[20:29:03] <Wogglebug> Is everyone in here?
[20:29:58] <Wogglebug> This response time is not promising :U
[20:30:05] <Wogglebug> I need to be done by like 4 hours from now max
[20:30:11] <Wogglebug> Preferrably like two
[20:30:25] <Klurg> Fiere arrives
[20:30:31] <Wogglebug> Fiere arrives nowhere!
[20:30:36] <Wogglebug> We haven't started yet.
[20:30:37] * SpookyBee flops
[20:30:46] <Klurg> (GG me)
[20:30:50] <ihp> Jacob is here.
[20:30:55] <ihp> Wherever "here" is
[20:30:59] <Wogglebug> Jacob, somehow, is actually here!
[20:31:06] <Wogglebug> In the sense that he is the beginning of the plot!
[20:31:20] <Kade> Tolly and Asher arrive!
[20:31:27] <Kade> Hopefully.
[20:31:41] <ihp> Wat
[20:31:44] <Wogglebug> Jacob Wexley, being a nerd one day on his CV radio, received an urgent cry for help!
[20:32:22] <Wogglebug> While channel surfing, you happened upon a steady drone, in a high pitched, slightly childish voice..
[20:32:28] <Wogglebug> "Help, help, help, help."
[20:32:37] <Wogglebug> The intonation is a bit flat.
[20:32:45] <Wogglebug> Doesn't seem very urgent, for a distress call.
[20:32:54] <Wogglebug> "HEEEEEEELP"
[20:33:04] <Wogglebug> Well, that's a bit more urgent, I suppose.
[20:33:36] <ihp> Jacob blinks and toys with his radio some, trying to boost the signal. "Identify yourself, this is Station Bravo-29 in Italy. Who are you?"
[20:35:10] <Wogglebug> "My name is Norberg. Who are you, Jacob Wexley?"
[20:35:16] <Wogglebug> "Oh wait shit."
[20:35:21] <Wogglebug> "Uh, I mean, hellllp."
[20:35:43] <Wogglebug> "I got stuck in a lighthouuuuuse."
[20:36:01] <Wogglebug> "All I wanted to do was have a nice picknick, and now I'm stuck in this stupid lighthouse on this stupid abandoned island."
[20:36:05] <Wogglebug> "Come get meeeeeee."
[20:36:09] <Wogglebug> "Plllllleeease."
[20:36:13] <Wogglebug> "Pretty please?"
[20:36:18] <Wogglebug> "Pretty, pretty please?"
[20:36:57] <Wogglebug> "are you there?"
[20:37:06] <Wogglebug> "Stranger, whose name I in no way know?"
[20:37:14] <Wogglebug> "Heeeelp?"
[20:37:28] <ihp> "Lighthouse? Where?"
[20:37:46] <Wogglebug> "Tiiiiiino, tiiiiiinnnnnnnoooooo, tiiiiiiii-" The line goes dead.
[20:37:47] <ihp> "Wait, did you say my name?" Jacob frowns. "What lighthouse? Who are you?"
[20:37:51] <Wogglebug> In so far as a radio signal can.
[20:37:52] <ihp> "And how the devil do you know my name--"
[20:38:01] <ihp> Jacob frowns. "Tino, come in."
[20:38:03] <ihp> "Tino?"
[20:38:19] <ihp> "Dammit," Jacob frowns. "What lighthouse?"
[20:38:21] <Wogglebug> No response.
[20:38:22] <ihp> "What is he talking about?"
[20:38:29] <Wogglebug> Roll academics.
[20:39:02] <ihp> 4df+4 Jacob seems to prioritize academics over science nowadays, it seems.
[20:39:02] <Glacon> ihp: Jacob seems to prioritize academics over science nowadays, it seems.: 3 (4df+4=4-, 3+, 0, 4-)
[20:39:33] <Wogglebug> Tino is an island in the North of Italy. It was once home to San Venerius, a hermit.
[20:40:40] <Wogglebug> After a decent bit of report-filing and general malingering, you assemble a rag-tag bunch of Psi-7 to investigate an island.
[20:40:48] <ihp> "Dammit," Jacob gets on his coat and heads out the door.
[20:41:12] <Wogglebug> Four hours later, you're a quarter mile off the coast of the tiny island, in a particularly loud helicopter.
[20:41:27] <Wogglebug> As are Tolly (or is it Asher?), Vivian, and Fiere.
[20:41:29] <Klurg> "Urgh" Fiere is still halfway asleep
[20:42:07] <SpookyBee> Vivian is in her skinsuit, her four eyes squinting at Jacob, who she promptly smacks in the back of the head. She looks like she was probably woken from a nice sleep for this.
[20:42:14] <Kade> Tolly gives Jacob a thumbs up and nods, probably all expositioned and ready. Asher sitsbeside in his goob goobness.
[20:42:23] <Wogglebug> You slap misses, Vivian.
[20:42:40] <Kade> *sits beside her
[20:42:49] <ihp> Jacob frowsn at Vivian. "What did I do?"
[20:43:11] <ihp> (Wait, is four eyes literal?)
[20:43:13] <ihp> (Spider, so probably yes.)
[20:43:16] <SpookyBee> Yep!
[20:43:32] <SpookyBee> Vivian has four eyes! They're big and blue and cute! "… You woke me for this, Wexley."
[20:43:42] <SpookyBee> "I was quite comfortable, where I was napping."
[20:43:46] <Wogglebug> Fiere, roll mdef.
[20:43:52] <Klurg> "Hey, I'm in the same boat"
[20:43:56] <SpookyBee> "And now I am in a noisy helicopter."
[20:43:57] <Klurg> 4df+4 so sleepy
[20:43:58] <Glacon> Klurg: so sleepy: 2 (4df+4=4-, 3+, 4-, 4-)
[20:44:08] <ihp> Jacob stares at her. "…uh. Why do you…." He looks her up and down. "…I'm sorry, I don't think we've met, but you seem to know of me…"?
[20:44:08] <Wogglebug> Anyone who bothers to survey the island as you're descending, survival.
[20:44:14] <Kade> Tolly sits entirely still and watches out for anything worth noting.
[20:44:17] <ihp> ~Why does this woman have four eyes what abberation is this.~
[20:44:26] <Kade> 4df+3
[20:44:26] <Glacon> Kade: 6 (4df+3=3+, 0, 3+, 3+)
[20:44:27] <ihp> 4df+0 wark. :c
[20:44:27] <Glacon> ihp: wark. :c: 1 (4df+0=3+, 4-, 0, 3+)
[20:44:29] <Wogglebug> Fiere, for a passing moment you feel like you should be able to manipulate fire. You definitely can't, but you feel like you should.
[20:44:53] <Klurg> "…" Fiere smacks himself awake
[20:45:01] <Wogglebug> Tolly, there are no boats on the island, or any signs of there having been any. On top of that, there are absolutely no good places to have a picnic.
[20:45:16] <SpookyBee> "I have seen your nametag in the facility. I am very perceptive." Clearly
[20:45:17] <Wogglebug> Jacob, this island would be a nightmare to live on. Way too rocky.
[20:45:25] <SpookyBee> 4df+0 SURV
[20:45:25] <Glacon> SpookyBee: SURV: 1 (4df+0=3+, 0, 3+, 4-)
[20:45:44] <Wogglebug> Vivian you recognize the fact that you would not last a moment on a deserted island.
[20:46:03] <Kade> Tolly looks at Jacob. "Pretty sure you've been duped, mate. No boats or picnic spots here."
[20:46:06] <SpookyBee> Vivian shrugs. She's used to being in situations she shouldn't make it out of.
[20:46:25] <Wogglebug> You touch down on the small side of the island, on the only open stretch of pretty much anything. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Sochmell.JPG
[20:46:53] <SpookyBee> "You should have let me inspect the radio hardware. It must be broken this place is clearly pointless."
[20:47:02] <Wogglebug> The chopper pilot radios to you "Get on out. Radio when you're done, I'll be over on Palmaria.
[20:47:04] <Wogglebug> "
[20:47:43] <Kade> Tolly nods at the pilot and jumps out. "Thanks. See you in a few."
[20:47:54] <SpookyBee> Vivian hops down, letting her spider legs extend to catch her with her feet hanging above the ground!
[20:47:57] <Wogglebug> http://www.dxcoffee.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/isola_del_tino.bmp You're on the little rocky bit.
[20:48:19] <Wogglebug> The helicopter absconds quickly, heading off North to that larger island.
[20:48:23] <ihp> "…huh," Jacob frowns, opening up his nostrils to snort at the air.
[20:48:23] <Klurg> Fiere gets out sleepily
[20:48:41] <Kade> Asher follows Tolly and immediately starts playing with leaves. Magical floating leaves!
[20:48:46] <ihp> 4df+7 What do I smell, if anything?
[20:48:47] <Glacon> ihp: What do I smell, if anything?: 6 (4df+7=0, 4-, 3+, 4-)
[20:48:54] <SpookyBee> Vivian turns to Jacob. "Why were you staring at me?"
[20:49:01] <Wogglebug> You can just barely make out the lighthouse, or what you might presume to be a lighthouse, way off in the distance.
[20:49:07] <Wogglebug> Jacob, stone, mostly.
[20:49:13] <Wogglebug> Not just one type, though.
[20:49:16] <Wogglebug> All kinds of stone.
[20:49:23] <Wogglebug> Wayyyy too many types of stone.
[20:49:28] <Klurg> (What about brimstone)
[20:49:43] <Wogglebug> You're all standing at the base of this island, the lighthouse off in the distance, through a bunch of trees.
[20:49:53] <Wogglebug> You should get going.
[20:50:08] <Klurg> Fiere takes point, he's waking up now
[20:50:17] <Wogglebug> Fierre, survival.
[20:50:26] <Klurg> 4df I regret my life choices
[20:50:26] <Glacon> Klurg: I regret my life choices: -2 (4df=4-, 4-, 0, 0)
[20:50:42] <Wogglebug> You don't know where the hell you're going. Up, probably.
[20:50:49] <Kade> 4df+9 (PERC+Stakeout) Tolly still for several minutes on end, not responding to any stimulus, as she takes in her surroundings for important things to note.
[20:50:49] <Glacon> Kade: (PERC+Stakeout) Tolly still for several minutes on end, not responding to any stimulus, as she takes in her surroundings for important things to note.: 8 (4df+9=4-, 0, 3+, 4-)
[20:51:08] <ihp> Jacob starts towards the lighthouse, regretting not investing in some climbing boots.
