The Epic - Session XLII: Part 2

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