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May 06, 2015 4:41PM    Apheori (GM): Is everyone here?

May 06, 2015 4:41PM    Ganelon: Merr ain't, according to my Roll20.

May 06, 2015 4:41PM    Apheori (GM): Oh, right.
WE NEEEEEDS HER.

May 06, 2015 4:41PM    Frezak (GM): I have begun the summoning rites.

May 06, 2015 4:43PM    Ellemerr: <em>poofs</em>

May 06, 2015 4:43PM    Apheori (GM): HELLO.
Okay, this screen is way too small.
There are four of you.
You all wind up separate.
I'ma start pm-ing you blocks of text.

May 06, 2015 4:44PM    Frezak (GM): Sure.

May 06, 2015 4:46PM    Apheori (GM): Uh, what sort of will defenses do characters of your level have?

May 06, 2015 4:46PM    Frezak (GM): What, on average?

May 06, 2015 4:47PM    Apheori (GM): Yeah, I guess.
A normal.

May 06, 2015 4:48PM    Frezak (GM): Someone of our level with a base 10 in their will stat has about... 15.

May 06, 2015 4:49PM    Ganelon: Radek's worst is Fort, at 16.
Otherwise, 21 AC, 20 Reflex, 19 Will.

May 06, 2015 4:49PM    Frezak (GM): A class with a main stat that's will-based would have another 4 or so on top.
Gravy's will is only 16.

May 06, 2015 4:49PM    Ganelon: AC is generally supposed to be like 2 higher than the others, though.

May 06, 2015 4:49PM    Frezak (GM): Poor Gravy.

May 06, 2015 4:49PM    Ganelon: At least for the people who fight up close.

May 06, 2015 4:50PM    Frezak (GM): SHe only asked about Will.

May 06, 2015 4:50PM    Ganelon: ...So she did!

May 06, 2015 4:50PM    Apheori (GM): So 26 gets Gravy?
Does 16 get Rhu?

May 06, 2015 4:50PM    Ganelon: Maybe <em>not</em>.
Avengers actually use Wisdom.

May 06, 2015 4:50PM    Frezak (GM): I don't think it would et Rhu.

May 06, 2015 4:51PM    Gaurav: Nope! Rhu's lowest is Fort at 15, but he has a Will of 19.

May 06, 2015 4:51PM    Apheori (GM): Huh.
Stupid arse widsom-based defenses.

May 06, 2015 4:52PM    Gaurav: He has a lower AC than Radek, weirdly enough. Comes from not wearing armour, I suppose.

May 06, 2015 4:52PM    Ganelon: That...
Huh.

May 06, 2015 4:52PM    Frezak (GM): Avengers should get a defence bonus.
They have... Shield Of Faith, I think.

May 06, 2015 4:52PM    Ganelon: Yeah, they get a +3 when wearing none, which would be better than Radek's armor itself.
But then maybe it's the difference in Dex/Int.

May 06, 2015 4:53PM    (To Frezak): Your name is Hieron Maranthana. You are a third-year student at Sa Karana High, well-liked, and out-going in a curt sort of way. While you are relatively athletic for your class, overall your appearance is fairly normal aside from the blue hair and the shovel you carry with you pretty much everywhere you go.

May 06, 2015 4:53PM    (To Frezak): Your friends have remarked on this, and rather disapproved, but despite all their concern that having the blue hair was a bad enough sign already, and that having a shovel on top of that would only make it that much more certain that you would become some sort of protagonist, you would not be pursuaded to desist. It is your shovel, and it is important to you.

May 06, 2015 4:53PM    Ganelon: Since the higher of those also gives you AC.

May 06, 2015 4:53PM    (To Frezak): This is who you are. You have no conscious recollection of who you were or where you were or what you were doing, though you retain all the general manerisms, skills, etc of your normal character, so basically just act normal bearing in mind that you are currently convinced that you are some sort of student in an anime elven high school.

May 06, 2015 4:53PM    Gaurav: Yup, I've got that. It's 13 + 3 + 4 (Improved Armour of Faith, I think).

May 06, 2015 4:54PM    (From Frezak (GM)): Hah!

May 06, 2015 4:54PM    Gaurav: His DEX is +3, which is a bit on the low side, I guess?

May 06, 2015 4:54PM    (To Rhu): Your name is Ganasi Miri. You are a second-year student at Sa Karana High, a bit awkward, but friendly and fairly well accepted, though you have no specific social circle and no close friends. For an iera, you look quite normal. So normal, in fact, that the thing people notice is how utterly unnoticeable you are. Usually you just laugh, but sometimes... sometimes it gets to you, just a little.

May 06, 2015 4:54PM    (To Rhu): You put most of your energy into your studies. After all, that's what you're all here for - to prepare for your lives in full. So you do, and it works, and your grades have stayed up and then some, though while you're the top of your class, you're still not quite at the top of the school.

May 06, 2015 4:54PM    (To Rhu): That unfortunate honour goes to Amaranthsi Nisholian. He looks like L.

May 06, 2015 4:55PM    (To Rhu): Except that's not right. As far as you can recall, you were somewhere else not so long ago. Some planet called Cerris. Investigating some holes. In a hole, practically, with everything all weird and black and crap. The scientist was going to close one, and there were these gods and stuff involved. You know. Then suddenly you're here and you're someone else and you don't really know how that happened.

May 06, 2015 4:55PM    Frezak (GM): +3 is a good modifier for your secondary stat.

May 06, 2015 4:55PM    Ganelon: Yeah, ain't bad.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): Your name is Amaranthsi Nisholian. You're a fourth-year student at Sa Karana High, and yet despite the fact that you've not even graduated, you're the most competent scientist in the known worlds. Law enforcement organisations and powerful corporations alike seek out your aid on a near constant basis, and you simply have to turn most of them down. Your hair is black as Midnight, but your eyes are even blacker, sunken into deep shadows that creep out some and only entice others. Your face utterly, painfully, refuses to grow a beard.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): You have no real friends, but you do have a fan club consisting of a good two thirds of the school's female population, and almost one third of its male population, and there is almost always a bit of a mob following you around on campus. When they can find you at all, that is. You do have a way of disappearing on them.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): Except the gibbering in your head is telling you that none of that is true.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): The gibbering is on your head. You know it's there. You remember the cephalopod's smooth cold feeling, gripping your cranium strongly in an embrace that always came across as strangely non-threatening, except now the feeling is gone. Your head is bare.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): Except it's still there. Wherever you really are, the cephalopod is still on your head, and it's worried for you.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): And now you remember the hole. The strange light, the darkness, the vertigo. The god who surprised you, the chance to test your creations without anyone to complain... whatever happened with that? Did you even make it that far? You don't think you did.

May 06, 2015 4:57PM    (To Radek): You were just walking. And then this.

May 06, 2015 4:58PM    (From Ganelon): Wwaaaaaaah you really did come prepared for this. Hold on.

May 06, 2015 4:59PM    (To Ganelon): I had a long bus ride.

May 06, 2015 4:59PM    (From Ganelon): Okay, caught up.

May 06, 2015 4:59PM    (To Ellemerr): Your name is Akari Sudamanshintha. You are a student of some sort at Sa Karana High, except there is no such place, and if it were, you'd not be here at all.

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    (To Ellemerr): This is clearly a dream, but it's not one of yours. And the weird thing is, the particularly weird thing that just doesn't fit anything you know, you don't even know whose it is.

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    (To Ellemerr): Perhaps it doesn't belong to anyone? Perhaps it's something else? Would the rest of you know?

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    (To Ellemerr): Looking at Squirrel now, you kind of doubt how helpful she's going to be, even compared to usual. She, at least, is entirely convinced of her studentiness, still looking almost exactly the same, but dressed in the uniform: short skirt, funky top, tie. Her bloody red hair sticking out in every direction.

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    (To Ellemerr): You look down and you're in the same, though your own colours have changed...

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    Apheori (GM): OKAY.
BLOCKS OF TEXT SENT.

May 06, 2015 5:00PM    (From Ganelon): So I am convinced that my current reality is false, and I'm receiving mental signals from the real one (which is presumably therefore still occurring in real-time)?

May 06, 2015 5:01PM    (To Ganelon): Seems to be.

May 06, 2015 5:02PM    (From Ellemerr): Okay. Let's see where the dream wants me to go. Class?

May 06, 2015 5:02PM    Apheori (GM): You're all outside, though not together. The classes are mingling out on the green, the spires of the school rising behind, with a general air of anticipation about the place. Small groups of students are chattering excitedly. Others are milling around, some going from group to group, others hugging their tablets, others still just standing about, waiting, content to take in the free break.
You all maintain your usual skills and stuff. All passive equipment effects remain. Weapons may or may not apply.

May 06, 2015 5:03PM    (To Radek): You do still have your robots, for whatever reason.

May 06, 2015 5:03PM    Ganelon: I think it would be weird if I were armed with a rifle.

May 06, 2015 5:03PM    (From Ganelon): My darlings.

May 06, 2015 5:03PM    Apheori (GM): Well, you could have something to that effect for club purposes or something.
Though it wouldn't be as effective as your usual.

May 06, 2015 5:04PM    Ganelon: It's cool, I can toss office supplies in a pinch.

May 06, 2015 5:04PM    Apheori (GM): Actually, no, you DEFINITELY have a giant-arse rifle.
It's HUGE. And it's really light.

May 06, 2015 5:05PM    Frezak (GM): A boffer gun!

May 06, 2015 5:06PM    Apheori (GM): Anyway, y'all are out on the grass. You don't necessarily know each other, but you may know of each other, or something. There's a lot of students.
Some stand out. There is a girl with a tutu on her head, but she's otherwise acting normal enough. A guy with blue hair is digging a hole, with his friends standing around him exasperatedly, though this is hardly new. Two girls, clearly twins, one red-haired and one black, are looking about a bit worriedly, though the red-haired one just seems to be copying the black-haired one more than anything else. And you all know Kiesthisi - the drug King of the school. He's standing there now in a haze of drugs, oddly alone, looking all the more impressive for it.
The Prince Amaranthsi Fan Club is of course out in force, too, though there's no sign of the prince himself.
The two new girls, Volshikana and Midoriki Hano, are nearby too. They're a bit of a mystery - nobody's really sure where they came from, or if they're even iera - they might even be _deresi_, the whispers go. Whatever the case, they're both beautiful, with incredibly ornate hair, ridiculous accessories, and huge eyes. The huge eyes are key, somehow.
And they won't tell anyone anything.

May 06, 2015 5:07PM    Apheori (GM): Kiesthisi's haze looks almost like a crown from some angles.

May 06, 2015 5:07PM    Gaurav: ... when you say "tutu ON her head" ... ?

May 06, 2015 5:08PM    Ganelon: "Drug King" sounds more criminal than the reality of it.

May 06, 2015 5:08PM    Frezak (GM): Yeah.

May 06, 2015 5:08PM    Apheori (GM): XD

May 06, 2015 5:08PM    Frezak (GM): Chemical Baron

Rhu is practicing Wushu with some other students from the Wushu club. It's all swishy ribbons and random jumping off things, either a tree trunk or a school wall, whatever's more convenient.

