Harken: Enter, with style.

==START!==
[23:23] <Harken> abrasiveCaliginist has begun espering strikingBelladonna!
[23:24] <Harken> Lexi. Are you there?
[23:24] <Harken> ((Forgot the AC; oh well))
[23:24] <strikingBelladonna> I'm here.
[23:24] <strikingBelladonna> The game just completed its download, and I'm ready to connect with you.
[23:24] <Harken> AC: Excellent!
[23:25] <Harken> [I run the client application.]
[23:25] <strikingBelladonna> [I run the server application]
[23:25] <Harken> [Quite thrilling.]
[23:25] <strikingBelladonna> [Top bants.]
[23:26] <Nullzed> The client searches for it's server counterpart for a bit, before displaying the message: Server found. Connecting...
[23:26] <Nullzed> Connected to Server
[23:26] <Nullzed> Sburb game is now in progress.
[23:26] <Nullzed> Meanwhile, the server-side connects to it's client in much the same manner.
[23:26] <Harken> It's at this point I realize I forgot to turn off the sex den switch.
[23:27] <Harken> Welp. No going back now.
[23:27] <strikingBelladonna> ...
[23:27] <Harken> AC: Yeah, I don't have anything for this.
[23:27] <Nullzed> ((I was going to put http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002037 that loading screen but i wasn't fast enough. Oh well.))
[23:27] <strikingBelladonna> I hope I'm not interrupting your entertainment for the evening.
[23:28] <Harken> AC: No, no; I was merely having a good laugh at this...stuff.
[23:28] <strikingBelladonna> Or would you have me believe this is all set up for lil ol me?
[23:29] <strikingBelladonna> Where are you anyways?
[23:29] <Harken> AC: Nona dumped me in her old hive for "safekeeping". It's been terribly boring.
[23:30] <strikingBelladonna> Somehow, I'm not sure I believe that.
[23:31] <Harken> AC: And yet it's true. You know I'm no liar.
[23:33] <strikingBelladonna> ((Shit, sorry, one mo))
[23:34] <Harken> ((K))
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[23:46] <strikingBelladonna> True, I suppose it is no haunted city attempting to drive you mad.
[23:47] <Harken> AC: Brahe's been "supervising" me.
[23:47] <Harken> AC: Joke's on him; he couldn't handle my sexy dancing.
[23:48] <strikingBelladonna> You'll need to show that to me some time.
[23:48] <strikingBelladonna> But enough about your unsubstantiated dance skills, I suppose I ought to assist you in not dying now.
[23:48] <Harken> AC: You can see me, yes? I'll show you the dancing if you'll listen to me talk and put down some stuff for me.
[23:49] <Harken> AC: Ah.
[23:49] <strikingBelladonna> Oh, well if that isn't a good trade, I don't know what is.
[23:49] <Harken> AC: Excellent! Let's begin!
[23:49] <Harken> "You can hear me, right?"
[23:49] <strikingBelladonna> Loud and clear.
[23:49] <strikingBelladonna> I begin clicking through the menus, looking for things to put down.
[23:49] <strikingBelladonna> []*
[23:50] <Nullzed> You find some free stuff in the Phernalia Registry.
[23:50] <Harken> "There will be a menu on your left allowing you to deploy some machinery," I say, queueing up a song.
[23:50] <Nullzed> There's a Cruxtruder, a Totem Lathe, and an Alchemiter.
[23:50] <Harken> This song: https://youtu.be/eA4_O3oeJCw
[23:51] <Nullzed> And also a pre-punched card.
[23:51] <strikingBelladonna> Some awfully complicated machinery here, you'll need to show me how to put it to use.
[23:51] <Harken> "There's a room, looks like a lab." I say, dancing.
[23:51] <Harken> "Put it in there, and I'll show you *everything*."
[23:51] <Harken> ;)
[23:52] <strikingBelladonna> [I do so, fitting all the machines in the lab room.]
[23:52] <Harken> Without ceasing my dance, I boogie into the lab.
