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Logging Started: 07/14/2001 at 19:56:46
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You head on down the tunnel and come to a pair of huge bronze doors.  There is
 a dragon head on one and the eye symbol on the other.
Moriya patternsights the doors.
The doors are full of bronzey goodness.
Jacqueline patternsights the .... oh, wait, nevermind
Moriya shakes his head. "No powers evident."
Jacqueline says, "i need to learn how to do that...."
They're also locked, but Ivan manages to unlock them.  Beyond you find...
Rimmer says, "I feel that we're getting close."
Beowulf cocks an eyebrow, waiting as the doors open.
Jacqueline feels a desperate need for heavy artillery as the doors open
Moriya holds Withywindle ready.
A huge banqueting hall.  The walls are painted with frescoes which depict the
 baking of many kinds of foods, from  cookies to deep-frying to some odd
 looking procedure that seems to involve exposing the food repeatedly to
 moonlight.  Eight long tables are laid out next to each other with chairs,
 each table is covered with platters of food.  It looks fresh and tastey, and
 smells great.
Moriya now patternsights the interior of the room, food included.
Jacqueline says, "this.... is too obvious."
Rimmer says, "For once, I agree."
Akemi pages, "You can both see the walls seem to be rigged to open in several
 concealed places, and there's a lot of small holes in the walls too, possibly
 for darts.  no apparent trigger mechanism." to you and The_Prof.
Jacqueline says, "nobody's stupid enough to actually eat this."  She looks at
 her group warily.  "Er, right?"
Beowulf hmmms. "Yes. Might I suggest that people *not* eat the food?" he says
 with a chuckle.
Ivan pauses with his hand on a donut.
Moriya looks around. "Traps all over the place."
Beowulf asks, "And watch out for the holes in the wall... darts or gas,
 perhaps?"
Akemi pages, "Pattern sight says this room is full of no powers at all." to you.
Rimmer says, "Only a fool eats perfectly preserved baked goods in a centuries
 old abode of evil."
Moriya says, "The walls seemed rigged to open up in several places. Again, no
 powers, though."
Jacqueline asks, "magic's still dead?"
Moriya says, "I certainly don't detect any, although that rather leaves me at a
 loss to explain the food."
Jacqueline tests with a minor, weak light spell.
Beowulf hmmms again. "No obvious triggers... I wonder if this was a trapped
 hall set up by the Pharoah to entertain his enemies?"
Jacqueline says, "I.... don't trust your senses.  There has to be magic here
 somehow."
Jacqueline says, "or these are really great cooks."
Wakaba says, "It's possible that the magic sink has knocked out enchantments
 which previously kept these fresh."
Jacqueline looks around.  "Okay, ignoring the food, where do we go from here?"
Trying magic yields nothing.
There are, in fact, no obvious exits.
Moriya says, "I suppose, although some of the party were thinking that this
 lack of magic was from another source."
Rimmer intones, "They are filled with the fresh berry filling of evil, under
 the crispy, flakey crust of malevolence, lightly frosted with the sugary
 sprinkles of treachery. That is all we need know."
Jacqueline peers under the table
Ivan laughs.
Moriya asks, "Mitsune, where does the spikard seem to be now?"
Beowulf rolls a weight along the floor to see if it sets off any pressure
 traps, after warning everyone to duck.
Careful examination of the cobblestone floor reveals that the leg of each table
 seems to be attached to the cobblestone it is on.
Jacqueline frowns and examines the foodstuffs on the table cautiously. 
 Anything stand out?  A cake that reads 'eat me'? or a cup that says 'drink me'?
Mitsune concentrates.
Beowulf says, "It's always possible that the trap is set to go off when the
 table grows lighter."
Beowulf shrugs. "Or, of course, it was supposed to work by magic, and isn't
 working without it."
Jacqueline says, "in other words, we screwed ourselves."
Moriya taps Withywindle's hilt. "I doubt there's much that stay between us and
 the spikard, if we're determined enough."
Mitsune points towards a spot on the wall where ancient Nithians are making
 donuts.  "Through there."
Beowulf says, "Perhaps we should have brought Vash?" He smiles.
Jacqueline asks, "okay, right, let's carefully carve a hole in the wall or
 something.  or maybe we're supposed to press a donut into a notch somewheer?"
Jacqueline looks at the table and frowns.  "Dammit, now I got the munchies."
Moonshade laughs.  "I know what you mean."
Jacqueline glances at Beowulf and Moriya.  "Well?"
Moriya looks at Beowulf. "You're more familiar with places like these."
Ivan studies the wall there.  "Ahah, here we go," he says.  He pushes a stone
 in the wall, and a dozen panels open up along the walls.  Each seems to open
 into a hallway full of mummies, who begin to advance.  "IMHOTEP...."
Jacqueline says, "aw dammit."
Moriya says, "Erp."
Beowulf rolls his eyes. "Ivan..."
Rimmer exclaims, "Hah! Mummies! I laugh at mummies! HAHAHA!"
Beowulf asks, "OOC About how many mummies can we estimate?"
Ivan points past the mummies in front of him.  "There you go, a hallway right
 the direction Mitsune pointed."
John says, "OOC At least 72, 6 per hallway"
Jacqueline asks, "okay, let's just go that way, yes?"
Moriya says, "Yes, let's. Beowulf, you go in and deal with those. I'll take
 rear guard."
Beowulf quickly arranges a defensive group to keep back the other mummies while
 he goes after the six in the direction they need to go.
The mummies begin to stream into the room.
Jacqueline exclaims, "go go go!"
Moriya starts hacking up mummies.
Okay, Beo, what you using for a weapon?
The rest of your warriors spread out and start hacking.
Rimmer gestures at the mummies "DANCE! CAPER FOR MY AMUSEMENT! And block the
 way of your fellow mummies in the process!"
Several of the hallways get clogged up as the lead mummy begins dancing and
 capering.
Jacqueline nudges the rest of the party into the proper hallway.
Moriya starts to withdraw toward the indicated hallway.
Rimmer retreats with the rest.
Jacqueline draws baby Ilvig in sword form and advances down the hallway.  Ivan
 is down there already, yes?
Beowulf hacks at them with a machete.
Ivan dances back, pointing at the mummy.  "Big daddy Ivan says to go home!" 
 Two of the mummies turn and run away.
Rimmer says, "The undead may be evil and scary, but they do a great softshoe."
Jacqui and Beowulf go after the mummies in the hallway you want to go down. 
 You press them back; they can take a lot of punishment, but they don't fight
 as well as either of you.
You manage to hack your way to the hallway, and clear it for the others to
 withdraw.  What are you all going to do to keep the other mummies from
 following you down the hallway?
Jacqueline asks, "aunt wakaba, we got magic back yet?"
Beowulf asks, "OOC The hallway slope at all?"
Rimmer says, "Anyone have any flaming oil? Mummies are even better than dry
 wood for barbecuing and cookout fires. And nothing says 'stop' like a blazing
 mummy barrier."
John says, "OOC The hallway gently slopws upwards."
Jacqueline tries to see if she can tap Benji for any magic and put down some
 grease.
Wakaba says,"No magic."
Beowulf says, "If someone's got the oil, we can set it ablaze easily enough,
 and it'll run downward onto them."
Rimmer asks, "Who has oil?"
Jacqueline says, "crap, no magic."
Seta says, "Yes, and it will consume our oxygen supply nicely too."
Jacqueline says, "okay, here's an idea. Moriya, you got a  patternblade, trash
 the hall."
Seta says, "As circulation doesn't seem to be too good here."
Beowulf says, "Remember, we're probably going to have to come back through the
 hall, Jacqui."
Jacqueline says, "aw crap."
Moriya nods. "I could put down some rubble. And then clear it out when it have
 to leave."
Rimmer says, "I don't like this guy. He keeps introducing logic."
Seta says, "It's my job."
Jacqueline says, "you guys figure it out, I wanna see what we gotta do next"
Jacqueline looks around to see what their next option is
Moriya says, "Alternately, we could just slaughter them all."
Beowulf says, "Always a good point, though we'd need to keep folks on rearguard
 as we're moving."
Rimmer says, "Hmm. Let some of them in the hall, then turn the lead ones. They
 can serve as our roadblock."
Anna nods.  "That would hold them for a while, given how tight it is here.
Moriya says, "All right. Let's do it." He pauses. "You said you can only do
 this a limited number of times a day, right? Are you sure you can afford it?
 As there may be even more undead later on."
Beowulf does a little Pattern manipulation to make the first batch of mummies
 get tangled together in their own bandages and block the hallway.
Jacqueline sighs.  "Rubble! zombiedance! something!  We got armies tryin' to
 crash in here while we're talking, y'know...."
Rimmer says, "I can only turn undead into my slaves three times a day. I can
 also make them run in terror or turn to ash three times a day. Anna and Ivan
 have their own limits."
You now have a road-block of mummies behind you and can advance now.
Beowulf says, "Let's go."
Moriya blinks. "Okay, problem solved."
Jacqueline says, "right, okay, zombiedance. let's boogie."
You round a corner.  There's a steep ramp ahead; it's covered with dozens of
 slugs.
Pale, white, pasty slugs.
Rimmer exclaims, "Nooooo!"
Beowulf asks, "Steep going up or down?"
Going up.  Sorry.
Rimmer exclaims, "Not them!"
Moriya asks, "What are those?"
Jacqueline says, "ewwwww"
Beowulf looks at Rimmer. "They react much to acid?"
Anna says, "What, you think it's wraith-slugs?"
Rimmer shudders. "It might very well be. Let me check my Little Big Book of
 Necromancy."
Moriya patternsights them again, what the hell.
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly fast-moving slugs or just... there?"
Beowulf says, "OOC Do the slugs have eyes that Jacqui can use to makepsychic
 contact with? :)"
John says, "OOC If they have eyes, you can't make them out clearly enough. 
 Right now, they just be hanging out."
