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Ganaroth:
How
are things?
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Ganaroth:
Glad
to hear that.
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Ganaroth:
I'm
just stressed and pissed, which is hilarious given the actual
amount of stuff that I do. -.-
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vonel:
I've
been there myself
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Ganaroth:
Mmhm.
I really did almost cancel tonight. I sorta said I was to Akaiku,
then went into my room and changed my mind. It's just barely on
the right side of the line.
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vonel:
Well
if you feel like you want to stop early just say so
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Ganaroth:
Thanks.
If I need to, I will.
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=^v^= has connected.
Riot has connected.
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Ganaroth:
Ahhhh,
though. I was able to read ahead a little bit on that FIC by being
a dirty pirate and getting access to the patreon chapters. I did
not think about the fact that the pirate site doesn't update
weekly like the FIC. So now I'm stuck waiting multiple weeks for
the story to continue. I regret my decisions. There's a hilarious
thing going on right now where one the characters is trying to
oust the guilds from her territory, and one of her big opening
moves absolutely did not go as planned, and she was super taken
aback by what actually happened. She's a generally pretty
successful character, so occasions where she missed something
important and stuff comes back around to bite her are amusing.
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Ganaroth:
Stressed,
pissed, annoyed... Ech.
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=^v^=:
there
is snow, work is dumb, irl friend going through some uncool shit,
etc
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Ganaroth:
There
is a suspect ratio of the people who I know who are dealing with
shitty life stuff.
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Ganaroth:
Pretend
that was good grammar.
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Riot:
Yeah
I'm putting it out of my mind as best I can
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Ganaroth:
I
mean, I don't THINK I'm the one spreading this, but it's hard to
know for sure.
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Ganaroth:
Anyway,
just tell me when things are ready.
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Last time: You folks talked with the Dryad Lilium, who had been held
prisoner by Haarken, and she spoke a bit about her home, and how she
came to be captured before talking a foot bath/drink.
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Ganaroth:
(When
saying it like that, it feels fairly anemic...)
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=^v^=:
(( I mean for a while I did summeries
like that for the early sessions cause it's funny ))
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Ra'ven:
"Well,
we are on a roll, but maybe we should rest up a bit? What's our
next target anyways?"
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Eileen:
"Which
ever one is left I would think, can't be more then one or two at
this point."
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Pell:
"I
could use ...a nap."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Well,
I can get some food going, if you'd like. Nothing fancy, but it'll
fill you. And of course, the beds are still available. I've no
other guests right now, after all."
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Io yawns. "I want to rest as well.
Today has been... exhausting." They shake themselves, trying to
remain active. "We only need one more key to gain access, and we
have several choices. The High Lady Tynaron, the Gray Angel, and
The Gravelstoke family." Their voice is a bit slow and dull.
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Ra'ven:
"Hmm,
I could go and bring back some drink from Lucky's to celebrate
right? Since nobody looks particularly up to going out...?"
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"No,
no, no! If you need drinks, I can go get some for you. Don't
expose yourself just for that."
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Lucky:
"Damn,
I was gonna order top shelf, too."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Well,
I can go to the bar and get it for you, I mean"
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Apologies...
I suppose I'm just a little nervous. You do things somewhat
differently than we always did, is all."
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Ra'ven:
"Ah
I suppose so. I'm somewhat new to this particular thing... Guess a
potion maker getting a bunch of alchohol wouldn't be particularly
suspicious?"
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Eileen:
"Probably
not."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Heh,
well, wouldn't be too suspicious for most people, really. I just
don't want to take chances on someone recognizing your face."
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Ra'ven likely is chilling in her not
werewolf form, "Ya I suppose I stand out a bit..."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"I
do use a lot of alchohol, but I make my own. It's not for
drinking, really. Using top shelf whiskey to brew potions is
unecessary. BUT. Most people don't know that. Trick of the trade:
if you tell someone that what you're carrying is potion
ingredients, they will almost always believe you. I've done that
at least a dozen times."
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Itzen:
"This
is going quite a bit better then it could have...."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist looks at Ra'ven,
then flushes. "Oh. Of course. My mistake. We aren't a militant
branch, so most of us aren't actually wolfkin. I'm not used to
thinking in those terms. I suppose that is a fairly effective
disguise."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Instructor!
Why did you say that? Now something terrible is DEFINITELY going
to happen on third assault!"
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Itzen tilts her head, "Relying on the
Greater Gift is the main way to lose it. One should still be
thankful
for it."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Be
thankful once we're done. Thanking the wolf ahead of time seems
like a saying about chickens to me..."
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Eileen:
"Well
at this point were fighting an uphill battle regardless, who ever
we go after next is going to be ready."
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Itzen:
"Perhaps.
We can go after one that doesn't fit a pattern drawn by the
others?"
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Io:
"I
would be a liar to say that stories and their principles have no
effect on the world. The so-called "Rule of Three" applies in so
many cases because it is in fact a metaphysical principle, for
example. But consider, Kaylen: Those same rules of storytelling
dictate that one the third attempt, the heroes shall suffer a
setback, but ultimately triumph."
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Itzen:
"It
would be somewhat poor form to avoid devotion untill some sort of
finality, as well. We have thusfar saved quite a few of my-
our
fellows."
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Ra'ven points to the druid, "Also
saved her it seems."
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Lilium:
"You
did."
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Io smiles at Itzen. "As you say. Drawn
by others is the key phrase. Out of many moments and ideas, Kaylen
has chosen to pick a set that supports the idea that we are
doomed. You correctly point out that the solution, then, is to
pick a different set, and draw a different conclusion."
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Ra'ven nods, "Plus the silver time has
faded so numbers and stories are weaker now."
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Kaylen Fisher scratches her head. "I
guess I don't quite get the whole devotion thing in the first
place. I mean... Garmera doesn't really care if anyone is devoted
to her or not, as far as I know, so why would devotion affect
whether I get her blessings?" She raises her hands. "And I know
that shouldn't be the point, but I spend so much time looking at
her and studying her effect on the world that it's hard not to
break things down into cause and effect."
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Itzen:
"Ah,
see that's the thing, she
does
care, but most of her
blessings are..." she hmms, "
diffuse
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Io:
"Truly?
Is that how it works now? How novel. In the world before, such
things were more based around... well, I would say "place," but
that's not entirely correct either. Your lack of extraplanar
mechanics is making it difficult to describe."
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Io:
(Io
was referring to story time.)
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Kaylen Fisher:
"That
sorta seems like a distinction without a difference. If the only
way her blessings affect the world is in such diffuse ways that
they can't be observed or tested, in all practical ways it's like
she doesn't care at all."
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Itzen:
"You
give thanks beacuse it's a good thing to do, because of the gifts.
Her
response
to them is..." She hmms, "Have you studied if
those that DO praise Her end up slightly better off?"
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Not
at all my field of study, but if you design an experiment that
could reveal something like that, I'd be willing to go for it."
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Itzen:
"It
is not particualrly
easy
to do as it requires a large
population, but I would posit the continued existance and
relevence of factions such as mine would stand to reason that
something is backing it."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"What
do I do? Give thanks and flip a coin every day for a year, then
repeat for the next year and see how many times I "won?"
