Anthy asks, "OOC Trumping to Shalomar, Kanna?"

Kanna OOCly says, "Yup, but I needs must bail, so I'm leaving logging on
and heading out."

You page, "And so sue me, Kanna wants to see if Ruka's in
again. *^_-*" to Akemi.
You page, "Ever since that dream sequence... sheesh. :)" to Akemi.
Akemi pages, "Hehe." to you.

Beowulf OOCly says, "We could RP the meeting with Mom and then wrap
for the night, unless there's something else you'd like to do, John."

Beowulf OOCly says, "Or unless you'd just like to wrap here."

Anthy says, "OOC LEt's do you talking to Mom, and I have other trouble for
you :)"

Kanna OOCly says, "oh boy. ahwell, later. :)"

Beowulf OOCly says, "Oh, dear. :)"

Kanna OOCly says, "as long as he's in one piece to get into more
trouble down in port...."

Kanna OOCly says, "anyyway... *waves*"

Beowulf OOCly says, "Seeya later, Phil!"

Beowulf OOCly says, "Anyway, ready."

Beowulf goes to visit his Mother.

Nausicaa oocly yawns and blinks.

Nausicaa says, "OOC Bye, Phil."

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====================

You head back up the mountain, and poke around a bit until you find
your mother.  She's down in her lab, brewing something nice smelling. She
turns as you enter.  "Hello, son," she says, smiling.  "How as your trip?"

Beowulf says, "Well, there was a little excitement along the way, and
cousin Kanna and I ended up having to save the zeppelin's passengers, but
relatively non-eventful."

Beowulf says, "But the scenery was absolutely beautiful. I really
should travel by zeppelin more often."

Beowulf sniffs. "My, that smells wonderful. What do you have going?"

She says, "Lily was here, looking for you.  I told her I'd tell you
she was looking for you, so now I have."  She smiles.  "Yes, zeppelin
travel is very enjoyable."  She pulls out a chair for you.  "Would you
like some coffee?"

Beowulf sits down. "Thank you, although I'd really prefer tea..." He
pulls out a stock of Ginsing Peppermint. "Would you care for some?"

Beowulf stops for a moment as what she said sinks in. "Lily was
looking for me?" He looks puzzled. "Did she say why?"

Wakaba says, "She's doing some research or something, and wanted to
get your help."

Beowulf looks slightly relieved. "Ah. Well, that's fine, then." He
sighs. "I ran into her sister earlier, over at Mutsumi's rooms. She
was chasing Snickers, who was chasing Tama-chan... and somehow managed to
get Shinobu Major's dogs to chase *her*." He covers his eyes. "It was a
mess."

Wakaba goes and gets her coffee and puts your tea on to brew for you. "Oh,
Mitsune's always been like that.  She's very playful."  Wakaba smiles
gently.  "Brightens up the place, really."

Beowulf says, "Well, I suppose so. And I don't mind, really, at least when
she limits herself to more-or-less willing targets. But she nearly knocked
poor Mutsumi out this time."

Lucien OOC Yeah, like an atomic blast brightens up the place :)

Wakaba sighs.  "I'll have another talk with her.  She needs to be
careful around Mutsumi.  Poor girl." She shakes her head.  "Mutsumi
will probably grow out of it, though.  I've heard Miki was pretty
frail when he was young."

Beowulf says, "Yes... hopefully I'll be able to make a few things to
help her when I get a little more experienced, as well."

Wakaba nods, sipping her coffee.  "Will you be at dinner tonight?"

Beowulf brings out the dagger and the ring. "Oh, I acquired these on
that little jaunt... it seems there are some rather interesting folks
playing around with sorcery out there."

Beowulf says, "Hm. I may be at dinner, but I'm helping Kanna out with one
of her investigations... she helped me out with the folks on the zeppelin,
so I think it's only right to give her a hand with her work. I'll have to
see how the schedules work out."

Beowulf says, "Did you have anything special in mind? I'll try my best to
make it there if you need me."