Jacqueline says, "okay.... nobody make any sudden movements.... the slugs don't
 seem to notice us."
Patternsight says they are not creatures of Chaos or Order.
Jacqueline asks, "Mister Rimmer, what are these things?"
Moriya says, "Nothing special about them, in the way of powers."
Moriya says, "Not of Chaos, not of order."
Rimmer shuts his book. "Definitely Spinghastus Shadotherum, the Western
 Karameikian Wraith-Slug."
Jacqueline asks, "and this is bad how?"
Beowulf asks, "Wraith-slug? They're undead?"
Anna sighs.  "They suck out your life force, memories, and skills."
Jacqueline asks, "they move fast?"
Jacqueline twitches.  "I'd kill for a frickin' flame thrower right about
 now...."
Anna continues, "And if you die, you turn into one.  They can fly at about six
 times the running speed of an ordinary human."
Rimmer says, "If they touch you, they will drain the life, vitality, and
 memories from you until you are a withered husk. Also, they fly. Or at least
 the last one I saw did."
Beowulf says, "And any move we make will have them coming down the slope.
 Lovely." He shakes his head ruefully.
Jacqueline says, "oh. shit.  they fly."
Jacqueline tests out magic with a very dim light spell.  "C'mon c'mon c'mon
 magic please please please."
No magic.
Moriya OOCly says, "What are the dimensions of the hallway, John?"
John says, "OOC Eight feet tall, five foot wide."
Jacqueline looks at Beowulf.  "Okay, who's got the strongest Pattern power and
 can we ask them what the odds are of finding lots of flame throwers behind us?"
Moriya says, "Let me try something."
Rimmer says, "Well... we have a way to neutralize them, if only for a time."
Beowulf says, "Probably Mother has the best Pattern abilities."
Jacqueline looks at Rimmer.  "You do?"
Wakaba says, "Flamethrowers won't work in this shadow."
Moriya tries to wall-climb by bracing his feet and hands against the opposing
 walls of the hallway.
Jacqueline says, "aw crap."
Rimmer says, "The Captain does. Brightsun."
Jacqueline asks, "brightsun?"
Gherman nods thoughtfully.
Rimmer points to Mikhail's Happy Fun Sword. "It can generate pure sunlight."
Jacqueline says, "what does that do? blind them briefly so we can surprise them
 and stomp on them like gra.... ah.  "
Jacqueline asks, "guessing they don't like sunlight?"
Rimmer says, "It strips them of their powers and causses them to flee in
 terror."
Mikhail says, "The sunlight lasts only a few minutes, so we will have to be
 swift."
Moriya OOCly says, "Or maybe I don't."
It is possible to wall-climb, Moriya.
Jacqueline says, "if they flee in terror further down the passage where we have
 to go, this will get annoying."
Beowulf says, "That's the unfortunate bit, yes."
Beowulf asks, "How many times can you do the burst of sunlight a day?"
Mikhail says, "Once."
You page, "I've still got that trump-gate for sunlight, yes?" to Akemi.
Jacqueline asks, "say, um, are there things that eat those slugs, and are they
 even worse than dealing with the slugs?"
Akemi pages, "Yes, but Trump is blocked here." to you.
You page, "It's also blocked? Crap." to Akemi.
Rimmer says, "I don't want to meet anything that would eat a wraith-slug."
Anna says, "There are no natural predators of Wraiths."
Jacqueline says, "crap."
Anna says, "Except for adventurers like us."
Beowulf winces. "Not good. Hm. One thing I'd love to know is how close they can
 sense something. Moriya's idea of wall-climbing over them is good, but only if
 they don't notice him above them."
Jacqueline asks, "okay.... how do you normally kill those things?"
Rimmer thinks. "Maybe if we blessed a lot of salt..."
Jacqueline asks, "the usu..... salt?  do they get hurt by salt?"
Rimmer says, "Usually we throw huge blasting spells into them."
Ivan says, "They ought to have already swarmed all over us."
Jacqueline exclaims, "aaagh!  Should've grabbed the salt from the table back
 there!"
You page, "Unfortunately, because of how high the cost is, Tim isn't going to
 be able to shell out for a spot in the the hotel rooms." to Aerianne.
Rimmer says, "Well, salt affects normal slugs, perhaps holy salt would kill
 wraith-slugs."
Beowulf nods to Ivan, then turns to Jacqui. "Salt, we can get fairly easily."
Jacqueline says, "no, wait, we'd probably need large bags of salt....."
Jacqueline pauses.
Aerianne pages, "Ahwell. *nod* Well, I'll see who I can get from Jeff's." to
 you.
Jacqueline says, "er"
You page, "All righty." to Aerianne.
Jacqueline says, "so we're not sure if salt would do it, and holy salt might
 just piss them off."
Moriya OOCly says, "And how long does the hallway appear to be?"
Rimmer says, "Basically."
Jacqueline says, "Dammit, I'd kill for some magic right now."
John says, "OOC IT's at least 60 feet up, which is far as your torchlight
 allows any useful vision.  Slugs all the way up."
Jacqueline asks, "if we got no magic because of the magic sinkhole.... how long
 does that spell last?"
Jacqueline smacks her forehead.
Moriya pauses.
Wakaba says, "Several hours."
Jacqueline asks, "Mitsune, can you shapeshift into living flame?"
Moriya asks, "Mitsune, could you shapeshift us into small, swift flying
 creatures?"
Jacqueline says, "woo, echo."  She grins
Mitsune says, "Yes and yes."
Moriya chuckles.
Moriya says, "Now, the question is if they could drain you even in flame
 form...."
Moriya asks, "Mister Rimmer, how do they react to fire?"
Jacqueline scratches her head. "OKay, can you shapeshift into a really huge
 flame that can wipe them out quick and- er, yeah, that"
Anna says, "Yes, they could, though they'd probably be committing suicide in
 the process."
Rimmer says, "Fire burns them real good."
Moriya frowns. "But they still might be able to hurt her, in the process."
Jacqueline says, "right, okay, so if Mitsune can become a really huge blanket
 of fire, we're good to go."
Jacqueline says, "well, if she's living flame, I dunno....."
Moriya says, "The lady Anna just said they could."
Jacqueline says, "oh. nuts."
Moriya asks, "Could one of our flyers at least go on ahead and scout out how
 far the slugs extend?"
Jacqueline scratches her head.  "Okay, alternative workaround, got any forms
 that can blast out large heaping gouts of flame?"
Moriya says, "Don't forget what Seta-sensei said about the air circulation in
 here."
Jacqueline says, "aw. crap."
Jacqueline says, "We're being stopped by undead slugs. man, this is almost as
 stupid as that cockatrice thing...."
Rimmer says, "Hmm. I would point something out."
Jacqueline asks, "yeah?"
Rimmer says, "Sunlight negates their powers. That includes flight. And slugs
 are not known for their high speeds on the ground."
Jacqueline says, "okay.... so we do the sunlight thing, fly over them, get the
 heck out"
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly how big is the passageway? how tall? I.e. how close to
 the floor are we going to be skimming it?"
Haruka says, "So we could stomp them to death while they were powerless."
John says, "OOC Eight feet tall, five feet wide."
Rimmer says, "Yes, we could, if we were fast enough."
Jacqueline stares at the mass.  "Um, we'd need to do a lot of stomping fast."
Rimmer says, "We have 24 people, for lots of stomping action."
Jacqueline says, "well, okay."
Jacqueline says, "if the locals think we can do some serious stomping, I'm cool
 with that"
Moriya says, "Let's see how far ahead they go first, before trying it. It
 wouldn't be good for the sword's sunlight to cut out when we were still in the
 middle of them."
Rimmer says, "Also, I have holy water to pour as we stomp."
Anna says, "Anyone flying over them would likely be swarmed by the lot of them
 and die horribly."
Jacqueline says, "..."
Beowulf says, "OOC All right... If someone can wall-climb, though, Bey can use
 the whip to grab them back if the slugs start."
Rimmer says, "What Anna said."
Moriya frowns.
Jacqueline asks, "say, um, okay, okay, here's an idea. Mitsune, can you make
 blood creatures?"
Jacqueline asks, "maybe make a fast little insect to zoom up there, scope it
 out, come back on down?"
Jacqueline says, "and if the slugs start rolling, we do some flash-light
 curbstomping"
Mitsune says, "Worth a try."
Mitsune creates a firefly.  It zips up the hallway.  It never comes back.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Could we see what happened to it?"
It flew out of the light of your torches and was never seen again.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Or, what point did it pass out of sight?"
Jacqueline says, "well, crap."
Jacqueline says, "don't make a firefly, I think they notice the light."
Mitsune tries a spider and a regular fly.  Theynever come back either.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Hm. And they still aren't noticing us and our torch-lights?"
Rimmer says, "They notice the life. Undead don't care about normal light."
Jacqueline cringes.  "This is gonna hurt."
John says, "OOC They still seem to be uncaring of your current position."
Beowulf asks, "What is it about life that they notice?"
Anna says, "The being alive part."
Jacqueline says, "the life part, probably."
Rimmer says, "That it exists, alive where they are not. Then they take steps to
 rectify the situation."
Anna says, "It's a mystic sense."
Beowulf asks, "Yes, but is it the heat, the breathing, the soul? In other
 words, anything we can shield?"
Jacqueline says, "alright, let's try this. Mitsune, make a little living
 fireball.  let's see if that makes it through and back."
Anna says, "I'm afraid the precise factor is unknown, and without magic, I
 don't think we can shield anything.
Rimmer says, "It's just general aliveness. You can shield it, but you need
 magic for that."
Jacqueline says, "this fails, we might as well pray and do some curbstomping"
Beowulf hmmms. "Crazy idea -- how many flies/insects could you make, Mitsune?
 If we send in enough, could we swamp them and get through while they're
 distracted?"
Jacqueline glances at Moriya. "Unless someone here wants to start hacking down
 walls to see if we can work around.  I doubt it, though."
