Book 2 Conclusion
Oct 16, 2013 20:30:05 GMT -6
Post by General Spoon on Oct 16, 2013 20:30:05 GMT -6
[2013-10-16 18:13:29] <GM> You are on the top of the tower still
[2013-10-16 18:13:46] <GM> The creature has been killed by the Beast
[2013-10-16 18:13:50] <GM> and the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:13:54] <GM> is still sparking
[2013-10-16 18:14:02] * Clarissa waves "Hi, Beast!"
[2013-10-16 18:14:19] <GM> 1d9
[2013-10-16 18:14:20] <Aleus> GM, 1d9: 8 [1d9=8]
[2013-10-16 18:14:26] <GM> devion make a reflex save
[2013-10-16 18:14:46] <GM> electricity shoots from the machin
[2013-10-16 18:14:47] <GM> e
[2013-10-16 18:15:13] <Akiani> 1d20+8
[2013-10-16 18:15:14] <Aleus> Akiani, 1d20+8: 20 [1d20=12]
[2013-10-16 18:15:23] <GM> he takes no damage
[2013-10-16 18:15:27] <GM> he has evasion
[2013-10-16 18:15:37] <GM> improved even
[2013-10-16 18:15:50] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 18:15:53] <GM> wait just regular
[2013-10-16 18:15:55] <GM> anyways
[2013-10-16 18:15:57] <GM> the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:16:05] <GM> is still active
[2013-10-16 18:16:40] <GM> ....
[2013-10-16 18:16:42] <Matthias> so should we shut it off
[2013-10-16 18:16:52] <Clarissa> I fly down to where the beast and Akiani's Papa are
[2013-10-16 18:16:54] <Matthias> i'm guessing yes
[2013-10-16 18:16:57] <GM> no you should get shot more
[2013-10-16 18:16:59] <GM> 1d9
[2013-10-16 18:17:00] <Aleus> GM, 1d9: 7 [1d9=7]
[2013-10-16 18:17:03] <Elsbeth> I would think so
[2013-10-16 18:17:09] <GM> Clarissa make a reflex save
[2013-10-16 18:17:20] <Matthias> clarissa flew down, she's out of range
[2013-10-16 18:17:29] <GM> make a reflex save clarissa
[2013-10-16 18:17:37] <Clarissa> 1d20+5
[2013-10-16 18:17:38] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+5: 9 [1d20=4]
[2013-10-16 18:17:40] <GM> 3d6
[2013-10-16 18:17:41] <Aleus> GM, 3d6: 7 [3d6=1,4,2]
[2013-10-16 18:17:44] <Clarissa> ok
[2013-10-16 18:17:51] <GM> an arc of electricity strikes you for 7 damage
[2013-10-16 18:17:54] <Clarissa> still flying down
[2013-10-16 18:17:55] <GM> stormcaller is still active
[2013-10-16 18:18:05] <GM> as is the bondslave thrall
[2013-10-16 18:18:06] <Clarissa> AKIANI have Kendra do it
[2013-10-16 18:18:18] <GM> Kendra turns off the bondslave thrall
[2013-10-16 18:18:22] <GM> and the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:18:53] <GM> there is a ladder
[2013-10-16 18:18:57] <GM> in the trapdoor
[2013-10-16 18:19:00] <GM> leading to the room below
[2013-10-16 18:19:05] <GM> the destroyed laboratory
[2013-10-16 18:19:06] <Matthias> we go down
[2013-10-16 18:19:42] <GM> there is still a steel idol there with a pale, gaunt man's face's visable
[2013-10-16 18:20:04] <GM> and a bell jar IIRC filled with fluid containing a woman's body in it
[2013-10-16 18:20:44] <Akiani> "Why is Mom's corpse floating in a jar?"
[2013-10-16 18:20:59] <GM> "Urg..."
[2013-10-16 18:21:04] <Clarissa> "Are you suuuure it's a corpse?"
[2013-10-16 18:21:13] <Akiani> "I buried her myself."
[2013-10-16 18:21:13] <GM> the sunlight is shining on him through the hole in the wall
[2013-10-16 18:21:33] * Clarissa throws a blanket over him
[2013-10-16 18:21:48] <GM> you have a blanket?
[2013-10-16 18:21:56] <Clarissa> I have a cloak thing
[2013-10-16 18:22:04] <GM> in any even the sunlight does not appear to be harming him
[2013-10-16 18:22:07] <Clarissa> that I use to cover undead
[2013-10-16 18:22:07] <GM> *event
[2013-10-16 18:22:11] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:22:24] <Ullar> Protection from Daylight
[2013-10-16 18:22:35] <GM> keep table talk out of this ffs
[2013-10-16 18:22:37] * Clarissa never threw a blanket thing on him
[2013-10-16 18:22:42] <GM> there isn't even a table to talk at
[2013-10-16 18:23:04] * Ullar Ghost of Marina smh
[2013-10-16 18:23:05] <Clarissa> "Is he okay, Akiani?"
[2013-10-16 18:23:08] <Akiani> "I'd really like to know now why you have my mother floating in a jar."
[2013-10-16 18:23:15] <Akiani> "Probably, yeah."
[2013-10-16 18:23:30] <GM> He does not seem very responsive
[2013-10-16 18:23:38] <GM> he seems incredibly out of it
[2013-10-16 18:24:04] <Akiani> sure let me just lay on hands him
[2013-10-16 18:24:05] <Clarissa> "Is he drugged or did he get the snot beat out of him?"
[2013-10-16 18:24:08] <Akiani> oh yeah
[2013-10-16 18:24:30] <Matthias> if he's a vampire wouldn't lay on hands hurt him
[2013-10-16 18:24:35] <Akiani> yes
[2013-10-16 18:24:39] <Akiani> that is the point
[2013-10-16 18:24:59] * Akiani toes him with her shoe
[2013-10-16 18:25:00] <Matthias> didn't someone buy a wand of infernal healing
[2013-10-16 18:25:03] <GM> The homunculus from the lower floor crawls up through a trapdoor
[2013-10-16 18:25:04] <GM> he is
[2013-10-16 18:25:07] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 18:25:10] <GM> I will clarify
[2013-10-16 18:25:15] <GM> the guy is trapped inside
[2013-10-16 18:25:17] <GM> the thing he is in
[2013-10-16 18:25:21] <Matthias> oh
[2013-10-16 18:25:24] <Akiani> what thing
[2013-10-16 18:25:27] <Akiani> is he in
[2013-10-16 18:25:30] <Matthias> is it something i can roll disdev on
[2013-10-16 18:25:31] <GM> hang on
[2013-10-16 18:25:33] <Clarissa> any knowledge chacks to determin what it is?
[2013-10-16 18:25:36] <Akiani> OH
[2013-10-16 18:25:36] <GM> lemme bring up text I pasted
[2013-10-16 18:25:38] <GM> last time
[2013-10-16 18:25:38] <Akiani> the steelido lthing
[2013-10-16 18:25:42] <GM> yes
[2013-10-16 18:25:47] <GM> its basically a sarcophusugus
[2013-10-16 18:25:50] <Akiani> I thought that was just an irrelevant thing
[2013-10-16 18:25:52] <GM> only very tight
[2013-10-16 18:25:58] <GM> and only his face is showing out of it
[2013-10-16 18:26:01] <GM> that is what it is
[2013-10-16 18:26:02] <GM> more or less
[2013-10-16 18:26:07] <Akiani> we open it
[2013-10-16 18:26:11] <Clarissa> "Ok, strong people, open it."
[2013-10-16 18:26:19] <Matthias> 1d20+14 disable device
[2013-10-16 18:26:20] <Aleus> Matthias, disable device: 20 [1d20=6]
[2013-10-16 18:26:26] <Matthias> just in case it's necessary
[2013-10-16 18:26:30] <GM> there are indeed
[2013-10-16 18:26:33] <GM> two locks on it
[2013-10-16 18:26:37] <GM> and a 20 does not cut it
[2013-10-16 18:26:45] <Matthias> 1d20+14 disable device
[2013-10-16 18:26:46] <Aleus> Matthias, disable device: 15 [1d20=1]
[2013-10-16 18:26:50] <Matthias> .
[2013-10-16 18:26:52] <Matthias> fuck you aleus
[2013-10-16 18:26:59] <Elsbeth> just take 20 on them
[2013-10-16 18:27:06] <Matthias> fine
[2013-10-16 18:27:07] <Matthias> i take 20
[2013-10-16 18:27:09] <Matthias> for 34
[2013-10-16 18:27:14] <GM> A 34 almost gets it, but not quite
[2013-10-16 18:27:22] <Matthias> ._.
[2013-10-16 18:27:39] <GM> if you were a little bit better at it
[2013-10-16 18:27:39] <Clarissa> "Is there a key someone around here?"
[2013-10-16 18:27:40] <GM> you could get it
[2013-10-16 18:27:40] <Matthias> well someone's gonna have to assist then
[2013-10-16 18:27:46] <Elsbeth> Clarissa, Guidance on Matthais
[2013-10-16 18:27:50] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:27:51] <Matthias> wait doesn't akiani have
[2013-10-16 18:27:53] <Clarissa> GUIDANCE
[2013-10-16 18:27:56] <Matthias> that +dex belt
[2013-10-16 18:27:57] <Akiani> no
[2013-10-16 18:27:58] <Matthias> that'd get it
[2013-10-16 18:27:59] <Akiani> well
[2013-10-16 18:28:03] <Akiani> let's go with guidance
[2013-10-16 18:28:08] <Matthias> k
[2013-10-16 18:28:13] <GM> you open one
[2013-10-16 18:28:18] <GM> then the other
[2013-10-16 18:28:23] <GM> it is unlocked
[2013-10-16 18:28:49] <Akiani> then we open it
[2013-10-16 18:28:51] <Akiani> ?
[2013-10-16 18:28:53] <GM> ok
[2013-10-16 18:29:05] <GM> oh
[2013-10-16 18:29:23] <GM> <Kendra> "He is indeed the Count; he doesn't look as though he's aged a day"
[2013-10-16 18:29:35] <Clarissa> "Kendra..."
[2013-10-16 18:29:38] <Clarissa> "Vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:29:53] <Matthias> (did we ever tell her that)
[2013-10-16 18:30:08] <Akiani> well
[2013-10-16 18:30:16] <Akiani> I've called him daddy like
[2013-10-16 18:30:18] <Akiani> a thousand times
[2013-10-16 18:30:19] <Akiani> sooooooooooo
[2013-10-16 18:30:20] <Akiani> yes
[2013-10-16 18:30:32] <GM> you open it, and you see that the Count is wearing a white lab outfit, however it is covered with blood, and there are four silver stakes in him; one through each arm and one through each leg; all of the stakes have a glowing rune on their end
[2013-10-16 18:30:49] <Matthias> yikes
[2013-10-16 18:30:49] <GM> and the stakes are pushed into the back of the thing he was trapped in
[2013-10-16 18:30:54] <Akiani> ummm
[2013-10-16 18:30:58] <GM> arcana will tell you more of them
[2013-10-16 18:31:01] <GM> religion also could
[2013-10-16 18:31:02] <Akiani> read magic blows up runes and shit right
[2013-10-16 18:31:05] <Matthias> "This looks like a cleric's area of expertise, not mine."
[2013-10-16 18:31:11] <Akiani> 1d20+10 arcana
[2013-10-16 18:31:11] <Aleus> Akiani, arcana: 23 [1d20=13]
[2013-10-16 18:31:18] <Akiani> 1d20+4 religino
[2013-10-16 18:31:19] <Aleus> Akiani, religino: 11 [1d20=7]
[2013-10-16 18:31:32] <Clarissa> [[1d20+15]]
[2013-10-16 18:31:36] <Clarissa> 1d20+15
[2013-10-16 18:31:37] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+15: 30 [1d20=15]
[2013-10-16 18:31:46] <Clarissa> *31
[2013-10-16 18:31:47] <GM> Clarissa you realize that these stakes
[2013-10-16 18:32:02] <GM> will keep a vampire from entering gaseous form
[2013-10-16 18:32:24] <Clarissa> "Let's take them out!"
[2013-10-16 18:32:37] <Akiani> are the runes gonna explode or something
[2013-10-16 18:32:42] <Akiani> runes are scary
[2013-10-16 18:32:42] <Clarissa> "But I'll be far away."
[2013-10-16 18:32:47] <GM> The homunculus begins to tug ineffectually on one of the stakes
[2013-10-16 18:32:50] <GM> on the legs
[2013-10-16 18:33:06] <Akiani> oh also:
[2013-10-16 18:33:07] <Akiani> detect evil
[2013-10-16 18:33:08] <Akiani> heh
[2013-10-16 18:33:14] <GM> You detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:33:47] <Clarissa> should I read magic...?
[2013-10-16 18:33:52] <Akiani> ummmmm
[2013-10-16 18:33:55] <Akiani> vampire...?
[2013-10-16 18:34:08] <Akiani> vampire=evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:10] <Akiani> vampire=always evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:11] <Akiani> ?_?