She shakes her head.  "No, just dining with everyone in the great
hall.  Good luck with your investigation, though."

Your tea is ready, so she passes you the nice steaming cup.

Beowulf thanks her and sips at the cup. "In any event, could you use
the ring? I doubt you'd want to use the dagger."

Beowulf says, "Assuming the folks who made it didn't include any nasty
traps on it, that is."

She says, "Why don't I put some nice spells in it for you and then you can
use it?"

She continues, "I already have lots of items like this."

She says, "I can have it full of stuff by dinner, I think."

Beowulf says, "Ah? Thank you, I would appreciate that." He
smiles. "Always nice to have a bit of useful equipment."

She sips her coffee and looks thoughtful.  "I don't suppose you'll be
running by Siam any time soon?"

Beowulf says, "Siam... Siam, Siam..." He taps his chin. "I hadn't
planned anything, but it shouldn't be any real trouble to pay them a
visit, and you never know what might turn up."

She says, "I was wanting some nice Siamese silk for a dress I was
planning to make for Marches.  But that won't be for over a month, so
don't rush."

Beowulf asks, "Ah. Yes, I should be able to pick that up for you, no
problem. What color were you looking for?"

She says, "I need yellow and green.  Not a whole lot, just enough to
make two dresses."

Beowulf nods. "Shouldn't be difficult." He sits lost in thought for a
moment. "A lot of jungle there. Might be a good place to run an
expedition, someday."

She laughs.  "I understand there's quite a few lost temples out
there."

Beowulf says, "Indeed. Care for any souvenirs?" He smiles and winks at
her.

She smiles.  "I wouldn't mind a statuette of Kro the Dancing Buddha,
if you can find one."

Beowulf says, "Well, that might be entertaining; you never know when
might turn up."

She finishes off her coffee.  "You always bring me the nicest things,
son."  She looks at the ring and thinks.  "Any particular sorts of spells
you'd like?"

Beowulf says, "Hm. I shall rely on your judgement, Mother. Although if you
could put something in there to help establish when someone is telling the
truth, that might be helpful."

She nods.  "Alright."

Beowulf asks, "In any event, I should probably see what Lily
wishes. Shall I see you later this afternoon?"

She nods.  "See you later, son.  Have fun with Lily."  She smiles in
that motherly way.

Beowulf bows and kisses her hand. "See you later, Mother." He blinks
for a moment. "Have fun?"

Wakaba just grins.

Beowulf walks out the door, shaking his head in bemusement.

Beowulf heads over to see Lily. The Library, perhaps?

You head over to the library, where you see Lily, Mitsune, and Anna,
the assistant librarian, hard at work poring over books.  Mitsune
looks bored out of her skull, Lily seems to have zoned out reality in
favor of her book, and Anna looks like she somehow became lost while
reading.

Beowulf raises an eyebrow at Mitsune. "In detention? Or should I ask
Miki to show you the real thing?" He smiles slightly, and pats her on the
shoulder. "Well, just be more *careful* next time, allright?" He gives her
a gentle shake.

Beowulf then looks over at Lily, to see what she's reading. "You
wanted to see me, Lily?"

Lily is wearing relatively modest clothing today...by her standards.
It's a Therinese dress, split up both sides so that the skirt portion is
closer to two loincloths than a skirt, while the top, though high in back,
is a very deep rectangular scoop in front that rather well exposes her
ample bosom and just barely maintains minimum decency.

It's a soft blue in color and ever so slightly translucent silk.

Beowulf looks, blushes slightly, then focuses on her face. "What can I do
for you?"

She puts down the book and says, "We're trying to help Anna with some
research,and I know you've been all over shadow, so..."

She smiles at you.  "I'd be very grateful if you helped us."

Nausicaa exclaims, "OOC back from lunch... oooo, Lily!"

Beowulf brightens up. "Ah, so. What were you looking for?"

Beowulf blushes again at her smile.

