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Logging Started: 03/17/2001 at 20:50:45
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High above Amber, the Black Moon, Ghroth, who sings the stars aright is moving
 to eclipse the sun a good hour before sunset.
And so everyone is moving to their stations.
Juri and Corrine and Roderick, along with a large guard force are already
 climbing Kolvir towards the stairs.
Gil-Galad, Nanami, Tylor, Anthy, Vash, Utena, Wakaba, and the Five Children
 head down to the Pattern Chamber.  Tylor is carrying the Demi-Jewel of Metal. 
 Anthy bears the Demi-Jewel of Air set in a coronet upon her brow.
Well, four of the Five Children, as Shaft seems to have vanished into shadow
 somewhere, but...
Hiko the Firechilde is bearing her rings, her sword, her Heart, almost
 everything she can THINK of...  She twists Juri's manifestation around her
 finger worriedly.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Does ANYONE know where Ota is?"
Gil-Galad, Nanami, Tylor, Anthy, Vash, Utena, Wakaba, and four of the Five
 Children (Minus Shaft) head down to the Pattern Chamber.  Tylor is carrying
 the Demi-Jewel of Metal.  Anthy bears the Demi-Jewel of Air set in a coronet
 upon her brow.
Nagisa shakes his head, "I haven't seen him..."
Shizumaru shakes his head, sighing heavily. He shifts the torchieres he his
 carrying, answering, "I do not know."
The guards in front of the Pattern Chamber look extra nervous as Nanami unlocks
 the door.
Hiko the Firechilde looks at Nagisa, Mikage and Shizumaru worriedly.  "How in
 the world are we going to pull this off without him?"
Shizumaru sets his mouth into a grim smile. "We will just have to stop Annadil
 before he can open the Gate."
Utena says, "If he's off having sex, I will spank him 'til he can't sit down."
Mikage smirks. "The question is, how in the world are we going to pull this of
 WITH him."
Nanami opens the Pattern Chamber door.
The Pattern Chamber looks much the same as usual.
Hiko the Firechilde gives Mikage a baleful glance.  "Ota has proven himself
 many times..."
Mikage finishes, "...to be a reckless fool."
Nanami then mutters a bunch of words and hoses down the entire Pattern Chamber
 with fire and lightning.
Shizumaru snaps, "Be quiet. You aren't helping."
A dozen invisble figures reveal themselves as they burst into flame and die.
Hiko the Firechilde takes many deep breaths.  "Mikage... we will talk about
 this after the battle.  If we survive."
The entire ceiling screams as the layer of invisible creatures burns away.
Shizumaru stares at the Pattern chamber.
Hiko the Firechilde scans the Chamber herself.
Nanami dusts off her fingertips.  "There you go, Tylor."
Mikage says, "What for? If we survive, then it scarcely requires discussion.
 Ah, I see we had company."
Shizumaru does another check for shapeshifters with the flawed patternblade.
Gil-Galad stares blankly.  "What the..."
Hiko the Firechilde also takes this time to build her disguise spell.
Nagisa slips his hands into his pockets, idly fingering the two flawed
 Demi-jewels of water...
Nagisa says softly, "I'm still not certain why I was necessarry on this."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Five Children... you are one of them."
Tylor steps into the Pattern Chamber.  "Alright.  Time for us all to get a
 brain cleaning.  Form a line and let's get moving."
Shizumaru sighs, loosens up his limbs, and approaches the Pattern.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "It takes all five of us, with our Icons, to close
 the Gate of Revolution... I have faith in us, cousin."  She looks to
 Shizumaru.  "Will you be okay walking the Pattern?"
Shizumaru blinks. "Why should I have any problems? I walked the Wood Pattern
 successfully, carrying the Seed of Hope, a second time."
Mikage chuckles. "It must be nice, Hiko."
Utena heads onto the Pattern first.
Wakaba goes next, following close behind Utena.
Mikage apporaches the pattern himself.
Hiko the Firechilde nods, and follows Mikage onto the Pattern when he goes.
Nagisa stands behind Hiko and prepares to follow her out onto the Pattern...
Shizumaru OOCly says, "And we do have some Trump sinks still, right? Like, say,
 two or three per person?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Hai."
Mikage steps onto the Pattern.
Hiko the Firechilde follows Mikage.
Utena reaches the center, draws a trump, and pulls Anthy to the center.
Shizumaru walks the Pattern once it's his turn.
Wakaba reaches the center.
Haohmaru waits for a pull through.
Mikage reaches the center.
Gil-Galad steps onto the Pattern, followed closely by Nanami.  Vash watches the
 door nervously.
Mikage regards both Anthy and Utena with a strange, sad look on his face.
Anthy smiles at Mikage.  Utena blinks.
Mikage says, "Utena... I apologize for the misunderstanding."
Shizumaru trumps Haohmaru once he reaches the center.
Hiko the Firechilde reaches the center, and looks around to see who's left.
Nagisa reaches the center just a little after Hiko does, and looks none the
 worse for wear before glancing over his shoulder.
Nanami and Gil-Galad are walking.  Tylor starts his walk.  This leaves only
 Haohmaru and Vash on the outside.
Haohmaru then draws his sword and leaps at Vash, impaling him from behind.
Shizumaru says, "..."
Vash does the ... thing.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "ER... Shizu TRUMPED him..."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Did I say Haohmaru ACCEPTED the trump? :)"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Oh brother..."
Mikage says, "OOC heh."
Hiko the Firechilde stares... "Shizumaru!"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "John, I did say I checked for shapeshifters, right?"
Hiko the Firechilde scans Haohmaru with her Psychic senses.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Sadly, Haoh is not a shapeshifter :)"
Shizumaru throws seeds to bind Haohmaru.
The seeds burn up as they cross the pattern.
Hiko the Firechilde throws a lightning strike to force Haohmaru away.
The spell burns up as it crosses the pattern
Vash spins and begins to fight Haohmaru.
Mikage watches the hysteria with morbid amusement.
Hiko the Firechilde looks to Anthy and Utena helplessly.
Shizumaru OOCly should have specified that Haohmaru was brainscrubbed while at
 the Keep. -.-
Nagisa says, "Excuse me... everyone... there isn't much else to do..." he
 raises his voice, "Vash... fight your way back to the pattern."
Mikage says, "Hand me the trump, cousin."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC YEs. :("
Shizumaru gives Mikage the trump.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Argh."
Hiko the Firechilde consults with Anthy and Utena.  "If we are being attacked
 here and now... we do not have much time do we?"
Mikage struggles with a trump that doesn't work.
Anthy says, "Pattern, send me out."
She appears next to Vash, who is getting his ass kicked and looks surprised as
 hell
Shizumaru stares numbly.
Mikage exclaims, "Anthy!"
Hiko the Firechilde fumbles through her Trumps, ready to get Anthy back into
 the center once they're done.  "Shizumaru!  What's going on?"
Anthy gestures and wind pummels Haohmaru, pinning him to the wall.
Shizumaru shakes his head slowly. "I do not know," he whispers. "Annadil must
 have gotten to Sensei."
Vash falls to his knees, bleeding.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Anthy!"
Shizumaru says, "Nagisa...you need to use the Cup to heal Cousin Vash."
Anthy makes a knot gesture, then turns to Hiko as Haohmaru hangs from the wall.
 "I'm fine, Hiko."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "What are you going to do with him?'"
Hiko the Firechilde nudges Nagisa.  "Can you affect him from here?"
Nagisa closes his eyes...
Mikage asks, "How in the world are we going to retrieve Anthy now?"
Shizumaru says, "We will trump her in, as Utena-kaasama did earlier."
Utena says, "Once Tylor finishes, the trumps should work again."
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "What is King Tylor doing?"
Hiko the Firechilde looks to the King.
Mikage says, "Trumps do not work while his Majesty is on the pattern."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Ah..."
Tylor is walking the pattern holding the Eye of Metal.
Anthy casts a spell to stop Vash's bleeding while she waits.
Nagisa says, "I can't heal him from here... the Pattern is blocking it."
Shizumaru faintly asks, "What of Haohmaru-sensei?"
Hiko the Firechilde says, "I fear that he needs to be taken to the dungeons
 until we can cleanse his mind..."
Mikage says, "Blood and bloody ashes... What a liability that man turned out to
 be."
Shizumaru curses softly.
Not having heard of any of the Keep adventures, she shrugs.  "It happens to all
 of at one point in time..."  She remembers Morganstern and shudders.
Tylor reaches the center.  The sparks die down.
Shizumaru throws a handful of seeds again, to bind Haohmaru.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Anthy!  Should we have one of the guards take
 Haohmaru to a safe place?"
Haohmaru is bound.
Shizumaru murmurs, "I am sorry, Sensei. I should have been more careful."
Anthy says, "Good idea."  She orders the guards to haul Haohmaru away.
Hiko the Firechilde trumps Anthy back to the center.
Anthy is trumped back in.  Tylor trumps Vash in.
Anthy cocks her head.  "The eclipse has begun.  It is time to go to Tir'na'nog."
Mikage nods at Anthy. "Are you all right?"
Shizumaru says, "Heal Cousin Vash quickly, Nagisa-niisan."
Hiko the Firechilde concentrates on the image of Tir'na'nog that she's been
 given.  "Pattern?  Send me to the pattern at Tir'na'nog."
Hiko flashes out.
Several others flash out.
Shizumaru picks up the torchieres and orders the Pattern to send him to the Tir
 na Nog Pattern chamber.
Mikage says, "Shall we?" A strange, wistful expression crosses his face
 briefly, then is gone.
Nagisa kneels next to Vash and offers the cup, "Drink."
Vash drinks heartily.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Brief pause.  I have to blow something up in the
 other room."
Shizumaru OOCly twitches.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Whoo hoo!  Destruction!  I hope it's on teh
 bad guys' side."
Initiated Rose Bride says, "OOC:  Well, we may have an exploding dragon wearing
 boardshorts.  A very large exploding dragon wearing boardshorts."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "..."
Initiated Rose Bride says, "OOC:  The dragon, BTW, appears to be a shapeshifted
 CATS.  :)"
Nagisa OOCly chuckles.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "This is the tactic that fails utterly, John?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC No, not quite yet :)"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Oh."
Nagisa smiles and nods to Vash, "There you go... Time to be off then..."
Vash stands back up.  "Thank you, Nagisa."
Anthy puts a hand on Mikage's shoulder and kisses his cheek, then says, "Let's
 get going."
Nagisa says, "No trouble, Cousin... shall we be away?"
Tylor says to those leaving, "May the Unicorn guide you."
Mikage smiles. "We should." He offers a hand.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Once I'm up there, John, I'll set up the torchieres
 around the perimeter of the Pattern chamber, lighting them up with some fire
 from Kafuin's manifestation, except for one in the far end. I'll shapeshift
 into a flame onto that one."
Nagisa smiles to Tylor and nods in return, "And also quide you."
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Okay, who is going to the Pattern Chamber, and who is
 going to the Center of the Tir'na'nog Pattern directly?"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Chamber."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "I'm gonna pick a shadowy area between torches
 and blend into the walls between them.  I'm porting to the chamber itself."
Nagisa OOCly says, "Chamber, relatively hidden area."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Oh, and I'll also check around the outside of the
 chamber quickly, see if there's anything around. Throw around some elemental
 blasts to that effect."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "I'll scan with my Psychic senses."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Ah, and I _did_ give Anthy some seed packets for her to
 drop in the Chamber of Revolution. :P"
Mikage says, "OOC Center. I'll need to be able to fall back into the Gate
 Chamber if necessary."
You page, "And John, if someone tries to douse the torches with water, one of
 the other elemental forms that Shizu has with the headband is a puddle of
 water. Shizu would have practice shifting between the two to try to look
 natural." to Akemi.
You all quickly get into your positions.
Hiko the Firechilde resists the urge to go outside and see how the defenders
 are doing... and waits, and waits...
Nagisa prays quietly in the corner, waiting patiently for Annadil.
Shizumaru burns merrily.
All is eerily silent as Anthy drops out of sight down into the Chamber of
 Revolution.
Mikage says, "Damn Ota. Bloody ashes..."
Mikage asks, "Do you need any assistance?"
Anthy says to Mikage, "Please come down with me."
Mikage nods and takes Anthy's hand.
Hiko's ring pings. "Hiko, Mom says that the stairs are down, but someone is
 driving to Tir'Na'Nog on a road made of clouds!"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Gabrielle, where are you?"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "And what's his ETA?"
Mikage says, "OOC Driving? Dear lord. He's driving to the end of the world. ^^;"
Shaft says, "OOCly the Akio CLoud."
Gabrielle's voice says, "I'm everywhere the fun is. And I can't tell. He's to
 far away."
Hiko the Firechilde sneaks out to the door, sliding along the walls.
Shizumaru asks, "Kafuin, can you scan the area around the Pattern chamber for
 any presences?"
Hiko the Firechilde peers outside the door.
"I detect only all of you, sir."
Anthy and Mikage descend into the Chamber of Revolution, where Anthy begins to
 concentrate, ehr forehead glowing.
Shizumaru says, "Thank you, Kafuin. If you do detect something, make a soft
 whirring sound." And then he falls silent again.
Hiko the Firechilde looks outside the door to the Pattern Chamber, and scans
 for intruders.
Mikage gasps. "Oh no..."
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Shit!"
Hiko the Firechilde SCANS more seriously
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Nagisa!  Mikage!  Did you feel that?"
Mikage scans the Gate Chamber.
Nagisa frowns slightly, "There's something wrong."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "That's what I'm feeling..."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "I feel it, too, Nagisa... keep on your guard."
Gil-Galad peers alertly around the chamber, as does Nanami.
Hiko the Firechilde walks stealthily around, trying to use her psychic senses
 like radar...
Nagisa grasps the cup tighter as he slips a hand into his pocket and pulls out
 a pair of largish blue gems...
and then the door flies open.
And four people charge in.
Hiko the Firechilde turns to see who they are.
One is a heavily armored knight.
Two are dwarves--one in wizard robes, one in leathers with big ass crossbow
Shizumaru flickers in the breeze.
And the forth is a flustered looking woman.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Who goes there!"
Nagisa's eyes narrow somewhat...
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster bellows, "YEA! THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE
 VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL! FOR THE HACKMASTER IS MY
 WEAPON, I SHALL NOT WANT! I AM EL RAVAGER, AND I AM YOUR DOOM!"
Hiko the Firechilde racks Living Flame and casts it on the armored knight.
Flame erupts around him, but he walks right through the fie like it was nothing
Down below, Anthy is concentrating and laying Pattern Traps in the Chamber of
 Revolution.
Hiko the Firechilde pulses lethargic waves of energy at the group.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster approaches Hiko, steadily, ready to carve
 her up along with anything she tosses at him. "I CUT! I HACK! I AM EL RAVAGER!
 MEN TREMBLE IN FEAR OF ME!"
The dwarf wizard shouts, "Magic Negation HIKO!" and the lethargy spell goes
 poof.
Hiko the Firechilde RUNS.
Nagisa spins the two gems in his hands, a la Labyrinth and says to El Ravager,
 "You appear to be a bad joke, actually."
The woman begins peering about the room, while the Dwarf tries to shoot Hiko
 unsuccessfully.
Hiko the Firechilde twists Juri's ring into crossbow form and returns fire.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster whistles. "CHELSEA! TO ME! TOGETHER WE
 SHALL OVERCOME ALL THAT STAND IN OUR WAY!" he howls, now bearing down on
 Nagisa.
Mikage says, "It seems we already have company, Anthy."
A COW charges in.
You page, "Tell me when one of them comes near me." to Akemi.
Hiko the Firechilde tries the lethargic pulse again, boosting with the Heart. 
 "What the fu--?"
Nagisa walks calmly over to the group at the door, even as the Mad Skillzed
 Hackmaster approaches.
Nagisa murmurs almost as an aside, "Incidentally, I'm not REALLY in your way,
 though... you're trying to come after me. Not quite the same thing."
A wave of lethargy rolls in at the knights.  The woman suddenly goes limp.
The two heavily armed guys don't care about the lethargy.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster says, "GO GET HER, CHELSEA!" as he points
 at Hiko, meanwhile bringing Hackmaster down towards Nagisa.
The dwarf wizard struggles.
El Ravager feels the power of MIND-WHAMMY clawing at his brain.
Hiko the Firechilde attemps Psychic Contact with the Cow.
It's like the cow isn't even THERE...
And then El Ravager's eyes flare.
And the Mind-Whammy dies horribly.
Hiko the Firechilde looks around, to see if there's anything ELSE in the room
 that isn't there...
A glowing field forms around Nagisa as he retreats.
Look... hexagons... AT field!
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster says, "OF COURSE! FOOLISH ME! I FORGOT TO
 USE MY MINDSHIELDING RING! THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME, CHELSEA! NOW, LITTLE
 WIZARD, COME BACK HERE!!!!" And he does his very best imitation of the
 Juggernaut Crash, chasing Nagisa.
Hiko the Firechilde shoots the cow as it appreaches her.
The cow pursues Hiko towards a flickering torchiere.  It dodges Hiko's shots.
Akemi pages, "It's closing in." to you.
Shizumaru suddenly shifts out of flame mode, lunging at the cow with his sword.
There's no one else concealed here.  El Ravager forces Nagisa back towards a
 corner.
Hiko the Firechilde gestures, making the fire grow and casts a teleportation
 spell on the Cow.
Knuckles fires at Shiz.  "There he is!  There's the man we have to CAPTURE!!!!"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "...they're bounty hunters out for the price on my head.
 >.<"
Shizumaru blocks Knuckles with his flawed Patternbrella.
Chelsea turns purple and vanishes, poof.
Shizumaru takes a moment to drop some seeds as he runs around.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "But not activating them."
Then, Gil-Galad kicks Nanami in the ass.  She topples onto the Pattern.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster pauses, looks towards Nagisa, then BELLOWS
 as soon as he realizes his beloved cow is missing!
 "CHELSEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! NOOOOOOOO! GET BACK HERE!" He gets caught,
 trying to decide what to do, then decides to carve up Nagisa first.
Hiko the Firechilde uses the fire to reappear on the other side of the room,
 falling out of a torch and casting fire spells on the Knights.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "..."
