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  1. Apr 14 20:31:18 <~zoofman> Okay, so
  2. Apr 14 20:33:05 <~zoofman> After gathering your stuff, you two picked out two species in particular to try to hunt - Behemoth, and Chimera.
  3. Apr 14 20:33:54 <~zoofman> Maybe this had to do with the fact that you noticed they resided in the same local - The Highlands of Coerthas, maybe it didn't, but either way you had a pretty long trip ahead of you.
  4. Apr 14 20:36:19 <~zoofman> From Uld'ah, you would need to pass through the desert region known as Thalalan until you reached the swamplands of Mor Dohna. After that, you'd come across a township called Revenent's Toll. The town seemed to be both ran, settled, and under construction by Adventurers. The place was packed with veterans and rookies alike, and those catering to their needs.
  5. Apr 14 20:37:24 <~zoofman> There was also an Aethirite Crystal here, which you were able to attune to, so a return trip on foot wouldn't be required. I imagine, to facilitate this travel, you two rented Chocobos to travel there.
  6. Apr 14 20:38:24 <Rosetta> Of course we rented Chocobos. Rosetta may have even deliberately chosen a further away to find monster just to have an excuse to rent Chocobos.
  7. Apr 14 20:40:09 <~zoofman> We'll start your adventure today in the township of Revenant's Toll. The town is very much a little fortress, bunkered between several mountain ranges with large walls to defend it, and plenty of able bodied Adventurers and guards to defend it. This said, it's also a very lively place - with plenty of street venders, countless taverns booming with the sound of celebration, and more quiet places for research as well.
  8. Apr 14 20:40:49 <~zoofman> Tons of construction is going on here as well. All in all, it took you about four hours to get here via Chocobo. When you arrived, the Chocobo Porter asked you to leave your birds with him.
  9. Apr 14 20:41:42 <~zoofman> The things are pretty fun rides - you imagine it'd be like riding a Dodrio, but as fast and strong as a Rapidash. They also have rather quirky sounds and gestures, and show pretty uncanny intelligence.
  10. Apr 14 20:44:53 <Rosetta> Rosetta is wishing her own Chocobo would grow up faster now. :>
  11. Apr 14 20:44:54 »» Chase is in a pretty good mood once they arrive! "Nice kind of place, even if it does have a kind ominous name." he says. "I guess we should start gathering some information."
  12. Apr 14 20:45:35 <Rosetta> "Well, we know about where to go to find these monsters, yeah?"
  13. Apr 14 20:46:12 <~zoofman> Based on the directions you recieved, Coerthas is just north of Revenant's Toll
  14. Apr 14 20:46:57 <Chase> "Yeah, I was just thinking we could pinpoint things a bit, maybe. If you want to just jet into the field then we may as well get underway."
  15. Apr 14 20:47:40 <Rosetta> "It wouldn't hurt to ask for some tips on handling them, but what if someone wants to come along and help? We kinda have to keep this on the down low if we're using our Pokemon."
  16. Apr 14 20:48:10 <Chase> "Yeah, suppose you're right..." He starts heading through the city and looks for the gate north.
  17. Apr 14 20:49:37 <~zoofman> From what you understand, Revenant's Toll is a bastion in the middle of a very, very tarnished land. You saw countless fields with crystals, growing from the land itself like a cancer. And one very, very large one in the distance - to the point it more resembled a tower.
  18. Apr 14 20:50:14 <~zoofman> You also noticed a giant airship crashed into the landscape, with the skeleton of a serpent coiled around it. http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130803054848/finalfantasy/images/thumb/c/c8/Mor_Dhona_ARR_01.jpg/1000px-Mor_Dhona_ARR_01.jpg
  19. Apr 14 20:50:49 <Chase> That was basically what Hildibrand described, corrupted Aither or something, right?
  20. Apr 14 20:50:56 <~zoofman> Yes, it was
  21. Apr 14 20:51:05 <~zoofman> As you approach the North Gate, you see snow in the distance.
  22. Apr 14 20:52:27 »» Chase lets out a low whistle as he sees this shit.
  23. Apr 14 20:53:05 <~zoofman> Honestly it's like they built this city in the middle of a wasteland.
  24. Apr 14 20:53:49 <Rosetta> "Who in their right mind would wanna put a city here? Not that I'm complaining. It's good to have a point we can warp back from using the crystal."
  25. Apr 14 20:54:15 <Chase> "I'm guessing it's kind of like a united front for adventurers taking the fight out here."
  26. Apr 14 20:54:38 <Chase> "It'd almost be impossible to do that without some kind of base to fall back on."
  27. Apr 14 20:55:18 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I can see that. So what do we know about tracking these things down?"
  28. Apr 14 20:55:49 <Chase> That was part of why Chase wanted to ask around a little! But maybe we already did that research with Hildibrand?
  29. Apr 14 20:56:41 <Rosetta> I figured it'd have been in the books somewhere.
  30. Apr 14 20:57:06 <~zoofman> Behemoths and Chimeras are both very dominant, top-of-the-foodchain carnivors in these parts. There's a location they are known to reside at, away from people, but still close enough to come down from the hills and kill a lamb or two to drag back for dinner.
  31. Apr 14 20:57:57 <Chase> "Basically we just gotta keep an eye out for things they'd like to make a snack of."
  32. Apr 14 20:58:53 <Chase> "If we're close enough to their nesting grounds then it's just a matter of waiting."
  33. Apr 14 20:59:10 <Rosetta> "They're pretty big. Can't imagine they're gonna be hard to see, even from a distance."
  34. Apr 14 20:59:14 <~zoofman> As you two make your way into the snowy lands of Coerthas, it starts to remind you a lot of the mountain range of Shiverwing.
  35. Apr 14 20:59:30 <~zoofman> It's got a lot of tall, tall mountains around it, snowy plains, and forests scattered throughout.
  36. Apr 14 20:59:45 <~zoofman> That said, unlike those mountains, it also has roads.
  37. Apr 14 21:00:30 <~zoofman> So you guys are going to camp out near their nesting grounds, or look where their prey would be?
  38. Apr 14 21:00:58 <Chase> "Dragons are a problem in this world, right? Hopefully nothing like the ones we saw back at goddamn Shiverwing... Shit." he's already starting to feel cold.
  39. Apr 14 21:01:39 <Chase> Prooobably the latter. Blindly charging into their direct territory is a bad idea I think?
  40. Apr 14 21:01:54 <Rosetta> When you say lambs, are those wild lambs or on farms? If they're wild, we'll go with that.
  41. Apr 14 21:02:41 <~zoofman> They are wild lambs. You read about them. Karakols.
  42. Apr 14 21:02:45 <~zoofman> Big fluffy black sheep.
  43. Apr 14 21:03:06 <~zoofman> Alright, roll me Perception, and Survival
  44. Apr 14 21:03:07 <Rosetta> Yeah, let's go with that.
  45. Apr 14 21:03:19 <Rosetta> 5d6+1 perception; 2d6+5 survival
  46. Apr 14 21:03:19 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, perception: 14 [5d6=1,1,1,4,6]; survival: 12 [2d6=1,6]
  47. Apr 14 21:03:31 <Chase> 3d6-2; 2d6+3 Two AP
  48. Apr 14 21:03:31 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 3d6-2: 4 [3d6=1,3,2]; Two AP: 6 [2d6=2,1]
  49. Apr 14 21:03:49 <~zoofman> Chase is practically useless. Rosetta on the other hand...
  50. Apr 14 21:04:17 »» Chase is totally shivering because his bard clothes aren't as warm as his ice-resistant armor
  51. Apr 14 21:05:17 <~zoofman> As you make your way down the trails, you notice a set of ruins to the north of you. It's like something caved in a gigantic, red dome. And recently built a stone wall around it for security reasons. You can see torches lit along its palisades, even as it's just hitting dusk. The place is clearly heavily guarded.
  52. Apr 14 21:05:53 <~zoofman> This said you also hear sheep bawwwing not far off.
  53. Apr 14 21:06:25 <Rosetta> "Hey, look at that. We probably wanna steer clear until we're done using our Pokemon, but we can find some shelter there before heading back to town."
  54. Apr 14 21:06:44 <~zoofman> Chase, Roll me Intuition
  55. Apr 14 21:06:47 <~zoofman> Rosetta can't possibly pass this
  56. Apr 14 21:06:59 <Chase> 6d6+6 okay
  57. Apr 14 21:07:01 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, okay: 21 [6d6=4,3,3,1,2,2]
  58. Apr 14 21:08:04 <Chase> "...I think that might be where Hildibrand said Null Industries had an outpost."
  59. Apr 14 21:08:20 <Chase> "Let's... steer very well clear."
  60. Apr 14 21:08:51 <Rosetta> "Ohh."
  61. Apr 14 21:09:47 <Chase> "Probably better that it's getting dark around now... Let's keep going and just make camp somewhere when we're done."
  62. Apr 14 21:11:08 <Rosetta> "I brought Anima along, so we shouldn't go cold."
  63. Apr 14 21:11:50 <~zoofman> It's not long before you guys find a herd of Karakols graizing in the snow, and some trees to nestle down in near by.
  64. Apr 14 21:12:31 <Chase> He gestures over to the trees and heads over there. He probably gets the camping gear set out and disguised to some degree with branches and whatnot?
  65. Apr 14 21:12:31 »» Rosetta hops up into the tree, finding one with a sturdy looking branch to sit on.
  66. Apr 14 21:12:43 <~zoofman> Truth be told they look more like...really puffy Raticates than Mareeps. http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m437/Salvationsinner/FFXIV_1298117243.jpg
  67. Apr 14 21:13:59 <~zoofman> I presume you guys camp and watch here until something happens?
  68. Apr 14 21:14:23 <Chase> "Man, this is weird. They sound kind of like mareep, but... well, guess all life in the universe can't be constant. It's actually pretty scary how close it is at points."
  69. Apr 14 21:14:25 <Rosetta> Yeah.
  70. Apr 14 21:14:28 <Chase> He hestles up and keeps watch.
  71. Apr 14 21:14:31 <Chase> *nestles
  72. Apr 14 21:15:04 <Rosetta> "That's the part you find weird?"
  73. Apr 14 21:16:29 <~zoofman> It's several hours before anything happens, far into the night
  74. Apr 14 21:16:38 <~zoofman> eventually the sheep nuzzled up together and began to sleep
  75. Apr 14 21:16:50 <~zoofman> It was then, it struck. You never even saw it stalking or waiting.
  76. Apr 14 21:17:20 <~zoofman> The beast leaped from the shadows, three pairs of eyes aglow with red light, and three sets of jaws clamping down on adult sheep.
  77. Apr 14 21:17:42 »» Chase has probably almost fallen asleep himself at this point.
  78. Apr 14 21:17:49 <Rosetta> "Whoa!" Rosetta nearly falls out of the tree in surprise but manages to hang on.
  79. Apr 14 21:17:53 <Rosetta> "Well, there we are I guess."
  80. Apr 14 21:17:54 <~zoofman> Yelps of fear and pain, shrill deathcries followed as the others leaped to attention and started to run away, from the Chimera. http://images.mmorpg.com/images/galleries/full/112012/bc03bc23-de4e-4445-941b-44c2fc9e590a.jpg
  81. Apr 14 21:18:03 <Chase> He sort of jerks when Rose startles and looks, blinking.
  82. Apr 14 21:18:38 <Chase> "Holy shit... Man, I hope this was a good idea..."
  83. Apr 14 21:18:56 <Rosetta> "You're not seriously considering going back now?"
  84. Apr 14 21:19:03 <Chase> "No way."
  85. Apr 14 21:19:27 <Chase> "I'm committed, doesn't mean I don't think this was probably a mistake." he grins, getting his guitar and getting up.
  86. Apr 14 21:19:42 <~zoofman> Head of a Luxray, head of a Seviper, head of a male Ampharos, tail of a Drapion, wings of a Salamence. The monster begins to wander away with its trophy dinner of three sheep, one for each head.
  87. Apr 14 21:20:05 <Rosetta> "That which does not kill you, and all that." Rosetta hops down, pulling out a Poke Card.
  88. Apr 14 21:21:46 <~zoofman> You looking to confront it, or follow it back to its lair?
  89. Apr 14 21:22:15 <Chase> Are these things usually solitary?
  90. Apr 14 21:22:22 <~zoofman> Yes, they are.
  91. Apr 14 21:22:39 <~zoofman> Chimeras and Behemoths, honestly, are not that different in terms of their social structure. Both are very solitary predators.
  92. Apr 14 21:22:43 <Rosetta> "Think we should fight it here? I'm worried what'll happen if we let it go back to its home turf."
  93. Apr 14 21:24:23 <Chase> "We may as well follow it, let it eat, and then ambush it once it's full. The information went over said they were solitary hunters, so I don't think we have to worry about a mate or kids... and maybe we'll get a good idea of where a nearby Behemoth is too."
  94. Apr 14 21:25:02 <Rosetta> "Hmm." Rosetta thinks this over, owl-tilting her head. "I guess? I'm just worried they might live somewhere they can take advantage of the environment in a fight."
  95. Apr 14 21:26:26 <Chase> "I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle, really."
  96. Apr 14 21:27:16 <Rosetta> "Okay, but stay close and follow my lead. We don't want it to stop us early, yeah?"
  97. Apr 14 21:28:40 <Chase> He nods.
  98. Apr 14 21:29:27 <~zoofman> The Chimera is heading toward the mountains with its dinner. How do you pursue it across the snowy, forested plains?
  99. Apr 14 21:30:14 <Rosetta> How deep is the snow? And are there places to take cover along the path?
  100. Apr 14 21:30:56 <~zoofman> It's about...three inches?
  101. Apr 14 21:31:04 <~zoofman> There are places to take cover, yes.
  102. Apr 14 21:31:23 <Chase> He keeps to the trees, really, not able to really jump into them like Rosetta but just staying a bit back and keeping to them as cover.
  103. Apr 14 21:31:32 <~zoofman> The brush, rocky surfaces jutting up, more patches of trees
  104. Apr 14 21:32:20 »» Rosetta tries to find places she and Chase can easily take cover like those patches of trees as she goes along, trying to keep them both hidden.
  105. Apr 14 21:33:35 <~zoofman> Alright, roll me Stealth then, you two.
  106. Apr 14 21:33:51 <Chase> 1d6+3 Two more AP but HAHA
  107. Apr 14 21:33:52 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, Two more AP but HAHA: 4 [1d6=1]
  108. Apr 14 21:34:08 <Rosetta> 6d6+5+4+2
  109. Apr 14 21:34:09 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 6d6+5+4+2: 38 [6d6=3,4,6,4,4,6]
  110. Apr 14 21:34:32 <Chase> that's almost as many as four tens
  111. Apr 14 21:34:33 <Rosetta> Is this a place where assisted skill checks can apply?
  112. Apr 14 21:34:34 <Chase> and that's terrible
  113. Apr 14 21:34:43 <~zoofman> It is, yes
  114. Apr 14 21:35:15 <Rosetta> I think it's just add half my rank, so it'd just be +3?
  115. Apr 14 21:36:09 <~zoofman> Chase struggles to keep up with your silent movements, but you keep him from blowing your own cover too. Every now and then one of the heads whips back, and hisses. It clearly knows something is out there, but isn't about to drop its dinner to find out.
  116. Apr 14 21:36:26 <~zoofman> You've put it on the defensive, either way.
  117. Apr 14 21:36:41 <~zoofman> It continues on toward its lair.
  118. Apr 14 21:37:09 <Chase> He winces every time he steps on a branch.
  119. Apr 14 21:38:27 <Rosetta> "It knows something's up. We'll have to hope it settles down during its meal."
  120. Apr 14 21:38:47 <Chase> He nods. "Alright."
  121. Apr 14 21:39:25 <~zoofman> It starts to climb a mountain trail, until it suddenly halts, reels up like an alert Persain, and hisses as it shakes its tail, making a threatening, rattling sound.
  122. Apr 14 21:39:31 <~zoofman> Not at you, mind you, but at something in front of it.
  123. Apr 14 21:39:50 <Rosetta> Can we see what it is?
  124. Apr 14 21:41:01 <~zoofman> Not at the moment, but you can hear it.
  125. Apr 14 21:41:40 <~zoofman> It's something large, its steps cause loud THUD sounds, and its roar is threatening enough to make even Saxton wet himself.
  126. Apr 14 21:42:21 <Rosetta> "Uhm. Well. About what you said about maybe finding a Behemoth...just a guess."
  127. Apr 14 21:44:07 <~zoofman> The Chimera is currently blocking your path, trying to edge its way around something without having to relinquish its dinner.
  128. Apr 14 21:44:39 <Rosetta> "Be right back." Rosetta looks to the side for some cover and warps over if she can find any, hoping to get a better look with her binoculars.
  129. Apr 14 21:45:32 <Chase> He stays where he is, trying to hold his breath and watching.
  130. Apr 14 21:46:02 <Chase> His teeth are grit and he's trying to stay composed - These are some serious nasties they decided to end up chasing, huh?
  131. Apr 14 21:46:10 <~zoofman> Warping up the side of the mountaintrail, you can clearly see a giant, muscular purple beast somewhere between a Tauros and an Arcanine. It's about nine feet tall and wide, so about a third larger than the Chimera, and much bulkier.
  132. Apr 14 21:47:01 <Rosetta> Matches the picture for behemoth Chase was looking over earlier?
  133. Apr 14 21:47:31 <~zoofman> Yup, big purple catdog with horns.
  134. Apr 14 21:48:09 »» Rosetta warps back to Chase's spot. "Yup, that'd be it. So, what do you wanna do? Let them go at it a bit and then jump in?"
  135. Apr 14 21:48:59 <Chase> He nods. "Yeah, let's jump them when we have the opportunity."
  136. Apr 14 21:49:36 »» Rosetta readies Imperia's poke card then, also reaching for a Pester Ball she bought earlier.
  137. Apr 14 21:50:57 <~zoofman> Alright, going to ask for initative even if you are watching for now
  138. Apr 14 21:52:14 <Chase> He'll be using Haydn this time, so Chase 18 and Haydn 4
  139. Apr 14 21:52:17 <Rosetta> Rosetta 40, Imperia 28
  140. Apr 14 21:52:31 <Chase> Oh wait, he's not in his heavy armor.
  141. Apr 14 21:52:33 <Chase> Make that Chase 21
  142. Apr 14 21:53:11 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Chimera 30 > Imperia 28 > Behemoth 20 > Chase 18 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Haydn 4
  143. Apr 14 21:53:53 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Chimera 30 > Imperia 28 > Behemoth 20 > Chase 18 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Haydn 4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  144. Apr 14 21:54:15 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Chimera 30 > Imperia 28 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Haydn 4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  145. Apr 14 21:54:30 <~zoofman> Assuming you re passing, Rosetta?
  146. Apr 14 21:54:39 <Rosetta> For now, yeah.
  147. Apr 14 21:55:04 <~zoofman> The Ram head drops its lamb, and takes a deep breath, spraying a column of ice at the Behemoth.
  148. Apr 14 21:55:06 <~zoofman> 1d20 Ice Beam
  149. Apr 14 21:55:06 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, Ice Beam: 18 [1d20=18]
  150. Apr 14 21:56:00 <~zoofman> This seems to hurt the Behemoth a good bit - Imperia passing as well?
  151. Apr 14 21:56:09 <Rosetta> Yeah.
  152. Apr 14 21:56:48 <~zoofman> The Behemoth lunges at the smaller Chimera, ripping and tearing at it!
  153. Apr 14 21:56:53 <~zoofman> 1d20-2 Reversal
  154. Apr 14 21:56:54 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, Reversal: 11 [1d20=13]
  155. Apr 14 21:58:00 <~zoofman> Chase passing?
  156. Apr 14 21:58:59 <Chase> He focuses, watching the fight and getting a bit of rhythm going in his head, bobbing his head back and forth a bit, stretching, loosening himself up and getting prepared. Swords Dance! Magic Twist, Special Attack!
  157. Apr 14 21:59:02 <~zoofman> The Chimera doesn't fare well from the Behemoth's blow either!
  158. Apr 14 22:00:14 <Rosetta> Oh, guess Rosetta and Imperia will each use Double Team at this time then if we're buffing up. :B
  159. Apr 14 22:00:56 <~zoofman> The Chimera counters by the other two heads dropping their meals as well, and unlesashing a joint breath attack of fire, ice and electric - Tri Attack!
  160. Apr 14 22:00:59 <~zoofman> 1d20
  161. Apr 14 22:00:59 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 1 [1d20=1]
  162. Apr 14 22:01:27 <~zoofman> The Behemoth steps around the blow, and brings a large claw down on the Chimera's back.
  163. Apr 14 22:01:31 <~zoofman> 1d20 Dragon Claw
  164. Apr 14 22:01:32 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, Dragon Claw: 7 [1d20=7]
  165. Apr 14 22:01:45 <~zoofman> The Chimera manages to avoid this blow as well. Haydn?
  166. Apr 14 22:02:30 <Chase> The ghost clown waits too!
  167. Apr 14 22:02:56 <~zoofman> Rosetta's up, then
  168. Apr 14 22:03:15 <Rosetta> "Now?" She looks to Chase before acting.
  169. Apr 14 22:03:20 <Chase> He nods.
  170. Apr 14 22:04:04 »» Rosetta dashes forward, chucking the pester ball and using one of her double team clones to distract the Chimera as she does.
