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[18:29] >Ambiance<: A swirling

vortex of grey leads you through to the otherside of the Lightning Portal. When you pass through you find yourself in a twilit world. a pair of small mmons hover above. Though on closer insepction it is clear that they were once part of a larger natural satellite that has been fragmented. The sound of water and distant revelry can be heard.
[18:30] * Xforce clings to Lepres tightly
[18:30] Computer: the world is a distant analog of Terra. Magic level is relatively high as is technological achievement
[18:30] Rimblade: "Mmmmm. Dunno, but this seems almost fammiliar, if not quite. Vuja De."
[18:31] Computer: A sizeable population of minds can be detected to the north
[18:31] Durroth: hmm... where are we?
[18:31] * Damsel steps slightly away from the portal and looks about quietly.
[18:31] Rimblade: "Could it be a revel?"
[18:31] ZLOK: Could it be corrupted with inaction?
[18:31] * Lkeas follows after Damsel, looking about her curiously.
[18:31] Durroth: should we seek out this "Large group of minds?"
[18:31] * ZLOK steps out of the arriving crowd.
[18:31] Computer: Our geographic posiiton is the Northern American Subcontinent
[18:31] * Lepres pats X.
[18:32] * Xforce looks up at the two moons and blinks.
[18:32] Rimblade: "Sounds like a good world for those of us who like the arcane arts, though."
[18:32] Xforce: "I wonder what happened there."
[18:33] * Clyde almost feels like he's at home.
[18:33] Durroth: Best of all, its quiet so far
[18:33] Lepres: Ooh. Twilight!
[18:33]

  • LordBarrius emerges and promptly assumes a position in the back of

the group, opting not to draw attention and merely observe.
[18:33] * Fulcan-[ToverIsOver] vanishes, and stuff.
[18:33] Lepres: Farrock uses that stuff.
[18:33] Computer: Latitude 44°22 Longitude 68°
[18:33] Rimblade: "Mmmm. Betcha it was a meteor. Or perhaps a bomb. Maybe a spell?"
[18:33] Lkeas: I would assume Falerin sent us to these coordinates so as not to draw attention to ourselves when we arrived..
[18:34] Rimblade: "Or a drunken monster."
[18:34] Damsel: "That is a reasonable assumption."
[18:34] TheSojurner: The populace north is roughly equivalent to the Latitude and Longitude of the City of Bangor, ME
[18:34] Durroth: Goody, home again home again
[18:34] Durroth: roughly equivolantly
[18:34] * Rimblade blinks.
[18:35] Rimblade: "Home? Noooo, I don't think we're near home, really."
[18:35] * Lepres glances at the two moons and begins to glow in moonlight.
[18:35] Lkeas: The question is, how not to too much draw attention to ourselves, when we DO enter the populated areas. We always seem to stick out like a sore thumb. If this is a research expedition, causing disturbances will likely taint our findings..
[18:35] Durroth: I'm kidding Rim
[18:35] Computer: Affirmative but the density of senitences is Considerably Broader then the Terran prime equivalent of Bangor
[18:36] * Xforce hiccups. "Are we in the fuuuture?"
[18:36] Xforce: "Or a future?"
[18:36] TheSojurner: Invisibility is a possibility
[18:36] Durroth: So it might be a city?
[18:36] * TheSojurner gestures and closes his eyes
[18:36] Rimblade: "Can we do unnoticability instead?"
[18:36] TheSojurner: The date is 7th of August 2007
[18:36] * mori wakes up, somewhat groggy. "What's going on..."
[18:36] * TheSojurner opens his eyes
[18:36] * Lepres pats X's back.
[18:36] ZLOK: Lkeas, pink hair doesn't help.
[18:37] Grett: That matches with the date of one of my contacts, interestingly enough.
[18:37] ZLOK: Unless we arrive in pinkhairland.
[18:37]

  • Lkeas chuckles. "How much more information can you get by closing

your eyes, Sojurner? We may not have to get anywhere near the locals."
[18:37] Durroth: You never know
[18:37] ZLOK: Which is rather uncommon, I'd think.
[18:37] Lepres: I think Lkeas's hair is cute.
[18:37] TheSojurner: Time sense is a simple spell
[18:37] Durroth: Plenty of planets have people who dye their hair
[18:37] TheSojurner: I could try clairvoyance
[18:37] TheSojurner: but in a magic rich world
[18:37] TheSojurner: it is quite possible it would be detected
[18:37] mori: Magic-rich?
[18:38] Lkeas: Right then, off to visit the city it is, eh?
[18:38] FrogPlushie: Can't we just blend in?
[18:38] Damsel: "I wonder what the best approach would be to gathering information in this world might be..."
[18:38] Xforce: "Uhm... do you have a ray-dee-oh?"
[18:38] Clyde: The magical essence here is so heavy.
[18:38] Durroth: Well we COULD ask a dead person assuming theres any non-hostile ones around
[18:38] Rimblade: "But go on, can you give us an air of unnoticability, then?"
[18:38]

