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| - | + | <span style="font-weight: bold;">[20:57] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard from above </span><br>[20:58] * TaloToecan rolls his eyes at the mention of swordplay. "While I am certain some of my Artifice Kin might relish the opportunity to wield such, I have never seen the point of a sword." <br>[20:58] * Elenor looks upwards. <br>[20:58] * Damsel 's younger self smiles faintly. "Sometimes I envy you your play, Ta..." She stops and looks up. "What was that?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[20:58] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from above </span><br>[20:58] * Legault winces, looking upwards towards the ceiling. "Wha...?" <br>[20:58] <Durroth> ... this is never good <br>[20:58] - RoninOfDreams sets mode: +aaa Durroth LordBarrius RoninOfDreams <br>[20:58] <Elenor> The hell? <br>[20:58] * Damsel 's elder self looks up, the food in her lap forgotten for the moment. <br>[20:59] * LordBarrius glances up with a sigh. "What now?" <br>[20:59] * Clyde is still in the training room, tried and exhausted. "What...was that..?" <br>[20:59] * TaloToecan tilts his head to one side, making a casual scan telepathically toward the sound while looking up in mild confusion. <br>[21:00] * Theater_Monkey limbs to Elenor, "May you help with this damage." points to hole in stomach that is slowly healing. <br>[21:00] * LBB_LurkKing ceases its lurking, scuttling to the very edge of the couch and "peering" about. <br>[21:00] <Elenor> Uhh... It looks like it's already healing. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:00] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from above </span><br>[21:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Thought so. Bloody hooligans. <br>[21:01] <Durroth> ... Well, we COULD check it out <br>[21:01] * TaloToecan seems to start momentarily, looks at the younger Damsel for a brief moment, then stands and moves to the stairs. <br>[21:01] <Little_Brown_Box> What's with these people, what with their bangin' about in the attic at all hours of the night... <br>[21:01] * Elenor gets up and follows Talo. <br>[21:01] * Damsel 's younger self gets to her feet and follows after Talo. <br>[21:01] * Durroth does likewise, curious as to what the hell is making that racket <br>[21:01] * Little_Brown_Box skitters out from under the couch, moving crablike across the floor after the group heading to the stairs. <br>[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> "Oh! Thanks for pointing that out." :) <br>[21:02] <Elenor> ((No smilies, please.)) <br>[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> ((Sorry)) <br>[21:02] * Clyde uses the staff to drag his exhausted lifeless body. <br>[21:02] * TaloToecan picks up his pace, taking the stairs two at a time and following the source of the sound as best he can analyze. <br>[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> ((Just thought it might be interpeted as sarcasm.)) <br>[21:02] * LordBarrius sets his plate to the side and gently tugs at his Damsel's side. "We'd better follow." <br>[21:03] * Elenor quickens to keep up. <br>[21:03] * Theater_Monkey goes limping off toward Elenor. <br>[21:03] * Damsel 's older self sets her plate aside and nods, getting to her feet to follow without needing much spurring. Younger Damsel is already hurrying after Talo. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:03] <>Ambiance<> The second floor corridor is vacant </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:04] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from further above </span><br>[21:04] <Little_Brown_Box> I do say! This floor appears vacant! <br>[21:04] * Elenor summons her sword and belts it on, just in case they somehow end up in an area without magic. You never knew around here... <br>[21:04] * Durroth heads for the next flight of stairs <br>[21:04] * TaloToecan scrambles to find a stairwell or other apparatus to get outside while calling over his shoulder. "Someone, check a window!" <br>[21:04] * Damsel 's younger self keeps just behind Talo, thinking it best for the ferret to be in the lead for the moment. <br>[21:05] <Durroth> ((or hes looking for one rather)) <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:05] <>Ambiance<> The stairs to Arden's apartment on the third floor seem quiet. </span><br>[21:05] * Elenor follows the group, heading to the roof. <br>[21:05] * Legault nods a silent affirmative as he gets up from his sprawled out, reclined position on a chair, striding after the others at a brisk pace. <br>[21:05] * Little_Brown_Box scrambles akwardly after Durroth. <br>[21:05] <Durroth> explosions <br>[21:05] <Durroth> at this time of night <br>[21:05] * LordBarrius follows swiftly after the others, though trying to keep to a pace that his Damsel can follow fairly easily. <br>[21:05] * Clyde falls over along with his staff. "Dang, I over pushed my limits in my training." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:06] * Arden opens his apartment door </span><br>[21:06] <Elenor> What's going on? <br>[21:06] <Little_Brown_Box> We didn't do it, honest! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:06] <Arden> Why are you standing in my stairwell </span><br>[21:06] * TaloToecan looks up at Arden. "You...don't have stairs to an attic or further up, do you?" <br>[21:06] <Elenor> Don't you hear those loud bangs? <br>[21:06] <Durroth> do you happen to be causeing loud bangs? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:06] <Arden> Loud bangs? </span><br>[21:06] <Durroth> yes <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:06] <Arden> I have heard nothing up here </span><br>[21:06] <Little_Brown_Box> Yeah! The ones that went kinda like this! <br>[21:06] <Durroth> odd <br>[21:06] * Little_Brown_Box emits a BANG of its own. <br>[21:07] <Durroth> we can hear them from downstairs <br>[21:07] <Elenor> Okay... It was a spell or trick then, to get us up here. <br>[21:07] <Little_Brown_Box> Whoo... <br>[21:07] * Damsel 's elder self doesn't seem to be content with a slow pace and should she feel LordBarrius moving to slowly will do her best to pull him on. <br>[21:07] <Theater_Monkey> "What happened?" <br>[21:07] <Legault> "... L-o-v-e-l-y. We're imagining things now?" <br>[21:07] <Durroth> apologies for disturbing you then <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:07] <Abode> The sound came from the east wing </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:07] <Arden> East Wing? </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:07] <Arden> Thats patently impossible </span><br>[21:07] * Damsel 's younger self appears mildly confused. <br>[21:07] <Durroth> ... the east wing? <br>[21:08] <Little_Brown_Box> Patent pending, mind. <br>[21:08] <Elenor> There's no harm in checking? <br>[21:08] <Durroth> what would make that impossible? <br>[21:08] <Theater_Monkey> "Sometimes ignorance is bliss." <br>[21:08] <Durroth> is there no east wing? <br>[21:08] <Durroth> or is it sealed off <br>[21:08] * TaloToecan turns, gives the younger Damsel a look, while almost automatically responding. "What else is higher than this floor, and located on the east wing?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:08] <Abode> None the less it came from there </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:09] <Arden> The abode does not have wings... it is not built in that style at all </span><br>[21:09] <Durroth> ... so it cant have come from the east wing because there IS no east wing? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:09] <Arden> A sound cannot have come from the east wing </span><br>[21:09] <Durroth> dandy <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:09] <Arden> As there isn't any east wing </span><br>[21:09] <Elenor> That's... more than a little strange... It's in the east wing, but this place doesn't have wings. We hear the sound from up here, yet you don't. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:10] <Abode> It came from the east wing </span><br>[21:10] <Theater_Monkey> "Oh, I know this." <br>[21:10] <Elenor> Something really isn't right here. We should be careful. <br>[21:10] <Durroth> ... and how do we get to the nonexistant east wing abode <br>[21:10] * Damsel 's selves both look at Arden with an expression of confusion. <br>[21:10] <Theater_Monkey> "That term is from theater." <br>[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> I dunno, Arden. If the Abode says it has wings, maybe we should listen to it. <br>[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> Wait, you have wings? <br>[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> You can FLY? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:10] <Abode> From here you cannot.... as Arden says in this form I have no east wing </span><br>[21:10] * Durroth kicks box lightly <br>[21:10] <Durroth> not that kind of wing <br>[21:10] * Little_Brown_Box is lightly kicked. <br>[21:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Wings are just sections of the building." <br>[21:11] <Little_Brown_Box> Oh, I see what you did there. <br>[21:11] <Elenor> ... Is there are form where you do have an east wing? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:11] <Abode> I only have an eastwing in my forest form </span><br>[21:11] <Durroth> shiney <br>[21:11] * Elenor groans. "Knew it'd be something weird like that... <br>[21:11] * Clyde finally makes to the rest of the group and sits down to take a quick breath. "Hey...Arden.." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:11] <Arden> Ah... I have nothing to do with that building then </span><br>[21:11] <Elenor> Abode, is it possible for you to change to this form? <br>[21:11] * TaloToecan frowns and moves to connect to the Computer telepathically, to mirror his verbal response. "Computer, login Talo-Toecan with telepathic confirmation. Discern the location of the Abode's forest form's east wing, and assess the swiftest method of transport with minimal paradox involved." <br>[21:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Then do we go to the forest form or what?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:11] <Arden> I own only the abode here in fair harbor </span><br>[21:12] * LordBarrius tilts his head a bit. "Odd. How could we hear that from here, though?" <br>[21:12] <Elenor> Odd indeed <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:12] <Computer> What is it... I was sleeping </span><br>[21:12] <ElderDamsel> "How curious." <br>[21:13] <Theater_Monkey> "Welcome to my world, trying to adapt to this strange new world is quite weird." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:13] <Abode> I am connected to all of myself. It is possible for sound to be carried from one form to the other it is unusual however. </span><br>[21:13] <TaloToecan> "There is, or was, a sound coming from the Abode's forest form's east wing. Pinpoint the location and assess methods of transport to that location with minimal paradox, if you please." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:13] <Abode> Getting back to the old forest form would require raising anchor </span><br>[21:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh! <br>[21:14] <Legault> "Heh... I remember that place." <br>[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> Can I hoist the mainsails? <br>[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> PLEASE? <br>[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> I wanna hoist the mainsails! The rest of you can get the anchor, I promise! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:14] <Abode> I however am not the same in that version... I am not sentient in the same manner. Things adjust to the tennants of the moment </span><br>[21:15] <Little_Brown_Box> Schwaa? <br>[21:15] <Legault> "Who's using the one there?