Post by Kagi on Feb 28, 2006 18:52:17 GMT -5
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi *****Recap of Last Session*****
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Out numbered and out gunned, Pele has taken care of the go-gangers that have attacked him with a little bit of unexpected help from Manzazzuu. The team has loaded one of the, now ownerless, motorcycles into the back of the van the other will not fit.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Cherub has dissappeared without a word to anyone.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Current local time is 6:45pm. The sun has set in Seattle and the runners find themselves deep in the Redmond Barrens after dark.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi *****End Recap*****
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi
[9:05:11 PM] Pele "Want to leave this one, or come back an get it?"
[9:09:37 PM] * Manzazzuu comes storming out of his room, looking for 10.
[9:10:26 PM] * Butterfly tosses the seats back into the van haphazardly, and climbs into the driver's seat.
[9:10:31 PM] Butterfly "Ready?"
[9:10:32 PM] * DC goes to see what the commotion is
[9:10:43 PM] GM_Kagi * 10 is in the his room, sitting on Cherub's bed
[9:11:42 PM] Manzazzuu "You." He virtually growls, making his way over, and reaching out to grab the man by his hair.
[9:13:04 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::stands up and takes a step back, a shock stick now in his hands and between Manzazzuu and himself
[9:13:07 PM] GM_Kagi ::
[9:13:12 PM] Pele "See ya at the hotel."
[9:13:27 PM] * Pele walks away and jumps on his bike, and proceeds to drive to the motel
[9:13:42 PM] GM_Kagi "I will not be pawed at anymore today, thank you. Your ruffian has done quiet enough of that already."
[9:14:02 PM] Manzazzuu "Rick." He calls, and the large man moves over to his side. "You stuck your nose in the wrong place this time, hacker."
[9:14:07 PM] * Butterfly follows Pele back to the motel.
[9:16:28 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::Looks annoyed at this fuss:: "You maybe right, but then again you maybe wrong. I have an interest in protecting my clients identity, that shouldn't be a mystery to you."
[9:18:24 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "I should warn you that while your....brute, maybe willing to tear me apart my employeer, your Mrs. Johnson, will not take such things lightly."
[9:18:52 PM] Manzazzuu "You and your mistress are not the only ones with powerful friends. Nor are you the only ones with secrets. Secrets you are willing to kill to protect. I assure you, the manner of death my friends are likely to employ will not be agreeable to you. I suggest you somehow assure me that I do not need you dead, and you start being a hell of a lot more cooperative than you have been."
[9:21:50 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::smiles in the way a parent does when explaining himself to his child does:: "The dossier I handed you should tell you that you have few if any secrets from Mrs. Johnson. I assure you your mentor is unharmed. I cannot assure you he will remain that way should you begin to make rash desicions."
[9:23:53 PM] Manzazzuu "You seem to believe that you are in a position of strength, hacker. You're wrong. If that dossier has as much information as you pretend it does you would know that. How many mages can your employer protect herself and you from? Do you even begin to comprehend the kind of genie you so carelessly threaten to unleash upon the world? I think not."
[9:26:35 PM] * Cherub enter slowly within the motel
[9:26:47 PM] Cherub "you should be careful mage , you computer lover friend have some funny toy within his hand"
[9:26:50 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu, I assure you, you and I are pawns in a much larger game. Mrs. Johnson is not who you may think she is."
[9:27:24 PM] * Pele arrives at the hotel, and jumps off his bike. He procceeds to walk into the the rooms, looking for the other runners
[9:27:32 PM] Manzazzuu "Cherub, you would be wise to step outside, or into another room until this is over. Ten and I have some things to discuss, in private."
[9:27:41 PM] Cherub "FUtile quarrels...I'm going to to my room . I've got enought of a disgusting sight for today...
[9:28:01 PM] * Butterfly arrives behind Pele. She follows him into the room.
[9:28:36 PM] * DC moves out of site but continues to listen
[9:28:41 PM] * Cherub head to his room silently ignoring manzazzuu's words"
[9:29:00 PM] * Pele walks to were he hears voices. "Thanks for that interveneing Manzzazzuu... it seemed to help. Ten, I have some faces for you. I got many pictures today."
[9:29:50 PM] Manzazzuu "Everyone get out. Now. Ten and I have things to discuss, and it might get messy. I wouldn't want to ruin anyone's clothes."
[9:30:13 PM] GM_Kagi *Cherub takes a few steps, then blushes as he realizes these three are IN his room
[9:30:15 PM] * DC retreats to her room
[9:30:33 PM] Cherub "such a hassle..."
[9:30:51 PM] Pele "Well... I need 10 to go over these pictures before you possibly ruin his clothes... and skills..."
[9:31:10 PM] Butterfly Butterfly turns to Pele, "Here are the keys. Somebody should be free to help., " then to Manny, "Jeez, Manny. I'm going!"
[9:31:15 PM] * Cherub leave the room silently seeking for a place where he could be lonely
[9:31:17 PM] Manzazzuu "Now, Pele!"
[9:31:44 PM] * Butterfly gives Manzazzuu one more "what a jerk look" on her way to her room.
