From: "Lerche" To: "Richard Beaubien" Subject: Edien3 Log Date: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:45 PM 00/07/24 00:25:40 --Okay, in the last session you boarded the ship to the new world. And after getting accused of theft by my lame attempt at Gendo like power you manage to beat the real theif and recover the real item...And so we pick up from there... 00/07/24 00:26:06 You stand in front of the doorway, the golden amulet in front of you. What do you do? 00/07/24 00:26:22 Natsuko: "An... interesting way to start the morning. Shall we have breakfast now, Natsuko-san?" 00/07/24 00:27:45 "I am hungry.. but shouldn't we see the Captain first?" 00/07/24 00:28:24 "What for? I'm sure he'd much perfer to handle things in his own way." 00/07/24 00:29:26 "I guess we could just have one of the crew tell him about it.." 00/07/24 00:29:55 "It would serve him right for being so rude, just like you expect from a human." 00/07/24 00:30:12 Natsuko: Hallway seems to be deviod of crew- members for the most part..Though it is a short walk to another hall way 00/07/24 00:30:47 Ellica: But Dire-sama, wouldn't you show him up if you returned the item for him? 00/07/24 00:31:10 "No matter what we say or do, he'll accuse us of some wrong doing. It's better to just ignore it and move on." 00/07/24 00:31:19 Ellica-whispering: I mean you were able to do something he couldn't do... 00/07/24 00:31:37 Ellica: "Why would I want to do that? What would it prove? I' 00/07/24 00:31:50 "I'm not touching a stolen item." 00/07/24 00:31:59 * Vresius grabs the item. 00/07/24 00:33:13 * Vresius not hearing any protests, heads to the captain's office. 00/07/24 00:33:26 Vresius: You pick up the amulet and see it has an elborate engraving on it. Your pretty sure it's made from pure gold as well... 00/07/24 00:33:27 * Diresinger raises and eyebrow at Vresius, but just shrugs. 00/07/24 00:34:06 Everyone following? 00/07/24 00:34:08 Diresinger:"Brunch, then?" 00/07/24 00:35:02 2d6 00/07/24 00:35:03 Renee, 2d6 ( 4 ) 00/07/24 00:35:13 Natsuko: "A splendid suggestion." Offers his arm. 00/07/24 00:35:22 ignore that 00/07/24 00:35:32 Vresius: You remember the way back easily enough...The room is guarded by a lone crew member... 00/07/24 00:36:02 * Natsuko nods and starts walking, but does not take the offered arm. 00/07/24 00:36:30 * Diresinger follows her closely, not at all offended by this unspoken rejection. 00/07/24 00:37:03 * Vresius taps on the door with the tip of his sword. 00/07/24 00:37:12 Natsuko/Dire: You head of to the brunch which has a rather blande selection of food. Lucenda and Fam are their to glomp on their Dire-sama... 00/07/24 00:37:14 * Renee follows after Dire as Ellica seems to be interested in that direction 00/07/24 00:37:47 * Diresinger does his best to deftly avoid getting smothered. 00/07/24 00:37:59 Vresius: The crew member motions for you to stop but halts when he hears a gruff voice shout 'let him in' from behind the door. He holds it open for you and motions for you to enter... 00/07/24 00:38:51 * Vresius enters, the amulet held in plain sight in one hand. 00/07/24 00:39:23 * Natsuko frowns and takes a plate of the stuff next to the lumpy stuff. 00/07/24 00:39:48 The captain is sitting at his desk, looking over a few maps while his second in command offers a few more suggestion. He looks up for only a second and sees the item before he turns back to the paperwork... 00/07/24 00:40:04 Captain: So you found the stolen item...Tell me what happened to the theif 00/07/24 00:40:18 * Diresinger considers coming up with a fake engagement to get them to stop, but is uncomfortable with lying to a lady... 00/07/24 00:40:34 "Escaped. Up." 00/07/24 00:40:35 Vresius, "Escaped. ( 1 ) 00/07/24 00:41:14 Dire: Talk turns to a wedding for a second as Fam and Lucenda talk about sharing a roomy house with you... 00/07/24 00:41:54 Captain, To Vresius: I see...That is inconvient but of no real concern since we have the item. 00/07/24 00:42:16 GM: "I'm afraid such an arragement is against common law..." sneaks away to the buffet table, and lingers long over the choices, so long that he starts eating there. 00/07/24 00:42:19 * Natsuko stabs her food a too hard, rattling the plate. 