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Nov. 7th, 2005 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianI said I wouldn't do the write-up last night. I started the write-up before leaving the house this morning. Now I have finally finished. So read on for Quidditch, explosions, abductions and ... well, raw chaos.
Yeah. Well. Getting to around about lunchtime, and the microwave Elise revamped is softly beeping. Everyone gets lunch but Lucius, who decides he isn't hungry (despite having been difficult about food since the nuker got revamped). It beeped faster and Skank told him, "Don't ignore the nuker! Elise built it and she's not in her right mind so who knows what it'll do?" As Chris pointed out later, Lucius did not ignore the nuker. Instead, Lucius threw a little rote called "Slay Machine" at the nuker. Let's put this another way; Lucius threw a handful of raw entropy at a piece of technomancy designed and built by an unstable Son of Ether. And was apparently surprised when the thing blew up, taking the vast majority of the kitchen with it. (The Coffee Machine of DOOM! survived, but really, that was about it.) Worse yet, since the Weaving Tower relies on the kitchen for half its support, the Weaving Tower keeled over into the back garden, with Molly still inside (she'd have done Correspondence, but was either asleep or taken by surprise; who the hell expects that the entire tower they're sitting in is going to keel entirely over?). And of course, everyone else was in the kitchen when the whole thing blew. It really should have killed them all, but I am a benevolent Storyteller and made them roll Dodge -- well, less 'Dodge' than 'Sheer dumb luck'. I think it was only Skank that took any real damage from that mess. Lucius, however, got thrown into the Glomping Chair, which is incidentally keyed to see anyone who blows up the entire house as a threat and restrains anyone who does so with excessive force if necessary; Lucius tried to get out of the chair and got his ribs broken. Then Skank registered the resonance on that particular piece of mass destruction and hit Lucius repeatedly. Now, Lucius kept insisting that it couldn't be his fault because who expects a microwave to level half the house when you hit it with raw entropy? However, as Skank pointed out, it was built by a Son of Ether who has to keep reminding herself that the mushrooms are not her kin, so it's probably not a good idea to throw any more chaos into a system like that. And, of course, he didn't think to ask Elise what it would do if he didn't eat lunch (it would beep for fifteen minutes and then reset to 'dinner').
You see, this is why a game needs fuck-powerful NPCs. So they can rebuild the fucking house when the deathmonkey does something stupid! Thank you, Molly. Michelle didn't do it, but then it's a house with a lot of Prime- and Spirit-related defences and would have taken more than the simple Matter rotes for things like the supporting walls anyway.
Elise, of course, was rather upset by the whole thing -- well, Lucius hates her nuker so much that he tried to drop a house on her, as far as she's concerned. That's going to fuck with you, particularly if you're already somewhat mentally fried, so she ran off. Skank nabbed her and tried to bring her back, but hadn't made sure that he was healed up before doing so (being too busy sulking in the remains of his bedroom) and Elise got away by the simple expedient of kicking the wounded man in the bollocks. A few minutes later, Skank hobbled back in and went looking for Elise in the Gallery. Elise was hiding up a tree by the time he found her portrait ... and then there was Maeljin Incarna-related static in her picture. Fuckshitbollocks. So Skank came back and glowered at Lucius a fair bit, and of course, Lucius felt suitably guilty and self-flagellating and wanted to go on a damn fool suicide mission to save Elise from the Maeljin fucking Incarna but couldn't actually get there on his own so he did what any sane Deathmonkey would do; he went to ask Molly if she could send him to Incarnaville and his prolonged and painful death. Molly, not surprisingly, decided, "Um, no..." (Don't look at me like that; I'm not sending them up against Maeljin Incarna on the Incarna's own turf, okay? At least not while most of them are on Arete 4.) She went instead. And Lucius, despite the fact that he lacked the knowledge to do so, tried to step sideways anyway. Wound up seeing about eight different dimensions before giving up the whole thing by reason of being somewhat wibbly in the brainpan. When Skank, Kuo-Li and Chris found him later, he was lying on the floor of Molly's room, half out of his mind. Skank siphoned the Prime out of Lucius' attempts to step sideways and got the full scoop out of him. Skank was not pleased, and had to explain that evidently, Molly had been, as Chris put it, "weaponised" -- give her a mission, and she will carry it out. Then had to explain, as he hadn't got around to it, what with the house blowing up, that the Rogue Council was the one who sent her to liberate Horizon by slaughtering the Sidewinder Brigade. Fun times. Anyway, the Elise-retrieval was a success except for the fact that she'd apparently been gone a couple of decades, subjectively and tortured for much of that time. Oooooooh this isn't good.
