[Having made sure everything was right as rain, you returned to the Sanctuary, where Jack Frost greeted you with a shrug and a "False alarm. Hee ho!" Then you got to rest for a bit til he called you back the next..... well, til he called you back in later.] ( Told you it wouldn't be a problem. :D ) [Anywho, Frosty's waiting in the main chamber. Aight? Start] * Logan yawns and stretches, for no particular reason. * Josh yawns as well as the damn things are contagious. "Damnit, now you've got me doing it." * Logan gives himself a point. [Jack Frost yawns and stretches. It sounds like "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....... ho."] * Billie teleports in with a puff of smoke. ~Where's the fire?~ She looks around. ~No fire.~ And turns into her pink-haired self, with the tattoos and shorts and all. * Logan , trying to be helpful, lights a cigarette. We do have this lifetime supply of snowman. "Where in this case, lifetime means... something else." * Yoshiko sighs, sitting at a table and inscribing something on the cards she carries around with a fine pen-like instrument. "Mmmm?" Afterlifetime! Since we're not quite dead. In the proper sense. Hey. Didn't that Frostyjack person ask us to go see him? * Logan bares his fangs. He's over there. * Josh points. [Jack nodnods. "Hee ho!"] * Yuki silently flies over to Jack. "What's the matter, Frostyjack?" ["Remember when I heed you back and told you it was a false ho?"] * Raxa walks into the room slowly, idly juggling a solid brown ball with bare feet. Kick kick knee kick. Sorta. I was pretty outa it by the time we got back. * Yuki tips her head to the side. "Yes?" * Billie looks at Raxa. "Hey, are you practicing soccer or what?" (The ball is filled with the souls of the innocent) ["Turns out it's not. Hee ho!" Jack Frost spins on one foot like a ballerina, then throws a palm into the air. A semi-transparent globe appears above him. It appears to be Earth.] * Yoshiko finishes scribing one of the cards, laced with gold and silver 'ink', and sets it off to dry. She picks up another card and starts working on it. * Logan gets more interested. "Hey, that looks familiar." * Raxa looks over at Billie and grins slightly. "Well, this place is very boring. But no, I don't know what soccer is." She catches the ball off a kick and brushes her hair back. "A game with a ball." * Yuki looks at the Earthlusion. It's called football on the rest of the planet... * Josh looks over. "Yeah, that's the one." * Billie blinks at the globe. "Hey, that's... home. What's going on?" [Jack gestures. "Master Zomegar heed an idea. A way to restore his power, ho."] Football? I remember hea- what's this about power? So he's unstuck enough to talk now? That's good. I think. * Raxa looks over at their 'home' and mms. "A good thing for the invisible god." ["No no no. The big hee wants you to find something for him."] "Ooh, a retrieval job, I used to get those all the time." * Billie folds her arms and shifts her weight. "Okay, what's he want us to find?" ["Seven objects of such incrheedable power that even the biggest of the big hos want them. And if you get them all together, you get power unimaginable! Hee ho!"] There wouldn't happen to be a list with their names, descriptions, and current owners, would there? ["There is! Hee ho!"] Sweet. ["There's just one problem. Hee doesn't ho where it is."] * Josh facepalms. Well... That doesn't help. * Logan also facepalms * Raxa squints. "So we're... not worrying about interfering in this world, are we?" * Billie doesn't. "That's kinda a given. I mean, if he knew where it was, other people would know where it was, and it all would've been found, right." ["No ho. I'll get to that."] * Yoshiko stops what she's doing for a moment, then goes back to engraving the card. Other people arn't gods, and I had to hope. ["The big hee doesn't know where it is, but his brother Zrho is one of the keepers."] Of the list, or of the items? ["Of the list. He or one of his heevas should be able to tell you how to find the ho."] Maybe both? Oookay, and how well do they get along? ["Maybe!"] ["Um..." Jack folds his hands behind his back and kicks the ground. "Not very. Hee ho!"] Riight. Is that they're going to try and kill us for showing up, or just make our lives miserable for asking "not very?" Oh, I know this. They'll ask for a 'favor', which could very well turn into a huge fetch-quest for some macguffin that doesn't even exist. And then we find it, and when we give it to them, they're like 'Idunno.' ["I don't heenk so. Actually, if the master's guess is correct, the ho probably has a similar problem. Hee might be stuck in his Sanctuary too!"] ["Which is why you need to find his heeva."] "...who is on Earth." ["Ho? This isn't Earth."] Where is it? Sure looks like Earth. * Josh conjurs up some asprin as he feels a headache coming on. ["Earth-N! Hee ho! Zhro likes to make copies of Earth, changing a few things in history to hee ho it plays out differently."] * Billie scratches at the back of her head. "So... he likes playing "what if" games instead of making worlds of his own? Whatever floats your godly boat, I guess." And... what makes this Earth different than the one we're from? [Jack nodnods. "Hee ho!"] * Raxa chuckles, glancing over the Earthicans as she says, "And here I thought I would learn about what sort of place made you." "Who knows, maybe this is Yoshiko's Earth." [Jack gestures, and the continents turn red. A swastika appears over each continent. "The Nazi's won. Hee ho!"] ( Gimme awareness checks! ) * Yuki has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer) (Does sight count?) (hearing/sight related?) ( Sight ) ( +2 bonus ) 2d6+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Logan (2d6+11) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 17. 