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster exclaims, "MY
 COWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Nanami burns away.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Wha--?"
Shizumaru hurls his umbrella at Gil-Galad.
Nagisa says, "What in..."
Knuckles fires his crossbow, shooting down the Umbrella.
Hiko the Firechilde casts fire spells on Knuckles.
El Ravager charges Nagisa, who gestures, and an OCEAN of water erupts, knocking
 El Ravager back across the room.
Hiko the Firechilde dodges any water at the same time.
Teflon Billy begins hurling fireballs at Hiko.
Nagisa says, "Sorry, Cousin..."
Hiko the Firechilde hurls them back, and sends out a wave of angst from the
 Heart.
Nagisa says, "That does it..."
Shizumaru throws handfuls of seeds at Gil-Galad and the other enemies in the
 room.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster gets back to his feet, muttering, somehow
 managing to spit out water under that armor of his. "A VALIANT EFFORT! BUT
 YOU'VE ONLY DELAYED MY RIGHTEOUS RATH! I'VE GOT... WHAT'S THIS? THE TREEHUGGER
 ATTACKS!" And he begins carving up the seeds tossed towards him.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC We're going to change methods of doing this."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I want everyone to page me their next action."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC and I will spoof the combined results."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Because I'm getting flooded and overwhelmed and
 missing things people do."
You page, "Activate my armor, get the umbrella if it's near, use one of my two
 racked teleport spells to get into the Pattern's center, and shove Gil-Galad."
 to Akemi.
Hiko begins trading fireballs with Teflon Billy.  Neither of them can hit each
 other.  He tugs at his beard, trying to defend his mind.
El Ravager feels his armor rusting as he tries to fight plants.
Black Tendrils erupt from the woman at Nagisa, tossing him about the room.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Didn't she pass out?"
Meanwhile, Shizumaru teleports to the center of the Pattern right after
 Gil-Galad drops down through the trapdoor, which slams shut before Shizumaru
 can grab it.  He drops down onto Anthy, two pattern blades teleporting into
 his hands and he cuts off her arms with them.  She screams and collapses as
 her blood begins to burn.
Mikage, you're face to face with Gil-Galad, who has Greyswandir and Werewindle
Nagisa says, "Dammit!"
Mikage exclaims, "No!"
And then the walls shake.
And the door bursts open and dozens of screaming Annadils pour in.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Page me again."
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster says, "MY ARMOR! WHO DARES?!"
You page, "Drop down into the chamber on top of Annadil, weapons flying." to
 Akemi.
You page, "Activate the shielding spell as well, and drop seeds on the way
 down." to Akemi.
Flames erupt all around the room.
Many Annadils flash fry
The Logrus Woman flash fries
El Ravager discovers the heat burns the plants off him and loosens up his armor
 so he can move again.
The dwarf thief, Knuckles, gets badly burnt
Teflon Billy LAUGHS at the fire and starts hurling ice bolts at Hiko.
More Annadils pour in.
Shizumaru discovers the Trapdoor won't open. [spoofed by Akemi]
Hiko the Firechilde counters with Fire Shield.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Do I have the umbrella back?"
And Mikage pulls Anthy out of Annadil's reach.  Annadil blocks the lightning
 with his Pattern Blades.
Hiko the Firechilde tries to batter Billy's mind again with debilitating grief,
 sadness, angst.
Mikage yells, "Are you prepared to lose, boy?! Are you prepared to lose?!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Please Page me your actions."
You hear smashing noises coming closer.  Page actions to DM.
You page, "Pull out the crossbows, charge them with elemental energy, and start
 peppering our enemies." to Akemi.
You page, "Included in those arrows are those seeds of plants with strong
 paralysis/sedation effects." to Akemi.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster chases Hiko, madly waving Hackmaster,
 closing the gap rapidly to cut her down. "YOU! WOMAN! GIVE ME BACK MY COW! OR
 PREPARE TO DIE IN MOST HORRENDOUS MESSY WAYS AS I CARVE YOUR LIVER INTO 259
 BITS AND THEN FORCEFEED YOU YOUR SPLEEN IN A TASTY PATE!"
You page, "Triggered only when I see them hit the right targets, though. If I
 accidentally hit an ally, which I hope doesn't happen with my warfare, I don't
 trigger those." to Akemi.
Shizumaru shoots down Knuckles with paralyzing seed bolts. [spoofed by Akemi]
Teflon Billy falls to his knees, trying desperately to resisit Hiko's superior
 power and the Heart as despair clutches at him.
Mikage tries to invade Gil-Galad's mind.  His bounces off it; Gil-Galad's mind
 is VASTLY powerful, he discovers, and in fact, now Gil-Galad is invading HIS
 mind.
Anthy's arm wounds suddenly heal and she stops burning.
And then the wall bursts open
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Didn't it already do that?"
Mist teleports into the room.
Mist has arrived.
Mikage says, "OOC Naw, the door did."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Here's Mike. Yay."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC The door did befoe."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Can we go to town now?"
Nagisa dips a trump into the cup of life, then smiles...
Mikage says, "Gggghhkk..."
A '28 Ford BURSTS into the room through the new hole. At the wheel is a man in
 a stetson. An aura of doom hovers over him like Death Itself.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Okay, everyone page their actions."
Mikage asks, "You... aren't... Gil-Galad.. are you?"
You page, "Try teleporting past the trap door into the Chamber and assault
 Gil-Galad again. Try to cut him with the Patternweapon while he's busy eating
 Mikage's mind." to Akemi.
Nagisa exclaims, "Cousins, listen! We will be over whelmed if we do not
 coordinate our actions! Work together!"
Mikage says, "You had me fooled... all this time..."
You page, "If I manage to stab Gil-Galad with the Patternblade, I leave it
 sticking in him, and trigger a trump sink so he can't trump the blade out." to
 Akemi.
You page, "And if my attempt to teleport through fails...continue shooting
 enemies with crossbow bolts." to Akemi.
Stagger Lee, from the cab of his Ford, bellows, "ALL YOU MOTHERF--KERS BETTER
 GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES, COZ I'M THE BAD MOTHER--KER CALLED STAGGER LEE! AND
 I'M HERE TO PUT FOUR HOLES IN THE HEAD OF ANY WHO WOULD OPEN THE GATE!"
Nagisa OOCly says, "Situation report please? What's happening, who's here,
 who's conscious and who's doing what?"
Nagisa points at Gil-Galad, "That would be him, trying to open the gate, Mr.
 Stagger Lee, sir."
Shizumaru tries to teleport into the Chamber of Revolution [spoofed by Akemi]
And finds himself shunted 12,000 miles away, high over a lonely mountain
Shizumaru OOCly says, "..."
Mikage says, "OOC Har har har ^^;"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "John, have Kafuin pull me back to the Keep. -.-"
Teflon Billy, right as he starts to break free, gets run over by Stagger Lee
 and dies
Nagisa OOCly says, "snickers at the fate of Teflon Billy."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Or trump back, or shapeshift into one of my bird forms
 so I don't plummet to my death."
El Ravager leaps at Hiko and is hurled back bya  wall of flame around her.
Stagger Lee turns on the windshield wipers.
Hiko the Firechilde teleports to the center of the Chamber.
Gil-Galad turns and thrusts the Pattern Blades into the Gate, whipping out his
 Logrus Foils.
Mikage exclaims, "NO!"
Mikage exclaims, "The keys!"
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC The Center of the Pattern or the Center of the
 Chamber of Revolution, Hiko?"
Mikage exclaims, "Bastard! You bastard!"
Mikage exclaims, "Annadil!"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Pattern... sorry."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Center of the Pattern is what I meant."
Nagisa begins to walk the Pattern
Mikage sets Anthy down, draws his rapier, and advances toward Gil-Galad... or
 is it Annadil?
There is an audible pop.
And In the back of Stagger Lee's truck, Yumi and Shaft appear
Mikage says, "OOC It's about bloody time. The Gate is about to be opened."
Hordes of Crazed Annadils rampage through the Pattern Chamber.  Hiko is now by
 the sealed shut trapdoor.
Hiko the Firechilde tries to figure out what's sealing it shut and how to open
 it.
You page, "Where am I now?" to Akemi.
Nagisa murmurs, "About time, Cousin Ota... Uncle Gil-Galad's down in the
 chamber... he's not who he pretends to be... Cousin Mikage and Her Highness
 Anthy are down there..."
Akemi pages, "Kafuin informs you that he can't trump you into Amber because
 Miki is blocking trumps" to you.
Shaft looks around at the situation, annoyed.  He trumps Anthy
Stagger Lee says, "Hey! There's a 'ho and a bum in my Ford! You better watch
 it, I'm a bad motherf--ker!"
Akemi pages, "But he prevents you falling to death." to you.
Flames and lightning dance around the chamber, frying fake Annadils.
You page, "Good. Trump Gabrielle, see if she can get me back to Amber via one
 of her manifestations." to Akemi.
Shaft exclaims, "Okay, okay, I'm movin'!"
Nagisa snaps at Stagger Lee, as he walks the pattern, "Watch what you say about
 Lady Yumi."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Pause."
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster bellows "I HATE MAGIC USERS!" as he stalks
 after the next available victim.
Mikage says, "OOC Well, I guess Utena'll have to be my mom, 'cause it looks
 like Anandil's my daddy. ^^;"
Anthy doesn't answer Shaft's Trump Call.
Shaft curses and trumps Hiko
Stagger Lee laughs. "You better get down on your knees and kiss my boots, Water
 Bitch. I'm Stagger Lee. MISTER Stagger Lee."
Hiko the Firechilde is at the Center of the Pattern, waving her hands over the
 sealed door.
Nagisa ignores the imbicile on the rest of his walk.
Shaft says, "Cousin Nagisa, please to not be pissin off the loud mysterious
 dude"
Crazed DM-chan exclaims, "OOC Pause, pause, pause, please!"
Nagisa hrhms, "As long as he remains civil towards Lady Yumi... although that's
 not material right now."
You page, "And if it's possible, have Gabby send me to Hiko, as that's the
 manifestation it all." to Akemi.
You page, "Nearest it all." to Akemi.
Nagisa OOCly says, "pauses."
Shizumaru pops out of Gabby's manifestation next to Hiko. [spoofed by Akemi]
The '28 Ford starts angling up the wall at a mad angle, defying gravity as it
 races for the ceiling, running over stay Annadils. "Yeah, I'm Stagger Lee, and
 I'm gonna f--k Annadilly up his motherf--king ASS! Coz I'm A BAD MOFO!" The
 headlight gleam, illuminating the Elder Sign affixed to the bumper.
Yumi teleports into the Pattern and starts helping Hiko unlock it.
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Shizumaru!  Thank Goodness!  Link with me!  I need
 more power to open up this door!"  She looks up at Yumi, relieved.
Shaft . o O (I wish she toldme she could do that.)
El Ravager charges at Shaft, who tries to evade the attacks, but stumbles and
 falls into it, taking a nasty arm cut.
Nagisa continues walking the Pattern as fast as he can.
Shizumaru stands guard over them and continues to pick off enemies. Shoot El
 Ravager with water and air and wood-charged crossbow bolts, but only if
 there's a clear shot. Don't want to hit Shaft.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster howls "I WANT MY COWWWWWWWWWWWW! GIMME  MY
 COW!" as he bears down on Shaft.
Shaft exclaims, "Cow?  Sick cow-fuckin'bitch!"
Down below, Mikage and a still badly hurt Anthy confront Gil-Galad.  Mikage
 does his best to fence with Annadil, keeping him busy.
Unfortunately, winds then erupt from the Air Jewel, pinning Mikage to the wall.
Shizumaru continues firing off crossbow bolts. "SHINKEN SHOUBU!" he screams.
 "Or, as Ota-niisan would say...." A slight hesitation, even as he keeps
 firing. "Let us throw, bitch." Thwipthwipthwipthwip.
Mikage says, "Aaagh...."
Weilding Justice, Shaft begins to drive El Ravager back towards the Pattern
He fends off crazed Annadils with his free hand, but they're starting to make
 him bleed all over.
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster says, "WHAT'S THIS!? YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY BE
 BETTER THAN I!"
You page, "Snag El Ravager's leg with a vine and yank him onto the Pattern if
 the opportunity presents itself." to Akemi.
Shaft exclaims, "AND I WILL STRIKE DOWN UPON THEE WITH GREAT JUSTICE, AND YOU
 WILL KNOW MY NAME IS SHAFT!"
Meanwhile, lightning rains down, beginning to damage the gateway as Hiko and
 Yumi batter at it.
Mikage exclaims, "OOC Whoo hoo! Go Ota!"
Stagger Lee tosses a pack of cards out the window of his Ford. "You boys
 messing with my bitch Shaft? Let's play a round of cards. DEAL, MOTHERF--KER!"
 The pack explodes. Cards, glinting like shuriken, fly out.
Shaft . oO (HIS bitch?!?!)
Razor sharp cards cut most of the Annadils to ribbons, freeing Shaft to stab El
 Ravager in the gut.
Then vines erupt up and fling El Ravager onto the Pattern.
Shizumaru OOCly powerposes.
Down in the Chamber, Annadil inserts the Logrus blades into the Gate.
Nagisa continues to walk the pattern... something weird seems to be happening
 to him, since the sparks that are normally thrown up by a pattern walk don't
 seem to be quite dissipating... they're clinging to him...
The gate begins to emit discordant music.
Shaft exclaims, "Heeey! Someone trump me over there, dammit!"
Mikage exclaims, "NO!"
Shizumaru trumps Shaft into the center.
Anthy begins to cry.
Stagger Lee holds an empty pack out. The cards zoom around the room in a
 funnel, then neatly pour back into the pack. "Y'all lose. Play again?" Stagger
 comments, the howls with laughter. The Ford is driving almost along the
 ceiling now.
And then...
El Ravager, Mad Skillzed Hackmaster says, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! IT CANNOT BE! I, EL
 RAVAGER, CANNOT POSSIBLY BE DEFEATED! HOW CAN THIS..." The last few bellows of
 his get cut off, as he waves his limbs frantically. The last word he bellows
 as he fizzles into the Pattern is "CHELSEAAAAAAAAAA! "
Shaft says, "Sad cow-fuckin' dwarf bitch."
Mikage flies toward Anthy intending to lift her up. "Grab my hand!"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "She's armless, TR."
Shaft makes it clear he intends to chop the trap door open with Justice
Yumi teleports Shaft to her side.  Nagisa is almost done with his Pattern walk.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I'm figuring you are already carrying her, Mikage"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "And the door?  It should be open by now..."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Also, both of you are pinned to the wall."
Shaft exclaims, "oocLY OH?  cOOL!"
Her arms grew back earlier with a long distance healing.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Ah."
The trapdoor explodes apart in a howl of shredded metal. Then, with a cry of,
 "ANNADIL, YOUR CUTE FAT ASS IS MINE!" Stagger Lee and his Ford zoom down
 through the jagged hole like the hand of an angry mofo God.
Mikage says, "OOC I dropped her off earlier."
The Gate of Revolution begins to open as Gil-Galad turns into Annadil, cackling
 maniacally.
Shaft elbows Yumi.  "Who the heck dat Stagger Lee cat?"
Hiko the Firechilde shields everyone around her from shrapnel, then drops down
 inside.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Ahh, right."
Yumi says, "Old Stagger Lee, he's one hell of a lay."
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Everyone, LINK NOW!"
Shaft feels massively enious
Shaft says, "OOCLY envious"
Shaft links
Shizumaru exclaims, "We need Mikage, too!"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Anyone still have Broken Pattern?"
Aerianne has arrived.
Rabies has arrived.
Malan Hoader goes home.
Malan Hoader has left.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Okay, Pause."
Shaft says, "Um, that'd be me, baby."
Nagisa runs the last few feet of the Pattern walk, "He's down there, the sooner
 we're with him, the sooner we can reach him..."
The situation:
Mikage and Anthy are pinned to the wall down in the Pattern Chamber by Wind
 Power.  Anthy is too weak to do much.
Gil-Galad just turned into Annadil and is laughing as the Gate of Revolution
 opens.
Nagisa, Shaft, Yumi, Hiko, Shizumaru are up at the top of the Trapdoor to the
 Chamber of Revolution.  Flame erupts from Hiko's Gaby Manifestation and Juri,
 Corrine, Roderick pop up.
You page, "Try to have Kafuin do something about the excess wind down in the
 Chamber." to Akemi.
And Stagger Lee just drove his 28 Ford through the trapdoor down into the
 Chamber of Revolution
Corrine OOCly says, "Oh, you mean the two are downstairs, pinned to the wall?"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Yes."
Shaft says, "OOCly that's one big trapdoor."
Corrine OOCly says, ".... oh my lord."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Stagger Lee just made it bigger."
Nagisa OOCly says, "Stagger Lee... the walking man?"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Heh."
Shaft . o O (What's he mean I'm his damn bitch?!?!?)
Corrine OOCly says, "So, Corrine, Roderick, and Juri are at the center of the
 trapdoor?"
Corrine OOCly says, "er, pattern section, that is?"
And as the Gate of Revolution is swinging open, Mikage can see a woman in
 purple robes, holding a long staff with a garnet orb on the end, with long
 purple-black hair, standing in the Gateway as energies swirl behind her.
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  Hiko's at the centre, so we should be."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Setsuna. Sailor Pluto. Aiyoh."
Corrine OOCly And the gates have opened.... oh MAN.
Mikage says, "OOC Oh dear lord."
Nagisa OOCly says, "Oh boy..."
Corrine OOCly says, "The third child!"
The door of the Pattern chamber opens, and a dark skinned man in black robes
 walks in.
Corrine looks over, and stares.
Nagisa blinks?
Shaft asks, "ALright, kids, as a team.  We ready?"
He points at Shaft.  "I have COME FOR YOU!"  But you've never seen him before.
Shaft stares at him.   "Say what?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Okay, everyone page me their actions."
Shaft asks, "Can we do this after I kick my daddy's ass?"
Nagisa puts a hand on Shadt's shoulder, "As we shall ever be... deal with the
 peripherals later, Cousin Ota... we need to stop Annadil."
