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  1. 01[20:16] <SpaceThor> Days pass in Throne, and your shared living space fills up as you lack things to do. Too many takeout cartons litter the countertops as days turn into watching glyph-TV and keeping up with the various interests everyone has. Until today.
  2. [20:20] <@Nemi> Days for Oswyn are fairly simple affairs: Get up when the clock says it's dawn, since Throne's sun is broken. Morning exercises and meditations. Breakfast. More exercises. Brunch. Afternoon? More training. After supper, training from Lashvel, when she feels like offering it. Sleep when the clock says it's night. Repeat. Suffice to say, there's plentiful leftover takeout cartons.
  3. [20:21] <Lashvel> Lashvel's days are... not entirely different. She doesn't sleep, of course--what devil does--but between Oswyn and her cult finds her free time mostly taken up by... honestly, haircare, lately. Especially of her servant. She's been trying all sorts of new braids and styles lately.
  4. 06[20:23] * Maya has been out and about. Drinking, Eating, Partying, Shooting (Generally while doing at least one of the others).
  5. 01[20:27] <SpaceThor> And then the time comes. Day of Endings is tomorrow, by Maya's calendar.
  6. 06[20:28] * Maya is up obnoxiously early, skipping about and singing and dancing!
  7. [20:30] <@Nemi> Oswyn, in pajamas, peers out from behind the curtain sectioning off the bedroom from the central common area in question. There's a bleary look. "It's not even dawn yet- what's the big deal?"
  8. 06[20:30] * Lashvel sips her tea and quirks an eyebrow. "Something happening of importance, Dear Priestess?"
  9. [20:31] <Maya> "Of course, the gods are dead!" She makes it sound like that's somehow news.
  10. [20:32] <Lashvel> "... Well, yes, they have been for quite awhile..."
  11. [20:34] <@Nemi> ".. rather a long while, yes. Is there- something.. special about that?" Oswyn hazards, evidently giving up on sleep. She throws a blanket around herself and plops down near Lashvel, giving the tea a forlorn look.
  12. [20:34] <Maya> "...did you get hit in the head? Of course they've been dead for a while. Why do you need to bring that up?"
  13. [20:35] <Lashvel> "Dear Priestess, I have yet to break into the booze today, I'm not quite drunk enough to understand the excitement."
  14. [20:38] <Maya> "...seriously? Am I the only one who actually is responcible around here and keeps a calender?"
  15. [20:40] <@Nemi> ".. Y-yes? I plot out my schedule pretty regularly. Which calender are you using?" Oswyn squints, taking Lashvel's bemusement as an opportunity to fill a tea cup of her own. Oswyn drinks without even trying to cool it off.
  16. [20:41] <Maya> "It's the day of endings tommorow!"
  17. [20:41] <@Nemi> ".. Oh. Is. Is that good?" Oswyn hazards, teacup at her lips, face tactically blank.
  18. [20:42] <Lashvel> "Day of endings, dday of endings..." She looks distant for a moment, then gently applies the heel of her head to her forehead. "Oh, of course, one of the holy days of your god, isn't it? I do apologize, i thought I had them all marked on my calender," she says--voice even enough that she might be being sincere. But she might not be.
  19. [20:43] <Maya> "Of course, my god is dead so we're celebrating it. It's a big event."
  20. [20:45] <@Nemi> "Oh. Soooo. How do we do that?" A break from constant training!
  21. [20:45] <Lashvel> "How does any celebration of Maya's god happen, Dear Queen?"
  22. [20:46] <@Nemi> "Explosions and copious drinking?"
  23. [20:48] <Maya> "And dancing and solumn examination on the limited nature of time."
  24. [20:49] <@Nemi> "Solemn examination? I wasn't aware that was part of the package." Oswyn gawps. Red hair's an absolute mess, all in all directions.
  25. [20:53] <Maya> "Of course it is. The celebration is because each moment we have only comes once, as shown by even the gods being dead."
  26. [21:02] <@Nemi> "Okay. That's actually surprisingly deep and in-depth. Soooo. What do we have to do for it? I think- it's a good thing to keep in mind. At least for mere mortals like myself." Emerald eyes flit to Lashvel for a moment.