She stands up, picking up a list, and struts over to you.  "You see,
Lord Percy had his fortune told, and now he's trying to figure out
what it means." She hands the sheet to you.  "I've figured out some of it,
but..."

She leans close to you as she hands it over; you can smell the scent
of her floral perfume.

Beowulf says, "Hmmm." He reads the sheet. And looks nervous at the
scent of perfume.

The fortune:

Beware the Ice Queen, who possesses Flame Frozen in Stone, and her
lover who rules Chaos with his passions.  You must flee to the empire
ruled by a hammer if you would be free of the power of the old one eyed
man and his chaos winds.  You will go on a long journey, and if you want
to live, you must find the one-side loop and the storms under a blue
light."

Nausicaa says, "OOC I hate prophecy."

Lily leans and points at the paper.  "Now, the Ice Queen is almost
certainly the White Queen of the Frozen Waste, who rules the Land of
Eternal Winter.  And old one eye is probably either Odin or Grummsh,
or maybe Balor, but...the rest, I'm not sure."

Beowulf asks, "Let's see... Flame Frozen in Stone sounds like some
artifact of power, either a weapon, or... could it be a Spikard? "

Anna looks up.  "Hmm, that sounds logical," she says.

Mitsune says, "What we need is a spikard that reads boring books for
people and reports the good parts while you go do something else."

Beowulf says, "The hammer reminds me of a couple of places... either
Daiga and the Royal Hammer of the King there, or else the shadow
'Reikland', a Germanic culture said to have been founded by a hero
with a magic hammer."

Beowulf says, "Of course, it could just be referring to Maxwell's
Silver Hammer, but I suspect the folks at Abbey Road might not be
happy to have a batch of refugees drop by on their doorstep."

Mitsune slaps her forehead.  "Music.  We need music."  She starts
chanting.

Beowulf says, "The 'rules Chaos with his passions' sounds like it
could refer to... well, Annadil is gone, but it does sound like a
reference to the Courts of Chaos."

Beowulf asks, "It could also be Zeus, head of the Chaos house
Olympus... or perhaps Lugh of House Danaan. Here's an interesting
thought -- suppose one of them has managed to get his hands on the
spikard Rathos?"

Lily's eyes widen.  "That makes very good sense.  It's exactly the
sort of thing they'd want too.  That could be quite ugly, especially
if Zeus had it."

Anna asks, "Why?"

Lily says, "Because if Zeus had it and walked in the door, he'd
probably make us all have sex with him, then go on to have his way
with the rest of our family, the staff, the dogs..."  She sighs.

Beowulf frowns and looks faintly distressed. "He... is not a nice
man. I would not want to see that happen."

Beowulf says, "I met Mercury, of Zeus's House Olympus, at Panopticon;
Mercury thought he was a generous and wise man, but a 'horny old bastard'
who would... well. Let us not dwell on unpleasantries."

Anna scribbles down notes as you talk.  Mitsune finishes her spell,
and the tune 'Be Krewl to your School' starts playing.

Beowulf sighs, and asks Mitsune to turn it down a little.

She pouts and turns it down, then puts the book she was reading aside and
moves on to the next one.

Beowulf says, "In any event, Zeus/House Olympus would also fit with
Odin and Balor, also of Chaos."

Mitsune says, "This does look like some warning of a Chaos conspiracy. But
why would they be after PERCY of all people?  I mean, the man is no threat
to anyone but deer."

Beowulf says, "That... is indeed puzzling."

Anna shrugs.  "He seemed pretty worried about it to me."

Beowulf says, "The 'one-side loop' sounds like a mobius strip shadow;
Panopticon has one they use for some higher-level geometry courses, and
there are a few out on the Chaos side of Yig."

Beowulf tunes out the thought of Percy for a moment, trying to figure out
what 'storms under a blue light' might refer to.

Beowulf says, "I'm sorry... I can't think of what that might refer to at
the moment."

