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[00:17] <@Shrike> MJ's getting blood in his nanite streams again
[00:19] <@Cara_Stang> I'm not taking him to the cyborg vet again
[00:19] * @Cara_Stang gets a shotgun
[00:19] <@Cara_Stang> Can't afford the twenty bucks
[00:20] * @MJ12 rips out Cara's throat at the behest of his Iteration X masters :(
[00:20] <@MJ12> *yip yip*
[00:20] <@Cara_Stang> :(
[00:20] <@Shrike> progenitor
[00:20] <@MJ12> I'm a cyborg attack dog!
[00:20] <@MJ12> I work two jobs :(
[00:20] <@MJ12> it's a hard life

<Koffee> Just because Mari likes Cara's pancakes, thinks about Cara alot, and when the train pulled away from the railroad station stared wistfully out of the window while dramatic music played, doesn't mean she has True Love: Cara >:('

<IxJac> So, where's Robert Nishida this morning?
(in PM)
<Andronicus> Giving a Spartan massage to Garner
<Westin> NO. NO HOMOEROTICISM.
<Andronicus> Say it. SAY IT.

<@Andronicus> Westin and Vulk should be buddies
<@Andronicus> They both know the terrible cost of a war for men's souls
<@MJ12> except Westin's isn't stained
<@IXJac> And Vulk isn't gay.

[After being unwillingly possessed by a Yuki-Onna]
[19:50] <@Tsurara> "This is her body which she gifted to me. But we do not have long to destroy the plans of Lord Mikhaboshi."
[19:50] <@IXJac> Kana senses absolutely NOTHING evil about this spirit
[19:50] <@Westin> (Liz gives up her body to anyone who asks, she's a dirty slut)
[19:50] <Andronicus> (you sound jealous)

<Proteus> Lesson for the day: When the only other option is a frog, the Man From Yesterday looks good.

[17:35] <@Liz> Finally that annoying fly will trouble you no more (on Proteus leaving the room)
[17:35] <@Liz> bzz bzz bzzzz while you're trying to read this fascinating book you found in Blake's labyrinth

<@Liz> Can a blasphemous imprint of a scientist's mind onto cockroach flesh love an allegorical representation of the finders of abandoned things? I say yes.

<IXJac> Yeah, Progenitors are bad at physics, so they tend to cross moral event horizons without noticing it. ;)

<Kerrus> hrm, I wonder if Shu could pull off (if he had the spheres) forces 2 corr 2 get free cable
<IXJac> If he was a Virtual Adept, yes
<IXJac> Proteus would have to teach him, and find some way to translate it to kung fu
<Shrike> Punch the cable guy until you get free cable.

<Kana> It's a great combo
<Kana> IX has no Notes and we have no Plan.
<Kana> What could go wrong?

<Nekoliz> If he comes after us I'll use the fire gem tass to summon the archetypical form of the shounen hero at him
<Nekoliz> that'll put the wind up him
<gg> you'll be stuck in the same fight fifty sessions from that regretting it dearly

<@Protokos> Is not a Mage entitled to the Tass of her brow?
<@Protokos> NO! says the orphan! It belongs to my Gundam!
@Protokos> NO! says the Hermetic! It belongs to Horizon!
<@Protokos> NO! says the Akashic! It belongs to the spirits!
<@Protokos> I refuse these!
<@Protokos> I choose . . . The Wicked City
<@Protokos> Where the Progenitor need not fear the MiB. Where the Daemonologist need not fear the Quaesitor

<MJ12> Westin is the moral center of Team Evil
<MJ12> and this scares the fuck out of me

Original Series

<IXJac> You have some vampire blood on your sword
<Kanako> it's covered in teflon remember? ;p
<IXJac> Drip drip drip
<Ralson> (No, keep it)
<Ralson> (it's useful)
<Kanako> (fuck no)
<Ralson> (It's full of essence!)
<Kanako> (are you serious?)
<IXJac> (yes)
<Kanako> !

<@MReynolds> "The closest I got to getting laid last night was kicking another guy in the crotch." >:(
<@Cara_Stang> "I didn't know you liked men in that way."

<@MReynolds> Cara's a Trad brat :p
<@Tia-> :P
<@Cara_Stang> Yeah. She is. She's been in the Quaesitor's for... wel forever more or less, so
<@MReynolds> back in the day, when she was young
<@MReynolds> the older mages gave her candy to spy on the young 'uns
<@MReynolds> :p
<@Tia-> lol

<IXJac> Anyway, the conversation drifts off into other topics. Both of you roll Manipulation+Expression
<John_Nightingale> d1
<IXBot> John_Nightingale : ( 7 )
<Tia-> d1
<IXBot> Tia- : ( 8 )

<IxJac> You just went through airport security, so is anyone really gonna beleive you coincidentally had a gun on you?
<John_Nightingale> I'm claerly a terrorist
<John_Nightingale> don't you know, dem eeeebil terrists can sneak anything anywhere!
<IxJac> You'd need to be wearing an arab headdress for that to work. ;)

<IXJac> OK, three attacks?
<Kana-> yup
<Kana-> d5
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 8 4 10 2 )
<Kana-> d2
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 9 6 )
<IXJac> Roll to hit the next?
<Kana-> no rolling damage?
<IXJac> Lets do the to hit rolls
<Kana-> okay next...
<Kana-> d4
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 6 10 5 )
<Kana-> d2
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 3 )
<Kana-> d1
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 )
<Kana-> d1
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 )
<Kana-> omg.
<Kana-> d1
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 10 )
<Kana-> ...
<IXJac> ROTFLMAO
<Kana-> d1
<IXBot> Kana- : ( 8 )
<Vali> Wow.
<IXJac> OK, Kana kills the FUCK out of all three, slashslashslash
<beta-chan> Off with his head.

<IXJac> The reinforcements are standing there, shaking their radios as music blares, when suddenly, as if from nowhere. . .
<IXJac> Ral, you are racing forward in a fury

• Vali crashes out a window and lands in their midst!
  
• Vali crashes out a window, lands, and THEN gets in amidst them!
  

<IXJac> Well, the only window is the van they're beside, so Vali crashes through that

<Mari> Dex+dodge?
<IXJac> Dex+Athletics
<IXJac> He's bringing the whole place down

<IXJac> You blast a hole in Sieg's chest, and he collapses! Cathy(other) let's out a shriek as he falls
<Cara_Stang> (Awesome)
<Cara_Stang> "Good shooting Cathy!"
<IXJac> d3
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 1 8 7 )
<IXJac> "Showed that nasty delinquent what's what, what?" Says the constable fiercely
<Catherine> "Indeed!"

<IXJac> Cathy takes 3 points of damage! You've been demon jizzed. It's burning up her clothes

<MJ12> Well Norse, yes, I am fully aware that shooting a mage in the head multiple times before they can cast their spell is an effective countermagic method

• Cara answers the phone, frowning. "Where were you? I called."
  

<Proteus> "Acquiring phenomenal cosmic power."

<Westin> you're a MAGE
<Westin> this is called MAGE: THE ASCENSION
<Westin> Not MORTALS: THE SUBMITTING

<@IXJac> OK, well, first of all, you raised your group expense account to Resources 4
<@Tia-> :D <@MReynolds> :)
<@Kana-> by cheating at cards and sleeping around no less >:3

S3

<IXJac> Kano flings his improvised spear at the boomer
<IXJac> d10
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 8 7 2 6 10 7 3 2 7 10 )
<IXJac> d2
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 9 1 )
<Shu> (good god)
<Kana> This is going on events
<IXJac> d12
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 3 6 7 7 8 7 5 8 4 3 9 6 )
<IXJac> d8
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 10 7 1 3 2 1 10 3 )
<IXJac> The pole smashes into its eye and penetrates, and Kano leaps aside and tumbles into the water

• Catherine feels remarkably exposed, tries to sense if there are any spirits around, since they often congreate at gambling houses.
  

<Andronicus> (Norse the only spirits here are the kind in bottles. :p)

<IxJac> OK, Mari gets. . . 8 successes
<IxJac> OK, if mari was down any WP, she regains it as she lectures MJ until his minutes run out on onyx
<Mari_chan> (and Cara laughed when Mari ordered that copy of Onyx quarterly)

<IxJac> Although you do see that he's trying to put the moves on you. Clumsily. That's a red tinge of lust there
<Cara> "... take you up on that. It gets rather... lonely staying in a hotel."
<IxJac> And it HAS been a while since you fed. . .
<Cara> Cara's a good girl. He'll make the first move! And when if fails she stops pretending. >:(
<IxJac> Sexual intimacy breaks down mental barriers, particularly in the untrained. . . if you can figure out how to get a sword into the sack. . .
<Cara> Cara's not the cool dominatrix type for anything.
<IxJac> Roll Appearance+Intimidation!
<Cara> Cara lets him hit on her and encourages him!
<Cara> d6
<IxBot> Cara : ( 5 10 10 10 3 6 )
<Cara> Oh god
<IxJac> Hahahaha
<IxJac> "Mistress Stang! Whip me! beat me! Penetrate me with your sword!"

