much luck hearing the other side quite yet.
Apr 03 20:37:40 <zooftop>	All this said and done, eventually you guys -are- rested and healed up, and...well, at your own autonomy again!
Apr 03 20:41:29 »»	Genevieve checks on the egg once she's up and about, then heads to find the others.
Apr 03 20:42:11 <Chase>	Back at the boat, Chase is out on deck playing the saxophone Ammy got him a while back. He's actually gotten pretty good with it at this point. He's just playing various sax solos from classic rock songs.
Apr 03 20:42:13 <Rosetta>	At some point during her hanging out, Rosetta mentioned the idea to Gabby of making a date out of exploring dumb fantasy land, considering there are probably dumb fantasy festivals and they can play Pokemon cards there or something.
Apr 03 20:42:33 <Chase>	And definitely not Careless Whisper
Apr 03 20:42:53 <zooftop>	Mr. Jenks was keeping an eye on it and reading it the books you perscribed.  He even promised not to include any 'extra materials' of his own.  It's starting to mature quite nicely, that little egg.
Apr 03 20:43:28 <Chase>	Either way, he's easily findable.
Apr 03 20:44:54 <Genevieve>	"How are you feeling, Mr. Hero?"
Apr 03 20:45:00 <zooftop>	Gabriella seems pretty puzzled you'd suggest this, "If you think it's stupid why would you want to go on a date and explore there?  How do you even get there and back?  I mean we all saw the Sons of Grant pulling stuff from something but..."
Apr 03 20:46:42 <Chase>	He puts the sax down and looks at Gen. "A lot better now, thanks to you and a few days' rest. I should probably cut that shit out sometime, might not keep getting lucky." he laughs.
Apr 03 20:48:10 <Rosetta>	"Well, maybe it's not that stupid, just, was kinda stupid when I was trying to dig out Yanala's memories. But you can find these there!" Rosetta pulls out a sketch of a chocobo. "I think. I mean, if Grant's guys can do it, we should be able to figure it out, right? Also we have this book that's totally about that world and we can probably visit it with dream world stuff." Rosetta sorta shrugs and slumps, realizing that p
Apr 03 20:48:10 <Rosetta>	robably all sounded really dumb.
Apr 03 20:48:26 <Chase>	"How're you holding up?"
Apr 03 20:48:45 <Genevieve>	"Well enough, I guess."
Apr 03 20:49:01 <Genevieve>	"I thought I'd feel better about beating Tialoc but...he's just a sad man, isn't he?"
Apr 03 20:49:06 <Chase>	"Any new developments on your latest projects?"
Apr 03 20:49:11 <Chase>	"And yeah... he really is."
Apr 03 20:51:15 <Chase>	"Tialoc is load after load of bad mistakes, Husk is... who the fuck knows but he's definitely up to something, but the Banisher probably has countermeasures if he can take control of people like that. Dandy might as well be on autopilot with Banisher controlling Pandemonium... that just leaves Jennifer, who I really don't have a feel on. You'd probably know best at this point."
Apr 03 20:51:56 <Genevieve>	"The egg seems to be developing nicely. If we need to mobilize against Jenn any time soon, I can rush the anti-two stuff, I think."
Apr 03 20:51:59 <zooftop>	"Not so stupid, eh?" She pokes your cheek and laughs.  "I imagine it's pretty natural to be curious about a whole other world if you got some sort of doorway to it, specially with cute fluffy birdies to be had.  Not that this is routine or anything, just think most people would be curious.  I mean, sure I'm curious about it as well.  But how would we even get there?"
Apr 03 20:52:10 <Genevieve>	"And I've got D.C. working on something for Dandy, hopefully."
Apr 03 20:53:43 <Rosetta>	"I could drop an Unown through the book into the world, so I dunno, maybe there's some way to use them to make a portal through? It's sorta like the book itself is a way in though."
Apr 03 20:53:51 <Chase>	"I don't think we necessarily need to rush anything. The Sons, Rapture, and the Explorers have all taken a pretty big blow, even if ours is mainly just exhaustion and stress. I have a feeling the enemy won't make any big moves for a while."
Apr 03 20:54:27 <Genevieve>	"Which reminds me, did anyone taunt Octavia yet?"
Apr 03 20:55:26 <Chase>	"If Rose or Saryx did, I didn't hear about it. And with Saryx suddenly running back off to Bravescar, I'm guessing it wasn't on his mind."
Apr 03 20:55:29 <zooftop>	"How'd you do that?  What happened when it went through?"  She didn't realize you actually -had- this thing in your possession.
Apr 03 20:56:47 <Rosetta>	"It turned into a trading card, and someone picked it up. Uh, I'm pretty sure people don't turn into those though, just Pokemon. Like how the Sons used cards to summon creatures in this world, it just sorta reverses when bringing Pokemon to that one."
Apr 03 20:57:18 <zooftop>	"...So what happens if you take over an empty ball?"
Apr 03 20:57:21 <Rosetta>	"Anyway, um, if you think it's dumb we can do something else." Rosetta scratches her head sheepishly.
Apr 03 20:57:34 <Rosetta>	"Uhhh, I dunno." She tilts her head. "Blank card?"
Apr 03 20:58:20 <zooftop>	"Why would I think this is stupid?  You really realize what this thing is yet?  I'm surprised no one's tried to take it from you guys or borrow it to explore themselves yet!"
Apr 03 20:58:47 <Rosetta>	"Welllll, we haven't told very many people about it yet."
Apr 03 20:58:50 <Chase>	"Either way, I got a few things in mind to do, but I wanted to know what was up with you and Rose first. You need help with any of your projects, lemme know. Least I can do, y'know?"
Apr 03 20:59:29 <Genevieve>	"Thanks. No worries, though, I've got Jenks egg-watching and rest in varying stages of slow cook, so I'm good."
Apr 03 20:59:40 <zooftop>	"...Well if you're down for it I am.  It leads to a city, not some barren wasteland, right?"
Apr 03 20:59:42 <Rosetta>	"I didn't think about this too hard, you know? I mean, I figured it'd be a good way to strike at Grant, eventually. But right now all I really thought about was maybe there'd be fun festivals and fluffy birds."
Apr 03 20:59:46 <Genevieve>	"Let's go check on the bird though."
Apr 03 21:00:19 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, just like those big hub cities in fantasy RPG video games."
Apr 03 21:01:41 <Chase>	"Yeah, no telling where she's gotten to now. Probably been hanging out with Gabby or something." he grins. "And here I thought birds and storms didn't get along too well."
Apr 03 21:01:59 »»	Chase gets up and takes the sax with him for now. No sense on just leaving it on the deck.
Apr 03 21:02:06 <zooftop>	"Tell me what you saw of it at least!" She's practically pushing you to lead the way.
Apr 03 21:03:32 »»	Genevieve starts looking for those two girls, then.
Apr 03 21:03:41 <Rosetta>	"Okay, okay!" LEt's say they're at least in the same city as the boat, and Rosetta starts leading the way back.
Apr 03 21:03:57 <zooftop>	You two see Gabriella and Rosetta approaching the docks, yeah.
Apr 03 21:04:06 <Chase>	"Speak of the devils."
Apr 03 21:04:40 <Rosetta>	"There's uh...big crystals and a fountain and these little fuzzy guys with a pom pom hanging off their head. Oh hi." Rosetta waves to the others.
Apr 03 21:05:05 <Genevieve>	"What are you two up to?"
Apr 03 21:05:09 <Chase>	"Hey, girls." he waves.
Apr 03 21:05:29 <zooftop>	Gabriella lets Rosetta spill the beans on that one.
Apr 03 21:05:39 <zooftop>	She waves to Chase and Gen, "Hey guys."
Apr 03 21:06:06 <Rosetta>	"Just hangin'. Though uh, actually, we were planning a trip into that fantasy world place in the book."
Apr 03 21:06:17 <Rosetta>	"So I was gonna go grab that. It's still on the boat, yeah?"
Apr 03 21:07:09 <Genevieve>	"Sure. You two were going to go alone into a different dimension?"
Apr 03 21:07:32 <Chase>	"Wait, you think it's safe to just hop in?" he considers that. "Yeah, we put it in isolation after Pi gave it to us. As long as there's a way back..." he thinks. "I wouldn't mind going myself, long as I wouldn't be spoiling a date or something."
Apr 03 21:07:36 <Rosetta>	"It seemed pretty safe last time I was there."
Apr 03 21:09:06 <Genevieve>	"Still...though I guess this is the right time to do some exploration. We shouldn't be needed here for a little while with everyone on the back foot."
Apr 03 21:10:06 <Rosetta>	"The reason Yanala couldn't get out is cause she didn't remember who she was, I'm pretty sure. Though..." Rosetta tilts her head. "I didn't exactly try just willing myself out of the world myself."
Apr 03 21:10:47 <zooftop>	"Well if Grant's guys can get in and out of it without much issue...including that Harbinger guy..."
Apr 03 21:11:07 <Rosetta>	"Harbinger's FROM that place though."
Apr 03 21:11:22 <Chase>	"Yeah, fuck it. We'll be fine, and some initial scouting definitely wouldn't hurt. Might even be fun."
Apr 03 21:11:25 <zooftop>	"Well yeah that's what I mean!  Besides I don't think we'd mind a third and forth wheel."
Apr 03 21:12:46 <Genevieve>	"And I'll just set up a quick contingency..." she texts a message to Chione, telling her to come get them out of the magic book if they aren't back in a few days.
Apr 03 21:12:51 <zooftop>	"...So what did you guys do with this book anyway, lock it in a safe or something?"
Apr 03 21:13:11 <Genevieve>	"Basically." Gen heads back into the ship to retrieve the grimoire.
Apr 03 21:13:27 <zooftop>	Chione's reply is [Bitch say what.  Okay I'll figure that out if I don't hear from ya in a few days.]
Apr 03 21:13:59 <Chase>	"Yeah, it's got some funky power to it that we didn't really want to set off accidentally."
Apr 03 21:14:01 <Rosetta>	"Y'all could bring Ammy and Shawyun with." Rosetta suggests with a shrug.
Apr 03 21:14:12 <Chase>	He considers it.
Apr 03 21:14:53 <zooftop>	The grimoire is as you left it, tucked away in its gold and gem inscribed self.  http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080502115807/finalfantasy/images/8/81/TAgrimoire.jpg
Apr 03 21:15:52 »»	Genevieve holds up the grimoire. "Behold, a portal to another dimension. Probably."
Apr 03 21:16:17 <zooftop>	"So...hows it work?" Gabriella asks.
Apr 03 21:17:25 »»	Rosetta takes the book from Gen and opens it up. "Uh, not really sure. Sure you don't wanna invite anyone else first?" She looks to Gen and Chase.
Apr 03 21:17:49 <Genevieve>	"I think it'll be easier to blend in with a smaller group, right?"
Apr 03 21:18:34 <Chase>	"Yeaaah it's fine, I'll grab Ammy another time. I'm sure she'd love to see this but I'm sure she's got her own things to do right now and I don't want to hold us up. What Gen said, too."
Apr 03 21:18:50 <Rosetta>	"We get shoved into our dreamworld outfits anyway. Just pretend you're new. The place is called Ulduh. Uhh, last time I was there, I said I was from somewhere called Ivalice."
Apr 03 21:19:04 »»	Rosetta turns to the back to see if there's an index that might have more to say about that.
Apr 03 21:19:46 <zooftop>	You're actually reading it?
Apr 03 21:19:53 <Chase>	"I'm going to be spending the majority of the time wording my sentences carefully. This is the kind of situation it really sucks to be unable to lie."
Apr 03 21:20:05 <Rosetta>	Yeah.
Apr 03 21:20:29 <Rosetta>	"Oh right."
Apr 03 21:20:58 <Rosetta>	"Look, listen, act." Rosetta intones as she reads over the pages.
Apr 03 21:21:10 <zooftop>	Rosetta starts to shine blue, and is literally sucked into the book.
