CocGM says, "When we last left the company, one of their tents had just exploded,"
Lionheart says, "And one of our remaning darkies was shredded."
CocGM says, "killing one of the natives, Eshire, and knocking the others off their feet."
Jeroboam says, "and my specimen jar with EVIL SNAKES in had just bounced dramatically off into a nearby bush"
Bertrand says, "Wait, must start log."
Lionheart says, "And off in the quarry, Something has Awakened."
[CoC] PerrySimm says, "Log on."
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "s/quarry/gorge"
Lionheart says, "Er, gorge."
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "Can you log across several channels and a room?"
Lionheart says, "Sorry, still thinking in Pink Pagoda terms."
[CoC] Bertrand says, "Yes."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "cool"
[CoC] CocGM says, "PerrySimm isn't as limited as Alex"
Bertrand drops and rolls.
[CoC] CocGM says, "as he's just a remote-controlled player"
Jeroboam says, "Right. I pick myself up, dust myself off, realise I've just dropped the snake jar, and curse roundly"
CocGM asks, "this is the snake jar with the skin sample?"
Jeroboam says (to CoCGM), "no, the snake jar with the snakes"
Lionheart gaps and cries, "Holy Mother of God!", if he remembers correctly.
CocGM says, "unfortunately, the jar seems to have broken"
Bertrand dusts himself off a bit.
Jeroboam says, "oh, fuck"
Jeroboam cocks his shotgun and looks around for escaped baby snakes
Bertrand looks to see of Ashai is alright, since Jeroboam and Lionheart seem fine.
CocGM says, "you can't see any snakes"
Jeroboam says, "that's what I'm worried about"
CocGM says (to Bertrand), "he's been knocked to the floor, and seems unconscious"
[CoC] Bertrand asks, "Obvious injuries?"
[CoC] CocGM says, "no"
Bertrand tries to rouse him.
[CoC] CocGM says, "probably just concussed"
Jeroboam says, "Bugger bugger bugger."
CocGM says (to Bertrand), "after a short time, he comes to"
Jeroboam stomps into his tent to pick up some more guns and check his goo samples
Bertrand says (to Ashai), "< Are you alright? >"
(From CocGM) Ashai asks, "< I... what happened? >"
(From CocGM) Ashai says, "< Oh, my head... my >"
Lionheart struggles to make sense of what happened.
Bertrand doesn't think he knows a Swahili word for 'explosion', so tries to explain as best he can without it.
[CoC] Bertrand says, "This is when I wonder if it's safer to ask the Doctor to look at him or safer *not* to."
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "How are my samples?"
(From CocGM) Ashai says, "< Eshire... dead? >"
CocGM falls to the ground, wailing
Lionheart says, "Some sort of chemical reaction between the lamp oil and the acid venom or something..."
Bertrand says, "< Yes. He was right in front of the tent when it happened. >"
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam says (to Gunther), "there, there"
[Crows-Nest] CocGM says, "er"
CocGM says, "s/CoCGM/Ashai of course"
[Crows-Nest] Lionheart says, "He was just an NPC, it doesn't do to get too attached to them, especially in Coc."
Bertrand says, "< Doctor... he may have hurt his head. Do you wish to look at him? >"
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand says, "Yeah, but in CoC, they say the same thing about PCs."
[CoC] CocGM says, ""mpasuko" is explosion, btw"
[CoC] Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "I'm in my tent, checking my samples and getting more guns. one second"
[CoC] Bertrand says (to GM), "Aha. There we go."
[CoC] CocGM asks (of Bertrand), "Is there a reason you said that in Swahili?"
[CoC] CocGM says, "(the doctor bit)"
[CoC] Bertrand says (to Jero), "I accidentally spoke to you in Swahili anyway..."
[CoC] Bertrand says, "TIming."
Bertrand tries to comfort Ashai, while waiting for Jeroboam to come out.
[CoC] Jeroboam asks (of GM), "hey, how're my samples?"
[CoC] CocGM says, "ok"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "no change? the one with the food hasn't changed or anything?"
[CoC] CocGM asks, "?"
[CoC] Bertrand says (to GM), "He put some food in with the soil sample from where Jeren dissolved intot he ground."
[CoC] CocGM says, "oh, oops"
[CoC] CocGM says, "no change in that, no"
[CoC] Jeroboam says (to GM), "I divided it into two jars and glopped leftover food into one jar last night, to - yeah"
Jeroboam comes out, laden with guns and ammunition.
Lionheart snaps out of it and approaches the others.
Bertrand asks, "Doctor... he may have hurt his head. Do you wish to look at him?"
[CoC] Bertrand says, "(AFK a sec)"
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "Yes. Here, take this gun and keep an eye out for things. I reckon that other scream was those little bastards' mother."
Jeroboam says, "Which most likely means she's on her way now."
Jeroboam says, "(too quietly for Lionheart to hear)"
Jeroboam examines Ashai.
CocGM says, "Checking out Ashai, he seems to be ok. He does have a bump on the back of his head, but no other obvious injuries."
