[nobilis] PerrySimm says, "Log on."

[nobilis] Ferris reads that 'so now you're a noble' pamphlet

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I still don't get the whole deal about (not) falling in love"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "it never seems like it comes up, and I'm not sure why the creators of Nobilis thought it was such an all-fangled important idea"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "well, first a mummy nobilis and a daddy nobilis like each other very much"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I'm not quite sure how it fits into the fabric of the game"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "well, uh, inky kind of didn't make an issue of it"

[nobilis] Monkey says (to Xaylia), "since he was too busy flirting"

[nobilis] Xn says, "Loving someone is handy for anchoring."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "but it's a big deal with trying to be secretive about love and so on"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Xn), "yeah, and anchoring someone is thankfully not considered grounds for prosecution"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Ferris), "think of it as a law passed by a very bitter person"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Which I guess means that http://www.chancel.org/FAQ.html is on crack."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "who just happens to have the clout to enfore it"

Monkey performs somersaults

[nobilis] Nathan says (to Pete), "har"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Pete), "according to the book, it's not considered grounds"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "well, Chrysoula said it was in there to encourage people to fall in love"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "which seems reasonable enough"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "also, I think, to set up that the world is somewhat grim and unpleasant, which I'm not big on"

Kanyaa watches the monkey curiously.

Monkey plays with his testicles.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "here we go"

[nobilis] GM says, "It was included to make love a meaningful part of the game, yeah."

[nobilis] Xaylia | In a crucial decision, Meon ruled that a "loved one's" status as an Anchor cannot be entered into evidence in the Locust Court

[nobilis] Ferris | Option 2: Change this so any bodily fluid (possibly excepting saliva) functions in place of blood or tears.

Birralee has connected.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "but even so, overt obvious love for an Anchor is dangerous"

[nobilis] Xn says, "They used saliva for anchoring in example."

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "oh, by saying over and over REMEMBER! NEVER EVER FALL IN LOVE!!! FORBIDDEN!!! BAD WRONG! they're trying to encourage people to do so in their campaigns?"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Because that *can* be."

[nobilis] Pete asks (of Xn), "Are you sure you're not thinking of blood?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Ferris), "yes"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "because it makes me tend to want to ignore the idea"

[nobilis] GM nods at Ferris. Players are notorious for wanting to do what's forbidden in a game.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I find that sort of thinking really muddle-headed somehow"

[nobilis] Pete exclaims (at Ferris), "The love stories will continue until morale stops improving!"

[nobilis] Xn says, "Marsaglio spit into the slit throat of the Excrucian shard anchor."

[nobilis] GM says, "In any case, I don't plan on making it a particularly dark-inducing thing, 'cause I have too much fun with Excrucian."

[nobilis] GM says, "He spit blood, Xn."

Dara arrives, looking for booty.

[Crows-Nest] Dara wave!

Monkey swings on a unicorn's tail.

[nobilis] Pete says, "Also, yeah, if love weren't a requirement for anchoring people you tolerate, I'd be avoiding it completely as well."

[nobilis] GM says, "But I am gonna play around with relationships and mortals and stuff some, 'cause, well, it's interesting."

[nobilis] GM says, "Note that you don't have to love or hate somebody eternally to anchor them, just long enough to get off the anchor rite."

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Pete), "not the only requirement"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'd hate to see anchor divorce court"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "hmm. one night anchor stand"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "get your anchors to really piss you off and then spit blood in their mouth"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "the fiddlyness of setting up anchors makes me just want to ignore that whole concept"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "But doesn't that eternally fix the anchor's view of you?"

[nobilis] Ferris says (to Xaylia), "ew"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "but that is because your heart is made of iron"

[nobilis] GM says, "there's no anchor divorce court. but you can anchor somebody you hate momentarily or for a few days and have that settle into mild dislike or even mild affection eventually."

[nobilis] Dara asks, "The whole 'work against you' vs. 'work for you' thing?"

[nobilis] Monkey says (to Birralee), "so, I get the godly powers, the extra-dimensional fortress and the Buick, and you get permanent insanity"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "whereas mine is made of unicorn smoothies"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "don't be wrongin my blood pumper"

[nobilis] GM says (to Dara), "No, anchors are people."

[nobilis] GM says, "Conveniently, Ferris, you only get one anchor."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "he *is* an anchor"

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "don't I get 5 or something insane?"

[nobilis] Janice says, "Hee hee."

[nobilis] GM nods at X

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "I can see that being a fickle 6-year-old may help me here"

Monkey dives into the picnic hamper, rattles around inside it, knocks it over, and leaps free

Kanyaa spins around, snapping awfully sharp teeth at the monkey. Hah!

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "I'll just get people I want to anchor to steal my dolly or something"

Kanyaa exclaims, "Such a strange beast!"

Monkey says, "WAA"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Kanyaa?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "the unicorn"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Ah."

Kanyaa asks, "My brothers are overly concerned with mortal purity, but-- how can one tell with something like THAT?"

Ferris says, "mmm, pic-a-nic basket"

Monkey rolls on his back and picks crud out of his toenails with his teeth

Xaylia plays with her dolly, having lost interest now that the cutting thingy has stopped hurting people

Ferris says, "although for some reason I don't feel hungry"

Dara asks (of Kanyaa), "Your brother unicorns?"

Nathan says (to Ferris), "I'm going to stick to eating stuff that's already out on the table"

Birralee says, "Have you tried this 'potato salad'? It does not appear to be meat, but it is quite tasty nonetheless."

Birralee licks his hands clean.

Monkey methodically shakes all the liquid containers.

Xaylia pretends her dolly is tidying an imaginary house

Pete says (to Barralee), "Are you familiar with these? They're referred to as 'forks'. They can be rather useful for situations like this."

Birralee takes the offered fork.

Birralee makes little stabby motions with it.

Kanyaa blows warm, sweet breath into Dara's face. "Yes. Simha will not approach you, for example. They are more... sensitive. Irrational."

Birralee says, "Aha! This is how you warn people away from your food, since you do not scream."

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says (to Birralee), "ha ha ha"

[Crows-Nest] Janice says, "Yay."

[nobilis] GM says, "Note, Dara, your effective Realm is only 3 in the rural area"

[nobilis] Dara nods.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "rar"

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "it's -2 for the opposite sides of the chancel, yes?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "To a minimum of 0, right."

Ferris stares at everyone else as they eat.

[nobilis] GM says, "We'll say last game's this-side creations were the last fading bit of genitive force in the chancel."

Nathan asks (of Ferris), "not hungry?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Er, so let's say I created this in my own realm and then did a change of location ;-)"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says (to Ferris), "hey, don't stare at me, I'm not eating"

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "oh, so what's my realm in the urban side?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Or that, sure ;-)"

Ferris says, "I... guess not..."

Ferris says, "I sort of can't tell"

Xaylia says, "I'm not hungry either"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris STARES AT XAYLIA

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia GLARES BACK

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "MAN"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "don't make me come over there and anchor you"

Nathan says, "you folks are missing out"

Nathan has some cheese on sticks

[Crows-Nest] Birralee eyes the unicorn.

Monkey isn't hungry but stuffs his face and cheek-pouches anyway

Pete asks, "Are there any Fritos?"

Birralee asks, "I'm not sure. What are they?"

(From GM) There are sort of moaning wailing sounds deep within the wood.

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "I think I'm with the urban side, so I am all realmpowerless here, right?"

Dara asks (of Kanyaa), "Oh, right, *that* purity. So that's not a myth, then?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "yes"

Dara cocks her head, listens.

Nathan says, "Hunh, lunch music"

Pete says (to Birralee), "They'd be salty, crunchy, curly things in a crinkly plastic-foil bag."

Monkey says (to woods), "AAWAA"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "And does a realm divination to find out what it is. One of the voids?"

Pete says (to Pete), "Made from fried cornmeal paste, I believe."

Jim ambles out of the woods, rubbing his eyes.

Kanyaa stomps a foot and then nuzzles Dara. "They don't appreciate the finer things."

Jim asks, "Oh, hey, is there any food left?"

Xaylia says, "Jim!"

[Crows-Nest] Monkey says, "oh great, a slut unicorn"

[nobilis] GM asks, "major will cost points at this point, so.. major or minor?"

[Crows-Nest] GM says, "Hee hee"

Jim says, "Hello again, Xaylia."

Xaylia says, "you're all back to how you were!"

Xaylia says, "now you can fight and stuff"

Pete asks, "Hello?"

Pete asks (of Xaylia), "Is this a friend of yours?"

Nathan looks at Jim

Jim picks up a plate and piles it with cheese and salami.

Xaylia asks, "you don't recognise him?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Oh, I forgot about the major one. Minor."

Jim says, "Mrmf mm nmf"

(From GM) The woods say, "Aoooooooooooowaaaeeee" back, and then the wail breaks off and picks up again in a quieter dischordant chorus.

Nathan says, "he looks a little familiar"

Pete says, "Well. He's not the groundhog, since he turned into the curly-haired guy..."

Monkey chatters furiously to himself

Pete says, "He's not the monkey, since that's still here."

Pete asks, "Is he one of the unicorns?"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "hee hee"

Xaylia says, "Jim carried me around when the ground went all funny"

Ferris stands up and walks to the edge of the woods.

Jim asks (of Pete), "Hey, who are you talking about?"

Monkey brandishes his iron bar in a menacing fashion.

Xaylia says, "and then he went all funny"

Kanyaa says, "You're wearing a lady's costume, sir."

Jim says, "Well, yes, I -- oh, my goodness."

Monkey says, "Place still full of nasties! Grar"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "ferris is probably doing the same thing as dara"

Jim rubs his head.

[nobilis] GM says, "They're part of the realm. Some entities in it. Look a bit like Ri, your friendly neighborhood casper landlord."

Ferris stomps off into the woods.

Monkey scuttles towards the woods with a purposeful expression

Xaylia says (to Jim), "you know, I think it's wrong to be both"

Jim says, "Am I still confused, or was I, er -- just a minute ago --"

Ferris says, "Who's in there?""

Xaylia says, "you were"

Birralee says, "You smell like the lady who tossed me into the air."

(From GM) The woods go very very quiet.

Dara says, "Yeah, picnic time is over, kids."

Xaylia whispers, "a girl!"

Ferris says, "Hrm."

Jim says, "Hm, looks like something is up. I'll have to figure out what's going on later."

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "how far into the woods are they?"

Nathan says, "Right-o"

Monkey shoots up a tree and stands dramatically at the top of it, glaring into the distance

Jim says, "And find myself some pants, too."

Nathan dusts off his hands

[nobilis] Pete asks, "What *is* he wearing, if I dare ask?"

Dara sprouts dragonfly wings, leaps up and makes her way over the trees to the noise (or lack thereof).

Nathan asks (of Dara), "didn't you say there were two void thingies around we needed to deal with? is this one of them?"

Nathan says, "...er, when you have a sec."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "his desc shows ALL TOO MUCH"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

Birralee makes sure no one is watching, then tucks several drumsticks into his pockets.

[nobilis] Pete says, "Ack."

[nobilis] Dara asks (of GM), "Is it? Can I still tell threats?"

Nathan says (to Birralee), "always carry provisions, that's the trick"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'd like to know why the awooing stopped, if possible"

Xaylia realises people are going into the woods, picks up her dolly, and follows them

Monkey says, "AWWOOOOOGAH"

Jim says, "Okay, sorry everyone, I think I introduced myself earlier as Janice. But I'm actually Jim. So that clears that up. Sorry."

Jim realises nobody is listening, shrugs, follows.

Nathan says, "well ok then"

Pete asks (of Jim), "So which one of you is the right one? Or is that a bad question?"

Pete follows too.

[nobilis] GM looks. Hm. Okay.

Ferris asks, "Can anyone here fly over those woods and see what's going on in there?"

Jim says (to Pete), "Well, originally I was Jim, I suppose."

Jim says (to Pete), "Just recently things have been a little disorganised."

Xaylia says, "jim could throw someone over them and see if someone flies like he did before"

Pete says (to Ferris), "Sure."

Pete nods to Jim, and takes off to scan the forest.

Monkey bounds through the treetops

Dara says (to Ferris), "(from above the trees) I'm way ahead of you, buddy."

Birralee says, "I wonder..."

[nobilis] Dara asks, "OK to which?"

Xaylia clutches her doll closely. "I don't like these woods"

[nobilis] GM says, "Here's the skinny. Everybody with Realm 0 or higher! can detect that there's something in the realm like... a nail being dragged down skin. It's nearby, but not the papercut monster. Everybody with Realm 2 can tell that the howling isn't from something alien to the Chancel."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "effective realm or actual realm"

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "?"

Birralee turns into a spinny vortex thing and moves up to follow Pete.

[nobilis] GM says, "Effective."

Jim says, "It feels like there's something nearby like... a nail being dragged down skin."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris asks, "is it just me, or does it seem like Dara is kind of having a private session that we're not seeing, except for the occasional #nobilis comment?"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "And what's the minimum effective?"

Jim says, "It's alien to this place, I bet."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "0"

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "It's just you ;-)"

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "(I haven't actually been getting any whispers, etc)"

Xaylia shudders and stumbles along behind everyone else

Kanyaa watches the Nobles leave the picnic and ambles after them. Behind her, Simha neighs something, but she flicks her tail at him and otherwise ignores him.

[nobilis] Pete wonders if we're going to get in the habit of leaving litter strewn across the pristine countryside. Picnic lunches, makeshift helicopters...

Ferris walks purposefully towards whatever-this-is.

GM says, "From above the trees, it's pretty much impossible to see down into the forest. But you CAN see where the forest curves back on itself."

[nobilis] Jim says, "Heh."

[nobilis] Dara says, "I got rid of the helicopter last time, actually."

(From GM) The silence is replaced suddenly by whispering that moves ahead of Ferris.

Dara says, "I'm heading in..."

Pete aims for wherever the noise was coming from.

Dara darts into the trees.

[nobilis] Jim says, "We just need to tell Birralee that picnic plates are edible and the whole thing will be gone in no time."

Monkey keeps up his pace through the treetops.

[nobilis] Birralee says, "if only they tasted like meat"

Xaylia falls further behind

Ferris calls out, "Hello-o-o"

Jim tries to hear what the whispers are saying.

[nobilis] Dara says, "That can be arranged ;-)"

(From GM) There's a rushing noise that grows louder as well, until the whispering becomes a single giggle and then vanishes into the sound of... the river that abruptly appears when the forest opens up.

Birralee dives down to follow Ferris when he his hello.

[nobilis] GM says, "For an Aspect 3 miracle, you can hear the whispers saying, "Oh no, here he comes! We're not ready!""

Jim asks, "Hey, should we be spreading out like this?"

Ferris asks, "Hey, what was that giggling noise?"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "done and done"

Jim says, "Something about not being ready."

