[Day: ? Time: ?] [You are on Mount Olympus. It's a happenin' place. Too bad you're not on vacation. But no, you're following Hermes down a long corridor to gods know where (literally, in this case), to pass some trials.] [Hermes is up ahead, and seems annoyed that you people are SOOOOOO slow.] [Anyhow, start!] (Hee.) * Reizar is slow, yes! He does, however, follow along. This is the way you lumber along, lumber along, lumber along o/~ * Mamei wouldn't be soooooooo slow if she were in her own body. >_< * Chisanjya follows! She just wants to get this going. * Asanjei is floating along, eyeing the contract still. She's a persnickety little thing. * Mamei complains at Chomei some more. Stupid Chomei! * Choria isn't slow, but he is just ignoring Mamei. Silly Mamei. * Lazie follows, rubbing his neck. * Mamei thwaps Choria upside the head. "Are you even listening to me?" * Choria is thwapped. "No?" * Asanjei folds the contract up and tucks it in a pocket of her cloak which Chisanjya is wearing. * Chisanjya calls over her shoulder, "C'mon, guys, hopefully this'll all be over soon." She then has a contract tucked in her cloak pocket. I'm coming, I'm coming! * Mamei fumes. "Well, you *should* be. If you'd listen to me when I tell you these things, your back would even hurt less." * Choria shrugs. "I enjoy exercising the option to ignore people, not just having it happen." Maria right. Sports bra very good thing. Is support of normal bra, without embarassment. * Choria nods. "True." ... no believe I just say that. If anyone ask, say it because mind messed up by vampyrism. Sure, Laz. * Chisanjya snickers. * Choria chuckles. Rei, you had the tape recorder on, right? * Reizar blinks. "I was supposed to have a tape recorder on?" * Lazie flashes a v for victory! ^_^_v I thought we agreed we were gonna tape all this in case we needed blackmail material? (I shouldn't find that as funny as I do.) We were? Okay, if you wanted to tape something, you really shoulda asked me, because it didn't look like great blackmail material from over here. Not even the helmet, 'cause it looks really cool. * UpLink has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) * Mamei snickers. * Asanjei frowns. "Aww." ... and I very much hope you wearing boxers, Chomei. * Choria rolls his eyes. "Geeze Chie. I count on you doing something evil and what do I get? And yes, I am Lazar." Good. No think you type for lacy things. Me? Evil? Why, dear Chomei, would you ever get that impression about me? And I think Maria kill you if you take body shopping for. * Chisanjya winks at him, then snickers at Lazar. Boxers? How do you *wear* boxers? On your head, most of the time. * Choria winks back at Chie. "Uh... They're boxers. How do you not wear them?" Do you mean the gloves they - what? ... boxers. Is type of underwear. ...oh. * Reizar giggles. * Choria chuckles. Like shorts. Instead of underwear what like skimpy swimsuit. They're actually really comfy. * Chisanjya blinks at Rei for a second. If you say so. * Reizar blinks at Chisanjya. "What?" * Chisanjya shakes her head. "Nothing." ... is followup question I want ask, but too much gentleman to. * Reizar grins and stretches, then frowns a little and drops his arms. "I want my body back. I hope this works." Me too. * Asanjei flips over on her back and floats along. "Shame. I'm just getting used to this." Oh no, that's my tail you're getting used to! * Reizar shakes his fist up at Asanjei. Aww, c'mon, Asanjya, when you get back you'll have the hair! * Choria shrugs. Yeah, well, you can have it. The fruit thing is making me tired. * Chisanjya waves a few strands at her. Oh, yeah, can't wait to have my hair strangle me in my sleep. It's behaved itself so far, after the trouble on the first day. [At any rate, eventually, you get to a colleseum, which is a Roman thing more than a Greek thing, but don't complain or you'll get run over by a chariot.] ... guess it be nice be back in golem body. In way. You get to smash stuff? I want my body back. * Mamei gripes some more. * Reizar peers at the colleseum. * Chisanjya looks around the colosseum. * Asanjei