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:15] <Arden> It is not that sort of Anchor. It is a metaphysical link. The thing that draws tennants to this place rather then that one. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:15] <Arden> Falerin put it in place when he brought you to Fair Harbor </span><br>[21:15] * Damsel 's elder self nods in understanding. <br>[21:16] <Legault> "That's why people who'd only been to the older one came here..." <br>[21:16] <Theater_Monkey> "I will just accept this exists blindly" <br>[21:16] <Elenor> Humm... <br>[21:16] * TaloToecan frowns, apparently thinking fast and yet not fast enough at the same time. A vexing circumstance. "Am I to assume no other method exists as a solution? Computer, verify as well, if you please." <br>[21:16] * Theater_Monkey stares into empty space all confuzzled. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:16] <Computer> Physical Travel to the other location remains an alternative </span><br>[21:17] <Durroth> road trip? <br>[21:17] <Elenor> How long would that take? <br>[21:17] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm curious to enquire into that. <br>[21:17] <TaloToecan> "Relative time differences between raising the Anchor and a physical transit aided by yourself?" <br>[21:18] * Younger Damsel considers. "Returning to the forest would not be unwelcome even without these circumstances." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:18] <Computer> Both manifestations exist on the physical landscape of Caelestia... tranist via teleportaiton would be a simple matter... </span><br>[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...wait. <br>[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Which forest is this? <br>[21:18] <Elenor> So we teleport there. Easy enough. <br>[21:18] <Durroth> shiney <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:18] <Computer> Were it not for the proximity of the other manifestation to the planes of instability </span><br>[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Is it that Limmerick place? <br>[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Filmandrot? <br>[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> Underknot? <br>[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> Whatsit? <br>[21:19] <Legault> "... Shush, Intel." <br>[21:19] <Durroth> Immertot <br>[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> In order, yes and no! <br>[21:19] * Theater_Monkey sighs as his mind gradually adapts to this twilight zone of fantasy. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:19] <Computer> Negative though that manifestation can stretch into immertot forest and has.. due to its proximity to aforementioned planes </span><br>[21:19] * TaloToecan frowns and sighs sadly. "Elaborate the risks of attempting a transit regardless?" <br>[21:20] <Elenor> Computer, what is the easiest and fastest way to get there? <br>[21:20] <ElderDamsel> "But with that proximity there are added complications?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:20] <Computer> Teleportation that close to such disturbances carries an attendant 34 percent risk of being drawn into the planes of instability </span><br>[21:21] * Theater_Monkey suddenly pales <br>[21:21] <Durroth> 34%... thats only slightly more than one in three <br>[21:21] <Elenor> Can we teleport a bit of a distance away and walk the rest? Would that reduce the chances? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:21] <Computer> Affirmative </span><br>[21:21] <Little_Brown_Box> And the planes of instability are that Shimmer-thing, right? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:22] <Computer> Though you would need to teleport substantial distance to reduce the risk to neglience </span><br>[21:22] <TaloToecan> "What would the risk of teleporting to Immertot itself and coaxing the manifestation to 'stretch' there, as you mentioned earlier?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:22] <Computer> If i may observe </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:22] <Computer> A fixed gate carries no such attendant risk </span><br>[21:23] <TaloToecan> "There is a fixed gate, aside from the Anchor?" <br>[21:23] <Legault> "... I like that idea better." <br>[21:23] <YoungerDamsel> "What of the back gate itself?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:23] <Computer> You have in your possession a fixed gate that has outlet more or less everywhere </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:23] <Computer> Affirmative </span><br>[21:23] * LordBarrius lapses into silence, unsure what he could add, if anything, to the topic at hand. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:23] <Computer> I refer to the Terrace Gate </span><br>[21:24] <Little_Brown_Box> Whoo! <br>[21:24] <Elenor> Oh, so we just have to take the Gate. Perfect. <br>[21:24] <Theater_Monkey> "Umm... As long as it doesn't involve additional curses, I'm okay with whatever is chosen." <br>[21:24] <Little_Brown_Box> So, wait, what? Are we going to Tip-the-Bot or what? <br>[21:24] * TaloToecan practically smacks himself in the head, not for lack of knowing that, but scrambling on too many thoughts to think of such. "To the Gate, then...will you be accompanying us, or like to, Computer?" <br>[21:24] <Legault> "I think most've us'd prefer not being cursed, really." <br>[21:25] <Little_Brown_Box> I wonder what undeath feels like. Hehe... <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:25] <Computer> I have no desires whatsoever </span><br>[21:25] <Little_Brown_Box> You poor sap. <br>[21:25] <Theater_Monkey> "Meh, you are just afraid." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:26] <>Ambiance<> A bang is heard from below </span><br>[21:26] <ElderDamsel> "Perhaps it would be better not to waste time? Especially if the situation is pressing for the one 'knocking.'" <br>[21:26] * Clyde tilts his head concerningly and foolessly says, "What's the worst that could happen?" <br>[21:26] <Elenor> The hell? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:26] <Abode> Thats curious </span><br>[21:26] <Durroth> ... I think we should get moving <br>[21:26] <Durroth> what? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:27] <Abode> That sound was not heard from my east wing </span><br>[21:27] <Durroth> where from this time <br>[21:27] * TaloToecan takes off in a dash towards the ground floor. "Then where?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:27] <Abode> It originated from the cellar </span><br>[21:27] <Clyde> "Main room?" <br>[21:27] <Elenor> Of this one? <br>[21:27] <Durroth> this form or that one? <br>[21:27] * Elenor teleports to the ground floor. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:27] <Abode> The laboratory annex </span><br>[21:27] * The elder Damsel tilts her head to the side, confused, before hurrying after the ferret. Her younger self is not far behind. <br>[21:27] <Durroth> ... this form or that one <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:27] <Abode> Mu </span><br>[21:27] * Durroth follows close behind <br>[21:28] * Elenor throws open the door to the downstairs and heads downstairs. <br>[21:28] * Durroth reforms Nyetsubeth into its sword form just in case <br>[21:28] * Theater_Monkey follows everybody limping as fast as he can. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:28] <Abode> The laboratory..... does not exist on the plane of Caelestia </span><br>[21:28] <Durroth> ... <br>[21:28] <Durroth> so where? <br>[21:28] <Legault> "... Lovely." <br>[21:28] <Elenor> ... Then where is it? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:28] <Abode> It is... in both forms and all forms of the building </span><br>[21:28] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...Abode? <br>[21:28] * Legault turns around and dashes after the others. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:28] <Abode> It exists as a demiplane </span><br>[21:28] <Little_Brown_Box> Are you under seige? <br>[21:28] <Durroth> and can we reach it through the cellar? <br>[21:29] <Durroth> or do we have to take the gate <br>[21:29] <Little_Brown_Box> Or have you just got the hiccups? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:29] <Abode> Through the Kitchen... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:29] <Abode> Aye </span><br>[21:29] <Durroth> right <br>[21:29] * Elenor teleports back up into the kitchen. <br>[21:29] * Durroth heads for the kitchen, and the cellar <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:29] <Arden> I am not going </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:29] <Arden> I have not set foot in that Lab since the incident with Orion's bane </span><br>[21:29] * Theater_Monkey goes to the kitchen, "Time for some chow." <br>[21:30] * LordBarrius shakes his head from his thoughts and dashes after the others belatedly. <br>[21:30] * Clyde eyes flare as he hears the words and mutters them back. "Orion's bane incident..." <br>[21:30] * TaloToecan is apparently racing Durroth to get there, having a good idea of who might also be there. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:30] * Arden returns to his apartment closing the door </span><br>[21:30] * Little_Brown_Box skitters around a bit, trying to get a peek into Arden's room before the door...too late. <br>[21:30] <Durroth> I think since we're charging blindly <br>[21:31] <Durroth> we might want to watch out for closed doors <br>[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> Well, yeah, Durroth. <br>[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> It's our default plan of action. <br>[21:31] <Theater_Monkey> "Yeah, I've known that a while, I'm just following everybody." <br>[21:31] <Durroth> so we dont smack into one <br>[21:31] * Clyde follows to get the Lab along with the group. <br>[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> We call it "Operation: Who Gives a Flying Flip?" <br>[21:31] * Elenor heads into the lab. <br>[21:31] * Little_Brown_Box barrels down the stairs after the others <br>[21:31] * TaloToecan attempts to help guide himself via his telepathic connection. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:32] <>Ambiance<> The lab is dusty from disuse. Its entrance is from a door in the kitchen which only seems present when actively sought </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:32] <>Ambiance<> Being so sought now it is quitte apparent </span><br>[21:32] * Both Damsel follow after Talo, trusting his telepathic connection to guide them most accurately, especially to this individual, if his first assessment was correct. <br>[21:32] * Theater_Monkey grabs sandwich and enters the lab. <br>[21:33] * Durroth enters the lab weary of anything in it <br>[21:33] * TaloToecan reaches the door and puts his hand on the handle with a breath, then pushes it open to head in with a hope and a prayer. <br>[21:33] * Theater_Monkey eats the sandwich. <br>[21:33] * Elenor casts a light spell, deciding it's not best to trust the local lighting... And it will tell her if magic stops working. <br>[21:33] * Legault slows to a trot as he reaches the kitchen, walking carefully into the labratory, wary of damaging anything. <br>[21:33] * Little_Brown_Box hums a merry ditty as it scuttles along behind the others. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:34] <>Ambiance<> upon passing through the door to the lab you find yourself not within the lab at all but instead within a vast open landscape. Grassland stretching out some distance. The abode's kitchen streches beyond the doorway beind... </span><br>[21:34] <Durroth> ... this is interesting <br>[21:34] <Elenor> ...Oookay.. <br>[21:34] * Durroth looks around, hoping to discover the source of the noise in this place <br>[21:34] * Theater_Monkey slowly crouches down in fear. <br>[21:34] * TaloToecan blinks slowly, scanning the area for the person he actively is seeking, and moves more in a slight crouch with less speed than a full run. <br>[21:34] <Little_Brown_Box> Nice lab! <br>[21:34] <Little_Brown_Box> It's roomy! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:35] <>Ambiance<> night sounds are heard overhead... bats and birds... and the chirping of insects </span><br>[21:35] <Legault> "... The banging was coming from here?" <br>[21:35] * Little_Brown_Box stops humming, and makes random cricket noises. <br>[21:35] * The near twin Damsels blink in surprise at the change in surroundings but do not hesitate in following after Talo. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:35] <Diviara> What did you mean by it. It is a simple question. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:36] <Falerin> Nothing I ever say is simple necromancer </span><br>[21:36] * Durroth blinks <br>[21:36] * Clyde takes a few steps to gain a grasp of this landscape and reality. "Well...this is special..." <br>[21:36] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh. *Chirrup* I think we're intruding. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:36] <Diviara> Yet clearly you said it for a reason </span><br>[21:36] * TaloToecan motions for silence, though he does not try to act stealthy as he stands to look in the direction of the conversation. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:36] <Diviara> What were you implying </span><br>[21:36] * Theater_Monkey peeks out to view the events. <br>[21:37] * Durroth shoots a look at box <br>[21:37] * Elenor looks for the sounds of the voices.. Falerin is here?! <br>[21:37] * LordBarrius remains silent in observation. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:37] <Falerin> Why ask questions for which you already have the answer Celegra </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:37] <Falerin> You know what I meant well enough </span><br>[21:37] <Little_Brown_Box> Lex Luthor! <br>[21:37] * Legault keeps silent, not wanting to intrude on their conversation. <br>[21:37] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...oops. Wrong episode. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:37] <Diviara> Yes I suppose that I do </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:38] <Falerin> You knew well enough to wait this long to even question me on it... </span><br>[21:38] * Clyde patiently listens in antipicipation of what is to come next. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:38] <Diviara> I did not know how to broach the subject there did not seem to be time.... </span><br>[21:38] * The Damsel's slow, one moving to try and stay beside Talo while the more elder hangs back to stay near LordBarrius. <br>[21:39] * Theater_Monkey takes out popcorn hes been saving and starts eating it. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:39] <Falerin> And you think that there is now... Come on Diviara.... your statement just asked for the response it was given... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:39] <Falerin> You knew well I could see the evidence in front of my face </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:40] <Diviara> It was the manner of the statement.... it was somehow snide... was it meant to be a threat </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:40] <Falerin> You will take it as you will. </span><br>[21:40] * Theater_Monkey throws popcorn at little_brown_box. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:40] <Diviara> Yet not from everything.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:40] <Diviara> How am I to take it </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:40] <Falerin> You will take it as you will. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:41] <Falerin> Now if you will excuse me the conversation is over </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:41] <>Ambiance<> The planes vanish replaced by lab equipment there is an audible bang as this occurs </span><br>[21:41] <Durroth> ... what the hell? <br>[21:41] <Elenor> Well... At least we know what the bangs mean then... <br>[21:41] * TaloToecan frowns. "That...is disconcerting." <br>[21:42] <Legault> "... I'm sensing some conflict between them." <br>[21:42] * Clyde vision of what use to be a bush was now a shelf oof lab tools. "I never get use to that." <br>[21:42] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...were we just on Lore? <br>[21:42] <Durroth> I'm... not sure <br>[21:42] <YoungerDamsel> "I wonder what they were speaking of precisely..." <br>[21:42] <Theater_Monkey> "Don't ask me?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:43] <>Ambiance<> The planes reapper with a bang but it is daylight now </span><br>[21:43] <Theater_Monkey> "Why did destiny call us there?" <br>[21:43] <Legault> "And back again..." <br>[21:43] <Durroth> ... what now? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:43] <Diviara> Is he always like that though.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:43] <Galrick> I fear so </span><br>[21:43] * Clyde falls back in suprise. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:43] <Galrick> At least in his dealings with me </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:44] <Diviara> What was meant by it. </span><br>[21:44] * Theater_Monkey is still watching the events deciding if he should interfere. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:44] <Galrick> Perhaps it was merely a reminder that he sees what others do not. </span><br>[21:45] * Clyde eyes the territory trying to find soem familarity. "Is this...Deren?" <br>[21:45] <Little_Brown_Box> EheheheheheHEhehe. <br>[21:45] <Little_Brown_Box> Tempus FIDGIT. <br>[21:45] <Legault> "Hmm... It's Summer there. Might be." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:46] <Diviara> It was a question of my loyalties and commitments? </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:46] <Galrick> Maybe </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:46] <Galrick> I really cannot say </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:46] <Galrick> On terra it is said you cannot serve two masters but you spent much doing just that </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:47] <Diviara> That is a terrible oversimplification </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:48] <Galrick> And yet it is why you took up the mantle you did isn't it... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:48] <Diviara> I was misguided </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:48] <Falerin> Were you really? </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:48] <Diviara> Falerin! </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:48] <Diviara> Where did you come from.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:49] <Falerin> I am never far even when I am worlds away </span><br>[21:49] * TaloToecan bites his lower lip, one hand reaching back towards the Younger Damsel as he thinks upon what is being said and the possible implications. <br>[21:49] * Theater_Monkey jumps back in suprise and wonders if they are aware of us. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:49] <Falerin> Were you really? Misguided.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:49] <Falerin> No Diviara. I trust you implicity. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:50] <Falerin> I would put my office in your hands. </span><br>[21:50] * Damsel's younger self quietly slips a hand into Talo's own, interlacing her fingers with his as she continues to watch and listen. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:50] <Falerin> I have known you how others have not... </span><br>[21:50] * Little_Brown_Box continues to chirp like a cricket at random intervals. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:50] <Falerin> It was not at all a question of loyalites... so much as an observation that you are still playing the game. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:51] <Diviara> Ah... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:51] <Diviara> Well I suppose I am at that </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:51] <Diviara> Does it matter to you? </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:51] <Falerin> If it matters not to them... why ever should it matter to me.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:52] <Falerin> However... the issue of your former second.. not the new but the old brings to mind unresolved buisness </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:52] <Diviara> What buisness.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:52] <Falerin> You need to work those details out yourself. </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:53] <Falerin> Suffice to say however that erroneous conclusions may be drawn by your associations.... dangerous ones and people may be harmed by them </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:54] <Diviara> Harmed? Who? and in what manner... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:54] <Falerin> That I am unsure of an can not say... but signs exist. You will clear the manner over time perhaps work it out in your dreams </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:55] <>Ambiance<> The lab reasserts itself with a bang </span><br>[21:55] * TaloToecan growls softly at the sudden reversion. <br>[21:55] * Durroth frowns at the oddity <br>[21:56] <Little_Brown_Box> Think Falerin's showing us this? <br>[21:56] <Theater_Monkey> "Out of curing ignorance, who were those people?" <br>[21:56] * Clyde sighs wondering if, another change in scenery is going to take place again. <br>[21:56] <Elenor> ... Falerin, Diviara, and Galrick <br>[21:56] <Legault> "I don't think it's a simple coincidence." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:57] <>Ambiance<> The lab reasserts vanishes and is replaced by a vast empty and dead world that smells oddly of the grave </span><br>[21:57] <Theater_Monkey> "Thanks, but I wonder why we were bought there. <br>[21:57] <Theater_Monkey> "Here we go again." <br>[21:57] <Durroth> ... crap <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:57] <>Ambiance<> There is but a single figure here... Diviara himself who stands at the edge of a cave </span><br>[21:57] <Durroth> I dont like this place <br>[21:57] <ElderDamsel> "Diviara..." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:57] <Diviara> Why here next </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:57] * Diviara turns </span><br>[21:57] * TaloToecan wrinkles his nose in distaste, associating the smell with Immertot. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:57] <Diviara> Damsel.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:58] <Diviara> What </span><br>[21:58] <Durroth> We have no clue <br>[21:58] <Theater_Monkey> "Diviara?" <br>[21:58] <TaloToecan> "Uncle? You can hear me now?" <br>[21:58] <Durroth> but it was disturbing my reading <br>[21:58] <Elenor> We heard bangs.. Came to investigate, and this. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:58] <Diviara> Talo </span><br>[21:58] <Durroth> Nice to see you again Diviara <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:58] * Diviara shakes his head </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:58] <Diviara> How odd </span><br>[21:58] * LordBarrius nods at Diviara. "You can see us all, then? Hm...." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:58] <Diviara> This is not real </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:59] <Diviara> So you cannot in fact be here </span><br>[21:59] <Legault> "Wha...?" <br>[21:59] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm just the new confused newcomer, theatre." <br>[21:59] <Elenor> This is strange beyond belief... Which makes it quite normal for the abode. <br>[21:59] <Durroth> what is it then? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:59] <Diviara> A nightmare </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[21:59] <Diviara> That I am having </span><br>[21:59] * TaloToecan raises an eyebrow. "And...how is this not real? Dreams are very much real, Uncle." <br>[21:59] <Durroth> odd <br>[21:59] * Theater_Monkey pinches himself and squeeks. <br>[21:59] * Clyde grins, but not in a happy manor. "Nightmare?" <br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Well, I don't think I particularly like your nightmare. <br>[22:00] <Elenor> Uhm... It's not a very scary one then. <br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> "Wake the heck up. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:00] <Diviara> This place however is a creation of my mind... and you cannot simply enter such </span><br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh! Maybe you're leaking out! <br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Trasmitting, or something! <br>[22:00] <Durroth> tell that to the loud bangs in the abode laboratory! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:00] <Diviara> So logically you are therefore my mind working it out as well </span><br>[22:00] <Durroth> nope <br>[22:00] <Durroth> we're real <br>[22:00] * TaloToecan tilts his head to one side. "I...ah...would not entirely be sure of such. So much of the Abode is uncertain..." <br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...sure. <br>[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Why not. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:00] <Diviara> And yet you cannot prove your reality </span><br>[22:00] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm just confused, we're very real." <br>[22:00] <Durroth> think about it <br>[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> So, why don't you tell us what you're working out, so we can help you with it! <br>[22:01] <Durroth> would you really have BOX in your dream <br>[22:01] <Durroth> whats he supposed to help you work out? <br>[22:01] <Theater_Monkey> "What is it to be real?" <br>[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Es tee eff yu, Durroth. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:01] <Diviara> Indeed were I to say you are a purple duck </span><br>[22:01] * Younger Damsel shrugs faintly. "I suppose it's true. Anything we do could be credited to a fabrication of your own mind." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:01] * Durroth transforms into a purple duck </span><br>[22:01] <Durroth> also, you've never met half of us <br>[22:01] <Elenor> Diviara, that's unprovable. I could say the same thing, you could respond with "But I'm real!" It's technically impossible to prove this. We can all know we're real... But that's about it. <br>[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Wahahaha! <br>[22:01] <Durroth> ... I am the terror that FLAPS in the night! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:01] <Diviara> Dream Logic </span><br>[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Diviara, you lied! This isn't a nightmare, this is a lucid dream! <br>[22:02] <Durroth> I am the reality that is transformed into a duck by your dream <br>[22:02] <Durroth> I am DARKWING DURROTH <br>[22:02] * Clyde sighs, "Diviara, come on! Weird things like this happen all the time?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:02] <Diviara> Ah... a lucid nightmare actually </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:02] <Diviara> yes I am lucid </span><br>[22:02] * Elder Damsel runs a hand through her hair. "Though, when we recall this to you in the real world, perhaps then you will see that we were not false. However, that is something that can only be proven after the fact." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:02] <Diviara> I thought lucidity would help me work it out </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:02] <Diviara> Perhaps in a manner it has </span><br>[22:02] * Durroth attempts to use his shapeshifting to transform back into Durroth <br>[22:02] * Theater_Monkey watches as hands turn into potatoes, "strange." <br>[22:02] <Elenor> If this is a nightmare of yours, then why am I here? I've never met you before. <br>[22:02] <TaloToecan> "There...are very odd things. I understand far less about dreams than the Ronin might, and even he admits often enough to being surprised by them." <br>[22:03] <Durroth> however, I dont appreciate being turned into a water fowl of questionable coloring <br>[22:03] <Theater_Monkey> "I've never met you before." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:03] <Diviara> I did not take up the mantle at The`Galin's behest </span><br>[22:03] <Durroth> even if it is your dream <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:03] <Diviara> I did it in spite of him </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:03] <Diviara> I know that well... others may not </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:04] <Diviara> Assume an improper association </span><br>[22:04] <Little_Brown_Box> In spite of, or to spite? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:04] <Diviara> One that might be.. dangerous to them in the long run </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:04] <Diviara> The office has nothing to do with the network perse... it is related only in that I held it </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:04] <Diviara> I cannot trust that the current holder has anything other then what I had in mind when I took it </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:05] <Diviara> Thats the rub.... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:05] <Diviara> To sleep perchance to wake </span><br>[22:05] * TaloToecan shakes his head. "The only association that matters to me is that you are my Uncle. Beyond that...little matters personally. I trust you. Falerin trusts you." <br>[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> What, you mean Mysterious Necromancer? <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:05] <>Ambiance<> The lab reassets itself with a bang </span><br>[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Whaa! <br>[22:05] <Durroth> ... <br>[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Damnit, he didn't have time to answer! <br>[22:05] * Durroth checks to see if hes humanoid again <br>[22:05] <Theater_Monkey> "We're back" <br>[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Alright, metaphysics, put me back RIGHT NOW! <br>[22:05] <Legault> "Hmm..." <br>[22:05] <Theater_Monkey> "But we could pop out anytime. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:05] <Abode> you never left </span><br>[22:05] <Durroth> ... Note to self <br>[22:05] <Durroth> next time I see him <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:06] <Abode> you have been standing there staring into space for some time </span><br>[22:06] * Theater_Monkey walks back into kitchen. <br>[22:06] <Elenor> ... Ookay.. That's more than slightly unusual. <br>[22:06] <Durroth> glare at him for turning me into a duck <br>[22:06] <Legault> "... Bleh. Damned Vision Bursts." <br>[22:06] * Damsel 's elder self chuckles. "Somehow I'm not surprised." <br>[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> ... <br>[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> Okay. <br>[22:06] <Theater_Monkey> "My hands are not potatoes anymore!" <br>[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> OKAY. <br>[22:06] * Clyde tilts his head. "So those were a squence of dreams?" <br>[22:06] * TaloToecan turns and looks at the Younger Damsel. <br>[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> That's how you want to be? Fine, two can play that game. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:07] <Abode> I have isolated the link </span><br>[22:07] <Little_Brown_Box> Link? <br>[22:07] <Little_Brown_Box> He come to town! <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:07] <Abode> The sounds came from the astral </span><br>[22:08] <Elenor> The Astral... <br>[22:08] <Legault> "Astral plane?" <br>[22:08] <Little_Brown_Box> Come to save the princess Zelda! <br>[22:08] * Damsel 's elder self chuckles. "Of course." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:08] <Abode> They were drawn to me as I have recently been within that realm </span><br>[22:08] * Theater_Monkey listens in from the kitchen while eating french fires. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:08] <Abode> Sendings of the Lady Nyx </span><br>[22:08] * The younger Damsel searches Talo's eyes, wondering what he is thinking. <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:08] <Abode> I have made adjustments to filter the noises </span><br>[22:09] <Legault> "... Wasn't Ronin praying to someone by that name?" <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:09] <Abode> Dreams are private things </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:09] <Abode> Not our buisness to trespass on them </span><br>[22:09] <Theater_Monkey> "You got that right, Abode!" <br>[22:09] <Elenor> So... We really were in Diviara's dreams? <br>[22:09] <Durroth> 'e turned me into a duck <br>[22:09] <Theater_Monkey> "Apparently." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:09] <Abode> In a manner of speaking yes </span><br>[22:10] * TaloToecan looks up in a sense of sadness. "Inform the Lady Nyx that we thank her for her continued aid, and that we are sorry for inadvertantly trespassing so." <br>[22:10] * Theater_Monkey knods head. <br>[22:10] <ElderDamsel> "Perhaps it is best then that such has been prevented from occuring again." <br>[22:11] * Clyde ponders as he ask the Abode, "Then, Diviara was having a dream about the conversation he had with Falerin and Galrick on Deren?" <br>[22:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Well... I'll just stick to my notebook." <br>[22:11] <Legault> "Or he was dreaming about something that he was worried would happen..." <br>[22:12] <Theater_Monkey> "You never know." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:12] <Deva> (Voice only) Is that what you did then... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:13] <Deva> (Voice only) If you say so </span><br>[22:13] <Legault> "Huh?" <br>[22:13] * Little_Brown_Box harrumphs loudly. "Bloody voices, with their bloody talking and not showing up and all. Who do they think they are, anyway?" <br>[22:13] <Theater_Monkey> "Here we go again" <br>[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh, lookit me, I can talk without a body! <br>[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Thbbt. <br>[22:13] <Clyde> "Two femine voices?" <br>[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> I spit in your bean curd. <br>[22:13] <Durroth> ... technically you can Box <br>[22:13] <TaloToecan> "It was good to see my Uncle again, Lady Nyx, but his thoughts were guarded so...I do not think he wanted us there, even if he did call us..." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:14] <Deva> Possibly </span><br>[22:15] <YoungerDamsel> "You feel differently on the matter, Lady?" <br>[22:15] * TaloToecan sighs and hangs his head slightly. <br>[22:15] <TaloToecan> "I never know with him..." <br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:15] <Deva> Possibly he merely meant to hide specific things... </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:15] <Deva> But as you wish... such trespass shall not recur </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[22:15] * Deva falls silent </span><br> | |
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Current revision as of 21:05, 5 November 2007
[20:57] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard from above
[20:58] * TaloToecan rolls his eyes at the mention of swordplay. "While I am certain some of my Artifice Kin might relish the opportunity to wield such, I have never seen the point of a sword."