So there was supposed to be Quidditch, but perhaps not surprisingly, Molly wasn't exactly in the mood. It had to wait until morning. At which point, Molly was still not in the mood, but they played anyway, with Chris, Kuo-Li, Lucius, Romulus, Remus, Dean Thomas and Ginny Weasley as the Stacks Ninja-Deathmonkeys and Skank, Michelle, Emily, Molly, the Weasley twins and Lucille as the Weaving Tower Hoodoos. When the Ninja-Deathmonkeys were 50 points down, Lucius just decided the only way to win was to cheat, flying to collide with Emily (who was, as opposing Chaser, kicking his sorry behind). However, Sgt Hard-Bitch was refereeing, and did not brook that kind of behaviour, so... And Chris in the Ninja-Deathmonkey goal was probably not the best selection, but him as Beater probably would have been worse, so... Anyway, eventually, Molly got the Snitch and it was a total blitz for the Hoodoos.
Oh, yeah, somewhere in all this, Lucius decided to go off in a sulk, Kuo-Li kept messing with his spatial awareness so that the goth-boy Euthanatos would amble straight back there, went out and sat in the woods on his own and came back with an Incarna-meme along the lines of "Kill them all". Made a pretty good try at it, too, to the point of giving Skank a heart attack by generally flinging more raw Entropy at him. Oh, and Chris met the wargs when trying to collect the materials to make broomsticks. On his own. The only true non-com in the entire game and he wanders off on his own in the woods because no one told him about the wargs. Good thing Skank was in the area and Chris got to within screaming distance really fast. (Time mage.)
Maeljin Incarna are eating London, Pontypridd and formerly Llandeilo (Molly Prime-nuked the place) and using those points to spread across England. They also ate a Fae realm, or at least a place that Fae hang out; the raccoon Pooka was seen there, as well as a lot of dead Sidhe-types. There were not-dead not-horse things as on the Midnight Circus carousel when it went Silent Hill. The raccoon Pooka corpse was holding a note. Skank then made the Lucius mistake -- asked Molly if she could find anything out about Incarna-eaten Fae realms. He meant books; she went on a scouting mission, sending back the Pooka's note with one of her own; "Dear Mr Skank, be back later. Please don't clean my room. Love, Molly." The note from the Fae was a request for help that never got to the gang. Shame, really. In any case, Skank went to check on Molly to ensure that there was no maiming going on and when he looked in on her Gallery portrait, he saw Molly talking to Astrid, the Celestial Chorus hard nut from the Rogue Council. When she got back, he told her not to go off and do that. She took this to mean she was grounded.
It's actually probably a good thing that she missed the pre-dinner entertainment, one way or another. The Coffee Maker of DOOM has assimiliated the nuker bits and grown a nuker itself. It serves caffienated food. And it will not let you get away with skipping meals if it doesn't want you to -- this plate of lamb followed him around no matter what he did to it and he eventually went bonkers and that let the Incarna persuasion in and he went kill-crazy. Thankfully, he was subdued through a good combination of Forces, Time and a little bit of a Mind-poke ("WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "Huh?"). He's not the only one somewhat unhappy with the state of food -- the nukers both old and new have been trying to put Chris on a diet (he ate three plates of dinner and his next breakfast was half a grapefruit and toast upon which he was allowed to spread only a small amount of Marmite).
There was discussion on this score later and Lucius made the suggestion that, well, if all this stuff is making Molly not-quite-human, maybe they should see if they could take any of it out of her. Molly didn't much like the idea that she could be disassembled like a machine, even if it was only with her permission, so she left. Skank had a reasonable chat with the rest of the lads on the subject of what Molly was to them, exactly; apparently she was fed up with being only a weapon or a problem. In the end, they decided she was 'cabalmate and family' and Skank tracked her down into Dawn's pleasant little Umbral grove. They talked, she agreed to come home later, Skank delivered her kitten, who'd stowed away in one of his pockets (probably small enough to get away with it, MicroKitty) and he took her stuff back. She came in in time for dinner.