Ferris asks, "Not ready for wht?"

Jim says, "They were saying 'here he comes' before that."

Nathan hurries to keep up.

Ferris looks at the river.

Pete says, "Ready for whom, I wonder."

Jim asks, "Who's 'he'?"

Monkey eases his bladder into the river.

Pete says, "Perhaps one of us."

Ferris asks (of river), "what's going on here?"

Xaylia:runs to catch up with everyone else

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "also, emotes"

(From GM) A dark, sodden head pokes out of the river and then ducks under again.

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "the ol' double-colon emote trick"

Ferris says, "buh"

Pete says (to Head), "Hi."

Ferris says (to river), "come on out of there!"

Jim says (to Monkey), "Stop pissing on the head."

Monkey strides into the river.

Birralee turns back into a devil, and then back into a person.

Monkey ducks under the water.

Monkey looks about underwater

Ferris wonders whether he's more waterproof or less waterproof now than before.

Jim wonders whether chiffon is drip-dry.

(From GM) Under the water, Monkey sees human figures floating. A voice howls, "CharLOTTA, you wench, you stupid girl!" and all up and down the river, dark heads surface from under the water. Then girls start wading out of the river. They all have long dark hair, pale skin, and are quite naked.

Ferris whistles.

Nathan says, "my"

Monkey gooses the nearest rusalka

Pete says (to Ferris), "Maybe whatever magic did this also gave you 'keeping iron from rusting' powers."

Nathan says (to Ferris), "or you can carry an oil can"

Xaylia covers her eyes

Pete says, "Should we be here."

Ferris says (to Pete), "maybe, but I'm trying to think if maybe jumping into a river isn't the best way to find out"

Jim says (to girls), "Hello! I'm Jim, and these are, uh, my friends."

Pete asks, rather.

Ferris says (to nathan), "sayyy, don't be a wise guy"

Pete takes off his vest and offers it to one.

(From GM) The nearest rusalka shrieks, which is almost as bad as Birralee's scream, and then giggles uncontrollably.

Jim says, "Hey, wait, don't everybody undress at once."

Ferris asks, "who are these women?"

[nobilis] GM says, "You can avoid rust as a matter of course and protect other iron from rust with a preservation of either realm (here) or domain elsewhere"

Xaylia mumbles, "someone tell me when everybody is wearing clothes"

Monkey says, "Hahaha. First person round here who can take a joke."

(From GM) The lead rusalka stares blankly at the vest Pete offers, and then shrugs. "WHat would I do with that?" The other rusalkas finish wading ashore, and settle themselves along the rocks of the riverside.

Monkey splashes people.

Jim says (to Monkey), "Hey, watch the dress."

Kanyaa sniffs at one of the rusalka and observes, "Guardians of the woods."

Nathan says, "ah"

Birralee asks, "How do they guard the woods while being in the river?"

Pete asks (of Rusalka), "Uh. Er, if you weren't, uh, I mean... why were you hiding, then?"

Jim asks, "Who are they guarding it against?"

Monkey asks, "Who's Charlotta?"

Nathan asks (of rusalka), "hey, do you know of anything bad going on around here?"

Nathan says (to rusalka), "like there was this spinny bladey thing over there"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "yeah, and I'm immutable and durant, but ferris doesn't know that"

Xaylia sits down, facing away from the naughty people, and whispers to her dolly about how she wants to go home now.

(From GM) "Strangers!" says one rusalka. "Wanderers!" says another rusalka. "Poor lost farmboys!" says a third rusalka. "Handsome men and beautiful women!" "Monsters from another world!" "I like slender blonde androgynous girls, myself," says another one-- Charlotta again?

Ferris asks, "Farmboys?"

Birralee sees Xaylia looking away and goes over to her. "You look sad. Would you like some chicken? I have some."

[Crows-Nest] Monkey says (to Xaylia), "hey, at least we didn't give you first-century porn"

[nobilis] Pete says, "We need the Power of Informational Pamphlets to pay us a visit, basically."

Jim says, "Heavens, almost all of those are me."

Xaylia says (to birralee), "*snf* 'm not hungry"

Ferris asks, "So what was that moaning, wailing noise?"

Nathan says (to Jim), "you're ah, er, man for all tastes"

Birralee asks, "Who is your little companion?"

Pete asks (of Charlotta), "You mean, like that Jehiela kid?"

Jim says (to Nathan), "I'm just looking to settle down some day, really."

Xaylia says, "Just a dolly"

Monkey has lost interest in the rusalkas by now and is concentrating on throwing rocks into the river

Monkey exclaims, "Wait a second!"

(From GM) One steps forward and curtsies, quite a feat with no skirts on. "I'm Ekaterina, m'lord. We were attempting to... we were competing, m'lord." "Fighting," says another one, glaring at Ekaterina.

Xaylia says, "she's nice, and the ponygirl is nice, but I'm confused and I wanna go home and see my Mom"

Monkey exclaims, "These are the females we get for beating up everybody!"

Jim asks (of Ekaterina), "Fighting, eh? Over what?"

Monkey says, "Now I drive all of you off and keep 'em for myself"

Nathan says (to Monkey), "I think these may have been in the water a bit too long for proper, er, -- never mind"

Kanyaa settles down beside Xaylia. "We could go look for your mother, if you like, little one."

Birralee says, "I'm confused too."

Jim moves a few paces so he's between Monkey and the girls.

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "we could? really?"

Birralee says, "But then, everyone seems confused at least a little, so I think we're in good company."

Monkey bares his teeth at Jim.

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "Good lord--took 15 minutes to figure out that Ellric had turned off the power strip that hhad the ethernet hub on it."

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Ha!"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "wow"

[Crows-Nest] Birralee laughs.

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "I think that's called 'a cry for attention'"

Monkey says (to Jim), "GRRR"

(From GM) Another one says meekly, "They were fighting over who is dominant, my lord. She would go to represent us to your graces."

Kanyaa whickers. "I don't see why not."

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Aww, he was just turning off the magic box that makes daddy play with his computer all afternoon instead of playing games and watching Disney videos over and over and over and over."

Ferris looks around to see who she's talking to.

Nathan asks, "I think we aren't supposed to interfere in native customs, are we?"

Pete asks, "Lord, graces... so we outrank you here, huh?"

Xaylia says (to Kanyaa), "I would like that"

Birralee asks (of Kanyaa), "do you know where all of the other people went, then?"

Monkey exclaims, "ME ME ME!"

Nathan says, "as long as, you know, it's nice fighting"

Jim says (to Nathan), "We're allowed to intervene in barbaric rituals, though."

Monkey bounces about furiously

Pete says, "You girls seem to be the least confused people left in the world. Maybe you could explain to us just what's been going on."

Jim asks (of girls), "Well, could you take turns, maybe?"

(From GM) They're mostly m'lording Ferris, though anybody else who addresses them also gets a m'lord, except Monkey, who gets a giggle.

Jim looks at Ferris speculatively.

Ferris asks (of rusalka), "who, me?"

Monkey says, "Bah! Nobody takes me seriously when I look like this"

Monkey concentrates

Ferris stands up straighter and puffs his chest out.

Kanyaa pushes herself to her feet. "You may ride me, if you wish."

Ferris asks, "who, me?"

Jim says (to girls), "Okay, why don't you pick one of us and he'll decide which one of you will be the representative."

Jim says, "You know, or she."

Monkey is suddenly somewhat over six foot and looks a good deal more humanoid, though he still has a tail and great big incisors

Ferris scratches his head. This is all new to him.

Jim says (to Monkey), "Oh, do stop fidgeting there."

Dara hovers over the proceedings, divining again where that nail threat got off to.

Birralee, glancing over his shoulder, sees Monkey change. "Hey! You can do that too!"

Pete looks at Monkey.

Pete asks, "Would everyone *please* just pick one thing to look like, and stick with it for a while?"

(From GM) One of the rusalka blinks and then looks at Monkey speculatively. "Hmmm."

[nobilis] GM says, "The nail-threat is still quite nearby."

Monkey says, "Now ACKNOWLEDGE ME AS ALPHA MALE"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "urgh"

Dara darts through the trees, trying to get a bead on it.

Jim asks, "Wait, what's up?"

Ferris starts looking around, wondering about the other thing disturbing the forest.

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "when can we go look for my Mom?"

(From GM) Three of the rusalka leap towards Monkey and themselves to him. Not only are they wet, they're very cold. Dead cold.

Dara asks, "Can't you still feel that... thing like a nail?"

[nobilis] Xn goes home now. :)

Xn goes home.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "dara's really impulsive"

Jim asks, "Hey, whoa, what are you doing to that flashy ex-monkey?"

Monkey jumps about six feet in the air

Monkey exclaims, "Waaaah!"

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "which direction is it coming from?"

Pete asks, "So they pick the monkey? The *monkey*?"

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "and was the unicorn offering me a ride?"

Jim says, "I'm not sure the monkey will realise he has to pick *one* of them."

[nobilis] GM says, "It's a fading line with its point near y'all. The unicorn is offering to take X and maybe Birralee off to find other humans/her parents."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "no, she was offering me a ride, I think"

Monkey retreats to the safety of a tree. "Nasty cold watery ladies."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "oh ok"

Xaylia climbs onto the unicorn

Monkey exclaims, "Come back and mate when warmer!"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "it is hard to disentangle the multiple threads that are always going on"

Jim says (to Monkey), "I thought you were this big alpha male type."

Xaylia asks (of Birralee), "do you want to come look for your people too?"

Birralee exclaims, "Sure!"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "if we're pretending duchess is still here, I'd ride the centaur"

(From GM) The rusalka pout. One of them begins to wail. Every last one of you is suddenly aware that if you weren't what you are now, that wail would be... quite lovely and enticing. As it is, it's vaguely grating.

Birralee exclaims, "Eeeeeeee!"

Monkey says (to Jim), "Gonna find me some ones that aren't so cold."

Monkey exclaims, "Proper ones, with tails!"

Xaylia still has her eyes closed, so she hopes she doesn't hurt the nice spiky pony

Ferris says (to rusalkas), "hush"

Dara says, "That nail is really close..."

Birralee asks (of unicorn), "Can you carry us both?"

Dara asks (of rusalka), "OK, kids, settle down. Can you guys feel that... that point?"

Monkey says (to rusalkas), "EEK EEEK EEK"

Monkey throws twigs and berries

Ferris starts to move again, trying to home in on it.

(From GM) The wailing rusalka stops, and looks sulky instead. "He said he wanted women. And he got all big and attractive." Ekaterina says smartly, "M'lady, do you sense something? Should we spread out and find it?"

Ferris gets ready to pound something with his big iron bar, not that this will help necessarily.

Monkey says (to rusalka), "NEED BE WARMER"

Jim says, "'Big and attractive'? You girls need to shop around a little more."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says (to ferris), "...actually, no, I don't want to even think about innuendo"

Dara says (to Ekaterina), "Yes, please."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "there is unfortunately no way around the innuendo"

Kanyaa pushes Birralee with her nose. "Of course. I'm a unicorn."

Pete says, "So I take it 'explaining what's going on' wasn't of interest."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "even though I am trying to minimize it"

Birralee says (to Xaylia and unicorn), "but should we find out first what is going on with the girl we met earlier? I can feel her moving through the woods and hear her yell."

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Ferris and the incredible shrinking innuendo."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "uh-huh"

[Crows-Nest] Pete says (to Jim), "It's the cold water."

Jim asks, "It's a girl? I thought you said it was a nail?"

Xaylia asks (of birralee), "oh, is it the girl?"

(From GM) Ekaterina says, "Okay, girls, let's spread out and knock 'em dead." The response is less than overwhelming. There are a number of whines. "Who said you were in charge?" "I'm much prettier!" "I can sing better!" "I'm cooler!"

Xaylia says, "we should help her first. she was nice"

(From GM) That last was Charlotta again.

Ferris says (to rusalkas), "All of you get moving!"

Xaylia says, "plus she was dressed"

Jim says, "Er, you can all be in charge of something! Don't forget, you're all completely empowered!"

Jim says, "Now do what he said!"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "If I can feel the direction of where our landlord is, I'd like to lead Xaylia and the unicorn towards her."

(From GM) With a number of great sighs, the rusalka shimmer into a sort of misty version of themelves and dart off into the woods.

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "(Dara's a she, if that's what you were referring to)"

Xaylia says, "my Fa would get really angry if he saw all these girls being all naughty and improper"

Jim says, "There, that worked."

Nathan says (to Xaylia), "ok, they're gone now"

Birralee says (to Xaylia), "I think it is the same girl. It *feels* the same."

[Crows-Nest] Pete says, "Ferris, I think ('All of you get moving!')"

[Crows-Nest] Dara nods.

Pete asks, "Right. So who's left?"

Xaylia says (to Nathan), "thank you"

Xaylia says (to Birralee), "then we should go help"

Monkey climbs down from his tree

Birralee moves slowly into the forest, feeling for where the disturbance was coming from.

[nobilis] Pete asks, "Nathan, Jim, Monkey, anyone else not run off?"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "I am the Iron Warden after all"

[nobilis] GM says, "Actually, what you felt was these girls, Birralee. They look /vaguely/ similar to her. Same pale skin, same dark hair. Same sense of being suffused with water. But now that you mention it, reaching out for your landlord, you can tell something's up. She's still with the seed that was planted, but.. there's something strange there."

Jim says, "When there's a quiet spell I need to magic me up a suit. This damned dress is crippling my air of authority."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "I thought the others hadn't actually run off yet"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "but I admit I have not really been following everything"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "birralee and I are riding the unicorn"

[nobilis] Pete says, "I thought Birralee and Xaylia and the unicorn had left."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'm going to start heading that way with Xaylia and Kanyaa"

Ferris says, "maybe pick a gender and stick with it"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "but have not actually gone anywhere"

[nobilis] Birralee says (to Pete), "we're moving slowly"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Aha."

Jim says (to Ferris), "Hey, this isn't my fault."

Nathan says (to Ferris), "hey hey, we have to be inclusive and respect everyone's different lifestyles"

Jim says, "At least I hope it's not, or my psychiatrist is going to have a field day."

Ferris says, "I'll respect him when he picks a gender and sticks to it"

Jim says (to Nathan), "It's not a lifestyle!"

Birralee says (to Xaylia and Kanyaa), "I can feel her this way."

Monkey scratches his head

Dara asks (of Birralee), "Her? The nail point?"

Monkey says, "all very confusing."

Pete says (to Nathan), "I don't remember you saying that when the ogres were practicing their native customs."

Xaylia holds on to Kanyaa's hair, as gently as she can

[nobilis] GM asks, "So Birralee, Xaylia and the unicorn are setting off one way, and Ferris, Jim, Pete, Dara, Nathan and Monkey are going another way? Am I forgetting anybody?"