[20:51:27] <Wogglebug> There are a lot of trees on this island. The lighthouse in the distance is definitely old.
[20:52:13] <Wogglebug> Jacob, roll survival to see how lost you get on your way. There are no trails on this island.
[20:52:30] <Kade> Tolly shrugs and follows after Jacob. Asher starts playing with rocks. Magical floating rocks, gasp!!
[20:53:03] <Wogglebug> Asher thinks he hears a gasp somewhere. Tolly doesn't hear anything.
[20:53:40] <Kade> 4df+3 Tolly rolls survival because it's coming. Asher flails arpund, looking for the gaspsource!!
[20:53:40] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly rolls survival because it's coming. Asher flails arpund, looking for the gaspsource!!: 2 (4df+3=3+, 0, 4-, 4-)
[20:53:56] <ihp> 4df+0. :C
[20:54:01] <ihp> 4df+0
[20:54:02] <Glacon> ihp: 4 (4df+0=3+, 3+, 3+, 3+)
[20:54:02] <SpookyBee> Vivian looks around, sticking close to the group as she keeps herself on her dorsal legs. "… I don't like islands."
[20:54:04] <ihp> wat
[20:54:04] <Wogglebug> Tolly, you can see what doesn't quite qualify as a trail, but should make it a bit easier.
[20:54:20] <Wogglebug> Jacob, you see a perfect trail up ahead.
[20:54:32] <Wogglebug> If you knew better, you might blame a loci.
[20:54:43] <ihp> Jacob points ahead. "C'mon, there. Just… follow me."
[20:54:56] <Klurg> Fiere follows
[20:55:03] <Wogglebug> You all follow Jacob through a shockingly passable part of these damnable cliff-woods.
[20:55:09] <SpookyBee> Vivian nods, striding over to Jacob! She stares at the back of his head, her palm aching to smack him.
[20:55:16] <Wogglebug> If there was a swamp involved, this terrain would be literally the least passable thing.
[20:55:29] <Kade> Tolly keeps on the trail Jacob points out. Asher keeps playing with rocks!
[20:56:05] <SpookyBee> Of course, Vivian uses her spider powas to just climb through the trees so she's not at ground-level. Why? Who knows. She's just comfy.
[20:56:06] <ihp> Jacob looks up at Vivian. "What? What is it?"
[20:56:11] <Wogglebug> Tolly, there's a crackle on your radio. "Tolly! It's me again, Norberg! Did you come to save me?"
[20:56:14] <SpookyBee> "… Nothing."
[20:56:18] <Wogglebug> Vivian, roll agility.
[20:56:32] <SpookyBee> 4df+5 AGI
[20:56:33] <Glacon> SpookyBee: AGI: 3 (4df+5=0, 4-, 0, 4-)
[20:56:35] <SpookyBee> Wowfucc
[20:56:48] <Wogglebug> You just barely keep from falling as one of the tree limbs disintegrates beneath you.
[20:56:50] <Wogglebug> Odd.
[20:57:01] <Wogglebug> It's a bit like a charcoal branch.
[20:57:01] <Klurg> "Vivian, maybe stay on the path"
[20:57:18] <Klurg> "This is definitely not a normal place"
[20:57:21] <Wogglebug> Everyone, roll mdef.
[20:57:27] <Kade> Tolly pulls up her radio. "… Any reason you're trying to trap us, kid?" Her eyes are amused.
[20:57:34] <Wogglebug> "What's a trap?"
[20:57:48] <Wogglebug> "Also thanks so much for coming to save me. No one else would."
[20:57:50] <Klurg> 4df+4 every roll I make I regret bringing Fiere more and more
[20:57:51] <Kade> 4df+2 mdef, Tolly's best friend tbh
[20:57:51] <Glacon> Klurg: every roll I make I regret bringing Fiere more and more: 3 (4df+4=0, 3+, 4-, 4-)
[20:57:51] <Glacon> Kade: mdef, Tolly's best friend tbh: 1 (4df+2=4-, 0, 0, 0)
[20:57:54] <Wogglebug> "They all told me to get off the radio."
[20:58:00] <Wogglebug> "Which I thought was very rude.
[20:58:02] <SpookyBee> "You aren't my mother." Vivian squints at Fiere. She keeps walking.
[20:58:11] <Wogglebug> "
[20:58:35] <Wogglebug> Vivian, you feel a pang of social awkwardness at telling off a coworker.
[20:58:42] <Wogglebug> Jacob, Vivian, roll mdef.
[20:58:49] <Klurg> Fiere shrugs "if you want to fool around with disintegrating trees, go ahead"
[20:58:59] <Kade> "Why you send us to this island when you aren't here, then?"
[20:59:00] <SpookyBee> 4df+3
[20:59:01] <Glacon> SpookyBee: 5 (4df+3=3+, 0, 3+, 0)
[20:59:09] <ihp> 4df+3 ow…
[20:59:10] <Wogglebug> "I told you, Tolly, I'm stuck in the lighthouse."
[20:59:10] <Glacon> ihp: ow…: 3 (4df+3=0, 0, 0, 0)
[20:59:14] <SpookyBee> Vivian is the physical embodiment of awkwardness. You can't phase her.
[20:59:21] <Wogglebug> "I'm on the second floor, behind the big gazebo."
[20:59:24] <Klurg> Fiere is trying not to laugh at what Vivian said
[20:59:46] <Wogglebug> Fiere, Vivan, Jabob, you see nothing unusual.
[20:59:57] <SpookyBee> "… A gazebo? I do not like gazeboes. I would rather not face one alone."
[21:00:12] <Wogglebug> Tolly, you can see shadows all around you, dotted through the forest, hiding behind trees. They're great monuments, all of them, depicting ancient gods and heroes.
[21:00:29] <Wogglebug> They're made of stone and glass, iron and fire. They tell ancient stories of conquest and adventure.
[21:00:55] <Wogglebug> Vivian's radio crackles to life "Shhhhh, it's not funny yet."
[21:01:07] <SpookyBee> Vivian blinks, looking down at her radio. "What?"
[21:01:14] <Wogglebug> The radio clicks off.
[21:01:15] <Klurg> "Gazebo? Why don't you like gazebos?"
[21:01:18] <SpookyBee> She shakes her head, continuing on.
[21:01:53] <Kade> Tolly looks at Jacob. "Not very good at consistency, is he. The monuments are a nice touch, though." She turns back to her radio. "You talked to someone else first about the lighthouse, kid."
[21:02:02] <Wogglebug> You're getting close to the lighthouse, now. It looks smaller up close.
[21:02:27] <Wogglebug> "Yeah, Jacob Wexley. The werewolf."
[21:02:41] <Wogglebug> "Or should I say whhhhere wolf ahahahaha."
[21:02:44] <Wogglebug> "Get it?"
[21:02:49] <Wogglebug> "Oh wait."
[21:02:52] <Wogglebug> "You weren't there."
[21:02:52] <ihp> Jacob raises an eyebrow. "….how do you know my name?" Jacob frowns. "And how do you know what I am?"
[21:03:03] <ihp> "Who are you?"
[21:03:04] <Wogglebug> "He thought Tino was a name."
[21:03:07] <Wogglebug> "It was funny."
[21:03:16] <Kade> Tolly passes her radio to Jacob
[21:03:29] <Kade> . "All yours."
[21:03:35] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian shakes her head. "We should leave them. Clearly they are children not worth our time."
[21:04:01] <Wogglebug> "I'm Norberg. I'm very cute, and I like flying, and and picnics, and lighthouses."
[21:04:14] <Klurg> "Or they're someone who wants foundation members dead and we need to take them out"
[21:04:32] <Klurg> "Of somebody has to do it, it may as well be us"
[21:04:36] <Wogglebug> Vivian, you feel a pang of social awkwardness at being a monster.
[21:05:03] <SpookyBee> Vivian squints, looking up at the sky, and in such, at the Grand Master Of The Universe who dubs her actions.
[21:05:04] <ihp> Jacob frowns. Norberg… does he know that name from anywhere? "I repeat, who are you? Identify yourself at once.
[21:05:13] <Wogglebug> "Norberg."
[21:05:17] <Wogglebug> "We just talked about this."
[21:05:32] <Wogglebug> "Come get me out."
[21:05:32] <Kade> "They seem pretty thick and naive. Sounds like a kid to me- best to apprehend and bring him back if at all possible."
[21:05:34] <Wogglebug> "Please?"
[21:06:16] <Wogglebug> "I'm on the second floor, behind the gazebo. The stairs up are at the hospital. Just try not to touch any of the mites. They don't taste good."
[21:06:30] <Wogglebug> You're at the lighthouse now. It seems almost comically small, as close as you are.
[21:06:50] <ihp> "…you're speaking in nonsense," Jacob frowns, looking up at the lighthouse. "Norberg, how old are you?
[21:06:58] <Wogglebug> Vivian, roll mdef.
[21:07:01] <Klurg> "Yep, this place is definitely anomalous"
[21:07:07] <Wogglebug> "Uhhh, I dunno. A lot?"
[21:07:28] <SpookyBee> 4df+3 Y u do dis
[21:07:28] <Glacon> SpookyBee: Y u do dis: 3 (4df+3=4-, 4-, 3+, 3+)
[21:07:32] <Kade> Tolly looks for the hospital he mentioned. "Anomalies don't necessarily make sense, after all."
[21:07:43] <Wogglebug> The lighthouse doesn't seem particularly large or small to you.
[21:08:15] <Wogglebug> Asher, roll mdef.
[21:08:58] <SpookyBee> "That is untrue. My anomaly is fully explained in a scientific manner. I have several filled notepads on it."
[21:09:25] <Kade> Asher 4df+2 noodleblob mdef? That's more Tolly's thing, but okey!
[21:09:45] <Kade> 4df+2 noodleblob mdef? That's more Tolly's thing, but okey!
[21:09:46] <Glacon> Kade: noodleblob mdef? That's more Tolly's thing, but okey!: 1 (4df+2=4-, 3+, 4-, 0)
[21:10:14] <ihp> Jacob just stares at Vivian. "Whatever you say, Spider-Woman."
[21:10:36] <ihp> He scoots a bit further away from her.
[21:10:39] <Wogglebug> Asher, you're surrounded by monuments. It's hard to see anything through all of them. They're everywhere. Massive. Inescapable. They all lead inward, to the tower. It's so high. God. It's like hell. Unending. So beautiful.
[21:10:50] <Klurg> "Are you two done?" Janelle asks Vivian and Jacob
[21:11:02] <Wogglebug> "Yeah you guys should really get to rescuing me."