Apr 03 21:22:08 <zooftop>	The book falls to the ground, open with its spine to the floor. "I'm not sure what else I expected." Gabriella says as she stares at it.
Apr 03 21:22:08 <Genevieve>	"See."
Apr 03 21:22:12 <Chase>	"Well, there she goes... Let's make sure this is in a nice, secure position for when we get back.
Apr 03 21:22:13 <Genevieve>	"That's why I was keeping it locked up."
Apr 03 21:22:16 <Chase>	"
Apr 03 21:22:41 »»	Genevieve picks the book up and takes it into her lab. "Most secure place on the ship."
Apr 03 21:23:05 »»	Chase flips through the book next, after making sure it's on a table or something
Apr 03 21:24:27 <Rosetta>	5d6+1
Apr 03 21:24:28 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, 5d6+1: 21 [5d6=2,3,4,6,5]
Apr 03 21:24:42 <zooftop>	Chase also says, "Look, Listen, Act." And is sucked in.
Apr 03 21:25:04 <zooftop>	"...So we just try to read it?" Gabriella asks Gen for clarification.
Apr 03 21:25:22 <Genevieve>	"I believe so. Go right ahead."
Apr 03 21:25:39 <zooftop>	Gabriella looks over it, and the same thing happens to her.
Apr 03 21:27:00 »»	Genevieve turns on Symbolsight first, to see if she can tell that the other three are inside the book at all.
Apr 03 21:27:47 <zooftop>	Looking at this thing with Symbolight just makes it...glow in a light shade of blue.  Little crystals can be seen floating around it.
Apr 03 21:28:09 <Genevieve>	Alright, then. Gen starts reading from the page Gabby was sucked in at.
Apr 03 21:28:21 <zooftop>	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOBWORNte8g
Apr 03 21:28:32 <zooftop>	Much as the others, you say those three words, and you are dragged into it.
Apr 03 21:28:45 <zooftop>	<zooftop> You say the following out loud as your eyes glance over the words. "Look, listen, act."
Apr 03 21:28:45 <zooftop>	<zooftop> At first, it's like you're being proppeled through a tunnel, a tunnel of Unowns - like in a space jump scene in a movie or something, but Unowns swirling around you.  You're moving incredably fast.
Apr 03 21:28:45 <zooftop>	<zooftop> But after a few seconds, the Unowns stop, and you're being proppeled through open space.
Apr 03 21:28:45 <zooftop>	<zooftop> Before you is a ... giant, blue crystal.  It shines with the radiant light, not unlike the Sun.  In fact, you think this thing is about the size of the Sun.  and you're heading right at it
Apr 03 21:29:28 <zooftop>	As each of you approach, and 'collide' with the Crystal, it's more like you...pass through it, there's a flash of blue, and...
Apr 03 21:29:38 <zooftop>	MEANWHILE, IN ULDUH.
Apr 03 21:31:08 <zooftop>	At the Aetherite Crystal Plaza, a Lalafell teleports in.  He has a feathered hat and a red and black tunic, and silver hair.  He looks to the guard standing by, and the two exchange greetings.  The guard is another Lalafell.  "Hey! Bango Zango!  What dragged you away from Limsa Lominsa?  Thought you were pretty busy as of late.  What you been up to anyway?"
Apr 03 21:32:08 <zooftop>	Bango Zango: "Well, I work for the Admiral doing what you do, basically.  I collect revunue from travelers who pass by the Aetherite, and donations from Adventurers for the needy."
Apr 03 21:32:56 <zooftop>	"I took some vacation cause I wanted to check out the Pokemon tournament at the casino here in Ulduh.  Wanna try to trade something I found."
Apr 03 21:33:20 <zooftop>	The guard nods, "That's brought a lot of travelers through lately.  You still having that bad luck?  With drunken adventurers teleporting in and falling on you?"
Apr 03 21:33:45 <zooftop>	Bango Zango shakes his head. "No, not for a while, really - " Then the four of you appear above him, and slam! You fall on top of the little guy, one after another.
Apr 03 21:33:51 <zooftop>	"GOD DAMN IT." Bango Zango shouts.
Apr 03 21:34:42 <Chase>	"Ugh." He lays on the floor for a moment before sitting up and rubbing his head.
Apr 03 21:35:13 <zooftop>	Your vision still has tinges of blue...but it's about mid day.  It's a hot, humid city, with large stone buildings, similar feeling to Sandseeker.
Apr 03 21:35:14 »»	Genevieve sits up almost immediately. "Well, that was exciting."
Apr 03 21:35:19 »»	Rosetta shakes her head and gets her bearings. "Oh. Oh shit." She hops up and warps off the guy. "So sorry about that!"
Apr 03 21:35:39 <zooftop>	You're all wearing your Dream World attire, and Gabriella has a yellow...martial arts uniform? http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130601173513/finalfantasy/images/9/9b/Ffxiv_monk.jpg
Apr 03 21:36:33 <zooftop>	Gabriella groans and picks herself up as well, and then notices the tiny, three and a half foot man you guys all fell on. "Oh holy shit, you okay?" She and the guard both help him up.
Apr 03 21:36:52 <zooftop>	Bango Zango just pouts.  "You had to jynx me, man!" he says to the guard.
Apr 03 21:37:52 <zooftop>	BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6imm8t4B0o&list=PLUdNAUb87L_aNR4yN5Hs0T-xZYgX8-IX0
Apr 03 21:37:53 <Chase>	"Oh jeez, did we land on someone?" He pulls himself up and looks at the little guys. "Uh, sorry, dude."
Apr 03 21:38:47 <zooftop>	"I'm alright...used to this.  Sort of." He checks his pockets, taking out a card similar to the ones you've seen the Sons carry. "Oh good it's not damaged." He dusts it off on his tunic.
Apr 03 21:39:31 <Rosetta>	"This happen a lot around here? Geez."
Apr 03 21:39:33 <zooftop>	"One doesn't work around Limsa Lomina's Aetherite without being used to pirates and adventurers just tumbling in willy nilly."
Apr 03 21:39:59 <zooftop>	Next to you guys is a...big blue crystal mounted on a golden device.  Every now and then someone else appears next to it, pays a guard, and goes on their way.
Apr 03 21:40:01 <Chase>	"Uh-huh..." he looks around to try and figure out what the hell an Aetherite is.
Apr 03 21:41:53 <Genevieve>	"Of course, right." She starts checking to see if she actually has money.
Apr 03 21:41:59 <zooftop>	Gabriella is looking around...at the various non-humans and humans alike, collecting her thoughts on this first impression.
Apr 03 21:42:16 <zooftop>	Any money you had on you, is still money from 'your side.'
Apr 03 21:42:31 <zooftop>	But your personal Pokeballs all are suddenly stone cards, with Pokemon on their faces.
Apr 03 21:42:54 <Rosetta>	What about our empty Poke Balls?
Apr 03 21:43:02 <zooftop>	Stone cards with blank faces.
Apr 03 21:43:13 »»	Chase is looking around too, getting a good view of everything.
Apr 03 21:43:39 <Rosetta>	"Huh, that's what I thought." Rosetta says, appraising a blank card before putting it away. "Alright, so I bet there's something or another fun to do around here." She hops in place, looking around.
Apr 03 21:44:21 <Genevieve>	"How much is the fee, exactly?"
Apr 03 21:44:57 <zooftop>	"Tis a hundred gil, ma'am," the armored Lalafell guard says.
Apr 03 21:46:02 <Genevieve>	"That might be a problem..."
Apr 03 21:46:57 <zooftop>	"Are you short of change? Or new arrivals with a foreign currency?  You look like veteran adventurers to ME, at least."
Apr 03 21:47:03 <Rosetta>	"Uh..." Rosetta digs in her pocket and stares at her Visiwa coins, as if willing for them to turn into something appropriate for this realm.
Apr 03 21:47:24 <zooftop>	"Scholar, Bard, Monk and Ninja regalias and all..."
Apr 03 21:47:24 »»	Genevieve nods. "The latter."
Apr 03 21:48:33 <Chase>	"Oh, yeah, we don't have the right currency. Can we get back to you on that fee? I'm sure we can get a few coins to rub together in no time."
Apr 03 21:48:34 <zooftop>	"Mmm, fret not, this is more common than you'd think.  A 100 gil would get you a decent meal at a diner in town, if it helps.  Whatever you feel would be a appropriate, we'll figure out the specifics on our own end.  Welcome to Ulduh, the gem of the sands."
Apr 03 21:48:54 <zooftop>	"Mmm...I suppose I could also take collateral, sure."
Apr 03 21:49:04 <zooftop>	"Decent enough money to be made around the area."
Apr 03 21:49:54 <Rosetta>	"Is there some place we can win some quick bu- er gil playing...?" Rosetta pulls out Nocturne's stone card.
Apr 03 21:50:07 <Genevieve>	"A hundred gil, huh." She fishes out a blank Great Ball Card. "How much are these worth in gil?"
Apr 03 21:50:30 <zooftop>	Roll me Intuition, guys, as Rosetta does that.
Apr 03 21:50:40 <Rosetta>	1d6-1 bloo bloo
Apr 03 21:50:40 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, bloo bloo: 4 [1d6=5]
Apr 03 21:50:42 <Chase>	6d6+6
Apr 03 21:50:43 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, 6d6+6: 33 [6d6=3,6,5,5,6,2]
Apr 03 21:51:47 <zooftop>	Bango Zango and this guard's eyes light up when Rosetta puts Nocturne's card foreward, and the blank one from Genevieve.  You get the feeling these sorts of things have very real value to them.
Apr 03 21:52:03 <Genevieve>	2d6+1
Apr 03 21:52:04 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, 2d6+1: 11 [2d6=6,4]
Apr 03 21:52:36 <Genevieve>	"Rose, we're putting up collateral for a teleport ticket, not a house."
Apr 03 21:52:38 <zooftop>	"That a first edition Shedinja?" Bango Zango practically drools over it.  "And a...blank.  Huh, blanks are pretty rare."
Apr 03 21:53:04 <Rosetta>	"I was wondering if people bet on the game around here!"
Apr 03 21:53:23 »»	Rosetta puts away the Nocturne card and pulls out a blank poke ball. "Guess I've got this too."
Apr 03 21:54:07 <Chase>	"We have a few cards between us, yeah, but.."
Apr 03 21:54:37 <zooftop>	"Just one of those blanks would more than suffice for your travels," the guard answers.  "The ones with Pokemon are more valuable, but blanks have a lot of applications for the Adventurer's Guild as well."
Apr 03 21:55:11 »»	Genevieve hands over her blank, then. "For now, then. We should be back to pay the fee proper, so don't go using it~"
Apr 03 21:56:08 <zooftop>	"Sure, I'll keep it on hand for you.  If I could take your names, if you return and I'm off duty, I'll drop it off at the office for you," he nods to a building near the crystal.
Apr 03 21:56:27 <Rosetta>	"I guess it's gonna be kinda hard to enjoy festivals and stuff without any local currency, huh?" Rosetta gives a sheepish grin to the rest of the Braves and Gabby. She hops back to face the guard. "Hey, what's up around here? We're mostly here to sightsee and stuff, have some fun."
Apr 03 21:56:36 <Chase>	"Oh, I'm Chase Violet. Thanks, guys. Keep up the good work." he flashes a grin and gets ready to head out.
Apr 03 21:56:47 <Genevieve>	"Doctor Webb."
Apr 03 21:57:53 <Rosetta>	"Rosetta." She says with a hop and a nod. "Or, uh, Razor Wind." She adds, wondering if that's be more appropriate here.
Apr 03 21:58:18 <Chase>	"Girl really likes her nicks."
Apr 03 21:59:13 <zooftop>	"Sight seeing?  Well there's the Golden Saucer, which is the only casino in Eorzea.  For shopping there's the market wards, home to the Alchemy, Weaver, and Goldsmith guilds.  If you're looking for something with more sport, there's the Gladiator Collesium.  And if you're just looking for some place to wine and dine you can't go wrong with the pub the Adventurer's Guild runs here."