Nathan says (to Pete), "well, they were trying to practice them on me"

Jim says (to Ferris), "I have a feeling you have some unresolved issues here."

[Crows-Nest] Dara asks, "What else did we sense around here besides the nail and the women?"

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "Also, channel."

Birralee says (to Dara), "It's the girl who took the seed from Ferris. I can feel something with her."

Jim asks (of Ferris), "I mean, gee, just because I'm wearing a dress, does that mean I'm unworthy of respect?"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "Whom are we following? Or are we just waiting for the nekkid chyx to come back?"

Ferris ignores Jim and heads deeper into the forest.

Monkey darts up Jim's dress

Monkey says, "AHAHA"

Monkey scuttles out again

Dara says (to Birralee), "Ah, OK. Call if you need help. My, uh, cell phone number's 392-4208"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "ha ha ha"

Jim grabs Monkey around the throat.

Xaylia says (to Jim), "but men shouldn't wear dresses"

Jim asks, "How about monkey entrails?"

Monkey flexes his neck muscles.

[nobilis] GM says, "Um, the rural landlord is upset to Realm 2 people. The scratch is quite nearbye, and I'll get to that in a minute. That's the only things that seem wrong."

Dara . o O ( We have got to get a better method of communication around here. )

Ferris asks, "Have we established whether cell phones even work here?"

Jim looks up into the air speculatively.

Pete says (to Jim), "It could be perceived as flaunting an intentional disregard for cultural mores, thereby distancing yourself from the social grouping."

Pete shakes his head. He never used to say things like that before.

Dara turns hers on, listens for a dial tone.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "now I feel like I should go back to the landlord and see what the deal is"

Jim says (to Pete), "Hmm, I didn't think of that."

Nathan asks, "cellphones work?"

[nobilis] Nathan says (to Ferris), "go for it"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "you could follow the unicorn"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "but that scratching is annoying"

Jim says, "I guess I should stop imposing on Ferris."

[nobilis] Birralee says (to Ferris), "if you want, come on"

Nathan pulls his out.

Pete says, "Mine didn't, but maybe whatever was causing the problem has cleared up by now."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "except maybe if the landlord is upset that's a bigger problem"

Jim says, "I left mine back in my jacket."

npc2 has connected.

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "gotta love these evocative names"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "hee"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I've got a reasonable amount of realm. We could maybe (sigh) have Monkey come with us as backup"

Ferris stops and tries to suss out which problem is a bigger priority.

Jim finally remembers to let go of Monkey.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "hey, I'm all indestructible"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "plus I fight like a girl"

Ferris says, "Nuts, I need to see what she wants."

Nathan says, "we'll take care of this other thingy"

Ferris changes direction and stomps off after the other party.

Ferris says (to Nathan), "okay"

Monkey follows along, singing an irritating ditty

(From GM) It's not that far into the woods that they pass a rusalka standing very close to the shadow of a tree, her hands partially merged into it. "Um," she says. "It's ahead. This is for you guys to handle. He scares me."

[nobilis] GM says, "Sadly, celltowers have not been erected yet to provide you with supernatural roaming coverage"

Nathan says, "figures"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Heh."

Nathan snaps it shut and puts it away

Baalhermon stands there patiently. From his trail, it seems likely he's just been following the gang for sometime.

Jim goes in the direction indicated.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "another blight on the rural landscape"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "I assume it's the group seeking the landlord that she said that to?"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "mmm, C-Mobile"

Kanyaa trots under Birralee's direction out of the forest and back into the meadowlands.

[nobilis] Ferris says (to Pete), "actually I think that's the other group she said that to"

Monkey says (to Baalhermon), "GRRRRR"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "This rusalka/tree thing is scratch threat, or landlord threat?"

Jim asks, "Hi! New here?"

Xaylia chatters away to Birralee and Kanyaa

[nobilis] GM says, "Scratch threat=rusalka-scarer"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Got it."

Ferris jogs to catch up to the unicorn.

Dara's arms shift so they look just like the rusalka's, and she thrusts them into the tree.

Xaylia says (to Ferris), "hi!"

[nobilis] GM says, "The ash his trail leaves is ash from which nothing will ever grow. It will take miracles to repair the thin scar he's been tracing across the land."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "dara likes to do nine surreal things before breakfast"

Monkey chatters his teeth.

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Heh."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "argrr"

Monkey says, "STOP THAT BAD THING"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Wait, This Baalhermionie thing is the scratch?"

[nobilis] GM says, "The rusalka seems to just be hiding behind the tree, half inside it like a dryad."

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "Excuse me, would you mind stopping that thing with the ash?"

Nathan looks like he's trying to decide if this is a native custom or a barbaric ritual

Jim says, "It's upsetting the local residents."

Nathan says, "and it's unsightly"

Jim says, "Quite."

Monkey says, "and I will KICK YOUR ASS"

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says (to Nathan), "hee hee"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Got it."

Dara asks (of Baal), "What are you doing here?"

Jim says (to Monkey), "Hush, now, wait until he makes more ash and *then* kick his ass."

Pete asks, "Do we have a doormat we could offer?"

Baalhermon says quietly, "Unfortunately, my lord believes I should do this to the entire region and force your lord to start over again." He continues to stand there, easily confident.

Monkey exclaims, "Tell your lord to kiss 'em!"

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "Could we speak to your lord?"

Jim says (to Monkey), "Look, maybe you should just deal with the ass and leave the conversation to me."

Nathan says (to Jim), "I dunno, my cell isn't working"

Monkey starts edging out to cut off any possible retreat

Kanyaa whickers at Ferris and they continue across the meadowlands, past a cottage.

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "little does he know he faces the wrath of MONKEY and GENDER-INDETERMINATE PERSON"

Ferris stares at the cottage, wondering who lives there.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "afk for a couple of minutes"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "together they fight ash"

[nobilis] Pete says, "I'm trying to figure out whether or not Jim meant ash."

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Hey, I didn't ask to go all sodding Ranma."

Birralee says, "Hey, that's pretty"

Pete asks (of Baal), "Who is your lord?"

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Not in character, at least."

Pete says, "If he has a good reason, maybe we could work out some other way to handle things that's not quite so destructive."

Jim says, "Right!"

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "I'm getting kind of confused here -- could we move one of these threads onto a channel?"

Dara asks, "Yeah, is there some sort of appeals process?"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "good idea"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I was hoping someone would suggest that"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I think the unicorn party should be an interlude"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "yeah"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Makes sense, since they split off from us."

Baalhermon sticks his hands in his pockets. "My name is Baalhermon; I serve Lord Entropy, who has been given responsibility for all the world of Earth. When your lords made this place, they did so hastily and improperly. It has... injured the earth." He pauses, and then continues. "It has been my lord's ruling that this chancel must be remade properly."

Nathan says, "hrm"

Dara asks (of Baal), "Can we appeal?"

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "Do you have a warrant for this remodelling?"

[nobilis] Birralee exclaims, "you split off from *us*!"

Kanyaa says, "I'm not quite sure. It wasn't here before, I don't think." She looks around. This entire place is so amazing."

[nobilis] Birralee waves a pointy tined food stick at Pete.

Nathan says, "I dunno, if he's really in charge, it seems like there's some point to that"

Nathan says, "on the other hand, he also sent those guys to kill us before"

[interludes] * GM has added Ferris to the channel.

[interludes] * GM has added Xaylia to the channel.

[interludes] * GM has added Birralee to the channel.

Nathan says, "so I think we should either assume he's not in charge, or lie down dead"

[interludes] Ferris says, "there we go"

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "You do have paperwork of some kind, correct?"

Monkey growls ferociously

Pete asks, "Would destroying this place ... this 'chancel' somehow heal the damage?"

Jim holds his hand out expectantly.

[nobilis] GM says, "Sorry, flipping between NPC windows and missed the #nobilis stuff"

[interludes] Xaylia sings happily to her dolly

[interludes] Ferris asks, "what does this cottage look like?"

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Neatly thatched roof, large window seat with glass window, outhouse to one side."

[interludes] Xaylia asks, "should we knock?"

Monkey. o 0 ( where's Yasmina when we need her )

[interludes] Xaylia says, "Mom always said it was bad manners to turn up without a gift"

[Crows-Nest] Dara says, "(afk a sec)"

[nobilis] Jim says (to Monkey), "Sheesh, you have such a one-track mind."

[nobilis] Monkey asks, "well, if you can't have sex with or eat it, what else is there to do but fight?"

[nobilis] Pete says (to GM), "BTW, you're free to join the NPCs to #Nobilis, if you like."

Baalhermon raises his eyebrows. "No paperwork, no. That is unnecessary. I realize that of course you don't want this to happen. But I understand Earth is coming up with increasingly ridiculous fantasies to explain what has happened here."

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "#nobilis, or #interludes?"

Jim says, "I'm not actually clear about what *has* happened, I must admit."

[nobilis] Pete says, "Both, I would imagine -- I don't think anyone would mind."

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "(Ri isn't in the cottage; she's past it some, down the cobbled road.)"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "oh, right, I see"

Nathan says, "well, there was a big meteor strike"

Dara asks, "So if we, uh, fix these fantasies, we can stay?"

Nathan says, "and then all these parks and thingsd"

Nathan says, "and then a factory"

[interludes] Ferris ponders.

[nobilis] GM says, "It's convenient them not being on it, actually. Keeps things clean for me."

Jim says (to Nathan), "Exactly."

Nathan says, "..put like that, I don't think I really know what happened either"

[interludes] Ferris asks, "does it seem like Ri is in real distress or just kind of not in a good mood?"

Jim says, "It sounds like we're still on Earth, sort of."

Pete says, "You're talking about Earth as thought it's some other place."

Jim says (to Pete), "Well, you know, I made that assumption almost immediately."

Baalhermon glances around. "Where /are/ your Imperators? There's the nice young lady over there," he nods past the Nobles at the frightened rusalka, and the circle of ash around him flares wider, "but I'm a bit surprised at the way they've left their house in such disorder."

Pete says, "Hey, hey, careful with the ash."

Nathan says, "they're, um, busy at the moment"

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Real distress."

[interludes] Ferris says, "in that case, never mind the cottage"

[interludes] Ferris says, "and let's hurry on and see what's wrong"

Dara says, "One of them is going through some sort of existential crisis, I think."

Pete asks, "Imperators being... the people with strange powers who keep disappearing mysteriously and acting paraoid?"

Nathan says (to Dara), "ssh"

Jim says, "It's the latest craze."

[interludes] Xaylia says, "okay"

Monkey sneaks up behind Baalhermon with the intent of pulling his pants down

[interludes] Kanyaa speeds up, her hooves ringing pleasantly on the cobbles. Soon you come to a park that isn't terribly unlike the park you left Ri in, despite all the changes elsewhere, and on the other side of the park, there's the edge of the city.

Dara says (to Baal), "So, you never said if we could appeal. Or if our, uh, imperators could."

Pete asks (of Baal), "So, if you've got an Imperator, and we've got Imperators, then does that make that we've become the same thing that you are now?"

[interludes] Ferris asks, "hello? Ri? hello?"

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Ri is in the park, transparent. She's hovering worriedly over where the seed was planted, and there's a man with pale blond hair talking to her earnestly."

Nathan says, "only not with so much ash"

Nathan says, "but I guess we have better taste"

[interludes] Ferris asks, "who's that?"

Pete says, "In which case, we're sort of in this thing together, and should be cooperating somehow rather than trying to hinder each other."

[interludes] Xaylia asks, "hello?"

[interludes] Birralee exclaims, "Hello nice woman!"

Jim says, "That's assuming our respective Imperators are reasonable, uh, people."

Pete says (to Jim), "Whether they are or not doesn't mean that *we* shouldn't be."

Jim says, "Oh, certainly."

Monkey siezes Baal's waistband and gives a sharp downwards tug.

Pete says, "Except for the monkey, who probably doesn't qualify as 'people' anyway."

(From GM) Monkey, sneaking up behind Baalhermon, gets inside his auctoritus. Holy fuck. He's at least as overwhelming as the little girl. Baalhermon seems unaware of him as he says to Dara, "You're certainly welcome to convince me. After all, I didn't have to be here talking to you. I could have just begun my task." And the circle of ash spreads much wider, zipping around the Nobles in the clearing and stopping just short of the rusalka and her tree. Around each Noble is a circle of untouched area. The land screams.

[nobilis] GM asks, "Is Monkey a Monkey right now, or man-monkey?"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "a monkey"

Jim says, "Hey, that was uncalled for."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris asks, "what are you, a man-monkey or a mouse-monkey?"

Nathan says, "whoah crap"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "yay"

[nobilis] GM says, "Okay. You're not strong enough as a monkey to pull his pants down without an aspect miracle."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "heehee"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "HEAVY PANTS"

Jim asks (of rusalka), "Can I suggest that you withdraw for now and let us deal with this?"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "wah. those are some mighty pants"

Monkey exclaims, "BAH!"

Ferris, somewhere distant, feels something bleagh happen to the land.

Pete says, "Alright, so Earth's problem is explaining what happened when this place was created, right? Presumably the truth isn't something they should know. But if you can tell us what *really* happened, then we can work together to come up with a good cover story."

Jim says (to Monkey), "You're not helping here! Honestly, we might as well all just whale on him at once if you're going to do that."

Monkey exclaims (at Jim), "Yay!"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "rar!"

Jim says (to Monkey), "No, no, you misunderstand --"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "yes indeed"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "as if thousands of bits of iron in the soil cried out and were suddenly silenced"

[interludes] Ferris asks, "rargh! what's going on here?"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "ha hah ha"

Monkey pauses with iron bar half-raised.

[interludes] Birralee sways a little and feels ill. "I think I had too much food."

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Ri flits anxiously over to you. "Oh, here you are. I couldn't decide if I should go get you, because I don't trust this person at all, but I'm not quite sure what to do about him. He's looking for Jeheila. He wants to kill her.""

Monkey says (to Jim), "He's not going to run away just from you shouting at him."

[interludes] Xaylia says, "um, that's no good"

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Then she shrieks, as she too feels what is happening elsewhere."

[interludes] Ferris asks, "well, uh.. that'd be bad, right?"

Pete puts one hand on the bar to keep it from coming down.

Jim says, "We have to give him due warning."

Monkey says (to Jim), "He's a tough one. They don't run away."

[interludes] Xaylia falls off the unicorn

[interludes] Ferris says, "Hey you, you can't just come waltzing in here and kill people."

Jim says (to Baal), "Like, if you do that again, we *will* regrettably be forced to beat the crap out of you."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "damn this lack of telepathy"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "you could send a friendly bird messenger"

Jim says, "But that would be a terribly uncivilised way to resolve this situation so I suggest you keep still."