[23:52] <strikingBelladonna> Oh, I'm your absolute slave with moves like that.
[23:53] <Harken> "Oh yeah. Really feel the canned heat, you know?"
[23:53] <Harken> I shimmy up to the cruxtruder: "it starts here."
[23:53] <Harken> I turn the wheel.
[23:54] <strikingBelladonna> [I realize I'm forgetting the most important part, and begin recording this majesty.]
[23:54] <Nullzed> Make a strength check.
[23:54] <Harken> !roll 1d20-1
[23:54] <GameServ> Harken rolled 1d20: 5  <Total: 5(-1) = 4>
[23:54] <Harken> Darn
[23:54] <strikingBelladonna> Need a little help letting it all out, grubslinger?
[23:54] <Nullzed> You can't seem to get the wheel to turn, no matter how much you try.
[23:55] <Harken> "Of course; it takes two to tango, after all."
[23:55] <strikingBelladonna> Just tell me where to touch.
[23:56] <Harken> "Why don't you-unh!-click on that rather heavy looking centrifuge?"
[23:57] <Harken> "Then knock that cruxtruder's socks off."
[23:57] <strikingBelladonna> [I do so, and use it to try and knock the cap off.]
[23:57] <Harken> "*Baaaaaaaby! I got sick this mawnin'! A fever stormin!'...*"
[23:57] <Nullzed> Make a dex check.
[23:57] <strikingBelladonna> !roll 1d20+1
[23:57] <GameServ> strikingBelladonna rolled 1d20: 8  <Total: 8(+1) = 9>
[23:58] <Harken> ((Not dumping dex? Who are you and what have you done with vamp?))
[23:58] <strikingBelladonna> ((Will, pls, you should know, I only dump WIS))
[23:58] <Winona> ((Boo, hiss!))
[23:58] <Harken> ((Ah, of course; the finest dump stat))
[23:59] <Nullzed> ((honestly charisma in this game is the best dump stat))
[23:59] <strikingBelladonna> Ah, and now you serenade me. The romance, it overwhelms.
[23:59] <Nullzed> You almost miss the cruxtruder but manage to just clip the side.
[23:59] <Harken> Without warning, I put six shots on the lid.
[23:59] <Harken> !roll 6d20
[23:59] <GameServ> Harken rolled 6d20: 5 14 11 14 1 6  <Total: 51>
[00:00] <Harken> Ooh, a critfail
[00:00] <Nullzed> Even with a misfire, you hit it enough times that out pops the blue cylinder and kernelsprite.
[00:00] <strikingBelladonna> Well, I'd accuse you of firing off a little early, but it looks like you still got the job done.
[00:01] <Harken> "Of course. What's a good-mm-performance without some singing?"
[00:01] <Harken> "*Get up get up get up!*"
[00:01] <strikingBelladonna> [I put down the centrifuge, more or less where it was.]
[00:01] <Harken> I take the blue cylinder and sliiiiide over to the lathe, picking up the punched card as I do.
[00:02] <strikingBelladonna> Oh my, so smooooth.
[00:02] <Harken> I toss the cylinder in the air, it spinning end over end, then catch it, and slot it into the lathe.
[00:02] <Harken> "Feel the heat!"
[00:02] <Harken> With a pelvic thrust, I *insert* the card, and push the button.
[00:03] <strikingBelladonna> Oh my, wherever did I put my fan, it's so hot in here.
[00:03] <Nullzed> The machine comes to life and carves the cylinder into a totem.
[00:04] <Harken> I remove the totem, then moonwalk over to the alchemiter.
[00:04] <Harken> "This is the climax, darling."
[00:05] <strikingBelladonna> I'm certain it will be toe-curling.
[00:06] <Harken> Let's do this: I put the totem on the raised platform, then press the alchemiter's button, ever so delicately.
[00:06] <Nullzed> Nothing happens. Your orb friend, however, looks a bit excited.
[00:06] <Harken> "Oh, but how could I forget?"
[00:07] <Harken> I shimmy into the kitchen and grab a beer. "You need to relax, gorgeous."