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Itzen:
"If
nothing else the act of doing a common thing like that binds
together people in common cause."
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Itzen:
"And
fellowship is the Third Gift."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Of
course. That's more or less what the Lansiri philosophies are
about, and those beliefs are strong enough, when coherent, to
actual endow people with magic. That's the point, though; some of
the philosophies are pretty nuts, and some of them contradict each
other, but they still all work. So how do I know that any blessing
isn't a result of that? The only way I can see is to perform the
test with people who DON'T believe, so that any difference has to
be external."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Fellowship
is awesome, Instructor. I'm enjoying it right now. But I don't
need to perform worship to sit here."
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Itzen:
"Strong
enough belief causes effects is the basis of certain powers as you
say. Does it not stand to reason that enough people beliving a
thing would reach even Her?"
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Itzen:
"And
you do not, but perhaps someone
else
did need it for you to
be here."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Or
reach something the you believe to be her. Or reach something that
didn't exist before you began trying. Or not reach anything and
manifest the effects anyway."
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Itzen:
"That
is, in fact, why different sects sometimes have different beliefs."
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Io:
"Ms.
Fisher... being the sort of being that I am, I'm unlikely to agree
with you wholeheartedly, as much as I wish I could. But is there a
reason you've chosen to be so confrontational about this?"
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Kaylen Fisher flushes. "It's.... I'm
sorry, Instructor. That really was rude. I've just had to push
back against the things the "everyone knows" for my whole life.
Which hasn't been that long, yeah, but it wears on you. I
shouldn't take it out on you, though."
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Itzen frowns slightly, "It is not an
issue for you to ask such things. I'd be a poor teacher if I were
unable to deal with questions."
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Itzen:
"Perhaps
a way to think of it is if someone is asleep, would you still wish
them well?"
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Itzen:
"They
can't hear you and it's not likely to particuarly change their
situation, unless you were perhaps loud about it."
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Ra'ven:
"See
that's why I want to go pet her! That way I can tell." Ra nods.
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Itzen gives a rather quickly batted
down look of dumbfounded ness, "I... I'm sorry you want to do
what?"
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Kaylen Fisher gives a weak smile. "I
could have been more polite, though. You're not coming at it from
the same place I am. For me, it's that distinction without a
difference, because I look at Garmera, and I see ethereological
patterns. Weather, spatial phenomena, supernatural field effects,
concept incursions. I have to look at it that way, because if I
assume anything else, I can base a theory or recommendation on bad
information, and then there is a non-zero chance that someone dies
because of it. You're looking at it from a standpoint of her being
valued as an entity herself. If I tried to thank her... it would
be like thanking fire every time I saw a spark."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"I'd
wish a sleeping person well, sure, because I know they're a
person. I'm not a good enough to thank every chicken I eat,
though."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"I'm
not saying she's a chicken. She's way cooler and wilder than that,
but since I can't talk to either one, it's similar to me.
Actually, talking to a chicken would be a lot easier, huh, since
getting in range to use an animal speaking ritual on Garmera would
be problematic."
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Ra'ven:
"Go
up and pet her, tell her she's doing a good job.." Ra nods, "I
mean... if I were her I'd wan that?" A pause, then she looks at
Io, "Didn't you say you knew her before? Think she cares about
people?"
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Io:
"To
say I knew her is not precisely correct, and you may not like the
answer in full, Ra'ven, even if ultimately I take your side in
this. Do you wish me to continue?"
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Ra'ven nods, "I mean it's pretty long
ago and people can change. You said
you
did after all."
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Io:
"Indeed,
though you already presuppose her to be a person. I cannot speak
as to her thoughts, but she certainly has both behavior and
preferences, indicating an awarentess of the world. In my own
time, I watched her approach our world as existence after
existence fell to her, torn apart as she... played. Some she would
ignore, only to chase down as devour those she found more
appealing. Centuries of this, hoping she would not notice ours,
and then scant years at the end knowing that our hope was in vain.
I "knew" your wolf as the great enemy. The living end of the
world, and the ultimate foe of those who had created it. It was to
fight that battle that I rejoined the halves of myself. But I was
never allowed to fight, and the gods now are silent. Even in my
prison, I felt them wink out, one by one." They sigh. "Garmera is
intelligent and aware. It is a person, at least of a kind, though
I don't know how intelligent she is. And I will hate her forever
for what she did. Not least do I curse her "greater gift" for
having us be the final world she devoured before so many thousands
of years of torpor. If she had only become tired one world
previous..."
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Itzen:
"The
world isn't devourered, however. Though the Malestrom tries...
Unless we are actually
inside
her, which... I don't think
anyone has studied that?" she looks to Kayleen in askance
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Lucky:
"The
idea of living in a wolf's gullet is weird, not gonna lie."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Uh...
I can't say that anyone has tested that. We can see her there,
after all. But to be completely honest there are more than twenty
different acknowledged types of visual ethereological distortion,
some of which are crazier than just seeing the outside of
something you're inside of."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Haha,
wow, Lucky. Give me a chance one of these days, and I'll tell you
some REALLY crazy stuff."
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Itzen:
"It
wouldn't go against the strange geometries that happen when you
get too 'far' from the rest of the world I suppose. Would be a
rather sad thing although the duration of such an act makes it a
bit.. Well..." she hmms.
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"I'm
actually pretty interested in this conversation, but it might be
best if you tell me who you plan to go after tomorrow. I can try
to brew up a few potions for you to take with you again, if I know
what to make."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(brb)
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Itzen:
"I
believe if we had no other more specifically opportune targets we
were requested to go after the Gray Angel to throw off suspicion."
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Lucky shrugs. She clearly doesn't care
as long as she gets to hit someone.
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Eileen:
"Someone
who knows them better should be making this choice, I don't know
any thing about any of them so I'd just be picking blind."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Ugh,
that thing... it won't be an easy fight, but then none of them
are." He shakes his head. "The Gray Angel is a kind of drug
magnate, essentially. Well, drugs and a number of other vices, but
he's more invested in the drugs side of things. It rubs me the
wrong way, considering my profession. It's an unapologetic
predator of those who think they are willing, but who really just
don't understand the dangers."
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Pell:
"Sounds
like a class act"
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Eileen:
"Sounds
good to me."
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Itzen:
"That
sounds like... well, a bit of a problem if we suddeny stop it."
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Itzen:
"The
more exotic drugs like that are unplesent, occassionly fataly so,
to cease."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"It
has substances that have the most spectacular effects, but you
have to pay very real money for that. For the rest, you have
powders and potions that will addict you while hollowing out your
insides. By design, incidentally. It's made no secret of its
contempt for the impovershed of this city, and once claimed that
its most dangerous substances were purposefully so cheap that the
poorest would have no choice but to buy from him, and face the
consequences." His mouth compresses. "It's true. There will
certainly be consequences if it disappears tomorrow. But there are
consequences for leaving it there as well. Who was it that
suggested you go after the Gray Angel?"
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(( doees Denish adn co have a cool
moniker or are they The Brothers? ))
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(I
hadn't thought about it, actually. I can try to think of one, but
should probably do that later, lol. For now, we can just say
Dinesh, and pretend you said whatever else.
