AGWW Online - Log 2003/04/29

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Session 1x17: Taking on the Fallen?

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 A.C.Newton (Sons of Ether) - played by Stayka
 Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai
 D.A.N. Primus (Orphan) - played by 'Top Hat' Jon
 Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones
 Agent Kevin Grey (NWO) - played by Stayka
 Dr.Marcello Keagan (OoH bani Thig) - played by Dingo
 Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven
 Moonchild Farstrider (Dreamspeaker) - played by Fuzzy
 Teora (AI of the Meteor) - played by Stayka

 ST - Stayka

 Session Start: Tue Apr 29 20:59:16 2003

<ST> Last time we built the Virtual Meteor with quite a lot of nasty weaponry and managed to find a name for he we all agreed on...

<Hannibal_Golux> Ah... so we still haven't picked up my army?

<ST> So now we have the Virtual Ethership Nova at our disposal with additions from Marv (Entropy cannon), Dan (Big Laser thingy), Kev (Mind cannon), Ac (Protongun, what else) ...

<ST> (Hanni: No yet)

<Marvin_Black> (Plague Cannon! *gg*)

<ST> (MArv: Sure :-)

<ST> (Let me first recap please)

<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, so maybe we want to pick them up soon... Do you want me to run the pick-up, or should we just gloss over it... I have to confess that I'm not that up for temp-STing at all tonight.)

<ST> Hanni did a lot of neat upgeading of the plans, and Asmo compiled the thingy into a Daemon

<ST> Now we have the Nova in a handy format and can recall her whenever need be

<ST> (Hanni: We can gloss over it)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Cool with me)

<Asm0dai> Ok so we ghave a shipfull of killer AI's?

<Hannibal_Golux> Shall I describe them, at least?

<Hannibal_Golux> Each AI looks almost identical to the others. White bodies, armed up with varying weaponary both missile and melee. They have no face, instead a blackness that dips away into seeming infinity of unique stars. Blazoned on the chests of each one is a totally unique fractal design.

<ST> Okay.

<Hannibal_Golux> (The fractal design on each AI represents their unique learning curve. Each one has developed its own fighting style.)

<ST> So we managed to get the evil AI warriors on board...

<Hannibal_Golux> These are essentially glorified specialist systems in combat, using AI logic systems to develop their fighting styles. I trained them in gladiatorial style training sims.

<ST> (Hanni: Sounds cool!) :-)

<Asm0dai> kawaii :)

<ST> Okay, as Marcello has something in Mind, we need to switch to the Meteor for a moment...

<ST> On the Meteor we have Marcello and MC still awake and not linked to the DW...

<ST> (Ok, Marcello, your turn...)

Asm0dai goes to the deck of the nova to work on his surprise, while the scene changes...

MC_Farstrider is still on the Meteor talking to Teora

Marvin_Black adjusts the Plague cannon to his needs

<Marcello> /msg ST Just have Teora report that Marcello lost his vital signs

<Marcello> darn :)

<ST> (Need to get Teora online, too...)

<Marcello> Okay: Teora reports that Marcello has lost his vital signs

Teora has joined #agww

MC_Farstrider rushes to his room

Teora talks to MC...

Teora suddenly looks alarmed...

MC_Farstrider asks whats wroing??

Teora appears next to MC in her usual holographic form

<Teora> I don't know

<MC_Farstrider> whathaoppened?

<Teora> I'm not trained in Medicince, I'm afraid.

<MC_Farstrider> I am. Who's ill??

Teora points to Marcello's lifeless body

<Teora> Well,v I can't read any lifwesigns of his anymore

MC_Farstrider kneals by him

<ST> Well, you can see that he doesn't breathe anymore, and his heartbeat ceased, too

<MC_Farstrider> hold his hand (to awaken the Spark of Life) and chanting softly

<MC_Farstrider> all spheres scan to diagnose

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 4

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 9 3 4 3

<ST> (Marcello, you have to describe the effects I guess...)

<Marcello> /me grasps his head with both his hands (on the Nova)

Marcello has no Life pattern anymore, the rest of his patterns are in the DW. The correspondence link is gone too.

MC_Farstrider tries to reach him via the corr/mind/spirit link

MC_Farstrider keeps his body going with life/prime

<Marcello> (Okay, this on is harder for me...am I too far away now... ??)

Teora stands there and does not really understand what is going on

<Marcello> (Being in the DW that is ?)

<MC_Farstrider> while searching with spirit/mind/corr for his location

<ST> (Marcello, well, this was your idea - RP it ^_^)

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 4

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 4 4 1 9

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 4

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 4 5 10 8

<Marcello> MC, I'm currently in the DW

Marcello has a splitting headache there...

Marcello graps his head with both his hands.

<MC_Farstrider> (is confused... is he saying that OOC or via the link or spell as IC?

<Hannibal_Golux> afk

<Marcello> (IC, thats what happens on board of the Nova)

<ST> (OOC, I presumde)

<ST> (Ok

<MC_Farstrider> I don;t know whats happening on the Nova only what I see sense here and umbrally

<Marcello> (There are lots of people on the Nova)

<Asm0dai> (his body has spasmic twitches... he will feel it once it dies :))

<MC_Farstrider> his body is being maintained by life/prime magick

<MC_Farstrider> (essentially life support)

<Marcello> (What has happened is that Marcello died..no life/prime magick that can help with that)

<MC_Farstrider> (actually thats not really true ... depends on how long the spirit hjad to go where its going

<Marcello> (my spirit wasn't in the body at the moment...it was in the DW)

<ST> (As Marcello told me he wanted his Spirit to be immersed in the DW now)

<Asm0dai> (actually only your mind...)

<MC_Farstrider> life4/prime2 can maintain the body -- jut as the machines were

<Asm0dai> (isn't that vulgar on a high tech ship?)

<ST> (It is.

<Asm0dai> (ouch)

<MC_Farstrider> could be she got 10 and 8

<ST> The Meteor is definitely not catering to Mystick Magick, I'm afraid)

<ST> (She is right - she had 8 and 10)

<MC_Farstrider> since Teora and the machines were unble to maintain it there isn't much choice

<Marcello> (Basic situation: Marcello's body had died while the rest was in the DW (or he escaped there while his body died...))

<Teora> Well, I'm not equipped for things like that.

Teora is responsibe to keep the Ship going...

<MC_Farstrider> so I'm using my magick to maintain the body for umm reintegration

<ST> (Marcello: It seems MC wants to keep you on Magickal Life Support)

<MC_Farstrider> I wonder whatwould happen if I physcially brouigh himn his body

<ST> (Hm?)

<Marcello> (MC: You keep alive the his body)

<MC_Farstrider> Teora can you reach the group in the DW?

<ST> Well, the crew on the other side in the DW Nova didn't notice anything of the dramtic proceedings...

<Teora> Well, sure I can

<MC_Farstrider> please contact AC and let her know of this problem

<Teora> Whom do you want to speak?

<Marcello> (only that I in character have a splitting headache)

<Hannibal_Golux> (back - sorry about that, friend suddenly dropped round)

Teora contacts AC and tells her...

<ST> (Hanni: NP)

<MC_Farstrider> (hopefully Ac will reply)

<Hannibal_Golux> (what have I missed?)

AC_Newton has the commlink to MC...

<AC_Newton> MC, *what* happened?

<ST> (Hanni: Marcello decided to die - sort of)

<Hannibal_Golux> (huh?)

<Asm0dai> What?

<ST> (Well, MC on board discovered that Marcello's lifesigns suddenly disappeared...)

<Asm0dai> Marcello is here?

Marcello is on board of the Nova

<MC_Farstrider> it appears that Ma died... I'm keeping his body alive magickly until someone who understands the dw can help me

Asm0dai runs to Marcellos station to check on him...

<Hannibal_Golux> (Oooookay)

Marcello is grasping his head with both his hands

AC_Newton is totally confused

<AC_Newton> He did *what*? Die?

<AC_Newton> How so?

<MC_Farstrider> his body lost all vital signs

Asm0dai comes to MArcello's station and checks him out...

<MC_Farstrider> (Teora notified me)

<Asm0dai> MArcello

Marvin_Black looks at Marcello and lifts an eyebrow

<Marcello> uhm... headaches

<Asm0dai> Marcello brace yourself...

<AC_Newton> MC, I fail to undersatand - did someone attack you?

<Asm0dai> and concentrate...

<Asm0dai> your body has physicaly died...

<Asm0dai> Marcello is keeping it tehnically alive...

<Marcello> Wha ?

<ST> (MC)

<Asm0dai> but your mind is in problems...

Teora still stands there, appearing totally helpless

<MC_Farstrider> I will do what I can

<Asm0dai> Tehnically i could try and protect your mind here...

AC_Newton looks to Asmo and Marcello and doesn't understand anything

<Asm0dai> But i am gonan neeed yor help...