00/07/24 00:42:41 Dire; Fam says that since she' 00/07/24 00:43:04 Fam: But dire-sama, since I'm preistess I can easily do a wedding!!! 00/07/24 00:43:45 * Vresius nods and starts to leave once again. 00/07/24 00:43:50 Captain: Tell me, who was it that stole the item? And did he or she mention anything intresting? 00/07/24 00:44:05 * Diresinger sits with Natsuko, choosing the seat which makes him hard for his fans to see. 00/07/24 00:44:19 Natsuko: "I really am very sorry about this, Natsuko-san." 00/07/24 00:44:26 "A girl. Some sort of spirit. Her master was interested in it." 00/07/24 00:44:42 Choosing a seat that makes you hard? Yow. 00/07/24 00:44:48 "Sure you are..." 00/07/24 00:45:10 The Captain folds his hands in front of his face "I see..." 00/07/24 00:45:44 Vresius: After getting assaulting by fan service for so long, he would have Kumiko the Msting 1 00/07/24 00:46:02 The Captain than nods to his first mate, and he walks towards you and bows slightly..."Here, this is the reward" 00/07/24 00:46:12 .....:P 00/07/24 00:46:20 bad paste buffer, no buscuit. :p 00/07/24 00:46:26 Reward.. smooth. Not gonna share it. :) 00/07/24 00:46:37 heh heh...:P 00/07/24 00:46:39 "It's not necessary." 00/07/24 00:47:12 The first mate starts to walk away at that, but is glared at by the captain. "Please accept it...The Captain insists..' 00/07/24 00:47:50 * Diresinger eats in uncomfortable silence with Natsuko. 00/07/24 00:47:57 * Vresius holds out one withered, dirty, bandaged hand and accepts it. 00/07/24 00:48:06 Vresius: You gain 100 Gold... 00/07/24 00:48:17 * Gm plays a cheezy RPG sound effect in the BG 00/07/24 00:48:43 *cha-ching* 00/07/24 00:48:52 Vresius: First mate walks away without saying much and the captain is lost in his charts again... 00/07/24 00:49:03 * Natsuko takes great joy in slicing up a sausage into little pieces before eating it. 00/07/24 00:49:07 * Vresius heads out. 00/07/24 00:49:41 * Diresinger suddenly looses his appetite and looks away, out the windows to the sea rolling past. 00/07/24 00:50:09 --And with that the trip passes with little incident....The Party however finds it's treated to better meals than the rest of the passangers and better accomdations. Plus they haven't been paid a visit by the captain 00/07/24 00:50:33 Don't thank me or anything. :P 00/07/24 00:50:48 Using wavy GM effects (because I can...:) the time is sped up till the ship is close to port 00/07/24 00:51:13 Everyone is above deck, the new land insight for ever yone... 00/07/24 00:51:29 Dire's got to deal with a rotting corpse for a roommate still though. :p 00/07/24 00:51:41 * Natsuko tries to get as far forward as possible to see the new land. 00/07/24 00:51:41 Hey, I'm not rotting. 00/07/24 00:51:52 * Diresinger finds a place to watch the approach of land from. 00/07/24 00:52:02 Buy a Glade plug in...:P 00/07/24 00:52:44 Dire: You find a nice spot by the railing. Fam and Lucenda quickly surround you though and look on in awe as they point out all of the tree's and mountains on the land 00/07/24 00:52:46 but what happened to all my chances to bed peopl 00/07/24 00:53:01 all successful? :P 00/07/24 00:53:21 Renee: Assume you got it away with it (but no major NPC's/PC's....:) 00/07/24 00:55:19 Diresinger: "All the places you can go and find happiness for yourselves, happiness that I am unsuited to give you." 00/07/24 00:55:57 As the ship moves closer to land you begin to see an outline of a city...Though not like any city you've seen before... 00/07/24 00:56:40 There's a giant woman wielding a torch! Run for you life! :p 00/07/24 00:56:49 * Vresius stands on deck and watches silently. 00/07/24 00:57:06 In the middle of the city stands four building which seems to be the size of small mountains, each seeming to glow with an unnatural light. All the other buildings seem to be normal size though 00/07/24 00:57:50 "What an eyesore. I hope that whatever we shall be doing, we won't be spending much of our time there." 00/07/24 00:58:36 "What a horrible thing to do to the land..." 00/07/24 00:58:54 the ship slows down as it goes into the harbor, heading to what looks like a metal dock of somesort... 00/07/24 00:59:12 a city with low esteem to have 4 phalic symbols 00/07/24 00:59:41 * Diresinger coughs in surprise to what Renee just said. 00/07/24 00:59:57 All around the ship are boats the size of most small sailing vessels. They don't jabe sails though, nor any rowers. They just seem to move about in the water... 