[So a few ... hours? Days? Later, you're not sure, you all wake up from where ever you went to sleep in the Sanctuary, thanks to a very loud, "HEE HO! HEE HO! HEE HO!" from your Jack Frost alarm clocks. If you broke your clock last time this happened, don't worry: they seem to have been replaced.] (Oh Brett, is our DP back to max?) (Oh, is this a new mission?) ( Yah ) (Sweet, DPs) (Yay DPs!) (DPs SAVE LIVES) [Oh, um, go] * Chess runs out into the main room from her room in a hurry, still half-asleep. Her blonde hair is tangled and frizzy and she's only wearing a red T-shirt and black panties. She mumbles something that could be, "I'm awake, I swear." * Yoshiko smashes the alarm clock with a broom. Again. She then walks out into the commons room wearing a very long frilly nightshirt while half asleep. "Good morning?" ( Anyone who doesn't post in the next minute wakes up wearing a godzilla suit. ) * Josh staggers out of Raxa's room wearing only a pair of pants because damned if he's going to go through that whole pantsless thing AGAIN. He's also holding a Jack Frost alarm clock in his hand. * Raxa doesn't rush out of her room crazily, which is probably for the best given that Josh left first. She mms as she stalks out of her room, stretching, and having summoned her normal outfit into place, piercings and all. * Billie rolls over in her bed and actually presses the off button on the clock this time. She stretches and yawns, then makes her way to the main room the old-fashioned way. She's wearing pajama t-shirt and shorts with butterflies and flowers, her hair's a mess, and she looks around blurrily. "Why zis." And then she blinks at Josh. Least you put pants on. [Jack Frost is already in the main room. Of course. He waves excitedly. "Hee ho!" ] Oh. Uh... [Ninjas do not attack at this time.] * Chess , seeing that nothing's on fire, mutters blearily and creates a hairbrush that she starts attacking her hair with. (What! I could so attack!) I don't know, but I'm going to organize a fireing squad for the clocks. Who's with me? * Billie points at Jack Frost. "You. Why you a morning person. Er... when sleep time is. Thing." ["Ho? I'm a snowman."] Yes, morning snowman, whatever. Can I go back to bed now? ["No, you have important things to do! Hee ho!"] Can I take a shower before we do important things? Ah... is it time to go to Telanrem? [Jack spins around. "Now that we know where the Record is, all you have to do is get to it! Off to Telanrem! Hee..." Jack pauses, then droops. "...... ho."] * Billie takes that as a 'no' and just creates a brush, taking care of her own hair. It's too whatsis for this. Ho? Early. It's early. ["Ho.... Telanrem is... well...."] Damn early whatsises. That one. The early. Is whatsis. * Yoshiko stretches and pulls a bottle of booze out from nullspace and starts drinking. * Josh drums his fingers on his effigy of snowman. "Yeees?" [Jack pirouettes like a ballerina, then throws one hand into the air. The image of a planet... sorta.... drops down from the ceiling and hovers in place. Actually it doesn't really look like a planet. It looks like it's mostly empty air over some sort of blue stuff that's not water.] * Raxa chuckles and looks between Billie and Chess a moent, before looking at today's hologram of a planet. * Billie eyes that and tries to come up with the word Jack was looking for. "... Blue?" [Upon further looking, you can see maybe 1/6 of the area is filled with trees and 1/6 with rocks, and there's a bunch of islands floating in the sky and not moving with the rest of the world. Such as it is.] Floating Islands? Really? [Jack points to the center, where the cloudy air is shimmering in a conical shape. "Yep. And Telanrem is... here! Hee ho!"] * Billie then yawns, tosses her brush into the air where it disappears because her hair is now more or less good enough, and her pajamas are replaced with her much more standard tight t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops combo. She creates a fish taco and starts eating it. Fish tacos for breakfast? Why not? * Yoshiko finishes a drink, slams the bottle down, and looks wide awake now. She snaps her fingers and changes her clothes, then starts brushing her hair, making the ribbons as she brushes. "So. There?" She points. [He gestures at the shimmering cone. "Ho... But this area is called the Sky of Fire, because anything that enters it burns to ash in minutes."] ( And yes, I'm totally ripping off 7 skies here :P ) That doesn't sound good at all. * Billie mutters around the taco, "sounds fun." At least, that might be what she's saying. She gulps taco and creates a mug of coffee for her other hand. ... So we need some sort of nonflamible plane... ship thing. * Chess yawns and scratches her upper thigh. Her eyes finally widen and she shrieks before creating a black skirt over her underwear. * Billie , unfazed, hands her coffee to Chess. Clearly she needs it just as badly. ["Well, it is a good place to hide an ancient tablet you don't want anyone to look at. Hee ho!"] * Raxa laughs