[9:32:02 PM] * Pele turns around and walks out. "Make sure he can still go over them, though..."
[9:32:03 PM] DC once back in the room she conjures a force 6 spirit
[9:33:40 PM] Manzazzuu "Now, I believe you were going to re-assure me that I don't need to kill you. I also believe you were going to start being a lot more forthcoming with information."
[9:34:43 PM] * Butterfly plugs herself back into her own VR and continues to measure out dangerous chemicals in total oblivion in her room.
[9:35:55 PM] * Pele knocks lightly on Butterfly's door. "You want me to get the bike out, or what?"
[9:35:57 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu. Do you know where your mentor is at this very moment?"
[9:36:13 PM] Manzazzuu <<Phonecall>>
[9:36:39 PM] GM_Kagi *Your Comm answers with nothing but static Manzazzuu
[9:36:46 PM] * Cherub sits in the main room, a litttle dizzy and with a huge stomachache...he obviously doesn't stand very well the urban environment...
[9:37:11 PM] * Butterfly opens the door, letting Pele see that she's turned the room into a tightly packed chemlab.
[9:37:28 PM] Butterfly "It would probably make it easier to get the other one out," she smiles.
[9:38:03 PM] Pele "That is what I said."
[9:38:29 PM] Butterfly "Then what do you need?"
[9:38:50 PM] Manzazzuu "Mr. Ten, if you knew anything about us you would know that none of us fear death, and that nothing is more important than keeping a secret that you are being extremely unconvincing that you intend to keep. I assure you, I will find a use for your corpse."
[9:38:59 PM] Pele "I don't want to just budge into your van."
[9:39:19 PM] Butterfly "I gave you the keys. Permission was implied."
[9:40:30 PM] Pele "Hmm... Well, I guess you did. I was too concentrated on Manzazzuu and Ten."
[9:40:57 PM] * Pele turns around and goes to the van, gets the bike out, and parks it next to his bike
[9:41:26 PM] * Butterfly goes back to endangering you all.
[9:42:07 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Death? We do not intend to kill anyone Mr. Manzazzuu. Many things are much worse then death. Your Mentor is alive and well, in his home. He is at this moment talking to someone whom is closely related to Mrs. Johnson."
[9:44:26 PM] * Pele returns to Butterfly and drops off her keys. "Thank you. I parked it next to my bike." Pele then turns around, and goes to his room to go over the pictures
[9:44:30 PM] Manzazzuu "The order is more important than the individual, Ten. We are not so loose knit as other mages. We all have a common cause you see, and it unites us. I care about my Master and his welfare, Ten, but I care about the order more, and so does he. So stop your posturing, and loosen your tongue."
[9:45:18 PM] Butterfly "Not gonna get the other one after all?"
[9:45:51 PM] * Pele turns around. "I don't know what we are going to do with this one, so I see no point in getting the other one."
[9:46:25 PM] Butterfly "OK" she says nonchalantly.
[9:48:27 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "The Order....would you like to talk about your choosen tradition then? Perhaps we could get the other back in here as well?"
[9:50:27 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu, I can broadcast enough information on your 'Order' to bring it to light to some very hard nosed individuals. Is that what you would prefere?"
[9:53:31 PM] Manzazzuu "If you want to die before you speak another word, by all means. However, perhaps we should look at this from another angle, shall we? Your employer needs this mission to be completed, and she does not have time to locate and hire another team.
[9:53:34 PM] Manzazzuu We are all there is between Seatle and Huehuetotl. I can skip town. Can your employer do that so easily? Something tells me she has a very high vested interest in Seatle remaining intact. So perhaps it would be in all our interests to cooperate, mmm?"
[10:03:58 PM] * DC gets sick of the noise coming from the other room and turns on some music
[10:05:41 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::Smiles like the chesire cat:: "I'm sorry Mr. Manzazzuu, but I will not be bargained with on this. I simply do not have the power even were I willing to. You can back out of your job, but I promise you your reputation hence forth will be such that you will never work again, your order will suffer for you short sighted behaviour, and Mrs. Johnson will make certain that your information is passed on to the local authorities."
[10:07:54 PM] * DC meditates to the music lettisg the spirit go into standby
[10:09:48 PM] * Pele goes through the pictures, and picks all the god face shots out and prepares them for Ten
[10:10:17 PM] Manzazzuu "Ten, every time you refuse me you back me further into a corner. We are talking about an Azatlanian god coming to Seatle. You are not a stupid man. You can figure out what that would mean. I can get everything I care about out of town pretty quickly. I can live in isolation if I have to.
[10:10:19 PM] Manzazzuu I don't want to do any of that. I actually want to stop these people, but to do that I need the information you've been holding back this whole time. I am not going to commit suicide for anything, or anyone."
[10:12:25 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Your death in this job would serve no one, leased of all your employeer. I have already said this before. The identity of your employeer is of no consiquence to your job. You have been contracted to do a Job, I suggest you return to it."
[10:14:15 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't care who she is, for the sake of all the gods! I don't care if she's Llolth the spider queen from that old roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, quite frankly. What I care about is the intel you've been holding back on that place and what they're doing there. The fact that my death would serve no one is *my* arguement!"
