Conversation with #ftuvampire at 3/9/2009 8:51:00 AM on Jason@irc.techwarelabs.com (irc)
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Feuilly [Feuilly@hide-CD2FB3DD.dsl.teksavvy.com] entered the room.
Feuilly is now known as PingYu
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Vinny [Vinny@hide-79E680D4.hsd1.wv.comcast.net] entered the room.
Vinny is now known as Devereaux
You are now known as Aden
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Dpayne: Hmm I wonder if Psaturn was his by shitty weather again.
Dpayne: It's been snowing on and off here all day, I'm just glad none of it stuck.
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Psaturn is now known as Barrett
Dpayne: There we go.
Dpayne: Alright as we last left off Devereaux had been driven to Rothschreck by Aden, and the group was trying to figure out what their next move should be.
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Dpayne: Chapter 2: Another Evening of Wine and Roses continues...
Dpayne: The three of you are still in the clearing in the park.
Barrett: Are we right next to each other still?
Dpayne: Yes
Barrett: I look up to Ping. "Did either of you learn anything about the Roses while we were away?"
PingYu: "The roses? What interest do you have in the roses?"
Barrett: "The rhyme I repeated earlier seemed to indicate they had some bearing on our mission."
PingYu: Over.
dicebot left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
PingYu: Huh?
dicebot [f@hide-CD2FB3DD.dsl.teksavvy.com] entered the room.
PingYu: Mega lag.
Barrett: "Ring is in the Roses, Park is full of puppies, ashes, ashes we all burn alive."
PingYu: "You said the rhyme, and you don't know what it meant?"
Barrett: "I don't. I heard it being repeated by a ghoul and for some reason it entered my mind when we came to the park."
Aden: I guess I am standing around, and desperately trying to collect my thoughts.
Barrett: What is happening with the rosebushes right now?
PingYu: I think they're either on fire or burnt to ash.
Barrett: I go over to them to inspect the ashes or whatever is under them.
Aden: I flip to the next page of my notepad and think carefully.
PingYu: Let me check my log to see.
Aden: I slowly, with restraint, write down TELL ME EVERYTHING.
Aden: And offer it to the Asian woman.
Aden: Over.
Dpayne: The rose bushes have burnt to a pile of cinders and ash. Next to them you see a large puddle of gore with barbed wire lying in it.
Aden: I stare at her with my good eye, trying to possibly appeal to her humanity.
Aden: I already regret my impulsive treatment of that pretty boy.
Aden: Really over.
Barrett: are there any intact bones in the gore?
PingYu: "There was a woman in the shop. When I mentioned Carmella she grew very interested."
dicebot left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
Dpayne: No there are no bones in the puddle of gore, just blood, guts and barb wire.
dicebot [f@hide-CD2FB3DD.dsl.teksavvy.com] entered the room.
PingYu: "She said that Carmella spoke of a time when a man named Aden would come to the shop, and that she was to give him what we gave you now."
PingYu: WTF?!
PingYu: Over.
Barrett: I sift through the guts to see if theres anything that looks important.
PingYu: I look Aden square in the face.
Devereaux: roll 9#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 9#d10 --> [ 1d10=8 ]{8}, [ 1d10=5 ]{5}, [ 1d10=3 ]{3}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}, [ 1d10=9 ]{9}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}
PingYu: "Your actions are not in vain. The woman said that Carmella spoke of you coming to the shop, and that meant she wouldn't be coming back."
PingYu: "But you did not go to the shop. Her vision is not coming to pass, and we will succeed completely."
PingYu: Over.
Barrett: I walk over to the pile of ashes and brush some of them aside.
Aden: I struggle to make sense of this. I write simply a question mark on my notepad.
Aden: Over.
PingYu: "You are Tremere?"
PingYu: Over.
Aden: I nod, hastily.
Aden: Over.
Barrett: roll 7#d10
dicebot: Barrett rolled 7#d10 --> [ 1d10=9 ]{9}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}, [ 1d10=7 ]{7}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=5 ]{5}, [ 1d10=6 ]{6}
PingYu: I carefully remove the ring from my finger, and hold it out in my hands. "What can you tell me about this?"
PingYu: Over.
Aden: Hmm.
Aden: Do I recognize it, Derek?
Barrett: My eyes light up upon seeing the ring.
Barrett: I quickly open by backpack and take the paper with the picture of the symbol on it out and show it to Ping.
PingYu: Is it the same symbol from the ring?
Dpayne: yes, it is.
PingYu: "Yes."
Barrett: "I found this in Vasquez' office. There's an identical symbol on the locked entrance to the chambers of Archbishop Vykos."
PingYu: Haha. Serves me right by hoarding my information.
Barrett: "What is inside I don't know, but I feel it must be important to have taken such measures."
