ADVENTURES IN TAERA

'And so we say goodbye ... (for now anyway)'

1/30/10

(I would like to add my heartfelt thanks to Brian for is vision, patience, imagination and creativity for bringing us into his world of Taera and shareing his time with us. -- Bubbles, Kyia and Linda)

Session of 1/30/10

Session Start: Sat Jan 30 13:09:50 2010
Session Ident: #taera
03[13:09] * Now talking in #taera
03[13:09] * Topic is 'Happy birthday, Mike. <Equinox> Mmmm, I indulge my urge for Brians!!! "AHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA... [goes on from there]" '
03[13:09] * Set by SG on Sat Jan 23 15:50:50
03[13:09] * ChanServ sets mode: +o waakb
03[13:10] * waakb sets mode: +ooo Equinox Kei Khabaal
03[13:10] * waakb sets mode: +vv Golem Zeron
[13:10] <Equinox> Welcome!
[13:10] <waakb> Was the guy you were with on your birthday named Brian, out of curiosity?
[13:10] <Equinox> Heh, no, he is Nick.
[13:11] <Equinox> Anyway - first question, what do you think of Doombringer, Elusion, and Time Dilation*2 for the Cosmics for Timelessness?
[13:11] <waakb> Oh yes, Timelessness had never been worked out in full.
[13:12] <Equinox> Yea, just wanted to figure out the Cosmics beforehand.,
[13:12] <Sipher> Hi guys
[13:12] <Equinox> Hey Sipher.
[13:13] <Sipher> Did you get my email btw Mike?
[13:14] <Equinox> Checking now.
[13:14] <waakb> Time Dilation strikes me as more of a Time thing rather than TimeLESS, but I admit to some difficulty coming up with alternatives. Doombringer is just obvious, I agree. Elusion makes sense if we assume that it's a case of "seeing it coming and step between moments to get out of its way."
[13:15] <waakb> Perhaps Innocence in there somewhere, the idea being that you're not in the regular timestream until you want to be (i.e. you attack)?
[13:15] <waakb> Time Dilation DOES make some sense, I'd just like alternatives if there are any.
[13:17] <waakb> Oh, WOW. That has to be a mistake. I just noticed the Time Portfolio gets Paradox as one of its "Cosmics" (Paradox is actually a Trans)!
[13:17] <Equinox> Yea was thinking Doombringer and Elusion so that I wouldn't pick JUST Time Dilations ;)
[13:18] <Sipher> Slipstream kinda makes sense tbh :P
[13:18] <Equinox> But I do think Time Dilation works with Timless.
[13:18] <Equinox> Khabaal already has Slipstream.
[13:18] <waakb> Actually, I think Eighth Sense should be on the Timelessness list definitely. What's more timeless than seeing futures before they happen?
[13:18] <Sipher> yeah, but its a Portfolio, not Khabaals own abilities
[13:18] <waakb> Obviously, if Khabaal already HAD Eighth Sense, that would open up another slot for him.
[13:18] <Equinox> Ah, I didn't think your would allow that Brian, but sure, I'll take it!
[13:19] <Equinox> So Doombringer, Elusion, Eighth Sense and Time Dilation?
[13:19] <waakb> Slipstream is the next most obvious one, yes. Good catch Sipher! I should have thought of that.
[13:20] <Equinox> Yea maybe if Slipstream wasn't already available to EVERYONE.
[13:20] <waakb> Timelessness doesn't grant Time Dilation at all in that case, it grants Doombringer, Elusion, Eighth Sense, and Slipstream. Again, if Khabaal already had one or more of those, then he gets new slots to replace them.
[13:20] <Equinox> Which I do.
[13:21] <waakb> This is TimeLESS, not Time- it has to be as different from Time as we can manage while still remaining on theme, IMO.
[13:23] <Equinox> Next question: Did Equinox get ver conversation with the Dark Matter Dragons?
[13:23] <waakb> Of course, as I just noted, the Time Portfolio is itself pretty iffy right now, so YMMV. Time grants (effectively) two Time Dilations, Pariah of Entropy, and Paradox (which is Trans and shouldn't be on that list where it is).
[13:24] <waakb> We didn't play out Equinox's conversation with the Dark Matter Dragons in game, but the reason for that is fairly obvious- you weren't here. Equinox had plenty of subjective time to go say hi to them, we know, so I have no issue with holding the conversation and calling it a retcon.
[13:26] <Khabaal> Well, the main things I wanted to get across were what we've learned about the Egg, the Gate opening soon and that their First One should be 'awake' soon. Also I wanted to see if they would mind me bringing 1/3 of my Egg probes there to analyze the Gate as it opens.
[13:27] <waakb> Which Egg probes do you mean here? I'm getting hung up on Onyx I think.
[13:27] <Khabaal> Yea, the probes that Onyx created. Since Onyx is with the Egg, no need to all those probes there.
[13:29] <waakb> So you mean the devices that Onyx initially created in ver fruitless attempts to probe the Egg's interior before ve figured out a proper method.
[13:30] <waakb> You could have instructed Onyx to send "probe droids" to the Ring at an appropriate time, but Onyx's natural inclination would have been to reuse the useless probes for raw materials in constructing new generations during the vigil at the Egg.
[13:30] <Khabaal> Yes
[13:31] <Khabaal> OK, I'd also want some new probes to send to Old Taera as well.
[13:31] <Khabaal> I would Key them in of course.
[13:31] <waakb> There would therefore be no old probes to use, is what I'm getting at. Floating alone in interstellar space means conservation of mass becomes quite important- even to a planetship.
[13:31] <Khabaal> OK, that's fine
[13:31] <waakb> However, if you wanted probes to send, Onyx could certainly make some.
[13:32] <waakb> Describe the characteristics of these probes?
[13:32] <Sipher> Sipher and\or Stilten could also create more, if needed
[13:33] <Khabaal> I'd want to build probes that have full scanning abilities (radiation, visual and non-visual spectrums, space-time disruptions, subspace, etc.) in all 7 dimensions.
[13:34] <Khabaal> And I want them linked directly to me.
[13:34] <Khabaal> and Onyx as well.
[13:35] <waakb> Only 6 dimensions would be available you know. Part of the point of this whole exercise has been that you guys can't access the 7th.
[13:35] <Khabaal> OK, but I'd want it to be able to notice the development of a 7th dimension.
[13:36] <Khabaal> And once it is available, I'd like the ability to reprogram them via my tech interface to analyze said dimension.
[13:37] <waakb> But such probes could be designed, each one would have to be about 10 feet across to work as you describe on a minimum level. They'd have fairly low resolution on some of the more extreme/exotic sense types, too, but you probably don't care much about radio waves I'd imagine.
[13:37] <waakb> Or gravity waves (which also require large size to be able to resolve with decent resolution).
[13:37] <Khabaal> Heh, yea radio waves are for wimpy civilizations. I want to pick up Eternal realm transmissions ;)
[13:38] <Khabaal> I'd also like the ability to transmit into the Eternal realm if I so desire.
[13:38] <Kei> he wants high-def radio
[13:38] <Khabaal> Once the Gate is open of course.
[13:38] <waakb> There's no way you CAN prepare a device to watch a new dimension as it's developing. You have no idea what effects that would have in normal spacetime, that's why you can't see it now.
[13:38] <Khabaal> Hmm... OK
[13:39] <waakb> Likewise, you have no means of determining how you could send transmissions to, or receive them from, the Eternal Realm, since that by definition is beyond Reality.
[13:39] <waakb> It is possible you can figure out such methods after the Final Gate opens and you can analyze the results, but that can't be known in advance.
[13:39] <Khabaal> Well, that is why I want to make the probes as versitile as possible - to see if it catches something we've never seen before.
[13:40] <Khabaal> That way if new data comes in, I can try to reprogram on the fly.
[13:41] <Khabaal> Anyway, I'd want some identical probes to analyze Old Taera as well.
[13:42] <waakb> Certainly. That's no problem of course.
[13:42] <Khabaal> And just for curiosities sake, I'd want to know how our Heralds are doing on the Construct with a Key question during the nanite annihilation. ;)
03[13:42] * Stant (omfbahg666@OWIRCN-402d3fbd.res.rr.com) has joined #taera
03[13:42] * ChanServ sets mode: +qao Stant Stant Stant
[13:42] <waakb> The relevant point is, you design the most flexible machine possible, and have Onyxabcate a bunch of them- some of which are dispatched to theRingohers of which go to Old Tara.
[13:42] <waakb> Taera.
[13:43] <waakb> Damn keyboard.
[13:43] <Khabaal> heh
[13:43] <Khabaal> I will Key them into position.
[13:43] <Khabaal> And again, direct link to my tech interface.
06[13:44] * @Equinox interface that is ;)
[13:44] <waakb> I have no idea why, but every now and then this cordless keyboard seems to just stop transmitting for no reason in the middle of my typing and then start up again after a split-second to a second or more. I've lost whole sentence fragments that way sometimes.
[13:44] <Equinox> That is quite annoying...
[13:44] <~Stant> (You're just too fast for it. ;P )
[13:45] <waakb> What's even more annoying is that it's very rare, so that when it happens it's always unexpected, and it doesn't seem to have any obvious fix like changing the batteries.
[13:45] <waakb> The last time it happened was Wednesday night, IIRC, while I was typing in my Facebook status after getting home from the gym.
[13:46] <Kei> My mouse does that from time to time...it's rare, but still.
[13:46] <Equinox> One last question: Equinox would visit with Ilsensine after the dark matter dragons to see what ve came up with in her Nexus Dragon research on weapons (or weapon accessories like a liquid to put on neutronium weapons to make it seem like Eternal realm weapons ;)
[13:46] <waakb> Ah, no... now I remember. It was THURSDAY night when I was typing a long-winded response to somebody on an online forum.
[13:47] <waakb> That's fine Equinox, in fact we can presume you did THAT when you went to gather the gods to Key back to Onyx to watch the Egg probe occur.
[13:47] <Equinox> OK
[13:47] <waakb> That would make the most sense.
[13:47] <Equinox> Certainly.
[13:48] <waakb> In fact, you could have invited Ilsensine to be part of that group, though it's probable ve'd decline the invitation.
[13:48] <Equinox> That's fine, I'm just interested in what ve came up with after 600 years of research ;)
[13:50] <waakb> Perfectly fair.
[13:52] <waakb> Ve shaped scales into arrowheads, and in a few cases axes and swords (there are only four swords and ten axes, all Medium-sized), and was researching an oil that could bestow a hypothetical "extrauniversal" property on a weapon coated with it, but didn't manage to finish that research in time.
[13:52] <Equinox> boo! I want the oil ;)
[13:52] <waakb> Ve also apparently figured out several Epic and Ultraeffects using Nexus Dragon body parts as components and foci.
[13:52] <Sipher> pfft, 600 years and ve couldn't even do that? :P
[13:53] <Equinox> Hmm, the Epic and Ultras might be fun...
[13:53] <waakb> Ilsensine is more of a spellcaster type you know. Ve originated psionics.
[13:53] <waakb> At least in your cosmos and cycle of history.
[13:57] <waakb> Details on the Epics and Ultras will have to wait, if you were expecting me to type those up. I didn't actually make such effects myself, I just presume that Ilsensine figured some out.
[13:57] <Equinox> Oh, OK ;) I was waiting.
[13:58] <waakb> One obvious one though would be to duplicate the dragon's Mind Warp ability, the aura of insanity it generates while alive.
[13:58] <Equinox> That was my last question, so if you'd like to type something... ;)
[13:58] <waakb> Ilsensine would have been all OVER duplicating that, ASAP.
[13:58] <Equinox> That would DEFINITELY something Equinox would want to.
[13:58] <Equinox> +be
[13:58] <Equinox> too
[14:07] <waakb> It's essentially a very wide-area emanation Insanity spell, with a Nexus Dragon scale as a material component that gets consumed. It's castable as a standard action, the radius of the emanation is 2560 feet + 10 feet per caster level.
[14:07] <waakb> No cost in XP or hit points, just the Nexus Dragon scale.
[14:08] <waakb> Also, and this is particularly important, the save DC isn't based on the spell level- it's based on CASTER level. Half caster level plus the ability modifier is what it is.
03[14:09] * Kaelyn (~Snorg38@469CD6.CF6FA6.DFDEE5.C2BA90) has joined #taera
[14:09] <Equinox> ok
03[14:09] * Equinox sets mode: +o Kaelyn
[14:09] <waakb> Ve has 100 scales left that ve hasn't used or set aside for ver own purposes and further research.
[14:09] <waakb> I'm cooking here, so I'll be AFK for a while.
[14:10] <waakb> Oh, the Mind Warp lasts for 1 round/caster level, BTW.
[14:10] <Equinox> ok
[14:10] <Kaelyn> Mind Warp?
02[14:19] * @Kei (~Tairon@OWIRCN-2f78ba3b.east.verizon.net) Quit (Connection closed )
03[14:19] * Tlin (~Tairon@OWIRCN-2f78ba3b.east.verizon.net) has joined #taera
06[14:41] * Tlin pokes?
[14:41] <Sipher> ja? :P
[14:41] <Tlin> Was just making sure I was still actually here, considering its been half an hour since anyone said anything. o.o
[14:43] <Sipher> well, consdering we don't start for another hour and a half... :P
[14:45] <Kaelyn> christ, 14k fort save
[14:53] <Tlin> ?
[14:54] <Kaelyn> Just getting final numbers for Talor's stats.
[14:55] <Sipher> 14k fort? How the hell...? :P
[15:00] <Kaelyn> Talor is most likely the most perfect being in the Taera universe as far as stats go. :P
[15:00] <Kaelyn> All his stats are just so high and he adds all the mental to every save on top of it
[15:02] <Kaelyn> Hmm wait may not be that high. I accidently added Legendary stat to everything instead of just 2 stats.
[15:03] <Kaelyn> may only be like ~10k
[15:04] <waakb> At last, my sauce is cooking.
[15:04] <waakb> I didn't actually prepare spaghetti sauce yesterday as originally planned. Opted to go out for Subway instead. :)
[15:04] <waakb> So I'm taking the time to do it today.
[15:04] <waakb> The sauce is the most effort-and-time-intensive part of spaghetti preparation, for me.
[15:05] <waakb> Takes me an hour to do it properly, nearly every time.
03[15:05] * waakb sets mode: +o Tlin
03[15:05] * Tlin is now known as Kei
[15:07] <Kaelyn> Ahh you make your own sauce?
[15:11] <waakb> Mostly. I start with store-bought stuff- usually Ragu- and add stuff to it.
[15:12] <waakb> I cook up about half a pound of hamburger and spice it heavily before cooking, then wash the meat in a strainer so most of the spice is washed away- the idea being to put a subtle taste into the meat. I also chop some onion, then add that, the meat, parmesan cheese, and lots of other spices to the sauce.
[15:12] <Kaelyn> I see
[15:12] <waakb> Takes a while.
[15:12] <waakb> Mike's had it- he liked it. :)
[15:16] <Kaelyn> Huh looks like I've got my attack high enough to add another size category without going negative
[15:18] <Kaelyn> Macro-Colossal here I come :P
[15:30] <waakb> If you like.
[15:30] <waakb> Pull out all the stops, this is Final Combat.
[15:31] <waakb> And for today's special occasion, I modified my usual vodka-Red-Bull mixing procedure so that I mixed BOTH of the ones I normally would have done at separate times, and poured them together into one large cup for drinking. So I have both of them here, mixed together, now.
[15:31] <waakb> Along with my spaghetti lunch. :)
[15:31] <Kei> vodka-red-bull mix? o.o
[15:32] <Kei> That sounds a dozen and one kinds of unhealthy.
[15:36] <Kaelyn> Hmm... Are immortals supposed to be able to reach outside of their Divine Auras?
[15:36] <Kaelyn> it like doesn't make sense :P
[15:36] <waakb> I drink two of them every game day, Tay. :) I've been doing it for years.
[15:38] <Kaelyn> even with x10 enlarge aura its only out to 19 miles. His reach extends out to 72 miles normally (432 if he stretches).
[15:38] <waakb> If you mean reach in the physical sense, Kaelyn, it actually DOES make sense when you consider that physical bodies are separated from the energy that's the real god. That would be one reason for gods to FORM and USE physical bodies in the first place, in fact.
03[15:38] * Rava (~Ravashack@OWIRCN-118e530d.sd.cox.net) has joined #taera
[15:38] <Kaelyn> Hmm good point
03[15:38] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Rava
[15:38] <waakb> Gods CAN exist as pure energy, like Khabaal did for a while, but many things are just much easier to deal with if you have a physical body to work with.
03[15:38] * Rava is now known as Stilten
[15:39] <Kaelyn> So yeah I guess it works. Just amusing I have a reach far outside my Divine Aura :P
[15:39] <Stilten> I had a couple of thoughts...
[15:39] <Stilten> Does Fusion allow you to combine DAs and CAs?
[15:40] <waakb> Fusion the psionic power? HELLS no.
[15:40] <Stilten> Haha
[15:40] <Stilten> And researching an Epic version would be out as well, right?
[15:41] <waakb> One that lets you combine Divines and Cosmics would be, yes. What you want is the Cosmic ability Gestalt.
[15:41] <Stilten> And with Abrogate the way it is, are you still restricting it so that it can only turn off 1 ability no matter how many are stacked on someone?
[15:42] <waakb> Under our present rules, that's how it works, yes.
[15:43] <waakb> I'm no longer sure it SHOULD work that way, but that's how it currently DOES work for us.
[15:43] <Stilten> Hahahha
[15:43] <waakb> So, that's how it will work for this combat.
[15:43] <Stilten> Time to look up Fission then :)
[15:43] <waakb> Those who have Abrogate will learn the first real piece of information you guys get about the Occupant- its appearance obviously isn't information you're terribly interested in.
03[15:44] * Xehochanan (~SG@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.3DB6A2.6BB79F) has joined #taera
03[15:45] * waakb sets mode: +o Xehochanan
[15:46] <Stilten> Heh, do the Abrogates cancel each other out then? XD
[15:46] <waakb> Raithe should be almost home by now, judging from his text message sent to me at 3. He expects to be on time.
[15:47] <Xehochanan> I was just about to type, was I wrong and we ended up starting at normal time? :oE
[15:47] <Stilten> So yeah, would you guys find Spell Stowaway (Miracle) useful?
[15:47] <waakb> No, Stilten, they do not- the Occupant's Abrogate will cancel out some other ability of somebody's, since multiple opponents have Abrogate and thus if its own cancels out one of yours it doesn't stop the others from hitting it.
[15:49] <waakb> People arrived early today, notably Mike since he had final details of his characters still to work out.
[15:50] <waakb> Khabaal, for example, needed a completed Timelessness Portfolio since he's now Incarnation of it.
[15:51] <Stilten> And someone else has Perfect Aura already, right?
[15:52] <Kaelyn> Yeah Talor has it
[15:52] <Kaelyn> Has all the Aura DA's and 10x extend aura
[15:52] <Kei> I'd imagine Kei would, she probably has all of the aura enhancing abilities she can get her hands on.
[15:53] <Stilten> And giving everyone Spell Stowaway (Heal) seems kind of weak now ><
[15:53] <Equinox> Did you complete Xeho's Cosmics SG?
[15:54] <Equinox> And yes, Brian's spaghetti sauce is rich and flavoricious!
[15:54] <Stilten> Errr
[15:54] <Stilten> TMI Mike
06[15:54] * @Equinox slaps Stilten around a bit with a large trout
[15:54] <Equinox> Get your mind outta the gutter Leo! :P
[15:55] <Stilten> Your comment kind of came out of nowhere
[15:55] <Xehochanan> Yes, although send me the Power Portfolio so I can cross check that it's still accurate
[15:55] <Xehochanan> that what I have is accurate*
[15:55] <Equinox> Hmm, you joined after Brian mentioned his spaghetti suace prep today!
[15:55] <Kei> not really, Brian mentioned Mike liked the spaghetti sauce...and mike never siad anything about it. Wlel, until now...'very' delayed response.
[15:55] <Equinox> I just got back to the puter ;)
[15:55] <Xehochanan> The Pewter Puter
[15:56] <Stilten> Heh
[15:58] <waakb> My spaghetti taste is also helped by the fact that I don't cook the noodles themselves in just straight water. It's usually recommended that you cook pasta in water with some salt added, to change the boiling temp of the water, but I don't use table salt for that. I instead use seasoned salt and garlic powder.
[15:58] <Stilten> Heh.
[15:58] <Stilten> I'm lazy, I dump soy sauce in mine =X
[15:58] <waakb> It both changes the water and adds a very subtle extra taste to the noodles. I've been using Bacon Salt particularly, in recent months, and like it a lot.
[15:59] <waakb> Soy sauce might work, actually that would add extra protein to the noodles I think (not much, but some). Could be handy.
[16:00] <waakb> So, just missing Moiranna now. Kevin should be home any minute.
[16:01] <Stilten> I guess I better scramble :D
[16:01] <waakb> Shall I log copy? Does anybody NOT want that, to reestablish the mood if nothing else?
[16:03] <waakb> I'm thinking copying the last few questions Stilten asked of the Time Source, followed by the setup lines typed thereafter once the god army was in open space, will do nicely.
[16:03] <Stilten> XD
[16:03] <Stilten> Nothing like moving at the speed of plotl
[16:03] <Stilten> plot even
[16:04] <waakb> Did you need ME to send you the Power Portfolio, Xeho?
[16:04] <waakb> I just noticed that.
06[16:04] * @Sipher prods Mike
[16:04] <Stilten> He does I believe
[16:04] <Xehochanan> Mike sent it
[16:04] <Xehochanan> So n/m
[16:05] <Xehochanan> Since he got his from you
[16:05] <Stilten> Haha, OK
[16:05] <waakb> Cool. I wasn't sure, so thought I'd ask.
[16:05] <waakb> Important that you're all ready.
[16:05] <waakb> Any final questions I can answer for you, out of character?
[16:05] <Sipher> Brian, do you have a copy of the intellect portfolio you can send me?
[16:06] <Kaelyn> need one as well :P
[16:06] <Kaelyn> Mike was supposed to send it but never did :P
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[16:07] <waakb> I have emails sent between myself and Mike that I can forward, but he himself never sent me his latest version of the Intellect Portfolio.
[16:07] <waakb> Welcome, last player!
[16:07] <Kaelyn> both my characters have it
03[16:07] * waakb sets mode: +o Moiranna
[16:07] <Kaelyn> I've only been using a really old version I have
[16:07] <Equinox> i need to put some finishing touches on it
[16:07] <waakb> <waakb> Shall I log copy? Does anybody NOT want that, to reestablish the mood if nothing else?
[16:07] <waakb> <waakb> I'm thinking copying the last few questions Stilten asked of the Time Source, followed by the setup lines typed thereafter once the god army was in open space, will do nicely.
[16:07] <waakb> <Stilten> XD
[16:07] <waakb> <Stilten> Nothing like moving at the speed of plotl
[16:07] <waakb> <Stilten> plot even
[16:08] <waakb> May as well send it to all of us when you do, then, Mike. :)
[16:08] <Moiranna> Go for it. Though it's pretty much imprinted on my brain at this point. ;)
[16:08] <waakb> We can wait for you to finish it- what's left to do?
[16:08] <Equinox> Just need to incorporate the changes you recommended
[16:11] <waakb> Okay. Should I then forward my last email sent to you, to everybody who has Intellect as a Portfolio?
[16:12] <Stilten> Does everyone have the +Wis to attacks/saving throws etc abilities?
[16:12] <waakb> Or anyway, as a Primary? If you just have it as a Secondary, of course, then all you care about is the Domain spells.
[16:12] <Moiranna> I have the ones for Int and Cha, Stilten, but not Wis (my Wis is one of my lower scores)
[16:12] <Kaelyn> Both my chars have the wis ones
[16:12] <Sipher> Logath has the Int and Cha ones, Sipher has all three
[16:12] <Stilten> OK, but do they have the aligned +Wis ones?
[16:12] <Stilten> Sacred and Profane?
[16:13] <Kaelyn> Ahh no
[16:13] <Sipher> no
[16:13] <Sipher> Sipher is CN, and Logath Wis sucks :P
[16:13] <Kaelyn> Well actually Kaelyn can have the profane ones now cant she
[16:13] <waakb> She can.
[16:13] <Kaelyn> so yeah Kaelyn has the Profane ones
[16:13] <waakb> But logically, there would be Anarchic and Axiomatic versions as well.
[16:13] <Stilten> Divine Presence is one of the Cosmics we can have more than one of, right?
[16:14] <waakb> If there are Sacred and Profane ones, then the other alignment axis must also be represented.
[16:14] <waakb> Divine Presence is NOT on the list of does-not-count-as-your-one-Esoteric Cosmics, actually.
[16:15] <waakb> If you take that, it will be your ONE Esoteric Cosmic Ability.
[16:15] <Equinox> Sent Intellect Portfolio
[16:17] <Khabaal> So what is the Egg Being's INT? I want to add it to my own. ;)
[16:17] <waakb> Received!
[16:17] <Stilten> ROFL
[16:17] <Moiranna> LOL
[16:17] <Sipher> yeah, I almost did that with Sipher too :P
[16:17] <waakb> And, you don't actually KNOW what its INT is yet. Nobody with Psychometry has gotten ANYTHING on it yet.
[16:17] <Kaelyn> ahh you changed the item/spell reading thing
[16:18] <Moiranna> Arguably, Intellect would be suitable for Moiranna too, though I suppose it doesn't matter much now. Can you email it to me, Mike?
[16:18] <waakb> You should have it Moiranna.
[16:18] <waakb> He actually sent it as a "reply to all" on the last log email *I* sent.
[16:18] <Moiranna> Ah, I see. :)
[16:19] <Equinox> Yea ;)
[16:19] <Kaelyn> good doesn't make me do any stat changes
[16:19] <Kaelyn> though that weakness sucks :P
06[16:20] * @Xehochanan slaps Kaelyn around a bit with a large trout
[16:20] <waakb> It doesn't actually include any of the non-Divine abilities a Portfolio writeup should have, but for this situation we can safely ignore that deficit I think.
[16:20] <Stilten> Ooof, AFK
[16:20] <Equinox> True
[16:20] <Sipher> heh, what is Equinoxs INT score btw?
[16:20] <waakb> A Domain probably wouldn't be difficult to devise, and in any case most of the spells on the list wouldn't be combat-intended effects anyway I suspect.
[16:20] <Moiranna> STILTEN NOOOOOO.
[16:21] <Equinox> Yea, for those not as smart as me, False Brilliance could be bad...
[16:21] <Kaelyn> you sure your the smartest around? ;)
[16:21] <Moiranna> So we get twice Equinox's DR as a bonus to INT eh?
[16:22] <Equinox> Yes, you all do.
[16:22] <Moiranna> Nice.
[16:22] <waakb> Which, considering Equinox is the INCARNATION of Intellect, should be pretty much everybody.
[16:22] <waakb> Equinox has a tripled INT score, thanks to those Cosmics that only ve can get, so I certainly HOPE ve's the current smartest!
[16:22] <Equinox> And since I am an Incarnation of Intellect, Total Intelligence in theory should make me smarter than all my enemies.
[16:22] <waakb> Ah yes, that too.
[16:22] <Sipher> yeah, but what is your Int score? :P
[16:23] <Equinox> Without adding enemy INT, it is 7668.
[16:23] <Kaelyn> ahh neat, mine is 7668 too ;P
[16:23] <Equinox> Also, my ability to remove INT bonuses to enemies in my Aura would help me stay the smartest as well.
[16:23] <Equinox> lol Kae
[16:24] <Kaelyn> well not Kae, Talor :P
[16:24] <Equinox> You are talking Talor eright?
[16:24] <Equinox> heh, OK
[16:24] <waakb> To the log for a Copy, then!
[16:24] <Equinox> You should each open 2 instances of mIRC if you are playing 2 characters, I did ;)
[16:24] <waakb> My Slayers Try soundtrack has conveniently reached the point where the final conflict is near at hand.
[16:24] <Xehochanan> When I originally wrote the Power Portfolio, I had it give the cosmic ability Authority, but then for the double Power portfolio, that ability becomes an augmented version of Authority that isn't limited by the target's INT. But should there be *some* sort of cap?
[16:25] <Sipher> so... if theres like 4 characters with the intellect portfolio, do the auras stack XD
[16:26] <Equinox> That is up to Brian.
[16:26] <waakb> Interestingly, the log copy point I wanted happens right around midnight. Make of that symbolism what you will.
[16:26] <Xehochanan> What a nuclear annihilation
[16:27] <waakb> As for the INT bonuses granted by your Intellect Auras, no, they don't stack.
[16:28] <waakb> Equinox's is essentially the one that dominates, though Talor obviously has the same Divine Rank.
[16:28] <Equinox> Did Talor get double?
[16:28] <Equinox> In any case, everyone add 98 point to INT from my aura.
[16:28] <Equinox> 96
[16:28] <waakb> [23:59] <waakb> Equinox suddenly reappears, and with ver ve has a troop of other deities.
[16:28] <waakb> Session Time: Sun Jan 24 00:00:00 2010
[16:28] <waakb> [00:00] <waakb> BOTH versions of Damok your party has had contact with are there- the one from the late-party timeline of long-awake Sidereals, and the one who stayed in the protection of Moiranna's Device. So too are Paradox, Cenob, Thero, Bast, Initia, and many others.
[16:28] <waakb> [00:00] <Stilten> 14) Does the form in the Egg remind you of anything in particular?
[16:28] <waakb> [00:01] <waakb> Equinox asks mildly #Did we miss anything?#
[16:28] <waakb> [00:01] <Stilten> "Besides the louder screaming? Not really."
[16:28] <waakb> [00:01] <waakb> Lyre covers his ears and asks in clear consternation "What's that screaming?"