floats, and looks, and floats and looks! So... this the place where we start? * Mamei eyes the Colosseum with distrust. Not tall enough. Kind of. Just... I just starting get hang of golem body. No offend Rei, but she no have skills to put to full use. And group need full power golem. * Reizar eyes Lazie. "No problem with me. I want my own body back, fruit craving and all. I miss being able to feel things." I want my body back too. Being female is really uncomfortable... ( Just wait a few weeks... ) (YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.) * Chisanjya gives Maria a sympathetic smile. "Bet bein' male is probably worse." [Hermes is waiting in the center of the colleseum. "Here we are, where you will conduct your three trials."] * Reizar nods at him. "Sure thing, boss!" ( You should all be Kirbies. ) * Lazie nods. "Ready. What trials?" Great. When do we start? Okay, I'm ready! * Choria nods. "Bring it on." Hermes: "The first is a trial of strength. Pick a champion from amongst yourselves." * Asanjei lands on the ground. "How delightfully stereotypical." * Chisanjya eyes Rei. "Rei?" * Reizar shrugs. "Okay. Are we talking about physical strength or something?" (I choose Chie.) ( ;_; ) [He doesn't answer. Maybe he's too far away.] (But we walked up to him?) If physical strength, definately Rei. If mental... probably Rei, too. ( MAYBE HE'S TOO FAR AWAY >.< ) Well, yeah. * Reizar walks to him. :P Golem body have strength of earth, Rei. Just let flow. I thought flowing's like water? Doesn't water beat rock? Only after a long time. No, rock no flow. Strength flow. Okay. I'll keep that in mind next time I fall unconscious in the bathtub. [A cyclops falls down from the ceiling. He's... much much bigger than Lazar's body.] Hermes walks to the side, and gestures: "Beat this guy in a physical confrontation." * Reizar blinks up at the cyclops and waves. "Hi!" ... * Chisanjya shudders at Rei's last statement. Right. That's... a large cyclops. ... oy. That big guy. [The Cyclops waves and smiles. "Hi!" <^>] ( Roll init :P ) * Mamei sighs and sits down. "Great, more fighting. Wow." (Aww, cute! ^_^) (Aargh! Eyeblisk flashbacks!!) * Chisanjya sits next to Maria. She's still a bit pale. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (d6+7) and gets 10. If she doesn't make it, Cho, you're next. You can jump up to his eye. [Cyclops goes first, then Rei.] * Lazie sits, muttering. "Wish was I there..." * Choria rolls his eyes and sits down. He shrugs. "Sure." [The cyclops starts out by intending to pount Reizar into the ground. Better dodge!] 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6+2) and gets 7. [Ouch. Rei gets mashed into the ground. Only up to her knees, though. Her turn!] (Oh, god, it's like Eoi in the tournament!) C'mon, Rei! * Chisanjya tries to cheer. "C'mon, Rei! You can do it!" She then winces. "Uh. Yeah!" * Reizar blinks, then works on pulling himself out of the ground. "Hey, that wasn't very nice!" ( Ugh. Don't remind me of the tentacle monsters ;_; ) (Can I pull myself out of the ground? And, um, still go?) [The cyclops looks taken aback. "Sorry." <;> ( Yes :P ) It's okay. I'm just not very used to fighting monsters. It'd be nice if there were some way to not have to smash each other into fine paste. I mean, you seem like a really nice cyclops and I'd like to play cards with you sometime, not Pound The Golem Into The Ground. * Reizar backs up and puts himself on full defense. [The cyclops looks sad. "Sorry... But..."] * Lazie blinks. "... this very odd way to fight cyclops." [He shrugs. "Well, this is a contest of strength." And pounds Rei again, unless she defends.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 9. (Hehe!) [WHAM! Rei makes another hole.] * Lazie facepalms. She's not very good at this. * Chisanjya winces again. "Ohhh, this is not good..." It like putting sheep in tank... * Choria winces. "Yeah..." * Reizar blinks, making another hole, but he doesn't seem to mind as he pulls himself out. "But what? I mean, we just wanna go back to our bodies and cure my friend of vampirism. We could have an arm wrestling contest or something. Do you get hurt if you lose?" ["Well... No, but... it's a contest of strength." So saying, he pounds Rei again, unless she avoids.