Baalhermon steps out from between Monkey and Pete, looking amused. "The earth makes up its own stories about what happens when Chancels are formed. But in this case, the injury keeps re-opening, and no story is stable. If we remove the thorn, the injury can heal."

Monkey asks (of Jim), "is that where we beat him up first and throw dung at him later?"

Jim says (to Monkey), "Oh, if you must."

Monkey says, "I can make up a story! once upon a time there was an iron bar called Mr. Barry"

[interludes] Xaylia says (to man), "I don't want you to hurt Jehehumwhatever"

[Crows-Nest] (from Nathan) Baalhermon says "Eeeagh, bar!"

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "Why does the injury keep reopening?"

Jim says, "Maybe we can do something about that."

[interludes] Kanyaa looks up at them. His eyes are full of stars, and he stands with an easy, unmistakeable elegance. "I like to ask first. But Jeheila fled before I could finish the job."

Monkey says, "and Mr. Baal walked into a bar and ouch! it was an iron bar."

Monkey says, "the end."

[interludes] Kanyaa says, "Gah. Dude looks up at them. His eyes are full of stars, and he stands with an easy, unmistakeable elegance. "I like to ask first. But Jeheila fled before I could finish the job.""

[nobilis] Jim says (to Monkey), "Hee hee."

[interludes] Xaylia says, "why do you want to kill her? she's a nice lady"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "she promised to play with me"

[interludes] Kanyaa stands there looking worried and scared like a unicorn.

[interludes] Birralee asks, "Why do you want to kill her?"

Pete asks, "So why does removing the thorn have to mean destroying everything?"

Pete says, "Why not just pull it out? We're already pretty much disconnected from everything anyway."

[interludes] Ferris says, "Well, as long as you're asking first, the answer is no, you don't have permission to kill her."

[interludes] Birralee says, "And why is the land making me ill? I do not think it was the food after all."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "afk a few minutes"

Baalhermon says, with a touch of impatience, "If your Imperators release their hold on this land, it will return to Earth again, thus sealing the wound." He turns to look at Monkey narrowly.

Jim says (to Baalhermon), "But you said it keeps *re*-opening. What's causing that?\"

[interludes] GM says, "He smiles beautifully. "I don't need your permission. I just like being polite." He steps over where the seed is, and crouches down. Ri wails and dives towards him."

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "If we play our cards right, this could be the shortest game of mud Nobilis yet"

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Heh."

[Crows-Nest] GM says, "Man, Yasmina's so awful to you guys."

[interludes] Birralee cries Eeeeeeee! and jumps at the man. "Protect the seed!"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "flings herself over the seed"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "er, pretend I emoted that"

Pete asks, "If this place *is* destroyed, do we get to go back home?"

[interludes] Ferris tries to get his pipe around the guy's neck like a chokehold.

[interludes] Ferris will burn some Realm points to take this guy down, if necessary

Baalhermon says rapidly, precisely, "There is a precise ritual that must be followed in separating a Chancel from Earth. Each day for a hundred days, a mortal must die, be sacrificed. Your lady and her dying companion neglected to follow this ritual, choosing to instead take a shortcut."

Nathan says, "I dunno, in some ways this is an improvement"

Nathan says, "...for me, anyway"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "there's an interesting difference in approach between the main lot and the group on #interludes"

Nathan asks, "er, a shortcut?"

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "all of our heads are going to meet with the sound of iron coconuts"

Jim says, "I hadn't really stopped to think about it."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "heehee"

Jim says (to Baalhermon), "Not killing a hundred people seems like a reasonably benevolent act."

Dara says, "So, uh, maybe we can come up with a new ritual to counterbalance the shortcut."

Jim says, "We could kill Monkey a hundred times, maybe."

Jim says, "Oh, wait, forgot about the 'mortal' bit."

[interludes] GM says, "Realm won't help in a generic way, but Aspect will. You can also state something specific you're trying to do with Realm."

[interludes] GM asks, "Is anybody else spending MPs, and what level of Miracle are you trying to do?"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "me? I'm pushing him away from the seed with aspect 0 and spirit 4"

Nathan asks, "I dunno, how do you know he's not mortal?"

Baalhermon says (to Jim), "They killed thousands, instead, and even so, they did not create something stable. Jeheila leaks. Yasmina ignores."

Nathan says, "tsk"

Dara says, "Oy."

Pete asks, "Thousands? Do you have evidence to back this up?"

Nathan says (to Pete), "we saw some dead people in the city"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "and trying to lie protectively over the top of it"

Pete says (to Nathan), "But we don't know what killed them."

[interludes] Ferris says, "well, I thought I would pull one of those strange Dara moves and make a cage around him or something. it's just that I have to burn more points to be high aspect than I do to be high realm"

Nathan says, "but of course we don't know that Jeheila and Yasmina -- right"

[interludes] GM asks, "Okay. Anybody else?"

Dara says, "So, let us see if we can come up with a ritual to stabilize the problem. Give us... one month."

Nathan says, "and a bunch more who weren't dead, I think"

Pete says, "For all we know, maybe this guy did it, and he's making all of this up to shift the blame."

[interludes] GM says (to Ferris), "You can, you just have to tell me specifically what you're trying to do."

[interludes] Dara exclaims, "Yay strange Dara moves!"

[interludes] GM says, "It's one realm point to do a minor creation of a cage, for example."

[nobilis] Pete says, "On the other hand, given that it's presumably true, I'm having trouble thinking of a good reason *not* to join his side."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "back"

[interludes] Birralee says, "ooh, do that"

[interludes] GM exclaims, "Hey, what are you doing here?!"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "yeah"

[interludes] Dara says, "I never left ;-)"

[interludes] Dara says, "(but I'm just watching)"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "and has sneakily stayed to spy on us"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "besides the whole Entropy-sent-ogres-to-beat-us-up thing"

[nobilis] Pete says, "I don't imagine we could defeat Yasmina or Jehiela, but at least fighting against those two mass murderers would make for a noble death."

Jim asks (of Baal), "So what do you think of Dara's suggestion?"

[interludes] Ferris says, "well, hold on. First I try to get him in a chokehold with my iron bar, and see how he reacts to everyone else -- and if after all that he still looks like he's a threat, then I'll try to create some sort of container around him out of earth or rock or iron or something."

[interludes] GM says, "Okay, gimme a minute to construct a response."

Jim says, "You have a strong case, but we can't agree to dissolving this place without some real evidence that the situation is as you say."

[nobilis] Pete says, "Pun only partially intended."

Jim says, "And we need to explore alternative solutions."

[interludes] Ferris says, "hrm, dara shouldn't be on this channel"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

[interludes] Birralee says, "I'm just diving towards the seed."

[interludes] Dara says, "[I'm only here OOC]"

[interludes] Ferris says, "[it is rude]"

[interludes] Dara says, "[Hey, you can listen in on our bit]"

[interludes] Dara says, "[but whatever]"

Nathan says, "that seems fair to me"

Xn arrives, looking for booty.

[interludes] GM says, "Xaylia dives off the unicorn towards the seed, shielding it with her body, Biralee falling behind her. Meanwhile Ferris dodges behind them and slides his iron bar across the blond man's throat. The blond man dodges to one side with inhuman speed (performing an Aspect miracle)."

[nobilis] Xn waves and is back.

Monkey looks not a little confuse

[nobilis] Monkey says, "er, -"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "rrgh"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "my D key is sticky"

[interludes] Birralee says, "I'm going to shriek at him, focused on his head, and see if I can make him hurt."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "And that's quite enough information about that"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Somebody's been writing too much Lady Di slashfic again."

[interludes] Xaylia tries to cover the seed as effectively as she can

[nobilis] Nathan says, "Di dropped delicately down. "Dear!" she demurely declared."

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Jim), "don't make me google"

Baalhermon studies each of you. "You are weak, uneducated. I've already heard the opinion that Yasmina should simply adopt Jeheila's essence and return to the war, that by being here she weakens the front, draws the enemy closer." He crosses his arms. "I will stay my hand for three days. If you can find a way to shield the scar by then, we will talk again. If you do not, there will be no more need for words."

Nathan says, "right then, that seems fair"

Nathan says, "and no more creating ash"

Dara says (to Ballhermon), "One week."

Pete nods.

[nobilis] Jim says, "'Don't make me google,' Botham creased huskily, batting his eyebrows as Diana coquettishly rubbed his ball smooth on his trouser leg."

[interludes] GM asks, "What's the penetration on that, do you remember?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "yie"

[interludes] Ferris covers his ears

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

[interludes] Birralee says, "1. If I need more, I can spend some aspect"

[nobilis] Pete says (to Dara), "Don't worry. If you keep crossing between chancel halves, you can take as long as you want without the day ever ending."

[interludes] Birralee says (to Ferris), "fortunately I can focus it, as I'm about to find out"

[nobilis] Dara laughs.

[nobilis] Nathan says, "later in the story: "My, what a sticky wicket," she said"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Gyeagh."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "ew"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "if only I could mute this channel"

[interludes] GM says, "Okay. You shriek but it doesn't seem to affect him."

Jim says, "Yeah, let's say a week."

Jim asks, "In three days we'll give you a progress report. How about that?"

Baalhermon asks, "What's in it for me?"

Baalhermon asks, "To give you a week instead?"

Baalhermon says, "Each day I procrastinate, I must answer to my lord."

[nobilis] Ferris laughs

Pete asks, "You'll be ensuring that thousands of people didn't die *entirely* in vain?"

[interludes] Ferris says, "what's it going to take to stop this guy? yeesh"

Monkey says, "and escaping a big iron bar whacking"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Can I do a divination to figure out what code he follows?"

[interludes] Ferris says, "well, let's see if I can get some of them iron bones of the earth to make a nine-ton shell around him, or something"

Jim asks (of Baalhermon), "If you give us a week, we'll... carry out some non-fatal favour for you afterwards?"

Baalhermon says, "I'm Devastation's Regal. I don't personally care about the thousands of deaths, see. Tell you what, I'll come back in three days. You'll either have solved it, or come up with an appropriate present to convince me to hold off for a few more days."

Jim says, "Aha, now that sounds entirely reasonable."

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "devastation? grf"

Jim asks, "Everyone agreed, then?"

Nathan says, "looks like"

Jim says, "Assuming you let us determine what's 'appropriate'."

Monkey mutters, "I still wanna whack him."

[interludes] GM says, "You can spend 1 realm or 1 domain MP to make a cage around him, sure. Big iron bars sprout out of the earth and curve around him, encircling his auctoritus and closing above him like a metal flower blossom."

Pete says (to Monkey), "You can whack something later."

Monkey asks, "what do *I* get out of this?"

Pete says (to Monkey), "We don't all beat you up."

Jim says (to Monkey), "It's just possible we may have to wreak some act of devastation to keep this boy happy."

Dara says (to Monkey), "Also, I get the feeling that doing what he wants means that we'd die."

Monkey scratches his head

[interludes] Ferris says, "hm, I'm not sure which one to use. maybe I'll use realm this time"

Monkey says, "er..."

Monkey asks, "...anybody want a flea?"

Dara exclaims, "We're not fleeing!"

Monkey says, "I am."

Monkey munch munch munch

Baalhermon sticks his hands in his pockets again. "Oh, I'm sure you'll come up with something satisfying to me." He stomps his booted feet and little puffs of ash come up-- just dust from a previous ashing, probably. "I'll be on my way now."

Jim says, "TIDILY, please."

Pete asks, "Alright. So that's two problems dealt with." He turns to Dara. "What's left, in terms of supernatural threats that we've apparently become responsible for dealing with?"

Jim asks, "Do we actually have days and nights here, anyway?"

Dara says, "Well, the others headed off to the landlord, or seed, or something. Maybe we can help there."

Dara divines to sense if the threat's still there.

Pete asks, "And can we get someone to sweep up this ash?"

Nathan waits for Baalhermon to leave.

[interludes] GM says, "Okay. He reaches out and wraps a hand around one of the bars. Nothing else happens. He looks through the cage at y'all. He looks damn good for a man in a big round cage."

Pete says, "Even if the damage has been done, it might be nice to have the ash itself cleaned up."

Jim says (to Pete), "We seem to have a bunch of dryads or something."

[interludes] Ferris says, "well, I don't trust him to sit quietly"

[nobilis] Xaylia sits up and brushes some dirt off

[interludes] Birralee asks, "Why do you want the seed?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "ilac"

[nobilis] Pete says, "(And if it's still as destructive as it was when it dropped, it might come in handy later.)"

[interludes] Xaylia sits up and brushes some dirt off

[interludes] Ferris asks, "I don't suppose we can make that seed grow any faster?"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Good thought."

Pete asks (of Jim), "Where'd they go, anyway?"

[interludes] Xaylia asks (of man), "why do you want to kill the nice lady?"

Baalhermon strides past the other Nobles, flashes a smile at the cowering rusalka, who squeaks and finally flees away, and tromps off into the forest. There is no ash trail behind him this time.

Jim says, "I told them to back off."

Jim says, "Apart from that one who just ran away."

Nathan says, "right"

Jim says, "That enormous demon of devastation is about the most reasonable person I've met here so far."

[interludes] Ferris does a preservation on the iron cage, too, I guess

[interludes] GM says, "He smiles at Xaylia with bright teeth. "So I can eat you next.""

Nathan says, "ok, I don't think that problem was, you know, resolved at all"

Jim says, "Apart from you lot, of course."

Jim says, "Or most of you."

[interludes] Xaylia shudders

[interludes] Xaylia asks (of man), "who are you?"

[interludes] Ferris asks, "hey, what kind of sicko are you?"

Pete calls out, "Charlotta, if you want to earn some brownie points, you can find some brooms and trash bags, and get someone to help sweep up the mess.

Jim says (to Nathan), "It sounds like we should flag it as an issue with Yasmina and the other one."

Nathan says, "it seems to me I would like to get some explanation from Jehiela or Yasmina"

Jim says, "So let's do that."

[interludes] Ferris hits the cage with his bar, making it go BONGGGGG

[interludes] GM says, ""I am Ganelon Choni, little child." Ferris, he did something weird to the iron bars when he touched them. They're extremely brittle now, as if he destroyed the element of them that made them strong."

[interludes] Ferris asks, "can I strong 'em up again?"

Pete says, "Alright."

[interludes] GM says, "Oops. I think maybe you didn't do that, after reading my pose? 'Cause if you did, they shatter."

[interludes] Ferris says, "(er, if it's brittle, maybe I shouldn't hit it)"

Jim says, "Er, that involves me following one of the many people who seem to be more clairvoyant and able to sense what's going on around here than I am."

Pete asks, "Do we still have a helicopter?"

[interludes] GM says, "It'd take another lesser creation to do that."

[interludes] Ferris says, "I'll do that"

[interludes] Ferris says, "I'll do that THEN hit the bars"

[nobilis] Birralee asks, "who in the rural chancel has realm of 2+?"