[16:28] <waakb> [00:01] <Stilten> "I'm Communing with the Time Source, but it doesn't look like I will be able to set up another connection about the Egg, so if you have any questions you want to ask it, tell me."
[16:28] <Kaelyn> yeah
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <waakb> (14) LOOK YOURSELF. YOU WILL SEE.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <Stilten> What do I see?
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <Kei> "Apparently the beams hit something, and while we're not sure if we're doing any lasting damage, we have its attention, and clearly we've hurt it."
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <waakb> And indeed, the shape in the ovoid hologram is becoming clearer.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <waakb> It looks... whiplike. Snakelike. Serpentine.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <Stilten> 15) Has the time for the Creator's awakening changed due to our actions now?
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <waakb> And it's moving around.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:02] <waakb> Clearly agitated.
[16:29] <Sipher> Sipher has it at double too ^^
03[16:29] * Logath (Andrion@OWIRCN-c38014f1.cable.virginmedia.com) has joined #taera
[16:29] <waakb> [00:03] <waakb> Paradox remarks "So you're pissing it off?"
[16:29] <waakb> [00:03] <Talor> "Yup."
[16:29] <waakb> [00:03] <waakb> "Looks like," Onyx nods to him (Paradox is in a male body for now).
[16:29] <waakb> 06[00:03] * @Kei nods. "It certainly looks that way, but we've got no other way of getting to it to do more than simply piss it off."
[16:29] <waakb> [00:04] <waakb> (15) NOT THE WAY YOU MEAN.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:04] <waakb> Onyx glances at Stilten in alarm upon receiving that answer.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:04] <waakb> Then ve pauses as if in frantic thought, and suddenly exclaims "Oh no! I didn't think to look for that!"
03[16:29] * waakb sets mode: +o Logath
[16:29] <waakb> [00:05] <Stilten> 16) Did something else change then?
[16:29] <waakb> [00:05] <waakb> And then a CRACK very clearly appears in the Eggshell.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:05] <Moiranna> "Look for what?"
[16:29] <waakb> [00:05] <Stilten> 17) Is it advisable for us to turn off the probe beam for now?
[16:29] <waakb> [00:06] <waakb> "Gravity waves!" Onyx explains to Moiranna. "The sound we're hearing is a result of inetnse folds in spacetime being released by the entity inside the Egg, but it's releasing LOWER-frequency ones too. The lower-frequency waves have been pushing us along the time dimension more than we should have gone. We've lost HOURS of relative time!"
[16:29] <waakb> [00:06] <waakb> (16) LISTEN TO YOUR SHIP.
[16:29] <waakb> [00:07] <waakb> (17) NO LONGER MATTERS.
[16:29] <waakb> 06[00:07] * @Moiranna nods. "Then the time has come."
[16:30] <waakb> [00:07] <waakb> "How many hours?" late-game Damok asks suspiciously (and with clear trepidation).
[16:30] <waakb> [00:08] <Stilten> 18) Can the Creator defeat this serpent thing inside the egg?
[16:30] <waakb> [00:08] <waakb> "I calculate less than 1 hour left until the Demiurge awakes!" Onyx wrings ver hands.
[16:30] <waakb> [00:08] <Sipher> /SO WE MUST DELAY IT FOR AN HOUR?/
[16:30] <waakb> [00:08] <waakb> (18) TIME FOR YOU TO TRY. comes the answer, and suddenly the connection breaks.
[16:30] <waakb> [00:09] <Sipher> /THAT SOUNDS LIKE A YES./
[16:30] <waakb> [00:09] <Kei> (18) YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN BITCHES! *poofs*
03[16:30] * Talor (~Snorg38@469CD6.CF6FA6.DFDEE5.C2BA90) has joined #taera
[16:30] <waakb> [00:09] <Stilten> Haha
[16:30] <waakb> [00:09] <Stilten> Does that Snakelike thing resemble The Image we had before?
[16:30] <waakb> [00:09] <waakb> "You don't understand," Onyx tells Logath desperately. "This whole ship has been riding forward in time at a higher rate than natural. It's like we;ve been surfing a wave on a temporal sea. Since I told you that last point, we've lost another 10 minutes!"
[16:30] <waakb> [00:10] <Stilten> "Equinox, I think you better Key us, FAST."
[16:30] <waakb> [00:10] <waakb> The hologram in the ovoid now clearly looks like a snake, with an open hexapartite maw, and six large folds that could be wings rising from its body all around.
[16:30] <waakb> [00:11] <waakb> In general outline, in fact, it looks suspiciously like a Nexus Dragon.
[16:30] <waakb> [00:11] <Talor> I knew it was going to be a nexus dragon! :P
[16:30] <waakb> [00:11] <Moiranna> WHAT A NEXUS HA HA HA
03[16:30] * waakb sets mode: +o Talor
03[16:30] * Xehochanan changes topic to '<Moiranna> WHAT A NEXUS HA HA HA '
[16:31] <waakb> [00:11] <waakb> Equinox bids you #Tell me something I DIDN'T already think of,# while turning the Key.
[16:31] <waakb> [00:11] <Stilten> "
[16:31] <waakb> [00:11] <waakb> And more cracks appear in the Eggshell.
[16:31] <waakb> [00:11] <Stilten> "Well it may not MATTER, but it's worth a shot."
[16:31] <waakb> 06[00:11] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[16:31] <waakb> [00:12] <waakb> The beam shuts off with a bang.
[16:31] <waakb> [00:12] <waakb> Suddenly, your party and the assembled gods are outside the ship, clustered near the Egg but away from it, on the side of the rupture and cracks.
[16:31] <waakb> [00:13] <Stilten> "Isn't this the image that the Key showed you guys, Equinox?"
[16:31] <waakb> [00:13] <waakb> The planetship vanishes into the future as you appear. #Don't worry, ve'll be fine,# Equinox tells you confidently. #Ve just needs subjective time to slow down with the drives. Meanwhile, we have work to do.#
[16:31] <waakb> [00:13] <waakb> A third crack appears in the Eggshell.
[16:31] <waakb> 06[00:14] * @Moiranna will Send to her Avatar: #Is everything moving according to plan for the Ritual? The hour approaches.#
[16:31] <waakb> [00:14] <Moiranna> I don't know if we'll be able to contact Avatars now or not, but it was worth a shot
[16:31] <waakb> [00:14] <waakb> #I thought I saw a planet,# Equinox states, then adds #but those chips DID look like rock. Perhaps if it shatters completely...#
[16:31] <waakb> [00:14] <waakb> And right then, as if on cue, the Egg shatters.
[16:31] <waakb> [00:14] <waakb> Completely.
[16:32] <waakb> Oh, and I'll mention here that Moiranna DOES get a reply from her avatar with the Ritual of Opening party. But that won't arrive until combat has already begun, so I'll interject that at the appropriate moment.
[16:32] <Moiranna> Ah, I was wondering about that. Thank you.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:15] <waakb> And it is suddenly far larger than it was while intact, thousands of miles wide.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:15] <waakb> It resembles nothing, in fact, so much as a shattered planet.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:15] <Sipher> time to eat us a Grand Nexus Dragon
[16:32] <waakb> [00:15] <waakb> And the Egg's occupant unfolds its draconic body to glare at you with complete and utter hatred.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:15] <waakb> It is NOT a nexus Dragon.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:16] <waakb> That much is obvious at first glance.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:16] <Sipher> Sipher will share all the information ve gets on it
[16:32] <waakb> [00:16] <waakb> Nexus Dragons all had clear gray coloring, and looked more like they were formed from portals or wormholes than anything else.
[16:32] <waakb> [00:16] <waakb> This thing doesn't.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:18] <waakb> It looks, instead, like nothing so much as a piece of night sky folded and twisted until it forms a dragon-like shape- but the sky that was so folded and twisted is very clearly NOT the sky the beast is now in. When it unfolds ts wings, you can see an even stranger vista- like a NEGATIVE of a night sky.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:18] <waakb> A vision of space utterly, brilliantly WHITE but dotted with BLACK "stars."
[16:33] <waakb> [00:19] <waakb> And when it opens its mouth to roar a challenge to you all, you see yet a THIRD space within THAT- a THIRD space that should not be there.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:19] <waakb> Whatever this Thing is, it is very clearly NOT a Nexus Dragon.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:19] <waakb> Sipher... gets NOTHING when ve looks at it.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:19] <Moiranna> ...Transcendantal? :E
[16:33] <waakb> [00:19] <waakb> Nothing at all. It's like ver Psychometry ability just bounces right off it.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:20] <Sipher> yep, I thought as much
[16:33] <waakb> [00:20] <Sipher> (/me teleports away :P)
[16:33] <waakb> [00:20] <Stilten> DS#I hope none of you have any aversions to Positive Energy...#
[16:33] <waakb> [00:20] <Stilten> DS
[16:33] <waakb> [00:21] <Sipher> /SUCH AS BEING UNDEAD?/
[16:33] <waakb> [00:21] <waakb> Talor grabs the Silver Key away from Equinox roughly, and growls #Give me that. I'm the one who's supposed to have it, aren't I?#
[16:33] <waakb> 06[00:21] * @Xehochanan slaps Talor around a bit with a large trout
[16:33] <waakb> [00:21] <Stilten> DS#Don't stand close to me then.#DS
[16:33] <waakb> [00:21] <waakb> Equinox, after ver surprise, releases the Key without resistance, and answers #So you are.#
[16:33] <waakb> [00:21] <Sipher> /OH, i'LL BE UP THERE - DO NOT WORRY SO, LITTLE ONE./
[16:33] <waakb> [00:22] <Stilten> Stilten's circlet is radiating a Mend Wounds =X
[16:33] <waakb> [00:22] <waakb> Thero gets "up there" with you, as do the other assembled warrior gods. Your group, meager though it may be in the face of such opposition, assembles as best it can for battle.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:22] <Talor> Hmm is this the same creature we saw in the image?
[16:33] <waakb> [00:23] <Stilten> I've already asked twice =X
[16:33] <waakb> [00:23] <waakb> Gandalf, somewhere in another dimension, may be saying "This foe is beyond any of you," but the Vision both of your parties saw so long ago is now completed.
[16:33] <waakb> [00:23] <Stilten> Or at least wondered out loud :)
[16:33] <waakb> [00:23] <Talor> Ahh so it wasn't actually DABB
[16:34] <waakb> [00:23] <waakb> Before an apparent shattered planet, a dragon formed of night with wings like photographic negatives of a night sky unfolds itself and prepares for battle against an assembled army of gods.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:24] <waakb> You twelve are clearly the strongest gods present.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:24] <Stilten> And now you know why there are no sidereals there.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:24] <waakb> The Demiurge's moment of awakening is arriving in less than 1 minute, Equinox informs you when ve is able to check the time against the Taelarian Construct.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:25] <Moiranna> That means we've got 10 rounds.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:25] <Stilten> No pressure!
[16:34] <waakb> [00:25] <waakb> Somewhere else in the universe, the Ring completes its final rotation.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:25] <waakb> The portal blazes open and focuses more strongly than has ever been attempted before, onto one special layer of the Far Realm.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:26] <waakb> So too, the Bridge Plane- the Plane of Shadow- finally finishes its centuries-long growth and connects at last to the same place.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:27] <waakb> In their own bubble of subjective time, yet all bound to approaching the same moment, the Shade Masters and their divine escorts arrive at the Place of the Ritual. The Ritual of Opening begins.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:28] <waakb> And if there were any beings at the Ring able to look through its wide-open portal right now, they would SEE the Ritual very clearly as it begins and synchronizes slowly with the flow of time in your universe.
[16:34] <waakb> [00:28] <waakb> Power begins to pierce the barrier of the higher dimensions.
[16:35] <waakb> And there's no reason to copy further, since that was effectively the last in-game stuff in last week's log.
[16:35] <Moiranna> Testing dice bot quickly.
[16:35] <Moiranna> 20#d20+10
[16:35] <Kaelyn> must prepare with chips and salsa
[16:35] <Moiranna> roll 20#d20+10
[16:35] <Moiranna> 20d10+10
06[16:35] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (20d10+10) and rolled 114.
[16:35] <Moiranna> Bah, how do you get Golem to split them up?
[16:35] <Xehochanan> 5 d10
06[16:35] * +Golem rolls the dice for Xehochanan (5 d10) and rolled 2 4 5 2 6.
[16:35] <Moiranna> Ahh.
[16:35] <waakb> I will note that it is ONLY because the Ring is focusing on the location of the Ritual of Opening that Moiranna and anybody else who tries can communicate with avatars that went with the Ritual party, at all.
[16:35] <Moiranna> 10 d10+5
06[16:35] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (10 d10+5) and rolled 12 8 10 11 15 10 14 14 11 14.
[16:36] <Sipher> gah, can't quite reach Macro-Colossal...
[16:36] <waakb> I will also note that I didn't give you guys a COMPLETE description of the Occupant last week- I should mention also its length.
[16:36] <waakb> It's exactly 6666 feet long, nose-tip to tail-tip, when it hatches.
[16:36] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[16:37] <waakb> Though it starts growing almost immediately, at an alarming pace.
[16:37] <waakb> I will also note that those party members who have ABROGATE all feel their power settle into active mode, and hit something of the Occupant's.
[16:37] <waakb> Who has that, BTW? Moiranna does, we know, but who else?
[16:37] <Moiranna> I do.
[16:38] <Xehochanan> Me
[16:39] <waakb> Those with Abrogate sense that their power is shutting off some ability designated "Evil Eye." When you examine the specifications, you're inclined to agree with the Abrogate!
[16:39] <Stilten> Sorry about that, back
[16:39] <waakb> }:)
[16:39] <Sipher> oooh
[16:39] <Sipher> you evil, evil man
[16:39] <Xehochanan> eye*
[16:40] <waakb> Don't worry, it has plenty left without that.
[16:40] <Equinox> So shall we roll init?
[16:40] <waakb> But, again, Psychometry is somehow blocked for this thing. You can tell nothing else about it. Though feel free to share around the description of Evil Eye, if you like.
[16:40] <waakb> Sure, roll it.
[16:40] <waakb> The Occupant gets a 361.
[16:40] <Equinox> We would all get the worst possible die roll.
[16:41] <Moiranna> d20+2994 Initiative [Perfect Initiative here]
[16:41] <Kaelyn> I'm curious as to why the Sidereal haven't came and roflstomped this thing though
[16:41] <Equinox> d20+4660
06[16:41] * +Golem rolls the dice for Equinox (d20+4660) and rolled 4679.
[16:41] <Moiranna> d20+2999
06[16:41] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (d20+2999) and rolled 3012.
[16:41] <Moiranna> So 3012 with Perfect Initiative.
[16:41] <Stilten> Stilten:
[16:41] <Khabaal> d20+1663
06[16:41] * +Golem rolls the dice for Khabaal (d20+1663) and rolled 1672.
[16:41] <Stilten> d20+718
06[16:41] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+718) and rolled 719.
[16:42] <Sipher> d20+1841
06[16:42] * +Golem rolls the dice for Sipher (d20+1841) and rolled 1843.
[16:42] <waakb> I think everybody who matters here has Perfect Initiative. The Occupant certainly does, not that its score isn't titchy compared to all of yours.
[16:42] <Stilten> Kol`reat...I can't tell :(
[16:42] <Stilten> d20+110
06[16:42] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+110) and rolled 125.
[16:42] <Stilten> That's my guess
[16:43] <Khabaal> Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Stilten 719, Kol'reat 125
[16:43] <Logath> d20+2908
06[16:43] * +Golem rolls the dice for Logath (d20+2908) and rolled 2912.
03[16:43] * SG (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.3DB6A2.6BB79F) has joined #taera
03[16:43] * Moiranna sets mode: +o SG
[16:43] <Moiranna> Xeho's Init please! :)
[16:43] <Kaelyn> d20+1337
[16:43] <Khabaal> Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Stilten 719, Egg Occupant 361, Kol'reat 125
06[16:43] * +Golem rolls the dice for Kaelyn (d20+1337) and rolled 1346.
[16:43] <waakb> <waakb> The Occupant gets a 361.
[16:43] <Moiranna> lmfao Kae
[16:43] <Kaelyn> lmao I made sure it didn't change
[16:44] <Khabaal> Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Stilten 719, Egg Occupant 361, Kol'reat 125
[16:44] <Xehochanan> d20+885
06[16:44] * +Golem rolls the dice for Xehochanan (d20+885) and rolled 900.
[16:44] <waakb> Oh, hells with it. Just call the Occupant "Dragon" and leave it at that. It's a dragon-SHAPED thing, so may as well use the word.
[16:44] <Talor> d20+8405
06[16:44] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+8405) and rolled 8410.
[16:44] <Moiranna> LOL 8K
[16:45] <waakb> So out of curiosity, what are the DEX scores represented here?
[16:45] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
02[16:45] * @Xehochanan (~SG@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.3DB6A2.6BB79F) Quit (Quit: )
[16:45] <Talor> 2384
[16:45] <Stilten> Stilten has 176 but has 1280 Int
[16:45] <Stilten> Due to Factotum abilities
[16:45] <Stilten> Kol has 219
[16:45] <Moiranna> Most of Moiranna's comes from INT. Her DEX is only 278. Her INT is 2800 and she adds it twice.
[16:46] <Equinox> Khabaal 1554, Equinox 1560 - Equinox is so much better because INT adds so much.
[16:46] <waakb> Fair enough. That was why I asked specifically for DEX scores rather than initiative modifiers. :)
[16:46] <Sipher> Siphers is 412
[16:46] <waakb> Well, okay, I asked for DEX scores for ANOTHER reason... but you can probably all guess the reason.
[16:46] <waakb> Can't you, you clever little players.
[16:46] <Sipher> Logaths is 1526
[16:47] <Talor> (crap I had updated Kaelyn but had an old version up. I think i just saved over my new versin and lost a buncha changes)
[16:47] <Moiranna> Way to fail!
[16:47] <Equinox> That sucks!
[16:47] <waakb> Talor is apparently the highest DEX score present.
[16:47] <Kaelyn> (ahh found it, woo)
[16:47] <Sipher> btw Brian, whats the damage on a Macro-Titanic scimitar? :)
[16:48] <waakb> Good luck fixing it Talor! Do you remember anything that you lost, so you can redo it immediately?
[16:48] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[16:49] <Kaelyn> (oh I found the updated file, I renamed it and put it on my desktop. So when I went to my usual place it was the old version)
[16:49] <waakb> Sipher, Logath's scimitar (I assume that's why you asked) deals 120d10 damage base.
[16:50] <Sipher> what does Neutronium add to that?
[16:50] <waakb> Oh, good.
[16:50] <waakb> Neutronium adds an effective +15 sizes to that, I believe.
[16:50] <Moiranna> How much time did we have to buff?
[16:50] <Equinox> You should have your buffs up at all times! :P
[16:50] <Kaelyn> seriously!
[16:50] <Moiranna> One of them is an Ultraspell. :P
[16:51] <Moiranna> The rest are all Persistent.
[16:51] <Stilten> Buffs? What buffs?
[16:51] <Moiranna> I didn't know Moiranna had it until I finished her on Friday, really. But it's in her staff Soul Item.
[16:51] <waakb> A Neutronium Macro-Titanic Scimitar would deal 20480d10 base damage, Logath.
[16:51] <Moiranna> (Well, she could always *cast* it lol)
[16:51] <waakb> By my calcs.
[16:51] <SG> The rest are all Persnickety spells
[16:52] <Sipher> mmm, shiny
[16:52] <Stilten> BTW, you can Epic Presence an Ultraspell, right?
[16:52] <waakb> Yes Stilten.
[16:53] <waakb> It would grant whoever is in your Aura the ability to cast the Ultraspell, as long as they meet the caster level requirement.
[16:53] <Stilten> So the only thing really we can't use is Cryptomnesia in Epic Presence
[16:55] <waakb> You can use that too actually, you just can't get it to the point of having SIX Cryptos (granting the actual ability) without taking the next-higher tier Presence ability (as an Esoteric).
[16:55] <waakb> BTW, I think it's safe to assume that Equinox would have had time to use buffs of vers on the gods ve gathered for this show.
[16:56] <waakb> What buffs does Equinox have, and would ve have been willing to use them on the gods ve was gathering together?
[16:56] <Equinox> Certainly, they can each double there base ability scores.
[16:56] <Moiranna> Would I have had time to get Aukloi's Image Army up (full-round action)
[16:56] <Equinox> Of course.
[16:56] <waakb> Yes Moiranna.
[16:56] <Moiranna> Okay, don't have to spend my first action that way then. :P
[16:57] <Kaelyn> Kaelyn will have the same spell up as well
[16:57] <Stilten> BTW Brian, I did pick Alter Reality as the Esoteric for Kol
[16:58] <Sipher> as will Sipher ;)
[16:58] <waakb> Okay Leo.
[16:58] <Sipher> cept it'll be a power, obviously ^^
[16:58] <Kaelyn> may want to pick a certain number of rounds we have to prepare if we have any
[16:59] <waakb> Well, given the log above, it's reasonable to suggest that everybody other than Stilten had two rounds.
[16:59] <Stilten> Stilten had 4 rounds instead because of Time Dilation XD
[16:59] <waakb> Stilten himself had the Commune going and so had to concentrate on that, but others could have cast on him.
[17:00] <Equinox> OK, I just check the telemetry of the probes near Eternity's Gate and those around Old Taera, see if any of it varies from previous readings from before when Onyx started ver beam into the Egg.
[17:00] <waakb> The Occupant/Dragon has no buffs at present. But it does have Alter Reality, of course, among its other prodigious abilities, so it can put buffs UP pretty much whenever it wants to.
[17:01] <SG> Power UP!!!
[17:01] <waakb> My reading of Total Ability Score suggests that Equinox gets that even if ve doesn't actually KNOW what the ability score in question is, so Equinox discovers the second piece of information you guys have about this dragon: its INT is 322 without any buffs.
[17:01] <Stilten> Wow, so it's not that smart after all
[17:01] <Equinox> Hehe, OK
[17:02] <waakb> It just hatched. Give it a break.
[17:02] <Moiranna> I'll have Spell Shift up on myself as well, then.
[17:02] <SG> It did get a break, from the egg
[17:02] <Stilten> We did
[17:02] <Equinox> INT is up to 7990
[17:02] <waakb> Equinox can see, through the Ring probes, the view through the open portal.
[17:03] <waakb> And that view leads ver to see- to ver complete lack of surprise- that the layer of the Sources appears to be the final destination of the Ritual party. In fact, they appear to be conducting the Ritual in precisely that center zone that Moiranna was unable to breach during your party's actual visit to the place.
06[17:03] * @Equinox will send relevent images to the team
[17:03] <Moiranna> Of course.
[17:03] <Moiranna> (AFK very quickly)
[17:04] <Equinox> relevant
[17:04] <waakb> The probes around Old Taera report nothing unusual yet, except for one that's reporting an anomalous buildup of neutrino emissions in the direction of the sun.
[17:04] <waakb> Order of battle, once again?
[17:04] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[17:05] <Equinox> Did Kei and Tlin roll?
[17:05] <waakb> I will say this: gods below Intermediate are effectively forced out of combat immediately, as this dragon shares one thing in common with a Nexus Dragon: its MIND WARP ability.
06[17:05] * @Equinox slaps Kei around a bit with a large trout
[17:05] <waakb> In other words, it causes insanity in anybody unfortunate enough to get too close to it.
[17:05] <waakb> And Mind Blank, under No Absolutes, to remind you all, only grants a save bonus.
[17:05] <waakb> You all need to roll Will saves against that now.
[17:06] <Equinox> d20+9656
06[17:06] * +Golem rolls the dice for Equinox (d20+9656) and rolled 9673.
[17:06] <Sipher> d20+5634
06[17:06] * +Golem rolls the dice for Sipher (d20+5634) and rolled 5636.
[17:06] <waakb> I believe the buffs on the Intermediate and higher gods would allow them to withstand even this Mind Warp, however. Though the Intermediates are distressingly close to the edge.
[17:06] <Khabaal> d20+5018
06[17:06] * +Golem rolls the dice for Khabaal (d20+5018) and rolled 5031.
[17:06] <Logath> d20+4146
06[17:06] * +Golem rolls the dice for Logath (d20+4146) and rolled 4161.
[17:06] <waakb> half of your divine army goes nuts in the first split-second of the encounter.
[17:06] <Talor> d20+10036
06[17:06] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+10036) and rolled 10049.
[17:07] <waakb> ...yeah, you all beat it with your eyes closed and hands tied behind your backs.
[17:07] <Kaelyn> d20+4193
06[17:07] * +Golem rolls the dice for Kaelyn (d20+4193) and rolled 4200.
[17:07] <waakb> Even if its Evil Eye were still operating, you'd all beat it hands-down.
[17:07] <SG> Hmm, I think that on my turn I'll try to use uber-Authority to take command of those insane peoples
[17:07] <Moiranna> I'll use Dextrous Will to make it a Reflex save for me
[17:07] <Moiranna> d20+8362
06[17:07] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (d20+8362) and rolled 8380.
[17:08] <SG> d20+5090
06[17:08] * +Golem rolls the dice for SG (d20+5090) and rolled 5102.
[17:08] <waakb> Clever switch Moiranna. And again, even with Evil Eye you beat it trivially.
06[17:08] * @Equinox slaps SG around a bit with a large trout
[17:08] <Kaelyn> Your remember your rule about dragons and multiplying everything x4 right? :P
[17:08] <Equinox> I don't think SG has that ability... :P
[17:08] <waakb> Oh, I remembered that Kaelyn. :)
[17:08] <waakb> Believe me, I remembered it. You'll see its effects later.
03[17:08] * SG is now known as Xehochanan
06[17:08] * @Xehochanan slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[17:08] <Equinox> There's Xeho!
[17:09] <Stilten> Kol:
[17:09] <Stilten> d20+3112
06[17:09] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+3112) and rolled 3119.
[17:09] <Stilten> Stilten's is low too :(
[17:09] <waakb> Even Kol beats it trivially!
[17:09] <Stilten> d20+2191
06[17:09] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+2191) and rolled 2201.
[17:09] <waakb> Even Stilten beats it with no effort!
[17:09] <Equinox> lol
[17:10] <waakb> The DC is lower than 2000.
[17:10] <Kaelyn> is the key LO up?
[17:10] <waakb> For now.
[17:10] <waakb> Sure, you can get ONE Silver Key Limited Omniscience if you really want to spend a full-round action on that.
[17:10] <waakb> Given that Psychometry isn't operating, though, do you really want to spend that action?
[17:11] <Kaelyn> well it could be my 2nd free round action for Talor :P
[17:11] <waakb> What's Talor using?
[17:11] <Sipher> yeah, but the Key has Trancendatal abilities :P
[17:11] <Talor> I mean you said we had 2 rounds to buff
[17:11] <waakb> The 6666-foot-long dragon is waiting for your first action. :)
[17:11] <Talor> was gonna use one of those for an LO :P
[17:11] <waakb> Oh, you did have that, yes, but BEFORE the Egg hatched.
[17:12] <Talor> Hmm true
[17:12] <waakb> I was assuming you used buffs on the ship.
[17:12] <Moiranna> Just go stab it with the Key. :)
[17:12] <Xehochanan> How big is Talor in comparison to its 6666 ft.?
[17:13] <waakb> Yes, do tell!
[17:13] <Talor> Talor is 24 miles
[17:13] <waakb> How big is Talor?
[17:13] <waakb> Ah, 24 miles.
[17:13] <Talor> Chump Change :P
[17:13] <Xehochanan> So step on it to hold it in place as you poke with the key
[17:13] <waakb> So roughly 126,720 feet in Talor's case.
[17:13] <Talor> Thats actually what I was thinking
[17:13] <Xehochanan> (Casually stepping on a snake like Bruce Lee)
[17:13] <waakb> He's really, really ridiculously huge.
[17:14] <Xehochanan> You mean he went straight to, Ludicrous Size
[17:14] <Talor> Eh to start it off i'll just smack it once with the key to start my full attack
[17:14] <waakb> He did!
[17:14] <Talor> or stab it I guess
[17:14] <Stilten> Now he just needs to go to Ludicrous Speed
[17:14] <waakb> To start off? Okay, give me some rolls.
[17:14] <Sipher> lol, what size is Talor? O_o
[17:15] <Talor> d20+10770
06[17:15] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+10770) and rolled 10777.
[17:15] <waakb> Macro-Gargantuan, if I read his prior comments correctly.
[17:15] <Talor> Macro-Colossal
[17:15] <Moiranna> Big.
[17:15] <waakb> Oh, you were able to hit Macro-Colossal after all? Congrats.
[17:15] <Kei> Really-Damned-Big size category
[17:15] <Sipher> only 1 size category smaller than Logath then
[17:16] <Equinox> So Kei, you ever going to roll init?
[17:16] <waakb> So, Talor hits AC 10777 then.
[17:16] <Kei> Aside from a base d20, I've got no idea what her init mod is.
[17:16] <Talor> just starting off with the key stab to see if it hits or what it does etc
[17:16] <Stilten> Oh, it probably won't matter, but do you guys want to know what Epic Presences Kol is giving you guys? :P
[17:16] <Equinox> Of course.
[17:16] <Moiranna> If there are Improved Spell Capacities in there, I shall gladly take them!
[17:16] <waakb> List the Epic Presences from Kol`reat, sure.
[17:17] <waakb> And Kei probably has a high DEX, since she's a Bard and a spy-type.
[17:17] <Stilten> Zen Archery, Deflect Arrows, Spectral Strike, Improved Spell Capacity for Wizard, Cleric and Druid, Improved Power Capacity,
[17:17] <Moiranna> Booooo.
[17:17] <Moiranna> You picked silly classes.
