AGWW Online - Log 2003/06/27
Mage - Order of Reason
Session 1: The Lost City
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Alvaro Suerra (High Guild) - played by Dingo Dr.Alex Perez (Cosians) - played by Fuzzy Camille de Valois (Celestial Masters) - played by Stayka Father Ramirez (Cabal of Pure Thought) - played by Asmodai Juan Gonzalez (Void Seeker) - played by Frederic Juko Laknoonen (Cabal of Pure Thought) - played by Asmodai Storyteller - Dingo
Nick change: d1ng0 -> Storyteller
<Storyteller> We start the story when the man in the crowsnest of the Regina del Mare shouts "Land in sight." After a long eventful trip you have finally reached Mexico. Vera Cruz, the city in the New World where the real adventure starts. After a few hours sailing, the ship docks in the harbor of Vera Cruz and it feels good to feel land under the soles of your shoes again after the long journey.
<Storyteller> But this is not how the story started.
<Storyteller> It all started with an invitation of Alvaro Suerra, a merchant from Sevilla.
<Storyteller> "Please meet me at my house in Sevilla on August the 23rd in the year of our lord fifteen hundred seventy-eight. I will be expecting you for dinner." Signed Alvaro Suerra
<Storyteller> (here we start)
<Storyteller> Alvaro Suerra is a well known member of the High Guild.
<Juan> what is the current date ?
<Storyteller> The letter arrives about 2 months before this date.
Camille returned from a journey to the moors only about a week ago.
Father_Ramirez prepares everything for travel, taking brother Ishamel with him to make him focus on different things, and hoping that soem travel will clear him... also i nthese times, a guard is always usefull
Camille brought some new impressions and a couple of new maps from the journey - plus a new toy she definitely wanted to try out
__Alex__ always has stuff "ready to go" being a regular traveler
Father_Ramirez enters a chapel in which Ishamel is kneeling in shadows looking at the rest of the monks in the Church. He goes to the huge man in the shadows.
<Father_Ramirez> Brother Ishamel... we are to go on a trip. You will go as my escort.
<Juan> i will make the necessary to be there in time
Camille drops copies of the new maps at the Celestial Masters Guild House in Sevilla, where her ship did its landfall and was informed of the invitation
<Brother_Ishamel> Yes, father Ramirez. I still wish to return to France, and deal with them.
<Father_Ramirez> Your time will come, son. Now you will go with me and that is an order.
<Brother_Ishamel> Yes, Father.
Camille wondered a bit that she wasn't allowed to return home to Paris for a little vacation, but the Guild Master in Sevilla insisted she follow the invitation.
Father_Ramirez twirls and his robes cover the camera giving the scene to someone else
Camille decided thus to replenish her things, get new parchment, ink and quills and some new shifts for a possible new travel.
__Alex__ prepares for another journey.
<Juan> I'll take the boat, and go through the river from Malaga
Camille also used the time until the meeting to shop for some useful herbs, as a lone cartographer was not always able to find a healer on his journey.
Camille spent the waiting time in the Guild House, making further copies of the maps she created during her last journey. The Guild was always craving for more copies, and she was a trained craftsperson
<Storyteller> The day of the 23rd of August is a nice warm and sunny day.
__Alex__ cataloges what materials I have, and shops for replacments
<Juan> (when do i arrive in town ?)
<Storyteller> Juan your trip down the river is quite uneventfull, almost boring and you have arrived a day early in town.
<Storyteller> Father Ramirez and his pupil arrive in Sevilla at the 23rd right before Siesta.
<Juan> (i will take the opportunity to visit the city market)
Camille dresses in her usual garb, black trousers that reach to her knees, black stockings, shoes with big silver buckles, a white, bulgy shirt and a black vest over it. Her copper hair was partly hidden unter a black cap.
Father_Ramirez enters the town with three horses... two are huge cargo horses and one of them is carryinga huge cowled man, towering above father Ramirez... father Ramirez is dressed in simple robes witha large wide rimmed hat covering him from the sun
<Storyteller> Juan: Anything special you are looking for on the busy market ?
<Juan> (notung in perticular)
Father_Ramirez takes care of a palce to rest, and takes care of a bath... he orders his companion to rest and be ready for the evening in the more ornamental robes they took on the other horse...
<Storyteller> Alex: You arrive after siesta, being held a bit by an interesting red flower, which turned out to be a red dandelion.
<Camille> (Imagine Camille in the outfit of the guy: http://www.zum.de/Faecher/G/BW/Landeskunde/rhein/swetz/tanz99/rena1b.jpg
)Brother_Ishamel goes after father Ramirez silently and takes care of the horses and takes their thinhs into Father rmairezes room setting himself in the small side room tha was arranged for him...
__Alex__ bathes and dresses for dinner -- male garb of the times
Brother_Ishamel takes of his cowl, remaining in the shadows and sitting on the bed, looking into the wall...
<Juan> (i ll wear sturdy travel cloth, i dont have rich cloth ^^)
Camille appears at the appointed place and time for the invitation.
<Storyteller> The others: Do you arrive earlier, just on time, or fashionably late ?
Camille is exactly on time
<Juan> (in time for me)
<__Alex__> early as I'm courious about this invitation
Nick change: _NPC_ -> Alvaro_Suerra
<Storyteller> When you arrive at the house, a house of moorish design, a servant dressed in fine clothes opens the door and lets you in. Inside the house it's quite cool, and you are escorted to small salon.
Father_Ramirez arrives early in his red cardinal robes wearing fine welvet gloves, and rich ornaments on his gloved fingers and around his neck... his beared face is rounded by the vbroad rimmed red hat... right behind him is a huge man in simple, yet fine and well crafted white robes, whose large hands are gloved, and whose face is cowled whiole striding, a large sowrd seems t o appear occasioanly among the folds of the robe...
Camille smiles gracefully and follows the servant
<Storyteller> The servant excuses himself, but Signor Suerra has another visitor still. If you would be so kind as to wait here for a moment.
__Alex__ follows the servant
Storyteller brings all a glass of chilled wine.
Camille tilts her head and nods in acknowledgement.
<Storyteller> (the servant)
__Alex__ nods to servant
Camille takes a glass
Juan take a sit
Camille looks around imn the salon
<__Alex__> (/me wonders how people sat with swords -- wouldn't they get in the way?)
