<Mary_jane`^> "I wonder if you can eat your own soul... It'd be like having sex with yourself."

<AlcarGM> Luna: "I don't think so. The drink is talking, or maybe I am too. I'm remembering random things, like the first name of grass, and the word all wise men know."
<Mary_jane`^> "What are they?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Mu. But it only applies if the wise person is a cow, or speaks Chinese."
<Mary_jane`^> "I speak Chinese moo."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I don't think communists are allowed to be wise anyway."

<AlcarGM> Nora: "I smell a mugger," happily. "I think I'll eat his soul. Then he won't mug us."
<Mary_jane`^> "Nonono let him mug us."
<AlcarGM> Nora: "Oh, okay."
<Mary_jane`^> "I think we're out of money anyway."
<AlcarGM> There is a sound behind you, a switchblade unsheathing itself in the darkness, a cold and empty sound with death in it. Or something like that. You're too drunk to care.
<Mary_jane`^> "We have no money go away!"
<AlcarGM> The victim - err mugger - is a tall, desperate looking man in serious need of some fix. "I don't care! Give me - your walls! And . and jwewls! I mean it! I have a knife!"
* Mary_jane`^ stops swinging and turns around "Mugger mugger go away come again another day..."
<Mary_jane`^> "Our walls?"
<AlcarGM> Nora smiles at him lazily. He blinks, confused, and something leaves his eyes, but he never notices.....
<Mary_jane`^> "I can give you sex!"
<AlcarGM> Mugger: "Wallets! I meant wallets! I'm knew at this, okay? Now - give it! I need it!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Your knew?"
<Mary_jane`^> "You want my sex then?"
<AlcarGM> Mugger: 'You can't read typo! Shot up!"
<AlcarGM> (( :p ))

<AlcarGM> Mugger: "Everyone plays everquest! I'm an elf!" as he tries to stab you again, wildly.
<AlcarGM> Luna is laughing.
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I could make him an elf!"
* Mary_jane`^ slaps his hand "That woman you've been flirting with and having cyber sex with... It's probalby gary... He's naked right now... He comes before zac."
<Mary_jane`^> "Oooh... An elf."
<AlcarGM> Luna giggles.
<AlcarGM> Your mugger is now an elf. 6' tall, pointed ears, hair to die for.
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I was mean. He'll stil have split ends."
<AlcarGM> The mugger stares at his hands. Drops his knife, raises them to his ears and stares, horrified.
<Mary_jane`^> "On the ears?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "For his velvety soft hair."
<Mary_jane`^> "Shooo little big elf."

* Mary_jane`^ looks down "i'm bleeding."
<Mary_jane`^> "You know what we should do? We should see if vampires can suck my blood."
<AlcarGM> (( lol! ))
<AlcarGM> Nora claps her hands. "That would be fun! I can make them explode? Can you make them explode?"

* Mary_jane`^ humms and walks to the vampire bar
<AlcarGM> It's be a good hours walk :p
<Mary_jane`^> "We need a faster way."
* Mary_jane`^ flags a cabbie
<AlcarGM> Luna: "But we have no money. We spent it in strippers."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "And they never took their skin off."
<AlcarGM> She pouts.

<AlcarGM> A real hunk is sitting at the bar, spilling out his woes to the new bartender, a tired pretty woman. "Yeah. I'm not a real angel, but it's my name. Was going to help this girl i n Californa, but then she goes and gets her drivers liscence and jut leaves to see the world. Whole town gets overrun by demons and she dies of an OD in San Fran. Nothing goes right in my life."
<Mary_jane`^> "How about get my close friends and I" Running a finger down his face "A nice hot drink."
<AlcarGM> Angel: "Last girl I got a hot drink turned out to be 15 and her mother tried to have me arrested for seducing a minor. Ah, what the hell? Can't be worse than a hellmouth." He buys you drinks. Lots of drinks. Oodles of drinks.

<AlcarGM> MJ might get to kill Angel :p
<Mary_jane`^> naw
<Mary_jane`^> it'd be too wierd
<AlcarGM> awww :p

<AlcarGM> Nora: "We were poisoned...."dreamily. "We should be dead, but we're strong. Like Ox. And Bull." She blinks. "Someone needs to know.. whewre we are? Do I talk to voices.. in my head?"
<AlcarGM> No reply, at all.
* Mary_jane`^ falls backward and looks up at the sky
<Mary_jane`^> "I do, sometimes."
<AlcarGM> Nora nods, and begins talking, mostly mummbling. "It's a mad voice. And frantic. Like a mouse. Can't eat his soul."
<Mary_jane`^> "Does he squeek?"
* Mary_jane`^ pulls out her phone "My brother squeeks."
<AlcarGM> Nora: "not yet.... keeps asking ..where I am I am here. I keep saying that. Ooh! Make him squeak!"
* Mary_jane`^ pushes redail
<AlcarGM> Sal's voice is frantic "WHERE ARE YOU?!"
<AlcarGM> Your chest is .. hurting.. distantly.....
<Mary_jane`^> "Sal, squeek for me."
<AlcarGM> Silence.
* Mary_jane`^ hits the phone on the ground a few times
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Tell me where you are!" wildly. He's crying. But he' not squeaking.
<Mary_jane`^> "I said squeek."

<Mary_jane`^> "Why don't you just say it straight, that I just need to give up?"
<AlcarGM> Krisha: "Giving up is foolish. No one should give up. I said surrender, and to yourself. Knowledge is the realest of powers, and there is much that even Jehovah has forgotten. Eris can remind me, and truth can be brought to bear even on creators. There is nothing mean fear more than truth, Mary Jane, but also nothing they desire anymore. Even Merlin." And he's no longer there.
<AlcarGM> and .. end of session!
<AlcarGM> unless you want to do other stuff?
<Mary_jane`^> ...
<Mary_jane`^> well yes
<Mary_jane`^> I wasn't done
<AlcarGM> ok, k!
<AlcarGM> Session 50.5!

* Mary_jane`^ looks at the staff
<Mary_jane`^> "I think you have something you've been meaning to tell me?"
<AlcarGM> The staff does not reply, nor react.
* Mary_jane`^ pets one of the snakes on the head "Fine... THanks for all your help, though."
* AlcarGM resists the urge for them to bite mj
<AlcarGM> one poisoing per session is enough.
<Mary_jane`^> lol

<Mary_jane`^> "Who the hell would help ME?"
<AlcarGM> A voice behind you says "Maybe I would!" Female. Cheerful. And perky.
* Mary_jane`^ turns behind her slowly, almost afraid
<AlcarGM> A tall, drop-dead gorgeous woman with blond hair and blue eyes who puts even you to shame smiles at you, happily. "Hi!" she says, cheerfully. "My name is Sara! I'm the third angel!"
<AlcarGM> And ..end of session! For real this time!
<AlcarGM> Cuz I need to get to sleep :p
<Mary_jane`^> ...

<Mary_jane`^> "So... How do you plan on helping me?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "We can have sex!"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "Sex is good! It's an afro with a dizzy yak!"

<Mary_jane`^> "I was actually hoping someone would tell me, I don't know, about the white light, teh staff.. Something useful."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "Oh! A white light is when you get semen in the eyes!"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "And a staff is a penis. But a long one, instead of a wand or rod! A fishing pole is when the penis is deformed! You don't know much, do you?!"

<Mary_jane`^> "Are you the one with the barbie dolls?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "But Darelle is gone, because I said hi to her, and she exploded and died. I forgot we do that to ghosts." She claps her hands. "You know about me!"
* Mary_jane`^ rolls her eyes
<AlcarGM> She snaps her fingers and barbie dolls with switchblades come out of the trees.
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, those."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "I made them!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Why?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "because they are cute!"
<AlcarGM> The barbie dolls laugh to themselves quietly, like high pitched mice. You can't shake the disturbing impression that they want to rip your arms off and feed you to a dog.
<Mary_jane`^> "Why the knives?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "Because they want them! It makes them feel real and it's hard to cut off a penis with just small mouths without teeth! They have Issues! So I am helping them!"
<Mary_jane`^> "You have issues... You would put luna to shame."

<AlcarGM> Sara frowns, considering that. "Oh! You mean the light you made?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "That was you!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "Then why are asking me if you were you?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "WHat?"
<AlcarGM> Sara looks, well, puzzled. Even more than normal. "Are you okay?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Just go away."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "Oh!" She claps her hands over her mouth. "I wasn't supposed to talk about that!" She vanishes.
<Mary_jane`^> "Thank god."
<AlcarGM> The barbie dolls all look at you, licking their lips, but vanish as well.

<Mary_jane`^> "So you don't know who he is either?"
<AlcarGM> The door laughs, then, the sound hollow and ugly. "He has many names, and I know them all."
<Mary_jane`^> "So then why don't you tell me?"
<AlcarGM> The door is silent, the chants, low and carefully. "In days gone by I once was Ygg, E'er Woden they did name me, And I was Har and Janafar, And also hailed to Thiridi. Bileg I'll be, and Vandufar, Till falls the mighty ash tree! Then I'll be Ygg as one I was E'er Woden they did name me!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Wait, who are we talking about now?
<AlcarGM> Door: "Vetgam, the wanderer; also known as Odin. This is his hall, and you are not welcome here child of midgard."
<Mary_jane`^> "Listen, I would like to talk to him. I think he wants to see me anyway... If for nothing more than to kill me, although I don't know that for sure because I haven't talkt to him yet."

<AlcarGM> Odin is old, and thin, wearing a drab brown cloak and sitting in a large wooden chair at the far end of the hall. He seems to be asleep but you can't shbake th efeeling he's watching you.
* Mary_jane`^ walks over to him
<AlcarGM> The ravens look up, and you hear wings all around you, cold and beating, but they just watch.
<AlcarGM> Odin doesn't react.
* Mary_jane`^ walks up to him and looks him over "You're alot thinner than I had imagined."
<AlcarGM> Finally one of the ravens looks up at you., and into you. "The god is not here. He is with us, abroad in the worlds. Searching."
<Mary_jane`^> "For what?"
<AlcarGM> "A foolish endevour," the second raven says, its voice the same as the first raven, but it doesn't seem to be looking into you, as much as around you, or through you. "The sought is the seeker, and there is no seeker, and nothing to be sought. We are all just the absence of our abscence and the abscence of our presense. Perhaps. Words are weak things, and only give understanding."
<AlcarGM> "Forgive my brother," the first raven says. "He likes to pretend he exists."

* Mary_jane`^ sits, crossing her legs, and closes her eyes and finds inner piece... or atleast tries to go inside herself to look around.
<AlcarGM> Okay.... you fall inside, or perhaps outside. You are .... somewhere. You have no body, but you're here. No eyes, but you're seeing. The only other thing around is your shadow.
* Mary_jane`^ looks her shadow over, and wondering how she has a shadow, looks for the source of light
<AlcarGM> The shadow is all around, and inside. It's dark, and white, and blue all over, and there is no light, and no darkness. Nothing to see, and nothing to be seen.
<Mary_jane`^> Then how do I see my shadow?!
<AlcarGM> You have no idea, but you strongly suspect it's best not to think too hard about it.
<Mary_jane`^> that's a good excuse alcar
<Mary_jane`^> for when you can't think of an explenation "Just don't think about it too hard."
<AlcarGM> lol. Well, it *could* be explained. But it would be long-winded and wouldn't matter in any event :P
<AlcarGM> and I don't think MJ is ready to discover nothing exists because there is no where for it to exist.
<Mary_jane`^> Alcar
<Mary_jane`^> just shut up while you still have your lips =p
<AlcarGM> lol. hmm?
<AlcarGM> it's true, tho, as far as the game goes.
<Mary_jane`^> it shouldn't be
<Mary_jane`^> I want the game to be fun, not a mind bender
<Mary_jane`^> I mean, I don't want to ahve to take a hit of acid before every session just so I can understand what's going on

<AlcarGM> The Dark Wood laughs. "What makes you think there is more than darknrss?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Because darkness is like... What is caused by light. There has to be balance. The staff knows that, and I believe in the staff."
<AlcarGM> The Dark Wood: "But it all ends in darkness, as it began in darkness. There was darkness before creation, and there will be darkness after it. The night is older than the light that was brought into being, and a piece of it lies in all that exists, to judge and to destroy."
<Mary_jane`^> "There is still balance. Isn't that the point of judgement?"
<AlcarGM> The Dark Wood: ".. perhaps. There is a darkness inside the darkness."
<AlcarGM> Tad: "It can't all be dark. This is silly. If it is all darkness, why were people given light? Because she called up light, from a place older than you."
<AlcarGM> The Dark Wood is silent, as if waiting, or listening to something.
<Mary_jane`^> "He has a point."
<Mary_jane`^> "Wait... He does?"
* Mary_jane`^ looks at Tad "You have a point... That's..." Under her breath, "a first."

<Mary_jane`^> "I think I know too much."

<Mary_jane`^> "What the hell was that?" Walking slower
<AlcarGM> No reply. The wood is silenced by some power greater than it. The creatures are around, hiding in the trees.
<AlcarGM> "Dark things, I believe," Jacob says from behind you.
* Mary_jane`^ continues for its heart
<Mary_jane`^> "Who are you and how did you get here?"
* Mary_jane`^ turns quickly
<AlcarGM> Jacob blinks. "I think you know who I am, and I had help. Blaise, to be precise. I'm a little surprised I could come at all."
* Mary_jane`^ opens her mouth to say something, but instead tells him "You have to understand that right now I trust you about as far as I can throw you. You ARE inside me and I AM being attacked by something."
<Mary_jane`^> "Stay close and by my side. We're going that way." Pointing
<AlcarGM> Jacob looks at you. "You think I am attacking you?"
<Mary_jane`^> YES YES I DO! MJ's character is saying to himself
<Mary_jane`^> err
<Mary_jane`^> her player...