[17:17] <Stilten> Epic Expanded Knowledge for Oblivion Zone, Ultracognition and Disjunction
[17:17] <waakb> It's reasonable to assume she'd have one of the higher init mods in the party. Shall we just set her init mod at 3000 for simplicity?
[17:17] <Stilten> Natural Spell and a Power Stowaway for Ultracognition.
[17:18] <Stilten> All Stilten is giving you guys is Spell Stowaway (Miracle).
[17:18] <Equinox> lol
[17:18] <Moiranna> ...hmm, I'll take that.
[17:18] <Moiranna> Heh.
[17:18] <Stilten> Nevermind that Stilten can use it 4 times a round.
[17:19] <waakb> Talor strikes at the Occupant with the Silver Key. And his strike appears to be true: the Silver Key definitely passes through the space occupied by the creature from the Egg.
[17:19] <Kaelyn> thats actually a kickass idea
[17:19] <Kaelyn> giving everyone a stowaway then spamming the spell
[17:20] <waakb> Despite this, however, the creature doesn't appear to so much as notice the hit, nor to take any damage from it.
[17:20] <Xehochanan> Spam-A-Lot
[17:20] <Moiranna> Just like the shards from the egg.
[17:20] <waakb> Next?
06[17:20] * @Equinox waits on init until after Khabaal
[17:20] <Moiranna> Divine Broadcast: #It must be out of phase or something! Incorporeal maybe.#
[17:20] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Equinox 4679, Moiranna 3012, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[17:20] <waakb> We're calling Kei's init mod +3000.
[17:21] <waakb> Kei should roll now.
06[17:21] * @Talor just continues his attack with a couple of bits to make sure none of them hit
[17:21] <Kei> d20
06[17:21] * +Golem rolls the dice for Kei (d20) and rolled 6.
[17:21] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[17:21] <waakb> Kei gets 3006.
[17:21] <Khabaal> So Anna's next.
[17:21] <waakb> Talor attacks brutally and hard, but none of his strikes appear to so much as draw the Occupant's notice.
[17:21] <Moiranna> Free Action Fan of Knives attack first then, to see if I get through:
[17:22] <Moiranna> Er, Cloud of Knives
[17:22] <Moiranna> Wrong game.
[17:22] <Kei> (But honestly, I don't know what all Kei is even capable of...short of a really damn strong inspire...)
[17:22] <Stilten> Hahaha
[17:22] <Moiranna> d20+6048 to hit
[17:22] <Moiranna> d20+6048
06[17:22] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (d20+6048) and rolled 6060.
[17:22] <waakb> Cloud of Knives? What's that do again?
[17:22] <Moiranna> It's a buff that gives me a free ranged knife attack/round
[17:22] <Moiranna> It's a physical knife that counts as magic for DR
[17:23] <waakb> Okay.
[17:23] <waakb> Your magical knife flies right through the Occupant like it isn't even there.
[17:24] <Moiranna> Fully-loaded Corrosive Barrage then, to see if energy hits
[17:24] <Moiranna> 4 d20+4839
06[17:24] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (4 d20+4839) and rolled 4859 4854 4856 4840.
[17:24] <Moiranna> All ranged touch
[17:24] <waakb> Describe the effects for everybody else? Of course, your emailed character sheet was very thorough.
[17:25] <Moiranna> In short:
[17:25] <Moiranna> Moirannas Corrosive Barrage | Standard Action | Spell Points: 1150 | Save DC: 1759 | Metamagic: Gelid Admixture, Empower (Gelid) x346, Maximize (Acid, Gelid, Negative Energy) x3 | Godspell: Negative Energy | Class Features: Flash Freeze, Sneak Attack, Spell Rage | Base Damage/Ray: 146d6 + 643d12 [Sneak Attack]
[17:25] <Stilten> Ouch.
[17:25] <waakb> Indeed! Impressive, no?
[17:25] <waakb> All four attacks fly through the beast with no apparent effect.
[17:25] <Moiranna> The fun one's actually the Quickened Darkbolts, IMO. :P
[17:25] <Talor> how many times does it have a chance of hitting?
[17:25] <Xehochanan> What anARGH
[17:25] <Moiranna> 4 on that one.
[17:25] <Talor> the other?
[17:25] <Moiranna> Her main Quickened spell is 7 bolts
[17:26] <Moiranna> ANd she can launch 40 in a round
[17:26] <Moiranna> So 280.
[17:26] <Stilten> Nice Barrage
[17:26] <waakb> Kei's turn! What does she do, if anything?
[17:26] <Moiranna> Before mine's up, I want to Quicken a Disjunction to see if it works
[17:26] <Moiranna> But I'm assuming it doesn't.
[17:27] <Stilten> BTW, do those require a roll to hit Moiranna?
[17:27] <Khabaal> You using the Epic disjunctions like Kol and Equinox have?
[17:27] <Kei> I don't know what Kei can even do. o.o In theory, she should still be able to do a Words of Creation modified inspire courage...but I've got no idea what the mod for that would be.
[17:27] <Moiranna> I didn't know we had any Epic disjunctions floating about, so presumably not
[17:28] <Khabaal> Equinox made them quite a while ago, but they are nice, +3000 to the roll.
[17:28] <Moiranna> (And yes they do, Stilten: they have to for my sneak attack schtick to kick in)
[17:28] <Stilten> Then don't forget to add Wis to your roll for Zen Archery XD
[17:28] <waakb> Disjunction catches the beast in its area, obviously. But it doesn't appear to mind the wave of magical-EMP.
[17:28] <Moiranna> LOL
[17:28] <Khabaal> Oh yea, and ours affect both magic and psionics.
[17:28] <Moiranna> I'll note that for the combat then, Leo. :)
[17:29] <Moiranna> I'll leave any further Disjunctions to the pros then. ;)
[17:29] <Stilten> We can assume Equinox shared this Disjunction details with everyone :)
[17:29] <Khabaal> Of course.
[17:30] <Talor> #Someone attempt a collapse probably to see if its even possible for us to hurt this thing now.#
06[17:30] * @Xehochanan slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[17:30] <Khabaal> Equinox is going to do that for everyone's attacks.
[17:30] <Khabaal> Which is why ve waited ;)
[17:31] <Talor> see great minds with matching int think alike! :P
[17:31] <Equinox> LOL
[17:32] <waakb> Given that you intend this, shall I reveal the results now?
[17:32] <Equinox> With 2 rounds of actions and 30 multipowers, should not be a problem ;)
[17:32] <waakb> Or do you want to wait and see what everybody tries first?
[17:32] <waakb> BTW, every round of actions any of you takes gives the dragon a round of actions too. It has SLipstream, you see.
[17:32] <waakb> You can't undermine it with time effects.
[17:33] <Sipher> uh oh
[17:33] <Talor> Slipstream is awesome now :P
[17:33] <Stilten> Wait what?
[17:33] <Moiranna> Mm, that could be troublesome. :E
[17:33] <waakb> It's Cosmic. Should it not be?
[17:33] <Stilten> So when we get a turn, it gets a turn still too?
[17:33] <Sipher> when did we change Slipstream?
[17:33] <Talor> Quicken isn't a time effect :P
[17:33] <Stilten> Because Stilten has Slipstream :P
[17:33] <Moiranna> What he means is that you can't get any extra turns over it
[17:33] <waakb> True, Quicken is not a time effect and does not trigger Slipstream.
[17:33] <Equinox> Equinox and Khabaal have Slipstream as well.
[17:34] <Moiranna> So if you use, say, Island in Time to get an extra round of actions, the Dragon also gets an extra round
[17:34] <Talor> Figured almost everyone has it at this point?
[17:34] <Stilten> Ahhh
[17:34] <Moiranna> It's like Stowaway giving everyone the roudns in Time Stop
[17:34] <waakb> Correct. :)
[17:34] <Moiranna> Moiranna doesn't have it actually :P
[17:34] <Talor> Way to be a noob
[17:34] <Sipher> no, I thought it just stopped people messing about with your past
[17:34] <Xehochanan> (Bleh, I'm suspicious that it has a certain transcendental power)
[17:34] <Stilten> (Which one?)
[17:35] <Equinox> Brian gave is many more abilities than are written in Ascension.,
[17:35] <Equinox> gave it
[17:35] <Xehochanan> Gee
[17:35] <Talor> I had brought up abusing time for unlimited actions/copies and it ended up getting changed to work that way
[17:35] <Talor> Think it was one of the weeks you were missing
[17:35] <waakb> Slipstream has simple text: "You cannot be undermined by time travel." That means, no time effects can give an opponent advantage over the being with Slipstream.
[17:36] <waakb> If you use time-acceleration effects, the dragon gets to accelerate too.
[17:36] <Talor> This'll be nice
[17:36] <Stilten> Well gee, I can get that on Kol then, he's still got 8 DRs to fill up :P
[17:36] <waakb> Time Dilation is also Cosmic, so the dragon doesn't get to join you for that.
[17:36] <Talor> Good ol fashiong 4-20 attacks! :P
[17:36] <waakb> But everything else is fair game.
06[17:36] * @Xehochanan slaps Talor around a bit with a large trout
[17:36] <Stilten> Stilten has it already anyway
[17:37] <waakb> Makes for an interesting combat, yes?
[17:37] <Moiranna> I actually don't have any Time effects other than Time Stop that I would rely on, thankfully
[17:37] <waakb> Who's up after Kei?
[17:37] <waakb> Or did you just want to FF to the dragon's turn?
[17:37] <Equinox> Yea, and Equinox and Khabaal have 1 use of Time Dilation.
[17:37] <Talor> Guess NOTHING works even after collapse probability?
[17:37] <Khabaal> 3 of my weapons are +72 Indestructible, Ghost-touch, Holy Scion, Battlemastery, Fading, Vorpal weapons, the other 3 are the swords made by Ilsensine and made of Nexus Dragon.
[17:37] <Talor> meaning no chance at all of hitting it
[17:38] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[17:38] <Equinox> Logath should be next...
[17:38] <waakb> What does Logath do?
[17:38] <Stilten> What would it take to make a handheld version of the probe beam Onyx was using?
[17:38] <Equinox> Kei needs to determine what bonus we all get.
[17:38] <waakb> Your characters do not know the dragon joins you in time effects until you try them, of course.
[17:38] <waakb> Psychometry is offline.
[17:38] <Sipher> Logath will attack it
[17:39] <waakb> Not possible Stilten- at least not in a combat situation.
[17:39] <waakb> You'd need an hour or so to make a device that could do it.
[17:39] <Stilten> What about a power then?
[17:40] <waakb> Do you want to start power research now?
[17:40] <Equinox> Make it Epic with DC 0
[17:40] <Stilten> You can do Epic Power Research anytime :)
[17:40] <Equinox> And take the damage! ;)
[17:40] <Logath> I'll use Time Stands Still (Full Attack x2), Raging Mongoose, Dancing Mongoose, Improved Free Attack (Full Attack)
[17:41] <Moiranna> So it gets two Full Attacks.
[17:41] <waakb> The Occupant joins you in Time Stands Still.
[17:41] <waakb> It gets a turn after you, in other words.
[17:41] <waakb> Just one, Moiranna.
[17:41] <waakb> It uses the extra turn for a breath weapon attack.
[17:41] <Moiranna> Ah, Improved Free doesn't count. Good.
[17:42] <Logath> First Full Attack?
[17:42] <waakb> It blasts Logath, and seven other gods: shall I determine them randomly, or do you want to declare positions?
[17:42] <Logath> go for it
06[17:42] * @Moiranna is practically everywhere, with all these Images. :E
06[17:42] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[17:42] <Logath> randomly seems fun ;)
[17:42] <Talor> only one of them is real though :P
[17:42] <waakb> Attack all you like: your attacks do nothing to it. It's like it isn't even there, again.
[17:42] <Stilten> Heh, Stilten and Kol aren't really in range :)
[17:42] <Kei> Kei's probably fairly far back, if all she's doing is an inspire...since her range for it is enormous.
[17:43] <Stilten> Yeah, same reasons here
[17:43] <waakb> How enormous, Kei?
[17:43] <Equinox> Khabaal is most like close to it, Equinox hidden away in back somewhere.
[17:43] <Kei> I believe I was going to take hte cosmic ability that simply effects everything on a plane
[17:43] <Equinox> most likely
[17:43] <Kei> music of the spheres, was it?
[17:44] <Moiranna> Moiranna's probably flying somewhere high above Talor, escaping notice (she probably blends in with the darkness of space pretty well, and she's invisible, and a void incarnate, and so on)
[17:44] <waakb> Dragon will hit Talor, Logath, Khabaal, Thero, Nandra, Luthor, and Patrin.
[17:44] <Equinox> Yes Kei, but if you don't know what you are doing, what good does Music of the Spheres do us?
[17:44] <Stilten> Free Inspire from anywhere in the plane?
[17:45] <Kei> well yes, merely saying she's probably quite a ways from teh actual fighting...since I'm a bit unsure what her inspire bonus is.
[17:45] <Xehochanan> (Does Patrin wield a whip? :oE)
[17:45] <Talor> hmm
[17:45] <waakb> All of you need to roll saves against its breath weapon. Reflex save is the base option; if you have feats or abilities allowing you to substitute others, declare them now.
[17:45] <Logath> Kei can be our healer ;)
[17:45] <Moiranna> (When there's a Whip, then there's a Way)
[17:45] <Talor> im not sure its breath weapon is big enough to hit me and anyone else :P
06[17:45] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[17:45] <waakb> And declare for me your full healthy hit point total.
[17:45] <waakb> Its breath weapon incorporates Gravity [Effect], you see.
[17:45] <Stilten> 209406 for Kol
[17:45] <Talor> Talor is about 400 miles away from the thing
[17:46] <Stilten> 357516 for Stilten
[17:46] <Equinox> 734706 for Khabaal
[17:46] <Logath> 1022976 for Logath
[17:46] <Equinox> 892155 for Equinox
[17:46] <Talor> 778,221 Kaelyn
[17:46] <Talor> 2,486,137 Talor
[17:47] <waakb> Impressive numbers!
[17:47] <Equinox> oops
[17:47] <Equinox> Khabaal has 1069929
[17:47] <waakb> Those I named, roil Reflex saves please.
[17:47] <Equinox> Equinox is correct though
[17:47] <Moiranna> 963,036 for Moiranna when it matters
[17:48] <waakb> <waakb> Dragon will hit Talor, Logath, Khabaal, Thero, Nandra, Luthor, and Patrin.
[17:48] <Stilten> Patrin must die XD
[17:48] <Khabaal> d20+6082
06[17:48] * +Golem rolls the dice for Khabaal (d20+6082) and rolled 6092.
[17:48] <Stilten> So average =X
[17:48] <Talor> d20+10036
06[17:48] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+10036) and rolled 10041.
[17:48] <waakb> This is all during Logath's Time Stands Still turn, of course.
[17:49] <Logath> d20+5117
06[17:49] * +Golem rolls the dice for Logath (d20+5117) and rolled 5123.
[17:50] <Logath> (This thing must have a massive breath ;oP)
[17:50] <Stilten> Anyone take Oblique Strike? :P
[17:51] <Moiranna> I considered it, but decided on Sneaky Critical instead :\
[17:51] <waakb> Talor takes 74,584 permanent damage. Logath takes 30,689 permanent damage. Khabaal takes 32,097 permanent damage.
[17:51] <Stilten> Ouch.
[17:51] <Moiranna> Hmm, it takes a Miracle to get rid of Permanent Damage, right? :)
[17:51] <waakb> All of you also lose 304,000 XP and 30,400 QP.
[17:51] <Moiranna> Oh damn.
[17:51] <Talor> ouch
[17:51] <Stilten> Double Ouch.
[17:52] <waakb> You also each age 152 years, though that doesn't matter very much to any of you.
[17:52] <Kei> o.o
[17:52] <Xehochanan> THey just take on the appearance of Old Wizards
[17:52] <waakb> The other deities hit by the blast don't fare so well: none of them save. All are badly aged and damage by the blast.
[17:52] <Talor> We are immortal it doesn't change our appearance :P
[17:52] <Equinox> Now Khabaal has Elusion, does he get to roll that?
[17:52] <Xehochanan> Khabaal is an Eloser
[17:52] <Moiranna> Elusion is for things with attack rolls
[17:52] <Logath> heh, Logath is undead, you won't notice the difference anyway :P
[17:53] <Moiranna> You already get your Reflex save versus this
[17:53] <waakb> As far as you can tell, analyzing the energy involved, the dragon breathed something that caused part of your souls/bodies to spontaneously undergo a Big Bang and create new UNIVERSES.
[17:53] <Moiranna> (Though if anyone has Evasion they should get a slight reduction here)
[17:53] <Kei> O.o
[17:53] <Equinox> Well I have Improved Evasion of course.
03[17:53] * Xehochanan changes topic to '<Kei> O.o '
[17:53] <waakb> This, apparently, is what a dragon from the Eternal Realm is capable of doing with its breath weapon.
[17:53] <Equinox> Also, how does Specular work here, does the dragon take the damage I took?
[17:53] <Stilten> LOL
[17:54] <Stilten> That's a very good point.
[17:54] <Logath> yeah, I was about to ask that
[17:54] <waakb> Does anybody besides Khabaal have Specular?
[17:54] <Moiranna> Improved Evasion gives you reduction of 10/class level in Evasion-granting classes that you have
[17:54] <Moiranna> I do not
[17:54] <Logath> no
[17:54] <waakb> The dragon DOES take Khabaal's SPecular damage unless it saves, of course.
[17:54] <Kaelyn> double checking Talor's list
[17:54] <waakb> What's Khabaal's Specular save DC?
[17:54] <Talor> nope
[17:55] <Equinox> It's a Cosmic ability, no DC listed.
[17:55] <waakb> I gave you a DC with the Karmic Messiah template.
[17:55] <Talor> I believe it was 10+1/2HD+Cha Mod?
[17:56] <Moiranna> That would be pretty standard
[17:56] <waakb> The attacker is allowed a Fortitude save (DC equals half the Karmic Messiah's HD + the Karmic Messiah's CON modifier) for half damage, but no other resistance or immunity can protect against the damage reflected by this ability.
[17:56] <Moiranna> Ah, CON modifier. That's pretty nice overall.
[17:56] <waakb> Your Divine bonus would also add to that of course.
[17:57] <Equinox> I have it open right now Brian - I don't see that you added a DC.
[17:58] <Talor> We had discussed it for a bit during a game and I think thats when it was added.
[17:58] <Talor> May not have the latest version.
[17:58] <waakb> We discussed that in chat and I added ite template description the same day. The cowhat we agreed upon.
[17:58] <Equinox> Well the latest copy you emailed me does not have it.
[17:58] <Equinox> So open your copy and tell me.
[17:58] <waakb> I just did, above!
[17:59] <Moiranna> (I forgot to add my DR into my save dcs for my spells actually, so it's good that this came up for me :P)
[17:59] <waakb> <waakb> The attacker is allowed a Fortitude save (DC equals half the Karmic Messiah's HD + the Karmic Messiah's CON modifier) for half damage, but no other resistance or immunity can protect against the damage reflected by this ability.
[18:00] <Equinox> DC 1507
[18:00] <waakb> Khabaal's Specular save DC is set by the above. His DR adds to it, but nothing else does.
[18:00] <waakb> DC 1507. Got it.
[18:00] <waakb> Dragon gets a 1498 on its save. Fails.
[18:00] <Moiranna> WOO FIRST BLOOD.
[18:00] <Equinox> Hmm close
[18:00] <waakb> Dragon takes full damage (and is extremely angry about that).
[18:00] <Talor> Well there you go
[18:00] <Stilten> Hahahaha
[18:00] <Logath> right, new plan. Everyone hide behind Khabaal
[18:00] <Stilten> ROFL
[18:01] <Talor> Khabaal can sacrifice himself for the Universe
[18:01] <waakb> Dragon takes 32,097 damage plus the XP and QP.
[18:01] <Khabaal> That's how we kill it!
[18:01] <Moiranna> Best plan ever imo.
06[18:01] * @Khabaal slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[18:01] <Logath> everyone spam Wish or Miracle to heal him
[18:01] <Moiranna> Can we give Damok Specular too? ():)
[18:01] <Talor> lol
[18:01] <Moiranna> But we all know his Cosmic is Alter Reality, of course. :)
[18:01] <waakb> He already has Alter Reality as his Esoteric in both versions. So no.
[18:01] <Talor> Your like pure goodness, your not gonna sacrifice yourself to save all the others around you? :P
[18:02] <waakb> Not that the gods other than your party are worth much in this fight.
[18:02] <Equinox> Yea, Wish can heal 1 pts of permanent damage per HD of Wish giver. Also Khabaal has the Double Healing portfolio, I can heal myself right?
[18:02] <Stilten> How?
[18:02] <waakb> As should already be obvious, the numbers being throw around here are so high that gods other than PCs are pretty much worthless in the fight.
[18:02] <Stilten> I thought Khabaal was Double Timelessness?
[18:02] <Equinox> I am
[18:03] <Moiranna> You can have more than one Double
[18:03] <Equinox> Double Timelessness, Double Strength and Double Healing.
[18:03] <Moiranna> But only one is your Incarnation
[18:03] <waakb> Khabaal is the Incarnation of Timelessness, of course.
[18:03] <Moiranna> (Moiranna has Double Entropic Magic and Double Naturalism, of which she is the Incarnation)
[18:03] <Stilten> Hrm, was under the impression only one Double was allowed until Sidereal
[18:03] <Stilten> Or I'd be Double Psionic Crafting on Stilten as well
[18:03] <waakb> Nope, Doubles just count as two Primaries.
[18:03] <Talor> Thought that as well til it was brought up by Mike.
[18:03] <Moiranna> (She would have Double Knowledge, but it would have made her STR negatrive lol)
[18:04] <waakb> Incarnations are allowed up to EIGHT Primaries, if you really don't mind all those stacking weaknesses.
[18:04] <Stilten> Oh well, too late now
[18:04] <Logath> you can have 8 primary portfolios, 4 doubles
[18:04] <Equinox> I only have 6
[18:04] <waakb> The stacking weaknesses are the big thing with Primary Portfolios.
[18:04] <Moiranna> Anywhoo, who's after Logath?
[18:04] <Equinox> Or Khabaal does
[18:04] <Moiranna> We now know the Dragon can enter Time effects.
[18:04] <Equinox> Actually Equinox too
[18:04] <Moiranna> I don't have my full 8 either because I didn't want to spend the DAs
[18:05] <Equinox> Equinox is Double Intellect, Concealment and Transcendence.
[18:05] <Sipher> Sipher will do nothing, since ve can't hurt it :oP
[18:05] <waakb> Equinox tries Collapse Probability on [somebody] and determines that that doesn't help at all.
[18:05] <waakb> The Occupant is utterly immune to your attempts to hurt it, so far.
[18:05] <Stilten> I think a Key use is probably best
[18:05] <waakb> Even Collapse Probability doesn't help you damage it.
[18:05] <Xehochanan> Did I miss what happened to Thero, Nandra, Luthor, and Patrin?
[18:06] <Moiranna> They got owned hard, essentially.
[18:06] <Moiranna> Took full damage.
[18:06] <Stilten> They aged horribly
06[18:06] * @Equinox also communicates with Onyx, what do you detect when we try to harm it, any clues from when Khabaal was hurt and that harmed it?
[18:06] <Talor> Hmm question
[18:06] <Xehochanan> Boom
[18:06] <waakb> I'm ignoring the gods other than PCs, since none of them can have a very significant effect on this battle.
06[18:06] * @Equinox also communicates with Onyx, #what do you detect when we try to harm it, any clues from when Khabaal was hurt and that harmed it?#
[18:06] <Talor> If Khabaal had the DA that lets you take damage for people
[18:06] <waakb> This battle, as has now become obvious, depends entirely upon you Incarnations.
[18:06] <Talor> would that taken damage be directed back at the original attacker?
[18:06] <waakb> What can you representations of the concepts embedded in your Reality do, against this interloper from Beyond?
[18:07] <Sipher> not alot, from the looks of things :oP
[18:07] <waakb> Onyx is gone- vanished along the wave of gravity into the undetermined future.
[18:07] <Moiranna> I'm hoping that it'll phase in
[18:07] <Xehochanan> I don't know how to damage it so this round I still use Infallible to calm down the insane deities so they don't devour each other
[18:07] <Moiranna> Ah, nice choice Xeho
[18:08] <waakb> Infallible? What's that?
[18:08] <Xehochanan> The Double Power Portfolio verion of Authority that I made which doesn't have an INT cap
[18:09] <waakb> Aha. So you command them and they obey, in effect?
[18:09] <waakb> What do you Command?
[18:11] <Stilten> Stand back and let us fight?
06[18:11] * @Moiranna slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
06[18:11] * @Stilten zaps Xehochanan with a cattle prod
06[18:12] * @Khabaal slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
06[18:12] * @Equinox slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
[18:12] <waakb> :)
[18:12] <waakb> This is most entertaining!
[18:12] <Khabaal> OK, then Equinox tries to duplicate Onyx's Egg beam with a DC 0 Reality Program and add some damage mods to it, say up to 500d6
[18:12] <Kei> (he commands them to Stop Being Nosers.)
[18:12] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
02[18:12] * @Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.3DB6A2.6BB79F) Quit (Ping timeout: 121 seconds )
[18:12] <waakb> Hilarious.
[18:13] <waakb> SG loses connection right THEN.
[18:13] <Kei> The dragon killed his player! =o
[18:13] <waakb> Equinox tries that beam... and it fails to obviously damage the dragon.
[18:13] <waakb> Well, it IS a transcendental dragon... :)
03[18:14] * Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.9096FA.814DCA) has joined #taera
[18:14] <Xehochanan> <waakb> Infallible? What's that?
[18:14] <Xehochanan> <Xehochanan> The Double Power Portfolio verion of Authority that I made which doesn't have an INT cap
03[18:14] * Moiranna sets mode: +o Xehochanan
[18:14] <Xehochanan> <Xehochanan> Authority otherwise allows commands like http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/magicItems/rods.htm#epicRulership
[18:14] <Xehochanan> * Disconnected
[18:14] <Talor> hmm question, would its breath attack have gone through our force fields?
[18:15] <Stilten> Oh yeah, the Force Fields we completely forget about
[18:15] <waakb> <Xehochanan> The Double Power Portfolio verion of Authority that I made which doesn't have an INT cap
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> Aha. So you command them and they obey, in effect?
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> What do you Command?
[18:15] <waakb> <Stilten> Stand back and let us fight?
[18:15] <waakb> * @Moiranna slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
[18:15] <waakb> * @Stilten zaps Xehochanan with a cattle prod
[18:15] <waakb> * @Khabaal slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
[18:15] <waakb> * @Equinox slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> :)
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> This is most entertaining!
[18:15] <waakb> <Khabaal> OK, then Equinox tries to duplicate Onyx's Egg beam with a DC 0 Reality Program and add some damage mods to it, say up to 500d6
[18:15] <waakb> <Kei> (he commands them to Stop Being Nosers.)
[18:15] <waakb> <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[18:15] <waakb> * @Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.3DB6A2.6BB79F) Quit (Ping timeout: 121 seconds )
[18:15] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[18:15] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[18:15] <Stilten> Because we haven't been attacked in so freaking long
[18:15] <Equinox> Since we haven't done combat in sooo long. ;)
[18:15] <Sipher> its a Transcendental dragon. If it wants to hit us, it does
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> Hilarious.
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> SG loses connection right THEN.
[18:15] <waakb> <Kei> The dragon killed his player! =o
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> Equinox tries that beam... and it fails to obviously damage the dragon.
[18:15] <waakb> <waakb> Well, it IS a transcendental dragon... :)
[18:15] <waakb> * Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.9096FA.814DCA) has joined #taera
[18:15] <waakb> <Xehochanan> <waakb> Infallible? What's that?
[18:15] <waakb> <Xehochanan> <Xehochanan> The Double Power Portfolio verion of Authority that I made which doesn't have an INT cap
[18:15] <waakb> * Moiranna sets mode: +o Xehochanan
[18:15] <Khabaal> Yea, what Equinox said.
[18:15] <Xehochanan> Gee
[18:16] <waakb> The breath weapon goes through the force fields like they aren't even there, to nobody's surprise I'm sure.
[18:16] <waakb> <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[18:17] <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Eternal Dragon 361, Kol'reat 125
[18:17] <Moiranna> So, Stilten.
[18:17] <waakb> After Equinox, we have Xehochanan, Stilten, and then the dragon, followed by Kol.
[18:17] <Stilten> Yes?
[18:17] <Xehochanan> I'll command them to retreat back to Onyx or another safe area, basically like Gandalf telling the fellowship "Swords are of no use here..."
[18:17] <Moiranna> 'FLY YOU FOOLS'
[18:18] <waakb> The gods other than your party fall back and retreat.
[18:18] <Talor> Its funny considering we used to worship them
[18:18] <Stilten> LOL
[18:18] <Moiranna> You're up, Stilten lol
[18:18] <waakb> You 12 are the only ones of your Reality left to face the beast from Beyond.
[18:18] <waakb> Isn't it, Talor?
[18:18] <Moiranna> Good, they can't kill our XP!
[18:18] <Moiranna> XD
[18:19] <Sipher> we don't get XP anymore :P
[18:19] <waakb> The other gods, I'll say now, opt to form a second line of defense at the Ring, and teleport there on their turns.
[18:19] <Sipher> we hit the level cap remember :P
[18:19] <Moiranna> Killing this thing should put us at SIdereal/ ;)
[18:19] <waakb> You 12 are the only ones left to face the moster.
[18:19] <Sipher> (This means we get gold instead of xp! Dailys ftw! :p)
[18:19] <Talor> (lmao)
[18:20] <Moiranna> Does Stilten try anything?
06[18:20] * @Equinox will go over the image of the Key images of this battle one frame at a time through Dimensional View mindset, assume this beast inhabits the 7th dimension and tries to devise a power that could move us into that dimension.
