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You trump to Yig.  Hiko calls up a huge firey phoenix.  Jacqui,
Shinobu Minor, and Hiko mount up on it and begin hellriding.

Shadow blurs past, becoming progressively stranger over the next three
days.

By the third day, you've beaten off twenty or so attacks by frothing
Jean Paul Sartres and other rabid flesh eating existentiallists.

The Logical Postivists took a shot, but Hiko burned them to death,
then Shinobu Minor lopped off their heads.

The Utilitarians calculated the odds and decided the odds were against
them.

Finally, you leave a trail of ethereal, cannibal philosphers behind
you, and begin to fly into a series of shadows with various sorts of
floating discs.  Looks like you're probably nearing your target.

Hiko says, "Alright, I'm going to turn us invisible and put up a field
that should repel most people from paying attention to us."

Jacqueline nods quietly

Hiko continues, "And make us fly so we won't approach with this huge
phoenix to show off our approach."

Hiko tosses lots of spikardy goodness around, and soon she has the
three of you mind-linked, shielded from notice, and invisible.

Jacqueline sighs at Hiko's spikardy goodness and remembers Fred.....

Hiko then drops down to normal shadow travelling speeds and begins
creeping you all through Chaos as best she can out here where the
Pattern grows weak.

Morgan OOCLY says, "Ahh... that's my gal."

Gradually, the disks grow larger and begin to interlock with each
other.

Lucien OOC Night all!

Until finally, you are gazing down on the palace again.

Ramon exclaims, "OOC G'nite, Jeff!"
Autolyca has disconnected.

Jacqueline frowns

Windir wakes up.

Jacqueline nudges Hiko.  "Maybe we should trump Morgan?"

Hiko says, "This shadow is trump blocked."

She continues, "Also, if they have any sense at all, they've probably
reprogrammed Morgan to serve them."

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Jacqueline says, "OOCly phone call -.-"

Ramon says, "OOC Right."

Jacqueline says, "OOCly damn fucking network morons damn fucking
network slag damn fucking customers....."

Ramon asks, "OOC Someone screwed up?"

Foxtrot has disconnected.
>> Byeeee!  It was really fun!

Ramon asks, "OOC Does this mean you're back or just cursing randomly?"

Jacqueline says, "OOCLy massive network fuckup lots of calls tonight
in general :P"

Jacqueline says, "OOCly not back yet :("

Gabrielle says, "OOC: With Rod, it may be both. ^_^"

Jacqueline asks, "OOCly wanna run wulf-boy here till I get free/home
whatever comes first?"

Jacqueline exclaims, "OOCly be damned!  WE GAME!!!!!"

Beowulf OOCly heh's.

Jacqueline says, "OOCly though now that travis is here, can I get that
trump apology call in? :)"

Jacqueline says, "OOCly a before-we-leave thing :)"

Potemkin falls asleep.

Ramon says, "OOC Heh."

Ramon says, "OOC Yeah, we can handle that, Rod."

Ramon asks, "OOC You alive enough to run that with Travis or should I just
cut to someone else, Rod?"

Jacqueline says, "OOCLy let's go"

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Jacqui trumps Beowulf.

Beowulf takes the call.

Jacqueline says, "Ano.... Uncle Beowulf?"  She looks notably
distressed and ashamed.

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Jacqueline says, "OOCly does Wulf know Shaft''s dead? O.o"

Jacqueline asks, "OOC ICil, that is?"

Kanna OOCly says, "I suspect you don't know. *wg*"

Beowulf says, "OOC I believe so; he was notified on the trip to the
temple, IIRC, and told the best thing he could do ATM was to press
on."

Beowulf says, "OOC On the trip to the dig, that is."

Jacqueline says, "OOCly ah, cool. okay. onward"

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Beowulf says, "Hai, Jacqui?" He smiles reassuringly, and looks like
he'd like to give her a pat on the shoulder. "I heard about your
father... I'm so sorry." He gives her a sad but 'We'll get through
this' look.

Jacqueline says, "I... thank you... but... ano..."  She bows.  "I lost
your gift to me.  I'm sorry, it was careless of me."

Beowulf looks surprised. "You lost it?" He looks puzzled for a
moment. "How?"

Jacqueline says, "Ah...."  She looks a bit embarrased here.  "I was in
chaos when a chaos lord tricked me and took Fred and Justice away."

Jacqueline says, "I got away but now he's got cousin morgan an'I gotta go
back to chaos again to get her back."  She frowns.  "I don't like Chaos
very much."

Beowulf says, "Fred *and* Justice?" He frowns slightly, but not at
her. "This is pretty serious."

Beowulf asks, "They got Morgan, too? Good grief. What's been
*happening* in Chaos?"

Jacqueline winces.  "I'm sorry, I'll do my best to get Fred and
father's sword back, I will."

Jacqueline says, "and, um, Cousin Morgan."

Jacqueline says, "Ah.......  Uncle Mo got sabatoged and started
throwing everyone to chaos, but he's better now."  She says this with much
nervousness.

Beowulf tries to give Jacqui a hug through the connection. "I'm sure
you'll do your best, Jacquie. If there's anything I can find out
that'll help, I'll pass it along."

Jacqueline says, "ano...."

Beowulf says, "Oh." He blinks. "I... see."

Beowulf asks, "Yes, Jacquie?"

Jacqueline says, "I know you travel a lot... um... if you hear
anything about Taylor, let me know?  He's... he helped them kill dad."

Beowulf says, "Taylor... got it."

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Beowulf OOCly tries to remember exactly what he knows about Taylor IC.

Jacqueline says, "OOCly if he wasn't briefed, sending a telepathic
briefing of what I know of him."

Beowulf asks, "OOC Can we assume Jacquie brings Bey up to speed on
whatever he doesn't know about Taylor?"