<Mary_jane`^> alcar
<AlcarGM> yep?
<Mary_jane`^> you there? I mean seriously...
<AlcarGM> And yes, am here. Probably need coke, though
* AlcarGM gets some.
<Mary_jane`^> lol coke
<AlcarGM> the drink, that is :p

<AlcarGM> You can feel power coming down the web, to repair it....
* Mary_jane`^ follows the power with her own magic
<AlcarGM> Tad: "Something Bad is coming......" from around the shadow...
<Mary_jane`^> "I know."
<AlcarGM> It's ... big. Like looking into a sun, but brighter than any son .....fire, and hate, and terrible will ..... power enough to destoy even Luna as if she wasn't there at all.
<Mary_jane`^> "That's odd.."
<AlcarGM> Tad: "Fuck," in a very small voice. "It's too big. Too strong. Merlin ... can't stop it.. run....."
<Mary_jane`^> "Nonono... This is interesting..."
* Mary_jane`^ considers this and calls for any light around her
<AlcarGM> "It's a piece of Merlin's power," Tad shrieks. "That's NOT interesting! That's death!"

<Mary_jane`^> Dear Mr. Sun, Mary Jane Consequence cordially and humbly requests an audience with you to discuss the issues of the moon, mars, your name for further invitations and anything else that may come up. If at all possible please come in human or otherwise non-mind exploding form or skin melting. Please meet her for tea and biscuts at the starbucks in <city> on <street> at 11:00 am.

<GeminiRai> hah, he does not want to help his sister.
<GeminiRai> I guess he is mean.
<tatterdemalion> little sisters are annoying :p
<tatterdemalion> even if you are celestial bodies.
<GeminiRai> Yes, but that doesn't justify wanting them to be insane so they don't bother you:P
<tatterdemalion> It does to the sun :)

* Mary_jane`^ eats slowly and considers what she needs to do before arthur and merlin come... and comes up with nothing that doesn't involve everyone dieing

* Mary_jane`^ walks for a while, wondering who would want to find her that doesn't already know where she is
<AlcarGM> Merlin .. oh, wait, he probably does.
<AlcarGM> The Sweepstakes people. You could be a winnner!

<AlcarGM> Okay. You're a good 10 blocks from the zoon when you feel the power of the wards around it. Serious power, with no energyt wasted at all. Brain-dead or no, Sara can do something right. Or, more likely, got the forumla out of a book with lots of pictures and did it right :)
<Mary_jane`^> if it involves sex I'm sure she can do it right... the sad part is that this probably doesn't
* Mary_jane`^ continues on toward the zoo
<AlcarGM> (( tantric angelic sex. On the head of a pin. ))

<GeminiRai> <AlcarGM> (( tantric angelic sex. On the head of a pin. ))
<tatterdemalion> or with a pin :p
<tatterdemalion> Sara: "It's like acupunture! Except with a penis!"

<Mary_jane`^> "I suppose. I would have healed the moon but with the sun's threat and the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing, I think it would hurt more than help."
<AlcarGM> She nods. "The moon is what it is, the sun is what it is. I am what I am. Changing things only makes them worse, most of the time. Change is inevitable, but we much prefer it's the change we choose."
* Mary_jane`^ scratches at her wound idly "Does healing something mean that we are rejecting change though?"
<AlcarGM> The earth chuckles. "No one can save anyone else, not really. They have to save themselves, find their own path, and their own way. You can't make a better world for people. People must do it themselves, otherwise it's just a cage."
<AlcarGM> She shrugs. "I am not sure. But there are some wounds not meant to be healed, some harm that had good behind it. Imagine your world if Christ had not died in the cross. Some wounds, some sacrifices, are not meant to be healed unless they are to be robbed of all thier menaing."

<Mary_jane`^> "If I were protected, and I stood a chance to begin with, the other sparks of creation would seek me out. That would be why I have so much power. Everything is attracted to me... Asking for help, I hope. If they're here to hurt me it would be... odd."
<AlcarGM> "I wouldn't be surprised if some did try and destroy you. Saviours are always killed, sometimes out of fear, sometimes because they know people must save themselves. It is a far better thing to give others the tools to become heroes than to be the hero for them."
* AlcarGM grins
<AlcarGM> Saviours are always killed, sometimes out of fear, sometimes because they know people must save themselves. It is a far better thing to give others the tools to become heroes than to be the hero for them." was fun :p
<AlcarGM> Tho I suspect it runs counter to most anime :)
<Mary_jane`^> yeh no shit?
<AlcarGM> Heh. So not just me? :)
<Mary_jane`^> You veered from 'most anime' at about session 2 or 3

* Mary_jane`^ goes home, because she is being strongly pointed in that direction and also because running away would mean having to deal with mimir, who she really does not want to have anything to do with right now
<Mary_jane`^> but know this! I will not admit anything until Anne grows wings!
<AlcarGM> hehehe....
<Mary_jane`^> Well, she doesn't have to grow them, they can just appear but... She needs them!

<Mary_jane`^> that was... easier than I expected
<AlcarGM> which? :)
<Mary_jane`^> explaining why the fbi was after her =p
* AlcarGM nods. She'll want details when she's calmed down :p
<AlcarGM> But someoine who storms over to your friends out to accuse her of kidnapped you into a lesbian cult is NOT calm.
<AlcarGM> or even rational :p
<AlcarGM> Though Nora may never let you forget it :)

<GeminiRai> By the way, for reference to that, fairy wings are hypersensitive. Eltanan said so.

* Mary_jane`^ frowns
<Mary_jane`^> "Why do parents go to PTA meetings instead of staying home and spending that time with their kids."

* Mary_jane`^ finishes the dishes and dries her hands and calls Jaymie
<AlcarGM> you get her machine at home.
<Mary_jane`^> "She must be on duty..." Leaving a message for her
<AlcarGM> what message? :p
<Mary_jane`^> (( Yoyoyo call me foo I da pimp dadday! ))
<AlcarGM> (( ..... no :p ))

<Mary_jane`^> "He's not... what did he say... 600? yet... I'm not sure... evidently he thought he was young."
<AlcarGM> Gabe shrugs. "The vampires could have been lying, of course. They do have stories of Dracula, and vampires from Rome who bite off noses, but Victor was the oldest one people actually could verify still existed."
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh, he said that when he was burning and about to die."
<Mary_jane`^> "I mean, why would he lie to me when he's well... on fire?"

<Mary_jane`^> "Oh... I'm pretty sure the ninjas are killing people though... and I'm fairly sure it's random."
<AlcarGM> Gabe: "Why?" curiously, looking relieved at the change of topic.
<Mary_jane`^> "I dunno, probably something to do with their ninjaness..."
<AlcarGM> Gabe grins. "I hope that's not a real word."
<Mary_jane`^> "What? Ninjaness? I imagine it is... In their heads atleast. They're pretty ninja... It's like smurf I guess... But they're not smurfs."
* Mary_jane`^ checks the back yard for mushrooms and sits back down "Atleast I'm pretty sure..."

<AlcarGM> Carl says three words - in the High Tongue, as an aid for the spell, not to actually do anything since he knows the High Tongue has no power (:p).
<AlcarGM> Something comes at you, invisible .. and shatters before reaching you.
* Mary_jane`^ ignores it
<AlcarGM> Oh, fyi the 3 words in the High tongue translte as "By the Power of Grayskull"
<Mary_jane`^> ROFLMAO

<Mary_jane`^> "What kind of ward is this?" More to her shadow than to carl
<AlcarGM> Carl: "A level 18 binding ward."
<AlcarGM> (( I would have hadded some silly japanese sounding stuff to it, but couldn't think of any offhand :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> "Is that better than level 13?"
<AlcarGM> Carl: "Yes," coldly.

<AlcarGM> Rick: "You ..." He raiseshis cross. "YOU WILL CEASE YOUR EVIL! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELLS YOU!"
<AlcarGM> To your surprise, his finger starts moving again, his faith actually breaking the spell.
<Mary_jane`^> Well... not really
<Mary_jane`^> my surprise that is
<Mary_jane`^> "Crap... Carl used too much power... He's broken."
<AlcarGM> Jaymie looks over at him. then "Shit.. what did you do?"
<Mary_jane`^> "I didn't do anything. I told him to stop, but... Like i was trying to tell him he could have died..."
<Mary_jane`^> "You guys didn't help... I mean he didn't trust me but... You really need to get him some help though."
<Mary_jane`^> "It's something in his head... His sanity, some memories, his motor skills... anything could be broken."
<AlcarGM> Rick : "IN NOMINE .... etc."
<AlcarGM> err, the etc. after :p
<AlcarGM> though the image of him bellowing "IN NOMINE ETC!" is amusing :)

<AlcarGM> Jaymie: "Mary Jane Consequence, for breaking and entering -"
<AlcarGM> Rick: "And unholy black magick for which she will burn for eternity in the fires of Hell."
<AlcarGM> Jaymie steps on his foot. Hard.
<Mary_jane`^> "There isn't a law against magic, people do it all the time in like.. wicca and stuff."
<AlcarGM> Rick:: "There should be. This is one nation under God!"

<AlcarGM> The elevator dings, you get out. Chief Lance Christensen's office is a large corner suite in the south west corner, filled with books, pictures of various predecessors, and almost no personal touches at all besides a photo of him at Disneyworld. Lance is a tall, broad shouldered man in his late 50s with cheerful blue eyes, grey hair, and looks at you a moment too long before nodding when you enter the office. "Good evening. You're Mary Jane, then?"
<Mary_jane`^> (( "Oh lord... gotta go..." MJ disapears ))
<AlcarGM> (( lol ))
<Mary_jane`^> . "Good evening. You're Mary Jane
<AlcarGM> (( huh? :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> cut off
<AlcarGM> "Good evening. You're Mary Jane, then?"
<AlcarGM> (( ah good. Though you were doing some weird reply to him :) ))
<Mary_jane`^> ROFL

<Mary_jane`^> "Well, I don't plan much. Plans are usually scratched at the last minute anyway, so I stopped doing that a long time ago."
<AlcarGM> Lance: "Then what are you aiming for, precisely? We have a psychic who does contract work for us, and she keeps seeing your face, and a sword. Among other things. Something is happening, and I suspect it would be wise if the police were not your enemies in it. I trust we understand each other?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Well how would I know you wouldn't be anyway?"
<AlcarGM> Lance: "Well, there is that. But, you see, the police aren't entirely oblivious to the subtle worlds. I know enough to know something big is going down, and it may well be the end of the world. Again. And that you are involved. Besides, our psychic is listening in, and can tell if people are lying. It's rather useful when people ask for time off for the funeral of their grandmother."
<Mary_jane`^> "You hire your psychic as your HR?"
<AlcarGM> Lance: "Of course. We do have a budget."

<AlcarGM> Lance nods. "Hmm. Leslie thinks you're telling the truth, at least....." He frowns. "She does want to know who warded you, though, as a professional favour."
<Mary_jane`^> "Everyone and his dog, likely. I have more wards on me than the vatican."
<Mary_jane`^> "She needs to be more specific."
<AlcarGM> Lance; 'NO, she says your own, a blessing, and some complicated ritual warding by someone else."
<Mary_jane`^> "Sounds like the fisher king she's describing. The ritual that is."
<Mary_jane`^> "And I was exadurating, being sarcastic."
<AlcarGM> Lance: "Hmm. There is one? That might explain ...." He trails off. "Never mind. She's offering something in return, if there is anything you want to know."
<Mary_jane`^> "Only if my mom's awake right now."
<AlcarGM> (( LOL! ))
<AlcarGM> Lance blinks, looking surprised for the first time. "Ah. She says your mom is not awake."

<AlcarGM> Nora opens the door. "Geeze, about time. And Jeeves said he didn't change the -" she stares over your shoulder. "What the hell is that?"
* Mary_jane`^ doesn't look "What does it look like?"
<AlcarGM> A small throwing star made of two razor blades flies past your shoulder at Nora.
<Mary_jane`^> "Does it look like a ninja?"
* Mary_jane`^ pushes Kiesha and Gabe into the kitchen and shuts the door
* Mary_jane`^ turns to her assaulter
<AlcarGM> Nora yelps and ducks just in time, the blade cuttin through hair instead of her face.
<AlcarGM> Nora: "What in the name of...."
<AlcarGM> You see barbie dolls. Many, many barbie dolls. With knives.
<Mary_jane`^> "You're joking."

<Mary_jane`^> There has to be a simple way to get rid of them
<Mary_jane`^> Without using force
<Mary_jane`^> because, well, MJ does that too much
<AlcarGM> lol. That is true :)
<Mary_jane`^> so let's think through this
<Mary_jane`^> They're made by an angel that likes sex
<AlcarGM> and are killer barbie dolls :p

<AlcarGM> Jacob appears beside you. "They're from the other angel," tersely.
<Mary_jane`^> "I know."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "You .... know?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes. Her name's Sara."
<AlcarGM> Jacob blinks. The red glow that was blazing up in his eyes dies and he looks at you in horror. "Oh, my God...."
<Mary_jane`^> "Shh, we have enough problems as it is."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "But she.... she .... she can't be ... you said Darelle said the last angel was .. powerful .... she's just .... she's just an angel who's had sexwith almost every angel in heaven."
<AlcarGM> The barbie dolls aren't making any effort to attack either of you, but aren't leaving either.
<Mary_jane`^> "But she also has free will."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "...... God really hates me.. he sent ... her..." in the same horrified tone. Your angel is in shock :)
<Mary_jane`^> "you mean, you and her..." Motioning with her finger and her hand
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "WHAT KIND OF USE OF FREE WILL IS FUCKING MOST OF THE HEAVENLY HOST?!"
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "No! She hadn't gotten down to the bottom rungs of the choir yet."
<Mary_jane`^> "Sounds like her idea of a good time."
<Mary_jane`^> "She used to be human.. where'd she come from?"
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "Babylon. The famous whore, before hte city fell. She ... uhm .. with God...and was made an angel...." He's bright red.