<Juan> (nope, cause they are on the side)
<Storyteller> The only adornment in this room is a mosaic on the floor depicting Aphrodite and some of her.... lovers...
Camille only carries a nicely ornated knife at the belt.
Father_Ramirez heads onwards and sits at the table
Brother_Ishamel heads after father Ramirez silently and stands behind him a few feet, his head bowed a bit
Juan is in non descript, used brow leather cloths
<Storyteller> The chairs are made of a soft oaken in a light color, and the rest of the room is made of white marble.
Juan also wear a rapier a knife at his side
Father_Ramirez turns towards his companion and loosk at him sternly, but the cowl neither moves, nor does the man under it flinch...
Camille measures the place with her eyes and does a mental exercise in which she puts the exact measurements down in her min
<Camille> mind
__Alex__ goes over lists of things to bring on a journey, so as not forget anything
<Storyteller> The room is almost square, the long side just an inch longer than the short side. There is a small window here, about 3.5 feet above the ground, and there are two doors. The view from the window is a pool in the center of the house.
__Alex__ sips wine
<Juan> (since there's a priest ..) Good day to day Padre
<Juan> good day to you Padre
Camille looks at the other people who are waiting with her
__Alex__ looks back at Camille
__Alex__ nods
Father_Ramirez looks at Juan and smiles courtly noding...
<Juan> and to you too (while looking at the others)
Camille looks like a boy who probably shouldn't be out on his own yet, as there is not the least trace of a beard in his face yet. He is very slim, but still rather tall for his age
<__Alex__> (so all except the Priest and his companion are waiting, and they went ahead?)
<Juan> (i think we are all waiting right now)
Father_Ramirez smiles and introduces himself to the others as Cardinal Ramirez, and his silent companion that towers above all the present as brother Ishamel...
__Alex__ nods to him
<__Alex__> I am Dr Perez
Camille bows respectfully
<Juan> I am Juan Gonzalez
<Camille> I'm honoured to make your acquaintance, [insert fitting title for the cardinal]
<Camille> I'm Camille deValois, cartographer
Father_Ramirez offers his hand
Camille bows to Brother Ishmael, too, but not as deeply
Brother_Ishamel doesn't even move
Camille takes the hand and kisses the ring of the Cardinal (I think that was the proper action?)
<Father_Ramirez> (of course)
<Storyteller> (Yep, for all church dignitaries higher than a priest)
Father_Ramirez smiles benevolently
<Father_Ramirez> I am happy to meet all of you...
<Father_Ramirez> MAy god help you all...
Father_Ramirez smiles
Alvaro_Suerra enters the room through the other door.
<Father_Ramirez> I guess all of you have been asked here by Monseiur Suerra
Father_Ramirez turns towards the sound
__Alex__ looks to the sounds
Camille turns towards M.Suerra
Brother_Ishamel slowly turns not moving any muscle but his feet , invisible under his robes
Alvaro_Suerra is a young looking man with black hair, black eyes and a well groomed black moustache. He's wearing a loose fitting white silk shirt and white long wide trousers of the same material. Around his waste is a black sash. He's not wearing any shoes.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Good evening, I'm truly sorry I had to let you wait for me. But I had an important guest over from Constantinople.
Father_Ramirez smiles
Camille waits for the Cardinal to take the word. He outranks them all after all
<Storyteller> (To place the clothes, it's a mix of arabic and european dress, suited for fencing.
<Father_Ramirez> There is no hurry... we have time... but you have called us...
<Alvaro_Suerra> I did indeed, recently one of my agents in Vera Cruz obtained something that is perhaps the greatest discovery possible to make in this world.
Camille is all ears now
__Alex__ listens locsely
<__Alex__> (closely even)
<Alvaro_Suerra> And .... I will show you.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Please follow me.
Father_Ramirez looks interested...
<Father_Ramirez> Waht would this be?
__Alex__ follows with the group
Juan stand up
<Alvaro_Suerra> Something that might upset the whole history of the world.
Camille follows
Alvaro_Suerra leads you through a long corridor past the garden (with the pool in it) to a study.
Alvaro_Suerra moves a picture to the side and takes a box from the hollow space that is behind the picture.
Alvaro_Suerra is quite enthousiastic.
Alvaro_Suerra opens the box and takes out a foot long tube of a yellowish material, ingraved with lots of unknown symbols.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Inside the box are also a few sheets of paper that could have come from a travelling journal.
<Camille> What is this?
<Alvaro_Suerra> I wish I knew.
Camille 's curiousity takes the upper hand
<Camille> May I take a closer look, dear Sire?
Alvaro_Suerra hands you the tube...
<Juan> (i suppose it is written in a language that none of us understand ? )
<Camille> Thank you
Camille scrutinized the objects
__Alex__ looks at the "writing" trying to map to any language he is familiar with
<Storyteller> The writing on it is complete unknown.
<Father_Ramirez> Hmmm the history of the world should be changed to fit the goal of humanitys ascencsion...
<Camille> Indeed, I have never seen such symbols or craftmanship
<Father_Ramirez> ... this is something that should be looked into carefully...
<Alvaro_Suerra> But that is not all...
Camille has a slight frown on her forhead at these words
<Juan> why would this change the history of the world ?
Alvaro_Suerra places his hands on the tube, and does something. The writing on the tube changes.
Camille belongs to the Convention of the Order of Reason that most deals with things very much beyond what the church would like people to know
Camille 's eyes widen
<Camille> Now this is truly marvellous!
<Alvaro_Suerra> This thing may perhaps not change the history of the world, but where it was found may well do so.
<Camille> Where was it found?
__Alex__ looks on interestedly
<Father_Ramirez> Intruiging...
Father_Ramirez does a Forces Prime scan of the thing
<Father_Ramirez> ...d owe know that these are not Devil's work?
Camille would like to shake her head, but in such ecclesiastic company this was too dangerous
<Juan> (ST: could i date the fragment with a matter 1 effect
?)<Father_Ramirez> This should be looked into...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Somewhere in the jungles of Mexico. A city with lights that shine at night, but not made of fire. They also have weapons unlike those we have seen before. And vehicles that move on their own. And many other strange things.
