AGWW Online - Log 2004/10/19
Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web
Session 3x01: Digital Hell - Chapter 0: The Return
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Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai Deadalus (Asmodai's AI) - played by Asmodai Kaya Smith (Virtual Adepts) - played by Fuzzy Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven Marcello Keagan (OoH bani Thig) - played by Dingo MC_Farstrider (Dreamspeakers) - played by Fuzzy Nita Smith (Virtual Adepts) - played by Fuzzy Red Queen (Virtual Adepts) - played by FiXXXer667 Storytortillo - Asmodai
<Storytortillo> However... this story starts about a week before the happenings of tonight...
<Storytortillo> We start in a hospital in London... where a man is lying down in a hospital ward... he has been reccuperrating for a long time now... His family had found him before his computer... he had experienced some sort of a seizure combined with massive internal hemorraging...
<Storytortillo> He has been getting better lately...
<Storytortillo> His nerves had recupperrated enough for him to finnaly show that he will be able to move...but he is still tied to the bed and on numerous devices keeping him in check and stabile. At the feet of his bed lies a sign... "Mark Hassan" resident of London, Algerian and British nationality, under the supervision of the El-Quaf group
<Storytortillo> He seems more or less awake and is using his right hand to work on a small laptop by his bedside... the tubes and wiring are going all over his boddy and he has his whole head wrapped in bandages... suddenly... the doors to his room lock... and the men moves his head in that direction looking worried...
<Storytortillo> His laptop winks out and it is offline. The room is only filled with the sounds of the machines connected to the man He looks worried... but suddenly his laptop winks on... There is a form there... a form he recognizes and shudders... it has been in his dreams since he woke up... Laughter fills the room, and the man tries to get out of the bed... but he cannot for his leg muscles are too weak... he sees the machines blinking... they look menacng in the dark... and then he sees his drip... it is no longer the clear fluid... it looks like a black viscous darkness trickling down his drip... he screams in terror and tries to get to his hand... but the drip darts across the short cable and enters his body...The man's eyes roll up showing the whites and his eyes fill with the fluid... he screams in pain...
<Storytortillo> And thus we turn to another familiar figure
<Storytortillo> MC Farstrider is travelling through the Umbra to her realm... she needs some peace and tranquility... she has recently been getting a number of bills and judicial claims against her ownership and upkeep of the clinic... she knows the money can be obtained and she doesn't worry about it... she just wants to rest after all the trouble she went through with the lawyers and the bankers...
: __MC__ looks around herself
<Storytortillo> But as she finnaly steps into her home... something is wrong... There is no chirping of birds... and no soft wind caressing the trees... There is just a dark stillness creeping through the place... Your house is there... down the path... but you feel that somethign bad has happened...
: __MC__ upon detecting the wierd feeling, attempts to scan her home for intruders and other unexpected events (l/m/p/c1+2/s scan)
<Storytortillo> AS you try... you suddenly feel a horrible influx of pain suffering and horrible despair... (no need for roll)
<Storytortillo> It overcomes all your feelings... it is horrible and all encompassing... It drowns all your other senses... but what you feel is no life... noone is alive in the house... or around the place
<__MC__> I stop for a moment and meditate on Unicorn and summon Moira
<Storytortillo> Moira doesn't anwser... and the unicorn doesn't appear...
<__MC__> I think on what could have happened
<Storytortillo> It looks like someone came and turned your home upside down...
<Storytortillo> AS you come close to the house... you find the unicorn...
<__MC__> examine the spirit
<Storytortillo> It is lying down there before the house... it's tetives have been cut and it's skin has been flayed... it's horn has been ripped off and there is just a jagged root. Worst of all... the spirit is still concious... and alive... however it is in horrid pain and cannot move a muscle...