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Raxa (2d6+7) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 13. 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Josh (2d6+4) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 11. * Yuki has joined #MCDC 2d6+13 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Yuki (2d6+13) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 21. [Anyone who got above 12 notices a slight blue area in central Europe. It's just about the size of Germany. In fact it's got a tiny German flag over it, so it probably is Germany.] (brb phone) (So, everybody but me! XD) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Billie (2d6+8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 17. (Ooh, I made it!) (Yeah, but I have no idea what it _means_.) (Same here!) * Billie peers. "No way, he let the fucking Nazis *win*?" ( Truely a tradgedy ) What's a Nazi? [Jack nods. "Hee ho!"] * Raxa nods slightly with Yuki. "It's an awkward word." ... Buncha assholes that tried to take over the world a hundred and fifty years ago. Got stomped by the rest of the fucking planet. Yeah. They were a political party that ran Germany during World War 2. Responsible for some of the most terrible crimes, like, EVER. And some really sickening ideology. If the Nazis won, they probably exterminated entire races of people. ["What happened was he gave them genetic engineering technology early, hee. They created super soldiers and overpowered the other hos."] Why did he do *that*? Oh right, he was fucking around. Didn't the US roll out with the bomb, or didn't they have enough time? So, what we've all gotta be two meters tall and blond to fit in? * Billie mutters, "Hitler wasn't." (The non-Earthians must be so confused. :D) * Raxa rubs the back of her head and then kicks the ball back towards her door, it bouncing off one edge of the doorway before landing in the room. ["It was never heeveloped. The genetic program hovershadowed all other science."] (back. Also incidentally, I hate e-mail) ["And the Nazis were the only hees who had it!" Jack points at Germany. "Well, until some hos rebelled with the same technology."] * Yuki IS confused. Hey, uh, where are the other Axis powers in this? Like Italy and... um, Japan? (*stands up, shakes fist. "JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!) ["After the Nazi's defeated the other hees, they turned on all their hos."] * Logan sighs. "This is what I get for bringing up Hitler the first time we all got here." Ha! ["Every hee is under their control now, except for this ho." He points at Germany again.] Why there? ["The hees were able to ho out."] * Raxa mms, glancing at Billie, then comments, "They seem... very outnumbered." * Josh peers at the map and for the first time notices the blue spot. "Wait, they lost their own damn country? That's hilarous." "Wait, so Germany rebelled against the Nazis? That's rich." [Jack nods.] * Billie tilts her head, but she's still looking kind of sulky. ["But heectually, you hos should be looking here!" Jack swivils the globe and points. To New York.] * Logan grins. "Ah good, I like New York." What about it? ["This hee is the largest prison in the Nazi-controlled hoatories. It's where the send all the heenetically modified hos."] So what're they in prison for. [Jack waves his arms. "If the heeva can't report to Zrho, he's probably ho'd up in here."] [Jack shrugs. "Breaking the law."] ... I think I'm missing a step here, but keep going. 'kay, so we're talking, like... both rebels and baby rapers or something. "It's Ryker's Island." * Yuki looks at Raxa. "Do you understand anything about what's going on?" [Jack nods. "Nazi law is very strict, ho."] ["Many of the inmates might just have been in the wrong hee at the wrong ho."] * Raxa looks over at Yuki. "I... think the flow makes sense, but all I know is that this is wrong to them." * Raxa looks back at the map. "But all we need to do is find the deva. Are they... genetically modified so we won't be odd to them?" To Raxa: "Basically, the evil bad guys won and took over the world. They put a lot of people in jail. The Deva is probably in jail. Supernatural people are put in a special jail. That's probably where the Deva is. " ["Sort of, but I wouldn't reheal your true hos to them."] How much of the general population is genetically modified? ["Genetic hodification can only hee so much to a person. Your ho forms would bring a lot of unwanted attention."] They probably made everybody two meters tall and blond. Fucking master race and all. ["I'm not sure. Hoficially only the upper echelons of society are allowed to have it done, but you can find it underground heeasily. Heence the criminals and need for a ho-ding facility."] * Raxa looks at Josh oddly. "That's the second time that's been mentioned... how does that matter to them?" * Logan squints his