Shaft says, "OOCly oh. right. page"
You page, "Again, try to calm the winds in the Chamber via Kafuin; start
 linking up with the others." to Akemi.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Everyone is up top inside the Pattern aruond the
 wrecked trapdoor, except for Mikage and Anthy downstairs, pinned to the wall,
 Stagger Lee in his truck crashing down, and Annadil staring at the woman in
 the Gate."
Mikage exclaims, "Annadil, you fool!"
Various people prepare to drop down and rain death on Annadil, but Hiko says,
 "Wait, we have to link to close the gate!"  She reaches out to try to link
 with everyone.  The power of Kafuin surges down to help Mikage break free of
 the wall.  Corrine drops down with Roderick and Juri through the gate. 
 Darkness surges out of the shadows, forming into Mamiya, who puts up a wall of
 Abyss Energy to stop Juri, Roderick, and Corrine's first vicious assault.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Mikage!  Link with us!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Page me your actions again."
Shaft assumes linking means doing some holding-hands thing, as he missed the
 briefing on it o.o
Nagisa shouts, "Mikage! The symbology of air is freedom! You are the Child of
 Air! Claim your freedom!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Psychic link, Shaft.  You'll need to drop your Psyche
 barrier to do that."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Heh... good luck getting that to happen."
Shaft says, "OOCly ICily you realize he has no clue what they're doing.  unles
 you say otherwise"
Hiko the Firechilde builds the psychic links, being the focus of the merge.
You page, "Check around one more time for any nearby threats, and if
 everything's all right, join in the link. Otherwise, engage in the link. Take
 off the psyche barrier." to TimeRunner.
Corrine OOCly says, "hey, actually, he should."
Corrine OOCly says, "Since he got the info from Patternghost Grandpa."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I think this was explained to him before by Grandpa,
 when he told you how to make the Elder Sign."
Hiko the Firechilde draws Nagisa in first, holding her hand out to Ota and
 Shizumaru.
Corrine OOCly nodnods.
Shaft says, "OOCly well then, I'm cool"
Shaft takes Hiko's hand
Shizumaru joins hands.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Mikage!"
The '28 Ford rushes down length of the Chamber of Revolution, the headlights
 blazing, Elder Sign bumper gleaming, bearing straight for Annadil. Stagger Lee
 leans out the cab, and pulls his .45. "I'M THE BAD MOTHERF--KER CHARGED BY THE
 ELDER ONES TO PUT FOUR BULLETS IN THE HEAD OF ANYONE WHO OPENS THE GATE! YOU
 BETTER GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES, ANNADILLY!" He fires wildly, once, twice,
 thrice, and then unloads in a flurry. And you thought gunpowder didn't work in
 Tir na Nog...
Nagisa pushes his accoutrements back into his satchel for the time being as he
 holds onto his cousins' hands.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC PAuse, TR seems to be 11 minutes idle."
Corrine OOCly nods.
Shaft exclaims, "OOCly Scriv!  Phone that idioit!"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Okay."
Corrine OOCly says, "This... is definitely NOT how I thought the Final Battle
 would go.  Just for the record."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "You're telling me? @.@"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC It's probably his parents."
Shaft blinks slowly
Mikage says, "OOC Back."
Shaft says, "OOCLy blnks slowly"
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Okay, Mikage, you gonna link with the others?"
Mikage asks, "OOC Oh, yeah. What choice do I have?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Well, you could say no, but it would likely be bad."
The Children link, and as Mikage comes into the link, you can all feel a blaze
 of power.
Mikage looks at his siblings and chuckles, mirthlessly. "Bindings of my own.
 Make bindings of my own choosing." He reaches out.
Windir wakes up.
Hiko the Firechilde smiles grimly.  "We'll discuss that later... now let's go
 draw that Elder Sign..."
You can feel your elements.  The freedom of Air.  The passion of Fire.  The
 Truth of Metal.  The Hope of Wood.  The Life which Water gives.
Shizumaru grits his teeth. "...roses scent my footsteps in peace...brambles
 pave my way in war..."
Down below, Juri slices through the wall of Abyss power as Gabrielle blazes
 around Corrine and Juri and Roderick like a great avenging angel.  And Annadil
 leaps into the gate to battle Setsuna as Stagger's bullets tear into him.
Mikage says, "...steady the mind...steadfast the will..."
And the Walking man begins to walk towards the Children across the Pattern
Hiko the Firechilde says, "...fire give me strength... strength in hope..."
He fails to blaze up and die.
Shizumaru says, "...Kafuin...deal with that man trying to attack us...."
Nagisa says, "...the stirrings of the sea within my soul... pour forth the
 waters of life to wash over us all..."
And as he walks, the Pattern briefly flickers out where he steps.
Mikage oocly has the hairs on the back of his heck stand from the song and the
 scene.
Corrine OOCly says, "Well, if you're gonna end a campaign... this is the way to
 do it..."
Shizumaru shouts down into the Chamber. "Someone is trying to attack us! Help!"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Hang on... are we upstairs or downstairs?"
The Walking Man gestures as Kafuin batters him.  The manifestation shatters.
Gabrielle says, "OOC: This may be a good time to define where everybody is."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Crap."
The situation:
Annadil is leaping into the gate drawing a sword as Stagger Lee hoses him down
 with bullets
Mikage and Anthy have come up to the Children, who have linked above the
 trapdoor.
Yumi is turning to face the Walking Man, who is crossing the Pattern.
Mikage says, "OOC Forget the walking man, jsut close the damned gate and maybe
 he'll go away! ^^;"
Juri, Corrine, and Roderick are breaking through the wall of Abyss energy that
 Mamiya is putting up, with a Giant Flaming Gabby all around them hlping them
 break through.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "We can probably jump down into the Chamber as a group,
 put a little more distance between us and the Walking Man, and get closer to
 the Gate."
Shaft says, "Um, siblings of mine, maybe we oughta take this downstairs?  JUst
 a suggestion."
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Yes, you can jump down.  I assume you're all going to
 do that?"
Nagisa says, "Agreed... and quickly."
Shizumaru nods stiffly. "Jump down. As a group."
While holding hands.
Shaft exclaims, "Okay, one, two, three, GO!"
Nagisa leaps along with everyone else!
Hiko the Firechilde jumps.
Shaft jumps
Shizumaru jumps.
This leaves Yumi and a battered Anthy to face the Walking Man.  Yumi grins.
Anthy does not.
Shizumaru exclaims, "Mikage! Use the Bag of Winds to slow our fall so we do not
 get hurt!"
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Right... let's draw this Sign, blow this Gate and GO
 HOME."
Mikage asks, "Would you like the Wind to catch our fall, or would you like to
 fly down?"
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Whatever, Mikage!  Just get us down there, and
 we need to draw the seal!"
Shizumaru says, "Whatever you can handle, Oniisan."
Shaft exclaims, "whatever, just do it!"
Mikage says, "Fine."
Mikage invokes the power of the winds to fly the Children down to the Gate
 Chamber.
Shizumaru continues to concentrate on summoning the power of the living forest.
Hiko the Firechilde powers the Heart with Hope.
Shaft wishes he had Stagger Lee's gunz.
Nagisa draws from the Cup...
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Say, where's Falme?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Falme just killed Cthulhu :)"
Shaft says, "OOCly points to Falme."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC And is now trying to prevent the City of Amber being
 destroyed."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Though I guess he doesn't want to come into a Pattern
 chamber. :) Oh! Woohoo."
Corrine OOCly : blinks.
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  Falme landed himself another Elder God on his
 tally.  :)"
Mikage says, "OOC He's my hero. ^^;"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Not an Elder God, they're on our side. Great Old One."
Dancing Ed says, "OOC doing rather well, is he? :)"
Corrine OOCly says, "Falme... gets the highest order of Ember's commendations. 
 PERIOD."
Corrine OOCly says, "And all the Ice Cream he can snarf."
Corrine OOCly says, "If we survive this."
Mikage says, "OOC Boy, making him my retainer was the best idea Mikage ever
 had."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Heh."
The '28 Ford roars towards the gate. Stagger Lee blasts the horn and grins
 horribly. The headlights blaze. The Sign gleams. He raises his gun, chambers a
 special chamber. He takes careful aim at the back of Annadil. Then the gun
 barks, and a single bullet blazes across the chamber toward the gate, Elder
 Sign etched into it throbbing with all five Elements.
The Children drop down, focusing their power.
Annadil begins to fight Setsuna, then twitches as Juri Neural Disrupts him.
Up above, there is an audible pop, and Wasyuu and Gideon appear.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "THANK YOU!"
Yumi gestures.  A wheel of water opens over the Walking Man.
The bullet blows a hole in Annadil's body. Blood spurts. And then black, inky
 tendrils grab the Ford, sending it flipping and carrening across the chamber.
Hundreds, maybe thousands of Pictsies drop down onto the Walking Man, stabbing
 him with tiny spears, uncaring as they fall on the Pattern and die.
The Ford's engine goes dead.
Corrine OOCly says, "Yup, this counts as the weirdest Combat Sequence of all
 time for me."
Shizumaru grows the seeds left on the floor by Anthy into trees to block the
 truck and cushion it.
Nagisa OOCly says, "Not for me... you haven't really seen weird til one of your
 allies is spitting quantum loogies."
Corrine OOCly says, "... ah."
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  The Morganstern battle was weirder.  Hiko hasn't
 been giving anyone orgasms with the Heart of Fire.  :)"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Don't start giving me ideas, now.  ^_^"
Mikage says, "OOC Plus the battle with Cats was no slouch, either. ^^;"
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  Hey, it would probably distract Annadil.  :)"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Team Rebma. -.-;;;"
Corrine OOCly says, "True!  But they're kinda more focussed right now."
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "Hey, guys... I still
 have a Trump of Annadil... what do you say about drawing the Elder Seal on him
 first?  Or doing something adequately nasty?" (to Akemi, Rod, Scriviner, you
 and TimeRunner)
Mikage says, "OOC That it would. That's his weakness. Actually, send Anthy into
 orgasms and she'll probably have Annadil's undivided attention."
Rod pages, "i really hope this doesn't backfire o.o" to Akemi, Foxtrot,
 Scriviner, you and TimeRunner.
TimeRunner pages, "Sounds kinky. But I think the Gate is our main problem." to
 Akemi, Foxtrot, Rod, Scriviner and you.
You page, "Shut the Gate. Just shut the Gate." to Akemi, Foxtrot, Rod,
 Scriviner and TimeRunner.
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "Gotcha... it was an
 idea." (to Akemi, Rod, Scriviner, you and TimeRunner)
Yumi continues to grin at the Walking Man. It's a desperate feral smile.
Scriviner pages, "Concentrate all together now..." to Akemi, Foxtrot, Rod, you
 and TimeRunner.
Anthy rubs her eyes and tries to focus.
Hiko the Firechilde furrows her brow and concentrates.
Shaft, for all his pitiful psychic power, concentrates.
Nagisa closes his eyes and his face goes slack as his hair turns gray and his
 skin pales suddenly...
Mikage draws on the power of his signet, and his formidable psyche.
The '28 tumbles to a halt. All is quiet within for a second. Then a dangerously
 calm voice inside says, "You touched my Ford, pretty Abyss bitch. Let's play
 some cards. For your life." The pack of cards rises out of the window of the
 Ford. "DEAL!" The pack explodes as dozens of razorcard fly towards figure of
 inky blackness.
A five pointed star forms as beams come from the Children.  It strikes the
 Gate, which ever so slowly begins to swing shut.
Gideon frowns as he looks around, facial tentacles twitching as he sees the
 Walking Man. "Nyarlathothep ..." he hisses.
Hiko the Firechilde pours in more strength, bolstering Ota and Nagisa.
Shaft focuses on closing the gate more than he ever focused on sex, which is
 amazing.
Yumi shouts words of power and wraps something around Anthy, who vanishes,
 slipping something off Anthy's finger as she does so and grabbing the Jewel of
 Air.
Corrine continues to aid Juri in all this.
Shizumaru concentrates. "Ima honki da yo," he mutters. Now it's for real.
Yumi puts on the coronet and holds up her hands, a gleaming ring on each hand.
Gabrielle unloads everything she has at Mamiya.
Nagisa opens his eyes suddenly, his eyes crackling with strange Pattern tinged
 energy which he pours into the link along with the power of his own formidable
 psychic strength...
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "Now you're a honky??"
 (to you)
You page, "Hon ki. True force, spirit." to Foxtrot.
Nagisa murmurs in a dispassionate voice, "No distractions... there is only the
 gate... only the closing of the gate."
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "Ah. I get it now." (to
 you)
Juri of Avalon continues to unleash Patternfire and Patternblade against
 Mamiya, trying her best to defend the Children from any threat while they work.
Hiko the Firechilde mutters, "Close..."
Shizumaru mutters a few Bursts of Psyche.
Corrine joins Juri in the defense, directing Patternfire and Spell-fire against
 Mamiya, makign sure to keep her allies from being sucked away...
TimeRunner pages, "Let's seal the bastard Outside." to Akemi, Foxtrot, Rod,
 Scriviner and you.
Nagisa murmurs, "Yea the Pride of the Lion shall be his downfall... mark the
 Children for they herald the time of closing..."
Rod pages, "we close the door,first and foremost. kicking dad's ass is a
 bonus." to Akemi, Foxtrot, Scriviner, you and TimeRunner.
Mamiya retreats under the assualt.  The gate continues to swing shut.
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "Go, go... we can do
 this!" (to Akemi, Rod, Scriviner, you and TimeRunner)
Setsuna strikes Annadil in the balls, and he bends over.
Gideon points an icy claw at the pattern, concentrating ...
Corrine OOCly BLINKS, and breaks down laughing.
Up above, Yumi shouts something in a language none of you know.
TimeRunner pages, "He is at the Gate, right? Close it. Do the 'Stop the Music'
 on his ass." to Akemi, Foxtrot, Rod, Scriviner and you.
Hiko the Firechilde says, "...and the child shall confront her father... and
 she will throw off the chains..."
And there is a whirl of power as Wasyuu and Gideon begin forming a huge icy
 Elder Sign at the heart of the Air Pattern.
And then Yumi links two Spikards, a Demi-Jewel of Air, and a Flawed Demi-Jewels
 of all the other elements nto the Elder Sign as Nylarathotep closes in on her.
Nylarathotep blinks.
But his legs keep moving.  He begins to sweat.
Corrine OOCly says, "oik."
Nagisa OOCly bursts out laughing at that.
Down below, Juri hacks off Mamiya's left leg.
Roderick hacks off his right leg with his flawed Pattern Blade. [spoofed by
 Akemi]
Shizumaru starts singing softly. o/~ "Sakura, sakura...." An old Lipunese folk
 song, about the blooms of the cherry trees.
And Corrine and Gabby blow his chest open.
The Gate is most of the way shut.
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  And Corrine kicks the torso through the gate into
 Annadil's back!  :)"
Lightning rains in through the gate from the truck at Annadil.
Autolyca OOC GOAL! :)
Up above, Nylarathotep steps onto the Elder sign and his feet begin to burn. 
 Yumi begins to laugh and laugh.
Then the cards descend on Mamiya, further chopping up what's left of him.
Juri of Avalon whirls her Patternblade in an arc as she takes off Mamiya's leg
 and smiles grimly.  "Saving the universe.  Again."
Setsuna breaks Annadil's left leg.  "My brother, you should have known better."
Mikage . o O (Finally... Freedom.)
The walking man keeps walking.  His legs are burning away.
Shaft tries not to get distracted by the otherworldly babe.
Corrine matches Juri's grin, more Corrine than Darako could ever be.  "Helluva
 job occupation, ain't it?"
Mikage exclaims, "The Middle Brother sends you his greetings!"
Gabrielle says, "JYESS!" She whirls a giant glaive of fire and SWATS Mamiya at
 the rapidly closing gate.
Yumi begins to hurl a stream of elemental wrath at the Walking Man, who begins
 to burn.
Shizumaru finishes the song. "I promised Rimururu...and I will keep my promise."
Corrine exclaims, "AKIO!  You're GROUNDED!"
While Gideon and Wasyuu rain down small Elder Signs on Nylarathteop.
Hiko the Firechilde mutters, "Just CLOSE!"
Stagger Lee, from somewhere inside the Ford, says, "I win. Fork over your soul,
 Abyss Boy." The cards, glowing blackly, zoom up into the air, funnel like a
 pasteboard whirlwind, and vanish down into the Ford.
Gabrielle swats what remains of Mamiya into the rapidly closing gate.
Setsuna says sadly, "This is the end, brother."
Annadil shouts, "No!  I did this for you!  I had to remake the world for
 YOU!!!!"
"Take your Revolution and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUNDAMENT!" Juri yells as Mamiya
 flies through the Gate.
Shaft says, "Fooooooocusfocusfocus.....there is no babe.  there is no freaky
 ddue with guns.   there is only the door.  cloooosing the door."
Hiko the Firechilde funnels all her remaining energy into closing that darned
 Gate.
Mikage says, "Farewell... Mamiya."
Shaft exclaims, "OOCly PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUSE!!!!"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Heading home?"
Shaft says, "OOCly and now we hit intermission as I drive home"
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC You gotta go home, Rod?"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Drive safe. :)"
Shaft passes out the popcorn
Rod has disconnected.
>> A joke is the epigram on the death of a feeling - Nietzche
The Gate is closing
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Good!"
Mamiya flies into the gate.
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  ASS is damnably useful."
The Walking Man continues to advance on Yumi, but his legs are burning away. 
 Gideon, Yumi, and Wasyuu rain down death on him.  He simply looks utterly
 incredulous.
And then there is a shimmer in the Chamber of Revolution.
You page, "By the way, what are the details of the armor pod's point
 characteristics?" to Chris.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Rainbow shimmer?"
And an old, bearded man and a bandaged freak appear.
Mikage exclaims, "OOC Shit!"
Corrine OOCly says, "Pattern/trump sight the appearance of the newcomers."
Juri of Avalon turns in an instant towards the shimmer, ready to defend the
 Children if need be.
Nagisa blinks?
Chris pages, "Lotsa points in there." to you.
Corrine OOCly says, "Older Man look familiar?"
Mikage says, "OOC IS that... Duke Shishio? ^^;"
Hiko the Firechilde chants faster, "Close, close..."