Apr 03 21:59:35 <Rosetta>	"Shiny."
Apr 03 22:00:04 <Chase>	"We're really going to have to get some money if we're going to enjoy ourselves, though. Eh, we'll figure somethin' out."
Apr 03 22:00:05 <zooftop>	Gabriella also gives the guy her name, but she seems more interested in the sights around as well at this point.
Apr 03 22:00:19 »»	Chase gets ready to head out!
Apr 03 22:00:45 <Rosetta>	"Maybe there's money to be made at the Coliseum?"
Apr 03 22:01:05 <zooftop>	"Always work to be had with the Adventurer's Guild, there is," the guard mentions.  Bango Zango, by this point, has started on his own way, toward the Adventurer's Guild.  Or at least what Rosetta recognizes as that building, it's across from the Chocobo Stables.
Apr 03 22:01:09 <Genevieve>	"Ooh, maybe I can find a...what are they called in these things, a beastiary?"
Apr 03 22:01:14 <zooftop>	Has a little pompom guy with a mailbag out front of it.
Apr 03 22:01:17 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, that'd be nice."
Apr 03 22:02:09 <Rosetta>	"Oh hey, yeah, let's do that." Rosetta points at the Adventurer's Guild. "That's where Yanala was when I found her."
Apr 03 22:02:23 <zooftop>	The guard hrms. "If you try the Thaumaturge Guild, their scholars and books might include a beastiary."
Apr 03 22:02:48 <Genevieve>	"Thanks, I'll look them up."
Apr 03 22:02:53 <zooftop>	"Ulduh is the trade center of Eorzea, after all.  Plenty of sharing of wealth and knowledge."
Apr 03 22:04:03 <Rosetta>	"And then we can maybe rent some chocobos and go riding." Rosetta nods excitedly.
Apr 03 22:05:07 »»	Chase eyes the moogle and is almost baffled by how close to a pokemon it'd be, but he tries not to stare. He glances to Rose and nods.
Apr 03 22:06:47 <zooftop>	Alright, as you guys wander into the city, what do you pay more attention to, what people look like, or things you're overhearing? roll me perception with your choice.
Apr 03 22:07:17 <Rosetta>	5d6+1 Rosetta's listening for stuff going on
Apr 03 22:07:17 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, Rosetta's listening for stuff going on: 20 [5d6=5,4,6,3,1]
Apr 03 22:07:21 <Chase>	3d6-2 What people look like.
Apr 03 22:07:22 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, What people look like.: 8 [3d6=4,4,2]
Apr 03 22:08:23 <zooftop>	Also where you're scouting out as well! based off the descriptions the guard gave you.
Apr 03 22:09:11 <Genevieve>	2d6+5 looking at the city/magitech
Apr 03 22:09:12 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, looking at the city/magitech: 13 [2d6=5,3]
Apr 03 22:09:15 <Rosetta>	Rosetta's heading near the Guild for now.
Apr 03 22:09:25 »»	Genevieve is also headed for the Adventurer's Guild.
Apr 03 22:09:58 <Chase>	Chase is curious about the Guild and the Colosseum, though he's not exactly going to break up with the group to check out the latter just yet.
Apr 03 22:11:19 <zooftop>	Chase has some dificulty noticing some of the more sublte differences between some of the races around you, he couldn't tell an Elf from a Human or Roegadyn.  Or a Moogle from a Moggle, but could tell both from a Lalafell.  The more alien races are very easy to pick out though.  People with feline features, rabbit features, reptilian features ranging from close to lizard men, to men and women with draconic wings and tails.
Apr 03 22:11:20 <zooftop>	  Also men with more canine features.  And that frog-looking guy by the yellow birds Rosetta fancies.
Apr 03 22:12:44 <zooftop>	Genevieve notices a lot of their tech seems based off powered crystals of various colors - they look sort of similar to your gemstone necklaces, Gen.  The actual tech is...steampunkish? You notice an airship, it looks more like a flying boat, fly overhead.
Apr 03 22:13:39 <zooftop>	You see a fair bit of flintlock pistols, but most 'Adventuring' folk seem to be carrying weapons closer to a middle age time, swords, axes, staves, bows.
Apr 03 22:14:07 <zooftop>	Taking a closer look at your former Pokeballs turned cards, you also notice they have little buttons near the bottom of them, not unlike the trigger to release a Pokemon.
Apr 03 22:15:31 <Chase>	Anything else of ours changed besides outfits and pokemon?
Apr 03 22:17:07 <zooftop>	Rosetta overhears one of the dog men (a Nu Mou) talking with a purple haired human lady.  "So, Miss Ellie, I heard a young woman actually struck an interview with that alleged otherworldly adventurer, Lightning, I think she was called, out in Gridania?  Jealous at all, given it was quite the story when that occured."
Apr 03 22:18:39 <zooftop>	Ellie shakes her head.  "Given the local thefts and the sudden boom in these trading cards that Null Industries has been pumping out, there's been plenty to discuss here.  Besides, other worldly appearances have been happening with more and more frequency as of late.  Perhaps it's something in the Aeither.  Either way, this is more something that Hildibrand figure would be interested in."
Apr 03 22:19:02 <zooftop>	Not at all, Chase, your other things have stayed consistent.
Apr 03 22:20:52 <zooftop>	The little Moogle at the Adventurer's Guild waves at you guys with a friendly 'Kopuu!' as you approach.  Inside you find a pretty standard looking bar and restaraunt, with various folks in armor, robes, leather, clearly adventuring folk.  There's some people on staff, talking to some of them and handing out little stone cards.
Apr 03 22:21:11 <zooftop>	Adventurers at tables also seem to be looking over the cards, hrming and hawing.  You guys don't really look out of place at all here.
Apr 03 22:21:29 »»	Rosetta finds the others after a bit of listening in. "Hey guys, apparently there's a 'Null Industries' around here, so I guess Grant's got a pretty good foothold here." She says quietly.
Apr 03 22:21:39 <zooftop>	Gabriella seems curious about all this. "Just me or am I noticing really weird parallels to back home?"
Apr 03 22:21:46 <Rosetta>	"There was some sorta cult thing I heard about last time I was here too."
Apr 03 22:21:51 <Genevieve>	"Sounds like something we ought to deal with. At the right time."
Apr 03 22:22:23 <Chase>	"Yeah, this Adventurer's Guild reminds me of the Explorers, a bit." he says quietly.
Apr 03 22:22:23 <zooftop>	"Where do they get these cards anyway? They come in booster packs or something?"
Apr 03 22:22:25 <Chase>	To Gabby.
Apr 03 22:23:00 <Rosetta>	"From Grant, apparently. I guess he'd sell them in booster packs."
Apr 03 22:23:46 <Chase>	"He could be moving pokemon over here and profiting off of them, though that seems like a really silly plan. It's probably something else. 'sides..." he checks out his cards. They're all first edition, right?
Apr 03 22:25:10 <zooftop>	They all have little first edition markers, yes.
Apr 03 22:25:19 <Rosetta>	"Let's see if we can figure out how they play with these. It could be a good way to make some quick cash if we don't take a job with the guild here, though that could be fun."
Apr 03 22:25:23 <Chase>	"The real deals seem to be special."
Apr 03 22:25:28 <Genevieve>	"Crystals, man. Who even knows." She walks up to the bar. "Excuse me, is there like a job board here?"
Apr 03 22:26:04 <Chase>	He looks up, grinning at Rose. "So we come all the way here on a special trip and end up doing pokemon battles anyway?"
Apr 03 22:26:08 <zooftop>	As you guys stand around the entrance, a Lalafell, which you guys would just recognize as 'little person', looks over to you from behind the bar.  She's got a worker's doublet on and blonde hair.  She smiles and waves you over.
Apr 03 22:26:19 <Chase>	"This place don't seem so bad."
Apr 03 22:26:59 <Rosetta>	"W-well, we need some cash. I'd rather take some job riding chocobos or something." Rosetta pouts a little.
Apr 03 22:27:55 <Chase>	"You keep saying that word." he says quietly as he walks over.
Apr 03 22:28:19 <Rosetta>	"The fluffy yellow birds."
Apr 03 22:28:26 <Chase>	"Oh, those things. Figures."
Apr 03 22:28:29 <Chase>	He laughs.
Apr 03 22:29:05 <zooftop>	Gabriella laughs as well. "She's got her priorities.  They are cute things, aren't they?"
Apr 03 22:29:18 <zooftop>	As you approach the lady, she calls out.  "Hey ya'll, welcome to The Quicksand!" she says.  "My name is Momodi, the proprietess of this establishment.  I can tell you are Adventuring folk from the looks of ya, but don't recognize your faces.  First time in town?"
Apr 03 22:30:09 <Genevieve>	"Yes, actually. We're a bit foreign."
Apr 03 22:31:12 <zooftop>	"Well ya came to the right place!  Most the folks here were at some point.  The Quicksand is the natural stop for newcomers to find a foothold here after all.  Can I get ya something to eat or drink?  Or ya'll the type more gunning for work or information?"
Apr 03 22:31:30 <Chase>	"Seems like a nice place. Could get used to it."
Apr 03 22:31:54 <Rosetta>	"Work, please." Rosetta pipes up.
Apr 03 22:32:12 <zooftop>	We'll say she also answered your question, Gen.  "If you're looking for work, we got plenty of leves that need attenin'.  For craftsmen, gatherers, and folks who just want to deal with some vermin monsters."
Apr 03 22:32:48 <Genevieve>	"Work seems like the first thing. We don't really have money."
Apr 03 22:32:50 <zooftop>	She reaches under the bar and pulls out a bunch of stone cards, putting them down in front of you.
Apr 03 22:33:14 <zooftop>	They seem like...little job descriptions.
Apr 03 22:34:28 <zooftop>	'We need some Potions and Antidotes for the guards." "We're running short on copper ore at the Goldsmith's Guild." "There's a rodent infestation at the mines." Those sorta things.
Apr 03 22:35:37 <Rosetta>	"Is there anything more, er...exciting to do around here?" Rosetta tilts her head.
Apr 03 22:35:48 <Genevieve>	"Oh, killing rodents! That's like a tutorial mode right there."
Apr 03 22:37:04 <zooftop>	Momodi laughs. "Oh, plenty if you're lookin' to help with the ongoin' struggle with the beastmen tribes and the Primals.  But ain't many adventurers who got the balls for that sorta business.  There's a local sleuth who has been lookin' for some help on an investgation of his too."
Apr 03 22:37:29 <Chase>	"Yeah?"
Apr 03 22:37:51 <zooftop>	"Figured I'd start with the low hangin' fruit, most folks ain't keen on jumpin' right into all that business."
Apr 03 22:38:25 <Rosetta>	"Well, let's see what else you've got then, yeah?"
Apr 03 22:39:56 »»	Chase digs through his stuff and sets three Potions on the counter in the meantime. "Though while we're at it..."
Apr 03 22:40:24 <zooftop>	"There ain't really leves for that sorta business," She scoops the cards back up.  "The investigator could give ya more details on what he's up to, could give ya his address.  As for Primals...well...ya'll sure about jumpin' right into combatin' Gods Incarnate?"
Apr 03 22:40:41 <Chase>	"Maaaybe not that big of a jump."
Apr 03 22:40:54 <Rosetta>	"What's the investigation about?"
Apr 03 22:41:38 <zooftop>	"Oh! These are a bit different lookin'...hm." She looks over the spray canister Potions.  "Too bad our newest hand and expert on these sorta chemicals sorta jumped town a few weeks ago.  Girl had a knack for this."
Apr 03 22:42:12 <zooftop>	She does a little test by intentionally cutting the back of her hand with a knife, spraying, and watching the wound seal over.  "Aaaah, these are nifty.  The guards will appreciate the ingenuity as oppose to havin' to chug one down."
Apr 03 22:42:37 <zooftop>	She slides a bunch of gold coins toward Chase.  500 gil.