Westin: so what's my effective dex for the duration of the flaw?
IXJac: -2 to all physical stats
Westin: d6
IXBot: Westin : ( 7 7 6 2 3 7 )
IXJac: And half speed besides. *shuffle shuffle*

• • • Westin shuffles like a geriatric spy past the guard
      

IXJac: Old man ninja

<Cara> Derek knows the Cultists personally
<IxJac> Good guys. First thing they did when he joined the Cabal was get him totally stoned and have a threesome.
<IxJac> Cultists, y'know? Couldn't convince the Chorister though

<IXJac> OK, are you just blowing EVERYTHING up?
<Mari_chan> yes
<Mari_chan> everything

<@IXJac> "And to reach that Utopia," Siegen says, face alive with missionary zeal. "All this must be swept away, using the fire that first split the timelines!" And then a light brighter than any sun descends on the city, throwing all into stark relief, then wiping away even the shadows.
<@IXJac> He turns back to Maria. "You could be a uniquely useful asset - a woman from before the Timelines split, and one who I think undertands this great work. Yes a great asset. Will you join me?"
<@IXJac> And Cathy realizes what he is. This man is mad, and you are trapped in his madness. He is a Marauder.
<@IXJac> "Will you join me?" he says again. "Come fight for Utopia with the Zolian Alliance?"
<@IXJac> He holds out a hand, then frowns. His hypnotic speech halting. ". . . Did you know there's a badger stuck to your face?"

<@IXJac> "Now, we must continue where we left off." He raises a hand, and horrible clawed talons grow from his fingers.
<@IXJac> "No screaming?" he frowns. "I'm sure the lovely nurse down the hall would love to play too."
<@Proteus> "I'm not convinced of that"
<@Proteus> "Raven feathers are rather out of style"
<@IXJac> "You are no fun *at all*. Come on, just one scream. Or I start on you first."
<@Proteus> "Why don't you start on the power troops that the technocrats are sending here just for you?"
<@IXJac> "Hahaha," he cackles. "A fine jest, but there will be no-" The door crashes inward, and a sleek suit of armour stands backlit in the bright hallway lights, gaunlet levelled.

<@IXJac> Looks into the face of herself in a past life. Herself who is drawing a sword from out of the jacket she has tied to her back, as her partner - a younger Takezo Kanshin - does the same.
<@IXJac> "Die, Technocrat." They don't look like they're sitting down.
<@Focker> ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

GENOVA: Hacker Elite

<Beta-chan> This is the day half the chantry couldn't figure out any of the puzzles and therefore decided to crash through the door with a Soviet armoured train

<IxJac> The Betas grin evilly, press the Phase II button, and extra gatling barrels pop up.
<IxJac> Bullets break open in an endless shower of smaller bullets, and THEY break open into tiny spirals of MIRVs themselves, and the platform is COVERED in explosions.
<IxJac> A concentric wave of blasts doing 21 points of damage radiates out from the Lenintrain

<@Beta-chan> Early warning lights come on, then a combination of Corr and-
<@Beta-chan> I'm TOO MOE TO DIE

<IxJac> You're racing for the exit now, bursing from the smoke and fire, trailing flames
<IxJac> The spider crashes into a tower stack in Zone 2 and explodes, another Beta flickers out
<IxJac> Laser light locks onto your train, he swings up a MASSIVE cannon as big as he is, it's tip glowing with charge
<IxJac> <Line ends here, Proteus.> Says Apthalon. And he fires, with Mari levels of built up successes
<IxJac> The massive beam fires, as wide as the train, pushing Apthalon back several meters, even braced as he is, his feet tearing up the magnetic rails
<IxJac> The bolt smashes into the train dealing 12 successes of forces damage, for potentially 36 damage. Armour melts away, peeling back, And Ione steps forward, a bubble of force around her, scoring 6 sux on Countermagic
<IxJac> The whole front of the train is blown away, just molten edges, as you race for Apthalon, the air whipping past you. He discards the plasma cannon, and charges.

Chicago Suicide Mission

<IXJac> You guys can MAKE as many (molotov cocktails) as you like
<IXJac> Depends on how many you want to carry though
<Westin> I'm not carrying one
<Cara> Why not?
<IXJac> Because he doesn't want to go up in flames when he gets hit by a laser bear. ;)

<IXJac> You blow his head off, the body crashes back.
<IXJac> The second guard, blows a WP, and lunges furward and slaps the button
<IXJac> Primium bars shoot up from the floor, linking to the ceiling all around the entrance cage, and the security booth shutters slam shut
<IXJac> A panel in the ceiling snaps open, and a chaingun swings out
<IXJac> Alessio?

• • • Alessio swings out his special gift for the technos, an M72 LAW. "Go to HELL!"
      

<IXJac> The rocket slams into the security shutters, blowing them open, and showering everyone with plaster

<IXJac> "OMG, OMG, they did something to Kevin." A woman screams. You can hear the man you attacked gagging with a death rattle
<IXJac> "It's like, some sort of gas!"
<Cara> Ars Mentis. 'Believe me.' "Goddamnit! You shoot at me BEFORE I could tell you we're evactuating the level! Gas HAS been released and it's effected the guys in the booth."
<IXJac> OK, Cara spins an illusion. "Alright! We're going!"
<Cara> "Great!"
<IXJac> Three people get up from the cubicles, "Take care of Kevin!" Says the woman to a hallucinary hazmat suit, and they run past Cara for the exit elevator
<IXJac> They pile in. Zavaros looks at you, then them as they run past, then as they pile into the elevator he glows with a faint burning aura, braces, and HADOKEN!
<IXJac> His punch smashes them hard into the wall, stunning them. he moves up, snags one of their pistols and methodically shoots each in the head, before tossing the pistol back on one of the mens bodies.

<Cara> "This isn't you. Let Noethung show you the true way, Adept Caldwell."
<Cara> WP. Cara's going to reach into Mari's mind and with a iron fist rip away the falseness, as the searing light of Sol strips the shadows from sight, leaving only the truth.
<IXJac> "NO! This is MY subject!"
(10:43:19 PM) Cara: "She belongs to the ORDER OF HERMES, CUR!"
<IXJac> OK, Cara, you batter into another mind, but throw his control back
(10:43:36 PM) Cara: Can I ATTACK that mind?
<IXJac> "And you are in MY Construct, Deviant. I'll make you pay!"
<IXJac> Well, so long as he keeps hanging out being snide, yes
(10:46:18 PM) ***Cara has Noethung out and without pausing from her earier mothing jabs it TOWARDS the source of her enemy, cutting across the false perception of distance into the pathetic light of her enemy's mind.
<IXJac> Security Supervisor Noetelli botches.
<IXJac> OK, Cara. Your sword strikes back down the link, through the construct, and into the mind of Security Supervisor Angelo Notelli
<IXJac> And you're in
<Cara> "YOU BELONG TO ME, TECHNOCRACT. YOUR CONSTRUCT IS FINISHED."
<IXJac> Anyway, Angelo is sitting at his desk co-ordinating the security response.
<Westin> (start *de*-coordinating the security response)

<Noetelli> Noetelli's going to tell AT-620 that the RD's have suffered a paradox backlash and are attempting to escape. Go up and get to the exit elevator ASAP and take care of them.
<IXJac> OK, AT-620 recently lost two MiBs, 623 'Eric' and 623 'Frank'. So they have a couple of new recruits. It makes sense to send them in first to get blooded. Notelli nods. It makes sense to him.
<IXJac> "AT-620, get your asses in gear!"
<IXJac> OK, the MiB's all pile into the elevator.
<IXJac> They're on the way up. . .
<Westin> "Genjo! Go over there on the side of the elevator, kill anyone who manages to survive!"
<Westin> "Alessio, with me! You rocket the thing, I spray the survivors."
<Westin> Westin's going to dump the entire X-6 magazine into the elevator as a spray
<Westin> "Ares! GOD OF BLOODSHED AND WAR! I dedicate this TO YOU!"
<IXJac> OK, the first MiB blocks his buddies and takes all the fire. Roll d6 for damage. Difficulty 4
<Westin> "Yeah, Ares? I didn't like you much too either."
<IXJac> The rounds bounce off his coat as he blocks the path, he takes a single cinematic scar down the cheek as a bullet nicks him in all the barrage. Your SMG clicks empty in a cloud of barrel smoke

• • • Alessio fires a rocket that screams through the air. David used a sling, Danny by the grace of God has better equipment that burns with righteous fury!
      

