Florascope session 1

7:55:00 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> so is it tonight or tommorrow
7:59:55 PM <Ryusui> I was planning on tonight.
8:00:10 PM <Ryusui> But if we can't get everyone together, we can try tomorrow.
8:00:12 PM <Ryusui> In any event.
8:00:49 PM <Ryusui> Bleck, IntrepidIllusionaire, Lightning, NakedSnake_mpdc, Ryusui
8:00:57 PM <Ryusui> 30-minute warning for Florascope! :3
8:01:07 PM <Ryusui> We start then, or whenever everyone's ready! ;)
8:01:09 PM <Lightning> huehue I didn't need to be pinged /lurker
8:01:19 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: I was wondering when it was going to start...let me sort out some stuff at the house first.
8:01:42 PM <Ryusui> Just a quick reminder. ;) Figured you wanted to do your stuff after the reset.
8:02:04 PM <Lightning> Too tired today blgghh
8:02:47 PM <Bleck> Bleck reporting
8:02:53 PM <Bleck> (in between cleaning of course)
8:04:24 PM <Ryusui> Arrite, then. Should we wait until 5:30/8:30, or should we start now, or sometime in between?
8:06:36 PM <Ryusui> Guess we're waiting 'till the half-hour, then. ;)
8:25:25 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Five minutes...
8:26:26 PM <Ryusui> TIME BOMB SET GET OUT FAST
8:26:50 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> c4 placed
8:26:55 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> get out of there
8:30:06 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i may crash during this though
8:30:07 PM <Ryusui> OKAY
8:30:19 PM <Ryusui> Bleck, IntrepidIllusionaire, Lightning, NakedSnake_mpdc!
8:30:21 PM <Ryusui> https://docs.google.com/document/d/13wFMx0Z7Jeh2QWO0DfhyGfu6sdaH7aJSHm1wYmbE5Lc/edit#
8:30:21 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> HAPPY NEW YEAR
8:30:31 PM <Bleck> KAW KAW
8:30:34 PM — Bleck descends
8:30:36 PM <Lightning> What! What happened to christmas
8:30:41 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> crap does it show me
8:30:42 PM <Ryusui> Halloween ate it.
8:31:08 PM <Ryusui> OKAY
8:31:16 PM <Ryusui> IntrepidIllusionare, you there? :3
8:31:23 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I am.
8:31:39 PM <Ryusui> Excellent. All right. Our first step: the BIG PICTURE.
8:31:52 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Note that I'm a bit rusty from the last Microscope session we had, but I still remember most of the basics.
8:31:59 PM <Ryusui> We've already bantered about this in the past, but let's go over it again.
8:32:14 PM <Lightning> The big picture is obviously "Cats with flowers on their head"
8:32:16 PM <Ryusui> The Big Picture is basically the summary of the history we'll be making.
8:32:27 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm
8:32:29 PM <Lightning> Who do cat things
8:32:57 PM <Ryusui> Figuring "the entire history of Flora" is a bit out of scope, since (if we're all still on the same page here) we're penning a backstory for our FATE game.
8:33:05 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> maybe the drug dealer gambit
8:33:11 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> So, for an example, the Itchy Itchy/Broken Toy arc's Big Picture would be "Outbreak on Trebol" or something along those lines?
8:33:43 PM <Ryusui> Yeah, "An infectious disease breaks out on Trebol" would be the Big Picture of Itchy Itchy/Broken Toy.
8:33:58 PM <Ryusui> Linkin' the map again: http://glitchedpuppet.deviantart.com/art/Owel-Geography-441905405
8:34:31 PM <Ryusui> So yeah. If we're doing the smuggler story.
8:34:48 PM <Ryusui> The obvious Big Picture would be "A criminal smuggling organization rises to power."
8:35:08 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> if we were to base it off the smugglers
8:35:27 PM <Ryusui> You have an alternate suggestion?
8:35:49 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> nah, not off the top of my head
8:35:49 PM <Ryusui> I'm all ears. The whole point is to hash out what we want here as a group. ;)
8:36:25 PM <Lightning> I can work with whatever, gosh
8:36:56 PM <Lightning> But I suppose I do have a suggestion
8:37:17 PM <Ryusui> Fire!
8:37:35 PM <Lightning> The history of a trading/commerce company
8:37:47 PM <Lightning> From foundation to... maybe some big event of some kind
8:37:50 PM <Lightning> Unsure what
8:37:51 PM <Ryusui> Ooh. Which starts legit but slides into corruption?
8:38:06 PM <Lightning> Maybe the other way around!
8:38:11 PM <Lightning> Either works
8:38:22 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> That one sounds interesting!
8:38:43 PM <Bleck> What exactly do they smuggle?
8:38:52 PM <Ryusui> So...we have like a black market-type company which eventually redeems itself?
8:39:03 PM <Bleck> Forbidden Magic? drugs? weapons? other species?
8:39:06 PM <Lightning> Bleck: isn't that what gets determined in-game
8:39:20 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Well, this is gonna sound morbid, but as I was working on Patchel's story, the notion of black-market bodies and parts came up...
8:39:35 PM <Bleck> For Hanged men?
8:39:48 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm
8:39:57 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> maybe like magic items
8:39:57 PM <Ryusui> Well, the point right now is we figure out our Big Picture.
8:40:00 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Yeah. The big event that would shake that up would be the development of mech bodies and parts.
8:40:00 PM <Ryusui> And from the looks of things.
8:40:11 PM <Ryusui> We've got one of two options!
8:40:18 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> But that's...specific to my plans. This needs to be something we can all work on together.
8:40:58 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> where they could sap power from the user, and the company can use it for their own nefarious plots
8:40:59 PM <Ryusui> "A black market trading company becomes a legitimate business," or "A legitimate trading company becomes a criminal entity."
8:41:27 PM <Ryusui> We're deciding the Big Picture right now. We can hammer out the details later.
8:41:42 PM <Ryusui> So which story do we think will be the more interesting to tell, and make the more interesting backstory for our game?
8:41:44 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> its either bad-->good or good-->bad, i vote good-->bad actually
8:41:50 PM <Ryusui> Me too.
8:41:55 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Me three.
8:42:03 PM <Lightning> Good to bad then!
8:42:21 PM <Ryusui> And that's a majority vote, folks!
8:42:59 PM <Bleck> Huzzah, decisons!
8:43:05 PM <Ryusui> NEXT!
8:43:08 PM <Ryusui> We BOOKEND OUR HISTORY. :3
8:43:17 PM <Ryusui> We need to decide where it begins and ends.
8:43:32 PM <Ryusui> So, the OBVIOUS choice for a start is with the founding of the company.
8:43:33 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the beginning is pretty easy
8:43:42 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the end however could be anything
8:43:44 PM <Ryusui> And the OBVIOUS choice for the end is the company cementing its current position.
8:43:49 PM <Ryusui> But if anyone's got any ideas!
8:43:54 PM <Lightning> Oh!
8:44:14 PM <Ryusui> Yes?
8:44:14 PM <Lightning> It begins with a tragedy in a small village, home of the founder
8:44:30 PM <Ryusui> "EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!"</dalek>
8:44:42 PM <Ryusui> Also, note that these are Periods we're putting down.
8:44:48 PM <Ryusui> That sounds like it might be an Event, perhaps?
8:44:57 PM <Ryusui> But if it's broad enough in scope!
8:45:13 PM <Lightning> I was thinking of like, some scope of time where X was happening
8:45:14 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> there was two things i was thinking about here
8:45:23 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> either they get run into the ground
8:45:31 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> or they become a military nation
8:46:22 PM <Ryusui> Okay. And how does that play into our Big Picture?
8:47:01 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> its just my head giving me the same two ideas
8:47:13 PM <Ryusui> Or should we just stay broadly defined, and say that this tragedy inspired our founder to build his company?
8:47:20 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i dont think that they will work, i think thet your idea would work
8:47:29 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> oh your talking to not me
8:47:37 PM <Lightning> Some period needing a lot of relief effort because Godzilla is stomping around
8:47:38 PM <Bleck> "The Road To Hell" path, huh?
8:47:40 PM <Ryusui> Well. I'm addressing both of you. ;)
8:48:02 PM <Ryusui> But yeah. I think we have a good starting point. I think all we need is names. XD
8:48:06 PM <Bleck> Something bad hapens, the company is made to prevent said tragedy from happening again
8:48:16 PM <Ryusui> Like, a name for the founder, and a name for his hometown.
8:48:43 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> we could have the great Uruh'crou , the wonderful founder
8:48:50 PM → TheGunheart joined (TheGunheart@99-22-48-23.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net)
8:48:52 PM <Ryusui> (also, GH wants to spectate, so don't mind him ;) )
8:48:53 PM <Lightning> A+ name I agree on it
8:49:00 PM <Ryusui> Uruh'crou! I like it. And the town?
8:49:17 PM <Ryusui> Or village, or whatever?
8:49:48 PM <Lightning> Keetiv
8:49:53 PM <Ryusui> Keetiv, then. :3
8:50:44 PM <Ryusui> And I think we can agree, since this is a tragedy we're talking here, that this is a DARK period, right?
8:50:58 PM <Lightning> Yes aha
8:51:08 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah
8:51:19 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Kinda goes without saying, really.
8:51:44 PM <Bleck> Hmmm
8:51:49 PM <Ryusui> Hmmm?
8:51:58 PM <Bleck> I wanted to give the old Flora generator a whirl
8:52:05 PM <Bleck> And it gave me this
8:52:06 PM — Bleck MechaMaskedOwl> Ms Pöppi Söufia (/'pɔːp.pɪ 'sɔu.fɪ.æ/) is a Frilled Petal Dragon with a Light affinity. She is born female on the 6th of Raboth (sign: Volans) in Paranoia. She is medium-sized for a Frilled Petal Dragon. She is emaciated. She is compassionate, and brave. The colour of her body is unusual for a Frilled Petal Dragon. She is agoraphobic.
8:52:06 PM — Bleck She likes painting Bweehorses.
8:52:13 PM <Ryusui> :3
8:52:42 PM <Ryusui> Well, we can use that character somewhere! Heck, if we have the generator, we can make up characters as we see fit. XD
8:52:46 PM <Ryusui> Anyways!
8:53:40 PM <Ryusui> The OBVIOUS end point, again, is that the trading company - let's work out a name for that, too - cements its current position of power and villainy.
8:53:59 PM <Ryusui> (which will also obviously be a DARK period XD)
8:54:20 PM <Ryusui> But again, this isn't just my show. Any thoughts on the subject would be vastly appreciated. ;)
8:54:26 PM <Bleck> Before we have our company name, we need to figure out what it does
8:54:29 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> since its written about the company itself
8:54:34 PM <Bleck> And it also has to link to the tragedy
8:54:38 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> shouldnt that be good for it?