[2013-10-16 18:34:15] <GM> You detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:22] <Akiani> ummmmmm
[2013-10-16 18:34:23] <Akiani> ok
[2013-10-16 18:34:26] <Akiani> pull out some stakes
[2013-10-16 18:34:50] <GM> he collapses on the ground
[2013-10-16 18:34:54] * Clarissa cowers behind Elsbeth
[2013-10-16 18:34:59] <Akiani> detect evil
[2013-10-16 18:35:04] <GM> his wounds beginning to heal over
[2013-10-16 18:35:07] <GM> you detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:35:09] <Clarissa> "Did anything explode yet?"
[2013-10-16 18:35:16] <GM> he is indeed a vampire though, you can tell
[2013-10-16 18:35:26] <Elsbeth> "Nothing is going to explode."
[2013-10-16 18:35:51] <Clarissa> "Woooow, a vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:36:01] <Clarissa> "I mean, a REAL vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:36:03] <GM> the homunculs
[2013-10-16 18:36:08] <GM> *homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:36:09] <Clarissa> "Not like Akiani here."
[2013-10-16 18:36:19] <GM> begins pantomiming again
[2013-10-16 18:36:39] <Clarissa> "What is it Fred?"
[2013-10-16 18:36:40] * GM tilts head to side, stretching neck
[2013-10-16 18:36:49] * GM points at stretched neck
[2013-10-16 18:36:54] * GM points at Count
[2013-10-16 18:37:00] * GM points at mouth
[2013-10-16 18:37:02] <Akiani> "Who volunteers as vampire bait?"
[2013-10-16 18:37:03] <Clarissa> "He needs blood?"
[2013-10-16 18:37:09] * GM nods
[2013-10-16 18:37:19] <Matthias> "I volunteer someone else."
[2013-10-16 18:37:23] <Clarissa> "Um, I don't like needles."
[2013-10-16 18:37:33] <Elsbeth> "I think the daughter of the vampire should help her father."
[2013-10-16 18:37:34] <Akiani> "I'm sure that'll be a joy!"
[2013-10-16 18:37:48] <Akiani> "Hey, Father whom I've only just met! I've brought snacks!"
[2013-10-16 18:37:54] <Akiani> "Fucking lovely, really."
[2013-10-16 18:38:11] <Clarissa> "Would there be any blood packs around here?"
[2013-10-16 18:38:26] <Clarissa> "Your father WAS a mad scientist and all."
[2013-10-16 18:38:39] * GM throws hands in air at what Clarissa says
[2013-10-16 18:38:45] * GM nods and shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:38:45] <Matthias> "Don't we still have a vial of basilisk blood? Would that work?"
[2013-10-16 18:38:54] * GM shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:39:07] <GM> <Kendra> "...I volunteer"
[2013-10-16 18:39:17] <Akiani> "Oh, that's rich."
[2013-10-16 18:39:42] <Clarissa> (wait, were you throwing your hands up in the air ooc or ic?)
[2013-10-16 18:39:44] <Akiani> "Just go and sit down, I'm sure my blood is as good as anyone else's."
[2013-10-16 18:39:57] <GM> <Kendra> "The Count was a good friend to my father and I when we lived in Leipsidat"
[2013-10-16 18:40:24] <Akiani> "The Count is also a vampire who neglected his only sort-of living daughter."
[2013-10-16 18:40:31] <Akiani> "Consider it some much needed bonding time."
[2013-10-16 18:41:01] <GM> <Kendra> "Are you sure you want to?"
[2013-10-16 18:41:07] * Akiani snorts
[2013-10-16 18:41:10] <GM> IC Clarissa ofc
[2013-10-16 18:41:13] <Akiani> "Better than you doing it."
[2013-10-16 18:41:14] <Clarissa> ok
[2013-10-16 18:41:29] <Clarissa> 1d20+11
[2013-10-16 18:41:29] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+11: 23 [1d20=12]
[2013-10-16 18:41:31] <Clarissa> Perception
[2013-10-16 18:41:41] <GM> that homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:41:44] <GM> is a homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:41:44] <Clarissa> "Guys, help me find some packs of blood."
[2013-10-16 18:41:49] <GM> this is what you perceive
[2013-10-16 18:41:57] * GM shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:42:23] <Clarissa> "Fred, do you know where the count may keep some spare blood?"
[2013-10-16 18:42:39] <Akiani> "Blood doesn't keep, dearest Clarissa."
[2013-10-16 18:42:42] <GM> <Kendra> *sets a chair upright and sits down* "If you say so. To tell the truth, I wasn't looking forward to going through with it."
[2013-10-16 18:43:01] <Elsbeth> "Clarissa, stop looking for blood already."
[2013-10-16 18:43:18] * GM points at Clarissa
[2013-10-16 18:43:22] * GM points at a chair
[2013-10-16 18:43:26] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:43:35] * Akiani bares neck
[2013-10-16 18:43:43] <Akiani> (is this standard blood sucking procedure??)
[2013-10-16 18:43:51] <GM> he is collapsed on the ground
[2013-10-16 18:43:56] <GM> you will need to kneel
[2013-10-16 18:44:07] * Akiani kneels
[2013-10-16 18:44:21] <Matthias> i need to go afk temporarily
[2013-10-16 18:44:24] <Matthias> will be back asap
[2013-10-16 18:44:33] <GM> he struggles to raise his head
[2013-10-16 18:44:52] <GM> and places his mouth on the side of you neck
[2013-10-16 18:44:56] <GM> *your
[2013-10-16 18:44:59] <GM> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:45:00] <Aleus> GM, 1d4: 4 [1d4=4]
[2013-10-16 18:45:15] <GM> you take 4 CON damage as he drains blood
[2013-10-16 18:45:32] <Clarissa> ow that hurts Akiani a lot lol
[2013-10-16 18:45:34] <GM> which is like
[2013-10-16 18:45:37] <GM> half killing you
[2013-10-16 18:45:43] <Akiani> yeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
[2013-10-16 18:45:48] <GM> then
[2013-10-16 18:45:50] * Akiani sits down
[2013-10-16 18:45:53] <GM> he jerks back
[2013-10-16 18:46:03] <Clarissa> "You are looking very pale, Akiani..."
[2013-10-16 18:46:05] <GM> and spits blood out on you
[2013-10-16 18:46:11] <GM> and stands up
[2013-10-16 18:46:22] <GM> "Sibelle!?"
[2013-10-16 18:46:32] <GM> and looks to his side
[2013-10-16 18:46:37] <GM> at the woman in the glass
[2013-10-16 18:46:42] <GM> "No...Akiani?"
[2013-10-16 18:47:04] <Akiani> "That would be me, yes.
[2013-10-16 18:47:14] <Clarissa> "Yeah, the prodigal daughter returns and all that!"
[2013-10-16 18:47:18] <Akiani> "Why, exactly, is my mother in a jar?"
[2013-10-16 18:48:31] <GM> "...She doesn't need to be anymore."
[2013-10-16 18:48:43] <Clarissa> "Is she dead?"
[2013-10-16 18:48:59] <GM> "She has been dead for years now."
[2013-10-16 18:49:01] <Akiani> "She was dead the last time I saw her."
[2013-10-16 18:49:13] <GM> "I am finally ready to accept that."
[2013-10-16 18:49:21] <Clarissa> "What were you preserving her for?"
[2013-10-16 18:49:42] <Akiani> "This is Clarissa, by the way."
[2013-10-16 18:49:45] * Akiani tries to stand up
[2013-10-16 18:49:53] * Akiani falls back down
[2013-10-16 18:50:13] <GM> "Kendra Lorrimor? You've grown."
[2013-10-16 18:50:13] <Clarissa> "Because let me tell you, Necromancy does really nasty things to a corpse."
[2013-10-16 18:50:26] <GM> Kendra helps Akiani to stand
[2013-10-16 18:50:38] * Akiani gets up
[2013-10-16 18:51:01] <GM> <Kendra> "Did my father know about you-"
[2013-10-16 18:51:07] <Clarissa> "Elsbeth, help Akiani with her blood loss."
[2013-10-16 18:51:21] <GM> "Yes, he did. I would like to tell you more about that later."
[2013-10-16 18:51:24] <Clarissa> "The Restoration wand should return some of the strength."
[2013-10-16 18:51:27] <Akiani> "I know exactly where my blood is, thank you very much."
[2013-10-16 18:51:36] <Elsbeth> using lesser restoration wand
[2013-10-16 18:51:38] <Elsbeth> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:51:39] <Aleus> Elsbeth, 1d4: 1 [1d4=1]
[2013-10-16 18:51:44] <Elsbeth> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:51:45] <Aleus> Elsbeth, 1d4: 2 [1d4=2]
[2013-10-16 18:51:53] <Clarissa> she can sleep off the last
[2013-10-16 18:52:21] <GM> "Rage, you're also here. What has happened to you, to make you so terrible?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:25] <Clarissa> "Sooo, what was the giant ceiling mouth for?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:48] <Clarissa> "Who?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:50] <GM> The Beast says "Father, I come to help you. I know you in trouble"
[2013-10-16 18:52:59] <Clarissa> "Ohhhh."
[2013-10-16 18:53:39] <GM> the Count sets a hand on Rage's shoulder and says "Thank you."
[2013-10-16 18:53:52] <Akiani> "Very touching reunion."
[2013-10-16 18:53:53] <GM> the Beast begins to cry a cry without tear ducts to supply tears
[2013-10-16 18:53:55] <Clarissa> "Seriously though, why was that giant flesh golem monstrosity up there?"
[2013-10-16 18:53:57] <Akiani> "Why did I grow up without a father?"
[2013-10-16 18:54:07] <Akiani> "And the giant mouth thing, too."
[2013-10-16 18:54:16] <Akiani> "Another good question."
[2013-10-16 18:54:51] <Clarissa> "Also how you got trapped, that is equally intriguing. I doubt the Promethean did that."
[2013-10-16 18:55:22] <GM> "The Aberrant Promethean was a creation of mine. It was never stable, and had a tendancy to go berserk."
[2013-10-16 18:55:46] <Akiani> "1 for 2. The other question?"
[2013-10-16 18:55:47] <GM> "It was caged but when I was attacked, the group that attacked me released it"
[2013-10-16 18:56:15] <Clarissa> "Oh... So was this group perhaps the Whispering Way?"
[2013-10-16 18:57:07] <GM> "...I'm sorry about that. I wish you hadn't grown up that way. It is a long story though, and it would be remiss of me to not be hospitable to my guests."
[2013-10-16 18:57:22] <GM> "Yes, that was the group; how did you know?"
[2013-10-16 18:57:33] <Clarissa> "It seems like they like to cause such mischief... We found one of their cult members dead in your Basilisk pool. By the way, THANKS FOR THAT."
[2013-10-16 18:57:56] <Akiani> "The goblins, trolls, flesh golems, and basilisk all took care of us with such warmth and kindness."
[2013-10-16 18:57:59] <GM> "Why would you go through the basilisk's chamber?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:06] <GM> "Why not use the stairs to go around it?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:12] <Clarissa> "Why do you HAVE one?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:16] <Akiani> "Collapsed."
[2013-10-16 18:58:19] <Matthias> "The stairs were collapsed."
[2013-10-16 18:58:32] <Akiani> "And you some rickety ass bridge instead of a stone bridge."
[2013-10-16 18:58:40] <GM> "Because it was interesting to watch under controlled circumstances"
[2013-10-16 18:58:42] <Akiani> "Did you know I almost fell off twice?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:58] * Clarissa shrugs "I'll give you that."
[2013-10-16 18:59:04] <Akiani> "Aside from all the other assorted near death instances we all experienced."
[2013-10-16 18:59:05] <GM> "...I may have accidentally blown up the stone bridge the rope bridge replaced a few months ago..."
[2013-10-16 18:59:22] <Akiani> "So, quite frankly, I don't particularly care for your hospitality."
[2013-10-16 18:59:28] <Akiani> "I'd just like my questions answered."
[2013-10-16 18:59:40] * GM sighs
[2013-10-16 18:59:58] <GM> "From what you're telling me the Way has made a terrible mess of here."
[2013-10-16 19:00:06] <GM> *shrugs*
[2013-10-16 19:00:08] <GM> "Whatever"
[2013-10-16 19:00:25] * Clarissa starts to jabber "I've been wondering, how did you get the summoning traps to activate so quickly and by what means of activation? I was curious as to your methods because I found a passage on it in one of my books..."
[2013-10-16 19:00:42] <GM> "Summoning traps? I only had one though"
[2013-10-16 19:00:53] <GM> "Only the one on the front door."
[2013-10-16 19:01:05] <Matthias> "There was another on the rope bridge."
[2013-10-16 19:01:06] <Clarissa> "Wasn't the Erinyes one of yours?"
[2013-10-16 19:01:12] <GM> "No."
[2013-10-16 19:01:34] <GM> "In any case, you've found a safe path to me."
[2013-10-16 19:01:47] <GM> "Wait, my guards."
[2013-10-16 19:01:49] <GM> "What of them?"
[2013-10-16 19:01:58] <Akiani> "Dead, dead, and deader."
[2013-10-16 19:02:02] <Elsbeth> "I wouldn't called it safe."
[2013-10-16 19:02:06] <Akiani> "Quite like you, actually."