[10:21:39 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "You agreed to this contract. The intell provided was expressed upfront before you agreed. No further intell was agreed upon. Now you wish to argue this? You where hired Mr. Manzazzuu not to ask questions, but to find answers for Mrs. Johnson."
[10:23:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "But if it will bring you peace of mind I can assure you that you know everything that we know at this moment..."
[10:24:23 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "What we have is a great many guesses and questions. You have been hired to turns those guesses into concrete intell and answer those questions."
[10:25:36 PM] Manzazzuu "Actually, it was insisted we agree before you told us anything, Ten. Anything of worth anyway. Somehow, I'm not very assured, Ten. I need more than you've given me, and I think you have more to give. I'll take the guesses and questions if that's all you have. We might be fighting one of the most bloodthirsty gods in existance here, Ten, don't you think we're entitled to know everything about that place, no matter how miniscule?"
[10:27:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "You do not earn your Nuyen by running a child day care Mr. Manzazzuu, you are in a dangerous field of work oftened payed to take chances and face death. That is the life you choose. Somethings you are not privey to, you are payed not to ask."
[10:28:14 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mrs. Johnson did not ask you to face anyone but the gestault leader."
[10:28:46 PM] Manzazzuu "Ten, do you know how I stay alive in that dangerous field of work? By knowing things. As to what Mrs. Johnson asked us to do, the one may necessitate the other."
[10:31:50 PM] * Cherub pay a little more attention to what ten and manzazzuu are arguing about.
[10:35:36 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::puts away the shock stick:: "Mr. Manzazzuu, the information you 'require' is not something you need to do your job, and it will not help your survival either. Mrs. Johnson has provided you with what you need. You can run, or hide, but your order will suffer and many people will suffer that you have never met. You have a job, do your job." ::slowly slides past Manzazzuu::
[10:44:21 PM] * Manzazzuu sits down in the nearest place, and puts his head in his hands. He plays his final card.
[10:46:13 PM] Manzazzuu "They need me, Ten, and I can't justify to myself going on as things stand right now. I don't think your organization is crazy enough to go against the order, and nothing you can say will convince me of that, and as things stand right now I really don't think the mission can succeed."
[10:47:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 reaches down and keys the team's open channel on his comm
[10:48:42 PM] GM_Kagi ::Tens voice crackles over everyone's comm:: @@ I believe Mr. Manzazzuu is making desicions for all of you that maybe disasterous. You might want to join our conversation @@
[10:50:52 PM] * Pele gets up and walks to Cherub's room, and walks in. "What, now?"
[10:51:21 PM] * DC opens her eyes from a meditiaton
[10:51:40 PM] * Butterfly settles her current work, organizing it carefully, and marks her place virtually before turning off some of her programs.
[10:51:50 PM] DC "calls the spirit to her side and swears in Japanese
[10:52:04 PM] * DC calls the spirit to her side and swears in Japanese
[10:52:26 PM] * Butterfly retorts in Japanese and sticks out her tongue.
[10:52:53 PM] * Manzazzuu remains sitting where he is with his head in his hands.
[10:53:06 PM] DC "oh that was not ment towards you"
[10:54:48 PM] GM_Kagi *The spirit obeys your command DC and forms in the astral beside you, waiting for you to command it
[10:54:53 PM] DC "maybe we should sepperate those two"
[10:55:10 PM] * Cherub cherub begin to head to the room slowly and silently.
[10:55:37 PM] * Manzazzuu does not currently look much like he needs separating from anyone. He looks decidedly defeated. Perhaps even devoid of hope.
[10:56:09 PM] Pele "What is the conversation you spoke of? I want you to go over these pictures once we are done."
[10:57:33 PM] * DC heads into the room with a scowle on her face
[10:57:38 PM] Manzazzuu "Pele, do you know who Huehuetotl is?" Asks Manny without raising his head.
[10:57:48 PM] GM_Kagi *10 " Mr. Manzazzuu, has decided to break his contract with Mrs. Johnson. Would you care to explain?" ::Looks to Manzazzuu::
[10:58:05 PM] * Butterfly enters the room and sits next to Manny.
[10:59:15 PM] * Manzazzuu takes a slow, deep breath as Butterfly sits beside him, and lets it out just as slowly. He raises his head and turns to look at her in a sorrowful manner.
[10:59:51 PM] * Butterfly smiles brightly.
[11:00:01 PM] Butterfly "What's going on, Manny?"
[11:03:18 PM] * Pele looks puzzled.
[11:03:35 PM] Pele "Thought about it, but no. I have no idea. Should I?"
[11:04:05 PM] * DC also tries to think of what the nome could mean
[11:05:40 PM] * Cherub silently enter in the room
[11:06:05 PM] Cherub "what about both of you shut up and we continu this mission before it become more anoying ?"
[11:07:08 PM] Manzazzuu "Huehuetotl is an Azatlanian god." He says, continuing to look at Butterfly while he speaks, praying for once that he has her full and absolute attention. "A very bloodthirsty, destructive one." He ignores Cherub, and continues...
