Session Start: Mon Feb 03 18:26:34 2003 Session Ident: #Firewander [18:26:34] * Now talking in #Firewander [18:34:33] * So, the two of you get to Firewander. It's slummy, yes. However, the homeless seem slightly better than one would expect given their circumstances. Refuse lines the streets, broken wood, empty crates, and beaten metal laying against buildings and fallen into the street. You have a slight feeling that you're being watched from the darkness of the tenements and the rooftops. [18:37:07] * Kane reaches inside his hood and pulls his headband down over his eyes, then heads for the Guildhall. [18:37:27] * Lenoria follows along with her own hood down [18:38:17] ( Eek. Dinnertime. I gotta be off soon. ) [18:39:49] ( Can't you eat at the comptuer? ) [18:39:59] ( They want me to eat with them. ) [18:40:04] ( Gr. ) [18:40:05] Hm. [18:40:12] Bloody Hands around the guildhall. [18:40:21] Hm? [18:40:51] That probably means there was much violence there recently. [18:41:12] * Kane taps his blindfold. "This thing lets me see incorporeal spirits when I wear it." [18:41:42] * Lenoria nods. [18:43:29] * Kane heads to inviestigate the guildhall. [18:44:17] 4t [18:44:28] ( Bot's not here, we've got Dicey instead. ) [18:44:41] ( And /invite should work on Bot. ) [18:45:25] ( Okie, food now. ) [18:45:34] ( Hurry back. ) [18:45:39] * Bot (LylaBot@HSE-Montreal-ppp133284.qc.sympatico.ca) has joined #firewander [18:45:50] * Dicesuke was kicked by Charles (Charles) [18:46:06] (Yeah.) [18:46:29] 4t [18:46:43] !mode exalted [18:47:12] 2d6 [18:47:18] 4t [18:48:34] ( Well shoot. ) [18:48:42] * A PENIS IN YOUR EYE, BOT [18:48:52] * Bot was kicked by Charles (Charles) [18:49:03] ( Well, Micheal is online, we could poke him. ) [18:49:04] * Dicesuke (dice@155.92.101.82) has joined #firewander [18:49:23] ( Michael, that is. ) [18:49:26] 4 d10 [18:49:26] * Dicesuke throws the bones for Charles (4 d10) and gets 2 1 2 9. [18:50:24] ( Back ( [18:50:36] ( Woo! ) [18:51:21] 8 d10 [18:51:21] * Dicesuke throws the bones for Charles (8 d10) and gets 9 7 9 10 8 1 6 10. [18:51:44] (...Shit.) [18:51:59] (That's some legendary jumping down from a building.) [18:52:38] ( Woo! ) [18:54:19] * As you walk towards the Guildhall, you notice several small peices of masonry fall from the rooftop. Following shortly, with feline grace, is a beautiful young girl with vivid red hair, pale skin, and an athletic form. On her forehead, a full circle of silver flares with a godly light. [18:54:46] * Lenoria blinks, and looks up at the girl. [18:54:46] ( Do we make rolls to find her Tell? ) [18:56:02] * She's wearing canvas pants, and what would seem to be a dead guildman's shirt, given how it's silken, too large for her, and has a shock of blood diagnally accross the chest. She seems like the description of the kidnapped girl, save that, far from the sickly portraits, she appears to be quite the picture of vigor. [18:56:03] (Per+Awareness, diff 3.) [18:56:11] 3 d10 [18:56:11] * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kane (3 d10) and gets 2 8 4. [18:56:16] ( Nope! ) [18:56:36] 5 d10 [18:56:36] * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lenoria (5 d10) and gets 5 7 2 5 7. [18:56:41] ... You would be Ashen, then? [18:57:02] * Spirit is now known as Ashen [18:57:59] I may be. You are trespassing on the Sept's territory. [18:58:13] Ah, yes, the Crimson Tiger Sept everyone has been talking about lately. [18:58:32] I was mostly interested in seeing it with my own eyese. [18:58:44] * Lenoria blinks. [18:58:50] Sorry.. [18:59:04] * Kane gestures around. "Also, you have several Bloody Hands hanging around. You might want to see about getting them to leave somehow." [18:59:26] You've seen it, then. Survivors in the shadow of dead men. The Guild had it coming. [18:59:40] ( ... I am confused. ) [18:59:44] ( What happened here? ) [19:00:20] ( The Crimson Tiger Sept drove the people out of the Guildhall. Presuemably by force, given the BLoody Hands hanging around. ) [19:00:28] ( Ah. ) [19:00:39] ( ... is