  • Lkeas shrugs apologetically to ZLOK. "Not much I can do about it at

this point. Perhaps in a magic-rich environment pink hair is not so uncommon... perhaps..."
[18:38] mori: Hey!
[18:38] Xforce: "We could probably figure out something about this people if we listen to what they're saying to each other."
[18:38] Grett: Hm.
[18:38] Durroth: but thats rather a pain as I have to relay everything
[18:38] Xforce: ((*these people, even))
[18:39] TheSojurner: In the right locales on Terra have pink hair as commonplace anyway
[18:39] Grett: Well, are they used to off-worlders?
[18:39] mori: I hope we're not expected...
[18:39] Damsel: "Even in Avarie's magically inert Terra, there were locations with non-standard hair colors. I seem to recall a number of months when her own was blue..."
[18:40] * mori checks his gear, and, finding all is well, stands up.
[18:40] ZLOK: Magic rich envoironment usualy means teleportation is not uncommon. Question and, more importantly, answers should not be uncommon either.
[18:40] TheSojurner: No one is approaching that I can see
[18:40] * Damsel smiles faintly.
[18:40] Clyde: Is the world post apocolyptic or near?
[18:40] TheSojurner: Stay here
[18:40] * TheSojurner gestures and vanishes
[18:40] * mori taps his foot and looks around.
[18:40] LordBarrius: "Hair color is not among my concerns....I would worry more about detection from making ourselves too obvious....if the goal is research, we want to either avoid detection entire or blend into the populace."
[18:40] * TheSojurner appears
[18:41] Rimblade: "Soooo. Why is it we are here? I fear I came in late, eh?"
[18:41] * Xforce looks back at his wings with mild concern.
[18:41] TheSojurner: it is an enclosed campus. A very large one big enough to be a small city
[18:41] * Damsel nods at LordBarrius.
[18:41] TheSojurner: The attire of the locals is variable
[18:41] * Clyde tries to ask out of curiosity, "Is the world post apocolyptic or near?"
[18:41] Durroth: campus?
[18:41] TheSojurner: As are the makeup
[18:41] Durroth: like a school?
[18:42] Grett: I imagine the frog is stranger than pink hair.
[18:42] TheSojurner: I detect numerous undead, several garou, a large body of magi
[18:42] * Lkeas nods. "Well, I guess we won't need invisibility then.."
[18:42] TheSojurner: A large collection of the Fey
[18:42] TheSojurner: And a fairly broad crossection of normal humans
[18:42] FrogPlushie: Oh, I can turn into a dwarf undead with patchwork all over me?
[18:42] TheSojurner: Among other oddities
[18:42] FrogPlushie: Does that work better?
[18:42] *** Alex has joined #epic.
[18:42] Durroth: you know
[18:42] Damsel: "Then I suspect we shouldn't have too much trouble."
[18:43] Durroth: you could just play dead and have one of us carry you
[18:43] LordBarrius: "Heh, then we may as well attempt to blend in. Odd as we are, we shouldn't have trouble presuming we don't make a scene."
[18:43] Durroth: noone really notices a plush toy that isnt walking and talking
[18:43] Alex: (( where are we? ))
[18:43] TheSojurner: Given the population of Fey here
[18:43] TheSojurner: I rather suspect even a walking talking plushtoy would be taken as Chimerical
[18:44] TheSojurner: and not really noted
[18:44] * Xforce scratches his wing joints.
[18:44] Eitak_Razal: I can vanish since i'm just an illusion created to see things
[18:44] TheSojurner: I recieved no paradox backlash from overt teleportation whatsoever
[18:44] Rimblade: "Fantastic."
[18:44] * Lepres gently rubs X's wings.
[18:44] TheSojurner: Meaning that even the masses are well used to magic
[18:44] mori: Great.
[18:44] * Alex appears on the ground.
[18:45] Rimblade: "How stubborn is the world hereabouts?"
[18:45] Lepres: I've never seen a baby with wings before...
[18:45] TheSojurner: "Not much...."
[18:45] * Xforce smiles and hugs Lepres
[18:45] TheSojurner: "The gauntlet level is near zero"
[18:45] Grett: I suggest we get moving then, if we are to learn anything.
[18:45] * Lepres smiles and returns the hug. "So cute!"
[18:45] Durroth: ((When did he grow wings?))
[18:45] Rimblade: "Ahhhh. I love personable realities."
[18:45] Eitak_Razal: I'm also too injured to move for real. I'm useing this.
[18:46] mori: Well, let's go, folks.
[18:46] * TheSojurner sets off over the hill toward the campus
[18:46] * Lkeas follows.
[18:47] * ZLOK follows close by Lkeas.
[18:47] * mori sets off with the others.
[18:47] * Damsel shrugs and follows.
[18:47] * FrogPlushie floats along after the others.
[18:47] * Grett keeps in step behind the group.
