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clearly having listened to the same conversation " how does one explain
the mental boost I wonder....." he does not notice you and continues
across the street down another alley<o p=""></o> both were granted to me"
attempt such things..."
carefully. "Mental boost...?"
his face falling a bit, "Yes, it did"
nuetrality.
with her hand, while listening quietly.
to Durroth.
)
in twice.. he said he had something to ask.."
not the end of the Oracle also imply that there is at least some
fixedness?"
back."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> crossing from an alley opposite
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Wait what?"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
suddently turns and looks<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Oh... its you lot"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "It healed you?"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Physically?"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
[20:16] <Durroth> it healed me in a sense too
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
frowns<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
[20:16] <Iago> "I had a broken arm and leg. They
were repaired."
[20:16] <Durroth> and I suppose even improved me
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And it.... physically
polymorphed that computer into a living being"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Which is to say an organic
one?"<o p=""></o>
[20:17] <Iago> "But only for a short time"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Those powers are NOT
simple...."<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And they are not explained by
a Probability Engine"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "They are lasting actual
changes in the local reality"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Further this is
caelestia"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Healing Sorcery is very
restricted"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Almost all healing magic is
clerical"<o p=""></o>
[20:18] <Iago> "That's where my skepticism arose,
should we submit ourselves to the whim of something so great?"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Especially of that power to
unbreak bones"<o p=""></o>
[20:18] <Durroth> I wished to be whole again
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>]
[20:18] <Iago> "I asked for healing and safe
passage. I was granted both, without any malignancy"
[20:18] <Durroth> all the fragmented emotions and such
within me are now whole, and I also recieved the memories of my analogs
[20:18] <Necro> That you know of
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I did not imply that there
was any malignancy Iago"<o p=""></o>
[20:19] <Arden>
"I am more commenting on the fact that such a thing requires a great deal
of different sorts of power"<o p=""></o>
[20:19] <Iago> "Nor did I think you did. I was
simply expressing the possibility that arose in my mind"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And given the nature of some
of them...."<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Clerical healing magic
requires a God"<o p=""></o>
[20:19] <Lkeas> I guess we've just been concerned that
we've been granted what seems to be quite wonderful gifts, without any cost to
us..
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "The church of eldron
tolerates this Festival I learned but does not like it"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "So it is safe to say they are
not affiliated with Eldron"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Which is fairly audacious of
them"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Since they never claim it was
a god<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "They get away with..."<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Much"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I guess then you need to
determine what the ulterior motive is"<o p=""></o>
[20:21] <Iago> "Some here claimed to see, or even
manifest the nature of, The'Galin... which gave rise to some of my fears"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I have to assume you are
right in expecting there is one"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>]
[20:21] <Lkeas> Would that be ungrateful of us, you
think?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <Arden> "The'Galin"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "... I cannot see how"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I mean he is a foreign
deity"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And the farpoint
would..."<o p=""></o>
[20:22] <Iago> "I don't claim he has any control,
but that he was experienced within booth..."
[20:22] <Deathbringer> Mine showed visions of near
deities of my world.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Well thats natural
right?"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "You see what you know"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "It comes as much from you
as...."<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Well would it be ungrateful I
wonder"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "To enter that booth and as
your request"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Ask to know the secret of the
booth"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "So far the booth has rejected
no offers tho"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Would it be Self
Revaltory"<o p=""></o>
[20:23] <Iago> "The operator seemed to think it
was ungrateful to be skeptical..."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I am not skeptical"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I am baffled"<o p=""></o>
[20:23] <Iago> "Or it may simply create a
paradox, killing the person within it"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Skeptical implies....
doubt"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I have no reson to doubt
motives"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "But I seriously DO question
the technology"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Here<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> I can cast a contingency spell<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>]
<Lkeas> Hmm?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Any effect that would cause your
life to end or severe damage to come to you<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Teleports you immediately to my
abode<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> before the effect is realized<o p=""></o>
[20:24] <Deathbringer> That is handy.