[20:58] * Elenor looks upwards.
[20:58] * Damsel 's younger self smiles faintly. "Sometimes I envy you your play, Ta..." She stops and looks up. "What was that?"
[20:58] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from above
[20:58] * Legault winces, looking upwards towards the ceiling. "Wha...?"
[20:58] <Durroth> ... this is never good
[20:58] - RoninOfDreams sets mode: +aaa Durroth LordBarrius RoninOfDreams
[20:58] <Elenor> The hell?
[20:58] * Damsel 's elder self looks up, the food in her lap forgotten for the moment.
[20:59] * LordBarrius glances up with a sigh. "What now?"
[20:59] * Clyde is still in the training room, tried and exhausted. "What...was that..?"
[20:59] * TaloToecan tilts his head to one side, making a casual scan telepathically toward the sound while looking up in mild confusion.
[21:00] * Theater_Monkey limbs to Elenor, "May you help with this damage." points to hole in stomach that is slowly healing.
[21:00] * LBB_LurkKing ceases its lurking, scuttling to the very edge of the couch and "peering" about.
[21:00] <Elenor> Uhh... It looks like it's already healing.
[21:00] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from above
[21:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Thought so. Bloody hooligans.
[21:01] <Durroth> ... Well, we COULD check it out
[21:01] * TaloToecan seems to start momentarily, looks at the younger Damsel for a brief moment, then stands and moves to the stairs.
[21:01] <Little_Brown_Box> What's with these people, what with their bangin' about in the attic at all hours of the night...
[21:01] * Elenor gets up and follows Talo.
[21:01] * Damsel 's younger self gets to her feet and follows after Talo.
[21:01] * Durroth does likewise, curious as to what the hell is making that racket
[21:01] * Little_Brown_Box skitters out from under the couch, moving crablike across the floor after the group heading to the stairs.
[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> "Oh! Thanks for pointing that out." :)
[21:02] <Elenor> ((No smilies, please.))
[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> ((Sorry))
[21:02] * Clyde uses the staff to drag his exhausted lifeless body.
[21:02] * TaloToecan picks up his pace, taking the stairs two at a time and following the source of the sound as best he can analyze.
[21:02] <Theater_Monkey> ((Just thought it might be interpeted as sarcasm.))
[21:02] * LordBarrius sets his plate to the side and gently tugs at his Damsel's side. "We'd better follow."
[21:03] * Elenor quickens to keep up.
[21:03] * Theater_Monkey goes limping off toward Elenor.
[21:03] * Damsel 's older self sets her plate aside and nods, getting to her feet to follow without needing much spurring. Younger Damsel is already hurrying after Talo.
[21:03] <>Ambiance<> The second floor corridor is vacant
[21:04] <>Ambiance<> A loud bang is heard once again from further above
[21:04] <Little_Brown_Box> I do say! This floor appears vacant!
[21:04] * Elenor summons her sword and belts it on, just in case they somehow end up in an area without magic. You never knew around here...
[21:04] * Durroth heads for the next flight of stairs
[21:04] * TaloToecan scrambles to find a stairwell or other apparatus to get outside while calling over his shoulder. "Someone, check a window!"
[21:04] * Damsel 's younger self keeps just behind Talo, thinking it best for the ferret to be in the lead for the moment.
[21:05] <Durroth> ((or hes looking for one rather))
[21:05] <>Ambiance<> The stairs to Arden's apartment on the third floor seem quiet.
[21:05] * Elenor follows the group, heading to the roof.
[21:05] * Legault nods a silent affirmative as he gets up from his sprawled out, reclined position on a chair, striding after the others at a brisk pace.
[21:05] * Little_Brown_Box scrambles akwardly after Durroth.
[21:05] <Durroth> explosions
[21:05] <Durroth> at this time of night
[21:05] * LordBarrius follows swiftly after the others, though trying to keep to a pace that his Damsel can follow fairly easily.
[21:05] * Clyde falls over along with his staff. "Dang, I over pushed my limits in my training."
[21:06] * Arden opens his apartment door
[21:06] <Elenor> What's going on?
[21:06] <Little_Brown_Box> We didn't do it, honest!
[21:06] <Arden> Why are you standing in my stairwell
[21:06] * TaloToecan looks up at Arden. "You...don't have stairs to an attic or further up, do you?"
[21:06] <Elenor> Don't you hear those loud bangs?
[21:06] <Durroth> do you happen to be causeing loud bangs?
[21:06] <Arden> Loud bangs?
[21:06] <Durroth> yes
[21:06] <Arden> I have heard nothing up here
[21:06] <Little_Brown_Box> Yeah! The ones that went kinda like this!
[21:06] <Durroth> odd
[21:06] * Little_Brown_Box emits a BANG of its own.
[21:07] <Durroth> we can hear them from downstairs
[21:07] <Elenor> Okay... It was a spell or trick then, to get us up here.
[21:07] <Little_Brown_Box> Whoo...
[21:07] * Damsel 's elder self doesn't seem to be content with a slow pace and should she feel LordBarrius moving to slowly will do her best to pull him on.
[21:07] <Theater_Monkey> "What happened?"
[21:07] <Legault> "... L-o-v-e-l-y. We're imagining things now?"
[21:07] <Durroth> apologies for disturbing you then
[21:07] <Abode> The sound came from the east wing
[21:07] <Arden> East Wing?
[21:07] <Arden> Thats patently impossible
[21:07] * Damsel 's younger self appears mildly confused.
[21:07] <Durroth> ... the east wing?
[21:08] <Little_Brown_Box> Patent pending, mind.
[21:08] <Elenor> There's no harm in checking?
[21:08] <Durroth> what would make that impossible?
[21:08] <Theater_Monkey> "Sometimes ignorance is bliss."
[21:08] <Durroth> is there no east wing?
[21:08] <Durroth> or is it sealed off
[21:08] * TaloToecan turns, gives the younger Damsel a look, while almost automatically responding. "What else is higher than this floor, and located on the east wing?"
[21:08] <Abode> None the less it came from there
[21:09] <Arden> The abode does not have wings... it is not built in that style at all
[21:09] <Durroth> ... so it cant have come from the east wing because there IS no east wing?
[21:09] <Arden> A sound cannot have come from the east wing
[21:09] <Durroth> dandy
[21:09] <Arden> As there isn't any east wing
[21:09] <Elenor> That's... more than a little strange... It's in the east wing, but this place doesn't have wings. We hear the sound from up here, yet you don't.
[21:10] <Abode> It came from the east wing
[21:10] <Theater_Monkey> "Oh, I know this."
[21:10] <Elenor> Something really isn't right here. We should be careful.
[21:10] <Durroth> ... and how do we get to the nonexistant east wing abode
[21:10] * Damsel 's selves both look at Arden with an expression of confusion.
[21:10] <Theater_Monkey> "That term is from theater."
[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> I dunno, Arden. If the Abode says it has wings, maybe we should listen to it.
[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> Wait, you have wings?
[21:10] <Little_Brown_Box> You can FLY?
[21:10] <Abode> From here you cannot.... as Arden says in this form I have no east wing
[21:10] * Durroth kicks box lightly
[21:10] <Durroth> not that kind of wing
[21:10] * Little_Brown_Box is lightly kicked.
[21:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Wings are just sections of the building."
[21:11] <Little_Brown_Box> Oh, I see what you did there.
[21:11] <Elenor> ... Is there are form where you do have an east wing?
[21:11] <Abode> I only have an eastwing in my forest form
[21:11] <Durroth> shiney
[21:11] * Elenor groans. "Knew it'd be something weird like that...
[21:11] * Clyde finally makes to the rest of the group and sits down to take a quick breath. "Hey...Arden.."
[21:11] <Arden> Ah... I have nothing to do with that building then
[21:11] <Elenor> Abode, is it possible for you to change to this form?
[21:11] * TaloToecan frowns and moves to connect to the Computer telepathically, to mirror his verbal response. "Computer, login Talo-Toecan with telepathic confirmation. Discern the location of the Abode's forest form's east wing, and assess the swiftest method of transport with minimal paradox involved."
[21:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Then do we go to the forest form or what?"
[21:11] <Arden> I own only the abode here in fair harbor
[21:12] * LordBarrius tilts his head a bit. "Odd. How could we hear that from here, though?"
[21:12] <Elenor> Odd indeed
[21:12] <Computer> What is it... I was sleeping
[21:12] <ElderDamsel> "How curious."
