[Day: Tuesday, July 6th. Time: 9:00 p.m.] [Tom Cruise is the Last Samurai! But nobody cares. Right now you're heading to the secret underground city of the drow, led by the mysterious Ensof do'Urden, and.... Huh? Oh, right, city of the Et'Ada, led be just Ensof.] [You've fought a clown and passed a gate! Now it's time for... more walking! XD] [Session Start!] * Chie stows her sword back in her bag and takes a look around. "So we're not there yet?" * Rei doesn't walk. She hovers along a foot off the ground! What a rebel. * Chomei walks. "Nope." Don't make me turn this caravan around! * Lazar has his silver dagger out, and is attempting to cut the clown nose off his face. Don't try this at home, kiddies. At this point, it'd probably be more of a pain in the ass to head back than keep goin'. [Awareness checks, -1 bonus!] 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 6. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-1) and gets 6. ( And Lazar, medical science: surgery ) ( At +2 for doing it on yourself. :P ) (*snerk*) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-1) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6+2) and gets 11. [Lazar fails to remove the nose. He just gets a "HONK!" instead.] * Chie snickers quietly. [And everyone else sees around the next corner... daylight! You must be at an exit.] ... okay, this no working. * Lazar puts away the knife, sighs, and just keeps on walking. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-3) and gets 5. ( Made it. Sorry I took so long getting back. ^^; ) Sunlight? Are we on the other side now? It's still light outside? The grass is always greener on the other side. This is 'cause there's more sunlight, so it doesn't get all wilty and dead. ... Yeah. See, he agrees with me! * Rei points at Chomei. That's very profound, Rei. I thought so! I should teach a philosophy class. The philosophical nature of plants. And dead things! Some of which are plants, and others zombies. But zombies are technically undead. It's artificial. We're still underground. ...Wow. So it's a lot of light underground. Artificial sun... no suppose it work like real sun against vampyres? Ahh. That actually makes sense. It's light outside because the Et'Ada thought that 24 hours in a single day wasn't enough time, so they upped it to 36. Undead, maybe, but still dead. It's just another state of death, because if they're not alive, they must be dead! Right? Unless they're viruses. Cause, y'know, if you don't get enough sunlight you go crazy... although these people sound crazy enough... * Rei blinks, then looks at Ensof oddly. "Are you sure you guys aren't aliens who decided to fix your environment to fit your biological clock or something?" ... they up hours in day? How? Oh. ...wow. Makes for real long nights. I doubt it. You know, that's gotta be the strangest logic... ((don't underestimate the biological strains of vampire whose vampirism is based on viruses rather than supernatural power... they can be nasty)) * Ensof says to Lazar, "When you live down here cut off from the rest of the world, you don't need to care about what calandar they use." ... point. Jews have own calander, and we live up there. * Maria shrugs and keeps going. Oh yeah. Oh yeah what? So... is we going to get hostile 'Grr' reception, or hostile 'KILL!' reception? Well, I'm guessing it's gonna be a hostile reception. How hostile? Depends if they find out your a non-goldie. I'm wondering exactly what's going to be waiting for us. That gate *was* open... Oh. ...Rei, how do my contacts look? Okay, assume they no. What about rest of us? * Rei frowns a little. "I still don't get this gold-silver-bronze eye thing. Are there even many, or any, records of Et'Ada of different eye colors living to- huh? Okay." * Rei takes a look at Maria's eyes. * Maria tries not to blink. It like Nazis, but with gold eyes, instead of blue. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 8. Yeah, the ones who live are usually unholy bastards who get tossed into the surface world before the priests find out. Uh... I mean unholy bastards literally. No offense. * Chie just nods. See, there's always a priest around when a child is born. Or, there's supposed to be. * Chomei nods. And while I'm thinkin' of it... * Ensof hands his shades to Maria. "Here, you might wanna wear these, too." Anything special about those, or do they just cover your eyes? * Maria puts on shades. "Thanks." Does she look badass? Maybe. * Ensof shrugs. "They're normal shades. I guess I could put a spell on them or somethin' if you want." * Rei peers. Peeeers. My magic ain't that great, though. Your eyes are okay. * Rei grins. * Chie eyes Ensof curiously, then nods. Yep, gold eyes. They no going to react badly to me being magic construct? I'll tell 'em I built you. Act like you're my servant or something. * Lazar extends his arms out, and lumbers clumsily after Ensof. "Yeeees maaaaaster..." * Chomei snerks. Uh... Yeah, that'll do. * Chie snickers. * Maria blinks, then giggles. "That's silly, Lazar." And the rest of you just try to stay out of trouble and stuff, and hopefully they won't attack us on sight. I'll try not to look threatening. Do I look threatening to you guys? * Lazar cuts out the silliness, and resumes walking normally. "They no like idea of golem?" * Chie puts on her best innocent smile. It's probably doing more harm than good. * Chomei shrugs. "About as innocent as any of the rest of us. No offense." * Chie grins at him. "None taken." * Maria looks at Chie. "Uhm, I guess not. Do any of us look threatening? 