4:29:55 PM) Avalanche_C: James?
(4:33:42 PM) JamesBeckett: Sup boss
(4:34:59 PM) Avalanche_C: I need to speak with you.
(4:35:11 PM) Avalanche_C: and no, I am not your boss.
(4:35:34 PM) Sage: Why do you need to speak Avalanche? *she sounded angry*
(4:35:57 PM) JamesBeckett: What's goin on?
(4:36:14 PM) JamesBeckett: Im not steppin into a lovers spat here man.
(4:37:17 PM) ***Avalanche_C pulls back from the pack link.
(4:37:31 PM) ***JamesBeckett sighed audibly
(4:37:39 PM) JamesBeckett: The fuck...?
(4:38:27 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> I need....something...help...guidance...advice...I don't know.
(4:38:45 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> maybe a good beating and a collar once again.
(4:39:14 PM) JamesBeckett: If it's not somethin you can share openly with the rest of us..
(4:39:29 PM) JamesBeckett: Or worse. Do you need me to seek a ragabash in this?
(4:40:07 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> I dont know....I ....I really dont know what to do.
(4:42:14 PM) JamesBeckett: Seek me out if you must.  Im always here.
(4:44:51 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> I know where you are...but...
(4:44:58 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> i can not.
(4:46:03 PM) JamesBeckett: You can't enter the camp?
(4:46:15 PM) Avalanche_C: softly>no.
(4:46:18 PM) JamesBeckett: Or you're too busy hiding because you think everyone is mad
(4:46:25 PM) ***JamesBeckett sighed
(4:46:43 PM) Avalanche_C: softly> I am not hiding...there is no place to hide.
(4:47:42 PM) JamesBeckett: Right.
(4:48:09 PM) JamesBeckett: You have an open private link to me as well brother dear if you'd rather not be overheard.
(5:01:37 PM) Lost [Lost@pcr33df6vs6v0a6-il38ww1yd1r0s3.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] entered the room.
(5:01:38 PM) mode (+o Lost) by ChanServ
(5:06:25 PM) Lost: Avlanche, where are you?
(5:06:36 PM) JamesBeckett: He's on the outer bawn with me...
(5:06:46 PM) Avalanche_C: (( is that Katherine?))
(5:06:51 PM) JamesBeckett: (Yes
(5:07:13 PM) Avalanche_C: I am with James.
(5:08:26 PM) Lost: we need to talk I think
(5:08:38 PM) JamesBeckett: Please hun? You might be gentler than i...
(5:08:43 PM) Khirsyth [khirsyth@pcr33df6vs6v0a6-il38ww1yd1r0s3.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com] entered the room.
(5:08:43 PM) mode (+o Khirsyth) by ChanServ
(5:10:20 PM) JamesBeckett: Fair warning.. ill be in lupus for the next few days.
(5:10:27 PM) JamesBeckett: So... this is gonna be fun
(5:10:49 PM) Lost: great....
(5:10:50 PM) Khirsyth: Any particular reason?
(5:11:24 PM) JamesBeckett: My challenge.  Kifel feels i need to find the balance between man and wolf which our tribe lost.
(5:11:35 PM) ***Khirsyth snorts mentally.
(5:11:44 PM) JamesBeckett: For three days.  No tech.  No RV. I hunt for myself.
(5:11:45 PM) Khirsyth: Yeah.  When he finds his wolf, tell him to let us know.
(5:12:03 PM) Khirsyth: He's more human than I am.
(5:13:09 PM) JamesBeckett: He wasn't until after sparks.
(5:13:31 PM) Khirsyth: No, he was pretty human when I got here.
(5:13:53 PM) JamesBeckett is now known as JamesBeckett[L]
(5:16:19 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: There a reason avalanche hasn't been allowed to heal from his wounds?
(5:17:01 PM) Khirsyth: I dunno.  Did you ask HIM?
(5:17:17 PM) Avalanche_C: I am very tired. I need to rest.
(5:18:53 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Shift and heal...
(5:18:56 PM) Avalanche_C is now known as Avalanche_Homid
(5:19:21 PM) Lost is now known as Katherine
(5:20:48 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Not sugarcoating this. You're both a fostern and Get man. Im not just letting you mope around and ignore wounds like this.
(5:21:09 PM) Khirsyth: What am I missing this time?
(5:23:24 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Long story short? Relationship drama blew up. Drake shamed avalanche forcing him to fight a hippo .which left him wounded.
(5:23:29 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: He refused to heal himself.
(5:23:42 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: And now he's convinced he deserves everything and everyone hates him.
(5:24:51 PM) Khirsyth: Well.  Avalanche, shut the fuck up, heal your wounds, and grow the fuck up.  You do this sort of shit, and people will start to agree with that attitude.  But you're better than that.  So suck it up, buttercup, and get your ass back to work.