<Alessio> "Indeed, God is Good!"
<IXJac> OK, the rocket hits the first MIB dead on
<IXJac> He blows a WP and 3 quint, and suicidally contains the blast in his body, the rocket blowing him back through the elevator and exploding inside his jacket.
<IXJac> The other MiBs are thrown back by the blast, but one's aroured jacket protects him, and the other takes light wounds

• • • Mari_chan decides that they need to quickly coup de gra (whatever) this before they become a threat and forces 4 the explosions into a pillar of of angry fire in the elevator
      

<IxBot> Mari_chan : ( 2 1 2 1 )
<IXJac> Noooooo!

<Westin> (Crank the despair up too, along with the aggression and crank reason down)
<Noetelli> Despair level Shinji Prime

<IXJac> Zavaros, meanwhile, has pulled a mask out of his pocket. As the door was melting through, he pulls it over his face. It looks, for all the world, like a Mexican Wrester's mask, painted with the horrific Oni designs of a Japanese Noh mask.
<IXJac> A his shirt has fallen open to reveal the writhing tiger tatoos on his chest and arms, and a dark red/black aura is rising and writhing from him, in a sense of growing power
<IXJac> OK, Zavaros is unleashing the full power of his Tiger Tattoos, and his Oni Mask
<IXJac> He's taking two actions with the power of the mask, the first is a flying kick at the door, to smach the half ton of metal right back in the face of the lead MiB
<IXJac> The Mib is going to abort and try and dodge
<IXJac> OK, he takes the door right in the face\
<IXJac> OK, that's. . . with everything. . . 16 points of damage
<IXJac> OK, no help, he's flies back and is squashed flat against the far wall

<IXJac> There's a black man strapped in a medical chair, and standing over him is a wild eyed man in a lab coat with a syringe! "Stop! Come any closer and I kill him!"
<IXJac> Genjo spends a WP and 3 quint
<IXJac> And he crosses the room in a blur. "What mon, wi THIS syringe? You mean the one I got?"
<IXJac> "Normally I'm about the mercy -" He looks at the haggard face of Ondayo. "But, phsyician, heal thyself"
<IXJac> And he jabs the doctor
<IXJac> The doctor screams and falls back, his skin blackening rapidly, his tongue swelling as he gaggs and his back archs

<@Shu> "It as not good ahnd evir as so dry cuttuh in your terevision dramas. It irs one monster agahnst anozzer monster. Ahnd often, onry the most monstrous wins."

<IXJac> You sense something approaching, an aura outside the bar, foul and predatory and heading your way
<Eli_Lorentz> (I'm assuming I can tell the aura is not Cara's)

Japan the Ninja OVAs

<Koffee> (Gags and a ropes? Cara and Shu would get along just fine!)

<IXJac> OK, Shu takes the blow with no damage, skidding off his batman nipples

SF0 Infiltration

<IxJac> (Roll Kana's appearance+Loli)
<IxBot> Kana : ( 1 2 1 2 )
<IxJac> Oh no.

• Robert_Nishida snaps the X-5's sights into line with Boss Sasaki's head, aiming to put two precise shots right into his brain. Aimed shot, -3 for precise aiming for the +3 damage on both.
  

<IXJac> That's three actions, one to get the gun out, then two more for the shots
<Robert_Nishida> Well that's -4/-5, so I'm firing at 5d/4d... yeah, I'll take that chance
<IXJac> OK, Westin draws and fires his first shot
<Robert_Nishida> 4 sux, +3 dmg from the called shot (you said those were levels, right?)
<Robert_Nishida> d9 + 3
<IXBot> Robert_Nishida : ( 6 2 6 5 10 4 2 5 9 )
<IXJac> Reroll the 10 for pistols
<Robert_Nishida> d1
<IXBot> Robert_Nishida : ( 8 )
<Robert_Nishida> You will either flow with the wheel or GET GROUND DOWN BY IT.
<IXJac> Westin fires and puts it RIGHT into Sasaki's third eye

<IxJac> He's going to do a quick thrust with the sword, still trying to heal himself, while backing up with a dodge
<Kano> Alright I'll chop his head off and parry any reply
<IxJac> That's a +2 difficulty to attack
<Kano> d8
<IxBot> Kano : ( 9 3 9 10 9 5 9 6 )
<IxJac> Shit, his dodge won't cover that unless he's lucky
<IxJac> You slice through the etherial demon armour that protects him, roll damage. And I'd suggest using WP
<IxJac> Roll his temp WP
<Kano> d5
<IxBot> Kano : ( 10 3 9 7 6 )
<IxJac> Agg, Kano takes Sasaki's head off
<IxJac> Stunned it falls to the alley floor, "five centuries. . . and a mortal!"
<IxJac> Zetsubou no Tachi, the sword of despair, falls from his fingers, as his body falls to its knees, then keels over
<Kano> "Mortal? Yeah. Damn my mortality is hardcore."

Japan Endgame

<Westin> "Should we go back and find someone to interrogate?"
<Proteus> "THERE IS A GIANT ROBOT WITH A GATLING GUN."
<Westin> "It's only ONE giant robot with a gatling gun."

<Westin> Can I try Entropy 2 to have someone JUST HAPPEN to get on at the next onramp?
<IxJac> Well, you can try. +2 for unlikely (they cleared the road prior to ambush), +1 for distraction. So (difficulty) 8.
<IxJac> OK, A little compact pulls out of a narrow road ahead of you. . . Just as the Javelin anti-tank missile behind you noses over and dives. It comes screaming down, but misidentifies.
<IxJac> The little compact takes the anti-tank missile and is blown to smithereens in front of you. You swerve past. A second point of light lofts into the air behind you.

• • • Proteus hacks into its tiny computer brain
      

<IxJac> The Missile locks onto the burning car behind you, still skidding down the road, and strikes it as well.

<IxJac> OK, Westin takes aim. This will be a two turn action.
<IxJac> It pauses, turns its head toward you, eye irising wider with a faint focussing sound. . . take your shot
<IxBot> Westin : ( 1 7 7 2 2 6 9 9 9 6 6 6 )
<IxJac> BAM! The Mjollnir kicks, it's a tiny target under heavy armour, but you hit it dead on.
<IXBot> Westin : ( 6 2 9 9 7 8 5 7 1 4 2 7 )
<IxJac> The Eye explodes in a spray of glass and green fire, wreathing the head in sparks

[17:59] <@IXJac> Roll damage+4
[17:59] <@Westin> d14
[17:59] <IXBot> Westin : ( 7 3 5 4 7 4 7 4 3 3 9 7 3 8 )
[18:01] <@IXJac> d10
[18:01] <IXBot> IXJac : ( 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 4 7 9 )
[18:01] <@Westin> (HAHAHA YES)
[18:01] <@IXJac> Westin's heavy round smashes into the boomer, punching a hole in the plate

[04:39] <IXJac> Roll Westin's Manipulation+Brawl, to use the power of Bro-fist punch bonding to convince Graner
[04:39] <Westin> (LOL)
[04:39] <Westin> d7
[04:39] <IXBot> Westin : ( 10 1 1 3 3 3 1 )
[04:39] <Westin> :|
[04:39] <Westin> FUUUUUUUCK

<Shrike> Hm I realized I'm flying into battle between giant robots in a blackhawk surrounded by marines while all I have is a submachine gun and an official-style trench coat.
<Shrike> This is getting dangerously out of hand

<@IXJac> Liz is still in her Pajamas
<@Liz-> "Uh, you have a change of clothes in there right?"
<@Kana> "Oh duh."
<@Liz-> "It's freezing cold."
<@IXJac> Roll 1d10 for Kana's current sexual orientation. ;)
<@IXJac> (kidding!)
<@Kana> "Um...hrm...Oh uh, I may have uh, used up..."
<@Kana> d1
<IXBot> Kana : ( 9 )
<@IXJac> An odd number. How queer

• @Kana turns red.
  

<@Kana> "Hey Liz."
<@Liz-> "Hm?"
<@Kana> "You know that wasn't my first kiss. Just to be clear."
<@Liz-> "It was a demon! I had no control over anything! Shut up!"
<@Kana> "What I mean is it doesn't count and us talking about it in this way makes it not count. Because you know if you let the topic fester"
<@Kana> "If you let the topic fester, so like, ignore it and just look away and turn red, then it would count. That's how it works. So now it doesn't count. :|"
<@Liz-> "It was sucking your soul, not kissing you!"
<@Kana> "They say that about CPR!"
<@Liz-> "It felt nice because I was eating Yang chi!"
<@Kana> "It felt- WHAT?!" /:|
<@Liz-> "Shut up and drive."