[2013-10-16 19:02:07] <Clarissa> "Very, Very Dead."
[2013-10-16 19:02:09] <Matthias> "Do you mean the various flesh golems throughout the estate?"
[2013-10-16 19:02:20] <Akiani> "Except completely dead."
[2013-10-16 19:02:27] <GM> "There were also some architects I had brought in to repair the bridge"
[2013-10-16 19:02:31] <GM> "Were they also dead?"
[2013-10-16 19:02:36] <Clarissa> "YEP."
[2013-10-16 19:02:43] <Matthias> "We haven't seen anyone in here except you."
[2013-10-16 19:02:44] <Akiani> "There were some goblins."
[2013-10-16 19:02:48] <Clarissa> "If it was alive, it is probably dead now."
[2013-10-16 19:02:48] <Akiani> "They spoke in limmericks."
[2013-10-16 19:03:03] <Clarissa> "We let them live... Unfortunately."
[2013-10-16 19:03:08] <GM> "Trolls and goblins...there are some of those in the swamps nearby"
[2013-10-16 19:03:22] <Akiani> "Minus the trolls. They're dead now."
[2013-10-16 19:03:22] <GM> "Likely they noticed the lack of activity and tried to loot the place"
[2013-10-16 19:03:45] <Matthias> "They didn't get in past the hound on the first bridge."
[2013-10-16 19:03:45] <Clarissa> "As for humans and constructs... only Fred here remains."
[2013-10-16 19:03:46] <Akiani> "You're very adept at avoiding questions by answering other questions."
[2013-10-16 19:03:50] <GM> "There is much I would like to share with you."
[2013-10-16 19:04:00] <Akiani> "Please do."
[2013-10-16 19:04:03] <GM> "However, there is a lot of it"
[2013-10-16 19:04:21] <Akiani> "Then you'd best get started."
[2013-10-16 19:06:34] <GM> "I would like to provide what hospitality I can. I would like to tell you my whole story Akiani at dinner in a few hours hence. There should remain some preserved food I could provide..."
[2013-10-16 19:06:58] <GM> "In the meantime, there are rooms below the stairs on the first floor of the main living building
[2013-10-16 19:07:04] <GM> if one knows where to look that
[2013-10-16 19:07:21] <Clarissa> "Are those the ones we stayed in already, Kendra"
[2013-10-16 19:07:21] <GM> you could use to freshen up. The five of you look terrible."
[2013-10-16 19:07:23] <Clarissa> ?
[2013-10-16 19:07:24] <GM> no
[2013-10-16 19:07:30] <GM> the stairs that lead to the second floor
[2013-10-16 19:07:34] <GM> he means below those
[2013-10-16 19:07:41] <GM> ie
[2013-10-16 19:07:43] <GM> a secret door
[2013-10-16 19:10:01] <GM> Caromarc shows no fear as he walks in the sunlight, and on the other side of the bridge
[2013-10-16 19:10:05] <GM> says
[2013-10-16 19:10:53] <GM> "It sounds as you did not go through all of these chambers, thankfully. While you are getting yourselves cleaned up, I will also check the extent of the damage that was done."
[2013-10-16 19:11:16] <Clarissa> "Yeah... We saw those Vargouilles and decided to run."
[2013-10-16 19:11:33] <GM> "The vargouilles were in a box in another building..."
[2013-10-16 19:11:55] <GM> "You're lucky you made it through here alive."
[2013-10-16 19:12:06] <GM> "Are you certain the way back will be safe for you?"
[2013-10-16 19:12:07] <Matthias> "We didn't even bother checking the other rooms here after that basilisk."
[2013-10-16 19:12:29] <Clarissa> "We killed most everything, if we retrace our steps we should be fine."
[2013-10-16 19:12:52] <GM> "I will see you in the dining hall in two hours then."
[2013-10-16 19:36:48] <GM> ok
[2013-10-16 19:38:13] <GM> later, some preserved food; salted meat, and preserved vegtables have been laid out on the table as well as two wine bottles, and Caromarc is waiting there; he only has a bottle of something in front of him
[2013-10-16 19:38:32] <GM> "I apologize for the nature of the meal I have to provide you with"
[2013-10-16 19:39:17] <GM> "The Way left my wine cellar untouched however."
[2013-10-16 19:39:26] <GM> *wine racks
[2013-10-16 19:39:38] * Akiani sits down
[2013-10-16 19:39:43] <Clarissa> "Akiani, can I tr-"
[2013-10-16 19:40:21] <Akiani> "What, Clarissa?"
[2013-10-16 19:40:42] <Clarissa> "Oh, this tastes awful."
[2013-10-16 19:41:22] <Akiani> "You shouldn't drink wine."
[2013-10-16 19:41:27] <Clarissa> "How do people drink this stuff..?"
[2013-10-16 19:41:57] <Elsbeth> "It's an aquired taste and something that you should have when you're older, Clarissa."
[2013-10-16 19:42:31] * GM pours self a glass of his bottle; it appears to be blood
[2013-10-16 19:42:42] * GM is also in nice dress clothes
[2013-10-16 19:42:51] * Matthias pours himself a small amount of wine
[2013-10-16 19:43:02] <Akiani> "You said you were going to explain."
[2013-10-16 19:43:16] <GM> "Indeed I did."
[2013-10-16 19:43:42] <GM> "I feel it would be best if I started at the beginning."
[2013-10-16 19:44:21] <GM> "Before I begin however, I will tell you this"
[2013-10-16 19:44:59] <GM> "Though she hid it from you, your mother has always been a wizard Akiani"
[2013-10-16 19:45:20] <GM> "In particular"
[2013-10-16 19:45:32] <GM> "A necromancer"
[2013-10-16 19:45:53] <Akiani> "The necromancer and the vampire."
[2013-10-16 19:45:56] <Akiani> "A romance for the ages."
[2013-10-16 19:46:10] <GM> "Now then"
[2013-10-16 19:47:13] <GM> "Your mother's full name was Sibelle Evangeline Livgrace"
[2013-10-16 19:47:52] <Akiani> "Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure it was Diana."
[2013-10-16 19:48:01] <Akiani> "Diana Vagad."
[2013-10-16 19:48:30] <GM> "That was a false name that she adopted."
[2013-10-16 19:48:52] <GM> "As I said, things will make more sense working from the start."
[2013-10-16 19:49:21] <GM> "...her noble house still exists today even."
[2013-10-16 19:49:29] * GM blinks
[2013-10-16 19:49:45] * Akiani crosses arms
[2013-10-16 19:50:02] <GM> "We met when I was 15 I believe"
[2013-10-16 19:50:14] <GM> "That was...330 years ago."
[2013-10-16 19:50:49] <GM> "We courted for two years but"
[2013-10-16 19:51:08] <GM> "Neither of our families wished for this arrangement."
[2013-10-16 19:51:32] <Akiani> "The tragic romantic."
[2013-10-16 19:51:32] <GM> "We fled into the night, never to return."
[2013-10-16 19:52:27] <GM> "I am not proud to say that within ten years we began to fear death, and joined the Whispering Way."
[2013-10-16 19:53:28] <GM> "We were not very concerned for anyone other than each other in those times"
[2013-10-16 19:54:12] <GM> "It was only five years later that...there was an incident"
[2013-10-16 19:54:53] <GM> "I become the enslaved spawn of a vampire member of the Way. However, your mother killed him as he slept the next day."
[2013-10-16 19:55:39] <GM> "And so I entered undeath much sooner than I had expected"
[2013-10-16 19:56:20] <GM> "For seventy years we continued to expand our necromantic knowledge in he field, moving from cell to cell of the Way."
[2013-10-16 19:56:29] <GM> "The Way operates in cells."
[2013-10-16 19:57:31] <GM> "As your silence so far tells me, you already know that a vampire's blood can keep a mortal youthful."
[2013-10-16 19:57:55] <Akiani> "Yep."
[2013-10-16 19:58:13] <GM> "No matter how much we had to relocate as a result of...our experiments."
[2013-10-16 19:58:22] <GM> "We always had each other"
[2013-10-16 19:58:44] <GM> "However, we began to tire of relocating"
[2013-10-16 19:58:53] <Elsbeth> "I was wondering about that actually."
[2013-10-16 19:59:04] <GM> "Well, now you know"
[2013-10-16 19:59:16] <Elsbeth> "I was going to ask after you were done explaining."
[2013-10-16 19:59:27] <GM> "We eventually went to the Way's stronghold of Renchurch"
[2013-10-16 19:59:50] <GM> "We stayed there for a very long time, relative to how long we have lived."
[2013-10-16 20:00:13] <GM> "We even managed to carve out a respectable position among the members of the Way there."
[2013-10-16 20:00:53] <GM> "...Within a few years of arriving at Renchurch"
[2013-10-16 20:01:12] <GM> "Sibelle began to pursue her own path of undeath."
[2013-10-16 20:01:40] <GM> *pauses*
[2013-10-16 20:02:08] <GM> *continues to pause, thinking*
[2013-10-16 20:03:04] <Clarissa> "Well that was a very long and interesting story."
[2013-10-16 20:03:32] <Clarissa> "So was the tubey thingy the only fruit of your wife's research?"
[2013-10-16 20:04:00] <Elsbeth> "What was her path of undeath anyway?"
[2013-10-16 20:04:09] <GM> <Kendra> "Clarissa...please let the adults speak."
[2013-10-16 20:04:21] <GM> "What do you know of liches?"
[2013-10-16 20:05:07] * Elsbeth just shakes her head
[2013-10-16 20:05:19] <Elsbeth> "That's not good."
[2013-10-16 20:05:23] <Clarissa> "A good deal..."
[2013-10-16 20:05:35] <Matthias> "Nothing, really, other than they're supposedly very strong undead."
[2013-10-16 20:05:37] <Akiani> "Something or other about phylacteries."
[2013-10-16 20:05:49] <Clarissa> "Did she try to become one herself?"
[2013-10-16 20:06:48] <GM> "...A would be lich creates a receptacle to house his soul. If his body is destroyed, he will rejuvenate from this receptacle; a phylactery."
[2013-10-16 20:06:58] <Clarissa> "Yes..."
[2013-10-16 20:07:25] <GM> "And yes, she did begin construction of a phylactery"
[2013-10-16 20:08:13] <GM> "...At Renchurch, aspiring liches can receive instruction the creation of a phylactery from other members of the Way."
[2013-10-16 20:08:26] <GM> "While the path is different for each, those who have walked it can offer insight."
[2013-10-16 20:08:46] <Clarissa> "Did she get any farther than beginning to build it?"
[2013-10-16 20:08:53] <GM> "Patience."
[2013-10-16 20:09:20] <GM> "Most would-be liches have some amount of hurry to their research, as their mortal lives will end at some point."
[2013-10-16 20:09:56] <GM> "However, your mother had no need to hurry, and was able to meticulously take her time."
[2013-10-16 20:10:48] <GM> "I feel that this is what kept her soul from irretrievably being lost down the road we were on."
[2013-10-16 20:11:11] <GM> "Two hundred and twenty years"
[2013-10-16 20:11:17] <GM> "Give or take a few"
[2013-10-16 20:11:44] <GM> "We became important enough figures at Renchurch in this time."
[2013-10-16 20:12:12] <GM> "While there were figures there older than us, and ones more powerful than us, there were few who were both."
[2013-10-16 20:12:45] <GM> "Your mother also finished construction of her phylactery finally. She did not transfer her soul to it right away though."
[2013-10-16 20:13:49] <GM> "The Way offers a service to member liches. It will guard their phylacteries in the vault of Renchurch. When we were there, there were three of them who chose to use this service."
[2013-10-16 20:14:05] <GM> "It is not often that one of these liches has their body destroyed."
[2013-10-16 20:14:54] <GM> "Shortly after your mother finished construction of her phylactery, the lich Berezna began to rejuvinate from her phylactery."
[2013-10-16 20:15:15] <GM> "And we saw and learned that a reforming lich is a terrible, raging thing."
[2013-10-16 20:15:46] <GM> "It was...awful to behold. Terrifying to those who hadn't known fear in so long."
[2013-10-16 20:16:26] <GM> "There were a few at Renchuch who changed the focus of their research as a result."
[2013-10-16 20:16:44] <GM> "A few went to other cells."
[2013-10-16 20:16:53] <GM> "However, only two left the Way altogether."
[2013-10-16 20:18:10] <GM> "We left, and I convinced your mother to destroy her phylactery, unused"
[2013-10-16 20:18:56] <GM> "We told none in the Way we were leaving altogether"
[2013-10-16 20:19:46] <GM> "Best to let them believe we had gone to create a safe place for your mothers phylactery, and gone to another cell."
[2013-10-16 20:20:24] <GM> "They would however, eventually learn the truth"
[2013-10-16 20:20:43] <GM> "And we held to many secrets that were too close to the Way for them to leave us in peace."
[2013-10-16 20:22:14] <GM> "I am glad your mother turned to the Dawnflower, and convinced me to as well."
[2013-10-16 20:22:33] <GM> "I do not feel I could have managed otherwise."
[2013-10-16 20:22:37] <Akiani> "Quite the jump."