Lucien OOC heads out
Anthy exclaims, "OOC G'nite, Jeff!"

Beowulf says, "As for Percy... the only connection I can think of is
that it might be something related to Arden."

Beowulf OOCly says, "Seeya, Jeff!"

Autolyca has disconnected.

Anna scribble scribble scribble.

Seamus falls asleep.

Beowulf says, "OOC I've always had trouble with puzzles like
this. <rueful g>"
Lian . o O ( OOC Poor Beo. ^.^ )

Beowulf smacks his head. "I do remember a couple of shadows,
Talislanta and Mirika, which would seem to fit the description;
they're mobius shadows, with blue light in the sky, and commonly
stormy."

Nausicaa says, "OOC C'mon! Isn't Indiana Jones a shadow of yours? You can
do it! ^^;"

Beowulf says, "It's interesting... I should have thought of them
before -- they're part of an odd group of weird-geometry shadows. I,
well, like to call them the Pythagorean Circle." He looks sheepish. "I
think Escher must have travelled there in his dreams."

Lily says, "Talislanta is a very lovely place, though the rainy season is
really awful.  And with the way it bends around, the water flows downhill
forever."  She shakes her head.  "But the architecture is lovely once you
bend your brain around it."  She looks dreamy for a moment.  "Have you
ever been to The House of Inverted Steaks there, Beowulf?"

Beowulf blinks. "Yes, as a matter of fact, I have. Delightful
food... at least for those with a head for heights, I suppose."

She smiles.  "We'll have to go there together some time, then. I quite
enjoyed it when we went there for Father's birthday last year."

Beowulf asks, "Um... together?"

She nods firmly.  "Yes."  She looks thoughtful.  "Do you have dinner
plans?"

Beowulf says, "I suppose someone *should* go there to investigate, now
that we have this prophecy... um?" He blinks. "Well, I hadn't *planned* on
anything, but I had a couple of things I was going to help cousin Kanna
with this evening, in return for some help she gave me on that last trip
to Cape Westb'ury."

Beowulf says, "I could probably find some time for dinner, though, if you
want to discuss this." He thinks for a moment. "The Great Hall would
probably be too noisy."

Mitsune flips over a page.  "Oooh, look here.  From the Prophetic
Ramblings of the Ugly Old Goat Prophet: "The White Queen rules a land as
frozen as her heart.  In the year of the Cat, she will set her eyes on the
highest prize, to become a God."

She smiles brightly.  "Very good.  I'll see about getting Mom's trump of
the place, and then we can duck out there and have a nice peaceful dinner
and discuss this."

Beowulf says, "...oh. Um. Yes, I suppose we could... I was just
thinking of seeing if we could bring something up here; I know your
father has a little place he keeps for when he snacks on duty."

Anna scribbles more notes furiously.

Lily says, "Oh, if we stay here, I'm sure Mitsune will lead a pack of dogs
through the room again or something."

Beowulf says, "On the other hand, since Talislanta does have a faster
timeflow, it would give us more time to work things out and still get back
here in time."

Mitsune snorts.  "If I'd realized they'd brought a bunch of damn FOX
HOUNDS into the palace..."

Beowulf smiles in rueful exasperation at Mitsune, then looks over at
Lily again. And blushes again. "Yes, I suppose you're right."

She says, "Good, good.  Meet you at the courtyard at seven?"

Beowulf says, "I don't think that should be a problem; I'll trump you if I
have to change that schedule."

Anna looks up at the two of you, looks a bit wistful, then turns to
Mitsune and says, "Show me where you found that, okay?"

She nods.  "Okay.  I'll see you then, okay?"  She turns to Anna.
"I've got to go find Mom, and check on an experiment, and find
something nice to wear.  I'll come back and help you some more
tomorrow, okay?"  Anna nods.

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Beowulf asks, "OOC about what time is it now?"

Beowulf says, "OOC Game-time, that is."

Anthy says, "OOC It's about 3 pm game time."