<@Westin> So is Liz still freaking out?
<@Liz-> Yes, of course
<@Westin> Strength + Instruction. Brightslap time!
<@IXJac> OK
<@Westin> d5
<IXBot> Westin : ( 2 10 1 10 1 )
<@Kana> Th-that...
<@IXJac> Westin expressionlessly rises and slaps Liz loudly across the face

• Proteus slaps a clip of TMSP ectoplasm rounds into the MN-6 and unloads it into the cockpit. These should terminate whatever spectral parasite is inside the unfortunate pilot
  

<Proteus> Hopefully there's still a pilot left . . .
<IXJac> OK, so firing full auto?
<Proteus> Yes
<Proteus> no time for subtlety now
<IXJac> Right. +10 die. +2 difficulty
<Proteus> d13
<IXBot> Proteus : ( 6 7 7 9 1 1 2 2 9 4 4 3 3 )
<IXJac> Proteus empties the clip. Little green explosions of Orbo go off ALL around the pilot. But none actually hit him. The gun clicks dry, and he looks down and *howls* with laughter.

<IXJac> "You! Die!" And Bakin's sword shoots out, impossibly long, right for proteus' heart
<Westin> (oh FUCK)
<Liz-> shit
<Kana> (I totally did not see that coming :( )
<IXJac> A bolt of light burns through the cavern and intersects the blade
<IXJac> There is a flash, and the sword deflects
<IXJac> Two hardsuits leap over the buildings and land in the clearing
<IXJac> "Is there no END to you meddling fools!?"

• Proteus is recovering from a heart attack and cannot make a snarky comment
  

<Kana> (I'm OOC now rooting for Bakin)

<IXJac> OK, The Oni is taking three actions. The first will be to put a clawed fist through your guts
<IXJac> The others probably involve playing with your intestines. You have this on good authority.

<IXJac> << I WILL RIP OUT YOUR GUTS AND PLAY WITH YOUR INTESTINES FLESHBAG! >>
<Westin> Westin pulls out the last remaining charm and punches it at the Oni, hoping that it's arrogant enough to not think a mere human fist is a threat.
<IXJac> <<HAHAHAHAH! . . . Whut!? >>

<Westin> Okay, could I damage his SWORD, though?
<Westin> I figure that might be easier, especially if I can hit the flat...
<IXJac> Possibly
<IXJac> OK, take the shot
<IXJac> BLAM!
<IXJac> The sword blade shatters as Bakin slices it past the hardsuit, the blade flying through the air and imbedding in a building right by. . .
<IXJac> d1
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 4 )
<IXJac> Liz's head
<IXJac> O.O

• Liz- almost has a heart attack
  

<IXJac> It quivers there, a massive 20 foot long spear of metal.

Orphan Recruitment

<@IXJac> OK, fine. Cathy is outside by the garage, chanting up the enochian to step sideways when a baseball flies past her
<@IXJac> It's followed by a young kid, who takes one look at Cathy, and flees in terror!

• @Catherine_West sighs...

<@IXJac> "Dad! Dad! There's a Satanist behind our garage!"
<@IXJac> Cathy has to flee back inside!

<@IXJac> "Homemade." She says prodly. "Elaine makes magical pie." Says Dad. "If you beleive in magic of course."
<@Liz-> "Nobody could not believe in magic after tasting this."
<@Catherine_West> "Indeed."

• @Mari_chan has some peacon pie

<@IXJac> It's good pie, but the hyperbole irritates Mari. TRUE Magick is far greater than mere pie!
<@IXJac> People need to be told!
<@Mari_chan> "Magick of course is bigger then pie, take for instance the fellow who went all crazy and blowing up piplines, magic thought did that"
<@Liz-> "Oh Mari. :3"
<@IXJac> Everyone blinks
<@Liz-> "you're totally like me when I was your age."
<@Liz-> "I didn't give mom and dad a break."
<@IXJac> "Still don't." Coughs dad
<@IXJac> She's trying to cut off a good lecture before it gets going!
<@IXJac> Mari has a mind to lecture them all, including this know-nothing Orphan on the basics of mystical thought as distilled for Sleepers by the great Aliester Crowly!
<@Mari_chan> "I won't even begin the age thing, but this is a proper leasson, I mean had there not been magick going on, you would of been dead today from snippers, you know what it costed me to jam the EM spectrum!"
<@Catherine_West> "Oh dear!"

• @Liz- stares

<@Catherine_West> "I think the excitement..."
<@Mari_chan> "Now take for example Crowley's great babylon working, many people thought it was a bust, but if you look at the works of Hermand, and Adept Flagus....."
<@Catherine_West> "I think you are very excited and scared over the attack you saw"
<@Catherine_West> "I know it must be hard for you to understand, but please, you're safe now, it's not..."
<@Mari_chan> "Oh be quiett Cathy, if you were half the mage Crowely was we wouldn't of been trapped in the realm of nightmares!"
<@IXJac> Roll Mari's Int+Occult vs Cathy's Charisma+Etiqette
<@Mari_chan> d7
<IXBot> Mari_chan : ( 7 7 2 8 8 6 9 )
<@Catherine_West> (AUGH!)
<@Catherine_West> 1 WP
<@Catherine_West> d6
<IXBot> Catherine_West : ( 6 8 8 6 10 7 )
<@Catherine_West> d1
<IXBot> Catherine_West : ( 7 )
<@IXJac> Cathy is able to divert a possibly catastrophic revelation of reams of Hermetic lore by smothering the conversation in apologies.
<@IXJac> It's probably a good time for an exit.

<IXJac> You arrive very early monday morning, and Liz heads for school while Kano goes to talk with her folks, and lays on the only social skill he possesses at 3. Intimidation!
<IXJac> Uh oh. Liz comes home to find her folks apparently of the impression that Kano is a cop, and Liz is being sent to a remedial school for juvenile delinquents.

Production Log

<IXJac> The Nephandi ARE the good guys
<IXJac> My finest moment was convincing one of the good characters to join the Nephandi because it was the right thing to do.
<IXJac> That was awesome
<IXJac> Unfortunately the lot of you are too evil for that to work.
<Andronicus> lol

<IXJac> OK, as Dynamic you must successfully change yourself or someone else
<Westin> what do you mean by "change yourself/someone else"?
<Camille_Vasselin> Change Kerrin from "Kerrin=1" to "Kerrin=0"

[REDACTED] >:[ --Ezekiel- 07:16, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

<Kano> (see how MJ comes to life when allowed to play a baby technocrat? :D)
<IXJac> lol

Hermetic Follies

18:24] <IXJac> Roll Cathy's Manipulation+Research
[18:25] <CatherineWest> d6
[18:25] <IXBot> CatherineWest : ( 7 1 6 8 7 9 )
[18:25] <IXJac> Whooops! Cathy falls into the arms of the dashing Etherite.

[22:43] <@IXJac> (No, Hontanat is off finding a new apprentice - scene cuts away to a dirt road in Africa, where a badly battered jeep races down a winding path. "Don't be a goddam sissy and STEP on it boy! Dammit, those flying monkeys won't outfly themselves!" The jeep leaps off the end of the road and sails out over a canyon, falling towards the jungle far below. "YEEEHAAAAA!. . . ")

<IxJac> "Seyla Marillia Josephine Caldwell bani Bonisagus, Scion of the Ancient House, by thy true name I call thee, and GROUNDED I name thee!".

Catherine West: THE MOVIE

<@IXJac> Alex steps out into the yard, amidst the dust and smoke.
<@IXJac> A cry goes up from the soldiers, and with wicked gleams in their eyes under their helms, they advance on Alex
<@IXJac> One is already unbuttoning his breastplate

• @Alexandra draws a bead on the lead soldier and fires. Crotch shot.
  

<@IXJac> Roll
<@Alexandra> d10
<IXBot> Alexandra : ( 9 4 3 10 10 1 2 4 8 1 )
<@Alexandra> d2
<IXBot> Alexandra : ( 4 8 )
<@IXJac> BLAM!
<@IXJac> With a howl the man goes down
<@Alexandra> Oh, sweet carthesis
<@Alexandra> "Anyone else want to fill his pants?"

<@IXJac> OK, so who's kissing whom here?
<@Alexandra> Dory is kissing Maria
<@CatherineWest> (Wait!)
<@Captain_Dory> She said handsome scientist and Dory was identified as a man of science by her, so...
<@IXJac> OK, roll Dory's Dex+Brawl then. :D
<@Captain_Dory> d6
<IXBot> Captain_Dory : ( 7 2 8 10 5 5 )
<@Captain_Dory> d1
<IXBot> Captain_Dory : ( 4 )
<@Captain_Dory> "Madam!"
<@IXJac> Like lightning, Dory whips the Austrian noblewoman around, bends her back, and gives her a long snogging

• @Captain_Dory has alot of tension to burn out, and she is quite lovely.
  

<@IXJac> Well, clearly all Cathy's incarnations are rather attracted to Dory
<@IXJac> She beats her hand on your chest for a moment, then clutches at your collar.
<@IXJac> Cathy is terribly red
<@Captain_Dory> Perhaps it doesn't matter what face the soul wears when they're all, minus the one with the man... bits...., rather attractive.

• @Captain_Dory sweeps her back, head at the small of her back.
  