00/07/24 01:00:47 "What strange magic these people possess... It makes me feel uneasy." 00/07/24 01:00:48 Lucenda and Fam laugh at the mention of phalic, and start whispering to each other, casting dirty looks towards Dire every few seconds... 00/07/24 01:01:26 Dire is Appearance 6, he doesn't need such compensation. :p 00/07/24 01:01:35 The ship coasts in for final docking. And a few seconds later a voice booms loudly from one of the boxes on deck... 00/07/24 01:01:48 Nahh, they have other evil ideas...:P 00/07/24 01:02:37 'Members of the New World Exploration League, your guild inn is a short walk from this dock. It is clearly marked by the New World League logo. Please check in there to seattle down...' 00/07/24 01:03:18 * Diresinger sings softly to himself, o/"Leaving on a steam ship, don't when I'll be back again"/o 00/07/24 01:03:27 The crew members point towards the ladder for you to disambark... 00/07/24 01:03:44 Natsuko: "Shall we go, Natsuko-san?" Again offers his arm. 00/07/24 01:04:18 * Vresius heads for the ladder. 00/07/24 01:05:00 * Natsuko nods, still dazed by the size of things. 00/07/24 01:05:36 It's a short climb down till you reach the dock, which is not made of wood but is instead made of some stone... 00/07/24 01:05:48 * Renee looks down interest into the great expanses of necks as the people disembark 00/07/24 01:06:11 You also notice the large crowd at the peer, which seems to be watching you disembark with a look of awe... 00/07/24 01:06:43 * Vresius pauses on the dock, as if... smelling the air. 00/07/24 01:07:02 Vresius: Smelling for anything in praticular? 00/07/24 01:07:13 * Diresinger ignores the sights for the most part and sticks close to Natsuko. 00/07/24 01:07:29 I'm not smelling.. you know, feeling 00/07/24 01:07:40 Vresius: Ahh...Your stash? 00/07/24 01:07:40 Diresinger:"This really is the other side of the world..." 00/07/24 01:08:07 Yeah 00/07/24 01:08:49 Vresius: You feel faint traces of the stash, but nothing specific or a pointing in a direction... 00/07/24 01:09:33 Natsuko: "Seems to me to be not much different than another human city. It smells a bit different though." 00/07/24 01:09:47 * Vresius supposes he'll just have to wander, as he's been doing for.. a very long time. 00/07/24 01:09:48 Natsuko: You notice that the clothing style seems to be different here. Everyone seems ot be wearing Phesant or adventuring clothing or what looks like it. But it all seems to be so much nicer and well cut... 00/07/24 01:10:15 Dire starts hunting pheasant. :p 00/07/24 01:10:51 Dire: He says something about being repressed by the violence in the system.... 00/07/24 01:11:16 Vresius: You seem to think staying with these...people...might be the best way to search for the treasure as well...:P 00/07/24 01:11:35 Damn 00/07/24 01:11:38 :) 00/07/24 01:11:55 The dock leads to a road which also seems to be made of stone...In the middle run tracks which look like a train... 00/07/24 01:12:01 Natsuko: "Natsuko-san? Let's proceed to this guild place and get this over with. The sooner we leave this city behind, the better." 00/07/24 01:12:21 A short walk up is the Inn you'll be staying at...Might be a good idea to check in there...:P 00/07/24 01:13:11 Dire, Natsuko: Roll a Body check adding in any heightned sense as you walk to the inn... 00/07/24 01:13:19 2d6 00/07/24 01:13:19 Natsuko, 2d6 ( 7 ) 00/07/24 01:13:21 2d6 00/07/24 01:13:22 Diresinger, 2d6 ( 5 ) 00/07/24 01:13:26 fails 00/07/24 01:13:26 * Vresius follows the others 00/07/24 01:13:27 makes it 00/07/24 01:13:59 same,following 00/07/24 01:14:22 Renee: "Are you well, Renee-san? You look a bit pale now that we're out under the birght sunlight." 00/07/24 01:14:41 Dire: You hear a few of the human passerbye stop and wispear 'Wow, I've never seen a real Elf up close before...sugoi...' 00/07/24 01:14:49 So are you heading to the inn? 00/07/24 01:15:28 "i will be fine.... as long as I keep my head covered... 00/07/24 01:15:32 * Diresinger ignores the talk, especially when the voices are female, heading for the inn, though sticking with his companions. 