You page-pose, "Shizumaru nods. Because neither John nor I actually know what
 exactly it does. n.n; Fortunately, it hasn't had to come into play yet." to
 Chris.
Juri of Avalon moves to get between the newcomers and the Children.
The bandaged freak points at Shaft.  "Now you're gonna DIE for what you did to
 me!"
Corrine moves with Juri, 'o course.
Somewhere on the muck, Megumi has disconnected.
Chris pages, "Basically, magic shield, psyche shield, armor. Limited
 shapeshift." to you.
Mikage says, "OOC Bloody brilliant."
You page, "Ahh." to Chris.
Nagisa OOCly says, "Boy, you're popular, Shaft..."
The old man says to Loewen, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
Shaft exclaims, "Can we PLEASE talk about this AFTER the universe-eatin' door
 is closed!"
Mikage . o O (Close the gate...)
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Less talk, more close, help defend..."
Roderick moves to position himself.  The gate is scraping slowly.  You hear
 Annadil screaming. [spoofed by Akemi]
Nagisa. o O ( Close the gate... we close the gate... )
Shizumaru . o O ( Tobira o shimeru. Close the door. )
Juri of Avalon snaps her blades out towards the bandaged freak.  "You come
 through me, mummy-boy, whatever it is Ota did to you.  Knowing him, you may
 have a legitimate complaint, but, at the moment, we need him to stop the
 universe from being destroyed.  So wait your turn, or fight me."
Corrine says, "Save Universes first, sir.  Do duelling things later, please."
Gabrielle sighs. "Ota, what did you do NOW?"
Loewen says, "Shaft must die!  I gave you that damnable Logrus Club!  Kill him
 AND his dog!"
Shaft exclaims, "It..... (focusfocus) ain't.... (doorclose)... my.....
 (cloooosethedoor) FAULT!"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Oh, shooooooot, that's Noish-pa."
And then a cloud of black mist surrounds Loewen and the other man.
The gate has only inches to go.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Go!  Close!"
Loewen screams like a girl.
The air starts suddenly to oddly ripple, like the surface of a pond.
Dancing Ed OOCly says, "Suhoi, I believe, Shiz."
The mist clears.  High Above, Nylarathotep drags himself by his arms.
Juri of Avalon looks wildly about, weapons at ready to deal with any threat to
 the Children.
Corrine moves to protect Juri and Roderick, who'd be protecting the kids...
Yumi stops him by putting a head on his foot.
The mist clears.
Shaft asks, "is.... it..... closed... yet?"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Putting a foot on his head, rather?"
Loewen lies in a pool of his blood.  The old man says, "Ooops."
Nagisa's eyes remain closed as he concentrates . o O ( Door... closed... NOW.
 CLOSE! )
He has blood on his big club.
Hiko the Firechilde pushes with every last bit of strength she's got.
Shizumaru says, "Shi...me...ru...."
Yumi stops him by putting a foot on his head.
Mikage says, "OOC Oookay. ^^;"
The Gate of Revolution slams shut.  The last thing you hear is Annadil
 shouting, "No!!!!!!"  And Setsuna saying "Yes."
Shaft looks around very carefully
Shizumaru looks up. "The Walking Man?"
Nagisa hisses between his teeth, "Yess... now... who wants some more?"
Exhausted, the Children fall to their knees.
Juri of Avalon gives a nod to the old man.  "Hi.  Juri of Avalon.  Are we going
 to have to fight?"
Corrine quietly murmurs, under her breath... "bow down before the one you
 serve... you'll get what you deserve."
Mikage opens his eyes, and looks for Anthy.
That took a lot out of you.
Hiko the Firechilde sags with relief... and looks around.
Nagisa glances around while on his knees.
Corrine looks around, taking note of the state of folks.
The old man says, "Hmm, I think I'll just be moving on. Got to find Mario and
 kill him for exploiting me."
Hiko the Firechilde casts a quick spell for mental healing.
Gabrielle asks, "OOC: Does the Gate spit out the blades?"
Shaft staggers towards the gate.  "Hey, um.... about these blades in the
 door.... can I have some?"
Corrine says, "Gabrielle?  Status of other manifestations... good unicorn..."
Shizumaru pants. "What of the city?"
Juri of Avalon nods and points to Loewen.  "Going to take that with you,
 grandfather?"
And up above, Wasyuu and Gideon riddle Nylarathotep with elder signs.
And Yumi thrusts four flawed Demi-Jewels into his mouth and shouts a word of
 Power
Corrine blinks at Juri and the Old Man.
And Nylarathotep's head explodes.
Juri of Avalon glances to Corrine.  "Just a term of respect."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "We should destroy the Logrusfoils."
Shaft carefully eyes the logrus and pattern blades.
Shaft says, "hey, destroy just one and it's all good."
The door spits out the blades.  The two Pattern Blades shine and vanish.
Corrine nods at Juri.
Shaft asks, "what the-?"
Mikage says, "Bloody hell."
The air itself rips open, revealing a massive plain. An army of oriental
 splendour stands on it, literally millions of them in a shimmering array of
 spears and katanas and shields, green silk banner flags waving. At the head of
 this dread host is a group of noble folk, surrounded by a wave of ninjas. And
 at the center of those... is a baby carriage.
Shizumaru stares. "Damnation."
Corrine lets out a breath as the blades vanish.
Shaft grabs the logrus blades
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "They must have gone back to their owners...."  She
 sits up.  "What NOW?"
Corrine stares at the new weirdness.
A baby climbs to his feet in the pram. "Nyah. I, Mori the First, do claim this
 universe in the name of Jade. Nyah. Do not resist. As you can see, I am a
 hyperintelligent genius, and almost three. Therefore, your struggles would be
 in vain. Wave One! Wu-Tang Clan! ADVANCE, FOR THE GLORY OF JADE!"
Shaft grabs the Logrus Blades, no sweat.
Mikage says, "Oh, no..."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Damn you MIKE!!!"
Ninjas sweep forward.
Shizumaru asks, "...Ota-niisan, may I use one of those?"
Gabrielle stops being a flame-spitting demon. "the hell is THIS?"
Corrine OOCly says, "wait... is this the kid in Juri/Corrine's moment in the
 Hall of Mirrors??"
Shaft lends Shizumaru a logrus blade.  He wields a logrus blade and Justice
Crazed DM-chan exclaims, "OOC Yes, it is Corrine!"
Juri of Avalon begins to say, "Oh, look, Corrine, it's that cute little baby
 from... The _hell_?"
Corrine STARES.  "WHAT THE?"
Shaft says, "okay, so we gotta kill a  baby. fine. whatever. been a long day."
Nagisa rises shakily to his feet.
Shizumaru wields his trump sword and a Logrusfoil, careful not to touch them
 together.
Corrine says, "Sir?  I advise you to leave NOW.  We've had a fucking bad day."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Yes... come back when we're not pissed off."
Shaft caaarefully makes sure not to clang logrus and patternblades
Corrine says, "Either that, or help us fight off whatever's left of who knows
 what else is out there."
"Gabrielle!  Can you snuff that, err... tear in the fabric of reality?" Juri
 calls, while fighting  ninjas.
Shaft has a 'can i kill him now?' look to his face
The gate wavers in and out as Gabby struggles to crush it.
Nagisa cracks his knuckles, "Can I just flood that damned plain and bury them
 so deep future paleontologists will wonder what wiped their civilization out?
 I am in a nasty mood at the moment."
Mikage seems to be completely ignoring the Wu-Tang clan and is looking for
 Anthy.
Shaft reaches out mentall to Morganstern.  "Yo, mo, cleanup in Aisle Amber."
You don't see Anthy anywhere.
Corrine nods to Nagisa.
Hiko the Firechilde wearily gets to her feet and looks around.   "Gabrielle? 
 Where are we needed next?"
Corrine concentrates, working on helping to close the damn air gate.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO, SIR?"
Shizumaru prepares to fling seeds like mad.
Gabrielle says, "The only highly destructive infant this universe ever needed
 was ME!" She hurls Trump Energy at the gate.
Thousands of shuriken darken the air, flying at people
Mikage floats up to the trap door. "Anthy!"
Everyone gets hit by at least a few, but they all bounce off. The ninjas look
 dismayed.
Shizumaru parries...and blinks.
Corrine sticks her tounge out at the ninjas.
Hiko the Firechilde sets up her flame shield and hurls fire arrows back at the
 ninjas.
Nagisa takes a deep breath, then releases it slowly, obviously annoyed. He
 gestures, calling up an AT field to keep the shurikens at bay...
Shaft marches very slowly towards little boy genious, murder clearly in mind
Shaft . o O (Sheilds on)
Mikage discovers the huge ice elder sign over the trap door is sealing him in.
Nagisa glances around, "Where's Lady Yumi?"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Listen... we're tired, and we've got lots of cleanup
 to do, if we're still under siege.  I've got a lover and a forest to
 protect... can we do this another time???"
Mikage says, "We're trapped."
Corrine blinks.  "Up top?  Dunno!"
Mori suddenly barks, "Manuever Blossom!" The ninjas all vault in the air, and
 hordes of shurikens rain down in a perfect pattern. Wu-Tang comments,
 Kenshin-style, "Now, too late, they realize their error! My trump-trap
 shuriken will send all who resist to the Dozen Hells of Wu-Tang!"
Shizumaru activates a trump sink.
Shaft exclaims, "WILL YOU GO HOME YOU LITTLE MOTHAFUCKA!"
Shizumaru also starts parrying again.
High above, Gideon tries to trap Nylarathotep.
Corrine growls, and trumps/torches/etc the shirukens away above the group.
Juri of Avalon raises up both her crossbows and shoots the wheels off Mori's
 pram.
Gabrielle flings wave after wave of Trump Energy at the TransUniversal Trump
 Gate, sprouting her trademarked wings.
Hiko the Firechilde blocks, and casts flames.
Hiko the Firechilde steps into one of the flames and teleports into the chamber
 above, where hopefully noneo f the torches went out.
No Trump Tramps go off.. Wu-Tang looks disconcerted. "Ah, Dread Imperial Lord?"
 "Yes?" "My Trumps don't work in this universe." "How bothersome."
Blink, Hiko is up above.
Shizumaru OOCly sniggers.
Hiko the Firechilde lends what assistance she can to Gideon.
Shizumaru shuts off the trump sink, and begins to stalk forward as well.
Shaft stows away thhe logrusblade and fires off a Whalekiller round at
 thelittle punkass
Corrine smiles.  "Sir?  If you value your lives.  LEAVE."
Nagisa sighs as he climbs up the stairs...
The top is still sealed.  Hiko just teleported past the seal.
Mikage says, "We're locked in, brother."
Corrine looks up at Nagisa.  "Nagisa, Mikage!  Try using the trumps I gave you!"
Rod pages, "you have blades, use them to open the door" to you.
Mikage says, "Fine, fine."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Heh."
Mikage trumps out of the Chamber.
You page, "Don't want to ruin the ice Elder Seal." to Rod.
The baby casually parries Shaft's bolt with his rattle, and tsks. "A minor
 setback. We shall return. Shun Mei, activate the Gloom Device and close the
 barrier." The hole starts to seal.
Rod pages, "aw, damn" to you.
Up above, Wasyuu, Hiko, Yumi, and Gideon struggle to try to trap Nylarathotep's
 spirit inside a funk trump trap.
Shaft shoots the finger at the baby.
Corrine exclaims, "Shaft!  Shizumaru!  Pull back!"
Shizumaru turns around and stalks back, irritably.
Mikage asks, "Where is Anthy?"
Nagisa trumps away...
Shaft turns around and stalks back, irritably.
Juri of Avalon says, mournfully, "And he was such a cute little baby."
Corrine sighs, and nods.
Nagisa trumps towards the chamber above.
Juri of Avalon sighs.  "He had the sweetest little toesies."
Shizumaru asks, "Gabrielle? Can you pull me through after I make a quick stop
 back at the Keep?"
Nagisa and Mikage trump up.  There's a massive struggle of wills vs. Nylar. 
 Want to help, oh Psyche mongers?
Corrine looks around the Gate of Revolution chamber, and takes stock of who's
 there.
Shaft says, "gonna KILL the little....."
Shaft asks, "Yo! Mo! trump me up one level?"
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Nagisa!  Mikage!  Help us!"
Mikage says, "Fine."
The baby raises a Glock, sights at Shaft...and then lowers it. "I see the mark
 of doom on you. Me, you don't need. Nyah." The hole seals, and the air is
 still again.
Shizumaru asks, "...is it advisable to trump back to the Keep, actually?"
Mikage extends a hand.
Shaft glimmers and is trumped up to the upper level.
Gabrielle screeches in frustration. "This has a been a VERY BAD DAY!" She claps
 her hands, ad a Trump Gate to the room up above forms.
Hiko the Firechilde is struggling to stand upright.
Shaft asks, "Okay, who needs killin?"
Corrine stares at Gabrielle a bit, worry on her face, slightly.
And the unfortunate Nylarathotep is forced by your combined might into a cycle
 of five trump traps, left to cycle between them hopefully for eternity.
Shizumaru goes up, staring at what's going on.
Corrine OOCly says, "oooo, -nasty-."
Hiko the Firechilde slides to the ground....
Better never take this little widget anywhere Trumps fail, though.
Shaft says, "one more thing an'I swear I'm goin' mothalovin postal on someone's
 bitch ass......"
Hiko the Firechilde says, "...tired...."
Juri of Avalon sighs.  "Now that that's _finally_ finished, shall we go deal
 with everything else?"
Mikage nods. "I must check on Falme's defense of the city."
Corrine looks over at Juri.  At Roderick.  At the big guy's car.  At the woman
 with the big staff thingie, if she's still there.  Anybody else.
Shaft taptaps his ring. "Mo!  Funk Fleet status report!"
Shizumaru turns to Gabrielle again. "Should I trump back to the Keep, get
 another manifestation, and come back?"
Juri of Avalon says, "Such as making sure the castle and the city are safe,
 taking stock of the damage, and... burying the dead."
Mikage asks, "But first, where is Anthy?"
Stagger Lee's '28 Ford revs back to life. It drives through the Trump Gate, and
 into the main Pattern chamber.
Hiko the Firechilde closes her eyes and pictures streams.... and sits up. 
 "Yes?"
Gideon stretches his tentacles and looks around at the others. "Thanks for the
 help. He's a powerful little bugger."
Corrine nods, and moves over to Juri.  "Want the spoon back?  Better go and
 join the rest."
Nagisa glances around in confusion.
Gabrielle holds out her hand, and something drops into it. She flips it at
 Shizumaru.
Juri of Avalon takes the Spoon back and goes to join the others.
Shizumaru blinks. "Ah. Thank you." He puts the manifestation on. "Kafuin?"
Corrine follows Juri, looking... Tiiiiired.  But still hanging in there.
Shaft taps his foot impatiently.
"Yes, sir?"
Gabrielle flits back and forth through the Trump Gate. "Is everybody coming or
 not?"
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Okay, is everyone going upstairs now?"
Shizumaru nods. "Good...I am glad to hear your voice again."
Corrine nods.
Juri of Avalon is
Shizumaru is, yes.
Shaft notices Gabrielle. "Oh, hey  baby.  Sure, yeah, on the way."
Hiko the Firechilde sags... "I... we'll be there right away.  Hang on, Yuriko."
Shizumaru blinks. "Stagger Lee-dono! Thank you for your assistance." He bows.
Roderick follows Juri and Corrine. [spoofed by Akemi]
Corrine blinks at Shizumaru.
Corrine asks, "You -know- him?"
Shaft whapwhapwhaps his ring.  "Hey! Mo!  Wake up!"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "The city is being overrun by Deep Ones... Her
 Highness Yuriko needs help.  Who can go?"
Shizumaru shakes his head. "No, but he came to help us. We should thank him."
Nagisa blinks, "Oh dear."
Hiko the Firechilde keeps the Trump open, barely.
"SORRY, SAHIB, TRYING TO KEEP YOUR PATTERN FROM BEING DESTROYED AND COMMANDING
 THE FUNK FLEET AGAINST THE BLACK MOON."
Corrine would facepalm, but is missing one arm.
Juri of Avalon says, "I can."
Shizumaru charges his weapons up with elemental energy. "I am ready."
Roderick says, "I can." [spoofed by Akemi]
Corrine says, "I'll go."
Shaft says, "Good, fine, okay, keep up the good work.  Send the flagship
 Boogietown my way."
Stagger Lee says, "Hey, no problem. I'm a bad motherf'cker, and it's my job to
 put a bullet in the heads of folks who disrespect me by opening the Gate of
 Revolution."
Nagisa asks, "Does anyone require healing?"
Nagisa glances around.
Juri of Avalon nods to Stagger Lee.  "Much appreciated.  I like your car."
HOW CLOSE TO THE KEEP DO YOU WANT IT?
Gideon murmurs, "Deep Ones? Ah ... fish dinner."
"Don't call me 'baby,' Ota," Gabby snaps at Shaft. She closes the Trump Gate
 and flits over to Nagisa. "Yo, Child of Water."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "To the Keep?"
Hiko the Firechilde nods, gesturing towards them towards her open trump to
 Yuriko.
Stagger Lee asks, "It's a Ford. Built Ford tough. Have YOU driven a Ford
 lately?"
Juri of Avalon heads to Hiko.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC The Castle.  How close to the Castle."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Right. :) And how am I feeling right now? Able to go a
 few more rounds?"
Shaft says, "Hover 'bout 200 feet overhead, mo."
Juri of Avalon shakes her head.  "I tend to go for style over utility,
 unfortunately.  A bad habit."
Shaft blinks at Gabby.  "Um.... sorry?"
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Can that thing restore strength and basic endurance?"
Hiko the Firechilde is feeling VERY drained, thank you very much.
Corrine goes to join Hiko and Juri.  She pulls her manifestation crossbow
 around, and arms it, holding it in her only hand.
Nagisa smiles at Gabby, "Yes?"
Mikage asks, "OOC Anshi wa doko da?"
Yumi goes over to Gideon.  "We need to store Nylarathotep somewhere safe."
Hiko the Firechilde blinks at Corrine, tears misting her eyes.