[20:25] <Durroth> indeed
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> We then can feel safe in poking and
proding....<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> the workings of the mysterious box<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
gestures and mutters something and casts a crystal into the air which vanishes
with a explosion<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
proceeds to read a scroll which also vanishes<o p=""></o>
[20:26] <Deathbringer> The material component?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Let me know what you
learn"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
turns and continues down the alley<o p=""></o>
[20:26] <Necro> So, any takers on being the guinea
pig? I'll go if no one else will...
[20:26] <Iago> "Let's get there first, I hope its
there after last night"
[20:26] <Lkeas> Well, I've already been inside, so I
doubt I'll be let in again.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>]
<Deathbringer> Yeah.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>]
[20:27] <Iago> "It might just be gone
forever"
[20:27] <Durroth> there there little one
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>]
[20:27] <Damsel> "I've heard his shouting earlier
today, I'm fairly certain."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>] <Voice> "Come experience the
thrill that David Viara called unifying"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="28" w="" st="on">20:28</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="28" w="" st="on">20:28</st1>]
<Deathbringer> Heh.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="28" w="" st="on">20:28</st1>]
[20:29] <Durroth> the problem is we've all gone
through the hut already
[20:29] <Necro> No we haven't
[20:29] <Necro> At least not all of us
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="29" w="" st="on">20:29</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="30" w="" st="on">20:30</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "Ah"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "Again you join
me"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "What a
pleasure"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>] <>Ambiance<> The hut is in
yet a third location clearly not where it was yesterday either in fact it seems
to be in a small garden this time<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> Well then<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall enter
the dollarstore oracle next?"<o p=""></o>
[20:34] <Durroth> lets see, who do we have who hasnt
gone through
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> That does not matter<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> The reason some of your
party who had gone through last time were not allowed to do so again<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> was due to their own
attitude<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> The booth would have
effected them badly<o p=""></o>
[20:35] <Lkeas> That makes sense, sort of..
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> it would have been far
from fantastique<o p=""></o>
[20:35] <Lkeas> Ah, only fantastic, then?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> No<o p=""></o>
[20:35] <Durroth> fantasTIQUE
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> Possibly Terrible<o p=""></o>
[20:36] <Lkeas> That's not good.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
<Deathbringer> Ouch.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> or... even horid<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Maybe mortifying<o p=""></o>
[20:36] <Deathbringer> So... painful?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Which is very very NOT
fantastique<o p=""></o>
[20:36] <Durroth> not necessarily painful
[20:36] <Durroth> mentally scarring maybe
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> But possibly<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
<Lkeas> Lovely.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Both<o p=""></o>
[20:36] <Durroth> ouch
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
[20:36] <Necro> Serious damage mentally scarring?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Doubt and fear are not
the sin incidentally<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> One of your number
wanted to assault me<o p=""></o>
[20:37] <Durroth> I figured that
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> I do believe that the
experience would have been quite bad for her<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
<Lkeas> Mmm.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> Another of your number
was being divisive and.. distressed<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> They really could not
enter<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> That would have been bad<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> But today is a different
day<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> Isn't it master Iago?<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> And never forget that<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> Its always a different
day<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> What was yesterday it
may not be tommorow<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> The Booth is... based on
principles<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> it is a new Oracle at <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> A new and enirely Orphic
experience<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>]
<Lkeas> Oracle? <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1>.. wha?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> as such were intended<o p=""></o>
[20:39] <Lkeas> This is run by Orphic?
[20:39] <Durroth> Ah, that brings back memories
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> Orphic.. means prophetic<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> Oracular<o p=""></o>
[20:39] <Durroth> not mine of course
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> It has to do with
Orpheus of course<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> And the Oracle at <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o>
[20:40] <Legault> So that's why that Dakota got called
here...