Jacqueline stares at Beowulf.  "That sounds like a bad idea."
Moriya shakes his head. "That's not an idea that appeals to me, particularly."
Rimmer says, "Uh, no, Mr. Beowulf."
Beowulf shrugs. "I said it was crazy."
Jacqueline asks, "let's toss out a suicidal little fireball and take it from
 there.  everyone ready to mess up their good shoes?"
Rimmer says, "You were right. They'd go for the sentient beings first, and even
 if they didn't, there's hundreds of them."
Mitsune tries making a little fireball.  Sadly, it can't fly.  It rolls up to
 the slugs.  The lead slug lashes out and attacks it.  It burns that slug, but
 the slug eats it.
Beowulf grins. "Or what there is of them, yes."
Jacqueline says, "okay.  let's curbstomp."
Moriya says, "Wait."
Jacqueline asks, "what?"
Moriya asks, "Who here is not a fast runner?"
Jacqueline scratches her head.  "Not me, I got lotsa practice running..."
Seta says, "Carving a detour would be slow, but viable, I think."
Beowulf asks, "OOC Did the slug die, or just get hurt by the fire?"
John says, "OOC It just got hurt."
Rimmer asks, "How slow?"
Mitsune says, "I'm afraid I don't have infinite blood to give to making
 creatures."
Jacqueline says, "knowing our luck, we'll carve our way into the big pit of
 slugs"
Moriya holds up Withywindle. "This is very good at cutting through things, so
 hopefully, not that slow."
Rimmer says, "Well, I'm open to detour-making, as I do not like Wraith-slugs."
Seta says, "Depends on how big a detour we need to make, and how fast our
 weapons can carve.  Maybe an hour or two?"
Beowulf asks, "OOC How long do I think our mummy barrier will last, back there?"
Moriya says, "Anyway. For those of us that aren't so good at running, I thought
 that perhaps Mitsune could shapeshift them into small creatures to be carried
 by those of us who are faster."
Rimmer says, "Oh, that's not so bad. As long as it isn't days."
John says, "OOC IT doesn't sound like the mummies are struggling, so they may
 have ceased to detect you and gone hibernating again."
Beowulf OOCly nods.
Rimmer says, "Let's carve. If I doesn't work, then we can run."
Moriya says, "Well, if it's only an hour or two, I think we should give that a
 try."
Jacqueline scowls.
Jacqueline says, "what the heck, it's just an hour or two....."
Moriya turns to Moonshade. "Would you kindly lend your strength again, Cousin?"
Moonshade nods and goes to work.
Beowulf says, "We will need to keep an eye out behind us, as we'll have a hoard
 of wraith-slugs back there, but at least we can roll stuff down on 'em if the
 hallway keeps sloping."
Jacqueline keeps an eye on the slug hoard while they hack and slash
It takes three hours to dig a bypass, and now the hallway behind you is clogged
 with the rubble; it'll be slow going back that way.  You finally end up on the
 ramp, above the wraith-slugs.  There's a pair of bronze doors another sixty
 feet up.
Rimmer says, "I'm gettin' real tired of these punk-ass doors."
Moriya does another patternsight, yay.
Jacqueline says, "you'n me both, Mister Rimmer."
The doors hang out, being locked normal doors.
Moriya says, "Just normal locked doors again."
Jacqueline says, "let's see what's behind door number three."
Beowulf shrugs. "Shall we? Ivan?"
Rimmer says, "Ivan, your scene."
Jacqueline draws out Ilvig again, just in case.
Ivan goes up, unlocks the doors, and opens them.  Beyond the doors, the hallway
 continues to slope upwards.
Jacqueline tests out magic while she's at it, what the hey.
Beowulf leads them up the hallway.
You head further up.  Then you hear a single note sound up ahead of you, and
 the sound of stone grinding on stone.
Beowulf asks, "Boulder or wall?"
A note sounds off down the slope out of sight.
Moriya says, "A trap, no doubt. Damn."
Beowulf runs up the corridor to see what's making the stone noise.
Beowulf says, "OOC ready to turn and run back if it's something comeing our
 way. :)"
Hey, look, kids, it's a five foot across boulder rolling at high speed!
It bumps off the side walls a lot as it rolls down towards you.
Moriya exclaims, "...head back! To the tunnel we carved! Let this thing crush
 the slugs!"
You hear a sort of buzzing noise down the slope.
Beowulf nods and runs.
Beowulf says, "Uh-oh."
Rimmer asks, "Uh-oh?"
Moriya OOCly says, "Or...are the dimensions of this hallway the same as the one
 before, where the slugs are?"
Jacqueline says, "Aw Fuck."
Beowulf says, "Buzzing from below, probably slugs coming up."
Jacqueline tries to herd a party of 24 back into the passageway they carved...
 unless there's slugs in there too.
John says, "OOC Hallway is slightly over 5 foot wide, and eight foot high."
Beowulf says, "OOC Leaving 3 feet underneath it, if we can get it to bounce
 over us."
Moriya climbs up the wall to the ceiling, bracing him against the opposing
 walls. "If you can, follow my lead, else get back down to the tunnel."
John says, "OOC The boulder isn't going to bounce up in the air long enough for
 it to go over everyone."
Jacqueline exclaims, "okaaaay, back in the hole!"
Moriya stabs Withywindle into the wall for a grip if need be.
Jacqueline runs into the carved passageway first to make sure the slugs hadn't
 gotten in there.
Ivan and Lara join Moriya up by the ceiling.  Most of the CFRC takes off
 running full tilt.
Rimmer joins Ivan, Lara, and Moriya.
Jacqui sprints towards the carved passage.  A swarm of hundreds of wraith-slugs
 have already reached that and are coming full tilt towards you.
You also hear a grinding noise further down, now.
Beowulf follows the others back.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Can I shoot explosive paintballs over their heads from the
 higher vantage point?"
John says, "OOC Yes, you can fire them into the swarm."
John says, "OOC And take out quite a few, you think."
Beowulf starts firing into the swarm.
Beowulf asks, "OOC How long do I think I have until the boulder reaches us?"
Beowulf opens fire.  Those CFRCers with magic weapons begin hacking and
 slashing into the creatures.  Yuo have maybe 10-15 seconds before the boulder
 reaches you.
Rimmer winces from his position on the ceiling, and Turns the swarm.
Beowulf quickly turns and fires a paintball at the boulder to see if they'll
 damage it.
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly can I shapeshift to something small like, say, a
 firefly, and hide up with moriya? and where's shinobu anyway?"
Anna begins turning them desperately.  Wraith-slugs start to swarm all over
 some of your group.
John says, "OOC You cuold try that, Jacqui."
Beowulf asks, "OOC SHouldn't Mikhail be trying the sunblade about now?"
Moriya OOCly says, "Most of the Amberites if not all should be able to do what
 I'm doing. Or, in a pinch, high jump over it. Five feet is easy for decent
 human athletes."
You hear a really loud noise up the hallway, like stone slamming into stone
 very hard, then renewed grinding.
Moriya grimaces "More boulders?"
Mikhail tries using his blade's sunlight power.  It doesn't work.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Stone into stone, not explosive sounds?"
John says, "OOC Sounds like aother boulder dropped into place up the hallway."
Beowulf says, "OOC Great. More of 'em."
Jacqueline says, "Shinobu!  Retreat up here!"  SHe shapeshifts into a firefly
 and joins Moriya up on the ceiling.
Shinobu says, "If I run away...aaaaa....it'll just leave more people vulnerable
 to assault!"
Rimmer asks, "Moriya! Can you cut niches in the walls for people to let the
 boulder pass them by?"
Moriya tries doing so with Withywindle.
Moriya OOCly says, "Drop down onto the ground for as long as I can to do that,
 then get back up."
John says, "OOC You don't have time to cut niches large enough to save people,
 either.  Not enough, anyway."
Moriya OOCly says, "Frig."
Beowulf asks, "OOC How about hauling 'em up with the whip?"
John says, "OOC Please keep in mind that people who are wall-climbing to avoid
 boulders cannot defend themselves very well from wraith-slugs."
Moriya OOCly says, "Didn't think they'd reached us already."
John says, "OOC I'm talking to Beowulf, who wanted to pull people up to the
 ceiling."
Beowulf asks, "OOC Bloody Hell. x.x About how many wraith-slugs can I take
 down?"
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly okay, here's a plan.  The war gods mostly keep the
 slugs at bay.  moonsahde does her MOONSHADE SMASH thing on the boulders.
 sounds good?"
John asks, "OOC You won't know until you try.  Are you going to blaze away with
 your explosive paint balls?  "
Beowulf says, "OOC If they're gonna be more effective than the monomolec whip,
 yup."
John says, "OOC Since they have area affect, yes.  As you don't really have
 room in a narrow hallway to use the whip very well."
Moriya asks, "Rimmer, can you pound a hole in the ground large enough to catch
 the forthcoming boulder?"
Beowulf blazes away at the wraith-slugs again.
Moriya says, "After the first one passes us by."
Rimmer says, "Yeah, but it would take a while."
Rimmer says, "I really wish I still had a Dig charge."
Gherman says, "Assuming it'd work with no magic."
Rimmer snaps his fingers, and slams and bars the bronze doors. "That ought to
 at least slow the boulder."
Moriya OOCly says, "Wait. Are the others beyond the bronze doors?"
John says, "OOC Yes, most of your group is below the bronze doors."
Moriya OOCly says, "You sure you want to block their way back up to us, Mike?"
Jacqueline, seeing the party jammed in their current location, shapeshifts back
 normal, draws Ilvig and fights along with the others to hold the slugs at bay.
 Still mindshifted to Shaft.
Rimmer OOCly says, "Yes. If it stops the boulder, I'll move it to one side and
 open them again. And if it doesn't, well, it won't be blocking their way, not
 will it? :)"
Moriya OOCly says, "Heh. Okay. Just remember there's more boulders coming."