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 9. (Ha!) ( I'm sensing a pattern. ) [WHAM! Rei is not feeling very good at all now.] Rei! Hit it! I think you're gonna have to fight back, Rei. Sorry! Yeah! He's not listening! "I am too." <;> * Reizar woozes. "Ow. Does that mean you can't have a different contest of strength?" He pulls himself out of this third hole. * Reizar looks back at the others. "Yeah, no picking on my new cyclops buddy! He wants to help me out." Back to the cyclops. "Right, Mr. Cyclops?" [Mr. Cyclops nods and smiles. "Yep! I sure do wish you'd try to hit me," he says as he pounds the golem again.] ( Gimme a def roll ^^ ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 8. [WHAM! Rei winds up in a crater that she doesn't feel like getting back out of.] ... it almost like she want me become vampyre. Hermes: "..... Uhh...." * Reizar oofs. "Oh. You shoulda said that earlier." He tries to get out, fails, and sighs. "Okay, come over here so I can hit you." You said test of strength, not test of combat. Combat *is* test of strength, Chomei. [Rei doesn't have the strength to hit him even if he wanted to. It's all he can do to stay awake.] No, Laz. She's just not used to fighting. What so hard?! It hit you, you hit back! * Reizar grumbles and puts his chin on the ground. "I suck at this." Hermes: "Well.... Mr. Cyclops certainly proved HIS might..." Uh, yeah. Can we get a do-over or something? * Mamei rubs her face. [The cyclops pokes his fingers together. "Sorry... I didn't want to, but... Well, it was a contest of strength." And so saying, he jumps back out of the colleseum.] Aw, man. Hermes: "Okay... Maybe he wasn't the right kind of enemy. Pick another champion." I'll just stay here for a while and wallow in my own misery, thank you! You no could have just imagined that cyclops was me, and hit it? I'd help you out, Rei, but you're kind of big and made of stone. Sorry ( On the bright side, it was the funniest fight yet. ) * Chisanjya looks over at Hermes. "For another strength test?" Hermes nods. "Yeah. May as well try again." * Reizar eyes Lazie. "I *thought* that maybe cleverness could come into play in a contest of strength, since Hermes is theoretically notorious for appreciating alternate solutions, but apparently these are straightforward tests and I don't think that way. So shut up, Lazar." "Hey, you weren't fighting me. You were fighting Mr. Cyclops." * Chisanjya smiles gratefully at the god. "Thank you so much." She turns back to the group. "Okay. Another champion?" You picked Mr. Cyclops! * Lazie pulls out Chie's sword, and stomps to the center of the colliseum. "If want something done right..." *glares at Rei* "It my soul on line, and you friend. Take serious." (Which sword, Laz?) * Reizar stares at Lazie, then tries to get himself out of the hole and fails again. "I don't need to talk to you." ( Demonkilling, I guess, since you have the spirit one. ) * Chisanjya blinks. "Okay. Go, Laz. Be careful!" Yeah. Kick ass and take names. * Mamei sighs. "I got next." [A big stone titan... thing enters the arena and growls. "Brwaugh! Crush! Kill! Destroy all mortals and steal their cheese! Grubablaughagh!" Hermes: "There... That a little better for you?" * Reizar grumbles something about cheese, but really doesn't seem in the mood for chatting. * Chisanjya eyes the titan. "Uh." ... hey! Ripping off my gimmick! ...nevermind. Arrows wouldn't do much there. * Chisanjya says, weakly, "But you don't steal cheese, Laz." ... Ugh. * Lazie mutters, dropping into a fighting stance. "Big stone guy. Little defenceless thing be nicer, but no really be test. So guess okay." [The titan throws a chain at Lazie. "Brlouwargh! After Tug o' War!"] That's so not fair. [The chain landing near his feet] Awww, crap! ... what? It supposed to be combat. ( ... this is Rei's body? Gwahahahah. ) ... (It's Chie's.) (Chie's, actually.) Hermes: "Actually, it's a test of strength. It doesn't