  27. [21:03] <Maya> "Well, I need to prepare a massive party."
  28. [21:04] <@Nemi> "Right? You need our help, or just our participation?"
  29. [21:05] <Lashvel> "Would you like help with that, Dear Priestess? Supplies and such, at least." She politely ignores Oswyn's glance at her.
  30. 03[21:10] * Maya1 (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) has joined #ashtonic
  31. 02[21:11] * Maya (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) Quit (Ping timeout)
  32. 03[21:12] * Maya1 is now known as Maya
  33. [21:13] <Maya> "Both would be appreciated~"
  34. [21:14] <@Nemi> "Right! Sounds fun." Oswyn sits up and shrugs the blanket tighter around herself. "What d'you need?"
  35. [21:15] <Lashvel> "Then you shall have both, dear Priestess. Provide me a list and I shall see what pies need fingers in them today~"
  36. [21:15] <Maya> "Some alchohol worthy of a goddess, for one. Not just cheap stuff, stuff that fits the death we're celebrating."
  37. [21:17] <Lashvel> "I can do that, definitely. I *am* a Devil," she says. "You can never trust us, but you can acknowledge that we know booze."
  38. [21:18] <Maya> "Hmm...sweet smelling candles that are long enough for everyone to see but fast burning enough that they'll be all burnt in one hour."
  39. [21:19] <@Nemi> "One-hour candles. I can go shopping. There's probably chandlers out in the darkside." Oswyn reaches up to sweep crimson hair back. It's still a mess, but now it's not half in her face.
  40. [21:19] <Lashvel> "May have to custom order those, but I think I can manage."
  41. [21:20] <@Nemi> ".. Yeah, I can just run go-fer once you make the orders. You know people I don't."
  42. [21:22] <@Nemi> Oswyn swiiiivels back to Maya. "Anything else?"
  43. [21:27] <Maya> "Oh and a goddess shaped pinata. We need that for the symbolic death."
  44. [21:30] <Lashvel> "Goddess shaped pinata," she says. "Good booze, good candels, and an effigy of a goddess to beat to death. Easily done."
  45. [21:31] <Maya> "All utterly essential though. As this is a celebration of death, not a morose mourning." She nods
  46. [21:31] <@Nemi> ".. Any idea where we can get a pinata or do I have a crafts project?"
  47. [21:32] <Lashvel> "... A crafts project may be nice, acutally," she muses.
  48. [21:36] <@Nemi> ".. That *might* be nice. I have no idea what the goddess looks like or what we'd put in a pinata to suit the occasion, though."
  49. [21:37] <Maya> "Oh, there is plent of images...almost none of them look the same. So more or less anything works, looks-wise as long as it's impressive."
  50. [21:40] <@Nemi> "I'll get the papier-mache." Oswyn grins. Arts and crafts hour! Heck yeah.
  51. [21:45] <@Nemi> "Aaaand- filling?"
  52. 06[21:46] * Lashvel grins. "And I'll go tap into some friends~" She stand sup. "Servant, assist Oswyn while she works, and Maya with anything else she needs. You'll get the evening off to celebrate with hte rest of us."
  53. 01[21:47] <SpaceThor> The servant nods. "I understand, mistress."
  54. 06[21:48] * Lashvel smiles, and sweeps off--she has things to find!
  55. [21:49] <@Nemi> Great. Left alone with the creepy former court mage turned bondage model. Oswyn shivers and straightens up. "Iiiiiii'm going to get glue and paper. And paint." There had to be a place to get the good stuff nearby, right?
  56. Session Time: Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 2019
  57. 02[00:14] * @Nemi (zareveh@623C7350.A3D2C071.D3BCE224.IP) Quit (Quit: )
  58. 02[03:42] * Lashvel (IterationD@sux-E80C4D0D.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: )
  59. 03[09:14] * Maya1 (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) has joined #ashtonic
  60. 02[09:14] * Maya (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) Quit (Ping timeout)
  61. 03[13:55] * Nemi (zareveh@623C7350.A3D2C071.D3BCE224.IP) has joined #ashtonic
  62. [19:58] <Nemi> Morning. Still, probably. Oswyn's dressed, inasmuch as training clothes count as being dressed (soft trousers and two layers of tank tops count as dressed, it's fine), has a wallet of actual functional currency instead of the currently-crashed guilders, and a bondage model in tow. It's time to step out of the apartment block and.. Go.. Shopping. Even mundane things can still suit, one supposes.