[18:47] * Xforce follows with Lepres
[18:47] * Rimblade follows with a sort of hop-step gait, smiling broadly.
[18:47] * Clyde looks around and feels at home, "Deja Vu"
[18:47] * LordBarrius frowns faintly as he follows, choosing to remain in his position near the rear of the group.
[18:47] * Lepres follows while carrying X.
[18:47] * Clyde follow after Lepres
[18:48] * Alex folows Damsel.
[18:48] * Durroth follows
[18:49] * Eitak_Razal seems to glide after them
[18:49] >Ambiance<: The wall is tall and made of ancient local stone. A placard placed at the archway leadinging into the campus bears the Legend. The School.
[18:49] >Ambiance<: The entire campus is easily 100 square miles
[18:49] * Rimblade carefully examines the wall.
[18:50] Damsel: "Well appropriately named, I suppose..."
[18:50] Rimblade: "'s pretty old."
[18:50] * mori looks around
[18:50] Xforce: "Is it gnomishly named?"
[18:50] Xforce: "gnomibly? gnomically?"
[18:50] Lepres: Gnomish?
[18:50] Xforce: "Gnomically named?"
[18:50] >Ambiance<: A young couple walk out of the gateway and without a second glass take flight into the sky.
[18:50] * mori ducks instinctively.
[18:51] >Ambiance<: They appear to do so without wings or any obvious source of levitation
[18:51] * Xforce looks at the couple wide eyed.
[18:51] Rimblade: "Ahhh, young love. Flying young love."
[18:51] Damsel: "Hmmm... fly spell, I would guess."
[18:51] Xforce: "I want to learn how to do that!"
[18:51] Grett: Hm. What do you suppose their method is?
[18:51] * Xforce looks back and gets a face full of wing.
[18:51] TheSojurner: Neither possess magic
[18:51] * mori sings softly, "I've seen lovers flying through the air, hand in hand..."
[18:51] TheSojurner: They have some sort of technological means
[18:51] Xforce: "On second thought, I figure I might as well use these if they're going to stick out of my shoulders."
[18:51] Lepres: Aww...
[18:51] Eitak_Razal: Levitattion or like me
[18:51] Eitak_Razal: Not really there
[18:52] * Lepres watches the two lovers.
[18:52] Rimblade: "Oh, don't go on like that, Eitak."
[18:52] Xforce: "Maybe they're tapping into the magic around them?"
[18:52] Rimblade: "There's a hundred bazillion ways."
[18:52] >Ambiance<: The two disapppear rapidly to the south west
[18:52] Xforce: "They wouldn't need magic to do that, and they could still fly."
[18:52] Rimblade: "Not that I'd like to name them, mind you."
[18:52] * Xforce laughs. "You're silly, mister Rimblade."
[18:52] * Lkeas shrugs and turns to the Sojurner. "Why would they use technology if the magic level is high here?"
[18:53] * Eitak_Razal wonders how a child, younger than her, can know all this.
[18:53] * Rimblade draws himself up and stares down at Xforce.
[18:53] mori: Magiscience?
[18:53] Grett: Magnetics? Didn't seem like anti-grav.
[18:53] Durroth: seattle prime does
[18:53] TheSojurner: Not every human is awakened
[18:53] Eitak_Razal: I use magic and Tech Lkeas
[18:53] mori: Ah...
[18:53] Eitak_Razal: Some things that one can do the other can't
[18:53] Lkeas: I see.
[18:53] * Xforce looks back at Rimblade
[18:53] Rimblade: "You wound me. I am a stately and solemn gentleman, and I will not have my good name tarnished with such appelations."
[18:53] Lkeas: Alright... perhaps before we go in, we should have some rough goals in mind? What do we plan to find out here?
[18:53] Durroth: no hes right
[18:53] Durroth: your silly
[18:53] TheSojurner: They could be using a magical artifact for all I know
[18:54] * Xforce seems confused. "You're a mass of land... and serious... and you don't want to be associated with apples....?"
[18:54] * Lepres stares at Xforce quizically yet lovingly.
[18:54] Durroth: ... okay, this kid is officially awesome
[18:55] Damsel: "Well if The'Galin was here recently, I'd imagine there'd be some sort of news about it even if they didn't know exactly what was happening... unless...
[18:55] * Damsel trails off
[18:55] mori: We should learn a bit about why The'Galin chose to visit here.
[18:55] mori: At the very least.
[18:55] * Xforce shakes his head and looks around. "Wait. So are we going in, or what?"
[18:55] Rimblade: "I don't suppose he's just attending The School?"
[18:55] Rimblade: "Or perhaps teaching?"
[18:55] * mori shudders at the thought.
[18:55] Rimblade: "I wouldn't care to guess the state of his funds."
[18:55] * Alex remembers that he can fly but he doesen't show off.
[18:55] TheSojurner: I pointedly see no evidence of roads
[18:56] TheSojurner: Or cars
[18:56]