8:54:52 PM <Bleck> Which means we should ALSO figure out what the tragedy is
8:54:59 PM <Ryusui> We'll do that in the course of things!
8:55:25 PM <Ryusui> But I nominate the "Keetiv Consortium" as the name of the company. Or the "Crou Consortium."
8:55:46 PM <Ryusui> "Consortium" has just such a nice, impersonal, ominous sound to it. XD
8:55:51 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the wonderful consortium of course
8:56:00 PM <Ryusui> Anyone? :3
8:56:02 PM <TheGunheart> Erm. Is it okay to participate a little?
8:56:08 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah, sure
8:56:19 PM <Ryusui> Y'know, GH, if you actually want to JOIN, we haven't REALLY started yet. :3
8:56:26 PM <Ryusui> We're still hammering out deets.
8:56:30 PM <Ryusui> https://docs.google.com/document/d/13wFMx0Z7Jeh2QWO0DfhyGfu6sdaH7aJSHm1wYmbE5Lc/edit#
8:56:34 PM <Ryusui> Here's the sheet so far.
8:56:35 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> but if it was a consortium, who would the partner be
8:56:37 PM <TheGunheart> I'm just not sure HOW active I'll be but it looks ilke it might be fun.
8:56:52 PM <Ryusui> You won't need to be TOO active but you WILL need to be paying attention when your turn comes up.
8:56:54 PM <Lightning> Some big shots at mew York?
8:57:12 PM <Lightning> @ partners
8:57:13 PM <Ryusui> Yeah, it would definitely end up with its nerve center in Mew York.
8:58:07 PM <Ryusui> So, do we have a consensus on the name?
8:58:08 PM <Lightning> Also I'm a sucker for Crou Consortium because I love alliterations
8:58:18 PM <Ryusui> That's two votes for Crou Consortium. Anyone else?
8:58:20 PM <TheGunheart> I too like that name.
8:58:23 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> crou consortium definetly
8:58:28 PM <Ryusui> Three outta six. It's done. :3
8:59:00 PM <Ryusui> That said.
8:59:04 PM <Ryusui> What would make more sense.
8:59:28 PM <Ryusui> That our timeline ends with them reaching their position of power, or with them fully turning to the dark side, or...both?
8:59:54 PM <Ryusui> Like. They have to happen, but they don't have to be SIMULTANEOUS.
9:00:15 PM <Lightning> Position of power!
9:00:21 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm, maybe power halfway through, then they go crazy and overboard
9:00:21 PM <Lightning> Way more freedom there
9:00:39 PM <Ryusui> So that's one for power, one for dark side. Any others? Bleck, Intrepid, GH?
9:00:56 PM <Bleck> hmmm
9:01:16 PM <Bleck> Im tempted for half power, half dark side
9:01:25 PM <Ryusui> So that'd be both at the same time, then?
9:01:27 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I'd think they'd go a little hand in hand.
9:01:30 PM <TheGunheart> Dark Side
9:01:37 PM <Bleck> Like, they are scucessful, but in order to reach the top, the got to play dirty
9:01:48 PM <Bleck> once they reach the top, they are too far gone
9:01:55 PM <Ryusui> Okay, so that's two votes for "same time," two for "dark side"...
9:02:07 PM <Lightning> I'll switch to same time
9:02:12 PM <Ryusui> All right. :3
9:02:16 PM <Ryusui> Lemme tweak that on the timeline!
9:02:30 PM <Bleck> AT THE SAME **** TIME!
9:02:36 PM <Bleck> -cough- -wheeze-
9:02:45 PM <Ryusui> "The Crou Consortium reaches its peak of power and corruption."
9:02:58 PM <Ryusui> NEXT!
9:03:00 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> imo it would be light
9:03:01 PM <Ryusui> THE PALETTE! 8D
9:03:08 PM <Ryusui> Oh?
9:03:22 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> as it is about them, and it would be good for them
9:03:24 PM <Lightning> Well I do suppose technically it's a good thing for the consortium
9:03:25 PM <Lightning> haha
9:03:34 PM <Ryusui> All right, two votes for Light. Who else thinks so?
9:03:42 PM <TheGunheart> I still say Dark.
9:04:01 PM <TheGunheart> Isn't more about whether it's light or dark for Keetiv?
9:04:21 PM <Bleck> Pallete?
9:04:25 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm, for the palette
9:04:33 PM <Ryusui> Light and Dark are relative as far as Microscope's concerned. But I do agree - this is a story of an organization's turn to the Dark Side, and them completing their slide is very much Dark.
9:04:38 PM <Ryusui> But we've still got two more votes. ;)
9:04:47 PM <Ryusui> Intrepid, Bleck, is the end of our timeline Light or Dark?
9:05:09 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> That's...a good question.
9:05:35 PM <Ryusui> (strictly speaking the prequel trilogy is Darth Vader's origin story, but I don't think anyone would argue the ending isn't Dark XD)
9:05:46 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> You might think the end would be Dark for Keetiv, it seems pretty obvious...but there have been cases of criminal fronts being genuinely beneficial to the community.
9:06:11 PM <Ryusui> So is that a Light or a Dark?
9:06:17 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Like this one bit I heard about an orphanage in Japan being a yakuza tax shelter in practice, but run like a legitimate thing.
9:06:26 PM <Bleck> Imma flip a coin
9:06:38 PM <Ryusui> Okay, I can buy that the Consortium's rise to power might have a silver lining.
9:06:46 PM <TheGunheart> Same.
9:06:52 PM <TheGunheart> I change my vote to light.
9:06:54 PM <Ryusui> So...Light, then.
9:06:54 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> So from THAT perspective, it could be Light for Keetiv.
9:07:04 PM <Ryusui> Okay, NOW we do the Palette.
9:07:12 PM <Ryusui> Everybody gets to pick one thing to either Add or Ban.
9:07:24 PM <Lightning> This is where we do turns now, yes?
9:07:24 PM <Ryusui> You don't HAVE to pick, but if you don't, that'll be the final round of the palette. :3
9:07:47 PM <Ryusui> We can go in any order with the Palette.
9:07:50 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> aw i had four things all typed up here
9:07:53 PM <Ryusui> But we do all have to go through once.
9:07:54 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> lemmie cut them
9:08:03 PM <Ryusui> And then if everybody picked something, we go again.
9:08:09 PM <Ryusui> And we repeat until someone doesn't add something.
9:08:25 PM <Ryusui> So if all six of us add something to the Palette, we have another turn.
9:08:38 PM <Ryusui> But if someone decides not to add something on a turn, then that's the final round.
9:08:45 PM <TheGunheart> Forgive me, but what are we adding/bannig?
9:08:50 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> no - current flora characters, except in passing, in conversations ,  yes - rival orginizations
9:08:50 PM <Lightning> Anything
9:08:53 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> therse my turn
9:09:07 PM <Lightning> Ooh NakedSnake you did my same No haha
9:09:21 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I concur with NakedSnake, heh.
9:09:21 PM <Ryusui> We're adding and banning things from our timeline. :3
9:09:24 PM <Ryusui> That's the Palette.
9:09:28 PM <Lightning> But can we add a yes and no at the same time?
9:09:33 PM <Lightning> I forget
9:09:37 PM <Ryusui> You only get to add a Yes OR a No during your turn.
9:09:44 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the first then
9:09:45 PM <Ryusui> Also, you don't get to just "concur" with someone else's. XD
9:09:49 PM <Ryusui> You do have to add something.
9:10:10 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: Good to clarify, though that still doesn't change me agreeing with him on both counts.
9:10:34 PM <Ryusui> Okay, in that case I'll put that down that Yes for you. :3
9:10:52 PM <Ryusui> Lightning, Bleck, GH?
9:10:53 PM <Lightning> Yes: Yar har fiddle dee dee being a pirate is alright with me (Pirates/pirating)
9:11:14 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Piracy is indeed a valid concern for trade companies!
9:11:18 PM <TheGunheart> Yes - Uruh'crou started their trading company as a relief effort after the tragedy.
9:11:32 PM <Bleck> no- travelling to Hellside -yes, Shady Deals of power
9:11:34 PM <Ryusui> Uh, that's not a thing we add to the Palette yet. That's an Event, maybe.
9:11:39 PM <TheGunheart> Oh.
9:11:40 PM <Ryusui> Bleck, pick one.
9:12:00 PM <Ryusui> You get to add a No OR a Yes.
9:12:07 PM <Bleck> Oh
9:12:17 PM <Bleck> Ill pick the yes then
9:12:19 PM <Ryusui> GH, we add things that we want to see, or ban things we don't want to see.
9:12:27 PM <Ryusui> Also, explain what you mean by "shady deals of power."
9:13:24 PM <Bleck> Dealings withillegal things that will give our company a boost further down the line if carried out
9:13:57 PM <Ryusui> Done, then. :3
9:14:13 PM <Ryusui> In that case: Yes to open dealings with Hellside. :3
9:14:31 PM <Ryusui> TheGunheart, you got something to add? :3
9:14:38 PM <TheGunheart> No - Petty Displaces of Villainy
9:14:44 PM <Ryusui> Petty whats now?
9:14:49 PM <TheGunheart> Dispalys
9:14:52 PM <TheGunheart> Displays
9:15:02 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> you gotta go all the way?
9:15:02 PM <Ryusui> Ah, so any villainy is purely pragmatic, then. Okay. :3
9:15:06 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> In other words, it's Pragmatic Villainy.
9:15:10 PM <TheGunheart> Yes.
9:15:21 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Everyone added something, so we got another go!
9:15:23 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> No dog-kicking for the evulz or anything like that.
9:15:36 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> alright
9:15:51 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> imma gonna go a bit wierd here, yes - bankruptcy
9:15:59 PM <Ryusui> Bankruptcy?
9:16:15 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> they can go bankrupt
9:16:17 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Sounds more like a specific event...
9:16:18 PM <TheGunheart> His in, our cmpany may have failed on the way to the top?
9:16:36 PM <TheGunheart> I'm not sure why I'm typing so bad right now. :(
9:16:37 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> if not, then temporary pass
9:17:03 PM <Ryusui> Well, the only thing I'll say is the point in our story is that the company eventually becomes a force to be reckoned with.
9:17:14 PM <Ryusui> If they can go bankrupt, then that's kind of a serious crimp in that.
9:17:27 PM <TheGunheart> Hey, Trump's gone bankrupt several times. :P
9:17:28 PM <Lightning> I don't think so
9:17:43 PM <Ryusui> Okay, that's two in agreement, then. Bankruptcy it is!
9:17:44 PM <Lightning> Being bankrupt is potentially how they went villianous
9:17:48 PM <TheGunheart> Perhaps that's why they become a Consortium.
9:18:06 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I like to think that the bankruptcy is WHY they resort to illegal tactics.
9:18:11 PM <TheGunheart> They end up needing a partner to bail them out.
9:18:18 PM <TheGunheart> And what Intrepid said.