[21:11:13] <SpookyBee> "… It is a mutagenic virus in by cellular structure that causes me to repurpose my own biomatter to mutate in painfully horrible manners--" She squints, shaking her head. "Let us work."
[21:11:13] <Wogglebug> "I'm so trapped it's not even believable."
[21:11:40] <Kade> "Isn't it only an anomaly if it somehow can't be fully explained?" Asher cuddlecurls the monuments as he moves inside with Tolly!!!
[21:12:05] <Wogglebug> "Technically, it's an anomaly if it can't be explained within a certain degree of plausibility."
[21:12:20] <Wogglebug> "Since really, anything could be explained as a propped up probability structure, on some level."
[21:12:21] <ihp> Jacob shakes his head, and follows after Tolly.
[21:12:29] <Wogglebug> "Oh, you weren't asking me. Sorry."
[21:12:37] <Klurg> "Oh hush you fakers" Fiere tells the radio voices
[21:12:44] <Wogglebug> You open the door, Tolly.
[21:12:47] <Wogglebug> Inside is a tower.
[21:13:05] <SpookyBee> "Some anomalies are still classified because they are too dangerous for the rest of the world." She shakes her head, continuing on behind Jacob. Her virus would be quite dangerous if it were contagious, after all…
[21:13:06] <Wogglebug> The room you enter into looks more like a cave, though only because it probably has a ceiling.
[21:13:21] <Wogglebug> A heay mist lays on the city below you, a great grotesque ruin.
[21:13:33] <Kade> "…." Tolly looks outside at the tower, then inside at the other tower.
[21:13:39] <Wogglebug> There's fire in the streets, made up of some green burning.
[21:13:49] <Klurg> (Can we make it contagious and give it to the entire world please?)
[21:14:08] <ihp> Jacob walks up to Tolly. Does he see any of this?
[21:14:10] <Wogglebug> The buildings are ancient, towering things. You can't place their time period. They seem ageless and eternal, save for their being dead.
[21:14:17] <Wogglebug> It's there. You all see it./
[21:14:24] <ihp> "…what the fuck."
[21:14:29] <Wogglebug> You smell ancient death and dark rites, Jacob.
[21:14:33] <Kade> "Well, time to find the hospital."
[21:14:38] <Wogglebug> "Like I said, the ladder's in the hospital."
[21:14:46] <Wogglebug> "I think it was in a broom closet."
[21:14:54] <Wogglebug> "Well, there weren't any brooms."
[21:15:01] <Wogglebug> "Again, watch out for the mites. They taste bad."
[21:15:09] <Klurg> "What the…"
[21:15:41] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly completely still again and looks for the hospital.
[21:15:42] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly completely still again and looks for the hospital.: 11 (4df+9=0, 3+, 3+, 0)
[21:15:43] <Klurg> "Well, I'm still dreaming it looks like"
[21:15:53] <ihp> Jacob recoils. "Sweet Mother Mary's Illicit God. Let's.. let's not go in there. It smells wrong."
[21:15:56] <ihp> His nostrils flare.
[21:16:32] <Wogglebug> You can see it, Tolly, far off on the side of town. You can see the dead, too, all over. They're ancient husks, their insides gone, their flesh turned to standing ash. They have great, jagged holes in their backs, as though something had burst out - or maybe in.
[21:16:46] <Klurg> Can Fiere roll his interior decoration spec to try and pinpoint the era of the buildings anyways?
[21:16:53] <Wogglebug> Sure.
[21:17:19] <SpookyBee> Vivian just kind'a tags along!
[21:17:25] <Klurg> 4df+6 hooray for being able to use this spec
[21:17:25] <Glacon> Klurg: hooray for being able to use this spec: 7 (4df+6=3+, 0, 0, 0)
[21:17:34] <Wogglebug> You're currently on the south side, Tolly. The hospital is on the south-east.
[21:17:36] <SpookyBee> Grumbling nonsensical negativity about being tired and grumpy.
[21:17:37] <ihp> Jacob growls, drawing his gun. "I don't like this. At all."
[21:18:14] <Wogglebug> You can see more of them, in the center of town, the burnt, ancient husks. They're frozen there in death, clamoring over one another, reaching for some high pillar in the center. You can't see it, for all the bodies.
[21:18:26] <Kade> "We need to, if we want the to get the ladder, though. Think the mites the kid mentioned are the undead we can see." She points them out, along with the route to the hospital.
[21:19:05] <Klurg> Fiere takes out his gun, but he's more prepared for flight rather than fight
[21:19:17] <Kade> *dead we can see
[21:19:23] <Wogglebug> Fiere, they're not of this earth, but there are elements which remind you of several Babylonian civilizations.
[21:19:57] <Klurg> "Babylonian?"
[21:20:30] <Klurg> "Oh dear, we're probably looking at an ancient Babylonian alien civilization"
[21:20:38] <Klurg> "Or something similar"
[21:21:10] <Kade> She looks at Fiere. "I think the tower is covered in dead corpses, too."
[21:21:42] <ihp> "…that which is not dead can eternal lie," Jacob sighs. "I swear, if we somehow walked into a Lovecraft novel, I am going to punch the universe in the face."
[21:21:53] <ihp> "I am going to invent a machine that allows me to do that."
[21:22:07] <Klurg> "I think shooting it would be more efficient and get the point better"
[21:22:17] <SpookyBee> "… why do you know of alien civilizations?"
[21:22:26] <Wogglebug> "You guys are bad at metaphysics."
[21:22:30] <Klurg> "Lots of sci-fi novels and television"
[21:22:41] <Klurg> "Bad ones mostly, but still"
[21:22:47] <Wogglebug> "You know who's great at them? me! Now if you'd please hurry and save me I can help you punch whatever you want!"
[21:22:56] <Wogglebug> "Though I don't know how to punch."
[21:23:01] <Wogglebug> "I think it involves hands."
[21:23:15] <Klurg> "What species are you sir?"
[21:23:27] <Wogglebug> "That's an awfully forward question."
[21:23:32] <Wogglebug> "If you guess I'll tell you."
[21:23:32] <Kade> "Knowing this universe? Someone probably invented it, subsequently brought the destruction of all human life, and then reset an alternate timeline to destroy it already."
[21:23:40] <Wogglebug> "Are you guys coming or not?"
[21:23:48] <Klurg> "We're rescuing you, you should at least tell us"
[21:23:56] <Wogglebug> "Well hurry up and maybe I will."
[21:24:04] <SpookyBee> "What is happening… I am confused." Vivian rubs her cheek, grumbling.
[21:24:07] <ihp> Jacob shakes his head. "Ignore him and let's… just head out." He looks at the radio, "…hell if I know. Mi-go? Member of the courts? One of the Grey things that keeps appearing in the news?"
[21:24:20] <Klurg> "You and me both" Fiere mutters to Vivian
[21:24:28] <Kade> "We gotta get the ladder first, Norbert. Are you one of whatever killed these people?"
[21:24:29] <Wogglebug> "What's a migo?"
[21:24:33] <ihp> Jacob wanders overyonder.
[21:24:49] <Wogglebug> "I didn't kill anybody ever, uh."
[21:25:03] <Wogglebug> "I was gonna say one of those thing where you do a thing so people know you didn't lie."
[21:25:11] <Wogglebug> "I can't remember any."
[21:25:37] <Kade> (Do do-do da doo doo! Wander over yonder!)
[21:25:40] <Wogglebug> You all make your way across the ruined landscape surrounding the rubbled city."
[21:25:43] <Wogglebug> *-"
[21:26:00] <Wogglebug> Even out here, there are dead scattered around, as though the fled and fell.
[21:26:17] <Wogglebug> Up close, they look even more grey and ashen, the wounds on their backs even more brutal.
[21:26:24] <Klurg> ~I regret my life choices soooo much~
[21:26:53] <Wogglebug> At the right angles you can see the broken, shattered remains of their dessicated organs.
[21:27:03] <ihp> Jacob's stomach grumbles.
[21:27:07] <ihp> Involuntarily, I assure you.
[21:27:16] <Kade> "Never said /you/ killed anyone, just your kind."
[21:27:16] <ihp> But there's a bit more wolf in him than he'd like to admit.
[21:28:05] <Wogglebug> You move quickly towards the hospital, probably not wanting to take things slowly in these rocky fields.
[21:28:06] <ihp> 4df+7 (Scent perception) anything he can smell that might be whatever did this?
[21:28:06] <Glacon> ihp: (Scent perception) anything he can smell that might be whatever did this?: 7 (4df+7=4-, 0, 0, 3+)
[21:28:25] <Wogglebug> You can smell ash, stone, and just a hint of bugs, Jacob.
[21:28:46] <ihp> "…bugs," Jacob frowns. "Chitin. Chitin all over."
[21:29:25] <SpookyBee> "Vivian seems awfully confused. "What is wrong with bugs?"
[21:29:35] <Klurg> Fiere remembers the bug people he met
[21:29:37] <Wogglebug> "Don't go near the mites."
[21:29:42] <Wogglebug> "They taste horrible."
[21:30:03] <ihp> "…oh," Jacob swallows, training his ears to the wind.
[21:30:15] <Wogglebug> There isn't any wind.
[21:30:28] <Wogglebug> The only thing you hear is the distant crackle of the green fire.
[21:30:33] <Klurg> "Why did you try eating the mites in the first place?"
[21:30:48] <Wogglebug> Which, from what you can see, only covers the occasional mound of unburning husks.
[21:30:59] <Kade> "Probably because of what he is, mate."
[21:31:20] <Wogglebug> "No!"
[21:31:28] <Wogglebug> "It's cause they jumped on me."
[21:31:42] <Wogglebug> "That's what they do. That's why I went to the hospital, to get them off."
[21:31:55] <Wogglebug> "If you don't get them off you dry up."
[21:32:04] <ihp> Jacob chews his lip, and keeps onwards. "This dimension is screwed-up."
[21:32:18] <Wogglebug> "You're not even in a different dimension."
[21:32:23] <Wogglebug> "This is just a compression effect."
[21:32:29] <Kade> "Are you human, Norberg?"
[21:32:48] <Wogglebug> "And besides, it's your species that did this. Mine is squeaky clean. Never hurt nobody no how."
[21:33:08] <Klurg> "I'll take that as a no" Fiere says to tolly
[21:33:46] <Wogglebug> You're getting close to the hospital now. There's mounds of bodies higher than the outer walls surrounding the place.
[21:34:01] <Kade> "Norberg, are you a dog?"
[21:34:05] <Wogglebug> "Nope!"