[CoC] Bertrand says, "(Back)"
Jeroboam says, "Very well. Here, Lion, take this elephant rifle and let's have my revolver back."
Lionheart numbly hands over Jeroboam's revolver.
Jeroboam sticks the third-biggest rifle in Lionheart's hands.
Bertrand slings the rifle he was given over his shoulder, to free his hands.
Lionheart stares at the elephant rifle a minute, then slowly goes through the motions of checking the stock.
Jeroboam says, "I say we sit and wait until whatever it is shows up, and then drill holes in it until it turns into goo."
Ashai says, "< It is time to tell you about Chunusi >"
Bertrand says, "Ashai wants to tell us the legend."
Jeroboam says, "Ah, the darkfella's woken up. Capital."
Jeroboam asks, "Does he know how to shoot?"
Bertrand says, "Most likely not, sir. Not a firearm, at least."
Ashai starts talking at Bertrand in Swahili
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< there is a myth about a snake god that lives in the gorge >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< the name of this being is Chunusi >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< it is said to be a dark and vengeful God >"
Bertrand says, "There is a story of a serpent god."
Bertrand says, "It's name is Chunuso, and it lives in the gorge."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< Eshire believed that the large snake killing your companion was one of Chunusi's children >"
Jeroboam asks, "*That* gorge, or just any nonspecific gorge?"
Jeroboam says, "Because if it's the former, I'm suprised the blacks even went near it."
Bertrand says, "It's a dark and vengeful god. Eshire believed the large snake -- < The one that killed Jeren? > -- was one of its children."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< yes, the one that killed jeren >"
Lionheart asks, "Children... There's a bigger one?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< Chunusi lives in a large cave in the Olduvai Gorge >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< so speaks the legend >"
Bertrand says, "Yes, according to the legend it lives in Olduvai Gorge, in a large cave there."
Bertrand says, "Er, about the gorge, that is, sir."
Bertrand asks Ashai a question.
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< yes, bwana? >"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< Do any go near the Gorge? >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "Eshire always did, and others of my tribe"
Bertrand says, "Some of them did go near the Gorge, yes."
Lionheart asks, "Bloody hell. How big a snake are we talking about here?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "well, it IS a snake GOD"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< How great is the snake god? >"
Bertrand says, "He reminds us that it is a form of deity -- so, presumably much greater than an ordinary serpent."
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< Jeroboam wishes to go in after Chunusi. >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< the God never leaves its cave >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< nor can it be killed by normal ways >"
Bertrand says (to Jeroboam), "He says the god never leaves its cave, and that it cannot be killed by normal means."
Jeroboam asks, "What would constitute abnormal means?"
Ashai shrugs.
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< Does that mean it can be killed by abnormal means? >"
Lionheart asks, "So how do they worship this creature? Do they feed it sacrifices to keep it away from their villages? What?"
Jeroboam asks, "Wait. If it doesn't leave the cave, what shed that skin?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< One of Chunusi's children. >"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(Was that an answer to Jeroboam or to me?)"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< Chunusi is not worshipped, nor widely believed in. >"
Jeroboam says, "This is unsettling. There could be any number of hostile giant snakes about, and we have no idea where they are."
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(Does that mean Ashai understands English?)"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "I'll just answer their questions directly to you, and you can translate as you see fit"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "he doesn't understand English"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "just to speed stuff up :)"
Bertrand says (to Jeroboam), "The skin belonged to one of Chunusi's children."
Bertrand says, "And Chunusi isn't worshipped, he says. In fact, most don't even believe in him. It's more of a legend, really."
Jeroboam asks (of Bertrand), "Yes. And how many of them are there crawling around the bush right now?"
Jeroboam says, "Odds on, it's just that one big snake that shed the skin in its cave. We'll go there, smoke it out, and shoot it."
Lionheart asks, "What if there's a nest of them in there?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "MWA HA HA HA"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "(GM, actually)"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(Right. That one they can probably udnerstand without m-- oh.)"
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "We'll pick a point well back from the cave mouth, line up every gun we have pre-loaded, and keep shooting."
Bertrand says, "Ashai says that the god lives deep, deep within the mountain."
Jeroboam says, "Buggery."
Jeroboam asks, "Are these caves negotiable?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< I've never been there >"
Bertrand says, "Ashai does know. He's never been in them himself."
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "WAKE UP SCHEP"
Jeroboam says, "Well then it'd be a bloody stupid idea to go down 'em. Just cause a snake can get down it's no guarantee we can. Could be pits, flooded sections, all sorts. Snake could get past, we couldn't."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< Eshire and others have been there, and returned unharmed >"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< They say there is nothing in there >"
Lionheart nods in agreement.
Bertrand says, "He says that Eshire has been there. And others."
Jeroboam says, "Well that's a lot of fucking help."
Bertrand says, "They saw nothing there, and returned unharmed."
Lionheart says, "That was before we blew up its offspring."
Jeroboam says, "Fuck it. Let's go."
Lionheart says, "I say we should go back, get some dynamite, blast the thing out or seal it in."
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "It's days travelling back."