9:18:24 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah that was what i was thinking
9:18:34 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i was gonna ban it, but i changeed my miind
9:19:37 PM <Ryusui> Okay. No - Floran trafficking. Whatever their villainy is it's got nothing to do with that. ;)
9:19:46 PM <Bleck> aww
9:19:56 PM <TheGunheart> Ha, I was gonna suggest that. XD
9:20:00 PM <Ryusui> (that doesn't stop them from dealing in parts of them mind XD)
9:20:06 PM <Ryusui> (just no enslavement)
9:20:20 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Lightning, Bleck, TheGunheart, IntrepidIllusionaire?
9:20:32 PM <TheGunheart> Yes - Hellside parts trafficking.
9:20:39 PM <Ryusui> Hoooooooly cripes. XD
9:20:49 PM <Ryusui> No objections? XD
9:21:06 PM <Lightning> No: Betrayals from loyal individuals (no one is a worm). Betrayals allowed on people not in affiliation with the consortium itself.
9:21:07 PM <Bleck> no- mind control/hypnotism
9:21:25 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Let me think for a moment...
9:21:26 PM <Bleck> Thats a cheap villain tactic we can do without
9:22:20 PM <TheGunheart> A cheap tactic to make weak villains stronger.
9:22:24 PM <Ryusui> XD
9:22:33 PM <Lightning> I love the direction this is going in!
9:22:34 PM <Lightning> WAIT
9:22:36 PM <Lightning> GUNHEART
9:22:39 PM <Ryusui> ?
9:22:41 PM <Lightning> IT'S A CONSORTIUM
9:22:47 PM <Lightning> They DID fuse
9:22:51 PM <Lightning> lmao!
9:22:52 PM <Ryusui> ...XD XD XD XD XD
9:22:58 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i have two now yay
9:23:15 PM <Ryusui> Yep. And if you want a chance at a third, Intrepid needs to add something. ;)
9:23:55 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Well, I have one potential No...if mind control is too cheap a tactic, is murder also too cheap?
9:24:23 PM <Bleck> Not exactly, but we can RP without murder
9:24:31 PM <Ryusui> The Consortium doesn't resort to murder, then?
9:24:33 PM <Bleck> might be a blessing in disguise
9:24:39 PM <TheGunheart> That sounds good.
9:24:41 PM <Bleck> (You killed my father!)
9:25:03 PM <TheGunheart> Again, it'll be an interseting challenge to make an evil company without resorting to the common cliches.
9:25:03 PM <Ryusui> So to be clear: no murder period, or simply that the Consortium doesn't resort to it?
9:25:14 PM <TheGunheart> I would say the Constortium specifically.
9:25:16 PM <Ryusui> Yeah.
9:25:23 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: Your more limited form (the Consortium specifically) sounds better. Let's go with that.
9:25:24 PM <Ryusui> Intrepid, it's your baby, your call.
9:25:55 PM <Ryusui> RIGHT
9:25:59 PM <Ryusui> ROUND THREE
9:26:37 PM <TheGunheart> I'll word a previous one differently.
9:26:49 PM <TheGunheart> Yes - Aiding in relief efforts.
9:26:57 PM <Ryusui> Remember, you don't HAVE to come up with something, but if you don't, that's the final round. ;)
9:27:10 PM <Ryusui> GH: Charitable efforts on the part of the Consortium, then?
9:27:15 PM <TheGunheart> Yes.
9:27:46 PM <Ryusui> Okay! Bleck, Intrepidillusionaire, Lightning, NakedSnake_mpdc?
9:27:56 PM <TheGunheart> Let's rewrod my previous yay, too.
9:28:00 PM <Ryusui> ?
9:28:01 PM <TheGunheart> Hellsider Organ Trafficking
9:28:10 PM <Ryusui> Okie-doke. :3
9:28:12 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yes-moving the building, to stop people from not moving the building where the orginitzation is located
9:28:25 PM <Ryusui> Mobile headquarters? Cool. :3
9:29:00 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> A mobile HQ would be ideal for less-than-legal entities for sure.
9:29:02 PM <Lightning> Yes: Fashionable managers
9:29:03 PM <Lightning> WHY NOT
9:29:12 PM <Ryusui> Fashionable managers! All right. XD
9:29:21 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> most definetly
9:29:21 PM <TheGunheart> WAIT WAIT WAIT, cna I suggest one more change to my hellsider one?
9:29:24 PM <Ryusui> QUIRKY BOSSES XD
9:29:27 PM <Ryusui> Yes?
9:29:28 PM <TheGunheart> I think Intrepid's gonna love this.
9:29:34 PM <TheGunheart> Hellsider corpse trafficking.
9:29:43 PM <Ryusui> Oooooooooohhhhhhhh.
9:29:49 PM <Ryusui> Interesting stuff. :3
9:29:51 PM <TheGunheart> Imagine what the Hanged Men would pay for THOSE.
9:30:06 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Oh, I can imagine, all right... ;)
9:30:06 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> imagine what quack doctors could use them for
9:30:24 PM <Ryusui> Dr. Osmu: "MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...excuse me, that was just my allergies acting up."
9:30:31 PM <TheGunheart> Aand this fits with "No murder"
9:30:38 PM <TheGunheart> Since Hanged Men don't want murdered bodies.
9:31:17 PM <Bleck> Correction: Hanged men dont want to be part of the killing
9:32:03 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Yes to Secretive magical research. They have access to tricks they don't let anyone else have. Any objections?
9:32:13 PM <Bleck> not from me
9:32:15 PM <Lightning> None here
9:32:22 PM <TheGunheart> Sounds good.
9:32:29 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I'm okay with that.
9:32:46 PM <Bleck> Well, im sure no one was going to mention this, but might as well set it down to be safe
9:32:51 PM <Ryusui> ?
9:33:01 PM <Bleck> No- Any involvement with Angels or Angel attacks
9:33:08 PM <Ryusui> Sure.
9:33:26 PM <Ryusui> The Consortium may be ambitious but they're not crazy. XD
9:33:26 PM <Bleck> this includes the unspoken tragedy as well
9:33:42 PM <Bleck> We know too little about angels to use them effectively
9:33:53 PM <Ryusui> Okay. IntrepidIllusionaire, you're the last one for this round? :3
9:34:17 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: I...can't think of anything after this point, to be honest. The palette's pretty full already.
9:34:20 PM <Ryusui> Also, to reiterate, things on the "Yes" list don't HAVE to appear; they're just things we CAN use. :3
9:34:31 PM <Ryusui> But things on the NO list are flat-out banned. ;)
9:34:45 PM <Ryusui> All right. If Intrepid's come up empty, then...the Palette's done! 8D
9:34:59 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Oh, wait, I DID think of one more thing...
9:35:13 PM <Ryusui> Okay, fire!
9:35:16 PM <Ryusui> And we can have one more round. XD
9:35:43 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Is Keetiv a remote village that's relatively unconnected until the Consortium gets going?
9:35:58 PM <Lightning> If we want it to be
9:36:33 PM <Ryusui> Yeah.
9:36:45 PM <Ryusui> (at "if we want it to be ;)")
9:36:48 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Because the potential "Yes" I have in mind is basically that Keetiv's a relatively remote and rural place, at least until the Consortium establishes connections to more popular areas and builds the whole place up.
9:37:26 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> In short, "Keetiv becomes more prosperous as a result of the Consortium".
9:37:53 PM <Ryusui> So...Yes to "Keetiv growing from the Consortium's success"?
9:38:03 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> You phrased it even better, I'll go with that.
9:38:25 PM <Ryusui> All right, then.
9:38:26 PM <Ryusui> FINAL ROUND
9:38:30 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yes - copious explosions
9:38:31 PM <Ryusui> (or not XD)
9:38:45 PM <Ryusui> Explain? XD
9:39:03 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i dont actually know
9:39:07 PM <TheGunheart> Eh, I'm sure our secret magic lab could cause those at least a few dozen in a regular work day.
9:39:18 PM <Lightning> Yes: A new species collaborated by us
9:39:35 PM <Lightning> (That is heavily involved in the story)
9:39:53 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Presumably the main residents of Keetiv.
9:40:05 PM <Lightning> Possibly!
9:40:27 PM <Ryusui> Okay. so then "Keetiv's residents are a unique species"?
9:41:06 PM <Lightning> yeah that's better wording
9:41:07 PM <Lightning> Go for it
9:41:19 PM <Ryusui> Okay, so. Bleck, Intrepid, Gunheart?
9:41:49 PM <TheGunheart> Thinking. I want somethin'
9:41:59 PM <Bleck> Hmmm
9:42:01 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Really thinking things through...
9:42:28 PM <TheGunheart> I'mma tie Ryu and NakedSnake's together.
9:42:28 PM <Ryusui> The only thing I can think of is "no major changes to the global Floran status quo"; the Consortium is there, and pulling strings, but it's not openly ruling anything or whatnot.
9:42:37 PM <TheGunheart> Yes - Magical Research has a high turnover rate.
9:42:48 PM <Ryusui> Ooh.
9:42:56 PM <Ryusui> How about "Magical research is risky business"? XD
9:43:07 PM <TheGunheart> Yes.
9:43:36 PM <Ryusui> Bleck, Intrepid, you're the last for this round. :3
9:43:37 PM <Bleck> turnover rate...
9:43:41 PM <Bleck> aka deathrate?
9:43:44 PM <Ryusui> Yep!
9:43:55 PM <TheGunheart> Well.
9:43:56 PM <Bleck> hehehehe...I can work witht hat
9:44:00 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Not necessarily. People quitting counts as turnover.
9:44:06 PM <TheGunheart> Yes.
9:44:11 PM <TheGunheart> Risky sounds good.
9:44:42 PM <TheGunheart> You can interpret it as a high death toll, injuries to scientists, or just quitting after seeing things that were not meant to be seen.
9:44:58 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Bleck, Intrepid, anything?
9:45:09 PM <Bleck> ....:/
9:45:15 PM <Bleck> Thinking, thinkng
9:45:32 PM <Ryusui> Remember you don't HAVE to add anything; it just means this is the last Palette iteration. ;)
9:45:45 PM <Ryusui> And like Intrepid said, we have got a full friggin' palette here. ;)
9:45:53 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I barely had something the last round, I have nothing now.
9:45:56 PM <Bleck> test
9:45:57 PM <Lightning> I love this palette
9:46:03 PM <Bleck> last message didn't got through
9:46:21 PM <Bleck> no experiments on or reanimating the dead
9:46:42 PM <TheGunheart> It's not a pretty picture. WE DON'T LIKE DOING IT!
9:46:44 PM <Ryusui> XD
9:47:24 PM <Lightning> "Ah, the mannquins are far less cooperative when you reanimate them! Such a silly thing to do."
9:48:02 PM <Ryusui> Okay.
9:48:18 PM <Ryusui> So.