)
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Itzen absoulty has resting chunbi
enough to use cool monikers "It is perhaps not a great idea to
know the politics behind it, but it was Dinesh who suggested it."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Ah..
and you hit Nosnra and Haarken before. He's sending you after some
of the worst, then. Doing a little housecleaning, probably.
Killing your way into the inner circle is a time-honored
tradition, but anyone already there who tried to physically go
after another one would just cause an all-out war. With you here,
he doesn't even have to lie when he says he didn't hire you.
Directing your efforts, though...heh." He smiles. "All different
flavors of awful, but if you want to hit someone unexpected, Gray
Angel is a good choice. Haarken and Nosnra obviouslly had direct
connections to my friends, and Tynaron is probably one of the
people experimenting on the Orb. The Gray Angel is more or less
unconnected." He frowns. "I think, at least."
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Itzen:
"If
they are into drugs like you speak of, perhaps that's part of the
unnartural reactions we are finding in the solders."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist 's mouth
compresses again. "I hadn't considered that. I suppose that to me,
this phenomenon is new, while the angel isn't, so I didn't connect
them." He thinks about it, and then nods, reluctantly. "I doubt
it's entirely alchemical, but that could easily by the major
component. And..." He sighs. "I'll be frank: It's a rare soldier
in Adhikaar who NEVER indulges in one of the Angel's concoctions."
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Ra'ven nods, "Just cause alchohol
works normally doesn't mean it can't also be magic, after all."
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Itzen:
"Also,
I suppose I have objections
on principle
of such a person
continuing to prey on the poor."
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Itzen:
"Do
you think you and your like might be able to help... blunt... the
fallout?" she asks the potion maker, "Or are there things we
should look for?"
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Essentially
the principle behind alchemy in the first place! In this case...
Um, maybe something that causes a particular kind of confusion?
Ulghor Blossom Dust, maybe. Encapsulate it in an inert base which
responds to a predetermined trigger, releasing the substance..."
He frowns, going over things in his head. "I couldn't come close,
of course, but if I had twenty years and all the money I could ask
for, I actually MIGHT be able to figure out how to do this." He
starts. "Oh! Oh, sorry, I should pay closer attention. Well,
that's a difficult question. The city's apothecaries and healers
are probably capable of dealing with the situation, but the
difficulty is whether they will. It would have to a priority job
for essentially everyone for the duration of the crisis, which
would be... at least a month, more likely two or three. And that
means that we apothecaries would need to be paid, or we ourselves
would go bankrupt and starve. Unfortunately, the prospects of
getting someone to pay all the city's apothecaries for that entire
period of time to brew medicines for the destitute is probably as
difficult as you would imagine. This only people with that kind of
money are exactly the people who profit from such things."
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Itzen:
"So
we should be on the lookout for any valuable resources laying
around that could be split that low then."
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Kaylen Fisher 's eyes flicker over to
Itzen in amusement, then back to Glentes. "Yeah. How "exactly the
people who profit from it" are we talking about? Because we might
be about to mug one."
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Itzen sighs, "And if we were to try to
hire
all
of them, some of them will realize their value
went up. Perhaps it is necessary to allow Denish to apply presure
for the public good, as it were."
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Lucky:
"We
can at least ask, for sure."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"I...
well, even if you did acquire enough money to do such a thing...
and this would require that you simply turn over an enormous
amount of coin, incidentally... I suppose you'd have to disguise
the source of the money. And you'd have to put someone in charge
of it that you could trust to actually use it for this purpose. If
you think that Dinesh and Samir are people you can trust, powerful
people on the city have occasionally been known to retain
craftsman on fullfillment contracts. The city would post a bid
for, say, forty thousand cleansing restoratives in pre-assigned
lots at a given price. I would, for instance, sign a contract to
deliver 5000 of them by the agreed date. The contracts themselves
are, by custom, non-negotiable. You either agree to the terms
going in, or do not sign. Normally, it's only used for goods that
are not needed immediately, for customers who are more concerned
with price. But there's no reason that someone couldn't post
orders at an ABOVE market rate with a short window. If the initial
incentive is enough, I think a great many of us would accept
before realizing how markets would change. Enough of us to matter,
at least. And once you sign a contract... well, it's a contract."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(lolololol
me write text bricks about economics, because IT"S NOT THAT FIC
SHUSH YOU.)
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Riot:
(( lol ))
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Seriously
embarassing. I have no idea why I went into detail like that on
something that, when I'm almost certainly the only one who cares.
XD )
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
Something
LIKE that, typo typo.
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(( there is a current season
isekai-isk show where the protag would be 100% saying that whilst a cute
dragongirl would be pouting cause he only cares about work ))
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Was
going to make a comment, but then realized that I would have to
explain a complicated inside-jokey concept to do so. Booo. Oh
well. Insert isekai mockery here.)
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(( the point I was making is
basically, "I mean it's not nobody, there is anime about that right now"
))
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Itzen:
"I
suppose it would work out a bit better that way, as it wouldn't
have to be coin, if it can be something valuable that someone like
them could get coin for, which would make it perhaps easier to
abscond with."
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Itzen:
"I
do not think we have the equipment necesssary to run off with a
room full of treasure."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist turns back over
to Lilium. "Sorry to keep talking like you're not here. These kind
people have agreed to help save some friends of mine. I guess
they're generous enough to save people even when they aren't
directly paid for it too. I'm glad. You probably don't have a
place to go right now, so for the time being I wouldn't mind if
you stayed here. At least until you decide what you want to do
next."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"We
really, really don't. And frankly, you should be glad. If it was
easy to make magical containers that big, can you imagine what the
Iron would do with them? Smuggle whole squads into enemy cities in
people's pockets, for one."
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Kaylen Fisher:
(Kaylen
responds to Itzen.)
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Lilium nods, "All right, but if
they'll let me I'd like to help."
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Itzen:
"We
can find you a cloak but do not feel obligation to do this for the
rescue. Other reasons are fine."
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Lilium:
"If
your taking on others like the one that held me then that is
reason enough for me."
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Lucky:
"This
town has no shortage of 'em."
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Io tilts their head. "And do you view
this as righting a wrong, or as getting revenge? Both worthy
goals, but I doubt most here are willing to risk the the former at
the expense of the latter."
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Io:
(Tiamat
being literally a deity of vengeance and Bahamut being literally a
deity of justice)
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Lilium:
"Any
real revenge I could have gotten died when you slew him, but I
would be liying if I said that wasn't part of it." She looks down,
"I don't know the people here so I can't really say it's for
righting a wrong either, but from what you've been saying it
sounds like they need the help regardless. Guess I'm not really
sure why I want to help at the moment, but just sitting back while
all of you run off feel's... wrong?"
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Ra'ven:
"It's
probably at least boring..." Ra nods
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Io pads over and looks up at Lilium
solemnly. "Then by this act, let things be settled between us. You
were given an unexpected gift, child of fey. I, at least, will
consider any debt repaid by your help."
|
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Lilium:
"I...
of course."
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Io:
"I
think we should allow her to come. Her powers may prove useful,
and for many fey it is distinctly uncomfortable, or even harmful,
to give or receive gifts. There are any number of stories about
it."