[2013-10-16 20:23:23] <GM> "I will not tell you about the many sins we commited. You need not know of them."
[2013-10-16 20:23:32] <GM> "Shouldn't know of them."
[2013-10-16 20:24:09] <GM> "We needed to try and lay low."
[2013-10-16 20:24:17] <GM> "And this is where you enter into things Akiani."
[2013-10-16 20:24:35] <Akiani> "Oh, joy."
[2013-10-16 20:24:39] <Akiani> "And when you exit things?"
[2013-10-16 20:24:52] <GM> "Not yet."
[2013-10-16 20:25:10] <GM> "Shortly after we left the way...Sibelle was with child."
[2013-10-16 20:25:15] <GM> "You"
[2013-10-16 20:26:08] <GM> "You were the first child we decided bring to term."
[2013-10-16 20:26:37] <GM> "Despite how much easier it would have been to not, I do not regret this decision."
[2013-10-16 20:26:45] <GM> "We did not"
[2013-10-16 20:27:09] <GM> "A child at that time..."
[2013-10-16 20:27:59] <GM> "Your mother would be able to hide herself from the Way with her magic."
[2013-10-16 20:28:16] <GM> "However, the Way would eventually find me."
[2013-10-16 20:29:10] <GM> "We needed to seperate, possibly to never see eachother again."
[2013-10-16 20:30:13] <GM> "Never to see each other again in this life if we didn't meet up again soon enough, as Sibelle would begin to age again."
[2013-10-16 20:31:27] <GM> "Still I would not have agreed to this if I was not able to visit your mother often to give her my blood. We had no idea would stress your mother beginning to age again would put on you as you grew in her."
[2013-10-16 20:32:17] <GM> "The last time I saw your mother alive was when I saw you for the first time, when you were born."
[2013-10-16 20:32:53] * GM crys
[2013-10-16 20:33:08] <Akiani> "Why didn't you keep visiting?"
[2013-10-16 20:33:29] <GM> "She...forbade me from seeing her again. For your safety."
[2013-10-16 20:33:49] * GM ceases crying, wipes eyes
[2013-10-16 20:34:00] * GM takes a drink from his glass
[2013-10-16 20:35:38] <GM> "The way your mother hid herself was not how I wanted you to be raised. I don't know how I would have wanted you raised."
[2013-10-16 20:35:50] <GM> "But...not the way you were."
[2013-10-16 20:36:11] <GM> "However, they didn't find your mother."
[2013-10-16 20:37:00] <GM> "They did find me quick enough though; within a year of me leaving you."
[2013-10-16 20:37:20] <GM> "You and her."
[2013-10-16 20:37:57] <GM> "I was able to elude them"
[2013-10-16 20:38:19] <GM> "Though it was a very close thing"
[2013-10-16 20:39:18] <GM> "If she had known of you, Berezna would not have hesitated to use you against us."
[2013-10-16 20:39:43] * Akiani steeples her hands
[2013-10-16 20:40:14] <Akiani> "So..."
[2013-10-16 20:40:30] <Akiani> "Am I a countess or a lady?"
[2013-10-16 20:41:02] <GM> "At this point you are the only living heir, so this would make you a countess."
[2013-10-16 20:41:16] <GM> "Technically speaking"
[2013-10-16 20:41:47] <GM> "On that note..."
[2013-10-16 20:42:35] <GM> "The Caromarc line, at this time, was exhausted"
[2013-10-16 20:42:57] <GM> "I was able to pose as a lost heir and inherit. Not a complete fabrication."
[2013-10-16 20:43:20] <GM> "Hiding in plain sight was a gamble, but it had worked until only recently."
[2013-10-16 20:43:52] <GM> "Shortly after this though"
[2013-10-16 20:44:11] <GM> "I lost governing power in the Palatine uprising."
[2013-10-16 20:44:36] <GM> "While I gave up power peacefully enough, I created Rage and had him kill the instigator of the uprising."
[2013-10-16 20:44:40] <GM> "Old habits die hard."
[2013-10-16 20:45:04] * Akiani snorts
[2013-10-16 20:45:26] <GM> "While I no longer visited your mother"
[2013-10-16 20:45:42] <GM> "I preserved my blood as best I could and had Rage ferry it to her."
[2013-10-16 20:45:57] <Akiani> "You, uh, don't happen to enjoy killing people, do you?"
[2013-10-16 20:46:30] <GM> "No, I don't. One of the first things I did when I inheritated"
[2013-10-16 20:46:59] <GM> "Was to development an alternative source of blood that my palette would find acceptable."
[2013-10-16 20:47:06] * GM lifts up bottle
[2013-10-16 20:47:19] <GM> "This is mostly swine blood. I was successful."
[2013-10-16 20:47:19] <Akiani> "I see."
[2013-10-16 20:47:44] <GM> "The blood I sent to your mother was not though"
[2013-10-16 20:48:03] <GM> "However, it was able to keep her age from catching up to her all at once, giving her time to raise you."
[2013-10-16 20:48:30] <GM> "I was glad when I learned of your life choice, as it meant you would not make the same mistakes we had."
[2013-10-16 20:49:04] <Akiani> "I think I will go someplace and"
[2013-10-16 20:49:18] <Akiani> "most definitely do something."
[2013-10-16 20:49:32] * Akiani gets up, takes a sandwich, and leaves
[2013-10-16 20:50:11] <GM> "That is not my whole story, but it is all that relates to you daughter. The rest relates to your father Kendra."
[2013-10-16 20:50:43] <GM> Kendra pokes at her food
[2013-10-16 20:50:52] * Akiani comes back and takes a bottle of wine "Just gonna take this real quick."
[2013-10-16 20:50:56] * Akiani leaves again
[2013-10-16 20:51:34] <GM> "Another thing I have been trying to do is develop a cure for my vampirism."
[2013-10-16 20:51:51] <GM> "Obviously, I have not been successful thus far."
[2013-10-16 20:52:35] <GM> "In actuality, I have been frustrated that all I have been able to do is make it less of a liability."
[2013-10-16 20:52:50] <GM> "Sunlight no longer harms me, as you have noiced"
[2013-10-16 20:52:52] <GM> *noticed
[2013-10-16 20:53:03] <GM> "Neither does running water"
[2013-10-16 20:53:31] <GM> "As I was conducting this reserach"
[2013-10-16 20:53:43] <GM> "Your father and I met Kendra"
[2013-10-16 20:55:36] <GM> "We spoke many times on many a subject when he visited"
[2013-10-16 20:55:40] <Clarissa> "Too bad you couldn't get the Professor to tell Akiani that water doesn't hurt her!"
[2013-10-16 20:55:56] <Matthias> "Would have saved me a backache or two."
[2013-10-16 20:57:08] <GM> "She had you carry her over running water?"
[2013-10-16 20:57:25] <GM> "For what purpose?"
[2013-10-16 20:58:21] <Matthias> "Something about her feeling uncomfortable with crossing it herself."
[2013-10-16 20:58:27] <Clarissa> "Because... Well, I don't know. Maybe she didn't want to get her skirt wet."
[2013-10-16 20:58:34] <Matthias> "She seems to believe water is evil."
[2013-10-16 20:59:03] <GM> "Perhaps she is afraid of drowning."
[2013-10-16 20:59:05] <GM> *sighs*
[2013-10-16 20:59:21] <GM> "I know nothing about my own daughter..."
[2013-10-16 21:00:04] <GM> <Kendra> "...You were saying something?"
[2013-10-16 21:00:07] <Elsbeth> "Maybe she wanted you to teach her how to swim and until this is done, she will always afraid of water."
[2013-10-16 21:00:35] <GM> "Perhaps."
[2013-10-16 21:00:39] * GM blinks
[2013-10-16 21:00:47] <GM> "Sorry, as I was saying"
[2013-10-16 21:00:55] <GM> "In time your father came to realize what I was."
[2013-10-16 21:01:02] <GM> "However, this did not impact our friendship."
[2013-10-16 21:01:24] <GM> "In time I entrusted him with certain secrets of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:01:53] <GM> "I heard of his death. I apologize for not being at his funeral."
[2013-10-16 21:02:03] <GM> <Kendra> "That' quite alr-"
[2013-10-16 21:02:22] <GM> "I fear that he would not have died if I had not told him what I did of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:02:27] <GM> <Kendra> "..."
[2013-10-16 21:02:51] <GM> "I continued to correspond with your father after you moved away."
[2013-10-16 21:03:28] <GM> "I kept a watch out for the Way, and had learned that they were planning something related to Harrowstone."
[2013-10-16 21:03:45] <GM> "I fear that Petros would still be alive today if I had not shared this with him."
[2013-10-16 21:04:57] <GM> <Kendra> "...For what its worth, the Way were at Harrowstone to capture the ghost of its warden."
[2013-10-16 21:05:43] <GM> "But for what purpose would they want that? I do not know."
[2013-10-16 21:06:14] <GM> "Shortly after this, that same group of the Way came here"
[2013-10-16 21:06:34] <GM> "Assaulted me in my home, and imprisoned me, leaving me for the Dawnflower's rays to finish off"
[2013-10-16 21:06:46] <GM> "I am certain that they think me dead now."
[2013-10-16 21:07:42] <GM> "And if they think me dead, I have a chance to revenge myself against them as an orginization."
[2013-10-16 21:08:50] <GM> "Between when we met and now"
[2013-10-16 21:09:11] <GM> "As I was examining my property, I realized that the Way had used the Bondslave Thrall."
[2013-10-16 21:09:35] <GM> "...Do you know of anything Rage has done recently? Anything at all?"
[2013-10-16 21:10:35] <Elsbeth> "He was accused by the townspeople for commiting various crimes for months."
[2013-10-16 21:10:52] <GM> "They have always done that though"
[2013-10-16 21:11:02] <GM> "Anything more recent, such as within the last week?"
[2013-10-16 21:11:30] <Elsbeth> "There was the break in at the university that lead to his capture."
[2013-10-16 21:11:37] <GM> "I see"
[2013-10-16 21:11:45] <GM> "Was anything stolen?"
[2013-10-16 21:12:19] <Matthias> "As I recall, nothing was stolen, and he didn't put up any resistance when he was captured."
[2013-10-16 21:12:51] <GM> <Kendra> "Something was stolen."
[2013-10-16 21:13:08] <GM> <Kendra> "The Seasage Effigy, it was called."
[2013-10-16 21:13:14] <Clarissa> "Wasn't it a book or a scroll or something?"
[2013-10-16 21:13:22] <GM> "Why would they take that..."
[2013-10-16 21:14:06] <GM> "Regardless, I am grateful for your rescue of me."
[2013-10-16 21:14:38] <GM> "On the morrow I will go into town and begin to try and dig up the trail of this cell of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:15:06] <GM> "I would like them dead, and whatever they are doing stopped."
[2013-10-16 21:15:57] <GM> "While in town, I will also contact my bankers and withdraw 40,000gp for your group. I would like you to, when I find this trail, to follow it and kill this cell."
[2013-10-16 21:16:25] <Clarissa> "Wow! Thanks!"
[2013-10-16 21:17:48] <GM> "You are free to stay here until then, whether or not you choose to accept."
[2013-10-16 21:18:02] <GM> <Kendra> "I'll do it. They killed my father."
[2013-10-16 21:19:06] * GM nods
[2013-10-16 21:19:23] <GM> "I am sorry that this took so long to tell you."
[2013-10-16 21:19:41] <Elsbeth> "I can't believe I'm agreeing with a vampire but I will accept this mission to eliminate the Whispering Way."
[2013-10-16 21:19:43] <GM> "If there is something you feel I have not sufficiently covered, please bring it to my attention."
[2013-10-16 21:22:19] <GM> "Also, I have another request."
[2013-10-16 21:22:26] <Matthias> she's surely had enough to get drunk by now
[2013-10-16 21:22:31] <GM> "Keep Akiani safe."
[2013-10-16 21:23:38] * GM finishes glass, stands up
[2013-10-16 21:23:39] <Matthias> "We'll do our best.""
[2013-10-16 21:24:04] <Elsbeth> "I'm not going to guarnatee if I can."
[2013-10-16 21:24:36] <GM> "I apologize. As your host I should not retire until after you have done so, but I am very exhausted."
[2013-10-16 21:25:20] <GM> "You may help yourself to any of the rooms; the master bedroom is only there to maintain appearances."
[2013-10-16 21:25:30] <GM> "Goodnight."
[2013-10-16 21:25:48] * GM turns to mist, and drift out the room
[2013-10-16 21:25:51] <GM> *drifts
[2013-10-16 21:26:03] <Clarissa> "Was that entirely necessary?"
[2013-10-16 21:26:25] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 21:26:29] <GM> hole in the wall
[2013-10-16 21:26:37] <GM> a small one
[2013-10-16 21:26:56] <GM> yeah
[2013-10-16 21:26:58] <GM> that's it
[2013-10-16 21:27:29] <GM> incidentallly
[2013-10-16 21:27:31] <GM> that's it
[2013-10-16 21:27:37] =-= YOU are now known as GeneralSpoon
[2013-10-16 18:13:46] <GM> The creature has been killed by the Beast
[2013-10-16 18:13:50] <GM> and the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:13:54] <GM> is still sparking
[2013-10-16 18:14:02] * Clarissa waves "Hi, Beast!"