Dinner was not nuker-created. Lucille yelled at it until it left her alone, and then she and Michelle made casserole out of the leftover prehistoric game. Michelle warned Lucius not to be difficult about the food because Lucille had gone to a lot of trouble to get a nuker-free meal. Chris made bad jokes and the whole thing ended with one of those warm and fuzzy 'family dinner' scene ... well, apart from Kuo-Li, Lucius and the UmTwins rolling Chris in the snow to deliver pun damage. But even that, I suppose, for them.
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dodgyhoodoo was out of bed at 8:30 this morning! Feh! I don't get morning people. I suppose I do get insomniacs, but not early-waking insomniacs.
Much much much to do today. At least I know that if I slack off a little on the NaNo tonight, I won't lose much time -- I'm already slated to finish over a week early now (my projected time to hit 50k is now 22nd November; I am still like unto a tiny god). Still, I did promise myself that I would take Wednesdays off so probably not so great if I slack. Besides, I'm kicking my writing buddy's butt by about 3k words and I'd like to encourage her all I can by being all competitive and stuff. So I keep working. Whee.
Really, though? All I want to do is go back to bed for a few hours.
Yeah. Well. Getting to around about lunchtime, and the microwave Elise revamped is softly beeping. Everyone gets lunch but Lucius, who decides he isn't hungry (despite having been difficult about food since the nuker got revamped). It beeped faster and Skank told him, "Don't ignore the nuker! Elise built it and she's not in her right mind so who knows what it'll do?" As Chris pointed out later, Lucius did not ignore the nuker. Instead, Lucius threw a little rote called "Slay Machine" at the nuker. Let's put this another way; Lucius threw a handful of raw entropy at a piece of technomancy designed and built by an unstable Son of Ether. And was apparently surprised when the thing blew up, taking the vast majority of the kitchen with it. (The Coffee Machine of DOOM! survived, but really, that was about it.) Worse yet, since the Weaving Tower relies on the kitchen for half its support, the Weaving Tower keeled over into the back garden, with Molly still inside (she'd have done Correspondence, but was either asleep or taken by surprise; who the hell expects that the entire tower they're sitting in is going to keel entirely over?). And of course, everyone else was in the kitchen when the whole thing blew. It really should have killed them all, but I am a benevolent Storyteller and made them roll Dodge -- well, less 'Dodge' than 'Sheer dumb luck'. I think it was only Skank that took any real damage from that mess. Lucius, however, got thrown into the Glomping Chair, which is incidentally keyed to see anyone who blows up the entire house as a threat and restrains anyone who does so with excessive force if necessary; Lucius tried to get out of the chair and got his ribs broken. Then Skank registered the resonance on that particular piece of mass destruction and hit Lucius repeatedly. Now, Lucius kept insisting that it couldn't be his fault because who expects a microwave to level half the house when you hit it with raw entropy? However, as Skank pointed out, it was built by a Son of Ether who has to keep reminding herself that the mushrooms are not her kin, so it's probably not a good idea to throw any more chaos into a system like that. And, of course, he didn't think to ask Elise what it would do if he didn't eat lunch (it would beep for fifteen minutes and then reset to 'dinner').
You see, this is why a game needs fuck-powerful NPCs. So they can rebuild the fucking house when the deathmonkey does something stupid! Thank you, Molly. Michelle didn't do it, but then it's a house with a lot of Prime- and Spirit-related defences and would have taken more than the simple Matter rotes for things like the supporting walls anyway.