'Scept Laz." Oh yeah, if anyone asks, you're some kinda new type of guardian, not a golem. Don't think they'd like it if a magic construct created by "lesser" magic was walking around their city. ( o/~ I'm not that innocent... o/~ ... this is for your own good. *KILLS CHIE* ) ( I'd kill myself first, thank you very much. >_<) ( I may have Questionable Taste in Pretty Much Everything, but I'm not *that* bad.) * Rei beams at Chie. "You look about as threatening as me." She curls her fingers into claws. "Death, death, destruction!" ... they consider power of God 'lesser magic'. Wow. That impressive ego. *shrugs* No problem, though. * Chie grins at Rei. "Rar." Rar! Anyhow. Let's get our perfectly non-threatening selves going. * Maria giggles. Uh... Don't even mention God. Unless it's one of their gods. Big no-no. What are their gods? * Lazar nods at Ensof. Uh... Lemme see if I can remember. It won't really be a problem, will it? Most of us can just say we weren't raised here, we wouldn't know? Or would that be bad? Maybe we should just not mention religion. * Chie nods. "Yeah. It probably won't come up. I'm just curious about it." That sounds good. There's Al'Tana, Goddess of light. She's probably the most popular of 'em, what with showing up every so often to tell people the right stuff to do. Wait, these gods show up all the time? Not much faith stuff going on, huh? There's her brother, Qwerty'uiop, God of darkness... he was banished or something by the other gods, though. (*cracks up*) Eh, just a few of 'em. (Can I call him Uiop?) Like K'rby, Creature God of Food. Nobody's sure he even exists. They show up? Do they, like, help orphans that're being hunted and stuff? Of course not. Oh. Then what good are they? Then what... yeah. * Rei nods. They give the Et'Ada really powerful spells and crap like that. Ooookay. ... sometimes, I wonder if, since God no help protect people, what good he. Questions like that is why people loose faith. Oh. Lame. Anyway, what're they they gonna do when they see us? Point and stare? Pretend we're not there? Give us change because we look so bad? I think it's a big mystery, 'cause guests don't come over for dinner very much at all ever. Hopefully it won't involve yelling "BURN THE HERETICS!" Probably just treat you like dirt or something. Oh, well, I'm used to that! Same here. In fact, that makes it easier to steal from them. And here I thought I'd gotten away from that. * Maria grins. * Chomei smirks. I made from dirt. So what big deal? [You (finally!) turn the corner! It's a whole lot brighter! The corridor goes on for a bit more, then widens into a huge area taken up by what must be the city. The buildings are made of what looks like a clear, non-transparent crystal. They're fairly tall, averaging to about 10 Lazars high. There seems to be vertical walkways that people use to go up them, too, and get off at whatever floor they feel like.] I thought you were rock, Laz. Does this mean I can plant a flower in you? [The largest structure is an emerald green citadel that reaches waaaay up into the artificial sky.] (It's the Emerald City! Kinda.) Rock is dirt. So if I rock, I dir- wow. ...oooo. * Chie blinks. "Wow. Pretty!" * Rei squints, shielding her eyes and looking around. * UpLink has joined #besm Baa * Maria grins goofily. "I wanna steal their buildings." (And it has sheep!) ( Shh! Game! ) (Moo) [There's a wall surrounding the city. And when I say wall, I mean a reddish-orange transparent barrier that reaches all the way to the sky. There's a gate right at what must be the main road of the city.] And there ya have it. * Rei points out the citadel. "Time to see the wizard and get Chomei a clue!" * Chie laughs. "But where's the yellow brick road? Looks like the Wizard of Oz. * Maria doesn't get that one. ... very nice city. Too bad it filled with magic nazis. Yeah, sucks how that works out, isn't it? We already took care of the magic nazis, though. * Rei floats higher, getting a better view. Ooh. * Ensof looks up at Rei. "Might not wanna do that." * Chie looks at the city again. "I wonder what it's made of..." It's gorgeous. I could make fantastic stuff with those materials if I just knew what they were. * Rei yelps and goes down closer to the ground. "Would they shoot me? I don't like being shot at. I think it'd cause a big case of dead, if not rash." I wonder