[18:20] <Stilten> Oh yeah, I never set my Anyfeat on anything yet
[18:20] <Stilten> Stilten is getting some interesting lag typing, sec
[18:21] <Stilten> Well, first Stilten will use a Miracle to heal up Khabaal
[18:22] <Equinox> Which means everyone can do the same! ;)
[18:22] <Stilten> So a pathetic 906 HP cured.
[18:22] <Moiranna> Yeah, so that means he gets 999 x 12 hp back
[18:22] <waakb> How?
[18:22] <Moiranna> You're not HD capped? lol
[18:22] <Khabaal> Pretty nice.
[18:22] <Stilten> Stilten's at 906 HD
[18:22] <Moiranna> Stilten's giving us all Spell Stowaway (Miracle) so when he casts it, we all get a Miracle too
[18:22] <Khabaal> Why didn't Stilten go to 999 like the rest of us?
[18:22] <waakb> Don't forget, if you use any time effects, the dragon joins you.
[18:23] <Khabaal> And Stilten can do it 4 times per round?
[18:23] <Stilten> Yes, he can.
[18:23] <waakb> Ah, when Stilten uses it. Yeah, Got it.
[18:23] <Moiranna> Time Dilation doesn't count, of course.
[18:23] <waakb> Everybody can use one Miracle then.
[18:23] <Moiranna> As you said above.
[18:23] <waakb> Fair enough.
[18:23] <Stilten> 1 Quickened, 1 regular, 1 Time Dilation, 1 Time Dilation x 2
[18:23] <Stilten> Basically I'm testing to see what ability of mine got shut down.
[18:23] <Khabaal> None of which trigger Slipstream
[18:23] <waakb> The Time Dilations give the dragon a chance to respond in each case. Do you do them anyway?
[18:24] <waakb> You know in advance that the dragon will join you in Time Dilation.
[18:24] <Moiranna> You said Time Dilation, being Cosmic, doesn't trigger Slip
[18:24] <Stilten> You just said above that the Dragon can't join on those :P
[18:24] <Khabaal> Yea Brian, less than an hour ago...
06[18:24] * @Stilten zaps waakb with a cattle prod
[18:24] <waakb> Oh, did I?
[18:24] <Khabaal> We do have a record ;)
[18:24] <Talor> We can give Brian that Stilten shouldn't actually 'know' that though :P
[18:24] <waakb> Generally, abilities of the same tier cancel out.
[18:25] <Talor> So to Stilten its a time effect that may very well let the dragon blast us again
[18:25] <Stilten> I think Stilten knows when he sees the Dragon breathe a gash across you
[18:25] <waakb> Copy when I said that, anybody. Prove me wrong.
[18:25] <Khabaal> mIRC does not let me copy and paste for some reason...
[18:25] <Stilten> Faster to open a new log file to find it :P
[18:25] <Moiranna> <waakb> Time Dilation is also Cosmic, so the dragon doesn't get to join you for that.
[18:25] <Talor> <waakb> Time Dilation is also Cosmic, so the dragon doesn't get to join you for that.
[18:26] <Khabaal> But Brian, you are losing it! :P
[18:26] <waakb> And yes, Stilten knows when he sees the dragon respond to Logath that time effects are very likely to be useless against this Thing.
[18:26] <Xehochanan> There was a reality ripple that not only disconnected me but deleted the memory from Brian (!)
[18:26] <Khabaal> lol
[18:26] <waakb> Okay, accepted.
[18:26] <Stilten> [15:36] <waakb> Time Dilation is also Cosmic, so the dragon doesn't get to join you for that.
[18:26] <Stilten> Just for good measure :P
[18:26] <Talor> THough again
[18:26] <waakb> Time Dilation bypasses the dragon.
[18:26] <Talor> we dont actually KNOW that :P
[18:26] <Talor> so its technically OOC info
[18:26] <Stilten> Stilten doesn't actually get a CHOICE on using them though.
[18:26] <Stilten> He always has them
[18:27] <Stilten> So better off doing something than doing nothing.
[18:27] <Khabaal> True
[18:27] <waakb> So what does Stilten do?
[18:27] <waakb> The above list?
[18:27] <Stilten> Thinking! :P
[18:27] <waakb> <Stilten> 1 Quickened, 1 regular, 1 Time Dilation, 1 Time Dilation x 2
[18:27] <Stilten> I was explaining how I could get four.
[18:28] <waakb> Each Miracle Stilten uses gives everybody in his Aura a chance to copy him.
[18:28] <Stilten> I'll use the first Time Dilation on a Limited Omniscience to answer the question "How can we hit this...thing?"
[18:28] <Stilten> I will burn as much QP as needed.
[18:28] <Stilten> Oh wait, scratch that
[18:29] <Stilten> Kol will do that later :P
[18:29] <Stilten> I forgot I didn't do Epic Presence on that after all
[18:29] <Moiranna> lol wtf
06[18:29] * @Moiranna slaps Stilten around a bit with a large trout
[18:29] <Stilten> I'll Ultracog it instead.
[18:29] <Stilten> ...except I don't have enough IPCs. Blah.
[18:29] <Stilten> Options, options...
[18:30] <Sipher> what level is Ultracog?
[18:30] <Stilten> 30
[18:30] <Stilten> Can I Replicate (the Cosmic) that breath weapon that I just saw Egg Dragon Thingie do? :)
[18:30] <Equinox> Yea, gives +80 to the roll
[18:31] <Kaelyn> replicate only copies up to divine tier
[18:31] <waakb> Yes STilten, you can.
[18:31] <Stilten> Ouch.
[18:31] <waakb> It's called Alpha Breath, in this case.
[18:31] <Kaelyn> lmao seriously? We argued forever over that :P
[18:31] <waakb> If you decide to use it, I'll tell you the effects.
[18:31] <waakb> Otherwise you don't know them.
[18:31] <Sipher> ALpha Breath? O_o
[18:31] <Stilten> Can I hit it without hitting anyone else?
[18:32] <Xehochanan> I think one of Kei's Bardic abilities should be that one Mimic type ability
[18:32] <Xehochanan> I forget the real name, I just think of it as Mimic from FF
[18:32] <Xehochanan> And we'll call her Gogo
[18:33] <waakb> You have to decide to use the breath weapon against the dragon to know what Alpha Breath does for you.
[18:33] <Stilten> OK
[18:34] <Stilten> I get that
[18:34] <waakb> For the moment, I'm not worrying about the tier separation.
[18:34] <Stilten> But seeing the range the dragon had with it, does it look like I could hit it without hitting others?
[18:34] <Kaelyn> Can I replicate its no hit me thingy? :P
[18:34] <waakb> Where are you?
[18:35] <Stilten> Stilten is further back, on a side of the dragon.
[18:35] <Stilten> I can have him move if needed, he's got plenty of move actions.
[18:35] <waakb> And without knowing the name of the ability that prevents you from hitting it Kaelyn, no, you cannot Replicate it.
[18:35] <Xehochanan> O, Replicate IS the ability :oE
[18:35] <Stilten> Yes it is
06[18:35] * @Xehochanan slaps Xehochanan around a bit with a large trout
06[18:35] * @Xehochanan slaps Kei around a bit with a large trout
[18:35] <Talor> I can find the name if thats all it takes :P
[18:36] <waakb> Actually, Stilten won't even know the name Alpha Breath unless he Replicates it.
[18:36] <Stilten> Right, but he's seen it in action now.
[18:36] <waakb> Even so.
[18:36] <waakb> Does he or does he not, use it?
[18:36] <Stilten> So using the area the dragon covered, if Stilten makes the assumption he can cover the same area, will he hit others or not?
[18:37] <waakb> He can likely position himself (given his number of actions) so as to hit the dragon and nobody else, if he chooses to do so.
[18:37] <Stilten> Then he will go ahead and do so, that should take care of one Time Dilation round.
[18:37] <waakb> He will NOT cover anywhere NEAR the same area, but that's a given since it depends fundamentally on HD.
[18:37] <waakb> The dragon has more HD than you. I'm sure that comes as no surprise.
[18:37] <Stilten> So did it look like a Cone, a Cloud, what?
[18:38] <waakb> The Alpha Breath that Stilten breathed out is a Cone.
[18:38] <Stilten> OK
[18:38] <Stilten> And he will Replicate it.
[18:38] <waakb> He has how many HD?
[18:38] <Stilten> 906
[18:39] <waakb> Stilten's Alpha Breath deals 1d6% of the target's full healthy hit point total, which is all permanent damage, and furthermore deals 226d1000 XP damage and 226d100 Qp damage to the same target. Relex save (half your HD + your CON modifier + your Divine bonus) applies for half damage.
[18:40] <Stilten> 1d6
06[18:40] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (1d6) and rolled 2.
[18:40] <waakb> The dragon completely ignores your breath attack, however. It doesn't seem to lose even a GRAM of mass to your breath.
[18:40] <Stilten> 226d1000
06[18:40] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (226d1000) and rolled 108604.
[18:40] <Xehochanan> :o(
[18:40] <Stilten> So it doesn't affect it at all huh?
[18:40] <waakb> Not at all.
[18:40] <Moiranna> It's still phased out
[18:40] <Moiranna> Or whatever
[18:40] <Moiranna> We have to get it phased in or hope it phases in on its own
[18:40] <Moiranna> I'm guessing
[18:40] <Kei> Stab it with the key to turn off its god mode!
[18:40] <Sipher> or, it has Transfinite
[18:40] <waakb> On its turn, the dragon attacks Talor.
[18:41] <waakb> What's your AC, Talor?
[18:41] <Talor> I did stab it with the key :P
[18:41] <Stilten> And last Time Dilation and Quickened , 2 more Miracles then Brian.
[18:41] <Kei> Clearly the dragons using cheat codes :(
[18:41] <Talor> I laugh at thee aka AC: 9,937
[18:41] <waakb> It hits AC 2124 with its Bite attempt.
[18:41] <Stilten> Weak...
[18:41] <waakb> It badly misses Talor.
[18:41] <Moiranna> Otherwise known as: The Air.
[18:41] <waakb> Its wings and tail also badly miss.
[18:42] <waakb> It then flies away at the speed of light and ends up some 180,000 miles away from you.
[18:43] <waakb> Kol's turn.
[18:43] <waakb> Then new round.
[18:43] <Stilten> Limited Omniscience "What can we do to harm the creature that spawned from the Egg?"
[18:44] <Equinox> Since Equinox can see it - is it moving towards the Gate or Old Taera?
[18:45] <waakb> The dragon is going on 1343 in the second round.
[18:46] <waakb> Anybody with Cosmic Consciousness can see where it goes.
[18:46] <waakb> It isn't moving in any particular direction towards either of the two landmarks you care about in this universe (i.e. the Ring or Old Taera).
[18:46] <waakb> Stilten gets absolutely NO information in reply to his LO.
[18:46] <Moiranna> Do those with Cosmic Consciousness tell its location to the rest of us?
[18:46] <Equinox> Any new telemetry from the probes around Old Taera?
[18:47] <Equinox> Yes Anna
[18:47] <Stilten> Kol will let everyone know.
[18:47] <waakb> It fails complete, aside from requiring him to pay 121,650 XP.
[18:47] <Stilten> OK, he'll pay in QP
[18:47] <Stilten> 24330 QP, chump change
[18:47] <waakb> No new information from probes around Old Taera.
[18:48] <Stilten> #Does Onyx have any idea how we can force it into our dimension?#
06[18:48] * @Equinox will go over the Key images of this battle one frame at a time with a Dimensional View mindset, assuming this beast inhabits the 7th dimension and tries to devise a power that could move us into that dimension.
[18:48] <Equinox> #Onyx is not here, I am already working on it.#
[18:49] <waakb> <Khabaal> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Eternal Dragon 1343, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Kol'reat 125
[18:49] <waakb> Who has Cosmic Consciousness?
[18:49] <waakb> Or should I ask, who does not have it?
[18:49] <Equinox> Equinox and Khabaal
[18:49] <Talor> both Kae and Talor have it
[18:49] <Moiranna> Lots of folks
[18:50] <Sipher> Sipher has it
[18:50] <Moiranna> Moiranna does not
[18:50] <Sipher> Logath doesn't
[18:50] <Stilten> Stilten and Kol both do not
[18:50] <Xehochanan> N
[18:50] <waakb> Those who have it can follow the dragon's progress across your universe even though it's moving at the speed of light itself.
[18:51] <waakb> Also, I should mention that the dragon's bigger this round: it's grown to 13,332 feet long.
[18:51] <Equinox> Brian, can I determine anything from the action I just recopied?
[18:51] <Talor> hmm
[18:51] <waakb> You cannot, Equinox.
06[18:52] * @Talor will give the dragons location while quickly teleporting next to it to try and hit it again
[18:52] <Equinox> And is there any new telemetry from the probes around Old Taera?
[18:52] <Talor> quickly = quickened
[18:52] <Moiranna> He said there wasn't, Equinox
[18:52] <waakb> No new telemetry from probes around Old Taera.
[18:52] <Equinox> Then Equinox will pick up the Key Talor leaves behind and brings the rest of us there! :P
[18:52] <Talor> lmao i forgot about that
[18:53] <Talor> I'll use the key to take us all there :P
[18:53] <Equinox> Better!
[18:53] <Moiranna> Much better. :)
[18:53] <waakb> Yep, the Silver Key remains behind when Talor teleports.
[18:53] <waakb> Good catch Equinox.
[18:53] <Talor> I wouldn't teleport :P
[18:53] <waakb> Key then What's your Math check, Talor?
[18:53] <Talor> 7th sense and all that :P
[18:53] <waakb> Knowledge (Mathematics) that is?
[18:54] <Talor> d20+8192
06[18:54] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+8192) and rolled 8212.
[18:54] <waakb> Talor uses his turn Keying the party to the dragon then. Moiranna's next.
[18:54] <waakb> Talor easily brings the party to the dragon.
[18:54] <Moiranna> Firing off a full Barrage again to see if they hit
[18:54] <waakb> He gets a natural 20 in fact.
[18:54] <Moiranna> 4 d20+4291
06[18:54] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (4 d20+4291) and rolled 4305 4306 4300 4300.
[18:55] <waakb> Moiranna gets NO hits from that second barrage of magical power.
[18:55] <waakb> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Eternal Dragon 1343, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Kol'reat 125
[18:55] <waakb> Kei continues her song?
[18:55] <Kei> indeed
[18:55] <Equinox> Irrelevant
[18:55] <Sipher> both Logath and Sipher do nothing...
[18:55] <Moiranna> (You know I can do up to 40 quickens in a round, so I may not be done. :P But in this case I am.)
[18:56] <waakb> Okay.
[18:56] <Equinox> We don't know what her song does for us.
[18:56] <waakb> Khabaal goes next then.
[18:56] <Equinox> Since Kei could not be bothered to do any prep for this battle..
[18:57] <Equinox> Khabaal will quicken a teleport inside of the Dragon thing and if possible attack with the Nexus Dragon Swords and Neut swords.
[18:57] <Kei> (*Shrug* can't argue that...I gave up doing her sheet back at 100, 899 levels later, that hasn't changed. And since I didn't even know what she'd do...much less what all would even effect her inspire at that level...)
[18:57] <Moiranna> Inside of it? Good luck lmao
[18:57] <waakb> Khabaal tries an attack as described, but gets no apparent hits or damage.
[18:58] <Xehochanan> What does he see/feel inside? :oE
[18:58] <Equinox> Yea, do I sense anything?
[18:58] <waakb> Actually, Khabaal should make another Will save given where he said he was going.
[18:58] <Khabaal> d20+5210
06[18:58] * +Golem rolls the dice for Khabaal (d20+5210) and rolled 5221.
[18:59] <Xehochanan> Khabaal dissovles
[18:59] <Stilten> We are screwed =X
[18:59] <Khabaal> It's not a nat 1 :P
[18:59] <Stilten> That's not what my comment is about =X
[19:00] <waakb> Khabaal gets a brief impression of a white space with black stars, but soon enough shakes his head and rejoins the Reality he knows- the weird extracosmic dragon is surrounding his body and preventing any light from outside from reaching him. So be it. What he sees is a cosmos unlike the one he just teleported from, but this is irrelevant.
[19:00] <Moiranna> I wouldn't say that Stilten. There's got to be something: chances are it has to be weaker to keep itself phased like this or something. Maybe it'll come in to do full damage or something so it can actually hit Talor
[19:00] <Stilten> I wouldn't care normally, but we only have 8 rounds now.
[19:00] <Moiranna> Either that or we're just supposed to wait for the Demiurge to show up to kick its ass :P
[19:00] <Moiranna> I hope not though, that wouldn't be near as fun :P
06[19:00] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[19:01] <waakb> He knows that the vista around him cannot possibly be real- it must be something generated by the being's insides as an extension of its insanity-inducing power, he decides.
[19:01] <waakb> Still, it IS impressive that the detail here inside the dragon is what it is.. looks like an entire universe in here.
[19:01] <waakb> Not KHABAAL'S universe, to be sure, but a universe just the same.
[19:02] <Khabaal> How far can I see with Cosmic Consciousness while inside the dragon?
[19:02] <waakb> You can see the entire universe inside the dragon. None of your companions are there, though.
[19:02] <Kei> Well, why not...the demiurge is just a being with a cosmos in it...the dragons probably a parasitic cosmos of its own.
[19:03] <waakb> It looks a lot like the universe Khabaal just came from, but.. you know... different. :)
[19:03] <Khabaal> Is there a central black hole in the Dragonverse? ;)
[19:03] <waakb> No.
[19:03] <Khabaal> Or White hole? ;)
[19:03] <Moiranna> LOL
[19:03] <waakb> There are many central black holes for the various GALAXIES in here, but that's not what you asked if I read you correctly.
[19:04] <Khabaal> Right, I'm looking for its 'heart' or 'brain.'
[19:04] <waakb> You see no such obvious spot.
[19:04] <waakb> On to Equinox?
06[19:05] * @Khabaal will send the images to everyone
[19:05] <Xehochanan> (You do see its Brian)
[19:06] <waakb> Cute.
[19:07] <waakb> Equinox?
[19:07] <Equinox> Equinox LO: What is everything to know about a 7th dimension in our Reality?
[19:07] <waakb> Khabaal's not sure whether his transmissions are received at all- but the rest of the party gets them just the same.
[19:07] <waakb> Equinox gets no answer. Ve spends 500,000 XP on the attempt.
[19:08] <waakb> Kaelyn next.
[19:08] <Kaelyn> hmm
[19:08] <waakb> Talor 8410, Moiranna 3012, Kei 3006, Logath 2912, Sipher 1843, Khabaal 1672, Equinox 1672, Kaelyn 1346, Eternal Dragon 1343, Xehochanan 900, Stilten 719, Kol'reat 125
[19:09] <Kaelyn> I'll just chuck an eldritch blast of far realm energy at it
[19:09] <Kaelyn> see if that can hit it
[19:09] <waakb> It does not, to your complete lack of surprise.
[19:09] <Talor> alright time for a test
[19:09] <waakb> The dragon then chucks a breath weapon at you and the other party members.
[19:10] <Moiranna> Who all gets hit?
[19:10] <waakb> How much are each of your maximum hit point numbers?
[19:10] <Moiranna> 963,036
[19:10] <Xehochanan> 601398
[19:10] <waakb> I already have Khabaal, Kaelyn, and Logath's, of course.
[19:10] <Equinox> And Equinox's
[19:10] <Stilten> 357516 for Stilten, 209406 for Kol
[19:11] <Talor> I want to use a 7th Sense round as a test. Is that something Slipstream would trigger on?
[19:11] <Talor> Both my characters have both so would know that atleast :P
[19:11] <Sipher> lOGATH 922, 287
[19:12] <waakb> Khabaal doesn't get hit at all, for some reason.
[19:12] <Sipher> Sipher 635 364
[19:12] <Equinox> Heh
[19:12] <Moiranna> I wonder WHY?
[19:12] <waakb> Everybody else loses 6% of their maximum hit points and it's permanent damage.
[19:12] <Moiranna> Don't we get a Reflex save?
[19:12] <waakb> Unless you save, as I was just typing, in which case you only lose *3* percent.
[19:13] <Moiranna> d20+8632
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Moiranna (d20+8632) and rolled 8639.
[19:13] <Talor> d20+10000
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (d20+10000) and rolled 10002.
[19:13] <Equinox> d20+13642
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Equinox (d20+13642) and rolled 13650.
[19:13] <waakb> If you save, you take 304,000 XP and 30,400 QP damage; otherwise you take 608,000 XP and 60,800 QP damage.
[19:13] <waakb> In addition to the permanent hit point damage of course.
[19:13] <Kaelyn> d20+4000
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Kaelyn (d20+4000) and rolled 4003.
[19:13] <Moiranna> Oh, does my Incorporeal miss chance or my Two-Dimensional miss chance kick in here?
[19:13] <Stilten> d20+1976
[19:13] <waakb> Alpha Breath is a nasty power.
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+1976) and rolled 1985.
[19:13] <Moiranna> I know my Concealment won't, but I'm not sure on the other two.
[19:13] <Xehochanan> d20+3008
06[19:13] * +Golem rolls the dice for Xehochanan (d20+3008) and rolled 3024.
[19:13] <waakb> No miss chance helps you in this case.
[19:14] <Xehochanan> Where do you people come up with these numbers? :oE
[19:14] <Stilten> Kol:
[19:14] <Stilten> d20+2815
06[19:14] * +Golem rolls the dice for Stilten (d20+2815) and rolled 2824.
[19:14] <Moiranna> Moiranna gets her ~1400 INT modifier to her Reflex save like 4 times or something. :P
[19:14] <waakb> I'll just tell you the save DC since you're about to learn it anyway: the DC for the dragon's breath is 1482.
[19:14] <Sipher> d20 Sipher
[19:14] <waakb> Oh, and you age 76 years if the same succeeds, 152 years if it fails.
[19:14] <Sipher> d20
06[19:14] * +Golem rolls the dice for Sipher (d20) and rolled 9.
[19:14] <Sipher> d20
06[19:14] * +Golem rolls the dice for Sipher (d20) and rolled 15.
[19:15] <waakb> Xehochanan, Stilten, and Kol`reat go next, in that order.
[19:16] <Xehochanan> Watch and wait
[19:16] <Stilten> Seems like if we can figure out how to phase it back in, we win.
[19:16] <waakb> Stilten? Kol?
[19:16] <Kaelyn> does the dragon stay where it is this time?
[19:16] <waakb> No, it again flies away- but characters with Cosmic Consciousness can track it easily.
[19:16] <Stilten> Stilten's going to Miracle 4 times this round. :P
[19:16] <waakb> Khabaal remains inside it, so he goes with it.
[19:16] <Equinox> lol
[19:17] <Stilten> Khabaal does not get in range of Stilten's Miracles I take it.
[19:17] <waakb> Who has Cosmic Consciousness?
[19:17] <Stilten> Equinox does
[19:17] <Kaelyn> Talor/Kae
[19:17] <Equinox> Correct
[19:17] <Sipher> Sipher
[19:17] <waakb> Khabaal is NOT in range of anybody's Miracles but his own, this is true.
[19:17] <Equinox> Khabaal was healed to full anyway
[19:18] <Stilten> You can Key us to inside its belly I guess
[19:18] <Kaelyn> Yeah if you want to go. I cant go in there obviously
[19:18] <Stilten> but can we get out?
[19:18] <Stilten> Why's that Kaelyn?
[19:18] <Moiranna> He's talking about Talor
[19:19] <Moiranna> Who is the size of several city blocks
[19:19] <Talor> well yeah I cant :P
06[19:19] * @Equinox slaps Talor around a bit with a large trout
[19:19] <Stilten> Talor's still small enough to get in a 6666 mile long dragon.
[19:19] <Moiranna> It's not that long.
[19:19] <Talor> its 6666 ft
[19:19] <Stilten> Oh.
[19:19] <Sipher> no, its double that
[19:19] <Talor> Oh yeah it just grew
[19:19] <Talor> But still
[19:20] <waakb> Actually, in the third round, it grew again. It's now 26,664 feet long.
[19:20] <Talor> But Talor will anticipatory strike at the end of the round if no one else is doing anything
[19:20] <Stilten> This is going to be a 10 hour long turn, isn't it.
[19:20] <waakb> However, assuming you guys all track it as best you can, a strange thing happens on round three:
[19:20] <waakb> Your Psychometry suddenly WORKS.
[19:20] <Talor> well still working on round 2 :P
[19:20] <Stilten> Oh crap.
[19:20] <Equinox> Ahhh!
[19:21] <Equinox> Finally, Sipher might know how to hurt it!!
[19:21] <waakb> The Occupant is apparently properly named a Brane/Firmament Dragon, and it indeed comes from the Eternal Realm.
[19:21] <waakb> It has 2433 hit dice, d1000s for hit dice, and maximum hit points per hit die.
[19:21] <Sipher> Sipher will franticly pass on the massive sensory influx then :P
[19:22] <waakb> It currently has 2,722,059 hit points.
[19:22] <Stilten> Wow, Talor can one round that. XD
[19:22] <waakb> It has a Fly speed of (light speed, Perfect maneuverability).
[19:22] <Sipher> Logath too, if he can hit it
[19:22] <Equinox> It's HP are doubling each round though.
[19:23] <Stilten> I thought Talor does 8 million a round?
[19:23] <Stilten> So Talor can just keep it dead
[19:23] <Sipher> need to hit it with the Key to kill it, though
[19:23] <waakb> Its AC is 2419 (-512 size, +205 DEX, +156 Deflection, +64 Divine, +64 Insight, +2432 natural), -13 Touch, 2214 Flat-Footed.
[19:23] <Moiranna> ...-13 touch. ROFL
[19:23] <waakb> It has +2433 BAB, +2656 Grapple, +2104 melee attack bonus.
[19:24] <waakb> Bite damage is currently 60d10+65. 6 Wings each currently deal 30d10+32. Tail deals 30d10+97.
[19:25] <waakb> Space 6665 ft./Reach 4445 Ft.
[19:25] <waakb> Fort: 1482, Refl: +1551, Will: +1506.
[19:26] <waakb> It has Maven+Omnicompetent.
[19:26] <waakb> It also has Caster Level 1344th, SR/PR 2571, DR 2500/extrauniversal, and Mind Warp DC of 1510.
[19:27] <Kaelyn> nasty SR/PR
[19:27] <Moiranna> Good thing I'm a 20th level Beguiler. :E
[19:27] <Equinox> Very...
[19:27] <waakb> STR currently 140, DEX equal to Talor's, CON 274, INT 322, WIS 322, CHA 322.
[19:28] <Kaelyn> lol
[19:28] <Stilten> Gee, I wonder what that ability is :)
[19:28] <waakb> Its Alpha Breath deals d6% damage of each target's maximum healthy hit points, as permanent damage, plus aging 152 years and dealing 608d1000 XP and 608d100 QP damage.
[19:28] <waakb> Save DC for the breath weapon is based on CON, and currently 1486.
[19:28] <waakb> It has many abilities of note.
[19:29] <Moiranna> Evil Eye, which is getting Abrogated
[19:29] <waakb> Of these, the most important are probably its TRANSCENDENTAL abilities.
[19:29] <Equinox> But only one of extreme importance! How does it avoid being hit?! :P
[19:29] <Stilten> It probably just turned off
[19:29] <Stilten> Was probably a byproduct of the shell
[19:29] <waakb> These include: Evil Eye (cancelled out by Abrogate), Cosmic Inspiration (currently set to Thelemic Damage Reduction), Cosmic Nescience, and Transmortality.
[19:30] <Stilten> ...
[19:30] <Stilten> Dang, I was just looking at that Damage Reduction a few minutes ago :(
[19:30] <waakb> It has 9 Cosmics: Abrogate, NUllify, Slipstream, DOminance, Divine Nescience, Inner Eye, Exclusivity, Thelemic Damage Reduction, and Specular (save DC currently 1476).
[19:31] <Moiranna> I figured it had Specular lol
[19:31] <Stilten> Heh
[19:31] <Stilten> I also think our LOs were being shut down. -_-;
[19:31] <Moiranna> You think? :P
[19:32] <waakb> It has 12 Divine Abilities: Seventh Sense, Mime Ability Score, Perfect Initiative, Uncanny Whirlwind Attack, Nescience, True Seeing, Self-Hypnosis, Regeneration, Malaclypse, Eternal Freedom, Anyfeat (set to Weapon Focus (Wings)), and Mime Ability.
[19:32] <Moiranna> But this means it's probably gonna be invulnerable again after this round
[19:32] <Moiranna> So we have to nuke it NOW.
[19:32] <Sipher> we can't kill it
[19:33] <Stilten> Transmortality
[19:33] <Sipher> it has Transmortal
[19:33] <Moiranna> The Key can
[19:33] <Moiranna> And we can still deal DAMAGE to it if we bypass the DR/SR
[19:33] <Stilten> Transmortality doesn't let it die, so our Abrogates would have to shut it down over Evil Eye.
[19:34] <Talor> I dont think ABrogate can shut down a tier above it?
[19:34] <Sipher> not unless they Key has Siphoning [Effect] or is a deity within 1/2 teirs of it with the disease or stoicism portfolios :oP
[19:34] <Stilten> It shut down Evil Eye, so I'm inclined to say yes.
[19:34] <Sipher> we can hurt it, but why bother if we can't kill it? :P
[19:34] <waakb> It has 20 feats: Sixth Sense, Superior Initiative, Epic Fortitude, Epic Reflexes, Epic Will, Adroit Flyby Attack, Improved Multiattack, Power Attack, Combat Expertise, Improved Combat Reflexes, Great Cleave, Dodge, Epic Dodge, Dire Charge, Spellcasting Harrier, Shape Breath, Split Breath, Extend Spreading Breath, Quicken Breath, and Improved Rapidstrike (Wings).