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|
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Ra'ven nods, "Favors hang heavy on
many."
|
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Io:
(Like
Santa Clause! That's why people put milk and cookies out for him.
He can't give gifts without receiving something in return.)
|
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Io:
(I
just absolutely made that up. Did it sound reasonable to anyone?)
|
vonel:
(( makes sense to me, he is an elf
after all ))
|
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Io:
(mmhm!)
|
=^v^=:
(( ra and vull feell that less hard
as they were raised in super communist setting ))
|
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Io:
((Yah.
And remember that Io's knowledge here is lik 30K years out of
date. Many things have changed, and he doesn't know what he
doesn't know, you know?))
|
=^v^=:
(( yep, also ra is also a devil, one
of the more inherently selfish creatures in the world, so she's even
less phased ))
|
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Io:
(There
are quite a few things that used to be rules that are now more
like trends, and vice versa.)
|
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|
Ra'ven goes over and pokes Kayliin in
the shoulder, "Also, try to get beat up less tomorow..."
|
|
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Aw...
but I'm just starting to get good at it."
|
|
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Ra'ven:
"It'd
be rather hard for you to appreciate a plush if you died."
|
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Pell:
"I'd
prefer none of us bite it tomorrow."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"What?
You wouldn't let me die. Eileen would just yell in my ear, and I'd
just wake right up and reattach my head."
|
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|
Ra'ven:
"Would
have to check with the girl, but I am pretty sure ghosts don't
really care about
new
things positivily."
|
|
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Eileen:
"Your
damn right."
|
|
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Kaylen Fisher:
"See?
She knows how it works."
|
vonel:
(( Warlords, yelling the blood back
in. ))
|
|
Ra'ven hmphs, "Hey I have already said
I can't really do much to stop you from dying. Same with if I got
Vul's awesome ancient travel-sized dragon too scuffed up."
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(It's
funny, cause nobody in-game would get that joke, so it's just
Kaylen being a little silly instead of making a reference. Out
here, though, we can appreciate my wit in its full glory.)
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(sarcasm
intensifies.)
|
=^v^=:
(( there are 3 healing words, only
warlords get one that isn't magical xP ))
=^v^=:
(( a good deal of the time the word
isn't "yip"! ))
|
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Would
you like me to provide an explanation for each leader class about
how you would describe their "healing" without it actually
physically healing wounds? I guarantee I can.)
|
vonel:
(( Ardents are just hippys who peace
and love the pain away ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
((I
mean, yeah. Their emotional control abilities allow their allies
to fight through pain and fatigue. You don't even have to reach on
that one.))
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(They're
like magical aspirin and monster energy)
|
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|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Or
you can say that they psychic the blood back in. Either way!)
|
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|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Well,
if you're going there tomorrow, I'm going to get work on some
Sessin Powder, maybe a few other things. It's an inhalant that
sort of... it proofs you against a small degree of poison for
several hours. It's used by people safeguarding themselves at
meals, yes, but also from food poisoning, badly made alchohol, and
any number of other things. It'll even proof you against nausea
from foul odors..If you'll be going up against the Gray Angel, I
think you might appreciate something that will keep you from being
addled as soon as you walk into its den."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"That
DOES sound like something I'd want to avoid..."
|
|
|
Ra'ven is all sincere
|
|
|
Lilium:
"Does
sound useful
|
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|
Lucky:
"Yeah,
I deal with enough smells owning a bar."
|
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|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Its
headquarters is this place called Gray Clouds. A high-class den,
with plenty of security. They'd probably throw me out if I stepped
onto the same street. I'm faily certain your bar isn't the same
sort of place. Gray Clouds is more of a full service
establishment. On the plus side, that means there will certainly
be plenty of spoils for you to make off with."
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"The
Medicinal Guild always has the worst stories about that place.
Obviously I've never been there, but I can answer what I do know.
Or... well, I'm talking as though you're all from away. You've
probably heard the same kinds of things."
|
|
|
Eileen:
"Maybe
Lucky and Pell have, kind of why I'm leaving the bulk of this to
those two and Itzen."
|
|
|
Lucky:
"Most
of the time it's been a 'mind your own business' kinda deal in
this town."
|
|
|
Pell:
"You
just don't like paying attention."
|
|
|
Lucky mimes kicking him in the shin.
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"A
little irony there. The barkeep who doesn't pay attention. Well, I
suppose that the ideal is more or less supposed to be one that
always listens but never asks questions, so maybe it's not so
crazy."
|
=^v^=:
(( it's getting a bit IRL late, did
we wanna keep going? ))
|
|
Lucky:
"I
pay attention to me and mine. Besides, what do I need to get
involved in the politics of this shithole if I've got this jackass
to do it for me?"
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(
)
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(I
think this is ok for tonight, personally. I was actually going to
say that, more or less.)
|
Riot:
(( That's fine ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Thanks
again. I'm going to make sure to have everything prepared for next
time so that we can do either fighting or talking, or a
combination as needed.)
|
Riot:
(( sweet ))
|
|
Ra'ven:
ima
get a sammach and apoligize for talking so much ic today
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(also,
going to try to reformulate my encounter design strategy.)
|
Riot:
(( why apologize ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Apologize
to them, not me! I joke. I didn't mind, personally.)
|
Riot:
(( no need to apologize in my opinion
))
=^v^=:
(( large amount of text vs other
players ))
Riot:
(( all good ))
Riot:
(( I'm still recovering so I just
didn't have a lot I could think of to add ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Sympathy)
I hope you continue to feel better.
|
=^v^=:
(( one time a player we had exploded
and yelled about me doing that among a long list of random greviances ))
vonel:
(( I know I didn't have anything to
add to what was being said ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(sorry)
|
=^v^=:
(( so I will probably perodically be
concerned about it ))
Riot:
(( I'm definitely not gonna blow up
over people getting really into in character stuff even if I can't add
to it ))
=^v^=:
(( however, on the other hand sammach
place closes so ))
Riot:
(( this is dnd after all ))
|
|
Ra'ven:
this
is dnd *sparta kicks diplomat into pit of death
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(see
you.)
|
Ganaroth is disconnected.
Riot is disconnected.
vonel is disconnected.
=^v^= is disconnected.
Ganaroth has connected.
|
Angel of Protection:
|
Effect:
While the angel is not bloodied, attack
rolls against it take a -2 penalty.
|
|
Apply
While
the angel is not bloodied, attack rolls against it take a -2
penalty.
|
|
|
Angel of Valor:
|
Effect:
While the angel is not bloodied, attack
rolls against it take a -2 penalty.
|
|
vonel has connected.