lightly and glances back at Chess again, before looking to Jack. "Yes... it makes for good protection." * Chess takes the coffee gratefully and drinks the whole thing down. The temperature doesn't seem to bother her at all. * Billie finishes her taco, then makes more coffee for herself. ["I theenk.... You're going to have to go there and see if the natives know anything. They've had to live near it their hee w-ho-le lives."] This couldn't have waited until we were awake? ["The longer we wait, the more likely it is we'll be attacked again. Hee ho!"] * Chess winces. "Ugh. Poor Logan." * Billie frowns. "Yeah... all right." ["Ho.... The god in charge of this place is called Vaoz. Hee made the world and all, sometimes tosses new things in, but he doesn't really get involved, ho."] * Raxa frowns too, and nods. "His devas? Will they oppose us?" ["There's a church on most of the civilized parts that believes he's a benevolent god, hee, and some of the rugged tribes belive he's a mean nasty god, ho, but he doesn't really get involved either way."] * Chess gets rid of her hairbrush and recreates her notebook and a pen, which she starts taking notes with. ["Actually, I'm not sure he has any. Hee ho!"] What's the tech and magic level of this place? And what do the people look like? ["All people look funny to me, hee ho!"] * Josh points at the image of the world. "Can you zoom that in far enough that we can see people?" * Raxa leans in nearer to Josh's ear and rubs his bare shoulder, saying to him lowly with a slight grin, "At some point, you should think about completing your outfit, boy." ["Ho.... for which country?"] [Jack waves at the globe, and 7 points light up. Actually they're spread across 6 different islands.] * Josh facepalms. "What are my choices?" ["These are the seven major nations, on the biggest islands."] Which one's closest to the whatsit. Fire. * Billie drinks coffee. She so needs coffee. * Josh then twists around so he can face Raxa and smirks at her for a moment before summoning shoes and socks. A beat after that he adds a green long sleaved shirt. Closest to the early? Yes, early fire thing. Sky of fire. * Billie points at the cyclone. ["This hee is!" Jack points. "Crail. It's the smallest country, but it's the largest trading post. The cities are ruled under a dictator, ho, while the country is full of nomadic tribesmen."] * Raxa grabs the top of his head and twists slightly, to get him to face back forward. "He is answering the questions." Ow, alright, alright. ( Coffee's not doin' much for ya, by the way :P ) (It's more a psychological effect than anything.) (Much like eating.) ["This hee," Jack points at a particularly large island. The largest, in fact, "is Colrona, and it has two countries, the Zultanate and the Kingdom."] (I misparsed that as Klingon.) (Snerk.) * Josh eyes Jack. "The Kingdom." ["It's also where the church is strongest. Lots of smart hos there."] They're not very inventive with names, are they? ["Then here," Jack points at an island that's actually mostly water, with some city-covered islands dotting it, making it look like Venice. "Is Barathi. These hos thrive on information and manipulation, so maybe you can find something there."] * Chess starts singing quietly about a kingdom of love. ["Then this one..." Jack points at a skull-shaped island. Only to have it vanish from beneath his snowy finger and reappear somewhere else. He redirects his pointing. "Is Ilwuz. It's full of pirates who might have stolen information of us. But... ho, it's full of pirates."] Josh'd fit right in. ( us = use ) (And I misparsed THAT as Bulrathi. Goddammit) Arrr! We usually don't talk like that. Maybe they do. ["Then there's Viridia," He points at a floating slab of mainly volcanos, "And Sha Ka Ruq", he points at a jungly island. "The first hee has mainly warriors and iron mines, and the other ho has trees and people descended from tribesmen. Probably not much of use there, but you hos don't know that for sure."] Is it me or do these sound very... stereotypical? The whatcacallit's gotta come from somewhere. ...Stereotype. ["Then there's some smaller islands with other hees."] * Raxa presses her lips together a moment as she looks to Josh, then back to Jack. "How long will it take to explore this many places?" ( Hey, I didn't invent it. ) (:P) [Jack shrugs. "... ho?"] * Billie rubs at her eyes. "Hey, Jack... you wouldn't know about any powers we haven't figured out we have yet that let us talk telepathically to each other or anything?" Yeah, this is a lot of teritory to cover. I vote we start out with pirates. I can talk telepathically. To you guys, when I'm a cat. How far, though? ["There used to be another island called Kroy, hee, but it got destroyed. But before it did it was a center of science and magic, ho. There might be some artifacts somewhere that could help? .... maybe?... ho...."] Yeah, and I can do it when I'm smoky ms. shadow ninja, but can't just go around like that all the time... Good point. We should, um, test it at some point. Being a