[2013-10-16 18:14:19] <GM> 1d9
[2013-10-16 18:14:20] <Aleus> GM, 1d9: 8 [1d9=8]
[2013-10-16 18:14:26] <GM> devion make a reflex save
[2013-10-16 18:14:46] <GM> electricity shoots from the machin
[2013-10-16 18:14:47] <GM> e
[2013-10-16 18:15:13] <Akiani> 1d20+8
[2013-10-16 18:15:14] <Aleus> Akiani, 1d20+8: 20 [1d20=12]
[2013-10-16 18:15:23] <GM> he takes no damage
[2013-10-16 18:15:27] <GM> he has evasion
[2013-10-16 18:15:37] <GM> improved even
[2013-10-16 18:15:50] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 18:15:53] <GM> wait just regular
[2013-10-16 18:15:55] <GM> anyways
[2013-10-16 18:15:57] <GM> the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:16:05] <GM> is still active
[2013-10-16 18:16:40] <GM> ....
[2013-10-16 18:16:42] <Matthias> so should we shut it off
[2013-10-16 18:16:52] <Clarissa> I fly down to where the beast and Akiani's Papa are
[2013-10-16 18:16:54] <Matthias> i'm guessing yes
[2013-10-16 18:16:57] <GM> no you should get shot more
[2013-10-16 18:16:59] <GM> 1d9
[2013-10-16 18:17:00] <Aleus> GM, 1d9: 7 [1d9=7]
[2013-10-16 18:17:03] <Elsbeth> I would think so
[2013-10-16 18:17:09] <GM> Clarissa make a reflex save
[2013-10-16 18:17:20] <Matthias> clarissa flew down, she's out of range
[2013-10-16 18:17:29] <GM> make a reflex save clarissa
[2013-10-16 18:17:37] <Clarissa> 1d20+5
[2013-10-16 18:17:38] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+5: 9 [1d20=4]
[2013-10-16 18:17:40] <GM> 3d6
[2013-10-16 18:17:41] <Aleus> GM, 3d6: 7 [3d6=1,4,2]
[2013-10-16 18:17:44] <Clarissa> ok
[2013-10-16 18:17:51] <GM> an arc of electricity strikes you for 7 damage
[2013-10-16 18:17:54] <Clarissa> still flying down
[2013-10-16 18:17:55] <GM> stormcaller is still active
[2013-10-16 18:18:05] <GM> as is the bondslave thrall
[2013-10-16 18:18:06] <Clarissa> AKIANI have Kendra do it
[2013-10-16 18:18:18] <GM> Kendra turns off the bondslave thrall
[2013-10-16 18:18:22] <GM> and the Stormcaller
[2013-10-16 18:18:53] <GM> there is a ladder
[2013-10-16 18:18:57] <GM> in the trapdoor
[2013-10-16 18:19:00] <GM> leading to the room below
[2013-10-16 18:19:05] <GM> the destroyed laboratory
[2013-10-16 18:19:06] <Matthias> we go down
[2013-10-16 18:19:42] <GM> there is still a steel idol there with a pale, gaunt man's face's visable
[2013-10-16 18:20:04] <GM> and a bell jar IIRC filled with fluid containing a woman's body in it
[2013-10-16 18:20:44] <Akiani> "Why is Mom's corpse floating in a jar?"
[2013-10-16 18:20:59] <GM> "Urg..."
[2013-10-16 18:21:04] <Clarissa> "Are you suuuure it's a corpse?"
[2013-10-16 18:21:13] <Akiani> "I buried her myself."
[2013-10-16 18:21:13] <GM> the sunlight is shining on him through the hole in the wall
[2013-10-16 18:21:33] * Clarissa throws a blanket over him
[2013-10-16 18:21:48] <GM> you have a blanket?
[2013-10-16 18:21:56] <Clarissa> I have a cloak thing
[2013-10-16 18:22:04] <GM> in any even the sunlight does not appear to be harming him
[2013-10-16 18:22:07] <Clarissa> that I use to cover undead
[2013-10-16 18:22:07] <GM> *event
[2013-10-16 18:22:11] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:22:24] <Ullar> Protection from Daylight
[2013-10-16 18:22:35] <GM> keep table talk out of this ffs
[2013-10-16 18:22:37] * Clarissa never threw a blanket thing on him
[2013-10-16 18:22:42] <GM> there isn't even a table to talk at
[2013-10-16 18:23:04] * Ullar Ghost of Marina smh
[2013-10-16 18:23:05] <Clarissa> "Is he okay, Akiani?"
[2013-10-16 18:23:08] <Akiani> "I'd really like to know now why you have my mother floating in a jar."
[2013-10-16 18:23:15] <Akiani> "Probably, yeah."
[2013-10-16 18:23:30] <GM> He does not seem very responsive
[2013-10-16 18:23:38] <GM> he seems incredibly out of it
[2013-10-16 18:24:04] <Akiani> sure let me just lay on hands him
[2013-10-16 18:24:05] <Clarissa> "Is he drugged or did he get the snot beat out of him?"
[2013-10-16 18:24:08] <Akiani> oh yeah
[2013-10-16 18:24:30] <Matthias> if he's a vampire wouldn't lay on hands hurt him
[2013-10-16 18:24:35] <Akiani> yes
[2013-10-16 18:24:39] <Akiani> that is the point
[2013-10-16 18:24:59] * Akiani toes him with her shoe
[2013-10-16 18:25:00] <Matthias> didn't someone buy a wand of infernal healing
[2013-10-16 18:25:03] <GM> The homunculus from the lower floor crawls up through a trapdoor
[2013-10-16 18:25:04] <GM> he is
[2013-10-16 18:25:07] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 18:25:10] <GM> I will clarify
[2013-10-16 18:25:15] <GM> the guy is trapped inside
[2013-10-16 18:25:17] <GM> the thing he is in
[2013-10-16 18:25:21] <Matthias> oh
[2013-10-16 18:25:24] <Akiani> what thing
[2013-10-16 18:25:27] <Akiani> is he in
[2013-10-16 18:25:30] <Matthias> is it something i can roll disdev on
[2013-10-16 18:25:31] <GM> hang on
[2013-10-16 18:25:33] <Clarissa> any knowledge chacks to determin what it is?
[2013-10-16 18:25:36] <Akiani> OH
[2013-10-16 18:25:36] <GM> lemme bring up text I pasted
[2013-10-16 18:25:38] <GM> last time
[2013-10-16 18:25:38] <Akiani> the steelido lthing
[2013-10-16 18:25:42] <GM> yes
[2013-10-16 18:25:47] <GM> its basically a sarcophusugus
[2013-10-16 18:25:50] <Akiani> I thought that was just an irrelevant thing
[2013-10-16 18:25:52] <GM> only very tight
[2013-10-16 18:25:58] <GM> and only his face is showing out of it
[2013-10-16 18:26:01] <GM> that is what it is
[2013-10-16 18:26:02] <GM> more or less
[2013-10-16 18:26:07] <Akiani> we open it
[2013-10-16 18:26:11] <Clarissa> "Ok, strong people, open it."
[2013-10-16 18:26:19] <Matthias> 1d20+14 disable device
[2013-10-16 18:26:20] <Aleus> Matthias, disable device: 20 [1d20=6]
[2013-10-16 18:26:26] <Matthias> just in case it's necessary
[2013-10-16 18:26:30] <GM> there are indeed
[2013-10-16 18:26:33] <GM> two locks on it
[2013-10-16 18:26:37] <GM> and a 20 does not cut it
[2013-10-16 18:26:45] <Matthias> 1d20+14 disable device
[2013-10-16 18:26:46] <Aleus> Matthias, disable device: 15 [1d20=1]
[2013-10-16 18:26:50] <Matthias> .
[2013-10-16 18:26:52] <Matthias> fuck you aleus
[2013-10-16 18:26:59] <Elsbeth> just take 20 on them
[2013-10-16 18:27:06] <Matthias> fine
[2013-10-16 18:27:07] <Matthias> i take 20
[2013-10-16 18:27:09] <Matthias> for 34
[2013-10-16 18:27:14] <GM> A 34 almost gets it, but not quite
[2013-10-16 18:27:22] <Matthias> ._.
[2013-10-16 18:27:39] <GM> if you were a little bit better at it
[2013-10-16 18:27:39] <Clarissa> "Is there a key someone around here?"
[2013-10-16 18:27:40] <GM> you could get it
[2013-10-16 18:27:40] <Matthias> well someone's gonna have to assist then
[2013-10-16 18:27:46] <Elsbeth> Clarissa, Guidance on Matthais
[2013-10-16 18:27:50] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:27:51] <Matthias> wait doesn't akiani have
[2013-10-16 18:27:53] <Clarissa> GUIDANCE
[2013-10-16 18:27:56] <Matthias> that +dex belt
[2013-10-16 18:27:57] <Akiani> no
[2013-10-16 18:27:58] <Matthias> that'd get it
[2013-10-16 18:27:59] <Akiani> well
[2013-10-16 18:28:03] <Akiani> let's go with guidance
[2013-10-16 18:28:08] <Matthias> k
[2013-10-16 18:28:13] <GM> you open one
[2013-10-16 18:28:18] <GM> then the other
[2013-10-16 18:28:23] <GM> it is unlocked
[2013-10-16 18:28:49] <Akiani> then we open it
[2013-10-16 18:28:51] <Akiani> ?
[2013-10-16 18:28:53] <GM> ok
[2013-10-16 18:29:05] <GM> oh
[2013-10-16 18:29:23] <GM> <Kendra> "He is indeed the Count; he doesn't look as though he's aged a day"
[2013-10-16 18:29:35] <Clarissa> "Kendra..."
[2013-10-16 18:29:38] <Clarissa> "Vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:29:53] <Matthias> (did we ever tell her that)
[2013-10-16 18:30:08] <Akiani> well
[2013-10-16 18:30:16] <Akiani> I've called him daddy like
[2013-10-16 18:30:18] <Akiani> a thousand times
[2013-10-16 18:30:19] <Akiani> sooooooooooo
[2013-10-16 18:30:20] <Akiani> yes
[2013-10-16 18:30:32] <GM> you open it, and you see that the Count is wearing a white lab outfit, however it is covered with blood, and there are four silver stakes in him; one through each arm and one through each leg; all of the stakes have a glowing rune on their end
[2013-10-16 18:30:49] <Matthias> yikes
[2013-10-16 18:30:49] <GM> and the stakes are pushed into the back of the thing he was trapped in
[2013-10-16 18:30:54] <Akiani> ummm
[2013-10-16 18:30:58] <GM> arcana will tell you more of them
[2013-10-16 18:31:01] <GM> religion also could
[2013-10-16 18:31:02] <Akiani> read magic blows up runes and shit right
[2013-10-16 18:31:05] <Matthias> "This looks like a cleric's area of expertise, not mine."
[2013-10-16 18:31:11] <Akiani> 1d20+10 arcana
[2013-10-16 18:31:11] <Aleus> Akiani, arcana: 23 [1d20=13]
[2013-10-16 18:31:18] <Akiani> 1d20+4 religino
[2013-10-16 18:31:19] <Aleus> Akiani, religino: 11 [1d20=7]
[2013-10-16 18:31:32] <Clarissa> [[1d20+15]]
[2013-10-16 18:31:36] <Clarissa> 1d20+15
[2013-10-16 18:31:37] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+15: 30 [1d20=15]
[2013-10-16 18:31:46] <Clarissa> *31
[2013-10-16 18:31:47] <GM> Clarissa you realize that these stakes
[2013-10-16 18:32:02] <GM> will keep a vampire from entering gaseous form
[2013-10-16 18:32:24] <Clarissa> "Let's take them out!"
[2013-10-16 18:32:37] <Akiani> are the runes gonna explode or something
[2013-10-16 18:32:42] <Akiani> runes are scary
[2013-10-16 18:32:42] <Clarissa> "But I'll be far away."
[2013-10-16 18:32:47] <GM> The homunculus begins to tug ineffectually on one of the stakes
[2013-10-16 18:32:50] <GM> on the legs
[2013-10-16 18:33:06] <Akiani> oh also:
[2013-10-16 18:33:07] <Akiani> detect evil
[2013-10-16 18:33:08] <Akiani> heh
[2013-10-16 18:33:14] <GM> You detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:33:47] <Clarissa> should I read magic...?
[2013-10-16 18:33:52] <Akiani> ummmmm
[2013-10-16 18:33:55] <Akiani> vampire...?
[2013-10-16 18:34:08] <Akiani> vampire=evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:10] <Akiani> vampire=always evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:11] <Akiani> ?_?
[2013-10-16 18:34:15] <GM> You detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:34:22] <Akiani> ummmmmm
[2013-10-16 18:34:23] <Akiani> ok
[2013-10-16 18:34:26] <Akiani> pull out some stakes
[2013-10-16 18:34:50] <GM> he collapses on the ground
[2013-10-16 18:34:54] * Clarissa cowers behind Elsbeth
[2013-10-16 18:34:59] <Akiani> detect evil
[2013-10-16 18:35:04] <GM> his wounds beginning to heal over
[2013-10-16 18:35:07] <GM> you detect no evil
[2013-10-16 18:35:09] <Clarissa> "Did anything explode yet?"