Mikage asks, "Yumi, have you seen Anthy?"
Gabrielle grins at him. "Folks need healin' down in the city. You want to come
 with?"
Corrine smiles slight at Hiko.  "Hey, it's better than being dead, Hiko."
Shaft says, "You know me, I'm where the action is."
Nagisa nods, "Alright..."
Gideon tentacle-twitches, apparently his current version of a nod. "Yesss ...
 but where?"
Shizumaru salutes with his weapons. "I am ready."
Hiko the Firechilde nods.  "Let us go, then..."
Hiko the Firechilde holds out her hand/arm to Corrine and Juri.
Yumi says to Mikage, "I sent her to safety in the castle.  She was in no
 condition to fight."
Juri of Avalon grabs Hiko's hand.
Nagisa says, "I'll be healing in the city..."
Corrine nods to Hiko, and moves close to Juri so she can take her other hand.
Gabrielle says, "Cool." She grabs Nagisa and ahuls him over to the
 mass-trumping.
Shizumaru walks over to the others, ready to be trumped into the city.
Corrine OOCly says, "Well, Juri's hand on Corrine's shoulder, or something."
Hiko the Firechilde nods at Nagisa and Gabrielle.
Roderick wraps his arms around Juri's waist. [spoofed by Akemi]
Mikage nods. "One moment." He pulls out Anthy's trump.
And Shizumaru... "Ota?  Are you coming?
Shaft says, "OOCly didn't I say i was already? O.o"
Shaft points to the backscroll
Mikage says, "I'll join you in a moment. I'll leave Falme under your command...
 not that he doesn't to a fine enough job without direction."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Shaft has joined in, so I think you're all ready to
 go."
The '28 Ford drives out through the tunnel.
Hiko the Firechilde nods to Yuriko.  "Pull."
Yumi says to Gideon, "Come with me, I know a safe place."
Nagisa joins Gabrielle to the mass trumpin'.
Shizumaru says, "Ikuzo."
Gideon just says, "Lead.", mostly concentrating on the trap sign.
Gabrielle throws an arm lazily around Nagisa and LEAPS through the trump.
Corrine murmurs under her breath, "Once more unto the breach, dear friends...."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "And we carve a path of fury and destruction through the
 Deep Ones? :)"
Shaft idly examines the logurs blade.  "Heeey, this thing looks cool."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "And I finally get to find out what happened
 exactly when Corrine tried to walk the Wood Pattern witha link to the Fire
 Jewel..."
Corrine OOCly says, "Well, Manifestations were off -anyway-."
You find yourself on the roof of the City Jail
Corrine OOCly says, "Link to demi-jewel wouldn't ennough.  Having REDRAWN A
 PATTERN, -that-, yes..."
Shaft blinks and taps his ring.  "Um, Mo?  Exactly who's attackin' my pattern
 anyway?"
Ramon, Keiko, and Yuriko are up here.
Corrine considers, blinking at Shaft.  She looks at Gaby.  "Status of Ember,
 Gabrielle?"
The streets are flooded with churning sea water.
high above you, you can see a floating Funkship
"CRAZED CHAOSIAN FREAKS, SAHIB."
Shaft looks around.  "Ooooh, okay, someone drew a water pattern, didn't he."
Shizumaru says, "Kafuin, help drive the water back, please."
Corrine looks down at the water, and sighs.  "If derith were here, he'd surely
 be gloating over the power of water."
Autolyca OOC will gloat for him! :)
Shaft asks Mo, "Everything under control or you need me back there?"
Nagisa says, "Oh my..."
Gabrielle cocks her head. "Fighting off stuff, but nothing that won't be routed
 in a little bit, Mom." She laughs, and waves a little 'Go ember' flag.
Hiko the Firechilde says, "I have to find out what happened to Arden."
Mikage says, "OOC If Ota uses that thing for our duel, I'm in deep doodoo."
Shaft OOCly cracks his knuckles
Hiko the Firechilde pulls out her trump of the Green Knight.
Corrine smiles slightly, and hugs Gabrielle with her one arm.
Juri of Avalon nods to Ramon, Keiko and Yuriko, then begins looking for Deep
 Ones to plug.
And activates it.
Corrine looks around as well.
"EVERYTHING IS FINE, SAHIB.  TOAST SOME DEEP ONES SO WE CAN HAVE SEA FOOD."
Shaft says, "Right on, Mo G.  Shaft out"
Gabrielle looks at all the water with distaste. "Ugh. Water should know it's
 place."
Shaft looks for some fish to flillet
High above, you can see the Black Moon is beginning to move out to sea, though
 by now the sun has naturally set.
Corrine sighs, the sigh of a parent who's had this argument with her daughter
 long before.
Nagisa raises his hand, bearing the cup... as he sets a spell up in his mind...
Gabrielle glances at Nagisa. "Hey, Child of Water. You still got your Eyes?"
Shizumaru lifts his swords up in the air, swirling with elemental energy of all
 types. "Bring it! BRING IT!"
Corrine says, "Now, dear, -all- five elements are needed. "
Shaft looks at Shizumaru.  "Heey, brotha's got soul after all."
Nagisa nods to Gabrielle, "Yes... I'm keeping them handy..."
Hiko the Firechilde blinks.  "What... are we doing?"
Shizumaru grins at Shaft. "I try my best, Oniisan."
Juri of Avalon glances at Shizumaru.  "Be careful with that Logrusfoil,
 Shizumaru."
Shizumaru nods. "Of course, Juri-san."
Ramon and Keiko continue raining down deaht on the Deep Ones, as does Yuriko
 with an auto-loading crossbow.
Gabrielle says, "Oh, yes. Water is certainly... needed." She grins at Nagisa.
 "So you can make the tides go all back out to sea, then?"
Hiko the Firechilde says, "Arden...."
Shizumaru sends bolts of elemental energy down at the Deep Ones.
Corrine arches an eybrow at Gaby and Nagisa.  She then joins in the shooting of
 things at the Deep Ones.
Hiko the Firechilde blinks again, and tries her trump of the Green Knight again.
Nagisa grins, "What did you think I was doing?"
Corrine blinks at Hiko.  "... eh?  Oh hell..."
The Green Knight finally answers.  He looks liek crap
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Move away from Hiko. n.n;"
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "Darling!"
His armor is full of holes, he's bleeding profusely, and he is crying.
Hiko the Firechilde exclaims, "My love....!"
Corrine OOCly winces.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "What happened?"
He reaches out his arms to you.
Hiko the Firechilde holds out her hands to him.
Shaft exclaims, "Flagship Boogietown, fish fry!  Open fire!"
He embraces you desperately.
Hiko the Firechilde holds him in a tight embrace.  "The Gate is closed... do
 you need assistance?"
And then the power of the Cup of Life begins to drive back the waters.  the
 Funk Fleet begins raining down death on the deep ones.
Juri of Avalon mows down Deep Ones like she's shooting fish in a barrel.
And high above, you see Falme grab Dagon with Logrus Tendrils and fling him on
 a high arching flight into the shadow storm.
Gabrielle grins as all the water runs back to where it belongs. "Oh, lovely."
Up above, the clouds have formed back into a black road leading away from Tir
 Na Nog. The '28 Ford drives along it, away from the castle, back out towards
 Shadow. Occasionally there's a muzzle flash, and a Deep One below falls over
 with a bullet in its head. "Ciao, and don't open the damn gate again, or I'll
 come kick your ass, coz I'm a bad motherf'cker!" He vanishes into the storms.
Shaft says, "damn.  might havta name my son Stagger Shaft."
Shizumaru pauses in his rain of energies, and turns toward Hiko. "...Arden. How
 is Arden? Has Lord Totoro been of assistance?"
Corrine waves at the '28 Ford, breifly, before going back to frying Deep Ones
 and looking over at Hiko and co with concern.
Juri of Avalon pauses for a moment to salute Stagger Lee with her crossbow. 
 "He reminded me of my little brother.  In a strange, vaguely comforting way. 
 Plus he had a cool car, and kicked Annadil's ass.  Okay guy."
Hiko the Firechilde pulls herself through the trump.
Nagisa pushes the water further back, trying to seek out the central source of
 the sudden flood...
The Green Knight sags into Hiko's arms.  "Damnable Outsiders."
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "What happened, love?"
Juri of Avalon then goes back to methodically shooting the fishmen.
Corrine OOCly says, "is the GK with the group in Amber, or is Hiko now with GK
 in Arden?"
Hiko the Firechilde uses what little strength she has left to start a healing
 spell for him.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "I'm now with him in Arden."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Hiko is nowin Arden with the GK"
Corrine OOCly says, "Gotcha."
Shizumaru salutes Stagger Lee, and keeps on blasting.
Gabrielle starts aiming and flash-frying Deep Ones. She giggles. "Wow, I'm in a
 weird mood."
Corrine asks, "Adrenalin rush, dear?"
Shaft . o O (Lee Tenjou?  Hmmm..... Stagger Tenjou? Hm.  Hope Kasumi don't
 mind....)
Corrine manages a smile, but keeps firing at Deep Ones.
Mikage says, "OOC you can name your son Stagger, and your daughter Lee."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Jacqueline Lee Tenjou?"
Shaft sits back and enjoys the sight of the Flagship Boogeytown and its
 accompanying fleet raining down firely blazing death upon the fishfolk
Yumi and Gideon and Wasyuu appear on the roof.
Juri of Avalon nods.  "It's the feeling you get when you know that things are
 going to be more or less all right, but the battle isn't quite finished."
Corrine hehs a bit.
Shaft says, "Damn, wish I got me a fleet sooner."
Yumi comes over to Nagisa and takes his hand.
Gabrielle says, "Wow. It's a fun feeling." She torches a particularly large
 Deep One. "I want to kil stuff, then go have- well."
Nagisa asks, "We still need to take care of the source of these
 disturbances..." blinks in surprise as Yumi touches his hand, "Yes, my lady?"
Gabrielle glances at yumi.
She kisses his cheek, and then huge quantities of light flow from her into the
 Cup and Nagisa.
Juri of Avalon's expression sobers a little.  "I just hope that the losses were
 not too great on our side."
Shaft lights a cigar and offers all around.
Corrine nods, but is a bit distracted, as she's now taking a trump.
And then the water SURGES out of the city.
Shaft says, "Hoooo.  an'water goes down tha hoooole."
Gabrielle hmmphs. "I could have helped with that if you'd asked."
Those with appropriate senses can smell huge screaming wadges of magic.
Mikage says, "OOC So he walked through the rain and he walked through the mud
 'til he came to a place called The Bucket of Blood... Stagger Lee."
Juri of Avalon takes the cigar from Shaft, draws a long breath on it, then
 blows a large smoke ring and blows several smaller smoke rings through it.
Nagisa's eyes widen in surprise at the power coming from Yumi, "Ahh... my
 lady... the assistance was greatly appreciated..." his voice drops, "But what
 was the kiss for?" He asks shyly.
Ramon takes a cigar from shaft and puffs.
Gideon walks to the edge of the roof and watches, leaving the others to their
 amusements.
Corrine drops the connection.  "Shizumaru!  Nagisa!  The Green Knight Needs
 You!"
Yuriko stares at the retreating water.
Shizumaru turns, and nods. "Take us there."
Autolyca OOC will buy drinks for everyone at Blood Annadil's :)
Gabrielle grabs Nagisa instantly. "I'll take him." *POOF*
Corrine says, "Put a hand on my shoulder, and I'll send us there."
Autolyca OOC Bloody
Nagisa blinks as the moment is suddenly interupted, "NEver a moment's rest...
 take us there-- ack!"
Shizumaru touches Corrine's shoulder.
Shaft notices Yumi's attention to Nagisa, and smiles a slightly envious smile. 
 "Daaang, he's family.  Got tha mack goin'."
Corrine concentrates, and Trumps Hiko.
Yumi acks and falls down as she backlashes as the connection drops.
Shaft blinks and looks around.
Shaft says, "Well. that was interestin."
Yumi says, "Shaft, can you please helpme up?"
Aerianne pages, "[Corrine] Shizumaru, take Hiko's hand.  I'll stay here with
 Juri and the rest." to Akemi, Foxtrot and you.
Shaft says, "but a'course, lady.  He helps Yumi up"
Juri of Avalon sighs and lowers her crossbows.  "Is it over?  Where are needed
 now?"
You page-pose, "Shizumaru nods, and goes through." to Aerianne, Akemi and
 Foxtrot.
Foxtrot stops prodding inn--- guilty authors and says, "He's in bad shape...."
 (to Aerianne, Akemi and you)
Nagisa, you're in the forest with Hiko, thanks to Gabby.
Mikage says, "OOC I know what you can name your kid, Ota."
Shaft says, "OOCly no, not Jackie Lee"
Yuriko says, "Let me contact Tylor." She trumps him.
Corrine sighs, as Shizumaru goes through in a trump shimmer.
Nagisa OOCly says, "Of all the horribly bad timing... -_-"
Shizumaru starts doing what he can with the power of Wood to heal the forest.
Corrine OOCly says, "Sorry, but save GK first, mack on Gaby and Yumi later."
Hiko the Firechilde cradles her lover in her arms.  "He needs help."
There is a flare of lightning, and a very BATTERED TO HELL Makoto appears,
 holding hands with Nanami.
Corrine looks around at all the devestation and whatnot.
Corrine BLINKS.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "WHAAAAAAT?"
Shaft asks, "OOCly this is takin' place in Arden?"
Nagisa kneels down next to Hiko, "I understand..." he offers the cup to the
 Green Knight, "Here... sip."
Corrine -stares-.  "Makoto?  NANAMI?  What HAPPENED?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Nagisa/Hiko/GK/Shiz are in Arden"
Shaft says, "OOCly and corrine."
Shizumaru says, "Leaf, wood, stem, and seed...I give you the strength you need.
 Grow and heal."
Makoto coughs up blood.  "I could use some healing."
Corrine OOCly says, "Corrine's back in Amber."
Corrine OOCly says, "Shizu just used the connection to go through."
Nanami says, "Where's the Cup of Life?"
Shaft says, "OOCly aah"
Corrine nods, and moves over.  "I think I can still have Gaby run a Healing
 Song through..."
Hiko the Firechilde lends whatever strength she can to assist both Nagisa and
 Shizumaru.
Juri of Avalon says, "Nagisa took it off to help the Green Knight."
Prince Makoto doesn't look happy to hear that.  "Someone, healing, anyone?"
Corrine has Gaby perform the Healing Song spell on Makoto and Nanami.
Juri of Avalon moves over to help support Makoto.  "Get him to lie down. 
 That's a start."
Nanami tries to hold him up.  "My spell racks blew up, and..."
Nagisa looks over the green knight's injuries, assessing the full effects of
 letting him quaff from the cup would likely be.
Gabrielle, from Arden, absently tosses a spell over her shoulder as she watches
 Nagisa work.
Gideon glides across the roof, removing a set of cards from his robes. "Sssome
 healing coming up."
Corrine considers, and concentrates.  "Lemme try to get Jessica...." She looks
 up at Gideon, and nods.
You think it would help him a lot.
Hiko the Firechilde caresses the Green Knight's cheek, kissing his forehead.
Juri of Avalon nods.  "Thank you, Gid."  She glances at Nanami, looking oddly
 relieved to see her.  "I wondered what happened to you."
Shizumaru lends power to the forest, and to the Green Knight. Drawing extra
 from Kafuin if need be.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Tell me what happened, love?"
Yumi staggers over to help as well.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Er, should we split off into different rooms?"
Gideon places the cards over the wounds, then activates them. Green light
 shines from them onto the wounds ...
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Let's split to different rooms"
Shizumaru OOCly nods. Off to Arden.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Those in Arden, go to the Arden room"
Nagisa lifts the cup to the Knight's lips, letting him sip...
Arden
Beyond the Wood Door
[Exits: Skippy, Main Room. ]
Contents:  Seamus, Tybalt, Michelle, and Moriya(#1686X).
Moriya has left.
Foxtrot has arrived.
>> A portal opens up and out pops a fox-woman.
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Heh..."
Scriviner teleports into the room.
Scriviner has arrived.
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Tell me what happened, love?"
Nagisa lifts the cup to the Knight's lips, letting him sip...
Nagisa says, "Let him drink first... he can tell his tale once his wounds heal."
Gabrielle watches Nagisa raptly.
The Green Knight says, "Outsiders. Lots of outsiders. And a Walking Man.  I
 tried to stop him."
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "He was here, too?"
Shizumaru nods. "The Walking Man came for us...but the others managed to
 trapped him."
He says, "Nothing could stop him.  It was like I wasn't there."
Nagisa looks concerned, "How's the forest, Shizumaru?"
Shizumaru says, "He walked right across the Pattern of Air, as if it were a
 drawing on the ground."
Hiko the Firechilde whispers words of love and comfort, soothing his brow.
Shizumaru scans the forest.
Gabrielle says, "The Walking Man is one of the most unstoppable of his 1001
 forms, yes." She blinks. "I think."
Nagisa scans the Green Knight to see if he has any lingering aftereffects of
 his injuries...
Autolyca has arrived.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "John, what can I tell about the forest? How's it doing?
 Where's Totoro?"
John says, "OOC The forest needs a lot of help recovering from the Damage. 
 Totoro is working on healing, but it's pretty big forest."
Shizumaru nods. "The forest is badly damaged, but...in time, it will be healed.
 Totoro-dono is doing his part to assist."
Hiko the Firechilde asks, "Who is Totoro-dono?"
Gabrielle looks around. "It'll grow back. Mom tells me that's what these thigns
 do, at least."
Shizumaru smiles. "A dragoncat spirit...the guardian of the Broken Pattern near
 my home. He is the lord of that forest."
Hiko the Firechilde smiles.  "On behalf of my betrothed, we accept your
 assistance."
Hiko the Firechilde looks to see if the GK's injuries have started healing.
Shizumaru continues pouring out energy to heal Arden.
Nagisa smiles at the Green Knight, "Nothing seems to be permanently injured...
 the cup will deal with most of your injuries, but it had to draw on your
 strength to do so... I'd advise much rest."
the Green Knight's wounds close.
He says, "I can gladly sleep, for I know my love will watch over me and my
 forest."  He kisses hiko on the cheek.
