Session Start: Wed Aug 22 17:43:55 2007 Session Ident: #Aeoth [17:43:55] * Now talking in #Aeoth [18:31:18] * Karja (chatzilla@c-71-199-176-204.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) has joined #aeoth [18:31:50] * Malcolm (chatzilla@c-71-199-176-204.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) has joined #Aeoth [18:31:54] * Karja is now known as Minaku [18:33:19] * NinjaDebugger is now known as Clarissa [18:33:37] * Demota is now known as Lucy [18:33:44] * Minaku is now known as Karja [18:56:18] [We resume as Clarissa is dousing Karja with water, much to the chagrin of most of the adventurers, and dispair of Karja. Poor dorf. :(] [18:56:23] [Session Start!] [18:56:38] * Karja is trying and failing to run. [18:57:08] * Clarissa rolls her eyes at the frantic dwarf. [18:57:17] * Malcolm is studiously avoiding any stray spray. [18:57:46] * Lucy watches, smiling a bit. [18:58:00] You could have had it easy, you just had to sit still and let me cast one little spell. [18:58:19] What, ye think I smell or sommat!? [18:58:26] * Karja rages helplessly against the snow and the cold. [18:58:26] * Hank is ... somewhere, but he looks amused. [18:58:49] There is no "think" about it. You stink. This is a fact easily verifiable by anyone with a nose. [18:58:55] Being a dwarf does not entitle you to your own reality. [18:59:58] [I'll take your reality and substitute my own.] [19:00:16] [s/take/reject] [19:00:26] [Do we have a choice?] [19:00:35] [Not really. ^^ Continue?] [19:00:45] * Karja is rendered speechless, but tries to get way nonetheless. [19:00:51] * Clarissa quietly directs her elemental to end it and begin the WASH CYCLE. [19:01:04] [And yes, Karja *does* stink.] [19:01:15] [Sweat + warrior = eau de warrior] [19:01:25] [AKA: Stink [19:01:27] ] [19:02:22] * Clarissa signals for the elemental to stop a moment later and says loudly, "Do you want to take the easy way now, or do I have it start the SPIN CYCLE?" [19:02:45] Ye want a fight, it's a fight ye get! [19:03:00] Watery, Spin Cycle, please. [19:03:09] * Clarissa directs the elemental into whirlpool mode. [19:03:41] * Karja dives into the nearest snowbank. [19:04:00] * Lucy looks to Malcom. "SHe usually like this?" [19:04:14] [The whirlpool washing mach- err, water elemental starts doing washingness on Karja, going straight through the snow. Funny thing about snow, it's made of water.] [19:04:34] * Karja gurgles in protest. [19:05:00] * Malcolm smiles faintly. "Depends, really. Most things she tends to view as a competition of sorts, and that's fine. Anything without a challenge to overcome can be... difficult." [19:05:29] * Lucy nods [19:05:34] Watery, you can go. [19:05:45] * Clarissa slams her staff onto the frozen ground and dismisses the elemental. [19:05:54] * Karja shivers. [19:05:58] * The elemental dissipates in a burst of smelly water. [19:06:04] Ye ever think of dryin' me off? [19:06:20] Would you like to do that the easy way, or the hard way? [19:06:30] * Clarissa smiles broadly. [19:06:41] * Karja snarls. [19:07:30] * Malcolm speaks up. "Take the easy way, Karja. The sooner we're done with this chore, the sooner we can kneecap some minotaurs." [19:07:41] [Kneecaping minotaurs is good for you.] [19:07:48] [Well... AFTER they're dead, anyways.] [19:07:56] There are no guaranteed minotaurs. [19:08:04] * Karja begins stumping back towards the house, where she can strip down and get warm. [19:08:17] * Clarissa laughs evilly. [19:08:18] [Take it off, take it ALL off.] [19:08:59] That was fun and effective. [19:09:36] Is she going to make me do that again tomorrow? [19:11:01] Possibly. You may want to stagger your attempts. [19:11:29] Or make them random, maybe. [19:11:46] * Karja reaches the door, yanks it open, gets in, and slams it shut. She begins stripping out of her clothes as soon as she's in. [19:13:38] Random sounds good. [19:14:19] Every day might be a terrible shock to her system [19:14:27] I could do it before she wakes up. [19:14:51] Without the water elemental part, I hope. [19:16:18] Yes. [19:16:28] I can't be wasting a moderately powerful spell on her all the time. [19:16:33] It's decidedly suboptimal. [19:17:14] Balancing a bucket on top of a door? [19:17:34] * Malcolm grins as he nods. "It should work, then." [19:18:47] When she's finished drying off, we can leave. [19:19:05] I'm ready. [19:21:00] * Karja grumbles and wrings her clothes out by the fire. [19:23:06] * Karja 's butt