[2013-10-16 18:35:16] <GM> he is indeed a vampire though, you can tell
[2013-10-16 18:35:26] <Elsbeth> "Nothing is going to explode."
[2013-10-16 18:35:51] <Clarissa> "Woooow, a vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:36:01] <Clarissa> "I mean, a REAL vampire."
[2013-10-16 18:36:03] <GM> the homunculs
[2013-10-16 18:36:08] <GM> *homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:36:09] <Clarissa> "Not like Akiani here."
[2013-10-16 18:36:19] <GM> begins pantomiming again
[2013-10-16 18:36:39] <Clarissa> "What is it Fred?"
[2013-10-16 18:36:40] * GM tilts head to side, stretching neck
[2013-10-16 18:36:49] * GM points at stretched neck
[2013-10-16 18:36:54] * GM points at Count
[2013-10-16 18:37:00] * GM points at mouth
[2013-10-16 18:37:02] <Akiani> "Who volunteers as vampire bait?"
[2013-10-16 18:37:03] <Clarissa> "He needs blood?"
[2013-10-16 18:37:09] * GM nods
[2013-10-16 18:37:19] <Matthias> "I volunteer someone else."
[2013-10-16 18:37:23] <Clarissa> "Um, I don't like needles."
[2013-10-16 18:37:33] <Elsbeth> "I think the daughter of the vampire should help her father."
[2013-10-16 18:37:34] <Akiani> "I'm sure that'll be a joy!"
[2013-10-16 18:37:48] <Akiani> "Hey, Father whom I've only just met! I've brought snacks!"
[2013-10-16 18:37:54] <Akiani> "Fucking lovely, really."
[2013-10-16 18:38:11] <Clarissa> "Would there be any blood packs around here?"
[2013-10-16 18:38:26] <Clarissa> "Your father WAS a mad scientist and all."
[2013-10-16 18:38:39] * GM throws hands in air at what Clarissa says
[2013-10-16 18:38:45] * GM nods and shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:38:45] <Matthias> "Don't we still have a vial of basilisk blood? Would that work?"
[2013-10-16 18:38:54] * GM shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:39:07] <GM> <Kendra> "...I volunteer"
[2013-10-16 18:39:17] <Akiani> "Oh, that's rich."
[2013-10-16 18:39:42] <Clarissa> (wait, were you throwing your hands up in the air ooc or ic?)
[2013-10-16 18:39:44] <Akiani> "Just go and sit down, I'm sure my blood is as good as anyone else's."
[2013-10-16 18:39:57] <GM> <Kendra> "The Count was a good friend to my father and I when we lived in Leipsidat"
[2013-10-16 18:40:24] <Akiani> "The Count is also a vampire who neglected his only sort-of living daughter."
[2013-10-16 18:40:31] <Akiani> "Consider it some much needed bonding time."
[2013-10-16 18:41:01] <GM> <Kendra> "Are you sure you want to?"
[2013-10-16 18:41:07] * Akiani snorts
[2013-10-16 18:41:10] <GM> IC Clarissa ofc
[2013-10-16 18:41:13] <Akiani> "Better than you doing it."
[2013-10-16 18:41:14] <Clarissa> ok
[2013-10-16 18:41:29] <Clarissa> 1d20+11
[2013-10-16 18:41:29] <Aleus> Clarissa, 1d20+11: 23 [1d20=12]
[2013-10-16 18:41:31] <Clarissa> Perception
[2013-10-16 18:41:41] <GM> that homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:41:44] <GM> is a homunculus
[2013-10-16 18:41:44] <Clarissa> "Guys, help me find some packs of blood."
[2013-10-16 18:41:49] <GM> this is what you perceive
[2013-10-16 18:41:57] * GM shakes head
[2013-10-16 18:42:23] <Clarissa> "Fred, do you know where the count may keep some spare blood?"
[2013-10-16 18:42:39] <Akiani> "Blood doesn't keep, dearest Clarissa."
[2013-10-16 18:42:42] <GM> <Kendra> *sets a chair upright and sits down* "If you say so. To tell the truth, I wasn't looking forward to going through with it."
[2013-10-16 18:43:01] <Elsbeth> "Clarissa, stop looking for blood already."
[2013-10-16 18:43:18] * GM points at Clarissa
[2013-10-16 18:43:22] * GM points at a chair
[2013-10-16 18:43:26] <Clarissa> oh
[2013-10-16 18:43:35] * Akiani bares neck
[2013-10-16 18:43:43] <Akiani> (is this standard blood sucking procedure??)
[2013-10-16 18:43:51] <GM> he is collapsed on the ground
[2013-10-16 18:43:56] <GM> you will need to kneel
[2013-10-16 18:44:07] * Akiani kneels
[2013-10-16 18:44:21] <Matthias> i need to go afk temporarily
[2013-10-16 18:44:24] <Matthias> will be back asap
[2013-10-16 18:44:33] <GM> he struggles to raise his head
[2013-10-16 18:44:52] <GM> and places his mouth on the side of you neck
[2013-10-16 18:44:56] <GM> *your
[2013-10-16 18:44:59] <GM> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:45:00] <Aleus> GM, 1d4: 4 [1d4=4]
[2013-10-16 18:45:15] <GM> you take 4 CON damage as he drains blood
[2013-10-16 18:45:32] <Clarissa> ow that hurts Akiani a lot lol
[2013-10-16 18:45:34] <GM> which is like
[2013-10-16 18:45:37] <GM> half killing you
[2013-10-16 18:45:43] <Akiani> yeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
[2013-10-16 18:45:48] <GM> then
[2013-10-16 18:45:50] * Akiani sits down
[2013-10-16 18:45:53] <GM> he jerks back
[2013-10-16 18:46:03] <Clarissa> "You are looking very pale, Akiani..."
[2013-10-16 18:46:05] <GM> and spits blood out on you
[2013-10-16 18:46:11] <GM> and stands up
[2013-10-16 18:46:22] <GM> "Sibelle!?"
[2013-10-16 18:46:32] <GM> and looks to his side
[2013-10-16 18:46:37] <GM> at the woman in the glass
[2013-10-16 18:46:42] <GM> "No...Akiani?"
[2013-10-16 18:47:04] <Akiani> "That would be me, yes.
[2013-10-16 18:47:14] <Clarissa> "Yeah, the prodigal daughter returns and all that!"
[2013-10-16 18:47:18] <Akiani> "Why, exactly, is my mother in a jar?"
[2013-10-16 18:48:31] <GM> "...She doesn't need to be anymore."
[2013-10-16 18:48:43] <Clarissa> "Is she dead?"
[2013-10-16 18:48:59] <GM> "She has been dead for years now."
[2013-10-16 18:49:01] <Akiani> "She was dead the last time I saw her."
[2013-10-16 18:49:13] <GM> "I am finally ready to accept that."
[2013-10-16 18:49:21] <Clarissa> "What were you preserving her for?"
[2013-10-16 18:49:42] <Akiani> "This is Clarissa, by the way."
[2013-10-16 18:49:45] * Akiani tries to stand up
[2013-10-16 18:49:53] * Akiani falls back down
[2013-10-16 18:50:13] <GM> "Kendra Lorrimor? You've grown."
[2013-10-16 18:50:13] <Clarissa> "Because let me tell you, Necromancy does really nasty things to a corpse."
[2013-10-16 18:50:26] <GM> Kendra helps Akiani to stand
[2013-10-16 18:50:38] * Akiani gets up
[2013-10-16 18:51:01] <GM> <Kendra> "Did my father know about you-"
[2013-10-16 18:51:07] <Clarissa> "Elsbeth, help Akiani with her blood loss."
[2013-10-16 18:51:21] <GM> "Yes, he did. I would like to tell you more about that later."
[2013-10-16 18:51:24] <Clarissa> "The Restoration wand should return some of the strength."
[2013-10-16 18:51:27] <Akiani> "I know exactly where my blood is, thank you very much."
[2013-10-16 18:51:36] <Elsbeth> using lesser restoration wand
[2013-10-16 18:51:38] <Elsbeth> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:51:39] <Aleus> Elsbeth, 1d4: 1 [1d4=1]
[2013-10-16 18:51:44] <Elsbeth> 1d4
[2013-10-16 18:51:45] <Aleus> Elsbeth, 1d4: 2 [1d4=2]
[2013-10-16 18:51:53] <Clarissa> she can sleep off the last
[2013-10-16 18:52:21] <GM> "Rage, you're also here. What has happened to you, to make you so terrible?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:25] <Clarissa> "Sooo, what was the giant ceiling mouth for?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:48] <Clarissa> "Who?"
[2013-10-16 18:52:50] <GM> The Beast says "Father, I come to help you. I know you in trouble"
[2013-10-16 18:52:59] <Clarissa> "Ohhhh."
[2013-10-16 18:53:39] <GM> the Count sets a hand on Rage's shoulder and says "Thank you."
[2013-10-16 18:53:52] <Akiani> "Very touching reunion."
[2013-10-16 18:53:53] <GM> the Beast begins to cry a cry without tear ducts to supply tears
[2013-10-16 18:53:55] <Clarissa> "Seriously though, why was that giant flesh golem monstrosity up there?"
[2013-10-16 18:53:57] <Akiani> "Why did I grow up without a father?"
[2013-10-16 18:54:07] <Akiani> "And the giant mouth thing, too."
[2013-10-16 18:54:16] <Akiani> "Another good question."
[2013-10-16 18:54:51] <Clarissa> "Also how you got trapped, that is equally intriguing. I doubt the Promethean did that."
[2013-10-16 18:55:22] <GM> "The Aberrant Promethean was a creation of mine. It was never stable, and had a tendancy to go berserk."
[2013-10-16 18:55:46] <Akiani> "1 for 2. The other question?"
[2013-10-16 18:55:47] <GM> "It was caged but when I was attacked, the group that attacked me released it"
[2013-10-16 18:56:15] <Clarissa> "Oh... So was this group perhaps the Whispering Way?"
[2013-10-16 18:57:07] <GM> "...I'm sorry about that. I wish you hadn't grown up that way. It is a long story though, and it would be remiss of me to not be hospitable to my guests."
[2013-10-16 18:57:22] <GM> "Yes, that was the group; how did you know?"
[2013-10-16 18:57:33] <Clarissa> "It seems like they like to cause such mischief... We found one of their cult members dead in your Basilisk pool. By the way, THANKS FOR THAT."
[2013-10-16 18:57:56] <Akiani> "The goblins, trolls, flesh golems, and basilisk all took care of us with such warmth and kindness."
[2013-10-16 18:57:59] <GM> "Why would you go through the basilisk's chamber?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:06] <GM> "Why not use the stairs to go around it?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:12] <Clarissa> "Why do you HAVE one?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:16] <Akiani> "Collapsed."
[2013-10-16 18:58:19] <Matthias> "The stairs were collapsed."
[2013-10-16 18:58:32] <Akiani> "And you some rickety ass bridge instead of a stone bridge."
[2013-10-16 18:58:40] <GM> "Because it was interesting to watch under controlled circumstances"
[2013-10-16 18:58:42] <Akiani> "Did you know I almost fell off twice?"
[2013-10-16 18:58:58] * Clarissa shrugs "I'll give you that."
[2013-10-16 18:59:04] <Akiani> "Aside from all the other assorted near death instances we all experienced."
[2013-10-16 18:59:05] <GM> "...I may have accidentally blown up the stone bridge the rope bridge replaced a few months ago..."
[2013-10-16 18:59:22] <Akiani> "So, quite frankly, I don't particularly care for your hospitality."
[2013-10-16 18:59:28] <Akiani> "I'd just like my questions answered."
[2013-10-16 18:59:40] * GM sighs
[2013-10-16 18:59:58] <GM> "From what you're telling me the Way has made a terrible mess of here."
[2013-10-16 19:00:06] <GM> *shrugs*
[2013-10-16 19:00:08] <GM> "Whatever"
[2013-10-16 19:00:25] * Clarissa starts to jabber "I've been wondering, how did you get the summoning traps to activate so quickly and by what means of activation? I was curious as to your methods because I found a passage on it in one of my books..."
[2013-10-16 19:00:42] <GM> "Summoning traps? I only had one though"
[2013-10-16 19:00:53] <GM> "Only the one on the front door."
[2013-10-16 19:01:05] <Matthias> "There was another on the rope bridge."
[2013-10-16 19:01:06] <Clarissa> "Wasn't the Erinyes one of yours?"
[2013-10-16 19:01:12] <GM> "No."
[2013-10-16 19:01:34] <GM> "In any case, you've found a safe path to me."
[2013-10-16 19:01:47] <GM> "Wait, my guards."
[2013-10-16 19:01:49] <GM> "What of them?"
[2013-10-16 19:01:58] <Akiani> "Dead, dead, and deader."
[2013-10-16 19:02:02] <Elsbeth> "I wouldn't called it safe."