<Mary_jane`^> "Anyway, don't start shooting just yet.. I'm thinking."
<AlcarGM> Jeeves: "I'd rather shoot whatever made them. Who makes barbie dolls come alive to attack people?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Sara."
<Mary_jane`^> "And they only attacked Nora."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "They're hunting demons, then. Probably their only hobby aside from sex."
<Mary_jane`^> "They're dolls, how do they have sex?"
<AlcarGM> Jeeves: "What she said."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "I think we're better off not knowing."
<AlcarGM> Jeeves: "What he said. Now, how do we get rid of them?>"
<Mary_jane`^> "Jacob makes a bunch of ken dolls to lead them away from us."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "I am NOT stooping to her level!"

<AlcarGM> Nora: "Okay. SO I might have melted one when I was six. But that's no reason for an army of them to attack the house!"
<AlcarGM> Nora: "I mean, it was just one barbie doll. I can't be the worst offender for that. You broke some too, right?" to you.
<Mary_jane`^> "What barbies? Hardly, they were my idols when I was a kid."
* Mary_jane`^ goes to the living room
<AlcarGM> Nora: "Then your brother must have, or other people. I mean, sure I melted one ... maybe two .... but that's no reason for an army of them to attack me!"

<AlcarGM> Nora: ".... what kind of person hunts down demons with barbie dolls?"
<Mary_jane`^> "An angel named Sara."
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "A Catholic?" with a grin.
<AlcarGM> Nora: ".. and I thought Jake was weird."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "Excuse me?"
<Mary_jane`^> "He is."
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "*I* am an angel of the Lord."
<Mary_jane`^> "And what is she?"
<AlcarGM> Jacob crosses his arms and says nothing :p

<AlcarGM> The news, not surprisingly, does not cover an army of barbie dolls massacring an army of ken dolls on their way to the zoo. Probably because the couldn't think of a negative angle for the story.
<Mary_jane`^> "Damn.. I kind of wanted to see an aerial view of it."
<AlcarGM> Nora: "Oh, shit. Is this going to happen often? I mean, I have classes tomrorow."
<Mary_jane`^> "Heh... I hope not. I have to get back, though."
<AlcarGM> Nora: "Mind you, Mrs. Thompson might like barbie dolls invading bio.:"

<Mary_jane`^> "Gabe, you and Kiesha could probably come by and say you're here to see Sal, but I know my mom won't let Nora in."
<AlcarGM> Nora grins. "I could come by in a dominatrix outfit," with a smirk.
<Mary_jane`^> "I imagine you could..."
<Mary_jane`^> "But take her to the bedroom before you do anything. Later." And disapears =p
<AlcarGM> Nora: "Mind you, I don't think I ever saw Jeeves laugh so hard as when your mom told me I'd kidnapped you for sex...."

* Mary_jane`^ closes the door and goes to her room
* Mary_jane`^ sits on her bed and goes to talk to her shadow, she has an unfinished conversation with him
<AlcarGM> Your room is nicely normal and empty of aliens. So far.
<Mary_jane`^> (( Although I don't remember what the conversation was about... I remember it was unfinished ))
<AlcarGM> (( Then we're in the same boat :p ))

<AlcarGM> Tad: "Oh. Hi. I was watching the sky and wondering what happens when stars fall. Nothing else up, except the alien was ... strange, in here. Watching everthing, in everything, like a kid shoving his fingers into the first cat he dissects and playing with the intestines."
<Mary_jane`^> "Sounds like Luna."
<Mary_jane`^> (( You disected a cat when you were a kid? ))
<AlcarGM> Tad: "I thought it was the dream of every little boy," almost seriously. A quick grin. "Do you need anything?"
<AlcarGM> (( no comment. ))
<AlcarGM> (( j/k ;p ))

<Mary_jane`^> "The moon was scared by something inside of me, when she was looking in. I wonder if I could look in too..."
<AlcarGM> Tad: "You are in. But we can't see ourselves, in any event. Not really. All we see are objects."
<Mary_jane`^> "So what object scared her so much?"
* Mary_jane`^ hmms and looks up at the sky, for say a moon
<AlcarGM> The moon is here, barely visible behind the sunset, but it's big and silver and pretty, like a giant coin.
<Mary_jane`^> "Hmmm..."
<AlcarGM> Tad: "The truth scares most honest people."
<Mary_jane`^> "I have an idea."
<Mary_jane`^> LoL the dreaded 4 words to come from MJs mouth
<AlcarGM> yes :p

* Mary_jane`^ goes to the penis of the moon...

<Mary_jane`^> this is disturbing on so many levels
* AlcarGM grins.
<Mary_jane`^> First of all
<Mary_jane`^> what is a giant stone penis doing in MJ's mind
<AlcarGM> There are important plot reasons for it believe it or not ;p
<Mary_jane`^> 2nd
<Mary_jane`^> why is luna in it
<Mary_jane`^> the penis
<Mary_jane`^> and 3rd
<Mary_jane`^> IT'S MOVING

<Mary_jane`^> "Anyway, I have to get back, my mom should be home soon."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I could come visit!"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I could come out of your head, like a goddess!"
<AlcarGM> (( Go ahead and explain THAT to your mom :p ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Sane isn't boring."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "it is, too. You have to pretend you exist."
<Mary_jane`^> "Is not! We had lots of fun when you were sane. Anyway, I have to go."

<Mary_jane`^> "Damn... Something is in this bathroom and it's wierd."
<AlcarGM> Kiesha sniffs, then frowns. "There is .... something .. like a tang. Or Tang."
<AlcarGM> You hear your mother walking up the stairs.
<AlcarGM> Kiesha frowns, her face elongating ,and growls softly, sniffing. "Magic."
<Mary_jane`^> "Aha I knew it!"
* Mary_jane`^ looks at the shower intently
<Mary_jane`^> "But where?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "I'm not sure....."
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "In the shower itself? It's ... .weak. She takes her shirt off. "Here. I don't want to rip my clothes."
<Mary_jane`^> "What?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "I smell better as a wolf."
* Mary_jane`^ takes the shirt
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh..."
<AlcarGM> She starts taking her pants off. "And clothing is just toasted."
<Mary_jane`^> brb gotta reboot
<AlcarGM> Your mother opens the bathroom door. "MJ, are you .... in ..... here ....."
<AlcarGM> Anne looks at her daugher. Then at the almost naked 8 year old. Then her daugher. Then back at Kiesha. Then at you.

<Mary_jane`^> "Something's wrong. What is it?"
<AlcarGM> Anne: "It's not you. It's me."
<Mary_jane`^> "What is it?"
<AlcarGM> Anne: "It's nothing," firmly, lying to herself and you.
<Mary_jane`^> "You're lying to me. I can tell."
<AlcarGM> Anne: "Then that is my privledge as your mother," firmly.
<Mary_jane`^> "I thought you wanted to talk about important things?"
<AlcarGM> Anne: "It's not -" she trails off. "Look. I know you and Nora might ... be more than friends. You've always been close. No. Don't answer. I don't need to know. I just had a horrible thought, when I opened the bathroom door. That's all."
* Mary_jane`^ raises an eyebrow
* Mary_jane`^ has raised both eyebrows now
<Mary_jane`^> "Uh-huh... So why did you go to your room?"
<AlcarGM> Anne: "To think."
<Mary_jane`^> "About?"
<Mary_jane`^> (( "Does it smell like wet dog?" ))
<AlcarGM> Anne: "Why I don't like certain things. Why I thought you would ever - do things. How I could think that at all."
<AlcarGM> (( LOL! ))

<AlcarGM> Fenrir: "She is not a wolf. The insticts .... are not there. at least, she and the pack with be dogs, the mating of wolf and human. She knows it, and fears it. Fear is never useful."
<Mary_jane`^> what?
<AlcarGM> (( yhmm? ))
<Mary_jane`^> "The only time she'll force her instincts is when she can't think."
<Mary_jane`^> (( She and the pack with be dogs? ))
<AlcarGM> (( Yup. ))
<Mary_jane`^> she and the pack with be dogs
<Mary_jane`^> ... is that just bad english or did you type something wrong?
<AlcarGM> Fenrir: "It is .... personality. They will never be wolves. They can't be wolves. They make packs, and give each other names. Human affections, human desires."
<AlcarGM> (( err, meant to be wil be :p ))
<AlcarGM> .. wll.
<AlcarGM> will.
<Mary_jane`^> will
<AlcarGM> Augh!
* AlcarGM kills the typo demon.

<Mary_jane`^> "How could I help her?"
<AlcarGM> Fenrir: "Make her admit the truth to herself. I could tell, but I am not her pack and she would see my words as orders."
<Mary_jane`^> "Which truth is that? That she'll go mad if she doesn't?"
<AlcarGM> Fenrir: "That she needs a master, even if the master never knows he is a master."
* Mary_jane`^ sighs
<Mary_jane`^> "This will be an interesting conversation, then."

<Mary_jane`^> "You need a superior, someone to tell you what to do."
<AlcarGM> Keisha: "WHAT?!"
* Mary_jane`^ shrugs
<Mary_jane`^> "A master and his dog... It's the only way for you to not go insane."
<AlcarGM> She stares at you as if you have lost your mind. "I"m not a dog!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh?"
<AlcarGM> Keisha: "I am not!"
<AlcarGM> She glares at you.
<Mary_jane`^> "How do you intend to prove it?"
<AlcarGM> Keisha: "Because I'm not! I become a wolf."
<Mary_jane`^> "A wolf in body, but what are you in mind?"
<AlcarGM> Keisha: "Me, duh."
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "And it doesn't help when the GM won't type my name right!"

<AlcarGM> You appear back in your bedroom.
* Mary_jane`^ removes the giggle spell and unlocks the door
* Mary_jane`^ opens it
<AlcarGM> Kiesha practially barges into Sal's room. He's not typing at the moment, just frowning at the screen. "Okay.... so .... uhm ....." He looks at both of you. "Are you okay?"
<Mary_jane`^> "We're fine."
<AlcarGM> Gabe half turns his chair, sensing something, and Kiesha grabs him by the throat with one hand and snarls: "I could tear your head off."
<AlcarGM> Sal: ".... ths is fine...?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, we're fine."
<AlcarGM> Sal: "are you sure?"

<AlcarGM> Gabe takes a deep breath. "What was that about?" very carefullly.
<Mary_jane`^> "She can't see our power. Everyone in our.. Pack... Just knew who was more powerful than the next. She needed to see for herself."
<Mary_jane`^> "She needs to know her place, but she won't admit it."
<AlcarGM> Gabe: "Her place. Great. So you wanted her to try and turn me into ....." he trails off. "Her... place. You mean ..... hierarchy, and ... oh."
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Oh? Oh? She tried to kill you!"
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Don't you know ANYONE normal MJ?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Wolves tend to do that."
* Mary_jane`^ falls onto the bed
<Mary_jane`^> "No... actually I don't."
<Mary_jane`^> "Wait! wait, no, she's kind of wierd too."
<Mary_jane`^> (( jayme =p ))
<AlcarGM> (( Mrs. Thompson? :p ))
<AlcarGM> (( oh, okay ;) ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Sorry about that Gabe, but I was affraid if I warned you, we would be back where we started."
<AlcarGM> Gabe: "You mean she thinks I'm ..... what .... dominant?" incredulously
<Mary_jane`^> "Technically, she needed to know the hierarchy of the group, mostly."
<Mary_jane`^> "She measures that by power."
<AlcarGM> Gabe sighs. "Power isn't everything."
<Mary_jane`^> "It is to a wolf."
<Mary_jane`^> "I don't think she will start taking orders around, but she just needed to know who was running things."
<AlcarGM> Gabe: "I mean, there's more than just . .fancy power. There's authority, and experience, and all of that Not someone stuck on a floor with a bleeding leg."
* Mary_jane`^ nods at him
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah you do look kind of pathetic."
* Mary_jane`^ grins and helps him up
<AlcarGM> He returns the grin. "If someone told me it would lead to a werewolf wanting to tear my head off I'd have gotten a tattoo or something."

<AlcarGM> She contiues to glare. "That's not fair. He didn't even smell powerful," angrily.
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, he hides it better than me. Plus I have so much power that I leak."
* Mary_jane`^ realizes she dropped her shield when she was accross the street, and turns it back on
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "It wasn't even real power, anyway. Just will..." she sniffs.
<Mary_jane`^> "He didn't want to hurt you.'
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "I could have won," but she doesn't even convince herself. "I don't want to ... be a .... a .. dog. What if he knows? He knows stuff. Like . .stuff. He's always looking at things."
<AlcarGM> paranoia lite.
<AlcarGM> omg. La Fin De Siecle Paranoia :)
<Mary_jane`^> lol
<AlcarGM> The Computer: "Who wants sex with Your Friend!"

<AlcarGM> Kiesha sits up abruptly, looking horrified. "But .. but I'll see him again. What do I do?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "See who again?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "Him! I tried to rip his head off," as it slowly (and belatedly) sinks in. "What's he going to say?!:
<Mary_jane`^> "I doubt he'll mention it. I told him it was just you testing him as a wolf would another. He understood."
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: ".... oh." she looks rather relieved.
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "Your brother must have, uhm, thought that was strange."
<Mary_jane`^> "He doesn't know if he won or not."
* Mary_jane`^ nods
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "I could threaten to take his head off, too, so he doesn't feel left out?"
<Mary_jane`^> "He thought you were wierd to begin with, though."
<Mary_jane`^> "Uhm... NO."