[21:34:11] <Wogglebug> "I wish. Dogs are so cool."
[21:34:25] <SpookyBee> "… Hospital?" Vivian blinks, looking around.
[21:34:27] <Wogglebug> "I knew a dog once."
[21:34:30] <SpookyBee> She doesn't like thinking of that.
[21:34:34] <Wogglebug> "He was kind of a grump, though."
[21:34:53] <Kade> Is the door still visible through the mound of dead bodies?
[21:35:24] <Wogglebug> Nope. The whole place, as far as you can see it, is covered in bodies. The buildings surrounding it are higher than the mounds.
[21:35:46] <Kade> Tolly looks at Fiere. "Might be a cat, then. Asher starts playing with the bodies. Dead floating corpses!
[21:35:48] <Wogglebug> You can roll perception, survival, or some other relevent spec to find a way through. Or just thing.
[21:35:54] <Wogglebug> *think
[21:36:01] <ihp> 4df+4 base perception.
[21:36:01] <Glacon> ihp: base perception.: 4 (4df+4=4-, 3+, 0, 0)
[21:36:06] <Wogglebug> "ASHER NO!"
[21:36:13] <Wogglebug> "ASHER RUN INTO THE FIRE!"
[21:36:17] <Wogglebug> "RUN!"
[21:36:23] <Wogglebug> The mites are on you, now, Asher.
[21:36:33] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly stills hard and percs
[21:36:34] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly stills hard and percs: 7 (4df+9=4-, 0, 0, 4-)
[21:36:36] <Wogglebug> They're swarming you. You can only see one at a time, but they're there, swarming your form.
[21:37:06] <Wogglebug> For every mite Asher can see, there are a thousand more covering his amorphous flesh. They're the size of pinpricks, but there are so many.
[21:37:10] <Klurg> (Are we inside the hospital yet?)
[21:37:17] <Kade> Asher doesn't speak English. He only speaks Eldritch.
[21:37:28] <Wogglebug> Asher understands anyway.
[21:37:52] <Kade> Asher undiluted into the fire!!
[21:38:09] <Kade> *undulates
[21:38:28] <Wogglebug> Asher rolls in the flames and the bugs slowly start to die. Far too slowly. If he had any flesh to truly pierce, the mites would already be within him.
[21:38:32] <SpookyBee> 4df+6 PERC tryin'a help!
[21:38:33] <Glacon> SpookyBee: PERC tryin'a help!: 8 (4df+6=4-, 3+, 3+, 3+)
[21:38:35] <Wogglebug> "I told you not to touch them!"
[21:39:07] <Klurg> (Are we still outside?)
[21:39:07] <Wogglebug> There's an open sewer off a block to your right, Vivian. You can see it, just barely.
[21:39:24] <Kade> Tolly see a way into the hospital while Asher continues to be a goob?
[21:39:25] <SpookyBee> Vivian looks to it, pointing! "There- To that manhole!"
[21:39:47] <SpookyBee> 4df+5 AGI She uses her spidery legs to try to leap to it!
[21:39:48] <Glacon> SpookyBee: AGI She uses her spidery legs to try to leap to it!: 4 (4df+5=0, 3+, 4-, 4-)
[21:39:48] <Wogglebug> Tolly, you think if you could jump from that building there, you could make it in. You probably wouldn't get too hurt.
[21:40:00] <Kade> Asher continues rolling in the fire.
[21:40:06] <Wogglebug> It's an open sewer, not a manhole.
[21:40:18] <ihp> Jacob runs sewer-ward.
[21:40:19] <Wogglebug> You approach it. It, for some reason, has no dead anywhere near it.
[21:40:25] <SpookyBee> (Those are the same thing in my internal dictionary tho o3o )
[21:40:28] <Klurg> 4df+4 perception since we're outside
[21:40:29] <Glacon> Klurg: perception since we're outside: 1 (4df+4=4-, 0, 4-, 4-)
[21:40:44] <Wogglebug> You are very confused, Fiere. You're struggling just to keep up.
[21:40:57] <Klurg> (That's how I feel RN too)
[21:41:22] <Kade> Tolly gets as close to the sewer as she can while not breaking 30 feet away from Asher.
[21:41:56] <Wogglebug> Eventually the mites are off Asher, and he can leave the fire.
[21:42:34] <Klurg> Fiere follows Vivian, since she seems to know what she's doing
[21:42:34] <Wogglebug> The sewer is filled with still water and mud. Hopefully mud. It runs beneath the wall of the hospital, into some tunnels.
[21:42:51] <Klurg> "Wait, if this place is devoid of undead…"
[21:42:59] <Klurg> "There may be something worse in here"
[21:43:10] <SpookyBee> Vivian just wades through it with her dorsal legs, feeling disgusting about the 'mud'water :|
[21:43:12] <ihp> Jacob starts clambering down into the sewer. "Oh, this is a /splendid/ idea! I mean, /it's not like bugs live in sewers or anything!/"
[21:43:15] <Klurg> "Sir, what's in the sewer?" Fiere asks to the guy on the radio
[21:43:23] <Wogglebug> No response.
[21:43:43] <Kade> Asher flops up and follows Tolly! Meanwhile, Tolly looks at Jacob. "There's a building we can jump from into the hospital, too, if we want to do that."
[21:43:52] <Klurg> Are there any corpses in here?
[21:43:56] <Wogglebug> Not a one!
[21:44:02] <SpookyBee> "Well Wexley it is clear that the bugs live out here too. So, unless you also have a flamethrower, please stay behind me." Vivian speaks, pulling out her hand-torch and messing with it a little…
[21:44:16] <Wogglebug> You clamber through the sewers!
[21:44:22] <SpookyBee> 4df+9 ENG+FG Time to make an unstable, small flamethrower!
[21:44:23] <Glacon> SpookyBee: ENG+FG Time to make an unstable, small flamethrower!: 9 (4df+9=4-, 0, 3+, 0)
[21:45:11] <Wogglebug> You make what's basically a very low-life acetylene torch.
[21:45:16] <Wogglebug> It will probably get you killed.
[21:45:24] <Wogglebug> The sewers are very dark.
[21:45:25] <ihp> Jacob takes out a molotov. "I have these.":
[21:45:41] <Wogglebug> Jacob, roll science.
[21:45:50] <ihp> 4df+2
[21:45:50] <Glacon> ihp: 1 (4df+2=0, 4-, 3+, 4-)
[21:45:55] <Kade> "You really think flames in a place probably filled with methane is a good idea?"
[21:46:09] <SpookyBee> "… This will work."
[21:46:23] <SpookyBee> "Well, no. But on one hand I am hoping not."
[21:46:37] <Wogglebug> Jacob, being a functional adult, you remember what happens when you introduce a flame to an open sewage line. http://i.imgur.com/Eo3AltY.gifv
[21:46:38] <Kade> "Let's please not."
[21:46:54] <Wogglebug> (NSFW)
[21:46:58] <ihp> "Don't… set that off. Methane gas? Open flame?"
[21:47:24] <ihp> "Bad idea? And it's not even well-assembled… let me see that."
[21:47:31] <Wogglebug> You trudge threw the sewer, presumably without setting off any explosions.
[21:47:50] <Wogglebug> *through
[21:48:21] <Wogglebug> After a bit you reach an intersection. All the ways to go look virtually identical.
[21:48:25] <SpookyBee> "Wexley, I am a certified engineer. I know what I am doing."
[21:48:33] <SpookyBee> Vivian sure is a grump!
[21:48:44] <SpookyBee> A very short, cute, scrawny grump.
[21:48:51] <Wogglebug> Covered in sewage.
[21:48:58] <Wogglebug> "Are you guys here yet?"
[21:49:02] <ihp> "It's unstable. I can see the acetylene leaking."
[21:49:13] <Wogglebug> Acetylene is not visible.
[21:49:20] <Wogglebug> You might hear it, I guess.
[21:49:23] <ihp> (That's the joke. :P)
[21:49:24] <SpookyBee> Vivian speaks into her radio! "Do you see us there?"
[21:49:33] <Wogglebug> "No you are in a sewer."
[21:49:39] <SpookyBee> "Then why did you ask?"
[21:49:43] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly- gasp- stills to perc!! Asher plays in sewage.
[21:49:44] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly- gasp- stills to perc!! Asher plays in sewage.: 10 (4df+9=3+, 0, 3+, 4-)
[21:49:45] <Wogglebug> "I was hoping."
[21:49:47] <SpookyBee> Vivsnark(TM)
[21:50:05] <ihp> "Anyone have a compass?" Jacob asks. "I want to see where north is."
[21:50:10] <Wogglebug> Tolly, the hospital is towards the left path. The right path leads to certain doom. The forward one leads to something worse.
[21:50:21] <Wogglebug> Asher is a smelly.
[21:51:22] <Kade> Tolly nods at the left path. "That one." It's not the first nor the last time Asher is a smelly, to Tolly's unfortunate knowledge.
[21:51:40] <Wogglebug> Where is Fiere?
[21:51:47] <Klurg> In the middle of the group
[21:52:08] <ihp> Jacob starts to the left.
[21:52:08] <Wogglebug> Roll mdef, Fiere.
[21:52:13] <Klurg> He follows whoever does left first
[21:52:21] <Klurg> 4df+4 the French never surrender
[21:52:22] <Glacon> Klurg: the French never surrender: 3 (4df+4=0, 4-, 3+, 4-)
[21:52:30] <Wogglebug> You don't notice anything unordinary, Fiere.
[21:52:32] <Klurg> (I swear can I get one good mdef roll?)
[21:52:40] <Kade> Tolly follows Jacob.
[21:52:53] <Wogglebug> Jacob, after a bit of trudging, you see a hatch up above, with a ladder leading to it. It must lead into the hospital. Probably.
[21:52:59] <Klurg> Fiere's following the Jacob wherever he might go
[21:53:18] <ihp> Jacob points upwards, and starts climbing the ladder.
[21:53:42] <Wogglebug> It's definitely a ladder. It's made of iron, or something, which is odd given when Fiere said this place dated to.
[21:53:45] <SpookyBee> "Vivian puts the torch back on her belt, being quite aware of the dripping… But doing nothing about it where she very easily could with her supplies.
[21:54:01] <SpookyBee> *-"
[21:54:11] <Wogglebug> At the top the hatch is slightly stuck. And by slightly, I mean completely. It's as though it were sealed with concrete, or epoxy, or something. You can't tell what.
[21:54:31] <Wogglebug> You might be able to force through the seal, with knowhow, or a lot of force.