  63. 01[19:59] <SpaceThor> The handmaiden has gone ahead and pulled off the blindfold and restraints, and is currently lighting a cigarette.
  64. [20:00] <Nemi> "Sooo." Oswyn stretches and hops in place on the treshold before stepping down to the street. ".. I have no idea what goes into a pinata. You? Speaking of- this's the first time I've seen you out of that- ridiculous harness since I was, like, five."
  65. 01[20:01] <SpaceThor> "Candy, usually. Figure out what the kids like and stuff it full. And tell me about it, as much as she claims to love fashion she sure does like the same outfits on other people."
  66. [20:05] <Nemi> "What happened, anyway? Dad spoke well of your talents. One of the best sorceresses he ever had on call." Oswyn starts on the road toward the more commercial areas, figuring this would take a little more than the usual bodega to get glue and wire. Paper's easy. "And naturally Lashvel isn't going to say what happened, and if she does, it's a lie."
  67. 01[20:18] <SpaceThor> "Story's complicated, but you know."
  68. 01[20:18] <SpaceThor> "Don't make deals with devils if you don't read the fine print."
  69. [20:23] <Nemi> "We definitely lacked lawyers back home. One of those might have helped," Oswyn muses aloud, still ambling on. "Do you still have a name, or did you surrender that to her, too?" Morning on Throne. The same time of day as it is anywhere else. It took Oswyn about a month to get used to it.
  70. 01[20:32] <SpaceThor> "I mean, technically. Not supposed to say it though. You're not a narc, are you?"
  71. [20:34] <Nemi> "Nnnnno?" Oswyn blankfaces. ".. Man you took to Throne way faster than I did. I'm not sure what a narc is."
  72. 01[20:35] <SpaceThor> "Xenaith."
  73. [20:38] <Nemi> "Huh. From the south? Offworlder?" Oswyn picks easily enough through the early morning crowds, minimal as they are. It's been enough time for her to get pretty good at it.
  74. 01[20:46] <SpaceThor> "Yeah, I'm not from your world originally. Spent some time in the Shades before I ended up on your planet."
  75. [20:49] <Nemi> That actually sees Oswyn pause, not far from one of the omnipresent vending machines, to stare at Xenaith. ".. Wait. Wait. If you're from- How the Flame did you end up *there*?"
  76. 01[20:56] <SpaceThor> "Wanted a shot at real power, so I hopped an illegal gate to show up as the most magically advanced person on the planet."
  77. [20:58] <Nemi> "Riiight. Right. All your experience and training. Miles above all the tribal sorceresses and forest witches. No wonder Dad liked you. He didn't seem too bothered when you got yourself replaced, though. You two get along or-?"
  78. 01[20:58] <SpaceThor> "It was always a transaction with him. He did something for me, I did something for him, ad infinitum."
  79. 01[20:59] <SpaceThor> "I think he just didn't like magic. Knew it was important, but didn't like it."
  80. [21:06] <Nemi> "That's kind of how we've always been. Part of why it was shoved off to others. It's the one thing I don't take after him on."
  81. [21:06] <Nemi> "Magic is- it's the power to shape the universe. It's more than what you can do with title, with armies, with strength alone."
  82. 01[21:06] <SpaceThor> "I can tell. So what do you still need?" She lights another cigarette.
  83. [21:07] <Nemi> Oswyn glances down. ".. Yeah, I made that obvious." She looks back to Xenaith. "For this project, or in general?"
  84. 01[21:07] <SpaceThor> "Either, but we're actually doing the project, so."