  171. Apr 14 22:04:09 <Rosetta> 1d20+3 ac 6
  172. Apr 14 22:04:10 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, ac 6: 6 [1d20=3]
  173. Apr 14 22:04:31 <Rosetta> 1d20+3 probability control that
  174. Apr 14 22:04:31 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, probability control that: 18 [1d20=15]
  175. Apr 14 22:04:46 <Rosetta> Paralysis and Suppression!
  176. Apr 14 22:04:49 <~zoofman> You hit the snake head in the, well, head!
  177. Apr 14 22:05:02 <~zoofman> Pride Activates! All three pairs of eyes are glowing red with anger.
  178. Apr 14 22:05:12 <~zoofman> The snake one reels back to look at you.
  179. Apr 14 22:05:21 <Rosetta> "Oh no I made it mad." Rosetta :<s
  180. Apr 14 22:05:33 <Chase> "Don't lose your focus, now!"
  181. Apr 14 22:05:48 <~zoofman> The Snake head tries to act.
  182. Apr 14 22:05:50 <~zoofman> 1d20 para
  183. Apr 14 22:05:52 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, para: 3 [1d20=3]
  184. Apr 14 22:06:02 <~zoofman> No dice on that action, Imperia!
  185. Apr 14 22:06:05 <Rosetta> (should be at halved initiative too :D)
  186. Apr 14 22:06:26 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Imperia 28 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Chimera 5 > Haydn 4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  187. Apr 14 22:06:50 <Rosetta> "Imperia, we don't have time! Go all out!" The Archeops flies up in the air, and her signet gem glows as she divebombs the Chimera.
  188. Apr 14 22:06:59 <Rosetta> 1d20+2 acrobatics spending a double team clone
  189. Apr 14 22:07:00 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, acrobatics spending a double team clone: 13 [1d20=11]
  190. Apr 14 22:07:11 <~zoofman> hits
  191. Apr 14 22:07:43 <Rosetta> 5d12+25+31 flying
  192. Apr 14 22:07:43 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, flying: 90 [5d12=5,1,11,10,7]
  193. Apr 14 22:09:35 <~zoofman> Imperia's divebomb does a number to the three headed monster! It staggers as it recovers from the blow. Chase!
  194. Apr 14 22:10:24 »» Chase tries to get at an angle where he can see the Behemoth. He doesn't want to accidentally KO the Chimera, so he goes ahead and tries a Ghost Pulse on the big B!
  195. Apr 14 22:10:27 <Chase> 1d20
  196. Apr 14 22:10:27 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 1d20: 6 [1d20=6]
  197. Apr 14 22:11:20 <Chase> AC 2
  198. Apr 14 22:11:25 <Chase> 2d6+8+52 if it hit!
  199. Apr 14 22:11:26 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, if it hit!: 67 [2d6=3,4]
  200. Apr 14 22:11:37 <~zoofman> It is just barely hit.
  201. Apr 14 22:12:12 »» Chase unleashes a spectral blast that hits the side of the mighty creature!
  202. Apr 14 22:12:21 <~zoofman> You phawk it, and it looks over, annoyed. It grunts, and a puff of smokey percipitation forms in the cold.
  203. Apr 14 22:12:38 <~zoofman> It attempts to charge right through all of the combatents, it misses Haydn though! Slash!
  204. Apr 14 22:12:40 »» Chase activates Drapes of the Lone Fiddler!
  205. Apr 14 22:12:51 <Chase> +2 to my next sonic move accuracy!
  206. Apr 14 22:13:10 <~zoofman> 4#1d20-2 Chimera, Rosetta, Imperia, Chase
  207. Apr 14 22:13:11 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, Chimera, Rosetta, Imperia, Chase: 10 [1d20=12], 3 [1d20=5], 1 [1d20=3], 2 [1d20=4]
  208. Apr 14 22:13:19 <~zoofman> So it only hits the Chimera as it barrels through.
  209. Apr 14 22:13:47 »» Rosetta jumps the fuck out of the way of the charging Behemoth.
  210. Apr 14 22:13:56 <~zoofman> 2d6+70 damage
  211. Apr 14 22:13:57 »» Chase steps aside. "Olé, motherfucker!" he says, swirling gracefully to the side like a matador.
  212. Apr 14 22:13:57 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, damage: 78 [2d6=4,4]
  213. Apr 14 22:14:16 <~zoofman> The Chimera is not having a good day.
  214. Apr 14 22:14:32 <~zoofman> The Behemoth takes its second action, attempting to chomp down on Chase! Crunch!
  215. Apr 14 22:14:33 <~zoofman> 1d20-2
  216. Apr 14 22:14:34 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20-2: 0 [1d20=2]
  217. Apr 14 22:14:41 <~zoofman> He luckily avoids that as well!
  218. Apr 14 22:14:47 <~zoofman> The Chimera tries to act!
  219. Apr 14 22:14:48 <~zoofman> 1d20
  220. Apr 14 22:14:49 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 20 [1d20=20]
  221. Apr 14 22:16:17 <~zoofman> It swoops its tail across the battlefield, leaking venom as it goes!
  222. Apr 14 22:16:19 <~zoofman> 1d20 Cross Poison
  223. Apr 14 22:16:21 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, Cross Poison: 5 [1d20=5]
  224. Apr 14 22:16:28 <~zoofman> Looks like that was avoided as well, Haydn!
  225. Apr 14 22:16:46 <Chase> Haydn emerges from the tree line as well, and aims an Ice Punch at the Behemoth!
  226. Apr 14 22:16:47 <Chase> 1d20
  227. Apr 14 22:16:48 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 1d20: 8 [1d20=8]
  228. Apr 14 22:17:25 <~zoofman> Hits!
  229. Apr 14 22:17:34 <Chase> 2d8+10+38+5
  230. Apr 14 22:17:34 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 2d8+10+38+5: 61 [2d8=5,3]
  231. Apr 14 22:18:00 <~zoofman> It roars in pain as Haydn strikes it with an icy blow!
  232. Apr 14 22:18:02 <~zoofman> Rosetta!
  233. Apr 14 22:18:11 <Rosetta> How hurt is the Chimera looking?
  234. Apr 14 22:19:26 <~zoofman> It's got a good bit of fight left in it.
  235. Apr 14 22:20:14 »» Rosetta slices at the air with her sword, sending a blade of electricity at the Chimera!
  236. Apr 14 22:20:19 <Rosetta> 1d20+1 hidden power
  237. Apr 14 22:20:19 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, hidden power: 15 [1d20=14]
  238. Apr 14 22:20:28 <Rosetta> 2d8+10+45
  239. Apr 14 22:20:28 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 2d8+10+45: 60 [2d8=3,2]
  240. Apr 14 22:20:45 <~zoofman> Imperia!
  241. Apr 14 22:20:54 <~zoofman> The several heads are looking Rosetta's way, not happy at all
  242. Apr 14 22:21:22 <Rosetta> Imperia sends a spray of rocks at the Chimera!
  243. Apr 14 22:21:29 <Rosetta> 1d20 ancient power
  244. Apr 14 22:21:29 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, ancient power: 6 [1d20=6]
  245. Apr 14 22:21:43 <Rosetta> (maybe hits with reduced speed? :D)
  246. Apr 14 22:22:23 <Rosetta> 2d8+10+24 if it does
  247. Apr 14 22:22:23 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, if it does: 37 [2d8=1,2]
  248. Apr 14 22:23:00 <~zoofman> It hits but doesn't do much! Chase!
  249. Apr 14 22:23:19 <Chase> I assume the Behemoth is also still looking pretty strong?
  250. Apr 14 22:24:27 <~zoofman> Yup
  251. Apr 14 22:25:17 <Chase> In which case, Chase will brace to use his ace, an attack sure to deface - he charges up a Focus Blast!
  252. Apr 14 22:25:18 <Chase> 1d20
  253. Apr 14 22:25:18 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 1d20: 18 [1d20=18]
  254. Apr 14 22:25:46 <Chase> 3d12+10+52 and -1 special attack stage
  255. Apr 14 22:25:47 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, and -1 special attack stage: 78 [3d12=3,7,6]
  256. Apr 14 22:27:03 <~zoofman> Chase hammers the Behemoth with a hefty spiritual attack. It's...pretty roughed up after that one.
  257. Apr 14 22:27:14 <~zoofman> Which is all the more reason it enters an Outrage!
  258. Apr 14 22:27:23 <~zoofman> 1d20 At Chase! No Guard, sucker!
  259. Apr 14 22:27:24 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, At Chase! No Guard, sucker!: 7 [1d20=7]
  260. Apr 14 22:27:48 <Chase> 5d6+2 Haydn intercepts!
  261. Apr 14 22:27:48 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, Haydn intercepts!: 22 [5d6=1,5,6,4,4]
  262. Apr 14 22:28:05 <~zoofman> 4d10+25+50 it hits all adjacent foes, mind you.
  263. Apr 14 22:28:06 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, it hits all adjacent foes, mind you.: 89 [4d10=1,3,2,8]
  264. Apr 14 22:28:15 <Chase> O-oh, guess he doesn't.
  265. Apr 14 22:28:37 <~zoofman> The Chimera!
  266. Apr 14 22:28:38 <~zoofman> 1d20 para
  267. Apr 14 22:28:40 <Chase> Haydn uh, detects that then. May as well not spread the damage around. Chase takes the damage rather painfully!
  268. Apr 14 22:28:40 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, para: 6 [1d20=6]
  269. Apr 14 22:29:10 <~zoofman> Its snake head reels back and unleashes a Shockwave at Rosetta!
  270. Apr 14 22:29:11 <~zoofman> 1d20
  271. Apr 14 22:29:11 <Chase> Wasn't actually massive damage, though!
  272. Apr 14 22:29:12 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 9 [1d20=9]
  273. Apr 14 22:29:16 <Rosetta> Hits
  274. Apr 14 22:29:42 <~zoofman> 2d6+8+45
  275. Apr 14 22:29:43 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 2d6+8+45: 57 [2d6=3,1]
  276. Apr 14 22:30:05 <~zoofman> The Behemoth acts again, chomping down on Chase with an icy bite!
  277. Apr 14 22:30:11 <~zoofman> 1d20 noguard yo face!
  278. Apr 14 22:30:12 <Rosetta> Doesn't hurt too badly! Rosetta reels back but keeps focused.
  279. Apr 14 22:30:12 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, noguard yo face!: 7 [1d20=7]
  280. Apr 14 22:30:18 <Chase> Ow
  281. Apr 14 22:30:28 <~zoofman> 2d10+70 ice damage
  282. Apr 14 22:30:30 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, ice damage: 86 [2d10=10,6]
  283. Apr 14 22:30:41 <~zoofman> The Chimera acts again!
  284. Apr 14 22:30:42 <~zoofman> 1d20
  285. Apr 14 22:30:43 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 12 [1d20=12]
  286. Apr 14 22:30:49 <Chase> Okay, Chase is looking critical!
  287. Apr 14 22:30:50 <Rosetta> "Chase, are you okay?!"
  288. Apr 14 22:31:06 <Chase> He grits his teeth. "No, not really, but I think I still got this!"
  289. Apr 14 22:31:12 <~zoofman> It lashes out at Rosetta and Imperia with a Heat Wave!
  290. Apr 14 22:31:13 <~zoofman> 1d20
  291. Apr 14 22:31:14 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 16 [1d20=16]
  292. Apr 14 22:31:32 <~zoofman> Serene Grace! Burnt as well!
  293. Apr 14 22:31:47 »» Rosetta Teleports back out of the way!
  294. Apr 14 22:32:08 <~zoofman> 3d8+10+45 damage to Imperia
  295. Apr 14 22:32:09 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, damage to Imperia: 66 [3d8=1,2,8]
  296. Apr 14 22:32:13 <~zoofman> Haydn!
  297. Apr 14 22:32:32 <Rosetta> Not too much for Imperia! Her hardened rocky exterior takes the heat well.
  298. Apr 14 22:32:45 <Chase> Haydn detected, so his turn is done!
  299. Apr 14 22:32:55 <Chase> Of course, that's only if he was in range of the Outrage
  300. Apr 14 22:33:45 <Chase> if not, uhhh
  301. Apr 14 22:34:09 <~zoofman> Depends on if he intercepted or not obviously
  302. Apr 14 22:34:18 <Chase> He didn't end up doing that, no
  303. Apr 14 22:34:24 <Chase> In that case
  304. Apr 14 22:34:44 <Chase> In an attempt to get the Behemoth's attention, he tries grappling it! Of course he can only probably grab its leg or something given his size.
  305. Apr 14 22:34:51 <Chase> 5d6+1 combat
  306. Apr 14 22:34:52 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, combat: 16 [5d6=5,4,1,2,3]
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  308. Apr 14 22:35:03 <Rosetta> (still have to roll struggle attack)
  309. Apr 14 22:35:08 <Chase> Oh right
  310. Apr 14 22:35:09 <Chase> 1d20
  311. Apr 14 22:35:09 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 1d20: 15 [1d20=15]
  312. Apr 14 22:36:31 <~zoofman> What's Haydn's Power?
  313. Apr 14 22:36:34 <Chase> 12
  314. Apr 14 22:37:53 <~zoofman> He can't grapple this thing, don't bother w/ that action
  315. Apr 14 22:39:27 <Chase> Can he trip it instead?
  316. Apr 14 22:40:08 <~zoofman> Yes, he can do that
  317. Apr 14 22:40:23 <Chase> Alright then, he swings one of his tombstones to knock its legs out from under it!
  318. Apr 14 22:40:45 <~zoofman> 5d6+3 opposed
  319. Apr 14 22:40:46 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, opposed: 24 [5d6=6,2,6,6,1]
  320. Apr 14 22:40:52 <Chase> Oh dear.
  321. Apr 14 22:40:53 <~zoofman> He doesn't manage to trip the thing, sadly.
  322. Apr 14 22:40:56 <~zoofman> Rosetta's up
  323. Apr 14 22:41:18 <Rosetta> me teleported so doesn't have her action!
  324. Apr 14 22:41:31 <Rosetta> (whoops, meant to /me)
  325. Apr 14 22:42:14 <~zoofman> Oh right, Imperia!
  326. Apr 14 22:42:31 <Rosetta> Imperia caws and raises spikes of earth under the Chimera! She distracts with a double team clone as she does!
  327. Apr 14 22:42:34 <Rosetta> 1d20+2 earth power
  328. Apr 14 22:42:35 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, earth power: 19 [1d20=17]
  329. Apr 14 22:42:44 <Rosetta> 2d8+10+24 inb4 flying type
  330. Apr 14 22:42:45 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, inb4 flying type: 38 [2d8=1,3]
  331. Apr 14 22:42:57 <~zoofman> It's looking pretty weak now!
  332. Apr 14 22:42:59 <~zoofman> Chase!
  333. Apr 14 22:43:45 <Chase> He's looking critical, so he tries to play a relaxing tune to try and lure this thing to sleep before getting the hell out of dodge, retreating some ways.
  334. Apr 14 22:44:01 <Chase> 1d20+6 Sing with four AP and the bonus from Drapes
  335. Apr 14 22:44:01 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, Sing with four AP and the bonus from Drapes: 9 [1d20=3]
  336. Apr 14 22:44:05 <Chase> Oh come on
  337. Apr 14 22:44:31 <~zoofman> Who the hell tries to sing a Behemoth a tune to calm it down? :P
  338. Apr 14 22:44:39 <~zoofman> That said it used No Guard, sooo
  339. Apr 14 22:44:48 <Rosetta> (No Guard only affects melee)
  340. Apr 14 22:44:56 <~zoofman> Yeah just double checked that
  341. Apr 14 22:45:15 <~zoofman> It turns its attention to Haydn, and slams its horns into him, Drill Peck!
  342. Apr 14 22:45:16 <~zoofman> 1d20
  343. Apr 14 22:45:16 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 12 [1d20=12]
  344. Apr 14 22:45:30 <~zoofman> 2d8+70 flying damage
  345. Apr 14 22:45:31 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, flying damage: 79 [2d8=4,5]
  346. Apr 14 22:45:32 <~zoofman> The Chimera!
  347. Apr 14 22:45:34 <~zoofman> 1d20 para
  348. Apr 14 22:45:35 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, para: 8 [1d20=8]
  349. Apr 14 22:45:35 <Chase> Well, he's Slowed and has a -2 to evasion at least.
  350. Apr 14 22:45:42 <Chase> So keep that in mind, zoof
  351. Apr 14 22:46:13 <~zoofman> (Yeah still wouldn't hit)
  352. Apr 14 22:46:25 <~zoofman> The Chimera fires off an Ice Beam at Imperia!
  353. Apr 14 22:46:27 <~zoofman> 1d20
  354. Apr 14 22:46:28 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 5 [1d20=5]
  355. Apr 14 22:46:39 <Rosetta> Imperia easily dodges out of the way of that!
  356. Apr 14 22:46:52 <~zoofman> The Behemoth goes for Chase with a Meteor Mash!
  357. Apr 14 22:46:55 <~zoofman> 1d20
  358. Apr 14 22:46:55 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 10 [1d20=10]
  359. Apr 14 22:47:11 <~zoofman> 2d10+70 steel damage
  360. Apr 14 22:47:11 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, steel damage: 80 [2d10=8,2]
  361. Apr 14 22:47:12 <Rosetta> (he's tripped so would need to spend a shift to get up, and Chase moved away from it)
  362. Apr 14 22:47:22 <~zoofman> (It wasn't tripped.)
  363. Apr 14 22:47:26 <Rosetta> (oh whoops)
  364. Apr 14 22:47:30 <~zoofman> The Chimera!
  365. Apr 14 22:47:30 <Chase> It was, however, slowed
  366. Apr 14 22:47:41 <Chase> because Sing missed
  367. Apr 14 22:47:59 <Chase> Also Haydn unfortunately gets reduced to exactly 0 HP because he was using the koosh ball
  368. Apr 14 22:48:28 <Rosetta> (Would that take out Chase?)
  369. Apr 14 22:48:35 <~zoofman> How far away can Chase shift?
  370. Apr 14 22:49:09 <Chase> He's... overland 6 now
  371. Apr 14 22:49:18 <Rosetta> Let's make this easier. Rosetta leaps toward Chase, and she disappears in an instant, taking his place. Ally Switch!
  372. Apr 14 22:49:23 <Chase> Hold on
  373. Apr 14 22:49:27 <Chase> The Behemoth might not be able to reach Chase
  374. Apr 14 22:49:51 <~zoofman> Yeah it can't
  375. Apr 14 22:49:58 <~zoofman> So moot point!
  376. Apr 14 22:50:07 <~zoofman> 1d20 for the chimera's para
  377. Apr 14 22:50:08 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, for the chimera's para: 20 [1d20=20]
  378. Apr 14 22:50:28 <~zoofman> The Chimera attempts a Tri Attack on Rosetta, breathing fire, ice and lightning at her!
  379. Apr 14 22:50:29 <~zoofman> 1d20
  380. Apr 14 22:50:31 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d20: 19 [1d20=19]
  381. Apr 14 22:50:45 <~zoofman> 1d3
  382. Apr 14 22:50:46 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, 1d3: 1 [1d3=1]
  383. Apr 14 22:50:50 <~zoofman> She's paralyzed as well, buttface!
  384. Apr 14 22:50:52 <Rosetta> 5d6 Imperia intercepts
  385. Apr 14 22:50:52 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, Imperia intercepts: 10 [5d6=1,1,1,6,1]
  386. Apr 14 22:51:24 <~zoofman> 2d8+55 damage!
  387. Apr 14 22:51:25 <DiceMaid-9001> zoofman, damage!: 64 [2d8=4,5]
  388. Apr 14 22:51:29 <~zoofman> Annnd...
  389. Apr 14 22:51:33 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Imperia 28 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Chimera 5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  390. Apr 14 22:51:39 <~zoofman> Well either way it's hosetta's turn, I believe.
  391. Apr 14 22:52:27 <Rosetta> Through a combination of burn and being pummeled, Imperia has become Defeatist! D:
  392. Apr 14 22:52:37 <Rosetta> 21 speed after paralysis
  393. Apr 14 22:52:49 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 21 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Chimera 5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  394. Apr 14 22:52:57 <Rosetta> (No that's for Imperia)
  395. Apr 14 22:53:41 <~zoofman> Oooooh
  396. Apr 14 22:53:42 <Rosetta> (goes to +2 stages, then down to -2 from Paralysis after intercepting)
  397. Apr 14 22:53:43 <~zoofman> Sorry I
  398. Apr 14 22:53:45 <~zoofman> totally misunderstood
  399. Apr 14 22:53:50 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Imperia 21 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Chimera 15 > Behemoth 10 > Chimera 5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  400. Apr 14 22:53:54 <~zoofman> Okay there we go :B
  401. Apr 14 22:54:10 <Rosetta> S'alright. Rosetta throws a Great Ball Card at the Chimera! A double team clone runs interference!
  402. Apr 14 22:54:12 <Rosetta> 1d20+3
  403. Apr 14 22:54:12 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 1d20+3: 23 [1d20=20]
  404. Apr 14 22:54:37 <Rosetta> 1d100-38-10-10
  405. Apr 14 22:54:37 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 1d100-38-10-10: 42 [1d100=100]
  406. Apr 14 22:54:48 <Rosetta> (well uh. huh.)
  407. Apr 14 22:55:09 <Chase> (well that's never happened before.)
  408. Apr 14 22:56:24 <~zoofman> Luckily this thing
  409. Apr 14 22:56:31 <~zoofman> has 8 injuries, and is paralzyed
  410. Apr 14 22:56:46 <~zoofman> so it's capture rating came out to 50! The beast is sucked into the card!
  411. Apr 14 22:56:58 »» zoofman has changed the topic to: Rosseta 40 > Imperia 21 > Chase 21 > Behemoth 20 > Behemoth 10| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9-xbJYYKM
  412. Apr 14 22:57:01 <Rosetta> (A nat 100 is an auto-catch anyway. It's something we put in there that I thought would never be relevant)
  413. Apr 14 22:58:22 <~zoofman> Anyway...either way, Imperia's up. A very confused, and agitated, and injured Behemoth remains
  414. Apr 14 22:59:32 <Rosetta> Chimera used her full action to intercept, so she's just recovering from that.
  415. Apr 14 23:00:10 <~zoofman> Chase is up then? :D
  416. Apr 14 23:00:13 »» Chase swaps the fainted Haydn with Schubert, getting in the way between himself and the Behemoth, then also tosses a card out, kind of desperate!