<@IXJac> There is an explosion from outside. Dory and Maria don't even notice
<@Captain_Dory> got better things
<@IXJac> At the window of the lab, Alex can see the gate blown open by a shell, and soldiers in breastplates with lances and swords pouring through

• @Captain_Dory releases her, breathing heavy.
  

<@IXJac> Oh no you don't!

• @Captain_Dory sweeps her about, lost in the moment!
  

<@Alexandra> "Time... eh?" She says with a smile
<@IXJac> "You're not done your service to House Wulfenbach yet, you handsome devil!" Maria kisses you back.
<@IXJac> Alex may have to take this one on her own
<@Captain_Dory> "W---"

• @Captain_Dory does his duty >:(
  

<@IXJac> Around the two massive golden clockwork cogs spin and click in an endless complex accounting.

• @Captain_Dory forgets everything else
  

<@Alexandra> Alex pulls out her dynamite
<@IXJac> Roll Legend
<@Alexandra> d3
<IXBot> Alexandra : ( 7 3 10 )
<@IXJac> OK, she does so.
<@Alexandra> lights, tosses (dex+athletics?)
<@IXJac> Yes
<@Alexandra> d7
<IXBot> Alexandra : ( 8 7 8 6 6 6 2 )
<@IXJac> The Dynamite sizzles through the air. The captain reaches out a hand and catches it.
<@IXJac> He looks at it, then his eyes go wide
<@IXJac> An explosion shattered the courtyard
<@IXJac> Bodies go flying, and Maria and Dory are jerked back to reality

S4

Back to Vancouver/Dependent Maintenance

[04:03] <@IXJac> Mari dumps her book shoulder bag on the table and starts leafing through books on the Vancouver Vampire scene
[04:05] * @Mari_chan starts flipping through the books
[04:05] <@IXJac> Having no actual vampire lore, Cara notes Mari is focussing on the salacious and irrellevant details.
[04:06] <@Cara-Stang> "Okay Mari this stuff isn't quite important"
[04:06] * @Cara-Stang turns a couple pages away from full-page portrait of Ozu
[04:06] <@Mari_chan> "Your saying dental records comparsions of fangs isn't important?"
[04:06] <@IXJac> "Mari is reading a detailed Ecstatic account on how Vampires are awesome kissers
[04:07] <@Cara-Stang> "... Mmmmm perhaps requires a bit of research...."

<Cara-Stang> Appearance+Intimidation. She'll hit you, but you can't not look... >:(
<Cara-Stang> d8
<IXBot> Cara-Stang : ( 2 1 2 9 8 10 10 10 )
<Cara-Stang> d3
<IXBot> Cara-Stang : ( 10 3 10 )
<Cara-Stang> d2
<IXBot> Cara-Stang : ( 1 10 )
<Cara-Stang> d1
<IXBot> Cara-Stang : ( 6 )
<Cara-Stang> !
<Liz> christ
<Mari_chan> !
<Cara-Stang> good lord
<Mal> yeahhhh
<Liz> Cara should wear rubber more often

[21:56] <@Cara-Stang> "Maybe. I'm actually a little worried about Proteus."
[21:57] <@Mari_chan> "Why?
[21:57] <@Cara-Stang> "I generally like him, but I'm not sure a man who wear's these outfits... very feminine... is quite right. Call me old fashioned. They're way too tall for Beta."
[21:58] <@Mari_chan> "Well Oynx is with Liz, he'll protect her from his predlicections if he has any"

[21:13] <@Cara-Stang> "Hi Beta. Still looking after that slob Proteus"
[21:14] <@Liz> "Oh hi Beta. You look solid today."
[21:14] * Beta replies darkly "He's been hanging out with some power-armored girls in Japan. *snifs haughtily*"
[21:14] <@Mari_chan> "Sounds treasonous"
[21:14] <@Cara-Stang> "Power girls in armor. They sound pretty loose"
[21:15] <Beta> "Totally! One of them was even looking for him here in Canada!"
[21:15] <@Mari_chan> "You sound jealous Beta"
[21:15] <@Proteus> "Hey!"
[21:15] <@Cara-Stang> "I hope you threw her off"
[21:15] <Beta> "haha she was such a klutz!"
[21:15] <Beta> "I don't know how she can possibly pilot a power suit!"
[21:15] <@Cara-Stang> "So Proteus see many power-armoured tehnocracts in Japan?"
[21:16] <@Cara-Stang> "Poorly?"
[21:16] <@Proteus> "They're the ones I told you about. You know, saving millions of people in Tokyo?"
[21:16] <Beta> "That's what youuuuuuu say. You're probably just trying to make time!"
[21:16] <@Proteus> "-.-"
[21:17] <@Cara-Stang> "I think you need a minder Proteus. Hanging out with STRANGE woman."
[21:17] <@Mari_chan> "Well I think we can agree getting back on subject"
[21:17] <@Proteus> “Man you are so suspicious of everything I do. :<”

[05:59] * @Liz looks at Proteus. She should probably bring him.
[05:59] <@IXJac> Nahh, he's out of it
[05:59] * @Liz nudges him with a foot a couple of times and then gives up
[06:00] <@IXJac> He's retreated from the madness of economics to the sanity of marauderism

[00:35] <Mari_chan> does the cell phone have a enochcian feature on it :p
[00:36] <IXJac> It has texting, sure
[00:36] * Mari_chan texts the enochcian symbol of fire to burn the dude!
[00:36] * Mari_chan text Nathenianal
[00:37] <IXJac> 2 successes! Mari kitbashes crude Enochian onto her cellphone!
[00:39] <IXJac> <<Marilia Caldwell. Inbox.>> says the phone. <<You have mail. From. Angel Nathenianal.>>
[00:40] <IXJac> And then fire explodes around you, washing all over your magickal shield
[00:40] <IXJac> "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
[00:40] <IXJac> Enforcer Stern goes up in flames, the Iron chain burning red hot
[00:40] <IXJac> Mari tumbles gasping to the ground
[00:41] <Mari_chan> "I faced Nephandus, Mauraders, Vampires, Werewolves, Wraiths, and destroeyed a construct"
[00:41] <Mari_chan> "Should of brought backup"

[01:00] <Cara-Stang> "Hi Vulk I need to intimidate some middle aged parents to not give false wittness at a hearing. Any ideas?"
[01:01] <IXJac> "Hmmm, lady, you lead an interesting life. Parents you say? they have children. yes?
[01:01] <Cara-Stang> "Yes"
[01:02] <IXJac> "Oh, this is simple then. Someone else is clearly threatening their families."
[01:03] <IXJac> "So make them fear you more. Where the other would break a child's leg, you break BOTH legs. Oh. This is not the answer you wanted. Let me think."

[21:35] <@Mari_chan> I was looking for an opertunity to slip that in
[21:36] <Andronicus> text him! wait no send courier birds
[21:36] <@Mari_chan> Courier bird
[21:36] <Andronicus> Beta: "Why did you throw your cellphone out the window?" *Mari looks blank*

[21:16] <@IXJac> It's like NOTHING she's ever experience before, including that frankly embarassing experience with Apprentice Jomery in the Occult Arcana section at the back of the Library.
�06[21:17] * @Mari_chan thinks could it it possibily be...... true love?
[21:17] <@IXJac> (Which TOTALLY put her off boys for the rest of her apprenticship, because he kissed and told, so she burned his underwear - while they were on)

SF0 Chronicles

[01:25] <IXJac> Shu spurns the robot and takes his own bags out to the taxi stands
[01:25] <IXJac> Billboards rain flashy advertisements for endless consumer goods down on him. Roll Willpower
[01:26] <Shu> d6
[01:26] <IXBot> Shu : ( 4 7 4 1 5 1 )
[01:26] <IXJac> Shu feels a sudden craving for Lotte Chemwing Gum
[01:26] * Shu doesn't even know what that *is*
[01:26] <IXJac> Yes he does! It has the taste that transforms! The adds say so!
[01:27] <IXJac> Shu buys four, no five packs, so he can have all flavours
[01:27] * Shu checks his wristwatch, then heads back to the taxi
[01:29] <IXJac> A green taxi cab pulls up. He just has time to catch a ride to the nearby McDonalds, which he is sure he will be lovin' it!
[01:30] <IXJac> Maybe this western consumerism isn't so bad!

<IXJac> He enters the cafe. "Lo Pan's Real Chicacago Pizza," He looks at the bill, "Who ordered green cheese, onions with triple extra jalapenos, apple slices, kosher goat. . . oh, and anchovies"
<IXJac> You pay up and leave. The meet location is encoded on the bill.