[21:13] <Theater_Monkey> "Welcome to my world, trying to adapt to this strange new world is quite weird."
[21:13] <Abode> I am connected to all of myself. It is possible for sound to be carried from one form to the other it is unusual however.
[21:13] <TaloToecan> "There is, or was, a sound coming from the Abode's forest form's east wing. Pinpoint the location and assess methods of transport to that location with minimal paradox, if you please."
[21:13] <Abode> Getting back to the old forest form would require raising anchor
[21:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh!
[21:14] <Legault> "Heh... I remember that place."
[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> Can I hoist the mainsails?
[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> PLEASE?
[21:14] <Little_Brown_Box> I wanna hoist the mainsails! The rest of you can get the anchor, I promise!
[21:14] <Abode> I however am not the same in that version... I am not sentient in the same manner. Things adjust to the tennants of the moment
[21:15] <Little_Brown_Box> Schwaa?
[21:15] <Legault> "Who's using the one there?"
[21:15] <Arden> It is not that sort of Anchor. It is a metaphysical link. The thing that draws tennants to this place rather then that one.
[21:15] <Arden> Falerin put it in place when he brought you to Fair Harbor
[21:15] * Damsel 's elder self nods in understanding.
[21:16] <Legault> "That's why people who'd only been to the older one came here..."
[21:16] <Theater_Monkey> "I will just accept this exists blindly"
[21:16] <Elenor> Humm...
[21:16] * TaloToecan frowns, apparently thinking fast and yet not fast enough at the same time. A vexing circumstance. "Am I to assume no other method exists as a solution? Computer, verify as well, if you please."
[21:16] * Theater_Monkey stares into empty space all confuzzled.
[21:16] <Computer> Physical Travel to the other location remains an alternative
[21:17] <Durroth> road trip?
[21:17] <Elenor> How long would that take?
[21:17] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm curious to enquire into that.
[21:17] <TaloToecan> "Relative time differences between raising the Anchor and a physical transit aided by yourself?"
[21:18] * Younger Damsel considers. "Returning to the forest would not be unwelcome even without these circumstances."
[21:18] <Computer> Both manifestations exist on the physical landscape of Caelestia... tranist via teleportaiton would be a simple matter...
[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...wait.
[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Which forest is this?
[21:18] <Elenor> So we teleport there. Easy enough.
[21:18] <Durroth> shiney
[21:18] <Computer> Were it not for the proximity of the other manifestation to the planes of instability
[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Is it that Limmerick place?
[21:18] <Little_Brown_Box> Filmandrot?
[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> Underknot?
[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> Whatsit?
[21:19] <Legault> "... Shush, Intel."
[21:19] <Durroth> Immertot
[21:19] <Little_Brown_Box> In order, yes and no!
[21:19] * Theater_Monkey sighs as his mind gradually adapts to this twilight zone of fantasy.
[21:19] <Computer> Negative though that manifestation can stretch into immertot forest and has.. due to its proximity to aforementioned planes
[21:19] * TaloToecan frowns and sighs sadly. "Elaborate the risks of attempting a transit regardless?"
[21:20] <Elenor> Computer, what is the easiest and fastest way to get there?
[21:20] <ElderDamsel> "But with that proximity there are added complications?"
[21:20] <Computer> Teleportation that close to such disturbances carries an attendant 34 percent risk of being drawn into the planes of instability
[21:21] * Theater_Monkey suddenly pales
[21:21] <Durroth> 34%... thats only slightly more than one in three
[21:21] <Elenor> Can we teleport a bit of a distance away and walk the rest? Would that reduce the chances?
[21:21] <Computer> Affirmative
[21:21] <Little_Brown_Box> And the planes of instability are that Shimmer-thing, right?
[21:22] <Computer> Though you would need to teleport substantial distance to reduce the risk to neglience
[21:22] <TaloToecan> "What would the risk of teleporting to Immertot itself and coaxing the manifestation to 'stretch' there, as you mentioned earlier?"
[21:22] <Computer> If i may observe
[21:22] <Computer> A fixed gate carries no such attendant risk
[21:23] <TaloToecan> "There is a fixed gate, aside from the Anchor?"
[21:23] <Legault> "... I like that idea better."
[21:23] <YoungerDamsel> "What of the back gate itself?"
[21:23] <Computer> You have in your possession a fixed gate that has outlet more or less everywhere
[21:23] <Computer> Affirmative
[21:23] * LordBarrius lapses into silence, unsure what he could add, if anything, to the topic at hand.
[21:23] <Computer> I refer to the Terrace Gate
[21:24] <Little_Brown_Box> Whoo!
[21:24] <Elenor> Oh, so we just have to take the Gate. Perfect.
[21:24] <Theater_Monkey> "Umm... As long as it doesn't involve additional curses, I'm okay with whatever is chosen."
[21:24] <Little_Brown_Box> So, wait, what? Are we going to Tip-the-Bot or what?
[21:24] * TaloToecan practically smacks himself in the head, not for lack of knowing that, but scrambling on too many thoughts to think of such. "To the Gate, then...will you be accompanying us, or like to, Computer?"
[21:24] <Legault> "I think most've us'd prefer not being cursed, really."
[21:25] <Little_Brown_Box> I wonder what undeath feels like. Hehe...
[21:25] <Computer> I have no desires whatsoever
[21:25] <Little_Brown_Box> You poor sap.
[21:25] <Theater_Monkey> "Meh, you are just afraid."
[21:26] <>Ambiance<> A bang is heard from below
[21:26] <ElderDamsel> "Perhaps it would be better not to waste time? Especially if the situation is pressing for the one 'knocking.'"
[21:26] * Clyde tilts his head concerningly and foolessly says, "What's the worst that could happen?"
[21:26] <Elenor> The hell?
[21:26] <Abode> Thats curious
[21:26] <Durroth> ... I think we should get moving
[21:26] <Durroth> what?
[21:27] <Abode> That sound was not heard from my east wing
[21:27] <Durroth> where from this time
[21:27] * TaloToecan takes off in a dash towards the ground floor. "Then where?"
[21:27] <Abode> It originated from the cellar
[21:27] <Clyde> "Main room?"
[21:27] <Elenor> Of this one?
[21:27] <Durroth> this form or that one?
[21:27] * Elenor teleports to the ground floor.
[21:27] <Abode> The laboratory annex
[21:27] * The elder Damsel tilts her head to the side, confused, before hurrying after the ferret. Her younger self is not far behind.
[21:27] <Durroth> ... this form or that one
[21:27] <Abode> Mu
[21:27] * Durroth follows close behind
[21:28] * Elenor throws open the door to the downstairs and heads downstairs.
[21:28] * Durroth reforms Nyetsubeth into its sword form just in case
[21:28] * Theater_Monkey follows everybody limping as fast as he can.
[21:28] <Abode> The laboratory..... does not exist on the plane of Caelestia
[21:28] <Durroth> ...
[21:28] <Durroth> so where?
[21:28] <Legault> "... Lovely."
[21:28] <Elenor> ... Then where is it?
[21:28] <Abode> It is... in both forms and all forms of the building
[21:28] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...Abode?
[21:28] * Legault turns around and dashes after the others.
[21:28] <Abode> It exists as a demiplane
[21:28] <Little_Brown_Box> Are you under seige?
[21:28] <Durroth> and can we reach it through the cellar?
[21:29] <Durroth> or do we have to take the gate
[21:29] <Little_Brown_Box> Or have you just got the hiccups?
[21:29] <Abode> Through the Kitchen...
[21:29] <Abode> Aye
[21:29] <Durroth> right
[21:29] * Elenor teleports back up into the kitchen.
[21:29] * Durroth heads for the kitchen, and the cellar
[21:29] <Arden> I am not going
[21:29] <Arden> I have not set foot in that Lab since the incident with Orion's bane
[21:29] * Theater_Monkey goes to the kitchen, "Time for some chow."
[21:30] * LordBarrius shakes his head from his thoughts and dashes after the others belatedly.
[21:30] * Clyde eyes flare as he hears the words and mutters them back. "Orion's bane incident..."
[21:30] * TaloToecan is apparently racing Durroth to get there, having a good idea of who might also be there.
[21:30] * Arden returns to his apartment closing the door
[21:30] * Little_Brown_Box skitters around a bit, trying to get a peek into Arden's room before the door...too late.
[21:30] <Durroth> I think since we're charging blindly
[21:31] <Durroth> we might want to watch out for closed doors
[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> Well, yeah, Durroth.
[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> It's our default plan of action.
[21:31] <Theater_Monkey> "Yeah, I've known that a while, I'm just following everybody."
[21:31] <Durroth> so we dont smack into one
[21:31] * Clyde follows to get the Lab along with the group.
[21:31] <Little_Brown_Box> We call it "Operation: Who Gives a Flying Flip?"
[21:31] * Elenor heads into the lab.
[21:31] * Little_Brown_Box barrels down the stairs after the others
[21:31] * TaloToecan attempts to help guide himself via his telepathic connection.
[21:32] <>Ambiance<> The lab is dusty from disuse. Its entrance is from a door in the kitchen which only seems present when actively sought
[21:32] <>Ambiance<> Being so sought now it is quitte apparent
[21:32] * Both Damsel follow after Talo, trusting his telepathic connection to guide them most accurately, especially to this individual, if his first assessment was correct.