what it's made of would sell for. No shoot. Probably lob nasty magiks, though. * Ensof nods. "Wouldn't try the whole flyin' thing at all." I think idea is to keep low profile. Oh. Should I not walk on walls while I'm here? Depends. If you wanna pretend to be a human, than no. * Chomei nods. Oh. Uhm. * Rei ends up landing on the ground. She pouts. "Okay, no flying." So... uhm. Hm. What do we do when we get to the gate? I'm guessing Ensof opens it. Right? Aww. ... so, we go in, warn that Dracula looking for and coming for them... then what? [As you approach the gate, you see four women and one man. The women are wearing boots, shorts, haltars and helmets that resemble pyramids. They all have plain-looking bracers, and two of them carry what looks like two-pronged pitchforks, with a fork-bit on each end. They're all extremely pretty.] [The man is wearing a red robe with thick shoulder plates and a cape. He's got a silver headband around his head and long blond hair. He's bishonen!] * Lazar frowns slightly, then calms himself and tries to get into the role of 'servitor guardian'. [And on either side of the gate is what looks like a golem that's twice as big as Lazar. Oh, and the limbs and head aren't connected to the torso; they just float there. The 'head' itself is just a sphere, with no features at all.] Weird. * Chie blinks but says nothing. ( It's like a Neverwinter Nights Iron Golem! ) ( No, that's the Stone Golem. Iron Golem was all one piece, like in the Monster Manual. ^_~ ) ( Chomei, gimme a sight check at +4! ) * Rei peers around. Yeah. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 8. (Nope.) [As you approach the gate, you get *eyed*.] * Maria fidgets. * Chomei shrugs. * Chie tries to keep a neutral expression. She's pretty much used to being looked at like a freak. ( Oh, I forgot to mention this, but the clothes the women are wearing aren't actually clothes; it's armor. ) ( Really unprotective armor, but armor nonetheless. ) * Rei beams madly and doesn't look out of place at all. Well, she does, but she doesn't look like she cares. (Nah, the less armor covers, the better it is. ;p) (Law of Anime Physics?) ( Only in Final Fantasy ) (Yep.) * Lazar just stays a step behind and to the right of Ensof. * Gateguy gestures off in your direction and says something that you can't hear to the women, and then starts walking your way, arms folded behind his back. The two unarmed woman flank him a bit behind, and the other two climb partway up the walls as they approach. * Ensof mumbles, "And away we go." And then approaches as casually as he always does. * Chie keeps her hands at her sides and makes no threatening movements. * Maria stuffs her hands in her pockets. * Rei coughs and tries to assume a neutral expression. She succeeds! Go her. * Chomei keeps a neutral expression too as he follows. Wow, this isn't hard at all. (We wonder why. ;p) * Gateguy says, "Well, what have we here?" in apparently whatever language each of you understands best. There's no accent or anything. * Chie blinks, because he seems to be speaking perfect Japanese. * Rei blinks, too. * Chomei doesn't blink. Go him. * Maria blinks. ( Everyone but Lazar and Chomei dies due to blinking overdose. ) (Nah, we've still got plenty left. Haven't even reached fifty yet, I think.) ( I have no eyelids! HAHA! ) * Ensof waves casually. "Hey. I'm a citizen. Bringin' some guests in." * Rei flicks her tail. * Gateguy snorts. "Uh huh. I haven't seen you before, stranger." * Ensof frowns and looks back at the others. "Well damn, there went my best plan." * Maria stares at Ensof. * Lazar doesn't react. He doesn't smack Ensof upside the head. He's a good servitor guardian, yes he is... * UpLink has quit IRC (Quit: It's not extortion if they pay you before you have properly threatened to kill them. ) * Rei looks puzzled. "Uh. I thought you are a citizen." * Chie does not have any evil plans. But she doesn't have any good ones, either. Was, babe. Was. Uhm... what about the vampire? It's obviously been this way? * Chomei raises an eyebrow. * Gateguy points accusingly. You feel accused! "I see mostly supernaturals. Perhaps you're with the skeletons and zombies from earlier." * Gateguy snickers. "From the looks of things, you'll be just as easy to dispatch, too." * Chie realizes that without Asanjya, she's the only human there. Huh. Weird. Skeletons and zombies? Why, no. We're their sworn enemies. Hey! I'll have you know that just because I have a skeleton in me, that doesn't mean I'm undead! I mean, everyone needs bone structure unless they're crustacean or use cartalidge or something. Oh please. You gotta be joking! I'm one o' you guys. * Ensof points at his eyes. "See?" That's why we've come here. 