• Westin eats it anyways to save on lunch money
  

<IXJac> Roll Stamina
<IXBot> Westin : ( 10 2 1 7 )
<IXJac> Roll Willpower
<IXBot> Westin : ( 4 6 3 2 4 3 1 1 )
<IXJac> OK, Westin's stomach rebels.
<Westin> No it doesn't! Life 2 Adaptation. Zeus and Cronos swallowed their children whole, no way a mere pizza's worse than that!
<IXJac> Hah, roll Arete
<IXBot> Westin : ( 6 10 10 8 )
<IXJac> Westin reinforces his eusophagus and forces the whole vile mess back down

Keystone Kop: Japanese Edition

<Westin> Westin lets the first cop touch him, then spins in the man's grip with the speed and grace of a trained commando, his palm coming out to slam right into the side of the policeman's neck.
<IxJac> He was clearly waiting for you to try something, but he just doesn't hae the skill to dodge you. Your hand connects, and his body collapses like a puppet with the strings cut.
<IxJac> The other with the nightstick lunges, too late, to smash Westin's arm. His nightstick catches on his belt as he tries to claw it free.

• • • Westin moves with the speed of the fleet-footed killer Achilles, and with cruel mercy slams a knee into the second officer's groin (Forces 2, Entropy 1 for extra pain)
      

<IxJac> The Cop tries to dodge, but catches his trapped nightstick between his knees an falls right onto the blow. "UNNGGGG!" He curls up into a little bawl, mewling.

<IxJac> Shu crashes through the window and rolls through the apartment. The man sitting in the easy chair before his TV with an ice pack on his crotch looks up in startlement! "YOU!"
<IxJac> "Get him!" Yells a man in boxers, bursting out of the second apartment, walking like a waddling duck. "Get that scrotum crushing bastard!"

SF0 Liz Memorial Raid

<@IXJac> Liz is lying on the couch, pale and blue, with a girl neither of you know desperately giving her CPR
<@Mari_chan> "Liz?"
<@IXJac> Chest compressions right now ". . . Four! Five! Six! Seven!. . ."
<Peel> gnnn
<@IXJac> X.X

• Peel is now known as Liz
  
• Liz X.X
  

<@IXJac> The girl, she looks to be mid teens, looks up as you enter. "Who are - No, doesn't matter, Liz - I think she OD'd but there's also magic, and she's freezing! Do something!"

• @Mari_chan attempts to make Liz's body warmer while she looks at her
  

<@IXJac> Does Mari have any medicine?
<@Mari_chan> nope
<Liz> she does have Life 1
<@IXJac> Oh, well, Perception+Awareness then
<@Mari_chan> d4
<IXBot> Mari_chan : ( 3 1 4 10 )
<@IXJac> Mari's never been particularly good at this stuff. Liz looks cold. Guess she's dead. Time to cremate.
<@Mari_chan> "Geez I told her she wouldn't last a year too"
<@Westin> (hahahahaha)

• Cara- changes topic to "SF0 Liz Memorial Raid"
  

<@Emmjay_XII> :D
<@Emmjay_XII> Okay
<@Peel> :b
<@Emmjay_XII> That should be an events heading
<@Peel> :[

<IXJac> Westin can hear them [the security cameras] checking him out.
<IXJac> They like the glow of his thermal signiature.

(On Mari and Cara finding Liz OD'd)
<Cara-> We're the worse people to be doing this :(
<Westin> What are you saying
<Westin> That's very unHermetic
<Cara-> Cara's a Hermetic Deviant
<Westin> Cara is the best parent
<Westin> Best
<Westin> And don't let things like facts get in the way

Big Trouble for Little China

• Yu_Lan approaches the waitress "Excuse me. I'm looking for Ten Enlai. Do you know where he might be?"
  

<IXJac> She looks up with a start, "Ten? Why do you want to talk to him?"
<Yu_Lan> "I have some business I hoped he could help me with."
<IXJac> "Buisiness?" She looks you up and down. "Well, now I look at you, you're not bad I suppose. But you'll have to lose the scowl. Go talk to Gaodi at the bar. He handles new hires."
<Yu_Lan> "... No. It's not that kind of business. I need to go somewhere."

• Yu_Lan wishes people would stop mistaking her for a prostitute
  

<IXJac> 3 bashing. You Lan is tossed backwards crashing with an *oof* at the steps of Master Ten's throne. A velvet clad foot descends and rests softly but firmly on her head. "Enough."
<IXJac> The four men nod, bow, and then two return to sitting, the man with the staff wincing as he clutches his side, while another two go to help the man you tossed through the screen, carrying him from the room between them
<IXJac> Ten removes his foot. "So, a warring finger, rather than a fist. So much confidence for one with so little training."
<Yu_Lan> "I honestly wasn't expecting to fight... but yes. I've been told that before."
<IXJac> "You. . . you encorcelled poor Gao, invaded my sanctum, and weren't expecting a fight!?"
<Yu_Lan> "I'm unwise."

<Westin> (Mind 3: I speak really loud and slow English at him so he understands what I'm saying)
<IXJac> lol
<IXJac> TOTAL Syndicate rote

[23:05] <Yu_Lan> "You know, intents and purposes doesn't really answer my question at all. I mean, we're standing next to a super powerful Ku-Jin. Could you maybe give me a little hint here?"
[23:06] <Yu_Lan> "Or maybe you could sir?" Yu Lan adresses the Ku Jin directly. "My apologies for interupting."
[23:07] <IXJac> "You woman lacks manners." Frowns Hakari. "You have succumbed to this modern evil of "feminsm" as well I see. Very well. Let us continue in the tongue of the mainland."

<IXJac> Yi Ling picks the head up, punches some chi points, then pitches it upstairs like a beachball.
<IXJac> *WUMP*
<IXJac> Dust rains down.

• Yu_Lan collapses to one knee then looks over at Kuruwa

<Yu_Lan> "Maybe we could discuss what we're going to do next. . . if you'll still follow someone as unwise as me. . . over dinner?"
<IXJac> That. . . is a TERRIBLE line. He's a vampire. :D
<Yu_Lan> "uh."
<Yu_Lan> "Not me. Like, normal dinner."

• IXJac is howling with laughter IRL

Crisis on Infinite CROSSDOWNs

[03:57] <Monta> d5
[03:57] <IXBot> Monta : ( 10 10 10 10 10 )

<IXJac> OK, so describe Proteus entrance into his new command center
<IXJac> Let's get some atmosphere and melodrama going here. :D
<Proteus> Have the station's tanqui settings adjusted for soothing tones. Sites of any disturbances will recieve additional doses of air-born neurochemicals to encourage calm and reflection.
<IXJac> Also remember, Proteus has no Strategery or Leadership, so he'll make ALL the overlord mistakes. :D

<IXJac> Several electric blue Zols in Proteus personal livery are waiting
<IXJac> <<What is thy command?>>
<Proteus> "The culmination of Ion Quanta's goals are at hand. Be sure that all crew and passengers are properly attired."
<IXJac> The Zols flash assent, and direct 15% of CROSSDOWN's manufacturing capability to cutting edge apparel

<IXJac> The Zol is playing Muzak for Autochthon. <<All interfaces are occupied, please hold and someone will take your call in just a moment>>

<IXJac> There is a flash, and for a second Lin is haloed in white fire, and then he's thrown across the room
<IXJac> Lightning arcs into the ground, and Raijin stands behind you, hood thrown back, and glass dome brain glowing, eyes pits of blue fire.
<IXJac> <<drone override. Ion quanta assuming control.>>
<Eli_Lorentz> "Oh fucking hell."

• Eli_Lorentz runs to Lin
  

<IXJac> Eli runs over as Raijin advances.
<IXJac> <<eli lorentz is in possession of dangerous knowledge and may be a threat to Transubstantiation. He must be eliminated.>>

• Eli_Lorentz grabs an device from Lin's corpse, combining it with the small pocket handgun to form an interface disruptor gun. He jams three powercells into the clip, and the weapon glows with power as he takes aim. "I will always be free, Ion." He fires.
  

<IXJac> Raijin claps his hands together to form a defensive shield, a disk of light expanding like a shockwave from where his palms meet
<IXJac> d5
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 2 5 3 1 1 )
<IXJac> Oh nooooooo!
<Liz> :D
<Kana> hah
<Andronicus> !
<Kana> Man Ichi. It doesn't get better even with a domehead

• Primary_Interface manifests as a giant hologram, staring down at Eli
  

<Primary_Interface> "Where did you go wrong, Eli? You spurn my offers of friendship and comaradery, attack the citizens of CROSSDOWN, seek to destroy what will set us free . . . "
<Primary_Interface> "Instead you decide to tread the path of the rebel, the wrecker, the anticitizen. *Doctor* Lorentz."
<Primary_Interface> "I hope you're satisfied in bringing nothing but destruction and death to our Transsubstantiation. I challenge you to say one thing you've created with your power. One thing! Nothing comes to your lips? I didn't think so."

• Primary_Interface changes topic to 'Anticitizen 01'
  

• Kana grits her teeth, turns back and does the most obvious thing which is to kiss him
• Kana has rather a grimace on her face as she catches up with Orianna X<

<Liz> (it wasn't her first! it wasn't her first! doesn't count in costume!)
<Kana> Yeah, it wasn't the first. The first was with...Liz... XC
<Liz> what's wrong with Liz!?
<Liz> don't XC at me
<Kana> Nothing nothing nothing!