have to be combat. That was just Mr. Cyclops' way." * Chisanjya puts her hands to her face and says nothing. NOTHING> ... *turns back to Rei; GLARES* ...Chie? We're never gonna get our bodies back, are we? And you're gonna become a vampire. Oh, this is gonna su... wait, it already does. Sorry. * Chisanjya looks sadly at her boyfriend's body. "My optimism is at an all-time low right now." * Mamei sniffles. "Mine too." * Choria holds his head. "This just sucks." * Lazie drops the sword, and grabs the chain. "Right. If have be this way, do it this way." *looks up at the sky* "No been big on helping me, but little divine strength be nice now..." * Reizar blinks at Lazie. "WHAT?" 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazie (2d6) and gets 8. I knew I should have written that contract better... I coulda done that test. Go figure. He's the god of trickery. What'd you expect? It's like a... a... dammit, it's that old American book. We could do this so much better if we were ourselves, but we most likely wouldn't *have* to be doing this if we were ourselves. ( Lazie, gimme a str roll! You get to do opposed bodies with this guy. ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazie (2d6) and gets 10. [Lazie is fairly lifted off her feet as she's pulled towards the titan thing.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazie (2d6) and gets 7. [Lazie gets tugged across the line that wasn't there before.] [The Titan dances. "Blwargh! I beat puny humans!"] [Hermes smacks himself in the forehead.] * Lazie grabs the sword, spits, and walks back. [The titan dances out of the colleseum.] * Reizar puts his chin on his hand. Hermes: "Uhh... Well." "... Ok, who wants to try this time?" I could've done that. Hermes, man. You're not matching the test up to the champion. * Lazie claps sarcastically at Rei as he passes by, then looks at Asanjya. "Maybe heal Rei, so can try again?" She *can't* heal me. [He shrugs. "Not really, no."] ... I can't? Lazar, your normal body isn't exactly living. I doubt healing would have any effect on it. Not really. Healing rock's a lot harder than healing flesh. You'll wear yourself out before you do it. Can enough to let stand up. Worked bit last time. If no combat, just strength test, then just need healed bit. * Reizar eyes Lazie. "All right." But be careful. If you run out of juice, you'll probably die, and nobody wants that. No, we do not. ... Yeah, that'd be bad. * Asanjei nods. She floats over and attempts to heal Reizar! Hermes rubs his head and mumbles something about how mortals used to be much better at this. [Rei is able to stand! ... barely.] * Reizar pulls himself out of the hole, slowly. "All right. All right, I'll give it another try." Hermes: "Okay...." ... okay. Hermes, please let be strength strength test, no combat strength. Rei... no try talk to thing you need lift or pull. LIFT. PULL. * Chisanjya claps a few times. "C'mon, Rei! I'll bet you can do it this time." She *tries* to muster some enthusiasm. [Hermes walks over to Reizar. "Are you ready?"] Lazar? Shut up. * Lazie lets Rei know she's #1 as he sits down. * Reizar rubs at his forehead, then drops his hand. He looks pretty discouraged, but nods. "Yeah." * Reizar ignores Lazar. [Hermes pulls a huge stack of papers from out of nowhere and slams them down in front of Reizar. "Read all of these; that'll test your strength."] * Reizar blinks, then nods. "Sure thing, boss." And he gets to reading. Speed reading. * Choria blinks. Okay. That... works. ... Right. [Rei finds the task is not so easy. The papers are actually the complete collection of Gontercomics.] (*dies laughing*) (HA!) ( Whatcomics? ) (Cham, this is your fault, isn't it?) ( ... ) (...Ebil!) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 8. [After the first few pages, Rei's head starts to hurt.] ( Is it delicious? ) ( Gonterman comics = Teh suck. ) (Only if you like the taste of pain) * Reizar blinks a few times. "Oh my god, this isn't even bad in a funny way. It's just... argh." He tries to ignore the headache and keeps going. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 8. [After the next few pages, Rei's head is begging her to stop.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 11. [Rei is beginning to forget how to put words together to make a complete sentence.] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Reizar (2d6) and gets 7. (So she can talk like Lazar!) ( Eegh. ) [Rei can't take it anymore and collapses!] (... okay. This is seriously not cool.) Hermes: "...." * Reizar does so, just sorta... staring into nowhere. Rei? * Reizar opens his mouth. "Uh." That's about all that comes out. ... someone call Reidad. We going need find Kaira. * Choria holds his head. "Geeze man...." It's that bad? * Reizar nods, wordlessly. Hermes: ".... Unbelievable. The mortal race really was doomed after all." Hermes: "Okay.... Who's next?" No, that's just us. Hey, we're a heck of a lot more formidable when we're ourselves. The rest of the mortals are just fine, I'm sure. ( Did you insult Kirby or something, to get this bad luck? ) (We must have.) * Lazie looks back at the group helplessly. "Should I again?" No. (Unwittingly, even. I haven't insulted Kirby in days. ^_~) * Mamei looks at Asanjei. "You have a plan?" (There's no shame in collapsing after reading those comics.) * Choria shrugs. "You want to try, Asanjei?" Doesn't make sense to wear them out completely, does it? We've got two more trials. * Asanjei stands up, and walks out into the arena. "Can't hurt me too badly to try. Let's do this." [Hermes nods, and a hammer appears. The ball and chain type. "Hammer throw."] ( Now you're just taunting us, Brett. =P ) * Reizar looks at it, vaguely. "Astral." ( No, I'm just out of ideas. @_@ ) * Asanjei smiles. "I'll be just a moment." She walks back over and lays down, grinning at Rei. A moment later she pops up, all ghostly. * Asanjei is now known as GhostAsanjei * Reizar smiles, a little. * Chisanjya watches Asanjya lie down, though she can't see her astral form anymore. * GhostAsanjei walks back over, and "picks up" the hammer using TK. [Whuff. It's heavy. Asanjei can see a pole down at the other end of the colleseum. "Just try to throw it past that."] d3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d3) and gets 1. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for GhostAsanjei (2d6-1) and gets 2. [Asanjei wings the hammer past the poll. Hermes cheers. "Finally! For the love of me, that took forever."] * Chisanjya jumps up. "Yeah! You go, Asanjya!" * Choria nods. "Well, glad that's out of the way." * Reizar gives a thumbs up, then lets the arm drop. * Mamei grins. * GhostAsanjei flops down, not that you can see it. ~Whew.~ Thank the... [It goes past the pole, too. But the poll is more interesting, because it's a close race between Neptune and Ares.] * Chisanjya looks at Hermes. "You, actually." * Lazie rubs his forehead. (Poseidon? Greek. ^^) ( I crash now. ) "You're welcome." Thank you, Asanjya. (Neptune, Poseidon... they were the same guy) ( He feels like being called Neptune today, dangit. ) (Okay!) (He's a god, he can be called whatever he wants.) Thanks Asanjya. You too, Hermes. "Now, let's hope you can complete the next two challenges." Medic? * GhostAsanjei returns to her body, pops up, and tries to heal Rei just once more. * GhostAsanjei is now known as Asanjei Hermes: "The next is a test of wits. Are you ready?" Well, I'm out. Test of wits? That definately no me. Asanjya, Rei, or me should try this one. * Reizar rolls over and gets to his knees, then his feet. "Okay." He blinks a few times, then shakes his head. "Complete... sentences. Got it." Those comics suck. Yeah, they do. Chie, go for it. One of us will take over if you fail. I... gotta lay down for a bit. * Mamei grouses. Okay. Sorry. * Reizar rubs at his forehead, trying to remember who he is and what he's doing again. * Chisanjya walks up to wherever she's supposed to go. "Lay it on me." Not your fault, Rei, you weren't ready for it. I gotta be ready. * Lazie nods silently. Not if the swap works, you won't. Hermes zooms off, returning with a covered easel. He pulls off the cover, revealing a picture of himself, dressed as the Flash (Jay Garick). "Write a poem based on this painting."] * Asanjei chokes on an "Ugh." (Ha! I will insert the lyrics to The Ballad of Barry Allen here. Different Flash, but who cares? ^_~) * Reizar coughs into his hand. ( Bad Goth Poetry? ) (*plays the ballad*) 2d6\ (Err.