[19:34] <Moiranna> Why don't we all just fucking go home then? :P
[19:34] <Moiranna> The weaker we make it for when the Eternals get here or whatever the better
[19:34] <Moiranna> Stop whining
[19:35] <Xehochanan> Start winning
[19:35] <Kei> nono, keep winning, we wanna keep winning.
[19:35] <waakb> Those are its stats of note. Make of them, what you will.
[19:36] <Stilten> So we'd have to 'kill' it with the Key, then suck it dry of QP
[19:36] <Sipher> yus
[19:36] <waakb> The Brane Dragon Wyrmling is waiting for your attacks- and yes, since it has two Thelemic Damage Reductions, this means that it is vulnerable to your attacks this round (and this round only).
[19:36] <Stilten> And Specular's going to really hurt Talor
[19:36] <waakb> Unless it switches that Cosmic Inspiration of course, in which case its vulnerability period will change too.
[19:36] <waakb> Clever, eh? :)
[19:36] <Stilten> I think you read the description a little TOO liberally :P
[19:37] <Sipher> does Talor want to delay until after Logath so Logath can take out the majority of its hp and Talor can hit it with the key for the finishing blow (hopefully0?
[19:37] <waakb> Exclusivity.
[19:37] <waakb> :)
[19:37] <Talor> Only 1 person can actually affect it a round
[19:37] <Talor> Smart
[19:37] <waakb> I thought so!
[19:38] <Moiranna> So our Abrogates don't shut down two separate abiliites?
[19:38] <Stilten> I think I've got a solution to that.
[19:38] <waakb> Are you thinking this is a worthy Final Combat yet? :)
[19:38] <waakb> Correct, Moiranna.
[19:38] <Moiranna> Sort of. I always hate effects that basically say "no."
[19:38] <waakb> That was stated before the combat began.
[19:38] <Talor> Do we know how Transmortality actually works?
[19:38] <Sipher> how does the Key measure up to Talors jaws?
[19:38] <waakb> Yes, Stilten.
[19:38] <waakb> Talor, I mean. Sorry.
[19:39] <Talor> Alright so if we take away all its hp
[19:39] <Talor> so its at -9k
[19:39] <Talor> what happens?
[19:39] <Talor> Is it unconcsious. Is it fine to do what it likes?
[19:40] <Sipher> hmm, Thelemic Damage Induction is per attack, not round :P
[19:40] <Equinox> Brian, the Thelemic Damage (In)duction I read is that you auto avoid every other attack or in the case of 2, avoid all but every third attack, where does it say anything about rounds?
[19:40] <waakb> Transmortality (Su): A Brane Dragon exists beyond universes, and therefore cannot be permanently destroyed, even by beings of higher divine rank than its divine bonus. A Brane Dragon which is apparently killed is instead merely forced out of the universe it was just in, or (if attacked in the Pleroma itself) sent into a comatose slumber while it recovers (it regains 1 hit die per day and wakes up when it once again reaches its original total).
[19:40] <waakb> Also, per the text in Ascension itself,
[19:41] <Talor> Hmm so if we bring it to 0 we kick it out. Isn't that a win?
[19:41] <waakb> Benefit: You cannot be permanently destroyed, even by those of higher divine rank. However, there are a number of ways to circumvent this ability:
[19:41] <Stilten> Yes it is
[19:41] <Moiranna> Pretty much, yeah.
[19:41] <Sipher> I'd say so
[19:41] <Moiranna> So as you were, gentlemen.
[19:41] <Kei> Thats the goal after all...even if we don't kill it, we want it gone from this reality.
[19:41] <Xehochanan> Begone!
[19:41] <Sipher> Talor, sic em :P
[19:41] <Talor> I'm just curious why the key is needed then :P
[19:41] <Stilten> Exactly, that's why Brian's interpretation is pretty...creative.
[19:41] <Stilten> The Key gets past the damage reduction.
[19:41] <waakb> Siphoning [Effect]: If the being were drained of quintessence that it no longer had the divinity to manifest the Transmortality transcendental ability (Divine Rank 48 required) then it would lose this ability and be vulnerable. This is likely to be a slow process though, as such a being will have billions of quintessence.
[19:42] <Xehochanan> DR
[19:42] <Talor> Oh
[19:42] <Xehochanan> extramultiversal
[19:42] <Talor> psh 2500
[19:42] <Sipher> Logath can do it then, he ignores craploads of DR
[19:42] <Equinox> We have no argument about Transmortality Brian, just your interpretation of Thelemic Damage Induction.
[19:42] <Xehochanan> Oh pshaw
[19:42] <Sipher> :P
[19:42] <waakb> Withering [Effect]: A being with either the Disease or Stoicism Portfolios within one Divine Status (or two assuming double portfolios) of the Transmortal, could drain its Constitution to below 130 whereupon it would not be able to manifest the Transmortality transcendental ability and be vulnerable. The Love and Revenge portfolios would be required for those Transmortals with no Constitution score.
[19:42] <Sipher> course, Talor hits for several million per bite, so its not really and issue anyway
[19:43] <Talor> Just trying to make sure I dont screw us over knocking it out of out Universe in the attack :P
[19:43] <Stilten> 94. THELEMIC DAMAGE INDUCTION (SU)
[19:43] <Stilten> Fate divorces you from reality.
[19:43] <Stilten> Prerequisites: Perfect Damage Reduction.
[19:43] <Stilten> Benefit: You are only affected by every other attack.
[19:43] <Stilten> Special: This ability can be gained multiple times and its effects stack,
[19:43] <Stilten> each time it is taken, you automatically avoid another attack.
[19:43] <Stilten> Doesn't say anything about rounds in there.
[19:43] <Equinox> Indeed, my point.
[19:43] <Talor> Well ones named Induction and one Reduction? :P
[19:43] <Stilten> Stilten's idea is that we ward you for some damage so that you don't instagib yourself
[19:43] <waakb> Well, Thelemic Damage Reduction in this case appears to be working by rounds. :P
[19:44] <Equinox> I don't see anything named Thelemic Damage REduction in Ascension.
[19:44] <Stilten> There's no actual description for Reduction because UK can't keep his descriptions straight.
[19:44] <waakb> Ascension is a ptachwork as usual. Originally it affected rounds. :P
[19:44] <Stilten> It's Reduction in the short list and Induction in the details
[19:44] <Talor> Rounds gives this thing a chance, lets run with it :P
[19:44] <waakb> Anyway, just go with it: you know that it's vulnerable this round whereas it wasn't in either previous round.
[19:44] <Equinox> OK
[19:45] <Moiranna> And is there any way to get around Exclusivity? Shouldn't it allow a Will save or something, under No Absolutes?
[19:45] <Stilten> #Equinox, what do you think about warding Talor so that he'll live through a hit?#
[19:45] <Talor> Does Slipstream mess with Seventh Sense any?
[19:45] <waakb> No.
[19:46] <Moiranna> Ah, well, I'll go have a sandwich or something. Talor goes first so he's the only one that gets to do anything this combat. :P
[19:46] <waakb> Unless he avoids hitting it.
[19:46] <waakb> You know its stats now: with those you can devise a plan to defeat it.
[19:46] <Moiranna> Given he's got the best damage potential of the group, he's our best chance at dropping this thing. I don't see why he would, unless he's just gonna be our Key bitch to follow it.
[19:46] <Equinox> #I wouldn't know how to ward against Specular... We can revive him if he dies though.#
[19:47] <Talor> Its really easy atm. Just teleport and bite it. I'm just not certain its a good idea with Transmortality.
[19:47] <Stilten> #Ward him like creating some kind of Vigor effect.#
[19:47] <Sipher> just cast Delay Death on him...
[19:47] <Talor> #No need. But is just removing this thing from our reality fine? We aren't trying to find a way to destroy it?#
[19:47] <Talor> I have it on me
[19:47] <Stilten> #I'd say removal is fine.3
[19:47] <Stilten> #
[19:48] <Moiranna> #None of us are powerful enough for that: removal should be fine. The Eternals can sort this out once they come through the Gate.#
[19:48] <Xehochanan> #I do not think we can permanently destroy such a being.#
[19:48] <Equinox> #I do not see how we can kill it now, but moving it back to the Eternal realm should work well for our purposes.#
[19:48] <waakb> Reduce its CON to below 130 and its Transmortality bites the dust. That's how you could kill it permanently, if you're so inclined.
[19:49] <Talor> I'll drop the key then and just teleport to the thing. Key is actually a hindrance! :P
[19:49] <Talor> Ooo
[19:49] <Talor> whats its con again
[19:49] <Stilten> No, let Equinox teleport us :P
[19:49] <Stilten> Then you don't have to worry about it.
[19:49] <waakb> And the Silver Key was given to Talor because you saw it being wielded in the Vision.
[19:49] <Sipher> 274
[19:49] <Talor> I can drain con easily
[19:49] <Stilten> Plus you can then delay your attack till after you pop out of the teleport Talor instead of wasting your turn.
[19:49] <Talor> But it'd die before I got enough :P
[19:49] <Equinox> How much can you drain?
[19:49] <waakb> You originally thought the Vision showed the Demiurge, but it did not: why would your other thoughts about the Vision be accurate?
[19:50] <Talor> rechecking with my new HP total on con drain
[19:50] <Equinox> lol, The Brane dragon inserted the vision of the Key in defeating it to try and delay Talor! :P
[19:50] <Moiranna> That's entirely possible.
[19:50] <waakb> Isn't multidimensional causality FUN? :D
[19:51] <Moiranna> I'm impartial. :P
[19:51] <Stilten> Con is 274
06[19:51] * @Equinox picks up the Key again and brings the rest of us to Talor and the Brane
[19:51] <waakb> CLICK.
[19:51] <waakb> Talor acts just before the Brane Dragon.
[19:52] <Talor> 90 con breath attack
[19:52] <Talor> 2d8+2 bite
[19:52] <Talor> I couldn't manage it before it went immune again
[19:52] <Equinox> How many bites could you get in a round?
[19:53] <Talor> 5 without time effects
[19:53] <Moiranna> Then just force it out, I guess
[19:53] <Talor> like 80 with but it'd get to attack to
[19:53] <Stilten> Talor, why not delay your turn until after Equinox's? :P
[19:53] <Talor> For what reason/
[19:53] <Sipher> Exclusivity
[19:53] <waakb> Assume you have no breath weapon, Talor. What then? Remember, the enemy has Abrogate which will automatically cancel out the most useful ability among the opposition each round.
[19:53] <Equinox> Aren't there Divines that we can use to enhance your CON draining powers? Khabaal has 8 Anyfeats and Equinox 14.
[19:53] <Moiranna> It doesn't matter 'cause it's getting Abrogated
[19:54] <Talor> It'll just get Abrogated
[19:54] <Moiranna> So bite the damn thing.
[19:54] <Talor> Fine i'll 2 shot the thing I guess
[19:54] <waakb> How much damage?
[19:54] <Talor> normal full attack
[19:54] <waakb> What AC do you hit each time?
[19:54] <Stilten> Very freaking high...
[19:54] <waakb> And your Bite deals CON damage as well, does it not?
[19:54] <Talor> yes
[19:55] <Talor> quickened epic full heal on myself
[19:55] <Stilten> Talor can use the corpse as a chew toy.
[19:55] <Talor> and then 5 d20+10770
[19:55] <Stilten> Nom nom nom its Con away
[19:55] <waakb> Crunch.
[19:55] <Talor> 5 d20+10770
06[19:55] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (5 d20+10770) and rolled 10783 10778 10786 10776 10778.
[19:55] <waakb> No natural 1s there. You hit all five times.
[19:55] <Equinox> Equinox can do extra damage by making Talor roll 20s ;)
[19:55] <Stilten> Mmmm, Fresh Brane!
[19:55] <Talor> 1.6384mil a bite
[19:56] <waakb> Plus CON damage?
[19:56] <Talor> fort save
[19:56] <Talor> 10 con
[19:56] <waakb> What DC?
[19:56] <waakb> Dragon gets a 1502 on each save, of course (Inner Eye makes this easy to figure out).
[19:56] <Talor> DC2905
[19:56] <waakb> So dragon fails each save.
[19:57] <Talor> 5 2d8
06[19:57] * +Golem rolls the dice for Talor (5 2d8) and rolled 14 8 8 12 13.
[19:57] <waakb> But Talor NOMS it out of his Reality.
[19:57] <Talor> yeah
[19:57] <waakb> And suddenly, Khabaal is back.
[19:57] <Equinox> lol
[19:57] <Talor> can i nom him too!?
[19:57] <Moiranna> YES.
[19:57] <waakb> The weird dragon-universe is no longer surrounding him.
[19:57] <Talor> it'll be an 'accident' :P
[19:57] <Xehochanan> Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo it.
[19:57] <Equinox> It was, forever... in there...
06[19:57] * @Equinox slaps Talor around a bit with a large trout
06[19:58] * @Khabaal slaps Talor around a bit with a large trout
[19:58] <waakb> And your party has forced the Parasite- a Brane Dragon, or Firmament Dragon depending on what you want to call it apparently- out of your corner of the greater Reality.
[19:58] <waakb> What do you do next?
[19:58] <waakb> 7 rounds till Demiurge wakes up.
[19:58] <Xehochanan> It was a Brian's Dragon
[19:58] <waakb> And the Ritual of Opening finishes.
[19:59] <Moiranna> #Key me to the place of the Ritual.#
[19:59] <Sipher> go watch
[19:59] <waakb> And yes, actually I made up the Brane/Firmament Dragon breed myself.
[19:59] <waakb> It's one of my own creations, and I'm rather proud of it.
[19:59] <Xehochanan> Bumper sticker it
[19:59] <waakb> This particular example had x4 HD, of course, among other things.
[20:00] <waakb> The simplest way to reach the Ritual of Opening is to pass through the Ring Portal.
[20:00] <Equinox> I will Key Anna and whoever wants to go to the Ritual of Opening, along with my avatar and a couple of probes.
[20:00] <waakb> The Ring is open of course.
[20:00] <Moiranna> That works too.
[20:00] <Moiranna> Moiranna would go there straight away.
[20:00] <Stilten> We'll all go.
[20:00] <Stilten> May as well.
[20:01] <Equinox> Equinox Prime wants to go to Old Taera
[20:01] <waakb> Through the massive hole it has torn in reality, you see the amphitheatre of hexagonal pillars of rock, and the weird cloaked figures- now joined by over a hundred OTHER entities, including all of the Shade Masters.
[20:01] <Equinox> And analyze data from all 3 sets of probes simultaneously.
[20:01] <waakb> The Ritual of Opening is in full swing.
[20:02] <Khabaal> Khabaal already has an avatar at the Ritual of Opening, so Khabaal Prime will go with Equinox.
[20:02] <waakb> Equinox gets telemetry from the probes around Old Taera telling ver that the planet is cracking- this would be an earthquake to end all earthquakes if anybody who mattered was left alive on the surface!
[20:03] <waakb> The Egg zone- where the Egg broke open- now contains no significant sign of the former Brane Dragon who was parasitizing your Reality.
06[20:03] * @Equinox uses any telemetry available on the possibility of a 7th dimension developing to try and create an epic power to see said dimension
[20:04] <waakb> Onyx still has not managed to resynchronize with normal time-flow.
[20:04] <waakb> But the Ritual continues.
[20:04] <Equinox> Ah, the Egg zone no longer has probes.
[20:04] <Equinox> Just probes at Old Taera, Eternity's Gate and the Ritual of Opening.
[20:04] <waakb> And after some minutes (subjective time, in the Place of the Ritual), the Ritual finishes.
[20:05] <Equinox> Plus I will send out a ping to reestablish communication with Onyx when ve arrives back in this timeline.
[20:05] <waakb> Your party watches from the sidelines as the arch on the wall of rock... Changes.
[20:05] <waakb> In some way you can't properly define or explain, it's no longer an archway.
[20:05] <waakb> Instead, it's a spherical portal, like a Wormhole but leading to no location you could define or explain.
03[20:06] * Gimble (~Gimble@7D8456.6AD495.502209.6FB4C7) has joined #taera
[20:06] <waakb> Through the sphere, you can see an endless field of brilliant white, dotted with black "stars."
[20:06] <waakb> The Eternal Realm is finally accessible to beings from your Reality.,
03[20:06] * waakb sets mode: +v Gimble
[20:07] <Equinox> The Eternal Realm is a universe sized Brane dragon! :P
[20:07] <waakb> No, it's quite a lot more than that.
[20:07] <waakb> And your portal is not unexpected, it seems, because a Being is waiting on the other side for it to open.
[20:07] <waakb> That Being... is HARD to describe.
[20:08] <Sipher> its not the Old Man is it? :P
[20:08] <Moiranna> It's UVUADUAM PALADIN.
[20:08] <Equinox> It's not Brian Waak, is it? ;)
06[20:08] * @Xehochanan slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[20:08] <Moiranna> Or however you spell it.
[20:08] <waakb> But if I said that it has a generally humanoid shape, and is more purple/dark blue/dark red than otherwise, it would not be completely inaccurate.
[20:09] <waakb> The Being steps forth from the Portal, the open Final Gate, and announces: ~I HAVE ARRIVED. MY CHILD IS FREE OPF THE PARASITE, I SENSE- WHERE IS MY ARTIFACT?~
[20:09] <Moiranna> ...oh HELL NO.
06[20:09] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[20:09] <Stilten> Daddy's back.
[20:09] <Moiranna> Oh wait, means the Key
[20:09] <Moiranna> nvm
[20:09] <Moiranna> 'He can take it
[20:10] <Equinox> #I am the avatar of Equinox, ve has the Silver Key.#
[20:11] <waakb> Directed at the Being?
[20:11] <waakb> ~WHERE IS MY ARTIFACT?~ the Being repeats.
[20:11] <Kei> lol, thought it wanted the Enabler? :P
[20:11] <waakb> Equinox Prime feels a distinct pull towards the Ring Portal, from the Key.
[20:11] <Equinox> Equinox gets this via the probes right?
[20:12] <waakb> Equinox Prime gets this from probes AND from transmission by ver avatar.
[20:12] <Equinox> OK, I use one last Key question, is that entity the creator of the Silver Key? ;)
[20:12] <Xehochanan> BRB
[20:13] <Stilten> I thought we already used up the Key question on the Brane.
[20:13] <waakb> The Key doesn't let you use its ability. It tries to move your hand of its own accord to bring you (via transportation) into the Place of the Ritual, next to the Being.
[20:13] <Equinox> Talor decided against it.
[20:13] <Equinox> Ah very well, I let the Key take me.
[20:13] <waakb> CLICK.
[20:14] <waakb> You aerrive, next to the great Being from the Eternal Realm.
06[20:14] * @Equinox bows, #Here is your artifact. The Silver Key has been a valuable ally.#
[20:14] <waakb> Inside the open Final Gate, you can see other Beings waiting with apparent interest and/or curiosity.
[20:15] <waakb> ~THANK YOU,~ the Being tells you, taking the Key from your proffered hand and executing several turns that take the Key beyond even your sight. Apparently it is being rotated through even the higher dimensions you con not yet process.
[20:15] <waakb> A ripple of... Something... emanates from the open Portal.
[20:16] <waakb> ~NOW THAT THE CHILD IS FREE OF THE PARASITE, IT SHOULD BE RESET,~ the Being states in apparent thought.
[20:16] <Sipher> (He waves a hand, and the portal closes... :oP)
[20:16] <waakb> The Portal remains open, actually.
06[20:16] * @Equinox relays that to Khabaal Prime, #What do see on Old Taera now?#
[20:17] <Stilten> I'm surprised that the Shades aren't going gaga
[20:17] <Moiranna> They're probably taking notes, are you kidding?
[20:18] <waakb> The probes around Old Taera report that the planet has cracked open and is splitting in half- what was once the Central Sun of Arite appears to now be the Yolk of a cosmic egg. That Yolk is now forming itself into a new bodily form.
[20:18] <Moiranna> The Demiurge
[20:18] <Moiranna> Presumably.
[20:18] <waakb> And who says the Shades AREN'T going gaga?
[20:18] <Stilten> Strange, which reality are we in?
[20:18] <Stilten> The one where the Demiurge didn't take over or the one where it did?
[20:18] <Equinox> Both ;)
[20:19] <waakb> Tzol', in fact, is bold enough to ask: "Excuse me, erm... sir? Whatever we may call you? But, what do you mean by, 'reset?'"
[20:19] <Moiranna> Ah, I love that guy.
[20:19] <waakb> ~MY NAME IS TOO LONG FOR YOU TO PROCESS,~ the Being tells him. ~HOWEVER, IF YOU WISH TO USE AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF IT, YOU MAY CALL ME SEPHIROSOPHIA.~
06[20:21] * @Moiranna muses, "The Old Man appears to be late."
[20:21] <waakb> ~A RESET OF DABBATIALDABAOTHILMIRENSEKAIDUBARNSECTENTH... [the name goes on for some long seconds from here and even trails off in your consciousness in such a manner as to suggest that there's a lot more to it that your minds just don't "get"] WILL MEAN THAT THE BASE REALITY IS BROUGHT BACK TO ITS INITIAL UNFORMED STATE, SO THAT IT CAN GROW AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING.~
[20:22] <waakb> As Moiranna thinks that, she notices that in fact he is not: the Old Man has appeared in the audience, near the outer edge, and is just standing there watching the events below unfold.
[20:22] <Kei> c:\>Format Taera
[20:22] <waakb> And he's not the only one: numerous other Entities are arriving.
[20:23] <waakb> A cross-section of beings from all times, places, and even COSMOI are arriving at this spot, at this time.
[20:23] <waakb> The event around which the entire Reality turns, is about to begin.
[20:23] <Sipher> #And what of Us? What of those that fought to evict the parasite from your Child?#
06[20:23] * @Equinox interjects, #WHat will that mean for the various timelines and histories that already existed in tandem with a damaged DABBAT...#
[20:23] <Moiranna> #This is the thanks we get? Our reality erased and begun anew?#
[20:23] <Talor> (Get em boys!)
[20:24] <Moiranna> (Fuck these guys, making us do all the work and then coming in here and basically erasing everything we did the work for.)
[20:24] <Sipher> (Power to tha people!)
[20:24] <Moiranna> We did this to save our reality, not let them format it.
[20:24] <waakb> ~THEY WILL VANISH, OF COURSE,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA replies to you nonchalantly. ~SURELY THIS IS THE BEST COURSE, TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE? DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] NEEDS TO GROW PROPERLY, NOW THAT THE PARASITE IS REMOVED.~
06[20:24] * @Khabaal will send that to me Prime so that he can get to Eternity's gate and come here, he doesn't want to accidentally be erased ;)
[20:25] <Stilten> "What exactly IS the 'base
[20:25] <Stilten> ' reality?"
[20:25] <Sipher> #Surely there is some way that Dabba[etc]s defenders can be preserved?#
[20:25] <Equinox> "Certainly there are additional options that may not be the best, but certainly doable.#
[20:25] <Equinox> Oops, I meant for Khabaal to say that
[20:26] <Equinox> Khabaal: "Certainly there are additional options that may not be the best, but certainly doable."
[20:27] <waakb> ~THE SEVEN PARTS OF DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] WILL BE LEFT AS THE SOLE INHABITANTS IN A BASIC PLANE THAT THEY MUST GROW IN POWER AND KNOWLEDGE TO LEARN ABOUT AND CONTROL OVER SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA explains. ~THEY CAN THEN FORM THE APPROPRIATE SUBSTRUCTURES OF DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] PROPERLY, WITHOUT INTERFERENCE.~
[20:27] <Moiranna> #What of DABBATIALDABAOTH's avatars?#
[20:28] <waakb> ~OTHER OPTIONS?~ the Eternal considers (its posture certainly suggests that much). ~WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT OTHER OPTIONS MIGHT THERE BE?DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] NEEDS TO GROW.~
[20:28] <Talor> "What if we were all to make our way outside of DABBA before it is reset. Would we still exist?"
[20:28] <Khabaal> "Indeed, other options that preserve the timelines that have existed up until now."
[20:28] <Stilten> "I'm sure we can figure out 6, but who's going to be the 7th?"
[20:29] <waakb> ~how do those timelines have value, against the ones which shall exist after the reset is accomplished?~ ASKS sephirosophia.
[20:29] <Moiranna> #Says who? You? Who are you to impose the rules of your reality on ours? We were in some respects prepared to destroy your precious child if it meant we could survive. And now we find that in helping your child we have doomed ourselves.#
[20:29] <waakb> Bah! Somehow the Caps Lock got reversed there.
[20:30] <Sipher> #They are OURS! Would you not value something of your own, that you have lived through, nay, fought to protect and nourish, over something blank and new!?#
[20:30] <Equinox> #While I'm mostly attached to continued existance, we did have a major role in creating the conditions that exist now, we should have some say in how you rearrange our reality.#
[20:30] <waakb> ~WHAT VALUE DO THE PREEXISTING TIMELINES HAVE?~ repeats the being from Beyond.
[20:30] <Stilten> "Well, I would imagine the concept of Transcendence may be foreign to them...Talor, would you like to say something?"
[20:31] <Moiranna> Is Sipher getting any Psychometry on this thing?
[20:31] <Sipher> Logath: /YOU WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND. YOU ARE TOO DIVORCED FROM THE CONCEPTS OF REALITY. YOU ARE COLD, LIKE THE CLUTCHES OF DEATH./
[20:31] <Khabaal> "Do WE not have value? We were creations of these supposed preexisting timelines.#
[20:31] <waakb> Sipher is getting Psychometry, yes, actually.
[20:32] <Moiranna> AC? SR? HD?
[20:32] <Talor> lmao
[20:32] <Moiranna> 'cause fuck this thing.
[20:32] <Talor> we can take it!
[20:32] <Khabaal> lol
[20:32] <waakb> It has over 150,000 hit dice, each of which is a d1000, and it has x10 hit points on top of that. To begin with.
[20:32] <waakb> Need I go on?
[20:32] <Sipher> Sipher wouldn't pass it on, anyway
[20:32] <Sipher> Ves not stupid :oP
[20:32] <Moiranna> Dammit.
[20:32] <Khabaal> 1.5 billion HP ;)
06[20:32] * @Moiranna slaps Sipher around a bit with a large trout
[20:32] <Moiranna> I TRUSTED you.
[20:33] <Sipher> what Omnific abilities does it have, just out of interest?
06[20:33] * @Talor passes it on :P
[20:33] <Moiranna> YES.
[20:33] <Moiranna> <3 Talor.
[20:33] <waakb> No Ominfics, actually- but plenty of Transcendentals.
[20:33] <Khabaal> Talor has Psychometry?
[20:33] <Talor> People deserve to know whats out there ;)
[20:33] <Talor> Yes
[20:33] <Talor> He had it before Sipher
[20:33] <Khabaal> Ah, did not know that.
[20:33] <Talor> Never needed it
[20:34] <Talor> we always Key'd stats before we actually saw things
[20:34] <Equinox> Heh, yea, the Silver Key was my Psychometry...
[20:34] <Equinox> Alas, no longer...
[20:34] <Equinox> #So... Will you need to keep the Silver Key once you are done?#
[20:34] <Stilten> It's his Soul Object, I'd imagine so...
06[20:35] * @Equinox can survive without any one of ver soul items ;)
[20:36] <waakb> Including the sextet of Transmortality, Transtemporal, Transcorporeality, Evil Eye, Transfinite, and Unreal.
[20:36] <Sipher> ... woah
[20:37] <waakb> SEPHIROSOPHIA is a true Monad, yes. A Time Lord- an incarnate Reality in and of Itself.
[20:37] <waakb> I'll also draw your attention to some answers given by the Sources back when Moiranna was Communing with them two weeks ago.
[20:38] <Stilten> "Anyway, the Pre-Existing Timelines created us. And I have to ask, is your child the first Eternal Realm citizen who ended up like this?"
[20:38] <waakb> You asked at the time who SEPH was- I trust I no loger need to answer that question? :)
[20:38] <Talor> "But you must understand. We even as pieces of this.. child you speak of. Have lived, learned, and advanced in all this time. To have everything we've accomplished just wiped clean. We cant just move backwards. Would you ever considering reseting a child that has grow correctly? While something should be done about DABBA there must be a way without erasing us all in the process."
[20:38] <Xehochanan> Monad @.@
[20:38] <Xehochanan> (back)
[20:39] <Equinox> #Is there anyway we could survive the resetting of our timelines?#
[20:39] <Moiranna> #Everyone one of us is a piece of your child, and without us, your child would be nothing. Every one of our Six First ones, of which several of us are Shards, has brought about the healing of your damn child, and you reward us with extinction. We should have left the Egg alone and let your child rot.#
[20:40] <Moiranna> (This worked much better when we were trying to keep Reality from eating us. >.>)
[20:40] <Moiranna> (Now it seems we let it win.)
[20:40] <waakb> SEPHIROSOPHIA considers Talor's plea. ~...IT IS POSSIBLE,~ Ve admits after a pause for consideration. ~WITHOUT A RESET, PRIOR TIMELINES WOULD CONTINUE TO EXIST. INCLUDING THOSE WHICH STUNT MY CHILD'S GROWTH. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.~
[20:40] <Stilten> "How do they stunt your child's growth?"
[20:41] <Talor> "It is missing a piece. The 7th piece."
[20:41] <Sipher> #Can those of us present here be somehow transplanted into a state of existance that would allow us to continue existing beyond the reset?#
[20:41] <Kei> "If you can reset a whole reality, can you simply not weed out those damaging timelines? We all have a lot invested in our reality, and have saved it from that which would have done it even more harm. You understand we cannot simply stand by and watch everything we fought for simply wiped out."