9:48:21 PM <Ryusui> Next we have our First Pass.
9:48:34 PM <Ryusui> NOW we start adding things to the Timeline proper. :3
9:48:49 PM <Ryusui> Each of us gets to add one Period, or add an Event to a Period.
9:49:04 PM <Ryusui> We can go in any order, like with the Palette.
9:49:13 PM <Bleck> Period....?
9:49:22 PM <Ryusui> Like in the book.
9:49:24 PM <Bleck> I guess what happened when in time?
9:49:29 PM <Ryusui> Period -> Event -> Scene.
9:49:33 PM <Lightning> Medieval period
9:49:37 PM <Lightning> Is an example of a period
9:49:40 PM <Ryusui> Not quite.
9:49:54 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i almost want to say menstration period
9:49:55 PM <Ryusui> In this context, anyway!
9:50:08 PM <Ryusui> A Period is basically one of the "bigger picture" chunks of our timeline.
9:50:11 PM <Ryusui> We already have two: our bookends.
9:50:21 PM <Ryusui> Events are, well, events in those Periods.
9:50:27 PM <Lightning> Book said it's like an era, but yeah in this context not quite
9:50:27 PM <Ryusui> And Scenes are history "on the ground," as it were.
9:50:40 PM <Ryusui> We can roleplay 'em, or we can dictate 'em.
9:51:00 PM <Ryusui> No Scenes in the First Pass, though - just Periods and Events.
9:51:42 PM <Ryusui> So I'm gonna put a Period down.
9:51:46 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i guess ill go first as always, and add a period that is the running period
9:51:52 PM <Ryusui> The what now?
9:52:06 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i guess i should specify
9:52:37 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> its the period where they are running the company day to day, getting more money, working on new things to produce,
9:52:54 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> actually you go first
9:53:02 PM <Ryusui> Okay. And this is before they begin their slide into darkness?
9:53:25 PM <Ryusui> Yes? No?
9:54:01 PM <Ryusui> *waves*
9:54:10 PM <Ryusui> NakedSnake_mpdc?
9:54:17 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah its before
9:54:22 PM <Ryusui> Okay, so...
9:55:13 PM <Ryusui> How would you summarize this Period, in your own words.
9:55:35 PM <Ryusui> Like "Tragedy strikes Uruh'crou's home of Keetiv" or "The Crou Consortium reaches its peak of power and corruption."
9:55:51 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> not really so, its more like
9:56:27 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> "the crou consortium starts up, and starts operations"
9:56:35 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> (not like medical ones though)
9:56:49 PM <Ryusui> Okay, so.
9:56:54 PM <Ryusui> "Founding of the Crou Consortium", then?
9:57:08 PM <Ryusui> And this would be Light, I presume?
9:57:22 PM <TheGunheart> Actually, I need to ask something.
9:57:23 PM <Bleck> I'd like to add something before his
9:57:28 PM <Ryusui> Yes? And yes?
9:57:34 PM <TheGunheart> Is this pre or post-Cosortium?
9:57:44 PM <Ryusui> What do you mean by that, GH?
9:57:54 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah, it would be light bright
9:58:09 PM <Bleck> Remember this company was formed after a tragedy
9:58:14 PM <Ryusui> Riiiiight?
9:58:18 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> and it is the consortium time. it is during the time when it runs
9:58:18 PM <Bleck> So I propose the Aftermath period
9:58:23 PM <TheGunheart> We established earlier that they FAILED as a trading company before finding a partner.
9:58:42 PM <Ryusui> That's a good point.
9:58:45 PM <Ryusui> So.
9:59:01 PM <TheGunheart> I'm asking NakedSnake thus if his Period is pre or post-consortium.
9:59:06 PM <Ryusui> He said it is.
9:59:15 PM <Ryusui> And yeah, I understand your question now.
9:59:30 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> it is the consortium period, unless i dont understand your question
9:59:33 PM <Ryusui> Okay, Bleck, so tell us about this Aftermath.
9:59:57 PM <Bleck> So we know the company was formed after a tragic accident
10:00:16 PM <Bleck> We can assume it was a struggle to get their company up and running
10:00:27 PM <Bleck> and depeding on the scale, others could be suffering too
10:00:40 PM <Ryusui> All right, then. Big question then.
10:00:51 PM <Lightning> Event under first period: Meteors fall from the sky, but turn out to be living creatures. Their sudden appearance causes a quake that triggers a chain reaction of quakes.
10:01:00 PM <Ryusui> Do you think this should be a Period on its own, or perhaps an Event under "Tragedy strikes[...]?"
10:01:08 PM <Ryusui> Ooh, nice!
10:01:25 PM <Ryusui> So!
10:01:26 PM <Bleck> Well, it is the catalyst to our while story, supposedly
10:01:54 PM <Ryusui> (Dark, right, Lightning? ;) )
10:02:04 PM <Lightning> yes
10:02:24 PM <Bleck> Hmm
10:02:45 PM <Ryusui> So, Bleck!
10:02:51 PM <Ryusui> With one of GH's things in mind...
10:02:52 PM <Bleck> present
10:03:13 PM <Ryusui> ...maybe what you want is an Event after Lightning's: "Uruh'crou spearheads relief effort"?
10:03:27 PM <Ryusui> Or would it be more like...
10:03:35 PM <Ryusui> "Uruh'crou attempts to capitalize on disaster"?
10:04:06 PM <Bleck> Lets go with the first option
10:04:14 PM <Ryusui> And that'd be LIGHT, right?
10:04:21 PM <Bleck> But it aint gonna be pretty
10:04:38 PM <Bleck> if what Lightning had in mind was true, there will be a lot of injuries
10:04:46 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Still need Intrepid, GH, and...me. XD
10:04:52 PM <Bleck> Damage, shops destroyed, Casualties
10:06:55 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Trying to think...
10:07:10 PM <TheGunheart> Hmm...
10:07:18 PM <Ryusui> All right, I got a dumb idea. And this is kinda where things've been going in my head since the Palette.
10:07:19 PM <Ryusui> BUT
10:07:50 PM <Ryusui> The Crou Consortium synthesizes a physical transmutation spell - a flawless magical disguise.
10:07:50 PM <TheGunheart> Crou's trading company in the red after pirates steal cargo?
10:08:19 PM <TheGunheart> That can be worded better.
10:08:29 PM <TheGunheart> But I hope I got it across.
10:08:36 PM <Ryusui> Yeah.
10:08:55 PM <TheGunheart> Dark, BTW.
10:09:07 PM <Ryusui> I wanna call my suggestion DARK because I like the idea that this was a long and difficult process with a hell of a lot of damage along the way.
10:09:24 PM <Ryusui> Like. Test subjects altered or disfigured by failed efforts.
10:09:36 PM <Ryusui> Also, GH, where does your thing go on the Timeline?
10:10:38 PM <TheGunheart> Just before the Cosortium's establishment.
10:10:45 PM <Ryusui> Okay, and this is a period?
10:10:49 PM <TheGunheart> I think so.
10:11:25 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> ooh im excited for my next turn
10:11:43 PM <Ryusui> We need something from Intrepid. And then we begin the game proper. :3
10:12:12 PM <Ryusui> *singing* IntrepidIllusionaire~
10:12:17 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> In that case...could it be that Crou forms Keetiv's first major trade route, like one that actually gets noticed by the rest?
10:12:47 PM <Ryusui> Ooh. Think that would be an Event under our first Period, or...?
10:13:10 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I'll leave that to your discretion.
10:13:17 PM <Ryusui> And that would be Light, correct?
10:13:31 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Correct.
10:13:44 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> It's the first step towards prosperity for Keetiv.
10:14:20 PM <Ryusui> All right, and our First Pass is officially done. :3
10:14:26 PM <Ryusui> So.
10:14:34 PM — Bleck throw confetti
10:14:35 PM <Ryusui> First thing's first: let's decide turn order.
10:14:48 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> ill go umm, i guess third
10:14:56 PM <Ryusui> My instinct is to do things alphabetically, which would make you the first Lens, Bleck.
10:15:08 PM <Ryusui> Or we could do things reverse-alphabetically, which would make GH the first Lens. XD
10:15:16 PM <Lightning> Alphabetical is easy to remember @u@
10:15:18 PM <Ryusui> Or we could just choose turn order arbitrarily.
10:15:27 PM <Ryusui> Okay, that's a vote for alphabetical. Anyone else?
10:15:36 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> alphabetical
10:15:38 PM <TheGunheart> I'll admit, I'm not srue I'm up for this part.
10:15:41 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Alphabetical.
10:16:53 PM <Ryusui> For what part?
10:17:11 PM <Ryusui> You don't have to participate in scene roleplaying if you don't want to.
10:17:30 PM <Ryusui> And if you want to make a scene yourself, you don't have to participate. You can even just dictate it. ;)
10:17:45 PM <Ryusui> This is basically the First Pass all over again, with a bit more structure to it.
10:18:03 PM <Ryusui> And it sounds like we're doin' this alphabetical!
10:18:27 PM <Ryusui> Okay, Bleck, that makes you the Lens, which means you get to pick the Focus of this round.
10:18:42 PM <Ryusui> (page 19 of your books ;) )
10:19:21 PM <Ryusui> The Focus is what it sounds like - the theme of this round. It can be a person, place, thing, institution, Event, Period, concept...ANYTHING.
10:19:39 PM <Ryusui> You can pick something we've already established, or you can make something up. :3
10:19:50 PM <Bleck> Interesting~
10:20:29 PM <Ryusui> If you make up something new as the Focus, BTW, you should probably add a Period, Event, or Scene to the TImeline so we know what you're talking about. ;)
10:20:42 PM <Bleck> Let's see.... Lets see if im doing this right
10:22:35 PM <Bleck> The Fall of the Crou Trading Company: Pirates attack! Just as the Crou trading company was taking flight, numerous pirates begin looting their precious stocks! as a newborn company, it doesnt have the resources to deal with the problem effectively
10:23:29 PM <Ryusui> Okay, that sounds like a great Focus. :3
10:23:29 PM <Bleck> As the attacks begin to increase, the company gets more and more desperate....
10:24:30 PM <Ryusui> What the hey, I'll just use your wording. :3
10:24:54 PM <Ryusui> Okay. Now you get to add something to the Timeline. I'd imagine an Event under "Crou Trading Company faces rampant piracy"? :3
10:25:05 PM <Bleck> That is correct
10:26:41 PM <Ryusui> All right, so what do you want to add? :3
10:26:51 PM <Ryusui> Or...just what you just described? XD
10:27:02 PM <Bleck> Hmm idk
10:27:09 PM <Bleck> Its my first time with something like this
10:27:17 PM <Bleck> (I have so much power! XD)
10:27:22 PM <Ryusui> You already came up with one Event. :3
10:28:14 PM <Bleck> Hmm
10:29:09 PM <Bleck> I guess, Crou eventually signss for bankruptcy when another company decides to step in
10:29:45 PM <Ryusui> Okay. So would that be at the end of "faces rampant piracy" or at the start of "Consortium is established"?