Hiko the Firechilde kisses him on the lips.  "Go and aid the rest of Amber... I
 will remain here."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCly  directs hercomments to Shizumaru and Nagisa.
Gabrielle smiles at Hiko and the Green Knight, and bows to him. "I wish you
 well, in the name of your borther and my uncle."
Shizumaru looks at Hiko. "If you are sure...."
Tybalt says, "OOC: Er, father."
Hiko the Firechilde says, "I am sure."
Shizumaru nods. "Just ask trump us if you need us. Gabrielle, bring us back to
 the others."
Nagisa nods to Hiko, "We understand."
Nagisa nods to Shizumaru, then smiles at Gabrielle, "Back into the thick of
 things, it looks like, my Lady."
"No sweat." She spirals open a Trump Gate, grabs Nagisa arm, smiles, and leads
 them through it.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Back to the Main Room?"
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "And if there's not anything else, I'm for
 bed."
Nagisa OOCly nodnods
John says, "OOC Yep.  You can go sleep if you want to, Hiko."
Nagisa OOCly says, "Have fun then, Trish..."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Okay. I can still stay up a little longer, as I'm wired."
Hiko the Firechilde OOCLY says,  "Nighters."
Foxtrot has disconnected.
>> Byeeee!  It was really fun!
Amber Central(#3434RLJ)
You stand in the middle of a huge sound stage, ready for the action to begin,
 but currently devoid of anything but sound and lighting equipment, a gaming
 table, and a snack bar.
[Exits: Arden(A), Out. ]
Contents:  Moriya(#1686X), Rabies, Aerianne, Mist, Mercutio, Rod, Mikaze,
 Akemi, Windir, TimeRunner, Sana_Kurata, Ike Larnum(#3160X), Finn, Naga, and
 Eudial.
Scriviner has arrived.
Moriya has left.
Autolyca has arrived.
Shizumaru appears, looking around...and then stares at Nanami. "Aunt Nanami...I
 thought...you, you were kicked onto the Pattern by...." He trails off, still
 staring.
Yumi kisses Shaft quite firmly.
Shaft . o O (?!??!?!?!?!)
Corrine whoowoooos at Yumi kissing shaft.  She pumps her fist in the air.
Juri of Avalon affectionately noogies Gideon.  "Excuses, excuses."
Shaft's mack gets blown away by the most powerful mack he's ever encountered.
Shizumaru walks over to Nanami, and hesitantly places a hand on her shoulder.
 "Are you...."
Gabrielle beams at Yumi and Shaft, and keeps an arm tossed lazily around Nagisa.
Gideon just smiles.
Shaft blinkblinkblinks, and for once, he actually seems overwhelmed
Juri of Avalon then she grabs Roderick and follows Yumi's lead.
Nanami looks up and says, "It's a pity Annadil didn't check who he kicked in
 the butt more carefully."
Corrine looks at Gabrielle and Shizumaru and Nagisa now being there, and her
 look looks somewhat more worried.  "The green knight.... is he?"
Corrine blinks at Nanami.
She continues, "I didn't go to Tir'na'nog."
Nagisa blinks in surprise at Yumi kissing his cousin Shaft... he feels oddly...
 jealous.
Nagisa says, "Ahh... er..."
Shaft takes Yumi in his arms and the kiss goes on and on and on.....
Corrine blinks at nanmi again.  And laughs.
Nagisa blushes but quickly shakes it off, "The Green Knight merely needs to
 rest."
She continues, "I went to a flawed Pattern and sent a remote puppet of myself
 to Tir'na'nog.  Annadil kicked THAT onto the Pattern."
Corrine lets out a breath.  "Thank the unicorn."
Shizumaru smiles strangely. "Then...who...." He suddenly grabs Nanami in a hug,
 burying his face in her shoulder. "I thought you were dead, Aunt Nanami. I
 thought you were gone."
She blinks in surprise, then hugs Shizumaru.
Gabrielle ponders all the kissing. "what the hell." She grabs Nagisa's hair,
 pulls, and plants.
Corrine OOCly sniffles.  "Aw, mommm."
Roderick kisses Juri like there is no tomorrow. [spoofed by Akemi]
Shaft OOCly tallies one for Nagisa on the mack board.
Corrine hrms.
Nagisa'e eyes open wide in shock!
Corrine tries trumping the Red Knight.
Gideon looks at all the kissing couples and shakes his head, smiling.
Shizumaru is definitely not, however, kissing Nanami. o.o;;;
Nanami says to Shizumaru, "I never realized..."  Her face softens.  "You are a
 true gentleman, my nephew.  A true gentleman."
Nagisa is kind of resisting being kissed, since... um... he's got no idea how
 to do this!
Gabrielle doesn't either. That's why she picked you topractice.
Juri of Avalon finally pulls back from Roderick and glances at Gideon.  "Gid,
 question?  How is the whole family going to respond when I get home and they
 meet my new boyfriend?"
Ramon ambles over to Keiko, grins, and sweeps her into an embrace and kiss.
Gideon smirks. "In most interesting ways. I'll definitely have to send
 something with you when you tell them. I want to see their faces."
Shizumaru draws back, looking up. He is still smiling, but there are tears in
 his eyes. "Though I only met you a few months ago, you are family. And though
 I know others have spoken ill of you, you have done much for Amber. And
 myself."
Nanami kisses Shizumaru on the cheek.  "You have done something very rare." 
 She smiles.
Keiko looks a bit shocked and her eyes flicker to Nanami for a moment, and then
 she simply throws her arms around Ramon's neck and kisses him back.
Gabrielle breaks the kiss, then licks her lips. "Hmm. Not bad. Rather
 refreshing, actually." She grins and pecks Nagisa on the nose. "Maybe mom is
 right about Water."
And then Yuriko yanks, pulling Utena, Wakaba, Tylor, and Vash onto the roof.
Juri of Avalon smiles at Gideon.  "Meri will probably have a fit and start
 muttering about his sandwich."
Corrine OOCly says, "The Pause that Refreshes!"
Shizumaru smiles, and suddenly looks very tired. "I...should rest soon. And
 tomorrow, I can go see Rimururu."
Roderick says, "I am ready for whatever new adventures lie before us, my lady."
 [spoofed by Akemi]
Juri of Avalon claps Shizumaru on the shoulder.  "Why wait for tomorrow?"
Tylor and Yuriko get in on the mob kissing action.
Yumi releases Shaft.
Shaft has a dazed sort of 'wha?' look to his face
Yumi says, "Anthy has your cloak, but I'm sure she'll give it back when you ask
 for it."
Shizumaru blinks, and looks up. "When we last spoke, she was exhausted. She
 needs to rest as well. And I am almost to the point of walking in
 my...sleep..." He shakes his head. "Oh well. As soon as I am done here, I am
 going to go to Frostspire." He grins.
Shaft says, "Cloak... er..... yeah... cloak"
Shaft blinks
The black Moon vanishes out of sight into the Shadow Storm off across the water.
Shaft . o O (Grandad Gendo was one lucky bastard.)
Corrine lets go of whatever trump connection she was in, an almost blissful
 smile on her face, her cheeks flushed.  She giggles, almost schoolgirlishly.
Makoto says, "That Stagger Lee...he's one bad ass."
Juri of Avalon grabs Shizumaru up in a tight embrace, lifting him off the
 ground. "That's the spirit," she whispers into his ear.  She looks a little
 choked up.  "Young love."  Then she sniffles.  "God, I'm such a softie.  It's
 really sad."
Nagisa staggers back a bit from Gabrielle, a burning blush on his cheeks,
 "Ahh... I... um..."
Tylor says, "Well, it looks like this crisis is over."
Shaft just stares off into the sky.  It's such a nice sky.
"He is one bad motherf--cker," Shizumaru intones, perfectly pronouncing the
 dashes.
Corrine says, "Oh yes."
Corrine says, "Once we're all recovered..."
Corrine says, "TEE-SHIRTS for *EVERYONE!*"
Gabrielle pinches Nagisa's cheek playfully. "Red's a good color on you. You're
 much to pale."
Shizumaru gets squashed in Juri's embrace. "Urgh...ha...." He grins, foolishly.
Corrine giggles again.
Tylor says, "And you know what that means."
Juri of Avalon glances at Tylor.  "Party?"
Gideon grins. "Tee-shirts, Corrine? Don't you have enough of them already?"
Nagisa asks, "Erhm... ah... if... that is... I mean... er... excuse me... um...
 does anything more need to be done here?"
Shaft blinks and realizes something.  "Oh, er, Yumi.... hey.... x'actly what
 was you'n the leather knight talkin' about when y'all hit the hot springs?"
Tylor says, "It's time for us to go back to what's left of the castle and
 PARTY!!!!!"
Yumi winks at Shaft.  "You'll find out soon enough."
Corrine hehs a bit.  "Might wanna wait for the Golden Circle and Lava Circle to
 tone down.... ehhhhh, what the fuck."
Shaft blinks very slowly. again
Shizumaru pulls out his trump of Rimururu and tries it. Maybe she's too wired
 to sleep right now. Can't hurt to try.
Shaft stares at the sky.  Yeah. Beautiful sky.
The stars shine down from a cloudless sky.
Tir'na'nogth hovers overhead.
Corrine watches the Black Moon leave, and sticks her tounge out at it.  She
 looks up again.
Corrine says, "Good Unicorn, what a wonderful universe we live in."
Gabrielle says, "PARTY!" She guestures grandly, and fireworks burst out all
 acorss the city in a variety of colors.
And across the sky, five unicorns dance in a circle
Corrine blinks at the unicorns.
Nagisa smiles weakly, "If... that's all for now... I think I'd best call
 home... mother will be worried. "
Juri of Avalon cheers and puts Shizumaru down, then goes over to Shaft and
 tightly grips his forearm.  "Fine job," she says huskily.  "You all did
 brilliantly.  You're worthy to be your mother's son."
Leaving streamers behind them, they slowly dance out a great circle in the sky.
Shaft puffs away at his cigar, frazzled, bedazzled, but feeling pretty okay.
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Is Rimu awake? Oh, please, let her be. :)"
Utena comes over to Shaft as well.  "Good job, son."
Shaft exclaims, "PAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTY!!!!!!"
Nagisa staggers away before he can be dragged into a party...
Nagisa tries to, anyway...
Tylor opens a Pattern Gate with the Eye of Metal, right to the Party Chambers
 he put together in the Dungeons.  "Okay, let's go!"
Shaft hugs his mom, spinning her around, then shouts for the Funk Fleet to go
 to Party Mode
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Where are you going, Nagisa?"
The Funk Fleet turn on the speakers, and 'Electric Avenue' echoes across the
 land.
Gabrielle watches him go, and surreptitiously marks him by burning a 'G' run
 into the hem of his shirt.
Corrine glances at Tylor.  "You think of -everything-, don'tcha?"
Corrine grins, despite it all.
Nagisa OOCly says, "Gonna talk quickly to Miki and Kozue... then I'm contacting
 Ambre."
Tylor says, "That's why it's GOOD TO BE THE KING!"  He picks up Yuriko and
 spins her around as she laughs.
Juri of Avalon grabs Roderick and steps through after Tylor and Yuriko.
Roderick steps through laughing. [spoofed by Akemi]
Nagisa smiles at the merriment going on around him and nods, "So much like
 home... just... far more violent."
Yumi grabs Nagisa's hands.  "You.  Party.  Now."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "If Rimu doesn't answer, I trump to Frostspire, go wake
 her up, and grab her for the party. Unless she really doesn't want to. :)"
Nagisa erhms at Yumi, "But I'd've thought you were taking Shaft with you
 already, my lady..."
Gabrielle grabs Nagisa as well, and shoots yumi a look. "Yes. Lets all go to
 the party."
Akemi pages, "She answers in her pajamas.  "Shizumaru?"" to you.
Nagisa is still blushing furiously.
Yumi says, "Oh, Shaft is taken, but I wanted one good kiss before he gets
 married and it's REALLY too late."
You page-pose, "Shizumaru grins broadly. "We won. We stopped Annadil. And we
 are having a party. Come on!" He reaches a hand out." to Akemi.
Corrine giggles again.  She glances at Gideon.  "Well.  I'm reluctant to bring
 my beau down here until I know Ember's safe... so, care to go to the Party
 together?  At least one dance?"
Shaft calls for most of the crew of the Funk Fleet to come on down and party. 
 massive droves of supermodel-esque women in futuristic silver suits come down
 and they start a mambo line
Shizumaru pulls a pajama-clad Rimururu out of the air.  She looks mildly
 surprised. [spoofed by Akemi]
Nagisa asks, "Er... but... that is... well... um..." he looks from one to the
 other then shrugs, "Well... if two such lovely ladies insist... I certainly
 could not say no, can I? "
Corrine says, "Rest assured, I'm gonna get him down here ASAP once I DO
 know..." She grins.
Juri of Avalon eyes the Funk Fleet crew speculatively, then notices Roderick's
 look, coughs, and looks away.
Yumi grins.  "Of course you can't."
Nagisa . o O ( I suppose mother would understand... )
Gideon hms. "I'm not exactly a party person, Corrine. But okay."
Shizumaru sweeps Rimururu up into his arms, kisses her, and then takes her
 along toward the party.
Roderick laughs.  "Come on, Juri.  Let's DANCE!" [spoofed by Akemi]
Nagisa tries to compose himself properly as he heads to the party, Yumi on one
 arm, Gabrielle on the other.
And y'all party until you collapse.
Gabrielle grins lopsidedly.
Corrine nods.  "Thanks, Gideon.  you can duck out once I get Carl down here."
 She offers her arm.
Juri of Avalon glances at Gideon.  "No, you have to come.  You spent the last
 party to celebrate the universe being saved as a talking painting, you're not
 missing this one."
Juri of Avalon smiles happily and dances with Roderick.
Crazed DM-chan asks, "OOC Do we want to keep going or cut here?"
Shaft shrugs
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I'm good either way, but I know it's late for some
 folk."
Corrine OOCly says, "Well, we're missing Trisha and TR, so I think here's a
 good cut."
Shaft says, "I'm good to go till 4am"
Corrine OOCly says, "Finish on an upbeat."
Nagisa OOCly says, "I'll need to log off in an hour or so."
Shizumaru OOCly laughs. I'm still nicely awake, but I suppose we can stop now.
Corrine OOCly says, "We did it.  We frigging down to the wire DID it."
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Yes. o.o"
Gabrielle says, "OOC: Oh, an hours more than enough time, Child of Water. *eg*"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I think we should cut and use this time for y'all to
 ask me any questions you like :)"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC And just sort of wind down."
Corrine OOCly Yesy!
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  I would be happy to RP the party for a while, or
 pummel John with questions.  :)"
Stagger Lee OOCly says, "Ayup. Not too bad."
Corrine OOCly says, "Pummel!  Pummel!"
Shaft exclaims, "OKAAAY! OMAKE! OMAKE!  Time to find out what we could have
 done better!"
Nagisa OOCly says, "Pummel!"
Gabrielle exclaims, "Pummel!"
*** Aerianne goes OOC. ***
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC I would like to RP the party, but it is getting late,
 and I want time for y'all to ask me stuff :)"
Shizumaru OOCly says, "Any particularly big mistakes?"
*** Shizumaru goes OOC. ***
Stagger Lee OOCly says, "As I don't think any major NPCs died."
*** Scriviner goes OOC. ***
Corrine OOCly says, "We can RP the party some other night."
*** Akemi goes OOC. ***
Nagisa nodnods.
Shizumaru says, "Well...I really should have had Haohmaru brain-scrubbed, I
 know that. >.<"
Gabrielle says, "I dunno, I kinda thought Nanami was a cop-out."
Shizumaru says, "It's not a cop-out if John had it planned from the beginning."
Corrine OOCly says, "Dunno on the Ember side, as once again Corrine's
 bodyguards kinda get caught in the crossfire.. but.. *shrug*"
Crazed DM-chan says, "I planned Nanami that way from the start."
Nagisa says, "We couldn't have Nanami die! O.o"
Gabrielle says, "Ah. Okay then."
Corrine says, "And nanami's a sneaky biatch."
Crazed DM-chan says, "As Phil said."
Shizumaru nods. :)
Juri of Avalon says, "Thank god.  :)"
Gideon says, "It makes sense, sending a puppet in place of oneself."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC As it related to Nanami and Makoto's secret plans"
Autolyca asks, "Come on, did you really believe Nanami would put herself at
 risk of physical harm?"
Shizumaru says, "As I said, not Phil. :)"
Nagisa OOCly says, "Looks like I won't be able to ask too many questions. I
 need to call someone, scuse me..."
Shizumaru says, "Later, Scriv."
Crazed DM-chan exclaims, "OOC Okay, Scriv!  Glad we had ya!"
Shaft's eyes widen. "JOHN! WHERE'S LOWEN'S WEAPONS?!??!?"
Corrine waves to Scriv.  "Vive La Elements!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Gone now, Rod."
Shaft exclaims, "Oh shit!"
Shaft exclaims, "Damn!"
Gabrielle says, "Hey John, s'plain Satgger Lee."
Stagger Lee says, "Heheheh."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Stagger Lee is a bad ass mo-fo."
Autolyca says, "Please excuse John, he grew up in Texas"
Nagisa grins and waves, "Wish me luck. ;) She needs someone to talk to..."
Autolyca says, "They listen to *shudder* folk songs"
Stagger Lee says, " Stagger Lee was actually..."
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Good luck, Nagisa! :)"
Corrine says, "I would like to state for the record, Kanna (imo) will likely
 get concieved tonight.  Or at least in the next few months. *wg*"
Shizumaru exclaims, "WOTAN!"
Stagger Lee says, "...Makoto."
Shizumaru says, "..."
Corrine BLINKS.
Corrine asks, "Bwaaaaaa?"
Stagger Lee says, "Who John gave to me to run."
Shizumaru asks, "He got possessed by Stagger Lee's spirit or something?"
Corrine says, "Oh Man."
Gabrielle says, "Daaaaaaaaamn."