[21:32] * Theater_Monkey grabs sandwich and enters the lab.
[21:33] * Durroth enters the lab weary of anything in it
[21:33] * TaloToecan reaches the door and puts his hand on the handle with a breath, then pushes it open to head in with a hope and a prayer.
[21:33] * Theater_Monkey eats the sandwich.
[21:33] * Elenor casts a light spell, deciding it's not best to trust the local lighting... And it will tell her if magic stops working.
[21:33] * Legault slows to a trot as he reaches the kitchen, walking carefully into the labratory, wary of damaging anything.
[21:33] * Little_Brown_Box hums a merry ditty as it scuttles along behind the others.
[21:34] <>Ambiance<> upon passing through the door to the lab you find yourself not within the lab at all but instead within a vast open landscape. Grassland stretching out some distance. The abode's kitchen streches beyond the doorway beind...
[21:34] <Durroth> ... this is interesting
[21:34] <Elenor> ...Oookay..
[21:34] * Durroth looks around, hoping to discover the source of the noise in this place
[21:34] * Theater_Monkey slowly crouches down in fear.
[21:34] * TaloToecan blinks slowly, scanning the area for the person he actively is seeking, and moves more in a slight crouch with less speed than a full run.
[21:34] <Little_Brown_Box> Nice lab!
[21:34] <Little_Brown_Box> It's roomy!
[21:35] <>Ambiance<> night sounds are heard overhead... bats and birds... and the chirping of insects
[21:35] <Legault> "... The banging was coming from here?"
[21:35] * Little_Brown_Box stops humming, and makes random cricket noises.
[21:35] * The near twin Damsels blink in surprise at the change in surroundings but do not hesitate in following after Talo.
[21:35] <Diviara> What did you mean by it. It is a simple question.
[21:36] <Falerin> Nothing I ever say is simple necromancer
[21:36] * Durroth blinks
[21:36] * Clyde takes a few steps to gain a grasp of this landscape and reality. "Well...this is special..."
[21:36] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh. *Chirrup* I think we're intruding.
[21:36] <Diviara> Yet clearly you said it for a reason
[21:36] * TaloToecan motions for silence, though he does not try to act stealthy as he stands to look in the direction of the conversation.
[21:36] <Diviara> What were you implying
[21:36] * Theater_Monkey peeks out to view the events.
[21:37] * Durroth shoots a look at box
[21:37] * Elenor looks for the sounds of the voices.. Falerin is here?!
[21:37] * LordBarrius remains silent in observation.
[21:37] <Falerin> Why ask questions for which you already have the answer Celegra
[21:37] <Falerin> You know what I meant well enough
[21:37] <Little_Brown_Box> Lex Luthor!
[21:37] * Legault keeps silent, not wanting to intrude on their conversation.
[21:37] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...oops. Wrong episode.
[21:37] <Diviara> Yes I suppose that I do
[21:38] <Falerin> You knew well enough to wait this long to even question me on it...
[21:38] * Clyde patiently listens in antipicipation of what is to come next.
[21:38] <Diviara> I did not know how to broach the subject there did not seem to be time....
[21:38] * The Damsel's slow, one moving to try and stay beside Talo while the more elder hangs back to stay near LordBarrius.
[21:39] * Theater_Monkey takes out popcorn hes been saving and starts eating it.
[21:39] <Falerin> And you think that there is now... Come on Diviara.... your statement just asked for the response it was given...
[21:39] <Falerin> You knew well I could see the evidence in front of my face
[21:40] <Diviara> It was the manner of the statement.... it was somehow snide... was it meant to be a threat
[21:40] <Falerin> You will take it as you will.
[21:40] * Theater_Monkey throws popcorn at little_brown_box.
[21:40] <Diviara> Yet not from everything....
[21:40] <Diviara> How am I to take it
[21:40] <Falerin> You will take it as you will.
[21:41] <Falerin> Now if you will excuse me the conversation is over
[21:41] <>Ambiance<> The planes vanish replaced by lab equipment there is an audible bang as this occurs
[21:41] <Durroth> ... what the hell?
[21:41] <Elenor> Well... At least we know what the bangs mean then...
[21:41] * TaloToecan frowns. "That...is disconcerting."
[21:42] <Legault> "... I'm sensing some conflict between them."
[21:42] * Clyde vision of what use to be a bush was now a shelf oof lab tools. "I never get use to that."
[21:42] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...were we just on Lore?
[21:42] <Durroth> I'm... not sure
[21:42] <YoungerDamsel> "I wonder what they were speaking of precisely..."
[21:42] <Theater_Monkey> "Don't ask me?"
[21:43] <>Ambiance<> The planes reapper with a bang but it is daylight now
[21:43] <Theater_Monkey> "Why did destiny call us there?"
[21:43] <Legault> "And back again..."
[21:43] <Durroth> ... what now?
[21:43] <Diviara> Is he always like that though....
[21:43] <Galrick> I fear so
[21:43] * Clyde falls back in suprise.
[21:43] <Galrick> At least in his dealings with me
[21:44] <Diviara> What was meant by it.
[21:44] * Theater_Monkey is still watching the events deciding if he should interfere.
[21:44] <Galrick> Perhaps it was merely a reminder that he sees what others do not.
[21:45] * Clyde eyes the territory trying to find soem familarity. "Is this...Deren?"
[21:45] <Little_Brown_Box> EheheheheheHEhehe.
[21:45] <Little_Brown_Box> Tempus FIDGIT.
[21:45] <Legault> "Hmm... It's Summer there. Might be."
[21:46] <Diviara> It was a question of my loyalties and commitments?
[21:46] <Galrick> Maybe
[21:46] <Galrick> I really cannot say
[21:46] <Galrick> On terra it is said you cannot serve two masters but you spent much doing just that
[21:47] <Diviara> That is a terrible oversimplification
[21:48] <Galrick> And yet it is why you took up the mantle you did isn't it...
[21:48] <Diviara> I was misguided
[21:48] <Falerin> Were you really?
[21:48] <Diviara> Falerin!
[21:48] <Diviara> Where did you come from....
[21:49] <Falerin> I am never far even when I am worlds away
[21:49] * TaloToecan bites his lower lip, one hand reaching back towards the Younger Damsel as he thinks upon what is being said and the possible implications.
[21:49] * Theater_Monkey jumps back in suprise and wonders if they are aware of us.
[21:49] <Falerin> Were you really? Misguided....
[21:49] <Falerin> No Diviara. I trust you implicity.
[21:50] <Falerin> I would put my office in your hands.
[21:50] * Damsel's younger self quietly slips a hand into Talo's own, interlacing her fingers with his as she continues to watch and listen.
[21:50] <Falerin> I have known you how others have not...
[21:50] * Little_Brown_Box continues to chirp like a cricket at random intervals.
[21:50] <Falerin> It was not at all a question of loyalites... so much as an observation that you are still playing the game.
[21:51] <Diviara> Ah...
[21:51] <Diviara> Well I suppose I am at that
[21:51] <Diviara> Does it matter to you?
[21:51] <Falerin> If it matters not to them... why ever should it matter to me....
[21:52] <Falerin> However... the issue of your former second.. not the new but the old brings to mind unresolved buisness
[21:52] <Diviara> What buisness....
[21:52] <Falerin> You need to work those details out yourself.
[21:53] <Falerin> Suffice to say however that erroneous conclusions may be drawn by your associations.... dangerous ones and people may be harmed by them
[21:54] <Diviara> Harmed? Who? and in what manner...
[21:54] <Falerin> That I am unsure of an can not say... but signs exist. You will clear the manner over time perhaps work it out in your dreams
[21:55] <>Ambiance<> The lab reasserts itself with a bang
[21:55] * TaloToecan growls softly at the sudden reversion.
[21:55] * Durroth frowns at the oddity
[21:56] <Little_Brown_Box> Think Falerin's showing us this?
[21:56] <Theater_Monkey> "Out of curing ignorance, who were those people?"
[21:56] * Clyde sighs wondering if, another change in scenery is going to take place again.
[21:56] <Elenor> ... Falerin, Diviara, and Galrick
[21:56] <Legault> "I don't think it's a simple coincidence."
[21:57] <>Ambiance<> The lab reasserts vanishes and is replaced by a vast empty and dead world that smells oddly of the grave
[21:57] <Theater_Monkey> "Thanks, but I wonder why we were bought there.
[21:57] <Theater_Monkey> "Here we go again."
[21:57] <Durroth> ... crap
[21:57] <>Ambiance<> There is but a single figure here... Diviara himself who stands at the edge of a cave
[21:57] <Durroth> I dont like this place
[21:57] <ElderDamsel> "Diviara..."
[21:57] <Diviara> Why here next
[21:57] * Diviara turns
[21:57] * TaloToecan wrinkles his nose in distaste, associating the smell with Immertot.
[21:57] <Diviara> Damsel....
[21:58] <Diviara> What
[21:58] <Durroth> We have no clue
[21:58] <Theater_Monkey> "Diviara?"
[21:58] <TaloToecan> "Uncle? You can hear me now?"
[21:58] <Durroth> but it was disturbing my reading
[21:58] <Elenor> We heard bangs.. Came to investigate, and this.