<Asm0dai> We can either try to get ysou back...

KevinGrey looks at the weird situation and doesn't know what to make of it

<Asm0dai> ... or simply go contain you here in the web...

<Marvin_Black> See? What did I tell you?

<Asm0dai> the problem will be that if you die here... you die... definetly!

MC_Farstrider says not now Marv, please

<Asm0dai> Marcello pick one...

<Asm0dai> and fast...

<Marcello> How do I get back ?

<Asm0dai> if your body dies before we disconnect your mind...

<Marvin_Black> I'm just telling truth... People die... Every day.. Everywhere. I know what I'm talking about...

<Asm0dai> if it is just a problem with conenction software then your ody is coping with your mind being elsewhere

<Asm0dai> just going back may help...

<Asm0dai> or screw up totally...

AC_Newton looks horrifed at Marcello

<AC_Newton> His body - dead??

Hannibal_Golux is too busy down with the AI's to know about this unless anyone says anything. (Yes, this is a cop-out. :) )

Marcello tries to go back the usual way...nothing happens

<Asm0dai> Acey... check Teora... NOW... all the outgoing conenctios nfro mthe meteor and their status... i need them fast!

<ST> (Hann: LOL)

<Asm0dai> (he he ;))

<AC_Newton> Teora? You heard?

<MC_Farstrider> yes, I'm keeping the body technically alive with magick

<Teora> Well, I lost the Correspondence uplink from Marcello

<Teora> There is nothing left

<Asm0dai> nothing?

<Asm0dai> oh shit...

<Teora> The Corr uplinks from AC and Kevin are okay

<Asm0dai> Marcello... you are no longer connected to your body...

<Asm0dai> your body is back on the meteor... and your mind is stuck here...

Teora looks very worried now

<Marcello> I don't understand..

MC_Farstrider starts working on a reitegration ritual

<Asm0dai> there seems to be an error in the software..

<MC_Farstrider> err reintegration

AC_Newton feels a bit of panic creeping up to her

<AC_Newton> She never imagined it might be dangerous to be here

<Asm0dai> (MC... his mind is on a completely differnet plane... without ANY connection to his body)

<Asm0dai> Acey can Teora give me a stat check on his connection?

<Asm0dai> and when it fell?

<Marvin_Black> AC: It doesn't matter if you die here, or there... You die anyway...

<AC_Newton> But I don't want to die!!

<Marcello> I'm not dead...I think...

<Asm0dai> YOu won't...

<Asm0dai> i never saw a case like this... except in whiteouts...

MC_Farstrider starts work on a corr2/spirit4 search for Kat

KevinGrey just observes quietly

<Marvin_Black> (<--- Starts the .Hack//Sign Main Theme)

<Asm0dai> MC you did some alterations on Marcellos body?

<Asm0dai> is that right?

<Marvin_Black> AC: Ehm... Right.. As if Death would ask you first

<MC_Farstrider> maintaining the physcial body for reintegration with his spirit when I find it

<ST> (Mav: Heh)

<Asm0dai> MC talkt to me...

<Asm0dai> did you modify Marcello's body?

<MC_Farstrider> since he houses part of my spirit in his spirt

AC_Newton looks to Kevin for comfort

<MC_Farstrider> I have a corr link to his spirit

<Marcello> I'm dead ?

Marvin_Black looks for something that keeps him from lookting at AC and Kev

<MC_Farstrider> I';m doing a corr2/spirit4 effect to locate that spirit

<Asm0dai> Will you all give me a bit of time?

KevinGrey puts his arms around AC...

<Asm0dai> (actualy only his avatr and his mind are in the DW...)

<Teora> Can't I do anything?

<Asm0dai> MC did you modify Marcellos body with any magick?

<MC_Farstrider> your saying the tracking will find his spirit is in his body?

<Asm0dai> Teora give me a graph analysysx of the conenction

Teora sends Asmo the logs of the monitor

<ST> (Asmo: You see that the Corr link failed short adfter the life signs disappeared)

<Asm0dai> (what does the graph show?)

<Asm0dai> Captain Newton... slow the NOva down...

<Asm0dai> Marcello...

<AC_Newton> Nova? Please stop!

<Marcello> Yes ?

<ST> (The ship complies)

Asm0dai starts his HD and presses a few keys... Marcellos post turns into a bed with him tucked in...

Marvin_Black stays in his gunner's seat and looks at Marc and Asmo

<Asm0dai> Ok Marcello... your Headaches?

<Marcello> They seem to be lessening

<Asm0dai> Okay... you have been... ummm... disconnected from your body... you are curently only integrated into the DW

<Marcello> How is that possible ?

<Asm0dai> your body is going to go into physical death unless we leave it on support and setup the correspondance lik back...

<Asm0dai> MArcello you are unique...

<Asm0dai> i never saw this before... except in whiteouts... they are Web distortiosn caused by paradox...

<Asm0dai> did you lately use any overt magick?

<Marcello> I only took one of MC's personalities in my mind..

<Asm0dai> ouch...

<Asm0dai> Oh helll

<Asm0dai> which one?

<Marcello> Kat... But that all went right..

<Asm0dai> Not quite... Standard correspondance links are only intended to take one into the Web... You were taking two... One was in your subconscious and that probably overloaded your connection... Check yourself... do you still have her peronslaity or was it shunted into your body?

<ST> (MC, you sense that Marcellos Life pattern is deteriorating despite your attempts to maintain it

<MC_Farstrider> that doesn't make sense

<MC_Farstrider> MC's beamed into the DW reapeatedly with no ill effects

<Asm0dai> yes but you were 1 mind fractured... he was 1 mind with andaditional mind

<MC_Farstrider> if it was left in his body, then she should be running it now

MC_Farstrider scans the body for kets spirit

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 4

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 10 7 4 1

<MC_Farstrider> 1 sux

MC_Farstrider contiunues to hold his hand sop the "spark of life" effectcan help

<ST> (MC it seems Kat somehow got sucked into the DW, too=

<MC_Farstrider> if that were true would she not manifest some how?

<ST> (MC Well, as much as you try, the life pattern falls apart)

MC_Farstrider calls Moira

<ST> (MC You don't know where she was sent when this happened)

<MC_Farstrider> we exit the ship and opem a gateway to the lunar penumbra (more effective in a positive environment)

<MC_Farstrider> (we carry the body maintaining the physical contact)

<Asm0dai> MC... why did you let him do that?

<Asm0dai> this was messed up?

MC_Farstrider continues to minister to him

Asm0dai scans the pattern of marcellos mind...

<Asm0dai> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Asm0dai rolls the dice and gets the following results: 4 8 6 8

<Marcello> I've went in the DW several times with Kat in my mind

<Marcello> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Marcello rolls the dice and gets the following results: 2 2 4 6

<Marcello> (shield)

<ST> (MC problem is that whetever you try, there seems something stronger that overrides your efforts)

<ST> (Ok, Asmo, Marcello is on his own. Kat is not detectable right now)

<Asm0dai> (ST the scan ?)

<Asm0dai> Oh shit...

<Asm0dai> Marcello brace for some nasty news

<Asm0dai> MC you need to hear this as well...

<Asm0dai> Kat is dead...

<Marcello> What ??

<MC_Farstrider> that uis not possible

<Asm0dai> Marcellos mind instinctivley tried to shield itself...

<Asm0dai> and it dumped Kat...

<Asm0dai> KAt is gone...

suxbot has joined #agww

<ST> (Ah, Dan appears after all...)

eye_onus has joined #agww

<ST> (Hello Dan..)

<eye_onus> (Sorry I'm late. BAD computer problems.)

eye_onus is now known as DAN_Primus

<Asm0dai> Marcello i told yo uyou were an idiot... you just ripped out a part of her permanently!

<Asm0dai> MC i am sorry...

<ST> (Dan while you were on the Nova, you got some ruckus about Marcello's body dying and him being a Mind on the DW now)

<Asm0dai> but i am afraid KAt is gone..

<Marcello> WHAT ?

<Asm0dai> Marcello seems to be more or less ok... though quite fragile after all of this... Marcello... Your mind was defending itself... If it didn't do it you would have probably been fractal dumped... And you wouldn't be here talking to us... You will have to live in the web... and you need to know that you will be quite fragile... Most things that only hamper us... destroy you... permanently... Maybe you should sit out this sortie...

<Marvin_Black> Try to trick Death and you will be f*cked up... But noone ever listens to me...

<MC_Farstrider> hmms sounds like being holistically immersed

AC_Newton thinks this sounds all very terrifying

AC_Newton is glad that she has Kev to lean on for support

DAN_Primus powers on, always late when the cool stuff happens- of course.

Marvin_Black thinks he always told them so

<ST> (Dan: Well, you need some spare batteries...)