[00:07] <Harken> I proffer the beer.
[00:08] <Nullzed> It takes the beer in a flash of light.
[00:08] <strikingBelladonna> Really, Harken, romancing machinery is one thing, but getting that orb drunk is another entirely.
[00:08] <Harken> "Off of one beer? O ye of little faith! I know well this orb is no lightweight!"
[00:09] <Harken> It's as I'm about to press the button that the song changes...
[00:09] <Harken> It's...
[00:09] <Harken> Oh god it's
[00:09] <Harken> LETS GOOOOOOO: https://youtu.be/Ss0kFNUP4P4
[00:09] <strikingBelladonna> ...
[00:09] <strikingBelladonna> My compliments to Winona's taste.
[00:10] <Harken> My face immediately changes, like I've been shocked, and it's like I swap to autism mode on the spot.
[00:10] <Nullzed> As you press the button, on the alchemiter's frame 6 targets appear.
[00:10] <Nullzed> There's a countodown above them, on a pedestal.
[00:10] <Harken> How long?
[00:11] <Harken> I need to know how long I have to shout the lyrics.
[00:11] <Nullzed> It's counting down to high noon.
[00:11] <Harken> Oh no
[00:11] <Nullzed> Which is in about 10 seconds.
[00:11] <Harken> WHICH AUTISM DO I INDULGE
[00:11] <strikingBelladonna> You alright there, Harken?
[00:11] <Harken> VAMP HELP
[00:11] <strikingBelladonna> ((BOTH YOU SILL BITCH))
[00:12] <Winona> ((HINT: DON'T FUCKING DIE))
[00:12] <Harken> *It's hiiiiiigh nooooon....* I think to myself as I compulsively shout the lyrics
[00:12] <Harken> At one second left, I draw my shotgun and use eruption to hit all six targets.
[00:13] <strikingBelladonna> [I fall off my chair howling in sleep deprived laughter.]
[00:14] <Harken> "I DONT WANNA FAAAAAAAALLL ASLEEEP YEAH! I DONT WANNA MISS A THING!"
[00:14] <Nullzed> The world flashes as your gut sinks.
[00:15] <Harken> It would take a a bomb going off in my throat to make me stop.
[00:16] <Harken> I reload my weapons as I sing.
[00:16] <Nullzed> The orb seems to be bobbing along.
[00:17] <strikingBelladonna> Harken, whatever else might be said about you, let it never be said you don't know how to show a lady a good time.
[00:17] <Nullzed> At this moment, Brahe walks into the room.
[00:17] <Harken> I turn and address him as I sing, my eyes blazing with intensity.
[00:17] <Harken> This is my *jam*, dammit, and I'll be fucked if I let anyone stop me.
[00:18] <Nullzed> He walks past you into a different room.
[00:18] <Harken> Jokes on him! I'm having the time of my life as the song stops and yields to something considerably more boring.
[00:18] <Harken> I go check out a window. Did it work? Am I safe?
[00:19] <Nullzed> The hive is floating above a planet different to what you're accustomed to. There's massive plumes of smoke rising from it, and huge fires in certain spots. Where there isn't fire or smoke there's a plain desert.
[00:20] <Harken> "It worked. I'm safe."
[00:20] <Harken> "Now go, Lexi."
[00:21] <strikingBelladonna> I will, Harken.
[00:21] <strikingBelladonna> You showed me more than I ever dreamed today.
[00:21] <Harken> "But dreaming isn't enough."
[00:21] <Harken> "After all: you wouldn't wanna miss a thing!"
[00:22] <strikingBelladonna> And I won't, because I'll be watching you.
[00:22] <Harken> I give a huge grin and a  thumbs up towards where I think the camera is
[00:22] <strikingBelladonna> Hold that pose, I need the perfect close up to finish this.
[00:23] <strikingBelladonna> [I maneuver the camera to zoom in on Harken's grin and thumbs up, and then end the recording.]
[00:23] <Nullzed> ==END!==