  417. Apr 14 23:00:16 <Chase> 1d20 AC 6
  418. Apr 14 23:00:17 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, AC 6: 9 [1d20=9]
  419. Apr 14 23:00:25 <Chase> It should still have -2 evasion for what it's worth
  420. Apr 14 23:00:36 <Chase> 1d100-10-36
  421. Apr 14 23:00:37 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 1d100-10-36: -15 [1d100=31]
  422. Apr 14 23:01:27 <~zoofman> ...Yup that does it as well. It's also sucked in.
  423. Apr 14 23:02:03 <Chase> He breathes rather hard, staring. "Jesus." he says after a moment.
  424. Apr 14 23:02:16 <Chase> "Kind of like fighting Fiends back home, huh?"
  425. Apr 14 23:02:28 »» Rosetta tosses Chase a soda.
  426. Apr 14 23:02:36 <Rosetta> "Yeah, sorta."
  427. Apr 14 23:03:18 <Chase> He catches it, cracks it open, gets his face spewed with fizz from it being shaken from being thrown >:C and then downs the rest anyway because god he needs a drink right now and why isn't it alcoholic.
  428. Apr 14 23:03:22 <~zoofman> So it's...you, Chase, a confused Schubert, and 3 dead sheep.
  429. Apr 14 23:04:01 <Rosetta> "Let's go set up camp somewhere before more of these show up, yeah?"
  430. Apr 14 23:04:36 <Chase> "Thanks, Schubert, just needed you if things went south." he pats the dinosaur on the side, sort of wobbles over to get the card that was droppped, and returns the aggron after a moment. "Ugh, yeah I suppose so... though don't forget to feed that thing."
  431. Apr 14 23:05:19 <Rosetta> "Ugh, I guess we could drag some of thsoe," Rosetta nods at the dead sheep, "back to camp with us. Think Schubert'll mind?"
  432. Apr 14 23:05:55 <Chase> "The spot I set up should be fine enough..." in that case, he holds off on returning the aggron. "Well, that's up to him, really." he looks at the big guy.
  433. Apr 14 23:06:14 <~zoofman> Schubert gives you a very serious glare. And leans in, closer, closer...
  434. Apr 14 23:06:23 <~zoofman> You get the impression he's sorta paranoid they got butt germs or something
  435. Apr 14 23:07:24 <Chase> He leans back. "Alright, alright, you don't gotta. I don't think they're diseased or anything, though."
  436. Apr 14 23:08:43 <~zoofman> Schubert hrms, clearly not going to test this.
  437. Apr 14 23:10:55 <Rosetta> "Alright, maybe I'll just try to drag one along then." Rosetta sighs and looks over the sheep corpses. How heavy do they look?
  438. Apr 14 23:10:58 <Chase> He just nods and returns Schubert for now then and stares at the corpses, sighing. "If you got some ropes or something, I'll try to drag them."
  439. Apr 14 23:11:25 <~zoofman> They look about...fifty pounds each?
  440. Apr 14 23:11:25 <Chase> He's clearly pretty injured and bleeding from the bites and gashes but after he Heal Pulses himself, those seal up a bit.
  441. Apr 14 23:11:30 <Rosetta> "Ropes? Naw. Just uh, grab a leg I guess."
  442. Apr 14 23:11:44 <Chase> "Egh."
  443. Apr 14 23:11:53 <Rosetta> "Nevermind, I got this."
  444. Apr 14 23:12:01 »» Chase grabs one anyway.
  445. Apr 14 23:12:10 »» Rosetta concentrates and lifts one into the air with her mind.
  446. Apr 14 23:12:31 <Rosetta> "There, no one has to touch the icky buttgerms or whatever."
  447. Apr 14 23:14:00 <~zoofman> Alright, so you guys are heading to camp somewhere, then?
  448. Apr 14 23:14:07 <Chase> Yep.
  449. Apr 14 23:14:45 »» Rosetta struggles a bit to keep the sheep aloft as they find camp, but it doesn't slow her down too much.
  450. Apr 14 23:14:59 <~zoofman> Given the time of night you don't do anything hilarious like pass an old man whose a sheep herder. The coast is clear.
  451. Apr 14 23:17:26 »» Chase just about collapses when they get the tent in working order.
  452. Apr 14 23:18:14 <Rosetta> "You wanna camp out for the night here? Or make your way back after a bit of rest?"
  453. Apr 14 23:19:07 <Chase> "Let's camp the night - I don't really want to drag those bodies into town or anything."
  454. Apr 14 23:20:32 <Rosetta> "I was really planning on sleeping next to a dead sheep all night either, you know. I was gonna feed my Chimera and see if I can get it to play nice." Rosetta has the card in her hand.
  455. Apr 14 23:25:00 <Chase> "You better be confident about it." he says, eyeing the card warily.
  456. Apr 14 23:26:06 »» Rosetta releases Anima at her side first with a shrug. "Not really much to say til I try, yeah?" She lets out the Chimera card.
  457. Apr 14 23:26:33 »» Chase retreats fully back into the tent.
  458. Apr 14 23:27:11 <~zoofman> Anima sits down with a haughty, whiny sound as you release the injured, and paralyzed beast.
  459. Apr 14 23:27:41 <Rosetta> "Hi!" Rosetta waves at it. "I dragged your dinner back with me." She gestures at the sheep.
  460. Apr 14 23:27:45 <~zoofman> It's confused, scared, and rather defensive, backing away from you on instinct...but also seems slightly quelled in temper by the capture.
  461. Apr 14 23:28:38 <~zoofman> Its three heads eye the sheep with hunger and desire. The Ampharos one makes a baaawing sound, and the Luxray one mewls.
  462. Apr 14 23:29:19 <Chase> Chase brought a sheep, too, if you remember.
  463. Apr 14 23:29:39 <Chase> So there's two!
  464. Apr 14 23:30:08 <~zoofman> It doesn't really seem confident in getting closer to you, though.
  465. Apr 14 23:30:38 <Rosetta> "I don't suppose you've heard of soda." Rosetta scratches her head.
  466. Apr 14 23:31:41 <~zoofman> Unlike a Pokemon, this thing doesn't really seem to understand you. It's much more...feral.
  467. Apr 14 23:32:58 <Rosetta> "..." Rosetta scratches her head more. She unsheathes her sword and stabs it into one of the lamb corpses, skewering it. She takes slow careful steps toward the Chimera before sliding the corpse off in front of it with telekinesis.
  468. Apr 14 23:33:42 <~zoofman> It pounces on the food at once. It's not a pretty sight as the three heads rip into it.
  469. Apr 14 23:33:58 »» Rosetta jumps back before she gets a lot of blood splatter over herself or something.
  470. Apr 14 23:34:22 <Rosetta> "Maybe we shoulda asked Hildebrand for tips on taming these things first, huh?"
  471. Apr 14 23:34:40 »» Rosetta grabs the second sheep and tosses it over at the Chimera as well.
  472. Apr 14 23:36:09 <~zoofman> The process repeats, though it eats slower this time, getting more full. By the time it's had its fill, it's sitting down and scrutinizing you.
  473. Apr 14 23:37:09 <Chase> Chase peeks his head out to watch once he's sure the thing's temper has settled a bit.
  474. Apr 14 23:37:14 »» Rosetta wipes her sword off in the swow, then sheathes it again and stares back, knowing she neither looks very imposing nor commanding.
  475. Apr 14 23:37:17 <Rosetta> *snow
  476. Apr 14 23:37:20 <Chase> "You'll probably have to spend a little time with it."
  477. Apr 14 23:37:46 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I just wanna make sure it's not gonna rampage if I let it out at the Manderville residence or something."
  478. Apr 14 23:38:25 <Chase> "Remember, the Sons of Grant were able to call out orders to theirs, it's probably just a little bit of training here and there to make sure it understands what you're wanting to do."
  479. Apr 14 23:38:56 <Rosetta> "Yeah, it doesn't seem to get words like Pokemon do."
  480. Apr 14 23:39:16 <Rosetta> "What about yours?"
  481. Apr 14 23:39:48 <Chase> "I don't particularly know if calling it out with the Chimera around is such a good idea, but I'll try in time. I might just go a bit out of view."
  482. Apr 14 23:40:50 <Chase> He hrms and gets up, heading away from the camp in a way that he can still call over to Rose if he needs to but out of the chimera's direct line of sight, before letting out the Behemoth.
  483. Apr 14 23:41:15 <Rosetta> "I hope this thing takes the capture process better than humans do. I mean, it worked like normal, and the Chocobo was okay too, so I guess it's fine."
  484. Apr 14 23:41:40 <~zoofman> Keep in mind the Mandervilles have a pet Behemoth
  485. Apr 14 23:42:00 <Rosetta> "I'm gonna need a big leash, aren't I?"
  486. Apr 14 23:42:19 <Chase> He laughs a bit. "I'm sure Hildibrand will have a few tips."
  487. Apr 14 23:42:44 <~zoofman> The Chimera mostly seems scared because it's injured and you were just trying to kill it. This isn't a Pokemon, that's for sure. It's at least not trying to eat you as well, Rosetta. You know it can breath all sorts of nasty gunk, and you're not on fire yet, so there's that!
  488. Apr 14 23:44:27 <~zoofman> For now it lays down, resting its three heads. Two of them go to sleep, but the snake's still watching you.
  489. Apr 14 23:45:24 »» Rosetta takes out one of the super potions for the trip and carefully and slowly walks over.
  490. Apr 14 23:49:11 <~zoofman> The snake head hisses, flickings its tounge and sparking a bit of lightning your direction. Not far enough to reach you, just enough to make it clear to keep distance.
  491. Apr 14 23:50:46 »» Rosetta sighs. "Okay, here, just...right, it probably can't understand me." She tiptoes around the edge of its reach with lightning, trying to distract it a little as she floats over the super potion with telekinesis and sprays it.
  492. Apr 14 23:52:30 <~zoofman> Telekinesis isn't really a power that's super common around here, so you sort of trick the big catgoatsnakebirdscorpion long enough to spray it. It jumps awake but calms down once it realizes this feels...soothing?
  493. Apr 14 23:53:24 »» Rosetta floats the empty potion bottle back into her hand and shakes it, spraying the residual potion a bit to demonstrate what she did.
  494. Apr 14 23:54:28 <Rosetta> (Don't forget Chase let out Behemoth too, unless you're just handling this one at a time)
  495. Apr 14 23:55:14 <Chase> (I'm good with waiting)
  496. Apr 14 23:55:34 <~zoofman> You're not sure if it's peeved you tricked it or just mulling over the fact you helped it. Maybe both.
  497. Apr 14 23:55:55 <~zoofman> The Behemoth comes out, and just looms over Chase, snarling and growling.
  498. Apr 14 23:57:12 »» Rosetta waits for any further reaction, tilting her head.
  499. Apr 14 23:57:44 <Chase> He meets it eye to eye firmly, not showing any fear. He doesn't really fool around either, reaching up and concentrating, using his other daily use of Heal Pulse on the Behemoth. "You and I are going to get to know each other over the coming weeks." he says firmly, aware it probably doesn't understand him either, but talking to it is probably good. "You don't have anything to fear
  500. Apr 14 23:57:44 <Chase> from me."
  501. Apr 14 23:58:41 <~zoofman> It's intelligent enough to realize you're the one that's mending its bruises and wounds, but it doesn't seem to comprehend why. It just stoically stands its ground as well.
  502. Apr 14 23:59:35 <~zoofman> The Chimera relaxes a bit more, not looking nearly as tense or on guard. Anima floats closer, tilting her head as well at this strange creature.
  503. Apr 14 23:59:43 <Chase> 6d6+6 intuition on body language it might understand?
  504. Apr 14 23:59:43 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, intuition on body language it might understand?: 28 [6d6=3,3,4,6,1,5]
  505. Apr 15 00:00:56 <Rosetta> "Good. You just rest now." Rosetta cracks open a soda herself and relaxes, plopping down onto the snow. "I wonder if Gabby can talk to it the way she can Pokemon." She wonders aloud.
  506. Apr 15 00:02:14 <~zoofman> It highly resembles a canine and a feline at once, Chase. So similar gestures to those probably work for this sort of creature too.
  507. Apr 15 00:04:48 <Chase> He thinks about it, then reaches over to try and pet it.
  508. Apr 15 00:05:54 <~zoofman> It growls as you do so, but still stands stoic.
  509. Apr 15 00:06:04 <~zoofman> It's got a very rough mane, not fuzzy at all.
  510. Apr 15 00:07:34 <Rosetta> "Hey Chase, you still wanna spend the night out here?" Rosetta calls out.
  511. Apr 15 00:08:07 <Chase> He blinks slowly, then steps back and turns towards Rosetta's voice. "Yeah, actually. I think it'd do us some good."
  512. Apr 15 00:08:52 <Rosetta> "Alright, I think I've got things sorted out here, so lemme know when you're ready to turn in for the night. I'll take first watch I 'spose."
  513. Apr 15 00:09:32 »» Rosetta directs Anima to the center of camp to help serve as a more centralized heat source, then lets out Nocturne to help keep watch. Because, well, Shedinjas. Always watching when you sleep.
  514. Apr 15 00:10:30 <~zoofman> The Shedinja starts to have a staring contest with the three headed monster.
  515. Apr 15 00:10:35 <~zoofman> It's going to be a long night.
  516. Apr 15 00:11:03 <Chase> He turns back and hrms, thinking, looking at the Behemoth, before going ahead and binding Aura Guardian, giving aura pulse a try. <I am not an enemy. It's our way to make allies through battle. I'd like to get to know you and call upon your strength, and in return you'll have plentiful food, shelter, and if you wish, enemies to assert yourself against.>
  517. Apr 15 00:12:13 <~zoofman> Roll me Command
  518. Apr 15 00:12:29 <Chase> 6d6+6
  519. Apr 15 00:12:29 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 6d6+6: 28 [6d6=6,4,3,2,2,5]
  520. Apr 15 00:15:31 <~zoofman> It continues to stand for a while, then slowly sits down on its hind, no longer on the offensive.
  521. Apr 15 00:15:58 <~zoofman> It's Aura doesn't really have a response. Just a state of mind. <Not a hunter, not prey. Strange. Curious.>
  522. Apr 15 00:16:49 <Chase> He relaxes as well and prepares to rest for the evening. He finds the return on its aura just as curious, and actually he's somewhat pleased by that.
  523. Apr 15 00:17:14 »» Rosetta watches Nocturne have his little staring contest for a while before letting out ZODIAC and grabbing a notepad and a pen to draw exquisite corpses with him as she stays up for watch.
  524. Apr 15 00:17:24 <Rosetta> (and I'm gonna restart now brb)
  525. Apr 15 00:17:32 <~zoofman> The Behemoth ultimately went off to hunt on its own. But it eventually did return, once it found some sheep for itself.
  526. Apr 15 00:17:33 «--- Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Quit (Quit: Leaving)
  527. Apr 15 00:18:07 <~zoofman> Annnd I think we're </mini> with that!
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  530. Apr 17 21:00:00 <~zoofman> And so continues the investigation into the activities of Null Incorperated! But first, some info from Tialoc's trial.
  531. Apr 17 21:00:12 »» Kain is now known as Chase
  532. Apr 17 21:01:00 <~zoofman> A lot of the information and confessions were things you were familiar with already. The whole Siren/Staglord relation, his own relationship's issues, being contacted by The Banisher, and eventually meeting Husk Rhasha - a man he was told to keep an eye on.
  533. Apr 17 21:01:45 <~zoofman> Husk had been working with Father Ruth at the time, and had joined the man on a mission trip. The relationship between the two broke down after that trip, as Husk began to introduce Tialoc to other personalities in The Banisher's order.
  534. Apr 17 21:02:21 <~zoofman> The dittos, Jennifer Webb and her "Angels." Dandyman and his Wanga Dolls and Cherubs. And all the Pokemon from space that The Banisher commands.
  535. Apr 17 21:03:23 <~zoofman> Tialoc's primary task in all of this was to use his village, which was quite out of the way of prying eyes and would attract little suspicion, to grow the apricorns and apples that would be used to make People Snaggers, and Ascension.
  536. Apr 17 21:05:29 <~zoofman> His tribesmen were more or less the primary resource for The Banisher's front, and they did not expect to be caught red handed quite as fast as they were. They realized Jennifer and Dandy had acted, of course, but to have it traced back to them so quickly was a surprise.
  537. Apr 17 21:06:47 <~zoofman> As such, The Banisher gave him one final chance: He would lead an ambush and attack against The Sons of Grant and take Mirage Island. The Forest Tribe would assist him, as they were loyalists to The Banisher as well. Depriving both sides of the Shrine, and capturing any VIPs they could were the objectives.
  538. Apr 17 21:08:14 <~zoofman> That said, things didn't go so well. At this point he's pretty much given up and will accept whatever sentencing he is faced with. All he wanted to do was mend his relationship, and it ended in him being manipulated for far worse.
  539. Apr 17 21:09:07 <~zoofman> Outside of that, let's get to what you guys are doing - if there are matters you would like to poke Tialoc about, speak up in #talesofvisiwa!
  540. Apr 17 21:12:51 <~zoofman> Langlias woulda been next for trial
  541. Apr 17 21:12:54 <~zoofman> but Gen stabbed that ho
  542. Apr 17 21:17:10 <Chase> I think his ass would be dead whether she did or not.
  543. Apr 17 21:26:57 »» Domovoy is now known as Genevieve
  544. Apr 17 21:30:45 <~zoofman> A few days have rolled by as prep work gets under way for this concert event over on the other side of the universe. Rosetta's done some snooping around and has some info to share with you all, I believe!
  545. Apr 17 21:33:53 <Rosetta> Yep, she has a lot to say on the topic of Steel Wing's Unown, and she'd have made arrangements to collect all the four pieces we have so far of Alice's soul and probably asked Gabby if she could come help with that, given Saryx probably has the butt disease right now.
  546. Apr 17 21:34:27 <Chase> Don't forget that Zoof said aura reading works similarly to channeling!\
  547. Apr 17 21:36:56 <~zoofman> Gabriella can make an after work trip to assist in this, sure. And getting A, L, I, and C around was simply a matter of getting word to Mr. Jenks, and from him to Oya. Rosetta was able to bring them foreward after that. Currently they are floating around your boathouse absentmindedly.
  548. Apr 17 21:39:12 <Genevieve> "Do we know how to get the E off Steel Wing?"
  549. Apr 17 21:40:00 <Rosetta> "It's possible Steel Wing -is- E. There've been Unowns that have had human-ish avatar forms before, like Legendary Pokemon do. The Writer thinks that's probably the most likely, actually."
  550. Apr 17 21:40:13 <Chase> Chase has been doing things of his own over the past few days - some of it talking with Tialoc, some of it bonding with Brunhilde, his new Behemoth, but he's back on the boat in short order and listening to Rosetta talk.
  551. Apr 17 21:40:49 <Rosetta> "It's actually a lot easier, I think, if that isn't the case. If it's just an inscribed Unown, we just gotta figure out what part of Alice it represents and then put stuff near it that resonates with that and it should peel off all on its own. Shiny, huh?"
  552. Apr 17 21:41:04 <Chase> "Well, in that case, what do we do? Bring these four with us to Hydaelyn?"
  553. Apr 17 21:41:18 <~zoofman> She arrives around 7 PM, carrying a box of soda and bag full of food. "Heya - Got hungry on the way, so brought Torchic Wings and celery sticks...what's up with the extra Unown floating around?"
  554. Apr 17 21:41:19 <Chase> "If she -is- E, rather."
  555. Apr 17 21:41:33 <Rosetta> "Well, I invited Gabby to - oh hi!"
  556. Apr 17 21:43:18 <Genevieve> "If she ends up being E, it might be better to just bring her back to this side."
  557. Apr 17 21:43:42 »» Genevieve hands Oppenheimer pieces of charcoal to eat while this is going on.
  558. Apr 17 21:43:44 <Chase> "Hey there." he says. "Food? Awesome."
  559. Apr 17 21:44:15 <~zoofman> "Hey hun," she puts the food on one of the tables and gives ya a quick hug and kiss. Since she walked into the conversation, though, she takes a seat and listens in.
  560. Apr 17 21:45:13 <~zoofman> The Bomb gobbles it up like a Poketreat, and ruffs as a thanks. "...Is that from...the other side?"
  561. Apr 17 21:45:23 »» Rosetta eagerly grabs a soda and pops it open, taking a big gulp. "Anyway, uh, what was I saying? Right, Gabby, I was hopin' you and Chase could help talk to those Unown," She jerks a thumb at them, "and figure out what they represent."
  562. Apr 17 21:45:36 <Rosetta> "Oh yeah, I guess you might not have heard. They're parts of Alice's soul."
  563. Apr 17 21:46:02 <Rosetta> "The last bit is in that fantasy world, yeah, and to get it back we kinda need to do a process of elimination and figure out what part of her it represents."
  564. Apr 17 21:46:34 <Genevieve> "She is, yeah. Basically a Voltorb made of fire."
  565. Apr 17 21:46:49 <~zoofman> "They are. Parts of her soul."
  566. Apr 17 21:47:15 <Rosetta> "Oh, I caught one of those 'Chimera' monsters! I'll show you later, Gabby. Kinda hard to find space for him."
  567. Apr 17 21:47:34 <Rosetta> "And yeah, parts of her soul. Yeah, I know, just go with it, alright?"
  568. Apr 17 21:47:43 <Chase> "Yeaaaah, there's this whole thing with Alice that most people don't really know. She's only really being kept alive by another one of the Outer Gods."