Anthy says, "OOC You have an hour to your meeting with Kanna"

Beowulf asks, "OOC Enough time to Mother to finish with the ring, do I
think? "

Beowulf asks, "OOC Or should I wait to get it until after I meet
Kanna?"

Anthy says, "OOC She said it would be ready at Dinner time, which in
the castle = 6 pm."

Beowulf says, "OOC Ah, right."

Anthy says, "OOC Breakfast = 8-10 AM, Lunch is 11-1, Dinner runs 6-8
most nights."

Beowulf says, "OOC Actually, while I'm here and have a few minutes,
I'll go ahead and see if I can find anything on the Egyptian
cults. Time to put Finding Obscure Reference Sources to work. :)"

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===========

You dive into the sources, and find that the problem isn't too little
information, it's too MUCH.

Dr. 'Montana' Jones Guide to Egyptian Shadows lists 35,003 known
Egyptian shadows.

Beowulf blinks as he finds the book. Eesh. "Hm, yes."

8,000 of those have roughly early 20th century tech civilizations
capable of equipping those men with their machineguns.

Nausicaa says, "OOC BAck, idled to pick up my mom from the
dentist. ^^;"

50 of them have enough cross-shadow travel to get them TO a zeppelin
near Cape Westb'ryport.

Beowulf starts scanning for cults in Shadow near the Cape... ah, beat me
to it. :)

6 of those are within a week to a week and a half travel time of Cape
Westb'ryport.

That narrows the list down to: Thebes, Memphis, Alexandria, The New
Nile Empire, The Old Nile Empire, and The Kingdom of Blue Sand

Beowulf mutters to himself. "Hm, that narrows things down a
bit... now, didn't they say they were from the Nile Empire?"

Beowulf consults his memory...

Why yes, they did.

Beowulf mutters to himself again. "Well, that's two spots to check
out... definitely an improvement over 35,000!" He chuckles softly.

Beowulf says, "Although it wouldn't do to skip the other four, as it's
quite possible that folks from one of them may have wanted to shift the
blame." He rubs his temples briefly.

Mitsune comes over and takes a look at the book.  "Nice skirts on
these guys.  Whatcha trying to find?  Is it less boring than this
prophecy?"

Anna sighs and continues taking notes.

Beowulf looks up at her and smiles wryly. "Depends if you find
gentlemen with machine guns robbing you to be interesting. I *owe*
someone a little... chastisement... for interrupting my sale. And the
tomatoes. They always mess up the carpet."

Beowulf says, "Oh, and don't forget the insane religious
hysteria. Really, cultists are *so* hard to deal reasonably with."

Kitsune's eyes widen.  "Oooh, crazed madmen are trying to hunt you to kill
you?"

"I bet they think you're the reincarnation of one of their pharoahs,
and they have to carry you off to make you their king!"

She gets a starry look in her eyes.

Beowulf says, "Oh, I hardly think they're trying to kill me. They just
seemed to want the vase. Granted, it *was* rather nice, but..."

Her ears perk up.  "Vase?  What vase?"

Beowulf says, "Unfortunately, they also managed to *get* the vase -- a
rather nice silver burial urn, with Sidar runes on it. One of them tossed
an enchanted knife at it, which sent it teleporting off into somewhere in
Cape Westb'uryport."

Beowulf looks mildly piqued at the thought.

Beowulf says, "One of these days, I shall have to retrieve it."

"Ahah!  I bet one of their pharoahs was buried in it...or the runes,
when you combine them, form a map to some secret tomb...the tomb of
the Blue Pharoah!"  Now she looks really excited.  "Did you copy down the
runes?"

Beowulf reaches into the bag and brings out the sheets that he used to
trace the runes on all three urns. "Here we are."

Beowulf OOCly puts the Raiders soundtrack back on. ^_^

Beowulf looks at Mitsune's enthusiasm with mild, amused resignation.

She nods and then starts chanting.  A few minutes later, a duplicate
sheet forms.  She then cuts the sheet apart into the component runes.