cat outside of HQ's kinda tiring though. * Billie looks at Jack. "You know where that island used to be?" * Syzix has joined #MCDC * Syzix is now known as Yuki [Jack points at a spot of empty air. "Here. Hee ho!"] If we knew what we were looking for, the ruins would probably be best, but failing that Secretly Not Venice has my vote. So whatever those artifacts are, they'd probably be underwater or on islands nearby. * Yuki hops out from the room, having just woken up. "Good morning!" [Jack taps his snowy basically non-existant chin. "I don't know, hee.... They have a habit of just showing up. And of course people trade them when they find them... ho, everyone still uses Kroyu as a language, their coins as common currency, their glyphs... ho..."] Oh, what's the currency like? [Jack looks like a light bulb just went on over his head. Which it didn't, by the way. "Ho! You should probably know magic is rare, but common enough that they know it exists."] * Yoshiko nods. "Okay. Is it taboo or anything? Are they going to flip out if I laser someone?" * Chess perks up. "So if I want to start practicing necromancy, would they try to burn me alive?" * Yuki eyes Yoshiko. "Only you'd think of that. And you too!" She sighs a bunny sigh. It's just not well recieved in most places, for reasons I absolutely cannot fathom. [Jack nodnods. "The church is against magic, hee, thinking that nobody has the necessary force of will to be able to control such power. Only Crail and Ilwuz really tolerate it, but mainly so that they can use it."] * Billie mutters, "I can." Riight. ["They call hos who can use magic koldun."] ["They don't really persecute magic users, hee, except in the Zultanate. But they don't like them either, ho."] [And they developed two counters. Hee ho!"] Counters? * Chess makes a face. "One of these days, I'll get to start practicing." Actually hold on. * Billie pats Chess on the shoulder. "How about not. I mean, I respect your interests and all, but uh..." * Josh conjurs up a chair and a pocket computer, when the computer doesn't work he scouls and comes up with a pen and paper. I can kinda talk to dead people, and they're generally really upset when their corpses get animated and stuff. ["The first hees are called wards. They're charged by a magic user and last about a week if they're not used up, and can stop a spell or any other supernatual effect. The second hos are called fetters, and they're basically manacles that stop supernatural effects."] I need to write this shit down. ["Ho.... make sure nobody puts a fetter on you while you're there. It won't go well."] ... Would it stop our true forms? * Chess turns to Billie. "It's a field of study I've always been interested in, and it's really illegal where I'm from. My aunt has an acquaintance with a perfectly happy zombie cat. The theory's ridiculously interesting, and I'll never know if I've got it down unless I put it into practice." [Jack nods. Then he brightens. "I just remembered! All the ghosts in the world who don't pass on to hee go here." He points at the one path of sky that seems to be completely void of any clouds or... any sort of activity, really. "Maybe those hos know something?"] * Chess is writing down all the information Jack's saying as she talks. * Yoshiko smiles at Chess. "Maybe I could teach you some other form of magic?" Sure, I'm always happy to expand my knowledge base. But I'm just saying, necromancy is the field I'd really like to go into eventually. * Josh scribbles. * Billie 's eyes widen at what Jack says. "... Yeah. Yeah, I could totally talk to them." Oh, how's technology? Gonna need a way to *get* there. ["After all, the ghost hees are old, maybe some are Kroyu, or older, ho! They might have some ideas to share." Jack pauses, "Or they might eat your soul, ho. But either way you'd need a ship to get there, ho."] * Josh then stares at what he wrote. "No, my plan is absolutly not steal flying boat from sky pirates, use it to go talk to ghosts, steal from god." * Josh crosses it out. That was a terrible move. (Movie) ["Hee.... It's like around the late 1600s of Earth, only they use flying ships."] * Chess stares at Josh. "That's a -fantastic- idea. Let's be flying pirates!" Dude, then I get to be a flying ninja pirate. Airships! Wheeee! ["They have single shot rifles and pistols, and many people are fencers of some sort, ho."] * Chess shouts excitedly, "STEAMPUNK PIRATES!" [Jack pauses. "Well... the nobles are, ho."] Nobles? Like princes and princesses? * Raxa puts her hand to her forehead, then chuckles. "You are all so excited by this." [Or barons. Or counts. Or viziers in the Zultenate. Or tribal masters, or warmasters... ho..."] * Josh closes his notepad and mutters to himself. ["But in all countries but Ilwuz, some people are more important than others. Hee ho!"] Okay, new plan. We go to the pirate place, Josh hobnobs and stuff, we get Raxa to seduce the prince and/or princess and/or alternate royalty, then we do this heist with our new crew and steal their cash to get a flying pirate