Elise, of course, was rather upset by the whole thing -- well, Lucius hates her nuker so much that he tried to drop a house on her, as far as she's concerned. That's going to fuck with you, particularly if you're already somewhat mentally fried, so she ran off. Skank nabbed her and tried to bring her back, but hadn't made sure that he was healed up before doing so (being too busy sulking in the remains of his bedroom) and Elise got away by the simple expedient of kicking the wounded man in the bollocks. A few minutes later, Skank hobbled back in and went looking for Elise in the Gallery. Elise was hiding up a tree by the time he found her portrait ... and then there was Maeljin Incarna-related static in her picture. Fuckshitbollocks. So Skank came back and glowered at Lucius a fair bit, and of course, Lucius felt suitably guilty and self-flagellating and wanted to go on a damn fool suicide mission to save Elise from the Maeljin fucking Incarna but couldn't actually get there on his own so he did what any sane Deathmonkey would do; he went to ask Molly if she could send him to Incarnaville and his prolonged and painful death. Molly, not surprisingly, decided, "Um, no..." (Don't look at me like that; I'm not sending them up against Maeljin Incarna on the Incarna's own turf, okay? At least not while most of them are on Arete 4.) She went instead. And Lucius, despite the fact that he lacked the knowledge to do so, tried to step sideways anyway. Wound up seeing about eight different dimensions before giving up the whole thing by reason of being somewhat wibbly in the brainpan. When Skank, Kuo-Li and Chris found him later, he was lying on the floor of Molly's room, half out of his mind. Skank siphoned the Prime out of Lucius' attempts to step sideways and got the full scoop out of him. Skank was not pleased, and had to explain that evidently, Molly had been, as Chris put it, "weaponised" -- give her a mission, and she will carry it out. Then had to explain, as he hadn't got around to it, what with the house blowing up, that the Rogue Council was the one who sent her to liberate Horizon by slaughtering the Sidewinder Brigade. Fun times. Anyway, the Elise-retrieval was a success except for the fact that she'd apparently been gone a couple of decades, subjectively and tortured for much of that time. Oooooooh this isn't good.
So there was supposed to be Quidditch, but perhaps not surprisingly, Molly wasn't exactly in the mood. It had to wait until morning. At which point, Molly was still not in the mood, but they played anyway, with Chris, Kuo-Li, Lucius, Romulus, Remus, Dean Thomas and Ginny Weasley as the Stacks Ninja-Deathmonkeys and Skank, Michelle, Emily, Molly, the Weasley twins and Lucille as the Weaving Tower Hoodoos. When the Ninja-Deathmonkeys were 50 points down, Lucius just decided the only way to win was to cheat, flying to collide with Emily (who was, as opposing Chaser, kicking his sorry behind). However, Sgt Hard-Bitch was refereeing, and did not brook that kind of behaviour, so... And Chris in the Ninja-Deathmonkey goal was probably not the best selection, but him as Beater probably would have been worse, so... Anyway, eventually, Molly got the Snitch and it was a total blitz for the Hoodoos.
Oh, yeah, somewhere in all this, Lucius decided to go off in a sulk, Kuo-Li kept messing with his spatial awareness so that the goth-boy Euthanatos would amble straight back there, went out and sat in the woods on his own and came back with an Incarna-meme along the lines of "Kill them all". Made a pretty good try at it, too, to the point of giving Skank a heart attack by generally flinging more raw Entropy at him. Oh, and Chris met the wargs when trying to collect the materials to make broomsticks. On his own. The only true non-com in the entire game and he wanders off on his own in the woods because no one told him about the wargs. Good thing Skank was in the area and Chris got to within screaming distance really fast. (Time mage.)
Maeljin Incarna are eating London, Pontypridd and formerly Llandeilo (Molly Prime-nuked the place) and using those points to spread across England. They also ate a Fae realm, or at least a place that Fae hang out; the raccoon Pooka was seen there, as well as a lot of dead Sidhe-types. There were not-dead not-horse things as on the Midnight Circus carousel when it went Silent Hill. The raccoon Pooka corpse was holding a note. Skank then made the Lucius mistake -- asked Molly if she could find anything out about Incarna-eaten Fae realms. He meant books; she went on a scouting mission, sending back the Pooka's note with one of her own; "Dear Mr Skank, be back later. Please don't clean my room. Love, Molly." The note from the Fae was a request for help that never got to the gang. Shame, really. In any case, Skank went to check on Molly to ensure that there was no maiming going on and when he looked in on her Gallery portrait, he saw Molly talking to Astrid, the Celestial Chorus hard nut from the Rogue Council. When she got back, he told her not to go off and do that. She took this to mean she was grounded.