Rimmer says, "One massive rock at a time."
Damasq says, "OOC:  So have Rimmer pick up the stopped boulder and toss it back
 at any more.  :)"
A fair number of wraith-slugs get blown to bits by Beowulf.  The cramped
 quarters of the hallway don't make fighting wraith-slugs any easier. 
 Moonshade decides to try Jacqui's advice and see if she can stop or slow the
 boulder which is about to hit behind you.
The magically inclined of your group are having the worst of this fight, as
 most of them aren't exactly great with weapons.
Moonshade manages to stop the first boulder, at the cost of being bashed pretty
 hard.
And the doors catch the second one.
Rimmer exclaims, "Come on!"
Beowulf asks, "OOC Can the magical types retreat behind the fighter types while
 we try to mow down more slugs?"
Rimmer moves the boulder aside and opens the doors.
Jacqueline says, "OOCLy i take it that means we got room to retreat? n.n;;;;;"
Moriya exclaims, "Hurry up! We'll roll the boulders down at the slugs once you
 get past!"
John says, "OOC The strong people can heft the boulder and hold it in place for
 people to climb over."
Jacqueline exclaims, "Mages back first!  Sword people, cover us!  Everyone,
 RETREAT!"
John says, "OOC There is, unfortunately, nowhere good to move it to in order to
 get it out of the way."
Moriya OOCly says, "Any more boulders after the second one that we can hear?"
Beowulf keeps laying down covering fire while the mages retreat.
You don't hear any boulders coming.
Moriya drops to the ground and heads down to help hold off the slugs.
Jacqueline desperately tries a Breaking Point spell
Some of you pale and confused, others feeling weak, and some just pissed off,
 you manage to retreat back and slam the door in the face of the slugs.
Moriya OOCly says, "Wheeeeeew. That was a lot harder than it should have been.
 x.x;"
Jacqueline looks around to see who's injured and how badly
Beowulf says, "Rimmer! Check everyone out and make sure they haven't been
 drained too much."
Beowulf says, "OOC Ayup. x.x"
Jacqueline goes to Moonshade's side. "Sis!  Hey, you alright?"
Rimmer exclaims, "Damnit, Beowulf, I'm a necromancer, not a cleric!"
Moonshade says, "I feel like shit."
Anna goes person to person.
Beowulf smiles at Rimmer. "If you insist, McCoy."
Jacqueline says, "hey, it'll be alright, sis, you'll see.  MEDIC!"
Keitaro, Lily, Gherman, Wakaba, and Sal seem to be worst off.
The rest of you only got clipped once or twice, usually, and feel a little weak.
Rimmer exclaims, "Bloody rolling boulders! I KNEW there were gonna be rolling
 boulders!"
Moriya frowns, and tries a petty-level Flash spell using his own life force to
 power it.
Nothing happens.
Jacqueline asks, "anyone got any power word burst of life?"
Moriya says, "Something must be actively draining magic, rather than just
 blocking its production, then."
Wakaba sighs.  "The magic sinkhole eats all magic use.  If that's what's
 working here."
Rimmer says, "We'd best forge on. I get the feeling that we'll be low on spells
 til then."
Moriya nods. "Let's go on."
Moriya pauses. "Mitsune, shapeshift the people who got drained worse than the
 others into small forms that the rest of us can carry. They can rest at least
 a little bit that way."
Beowulf says, "Seems like there's a trap after each set of doors... and if we
 don't deal with it, it gets set off by the next trap anyway."
Mitsune nods and does so.
Jacqueline says, "okay.  let's go CAREFULLY examine the next set'a doors, then"
Beowulf asks, "OOC Did I see anything that might have set off the trap?"
Jacqueline shrugs. "Maybe, I dunno, hack a hole through a door instead of open
 it?"
Beowulf smiles crookedly at Jacqui. "The thought has merit."
John says, "OOC Nope, you didn't."
Beowulf asks, "OOC From my temple experience... if there wasn't a visible
 trigger, and magic is being eaten, what else could be setting 'em off?"
John says, "OOC It could be the trap was too well made for you to sense it."
Jacqueline looks ahead to the next set of doors.  What we looking at now?
You go upwards.  You pass under a shaft which may be where the boulders drop
 down from.
Jacqueline looks up at the shaft, wondering if it leads anywhere interesting
The shaft rises up out of sight.
and the doors hang out, being doors.
Jacqueline thinks about it.   "Nah, with our luck, there'll be boulder-pushing
 mummies up there."
Ivan checks them out.  "Well, I don't see any traps.  Want me to open them?"
Jacqueline says, "okay.... DON'T open the door yet"
Rimmer asks, "Hmm?"
Jacqueline asks, "can we, like, hack through the walls on the side or
 something?"
Jacqueline asks, "or, hell, I dunno, hack a hole in the door?"
Moonshade says, "With Moriya's sword, I'd think so."
Rimmer asks, "Ah, you think opning them may trigger the trap?"
Beowulf says, "It's a thought, yes. Not sure how likely it is, but it's
 certainly possible."
Jacqueline sighs.  "And is there _nothing_ on the doors that gives us any
 clues?"
Rimmer says, "Presumably, Ivan checks for that kind of thing."
Ivan says, "I don't see any traps from this side, and I sort of lack magic
 vision to the see the other side."
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly i assume it's the same - eye on door, dragon on the
 other?"
John says, "OOC Yes."
You page, "John, assume that Moriya is patternsighting as he goes along,
 instead of me having to pose it every time we hit a juncture." to Akemi.
Jacqueline pokes at the eye curiously
Akemi pages, "The doro is full of bronzey goodness." to you.
You page, "Gotcha." to Akemi.
Rimmer says, "Still, a quick tunnel would probably work."
Moriya says, "Let's try that."
Beowulf nods.
Jacqueline says, "and behind the next door will probably be some freak with a
 dragon staff to cave all our skulls in....."
John asks, "OOC Going to carve through the doors or around it?"
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly it's been hours since we set off the magic sinkhole,
 right?"
Moriya OOCly says, "Around, I think."
Jacqueline says, "OOCLy and magic's still not working"
John says, "OOC Yes, it has been.  Magic still out."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly around it is, then. seemed to work decently the last
 time"
Beowulf says, "OOC Except for being caught by the wraith-slugs when we set off
 the next one. ^_-;;"
Jacqueline says, "hey, um, Moriya?  watch where you hack. Might be some trap
 mechanisms in the wall or something, I dunno."
Moriya nods. "I'll be very careful."
You hack your way around the door.  It goes pretty quickly.  As you do so, you
 find several metal chains running through the walls, possibly from some
 mechanism connected to the doors.
Jacqueline says, "whoaaaa"
Moriya smiles grimly. "Ah. So that seems to be the case."
Rimmer exclaims, "Aha!"
Beowulf nods. "Makes sense."
Moriya cuts around them with great care.
Jacqueline says, "right.  okay.  NOBODY trip on the chains"
Beowulf NODS.
Rimmer exclaims, "Onward!"
Beowulf says, "OOC Keep an eye out as we go for something that might be the
 trap."
Jacqueline says, "okay.... very carefully.... next door."
You manage to bypass the chains and hack your way into a large room.
The room is about a sixty foot cube, and in the center, on a dias, is a large
 sarcophagus.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Did we see anything that might have been the trap in the
 last corridor?"
the walls show the many evil deeds of the Black Pharoah.
Rimmer says, "The lair of e-ville."
Moriya asks, "Mitsune, check for the spikard's location, please?"
John says, "OOC Unless maybe something comes down that shaft you left behind
 you, not really."
Jacqueline eyes the sarcophagus with uneasiness, disgust, and general fear.
 "_Aw_Fuck_.  OKay, everybody, weapons out."
Beowulf says, "Ah, yes, our friend to play with."
Jacqueline draws Ilvig out again.
Rimmer says, "I want a word with this guy about his hallway decor."
Beowulf asks, "OOC Anything up on the ceiling?"
The ceiling is just a high ceiling.
Mitsune points at the sarchophagus.  "In there."
Jacqueline facepalms.  "WHY?!"
Beowulf smiles ruefully. "Somehow, I'm not surprised."
Moriya nods. "Good, at least we're finally here. Just a question of,
 well...what else is inside with it."
Rimmer twitches. "This is it then, lads."
Jacqueline says, "Waitwaitwait.  The DRAGON spikard is in there?"
Mitsune says, "Well, that's what my senses tell me."
Moriya says, "Let me check as well."
Jacqueline asks, "is that magic sinkhole gonna be able to hold off a spikard?"
She says, "Those with Pattern might wish to check."
Beowulf says, "Interesting that it should end up here."
Moriya uses Pattern to try to locate the spikard also.
Jacqueline briefly tests out magic
Moriya feels it is in the sarcophagus.
Beowulf does a quick Pattern check for the spikard as well.
So does Beowulf.
Moriya says, "I sense the Dragon Spikard inside, yes."
Jacqueline says, "cos if this guy can still use magic and we can't, we're
 screwed."
Jacqueline says, "well, hurtin, anyway"
Moriya waves Withywindle. "Only if he can get past a spellbreaker."
Rimmer says, "Oh, let's just kill him again and get it over with."
Jacqueline says, "I remind you, beloved cousin, of the golem thing."
Moriya says, "Assuming we don't hit him before he can squeeze off a spell,
 anyway."
Rimmer says, "Maybe my third World of Command will work on him, though I am not
 optimistic."
Beowulf says, "I don't think the spikard would be able to get through the
 sinkhole, since we used one to isolate the Lion spikard at CAFAM."
Moriya shrugs. "Let's see."
Utena looks thoughtful.
Damasq says, "OOC:  Just get a box full of glue prepared..."
Moriya OOCly grins.
Moriya asks, "Something occurs to you, Aunt Utena?"
Anna says, "I can probably turn him, I hope."
Rimmer hms.
Rimmer says, "I already know the answer, but..."