[interludes] Xaylia asks (of Ganelon), "why do you want to hurt us?"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "me"

[interludes] Birralee says (to Ferris), "(yeah, but you're already here)"

Dara says, "No, but I can become one."

Dara *shift*

[interludes] Birralee says, "(I was checking to see if we could yell for the others)"

Dara's blades warble out "Get in!"

Jim says, "The swiss army has nothing on you."

Jim shrugs, gets in.

Monkey says, "woohoo"

Monkey hangs onto a landing strut

Pete tentatively enters.

[interludes] GM says, "He frowns at the bong and addresses Xaylia, "I don't want to hurt you. Well, not much. I just want to eat you and carry you out of this world.""

[nobilis] Duchess says, "i do, if you want to use me on remote"

(From Ferris) You hear a distant BONGGGGG like a loud bell.

Nathan says, "hunh"

[interludes] Xaylia asks, "but why?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "I do, effectively."

Pete says, "One o'clock and alll's welllll."

Nathan climbs into the copter.

Nathan says, "maybe we should fly towards, er, that"

Dara, once everyone's in, lifts off and streaks towards the bong.

(From Baalhermon) The rusalka begin to creep out of the trees and poke at the ash below.

[nobilis] Pete asks, "DId Baalwhosits ever give his name?"

Jim says, "It sounded like a loud bell."

[nobilis] Jim says, "I don't think so."

Birralee says, "<HELP HE WANTS TO EAT ME OH NO>"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha"

[interludes] GM says, "That way you'll live forever."

[interludes] Xaylia frowns

Jim says, "And that sounded like some kind of poignant primitive cry of horror."

[interludes] Ferris says, "seems like if you eat us, we'll already be dead"

Jim asks, "Can we go any faster?"

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "I dunno, can Dara talk to Birralee through the realm's heart?"

[interludes] Xaylia says, "I think I'm going to do that without your help"

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "or are they in different realms?"

[interludes] GM says, "But first I have to deal with Jeheila. Oh, well, it's not THAT kind of eating."

Dara *shifts* into a jet-powered helicopter.

Birralee says, "<I THINK HE'S GOING TO WAIT IS THERE A HORSEY IN MY HEAD WITH ME?>"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "Or was that just a high aspect scream?"

[nobilis] GM says, "the different-imperator-people can't talk through realm's hearts, no."

[interludes] Ferris checks the durability of the bars again.

Kanyaa stomps a foot nervously. "We could just skewer him."

[interludes] GM says, "They're fine... currently"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I think only Ferris and Duchess can hear me"

[interludes] Xaylia walks up to the bars and glares at the man

[nobilis] Nathan says, "I had assumed Thalia was with Birralee anyway"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "but I don't actually know"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "it is possible"

[interludes] Xaylia asks, "why can't you leave us alone?"

[interludes] GM says, "He reaches a hand through the bars towards Xaylia. It's a very well-manicured hand. "So where is Jeheila anyhow?""

[interludes] Xaylia says, "stays away from the hand"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "Four-legged friends ought to stick together?"

[interludes] Birralee says, "I think you are a bad man. And the other nice woman told me to protect the seed and plant it and now you want to take it away."

Nathan presses against the window, squinting to see what's up ahead.

[interludes] Xaylia says (to man), "I don't trust you, so even if I knew where she was, I wouldn't tell you"

Xn goes home.

[interludes] Xaylia asks, "what kind of eating is it, anyway?"

[nobilis] GM asks, "Should we merge the scenes, or are the Dara-flying guys going somewhere else?"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "let's merge"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Yeah."

[nobilis] Dara says, "Yeah."

Ferris hears a helicopter, thinks "I hope that's the rest of the gang, and I hope they can help with this guy"

[interludes] * GM has removed Ferris from the channel.

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Are we still in the rural half?"

[interludes] * GM has removed Dara from the channel.

[interludes] * GM has removed Xaylia from the channel.

[interludes] * GM has removed Birralee from the channel.

[nobilis] Ferris says, "yes, but near the edge of the city"

Xaylia keeps glaring at the man in the cage, but keeps away from his outstretched hand

Ferris is brandishing his club at this calm, smug-looking guy who's locked up in a big iron cage.

Ganelon_Choni explains, "It's the sort where I take everything that makes you you inside myself, and then when I leave Creation, I'll take you with me." He glances up. "Looks like your friends are coming."

Ferris says, "We don't want to leave Creation with you."

Xaylia says (to Ganelon), "I want me to stay me, inside me"

Nathan looks down at guy in cage with other people nearby

Nathan says, "I guess they have the situation in hand after all"

Jim says, "Nice to see they're resolving their problems through quiet rational debate, just like we did."

Pete jumps down.

Monkey springs free

Ferris says, "This guy is not a nice guy."

Xaylia says, "you seem like a nasty man, and I think you should leave this place and not hurt the nice lady whose name I can't say properly"

Monkey asks, "Can we whack this one! can we can we can we?"

Xaylia says (to monkey), "no"

Monkey says, "rrr"

Xaylia says, "he will do nasty things to you"

Jim says, "Is this man dangerous? He's already in a cage, looks like."

Ferris says, "I think it's understating it to say he's extremely bad news"

Monkey says, "I will do nasty things back"

Xaylia says, "you won't be able to, I think"

Pete asks, "So who sent this one?"

Jim asks, "So what were you planning on doing with him?"

Ganelon_Choni sighs. "I think this is a little more company than I want right now." He wraps his hands around the bars of the cage, and they crumble to dust. Then, he's ready to do something else. Each of you can take one miraculous and one normal action before he'll take another turn.

[nobilis] Jim says, "Yikes."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "We should probably coordinate some"

Ferris says, "He came here to kill Jeheila and eat all of us and take us out of Creation, and if you ask me, he's only pretending to stay locked in that cage I made for him."

Ferris asks, "er... see?"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Does shape-shifting count as miraculous or normal?"

Xaylia says, "okay, I'm flinging myself over that seed"

Jim says, "Sod it."

[nobilis] Monkey asks, "an attack, I take it?"

Jim jumps forward and aims a flying kick at the fucker.

Nathan says, "I think I'm against him doing that"

Xaylia also spends an aspect point to make herself stronger

Monkey charges in and unleashes a shitstorm of wallopings

[nobilis] GM says, "State Miracle level and describe miracle as necessary. Thanks."

[nobilis] Jim asks, "Also, what score do I need for Destruction of Compromise, to get out of this bloody dress?"

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "what else is here? is Ri here?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hmm, destruction of compromising situations"

[nobilis] GM says, "Ri and Kanyaa are both here."

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "and there's that seed from earlier which Xaylia is lying on?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to GM), "1 aspect point for general boosting, throwing self on seed"

Birralee turns into a spinning vortex that coincidentally is just Ganelon's size (Elemental).

[nobilis] Monkey says, "I'm going to expend 3 AMPs to put my attack up to Aspect 6"

[nobilis] GM says, "I think invoking a gift is a miraculous action."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "and that's me done"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I don't suppose he has iron-based blood or anything so mundane like that"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Sheesh, I'd have to spend a DMP to conjure up pants."

Vortex_Birralee then moves full vortex ahead at Ganelon.

[nobilis] Monkey asks, "do I have to divide that between attack and penetration?"

[nobilis] Pete asks (of Monkey), "What about penetration?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "ha ha"

[nobilis] Nathan says (to Jim), "probably you can rip the dress some"

Dara shifts into a giant, 3-story nimble robot, and kicks Ganelon as far as she can, towards the city side of the chancels.

[nobilis] GM asks (of Ferris), "You wanna try an iron-based-miracle and find out?"

[nobilis] Vortex_Birralee says, "and that's my miraculous and normal actions."

[nobilis] Pete asks, "Should we assume we can't use any, seeing as we don't know about it yet?"

Jim performs a lesser creation of compromise, and vanishes the *other* guy's pants.

[nobilis] Vortex_Birralee says (to Nathan), "aie"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Jim), "aie"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

Ferris will protect the Xaylia protecting the seed.

[nobilis] GM says (to Pete), "You can do miracles."

Ferris says, "-te"

[nobilis] Dara says, "(normal is shifting, miracle is aspect-kick)"

[Crows-Nest] Ferris says, "suddenly I've turned xaylia into a badly-coded NPC. 'what do you want to protect the xaylia with?'"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "hee hee"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "heehee"

[nobilis] GM says, "What level Aspect? I'm afraid even in super-robot form you're limited in what you can do without Aspect."

[nobilis] Dara says, "2, right."

[nobilis] GM says, "Also, shifting is invokinga gift."

Nathan, er, stands around looking charming.

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "thankfully she is too badly coded for you to ask her about her breasts"

[nobilis] GM says, "(I will check on this later but for now let's stay consistent)"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "So that's a miracle, then?"

[nobilis] GM says, "yes"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "also too young"

Jim swooshes through the air in bullet-time, looking like Bruce Lee if Bruce Lee wore chiffon.

[nobilis] Dara asks, "So can kicking be the normal action?"

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "hey star-guy, can't you do anything fancy?"

[nobilis] Nathan says (to Jim), "yay"

[nobilis] GM says, "Yes"

[nobilis] Nathan says (to Ferris), "I *look* fancy"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "also, er, what with all the kicking and roboting and whirlwinding and stuff it seems like a bad idea"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says (to Nathan), "you could blind him with light, maybe"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "ilac"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Nathan), "you could blind him with light, maybe"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "mmhmm"

[nobilis] Jim says, "So I just asked Storme 'why is this guy so nasty, anyway?' and she says he takes the part of you that makes you you and eats you, by touching you."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "oh just make everyone look twinkly as they do fancy stuff"

[nobilis] Jim says, "It kind of seems like she might have said this a little earlier."

[nobilis] Dara exclaims (at Xaylia), "Yay!"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Er, eats *it*, not you."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "I USED my one non-miraculous action to leap onto the seed"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Though that may not be so different."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I told you he was an extremely bad dude"

[nobilis] Vortex_Birralee says, "Nathan, power of disco balls"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "no you didn't! you just said "bong""

Jim says, "Man, I bet if I was still a woman this would look totally hot."

Pete follows suit, joining the brawl with a normal punch to the jaw (Aspect 3 + Penetration 2).

[nobilis] Jim asks, "Remind me of the rules about penetration?"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Er, you know what I mean."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "hmm. I think I'll switch those three points to penetration"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "maybe he'll get confused by the simultaneous attacks"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "people, we have to get past the vocab"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "so aspect 3, penetration 3"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "you need as much penetration as they have spirit"

[nobilis] Jim asks, "Right, but how do I add penetration?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "by spending additional points"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Hrm, I'll save my points until we have him sized up."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "if you have aspect 4, you can (for free) have an aspect-2 attack with 2 penetration or aspect 3 with 1 or whatever"

[nobilis] Jim says, "So just Aspect 4, hoping to knock him back a mile or two."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "and then by spending points you can up the other bits"

Ganelon_Choni rolls to one side as the cage drifts to dust around him. Compromise's miracle bounces off his Auctoritus and he twists out of the way of Pete's punch only to run into Monkey's iron bar. Then Dara's giant metal foot comes down and boots him into the sky, towards the city. It wasn't /that/ hard of a boot, but once he's in the air, he keeps going.

Nathan says, "er"

Monkey exclaims, "I got him I got him!"

Nathan says, "possibly, like, sending him towards the city wasn't a great idea"

Xaylia sits up again. "yay!"

Dara's retro-rockets kick in, and she flies off after him.

[nobilis] Jim says, "Even in bullet time that was pretty confusing."

Xaylia says (to nathan), "oh, yes"

Xaylia says, "but at least the seed is safe"

Jim asks, "What's the deal with this seed?"

Xaylia says, "I think this seed makes... this place into this place"

Dara says (to Nathan), "(booming) That's where I have a stronger sense of the land, dear."

[nobilis] Pete says, "I just realized, I bet a preservation of iron would have been good a few seconds ago."

Ferris says, "Dara just wants him where she can be all-powerful, I guess."

Jim asks, "So should we leg it after them?"

Pete says, "I'm following Dara."

Monkey asks, "would it be good for some of us to stay here and guard the seed?"

Pete follows Dara.

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "for which iron?"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "the cage"

Kanyaa can carry man + child again.

[nobilis] Pete says, "I was assuming the cage was your creation."

Xaylia climbs onto kanyaa

Ferris says, "I'm staying with the seed."

(From GM) Ri says, "Yes please!"

Jim says (to Monkey), "That's a surprisingly good idea."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "yeah."

[nobilis] Ferris says, "he made it brittle, I firmed it up again, it was a game he was playing for the last ten minutes"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Oh, ah."

Monkey says, "I'm going to stay here and if he comes back WALLOP"

Jim says, "Okay, city for me."

Xaylia says, "maybe the monkey should stay, since he hit the guy."

Jim says, "Since it looks like we have enough brawn staying here."

Jim FWOOSH (i.e. JOG VERY QUICKLY)

Xaylia asks (of Ferris), "can you yell for us if you need us?"

Ferris says, "I'll do my best."

Xaylia says, "also, I think Kanyaa can carry another person if they need"

Monkey dances about.

Birralee says, "He is a BAD MAN."

Ferris asks, "I don't suppose I could do anything to make this seed take root faster. Fill the soil with yummy nutrients?"

Monkey says, "monkey monkey / monkey monkey / the monkeyest monkey in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD"

Nathan says, "er, I guess I'll stay here"

Ferris says, "I guess the monkey could make some homemade fertilizer"

Ganelon_Choni zooms over the city and vanishes down inbetween grungy buildings.

Nathan says, "with, sigh, the monkey"

Birralee says, "I am going after him."

Birralee ZZZZZOOOM.

Jim says (to Birralee), "I'm with you, Snoopy."

Xaylia grabs mane and dolly and clings on for dear life

[nobilis] GM says, "Doing a preservation around it should help it stay well fertizlied and protect it from insects and stuff. A basic divination suggests it'll germinate in about a day or so."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha"

Monkey needs no second invitation to take a dump on things.

Nathan says, "hmm"

Kanyaa gallops WHOOSH very fast and LEAPS across the street into the city.

Nathan says, "the other guy we were talking to wanted to get rid of this whole place because it didn't fit in naturally on Earth, or something"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Wow. High aspect pointy-pony."

Nathan says, "maybe the seed taking root will help with that"

Xaylia suddenly feels more at home

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "can I do a realm divination to work out where this guy is?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "since suddenly I am all realm pointed"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Realm creations work for a day outside the realm, right?"

(From GM) Ri says worriedly, "I don't know what the seed is. It feels like home, but it's not the heart."

Nathan looks at.

Nathan says, "I guess it's one of those metaphors"

[nobilis] GM says, "To Dara: Something like that. To Xaylia: You can feel the realm screaming where he is, so yes."