'Cause we're the enemies of the vampire lord that sent the zombies and skeletons, and we want to help you against their plans. Wrong. You live on the surface world. You'll never be one of us. * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger * Chie manages to keep herself from saying, "Yes, because he's actually intelligent." Hah. As though we need help with such trivial matters. They weren't even an ample warmup for our troops. See, this was just a little raid to test your strength. They'll be sending the competent ones next time. * Ensof sighs and mutters, "Alright, still got one more card to play. Hope it works." Look, is the name of your commander still Etal'daer? Tell 'er Er'Kresen is here. You have the gall to ask to speak with a person of such authority? * Ensof smirks. "Better do it quickly. She's got quite a temper, and I just know you won't hear the end of it any time soon if you delay." * Gateguy frowns. He says something to the woman on his left, and she vanishes like ninja. Complete with ninja-y sound. [A few seconds later, she comes back and whispers something to the gate guy.] * Chie watches. * Rei fidgets. Just a little. * Gateguy gives a surprised look, and says something back. The woman shurgs helplessly, so he turns and says, "Alright. Er'Kresen, the commander will see you. Your guests-" Heavy disdain emphasized on 'guests' "- are to wait in the city until you finish your conversation and leave, whereupon your fates will be decided. Thought that'd change your tune a bit. * Lazar tilts his head to Ensof. "Master? Need I come with you?" * NeremWorld has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) * Chie is not entirely sure she likes the part about "fates will be decided." * Rei looks at Chie. "No wonder this guy's the public relations officer." No kidding. * Ensof turns back to the rest of you. "Alright, I'm gonna be busy for a bit. Try to stay out of trouble until I smooth things over. And no, Lazar. You stay here with the rest. Make sure they don't do anything stu- uh, anything that might leave an unfavorable impression. * Chomei shrugs. If we're supposed to stay in city hall, where's that? Don't got one. She said the city, not city hall. She's waiting. And does he mean the lobby, or can we meander wherever? I assume the first, since this sounds like one step short of a jail cell, if you guys have things like- oh, okay! * Lazar nods. "Yes, master." * Ensof walks towards gate guy. "Alright, alright. I'm coming." * Gateguy speaks with one of the women, who leaves to guide Ensof, and they vanish into the city. He then turns to you. "If Er'Kresen's most honorable (which doesn't say much) guests would care to check in at the gate...?" Sure thing. * Maria fidgets again. "Uhm... I guess." * Chie heads for the checkin point. * Lazar lumbers to the check-in point. * Maria walks along to the check-in point. * Rei nods. "Okay!" She heads that way. "I wonder if they have a guest book asking for comments as to hospitality. 'Are we doing a good job?'" * Chomei walks to the check-in point too. Maybe a bowl of mints, too. Chocolatey mints! Prolly n--mints! * Gateguy heads back to the gate and waits there. "While in our beautiful (fargreaterthananythingyoustupidsurfacedwellerscouldbuild) city, you are required to wear these identification notices." He holds out what must be the Et'Ada version of "Hello! My name is _____" stickers. Your names are already on them. * Rei takes hers and peers at it. "Heeey, how'd you know my name?" ( And just a side note, he's not actually saying the stuff in parentheses. That's just the impression you get :P ) (Oh, that's fine. I like the parens. ^^) ...I have to tell people my name? * Lazar takes his, and silently afixes it to himself somehow or other. * Chie takes it, is pleased to see that they have her as Chie and not Chieko, and sticks it on. You do not have the authorization (or dignity) to have that question answered. * Maria scowls and looks for one with her name on it. [Maria doesn't see one!] Oh. What do I have to do to get said authorization? * Rei sticks it onto her sleeve. * Maria grins. "I guess not, then." You can't. Well, that sucks. [There actually is, if anyone cares to check, an extra nametag.] * Maria blinks at the last nametag. Okay. I'm nameful. Who's the last one for? There is one for each of you. If you do not know your own names, I can't help you." * Chomei takes his nametag and puts it on. "Gotta love living here, eh?" * Rei picks up the last one and hands it to Maria with a smile. Not really a grin, but a smile. "Here you go." * Maria blinks, and grins widely as she puts on her blank nametag. [It's not actually blank.] (What language is it in?) * Rei peers, trying to read it. ( Whatever language you speak best :P ) * Maria does not grin widely, then. What's written on it? (I meant Maria's.) [It says Mu'Yei] (*nearly dies*) (*cracks up*) (Hahaha!) Hey, that's not your name. I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's not mine. I think I'd know? It would be advised that you stay out of the way of the populace and obey our laws, for there are harsh penalties for not doing so. Um, okay! What are the laws? Yeah, sure. Laws. Right. You