<Mary_jane`^> the problem with her choosing gabe
<Mary_jane`^> is that gabe may die after the final battle
<AlcarGM> yes :p Then she could pick Sal, and slowly eviscerate all the male NPCs!
<Mary_jane`^> or not
<Mary_jane`^> Sal wouldn't be powerful though
* AlcarGM nods. Yeah. Unless he challenged her to a duel hacking into something :p
<Mary_jane`^> Unless gabe made him his successor which I would hate to see, because if gabe was gone for 5 years, sal would be stuck in his bedroom for like 20
<AlcarGM> "Let's see who can type Paradise Lost first." "Paradise what?"

<Mary_jane`^> anyway, MJ is going to try her best to keep everyone alive so it will likely end up MJ being the dead one
<AlcarGM> lol! That would make the sequel rather hard :P
<Mary_jane`^> well
<Mary_jane`^> yes and no
<AlcarGM> unless you possesed the angel Sara, as revenge for a previous campaign :p
<Mary_jane`^> no

<AlcarGM> Sal blinks, surprised, and looks up. "What .... what was that about?"
<Mary_jane`^> "She's a werewolf... She was doing the wolf thing. Haven't you ever seen on like the discovery chanell where wolves fight to see who is the alpha?"
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Uhm, yeah, but wolves fight each other, they don't threaten to kill people in wheelchairs!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Well, she was trying to get him to fight."
<AlcarGM> Sal: "That's .... that's just stupid. I'm just glad she didn't pick me."
<Mary_jane`^> "He's in her pack, and she needed to know his power."
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Can I NOT be in her pack? Please?"

<AlcarGM> Sal: "I'm not going to be friends with someone who might decide to try and take my head off!"
<Mary_jane`^> "She only does that if she thinks you may be above her. Just show her that you're subbordinate and you'll be fine." with a grin
<AlcarGM> Sal:" How?" eagerly
<Mary_jane`^> "Don't make eye contact, and keep your head tilted downward, and call her ma'am."
<AlcarGM> He nods.
<AlcarGM> (( TRhis will be fun. Anne: "Sal, why are you calling an eight year old girl ma'am?" ))

<AlcarGM> The class is half over when there is an denoucement (err, annoucement. Realy...) over the PA dsystem: "Would the foillowing students please report to the office. Mary Jane Consequence., Luna Parsons, and Nora Robins. Thank you."
<Mary_jane`^> "Huh... That's us."
* Mary_jane`^ stands and puts her things away, and goes to the office
<Mary_jane`^> "Your last name is Parsons, Luna?"
<AlcarGM> Luna nods. "Because it was my fathers."
<Mary_jane`^> "Huh." Notting the fact she didn't call him daddy
<AlcarGM> Nora: "That's the way it normally is, Luna."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Oh. I always thought people just picked named, because who has consequence as a last name? It's a result, a word, not a name. You should change it."
<Mary_jane`^> "I'll consider it."

<AlcarGM> Luna: "My father is dead, too, but I don't hold it against the people who killed him. Everyone dies. It's, like, a giant metaphor for life. No, wait, maybe it's not."
* Mary_jane`^ grabs the back of luna's chair again, stoping her from swinging
<AlcarGM> Rowling continues to ignore Luna. "We're not the FBI you know. We're the Special Branch. We deal with demons, and magic, and mweird shit. Officically, you are weird shit, and we're hear to deal with you by any means necessary to protect this country. I trust you understand?"
* Mary_jane`^ smiles, almost as if she could hear Rowlings misspelling of here.
<AlcarGM> Rowling shoots the GM for being tired.

<Mary_jane`^> "Listen..." Leaning forward "Have you ever heard of Merlin?"
<AlcarGM> Rowling: "A dead sorcerer. Yes. Everyone knows about him."
<Mary_jane`^> "He died and went to hell, so he took over hell, did you hear that story?"
<AlcarGM> Rowling: "Something of it, from an operative in Fernando Poo."
<Mary_jane`^> "Something of it? Perhaps you need to start with someone with a lower profile than us, then. This is the major league, here. We're not some random witches."
<AlcarGM> The room gets cold. Not magic. Just personality. "Major league, you little vomitous mass?" Rowling hisses softly, her eyes slits. "You're murders, and if I think you plan anything - anything - to harm this country, I will personally tear our your heart and feed it to my dog."

<AlcarGM> Luna: "She's a good person. She mademe sane once, and no one would ever do that." She stands, looking angry. "And you are just stupid!"
<Mary_jane`^> "I don't have to listen to you tell me I'm lying when your resources are obviously," motioning to straub "mistaken."
<Mary_jane`^> "luna, don't."
<AlcarGM> Luna's power fills the room . .then ebbs. "Why not?" she demands.
<Mary_jane`^> "Because we don't need more trouble."
<AlcarGM> Nora: "As much as I'd like to see it, I'm with MJ. We have enough troubles, even if yo would probably get a medal."
<Mary_jane`^> "Listen." Writing something down "Go to your fisher king in DC and tell him if he doesn't give you the information, you'll say this in the middle of the city."
* Mary_jane`^ throws a note pad at her
<Mary_jane`^> "He'll talk."
<AlcarGM> (( Moon kills FBI agent. Rest of Special Branch sends Thank You card to the moon .. :p ))

<AlcarGM> Jacob nods. "Anything else?"
<Mary_jane`^> "That's all for now, we'll talk later. Go before you kill that agent, and thanks."
<AlcarGM> He vanishes.
* Mary_jane`^ goes to the lunch room
<AlcarGM> Agent Rowling exists the meeting room, gun in hand, but sees notnhing besides the three of you .... and students staring at her gun .... She puts it away and glares at a few. "Can only students here shoot people? Surely your teachers would like to bring shotguns to class and mow down you useless degenerates." In the meeting room, Principal Rickards says "Oh, shit..." as visions of Publicity Relations Nightmares dance before his eyes :)

<Mary_jane`^> "Ok Luna, no killing people while we eat, ok?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Why would I kill anyone while we're eating?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "The same reason you did it last time."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "They were bothering me."
<Mary_jane`^> "Well, don't kill anyone."
<AlcarGM> The cafeteria becomes almost ominously quiet when the three of you enter. No one at the Popluar Table says hi, or anything ,and students are staring at Luna with open "Oh, crap?" looks on their faces. She is, of course, entirely oblivious
<AlcarGM> Nora mutters "Save the world and see your social life go into the toilet."
<Mary_jane`^> "It happens to the best of us... It's only what 8 more months?"
* Mary_jane`^ gets her lunch and sits down at a newly emptied table
<AlcarGM> The table empties fast when the three of you approach it. News like Luna gets around :p

<AlcarGM> Kiesha answers on the first ring. "K.
<Mary_jane`^> K. ...?
<AlcarGM> Just "K".
<AlcarGM> Pause then. "K here. You know. Answering the phone? Is this anyone of Michael's retarded friends?"
<Mary_jane`^> "K?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Your name is K?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "It's shorter, okay? Geeze."
<Mary_jane`^> "Heh, what's up?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "Uhm, not much. Gabe wanted me to go with him to visit the earth, or something, but that was before I, well, tried to uhm rip his head off."

<Mary_jane`^> "Just because I'm saving the world doesn't mean we can't do stuff together."

<AlcarGM> Your cell phone rings.
* Mary_jane`^ answers
<Mary_jane`^> "M."
<AlcarGM> Q: "Very funny."
<AlcarGM> :p
<Mary_jane`^> LoL
<AlcarGM> Sal: "MJ?" nervously.

<AlcarGM> Sal: "Uhm. Where are you?"
<Mary_jane`^> "On my way home. Why?"
<AlcarGM> Sal: "Uhm. Tell me sometjhing about me only you would know."
<Mary_jane`^> "Uhh.. Hmmm... That's a tough one. Let's see, oh, there's that one time I cought you going through my underware drawer, and you made me promise I wouldn't tell anyone because you said it was just a school project and no one could know."
<Mary_jane`^> (( I couldn't think of anything in game that jake or someone else hasn't been there for =p ))
<AlcarGM> (( lol. ))
<AlcarGM> Nora: "He what?"
<Mary_jane`^> "I'm not supposed to tell you." Covering the mouthpiece
<AlcarGM> Sal: ".... maybe . .something less ... uhm ... embarassing?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh... Did you want me to try again?"
<AlcarGM> Nora grins wickedly. "Tell him I have some pairs, if he wants to try them on something. Not that they'd fit, but it's the thought that counts."

<AlcarGM> Sal: "Someomne was in the shower, when I came home. And since mom and dad's cars were gone, I thought you'd be at school. I checked, cuz there's weird burglars, and it looks like you."
<AlcarGM> Nora: ".... Wow. More panties for your brother?"
<Mary_jane`^> "So you looked in the bathroom and you saw me... Wait, you saw me naked!?"
<AlcarGM> Sal: "The curtain was up! But it's either you or some other girl, okay?"
<Mary_jane`^> "You could have knocked... Did you knock?"
<AlcarGM> Sal: "No, I didn't. You always lock it." Silence. "That sounded bad. I meant, we always lock it, and stuff, and if it was some burglar.. you know what I mean!"
<Mary_jane`^> "I'm starting to wonder if I do."
<AlcarGM> Sal: "That's not funny."

* Mary_jane`^ stares at herself
<Mary_jane`^> (( Damn i'm hot... ))
<AlcarGM> Mary_jane`^: "Do you mind? I'm having a shower."
<Mary_jane`^> "Who the hell are you?"
<AlcarGM> (( no lesbian clone sex! ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( You sure? ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( It'd be like lesbian twins ))
<AlcarGM> (( .... well. Maybe not ;po But sparkie demands pictures. ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( He would... ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Great, but who are you when I am me?"
* Mary_jane`^ pokes herself and looks about her "i've never seen myself at these angles before..."
<AlcarGM> Mary_jane`^: "A spell. Duh."
<Mary_jane`^> "Please don't insult my intellegence, you ARE me."
<AlcarGM> Mary_jane`^ turns around in a circle, smirking.
* Mary_jane`^ points at a mark on her back "Didn't know I had that."
<AlcarGM> Mary_jane`^: "Som I'm best suited to insult it."

<AlcarGM> (( You know, if MJs life wasn't screwed up enough already the watrer spirit could do some nastily evil things with her family. ))
<Mary_jane`^> "And lock the door next time!" to the shower
<AlcarGM> (( but the GM reeally doesn't think the game needs that :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( It doesn't ))
<AlcarGM> (( even if incest is one of those anime staples. ))

* Mary_jane`^ goes to her room to sulk... much like her clone would do =p

<WarezBert> i know ashlk is running it
<WarezBert> but u have any advice for amber games in general?
<WarezBert> or about my char in specific
<alcar[sleep]> aslhk isn't running it. Fennec is, he's just using aslhk's site for the powers etc. stuff on it.
<alcar> Only advice is TRUST NO ONE! Except my PC, if I play., She is completely trustworthy in all respects.

* AlcarGM doesn't want to go there :P
<Mary_jane`^> (( I do... but MJ doesn't ))
<AlcarGM> (( lol. Well .. then ... Sal and your ... clone .. in the shower. Crap. The poor kid is going to have Problems. Shall be fun :) ))
<AlcarGM> (( Sal: "I have a relationship with my sister's clone." Other Self Help Group people: :"You sick pervert!" ))

<Mary_jane`^> "We'll just have to confront him." To blaise "He's visiting the earth right now so he shouldn't be too hard to find."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "Visiting .. .the earth? You mean that literally?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah."
<Mary_jane`^> "Well... Yes I suppose... The earth as in the spirit?"
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "I'm surprised. She's a recluse, last I heard. Brain damage from oil spills and the like."

<AlcarGM> Blaise: "You want to be destroyed?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "No, I want to ask why he wants me destroyed."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "Because you are a threat, of course. jesus was destroyed for the same reason, with more justification I think."
<Mary_jane`^> "I'm going."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "You are being stupid and foolish."
<Mary_jane`^> "I am not, if I find out why he wants me dead then I can fix it."
<Mary_jane`^> "Then, MAYBE he'll be on my side."
<AlcarGM> Blaise grabs your arm. "Listen to me. Here, in the universe, you have some protection. This is God, not some power or magician. If he wants you dead and you are in his terrirtory you will be dead. Have you ever even read the old testatment? THAT is the god you would be face, and He would destroy you bfore you can even begin to ask a single thing!"
<Baliadoc> y'know, now i picture Jesus showing up in the end armed with an AK to back MJ up.
<Mary_jane`^> LOL!
<AlcarGM> lol!
<Baliadoc> "You forgot to finish the job, Papa. Now I'm going to finish you."
<Baliadoc> I so wanna play Jesus now.

<AlcarGM> Blaise: "God destroyed cities. Races. People. He is NOT a kind and loving deity. He's a dictator, and you don't make deals with someone like that!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Do you want me to ask him here? Do you honestly think he'll answer?"
<Mary_jane`^> "OH GREAT MERCIFUL GOD!" To the sky "WHY DO YOU WANT ME DEAD!?" ... ... ... "See, I told you it wouldn't work."
<AlcarGM> 1d100 - hit by lightning?
<sparkie> AlcarGM 1d100: 42 - hit by lightning?
<AlcarGM> Well, you get the answer to life, the universe, and everything. But are not, alas, struck by lightning.
<Mary_jane`^> "Do you want me to ask him in high tongue? Maybe that'll get his attention..."
* Mary_jane`^ asks him in high tongue why he wants her dead =p
<Mary_jane`^> (( You're an idiot ))
<AlcarGM> the GM smacks his forehead and agrees with Chaos`^

<Mary_jane`^> Alcar
<Mary_jane`^> I never met that giant dog from the soul trap
* AlcarGM grins. I wondered if you'd recall that :P
<AlcarGM> He'll show up.
<AlcarGM> and you've met him a few times. Though you don't know that.
<Mary_jane`^> I have?
<Mary_jane`^> now I wonder who it is =(
<Baliadoc> well, you're about to die, so no reason to worry!