May 06, 2015 5:08PM    Apheori (GM): Kiesthisi Nitheriyamatha is a third-year student at Sa Karana High, and he is the drug King of the entire school, the height of cool, the go-to man for parties, enjoyment, and philosophical enlightenment alike. Also diet fads, for whatever reason, though he knows less about those than people tend to expect.
I might as well just tell you since RAHB didn't show.

May 06, 2015 5:09PM    Ganelon: I'd shake my fist at him if he had!

May 06, 2015 5:10PM    Apheori (GM): Can we change your names to the names in the dream?

Ganasi Miri is practicing Wushu with some other students from the Wushu club. It's all swishy ribbons and random jumping off things, either a tree trunk or a school wall, whatever's more convenient.

Apheori (GM) cackles.

May 06, 2015 5:12PM    Frezak (GM): REmind me of the AS command, Gan.

May 06, 2015 5:12PM    Ganelon: It's really that simple.
"/as Name words words words"
GMs only.

May 06, 2015 5:12PM    Frezak (GM): Yesh, but brackets? parentheses?

May 06, 2015 5:12PM    Ganelon: Well I've not been a GM to test it.

May 06, 2015 5:12PM    Apheori (GM): I'ma just change the names for now. >.>

May 06, 2015 5:13PM    Frezak (GM): Let's see.

May 06, 2015 5:13PM    Ganasi: I just renamed Rhu in the character screen. Seems to work.

May 06, 2015 5:13PM    Gaurav: OOC
it's confusing because our names are so similar

May 06, 2015 5:13PM    Hieron: n Maranthana) Yo

May 06, 2015 5:13PM    Frezak (GM): gaah

May 06, 2015 5:14PM    Apheori (GM): Actually, yeah, changing the names seems good. BEcause icons.

Midoriki Hano whispers stuff.

May 06, 2015 5:15PM    Ganelon: Not to mention us players can't use /as.

May 06, 2015 5:15PM    Volshikana: Whisper whisper.

May 06, 2015 5:15PM    Midoriki Hano: Whisper!

Ganasi eyes the beautiful new girls from time to time. He doesn't understand how someone with large eyes can be beautiful, but there they are, being beautiful and large eyed all at once.

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Midoriki Hano: I'm an anime schoolgirl _alien_, what.

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Apheori (GM): How do you italicise? >.<

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Ellemerr: With stars.

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Frezak (GM): stars!

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Ellemerr: <em>sigh</em>

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Apheori (GM): Agh, seriously?

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Ellemerr: Seriously. >.<

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Apheori (GM): >.<

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Ellemerr: I've ranted quite a bit about it already.

May 06, 2015 5:16PM    Apheori (GM): Yes.
Okay.
Okay, so Gravy's guy, whatever the hell his name is, the blue-haired one, is digging a hole. Rhu's guy is dancing about with clubmates.
What are Amadi and Radek doing? Radek had disappeared, but that doesn't mean much.

May 06, 2015 5:17PM    Frezak (GM): Hieron will dispense wisdom.
That is all hole related.

May 06, 2015 5:18PM    Apheori (GM): Actually, Rhu's is a girl for some reason.

May 06, 2015 5:18PM    Ellemerr: Standing. Looking around. Trying to keep her twin out of trouble, somehow.

May 06, 2015 5:18PM    Apheori (GM): The twin is still following you around copying everything you do.
Perception, then?
Frezak: Your friends are a bit tired of this, but humour you.

May 06, 2015 5:19PM    Gaurav: Excellent. The only Wushu-er I've known was a girl, so I can just play her.

May 06, 2015 5:19PM    Frezak (GM): Such friends.

May 06, 2015 5:19PM    Apheori (GM): One of them, a guy named Leaf, asks when you'll be done.

May 06, 2015 5:20PM    Ganelon: Well the first think Radek is going to do is instinctively attempt to stroke his beard.

May 06, 2015 5:20PM    Hieron: Never! But Even great works can be suspended.

May 06, 2015 5:20PM    Ganelon: And when the dismay passes from him realizing there isn't one, he'll turn it into an inferior ponderous chin-rubbing.

May 06, 2015 5:20PM    Ellemerr: Sure, perception.
rolling 1d20 + 8
( 11 )+8 = 19

May 06, 2015 5:21PM    Frezak (GM): I actually stroke my invisible beard in real life.

May 06, 2015 5:21PM    Ganelon: Radek is used to having a real one.

May 06, 2015 5:21PM    Apheori (GM): Ellemerr: Looks like thing everyone's out here for is about to start.
It seems to involve the two... aliens?

Ganasi tells my friends I'll be back in a bit and sidles up to Gravy.

Amadi keeps observing.

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    Ganasi: (to Hieron) Psst, it's me.
(to Hieron) I mean, it's Rhu. How did we get here?

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    (To Frezak): You only vaguely know this guy.

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    (To Frezak): Er, girl.

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    (To Frezak): In fact she looks really, really normal.

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    Ganelon: So when you said I've disappeared...

May 06, 2015 5:23PM    (To Frezak): Which actually kind of stands out.

May 06, 2015 5:24PM    Ganelon: How literally?

May 06, 2015 5:24PM    Apheori (GM): That's really up to you. You could just be hiding on the other side of a shed, or temporarily invisible, or whatveer.
Pick one.

May 06, 2015 5:24PM    Gaurav: Hiding behind a shed with a giant rifle sticking out.

May 06, 2015 5:25PM    Hieron: Hello, friend! We come here every day through that gate over there.

May 06, 2015 5:25PM    Ganelon: Well apparently I've got a giant horde of minions chasing me around.
Hiding would be difficult.

May 06, 2015 5:25PM    Apheori (GM): That's why you disappeared.

May 06, 2015 5:26PM    Ganelon: He totally would for that reason, yes.

May 06, 2015 5:26PM    Apheori (GM): You can make yourself invisible for a round in order to get away from things.
Happy?

May 06, 2015 5:26PM    Ganasi: Ah, gotcha. (nods) I'll go look for our ... classmates, then.

May 06, 2015 5:26PM    Apheori (GM): The crowd of students seem to be quieting.

May 06, 2015 5:27PM    Hieron: Of course!

May 06, 2015 5:27PM    Ganelon: Then yeah, he'll try to use that to get somewhere hidden, and... from there, if possible, somewhere that he can see them for when they disperse.

May 06, 2015 5:27PM    Frezak (GM): Except Student Gravy who can't whisper.

May 06, 2015 5:27PM    Ganelon: And of course he'll be mumbling theories at himself all the while.

May 06, 2015 5:27PM    Apheori (GM): On a hill that is vaguely in front of everyone, the two possibly alien new girls are standing with the class presidents and headmaster.
Radek's guy is standing on the other side of a fence from most of the crowd, but he can see most of it fine.

May 06, 2015 5:29PM    Ganelon: I STEADY MY RIFLE (No I don't).

May 06, 2015 5:29PM    Gaurav: You totally should.

May 06, 2015 5:29PM    Frezak (GM): Radek looks down from on his Gnoll.

May 06, 2015 5:29PM    Apheori (GM): XD

May 06, 2015 5:29PM    Ganelon: I'm not turning this into an assassination until I have a reason to!

May 06, 2015 5:30PM    Apheori (GM): The headmaster does something of an intro speel you may or may not have been paying attention to.

May 06, 2015 5:30PM    Gaurav: Given that they are anime schoolgirls, if you try to aim at them, they'll vanish and appear standing behind you, tapping your shoulder to ask what's up.

May 06, 2015 5:30PM    Headmaster: Students of Sa Karana High!
Today is an auspicious day, for today we welcome two of our own.

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Gaurav: Ganasi is definitely paying attention. The headmaster might be Radek!

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Headmaster: Blah blah blah stuff reckoning blah stuff.

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Ganelon: Nah, Gaurav.

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Ellemerr: Considering her careful observation of everything, Amadi would listen too.

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Frezak (GM): Waaaaaait, Reckoning?
Sounds a tad ominous.

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Ganelon: If Radek was the headmaster, would he <em>really</em> be talking about people other than himself? In a positive manner?

May 06, 2015 5:31PM    Apheori (GM): ...he actually says that, at which point one of the class presidents steps forward and steals the megaphone.

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    Gaurav: I kinda want to watch this anime now. Any show where the principal says "blah" during a speech and where Greibel is King of Drugs is likely to be brilliant.

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    Ganelon: Then again, he <em>might</em> talk of reckonings.

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    President Danaitai : But seriously, folks, we've planned this festival for months, and we're having a festival!
Having two newcomers makes it that much better, but they're not the only reason we're here!

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    Gaurav: Gan: ah, if only Rhu had enough insight to suss that out.

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    President Danaitai : They're just a slightly better excuse than what we had before.

May 06, 2015 5:32PM    Volshikana: Which was nothing?

May 06, 2015 5:33PM    President Danaitai : Yes!
Come on, let's give them a hearty welcome!

May 06, 2015 5:34PM    Apheori (GM): As all the students start cheering, Volshikana and Midoriki Hano start arguing with each other.
You can totally try to listen in if you want. Or not. Or something.

May 06, 2015 5:34PM    Hieron: Yay! Woooo!

May 06, 2015 5:34PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy totally uses his Reality Analysis power.

May 06, 2015 5:34PM    Ellemerr: Listen!

May 06, 2015 5:35PM    Apheori (GM): Perception!

May 06, 2015 5:35PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+14+10
( 7 )+14+10 = 31
MATRIX DECODING HOOOOO

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Ellemerr: ... Y'know what, I'll go over and ask Hieron what they're saying, guessing that any diggers must have good hearing.

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Ganelon: I
...Shall listen too*

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak: They're arguing about the reality of this. One is saying they need to stop it, that it's bad and stuff. The other, Volshikana or whatever, is saying they should maybe play it out.

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+10 Perception
( 15 )+10 = 25

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Ellemerr:
rolling 1d20 + 8
( 12 )+8 = 20

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: Seems to be something about the reality of it.

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Ellemerr: Though I do have ears of my own.

May 06, 2015 5:36PM    Apheori (GM): Ellemerr: Same
.

May 06, 2015 5:38PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy waves at them.
And yeah, will relay what he heard to anyone that asks him.

Headmaster throws his arms in the air surprisingly anticlimactically and casts a spell thing, and suddenly a whole lot of festival stuff, complete with snack booths, rides, and a very large rhino, appear behind him.

May 06, 2015 5:39PM    President Danaitai : Uh, yeah, PAAARTY.

May 06, 2015 5:39PM    Apheori (GM): You guys ask?

May 06, 2015 5:39PM    Ellemerr: Well, Amadi does. Or Akari Sudamanshintha does. Something.

May 06, 2015 5:40PM    Gaurav: Does we know what a rhino is?

May 06, 2015 5:41PM    Midoriki Hano: Eh, it's something you know what it is, and I'm just calling it a rhino.

May 06, 2015 5:41PM    Apheori (GM): Er, ooc.
Okay, so y'all coallesce on the blue-haired gravedigging protagonist guy.
Or something.
As everyone moves to head for the festival stuff.