<__MC__> i use spirit2/prime2 to channel Quint into her for healing (spirit kiss rote)]
<Storytortillo> As you do... you feel it's pain and suffering... and the sight of a form coming closer to her and mutilating it... the spirit's eyes seem to relax... but it's body is still completley messed up
<Storytortillo> ...behind you... you hear the creak of the doors opening inwards of your cabin
<__MC__> i scan ahead for "life/unlife" signs (p/m/l/s/c)
Cabin_Door creaks
<__MC__> i use 'far seeing' to look into ther cabin from here (l/c2)
<Storytortillo> (are you sure? last time you did that you almost dropepd to the floor from pain)
<__MC__> (i have to see what I'm faceing to cope with it)
<__MC__> I continue to treat moira
<__MC__> repeating the spirit kiss, and using my innate healing ability
<Storytortillo> As you try to heal... you feel your power draining... as if healing is no longer what this place loved... (not enough to lower your spheres or anythign but you loose one quint).Laying the hands on the unicron some of its flesh starts to regrow... and then the visions of the interior strike you...
<Storytortillo> You see visions of blood... your guests were ripped apart... your dinning hall is turned upside down... and the most horrible thing you see... is the human aspect of Moira you saw at times... she has been crucified and cut all over her body, left naked and spent...
<__MC__> (ok)
<__MC__> forward to the cabin
<__MC__> I enter the house, and advance to the body
<Storytortillo> As you enter you see all the paintigns and furiture are destroyed... painted with the blood and bits of your guests... Your home has been crushed... As you run into the dinning room... at the end of the room is moira.. .crucified there and left for you to see...
<__MC__> i take her down and examine her for any sign of life
<Storytortillo> AS you do that... you notice that in the corner of the room the projector the Scientist woman on the ship made for you (AC)... it seems to be working...
<__MC__> (what does my scan tell me?)
<Storytortillo> As you hold Moira closer... you hear a voice behind you... it's a voice you haven0t heard in a long time... of someone who you cared for... and who left you paritaly becuase of one of you... and cold goes through your back
Marcello grins
<Marcello> Hello MC, missed me ?
<Storytortillo> ... and we cut into the Digital Web... There... a number of people are currently standing in a dead Sector
Asmodai is standing there in his suit and looking around...
<Storytortillo> Everyone else is here as well, standing closeby and looking with a expresion of amazement
Deadalus is here as well and is looking like a cute goth with raven hair and a golden ankh around her neck... she winks to Marv as she leans on Asmo...
Marvin_Black sighs as usual
__Nita__ .oO (( wonders why we are standing around in dead secotr?
))<Storytortillo> The sector itself has been wasted and loads of pretty messed up data are whizzing in and out of existence...
<Deadalus> As i told you... this is really odd... this sector is actualyl repairing itself...
<Asmodai> Yep... something pretty awesome...
<Marvin_Black> And we don't know what will come out of it *sighs*
<Asmodai> No we don't...
<Asmodai> but it's a first
<Asmodai> and that's why i invited you here to see it
Red_Queen sighs
<__Nita__> (Nita had asked Kev to give Kay a mind shield, before the MC peice)
<Asmodai> it's a new thing...
<Red_Queen> Call me influenced by my company if you will, but I certainly don't like this.
<Asmodai> there is still change and evolution here... even withotu the programming...
<Asmodai> Heh... i'd worry... if it weren't for that...
Asmodai spreads his arms around the place
<Storytortillo> You all notice that there are groups of icons... just like yours they are all milling aroud the place.. .soem are usign odd gadgets to scan it... others are just watching as the bits of the destoryed ground slowly start moving and interchanging... it's a slow process but visible...
<Marvin_Black> You know what happened to some animals when humans evolved? Now that makes me think what will happen to humans when a web sector evolves...
Red_Queen looks at Marv, then shakes her head somewhat reluctantly.
<Asmodai> This was one of the first Dead sectors... and recently it has been active...
<Red_Queen> Nah, Sectors can't just evolve, chewing up newbies like that! It's prolly just another hack by someone too ambitious, or way too dumb.
<Asmodai> it was already dead when i appeared here... and i have been here... forever...