Aden: I suppose I point to the ring and then raise my palms inquisitively.
Aden: Over.
PingYu: "What did you learn from Large Marge?"
PingYu: Over.
Barrett: "I propose we go across the street and see if that ring will get us inside those chambers."
Barrett: "We learned that the hairs did not belong to a werewolf."
Barrett: "The only information she could offer was that the owner of the hairs had spent time with werewolves and that he had a faint smell of sulfur on him."
PingYu: "Perhaps we should see what else we know before rushing into something like the last time."
Aden: 'No!' I think. I'm not spending another pointless half hour in there. I stamp my cane on the ground and write: WHERE IS CARMELLA?
Aden: Over.
Barrett: "Whatever's in those chambers may very well lead us to Carmella."
PingYu: "I say this because I've met the owner of the ring, and he is not Vasquez."
PingYu: Over.
Devereaux: roll 6#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 6#d10 --> [ 1d10=10 ]{10}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}, [ 1d10=6 ]{6}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}, [ 1d10=9 ]{9}
Barrett: "That makes sense. When we were in Vasquez' office we also found a note written in blood saying "I need to get into the archbishop's chambers!" By comparing the handwriting with another document in his office I believe it was written by Vasquez himself."
Devereaux: roll 5#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 5#d10 --> [ 1d10=7 ]{7}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=8 ]{8}, [ 1d10=3 ]{3}, [ 1d10=7 ]{7}
PingYu: "We?"
Barrett: "Aden and myself"
PingYu: "Where exactly did you two go off to?"
Barrett: "Across the street is my former dwelling. The Blood Den. There I served under Archbishop Vykos until his recent disappearance. Vasquez has since taken over as archbishop."
Aden: All right, I'm going to try for another crude drawing of the horned man and a question mark. I'll show it to both the kid and the woman.
Aden: I'll give it a moment, then hold my two index fingers out from my forehead to help the image.
PingYu: Does Aden know Barrett's name?
Aden: No.
Aden: Over.
Barrett: I'm not sure if anyone knows anyone's name.
Aden: Maybe I do know yours, actually.
PingYu: We know Devereaux's and Aden's.
Aden: OK.
Aden: ANYWAY.
PingYu: I just figured since you're in the same sect.
Aden: My drawing.
PingYu: "Yes, the owner of the ring."
PingYu: Over.
Aden: My eyes go wide, both of them. Immediately, on the same page, I write WHERE?!
Aden: Over.
Barrett: I look down at the drawing blankly but don't know what to think about it as it doesn't remind me of anything. I look back at PingYu."
PingYu: "The man with the horns. Is he Tremere?"
Aden: Same page, now simply writing over the drawing: I DON'T KNOW. WHERE IS HE?!
Aden: Over.
Barrett: "I don't recognize this person."
Aden: I stare at the kid... calculating...
Barrett: I look off into the direction Devereaux ran in wondering what he's up to.
Barrett: over.
Aden: Once more, I tap my notepad in urgency.
Aden: Over.
Devereaux: roll 2#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 2#d10 --> [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=8 ]{8}
PingYu: "If I had known where he was located we wouldn't have wasted any time with werewolves."
Devereaux: roll 2#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 2#d10 --> [ 1d10=10 ]{10}, [ 1d10=5 ]{5}
Aden: Still on the same page, growing increasingly chaotic as I write over what I wrote before: THE RING? FROM WHERE?
Aden: Over.
PingYu: "The ring was in the rose bushes."
Devereaux: roll 2#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 2#d10 --> [ 1d10=10 ]{10}, [ 1d10=9 ]{9}
Aden: I throw my notepad to the ground in frustration.
PingYu: "You could try writing more than a single sentence..."
Barrett: I pick up Aden's notebook and hand it back to him.
Devereaux: roll 2#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 2#d10 --> [ 1d10=8 ]{8}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}
PingYu: "Why did you decide to return to the Blood Den?"
PingYu: "Do you have some additional information that implicates the bishop?"
Barrett: "Aden wanted to contact Vasquez and seemed to feel it was very important."
Aden: I take the notepad back, hold it, and bite my lip, hard.
Aden: Over.
PingYu: "Why?"
PingYu: I look to Aden.
Aden: I look at her with my peripheral vision... thinking. I flip to a new page.
Aden: I NEEDED ANSWERS.
Aden: I DON'T NOW.
Aden: WE HAVE TO FIND THE HORNED MAN.
Aden: Then, I turn to the kid.
Aden: I write: HE'S YOUR SIRE.
Devereaux: roll 5#d10
dicebot: Devereaux rolled 5#d10 --> [ 1d10=5 ]{5}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=6 ]{6}, [ 1d10=1 ]{1}
Aden: Over.
PingYu: What?!
Barrett: Wait.
Barrett: A sire is the guy that turned you into a vampire, right?