<Mary_jane`^> "I am not an idiot! I'm proving my point. He's not listening."
<AlcarGM> A voice behind you says, "No! But I am!" And Sara grins happily. There are no killer barbie dolls with her, this time.
<Mary_jane`^> (( Maybe she's insane ))
<Mary_jane`^> "Hi sara. Will you take me to heaven?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "And since I am the voice of God.. well, no, not really .... though he did make interesting voices when we shagged ..... " she smiles fondly in recollection. "Do you know He liked it doggie style?! And ... no! Because you are not dead!"

<AlcarGM> MJ learns more strange and unusual facts about Jehovah.... :p
<Mary_jane`^> Alcar, you're going to hell
<Baliadoc> lol
* AlcarGM laughs. Oh, quite likely, but I plan to take the scenic route :p

<Mary_jane`^> "Then tell me why god wants me dead."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "You offend his delicate sensibilities." Pause. "I made a joke!"
<AlcarGM> (( Sara: "You offended Sparke too often...!" ))
<AlcarGM> Sara: "You have too much power and you scare Him, of course! After Jesus, he destroys people with lots of power to be safe!"
<Mary_jane`^> "That's just stupid. Why does he really want me dead? Is it because he wants the universe to end when merlin comes?"

<AlcarGM> Blaise: "..... if I had knows angels were like that when I was younger I would have embraced the missionaries."
<Mary_jane`^> "She's an idiot."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "And yet she spoke from the Revelation of John the Baptists's head, after it was severed. I'd only heardof it as myth, myself, but that is close to what I had heard. Minus the slippery when wet."
<Mary_jane`^> "I heard the whole thing."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "That is ... rare. I didn't believe there was an extant copy, save at the vatican."
<Mary_jane`^> "It was a dream."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "And you trust it? Trust is not a thing of dreams .. though revelations are. Curious."
<Mary_jane`^> "Excalibur has never lied to me."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "And you know that how?"

<Mary_jane`^> "Did you have anything in mind?"
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "Perhaps aiding the angel instead of spuring her?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Are you serious?"
* Mary_jane`^ walks toward the zoo slowly "Really serious?"
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "She IS what is shielding the zoo, so yes."
<Mary_jane`^> (( nu-uh she's an idiot, trust me, I know these things. I've known her for a few years now. Idiot 100% ))
* Mary_jane`^ walks slowly toward teh zoo
<GeminiRai> (( I always thought she was rather neat. ))
<AlcarGM> (( hehe ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( She's stupid. I can't stand her ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( I suppose it doesn't help that the first time I met her she raped my character's foster son ))

<AlcarGM> Jacob appears behind you a few moments later. "Yes?" a bit sharply.
<Mary_jane`^> "Ask Nora if she wants to have a three-way with sara."
<AlcarGM> Jacob pauses, then says :"Excuse me?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Did I sound like I was joking." She doesn't sound like she's joking... or happy with even asking
<AlcarGM> Jacob: "Why are you even asking this?"
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "Do shut up and look at the zoo. And think about the angel. Do the math."
<AlcarGM> Jacob frowns, then vanishes.
* Mary_jane`^ looks at the zoo
* Mary_jane`^ walks away from the zoo feeling dirty
<Mary_jane`^> "I can't believe I did that..."
<AlcarGM> Blaise: "Everyone makes sacrifices in wars."

<AlcarGM> You vanish, and appear in woods. Tall, broad trees wider than houses and a moon overhead far closer to the earth than any moon in your world.
* Mary_jane`^ frowns and shakes her head and looks around for any civilization
<AlcarGM> Yousee no civilization at all. The trees are odd, withered from cold and winter though it feels like summer and there AlcarGMre no fallen leaves, as if the branches rotted away. The air smells .. .strange, because it doesn't smell of anything at all. THere are no night sounds, save for the scutting of insects in the distance.
<Mary_jane`^> AlcarGM is there?
<AlcarGM> yes?
* AlcarGM looks confused.
<AlcarGM> err. Ooops
<AlcarGM> are no fallen leaves :p

* alcar wonders if the shamans have advice about raping one's totem animal.

<Mary_jane`^> but they're the embodiment of age... age has negetive effects, why haven't they experianced any?
<AlcarGM> Because they're walking cosmic prinicples. They look like old ladies because they want to. It's not like gods experience arthtitis :)
<Mary_jane`^> but they are the embodiment of all of this
<Mary_jane`^> they're just denying it
* Mary_jane`^ forces upon them this fact
<AlcarGM> .. How, exactly? They can't die. (Or at least not until Fenrir :p)
<AlcarGM> it' be like trying to convince deathn to suicide, which isn't possible :)
<AlcarGM> Fenrir growls "Go away. This isn't your fight."
* Mary_jane`^ informs them, in as truthful a way as possible, that though they have been killing, aging and ending things, they have neglected themselves, and that it would be a bad idea to let it continue.
<Mary_jane`^> It's not impossible
<Mary_jane`^> You just have to be a smooth talker
* Mary_jane`^ informs them of this, without uttering a word ofcourse =p
<AlcarGM> They ignore you :)
<Mary_jane`^> you suck

<Mary_jane`^> the staff is about balance, and the odds are in their favor right now =p
<AlcarGM> And they shouldn't be able to DIE, so balance might restore them all :)
<Mary_jane`^> no
<Mary_jane`^> them not being able to die is unbalanced
<Mary_jane`^> it throws the universe off
<Mary_jane`^> infact
<Mary_jane`^> the fact that they're here is throwing the universe off
<Mary_jane`^> itSHOULD destroy them
<AlcarGM> Uh, no. Whatever made them is far, far more powerful than the creator of a univcersre. You're free to trry tho :)
* Mary_jane`^ glares at the gm and wishes to argue the point more, but the fact is that she is being attacked by a very deadly old woman

<AlcarGM> The old woman, after bllocking you, is ignoring you entirely. Fenrir is the threat. To them, you're a minor distraction and nothing more.
<Mary_jane`^> (( I know where you live ))

* Mary_jane`^ assumes the staff has no effect and calls it away with a mental thanks and is back at square 1
<AlcarGM> You call the staff. The world ... moves... You hear something, like a a distant note of song.....
<Mary_jane`^> (( oh.. nevermind... You must be lagged )
<AlcarGM> It's white, and very bright in your hands, and the world is moving around it, the stars changing and turning green.
<AlcarGM> THe "dead' Ride stand, whole and unharmed, listening to the sound.
<AlcarGM> Fenrir: "Oh, fuck."
* Mary_jane`^ thinks to herself that that didn't work
<AlcarGM> Loki has stopped burning and has the same look on his face.
* Mary_jane`^ tries plan ZZ

<Mary_jane`^> (( I hate you alcar. ))
<AlcarGM> (( well, you se t them free of the universe :) ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( You could have said that ))
<AlcarGM> (( they'll .. uhm .. like that. inasmuch as they can be said to like anything. ))
<AlcarGM> (( MJ doesn't know that happened :P ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( Then why did you tell me? ))
<AlcarGM> (( just cuz :) ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( I told you it's hard to keep ooc with ic, there has just been so much going on in the game never never tell me something ooc, it'll leak =p ))

<Mary_jane`^> "It's a lie stacked on a lie, which is a lie that's lieing to the lie about lieing."
<Mary_jane`^> "Have you EVER told the truth?"
<AlcarGM> Loki: "Of course I have. Properly applied, the truth is more devastating than any lie could ever be."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes, ofcourse. I think, though, that everything you say is a lie on one level or another."
<GeminiRai> (( actually, everything he says is the truth. You saw it. ))
<AlcarGM> Loki laughs, sharply. 'And the same isn't true of everyone else? No one knows themself, no one can. We all tell lies to make life worth living and we all deceive. I am merely honest about it."
* Mary_jane`^ gives him a look but shakes her head
<Mary_jane`^> (( No he's not, he just lied to me about that... ))

<AlcarGM> You vanish, and appear in Babylon. Or rather, it was Babylon, but the streets are filled with bodies and moon seems to haven fallen from the sky and, quite literally, crushed the centre of the city.
* Mary_jane`^ opens her mouth to say something, but isn't exactly sure what to say and shuts her mouth quickly
* Mary_jane`^ looks aorund

<Mary_jane`^> "You could have atleast warned people you were goign to die..."
<AlcarGM> He blinks, confused. "No one ever wants to know things. Until it's too late. I have seen the serpent turning, I have watched the city burning, and wondered why the omens were ignored. Deal the cards and trade the glances, rolling the dice and taking the changing, making bargains that our souls can illl afford..." He hiccups.
<AlcarGM> Fisher King: "Oh, they knew. We were all dead anyway. Just a .. y' know .. waking dream." He waves a hand vaguely. "And I saw a dagger before me, and I finally got courage, to end it. Obscene mockery. Things should be allowe dto die, to rest."
<Mary_jane`^> "What the hell? Just... What the hell?"
<AlcarGM> The fisher king of doomed bablyon blinks blearily at you. "Made.. .perfect sense. He who has ears, let him see! He who has eyes, let him hear. Or .... something. I'm dying, you know. For the last time. Until the stars die out .... " He trails off .. then quickly down more drink.

<AlcarGM> Snake: "But words all lie because they they are but tools excecept perhaps the Old Tongue that was, but lost in the hands of fools."
<AlcarGM> (( nah, it wouldn't ;p ))
<Mary_jane`^> "I know the high tongue... Don't I?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Wait... Old tongue? That's different."
* Mary_jane`^ frowns at that
<Mary_jane`^> "Where can I find it?"
<AlcarGM> Snake: "But there is knowing and knowing. You must understand that there is nothing to know or be understood. That is what lies behind balance, the God that has no name, the prisoner resigned to nothing being ever the same."
* Mary_jane`^ stares at it
<Mary_jane`^> "As much as I like you, you are making no sense."
<AlcarGM> The snake hisses softly, amused. "We are trapped by what we are, the same as you and even stars. This is always true: we are what we are, unless we wish to change, but we never lose are scars and nothing can ever change."
<AlcarGM> (( Damn, this is hard :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( What is? ))
<AlcarGM> (( rhyming snakes :) ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( I didn't notice they were rhyming ))
<AlcarGM> (( lol. Then it worked. ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Where can I find this god with no name?"
<AlcarGM> Snake: "The creator above all creators cannot be sought nor found. The destroyer about all destroyters cannot be sought or found. The name that can nenamed is not the eternnal name."
<Mary_jane`^> "Then what's the point?"
<AlcarGM> THe snake hisses, amused. "To life? Perhasps only to ask why. The Creator? Because it wanted a creation? We cannot find ourselves, nor see ourselves, nor truly ever die. We are the thing we seek, if we but look in-out-side creation."
<AlcarGM> The other snake stirs. "Brother, that made no sense at all. You have to ecuxse him, I fear he's ill and desperately needs his dried frog pills."
<Mary_jane`^> "Dried frog pills?"
<AlcarGM> Snake 2: "Sanity, or a semblance of it. He saw outside one and had a fit. Went on about shadows watching us from mirrors and many other silly fears. But that there is a God that mad all we know, but we do not know why this should be show. We are just snakes, fixing things with balance and luck and little things."

* Mary_jane`^ scratches the second snake
<Mary_jane`^> "Well, if nothing you're both interesting to talk to."
<AlcarGM> (( and hard for the GM to make up stuff for :P ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( Just make them like any other npc... ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( They're just snakes that talk =p ))
<AlcarGM> Snake1: "The real truths can never be spoken and only experienced once we have woken from the dream of senses."
<AlcarGM> (( in rhyme :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( That's not my problem =p Like I said I never noticed they were rhyming, infact i figured you dropped it ))
<AlcarGM> The real truths can never be spoken / and only experienced / once we have woken/ from the dream of senses .. nope :P
* AlcarGM just has to avoid any semblance of meter otherwise it'd take too long to make up their dialogue :p
<Mary_jane`^> that's why it doesn't work

<Mary_jane`^> "Oh... Oh well, if I didn't hurt you, that's good. What law?"
* Mary_jane`^ scretches under one's chin
<AlcarGM> Snake1 hisses happly. "The law of the god whose name dods not exist not even for this who serve it ..." pause. I hissed."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes, you did."
* Mary_jane`^ grins "You guys need more practice."
<AlcarGM> Snake2: "You really need to work on your rhyme, though that will seem funnny at a later time. We are bound by ancient decree from before time ran, you see. We cannot tell the truth simply, because then it would be worth nothing. You see?"