  85. [21:10] <Nemi> "Right. Right. I need to- get it. Figure out what I'm missing. Fire bends to me, but I want the *rest*." Oswyn stops outside a shop, peering up at its sign. "Anyway- for *this*. There's all those newspapers leftover in the recycling room at the apartment. No, I'm after glue and wire, which- you'd think'd be easy but Throne's a city of a billion noodle shops and bars and nothing else, feels
  86. [21:10] <Nemi> like, so I'm having to hope this'll do it."
  87. [21:17] <Nemi> And a side mutter, "I do wish that Lashvel didn't make her lessons so suggestive. Forcing my will to turn something into something else and mold to my thought is hard enough, she doesn't have to say 'harder, harder' like that."
  88. 01[21:18] <SpaceThor> "I mean, you get what you pay for.
  89. 01[21:18] <SpaceThor> "
  90. 02[21:18] * Maya1 (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) Quit (Ping timeout)
  91. [21:19] <Nemi> "I wasn't aware I was paying for *that*. Maybe it's because I'm not pacted to her or something." Oswyn rolls-eyes and slips inside the shop.
  92. 03[21:19] * Maya (ShallNotBe@1AC043AE.EC3C1EFE.E2A8D39D.IP) has joined #ashtonic
  93. 01[21:20] <SpaceThor> "It's cause she's doing it for free, so she's gotta get payment someplace."
  94. [21:28] <Nemi> "Payment through discomfort. What, do devils feed on that?" The shop is- well, it's a junk shop. Oddments of all sorts, discarded furnishings, disturbing folk art pieces, all such things line the cluttered shelves. A blue devil in a puff jacket sits lazily behind the counter, not even looking up at the bell ringing signalling their entrance, while a small flock of imps flutter around,
  95. [21:28] <Nemi> rearranging the junk to their minute-by-minute changing tastes.
  96. 01[21:28] <SpaceThor> "I mean, not much, but it's fun to them so."
  97. [21:31] <Nemi> "I realize I don't know much *about* devils. Dad always said to avoid them- and Lashvel even says to avoid them- but not much of the specifics." Oswyn glides over and proceeds to start digging into the junk heaps.
  98. 01[21:32] <SpaceThor> "Well you know the basics. Hot black flame, given form by masks, etc. etc." She shoos away an imp.
  99. 01[21:32] <SpaceThor> "It's important to note that the black flame animates mortals and devils, which is why she can reshape you like that."
  100. [21:36] <Nemi> "I wondered. And the white flame, servants and Angels. What would happen if she tried it on a Servant?" There, under a wooden statue resembling an elephant painted gaudy colours, Oswyn finally uncovers a spool of wire.
  101. 01[21:36] <SpaceThor> I'm not sure. I bet she could do it temporarily pretty easily. Doing it permanently might go badly."
  102. 01[21:37] <SpaceThor> "She did use it on Maya a while back."
  103. [21:39] <Nemi> "Yeah- I remember. I meant long-term. This seems to- stick pretty much until I point out, hey, universe, this probably isn't right. But it's useful because- it's so ingrained in my head. The fire knows me, but some part of me still says the Red Art shouldn't be mine at all, uh, normally."
  104. 01[21:39] <SpaceThor> "Red, Black, and White arts are hard to get into until you have the basics down."
  105. [21:43] <Nemi> "She gave me the run-down on them. We're starting with Red, maybe going into Red-White later. Since the basic principle of Red is change, she did say that's the first step. And sounds like to me you're familiar with all of them." Oswyn furrows her brows before poking through something like a tool chest made of an obsidian-black metal. A device resembling a limbless frog is retrieved, peered
  106. [21:43] <Nemi> at, and discarded with disgust as its smell hits.
  107. 01[21:44] <SpaceThor> "Familiar, but I'm not an expert. I can do Red-White passably."
  108. [21:46] <Nemi> And then! A bottle of a clear substance, with a label in six different languages, is retrieved from under a pile of wooden clogs for decidedly inhuman feet. Oswyn turns it over. ".. smooth-flowing adhesive. There we are."
  109. [21:47] <Nemi> The blue devil doesn't even look up at Oswyn tosses some coin onto the counter and waves them out and into the street- for now.
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