[21:54:44] <Klurg> "Maybe we can cut through it?"
[21:54:46] =-= Soulless is now known as Soulless|Dreamin
[21:54:48] <Klurg> "Probably not"
[21:54:50] <Kade> "Let me guess. Covered in corpses?"
[21:55:40] <SpookyBee> Vivian uses her leggy height- L E G G Y -to inspect the hatch for weaknesses!
[21:55:47] <SpookyBee> 4df+6 PERC
[21:55:47] <Wogglebug> Roll engi.
[21:55:47] <Glacon> SpookyBee: PERC: 6 (4df+6=3+, 4-, 0, 0)
[21:55:50] <SpookyBee> Oh ok
[21:55:54] <SpookyBee> 4df+5 ENG
[21:55:55] <Glacon> SpookyBee: ENG: 5 (4df+5=3+, 0, 4-, 0)
[21:56:01] <Wogglebug> You perception doesn't tell you much.
[21:56:01] <SpookyBee> Shit fam them neutrals
[21:56:19] <Wogglebug> Structurally, though, you can tell it opens down, so whatever's holding it shut is around the sides of it/
[21:56:26] <Wogglebug> Probably something glueish.
[21:56:30] <Klurg> "Alright, make some space Jacob, so we can push through the top together"
[21:56:33] <ihp> 4df+5 Engineering!
[21:56:34] <Glacon> ihp: Engineering!: 7 (4df+5=3+, 4-, 3+, 3+)
[21:57:03] <Wogglebug> Jacob, it looks like someone used some sort of mortar to seal it up from the top. If you hit it a ton, it should fall apart. Or cut it, or whatever.
[21:57:28] <ihp> Jacob reaches into his suitcase, and takes out a pair of gardening shears. He disassembles them, and begins trying to cut into the mortar.
[21:57:36] <Wogglebug> Roll str, or mel!
[21:57:49] <ihp> 4df+4 Super smash brothers… Melee!
[21:57:50] <Glacon> ihp: Super smash brothers… Melee!: 5 (4df+4=3+, 0, 4-, 3+)
[21:57:59] <Wogglebug> Fiere's radio peeps on "Don't worry Fiere, I won't ignore you."
[21:58:11] <Wogglebug> You break through the mortar, and the hatch falls open.
[21:58:19] <SpookyBee> "Eep!" Vivian ducks!
[21:58:32] <Klurg> Good thing Jacob is above Fiere
[21:58:45] <Wogglebug> It clonks your noggin, Jacob. Lightly.
[21:58:51] <Kade> Tolly moves to the side. Asher continues to be a stinky.
[21:58:58] <ihp> Jacob rubs his head. "Looks like my MIT education wasn't /all/ for nothing," he says as he heads up the hatch.
[21:59:14] <Wogglebug> "I said don't go near the mites."
[21:59:16] <Wogglebug> "Ahaahahah."
[21:59:19] <Wogglebug> "Get it?"
[21:59:23] <Wogglebug> "MIT, mites."
[21:59:24] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian squints at Jacob, sliding up past him and looking around.
[21:59:30] <Wogglebug> "Ahahaha."
[21:59:38] <SpookyBee> "You sound like a machine."
[21:59:44] <Klurg> "Not bad actually" Fiere says, amused at the pun
[21:59:54] <Klurg> Even thought the execution could be better
[21:59:59] <Kade> "Not your best joke, Norbert. Are you a cat?"
[22:00:12] <Wogglebug> Vivian, the room you find yourself in is filled with corpses. These ones, though, are just regular corpses - extremely old corpses, but still corpses.
[22:00:14] <ihp> Jacob sits himself up and looks around.
[22:00:17] <Wogglebug> It's a bit of a relief, honestly.
[22:00:23] <Klurg> Fiere heads up and looks around
[22:00:45] <Wogglebug> "It's Norberg! and no! Cat's are stinky jerks!"
[22:00:56] <Wogglebug> *Cats
[22:01:10] <SpookyBee> "… This is gross." Vivian enters the room fully, looking for the next route.
[22:01:15] <ihp> Jacob's stomach growls again.
[22:01:25] <Wogglebug> You all make your way up into what looks to be a disposal room. There are dozens of dead folks huddled in there.
[22:01:27] <ihp> "…shoulda had a sandwich before we left."
[22:01:34] <Klurg> Fiere follows the Vivian
[22:01:44] <SpookyBee> "… Please tell me you are not thinking of consuming these bodies."
[22:01:47] <Wogglebug> "Yay! You're in the hospital! Now just make your way to the broom closet!"
[22:01:52] <Wogglebug> "Again, no brooms."
[22:01:57] <Wogglebug> "I think it's by the front."
[22:02:02] <Wogglebug> "Or maybe the back."
[22:02:07] <Wogglebug> "I wasn't paying attention."
[22:02:19] <Kade> Tolly nods at Vivian. "Not always the nicest job, though. Norberd, you a rat, then?"
[22:02:24] <Wogglebug> They don't look nutritious, Jacob.
[22:02:28] <Wogglebug> More mummyish than anything.
[22:02:31] <Kade> *Norberg
[22:02:42] <Wogglebug> "Rat is a very insulting word, I'll have you know."
[22:02:52] <Wogglebug> "Though, I have nothing against rats, of course."
[22:02:58] <Wogglebug> "Because I'm not a /racist/."
[22:03:06] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian squints at that, before turning to Tolly. "… No way."
[22:03:18] <Wogglebug> "or a ratsists ahahahahha."
[22:03:23] <SpookyBee> The cogs in her brain get to spinning.
[22:03:28] <Klurg> Fiere is liking Norberd more and more
[22:03:33] <SpookyBee> "Are… Are you a mouse?" Vivian speaks into her radio.
[22:03:38] <Klurg> Even if he is probably trying to trap them
[22:03:42] <Wogglebug> "Mice are just baby rats."
[22:03:49] <Wogglebug> "Hurry upppp"
[22:03:56] <Wogglebug> "No more guesses till you get to the closet."
[22:03:59] <Klurg> "Are you reptilian or mammalian?"
[22:04:01] <SpookyBee> Vivian grumbles and heads off!
[22:04:06] <Klurg> "Oh, no more guesses"
[22:04:12] <Wogglebug> "20Q isn't a guess!"
[22:04:12] <SpookyBee> "… Parrot." She mumbles to herself.
[22:04:25] <Wogglebug> "But you can't do that either."
[22:04:34] <ihp> Jacob makes his way standing by Vivian.
[22:04:46] <Wogglebug> Jacob, roll scent.
[22:05:34] <Kade> Asher plays with non-mitey corpses. Yay, dead floating bodies!
[22:05:51] <ihp> 4df+7 SNiiiiiiiiiiif
[22:05:52] <Glacon> ihp: SNiiiiiiiiiiif: 7 (4df+7=4-, 3+, 3+, 4-)
[22:06:09] <Wogglebug> Jacob, you smell less stale air! It's out to the left of where the door to this room is!
[22:07:39] <ihp> Jacob raises an eyebrow, and heads to the door that doesn't have stale air.
[22:07:44] <Wogglebug> It's a closet!
[22:08:00] <ihp> He opens it.
[22:08:15] <Wogglebug> When you open it, you find 1) zero brooms 2) a ladder, leading into an unknown, glowing mist, and 3) oh fuck that isn't dead
[22:08:33] <Wogglebug> Some sort of very large, very angry humanoid explodes out of the closet.
[22:08:39] <Wogglebug> Percep to notice in time to dodge!
[22:08:51] <Klurg> Would Fiere notice this sound?
[22:08:56] <Klurg> Or anybody in the party
[22:08:58] <Wogglebug> He would notice the fuck out of it.
[22:09:07] <Kade> 4df+4 since moving is involved
[22:09:07] <Glacon> Kade: since moving is involved: 4 (4df+4=4-, 0, 3+, 0)
[22:09:16] <ihp> 4df+4 ack
[22:09:17] <Glacon> ihp: ack: 4 (4df+4=4-, 3+, 4-, 3+)
[22:09:18] <Wogglebug> Tolly, something just broke down a door over to the left.
[22:09:41] <Wogglebug> Jacob, you just barely slip out of the way! The monster, which looks more and more like nothing at all, crashes into the wall opposite.
[22:09:43] <SpookyBee> Can Vivian roll AGI to get her rifle up in time?
[22:09:48] <Klurg> Can Fiere get a good angle to fire at the creature?
[22:09:50] <Wogglebug> Roll mdef, Jacob, Fiere.
[22:09:54] <Klurg> Without hititing a teammate
[22:09:57] <Wogglebug> Vivian, you aren't close enough, no line of sight.
[22:09:58] <Klurg> 4df+4
[22:09:59] <Glacon> Klurg: 4 (4df+4=0, 0, 0, 0)
[22:10:07] <Klurg> ( 👌ðŸ»)
[22:10:11] <Kade> Tolly glances to the left! It the angry humanoid?
[22:10:22] <SpookyBee> Drats for that weird sudden misplacement.
[22:10:55] <Wogglebug> Fiere, you manage to keep your eyes focused on it long enough to see it's some kind of bulky, writihing, vaguely reptilian thing with many shifting and morphing scales.
[22:11:18] <Klurg> "Oh hi that's not pleasant to look at"
[22:11:20] <Wogglebug> Vivian, you're to the right of Tolly, who's 10 yards from Fiere, who's 5 feet from Jacob, who's three feet from the monster.
[22:11:48] <Klurg> But can Fiere fire at the monster without hitting a teammate?
[22:12:00] <Wogglebug> He can now, as Jacob ducks out of the way!
[22:12:17] <Klurg> 4df+6 are bullets an instrument?
[22:12:18] <Glacon> Klurg: are bullets an instrument?: 5 (4df+6=0, 0, 0, 4-)
[22:12:22] <SpookyBee> Vivian blinks, listening as she puts her rifle together and loads in a shell- "Come, we should help them." She nudges Tolly!
[22:12:36] <Wogglebug> 4df+4 "SCHAKAKKAA!"
[22:12:37] <Glacon> Wogglebug: "SCHAKAKKAA!": 6 (4df+4=0, 3+, 0, 3+)
[22:12:55] <Klurg> (It's going to be one of those combat encounters)
[22:13:00] <Kade> 4df+3 Tolly looks at the monster. "My first sentence. My second sentence. My third sentence." Leezurd should roll MDef!
[22:13:00] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly looks at the monster. "My first sentence. My second sentence. My third sentence." Leezurd should roll MDef!: 2 (4df+3=0, 0, 0, 4-)
[22:13:05] <Wogglebug> God what an unpleasant sound. It does a flip onto the ceiling, dodging the shot. It drives towards Tolly, fangs mashing.