It's actually probably a good thing that she missed the pre-dinner entertainment, one way or another. The Coffee Maker of DOOM has assimiliated the nuker bits and grown a nuker itself. It serves caffienated food. And it will not let you get away with skipping meals if it doesn't want you to -- this plate of lamb followed him around no matter what he did to it and he eventually went bonkers and that let the Incarna persuasion in and he went kill-crazy. Thankfully, he was subdued through a good combination of Forces, Time and a little bit of a Mind-poke ("WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "Huh?"). He's not the only one somewhat unhappy with the state of food -- the nukers both old and new have been trying to put Chris on a diet (he ate three plates of dinner and his next breakfast was half a grapefruit and toast upon which he was allowed to spread only a small amount of Marmite).
There was discussion on this score later and Lucius made the suggestion that, well, if all this stuff is making Molly not-quite-human, maybe they should see if they could take any of it out of her. Molly didn't much like the idea that she could be disassembled like a machine, even if it was only with her permission, so she left. Skank had a reasonable chat with the rest of the lads on the subject of what Molly was to them, exactly; apparently she was fed up with being only a weapon or a problem. In the end, they decided she was 'cabalmate and family' and Skank tracked her down into Dawn's pleasant little Umbral grove. They talked, she agreed to come home later, Skank delivered her kitten, who'd stowed away in one of his pockets (probably small enough to get away with it, MicroKitty) and he took her stuff back. She came in in time for dinner.
Dinner was not nuker-created. Lucille yelled at it until it left her alone, and then she and Michelle made casserole out of the leftover prehistoric game. Michelle warned Lucius not to be difficult about the food because Lucille had gone to a lot of trouble to get a nuker-free meal. Chris made bad jokes and the whole thing ended with one of those warm and fuzzy 'family dinner' scene ... well, apart from Kuo-Li, Lucius and the UmTwins rolling Chris in the snow to deliver pun damage. But even that, I suppose, for them.
Getting up in the morning is hard enough. Getting up in the morning when your SO is on holiday can stay in bed? Even harder. And the worst part is that he doesn't even appreciate it;
dodgyhoodoo was out of bed at 8:30 this morning! Feh! I don't get morning people. I suppose I do get insomniacs, but not early-waking insomniacs.Much much much to do today. At least I know that if I slack off a little on the NaNo tonight, I won't lose much time -- I'm already slated to finish over a week early now (my projected time to hit 50k is now 22nd November; I am still like unto a tiny god). Still, I did promise myself that I would take Wednesdays off so probably not so great if I slack. Besides, I'm kicking my writing buddy's butt by about 3k words and I'd like to encourage her all I can by being all competitive and stuff. So I keep working. Whee.
Really, though? All I want to do is go back to bed for a few hours.
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Date: 2005-11-07 01:55 pm (UTC)It's probably bad that my first thought on reading that was "Roll Dexterity + Drive, diff. 7, Mike, or you just killed the ENTIRE PARTY." And I must've missed the post where Dean, Ginny, Gred & Forge broke through into the real world.
All in all, the Bokugo cabal are easily a match for the Electric Mayhem, and I don't think I need
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Date: 2005-11-07 03:11 pm (UTC)It was amusing, actually. Lucius decided that he'd be better off playing as a teenager so made himself the same age as the UmTwins, so when Ginny clocked him, first thing she did was throw the Bat Bogey hex at him. When he'd Entropied off the bat bogeys, he tried to introduce himself to Ginny and the twins, and the twins in particular thought it was incredibly amusing and weren't really listening when Kuo-Li pointed out, "Marwood, not Malfoy!" They all hexed Lucius as they left, too, and Emily started singing "Falla is our King" (to the tune of "Weasley is our King", obviously), but only after the match was over. Poor shmuck made one save the entire game.
And please. No subliminal virus clowns. The Euthanatos already has a seven-year-old past life living in his head and a samurai nezumi noble, and the Thig has a frikkin wyvern that acts like a bloody golden retriever. We don't need no steenkeeng subleemeenal virus clowns.
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