<Camille> The Gabrielites would happily subject her whole Convention to the torch if they knew about their research
<Camille> (thought)
<Father_Ramirez> It may be something of lost echnology... ot it may be evil that is here to corrupt the immortal souls of men
<Alvaro_Suerra> This is no work of the Devil, this is a City of Lost Atlantis.
Camille thinks she would love to get there right away...
Father_Ramirez gawks but quickly regaisn composture
<Father_Ramirez> The lost civilisation of Enlightend science?
<Camille> (thinking) This sounded a lot like the direction some of the Celestial Masters' research was aimed at, after all
<Father_Ramirez> ... but they were heathens...
Camille *has* to get there
<Storyteller> Juan: The best you can do is make an educated guess about the material and the time it was made. But that will not show up much. Or at least that it is quite old.
<Juan> (ST: ok)
__Alex__ (thinks .... advanced healing techniques)
Camille is determined to move heaven and earth if necessary to get there and find out what was true about this
<Storyteller> Ramirez: It's brimming with Primal Energy.
<Father_Ramirez> (any Resonance ?)
<Storyteller> (just energy)
<Alvaro_Suerra> Well all we have to find this place again is part of a diary.
<Father_Ramirez> (NO resonance whatsoever?
<Storyteller> (none whatsoever)
<Father_Ramirez> Interesting this item is clearly special..
<__Alex__> (the pages in the box, yes?)
<Camille> May I please take another look at it?
<Storyteller> (Yes, thats the partial journal)
<Father_Ramirez> yet it seems to have no connection with anything i ever saw...
Camille thinks she might get a feeling for it, too, something that told her more about it
<Father_Ramirez> We must explore this and see if this is true...
__Alex__ looks on while Cami studies the object
<Camille> Well, I would love to accompany any expedition that is sent to investigate this more closely
<__Alex__> as would I
<Father_Ramirez> then once we know what it is and is it heathen we will see how to procede....
<Juan> who find this piece ?
<Alvaro_Suerra> The parts we have mention where a search could be started. After that 2 months nothing and then the description of some savages who welcomed the expedition members as gods. Some mention about the savages wearing golden jewelry and diamonds. And then the diary is cut off.
<Father_Ramirez> we may eve nuse it to further beleif into Our Father
<Camille> (I do a Prime/Mind scan - focus my 'feeling' for the weird and strange ^_^ )
<Father_Ramirez> I see where your interest is in this affair Senor Suerra...
Father_Ramirez smiles
Camille touches the object almost tenderly
<Camille> This is an amazing wonder!
<Father_Ramirez> I beleive the Deadalians may profit from their knowledge vastly...
<Father_Ramirez> ... if it is true...
<Father_Ramirez> Yet we must guard are self from heathen belief and or mystic evil that could stem from the heart of sucha place
<Alvaro_Suerra> The one who delivered this to me is an agent of mine in Vera Cruz. Or better said he was an agent of mine. He died moments after he arrived in Spain. He drowned when he fell into the harbor.
Brother_Ishamel seems to have moves silently into position to see the thing... displaying curiosity... the first emotion he saw since he was introduced...
Camille frowns and wonders if that was indeed an accident
<Juan> erf
<Father_Ramirez> Drowned?
<Father_Ramirez> Accidentaly?
<Father_Ramirez> or was he... removed
<Alvaro_Suerra> Please wait. THere is a bit more to the story.
<Alvaro_Suerra> We found this tube, and part of the journal in amongs his possessions. As well as his own journal. FiXXXer667 (me25186@the-1-202-147.dialup.tee.gr) joined #agww.
<Alvaro_Suerra> In the journal he described how he came upon this tube and the journal. The complete journal, including a map.
Camille still holds the object , she obviously would love to keep it, whatever it is
<Camille> (Hi Fix)
<Camille> A map?
<Camille> May I take a look at it?
<Alvaro_Suerra> It was in the possession of a man who walked into Vera Cruz raving about the City of Atlantis. How HE had found the city of Atlantis.
<Father_Ramirez> SI this journal verified to be his ?
<FiXXXer667> (hi all, again.. I'll just watch, 'k)
Camille is always interested where maps are concerned
<Juan> and what about the journal ?
<Alvaro_Suerra> The man died from a terrible jungle disease not much later. The full journal and the map and the artifact came into the possesion of the priest who took the last rites.
<Camille> What happened to it afterwards?
<Father_Ramirez> Wsa he a Deadalian?
Camille burns to get her hands on the map
<Alvaro_Suerra> He was just an ordinary village priest.
<Father_Ramirez> Waht connected him to this... "Atlantis"
<Alvaro_Suerra> And he was found hanging by the neck just a week later. His rooms being searched and turned over by someone. The local constabulary has investigated the case and decided it was a suicide....God bless his soul.
<Alvaro_Suerra> He was the one performing the last rites for the man that came from the jungle.
<Alvaro_Suerra> We do not know his name.
<Juan> ahah a priest comiting suicide, of course
<Father_Ramirez> ...
<Father_Ramirez> this is outrageous...
<Alvaro_Suerra> There is still more.
<Father_Ramirez> someone or something has shaken his fiath!
<Father_Ramirez> he must have seen horros there...
<Father_Ramirez> ... or there may be others who want to see Atlantis in their own hands...
<Father_Ramirez> I think a speedy expedition is of utmost importance
<Alvaro_Suerra> My agent recovered the journal, map and tube and took them on the first ship to Spain. In his own journal he mentions that he did not trust himself to write down what he read in the journal, but wanted to show it to myself and leave it to my.... wiser judgement.
<Alvaro_Suerra> All I have now, are some pages of the journal, the tube and my agent's journal.
<Alvaro_Suerra> The only thing of interest in his journal is an attack against him in the Canary Islands by robbers....
<Camille> IMay I take a look at the writings please
<Alvaro_Suerra> Oh, yes.. there was something else in the possesion of the man who came from the jungle, and that is indeed what has sparked my interest in this case.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Of course, Signore de Valois
<Camille> Gracias.
<Father_Ramirez> This is supposed to be conducted swiftily
<Father_Ramirez> we are to send an exposition as soon as a ship and crew can be assambled...
<__Alex__> this other thing was?