May 06, 2015 5:42PM    Ganelon: Once my STALKERS are gone, sure.

May 06, 2015 5:42PM    Apheori (GM): And he relays what he heard.
And you have two... squirrels.
Squirrels.
One with black hair, one with red.

May 06, 2015 5:42PM    Ellemerr: Er.

May 06, 2015 5:42PM    Apheori (GM): Radek's guy evades the stalkers, but then they start crowding around this too after a bit.

May 06, 2015 5:43PM    Ellemerr: Am I a squirrel? <em>shifty eyes</em>

May 06, 2015 5:43PM    Apheori (GM): You look like her.
But with black hair.
And less crazy.

May 06, 2015 5:43PM    Ellemerr: >confused<

May 06, 2015 5:43PM    Apheori (GM): You're Amadi/
.
You, like everyone else EXCEPT Squirrel, just look a bit different.

May 06, 2015 5:44PM    Ellemerr: And in addition, there are squirrels?
I'm wary of the squirrels.

May 06, 2015 5:44PM    Apheori (GM): Er, sorry, no. >.<
I meant Squirrels.

May 06, 2015 5:44PM    Ellemerr: Oh!
Okay, right.
Now I'm less confused.

Radek grumbles.

May 06, 2015 5:45PM    Radek: ...I am trapped in a horrid nimbus of juvenile adoration. Please tell me at least one of you still has their senses intact.

Radek hesitates.

May 06, 2015 5:45PM    Radek: ...Or whatever passes for them among you, considering.

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Apheori (GM): Okay, I renamed Radek.
He's the prince.

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Ganelon: Thank you.

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Apheori (GM): To clarify.

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Amadi: I have two Squirrels.
The likelyhood of insanity is substantial.

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Squirrel: This is all not real! Real insanity!

May 06, 2015 5:46PM    Amadi: Yes.

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Ganasi:
rolling d20 insight to identify radek
( 18 ) = 18

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Gaurav: err, +8

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Ganelon: 26?

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Gaurav: I seem to have forgotten how to roll20

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Apheori (GM): The Prince is definitely Radek.

May 06, 2015 5:47PM    Ganelon: Few others would use the phrase "horrid nimbus".

May 06, 2015 5:48PM    Apheori (GM): Also the two aliens are still arguing with each other. They also have really big boobs.

May 06, 2015 5:48PM    Ganasi: Um, yes. Nimbus. Right. Is that a rhino?

May 06, 2015 5:48PM    Apheori (GM): Are you guys just standing there, all moving toward the festival, or going somewhere else?

May 06, 2015 5:49PM    Ellemerr: I wanna talk with the girls.

May 06, 2015 5:49PM    Frezak (GM): Lacking anything to do, Gravy will just follow his friends.

May 06, 2015 5:49PM    Ganelon: I... have no intention to move towards it, but if anyone else is stringing the group forwards then I don't <em>mind</em>.
Right now, just being around them is fine.

May 06, 2015 5:49PM    Gaurav: ^ same

May 06, 2015 5:50PM    Apheori (GM): The drug King, Kiesthisi, goes up to Amadi and offers her a toke.
Gravy and his friends are headed for the festival.

May 06, 2015 5:50PM    Akari: ... I'm going to <em>talk</em>. To... <strong><em>those things</em></strong>.
Don't get too lost.

Akari accepts the toke (whatever that even is) and puts it in her hair, before walking towards the aliens.

May 06, 2015 5:51PM    Apheori (GM): Kiesthisi follows, humming a strange tune.

Ganasi follows Akari, but he keeps getting distracted and keeps glancing at the rhino.

May 06, 2015 5:52PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy's going with his group of school friends into the thing itself.
Radek goes which way?

May 06, 2015 5:53PM    Ganelon: To listen to... <strong><em>those things.</em></strong>

May 06, 2015 5:53PM    Apheori (GM): Okay.

May 06, 2015 5:53PM    Ganelon: On the way he'll attempt magic.
Just to see if it works right.
Nothing dramatic.

May 06, 2015 5:53PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron Maranthana - you follow your friends and immediately one gets distracted by a girl he has a crush on and runs off. You let him go?
Amaranthsi-Radek: D20 and arcana.

May 06, 2015 5:54PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20
( 7 ) = 7
rolling 1d20+16 Arcana
( 10 )
+16 = 26

May 06, 2015 5:55PM    Apheori (GM): The magic doesn't exactly work. You suppose it could just be a thing with the... what is this, a dream? But you can adjust for it without too much trouble. The cephalopod is very clear on this.
Somehow.

May 06, 2015 5:55PM    Ganelon: Good to know.
And this better not be a dream!
He hates those!

May 06, 2015 5:56PM    Apheori (GM): Well, dreams don't usually happen in real time. Or with other people...
You can try to identify it.

May 06, 2015 5:56PM    Ganelon: ...Sure, why not.

May 06, 2015 5:57PM    Apheori (GM): Arcana

May 06, 2015 5:57PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+16
( 15 )+16 = 31

May 06, 2015 5:58PM    Apheori (GM): It is a dream, sort of, but more like a VR than a dream itself. You've been hijacked into something, and there's no indication of what by at all.
Normally there'd be an <em>interface</em>.

May 06, 2015 5:58PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy carefully hides the keyboard built into his shovel.

May 06, 2015 5:59PM    Apheori (GM): o.O

May 06, 2015 5:59PM    Ganelon: I'll work on a solution later, when we're not just standing around.
Or rather, standing up.
Let's go see what the anime babes want.

May 06, 2015 5:59PM    Gaurav: Later is when that rhino will charge into the crowd and kill us all.

May 06, 2015 5:59PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron (Gravy): Your friends wind up at the rhino. It seems very unhappy, and people are trying to ride it. This makes it even more unhappy.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Ganelon: It'll kill a lot more people before us!

Akari stops before the aliens.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Akari: Hi.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Apheori (GM): Everyone else: You go up to the anime babes.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Volshikana: Uh... hi.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Midoriki Hano: Don't talk to them, you fool!

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Hieron: PLease leave the poor thing alone. It's not happy.

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Frezak (GM): Can I... Nature the Rhino?

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Apheori (GM): NAture the rhino!

May 06, 2015 6:00PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+11
( 6 )+11 = 17

May 06, 2015 6:01PM    Apheori (GM): Some people seem disappointed at this, others seem supportive, and your friends try to get you to ride it.

May 06, 2015 6:01PM    Akari: (to the aliens, in response to Hano) Why should I not talk to you?

May 06, 2015 6:01PM    Apheori (GM): Whatever the case, you wind up ushered up to it, and check it out.
It looks like a very large specimin of its species, and is apparently not real.

May 06, 2015 6:01PM    Gaurav: Huh.

May 06, 2015 6:02PM    Apheori (GM): Sorry, Hano was talking to Volshikana when she said that. Do you still respond thus? >.<

May 06, 2015 6:02PM    Hieron: Okay, who put the fake Rhino here? If you're going to make a fake Rhino, at least make it a happy one!

May 06, 2015 6:02PM    Ellemerr: Change to "Why should you not talk to me?"

May 06, 2015 6:03PM    Apheori (GM): Aiight.
Hieron: The handler person tells you you need to ride it to make it happy.

May 06, 2015 6:03PM    Midoriki Hano: You're... not real.
(to Amadi)

May 06, 2015 6:04PM    Ganasi: (to Midoriki) Yes, we know.

May 06, 2015 6:04PM    Amaranthsi: ...Don't listen to him. We are not constructs of this simulation.

Midoriki Hano looks at Ganasi and frowns curiously.

May 06, 2015 6:04PM    Frezak (GM): I would like to INsight the Handlerman

May 06, 2015 6:04PM    Midoriki Hano: You... you look familiar.

May 06, 2015 6:04PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+4
( 10 )+4 = 14

Volshikana smacks Midoriki.

May 06, 2015 6:05PM    Amaranthsi: I assume neither are the two of you.

May 06, 2015 6:05PM    Volshikana: (to Amaranthsi) Yeah. Not really sure what happened there.
You all all right?

May 06, 2015 6:05PM    Amaranthsi: ...In some ways.

Amaranthsi silently mourns his beard.

May 06, 2015 6:06PM    Akari: It is very strange. I'd ask if this is what dreaming is like for other people, but of course it isn't.

May 06, 2015 6:06PM    Volshikana: Frezak: Handler guy is a nerd from the second year, he seems to mean well enough, and you're not sure what he was actually thinking with any of this, aside from 'giant rhinosare cool'.

May 06, 2015 6:06PM    Apheori (GM): Er, ooc.
Radek's poor beard. I guess I'm holding it hostage until this all gets worked out.

May 06, 2015 6:08PM    Amaranthsi: The others are recognizable enough. Under the circumstances... I take it you are the god? One of you?

May 06, 2015 6:08PM    Volshikana: Yeah.
Hi.

May 06, 2015 6:09PM    Midoriki Hano: (to Volshikana) What did you do?

May 06, 2015 6:09PM    Volshikana: I didn't do anything.
Did I?

May 06, 2015 6:09PM    Amaranthsi: ...Troubling that you couldn't escape this.

May 06, 2015 6:09PM    Ganasi:
rolling d20+10 religion check on the two "gods"
( 6 )+10 = 16

May 06, 2015 6:10PM    Gaurav: No idea if i can actually religion check in this dream, but I'm going to try.

May 06, 2015 6:10PM    Volshikana: (indicating Hano) More troubling that he's here, really.

May 06, 2015 6:10PM    Ellemerr: I'm gonna stare hard at Hano and try to figure out who he is.

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Apheori (GM): Rhu: They have really massive boobs.
People could form religions around those alone.
RELIGION!

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Gaurav: Rhu is regrettably an ass-man and these boobs mean nothing to him.
Ooo.

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Apheori (GM): Ellemerr: Religion.

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Gaurav: Maybe they will some day.

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Midoriki Hano: This is <strong>not</strong> my dream.

May 06, 2015 6:11PM    Ellemerr: Considering my character, my religion is really low. xD
rolling 1d20 + 7
( 14 )+7 = 21

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Frezak (GM): Ellemerr, roll Boobs.

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Midoriki Hano: ROLL BOOBS.
Er, ooc.

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Gaurav: No no she

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Ellemerr: You sure he didn't just shout that?

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Frezak (GM): NO THAT WAS IC
TOTALLY IC

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Gaurav: should say that

May 06, 2015 6:12PM    Apheori (GM): No that isn't!
The other one might yell that, but not Hano.

May 06, 2015 6:13PM    Ellemerr: Snrk

May 06, 2015 6:13PM    (To Ellemerr): Hano is Hazz. Volshikana is Kyrule.

May 06, 2015 6:13PM    Ganelon: BRB.

May 06, 2015 6:14PM    Akari: (to Hano) Well, of course it isn't. If it was yours it would've been <em>boring</em>.

Midoriki Hano gives Akari a long, unimpressed look.

May 06, 2015 6:14PM    Volshikana: Where'd the Gravedigger run off to? He looks like a protagonist.
(to Radek) Also, nice gaggle.

Akari nods in agreement.