[21:58] <Diviara> Talo
[21:58] <Durroth> Nice to see you again Diviara
[21:58] * Diviara shakes his head
[21:58] <Diviara> How odd
[21:58] * LordBarrius nods at Diviara. "You can see us all, then? Hm...."
[21:58] <Diviara> This is not real
[21:59] <Diviara> So you cannot in fact be here
[21:59] <Legault> "Wha...?"
[21:59] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm just the new confused newcomer, theatre."
[21:59] <Elenor> This is strange beyond belief... Which makes it quite normal for the abode.
[21:59] <Durroth> what is it then?
[21:59] <Diviara> A nightmare
[21:59] <Diviara> That I am having
[21:59] * TaloToecan raises an eyebrow. "And...how is this not real? Dreams are very much real, Uncle."
[21:59] <Durroth> odd
[21:59] * Theater_Monkey pinches himself and squeeks.
[21:59] * Clyde grins, but not in a happy manor. "Nightmare?"
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Well, I don't think I particularly like your nightmare.
[22:00] <Elenor> Uhm... It's not a very scary one then.
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> "Wake the heck up.
[22:00] <Diviara> This place however is a creation of my mind... and you cannot simply enter such
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh! Maybe you're leaking out!
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Trasmitting, or something!
[22:00] <Durroth> tell that to the loud bangs in the abode laboratory!
[22:00] <Diviara> So logically you are therefore my mind working it out as well
[22:00] <Durroth> nope
[22:00] <Durroth> we're real
[22:00] * TaloToecan tilts his head to one side. "I...ah...would not entirely be sure of such. So much of the Abode is uncertain..."
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Er...sure.
[22:00] <Little_Brown_Box> Why not.
[22:00] <Diviara> And yet you cannot prove your reality
[22:00] <Theater_Monkey> "I'm just confused, we're very real."
[22:00] <Durroth> think about it
[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> So, why don't you tell us what you're working out, so we can help you with it!
[22:01] <Durroth> would you really have BOX in your dream
[22:01] <Durroth> whats he supposed to help you work out?
[22:01] <Theater_Monkey> "What is it to be real?"
[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Es tee eff yu, Durroth.
[22:01] <Diviara> Indeed were I to say you are a purple duck
[22:01] * Younger Damsel shrugs faintly. "I suppose it's true. Anything we do could be credited to a fabrication of your own mind."
[22:01] * Durroth transforms into a purple duck
[22:01] <Durroth> also, you've never met half of us
[22:01] <Elenor> Diviara, that's unprovable. I could say the same thing, you could respond with "But I'm real!" It's technically impossible to prove this. We can all know we're real... But that's about it.
[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Wahahaha!
[22:01] <Durroth> ... I am the terror that FLAPS in the night!
[22:01] <Diviara> Dream Logic
[22:01] <Little_Brown_Box> Diviara, you lied! This isn't a nightmare, this is a lucid dream!
[22:02] <Durroth> I am the reality that is transformed into a duck by your dream
[22:02] <Durroth> I am DARKWING DURROTH
[22:02] * Clyde sighs, "Diviara, come on! Weird things like this happen all the time?"
[22:02] <Diviara> Ah... a lucid nightmare actually
[22:02] <Diviara> yes I am lucid
[22:02] * Elder Damsel runs a hand through her hair. "Though, when we recall this to you in the real world, perhaps then you will see that we were not false. However, that is something that can only be proven after the fact."
[22:02] <Diviara> I thought lucidity would help me work it out
[22:02] <Diviara> Perhaps in a manner it has
[22:02] * Durroth attempts to use his shapeshifting to transform back into Durroth
[22:02] * Theater_Monkey watches as hands turn into potatoes, "strange."
[22:02] <Elenor> If this is a nightmare of yours, then why am I here? I've never met you before.
[22:02] <TaloToecan> "There...are very odd things. I understand far less about dreams than the Ronin might, and even he admits often enough to being surprised by them."
[22:03] <Durroth> however, I dont appreciate being turned into a water fowl of questionable coloring
[22:03] <Theater_Monkey> "I've never met you before."
[22:03] <Diviara> I did not take up the mantle at The`Galin's behest
[22:03] <Durroth> even if it is your dream
[22:03] <Diviara> I did it in spite of him
[22:03] <Diviara> I know that well... others may not
[22:04] <Diviara> Assume an improper association
[22:04] <Little_Brown_Box> In spite of, or to spite?
[22:04] <Diviara> One that might be.. dangerous to them in the long run
[22:04] <Diviara> The office has nothing to do with the network perse... it is related only in that I held it
[22:04] <Diviara> I cannot trust that the current holder has anything other then what I had in mind when I took it
[22:05] <Diviara> Thats the rub....
[22:05] <Diviara> To sleep perchance to wake
[22:05] * TaloToecan shakes his head. "The only association that matters to me is that you are my Uncle. Beyond that...little matters personally. I trust you. Falerin trusts you."
[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> What, you mean Mysterious Necromancer?
[22:05] <>Ambiance<> The lab reassets itself with a bang
[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Whaa!
[22:05] <Durroth> ...
[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Damnit, he didn't have time to answer!
[22:05] * Durroth checks to see if hes humanoid again
[22:05] <Theater_Monkey> "We're back"
[22:05] <Little_Brown_Box> Alright, metaphysics, put me back RIGHT NOW!
[22:05] <Legault> "Hmm..."
[22:05] <Theater_Monkey> "But we could pop out anytime.
[22:05] <Abode> you never left
[22:05] <Durroth> ... Note to self
[22:05] <Durroth> next time I see him
[22:06] <Abode> you have been standing there staring into space for some time
[22:06] * Theater_Monkey walks back into kitchen.
[22:06] <Elenor> ... Ookay.. That's more than slightly unusual.
[22:06] <Durroth> glare at him for turning me into a duck
[22:06] <Legault> "... Bleh. Damned Vision Bursts."
[22:06] * Damsel 's elder self chuckles. "Somehow I'm not surprised."
[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> ...
[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> Okay.
[22:06] <Theater_Monkey> "My hands are not potatoes anymore!"
[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> OKAY.
[22:06] * Clyde tilts his head. "So those were a squence of dreams?"
[22:06] * TaloToecan turns and looks at the Younger Damsel.
[22:06] <Little_Brown_Box> That's how you want to be? Fine, two can play that game.
[22:07] <Abode> I have isolated the link
[22:07] <Little_Brown_Box> Link?
[22:07] <Little_Brown_Box> He come to town!
[22:07] <Abode> The sounds came from the astral
[22:08] <Elenor> The Astral...
[22:08] <Legault> "Astral plane?"
[22:08] <Little_Brown_Box> Come to save the princess Zelda!
[22:08] * Damsel 's elder self chuckles. "Of course."
[22:08] <Abode> They were drawn to me as I have recently been within that realm
[22:08] * Theater_Monkey listens in from the kitchen while eating french fires.
[22:08] <Abode> Sendings of the Lady Nyx
[22:08] * The younger Damsel searches Talo's eyes, wondering what he is thinking.
[22:08] <Abode> I have made adjustments to filter the noises
[22:09] <Legault> "... Wasn't Ronin praying to someone by that name?"
[22:09] <Abode> Dreams are private things
[22:09] <Abode> Not our buisness to trespass on them
[22:09] <Theater_Monkey> "You got that right, Abode!"
[22:09] <Elenor> So... We really were in Diviara's dreams?
[22:09] <Durroth> 'e turned me into a duck
[22:09] <Theater_Monkey> "Apparently."
[22:09] <Abode> In a manner of speaking yes
[22:10] * TaloToecan looks up in a sense of sadness. "Inform the Lady Nyx that we thank her for her continued aid, and that we are sorry for inadvertantly trespassing so."
[22:10] * Theater_Monkey knods head.
[22:10] <ElderDamsel> "Perhaps it is best then that such has been prevented from occuring again."
[22:11] * Clyde ponders as he ask the Abode, "Then, Diviara was having a dream about the conversation he had with Falerin and Galrick on Deren?"
[22:11] <Theater_Monkey> "Well... I'll just stick to my notebook."
[22:11] <Legault> "Or he was dreaming about something that he was worried would happen..."
[22:12] <Theater_Monkey> "You never know."
[22:12] <Deva> (Voice only) Is that what you did then...
[22:13] <Deva> (Voice only) If you say so
[22:13] <Legault> "Huh?"
[22:13] * Little_Brown_Box harrumphs loudly. "Bloody voices, with their bloody talking and not showing up and all. Who do they think they are, anyway?"
[22:13] <Theater_Monkey> "Here we go again"
[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Ooh, lookit me, I can talk without a body!
[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> Thbbt.
[22:13] <Clyde> "Two femine voices?"
[22:13] <Little_Brown_Box> I spit in your bean curd.
[22:13] <Durroth> ... technically you can Box
[22:13] <TaloToecan> "It was good to see my Uncle again, Lady Nyx, but his thoughts were guarded so...I do not think he wanted us there, even if he did call us..."
[22:14] <Deva> Possibly
[22:15] <YoungerDamsel> "You feel differently on the matter, Lady?"
[22:15] * TaloToecan sighs and hangs his head slightly.
[22:15] <TaloToecan> "I never know with him..."
[22:15] <Deva> Possibly he merely meant to hide specific things...
[22:15] <Deva> But as you wish... such trespass shall not recur
[22:15] * Deva falls silent