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 5

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 3 4 10 7 7

<Marvin_Black> 1^<+

Asm0dai turns to Acey...

<Asm0dai> Acey you don't need to worry...

<Marcello> Thinking about this makes my head hurt....my body died...how ??

<Asm0dai> this is the after effect of taking to much...

<ST> (MC could you please write what you are doing on screen and not in MSG???)

<Asm0dai> I don't know MArcello...

<ST> (I want to have that in the logs, too)

<DAN_Primus> (No, this time it was the computer, not the power. My mouse is still screwed up. I can't figure out what's eating my processor.)

<Marcello> (DAN, windows ?)

<ST> MC: Well, Kat seems to be in the DW somewhere

<ST> (Dan: Windows?)

MC_Farstrider does a scan for Kat's spirit using spirit/corr

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 5

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 10 3 8 5 5

<DAN_Primus> (No, it couldn't be Window$, that's never the problem. heh.)

<MC_Farstrider> 5 suxx

<Asm0dai> (heh DAN :))

<ST> (MC: You can't home in on the Spirit properly)

<Marvin_Black> Now we have a ghost onboard. Great... Killer AIs under deck, a ghost on the bridge, Nephandies right ahead... How could it get any worse?

MC_Farstrider sends Moira back to ask marcello what he wants done with his body?

<DAN_Primus> Killer AIs? Are you insinuating something, Marvin?

<Asm0dai> (MC... you have the connnection to the Nova.. that is how we talked)

<Marvin_Black> Dan: Just the army Hanni just brought in... Every played System Shock... Ah.. forget it

<MC_Farstrider> NC left the shoip to try to gewt beeter conneccted -- high tech muesses up the magick

AC_Newton looks at Marcello who seems very much alive

<AC_Newton> How could he be dead?

<MC_Farstrider> she uis sitting with a "empty dieing" body in the openumbra

<Marvin_Black> AC: Just the way his body's gone, ceased functioning, got dumped, his heart stopped beating and so on

<ST> (He OpenUmbra... Another open source project?)

<MC_Farstrider> Moira asks again what he wants doine with his body?

<Marvin_Black> (lol)

<DAN_Primus> Han brought an army of warrior AI? Can I see them?

<MC_Farstrider> yup

<ST> (How does Moira ask - did she go into the DW herself? Or does she use the Meteor's commsystem?

<Marcello> I have a real hard time understanding this all...

<MC_Farstrider> a bit lowtech tho

<Marcello> How can I be dead. How could my body have died, and how is that I'm still alive then ?

<MC_Farstrider> she goes back to the meteor to talk to via Teora

<Asm0dai> it is simple marcello

AC_Newton thinks she really has to as Hanni if he knlows what to do

AC_Newton opens a commlinks to Hannibal

<AC_Newton> Hannibal?

<DAN_Primus> (Did anyone get a copy of the last version of suxbot? I seem to have lost mine....)

<Asm0dai> you entered the web by disconnecting your mind from your body...

AC_Newton sounds somewhat tearful

<ST> (Ok. Marcello - Moira asks you via commlink)

<Asm0dai> the problem is that you are now permanetly in the Web

AC_Newton raises the volume of the commlink to Hanni

<MC_Farstrider> did you want it brought to you? or ...?

<AC_Newton> Hannibal???

<Asm0dai> but you are still you... and quite workig...

<DAN_Primus> Something tels me Dr. Keagan did this by accident.

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes? What is it?

<Asm0dai> though you won't be able to go home...

Marcello sighs

<Marvin_Black> Poor sod. Welcome to an unlife of misery and pain... That's what you get if you fiddle with Death and challenge him all the time...

<Marcello> My body is dead or dying...I'm here.....but not dead......

AC_Newton sniffs.

<Marcello> what do I do..

<AC_Newton> Hanniball??

<MC_Farstrider> Moira asks again what he wants doine with his body?

Marcello is a bit in shock.

<Asm0dai> Your mind is away from your body...

<Asm0dai> so you will be quite alive...

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes. What is it?

<AC_Newton> Hanni! Marcello is dead. And he is not quite dead...

<Asm0dai> as long as you take care of yourself...

<AC_Newton> Hanni: Can you come and take a look???

<Hannibal_Golux> What? What happened?

AC_Newton sniffs again and sounds as confused as her words looked like

Asm0dai comms Hanni he has just lived trhough a whitecout body dump... because of the godddamn mind fraftion he tagged along...!

Asm0dai goes to Acey and holds her for the shoulders...

<Asm0dai> STOP

AC_Newton repeats her statement

<AC_Newton> Huh?

Marcello doesn't understand anything about it.

Hannibal_Golux rushes up to the deck

<Asm0dai> He is alive.. and he is still with us...

<Asm0dai> he only needs to watch it...

Hannibal_Golux looks at Marcello.

AC_Newton appears very yound and vulnerable again

<Hannibal_Golux> Um. He looks pretty perky to me.

<Asm0dai> and you could even make him a new body...

<MC_Farstrider> Asm -- what do we do with him here??

<Marvin_Black> Hmm... His body is dead.. No pulse, no blood pressure, no heart beat... What do you call it?

DAN_Primus walks over to Keagan.

<Marcello> What was explained is logical, but he doesn't understand....

Asm0dai turns towards the screen... i don't know... is the body fully dead?

<Asm0dai> We coudl freeze it...

<MC_Farstrider> no - but dieing

<ST> (By now he should be gone completely)

<Asm0dai> Acey are there cyro tanks on the meteor?

<Asm0dai> Hann... body diconnects are messy...

<ST> (MC it was continuously deterioration. All you did was trying to maintain him)

<Asm0dai> but the minds in the web only tend to hurt... or die...

<AC_Newton> Cryo tank?

<DAN_Primus> And to think. I've been searching for a way to make myself like you humans, and it seems as though most of the humans I've met here are DW constructs. You've just become a computer program, Dr. Keagan.

<Marvin_Black> Hanni: He didn't do it quite right. His mind is stucke here for more tornment and pain. Trick Death and he will trick you

<Hannibal_Golux> Asmo: What are you talking about?

<AC_Newton> Now... I could build one...

<Asm0dai> Yep you coudl freeze his body for a while... and maybe get him back inside...

<AC_Newton> But they are not standard issue

<Asm0dai> but the important thing is that he is ok...

<MC_Farstrider> whatasbout the moonlab?

<Asm0dai> and there is no need to fear for yourself...

<AC_Newton> Oh, yeah, I think Dad has one for alien specimen

<AC_Newton> I think it should be usable

<Marcello> But how can my body be dying if I'm here

<MC_Farstrider> ok - we take the body to the lab, radio them to expect us?

<Asm0dai> Marcello your mind and body are disconnected

<Marcello> It should not be damaged..

<Asm0dai> the web is it keeping it working...

<AC_Newton> Okie, excuse me for a moment, I need to get back to the shp

AC_Newton disconnects and runs to the laboratory department of the MoonLab

<Marvin_Black> Dan: Hejust entered a whole unlife of pain, suffering and stuff. Dead and not dead at the same.

<Asm0dai> Ok what are we gonna do with the op?

<AC_Newton> There she fetches an antigrav table and steers it to the hatch where MC went out

DAN_Primus taps Marcelloa on the head. "Excuse me? You still there? Or did you get lost in despair?"

<MC_Farstrider> ok moira takes it to the gateway and crosses over

<Asm0dai> Moira, MC you continue...

<DAN_Primus> Yes, Marvin, I know what he's done. I myself and living a non-life.

<Asm0dai> Marcello...

<Hannibal_Golux> Dead, huh, Marcello? Oh well.... Bad luck.

<MC_Farstrider> puting the body on the umm gourney

<Asm0dai> i think you are gonan have to stay low...

<Marcello> yes, mr. Primus...I'm there

<Asm0dai> and wathc yourself...

AC_Newton waits for MC and Moira to get into the hat and pressurizes it again

<MC_Farstrider> and transport to the airlock on the moonlab

<Asm0dai> you will have to stay in the Web... for quite a while...

<Asm0dai> i think Mr. Hannibal can help you on that...

<Asm0dai> Hann... any tips for only mind being functional?

<AC_Newton> They put the body onto the table and float it to the laboratory section where they put it into a cryogenic chamber

MC_Farstrider *suighs* deeply

AC_Newton does a Prime/Forces scan

<MC_Farstrider> I tried

<DAN_Primus> Good. How does it feel to be an AI program, Dr. Keagan?

<Marvin_Black> Dan: You could open a club. Tricked by Death or something like that. Life is hell, unlife doesn't seem any better...

<AC_Newton> !dice 4

<agww-dice> AC_Newton rolls the dice and gets the following results: 5 4 2 6

AC_Newton looks at the scanner and frowns

Asm0dai grisn in Marv's direction...

