The Trio's Back!
Oct. 9th, 2005 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianWell, this session was particularly interesting. There's not a whole lot of order here, so I'll just mention events as I think of them:
Kuo-Li woke up from his coma via some voices whispering in the dark ("Liar" "False face" "The mask you wear" "Now they know what you're really like" and "Han-goroshi" which means "half-killed" and, in the Yakuza, denotes a beating so severe that if it is not stopped, the recipient will die) and a lecture from his mentor about how it would be more useful to be able to heal others than do the Kick of the Four Winds or carry people who have transportation via bus and wyvern. So now Kuo-Li has Life 3, will be getting his Arete 4 back soon and is rapidly discovering that his nice tame life is something of a lie. There was crime, blood on his hands, beatings (the han-goroshi) and a woman screaming. He will probably meditate further on this.
The Order of the Sphinx people (read: the Rogue Council) have recruited the Sidewinder Bashing Brigade. Essentially, the situation is that, particularly since Restart, most of the high-ups in the Traditions are sinking deeper and deeper into quiet, becoming caricatures of themselves. The Rogue Council wants to end the whole "Traditions fighting amongst themselves" thing and get back to how it was supposed to be; all Traditions working together as part of a whole. They'd also like to see magic returned to its proper place in the world and possibly get the Technocracy in on the whole "schooling the Sleepers" thing if they could just get their heads out of their arses. This all was decided during mass parties at which wooly mammoth, cave bear and spit-roasted emu were served. The "Son of Ether" (a girl calling herself Lain and, no surprise, turned out to be a Virtual Adept in hiding) was discussing the nature of reality and whether film could be real and Lain summoned up a great many characters from Terry Pratchett novels (I bet the Skanklet got on great with the Wee Free Men), and Molly followed up with inviting the Endless; Dream recruited Merv Pumpkinhead to clean up the mess after, and there was a conversation between Death, DEATH and the Death of Rats. There were fireworks and Lucius' certamen with Jim Morrison, which went as quickly as predicted due to a rather stonking roll on my part. Lucille still spend the night with him, though, and Kuo-Li got laid by violinist Ecstatic. Lucius managed to really upset Michelle (telling Kinfolk that they have "no sense of tradition" is a bad idea, particularly when that Kinfolk is Awakened and can go crinos if she wants to).
Sergeant Beth "Hard-Bitch" Taylor turned up mid-party and, rather than trying to blow the fuck out of them, was apparently trying to assess her chances at joining up with them. She demonstrated Awakened magic (which she can do offworld sometimes but not on this plane without the chip in her head warning her of her violation of consensus reality) and then the chip in her head, confused as to what consensus reality was around there, overheated and started melting. So they took it out and basically invited her to stay under their protection, which the Rogue Council have accepted with few if any problems. She went out to fetch her 'borrowed' plasma cannon and told Skank not to try to catch it. He tried to catch it and broke both his arms -- Lucius was very surprised later to find that her entire skeleton is primium-laced; she's like Wolverine without the claws. So when he came back for fixing, Michelle asked what happened. Skank said, "I tried to catch her gun", and Michelle's reply was "That had better not be slang for anything." I got onto![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
weaselbitch's quote board for that. In any case, Sgt Hard-Bitch told the gang that a) the Technocracy is having the same problems as the high-up Tradition mages and b) the Technocracy trying to turn Molly into some kind of super-weapon has something to do with why she's suddenly developed at least a passing familiarity with all the spheres and is so fucking uber at the minute. That relieved some people, sort of; Molly has Iron Will so she sort of filtered the info they were giving her into something that made sense to all those stapled-on Avatar bits.
Next morning, there was much chatting with new arrivals (including Sgt Hard-Bitch's squad, who came to 'rescue' her and wound up defecting right along with her), and Maeljin Incarna turned up on the back lawn. It grabbed Skank and tried to communicate (frying it was not working very well; you have to be kind of uber to even dent a Maeljin Incarna, you see), and Skank's reply was typically priceless: "No habla tentacle. Speak 'Fuckhead'". (Anotherweaselbitch-worthy quote; hopefully she'll post the whole list.) It asked for Molly, who got similarly yoinked and rather badly crushed. A lot of fuck-hard mages took a Prime/Forces pot-shot at the thing and it seemed hurt but not really fazed. Emily took the initiative eventually, Corresponding to the tentacle holding Molly and driving two knives into a foom-wound. They both got flung and Emily hit the Weaving Tower and dropped five floors; she's lucky to be alive. (Kuo-Li had a good idea but stopped to talk tactics with Skank, at which point it was something like, "Okay, I'll Correspond to her and you can slow our--" *THUD* "...Aw, crap". In the end, everybody survived a serious attack of Maeljin Incarna and there's a lot of conversation that has to happen after lunch.
So yeah; allies and Maeljin Incarna. Also Ridcully trying to hunt wyvern and Nanny Ogg singing "The Hedgehog Song" and telling bawdy jokes to a bunch of Ecstatics. What's not to like?