Apr 03 22:42:54 <Rosetta>	"Oh, I guess I could toss this in too." Rosetta sets a Super Potion on the counter.
Apr 03 22:42:54 <zooftop>	Gabriella takes note and starts sliding some Potions over too.
Apr 03 22:43:10 <Genevieve>	"Oh? Who was brewing potions here before?"
Apr 03 22:43:54 <zooftop>	"Well, not brewin', but she handed divvin' out Leves.  And when folks came by with foreign goods like these she was pretty easily able to identify them.  This looks like a...Hi Potion?" She gives Rosetta 300 Gil for it alone.
Apr 03 22:44:12 <Chase>	"Thanks."
Apr 03 22:44:40 <Genevieve>	"Ah, if she recognizes things like this, maybe she's from somewhere close to us."
Apr 03 22:44:54 <zooftop>	"The investgation? He seems pretty fixated on Null Industries.  Isn't as enthusiastic about those Pokemon cards as the rest of the region is," She nods to a table where you see Bango Zango trying to trade that Unown card Rosetta passed through.
Apr 03 22:45:04 »»	Genevieve she puts two Antidotes on the counter as well.
Apr 03 22:45:10 <zooftop>	Gabriella hrms. "Was her name Yanala?"
Apr 03 22:45:20 <zooftop>	Momodi looks surprised. "Yeah, it was!  You guys know her?"
Apr 03 22:45:36 <Genevieve>	"We do, actually."
Apr 03 22:45:40 <Rosetta>	"I was thinking that, Yanala was running this counter and selling cards a while ago."
Apr 03 22:46:11 <Chase>	"More of an acquaintance, really." he says, truthfully - he hasn't talked to her much directly.
Apr 03 22:46:22 <Rosetta>	"Anyway, uh, what's this stuff about fighting the Primals? No info cards on that?"
Apr 03 22:46:25 <zooftop>	"WHat happened to her? Poor girl up and vanished.  Hope it wasn't anything bad.  If you see her, pass this along to her, missed her last paycheck." She tosses a bag of coins to Rosetta.
Apr 03 22:46:56 <Rosetta>	"Nah, she's doing fine, just needed a change of pace." Rosetta catches the bag. "Huh, alright, will do."
Apr 03 22:47:21 <zooftop>	"Nooo...not exactly..." Chase's Intuition is high enough that he can tell she's sort of confused by that question, or the fact you guys don't seem to know what a Primal is.
Apr 03 22:49:23 <zooftop>	"That sort of thing is more...ad hoc, I suppose.  I could point ya in the right direction, or toward the investigator, but ... how do I put this.  It's more a cause of alarm and call to action when the Beastmen bring their Gods forth, than a job folks just take ahead of time."
Apr 03 22:49:25 <Chase>	"We don't need to get into all that right now anyway. We came here to relax and see the sights, remember? Not to fight gods. We got a few gil in our pouches now, so things are looking up."
Apr 03 22:49:39 »»	Chase says this more to Rose than to the woman.
Apr 03 22:50:01 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, I know, but it just sounds so cool, doesn't it?"
Apr 03 22:50:06 <Rosetta>	"But you're right, we can worry about it later."
Apr 03 22:50:14 <Chase>	"More trouble than it's worth, definitely."
Apr 03 22:50:50 <Genevieve>	"This investigator, though, could you point us in that direction?"
Apr 03 22:51:04 »»	Chase tries to appear more confident about this then he did.
Apr 03 22:51:42 <zooftop>	"Sure, hun," she takes out a reciept, a quill and some ink and writes down an address for you.
Apr 03 22:55:01 <zooftop>	Gabriella kneels down to Rosetta and whispers, "For someone who thought this was stupid you're pretty excited."
Apr 03 22:55:36 <Rosetta>	"H-hey. Well, it was pretty dumb when I had to find Yanala and couldn't get her to remember who she was." Rosetta whispers back. :<
Apr 03 22:56:09 <zooftop>	She snickers and looks around while you guys wrap up business with Momodi
Apr 03 22:56:26 <Genevieve>	"Thank you kindly."
Apr 03 22:56:46 »»	Chase flashes a wave and goes to move out of earshot.
Apr 03 22:57:07 <Rosetta>	"Y'all wanna check that out now? Or should we hit the shops and stuff now that we have some cash?" Rosetta pipes up after they're away a bit.
Apr 03 22:58:29 <Genevieve>	"Might as well take a tour."
Apr 03 22:58:49 <Chase>	"For the most part, this place has its own heroes to solve its own problems. The investigation is kind of interesting because someone's possibly on to Grant, but really, we don't want to get too thick into things just yet, do we?"
Apr 03 22:58:52 <zooftop>	"May the Crystal be with ya," Momodi says as you guys walk off.
Apr 03 22:59:27 <zooftop>	Roll me Perception as you guys make your huddle and talk, by the way.
Apr 03 22:59:36 <Chase>	3d6-2+1 another AP
Apr 03 22:59:36 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, another AP: 9 [3d6=6,1,3]
Apr 03 22:59:41 <Genevieve>	2d6+5
Apr 03 22:59:42 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, 2d6+5: 9 [2d6=1,3]
Apr 03 22:59:47 <Rosetta>	"I wonder how much gil a chocobo costs." Rosetta ponders aloud, as she tosses Yanala's paycheck bag up and down.
Apr 03 22:59:49 <Rosetta>	5d6+1
Apr 03 22:59:50 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, 5d6+1: 22 [5d6=3,5,6,5,2]
Apr 03 23:00:12 <Rosetta>	"Or what other birds are around here. And how Grant brings 'em out."
Apr 03 23:00:42 <zooftop>	There were no jackpots had today.  You guys notice how these guys play these card games is...well, sorta funny really.  The cards let out three dimensional representations of Pokemon, and they fight.  Just like a normal, League battle.
Apr 03 23:01:03 <zooftop>	They even evolve, which you guys witness as someone's Bulbasaur womps a Squirtle with a Vine Whip.
Apr 03 23:03:12 <zooftop>	Rosetta overhears someone singing as they walk toward the exit to The Quisksand, "Black chav, born Eorzea, crossed the aethir on a winward sailboat~," a woman's voice.
Apr 03 23:03:32 <Chase>	"Wait, that song made it over here, too?"
Apr 03 23:03:39 <Genevieve>	"We could probably sweep in a real contest."
Apr 03 23:04:04 <Chase>	He tries to get a glimpse of the singer as they leave, but keeps going otherwise.
Apr 03 23:04:09 <Rosetta>	"That's just sorta weird. How does that even happen?"
Apr 03 23:04:15 <zooftop>	If you're looking for the source, Chase, it's a blue haired woman who glances at you as she walks outside.
Apr 03 23:05:08 <zooftop>	"Don't worry, I'll buy you a Chocobo if you -really- want one," Gabriella teases, not hearing the singing.
Apr 03 23:05:13 <Chase>	How close is she?
Apr 03 23:05:31 <zooftop>	Close enough to follow.
Apr 03 23:05:43 <Chase>	He gives pause for several seconds, before doing so.
Apr 03 23:05:44 <Rosetta>	"Well, the stables are over there." Rosetta points in the direction she originally popped in from when doing the Yanala stuff.
Apr 03 23:05:52 <Chase>	"I'll be right back, guys."
Apr 03 23:06:01 <Rosetta>	"Uh, alright."
Apr 03 23:06:19 <zooftop>	Turns out she's standing outside, arms crossed, next to the Moogle, Chase.  Roll Perception.
Apr 03 23:06:33 <Chase>	3d6 Let's throw out two more AP
Apr 03 23:06:34 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, Let's throw out two more AP: 12 [3d6=4,2,6]
Apr 03 23:06:51 <zooftop>	You recognize her.  She bears a striking resemblance to The Nameless's avatar.
Apr 03 23:07:42 <Genevieve>	"You're really going to try to buy a chocoboo huh? Why not just go catch one?"
Apr 03 23:08:16 <Rosetta>	"Do you think these work on them?" Rosetta takes out a blank poke ball card.
Apr 03 23:08:24 <Rosetta>	"Otherwise, I've got no idea how we'd take one out of this world."
Apr 03 23:08:42 <Genevieve>	"Grant's guys released them out of cards in our world."
Apr 03 23:08:45 <Genevieve>	"So probably."
Apr 03 23:08:52 <zooftop>	"He's gotta found out a way, yeah."
Apr 03 23:08:58 <zooftop>	"I guess this Null Industry thing is his big front?"
Apr 03 23:09:48 <Rosetta>	"Yeah. There's a cult around here that has to do with Dandyman too, I think. Like the cult of Dalamund?" Rosetta shrugs. "Could've just been a similar name too."
Apr 03 23:10:11 <Chase>	Welp. He figured she might have a connection to visiwa but seeing this?  He figures something's up. He doesn't know exactly what's going on here, but he glances around a bit before walking over to her casually.
Apr 03 23:10:39 <zooftop>	"I won't bite, Young Bard.  I see I wasn't the only one who thought to investigate this."
Apr 03 23:11:09 <zooftop>	"I figured a little tune would be a subtle enough way to catch your attention."
Apr 03 23:11:54 <Chase>	"Heh. Guess we weren't the only ones who found another way over. And you figured right. Her song's been one of the only things I've been hearing the last few days." he laughs.
Apr 03 23:13:10 <Chase>	"Kind of... breathtaking, isn't it?" he looks around.
Apr 03 23:13:19 <zooftop>	"It seems the Unown do not serve as a gate as much as a slingshot across space to this world.  Who knows how far away it is from our own.  It is a puzzling place.  These are God fearing people, and their worst fears are both dragons, -and- the Dragon Lord.  Did you know their calander is based on the last time a new God awoken?"
Apr 03 23:13:53 <zooftop>	Gabriella shrugs, "Well, maybe the bred ones are tougher, just like Pokemon."
Apr 03 23:14:08 <Chase>	"So this isn't another dimension, just really really far away? Whoa."
Apr 03 23:14:11 <Rosetta>	"I wonder if they come in different colors."
Apr 03 23:14:45 <zooftop>	"Wonder what happens if you feed one those fruits they have in Goldcloud," Gabby thinks.
Apr 03 23:15:23 <Rosetta>	"Oh, maybe."
Apr 03 23:15:49 <zooftop>	"It is indeed," The Nameless answers Chase.  "Needless to say, a draconic deity walking around here is not exactly ideal."  She looks over to the Moogle, who seems oblivious to your conversation's nature.  "What do these little guys remind you of?"
Apr 03 23:17:09 <Chase>	"Well, Pokemon, obviously." he isn't sure if the Moogle is dull or if there's supernatural powers at work. "Or little fairi...es..."
Apr 03 23:17:55 <zooftop>	"Fairies, indeed.  Curious.  Did Deciever and Everhungry's scions get lost?  And the untapped girl."
Apr 03 23:18:37 <Chase>	"Lost?" he glances back the way he came. "We're just looking around. We came here via an artifact that someone gave to us. Pretty convenient."
Apr 03 23:18:59 <Rosetta>	"I'm gonna go over and ask the people running the stable how much a Chocobo is or where else to get my own. Just come grab me if Chase gets back, yeah?"
Apr 03 23:19:13 »»	Rosetta trots over.
Apr 03 23:19:25 <zooftop>	Chase is pretty much right outside, mind you.
Apr 03 23:20:17 <Chase>	"I think they're just waiting on me to get back."
Apr 03 23:20:28 <zooftop>	But very well, there's a frogman (Hypello) at the stables. "Yessh?" he says as you approach him.
Apr 03 23:20:54 »»	Chase tries to wave Rosetta over as she passes, actually.
Apr 03 23:21:11 <Rosetta>	"Hey, do you just rent the chocobos, or do you sell them too? Or do you know where I could get one if you don't?" Rosetta bobs up and down on the balls of her feet.
Apr 03 23:21:19 »»	Chase scowls. >:|
Apr 03 23:22:34 <zooftop>	"We rent and shell, yesshh.  Feral Chocoboshhhh? Hrrrm, Near Limsha Lominsha, the beeachasesh.  Yesh.  Also Shuupuffsh."