do not have the authorization to recieve a response to that question. [The gate opens!] Enjoy your stay. (I am getting visions of the It's a Small World parody in Shrek, somehow. I cannot think of the kingdom's name.) * Rei wanders through the gate, then. As soon as she figures the guy's out of earshot, she half-whispers, "I think he's a robot." We won't, but I'm sure that won't bother you much. * Lazar steps inside the gate, walks a bit away from the guard post, and stands. * Chie mutters. "Don't touch anything, don't look at anything, don't breathe funny..." Don't breathe at all! You'll pollute their air. ( Chie figured it out! ) * Rei waggles her fingers at Chie. "The air, the air!" * Chomei rolls his eyes. "... Right." Yes. The horror. Still think he's a robot. * Maria eyes her nametag and puts it on her shoulder. Whatever. A non-breathing robot, even! Yes! So he doesn't pollute their air! [Inside, you see... People! Very pretty people. The women are gorgeous, the men are bishonen. It's a city of bishi!] ( Gimme mind rolls! ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 10. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 6. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 7. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6) and gets 9. The Master would want us to stay here and do nothing that might offend anyone. * Chie hmms softly. "You guys notice that all their fighters seem to be women, like the ones who met us at the gate?" * Lazar makes little hint-hint gestures. * Rei blinks. "They are?" She looks around. Yeah. Wearing highly impractical armor, but I guess it works well enough for them. ...weird. Hey, actually, yeah. The commander's a woman too, right? It's probably a matriarchal society... well, maybe all the mages are men. Or the priests, yeah. Mages, priests, same difference. It's the source of their POWER! Or some of it. Or something. * Chomei shrugs. * Maria blinks. "What's matriarchal mean?" Well, Ensof did say that their main deity was a goddess, so... Ruled and lead by women, Maria. * Rei reaches into her backpack, pulls out BOX, boots up, and starts taking notes. Oh. Then why'd that guy treat us like dirt? We're chicks, shouldn't he, like, bow and scrape or something? Yeah, but we're outsider chicks. Oh. Lame. * Rei scoots over to an out of the way spot and has a seat while she does that. "But hawt outsider chicks." Outsiders are beneath their notice. Yay for gender equality there. * Lazar eyes the people warily, but just stands there like a good servitor would. They should treat all women the same. It'd become real popular as a vacation spot. * Chie grins at Rei. "You know it." * Chie sits down next to her. Hopefully they're not in a No Sitting zone. * Maria sits also. On the floor, no less. Hey, at least they eat fruit around here. Yay sucrose! But I'm probably not authorized to ask them for some. Probably not, and I haven't got any on me. * Rei reaches into her backpack, pulls out a banana, peels, and eats. She goes back to typing with her free hand. But you're smart and thought ahead! * Rei furrows her brow. "Eew." Eew? * Rei eyes the banana. "No, that's not it." She looks around. They crossbreed chickens with mango! Probably with magic. Eew. I'd like to note this place sucks. ...how is that even *possible*? [Rei gets no internet down here!] * Rei points with the banana in a seemingly random direction. "That way!" * Rei goes back to her computer. She doesn't seem to mind, as she wasn't going on the 'net. Do you get a feathered mango that clucks? I have no idea. It's classified! [In that case, Kirby just says "Hiiii!"] Do not litter. They would likely punish it with death. * Chomei shrugs. Maybe it's an orangish-colored chicken. I wasn't planning on it. They probably punish everything with death. Why the hell am I actually thinking about how that would work? Because it's fun and entertaining and those chickens are people, too! We probably rank about even with the chickens here. * Rei pauses. Probably has a consistency similar to Jell-O, come to think of it. Jell-O with those little pear bits in it. Really? Because both mangoes and chicken are more solid than that. Yeah. Are we authorized to peck the ground? Yes, but if you were to put in half the required amount of water, it'd come out about firm enough. * Chie considers that. "But how do you get the water in?" * Maria gets lost in this conversation and just reads over Rei's shoulder. * Rei is just typing up theories and observations of the place. It's pretty random. I wonder if taking pictures is legal. Do they have a no flash photography rule? Will it screw with their animatronics? * Chie pokes Rei in the shoulder. "Do you give it to the chicken, or soak the mango in it, or what?" * Rei yipes. "Yes! Mangochickenbath!" Okay! I'm glad we got that cleared up. It's porous! [And so they sat on a corner for a while.] * Lazar just stands stock still. It's not hard for him. [Session End!]