Beowulf does a quick probability shift to find some oil flasks he might have
 left in his pockets, and hands them out.
You all arm yourself with oil.
Utena says, "I have a bad feeling."
Rimmer sighs and nods. "Yup, there's undead in there."
Moriya winces. "Ah."
Beowulf asks, "OOC Claw of the Dragon is the one that's supposed to emphasize
 fighting, right?"
Utena says, "I suggest we fan out, around it."
Rimmer says, "I don't have a great feeling either, but given that we're about
 to pry the lid off the tomb of the evil undead asskicker of Nithia, that's not
 a surprise."
Moriya nods. "And everyone can look out for what's behind the person across
 from you, just in case."
Beowulf says, "Good ideas, both of you."
John says, "OOC Claw  is useful for magics which break and destroy things"
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly in this room does there seem to be things that might
 pop up and open nasty surprises?"
Jacqueline says, "OOCly it IS?  ooooh :)"
Moriya OOCly says, "Oh, man. x.x Jacqui with this thing does not encourage me."
John says, "OOC There is no obvious location for anything to pop up.  Searching
 the room doesn't reveal any secret doors you can find."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly i'll trade it for the spikard that makes chicks gasp
 and turn lesbian ;)"
You page, "Oh, and I patternsight the sarcophagus." to Akemi.
Utena closes her eyes and concentrates for a minute, then opens them.
Rimmer gets back a ways, so he can attempt to command or turn uninteruptted.
Beowulf asks, "What can you think of, Aunt?"
Akemi pages, "There's something funny about the sarcophagus, but you aren't
 quite sure what." to you.
Jacqueline holds her sword ready and takes a deep breath
Moriya says, "...there's something strange about the sarcophagus, but I can't
 exactly pinpoint what it is."
Moriya pauses. "Wait. This fellow might be an Outsider Herald, right?" He
 fishes out his stock of Elder seals.
Beowulf makes sure his Elder Seal Pendant is on his neck and ready, and makes
 sure Jacqui and Lily have theirs on as well.
Utena pokes Wakaba.  "Take a look at it, won't you?"
Jacqueline looks around warily.  This is, in her past experience, where the
 Other Person would break into the scene and fry her
Wakaba, who is still something small and portable, concentrates.
Wakaba says, "Something's been done to this sarcophagus...I think it's been
 molded with Pattern."
Jacqueline says, "well now, that's interesting."
Moriya blinks. "With Pattern?"
Beowulf asks, "Molded to seal in something nasty?"
Rimmer asks, "Pattern's that thing you guys worship, right?"
Moriya says, "In a manner of speaking."
Wakaba says, "Not a seal."
Moriya asks, "A trap?"
Beowulf hmmms. "What, then?"
Wakaba continues, "I think it's intended to prevent something inside it being
 sensed.  Or maybe..."
Beowulf thinks back to Ebenscrux and what they found when they checked out the
 remains of the Gaunt Man's construct. "Or a hole into Outside?"
Rimmer says, "If so, it doesn't work very well. I can feel the undead in there."
Jacqueline says, "Sonova...."
Jacqueline says, "so if we open this thing, it might be a big gateway to the
 Outsiders"
Moriya looks at his handful of Elder seals. "I hope these would be enough to
 take care of that, but I have my doubts."
Rimmer twitches.
Wakaba's eyes open.
Jacqueline asks, "er?"
Beowulf asks, "It's only a possibility, but... Mother?"
Then Wakaba looks very angry.
Jacqueline says, "er...."
Moriya sweats. "What? What is it?"
Beowulf gets the Elder Sign pendant ready to put around Mother's, er, shape if
 necessary.
Wakaba says, "I think we may..."
Jacqueline asks, "..... may?"
At this point, the sarcophagus opens and a glowing skull rises up.
Jacqueline exclaims, "Ohfuck!"
It has gemstone eyes and teeth.
Jacqueline exclaims, "Poetry! Sic'em!"
Anna whispers, "Shit."
Moriya exclaims, "A Soulstealer!"
Rimmer exclaims, "Worse! Demi-Lich!"
Rimmer frantically attempts to command his second Demi-Lich, and to run like
 hell if it fails.
It laughs at Rimmer's pathetic powers.
Rimmer says, "Oh, shit."
Utena gives a great shout and plunges at the creature sword forward
Beowulf tries slashing at it with the monomolecular whip.
Moriya darts forward to attack in coordination with the others.
It tries to turn to face her, and gets hit by the whip and by Utena's sword.
And by Withywindle too.
It shatters
Moriya asks, "Anything else in the sarcophagus?"
There are five small boxes in the sarcophagus.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Any sign of anything coming out of its remains?"
Moriya eyes the remains of the demi-lich. "Okay, that was quick."
No signs of anything coming up.
Rimmer exclaims, "l3wt!"
Beowulf asks, "What were you about to say, Mother?"
Jacqueline rushes up to peer into the sarcophagus nervously
Jacqueline says, "okay.  right.  the boxes are traps, aren't they."
Beowulf says, "Don't touch anything... they probably are."
Moriya says, "It's very possible." He patternsights the interior of the
 sarcophagus now.
Wakaba says, "I have a very strong suspicion we've been suckered."
Jacqueline says, "...."
Moriya twitches.
Moriya says, "Pattern's been leading us here, though."
Wakaba says, "Because there's no way some Outsider fortress would have things
 molded with Pattern in it."
Jacqueline says, "......"
Beowulf asks, "Oh. A Pattern-molded coffin to show signs of a Dragon spikard?"
She continues,"And I rather doubt the Immortals of Mystara have Pattern."
Jacqueline shakes her head.  "Dammit, after all we went through...."
Wakaba says, "Utena, please smash the boxes open."
Beowulf asks, "Kuonji, perhaps?"
Utena removes the five boxes.
Jacqueline says, "why do I have a feeling I'm gonna cry"
Four of them contain various kinds of jewelry.
Moriya mutters darkly.
Rimmer exclaims, "L3wt!"
Jacqueline begins to twitch
Jacqueline eyes the l3wt desperately for something looking like a spikard
The fifth contains a rubber chicken
Moriya says, "..."
Jacqueline exclaims, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
The Rubber chicken when checked contains...something I'm gonig to email to all
 of you.  Hold on a second.
Jacqueline reads the note.  "Oh.  Shit.  Again."
Beowulf reads the note, and smiles ruefully. "Ah, yes. We should probably get
 out of here."
You hear a rumbling noise above you.
Jacqueline asks, "Can Aeris get us the heck outta here NOW?"
Beowulf quickly checks the construct connections, but suspects they're still
 out.
Wakaba says grimly, "Boulder.  Feh."
Wakaba says, "Utena, please carry me around the room."
Moriya says, "That's it. No more spikard quests for me."
Jacqueline asks, "I wanna kill someone.  Can we go frag the freak with the
 dragon staff?"
Utena carries Wakaba around the room.  The rumbling noise stops.
Beowulf asks, "Molded it away with Pattern, Mother?"
Moriya says, "I agree with Jacqueline, though. Let's take a moment to thrash
 the fellow with the cane outside. I think we could all use some stress relief."
Beowulf says, "Assuming we can get to him, yes."
Wakaba says, her voice colder and angrier than usual, "I am not a happy camper."
Beowulf looks worriedly at Wakaba. "Mother?"
Moriya says, "Let's just get out of here. I am getting tired of tombs."
Wakaba says, "Give me a minute, and I'll turn on magic, and we can carve our
 way out through the wall."
Jacqueline asks, "boulder, yeah?"
Jacqueline points upwards
Wakaba says, "There is no boulder.  I'm afraid the badly maintained trap
 malfunctioned."
Jacqueline says, "oh, good, right"
Jacqueline says, "Moriya, chop the wall. let's go mangle people"
Jacqueline asks, "and, um, if they're feeling up to it, bring some of our
 people back to more normal form?"
Beowulf shakes his head. "Perhaps next time I should stick to him and drink
 tea."
Moriya says, "We may be inside the heart of the pyramid, Jacqueline. It would
 take a long time for me to hack my way out."
Beowulf says, "We're probably up at or near the top."
Jacqueline says, "in that case, chopp"
Wakaba says, "Trust me, we'll be out soon, Moriya."
Moriya says, "Let's let Aunt Wakaba turn on magic first."
Moriya says, "And then we can unleash several mountains of enraged whoopass on
 some people."
Jacqueline says, "might as well get benji cooking on an Earthquake...."
Jacqueline says, "soon as magic comes back"
Moriya turns to Mitsune. "My dear, let's go to Chaos once we're out. I've had
 enough of spikards for a while. You can go meet Motoko's husband."
Wakaba concentrates, and then she mutters a few words of magic.  A light grows
 in her shrunken Palm (As she is still shrunken to portable size.)
Beowulf asks, "Would an Earthquake work on something flying in the air?"
Jacqueline mutters darkly about sticking to slaughtering Taylors
Mitsune says, "I suggest we find Mr. Ukyou and shove his head up his ass."
Beowulf asks, "Um, who turned the magic off?"
Jacqueline says, "no, but if you recall we got like five armies out there
 waiting for us."
Moriya asks, "Is your Bag working now, Uncle Beowulf?"
Beowulf says, "True, Jacqui."
Beowulf checks the bag.
Wakaba says, "The tomb was built using local magics to render the last part of
 it an anti-magic zone.  I just molded the spells away."
The bag isn't working.
Beowulf nods. "Not the Immortals, then?"
Wakaba says, "If someone will perhaps carve the walls open like I asked, we'll
 get out much faster than if I have to sit here and turn everything on one by
 one."
Jacqueline kills the time by hacking away at the rubber chicken very
 psychotically
Jacqueline exclaims, "Yo! POETRY! CHOP!"
Moriya nods. "All right." He starts carving up the wall.
Wakaba says, "It may be the Immortals, using local magics.  I would expect they
 would."
Beowulf nods. "Right. Let's get outside, then, before we disturb them."