May 06, 2015 6:15PM    Apheori (GM): You still have a bit of a crowd of fan club around you, watching intently.
Frezak: You insighted the handler. What next?

May 06, 2015 6:16PM    Frezak (GM): I will leave in disgust!

Amaranthsi frowns.

May 06, 2015 6:17PM    Amaranthsi: Yes, it is very <em>persistent.</em>

May 06, 2015 6:17PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron stomps off in disgust, holding his shovel prominently.
Two of his friends follow.

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Ganelon: So he's a blue-haired guy, but is it spiky?

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Apheori (GM): Any interest in anything being there?
It's lush and perfect.

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Frezak (GM): Food!

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Ganelon: A protagonist without spiky hair?

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Apheori (GM): There's stalls with a lot of food. Gather some up?

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Ganelon: <em>Suspicious.</em>

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Frezak (GM): Yesss

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Apheori (GM): They can't always have spikey hair@

May 06, 2015 6:18PM    Ganelon: Actually it's more telling of the genre than anything.

May 06, 2015 6:19PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy is a big active person and needs nourishment.

May 06, 2015 6:19PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak gathers up a whole lot of food and winds up in a pie eating contest against his friends and the girl with the tutu on her head.

May 06, 2015 6:19PM    Ganelon: If he had spiky hair and <em>goggles</em> we could be certain that it'd be all about fighting the forces of unambiguous evil with the power of friendship.

May 06, 2015 6:19PM    Apheori (GM): Er, his guy.

May 06, 2015 6:20PM    Volshikana: Hmm.

May 06, 2015 6:21PM    Gaurav: We don't need the power of friendship, we have the power of hitting things really hard.

May 06, 2015 6:21PM    Apheori (GM): Th gaggle of fan club watches excitedly. Rarely are they actually <em>aknowledged</em>.

May 06, 2015 6:22PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy is certain in his dominion over pies

May 06, 2015 6:22PM    Ganasi: (to random/prettiest member of gaggle) So you guys are like, his fans or something?

May 06, 2015 6:22PM    Midoriki Hano: Oh, please.

Midoriki Hano stomps forward toward them, then suddenly explodes in a mass of tentacles shooting out in every direction, reaching toward all of them, all at once.

May 06, 2015 6:23PM    Apheori (GM): The fan club scatters. The rest of you are probably a bit put off by this too.

Ganasi screams.

May 06, 2015 6:23PM    Frezak (GM): IN JOY
AND EXTASY
AND LOVE

May 06, 2015 6:23PM    Akari: (mumbles) ... Show-off.

Amaranthsi jumps a bit, admittedly.

May 06, 2015 6:24PM    Gaurav: In surprise tentacles, mostly.

May 06, 2015 6:24PM    Apheori (GM): A moment later all the tentacls are gone and Hano is just standing there looking big-boobed and grumpy.

May 06, 2015 6:24PM    Volshikana: Heheh.

May 06, 2015 6:24PM    Amaranthsi: ...E-effective.

May 06, 2015 6:25PM    Akari: Not really.

May 06, 2015 6:25PM    Ganasi: I .. but .. that ... you ...

May 06, 2015 6:25PM    Squirrel: Boob!
Boobs!

May 06, 2015 6:25PM    Ganelon: Hey, they <em>are</em> gone.

Squirrel jumps on Hano and starts fondling her boobs.

May 06, 2015 6:25PM    Ganasi: It's you. You're here! You ... hey, get off my god!

Akari smirks.

May 06, 2015 6:26PM    Ganelon: This really is pretty anime.

May 06, 2015 6:26PM    Ellemerr: I'm sure we could sell it for profit.

Midoriki Hano twitches angrily and then pushes Squirrel away with one hand, holding her back while the midget tries to swipe at her with too-short arms.

May 06, 2015 6:27PM    Apheori (GM): As for Gravy...
The first round of pies disappears without incident. Some sort of berry.
The second round of pies... you're not sure what they are.
Nature, please.

Ganasi hopes Senpai Midoriki will notice him.

May 06, 2015 6:27PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+11
( 6 )+11 = 17

May 06, 2015 6:27PM    Ganelon: They're schnozberries.

May 06, 2015 6:27PM    Frezak (GM): Jeez, terrible rolls again.

May 06, 2015 6:28PM    Ganasi: (to Amaranthsi) You don't have a camera or something, do you? I'd like to take a picture of this.

Amaranthsi sighs.

May 06, 2015 6:30PM    Ganelon: The tablet should be capable of that, yeah?

May 06, 2015 6:30PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak: It might be meat. You are reeeeally not sure. Eat?
One of your friends balked at it and dropped out.
Tutu girl already finished.

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Ganelon: Meat pies?
Savoury and sweet pies?

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Apheori (GM): Yes.

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Gaurav: Presumably he turned green and riddled off screen with funky sound effects.

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Frezak (GM): Hellls yeah

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: You have a tablet, but it's different from your real one. You don't know if anything done here will persist.
You could arcana to try to find out.

May 06, 2015 6:31PM    Ganelon: Sure!

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron eats the pie, along with his other friend. Third round!

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Ganelon: But he'll take a picture either way because Rhu will get all depressed and annoying if he doesn't.

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Apheori (GM): Third round is pies stacked on top of each other. You each get a piepiepie.

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Frezak (GM): And then the eggs hatch!

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+16 Arcana
( 2 )+16 = 18
Alas!

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Apheori (GM): Shrug.

May 06, 2015 6:32PM    Frezak (GM): Alack!

Volshikana wraps an arm around Hano and poses for the picture, putting up bunny ears behind her head.

Midoriki Hano hisses irritably.

Amaranthsi still attempts the taking of a picture, if he can at least figure out how to operate the thing. He scowls the whole way through.

May 06, 2015 6:33PM    Volshikana: Oh, cheer up.

May 06, 2015 6:33PM    Gaurav: Amaranthsi hands Ganasi a photo of his own scowling face.

May 06, 2015 6:33PM    Volshikana: This isn't the end of the world.

May 06, 2015 6:34PM    Amaranthsi: You're certain of that?

May 06, 2015 6:34PM    Akari: There'd be more bunnies if it was.

May 06, 2015 6:34PM    Midoriki Hano: This is <em>literally</em> the end of the world, you fool! You call yourself King, part of the Dark Sister's elaborate network, and then you just sit back and <em>party</em>?!

May 06, 2015 6:34PM    Volshikana: I'm pretty certain, yes.

Akari looks around warily, as if afraid that bunnies might spring from nowhere.

May 06, 2015 6:34PM    Volshikana: Aside from the lack of bunnies, there would also be, well... hmm.

Volshikana looks around.

May 06, 2015 6:35PM    Volshikana: Well, something, anyway.

May 06, 2015 6:35PM    Ganasi:
rolling d20+10 religion check on "Dark Sister"
( 20 )+10 = 30

May 06, 2015 6:36PM    Midoriki Hano: Then what is this?

May 06, 2015 6:36PM    Volshikana: Radek, what is this?

May 06, 2015 6:36PM    Apheori (GM): Hmm.
What does Rhu know?

May 06, 2015 6:36PM    Gaurav: Not much. He's only just (like a few days ago) worked out that they were in a different universe from where they started.

May 06, 2015 6:37PM    Ganelon: What is what?

May 06, 2015 6:37PM    Gaurav: Maybe the bunnies all think they're anime school kids?

May 06, 2015 6:37PM    Ganelon: This WORLD?

May 06, 2015 6:37PM    Apheori (GM): The Dark Sister, also known as the Founder and the Architect, is the one who created the network named universes. Hazz'ridan is not a part of that, but he does interact with them on a fairly regular basis due to a bit of an overlap.
You're not sure how you know this, but apparently you do.
Gan: Sure.

May 06, 2015 6:38PM    Ganelon: He probably read it on a wiki-surf starting with Hazz'ridan.

May 06, 2015 6:38PM    (From Ellemerr): Where does Amadi and her ilk figure in this?

May 06, 2015 6:38PM    Gaurav: Okay. He can deal with that.

May 06, 2015 6:38PM    (To Ellemerr): Amadi and her ilk ARE the Dark Sister.

May 06, 2015 6:39PM    Amaranthsi: To my understanding, we have been forced inside a simulation.

Volshikana nods.

May 06, 2015 6:39PM    Volshikana: Constructed as some form of dream form, I'd suppose. I have experience with similar, though that is both more... and less.

May 06, 2015 6:40PM    Amaranthsi: It possesses dreamlike qualities, yes, but of course it is not one. I do not dream.

May 06, 2015 6:40PM    (From Ellemerr): I thought that might be the case. Oh dear.

Apheori (GM) cackles.

Akari suppresses a laugh into a sort of snort.

Amaranthsi narrows his eyes - not at anyone in particular.

May 06, 2015 6:41PM    Amaranthsi: The lack of an interface is concerning. It may be intended to keep us here indefinitely.

May 06, 2015 6:41PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy: You ate the stacked pie, right?

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Frezak (GM): Yyyyyep

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Volshikana: Not necessarily. In the Book, there isn't really an interface either, normally.
Except why we would even be here... perhaps it is trying to stop us from reaching the hole?

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Ganasi: What would an interface look like?

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Midoriki Hano: What hole?

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Volshikana: Sanessee.

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Midoriki Hano: When?

May 06, 2015 6:42PM    Volshikana: Then, of course.

May 06, 2015 6:43PM    Midoriki Hano: Then how...

Volshikana grins slowly.

Volshikana pokes Hano in the boob.

May 06, 2015 6:43PM    Ganelon: Indicating the answer to her unspoken question, obviously.

May 06, 2015 6:43PM    Midoriki Hano: You are enjoying this entirely too much.

May 06, 2015 6:44PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak: Next pie is a chicken. Literally, they just slapped a fried chicken down in front of you.

May 06, 2015 6:44PM    Akari: Oh, you're such a <em>boob</em>.

May 06, 2015 6:44PM    Ellemerr: That's directed at Hano.

May 06, 2015 6:44PM    Volshikana: Isn't she?

Amaranthsi rolls his eyes.

May 06, 2015 6:45PM    Ganelon: Radek holds the gods to a very high standard.
Such as being responsible.
It's therefore unsurprising that he doesn't like any of them.
Well... that he knows.

May 06, 2015 6:45PM    Hieron: Excuse me! This isn't a pie!

Volshikana does an impression of the teacher in DearS, fondling and juggling her own boobs, complete with 'ooing' and squeaking noises.

May 06, 2015 6:45PM    Hieron: I can tell!

May 06, 2015 6:45PM    Gaurav: ^ http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dears/images/b/bb/Dears-MitsukaBounce_640w.gif/revision/latest?cb=20110730235133

May 06, 2015 6:45PM    Apheori (GM): It's a little like that.
Hieron!
The contest person asks if you have a problem with that.

Amaranthsi crosses his arms and turns his back. How /crass/.

Volshikana stops and bursts out laughing.

May 06, 2015 6:46PM    Volshikana: Oh, come on. It's anime!
Live a little.

May 06, 2015 6:47PM    Akari: ... I wonder what sleep would be like here. Anime dreams aren't pretty, in my experience.