[11:07:33 PM] * DC looks at Cherub as thogh he said what she was thinking
[11:07:41 PM] Butterfly "OK"
[11:08:13 PM] Manzazzuu "Jose, that is the leader of the Gestault, is nihilistically insane. I have extremely good reason to believe that he and his group are trying to summon Huehuetotl to Seattle and are succeeding."
[11:08:16 PM] * DC then glance at Manzazzuu with a bit of puzzlement
[11:09:05 PM] DC "all the more reason to try and stop them, right?"
[11:09:59 PM] Butterfly "Oh. We need to go in another way then, right?"
[11:10:58 PM] Manzazzuu "Oh I agree, DC, but only if I think we've got a hope in hell of succeeding. Which at the moment, I don't. The ghouls think Huehuetotl is already there, in the basement. He couldn't be yet, or Seattle would already be fucked. But the fact that they think he's there leads me to believe he's partially manifested, and that scares me worse than a dragon."
[11:13:21 PM] Pele "So, now we are going up against a god, or part of one?"
[11:14:16 PM] Manzazzuu "That's how things seem to be shaping up, Pele."
[11:15:34 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::clears his throat::
[11:16:03 PM] DC "are you sure the ghouls are not mistaken? could one of the Goeyaults just be going by the name Huehuetotl?"
[11:16:45 PM] Manzazzuu "The ghouls wouldn't have been afraid of a gestault member, DC, they were scared to death of whatever was in that basement."
[11:17:42 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "I'm sure Mr. Manzazzuu will say I am a liar or some such, but I must point out that his 'Huehuetotl' is just a theroy. I'm inclined to ask you to state your evidence to this end Mr. Manzazzuu. " ::looks to Manzazzuu questioningly::
[11:19:40 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Ghouls are notoriously twisted mentally. How can you be sure all of this is not just superstition? Something is going on in that basement, un-questioningly. But Mrs. Johnson has hired you to find out what that is. I do not know what that might be."
[11:26:29 PM] Butterfly "Do I really need to be here for this?" she looks around to the group, "I was in the middle of something important."
[11:26:37 PM] Pele "Well, can you tell us anything the prior groups found out?"
[11:27:57 PM] DC "from the sounds of it we might need your skills to take out the building if Manny's theory holds any validity"
[11:28:16 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::To Pele:: "You know everything the prior groups have found. You know everything Mrs. Johnson knows."
[11:28:25 PM] Cherub "whatrever if it's a god or an armada of overarmed orks , risk is part of this job and i'm wondering what we are waiting for. Guessing on the situation won't help, and ghouls haven't seen this god by themselves right ? Then let's just do with facts that we are sure of and we will workout problems along their coming."
[11:28:54 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::smiles:: "Well everything about that tenement that Mrs. Johnson knows."
[11:29:04 PM] Cherub "stop acting like a weakling a,nd get yourself together already! If their is a god in their it is going down."
[11:29:46 PM] Butterfly "Weather we chicken out or not, I need to finish what I was doing."
[11:29:58 PM] * Butterfly stands and heads for the door.
[11:30:02 PM] Manzazzuu "Cherub, can you really be that dense?" He asks, looking up at the fellow elf with incredulity.
[11:30:10 PM] * DC makes room at the door
[11:31:44 PM] DC "manny I agree with cherub(it almost seems like it pains her to say it) but we have not even started the misson really."
[11:32:15 PM] * Manzazzuu looks at DC, further shock showing on his features.
[11:32:43 PM] Manzazzuu "Do you really think the seven or eight of us can take on even a partially manifested god and win?"
[11:32:50 PM] * Butterfly goes back to mixing volitile chemicals in the next room.
[11:32:58 PM] DC "granted I was not there to see the reaction of the ghouls but I still would not take there word as law"
[11:33:06 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu ancient man used to worship the sun and dance for rain. It does not mean that they can summon the sun or make it rain with a dance. A powerful sorcerer might make ghouls believe a great many things."
[11:33:38 PM] * DC looks annoyed that 10 is not shutting up
[11:33:52 PM] Cherub "I have no time to loose and what i see is that you're crying on yourself , scared on some suposition that you have no idea about. If you're scared to face danger then don't make this job and go to study magic on your own within some library. You're payed to risk your life, if it doesn't fit you then don't make us waste our time.
[11:33:52 PM] Manzazzuu "Mister Ten, in the year nineteen ninety Man didn't think Man could lob a fireball with the power of magic."
[11:35:57 PM] Pele "I think that we should go on, with a suspicion of a god. We will gain more intel as we complete the mission."
[11:37:59 PM] DC "also in that same era manny they had a saying 'when the going gets tough the tough get going.' so lets get going on the assignment"
[11:39:30 PM] Cherub "what a scaredy-cat..."