Asmodai grins mischeviously
<Asmodai> huh?
<Asmodai> Chewing up what?
<Asmodai> this hasn't proven dangersus...
<Asmodai> it's like a live reformat... however it's a first i have seen without a experienced Coder...
Red_Queen just tsks.
<Marvin_Black> It isn't chewing... yet... wait
<__Nita__> ole cheery Marv
<Red_Queen> Just because you haven't noticed one doesn't mean one is not behind this case as well...
<Asmodai> Oh it does tinhorn...
<Asmodai> you see when we do it... it is quite flashy and it requires one of us to be in the centre... on the day you know how to do it you will see...
<Asmodai> Well i'll be
<Marvin_Black> Sectors moving on their own.. Next time my sector decides to wander around beating up other sectors, eh?
<Asmodai> Even the blackhats are looking at this with interest... and not shooting. I'm impressed
<Asmodai> Marv ... i don't want to hear about your sector. Not now... not this year
<Asmodai> that was not a pleasant experience...
<Red_Queen> Hey, it was a nice one, until that freak decided to make it more interactive...
Asmodai glares at Red
Deadalus pulls his head aside and pokes him with a finger then giving him a small notepad with a list of things
Asmodai grumbles and still glaring at Red turns aroudn and gets to his list
<Red_Queen> Besides, we didn't handle that one that badly, did we?
Red_Queen winks at Marv and rests her hands on his back.
<Marvin_Black> I was talking about the sector you made me fight for, Asmo... The other one, you know? But still, that one could also decide to do something like that, if sectors decide to have fun and walk around, doing whatever they want
Marvin_Black sighs
Asmodai grumbles something and ends with ...an't Walk!
Red_Queen chuckles.
Red_Queen slightly rubs Marv's shoulders..
<Red_Queen> Don't worry honey, It'll be a while before *that* happens.
Red_Queen retains a certain shadow over her cheerfulness, however.
Marvin_Black looks at Red and tries to give her a small smile
<Red_Queen> Heh, there you go, 10 points for at least trying.
Asmodai uses a set of digital screens to record some of the stuff...
Red_Queen looks around again.
Marvin_Black sets up Marv TV to check the waves of Forces and Entropy that are at work
<Storytortillo> Before you it seems like someone is actualyl playign a giant game of 3d tetris with flashy speial effects with the sector...
<Red_Queen> Well, it certainly looks impressive, Asmo, I'll hand it that.
<Asmodai> That it does... and think of it... you actually had someone drag you over...
<Storytortillo> suddenly a large piece cracks off before you and vaults high into the air
<Red_Queen> Well, to be honest, I'd expect nothing less from you, Asmo.
<Storytortillo> A gust of hot air hits you as it moves forward through space and collides with another part and then drops to the floor
<Marvin_Black> Very nice place. Who said it wouldn't chew on anyone?
Red_Queen takes a step back, putting a strand that got loose due to the wind back to its place.
<Storytortillo> (you know... this is a 3d defragmenting lookg like tetris :))
Marvin_Black checks MarvTV and beginns the scan
<Red_Queen> well, Shit happens.
<Red_Queen> ...and you know what a bitch Dead Sectors can be.
<Marvin_Black> Well... you know everything will end up dead sooner or later
<Red_Queen> Yes, and I certainly hope the "later" part is what we get.
Marvin_Black shouts to the sector "It's no use to be deviant! Just give in and come to terms with your death! You will return there anyway!"
Red_Queen is torn between scolding Marv and laughing at the "advice"
Red_Queen just shakes her head and gives him a kiss on the cheek.
Red_Queen> Nice try, hon.
<Marvin_Black> Come on... Sectors defying the laws of the world and the Web... Where will this lead? It should accept it's fate
<Marvin_Black> Talking about fate... Has anyone heard anything about the others or from them?
<Red_Queen> Heh, ever thought that the ability to mess up the laws of the world is what sets us apart from all the sheep?