Nathan says, "maybe it represents the, you know, agricultural power of this side"

Xaylia tells Kanyaa which direction to go

Birralee follows people who look like they know where they're going.

Dara, as she's flying, creates a self-propelled nanobot with a tight-beam location transmitter, and instructions to follow the guy wherever he may go, staying a good 10 yards behind him.

[nobilis] GM exclaims, "Magical inhabitants! re highaspectpony!"

Ferris has disconnected.

Ferris vooms himself somewhere else.

Ferris arrives, looking for booty.

[nobilis] GM asks, "You realize you have no non-miraculous way to track the nanobot yet, correct?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Right, but I have a day to replace it."

Monkey curls up against a tree and goes to sleep

[nobilis] GM says, "Also, he hasn't left the chancel yet. In fact, he's running along on the street quite quickly."

Dara creates potholes in front of him.

Ganelon_Choni leaps up a trashcan to a fire-escape to a roof and then begins running across the roofs instead. Then he jumps down to the road again, and then every step he takes begins...

Xaylia follows as closely as she can on Kanyaa

[nobilis] Ferris asks, "begins...???"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "I sense CLIFFHANGER"

(From Ganelon_Choni) What Devestation's Regal was doing was still part of Creation. It was entropic forces accelerated, nasty, but real. What Ganelon is doing is much worse. He's ripping a hole into the side of the chancel with every step he takes, destroying everything in the local area of his path, leaving a dead, hopeless, shattered path behind him. And on the other side of the tear, another city glimmers.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "or maybe not"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "whoa"

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "can you spear this guy?"

[nobilis] Pete exclaims, "Yay, he's giving us a way out!"

Xaylia says, "it HuRTS"

[nobilis] GM says, "Before this, your Chancel wasn't Open. :->"

[nobilis] Ferris says, "I tried to tell people not to take this guy lightly"

Pete zips through to the other side of the rift.

Jim picks up a trashcan, throws it at Ganelon's legs to try to trip him up.

[nobilis] Birralee says, "Okay, I'm going to form as a spinning column of air around him, avoiding his aucturithingy, and whooshing him up inside it like in the eye of a tornado"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "Er, if the GM will allow it"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Hmm, shame Duchess isn't here with her bow."

[nobilis] GM asks, "Whee! Pete, you leave the chancel. You're in a city... Chicago, did we establish?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "No, you said it didn't exist."

[nobilis] Pete says, "We didn't establish, I don't think, but Chicago's fine with me."

[nobilis] Pete says (to Dara), "Other city."

[nobilis] Dara says, "Hmm, OK."

[nobilis] Duchess asks, "you guys can't use the remote to use the bow?"

[nobilis] GM hmmms at Birralee. I don't think you can whoosh him up without penetrating his auctoritus. Otherwise he's just an eye in the storm.

[nobilis] Dara says, "Yeah, chicago's great."

[nobilis] Pete says, "yanks out his cell phone and tries it."

Pete yanks out his cell phone and tries it.

[nobilis] Birralee asks (of GM), "hm, even if it's air motion doing it rather than my changed shape pulling him?"

Ganelon_Choni gets tangled in the trashcan, falls, rolls gracefully to his feet, keeps running.

Jim says, "I'm CATCHING UP you bastard."

[nobilis] Pete says (to Birralee), "I think it's the same principle as throwing busses at people."

[nobilis] GM says, "Yes. It takes time for a miracle to become real, and you're constantly doing it to whirl the air."

Jim says, "And my feet hurt like Jiminy, they do."

[nobilis] GM exclaims, "The cellphone works! Signal! Roaming!"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "well, poo."

Pete exclaims, "YES!"

[nobilis] GM says, "Well, not instantly. But in a bit."

[nobilis] Birralee asks, "Is Ganelon still in the chancel?"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Sure, he's inside ripping it apart."

[nobilis] GM says, "Yes, he's running along side opening it like a zipper."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "i.e. if I do something really aspecty will people gape and go crazy? Ah, good."

[nobilis] Birralee asks, "Do we have an idea of what his spirit is yet?"

Dara while making flashy miracles of creation of rocks, trashcan lids, etc. flying at him, intersperses it with a much more subtle miracle of change to change the street he's on to take him out of the chancel.

Pete phones his parents' house.

Ganelon_Choni hops over a pothole, almost misses, Jim catches up even more. Dara's Change miracle costs her a Realm point but slowly, slowly, the road is curving to lead out of the chancel.

Monkey snores softly.

Jim says, "RAR"

[Crows-Nest] (from Dara) Pete says, "Hi, mom? Just was wondering--can I bring the cranberry sauce for Christmas this year?"

[nobilis] Jim says, "Hmm, at this point I might as well burn an AMP to speed up."

[nobilis] Pete says (to Birralee), "I think Penetration 2 worked."

Jim bumps up to Aspect 5.

[nobilis] Birralee says, "Oh, really? So one AMP for an additional point of penetration and I can scream his ears off"

[nobilis] Jim says, "I'm just going for the tackle to bring him down."

(From GM) Pete's phone rings through and he reaches his family home.

[nobilis] Jim says, "Er, I mean like a rugby tackle."

[nobilis] Birralee says (to Jim), "If that doesn't work I'll try the scream. Right now I'm just following along as best I can."

[nobilis] Jim says, "I figure the main thing is to stop him, then figure out how to stop him getting up again."

(From Ganelon_Choni) When Jim speeds up, he's definitely gaining on Ganelon. A LEAP, and he tackles him around the legs. Luckily, the World Breaker's Hand doesn't seem to penetrate his 0 Auctoritus yet.

Pete exclaims (at Rick), "Hello, Rick? Ricky, it's me, Pete!"

(From GM) He's been stopped right at the edge of the chancel-- a few more steps and the road will lead him into Chicago.

Ferris has disconnected.

Ferris vooms himself somewhere else.

Jim . o O ( Okay, so I caught him, and now I'm about to be smooshed. Whoops. )

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "am I catching up?"

Dara exclaims (at Jim), "Punch him! Punch him!"

[nobilis] GM says, "Yes. Not quite as fast, but yes."

Birralee exclaims, "HIT THE BAD MAN!"

[nobilis] Jim says, "I'll whale on the guy unscientifically for a bit."

[nobilis] GM says, "Once they stop you'll get there pretty quickly."

[nobilis] Jim says, "Aspect 2, penetration 3, assuming that +1 boost is still in place."

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "and if so, can I do the 'interpolate myself between the man and whoever/whatever is in danger' thing?"

[nobilis] Birralee says (to Jim), "hopefully he won't want to hit a she-male"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "ha"

[nobilis] GM says, "You can, but mostly they seem to be rolling around on the ground like shcoolboys."

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "can I point and call them names insteaD?"

Jim . o O ( Violence is fun! )

[interludes] * GM has added Pete to the channel.

Birralee spin spin spin spin

Jim kick scratch knee elbow headbutt

[interludes] GM says, "Nan, Pete, what the hell's happening out there? There's this... big storm? I heard there was a bomb, too."

[nobilis] GM says, "Definitely"

Xaylia catches up, blinks at the squabble

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "can you spear him without hurting the other(s)?"

Jim . o O ( Now I'm *definitely* going to need some new clothes. )

Ganelon_Choni is pretty capable of fending off Jim currently, though he's not hurting him in return. As they roll around, the World Breaker's Hand effect continues to split things open. Then, they roll into Chicago.

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "and into Nobilis: The Musical"

Xaylia slides off Kanyaa, and walks up to the edge of the hole

[interludes] Pete says, "Yeah... stuff has been really crazy out here. I'm OK, though -- I've been, uh, evacuated."

[Crows-Nest] Jim says, "Hee hee."

Kanyaa says uneasily, "I don't think so. They're moving very quickly."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "ha"

[interludes] Pete says, "But I want you to let Mom and Pop know that I'm OK."

[interludes] GM says, "Man, it's great to hear your voice. We've been real worried."

Dara peers into Chicago, to see if it's also being ripped apart.

Birralee meets up with Xaylia and turns back into a person.

Janice says (to Ganelon), "DIE DIE DIE FUCKER"

(From GM) Chicago is also being ripped apart, though without the gateway-to-another-reality bit. There's a wake of destruction and a dullness about everything.

[interludes] Pete says, "Yeah, I can imagine. There are still people working on cleaning up the messes, and I don't know how long it'll be before I can get back to see you guys."

Xaylia steps through into Chicago

Xaylia says (to Janice,man), "please stop!"

Birralee runs after Janice.

Ganelon_Choni smiles at Janice. "Go ahead and kill me, then."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Hmm, this doesn't seem to be doing anything except making me grow in surprising places."

Janice extracts herself and drops back, warily.

[nobilis] GM asks, "Hey, Janice, he's really hot, did I mention?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

[nobilis] GM says, "Dazzlingly so."

Xaylia throws herself in front of Janice, with that bizarrely suicidal streak she seems to be evoking

[nobilis] Janice says, "Rowr!"

[nobilis] Janice says, "Oh, wait."

[interludes] Pete says, "There's some trouble going on -- a fight breaking out over here, so I'm going to ahve to hang up. But I'll try to call you back later on if I can."

Janice says (to Ganelon), "Well, if that would stop you ripping reality apart and stuff..."

Janice asks (of Xaylia), "Hey, what are you doing here?"

Ganelon_Choni pulls himself to his knees, his clothing reduced to elegant rags, a scratch on one cheek. He looks past Xaylia, ignoring her utterly to continue smiling at Janice.

Pete sees the trouble breaking into this side of things, finishes up his call, and tries to help Jim with the pummelling.

Xaylia says (to Janice), "he's a bad man and he mustnt touch you"

Janice says (to Xaylia), "I'm still in one piece, looks like."

Janice says, "Except so is he, so this isn't very productive."

Xaylia says, "he's trying to eat Jehe.. um, her, and then he wants to eat us"

Janice says, "Fucking good fun, though."

Birralee asks (of Ganelon), "What are you?"

Kanyaa says equably, "Good fun fucking, too."

Ganelon_Choni says that instead

Pete says, "We could try to feed him to the papercut."

[Crows-Nest] Monkey says, "total pony slut"

Xaylia says (to Ganelon), "leave us alone"

Janice says (to Ganelon), "Yeah, like you're so hot."

Xaylia says, "you hurt that city and now I hurt and now I'm angry and upset and GO AWAY"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "yeah, plus Kanyaa would talk equinely, not equably"

Janice says (to Pete), "Hey, good idea."

[Crows-Nest] Monkey says (to Xaylia), "well, or equubly"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "true"

[nobilis] Birralee asks, "I'm willing to knock him unconscious, but then what would we do with him?"

Ganelon_Choni stretches and brushes off his clothes. He looks around. "All right." He turns to walk away.

Dara, seeing that things are at somewhat of a standoff here, heads back to see what she can do to patch up the ripped bits. Putting building edges, uninviting back alleys, etc. along the rift.

Janice says, "Huh."

Birralee exclaims (at Ganelon), "Wait! I don't understand!"

Xaylia stomps back into the chancel

Janice says (to Ganelon), "And let that be a lesson to, uh, hopefully you!"

Janice says (to Ganelon), "Next time I won't pull my punches! Nor my knees to the groin area, either."

Xaylia picks up her dolly from the floor and slumps down against a building.

Monkey wakes up and wonders if he missed much

Janice asks, "Are we just letting him walk away, then?"

Janice asks, "I can see a trashcan RIGHT THERE?"

Ganelon_Choni waves back behind him. "We'll hook up sometime." He turns a corner.

Pete asks (of Janice), "As opposed to keeping him around?"

Janice says, "And I have a pretty good aim, and... damn it."

[nobilis] GM asks, "Is Monkey the only person who currently carries a weapon?"

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "ferris, no?"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "I assume he's heading off into Chicago proper?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "Ferris has an iron bar, as do I"

[nobilis] Janice asks, "Monkey carries a weapon?"

[nobilis] GM says, "Yes."

[nobilis] Dara says, "Ferris usually carries his bar."

[nobilis] GM says, "Oh yes, Ferris"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "and Thalia"

[nobilis] Monkey says (to Janice), "I am very fond of my iron whacky-bar"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I still have some drumsticks left"

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "are we still going to be able to try and find my Mom and everyone?"

Pete looks back and forth -- Fairylandville on his left, Chicago on his right.

(From GM) So, this seems to be a grungy area of Chicago. At least, it is /now/. It meshes well with the grungy area of the Chancel on the other side of the dead road.

Pete says, "You know, I'm not really sure which one to believe in anymore."

(From GM) After a few minutes, people start creeping out of buildings on both sides.

Janice asks (of Pete), "I turned into a woman again, right?"

Birralee says, "I am still do not understand what has really happened."

Pete realizes that he looks completely and totally out of place here, and tries to seem more... normal. More flannel and denim, less baggy pants and gold skin.

Pete says (to Janice), "I... think so."

Birralee scratches at his goatee.

Janice says, "I'm going to have to get some fake ID if I want to get much of anything done in Chicago."

Janice says, "On the other hand, nobody'll recognise me, I guess."

Kanyaa wanders up to the street and pokes at the edge with her horn. Then she stares curiously at the other side.

[nobilis] Pete asks, "WHat time is it there?"

Ri says, "Back at the seed, Ri says, "So, uh, how do we know when he's gone?""

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Is my nanobot still following him?"

(From GM) People on the other side stare back at the unicorn.

Monkey says (to Ri), "I'm gonna wait here and nap until the rest get back."

Xaylia tries to call to Ferris and Monkey that the bad man has left

Monkey exclaims, "Or until he comes back for some more bar!"

Nathan asks (of Ferris), "I dunno, can't you tell?"

Pete asks, "I'm going to go find someplace to get a beer. Anyone with me?"

[nobilis] GM says, "It's late afternoon."

[nobilis] GM says, "You can't tell, but it seems unlikely it survived the swathe of destruction, Dara."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "(Ferris not being logged on, but I expect he can tell)"

Janice says (to Pete), "Lemme pick up some clothes, then sure."

RogerCarbol arrives, looking for booty.

[nobilis] Pete asks (of GM), "Wouldn't a lesser div reveal it for her, since it's still chancelstuff?"

Birralee asks, "Is it bad that there is this rip between where we are now and where we were?"

[nobilis] GM says, "It's the other Chancel, though, and she's more strictly bound."

Monkey says, "But we still need to talk to that weird broad who gave me the seed"

[nobilis] Dara says, "It was staying 10 yards away at all times."

Monkey says, "because she has some QUESTIONS to answer"

[nobilis] Xaylia asks, "can I try and signal through the heart? to anyone there?"

Dara creates a palm pilot to pick up her nanobot's signal.