<AC_Newton> MC, someone did some alterations in his pattern , it seems

<Hannibal_Golux> Hmm. Well, I suppose I could give you a few pointers...

<AC_Newton> I have definite readings of primal energy

<DAN_Primus> No, it isn't, Marvin. That is why I am trying to learn a procedure for making myself a true human and not this mere replica.

<Marcello> I don't understand why....why didn't this happen in the other times I went in the DW ?

<MC_Farstrider> strange life/spirit/prime didn;t pick that up?

<Marcello> Can't believe it was Kat who caused the problem.

<DAN_Primus> I think you had a glitch in your spell, Marc.

<Marvin_Black> No one ever listens to me... I always said it's no good to constantly challenge Death himself and so on... But it's only Marv, no need to listen to him. Just poor ole Marv talking

<AC_Newton> MC: I don't know Life and "Sprit"

AC_Newton takes out her scanner and adjusts the range to incluse Entropy & Matter 1)

<AC_Newton> !dice 4

<agww-dice> AC_Newton rolls the dice and gets the following results: 2 2 6 7

<Asm0dai> Marv.. death is a her...

AC_Newton frowns.

<Marvin_Black> Asmo: Huh?

<AC_Newton> There is an Entropc field involved

<MC_Farstrider> I scaned him repeatedly, if you detected a prime pattern fluctuaion I shoiuld have too

<DAN_Primus> What ->Asm0

<MC_Farstrider> hmms

<AC_Newton> It seems there was strong Entropy at work

<MC_Farstrider> who do we know that knows entropy

<Asm0dai> ... death is a her...

Asm0dai smiles...

<AC_Newton> Well, I can sense Patterns...

<DAN_Primus> And you know this how?

<AC_Newton> I think Marvin is at least an Adept of Entropyx

<Asm0dai> (lol... i can... there is also my mastery of correspondance here :))

<MC_Farstrider> (well besides the fallen, who use it in there scemes)

<DAN_Primus> (What bis a Q account?)

<Marvin_Black> Asmo: Why do you think so?

<MC_Farstrider> for someone from the Q Conrinuum?

<Asm0dai> well think about it...

<Asm0dai> she has to be a woman...

<DAN_Primus> (Funny.)

<ST> (Dan Q is the main Bot in Quakenet)

<DAN_Primus> (Ah.)

<MC_Farstrider> right the sister of Hades I think?

<Asm0dai> (he services the channel...)

Asm0dai sets mode: +o ST

<DAN_Primus> I don't see why the personification of the end of life has to have any gender, let alone that that gender must be female.

Marcello seems dazed

<Asm0dai> Well it makes us feel batter, tinman ;)

<MC_Farstrider> hmmm

<DAN_Primus> I'

<Asm0dai> You are still on the yellow brick road to find a heart...

<Marcello> (Well if Life is a bitch, then Death must be male, since they are a couple *g*)

<DAN_Primus> ll have you know there's not a scrap of tin on my body.

<Asm0dai> (Guys start reading NEil Gaiamn... Dath is a girl)

MC_Farstrider has t look for Kat, spirit/corr says she's someplace in the web

<Marvin_Black> (Marc: -gg-)

<DAN_Primus> I'm not looking for a heart, I'm looking for a set of lungs.

<Marvin_Black> Asmo: I don't want to find out. You can see where it leads to right now. Life sucks, unlife is as painfull and even confusing... *sighs*

<DAN_Primus> And the rest of those internal organs- minus a heart, brain, and stomachh.

<Marvin_Black> (Dan: Take Marc's. He doesn't need them right now *eg*)

AC_Newton looks to MC (at the ship)

<DAN_Primus> I've got those. Oh, and look! I've begun to talk to myself again. I really do need to stop doping that.

<MC_Farstrider> Asmo.... any dieas where to start looking for her

<AC_Newton> I think we should get into the Web.

<AC_Newton> I think the solution can be found there

<DAN_Primus> (That's just wrong, Marv. W-R-O-N-G.)

<Asm0dai> DAN... you need a soul... therefore you nead a metaphorical heart...

Marcello doesn't understand

<DAN_Primus> No, I've got the soul, too.

<Asm0dai> i thin kyo ushould have heared of "The Wizard of Oz"

<Marvin_Black> (Sorry... °_°')

<DAN_Primus> Of course I have. The Scarecrow got a Diploma because he wanted a brain.

<MC_Farstrider> ACy == I have to go look for Kat

<AC_Newton> Well, she seems to be in the DW, too

<Asm0dai> MArcello... deal with it...

<Asm0dai> you are alive... and we may even give you a body with enough tricks...

<DAN_Primus> And I do have a soul, Asm0- the soul of that dead Hermetic that the VE fused to this body.

KevinGrey wonders what keeps AC so long

<MC_Farstrider> yes that is what the spirits tell me

<Asm0dai> but for now start watching your ass... and NO idotic taking of mind fragments!

KevinGrey wonders if someone deliberately killed off Marcello

<MC_Farstrider> umms a doctorate in THINKology

<KevinGrey> Maybe there was some self-destruct sequence hidden in him

<Marvin_Black> We are just talking about Death here. Nothing special. Everyone can and *will* die...

Marcello looks at Kevin

<Asm0dai> Enginer fused a soul into a body?

<Asm0dai> sounds like a frak Proggie...

<DAN_Primus> Dr. Keagan, are you aware that efforts are being made to restore you to your body?

KevinGrey looks back at Marcello

<Marcello> Did you guys have something to do with this ?

<Asm0dai> well i was here...

KevinGrey thinks he doesn't look exactly different from before

<KevinGrey> We?

<DAN_Primus> frak Proggie? What is that?

<KevinGrey> Not to my knowledge

<MC_Farstrider> progentor I guess

<Marcello> I'm not aware of my body at all..

<Marcello> Well this one..

Marvin_Black resits to play Cranberries "Zombie" or a song from Rob Zombie

<Asm0dai> Progenitor... they were called like that in the 70's...

<AC_Newton> MC, do you come into the DW or not?

<AC_Newton> I will definitely uplink now

<Marvin_Black> Untill a few days ago you even didn't know how to move properly in DW...

<MC_Farstrider> yes - I have to locate Kat

<KevinGrey> Well, complete Life pattern failure is in the capabilities of a Progenitor scientist

<Marcello> Well, Mr. Black, it seems you were right after all. The only way to learn how to handle myself here is by pain, suffering and death.

<AC_Newton> Teora will show you to your room...

<MC_Farstrider> nods

AC_Newton runs to her room and puts on theVR gear agan

Teora lights up a green line for MC

MC_Farstrider projects

<DAN_Primus> You've pretty much got the death part already, Marcello.

AC_Newton appears in the command center of the Nova

<Hannibal_Golux> (apologies all round for my quietness... I'm currently preoccupied while watching all this...)

<Marvin_Black> Marc: I always said so... But no one will ever listen to me. It's always the same. Now you see what life is about. I told you, for every tiny bit of light there will be a shitload of pain waiting. That's the only use of this so called light

MC_Farstrider appears and looks for Marcello

<ST> (MC you appear in the command center of a ship that looks similarly futuristic as the Meteor.

<ST> (Hanni: NP)

<MC_Farstrider> very nice -- guys :)

<Marcello> What happened ?

MC_Farstrider looks for marcello

KevinGrey sees AC and smiles at her.

KevinGrey nods t MC

<DAN_Primus> Hey, Marcello- can we replay that one scene from Star Trek: Voyager when the Doctor does that trick with his forcefield?

MC_Farstrider nods to Keven

<AC_Newton> Well, we put your body into a cryogenic chamber at the MoonLab

<Asm0dai> good...

<Marvin_Black> Marc: You just died and don't want to admit it, since you're still around

<Asm0dai> so MArcello we can try and find soemthign for you...

<DAN_Primus> You can play the doctor- and I can play the guy that slaps the Doctor.

<AC_Newton> I scanned hiim...

<AC_Newton> There must have been a very powerful Entropy Effect at work

Marcello peers at Marv

<MC_Farstrider> I was unable to maint the physical body

<Marvin_Black> Marc: Why are you looking at me?

<MC_Farstrider> it appeared to deteriate even with both magick and mystic support

<DAN_Primus> Come on, Marcello, let me slap you. That was my favourite scene in Voyager.

<Asm0dai> Strange...

MC_Farstrider hugs Ma -- I'mn sorry hon

<AC_Newton> Well, I only have the most rudimentary knowledge of Entropy, and none of Life, so I can't really say what happened

<Marcello> Entropy ??

AC_Newton looks at Marcello

<Asm0dai> Acey... can you give me the readouts?

<Asm0dai> i can analyse them i nconjecture to what has happened here...

<Marcello> That means that Asmodai's theory was wrong..