eyebrows. "Jack... how long has it been since WWII?" * Raxa chuckles. "Being tall is nice, true, but... everyone a blond?" They thought the perfect human was tall, with blond hair and blue eyes. Errands or something they called 'em. * Yuki giggles. "Well, at least Yoshiko will blend in now." * Billie looks at Raxa. "One of the things the leader of the Nazi party preached, back in World War 2, was that there was this Aryan race - this group of people with blond hair and blue eyes, mostly, that was flat out better than everyone else." That was the word! [Jack tilts his head. "I don't heenk they've actually done that, ho."] (Was that answering my question, or someone else's?) * Raxa looks back at Bille and replies, "Oh... his tribe was all the same?" ( What question? :o ) (09:54:56 PM) ***Logan squints his eyebrows. "Jack... how long has it been since WWII?" * Josh snorts. "He was this ugly little brown haired midget with terrible mustache." ( Oh ) * Billie nods. "Yeah. But anyway, Hitler said that his, uh, tribe was the superior tribe. And they had to put others in their place. And Germany was in such a shitty shithole of a situation thanks to World War 1 that people believed it." ["Ho? It's 2102 there, too."] * Raxa mms and says, "Well, that is how people are. But you all seem... very bothered." So he got lots of power, and stuff, and eventually started exterminating Jews and Gypsies and it was REALLY terrible. "About 160 years of Nazi rule. Do they have flying cars yet?" Like sent them off to be mass executed, hundreds of innocent people at a time... Trying to take over the world and loosing tends to get a lot of people pissed off at you, and that's before all the genocide. * Billie bites her lip, then adds, "I really have a hard time believing this god's a good guy, even if he's a god and so exists on a different moral scale or something..." (...losing) (I can't spell. You'll get used to this.) [Jack tilts his head. "I don't heenk ho."] To Billie: "Think of it like a scientist creating a bunch of different petri dishes with slightly different concentrations of food and bacteria and seeing how they turn out. It doesn't make it good from the bacteria's point of view, but I think we're working on a different scale here." I'm with Yoshiko on this. You guys really need to take things easy. The whole 'War' thing, that is. His Deva's in prison, I'm not sure how much of that is evil and how much is just stupidity. * Logan chuckles ["Hoo.. He made a lot of different worlds." Jack gestures, and more Earths appear. "On this hee Napoleon conquered Europe and Asia. And on this Ho Atilla the Hun conquered Europe and the Americas were never discovered. Over on this hee Alexander the Great took over. And in this ho the black plague killed everyone east of the Atlantic."] * Raxa rubs her head and looks back at Billie. "Well, I don't think I really understand, but we have time." It sounds like he likes to have people take over. Or kill lots of people. It sounds like the old ways. * Logan turns back to Jack. "So, morality aside, our goal here is to get into the prison, free the Deva, and bring... him? her? ... back here? Or is there some other objective once the jailbreak is complete?" Get the list! "Well sure, I meant a more immediate objective. I suppose we ask the Deva at that point." [Jack shakes his head. "All you hees need to do is find the ho and ask him where the MacGuffin tablet is."] "Can we break him out while we're at it?" ["Then the MacGuffin tablet will lead you to the Seven Sinseals!"] "I mean, just as a courtesy?" He're a brilliant idea, we let him out in exchange for the tablet. "Ooh, I like the way you think." We get paid and you get to act like a hero. "So... what does he look like? What's his name?" * Raxa grins and hits Josh on the arm. "You and your 'payed'." [Jack tilts his head. ".............................. I dunno. Hee ho!"] * Logan facepalms again. "Somehow, I knew you were going to say that." "So... what do you know?" A man's gotta have his priorities. ["You hos need to figure out a way to get yourselves arrested without getting killed doing it. Hee..."] That should be easy. We can't ask someone 'Hey, are you a Deeva'? They'll be all 'YES, LET ME OUT OF HERE!' or they'll call the guards or something. And Devas don't show themselves very readily. If they're as strict as you say, we can probably get thrown in for fuckin' jaywalking. Although wait, don't we have to have genemodding to get tossed into that prison? Maybe you could put on some bunny ears! * Raxa looks at Jack Frost very strangely. "Why can't we just go there? Do they care that we aren't supposed to be imprisoned?" So do that invi... I like her idea better. I don't know. Maybe they'll think we're breaking someone out. * Logan frowns. "I don't think I'm comfortable with our first plan being 'Get arrested and thrown into the prison specifically designed to hold more powerful people than normal.' That's a good way to get stuck." "You know, like the other Deva we're going in after. Why don't we try to break the other Deva out, and then if that doesn't work we'll probably get arrested and thrown in anyway!" [Jack shrugs. "I don't know, but if they find undocumented prisoners in their prison, who knows what the hos will do?"] "I'd rather pretend to be a guard myself. But I bet the hiring process