Jeroboam says, "If it's after us, it'll come the first night."
Jeroboam says, "And if it recognises the screams of its infants, that seems likely."
Bertrand says, "Approximately fourteen days, each way, if I remember correctly."
Lionheart says, "In that case, maybe we should wait outside its lair for it to come out after us."
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "We have no way of knowing how many exits that cave has."
Lionheart says, "That's a good point."
Jeroboam asks, "Shall we?"
Lionheart says, "It looks like there's no alternative."
Jeroboam says, "Right, let's go."
Jeroboam strides purposefully into bush
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam says, "hi-ho... hi-ho... it's off to death we go..."
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says, "muhahahahahaaaaaaa"
Lionheart gets his traveling pack and torch and follows.
[cterlude] Bertrand says (to Ashai), "< They have decided that we will go to the cave. >"
Jeroboam says, "Ah yes, rope. We'd better get some ropes if we're going caving."
Ashai looks fearful.
Jeroboam grabs rope, heads onward.
Bertrand gets his own pack, gestures to Ashai, and follows.
Ashai follows also
Ashai says, "After several hours' walk, in late afternoon, you reach the border of the gorge."
Jeroboam looks for a safe way to descend
[CoC] Ashai asks, "just anywhere?"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< Where is the cave? >"
Lionheart peers into the gorge, looking for signs of reptilian life.
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "well, somewhere near where Ashai thinks the cave is"
Ashai says (to Lionheart), "the gorge is deep, and wide, and dark in the low afternoon sun"
[cterlude] Ashai explains the approximate location
Ashai gestures to Bertrand.
[CoC] Lionheart asks (of Ashai), "When did you learn English?"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks (of GM), "how many guns can I carry?"
Bertrand points to where Ashai gestured. "He says the cave is that way."
[CoC] Ashai says (to Lionheart), "too lazy to @name me back and forth"
Jeroboam heads that way.
Lionheart follows the leader.
[CoC] Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "depends on the size. I arbitrarily say 2"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "More importantly, how many guns can Ashai carry?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "also 2"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "bah. and he calls himself a bearer"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "so I'd have my shotgun and my Super King-Size Elephant Rifle in addition to revolver, panga"
[CoC] Ashai says, "you wouldn't want him to carry >2"
[CoC] Ashai asks (of Jeroboam), "that's a bit ridiculous, don't you think?"
Bertrand follows as well, of course. Behind the great explorers.
[CoC] Jeroboam says (to GM), "I am a ridiculously overblown character. but sigh, okay, I'll hand the shotgun to Ashai"
[CoC] Ashai asks, "what about Lionheart, Bertrand?"
[CoC] Bertrand says, "I have the small rifle he gave me, slung over one shoulder."
Lionheart has the third-largest rifle, and perhaps the rifle he came with slung to his back with his pack.
[CoC] Jeroboam exclaims, "To the cave!"
[CoC] Ashai says, "an easy climb later, you reach the mouth of the cave"
Bertrand says, "I believe this is the cave Ashai was describing."
Jeroboam says, "Hmmm."
[CoC] Ashai says, "it is dark, and damp. the entrance is about 2 meters high, and 5 meters wide"
[CoC] Ashai says, "you think you can hear some kind of noise from inside the cave"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "Flat floor, or broken and rocky?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
[CoC] Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "it's not at the bottom of the gorge, it's a hole in the wall"
[CoC] Ashai says, "broken and rocky"
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam exclaims, "SNAKE GRENADE! run for your lives!"
[Crows-Nest] jwalrus adds it to the Anaconda v5 spec.
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says, "Snake Granade"
[Crows-Nest] Lionheart smirks.
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says, "Snake Plissken's less successful brother."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "hmm. what to do, what to do"
Lionheart takes a sip from his United Fruit Company thermos.
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand asks, "Snake Granade? Doesn't he go by 'Serpent' here?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
[CoC] Ashai says, "clink..."
Jeroboam says, "Bugger it.""
[CoC] Ashai says, "first of all, I suggest light"
Bertrand waits patiently for the gentlemen to make their decisions.
[CoC] Lionheart raises his torch.
Jeroboam says, "Shit. I forgot to take a lamp myself."
[CoC] Ashai says, "You are now raising the unlit torch."
[CoC] Lionheart says, "> LIGHT TORCH"
[CoC] Ashai asks, "you didn't think you could abseil with a lit torch, did you?"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "so light it when we get into the cave mouth"
Bertrand says, "I believe you emptied it earlier, sir."
[CoC] Ashai asks, "you ARE in the cave mouth... or are you still hanging from the rope?"
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "no, we used the lamp oil supplies, not the stuff from actual lamps"
Jeroboam says, "it's plainly ridiculous to try and slosh anything from a filled lamp. It'd go everywhere."
Bertrand says, "Ah."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "ah, fair enough"
Bertrand says, "My apologies, sir."
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "in which case, can we light the lamp and head on in?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "As soon as you enter the cave, you feel Yig's mighty presence."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "His whisper is there to guide you"
Jeroboam says, "I say that the one with the lamp should go first, followed by the best shot. If it's the other way around the gunman blocks his own light."