[20:42] <waakb> ~THE SEVENTH CAN NOT EXIST AND PROSPER ALONGSIDE THE OTHER SIX,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA tells you. ~WITHOUT THE SEVENTH, DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] IS DEFORMED. VE CAN NOT FIT INTO VER PROPER PLACE.~
[20:42] <Stilten> "We know the Reality is missing a 7th piece, but that doesn't explain the connection between that and timelines. Or is it because they existed without that 7th piece in the first place?"
[20:42] <Equinox> FYI - I have 2 unanswered questions out there.
[20:45] <waakb> PHIROSOPHIA looks up at the crowd suddenly. ~I SEE,~ Ve remarks. ~THE SEVENTH IS ALRADY HERE, READY TO GROW EVEN FOM ITS STUNTED STATE.~
[20:45] <waakb> On a sid note, my cordless keyboard just ran out of power, so I had to switch.
[20:46] <Sipher> (Yes, I'm already here)
06[20:46] * @Moiranna slaps Sipher around a bit with a large trout
[20:46] <Stilten> LOL
[20:46] <Equinox> Hmm, was that sid meaning sad or side? ;)
[20:46] <Stilten> Silly squidface :)
[20:47] <Talor> "If this 7th were able to grow and fill its proper space. Would your child then be saved without a 'reset'?"
[20:47] <waakb> Side. :P.
[20:47] <Equinox> Ah, so you'll answer my non-relevant questions! :P
[20:48] <Kei> "... It would be nice to see Taera somehow reverted back to its normal state, and not the ruins I am sure it has been reduced to. For all my power, I'm still very attached to it.
[20:49] <waakb> Testing.
[20:49] <waakb> Okay, replaced keyboard batteries.
[20:50] <Xehochanan> BRB
02[20:50] * @Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.9096FA.814DCA) Quit (Quit: )
[20:50] <waakb> Sorry, what questions did I miss?
[20:51] <Equinox> #So... Will you need to keep the Silver Key once you are done?# ;)
[20:51] <Equinox> #Is there anyway we could survive the resetting of our timelines?#
[20:51] <Moiranna> This jackass Monad's probably just ignoring you anyway.
[20:51] <Stilten> LOL
[20:52] <waakb> To the first question you receive an answer: ~IRRELEVANT.~ To the second, you receive the answer ~UNLIKELY.~
[20:53] <waakb> To Talor, SEPHIROSOPHIA answers ~WHAT DO YOU MEAN? EXPLAIN.~
03[20:53] * Xehochanan (~SG@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.D1016B.6A87B0) has joined #taera
03[20:53] * Moiranna sets mode: +o Xehochanan
[20:54] <waakb> <waakb> Okay, replaced keyboard batteries.
[20:54] <waakb> <Xehochanan> BRB
[20:54] <waakb> * @Xehochanan (~G@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.9096FA.814DCA) Quit (Quit: )
[20:54] <waakb> <waakb> Sorry, what questions did I miss?
[20:54] <waakb> <Equinox> #So... Will you need to keep the Silver Key once you are done?# ;)
[20:54] <waakb> <Equinox> #Is there anyway we could survive the resetting of our timelines?#
[20:54] <waakb> <Moiranna> This jackass Monad's probably just ignoring you anyway.
[20:54] <waakb> <Stilten> LOL
[20:54] <waakb> <waakb> To the first question you receive an answer: ~IRRELEVANT.~ To the second, you receive the answer ~UNLIKELY.~
[20:54] <waakb> <waakb> To Talor, SEPHIROSOPHIA answers ~WHAT DO YOU MEAN? EXPLAIN.~
[20:54] <waakb> * Xehochanan (~SG@A2BA3E.DDA2BB.D1016B.6A87B0) has joined #taera
[20:54] <waakb> * Moiranna sets mode: +o Xehochanan
[20:55] <Stilten> And now we know who SEPH is :)
06[20:55] * @Xehochanan slaps Stilten around a bit with a large trout
[20:55] <Talor> "You seem to have much power. Can you not help this seventh piece of your child grow so that it may correctly fill its place alongside the other 6? It seems once it does your child would be able to grow and all us that are parts of it would be able to do such along with it."
[20:56] <waakb> Talor suddenly receives a Sending from an unexpected source: the Old Man. #Correct. You're on the right track! Go for it.#
[20:56] <Stilten> Hahaha
[20:56] <Equinox> #Now, I don't want to be as brutish as my dear Anna here, but we did save your child. Also, with my vast intellect, I plan on researching the 7th dimension to aid its development in anyway I can. In fact, I've already started my research.#
[20:57] <Xehochanan> (Anna is a Ghost Brute)
[20:57] <Moiranna> Bah, I was hoping he'd say something else dickish so I could nuke him and then get blown up :P
[20:57] <Sipher> (Hate to say it dude, but, your 'vast intellect' ain't so vast to this guy :P)
[20:57] <Stilten> Haha, I was thinking the same XD
[20:58] <waakb> SEPHIROSOPHIA considers this slowly. ~I CAN INFUSE SOME OF THE POWER OF MY OWN SEVENTH INTO MY CHILD,~ Ve speculates. ~PROVIDED THE PROPER SEVENTH IS THERE TO RECEIVE IT, IT WOULD TRIGGER A NEW CYCLE OF GROWTH LEADING TO EVENTUAL COMPLETION. THE DEFORMATION WOULD ALWAYS EXIST, BUT IT WOULD BE VESTIGIAL AND UNIMPORTANT.~
[20:59] <waakb> #Ask it who the Seventh is,# the Old Man suggests to Talor.
[21:00] <Xehochanan> (The Old Man is ready to say "ME!")
[21:00] <Talor> "I think it will be more then that. What you call deformation may very well help your child to become more. It is overcoming obstacles such as this that help beings to become more. Your child may very well grow beyond your expectations after having such a hard begining."
[21:00] <Stilten> More like the Old Man is having Talor volunteer to be the 7th :)
[21:00] <Talor> "And I must ask. Who is this seventh?"
[21:00] <Sipher> (Can a group be a First One? O_o)
[21:01] <waakb> Meanwhile, Ilsensine (ve did travel with the Ritual Party in the end) pipes up with #What about us? What if we who have nothing to do with the Seven go through that portal and explore Beyond? What will happen to us?#
[21:02] <Stilten> I'm almost expecting the Old Man to shush Ilsensine XD
[21:02] <waakb> SEPHIROSOPHIA answers ver: ~I SEE YOU. YOU ARE SMALL AND STUNTED, BUT YOU HAVE YOUR OWN STORIES TO TELL. THEY WOULD GROW AND _BECOME_ IF YOU DIVORCE FROM DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.].~
[21:03] <Stilten> Hahaha, he called Ilsensine small and stunted XD
[21:03] <Sipher> Well ve is, even compared to us :P
[21:03] <waakb> ~BUT, THE SEVENTH IS HERE,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA exclaims in apparent surprise. ~DID YOU NOT KNOW THIS? ONE OF YOU IS THE SEVENTH,~ Ve states, raising Ver arm and pointing... in the direction of your PC party of course.
[21:04] <Stilten> (I KNEW IT)
[21:04] <Sipher> no, really? Never would have guessed
[21:04] <Stilten> LOL
06[21:04] * @Equinox looks at the others, #Who?#
[21:04] <Xehochanan> We/re waiting for the seventh guest, Mr. Body
[21:05] <Sipher> (You know, its probably Kei :oP)
[21:05] <Talor> (YOU ALL ARE NOT READY FOR TRANSCENDENCE! :P)
[21:05] <waakb> The Secret of the Seventh weighs heavily upon all of you. How could the Seventh First One keep itself secret all this time? If it is one of you, who could it be?
[21:06] <Moiranna> It's either Sipher or Talor. Talor because he'd be GROWTH.
[21:06] <Moiranna> Sipher because ve is a Secret.
[21:06] <Stilten> (Stilten will volunteer to be the 7th. He always likes creating after all. XD)
[21:06] <waakb> Who could remain Secret, or Concealed, from the wider Reality all this time, and only NOW when the opportunity is there, grow to assume its proper place?
06[21:06] * @Kei has gone out of her way to make sure no one knows anything about her >.>
06[21:06] * @Talor starts to look around suspiciously at the other members
[21:06] <Sipher> or Equinox :P
[21:07] <Stilten> I don't think it is anyone who is sharded.
[21:07] <waakb> I look forward to your answers, as OOC DM.
[21:07] <Equinox> Well, Those Dark Matter Dragons did act odd around me ;)
[21:07] <Equinox> Like I told them to lie to me from a far off future...
[21:07] <Stilten> It's definitely not Moiranna because she IS Entropy now
[21:07] <waakb> I'll put this out there, before I watch and wait: Who among you WANTS to become the Seventh First One? :)
[21:07] <Talor> ME! :P
[21:08] <Sipher> Sipher does, has done since before ve ascended even to divinity :P
[21:08] <Equinox> Equinox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
[21:08] <Moiranna> Not me.
[21:08] <Xehochanan> Or me, because I've barely done anything over the past year; it would be easy to keep secret T________T
[21:08] <Equinox> Khabaal: no
[21:08] <Stilten> Stilten does, Talor does, Sipher does, Xeho SHOULD (Power portfolio...)
06[21:08] * @Kei looks around at one of the others. "One of us...? Would think we'd know that by now, and judging by the surprise I'm seeing upon everyone..."
[21:08] <Talor> Kaelyn would want it IC though not sure she could have fit a hiding First One
[21:08] <Sipher> Logath would
[21:08] <Sipher> but hes not really subtle enough to hide...
[21:08] <waakb> Consider this before you answer: whoever DOES become That, will forever after be a part of DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] and can therefore never leave this Reality on his/her/ver own. You would attain power beyond accurate measure, but limited in other important respects.
[21:09] <Xehochanan> That's why Moiranna doesn't want it :oE
[21:09] <Moiranna> Nah.
[21:09] <Stilten> Hehe
[21:10] <Equinox> Understood. ME ME ME! :P
[21:10] <Sipher> yeah, unfortunately, thats why its not Sipher - ve wants to explore the Outside too much.
[21:10] <waakb> Consider this also: and this will be pointed out in-character by Damok before this episode concludes: the beings assembled here, at the Final Gate, are a cross-section of all times, all places, and all cosmoi in the entire Reality you knew,
[21:10] <Kei> Kei's rather attached to Taera, her reality, etc...I wouldn't see her leaving, or really wanting to leave for that matter.
[21:11] <Talor> This would be the chance not only to grow himself but also push along the growth and become part of a more powerful being. Talor would love it. :P
[21:11] <waakb> Of all beings who ever could, ever did, or currently do exist, ONLY YOU have this opportunity to pass Beyond and Become... Eternal.
[21:11] <Stilten> Basically one character becomes a First One and the rest become Eternal Realm beings
[21:11] <waakb> Count the number of "versions" of you who exist here, in the Place of the Ritual. Those are the ONLY versions of you who can make it this far.
[21:12] <waakb> Those are the ONLY versions of you who have the opportunity to Become the Seventh. Or to pass Beyond and perhaps Become Something Else.
[21:12] <Stilten> So Khabaal and Stilten have...what 2? Because of the ritual. And Equinox has 2 as well.
[21:13] <Equinox> Khabaal is not so connected to Taera as to wanting the multiverse as a whole to heal, and he would want to help it, but not as a First One and he's not so keen on leaving this place forever.
[21:13] <Equinox> Khabaal has 2 avatars, one of which is here, Equinox just one, who is here.
[21:14] <Kei> Kei's just got her avatar back on Taera in another timeline. o.o
[21:14] <Talor> Hmm I think Talor has the same 1 all the late group have
[21:14] <Talor> we made them for that one planet
[21:14] <Sipher> Sipher would want it, for all the new knowledge and ideas it would bring, but ve'd much rather take ver chances and explore Outside.
[21:14] <waakb> As SEPHIROSOPHIA told you, you all have stories growing within you. Step through that Final Gate, the open Portal to the Eternal Realm, and those stories will grow and Become... real. They, and you, will Become Realities in their own right.
[21:15] <waakb> But nothing other than SEPHIROSOPHIA is coming through the open Portal.
[21:15] <Talor> hmm
[21:15] <Talor> So the choice is become your own reality or a part of this one? :P
[21:15] <Stilten> So nothing's coming in but others can go out?
[21:15] <Moiranna> #Why should we want to become our own Realities, if we should become as disconnected from them as you?#
[21:15] <waakb> If you leave, if you step through now, you will most assuredly never return to the places you once knew and loved. You will instead BECOME places you know and love, new places to be sure, but not the places you started from.
[21:15] <Talor> So technically the one who stays is really the smaller one :P
[21:16] <Talor> As if you leave you'd effectively be becoming like DABBA
[21:16] <Xehochanan> But still attached to Taera, if you stay
[21:16] <Talor> Right
[21:16] <Xehochanan> But note that he isn't forcing anyone to stay or go...
[21:16] <Sipher> Logath would much prefer to go Outside and seek the new challenges there
[21:16] <Xehochanan> Because I don't think the reality is resetting
[21:16] <waakb> Perhaps- but that One who steps into the place of the Seventh will become an integral part of all Reality that you have known.
[21:16] <Xehochanan> So someone like Anna can stay yet not be a First One
[21:16] <Kei> One way or the other, I can't see Kei leaving.
[21:17] <Talor> Its a tough choice :P
[21:17] <waakb> Destined to never grow Beyond that Reality, true, but an important and inseperable part of it, necessary for its correct existence in all ways.
[21:17] <Xehochanan> Right
[21:17] <Kei> Even if she doesn't actually become the next first one...she'd probably at least stay in the reality she knows.
[21:17] <Xehochanan> Well, Xeho would be the 7th
[21:17] <waakb> Xeho and Equinox appear to both want the position of the Seventh.
06[21:18] * @Moiranna doesn't want either.
[21:18] <Moiranna> Either way she'd be becoming something she doesn't like.
[21:18] <Sipher> if it comes down to it, Sipher would 'vote' for Kei for the Seventh. Xeho and Equinox just want it for the power, while Kei actually cares about the reality.
[21:18] <waakb> They appear to be the only remaining ones who do want it- or did I miss somebody?
[21:18] <Talor> Oh Talor wants it as well
[21:18] <waakb> Ah.
[21:19] <Moiranna> If a God becomes a Mortal again (starting at level 1), are their avatars destroyed?
[21:19] <Stilten> Stilten is interested but can see options for stepping Outside as well.
[21:19] <waakb> But is he willing to STAY and refuse ultimate Transcendence, to do so? :)
[21:19] <Talor> Thats the tough part :P
[21:19] <Kei> Kei would probably like the idea of being a first one actually...if nothing else, given how damn meddlesome she is. She'd be kinda akin ot fate, liking a good story, and getting her hands into whatever she could. XD
[21:19] <waakb> To answer Moiranna: yes.
[21:20] <Stilten> The funny thing is that if Sipher or Stilten becomes a First One, Thought expanding to fill in the missing First One becomes a reality, in more ways than one. XD
[21:20] <waakb> I cannot make your choices for you: in the end, your characters are the ones who must answer. I only point out the consequences of your choices.
[21:21] <Moiranna> I should also ask: is Entropy going to do anything with Moiranna?
[21:21] <waakb> One of you will step into the place of the missing Seventh, and BECOME the new First One. Reshape the existing cosmic order, form a new series of cosmoi, and even form new parts in the central cosmos where you originally started from.
[21:21] <Xehochanan> (Earlier I was going to suggest to SOPHIA to do a soft reboot just to clear bad memory, not wipe the whole system :oE)
[21:21] <waakb> The rest of you will either Pass Beyond, through the now-open Final Gate, ...or Not.
[21:21] <Talor> But are we right in asuming that going through means you becoming like DABBA?
06[21:22] * @Kei shrugs. "Had I not seen Fate, I'd be inclined to say I am too meddlesome, too secretive, to ever fit the role...but now that I have, I am less sure. I cannot simply leave my reality behind though, it holds too much meaning to me."
[21:22] <Moiranna> That's what he meant about Becoming Realities, I'm pretty sure.
[21:22] <waakb> Since many of you have avatars here as well as your primary selves, you could in theory send one through the Final Gate to Become, and keep the other back inside Reality to remain part of DABBATIALDABAOTH.
[21:22] <waakb> But otherwise, you must choose now, and your choice is irrevocable once made. There is no going back.
[21:23] <Moiranna> Or the other way around. That's what I was originally going to do, but Moiranna doesn't like the sound of being Eternal anyway.
[21:23] <waakb> Do you Transcend, and create your own stories, to leave your own mark on Eternity?
[21:23] <Moiranna> <Moiranna> I should also ask: is Entropy going to do anything with Moiranna?
[21:23] <waakb> Knowing that by doing so, you leave everything you once were, and once loved, behind?
[21:23] <Talor> Eh yeah Talor is going out there for sure.
[21:23] <Moiranna> At one point it was suggested that the Moiranna-Borg would fall apart once Entropy was done with it.
[21:24] <Talor> I cant see him giving up a chance to transcend like that :P
[21:24] <waakb> Or do you stay to appreciate that which you love and were, and may be, within the limits of this Reality, knowing beyond a doubt that your growth is limited, and someday you will reach a point beyond which you cannot pass?
[21:24] <Stilten> LOL
[21:24] <Sipher> Logath is going through. Theres nothing left for him here any more - his people have been wiped out, his purpose eliminated. He'd seek out the greater challenge and meanings through the Gate.
[21:25] <Equinox> If Equinox is not the First One, ve is definitely leaving for the Eternal Realm.
[21:25] <Moiranna> Moiranna's meaning is Naturalism--she IS Naturalism in some sense, and Naturalism means being part of the Demiurge. She'd never leave. And I'm pretty sure she won't become a First One either.
[21:25] <Sipher> Hes set eyes upon the greatest challenge of all, and he can't turn back on it now.
[21:25] <Moiranna> Well, she'd never leave if she couldn't come back anyway.
[21:25] <Equinox> Khabaal does not want to be a FIrst One, nor explore the Eternal realm if it means staying there forever.
[21:25] <waakb> What becomes of Moiranna depends entirely upon what she does here and now.
[21:25] <waakb> Entropy cannot act upon a Moiranna who leaves, for example.
[21:26] <waakb> But a Moiranna who stays may well be reabsorbed by the First One of Death.
[21:26] <Talor> Talor never really had much to tie him to this reality in particular. He was always just about bettering himself and advancing as far as possible. Becoming the First One here would be effectively stopping.
[21:26] <Sipher> Sipher is going too, ver natural curiousity and drive to uncover more and more Secrets would compel ver to go.
[21:27] <Sipher> ve'd leave ver Avatar here. Taera should never be without a nosy illithid who pisses everyone off ;o)
[21:27] <waakb> It seems at least possible that a Moiranna who stays might get help from the new First One, or SEPHIROSOPHIA, to escape Entropy's grasp somehow, if you ask.
[21:27] <waakb> But we need to know who steps into the position of the Seventh, first.
[21:27] <Stilten> So Xeho and Equinox both want to, and I did say that Stilten did too.
[21:28] <Talor> So knowing this pretty much stops your growth though you do get a quick gain in power. Who still wants to becoming the First One?
[21:28] <Sipher> so Xeho, Equinox, Stilten and Kei are still duking it out?
[21:28] <Moiranna> And if Entropy reabsorbs Moiranna, does that mean her Avatar goes away too?
[21:28] <waakb> If any of you does the thing of passing avatar or Prime through the Final Gate, but leaving the other behind, then the one who is left behind becomes its own being with the loss of the one who Passed Beyond.
[21:29] <waakb> In other words, if Sipher does what ve suggests, leaving an avatar behind, then that avatar- a lesser god- will become the only Sipher left in this Reality.
[21:29] <Xehochanan> I suppose if Xeho is faced with "eventual" stagnation, he'll pass on becoming the 7th and instead go through the Gate
[21:29] <Talor> thats about the same thing thats pushing Talor forward
[21:29] <Moiranna> (It's kind of sad, Moiranna didn't even get to use the Enabler to distract the Demiurge. She was so distraught over losing her role in the Ritual that she sacrificed herself to Entropy, and none of it even mattered, lol...)
[21:30] <Sipher> yup. Be ve couldn't deprive the reality of a Sipher - look at all the good ve did :P
[21:30] <Stilten> LOL
[21:30] <waakb> Moiranna, if your Prime self is reabsorbed by Entropy, it is likely that your avatar would be as well, yes.
[21:30] <Kei> Kei is more likely to send her avatar, than her real self, actually. She's curious, but can't bring herself to actually leave...but an avatar would be simple.
[21:30] <waakb> Though it is possible that the avatar might end up like the Sipher version I used as an example above, a Lesser Goddess bereft of the original that formed her.
[21:30] <Stilten> Sending an avatar through would be the ideal for the one who stays behind yes.
[21:30] <Talor> Talor will leave his avatar behind. It can help the new 7th as much as possible to grow.
[21:30] <Equinox> If Equinox wins the First One beauty pageant, ver avatar is still going through to the Eternal realm.
[21:31] <waakb> Does anybody left contest Equinox as the Seventh First One?
[21:31] <Xehochanan> Kei?
[21:31] <Stilten> Stilten's still interested.
[21:32] <Kei> Kei hasn't really made up her mind one way or the other...if Equinox definitely wants the position, she'd let him have it.
[21:32] <Xehochanan> So now Stilten and Equinox need to have a psychic duel over it
[21:32] <Equinox> lol
[21:32] <Stilten> :P
[21:32] <Equinox> Equinox wins that duel ;)
[21:32] <Kei> Singularity cannons at high noon
[21:33] <waakb> Psychic duel irrelevant. Argue it out in front of me- which of you is a better First One? What will you make of Reality, if you are one of the Seven Dimensions that form it?
[21:33] <Stilten> Stilten has two avatars anyway if Prime doesn't go out, one of them will.
[21:33] <Talor> "This... 'becoming' you speak of. Does this mean we would be able to advance ourselves. Even one day becoming a being such as yourself?"
[21:34] <waakb> What new things will you bring to it, besides the Dark Matter Dragons of course?
06[21:34] * @Equinox already has good relations with my new minions ;)
[21:34] <Xehochanan> Dorkness Rising
[21:35] <waakb> ~OF COURSE, TALOR,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA tells you. ~YOU ARE ONE OF MY GREATEST ALLIES IN ETERNITY. I WOULD NOT STOP YOU FROM LEAVING HERE, EVEN IF I COULD.~
[21:35] <Stilten> Stilten would be trying to create stuff, as usual. Not too sure how else to describe it LOL
[21:36] <waakb> Ask more questions of SEPH if you wish.
[21:36] <Equinox> Equinox would enlighten the multiverse! Every atom within Eternity would have meaning!
06[21:36] * @Talor tilts his head at that. A second ago the thing was talking about erasing him. Now that he's one of its greatest allies.
[21:36] <Sipher> every atom within Eternity already does have meaning.
[21:36] <Stilten> Since Stilten's focus is about versatility, he's not going to be biased on what to keep and what to throw away,
06[21:36] * @Talor will just take it as time doesn't matter out there and he's already become a great whatever they are called. So obviously he has to leave! :P
[21:36] <waakb> Interesting how Eternity works, isn't it Talor? :)
[21:36] <Stilten> but more focused on working with what he has available.
[21:37] <Equinox> A mere blip of meaning, what I have planned will amaze you all!
[21:37] <Stilten> LOL
06[21:37] * @Xehochanan slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[21:37] <Sipher> #What can you tell us of Outside, SEP[etc]?#
[21:37] <Equinox> Has anyone read Foundation by Isaac Asimov?
[21:37] <Xehochanan> It's sitting on my shelf waiting to be read :o(
[21:38] <Moiranna> What are the various Shade Masters and Naturalist Masters (Otis etc) planning to do at this juncture?
[21:38] <Kei> (afk a few, getting Kat.)
[21:38] <Sipher> (afk a few, getting food ^^)
[21:39] <Equinox> Well I don't want to ruin it for you, let's just say, near infinite knowledge can be stored in simple rocks and water and even oxygen molecules.
[21:39] <waakb> ~MOST OF IT WOULD NOT BE COMPREHENSIBLE TO YOUR PRESENT FORM, SIPHER,~ SEPHIROSOPHIA tells you. ~I CAN SAY THAT LIFE IS NOT MONOLITHIC, THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES AND CONFLICTS WITHIN THE GREATER WHOLE. INFINITY AWAITS, IF YOU DARE THE BOUNDARY, AND SOMEWHERE BEYOND... THE SUPREME CREATOR AWAITS.~
[21:39] <waakb> Otis intends to return to Taera and record all this, so that others in the future will know about the Final Gate and what all of you did.
[21:40] <waakb> He will pave the way so that others who wish to do so, may know the Place of the Ritual and Transcend if that is their desire.
[21:40] <waakb> Every single Shade Master intends to Pass Beyond and Become.
[21:40] <Moiranna> I can't choose between Otis and Tzol' :(
[21:40] <waakb> None of them wishes to stay behind in this Reality, even knowing that they shall never return.
06[21:40] * @Xehochanan slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[21:41] <waakb> Decisions made here have consequences, not just within your Reality, but also echoing within the Eternal Realm.
03[21:41] * Xehochanan changes topic to 'Echoes of Eternity '
[21:42] <waakb> The Shade Masters line up and begin entering the portal, now that you have apparently convinced SEPHIROSOPHIA to allow it.
[21:42] <Khabaal> After a lot of thought, Khabaal's avatar would go through to the other side. but Khabaal Prime would stay here.
[21:42] <waakb> Tzol' is last in line, and flags Moiranna down for a conversation before it's his turn.
[21:42] <Moiranna> She is there immediately, of course.
[21:42] <waakb> "This is exciting beyond experience, is it not?" he breathes to you happily.
06[21:44] * @Moiranna smiles weakly at him. "I am not sure, old friend. But I am glad that you have found what you sought for so long. I do not know yet if I will step through, so if I do not see you in Eternity, know that I am forever grateful for all you taught me."
[21:46] <waakb> "But you gave us so much more," Tzol' exclaims to you in surprise. "How can you not want to pass Beyond? Think of everything there is to SEE and DO and KNOW out There! Why, to think that such as WE- poor little beings that we are- can Become as THAT [waving at SEPH], or THIS [waving around at the Place as if to indicate all of it, and what is beyond it]!"
[21:46] <Equinox> Anyway SG, you and everyone here needs to read Foundation. It's my favorite book where the mathematician is the hero. My second favorite book where a mathematician is the hero is the Necroscope series ;)
[21:46] <Talor> lol now I wonder if I talked to myself back in that first Commune I did.
[21:46] <Equinox> And those are the only 2 series I know of that have mathematicians as heroes ;)
[21:46] <Stilten> Probably :)
[21:47] <Talor> Had said they knew the owner of the key
[21:47] <waakb> "It is the last Mystery. And the First one. I know that now- all things Begin from here! The stories and places I've imagined in my life will become alive in their own right Out There. That's what it means. How can I let them stay silent and dead, in this sad little corner of Eternity?"
06[21:47] * @Moiranna shakes her head. "Once, you asked me why I wished to become a god. I did not know then, truly, and I still do not know now. I do not know enough to leave everything I love behind. As the Awakener, it was always my intention to return to this world with what I learned of the greater Reality. I cannot answer the question of why I should become Eternal...
[21:49] <Moiranna> ...much as I could not answer the question of why I should have become a god. I do know that to go beyond would be to deny everyone the Knowledge of the greater reality that I would learn, instead of sharing it with them, as I had always wished."
[21:49] <waakb> "I cannot decide for you, of course," Tzol' shakes his head. He is now the last Shade Master remaining. "But know this- if you do not pass Beyond, I will miss you. I suspect there will forever be a hole in my new Being, shaped suspiciously like you."
[21:49] <Stilten> Awwwwwwwwwww
[21:49] <Stilten> How sweet :)
[21:49] <Moiranna> Damn, that's rough. :P
[21:49] <waakb> Meanwhile, Cenob opts to pass Beyond with his avatar and leave nothing of himself behind in DABBATIALDABAOTH.
[21:49] <Moiranna> ...huh.
[21:49] <Stilten> There's a new Death God in town!
[21:49] <waakb> The two Damoks are deep in conversation with Thero and others about how to proceed.
[21:50] <waakb> Damok has no avatars here, though you know he must have a few left behind elsewhere in Reality- only the two Damok Primes are here at the Final Gate.
06[21:50] * @Moiranna wipes away tears that she probably can't cry (I assume, anyway). "If I do pass Beyond, I am sure that I will be able to find you, of course."
[21:50] <Kei> (back!)
[21:51] <Equinox> Anna and T'zol need to get a fuckin room already!
06[21:51] * @Moiranna slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[21:51] <Equinox> :P
[21:51] <waakb> "Infinity is surely not enough to keep old friends apart," Tzol' declares brightly.
[21:51] <Moiranna> Least I actually cared about the NPCs from before we were gods. Everyone else seems to have forgotten. What happened to the Assassin of Kaelyn's? :P
[21:51] <Equinox> lol
[21:51] <waakb> Otis dutifully writes everything down in his little journal.
[21:51] <Stilten> He's having fun on her home plane XD
[21:51] <Moiranna> "I hope you're right, as you so often have been."
[21:51] <waakb> He's getting writer's cramp.
[21:52] <Moiranna> lmao
06[21:52] * @Kaelyn just seemed like she was studying the exit more than anything else
[21:52] <Stilten> Stilten will Miracle him a little relief. Wouldn't want him to get something wrong!