<Mary_jane`^> "It doesn't matter though, as long as you're talking, I'm ok."
* Mary_jane`^ would be very very bored if they weren't talking
<AlcarGM> snake2: "How does that make you okay? Time passes when while we these words say."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, it would be time waisted sleeping, I think. Everyone i know is either having sex, or talkign to someone else, or investigating something, or just mad at me."
<AlcarGM> Snake1: "That was even worse than mine. At least I can speak words that don't seem to rhyme or come in herds. Anger is never good to anyone. It takes root deep and never leaves, no matter what anyone wants to believe."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, I don't think he's angry, he's just... I dunno, I hurt his pride... or his honour. I can't follow him though, because I promised I wouldn't."
<AlcarGM> Snake1: "Promises are made to broken. If we only followed roads that others had taken we could get nowhere fast."
* Mary_jane`^ raises an eyebrow at him
<Mary_jane`^> "It was less a promise more a bargain. If I go there it will just make him more angry. I want him to be unmad right?"
<AlcarGM> Snake2: "But honour is trust and important to all of us. To hold to ones word is more than to one sword. If you lose honour you can lose nothing more, it's sad but true."
<AlcarGM> (( The GM, meanwhile, goes slowly insane from having to make these rhymes work all the time. ))

* Eltanan frets. and worries. and rages. and dispairs. and lusts. WAY too much of that last one.
* alcar is a practising asexual at the moment. Great for ignoring lust :)
<alcar> Probably too good for it, I imagine.
<alcar> but when everyone you meet whose cute is straight it's either be asexual or get irate.
<alcar> OMG. The game is blurring into other channels. Kill me now.

<Mary_jane`^> You know
<Mary_jane`^> I expected to find myself in my brothers bedroom trying to seduce him

<Mary_jane`^> is it really his sister if it's a spell?
<Mary_jane`^> does that count as incest?
<AlcarGM> hrm. I have no idea. I doubt the issue comes up often :p I'd say yes, though.
<Mary_jane`^> why?
<Mary_jane`^> The taboo behind incest is because of the resulting pregnancies
<Mary_jane`^> what if it's not a problem? Plus there isn't any blood that is the same.. the only thing that links him to the spell is that it looks like his sister
<AlcarGM> You think MJ'll think of it like that? :)
<Mary_jane`^> nope

<Mary_jane`^> "No, I want to know, tell me. You're always silly."
<AlcarGM> Anne: "Oh, gee, thanks. And it was just things when I was younger. Odd dreams, nightmares, stuff like that. Nothing important, really. I just had an over active imagination. I even started seeing little people, like fairies, and auras. New age nonsense like that."
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh. And they gave you pills for that?"
<AlcarGM> Anne nods.
<Mary_jane`^> "Wow, sounds pretty serious. Nah, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. What makes you think it's happening again?"
<AlcarGM> Anne: " I don't know. Just, for a moment, I looked at you and didn't reecognize you at all. There was a sword, and blood, and you were stabbing someone..." she shakes her head. 'Silly."
* Mary_jane`^ eats her ice cream and drops her shield "Really?"
<Mary_jane`^> (( You're evil MJ... ))
<AlcarGM> (( LOL! ))

<alcar> Jar jar rocked!
<alcar> And I liked the ewoks.
* Eltanan shoots alcar
<alcar> You must have to look at it as a kid woiuld and let your inner child out.
<alcar> Stop starving it you meanie!
<Eltanan> My inner child was molested and killed when I was eleven.
<alcar> Excuses, excuses.
<alcar> mind you, I liked Jar jar causing the republic to fail .... darth binks would just be fun.
<alcar> things like that are why I can never run a star wars rpg :)
<Kantizuni> ew
<Eltanan> that is correct.
<Eltanan> that is exactly why you can't run a star wars rpg. :)
<alcar> but the ewoks as an order of dark jedi would be cool. Care bears, without the care.

* Mary_jane`^ eats and goes outside to wait for nora
<AlcarGM> Hrm. Nora is probably having three way sex with the whore of babylon and and Jacob, remember?
<Mary_jane`^> ...
<Mary_jane`^> for 18 hours?'
* Mary_jane`^ walks to school
<AlcarGM> This IS Sara we're talking about :P
<Baliadoc> ((if you don't remember that... you've got some problems))
<Mary_jane`^> (( She's been doing it since about 6 last night... ))
<Baliadoc> ((and if your natural response to being reminded is to start walking to school, you've got some Problems. note the capitalized P.))
<AlcarGM> (( It's worse than you think Bali. MJ suggestted the three way :) ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( I didn't think she'd DO it! ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( I thought she'd laugh and say she's not gay ))
<AlcarGM> (( well she wasn't. At least not bi. After Sara, who knows? :p ))
<Baliadoc> ((... i can't capitalize enough letters to capture of the gravity of your situation.))

<Baliadoc> y'know, i've been thinking about this, and i think what's weirder than you running only one game at the moment is that there's only one person in it.
<Baliadoc> that's, like, unheard of.

<AlcarGM> You look behind you. and see people. It doesn't take to look to trecognize Ralph in a wig and trenchcoat, trying to be inconspicuous. He's trying so hard that a lot of people are staring at him.
<Mary_jane`^> lol
<AlcarGM> He follows you to Bio, still trying to be James Bond. You have ot fight the urge to laugh. He's actually ducking into shadows, changing wigs and once wearing underwear on his head, hopefully by mistake.
<Mary_jane`^> lol

<AlcarGM> Mrs. Thompson has the class gets seated, and decides to inform you all that the human race really IS decended from monkeys. She includes diagrams. And slides. And by the end of the class half the class wll never procreate/.
<Mary_jane`^> uhg
<Mary_jane`^> she's insane
<Mary_jane`^> more than luna
<AlcarGM> oh, yes :p I think I'll tranfer her to uni, for the second campaign :)
<AlcarGM> (( would just need to give her different pet theories. ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( You can't do that... I'll pick a different uni I swear ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Luna... what happened to babylon?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "The king killed himself, or let someone Bad kill him. And poof." She snaps her fingers. "I'd been planning a shopping spree for ages, too! The only think left standing was the starbucks."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "AND they were out of lattes."
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh... I see. Hey, will you be at the final battle?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I'm invited?!"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Is it BYOB?"
<AlcarGM> (( please say no to drinks :p ))
<Mary_jane`^> "Yeah, as long as you're on my side." With a grin
<Mary_jane`^> "But no drinks." for the gm
<AlcarGM> (( though the idea of Luna getting everyone shitfaced and the battle being called off by an urgent need for the porclain god is strangely tempting. ))

<Mary_jane`^> "The world won't end, I'm seeing to that."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "But what if it does? What if someone forgets to pay the reality bill, or we lose? We could lose. You can't have victory unless you have failed."
<Mary_jane`^> "You just have to set that thought aside and hope that we win. We will win. Think of it this way, if the world ends then you probably won't have to worry about it."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Good point!"

<AlcarGM> Luna: "How do you use a soul? I was taught they are decoration. Like brains."

<AlcarGM> that'd be one screwed up relationship.
* AlcarGM smiles evilly.
<Mary_jane`^> yes
<Mary_jane`^> it'll have to be in c2 though
<AlcarGM> Yeah.
<AlcarGM> .. hrm. Couldm involve his ghot. That would be fun.
<Mary_jane`^> if his ghost is what he sees himself as
<Mary_jane`^> he comes back as a girl
<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "I'm in a relationship with a paraplegic transsexual ghost. ....I need help."
<Mary_jane`^> rofl
<AlcarGM> actually, that passes "needs help" by several light years.
<Baliadoc> and involves a lot of my patented Capital Letters.
<AlcarGM> LOL. Yes :)

* Mary_jane`^ looks up at Luna "it's just a waiting game now."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I don't like waiting."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I know! I could kill the other two seals."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes, but that would be insane."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "No, no, no. If the die BEFORE Merlin planned, we have an edge."
* Mary_jane`^ frowns
<Mary_jane`^> "You... Have a point."
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Like, we can be waiting for them when they arrive."
* Mary_jane`^ shakes her head
<Mary_jane`^> "That's a first..."
<AlcarGM> Luna sighs and looks sad. "It's because I'm sane. I can't help it."

<AlcarGM> and some SO for MJ does neeed to enter the second campaign .... any ideas?
<Mary_jane`^> SO?
<AlcarGM> signifigant other
<AlcarGM> like, boyfriend.
<Mary_jane`^> a witch or wizard... someone she knows won't be too freaked about her past
<Mary_jane`^> maybe victor
<AlcarGM> lol. That would be ... interesting.
<AlcarGM> "Well, the second time we met she almost turned me into ashes....."
<AlcarGM> The only problem is he's 600 years old. MJ is human. Attraction = nil :P
<Mary_jane`^> yeah
<Mary_jane`^> hmm
<Mary_jane`^> Then probably some random witch or wizard then
<AlcarGM> unlike certain tv shows where centuries old vampires routinely fell in love with proto-Saras :p

<Mary_jane`^> "Alright... Tonight at sundown we're all meeting."
<Mary_jane`^> "The zoo."
<AlcarGM> Gabe just nods. "There's ... something else. About it."
<Mary_jane`^> "Hmm?"
<AlcarGM> Gabe: "I need to ask you to ... do something. During it."
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes?"
<AlcarGM> Gabe takes a deepbreath, meeting your gaze. "Kill me. Sword. Through the heart."
* Mary_jane`^ looks at him, and at Luna and back at him, then at luna
<Mary_jane`^> "I was joking when I said it was contageous. What did you do?"
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I didn't do anything!"

<AlcarGM> Kiesha: "Yeah?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Tonight at sundown at the zoo, the final battle. YOu comming?"
<AlcarGM> Kiesha hesitates. "I don't know... I mean .... I don't want to die.. or - or see anyone else die..."
* Mary_jane`^ nods
<Mary_jane`^> "No one will blame you if you don't. You're young, and there will be plenty of other battles."

<AlcarGM> Luna: "Wait. So what do we do this afternoon?"
<Mary_jane`^> "We could just do it, on the floor?"
<AlcarGM> Luna pauses.
<AlcarGM> Jeeves pauses.
<AlcarGM> Luna: "Do what?"

* Mary_jane`^ walks for the seals trying not to get too close to the men
<AlcarGM> Boys. Definitely boys. And some men. THey're all just .. .standing arond ... drawn here, and serioiusly confused.
* Mary_jane`^ walks quickly
<AlcarGM> You manage to ignore a LOT of people taking out unnatural needs in ways involving other things. And probably animals. Fire hyrants. Random body parts...
<AlcarGM> Luna: "I feel like I just walked into the twilight zone. Only worse."
<Mary_jane`^> "Don't...talk..."
<AlcarGM> Luna just nods.
<AlcarGM> You reach the seal cage without problems. Largely because the GM reallyt doesn't WANT to rp what problems would be.
<AlcarGM> There are seals. And three people. One of the seals is dead. The other two seem to be sleeping.
* Mary_jane`^ looks in the cage
* Mary_jane`^ stares for a few minutes
* Mary_jane`^ clears her throat
<AlcarGM> The people are a) naked, b) not human, c) having sex, and d) all of the above. The only thing preventing a mass rushing of seriously confused teenagers is the power they're ..generating .. is keeping them away. A few tried to get close and from the loooks of things exploded. Or at least parts of their bodies did.

<AlcarGM> The three of them turn, looking at the same time. Something ...crashes into you. Desire. Need. Wanting.... Belonging...
<AlcarGM> Sara waves. "HI!"
<Mary_jane`^> "See luna, I think she's crazier than you ever were."
* Mary_jane`^ waves
<AlcarGM> Jacob and Nora are, quite obviously, otherwise engaged.
<AlcarGM> Sara: "This is fun! DO you want to join? You'd ned to be breing toys. We only have one man, and I think he's getting tired."
<AlcarGM> Luna, wisely, does not reply.
<Mary_jane`^> "No, we're here to break up the fun."
<AlcarGM> Sara: "But we're making power. And the other two seals are alive. And well. And happy!"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "And for the past seven hours Merlin hasn't even attacked the ward. I think he's watching!"
<AlcarGM> (( ways to defeat Merlin never considered previously...... ))
* Mary_jane`^ leans on the pole and stares "Yeah... Probably..."

* alcar shakes his head
<alcar> I hate it when players take the advice of npcs in a game :P
<alcar> NPC: "Wait! If we destroy the last of the seals before Merlin, we can choose when the final battle happens!"
<alcar> PC: "That's a good idea!"
<alcar> Me: "Uh...."

<AlcarGM> Luna is eating a ham and green bean sandwich.
<Mary_jane`^> "Is that good?"
<AlcarGM> Luna nods. "I felt like having both. And there was bread."
<AlcarGM> (( which is pretty much verbatim what I said to a coworker when I did it.... :P ))
<Mary_jane`^> ((... You actually did that? ))
<AlcarGM> (( Yup. ))

* Mary_jane`^ walks out and shuts the door
<Mary_jane`^> "Tyler's like... 14."
<AlcarGM> Luna nods. "And had sex with the whore of bablyon and a succubus." She considers that. "I'm trying to see a downside to that."
<Mary_jane`^> "He's 14! She is a totaly craddle robber."
<Mary_jane`^> (( I almost called her a grave robber, which would have been wierd ))
<AlcarGM> (( very :p ))

<AlcarGM> Nora is making eggs. .... and nods when you arrive. "We ready?"
<Mary_jane`^> "yeah, I'm going to the zoo now."
* Mary_jane`^ saves the game

<AlcarGM> Blaise appears beside the cage, frowning. "Too many people out there for me to be certain if the wards will hold. Are we all ready?"
* Mary_jane`^ stretches her back and breathes deeply "Where's Luna?"
<AlcarGM> Nora : "Watching from the moon, I think. She said something about planning her entrance. And a wardrobe."
<AlcarGM> (( Luna comes disguised as Merlin: "Surpr ---- ack...." ))

<Mary_jane`^> "Almost. You want to drop the wards now?"
<AlcarGM> Sara snaps her fingers. "Done!
<AlcarGM> Everyone tenses.
<AlcarGM> Nothing happens.
* Mary_jane`^ looks at the seals
<Mary_jane`^> "So were your wards even doing... Anything?"
<AlcarGM> Sara: "They stopped Merlin from killing them!"
<AlcarGM> She regards the seals critically. "Maybe they need to have sex?!"
<Mary_jane`^> "They look kind of dead."
<AlcarGM> Nora hefts Thor's hammer thoughtfully.
<AlcarGM> A seal blinks owlishly.
<AlcarGM> Sara: "We could kill them and eat them!"
<Mary_jane`^> "Oh, maybe they're not."
<Mary_jane`^> "You can kill them, if you want."