Bertrand says, "Very good, sir."
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "How's your marksmanship? Never got to take a pop at any bloody animals."
Lionheart frowns. "Are you sure the gunman shouldn't go first, with no one to block his shot?"
Bertrand says (to Jeroboam), "I've not had much practice with firearms, sir."
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "no, but he should stay close behind, fire over the back man's shoulder. And move in staggered formation if possible"
Bertrand says, "I doubt I should strike a target further than six paces ahead."
Jeroboam says, "Or front man's shoulder, y'know what I mean."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "obviously, first chap should carry a gun too, but the lamp'll make it difficult to shoot with one arm"
Ashai says, "the steady clinking is still audible"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "also, s/;/""
[cterlude] Ashai says, "Yig knows of another human presence in his cave"
Jeroboam asks, "Cave seems wide enough as yet. Let's change our plans when the cave changes, mmhmm?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "But His anger is great against your companions, so he will leave the Other unharmed"
Lionheart says, "It does look just wide enough to go two abreast."
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "then lead the way, old boy."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "It is weird, but you *feel* where the Other is as if through His body"
Lionheart proceeds in, keeping to the left side.
Jeroboam starts to make his way into the cave, keeping out of Lionheart's light
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(My companions being just the two Brits, or Ashai too?)"
Jeroboam asks, "Now what's that clinking?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "just the brits"
Lionheart asks, "Something metallic?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "ashai is an initiand to the great cult, but as of yet unknowing of the ways of Yig"
Bertrand says, "Caves often have groundwater seepage, which may be dripping into an underround pool."
Ashai says, "it's definitely a regular, metallic clink"
Lionheart says, "It doesn't sound like water to me."
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(Is the clinking coming from the same direction where I sense Yig and/or the Other to be?)"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "It is coming from the Other"
Bertrand asks, "Shall we follow the 'clinking' then, sirs?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "the path to the left"
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "yes"
Bertrand nods. "I believe it's coming from that direction." He points to the left path.
Jeroboam heads clinkwards, struggling to clamber over big boulders with his short little legs
Lionheart asks, "Is that the way Ashai followed last time?"
[cterlude] Bertrand says (to Ashai), "< Lionheart wonders if you know which direction previous visitors to the cave have gone. >"
[cterlude] Ashai hasn't ever been here, remember?
Bertrand says, "Not having been here himself, he doesn't know which direction the others went."
Lionheart cautiously makes his way downward, following the sound.
Ashai says, "there is a steady breeze going down the tunnel"
Bertrand keeps mindful, as he follows, of the path back out.
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "is there a slope on this tunnel?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "slightly downwards"
Ashai says, "As you close in, the clinking grows louder"
Ashai says, "then, suddenly, everything happens at once"
Ashai says, "a gust of wind extinguishes the torch"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "but it was a lantern"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "and hence covered"
[CoC] Ashai says, "you said you didn't bring one"
[CoC] Jeroboam says (to Ashai), "no, I didn't, Lion did"
[CoC] Ashai says, "he brought a *torch*"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "as in, a burning brand? oh, jesus"
[CoC] Ashai | [CoC] Lionheart raises his torch.
[CoC] Lionheart says, "I had been assuming I was carrying an flashlight all this time. Or as the Brits say, a torch."
[CoC] Ashai asks, "a flashlight? in the 1920s?"
[CoC] Alex says (to Ashai), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries."
[CoC] Lionheart asks, "Sure, what's a film noir without flashlight wielding detectives?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "hmm, you're right, it was invented in the 1980's"
Ashai says, "in that case, a gust of wind startles you and makes you drop it"
Ashai says, "it goes out with a *plink*"
Lionheart exclaims, "Blast!"
Jeroboam exclaims, "Buggery and damnation!"
Ashai already terrified, shouts fearfully and runs blindly ahead, knocking you over in the process
[cterlude] Bertrand wonders if he has any 'sense' of what's going on.
Jeroboam's rifle goes off
Ashai says, "then you hear a *thunk*, an "oof! was zur...""
Ashai says, "...an ear-drum-shattering blast..."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "you can see with Yig's eyes as if it were daylight."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "except all in wrong colors, and yes, I know snakes have no eyes."
Bertrand carefully picks himself up.
Lionheart feels around for the torch, hoping it isn't broken.
Jeroboam says, "Bugger fuck bugger shit."
Ashai says, "and Ashai's shout of terror, cut off quickly to a whimpering"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "(Is the Other still there?)"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "Ashai is with the Other"
[peanut-gallery] Bishop says (to Jaybird), "It's josh_g's evil twin! (or maybe his good twin)"
Jeroboam struggles to feet. "Fuck!"
Bertrand says, "There is someone up ahead."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "it would be convenient if you had one of them old-fashioned torches in your pack"
Jeroboam exclaims, "Find that blasted torch!"
Jeroboam struggles to reload in pitch darkness
Lionheart exclaims, "I'm trying!"