<MC_Farstrider> yes -- her scanner showed entropy was involved, probably whatkept my magick from working

<AC_Newton> Yes, Entropy. It was eroding the patterns I could scan. I don't know what exactly it did to the Life Pattern, but it was obviously fatal

<Asm0dai> maybe i can give soem definite reason...

<Asm0dai> i don't think so...

Marvin_Black gets a bit more serious than usual

<Asm0dai> Stayka can i see the stuff?

<MC_Farstrider> my traces showed Kat is someplace in the web

AC_Newton asks Teora to download the data to Amodai

<Hannibal_Golux> (sorry, about this guys... I gotta go afk for about 20-30 mins... I got a timeout due in about 5 mins, too... I'll be back soon)

<ST> (Ok, Hanni)

<Asm0dai> (ok hann)

DAN_Primus glances at Marcello, wondering what he'll do if he is permanently trapped in the Web.

<Marvin_Black> (Hey... Who projected Stayka into DW?)

<DAN_Primus> (Teora did. Read the backposts.)

Asm0dai takes a look and makesa a quck chaos equation absed on the input wit htthe standard factor accordign to the theory of application

<Asm0dai> !dice

<MC_Farstrider> NAVI: Can you locate Kat in the web?

<ST> (Marv, Asmo does this even when I play Pete - then he becomes a "she"...)

<Asm0dai> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Asm0dai rolls the dice and gets the following results: 9 8 6 10

<Asm0dai> (mind/entropy scan)

<MC_Farstrider> (looks good)

<Marvin_Black> Marc: so what do you want to say with that?

<MC_Farstrider> (/me thought Teora projected ACy not Stayka

;))

<DAN_Primus> (Oh wait- I got mixed up. I read Stayka and thought 'AC'.)

<ST> (MC: Still there is no definite reading. You assume she might be shielded from you)

<MC_Farstrider> (whatdoes NAVI say?)

<Marcello> Marv: Just that it can't be paradox that caused this.

<ST> (MC: Well, Navi says that finding Kat might become a quest in its own)

<Asm0dai> Hmmm according to this Marcello... it seems you ahd really nasty entropy resonance on you... it seems like you were cursed with Death... and you caused it yourself... by overloading the correspondance channel with taking both your and the fragment of MC's mind...

<Marvin_Black> Marc: And why are you looking at me?

<Asm0dai> Entropic resonance works itself out...

<DAN_Primus> (The bad thing about calling a person by there characters name even when they're not in character- you automatically think the characters name IS the person name, after a while. That's probably why everyopne here calls me Dan, even though my name is Jon....whay too long a sentence here.)

<ST> (Dan: Hehe. Indeed...)

<Asm0dai> and it works in really strange ways... whatever you did you triggered it with connectinga few hours ago

<Marvin_Black> (Dan: In my old DSA p&p round they used to call me Beleg and sometimes had to think of my real name: Sven)

<MC_Farstrider> *sigh*

<Asm0dai> (well that is common)

DAN_Primus still wants to do the Voyager scene and slap Keagan.

<Asm0dai> So the funny part on your curse is that you triggerd it yourself...

AC_Newton feels somewhat emotionally drained.This was all a little much for her

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MC_Farstrider finds a chair and sits.... (meditate on what to do next)

<MC_Farstrider> !dice 6

<agww-dice> MC_Farstrider rolls the dice and gets the following results: 9 3 10 7 5 3

<Asm0dai> in the years of studying chaos systems it has become quite obvious that it works it self out...

<MC_Farstrider> I'm going to have to leave to try to locate Kat

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<Asm0dai> You will go alone into the Web?

<AC_Newton> MC: Leave? Where?

<Hannibal_Golux> (going afk now)

<Marcello> So if I'm correct about this....i'm a computer program now.

<ST> (MC What exactly did you roll?)

<Marvin_Black> Hmm.. Perhaps I could look at your source code.

<MC_Farstrider> my current beleif is that she was stuck someplace randomly and she appears to be shielded from direct view

<Marcello> Hell no.

<Asm0dai> correct... and you really don't want to know what can happen to you...

<ST> (MC please state your actions clearly in the channel. MSG are too cumbersome to follow with 4 windows here)

<Hannibal_Golux> (Just say that I walked out rather unsympathetically or something)

<Asm0dai> (heh)

<DAN_Primus> (Ah man, I was hoping for rot.)

<Marvin_Black> Marc: Why did you look at me when the word Entropy was dropped?

<MC_Farstrider> MC: I'm going to have to leave, (having meditated on the situation) and try to find Kat (to reintegrate her)

<ST> (Dan: Evil you)

<ST> MC: Leave the Web?

<Asm0dai> Actually Marcello... you are in serious problems...

<Marcello> Marv: Who wouldn't...you are the adept of Entropy here.

<AC_Newton> How do you want to find Kat when you leave the web while she is in here?

<DAN_Primus> Yes, but you're the on that did the spell, not Marv.

<Marcello> Am I ?

<MC_Farstrider> MC: since its likely to be a long processes -- I don;t want to be in the way of your quest to deal with the makers oif the bracelets)

<Marvin_Black> Yeah.. Right... Something's wrong... It's Marv's fault.. Someone dies... Of course it was Marv...

<AC_Newton> MC: Hm... Have you considered this might be connected?

Marvin_Black mumbles to himself sounding quite serious

<MC_Farstrider> no, I meant a search of web space

<Marvin_Black> As if I hadn't seen enough people I know die already

<DAN_Primus> Marv, why don't you use your extensive knowledge of Entropy to find out the source of this- 'curse', as Asm0 calls it.

<Marcello> Marv: That wasn't what I said.

<MC_Farstrider> (me is confused)

<Marvin_Black> I could do a checkup...

<DAN_Primus> I have this strange feeling that this curse might be somehow linked to the bracelets everyone goes on about.

<ST> (MC: OOC: Why the heck do you want to wander off AGAIN?? I set up everything that you can stick with the group for a reason..

Marvin_Black loads his TV set and tries to find the channel of curse documentation

<Marvin_Black> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Marvin_Black rolls the dice and gets the following results: 4 10 9 8

<ST> (If you don't want to play cooperatively then I really don't know hy you stay here in the first place)

<Marvin_Black> (Prime / Entropy / Mind scan... four sux?)

<ST> (Marv: Uh, sorry, gotta check what you did...)

<ST> (MArv: Moment..)

<Asm0dai> (the same thing i did...)

<Marvin_Black> (Five... actually.. One ten...)

<ST> (Marv: You don't ave tim, d you?)

<Marvin_Black> (Only on MarvTV for everyone to see)

<Asm0dai> (i can brief him if you want stayka...)

<Marvin_Black> (Nope)

<Asm0dai> (though i didn0 tlearn the cuase of the curse)

<ST> (Asmo: Do so, please)

<ST> (Asmo: the cause is somewhere in the past)

<Marvin_Black> (It's on the TV set... You can tell it for everyone. It's just a documentation on Marc's curse)

<ST> (Asmo: You need Time 2 to exactly locate it)

<MC_Farstrider> [MC did not want to become a probelm, its established that the situation was caused by some flaw in Ma's spell]

<Marcello> ((MC: that was probably what saved him :))

<DAN_Primus> (Yes, but what is the exact question- and I highly doubt you'de be able to find Kat on your own, anyway.)

<ST> (MC, the main problem is that you don't seem to want to play with the *group*. It is very cumbersome for me as ST to have to hunt you down all the time because you simply wander off)

<Asm0dai> (okay... you all learn that Marcello was cursed with death or mutilation in his past... it seems that his body was cursed to ddeath with entropy... entroyp works i nstrange ways, and what actualy triggered the curse was during one of the connections to the DW

<DAN_Primus> (And yet he's still alive.)

<DAN_Primus> (Well, sort of.)

<Marvin_Black> I like this station. It's "Curses, Cults and Bad Habits. A short view on the modern occult way of cursing someone and curses effects"

<MC_Farstrider> (kind of depends on how the curse was worded.... his body dieing could be the end of the curse)

<Asm0dai> ... MArcello connected with an additional part of the mind... that caused an overload in the link and he started to die... luckily his mind dumped the fragment in him, and conserved itself as a "program" in the web... the body was stopped from total collapse thanks to MC's and Acey's intervention)

<Asm0dai> (not necessarily... this isn't a spell curse...)

DAN_Primus sits down in front of the TV with Marv, watching the show on Keagan's curse and eating some caramel popcorn.)

<ST> (Dan, you are evil! :-)

<DAN_Primus> ( I've invented a new smiley! the Pirate: .) )

<ST> (Dan: *g* I did that before. Happens when I type too fast)

<Asm0dai> ( in the process, the survivor part of MC's mind - Kat, was shunted out of MArcellos mind... and somewhere into the Digital Web... unfortunately she cannot be found by any normal ways... since she could be Anywhere... and MC's classic methods don't work...)