Apr 03 23:23:03 <Chase>	"She just walked right by us. Sheez. Well, I'll go get the other two over here and caught up, if you like. Maybe Rose won't take too long."
Apr 03 23:23:11 <zooftop>	"A bird brain at heart, I see," The Nameless remarks as Gabriella wanders out of the tavern, and over to where Chase is standing.
Apr 03 23:23:22 <Rosetta>	"Shiny. How much do they sell for?"
Apr 03 23:23:25 »»	Chase was about to go get Gen and Gabby, in fact!
Apr 03 23:23:47 »»	Chase waves for Gen from the entrance anyway and heads back.
Apr 03 23:23:55 <zooftop>	"Two thoushand for a chicklett, 8 for an adult."
Apr 03 23:24:21 <zooftop>	A cute little Chocochick peeks its head out of the stables.
Apr 03 23:24:30 <Rosetta>	"Hrmm...." Rosetta stares.
Apr 03 23:24:30 ---»	Domovoi (Domo@sux-B9D9571C.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
Apr 03 23:24:41 <zooftop>	It's just
Apr 03 23:24:42 <zooftop>	so puffy
Apr 03 23:24:45 <zooftop>	and small
Apr 03 23:24:55 <zooftop>	Like a little Torchic that got a hell of a perm.
Apr 03 23:24:56 «---	Genevieve (Domo@sux-B9D9571C.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Quit (Ping timeout)
Apr 03 23:25:00 <Domovoi>	Genevieve gets up and walks outside to join Chase and Nameless.
Apr 03 23:25:03 »»	Domovoi is now known as Genevieve
Apr 03 23:25:11 »»	Rosetta starts counting the coins in Yanala's paycheck bag.
Apr 03 23:26:05 <Chase>	"Hey, Gen. Gabby. Turns out? We're not in another dimension but a galaxy far, far away."
Apr 03 23:26:17 <zooftop>	Yanala's pay is around 2500 gil.  http://www.ff-xiii.net/images/media/4e2a5cff_Final-Fantasy-XIII-Chocobo-Chick-High-Resolution-Artwork.jpg
Apr 03 23:26:54 <Rosetta>	"I-I'll...I'll be right back." Rosetta trots back to the others before spending most of their current cash.
Apr 03 23:27:24 <Chase>	"Rose, there you are. Say hi to the Nameless, guys."
Apr 03 23:27:39 <zooftop>	"Dr. Webb, if I recall," The Nameless nods to Gen, "And we have not met," she says to Gabriella.  "I am The Nameless.  One of the Eight." Gabriella, who is sorta not totally in the know how on these things yet, just nods for now.
Apr 03 23:27:59 <Rosetta>	"Oh. Hi! Ohhh...That's what was up with that Dragonite flying into the Crystal."
Apr 03 23:28:22 <Rosetta>	"I was wondering why it wasn't a card."
Apr 03 23:28:24 »»	Genevieve leans over to Gabby. "Like Everhungry or Deceiver, she's kind of a big deal."
Apr 03 23:30:16 »»	Chase repeats what the Nameless mentioned to him about the unown galactic slingshot to Rose
Apr 03 23:30:23 <zooftop>	"I had a little one to one with a very important being in this realm, to put it one way.  Arrangements were made to circumvent such conditions.  That said, as I just informed your good friend," She nods to Chase, "My staying here is not ideal.  I will be departing soon."
Apr 03 23:30:51 <Rosetta>	"Someone important here?"
Apr 03 23:30:54 <Chase>	"Yeah, Dragons are a Big Thing apparently."
Apr 03 23:31:07 <Rosetta>	"Ohh. Hey, that sorta makes sense. Fantasy world and all that."
Apr 03 23:31:55 <zooftop>	"Their equivalent to Bondye.  This said, I would, however, appreciate my own set of eyes and ears here, if you would be so willing.  While three of you are already sworn, you, are not," She looks to Rosetta.
Apr 03 23:32:25 <Chase>	"I think she's got Freedom and Inconsequence down right." he says, tongue in cheek.
Apr 03 23:33:18 <zooftop>	"She is indeed a prime canidate for my flock.  This is not exactly the time and place for formal ceremonies, but I can make a short term exchange." She unfolds her arms, and holds out a blue gemstone to Rosetta.
Apr 03 23:33:20 »»	Rosetta hops and looks around. "...Hey, you're right, I'm the only one not signed on with one of you." It takes her a moment's pause to realize what the Nameless is asking. "Oh wait, you meant I should be that eyes and ears." She points at herself.
Apr 03 23:34:22 »»	Rosetta takes it. "Right. Shiny. Uh, is it really this simple?" She tilts her head.
Apr 03 23:34:34 <zooftop>	"A piece of the Crystal.  Challening your desire to return home, when possessing this and near one of those," She points in the direction of the Aeitherite, "Should return you to our own realm."
Apr 03 23:34:50 <Chase>	"Oh shit, we really -would- have been stuck here, huh?"
Apr 03 23:35:12 <Chase>	He laughs kind of nervously at that. "Thanks, we owe you one."
Apr 03 23:35:15 <Rosetta>	"Would we have?" She tilts her head the other way.
Apr 03 23:35:22 <zooftop>	"Briefly.  I imagine The Crystal would have noticed you after a few days."
Apr 03 23:35:33 <Genevieve>	"Noticed? It's sentient?"
Apr 03 23:35:59 <Rosetta>	"Wait, so is the Crystal like some sort of god here?"
Apr 03 23:36:07 <zooftop>	She looks over to The Moogle, and says, "Earmuffs."  The Moogle Kupos and covers its ears.
Apr 03 23:36:22 <Rosetta>	"And a few days wouldn't have been so bad here, I guess."
Apr 03 23:37:27 <zooftop>	"The large Crystal you saw when you ventured here is this realm's equivalent to Arceus.  It is the all creator, and heart, of this world.  It is sentient and active on a way that Arceus is not.  I spoke with it briefly, and it permitted me entry for a short period."
Apr 03 23:38:11 <Rosetta>	"Wait, so does that mean it's choosing to turn Pokemon into cards when we come here?"
Apr 03 23:38:20 <zooftop>	"And while interesting, history is not why I was here.  But because of the assumption that Grant's actions are harming both this world, and our own."
Apr 03 23:38:27 <Rosetta>	"If it had to -let- you through."
Apr 03 23:39:10 <zooftop>	"Yes, Pokemon suddenly appearing on this realm would be extremely unsettling, as I understood."
Apr 03 23:39:25 <Rosetta>	"I guess I can understand that."
Apr 03 23:39:37 <Chase>	"Right, there's something called Null industries here... Likely something Grant is running, and we heard about an investigation into it... we'll be looking into that eventually."
Apr 03 23:40:18 <zooftop>	"But I do not have the time or abiility to understand the full metaphysics and challenges at hand here.  As such, we are fortionate that you mortals found a way to breach the gap as well."
Apr 03 23:40:30 <Chase>	"The universe sure is a damn complicated place, huh."
Apr 03 23:40:35 <Chase>	He nods.
Apr 03 23:40:39 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, we got a book that sucks us through into here."
Apr 03 23:40:42 <Rosetta>	"It's pretty cool."
Apr 03 23:40:56 <zooftop>	"When you do return home, I will seek you out to speak further," she says to Rosetta.  "Until then, it is best we leave this in your own hands."
Apr 03 23:41:25 <zooftop>	"The Crystal's primary fear is that us Outer Gods bear a striking resemblance in nature to something the mortals of this realm call the Primordials.  And nothing good comes of them."
Apr 03 23:42:11 <Rosetta>	"Sounds shiny. Uh, is there like...anything special I gotta do? Like fetch a bunch of fancy chocolate or whatever? Or are you just gonna talk to me through a necklace?" Rosetta owltilts.
Apr 03 23:43:15 <zooftop>	She taps the Moogle, singaling it can put its stubby little arms down.  "This is nothing contractual yet.  All I can ask is while you venture here, keep an eye out for our common enemies, and learn what they are up to."
Apr 03 23:43:28 <zooftop>	"It is probably best I myself depart for home now."
Apr 03 23:44:01 <Chase>	"I'm honestly kind of amused you of all people got tasked with being the sweetmonger." he says to Gabriella, grinning, trailing off of Rose's comment on the Everhungry.
Apr 03 23:44:11 »»	Rosetta nods. "Alrighty. Guess we should follow up on that investigator looking into Nul Industries sometime then."
Apr 03 23:44:16 <Chase>	"Alright, it was good seeing you."
Apr 03 23:44:34 <Genevieve>	"Shopping first?"
Apr 03 23:44:36 <zooftop>	"I try not to think much on it," Gabriella shudders.
Apr 03 23:45:07 <zooftop>	The Nameless gives a polite bow.  "May you walk in the light of the Crystal," and heads for the Aetherite.
Apr 03 23:45:39 <Chase>	"Shopping, huh? Okay, let's get some things set so we can budget ourselves."
Apr 03 23:46:01 <Rosetta>	"See ya. Right, about shopping." Rosetta hops to face everone else. "There's like...enough in this bag for me to buy a chocobo chick and still have a couple hundred left...So do you guys mind if...I mean we can just earn some quick cash, right?"
Apr 03 23:46:27 <Chase>	"We'll need 100 gil every time we visit, apparently, and that's also about the price of a decent meal for a person."
Apr 03 23:46:28 <Genevieve>	"Maybe we can earn cash and then split it. The birds aren't going anywhere."
Apr 03 23:46:55 <Chase>	"As long as we have those two basic things down I think we can more or less come and go and spend however."
Apr 03 23:47:19 <Rosetta>	"Okay, okay, let's get some extra spending money then."
Apr 03 23:47:31 <Chase>	"But yeah... earning more money doesn't sound half bad either. ...Maybe by helping out the investigator."
Apr 03 23:47:54 <Chase>	"Or hell, we could see how our fighting style matches up to this realm?"
Apr 03 23:48:10 <Chase>	He's gradually walking away from the moogle as he talks.
Apr 03 23:48:24 <zooftop>	Gabriella thinks on that. "I think Genevieve was onto something with the Pokemon battles.  Though I'll admit I'm curious too how folks here duke it out."
Apr 03 23:48:35 <Genevieve>	"Let's find out, then."
Apr 03 23:49:48 <zooftop>	"I get the feelin' there's soemthing real obvious to everyone here we aren't getting.  Like this Aethir stuff."
Apr 03 23:50:46 <Genevieve>	"Crystals."
Apr 03 23:50:48 <Rosetta>	"So the Colosseum first? Might as well swing by the shops and see a bit of what we'll be earning gil to buy, yeah?"
Apr 03 23:51:08 <Chase>	"Maybe we ought to do some reading up on this place sometime, then?"
Apr 03 23:51:45 <Rosetta>	"If we can bring some books back with us, that could help."
Apr 03 23:52:03 <Chase>	"That Thaumaturge's Guild place sounds like the place to go if we want to get info. Books don't judge you for not knowing basic things."
Apr 03 23:52:23 <Chase>	"But yeah, Colosseum or shops first."
Apr 03 23:53:52 <zooftop>	"At the very least we could not look like total bumbkins when we do meet this investigator, yeah." Gabby chimes in.
Apr 03 23:54:37 <Chase>	"Truth be told, we'd probably stick out less if we just spectated first." he murmurs. "But that's not as fun. The cards are probablky where we'd fit in more."
Apr 03 23:54:42 <zooftop>	So shops or collosseum in particular, guys?
Apr 03 23:55:13 <Genevieve>	Collo.
Apr 03 23:55:35 <Rosetta>	Colosseum. We'll hit the shops after we have more money.
Apr 03 23:55:45 <Chase>	Colosseum
Apr 03 23:56:06 <zooftop>	You guys poke around till you find the Collosseum, it's actually more a pit in the middle of the shopping districts, and folks can look down on it from the upper levels, right in the middle of their shopping.  There's a bit of a crowd at the moment, as it looks like a challenge is about to happen.