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> was an ancient Grecian
shrine on a world you probably never heard of called Terrioha<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> Or something like that<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> But it was consulted to
see the future and to dream dreams<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> to experience wonder<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> To become trully
Ecstatic<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> And that is what the
booth does<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it is Fantastique<o p=""></o>
[20:41] <Lkeas> Isn't viewing the future dangerous,
though?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> But it can be dangerous<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> Is it?<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> It could only be
dangerous if it was definite<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> or solitary<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> And the future is not
all it does clearly<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> Like deliphi it heals
the lame<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it makes ones dreams
come true<o p=""></o>
[20:41] <Lkeas> Ah, I see..
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it imparts great secrets<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> It is... a wonder<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> But I am partial<o p=""></o>
[20:42] <Durroth> I'll second that
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> Ever since I became its
gatekeeper<o p=""></o>
[20:42] <Durroth> it is indeed a wonder
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> So many years ago<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> My predecessor was
enamored of it too<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> So tell me<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> Who shall venture forth
first?<o p=""></o>
[20:43] <Damsel> "Will you tell us who you
are?"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="43" w="" st="on">20:43</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="43" w="" st="on">20:43</st1>] <Figure> Me my lady?<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>]
[20:44] <Damsel> "Yes, sir.I would wish to know into whose care such a
remarkable thing has been given."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>] <Figure> My name is Emechbaniri<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>] <Figure> Emechbaniri<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="45" w="" st="on">20:45</st1>] <Figure> Emechbaniri Untustestkim
Lerirunttan<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="45" w="" st="on">20:45</st1>] <Figure> At your service<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> I am from Serirashalde<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> Which is a world far
from this one<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> Though I have been the
Caelestian keeper of the oracle for<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] * Figure thinks carefully<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> 3 millenia<o p=""></o>
[20:47] <Damsel> "The Caelestian keeper?You mean there are other keepers upon other
realms?"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>]
<Legault> That's... A while.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "Oh yes... you see
the booth is but a connector"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "When you are in
there you can see that"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "All of the oracle
in all places is one oracle"<o p=""></o>
[20:47] <Iago> "About the same amount of time
Falerin has know Mariel..."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "I am in fact about
to come to the begining of my contract though"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "And then I shall
be succeeded"<o p=""></o>
[20:48] <Durroth> the begining?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Or preceded"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Its all very
complicated"<o p=""></o>
[20:48] <Durroth> you travel in reverse?
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Yes and No"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "We travel
something like laterally"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "I remember time
forward<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "But I age in
reverse"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>]
<Necro> Ineteresting...
[20:49] <Damsel> "I think I understand."
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "You see the Oracle
in order to work is stored at the end"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "After all it would
be pointless if it were at the begining"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "You cannot see a
tree by the roots"<o p=""></o>
[20:49] <Durroth> you can see part of the tree
[20:50] <Damsel> "The end of all?"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "A very narrow
part"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "From the canopy
you can see all"<o p=""></o>
[20:50] <Durroth> point conceded
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "The end of the
Oracle"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "The End of All
implies there is such"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "Which in so far as
I can tell would mean that the future is fixed"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "But it is no more
fixed then the past"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "and less fixed
then the present"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "The present is the
most fixed of course"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "because we are
actively paying attention"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>]
[20:51] <Iago> "That actually makes a tremendous
deal of sense"
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> Everything perishes<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> Death however is but
another adventure<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> Clearly eventually the
Oracle moves on<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> I suspect another takes
this ones place<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> just as this took the
place of <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "SO then"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall see the
wonder"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall commune
with the oracle"<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="53" w="" st="on">20:53</st1>]
<Legault> Hmm... I'll go.
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="53" w="" st="on">20:53</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="53" w="" st="on">20:53</st1>]
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="54" w="" st="on">20:54</st1>] * Figure opens the door<o p=""></o>
[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="54" w="" st="on">20:54</st1>] <Figure> "Enter at will
sir"<o p=""></o>
<a href="http://psyham.googlepages.com/sessionxlii-legault">[20:54] * Legault nods and walks in.</a>