  • Lkeas nods. "Alright, that's two things. Find out what happened when

The'Galin visited, and why he would have reason to visit."
[18:56] Durroth: ... yes, because giant world devouring beings teach at magical schools
[18:56] Grett: I don't think it would be the booth, or I doubt Falerin would consider it important.
[18:56] Durroth: galactus was a history professor you know
[18:56] mori: So people get around by flight and teleportation...
[18:56] Durroth: ((thats sarcasm))
[18:56] mori: Only.
[18:56] TheSojurner: Why not the Surfer taught quantum mechanics
[18:57] mori: Would we look strange walking? Not that I plan to do too much, but I can't fly.
[18:57] * TheSojurner enters the archway into "The School"
[18:57] Lepres: Hmm?
[18:57] Lkeas: Do we want to talk to the people or attempt to find evidence of both through other means? Newspapers, etc...
[18:57] Durroth: because galactus was a giant world devouring monster
[18:57] mori: Guess not...
[18:57] Eitak_Razal: I think I would like this school.
[18:57] Lkeas: Or we could just start walking...
[18:57] Eitak_Razal: I'd love to attend.
[18:57] * Grett heads after Sojourner.
[18:57] * mori follows TheSojurner.
[18:57] Durroth: the surfer was more or less NOT a world devouring monster
[18:57] Lepres: Who are Galactus and The Surfer?
[18:57] * Lkeas shakes her head and hurries to catch up with The Sojurner.
[18:57] * Rimblade nearly skips (and stumbles) into the archway.
[18:57] * ZLOK walks briskly behind Lkeas.
[18:57] Durroth: Sorry, terran comic book characters
[18:57] * Durroth follows along
[18:58] * Alex follows everybody.
[18:58] * Lepres tilts her head and shrugs. She follows along, carrying X.
[18:58] * Damsel enters through the archway as well, looking about with curiosity
[18:58] >Ambiance<: A vast expanse of small large and medium buildings all of which have some sort of Runic Sign but no other indication of purpose stand here
[18:58] * mori whispers, "Blunt fellow, this Sojourner. No sense of caution at all..."
[18:58] Rimblade: "Oh, I don't know."
[18:58] Rimblade: "Caution can be unseen."
[18:58] TheSojurner: These sybmols
[18:59] TheSojurner: I recognize them from other Terran Analogs
[18:59] * mori observes the symbols.
[18:59] TheSojurner: These buildings are largely residential
[18:59] * Eitak_Razal passes through a wall, once more afirming her status as an image.
[18:59] Durroth: ((Fraternities?))
[18:59] TheSojurner: But house many people arround common facilities
[18:59] TheSojurner: I suspect they are Fraternity and Order houses
[18:59]