  569. Apr 17 21:48:11 <~zoofman> "You caught wuh? Geez you guys been busy..." Well Gabby knows THAT by now, silly :P
  570. Apr 17 21:48:26 <Chase> He just had to make sure!
  571. Apr 17 21:48:53 <~zoofman> "So you guys want me to try to commune with it and see what it has to say or something?"
  572. Apr 17 21:48:56 <Chase> "Oya handled getting most of her well, life force-slash-soul back, and it's in the form of these cute little things."
  573. Apr 17 21:49:36 <Rosetta> "Anyway, the last part of her soul's stuck on some singer in the fantasy world, and the way to get it off is by bringing it stuff that resonates with whatever part of Alice's soul it represents."
  574. Apr 17 21:49:54 <Chase> He nods. "Sounds good. I'll help out too if need be." he goes ahead and binds Aura Guardian, then starts grabbing some torchic wings. Delicious.
  575. Apr 17 21:50:51 <Chase> "Now that we know it -isn't- just some big-ass dream in the Dream World, might as well just call it Hydaelyn now, right?"
  576. Apr 17 21:51:54 <Rosetta> "Shiny. While you're doing that, see if you can figure out if these are just made of Alice's memories, or if they're like...part of Shiva's dreams or something. I don't really get it all that well cause I haven't thought about it -too- much, but the kinds of Unown I call up are made of the Outer Gods' dreams, and that's different from an Unown made from human memories."
  577. Apr 17 21:51:56 <~zoofman> She brought Bouffalant, Teriyaki, Honey Barbeque, and something marked as 'Slugma Sauce.'
  578. Apr 17 21:53:35 <~zoofman> Gabriella hrms, beckoning the A Unown over. "I bet that'll be obvious real quick..."
  579. Apr 17 21:53:49 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I hope so too."
  580. Apr 17 21:54:22 <~zoofman> She locks eyes with the Unown and slumps into her chair, eyes still open and locked with the little guy. "A is for adolescence."
  581. Apr 17 21:55:00 <Rosetta> "I hope L isn't for lewd."
  582. Apr 17 21:55:47 <~zoofman> "Angst, anger, frustration...a girl realizing she has little to no say in the classes she'll take, the things she'll be trained for, and where and what she is permitted to do."
  583. Apr 17 21:56:43 <~zoofman> "This thing's a little bottlerocket of unhappy thoughts. Which is weird cause it looks...jolly?"
  584. Apr 17 21:56:56 <Rosetta> "A Unown always look like that."
  585. Apr 17 21:57:21 <Rosetta> "They're really dance-y and hyper compared to the other letters." Rosetta shrugs.
  586. Apr 17 21:57:52 <~zoofman> She sits back up as she releases her Channel on the Unown, fully concious now. "...I suddenly feel like hitting something really hard."
  587. Apr 17 21:58:01 <Chase> "A can also be for anticipation." he says after a moment, thinking, "Expecting things to improve. When you're down low, the only way to go is up, or ascend, even."
  588. Apr 17 21:59:45 <Chase> "Sheez, is it that imprinting? Take a break for a moment then, I'll handle the next one if you like."
  589. Apr 17 22:00:30 <~zoofman> "It's...pretty intense, yes. Don't get that sort of feedback from this thing, usually." She goes for a Slugma Sauce wing, herself
  590. Apr 17 22:00:43 <~zoofman> The box they come in is noticably tougher than the others, and the wings are steaming hot.
  591. Apr 17 22:00:43 <Rosetta> "Yeah, don't get too lost in there Gabby." :<
  592. Apr 17 22:00:55 <~zoofman> "That Letter needs a chill pill. Or a hug."
  593. Apr 17 22:01:43 <Rosetta> "Okay, uh, on to L I guess?" Rosetta looks to Chase as she grabs some teriyaki.
  594. Apr 17 22:02:00 <Chase> "Poor thing. Really, could apply to Alice in general given everything." He scarfs another quick honey barbecue wing, before wiping his mouth and then concentrating hard on the L unown.
  595. Apr 17 22:07:22 <Chase> "Seems like this L stands for... Love." he says after a moment, closing his eyes and concentrating with just his will. "Friends, family, her pokemon... She remembers Shiva, too." he says, after a moment. "She wanted to prove herself to her parents and rise beyond their expectations. Thor and Shiva... Shiva too - a gift from her dad, who said they were destined to meet. And then...
  596. Apr 17 22:07:22 <Chase> love let down, too." he says after a moment, opening his eyes. "Shit, man..." He frowns. "She really does need a hug."
  597. Apr 17 22:08:31 <Rosetta> "I hope I and C aren't this depressing."
  598. Apr 17 22:09:44 <~zoofman> "...Guess I'm up again?" Gabriella asks, wiping her face off with a wet wipe.
  599. Apr 17 22:10:07 <Rosetta> "If you're up for it, yeah. We can also finish eating if you'd like."
  600. Apr 17 22:10:38 <~zoofman> "I feel like living on the edge today." She focuses on the I Unown.
  601. Apr 17 22:11:52 <~zoofman> And then slumps. "I is for Innocence."
  602. Apr 17 22:13:04 <Genevieve> "You don't seem happy about that."
  603. Apr 17 22:14:09 <Chase> "There's probably a lot of ways that could go."
  604. Apr 17 22:14:29 <~zoofman> "...The outlook of a child. Not yet old enough to get a grasp of the world around them. And even after growing up, knowing little of the outside world. Seeing things from a cell phone screen, living in a small farm town, not knowing what lies beyond the trees...but wanting to know."
  605. Apr 17 22:15:18 <~zoofman> She blinks a few times, waking back up. "Huh? No...sorta refreshing. Not bad...Nodding off is just part of the trick," she says to Genevieve.
  606. Apr 17 22:16:50 <Chase> "Heh, yeah, you do sort of seem to go to sleep when you do that, come to think of it."
  607. Apr 17 22:17:21 <Chase> He focuses on the C, now.
  608. Apr 17 22:24:20 <~zoofman> Meanwhile, Gabriella continues to scarf down these Sluggy Wings. "So how exactly did you learn this performer on the other side has this E one?"
  609. Apr 17 22:25:17 <Chase> He smiles a bit as he concentrates. "C is for Creativity. She hid her interests and honed her musical talent by learning from the Kricketots, saved money for her own guitar, and generally did what she could to express herself. She took a stagnant situation and made the most of it."
  610. Apr 17 22:26:05 <Chase> He opens his eyes after a moment and thinks. "Hm, what could E be, then..." he wonders quietly.
  611. Apr 17 22:26:20 <~zoofman> Angst, Love, Innocence, Creativity. Together, they fight crime.
  612. Apr 17 22:26:23 <~zoofman> Okay maybe not really.
  613. Apr 17 22:26:31 <Chase> Wasn't it Adolescence?
  614. Apr 17 22:26:42 <~zoofman> (Don't both work? :P)
  615. Apr 17 22:27:32 <Chase> Either way, he thinks. "E could be Excitement, Emotion, Expression, or even Energetical."
  616. Apr 17 22:28:07 »» Rosetta tilts her head. "...Envy?"
  617. Apr 17 22:28:09 <Chase> "Oh, uh, we were shown a photograph of a performer that looks almost exactly like Alice, who had an E unown on her back. It wasn't that hard to piece it together, just a huge coincidence that paid off."
  618. Apr 17 22:28:41 <~zoofman> "This girl had daddy issues, love issues, and liked music a lot...that's all here. What's missin?"
  619. Apr 17 22:29:08 <~zoofman> "...Hm, that IS weird."
  620. Apr 17 22:29:38 <Rosetta> "We were told earlier that the last one was just under Grant's nose, and well, you don't get any more under his nose than on one of his performers."
  621. Apr 17 22:30:03 <~zoofman> "Why Envy?" She seems interested in Rosetta's suggestion. "I could see the ones Chase said making a lot of sense, but that was sorta different."
  622. Apr 17 22:30:09 <Chase> "She was always trying to get away from home." he notes. "Even before the accident, she went to shiverwing on her own. She practically became used to Connor hunting her down. She was adventurous and unafraid, after a point."
  623. Apr 17 22:30:19 <Chase> He hrms.
  624. Apr 17 22:30:42 <Genevieve> "Wouldn't Expression kind of fall under Creativity?"
  625. Apr 17 22:31:03 <Chase> "Maybe, but not necessarily."
  626. Apr 17 22:31:13 »» Rosetta shrugs. "You don't think she might've hoped to be in someone else's shoes at all during all of this? I didn't reallly catch that being expressed in the rest of the Unown, but..."
  627. Apr 17 22:31:18 <Rosetta> "I dunno, I've never been good with this sorta thing."
  628. Apr 17 22:31:19 <Chase> "Probably a bit too close though, yeah."
  629. Apr 17 22:33:30 <~zoofman> "...Do you really gotta know what that one letter is right just this moment though?"
  630. Apr 17 22:33:42 <Rosetta> "Uh, it'd help I guess?"
  631. Apr 17 22:33:50 <Chase> "Not really, I suppose."
  632. Apr 17 22:34:21 <Rosetta> "we've gotta go in with a plan for how to get it off. With the Unowns that were stuck together as weapons, we had to play a bunch of movies at them about glory and valor and all that shit."
  633. Apr 17 22:34:26 <Chase> He thinks a moment, murmuring, "Exploring...?" But shakes his head. "It's just something to think about."
  634. Apr 17 22:35:32 <~zoofman> "Ooooh....it's rough though, like, for all you know E stands for Explosions."
  635. Apr 17 22:36:11 <Rosetta> "Anyway, the Writer told me that she's seen Unown called from people's memories that took human form. And since this seems to be that, rather than the dreams of the Outer Gods dealie, then I think we have our answer about just what Steel Wing is."
  636. Apr 17 22:36:17 <Chase> "Basically, Gabs, we found someone on the other side that happened to know some of what was what and was looking into the company Grant has over there. We can trust the guy, and we're using his place as a base of operations. He's gotten us tickets to Steel Wing's next performance - that's who the girl is. We're trying to figure out how best to approach this given what we know,
  637. Apr 17 22:36:17 <Chase> and there's a lot we don't."
  638. Apr 17 22:36:35 <Rosetta> "Which makes our job tough. I think we'd literally undo her existence if we tried to 'uninscribe' the Unown or attach it to the rest."
  639. Apr 17 22:37:32 <Chase> "I'm almost curious what'd happen if we brought Alice herself face to face with this chick but that's even riskier."
  640. Apr 17 22:37:41 <Rosetta> "Yeah, let's not."
  641. Apr 17 22:38:26 »» Chase grabs another torchic wing and looks over to Gen. "You've been kinda quiet. You got any thoughts about this?"
  642. Apr 17 22:38:30 <~zoofman> "I'd make a joke about catching her but it's not exactly funny anymore..."
  643. Apr 17 22:39:25 <Genevieve> "We don't need to rush to action today. We can try to figure out what exactly E is for without really drawing attention."
  644. Apr 17 22:40:04 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I guess. So I guess doing what we're doing today once we get close enough?"
  645. Apr 17 22:40:36 <Chase> (Er, it's not tonight I think)
  646. Apr 17 22:40:41 <Chase> (IC)
  647. Apr 17 22:40:55 <Chase> (Zoof said just a couple days passed and we had a week)
  648. Apr 17 22:41:21 <~zoofman> (Well if you guys wanted to jump to that time you could, but yeah)
  649. Apr 17 22:43:25 <Chase> "That's the question, ain't it?"
  650. Apr 17 22:43:54 <~zoofman> "Let's assume you guys do end up kidnapping her or something though...what'd be the plan then, after you have all five pieces of the golden Mankey?"
  651. Apr 17 22:44:14 <Rosetta> "We, uh, use them to fix Alice. However that works."
  652. Apr 17 22:44:15 <Chase> "Honestly I think we'd be in a much better position to observe her if we went along with the 'faking wanting a job' thing, but that has its own issues. So does kidnapping."
  653. Apr 17 22:44:31 <Chase> "Can't you just glue the unowns together like you normally do?" he asks Rosetta.
  654. Apr 17 22:44:44 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I can, but I dunno if that's enough."
  655. Apr 17 22:44:44 <Chase> "And then like... just push them at her." he says, not really knowing how it works.
  656. Apr 17 22:45:00 <Rosetta> "I've never glued together parts of souls, or tried to glue together a person and their chain of Unown souls."
  657. Apr 17 22:46:12 <Chase> "I kind of assumed once we had all five and Alice in one place, things would sort of fix themselves, but if that's not the case... we could always ask Oya I guess."
  658. Apr 17 22:46:27 <~zoofman> "Maybe it's like one of those Russian dolls within dolls."
  659. Apr 17 22:46:28 <Rosetta> "I still have a question left, if it comes to that, yeah."
  660. Apr 17 22:46:36 <~zoofman> "You gotta shove all the Unowns into Steel Wing, then Steel Wing into Alice."
  661. Apr 17 22:47:32 <Chase> "Man, that'd be sort of silly and awkward. You'd basically have Alice in a body outside of her own at that point, I think? How would that even... man, my head hurts thinking about this stuff."
  662. Apr 17 22:48:00 <Chase> "I mean yeah, we could try that too, but point A to point B is the thing."
  663. Apr 17 22:48:04 <Rosetta> "Look, once we have all the pieces of her in one place, then we're pretty much free to figure out the last step on our own time."
  664. Apr 17 22:48:23 <~zoofman> "Either way this is gettin' big. It's really going to kick both Banisher and Grant in the dick once she's free, isn't it?"
  665. Apr 17 22:48:42 <Chase> "Yep. We still have the Voidmind to think about but I think this is the big power play."
  666. Apr 17 22:48:44 <Genevieve> "Maybe. Neither of them seem too concerned about her at the moment."
  667. Apr 17 22:49:34 <Rosetta> "I think that's cause both sides thought they'd have the temple taken, which everyone seems to think we'll need if we want to complete Alice or whatever."
  668. Apr 17 22:49:52 <Rosetta> "And right now they're sorta reeling from having a big lieutenant each taken captive, yeah?"
  669. Apr 17 22:51:36 <~zoofman> "...Well, either way, how you guys going to approach this chick?"
  670. Apr 17 22:51:42 <Chase> "Man, I feel bad for Hildibrand but what we're probably gonna end up doing is attending the show then winging our plans based on that, huh?"
  671. Apr 17 22:51:47 <Chase> He thinks.
  672. Apr 17 22:52:10 <Rosetta> "If we're gonna work as part of the show, we gotta be backstage people, I think."
  673. Apr 17 22:53:45 <Chase> "He said he could probably get us backstage passes. Hell if I know what I'd be doing if I wasn't looking for a playing part, though."
  674. Apr 17 22:54:09 <Chase> "Obviously we're not going to be hired for this event specifically either way. Not on this short a notice."
  675. Apr 17 22:54:16 <Rosetta> "Oh, if we just go as audience members with backstage access, that could work too. I mean, you just gotta be able to see her, yeah?"
  676. Apr 17 22:54:38 <Rosetta> "And like Gen said, we're not gonna do anything immediately anyway, just observe."
  677. Apr 17 23:09:11 <Chase> "Mm, I suppose. Are we taking these or not?" he asks, concerning the unowns.
  678. Apr 17 23:09:52 <Genevieve> "They're probably safer here."
  679. Apr 17 23:10:02 <Rosetta> "Yeah, let's leave them with Jenks again."
  680. Apr 17 23:14:21 <Chase> "Alright. On another note, these are some damn fine torchic wings. Thanks again for coming by and helping and bouncing ideas, Gabby." and he gestures around. "The food too. "
  681. Apr 17 23:14:38 <~zoofman> Alright, Gabby ended up crashing with Rosetta that night and you had somanywings left over. This said a few days pass and before you know it, it's the day this concert is going to happen
  682. Apr 17 23:17:16 <Rosetta> Presumably, within those few days we can learn enough about Steel Wing to pass as fans?
  683. Apr 17 23:17:43 <~zoofman> Nashu was planning to aquire masquerade outfits for you guys, but yes.
  684. Apr 17 23:19:00 <~zoofman> Either way, I presume you guys bridge the gap between worlds, and head over to The Manderville estate first, right?
  685. Apr 17 23:19:10 <Genevieve> Yes.
  686. Apr 17 23:19:15 <Rosetta> Yeah.
  687. Apr 17 23:21:25 <~zoofman> Alright, You find both Hildibrand and his lovely assistant pretty easily - seems they were waiting for you to arrive. Nashu has some would have provided you with clothing earlier in the week - very victorianesqe gowns and suit, but has a bag with her at the moment.
  688. Apr 17 23:22:08 <~zoofman> "Ah, our friends from the land of pocket monsters, how good of you to join us on this fine evening," Hildibrand greets you with his unusual bow.
  689. Apr 17 23:22:35 <Rosetta> "Heya." Rosetta waves as she approaches.
  690. Apr 17 23:22:43 »» Chase has certainly dressed up in the appropriate suit, looking damn fine in it.
  691. Apr 17 23:23:00 <Genevieve> "How are things going over here?"
  692. Apr 17 23:24:22 <Chase> "Greetings to you two, too." He gives a short bow of his own just to be polite and not look too out of place he hopes.
  693. Apr 17 23:24:45 <~zoofman> "Much the same as they have been," Hildibrand continues. "My memories return more and more by the day...not much concerning myself, but your world and its inhabitants."
  694. Apr 17 23:25:33 <Rosetta> "We'll have that info about you in our world compiled soon, I think. Just been thinking a bit more on today lately."
  695. Apr 17 23:25:42 <~zoofman> Nashu also adds. "The venue for the concert is the Golden Saucer - the casino in the city. So most the security there actually have no affiliation to Null Industries. I believe you have little to fear about blowing your cover today, especially with these,"
  696. Apr 17 23:25:57 <~zoofman> She opens the bag to hand you each a mask. Nondescript, white, masquerade masks.
  697. Apr 17 23:26:59 <~zoofman> "There is no rush, my friends," Hildibrand answers Rosetta. "A gentleman is always considerate of the plans and commitments of others."
  698. Apr 17 23:27:24 <Rosetta> "Shiny."
  699. Apr 17 23:27:26 <Chase> "Excellent to hear." he takes his mask, a liittle disappointed in how plain it is, but he supposes there's a utility in that. He tries to hide it as he puts it on.
  700. Apr 17 23:27:47 <Rosetta> "Oh, and I gotta ask for tips later for how to tame a Chimera. And I bet Chase is gonna ask about his Behemoth too."
  701. Apr 17 23:29:37 <~zoofman> Nashu is visibly nervous about this idea, but Hildibrand just gives a Saryx-tier silly grin. "Why, I could think of no better person to assist you in making gentlemen, or women, of your new companions."
  702. Apr 17 23:30:39 »» Genevieve takes her mask. "I think I've got the Bomb thing under control. I've basically raised one already."
  703. Apr 17 23:31:37 <Chase> He smiles. "Yeah, that'd be very helpful."
  704. Apr 17 23:31:41 <~zoofman> "Bombs are much easier to...domesticate, I hear, yes" Nashu manages.
  705. Apr 17 23:32:57 <~zoofman> "Anyhow, I suppose we should be off?" Hildibrand says.
  706. Apr 17 23:33:51 <Chase> "Yes, let's. I'm pretty excited to see the Golden Saucer myself after hearing about it..."
  707. Apr 17 23:34:26 <~zoofman> You barely get the word 'Yes' out before he's booking it at comical speed.
  708. Apr 17 23:34:54 <~zoofman> Nashu sighs and shakes her head. "I will show you the way, then."
  709. Apr 17 23:35:26 ---» castfromhp (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
  710. Apr 17 23:36:14 »» Chase stares.
  711. Apr 17 23:36:19 <Chase> "..thanks, Nashu."
  712. Apr 17 23:36:33 «--- Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Quit (Ping timeout)
  713. Apr 17 23:36:34 <~zoofman> Rosetta could have very easily gotten a bit more masculine outfit, sure.
  714. Apr 17 23:36:43 »» castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
  715. Apr 17 23:38:19 <~zoofman> Nashu leads you through the city, toward a building with a chain-pulled elevator as an entrance. It appears to be a tall building with a large, ovular top. Sort of like the Space Needle. There's a lot of lights from the windows to the structure.
  716. Apr 17 23:39:21 <~zoofman> She shows the tickets to a bouncer, who lets you guys in and up the elevator. At the top, you find yourselves in a fancy nightclub, more than a casino.
  717. Apr 17 23:39:49 <~zoofman> Sure there's tables for people to play cards, and other games, but there's also an open bar, dance floor, and a stage where some staff are setting up for the show.
  718. Apr 17 23:39:54 <~zoofman> Roll me Perception, guys
  719. Apr 17 23:40:10 <Genevieve> 2d6+5
  720. Apr 17 23:40:11 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, 2d6+5: 16 [2d6=6,5]
  721. Apr 17 23:40:21 <Chase> 3d6-2
  722. Apr 17 23:40:22 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 3d6-2: 7 [3d6=3,3,3]
  723. Apr 17 23:40:27 <Rosetta> 5d6+1
  724. Apr 17 23:40:27 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 5d6+1: 15 [5d6=4,3,1,3,3]
  725. Apr 17 23:41:49 <~zoofman> Chase spots Hildibrand trying not to stand out too much at the bar. And notices that almost everyone here is dressed as you are - white mask and all.
  726. Apr 17 23:42:08 <~zoofman> Genevieve and Rosetta, your eyes wander around the room with a bit more scrutiny. You notice the people, but also...
  727. Apr 17 23:43:13 <~zoofman> The staff seems to be setting up concert speakers, and running wire. And there's a Moogle on stage, with an Apple laptop tucked under one arm. You can totally recognize the logo and silver color.
  728. Apr 17 23:44:03 <~zoofman> This Moogle has thick rimmed black glasses, several scarves on, and a fedora with a hole for its pom.