<AlcarGM> You never see Lancelot move, only Phil's blade in front of you a hairsbreath from your face and then the two of them are gone, moving too fast for you to follow. Rain and thunder ad lithing are filling the air, and you can hear magic and power and bodies are falling. But, somehow, around you and Arthur it's quiet, almost calm....
<Mary_jane`^> "Just a minute."
* Mary_jane`^ closes her eyes and calls for the staff
<AlcarGM> You can almost feel it, just outside your reach. Merlin's will is keeping it from coming. And it does NOT like that.
* Mary_jane`^ pulls harder, opening her eyes and looking unhappy herself
<AlcarGM> Arthur: "I once thought they were lovers, you know, but it was love instead. Equals. Lancelot could have been .... well. No matter. What's done is done. I am here for Excalibur, woman."
<Mary_jane`^> "Woman?"
<AlcarGM> The king walks towards you, ignoring the chaos and bedlam entirely. "That would be you, yes."

<Mary_jane`^> "Who is watching hell right now?"
* Mary_jane`^ goes for arthur's heart
<AlcarGM> Arthur blocks, with a smile, returning it with a thrust aimed for yours. "Merlin, I imagine. He's quite powerful. I'm amazed your friend is stopping him at all."
* Mary_jane`^ assumes her power isn't working right now
<Mary_jane`^> "Yes, well..."
<Mary_jane`^> "Camelot had to fall. Nothing lasts forever."
* Mary_jane`^ tries the truth thing on Arthur =p
<AlcarGM> (( lol. To do what? ))
<Mary_jane`^> See what Gwenevere saw, hopefully
<AlcarGM> Arthur blinks ....... your gazes lock .. and, for a moment, he stops. "I ... loved ...we couldhave ... made the world live ... if she'd ... been true.........."
* Mary_jane`^ doesn't break the gaze, but thrusts for his heart
<AlcarGM> Your blade punches through his guard and into his heart. He blinks.. confused... and his sword falls to the ground. He reaches out a hand .. hesitantly... "Guinevere?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Arthur..."
<Mary_jane`^> "For what it's worth Arthur... I forgive you."
<AlcarGM> Arthur: ".... as I killed you ... I am ...... love does.. .terrible things......" he slides off your sword to the ground in the rain. "I .... can't ... forgive ... my.."
<Mary_jane`^> "Love is forever."

<AlcarGM> Merlin: "You little bitch."
* Mary_jane`^ looks up, at Merlin
<AlcarGM> He is Not Happy. Seriously not happy.
<AlcarGM> Merlin: "DO you KNOW how long I planned this and you KILLED him?"
<Mary_jane`^> with cappital NH

<AlcarGM> You are in your body, unharmed, untouched, and Merlin is above you. There is blood on your sword, and a hole where power should be inside you ..... but the sword is blue, and Truth speaks .....
<AlcarGM> Light fills the world around you, drawn to truth, and from it...... something ... a cage... you need to cage Merlin ......
<Mary_jane`^> right...
* Mary_jane`^ cages merlin =p
<Mary_jane`^> (( Isn't that what I was TRYING to do? ))
<Mary_jane`^> (( Thank you captain obvious =p ))

<Mary_jane`^> "We should get everyone to a hospital..."
* Mary_jane`^ pulls out her phone, and calls the police chief, checking Gabe's pulse
<AlcarGM> Nora looks where Fenrir was, then just nods....
<AlcarGM> There is a pulse. very faint, and the air around him is static ... but a pulse.
<AlcarGM> Lance Christensen answers the phone with "What now?"
<Mary_jane`^> "Lance..."
<AlcarGM> Pause, then "Is your fireworks show finally over?"

<AlcarGM> Ambulances ewnter the remains of a zoo, filled with bodies, blood, and craters.....
<AlcarGM> Nora: "I think .. after this ... I am going to sleep for a week...."
* Mary_jane`^ drops the phone and looks around for pulses, lives
<Mary_jane`^> "I think, after this, i'm going to cry for a week. Remind me next time, that I hate being the savior."
<AlcarGM> Tyler is alive. Nora and you are. Gabe is .... and no one else is here. Either gone, missing..... or perhaps dead.
<AlcarGM> Nora: "At least there was something to save."
* Mary_jane`^ hugs her best friend hard
<AlcarGM> Nora returns the hug hard.... then lets go.. "What the fuck fo you mean, NEXT TIME?!"

<Chaos`^> that was fucking awsome
<alcar> lol! Glad you liked it :)
<Chaos`^> best campaign i've ever been in
<Chaos`^> Plus
<Chaos`^> it's the 1st i've actually ended on a good note
<Chaos`^> i've only ended 1 other
<alcar> LOL! That is true :)
<Chaos`^> which is the (now) 2nd best campaign
<Chaos`^> which was lolad =p

<alcar> poor Merlin though ... all his dreams, toend up,being trapped by his anima in a giant penis shaped tower with Sara......

<Chaos`^> Plus, in the end, no one died, except maybe luna and blaise but that's a maybe
<Chaos`^> you know how much I hate characters dieing =p
* alcar laughs. Yes :) Gabe WAS going to die, but he became too much fun :p

* alcar tended to make 3/4 of the plots up as they went along .. .and figure it out later. Which was fun, but sometimes confusing :p
<Chaos`^> lol
* alcar 's original plot had Sara as God.
<alcar> in disguise :P
<alcar> because, what better disguise is there....
<Chaos`^> lol
<Chaos`^> no
<Chaos`^> just no

<WarezBert> then how about the fridge is an incarnation of the dhali lama?
<WarezBert> :p
<alcar> "I have to go now. Tibet must be freed."
<alcar> "Dad, what?"
<alcar> "I have to fee tibet. my people are in danger."
<WarezBert> "bzzt" *dispenses ice*
<alcar> "Dad... what are you talking about?"
<alcar> "THe fridges need my aid! I can hear them, calling out over the radio waves, begging for new models!"
<alcar> Maybe not.
<WarezBert> yea lol

<WarezBert> maybe a robot that got built originally for some mundane purpose, such as one routine task... got upgraded to have a little choice/decision making in order to do that job better, then got left alone for a LONG time to go crazy.... or in this case sentient.
<WarezBert> im not clear on the difference :p
<alcar> "I can put lids on bottles. I can put lids on bottles. I CAN PUT BOTTLES ON LIDS! I AM SENTIENT NOW!"

<alcar> trying to justify sex with a clone of your sister is bound to be weird :P
<alcar> not that I speak from personal experience or anything.

<Chaos`^> I need to enlist the aide of a black hole to fix Sol
<Chaos`^> it's like old star meets new star kind of thing =p
<Chaos`^> less fix him, more make him grow up
* alcar laughs.
<alcar> That would likely be a Bad Idea :p
<Chaos`^> I imagine I could get a grey to give me a ride...
<Chaos`^> no way, that'd kick ass
<alcar> And MJ is no longer a Power., so make it Really Bad Idea, in Baliadoc Caps :)
<Chaos`^> MJ didn't have good ideas when she had power
<Chaos`^> wha tmakes you think she'll have good ones now?
<alcar> Good point :p

* WarezBert is advertising : Player Character available for rent/permanent home... toilet trained, won't make a mess of your campaign... :)

<alcar> since exactly what Merlin was imprisoned in his vague so I had the whole "tree" and nimue being a fortelling of the future.
<Baliadoc> lol, nice!
* alcar thinks it was probably needlesss complex.
<Baliadoc> eh, complexity keeps you from having to explain things ;)
<Baliadoc> easy to confuse players.
<alcar> lol. True :)
<alcar> Tho that has backfired :P
<Aerdan> life's like that.
<Baliadoc> well... i suppose no plan is failproof ;)
<Baliadoc> but if ninjas teach us anything, it's that a smoke bomb and quick feet are always a solid backup plan.

<Aerdan> then again, true witches follow the Celtic gods...
<alcar> Heh. Yeah. Right :)
<Aerdan> :P
<alcar> witchcraft as a magical system is full of "Do whatever you bloody well want" as far as I can tell. Like Zen magick. :p
<alcar> which would be a really strange idea.
<alcar> "I do magic by not doing magic at all. The magic that matters is the magic that is never cast. The real magicians knoews that magic is not real, nor unreal."
<alcar> or something like that.
<Baliadoc> lol
<Baliadoc> something like that. ;)

<Chaos`GM^> Your mouth taste green and you are very thirsty. The smell of breakfast hits you like a bag of soccer balls that are made of brick. Your stomach disagrees with your legs and you fall out of bed. You don't recall letting anyone into your private kitchen, but because it is a part of the main building anyone with a key could get in.
<Rene> (( hrm, this setting have AIs? Like, to turn lights on and stuff?" ))
<Chaos`GM^> (( Absolutely! why wouldn't it!? ))
<Rene> (( Cuz you didn't want any? :p ))
* Rene attempts not to groan. "Lights." Coughs. "Lights on, please."
<Chaos`GM^> (( T'ch ))

<Chaos`GM^> Jasmine comes out of her room in a skirt entirely too short and a shirt entirely too low. She has a pair of sunglasses entirely too big and her makeup is entirely too dark.
* Rene ,wisely, says nothing about any of that.
<Chaos`GM^> She smiles "Ready honey?"
<Chaos`GM^> She skips her way to the door, entirely too happy.
* Rene nods, ignoring the honey., and follows carefully, keeping an eye out for fans, mostly.
<Chaos`GM^> She goes out the door. The driver isn't there, no one called him. But that doesn't matter, because she walks. To the store.
* Rene squints at the sunlight and makes a note to compensate for that if anyone tries to kill them, though he doesn't expect any asssassin to actually bother getting up early. Which is why he's prepared for one, since if he was one he'd get up early.
<Rene> (( cyberpunk, where paranoia is an essential survival trait :p ))

<Chaos`GM^> She looks up and down the street "You know Rene. This city is boring."
<Chaos`GM^> She walks over to a parked car on the side of the street and climbs up on its roof "LOS ANGELES! LISTEN UP! I AM JASMINE! WHO WANTS TO HEAR ME SING?"
<Chaos`GM^> She throws her hands in the air and a crowd begins to gather "Is that really her?" They ask "THE jasmine? It looks like her from the tv. Probably a look alike though."
<Rene> "Being alive is not boring," very carefully. "People DO have a tendancy to try and kill famous people? Especially the more... obsessive fans."
<Chaos`GM^> She looks down "Don't worry I know what I'm doing."
* Rene looks for the most probable areas for people to shoot her from while she's on the car and comes up with too many for his liking. "I very much doubt that. We have the water. Let's go insane."
<Rene> err, inside :P
<Chaos`GM^> She begins to dance on the car and sing one of her more signature songs "Fuck you asswipe"
<Chaos`GM^> Which doesn't get much air time
<Rene> (( .. hopes he's getting paid a LOT to body guard her :P ))

* Rene blinks. "What's wrong?" sharply.
<Chaos`GM^> "Make it stop!" She yells from her knees
* Rene helps her up, assuming she isn't wounded, and looks around for . .whatever she is referring to
<Chaos`GM^> Besides the smoke coming from down the street and people running around like the world is about to end, nothing special.
<Rene> "Make what stop?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Take me home. Please."
* Rene helps her up. And does so.
<Rene> Assuming someone didn't, say, blow it up as part of a piece of performance art.

<Chaos`GM^> "i don't know, don't you have a safehouse somewhere or something? You know the whole spy thing don't you?"
<Rene> "No, I don't. Know the spy thing, that is. And I do own a small place. Mostly for storage, and family if they visit."
<Chaos`GM^> "We need to go there. I need to hide. They can't find me..."
<Rene> "A former employer bought it for me. Under another name, because he was paranoid, but since someone did bomb his tooth brush and blow the side of his face off, not paranoid enough. It could be traced to me."

<Chaos`GM^> She takes off the crossbow and drops it on the floor
* Rene winces.
<Chaos`GM^> She has tears in her eyes but doesn't cry audibly
<Rene> "A weapon isn't to be treated ...." *sighs* "Jasmine?" carefully, ignoring the small voice saying he shouldn't be familiar when on duty. "What is this place? Who is after you, and why?"
<Chaos`GM^> She looks up, and looks like a lost puppy. She doesn't say anything, she only looks at you.
* Rene just waits, trying for calm, reminding himself they were "just" weapons. It's not like they had names. Wait. They did. Tries for calm again and mostly succeeds.

<Chaos`GM^> "I just KNOW i have to be here. I KNOW they're comming, I KNOW that they're inside of your appartment now. I KNOW there are five of them. I don't know how, or why."
* Rene almost says something possibly sarcastic ..... then blinks, calm vanishing behind a sudden stilliness. "Five of what?"
<Chaos`GM^> "People."
* Rene reminds himself it could be a coincidence. "Have you felt this ... instinct ... before?"
<Chaos`GM^> "No."
<Chaos`GM^> She rocks on the bucket. The metal ground clinks lightly.
* Rene is quietly relieved and relaxes a little. "So. We are runing from five ... people. Only, you don't know why. Or to where. Or if there are kin fact people."
<Chaos`GM^> "Right."
<Rene> "I had been hoping you'd contradict some of that."