[22:13:42] <Wogglebug> 4df+0 This thing went mad a long time ago.
[22:13:44] <Glacon> Wogglebug: This thing went mad a long time ago.: -2 (4df+0=0, 4-, 0, 4-)
[22:14:21] <Wogglebug> The beast contorts in the air and lands on its side, striking the ground hard. It howls in pain, a sharp whargling noise that would break glass, in a more dramatic scene.
[22:14:40] <ihp> Jacob gets up, and stares at the beast, before drawing his pistol and starting to fire at the thing in front of him.
[22:15:05] <Wogglebug> The thing is writhing, temporarily blinded.
[22:15:06] <ihp> 4df+4 rama lama BANG BANG.
[22:15:06] <Glacon> ihp: rama lama BANG BANG.: 2 (4df+4=4-, 0, 4-, 0)
[22:15:12] <Kade> Welp, Asher gets all intimidatey, and the leezurd will be terrified and trying to run away for four rounds!
[22:15:15] <Wogglebug> 4df+3
[22:15:16] <Glacon> Wogglebug: 5 (4df+3=3+, 0, 3+, 0)
[22:15:25] <Wogglebug> Your shots slip between the writhes, Jacob.
[22:15:29] <Klurg> How strong does the thing look like?
[22:15:37] <Kade> And drop all weapons.
[22:15:41] <Wogglebug> Strong enough to kill you.
[22:15:45] <ihp> "Dammit!" He calls out. "…Norberg?"
[22:15:48] <ihp> "Are you Norberg?"
[22:15:49] <Wogglebug> Tolly is invisible.
[22:16:01] <Wogglebug> "OKAY FIRST WITH THE RAT COMMENT AND NOW THIS?"
[22:16:03] <SpookyBee> Vivian tries to find a vantage point where she can fire her weapon at this thing!
[22:16:08] <Wogglebug> Your radio turns itself off.
[22:16:13] <Wogglebug> The monster continues writhing.
[22:16:21] <Klurg> (Ok no attempting to hold it in place then)
[22:16:36] <ihp> Jacob stares. "…you… we thought that you were going to attack us…" He holsters his gun and holds up his hands. "…so, you're a…"
[22:16:38] <ihp> 4df+4 What are you?
[22:16:39] <Glacon> ihp: What are you?: 4 (4df+4=3+, 0, 0, 4-)
[22:16:42] <ihp> (academics)
[22:16:55] <SpookyBee> Oh it's the Dude.
[22:17:06] <SpookyBee> Dammit Jeff Bridges.
[22:17:09] <Wogglebug> It's nothing good, that's what. Nonterrestrial, for sure. Somewhat reptilian, possible relation to a chameleon?
[22:17:31] <Wogglebug> It recovers, and lunges for Jacob, now unarmed.
[22:17:45] <Wogglebug> "SHACRAAAAW"
[22:17:53] <Wogglebug> This is prrrrroooobably not Norberg.
[22:18:04] <Wogglebug> pdef Jacob
[22:18:15] <Klurg> Can Fiere get close enough for a point blank shot at the creature?
[22:18:18] <SpookyBee> 4df+5 AGI Vivian skitters around looking for a shooting point
[22:18:18] <Glacon> SpookyBee: AGI Vivian skitters around looking for a shooting point: 6 (4df+5=0, 4-, 3+, 3+)
[22:18:22] <Wogglebug> Oh for sure it's like at your elbow as is.
[22:18:31] <Wogglebug> You have a cleanish shot, Vivian!
[22:18:43] <Wogglebug> Because you're on the roof. How the turn tables.
[22:18:54] <SpookyBee> 4df+3 RNG
[22:18:55] <Glacon> SpookyBee: RNG: 3 (4df+3=0, 3+, 0, 4-)
[22:19:00] <Wogglebug> 4df+0
[22:19:01] <Glacon> Wogglebug: 1 (4df+0=3+, 3+, 0, 4-)
[22:19:11] <Wogglebug> You shoot the creature in the flank, making it miss Jacob entirely!
[22:19:16] <Klurg> Fiere goes for a point blank shot
[22:19:18] <Wogglebug> It falls onto the ground, screeching.
[22:19:22] <Wogglebug> Fire at will!
[22:19:26] <SpookyBee> While the shot may be wide, this thing sounds like one big fucking gun. CLANG. CHACLICK.
[22:19:37] <Klurg> 4df+6 any bonuses for point blank?
[22:19:37] <Glacon> Klurg: any bonuses for point blank?: 8 (4df+6=3+, 3+, 0, 0)
[22:19:46] <Wogglebug> 4df+0 enough
[22:19:47] <Glacon> Wogglebug: enough: 0 (4df+0=3+, 4-, 3+, 4-)
[22:19:55] <Wogglebug> You blow the monster's head off!
[22:20:06] <Wogglebug> The shrieking stops a few second afterwards, and the beast collapses.
[22:20:09] <Wogglebug> It looks dead enough.
[22:20:10] <Kade> 4df+7 (MEL+nonlethal) Tolly uses her netcanon on it. Thank God the net has a wire core.
[22:20:11] <Glacon> Kade: (MEL+nonlethal) Tolly uses her netcanon on it. Thank God the net has a wire core.: 7 (4df+7=3+, 0, 0, 4-)
[22:20:17] <Kade> Redact
[22:20:25] <Klurg> (And a net descends on a dead corpse)
[22:20:29] <Wogglebug> lol
[22:20:40] <SpookyBee> Vivian shuffles over, nudging it with her rifle barrel. :|
[22:20:48] <Wogglebug> Tolly's radio turns on. "Just to be clear I am not a chameleon monster. I'll give you that guess for free."
[22:21:11] <Wogglebug> It is super dead, Vivian. Kind of hard to keep focus on it though. Your eyes keep wandering.
[22:21:12] <Kade> "Ooor, that works." She looks at the corpse. Anything worth looting?
[22:21:23] <Wogglebug> What's your survival?
[22:21:28] <SpookyBee> Vivian looks like a girl with four googly eyes on her face!
[22:21:30] <Kade> 3.
[22:21:38] <SpookyBee> Shake-a shake-a shake-a!
[22:21:41] <Wogglebug> You might be able to get part of the hide off in a hurry.
[22:21:57] <Wogglebug> "Now go up the ladder and rescue me! I'm behind the gazebo!"
[22:22:03] <Kade> Tolly does that, then!
[22:22:11] <Wogglebug> Roll surv
[22:22:19] <SpookyBee> "At least we are not facing this alone."
[22:22:20] <Kade> 4df+3
[22:22:20] <Glacon> Kade: 5 (4df+3=3+, 3+, 4-, 3+)
[22:22:46] <Kade> (Chameleon cape)
[22:22:49] <ihp> Jacob was a bit stunned by the whole thing, but comes to his senses, and decides to collect a sample from the chameleon thing.
[22:22:49] <Wogglebug> You manage to skin a good chunk of it in a few quick moves. You stow the hard-to-look-at hide for safe keeping.
[22:22:57] <Wogglebug> What kind of a sample?
[22:23:27] <ihp> Bit of bone, bit of skin, bit of blood.
[22:23:32] <Wogglebug> Roll sci!
[22:23:47] <Wogglebug> Fiere, you going to hang around, or head on up?
[22:23:58] <Wogglebug> Poor Norberg is playing second fiddle to loot, apparently.
[22:24:05] <SpookyBee> Vivian goes up the ladder while the others daddle.
[22:24:14] <Klurg> Fiere is at the ladder waiting for the others
[22:24:23] <Klurg> Oh, nvm
[22:24:29] <Klurg> Fiere goes up
[22:24:29] <ihp> 4df+2
[22:24:31] <Glacon> ihp: -2 (4df+2=4-, 4-, 4-, 4-)
[22:24:36] <SpookyBee> … Wow.
[22:24:37] <ihp> Well fuck
[22:24:44] <Klurg> ( sad trumpet noises )
[22:24:57] <Wogglebug> You accidentally break your vial, and give up, on account of poor Norberg is waiting on you.
[22:25:14] <Kade> Tolly follows up the ladder. Asher the stinky follows!
[22:25:15] <ihp> Jacob harumphs, but still tries to pry off a raw scale on the way out.
[22:25:22] <Wogglebug> You all ascend the ladder, in time.
[22:25:29] <Wogglebug> You find yourself in a tower.
[22:25:33] <Wogglebug> Well, probably.
[22:25:41] <ihp> After that, he follows them.
[22:25:41] <Wogglebug> It's got a very vertical feel to it, anyway.
[22:25:51] <Wogglebug> There are bars and pipes everywhere, constantly shifting and moving.
[22:25:54] <Kade> Any windows?
[22:26:13] <Wogglebug> The whole place is made up of great white plates of stone, floating about ever so slightly. shifting and moving in some unseen breeze.
[22:26:19] <Wogglebug> A thick white fog permeates the place.
[22:26:40] <Wogglebug> It's like some great, twisted jungle gym for angels who did something bad.
[22:27:07] <Wogglebug> "Yay! You made it to the second floor. Now just find the gazebo, and go behind it, and set me free!"
[22:27:10] <ihp> "…Norberg?" Jacob calls out.
[22:27:18] <ihp> "…Gazebo, gazebo… where is…."
[22:27:21] <Wogglebug> "Yes hello I am in your radio."
[22:27:29] <Wogglebug> "From where you are? Uhhh."
[22:27:33] <Wogglebug> "I dunno, North?"
[22:27:34] <Wogglebug> "Maybe?"
[22:27:35] <ihp> "How far away are you from the entrance? Can you give us meters? Feet?"
[22:27:52] <Wogglebug> "Uhhh."
[22:27:56] <Wogglebug> "Not toooo far."
[22:27:59] <Wogglebug> "Like five minutes?"
[22:28:06] <Wogglebug> "Behind the gazebo."
[22:28:10] <ihp> He sighs. "You heard him. Five minutes northish."
[22:28:15] <ihp> "Just look for a Gazebo."
[22:28:16] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian looks around, for a gazebo.
[22:28:20] <Wogglebug> Roll percep.
[22:28:26] <ihp> ~Knowing my luck, the Gazebo is going to be some Martian word meaning "fucking giant monster"
[22:28:27] <SpookyBee> 4df+6 PERC Gotta do the Spider Eyes thing yo
[22:28:27] <Glacon> SpookyBee: PERC Gotta do the Spider Eyes thing yo: 8 (4df+6=0, 3+, 3+, 0)
[22:28:31] <ihp> 4df+4
[22:28:32] <Glacon> ihp: 6 (4df+4=0, 0, 3+, 3+)
[22:28:42] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly stills, leaving her vulnerable to ambush, and looks for gazebo!