=^v^= has connected.
|
|
Ganaroth:
Me
neither. I'm just sitting in Sorcerous Sundries, picking up the
infinite money that spawns there (for whatever reason, something
keeps dropping random crap on the floor there, and it's actually
quite a bit of money if you sell it. And there is a vendor right
there, so it's just free money for sitting there.)
|
|
|
vonel:
i'm
just leveling dudes in a pokemon game
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
Cockfighting
Seizure Monsters ftw
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
But
yeah, the continuous loot drop here is lol. I think it's this dude
hanging around casting conjuration spells. It's not all 1 gp
vendor trash either. Useful consumables and valuable shit like
gems and things pop out of thin air too.
|
|
|
=^v^=:
i
find civ 7 kinda intresting
|
Riot has connected.
|
|
=^v^=:
ya,
civ 7 does a partial board wipe twice through a gam
|
|
|
Riot:
Fuckin
thought the owl had started and the grocery store would be empty
|
|
|
Riot:
I
was very very wrong
|
|
|
=^v^=:
why
is owl a thing
|
|
|
=^v^=:
oh
some sorta sports ball refrence
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
Ohhhh.
Is it that time of year?
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
Didn't
realize.
|
|
|
Riot:
Yeah
it's today apparently
|
|
|
=^v^=:
it
made traffic just a little less bad ironically
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
Huh.
I guess my campaign of willful ignorance to current events has had
SOME effect.
|
|
|
Ganaroth:
So,
folk readyish to playish a gamish?
|
|
|
=^v^=:
cat
meme, "Come child, it is time to do
drugs
"
|
Last time on DnD, you made the choice of your final target: The Gray
Angel. This actual angelic being has long been Adhikaar's biggest player
in the trade of narcotics and other substances. Adhikaar occupies a
strange place in the League of Five when it comes to drugs. Other
nations have lists of outlawed substances, but Adhikaar simply doesn't.
Pressure from the other nations means that their exports are tightly
restricted and monitored, but in the city itself, few things are
prohibited. The Gray Angel, however, specializes in very high and very
low end substances, gleaning fortunes from the city's elite in its drug
dens and brothels, while systematically and publically poisoning the
hapless poor who can only afford his cheapest products.
The location of Gray Clouds, the angel's highest-profile establishment,
is where he is likely to be holed up. Remember, though: Due to previous
activities, the gendarmerie of the city is active and alert, and the
Gray Angel itself has probably increased its own security.
|
|
Itzen:
"I
suppose storming the den would bring a bit too much attention
immediatly..."
|
|
|
Eileen:
"Yeah."
|
|
|
Lucky:
"Probably
not the smartest."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Well,
luckily it's a public establishment, right? Perfect place for a
softer approach."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"I
am not sure we really pass as particularly rich or poor though..."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Nobody
is really all that downtroden and only like, Elieen and I... err,
her seem to even be able to 'aloof'" she gestures at Itzen
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Hey.
I can pass for poor in my sleep, thank you. All I have to do is be
honest." She grins. "Nah, though. I was figuring that we slap a
big chunk of cash down on the bar, or whatever, and actually order
some stuff. I don't know what door policies they have, but we
should be able to wing it, right?"
|
|
|
Eileen:
"So
pool everything we've got an act like were the biggest shit in
town?"
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Seems
like it'd also attract attention..."
|
|
|
Ra'ven looks to Lucky, "Do people go
to places like this after they get like, a 'score' as it were?'
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"I
mean we do pass as a bunch of mercs..."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
(Lucky
could tell you with a Streetwise check.)
|
Riot:
(( I missed that Ra directed that at
Lucky ))
|
|
Lucky:
|
Riot:
(( lmfao ))
Riot:
(( rolled a 5. Sad days ))
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
(Looks
up your Inquisitive network thing, and notes that you can probably
get a +4 to that if you have contact in the city. Which you almost
certainly do. And that would make it succeed.)
|
=^v^=:
(( ya was bout to ask ))
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
(In
any case, Gray Clouds is well known amongst the more well-to-do
element of the city, on both sides of the law. The establishment
is segregated into different levels, with a variety of "moods."
Among those are certainly ones which promote a rougher, more
raucous experience, and are often frequented by the more dangerous
elements.)
|
Riot:
(( lol forgot about that one, this
would be the first time ever using it ))
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
(Sorry!
I should probably allow it come up more...)
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
(Uh,
anyway, that info has been made available. You folks are going to
have to say what you do with it.)
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"I
mean, rougher likely means we can be annoyed and bring weapons."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Maybe
not, but seems more likely then other places."
|
|
|
Lucky:
"Annoyed,
with weapons. Yeah, that's us."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Maybe.
Even rougher places might take your weapons on the way in, if they
don't want murders on the floor. Especially if everyone inside is
going to be among the clouds."
|
|
|
Itzen:
"I
mean, if they charge extra for cleaning up that sort of thing, it
would perhaps help with retaining people."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Heh.
You'll have to ask them about their business model."
|
|
|
Itzen:
"I
more or less assume their ability to explain might be cut off
simlar to the last person who's key we took."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Mmmhm....
it occurs to me that it might be more effective to get there,
check it out, and THEN make a plan, once we know the specifics."
|
|
|
Itzen:
"We
do
need to move a bit unobviously to get there as well."
|
|
|
Eileen:
"Keep
in mind that the whole of the city guard is going to be out in
force, so the longer we spend out there the higher the chance we
get noticed."
|
|
|
Io:
"Indeed.
Aside from your Griffon, Itzen, we don't have a convenient way to
shuttle ourselves to that location. I suppose we could always fly
two at a time over there to avoid patrolls, but it would risk us
being separated if a fight breaks out on either end. The dark
would cover the flight, but people might notice the landing as
well."
|
|
|
Itzen:
"We
might be able to use the confusion of the sudden power vaccum if
worst comes to worst, but as was stated, we don't actualy know
till we get there."
|
|
|
Itzen looks to Lil, "How are you with
animals?"
|
|
|
Lilium:
"Not
bad... but I may have somthing that will allow us all to fly
there."
|
|
|
Io tilts their head, waiting for
Lilium to explain.
|
|
|
Itzen:
"Depending
on how obviously, that would assist a great deal."
|
|
|
Lilium:
"I
can call on some Eagles to carry people around, never really had a
chance to use it before sense it seemed kind silly when i was on
my own."
|
=^v^=:
(( Gandolfing it woo ))
vonel:
(( I mean I kind of had to once I saw
it ))
Riot:
(( lol ))
|
|
Io:
(Sorry,
I was just writing a big rant, not interesting to anyone else.
Then realized I was typing it here, making me look busy. Woops.)
|
|
|
Lilium:
"There
not real eagles from what I understand, more like spirits that
take the shape of eagles."
|
|
|
Io:
(But
yeah, you can fly everyone to the drug club like James Gandalfini.)
|
|
|
Io:
(....sigh.
That would have been topical like 20 years ago.)
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Ah
yes, like how my brother does it with foxes."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Though
foxes generally do not fly, except my brother now it seems."
|
|
|
Io:
"We
all have totems close to our hearts. Such spells take their form
from these, unless we force them into a different shape."
|
|
|
Io:
'Vul
is close to his nature, and thus summons the spirits of foxes to
aid him. I assume you have a different set, Lilium. But if you're
willing to help us in this way, it might be of great use. I doubt
they'll suspect this means."
|
|
|
Lilium nods, "It'll take me a few
minutes to call them up, so let me know when you want to go."