Kuo-Li woke up from his coma via some voices whispering in the dark ("Liar" "False face" "The mask you wear" "Now they know what you're really like" and "Han-goroshi" which means "half-killed" and, in the Yakuza, denotes a beating so severe that if it is not stopped, the recipient will die) and a lecture from his mentor about how it would be more useful to be able to heal others than do the Kick of the Four Winds or carry people who have transportation via bus and wyvern. So now Kuo-Li has Life 3, will be getting his Arete 4 back soon and is rapidly discovering that his nice tame life is something of a lie. There was crime, blood on his hands, beatings (the han-goroshi) and a woman screaming. He will probably meditate further on this.
The Order of the Sphinx people (read: the Rogue Council) have recruited the Sidewinder Bashing Brigade. Essentially, the situation is that, particularly since Restart, most of the high-ups in the Traditions are sinking deeper and deeper into quiet, becoming caricatures of themselves. The Rogue Council wants to end the whole "Traditions fighting amongst themselves" thing and get back to how it was supposed to be; all Traditions working together as part of a whole. They'd also like to see magic returned to its proper place in the world and possibly get the Technocracy in on the whole "schooling the Sleepers" thing if they could just get their heads out of their arses. This all was decided during mass parties at which wooly mammoth, cave bear and spit-roasted emu were served. The "Son of Ether" (a girl calling herself Lain and, no surprise, turned out to be a Virtual Adept in hiding) was discussing the nature of reality and whether film could be real and Lain summoned up a great many characters from Terry Pratchett novels (I bet the Skanklet got on great with the Wee Free Men), and Molly followed up with inviting the Endless; Dream recruited Merv Pumpkinhead to clean up the mess after, and there was a conversation between Death, DEATH and the Death of Rats. There were fireworks and Lucius' certamen with Jim Morrison, which went as quickly as predicted due to a rather stonking roll on my part. Lucille still spend the night with him, though, and Kuo-Li got laid by violinist Ecstatic. Lucius managed to really upset Michelle (telling Kinfolk that they have "no sense of tradition" is a bad idea, particularly when that Kinfolk is Awakened and can go crinos if she wants to).
Sergeant Beth "Hard-Bitch" Taylor turned up mid-party and, rather than trying to blow the fuck out of them, was apparently trying to assess her chances at joining up with them. She demonstrated Awakened magic (which she can do offworld sometimes but not on this plane without the chip in her head warning her of her violation of consensus reality) and then the chip in her head, confused as to what consensus reality was around there, overheated and started melting. So they took it out and basically invited her to stay under their protection, which the Rogue Council have accepted with few if any problems. She went out to fetch her 'borrowed' plasma cannon and told Skank not to try to catch it. He tried to catch it and broke both his arms -- Lucius was very surprised later to find that her entire skeleton is primium-laced; she's like Wolverine without the claws. So when he came back for fixing, Michelle asked what happened. Skank said, "I tried to catch her gun", and Michelle's reply was "That had better not be slang for anything." I got onto
weaselbitch's quote board for that. In any case, Sgt Hard-Bitch told the gang that a) the Technocracy is having the same problems as the high-up Tradition mages and b) the Technocracy trying to turn Molly into some kind of super-weapon has something to do with why she's suddenly developed at least a passing familiarity with all the spheres and is so fucking uber at the minute. That relieved some people, sort of; Molly has Iron Will so she sort of filtered the info they were giving her into something that made sense to all those stapled-on Avatar bits.Next morning, there was much chatting with new arrivals (including Sgt Hard-Bitch's squad, who came to 'rescue' her and wound up defecting right along with her), and Maeljin Incarna turned up on the back lawn. It grabbed Skank and tried to communicate (frying it was not working very well; you have to be kind of uber to even dent a Maeljin Incarna, you see), and Skank's reply was typically priceless: "No habla tentacle. Speak 'Fuckhead'". (Another
weaselbitch-worthy quote; hopefully she'll post the whole list.) It asked for Molly, who got similarly yoinked and rather badly crushed. A lot of fuck-hard mages took a Prime/Forces pot-shot at the thing and it seemed hurt but not really fazed. Emily took the initiative eventually, Corresponding to the tentacle holding Molly and driving two knives into a foom-wound. They both got flung and Emily hit the Weaving Tower and dropped five floors; she's lucky to be alive. (Kuo-Li had a good idea but stopped to talk tactics with Skank, at which point it was something like, "Okay, I'll Correspond to her and you can slow our--" *THUD* "...Aw, crap". In the end, everybody survived a serious attack of Maeljin Incarna and there's a lot of conversation that has to happen after lunch.So yeah; allies and Maeljin Incarna. Also Ridcully trying to hunt wyvern and Nanny Ogg singing "The Hedgehog Song" and telling bawdy jokes to a bunch of Ecstatics. What's not to like?