Beowulf observes with interest.

Anna looks over.

Mitsune smiles.  "I love puzzles."


And then she begins to move the runes about in a frenzy, slowly
constructing a map out of them.

Beowulf blinks, and diplomatically decides not to mention the puzzle
they were all just working on.

Finally, the map is complete, showing a large square building with
four towers, high up some sort of contour line slope with a river at
the bottom.

There's ten runes left over that just can't be fitted in, really.

Beowulf BLINKS. "Hm. That *is* rather interesting." He picks up the
runes and begins playing with them. "Perhaps we need to assemble them
under the light of the full moon?" He grins, to show that it's a joke.

Beowulf says, "Although..." He picks out a rune, and sets it
down. "This one stands for 'Dragon'..."

"Well, it's a good thing tonight is the last night of the full moon,
eh?" Mitsune says, sounding quite serious.  "I'll check that out while
you're busy with Lily and get back to you."  She rubs her hands together. 
"I haven't looted a temple in quite a while."

Beowulf plucks out two more. "And this one 'Temple', and this one
'Sleep'."

Beowulf cocks his head at Mitsune. "And what temples have you looted,
then? I thought that was supposed to be my job." He looks slightly
bemused. But then, that's normal for him.

Nausicaa says, "OOC gotta go. bye"
Nausicaa waves out.
Anthy exclaims, "OOC Bye!"
TimeRunner has disconnected.
>> Timerunner gets swallowed up by a Corridor, leaving behind a
>> mindless Analogue.
Beowulf OOCly says, "Seeya, TR>.. drat. :P"

Mitsune says, "Oh, Naru and I took this spring break trip from Ohtori that
just...went horribly wrong."

Beowulf says, "Um. I see."

Beowulf asks, "OOC how does she look?"

She continues, "It turned out to be the Beach of Really Bad Dead
Things.  So we had to raid the Temple of Really Bad Dead Things.  I
didn't meet any cute guys, but I wasn't BORED and that had to count
for something."

Anthy asks, "OOC How does Mitsune look, you mean?"
Beowulf says, "OOC Ayup."
Anthy says, "OOC She still looks fairly serious."
Beowulf OOCly nods.

Beowulf says, "Well... I suppose so." He awkwardly pats her on the
shoulder.

Beowulf says, "On the other hand, I suppose it could have been
worse... look at what happened to poor Jacqulene."

Mitsune sighs.  "She's more a fraidy cat than Thoric, and that takes
effort.  At least he was weaned on his mom's scary stories and has
some excuse."

Beowulf says, "Well, yes... of course, that could just mean something
worse happened to her."

Beowulf looks back at the remaining seven runes. "I suppose we could
also take these to someone who knows a bit more Sidar than I
do... hm."

Mitsune says, "Back at your old school?"

Beowulf says, "Yes, they'd undoubtedly have someone there. Of course,
there's always Fuyuutsuki, but..." He shrugs, and grins wryly.

Beowulf asks, "OOC how much time has he spent in the reference
stacks?"
Beowulf asks, "OOC Er, have *we* spent in the stacks?"
Anthy says, "OOC It's nearly 4 by now."
Beowulf says, "OOC If we've spent enough time before time to meet
Kanna, probably would be a good time to wrap and call it a night."

She says, "Oh, Fuyutsuki probably would think this was a hotdog stand or
something."

Anthy says, "OOC And it's a wrap."
Anthy says, "OOC As it be getting late."

Beowulf grins. "Probably."

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Beowulf asks, "OOC So we'll pick up with Kanna next time, then?"

Anthy says, "OOC Yep.  I have Lucien scheduled for Monday and Nausicaa
maybe on Tuesday, depending on if TR makes it."

Anthy says, "OOC If I'm up to it, I might try running two groups at
once, but we'll have to see."