[22:28:43] <Klurg> 4df+4 owo
[22:28:43] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly stills, leaving her vulnerable to ambush, and looks for gazebo!: 9 (4df+9=3+, 4-, 3+, 4-)
[22:28:44] <Glacon> Klurg: owo: 5 (4df+4=3+, 0, 4-, 3+)
[22:28:48] <SpookyBee> Ah, a result that is twice the amount of eyes she has!
[22:28:58] <Wogglebug> Vivian, you see no gazebos. You do see, though, plenty of fun looking bars you could clamber over.
[22:29:06] <SpookyBee> Vivian DOES THAT.
[22:29:09] <SpookyBee> She DOES THE THING.
[22:29:21] <Wogglebug> Tolly, you're having trouble getting the lay of the land here, but you think there might be something to the North that isn't the same as everything else.
[22:29:44] <Wogglebug> Fiere, you could climb the shit out them bars.
[22:29:49] <Wogglebug> Jacob, you could uh.
[22:29:51] <Kade> Tolly nods to the North and starts that way!
[22:29:53] <Wogglebug> Well you could try.
[22:30:02] <Klurg> Is there any other choice besides climbing?
[22:30:19] <Wogglebug> You could maybe jump very carefully.
[22:30:37] <Wogglebug> It's a bit like an MC Escher painting, but more junglegymmy.
[22:30:43] <Klurg> Fiere climbs the bars to get a better vantage point
[22:30:49] <SpookyBee> Vivian spiders around.
[22:30:53] <ihp> Jacob begins trying to climb and clamber.
[22:30:54] <Wogglebug> There are no vantage points.
[22:31:01] <Wogglebug> Jacob, agility!
[22:31:01] <ihp> ~I'm a were-wolf, not a were-chimp.~
[22:31:04] <ihp> ~This is below me.~
[22:31:06] <Wogglebug> Everyone, agility.
[22:31:10] <ihp> 4df+3
[22:31:11] <Glacon> ihp: 4 (4df+3=3+, 3+, 4-, 0)
[22:31:23] <Klurg> 4df+6 oh boy is it that time of the day?
[22:31:25] <Glacon> Klurg: oh boy is it that time of the day?: 5 (4df+6=0, 3+, 4-, 4-)
[22:31:26] <SpookyBee> 4df+5 O hai
[22:31:27] <Glacon> SpookyBee: O hai: 6 (4df+5=4-, 3+, 0, 3+)
[22:32:02] <Wogglebug> You all do pretty well. You feel light while you're in the air, and you start making your way North, climbing and clambering, swinging and sliding, across stone tablets and over endless bars of smooth metal.
[22:32:03] <Kade> Till just continues to the one thing that isn't like everything else. Asher follows!
[22:32:16] <Kade> 4df+4
[22:32:16] <Glacon> Kade: 3 (4df+4=0, 3+, 4-, 4-)
[22:32:23] <Wogglebug> Tolly is a slowy. Asher tries to help.
[22:32:29] <SpookyBee> Vivian gets her cutie booty across!
[22:33:10] <Kade> Asher wiggles his stinky noodles as best he can to help!!
[22:33:32] <Wogglebug> You all swing and slide for a while, and eventually you come across a great chasm, in the center of which lies a plane of that same smooth stone.
[22:33:51] <Wogglebug> It's very large, about as large as a small park. There's nothing on it, though. Not gazeboes or anything.
[22:34:11] <ihp> "…the hell?" Jacob frowns. "Norberg, are we close?"
[22:34:24] <Wogglebug> "You're almost there! Do you see the gazebo?"
[22:34:37] <Kade> Tolly looks down, then up. Might not be on their axis, after all.
[22:34:58] <ihp> "No?"
[22:34:59] <Wogglebug> Tolly, the down looks much the same as the up.
[22:35:01] <SpookyBee> Vivian looks around for something she shouldn't face alone.
[22:35:23] <Wogglebug> You're all standing on the white stone, now, nearish the edge.
[22:35:29] <Klurg> "Finally"
[22:35:37] <Wogglebug> "Well, did you look around?"
[22:35:40] <Klurg> "Jeez that climb"
[22:35:53] <Kade> How far the chasm to the plane, then?
[22:36:00] <SpookyBee> "I can see in four directions at once. I see nothing." Vivian speaks into her radio!
[22:36:17] <Wogglebug> Just a bit of a gap. The chasm contains the plane. Like a bridge, almost, between two cliffs.
[22:36:33] <Wogglebug> "That's a schokcingly low number of directions."
[22:36:39] <Wogglebug> "Did you look down?"
[22:36:46] <Wogglebug> "Maybe you're upside down."
[22:37:15] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian looks 'up'.
[22:37:16] <Kade> "I looked both up and down. It a looks the same."
[22:37:24] <Wogglebug> "Hmmmmmm."
[22:37:31] <SpookyBee> Directly up.
[22:37:32] <Kade> *all looks
[22:37:41] <SpookyBee> Like at the sky not just up a wall or anything.
[22:37:44] <Wogglebug> "I don't know, I was right where you are, and I went past a gazebo.
[22:37:44] <Wogglebug> "
[22:37:55] <Wogglebug> Try flying upside down, maybe that'll do it."
[22:37:56] <Kade> She carefully steps on the slab.
[22:38:13] <SpookyBee> "We cannot fly."
[22:38:16] <Kade> "Norberg, you're a bat?"
[22:38:18] <Wogglebug> They sky is clear, Vivian. In that it is fog.
[22:38:26] <Wogglebug> "HOW DID YOU GUESS."
[22:38:32] <Wogglebug> "Man you're a good guesser.'
[22:38:52] <Klurg> Fiere is highly considering turning upside down
[22:38:54] <Wogglebug> "Now find the gazebo and save me!"
[22:38:56] <Klurg> But decides against it
[22:39:45] <ihp> "…define "Gazebo", Nordberg."
[22:39:50] <SpookyBee> Vivian does actually, flipping upside down with her spider limbs! Her human legs wiggle wide and her hair hangs and brushes the floor.
[22:39:51] <Kade> Anything that might look like a gazebo to echolocation, especially if at an odd angle?
[22:39:58] <Wogglebug> "It's like a uh, it's a."
[22:40:03] <Wogglebug> "Like a house for a weirdo."
[22:40:09] <Wogglebug> "Who doesn't like walls."
[22:40:16] <Wogglebug> "It should be right in front of you."
[22:40:17] <ihp> Jacob goes to the edge of the slab and looks beneath it.
[22:40:29] <Klurg> "I think we're in the gazebo"
[22:40:30] <Wogglebug> There's a gazebo on the other side, Jacob.
[22:40:33] <Wogglebug> Well, not really.
[22:40:37] <SpookyBee> "… Are you iin a birdhouse?"
[22:40:42] <Klurg> "Or this fog wall is it"
[22:40:43] <Wogglebug> It's more of a temple, but it vaguely resembles a gazebo.
[22:40:50] <Kade> She tries to check to see if there's a bottom to the sla- nevermind.
[22:40:57] <ihp> "…found it," Jacob says. "it's beneath us."
[22:41:05] <Kade> She steps off the slab.
[22:41:08] <Wogglebug> "You're beneath it, technically.
[22:41:09] <Wogglebug> "
[22:41:13] <SpookyBee> "Oh. Well, I can take care of this. I can walk on all surfaces"
[22:41:20] <Wogglebug> You step, and tumble, and flip around to the other side.
[22:41:38] <SpookyBee> "… Oh."
[22:41:52] <ihp> Jacob decides to follow her lead.
[22:41:57] <ihp> Carefully.
[22:42:09] <Wogglebug> You all flip and tumble, and find yourselves in very similar position, save that now there is a gazebo in front of you.
[22:42:25] <Wogglebug> And instead of bring surrounded by fog and bars, you're surrounded by a whole lot of nothing.
[22:42:28] <SpookyBee> "… Well then."
[22:42:37] <Wogglebug> Just an endless white plane, and the temple/gazebo before you.
[22:42:57] <Wogglebug> There is a bit of a gap though, showing through to the other side, where you just came from.
[22:43:06] <Klurg> Fiere groans
[22:43:12] <ihp> Jacob walks towards the gazebo. "Nordberg?"
[22:43:15] <Klurg> He's sick of this alien geometry
[22:43:18] <Kade> Tolly blinks and shrugs. Asher cuddlecurls the gazebo!
[22:43:23] <Wogglebug> "Norberg here yes hello."
[22:43:38] <Kade> "Behind the gazebo, he said."
[22:43:49] <ihp> He walks towards it.
[22:43:56] <Klurg> Fiere follows behind
[22:44:06] <SpookyBee> Viv skitters over!
[22:44:19] <Wogglebug> You walk into the gazebo. It's a grand temple of some sort. Fiere might be able to ID it. You can walk straight through, and on the other side there's a large building.
[22:44:34] <Wogglebug> In the middle of the temple, though, there's a door - a very, very large door.
[22:44:48] <Klurg> (Do I roll for ID-ing it or does he already know?)
[22:44:55] <Wogglebug> It's covered in ornate carvings, and gilded in places. Some sort of pastoral, utopian scene is depicted.
[22:44:58] <Wogglebug> You can roll.
[22:45:03] <Kade> Okay, but is there any phat lewt?
[22:45:04] <Klurg> 4df+6 pretty
[22:45:05] <Glacon> Klurg: pretty: 8 (4df+6=0, 3+, 0, 3+)
[22:45:23] <Klurg> (Forget the lewt, it's the lewd that you want)
[22:45:34] <Wogglebug> The structure is greek, or rather, Olympian.
[22:45:38] <Klurg> (I misread it as lewd originally, btw)
[22:45:56] <ihp> Jake looks around. "Nordberg? We're behind the Gazebo?" He heads towards the larger building.
[22:46:30] <SpookyBee> Actually, is the Olympian nature noticible to everyone?
[22:46:39] <Wogglebug> It's in an architectural style attributed to a religious spin off of what made up the ancient greek pantheons. This temple is of the sort described as being where the gods went to worship their own ancestors, or gods, or something like that. The myths are unclear.
[22:46:53] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly checks to see if the large door in the temple is trapped
[22:46:54] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly checks to see if the large door in the temple is trapped: 9 (4df+9=0, 3+, 0, 4-)
[22:46:57] <Wogglebug> "I'm right inside, just open up the door!"