00/07/24 01:16:12 Renee: "If there is anything I might due to help, you have to only ask. My magic isn't very powerful, but it is sometimes useful." 00/07/24 01:17:24 The Inn looks like most of the buldings around it, built in the same fasion from materials that you can't identify. It neither looks like wood or stone... 00/07/24 01:17:26 "i'm afraid there isn't anything you can do... it's mostly psychologica... my other 'family' didn't like sunlight much and i've inherited that dislike if not pain 00/07/24 01:17:41 AKA your typical new sub-division, just on a larger scale...:P 00/07/24 01:17:41 Diresinger,Renee:"How long do you think they will keep us here..." 00/07/24 01:18:33 Natsuko: "Not long, I hope." 00/07/24 01:18:37 "though, if you really want to help.. i've had a problem with my appetite that you," *licks teeth*, "can help with 00/07/24 01:19:33 As you walk inside you're met by a Young looking man who bows slightly to you. "Welcome to the new world exploration League...This way to meet you're reprsentive?" 00/07/24 01:19:36 Renee: "I'm afraid my magic isn't quite up to creating food, but I'll help any way I am able." 00/07/24 01:20:30 * Diresinger blinks at the man, but shrugs and follows. 00/07/24 01:21:05 * Natsuko follows. "Representative?" 00/07/24 01:21:55 "yes...She'll assign jobs to you that are best suited to your abilites... 00/07/24 01:23:06 You're lead to an office off to the side. The door opens to reveal a women wearing tight fitting dark blue clothes cut in a weird fashion. It looks like a Miltary uniform of some sort 00/07/24 01:23:34 * Diresinger bows formally to the woman and introduces himself. 00/07/24 01:23:54 She looks up from her paper for a second, blinks for a few seconds before she quickly runs up and starts to shake all of the hands of the party.... 00/07/24 01:23:57 *** Gm is now known as Ellis 00/07/24 01:24:44 'Oh wow...More Elves..this is so cool, I get to meet more Elves...I can't wait tell the others about this..." 00/07/24 01:24:57 "I am Natsuko Greenleaf. They said you could help us?..." 00/07/24 01:25:24 "Natsuko...what a cute name!!!" 00/07/24 01:25:43 * Natsuko blinks. 00/07/24 01:26:09 "My name is Ellis, and I'm here to make your life in the New World go as smoothly as possible and make sure you get the best jobs avilable.." 00/07/24 01:26:17 "I do not understand why just the sight of an elf would make you react such." Edges away from hr. 00/07/24 01:26:26 "But that doesn't matter...Tell me about the new world!!!' 00/07/24 01:26:38 "Do you think they might be playing some sort of jest?" 00/07/24 01:27:10 "Well, the buildings seem awefully tall so far..." 00/07/24 01:27:13 Natsuko: (whispered) "It's a distinct possiblity. Best to keep alert for the punchline." 00/07/24 01:27:19 "That's why i took this job, so I could learn about the new world...Though it'd be the old world to you... 00/07/24 01:28:31 'Please sit down everyone...I'll give you the key to your apartment in a second...' 00/07/24 01:28:35 Ellis: "Though the contentents seem to differ somewhat, the world is similar no matter where you may go, in general. The specifics one must experience for one self." 00/07/24 01:29:01 Ellis: "Apartment? Does that mean that we shall all be staying together?" 00/07/24 01:29:35 to Dire: For the first little while...While the league has vast resources we do need to control costs somehow 00/07/24 01:29:38 * Natsuko pales. "You surely wouldn't do that.." 00/07/24 01:30:22 to Natsuko: 'There would be seperate rooms for you all...And you don't have to stay here...' 00/07/24 01:31:04 "It's just most stay here for the first little while to save money..." 00/07/24 01:31:31 * Vresius listens with disinterest in the corner. 00/07/24 01:31:38 Ellis: "These seperate rooms will have locks on the doors, won't they?" asks while nervously eyeing his fans. 00/07/24 01:31:40 * Natsuko fingers the braid in her hair... 00/07/24 01:31:47 * Ellis giggles 'I finally got to meet an elf...They aren't just rumor....' 00/07/24 01:31:52 Need to sleep before I collapse. COnsider me in the corner. :) 00/07/24 01:32:11 to Dire: Yes, they do... 00/07/24 01:32:17 Not a gurantee...:P 00/07/24 01:32:30 Ellis:"Then you've hard of other elves here?" 00/07/24 01:32:58 "Other Elevs from your land...There are no Elves in Sian normally..." 