Ashai says, "you hear each other only dimly, as the echo of the shotgun blast impaired your hearing quite a bit"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Good point. I probably do."
Bertrand fumbles in his pack for a few moments.
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "it was the rifle, iirc. ashai's got my shotgun"
[CoC] Ashai says, "whatever it was, it was LOUD"
Bertrand, after some rustling, makes a spark -- and then a light.
Jeroboam exclaims, "Capital man!"
Ashai says, "You hear the sounds of struggling from further down the corridor"
Jeroboam finally succeeds in reloading
Lionheart gets the torch in the lamplight and checks it for damage.
Bertrand holds out a firebrand to Lionheart. "Here you are, sir. It's not so nice as your electric torch, but this should help."
Ashai says, "it's not working. You can't tell why."
Lionheart takes the firebrand and peers down the tunnel.
Ashai says, "it takes a few twists, so you can't quite make it out"
Jeroboam says, "See what happens when you trust a negro to keep his head..."
Ashai says, "but suddenly a harsh voice exclaims "WER IST DA?""
Bertrand says, "It wound sound as though there is trouble ahead."
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam exclaims, "Crap! Worse than Cthulhu- it's GERMANS!"
Jeroboam exclaims, "ICH BIN EIN WELSHLANDER!"
GermanVoice says, "ER... COME ... HAND UP"
GermanVoice says, "ICH HABE IHREN NIGGER"
Jeroboam says, "ICH NICHTE GIBEN EINE SCHEISS"
CoCGM says, "A gunshot goes off; you can hear the bullet impacting the rock somewhere ahead of you"
Jeroboam gets the fuck down
GermanVoice asks, "WHAT YOU WANT?"
Lionheart exclaims, "Eyah!"
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam exclaims, "it's the Schattenjaeger!"
GermanVoice exclaims, "THIS MY MINE!"
Lionheart says, "Uh, sir? I'm sure this is all a misunderstanding."
GermanVoice says, "GO AWAY BRITISHER PIGS"
Jeroboam yells "WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE FUCK-OFF BIG SNAKE"
GermanVoice asks, "WHAT YOU SAY? SNAKE?"
GermanVoice says, "YOU COMEN HERE SO I SEE YOU"
Jeroboam hisses, "It's a bloody German! He called me a pig! Doesn't he know how many krauts I've shot?"
[CoC] Bertrand keeps falling offline...
Bertrand says, "Perhaps he is delirious, sirs."
Bertrand says, "He may have been here for some time."
Jeroboam crawls forwards commando-style
GermanVoice says (to Jeroboam), "the area where the German is is brightly lit, probably from his torch"
Jeroboam stands slowly up, keeping gun levelled.
German says, "You can see him now... he's carrying a pistol in one hand, a pickaxe in the other"
Jeroboam asks, "What the bloody hell are you doin' here?"
German says, "You don't see Ashai, but you're looking against the light from his headlamp and another torch at the floor"
German exclaims, "This my mine! I search diamonds!"
German exclaims, "You will not steal claim!"
Jeroboam says, "We're not miners."
Jeroboam says, "We're hunters."
German asks, "Then why you send your nigger to attack?"
Jeroboam says, "Our light went out. Nigger <does terrified-negro-running-away mime>"
German says, "as soon as you start miming, the German fires off a shot at you."
Jeroboam (from the floor) "What the fuck?"
German says, "Seeing how he missed, he fires again"
Jeroboam shoots the german.
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "aiming to wing him, not to kill"
German says, "you hit him square in the chest, and he goes down... but he also hit you in the shoulder"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "although this is a fucking elephant gun, so it makes little odds"
German says, "he was probably aiming for the head."
Lionheart asks, "What's he trying to do, start a war?"
Jeroboam groans, "can... see why the fuckers... lost the last one..."
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "which shoulder?"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "left"
Jeroboam exclaims, "Well don't just stand there you fuckers! I've been hit!"
Lionheart comes to Jeroboam's assistance.
Jeroboam grits his teeth, then decides loud swearing would be a better idea
Bertrand follows as well.
Bertrand says (to Ashai), "< What happened? >"
[CoC] Bertrand says, "Grr. I'm spending more time offline than on."
Lionheart (ooc) idles a moment to visit the bathroom, while explanations are made and first aid is rendered.
Ashai is unconscious, leaning against a rock. Blood is running from his nose
[cterlude] Ashai isn't a Carrier, though
Ashai (ooc) follows Lionheart's example.
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "You had me worried for a minute."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "let the others worry :)"
Bertrand tries to lend aid to Jeroboam, but isn't a physician himself.
Jeroboam examines his wound.
Ashai says, "there're some interesting tools in this little cave... a pickaxe, an electric torch, the miner's headlamp, a bucket of rubble, a few sticks of dynamite and some fuse"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "How's the wound?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "bullet went right through"
Lionheart is back.
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "hit any bones?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "it hurts and bleeds, but no bone splintering, amazingly"
Bertrand bandanges it.
Jeroboam curses profusely, and pauses to utilise his hip flask's contents
Jeroboam instructs Bertrand how to make a sling out of his shirt.