Jacqueline asks, "hey, uncle beowulf, can you slap a magic sinkhole on a
 person?"
Wakaba says, "At the moment, I'm hoping a few get mad and come down so Utena
 can cave their heads in for me."
Jacqueline says, "I want you to slap it on that dragon staff guy so we can
 curbstomp'em"
Beowulf says, "You can, I believe; unfortunately, I've used my only one."
Jacqueline asks, "Lily's got another, right?"
Beowulf nods.
Utena says, "I'd rather not face more of them if I don't have to, Wakaba."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly lily is a shrunken person now, isn't she"
Beowulf says, "OOC Last I heard, yup."
John says, "OOC She's plushie sized, yes."
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly can she still cast it while plushie-sized?"
Beowulf grins. "Anyone interested in sliding down the side of the pyramid when
 we get out?"
Jacqueline says, "sure, count me in."
Jacqueline asks, "maybe we should get ready to toss people in the bag to heal
 up quicklike once we get back in magicland, yeah?"
Jacqueline says, "be nice to have everyone around when we curbstomp the locals"
Lily says, "Yes, I have a sinkhole ready."
Jacqueline says, "good, right.  that freak shows his face when we get out
 there, sinhole his ass."
Beowulf says, "Just remember, it also means we can't use spells to attack him."
Jacqueline says, "that's what we got Moriya for."
Moonshade says, "That's what good old fashioned swords are for."
Jacqueline says, "and sis."
Beowulf grins and shakes his head. "I see."
Beowulf says, "Well, we'll see if I can't help tie him up a bit. Literally." He
 smiles again.
Moriya hacks, and to his surprise, in only a few minutes, he finds himself
 hacking open the wall and looking out and we pause.
Akemi pages, "So what IS what Moriya will do?" to you.
You page, "Okay, don't tell anyone. :) He's going to kiss Motoko, if she lets
 him. Let this be a test. Will she really 'not mind' something like that? And
 it's also a test for Moriya, to see if he's able to do it. Not just any kiss,
 either, but one from Juri's book. The Kiss from a Rose." to Akemi.
Moriya peers out through the hole. "All right, we have a way out. Let's work
 out some stress."
Jacqueline peeks out with Moriya
Rimmer waits for a good time to present the bill.
Beowulf ponders ways to deflate Kuonji's ego a bit.
Akemi pages, "HEH :)" to you.
You page, "I've even figured out how the kiss works. Be prepared for a longish
 pose when it comes around. :)" to Akemi.
Outside, there's a MASSIVE BATTLE raging
Jacqueline says, "where's that blue-haired sonovabitch...."
Jacqueline blinks.  "And where's uncle Mo?"
Half a dozen undead armies are going at it.
Beowulf tries to analyze the battle from his position.
There is no sign of Mr. Blue Staff.
BLUE HAIR WITH STAFF
Jacqueline asks, "Uncle Beowulf?  check with aeris please?"
Beowulf checks to see if Aeris can be reached now.
Aeris pops out with the manifestation.  "Uncle Morgy feels better now.  He had
 a panic attack after a big evil star tried to eat his brain."
Jacqueline says, "...."
Moriya asks, "Do you know what happened to that blue-haired fellow afterward?"
Beowulf says, "Hm. All right, then, I'm glad he's OK."
The battlefield is strangely lit, with an odd greenish glow.
Moriya patternsights the area.
Beowulf's Mad Skillz tell him that eventually, the army of ceramic warriors
 will beat down the others, if nothing else changes.
Beowulf asks, "OOC What are the various sides?"
Jacqueline says, "shit."
Rimmer looks indirectly at the sun. "That's odd."
The sun seems to be glowing green, surrounded by thousands of tiny green
 pinpoints of light.
Jacqueline sighs.
Beowulf asks, "Evil sun... oh, crap. Outsiders attacking it?"
The armies:
Jacqueline taps her ring.  "Benji, start cooking an earthquake spell.  I wanna
 destroy this place."
Ceramic Warriors.  Scottish Zombies.  Bronze Armor clad skeletons.  A swarm of
 wraith-slugs (who are dying horribly).  Rapidly dying vampires.  And a few
 hapless Nithians.
Beowulf asks, "Um, niece, let's not destroy the nice Immortals' playground, and
 the world that it's underlying?"
Aeris passes the Morgy manifestation to Jacqui.  "Here you go."
Beowulf says, "I think our friend Dragon Cane is now up there attacking the
 sun."
Beowulf asks, "Let's concentrate on that, shall we?"
Jacqueline takes the ring.  "Uncle Mo, you okay?  Might want to do a system
 diagnostic to make sure."
Moriya blinks. "He's up there? How is he doing that?"
Moriya says, "Attacking the sun, I mean."
Morgenstern says, "My brain hurts, but I'm fine."
Jacqueline says, "oh, is that what he's doing? Okay. right.  let's shoot him in
 the back."
Rimmer says, "Okay. The sun seems to be surrounded by these weird-ass fire
 elementals."
Beowulf asks, "I'm not sure -- but remember, Aeris said Morganstern was being
 attacked by an 'evil sun'? A.k.a. the blue-haired guy? And blue plus yellow
 sun=green?"
Rimmer says, "But I'm pretty sure they and the sun should NOT be green."
Jacqueline shifts Ilvig to crossbow form.  "Hope this thing has the range."
Anna says, "I'm going to cast commune and inform the Immortals."
Moriya asks, "Shouldn't the resident Immortals be noticing this?"
Moriya says, "Ah."
Beowulf looks grimly at Moriya and Jacqui. "And there is an Outsider known as
 the Second Sun... Cthuga?"
And now you can see the green dots streaking down towards your current position.
Jacqueline says, "oh, great, they're heading towards us now."
Rimmer says, "Okay, though I'd hope they'd NOTICE a little thing like the SUN
 turning, y'know, GREEN AND EVIL."
Moriya sighs, and fishes out the Elder seals. "All right." He patternsights the
 approaching dots.
Anna says, "Well, so would I, but it's best to be sure."
Jacqueline says, "remind me that I don't wanna bring the jewel down here."
Wakaba says, "You don't want to bring the Jewel down here."
Rimmer asks, "Jewel? L3wt?"
Jacqueline says, "thank you."
Beowulf makes sure his Elder Sign pendant is still ready. "Moriya? You might
 want to give one of those to Mother, so she can do Pattern Defence to shut 'em
 out if they are Outsider-based."
Moriya says, "Could someone cast some flight spells? I don't have any racked
 myself."
Moriya nods, and hands over a few to Wakaba.
Jacqueline says, "i can cast some, but you won't be much faster than running
 speed"
Rimmer says, "We do have an entire pyramid to use for cover..."
Moriya asks, "Let them come to us, then?"
Jacqueline says, "I wonder how everyone would react if we told them the pyramid
 was empty."
Wakaba says, "We need a source of water."
Rimmer curses the fates once again that blastomatic sorcery doesn't work here.
Jacqueline asks, "got a river  in the bag, uncle beowulf?"
Rimmer says, "How much water? We have a Decanter of Eldless Water."
Jacqueline says, "Oh? Cool."
Wakaba says, "How fast can it spit out water?"
Beowulf nods to Rimmer. "That, and Aeris can do a gateway to a large plane of
 water."
Rimmer says, "Fairly quickly, but in a limited stream."
Rimmer says, "A large planar gate might be more efficient."
Jacqueline looks at Beowulf. "Hey, I know, let's flood the place."
Beowulf nods. "Aeris? Can you get a gate established to a shadow of endless
 water?"
Wakaba says, "Good, make it erupt up in the air as they draw close."
Beowulf asks, "Let's try and spray it *up* at the flying evil fire things,
 shall we?"
Jacqueline says, "Lily, get ready to smack blueboy with the magic sinkhole."
Jacqueline says, "if he's with them"
Then Wakaba says, "No, wait, open the gate OVER them, so it rains down on them."
Beowulf nods. "Right. Aeris?"
Beowulf says, "You get 'em from below, Rimmer, I'll try and get 'em from above."
Rimmer says, "Uh... okay, although my decanter don't spray that welll..."
Lily nods to Jacqui.
Rimmer gamely spritzes, looking somewhat embarrassed.
Moriya tries to sense the relative location of the blue-haired guy with the
 staff using Pattern.
Pattern says to go up to where the sun is.
Jacqueline taps her ring. "Um, i know this'll sound like a stupid thing to ask
 a fire construct, uncle mo, but can you open a trump gate that'll dump lots of
 water?"
Beowulf asks, "Better than nothing, I'm sure... actually, if magic is back on,
 can someone do a wind gust spell to splash it up?"
Moriya says, "He's in the direction of the sun, apparently."
Morgenstern laughs
Jacqueline says, "yeah, that's what I thought.  "
Beowulf looks to see if Aeris has opened the trump gate yet.
Moriya asks, "Kafuin, can you help out, as well?"
Water begins raining down from above onto the onrushing green flame creatures.
Jacqueline says, "well, that looks neat."
Some of them dodge out of the way.  Many get doused and hurt.
Moriya OOCly says, "Does Patternsight tell me anything in particular about the
 flames?"
John says, "OOC THey are full of Outsidery Goodness."
Moriya says, "Yes, a lot of Outsider energy in them."
Jacqueline says, "great."
Beowulf says, "Ah, good, we get to destroy Outsiders again."
Wakaba says, "Always a good thing."
Moriya says, "Cheer up, Jacqueline. You get to engage in wanton destruction
 without me chiding you."
Gherman tries a small spell to see if magic is working again.
Jacqueline stares flatly at Moriya. "Very funny."
the creatures continue to dive as your magi cast various defensive spells on
 themselves.  Magic is in fact up.
Rimmer has the look of a man who really wants to do something cool, but values
 his life too much to do it.
Within the limits of what the Hollow World supports anyway.
Moriya drops an AT Field on himself and prepares for the fight.