May 06, 2015 6:47PM    Volshikana: I wouldn't advise it. There might be tentacles.

Akari grins a little.

May 06, 2015 6:47PM    Akari: Some of you should try. Just to make sure.

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Ganelon: Sorry, Names, but Radek's all business.

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Hieron: Yes. It's a pie eating contest. If someone asks you to bury a body, you don't dump a corpse in a cannon, fire it, and call it a day. Who is the manager here? I have rights!

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Ganelon: Or at least, his definition of "pleasure" is often dangerously irresponsible and unethical sciences.

Midoriki Hano wraps a surreptitious tentacle around Volshikana's shoulders.

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Ganelon: Certainly not...

Ganelon turns up his nose.

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Ganelon: <em>Boob</em> juggling.

May 06, 2015 6:48PM    Apheori (GM): The guy asks Hieron if he'd like to bury the chicken.

May 06, 2015 6:50PM    Ganelon: ...I just realized, if this is the general sentiment, I'm going to be working on a way out of here... teamed up with the personification of Hazz'ridan.
We're doomed.

Apheori (GM) cackles.

May 06, 2015 6:50PM    Gaurav: With the powers of tentacles and science combined, we can't lose!

May 06, 2015 6:50PM    Volshikana: (swatting away the tentacle) Okay, yes, you're right. We do need to sort this out.

May 06, 2015 6:50PM    Hieron: No! This is a contest! I am contesting! There are rules, you know! You can't get away by breaking the rules!

May 06, 2015 6:50PM    Ganelon: Tentacles and OBSTRUCTED PROGRESS.

May 06, 2015 6:51PM    Gaurav: Wait, if we've all realised he's Hazz, how come Amadi hasn't punched him in the nose again?

May 06, 2015 6:51PM    Ganelon: She still has time.

May 06, 2015 6:51PM    Ellemerr: Heeeee

May 06, 2015 6:51PM    Gaurav: There are precious minutes of Hazz' punching that are passing her by.
There is nothing sadder than missing all the god-punches that might have been.

May 06, 2015 6:52PM    Pie guy: (leaning forward at Hieron) The rules... <em>are what I make them</em>.

May 06, 2015 6:52PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron: Your other friend dropped out, so they're both cheering you on now. You just have tutu girl against you.
She already finished her chicken.

May 06, 2015 6:52PM    Hieron: And when rules are broken, bad things happen to bad people!

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Pie guy: So eat your pie.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Frezak (GM): His eyes are slightly unfocused.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Pie guy: Or conceeeeeed.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Ganelon: Geez, Gravy, just because you started a religion doesn't mean you have to get all <em>paladin</em> on us.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Gaurav: By the rules of Anime, tutu girl is clearly Gravy's love interest.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Ganelon: Forget the rules and devour that chicken!

Akari suddenly shouts

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Akari: This carnival is not well-oiled!

Ganasi jumps.

May 06, 2015 6:53PM    Hieron: This issssn't a p-p-pie

May 06, 2015 6:54PM    Frezak (GM): Hieron jerks upright
Assuming he was seated.

Akari decides to ignore the others and go towards Hieron. If he's far away, she'll run.

May 06, 2015 6:54PM    Pie guy: Piiiiiie.

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Apheori (GM): Amadi runs off, finds the drug guy in the process, and they both wind up behing Hieron.

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy grabs the table and tries to smash the Pie guy.

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Gaurav: Are we sure Pie guy isn't a god too?

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Apheori (GM): Greibel's guy blows a cloud of drug smoke on Hieron.

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Hieron: Badthingstobadpeoplebadthingstobadpeoplebadthings

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Greibel: Go with the flloooow, man.

May 06, 2015 6:55PM    Ganelon: ...Do you still have your giant strength?

May 06, 2015 6:56PM    Apheori (GM): Yeah.
The table flips, flies into the pie guy, and sends bits of pie plate everywhere.

Akari cheers loudly.

May 06, 2015 6:56PM    Apheori (GM): A whole lot of stuffed animals go flying too.
Hieron's friends also cheer.

May 06, 2015 6:56PM    Greibel: Yeaaah, man.

Greibel starts choking.

Apheori (GM) wanders off.

Greibel wanders off.

May 06, 2015 6:57PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy will leap at the Pie Guy as soon as there isn't a table in the way

Amaranthsi glances off in the direction Akari left. He doesn't even need to see the chaos to know that it's going to happen.

May 06, 2015 6:57PM    Apheori (GM): He leaps, winds up on top of pie guy and table.

May 06, 2015 6:57PM    Frezak (GM): And try to get hold of his face/head

Akari chants,

May 06, 2015 6:57PM    Akari: Consequences! Consequences!

May 06, 2015 6:57PM    Apheori (GM): You succeed, no trouble.

May 06, 2015 6:58PM    Ganelon: Is this about to get really dark?

May 06, 2015 6:58PM    Volshikana: Well. Shall we see how this plays out?

May 06, 2015 6:58PM    Frezak (GM): And try to bash the guy's head against the floor over and over again while babbling on the theme of Bad THings and Bad People

May 06, 2015 6:58PM    Ganelon: Yyyyep.

May 06, 2015 6:58PM    Amaranthsi: Time is still advancing in the real world.

Ganasi notices the fighting breaking out and runs over to help.

May 06, 2015 6:59PM    Apheori (GM): The squid gibbers.
Frezak: d20.

May 06, 2015 7:00PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20
( 19 ) = 19

May 06, 2015 7:00PM    Apheori (GM): People around are starting to notice, and they're screaming. Nobody actually explicitly does anything.

Amaranthsi attempts mental communication with the squid - nothing complex, just a bit of prodding to see whether he can elicit a response.

May 06, 2015 7:00PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron's friends are no longer excited. Tutu girl is bugging her eyes out at it.
Radek: Arcana.

May 06, 2015 7:00PM    Amaranthsi:
rolling 1d20+16
( 20 )+16 = 36

May 06, 2015 7:00PM    Ganelon: BOOM

May 06, 2015 7:01PM    Frezak (GM): He's gonna keep smashing until he doesn't have much to hold on to.

May 06, 2015 7:01PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy: You bash the guy's head. It breaks his skull and continues to break and blood and stuff flies everywhere.

May 06, 2015 7:01PM    Frezak (GM): ONce he's holding mush he'll stop and look down.
And then start gibbering again and try to run away with the body

May 06, 2015 7:02PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: Yeah, you get a bit of a response. A sort of sense of the thoughts, the time, the worry.

May 06, 2015 7:02PM    Hieron: Can'tbefoundcantbeseencantbehearddon'ttelldon'tspeakspeakspeak

May 06, 2015 7:02PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak: The guy still has table on his legs, though you could stop and move it, or strength to yank it out.
The people around are utterly horrified, not even saying anything.

May 06, 2015 7:02PM    Ganelon: You're a good friend, squiddie. I'm glad I didn't turn you into magic dust.

May 06, 2015 7:03PM    Frezak (GM): He'll just pull at the bit he has to hand and run, even if he doesn't have a full body with him
A torso will do.

May 06, 2015 7:03PM    Apheori (GM): Strength.

Akari follows Hieron, now silent. If he looks in her direction, she'll smile encouragingly.

May 06, 2015 7:03PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+4+3
( 17 )+4+3 = 24

May 06, 2015 7:03PM    Gaurav: Should we be trying to stop Gravy tearing this reality apart? Or is that what we want, given its unreality?

May 06, 2015 7:04PM    Frezak (GM): Gravy won't actually look at anyone. Won't register anyone he sees, either

Amaranthsi nods to himself and sticks with Volshikana, if she really wants to observe this mess.

May 06, 2015 7:04PM    Amaranthsi: Mm. I am still in contact with my cephalopod companion.

May 06, 2015 7:04PM    Apheori (GM): Volshikana and Hano come up, probably accompanied by all the other PCs?
To Gravy-dream.
Guy.

May 06, 2015 7:05PM    Hieron: Hidehideittheysaid

May 06, 2015 7:05PM    Gaurav: Crazy-Gravy is pretty scary

May 06, 2015 7:05PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy: You wind up with an arm and a chunk of torso and try to run off, but how do grabs work?

May 06, 2015 7:05PM    Hieron: Don'ttelldon'ttell make it up

May 06, 2015 7:05PM    Apheori (GM): Hano tries to grab you.

May 06, 2015 7:06PM    Frezak (GM): It's a... Strength roll against... reflex?

May 06, 2015 7:06PM    Volshikana: Your bodies are still there. Mine isn't, which I suppose might make sense. Theirs is, though. (indicating Amadi and Squirrel)
(to Radek)

May 06, 2015 7:07PM    Apheori (GM): What's the strength of a tentacular god as an anime schoolgirl?

May 06, 2015 7:07PM    Gaurav: Aren't octopuses really strong?

May 06, 2015 7:07PM    Apheori (GM):
rolling 1d20 + 20 vs reflex?
( 12 )+20 = 32
Pfft.

Akari tries to bat Hano away.

May 06, 2015 7:08PM    Ganelon: Well, 20 is like... someone's entire reflex defense on its own.

May 06, 2015 7:08PM    Apheori (GM): That was a bit extreme.
Yes.

May 06, 2015 7:08PM    Ganelon: That said.

May 06, 2015 7:08PM    Apheori (GM): Make it +10 and it still works.

May 06, 2015 7:09PM    Ganelon: 20 is also a reasonable to-hit from a strong guy who is level 30.
Kinda low, actually.
In 4E, level counts for a lot.

May 06, 2015 7:09PM    Apheori (GM): Either way, Hieron gets grabbed by anime schoolgirl.

May 06, 2015 7:09PM    Frezak (GM): If Gravy is grabbed he'll automatically try to... well, gore. But no horns so he'll try to headbutt, I suppose.

May 06, 2015 7:09PM    Amaranthsi: ...What's wrong with him?

Akari punches Hano's nose.

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Volshikana: Perhaps it's a reaction to the dream? Tried to push him in a direction contrary to his nature...

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy: Do it. Roll or whatever?
Akari: Roll. >.>

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Akari:
rolling 1d20
( 17 ) = 17

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+13
( 13 )+13 = 26
AC

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Apheori (GM): What would the bonus be on Amadi's?

May 06, 2015 7:10PM    Ellemerr: I don't even know. xD If it's str it's pretty low.

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Ganelon: Minimum +2.

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Ellemerr: Her str is 10, so it's just the level mod, yeah.

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Ganelon: Then +3.

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Frezak (GM): +3 on amadi's Str

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Ellemerr: Oh, right.
Yes.

May 06, 2015 7:11PM    Ganelon: And add another +2 from attacking someone who didn't expect it, if they... well, didn't expect it.

May 06, 2015 7:12PM    Apheori (GM): Amadi misses. Gravy headbutts.
Though it really doesn't do anything.

May 06, 2015 7:12PM    Frezak (GM): Rolling... Atheltics to try to escape.

May 06, 2015 7:12PM    Apheori (GM): Frezak: You wind up with a head full of boobs. They're very squishy.

May 06, 2015 7:12PM    Frezak (GM): Delightful!