<Alvaro_Suerra> Unfortunately, others within the Order of Reason are not of the same opinion.
<Father_Ramirez> i see you called here specialists that have... unique skills
Alvaro_Suerra takes out a beautifull worked gold necklace, set with the biggest (and probably only) diamond you have ever seen.
<Father_Ramirez> That is why you are to provide the ship, and these men are to be on it as soon as you have it ready...
Camille waits to get the journal to take a look
Alvaro_Suerra hands you the pages.
<Camille> Gracias Signore
<Father_Ramirez> How soon can you preapre the ship?
__Alex__ reads the pages with Camille
<Father_Ramirez> can easily take care of a mission of Faith for the purposes of this mission...
Camille leaves through the pages and reads them carefully, commiting them to memory
Juan looks at the page too
<__Alex__> (/me memorizes what they contain)
<Father_Ramirez> YOur objective will be to explore this "atlantis" and inform the Gabrialites of its nature...
Alvaro_Suerra coughs
<Father_Ramirez> SO Senor Suerra... how long do you need for a ship?
<Alvaro_Suerra> I have arranged for passage to Vera Cruz already. The ship will leave on the first day of september.
<Alvaro_Suerra> All other things will come after dinner.
Alvaro_Suerra is obviously annoyed by Father Ramirez
<Alvaro_Suerra> Signore de Valois, this tube has 25.000 pages of symbols.
<Father_Ramirez> Perfect...
<Alvaro_Suerra> My literary expert suspects it is a book of some kind.
<Father_Ramirez> i will take care of legitimate reason for this expedition...
<Camille> This is amazing!
<Alvaro_Suerra> There is already a legitimate reason for this expedition.
<Father_Ramirez> our coleauges won't be able to say anything once i prepare documents of a religious reason...
<Father_Ramirez> But still you should find out as much as possible to learn of this "Atlantis"
<Alvaro_Suerra> And our colleagues don't say anything either when I present them with the treasures of this village mentioned in the pieces of the journal. And if you "happen to discover Atlantis while you are in the neighbourhood" nobody is going to object a thing.
<Juan> he
Father_Ramirez smiles
<Father_Ramirez> And thought you were onyl good for counting money...
<Alvaro_Suerra> And this is a lot less conspicious than going there to discover atlantis.
__Alex__ would think the possibility of finding advanced scientific information would be something the Order would be interested in
<Father_Ramirez> I will take care of the situation on this side...
<Camille> (sorry phone... still)
<Father_Ramirez> my aide... brother Ishmael will join you...
Brother_Ishamel seems to move closer to him and they seem to exchange some sort of conversation
Father_Ramirez ends the conversation wit ha gesture and says so everyone can hear...
<Father_Ramirez> ... and it will do you good to get away from your problems, my son!
Brother_Ishamel bows his head and steps back
<__Alex__> (/me wonders if Bro. Ishamel speaks... he seems very quiet)
<__Alex__> (ok - on to dinner?)
<Alvaro_Suerra> And now.. it's time for dinner. I'm famished
Alvaro_Suerra takes the tube and the journals back and puts all three in the box. And places the box in the alcove behind the painting again.
<Alvaro_Suerra> I have had my cook prepare a wonderfull meal today.
<Juan> lets eat then -_-;
Alvaro_Suerra leads the way past the garden, back into a corridor, along another garden and to a large room with a long table with white cloth, silver tableware and crystal glasses.
Father_Ramirez heads to the table looking quite happy and pleased
<Storyteller> His house has at least 8 guardens.
<Storyteller> All inside..
Brother_Ishamel follows abd when Ramirez is seated, he stands a few steps behind hi mstill keeping his cowl shadowing his face
<Alvaro_Suerra> Brother Ishamel please have a seat.
<Alvaro_Suerra> And join us for dinner.
Brother_Ishamel remains stnading
Camille sits
Alvaro_Suerra frowns
__Alex__ sits
<__Alex__> (perhaps he feels its his duty to be on guard for the Cardinal?)
Father_Ramirez looks at him and seems to whisper something... words duty and hospitality seem to be heard
Brother_Ishamel turns towards Alvaro, his cowl over his head and speeks in a voice that sounds rasping and rough, but in perfect Spanish
<Brother_Ishamel> I am sorry, Senor Surra... but my place is not at this table...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Nonsense. Just have a seat. And enjoy your dinner.
Alvaro_Suerra smiles
Brother_Ishamel seems to have a really rough and strange voice... deep, yet rough and rasping... still it is not the voice of an old man
Father_Ramirez leans a bit to him... he speaks slowly
Brother_Ishamel seems tosag with his shoulders and then joins the others at the table sitting next to Cardinal Ramirez, while sitting he seems to move a large sword that was conceled in the folds of his robes that was unnoticable before him moving it obviously
Father_Ramirez smiles...
Alvaro_Suerra rings a small silver bell, and servants come with large plates with meat and vegetables. Some other servants fill the glasses with a dark red wine.
__Alex__ looks to Cardinal Ramirez to say a Blessing before dinner
<Alvaro_Suerra> Your Emminence, if you would do the honors of saying Grace for us.
Father_Ramirez nods slowly...
<Storyteller> (Alex: Heathen *g*)
<__Alex__> (/me thanks the spirits ;))
Father_Ramirez gets up, and blesses the food, thankign god for his gifts, and asking for the protection of the Deadalian order... Finnaly he raises the galss and toasts to the host and the cause...
<Juan> amen -_-;
__Alex__ raises glass and says amen
<Storyteller> Amin.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Amin
Camille toasts too
Father_Ramirez smiles
Brother_Ishamel toasts with the glass and takes a small sip...
<Storyteller> (the typo was intended...)
<Storyteller> Dinner is excellent. Veal, Mutton are the choices for meat. A wide assortment of vegetables. Bread. Sauces. And a tasty red wine.
<Juan> (how many notes were retrieved exactly ? i want to know how much time it would take to read thm)
Father_Ramirez frowns a bit after the misspeak, but takes it in stride and just takes it as a eccentricity ofa impaired decadent monelender
<Camille> (Sorry, had a phonecall from a friend who now lives in France and from whom I haven't heard for over a year ^_^ )
Brother_Ishamel silently eats what is given and doesn't rmove the cowl... or the black gloves he is wearing
<Camille> (is back now)
Alvaro_Suerra is enjoying his meal.