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
"Suppose
we'd need a bit of space to jump on a bunch of big birds..."
|
Riot:
(( I forget, were we gonna do this the
same day or the next day ))
vonel:
(( I would assume the next, so we
have a chacne to rest and recover ))
Riot:
(( That was my hope ))
=^v^=:
(( ya, also it'd be a bit funny but
bad to go into a fight sequance with so many people missing surges etc ))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"Well,
I have a small garden on the roof of the shophouse. Use it for
growing herbs that can't be sourced here easily. There should be
enough space, as long as you mount up one at a time."
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Yeah,
please do a long rest, provided you choose to do so.)
|
|
|
Io:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
66 / 66—
Surges:
11 / 11 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
87 / 87—
Surges:
12 / 12 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Eileen:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
73 / 73—
Surges:
10 / 10 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Lilium:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
75 / 75—
Surges:
11 / 11 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Lucky:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
73 / 73—
Surges:
6 / 6 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Pell:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
77 / 77—
Surges:
11 / 11 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Itzen:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
69 / 69—
Surges:
7 / 7 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Ra'ven:
Took an extended rest.
HP:
70 / 70—
Surges:
8 / 8 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Itzen:
|
Necklace
of Calamity Avoidance
|
|
Know whats coming and prepare
|
|
Effect:
She gets resistance to her choice of one
of the following till next long rest:
|
|
Apply
Resist
5 fire
|
|
Apply
Resist
5 Poison
|
|
Apply
Resist
5 cold
|
|
Apply
Resist
5 acid
|
|
Apply
Resist
5 lightning
|
|
|
|
Itzen gunna assume poision more
applicable for drug den
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Might
be!)
|
=^v^=:
(( it turns out it's acid cause drugs
))
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(You
all have a tincture that will protect you from ambient levels of
intoxication, as the air in there is likely to be hazy and
euphoric. In practical terms, you each have resist poison 1, so
it's not big, and if you want more, you'll have to grab something
from Glentes, or have it yourself.)
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Nah,
man. Acid clearly does psychic damage.)
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Nothing
actually cause acid damage.)
|
|
|
Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Acid:
The green headed stepchild of elements.)
|
|
|
Lilium goes up to Kay the next day
before they get ready to go, "Ummm... it was mentioned yesterday
that you tend to take a lot of hits, this might help." She holds
out a small gold colored acorrn, "If you eat it it will help you
recover a bit."
|
=^v^=:
(( eat some acorn and be kay ))
vonel:
(( basicly ))
|
|
Kaylen Fisher takes it, and examines
it closely. "Huh. I've never seen this... Some kind of druidic
magic, I assume. My knowledge on that is a bit sketchy. What is
it?"
|
|
|
Lilium:
"Simply
put, condensed life energy."
|
|
|
Lilium:
|
Primal power threads through lilium, coalescing into a
golden seed ripe with healing magic.
|
|
|
Effect:
You spend a healing surge but
regain no hit points. Instead, you create a golden seed the
size of an acorn. The seed lasts until it is eaten or until
the end of your next extended rest. A creature carrying the
seed can take a minor action to eat it and regain
28
hit points.
|
|
vonel:
(( I do have a second power made for
the heal, so no need to worry about remembering the healing amount. ))
|
|
Lilium:
Lost a healing surge.
HP:
75 / 75—
Surges:
10 / 11 —
APs:
1 —
Daily Items:
1
|
|
|
Lilium:
"And
when someone consumes it that energy infuses them to help them
recover."
|
|
|
Lilium:
"It's
taxing so I can only make the one."
|
|
|
Ra'ven does some stretches whilst
wating for birds, "Going to need to do some relaxing after this
string of work, huh."
|
|
|
Ra'ven also seems to have more crows
then one would normally expect sitting around looking at her
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"That's
interesting. It's not exactly the same as a potion, or an
artificer's infusions, then. It's more like just... a spell. But
in solid form. Wild."
|
Riot:
(( von might have DC'd ))
vonel:
(( Nah I'm here, just everyone went
very silent so I wan't sure ))
Riot:
(( Ah okay cool ))
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Druid
magic always does the craziest stuff. With arcane magic, the rules
aren't that hard. It's all math, yeah? Run the equations, add
energy, and it works. Venture out from there, and you start
getting into magic that requires you to believe, or to hold
certain moral positions, or call upon greater powers. That stuff
is completely alien to me."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Like,
if I'm doing the spell, why does NATURE care what I did last week?
NATURE isn't even a thing, It's more a concept, so how does it
have memory at all?"
|
|
|
Lilium:
"Nature
has a very long memory."
|
|
|
Kaylen Fisher:
"Like
I said, it's wild. If I ever tried to talk to "nature," I'd never
be able to find where to send my message spell, but somehow it has
wants and needs anyway."
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Itzen:
"I
would suggest it IS a thing. As it does react and have prefrences.
Perhaps they are reflections of the beliefs that form it or the
beliefs are the reflection of the needs. Which side of a mirror
one finds ones self is often unclear."
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Itzen:
"I
have ran across someone who attempted to explain that arcane magic
worked the same way, except it ws belief in
math
for
instance."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Oh,
I agree it has those things. The issue is whether it has identity
as a consolidated being or not. If it doesn't have that, and I've
got no evidence that it does other than to call it the sum of what
we BELIEVE nature to be, then we're back to "what the hell, why."
And that belief thing might work if it were a Philosophy, but
druidic magic definitively ISN'T based on belief." She shakes her
head. "No no no no no. Belief has shit to do with arcane magic.
Arcane rituals work even if you don't know what they are supposed
to do. If you have enough available power, you can even do a
ritual without knowing you have magic. That... usually require
memory alteration, but still."
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Lilium shifts slightly, "Any ways..."
She presses the seed into Kays hand, "...use it when you need it,
I'm going to start calling the eagles."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"Thanks,
I appreciate the hell out of it, 'cause I do get beat on a lot.
I'm trying to fix it, but designing new spells... well, let's just
say it's more than a matter of believing it'll work." She winks.
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Kaylen Fisher puts the seed away in
her pouch.
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Itzen avoids pointing out her
belief-based dodge spell
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Riot:
(( tfw you can't remember where you
said something backstory wise ))
Riot:
(( sad ))
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Whirling Blade Swarm:
(You
belief based dodge spell is divine, and so it can work that way.
She don't use divine.)
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Ganaroth:
(What
did you forget, Riot?)
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Riot:
(( nm I found it. Was thinking about
how Resena used to do that thing where she'd do spinning tosses with her
sword, wanted to know how I described it ))
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Lilium does the thing.
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Lilium:
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Great eagle spirits thunder through the sky, carrying
you and your allies to a far-off location.
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Component Cost:
400 gp
Key Skill:
Nature
Time:
10 minutes
Duration:
12
hours
Effect:
Up to eight giant eagle spirits
appear to carry you and your allies. Each eagle can carry
one Medium creature. The eagles have a fly speed and an
overland flight speed determined by your Nature check.
Creatures
take a -4 penalty to attack rolls and defenses while carried
by the eagles. The eagles can't attack or affect other
creatures in any way.
The eagles' defenses are equal to
yours, and if an eagle is hit by an attack, it descends to a
solid surface to drop off the creature it carries, then
flies away. Eagles who have flown away during combat can be
called back as a standard action outside combat.