  729. Apr 17 23:44:28 »» Genevieve decides to put on her mask, then.
  730. Apr 17 23:44:52 <Rosetta> "Oh bondeye, there are hipster moogles." Rosetta mutters through her mask.
  731. Apr 17 23:45:29 <~zoofman> "...Hipster Moo- Oh, yes, that's the Moogle whose managing Steel Wing, Puka
  732. Apr 17 23:45:35 <~zoofman> (Oops)
  733. Apr 17 23:45:46 »» Chase stares at the moogle when Rosetta points him out, but declines commenting.
  734. Apr 17 23:45:56 <~zoofman> "Puko Paku"
  735. Apr 17 23:46:13 <~zoofman> "...That device he's holding, it's Allagan technology, I believe. As are those..." She points to the speakers.
  736. Apr 17 23:46:36 <Rosetta> "Those are from our world."
  737. Apr 17 23:46:53 <Rosetta> "Exactly that kind of uh, we call them laptop computers."
  738. Apr 17 23:47:26 <~zoofman> "...They are?" She suddenly looks embarrased with her own take on their identity.
  739. Apr 17 23:47:33 <Genevieve> "I'm surprised it's even that useful over here."
  740. Apr 17 23:47:56 <Rosetta> "Well, I bet they can generate electricity easily with magic."
  741. Apr 17 23:48:27 <Rosetta> "...You know, I've got an idea if we can get Puko Paku away from that laptop for a while."
  742. Apr 17 23:49:01 <Rosetta> "If we can get him to set it down somewhere discreet and run a distraction, I could have Fugue hop in and read any information being kept on it."
  743. Apr 17 23:49:28 »» Chase hrms. "They can probably get away with calling a lot of things Allegan technology." he says quietly, but generally doesn't seem ready to MOVE IN just yet.
  744. Apr 17 23:50:45 <~zoofman> "A-anyway," Nashu continues, "I do have passes to get at least you three back stage...if you think a distraction to get him away from the device for a moment would help, I could motivate Hildibrand to think of something?"
  745. Apr 17 23:51:35 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I think just a distraction for a few minutes should be fine cause Fugue can also turn invisible."
  746. Apr 17 23:52:52 <~zoofman> She hands you three little black playing cards with red lettered text - the initials S.W. on them.
  747. Apr 17 23:53:05 <~zoofman> And then hurries over to try to get Hildibrand's attention.
  748. Apr 17 23:53:08 <Rosetta> "Shiny."
  749. Apr 17 23:53:43 »» Rosetta finds a more private place to let Fugue out and tell her to turn invisible and get ready to jump into a laptop.
  750. Apr 17 23:54:35 <Chase> "I'll mingle a little and just watch things play out. You know how I am with these things." he says sort of apologetically to Rose.
  751. Apr 17 23:55:16 <~zoofman> You could duck into the water closet real quick, or possibly teleport under a table when no one's looking. Or onto one of the chandeliers above.
  752. Apr 17 23:55:37 <Rosetta> Water closet and finding a stall seems like the best plan here.
  753. Apr 17 23:56:17 <~zoofman> Good enough!
  754. Apr 17 23:57:57 <~zoofman> By the time you get out, Hildibrand is approaching the stage. "I say, good Mogsir, that is quite the hat you have there. Just where, or who, did you find such an accessory?"
  755. Apr 17 23:59:13 <~zoofman> The Hipster Moogle has just finished setting up the laptop to a pre-amp for the speakers, and looks up to Hildibrand from its screen. "Oh, it's from Urban Outfitters...you wouldn't of heard of them."
  756. Apr 18 00:00:11 <~zoofman> Hildibrand continues to chat up the Moogle on its accessories, drawing its attention away from the laptop. The Moogle just hits a button to start playing some background music as he basks in the hipster attention.
  757. Apr 18 00:00:15 <~zoofman> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsyOTkknIs4
  758. Apr 18 00:00:56 <~zoofman> People in the casino seem a bit surprised at the sudden music coming from the speakers, but warm up to it once they realize it's a song.
  759. Apr 18 00:01:38 »» Rosetta gestures toward the laptop and hopes the invisible Fugue gets things done as she keeps a watch out for the Moogle returning.
  760. Apr 18 00:01:48 <~zoofman> "This is what I meant," Nashu speaks up to Gen and Chase while Rosetta does her thing. "That...device. It just makes music without any instruments needed."
  761. Apr 18 00:02:34 <Genevieve> "Hmm."
  762. Apr 18 00:03:13 <Genevieve> "It's more like, at one point, it recorded the music as it was played and is now playing it back. Like, uh, it has memory of its own."
  763. Apr 18 00:03:17 <~zoofman> Being Fugue's invisible, she has little issue slipping over and zipping into it. And before long she's suddenly zipping around your head again.
  764. Apr 18 00:03:36 <Genevieve> "Or like the phonograph you guys had, but a little different."
  765. Apr 18 00:03:43 <Chase> He nods, nodding his head along to it. "Yeah, we have things like this."
  766. Apr 18 00:03:54 <Rosetta> "Alright, back we go." Rosetta heads back to the WC and this time pulls out her cell phone in the stall. "Just download anything you've found into here for now." She whispers.
  767. Apr 18 00:05:31 <~zoofman> Nashu hrms. "Like a phonograph? That...makes sense, yes. Perhaps we percieved the truth to be more cryptic than it is, because of the nature of the device. It explains the noises that no instrument could make as well."
  768. Apr 18 00:05:47 <~zoofman> Fugue starts downloading the data to your phone - the majority of it seems to be scheduling.
  769. Apr 18 00:06:09 <~zoofman> Steel Wing has a few dozen concerts booked in locations you don't recognize, and then suddenly a pair of really weird ones.
  770. Apr 18 00:06:42 <~zoofman> The Anime Convention in Shiverwing, and opening for Lady Alvar in New Jamestown.
  771. Apr 18 00:08:16 <Rosetta> "..." Rosetta sighs. "Thanks Fugue, you did great." She recalls the Chandelure and gets back out, looking for Chase and Gen.
  772. Apr 18 00:08:18 »» Chase pauses as he listens to the lyrics then makes a face.
  773. Apr 18 00:08:37 <~zoofman> There's some notes scribbled with these events about how they are going to shock people and show the world what Grant's capable of and that sorta jargon. There's not much else super sensative here other than some evidence that they might have some sort of Intranet set up on this side. Mostly just messages to other Moogles via email.
  774. Apr 18 00:09:18 <~zoofman> Hildibrand returns to Chase and Gen. "I believe that distraction was sufficient...you seem disturbed, friend." He says to Chase.
  775. Apr 18 00:10:31 <Rosetta> "Thanks, Hildebrand. We got just what we wanted."
  776. Apr 18 00:11:08 <~zoofman> "Oh? And what was that, pray tell?"
  777. Apr 18 00:11:13 <Chase> "The lyrics to this song... seem awfully familiar.Some of it's also in a language from back home. I guess that's partly to be expected with everything else..."
  778. Apr 18 00:12:13 <~zoofman> It's straight up Kalosian, Chase.
  779. Apr 18 00:12:21 <Genevieve> "Grant's never seen a sci-fi movie, I guess. This is like textbook bad alien stuff."
  780. Apr 18 00:12:35 <Chase> He totally speaks and understands it fully, too!
  781. Apr 18 00:13:06 <Rosetta> "Well," Rosetta glances around to make sure no one's listening in before continuing quietly, "the schedule for Steel Wing definitely says she'll be in our world. Twice actually. The Shiverwing Anime Con, then a Lady Alvar concert."
  782. Apr 18 00:13:07 <~zoofman> Anyway, you guys thinking to head back stage or just wait till she comes out?
  783. Apr 18 00:13:23 <~zoofman> After this of course.
  784. Apr 18 00:14:07 <Genevieve> "Sounds like we should take care of this all before that happens, then."
  785. Apr 18 00:14:10 <Chase> "Oh shit." he says, responding to Rose. "Guess Grant really is giving her that out of this world tour. ...who the hell is organizing the convention, though, and how did they sneak her in, I wonder?"
  786. Apr 18 00:14:21 <~zoofman> The relevance of these words are lost on Nashu, Hildibrand hnnnghs and grabs his head. "...I know some of these words. I think."
  787. Apr 18 00:14:30 »» Rosetta shrugs. "Let's get a look at backstage before the show starts."
  788. Apr 18 00:15:04 <Chase> "And these songs have way too much to do with Alice than can really be coincidence..."
  789. Apr 18 00:15:31 <Chase> He nods at Hildibrand. "Kalosian. Not really too far off from our own native language, really."
  790. Apr 18 00:16:53 <Chase> "Hmm, going backstage now... sure, why not."
  791. Apr 18 00:17:53 <Genevieve> "Let's. Nothing here but Moogles thinking they're fancy."
  792. Apr 18 00:18:05 <~zoofman> "...Such as...moe? Oh, Kalosian too, I suppose." Hildibrand continues to dwell on these matters as you guys head back stage. All it takes is a quick flash of the card to a security guard and they let you on back.
  793. Apr 18 00:19:08 »» Chase strolls backstage!
  794. Apr 18 00:20:10 »» Genevieve heads backstage, too.
  795. Apr 18 00:21:07 »» Rosetta is close behind them
  796. Apr 18 00:22:50 <~zoofman> There's honestly not much going on at the moment - and it's pretty quiet compared to the other side. Lot of boxes and crates, sandbags for the curtains, racks of dresses and props.
  797. Apr 18 00:23:38 <~zoofman> While there's a few people running around trying to get stuff ready as last minute prep, roll me Tech Edu.
  798. Apr 18 00:23:52 <Chase> 2d6-2 lol
  799. Apr 18 00:23:53 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, lol: 6 [2d6=5,3]
  800. Apr 18 00:24:05 <Rosetta> 3d6+1 I've been meaning to raise this sometime
  801. Apr 18 00:24:06 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, I've been meaning to raise this sometime: 14 [3d6=4,3,6]
  802. Apr 18 00:24:56 <Genevieve> 6d6+5 ok
  803. Apr 18 00:24:56 <Chase> "I think if we were hoping to meet her we're a bit early." he says, giving a cursory glance around. He's sure to miss everything, probably.
  804. Apr 18 00:24:57 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, ok: 25 [6d6=6,1,3,4,4,2]
  805. Apr 18 00:25:04 <~zoofman> All of you, however, see a girl with a very striking resemblance to Alice - skin tone, eye and hair color, height, size, only real difference is she's got the ears and tail. She's wearing a backless, emerald colored dress. You can clearly see the E Unown.
  806. Apr 18 00:25:26 <Rosetta> "You were saying?"
  807. Apr 18 00:25:58 <~zoofman> Gen, you notice all the power cables are being funneled into a device that looks like a power generator - only instead of gas it has a purple crystal fastened into a slot in it.
  808. Apr 18 00:26:23 <~zoofman> Steel Wing is currently looking over her outfit in a mirror.
  809. Apr 18 00:27:56 »» Genevieve wanders over to the generator.
  810. Apr 18 00:28:28 <Chase> "Well, well."
  811. Apr 18 00:28:45 <Chase> He has a look over her with aura vision since they haven't approached her yet!
  812. Apr 18 00:29:14 <~zoofman> Her, or the Unown?
  813. Apr 18 00:29:26 <Chase> Both, really, but her first.
  814. Apr 18 00:33:21 »» Chase seems fairly impressed by something as he looks over her.
  815. Apr 18 00:33:27 <~zoofman> You get some curious glances from workers, Gen, but no one's stopped you yet.
  816. Apr 18 00:34:54 <Chase> <Escape.> he auras to Gen and Rosetta. <This unown is fantasy incarnate, independance, freedom, away from everything that was oppressing.>
  817. Apr 18 00:35:21 »» Rosetta nods.
  818. Apr 18 00:35:36 <Genevieve> "Interesting."
  819. Apr 18 00:37:19 »» Rosetta continues to take a look around, not wanting to be the one to approach Steel Wing.
  820. Apr 18 00:38:44 <~zoofman> There's a few muscians getting ready as well - a cello, a drummer with a drum set, brass instruments and wind instruments...
  821. Apr 18 00:38:46 <Chase> He decides to approach Steel Wing after a moment - it's going to look awkward if they all just stand there gawking. He has a smile on his face and turning on his charm as he nears her. "Miss Steel Wing? You're every bit as lovely as I imagined. I'd like to wish you a good performance tonight."
  822. Apr 18 00:41:25 <~zoofman> She hopped in place to face you as you approached. "Hah! Can't sneak up on me, got eyes on both sides of my head," she winks. "Just kidding. Saw you in the mirror!"
  823. Apr 18 00:41:55 <~zoofman> "Hehe, thanks! I hope it'll be memorable for everyone!"
  824. Apr 18 00:42:03 <Chase> He laughs at that.
  825. Apr 18 00:44:12 <Chase> <I can't tell if she and the unown are the same, but she has a very similar aura to Alice's.> he quickly passes along his thoughts to Rose and Gen. After letting Steel Wing speak, he says, "I'm a passing musician myself whose curiosity was piqued when I heard you on the phonograph. You have a very unique and flowing style.. looking very forward to seeing you perform tonight."
  826. Apr 18 00:44:12 <~zoofman> "Is this your first time attending one of my shows?"
  827. Apr 18 00:44:21 <Chase> He nods. "It is, sadly."
  828. Apr 18 00:44:37 <~zoofman> "Well then it's the best damn one you've seen yet." She nods with confidence and a cheesy grin.
  829. Apr 18 00:45:20 <~zoofman> "Hehe, my manager likes to pitch that my inspiration is truely out of this world. Silly moniker, I say."
  830. Apr 18 00:46:51 »» Aori_Radidjiu is now known as Aori_Radisleep
  831. Apr 18 00:47:26 <Genevieve> "Well, it's definitely something else." She says as she walks away from the generator to join Chase. "Very unique."
  832. Apr 18 00:47:48 <Chase> He grins, too. "Is it so silly? When you take Hydaelyn by storm with something no one's heard of, it can be pretty effective. You can call me Lavande, by the way." he says, not actually saying that's his name and dodging a falsehood in one swoop.
  833. Apr 18 00:50:00 <Rosetta> "Yeah, the whole setup for your show's definitely something new." Rosetta tries to chime in with as innoculous a statement as possible, to avoid being the weird silent one.
  834. Apr 18 00:51:04 <~zoofman> "You humble me with praise, Lavende. I'll make sure not to disapoint - a farmgirl can have some swing too, ya'know."
  835. Apr 18 00:51:28 <Chase> "You're a farmgirl, are you?" he asks with curiosity. "Where from?"
  836. Apr 18 00:53:10 <~zoofman> "Reaaally far...like Vana'diel far. Some dinky Miqote village I'm sure you've never heard of, hehe."
  837. Apr 18 00:55:18 <Chase> He smiles. "Well, you seem like you fit the city life quite well, I'd say. Not everyone gets the chance to escape their old lives and live the dream. I happen to know the feeling myself. I'm certainly not the same man I was two years, or even six months ago."
  838. Apr 18 01:00:21 <~zoofman> "Ah. You killed them and took their identities. I see." She pounds a hand into her fist, and nods. Clearly joking about that. "I've certainly enjoyed myself since arriving here, that's for sure."
  839. Apr 18 01:02:38 <Chase> 6d6+6 What can I intuition about her reaction, anyway? She seems to be enjoying talking with a new fan but I want to realize it if I start to weird her out or overstay my welcome back here.
  840. Apr 18 01:02:39 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, What can I intuition about her reaction, anyway? She seems to be enjoying talking with a new fan but I want to realize it if I start to weird her out or overstay my welcome back here.: 23 [6d6=6,2,3,1,4,1]
  841. Apr 18 01:04:32 <~zoofman> She seems pretty happy to talk but her eyes keep darting to the curtains, namely the silhouette of a certain hipster.
  842. Apr 18 01:05:53 <Chase> He follows her glance, too. "Ah, it's probably almost time for the show to start, yes? I should know better myself than to keep you tied up, I think."
  843. Apr 18 01:06:34 <~zoofman> "Yeah my manager will be upset if I'm not ready, sorry! It was good meeting you all, though!"
  844. Apr 18 01:07:09 <Genevieve> "Good luck."
  845. Apr 18 01:07:32 <Chase> "Of course, it was a pleasure meeting you." he grins. "Perhaps this won't be the last time, either.."
  846. Apr 18 01:07:37 <Rosetta> "Looking forward to the show!"
  847. Apr 18 01:09:14 »» Chase starts to head out if that's all! He got his own initial impression.
  848. Apr 18 01:09:23 <~zoofman> "Long as you don't steal my identity next!" She laughs and gets back to preparing for the show.
  849. Apr 18 01:09:46 <Chase> "No promises." he jokes. ...Or is he?
  850. Apr 18 01:13:13 <~zoofman> You guys make your way back out front, where Hildibrand and Nashu were waiting for you three to return.
  851. Apr 18 01:15:56 <Chase> "Well that was interesting..."
  852. Apr 18 01:17:09 <Rosetta> "Yeah. Guess we enjoy the show now? Not much else to do at the moment. Maybe pick up an autograph or something afterwards and bring it back."
  853. Apr 18 01:18:12 <Chase> "It's tough to say what her situation is, really. She's got some really, really strong similarities to Alice in a lot of ways, but she didn't outright lie about where she was from, so either she really is or she believes it." He also quickly explains the extent of her aura to Rose and Gen - though Hildibrand and Nashu probably wouldn't get it. "That said I'm not entirely certain
  854. Apr 18 01:18:12 <Chase> what approach we should take..."
  855. Apr 18 01:19:28 »» Rosetta pulls down her collar and tugs gently on her necklace chain. "This might do it, but we need more of a plan than that."
  856. Apr 18 01:20:11 <~zoofman> Hildibrand and Nashu think on these matters as well. "What piece of information, or clue, would you require, to determine if she is an avatar of this Unown or truely a person inscribed?"
  857. Apr 18 01:21:24 <Chase> "Possibly pieces of her history." he remarks. "I don't know if they do birth certificates or anything, but if there's proof she existed before the point that unown would have come into existance..."
  858. Apr 18 01:22:09 <Rosetta> "Yeah, a background check would be good here. I doubt Grant would've thought it necessary to falsify her history in detail."
  859. Apr 18 01:22:20 <Chase> "If she is an avatar, though, then I think her memories may have been messed with - which isn't out of Grant's league either but it implies he knows."
  860. Apr 18 01:22:49 <Chase> "In which case I wonder if he wants Steel Wing to subsume Alice instead of the other way around..."
  861. Apr 18 01:22:51 <Rosetta> "If it's escape, you don't think it could just be her own will changing the memories to those she'd find more pleasant anyway?"
  862. Apr 18 01:22:56 <~zoofman> "...A...birth certificate?" Nashu says, tilting her head.
  863. Apr 18 01:22:58 <Chase> "Maybe..."
  864. Apr 18 01:23:11 <Rosetta> "What better form of escapism than changing who even you think you are?"
  865. Apr 18 01:23:13 <Chase> "Yeah, don't worry about it."
  866. Apr 18 01:23:16 »» Chase says to Nashu
  867. Apr 18 01:24:05 <Rosetta> "At this point though, I think odds are she's the Unown herself. If she isn't, what we do is much easier, so let's plan as if she is."
  868. Apr 18 01:24:07 <Chase> "This is a tricky situation."
  869. Apr 18 01:25:10 <Rosetta> "Let's talk 'bout it after the show? Might as well enjoy ourselves, and maybe we'll notice something else once the concert starts."
  870. Apr 18 01:25:13 <Chase> "Well, we'd probably have to confront her about who and what she is - though given that unown represents the concept of Escapism that's a tough one."
  871. Apr 18 01:25:17 »» Chase nods. "Yeah."
  872. Apr 18 01:25:49 <Genevieve> "We have until she pops over for the first show on our side, so we can afford to think it through."
  873. Apr 18 01:26:30 <~zoofman> Hildibrand hrms. "Yes, let us dwell on this. Though do not rule out the possibility of creating our own opportunities as well. Such as...inviting her to take part in a charity event if she has the time?" Anyhow, I believe the show will soon begin.
  874. Apr 18 01:26:37 <Rosetta> "I was actually thinking we could wait until that first show. Huge risk, huge payoff. I'll explain later."
  875. Apr 18 01:29:55 <~zoofman> The lanterns in the casino are dimmed as an electrical spotlight is shined on the stage. The curtains open to reveal Steel Wing and the musicians that will be performing with her. Her manager, the hipster moogle, moves his laptop over to the side, where he appears ready to work with any electronic sounds for the performance.
  876. Apr 18 01:30:00 <Chase> He thinks on Hildibrand's words a bit, weighing the benefits in his head as he waits for the show.
  877. Apr 18 01:30:41 <~zoofman> Steel Wing seems to have a headset mic on, so the music begins almost as soon as the curtains open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1KzpthAtM
  878. Apr 18 01:31:18 <~zoofman> And, if you guys are looking to think more on this and prepare to respond later, it might be an ideal stopping point.
  879. Apr 18 01:34:36 <Chase> Alright, then!
  880.  
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  883. Apr 21 20:00:38 <zooftop> you cow eye onichins ready?
  884. Apr 21 20:01:54 »» Kain is now known as Chase
  885. Apr 21 20:02:19 <Chase> (Probably not ;-;)
  886. Apr 21 20:06:11 <zooftop> well while we wait on the others, Chase
  887. Apr 21 20:06:21 <zooftop> you wanted to approach Steel Wing after the show, yes?
  888. Apr 21 20:06:22 »» Domovoi is now known as Genevieve
  889. Apr 21 20:07:31 »» castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
  890. Apr 21 20:08:13 <Chase> Oh right, yeah.
  891. Apr 21 20:09:11 »» Chase heads backstage once again shortly after the show's over!
  892. Apr 21 20:09:33 <zooftop> Okay let's briefly start there then. After she does her set of songs and gets her standing applause, she retreats back stage again, where you have access to.