<Hannibal_Golux> (back - sorta)

<Marvin_Black> If that was worth it? Tricking Death this way and now living an unlife, with even more pain and suffering?

Asm0dai concludes the lacture on MarvTV...

<Asm0dai> ANd now... sports!

<DAN_Primus> Okay, so MC lost her mind- well a part of it- and Keagan's completely mental. You know, this is a good show.

<Marcello> I did not trick Death, Mr. Black. That would have required me knowing about this...it seems more that Death tricked me.

<Asm0dai> Well did you know you were cursed?

<Marcello> No

MC_Farstrider is glad thatyour alive, and hopes we can find a way to umm put you back together

<Marvin_Black> This was Death's response on challenging him one too many times... You did not want to believe me that great grief is coming your way, when you said you whole life was a pile of cherry blossom

Asm0dai grins...

AC_Newton thinks this is all very uncanny

<DAN_Primus> I think we should leave Kat alone. Obviously it's just the part of MC that thinks about sex all the time.

<DAN_Primus> I'm not really in the mood to search for someone else's pussy.

<Marvin_Black> (Dan, you're even more evil and cynical than Marv ^_^)

<MC_Farstrider> nope, thats ME ;)

<MC_Farstrider> Kat is a protector with a problewm with anger mangement

<KevinGrey> (no comment here)

<DAN_Primus> (Well, that's because Marv limits his cynicism to Death and Pain. DAN doesn't.)

MC_Farstrider walks over to MA and holds his hand

<Marvin_Black> (These two could be the Death to anyone's sanity if the target is weak minded ;) )

<DAN_Primus> (Although he did get the cynicism idea from Marv- he thinks Marv's an allright guy, if a little depressive.)

<Asm0dai> I think that Kat is not the priority now...

<AC_Newton> (Marv: Hehe)

<Asm0dai> i must agree with DAN...

<Asm0dai> we need to stop those Nephandi first...

<Asm0dai> then we go and find Kat...

AC_Newton thinks Marv needs some cheering up.

<Asm0dai> and marcello... you are gonan need to stay low...

<Marvin_Black> (As I said: Marv has a good influence on everyone after all)

<Marvin_Black> He's dead already. What does he have to lose?

<AC_Newton> (hehe)

<Marcello> My life Mr. Black ?

<Marvin_Black> Your unlife you mean...

<DAN_Primus> Didn't you here him, Marcello? You're already dead.

<MC_Farstrider> (To borrow from Crow: Stairway to Heaven.... "There's dead and theres DEAD"

AC_Newton could build an android body for Marcello...

MC_Farstrider winks atMa

<MC_Farstrider> As I understand it, his situation is much like a perosn thatclimbs into the dw FROM THE wEAVER'S wEB

AC_Newton looks at Asmo

<Asm0dai> yep*

<AC_Newton> Asmo, so, how shall we go about it then?

<Asm0dai> ?

<MC_Farstrider> err person thatclimbs into the DW from the Pattern Web

<Asm0dai> we go and kick those nephandi...

<Asm0dai> marcello stays HERE on the Nova at all times...

<AC_Newton> Yeah. Simply fly there an blow the,m up?

<Asm0dai> he is vulnerable to anything...

<Asm0dai> it won't be that easy...

<Asm0dai> they will probably be ready...

KevinGrey should better stay on the Nova, too

<KevinGrey> (AC!!)

<DAN_Primus> Marcello can man my quantum laser if he wants.

<KevinGrey> Arf

<Asm0dai> and they are at least as cpabale as we are...

KevinGrey looks at AC

<DAN_Primus> That way he can still help from within the ship.

<KevinGrey> You should stay on the Nova, too!

<MC_Farstrider> NAVI: is that correct, (a mind only person, has the same vulnerability as a holistically immersed person)?

<ST> (NAVI) Yes, that is correct.

<Asm0dai> NAAVI blinks a large green YES

<Marvin_Black> You don't think I'll go down to a bunch of Nephandie fighting killer AIs, don't you? Forget it. I'll stay and use the Plague Cannon

<ST> (Better,Asmo :-)

KevinGrey doesn't want Acy get hurt

MC_Farstrider will stay here with Ma to look afterhim

DAN_Primus unholsters the arm laser, and starts twiddling with it.

<Asm0dai> Okay... Hannibal, DAN, Acey Grey and you too MArv... we form the assault...if the AI's fail... or we getz into shit...

AC_Newton looks at Kev

<Asm0dai> DAN & Acey are backup... the others are on stnadby as soon as we are close...

<AC_Newton> I will go with them!!

AC_Newton sulks

<Asm0dai> Acey someone needs to drive the nova...

<KevinGrey> It's too dangerous

<Asm0dai> And to use the guns...

AC_Newton sighs

<Asm0dai> as for guns...

<Marvin_Black> Why should I go down there?

<Asm0dai> The armoury will be up in 20 minutes and all are advised to stocku up...

<Asm0dai> Because you know your way better around the web then most people here Marv...

DAN_Primus reprograms the laser to have the same effect as the quantum laser he built on the Nova.

<Asm0dai> and i've seen you in action inb that mainframe...

KevinGrey looks somewhat relieved that AC stays on the ship

<DAN_Primus> (Diff?)

<ST> (Dan: Hm... 7-2, 5 suxx)

<ST> (Dan: You had Comp Apt, ne?)

<DAN_Primus> (Yes.)

<ST> (Dan: Thus Diff 5, 5 sux)

<Marvin_Black> And I know we gonna die down there. It's a death trap... Killer AIs, Nephandie or a ill aimed blast from up here... You have the free choice for the way to die.

<DAN_Primus> >r 9

suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 9 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:

suxbot --> (2,7,4,6,9,6,2,7,6) 6 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches): SUCCESS

<DAN_Primus> (That was easy.)

<ST> (Dan: Done)

<Marvin_Black> Is one person per day not enough dying around?

DAN_Primus looks up from his modified lasgun.

<DAN_Primus> So I'm staying on the ship?

<DAN_Primus> Allright.

KevinGrey will take some of AC's Proton Pistols...

<Marvin_Black> Who's gonna use the Plague Cannon if I'm down there?

KevinGrey slightly shakes his head and wonders if he was really starting to turn RD...

<Asm0dai> Okay....

MC_Farstrider thinks maybe its your reality the deviating

<Asm0dai> First Wave... the AI's

DAN_Primus moves over to a table and produces an It-X transmitter, just like one of the three removed from him long ago. (I'll let ST decide if it IS one of them- i.e. I stole it- or if it a copy that I asked Teora to put in the web for me.)

<Asm0dai> they will have cover from the meteor...

<ST> (Well, it looks like it and works like it - that should suffice :-)

<Asm0dai> if they get into trouble Hannibal, Grey and i assist... we also need nackup fro mthe ship...

<DAN_Primus> (Cool.)

<Asm0dai> if we start getting into trouble Dan, MArv and Acey go out... marcello continues firing the guns...

KevinGrey nods curtly

Marvin_Black sighs

<Asm0dai> Okay... all of you... The Armoury... now!

Asm0dai starts the applet

DAN_Primus has the Nove make a bag, puts the bug in the bag, and reprograms the bag to have one bug in it- in other words, if you take a bug out of the bag, the bag has one bug in it.

<MC_Farstrider> (it must the season, I read Grey nods cutely)

Asm0dai and the others are suddenly in a huge white corridor with a immense arsenal of all types ogf guns...

<DAN_Primus> (Diff should be minimal, so I doubt a roll is required.)

<Hannibal_Golux> Yes, Ais. First wave. Yes. That's what I was thinking...

<ST> (LOL)

<Hannibal_Golux> (You can't tell that I was distracted can you? ;) )

<AC_Newton> (Of course Kev is cute!!)

<Marvin_Black> (Asmo: Is it our armory?)

<Asm0dai> (yep... the one we made and i compiled :) guns galore)

DAN_Primus hands the bag to Marv. "Here, take this. You see something you want dead, stick one of these on it, I'm having the Nove track the little buggers, so both the Quantum Laser and the Plague Cannon will be firing on whatever you toss these on.

<Marvin_Black> (So don't forget: Some of the weapons have a weird touch to them ^_^)

AC_Newton looks at Dan

<Asm0dai> cuuute...

<AC_Newton> Hey, that's cool!

<Asm0dai> MArv deal them out...

<DAN_Primus> I'm thinking I'll man the cannon, and Marcello'll man the laser.

Marvin_Black takes it

<Asm0dai> each of the stikers ger one...

<Marvin_Black> Thanks. I'll use them

AC_Newton will (wo)man the helm

<Asm0dai> the important thing is for the waves to come in at the moment s notice...