(5:25:48 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: You're having a rough time. And then turn around and forbid your mate from talking to Tanith because.. and i quote. The lords can't be trusted.
(5:26:07 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: You brought this shit on yourself.  But i won't sit and let you fucking dwell on it.
(5:26:13 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Man the fuck up.
(5:26:26 PM) Khirsyth: ...
(5:27:56 PM) Khirsyth: Really?  The kid you took in as your own, trusted to help you and Honey have a kid, and damn near tore this pack apart over?  And now because he was chosen by Thunder, you don't like him anymore?  Wow.  That's some low, fucked-up, disloyal bullshit.  Fuck you, man.
(5:28:19 PM) Avalanche_Homid: It's not Tanith.
(5:28:56 PM) Avalanche_Homid: It's Drake. I do not trust Drake. He has a outer coating of nice but he isnt nice or good. When I  told him that I *see* him...he gave me a bad name.
(5:28:56 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: He's mad at drake.. ..because tanith chose him.
(5:29:15 PM) Avalanche_Homid: and I frenzied...
(5:29:25 PM) Avalanche_Homid: and I am ashamed and stupid.
(5:29:39 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Dude. You don't start shit with any garou of rank. He's an ally of our sept beta to our sister sept even.
(5:29:51 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: You damn well know better.
(5:29:51 PM) ***Katherine sighs
(5:33:08 PM) Khirsyth: Drake, the Shadow Lord who can teach Tanith about his Tribe, you mean?  That can be a mentor to the kid in ways you never could, you mean?  You know, I fly off the handle and do stupid shit.  I own that.  But this... dude, what good does it do for you to do that?  I never get into it with people without a solid reason WHY, without a lesson in mind that I think the other person needs to
(5:33:08 PM) Khirsyth: learn.  Part of the Ragabash way that I try to emulate.  But that's not your job, kid.  You SHOULD be ashamed.  You DID do something stupid, and deserve a lot worse than getting your ass handed to you by a hippo.  I'm not the pack Alpha, but even so, I suggest a big old Contrition rite to Drake, and you begging forgiveness.
(5:34:58 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: I second that...
(5:35:15 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: And you're lucky it didn't come to formal scandal or satire
(5:35:33 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Because right now he's well within his rites
(5:35:36 PM) Avalanche_Homid: i cant do that.
(5:35:43 PM) Katherine: why?
(5:35:58 PM) Khirsyth: And not just to Drake.  To Drake, to Honey, AND to Tanith.  And possibly to Grandfather Thunder and the local Lords as a whole.  Because you insulted the honor of an entire Tribe, publicly.  Do you understand how Bad Idea that is?
(5:36:10 PM) Avalanche_Homid: I want to strew his innards like human holiday decorations.
(5:36:28 PM) Khirsyth: Then try, you dolt, and get your ass killed.
(5:36:29 PM) Avalanche_Homid: I did not speak out against the tribe publicly.
(5:36:54 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: I don't give a fuck what you think of him.  For the same reason i have to tolerate a man that MURDERED one of my tribe.
(5:36:55 PM) Avalanche_Homid: I told Honey that Drake is bad and now he is going to make Tannith bad...
(5:37:01 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: You need to bury this shit.
(5:38:24 PM) Khirsyth: Avalanche... if I was there right now, you'd be facing robot-me in the ring.  Or I'd just electrocute your ass with my mind.  Mother Gaia, you're burning every fucking bridge, kid.
(5:39:30 PM) Avalanche_Homid: ...I ...I see him for what he is.
(5:39:40 PM) Avalanche_Homid: Why is it only me that can see this?
(5:39:46 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: No. You see what you WANT to see.
(5:40:01 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: He's a politician. A damn good one.  And an asset to this sept.
(5:40:10 PM) Khirsyth: I don't like him either, Avalanche.  But he's not Wyrm, so he's not the fucking enemy.
(5:40:28 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: He might be a bit sleazy. But again.  Politician.
(5:40:35 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: It comes with the job.
(5:40:36 PM) Katherine: Avalanche, this ends NOW. If you can't keep yourself in check and APPOLOGIZE I will speak to Malachi to send you back to Arizona
(5:40:38 PM) Khirsyth: You just LOVE making enemies out of people that don't deserve it, simply because you don't like them, or their methods.  Too fucking bad.
(5:40:59 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: For once Harley and i are on the same side?
(5:41:14 PM) ***JamesBeckett[L] clearly trying to lighten the mood with a tiny bit of humor
(5:41:38 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Apologize avalanche. Or I'll see to it we have a ragabash make you answer for this.
(5:41:48 PM) Katherine: and Avalanche, you just insulted Tanith, by assuming that he'll be bad just because he's a Shadow Lord.
(5:41:49 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: My duties demand such. Are we clear?