  • Lkeas leans over to mori. "Then again, being overly cautious to the

point of inaction doesn't help much either... I'm trying to work on that, myself."
[19:00] Durroth: they look like em
[19:00] ZLOK: Foldspace or not?
[19:00] TheSojurner: The symbols however are far from the Greek Letters most Terran Fraternities use
[19:00] Damsel: "Hmmm...."
[19:00] * mori nods to Lkeas. "A good thief must know the correct balance of the two."
[19:00] Eitak_Razal: They don't look like ones from the Sims.
[19:00] TheSojurner: Some have signs almost close to Ogham runes but most of them appear to be the runes of Vampirc Clans, Garou Tribes, and Magic Orders
[19:00] * Xforce notes that the text is all - to use the terran expression - all greek to him.
[19:01] TheSojurner: Or some combination thereof
[19:01] Rimblade: "Factions or just brotherhoods?"
[19:01] Durroth: interesting
[19:01] mori: Some of it rings a bell, perhaps pictures I've seen, but I don't know their meaning.
[19:01] TheSojurner: There is a wooded area beyond in that direction that has similiar but much smaller buildings bearing the signs of the Seelie and Unseelie court
[19:02] TheSojurner: Interesting some of the runes seem repeated
[19:02] TheSojurner: Or modified
[19:02] Damsel: "Seelie and Unseelie... that's... familiar somehow."
[19:02] TheSojurner: That building over there for instance seems to be the combination of those other two runes there and there
[19:02] * Lkeas looks at Damsel. "I can't say I've heard the terms.."
[19:02] TheSojurner: A sort of Meta Rune
[19:02] * mori strokes his chin.
[19:02] * Xforce waves at Damsel and cups his hands over his mouth.
[19:02] Xforce: "Hey! Listen!"
[19:02] TheSojurner: This is familiar somehow
[19:03] TheSojurner: ...
[19:03] Rimblade: "Pfft. Winter and summer."
[19:03] TheSojurner: The Magiocracy
[19:03] TheSojurner: These runes are near identical to those employed on Magiocracy prime
[19:03] TheSojurner: Computer how close is this reality to the magiocracy prime
[19:03] >Ambiance<: We are within the same minor branch
[19:03] * Xforce gives up and sighs.
[19:03] * TheSojurner hmms
[19:04] *** Dale has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
[19:04] Rimblade: "Oh ho! Expansionists?"
[19:04] Damsel: "That's interesting..."
[19:04] Lkeas: Why would The'Galin visit Magiocracy prime?
[19:04] TheSojurner: I do not know
[19:04] Xforce: "Maybe he was looking for something?"
[19:04] Xforce: "I mean, theres a lot of magic here, right?"
[19:05] Xforce: "And wizards that do magic and stuff?"
[19:05] * TheSojurner walks further into the city
[19:05] Lkeas: Recruiting, you mean?
[19:05] * Durroth follows
[19:05] * Damsel strides after.
[19:05] * TheSojurner stops
[19:05] Durroth: hmm?
[19:05] * mori quickly surveys the surrounding area, then moves toward TheSojurner.
[19:05] * ZLOK follows close by Lkeas.
[19:05] * Xforce continues, almost to himself. "Maybe... or maybe he was looking for someone who could do something."
[19:05] * TheSojurner stares at a building
[19:05] * Lkeas heads after the others and nearly bowls into The Sojurner.
[19:05] Lkeas: Oy.. what's this, then?
[19:05] * Durroth looks at the building the sojurner stares at
[19:06] * Lkeas follows TheSojurner's gaze.
[19:06] >Ambiance<: The Construction of the building is unmistakable. It is identical in every aspect to that of the Temple of Hope