[11:39:51 PM] * Cherub leave the room silently heading back to the main room
[11:40:58 PM] * DC goes to sit down by manny
[11:42:16 PM] DC "if our johnson's estamets are correct then we only have a week or so to make sure a Major Evil Spirit enters the world and starts wreaking havoc"
*****End Session*****
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Out numbered and out gunned, Pele has taken care of the go-gangers that have attacked him with a little bit of unexpected help from Manzazzuu. The team has loaded one of the, now ownerless, motorcycles into the back of the van the other will not fit.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Cherub has dissappeared without a word to anyone.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi Current local time is 6:45pm. The sun has set in Seattle and the runners find themselves deep in the Redmond Barrens after dark.
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi *****End Recap*****
[9:04:23 PM] GM_Kagi
[9:05:11 PM] Pele "Want to leave this one, or come back an get it?"
[9:09:37 PM] * Manzazzuu comes storming out of his room, looking for 10.
[9:10:26 PM] * Butterfly tosses the seats back into the van haphazardly, and climbs into the driver's seat.
[9:10:31 PM] Butterfly "Ready?"
[9:10:32 PM] * DC goes to see what the commotion is
[9:10:43 PM] GM_Kagi * 10 is in the his room, sitting on Cherub's bed
[9:11:42 PM] Manzazzuu "You." He virtually growls, making his way over, and reaching out to grab the man by his hair.
[9:13:04 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::stands up and takes a step back, a shock stick now in his hands and between Manzazzuu and himself
[9:13:07 PM] GM_Kagi ::
[9:13:12 PM] Pele "See ya at the hotel."
[9:13:27 PM] * Pele walks away and jumps on his bike, and proceeds to drive to the motel
[9:13:42 PM] GM_Kagi "I will not be pawed at anymore today, thank you. Your ruffian has done quiet enough of that already."
[9:14:02 PM] Manzazzuu "Rick." He calls, and the large man moves over to his side. "You stuck your nose in the wrong place this time, hacker."
[9:14:07 PM] * Butterfly follows Pele back to the motel.
[9:16:28 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::Looks annoyed at this fuss:: "You maybe right, but then again you maybe wrong. I have an interest in protecting my clients identity, that shouldn't be a mystery to you."
[9:18:24 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "I should warn you that while your....brute, maybe willing to tear me apart my employeer, your Mrs. Johnson, will not take such things lightly."
[9:18:52 PM] Manzazzuu "You and your mistress are not the only ones with powerful friends. Nor are you the only ones with secrets. Secrets you are willing to kill to protect. I assure you, the manner of death my friends are likely to employ will not be agreeable to you. I suggest you somehow assure me that I do not need you dead, and you start being a hell of a lot more cooperative than you have been."
[9:21:50 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::smiles in the way a parent does when explaining himself to his child does:: "The dossier I handed you should tell you that you have few if any secrets from Mrs. Johnson. I assure you your mentor is unharmed. I cannot assure you he will remain that way should you begin to make rash desicions."
[9:23:53 PM] Manzazzuu "You seem to believe that you are in a position of strength, hacker. You're wrong. If that dossier has as much information as you pretend it does you would know that. How many mages can your employer protect herself and you from? Do you even begin to comprehend the kind of genie you so carelessly threaten to unleash upon the world? I think not."
[9:26:35 PM] * Cherub enter slowly within the motel
[9:26:47 PM] Cherub "you should be careful mage , you computer lover friend have some funny toy within his hand"
[9:26:50 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu, I assure you, you and I are pawns in a much larger game. Mrs. Johnson is not who you may think she is."
[9:27:24 PM] * Pele arrives at the hotel, and jumps off his bike. He procceeds to walk into the the rooms, looking for the other runners
[9:27:32 PM] Manzazzuu "Cherub, you would be wise to step outside, or into another room until this is over. Ten and I have some things to discuss, in private."
[9:27:41 PM] Cherub "FUtile quarrels...I'm going to to my room . I've got enought of a disgusting sight for today...
[9:28:01 PM] * Butterfly arrives behind Pele. She follows him into the room.
[9:28:36 PM] * DC moves out of site but continues to listen
[9:28:41 PM] * Cherub head to his room silently ignoring manzazzuu's words"
[9:29:00 PM] * Pele walks to were he hears voices. "Thanks for that interveneing Manzzazzuu... it seemed to help. Ten, I have some faces for you. I got many pictures today."
[9:29:50 PM] Manzazzuu "Everyone get out. Now. Ten and I have things to discuss, and it might get messy. I wouldn't want to ruin anyone's clothes."
[9:30:13 PM] GM_Kagi *Cherub takes a few steps, then blushes as he realizes these three are IN his room
[9:30:15 PM] * DC retreats to her room
[9:30:33 PM] Cherub "such a hassle..."
[9:30:51 PM] Pele "Well... I need 10 to go over these pictures before you possibly ruin his clothes... and skills..."
[9:31:10 PM] Butterfly Butterfly turns to Pele, "Here are the keys. Somebody should be free to help., " then to Manny, "Jeez, Manny. I'm going!"
[9:31:15 PM] * Cherub leave the room silently seeking for a place where he could be lonely
[9:31:17 PM] Manzazzuu "Now, Pele!"
[9:31:44 PM] * Butterfly gives Manzazzuu one more "what a jerk look" on her way to her room.
[9:32:02 PM] * Pele turns around and walks out. "Make sure he can still go over them, though..."