[nobilis] GM says, "No signal from the nanobot."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "I'm not sure who else has realm 2"

Dara says, "Crap."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "(on the city side)"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "er, except Dara"

Birralee says, "I'm used to fighting over food and mates and places to sleep, not seeds and--whatever we were just fighting about"

Janice asks (of Birralee), "Why don't you go back and tell the others what happened?"

Kanyaa hesitantly steps into the street, eyes bright with curiousity.

Xaylia says (to Kanyaa), "I don't think you should go out there"

Dara creates a cloud of them, all with instructions to seek out and follow Ganelon, then blows the cloud into Chicago.

[nobilis] Pete says, "If Dara doesn't know about the expiry of creations outside of the chancel yet, it could lead to quite the entertaining situation if she creates Janice's wardrobe."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Yikes."

[nobilis] Dara laughs.

[nobilis] GM says, "Oh, Birralee can let Ferris and company know."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "har"

Xaylia says (to Kanyaa), "people might be confused and want to hurt you, so please come back in here"

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Who's nearby Kanyaa? I assume I'm not?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "There we go."

Pete says (to Janice), "Right. There's probably a department store around here someplace."

Kanyaa steps backwards, reluctantly. "They all look so scared."

Xaylia says (to Kanyaa), "they've never seen you in anything but stories before"

Pete heads into town, dialing up Sharon at the time.

Nathan says (to Ri), "so I guess it's outside this place, now -- in, er, Chicago, apparently"

Janice realises she left her wallet back in the chancel too. Oh, well, there's always theft.

Xaylia says (to Kanyaa), "oh"

Ri looks blank. "But not here, which is the important part. Oh good. So what will you do now?"

Xaylia asks (of Kanyaa), "can you go back to the country and tell the other horned ponies and the naughty unclothed women that the danger is over, for now?"

Birralee heads back to Kanyaa and Xaylia. "I think we should go find the others."

Janice says (to Pete), "Hey, catch you later, I guess."

Xaylia says, "but to tell someone if they see that guy around"

Janice heads off to do some shopping.

Birralee says, "Or maybe you should go, and the young one and I can find our people."

Pete finds a bar.

Nathan says, "right now we find Jehiela and Yasmina and find out what the hell is going on with this Lord Entropy guy"

Kanyaa pushes her nose against Xaylia. "All right. I'll go. Will you come visit again? The boys will like you and Thalia best."

Xaylia says, "I will if I can"

Xaylia says, "but first I think Birra wants to go find our people"

Xaylia says, "so it'll be after that"

[interludes] GM asks, "What are your plans for the bar, and your phonecall to Sharon?"

Xaylia hugs the unicorn

Birralee says, "Thank you, unicorn."

Kanyaa blows unicorn breath, and turns to trot out of the city, heading quickly away from the dead zone.

[interludes] Pete says, "With Sharon, I want to let her know I'm OK, foremost."

[interludes] GM asks, "Hm wait. Sharon was local, right?"

Birralee asks (of Xaylia), "Do you know where your mother would be?"

Dara busys herself with repairing/masking the rift.

[interludes] Pete says, "No. She was at college."

Xaylia says (to Birralee), "a long way away from a city. Oh, but my auntie lives in the city! She brought me to the park before the world went crazt"

Xaylia says, "er, crazy"

[interludes] GM says, "Aw. Okay. You let her know. She's very confused. She heard there was a biological contamination in your area, though she can't seem to quite recall where you were."

Birralee asks, "What is her name?"

[interludes] Pete says, "Probably an hour or two drive from where the city used to be."

Xaylia says, "so I should find her to tell her I'm okay and to find out if she is okay"

Xaylia says, "Auntie Clara"

Birralee takes Xaylia's hand and they start wandering away from the rift. "Maybe someone will know where she lives."

[interludes] Pete says (to Sharon), "They had to evacuate a lot of us. I'm in Chicago right now. There've been some phone problems in the area lately, so if you try to call me, you might have trouble getting through."

[nobilis] GM says, "It'll take dedicated work to permanently make the rift not a dead-zone, and an act-of-Imperator to make it not Open (or character points, of course, which is what that translates to) but you can make it less distnctly different and create wards that make wanderers get discouraged."

Nathan says, "so, yeah, maybe I'll do that -- Ferris can probably let people know if there's another problem with the seed"

Xaylia asks, "I hope so. Who are you looking for?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "Right."

Nathan jogs back towards the city, stopping to do a realm divination for the imperators when he gets back to his half of the chancel.

[nobilis] Dara says, "Just dedicated work, for now."

[interludes] GM says, "Sharon says, "I can fly out there this weekend! I want to see you.""

Birralee says, "My food-bring--a woman who brought me and the others food when we were caged."

Birralee thinks hard.

Birralee says, "Her name is Jenny."

Xaylia says, "that would be in the zoo, I guess"

Birralee asks, "Who should we find first?"

Xaylia says, "my Auntie took me there once, but my Fa yelled at her and said it was a bad place"

[interludes] Pete says (to Sharon), "That'll be great -- I could really use a familiar face at this point. If you get me your flight information, I can meet you at O'Hare."

[interludes] GM exclaims, "I'll do that, and leave a message if your phone is out!"

Xaylia says (to Birralee), "we can go wherever people know first"

Birralee exclaims, "Okay!"

[interludes] Pete says, "Great -- oh, and let Mikey know what's going on too, would you? I called my folks, but I haven't talked to him yet."

[nobilis] GM says, "Jeheila is best available in its heart-- below the factory. Yasmina seems to be there as well."

[interludes] GM exclaims, "Absolutely. See you soon!"

Xaylia goes up to a random stranger, and asks, "hi! do you know where my Auntie Clara is? Or where the zoo is?"

[interludes] Pete exclaims, "Bye-bye -- love you!"

Birralee finds someone else on the sidewalk. "Excuse me, can you help us find Auntie Clara or Jenny? The young one here thinks Jenny works in the zoo."

[nobilis] GM asks, "Are Bir. and X. on chancel-side or Chicago-side?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "chicago"

[interludes] Pete says, "I'll try calling the company I work for too, but they *are* in town, so I assuem that'll be a no go."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "what Xaylia said"

[interludes] GM says, "Yep."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "which means the nice people with the butterfly nets will have an easier time finding us"

Nathan runs to the factory, then.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "heehee"

[interludes] Pete says, "In which case, I'll spend some quality time with a beer or three."

(From GM) A young woman in jeans gives flustered, vague directions to the Chicago zoo, along the lines of 'East end of town, man.'

[interludes] Pete says, "Trying to get used to the idea that the World As I Know It has been turned inside out and painted ultraviolet."

Xaylia asks (of Birralee), "do you know which way is east?"

[interludes] Pete says, "And reassuring myself with salted peanuts."

[interludes] GM says, "It's hard to ignore. Especially because there's little weird things you never noticed before, plus a tendency to see the Mythic world out of the corner of your eye."

(From GM) The factory has been partially opened up, and there are lights inside, including on several of the upstairs offices.

Birralee says, "I think it's...where the sun rises."

Birralee squints up.

Nathan says, "hrm"

Nathan heads upstairs, first, to see what's going on.

Birralee asks, "Is the sun going up or down right now?"

Xaylia walks in the direction the woman flapped her hand in, anyway

[nobilis] GM says, "It was coming up on the rural side; it's setting here,."

Xaylia says (to birralee), "I don't know. I think it must be late"

Birralee says, "Oh. I wonder how far it is."

Xaylia says, "we could get a bus, but I haven't got any money"

(From GM) Upstairs are several offices where a few men and women are setting up computers that look like the 2019 version of the iMac. Jeheila is sitting at a desk, tapping into one of them.

Xaylia says, "and I don't think we can pay in food"

[interludes] Pete glances at the Mythic when it catches his sight.

Birralee smiles at another bystander. "We need to get to the zoo. Could you help us?"

Nathan says, "er.."

[interludes] GM says, "There's the beer-keg turtle behind the bar, and the giant frog on the wall with a television in its mouth, and stools that stand like herons."

Nathan asks (of Jeheila), "I see you're busy, but could you take a minute to explain why somebody is trying to destroy this place?"

[interludes] Pete shudders.

Nathan says, "I mean, I'm glad about the magic powers and all, but I'm not sure about this thousands-of-people-dying thing"

GM whirls around in his chair. "Hi there! Would you like to meet your baby brother?"

Jeheila says that too.

Nathan says, "uh .. sure."

[nobilis] Jeheila asks, "Janis is shopping?"

[interludes] Pete . o O ( Either I've had too much to drink, or not nearly enough. And I'm pretty sure I just started. )

[nobilis] Janice says, "Well, shoplifting."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "Janice is, yeah"

[nobilis] Janice says, "Those RFID tags just don't seem to work quite so well when I'm around."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha"

Jeheila pats the computer on the back of the monitor. "Isn't he cute?"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I like how everyone's let Birralee and Xaylia wander off on their own."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "The only way this could be better is if Monkey had been tasked to watch over us."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "yes"

[nobilis] Jeheila exclaims, "Yay Shoplifting!"

[interludes2] * Jeheila has added Janice to the channel.

Nathan walks over to stare at the computer screen dubiously.

Nathan asks, "is this Longhorn?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "we wander the streets completely oblivious to.. well, anything, really"

[interludes2] Jeheila says, "Hey, you know, if you look at stuff out of the corner of your eye, you can see the Mythic World and sweettalk the RFID tags into not working."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "I am waiting for the first chance to go 'ooh, shiny' and get completely distracted"

[interludes2] Janice says, "Wow, neat."

(From Jeheila) It's got some kind of snazzy screensaver that seems to be inspired by the Kabbalah on it, and a windows interface layered over it. If it's Longhorn, the developers have been taking some serious drugs.

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

Nathan says, "wow"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'm not sure I'd say 'ooh, shiny!' but I'd probably say 'eeeee!' very excitedly."

[Crows-Nest] Dara asks, "Longhorn?"

(From Jeheila) You get more vague directions. Does Xaylia make any attempt to avoid cops, out of curiousity?

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "heehee"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "next windows version"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'll try not to change into a devil in front of people out of excitement"

[interludes2] Janice says, "Okay, now I have some threads, I guess I should stop and figure out what was going on."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha"

Xaylia says, "(no)"

Nathan says, "but, er, about these dead people"

[interludes2] Janice says, "Maybe even go back to the chancel and sort things out there. Damn. I bet that's what *he'd* do."

[nobilis] Jeheila asks, "and does she follow traffic rules at all?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "yes"

Jeheila blinks owlishly at Nathan. "Dead people?"

Nathan says, "see, we met this guy, and he was turning this place to ash, and he said Lord Entropy wanted it all removed"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "we are just ambling along and vaguely following directions"

Xaylia says, "and no doubt I am trying to explain human stuff to birralee"

Nathan says, "which I think would be bad for us, since we met these other guys who also said they were with Lord Entropy, and they were all about clubbing us to death"

(From Jeheila) X and Birr wander deeper into the city. Slowly it changes from the grungy part to the more commercial part. Also, it's very much rush hour.

[interludes2] Janice says, "I'll head back to the rift between worlds, and maybe hook up with Pete."

Xaylia says, "um, ilac"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "these big metal things hurt you if they hit you, so don't walk in the street unless I pull you"

[interludes2] Jeheila says, "Pete said something about a bar."

[interludes2] Jeheila says, "And he does have a cellphone. If only you could put that to use somehow..."

Birralee says, "I've seen those! Ferris and Jim were in one when they found me and Tails."

Xaylia says, "aha"

[interludes2] Janice says, "Should've asked for his number, except as a hot chyk in torn clothing it might have seemed a little forward of me."

Xaylia says, "well, really I shouldn't cross streets without an adult, but you look like one"

Jeheila blinks a bit more. "Yasmina would be upset it all that happened."

Nathan says, "yes, well"

Nathan says, "and this guy also said that you and Yasmina kil-- murdered thousands of people to set this place up"

Birralee exclaims, "I've been an adult for a good two years!"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "I am ignoring Monkey horribly, I am sorry."

Nathan says, "which, um, takes a bit of the shine off it"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "so just follow where I lead"

[nobilis] Janice asks (of Pete), "Hey, you still around?"

Birralee says, "Okay. I don't understand what all of these lights are, so I hope you do."

Xaylia says (to birralee), "you're not a human, really"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "well, I'm just guarding stuff"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "You could wander off and do stuff if you wanted. Though we need to quit soon. Ri has guarding and as a ghost, it's not like she gets bored."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "Ferris isn't logged in here, so presumably you can leave him to guard and go off, if you want"

[nobilis] Pete says (to Janice), "Sure. Just check the bar most conveniently near the chancel edge, and I'll be there with a beer and a bowl of peanuts."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "I doubt there's much I can do just now."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "try and screw things"

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to monkey), "you could come join the random wandering of city streets"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "hmm. I prefer nathan's idea"

Dara wanders in to the factory, flops onto a swivel chair. Her hair is now black, in a long braid that reaches her waist.

[interludes2] Janice says, "Man, the bars sure are seedy around here."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "I shall sally forth into the forest in search of something with which to copulate that isn't all cold"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "poor unicorns"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

Birralee whispers (to Xaylia), "If I'm too conspicuous, I could turn back into the normal me and you could lead me around."

Jeheila says, "Mortals die all the time anyhow. That's what being mortal means." She pokes Nathan in the chest. "If the Stars die, they stop existing. Completely.""

Dara asks (of Jehelia), "Whew. I presume you know about the rift--it's somewhat patched, but still needs work. People here seem to do what you tell 'em--can I get some help?"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "I thin k more people would notice you that way"

Nathan says, "hrm"

Birralee says, "Okay."

[nobilis] Monkey says, "bipedal would be ideal, I think"

[interludes2] * Jeheila has removed Janice from the channel.

[nobilis] Nathan says, "unicorns rearing up in surprise"

[interludes] * Jeheila has added Janice to the channel.

Birralee says, "I wonder if one of these people would take us to the zoo."

Nathan says, "I'm not sure I buy the distinction"

Xaylia asks another person for directions

Monkey scampers forestwards

[interludes] Janice says (to Pete), "Hey, there you are!"

Nathan asks, "but, er, even if I do, what about this Lord Entropy guy?"

(From Jeheila) Here, in this part of the city, people are much more likely to brush the scruffy man and child off as they hurry past."

[interludes] Pete says, "Oh, hey, Janice... pull up a stork."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'm not scruffy! I'm attractively mussed."

[interludes] Janice sits down demurely with a glass of white wine.

Xaylia wonders if there are maps in bus stops and so on

[nobilis] Nathan says, "the hugh grant of tasmanian devils"

[interludes] Pete says (to Bartender), "One for the --" He takes a quick glance at Janice to check. "The lady.""

Jeheila says, "He's... this guy, you know? He thinks he's in charge of Earth. He's totally corrupt."