May 06, 2015 7:13PM    Apheori (GM): Rhu should fondle his god's boobs.

May 06, 2015 7:13PM    Frezak (GM): He'll... hold the corpse in one hand and use the other to try to grab Hano by the head/throat
Which shouldn't be a problem if his head is being squished.
Muffled gibberings.

May 06, 2015 7:15PM    Amaranthsi: (To Hano) Do you have this under control?

May 06, 2015 7:15PM    Gaurav: Um.
That would be extremely disrespectful.

Midoriki Hano attempts to bring Hieron under control by grabbing his head right back

May 06, 2015 7:15PM    Apheori (GM): You both have each other's heads.

May 06, 2015 7:16PM    Frezak (GM): Hieron is bigger, yeah?

May 06, 2015 7:16PM    Apheori (GM): Pretty similar.

May 06, 2015 7:17PM    Gaurav: But Midoriki is a god, even if she doesn't look like one.

Akari kicks Hano on the shin - probably not very hard, if not for lack of trying.

May 06, 2015 7:17PM    Volshikana: (to Amadi) Hey, not now.
We need to calm him down somehow.
And I'm a little concerned about using my... usual methods in a place like this.

Akari blinks at Volshikana.

May 06, 2015 7:18PM    Akari: We do?

May 06, 2015 7:18PM    Volshikana: Yes.

May 06, 2015 7:18PM    Akari: ... And this is the best way?

Akari looks <em>very</em> doubtful.

May 06, 2015 7:18PM    Frezak (GM): He'll grab her by the leg and lurch backwards, trying to toss Hano over his back.
Dropping the corpse to get the second hand, of course.

May 06, 2015 7:18PM    Volshikana: Well, no. I think he's just trying to keep him put for now.
Or... something?

May 06, 2015 7:19PM    Apheori (GM): Roll.

May 06, 2015 7:19PM    Ganelon: Suplex the god!

May 06, 2015 7:19PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20+11
( 10 )+11 = 21
Minotaur Suplex!

May 06, 2015 7:19PM    Akari: Oh, <em>please</em>.

Akari rolls her eyes.

May 06, 2015 7:19PM    Apheori (GM): This doesn't entirely work, though she does lose her hold on you.

May 06, 2015 7:20PM    Akari: How about just letting him dig it off?

May 06, 2015 7:20PM    Frezak (GM): As soon as he's free he'll try to grab the corpse and run again

May 06, 2015 7:20PM    Volshikana: He's not digging.
HOLD.

May 06, 2015 7:20PM    Apheori (GM): Her voice booms everywhere, and everything stops.
Aside from Amadi, Radek, Hano, and herself.
It's all just frozen mid-whatever.

Akari huffs and taps her foot.

May 06, 2015 7:21PM    Ellemerr: Crossed arms. All that stuff.

Midoriki Hano walks over to where Gravy had gotten (a few feet away) and then pushes him over.

May 06, 2015 7:22PM    Ellemerr: http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/150/f/2014/224/7/6/ic_huff_by_insaincat1111-d7uwgav.jpg

May 06, 2015 7:22PM    Apheori (GM): Heh.

May 06, 2015 7:23PM    Volshikana: Okay, I don't know about you guys, but I am having serious difficulty concentrating. On anything.

Midoriki Hano gestures vaguely at Rhu's gal and suddenly she resumes moving as well.

May 06, 2015 7:24PM    Ganelon: Is that true?
Are we having trouble concentrating?

May 06, 2015 7:24PM    Apheori (GM): Naw, you're basically fine, aside from some weird dreaminess.

May 06, 2015 7:24PM    Ganelon: Accursed dreaminess!

May 06, 2015 7:24PM    Apheori (GM): And the general <em>knowledge</em> of dream stuff.
But when it comes to thinking, it's all doable just fine.
You may not be at your best, but it's been a long day anyhow.

Ganasi steps up to try to stop Hieron escaping, but is surprised to find him lying on the ground.

May 06, 2015 7:25PM    Amaranthsi: ...That's unusual. My thoughts are largely unobstructed.

Amaranthsi gestures to Gravy.

May 06, 2015 7:25PM    Amaranthsi: ...Distractions aside.

May 06, 2015 7:25PM    Midoriki Hano: (to Volshikana) I feel the same, and it is very... aggravating.

May 06, 2015 7:26PM    Volshikana: Strange.

May 06, 2015 7:26PM    Ganelon: Oh boo hoo, Hazz.
Having trouble thinking about stuff?

May 06, 2015 7:26PM    Apheori (GM): Gravy: You can move again.

Akari grins gleefully.

May 06, 2015 7:26PM    Apheori (GM): You are no longer frozen.

May 06, 2015 7:26PM    Ganelon: Are your thoughts hitting a DEAD. END?
<em>HMMMMM?</em>

Midoriki Hano gives Amaranthsi a withering look.

May 06, 2015 7:27PM    Apheori (GM): What does Hieron do?

May 06, 2015 7:27PM    Frezak (GM): Scramble for the remains of the Pie Guy

May 06, 2015 7:28PM    Apheori (GM): Where's Hieron's shovel?

May 06, 2015 7:28PM    Frezak (GM): Back at the pie eating stall, I think.

Volshikana runs and grabs the shovel.

Midoriki Hano wraps Hieron in tentacles before he can run off again, with only his head poking out.

May 06, 2015 7:29PM    Apheori (GM): So there's basically this schoolgirl, with black tentacles coming out her front, with a head sticking out?

May 06, 2015 7:29PM    Frezak (GM): Gibbering and thrashing is on the cards, I think.

May 06, 2015 7:30PM    Midoriki Hano: Shut. Up.

Midoriki Hano squeezes a bit.

May 06, 2015 7:30PM    Gaurav: What <strong>is</strong> left of the Pie Guy?

May 06, 2015 7:30PM    Apheori (GM): There was the chunk Gravy ran off with.

May 06, 2015 7:30PM    Ganelon: I'll give his best friend (Amadi) a chance to try and resolve this before doing anything, but if she won't...
I'll approach him instead.

Volshikana hands Amadi the shovel.

Volshikana pushes Amadi toward them.

Volshikana 's voice booms again, this time saying 'Release' and everyone else resumes again as well. Mostly panicking. And fleeing. And being all horrified and stuff.

Akari bonks Hieron lightly on the head with his shovel. If she <em>accidentially</em> pokes Hano with the shovel as well, no loss.

May 06, 2015 7:33PM    Akari: Hey. HEY! Gravy! You in there? HELLOOOOO?

May 06, 2015 7:33PM    Gaurav: What're the teachers doing?

May 06, 2015 7:33PM    Apheori (GM): Perception.

May 06, 2015 7:33PM    Gaurav: Or that class president dude, he's probably more competent than the staff.

May 06, 2015 7:33PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+10 Perception
( 12 )+10 = 22
I'm concerned about that, too.

May 06, 2015 7:34PM    Frezak (GM): I don't think Gravy is registering language at present.

May 06, 2015 7:34PM    Gaurav:
rolling d20+15 perception check on adults in the area
( 2 )+15 = 17

May 06, 2015 7:34PM    Apheori (GM): Rhu: It's all a mess.
Radek: They're trying to calm the mess, and especially to get everyone else away from you all.

May 06, 2015 7:35PM    Gaurav: Good. We are kind of dangerous.

May 06, 2015 7:35PM    Frezak (GM): Naaaah

Volshikana holds out a hand and seems to be doing some sort of magic or sensy stuff or whatever.

Midoriki Hano sticks a tentacle right in Hieon's head.

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Frezak (GM): AAaaaaagh

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Akari: That's a little excessive, don't you think?

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Gaurav: We could try to use a Heal attack to knock him out. Didn't we try that on Dave back when we were fighting the sphinx?

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron tenses up and just completely stops moving at that point.

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Midoriki Hano: He will not be silent!

May 06, 2015 7:36PM    Frezak (GM): I don't think he can get any more tense, to be honest.

May 06, 2015 7:37PM    Apheori (GM): Hmm.
Rigidly tense.
OR... maybe.

May 06, 2015 7:37PM    Akari: So?

May 06, 2015 7:38PM    Apheori (GM): Well, Volshikana stops what she was doing and comes over as well.

May 06, 2015 7:38PM    Volshikana: Hey, hey, calm down.

May 06, 2015 7:38PM    Amaranthsi: I take it he's not thinking rationally anymore.

Amaranthsi is still looking in the crowds' direction.

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Amaranthsi: The others won't bother us, for a while. I still recommend we resolve the problem soon, or relocate.

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Midoriki Hano: (a bit more calmly) He doesn't seem to be thinking at all.

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Volshikana: Can you tell what's wrong with him? Exactly?
The madness, the corruption that entered him so innocuously from the first hole, it has finally taken hold.

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Akari: Well, he's stuck, ain't he?

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Midoriki Hano: The madness, the corruption that entered him so innocuously from the first hole, it has finally taken hold.

May 06, 2015 7:39PM    Apheori (GM): NOT VOLSHIKANA.
SHE DIDN'T SAY THAT BIT.

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Midoriki Hano: You need to GET HIM OUT OF HERE.

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Volshikana: We need to get all of us out of here.

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Ganelon: OH!

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Volshikana: Before we lose ourselves.

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Ganelon: <em>LOVELY!</em>

May 06, 2015 7:40PM    Akari: Some of us did that a long time ago.
It's not so bad.

Volshikana gives Amadi a worried look.

Amaranthsi shoots a glare at Akari.

May 06, 2015 7:41PM    Amaranthsi: Unacceptable.

May 06, 2015 7:41PM    Volshikana: You did not think that at the time.

May 06, 2015 7:41PM    Ganasi: How did we even get here?
Didn't we leave Dave behind as an anchor? Can't we use that something/
somehow*

Akari shrugs.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Akari: Am I not allowed to change?

Akari points to Gravy.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Akari: He did. He should again.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Volshikana: That was the anchor from the time and place at Sanessee, but that was for our bodies, not our minds.

Midoriki Hano wiggles the tentacle about.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Midoriki Hano: Yes, he does need to change.

Akari glares at Hano.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Apheori (GM): Hieron jiggles a bit.

May 06, 2015 7:42PM    Amaranthsi: ...Would you perhaps be able to use a mad squid?

May 06, 2015 7:43PM    Akari: Not <em>your</em> sort.

May 06, 2015 7:43PM    Ganasi: Yes. Okay. Good. Next time we should remember to leave a mind anchor behind too. Brilliant. Don't know why we didn't think of that.

May 06, 2015 7:43PM    Akari: I don't know about squids. Maybe?

May 06, 2015 7:44PM    Volshikana: We need ideas. There are things I could do, but I fear to actually try them now, because once done, they will not likely work again.

May 06, 2015 7:44PM    Akari: We should... wake him.

Akari shudders a little.

May 06, 2015 7:44PM    Akari: I'm not sure I know how to.

May 06, 2015 7:44PM    Volshikana: Using the squid, can you communicate?

May 06, 2015 7:44PM    Amaranthsi: In a limited fashion.
It is difficult to relate concepts to the creature, though I suspect it does possess intelligence.

May 06, 2015 7:45PM    Volshikana: Hazz'ridan.
Kill him.