Moriya OOCly says, "Oh, and has everyone who needed it gotten into the Bag and
 healed up?"
Beowulf asks, "OOC Actually, is bag access back yet?"
John asks, "OOC YEs.  You want to let people pop in, heal and prepare?"
Beowulf asks, "OOC Yup. How close are the flame creatures?"
John says, "OOC They have miles to go"
John says, "OOC So you have some time."
Jacqueline says, "actually, I wouldn't mind wanton destruction, except the
 stupid magic here won't let me use big bang spells."
Rimmer pops in, emerging with reenergized and revised spells racked.
Jacqueline frowns.  "Shit, I need a beer and a sauna after this."   She pauses.
 "Shit, I've mindshifted to Dad a bit too long."
Wakaba and Lily and Keitaro all pop in to change spells as well.
Beowulf says, "OOC Enough time to pop in and conjure up a fire pump/hose to
 spray with? :)"
John says, "OOC Yes."
Beowulf pops in and conjures up the Mother of all Water Guns. :)
Jacqueline says, "OOCly pattern fueled water gun, right? :)"
Beowulf says, "OOC Ayup. :)"
Rimmer says, "Gherman? Let's put a Prismatic Wall in their path when they get
 close."
Gherman nods.
Wakaba grins in a not very pleasant way.
Wakaba begins casting.
Clouds begin to rush in from the horizon in all directions.
Rimmer exclaims, "Ah, Control Weather!"
And then a fifty mile across Typhoon begins to pour down rain.
The toughest of the fire creatures soldier on, but this is curtains for a lot
 of them.
Moriya says, "...very nice, Aunt Wakaba."
Beowulf pops out with a water gun that puts out fire-hose volume of
 Pattern-charged water.
Moriya says, "Let's see if this gets Dragon-cane man's attention."
Jacqueline casts AT-Field on herself
Rimmer says, "Boy, Nithia's gonna remember this storm." Pause. "Not that the
 green sun and rain of fire wouldn't stick in there memories anyway."
With the resources of your group, we can pretty much simplify things and note
 that you're going to slaughter the reamining creatures.
Especially with Beowulf hosing things down with Pattern charged Water. :
Jacqueline snorts.  "Suckas."
Anna says, "The immortals are attacking the Second Sun now."
Moriya says, "Ah? Excellent."
Beowulf frowns. "Will they need help?"
Rimmer says, "Punk-ass flaming bitches. Huh, they are? Good."
Rimmer pauses.
Jacqueline looks up in the general direction of the sun.  "YO! BLUE BOY! COME
 GET SOME!"
Anna says, "They can handle him.  But they ask we deal with the person who
 caused this."
Rimmer asks, "Er, not to cast a damper on things, but are they gonna destroy
 the sun?"
Moriya asks, "Do you know where he is?"
Moriya says, "No, the Second Sun is something else. Not the Hollow World's sun."
Anna says, "They made the sun.  they'll make another one."
Beowulf does a quick Pattern check for Blue-hair Boy.
There is a pause, then a pop, and then Jacqui gets her head caved in by Mr.
 Blue Hair.
Moriya OOCly says, "..."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly .... "
Jacqueline says, "OOCly even through the AT field, I guess o.o"
Beowulf immediately turns the Pattern-Water gun on Mr. Blue Hair.
Rimmer OOCly says, "Is he flying?"
Spellbreakers...gotta love them.
Moriya immediately starts attacking.
Yes, he is flying.  By now, I assume you're all flying.
Jacqueline crumples to the ground, clutching her head.  "Get out... get out..."
 She tries to raise Pattern Defense.  Hopefully, she's still wearing her Outer
 Seal
Rimmer points a key at him. "GROUNDED!"
Jacqueline says, "OOCly say, wasn't lily supposed to...."
Beowulf says, "OOC If we're all flying, that would be a Bad Idea."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly dammit"
Jacqueline cries weakly, "Aunt Wakaba... help...."
The man laughs at Rimmer's key.  He doesn't laugh so hard when Utena, Moriya,
 Naru, and Haruka close on him.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Pattern-water have any affect on him?"
Moriya hurls Elder seals as well as chainsaws with Withywindle.
Rimmer snarls, and tries the Cobras of Wrath.
Wakaba flies down and casts a healing spell on Jacqui's head.
Mr. Blue Hair gets wet from the Water.
Jacqueline says, "auntie... something.... invading my head...."
It does douse the green flame which limns him.
Wakaba aids Jacqui with her mind as best she can
Beowulf asks, "OOC Is he close enough to try to grab the staff from him with
 the whip?"
Mr. Blue Hair teleports out of the way of those closting in, except for Utena,
 who manages to give him a nasty cut across the chest before he blinks to about
 300 feet away.
Moriya drops a teleport to above and behind his location.
Beowulf asks, "OOC Did that look like a teleport, or a Living Trump effect?"
It left that fun trumpy shimmer.
Moriya also shouts out Trump disrupts.
Beowulf says, "OOC Damn."
Rimmer pulls the magic missile wand and opens up full auto without waiting to
 see how the cobras do.
You page, "And I could sense trump usage with Withywindle when he did that?" to
 Akemi.
Akemi pages, "Oddly, you didn't." to you.
You page, "Aaaah." to Akemi.
Moriya also does some magic negates too.
Jacqueline asks, "OOCly am I recovered or is nasty outsidery shit still digging
 in my head?"
Beowulf asks, "Aeris says it looks like Trump, but it isn't! Lily, Mitsune, any
 of you have those intelligent chasing lightning spells racked?"
Wakaba continues to help Jacqui try to fight off the spell attacking her mind.
Mitsune shakes her head.  "Blasting magic doesn't work in the hollow world,
 Beowulf, so I didn't rack any."
He begins casting a spell.  Moriya blips behind him.
Moriya whacks him hard.
Moriya feels a spell lashing out at him.  Going to use Pattern Defense?
Moriya OOCly says, "...even before I can hit him?"
John says, "OOC As you're swinging at him, yes."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly go for the gold, maul the bitch :)"
Moriya OOCly says, "Try to connect, then bring up defense."
Rimmer, if the magic missiles and cobras  fail to work, instead tries Precision
 Grease on the Dragon Cane.
Beowulf sprays knockout paintballs in an area arc, trying to trap blue-hair
 with one even if he teleports.
Moriya stabs into the man's back.  He bleeds profusely from the nasty wound. 
 Then Moriya vanishes.
You page, "...d'oh. Where am I?" to Akemi.
Akemi pages, "You're in a black misty void, falling towards some sort of
 amorphous horror." to you.
You page, "Trump back to where I was with Withywindle." to Akemi.
You page, "And whack him again." to Akemi.
Blink, the man is behind Beowulf, cracking Beowulf upside the head.
Blink, Moriya appears again.
Moriya trumps back to where the man is, looking irritated.
You page, "Or, if I can't trump precisely to that place, drop another teleport
 to below him and shove Withywindle into his crotch." to Akemi.
Beowulf turns and grabs the man.  He teleports, with Beowulf.  Moriya appears
 just below where the man was.  Utena looks very frustrated by all this.
The man struggles with Beowulf desperately, teleporting about wildly.
You page, "I watch for any sort of pattern to the teleportation, and try to
 catch him again." to Akemi.
You page, "Careful not to hit Beowulf, of course." to Akemi.
Beowulf tries to steer him closer to Moonshade and Moriya. "Help grapple him!
 Grab on to him and he can't get away."
Jacqueline says, "b-benji.... help me..."
Moriya tries several times to move in and intercept, but isn't having too much
 look.
Rimmer forgets spells and tries the grapple thing too, as he does it well.
Mitsune suddenly appears next to Beowulf and the man, in her fox-woman form. 
 She joins in the grapple, also applying large fangs to the man's head.
Moriya calls out, "Aunt Wakaba! Use the Elder seals I gave you to help
 Jacqueline!"
Rimmer, you need a way to stop the man teleporting to get close enough to him
 to grapple.
Rimmer OOCly says, "Dimension door, the wizard's friend. :)"
Rimmer says, "Should get me right on top of him."
Wakaba looks thoughtful, then says, "Moriya, if you will assist me?"
Moriya flies down to Wakaba's side to help.
Wakaba says, "If you can lend me you and Kafuin's assistance, I believe I can
 shatter this spell connecting Jacqui's mind to the Outsider."
Moriya nods. "Kafuin, we need your help."
Jacqueline says, "hnng...... IA! IA!.. shiiit......"
The man goes limp, perhaps because Mitsune has chewed her way through his skull
 into his brain.  Beowulf wrenches the staff away from him.  And Rimmer DDoors
 to him.
Jacqueline exclaims, "OOCly more! curbstomp him to a bloody pulp!"
Kafuin links his power to that of Moriya and Wakaba.  Wakaba then uses her
 Advanced Magic Negation on Jacqui.
Rimmer hits him just on general principles, then disgustedly leaves.
John says, "OOC The man kept teleporting too much, Mike."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly and i'm just waiting to get psychichally unmangled :)"
The spell on Jacqui shatters.
Jacqueline says, "nnng...."
Rimmer OOCly says, "That's why I chose autotarget spells, but no matter."
Beowulf flies over to the group with Mitsune and the body.
Jacqueline gets up slowly, woozy but infuriated. "Where....
 wherezemuthafucka..."
Moriya sighs. "Right." He looks up. "Get that staff contained and analyze it!"
Beowulf says, "I think he's pretty well dead, Jacqui."
Beowulf asks, "Lily, can you isolate the staff the same way you did the
 spikard?"
Jacqueline says, "where... "  she shakes her head.  "Where's the dead body, I
 wanna stomp on it."
Lily examines the staff.  "It's a spell rack.  And a powerful weapon, I think."
Moriya patternsights the staff for Outsider energies.
Beowulf drops the body. "Search it first."
Mitsune resumes human form and washes out her mouth.