10:30:02 PM <Bleck> They can't afford to let the Crou company fall, so they offer to help keep their company afloat in exchange for favors
10:30:04 PM <Bleck> Yes indeed
10:30:10 PM <Ryusui> Which one?
10:30:25 PM <Ryusui> If it's an Event under one of the two periods, which one?
10:30:55 PM <Bleck> the end of the piracy, beginning of the consortum
10:31:45 PM <Ryusui> Okay. So who's this other company, just for future ref?
10:32:54 PM <Ryusui> And is this Dark or Light?
10:33:28 PM <Ryusui> ...am I correct in assuming this second company is their future partner?
10:33:33 PM <Bleck> Piracy part would fall under dark
10:33:40 PM <Ryusui> Wait, now, hold on.
10:33:43 PM <Ryusui> You only get to add one.
10:33:49 PM <Ryusui> Right now, anyways.
10:33:56 PM <Bleck> Oh....wait did I screw up?
10:33:57 PM <Ryusui> Is this two events, or is it one event with two parts?
10:34:04 PM <Ryusui> Which has to be either Light or Dark
10:34:05 PM <Ryusui> *?
10:34:15 PM <Bleck> Ack @__@
10:34:21 PM <Bleck> I think I went ahead of myself
10:34:42 PM <Ryusui> You WILL get to add a second Period/Event/Scene later but after everyone else has had a turn. ;)
10:35:03 PM <Bleck> Original plan was to do the piracy event, which would lead to the company stepping to form the consortum
10:35:09 PM <Bleck> is that  illegal?
10:36:17 PM <Ryusui> Well, we already have a Period for the piracy. And a Period for the establishment of the consortium. Events are the details.
10:36:21 PM → MiniLightning joined (MiniLightni@71-82-112-7.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com)
10:36:43 PM <Ryusui> So if you want to "drill down" to add a specific Event to either of those periods, you can do one or the other right now.
10:37:41 PM <Bleck> oh okay
10:38:07 PM <Bleck> So an even would be more specific, like a ship being raided
10:38:11 PM <Bleck> *event
10:38:11 PM <Ryusui> Right.
10:38:19 PM <Ryusui> Exactly.
10:38:38 PM <Ryusui> We've already got three events on the Timeline, all of 'em under our first Period.
10:38:58 PM <Bleck> In which case, Let me recompose myself, get my dramatic flair back up
10:39:09 PM <MiniLightning> You got this
10:39:14 PM <Ryusui> We have your Focus. Your Focus is good.
10:39:30 PM <Ryusui> We still need you to add something to the Timeline. ;)
10:39:55 PM <Bleck> ....Ohhh
10:40:04 PM <Bleck> looking at he google doc makes it easier
10:40:26 PM <Ryusui> Yep :3
10:41:06 PM <Bleck> Pirates loot vital supplies from the trading company (DARK)
10:41:28 PM <Ryusui> Okay, just so we have a clear picture: what sort of supplies? Who were they for?
10:41:58 PM <MiniLightning> (Do you mind numbering the periods?)
10:42:00 PM <Ryusui> What, precisely, was stolen?
10:42:30 PM <Ryusui> (That'd be tricky, since I'd have to renumber them each time we add new ones.)
10:42:38 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm should that be a scene?
10:42:47 PM <Ryusui> Ooh.
10:42:52 PM <Ryusui> That's not a bad thought.
10:43:08 PM <Ryusui> Okay, then, Bleck! If you've got nothing else to add...
10:43:17 PM <Ryusui> IntrepidIllusionaire's turn comes next! :3
10:43:26 PM <MiniLightning> If you made it all a list it would be less tricky. Does mean you have to reformat a bit though
10:43:31 PM <Bleck> Sorry, was still thinking on the particualars
10:43:37 PM <Bleck> I'll message you in a bit
10:43:58 PM <Ryusui> Ah, there we go.
10:44:03 PM <MiniLightning> Thanks!!
10:44:08 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I'm trying to think here...
10:44:10 PM <Ryusui> Don't message me; post it in the main chat. Everything should be in the open. :3
10:44:25 PM <Ryusui> And NakedSnake's got a point; we can make a scene to cover that.
10:44:36 PM <MiniLightning> Reminder that whatever you add should pertain to the focus!
10:44:38 PM <Ryusui> Also, don't forget, Intrepid: whatever you add should be related to the Focus.
10:44:41 PM <Ryusui> MINDTAKING
10:44:48 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Yeah, the Fall of the CTC.
10:45:04 PM <MiniLightning> Oh no, we had that banned. I'm breaking rules huhuhu
10:46:30 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Can we add something about Uruh'crou seeking out a business partner to recover from this fall, like the tail end of the Focus period?
10:47:02 PM <Bleck> ...where is this Keetiv village anyway?
10:47:31 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> This is probably the point where they start looking toward Hellside to get around the piracy...
10:47:46 PM <Ryusui> I dunno exactly, but in the back of my mind I want to say it's somewhere in the direction of Good Intentions. XD
10:47:50 PM <Bleck> I need to know what kind of goods Keetiv would be trading to and fro
10:48:01 PM <MiniLightning> Omg I had the same idea of where it was
10:48:03 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> an ocean village
10:48:05 PM <Ryusui> Ooh!
10:48:10 PM <Ryusui> How about it's in Carrot Crook?
10:48:17 PM <Ryusui> That'd be an AWESOME place.
10:48:20 PM <Ryusui> A cove!
10:48:21 PM <MiniLightning> Yesss
10:48:53 PM <Ryusui> Okay, Intrepid! Would this be at the end of "faces rampant piracy" or the start of "Consortium is established"?
10:49:35 PM <Bleck> Huh...says that something happened here
10:49:42 PM <Bleck> A Mad scientist
10:49:47 PM <Bleck> was involved
10:49:51 PM <MiniLightning> 8)
10:50:02 PM <MiniLightning> Filling in blanks is fun
10:50:38 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: That's what I have a harder time figuring out. Presumably, "Uruh'crou ventures to Hellside for help" would be at the end of "faces rampant piracy", while "Uruh'crou strikes a partnership deal" would be at the start of the Consortium.
10:50:50 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> But that's TWO events.
10:51:01 PM <Ryusui> Pick one :3
10:51:10 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> So I'd have to pick one...can I ask for input from everyone else?
10:51:17 PM <Ryusui> If you want, sure.
10:52:29 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> ...Actually, I'll just go with the Hellside venturing. Leaves more room for interpretation that way for the Consortium's beginnings, I would think.
10:52:37 PM <MiniLightning> Establishing crou went to hellside lets us-- oop
10:52:44 PM <MiniLightning> Yes
10:53:16 PM <Ryusui> All right! Is that Light or Dark?
10:53:34 PM <Ryusui> And Lightning goes next :3
10:54:31 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Light or Dark...I'll say Dark, just because the trip itself presumably wasn't easy and it's an act of desperation.
10:55:31 PM <Ryusui> Okay, Lightning? :3
10:55:38 PM <Ryusui> Or MiniLightning?
10:57:02 PM <MiniLightning> Time to knock some socks off cause I'm adding a scene under 2.a: After hiring mercenaries, one ship finally makes it to its journey's end. One... Out of ten. All had hired mercs, but only Rijjien's crew succeeded their job. (Light; Rijjien's crew is full of good natured folks who offer to support the failing company... No charge next time)
10:57:27 PM <Ryusui> Okay, let's back up for one sec.
10:57:34 PM <MiniLightning> Kaaay
10:57:42 PM <Ryusui> It sounds like you're describing an Event. And an awesome one at that. :3
10:57:48 PM <Ryusui> But I SHOULD explain how creating Scenes works.
10:58:06 PM <Ryusui> Like I said, Scenes are history on the ground, as it were!
10:58:23 PM <Ryusui> They're designed to ask - and then answer - a specific question!
10:58:45 PM <Ryusui> So first, to create a scene, you State the Question (the answering of which will be the purpose of the Scene).
10:59:07 PM <MiniLightning> Oh yeah, I had a scene in mind but I guess it did turn more into an event. Uhh. Oops.
10:59:13 PM <Ryusui> No, it's fine. :3
10:59:28 PM <Ryusui> Then you set the stage - explain when and where the scene takes place and review relevant facts.
11:00:10 PM <Ryusui> Then you choose characters. The person setting the scene should require and ban characters - kinda like a mini-Palette for roles you want (and don't want) in the Scene.
11:00:57 PM <Ryusui> Once everyone's taken up the available roles, or joined in who wants to, we then Reveal Thoughts - explain what our characters are thinking as we go into the scene.
11:01:01 PM <Ryusui> Then the roleplaying begins. :3
11:01:08 PM <MiniLightning> Okay I get it better now
11:01:30 PM <Ryusui> Again, the goal of the scene is to answer the question!
11:01:39 PM <Ryusui> So once we've done that, we're done. ;)
11:02:01 PM <Ryusui> Alternately, you can make a Dictated Scene where there's no roleplaying involved, but you DO get to (as the name implies) dictate a short scene that answers your own question.
11:02:34 PM <Ryusui> Anyways, now I'm done talking your ears off, you want me to go ahead and add that as an Event?
11:02:38 PM <MiniLightning> Then under 2.a is event "Crou hires mercenaries (dark)"
11:03:29 PM <Ryusui> Okay. NakedSnake_mpdc, your turn! :3
11:03:31 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> for my turn, im going to do a scene
11:03:35 PM <Ryusui> OOH OOH OOH
11:03:39 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the pirate attack
11:03:47 PM <Ryusui> All right. What's the Question?
11:03:55 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> my question, what were the loses
11:04:01 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> or looses
11:04:01 PM <Ryusui> Yesssss. :3
11:04:05 PM <Ryusui> Losses. XD
11:04:13 PM <Ryusui> So this will be under 2a, correct?
11:04:22 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yeah
11:04:50 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> the charactesr allowed - Uruh'crou, and two pirates
11:05:25 PM <Ryusui> All right. And the setting will be one of his ships, correct?
11:05:36 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> and im going to assume there is a lack of people on his ship, so therefore, banned-people who would be on his ship
11:05:50 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> yes its on a ship, most definetly his
11:05:57 PM <Ryusui> So it's just Uruh'crou and two pirates, right?
11:06:01 PM <Ryusui> Any takers? :3
11:06:08 PM <MiniLightning> Tart
11:06:16 PM <Ryusui> ?
11:06:23 PM <MiniLightning> I said yarr but my phone had other ideas
11:06:26 PM <Ryusui> XD
11:06:37 PM <Ryusui> So Lightning, you wanna be a pirate, huh?</guybrushthreepwood>
11:07:07 PM <Ryusui> So we still need another pirate and Uruh'crou himself.