[19:06] * Xforce looks at what the Sojourner is looking at.
[19:06] Durroth: Oh
[19:06] mori: Now this is odd indeed...
[19:06] * Lepres gazes at "The Temple".
[19:06] Durroth: kay
[19:06] * Xforce doesn't recognize it.
[19:06] Grett: That is certainly interesting.
[19:06] * Damsel freezes suddenly as she makes the association. "But..."
[19:06] * TheSojurner turns and looks forward
[19:06] Durroth: what is it?
[19:06] Rimblade: "Well...."
[19:06] Lkeas: By the farpoint... what is THAT doing here?
[19:06] TheSojurner: This is peculiar
[19:06] Rimblade: "This is Fascenating!"
[19:06] TheSojurner: The same thing that is
[19:07] * Lkeas turns to look.
[19:07] Durroth: Whats so strange about it?
[19:07]

  • TheSojurner points to another temple like structure this one with

pillars and a series of large statues immediately within an alcove
[19:07] Rimblade: "Oh my..."
[19:07] Durroth: ... I'm confused
[19:07] TheSojurner: That...
[19:07] TheSojurner: Is the temple of many gods
[19:07] Lkeas: Wait...
[19:07] Lepres: Hmm?
[19:07] * Xforce raises an eyebrow.
[19:07] Lkeas: This doesn't make any sense. It's like a hodgepodge of realms..
[19:08] Xforce: "The temple...?"
[19:08] * mori observes the second temple.
[19:08] Lepres: What's that, Miss Sojourner?
[19:08] Xforce: "Does that mean theres only one?"
[19:08] * Frederick_Aragorn comes out of the temple of many gods and stops short
[19:08] Xforce: "Or that its an original...?"
[19:08] Damsel: "Hmm... the presence of this building..."
[19:08] Lkeas: There's a temple like that on Caelestia.
[19:08] Lkeas: We visited it once...
[19:08] TheSojurner: Fizzle?
[19:08] Rimblade: "Oh, goodness me, and mercy be."
[19:08] * Clyde sounding interested, "Is there information about every god ever inside those walls?"
[19:08] * Lkeas trails off as she observes Frederick coming out of the temple.
[19:08] * mori 's hand twitches.
[19:09] Grett: This IS interesting.
[19:09] Frederick_Aragorn: Are you lost?
[19:09] Durroth: ...
[19:09] Rimblade: "Not at all, we know exactly where we're not."
[19:10] * Xforce waves at Frederick. "Maybe?"
[19:10] * Eitak_Razal stops in her path
[19:10] Xforce: "We know where we are. We don't know where we're going."
[19:10] * Lepres waves to Frederick. "Hello."
[19:10] Grett: Would this be the Aragorn we know, or an analog?
[19:10] Frederick_Aragorn: Do I know you?
[19:10] Lkeas: We're, um.. admiring the architecture here. Is there somewhere we should obtain guest passes, or touring tickets?
[19:10] * ZLOK hides under his robe.
[19:10] * Eitak_Razal starts to fade then becomes seemingly solid.
[19:10] Frederick_Aragorn: There is something familiar
[19:11] Clyde: ...
[19:11] Durroth: ((Smooth Lkeas, real smooth))
[19:11] Grett: Do you happen to know an Arden? If not, then I suppose we don't know you.
[19:11] Frederick_Aragorn: Guest passes? Touring tickets? The School is public. All are welcome
[19:11] Frederick_Aragorn: Arden? I know an Ardendor
[19:12] Grett: What is this a school of, exactly?
[19:12] Frederick_Aragorn: It is The School
[19:12] Frederick_Aragorn: A transreality and transtemporal university
[19:12] Durroth: yay for random analogs in every conceivable dimension
[19:12] Clyde: of Gods?
[19:12] Eitak_Razal: Legualt...
[19:12] Frederick_Aragorn: Sometimes
[19:12]