Father_Ramirez happily eats the food praising it and visibily enjyoing himself...
Camille enjoys the meal, too, and thinks the chef is truly excellent
<Alvaro_Suerra> For those of you who are still looking for accomodations for the rest of this week. I have guest rooms.
<Camille> Thank you very much.
<Juan> i just ask for the opportunity to read the notes you were able to retrieve
Camille thinks she should move from the Guild House to this house, so that she has more time to examine the strange finds
<Juan> i want to plan our traval as much as possible
<Camille> (Did I get a look at the map, too?)
<Storyteller> There is no map.
<__Alex__> (I thought the map was lost?)
<Storyteller> Just vague directions... with quite a lot of missing days in between.
<Camille> (ST: Oh. You mentioned one - did that get lost then?)
<Storyteller> Also lost, just as the remainder of the journal.
Camille is somewhat disappointed
<Camille> Lost maps are always a tragedy
<Storyteller> Alvaro has only pages. Somebody else has the journal with missing pages.
<__Alex__> (so all we have is the contents of the few pages
<Storyteller> Yes
<__Alex__> and what if anything can be learned from the tubes symbolds)
<Camille> Well, you I maybe try to make sense of the symbold somehow?
<Storyteller> That the language consists of letters representing words, and that there are more than 350 different letters.
<Camille> By applying logic and linguistic skills?
<__Alex__> that makes sense
<Storyteller> Just a single letter for a word... nah.. not going to make sense..
<__Alex__> after all, with the knowledge of so many languages there might be some coprrespondses)
<Camille> (There should be certain characters that are repetivive, probably representing words that are more often used etc.)
<__Alex__> nods -- chinese also has a huge number of characters
<__Alex__> perhaps we can work together>
<Storyteller> Try to figure this out. 25.000 pages full of text, with 350 different symbols.
<Storyteller> And no clue how to read it :)
<Camille> (When there are 25000 symbold and 350 differen symbols, maybe one might glean some insight nonetheless...)
<Camille> (Well, I don't have much else to do until the journey starts...)
<__Alex__> I think liguistics and enigmas together might arrive at something
<Camille> (I do have both ^_^ )
<__Alex__> (so do I)
<Storyteller> (Like Linear A....)
<Juan> (how much time will the travel take ?à
<Storyteller> 2 months to Mexico... then... at least 2 months..
Alvaro_Suerra sits back satisfied.
<Brother_Ishamel> (back)
<Juan> that would put us into the dry season, should be easier to travel
<Alvaro_Suerra> Exactly.
<Camille> Well, if we catch fortunate winds and streams, we might even go a little faster...
<__Alex__> your the expert with that
<Alvaro_Suerra> I have as I said before, booked passage on a ship heading to Vera Cruz for you.
<Camille> Booked passage?
<Alvaro_Suerra> I will give you the tube and journals when you leave. They might be of some use.
<Juan> so i assumed that we are all "gifted" person ?
<Alvaro_Suerra> Yes, booked passge.
Camille looks visibly disappointed
<Father_Ramirez> We must hurry
<Alvaro_Suerra> There is no hurry, the ship leaves in almost exactly 7 days from now.
<Camille> Well, I prefer to have a hand at sailing a ship myself
<__Alex__> Camille: since we'll have the tube enroute, we can use the travel time to try to make sense of the language
<Father_Ramirez> there were too much coincidencedences for all this hampering to be accidental
<Camille> Well, this might be true...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Of course, I suspect that someone has his hands in this, someone who tries to attain the same goal as we..
__Alex__ is a Dr (healer)
Camille still appears like someone who has been told his favourite toy had been given to some stranger
<Alvaro_Suerra> But by going away later, you have a good chance of discovering if there is someone ahead of you.
<Alvaro_Suerra> And if there is, you have a good chance of figuring out who that someone is.
<Juan> or to find ambush on our raod ...
<Camille> On the other hand, with seven days head start, we might arrive too late
<Alvaro_Suerra> Too late for what ?
Camille thinks: Especially when I don't steer the ship...
<Camille> Well, to find what was indicated in the missing pages of course
<Camille> You mentioned there was a map
<Camille> So who ever took that has not only a head start, but also better means to find the target
<Alvaro_Suerra> It takes 2 months to cross the area where this city supposedly is to the pacific ocean from the gulf of Mexico.
<Father_Ramirez> Aren't we bale to get some... faster means of transport?
<Alvaro_Suerra> According to the journal they travelled at least 4 months before reaching the friendly natives, where they stayed for 2 months to recupperate.
<Camille> 8 weeks. Of which the other party might have 2 weeks lead already
<Alvaro_Suerra> So if they do follow the map, they will take as long as the previous expedition has travelled. Or at least in that order of time.
<Camille> (two months, actually - the invitation was given 2 months in advance)
<Camille> They could already be there
<Alvaro_Suerra> And then you are at a loss.
Camille frowns
<Alvaro_Suerra> It can happen, that's what business is all about.
<Camille> Why was there such a delay in assembling a party?
<Alvaro_Suerra> But don't forget... we have information about the travel they do not have. And they have information we do not have.
<Alvaro_Suerra> As a skilled navigator you must know that only a few maps are really accurate. The most important things are in the pilots journal. We have the first part of that journal.
<Camille> We can only hope they did not have the chance to copy that in some way
<Alvaro_Suerra> We can only hope.
Camille sighs and is definitely annoyed that there wasn't more urgendcy in assembling the search party
<Alvaro_Suerra> But you are not send to discover the lost city of Atlantis. You are only sent to find those savages with gold and diamonds. And if you happen to find "Atlantis" then it's a nice sidecatch.
Camille puts on a forced smile.
<Camille> Well, *of course*.
<Juan> whatever
<Father_Ramirez> If you do happend to find "Atlantis"
<Father_Ramirez> i believe you will have the preservance and knowledge to notify us here so we can inform you what to do with it...
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<__Alex__> oops
<Storyteller> Did I miss anything ?
<__Alex__> for ST:
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<Camille> For sure, your Excellency
<Camille> (Alex: People here don't know ^_^ )
<Juan> (humf if you have read platon ...)