11:07:46 PM <MiniLightning> Will snake decide who the pirates are or can I make up mine
11:07:57 PM <Ryusui> I think you can pick the deets.
11:08:17 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> you can make them up
11:08:30 PM <Ryusui> Also, I just double-checked the book, and picking characters proceeds in reverse order of normal play. ;)
11:08:45 PM <Ryusui> So IntrepidIllusionaire picks next, or skips if he wants. :3
11:08:54 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I'll skip.
11:08:58 PM <Ryusui> Bleck?
11:09:02 PM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Only because I've got my hands full multitasking.
11:09:20 PM <Bleck> Hello?
11:09:57 PM <MiniLightning> A seavern nicknamed Kelpklipper; Klip for short. Water affinity and wings are shaped like a pinwheel.
11:10:00 PM <Ryusui> We need characters for this scene. You can be a pirate, or Uruh'crou, or a background character, or "time" - whatever force is driving this scene towards its resolution. :3
11:10:11 PM <Ryusui> Or nobody at all, if you don't want to participate. XD
11:11:30 PM <Bleck> Sorry, was just reading the backlog
11:11:54 PM <Bleck> Pirate or extra, pirate or extra...
11:12:09 PM <Bleck> Extra it is
11:12:35 PM <Bleck> I dont get many speaking lines as an extra, do I?
11:12:39 PM <Ryusui> Oh wait, I forgot - NakedSnake banned anyone else who'd be on the ship. ^_^;
11:12:55 PM <Ryusui> So it's just the two pirates (one who's already taken) and Uruh'crou.
11:13:09 PM <Bleck> Welp. Guess Imma pirate
11:13:32 PM <MiniLightning> Kelpklipper's partner!
11:15:41 PM <Bleck> Guess I need a name too
11:15:49 PM <Ryusui> All right. TheGunheart?
11:16:04 PM <MiniLightning> My brain is a good name generator
11:16:13 PM <Ryusui> TheGunheart?
11:16:17 PM <Ryusui> Pick or skip?
11:16:52 PM <TheGunheart> Oh, sorry. Attention was elsewhere. ^_^;
11:17:48 PM <Ryusui> ...Pick or skip?
11:17:53 PM <TheGunheart> I think I'mma have to skip. I'm out of creative juices for this. ^_^;
11:18:02 PM <Ryusui> All right. I'll take Uruh'crou, then. :3
11:18:17 PM <Ryusui> NakedSnake, that leaves...time as a character, I suppose. Or you can skip. XD
11:18:17 PM <MiniLightning> (Mini just means I'm on my phone by the way, I have to lay down often because health. That further means I type a bit slower so!)
11:18:24 PM <Ryusui> (I kinda figured :3)
11:18:34 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i will be a sea kraken. (nah not really)
11:19:29 PM <Ryusui> Okay, then! Lightning, Bleck, and I will now Reveal Thoughts in order. :3
11:19:40 PM <Ryusui> *MiniLightning
11:19:44 PM <MiniLightning> In that order?
11:19:53 PM <Ryusui> Yep!
11:19:59 PM <MiniLightning> My highlight is still just Lightning
11:20:04 PM <Ryusui> Cool, cool.
11:20:19 PM <Ryusui> So you get to reveal what your character's thinking about the coming scene.
11:22:15 PM <Ryusui> (still there?)
11:22:19 PM <MiniLightning> 'There's something in my ear but I can't reach it. Maybe I can ask my mates to help with it? Oh, right, we're on a mission. I hate my job. They think it's funny, don't they? Well I'll be certain to scream very loudly since I can't get this blasted thing out my ear.'
11:22:38 PM <Ryusui> Bleck, reveal thoughts! :3
11:24:28 PM <Ryusui> Bleck?
11:25:06 PM <Bleck> "hehehehe! Skellie wonders what goodies he will find this time. Hopefuly better than last load. Skellie is disappointed in dull, unbright objects....maybe Skellie will take more than just loot this time....maybe a souvenieer for Skellie? heheheh..."
11:25:37 PM <Bleck> (Skellie speaks in third person :^)
11:26:23 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> remember the Uruh'crou is fasionable
11:27:39 PM <Ryusui> "These idiots have no idea what they're stealing...they don't care that it's worthless to them; all they care is that it's aboard my ship..."
11:28:14 PM <Ryusui> Okay!
11:28:16 PM <Ryusui> Let's...
11:28:17 PM <Ryusui> !begin
11:28:20 PM <Ryusui> fudge
11:28:31 PM → TheDude joined (TheDude@99-22-48-23.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net)
11:28:53 PM <Ryusui> !begin
11:28:53 PM <TheDude> ***BEGIN SESSION***
11:29:35 PM <MiniLightning> ((Same order?))
11:29:53 PM <Ryusui> (Nah, there's no turn order when we actually start :3)
11:30:04 PM <Ryusui> Uruh'crou's been tied to the mast. Most of his crew have been similarly incapacitated; the rest went for the lifeboats the moment they saw a black flag on the horizon.
11:30:47 PM <Ryusui> All he can do is watch as the pirates ransack his precious cargo and curse the fact that none of the fancy buttons on his coat have sharp edges he could use to cut the ropes with.
11:31:28 PM <Ryusui> He's just thankful he had the foresight to hide the IMPORTANT stuff.
11:31:56 PM <NakedSnake_mpdc> hmm is there rolling?
11:32:55 PM <Bleck> Skellie cackles loudly and taunting the crew, gloating about how easy it was to take their ship down
11:33:57 PM <Ryusui> (no rolling ;) )
11:34:01 PM <Bleck> He crawls over to a nearby cargo crate and pries it open. He wanted something good to take this time, and he wanted to make sur eof it
11:34:06 PM <Bleck> *sure of
11:34:20 PM <MiniLightning> Kelpklipper nudged at Skellie with one of his wings. "Hey, do you mind scratching right above my ear? It's been killing me ever since I distracted the crew with my juggling act." He grumbled. He could juggle but he couldn't reach an itch. Embarrassing.
11:36:21 PM <Ryusui> Uruh'crou barely manages to stifle a laugh at the pirates, still fumbling through the crates topside. He freezes and hopes like heaven he wasn't heard.
11:36:22 PM <Bleck> Skellie growls and leers at his partner in crime. "Skellie is busy! Scratch ear AFTER shiny loot!"
11:36:49 PM <Bleck> He then dumps the box's content on the ship deck, frowning at finding nothing he deemed interesting.
11:37:21 PM <Bleck> He then tosses the crate over disappointed and looks to grab another crate
11:38:16 PM <Ryusui> Uruh'crou looks back and forth, suspiciously. He tries wriggling from his bonds, slowly, carefully, hoping no one spots him trying to make a getaway.
11:39:59 PM <Ryusui> Of course he's not simply going to make a break for it. He's going to slip below decks, grab the important cargo, and then...swim for his life, perhaps? He hates the idea of leaving his crew to their fate, but...
11:41:21 PM <Ryusui> (hint hint, everyone)
11:41:35 PM <Lightning> (( I accidentally deleted everything I typed omggg ))
11:41:59 PM <Bleck> Skellie tosses aside another crate annoyed. "Argh! There's nothing here for Skellie! This is all Garbage!"
11:42:01 PM <Ryusui> Wriggle wriggle. Almost free. Two of his ostentatious buttons clink together...
11:42:15 PM <Ryusui> JING-A-LING
11:42:42 PM <Bleck> Skellie turns towards the captain, annoyed. "Hey! You there!"
11:43:10 PM <Bleck> "Tell Skellie where Shiny loot is!"
11:43:25 PM <Lightning> Skellie. Why did he always end up with Skellie? "Urgh. You dense weasel, you won't find anything shiny up here, save for the buttons on the fancy coats. Do you fancy buttons, Skellie?" He huffs.
11:44:07 PM <Ryusui> Uruh'crou clenches his teeth. He wrenches himself free, wincing at the sound of his coat tearing, and lunges for the nearest hatch to the lower deck.
11:44:34 PM <Bleck> "Buttons are okay I gu- HEY!"
11:45:07 PM <Bleck> "Captain man broke free! Come back!"
11:45:20 PM <Lightning> Klip twirls his wings. At his command, water from the ocean rises and aims right for knocking over Crou. "I don't think so!"
11:46:09 PM <Ryusui> Crou spots the attack, twists to dodge...he's a second late, and a moment later he's sprawled on the deck, still reaching stubbornly for the hatch.
11:47:41 PM — Bleck cackles once more as he slowly saunters over the fallen captain. He looks curiously at hi attempt to reach the hatch before slamming his foot down on the captain's hand
11:47:57 PM <Bleck> (ahhh crap I used /me from habbit!)
11:48:02 PM <Ryusui> (it's fine XD)
11:48:31 PM <Ryusui> Crou looks up in terror. He hasn't seen anything to suggest these pirates would be sharp enough to piece together the hiding place on their own, but...
11:49:34 PM <Lightning> "Hm." Klip walks over to the two. "Skellie, why don't you look below deck for 'shinies'? I'll keep him here and have a nice.. chat." His eyes glisten.
11:49:40 PM <Bleck> Skellie looks down to the hatch the captain was reaching towards. As a Coralshell turtle, his eyesight wasnt the best, but somewhere in the darkness was a sparkle
11:50:39 PM <Bleck> "shiny......So this is where the captain kept the shinies!" Skellie twisted his foot further on the captains hand before releasing it, then turned his attention to the hatch
11:51:57 PM <Ryusui> Crou curses his luck. The water barrel had seemed like a brilliant place to hide the cargo. The light sparkling off the water's surface, however, had gotten the pirate's attention. Damn his luck.
11:52:12 PM <Ryusui> (ha, whoops, he already cursed his luck XD)
11:52:18 PM <Lightning> Klip's wings are no good for grasping, but when folded, very good makeshift spears. The instant Skellie's foot is off Crou, Klip's wings are coming down on Crou's coat to pin him down.
11:53:24 PM <Ryusui> Crou grunts in discomfort. His mind races - does he dare tear his precious coat to make one last desperate grasp for the hatch before the pirates find the cargo?
11:54:38 PM <Lightning> "You look like the business-y type.. I like business types." Klip says. "A shame about your defensive resources, so lacking. How about we make a deal, before that little scamp returns with your goods?"
11:55:08 PM <Bleck> Skellie paces around the hatch,  before finging a good griping spot. with a little digging from his flippers, he pries the hatch open and dives to the floor below
11:55:23 PM <Ryusui> Crou twists to make eye contact. He clenches his teeth - not out of defiance, but because every little move he makes is tearing it to shreds.
11:55:48 PM <Ryusui> "It's of no value to you," he pleads. "Take whatever else you want, just leave THAT..."
11:56:31 PM <Lightning> "It's valuable to SOMEONE, and that's all that matters. Are you interested in my proposal or not?" He's losing patience with the businessman, fast.