  893. Apr 21 20:10:54 <Chase> Yep. And back there he goes.
  894. Apr 21 20:11:30 <zooftop> She's currently cooling off in a chair and sipping some water, not exactly elegantly as she's sort of sprawled out in the chair.
  895. Apr 21 20:14:42 <Chase> He gives a bit of applause of his own as he approaches her sitting down. "Yo... Every bit as impressed as I thought I'd be. You did a damn good job out there..." he says.
  896. Apr 21 20:17:29 <zooftop> She suddenly sits herself up more elegantly as you approach - seems you surprised her. "Really? Ehehehe. Glad you enjoyed it!"
  897. Apr 21 20:21:24 <Chase> He grins. "I did... which brings me to something else - I heard you were looking for a partner. Like I said, I'm a bard myself, and I have a feeling I'd be able to match your style, or get pretty close.... It might be nice to try and apply for that." he muses.
  898. Apr 21 20:24:25 <zooftop> "Really now. My manager had to search far and wide just to find muscicians that could match my style - let alone a fellow vocalist."
  899. Apr 21 20:27:17 <Chase> He laughs. "Well I'm definitely not local myself, and I happen to consider myself to be able to fit a wide variety of ranges.. How would I keep in touch if I was interested?"
  900. Apr 21 20:27:55 <zooftop> Meanwhile, Gen, Rosetta, Hildibrand is currently sipping a gin and tonic and eyeing that Moogle Hipster suspiciously. "Something is amiss with that furry little devil."
  901. Apr 21 20:28:53 <Rosetta> "I dunno how Moogles are 'sposed to act. Whatcha mean?"
  902. Apr 21 20:29:58 <zooftop> Steel Wing hrms, and then reaches for her purse - and pulls out a little purple sack.
  903. Apr 21 20:30:24 <Genevieve> "He's a hipster."
  904. Apr 21 20:30:56 <zooftop> From it she withdraws a bracelet with several little pearls on it. "Members of our group use this linkshell to communicate. I'm not supposed to hand these out willy nilly, but..."
  905. Apr 21 20:31:03 <zooftop> She offers you the bracelet.
  906. Apr 21 20:31:29 <Rosetta> "What does that mean here though? That Grant's brought Earth culture here and taught the Moogles under his command? Or that the Moogle over there is a guy from Earth in disguise?"
  907. Apr 21 20:31:30 <zooftop> Hildibrand hrms. "His attire is one thing. His presence here is another. Moogles, traditionally, are a very neutral force in our world."
  908. Apr 21 20:31:39 <Chase> "I appreciate it." he smiles and takes it. "I promise you, good things are gonna come from this."
  909. Apr 21 20:34:12 <Chase> He looks over his shoulder a bit, and then back at her. "By the way, you don't gotta act proper if you don't want." he comments about her correcting her posture. "Your image is safe with me, girl." he laughs. "Your music's got class but sometime we all just gotta kick back."
  910. Apr 21 20:35:21 <zooftop> "Mmmm...It's mostly carry over from how I was raised - Dad was -very- strict about appearances."
  911. Apr 21 20:36:04 <Rosetta> "Well, maybe we should look into what else Grant's been doing with Moogles? Like if he had to do with the Moogle Primal awakening."
  912. Apr 21 20:37:30 <zooftop> Hildibrand: "It would be a puzzling development. But then again you did attest to him having a Tonberry amongst his leadership."
  913. Apr 21 20:37:45 <zooftop> "Perhaps an investigation into the current state of Mog affairs is in order?"
  914. Apr 21 20:38:01 <Genevieve> "That something you could put together?"
  915. Apr 21 20:38:09 <Genevieve> "I mean, you are a detective, right?"
  916. Apr 21 20:39:03 «--- Chase (DDK@sux-9FA1ED13.lightspeed.jcsnms.sbcglobal.net) has Quit (No route to host)
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  918. Apr 21 20:39:26 »» Ambrosia is now known as Chase
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  920. Apr 21 20:40:29 <zooftop> "It is indeed." ZOOM. He bolts to the bar, pays his tab, and then leaves the Golden Saucer.
  921. Apr 21 20:41:00 <Rosetta> "..." Rosetta looks around for Nashu.
  922. Apr 21 20:41:01 <zooftop> "I think you inspired him to begin preparations for travel," Nashu explains.
  923. Apr 21 20:41:09 <Rosetta> "Is he always like this?"
  924. Apr 21 20:41:45 <zooftop> "Well, he's actually listening long enough for context and clues at least now, but more or less yes."
  925. Apr 21 20:42:57 <Chase> "Ooh, yeah. I had a pretty strict dad, too. Don't think he approved of my career choice, but what he thinks now? Hard to say. There's a fine line between the whole desire to make your parents proud, and the freedom to do what you've always wanted, yeah? No reason you can't have both, though." He gives a bit of a knowing grin. "Anyway, thanks Steel Wing. I'm sure we'll see each
  926. Apr 21 20:42:57 <Chase> other again before too long."
  927. Apr 21 20:43:01 <Rosetta> "Least he gets things done I guess?" Rosetta gets up. "We have to wait for Chase, but uh, should we follow him or just wait back at the estate?"
  928. Apr 21 20:43:08 <Genevieve> "Good. Between the two of you, I don't think we could ask for anyone better to help keep this side in check."
  929. Apr 21 20:44:01 <zooftop> "If I had to wager, he went to purchase tickets for air travel," Nashu guesses.
  930. Apr 21 20:44:20 <Rosetta> "It'd be that far to look into this?"
  931. Apr 21 20:44:43 <zooftop> "It would be, yes. The Moogles homeland is by a neighboring city-state."
  932. Apr 21 20:45:27 <zooftop> Steel Wing gives that some thought, then returns to sprawling out. "Well what he doesn't know can't hurt him anyway, hrmph. Until next we meet!"
  933. Apr 21 20:45:32 <zooftop> She waves you off :D!
  934. Apr 21 20:46:34 »» Chase waves and goes to rejoin the others.
  935. Apr 21 20:47:46 <zooftop> "The venture would have us there by the morning, at the least. And I don't believe it would impede your travel home either as there are, of course, Aitherite Plazas there as well."
  936. Apr 21 20:47:55 <Chase> He quickly slips back to Rose and the others. "Hey, guys."
  937. Apr 21 20:48:34 <Chase> "I managed to get a Linkshell from Steel Wing." he says, remembering the context of Hildibrand comparing them to cell phones.
  938. Apr 21 20:48:40 <Rosetta> "Hey. Hildibrand ran off, so we should probably head out ourselves about now."
  939. Apr 21 20:49:01 <Chase> "Yeah, guess it's about time... why was he in a hurry?"
  940. Apr 21 20:49:51 <Rosetta> "We gave him the idea of looking into the Moogles and their connection with Grant, and he...sorta took off."
  941. Apr 21 20:50:12 <Chase> "Huh. Guess we're getting into that next, then."
  942. Apr 21 20:50:55 <Chase> "Let's get going, then."
  943. Apr 21 20:51:15 <zooftop> "He is rather hard to lose track of, at least. I imagine at the least we would run into him if we left soon."
  944. Apr 21 20:51:51 <Genevieve> "I think we're done here, yeah? Enough to know what to work on next."
  945. Apr 21 20:52:03 <Chase> He nods at Gen.
  946. Apr 21 20:53:06 <Rosetta> "Yeah. Let's get going?" Rosetta starts toward the door.
  947. Apr 21 20:53:18 »» Chase follows!
  948. Apr 21 20:53:56 <zooftop> Alright, do you guys check the airport first as Nashu suggested?
  949. Apr 21 20:54:04 <Chase> Sounds about right.
  950. Apr 21 20:54:32 <Genevieve> Yes.
  951. Apr 21 20:54:40 <Rosetta> Sure, wynaut.
  952. Apr 21 20:55:53 <zooftop> You find Hildibrand standing by a streetlamp near the airport, looking over an envelope full of tickets. "Hm...last flight out will have to do. We'll be there by - ah, there you are."
  953. Apr 21 20:59:03 <Rosetta> "Hey. Guess Nashu was right."
  954. Apr 21 20:59:19 <zooftop> "I felt intuition alone would lead you here - if we are to pursue a lead relating to the Mog-variety, Gridania and the Twelveswood would be our destination."
  955. Apr 21 21:00:23 <Genevieve> "Where is that from here, anyway?"
  956. Apr 21 21:00:41 <Chase> "Is there anything we should know about this place, exactly?"
  957. Apr 21 21:01:09 <zooftop> "Due northeast. Gridania is a cozy, argicultural settlement in the heart of the largest forest in Eorzea - The Shroud, also known as The Twelveswood."
  958. Apr 21 21:01:39 <zooftop> "It is said the Moogles have a village hidden in the woods, the question is...where, exactly. It is a Moogle-bound secret."
  959. Apr 21 21:01:57 <Chase> "So uh, is this going to be a problem then?" he wonders.
  960. Apr 21 21:03:13 <zooftop> "It simply means we will have to do some ground work."
  961. Apr 21 21:03:50 <zooftop> "Good King Moggle Mog the 12th - may his short lived reign be remembered fondly - was struck down in this village, as rumors dictate."
  962. Apr 21 21:03:56 <zooftop> "What do you think this would imply?"
  963. Apr 21 21:04:12 <Rosetta> "That means all the adventurers who killed him knew where this place was."
  964. Apr 21 21:04:26 <Genevieve> "Mog security could use some upgrades?"
  965. Apr 21 21:04:33 <Rosetta> "Either that or when he awakened, it made it clear where it was?"
  966. Apr 21 21:05:00 <zooftop> "Aaaah, The Good Doctor is close to what I imply."
  967. Apr 21 21:05:19 <zooftop> Roll me intituion if you wish!
  968. Apr 21 21:05:31 <Rosetta> "So it's not much of a secret?" Rosetta tilts her head.
  969. Apr 21 21:05:36 <Chase> 6d6+6
  970. Apr 21 21:05:36 <Rosetta> 1d6-1 oh sure let's go for the 0
  971. Apr 21 21:05:36 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, 6d6+6: 28 [6d6=2,5,6,4,3,2]
  972. Apr 21 21:05:36 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, oh sure let's go for the 0: 4 [1d6=5]
  973. Apr 21 21:05:53 <zooftop> Rosetta imagines a giant, glowy KILL ME pompom.
  974. Apr 21 21:05:55 <Genevieve> 2d6+1 better than Rose please.
  975. Apr 21 21:05:56 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, better than Rose please.: 8 [2d6=4,3]
  976. Apr 21 21:06:16 <zooftop> Gen imagines he's hinting at something relating to how this information leaked
  977. Apr 21 21:06:28 <zooftop> Chase, not to racially profile you, but you think he's implying a snitch.
  978. Apr 21 21:07:16 »» Chase scratches his head. "You seem to be pretty fond of this Primal. I thought that was kind of unusual. Then again I guess he's associated with the Moogles rather than the Beastmen. Either way, it sounds like not all of these moogles are keeping this secret."
  979. Apr 21 21:08:22 <zooftop> Nashu mmms. "Well, the legends behind King Mog weren't bad. But I think you have a skewed perception of what conjuring him as a Primal implies."
  980. Apr 21 21:08:34 <zooftop> "Primals are twisted by nature, and employ mind control and other oppressive means to gather power."
  981. Apr 21 21:08:44 <zooftop> Huh, sounds like someone you know doesn't it.
  982. Apr 21 21:09:15 <Chase> "Sounds familiar enough." he says a bit sourly, remembering the Banisher - and hell, Grant too in general.
  983. Apr 21 21:09:41 <Rosetta> "So even a Primal for a benevolent race would be...corrupt?"
  984. Apr 21 21:09:44 <zooftop> Hildibrand goes on. "I reckon if a Moogle leaked this information to mortals, they would have made themselves a pariah of their kind. And he is likely in hiding."
  985. Apr 21 21:10:02 <Chase> "So anyway, we'll be looking for an informant willing to tell us where the village is. Aaaand yeah, he's not going to be in any easy to reach location huh."
  986. Apr 21 21:10:29 <Chase> "Maybe in exile elsewhere in the forest?"
  987. Apr 21 21:10:50 <zooftop> Nashu nods. "There's a story of one called Odin birthed from the legends of men and elves, who is known as a horsemen of death and destruction. They, without fail, are corrupted entities in this world."
  988. Apr 21 21:11:57 <zooftop> "Some scholars even imagine our own Gods, if brought into the mortal realm, would be no different, but...not really important now, I guess?"
  989. Apr 21 21:11:57 <Rosetta> "Couldn't we also find someone who was present at the battle? I mean, they've gotta be pretty well known for this now, yeah?"
  990. Apr 21 21:12:29 <zooftop> Hildibrand nods. "I imagine we could with some ground work, find someone with ties to these individuals who put him down, or a lead to the traitor of Mog-kind."
  991. Apr 21 21:14:05 <Chase> He thinks. "The moogle would probably be a better all-around informant, wouldn't he? He'd probably have some context of his own about the event that adventurers might not. Or maybe I'm just assuming that. Either way we know where we're starting, so we had better not miss our flight out."
  992. Apr 21 21:14:31 »» Genevieve tries to activate symbolsight to see if it works on this side.
  993. Apr 21 21:14:33 <zooftop> Either way we'll assume by now you guys are boarding your ride out - it's a comfy travel vessel, and honestly looks more like a boat with propellers for flight than an airship. There isn't much for private quarters, but there is a commons room with hammocks and benches.
  994. Apr 21 21:14:34 <Rosetta> "When is the flight anyway? You were sayin' something about 'last flight out' when we got here."
  995. Apr 21 21:14:44 <Chase> (Slowsetta)
  996. Apr 21 21:15:30 <Rosetta> (s-shut up)
  997. Apr 21 21:15:38 <zooftop> Gen, it works as it does normally for you three from Earth. HIldibrand has one too, but it's more...just a white glow about him, more auraish.
  998. Apr 21 21:15:45 <zooftop> Nashu doesn't have anything about her.
  999. Apr 21 21:16:12 <Genevieve> "Looks like symbols work here. If I see anything that looks Mog related, I'll let you guys know."
  1000. Apr 21 21:17:34 <Chase> "Gotcha."
  1001. Apr 21 21:17:38 <Chase> "Thanks, Gen."
  1002. Apr 21 21:17:46 <Rosetta> "Shiny."
  1003. Apr 21 21:18:10 <zooftop> The night passes peacefully as you guys fly across the region. In the morning you find yourselves landing in Gridania - a cozy little forest town that doesn't really compare to anything back home. Several of the buildings look made from hollowed out trees, and you can hear the sound of folks sawing lumber not far off.
  1004. Apr 21 21:19:00 <zooftop> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuX-NnYZ4WE
  1005. Apr 21 21:20:08 <Chase> He pops his neck as he gets off the airship. "Nice place... Even Venomtalon was less rural than this. It's got a tranquil air to it." he says, looking around.
  1006. Apr 21 21:20:11 <Chase> er
  1007. Apr 21 21:20:21 <Chase> (Actually yeah he said it right)
  1008. Apr 21 21:21:14 <Rosetta> "This is a pretty shiny place. I like the tree-houses."
  1009. Apr 21 21:22:34 <zooftop> "Nature is very important to the folk here. Which was part of why the Moogle's bringing forth a Primal was so disturbing. Even the prominant beastmen tribe here is more passive than others," Nashu says as she yawns and stretches.
  1010. Apr 21 21:22:48 <zooftop> Hildibrand hrms, "I suppose we should begin our investigation, then."
  1011. Apr 21 21:24:27 <zooftop> Hildibrand has his own ideas on how to approach this, but how about you three?
  1012. Apr 21 21:25:34 <Genevieve> "How should be proceed, detective?"
  1013. Apr 21 21:25:39 <Genevieve> *should we
  1014. Apr 21 21:25:39 <Chase> Hmm...
  1015. Apr 21 21:26:32 <Chase> "We could ask around about..." he thinks of a way to put it nicely. "A moogle hermit, maybe, if we want to go that route. But maybe that's a little obvious..."
  1016. Apr 21 21:26:53 <zooftop> "I reckon listening to the tales and boasts of Adventurers who reside here would be a good start, myself."
  1017. Apr 21 21:27:26 <zooftop> "Or perhaps rely on the tells from your own world, those relevant to Grant himself. If the Moogles are in league with him..."
  1018. Apr 21 21:28:33 <Chase> "Alright, I guess we'll just keep an eye out for pieces of information of interest."
  1019. Apr 21 21:28:36 <Rosetta> "Let's split this up a bit. I reckon I can probably identify any tells from Unown influence, and someone else could listen in on adventurers around here?"
  1020. Apr 21 21:30:07 <Genevieve> "Sure. Maybe I'll let Oppenheimer get some airtime out in her natural habitat."
  1021. Apr 21 21:31:48 <Chase> Chase nods. "Alright, we'll meet back up here in a bit then."
  1022. Apr 21 21:33:27 <zooftop> Much like Uld'ah, Gridania has a hub and tavern of sorts aimed for Adventurers. It also has several guilds for craftsmen and warriors a like - Leatherworkers, Botanists, Carpenters, Archers, Lancers, and Conjurers.
  1023. Apr 21 21:33:59 <zooftop> It also has an outdoor amphitheater.
  1024. Apr 21 21:34:18 <Rosetta> "Sounds shiny." Rosetta finds a secluded place to let Rhapsody out of the Poke Card and puts the chocobo chick on her head before searching for signs of ROON around the village. Starting from places that are magic-associated like the Conjurers Guild where they'd be easier to hide and blend in.
  1025. Apr 21 21:34:59 <zooftop> Lemee see what each of you is thinking to act on before I start asking for rolls! :3
  1026. Apr 21 21:35:29 »» Genevieve likewise finds a place to let her Bomb out, then walks around town looking for Symbols that might be Mog related.
  1027. Apr 21 21:35:34 <Chase> Let's mingle a bit with adventurers.
  1028. Apr 21 21:36:57 <zooftop> Roll me Occult Education, Rosetta. Gen as well. Chase, roll me Charm.
  1029. Apr 21 21:37:20 <Rosetta> 4d6+1
  1030. Apr 21 21:37:21 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 4d6+1: 19 [4d6=6,3,4,5]
  1031. Apr 21 21:37:32 <Genevieve> 7d6+5 with another 2 if related to Divinites
  1032. Apr 21 21:37:33 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, with another 2 if related to Divinites: 27 [7d6=1,4,3,5,3,3,3]
  1033. Apr 21 21:39:34 <zooftop> A brief stop at the Conjurers guild makes it really apparantly Moogles are highly respected here, even after their actions. You speak with a White Mage there and learn that they mainly attribute what happened to an extremist group called the Mogglesguard who feared the woods would fall into chaos due to activities in the region as a whole.
  1034. Apr 21 21:40:03 <Chase> 6d6+6 whoops
  1035. Apr 21 21:40:04 <DiceMaid-9001> Chase, whoops: 27 [6d6=4,4,5,4,1,3]
  1036. Apr 21 21:40:34 <zooftop> Gen, you notice that there ARE quite a few Moogles around here. Mail couriers, general helpers, and even a bunch of them preparing for a performance at the Ampethiator. They seem to do a lot of their heavy lifting via magic that looks similar to a mix of fae acts and telekinetics.
  1037. Apr 21 21:41:20 <zooftop> You both notice that the Moogles you see around town have a lot of unusual accessories - berrets and scarves and armbands with a runic logo on them.
  1038. Apr 21 21:42:19 <zooftop> Chase, while mingling with the Adventurers, you learn there's a guy who boasts to have fought several primals already, including being present at the regicide of Good King Mog, and he's currently working at a lumbermill not far off.
  1039. Apr 21 21:43:38 <Chase> They got a name or description of the guy?
  1040. Apr 21 21:44:19 <zooftop> He's a Roegadyn with a fishermen's hat.
  1041. Apr 21 21:45:04 <zooftop> You get a name from one of the Adventurers, Trachtoum.
  1042. Apr 21 21:45:25 »» Rosetta finds a secluded corner then, and lets out ZODIAC. "Do you sense any other Unown around here?" She asks.
  1043. Apr 21 21:46:14 <Chase> He files that information away for a bit and continues hanging around until it's time to meet back up with the others, then!
  1044. Apr 21 21:47:03 <zooftop> ZODIAC looks to and fro for a bit, and bobs up and down as a 'yes'.
  1045. Apr 21 21:49:48 ---» castfromhp (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Joined #easternislesrhapsody
  1046. Apr 21 21:49:53 «--- Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Quit (Ping timeout)
  1047. Apr 21 21:50:02 <castfromhp> "Sorry in advance." Rosetta reaches up and grabs ZODIAC and tries to press him into a compressed stack of Unown to be easier to conceal. "I can't really let you be seen out around here." She takes out a small pad of paper and a pen, holding the pen to the paper. "If you don't mind too much, just move this pen and use it to point me towards where they are instead of doing your usual compa
  1048. Apr 21 21:50:07 <castfromhp> ss thing."
  1049. Apr 21 21:50:09 <castfromhp> !dm9001 lastlines #10
  1050. Apr 21 21:50:35 »» castfromhp is now known as Rosetta
  1051. Apr 21 21:51:03 <zooftop> He flails about for a bit then grumps and droops. He does as you ask, and...you realize why you missed it, really.
  1052. Apr 21 21:51:53 <zooftop> There's quite a few sentry runes around town at key locations - the guilds, the ampitheater, several key intersections, and they've had potted plants and wooden sculpturs and such put in front of them, to block their view.
  1053. Apr 21 21:52:39 »» Rosetta tries her best to look like she's taking a look around for other reasons as she notes the location of these! No good looking suspicious here.