[2013-10-16 19:02:06] <Akiani> "Quite like you, actually."
[2013-10-16 19:02:07] <Clarissa> "Very, Very Dead."
[2013-10-16 19:02:09] <Matthias> "Do you mean the various flesh golems throughout the estate?"
[2013-10-16 19:02:20] <Akiani> "Except completely dead."
[2013-10-16 19:02:27] <GM> "There were also some architects I had brought in to repair the bridge"
[2013-10-16 19:02:31] <GM> "Were they also dead?"
[2013-10-16 19:02:36] <Clarissa> "YEP."
[2013-10-16 19:02:43] <Matthias> "We haven't seen anyone in here except you."
[2013-10-16 19:02:44] <Akiani> "There were some goblins."
[2013-10-16 19:02:48] <Clarissa> "If it was alive, it is probably dead now."
[2013-10-16 19:02:48] <Akiani> "They spoke in limmericks."
[2013-10-16 19:03:03] <Clarissa> "We let them live... Unfortunately."
[2013-10-16 19:03:08] <GM> "Trolls and goblins...there are some of those in the swamps nearby"
[2013-10-16 19:03:22] <Akiani> "Minus the trolls. They're dead now."
[2013-10-16 19:03:22] <GM> "Likely they noticed the lack of activity and tried to loot the place"
[2013-10-16 19:03:45] <Matthias> "They didn't get in past the hound on the first bridge."
[2013-10-16 19:03:45] <Clarissa> "As for humans and constructs... only Fred here remains."
[2013-10-16 19:03:46] <Akiani> "You're very adept at avoiding questions by answering other questions."
[2013-10-16 19:03:50] <GM> "There is much I would like to share with you."
[2013-10-16 19:04:00] <Akiani> "Please do."
[2013-10-16 19:04:03] <GM> "However, there is a lot of it"
[2013-10-16 19:04:21] <Akiani> "Then you'd best get started."
[2013-10-16 19:06:34] <GM> "I would like to provide what hospitality I can. I would like to tell you my whole story Akiani at dinner in a few hours hence. There should remain some preserved food I could provide..."
[2013-10-16 19:06:58] <GM> "In the meantime, there are rooms below the stairs on the first floor of the main living building
[2013-10-16 19:07:04] <GM> if one knows where to look that
[2013-10-16 19:07:21] <Clarissa> "Are those the ones we stayed in already, Kendra"
[2013-10-16 19:07:21] <GM> you could use to freshen up. The five of you look terrible."
[2013-10-16 19:07:23] <Clarissa> ?
[2013-10-16 19:07:24] <GM> no
[2013-10-16 19:07:30] <GM> the stairs that lead to the second floor
[2013-10-16 19:07:34] <GM> he means below those
[2013-10-16 19:07:41] <GM> ie
[2013-10-16 19:07:43] <GM> a secret door
[2013-10-16 19:10:01] <GM> Caromarc shows no fear as he walks in the sunlight, and on the other side of the bridge
[2013-10-16 19:10:05] <GM> says
[2013-10-16 19:10:53] <GM> "It sounds as you did not go through all of these chambers, thankfully. While you are getting yourselves cleaned up, I will also check the extent of the damage that was done."
[2013-10-16 19:11:16] <Clarissa> "Yeah... We saw those Vargouilles and decided to run."
[2013-10-16 19:11:33] <GM> "The vargouilles were in a box in another building..."
[2013-10-16 19:11:55] <GM> "You're lucky you made it through here alive."
[2013-10-16 19:12:06] <GM> "Are you certain the way back will be safe for you?"
[2013-10-16 19:12:07] <Matthias> "We didn't even bother checking the other rooms here after that basilisk."
[2013-10-16 19:12:29] <Clarissa> "We killed most everything, if we retrace our steps we should be fine."
[2013-10-16 19:12:52] <GM> "I will see you in the dining hall in two hours then."
[2013-10-16 19:36:48] <GM> ok
[2013-10-16 19:38:13] <GM> later, some preserved food; salted meat, and preserved vegtables have been laid out on the table as well as two wine bottles, and Caromarc is waiting there; he only has a bottle of something in front of him
[2013-10-16 19:38:32] <GM> "I apologize for the nature of the meal I have to provide you with"
[2013-10-16 19:39:17] <GM> "The Way left my wine cellar untouched however."
[2013-10-16 19:39:26] <GM> *wine racks
[2013-10-16 19:39:38] * Akiani sits down
[2013-10-16 19:39:43] <Clarissa> "Akiani, can I tr-"
[2013-10-16 19:40:21] <Akiani> "What, Clarissa?"
[2013-10-16 19:40:42] <Clarissa> "Oh, this tastes awful."
[2013-10-16 19:41:22] <Akiani> "You shouldn't drink wine."
[2013-10-16 19:41:27] <Clarissa> "How do people drink this stuff..?"
[2013-10-16 19:41:57] <Elsbeth> "It's an aquired taste and something that you should have when you're older, Clarissa."
[2013-10-16 19:42:31] * GM pours self a glass of his bottle; it appears to be blood
[2013-10-16 19:42:42] * GM is also in nice dress clothes
[2013-10-16 19:42:51] * Matthias pours himself a small amount of wine
[2013-10-16 19:43:02] <Akiani> "You said you were going to explain."
[2013-10-16 19:43:16] <GM> "Indeed I did."
[2013-10-16 19:43:42] <GM> "I feel it would be best if I started at the beginning."
[2013-10-16 19:44:21] <GM> "Before I begin however, I will tell you this"
[2013-10-16 19:44:59] <GM> "Though she hid it from you, your mother has always been a wizard Akiani"
[2013-10-16 19:45:20] <GM> "In particular"
[2013-10-16 19:45:32] <GM> "A necromancer"
[2013-10-16 19:45:53] <Akiani> "The necromancer and the vampire."
[2013-10-16 19:45:56] <Akiani> "A romance for the ages."
[2013-10-16 19:46:10] <GM> "Now then"
[2013-10-16 19:47:13] <GM> "Your mother's full name was Sibelle Evangeline Livgrace"
[2013-10-16 19:47:52] <Akiani> "Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure it was Diana."
[2013-10-16 19:48:01] <Akiani> "Diana Vagad."
[2013-10-16 19:48:30] <GM> "That was a false name that she adopted."
[2013-10-16 19:48:52] <GM> "As I said, things will make more sense working from the start."
[2013-10-16 19:49:21] <GM> "...her noble house still exists today even."
[2013-10-16 19:49:29] * GM blinks
[2013-10-16 19:49:45] * Akiani crosses arms
[2013-10-16 19:50:02] <GM> "We met when I was 15 I believe"
[2013-10-16 19:50:14] <GM> "That was...330 years ago."
[2013-10-16 19:50:49] <GM> "We courted for two years but"
[2013-10-16 19:51:08] <GM> "Neither of our families wished for this arrangement."
[2013-10-16 19:51:32] <Akiani> "The tragic romantic."
[2013-10-16 19:51:32] <GM> "We fled into the night, never to return."
[2013-10-16 19:52:27] <GM> "I am not proud to say that within ten years we began to fear death, and joined the Whispering Way."
[2013-10-16 19:53:28] <GM> "We were not very concerned for anyone other than each other in those times"
[2013-10-16 19:54:12] <GM> "It was only five years later that...there was an incident"
[2013-10-16 19:54:53] <GM> "I become the enslaved spawn of a vampire member of the Way. However, your mother killed him as he slept the next day."
[2013-10-16 19:55:39] <GM> "And so I entered undeath much sooner than I had expected"
[2013-10-16 19:56:20] <GM> "For seventy years we continued to expand our necromantic knowledge in he field, moving from cell to cell of the Way."
[2013-10-16 19:56:29] <GM> "The Way operates in cells."
[2013-10-16 19:57:31] <GM> "As your silence so far tells me, you already know that a vampire's blood can keep a mortal youthful."
[2013-10-16 19:57:55] <Akiani> "Yep."
[2013-10-16 19:58:13] <GM> "No matter how much we had to relocate as a result of...our experiments."
[2013-10-16 19:58:22] <GM> "We always had each other"
[2013-10-16 19:58:44] <GM> "However, we began to tire of relocating"
[2013-10-16 19:58:53] <Elsbeth> "I was wondering about that actually."
[2013-10-16 19:59:04] <GM> "Well, now you know"
[2013-10-16 19:59:16] <Elsbeth> "I was going to ask after you were done explaining."
[2013-10-16 19:59:27] <GM> "We eventually went to the Way's stronghold of Renchurch"
[2013-10-16 19:59:50] <GM> "We stayed there for a very long time, relative to how long we have lived."
[2013-10-16 20:00:13] <GM> "We even managed to carve out a respectable position among the members of the Way there."
[2013-10-16 20:00:53] <GM> "...Within a few years of arriving at Renchurch"
[2013-10-16 20:01:12] <GM> "Sibelle began to pursue her own path of undeath."
[2013-10-16 20:01:40] <GM> *pauses*
[2013-10-16 20:02:08] <GM> *continues to pause, thinking*
[2013-10-16 20:03:04] <Clarissa> "Well that was a very long and interesting story."
[2013-10-16 20:03:32] <Clarissa> "So was the tubey thingy the only fruit of your wife's research?"
[2013-10-16 20:04:00] <Elsbeth> "What was her path of undeath anyway?"
[2013-10-16 20:04:09] <GM> <Kendra> "Clarissa...please let the adults speak."
[2013-10-16 20:04:21] <GM> "What do you know of liches?"
[2013-10-16 20:05:07] * Elsbeth just shakes her head
[2013-10-16 20:05:19] <Elsbeth> "That's not good."
[2013-10-16 20:05:23] <Clarissa> "A good deal..."
[2013-10-16 20:05:35] <Matthias> "Nothing, really, other than they're supposedly very strong undead."
[2013-10-16 20:05:37] <Akiani> "Something or other about phylacteries."
[2013-10-16 20:05:49] <Clarissa> "Did she try to become one herself?"
[2013-10-16 20:06:48] <GM> "...A would be lich creates a receptacle to house his soul. If his body is destroyed, he will rejuvenate from this receptacle; a phylactery."
[2013-10-16 20:06:58] <Clarissa> "Yes..."
[2013-10-16 20:07:25] <GM> "And yes, she did begin construction of a phylactery"
[2013-10-16 20:08:13] <GM> "...At Renchurch, aspiring liches can receive instruction the creation of a phylactery from other members of the Way."
[2013-10-16 20:08:26] <GM> "While the path is different for each, those who have walked it can offer insight."
[2013-10-16 20:08:46] <Clarissa> "Did she get any farther than beginning to build it?"
[2013-10-16 20:08:53] <GM> "Patience."
[2013-10-16 20:09:20] <GM> "Most would-be liches have some amount of hurry to their research, as their mortal lives will end at some point."
[2013-10-16 20:09:56] <GM> "However, your mother had no need to hurry, and was able to meticulously take her time."
[2013-10-16 20:10:48] <GM> "I feel that this is what kept her soul from irretrievably being lost down the road we were on."
[2013-10-16 20:11:11] <GM> "Two hundred and twenty years"
[2013-10-16 20:11:17] <GM> "Give or take a few"
[2013-10-16 20:11:44] <GM> "We became important enough figures at Renchurch in this time."
[2013-10-16 20:12:12] <GM> "While there were figures there older than us, and ones more powerful than us, there were few who were both."
[2013-10-16 20:12:45] <GM> "Your mother also finished construction of her phylactery finally. She did not transfer her soul to it right away though."
[2013-10-16 20:13:49] <GM> "The Way offers a service to member liches. It will guard their phylacteries in the vault of Renchurch. When we were there, there were three of them who chose to use this service."
[2013-10-16 20:14:05] <GM> "It is not often that one of these liches has their body destroyed."
[2013-10-16 20:14:54] <GM> "Shortly after your mother finished construction of her phylactery, the lich Berezna began to rejuvinate from her phylactery."
[2013-10-16 20:15:15] <GM> "And we saw and learned that a reforming lich is a terrible, raging thing."
[2013-10-16 20:15:46] <GM> "It was...awful to behold. Terrifying to those who hadn't known fear in so long."
[2013-10-16 20:16:26] <GM> "There were a few at Renchuch who changed the focus of their research as a result."
[2013-10-16 20:16:44] <GM> "A few went to other cells."
[2013-10-16 20:16:53] <GM> "However, only two left the Way altogether."
[2013-10-16 20:18:10] <GM> "We left, and I convinced your mother to destroy her phylactery, unused"
[2013-10-16 20:18:56] <GM> "We told none in the Way we were leaving altogether"
[2013-10-16 20:19:46] <GM> "Best to let them believe we had gone to create a safe place for your mothers phylactery, and gone to another cell."
[2013-10-16 20:20:24] <GM> "They would however, eventually learn the truth"
[2013-10-16 20:20:43] <GM> "And we held to many secrets that were too close to the Way for them to leave us in peace."
[2013-10-16 20:22:14] <GM> "I am glad your mother turned to the Dawnflower, and convinced me to as well."
[2013-10-16 20:22:33] <GM> "I do not feel I could have managed otherwise."
[2013-10-16 20:22:37] <Akiani> "Quite the jump."