<@IXJac> You have to spend tass before the spell is cast though, so that in fact is a botch.

<@Liz> oh ok

<Liz> this is a good start

<Proteus> Could be worse!

<@IXJac> What's your paradox pool?

<@Liz> 4

<@IXJac> OK, gain 2

<@IXJac> And roll six dice

<@Liz> d6

<IXBot> Liz : ( 8 1 4 9 8 6 )

<@IXJac> Ohhhhh.

<Proteus> Now it's worse

@Eli_Lorentz stares straight at the mad chronomancer's image "Lin Seigen, last agent of the Prime timeline. We meet again, across time and space. In a fallen future, as the primal forces of the universe caused the END OF TIME ITSELF, we joined forces to fight the Ion Quanta, who was tainted by the primal chaos. Sadly, her minions were too powerful, and you fell in battle. I avenged you, and took up......your Boswell and your mission to protect the timeline.

• @Eli_Lorentz looks toward the AI that is weeping softly. "Proteus ended the life he cared about the most to stop the dark future we have seen. It's horrible - I don't even know if I could have done it - but that is the tragedy we find ourselves in. Though, sometimes the greatest good can come even from times of greatest evil."

<@IXJac> [Eli. . . Lorentz?" Lin Seigen looks out of the Boswell. "Ahh. I see. Do you think you can walk my path then, Lorentz?]

• @Proteus makes a static cough then says raggedly "He was the Last Free Etherite, Lin. At the end of time."
  

<@IXJac> [What makes you think you will succeed in my place?]
<@Eli_Lorentz> "I don't know, Dr. Siegen, but I will defend the future to my last breath. All of us will. Dr Siegen, at the End, it was just you and I, isolated. You were made prisoner on your own station. However, I do not stand alone. I have loyal allies, true friends, and my love Natalya.. Together, nothing can stop us from saving the future!
<@IXJac> OK, Roll Eli's Charisma+Expression+SCIENCE!
<@Eli_Lorentz> WP
<@Eli_Lorentz> d10
<IXBot> Eli_Lorentz : ( 9 3 1 10 5 9 10 8 8 8 )
Andronicus> sweet
<@IXJac> Ok, wow
<@IXJac> Reroll the 10s
<@Eli_Lorentz> d2
<IXBot> Eli_Lorentz : ( 1 3 )
<@IXJac> [Zols - Hold.] Lin Seigen looks out of the Boswell at you. [Very well Mr. Lorentz. I have taken the liberty of accessing the records contained in my future boswell. You are telling the truth. I will entrust this timeline to you and your allies for a time, while I recalculate. It appears I may indeed have made some. . . miscalculations.] He takes a deep breath. [Everyone. Let them depart.]
<@IXJac> With a roar, the Etherjammer breaks into the reactor core, erupting through the clouds of smoke in the access tunnel, to glide beneath the platform. The top hatch behind the ball lightning gun turrent clamshells open, and a spaceman in suit and helmet beckons frantically

The Wandering Hero and the Chatterbox Spirit

<IXJac> And then ". . .Kami protect us! Hear my prayers." And in a silent blast of light, a glowing silhouette materializes over the shrine, throwing everything into sharp relief.
<IXJac> Liz.
<Xia_Yu_Lan> "You're not quite what I expected a Kami to look like."
<Liz> "Have you ever seen a Kami before?"

• Liz stares at her very seriously
  

<Liz> "Have you had sex recently?"
<Xia_Yu_Lan> "What?"
<Liz> "This is important!"
<Xia_Yu_Lan> "What kind of question is that?!"
<Liz> "Do not question the gods!"
<Xia_Yu_Lan> "No."
<Liz> "Good."
<Liz> "That means you're final girl."
<Liz> "You're safe. I think we can do this."

• Liz takes a deep breath and starts the incantation. "Once upon a time there was a cat that lived in a big empty house and it was very lonely..."
• Liz starts telling the bedtime story her mother used to tell her all the time when she was little

<IXJac> Ox-Head. ". . . Are you a real Miko?"
<Xia_Yu_Lan> "Just go along with it. I find it's easier."

Chicago the Return

[22:03] <@IXJac> He fumbles his key in the door.
[22:03] * Cara- hits him with Noethung on the head
[22:04] <@IXJac> Cara Bonks him. Dex+Melee
[22:04] <Cara-> d7
[22:04] <IXBot> Cara- : ( 9 7 10 7 9 10 9 )

Tokyo Underworld

<@IXJac> Westin raises Mjollnir from where he lies with a minute motion of his wrist and fires! A hit!
<@IXJac> Roll Arete
<@Westin> d4
<IXBot> Westin : ( 7 6 7 2 )
<@IXJac> OK, roll damage fior the gun, difficulty 3
<@Westin> d10
<IXBot> Westin : ( 9 3 9 8 10 2 5 5 8 5 )
<@IXJac> *KABOOOM!*
<@IXJac> Mjollnir thunders
<@IXJac> d4
<IXBot> IXJac : ( 3 3 2 1 )
<@IXJac> :(
<@Westin> EAT IT BITCH
<@IXJac> Nami's head explodes. Her body glows, then bursts into violet flames, falling leaving only a mass of leather, buckles and smoking cloth

<@Shu> Okay, well Shu's experience with guns so far has been that they jam. He's going to throw a brace of knives at the shooters, each knife aimed to jam their guns. entropy 3, and because what the hey, Shu flips up on top of the vending machine and attacks from an angle they don't expect
<@IXJac> That's, um, going to be pretty difficult
<@IXJac> Roll Arete
<@Shu> wp
<@Shu> d3
<IXBot> Shu : ( 7 5 9 )
<@Shu> difficulty?
<@IXJac> 8 for this
<@Shu> I spend 3 quint for four succs
<@IXJac> OK, ninja stars fly out of the shadows and hit their guns, *tingtingtingting!*

<@IXJac> OK, Yu Lan takes 5 lethal and is thrown to crash against the wall, unconscious.
<@IXJac> (You are no longer unwise)

<@IXJac> (Hang on, little kid atack. brb)
<@Yu_Lan> (vaporize him with the boomer)

Stupid Ghost Stories

<IXJac> There's another doctor in there. A tall Japanese woman with a severe hair cut and a mask hanging around her throat, with a pad in her hand. She looks up sharply as you enter
<IXJac> On the bed, surrounded by dialasys machines and drips is a small young woman on oxygen, eyes closed.
<IXJac> "Who are you? Why are you here?" The woman says, voice clipped.

• Eli_Lorentz reads her nametag

<IXJac> Dr. Sun
<IXJac> OK, Shu takes in the whole scene, with his critical eye and. . . She's one of the doctors who wanted Anya moved, but she's not a doctor. She has the wrong aura about her. . . and the whole way she's tensing suggests she's ready to strike. She's a wolf in sheep's clothing
<IXJac> Eli is still opening his mouth to say something.

• Shu moves with his whole body, dagger in hand and slashing across her throat

<IXJac> Shu lashes out with the primium knife, slashing through the paper mask at her throat, biting into unprotected myomuscle at the weakpoint formed by the hidden beam cannon cooling vents, and decapitates the boomer at a stroke
<IXJac> It's head rolls free with a *thump* as the body continues turning, metal knifes flicking out of its fingers reflexively.
<IXJac> Then the body also collapses.
<Eli_Lorentz> "I'm a spec- Whoa..."

<@Shu> Shu steps forwards in a flowing movement of Do, striking Katie with a sleeper strike, channeling Ki to disrupt her concentration (Prime 2 stun), going for non-lethal.
<@IXJac> She snaps her head over as Shu charges, dropping Liz. . .
<@IXJac> Something SLAMS into Shu, spinning him around - roll Stamina soak
<@IXJac> Shu takes 2 bashing from the telikinetic swipe, but he still manages to brush her forehead with a finger as he is tossed aside.
<@IXJac> Her aura convulses and she staggers. Eyes glazing, but already her Chi is starting to reform - supernatural beings can overcome this by spending quint/chi/gnosis after all. . . But Eli now has a clear shot.

<IXJac> Proteus establishes the link from Kana's spartan and still unfinished Psycommu lab
<IXJac> Proteus spends the next few minutes listening to Beta fuss about the shape he/she is in.
<IXJac> As well as some passive-aggressive comments on his new friends.
<Protoko> ". . . i am perfectly fine. stop listening to kana so much."
<Protoko> "i am sorry i have been out of touch"
<IXJac> "Well, I'm sure you know best on how to handle the situation, what with the number of times you've *died*. I wouldn't presume to advise you on plunging into life threatening situations."
<Protoko> "i have built up far more expertise in coming back from the dead than most people"

<@IXJac> It's MENTAL DAMAGE
<@Protoko2> cara can fix that!
@IXJac> Life has no effect on it!
<@Protoko2> So Cara can heal it!
<Mal> Cara's solution will be pancakes and bondage so I think it's a bad idea <Mal> pancakes, bondage and heavy metal
<@Protoko2> Just poke him in the head with Noetung and swirl his humors around some
<@Andronicus> :D

Latest Episode
<@Mari_chan> do I get a leason?
<@IXJac> Well, I'm kind of afraid to let you.