<Camille> (Juan: Even nowadays there are the wildest ideas where Atlantis is)
<Storyteller> (The know about Atlantis from Plato's writing, but he places it everywhere from Egypt to the Canary Islands and even to those half mytical islands in brittish mythology)
<__Alex__> (me tries to rmemebr Donavan's Atlantis)
Alvaro_Suerra grins
<Alvaro_Suerra> Anyways the ship is set to sail for the new world on the evening of the first day of september.
Camille thinks she will definitely first tewll her Guild about any findings of hers
<__Alex__> (/e will have /me's stuff brought here)
<Camille> They would then tell her what to tell the Gabrielites
<__Alex__> (/me thinks thats approriate)
<Alvaro_Suerra> And I would like to propose Signor Gomez as the leader of this expedition. He has had some previous experience in this field.
<Storyteller> (Is everyone totally baffled at the moment ?)
<Juan> (nope :o)
<__Alex__> (/me has no issue with Sr. Gomez, leading)
<Brother_Ishamel> (who is Gomez ?)
<Juan> <=
<Camille> (Ah)
Camille nods curtly
<Brother_Ishamel> (what are your specialites..)
<Juan> (Juan Gonzales in fact ;o)
<Brother_Ishamel> (i need to know if Ramirez will object :))
Camille should better not stay to much in the foreground anyway - after all, she was playing a rather young fellow here
<Storyteller> (Sorry, Stayka is to blame)
<Juan> Explorator, i ve already participate in expedition to the new world
<Camille> (Me? I'm innocent!)
<Father_Ramirez> hmmm you may be the right choice...
<Storyteller> (You put the wrong name on your site *g*)
<Juan> and what about you ? (looks around)
<Juan> what kind of experience do you have ?
<Camille> Well, I have already worked well together with Daedaleans of your Convention, Senor Gomez. I think you might be the best choice indeed
<Camille> I have travelled the seas as navigator before
__Alex__ is Dr (support person, healer)
<Father_Ramirez> You are familiar with those lands...
<Camille> I'm also apt in charting unknown regions and drawing precise maps
<Juan> a bit Padre, those are huge land, lots is still left tobe explored
<Storyteller> (Dexter Voice: I dig holes)
Brother_Ishamel slowly talks in his rasping voice...
<Brother_Ishamel> I am quite apt at hunting demons, and survival in the places of the wild... i am also capable of investigation on sight
<Juan> hum demons
__Alex__ is also a traveler and has skill in survival in the wild
Brother_Ishamel wraps up... the end of his talk seemed as if it tired him to talk this much
Juan forsee trouble if Brother Ishamel is too much militant toward the locals
Father_Ramirez looks as Ishmael looking a bit concerned, but he turns back smiling...
__Alex__ is also skilled in self defense
<Alvaro_Suerra> It all sounds like you are quite capable for this mission.
<Father_Ramirez> They are...
<Father_Ramirez> and they should leave as soon as possible
<Alvaro_Suerra> We shall retreat to a place more... suited for relaxation and talking about this mission.
__Alex__ nods in agreement
Camille is also skilled in repairing things and foreign languages, but she thinks they will see that soon anyway
Alvaro_Suerra leads you to one of his gardens where lots of pillows are placed around a small table.
<Camille> This would be a good idea, Senor Suerra
Camille feels herself reminded of her last travel to the lands of the moors
<Camille> They were a sophisticated people with broad knowledges and a sense fore nice comforts
<Camille> (thought)
Alvaro_Suerra sits down on one a few pillows
__Alex__ follows the hosts lead
Camille sits down gracefully, too
<Juan> you shouldnt say that alound in Spain Camille
<Storyteller> A servant appears holding a small box.
<Camille> (I didn't say it, I thought it)
<Father_Ramirez> Hmmm can we provide soem additional info o nthe old atlantis to our exploration group?
<Storyteller> (inside the box are cigars (very unknown by this time))
<FiXXXer667> (g2g guys and girls.. Be seeing you all)
<Storyteller> (very pricy too)
<Camille> (CAn I know them from my travels?) FiXXXer667 (me25186@the-1-202-147.dialup.tee.gr) left irc: Quit: whoosh!
<Storyteller> (Travelled a lot in the carribean ?)
<Camille> (Nope ^_^ )
<Storyteller> (No then)
Storyteller offers Father Ramirez a cigar.
<Storyteller> (thats the servant)
Father_Ramirez smiles upon seeing them and grabs one... cutting off a part of it h lights it with a small match he took from his gloves
<Father_Ramirez> Aah... i haven't seen thse i na while...
Camille watches them curiously
<Camille> May I inquire what this is, your Exceellency?
Storyteller presents Brother Ishmael with a cigar
Brother_Ishamel simpyl shakes his head
Nick change: Storyteller -> _Servant_
_Servant_ presents Camille with a cigar
Father_Ramirez takes a deep puff of smoke and blows it out creating a set of smoke rings, filling the room with the smell of a strong cigar
Camille takes it because she is just to curious
Nick change: _Servant_ -> Storyteller
<Storyteller> You are outside..
Nick change: Storyteller -> _Servant
<Father_Ramirez> These are special leaves and herbs conditioned into a form
_Servant presents Juan and Alex with a cigar too.
<_Servant> and of course Alvaro.
<Father_Ramirez> This form is called cigarello
Juan takes one
<Camille> So I am supposed to cut off the end and then light it?
<Father_Ramirez> in the nefound Americas
<Father_Ramirez> Yes...
__Alex__ studies the materials (leaves)
Camille does so
<Father_Ramirez> a plant called tobacco is placed in it, sheafed ian conditioend leaves...
<Camille> (cuts of the end and tries to light it, while holding it in the hand
<Camille> Hm. This doesn't seem to work
_Servant leaves again.
Nick change: _Servant -> Storyteller
<Father_Ramirez> the plant has calming effects...
<Father_Ramirez> it is quite nice... and yo ucna do these
Father_Ramirez puffs another set of rings of smoke...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Put it in your mouth, and suck the air gently through the cigarello, while holding the fire against it. But don't inhale the smoke.