<Red_Queen> Asfor the rest, I presume you're talking bout the others from the group, no?
<Asmodai> Kev mentioned somthing About Acy...
<Asmodai> Han was busy with some sort of a new toy
<Asmodai> he said he's appear later...
<Asmodai> why?
<Marvin_Black> Yeah, Marcello... Well he is supposed to be dead you said Asmo? MC and Az... I wonder if fate has got them already
__Nita__ nods
<Red_Queen> Why what?
Asmodai turns...
<Marvin_Black> Haven't heard from them for a while...
<Asmodai> I told you... i don't want to talk about it...
<Asmodai> MC probably concluded the right thing... that the web was not for her...
<Asmodai> as for Az... i don't know about him...
Red_Queen nods.
<__Nita__> MC?
<Marvin_Black> Why don't you want to talk Asmo?
<__Nita__> Who are MC and Marcello?
<Marvin_Black> Any threads of fate weaving there?
<Asmodai> no...
<Asmodai> they went to help MC find her other self...
<Asmodai> they messed up
<Red_Queen> ouch.
<Asmodai> i tried to help them but Marcello was already... gon
<Asmodai> i don't want to talk about it...
<Marvin_Black> So it IS fate at work there...
Marvin_Black raises an eyebrow
<Red_Queen> fate? More like exceptionally horrible luck.
<Marvin_Black> So that's what you call fate...
<Marvin_Black> I wonder what has happened there... And why you don't want to talk about it Asmo...
Asmodai gets in your face so you can see the deep starfields and space he hides behind his shades
<Asmodai> Listen, kid... they got into trouble... i halped who i could...
<Asmodai> Marcello was...
<Asmodai> bah
<Marvin_Black> Was?
Asmodai turns around and gets back to his work
__Nita__ looks confusedly at Marvin and Asmo
Deadalus turns to you and with a sorry look nods her head sideways and puts her finger on her mouth and then moves a bit aay from Asmo...
Marvin_Black looks at Red
<Red_Queen> (ok, playing is getting harder here. I'm experiencing slight tiredness blackouts, so please excuse if I'm lagging somewhat.)
Red_Queen 's gaze moves from Asmo to Marv, and then shrugs
<__Nita__> Marv: so umms, did you want to try to look them up or something?
<Red_Queen> who, the lost guys?
<Marvin_Black> I just wanted to check the forces of Entropy and Forces going on here, to see what makes this secotr so weird...
<__Nita__> nod -- i was wondering?
<__Nita__> let's see Asmo said Marcello was "gone"
Marvin_Black begins to scan the sector for Entropy, Forces and Cor again to look for the sources and the kind of energy that's ticking in here
<Red_Queen> Well, it's not like they'd be the first, and apparently they weren't the last to vanish out of the blue..
Marvin_Black nods towards Asmo and talks silently
<Storytortillo> As your scanning starts the readings go off the scale...
<__Nita__> does this MC have a usable key (name) to search on?
<Marvin_Black> Ah, and that's why he doesn't want to talk, eh?
<Marvin_Black> Yay! Look at my TV set... I need a bigger screen!
<Marcello> (why ? It will break down anyways... *G*)
<__Nita__> (oh there's Marcello ;))
<Red_Queen> Well, I didn't know those guys personally, but losing someone you've known forever due to corrupt data fields and ghosts in the DW shell can be taxing..
<Marvin_Black> I wouldn't call it "forever"
<Red_Queen> The Web is not kind to total newbies, it's made that clear as day.
<Marvin_Black> (Sure it will, but perhaps I could check the readings *g*)
<Marvin_Black> I still think it's strange...
<Red_Queen> strange? Yeah, you could say that too.
<__Nita__> So the fellow vanished, and this MC ?? what became of her?
<Red_Queen> I hadn't realised what everyone was freaking out about before geting here. Too bad others didn't have that much luck.
<Marvin_Black> Dunno. Haven't heard of any of the three since then and you see Asmo isn't very talkative
Deadalus edges cloer to you...