[9:32:03 PM] DC once back in the room she conjures a force 6 spirit
[9:33:40 PM] Manzazzuu "Now, I believe you were going to re-assure me that I don't need to kill you. I also believe you were going to start being a lot more forthcoming with information."
[9:34:43 PM] * Butterfly plugs herself back into her own VR and continues to measure out dangerous chemicals in total oblivion in her room.
[9:35:55 PM] * Pele knocks lightly on Butterfly's door. "You want me to get the bike out, or what?"
[9:35:57 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu. Do you know where your mentor is at this very moment?"
[9:36:13 PM] Manzazzuu <<Phonecall>>
[9:36:39 PM] GM_Kagi *Your Comm answers with nothing but static Manzazzuu
[9:36:46 PM] * Cherub sits in the main room, a litttle dizzy and with a huge stomachache...he obviously doesn't stand very well the urban environment...
[9:37:11 PM] * Butterfly opens the door, letting Pele see that she's turned the room into a tightly packed chemlab.
[9:37:28 PM] Butterfly "It would probably make it easier to get the other one out," she smiles.
[9:38:03 PM] Pele "That is what I said."
[9:38:29 PM] Butterfly "Then what do you need?"
[9:38:50 PM] Manzazzuu "Mr. Ten, if you knew anything about us you would know that none of us fear death, and that nothing is more important than keeping a secret that you are being extremely unconvincing that you intend to keep. I assure you, I will find a use for your corpse."
[9:38:59 PM] Pele "I don't want to just budge into your van."
[9:39:19 PM] Butterfly "I gave you the keys. Permission was implied."
[9:40:30 PM] Pele "Hmm... Well, I guess you did. I was too concentrated on Manzazzuu and Ten."
[9:40:57 PM] * Pele turns around and goes to the van, gets the bike out, and parks it next to his bike
[9:41:26 PM] * Butterfly goes back to endangering you all.
[9:42:07 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Death? We do not intend to kill anyone Mr. Manzazzuu. Many things are much worse then death. Your Mentor is alive and well, in his home. He is at this moment talking to someone whom is closely related to Mrs. Johnson."
[9:44:26 PM] * Pele returns to Butterfly and drops off her keys. "Thank you. I parked it next to my bike." Pele then turns around, and goes to his room to go over the pictures
[9:44:30 PM] Manzazzuu "The order is more important than the individual, Ten. We are not so loose knit as other mages. We all have a common cause you see, and it unites us. I care about my Master and his welfare, Ten, but I care about the order more, and so does he. So stop your posturing, and loosen your tongue."
[9:45:18 PM] Butterfly "Not gonna get the other one after all?"
[9:45:51 PM] * Pele turns around. "I don't know what we are going to do with this one, so I see no point in getting the other one."
[9:46:25 PM] Butterfly "OK" she says nonchalantly.
[9:48:27 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "The Order....would you like to talk about your choosen tradition then? Perhaps we could get the other back in here as well?"
[9:50:27 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu, I can broadcast enough information on your 'Order' to bring it to light to some very hard nosed individuals. Is that what you would prefere?"
[9:53:31 PM] Manzazzuu "If you want to die before you speak another word, by all means. However, perhaps we should look at this from another angle, shall we? Your employer needs this mission to be completed, and she does not have time to locate and hire another team.
[9:53:34 PM] Manzazzuu We are all there is between Seatle and Huehuetotl. I can skip town. Can your employer do that so easily? Something tells me she has a very high vested interest in Seatle remaining intact. So perhaps it would be in all our interests to cooperate, mmm?"
[10:03:58 PM] * DC gets sick of the noise coming from the other room and turns on some music
[10:05:41 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::Smiles like the chesire cat:: "I'm sorry Mr. Manzazzuu, but I will not be bargained with on this. I simply do not have the power even were I willing to. You can back out of your job, but I promise you your reputation hence forth will be such that you will never work again, your order will suffer for you short sighted behaviour, and Mrs. Johnson will make certain that your information is passed on to the local authorities."
[10:07:54 PM] * DC meditates to the music lettisg the spirit go into standby
[10:09:48 PM] * Pele goes through the pictures, and picks all the god face shots out and prepares them for Ten
[10:10:17 PM] Manzazzuu "Ten, every time you refuse me you back me further into a corner. We are talking about an Azatlanian god coming to Seatle. You are not a stupid man. You can figure out what that would mean. I can get everything I care about out of town pretty quickly. I can live in isolation if I have to.
[10:10:19 PM] Manzazzuu I don't want to do any of that. I actually want to stop these people, but to do that I need the information you've been holding back this whole time. I am not going to commit suicide for anything, or anyone."
[10:12:25 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Your death in this job would serve no one, leased of all your employeer. I have already said this before. The identity of your employeer is of no consiquence to your job. You have been contracted to do a Job, I suggest you return to it."
[10:14:15 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't care who she is, for the sake of all the gods! I don't care if she's Llolth the spider queen from that old roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, quite frankly. What I care about is the intel you've been holding back on that place and what they're doing there. The fact that my death would serve no one is *my* arguement!"