Alvaro_Suerra lights his cigar too
Camille holds the cigarillo in one hand,the match in the other , but the thing seems to refule to cooperate
<Camille> Ah.
Juan tries to light his
Camille tries it as described
Brother_Ishamel drinks the rest of the wine
<Camille> But of course she manages to inhale and starts to cough horribly and looks very green
<Storyteller> Juan: You can already have had these..
Alvaro_Suerra tries to keep from snickering..
Brother_Ishamel covers his face ith one of his huge hands while drinking so that his face couldn't be seen
<Camille> Uh, sorry...
Juan smokes them -_-;
__Alex__ asks Cami if he's ok?
<Camille> Now green from the squeasiness and red from embarassment fight a battle on Camille's face
<Storyteller> Four quite attractive girls come with fruit and carafs of a chilled wine and glasses..
<__Alex__> (/me sees a purple Cami)
Camille is still coughing and shakes her head at Alex' question
__Alex__ take a small bottle from a pouch and offers it to Cami (medicine to counter the queasiness and help resotre normal breathing
Alvaro_Suerra is enjoying his cigar
Camille takes the bottle thankfully
Camille takes a sip
<Juan> how many of you have already been on a oversea expedition ?
<Storyteller> The attractive girls serve everyone a drink and place the bowls with fruit on the table.
<__Alex__> yes
<Camille> Well, I have
<Storyteller> The attractive girls leave again.
Alvaro_Suerra grins
<__Alex__> I have also
<__Alex__> (your welcome Cami)
<Camille> Thank you - Alex
<Juan> and you brother ?
Camille feels somewhat better, but decides better not to touch that vile thing again
Alvaro_Suerra seems to be enjoying it..
<Alvaro_Suerra> The last piece of business before we can go and discuss the details.
<Juan> this herb help fight headach youg men
<Alvaro_Suerra> And it's quite efficient against bugs too.
Camille looks at Juan
<__Alex__> herb?
<Camille> This stuff? I almost died when trying it°!
<Father_Ramirez> Tobacco
<Juan> yes it's made from dryed vegetable
<Father_Ramirez> It is not harmfull
<Father_Ramirez> and it needs some skill to be properly smoked
<__Alex__> yes, I would like to study it for possible medicinal use
<Father_Ramirez> (hmmm this realyl is 500 years ago ;))
<Storyteller> Nice huh ?
<Father_Ramirez> Our order uses them as pacifiers for people in pain...
<Father_Ramirez> they can be used to lessen the pain and to make people relax...
Camille feels better, but doesn't want to repeat the horrible experience
<Father_Ramirez> unfortuanteley it is a hard thing to come to...
<Father_Ramirez> We are growing soem in our own gardens in the CLoister...
<__Alex__> there are other herbs in the new world that also have those properites
<Alvaro_Suerra> Oh, Your Emminence, remind me before you leave. I will give you a few boxes.
<Father_Ramirez> Why thank you senor Suarra...
<Storyteller> (okay, I have a maximum of 20 minutes left, but 15 is more comfortable)
<Father_Ramirez> May Gos's light shine un your hosue for this small pleasure you have given and old man...
<__Alex__> (/me places the item in a pouch for later study)
<Camille> (Well, then lets end before we get on the ship? And leave that for next timer?
<__Alex__> (ok)
<Storyteller> (A lot will happen before you finally board)
<Camille> (He)
<Juan> (agree, that would be simplier)
<Juan> (lol)
<Alvaro_Suerra> But your mission will be to make me a profit on my investment. I was thinking about a 500% return on my initial investment. The remainder is yours to keep.
<Father_Ramirez> (aren'twe to leave in 12 hours or so ?)
<Alvaro_Suerra> That is at least the official mission.
<Alvaro_Suerra> (no.. 7 days)
<Camille> I see....
<Father_Ramirez> Oh Senor Suerra...
<Father_Ramirez> We cannot put materialistic over the true knowledge we can gain...
Camille isn't interested in profits - more in the knowledge she might find and return to her Guild
<Alvaro_Suerra> There is nothing wrong with a little materialistic behaviour.
<__Alex__> of course - seeking after knowledge is the thing
<Father_Ramirez> Besides with you jufging the shares it may be wrong...
<Father_Ramirez> i think the resources should go to the Gabrialites
Camille stinks the others can well keep the gold, as longs as she got maps and books and similar things they might find
<Camille> thinks
<Alvaro_Suerra> But the inofficial mission, something that should stay in this room among these people is to find the city of Atlantis.
<Father_Ramirez> With you getting your expenses back and a substantial reward for your help
Father_Ramirez smiles friendly...
<Alvaro_Suerra> With the "accidents" happening to those involved in this enterprise, it's wiser to just go treasure hunting than to reveal the real purpose of this mission.
<Alvaro_Suerra> Do you understand ?
<Father_Ramirez> If we can find the lost Atlentis it is worth more to theDeadalians then any petty gold or jewels
Alvaro_Suerra looks around and keeps his eyes focussed on Father Ramirez for a while before continuing around the circle.
Juan nods
<Camille> Of course
<Alvaro_Suerra> But if you do not find lost Atlantis, then the gold is a nice reason to go there.
<Father_Ramirez> We can ensure a profit for you...
<Alvaro_Suerra> I am not interested in the gold, at least not as much as I am interested in the city...
<__Alex__> I beleive our host is saying that the stated purpose of the trip and the actual purpose of the trip are umm different
<Father_Ramirez> but i think that you should ake some profit tht would prove worthy to you and all other actiosn going into this search for the lost city
<Alvaro_Suerra> Exactly Signor Perez
<Father_Ramirez> ... yes but our gracious host, also inisted on making 5 times the money he invested in this venture...
__Alex__ smiles to our host
<Father_Ramirez> i beleve that his profit is not the centre here...
<Camille> /me thinks she will just say yes and amen and see to it that her Guild won't fall short.
<Alvaro_Suerra> It's quite generous. The usual investment in New World enterprises expects at least a 1000% return investment...
<Father_Ramirez> Oh is it?
__Alex__ thinks Cami has the right thought
<Father_Ramirez> We dunded the Columbus expeditio na few years ago...
<Father_Ramirez> the expected profit margin was 350%
<Alvaro_Suerra> Ah yes, but that is because they expected to arrive in India..