<Deadalus> Bah don't worry...
<Deadalus> he'll be normal later...
<Deadalus> he just doesn't like to talk about that
<__Nita__> Dead: do you what became of the others?
<Deadalus> Well they were hard derezzed as far as i know...
<Deadalus> that means they ended up in hospitals i guess
<Deadalus> it can be quite dangerous...
<__Nita__> hmm
<Red_Queen> well, that makes sense..
<Red_Queen> say that again.
<__Nita__> so they may have survived?
<Deadalus> Asmo said they were alive...
<Deadalus> only Marcello was...
Deadalus sighs
<__Nita__> lost?
<Deadalus> You'll have to ask him...
<Deadalus> he told me about it...
<Deadalus> but to be honest i can tall you that...
<Deadalus> Hbdf #7402is.. thru..th73083 100100010001111001000111100001101010110101
<__Nita__> uh oh
<Red_Queen> Well, if brain coma is considered as a state of life, you could say they're alive.. Shoving your consciousness back to your body in an instant is outright bad.
<Red_Queen> Daed?
<Red_Queen> You ok?
Deadalus starts twitching as her whole body starts to be coverd in sparks and her clothes start turning into strands of data and wireframe
<Marvin_Black> What the?
Deadalus screams horridly
__Nita__ does a quick scan of Dead's program
<Red_Queen> Asmo?
Asmodai turns quickly and runs towards her
<Asmodai> Dead!
<Kevin_Grey> (She's Dead, Jum)
<Storytortillo> She is quickly falling apart... extremely quickly...
__Nita__ records reading for Asmo to review
<Marvin_Black> Shit!
Asmodai grabs her and holds her
<Marvin_Black> Is the sector absorbing her?
<Asmodai> No!
Red_Queen runs next to Asmo.
<Red_Queen> Shit!
Asmodai seems to cry and you hear a whisper... not again... Moira...
<Red_Queen> I seriously hope you have a backup man.
<__Nita__> Asmo????
Marvin_Black tries to scan for what's happening to Dead
Asmodai grabs her and suddenly dissapears holding her and all that's left is him shoutign in pain...
<Red_Queen> ..what the...
Asmodai is logged off and quickly throws all his papers nad things of his table turnign on the lights in the roomt
<__Nita__> who's Moira?
Asmodai opens the closet and grabs another trinary and links it with his machine
Asmodai looks at a small plate on the floor on which moira's image is fading
Asmodai jumps aroudn the room quickly ripping the cables out of the wall and then working rapidly and on both laptops... he pops some sort of pills from a pocket and suddnely is workign with two hands at the same time... he is crying and trying to work franticaly...
<Red_Queen> Ok, what the hell happened here?
<Red_Queen> I've never seen something like that..
<Marvin_Black> Me neither... Was it... the sector?
<Red_Queen> I don't know. I'd heard that a bunch of kiddies just went poof while cruising around here, but this was bloody surreal.
<Marvin_Black> Looked like pure Entropy was at work on the code.. Or like it was torn apart to be absorbed...
<Red_Queen> Daedalus wasn't run of the mill AI soft, and she just... dissipated
Marvin_Black looks around the sector and sighs
<Red_Queen> well, true, it certainly did look like Decay effect.
<Marvin_Black> Here we go again.. Fate weaving it's strands around us, pulling us in I fear...
<Red_Queen> Marv, please don't do that.. we have enough trouble already with Daed being torn to shreds..
<__Nita__> perhaps we should reconvien someplace less likely to vanish around us? like the Demise?
<Red_Queen> Yes, just what I was going to recommend..
<Marvin_Black> Better some place that doesn't want us to vanish...
<Red_Queen> The place certainly is interesting, but it's apparently just too dangerous.
<__Nita__> (can i make a gate to the street infront of the Demise?)