[10:21:39 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "You agreed to this contract. The intell provided was expressed upfront before you agreed. No further intell was agreed upon. Now you wish to argue this? You where hired Mr. Manzazzuu not to ask questions, but to find answers for Mrs. Johnson."
[10:23:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "But if it will bring you peace of mind I can assure you that you know everything that we know at this moment..."
[10:24:23 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "What we have is a great many guesses and questions. You have been hired to turns those guesses into concrete intell and answer those questions."
[10:25:36 PM] Manzazzuu "Actually, it was insisted we agree before you told us anything, Ten. Anything of worth anyway. Somehow, I'm not very assured, Ten. I need more than you've given me, and I think you have more to give. I'll take the guesses and questions if that's all you have. We might be fighting one of the most bloodthirsty gods in existance here, Ten, don't you think we're entitled to know everything about that place, no matter how miniscule?"
[10:27:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "You do not earn your Nuyen by running a child day care Mr. Manzazzuu, you are in a dangerous field of work oftened payed to take chances and face death. That is the life you choose. Somethings you are not privey to, you are payed not to ask."
[10:28:14 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mrs. Johnson did not ask you to face anyone but the gestault leader."
[10:28:46 PM] Manzazzuu "Ten, do you know how I stay alive in that dangerous field of work? By knowing things. As to what Mrs. Johnson asked us to do, the one may necessitate the other."
[10:31:50 PM] * Cherub pay a little more attention to what ten and manzazzuu are arguing about.
[10:35:36 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::puts away the shock stick:: "Mr. Manzazzuu, the information you 'require' is not something you need to do your job, and it will not help your survival either. Mrs. Johnson has provided you with what you need. You can run, or hide, but your order will suffer and many people will suffer that you have never met. You have a job, do your job." ::slowly slides past Manzazzuu::
[10:44:21 PM] * Manzazzuu sits down in the nearest place, and puts his head in his hands. He plays his final card.
[10:46:13 PM] Manzazzuu "They need me, Ten, and I can't justify to myself going on as things stand right now. I don't think your organization is crazy enough to go against the order, and nothing you can say will convince me of that, and as things stand right now I really don't think the mission can succeed."
[10:47:12 PM] GM_Kagi *10 reaches down and keys the team's open channel on his comm
[10:48:42 PM] GM_Kagi ::Tens voice crackles over everyone's comm:: @@ I believe Mr. Manzazzuu is making desicions for all of you that maybe disasterous. You might want to join our conversation @@
[10:50:52 PM] * Pele gets up and walks to Cherub's room, and walks in. "What, now?"
[10:51:21 PM] * DC opens her eyes from a meditiaton
[10:51:40 PM] * Butterfly settles her current work, organizing it carefully, and marks her place virtually before turning off some of her programs.
[10:51:50 PM] DC "calls the spirit to her side and swears in Japanese
[10:52:04 PM] * DC calls the spirit to her side and swears in Japanese
[10:52:26 PM] * Butterfly retorts in Japanese and sticks out her tongue.
[10:52:53 PM] * Manzazzuu remains sitting where he is with his head in his hands.
[10:53:06 PM] DC "oh that was not ment towards you"
[10:54:48 PM] GM_Kagi *The spirit obeys your command DC and forms in the astral beside you, waiting for you to command it
[10:54:53 PM] DC "maybe we should sepperate those two"
[10:55:10 PM] * Cherub cherub begin to head to the room slowly and silently.
[10:55:37 PM] * Manzazzuu does not currently look much like he needs separating from anyone. He looks decidedly defeated. Perhaps even devoid of hope.
[10:56:09 PM] Pele "What is the conversation you spoke of? I want you to go over these pictures once we are done."
[10:57:33 PM] * DC heads into the room with a scowle on her face
[10:57:38 PM] Manzazzuu "Pele, do you know who Huehuetotl is?" Asks Manny without raising his head.
[10:57:48 PM] GM_Kagi *10 " Mr. Manzazzuu, has decided to break his contract with Mrs. Johnson. Would you care to explain?" ::Looks to Manzazzuu::
[10:58:05 PM] * Butterfly enters the room and sits next to Manny.
[10:59:15 PM] * Manzazzuu takes a slow, deep breath as Butterfly sits beside him, and lets it out just as slowly. He raises his head and turns to look at her in a sorrowful manner.
[10:59:51 PM] * Butterfly smiles brightly.
[11:00:01 PM] Butterfly "What's going on, Manny?"
[11:03:18 PM] * Pele looks puzzled.
[11:03:35 PM] Pele "Thought about it, but no. I have no idea. Should I?"
[11:04:05 PM] * DC also tries to think of what the nome could mean
[11:05:40 PM] * Cherub silently enter in the room
[11:06:05 PM] Cherub "what about both of you shut up and we continu this mission before it become more anoying ?"
[11:07:08 PM] Manzazzuu "Huehuetotl is an Azatlanian god." He says, continuing to look at Butterfly while he speaks, praying for once that he has her full and absolute attention. "A very bloodthirsty, destructive one." He ignores Cherub, and continues...