  • LordBarrius grins faintly at Lkeas and mutters softly. "Well, points

for trying." He refocuses his attention on Fredrick once more. "The School does not specialize in one particular area, does it? It's a generalized university, so to speak?"
[19:12] Frederick_Aragorn: Celestines normally have better things to do
[19:12] Grett: Do you know of a Caelestia?
[19:13] Grett: Ah.
[19:13] Frederick_Aragorn: Do I know of a Caelestia? I am from Caelestia
[19:13] Damsel: "Of course..."
[19:13] Grett: Then I'd say we do know you.
[19:13] * ZLOK sighs heavily.
[19:13] Durroth: does this happen often Damsel?
[19:13] Lkeas: Oh! Then, I suppose you've seen the temple of many gods, there? This building bears a striking resemblance..
[19:13] Rimblade: "It's the Terra conundrum, is it?"
[19:13] * mori wonders what this man must think of several random strangers asking him a string of questions...
[19:13] * Damsel glances at Durroth and merely smiles faintly.
[19:14] Frederick_Aragorn: Within this university are beings from most any imaginable world. They all arrive via the Bow and Arrow
[19:14] TheSojurner: Wait what?
[19:14] TheSojurner: The Bow stops here?
[19:14] Eitak_Razal: Bow and Arrow?
[19:14] Eitak_Razal: Whats that?
[19:14] Rimblade: "Projectile travel?"
[19:14] Frederick_Aragorn: Wait I definitely know you... you are one of Ardendor's avatar
[19:14] Lepres: Bow and Arrow?
[19:14] Durroth: sounds like some kind of transportation system
[19:15] Frederick_Aragorn: I was unaware Falerin was aware of this place
[19:15] mori: Hah.
[19:15] * Lepres nods to Durroth.
[19:15] Grett: I imagine he just found out about it.
[19:15] * Lkeas glances over at Grett and Damsel. "This School sounds much like the School of Thought, on a broader scale.."
[19:15] TheSojurner: Untill recently apparently he was not
[19:15] Damsel: "Much broader."
[19:15] Damsel: "I wonder if that's why..."
[19:15] * mori turns even paler at the mention of the School of Thought. "There was another School...related with The'Galin..."
[19:15] TheSojurner: You are younger then I remember Fizzle
[19:15] Grett: We came here to find out what interest The`Galin has in the place.
[19:15] Xforce: "Err... does this mean there are two schools of thought...?"
[19:16] * Xforce seems very confused
[19:16] Frederick_Aragorn: I am younger then you remember. we have not yet met.
[19:16] Rimblade: "Maybe we're in the future?"
[19:16] Frederick_Aragorn: It is however a pleasure to meet you again for the first time.
[19:16] Xforce: "Maybe he's in the past?"
[19:16] Damsel: "Could this be what the School of Thought was supposed to be? Free for all, open to all... So much knowledge..."
[19:16] Durroth: ...
[19:16] Lepres: Two Schools of Thought?
[19:16] Frederick_Aragorn: No I am in the future... relative to my own timeline
[19:16] Lepres: Can we go inside it?
[19:16] Frederick_Aragorn: This School does not exist on this world in my own timeline
[19:17] Grett: Meeting for the first time, for the second time. Amusing.
[19:17] Durroth: Great, now I'm completely lost with references to places I havent heard of
[19:17] * Damsel looks about at the buildings with a new found curiousity.
[19:17] Rimblade: "Naturally. This is the guy with the funny timing. Or, if you'll listen to the northern trolls, the right timing."
[19:17] * Lkeas nods. "That's what I was thinking, Damsel. Perhaps The'Galin wished to see if this is how he had imagined Alorin.."
[19:17] * mori sighs and puts away the knife he was twirling.
[19:17] TheSojurner: Computer detect temporal anomaly
[19:17] Damsel: "Maybe that's why The'Galin was here. And with the recent construction on the Temple of Hope..."
[19:17] Rimblade: "They think we've all just set our watches incorrectly."
[19:17] * Xforce loses track of the conversation, mentally sidetracked at the mention of "northern trolls."
[19:17] Computer: none detected
[19:17] mori: Oh, crap.
[19:18] Frederick_Aragorn: This World is Time Travel Neutral
[19:18] Damsel: "Do you think, Lkeas, that this may be his doing here as well? All of this?"
[19:18] Rimblade: "Ohhhhh."
[19:18] * Damsel gestures to include the whole of campus.
[19:18] Frederick_Aragorn: Its self correction level is quite high
[19:18] * mori appears relieved at the computer's response.
[19:18] Durroth: why would he create something if hes so busy uncreating?
[19:18] Rimblade: "So it's like a bit of the river of time which doesn't have a flow, back or forth, nor side to side?"
[19:18] Frederick_Aragorn: Even the most drastic changes to the past of this world would recohere with this timeline
[19:19] Frederick_Aragorn: This version of Terra is persistent
[19:19] Frederick_Aragorn: At least it is now....
[19:19] * Damsel smiles softly. "Aye... as it should be."
[19:19] Frederick_Aragorn: Such was not always the case
[19:19] LordBarrius: "You think that the god of uncreation wouldn't dabble in creation as well, Durroth? Other gods can uncreate after all...."
[19:19] * mori frowns.
[19:19] mori: Let him speak.
[19:19] Durroth: well it just seems he'd be busy
[19:20] Frederick_Aragorn: There was a rather great deal of unplesantness a bit back with forces from the nearby realm of Magiocracy Prime attempting to force us to cohere with them and attempting to eliminate us into their own timeline
[19:20] TheSojurner: Caused a transdimensional war
[19:20] Frederick_Aragorn: Naturally
[19:20] Frederick_Aragorn: Fortunately one of this realities Celestines was summoned and helped to naturalize the world
[19:21] Frederick_Aragorn: This world is actually a Convergent Evolution rather then a divergent one. So it is odd
[19:21] TheSojurner: What?
[19:21] Frederick_Aragorn: Oh yes. It is a terran analog but it did not start that way
[19:22] Rimblade: "So it evolved by gaining possibilites instead of losing them?"
[19:22] Frederick_Aragorn: It converged upon being terra like. It was created as a mimic of Terra. But it no longer if it ever was connected to the terran branches
[19:22] * Lkeas tugs at one of her curls as she turns to Damsel. "But why would he make it a Terran analog rather