May 06, 2015 7:45PM    Ganelon: Or I hope it does, anyway.

May 06, 2015 7:45PM    Akari: Excuse me?!

May 06, 2015 7:45PM    Ganelon: WHOA WHOA WHO

May 06, 2015 7:45PM    Gaurav: Does Rhu still have his Mask of furry true sight? Or did we leave our possessions behind?

May 06, 2015 7:46PM    Frezak (GM): Cripes!

May 06, 2015 7:46PM    Apheori (GM): No mask.

May 06, 2015 7:46PM    Amaranthsi: <em>...What?</em>

May 06, 2015 7:46PM    Midoriki Hano: Are you... sure?

May 06, 2015 7:47PM    Volshikana: No. But he is already as good as gone. And maybe that will get him out.

May 06, 2015 7:48PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: This is your time to... uh... come up with something better.
>.>
Or Amadi.

May 06, 2015 7:48PM    Ganelon: Um...

May 06, 2015 7:48PM    Akari: If it doesn't work, I'll - I'll kill you right back. Or worse! I can do worse.
Wouldn't it be enough to just bury him?

May 06, 2015 7:48PM    Gaurav: Does Amadi have a mental connection with Dave?

Akari mumbles to herself, sort of as an afterthought,

May 06, 2015 7:48PM    Akari: I <em>could</em> do worse...

May 06, 2015 7:49PM    Apheori (GM): Yeah, she does if she wants to.

May 06, 2015 7:49PM    Volshikana: Bury him in what, the dream?

May 06, 2015 7:49PM    Ganelon: Radek thinks!
As do I.

May 06, 2015 7:50PM    Ganasi: Whose dream is this anyway? Can we convince them to let us go somehow, and then try to treat Gravy in the real world?

May 06, 2015 7:50PM    Ganelon: So we're in a simulation and our bodies are intact. All that should be necessary is severing the connection between it and our heads, and we should get our heads back.

May 06, 2015 7:50PM    Apheori (GM): It's a lot darker out now. The sky has gone overcast, grey clouds hanging low with the promise of rain. Pretty much everyone else has gone, for whatever reason.

May 06, 2015 7:50PM    Akari: It's not mine.
I mean... it's not even a dream.
Not a proper one.

May 06, 2015 7:51PM    Ganelon: Unless this is like our brains have been put in the sim rather than just connected to it.
Then we'd just be trapped forever.

May 06, 2015 7:52PM    Apheori (GM): Maybe.

May 06, 2015 7:52PM    Frezak (GM): Eh, the gods are in here.
I don't <em>think</em> that they have bodies in the way we do?
As in brains and all that.
It's them!

May 06, 2015 7:52PM    Ganelon: Well.

May 06, 2015 7:52PM    Frezak (GM): It's all their fault!

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Apheori (GM): Yeah, one them said how they just sort of wound up here, no bodies left behind.

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Gaurav: Can they use that Dark Sister Network thing to call for help?

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Ganelon: This is going to sound incredibly callous, but I could always use Rhu as a guinea pig and see what happens.

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Frezak (GM): Can they try to sleep?

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Gaurav: That is his job in this party, yes.

May 06, 2015 7:53PM    Amaranthsi: ...Wait. Tell me about this "book". Is it responsible for our circumstances?

May 06, 2015 7:54PM    Ganelon: I know we've encountered it before.
Though I think I messed up the reading of it.

May 06, 2015 7:54PM    Apheori (GM): Amadi: You might still have access to all the random stuff in your pockets.
Being... in your pockets.
Which don't entirely exist to begin with.

May 06, 2015 7:55PM    Akari: Maybe if... if there was more of me... I mean...

Akari trails off, looking anxious, and then suddenly looking panic-stricken around for the two Squirrels.

May 06, 2015 7:55PM    Volshikana: The Book of Dreams...

May 06, 2015 7:55PM    Gaurav: Amadi: Empty your pockets.

May 06, 2015 7:55PM    Volshikana: You had a copy, once. But with that, the way I came to use it, I would open it, and it would take me... places...
But at first, all it was was words. Words take you places, too. There may be a connection.
If I just could think straight!

May 06, 2015 7:56PM    Ganasi: What would happen if we tried to open a Hole in here?

May 06, 2015 7:56PM    Apheori (GM): A Squirrel suddenly appears and stares Amadi in the face.

May 06, 2015 7:57PM    Ganelon: We could... tell a story and see where we end up?
Gods, don't count on <em>Radek</em> for that one.

May 06, 2015 7:57PM    Gaurav: If nothing else, that would attract all the sphinxes in the area. Of which there are probably none.
Remember Gravy's digging-a-hole-in-the-fabric-of-reality trick? Do you think that would work if it was one of us doing it?

Akari calms immediately and starts digging through her pockets, throwing out... sandwiches, of course; but also a stuffed wyvern, several sporks, butterfly jewellery, a microphone, some anime DvDs, a long letter to Sandy Claws, a shorter letter to Santa Claus, some broken glasses, a bowl of cereal, and anything else the GM wants, of course.

May 06, 2015 8:00PM    Apheori (GM): Amadi also pulls out a glob of porridge, which looks suspiciously like Rasputin and bounces up onto her shoulder, two stale cookies, and an entirely blank book.

May 06, 2015 8:00PM    Ganelon: STUFFED WYVERN
YOU WILL BE MIIIINE
But not here.
Not today.

Akari pounces on the book and just looks at it for a bit, muttering under her breath, "Please be useful," before opening it on a random page.

May 06, 2015 8:02PM    Apheori (GM): Amadi: d20

May 06, 2015 8:02PM    Akari:
rolling 1d20
( 13 ) = 13

May 06, 2015 8:03PM    Apheori (GM): Words appear on the page, slowly, as though the ink is coming up through many layers.

May 06, 2015 8:04PM    Frezak (GM): It says "Eat Me"

May 06, 2015 8:04PM    Apheori (GM): It says, "mw.loader.state('the_pope_is_an_atheist_woman_alien', 'missing');"

Frezak (GM) gasps.

May 06, 2015 8:04PM    Frezak (GM): The tongue of devils!

May 06, 2015 8:04PM    Gaurav: It says "Hello! My name is Tom Riddle, what's your name?"

May 06, 2015 8:05PM    Frezak (GM): It says "You are in a room"

May 06, 2015 8:05PM    Akari: ... I am not perfectly sure that's "useful".

May 06, 2015 8:05PM    Apheori (GM): The words disappear, and are replaced by a diagram of utter madness.
It literally seems to be mapping out madness. Madly.

May 06, 2015 8:05PM    Gaurav: Hmm.

May 06, 2015 8:05PM    Akari: <em>Now</em> we're getting somewhere!

Amaranthsi tries to read over her shoulder.

May 06, 2015 8:06PM    Gaurav: Does it have a little "You are here" sign with an arrow next to it?

May 06, 2015 8:06PM    Frezak (GM):

May 06, 2015 8:07PM    Akari: Squirrel, have a look at this.

May 06, 2015 8:07PM    Apheori (GM): Also Hazz hasn't killed Gravy yet, but she does seem to be losing patience. Slowly.

Squirrel looks and then almost immediately points at a spot on the map, but the spot keeps moving.

May 06, 2015 8:08PM    Squirrel: This. No, this. No, it keeps moving!
This!

Akari nods vigorously.

May 06, 2015 8:10PM    Ganelon: Can I... comprehend this at all?

May 06, 2015 8:11PM    Apheori (GM): I assume your will is above 13?

May 06, 2015 8:11PM    Ganelon: Yes.
'Tis 19.

May 06, 2015 8:11PM    (From Ellemerr): Not entirely sure what I should do with this, of course. It seems like the sort of thing Amadi would understand and use. Could she find the place? Is it a place here? Is it inside someones head?

May 06, 2015 8:11PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: d20 and arcana.

May 06, 2015 8:11PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20
( 14 ) = 14
rolling 1d20+16
( 8 )+16 = 24

May 06, 2015 8:12PM    (To Ellemerr): You can try to latch onto the point with your mind and hold it put.

May 06, 2015 8:12PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: You can see the map, and see it move, but mapping it TO anything is harder. Maybe if you had a bomb, you could blast to it...
Make it stay put through an appropriate application of force?

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    (From Ellemerr): I'll do that.

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    Ganelon: Bombs making things stay <em>put?</em>

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    Gaurav: Could Greibel have a look at the map?

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    Ganelon: He really must be going mad.
But aha! I DO have a bomb!

Akari stares hard at the point Squirrel is trying to pinpoint.

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    Apheori (GM): Greibel... seems to have wandered off with the locals.

May 06, 2015 8:13PM    Ganelon: As in, even if I don't have my tools, or the not-assembled superbomb, I have my 'bots!
And one of them violently explodes upon death.

May 06, 2015 8:14PM    (To Frezak): Actually Greibel already woke up and he's been drugging your character this whole time with hallucinogens.

May 06, 2015 8:15PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: I suggest trying to get an update on what's going on from the squid.

May 06, 2015 8:15PM    (From Frezak (GM)): Oh. uh, okay, I suppose.

May 06, 2015 8:16PM    (To Frezak): You just went mad on your own, didn't you? Was this what you expected? >.>

May 06, 2015 8:16PM    Ganelon: Sure!
Though I've not known it to be comprehensible in the past.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    Apheori (GM): Ellemerr: I need... uh, d20 and arcana.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    Ganelon: ...Hell, why not. I'll try to relate this maddening map to the mad squid.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: More arcana.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    (From Frezak (GM)): He went mad because he is mad. He forgot he was the Gravedigger, the persona of which he uses to seperate himself from being an escaped mental patient.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    Ganelon: Maybe insanity will help it understand.
rolling 1d20+16
( 16 )+16 = 32

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    (From Frezak (GM)): He just reverted, and found himself again.

May 06, 2015 8:17PM    Akari:
rolling 1d20
( 19 ) = 19
rolling 1d20 + 11
( 10 )+11 = 21

May 06, 2015 8:18PM    (To Frezak): Ahahahah, that is awesome.

May 06, 2015 8:18PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: The squid gets the map and doesn't like it. At all.
It reacts the same way as it does when something tries to attack you/it.
Amadi: You pull on a point on the map, and everything starts moving arond it. The rest is being pulled, too, but not so much as the point, like pulling a point up on a sheet.
Everyone: The dream/whatever shivers.
And then it starts raining.

May 06, 2015 8:21PM    Gaurav: ... huh.

May 06, 2015 8:21PM    Frezak (GM): It starts raining WISHES

May 06, 2015 8:21PM    Gaurav: At least it's not fishes.

May 06, 2015 8:21PM    Apheori (GM): Hazz has still not killed Gravy's character.

May 06, 2015 8:21PM    Frezak (GM): Everyone roll to save against being crushed by the futility of countless hopes.

May 06, 2015 8:22PM    Ellemerr: ... I have not noticed time moving for the last hour. >.< I guess I can delay a little longer by eating, since I'm too hungry to sleep, now, but I should really go soon.

May 06, 2015 8:22PM    Gaurav: Is this like Inception? Does this mean the dreamer needs to go to the loo?