Beowulf conjures up some of Mitsune's favorite drink for her.
The staff is still full of lots of unused outsider Magics
Jacqueline says, "Uncle Mo, still there?  Gimmie a #40 mallet?"
Mitsune says, "Thank you, Beowulf."
Jacqui gets her mallet.
Moriya says, "There is a lot of unused Outsider sorcery racked in that staff."
Mitsune says, "Probably all racked by the Gaunt Man."
Beowulf nods. "Any way of clearing it out, Lily, do you know?"
Jacqueline caves in the guy's skull.  Sure, it's too late, but hey.
Moriya says, "It might be safe to use after we flush it out, but right now,
 seal it up."
Lily seals it so the magic can't be used.
Beowulf says, "Right."
Jacqueline whacks at the man's skull again and again and again and again and
 again....
Lily says, "I can probably drain out the spells with a magic sinkhole.
Moonshade says, "Me next, Jacqui."
Moriya sighs, letting the adrenaline drain out, and goes over to Mitsune. "You
 did well, dear. I couldn't keep up with all his damn teleports."
Jacqueline grins maniacally at Moonshade. "Why wait? Join in!"
Mitsune says, "I trumped Beowulf, and then came through.  Since Beowulf moved
 with him, it worked."
Jacqueline exclaims, "Uncle Mo!  A #40 mallet for my sister!"
Beowulf shrugs. "It worked, that's good enough for me."
Moriya chuckles. "Ah, I see." He kisses her on the cheek. "Should have thought
 of that myself."
Jacqueline resumes converting skull to pulp
Mitsune says, "Well, one source of evil removed!"
Beowulf asks, "Mother? When we get a little time, could you check the staff
 over and see if it'll be safe to use once we clean out all the Outsider
 magics?"
Jacqueline says, "Hey, anyone wanna search this guy's body?  I wanna fry this
 guy's remains so nobody can resurrect him.   Fucker."
Wakaba says, "I will check it out, Beowulf."
Beowulf says, "OOC If it can be made safe, maybe I'll have something to claim
 for once. :)"
Rimmer watches the two berserk sister merrily malleting a corpse to pulp, and
 wonders why people get worried about _him_.
Ivan holds up a book and a ring and some gold coins.  "Already looted."
Moriya OOCly says, "Heh. Well, you did get it. :)"
Far below you, the ceramic army now holds the field.
Jacqueline says, "right? no objections?  Uncle Mo, turn this guy into ashes."
Beowulf asks, "OOC Now that the main event has been taken care of, what does
 the ceramic army look like?"
Jacqueline takes a moment to spit on the remains.
Moriya looks at Ivan. "We'd like to examine the book and the ring, make sure
 that they aren't tainted with Outsider powers. The coins are yours to keep."
Beowulf says, "Make sure the coins aren't tainted, too."
Ivan says, "I have to say that this adventure has heavily sucked for loot."
Beowulf asks, "Lily, did you recognize enough of any of those spells to tell if
 one of them explained how he could teleport around like that?"
He passes over the book and the ring.
Rimmer says, "Yeah. Then again, we are getting paid a large lump sum."
Jacqueline twitches.  Ring?
Beowulf smiles at Ivan. "We'll make sure you get well-compensated."
Lily says, "It's not something I'm familiar with."
Moriya patternsights the items.
Beowulf smiles ruefully at Lily. "Oh, well."
The book is just a book.  The ring is a spell rack.
Jacqueline stalks over, dragging her bloodied mallet.  "Did someone say 'ring'?"
It also has Outsider magics in it.
Moriya says, "The book...just a book. The ring is a spell rack."
Jacqueline says, "damn. bastard."
Moriya asks, "With Outsider magic in it. Lily, if you would kindly seal this as
 well?"
Beowulf looks at the book. Um, it wouldn't happen to be that book of Outsider
 lore, would it?
It's a diary.
Moriya hands it to Beowulf to inspect.
Beowulf looks through it.
His name is Ancalgon.  He served the Gaunt Man in shadow; when Gauntie died,
 Gauntie's staff passed to him.
Mo atomizes Ancalgon
Jacqueline grunts with approval as Ancalgon gets toasty.
Moriya goes over to talk to Mitsune.
Beowulf says, "He was the Gaunt Man's henchman; no wonder he hated you, Jacqui."
Jacqueline says, "oh, yeah, great."
You page, "This is where Moriya gently tries to persuade Mitsune not to bother
 with Kuonji. :)" to Akemi.
Mitsune cuddles up to Moriya, tired.
Jacqueline sits down in the sand and closes her eyes.   The small physical
 hints of her being mindshifted to Shaft disappear.
Moriya hugs her closely, murmuring to her.
Lily sags.  "I want to take a vacation.  As soon as possible."
Jacqueline faces the group.  "Guys... I'm sorry we went through all this for
 nothing."
Shinobu Minor says, "Yes, Vacation, good."
Beowulf smiles. "I think we can manage something along those lines, Lily."
Aerianne has arrived.
Utena says, "Not entirely for nothing.  We eliminated this fellow and recovered
 the Gaunt Man's staff."
Beowulf shrugs. "Stuff happens. At least we got to knock off a nasty fellow
 here,"
Moriya looks up. "That's all right, Jacqueline. We did get the staff and remove
 another Outsider pawn." He then looks at Lily. "Well, I think the Keep is open
 for a fasttimed vacation. I'll have Kafuin get the hot springs ready."
Beowulf smiles at Moriya. "The Keep's fine, or if you folks would like to pay a
 visit to Fibber McGee's closet?"
"Piping hot and relaxing."
Jacqueline says, "yeah... I guess... but the spikard got away and we don't even
 know if that was a candidate we flattened in there."
Lily smiles.  "I think we'll take a private vacation, Beo-kun."  She smiles.
Moriya quirks a smile. "I'm afraid I'm not too fond of your old radio shows,
 Uncle. I can't speak for anyone else, of course."
Jacqueline says, "unless the local gods want a word with us, let's pay the CFRC
 what they're due and get out of here. I'm sick of this."
Beowulf says, "If it wasn't, Kuonji probably took care of the candidate." His
 mouth twists. "He seems to like that sort of thing."
Jacqueline settles back into sulk mode, dark brooding sulk variety.
Beowulf smiles at Lily. "I... see." He turns back to Moriya. "I can understand,
 I suppose. A pity, but there you are."
Mitsune pays the CFRC.
Rimmer exclaims, "WAi! L3WT!"
Mitsune says, "Beowulf, can you get these gentlement back to Glantri with
 Aeris' help?"
Moriya tries to use Pattern to locate the Outsider Herald.
You get the impression of such beings existing in several directions.  Would
 you like to be more specific?
Moriya OOCly says, "The one in Mystara."
Pattern does not guide you to any such being.
Moriya OOCly says, "Basically, trying to see if there's still one in the
 pyramid."
Beowulf asks, "Shouldn't be any problem, Mitsune. Aeris?"
Moriya says, "Well, I don't sense any more Heralds in this shadow."
Aeris says, "No problem."  She opens the CFRC a trump gate back to Glantri City.
Jacqueline sighs.  "Okay, let's get out of here then."
Mitsune says, "Then let's blow this joint and hit the hot springs."
Beowulf uses Pattern to check and see if the 'Black Pharoah' Outsider Herald
 can be detected.
Moriya says, "Well. The Keep is open, as is Beowulf's Closet. Kafuin, bring me
 and Mitsune through...as well as anyone else who wants to join us."
Jacqueline says, "well, if it's fasttimed, might as well."
Beowulf gets the impression he's off through shadow somewhere.
Beowulf says, "Um, well, Lily wanted something private... but there's more than
 enough room in the Closet for other folks to have fun."
Moriya says, "Ah. Right. Sorry." He chuckles.
Beowulf says, "...drat. Looks like the Black Pharoah wasn't this joker at all."
Jacqueline groans
Moriya sighs. "Ah well. We'll get him eventually."
Beowulf nods.
Haruka says, "I have to take Keitaro home for his mother to chew his head off. 
 We'll be back in a few days, hopefully."
Keitaro doesn't seem pleased by the prospect too much.
Jacqueline says, "I'm taking advantage of cousin Moriya's offer of a hot
 springs in a fasttimd shadow, then I'm going home and throttling Taylors. 
 It'll be a cold day in Ember before I wander throuhg a tomb again."
Beowulf says, "Hey, make sure she understands I was the one who ended up
 running our half of the thing, so she should really chew me out first."
Seta says, "Well, I'd like to see your shadow, Beowulf, so I think I will tag
 along and visit it a few days."
Moriya says, "Come right along, Jacqui."
Jacqueline looks at her usual band of co-horts.  "Guys, coming?"
Beowulf looks at Haruka. "You two need a ride?"
Beowulf looks at the rest of the folks that came with Keitaro's party. "And the
 rest of you?"
Naru looks thoughtful.  "I think I'd like to see your shadow, uncle Beowulf."
Jacqueline asks, "Auntie?  Gramma? Sis? er.... Shinobu?"
Shinobu, Wakaba, and Utena indicate they're going to the hot springs.
And Moonshade too.
Jacqueline nods.  She gives Moriya a very, very, very tired smile.  "Right
 behind you, Poetry."
Beowulf nods to Naru. "Just don't let me catch you studying with Seta... we're
 supposed to be relaxing." He smiles tiredly.
Moriya says, "Let's go, then."
Naru says, "After all this, I just want to have a little fun."
Moriya has Kafuin bring all those for a hot spring over to the Keep.
Beowulf OOCly waves bye. "Sleep well, Phil."
Jacqueline says, "OOCly and while I want to see if I can have a word with
 various members of the party later tonight, I must pause for now to drive
 home.  OH, and please tell me we get a pittance amount of points for this
 disaster o.o"
OOC Okay.  I've run you guys for about 7 hours.  Going to cut here, as I want
 to try to get Motoko caught up to y'all.
Moriya OOCly says, "Right. :)"
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