Marvin_Black picks up a weapon that seems to be made of living tissue and steel

<Asm0dai> or we are gonan get wasted...

<DAN_Primus> The laser's much easier, since all he'll have to do is push the fire button. Gotta love auto-aiming....

<AC_Newton> And I'll have my variable radiation cannon, too

<Asm0dai> Han, Grey we must be ready as soon as the AI's go out...

<KevinGrey> I am ready

KevinGrey wears a black combination and has two proton pistols in his hands

<Hannibal_Golux> Sorry? Grey must be ready for what? To be our cannon fodder? Yes, brilliant plan.

KevinGrey looks bemused at tem

Marvin_Black gives some of the tagers to the others

Asm0dai takes the armour and loads himself with a ton of usefull guns... like Mjollnirs and Plasma pistols... and machien guns... it is gun that the Web doens't go with laws of physics liek weight and space :)

<MC_Farstrider> NAVI: please make me a 3 die staff

KevinGrey looks angrily at Hannibal

Asm0dai grabs the triggers

Hannibal_Golux winks at Grey

DAN_Primus walks over to Marcello and leads him in the direction of the quantum laser's 'FIRE' button.

<KevinGrey> It seems that I'm somehow involved here, so I can as well help you kill off these Nephandi

<Asm0dai> NAVI whirls up and down in fron of MC creating a long wodden staff made from soem sort of crystal with letters swirling inside it...

MC_Farstrider stands guard over Marc

<Asm0dai> that is what is expected Kenny..

Marvin_Black picks up an armor that also seems to be made of black living tissue... actually masses of worms that can repair and replace damaged portions of the armor.

<DAN_Primus> Okay, this is really easy- you see this light right here? That turns on when one of Marv's taggers sticks to something. You see it light up, you push this button here, and keep pressing until the thing stops being lit. Easy, right?

Marvin_Black s armor seems always moving and living

<MC_Farstrider> Navi: thank you

<KevinGrey> (Kenny? LOL)

<Asm0dai> :)

<Asm0dai> NAVI Bleeps

<DAN_Primus> (My last post was directed to you, Marcello Keagan.)

<Marvin_Black> (I think Marv has found a weapon and an armor suiting him ^_^)

<Marcello> (Sorry, having problems with breathing because of the weather outside)

KevinGrey programs himself a personal Forcefiel to protect himfrom stray blasts from whatever side

Marcello noeds

Marcello nods even

DAN_Primus opens a comm to the armoury.

<DAN_Primus> Hey, Marv, don't be frugal with those taggers. they're self-replicating, so you'll never run out of them.

<DAN_Primus> Well- unless the bag they're in gets destroyed, that is.

<Marvin_Black> Dan: Nice idea. So I can hand out some of them to the first attack wave... I'll show them what destruction is really like...

AC_Newton looks to Kevin and smiles

<DAN_Primus> They'll be amazed at how well this ship can aim from so far away....

AC_Newton thinks he certainly would make a great Son of Ether someday...

Marcello thinks this is also an excellent concept for fireballs :)

Marvin_Black hands out some more of the "tagers" to the first assault troup

<Marcello> (it makes them less vulgar, if you just let them orginate in the target)

<DAN_Primus> Just you guys make sure you don't touch the sticky side to anything you don't want blown up, allright guys?

<ST> (Marcello: This is DW.... I think those things are not really vulgar here)

<Marvin_Black> Dan: I'll think of a modification to my Plague Cannon. This idea is very effective.

<ST> (Marc: Ack, just noticed you refer to fireballs...)

<DAN_Primus> (Go ahead and toss some fireballs at them if you want, then. If you can detect the tagger's signal, you can cast whatever you want /in/ the target.)

AC_Newton goes to Kev and kisses him before he has to head on into the battle...

<DAN_Primus> (That is, if you have at least Corr 2, and probably more like Corr 3.)

<Marvin_Black> One last kiss of good bye, before the eternal departure?

<Marcello> (Here, both)

AC_Newton smiles. Only for luck

<Asm0dai> (we are gonna go into combat now? :))

<ST> (Well, it depends... Wanna do it now of start with furious battle next time?)

<ST> (It's 23:23 now)

DAN_Primus heads over to the plague cannon's chair, preparing it for the upcoming battle.

<Marcello> please do it now :)

<ST> (NP...)

<MC_Farstrider> [only 5:30pm here]

<Marvin_Black> (Am I now in for the first or the second wave?)

<Marvin_Black> (looking at DAN taking Marvs chair ^_^)

<DAN_Primus> (I have a feeling that we'll be able to come out of this with barely a scratch, thanks to the awesome might of the Nove- and the perfect aim of the taggers.)

<DAN_Primus> (Hey- i gave my chair to Marcello.)

Marvin_Black looks at DAN

<Marvin_Black> I guess I'm with you for the first round after all... *sighs* Never being asked...

<DAN_Primus> (and your the one with the taggers, so your supposed to be going down there and throwing them at stuff we want to blow up.)

<Marvin_Black> Death... Morituri te salutant

<Asm0dai> (marv 3rd wave)

<Asm0dai> heh... right Marv... let's jsut ry and get back whole...

AC_Newton gives Kev another longing gaze, before she sits at the command console

AC_Newton checks that the course is set accorning to the data that was found out earlier...

<DAN_Primus> (And I did ask, kinda. I told you that I was thinking about me manning the cannon and marc manning my spot. You never objected to it, so I took that for agreement.)

Marcello wonders how well the weapons are linked/linkeable ?

<Marvin_Black> Destrucion.. Damn Nephandi... There's enough suffering and destruction in this world without them. I show them some of their own medicine...

<AC_Newton> So I am supposed to bring te ship right to the coordinates? Or shall we sneak there and try to hide?

<DAN_Primus> We'll want to be able to hit them from the hip, but sneaking in sounds good.

<Marcello> A flyby in which you drop the team, open op some support fire, and circle back again ?

<AC_Newton> I can't guarantee we won't be detected, though

<DAN_Primus> Maybe sneak up to them, deploy the AI's, and then move into a cover fire position?

<AC_Newton> Flyby is an option, too

AC_Newton looks thoughtful, while she ponders the options

<Marvin_Black> What about strafing runs?

<AC_Newton> Well, thats sort of a flyby, too, I'd say

<Asm0dai> Acey give me a minute

<AC_Newton> Sure...

Asm0dai starts a scan of the location for any over big enough to hide the meteor and to see the location (corr 1)

<Asm0dai> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Asm0dai rolls the dice and gets the following results: 7 5 9 8

AC_Newton would like to know something more about the defenses of the enemy, she has to admt

<DAN_Primus> (Hey, Marc- do you have Corr 2, Forces 2, Prime 3?)

Asm0dai shunts the image on the viewscreen...

<DAN_Primus> (Marcello?)

<ST> !dice 2

<agww-dice> ST rolls the dice and gets the following results: 3 3

<ST> (Asmo: No cover, sorry)

<Marcello> (Just prime 2)

<Marcello> (But yes, I have the rest)

<Asm0dai> (what no cover?)

<ST> (Asmo: It is a very twisted sector that looks like a rotten construction side, decrepit steel bar protrude into the air...

<Asm0dai> (could you make a bit sof sense? :))

<ST> Lots of debris likes around, intersperst with ghastly writhing forms that could be reanimated corpses or worse

<ST> (No cover large enough for the Nova)

<Asm0dai> Ok any nice places to land the troops?

Marvin_Black walks over to DAN and pushes one button at the Plague Cannons console. Four biomechanical tentacles come forth and with their tips forming a square before the Plague Guns muzzle

<Marvin_Black> That's for the tags

<ST> (Asmo: Well, the troops have ample space to hide.

<Asm0dai> Han...

<DAN_Primus> (Allright, Marc, whenever you push the 'FIRE' button on the laser, roll your arete diff 6 to find out how much damage your doing to the target.

<Asm0dai> how fast can your troops traverse the digital plain?

DAN_Primus needs to do a Seeking sometime in the near future.

<ST> (Asmo: The stee bars are several meters high it seems, and the are twisted and corroded,... In the middle of the sector you see a kind of factory all...

<ST> hall

<Asm0dai> Ok guys i have an idea

<ST> (Asmo: That hall is made of some greenish black, organic looking material that seems to be pulsating slightly...

<Asm0dai> Han canb you send your troops on fott through cover?

<Asm0dai> (anything else interesting ?)

<Hannibal_Golux> Sure.

Marvin_Black walks back to listen to the planing session

DAN_Primus takes the tagger he kept to himself and attaches it to a little rubber ball. The target light at the gun stations turn on, and DAN tosses the ball into the center of the room.

<Hannibal_Golux> (see, I'm still paying attention)

<DAN_Primus> Marcello! A test shot, if you would!

<ST> (Asmo: Well, It was just a Corr scan...)