gets all toasty and warm. Rather enjoyable. [19:23:16] * Malcolm opens the door and catches just enough of a glimpse of his companion to pull it partly shut again. "Please hurry up, Karja. We've got a lot of ground to cover, and I'd hate for that guy with the beard to beat us to the ruins." [19:23:41] * Karja glances over her shoulder and sighs. "My clothes are still wet." [19:24:04] Okay. Well, come on out as soon as you're dry and we'll hit the road. [19:24:14] * Clarissa casts a quick spell, points at the clothes, and they start drying out, one article at a time. [19:24:50] * Clarissa clearly doesn't do that, because she's outside. [19:25:12] * Karja continues wringing out her clothes over the fire, very nearly setting them aflame. [19:28:01] * Karja finally gets up and trudges over to her pack, where she digs around for a few moments, looking rather unsightly in the process, before finally coming up with yesterday's dirty underwear and sweat-stained clothes. She puts them on, then starts buckling on her leather armor. [19:28:04] [Soon the clothes are as dry as they're going to get short of magicking.] [19:29:18] * Hank wanders over from where he's been standing in a snowdrift. [19:29:20] * Karja slings her pack over her shoulder and finally emerges from the house. If one sniffed her, the same stink would be wafting up from inside her armor. [19:29:59] * Lucy waves at Karja [19:30:07] * Karja grunts [19:30:10] * Malcolm chuckles despite himself. "Okay. Let's get moving." [19:30:38] Are we sure we don't want to waste another hour? [19:30:51] [Waste another hour! That means I have to do less work!] [19:31:07] * Karja threatens Hank with a fist. [19:31:21] Moving sounds good [19:31:33] * Karja looks at Hank, then his kneecaps, and back to Hank's eyes. She's suddenly gotten more menacing.. [19:32:25] * Hank rolls his eyes. "Yes, I'm truly frightened. If I were to breathe deeply, I might faint." He tosses his arm back on his head in an imagined swoon, and starts walking. [19:33:02] Do you know it only takes about twenty pounds of pressure to make your knee go the wrong way? [19:33:22] Tested it yourself? [19:33:31] You'd have to find it first. [19:33:40] Scientifically proven. [19:33:41] [Rimshot.] [19:33:43] * Karja thumps her chest. [19:33:46] ...I thought that -I- was the twelve year old, here. [19:33:57] [Clarissa's twelve?] [19:33:57] * Malcolm shakes his head. "This is going to be a long walk." [19:33:59] * Clarissa has already summoned everybody's mounts for the day. [19:34:05] [I thought she was Twelve and a half.] [19:34:13] What's... that? [19:34:15] [Twelve years, nine months. Quibbling over fractions is suboptimal.] [19:34:27] * Hank hops on his mount. "Twelve hundred, maybe." His weasel hops up onto his shoulder. [19:34:53] * Clarissa has summoned a small herd of pure white horses with rainbow manes and tails. [19:35:03] * Clarissa thinks y'all best be grateful. [19:35:27] * Malcolm eyes the steeds suspiciously. "Or, a shorter ride. Where did these come from?" [19:35:43] I summoned them. [19:36:04] * Karja leans over to Malcolm and whispers, "Do ye think they're working under less than optimal conditions?" [19:36:05] * Clarissa mounts the largest of the steeds, a bloody great warhorse. [19:36:13] [They're very pretty horses, white with rainbow manes.] [19:36:35] [Unfortunately, this also tips them off as being obviously magical in some manner.] [19:37:11] * Malcolm whispers back. "I'll try to ask mine on the way. In the meantime we'd better mount up." [19:37:49] * Malcolm climbs astride his summoned horse and pats it gently. "Good, uh, horse?" He sounds more hopeful than confident in his guess. [19:37:52] How? [19:38:21] How what? [19:38:30] Do I get on. [19:38:52] You put your left foot in the left stirrup, grab the saddle horn, and lift your right leg up and over. [19:40:05] * Karja performs said action with more expertise than she lets on. [19:41:02] * Lucy gets ready to go! [19:42:08] [AUTOBOTS, TRANSFORM AND ROLL-OUT! With well-wishes from the last of human civilization you'll probably see until the ruins (which would be ruined humanoid civilization, you hope), You start heading north into the desolate mountains.] [19:48:49] * Lucy starts heading north into the desolate mountains. [19:49:43] [The terrain is very rough, the weather unforgiving, and food and warmth both scarce. While there is snow, you get the feeling that it's been built up over the centuries