[21:52] <waakb> Atom tells Kaelyn #Can you IMAGINE! I mean, just think... of the POWER! What can we do Out There if we go through?#
06[21:53] * @Equinox will create out of thing air a computer with datacubes filled with petabytes of easily searchable data about what has transpired in the last 700 years for Otis. #Here Otis, for your records.#
[21:53] <Stilten> Matter must be drooling
[21:53] <Moiranna> lmfao
[21:53] <Moiranna> Back off my apprentice :P
[21:54] <waakb> Tzol' does his best to pat Moiranna on her shoulder, though by doing so he puts his hand in danger of spontaneous existence failure. "Whatever your decision, it is time I went," he declares. And so saying, the last Shade Master enters the Final Gate and Transcends this Reality.
[21:54] <Stilten> LOL
06[21:54] * @Kaelyn looks at Atom #And here I thought you would be trying to keep me back to hold up the rest of our deal. But it seems that we are of like mind. Going through is going give both of us amazing power and it does not look like many of the other First Ones are doing such.#
[21:55] <waakb> #How could I hold you back? Did you realize that you, by making me carve off this little piece of myself, have given ME the chance to leave this stinking Reality behind entirely, at least in part? YOU became MY chance to Transcend! And frankly, I'm taking it!#
[21:56] <waakb> So saying, the little green kitten yowls in triumph and leaps off Kaelyn's shoulder directly into the open portal.
[21:56] <Stilten> LOL
[21:56] <Moiranna> Haha.
06[21:56] * @Kaelyn laughs
[21:56] <Kei> "I can simply send my other self through, and take her place upon Taera....try as I might, I cannot simply abandon my home. It will be enough to send a part of me through, she can fill me in on what she's been up to this whole time."
[21:56] <waakb> Kaelyn loses her Material Nucleus template in the process.
[21:56] <waakb> But perhaps that no longer matters so much to her.
[21:56] <Stilten> LOL
[21:57] <Equinox> Atom used you like the bitch you are Kaelyn! :P
06[21:57] * @Kei thinks a moment. "Or simply create a new avatar, someone with a fresh start, and no true ties to this reality. Perhaps that would be best."
[21:57] <Xehochanan> She's a female cat, not a dog
[21:57] <Equinox> Not in this case... ;)
[21:57] <waakb> Elsewhere in the layer, the two Damoks and Thero have come to a decision.
[21:57] <Xehochanan> !
06[21:58] * @Kaelyn doesn't really care about that now of course. Just sending to the old party #I'm leaving my avatar behind to handle my religion as she and my prophet fit it better now. If you are coming through. See you on the other side and if not. Been fun.#
[21:58] <waakb> Damok Prime from the "good" timeline where the Sidereals didn't wake up until 2 years before the Final Gate, makes to pass through the open portal and Transcend.
[21:58] <Moiranna> HE'S GONE
[21:58] <Moiranna> HAHAHAHA
[21:58] <Equinox> lol
[21:58] <Kaelyn> I got temporary power boost for a limited time. Was a good deal for Kaelyn to get the template too :P
[21:58] <Xehochanan> Gee
06[21:58] * @Kaelyn will hop through
[21:59] <waakb> Damok Prime who lost Thero and his other friends in the early Awakening of Sidereals, in the "dark timeline" that Equinox and friends discovered/forged, stays behind- along with Thero, whom he had thought lost forever.
06[21:59] * @Moiranna will look visibly hurt at Kaelyn's sending (again, if she can, lol), and watch her go, stunned.
[21:59] <Equinox> And here I thought Anna had a Heart of Ice...
[22:00] <Moiranna> lmao, her friends were always very important to her. :P
[22:00] <waakb> Are STilten and Equinox still sparring over who will be the Seventh?
[22:00] <Equinox> And look! Now they are all deserting you!
[22:00] <Stilten> I would have thought Equinox would want to leave :)
[22:00] <Moiranna> Yeah, some friends :P
[22:01] <Stilten> After all, why else would you create the Star Machine XD
[22:01] <waakb> What about Kol`reat? Did he already pass Beyond and I missed it?
[22:01] <Equinox> Ve does, and ver avatar is, but Equinox Prime wants to create knowledge everywhere, in every corner of existance and accessible to all lifeforms no matter how unenlightened.
[22:02] <Moiranna> Rather Thoughtish there. :P
[22:02] <Moiranna> A little Spirit too, actually.
[22:02] <Stilten> Kol is definitely leaving, but he'll take out the Scales and apologize to them, then ask the Scales who would be the appropriate being there to give it to.
[22:02] <waakb> I suggest that an Equinox who becomes the Seventh would become Memory.
[22:02] <Equinox> Agreed!
[22:02] <Equinox> Daoloth.
[22:02] <waakb> A Stilten who stays behind to become Seventh would become Creation.
[22:03] <waakb> Which is more important to Reality, do you think? Memory, or Creation?
[22:03] <Stilten> Daoloth isn't at the gathering, but if he is Kol will give them to him.
[22:03] <Equinox> Memory absolutely ;)
06[22:03] * @Kei would create another avatar of herself, and send that through. "I trust you'll keep my good name, and not do anything I wouldn't." While the primary Kei remains behind.
[22:03] <Equinox> You can create new and interesting things if you don't remember what you have previously done ;) it is the basis of all creation1
[22:03] <Equinox> !
[22:03] <Stilten> Otherwise Kol will let the Scales decide where it wants to go.
[22:04] <waakb> The Lesser Kei passes Beyond, and a piece of Kei is forever etched upon the Firmament of Eternity.
[22:04] <waakb> The Scales direct Kol to set them down here, without further explanation.
[22:04] <Stilten> Kol will do so.
[22:05] <waakb> Talor and Kaelyn have already passed Beyond and Become new Realities.
[22:06] <waakb> Kei sends a small piece of herself through to do so, but keeps the greater part of herself behind- to always wonder what the part of her that left Reality became.
[22:06] <Xehochanan> Well, Xeho was always "above" friends, so he won't do any of the heartwarming speech before leaving. Except, maybe out of generosity, he'll give them respectful bows of his head before he marches through the Gate @.@
[22:06] <waakb> What does Tlin do?
[22:07] <waakb> Xehochanan passes Beyond and takes with him the Power. He was the only Incarnation of Power at this gathering, so there will not be another like him in the Beyond.
[22:07] <Kei> Tlin would go, he doesn't really have any attachment to this reality the way Kei does.
[22:07] <Stilten> Score another for Team Apathy!
[22:07] <waakb> This pleases him, on some level, as he grows and Becomes the new Reality he is destined to Be.
06[22:07] * @Xehochanan slaps Stilten around a bit with a large trout
[22:07] <Stilten> Hehe
03[22:08] * Xehochanan is now known as SG
[22:08] <Moiranna> What's Khabaal doing?
[22:08] <waakb> Tlin passes Beyond and leaves the focus of his previous life- the Far Realm- far behind. In the Infinity Beyond, perhaps, he creates a new realm like a Far Realm unsullied by structured rules or planes. Chaos and madness without hindrance or limit.
[22:09] <Sipher> Sipher will Send to Anna - #I do not know what you plan to do, old friend, but if I know you, you will choose to remain here, in this reality. If that is the path you choose, then I must bid you farewell - for you, of all those gathered here, know me, and you know this is not an opportunity I could pass up. Should you remain, I have a favor to ask - watch over Taera, and help her recover, if it is within your power to do so. However, I would welc
[22:09] <waakb> Logath and Sipher pass Beyond, and Become new Realities of their own.
[22:09] <Stilten> I would welc
06[22:09] * @Talor 's avatar will pop up and head straight for that portal even though he was told to stay behind by the primary "Not about to just make me stop here."
[22:09] <Sipher> #I would welcome your company Betond, should you venture out with us.#
[22:09] <waakb> Logath creates, in a small corner of himself, a world that looks suspiciously like Old Taera yet populated by only one race.
[22:09] <Moiranna> LOL TALOR
[22:10] <Stilten> Haha
06[22:10] * @Logath nods
[22:10] <Logath> As it should be, darnit.
[22:10] <waakb> There is no need to detail the attributes of that race, just that the universe they find themselves in is populated by adversaries and monsters galore, for them to eternally defend and match themselves against.
[22:11] <Moiranna> #I knew long ago you'd go through. Taera will be in good hands--I will make sure of that, even if I leave it. Perhaps I will see you again, my friend, and perhaps not. But go well. If you can, learn something of Eternity to turn it upside down, as you did so often in our own Reality.#
[22:12] <waakb> They will grow and live forever, in some corner of Infinity that is beyond anything the rest of you know, and their stories and exploits are always a part of the great Being who gave them their second lease on life.
06[22:12] * @Kaelyn will also appear but just to watch who stays and who leaves after the visual connection she had through the primary was cut off
[22:12] <Sipher> #Then farewell, for now, old friend. I will try to return, if I can. Seek me out should you ever make it to our corner of the Outside.#
[22:13] <Moiranna> #You know that I will.#
[22:13] <waakb> Sipher also creates ver own Reality, but I can't honestly state what ve does with it- ve's too inventive. Perhaps ve becomes a new Autochthonia, one far larger and grander than anything dreamed of in the White Wolf books?
[22:14] <SG> (What's an autochthon? @.@)
[22:14] <Sipher> yeah, that actually sounds about right
[22:14] <waakb> Perhaps not. But whatever ve Becomes, Sipher keeps a small portion of verself always set aside- for a lonely tower on a coast, somewhere, where there is an ageless inventor constantly working on the Next Big Thing.
06[22:14] * @Kaelyn just walks over near Moiranna "So you going?"
06[22:14] * @Moiranna slaps Kaelyn around a bit with a large trout
[22:14] <Moiranna> You mean Moiranna Prime I assume, right?
[22:14] <Kaelyn> right
[22:15] <Kaelyn> technically this is Kaelyn prime now! :P
[22:15] <waakb> The locals don't know how long ve's been there- somehow, they'll tell you if you ask, ve always has- but ve's there nonetheless. Always working, always dreaming. Always coming up with the New.
[22:15] <Sipher> (Autocthon was a Primordial in Exalted, one of the Creators of Creation. Ve also created the Exalted to fight against the other Primordials during the uprising that lead to the death of several of them and the imprisonment of those that remained.)
[22:15] <Moiranna> "I don't know."
[22:16] <waakb> And if ve occasionally looks through ver strange telescope, that never shows the real night sky but rather something else that leaves anybody but the Inventor blind if they're foolish enough to look through it, well, who can say what a mad Inventor would want to watch for?
[22:17] <Sipher> actually, another part of Sipher would become an exact replica of Moirannas University, before Coin destroyed it ^^
[22:17] <Kaelyn> "And what are your reasons for staying if you are not going? And dont tell me your going to rebuild your university or some other nonesense. I may have a portion of the strength of the other but I'll still nuke you for being silly."
[22:17] <Moiranna> Dawww, how sweet. :P
[22:17] <SG> Gee
[22:17] <Stilten> LOL
[22:17] <waakb> Sipher IS the Demiurge that Urgic Magic within ver Reality is based upon, of course.
[22:17] <waakb> In fact, if ve desires, that can be the ONLY magic that works within the SIPHER Reality.
[22:18] <Stilten> Psionics works fine though XD
[22:18] <Stilten> I'm sure
[22:18] <waakb> Part of Khabaal passes Beyond.
[22:18] <Sipher> what, and take away the inventiveness of allowing other types of magic? Madness, I say! :P
[22:18] <Stilten> But you ARE mad.
06[22:19] * @Moiranna smirks. "I'd love to see you try, Little One. I can call you that for now, at least. The Urges of our Demiurge have made me everything that I am, and I have become everything I once dreamed of, in some small part of my mind. In some sense, there is nothing for me Beyond, now."
[22:19] <Sipher> I prefer eccentric, thanks.
[22:19] <Stilten> (I thought the Sources clarified that they don't want to be called Urges. :) )
[22:20] <Moiranna> Eh, Sources/Avatars/wierd Sharkmen whatever :P
[22:20] <waakb> That part becomes the Eternal Champion, forever seeking out wrongs to right, always questing for the next Macfoozle to defeat the Whatchamacallit, His Reality is a place of striking dangers and tests, not just physical but also mental, where the only people who long survive are constantly striving to grow and fix and do- to leave MEANING behind them.
[22:21] <Equinox> Khabaal: "Don't worry Anna, I'm staying. I could never leave. Who would look after you?"
06[22:21] * @Moiranna slaps Khabaal around a bit with a large trout
[22:21] <Stilten> Stalker! Creeeeeeeepy!
[22:21] <waakb> In this, the Eternal Champion Khabaal is completed- even when he himself is not Questing, he always has new quests to watch the smaller beings within him accomplish. He always has new stories to write upon the Book of Lives, if he wishes it.
[22:23] <Stilten> Anything happen to the scales after Kol left them there?
[22:23] <waakb> Someday, perhaps, he will show that Book to a greater Being- but not today. Today, he has other things to do!
[22:23] <waakb> Nothing happens to the Scales that Kol`reat notices, no- presuming of course that Kol then passes through the Final Gate?
[22:24] <Stilten> Yes
[22:24] <waakb> Kol`reat leaves that artifact of Balance behind him forever. He Becomes a Balance greater than any mere set of Scales could represent.
[22:24] <Stilten> He might have been a better First One since he could balance out the other First Ones =X
[22:24] <Stilten> But nah XD
[22:25] <waakb> His is a Reality populated by opposites; his Dimensions are given over not to single First Ones but rather to two opposed ones in each case.
[22:25] <Stilten> (Whoa, he has 14 First Ones?)
[22:25] <waakb> All of these forces sum and cancel out, leaving Him- the Greater Judge- perfectly poised at coordinate (0,0,0,0,0,0,0).
06[22:26] * @Kaelyn shakes her head at Moiranna "Still thinking too small I see. Instead of thinking what you can get out of it why aren't you thinking of what you can give and create? Your university was to help spread your magic and teachings. Just take that to the next level. Not a university, a world or even a universe. An entire REALITY that you can shape and mold to do what you've wanted."
[22:26] <waakb> It is an appropriate Becoming, for Kol`reat, is it not?
[22:26] <Stilten> Haha
[22:26] <Stilten> Yes
[22:27] <waakb> Incidentally, if any of you wishes to add to or contradict what I type regarding the Realities that those of you who pass Beyond, create, just say so. These are your characters too, and the Realities they create contain the stories YOU write in the end.
[22:27] <Stilten> Stilten still doesn't see how Memory is better for this particular Reality over Creation however...in order to have a memory of something you got to do the action first.
[22:27] <waakb> My Reality is DABBATIALDABAOTH, and you are leaving it behind.
[22:28] <Stilten> and the focus right now is on repairing the Reality so that it can function
[22:29] <Stilten> Making everything intelligent doesn't really work on fixing a problem.
[22:29] <Moiranna> "But to do so I must disconnect myself from everything I have ever known. I must eradicate my own history by divorcing myself from it. Who would I be without my history? I am already so close to being Nothing, how could I even Become anything?"
[22:29] <Stilten> (News flash...she already eradicated herself XD )
[22:30] <Moiranna> That's what she means by being so close to being Nothing really
[22:30] <Sipher> Siphers Avatar pipes up: #By choosing to do so. It is our choices that matter in the end, Moiranna. Choose to be something, and you shall be.#
06[22:30] * @Moiranna slaps Sipher around a bit with a large trout
[22:30] <Moiranna> wtf when did your avatar get here
[22:30] <Moiranna> And why are you too ganging up on me! :P
[22:30] <Stilten> Hahaha
06[22:30] * @SG slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[22:31] <waakb> Kaelyn, after passing Beyond, Becomes a Reality populated by an endless, dense Nature- a vast planetlike object greater by far than that silly little Taelarian Construct, with jungles to put the Forest of Eternity to shame, deserts to challenge the imagination of even Tlin or Kol`reat, and seas wider than whole GALAXIES of the home she left behind.
[22:31] <Stilten> Because they want to smack some sense into you XD
[22:31] <Sipher> I sent him along to oversee the Ritual. Can't let Secrets like that just run away now, can I? :oP
[22:32] <waakb> All this wilderness is populated by monsters tremendous and strong, creatures with tastes subtle and gross, a vision of unspoiled Nature without boundary (as far as mortals or gods are concerned).
[22:32] <Stilten> Did Kaelyn swing back to CN when Matter ditched her?
[22:32] <Sipher> to answer your question, Sipher would feel that by remaining behind Moiranna isn't realizing her full potential. She has so much more to offer than to remain here, tethered to the past, never moving forward or evolving because shes scared to lose it.
[22:33] <Kaelyn> Likely can be what she likes on the other side anyway
[22:33] <waakb> And if the majority of creatures in KAELYN look suspiciously catlike, and there are no dogs to be had ANYWHERE except in the one place where there is a statue of a creature unlike anything anyone has ever seen, who is to know or complain?
[22:33] <Moiranna> So much to offer what though? That's what she can't see (and I confess I don't really get it either). I mean what's the POINT of being your own universe when you become so divorced from everything else?
[22:34] <Moiranna> I mean, SEPH there doesn't even understand why the beings that make up a Demiurge are even important in their own right
[22:34] <waakb> That statue is carved with glyphs no shaman can read or explain. but it is said that once there was a great lion-headed Beaing who told an adventurer the statue's Name, in a voice like thunder rumbling down from the infinite sky: "TAYAXARNAY."
[22:34] <Stilten> LOL
[22:34] <Kaelyn> lol
[22:34] <Moiranna> Hah, that's right, he was a Rolf, wasn't he?
[22:35] <Kaelyn> the one decent Rolf :P
[22:35] <Sipher> Logath thought there were lots of decent Rolves :oP
[22:35] <Stilten> The one reason why dogs are not completely extinct in Kaelyn-Reality XD
[22:36] <Kaelyn> lmao though I did kind of leave Tayaxarnay in a good position in his home reality though
[22:36] <Kaelyn> He's like level 100 and immortal
[22:36] <waakb> Logath did think that. That's probably why there are several Rolf-planets close to his own Homeworld, for the spacefaring Orcs who populate that Homeworld to find and battle against and enslave! The GLORY of their battles is trememndous and unspeakable.
[22:37] <Moiranna> Essentially, Moiranna doesn't understand the point of TRANSCENDANCE I think.
[22:37] <Kaelyn> Makes me think of Avatar now :P
06[22:37] * @SG slaps Kaelyn around a bit with a large trout
[22:37] <Stilten> And that's why Moiranna is not ready for Transcendence, eh?
[22:38] <Moiranna> You could say that.
[22:38] <waakb> Nothing says you have to leave Moiranna.
[22:38] <waakb> The question of what happens to you if you stay, is of course important.
[22:38] <Moiranna> Precisely.
[22:39] <Stilten> I guess the question is, does Moiranna WANT to continue existing?
[22:39] <Moiranna> Well, of course. :P
[22:39] <Kaelyn> Considering we just got a crapton of xp/qp if it mattered at this point
[22:39] <waakb> I will mention this in passing: you all notice that the great Ring Portal, which focused so much of its power on the Place of the Ritual, is dragging some of the landscape along with it- the amphitheater is becoming twisted.
[22:39] <Kaelyn> and you were at the cap and got free ride over the Sidereal line
[22:39] <Kaelyn> Moiranna could be a sidereal at this point :P
[22:39] <Kaelyn> maybe take over NEP
[22:39] <waakb> Somehow, you feel, times and spaces beyond this layer (but still within DABBATIALDABAOTH) are becoming caught up in its wake.
[22:40] <Moiranna> The Planes are rearranging?
[22:40] <waakb> They, too, are twisting around this place beyond location, and this moment beyond time.
[22:40] <Equinox> So who get's First (One) prize? ;)
[22:41] <waakb> Ripples of this effect will surely reverberate out from this Layer into the wider Reality for eons of time and space alike.
[22:41] <Stilten> It's supposed to be a booby prize, but Stilten would really like it :P
[22:41] <Equinox> booby my ass, Equinox has always wanted to enlighten the multiverse!
[22:41] <Kaelyn> I'm pretty sure he just wanted to rule it :P
[22:41] <Stilten> Equinox can create ver own multiverse to enlighten though!
[22:42] <waakb> Booby Prize nothing! First One is pretty great.
[22:42] <Equinox> Rule, Enlighten? It's a surprisingly thin line! :P
[22:42] <waakb> In fact, who's to say that the future won't contain a Reality wherein DABBATIALDABAOTH comes into a sort of communion with the seven First Ones, such that they can sometimes share its Eternal consciousness and thus in the Eternal Realm itself?
[22:42] <Equinox> But Dabby is the reality I WANT to enlighten!
[22:43] <Stilten> Stilten wants to repair the multiverse. Which in the end would get Dabby up and running faster
[22:43] <Equinox> Good, you can be my number one Sidereal Stilten ;)
06[22:43] * @Stilten zaps Equinox with a cattle prod
[22:43] <Equinox> It works well for everyone, I am the brains behind your creation!
[22:44] <Stilten> They already have a Brain here, its name is Voice
[22:44] <Equinox> You proved that when you helped with Onyx's probes ;
[22:44] <Equinox> )
06[22:44] * @Moiranna locks eyes with her Avatar (which looks much more like Moiranna than Moiranna probably does) in apparent Divine Waving between them for some time
[22:44] <waakb> SEPHIROSOPHIA remarks to Moiranna: ~YOU APPEAR TO BE EXPERIENCING SOME INDECISION. THE PORTAL CANNOT REMAIN OPEN MUCH LONGER, OR IT WILL DAMAGE MY CHILD BEYOND A REASONABLE ABILITY TO HEAL- IS THERE ANYTHING I MIGHT DO OR SAY TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR CHOICE?~
[22:45] <Sipher> (#You go!# #NO, you go!# #NO, you!# :oP)
[22:45] <Moiranna> "Perhaps. I am afraid I do not understand enough of your Realm to even know if it is actually desirable to me."
[22:46] <waakb> Around you all, the remaining members of the Ritual Party- and those who just arrived as hangers-on and spectators- make their choices to go or stay.
[22:46] <waakb> The crowd thins and dwindles. Equinox and Stilten continue their argument in the center, near the still-open portal.
[22:46] <Kei> "There's no harm in staying... I too am far too attached to this reality to leave it, and yearn to return home..."
[22:47] <Stilten> Stilten will send an avatar out just in case. But he wants to be the First One.
06[22:47] * @Moiranna frowns. "Most of my friends are gone now."
[22:47] <waakb> Above you, the sky begins to whirl and twist, forming a sort of cyclone like a gradually-forming hurricane.
[22:47] <Stilten> That way, no matter what, Stilten has a piece of himself that transcended the Reality.
[22:47] <Moiranna> Where is "Dark" Damok going? Back to my Taera with my Thero?
[22:48] <Stilten> Your Thero? :)
[22:48] <Sipher> except, as soon as it goes through, its not a piece of your anymore :P
[22:48] <Stilten> It was, and that's what matters :)
[22:48] <Moiranna> (my rather than the evil group's of course)
[22:48] <Stilten> Just like what Atom said
[22:48] <Equinox> Being entirely objective, Equinox has made ver case convincingly and concise! :P I will treasure the prize that is FirstOnedom. ;)
[22:48] <Moiranna> In the late group's reality, Thero was dead, wasn' the?
[22:48] <Stilten> Yes
[22:48] <waakb> SEPH asks Moiranna, ~WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW? MOST OF THE CONCEPTS ARE BEYOND YOUR UNDERSTANDING, BUT I AM NOT CRUEL OR CAPRICIOUS. I WILL GLADLY EXPLAIN WHAT I CAN.~
[22:49] <waakb> And yes Moiranna, that's exactly where they're going.
[22:49] <Moiranna> (There's still a Cenob there right?)
[22:49] <Moiranna> (Which one went Beyond? Or did both of them?)
[22:49] <Stilten> Equinox's stated case is that ve wants to be First One because ver own goals. Stilten wants to be a First One so that he can actually get the Demiurge working. :P
[22:49] <Sipher> no, he left with his avatar
[22:49] <waakb> "Dark" Damok has his long-lost friend and companion back, and the hole in his life is filled again. "Light" Damok leaves Reality behind gladly, knowing that he leaves behind a happy alternate self.
[22:50] <waakb> Cenob is entirely gone.
[22:50] <Moiranna> Huh.
[22:50] <waakb> Nothing of Cenob remains behind.
[22:50] <Moiranna> Well anyway.
[22:50] <waakb> He Transcended utterly.
[22:50] <waakb> Paradox did too, actually.
[22:50] <Stilten> And since it looks like the debate is being translated into game time, Stilten sent out one of his avatars for Transcendence at least.
[22:51] <waakb> How to resolve this conflict between Equinox and Stilten?
[22:51] <Stilten> The one becoming First One would be fulfilling the role of Heart
[22:51] <Moiranna> To SEPH: "For starters...what is there to even do? Are there secrets to learn, experiments to be done, adventures to be had, friendships to be made? These are things that are integral to our Reality, yet they seemed so meaningless to you."
[22:51] <Stilten> And the Heart in the body is what gets everything else working.
[22:52] <Stilten> by getting the blood needed to all the other parts
[22:52] <Stilten> Equinox's stated goals is more like Metatron's goals
[22:52] <Stilten> The Reality doesn't need Two Voices
[22:52] <Equinox> Yes, you make excellent points Stilten, about why you need to be my number one Sidereal ;)
06[22:53] * @SG slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[22:53] <waakb> ~I APOLOGIZE,~ SEPH explains. ~THE SCALE OF THINGS WITHIN MY CHILD IS SO MUCH LESS. IT IS ALL SO... TINY, AND TRITE, HERE. DABBATIALDABAOTH[etc.] WAS MALFORMED. YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS. IN THE GREATER BEYOND, THINGS ARE NOT LIKE THIS. TRUE INFINITY IS ALWAYS FULL OF THE NEW; THAT CANNOT HELP BUT BE ITS NATURE.~
[22:53] <Stilten> Equinox would qualify IF it was Metatron's position or maybe Thought's position being filled, but it's not
[22:53] <Kei> "While we've never been particularly close, I still wish I could help you with this decision Moiranna. You could leave an avatar of yourself here, if you do not want to abandon your faith back on Taera, and join your friends. I suppose it depends on which you cherish more."
[22:54] <Equinox> and BTW, Equinox is NOTHING like Metatron! :P
[22:54] <Moiranna> "That is ultimately the problem, Kei...how can I choose between them?"
[22:54] <Stilten> Equinox's goals are the same, and what you're trying to do is mattering a little more than the method you use to do it.
[22:55] <Equinox> Sure, I'll store Metatron's data like any other First One for analysis, but for my own ends to enlighten all, not just the Good. Evil deserves enlightenment as well.
[22:55] <waakb> Simultaneously with its conversation with Moiranna, SEPHIROSOPHIA glances at Equinox and Stilten surprisedly, and exclaims ~BUT, YOU _ARE_ THE SEVENTH. DO YOU NOT SEE IT? BOTH OF YOU ARE.~
[22:55] <Equinox> lol
[22:55] <Moiranna> "But...I suppose...Kaelyn is right. In this body I have outgrown Taera, while...my Avatar has not. Perhaps..."
[22:55] <Stilten> "I guess we balance each other out then?"
[22:55] <Kaelyn> "She is likely asking if beings like yourself actually bother to interact with eachother. Are there friends, enemies, battles, strange and dangerous creatures that can threaten you. Challenges to overcome."
[22:55] <Equinox> A light bulb goes off, #I *DO* see it! This is perfect!#
[22:56] <Stilten> "I doubt that, with what you were going on about being someone's lackey."
[22:56] <waakb> ~OF COURSE,~ SEPH tells Kaelyn and Moiranna. ~I SAID AS MUCH TO MY FRIEND TALOR, JUST BEFORE HE WAS BIRTHED.~
[22:56] <Equinox> We aren't going to be insane like Thought are we? I want to be insane like Equinox ;)
[22:56] <Stilten> Equinox is NE, right?
[22:56] <Stilten> Or is ve LE?
[22:57] <Kei> "I've thought the same, but try as I might, I cannot bring myself to leave. Despite the fact my avatar has handled all my affairs on Taera, where I've been seperate for so long...it's home, and I just can't leave. It may be stupidly sentimental for a bring of my power, but while beings like Damoks have had several thousand years of godhood to seperate himeslf from his humanity...this is till too new to me. I'm still too human at heart."
[22:57] <waakb> SEPH tells Stilten and Equinox, ~YOU MUST MERGE TO COMPLETE YOUR FORM AND ASSUME THE POSITION. AS ONE BEING YOU ARE GREATER THAN THE SUM OF YOUR PARTS. YOU ARE THE SEVENTH. THE FACT THAT YOU WERE SEPARATED FOR SO LONG PREVENTED YOU FROM SEEING IT.~
06[22:57] * @Moiranna nods, and her Avatar will go over and give Otis a hug. Prime: "From me. Since otherwise it would probably be dangerous to you." She'll laugh a bit.
[22:57] <Stilten> "I figured you might say that."
[22:58] <waakb> "You're leaving, Mistress?" Otis asks plaintively.
[22:58] <Moiranna> Oh goddammit.
[22:58] <Stilten> ROFLMAO
[22:59] <Stilten> "Well? What are you waiting for Equinox?"
06[22:59] * @Equinox get's ver mind ready, #Open your mind to me Stilten...#
[23:00] <Stilten> "Doesn't work that way. This is a MERGING, not an assimilation. We merge - here" and gestures to a spot in between us.
[23:00] <waakb> ~HURRY,~ SEPH bids you. ~THE PORTAL MUST CLOSE SOON OR THE DAMAGE WILL BECOME CATASTROPHIC. THE SEVENTH MUST ASSUME ITS PLACE OR ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN FOR NOTHING.~
[23:00] <Moiranna> "I think she--and you--are far more suited to furthering Naturalism...or Urgic Magic, I should say...at home. I...I will always miss you, but at least I can stay behind like this, as...someone more like the way I really see myself."
[23:00] <Equinox> #Both must be done Stilten. Minds first, then body, then soul.#
[23:01] <waakb> Otis tears up a little, but stiffens up and declares resolutely: "You will NEVER be forgotten. I will make sure of that."
