Holes/Session 22
A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
Apheori (GM): ARE YOU HERE GAN? Ganelon: I am here. Apheori (GM): Now. Important question. Where were we? Gaurav: the Book in the Library Ganelon: Oh yeah, that. Apheori (GM): You're in the library. You tried to read the book. Amadi is asleep, and Dave is hiding from her. Hazz wanted you all to come here and get answers from the mad Dreamers, but so far you've got nothing except possibly a headache. Gaurav: Is Amadi asleep and still here? I thought she usually vanished when that happened? Ganelon: I think this is an exception. Apheori (GM): She usually does. This time she didn't. Rhu: (to Amadi) Mrs. Teatime? (pokes her) Dave looks around the book at Amadi, and gets a dirty look from the guard in the process. Gaurav: I'd health-check Amadi to make sure she's okay, but I wouldn't want to accidentally kill her or anything. Ganelon: Are you that bad at healing? Apheori (GM): Why is the world would Rhu expect to kill her? Ganelon: Not to mention that seems a very severe penalty for checking-up on someone. Gaurav: No, I just don't think Rhu is over the time he crit-failed in healing Dave and sort of accidentally killed her. Ganelon: Yeah, but that was to treat, not to just check. I'm pretty sure Rhu knows not to check someone's pulse with the sharp end of a dagger. Gaurav: Heh. Ganelon: Gotta use the hilt. Frezak (GM): He's super wise. His dagger pommel is a sponge. Clearly full of delicious antiseptic. Gaurav: Be that as it may, Rhu will just keep shaking Amadi to try to wake her up. Apheori (GM): He's trained in heal, right? Frezak (GM): Can someone insight that 'dirty look' ? Apheori (GM): Doesn't he know how much damage shaking people can do? Especially if there really is something wrong. Gaurav: Shaking her gently. Plus, I assume she's snoring loudly as she usually does, so it's pretty clear she's fine. Frezak (GM): Only if they've broken something, Names. And if that was the case then Radek can just fill her with stolen blood. Ganelon: Yep. Gaurav: What would happen if we fill Amadi with normal human blood? Or _Dave_. Just imagine. Frezak (GM): You'd have to find a normal human. We're all elven freaks. Gaurav: Ha! Truth. Rhu: (to Dave) You okay? Dave: Er... what? (she quickly scoots back over to the others) Yes. Rhu: Did you have a chance to look at the book? It might make it easier to remember things. Or harder, if that's what you're aiming for. Dave hesitates, then nods. Radek: Would you describe the information if gave you as "useful"? Rhu: I'm not sure I'd trust anything the book said, even if it seemed useful. It seemed dangerous and creepy to me. Dave: Useful for what? Radek: This whole... hole situation. Dave: Er... Radek: Or if that would be too convenient, something to fix you would also help. Dave gives Amadi a frightened look. Apheori (GM): Was anyone going to do that insight thing? Ganelon: I'll do one now. rolling 1d20+4 ( 11 ) +4 = 15 Frezak (GM): Only +4? Man, I can try that myself >. rolling 1D20+3 ( 11 ) +3 = 14 Or not. Gaurav: Rhu has +7, but knows better than to try to insight a gosling. That way madness lies. Bear Soup Guy: Greibel doesn't know any better! rolling 1d20+11 ( 11 ) +11 = 22 Frezak (GM): Wow. Ganelon: I also have dreadful news, which is that I'm being called away to some manner of Mother's Day event. Frezak (GM): How does the stoner get to be so great at insight? Bear Soup Guy: Stoner magic Apheori (GM): Wait, which npc are you insighting? Ganelon: Well, Dave. I'm not trying to figure out the character of Amadi's dreams. Although that does sound like it could be useful. Gaurav: He can speak to *bees*. Can godlings be so hard? Apheori (GM): Well, Frezak was asking about the guard at first. Gaurav: Hey, both the mouseforged and the porridge are still with us, right? Apheori (GM): Frezak: You think Dave is afraid of Amadi. Gan: Same, and something about computers. Greibel: You don't think Dave ever actually looked at the book. Gaurav: Yes. Radek nods his head in Amadi's direction. Radek: I take it you read something about her? Dave: She's not... she's not real. I mean, she is, but she's not what you... see. The Kanatan knows. He's smoked... her. Dave looks at Greibel in confusion. Rhu: rolling 1d20+9 religion check to see if I know anything about "The Kanatan" ( 19 ) +9 = 28 Greibel: Well...don't look at me, I don't know what a Kanatan is and I don't smoke people The Gravedigger: UNless they are tiny people made of drugs, presumably. Apheori (GM): Kanata is the homeworld of the iera kanai elves, Greibel's folks. That said, nobody ever actually calls them kanatans. Bear Soup Guy: Greibel must've been away a long time XD Ganelon: I'll reiterate, though: I really have to leave. Bear Soup Guy: Also baby success, delivery complete, apparently Rhu: (turning to Greibel) Hey! Aren't you from Kanata? Ganelon: But don't let that stop you guys from continuing. Gaurav: woooooooooooooooooooooooo Bear Soup Guy: Okay, we should probably end Ganelon: No, really, I can just get caught up unless something really important to my character is liable to happen. Which, given how someone just talked about smoking Amadi, is unlikely. Apheori (GM): Yeah, we'll come back to this. Bear Soup Guy: Well I've got family stuff so all things considered it works out Apheori (GM): And then there will be BIG THINGS. Bear Soup Guy: BIG BIG BIG BIG Apheori (GM): Meantime we all have mums and stuff. Gaurav looks at Apheori suspiciously Apheori (GM): Mums and sisters and cats and orchids. Gaurav: re: BIG THINGS, not mums Ganelon: Yeah. Sorry, I should have mentioned this sooner than today. Gaurav: Cats?! Ganelon: By which I mean yesterday, when I learned of it. Apheori (GM): Ach. Ganelon: I'll say when I get back. Apheori (GM): No worries. We'll pick up next week. Maybe after the 23rd we can do a horrible all-out session again and make everyone miserable. (That's when I get off work.) (Used to be after the 15th, but then it changed.) Bear Soup Guy: Yay! Gaurav: (y) Bear Soup Guy: oh and bye Gan! Gaurav: with absinthe bye, Gan! Apheori (GM): Absinthe.