Nature
Check Result
Speed
Overland Flight
24
or lower 8 10
25-29
10 15
30-39
12 20
40
or higher 15 30
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Lilium:
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Ganaroth:
(Eagles
have the zoomies.)
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=^v^=:
(( eagled ))
At the completion of Lilium's ritual, you can all feel a change in the
air, like the scent of the wind just before rain. An eagle, translucent,
and glowing so faintly that you can't really see the radiance until it's
almost upon you, swoops out of the darkness, coming to rest on the
rooftop beside her. Its wings brush the planters to either side, tipping
over a tall, spindly shrub.
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Ra'ven rights the shrub
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
"I
appreciate it. Wouldn't fancy trying to find another Slekesti
Fiber Tree."
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Lilium smiles, "All right whos up
first?"
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Ra'ven points to Lucky, "She knows
where the place is right?"
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Lucky
would be able to find it easily enough.)
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Glentes: Wolf Cultist:
(Pell
probably could too.)
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Lucky:
"Pell
probably knows better. Like I said, I'm more of a 'mind your own
business' type."
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Pell:
"I
swear to all the hells, Luck. What kind of bartender
are
you?" He looks at Ra'ven. "I know roughly."
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Lucky just shrugs.
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Ra'ven gestures at the bird to Pell,
"Then lead on. It'd probably be fun to wander around till we found
it in a different setting, but we are time pressed also the town
is hostile..."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"You
know, a surprising number of bartender's say that. That they're
paid to serve drinks, not spread gossip. That sort of thing. I
feel like that's becoming the new stereotype." She nods toward the
eagle. "Uh, I call riding with Lilium, since she's probably done
this before."
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Itzen:
"I
will assist the dragon, as I am somewhat versed in riding."
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Lucky:
"I'll
ride with smartass here."
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Pell glares at her. "Better a smartass
than a dumbass."
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Ra'ven:
"Suppose
that leavs us then?" to Elieen
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Lilium:
"They
really only carry one person each, Io can ride with someone else
more then likely, but I can call up enough for everyone if they
want there own."
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Riot:
(( Oh gotcha ))
vonel:
(( can call eight, and they only
carry one medium sized creature. ))
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Kaylen Fisher whimpers. "People are
meant to fly in ship, not on top of animals..." She sighs. "Ok,
lets do this."
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Ra'ven:
"Ah,
then I guess you'll just have to trust me or I guess our employeer
to catch you if you fall.." Ra teases Kay
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Kaylen Fisher:
"I
trust you pretty well, Ra. Don't let me down, pun intended."
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Ra'ven:
"If
I do, it'll be gently at least?"
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Kaylen Fisher:
"As
long as we stay over the island so that I don't land gently two
thousand miles downcolumn, sure."
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=^v^=:
(( so we bird over to the cloud
place? ))
In short order, you are able to mount the big birds. You quickly find
out that, despite Kaylen's apprehension, the spirits simply respond to
your thoughts, gently carrying you without regard to your own experience
or lack thereof. Well before you arrive, you see it; Gray Clouds. The
name seems almost perverse, evoking a sense of serenity and grace that
is completely absent in the real thing. Gray cloud occupies a high tower
at the border of the Ember district, where the monumental edifices of
the wealthy brush up against the tenaments of the rest. The tower is
bathed in lurid colors and shining lights, and surrounded by exotic
species of foliage that you think must have been harvested from a
feywild incursion during an Argent cycle. Dangerous. At the front, two
long lines snake around the buildings in opposite directions, being
shepherded at two different doors, each guarded by a pair of fiery forms.
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Ra'ven:
"Fancy
plants"
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Angel of Valor and the others appear
to be checking people as they enter. Standard stuff really, aside
from who is doing it.
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You manage to land the eagles out of sight. Thanks to the darkness, you
don't think anyone saw you. Besides, despite thousands of years in a
verticle world, most land-dwelling species still haven't gotten over
their tendency to not look up.
=^v^=:
(( unless they are wolf cultists
obviously xP ))
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Io:
(Different
kind of looking up.)
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Io looks puzzled as they dismount.
"Yes, the plants are interesting. I'm also interested in those
creatures at the entrances. Fire elementals of some kind? I didn't
recognize them."
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=^v^=:
(( some sorta check for that? ))
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Kaylen Fisher:
(Yeah,
religion)
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Lilium:
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Eileen:
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Itzen:
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Pell:
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Lucky:
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Riot:
(( Lucky doesn't know shit about
religiosity ))
Rather than fire elementals, these are Angels of Valor. Essentially
angelic footsoldier types, they don't have many powers other than flight
and their flaming weaponry. These ones have an oddly purple tinge to
their flames amidst the red and orange that makes them look somehow
sickly. Like all angels, they also have a kind of presence that turns
aside blows as long as they are yet unwounded.
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Itzen elaborates!
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Eileen:
"Huh..."
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Itzen:
"In
the event they accost us perhaps I can use a trick."
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Io stares, a look of concern on their
face. "You call these creatures angels? Much has changed yes, but
on this I refuse to bend. These are *not* angels. Archons,
Guardinals, Aasimon, Asuras. All names for Angels. For
celestials." It indicates those creatures. "I don't know what
those are, but if they call themselves angels then they are
*lying.*" They pause. "I will need to speak with Tyellenthi when I
have the opportunity. She should know about this."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"...Archons
are elementals."
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Io:
"Your
world is nonsense."
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Itzen:
"Is
this not your world as well then?"
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Lilium giggles
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Lucky stifles a laugh at how angry Io
is getting
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Io:
"It
WAS my world, until the object of your worship decided to play
with, tearing apart a garden that we built for you and forcing you
to live on the fragments. You no longer even know what you've
lost, and your world has been filled with pale imitations. And at
the end, so many of you choose to venerate the agent of your
destruction. Perhaps some part of this is still my world, but the
longer I spend here, the more difficult it is to see." They snort.
"I'm sure these beings are.... fine. But they certainly wouldn't
be part of a choir on Mount Celestia."
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Itzen:
"They
are fancy looking guards on a drug den, I do not know what this
place you speak of is, but it sounds like it has more prestigue
then doing that."
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Ra'ven frowns slightly, "You know, the
world has a lot of cool and interesting things in it. You haven't
seen much of it right?"
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Io:
"I
apologize. I should have realized the name would mean nothing to
you. Mount Celestia was Bahamut's home. A place of soaring peaks
and silver clouds, guarded and inhabited by the righteous. He...
enjoyed it. Tiamat viewed it with scorn, but now that I am whole,
I can recognize it for jealousy." Io pauses. "Aside from the
island I was found on, you've been with me to see all the places I
have."
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=^v^=:
(( we see any oppertune spot for the
rough and tumble people. ))
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Ra'ven:
"Oh,
so they aren't like the people from your hometown then..." she
nods, "I run into that as well."
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It's quite easy to see once you look. The two lines are kept well away
from each other. In one line walk the destitute and desperate, along
with a smattering of people who seem as though they're either slumming
it for the night, or enjoy a more raw experience. The other line
contains people in well tailored clothing, with visible jewelry or other
accoutrements. The Angels here seem to actually be checking people; the
other two have ejected one or two people as you've watched, but you're
not sure about their criteria.