<Father_Ramirez> or is it that your worldy enterprises are more important then the welfare of the church...
<Alvaro_Suerra> And as you may well know, the Indians are very civilized heathens.
Father_Ramirez looks at him with a gleam in his eyes...
<__Alex__> (oh yes, lets have a turf war ;))
<Alvaro_Suerra> The heathens of the new world seem to trade away their gold for trinkets...
<Father_Ramirez> BNut their lands are rich, and the profit is not your cause...
<Father_Ramirez> i think that this group should bond to bringing you profit...
<Father_Ramirez> but that progit being a maximum odf 300% plus what is left after the search...
Father_Ramirez puts his hand together
<Father_Ramirez> Of course we of the Church will not require the usaul gifts since we see this goal as quite noble and needed...
<Alvaro_Suerra> My my Your Emminence you drive a hard bargain... for someone I deemed worthy to share in this knowledge..
Juan shake his heads
<Father_Ramirez> ... i do it but for this group of valiant young men...
Camille just smiles, now that she recovered from the cigar
<Father_Ramirez> ... they will not find Atlantis by running aroudn and killing natives, giving them glass to bring you gold and herbs...
<__Alex__> (:))
<Alvaro_Suerra> As I said. Atlantis just a sub-goal of this mission.
<Alvaro_Suerra> For all I know the man walked into some local herbs that put him in a dreamlike trance and he dreamed it all up.
<Alvaro_Suerra> If it weren't for the tube, I would have ignored the whole mention of the place.
<Brother_Ishamel> ... but it should eb the goal... senor Suerra..... or do you think these are times when our society can allow themselves to go for profit and not knowledge?
<Brother_Ishamel> (whoops wrong windoW!)
<Father_Ramirez> ... but it should eb the goal... senor Suerra..... or do you think these are times when our society can allow themselves to go for profit and not knowledge?
<Alvaro_Suerra> Bring back enough profit and another mission in the same direction is garantueed.
<Alvaro_Suerra> That way you can increase the knowledge, while I increase my profits.
<Alvaro_Suerra> It's that simple.
<Father_Ramirez> ... and surely if they say they will bring you profit through the reemining time fter securing you a margin of profit...
<Father_Ramirez> ... they mean it as all proper christians, and men of god do...
Juan wonders where he is exacticly, this looks like some souk bargain ...
<Storyteller> (it is.. the church haggled just as well as anyone else for profits from the new world)
<Father_Ramirez> (yes... the trick is here that Ramirez is very politely saying that he demands part of it...)
Camille thinks she'd best listen and then figure out how to let her Guild get the best of everything.
<Juan> (i know, but this does not interest Juan in the slightest)
<Father_Ramirez> (but he cannot ask.. though he can be offered a gift to the church...)
__Alex__ thinks thats wisest
<Father_Ramirez> (so he simpyl seems to be working in the party's best interest to give them leeway from pure profiteering of the moneyman to make him give cahs :))
<Father_Ramirez> So... i beleive that that much time should not be spent by this expedition to ensure your profits...
<Father_Ramirez> ... this is a thing of knowledge and exploration...
<Father_Ramirez> ... all the profits are secondary to the enrichenings of the mind, and to gloies of gol... God
<Alvaro_Suerra> This about profit... pure and simple. The possibility of Atlantis being clothes is just... well... a nice side venture.
<Father_Ramirez> Of course...
<Father_Ramirez> but why would you just send us to make you a profit...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Because I know that you would be interested in going that way anyways.
<Father_Ramirez> the profit should be a secondary concern to us men of Knowledge, and men of God
Camille is somewhat bemused by that dialogue
<Father_Ramirez> I would be interested... but the church is alas quite unfunded these days...
<Alvaro_Suerra> And because of that I find it more than fitting to ask a little something in return.
<Father_Ramirez> people believe but they do nut help...
<Alvaro_Suerra> The little something is a mere 500% return value on my initial investment.
Camille thinks those Gabrielites seem to be just to much into this God thing - and they didn't even think of trying to visit the heavens and dropping by to say hello to God...
<Father_Ramirez> You can get your profits, my dear senor Suerra... but you should still not force such agonies and time consuming tasks upon these young men who re giving their tiem for science, reason and god!
<Father_Ramirez> Surely you have some better argument or them spending so much time i nsearh of profit...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Of course, would you happen to discover christians there, it would only be fitting to pay at least a sizeable part of their... tribute... to Mother Church.
<Father_Ramirez> ... were you meaning to give a gift to the Church for its help?For if you waer i truly judged you wrongly as a heathen that did not respect the Church
Father_Ramirez smiles at this comment
<Father_Ramirez> The church does not take money from people...
<Father_Ramirez> the Church onyl receives gifts fro mits children to help it grow and prosper...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Of course.. I can arrange a sizeable donation. It will be ready for you at your departure.
<Father_Ramirez> This is an Outrage!
<Father_Ramirez> How dare you claim that i am seeking your money!
<Alvaro_Suerra> It's a donation to the Church.
<Father_Ramirez> YOu are slandering the Church!
<Alvaro_Suerra> For their good work in converting the poor heathens of the new world.
<Father_Ramirez> Aaah... in that case... the gift is accepted, dear child...
<Father_Ramirez> May you share with the Church yaour profits and GOd's light guide you on your path...
<Father_Ramirez> The Churhc is such a poor child... it needs help from believers that can afford it...
<Father_Ramirez> ... all others must be heathens taht are scorning God...
Alvaro_Suerra smiles
<Alvaro_Suerra> Of course
Father_Ramirez continues to rant for a while :)
Alvaro_Suerra pretends to pay attention.
Father_Ramirez pretends that everyone is interested...
<Alvaro_Suerra> Juan. I will see you tomorrow morning for further details of your assignment.
__Alex__ thinks about studying the tobbacco plant and other new world herbs
<Alvaro_Suerra> Good night (after Father Ramirez is done ranting)
Camille spent the time with trying to size the garden and its set up ^_^
Alvaro_Suerra excuses himself and retreats to his quarters.
<Storyteller> The pretty girls show you your quarters here, if so needed.
Father_Ramirez bows, and excuses himself from the table saying that he needs rest.
<Storyteller> End Session
-- To Be Continued --
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