May 06, 2015 8:22PM    Apheori (GM): Radek: The squid shows you a bit of what it sees.

May 06, 2015 8:22PM    Ganelon: Uh oh.

May 06, 2015 8:23PM    Apheori (GM): And what it sees is apparently Greibel, in the real world, giving Gravy drugs and acting very, very worried.
Let's see if we can wrap this up.

May 06, 2015 8:23PM    Gaurav: So that's where he went.

Akari grabs Squirrel's hand and stares harder, frowning in a terribly anime-y fashion.

May 06, 2015 8:24PM    (To Akari): It occurs to you suddenly that you could just... leave. Step outside. This is all just cloth, after all. A thin veneer of stuff happening...

May 06, 2015 8:24PM    Amaranthsi: ...The book. Of course!

May 06, 2015 8:25PM    (From Akari): But could I take others with me? Gravy, for instance?

May 06, 2015 8:25PM    Ganelon: It's our interface! <em>Maybe!</em>

May 06, 2015 8:25PM    Gaurav: A map of madness is our interface? That ... would make sense.

May 06, 2015 8:25PM    (To Akari): You could try.

May 06, 2015 8:25PM    Ganelon: Okay.
I need to locate... us.

May 06, 2015 8:26PM    (From Akari): Let the others try this other thing first. Might be cool.

May 06, 2015 8:26PM    Apheori (GM): Arcana!

May 06, 2015 8:26PM    Ganelon: And if everything's all moving about, yeah, I will totally detonate my robot to fix that. If that can actually help.
rolling 1d20+16
( 3 )+16 = 19
Damn!

May 06, 2015 8:27PM    Apheori (GM): You make out several discrete points on the map that seem to be moving.
You can... do something with them maybe.
Because magic.

May 06, 2015 8:27PM    Ganelon: Ah screw it. Desperation move.
We don't need this world to remain stable if we're leaving it.
So he will just start disconnecting/unplugging/removing everything he's able.
But, you know, tell me what the first one does.
Before he ruins everything and then just keeps going.

May 06, 2015 8:29PM    Gaurav: This is a very tense session.

Apheori (GM) cackles.

May 06, 2015 8:31PM    Apheori (GM): Give me an arcana and an insight.
AAAGH I NEED BATHROOM.

Apheori (GM) throws a pineapple at Gan.

May 06, 2015 8:34PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+16 Arcana
( 2 )+16 = 18
Hold on.
I use my action point on that (if you'll allow it).
To reroll that because fuck no, this is important.
Regardless, the insight.

May 06, 2015 8:34PM    Apheori (GM): Sure.

May 06, 2015 8:34PM    Ganelon:
rolling 1d20+5
( 5 )+5 = 10

Ganelon sighs.

May 06, 2015 8:35PM    Ganelon: Rerolled Arcana:
rolling 1d20+16
( 3 )+16 = 19
OKAY.

May 06, 2015 8:35PM    Apheori (GM): o___o
Okay.

May 06, 2015 8:35PM    Gaurav: Ouch.
That was physically painful.

May 06, 2015 8:36PM    Apheori (GM): Amaranthsi Radek gives a point, some point, or maybe it's not even a point, but it's definitely at least <em>something</em>, a big ol' yank.
At the same time, Midoriki Hano kills Hieron.
Everything lurches horribly.
Hieron just flickers a bit and then disappears.
Frezak: d20

May 06, 2015 8:38PM    Ganasi: (to Midoriki) Did you do it? Did you save him? Is he awake?

May 06, 2015 8:38PM    (From Akari): - Am I allowed to sidestep into nothing and disappear?

May 06, 2015 8:38PM    Apheori (GM): The tentacles all sort of disappear at about the same time as all the lurch stops.

May 06, 2015 8:38PM    Frezak (GM):
rolling 1D20
( 1 ) = 1
WHEEEEE

May 06, 2015 8:38PM    Apheori (GM): Wheeee!

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Gaurav: Um.

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Ganelon: FAILURE ALL ROUND, LADS

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Apheori (GM): Midoriki looks a bit surprised.

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Midoriki Hano: I... don't know.

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Volshikana: Oh dear.
Okay, that's it. I don't even care anymore.
Radek! Bombs!

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Ganelon: Is that an order or is she going to provide bombs?

May 06, 2015 8:39PM    Akari: I'm going after him.

Akari takes a step to the side, and... something might happen. Maybe.

May 06, 2015 8:40PM    Apheori (GM): Gan: Feel free to keep yanking on the map.
Otherwise Volshikana will give you a bomb.

May 06, 2015 8:40PM    Ganelon: No, no, I'll take the bomb.

May 06, 2015 8:40PM    Apheori (GM): Akari: Arcana.

May 06, 2015 8:40PM    Akari:
rolling 1d20 + 11
( 11 )+11 = 22

May 06, 2015 8:41PM    Apheori (GM): Akari: You find yourself in Midnight. But this was all also Midnight anyway. A dream made up of a piece of it?
Anyhow, he's got to be around here somewhere...

Ganasi just looks around at everybody with a mix of confusion and panic in his face.

May 06, 2015 8:41PM    Apheori (GM): Akari becomes just Amadi again, and heads off into th black....

May 06, 2015 8:41PM    Ganelon: Okay, how do I use a bomb to create stability from this mess?

Akari starts searching frantically and calling for Gravy in many, many voices.

May 06, 2015 8:42PM    Midoriki Hano: (to Volshikana) Go after him! Find him!

May 06, 2015 8:42PM    Volshikana: Er...

May 06, 2015 8:43PM    Ganasi: (to Volshikana) Take me with you! I can help!

May 06, 2015 8:43PM    Volshikana: Keep them safe.

Volshikana shakes her head at Ganasi and disappears.

May 06, 2015 8:43PM    Apheori (GM): Gan: You...
Uh...
Make something up and roll something and we see where the whims of irreality take us. >.<

May 06, 2015 8:43PM    Ganelon: <em>You</em> suggested it.
Right, let's start with a d20 because bonuses are ephemeral anyways.
rolling 1d20
( 20 ) = 20
Cool.

May 06, 2015 8:44PM    Apheori (GM): Blow EVERYTHING UP!

May 06, 2015 8:44PM    Ganelon: Wish I had you SOONER

May 06, 2015 8:44PM    Apheori (GM): Or something. Do you want to do that?

May 06, 2015 8:44PM    Ganelon: More like "out" if that can be managed.

May 06, 2015 8:45PM    Apheori (GM): Blast a hole out?

May 06, 2015 8:45PM    Ganelon: If I could just blow the crazy right off this map, that'd be cool.

May 06, 2015 8:45PM    Apheori (GM): Where do you direct the map?
What exactly do you do?
Er, the bomb.

May 06, 2015 8:45PM    Ganelon: Well, pulling seems to have an effect.
So "beneath".
Let's get us a subsurface detonation.

May 06, 2015 8:45PM    Apheori (GM): Okay. Radek sets y'all up the bomb, pushing the explosion into the book, under the map.

May 06, 2015 8:46PM    Ganelon: And then he points it away from himself.
Because obvious safety precautions ought to be observed.

May 06, 2015 8:46PM    Apheori (GM): The explosion is immediate and horrifying, and generally away.

May 06, 2015 8:46PM    Ganelon: And subtle ones like "don't set off bombs within their blast radius" ignored.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Apheori (GM): The dream just <em>shreds</em>.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Ganelon: Fuck yeah.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Gaurav: Eeks.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Midoriki Hano: Welcome to the true dead end.
An illusion.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Apheori (GM): And then everything is gone.

May 06, 2015 8:47PM    Gaurav: Fin.
gg, everybody

May 06, 2015 8:48PM    Ganelon: Well... statistically speaking, blundering around for so long, this was bound to happen eventually!

May 06, 2015 8:48PM    Gaurav: Truth.

May 06, 2015 8:49PM    Apheori (GM): In all seriousness, this isn't the end.
You just... blew up the thing you were in.
I suppose you can just wake up or whatever next time.

May 06, 2015 8:49PM    Gaurav: And a fictional rhino.

May 06, 2015 8:51PM    Frezak (GM): Poor rhino.

May 06, 2015 8:51PM    Apheori (GM): Also, Amadi, I need three d20s.

May 06, 2015 8:52PM    Ganelon: I specialize in showing a highly irresponsible disregard for the stability of the worlds I inhabit, don't I?

May 06, 2015 8:52PM    Apheori (GM): XD

May 06, 2015 8:52PM    Ganelon: "Get him out now? OKAY!"
<strong>YANK.</strong>

May 06, 2015 8:52PM    Amadi:
rolling 1d20
( 12 ) = 12
rolling 1d20
( 16 ) = 16
rolling 1d20
( 13 ) = 13

May 06, 2015 8:55PM    Frezak (GM): Radek explodes into 12 pieces, Rhu explodes into 16 pieces, Amadi explodes into 13 pieces.

May 06, 2015 8:55PM    Gaurav: YAY! I WIN!

May 06, 2015 8:55PM    Apheori (GM): Okay, Amadi, you don't find Gravy.
But you also don't get lost.
You're searching the black between universes, the sheer nothing that is the everything of Midnight, and you get the sense, even, that you've done this before.
Or perhaps after.
You can keep going, but then, especially as small as you are now, you may only increase your chances of getting lost.
But you could also keep going, maybe find him, maybe prove it can be done, because after all the others you've condemned you need it to be possible...

May 06, 2015 8:57PM    Apheori (GM): But that's not you anyway. This is you, and that's him. It's all up to you what you do now.

May 06, 2015 8:57PM    Ellemerr: Not going to give up on Gravy. If I'm reasonably sure this is where he is, I'll keep going.
Also sleeping.

May 06, 2015 8:58PM    Apheori (GM): You're sure he's... somewhere.
HEre. Yes.
Aiight, you're off doing that.
We'll... uh, come back to this later.
GOOD SESSION, PEOPLE. I HOPE.

May 06, 2015 8:58PM    Gaurav: Yes! Very scary.

May 06, 2015 8:59PM    Ellemerr: If it's very little, and with nobody else in it, you can poke me anytime I'm green and maybe we can finish before next session.

May 06, 2015 8:59PM    Ganelon: I liked it.
You made Radek desperate.
I won't <em>say</em> it was to get his beard back.
...But I won't deny it either.

May 06, 2015 9:00PM    Apheori (GM): Ellemerr: Heheh, okay.

Apheori (GM) cackles.

May 06, 2015 9:43PM    Kyrule: Test...
Well, that just looks silly.

May 06, 2015 9:43PM    Frezak (GM): Oooh, that's purdy
Hag would love that.

May 06, 2015 9:44PM    Kyrule: Oh, she does.
She really does.
Which fits, since according to the lore she designed this mask anyway.
And then gave it to meeeeeee.
When I murdered her.

May 06, 2015 9:45PM    Frezak (GM): Such a slut!

May 06, 2015 9:45PM    Kyrule: It was a bit of a tricky situation.
Not that that was actually me at all. Because really <em>I'm</em> the hag from the other universe, and there was something of a bit of a mixup somewhere along the way.
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