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chisanjya (2d6) and gets 8. * Chisanjya eyes the painting for a short while. "Uh." And then she clears her throat and begins reciting. "I've got time to think about the beauty of a thousand variations of a beating of a wing of a hummingbird... uh... suspended in the world which is slower than molasses... and I'm off to catch the girl who is falling off a bridge... and, uh... and time keeps dragging on, and on..." * Chisanjya stops. "I suck. I'm sorry." (Hahaha!) Hermes: "Eh... It'll do." (*SNRK*) * Chisanjya eyes Hermes gratefully. "Thank you." (*turns that song on.) "Hey, I've got things to do too, you know." * Lazie pulls Chie flags from Chie's bag, waves them, then blinks. "You have flags with you face on them, Chie?" It was Seki's idea. Really strange advertising campaign. Don't ask. * Choria raises an eyebrow. "... Right." * Reizar gives that weak smile again. He's thudded on the ground. What's next, a tea party? I like tea. Me too, only I can't drink it. "Next is a challenge of your will." Challenge of will? Like what? "You'll see." * Reizar slowly gets back to his feet. We're waiting. "So am I. Who's your champion?" Me. What's happening? [This giant snake with two big round eyes appears.] Hermes: "Staring contest. First one to blink loses." (Awesome!) ( Gimme an init roll! ) d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjei (d6+6) and gets 10. d2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d2) and gets 2. * Asanjei staaaaaares at the snake. * Chisanjya would cheer, but she doesn't want to distract Asanjya. [Asanjei begins staring with the snake! Gimme a soul roll, Asanjei!] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Asanjei (2d6) and gets 6. [The snake stares back. For the longest time, this goes on. Then the snake blinks.] * Reizar cheers! Yeah! You rule, Asanjya! ^_^ Woo! We won! I think. * Choria smiles for once. "Good job!" * Lazie tacklehugs Asanjya. "If were not in Chie body, I kiss!" * Asanjei folds her arms, smiles, and nods. "That leaves just the fav -oof!" * Chisanjya watches herself tacklehug Rei's body. It's odd, but appropriate. * Lazie gets back up, and helps Asanjya up, grinning. * Choria smiles to Chie. * Chisanjya grins back at Chomei. * Reizar smiles, much more sedate than you figure he'd normally be. "Yeah." * Lazie turns to Hermes. "Favor is what left. Will do what takes." * Asanjei is helped up. She looks a little flustered. "... the favor." Hermes nods. "Yep. Just that." So, yeah? What is it? "Well.... I need you to take a letter to someone on earth." * Reizar blinks. "Who?" "He goes by Virgil." ... ... Virgil? Guy in silly opera mask? * Chisanjya stops smiling. "Him?" ... who? "Yeah, that's the guy." Great. Why did it have to be someone who's trying to kill us? Then again, who *isn't* trying to kill us? It matter? We give letter, let him read, then toss out window. Yeah, but how do we *find* him? Hermes isn't. ...not directly, anyway. * Lazie blinks, then looks up at Hermes. "Unless no want us to toss out window, of course." Oh, it doesn't matter. * Reizar looks confused for a while, then his eyes widen. "Aww, not him." * Lazie brightens. "Oh, good!" *chuckles evilly* Someone going to explain? ( Which, from Chie, sounds just ADORABLE! ) [Hermes produces a letter, rolled up and bound with a piece of string. "Just let him read this first. And don't open it."] Virgil is bad guy. Dressed in opera mask, cape, with cane. Use magik. (o/~ Defenestration, it takes coordination; defenestration, the game we all can play! o/~) He's someone that tried to kill us, once, and happens to be with a group that's involved in me dying. ... ah. Know where on Earth we can find 'im, Hermes? And out of curiosity, why him? "Nope. If I did, I'd give it to him myself." "Secret." So, we