11:57:05 PM <Ryusui> Crou narrows his gaze. "Let's hear it."
11:57:09 PM <Bleck> Skellie looks around in the darkness before brightning up the corals on his shell to see better.There it was: the barrel he glimpsed from above!
11:58:04 PM <Bleck> Skellie waddled towards it triumphantly before raising a powerful flipper and striking it, sending a loud crack of splitting woood and the gushing sound of water
11:58:44 PM <Lightning> Klip lowers his voice. "Let's say I slip... You get away. We get your cargo, of course, but you are spared  of any further... inquiry from my fellow pirates. In return, you simply have to remmeber my name... My real one." Klip grins, grinding Crou's coat for amusement.
11:59:14 PM <Ryusui> (gonna make a Push here: Skellie can see the treasure, but can't quite make it out - he has to take it back above deck, where Crou can see it, to figure out what it is.)
12:00:38 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i vote for the push
12:01:01 AM <Bleck> Interesting develpoment....
12:01:14 AM <Bleck> very well, I'll act accordingly
12:02:00 AM <Bleck> "HEY KLIP! SKELLIE FOUND SHINY, BUT DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS!" Skellie shouts from down below
12:03:24 AM <Ryusui> Crou groans as the object catches the light. It's an almost perfectly transparent crystal, nearly invisible where it was hidden in the barrel.
12:03:31 AM <Ryusui> It sparkles in the sun more than is entirely natural.
12:04:42 AM <Lightning> Klip grumbles. Perhaps another time. "Whatever it is, it's very shiny. Bring it up here, would you? We should get going, the rest of the crew is waiting for us."
12:04:57 AM <Ryusui> ('nother Push here: Klip is clever enough to tell it's magic on sight.)
12:05:10 AM <Bleck> "hehehe....HEHEHEHEHEHE..... So bright....So shiny!....." Skellie oogles the strange crystal in his flippers.
12:05:30 AM <Lightning> "Don
12:05:36 AM <Bleck> "This is going in Skelli's special Stash!"
12:06:00 AM <Lightning> *"Don't break it, you dense weasel." He pauses. "Captain might not even let you keep it."
12:06:25 AM <Lightning> (( He wouldn't make it overly apparent he knows it's valuable ))
12:06:31 AM <Ryusui> Crou sighs bitterly. He's lost this round. "What did you say your name was, then."
12:07:08 AM <Lightning> Klip perks up. "Kelpklipper," he hisses lowly. "Go on Skellie, get out of here. Return to the crew. Shoo!"
12:07:24 AM <Lightning> "I'll be right behind you with this man."
12:07:58 AM <Ryusui> "Kelpklipper," Crou repeats, burning the name into his memory. "You should know that only my people can use the Stone. It came to us, on the day the skies fell."
12:08:31 AM <Ryusui> "I beg of you, if there is a shred of decency in you, you'll let me keep it."
12:09:06 AM <Lightning> "Then we'll get one of your people. You're weird, but it shouldn't be too hard to find another of you." His voice is irritable. "Skellie, get going!"
12:09:07 AM <Bleck> Skellie cackles excitedly as he stashes the artifact tightly underneah his shell. "Finders Keepers, losers....are still losers!"
12:09:44 AM <Bleck> With that, Skellie dives into the water and beins his swim back towards the ship
12:11:30 AM <Ryusui> Crou sighs and rubs his forehead. It was a mistake to bring that particular piece of cargo along. It should have been kept safe in Keetiv. Now it was lost, and his company - his people's - fortunes uncertain.
12:11:35 AM <Lightning> "Dense weasel," Klip grunts. He releases Crou and walks to the railing of the ship. "Jekkin." He whispers. "It's Jekkin of Owel Trading Co." Without waiting for a response, he takes to the skies.
12:12:22 AM <Ryusui> Crou stares as Jekkin departs. And he thought his world was in an uproar before he heard that name...
12:12:26 AM <Ryusui> (and I think we're done with this scene?)
12:12:32 AM <Lightning> (Yis!)
12:12:35 AM <Ryusui> !end
12:12:35 AM <TheDude> ***END SESSION***
12:12:49 AM <Ryusui> So, our answer, which I'll admit I only hammered out as we went:
12:13:21 AM <Ryusui> A. The Stone, a valuable treasure of Uruh'crou's people.
12:13:37 AM <Ryusui> Which is magical, and turned up the day the living meteors fell.
12:13:50 AM <Ryusui> So we have here a good MacGuffin for future shenanigans!
12:14:18 AM <Lightning> Crou it better not be one of their hearts that's gross
12:16:29 AM <Ryusui> With that in mind, I'ma add a Dictated Scene.
12:17:29 AM <Ryusui> It's TANGENTIALLY related to the Focus, I suppose, but it helps add weight as to why losing this stone was such a huge thing.
12:19:31 AM <Ryusui> It's gonna go under 1a, I think. And the question is gonna be: "What is the power of the Stone?"
12:20:02 AM <Ryusui> So we have our setting: one of the many, many blasted parts of the Keetiv landscape after the meteors crashed and rampaged across the countryside.
12:20:30 AM <Lightning> yum
12:20:59 AM <Ryusui> A resident of Keetiv - Uruh'crou's young niece - is picking through the rubble that used to be someone's house. Something catches her eye, half-buried in the dirt - a glint, like maybe a piece of metal or broken glass.
12:22:41 AM <Ryusui> Curious, she walks over and picks up the object: it's a crystal, clearer than glass at first, but it lights up in an aurora of colors after a few seconds in her hands, and unfamiliar markings light up on its facets in blue.
12:23:10 AM <Ryusui> She recognizes the artifact's beauty, but not its purpose - she's never seen magic before. None of her people can use it in any form.
12:23:51 AM <Ryusui> Yet this odd trinket responds to her touch - and the touch of the rest of her people. For them, this Stone is the key to the long-barred secrets of magic.
12:24:03 AM <Ryusui> ...and I think that's enough. :3
12:24:17 AM <Ryusui> So our answer is: A: It lets Uruh'crou's people use magic.
12:24:47 AM <Ryusui> All right.
12:24:54 AM <Ryusui> TheGunheart, it's your turn to add something. :3
12:25:09 AM <TheGunheart> Gonna have to skip from here on out. Sorry.
12:25:12 AM <Ryusui> (and if it's not clear: it only works for Uruh'crou's people)
12:25:15 AM <TheGunheart> I'm back to spectator mode.
12:25:21 AM <Ryusui> What, you're not gonna add a Period or Event?
12:25:36 AM <TheGunheart> Oh, we're doing that part again. Sorry.
12:25:39 AM <TheGunheart> Let me think.
12:25:50 AM <Ryusui> Or a Scene, dictated or otherwise.
12:26:07 AM <Ryusui> You don't HAVE to participate in your own Scene, as we just demonstrated.
12:26:40 AM <TheGunheart> I was thinking about the first attempts to develop a physical transmutation spell.
12:27:04 AM <Ryusui> Ooh. Does it tie into our Focus? :3
12:27:34 AM <Ryusui> (It really should, note)
12:27:56 AM <TheGunheart> And possibly a brilliant researcher making a breakthrough....resulting in an explosion that kills said scientist, destroys most of the lab and a lot of research notes; it's beeen proven possible, but it'll be a lot of work to put it all together again.
12:28:49 AM  ↔ Ryusui nipped out
12:29:11 AM <Ryusui> Cripes. Friggin' Internet.
12:29:26 AM <Ryusui> Okay. But does it tie into the Focus? Because it needs to, somehow.
12:29:59 AM <TheGunheart> OH! Wait, it can't.
12:30:07 AM <TheGunheart> This would be the Consortium era. NVM
12:30:33 AM <Ryusui> Hold onto it for later. ;)
12:31:51 AM <TheGunheart> I got nothin'. ^_^;
12:32:25 AM <Ryusui> You don't get to skip, GH.
12:32:30 AM <Ryusui> You said you wanted in.
12:32:37 AM <Ryusui> Now we're asking you to participate.
12:32:51 AM <Ryusui> Give us something that happens that relates to the Focus.
12:33:03 AM <TheGunheart> We seem to have largely covered the fall. I'm drawing blanks for what more there could possibly be!
12:33:16 AM <Ryusui> Dude, I added something that added backstory to the fall.
12:33:22 AM <Ryusui> You can add a repercussion.
12:33:25 AM <Ryusui> Like.
12:34:20 AM <Ryusui> You wanna add something to the Consortium period? Bring back in Jikken or something, have some kind of chicanery happen that was a result of that fateful encounter on the boat. Or explain how we got the Stone back. Or add some detail to how the mercenary business went.
12:34:24 AM <Ryusui> There's plenty of ground to cover.
12:34:28 AM <Ryusui> Pick something and drill down.
12:34:36 AM <Ryusui> That's how Microscope WORKS. XD
12:35:03 AM <TheGunheart> Fine, what if...
12:35:38 AM <TheGunheart> What if the mecenaries fail, causing the loss of something vital to Keetiv's rebuilding?
12:36:16 AM <Ryusui> Okay, that sounds like a Scene. Maybe a Dictated Scene.
12:36:32 AM <Ryusui> Just a short one will do. Just pose the question and write up a quick little something that gives the answer. ;)
12:36:35 AM <Ryusui> (Like I did!)
12:37:08 AM <TheGunheart> So a question would be like, "Did the Mercenaries Succeed?"
12:38:33 AM <Ryusui> You could do something like that, but we already know the answer is probably "no," so it's not interesting.
12:39:03 AM <Ryusui> Unless you have a plan to do something really clever with that question instead. :3
12:39:04 AM <TheGunheart> It's not there on the page yet, though?
12:39:30 AM <Ryusui> ...okay, y'know what, let's just make it an Event between "mercenaries" and "ventures."
12:39:39 AM <Ryusui> Also, I forgot to denote our last two scenes. XD
12:39:47 AM <Ryusui> Pretty sure mine's Light, and Naked Snake's Dark.
12:39:49 AM <TheGunheart> Something else I just realized.
12:40:02 AM <Ryusui> ("I JUST REMEMBERED")
12:40:25 AM <TheGunheart> ...What if the pirates didn't really succeed either? What if the stone actually has adverse effects on anyone besides Crou's people?
12:40:30 AM <Bleck> (Im going to take a shower, BRB!)
12:40:34 AM <Ryusui> That's something to keep in mind!
12:41:06 AM <TheGunheart> ...I'm sorry, I can't do prose tonight. I didn't know the session would be this long or I would've planned for it. XD
12:41:11 AM <Ryusui> Also, Bleck, we're gonna need you to add one more thing to the Timeline to finish off this round after we're done with GH. :3
12:41:16 AM <Ryusui> Nah, it's fine.
12:41:31 AM <Ryusui> The only other thing I wanna say is.