Apr 03 23:57:09 <zooftop>	Looking down in the pit you see a Human in white and blue armor, with a sword and shield, a cat-like woman in green and red robes, she carries a book and her headgear has a horn to it.
Apr 03 23:58:16 <zooftop>	There's also a Lalafell in black robes, a steeped hat, and his eyes have a yellow glow to them.  Probably something caused by the hat.  There's also a big, burly muscular figure that looks SOMEWHAT human, he's wearing white and red trimmed robes that Genevieve would notice Annette had on when Dream World stuff happened.
Apr 03 23:58:51 »»	Genevieve points at that guy. "Annette has robes like that here."
Apr 03 23:59:22 <zooftop>	A gate opens and a creature stomps on out...it has a Luxray-like head, and two other appendages that end in heads like an Ampharos and a Seviper.  It has wings like a Braviary, and a tail like a Drapion. http://images.gameskinny.com/gameskinny/3bebb71ef19d9f9ad7b0a7d2f2a89143.jpg
Apr 03 23:59:32 <zooftop>	The thing is huge, it's easily twice the size of a Salamence.
Apr 03 23:59:34 <Rosetta>	"Hmm, so that means he's either a doctor or does ghost-y stuff. And....I don't think that really looks ghosty."
Apr 03 23:59:37 <Chase>	"Bard, Scholar, Monk and Ninja..." he goes over what Jungo Lungo said about their team competition in a whisper. "What the hell's a scholar do with no pokemon?"
Apr 03 23:59:46 <Chase>	*composition
Apr 04 00:00:20 »»	Chase watches this creature closely. "Whoa."
Apr 04 00:00:29 <Rosetta>	"Oh that looks really cool. Maybe we could bring one of those back too eventually."
Apr 04 00:00:36 <zooftop>	Needless to say, this thing immediately charges at the group of four Adeventures.  The man with the shield meets its charge, and locks the creature in melee, blockings it blows and dodging left and right as it breaths lightning and fire and ice from its various heads.
Apr 04 00:00:40 <Genevieve>	"Please, I know everything." She looks down at the chimera. "Aw, what a cutie."
Apr 04 00:00:44 <zooftop>	Roll me Occult Edu, btw, guys
Apr 04 00:00:58 <Genevieve>	7d6+5
Apr 04 00:00:59 <Chase>	2d6-2
Apr 04 00:00:59 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, 7d6+5: 17 [7d6=1,2,2,1,1,1,4]
Apr 04 00:00:59 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, 2d6-2: 3 [2d6=2,3]
Apr 04 00:01:06 <Chase>	(Dicemaid)
Apr 04 00:01:08 <Rosetta>	4d6+1
Apr 04 00:01:09 <DiceMaid-9001>	Rosetta, 4d6+1: 12 [4d6=5,3,1,2]
Apr 04 00:01:18 <zooftop>	The little guy in the steeped hat starts to...rain fire, ice and thunder on this thing from afar, seemingly from its hands.  So not entirely like what an Elementalist would do, but much more varied.
Apr 04 00:02:00 <zooftop>	The hulkamaniac seems more focused on the knight, doing...something.  White wisps keep forming around the man as he takes blows.
Apr 04 00:02:07 <zooftop>	The catgirl, well, what she does is just fucking WEIRD.
Apr 04 00:03:07 <zooftop>	She seems to conjures up a creature like this out of thin air, and...she seems to not really do much obvious? http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130729072046/finalfantasy/images/a/a7/Garuda-Egi.jpg
Apr 04 00:03:18 <zooftop>	So as for what Gen and Rosetta can tell what's going on here...
Apr 04 00:03:35 <Rosetta>	(is it overtly similar to what Harbinger did?)
Apr 04 00:03:41 <zooftop>	(Yes)
Apr 04 00:04:03 <zooftop>	Okay, so far as you guys know, Elementalists, Psychics, Aura Users, that's all extensions of a person's relation to a Pokemon Type.  Things they don't really super 'magical' because of that, and how you understand your world.
Apr 04 00:04:19 »»	Rosetta grabs onto Gabby's for a moment. "Oh bondye it's like the creepy thing Harbinger did." She lets go once she realized what she did. "...Sorry."
Apr 04 00:04:28 <Rosetta>	*Gabby's arm
Apr 04 00:04:56 <zooftop>	What these guys are doing, is straight up magical hocus pocus.  The little guy is conjuring up elemental energies from seemingly nothing, the white robed one seems to be restoring vitality to the knight from nothing, and the knight's actions have a tinge of white, prismatic energy to them, obviously something occult or arcane
Apr 04 00:05:24 <Genevieve>	"Magic."
Apr 04 00:05:31 <Rosetta>	"Yeah. Weird."
Apr 04 00:05:35 <zooftop>	But the real confusing part is the cat girl, Rosetta, what you notice is...she seems to be forming a fist while looking at the various heads of this beast, and the beast seems to start to have trouble breathing.
Apr 04 00:06:10 <Rosetta>	"I'm not sure what she's doing there. Is she...force choking it?" Rosetta points.
Apr 04 00:06:18 <zooftop>	She's manipulating something you can't see, and it's causing this thing to move a lot slower, and strike much weaker, than it normally could.
Apr 04 00:06:30 <Chase>	"Galaxy far far away." he repeats.
Apr 04 00:07:10 <zooftop>	And in time, they fell the beast, in a manner that looks almost effortless to you.  The armored man walks away almost unscathed.  The crowd cheers, but in a way that makes it seem like this is...expected?
Apr 04 00:07:45 <Rosetta>	"Guess that kind of creature isn't that impressive after all around here." Rosetta scratches her head.
Apr 04 00:07:53 »»	Chase strokes his chin, watching. "How the -hell- are we going to fit in if we participate in something here? Come to think of it we may not want to attract you know who's attention."
Apr 04 00:07:55 <zooftop>	Gabby didn't seem to mind, Rosetta.  She seemed pretty tense too.  "That looked...way too easy.  It could probably take out half our Pokemon and leave us battered and bruised."
Apr 04 00:08:17 <zooftop>	"What the hell is the cutey with the bird thing doing anyway? Force choking? Like Darth Vader?"
Apr 04 00:08:37 <Chase>	"Maybe people are just -stronger- here? And Grant wants to take advantage of that?"
Apr 04 00:08:37 <Rosetta>	"That's what I said! Anyway, maybe we should stick to the card games?"
Apr 04 00:08:54 <Genevieve>	"Well, we have this gear, right? Seems like we must be high level. Maybe we have abilities here that we wouldn't in our own world."
Apr 04 00:09:06 <zooftop>	"This is really scary.  He's smuggling these sorta monsters to our side, isn't he?"
Apr 04 00:09:24 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, he is."
Apr 04 00:09:32 <Genevieve>	"Maybe we just snap our fingers and bam, lightning bolt." She snaps her fingers.
Apr 04 00:09:37 <Chase>	"And in comparison, our little pocket monsters... seems like a kid's card game." he says, trailing off.
Apr 04 00:09:53 <Chase>	"That's almost kind of disheartening."
Apr 04 00:09:58 <zooftop>	1d100
Apr 04 00:09:58 <DiceMaid-9001>	zooftop, 1d100: 32 [1d100=32]
Apr 04 00:10:13 <zooftop>	There's a flutter of energy as something almost appears next to Gen's hands, but doesn't.
Apr 04 00:10:22 <Rosetta>	"Wait, do that again."
Apr 04 00:11:09 <Genevieve>	"I really didn't expect that to work, hold on."
Apr 04 00:11:13 <zooftop>	Something with wings, little specks of pink dust settle after its done.
Apr 04 00:11:48 »»	Rosetta touches a finger to her tattoo out of curiosity and tries to draw up a bit of electricity into her hands.
Apr 04 00:11:51 »»	Genevieve concentrates and tries to will it to work when she snaps her fingers again. "Maybe like using D.C.'s power, but different."
Apr 04 00:13:05 <zooftop>	Something forms...very briefly, an outline of something, lots of pink colors, but it can't really hold its form and fades after a few seconds.  Roll me Pokemon Education
Apr 04 00:14:04 <Chase>	3d6 TWO MORE AP why not
Apr 04 00:14:04 <zooftop>	Well, you can still use your Hidden Power, Rosetta, how it manifests isn't -much- different.  In fact given your Occult Education roll, what shorstuff was doing in the arena isn't far off from Hidden Power either.
Apr 04 00:14:04 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, TWO MORE AP why not: 10 [3d6=6,1,3]
Apr 04 00:14:28 <Genevieve>	6d6+5 I swear
Apr 04 00:14:28 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, I swear: 20 [6d6=6,2,1,2,2,2]
Apr 04 00:14:49 <zooftop>	Sorta looked like a Mew with Butterfree wings, Genevieve.  Just not quite there.
Apr 04 00:15:14 <Genevieve>	"Weird."
Apr 04 00:15:19 <Chase>	"So yeah, looks like actually fighting's out of the question. Cards it is."
Apr 04 00:15:28 »»	Chase looks over at Gen and Rose. "...huh."
Apr 04 00:15:49 <Genevieve>	"I'll get it. Cards though."
Apr 04 00:16:23 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, maybe there's some sorta guide that tells me what I'm supposed to be able to do as a ninja, but my rune master abilities seem mostly intact."
Apr 04 00:17:11 <Genevieve>	"Just go fast."
Apr 04 00:17:37 <zooftop>	"Maybe things we can do are more relatable than we think...but yeah we're missing something, I think," Gabriella seems to be meditating on something herself, but Disciple stuff is less apparant.  As for shopping...
Apr 04 00:18:00 <zooftop>	Well shit there's a lot for sale here.  Weapons, armors, fancy accessories, and tons of raw components, monster parts and materials you haven't seen on Earth.
Apr 04 00:19:19 <Chase>	Raw components, you say?
Apr 04 00:19:53 <Chase>	Those and 'accessories for bards' are relevant to Chase's interests here, probably.
Apr 04 00:22:44 <zooftop>	Funny enough a lot of the bardic accessories and jewelry, least according to the goldsmiths selling them, use Amethysts.
Apr 04 00:22:48 <zooftop>	Which matches your necklace.
Apr 04 00:23:16 <Chase>	Very interesting ideed
Apr 04 00:23:32 <zooftop>	There's monster parts of all varieties, hides, bones, organs, something called Cactaur Piss
Apr 04 00:24:21 <zooftop>	Needless to say there's a lot of stuff you could look to purchase, and the Alchemy these people do, looks really similar to the type YOU are familiar with.
Apr 04 00:24:38 <Chase>	Can totally handle that part off screen then.
Apr 04 00:25:39 <zooftop>	As for the Thaumaturge Guild, you guys pass by it while shopping.  Looks like a library on the outside, and has a ton of Lalafell and Moggles inside.  Seems short guys favor magic.
Apr 04 00:28:33 <Genevieve>	"Neat." She pokes her head inside. "Hello?"
Apr 04 00:30:33 »»	Chase heads in as well.
Apr 04 00:30:52 »»	Rosetta follows along, though fluff chocochicks are still on her mind.
Apr 04 00:31:06 <zooftop>	Inside you find a neat little library, and an open space near the back that looks like a dueling grounds.  A paleskinned Lalafell in a dark colored hooded robe looks up from a book, then hops down from his chair to greet you.  "Greetings, I'm Cocobuki, the Thaumaturge Guildmaster."
Apr 04 00:32:04 <Genevieve>	"I'm Doctor Webb, nice to meet you. Would it be possible to find a beastiary here?"
Apr 04 00:33:43 <Chase>	"Actually, is it alright if we use the library in general, too?"
Apr 04 00:34:31 <zooftop>	"A beastiary?  Yes, several.  Though I don't think there's a singular, comprehensive volumne..." He leads you to a row of books, pushing a ladder along as he goes, and collects some.  "They tend to be broken down by categories.  Dangerous fauna, beasts, voidspawn, and even studies on Beastmen, if you also consider them topics worthy of a beastiary."