(5:41:53 PM) Avalanche_Homid: Harley. James. Alpha. I hear you. I will obey.
(5:41:56 PM) Khirsyth: Jimmy, when you aren't being a dumbass, we have a habit of agreeing.  But dumbassery comes with being Garou.  Humans, too, of course, but I think the Rage increases Dumbassery levels.
(5:42:09 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Love ya too asshole..
(5:42:58 PM) Khirsyth: Hey... I've never denied being an asshole.  I've always been very clear and up front about it.
(5:43:02 PM) ***Khirsyth smiles mentally.
(5:43:46 PM) Katherine: and Avalanche, when you've done that, we're going to have a one on one chat you and I
(5:44:13 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Sounds good.
(5:44:50 PM) Avalanche_Homid: Yes Alpha.
(5:45:26 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: So yeah. If anyone needs me. I uh.. probably gonna be outside more.
(5:45:46 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Sorry for the next few nights. This is gonna be a bit awkward.
(5:46:39 PM) Khirsyth: You're Garou, Jimmy.  It shouldn't be hard for you.  You actually LIKE being outside and shit.  Or at least, you dress like you do.  I mean, you ARE aware that cowboys work outside, with animals, yeah?
(5:48:36 PM) Avalanche_Homid: ooc i may not be able to do any scenes tomorrow
(5:49:07 PM) Khirsyth: ooc No worries.  You do stuff when you're able to.
(5:49:36 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: I know. More the me not being allowed to be human bit.
(5:51:20 PM) Khirsyth: Bah.  You can do it.  Shit, I've spent the last three days as a spaceship.
(5:52:20 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Spaceship? Wat?
(5:52:52 PM) Avalanche_Homid: what...what is that?
(5:53:19 PM) Katherine: damn you're bored
(5:53:31 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Yeah...
(5:53:44 PM) Khirsyth: I've been playing an MMO using my cyberdeck.  Fully-immersive Virtual Reality, dude.  Playing games in this system... well, put it this way - I'm teaching myself to be a ninja by playing an online martial arts game, and when I showed Alyah, she said my form was excellent.
(5:54:56 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: And you're playing Eve now?
(5:56:52 PM) Khirsyth: No.  Not Eve.  It's this relatively-unknown one called Space Guard.  Eve's physics system isn't very good.  See, the more realistic the in-game physics, the better it is for training purposes.  And Neo-Sprite's been working on a ship for me to pilot to explore Metaspace with him, so I needed some starship piloting lessons.
(6:01:13 PM) Khirsyth: But yes... I'm bored to fucking tears.  You assholes have my workshop.  I had to leave there with only my combat 'bot, 2 drones, my laptop, my cell phone, my cyberdeck, my wallet, and a single outfit - literally what I had on my person at the time.  I bought a new motorcycle so I could get around, after Tank drove me to Hollbrook.  I'm crashing in a cheap motel in town, and commuting most
(6:01:14 PM) Khirsyth: days to Adamana to oversee the construction of the labs, since technically I'm in charge of that whole thing.
(6:01:58 PM) Katherine: what do you need sent back to you?
(6:02:14 PM) Khirsyth: Nothing that fits through the door, Kat.
(6:02:49 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Ye can't take any freelance coding work?
(6:02:59 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: At least do something productive for the community?
(6:04:42 PM) Khirsyth: Hey.  I never said I wasn't doing anything -productive-.  I'm working on a few alternate frame designs for the robot drones, for a variety of mundane non-combat uses.  Construction, mostly, but also environmental cleanup.  And I'm working up a rudimentary autopilot system for controlling multiple drones simultaneously, like a Shadowrun Rigger.
(6:05:49 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: If ya need any code monkeying let me know
(6:06:03 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Though i know you need to keep busy.
(6:06:44 PM) Avalanche_Homid: I dont understand a word either of you ...yahoos...are saying
(6:07:23 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Something something something glass walker, something something weaver
(6:07:36 PM) ***JamesBeckett[L] gave a subtle laugh
(6:09:29 PM) Khirsyth is now known as Taho-Nefer
(6:12:10 PM) Sage: What happened with your other challenge? Did you fail it?
(6:13:57 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: No idea. I never saw the rest of it.
(6:14:28 PM) Sage: O...k.
(6:14:58 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: That's pretty much it. I was told to challenge again.
(6:15:04 PM) Taho-Nefer: It's computer stuff, Avalanche.  Don't worry about it.  And Jimmy, I'll let you know.  Right now, it's giving me something to do, and sounds like you've got stuff on the go right now.
(6:15:34 PM) Katherine: Who did you challenge the first time?
(6:17:07 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: I challenged sage. Then vanished for a bit.
(6:17:23 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Came back and harley was gone.
(6:17:35 PM) JamesBeckett[L]: Part of it relied on him being here