12:41:40 AM <Bleck> So stay or...?
12:41:45 AM <Ryusui> Just 1 sec. :3
12:42:18 AM <Ryusui> Anyway, GH, I wanna say we already HAD the pirates stealing the Stone. So...maybe the mercenaries screw up in some other fashion than simply letting the pirates win?
12:42:25 AM <TheGunheart> But, what came to mind is like, what if the Mercenaries track the pirates to their lair, find TERRIBLE things have happened, but attempt to recover the stone, but sucumb to its effects themselves before they can make it back.
12:42:27 AM <Ryusui> I mean, letting the pirates take their stuff?
12:42:31 AM <Ryusui> GH.
12:42:35 AM <Ryusui> You read my frickin' mind. XD
12:42:38 AM <Ryusui> Or maybe I read yours! XD
12:42:40 AM <Ryusui> Okay, so!
12:42:58 AM <Ryusui> "Mercenaries attempt to retake the Stone, with disastrous results (DARK)"? :3
12:43:03 AM <TheGunheart> Yes.
12:43:17 AM <Ryusui> And this would be after 2b?
12:43:18 AM <Bleck> oooohhhh
12:43:43 AM <Ryusui> GH?
12:43:49 AM <TheGunheart> Yeah.
12:43:52 AM <Ryusui> Okay, then!
12:43:54 AM <TheGunheart> That's the right place.
12:44:01 AM <Ryusui> Bleck, you get to add one more thing to finish off this Focus!
12:44:06 AM <Ryusui> Then GH gets to pick the Legacy for this round!
12:44:13 AM <Bleck> OK!
12:44:21 AM <Bleck> WHat am I supposed to do? :D
12:44:24 AM <Ryusui> And after that, I think we've hit a good stopping place for the night!
12:44:31 AM <Ryusui> Period, Event, or Scene, just like always. :3
12:44:32 AM <Bleck> (still kinda clueless)
12:44:44 AM <Ryusui> And it's gotta relate to the Focus you picked.
12:44:51 AM <Bleck> Oh alright, so same as last time
12:44:59 AM <TheGunheart> (I'd have loved to have roleplayed or dictated a scene, but again, this is a bad time)
12:45:07 AM <TheGunheart> (the scene I described, I mean)
12:45:21 AM <Ryusui> There's a chance we could do it in the future. :3
12:45:38 AM <Ryusui> The Stone might make a good focus for a future round. Or Legacy. Or both!
12:46:20 AM <TheGunheart> Obviously, retirvbing the stone is how their magic experiments kick off.
12:46:46 AM <Bleck> Hmmm
12:46:51 AM <Ryusui> I was hoping other people would come to that conclusion. XD
12:47:00 AM <Ryusui> And again, all this is off-the-cuff!
12:47:22 AM <Ryusui> Before that scene I didn't have any idea what the treasure was gonna be, and now it's a HUGE piece of the setting.
12:47:22 AM <Bleck> Whats the difference between Period and Event again?
12:47:26 AM <Ryusui> That's how Microscope rolls! XD
12:47:50 AM <Ryusui> Periods are "bigger picture" spans of time (the ones marked with numbers); Events are things that happen in those periods (the ones marked with letters).
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12:48:58 AM <Lightning> Nay
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12:50:01 AM <Bleck> Lets see. how about a dictated scene to wrap up the night
12:50:21 AM <Bleck> But I still got to find a time for it
12:50:24 AM <Ryusui> Okay, and what's the question? :3
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12:50:53 AM <Bleck> What was the final nail in the Trading Company's coffin?
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12:51:13 AM <Ryusui> Frakkin'...>_<#
12:51:16 AM <Ryusui> Did I miss anything?
12:51:32 AM <Bleck> :53 AM <Bleck> What was the final nail in the Trading Company's coffin?
12:51:52 AM <Bleck> the last thing that pushed them over the edge
12:52:04 AM <Bleck> and into the bowels of bankruptcy?
12:52:06 AM <Ryusui> 2d, sounds like.
12:52:20 AM <Ryusui> It would at least explain the events of 2d, I think. :3
12:52:29 AM <Bleck> 2D?
12:52:42 AM <Ryusui> 2d on the list.
12:52:46 AM <Ryusui> Uruh’crou ventures to Hellside to seek a business partner (DARK) (IntrepidIllusionaire)
12:54:54 AM <Bleck> So when do I start the scene?
12:55:27 AM <Ryusui> Well. If it's a Dictated Scene, you just describe what happened. :3
12:56:52 AM <Bleck> Alrighty then
12:57:25 AM <Bleck> So the pirate attacks have gotten so bad that the Keetiv village has gained notoreity for it
12:58:09 AM <Bleck> Butt of every joke in the trading world, and at its lowest, a meme (ouch)
12:59:31 AM <Ryusui> ("You're memeing fast...and they're all bad ones.")
12:59:48 AM <Bleck> However, there was a kind benefactor company who felt sorry for them, and decided to give them a chance to redeem themselves.
1:00:59 AM <Bleck> If the they were successful in fending off the cargo they were sending them, then the company would promote them and help them on their feet
1:01:09 AM <Bleck> give them a signal boost if you would
1:01:28 AM <Ryusui> I imagine they failed miserably. XD
1:01:52 AM <Bleck> It was a thing of epics
1:02:42 AM <Bleck> Storms and pirae raids on the exact same bight, both sides of the deal suffered
1:03:05 AM <Ryusui> So the bottom line is.
1:03:50 AM <Bleck> The company pretty much pulled back everything and pretty much said that Kleetiv was a pirate ridden wasteland. No person on Topside should take any business from them
1:04:02 AM <Ryusui> A: A particular client gave them a chance to redeem themselves, which they botched spectacularly (DARK)?
1:04:10 AM <Bleck> Correct
1:04:31 AM <Bleck> this caused every other business who even had the slightest interest shut their doors
1:04:39 AM <Bleck> At least, on TOpside
1:04:52 AM <Ryusui> And that's why he went to Hellside for a business partner.
1:04:56 AM <Ryusui> See? Microscope ROCKS. XD
1:05:00 AM <Ryusui> Okay, GH!
1:05:18 AM <Ryusui> Our first round is done! Now, pick our Legacy, and inaugurate it with an Event or Dictated Scene!
1:05:29 AM <Ryusui> And after that, if there are no objections, I think we're done for the night! :3
1:06:58 AM <Lightning> Yee
1:07:21 AM <Bleck> yay!
1:07:27 AM <Ryusui> TheGunheart?
1:07:27 AM <Bleck> I'll log everything here!
1:07:58 AM <TheGunheart> I guess our legacy is the stone?
1:08:03 AM <IntrepidIllusionaire> I set HexChat to log everything automatically, so no worries. The more backups, the better!
1:08:07 AM <Ryusui> Ditto. :3
1:08:21 AM <Ryusui> All right. Now we need an Event or Dictated Scene related to the Stone. :3
1:09:46 AM <TheGunheart> A company pays an incredible sum to have the Stone loaned to them so it can be researched.
1:10:11 AM <Ryusui> Deets?
1:10:27 AM <TheGunheart> WEll, it had to get on a ship of vital supplies SOMEHOW.
1:10:27 AM <Ryusui> Like, where does it go on the Timeline, is it Light or Dark, etc.?
1:10:31 AM <TheGunheart> Light.
1:10:37 AM <Ryusui> And where does it go? :3
1:10:41 AM <TheGunheart> It would be before 2.a
1:11:16 AM <Ryusui> Crou Trading Company is paid a handsome sum to loan out the Stone for research (LIGHT) (TheGunheart)
1:11:18 AM <Ryusui> That look good? :3
1:11:23 AM <TheGunheart> Yes.
1:11:27 AM <Ryusui> Also, this is going in some interesting directions. :3
1:11:32 AM <Ryusui> RIGHT!
1:11:39 AM <Ryusui> Lookin' good, lookin' good.
1:11:44 AM <Ryusui> Now, one last question before we wrap up.
1:11:48 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> cant wait for session where im the focus
1:12:05 AM <Ryusui> IntrepidIllusionaire! You'll be the next Lens. You wanna pick a Focus for us to ponder until next session, or wait until then?
1:12:09 AM <Ryusui> And speaking of next session!
1:12:26 AM <Ryusui> We gonna try that tomorrow, or the same time next week, or...?
1:12:34 AM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Ryusui: Let's wait until then.
1:12:37 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> tommorrows fine
1:12:43 AM <Ryusui> All right. :3
1:12:47 AM <Lightning> tomorrrroowww
1:12:48 AM <Ryusui> Awesome times, all. :3
1:12:49 AM <IntrepidIllusionaire> And yeah, I can do tomorrow.
1:12:56 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> a question for yuo by the way
1:13:04 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> i forget what the legacies do
1:13:12 AM <Ryusui> Legacies are just things we wanna keep in the spotlight.
1:13:20 AM <Ryusui> They can be pretty much anything. Like Focuses.
1:14:02 AM <TheGunheart> Honestly, I'm already thinking that whoever promised to pay Crou for the stone hired the pirates. <_<
1:14:06 AM <Ryusui> Also, GH, the event didn't have to be related to the Focus, but you picked I think the most awesome thing to add given where things were going. XD
1:14:20 AM <TheGunheart> I was filling a plot hole. :3
1:14:21 AM <Ryusui> Yeah, I figured you were going there. XD
1:14:39 AM <Ryusui> Our stone soup is filling with threads of conspiracy!
1:14:44 AM <TheGunheart> Because really, why would something THAT vital to the people of Keetiv be on a boat. XD
1:15:24 AM <Ryusui> We still haven't hammered out what they are yet, I realize?
1:15:39 AM <Ryusui> I'll admit I keep picturing bird-like people with shaggy gray fur. XD
1:15:53 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> uh
1:16:07 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> you accidently put i think bleck down as me
1:16:14 AM <Ryusui> What? Where?
1:16:23 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> 2e
1:16:31 AM <Ryusui> Oh, there. Thanks. Dunno why I did that. XD
1:21:12 AM <Ryusui> So! See you all tomorrow! Can't wait to see where this goes next. :3
1:23:10 AM <IntrepidIllusionaire> This certainly ended up better than expected, perhaps worthy of its own slice of Floraverse canon at this rate.
1:23:59 AM <Ryusui> ...Ostrels. How's that sound.
1:24:16 AM <Ryusui> For the natives of Keetiv.
1:25:24 AM <IntrepidIllusionaire> Sounds good to me!
1:27:39 AM <TheGunheart> Hey, idea Ryu.
1:28:02 AM <TheGunheart> Maybe compose all the logs and when it's done, edit it to something that could be submitted to the Floraverse group on dA?
1:35:10 AM <Ryusui> Ooh. :3
1:36:08 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> oh so it does show my name
1:36:22 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> in that case
1:36:28 AM <NakedSnake_mpdc> you shall never know it now