<Storytortillo> You can all travel there without much effort i think Marv can drag you all
<Marvin_Black> (A trip Marv-style *eg*)
<Kevin_Grey> (Kev is in the Demise, I'd say)
__Nita__ follows fearless leader
Marvin_Black takes the others to the Demise
<__Nita__> we get a table
<__Nita__> look for any of other goup ppl (AC or Kev I guess?)
Red_Queen nods in greeting0 towards a few familiar faces on the way inside the Demise.
Marvin_Black sighs and doesn't look happy at all
__Nita__ orders a hypercaffiened tall bubbly drink
___Kay___ orders a tall neon green drink
Marvin_Black orders a Certain Death
Red_Queen smiles at Marv and pms him "I rather hope that sigh and look was for me, baby..."
Red_Queen just grabs a Bloody Mary.
___Kay___ brings up a screen and reviews with the others the result of my scan of Dead as she was decompiling, along with the listing of her program code
<___Kay___> (thats Nita *sigh*)
<__Nita__> oops
__Nita__ asks the tohers to look while we try to figure out what happened
<Marvin_Black> As I said... Even here Entropy will win at last... Nothing lasts forever
Red_Queen takes a sip from her drink, then shakes her head.
<Red_Queen> No natural levels of entropy could do that to Avatar or Sofware.
<__Nita__> (int+comp or wits +enigmas or??)
<Marvin_Black> So someone is helping out... Great...
<Red_Queen> ...well, more like pushing everything in uber-FFWD.
<___Kay___> (anything from my study of the code and the scan/trace during the attack?)
<___Kay___> liek aging something until it disintegrates?
<___Kay___> (thinking Last Crusade and the natzi scientist with the false cup)
<Marvin_Black> That's not that big of a problem.. Doing this to whole AIs, sectors and reversing it is something different...
<__Nita__> (I think wits+intuition with wits+enigmas)
<Storytortillo> (nothing can be found on the attack)
<__Nita__> my trace/scan didn't record?
<Storytortillo> (totally nothing)
<__Nita__> *sigh*
<Storytortillo> (as if she was starting to fall apart out of the blue)
__Nita__ sits looking puzzled at her display screens
__Nita__ wonders if finishing this next time might not be wise?
<Storytortillo> Someone appears at your table... Marv, Kev... this someone is quite familiar
__Nita__ looks up
__Nita__ looks at marv -- someone you know?
Marvin_Black looks at the person
<Storytortillo> You are startled...
Red_Queen notices the others staring at the newcomer.
<___Kay___> mom -- who's this??
<Storytortillo> Kev you also remain with your moth agape as you see the newcomer
Red_Queen looks at him too, trying to see if he rings any bells.
<Red_Queen> Hello there. Can we help you somehow?
<Marvin_Black> Ummmmm...
Marvin_Black blinks
Marcello walked over to the table, wearing a white coat, blue shirt and white suit.
<Marvin_Black> Ehhhhhh...
<Red_Queen> Marv?
<Marvin_Black> Ok, that's it... Now I'm sure the world is coming to it's end
<Marcello> (okay, then I walk in)
Red_Queen turns to him to see what's with the moment of eloquence.
<Red_Queen> Are you okay?
<Red_Queen> What's up?
<Marcello> Mr. Black.
<Marvin_Black> Dead sectors starting to reconstruct and dead men walkding the DW?
Marcello nods to him.
<Marcello> Mr. Grey.
<__Nita__> Ms. Red?
<Red_Queen> Oh, you know each oth- dead men?
<Red_Queen> What the hell's that supposed to mean?
<__Nita__> good query
<Marvin_Black> We just talked about him...
<__Nita__> yes the fellow that disappeared?
<__Nita__> fellow
<Marcello> I think that it has to do with my assumed death in a Whiteout.
<Red_Queen> That's... Marcello?
<Red_Queen> Oh my.
<Marvin_Black> Ummm... Yes...
<Marcello> Marcello Keagan, at your service, Miss.
<Red_Queen> Red Queen, sir. VA. Pleased to meet you, and glad to see you're still alive.
-- To Be Continued --
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