<IXJac> WHAM! The car strikes the ghost and sends her flying
<CathyWest> "NOoooo!"
<Shu> (oh god, I'm such a horrible person)
<Westin> "Mr. Izanagi. Can we please refrain from running over pedestrians?"
<Westin> "ESPECIALLY when they've already died once?"

Mari & Eli on Ice

<Mari_chan> <<I am hermetic I can always *MAKE* my own power. "
<@IXJac> << Then take your own mistakes. >>
<Mari_chan> <<THEN I WILL>>
<@IXJac> And the stone shatters, and all the aggravated damage and pradox it absorbed comes rushing back

• Eli_Lorentz goes into same shelter as Mari, after looking around for cliffs or rockfall.
  

<IXJac> Well, Eli can't hear the stones, but there's no stone pillars near the crater.
<Eli_Lorentz> (Eli is just a little paranoid after the trailer got blow off a cliff)
<Mari_chan> what Eli is saying and Mari is joining him in, is that we're looking for any obvious dangers that may not be communicated over this textual medium that a GM who is delighting of playing hellish adventure games might drop on us in case we didn't ask the right question or didn't get his description of the scene as he thought it was described
<IXJac> Noted. :)

<IXJac> "No! I am a demon prince! I am not some lap-kitten for snuggling! No snuggles! No! Urrrrkkk!"

<IXJac> You drop the demon prince into the flying saucer.

Karashengel

<IXJac> "Chinese bandits." Says the North Korean, in stilted Chinese. "Come to steal from Korean children. Drop sword. Now."

• Yu_Lan drops her sword so it imbeds into the ground handle up, and raises her hands slowly

<IXJac> Another figure walks around from behind the nose of the helicopter, entering the moonlit patch. "Sir, the Chinese bandits." The newcomer is shorter than the soldier, filling out his greatcoat in a portly fashion. He nods, then steps forward, hands clasped behind his back.
<IXJac> "And what are Chinese bandits doing with an ARC - model III if I do not mistake my guess - and in *my* country." Says Kim Jong Il.

<IXJac> "This is ridiculous!" says the younger man. "They're clearly spies, and if you weren't going old and senile you'd have shot them already - like this!"
<IXJac> And a gun is in his hand and firing.

• Yu_Lan dodges left so he can't turn without hitting his father, throwing up a screen of snow to shield herself

<IXJac> Yu Lan dodges the bullets, which kick up a line in the snow.
<Yu_Lan> "If you kill me your people are doomed. You are aware of the goings on in the imperialist stronghold of Tokyo yes?"
<IXJac> Kim Jong Il knocks the gun from his son's hand with a slap. "Doomed, eh? Well, let's see how far you mainlanders have taken the Way."
<IXJac> And he kicks his son in the ass, booting him sprawling into the snow before Yu Lan. "Form a ring."

<IXJac> OK, the younger Kim catches his breath in deep gasps. "I'll show you! I'll show you the power of Juche! One against One Hundred Form!"
<IXJac> Lightning crackles through the air as he slams his fists together, and you can sense forces and time magick building

• Yu_Lan breaths in and sucks the chi out of him

<IXJac> In explosion of air claps between you, disrupting his chi, and staggering him.
<IXJac> With a yell he reaches into his coat to pull another gun.

• Yu_Lan slices in through the shattered air and slaps a series of pressure points across the younger Kim, slapping the time out of him

<IXJac> "-urk." Frozen rigid as a statue, Kim Jong Un crashes to the ground in a *crump* of rising snow
<IXJac> The ring of soldiers move back, and Kim Jung Il steps forward. "Shameful." He says. "Such shameful disgrace." He waves to two of his men. "Pick him up."
<IXJac> "So, it seems the mainlanders still have things to teach us after all. Perhaps a little more time abroad will teach my son some better manners, and skills."
<IXJac> He coughs, and nods his head at Yu Lan.
<Yu_Lan> "Not all of us on the mainland have forgotten the way of revolution sir."
<IXJac> Roll Yu Lan's Communism+Appearance.

<Yu_Lan> "I just kung fu fought Kim Jong Un."
<Yu_Lan> "I just... kung fu fought kim jong un for helicopter fuel."

• Yu_Lan sounds a little stunned

Technocrats: The Paranoia

<IXBot> Jeanne_Kunigunde : ( 1 4 3 )
<IxJac> Yes, clearly TERRIBLY suspicious, just HOW did they get "stranded" here anyway?
<IxJac> And now she's trying to dismantle your helicopter! Destroying all the communications gear, so you can't call home! And with a signal that lured you RIGHT into a trap! Yes, it's all coming together now!


[22:04] <@Katarina> WP
[22:04] <@Katarina> d3
[22:04] <IXBot> Katarina : ( 1 4 7 )
[22:04] <@Katarina> Will it help if I spend 3 Quint?
[22:04] <@IXJac> You're starting to bend space.
[22:05] <@IXJac> Yes
[22:05] <@Katarina> Do so
[22:05] * @Jeanne_Kunigunde shoots her in the head
[22:05] <@IXJac> BLAM
[22:05] <@IXJac> Point blank
[22:05] <@Kiril> (hahaha)
[22:05] <Mal> (lol)
[22:05] <@IXJac> Roll Dex+Firearms. Diff 4
[22:05] <@Jeanne_Kunigunde> d8
[22:05] <IXBot> Jeanne_Kunigunde : ( 4 6 4 3 7 10 6 3 )
[22:05] <@Jeanne_Kunigunde> d1
[22:05] <IXBot> Jeanne_Kunigunde : ( 6 )
[22:05] <@IXJac> Roll damage +7
[22:06] <@Jeanne_Kunigunde> d13
[22:06] <IXBot> Jeanne_Kunigunde : ( 6 8 9 7 9 10 2 4 10 9 9 10 6 )
[22:06] <@Katarina> (You realise you just ensured no one will get out)
[22:06] <@Jeanne_Kunigunde> Better we all die then a RD infect the Union with LIES!
[22:06] <@Kessler> (yes, but it was in character)
[22:06] <@IXJac> "I've got it. . . almost got i-" Jeanne blows Katarina's brains out, execution style.


<Maggie-> I'm going to shoot the giant lizard. And scream.
<Kiril> (stamina + performance for the scream)
<IXJac> Sure.
<Maggie-> d3
<IXBot> Maggie- : ( 3 7 6 )
<IXJac> "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

<@IXJac> The monsters leap on Kessler, tearing at him like a rag doll between crocodile jaws, an arm, a leg. . .
<@IXJac> A huge maw opens above Kessler's head, full of horrible sharp teeth!'s head, full of horrible sharp teeth!
<@Kessler> "I think you need more lead in your diet."
<@IXjac> You draw some blood.
<@IXJac> The Creature speaks, a voice like grating stones. "Sleep human, and dream of when you were prey for dragons."
<@IXJac> And then the jaws close
<@IXJac> CHOMP
<@Kessler> Alright, so Kessler's link with the Helo shuts down, and it fires the missiles at his last known position
@IXJac> A stream of rockets rise on the night air, as the feeding Mokole look up
<@IXJac> . . . And then the forest explodes in fire

<IXJac> But his meat-mind is still confused.
<IXJac> Which means someone's been interfering with it!
<Kiril> And the Jeanne here is lying. The solution is, therefore, the solution he most prefers. Machine gunning. Kiril is a big fan of Alexander the Great, and how he solved the Gordian Knot.

<IxJac> You rip your arm free and bring the plasma cannon up, synthflesh peeling back
<Kiril> Full power to plasma cannon. Tokamak to max charge. >:(
<IxJac> There is a brilliant burst of plasma, and much of the clearing blows to ash, the woman in coated in fire
<IxJac> Everything is flames, and then there is the flapping of great wings. "Toy man, it seems you are too dangerous." She sounds angry. Overhead a huge dragon hovers, its wings fanning the inferno you created to new heights. "Time to put you away."

<IxJac> OK, you take 9 damage. How are you doing?
<IxJac> Yeah, that's mortal, she got your atomic core
<Kiril> "It seems.... we both have aces in the hole." >>All munitions detonate.<<
<Kiril> "Goodbye. Perhaps if I have a soul... I will see you in hell."
<IxJac> A shattering explosion rips through the forest.


<IXJac> So, two survivors. Not bad. :D

OUTTAKES

<@IXJac> Around the two massive golden clockwork cocks spin and click in an endless complex accounting.

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<Proteus> Hey IX
<Proteus> Just you and me now
<Proteus> Against the monsters
<IXJac> Well, this looks like endgame then!