Apr 04 00:34:45 <zooftop>	"Of course," he answers Chase.
Apr 04 00:35:20 »»	Rosetta makes a bit of a face upon stepping in to a LIBRARY, but tries not to stand out or make a scene.
Apr 04 00:35:45 <Genevieve>	"Of course. I try to study anything worth knowing."
Apr 04 00:36:06 <zooftop>	"You really dread home that much huh?" Gabriella teases Rosetta.
Apr 04 00:36:30 <Rosetta>	"Maybe a little."
Apr 04 00:36:40 »»	Chase nudges Rosetta. "You can probably go get that chick if you want. We probably have enough money." he says, before heading in.
Apr 04 00:37:17 <zooftop>	"Mhm, a Scholar at heart, I can see.  Our library hosts topics that are mostly relevant to magic practitioners, especially those who adventure, but there are history books sprinkled here and there," Cocobuki says to Gen.
Apr 04 00:37:39 <Rosetta>	"Shiny. Yeah, you guys have fun with all the books and the reading and stuff. Lemme know when you find stuff we gotta get familiar with."
Apr 04 00:38:29 <Genevieve>	"Yeah yeah, go get your bird."
Apr 04 00:38:57 »»	Chase isn't the most BOOK SAVVY dude but he quietly looks around for a catalogue or something - the history books are probably more pertinent than anything, but if he happens to see something that talks about BARDIC MAGIC that might be interesting to look at as well.
Apr 04 00:39:06 <zooftop>	"I'll go with her to make sure she doesn't get kidnapped by Moogles or something," Gabriella adds.
Apr 04 00:39:20 <Chase>	"Perfect. Have fun, you two."
Apr 04 00:40:06 »»	Rosetta dashes back off toward the stables.
Apr 04 00:40:56 <zooftop>	Chase, you dig around and find a big book called 'Through the Astral Eras', can't really find something on Bards.  Cocobuki, if asked, has the following to say, "Skalds and entertainers tend to carry on their lineage through performance, it's mostly word of mouth."
Apr 04 00:42:27 <Genevieve>	"We recently had a run-in with a little green guy. Had a lantern. Where could I find something about that?"
Apr 04 00:43:52 »»	Chase flips through this Astral Eras book, then!
Apr 04 00:44:29 <zooftop>	"A run-in with a Tonberry?" Cocobuki seems really surprised by that.  "You make it sound as if this was outside the ruins of Nym.  That is indeed unusual.  The...book I gave you on Beastmen should help, as well as Through the Astral Eras.  Their lineage falls in an unfortionately hard to categorize spot."
Apr 04 00:45:13 <Genevieve>	"I suppose he did call himself that."
Apr 04 00:48:04 <Genevieve>	"Think we should split for a bit, Bardo? We can meet with the girls and grab dinner or go home."
Apr 04 00:48:26 <zooftop>	This book is broken down into several eras, Chase.  The earliest talks about the formation of the world itself, life, Gods the books calls 'The Twelve.'  They seem to be the Gods most the people around here would worship.  Each era has an Astral, and Umbral part to it.  Astrals seem to be positive things happening, Umbral is when shit hit the fan.
Apr 04 00:49:44 <zooftop>	Gen's books have a ton of documentation on the biological and magical capabilities of lifeforms, and the beastmen one talks a lot about their cultures and motivations as well.  Beastmen, far as she can tell from a first glance, is a term for 'savage' races.
Apr 04 00:49:57 <Chase>	He looks up. "I don't know if they just let anyone borrow their books..." though he does get an idea and snaps a few pics with his phone. It probably doesn't seem to do anything that the mages would be aware of so he doesn't imagine they'd mind. And they can always come back to look at this again later, too.
Apr 04 00:50:24 <zooftop>	Gabby and Rosetta make their way back over to the stables, where the frogman is still on duty.  "Ah, hello again!" he says to you.
Apr 04 00:50:44 <Rosetta>	"Hi! Okay, I think I'll take a chocobo chick. Do they come in any other colors, or just yellow?"
Apr 04 00:51:15 <Chase>	"But yeah, I think we found what we were looking for."
Apr 04 00:51:25 <zooftop>	"Different colorsh very rare!  Moshtly yellow."
Apr 04 00:51:29 <Chase>	"Getting back sounds good."
Apr 04 00:51:35 <zooftop>	Gabriella seems to have a hard time taking him seriously.
Apr 04 00:52:12 <zooftop>	The chocochick from earlier pokes its head out again, chirping as it tilts its head left and right.
Apr 04 00:52:18 <Rosetta>	"Oh. I guess yellow will have to do then. Anything I should know about taking care of them?" Rosetta bounces up and down as she counts out the coins.
Apr 04 00:53:17 <zooftop>	"They eat greensh, and need room to run to grow shtrong!  Very friendly birdsh, natural mountsh."
Apr 04 00:53:48 <Rosetta>	"That sounds easy, just feed them veggies." Rosetta nods along.
Apr 04 00:54:26 <zooftop>	Gabriella has a different thing in mind... "Hey Rose, how you gonna get it home?"
Apr 04 00:54:50 <zooftop>	Once you pay the Hypello, he lets you take your pick of the chicks.
Apr 04 00:54:52 <Rosetta>	"Um, I was gonna try one of these." Rosetta pulls out one of the blank poke ball cards.
Apr 04 00:55:03 <Genevieve>	"This Beastmen thing seems a wee bit racist. Harbinger's a dick, regardless."
Apr 04 00:56:04 <zooftop>	"Yeah was thinking that but probably wanna try that in an allyway or something, would be weird for folks to just see out of nowhere I bet," Gabriella memntions.
Apr 04 00:56:25 <Rosetta>	"Uh huh." Rosetta is looking over the chicks.
Apr 04 00:57:33 <zooftop>	There's five of em here.  One's the curious one, one's rather aggressive - like a Torchic would be, another looks a bit lazy and nappish, a forth is shy, and a fifth is trying to chase its own little ruffletail.
Apr 04 00:58:02 <Chase>	He's very quiet while talking to Gen in case people overhear them - it is a library after all. "It's a pretty common historical  trend to dehumanize your enemy. Especially if they, well, aren't the same race as you and your friends I guess. Doesn't make it right but there's not really much that can be done about it either, and I bet they aren't friendly regardless."
Apr 04 00:58:21 <Rosetta>	"Which one, which one?" Rosetta says to herself as she looks over them.
Apr 04 00:59:14 <Genevieve>	"I suppose. That's like calling Junior a primitive, though."
Apr 04 01:00:07 »»	Rosetta reaches a hand down to the curious one.
Apr 04 01:00:14 <zooftop>	"You only get to pick once, Rosetta.  No take backs, nuh uh.  Can't ever come back for another one."
Apr 04 01:00:54 <Rosetta>	"Gabby, stahp." Rosetta whines.
Apr 04 01:01:00 <zooftop>	It Kwehs and hops on into your palm.  It's not much bigger than Trilloby was as a Natu.
Apr 04 01:01:45 <Rosetta>	"...I can't put it back now. So I guess I'm taking this one."
Apr 04 01:02:22 <zooftop>	"If you wear it like a hat, Trilloby might test if it can catfall too," Gabriella teases as you scoop up the Chocobo chick.
Apr 04 01:03:06 <Rosetta>	"Trilloby's too big now to lay claim to my headspace now, so he can deal."
Apr 04 01:03:33 »»	Chase looks through as much of the book as he can before closing it up, putting it back, and probably heading back towards the Guild, thanking the Thaumaturges on the way out.
Apr 04 01:04:02 <Chase>	(Though the current age was probably most relevant)
Apr 04 01:04:39 <zooftop>	This is currently the 7th Astral Era.
Apr 04 01:05:46 <zooftop>	Gabriella thanks the Hypello as you guys wrap up buying the bird. By that time Gen and Chase aren't far off.
Apr 04 01:06:12 <Genevieve>	"Collo then? You got your bird or whatever?"
Apr 04 01:06:53 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, hold on, I need to find somewhere outta view." Rosetta hops in place and looks around for an alley or similar, then heads there.
Apr 04 01:07:27 <Chase>	He accompanies her, not really seeing a reason to split up again.
Apr 04 01:07:35 <Chase>	"So all in all this has been a pretty interesting trip."
Apr 04 01:08:10 <zooftop>	There's plenty of allyways you could hop into real quick to do this, Rosetta.
Apr 04 01:08:19 »»	Rosetta pulls out the blank poke ball card once she's there, not entirely sure what to do. "So uh, hm." She holds it out to the chocochick.
Apr 04 01:08:36 <zooftop>	There's a little button-like intent near the bottom, like a Pokeball has.
Apr 04 01:08:41 <zooftop>	indent*
Apr 04 01:08:49 »»	Rosetta nudges it lightly with the card, trying to get it to hop on.
Apr 04 01:09:02 »»	Rosetta presses the button then.
Apr 04 01:09:06 <Chase>	Out of random curiosity
Apr 04 01:09:08 <zooftop>	It does so, pressing the button down...and the chick glows as its captured, much like a Pokeball.
Apr 04 01:09:12 <Chase>	What does a blank Master Ball look like?
Apr 04 01:09:16 <zooftop>	The blank card gains a face - of a little Chocobo chick.
Apr 04 01:09:24 <Rosetta>	"Oh that's adorable."
Apr 04 01:09:30 »»	Rosetta presses the button again.
Apr 04 01:09:38 <Chase>	"Just don't try and play that in the card games."
Apr 04 01:09:49 <zooftop>	It's black with red lining, Chase.
Apr 04 01:09:56 »»	Genevieve works on her fairy magic while she waits, mostly making faces and pointing at the back of Chase's head.
Apr 04 01:10:07 <Chase>	"If they don't actually have a chocobo card then you'll probably get accused of cheating."
Apr 04 01:10:14 <zooftop>	The Chocobo comes back out!  Much like a Pokeball.
Apr 04 01:10:49 <Rosetta>	"Amazing. And uh, what do you think they'll think of FOVs and Pokemon with changed types?"
Apr 04 01:11:10 <zooftop>	1d100
Apr 04 01:11:11 <DiceMaid-9001>	zooftop, 1d100: 52 [1d100=52]
Apr 04 01:11:25 »»	Chase of course, has his back turned so he totally doesn't notice.
Apr 04 01:11:37 <zooftop>	Nothing really happens that bugs Chase.
Apr 04 01:11:39 <Chase>	"Type shifts... I bet they exist as rarer cards."
Apr 04 01:12:27 <zooftop>	Gabriella hrms, takes out one of her own cards, and taps it.  Out comes a Hawlucha, just like out of a Pokeball.  "LUCHAAAA" she immediately returns the loud bird.  "Oh, shit, didn't expect that."
Apr 04 01:12:36 <zooftop>	"That's a bit different than the ones these guys seem to purchase..."
Apr 04 01:12:38 <Chase>	"...whoa shit what?"
Apr 04 01:12:49 <Chase>	"We -can- call our pokemon here?" he blinks at that.
Apr 04 01:12:52 <zooftop>	"Well I just realized none of us had -tried- releasing our Pokemon."
Apr 04 01:13:04 <Chase>	"...huh."
Apr 04 01:13:09 <Rosetta>	"That's not what happened when I tried with ZODIAC before."
Apr 04 01:13:22 <Chase>	"Well, you were doing funny dream world stuff too, weren't you?"
Apr 04 01:13:23 <Genevieve>	"What happened before?"
Apr 04 01:13:34 »»	Genevieve does some hocus pocus wizard hand motions.
Apr 04 01:13:35 <Rosetta>	"He turned into a hologram thing and glared at me."
Apr 04 01:13:37 <zooftop>	"Maybe it's cause he's an Unown? I dunno."
Apr 04 01:13:55 <zooftop>	1d100
Apr 04 01:13:56 <DiceMaid-9001>	zooftop, 1d100: 48 [1d100=48]
Apr 04 01:14:01 <zooftop>	Still nothing.