[interludes] Janice says, "At least, the guy *said* it was wine. He seemed to take a long time finding a bottle of anything other than bourbon."

[nobilis] Nathan asks, "can either of you read the maps?"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "well, possibly, I mean, if you're going to point out such things, then it's true, that...yes."

Nathan says, "..ah"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "um, I could look at pretty stuff"

Nathan says, "I admit I've known people like that"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "but otherwise, no"

[interludes] Janice says (to Pete), "Oh, I already have one -- but what the hell, might as well get the bottle over here in case he loses it again."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I got a bunch of concepts dumped in my head along with language. I may be able to puzzle them out if Xaylia explains that they're like trails that are written down."

Xaylia says, "maybe we can find someone whose job it is to tell people where to go"

(From Jeheila) Are there winged monkeys in the forest?

[Crows-Nest] Dara sings the monkey theme from Wizard of Oz.

[interludes] Pete says (to Janice), "Nice clothes. I like the belt."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia asks, "do monkeys fly in the forest if there isn't a noble there attempting to copulate with them?"

Jeheila nods. "Hi, Dara! This is your baby brother! Be nice to him!" She taps the computer in front of her again.

[interludes] Janice says, "Isn't it cute? Only $200 or something like that."

Dara peers at the screen.

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "as zen questions go, that one lacks something"

[interludes] Janice asks, "So, anyway, do you think we should be trying to sort things out over in cloud cuckoo land?"

Dara says (to screen), "Uh, hi kid."

(From Jeheila) The screensaver doesn't vary in its behavior.

[interludes] Janice says, "I kind of feel like there's some unfinished business."

[interludes] Pete says, "I dunno. I'm not even sure what side to be on, to tell you the truth."

Dara asks (of Jeheila), "Does he, uh, talk?"

[interludes] Janice says, "Like finding out what the fuck was going on with everything."

Jeheila says, "So, yeah, anyhow, I could tell that bastard was ripping open my skin, but Yasmina wouldn't let me go outside and play with him."

Nathan says, "..ah"

Nathan asks, "why not?"

Birralee asks, "What do people like that look like?"

[interludes] Janice says, "It's definitely *real*."

Jeheila says, "Because she doesn't want me to die."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "afk again briefly after answering birralee"

[interludes] Janice says, "Otherwise I would be, you know, me."

Nathan says, "that seems like a reasonable explanation"

[interludes] Pete asks, "Yeah. Hey, speaking of real... what do you see over there?"

[interludes] Pete points at the TV.

[interludes] Janice squints at the TV.

Xaylia says (to birralee), "hm, there might be little kiosks with helpful people inside"

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "I can't wait until we find a policeman who decides to check the ID I don't have against the national database of child molesters"

[interludes] Jeheila exclaims, "It's a frog! Holding a scroll with images on it in its mouth!"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "ha"

[interludes] Janice says, "Whoa."

[interludes] Janice asks (of Pete), "A... frog?"

[Crows-Nest] Jeheila says, "I've been nice so far but yeah. :-)"

[interludes] Pete says, "Ah. Good."

[interludes] Janice asks, "A frog-vee?"

Birralee finds a covered stand where several people are standing waiting for something. "Hi! Can you help us get to the zoo?"

Jeheila looks sulky. "Don't you start. I arranged everything so that you'd be nice and safe, but nooooo."

[Crows-Nest] Birralee says, "I'm sure Janice will come bust us out, so to speak."

Nathan asks, "but what happened?"

[interludes] Janice says, "But it seems like it's also a TV at the same time."

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

[Crows-Nest] Janice says, "Heh."

(From Jeheila) Person With Newspaper says, "You can pick up a bus schedule right there, young man."

[interludes] Pete says, "So I'm not the only one who's not drunk enough yet."

[Crows-Nest] RogerCarbol asks (of Birralee), "You're impersonating Michael Jackson?"

[interludes] Janice says, "I think this is what is technically known as 'freaky magic vision'."

Birralee exclaims, "Thank you!"

Birralee picks up a bus schedule and stares at it.

[interludes] Janice says, "I actually had a spot of this earlier."

[interludes] Janice says, "You know sometimes when you're shopping and something just screams 'buy me! buy me!'"

Birralee says (very softly to Xaylia), "Do you know how this works?"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "um, hm"

[interludes] Janice says, "I sort of thought that was just a metaphor."

Dara asks, "Is that why you were in such a hurry? Because you were dying?"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

Xaylia says, "it has lots of numbers on it"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Dara, you're suddenly aware that while by some magical metaphysics, the others might be transferrable to Yasmina if Jeheila dies, Jeheila herself is the only thing keeping you from poofing out of existence."

Birralee says, "It sounds related to the 'bus' you were talking about before."

[interludes] Janice finishes the wine, orders a beer.

Xaylia says, "hm"

Xaylia says, "maybe it tells you when buses are coming"

[interludes] Janice squints at the beer suspiciously.

Dara catches her breath.

Xaylia says, "ooh, and maybe where they go"

Jeheila touches his side, where briefly a bloodstain appears. "Yeah, that was why."

[interludes] Pete says, "Don't. Trust me."

Xaylia says, "but we can't get on any buses because we still have no money"

[interludes] Pete asks, "So, you think we should go back there, don't you?"

Birralee exclaims, "oh! This part that says 'Route 331' says 'zoo' on it!"

Birralee asks, "Money?"

[interludes] Janice asks, "What am I, your conscience?"

Nathan says, "ow"

[interludes] Jeheila asks, "The beer... has... something in it. Is something. You could look closer?"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "people have money and they give it to other people for goods and services"

[interludes] Janice bravely squints a little harder.

[interludes] Pete asks, "Can you turn into a grasshopper?"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia asks, "I am not sounding six years old here, am I?"

Dara asks, "Well, we told Destructo that we'd come up with some other ritual to make a cleaner break between here and the earth. Any ideas on where to start?"

[interludes] Janice says (to Pete), "Hey, I'm still dealing with the whole guy/doll thing."

[interludes] Pete warily, and definitely against his better judgement, peers at Janice's beer. Carefully avoiding looking too hard at his own.

[interludes] Jeheila says, "It seems to be a colony of some sort, of little entities. They're singing a tiny but cheery song."

Birralee asks, "How do you get money?"

[Crows-Nest] Nathan says, "ha ha ha"

Xaylia says, "you give people things they want"

[nobilis] Janice says (to Jeheila), "Ha ha ha ha oh dear."

Birralee asks, "This money sounds like food. Can you just take it?"

Xaylia says, "no"

[interludes] Janice says, "This is right up there with the talking monkey and the papercut monster on the list of most disturbing things ever."

Xaylia says, "sometimes people give you it if they like you and it is a special day"

Pete:quickly finishes drinking his own beer before he accidentally looks at it.

[interludes] Pete quickly finishes drinking his own beer before he accidentally looks at it.

[nobilis] Pete says, "(Ilac.)"

Jeheila shrugs. "Nope. Ask somebody for help, I guess. /I/ have to go back to work on Renaissance."

[interludes] Janice asks, "Okay, so should we go back in?"

Xaylia goes up to a random person and says "hello! it is my birthday! please give me some money!"

Dara asks, "What's Renaissance?"

Dara asks, "Our baby brother?"

[interludes] Pete nods. "Yeah. Yeah, I think I can handle it a little better now."

[interludes] Janice says, "It's kind of tempting just to fly off to Paris or somewhere and never think about Chicago ever again."

Birralee watches a bus approach and people get on and off. He sees people taking slips of paper from purses and wallets.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "(uh, at this point I note that when I was six I did what Xaylia is doing.)"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "hee hee"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "(I made 15 quid)"

(From Jeheila) Person With Briefcase hurries past the beggar child.

[interludes] Janice says, "But I'm not sure we *can*. It seemed like our freaky powers were linked with all that stuff, somehow."

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Wow, cool."

[interludes] Janice pushes her beer away untouched.

[nobilis] Nathan says, "not bad"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "(my mother was alarmed when I told her what I had done on the way back from the park)"

[nobilis] Janice says, "Yow."

[interludes] Pete stands and makes his way to the door, slightly wobbly.

[nobilis] Janice asks, "Was it actually your birthday?"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "but hey, I got money"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "yes"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Xaylia, you have Restr: Honest, by the way."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Well, that's okay then."

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Jehelia), "damn"

Xaylia says, "well, let's pretend it is therefore my birthday"

Xaylia says, "er, ilac"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "ha ha ha ha"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "well, let's pretend it is therefore my birthday"

[interludes] Janice follows.

[nobilis] Jeheila exclaims, "Okay. Though remember, you get points when being honest inconveineces you!"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "hey, she was just born as a nobilis"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Yup"

[interludes] Pete says, "If we want to find out what's going on there, we should go to the middle of things..."

Jeheila taps away on the computer.

[interludes] Pete says, "...which probably means, um. Maybe the factory."

Xaylia says (to other_random_person), "hello! please help us, we have no money and need to get to the zoo"

(From Jeheila) Other people in the office finish setting up their computers.

Nathan says, "sigh"

Nathan says, "right, thanks"

Nathan heads downstairs to see if Yasmina is around.

[interludes] Janice says, "I guess."

Birralee murmurs to Xaylia, "Are those slips of paper the 'money'?

(From Jeheila) "Aw," says the person. "Um, here." He fishes a $10 out of his pocket.

Xaylia says, "thank you!"

(From Jeheila) Across the factory floor is the Elevator.

Birralee exclaims, "Thank you!"

[interludes] Pete tries to figure out which way that is. Blinking in and out of mythic is probably actually more help than hindrance in that respect.

Xaylia says (to birralee), "is this the right bus?" She shows him the money. "*This* is money.""

Nathan climbs into the elevator and looks at the panel.

Dara asks (of Jeheila), "What's Renaissance? Or who?"

Birralee says, "We want something called 'Route 331 - Cumberland - 5th Avenue'"

Jeheila says, "There are no buttons in the elevator, but the doors close behind you and it begins to descend."

Xaylia says, "there's stuff written on the front of the buses"

[interludes] Janice says, "You know, I think I'd prefer it if this whole thing were not widely known."

(From Jeheila) One of the office people whispers to Dara, "The computer is Renaissance."

[interludes] Janice says, "By the media and stuff."

Xaylia says, "if it says one of those things, it should be the right bus"

Nathan . o O ( I hope this knows where it's going )

(From Jeheila) Still descending.

Birralee waits impatiently, then points and says, "Look! That bus says 331 and 5th Avenue!"

(From Jeheila) It stops. Then it begins to move forward rather than down.

Xaylia grabs birralee and pulls him onto the bus

[interludes] Janice says, "But surely they'll find out about it fairly soon."

Birralee says, "This is very exciting."

Xaylia says (to the driver), "hi! we would like two tickets to the zoo!"

[interludes] Janice says, "The entire crappy end of Chicago is now sitting in a unicorn's back yard, for heaven's sake."

Xaylia waves the $10

Nathan . o O ( there better not be any k'nids around )

(From Jeheila) The bus driver looks at the $10. "I can't change that, but I'll take it if you don't care." He gives both of you a day-pass.

Birralee exclaims, "Thank you!"

[interludes] Pete asks, "Who'd trust anyone from this sound of town anyway, though?"

Xaylia says (to birralee), "i think that means we can use any buses all day"

Xaylia says, "which is handy"

[nobilis] Jeheila asks, "Hm, 2:15. I should probably stop here?"

Birralee says, "Oh, good."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Hmmm."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Er, channel."

[interludes] Janice says, "Hmmm."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Hm."

Xaylia chatters to Birralee about how buses work

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "You guys have technically finished the Prologue and first story."

[nobilis] Nathan says, "woo"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "excellent"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Nifty."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Not only that, but we had some beer and did some shopping and bought bus tickets."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "and got ripped off by a bus conductor"

[nobilis] Monkey says, "yay"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Hee."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "woo"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "One of the things this means is that you have to start feeding Jeheila or else it'll decay. One person per session needs to work on the harvest, which I guess we'll work out."

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Also, your MP all refresh."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Pete and I seem to be heading back into the chancel now, so."

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "at this rate, there'll always be one person absent from the session who can technically do that"

[nobilis] Pete says (to Jeheila), "We'll need to learn that IC, of course."

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Yeah"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "also, next week Iain and I won't be here"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "so, um, birralee can find jenny and drag around my lifeless corpse"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "like a big dolly"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "exactly"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "I'm sure Birralee will navigate the bus system and zoo turnstiles without difficulty"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "oh dear"

[nobilis] Jeheila tried to avoid doing whispers this time, so the log should be pretty complete.

[nobilis] Janice says, "Janice can go and nap and wake up in a fine shape to deal with the day's problems."

[nobilis] Janice says, "Possibly."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "Actually, I can't wait to meet Jenny"

[nobilis] Pete asks, "What day of the week is it?"

[nobilis] Dara says, "I'll be unavailable next week, too."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "'I'm one of the tasmanian devils you used to feed.' 'Okay, you're creeping me out.'"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "Uhm, I should note that Jenny was in the Chancel when it did its thing, as was Auntie; they're findable, but you're on the wrong side of the tracks."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "aw"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "'no, really, see' *switch*"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "That's three people down..."

[nobilis] Birralee says, "It'd be nice if someone could come collect us and mention that to us, by the way"

[nobilis] Jeheila asks, "Anybody else?"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "since otherwise I don't see a good IC way to get back into the chancel"

[nobilis] Janice says, "We totally need cellphones."

[nobilis] Xaylia says (to Birralee), "what, before we spend another 4 sessions wandering before the police track us down"

[nobilis] Pete says, "Unfortunately, if you've taken a bus, you're probably out of range for Pete and Janice to stumble into even if we assume we accidentally wander in the wrong direction."

[nobilis] Jeheila is gone the week after next and the week after that. So... if too many people are gone next weekend, I may do a side story if I have a clever plan, and otherwise... well, I'll come up with something.

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "okay"

[nobilis] Xaylia says, "fun session, anyway"

[nobilis] Jeheila says, "I figure people will get together and somebody will say, "Uh. Where's the kid and the devil?""

[nobilis] Dara asks, "Where the devil is that kid?"

[nobilis] Birralee says, "The Kid, the Devil, and the Bus Pass should be a sitcom"

[nobilis] Jeheila exclaims, "And then there will be adventures in Chicago as they race around trying to find you!"

[nobilis] Nathan says, "hee hee"

Monkey fills the null-field.

[nobilis] Birralee says, "Maybe Ferris can contact me"

Jeheila asks, "With?"

[nobilis] Janice says, "We'll be out for the next two weeks."

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia says, "yikes, I had a nicely inappropriate @doing then"

[Crows-Nest] Jeheila asks, "What was?"

[Crows-Nest] Xaylia | doing: The kilt-clad scotsman whispers huskily in your ear

[Crows-Nest] Jeheila says, "hee hee"