than a Lorian one, if it was his doing?"
[19:22] * Clyde looks at Frederick trying to remember where he saw him before.
[19:22] Frederick_Aragorn: It is entirely seperate from all other Terran Analogs
[19:22] Frederick_Aragorn: While it has had some historically convergent events
[19:22] ZLOK: Isn't it obvious.
[19:23] Frederick_Aragorn: It is impossible to find a point of branching as it has had nuymerous ones over history
[19:23] ZLOK: If he plans to uncreate Lore, and wishes to leave this place intact.
[19:23] Frederick_Aragorn: A gradual evolution of creation and anticreation correcting itself untill this world evolved
[19:23] ZLOK: Because they have not yet reached a massive level of corruption.
[19:23] Lkeas: Hmm...
[19:24] Frederick_Aragorn: Thats not true
[19:24] Lkeas: I'm still not sure he plans on uncreating Lore in entirety, ZLOK..
[19:24] mori: Hm?
[19:24] Frederick_Aragorn: Corruption was insipid which was how the Magiocracy planned to gain access
[19:24] mori: But they never did, did they?
[19:24] Frederick_Aragorn: The people native to this world and its massive immigrants and green card holders however objected
[19:24] Frederick_Aragorn: And summoned the Celestine to aid us
[19:24] Lkeas: Who was the Celestine?
[19:25] Frederick_Aragorn: The'Galin
[19:25] mori: Wha...?
[19:25] ZLOK: Hah.
[19:25] Frederick_Aragorn: Thats what the Lorian branch calls him anyway
[19:25] mori: Hah indeed.
[19:25] Frederick_Aragorn: He came with his spouse
[19:25] * Damsel chuckles. "I thought as much."
[19:25] Frederick_Aragorn: Who is the local equivalent of Prometheus on my World
[19:25] Rimblade: "See? What a polite guy."
[19:25] mori: He must've relished getting rid of the insipid threat...
[19:26] Frederick_Aragorn: He did not ultimately
[19:26] Frederick_Aragorn: She did
[19:26] Xforce: "Prometheus...?"
[19:26] Frederick_Aragorn: Uncreated a large number of them
[19:26] mori: This just keeps getting better and better...go on.
[19:26] Rimblade: "Well, she might be polite too."
[19:26] * Xforce decides to get into reading when he gets back to the abode
[19:26] Frederick_Aragorn: And banished several others
[19:26] * Damsel nods her head. "That is... unsurprising actually."
[19:27] Frederick_Aragorn: And declared the Magiocracy not eligible for citizenship here
[19:27] Frederick_Aragorn: Oh yes not the Terran prometheus
[19:27] Frederick_Aragorn: The Prometheus of Caelestia is our Creator Deity
[19:27] Frederick_Aragorn: Lauren she went by i think
[19:27] Rimblade: "I don't suppose they errected any defenses?"
[19:27] Frederick_Aragorn: She fought on the front line
[19:28] Frederick_Aragorn: She died at the end though
[19:28] mori: Fought?
[19:28] mori: Died?
[19:28] Frederick_Aragorn: But not before casting them out
[19:28] Frederick_Aragorn: Oh yes they were directly manifested and corporeal
[19:28] mori: Greek indeed...
[19:28] Frederick_Aragorn: Which is messy at the least. Her avatar was slain
[19:29] Frederick_Aragorn: He was not very happy about it either
[19:29] Rimblade: "Was she returned to her plane of origin, then?"
[19:29] Frederick_Aragorn: Said she and he had just recently been able to get back together
[19:29] Damsel: "I see..."
[19:29] Frederick_Aragorn: We finally drove off the rest of the interlopers ourselves with the aid of some of his members
[19:29] TheSojurner: Notable among them the Scientist
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[19:30] Frederick_Aragorn: Yes yes the scientist.. What was he called
[19:30] TheSojurner: Louis Zephyr a terran
[19:30] Grett: Luis Zephyr?
[19:30] * Durroth blinks
[19:30] Frederick_Aragorn: Yes yes thats right
[19:30] Durroth: Headmaster Zephyr?
[19:30] Frederick_Aragorn: It was here that Zephyr joined him actually
[19:30] * Lkeas nods. "That does not surprise me either."
[19:30] Lepres: Who is Louis Zephyr?
[19:30] Frederick_Aragorn: Well we offered....
[19:30] Lkeas: Oh? Is this where Zephyr was cast out?
[19:30] * Lepres doesn't know.
[19:30] Damsel: "Hmm..."
[19:30] Durroth: He was the headmaster of my high school
[19:31] Lkeas: Er, cast to, I mean.
[19:31] Frederick_Aragorn: He refused the Presidents position at the School
[19:31] Frederick_Aragorn: He said that he had other work to do
[19:31] Durroth: back in my reality
[19:31] Frederick_Aragorn: And left with The'Galin
[19:31] Damsel: "No wonder he views The'Galin as he does..."
[19:31] Rimblade: "Maybe you should have offered him the Archchancellorship."
[19:31] mori: So he wasn't banished...
[19:31] mori: He left.
[19:31] Frederick_Aragorn: Who?
[19:31] mori: Zephyr.
[19:31] Frederick_Aragorn: The celestine? He is from here among other places
[19:32] Frederick_Aragorn: Oh yes both he and The Celestine left
[19:32] Durroth: no, zephyr does what he wants, and tends to leave others to the consequences
[19:32] mori: I see...
[19:32] Frederick_Aragorn: Things have gotten back to normal in the year or so since however
[19:32] *** Alex has signed off IRC (Broken pipe).
[19:32] Lkeas: What is "normal," here?
[19:32] * mori makes a mental note of these events.
[19:32] TheSojurner: Leave others?
[19:32] Durroth: we really should have let emetriel keep him
[19:33] Frederick_Aragorn: Without Zephyr this reality would have been annihilated
[19:33] ZLOK: It appears our objectives has been completed.
[19:34] Frederick_Aragorn: Well I have to return to the Isle on Caelestia my Master awaits me
[19:34] Damsel: "I am glad they were able to save this place."
[19:34] Rimblade: "Objectives are ever mutable."
[19:34] * Lkeas nods to ZLOK. "Perhaps there is yet more to learn, though?"
[19:34] ZLOK: Aragorn, before you go. May I ask a personal question?
[19:34] Frederick_Aragorn: Certainly
[19:34] ZLOK: How would I enroll? I have an issue of knowledge I need to have solved.
[19:35] TheSojurner: Admissions are at campus center
[19:35] Frederick_Aragorn: The building is clearly
[19:35] ZLOK: Just like that?
[19:35] TheSojurner: Marked
[19:35] * Clyde looks at Aragron, "You seem so familiar like a family friend?"
[19:35] ZLOK: Not cards, permissions anything required?
[19:35] Rimblade: "You never know about qualifications."
[19:35] Frederick_Aragorn: This is an open school. You will be tested to see if you need any remedial studies first
[19:36] Frederick_Aragorn: But none are refused here
[19:36] Lepres: What can you learn there?
[19:36] * Damsel chuckles softly, obviously pleased.
[19:36] Frederick_Aragorn: Just about anything
[19:36] * ZLOK turns to Lkeas.
[19:36] ZLOK: I should stay, then.
[19:36] * Frederick_Aragorn raises his hand and vanishes


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