Bertrand follows the doctor's instructions to the best of his abilities.
Jeroboam says, "God's bollocks."
Bertrand says, "That should do it, sir."
Bertrand turns to check on Ashai.
[Crows-Nest] Ashai exclaims (at Jeroboam), "you are struck by lightning!"
Jeroboam clambers to his feet, and kicks the german's corpse a few times
Lionheart checks out the miner's torch and headlamp.
Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "oh no you have broken your leg"
Ashai says, "(just kidding)"
(From Lionheart) German's corpse explodes!
Ashai slowly regains consciousness. He wipes the blood from his nose, but looks very blue around the lips.
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "< Are you alright? >"
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says (to Lionheart), "I was thinking that"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "< Yes, bwana. My head hurts. >"
Jeroboam, not reckoning much to his chances of firing an elephant rifle one-handed, slings it across his back and pulls out his revolver instead
[Crows-Nest] Ender asks, "Are you guys south of the 7th Sea?"
Bertrand helps Ashai up.
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand says, "Yeah."
Ender has arrived.
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand says, "Far south. Like, Tanganyika."
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says, "yay"
Jeroboam says, "Bugger and bollocks. Now help strap on this headlight, there's a good lad."
[cterlude] Ashai has added Ender to the channel.
Lionheart straps the headlight on Jeroboam, takes the torch, and passes the firebrand back to Bertrand.
Bertrand asks, "Thank you, sir. Shall I dim it for now, until we need it again?"
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "good idea"
[peanut-gallery] (from Gunther) Guest1 says, "Have you heard abuot my graet game Amissville"
Bertrand does so, and packs it away again.
Lionheart says, "Well, look at all this dynamite."
Jeroboam says, "I say we go back up... if the snake was down this way Hans here would've seen it"
Ashai says, "three or four sticks, plus a few dozen meters of fuse and one of these things you push down on to make them explode"
Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "just as you say that, a shriek echos through the cave"
Bertrand asks (of Jeroboam), "Do you suggest leaving the caves, then, or exploring the other branches?"
Lionheart harkens to the sound.
Ashai says, "it's much like the sound you heard last night"
[peanut-gallery] Jota sighs. "They guest doesn't care about the details of our codebase..."
Lionheart asks, "Which way did it come from?"
Jeroboam says, "one second. friend's turned up"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "Yig is, of course, down the other intersection"
[cterlude] Bertrand asks, "Do I know what the shriek is?"
Ashai says (to Lionheart), "You can't tell, but logic dictates it be the other intersection"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "call it a Deus Serpentis ex machina"
Lionheart asks (of Ashai), "The one we turned left at?"
Ashai says, "yes"
Lionheart says, "All right. We should take these explosives, they could be useful."
Bertrand starts picking them up.
[cterlude] Ashai says, "I am thinking hard on how to allow you to blow 'em up"
[cterlude] Ashai asks, "maybe stay behind to wire up the cave because your weapon jammed?"
[cterlude] Bertrand asks, "Preferably without blowing up Yig?"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "Oh, Yig doesn't give a shit"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Ah, cool."
[cterlude] Bertrand asks, "Well, if I stay behind, wouldn't *I* be the one near the explosives?"
Bertrand packs them away.
[cterlude] Ender asks, "Oh, this is the evil laughter channel?"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "If I cut the wires after they're set up, then maybe I can convince Lionheart and Jeroboam to go in to see what's wrong..."
[cterlude] Ashai says (to Bertrand), "well, plant them inside the cave, lay fuse out to cave mouth. then *boom*"
[cterlude] Ashai says (to Ender), "bertrand here is a servant of yig, unbeknownst to the other players"
[cterlude] Ender says, "Hee hee. I like it."
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Well, let's just wing it for now, and maybe they'll accidentally suggest something useful."
[cterlude] Ender says, "I just had an evil, evil idea:"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "do go ahead"
[cterlude] Bertrand asks, "Alternately, Yig could just eat them, right?"
Jeroboam says, "bak"
Lionheart asks (of Jeroboam), "Ready to head back?"
Jeroboam says, "think so. arm stings like hellfire"
[cterlude] Ender says, "And I'm not telling you, in case any of you end up in the campaign based on it."
[cterlude] Ashai says (to Bertrand), "but that is boring"
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Hee."
[cterlude] Ashai says (to ender), "doh"
Lionheart begins the procession back up the tunnel.
Jeroboam says, "Shot the bastard pretty fuckin' well, though? You see him go down? Like a fuckin' sack o' spuds."
[cterlude] Bertrand says (to Ashai), "Well, true. It's more a 'kill one, so I only have one left to esplode' thing."
Bertrand says, "Indeed, sir."
Lionheart says, "You're a crack shot, no doubt about it."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "oh well :)"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "it IS CoC"
Jeroboam says, "Like a big chap'd tackled him in rugby. Fuckin' marvellous gun."