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Ra'ven:
"Oh
maybe we can ask the rejects what the angels were mad about?"
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When you get close, you're pretty sure that while these angels would be
formidable opponents for most people in the city, they'd probably only
be dangerous to you in numbers.
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Ganaroth:
(You
may talk to them if you wish.)
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Ra'ven absoulty will assumign nobody
stops her
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Ganaroth:
(I'm
not gonna stop you.)
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Ra'ven would ask one of the lower
class ones though
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Ra'ven taps them on the shoulder,
"Hey, what was that guard all pissed about?'
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One of the rejected individuals, a young woman, is muttering to herself
and angrily kicking debris up against the wall. She gives a start when
you touch her, letting out a weak yelp, and drawing away with quick,
jerky movements. She calms when she sees that you don't mean her harm.
Facing you, you realize that she's younger than you thought, perhaps 15.
Her face is dirty, with a hollow look to it. "Aahhh! Ah.. um... Oh. Uh,
sorry... didn't... didn't hear you there. Uh... This is the door of
need, right? You either gotta have coin, or you gotta... want it enough.
They can see it in the head, right?" She shakes hers. "I'm on the second
day without. I guess I'm not desperate enough til the third."
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Poor Girl:
"Having
coin might be worse, though. Those fuckers get followed. They know
you're there to get fucked, so they try to get everything you have
before you go. Had folks who were burned half to death when it
turned out they didn't have as much as they expected. Bastards."
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Ra'ven hmms, "Suppose there is quite a
line... Not from around here." a pause then she pulls out a few
coins, "Perhaps something elsewhere will help tide you over?
Though I suppose that'd make me one of those with coin, so best
you have some of them as opposed to them..."
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Poor Girl looks at you suspiciously.
"What you want me to do for them?"
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Ra'ven chuckles, "Ah, ya, I mean I
personally would like to not have to wait, but unless you have a
way, you can just have those coins."
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Ra'ven:
"Getting
rejected from a door of need for not needing enough just... annoys
me."
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Poor Girl:
"Yeah,
I got an easy way. Go up to someone in the line, offer them a
couple of coins like you did me. They want in as much as I do."
She reaches out and grabs the coins, the speed of her hands almost
at the edge of politeness. "Grayngel like to help out people with
needs like this, right? But he's only got so much, even him.
Rationed to the people that need it most." She giggles. "Load of
shit, that is. Not stupid enough to believe it. Fucker just want
the people most likely to kill themselves."
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Ra'ven nods, "Dishonest arena, unlike
the other one in the town."
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Poor Girl:
(???
What?)
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=^v^=:
(( Ra refering to watching people
desperate fight for their lifes ))
=^v^=:
(( she assumes that's the sctcick of
only letting the desperate in here, also the alure of the area combat ))
Riot:
(( I just can't parse the sentence
with regard to where we are ))
=^v^=:
(( she sees both of these places as
things where the point is to wtach the desperate struggle ))
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Poor Girl:
(I'd
personally say that there's a difference. People risking
themselves in the arena are essentially gambling. They can come to
harm or die, but they might also win rewards and acclaim. The
desperate here are just outright preyed upon, with no hope of ever
getting anything out of it.)
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=^v^=:
(( for the people ya, but Ra is
looking at it from the spectator side ))
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Poor Girl:
(Even
on the spectator side, while it's not all of them, a lot of people
watch the matches out of an appreciation for the art and
competition. There are definitely people who are just there to
witness savagery, though, and those would definitely be similar to
the kicks that the Gray Angel seems to get out of this.)
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=^v^=:
(( ra is saying it's dishonest here
because of that witnessing savagery point is hidden here unlike the
arena where it's obvious ))
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Poor Girl:
"Heh,
if I could be in the arena, I'd have a way to get coin besides
answering your questions."
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Poor Girl:
(I
understand now.)
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Poor Girl:
"I'd
just get cut in half straight off."
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Ra'ven sighs wistfully, "Alas. Perhaps
your luck will change for the better someday."
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Poor Girl 's eyes move from one of you
to the next. "Needing info about the clouds? Got a plan there?"
She eyes some of your visible weapons. "Maybe I should stay away
tonight?"
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Ra'ven:
"See,
you are much smarter then the average person."
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Poor Girl:
"Trying
my best, every day. Helps that most people are complete shit, so I
look good compared."
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Poor Girl:
"Need
more? I guess got nowhere t'be tonight."
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Ra'ven tilts her head, "Lets say we
wish to speak directly with the Grey?"
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Poor Girl:
"Um...
Wow. Aside from causing a big enough problem?" She thinks.
"Entertains big shots sometimes. It'll come down from the castle
for that, or for whatever political bullshit is going on. Uh...
It's not down on the crap levels, but they got a thing on the high
fuckery levels I heard of, where it sorta... I dunno, makes a big
dream with all the rich assholes. Friend says it comes down and
works the crowd a bit. Never seen that, though. Grayngle is a big
person, and I'm not. Him looking in my direction could turn out
real bad for me."
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Kaylen Fisher:
"It
would be good opportunity to whisper something in his ear, if we
go that route."
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Ra'ven shakes her head, "Doesn't even
hand out it's handouts itself. But that's helpful to know."
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Kaylen Fisher:
(Gray
Angel is genderless, but I often say "he" because oldbrain.)
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Poor Girl:
"Gotta
give you your gold's wortth, right? Don't want you to think I'm
cheating you. Probably wouldn't survive that."
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Poor Girl:
"But,
uh... if you don't need more, I'm gonna skitter. It's looking like
you folk might be playing violins tonight."
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Lucky:
"Probably
smart for you to dip out, kid."
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Poor Girl:
(The
simple street slang is just a substitution of "violins" for
"violence.")
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Poor Girl:
"Smart,
that's me." She gives a shaky laugh. "Have fun, and loot whatever
you can."
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Poor Girl takes off, gait unsteady but
surprisingly quick as she retreats off into the dark.
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Poor Girl:
(Weeeeellll,
it's like 7:15, and iy's not a terrible stopping point, since
you're about to DO A THING. What do you think?)
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Riot:
(( sounds good to me, I gotta do some
stuff anyway ))
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Poor Girl:
(Cool,
don't want to keep you from your life.
)
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Poor Girl:
(Next
time, you can... I dunno, infiltrate, storm, or blow up the
foundations. Though with that last one, you'd need to search the
rubble for the key, and that would take a lot of time.)
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Poor Girl:
(Or
obviously any other plan you care to make. Anyways... hope you're
all doing well. Can't completely tell if you're there, but the
sentiment is the same regardless. I hope you return next week.)
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Riot:
(( Of course! ))
Riot:
(( Gnight, and thanks for the game! ))
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Poor Girl:
(Thanks
for being here!)
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Poor Girl:
Night!
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Ganaroth is disconnected.
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Ra'ven:
night
all
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Riot is disconnected.
=^v^= is disconnected.
vonel is disconnected.
=^v^= has connected.
=^v^= is disconnected.
=^v^= has connected.
Riot has connected.
Riot is disconnected.
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Ra'ven:
huh
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=^v^= is disconnected.