[2013-10-16 20:23:23] <GM> "I will not tell you about the many sins we commited. You need not know of them."
[2013-10-16 20:23:32] <GM> "Shouldn't know of them."
[2013-10-16 20:24:09] <GM> "We needed to try and lay low."
[2013-10-16 20:24:17] <GM> "And this is where you enter into things Akiani."
[2013-10-16 20:24:35] <Akiani> "Oh, joy."
[2013-10-16 20:24:39] <Akiani> "And when you exit things?"
[2013-10-16 20:24:52] <GM> "Not yet."
[2013-10-16 20:25:10] <GM> "Shortly after we left the way...Sibelle was with child."
[2013-10-16 20:25:15] <GM> "You"
[2013-10-16 20:26:08] <GM> "You were the first child we decided bring to term."
[2013-10-16 20:26:37] <GM> "Despite how much easier it would have been to not, I do not regret this decision."
[2013-10-16 20:26:45] <GM> "We did not"
[2013-10-16 20:27:09] <GM> "A child at that time..."
[2013-10-16 20:27:59] <GM> "Your mother would be able to hide herself from the Way with her magic."
[2013-10-16 20:28:16] <GM> "However, the Way would eventually find me."
[2013-10-16 20:29:10] <GM> "We needed to seperate, possibly to never see eachother again."
[2013-10-16 20:30:13] <GM> "Never to see each other again in this life if we didn't meet up again soon enough, as Sibelle would begin to age again."
[2013-10-16 20:31:27] <GM> "Still I would not have agreed to this if I was not able to visit your mother often to give her my blood. We had no idea would stress your mother beginning to age again would put on you as you grew in her."
[2013-10-16 20:32:17] <GM> "The last time I saw your mother alive was when I saw you for the first time, when you were born."
[2013-10-16 20:32:53] * GM crys
[2013-10-16 20:33:08] <Akiani> "Why didn't you keep visiting?"
[2013-10-16 20:33:29] <GM> "She...forbade me from seeing her again. For your safety."
[2013-10-16 20:33:49] * GM ceases crying, wipes eyes
[2013-10-16 20:34:00] * GM takes a drink from his glass
[2013-10-16 20:35:38] <GM> "The way your mother hid herself was not how I wanted you to be raised. I don't know how I would have wanted you raised."
[2013-10-16 20:35:50] <GM> "But...not the way you were."
[2013-10-16 20:36:11] <GM> "However, they didn't find your mother."
[2013-10-16 20:37:00] <GM> "They did find me quick enough though; within a year of me leaving you."
[2013-10-16 20:37:20] <GM> "You and her."
[2013-10-16 20:37:57] <GM> "I was able to elude them"
[2013-10-16 20:38:19] <GM> "Though it was a very close thing"
[2013-10-16 20:39:18] <GM> "If she had known of you, Berezna would not have hesitated to use you against us."
[2013-10-16 20:39:43] * Akiani steeples her hands
[2013-10-16 20:40:14] <Akiani> "So..."
[2013-10-16 20:40:30] <Akiani> "Am I a countess or a lady?"
[2013-10-16 20:41:02] <GM> "At this point you are the only living heir, so this would make you a countess."
[2013-10-16 20:41:16] <GM> "Technically speaking"
[2013-10-16 20:41:47] <GM> "On that note..."
[2013-10-16 20:42:35] <GM> "The Caromarc line, at this time, was exhausted"
[2013-10-16 20:42:57] <GM> "I was able to pose as a lost heir and inherit. Not a complete fabrication."
[2013-10-16 20:43:20] <GM> "Hiding in plain sight was a gamble, but it had worked until only recently."
[2013-10-16 20:43:52] <GM> "Shortly after this though"
[2013-10-16 20:44:11] <GM> "I lost governing power in the Palatine uprising."
[2013-10-16 20:44:36] <GM> "While I gave up power peacefully enough, I created Rage and had him kill the instigator of the uprising."
[2013-10-16 20:44:40] <GM> "Old habits die hard."
[2013-10-16 20:45:04] * Akiani snorts
[2013-10-16 20:45:26] <GM> "While I no longer visited your mother"
[2013-10-16 20:45:42] <GM> "I preserved my blood as best I could and had Rage ferry it to her."
[2013-10-16 20:45:57] <Akiani> "You, uh, don't happen to enjoy killing people, do you?"
[2013-10-16 20:46:30] <GM> "No, I don't. One of the first things I did when I inheritated"
[2013-10-16 20:46:59] <GM> "Was to development an alternative source of blood that my palette would find acceptable."
[2013-10-16 20:47:06] * GM lifts up bottle
[2013-10-16 20:47:19] <GM> "This is mostly swine blood. I was successful."
[2013-10-16 20:47:19] <Akiani> "I see."
[2013-10-16 20:47:44] <GM> "The blood I sent to your mother was not though"
[2013-10-16 20:48:03] <GM> "However, it was able to keep her age from catching up to her all at once, giving her time to raise you."
[2013-10-16 20:48:30] <GM> "I was glad when I learned of your life choice, as it meant you would not make the same mistakes we had."
[2013-10-16 20:49:04] <Akiani> "I think I will go someplace and"
[2013-10-16 20:49:18] <Akiani> "most definitely do something."
[2013-10-16 20:49:32] * Akiani gets up, takes a sandwich, and leaves
[2013-10-16 20:50:11] <GM> "That is not my whole story, but it is all that relates to you daughter. The rest relates to your father Kendra."
[2013-10-16 20:50:43] <GM> Kendra pokes at her food
[2013-10-16 20:50:52] * Akiani comes back and takes a bottle of wine "Just gonna take this real quick."
[2013-10-16 20:50:56] * Akiani leaves again
[2013-10-16 20:51:34] <GM> "Another thing I have been trying to do is develop a cure for my vampirism."
[2013-10-16 20:51:51] <GM> "Obviously, I have not been successful thus far."
[2013-10-16 20:52:35] <GM> "In actuality, I have been frustrated that all I have been able to do is make it less of a liability."
[2013-10-16 20:52:50] <GM> "Sunlight no longer harms me, as you have noiced"
[2013-10-16 20:52:52] <GM> *noticed
[2013-10-16 20:53:03] <GM> "Neither does running water"
[2013-10-16 20:53:31] <GM> "As I was conducting this reserach"
[2013-10-16 20:53:43] <GM> "Your father and I met Kendra"
[2013-10-16 20:55:36] <GM> "We spoke many times on many a subject when he visited"
[2013-10-16 20:55:40] <Clarissa> "Too bad you couldn't get the Professor to tell Akiani that water doesn't hurt her!"
[2013-10-16 20:55:56] <Matthias> "Would have saved me a backache or two."
[2013-10-16 20:57:08] <GM> "She had you carry her over running water?"
[2013-10-16 20:57:25] <GM> "For what purpose?"
[2013-10-16 20:58:21] <Matthias> "Something about her feeling uncomfortable with crossing it herself."
[2013-10-16 20:58:27] <Clarissa> "Because... Well, I don't know. Maybe she didn't want to get her skirt wet."
[2013-10-16 20:58:34] <Matthias> "She seems to believe water is evil."
[2013-10-16 20:59:03] <GM> "Perhaps she is afraid of drowning."
[2013-10-16 20:59:05] <GM> *sighs*
[2013-10-16 20:59:21] <GM> "I know nothing about my own daughter..."
[2013-10-16 21:00:04] <GM> <Kendra> "...You were saying something?"
[2013-10-16 21:00:07] <Elsbeth> "Maybe she wanted you to teach her how to swim and until this is done, she will always afraid of water."
[2013-10-16 21:00:35] <GM> "Perhaps."
[2013-10-16 21:00:39] * GM blinks
[2013-10-16 21:00:47] <GM> "Sorry, as I was saying"
[2013-10-16 21:00:55] <GM> "In time your father came to realize what I was."
[2013-10-16 21:01:02] <GM> "However, this did not impact our friendship."
[2013-10-16 21:01:24] <GM> "In time I entrusted him with certain secrets of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:01:53] <GM> "I heard of his death. I apologize for not being at his funeral."
[2013-10-16 21:02:03] <GM> <Kendra> "That' quite alr-"
[2013-10-16 21:02:22] <GM> "I fear that he would not have died if I had not told him what I did of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:02:27] <GM> <Kendra> "..."
[2013-10-16 21:02:51] <GM> "I continued to correspond with your father after you moved away."
[2013-10-16 21:03:28] <GM> "I kept a watch out for the Way, and had learned that they were planning something related to Harrowstone."
[2013-10-16 21:03:45] <GM> "I fear that Petros would still be alive today if I had not shared this with him."
[2013-10-16 21:04:57] <GM> <Kendra> "...For what its worth, the Way were at Harrowstone to capture the ghost of its warden."
[2013-10-16 21:05:43] <GM> "But for what purpose would they want that? I do not know."
[2013-10-16 21:06:14] <GM> "Shortly after this, that same group of the Way came here"
[2013-10-16 21:06:34] <GM> "Assaulted me in my home, and imprisoned me, leaving me for the Dawnflower's rays to finish off"
[2013-10-16 21:06:46] <GM> "I am certain that they think me dead now."
[2013-10-16 21:07:42] <GM> "And if they think me dead, I have a chance to revenge myself against them as an orginization."
[2013-10-16 21:08:50] <GM> "Between when we met and now"
[2013-10-16 21:09:11] <GM> "As I was examining my property, I realized that the Way had used the Bondslave Thrall."
[2013-10-16 21:09:35] <GM> "...Do you know of anything Rage has done recently? Anything at all?"
[2013-10-16 21:10:35] <Elsbeth> "He was accused by the townspeople for commiting various crimes for months."
[2013-10-16 21:10:52] <GM> "They have always done that though"
[2013-10-16 21:11:02] <GM> "Anything more recent, such as within the last week?"
[2013-10-16 21:11:30] <Elsbeth> "There was the break in at the university that lead to his capture."
[2013-10-16 21:11:37] <GM> "I see"
[2013-10-16 21:11:45] <GM> "Was anything stolen?"
[2013-10-16 21:12:19] <Matthias> "As I recall, nothing was stolen, and he didn't put up any resistance when he was captured."
[2013-10-16 21:12:51] <GM> <Kendra> "Something was stolen."
[2013-10-16 21:13:08] <GM> <Kendra> "The Seasage Effigy, it was called."
[2013-10-16 21:13:14] <Clarissa> "Wasn't it a book or a scroll or something?"
[2013-10-16 21:13:22] <GM> "Why would they take that..."
[2013-10-16 21:14:06] <GM> "Regardless, I am grateful for your rescue of me."
[2013-10-16 21:14:38] <GM> "On the morrow I will go into town and begin to try and dig up the trail of this cell of the Way."
[2013-10-16 21:15:06] <GM> "I would like them dead, and whatever they are doing stopped."
[2013-10-16 21:15:57] <GM> "While in town, I will also contact my bankers and withdraw 40,000gp for your group. I would like you to, when I find this trail, to follow it and kill this cell."
[2013-10-16 21:16:25] <Clarissa> "Wow! Thanks!"
[2013-10-16 21:17:48] <GM> "You are free to stay here until then, whether or not you choose to accept."
[2013-10-16 21:18:02] <GM> <Kendra> "I'll do it. They killed my father."
[2013-10-16 21:19:06] * GM nods
[2013-10-16 21:19:23] <GM> "I am sorry that this took so long to tell you."
[2013-10-16 21:19:41] <Elsbeth> "I can't believe I'm agreeing with a vampire but I will accept this mission to eliminate the Whispering Way."
[2013-10-16 21:19:43] <GM> "If there is something you feel I have not sufficiently covered, please bring it to my attention."
[2013-10-16 21:22:19] <GM> "Also, I have another request."
[2013-10-16 21:22:26] <Matthias> she's surely had enough to get drunk by now
[2013-10-16 21:22:31] <GM> "Keep Akiani safe."
[2013-10-16 21:23:38] * GM finishes glass, stands up
[2013-10-16 21:23:39] <Matthias> "We'll do our best.""
[2013-10-16 21:24:04] <Elsbeth> "I'm not going to guarnatee if I can."
[2013-10-16 21:24:36] <GM> "I apologize. As your host I should not retire until after you have done so, but I am very exhausted."
[2013-10-16 21:25:20] <GM> "You may help yourself to any of the rooms; the master bedroom is only there to maintain appearances."
[2013-10-16 21:25:30] <GM> "Goodnight."
[2013-10-16 21:25:48] * GM turns to mist, and drift out the room
[2013-10-16 21:25:51] <GM> *drifts
[2013-10-16 21:26:03] <Clarissa> "Was that entirely necessary?"
[2013-10-16 21:26:25] <GM> er
[2013-10-16 21:26:29] <GM> hole in the wall
[2013-10-16 21:26:37] <GM> a small one
[2013-10-16 21:26:56] <GM> yeah
[2013-10-16 21:26:58] <GM> that's it
[2013-10-16 21:27:29] <GM> incidentallly
[2013-10-16 21:27:31] <GM> that's it
[2013-10-16 21:27:37] =-= YOU are now known as GeneralSpoon