Apr 04 01:14:11 »»	Rosetta pulls out ZODIAC's card and taps at it.
Apr 04 01:15:03 <zooftop>	ZODIAC appears much like the cards you saw people playing with, more like a 3D hologram of its normal appearance.  It's clearly released, and acts like ZODIAC would, but appears differently.
Apr 04 01:15:14 <zooftop>	And by acting like ZODIAC, I mean it glares at Rosetta
Apr 04 01:15:29 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, see? Hologram."
Apr 04 01:16:18 <Chase>	"...so can we -not- do the hologram thing? That seems like it might be problematic if we try to play cards."
Apr 04 01:16:19 <Genevieve>	"Unown aren't exactly native Pokemon, though. Yours in particular."
Apr 04 01:16:44 »»	Chase takes out Haydn's card and hrms at it.
Apr 04 01:16:48 <Rosetta>	"I guess, it's just weird cause when I tried pulling an Unown outta my tattoo here, it came out real."
Apr 04 01:16:53 <Genevieve>	"Go-Go Magic Magic!"
Apr 04 01:17:49 »»	Rosetta reaches out and sees if she can actually touch ZODIAC like this.
Apr 04 01:18:19 <zooftop>	Oh he's touchable, Rosetta.  Just appears differently, really.
Apr 04 01:18:28 <Rosetta>	"Huh, okay maybe it's just looks."
Apr 04 01:18:38 <zooftop>	And has a different texture, more...liquid-like.
Apr 04 01:19:34 »»	Genevieve checks for the ruby. "Maybe it's the crystals. Like a focus."
Apr 04 01:19:41 <Rosetta>	"Okay, enough of that." Rosetta returns ZODIAC.
Apr 04 01:20:28 »»	Chase lays the card flat on his hand and tries tapping the picture or hrming. - He'll probably just have to try watching other people do it later.
Apr 04 01:20:47 <zooftop>	Haydn comes out as normal, Chase.  He seems really confused where the hell this is, though.
Apr 04 01:20:59 <Chase>	Not the button, the picture. He wasn't really trying to release Haydn.
Apr 04 01:21:05 <Chase>	Just messing with the card, really.
Apr 04 01:21:33 <zooftop>	Oh, misunderstood - sorry
Apr 04 01:21:36 <Chase>	If nothing happens, he'll figure out the trick later on a return trip.
Apr 04 01:22:10 <Chase>	"So, we had enough fun? Ready to get going?" he grins.
Apr 04 01:22:59 <zooftop>	"This place is confusing as shit.  Gonna be hard as hell to keep focused on the fact we got enemies here with so many...things to explore," Gabby scratches her head.
Apr 04 01:23:06 <Rosetta>	"Yeah, I guess. We should uh, figure out how we can actually fight the monsters here though. I doubt we'll make any headway against Grant's foothold here without that."
Apr 04 01:23:26 <Chase>	"We can basically come back whenever. We can split our cash, and if we really need money then I guess we can stock up on potions and antidotes at home before coming back."
Apr 04 01:23:27 <Rosetta>	"Like, without Pokemon, cause that'd attract a lot of attention if people saw us using real Pokemon."
Apr 04 01:23:52 <Chase>	"With subtlety, not strength, is how. I doubt the investigator wants to kick their door in either."
Apr 04 01:24:10 »»	Genevieve takes out two cards, Newton and Wheeler, pokes the two together without hitting the release.
Apr 04 01:24:47 <zooftop>	Hahahaha.
Apr 04 01:24:50 <Rosetta>	"That's not gonna stop us from having to face a monster like that one we saw in the arena -sometime- probably. All it takes is getting caught once."
Apr 04 01:25:15 <Chase>	"Then we bust out everything we got."
Apr 04 01:25:17 <zooftop>	Gen got it.  They come out looking like 3d Holograms.  Newton barking and Wheeler looking tough and ready to fight...then they realize something's weird about themselves.
Apr 04 01:25:30 <Rosetta>	"..."
Apr 04 01:25:37 <Chase>	"Oh hey, you figured it out."
Apr 04 01:27:09 <Genevieve>	"Shh, don't worry guys, it's just magic or something. Just act natural."
Apr 04 01:27:22 <Genevieve>	"Was it not obvious?"
Apr 04 01:27:38 <Rosetta>	"Not really no." Rosetta shakes her head.
Apr 04 01:27:49 <Chase>	"I was thinking you tap the card or say a command word or something, not just poking the battling cards together."
Apr 04 01:27:50 <zooftop>	Gabriella seems a bit surprised. "You know, when we come back I'm gonna buy a booster pack.  I think something's -different- about what everyone else has but us."
Apr 04 01:28:15 <Chase>	"Probably, yeah."
Apr 04 01:28:34 <Chase>	"Like I said earlier, all of ours ended up with these special first edition marks and whatnot."
Apr 04 01:28:44 <Chase>	"So the rest are probably something else entirely."
Apr 04 01:29:39 »»	Chase starts heading back to the Aetherite crystal
Apr 04 01:30:22 <Genevieve>	"Knock offs. If they're cards, maybe he's got a printing press set up."
Apr 04 01:31:02 <Rosetta>	"What's he putting into them? Maybe it's like what that video game girl is. Or they're somehow Unown shaped into this stuff." Rosetta shrugs.
Apr 04 01:31:32 <Rosetta>	"Anyway, let's see if we can figure out for next time what sorta abilities we should have based on these." Rosetta tugs at her ninja out.
Apr 04 01:31:59 <zooftop>	When you guys get back, you exchange some Gil with the guard and he hands back Gen's Great Ball.  He also remarks "You know, I noticed something odd about that card.  I thought it was simply a blank one they use to write leves on.  What's up with the button?"
Apr 04 01:33:43 <Genevieve>	"Hm? Oh, you know, prototype model."
Apr 04 01:34:23 <zooftop>	He hrms over that, and shrugs.  What's he know he's a town guard who collects revenue from people who use the teleporter.
Apr 04 01:34:44 »»	Chase waves and gets set to go.
Apr 04 01:35:06 <zooftop>	Using the crystal chunk The Nameless gave you is quite easy, while standing near it and imagining being back on your boat...you all start to glow blue, and poof away.  A few seconds later, you find yourselves back in the room by the book.
Apr 04 01:35:17 <Chase>	"Kick ass."
Apr 04 01:35:31 »»	Rosetta reaches in her pocket where she put the chocochick card.
Apr 04 01:35:54 <zooftop>	It's a Pokeball now.
Apr 04 01:36:13 <Rosetta>	"Okay, cool, that worked then I think." Rosetta taps it.
Apr 04 01:36:32 <zooftop>	Gabriella blinks, and thinks on that. "So if we take over Pokeballs, they turn into cards..."  Chocochick pops out, and kweh's!
Apr 04 01:36:41 <zooftop>	It starts to scamper around the new surroundings, curious as ever.
Apr 04 01:36:59 <zooftop>	"The Unowns react weird to it no matter what.  Tapping the cards together makes them act like the ones they got do."
Apr 04 01:37:03 <Chase>	"That is adorable."
Apr 04 01:37:15 <Rosetta>	"H-hey, be careful. But have fun." Rosetta gets to releasing some of her other birds to help watch over chocochick.
Apr 04 01:37:19 »»	Chase nods at Gabby, taking this in so far.
Apr 04 01:37:32 <Rosetta>	"I wonder what happens if you buy a booster pack like you plan, then bring it back over."
Apr 04 01:37:36 <zooftop>	"Grant's guys had cards on this side.  They must be making Pokeballs on that side?"
Apr 04 01:37:55 <Chase>	"You think it works in reverse like that?"
Apr 04 01:38:02 <Rosetta>	"Oh right, yeah, they did. But why bother?"
Apr 04 01:38:03 <zooftop>	"I dunno, I'm just guessing."
Apr 04 01:38:18 <Rosetta>	"If the poke balls we bring over still work to capture things when they're cards."
Apr 04 01:38:19 <Chase>	"I thought Nameless said it was something the crystal did... but that could be true too, we don't really have a clue at this point."
Apr 04 01:38:41 <Chase>	"Guess we keep investigating!"
Apr 04 01:38:42 <Genevieve>	"We'll figure it out. And then we'll tear down Grant's factory over there and kick him out."
Apr 04 01:39:22 <Rosetta>	"Shit, do you think that video game girl is just some crazy adventurer Grant managed to suck through a portal back to here?"
Apr 04 01:39:31 <zooftop>	Chocochick is soon introduced to a ton of Flying Type Pokemon, that all stare at it with awe and admiration.  The damn thing is pretty cute.
Apr 04 01:39:47 <Chase>	"I think she's a crazy dream world demon thing no matter what planet she's on."
Apr 04 01:40:37 <Chase>	"What she did was way different than what they did."
Apr 04 01:41:12 <Chase>	"That said I'd be surprised if she didn't have some sort of connection over there."
Apr 04 01:41:27 <Genevieve>	"If the Unown just slingshot through creation, I think Celia is from another sector."
Apr 04 01:41:29 <Rosetta>	"Well, we only saw a few of them fight. Let's see, there's still some outfits I remember from our call with Octavia which we haven't seen there, yeah?"
Apr 04 01:41:39 <Genevieve>	"Man, I guess the universe just got way bigger."
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Apr 04 01:43:08 <zooftop>	"Yeah you guys gotta be -waaaay- careful with this thing...I'll keep my mouth shut, but this thing is sort of a huge deal."
Apr 04 01:43:15 <zooftop>	"And the big question is where the hell did it -come from-"
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Apr 04 01:43:47 <Rosetta>	"I dunno, where did Pi say she found this again?" Rosetta turns to Gen and Chase.
Apr 04 01:44:12 »»	zooftop Gabriella shrugs, not wanting to think on this too hard, and watches the birds play with the Chocobo chick.
Apr 04 01:44:50 <Genevieve>	"A shipwreck, right?"
Apr 04 01:44:53 <Chase>	"A sunken ship, I think."
Apr 04 01:45:04 <Rosetta>	"We should maybe look into that, yeah?"
Apr 04 01:45:29 <Rosetta>	"I mean, we can borrow a sub again."
Apr 04 01:46:21 <Chase>	"She said she found it a few years ago and a skeleton was holding on to it, so either way. I wonder if the wreck is still there..."
Apr 04 01:47:23 <Chase>	He nods at Gabby though. "Appreciate you being generally quiet about this. There's definitely a few people we can trust with this but the less who know, probably the less chance of a leak."
Apr 04 01:47:57 <Genevieve>	"That last thing we need is Grant figuring out that we can get in and out of there, too."
Apr 04 01:48:03 <Chase>	"I mean it'd be super funny to take selfies all over Eorza or wherever and send them to Octavia like she did Saryx but I don't think it'd work out well for our secrecy."
Apr 04 01:48:22 <Genevieve>	"Speaking of which."
Apr 04 01:48:44 »»	Genevieve texts Octavia a picture of her standing between unconscious Harbinger and Tialoc with the caption "Wish you were here!"
Apr 04 01:50:24 <Chase>	1d8
Apr 04 01:50:25 <DiceMaid-9001>	Chase, 1d8: 6 [1d8=6]
Apr 04 01:52:17 <Rosetta>	"So, uh, who do we tell? I don't think we should keep this from Kent. Or the others in the Keepers Cult."
Apr 04 01:52:28 <Chase>	"Yeah, they're fine."
Apr 04 01:52:52 <Chase>	"I mean, use your own judgement here, but don't just go telling everyone."
Apr 04 01:53:03 <zooftop>	Octavia replies an hour or two from when you send that, so I'll mention her retort later.
Apr 04 01:55:35 <Rosetta>	"Maybe I should catch a cute cat monster for Dahlia next time we're in." Rosetta hrms to herself.
Apr 04 01:55:45 <zooftop>	Either way, aside from Rosetta and Gabirella playing with Chocochick, and the things you guys have to ponder after that little adventure, (I feel I should mention time passed normally), I think it's about time for </session>