Juri of Avalon suspects there will be a lot of next-gen children being born
 around the same time within the next nine months.  :)
Crazed DM-chan says, "Ya got that right, Juri :)"
Corrine says, "Well, yes. :)"
Shaft says, "you are all formally invited to the most violent wedding of the
 century  -  Ota Tenjou, Kasumi Tendo^2"
Stagger Lee says, "I used his control of the vaults to go to Cafam, do a
 shopping spree for the gun and the hat and the car and the bullets, and then
 rode in to save your asses."
Autolyca says, "Well, not Hiko's kid, given the GK's state"
Juri of Avalon says, "OOC:  Hiko's already pregnant, though."
Corrine says, "Well, Hiko's already conceived."
Autolyca says, "Ah. Missed that memo :)"
Gabrielle says, "I thought you were Touga, mike. But still, cool."
Shaft blinks
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Yep.  Hiko's already preggers :)"
Shizumaru says, "And Rimururu's still got her oath of celibacy. :)"
Shaft asks, "Cafam?"
Shaft asks, "He got hte guns at cafam?"
Corrine says, "The store."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Yep."
Gabrielle says, "Cafam has everything."
Shaft notes that as a destination for Shaft
Crazed DM-chan says, "The store which no one but Mike actually USED :)"
Shizumaru says, "Never really had a chance to go there. n.n;;"
Corrine says, "Well, nobody wanted to RP running through a -store-, I think. :)"
Gabrielle says, "Cafam isn't just a STORE."
Stagger Lee says, "The bullet Annadil got hit with was 8-point Force Weapon,
 8-point Magic Sink, silver, AND had an Elder Sign innit."
Corrine exclaims, "It's an ADVENTURE!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "As Phil said :)"
Shizumaru says, "Owwwww."
Gabrielle says, "You have to hire mule trains and small armies to get to the
 good stuff in the back."
Corrine says, "-that's- a gun."
Corrine exclaims, "It's like the Mall in the Complex!  Whee!"
Stagger Lee says, "It crimped his style somewhat. No magic, no shapeshift, no
 outsidery goodness for him. :0"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Now you know where Makoto's been off screen all this time
 :)"
Shizumaru says, "Yeah. o.o"
Corrine says, "He's the man with the Shopping Know-How."
Shaft asks, "hey john, was the cowfucker's weapons anything special?"
Gabrielle says, "We also, thanks to your tongeu-slip,know about Makoto
 andNanami's extremely SPECIAL relationship."
Shizumaru says, "The Hackmaster +12 sword? :)"
Shaft says, "..."
Shaft exclaims, "PLUS 12?!??!??!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "After she faked her death, Nanami rode invisibily in
 Stagger Lee's truck with him."
Corrine says, "Eh, 1) I knew that from way before, and 2) the Serpent
 Prophesies SAY as much."
Crazed DM-chan says, "El Ravager had an 8 point Force Weapon with 4 point
 Damage Resisistance."
Stagger Lee says, "The beautiful part was that Makoto already had Amber-working
 gunpowder, a badass gun, and a habit for shapeshifting and impersonating
 people."
Shaft cries
Shaft cries and cries and cries
Shizumaru says, "Bah, Rod, you've got a Patternblade and a Logrusfoil already.
 :>"
Shaft exclaims, "shaddup you ingrate, I gave you one!"
Gabrielle asks, "Liek when Makoto kept pretending to be Gendo's ghost for no
 discernable reason?"
Shizumaru says, "And I thank you for it. :) You don't need the Hackmaster, is
 all I'm saying."
Shaft says, "must have more kool toyz! *.*"
Stagger Lee says, "Ayup."
Shizumaru says, "Well...okay. :)"
Shizumaru says, "Oh, John, the Logrusfoil I got. Which one was it, and what can
 it do? :)"
Shaft exclaims, "the hackmaster's for my little girl, darnit!"
Corrine remembers that Throne War fondly, and all the reactions of things
 aftereards.
Stagger Lee says, "He had a reason this time... he figured everyone would
 assume him to be Gendo, or some Entity of Elder Power, or etc."
Corrine does the HappyDance!
Crazed DM-chan says, "Will tell you later, Shiz, as I have to figure uot myself
 which one you got :)"
Shizumaru says, "Okay. :)"
Gabrielle says, "Well, we DID."
Gabrielle says, "I thought he was Dr.F."
Shaft asks, "wait.... vash was merely.... vash?"
Gabrielle says, "Speaking of whom...."
Corrine says, "Mokoto is cool.  Makoto is smart.  Makoto gets many fun
 presents."
Crazed DM-chan says, "If Vash is anything but Vash, he failed to reveal any
 'Not-Vashness'"
Autolyca says, "Hey, John, can we have another throne war so we can destroy
 Amber like KUGAR did? We want to see the other side of saving the world now.
 ;)"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Hehe :)"
Shaft says, "okay ,john, how could the game have been finished _quickly_"
Corrine says, "That could be amusing, yes."
Shaft says, "as you suggested it could have"
TimeRunner has connected.
>> TimeRunner's Analogue suddenly comes to life.
Corrine exclaims, "Oy, TR!  We saved the Universe!"
Shizumaru says, "If I'd grabbed Davros, we could have discovered that Gil-Galad
 was Annadil much sooner."
Mikage says, "OOC Argh..."
Autolyca says, "And all they got was a lousy t-shirt."
Mikage says, "OOC Never finished my scene..."
Shaft says, "weren't you doing shapeshift scanning all the time? O.o"
Corrine says, "It's a spiffy T-shirt, though."
Crazed DM-chan says, "If you had discovered Gil was Annadil earlier, you could
 have detected him."
Shizumaru says, "My psyche wasn't high enough to break his Exalted
 Shapeshifting."
Shaft says, "aaah."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Unfortunately, a point item plus low psyche is not enough
 to break Exalted Shapeshifting"
Shaft says, "so it's a case of peanut psyche failure"
Gabrielle asks, "John, Gil-Galad was dead for a very, very long time, right?"
Autolyca says, "Hey, don't feel bad. Annadil's psyche had Derith running
 scared."
Crazed DM-chan says, "If Drew had given the sword to someone WITH
 shapeshifting, they could have detected Annadil"
Gabrielle asks, "It was just Annadil having Possesed his body?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Gil-Galad was dead for centuries, yes."
Shaft says, "..."
Corrine le-sighs.
Shaft chalks up another Mistake
Crazed DM-chan says, "Or to someone with high psyche"
Shaft says, "I shoulda let Gil rot."
Gabrielle says, "good. I'd feel bad if he was in the back of Annadils head the
 whole time, and was now trapped outside."
Stagger Lee says, "Night folks."
Corrine exclaims, "Night, Mike!"
Shizumaru waves.
Gabrielle says, "night, Mike."
Juri of Avalon says, "Night, Mike, you bad-ass motherf'cker."
Shaft says, "the only good thing about rescuing Gil is that the elves Love me"
Mist has disconnected.
Mikage says, "Night, Loader."
Mikage says, "Missed."
Shaft says, "though now that shafty's married, that's useless"
Somewhere on the muck, Mike has disconnected.
Crazed DM-chan says, "Not necessarily.   Having Elven friends is always useful."
Gabrielle asks, "Won't a lot of the Elves of Arden be migrating back home?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Some will."
Corrine says, "I'd think they'd have gone native at this point."
Corrine says, "Some might, some prolly won't."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Many of them have gone native, as Corrine said."
Corrine pauses.  "But that's Hiko's job, now!"
Shizumaru says, "Oh, John, Shizumaru's going to ask Nanami to give Haohmaru a
 brainscrub, now."
Corrine says, "Corrine is SO handing over the reins of the Wardenship to Hiko
 now."
Mikage smacks his cable modem. "Damn it! How dare you conk out on me!"
Shizumaru says, "Or whenever she has time."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Nanami will happily brain scrub you."
Corrine piles guilt on Corrine.  Corrine thwaps back.
Mikage asks, "Wait. Nanami's not dead?"
Shizumaru says, "Not me, Haohmaru. :)"
Gabrielle says, "Nope."
Mikage asks, "Fake Nanami, huh?"
Corrine says, "Nope."
Corrine says, "Yup."
Shizumaru nods.
Mikage says, "Figured."
Corrine says, "And the myusterious truck driver was...."
Corrine says, ".... Makoto."
Gabrielle says, "John, fairly involved question...."
Shaft has to get revenge on Nanami for this crazy 'pretty princess makeup
 power' shyet.
Gabrielle says, "Everybody's exact parentage."
Shizumaru says, "Makoto shapeshifted into Stagger Lee and brought all his nice
 toys from Cafam. :)"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Okay, I can reveal most of the parentage, although since
 Shiz wants to find his mother, his will remain secret"
Scriviner has disconnected.
Shizumaru nods.
Corrine OOCly nods.
Shizumaru says, "One of my epilogues."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Utena + Annadil as John Shaft = Ota"
Mikage says, "Oh please oh please... Never mind."
Mikage ^^;
Mikage exclaims, "Shaft's your daddy!"
Autolyca says, "'A footnote in the histories of Amber noted that later a '28
 Ford was found in the stables of Prince Makoto and there was much hurting. How
 much hurting? Deep hurting.'"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Annadil using funky shapeshifting to steal material from
 Miki and adding his own + Kozue = Nagisa.  So Nagisa had Three parents :)"
Corrine wants to help Shizu find his mom once things settle down.  And check up
 on 'Eowyn'.  And hand over the wardenship to Hiko.  And get a patternghost of
 sis up to tell her what happened.  And say goodbye to Juri of Avalon, etc,
 when they head out.
Shizumaru says, "Yep, thought so."
Gabrielle exclaims, "So THAT ecplains why Nagisa has 1/3rd Chaos Blood!"
Corrine says, "Man, talk about elaborate."
Shizumaru says, "I called it, didn't I? :)"
Mikage says, "Whoo."
Shaft says, "same here"
Annadil/Gil-Galad + A girlfriend of his = Mikage.  Plus a Fast Time shadow to
 let him live a long time :)
Shaft hi-fives Droo
Mikage says, "Bloody brilliant."
Shizumaru says, "Aw, how boring. :)"
Annadil as Ludovicus + Amber-Juri = Hiko
Corrine says, "Cute."
Autolyca adds a line to the Evil Overlord List: "No matter how much fun it is,
 I will not father the Children who will utterly trounce my ass on the Pattern
 in Tir-na Nog'th."
Corrine snrks.
Gabrielle says, "Sorry, Mikage. You'lljust have to sleep with Anthy, even
 though she's not related to you."
Mikage says, "I have boring a parentage."
Corrine goes and starts updating the family tree.
Crazed DM-chan says, "OOC Anthy is his Aunt."
Mikage says, "I have a boring parentage."
Juri of Avalon says, "Juri intends to get roaringly drunk at the party, say
 tearful goodbyes to various people, and then go home with Gideon to whatever
 enormous crisis is currently gripping Avalon.  :)"
Gabrielle says, "Oh yeah. Hey, she's still your aunt."
Juri of Avalon says, "Dragging Roderick with her, of course."
Mikage says, "I know. Guess where Mikage is at this moment."
Juri of Avalon says, "And when she gets home, I will probably _finally_ get to
 retire her.  :)"
Corrine says, "Well, I suspect it'll be several days or more BEFORE she can get
 back to heading to Avalon. *wl*"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Roderick wants to meet Horatio, to see what he's like :)"
Shizumaru says, "Ugh. I'd best sleep. o.o;"
Mikage grins evilly.
Corrine exclaims, "Nooooo!!  Kanna needs to chat with Other Aunt Juri!"
Juri of Avalon says, "Juri will definitely visit when she can, assuming a means
 can be found."
Autolyca says, "Set Kanna to finding the FIRST Aunt Juri"
Gabrielle says, "Well, Gabrielle now knows how to open TransUniversal Trump
 Gates, thanks to Mori."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Mike wants the Avalonites back soon, so once we probably
 do an epilogue or two with her, she'll be heading home."
Gabrielle says, "She CAN'T open them, but she knows HOW."
Corrine says, "Not to mention the open-offer to help Juri in Avalon should she
 ever need it."
Corrine nods. "Oh, I can deal with that."
Mikage asks, "Bidding tomorrow?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Tomorrow, at 8 pm my time, 9 pm East Coast, 10 AM in
 Manila, we do the nextgen auction"
Gabrielle asks, "You playing the get of Mikage and Anthy, TR?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "If it lasts this long, I will kill myself :)"
Shizumaru says, "Excellent."
Mikage says, "Er... ^^;"
Shizumaru says, "Hm. I may invest a background package with Nanami. :)"
Crazed DM-chan says, "We will then spend this next week doing TAMD epilogues"
Shaft says, "fine with me"
Corrine exclaims, "Yay!"
Mikage says, "I want my epilogue! I was in Anthy's bedchamber, sitting on her
 be next to her when... oops. ^^;"
Shizumaru says, "Oh, I can't game next weekend, as that's when the GMAT's
 coming up. Monday, the 26th. x.x; But during the weekday evenings, that'll
 work."
Corrine puts a little (d) on the entry for Annadil.
Mikage says, "...when my cable service went out. ^^;"
Autolyca asks, "But IS he dead?"
Gabrielle says, "Pity about Mamiya."
Mikage says, "Nope. He's just Outside."
Corrine says, "Well, okay, I admit, we don't KNOW that."
Autolyca says, "He's a villain. THey don't die :)"
Corrine says, "Pfeh."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Heh."
Shaft says, "Mikage's gonna die o.o"
Shaft says, "the universe is saved. prophecies are met.  mikage can die o.o"
Shizumaru says, "Well, he was in much pain, and was getting slapped around by
 Setsuna."
Gabrielle says, "Hey, Shaft. Your grandmother is ALSO your aunt."
Corrine says, "No, no, Mikage is cool."
Corrine says, "Corrine and Mikage need to play at people's weddings."
Autolyca says, "Yes, but Setsuna can be a very, very stone-cold bitch. She
 won't kill him quickly ;)"
Shaft says, "okay, Mikage is gonna get Throttled o.o"
Shizumaru says, "Anyway, I'm off. Continuing to log the chatter and all."
Crazed DM-chan says, "I will also be spending this week working on updating the
 website for the 40 years later Next Gen status quo."
Shaft says, "Mikage is gonna so get Throttled"
Mikage says, "You've already headbutted me, what more do you want? ^^;"
Shaft exclaims, "dual!"
Corrine says, "Ahh, so it's 40 years since this?  Cool."
Shaft says, "or can i just drop mikage into a whirlpool ;)"
Juri of Avalon says, "Later, Andrew."
Corrine exclaims, "Later, droo!"
Corrine hands Droo a T-Shirt.
Gabrielle asks, "John, who's Abyss Sub was that what crashed into Cthulhu?"
Corrine asks, "Hm... you gonna leave the existing TAMD pages as is to mark the
 end of this?"
Mikage says, "Bye Droo."
Corrine says, "Since it'd be a nice historical record."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Mamiya built it on the advice of some Abyss monks who
 forgot to tell him he needed to make sure it could fly in Amber...:)"
Corrine exclaims, "... D'oh!"
Autolyca says, "Poor Anandil, trapped forever in the Outside with a woman who's
 idea of fun is fashion designing, and they don't get cable"
Gabrielle says, "Yeah, that bit Demmy on the ass to."
Mikage asks, "Aw, c'mon. This is amber, and they're related. What do YOU think
 they'll be doing for the rest of eternity?"
Corrine says, "Hmmm... 40 years.  Lots of stuff Kanna can do in 40 years. 
 Moreso if one plunks in Fast Time."
Autolyca says, "See, the Outsiders just want in so they can get HBO"
Autolyca says, "And ESPN"
Gabrielle asks, "And Cinemax?"
Mikage says, "Bleah."
Autolyca says, "All they can get is C-SPAN"
Mikage says, "Double bleah."
Corrine says, "Well, that'd tick off anyone."
Mikage says, "I'll still be working on Mikage's Tir-na'nog Trump Deck, even
 though the game is done."
Crazed DM-chan cracks knuckles and begins plotting fresh evil.
Corrine hehs.  Still churning through Corrine's deck.
Shaft asks, "wait, the nextgen is 40 years down the line?"
Mikage says, "I thought Mutsumi failed the Ohtori Exam because she didn't write
 her name. ^^;"
Corrine says, "Debating wether or not the nexgen folks should be in Corrine's
 deck, or Gaby's."
Corrine says, "Though Kanna's in Gaby's.  Gaby's will also have Ember staff
 folks, etc."
Mikage exclaims, "Waaaaah! So close! Stupid cable!"
Corrine patpats.
Gabrielle wonders if Gabby will be Shinobu Minors mother.
Corrine says, "That would be.... well... "
Gabrielle asks, "Freakish?"
Mikage says, "If it's Yumi, there's going to be trouble."
Corrine exclaims, "Dammit, Corrine's too YOUNG to have Grandkids yet!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "the Next gen is 40 years down the line, yes"
Kanna just -stares- at her mom.
Crazed DM-chan says, "IT's going to take quite a while to rebuild."
Autolyca says, "Yeah. Kanna and Sumire need to get cracking on the grandkids :)"
Corrine can imagine it, yeah.
Shaft says, "hn."
Kanna ponders shoving Autolyca somewhere where it would hurt.  Lots.
Corrine says, "Hm.  Ember's likely gonna help lots on the rebuild, if it hasn't
 been TOO seriously pounded."
Autolyca says, "Well, it's unlikely that it was burned to the ground. "
Corrine says, "Well, there was a lot of Lava Circle stuff and a Chaos Black
 Fleet coming in last she checked.  But now that the universe is saved, that
 can be more addressed."
Crazed DM-chan nods
Finn says, "Poor Amber.  Kolvir is practically gone."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Most of Annadil's forces will collapse with him gone, no
 longer uniting them."
Corrine says, "we can build Kolvir again.  Better.  Stronger.  Faster."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Heh.  Tylor will have to spend a lot of time fixing
 Kolvir with the Eye of Metal."
Gabrielle asks, "Will he add in waterslides?"
Corrine says, "Given this is Tylor."
Autolyca says, "Or he'll have to get the Mint to redo all those coins with
 Kolvir profiled on it"
Mikage says, "I'll take care of TIr-na-'nog."
Corrine says, "The steps need to be rebuilt, too."
Shaft says, "okay,if it's 40 years later, I need to do some re-calculating"
Crazed DM-chan asks, "Because Jacqui will be older than you expected, Rod?"