Beowulf says, "OOC Works for me. :) If TR doesn't make it and Phil's
on, we can go then... don't worry about running two groups on my
account, don't want to overwork you. :)"

Gabrielle says, "Lucien'll be interesting."

Anthy says, "OOC I need to run Moriya and Jacqui soon too."

Jacqueline of Amber says, "very interesting"

Beowulf nods to both.

Jacqueline of Amber says, "ah, so I's paired up with pure young lad
II, am I? :)"

Beowulf says, "OOC Yup... <evil g>"

Anthy yeps to Jacqui.

Beowulf says, "OOC Definitely a lot of 'moving 'round the castle and
seeing folks' this session... what an interesting world we have this
time 'round. ^_^"

Anthy says, "Well, one of my goals is to introduce as much of the
auxillary cast as I can, so everyone gets used to them :)"

Gabrielle says, "Gee, there's no possible ultrior motive THERE."

Jacqueline of Amber says, "to avoid a Shinobu Tragedy :)"

Anthy says, "Heh."

Beowulf says, "Ahhh. :) I admit, I was expecting to spend just a
couple of minutes giving Mutsumi her present, and the rest of the time
talking with Nanami and Kozue about the events of last time. :)"

Anthy says, "Well, the pace of this game will gradually pick up, but I
want to give everyone lots of time to RP and establish their characters
solidly before the meta-plots really get rolling :)"

Beowulf says, "Hmmmm, yes. And building useful NPC alliances? :)"

Gabrielle says, "Well, you got a LOT of the cast in one go tonight."

Gabrielle says, "Get Shinobu and Kentaro up, and boom."

Beowulf says, "Ooooooh, yah. o.o"

Jacqueline of Amber says, "true, if not the cast, then at least
MENTION of the cast"

Jacqueline of Amber says, "lots of names dropping"

Beowulf says, "Oh, and Keitaro."

Beowulf says, "Actually, was going to suggest having Shinobu Minor
bring us dinner in the library, except that got side-tracked."

Anthy says, "And building useful NPC alliances too :)"

Gabrielle asks, "Hey, is Nausicaa on the page yet?"

Jacqueline of Amber says, "yees, it's time to get king tylor in my
pocket, and the king of chaos too ^.-"

Jacqueline of Amber says, "conquer them with the Power of Kawaii"

Beowulf says, "Yup, Gabby."

Lian asks, "Jacqui? Power of Kawaii?"

Gabrielle says, "Well, the King of Chaos may actaully be kindly
dispossed towards Amber. Or then again, maybe not. "

Anthy says, "Heh."

Jacqueline of Amber says, "she'll flash Power Look Googly Eyes"

Anthy says, "Well, he did forbid the houses to kill the Children
during TAMD... :)"

Anthy says, "Lots of new spells added to the Grimoire on the magic
page."

Gabrielle says, "You could always ask Anthy about Ishmael."

Beowulf says, "OTOH, that prophecy hints at some rather nasty things
going on down Chaos way..."

Gabrielle says, "She seemed to have known him for awhile."

Anthy nods.  Yep, it does.

Beowulf asks, "Do we know who cast the fortune for Percy? Or did he do it
himself?"

Anthy says, "Anna tells you that Percy told her he went to see 'Madame
ZaZa' down in the Ward of the Tin Pot."

Gabrielle says, "Knowing John's sense of humor, the 'blue light'
probably refers to a sale at CAFAM."

Lian grins. "Just wait and see ... "

Beowulf says, "Hm. Quite possibly, Gabby. :) And will have to check
out this Madame ZaZa... after scrounging around in the Ward of the
Dead Monkey with Kanna, that is."

Gabrielle says, "And Gabby will be happy to help you preform the feat of
turning an utterly ordinary boat into a fifty-foot pillar of flame. ^_^"

Beowulf says, "Heh. That might work... we'll have to see how the
Nautilus performs in action, too."

Beowulf says, "Anyway, tired, 1:40 AM, work tomorrow... need
sleep. :)"

Beowulf says, "Bye, all."