  1054. Apr 21 21:54:18 »» Genevieve heads back to the others.
  1055. Apr 21 21:56:14 <zooftop> Hildibrand and Nashu eventually meet back up with you as well - seems they got caught up in a case of a missing Moogle, only to find out it was a stuffed toy when they found it. "Well at least the child was happy we found it."
  1056. Apr 21 21:57:21 <Chase> "Seems like there's an adventurer who was present you-know-when up north at a lumber camp." he says, happy he got a little information. "Sound like a good lead?"
  1057. Apr 21 21:58:26 <Rosetta> To clarify, Mogglesguard is the group that supposedly summoned King Moggle Mog?
  1058. Apr 21 21:58:37 <zooftop> Yes, Rosetta.
  1059. Apr 21 21:59:23 <Genevieve> "Yeah, that'd be perfect."
  1060. Apr 21 21:59:33 »» Rosetta checks for runes around the area first before speaking up. "There's an extremist group 'round here called Mogglesguard who seem to have orchestrated the whole awakening thing. My bet's that they're with Grant, cause this whole town is covered in sentry runes."
  1061. Apr 21 22:00:06 <Chase> "The things you can see and hear out of? ...why -here-?" he wonders quietly. "...there's none around here are there?"
  1062. Apr 21 22:00:10 <zooftop> Hildibrand tilts his head, "Huuuh? I saw nothing of the sort, myself..."
  1063. Apr 21 22:00:26 <zooftop> Rosetta likely would have brought you away from them to say that :P
  1064. Apr 21 22:01:13 <Rosetta> Yup she checked for runes first. "They're mostly hidden behind innocuous objects like statues and plants. Don't go staring though; we don't want anyone to know we know they're there."
  1065. Apr 21 22:02:01 <zooftop> "Did you attempt to tamper with them, at all?" Nashu asks.
  1066. Apr 21 22:02:14 <zooftop> To clarify, Rosetta, these things are completely obstructing their reign of vision
  1067. Apr 21 22:02:55 <Rosetta> "Nuh uh, that kinda thing sets them off. I'd know, cause I can make them myself. Weird thing is, it looks like someone already made it so they can't -see- anything useful. Still, I imagine someone could listen through them."
  1068. Apr 21 22:03:41 <zooftop> They both ponder that.
  1069. Apr 21 22:04:38 <Chase> "That -is- odd."
  1070. Apr 21 22:06:25 <Chase> "It sounds like someone anti-Grant is in the know around here about what they do."
  1071. Apr 21 22:06:43 <Chase> "...hm. You find anything, Gen?"
  1072. Apr 21 22:07:06 <zooftop> "Perhaps if we -did- interfere...or leave a decoy..or follow up with this individual...hm." Hildibrand ponders.
  1073. Apr 21 22:07:52 <Genevieve> "Mostly confirming that Moogles are fae in nature. They're probably Fairy/Psychic or something on our side."
  1074. Apr 21 22:08:36 <Chase> "This gets stranger and stranger..."
  1075. Apr 21 22:08:51 <zooftop> "Psychic, as in..?" Nashu seems unfamliar with the term.
  1076. Apr 21 22:08:51 <Chase> "Alright, we sticking around here to play with unowns, or are we heading north?"
  1077. Apr 21 22:09:05 <Chase> "Mind powers, is what she's saying."
  1078. Apr 21 22:09:10 <Chase> "Kind of like magic, but..."
  1079. Apr 21 22:09:13 »» Rosetta tilts her head. "...I'm imagining a Moogle as a Mr. Mime, and it's creepy." :<
  1080. Apr 21 22:09:32 <Chase> He hesitates a moment. "I'm not really sure how to describe it differently, actually."
  1081. Apr 21 22:10:14 <Genevieve> "Magic based on one's own force of will, rather than manipulating aethir to conjure or control elements."
  1082. Apr 21 22:10:43 <Chase> "Psychics tend to be able to move things around with thought alone, levitate, read thoughts, that sort of thing, though not always all of the above."
  1083. Apr 21 22:10:43 <Rosetta> "Kinda like Thaumaturges but with mental energy?" Rosetta thinks for a moment and tries to offer an analogue?
  1084. Apr 21 22:11:05 <zooftop> She wraps her head around that while you guys decide on your course of action here. "Could be from Grant's influence..."
  1085. Apr 21 22:11:05 »» Rosetta levitates her pen and paper to give an example.
  1086. Apr 21 22:11:21 <Rosetta> "Unowns are also psychic, so that's a possibility."
  1087. Apr 21 22:11:28 »» Chase waits for Rose and Gen to get back to him on his question
  1088. Apr 21 22:11:30 <Rosetta> "So you wanna see this adventurer guy?"
  1089. Apr 21 22:11:37 <Chase> "That's my thought, yeah."
  1090. Apr 21 22:12:01 <zooftop> "It does not seem...Farfetch'd to associate it with Pokemon, no," Hildibrand says.
  1091. Apr 21 22:13:42 <Chase> He snrks.
  1092. Apr 21 22:14:07 <zooftop> He gives a cheesy grin, "Oh I made the pun correctly."
  1093. Apr 21 22:14:18 <zooftop> "The adventurer is our primarmy mark, then?"
  1094. Apr 21 22:14:29 <Genevieve> "Sounds like it."
  1095. Apr 21 22:14:52 <Chase> "Sounds like it. We're apparently looking for a Roegadyn with a fisherman's hat, named Trachtoum."
  1096. Apr 21 22:16:10 »» Chase starts to head out of the town, going north!
  1097. Apr 21 22:16:30 <zooftop> Okay, you guys head out toward the sound of sawmills and felled trees, and as an aside Rosetta, there are Mandragora roaming around the forest, and with little issue locate the lumber mill. A quick word with a worker there directs you toward a tree where a large man with pale blue skin and a fishermen's hat is napping.
  1098. Apr 21 22:17:13 »» Rosetta makes googly eyes toward the Mandragora as she passes, but she doesn't wanna stop and hold everyone up.
  1099. Apr 21 22:17:34 »» Chase thanks the worker and heads towards the dude, tapping him on the shoulder.
  1100. Apr 21 22:18:09 <zooftop> "Huh wha- oh hello there." The man snaps awake and looks at your small group. "The boss isn't looking for me is he?"
  1101. Apr 21 22:19:30 <Chase> "Nah, man. We just wanted to ask you a few things, is all."
  1102. Apr 21 22:20:14 <zooftop> "Huuuh. Zat so. Name's Trachtoum - by the way."
  1103. Apr 21 22:20:45 <zooftop> He slowly stands, stretches, rubs his face. Roegadyns are huge, mind you. He's easily two feet over all of you.
  1104. Apr 21 22:21:03 <Chase> "Chase." he introduces himself. "Sorry for waking you up. Anyway... we heard you got quite the reputation as a Primal fighter."
  1105. Apr 21 22:21:56 <zooftop> "Oh ho? You heard the tales of my days with the Company of Heroes, I reckon. Yup, I'm your guy. From Limsa to The Twelveswood, we made our rounds stompin' neer do wells and their silly pantheon."
  1106. Apr 21 22:22:15 <zooftop> "Behind me now, though. Prefer a more restfull job."
  1107. Apr 21 22:24:58 <Chase> He nods. "Man, I don't blame you, either. Anyway, we're looking for some information on that whole deal with one of them in particular - Good King Moggle Mog. You mind telling us a bit about that?"
  1108. Apr 21 22:26:26 <zooftop> "Hmmm. That was pretty recent, yup. Retired shortly after. Liked it out here. Well, you see, the whole region was in a big fuss with rumors that the Moogles had done the vile deed of bringing a Primal about. So we did what we did best and headed out to have a look see."
  1109. Apr 21 22:27:03 <Rosetta> "How'd you guys track it down?" Rosetta sits down and prepares to listen to this guy explain.
  1110. Apr 21 22:27:14 <Rosetta> She's still glancing into the forest at the Mandragora every once in a while.
  1111. Apr 21 22:27:49 <zooftop> "One of the little guys, Kulpo Kopp I think his name was, showed us to their home. Wasn't too happy about what his buddies did. Either way, I'll be damned the little bastards attacked us when we got there. Whole lot of em. Wasn't an easy battle, little bastards are hard to hit. Agile, surprisingly strong, cunnin' magics..."
  1112. Apr 21 22:29:28 <Chase> He waits in case the guy has more to say.
  1113. Apr 21 22:30:03 <zooftop> "Eventually Great King Morty himself stormed on out and sentenced us to death. I found it sort of funny. He was about half the size of Tidus, and Leviabeetus dwarfed em. About half as tall as my member is long. So I march up to him, and say, 'Look here Morty, I sure as hell didn't vote for you, and you're no king of mine, so have at thee!' I grabbed him by his pom, spun him around and slammed him into the ground so ha
  1114. Apr 21 22:30:03 <zooftop> rd he got burried. Just the pom stickin' out, like a bush, you see."
  1115. Apr 21 22:30:32 <zooftop> ". . . " Hildibrand and Nashu are at a loss for words.
  1116. Apr 21 22:30:49 »» Chase squints.
  1117. Apr 21 22:30:49 <zooftop> "Good King Moggle Mog," Nashu corrects.
  1118. Apr 21 22:30:52 <zooftop> "Yeah Morty."
  1119. Apr 21 22:31:17 »» Chase doesn't even have to use lie detector to figure this guy is embellishing things a bit.
  1120. Apr 21 22:31:44 <Chase> And not just about Moggle Mog.
  1121. Apr 21 22:32:44 »» Genevieve presses her hands to her temples.
  1122. Apr 21 22:33:09 <Genevieve> "So many irrelevant questions. But can you show us how to get to where this battle happened?"
  1123. Apr 21 22:33:24 <Rosetta> "Umm..." Rosetta tilts her head. "Yeah, let's go with that."
  1124. Apr 21 22:33:26 <Chase> "Uh-huh. Well that's... impressive? Did you remember seeing anything particularly unusual, though?" he wonders.
  1125. Apr 21 22:34:56 <zooftop> "Well the whole darn thing was unusual. Lots of sparkly lights and pink magics. Beams of energy. Hell when the pom finally burst, it bursted into confetti."
  1126. Apr 21 22:35:09 <zooftop> "I...uh...could show ya where it happened...but...well, sorta on shift at the moment. Ahem."
  1127. Apr 21 22:36:14 <Genevieve> "The shift you were napping on?"
  1128. Apr 21 22:36:44 <zooftop> "Well it was lunch break, you see." It's like, 4 in the afternoon.
  1129. Apr 21 22:37:17 <zooftop> This said he IS sweating bullets.
  1130. Apr 21 22:37:30 <Chase> Confetti? That sounds disturbingly similar to something he's familiar with.
  1131. Apr 21 22:37:37 <Rosetta> "Long lunch." Rosetta observes.
  1132. Apr 21 22:38:08 <zooftop> "Us Sea Wolves take a while to digest our foods." Chase, he wasn't lieing about the confetti and beams statement?
  1133. Apr 21 22:38:23 <zooftop> Most of this is complete hogwash but it's clear he knows something.
  1134. Apr 21 22:38:30 »» Genevieve looks at Chase.
  1135. Apr 21 22:38:53 <zooftop> "If we don't, we catch the Leviabeetus."
  1136. Apr 21 22:39:42 <zooftop> Hildibrand hrms. "Well you do seem might pale, I may say, for a Sea Wolf. Perhaps I should speak with your supervisor to see if you could have the afternoon off..?"
  1137. Apr 21 22:40:44 <Chase> "Pink beams and confetti, huh? That's..." he considers that.
  1138. Apr 21 22:41:40 <zooftop> Trachtoum makes the best poker face he can. It's not a very good one.
  1139. Apr 21 22:43:25 <Chase> "Can you recall anything more specific? Come on, man, help us out here. It's not like we're going to tell the Moogles anything." he thinks on it. "We can make it worth your time, a little foreign liquor to your liking?"
  1140. Apr 21 22:44:24 <zooftop> "T-tell the Moogles? Oh bless the twelve," He staggers and falls to his knees. "Please, anything but that. Okay I admit I'm full of it. I'm a boast, a cheat, and my member isn't even that big - hell the sight of that Moogle made it a second belly button."
  1141. Apr 21 22:44:25 »» Rosetta 's attention has wandered a bit by this point as she looks over the Mandragora, but she snaps back to attention. "What happened to Kulpo Kopp?"
  1142. Apr 21 22:45:01 <zooftop> "But...I did see it. I had just arrived here in Gridania when the Adventurers met Kulpo Kopp, and followed them...saw it all..."
  1143. Apr 21 22:45:09 <Chase> "What did you see?"
  1144. Apr 21 22:45:46 <zooftop> "I-I dunno what happened to the Moogle. Last saw him going back to Gridania with the others. I know where their little village is though, I swear it!"
  1145. Apr 21 22:45:59 <zooftop> "Just don't let them know that - they'll burn down my house or something."
  1146. Apr 21 22:46:30 <Chase> Oh, Chase gets him now.
  1147. Apr 21 22:46:53 <Genevieve> "Of course we wouldn't do that. They'd come get us, too."
  1148. Apr 21 22:47:27 <Chase> "Yeah, arright. It's not going to get traced back to you, bud. But anything you can tell us would help."
  1149. Apr 21 22:50:41 <zooftop> Hildibrand chuckles as he walks off, looking for this guy's supervisor. "I believe we've found our in."
  1150. Apr 21 22:52:14 <zooftop> "It...wasn't an easy battle for em. I reckon the only reason they won is cause the Primal was so freshly born. I've seen them in their full force. Leviabeetus...he destroyed my hometown when I was a wee lad. Always wanted to grow up and get my revenge, but well, I'm a coward, a cheat, and a bum. And I know it."
  1151. Apr 21 22:53:06 <zooftop> "I'll...I'll show ya how to get there, if you want. I don't really understand half of what I saw, with the magic and odd squiggly letters and such..."
  1152. Apr 21 22:53:15 <Chase> "Squiggly letters..." Aha.
  1153. Apr 21 22:54:41 <zooftop> Hildibrand returns after getting approval to have this man show you the way, if you wish for him to.
  1154. Apr 21 22:55:43 <Chase> "Alright, that'll do." He nods at the dude. "And man, chin up a little. You always got time to turn your life around, even if it's in the little places to start with. Let's get going. ...Preferably staying well out of sight to begin with."
  1155. Apr 21 22:55:51 <Chase> He's ready!
  1156. Apr 21 22:56:27 <Rosetta> "Where'd all he squiggly letters come from?"
  1157. Apr 21 22:57:22 <zooftop> He sniffles and starts to lead you guys deeper into the forest, away from civilization. "The Mogglesguard had them on their weapons, armor...some of them were on the trees there. When the King came out, a bunch of them appeared and started to float around. Some shot beams of energy at the Adventurers."
  1158. Apr 21 22:58:17 <Genevieve> "So, what, Grant was already active here? Think he tried to summon Mog to replace Banisher?"
  1159. Apr 21 22:58:20 <Chase> "Sounds like we're starting to get closer to some actual evidence." he says to Hildibrand.
  1160. Apr 21 22:58:24 »» Rosetta tugs at her hood where she's hiding ZODIAC for now, then continues to hold onto her pen and notepad as a pseudo compass for Unown.
  1161. Apr 21 22:58:27 <Chase> "Who knows, Rose."
  1162. Apr 21 22:58:41 <Chase> "That's what remains to be seen, I suppose."
  1163. Apr 21 22:59:15 <Chase> er
  1164. Apr 21 22:59:17 <Chase> *Gen
  1165. Apr 21 22:59:18 <Chase> *not Rose
  1166. Apr 21 22:59:27 <zooftop> After what feels like an hour, after passing through many thickets and having some monkey looking thing toss poo in your direction, and passing by a sleeping malboro, you come across a giant wall of thorny overgrowth.
  1167. Apr 21 22:59:46 <zooftop> "It was here. The Moogle did a little jig and the...the thorns parted. Opened a path."
  1168. Apr 21 23:00:14 <zooftop> "I think the Moogles usually just fly over it, but good luck doing that for us normal folks."
  1169. Apr 21 23:00:40 <Chase> He nods. "Thanks, you've been a big help, man."
  1170. Apr 21 23:00:44 <Genevieve> "Normal is relative."
  1171. Apr 21 23:00:48 <Genevieve> "And yeah, thanks."
  1172. Apr 21 23:00:52 <Rosetta> "Thanks!"
  1173. Apr 21 23:01:06 <Rosetta> Would it have been possible to try to attract the attention of some Mandragora as we walked? :O
  1174. Apr 21 23:01:19 <zooftop> Pretty easily, they are very friendly little buggers.
  1175. Apr 21 23:02:04 «--- Rosetta (castfromhp@sux-785131EB.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has Quit (Connection reset by peer)
  1176. Apr 21 23:02:07 <zooftop> The giant man sits to the side and mumbles a welcome. Hildibrand looks at the wall of thorns. "I imagine you lot have various ways of getting past something like this."
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  1178. Apr 21 23:02:49 <Rosetta> A-are there different varieties? Rosetta tries to beckon some over as they go through the forest.
  1179. Apr 21 23:03:30 <Genevieve> "I can think of a few ways. The easiest would be to just go over."
  1180. Apr 21 23:04:30 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I think going over won't really be a big problem."
  1181. Apr 21 23:04:32 <Chase> "Yeah, we can fly over..." he considers.
  1182. Apr 21 23:04:41 <Chase> "It's more what's on the other side that I'm worried about."
  1183. Apr 21 23:04:49 <Chase> "I've never really been good at a sneaky entrance."
  1184. Apr 21 23:06:20 <zooftop> You got a small entourage including an onion one, a tomato one, a pumpkin one, a flowery one, and a cabbage one. They are currently bugging your cowardly guide and trying to cheer him up some.
  1185. Apr 21 23:07:01 <Genevieve> "I don't think we'll really know until we go over. Or you ask ones of these vegetables to scout ahead."
  1186. Apr 21 23:08:01 <zooftop> "No man could simply cut their way though this thicket without raising alarm...but going over, or under...yes, might work."
  1187. Apr 21 23:08:31 <Rosetta> How tall are the trees around here compared to the wall? And are there clear places where someone could stand or find a foothold on the wall itself?
  1188. Apr 21 23:10:54 <zooftop> The canopy here doesn't really reach the top of it, even the best acrobat couldn't do it. That said, they also can't teleport.
  1189. Apr 21 23:11:24 <Rosetta> That's what I was wondering, how feasible it'd be to teleport back and forth between the walls and the tree, looking for good perches.
  1190. Apr 21 23:12:05 <zooftop> It's very feasible for someone with your capabilities.
  1191. Apr 21 23:12:42 »» Rosetta looks over at the Mandragora, momentarily caught in a dilemma about which one to approach. "Hey little guys, anyone want to help me take a look over that?" She makes a gesture like going over the wall.
  1192. Apr 21 23:12:43 <Chase> He clicks his boots together and seems to... distort a bit, going transparent as he Phases, and peeks -through- the thornbush, just enough to see and no further.
  1193. Apr 21 23:13:25 <zooftop> This is like a prison wall of thorny death, Chase.
  1194. Apr 21 23:13:30 <zooftop> It's not just a thin layer.
  1195. Apr 21 23:13:45 <Chase> He steps back and unphases. "Pretty thick..."
  1196. Apr 21 23:14:20 <zooftop> The bunch look up to you, Rosetta, and seem unsure how they could possibly help at the moment.
  1197. Apr 21 23:14:43 <Genevieve> "Well, looks like it's time to fly."
  1198. Apr 21 23:14:50 <Chase> He gets somewhere out of view of their guide and lets out Brahms.
  1199. Apr 21 23:15:05 <Rosetta> "I'll just bring one of them over the wall. I think that'd be a lot less noticeable, yeah?"
  1200. Apr 21 23:15:25 <Chase> "Oh, are we letting you go first?" he hesitates.
  1201. Apr 21 23:18:24 »» Rosetta reaches down to the flower one, offering her hand.
  1202. Apr 21 23:18:45 <zooftop> It grabbyhands back at you.
  1203. Apr 21 23:19:08 <Rosetta> "Yeah, I figure I can float one of these guys along with telekinesis as I teleport up the wall." Rosetta takes hold of it and then gently floats it up in the air as she teleports up the wall.
  1204. Apr 21 23:19:59 <zooftop> The Mandragora flails around midair and squiddles, more out of surprise than anything. It chills out when it gets the idea that you're doing it.
  1205. Apr 21 23:20:04 <Chase> back in the card goes Brahms for now.
  1206. Apr 21 23:23:03 <zooftop> Anyway we'll say you eventually got up there with the little guy.
  1207. Apr 21 23:23:16 <zooftop> It's pretty level up on top of it, like they never actually thought someone would get on top of it.
  1208. Apr 21 23:23:58 <Rosetta> "Shiny. This is more convenient than I thought it'd be." Rosetta goes prone and inches along anyway. It's really see to see the silhouette of a person on top of such a tall wall, probably.
  1209. Apr 21 23:25:08 <zooftop> When you reach the other side, you see a...village made of thorny kudzoo and trees. Roll me Perception.
  1210. Apr 21 23:25:35 <Rosetta> 5d6+1
  1211. Apr 21 23:25:36 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 5d6+1: 19 [5d6=5,6,3,1,3]
  1212. Apr 21 23:26:23 <zooftop> You see some patterns carved in a lot of the wood here that resembles runic script. And a crown sitting in the middle of the village, on top of a tree stump.
  1213. Apr 21 23:28:04 <zooftop> You don't see any immediate signs of life other than some lights from within the thorny treehouses.
  1214. Apr 21 23:28:27 <Rosetta> "...Hey, ZODIAC, lots of Unown there?" She presses her pen to her notepad and holds it loose for ZODIAC to TK it.
  1215. Apr 21 23:29:30 <Chase> "Hum." he starts to wonder if this was really such a great idea. If they barge in it's probably going to be fairly obvious.