[22:47:02] <Klurg> "Interesting, an Olympian design" Fiere appreciates the arts
[22:47:09] <Wogglebug> It's a door, and there doesn't seem to be any traps about it.
[22:47:22] <ihp> Jacob knock-knocks, opens up the door. Is it real?
[22:48:00] <Wogglebug> You open the door. It's s small, simple door. Made of wood, and pretty modern. You get the feeling this outbuilding, which resembles a very boring little bunker, isn't as old as that gazebo.
[22:48:10] <ihp> "Norberg?"
[22:48:15] <Wogglebug> A tiny little bat flies through the gap of the door right as you open it.
[22:48:26] <ihp> Jacob looks at the bat. "…oh, hello."
[22:48:52] <Wogglebug> Your radio squawks. "Free! Free at last, after 100000 years, I shall rule over this meager plane. All shall burn, wahahahahahahah!"
[22:49:01] <Wogglebug> The bat flies around in circles for a bit, clumsily.
[22:49:10] <ihp> "…all in favor of containing this?"
[22:49:13] <Wogglebug> It lands on Tolly's head. "hahah just kidding."
[22:49:14] <Klurg> Fiere gently grabs the bat
[22:49:20] <Klurg> (Never mind then)
[22:49:22] <Klurg> (Redact)
[22:49:23] <Wogglebug> "I just couldn't get the door handle to open."
[22:49:36] <Wogglebug> "I guess a breeze must have shut it or something. Not having hands is tough."
[22:49:46] <Kade> Tolly pets Norberg. "Ready to go, then?"
[22:50:02] <Klurg> He grabs his provision and gives a small piece of bread to norbert
[22:50:06] <ihp> "…what are you, exactly? How can you talk? And how did you know our names?"
[22:50:08] <Wogglebug> "Oh I can make it the rest of the way, I got what I needed here.
[22:50:11] <Wogglebug> "
[22:50:24] <Wogglebug> "Oh man are we having an interview, oh no."
[22:50:32] <SpookyBee> "What?"
[22:50:44] <Wogglebug> "I'm awful at interviews."
[22:50:47] <ihp> "You can't just take off with out an explanation."
[22:50:52] <Kade> Asher plays with the very large door in middle of the temple.
[22:50:53] <Wogglebug> "I totally could."
[22:50:57] <Wogglebug> "Would that make you mad?"
[22:51:05] <Wogglebug> "I guess I do kind of owe you guys for helping me out."
[22:51:12] <Klurg> Fiere slowly moves his bread piece torwards Norbert
[22:51:16] <Wogglebug> "Well, I'm a bat, hello."
[22:51:21] <Wogglebug> "My name is Norberg."
[22:51:25] <Klurg> "You must be hungry after being stuck in there for so long"
[22:51:36] <Wogglebug> "I am a fruit bat, which I was hoping you would figure out."
[22:51:37] <Klurg> Norberg*
[22:51:40] <Klurg> "Oh"
[22:52:00] <Wogglebug> "Uh."
[22:52:06] <Wogglebug> "What was your question again?"
[22:52:21] <ihp> "How do you know our names?"
[22:52:25] <Wogglebug> "Oh."
[22:52:25] <ihp> "You asked for me by name."
[22:52:31] <Wogglebug> "I read your files."
[22:52:34] <Klurg> Fiere takes out a blue berry instead "i can barely remember biology class" he hands the berry to norberg
[22:52:36] <Kade> "Will you be coming with us, Norberg?" Tolly scratches behind one of Norberg's ears.
[22:52:45] <Wogglebug> "I'm real good with information."
[22:52:49] <Wogglebug> "Like, all of the information."
[22:52:56] <SpookyBee> Vivian just kind'a sits there, watching the bat.
[22:52:57] <Wogglebug> "Sending, receiving, you know."
[22:52:59] <Wogglebug> "The works."
[22:53:05] <ihp> Jacob blinks. "I'm sorry? You have access to-- wait." He frowns. "…are… are you a god?"
[22:53:13] <Wogglebug> "Hahahahahaha no way man."
[22:53:19] <Wogglebug> "Gods are assholes."
[22:53:32] <Wogglebug> "Gods don't help anybody, even though they could."
[22:53:33] <ihp> "Yes, I am aware. But… access to our files. I assume you mean some form of cosmic files."
[22:53:46] <Wogglebug> "Oh no, no, like, the ones on the computer systems."
[22:53:55] <ihp> "…or else you just broke into Foundation headquarters and read all of the personnel files…"
[22:54:12] <Wogglebug> "They were in some big server far away."
[22:54:14] <ihp> "…what computer?" He looks inside the bunker.
[22:54:34] <Wogglebug> "I dunno. Somewhere over the ocean."
[22:54:41] <Kade> She looks at Jacob. "Maybe a bit more like Asher, then. Not entirely conforming to laws of human nature."
[22:54:42] <Wogglebug> "It seemed pretty legitimate."
[22:54:56] <ihp> "What… server? What's a server?" That term didn't exist in relation to computers until the late 60's.
[22:55:16] <Wogglebug> "Give it a few years."
[22:55:31] <SpookyBee> "…" Vivian tilts her head. "… I know what that is. Servers."
[22:55:44] <SpookyBee> "I recall seeing this term in a technology booklet from a past operation."
[22:55:51] <Klurg> "Why would a food server- oh"
[22:55:53] <ihp> "…well, then I guess I did go to MIT for nothing," Jacob stretches, looking at Norberg. "How do we get out of here?"
[22:56:26] <Wogglebug> "Well, depends on which way you're going. If you wanna go up, take the big gate. If you wanna leave, the exit is in through there."
[22:56:33] <Wogglebug> He does a little bat nod into the bunker.
[22:57:01] <ihp> "….will we be seeing you again?" Jacob asks, looking into the bunker.
[22:57:20] <Wogglebug> "Depends on how serious you were about punching god, I guess."
[22:57:34] <Wogglebug> "Like I said, I'm pretty good at metaphysics."
[22:57:45] <Wogglebug> "And I'm on my way to give somebody a piece of my mind."
[22:57:56] <SpookyBee> "I would like to punch a god for allowing me to live as the thing I am."
[22:58:16] <Wogglebug> Norberg gestures enthusiastically at the big gate.
[22:58:21] <Wogglebug> "It's a long way up."
[22:58:27] <Wogglebug> "I'm gonna make it, though."
[22:58:35] <Kade> Asher plays with the doorknob of the big door!
[22:58:56] <Wogglebug> It's not a knob so much as a handle.
[22:59:01] <Klurg> "Well, we could use you at the foundation"
[22:59:09] <Wogglebug> "Ahahahahaha."
[22:59:11] <Klurg> "We have a lot of gods we need to punch"
[22:59:17] <Wogglebug> "Use is definitely one word for it, isn't it."
[22:59:18] <Kade> 4df+9 Tolly stills to find some Phat Lewt and/or cluez
[22:59:19] <Glacon> Kade: Tolly stills to find some Phat Lewt and/or cluez: 9 (4df+9=0, 0, 3+, 4-)
[22:59:26] <Kade> *clues
[22:59:27] <Wogglebug> Tolly ain't find shit.
[22:59:33] <Wogglebug> Ain't shit to find.
[23:00:15] <Wogglebug> "Anyway, I have a god to yell at, did you have any more questions?"
[23:00:32] <Wogglebug> "I'm pretty sure my next layer is pretty swank, so I wanna get to it quick."
[23:00:59] <Klurg> "Do you think you should go and get an engineer to build you hands?"
[23:01:00] <Kade> Awww. Asher plays with the handle. Tolly pets Norberg some more. "I will have to detail you in our mission report, though. Just so you know."
[23:01:05] <SpookyBee> "Who is the god you're yelling at?"
[23:01:08] <Klurg> "Or some sort of grabbing equipment?"
[23:01:18] <Wogglebug> "No, okay, some guy, no."
[23:01:39] <Klurg> Fiere moves his head towards Vivian, hinting at who's the engineer
[23:02:18] <Kade> "Anything ominous warnings we should keep in mind for the foreseeable future?"
[23:02:24] <Wogglebug> "Uhhhh."
[23:02:51] <Wogglebug> "If you wanna get any further, you should steal old venerial's fingers from the pope."
[23:02:52] <Kade> "Or just things or secrets we should know."
[23:03:54] <Kade> She looks at Jacob. "…He made that up, huh?"
[23:03:57] <Wogglebug> "Otherwise more of the deaf hunters will come after you."
[23:04:06] <Wogglebug> "That's what that thing was, probably."
[23:04:06] <SpookyBee> "…"
[23:04:17] <Wogglebug> "I guess it could have just been some random thing."
[23:04:21] <Wogglebug> "But it was probably deaf."
[23:05:13] <Wogglebug> "Annnyway, I hope that was cryptic enough."
[23:05:13] <Kade> "That works as an ominous warning, thank you."
[23:05:41] <Wogglebug> "I'm gonna go. Thanks again! Oh, and Tolly, there's a gift for you inside. I stole it, you can have it, since you guessed I was a bat."
[23:05:52] <Wogglebug> The little fruit bat flops off, towards the big gate.
[23:06:12] <ihp> "…maybe," he shrugs, before chewing his lip. "What did he give you, Tolly?"
[23:06:21] <SpookyBee> "Nerdbird. What a weird thing."
[23:06:23] <Wogglebug> It flutters about the gate for a bit before it opens with a great grinding crash, cracking just slightly enough to allow him through.
[23:06:41] <Kade> Tolly blinks, hugging a laugh, before going to check inside. "Let's see."
[23:07:00] <Wogglebug> There's a brick sitting in the empty room. It looks like it has some fruit stains on it.
[23:07:29] <Wogglebug> There's a door in the room, too. It looks like the one from the front of the lighthouse.
[23:07:33] <Kade> Tolly confusedly picks up the brick
[23:07:41] <Wogglebug> It's a brick.
[23:07:42] <Kade> .
[23:08:09] <Kade> She shrugs and tucks it away, because why not?
[23:08:36] <Wogglebug> You all presumably head out, if there's nothing left to do.
[23:08:46] <Kade> She shows the others the door. Asher wiggles over.
[23:08:53] <Wogglebug> Taking the door will send you back to the island, right where you entered the lighthouse.
[23:10:27] <Wogglebug> The helicopter will take you back to base, where you will file a rather hard to believe report.
[23:11:17] <Kade> Plenty of stuff from missions is hard to believe, after all.
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