06[23:01] * @Equinox sends petabytes of information to Stilten, the core of ver being.
[23:01] <Equinox> per microsecond ;)
[23:01] <waakb> Above, the hurricane closes in on itself, becoming a true storm. You start to actually hear the howling of the great winds.
06[23:01] * @Equinox then moves to where Stilten gestured.
06[23:02] * @Stilten will try to start merging at the location as well.
06[23:02] * @Moiranna smiles. "I knew I could count on you for that. I should go, before it is too late. You should take the time to explore my Realm, on the Negative Energy Plane...well, I should say, it's hers, now...there are some exciting new discoveries for you there. I didn't have time to show them to you before everything happened."
[23:02] <Stilten> I'm assuming our Divine Sparks just basically collide into each other.
[23:02] <Moiranna> (She's referring to the Dragons, of course.)
[23:02] <Equinox> I overlap my Divine Aura with Stilten's so that they match perfectly.
[23:03] <waakb> As Equinox does that, SEPHIROSOPHIA opens up a hole into its inner Being- the Reality and cosmoses and universes carried within it- and pours out energy from its own Seventh Dimension, as promised.
[23:03] <Moiranna> With that, I think Moiranna will take the step Beyond.
[23:03] <Moiranna> And she's going to find Kaelyn, Sipher, and Tzol' ASAP :P
[23:03] <waakb> Stilten and Equinox are caught up in the tide of dimensional energy, and both begin to GROW in a new direction.
[23:03] <waakb> The direction which, until now, nothing in this Reality represented.
[23:03] <waakb> Now THEY represent it: together.
[23:04] <waakb> Both of the avatars, as desired by the Primes, pass through the now-collapsing Portal into the Beyond: they become the seeds of a pair of new Realities.
[23:04] <Equinox> Hmm, I guess since I was NE and Stilten NG, we become a TN First One? ;)
[23:04] <Stilten> That's why I asked
[23:04] <Stilten> And I'm assuming so yes.
[23:04] <waakb> And yes, you will indeed become That, you two.
[23:05] <SG> You are like two nostrils on the same nose
[23:05] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[23:05] <Stilten> So Creation + Memory = ?
[23:05] <waakb> You become a First One with a name formed of both of you, Equistilten or Stilequinox, or whatever you like.
[23:05] <Moiranna> Her Avatar, by contrast, will become Moiranna, Goddess of Naturalism on Taera (Intermediate!) and begin the process of rebuilding the University, and also work closely with the New Damok to make up for all the grief she gave the Old One :P
[23:05] <Stilten> I'm fine with Equistil
[23:05] <Moiranna> (Her Eternal self will probably apologize to the Eternal Damok, too)
[23:05] <Equinox> Yea, that works.
[23:05] <Stilten> I kind of thought this might happen as a catch all
[23:05] <waakb> That First One has two avatars to begin with as ve moves to assume the place that has now, finally, been prepared for ver; these two avatars are opposite sides of the same coin.
[23:05] <Equinox> Now we can finally fix up this fucked up multiverse! :P
[23:06] <Stilten> If everyone decided to stay and be the First One
[23:06] <Sipher> (Invention! You've clearly become Sipher! :oP)
[23:06] <waakb> For indeed, what is Creation without Memory to guide it? And what use is Memory, if it can not guide new Creations?
[23:06] <SG> The Imaginator
[23:07] <Sipher> (See, after all that, Sipher was the Seventh First One after all ;)
[23:07] <Stilten> Does this mean we can get Transcendental Architect now? XD
[23:07] <Stilten> Going to need it to fix things up.
[23:08] <Sipher> after this, I hope to god we don't need stats :oP
[23:08] <Stilten> Well we've all effectively retired
[23:08] <waakb> Equistilten, and ver two avatars, now have quite a task ahead of them: theirs is the lonely call to build a Seventh cosmos out of the dregs left behind in the Far Realm, the parts that no other cosmoi wanted and all of them rejected. Theirs, too, is the task of COMPLETING the central cosmos, which they once called home.
[23:08] <Stilten> Sorry, just -Equistil-
[23:09] <Stilten> I think that will work better
[23:09] <waakb> That central cosmos now needs a new portion, to be its Heart, that which gives new life to the rest of it. Where shall this be and what shall it be like? Only Equistilten can decide.
[23:09] <Kei> Stiltuinox!
[23:09] <Stilten> Too blah.
[23:09] <waakb> Equistil then.
[23:09] <waakb> Sorry. :)
[23:09] <Stilten> LOL
[23:09] <Kei> Equistil sounds like something your doctor would prescribe...
[23:09] <waakb> And yes, what do the two of you-combined and merged as you now are- represent?
[23:10] <Stilten> It does, doesn't it. And we're been prescribed to fix this place :)
[23:10] <Moiranna> Oh, and the Triumvirate of Intermediate Avatars are Seeds of Equistil, so they can take over Taera as The Three :P
[23:10] <waakb> What IS the Seventh First One, exactly?
[23:10] <Moiranna> Just throwing htat out there :P
[23:10] <Talor> Though Patrin may be able to get Nexus
[23:10] <Talor> not sure there
[23:10] <waakb> The two primary portions of You are Memory and Creation.
[23:10] <Stilten> First One of Life?
[23:10] <waakb> What do those make when combined?
[23:10] <Moiranna> GROWTH.
[23:10] <Stilten> or Evolution.
[23:10] <Moiranna> Evolution could work, too, yes.
[23:10] <Equinox> Yea, was just going to say Evolution.
[23:11] <Equinox> So since Stilten and I were both thinking the same, it is Evolution ;)
[23:11] <Stilten> LOL
[23:11] <waakb> We seem to have reached a consensus on Evolution.
[23:12] <Stilten> We may have to get Transgenic...
[23:12] <waakb> Thus, the Entity once split into two beings who did not know they were supposed to be One- who bears the Truename beginning with the phrase "Equistil-" becomes the Heart of the Reality that is DABBATIALDABAOTH, and takes the name Evolution.
[23:12] <waakb> Evolution begins the long, difficult task of fixing the connections between the other sorry DImensions of this tired old Reality and breathing new life into them.
[23:12] <waakb> Evolution is what COMPLETES them.
[23:13] <waakb> Evolution is what lets them GROW and BECOME. Evolution is what will someday allow them to reach their full Potential.
[23:13] <Stilten> It's a thankless task, but someone's got to do it!
02[23:14] * @Talor (~Snorg38@469CD6.CF6FA6.DFDEE5.C2BA90) Quit (Quit: )
[23:14] <waakb> And DABBATIALDABAOTH, which awoke on all cosmoses simultaneously, hears the voice of its Parent SEPHIROSOPHIA lulling it back to sleep to heal and Become. And it does.
[23:14] <Equinox> We will help all who want to Evolve, regardless of motivation ;)
[23:14] <waakb> The Age of Healing begins.
[23:15] <Stilten> In other words, everything Evolves whether it wants to or not.
[23:15] <Equinox> They will now ;)
[23:15] <Stilten> So what exactly does Dabby's name mean?
[23:15] <waakb> In the Place of the Ritual, the few beings left behind who have not already made their choices disperse, most passing back through the Ring Portal into the central cosmos to begin new lives amid the subtlely altered Reality.
[23:15] <Moiranna> Oh, and
[23:16] <Moiranna> Moiranna would have left the Crown with her Avatar :P
06[23:16] * @SG slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
[23:16] <Stilten> Well yeah, wouldn't be healthy to take that out I'd think.
[23:16] <waakb> The Ring, no longer needed, frays and unbraids and falls apart, its power spinning away into the void and collapsing into formlessness. The great Portal it focused open collapses and closes.
[23:16] <Stilten> Poor Eternity, nowhere to run now XD
[23:16] <waakb> With it closes the Final Gate, the External Portal that is the one way to the Eternal Realm.
[23:17] <waakb> Who says Eternity didn't send an avatar of her own through into the Eternal Realm? :)
[23:17] <waakb> She had plenty of time to.
[23:17] <Stilten> LOL
[23:17] <Equinox> Indeed she did.
[23:18] <waakb> The Silver Key, no longer needed here, is taken back into the Reality that created it- SEPHIROSOPHIA- and the body that that great Being sent through the Final Gate into your Reality is the last to pass through the closing Final Gate.
[23:18] <Equinox> Can EquiStil go kill our enemies Sidereals now? ;)
06[23:18] * @SG slaps Equinox around a bit with a large trout
[23:18] <Stilten> We have better things to do. Now they're our underlings and not worth the trouble. :)
[23:18] <Equinox> Actually, we should be called Equinoxl ;)
06[23:18] * @Stilten zaps Equinox with a cattle prod
[23:19] <Equinox> :P
[23:19] <Stilten> Heel squid!
[23:19] <Stilten> I'm guessing our baby avatars still manage our faiths as desired, right?
[23:19] <waakb> As for the meaning of names, DABBAT is a legendary Great Beast said to underlie the whole world, and IALDABAOTH is the name of the being that Gnostic Christians said created this universe in an (poor) effort to duplicate the greater Eternal Universe it was created in.
[23:20] <Stilten> Ah
[23:20] <waakb> The being who created IALDABAOTH is named, in those myths, SOPHIA, or Wisdom.
02[23:20] * @Khabaal (Khabaal@OWIRCN-6e78519e.ks.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: )
[23:20] <Stilten> Figures
[23:20] <SG> I recognized just those two names
[23:20] <SG> Not DABBAT
[23:20] <Stilten> So...The End XD
[23:20] <Stilten> What do we do now? :)
[23:20] <SG> Discussion
[23:21] <Moiranna> First, I suppose, do we meet at normal time next week for...Something?
[23:21] <Stilten> We can
[23:21] <waakb> IALDABAOTH is said by the Gnostics to be the being that the mainstream Christian and Jewish Churches worship, which explains why those churches so frequently do things like start wars that kill thousands of people while constantly preaching peace and love.
[23:21] <Stilten> LOL
[23:21] <Equinox> Let's have a pizza party next week to celebrate!!!
[23:21] <SG> The being that thinks it's the only being that exists, yes
[23:22] <Stilten> That reminds me, are you guys doing a gathering this year?
[23:22] <waakb> This is because IALDABAOTH, the being that THEY worship as God, is NOT in fact the Supreme Being, but is instead a petty and jealous derivative of the Greater beings who exist in Eternity.
[23:22] <SG> Aelia is going to Seattle in April, I don't know about everyone else :oE
[23:22] <SG> I told her to go to GenCon but she refuses
[23:22] <Stilten> Going as in moving or going as in visiting?
[23:22] <Moiranna> Rather strapped for cash. My main trip this year will be GenCon as usual
[23:22] <SG> Visit
[23:23] <Moiranna> Anyone that makes it to Indy in August is incredibly welcome to make plans. :)
[23:23] <SG> I do need to go to GenCon at some point
[23:23] <waakb> The stories of your characters aren't QUITE over of course, but you know what sorts of things happen: Moiranna, and the avatars of separate-Stilten and separate-Equinox, go off to form their own Realities and bring their own internal stories to life.
[23:23] <waakb> All of you have universes within you.
[23:23] <waakb> All of you have stories to tell.
[23:24] <waakb> And your characters can now tell them on their own.
[23:24] <waakb> That is ultimately the meaning of Eternity, in this context.
[23:24] <Stilten> Basically that we've graduated from PCs to DMs?
[23:24] <waakb> If you like. :)
[23:24] <Stilten> LOL
[23:25] <Moiranna> I'm personally wrestling with the idea of whether Moiranna is my world or not. :P Divinity doesn't really work the same way in my cosmos though, so I'm not sure I like it. :P
[23:25] <waakb> Moiranna certainly has already- or am I wrong in thinking that Moiranna is a mysterious greater Being in Kevin's young game cosmos?
[23:25] <Stilten> LOL
[23:25] <waakb> Her Reality is already up and running.
[23:25] <Moiranna> Well, there IS a Being called Moiranna in mine.
[23:25] <Moiranna> I've just not entirely figured out how the two are related. :)
[23:26] <waakb> Is it wrong to suggest that we've just connected them?
[23:26] <Stilten> LOL
[23:26] <Moiranna> That world's almost...gosh, 6-7 years old now. I'm not sure precisely when I started anymore since I've lost all the logs.
[23:26] <waakb> You know where she came from now, and possibly also how she got where she now is. Wherever that may be.
[23:26] <Moiranna> The beginnings of it were Middle School for me lmao, but it didn't become full fledged 'til after I started playing with you guys
[23:27] <Moiranna> Heh, yeah. I just have to wrestle with the existing Cosmology/Cosmogony and the Moiranna-S'ilv'r'sain's place in it. It's certainly a lot lower than being the Reality itself lol.
[23:27] <Kaelyn> Wheres that noob SG
[23:27] <waakb> Causality is not a line, I've shown you all many times during this long game; it has loops and switchbacks and it's fairly easy for "future" to cause "past" in a truly multidimensional universe.
[23:27] <Kaelyn> you know right now he'd be trying to squeeze in as the new DM
[23:27] <SG> :oE
[23:27] <Kaelyn> :P
[23:27] <Moiranna> lmao
[23:28] <SG> But actually I was going to suggest you, SNorg, since you never got the chance to run a game except for a few sessions
[23:28] <Equinox> Snorg is still a Fucking Dirty Bastard who gets motion sickness on EVERYTHING!
[23:28] <SG> With all of two people
[23:28] <Moiranna> There's also the question of whether or not Brian still wants to run, too, of course. :P
[23:28] <SG> Cross-nosed
[23:28] <~Stant> * Stant punches Johnny in the nose.
[23:28] <Stilten> That's a good question though
[23:28] <Kaelyn> Well yeah but you gotta expect SG to try and say something with how he always brings it up :P
[23:28] <Moiranna> I know I still want to *play*
[23:28] <SG> That's why I didn't go there yet, until we saw what Brian really plans @.@
[23:29] <SG> And how he feels in general, etc.
[23:29] <Moiranna> I don't know what I'd do without D&D on Saturdays
[23:29] <Stilten> Start raiding? XD
[23:29] <waakb> For my part, I'm willing to get together again on future Saturdays, sure- but this was my last story. It's the one I've had in me for 25 years or more, waiting all that time for worthy characters and places to give it life. The argument with the Eternal Being who gave birth to Reality to NOT "reset," made by entities who had no hope of fighting it...the presence and of the Silver Key
[23:30] <Stilten> f the Silver Key
[23:30] <waakb> ...the presence and IMPORTANCE of the Silver Key, I meant to type above...
[23:30] <SG> Fascinating
[23:30] <Stilten> Just means that Old Man is Brian =X
[23:30] <Moiranna> What about all those Nexus events you teased us with?! :P
[23:30] <waakb> ...and the final passing of triumphant PCs, into the Ultimate Beyond, the place where new universes dwell and are made... all of that was what I pictured all that time ago.
[23:30] <waakb> And now it's told.
[23:30] <SG> He was just balancing out the fractal :oE
[23:30] <Kei> I did very much enjoy the games, and the story, even up to the end...despite my dislike of the stat portion of it. =)
[23:30] <Stilten> LOL
[23:31] <SG> Heeeeeeeeeee
[23:31] <Kaelyn> Could use this as a time to test out some new systems
[23:31] <SG> It was the story that kept me around, not the high level stats
03[23:31] * Kaelyn was kicked by Moiranna (Moiranna )
[23:31] <waakb> Thank you all for being here and helping tell it. Helping tell all the stories, really.
[23:31] <Stilten> O_o
06[23:31] * @SG slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
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[23:31] <Kei> And thank you for telling it Brian. =)
06[23:31] * @Moiranna slaps Kaelyn around a bit with a large trout
[23:32] <Kaelyn> 4e forever! :P
03[23:32] * Stilten sets mode: +o Kaelyn
[23:32] <Sipher> Yes, thank you very much Brian, for letting us take part in the wonderful story. It was a pleasure and an honor to have done so :oD
[23:32] <Kaelyn> Yup Thanks. Was a blast.
[23:32] <Kei> And hell, thanks for putting up with us at times. ^^
[23:32] <waakb> The Ring dragged the fabric of Reality along with it while the Final Gate was open, if you didn't figure this out; the Nexus Events were caused ultimately by the Ring.
[23:32] <Moiranna> And yes, thank you for all the DMing over the years.
[23:32] <Moiranna> It really has been YEARS, heh.
[23:33] <SG> Really, you have been doing double duty over the years
[23:33] <Stilten> Yes, and us being undecisive little bastards caused it to ripple further =X
[23:33] <SG> With 2 sessions
[23:33] <waakb> I have no more stories to tell in Taera for now- I'm certainly willing to come on as a player in some other game, but I'd like to take a break from the Master's chair for a while.
[23:33] <Equinox> Three cheers for Brian the Great!!!!
[23:33] <Stilten> I figured :)
[23:33] <Kaelyn> This is your chance SG! :P
[23:33] <waakb> I'll probably come back to it eventually, but not for some months at least (if not longer).
[23:33] <Moiranna> Well, SG, Snorg? One of you two has to do it. :P
[23:33] <Equinox> Snorg is still a Fucking Dirty Bastard who gets motion sickness on EVERYTHING!
[23:33] <Stilten> Hahaha
[23:34] <SG> Sure, only if Snorg doesn't feel like it
[23:34] <Equinox> Snorg is still a Fucking Dirty Bastard who gets motion sickness on EVERYTHING!
03[23:34] * Gimble is now known as Gammo
[23:34] <SG> I just don't want to stop him from the chance
[23:34] <Kei> Indeed...it's been what, 7, 8 years we've been playing Taera now? Thats just amazing in and of itself. :)
[23:34] <Moiranna> I'd move my game to Saturdays but I'm sure I'd lose a couple players due to scheduling (and I'm really not sure I could run weekly)
[23:34] <Kei> But yes, someone has to take over, I need my weekly RPing fix! XD
[23:34] <Stilten> I do need something or I will just fill it with something else
[23:34] <SG> You'd at least gain Tay if you moved to Saturday :oE
[23:35] <SG> And maybe Kyia
[23:35] <SG> if she wants to play low level
03[23:35] * Stilten is now known as Rava
[23:35] <Kei> yeah, since I usually work until 3-4 on saturdays...where's Sundays are my all day shifts.
[23:35] <Moiranna> I'm not sure Saturday would be good for Dad, though. And Ian wouldn't be able to play either.
[23:35] <SG> :o(
[23:35] <waakb> To be honest, part of my motivation here is that I'd like to free up my Saturdays a bit and see what I can make happen, but that's for the future. :) It doesn't mean I won't game, it just means I don't want to have the game that DEPENDS on me and is therefore an obligation I have to meet each week.
[23:35] <Rava> We could do Friday nights too
[23:36] <Kei> Thats certainly understandable though...again, you've been DMing with us for almost 8 years now. :)
[23:36] <waakb> It'd have to be LATE, if you want me involved- I work on Friday nights.
[23:36] <SG> Well, limiting yourself to 6 hours rather than the 12 that you've done will also help, Brian :oE
[23:36] <Moiranna> We'll make sure to just run one game so you can go out on Saturday nights, Brian! :P
[23:36] <Rava> Ouch
06[23:36] * @Moiranna slaps SG around a bit with a large trout
[23:36] <Sipher> yeah, I'm kinda looking forward to sleeping on a Saturday again :P
[23:36] <Rava> ROFLMAO
06[23:36] * @Moiranna slaps Sipher around a bit with a large trout
[23:36] <Moiranna> No sleep for you!
[23:36] <Sipher> hey, its 5:30am right now, cut me some slack :P
[23:36] <Kaelyn> to be honest its been awhile since i've been able to stay up til end of second session
[23:37] <Kaelyn> getting old or something :P
[23:37] <Moiranna> Yeah, same :P
[23:37] <Rava> I've actually given up quite a bit of stuff for Saturday sessions
[23:37] <Sipher> wusses, both of you :P
[23:37] <Rava> So I can understand wanting to cut back
[23:37] <Moiranna> Anyway, I'll be here at same Taera time. I guess we'll meet in this channel, those of us that will be around next week? lol
[23:37] <Kei> I'd have probably been able to stay up easier if Tlins personality hadn't been lost somewhere along the way...I tried a lot more as of late when the story was picking up.
[23:37] <Rava> LOL
[23:38] <Kei> Well if nothing else, I'll be here next saturday... ^^
[23:38] <Kei> not sure when I work until, but I doubt it'll be later than 5.
[23:38] <Moiranna> Or if #Taera doesn't work, I can offer #S'ilv'r'sain as a temporary home, too. Or maybe SG could give us #Dhara. :P
[23:38] <SG> Well, this discussion could even be done by e-mail during the week, so that we don't have to wait until next week
[23:38] <Moiranna> That's true, too. Actually, I kinda need emails from everyone anyway.
[23:38] <Moiranna> Sicne I had to format my hard drive.
[23:38] <waakb> I'll probably be here as well, if nothing else to say hi and see who's around. :) But for once, no promises! I may make other plans. If I do, I'll be courteous and let everybody know.
[23:39] <Moiranna> So shoot me an email at kcmorris84@comcast.net if you can :P
06[23:39] * @Moiranna slaps waakb around a bit with a large trout
[23:39] <Sipher> I kinda like the idea of exploring other systems, tbh :)
[23:39] <Kei> tayron@verizon.net is the one I'll notice an email in...I rarely use my hotmail one.
03[23:39] * Sipher was kicked by Moiranna (Moiranna )
03[23:39] * Sipher (Andrion@FBC920.348607.2A9203.EBB4DF) has joined #taera
[23:39] <waakb> I wouldn't mind that myself.
[23:39] <waakb> For one thing, Paranoia is always a blast.
[23:39] <SG> Even 4th edition? @.@
[23:39] <Rava> You should have everyone's email from Mike's email today Kevin
[23:39] <SG> Gee
[23:39] <Kei> System wise...I wouldn't mind, say, pathfinder? 4e is still the devil in my book.
[23:39] <Rava> Oh, that reminds me
[23:39] <waakb> Usually quite a few blasts, in the back when you're not looking. :)
[23:39] <Rava> I bought the rulebooks for Paranoia last week
[23:39] <Rava> Pretty interesting
[23:40] <Kei> Our game of Paranoia when we were in Chicago was awesomely fun.
[23:40] <waakb> Paranoia XP, the current edition published by Mongoose?
[23:40] <Moiranna> Pathfinder, 3E, or Arcana Evolved/Unearthed are about all I'd be willing to play seriously. Or maybe something like True20, but really I only like fantasy roleplaying really, for long term
[23:40] <Sipher> I'd prefer something non-D&D, actually. I've been playing D&D for over a decade now, pretty much solid, and I'd quite like a break from it :P
[23:40] <Rava> Paranoia Troubleshooters, the 25th anniversary version
06[23:40] * @Moiranna slaps Sipher around a bit with a large trout
[23:40] <Rava> Also grabbed Paranoia Internal Security for kicks
[23:40] <waakb> Don't know that one Rava- I'll have to check it out.
[23:41] <Rava> It's XP I think, just re-released
[23:41] <waakb> I need a bathroom break here; not sure what discussion will take place in here but I'll leave the chat up at least until I get back.
[23:41] <Moiranna> I need to get some sleep for work in the morning to be honest (plus I have to prep for my own game :P)
06[23:42] * @SG slaps Moiranna around a bit with a large trout
06[23:42] * @Rava zaps Moiranna with a cattle prod
03[23:42] * Rava sets mode: -o Moiranna
[23:42] <Rava> No kick frenzies!
03[23:42] * Moiranna was kicked by Kaelyn (4e forever! )
03[23:42] * Moiranna (~kcmorris84@OWIRCN-2ce4c81d.il.comcast.net) has joined #taera
[23:42] <Moiranna> Good one :P
[23:42] <Moiranna> 4E sucks so much. :P
[23:42] <Kei> See, I'd probably wanna stick to D&D myself, just because it's all I know...but I wouldn't be adverse to trying something else.
[23:42] <Kaelyn> lol
[23:42] <Rava> Heh, vengeance
[23:43] <SG> I need to look at Pathfinder again
[23:43] <Moiranna> 4E is like the opposite extreme of Ascension. Everything's the bloody same.
[23:43] <Moiranna> It's balanced as hell though for the most part. -.-
[23:43] <Rava> I like the D&D Franchise, but I can understand it getting old
[23:43] <Kaelyn> balance is good :P
[23:43] <Moiranna> It is, but not when it leads to total homogenization
[23:44] <Moiranna> It's got pretty much the exact opposite problem
[23:44] <Rava> I just look at 4E as a big reset button
[23:44] <Moiranna> There's very little that's unique or fun in a mechanical sense because they wanted to keep the design space so limited
[23:44] <Rava> Everything got so convoluted in 3rd Edition that they scrapped and started over
[23:44] <Moiranna> And ruined D&D in the process. -.-
[23:45] <Moiranna> Personally, I won't play 4E on principle. Can't support it financially. :P
[23:45] <+Gammo> but you get to measure everything in squares!
[23:45] <Rava> LOL
[23:45] <Moiranna> But I should get to sleep. Email me if anything starts to take shape.
[23:45] <Moiranna> I'll be here next week I'm sure. Don't know what else I'll do with myself. :P
[23:45] <Rava> LOL
02[23:46] * Moiranna (~kcmorris84@OWIRCN-2ce4c81d.il.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: )
[23:46] <Rava> Once I fix my computer I might start raiding
[23:46] <Rava> After more experimentation the Video card is clearly overheating
[23:46] <Sipher> heh, I have a raid tomorrow night
[23:47] <Rava> At the very least, WoW would actually be playable again
[23:47] <Rava> I'm in FFXI ATM because it isn't
[23:47] <Kei> Tis why I keep a lil compressor handy, to blow out the dust from my computer...helped my grpahics card a fair amount when it was getting too hot.
[23:47] <Rava> I might actually try raiding in this game though
[23:47] <Rava> I know that's not the problem for this because the card itself is pretty new
[23:48] <Rava> I think someone suggested that the power supply may be putting out voltage that the card can't handle though
[23:48] <Rava> So it would be fine for the most part, then when it kicks in to a certain point, SPLAT
[23:49] <Kaelyn> Yeah mine did that for awhile
[23:49] <Kaelyn> I had dust in it too
[23:49] <Kei> If its new, I wouldn't think that'd be too much of a problem...a lot of newer cards need more power even. I had to get a new pwer supply because mine wasn't strong enough.
[23:49] <Rava> Oh?
[23:49] <SG> Are we waiting until next week to discuss the future of Saturday gaming or taking it to e-mail? At first I thought it's pointless to wait a whole week, but maybe that's what people need to figure out what they want to do with weekends
[23:49] <Rava> I don't care either way to be honest, but it's a lot harder to stay in touch with you guys if we don't have a session
[23:50] <Kaelyn> Had this card for a little bit and raiding went fine. Then after awhile I started noticing i'd start needing driver resets/crashes or comp would just reset itself at busy points in fights and such
[23:50] <Kei> well, a week could give people a chance to gather their thoughts too. Email could work...I just prefer chats. ^^
[23:50] <Kaelyn> Ended up taking comp apart and blowing it clean. It was the problem.
[23:50] <Kei> But yeah, video cards can be very sensative to dust...I even keep the sides off my computer to be sure it gets plenty of air.
[23:50] <Kaelyn> The fan was free of dust but the little copper vents going through were covered by dust
[23:51] <Kaelyn> so the air didn't actually make it through the vents to remove the heat
[23:51] <Kaelyn> just blowing in air from t he other side to blow them out was all it took
[23:51] <Rava> It could also be that this particular kind of video card isn't as good.
[23:51] <Kaelyn> I was about to buy a new video card too
[23:51] <Rava> Ah, yeah
[23:51] <Kaelyn> I'd suggest taking it apart and blowing it all clean before you try replacing anything
[23:51] <Rava> This computer's been replaced since August. :P
[23:52] <Rava> I've had the crashing since then.
[23:52] <Kei> If the card has some kind of management software, you should try that...there's monitoring software for mine, that lets me control the fan speeds and such, heat, etc, which is very useful at times.
[23:52] <Kaelyn> then do it anyway to see if it fixes it :P
[23:52] <Rava> The one thing I have done that is different
[23:52] <Rava> I normally run with the side open
[23:52] <Kaelyn> I mean did your card ever actually work fine for WoW raids?
[23:52] <Rava> I closed the side and put the computer on its side.
[23:53] <Rava> The new one crashed after 30 minutes into the game, no strenuous activity.
[23:53] <Kaelyn> hmm
[23:53] <Kaelyn> so 2 different video cards, same problem?
[23:53] <Rava> In the current state, I've gotten it so that if I don't do heavy activity, it goes on forever it seems.
[23:53] <Rava> Well, old computer refused to start up period.
[23:53] <Rava> I turned it off and it never turned back on.
[23:54] <Kaelyn> ahh
[23:54] <Rava> And so went the journey of replacing it bit by bit.
[23:54] <Kei> O.o My video card isn't even that new, and it handles all kinds of hell I throw at it beautifully.
[23:54] <Kaelyn> But as far as the gaming session goes. We got almost everyone here still
[23:54] <Rava> I'm sure it's something with my configuration making it go bonkers, and Windows 7 doesn't help.
[23:54] <waakb> Okay, I'll be on next week then, probably around the usual time of 2 PM CST, to see what's up. And I will be sending out a Final Log to everybody of course, tonight or tomorrow, so everybody will have every other player's email address that way at least if we want to discuss things over email during the week.
[23:54] <SG> Raithe did say he wants a Saturday D&D no matter what, so we know his vote
[23:54] <Rava> LOL
[23:54] <waakb> Until then, I bid you all adeiu.
[23:54] <+Gammo> what card do you have, Rava?
[23:54] <Rava> Later Brian
Session Close: Sat Jan 30 23:55:05 2010


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