PingYu: Yes
Barrett: Okay
Barrett: I stand motionless. For the first time in more years than I can remember truly shocked.
Barrett: "I...My...What!? How How could you possibly know this!?"
Aden: VASQUEZ FOUND OUT FROM VYKOS. HE TOLD ME.
Aden: Over.
Barrett: "Even I don't know who my sire is!"
Aden: I probably misspell Vykos' name, but yeah.
Barrett: A thousand questions race through my mind but the most obvious is 'Why was I never told!?"
PingYu: roll 2#d10
dicebot: PingYu rolled 2#d10 --> [ 1d10=8 ]{8}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}
Aden: VYKOS WAS USING YOU. THEY ALL DO. THAT'S HOW THEY KEEP US.
Aden: FIND THE HORNED MAN, YOU'LL HAVE ALL YOUR ANSWERS.
Aden: I close my notepad, slip it back into my pocket. I stand attentively, ready to be led.
Aden: Over.
Barrett: "Vykos..."
Barrett: "No...why would he tell you?
Barrett: I suddenly grab the ring out of PingYu's hand and dash for the exit of the park.
PingYu: I chase after him.
Aden: I hobble after them both.
Aden: Over.
Barrett: over.
PingYu: Over.
Dpayne: Ping, Aden, you see Barrett make a mad dash for an ominous building across the street.
Dpayne: You are both a few paces behing.
Dpayne: behind.
Dpayne: Over.
PingYu: Shouldn't I be way faster than both of them?
Aden: Haha.
Barrett: I charge recklessly through the doors and head straight for Vykos' chamber with madness in my eyes.
Barrett: over.
Dpayne: Yes, Ping is much faster than Aden, however Barrett took off before you and has a fair lead.
Dpayne: You may roll dex+athletics to catch him.
PingYu: roll 9#d10
dicebot: PingYu rolled 9#d10 --> [ 1d10=9 ]{9}, [ 1d10=5 ]{5}, [ 1d10=7 ]{7}, [ 1d10=10 ]{10}, [ 1d10=8 ]{8}, [ 1d10=7 ]{7}, [ 1d10=4 ]{4}, [ 1d10=5 ]{5}, [ 1d10=3 ]{3}
Dpayne: Hold on a second guys there's a fucking god awfu noise coming from outside.
Dpayne: I need to see what it is.
Aden: I do my best to keep up, but if I can't make it I'll just wait outside for them to return.
Aden: Over.
Dpayne: Wow that was a wierd fucking noise what the fuck was that anyway.
Dpayne: Barret roll dex+athletics
Dpayne: ?
Aden: Barrett.
Barrett: sorry
Barrett: roll 7#d10
dicebot: Barrett rolled 7#d10 --> [ 1d10=4 ]{4}, [ 1d10=9 ]{9}, [ 1d10=9 ]{9}, [ 1d10=10 ]{10}, [ 1d10=7 ]{7}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}, [ 1d10=2 ]{2}
Dpayne: Ping, you manage to catch up to Barret just as he reaches the door to the Archbishop's chamber.
Dpayne: Aden is still trailing behind, but you can both see him.
Aden: I made it inside the building?
Barrett: I furiously slip the ring onto my middle finger and PUNCH it into the indentation!
Dpayne: The ring fits perfectly into the indentation.
Dpayne: As it strikes the door, Aden, Ping and Barret you hear a grandfather clock chime 13 times and the door begins to open.
PingYu: I'll wait and see what happens next.
Dpayne: We all will, because guys, that's the end of the chapter.
Barrett: i stand back breathlessly
Barrett: over.
Barrett: !
Barrett: Wow!
Barrett: That's an intense cliffhanger
PingYu: Whoa
PingYu: Yeah, I thought it was going to stop soon.
Devereaux: This was fucking intense!
Aden: Vinny made a lotta rolls!
Dpayne: Alright everyone gets 3 experience.
Devereaux: The shit I did on my own was super interesting.
Aden: You're WELCOME for CAUSING IT.
PingYu: We learned a ton!
Dpayne: Ping gets an additional 2 for finding the ring, and everyone else gets an additional 2 for the door to the Archbishop's chamber being opened.
Dpayne: Alright now tell me what you learned and say over when done.
PingYu: PM?
Dpayne: Yes
Aden: Haha, Ping deserves four but she's NOT FUCKING GETTING IT.
Dpayne: She is getting 4.
Aden: Oh.
Dpayne: I wrote the sentence wrong.
Aden: Psh.
PingYu: Oh
PingYu: Gosh.
Devereaux: Man oh man bahta.
PingYu is now known as Feuilly
Barrett is now known as Psaturn
Feuilly left the room.
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You are now known as Jason
Devereaux is now known as Vinny
Vinny left the room.