give, then you do you part? Or can you fix us and then trust us to go do it, because we will? "Oh, I'll get you the nectar in a few. I'm not too worried about you betraying me. If you do, I just inflict divine wrath upon you, is all." Oh, is that all. Well, since we won't betray you, we don't need to worry about it. Uh, yeah. Betraying gods? Bad idea. Is there anything else we need to do to find out how to get our bodies back, or do you have that covered, too? "Oh yeah. There's a guy I'll take you to meet. Of course, he'll want you to do something for him, too.... But I think I said that already." * Choria shrugs. Figured. That no so time dependant. Vampyrism is. One thing at a time. * Reizar nods. "Just wanted to know. That's all." Yep. Fix that first. Very important. (... That sounds like Lazar.) So, uh, what's the plan now? * ChanServ sets mode: +o DreaMwrite "I'll go getcha the nectar. Wait here, and don't bug any of the creatures." I dunno. I don't know where you met this guy. [Hermes speeds away. Like the Flash!] * Reizar thuds back on the ground again. Mmm, I think there's some old comic about that guy... * Chisanjya grins. "Laz, we're gonna do it! We're gonna get you and me fixed!" * Choria points at the painting. We wait for Hermes to get nectar... thank you, Mr. God sir... then talk to guy about body switch. Do what need do, then find Virgil before Hermes smite. We've got to stop Dracula, too. We're on a huge time limit for everything. * Lazie nods back at Chie. "I never doubt we get cu- well, no, I almost always doubt we cure. Nice be proven wrong." * Chisanjya looks at the painting. "Yeah, there was. And a song, too which I was trying to recite and kinda messed up... thankfully, I was granted divine mercy." * Lazie grins broadly. Hey, it wasn't that bad. * Reizar picks at his illusionary clothes. Sadly, they lack substance. * Choria smirks at Chie. "You could always go into poetry." * Chisanjya snickers. "No way, Chomei. Poetry is not my thing. It's bad enough I wear all black. Don't need poetry on top of it." * Mamei snickers. You're not casting aspersions on my spells, are you? * Asanjei grins. * Choria snickers. * Chisanjya grins. "Hey, I'm not wearing all black now, am I?" Uhm.... nope! That explains why you didn't spew bad goth poetry, then. * Reizar gives up on picking at the clothes. Nah. We really need to go do that again sometime. It was fun. Karaoke and goth-mocking. Gods, that seems like ages ago, doesn't it? * Asanjei floats. "We should probably think about where to look for this guy." Yeah. We had fun back then. 'Was nice. Well, if can find out where Ensof meet Mr. E, maybe find? Sure. That might work. I can't think of any other places offhand. I mean, we saw him at that tower, and then in the warehouse... have we even seen him since then? I might be able to find it. Ensof's not hard to notice, after all. * Choria nods. Could just ask him. It's not like Ensof's out of touch. Yeah, Laz, you've got his number, right? * Lazie nods. * Mamei shrugs. "He might not tell us." We have to contact him anyway so we can make plans for going to Transylvania. Ehh, bring money. Bring money, he'll talk. * Mamei shrugs. So now all we need is the nectar. Which Hermes is off getting. Hermes is gettin' it now. This is the fourth test. Patience. * Chisanjya chuckles softly. * Lazie checks his watch. "I can be very patient... to limit. Limit be about 48 hours from when bitten." * Asanjei floats on her back. Her tail twitches. "Even gods are subject to contracts. He'll be back." * Chisanjya sits. "Yeah." * Reizar rolls his eyes, but doesn't reply to Lazar. "Yup." * Mamei leans back against the wall and closes her eyes. (Feel the lame enter you, Maria!) [Hermes comes back, carrying a porcelean statue of the Buddha, with a straw in its belly. "Here you go! One Buddha of nectar."] ... Right. ... that is something I had never even pondered existed. * Chisanjya eyes it. "Nectar of the gods, huh? Nifty." ( Noooo! Not the lame! ;_; ) (The lame. THE LAME!) * Reizar giggles. "Cool. Thanks!" (It's okay. Soon it will be back where it belongs.) * Reizar