  1216. Apr 21 23:29:48 <zooftop> He scribbles 'Probably a few but I imagine the chubby little things are settling down for dinner. Don't see any.'
  1217. Apr 21 23:30:25 <Chase> "So, Genevieve, that description earlier he gave of some of the things that happened... reminds you a bit of Celia, don't it?"
  1218. Apr 21 23:31:10 <Rosetta> "Alright. Thanks." Rosetta pulls out her binoculars and tries to get a better look around the village. Maybe entrance ways, places to hide within the wall interior, and any other points of interest that were difficult to see with the naked eye.
  1219. Apr 21 23:32:05 <Chase> "Granted hers was actually money, but it reminded me of that whole thing."
  1220. Apr 21 23:32:48 <Chase> <Rose, any sign of moogles yet?>
  1221. Apr 21 23:33:13 <zooftop> You see a few of them sitting around a big cauldron of soup.
  1222. Apr 21 23:34:01 »» Rosetta thinks back. <They're having dinner. There's all sorts of rune inscription stuff everywhere though.>
  1223. Apr 21 23:34:35 <Genevieve> "Yeah, things exploding seems to be Grant's motif."
  1224. Apr 21 23:35:15 <Chase> <Probably not a better time to go in then.>
  1225. Apr 21 23:35:43 <Chase> <Let's get going and see what we can find.>
  1226. Apr 21 23:35:50 <Rosetta> <If you're sure. I think I'll stick to the shadows and watch for trouble, but I'll dive in if you guys get into a fight.>
  1227. Apr 21 23:36:27 »» Chase mounts up on Brahms and jets up, then! <Gotcha.>
  1228. Apr 21 23:36:53 »» Genevieve pops out Fabre and floats on up as well.
  1229. Apr 21 23:37:30 <zooftop> Genevieve and Chase fly up to get a birds eye view - seeing a pretty good sized village of thorny homes, and a little town center where the crown is sitting on a stump.
  1230. Apr 21 23:37:48 <zooftop> They can see what Rosetta means, there's a lot of Unown carvings in the wood.
  1231. Apr 21 23:38:09 <Chase> Let's turn on Aura Sight as they get over the town proper.
  1232. Apr 21 23:38:29 <zooftop> Gen, your Symbolsight triggers on that crown, by the way.
  1233. Apr 21 23:38:50 <zooftop> It's got some pretty trippy trappings about it, which Chase doesn't catch as it's not a living thing per say.
  1234. Apr 21 23:39:10 <Chase> He'll approach carefully, but otherwise he's going to land nearby the town center.
  1235. Apr 21 23:39:18 <zooftop> Chase, there's about two dozen Moogles in their homes. It is approaching night fall, after all.
  1236. Apr 21 23:39:45 »» Rosetta mentally maps out a series of hiding spots on the approach to the village as she waits for Gen and Chase to take in the sights.
  1237. Apr 21 23:39:59 <zooftop> There's like...four Auras that seem similar to Unowns. There aren't many here, and are indoors with the Moogles
  1238. Apr 21 23:40:08 <Chase> Good, that means those moogles and unown aren't outside.
  1239. Apr 21 23:41:27 <Genevieve> "The crown is symboled. Let's destroy it."
  1240. Apr 21 23:41:57 <Rosetta> "Destroy it? That's gonna attract hella attention."
  1241. Apr 21 23:43:25 <Genevieve> "Well, I mean, I want to examine it first to make sure that won't unleash Mog into the world or something."
  1242. Apr 21 23:43:34 <Genevieve> "So steal it, run some tests, and then probably destroy it."
  1243. Apr 21 23:43:51 »» Chase gets close and has a look at the damn thing.
  1244. Apr 21 23:44:29 »» Rosetta sweeps her binoculars over the crown, searching for sentry runes or guards around it.
  1245. Apr 21 23:44:48 <zooftop> It's trappings are...very similar to what you'd expect on a Legendary Pokemon. It's got a pink, fluffy feel about it, and a symbol of a king's sceptor floating over it, Gen.
  1246. Apr 21 23:45:24 <zooftop> This said, as you guys approach the stump, you also notice pinkish Crystals poking out of the ground around it, and some pink tourmalines.
  1247. Apr 21 23:46:09 <Genevieve> "It's definitely related to royalty."
  1248. Apr 21 23:46:28 <Rosetta> "If we wanna take it, I'd suggest someone else set off our little cube near it and disable any defenses it might have first."
  1249. Apr 21 23:46:33 »» Genevieve squints. "Oh my Bondye, Grant wants to use Mog as his new Banisher for real."
  1250. Apr 21 23:46:53 <Rosetta> "What do you see?"
  1251. Apr 21 23:47:22 <zooftop> The village isn't really guarded in that manner, Rosetta.
  1252. Apr 21 23:48:08 <Genevieve> "Just think about it. The Primals are basically this world's Outer Gods already. Moogles are fairy-aligned for sure, Mog is their Primal, he's clearly invested here, he needs someone to eat Shiva's spark."
  1253. Apr 21 23:48:14 »» Chase hrms. <Do we really need to take it? Hrmm.>
  1254. Apr 21 23:50:08 <Chase> He examines the little jewels and crystals, thinking. They're basically looking for information about things that happened - the crown is probably pretty important, but he's not sure he understands why they'd need to take it for anything related to their goals...?
  1255. Apr 21 23:50:44 <Genevieve> "If it's something Grant is willing to leave Unown around to help protect, I think it's worth taking out of his sight."
  1256. Apr 21 23:52:13 <Chase> He glances left and right, and then just fucking goes for it, snatching the crown off the stump. He didn't see any unown auras around this thing, so it's probably fine. Probably. They can figure out what to do with it later, but for now it seems this is going to be the only key they have.
  1257. Apr 21 23:52:37 <Chase> And he immediately remounts Brahms to get the fuck out of there.
  1258. Apr 21 23:52:48 <Rosetta> "H-hey, wait." But it's too late as Rosetta says that. She braces herself for an alarm and looks around for any incoming guards.
  1259. Apr 21 23:53:46 <zooftop> Rosetta, you see a Moogle almost immediately start to flutter out of a house - he's got a little helmet, a shield with an Unown scribed on it, and a sword with Unown inscribed on it as well. "What in the seven hells - hey!"
  1260. Apr 21 23:53:57 <zooftop> "Who the bloody hell are you and what are you doing with the King's Crown!?"
  1261. Apr 21 23:58:44 <Genevieve> "Praise be to Rapture!"
  1262. Apr 21 23:59:01 »» Rosetta pulls out her tranquilizer gun, takes aim at the Moogle guard, and fires.
  1263. Apr 21 23:59:01 »» Genevieve cackles and pilots Fabre back over the wall.
  1264. Apr 21 23:59:04 <Rosetta> 1d20+1
  1265. Apr 21 23:59:05 <DiceMaid-9001> Rosetta, 1d20+1: 21 [1d20=20]
  1266. Apr 21 23:59:13 <zooftop> Hahaha - Gen roll me Guile
  1267. Apr 21 23:59:29 <Genevieve> 2d6+5+1 AP
  1268. Apr 21 23:59:30 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, AP: 10 [2d6=2,2]
  1269. Apr 21 23:59:39 <Rosetta> Probability Control
  1270. Apr 22 00:00:03 <Genevieve> 2d6+5+1
  1271. Apr 22 00:00:04 <DiceMaid-9001> Genevieve, 2d6+5+1: 14 [2d6=6,2]
  1272. Apr 22 00:00:29 <Chase> He makes sure to keep his face hidden at least as he goes to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE
  1273. Apr 22 00:01:13 <zooftop> "You're - oh YOU Bloody bastards. I, Whiskerwall Kupdi Koop, Son of Wombo Kumbo, won't stand for this! On the name of the Whiskerwall household I will throw you for a loop! You shall not prevent Lord Grant's rebirth of Bahamot upon the plane of Ea-" The tranq hits him and he flops on his face.
  1274. Apr 22 00:01:20 <zooftop> ...
  1275. Apr 22 00:01:42 <zooftop> Well either way the other Moogles are starting to stir, but you are fleeing!
  1276. Apr 22 00:02:09 »» Rosetta makes her way along to the walls sneakily, and then warps up again as before, with her little Mandragora friend in tow.
  1277. Apr 22 00:02:36 <Chase> "Damn good save." he hisses to Gen as he books it!
  1278. Apr 22 00:04:39 <zooftop> Well either way you guys start to make your retreat, and Hildibrand, Nashu and your cowardly guide get the message as Rosetta hops back down that something happened, and start bolting.
  1279. Apr 22 00:07:00 <zooftop> Anyway we'll say you guys regroup at the lumber mill
  1280. Apr 22 00:07:00 <Genevieve> "We're running, everyone run."
  1281. Apr 22 00:08:30 »» Chase is out of breath when they get back to the lumber mill, either way.
  1282. Apr 22 00:08:33 <Chase> "Hot damn."
  1283. Apr 22 00:09:42 »» Genevieve laughs a little as she hangs from Fabre.
  1284. Apr 22 00:09:57 <Genevieve> "So he's not after Mog, he's after the big guy."
  1285. Apr 22 00:10:41 <Chase> "What was that he said...? Something about Grant..." he looks at Hildibrand. "The moogle that spotted us said something about Grant rebirthing Bahamut on Earth."
  1286. Apr 22 00:11:14 <Rosetta> "That's a bit confusing, with what else we know about what's going on. I guess....is he trying to make the Collective Dragon embody Bahamut?"
  1287. Apr 22 00:11:23 <Chase> "You think...? Shit."
  1288. Apr 22 00:11:56 <Chase> :"Gen, by the way, you are a god damn genius and I love you right now, seriously."
  1289. Apr 22 00:11:58 <zooftop> Trachtoum and Nashu faint at the thought of Bahamut being reborn, period.
  1290. Apr 22 00:12:12 <zooftop> Hildibrand's jaw drops and he looks pretty freaked out himself.
  1291. Apr 22 00:12:18 <Genevieve> "The degree isn't just for show. Two can play the wrong sister card."
  1292. Apr 22 00:13:09 <zooftop> "From the sounds of it he will suspect people from your world...but not you? And...oh dear. I think I need to sit down."
  1293. Apr 22 00:13:12 <zooftop> So he does so, in the grass.
  1294. Apr 22 00:13:32 <Chase> "Yeah, Gen bluffed being her sister, blame completely averted."
  1295. Apr 22 00:13:53 <Genevieve> "Clone, not sister."
  1296. Apr 22 00:13:56 <Chase> "Either way..." he plops the crown in the grass awkwardly. "We have this, whatever else is going on here."
  1297. Apr 22 00:14:03 <Chase> "Either way."
  1298. Apr 22 00:14:03 <Genevieve> "I realize I just said sister, though."
  1299. Apr 22 00:14:05 <zooftop> "From what I understand, Bahamut nearly leveled all three of the major city states of Eorzea within a matter of minutes. It was literal divine intervention that banished him again."
  1300. Apr 22 00:14:28 <zooftop> "He WAS The Calamity."
  1301. Apr 22 00:14:48 <zooftop> "Grant means to...combine this entity with one of your own world?"
  1302. Apr 22 00:15:05 <Genevieve> "Yes, the source of his magical letters."
  1303. Apr 22 00:15:11 <Chase> "And you said something about a sage sealing him again and that's when you appeared in our world."
  1304. Apr 22 00:15:12 <Rosetta> "Let's, uh, try our best to avoid that happening again then, yeah?" Rosetta looks down at the Mandragora she took along. "Oops, I guess I took you kinda far, huh? Do you uh, mind coming along? I have soda."
  1305. Apr 22 00:15:33 <zooftop> It's clinging on to you, a bit scared of the whole thing that just happened.
  1306. Apr 22 00:15:35 <Chase> "There's... a creature that's the source of Grant's power. An immense... dragon-thing made of unowns."
  1307. Apr 22 00:15:54 <Chase> "It may just be it's taking on Bahamut's form."
  1308. Apr 22 00:16:02 <zooftop> "We should, yes. Though from the sounds of it The Moogles are clearly...in league with our enemies...I believe I can angle this on our side, it's a weakness..."
  1309. Apr 22 00:16:05 <Chase> "Or... I don't know."
  1310. Apr 22 00:16:23 <Chase> He collapses too.
  1311. Apr 22 00:17:17 <Chase> "Can we? I thought they were one force you don't mess with. How is it a weakness?"
  1312. Apr 22 00:17:43 <Rosetta> "Sorry." Rosetta hugs the Mandragora closer and opens up a can of soda for it.
  1313. Apr 22 00:18:17 <Rosetta> "It was supposed to be just a group of extremist Moogles who did this though, the Moggleguards."
  1314. Apr 22 00:18:19 <zooftop> "You do not -physically- mess with a Moogle. If they are literally assisting someone channel Bahamut's energies, the people of Eorzea will not abide by it."
  1315. Apr 22 00:19:06 <zooftop> "And if there is this much circumstancial evidence...I imagine in short order I could have enough to press charges."
  1316. Apr 22 00:19:37 <Genevieve> "Perhaps we should leave the crown in your hands for now then?"
  1317. Apr 22 00:21:06 <zooftop> "It...could serve as proof that we actually entered The Thornmarch, yes...hm." He's thinking over things.
  1318. Apr 22 00:22:07 <Chase> He picks up the crown for the moment then, and then offers it to Hildebrand.
  1319. Apr 22 00:23:17 <Rosetta> "Try not to have it entered as evidence and taken into police custody or however that works. At least not yet. I think we can still study it, yeah?"
  1320. Apr 22 00:23:43 <Chase> "Sorry for putting you on the spot like that, Rose."
  1321. Apr 22 00:23:50 <Chase> "Thanks for the quick save."
  1322. Apr 22 00:24:27 <zooftop> "My friends, if you wish to research it, please, keep it with you for now. As I understand you wish to deal with Steel Wing before we press this more than we need to anyway, yes?"
  1323. Apr 22 00:24:48 <Chase> He keeps the Crown, then. "Alright. Thank you, Hildibrand."
  1324. Apr 22 00:24:50 <zooftop> "If anything it is safer with you, on Earth, than on this realm."
  1325. Apr 22 00:24:55 <Genevieve> "Certainly. I'd want to leave it on this side for now anyway, I'm not sure how it would interact with crossing worlds."
  1326. Apr 22 00:24:55 <Chase> "We'll definitely look over it."
  1327. Apr 22 00:25:00 <zooftop> "Until we require it, at least."
  1328. Apr 22 00:25:19 <zooftop> "I suppose we could hide it in the Manderville Estate."
  1329. Apr 22 00:25:21 <Chase> "Probably not any different than anything else. The only thing we've seen change are our pokeballs and our clothes."
  1330. Apr 22 00:25:28 <zooftop> "No one would bat an eye at it being amongst my Father's works."
  1331. Apr 22 00:25:29 <Rosetta> "I dunno where I'd be without this, now." Rosetta waves the tranq gun and then puts it away. "And alright, how about we head back to down and grab some drinks?"
  1332. Apr 22 00:25:48 <zooftop> Also Rosetta the Mandragora gives a cute little uuu before it starts to gobble down the soda
  1333. Apr 22 00:25:50 <zooftop> It likes the sugars.
  1334. Apr 22 00:26:22 <Rosetta> "These things are adorable. I could raise a garden of them. I hope they get along well with my birds though." Rosetta frowns a bit, worriedly.
  1335. Apr 22 00:26:40 <Chase> He laughs a bit.
  1336. Apr 22 00:26:55 <Chase> "Either way... things just got a hell of a lot worse."
  1337. Apr 22 00:27:00 <Genevieve> "Don't let your turnip get fat."
  1338. Apr 22 00:29:09 <zooftop> "Anyhow," He fireman carries an unconcious Nashu. "I suppose we should put a lid on this investigation for now. I imagine that ruse will cause some ruffles on both sides."
  1339. Apr 22 00:29:33 <Chase> He nods. "Thanks for going with us for this, Hildibrand."
  1340. Apr 22 00:29:52 <Chase> "This is probably a really unorthodox investigation, but I hope it's giving you what you need as well."
  1341. Apr 22 00:30:05 <Genevieve> "Yeah, we better make sure no magical gang fights happen on Earth. Thank you for the help."
  1342. Apr 22 00:31:02 <zooftop> You guys head on home, though home for you guys probably means back in Visiwa.
  1343. Apr 22 00:31:47 »» Rosetta uses a poke ball card on the Mandragora before heading back!
  1344. Apr 22 00:32:03 <zooftop> It's pretty willing, friendly little buggers.
  1345. Apr 22 00:32:22 <zooftop> Once you guys do get home you notice there's a letter stuck under the door of your boat.
  1346. Apr 22 00:32:23 <Chase> Indeed, back to Visiwa with us for now.
  1347. Apr 22 00:32:50 <zooftop> It's stationary you've seen Saryx recieve before, with the Fauxicore coat of arms wax sealing it.
  1348. Apr 22 00:32:50 »» Genevieve picks up the note to read it aloud.
  1349. Apr 22 00:35:03 <zooftop> "Dear Zodiac Braves. I am writing you to inform you that due to recent events, Saryx Sylvestine will no longer be able to accompany you with your mission. In fact he has momentarily left the Region for a sudden...vacation. - Yvonne Fauxicore. P.S. Be sure to wish him a happy father's day on June 15th."
  1350. Apr 22 00:35:56 <Genevieve> "Saryx is pregnant."
  1351. Apr 22 00:36:04 <Chase> "Wait."
  1352. Apr 22 00:36:08 <Chase> "Who...?"
  1353. Apr 22 00:36:19 »» Chase is confused as hell.
  1354. Apr 22 00:36:19 <Rosetta> "I guess someone won a bet."
  1355. Apr 22 00:36:38 <Genevieve> "Someone had sex with him enough times to get pregnant. I'm going to go burn this letter."
  1356. Apr 22 00:36:39 <Chase> "Given this was sent by Yvonne I guess it was Saryx and... Beatrice? I didn't see that one fucking coming."
  1357. Apr 22 00:36:55 <Chase> "I guess neither of them did either."
  1358. Apr 22 00:37:07 <Rosetta> "He could've told us himself though. Unless he really got whisked away that suddenly."
  1359. Apr 22 00:37:41 <zooftop> Unfortionately Yvonne did not invest in a self-immolating letter for that reaction.
  1360. Apr 22 00:38:19 »» Genevieve feeds the letter to Oppenheimer.
  1361. Apr 22 00:38:19 <Chase> "Man, Saryx... gonna miss him to be honest, even with everything."
  1362. Apr 22 00:38:32 <zooftop> The young bomb gobbles it up :>
  1363. Apr 22 00:38:36 <Chase> "No wonder things didn't work out between him and Alice."
  1364. Apr 22 00:39:23 <Chase> "I remember he stormed off right after he got a letter. I guess he went to go confirm things? Maybe he was afraid of telling us or something..."
  1365. Apr 22 00:41:03 <Genevieve> "Good for him, I guess."
  1366. Apr 22 00:41:18 <Rosetta> "I guess we should pack up the stuff left in his room and ship it to the Fauxicores."
  1367. Apr 22 00:42:12 <Chase> "Guess we're gonna have to bug Anna for our alchemy now..."
  1368. Apr 22 00:42:48 <Chase> "Not a bad thing, really, the girl could probably use more encouragement and something helpful to do besides anti-ditto duty. She probably hasn't even gotten to help there all that much."
  1369. Apr 22 00:43:24 <Chase> "Not to say prevention isn't helpful."
  1370. Apr 22 00:43:58 <zooftop> Also the crown came back just fine. Dessoir is currently strutting around with it on. Aside from that little sudden, shocking news...seems things have been quiet here so far.
  1371. Apr 22 00:44:01 <Chase> He shrugs and seems a bit bummed out for a moment. "Ah, well. He probably would have flipped when he caught up with us anyway."
  1372. Apr 22 00:44:52 »» Rosetta is occupying herself with her chocobo and mandragora. "You think we should open up for recruitment? Some of what we do's gonna be a bit more dangerous with just three of us, if there aren't other teams around."
  1373. Apr 22 00:45:00 <Chase> "We still need to figure out when to deal with Steel Wing..." he muses. "Maybe Alice will have some input... hey, you guys want to challenge her?"
  1374. Apr 22 00:45:35 <Chase> He considers it. "Honestly, Rose, we're so deep into this that any newbie would probably struggle to keep up with all the ludicrous shit we've found out. And everyone in the know is mostly in a team already."
  1375. Apr 22 00:46:37 <Chase> "I'd be open to it but they'd have to be up to it."
  1376. Apr 22 00:46:40 <Rosetta> "Not a total newbie. I dunno. Anyway, sure, I guess we should challenge Alice before she fully turns into an Outer God or something."
  1377. Apr 22 00:46:48 <Rosetta> "I mean, that'd make the battle a lot harder, I imagine."
  1378. Apr 22 00:47:12 <Chase> "I imagine she'd be herself at that point and it wouldn't be that much different at all."
  1379. Apr 22 00:47:17 <Chase> "She and Shiva would just be... separate?"
  1380. Apr 22 00:47:41 <Genevieve> "We might as well crush her before she goes nuclear for real or something."
  1381. Apr 22 00:47:48 <Rosetta> "What if she makes us fight Shiva then?" Rosetta muses as she plays with her Mandragora and Chocobo.
  1382. Apr 22 00:48:06 <Chase> "She already has a legendary she's probably STILL not made up with."
  1383. Apr 22 00:48:27 <Chase> "...speaking of which, if we do go fight her, remember she caught a Zorua. That thing has illusions."
  1384. Apr 22 00:48:46 <Chase> "She got me bad when I did a one on one with her not too long ago."
  1385. Apr 22 00:50:56 <zooftop> And on this note we shall call it </session>! Next Week : Alice Vs the Braves
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