that a good thing or a bad thing? ) [19:00:50] ( Well, people died. But the Guild is Not Nice. ) [19:01:00] ( bloody hands are bad, though. Given that they're spirits of murder and all that. ) [19:01:03] ( Ah. ) [19:01:29] ( How do you go about appeasing them? ) [19:01:41] ( Dunno. Kane would take Flying Silver Dream to them. ) [19:02:05] ( Yeah, but Lenoria's been raised to deal with spirits. ) [19:02:17] * Ashen stretches. "I assume you want questions answered." [19:02:30] (Bloody hands are only interested in murder.) [19:02:36] ( Ah. ) [19:02:49] ( So beat 'em up and send them to wherever ghosts are supposed to go. ) [19:02:58] ( No, they're not ghosts. ) [19:03:03] ( They're spirits. Differnt thing. ) [19:03:13] That would be appreciated... [19:03:16] ( ... buh? ) [19:03:37] ( Ghosts are what you get from dead people without proper funeray rites. ) [19:03:57] ( Spirits are things like the spirt of Kane's daiklaive, or his manse, all the way up to the Unconqured Sun. ) [19:04:02] ( Ah... ) [19:05:15] Right then. No weapons, no armor. Those are for cowards who don't trust their bodies. I won't answer to a weakling who invades my family's territory, then demands I answer them. [19:06:23] * Kane raises an eyebrow, although seeing it inside his hood is problaby difficult. "Demand? I recall demanding nothing, no do I recall Lenoria doing so." [19:06:36] I merely requested. It was no demand... [19:06:57] If you did not wish to answer, that would have been perfectly alright with me. [19:07:04] Sorry for the misunderstanding... [19:07:31] Tch. You've already walked into my home, you see. [19:07:31] * Lenoria really does look apologetic [19:10:08] Well, if you wish for us to leave, I suppose we could do so. [19:10:22] That *does* put me and my family on quite an edge, you have to understand. And I doubt you'd submit to the Trial of Knives. Besides, after those Guildsmen cowards ran, there's been noone to fight at all. [19:10:36] Trial of knives? [19:10:45] What's that? [19:11:45] It's simple. You're knocked out and put in the basement of the guildhall. If you can live to leave Firewander, you're part of the tribe. [19:12:10] So the Knives would be in the hand of the rest of the tribe? [19:12:14] * Lenoria blinks. [19:12:41] Or do we get knives of our own? [19:13:06] Yes, the tribe has them. Unarmed single combat is so much simpler, though. [19:14:36] Much less chance of someone being killed, too. I'm willing to bet that you were sent by the Guild, yes? [19:14:40] So we simply fight someone in unarmed combat... [19:14:52] Yes, but you presumeably have mastered several charms relating to it, whereas I am a swordsman. And for all I know, you're wearing some kind of artifact to redner you more diffuclt to harm. [19:15:56] * Ashen looks at Lenoria. "You're game, then, ma'am?" [19:16:45] I suppose... I've trained in martial arts... [19:17:31] I have some skill in them too... Would you be agreeable to a battle with no armor, artifacts, or Charms? [19:18:32] That *was* what I proposed, yes. [19:19:00] * Lenoria nods. [19:19:07] Ah, I apologize for not understand. [19:19:12] That would be agreeable to me. [19:19:42] ("I no speak Rivertongue. Come from land far away.") [19:19:50] ( ing. understandING. ) [19:20:11] ( Heeeeee. ) [19:20:47] Fair, then. You decide who will fight, then we can take a go at it here. [19:21:07] * Lenoria nods. [19:21:27] ( Well, let's see. I have more soak, but Lenoria knows Shadow over Water. ) [19:21:40] ( But no charms. Right. Duh. Silly me. ) [19:21:59] ( What's your MA and dex/ ) [19:22:17] ( Dex 5 MA 2. ) [19:22:31] ( Dex 4 MA 3. ) [19:22:50] ( Which means I do 1 more damage and have 1 more soak. ) [19:22:54] ( Looks like we're matched in terms of skill... ) [19:23:18] ( And we likely know this since we problaby sparred some in the plenty of downtime we've had. ) [19:23:24] ( Yeah. ) [19:23:51] * Kane nods to Lenoria. "I should probably be the one to accept her challenge, unless you wish to for some reason?" [19:24:14] You would be the better