Marcello presses the button

<Marcello> !dice 4

<agww-dice> Marcello rolls the dice and gets the following results: 4 9 2 9

<Marcello> 2 suxx

<Asm0dai> ok hann send in your troops through cover... i will create multiple image of the nova...

<Marvin_Black> (AC: PM)

<DAN_Primus> (The ball is dealt two points of agg. dam. and disintegrates, along with it's tagger. Nothing else is harmed.)

<ST> (Marv: Huh?)

<Asm0dai> and we will attack with multiple icons and a hored of AI's... that should gicve enough confusion...

<Marvin_Black> (Check AC'S PMs ^_^)

<AC_Newton> (Marv: They scrolled away... I can't scroll in ircII

<AC_Newton> (Marv: That's why I want the stuff on screen!!)

Asm0dai looks at the green stuff and smirking mutters: Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn...

<Marvin_Black> Nothing against Cthulluh... As long as it is small and sits on my shoulder

<Asm0dai> so... shall we?

<ST> (BTW, I think we need to activate te specialty weapons with the Arete of the person who built them. )

Marcello (has to relog, stupid crash, brb)

<ST> (After all, no one but Marv has Entropy 4...)

<ST> (We can simply declare that they are coupled by some remote control)

Marcello has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)

<DAN_Primus> Marcello- You realize you just shot a weapon who's muzzle is located on the outside of this ship, and yet nothing between the muzzle and that once ball has been harmed?

<Marvin_Black> I think we have too... *sighs*

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<Marcello> (Re)

<Marvin_Black> (Hi snow)

<ST> (Only if someone who built one of the weapons has Prime 3 (in te web) we can consider it as Talistman, I'd say - then it canbe used by anyone)

<ST> (Hi Snow)

<Marvin_Black> (I have Prime 3, even 4 in the web)

<DAN_Primus> (I have Prime 3- I built the Quantum Laser using it.)

<ST> (Marv: Ok. Then we can do it that way. Same with AC's and Kev's cannon - they have both sufficient Prime, too)

<DAN_Primus> (I don't know what the web does to my spheres- I have P3 in the RW)

<ST> (Dan: Ok. Then yours isn't a question either)

<ST> (Dan: That should be +1 in the DW)

<Marvin_Black> (All weapons on Nova are talismans ^_^)

<ST> (Marv: Practical...)

<DAN_Primus> (What are the other spheres modified and by what?)

<Marvin_Black> (Dan: Prime, Forces, Cor +1)

<DAN_Primus> (Got it.)

<Marvin_Black> (no Life, no Matter)

<Marcello> (neato)

AC_Newton sighs. No Matter is hard for someone who loves to work Matter.

<Asm0dai> ( ihave forces 4, prime 3 in the web...)

AC_Newton has now Forces 5/Prime 5 - fear me!)

<Asm0dai> (actually in the web i have corr 5, forces 4, prime 3 heh :))

<Marvin_Black> Geez... I don't want to meet my ancestors right now, but I have the feeling I will...)

<sneeuwbal> (and bye)

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<Marvin_Black> (Entropy 4, Forces 4, Prime 4, Cor 3. Ha!)

<Asm0dai> Well we can discuss that later... now we have a nest of gits to kill

AC_Newton nods

AC_Newton hops Kevin will not get hurt

AC_Newton looks worriedly at him

Marvin_Black sighs

<Marcello> I wonder about that tag mod..perhaps they could add it to Grey's cannons too and just link them all, and I'll just press the button :)

<Marvin_Black> Again we go, challenging Death, without having learned anything from the Marcello Incident

<KevinGrey> Well, you *can* use the Mind Blaster, too

Marcello nods

<KevinGrey> Actually, you could use it in any case

<DAN_Primus> The only thing that I know has an auto-aim is the Quantum Laser, and I already set it to the tagger. I'll be aiming the Plague Cannon manually.

Marvin_Black lets the worms of his armor get hold of the tager bag, so he doesn't need to carry it in his hand and can acces it easily

<Marcello> To which Mr. Black just added a the same auto-aim thing.

<DAN_Primus> Nova's handling the tracking of the taggers for us, she could also easily display them in falsetto overlay on the viewscreen if we so disired.

<AC_Newton> Hm... Auto-Aim?

Asm0dai checks his battle armor and changes his coat into a long white trenchcoat... his hair shortens nad becomes closley cropped...

AC_Newton thinks she doesn't know hot to built this in

Marvin_Black looks at the worms that form his armor

<Marvin_Black> All alive... yet soon to be dead

AC_Newton hinks Marcv's armour looks icky

<DAN_Primus> He did? (checks the targetting system and sees that its currently targeting a spot on the floor in the command room.) Cool, he did.

KevinGrey wears a Forcefield over a normal black jumpsuit.

<Marvin_Black> Ac: I also could have used spiders.

AC_Newton looks horrified at Marv

<AC_Newton> Don't!!

DAN_Primus moves the target away, just in case it spontaeneously fires.

AC_Newton ates spiders

<Marvin_Black> They are partly flesh, partly machine, that's why they close the gaps in the armor

<Marvin_Black> (Um... AC, that could be read as "ate" spiders ;) )

<AC_Newton> +h

<AC_Newton> LOL

<Marcello> You mean it all looks like that, but it

<Marcello> 's all just spiders

<Marcello> ehrm..Forces even :)

Asm0dai cloaks marv's armor behind an opauque jet black field

AC_Newton shudders and would like to be comforted by Kevin...

<Marvin_Black> Asmo: What did you do that for?

<Asm0dai> You see marv... acey has problems with bugs...

AC_Newton is happy that Asmo's "cure" against her Arachnophobia still seems to work

<AC_Newton> Otherwise she would have run screaming out of the command center

<Asm0dai> and as much as she is handdling it... we don't need to offer her more problems...

<Marvin_Black> Ah... Yeah... Everyone else is asked for their opinion.. Every one else is important.. But this is only Marv...

<Asm0dai> Marv drop it as soon as you leave her sightline...

KevinGrey smiles reassuringly at Acy

<Marvin_Black> What's the big deal with a armor of worms or spiders? It repairs itself, thickens itself if needed...

<AC_Newton> It looks icky!!

<Marvin_Black> Who cares. Guess who'll be feeding on you if you're down in the cold damp grave...

<AC_Newton> WhenI will die - hopefully in the far future - I want to be cremated in the sun!

<AC_Newton> (Still hee?)

<AC_Newton> (here)

<Marcello> Yes

<MC_Farstrider> yes

<ST> (Ah...)

<Marcello> time for action :)

<Marcello> lets blow things up.

AC_Newton still wonders how they shall begin with the fight

<Marvin_Black> Let's get blown up...

<MC_Farstrider> right - Marv :)

AC_Newton looks quizzically to Asmodai who looks as if e would know how to do this

Marvin_Black still thinks how to get out of the fight

DAN_Primus arms the Cannon, preparing it for the attack, making sure the auto-aim is still on.

KevinGrey is prepared and just waits for the order to act

Asm0dai smirks...

<Asm0dai> Captain Newton... we are waiting for your call :)

<Marvin_Black> (A black to blue wavering field opens between the tips of the tentacles showing the auto aim is active)

<AC_Newton> Ahm, me?

<Marvin_Black> (The field is formed like a pentagram)

<AC_Newton> So we should just let the AIs get out at the border of the sector?

<Marvin_Black> As long as the tentacles stick out it'll work)

<ST> (LOL)

AC_Newton looks at Asmo

<Asm0dai> Well that dpends on their comptence...

<AC_Newton> Well, I haven't built tem...

<Asm0dai> i hope that Mr. Golux knows his Ai's best... andwill advise us on the best method of deployment :)

<AC_Newton> I think Hanni should be able to tell us more

<ST> (Hm... Is Hanni still there or has he vanished?)

Marvin_Black sighs

DAN_Primus loves his tagger bag... :) )

<ST> (Hm....)

<Asm0dai> (i really don't have a clue how good the ai's are..)

<Hannibal_Golux> (sorry.... some major stuff going on at my end... just NPC the AIs to their best abilities... sorry)

<MC_Farstrider> (am I laggered, or no one saying anything?)

<ST> (I see a slight problem if Hanni doesn't return - he asked to keep this somewhat compact in the beginning IIRC)

<ST> (I wonder if we shouldn't move the actuall attack to the start of the next session after all)

<MC_Farstrider> maybe we should wait the battle till next time?

<DAN_Primus> (Yes, I think so. I'm going to have to leave soon.)

<MC_Farstrider> nods

<ST> (Dan: Yeah. Work, wasn't it?)

<Asm0dai> Okay Nim... will the ai's be fast enough on their own?

<ST> I think we should cut here and continue next session.

Session Close: Wed Apr 30 00:09:39 2003

-- To Be Continued --

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