00/07/24 01:33:17 "We thought they were just fantasy, but they exist..." 00/07/24 01:33:28 * Ellis giggles cutely 00/07/24 01:33:44 * Diresinger edges further away from her. " 00/07/24 01:34:09 "Perhaps we should retire to our room then... to get ourselves settled." 00/07/24 01:34:16 * Renee considers starting the rumor that rubbing elves in the right way in the old world brought good luck 00/07/24 01:34:17 Ellis:"You would not have heard of a lone female elf passing through this country some time ago?" 00/07/24 01:34:56 To Natsuko: "No, I haven't heard of one passing through here alone. Usually we keep most people togther as groups..." 00/07/24 01:35:18 * Natsuko slumps over. "I guess it was too much to hope.." 00/07/24 01:35:24 to dire: "But first let me tell you about the job I have lined up. It's a well paying one and came at the recomandation of the captain!!" 00/07/24 01:35:54 ellis: If there are any jobs that involve young men *or* women that need to be killed, please don't hesitate to give us the job 00/07/24 01:35:57 Ellis: "Somehow that fails to fill me with confedence, but say on." 00/07/24 01:36:11 * Renee wonders what new world people's blood taste like 00/07/24 01:36:56 Renee: "Silly, we don't have missions like that. We explore..." 00/07/24 01:37:19 * Ellis looks at her closely..."So cool...The mysteries of the new world... 00/07/24 01:37:36 Renee: "Killing solves nothing, Renee- san. If humans could only learn that..." 00/07/24 01:37:59 * Natsuko sighs. 00/07/24 01:38:01 To Dire: "Well since you did such a good job of handing the theives on the boat we want to send you off to invesitgate a theft at the Newport observatory... 00/07/24 01:38:35 * Renee perks up... perhaps a missing thief or two won't go noticed 00/07/24 01:38:35 Ellis: "Will we at least be told what has been taken this time?" 00/07/24 01:38:40 "The Captain said you'd be perfect for the job." 00/07/24 01:39:06 Ellis: "You'll have to ask the people at the observatory for the specifics, but they did say plans of some sort went missing..." 00/07/24 01:39:51 "Plans? How demeaning, but I suppose we can't refuse a paying assignment..." 00/07/24 01:39:52 "The Job does pay more than a normal first job, 1000 gold each. And plus the observatory is a fascinating place and if you could learn some more about the gadgets there the league would be most pleased... 00/07/24 01:40:35 Dire: "Oh it's a very important job...I hear the observatory is working on a big breakthrough..." 00/07/24 01:41:08 "Anyway, here's the key to your room and a pass for the train system along with directions to the observatory." 00/07/24 01:41:09 Ellis:"Are things here that costly that they are willing to part with that much gold?" 00/07/24 01:41:10 "That they'll be able to see more stars? I fail to be impressed, but it's not my concern." 00/07/24 01:41:34 * Diresinger accepts these items with a small nod. 00/07/24 01:41:40 Natsuko: The people at the observatory are very concerned about the thefts...Plus they want to hear about Edien... 00/07/24 01:41:58 Dire: "Not just more stars..They've seen more planets!!!" 00/07/24 01:42:14 * Ellis blushes at Dire's touch... 00/07/24 01:42:24 'I've touced an elf...so cool... 00/07/24 01:42:38 Ellis: "Now you talk of fantasy, dear lady. More planets indeed." 00/07/24 01:42:43 * Ellis gets stars in her eyes for a second... 00/07/24 01:43:34 Dire: Fantasy...it's Grade school knoweldge that the system has 9 planets...Though we may have 10 soon... 00/07/24 01:43:59 'But that's small talk for later...Does anyone have anymore questions? 00/07/24 01:44:12 "Suddenly, I am very weary. Let us retire to our room post haste." Backs away from Ellis. 00/07/24 01:44:54 * Ellis turns away from Dire and walks over to natsuko "and if you want to exchange some fashion tips later' *giggles* 00/07/24 01:45:25 "That is quite alright." She starts backing away as well. 00/07/24 01:46:11 "Oh well...Remember if you have any questions about the new world don't be afraid to ask me" 00/07/24 01:46:18 "And come back to get paid!!!!" 00/07/24 01:46:19 * Diresinger smiles to find a human woman not going after him for once. 00/07/24 01:46:41 She did say 'paid' didn't she? :p 00/07/24 01:46:55 ....:P 00/07/24 01:47:11 --and on that we end...Can't go farther without Lara....:P