<Rene> "Such as a speculation as to why people want to dead?"
<Chaos`GM^> She nods
<Rene> (( They're music critics. I just know it. ))
<Chaos`GM^> "He'll be mad at me, because of what happened."
<Rene> "Who will be?"
<Chaos`GM^> "I don't know. SOmeone close to me... Old... I looked up to him... I don't know it's something important."
<Chaos`GM^> , after know =p
<Rene> (( lol. Okay. I was getting worried trying to parse that :p ))

<Chaos`GM^> No, it's just a loose piece of floor
* Rene loosens it to see if anything is under it.
<Chaos`GM^> You lift it up slightly, Jasmine steps on it quickly nearly crushing your fingers "Wait!"
* Rene looks up. "Yes?"
<Chaos`GM^> She stares at the floor "SOmething important..."
* Rene looks at her, then at the floor. "Well?"
<Chaos`GM^> "A knife. Give me a knife."
* Rene givs her his eighth-best knife, in case she damanges it.

<Chaos`GM^> She types in the year, the screen flashes error and goes back to counting down, 20 seconds
<Chaos`GM^> "The letters, something about them."
<Chaos`GM^> (( Where did you get 1 9 15 1? ))
<Rene> (( vowels in Arizona :p ))
<Rene> (( only thing I could think of. ))
<Chaos`GM^> (( So close... ))

<GeminiRai> d00d, there's four words that shouldn't be on the bucket:P
<GeminiRai> All of them have less than 9 letters
* GeminiRai raves
<alcar> oh! LOL!
<alcar> Damn. I was making it way too complicated :P
<GeminiRai> :P
* alcar was removing vowels, cutting out vowels and letters that duplicated....
<alcar> it's why I really suck at riddles :)

<Rene> it should have a singularity.
<Chaos`GM^> hmm?
<Rene> or a black hole, at the least.
<Rene> Give new meaning to a briefcase bomb
<Chaos`GM^> lol

<Rene> actually, I think in a cyberpunk world meme bombs would make the most sense.
<Chaos`GM^> meme?
<Rene> sort of like idea.
<Rene> ideas that spread, via Dawkins book about selfish genes, iirc.
* Rene asks google for teh specifics.
<Rene> A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
<Chaos`GM^> ..
<Rene> So, say, you could have meme bombs making people insane ,or going into cannibalistic orgies
<Rene> Or do alien invasions via memes.
<Chaos`GM^> ...
<Chaos`GM^> cannibalistic orgies?
<Rene> Well,orgies is perhaps not the best word for it :P
<Rene> feasts? Make people in a crowd devour each other and the like.
<Chaos`GM^> where is your mind?
<Chaos`GM^> cannibalistic orgies?
<Chaos`GM^> I can imagine it too, is the sad part
<Chaos`GM^> *nibble*
* Rene 's mind is .... special :P
* Chaos`GM^ shivers

* Rene picks a random second hand store, and has Jasmine get something ... normal. Bland. But with lots of free movement for running away, if it becomes necessary.
<Rene> (( Victorian dress and high heels, baby! ))

<Rene> "Do you know any meddocs who'd do a favour?"
<Chaos`GM^> "What? I don't know anyone... I mean there's some singers and stuff but I think everyone either wants me dead, or wants the money." She seems distracted from her pain to yell at you
<Rene> "You're famous. Of course you know people ... and what money?"
<Rene> (( Now that you're hurt, helpless, got my place blown up and are insane .. .no. I wouldn't sell you for money. Though the player is all for it ;P ))
<Chaos`GM^> "Nothing. We need a doctor. Don't you know any doctors? Something? An EMT? I'm hurt damnit!" She moves her foot to stamp it on the ground she's laying on, but it hurts and she screams
<Chaos`GM^> (( She's not very smart I'm affraid =( ))
<Rene> (( so I've noticed :P ))

<Rene> The meddoc should call himself Dr. Who. And his lab the tardis :p
<Chaos`GM^> no
<Chaos`GM^> I refuse
<Rene> awwww :p
<Rene> Dr. Steve?
<Chaos`GM^> How about
<Chaos`GM^> The spin doctor?

<Rene> "We do NOT have time for games here, Jasmine. What in the name of Saint Gibson is going on?"
<Chaos`GM^> She frowns and hands you a scotch "I suppose I have alot of questions, but you seem to know more of what's going on than I do. I would like to know my name, though."
<Chaos`GM^> "I doubt it's Yang. Though they did say I was married... Are you my husband?"
* Rene puts the scotch down. "No. I am Rene. Your bodyguard. Now quit being foolish."
<Chaos`GM^> "Rene? Sounds like a woman's name... Am I a lesbian?"
<Chaos`GM^> She looks you over "You don't look like a woman, but you never can tell with Lesbians."
* Rene doesn't shake her. .... yet. "I wouldn't know. Now stop acting like you lost your memory and give me some answers here."
<Chaos`GM^> "What do you want me to tell you?"
* Rene starts ticking things off on his fingers. "One, why we're here. Two, how you knew to come here. Three, who is after you. Four, why. And lastly, how much of a bonus am I getting for this?"
* Rene is assuming OOCly she's the kind of person would WOULD fake amnesia to get out of answering a question she didn't want to :p
<Chaos`GM^> LoL

<Chaos`GM^> She looks through the rest of the bag, pulling out the pistol and ammo
<Chaos`GM^> She sets them lightly on the bed, holding them like a bottle of nitro
* Rene looks as well.
<Rene> "I hope this sparks memories. Perhaps of your last trip to a mall at Christmas time?"

* Rene checks the name on the card
<Chaos`GM^> Yin Yang
* Rene looks at it. "Hah."
<Chaos`GM^> She looks at you "What?"
<Rene> "The name."
<Chaos`GM^> She looks at it "Is it funny?"
<Rene> "Somewhat. Old fashioned. Do you know how to use these weapons?"
<Chaos`GM^> "I suppose it's like riding a bike?"
<Rene> "I have no idea what a bike is, but I don't see why not. AI, is there a shooting range in the hotel?"
<Chaos`GM^> There's a silence as the AI contemplates your sanity, then "No."
<Rene> (( it's cyberpunk :p I don't see why there wouldn;'t be one :) ))

<Rene> "Do you have a camera in the hallway?"
<Chaos`GM^> "No. I have a scanner."
<Rene> "Can you scan whoever is out there?" patiently.
<Chaos`GM^> "It's not Mrs. Yang."
* Rene pauses. "Could that be because Mrs. Yang is in the room right now?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Yes, also the scan does not register as Mrs. Yang."

<Chaos`GM^> She cringes again, pulls the trigger and misses again.
<Rene> "Look. You left it for a reason. Don't think. Just do."
<Chaos`GM^> She looks at you oddly "Let's see YOU do it!"
<Rene> "I don't use guns."
<Rene> "They're unfair."
<Rene> "and not .... civilized. A sword is. A sword you can see, and respond to. Guns just murder. A sword is art."
<Rene> (( realizes belatedly that Rene would have made a fun jedi, and ponders jedi in cyberpunk :p ))
<Chaos`GM^> "What? You don't know how to use it and you're telling me to just do it?"
* Rene frowns. "I know *how* to. I merely choose not to."
<Rene> "It is a matter of honour in battle."

<Chaos`GM^> You walk outside, into the light of midday. The streets are busy with people going to their lunch hour. A man runs through the crowd toward you. He is looking behind him, and you see two police officers chasing him.
<Chaos`GM^> You get the feeling you should be remembering something important right now...
<Rene> (( well that's a useless feeling :p ))

<Chaos`GM^> "They didn't notice us. You ok?"
<Chaos`GM^> She nods "You get hurt?"
<Chaos`GM^> SHe walks toward the Hotel
* Rene shrugs. "Unless he cut me with some strange drug, yes."
* Rene also typed dog for drug the first time, by accident :p
<Rene> (( that would have been really strange :p "NO! Not a poodle!" ))

<Chaos`GM^> There is none, except a few non perishables such as instant mashed tomatoes and a chocolate bar.
<Chaos`GM^> (( and no tomatoes was not a typo =p ))
<Rene> (( .. right. ))

<Chaos`GM^> AI: "Excuse me, there seems to be..." Pausing "Five people outside that are not Mrs. Yang."
* Rene blinks. "Can you say anything else about them?"
<Chaos`GM^> "They haven't knocked. They seem to be standing. I don't have much more information."

<Rene> "Jasmine, your AI has no name. Would you like to name it?"
<Chaos`GM^> Jasmine looks at you oddly "What? Uhm... Why?"
<Rene> "Because it's yours?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Oh ah... What's a good name for a computer?"
<Chaos`GM^> AI: "I rather like Gary."
<Rene> "Hal? Skynet? Chaos? .. or Gary."

<Chaos`GM^> She blinks and goes to the briefcase and checks everything in it, and grabs her bag and puts it on the table.
<Chaos`GM^> She looks at you "Well?"
* Rene tapes a deep breath. "Find cover, and be careful."
* Rene gos over and knocks on the door.
<Chaos`GM^> LoL
* Rene gets out of the way of it after that, swords out :)
<Chaos`GM^> Jasmine hides under the table
<Chaos`GM^> Gary: "Someone seems to have knocked on the door."
<Rene> "Yes, if you don't mind.:"
<Chaos`GM^> You hear gary muffled through the door...
* Rene marvels that for an insanely expensive room they skimped on the ai

<Chaos`GM^> She goes to bed, and after a good hour there is another knock on the door
* Rene opens the door.
<Chaos`GM^> Five men are standing outside in black suits looking around the hallway
* Rene closes the door :P
<Rene> "SOrry, we don't want any."
<Rene> (( <-- is dead :p ))
<Chaos`GM^> The door closes as they realize it was opened, they look at you and are gone behind the door
<Chaos`GM^> Gary: "Would you like me to send them away?"
<Rene> "Ah, if possible, or ask what their business is?"

<Chaos`GM^> You get the feeling there is something important you should be remembering...
* Rene is getting used to this feeling :p
<Chaos`GM^> Your left arm goes numb and your blood feels cold comming from your shoulder.
* Rene doesn't plan to get used to this one :P

* Rene shakes his head, dismissing it. "Where are we?"
<Chaos`GM^> "SOme country manner. Evidently there's a man here that's a natural enemy of Mr. Snow. He said we can stay for two days."
* Rene nbods. "Well. Shall we go meet him?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Uhm... I'd rather not."
* Rene blinks. "Why not?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Well, I overheard the agents talking to him. He doesn't seem to pleasant."
<Rene> "Most people aren't. And if this Mr. Snow is after you, we need to learn something about him."
* Rene grins. "Besides, you can generally judge a person by their enemies."
<Chaos`GM^> "He could be after you. Maybe that's why you fell unconsceous."
* Rene frowns, then nods. "Perhaps. BUt I have no idea why. You, on the other hand, are a mystery. People like to solve those."
<Chaos`GM^> "You want to solve me?"
<Rene> (( Rene's player wanders off to plot the Mystery Machine and gang in cyberpunk.... ))

<Chaos`GM^> Jasmine leans back and flips the chanell
<Chaos`GM^> "Crappy news, nothing happy on those things."
<Rene> "Well, there is the secret of life."
<Rene> "Mind you, I wouldn't trusy anything coming from an academic. He probably discovered sex."

<Rene> "The secret of life is the discovery of interlocking compo - ooh - components for . ..ahhh .... reproduction." "Professor hound?" "ooh... err .. yes?" "Is there a reason you are being serviced my a prostitute below the table during our interview?" "Secret of life, my good man." "You .. never had sex before." "Well, once. But I was busy taking notes."
<Chaos`GM^> ...
<Rene> so, that's not going to be his message? :p
<Chaos`GM^> no

* Rene raises an eyebrow. "Who is Snow, anyway?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Terrible violent man. Would you like some tea?"
* Rene nods. "We'd love some. Do you know what he does, or why he might be after us?"
<Chaos`GM^> "No idea, i just know that we hate eachother. Snow isn't his real name, but thats how he signs his letters."
<Chaos`GM^> Your host walks toward the kitchen.
* Rene follows. "What do you hate him for?"
<Chaos`GM^> "Because he keeps trying to kill me. I don't take too lightly to that."
* Rene nods. "What did you do to him?"
<Chaos`GM^> "No idea."
<Rene> "Oh."
<Rene> "It would seem we have that in common, then."
<Chaos`GM^> "Good, I'm glad not to be alone." He says this sarcasticly. He leads you into the kitchen and begins some water for tea.
<Rene> (( Damn. Sometimes I wish Rene was more cyberpunk and'd just kill this fellow so Mr. Snow leaves them alone :) ))

* Rene thanks him, and finds some healing stuff, and uses it on himself and Jasmine.
<Chaos`GM^> healing stuff?
<Chaos`GM^> You pull out some holy water and throw it on your head and say a prayer.
<Rene> nanoboobs, whatever else :P
<Rene> ... nanobots.
<Rene> damn weird typo :p
<Chaos`GM^> yes well now I know where your mind is...
<Rene> (( definitely not on boobs :p ))
<Chaos`GM^> (( Freudian slip ))
<Rene> (( gets a better belt. ))
<Chaos`GM^> (( I could say so many things to the belt comment, but I'll let it slide ))
<Rene> (( :p ))

<Chaos`GM^> Jasmine is staring at the window "Is he supposed to be doing that?" As you enter. She doesn't turn to watch you walk in.
* Rene looks out the window
<Chaos`GM^> There seems to be what looks like a butler, on the green lawn, he is dancing with... A dead dog...
* Rene blinks.
<Rene> "I have no idea."
* Rene watches
<Chaos`GM^> "Should I shoot him?"
* Rene stares at Jasmine. "... Why?"
<Chaos`GM^> He's doing a waltz. There seems to be a stereo near him, but you can't hear anything
<Chaos`GM^> "Well he's insane and he might go postal and kill everyone."
<Rene> "That applies to most everyone you meet. We can ask our host."
<Chaos`GM^> "If I should shoot him?"
* Rene nods. "Exactly. I imagine he is short o