takes forever." What about that 'not dying' part, though? [Jack says, "But I do know that finding one heeva in a ho that huge will be tough enough as is. If you hees let them know you don't belong their, it'll only get tougher, ho."] I think they'd kill us if we tried to break someone out. I don't know about you, but I'm not eager to experience death again. * Logan sighs. "So... how do we pretend we're gene-modded? Any chance they throw other people in there too, like people who desecrate the swastika? ["Well, once you find the heeva and have the information, you hos don't have to worry about being discrheet."] And we can BLOW STUFF UP! This'd be easier if we knew what we were looking for, Hey, can we teleport into Zro...oog?'s place and ask him what the hell he's got for a deva? [Jack nods at Logan. "They do, but you could end up in a minor facility too. Hee ho!"] * Yoshiko finishes with her card and walks back. "So. We need to be subtle and sneaky. Why do we need to be subtle and sneaky?" "Yeah, seriously. Why doesn't the other Deva just teleport out?" ["Hee probably can't. Just like Jenner on Lendria, ho."] "So we just have to hope we don't get stranded like they did. Joy." That'd suck. [Jack tilts his head. "Wellllll...."] Yeees? * Logan raises his eyebrows. ["Whoever did this to the master, ho... I don't think he thought about the heevas. Master Zomegar was known for not involving himself in mortal affairs. They probably didn't think to block all his access."] ["He never even had heevas before you hos."] He's been poofed, right? Why would they care? I wouldn't care. * Billie is just silent. And thinking. "So what are the chances that they suddenly realize what we're doing and take away our access?" ["I don't ho... But until they do, I don't think you hees will be stranded."] ["And the best chance of stopping them is finding the Sinseals. Hee ho!"] So, no acting like devas instead of genemodd freaks, check. 's cool, we can still assassinate some assholes. * Logan sighs. "And we have no information about the other deva whatsoever, not even a name?" Don't overdo it. We don't wanna make too many waves unless it's worth it. Like blowing up a square kilometer. That'd totally be worth it. [Jack shakes his head. "No, but Zhro only has one heeva on this world, ho, and hee's probably being held in this prison."] "...how many other people are being held in the prison?" ["A lot. The prison is the size of New York City, hee ho!"] Like. How big? How big is a city? Ten mill give or take? * Logan sighs. "Really, really big." Ten... million? That's... that's a lot of people. "So Jack... do you have any information about this Deva, or Devas in general, or Zhro, or the prison, or how our powers work, or anything that would help us locate one person in 10 million? In a prison?" Is that including familiars and animals or not? That's just the people. ["I don't think there's that many people there, hee."] Then his New York's smaller than mine. "So they don't cram them in as tightly in a prison as they did in the actual city. That's nice of them." ["Well, it's not a city anymore, ho."] If they did, I'd guess people would break out? I don't know how you'd fit ten thousand people into that space. Let alone ten million. Very tall buildings and small apartments. * Raxa nods slightly. "Tall buildings do help." * Raxa then stretches. "So we're not getting anywhere here, are we?" Empire State 2's supposed to be what, a mile tall? Yeah. You guys ready to take off to this hellhole? "So I guess the answer to my question is 'no' then." He sighs. "This is going to be great." "It's a good thing I'm a detective." Hey, maybe the answer'll fall on our heads again. * Logan looks up at the rest of them. "Yeah, why not, let's do it." He tosses his cigarette to the floor, snubs it out with his shoe, grins. "Where shall we concentrate on?" New York City sounds like a good spot. ["Ho.... if you want you can take a bit of a break, but don't be too long."] ( There is no city there anymore :P ) "How about Hoboken? That's near enough." (Yeah, but it's the same place!) * Raxa exhales upwards and idly looks at her nails. * Billie looks at Logan. "Okay." * Yuki preens her feathers. Could be worse, could be going to Jersey. Jersey? "Erm... You know where Hoboken is, right?" On the other si... fuck! [Jack gestures, and Hoboken appears on the globe. "It's hee-r, ho!"] That works. "I've heard it said this way: The old aphorism doesn't work for New Yorkers, because the light at the end of the tunnel is Hoboken." * Josh holds his head. "I've been away for too long." "Been away from Hoboken for too long? Impossible." Logan grins. The north east, I'd managed to forget where it was. "So anyway. Let's do it." To, uh, there? * Logan concentrates on the most iconic thing he can remember from his childhood growing up in Hoboken: The burned out warehouse district. * Yoshiko looks at the picture and, well, you can kinda hear gears turn as she figures out what's in the picture. Yeah. Hey, Yoshiko. Teleporty now. Mmmhmmm. * Josh mostly concentrates on the smell, and hopes he doesn't wind up in LA. * Yoshiko motions, and the deck of cards she was working on flies over to her. She throws it into a small card-case and folds it into her dress, then concentrates on the destination. [You teleport to the end of the session!]