brightens considerably now that the nectar's actually here. So, do we go check out the body-exchanging thing now, or take care of the vampirism? ... this have cross-religious symbol that make head hurt. I think it was easier being monotheist. No offense, Mr. Hermes God sir. None taken, boot-sucking heathen. Get them to work on finishing the potion, take care of body switch during that if it's fast, and then fix the vampirism. * Mamei gets up and walks over to the Buddha, looking it over. Wait, we can't, can we? We've got to go deliver the letter first. * Lazie bows to Hermes. [The Buddha is about 2 feet tall, and looks like it understands way more about the world Than You.] * Reizar shrugs. "Whatever order Hermes allows, I guess. We have to do it all fast, is all." * Choria shrugs. "I figure they could finish making the potion while we find Virgil." * Chisanjya is very, *very* willing to believe the Buddha knows more about the world than she does. * Reizar gives the Buddha a thumbs up, yo. Yeah. (Buddy Buddha?) * Mamei has no idea who the Buddha is, so she wonders why it's so smug. [The Buddha does not "thumbs up, yo." back. It's a statue.] [Or maybe a statuette.] * Chisanjya turns to Hermes and bows. "What would you prefer us to do?" Hermes shrugs. "There's no real rush on my part. As long as he gets that letter before the world implodes, it's all fine." Potion first, then. ...is that going to happen anytime soon? Hopefully not. And who do we go to see about the body-switching? Do we need to come back here? Nah. I can get my man to beam you up. So to speak. That'd be nice. How do we know you'll know to beam us up? He's a god. He knows. ...he's a god, and he'll know? Yeah, but he doesn't know where Virgil is! Uh, no offense, Hermes. Some people stick out. Some people blend in. * Choria nods. We no use magiks to hide from gods. Maybe Virgil do. We kinda stand out. Plus, he know to pay attention. * Lazie bows again to Hermes, then looks at the others. "Should hurry, make cure as soon as possible." Yeah. Definitely! * Mamei nods. * Choria nods too. * Reizar gets to his feet. "Yeah. Thanks a lot, Hermes." He smiles. "Can you beam us down?" So. Potion, Virgil, body-swap. We can do this, guys. Okay! * Chisanjya bows again to Hermes as well. "Thank you. I really, *really* mean that." "Hmm... Sure, I can do that." [Scene change! You're at the top of mount Olympus! The mortal one, not the god one. It's night, and stuff.] * Lazie checks Chie's watch. * Chisanjya eyes her surroundings. "Y'know, we probably should've specified the bottom." * Reizar lets out a sigh. "Okay. Let's see if I can get a reception up here." He pulls out his phone and dials Shigeru. Yup. [Rei gets reception.] * Choria folds his arms. * Lazie continues the check Chie's watch. =P * Reizar waits for a bit, then brightens. "Hi Dad! Yeah, this is Rei. No, we're not better yet. Yes! Yes, we got the nectar. Not really anything I did, but Asanjya and Chie totally kicked ass in those tests, and now we owe Hermes, but we know what we have to do and it's not that horrible." * Reizar pauses, listening. You can? You can? Really? * Chisanjya watches Rei. * Reizar is grinning. * Chisanjya grins, too? Okay, that's great! How long? * Choria raises an eyebrow. * Asanjei floats o/` All right. We'll be there, then. Thanks. Are you still gonna check on Kaira? Okay. I love you. Yeah. My voice freaks me out, too. Bye! * Reizar hangs up. What's your dad say, Rei? What's so joyful? * Reizar beams happily. "He said be at the private strip in the airport in six to seven hours and a plane or chopper will land - he's not sure yet - with a specialist that'll finish making your potion right then!" * Chisanjya jumps up. "All right!" Definitely a plus. We really did it! Good. And my phone has the best reception ever! There word in Japanese... what word... ah, yes. *pauses* w00t. So... now we have to get down the mountain. Yup! * Reizar starts doing that. Let's get going. * Choria starts heading down. * Chisanjya follows. Happy! Her body's not going to be a vampire! * Mamei follows! [And a down they go. The End!]