Beowulf OOCly nods.

Ramon says, "OOC Yep."

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Beowulf frowns more deeply. "I do not like this Taylor. I will
*definitely* try to find out what I can about him when I'm out. I knew a
few folks from Chaos back when I was at Panopticon, and I'll see if I can
contact them."

Jacqueline says, "thank you, uncle."

Beowulf asks, "Speaking of Chaos... what were you doing down there to
begin with, that got Fred and Justice lost?"

Beowulf asks, "Was anyone else hurt?"

Jacqueline exclaims, "ara..... Uncle Mo sent me there...  but he's
feeling better now, he is!"

Beowulf patpats. "I'm sure he is, Jacquie. But what happened to you
while you were there?"

Jacqueline says, "Ah... um... not hurt, no... um...."  She looks at
someone near her a bit nervously.  Someone that's out of Beowulf's
field of view at the moment.

Beowulf asks, "Eh? Something else happen to someone down there?"

Jacqueline's nervous smile wavers a moment, then she sighs.
"Ano.... something happened to Shinobu-chan......"  She pulls a
long-haired amazonian swordswoman into the trump contact
gently. "Ano... Shinobu-chan... this is Uncle Beowulf..."

Shinobu Minor in her new garb waves hello.  "Hi, Beowulf!"

Jacqueline looks terribly horribly embarrased and ashamed.

Beowulf BLINKS. "Shinobu?" He blinks again. "My goodness... what
happened?"

Beowulf says, "You certainly seem to have grown up a bit."

Jacqueline puts a hand over her face.  "Ara... you can explain,
Shinobu-chan."

Beowulf smiles and waits patiently.

Jacqueline says, "OOCly metink jon lag O.o;"

Ramon says, "OOC Struggling with FTP"

Jacqueline says, "OOCly aiyaaah."

Shinobu Minor says, "Jacqui blew up Uncle Morgy, flinging me into
Chaos, where I got amnesia and lived with Sif and Thor for 40 years."

Jacqueline cringes

Jacqueline exclaims, "I didn't mean to!"

She continues, "I had a lot of fun, but Anthy-sama ended up being held
prisoner by House Alars, and we got captured trying to save her."

She finishes with, "So Jacqui lost Justice and Fred there."

Jacqueline says weakly, "But I did get us out of there."

Beowulf says, "Sif and Thor... I see. Well, it doesn't appear to have hurt
your development." He grins wryly. "I'd imagine some of the people who had
tended to... look down on you... in your old status have changed their
minds a bit."

Beowulf asks, "What was growing up there like?"

Beowulf says, "Anthy... held prisoner?" He shakes his head. "There's a lot
I have to catch up to, it seems."

Shinobu Minor says, "A lot of fighting and drinking and cute guys."

Shinobu Minor says, "I drove papa's chariot into Tyr's long house once and
got grounded for a month after I finishes rebuilding it."

Shinobu Minor LLAAAAAAGGGGGGGG

Jacqueline laughs nervously.  "I, aheheh, think they might ground me
for life.... or imprison me in a no-magic shadow.  But I havta go get
cousin Morgan back first... I really don't like Chaos."

Beowulf asks, "Did you make any friends down there, at least?"

The_Prof pages, "Trying to get to Odin's prophecies, but Rod's not
cooperating. <wry g>" to you.
You page, "Wheeee. Bap him with clue. :)" to The_Prof.
You page, "It's not UBER time-critical, tho, in the grand scheme.
Hell, I'm STILL on day 14, what are you and jacqui, 18?  20?" to
The_Prof.
The_Prof pages, "18, I think." to you.

Akemi has disconnected.

Beowulf says, "OOC Doh. <sigh>"

Jacqueline says, "OOCly DOH"

Jacqueline says, "OOCly i gotta drive home anyway, back in aboot
20-30"

Jacqueline idles to drive home

Moriya OOCly says, "Jacqui is a dead woman, Rod."

Lian says, "Mornin'"

Beowulf says, "OOC it's not *that* bad... :)"

Gabrielle asks, "God, what's she DONE to Shinobu?"

Jacqueline Idles

Moriya OOCly says, "As Alan pointed out in the other room, Shinobu has
probably had lots of sex with, quote, rough, lusty Norsemen."

Gabrielle says, "Rod, if Jaqui still had anything worth taking, Gabby
would be taking it to teach her a lesson."

The_Prof pages, "But yah, it is fairly time-critical, possibly... did you
catch that bit about where Hoard of the Dragon is located? With that clue,
I'm almost exactly sure where it is." to you. You page, "well, true." to
The_Prof.

Finn says, "Or Rough lusty Valkyries.  Either way."

Motoko says, "And now that I've realized it OOC, Motoko can realize it
IC."

Akemi has connected.

Shinobu Minor exclaims, "OOC AAAAAA!!!!!"

Gabrielle says, "Motoko is just jealous because she's still a giant
virgin."

Motoko says, "She'll probably just give one enormous full-body twitch, and
then claim it was 'nothing' when Moriya asks her.  :)"

Moriya OOCly says, "Cute guys, she said. She's straight, it would
appear."

Moriya OOCly says, "Rod's driving home, John. He'll return soon."

Kanna says, "Nothing wrong with Cute Guys."

Beowulf OOCly nods.

Lian . o O ( ... )

Shinobu Minor says, "I must immolate myself."

Beowulf asks, "Nani?"

Kanna asks, "Hm?"

Shinobu Minor exclaims, "No, no lag!  BAD LAG!!!!!"

Kanna OOCly says, "hm, I mean."

Kanna OOCly says, "anyway.  bed now."

Kanna OOCly waves.

Beowulf OOCly says, "Later on, Phil; sleep well."

Motoko says, "Night, Phil."


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