[CoC] Ashai asks, "I'd like to wrap this up tonight... can we hurry up a bit?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "it's already 00:15 and I must be up at 9 tomorrow"
Jeroboam heads back up to the other passage.
Bertrand follows behind the other two.
[cterlude] Ashai asks, "so you stay behind and wire up the entrance?"
Lionheart goes back takes the right branch from the previous fork.
Jeroboam heads down after Lionheart.
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Oh, you mean blowing them up *before* they get to Yig? I see. Mmm."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "well, you could lock them in with Yig"
[cterlude] Ashai says, "but on the way back would be more fun"
Bertrand pauses at the entrance. "I think I've a stone in my shoe."
Bertrand says, "Carry on. I'll catch up in a minute."
Lionheart says, "Be quick about it."
Lionheart carries on.
[cterlude] Bertrand says (to Ashai), "< Go with them. Don't let them come back until I'm done. >"
Bertrand tells Ashai something like, 'go ahead with them'.
[cterlude] Ashai grins. < Yes, Bwana. >
[cterlude] Ashai says, "(apparently he has been hearing Yig as well)"
[cterlude] Bertrand wires up the dynamite so that the cave entrance will be brought down and sealed off when it blows, and hides the denotator behind a rock safely away from the explosives.
Ashai says, "You follow the trail. It leads ever downward."
Bertrand, after a couple minutes, jogs up behind.
Bertrand says, "Most apologetic, sirs. It was small spider, actually."
Bertrand says, "Non-poisonous, fortunately."
Ashai says, "as you follow on, you can hear a sound in the distance, like a hissing"
Lionheart pauses.
Jeroboam says, "Here, Bertrand, take my elephant gun. Can't be hard to hit with these sorts of ranges, and it's a shame to waste such a high calibre."
Bertrand says (to Jeroboam), "Very good, sir."
[cterlude] Ashai says, "bwa ha ha"
Jeroboam says, "Bloody shame about that shoulder."
Bertrand takes the gun. But he stays behind the two gentlemen, to give them the best shot.
Ashai asks, "who's going first?"
Lionheart says, "I'll go first. Keep your voices down."
Jeroboam cocks his revolver.
[CoC] CoCGM says (to Lionheart), "you suddenly slip and slide down a slope, landing unceremoniously on your backside quite a ways down."
Jeroboam asks, "Hey, are you all right?"
Lionheart bites his lip to keep from cursing.
[CoC] CoCGM says, "you don't seem to be hurt"
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "is the slope negotiable?"
[CoC] Bertrand asks, "How's our light, with him down there?"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "some rope would be nice, except it's probably all at the cave entrance"
[cterlude] CoCGM says, "IYKWIM"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "I've got the headlight"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "yeah, you can still see well enough"
Lionheart was just thinking about rope too.
[cterlude] Bertrand asks, "How close are we to Yig?"
Jeroboam says, "I'll go back and get it."
Bertrand asks (of Jeroboam), "Would that be wise, sir?"
[cterlude] CoCGM says, "just around the corner, more or less"
Lionheart says, "Better than sending the Negro, we'll never see him again."
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "well, if you must, take my light and go"
Bertrand says, "Considering what happened when Dr. Jeren went off on his own, I mean."
Bertrand says, "As you wish, sir."
Ashai says (to Bertrand), "< You want me to come? >"
Bertrand nods to Ashai, "Ndiyu. I'll take Ashai, in case there's any trouble."
Bertrand takes the light and goes back with Ashai to the cave entrance.
[Crows-Nest] Ashai says, "oo, you remembered it! (or looked it up)"
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand says, "Remembered."
[CoC] Jeroboam asks, "is there light coming up from the slope?"
[CoC] Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "are you trying to negotiate the slope? Down shouldn't be too hard"
[CoC] Ashai says (to Jeroboam), "if Lionheart is lighting up, yes"
[cterlude] Bertrand, when he gets to the cave mouth, sends Ashai up the rope, to safety.
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "OK, I'll clamber down the slope and wait with Lion, then"
Lionheart shines the light back up the slope to light Jeroboam's way.
[cterlude] Ashai asks, "is it wired so you will be safe?"
[CoC] Ashai says, "ok, you carefully slide down the slope"
[CoC] Ashai says, "there is a hissing sound. Loud. Right ahead."
[cterlude] Bertrand says, "Right. But no point in taking chances."
Jeroboam points his gun at hissing noise
Ashai says, "it's around the corner"
Jeroboam points his gun anyway
[cterlude] Bertrand triggers the explosives, and once he's sure they're going off properly, quickly climbs the rope himself.
CoCGM says, "there is an earth-shattering *BOOM*"
CoCGM says, "dust comes down the passage"
Lionheart asks, "What on earth?"
CoCGM says, "and rock fragments"
Jeroboam exclaims, "CHEATING BASTARD!"
Lionheart says, "The dynamite."
Jeroboam exclaims, "SON OF A BITCH!"
CoCGM says, "then, around the corner slithers the most hideous monstrosity you've ever seen."
CoCGM says, "*** THE END ***"
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam asks, "a bog-standard most-hideous-monstrosity-you've-ever-seen, or one totally unlike all other most hideous monstrosities you've ever seen?"