rather than having acually fallen from the sky. There has actually been very little snowfall after you've entered the mountains (about two days from the inn), and all the snow in the air is just blown from the great expanses of territory along the mountains.] [19:53:59] * Karja says very little once they've set out, preferring instead to keep her mount as fresh as possible, and herself as warm as possible. [19:55:21] * Clarissa is glad Karja can't complain about the cold, thanks to good old Footstool. [19:55:42] * Lucy admires the scenery as she travels. [19:56:14] [The nights pass uneventful, and the scenery for the most part sucks. It's all barren tundra and mountains.] [19:56:25] * Malcolm seems to be lost in his own thoughts most of the time. [20:02:33] * Karja passes some time by humming. [20:05:56] [Travel is rough and slow, with numerous mountains and passes to go through. Given horses are practically a liability here, getting mortally wounded would be seriously sub-optimal at this point. Fortunately, you are a veritable party of mountaineers apparently. Except for Clarissa, who is, in fact, a wizard.] [20:06:11] [It's good to be a wizard.] [20:06:15] [Yes, yes it is.] [20:08:49] * Hank is working his way up the passes with some astonishing ease, for a city boy. Hell, he even has his own kit. [20:09:04] [Eventually you crest a mountain in the morning, leaving you with the view of a large section of foundations that can be seen about 500 ft. in your direction of travel. Whatever structers were there certainly aren't standing anymore, except for the odd stone wall or standin pillar. They don't seem particularly tall, but they must have in their day given you can see parts of pillars and rubble through the snow that blankets the place.] [20:11:13] Mm. Ruins, all right. [20:11:28] [By a rough estimation, though, this can't be a city. It's far too small to house even a thousand people, let alone the hundereds of thousands that should have lived here at some point. Still... it should be worthwhile to check around. There's likely more here than meets the eye.] [20:11:42] ... weird. [20:11:46] ... let's hope whatever we were looking for was in the basement. [20:11:47] I expected bigger [20:12:00] * Malcolm looks over the site ahead. "I wonder how the residents of this place used to get their food. Or contact with the outside world." [20:12:36] Goats. [20:13:02] [Magic. Duh.] [20:13:14] [At least that's what the legends say.] [20:14:40] [Well, the people of legend need to get with the times.] [20:15:59] [Clearly. It's all about psionics now.] [20:17:39] * Karja raises an eyebrow. [20:18:05] A place like this in the middle of nowhere, with no water ways, no approachable passes, no sheltering mountains... [20:18:11] We might try underneath the city. [20:18:14] Um. Village? [20:18:39] [The time is about 3 PM, it'll probably be evening before you actually *reach* the area by your estimation.] [20:19:14] How about dinner first? [20:19:23] City's been here a while, it'll probably wait. [20:19:46] We'll probably be attacked once we're inside the city, if there's anything there. [20:19:52] Or anybody. [20:20:01] Probably so. [20:20:12] [Clarissa has a point. Ruins tend to have hostile entities. That somehow replenish themselves even after destroyed.] [20:20:22] * Lucy nods [20:20:24] [It's like skeletons pop out of the ground. Like dasies!] [20:21:31] * Karja looks at the sky. "We can rest here tonight, and then try when the sun comes back up." [20:22:57] We should rest closer, so we aren't walking for hours before we go into the ruins. [20:23:27] * Karja nods. [20:23:42] Sounds good to me. [20:23:44] Right [20:25:55] [And so they adventure down and rest closer to the ruins! Session end!] [20:26:17] * Clarissa is now known as NinjaDebugger [20:26:20] * NinjaDebugger (amakoto@ip72-213-61-8.om.om.cox.net) has left #Aeoth [20:26:34] * Malcolm is now known as Schneeble [20:26:42] * Lucy is now known as Demota [20:26:48] * Schneeble (chatzilla@c-71-199-176-204.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.78.1 [Firefox 2.0.0.6/2007072518]) [20:27:04] * Karja is now known as Minaku [20:27:36] * Hank (chamelaeon@ip68-225-175-166.om.om.cox.net) Quit (Quit: ) [20:34:25] * Zegon (zegond@c-24-15-245-98.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has left #Aeoth [20:37:39] * Minaku (chatzilla@c-71-199-176-204.hsd1.ga.comcast.net) has left #aeoth Session Close: Thu Aug 23 00:00:00 2007