choice. Although I would not be overly opposed to an informal match with her at a later time. [19:24:31] * Kane nods and takes off his cloak, then starts removing his armor. [19:24:53] * Kane gives Lenoria his blindfold after taking off his armor. "Here, it might be wise to keep an eye on the local spirits while we fight." [19:24:59] * Ashen reaches and removes her shirt, tossing it to the side, her chest covered by an odd garment resembling a combination of bandages and leather. She shreiks, twisting and growing into what appears to be a semi-humanoid alley-cat, rippling with muscles. "I'M READY." [19:25:29] * Kane puts his armor, sword, and knife on his cloak. [19:25:43] * Lenoria nods... [19:25:47] * Lenoria places it over her eyes. [19:25:56] * Kane raises an eyebrow at Ashen. [19:25:59] * Lenoria blinks... [19:26:03] ... Peotyr? [19:26:12] * Lenoria is looking at Ashen [19:26:15] Now that hardly seems-... What? [19:27:30] * Kane blinks at Lenoria. [19:28:30] * Ashen blinks, as recognition hits her like a brick wall. "...CALENIA." [19:28:46] Peotyr... [19:29:22] * Lenoria lifts the blindfold up, and looks at Ashen directly [19:29:57] * Ashen shrinks back to human form, her Tell, red, feline ears, clearly visible. "...you're welcome, and I apologize. Come inside, and do ignore the Bloody Hands. We've yet to clean." [19:30:11] * Lenoria nods... [19:30:21] I... wow. [19:30:22] * Kane takes his blindfold back and puts it back on before picking up his gear. [19:30:27] * Lenoria follows in [19:30:35] * Kane follows Lenoria and Ashen inside. [19:31:49] * Charles leads the two of you to what may have been a conference room at one point, behind a door that was removed from its hinges. Blood is still on the floor, and you pass numerous men and women, dressed in the clothes of slaves and the destitute on the way. [19:31:52] (Ffuck.( [19:32:00] ( Thanks Mr. GM Man! ) [19:34:28] * Ashen pulls herself onto the table, picking up a shirt from a dead guildsman, and putting it on. She sits cross-legged. "What do you want to know, Calenia? ...and her companion, of course." [19:34:50] I am Kane. Although I was Tiankol in my past life. [19:34:54] I just wanted to know the story behind what had happened here... [19:35:23] I am called Lenoria in this life... I must admit I am surprised to have found you again so soon... [19:35:42] ... Oh, and if an inhumanly beautiful woman wearing skimpy clothing woven of Moonsilver shows up asking about "Tiankol", please tell her you haven't seen me. >_> [19:35:59] ...That sounds familiar. Yes, Tiankol. And I'm rather surprised myself. [19:36:02] * Ashen nods. [19:36:48] So, I gather you were kidnapped. Probably by the Guild, given our current location. [19:36:49] My father was a hideously rich man. The Guild thought they could use me against him. [19:38:01] Not a week and a half ago, I was half-dead, locked in the basement, and not at a well sort. That changed when one of the enforcers came in. [19:38:30] * Lenoria nods... [19:39:28] I don't know what he meant to do to me, but he never managed it. I could feel Luna's cold light on me, and she appeared to me, the most beautiful thing I ever saw. The enforcer was scared shitless, and even moreso when I changed, and killed him where he stood. [19:40:00] Yes, I doubt they had prepared for you to become one of the CHosen of Luna. [19:40:07] * Lenoria nods [19:40:26] ... You did dipose of the corpses properly, I hope? It would be a shame to add to the hungry ghosts around. [19:41:33] If not, I could certainly help... I was born and raised in Sijan. [19:42:24] After that... I don't remember terribly well, but when I was done, I was covered in their blood, their slaves were freed, and Luna told me that I was one of her chosen warriors, predators, before she kissed me and disappeared. [19:42:43] Wow... [19:43:11] The dead lie where they were. I did not think it sanitary for my tribe to touch the dead. I'd be honored if you would dispose of them, Lenoria. [19:43:39] ( afk phone ) [19:43:51] * Lenoria