[Crows-Nest] CoCGM says, "one that kills you more or less immediately"
[Crows-Nest] CoCGM says, "then feeds you to its bethren."
[Crows-Nest] Bertrand says, "A serpentine most-hideous-monstrosity-you've-ever-seen."
[Crows-Nest] Jeroboam says, "yeah, well, they all do that"
Lionheart says, "Oh well. Seems a little anti-climactic."
CoCGM exclaims, "it's CoC! You're all dead!"
Jeroboam says, "what about Bertrand? I thought he was conspiring with the snake god to blow us all to hell"
Lionheart says, "Sure, sure. Just would have been nice to see how futile our puny weapons are first."
CoCGM says (to Jeroboam), "he escaped to safety with Ashai"
Lionheart says, "Nah, he was just conspiring to ditch us and save his own sorry hide."
Jeroboam says, "having sealed us in the cave, no doubt"
CoCGM says, "Oh, he was a servant of Yig alright"
Bertrand says, "He will be certain to tell your next of kin about the terrible disaster, when you fell afoul of a pit of mambas."
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "mua ha ha"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "hmm, I thought it'd be most effective to end it there, like in a horror story"
[peanut-gallery] Bishop asks, "OK, WTF was that?"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "obviously that's not what players really want; must remember for future games"
Lionheart says (to CocGM), "Maybe you're right."
[peanut-gallery] BoingBall asks, "what?"
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "feels like an intro to a film or something"
[peanut-gallery] Bishop says, "The guest thing. Apparently IDGI."
[peanut-gallery] BoingBall asks, "dfan thing?"
[CoC] Bertrand says, "Probably would work if you let them prove their impotence, and *then* ended it."
[peanut-gallery] BoingBall says, "person called dhan-spain turned up at the xyzzys"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "dfan renamed himself to dfan-usa"
[peanut-gallery] Sargent says, "dfan had set his name to dfan-usa for the xyzzys"
[peanut-gallery] BoingBall says, "dfan renamed himself dfan-use"
[CoC] Bertrand says, "Whether they were actually shown dying or not."
[peanut-gallery] BoingBall says, "timing"
[peanut-gallery] Sargent says, "then forgot he'd done so and tried to log in as dfan"
Lionheart says (to CocGM), "Yeah, I wanted a chance to rage against the dying of the light and all that."
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "then he disconnected without changing it back"
[peanut-gallery] Bishop asks, "Ahhhh. So the guest really was dfan?"
Jeroboam says (to Lionheart), "nah, dark gods don't fuck about"
[peanut-gallery] Sargent says, "either that or psychic"
CoCGM says, "oo, dying of the light"
CoCGM says, "not a very good novel, unfortunately"
Jeroboam says, "they end your pathetic lives good and quick"
Lionheart says, "Guess you're right."
[CoC] Bertrand asks, "Should I end the log, or keep it going?"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "for defense, I can only offer it was my first freeform scenario, and the first MUD GMing I've done"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "Summon Azathoth [ NOW ]"
[peanut-gallery] Hugo says, "Historically, like Santa Claus, every culture has its own version of dfan."
[CoC] Bertrand says, "*I* had fun. Of course, I survived."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "nah, that was pretty cool"
Lionheart says, "OK, you shoot your elephant gun. The shot bounces off Yig's scales. Yig hits for 9999 hit points..."
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "ours is called dfreund and brings you cookies"
CoCGM says, "see, that would have sucked IMO"
Lionheart nods.
CoCGM says, "especially since we've been playing without rolls or numbers all this time"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "also, moment of panic there when Jeroboam tried to go back for the rope"
Bertrand says, "'The shot bounces off Yig's scales. One of his heads lunges forward, sinking its fangs into your chest. Your vision goes green as the venom pumps into your system. You lose consciousness in a cloud of pain."
[CoC] Jeroboam says, "hmm. this has dragged up GM-ing desires again"
Lionheart says (to Bertrand), "Oh, now that's good."
[CoC] Bertrand says, "I was starting to wonder if I'd have to use the elephant gun."
CoCGM says, "I was also trying to avoid having to describe Yig"
CoCGM says, "but yeah, that would have worked also"
Jeroboam says (to Bertrand), "nah, I prefer the what-the-fuck's-that-WHOAH-*die* approach"
CoCGM says, "also, http://www.yale.edu/swahili/dictionaries.html"
Jeroboam will have to knock up a MUD-rpg sometime in the near future now.
CoCGM says, "ok, I enjoyed it, and hope you did too"
Lionheart says, "Something undescribably horrible slithers round the corner. You have just enough time to scream before it kills you. Scream. Scream for me, my players. Mwa ha ha."
Jeroboam says (to CoCGM), "yay"
Jeroboam disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
CoCGM says, "the transcripts will be full of references to a certain channel called '#cterludes'"
CoCGM says, "or rather '#cterlude'"
[CoC] CoCGM says, "log off, I think"
[cterlude] CoCGM has deleted the channel.