ship. Oh please, oh please, let's be steampunk pirates! ... I'm pretty sure the royalty won't be in same place as the pirates; unless they've been kidnapped. Maybe the royalty ARE pirates? ["That's right! Hee ho!"] * Raxa looks over at Billie and says, with a slight smile, "I hope you don't want me to be deceitful." * Josh facepalms. * Billie smiles innocently at Raxa and then looks back to Jack. "How do people in Pirate Land dress?" Raxa? Lie? Neeeeeveeeer. ( Ping? ) * Raxa looks down at the rabbit and bares her teeth. "I do not get to eat land meat much, but I remember how." Hello, I'm on a mission from God to follow this magic map. By the by I'm utterly mad... * Chess creates a pair of goggles and straps them on like a headband. ["Ho... The average noble men wear silk shirts, tricorner hats, white wigs and breeches. The women wear low cut dresses with puffy sleeves, wide bottoms and corsets."] I've got an eye on you and your carniverous ways! ["The common hees wear less colorful cloth overcoats and breeches, and maybe a hat but no wig. The hos wear plainer dresses."] ["But the sailors tend to wear different things too. Hee ho!"] Like? And of course the pirates wear whatever they can steal. * Raxa smirks at the rabbit and nods, before looking back at Jack. "Corsets?" ["Shirts and slacks, sometimes light coats. Wide brimmed hats... Hee ho!"] * Billie looks at Raxa. "It's a, uh... okay, it's this thing that laces up from about here to here." She gestures. "On front or back. Forcing you into a more feminine figure and pushing your breasts up, supporting them." It's really painful if you lace it too tight, too. * Chess creates one on herself in place of her T-shirt. * Raxa squints at Chess a moment, then says, "... people wear those?" In mixed company? They go under other clothes... usually. Depends on the crowd. And time period. * Billie goes ahead and puts her into pirate gear: slacks, boots, a shirt with slightly poofy sleeves, and a wide hat. Most of her tattoos are covered this way, too. "Yeah, dumb right." And then she grins. "I'm a ninja pirate!" * Billie creates a belt with a dagger in it, strapping it on. that really doesn't look comfortable. How do you move in that? * Raxa shakes her head. "Such tight clothing." She chuckles. "Why would you want clothes that are hard to remove?" It actually creates really good posture and teaches your stomach to stay flat even if you have pudge there. Some people don't like getting right to the point, Raxa. Maybe removing it's part of the fun. Anyway, we about ready to go? * Raxa looks over at Billie strangely, then says, "Sometimes you need to go diving too, Billie. It isn't always about sex." * Josh puts on a battered tricorn hat, a stained silk shirt, and a tattered long coat. "God, I am about to live through a terrible pirate movie." * Yuki yawns. "Why not?" * Billie actually looks somewhat offended when Raxa says that. "Hey, lady, I didn't live on a boat, but I *did* live on the coast, all right." * Chess dresses herself in a lower-class outfit, but keeps the goggles on. The corset does what it can for her chest, which... isn't much. "I'm ready." ["Hee ho!"] * Raxa makes a huffy noise with her nose. "I suppose they won't like tattoos either." If they're anything like my pirates they'll be all for 'em. Everybody else? Who knows. ["Actually sailors commonly get tattoos. Hee ho!"] * Yoshiko hmmms, and goes with a lower class outfit as well, although with more... pinks and purples. "Maybe? Oh, Yuki wants to know if they have any problems with pets." * Billie gives Raxa a thumbs up. Tattoos are a go! * Raxa chuckles, and creates a pair of loose brown slacks and a light green coat over a thin black shirt. "Then a pirate I will look like for now." * Yoshiko gets even less benefit from the outfit than Chess, given she's both short and flat. "So no magic. Way to be a downer." We'll just have to win our way through with wit and charm! ["Ho... Funny you should ask. Skysailors consider it bad luck to set sail without a cat on board. Hee ho!"] Wit, charm, and an unlimited supply of single shot pistols. * Josh gives himself a bracer of said. Then between Chess and Yoshiko, we'll have all the luck we'll need. * Billie looks at Yoshiko. "Plus, magic's rare, but it's legal in the pirate country. 's where we're going." I TOLD you you should have made me a cat. But noooooo you wanted a bunny. ["Well, that's becaseu Ilwuz doesn't really have any laws. Ho..."] Hey, I didn't want to be just like my mother. She HAS a cat. Cats, excellent! Okay. That everything? If not we'll beat it out of somebody. * Yoshiko looks back at Billie. "I think so?" Are we going to have some sort of story going around why some commoners are with pirates? You're gonna become pirates. Obviously. You're new at pirating. Welcome to the crew. Arrr! * Josh eyes Billie and smirks. Should we switch outfits? * Billie grins at Josh, then concentrates on going to Pirate Land. Nah. * Josh then concentrates on going to Pirate Land too. [And suddenly you arrive in Session End]