nods. [19:45:41] ( Backs! ) [19:45:54] After that, I would like to meet with you in the dead guildmaster's room. It's been a long time since last we met, dear. [19:46:21] I know the rest of our Circle is investigating your kidnapping. [19:46:31] Should we tell your family anything about what happened? [19:46:59] Yes... [19:47:04] * Lenoria is talking to Ashen [19:47:14] No. No, you should not. [19:47:52] Their daughter died ten days ago. If they're to see me as one of the Anathema, I'd rather it be when we're astride the world as titans once again. [19:48:36] * Lenoria nods... [19:48:45] I see... [19:50:30] * Kane digs a little golden disk out of his pouch and hands it to Ashen. "I'd be interested in sparring with you sometime, and Lenoria is staying with me. If you ever wish to come see us, present this at the Tomb of the Singing Blades and we should let you in, assuming we're there at the time." [19:51:06] There are three others in our group. We have a complete Circle. [19:51:08] * Lenoria smiles a bit [19:52:17] Thank you, sir. As for me, I live in this halls, as does my tribe. You're welcome to come if you're ever in danger, and given a few months, I'm willing to bet my family could fight as well as any Immaculate. [19:52:39] Excellent. [19:53:30] They may have to. I doubt the Guild will take well to this. [19:53:34] * Lenoria sighs in relief. It is truly wonderful to see you again, though you have changed quite a bit in this life.... [19:53:40] ( THat's in quotes ) [19:54:10] ( What time of day is it? ) [19:54:35] Yes, they will likely try to evict us. But I feel confident that we can keep what we've taken from them. [19:54:47] (Roughly midday.) [19:55:28] ( And I said to meet back at the Tomb at... Night. Huh. ) [19:56:16] Yes, as it is to find you again, Lenoria. ...I assume you refer to my gender, among other things? [19:56:22] * Ashen smiles embarassedly. [19:56:26] ( Guess the rest of the circle gets to play "sit there and wait". ) [19:56:43] Yes... ^^; [20:00:16] I *would* apologize, but it isn't much my fault. *smiles* I suppose we'll have to see what we can do, given the circumstances, then, dear... [20:00:27] Yes.. [20:00:34] * Lenoria looks into Ashen's eyes. [20:00:54] ( And, Kane's just standing there watching. ) [20:01:10] ( Aren't there chairs? I'd think he'd be sitting there. ) [20:01:33] (There are, yeah.) [20:03:31] * Ashen looks back at Lenoria, then moves to kiss her, smiling afterwards. "You really ought to make sure my home isn't crawling with ghosts tomorrow, Lenoria. I think we ought to continue this later." [20:03:39] * Lenoria smiles... [20:03:41] I will. [20:04:30] * Ashen leaves, turning down a hallway, humming to herself. [20:04:53] Lucky you. [20:04:56] ^^; [20:05:01] _your_ Lunar spouse isn't a fucking nutbar. [20:05:23] I'm sure Alike will eventually come to her senses... [20:06:06] In any case, we've done what we came here to do [20:06:30] Well, you were going to perform rites for the dead, and Ashen wished to talk with you afterwards. [20:06:36] Hm. Yes... [20:06:52] Well, your job is done, then. [20:07:46] Nexus is not the safest of places. Are you sure you do not wish an escort back? [20:07:56] ... hm. I supose you have a point. [20:09:14] * Lenoria walks around, looking for bodies [20:10:14] * The place is littered with them. However, the tribals stay out of your way as you preform the funerary rites. [20:10:28] * Kane puts his armor back on while Lenoria does that. [20:10:47] * Lenoria does this smoothly, and in a focused manner. She seems perfectly at home dealing with this. [20:11:35] (So, Sijan gets a lot of corpses that look like they've been mauled by a giant alley cat? XD) [20:11:56] ( Bwah. They get a lot of corpses, period. People die in all sorts of odd, odd ways. ) [20:13:20] * It takes a while, but all the corpses are finally accounted for. Seeing as how it's late, I'm going to assume that Lenoria and Ashen catch up on lost time and explore their sexualities during downtime. Session Close: Mon Feb 03 20:31:49 2003