[11:07:33 PM] * DC looks at Cherub as thogh he said what she was thinking
[11:07:41 PM] Butterfly "OK"
[11:08:13 PM] Manzazzuu "Jose, that is the leader of the Gestault, is nihilistically insane. I have extremely good reason to believe that he and his group are trying to summon Huehuetotl to Seattle and are succeeding."
[11:08:16 PM] * DC then glance at Manzazzuu with a bit of puzzlement
[11:09:05 PM] DC "all the more reason to try and stop them, right?"
[11:09:59 PM] Butterfly "Oh. We need to go in another way then, right?"
[11:10:58 PM] Manzazzuu "Oh I agree, DC, but only if I think we've got a hope in hell of succeeding. Which at the moment, I don't. The ghouls think Huehuetotl is already there, in the basement. He couldn't be yet, or Seattle would already be fucked. But the fact that they think he's there leads me to believe he's partially manifested, and that scares me worse than a dragon."
[11:13:21 PM] Pele "So, now we are going up against a god, or part of one?"
[11:14:16 PM] Manzazzuu "That's how things seem to be shaping up, Pele."
[11:15:34 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::clears his throat::
[11:16:03 PM] DC "are you sure the ghouls are not mistaken? could one of the Goeyaults just be going by the name Huehuetotl?"
[11:16:45 PM] Manzazzuu "The ghouls wouldn't have been afraid of a gestault member, DC, they were scared to death of whatever was in that basement."
[11:17:42 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "I'm sure Mr. Manzazzuu will say I am a liar or some such, but I must point out that his 'Huehuetotl' is just a theroy. I'm inclined to ask you to state your evidence to this end Mr. Manzazzuu. " ::looks to Manzazzuu questioningly::
[11:19:40 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Ghouls are notoriously twisted mentally. How can you be sure all of this is not just superstition? Something is going on in that basement, un-questioningly. But Mrs. Johnson has hired you to find out what that is. I do not know what that might be."
[11:26:29 PM] Butterfly "Do I really need to be here for this?" she looks around to the group, "I was in the middle of something important."
[11:26:37 PM] Pele "Well, can you tell us anything the prior groups found out?"
[11:27:57 PM] DC "from the sounds of it we might need your skills to take out the building if Manny's theory holds any validity"
[11:28:16 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::To Pele:: "You know everything the prior groups have found. You know everything Mrs. Johnson knows."
[11:28:25 PM] Cherub "whatrever if it's a god or an armada of overarmed orks , risk is part of this job and i'm wondering what we are waiting for. Guessing on the situation won't help, and ghouls haven't seen this god by themselves right ? Then let's just do with facts that we are sure of and we will workout problems along their coming."
[11:28:54 PM] GM_Kagi *10 ::smiles:: "Well everything about that tenement that Mrs. Johnson knows."
[11:29:04 PM] Cherub "stop acting like a weakling a,nd get yourself together already! If their is a god in their it is going down."
[11:29:46 PM] Butterfly "Weather we chicken out or not, I need to finish what I was doing."
[11:29:58 PM] * Butterfly stands and heads for the door.
[11:30:02 PM] Manzazzuu "Cherub, can you really be that dense?" He asks, looking up at the fellow elf with incredulity.
[11:30:10 PM] * DC makes room at the door
[11:31:44 PM] DC "manny I agree with cherub(it almost seems like it pains her to say it) but we have not even started the misson really."
[11:32:15 PM] * Manzazzuu looks at DC, further shock showing on his features.
[11:32:43 PM] Manzazzuu "Do you really think the seven or eight of us can take on even a partially manifested god and win?"
[11:32:50 PM] * Butterfly goes back to mixing volitile chemicals in the next room.
[11:32:58 PM] DC "granted I was not there to see the reaction of the ghouls but I still would not take there word as law"
[11:33:06 PM] GM_Kagi *10 "Mr. Manzazzuu ancient man used to worship the sun and dance for rain. It does not mean that they can summon the sun or make it rain with a dance. A powerful sorcerer might make ghouls believe a great many things."
[11:33:38 PM] * DC looks annoyed that 10 is not shutting up
[11:33:52 PM] Cherub "I have no time to loose and what i see is that you're crying on yourself , scared on some suposition that you have no idea about. If you're scared to face danger then don't make this job and go to study magic on your own within some library. You're payed to risk your life, if it doesn't fit you then don't make us waste our time.
[11:33:52 PM] Manzazzuu "Mister Ten, in the year nineteen ninety Man didn't think Man could lob a fireball with the power of magic."
[11:35:57 PM] Pele "I think that we should go on, with a suspicion of a god. We will gain more intel as we complete the mission."
[11:37:59 PM] DC "also in that same era manny they had a saying 'when the going gets tough the tough get going.' so lets get going on the assignment"
[11:39:30 PM] Cherub "what a scaredy-cat..."
[11:39:51 PM] * Cherub leave the room silently heading back to the main room
[11:40:58 PM] * DC goes to sit down by manny
[11:42:16 PM] DC "if our johnson's estamets are correct then we only have a week or so to make sure a Major Evil Spirit enters the world and starts wreaking havoc"
*****End Session*****