Shaft says, "because Jacuqeline appears younger than the usual stop-at-25
 appearance"
Corrine says, "Kanna looks as she is, darnit. :)"
Shaft says, "unless you can attribute the particularly mysterious episode in
 Jacqueline's life to a slow shadow"
Crazed DM-chan says, "I'd say we can do that, Shaft"
Autolyca says, "Tir-na Nog'th. It's spelled Tir-na Nog'th. Don't encourage John
 to keep misspelling it! I had enough trouble convincing him to spell
 Millennium correctly! :)"
Shaft says, "cool. everything stays :)"
Crazed DM-chan says, "That way you don't have to change anything for the
 timespan I chose."
Shaft exclaims, "wooho!"
Gabrielle says, "Hey, i always speel it right."
Shaft blinks
Gabrielle says, "And i misspell EVERYTHING."
Shaft exclaims, "DOOOOH!  I NEVER GOT TO USE GIDEON'S GUNS!"
Autolyca says, "The fact that you misspelled "spell" doesn't encourage me, Gab"
Shaft exclaims, "and the armor.... THE ARMOR!  Shizumaru has MY armor!"
Autolyca says, "Well, Rod, Shaft will just have to spend more points on items"
Shaft exclaims, "aaaaaaaagh!"
Tybalt has arrived.
Mercutio has left.
Autolyca says, "All you need is to accept LOTS of bad stuff"
Shaft says, "bad stuff."
Shaft says, "you bein' a smartass? O.o"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Since Shaft will be retiring soon, it wouldn't be worth
 it"
Autolyca says, "Who, me? :)"
Shaft says, "i take that as a yes :P"
Tybalt says, "I need to kick Mike into letting me have another run at Horatio
 sometime."
Crazed DM-chan says, "As Shaft will be into Good Stuff after all this :)"
Corrine hums "Hail To The Queen."
Mikage says, "Mmm, yes, hail to the queen."
Shaft says, "glad i never got scenes with the queen alone.  personally i think
 Yuriko's saxxy H.H"
Shaft says, "and macking on the queen, well, hey, that can't be good."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Yuriko's a babe :)"
Tybalt asks, "Y'know, by now, shouldn't the Court be grumbling a bit about
 Yuriko's failure to produce an heri?"
Autolyca says, "Hey, Shaft... which Kasumi is gonna be your first wife and
 which is the second? :)"
Tybalt says, "Royal Courts tend to do that."
Corrine says, "Corrine's got one 'heir', and will soon be working on the second
 one."
Corrine says, "Which should nicely SHUT UP any remaining folks who say Gaby
 couldn't take over if Corrine and Catherine bought it. :)"
Shaft says, "they both my wife. deal wid it. "
Autolyca says, "Yeah, Phil, but Ember might question the legitimacy of
 Gabrielle. The idea of a construct on the throne might not sit well with the
 nobles. They may prefer Kanna"
Tybalt says, "My standard responce to those people invovles hot, hot flames."
Corrine says, "Well, yeah."
Shaft says, "Gabrielle the First - Construct Queen"
Corrine says, "But for what it's worth, I don't see Gaby or Kanna particularly
 WANTING the throne. *wl*"
Corrine says, "That's why Catherine's first in succession, since she's got the
 blipping -experience-."
Autolyca says, "Tough. They don't have a choice in that matter"
Tybalt says, "If Corrine ever died (God forbid) Gabby would be all over that
 throne like white on rice."
Mikage says, "Oooh, boy, I wonder who my next character's mother is going to
 be... ^^;"
Corrine says, "Ahhh."
Shaft says, "I hope they don't expect jaqueline to be the sherrif of the ward
 of the dead unicorn o.o"
Corrine says, "Well, I can safely say after this Corrine's going to try and
 have a nice, long, stable, etc, reign.  "
Corrine exclaims, "This being an Amber DRPG, we'll see how long THAT lasts,
 but!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Heh."
Autolyca asks, "Hey, John... did Derith's Blood Curse help any tonight?"
Tybalt says, "Gabrielle will have a lovely future of assisting her
 yet-to-be-determined new best friend."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Extra Bad Stuff for Annadil is always a good thing."
Corrine says, "Kanna, well... she'll be growing up, training, pracitcing,
 sparring, and other stuff.  I think buying the Ramon package will be pretty
 much a lock for her."
Autolyca says, "Remember, #1 rule of Amber. If you're gonna die, make sure they
 don't enjoy their victory"
Shaft snaps up the Yumi package o.o
Juri of Avalon says, "What about Keiko, Merc?  Don't they have sleepovers
 together?  ^_^"
Shaft asks, "hey, can i  name Yumi the godmother?"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Sure thing, Shaft. She'd be honored."
Corrine says, "And Kanna'll be looking up to Big Sis Gaby..."
Corrine says, "Oh, right."
Shaft exclaims, "woohoo!"
Tybalt says, "Yes, yes they do. And they braid each others hair and have
 s'mores while comparing their lovers."
Mikage says, "Oooo."
Corrine says, "Since doubtful we'll get to play through this, Alan...."
Corrine says, "At Kanna's christening, wether or not Juri of Av gets to -be-
 there...."
Tybalt says, "Alan will probably be playing Motoko."
Corrine says, ".. Kanna's full, legal name is 'Kanna Darako Kusanagi'"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Yep.  Alan will sometimes run Motoko  when she is needed."
Crazed DM-chan says, "If he ever finishes developing her sword-magic, anyway :)"
Tybalt says, "I thought you were ging with 'Kanna Darako d'Embrelle.'"
Corrine says, "'it flips."
Juri of Avalon says, "John, when exactly are you planning to start this
 next-gen?  Next week or something?  :)"
Corrine says, "I think the last name gets cycled depending on the alias she
 needs. ^_^"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Next Gen will start once I wrap up the TAMD epilogues"
Corrine says, "And KDK flows off the tounge better."
Shaft says, "Jacqueline Stagger Inverse Tendo Tenjoiu"
Shaft says, "no. too long"
Crazed DM-chan says, "I would LIKE to finish the TAMD epilogues by a week or so
 from now."
Juri of Avalon says, "Geezy creezy.  That's fast.  I'll hurry up on it.  :)"
Finn says, "If you want, I'll assist, Alan."
Corrine says, "(since Kusanagi was the family name of Harold Kusanagi, whom the
 Red Knight was templated off of. )"
Shaft says, "Jacqueline Lina Lee Tendo Tenjou.    hn."
Shaft says, "frig it."
Crazed DM-chan says, "When Unicorn no Seishi starts also depends on how fast I
 can adjust the setting pages to new conditions."
Autolyca shrugs. "Just one name was good enough for Derith, it's good enough
 for Lucien. :)"
Corrine says, "Copy and edit.  Like keeping the old ones around for historical
 fun."
Juri of Avalon says, "I really just need to write stuff down, Dan, but thankee."
Corrine says, "Eh, Kanna goes around with 'Kanna', anyway."
Corrine says, "The Full Name gets dragged out when Mom's a bit ticked at her
 daughter."
Shaft says, "heh"
Mikage asks, "Well, it all depends on how the bidding goes. How many points?"
Shaft says, "as all mothers do to their daughters"
Corrine says, "'KANNA DARAKO KUSANAGI!' 'Oh shit mom's pissed.'"
Tybalt says, "I took a last name for Horatio because I thought it wouldbe
 funny, and it ended up getting me Bleys as a father."
Shaft says, "much to Kasumi's horror, Jacqueline acquires, from her father, the
 nickname 'Jack'"
Crazed DM-chan says, "125 points"
Crazed DM-chan says, "It's all on the webpage.
 http://www.dkcomm.net/rhea/AmberRPG/UnicornSeishi/charcreation.html"
Juri of Avalon says, "I think Mike probably planned it that way from the
 beginning.  Your choice of name was just fortuitous.  :)"
Tybalt says, "Yeah. Although i still find it freaky that I picked Rodericks
 colors."
Tybalt says, "That still weirds me out."
Mikage says, "125? ^^;"
Tybalt says, "125, plus thirty contrib, plus free Pattern or free Logrus."
Corrine says, "Not that it matters at this point... but what points we get
 outta this? :) "
Tybalt says, "go nuts."
Mikage exclaims, "Free Pattern!"
Corrine says, "Or Free Logrus if you pay for the shapeshifting."
Shaft says, "we get annadil plushies."
Crazed DM-chan says, "30 points"
Corrine whistles.
Shaft exclaims, "Yes! Free from the Bad Stuff!"
Shaft exclaims, "Free! Free!"
Crazed DM-chan says, "Shaft will be up to a comfy 10 Good Stuff for Next Gen :)"
Shaft exclaims, "Shaft has his Mack Back!"
Mikage says, "30 pts? Well, well."
Shaft sings o/~ Re-tuuurn of the mack!   Re-tuuuuurn of the mack!   Ya know
 that I'll be back! o/~
Juri of Avalon says, "Hrm.  Juri would probably put most of that into Warfare,
 in the hopes of being able to ownz the real Benedict when she gets home.  :)"
Juri of Avalon says, "Oh!  That's the one thing I would really like to know,
 but know I probably can't, since she'll be back in Rake at some point--just
 what Juri's final stats were.  :)"
Shaft asks, "john? what was the official tally for my absolute worst Bad Stuff?"
Corrine chuckles.  "General bolstering here, a few more trump skillz, MAYBE
 power words fially, attune to her armor, etc..."
Juri of Avalon says, "Although, actually, 18 of those points would probably go
 into attuning Ilvig, since she really likes it."
Corrine nods.  "Ilvig is cool."
Crazed DM-chan says, "You'll have to ask Mike about all that :)"
Corrine says, "And after having the armor help save her blipping life... time
 to retire the Warden's Uniform. *le sigh* ^_^ "
Corrine says, "1 pt resistant-to-weapons Queen's Garb instead, I suppose."
Tybalt says, "I find it quite odd that the Fire people keep ending up with the
 close relationships to Arden."
Corrine asks, "Funky, huh?"
Autolyca offers Corrine a WWWA battle bikini.
Crazed DM-chan says, "Fire needs fuel to consume to live :)"
Corrine hehs a bit at that.
Corrine looks at Jeff.
Autolyca says, "They're working off their karma"
Corrine says, "Well, I SO still need to draw JuriAv and Corrine as the DP."
Crazed DM-chan says, "Pretty huge, Shaft"
Mikage says, "Well. Mikage wants trump artistry. ^^;"
Crazed DM-chan says, "I don't even remember."
Corrine says, "With partials, you can get Corrine to help train him."
Corrine says, "Or Miki, if you want."
Mikage nods.
Autolyca exclaims, "Well, night all!"
Corrine says, "get the basics, if not the uber-skills yet."
Mikage says, "PArtials, anyway. It's only 40 years."
Corrine says, "Night, Jeff."
Tybalt says, "I wish I'd had more time to work on Nagisa."
Mikage says, "n1gh7 j3ff."
Corrine nods.  "Corrine missed out on most of the trouble with Rebma due to her
 trump training. :)"
Juri of Avalon says, "I wish I'd gotten to seduce TAMD-Juri."
Corrine patpats.
Shaft says, "and thus, shaft never finds out what was up with Gabby o.O"
Finn decides it's bedtime for him too.
Mikage exclaims, "I nearly got to Anthy if it weren't for my #@*% cable!"
Tybalt says, "There was nothing up, Rod."
Tybalt says, "She was just fucking with your head."
Shaft says, "yes, but ICily shaft would've felt better hearing it :)"
Juri of Avalon says, "Night, Dan, Jeff."
Mikage says, "Well, I'm off too. I need a bath. ^^;"
Tybalt says, "He made it soooooo easy. ^_^"
Corrine exclaims, "Night, all!"
Mikage waves out. "I'll be here for the auction. Ja."
Crazed DM-chan says, "And time for me to bathe and sleep"
Crazed DM-chan exclaims, "Adios everyone!"
Autolyca has disconnected.
Shaft says, "ciao, john"
Akemi has disconnected.
Corrine says, "Night, John.  Wonderful campai...gn."
Shaft starts calculating heavily for the auction
Corrine says, "Well, anyway.  I think they have the right idea, I suspect."
Shaft says, "leavin'?  have a good one"
Mikage says, "Nighty night."
TimeRunner has disconnected.
>> Timerunner gets swallowed up by a Corridor, leaving behind a mindless
 Analogue.
Tybalt falls asleep.
Corrine hrms, and prints the chargen rules for tomorrow.
Shaft says, "must admit, the dividing of stats is having me scratch my head"
Shaft says, "you bid 40, you can have an 80 point monster but lacking in
 finesse"
Juri of Avalon says, "I think there's been talk of making the split 75%/25% at
 most."
Shaft says, "it's all too tempting to just shunt everything to one side."
Shaft says, "there has? Hmm."
Juri of Avalon says, "But I'm not sure if that's official."
Shaft says, "i'd love to get that confirmed before i bid.  it would complicate
 matters just a little"
Corrine says, "Well, it's up to you.  I can see how it could be applied to say,
 Corrine...."
Shaft nods
Corrine says, "I tend to allocate stats and powers -after- the fact, as they
 learn and develop and determine what they need to shore up."
Juri of Avalon says, "Personally, I wouldn't make a split of more than that."
Juri of Avalon says, "Even if it were allowed."
Shaft says, "if you were roleplaying, say, lina inverse, i'd think her stats
 would show tons of psi power, very little finesse... so depending on your
 ideal character flaws (much accidental mass destruction, etc), wella...."
Juri of Avalon says, "Well, Lina has finesse when she needs it.  She just
 doesn't often exercise it."
Shaft says, "okay. point there."
Corrine says, "And Corrine, (Da Endurance Queen!), appears to have nicely
 strengthened her mind over the course of the campaign."
Shaft says, "very balanced out, i'd suspect"
Shaft says, "though that's what you get with a veteran character"
Shaft says, "hn"
Juri of Avalon says, "Hrm.  Depending on how much Good Stuff she currently has,
 with those 30 points, Juri could get shapeshifting, and wield all three of her
 weapons at once.  :)"
Shaft says, "you really can't say anyone in this gen was a great
 strategist....."
Corrine says, "We ended up having to import. ^_^"
Shaft says, "neither of the war gods, really.  maybe mikage, but his plans
 tended to have annoying side-effects"
Corrine points to Juri of Avalon.
Shaft tosses Mikage down a whirlpool o.o
Corrine says, "And right now, our 3 top generation's pattern users (Drake,
 Derith, and Amber-Juri) are missing presuemed something.  Annoying."
Juri of Avalon says, "Juri did what she could, although she sometimes wished
 her father could have been there to advise her.  :)"
Juri of Avalon says, "Since he's not only a master strategist and tactician,
 but cunning and ruthless in a way that she isn't."
Corrine patpats.  "Hey, she saved a universe.  Again.  That looks good on the
 resume'."
Corrine exclaims, "This is what we have OTHER people for!"
Juri of Avalon says, "Yeah, she ownzed things.  Although I'm sorry she didn't
 get to fight Annadil."
Corrine says, "Eh, that was the kid's perogative."
Corrine says, "We got rid of CATS, tho."
Shaft asks, "um, just what the frig is C ATS?"
Corrine says, "CATS is a joke from a recent game/music video thing."
Shaft says, "uh huh."
Corrine says, "John adapted CATS into being a Chaosian Mercenary under
 Annadil's employ."
Corrine says, "Who had a really annoying way of talking, and a liking of lots
 of Advance Shapeshifting and Primal Chaos tricks."
Corrine says, "And hey.  We still have the Spoon."
Shaft asks, "so CATS is a single thing? a mercenary group?"
Juri of Avalon says, "Dan played him.  He was Juri and Corrine's opposition."
Corrine says, "Single person."
Corrine says, "CATS is very, very, DAMN hopefully likely very very dead."
Juri of Avalon says, "They finally managed to kill him after he killed most of
 their troops, blew up a lot of Kolvir, and destroyed the Tir Na Nog steps."
Corrine says, "Dunno how well Advanced Shape Shifters can survive being
 torched, head blown off, hacked to bits, etc, etc, by Pattern-charged weapons."
Juri of Avalon says, "I think he's probably pretty dead, or will at least take
 a loooooong time to recover.  :)"
Corrine says, "CATS also ate Corrine's arm.  The arm that was currently using
 the Spoon of Dworkin."
Shaft says, "owww."
Corrine says, "So, they got the Spoon back when CATS head blew up."
Corrine says, "I would recommend that none of the children ever eat a meal with
 that Spoon."
Corrine exclaims, "Not that Juri will let them within 12 miles of it, but hey!"
Corrine hrms.
Corrine says, "Yes.  Need must make Juri of Avalon trump."
Corrine says, "And one of Gid."
Juri of Avalon says, "Juri should be holding the Spoon, of course.  :)"
Corrine says, "Juri, grinning, with Ilvig in one hand, Eternity's Rose in the
 other, spoon in trenchcoat pocket, looking kickass."
Juri of Avalon says, "One of Roderick would also be cool.  :)"
Corrine asks, "Gideon with... hmmm... Elder Sign Crossbow, gun, and a
 water-based sculpture?"
Corrine says, "Oh, and Roderick, of course.  Hmmmm.... Prolly conjuring
 something, and looking coy at the viewer."
Corrine says, "Given he did a lot of the magic for this group."
Corrine tries to think of other things to think about, as his Utena CD's play
 through the cow song.
Corrine can't think of anything, so... well, I believe to bed now.
Shaft says, "g'nite, phil"
Shaft says, "see ye auction time"
Corrine waves, and thuds out.
Aerianne has disconnected.
Juri of Avalon yawns.
Juri of Avalon says, "Okay, I'm outtie too."
Shaft says, "ciao"
Rod has disconnected.
>> A joke is the epigram on the death of a feeling - Nietzche
Eudial wakes up.
Somewhere on the muck, Hotaru has connected.
Eudial falls asleep.
Somewhere on the muck, Hotaru has disconnected.
## ^_- ##
## -_- ##
## H_H ##
Somewhere on the muck, Skuld has disconnected.
Eudial wakes up.
Somewhere on the muck, Hotaru has connected.
Somewhere on the muck, Skuld has connected.
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