BABYL OPTIONS: Version: 5 Labels: Note: This is the header of an rmail file. Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03767; Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:58:47 EST Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01856; Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:58:45 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20064; Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:58:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:58:45 -0500 Message-Id: <9503070658.AA20064@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 01:58:45 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Since you don't have that much specific information about Jasra, and you want to be able to do this sureptitiously, you decied that your best bet is to start discreetly poking about in Chaos. You head to the Ways of Minobee first. The Duke is in residence, as are Storm, his wife Morgan and his son, Harold. Sidana is not currently making one of her in frequent appearances, which comes as no surprise. Morgan seems as though something is irritating her. Minobee seems _not_ to be the place to look just now -- there's an air of tension, that seems to indicate that something significant is in the works. You actually find some of the information you want in Jasby: there are still people around in Jasby who had at least moderate amounts of power in your grandfather's court. It turns out that Jasra is not only part demon, but also a very minor member of House Soward (one of the smaller houses, an Earldom). They can suggest some places in the Black Zone which Soward frequents and perhaps give you some information about what kind of demon stock she's descended from... It maight take a little digging. The Chamberlain offers to set up quarters for you in the Ways of Jasby and suggests that you might want to have dinner with your cousin the Duke.  1, forwarded,, hydra, Summary-line: 8-Mar mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: the hunt begins Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28505; Wed, 8 Mar 95 03:50:56 EST Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07314; Wed, 8 Mar 95 03:50:52 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14169; Wed, 8 Mar 95 03:50:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 03:50:53 -0500 Message-Id: <9503080850.AA14169@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: the hunt begins *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 03:50:53 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: the hunt begins how much do the people here in jasby know of my existence? in the list of the great houses i'm only rumored to exist. i don't want to give away extra information that's not readily available. do i know what is the black zone? is it dangerous? did you decide if i saw my father fall in the abyss? what do i know of the abyss? what are demons? do they come from the abyss? what's the strength of my claim to the jasby throne? what's my cousin's name? i'd rather it not be known that i was visiting jasby. if the duke knows i'm here i suppose then i will have dinner with him. i would like to quietly pump people for information, including the duke. i want it to seem like pleasant chat where people volunteer information of their own free wills. i may want to look like someone else for this. how hard is it to run around in shapeshifted disguise? for all i know, the duke helped plan my mother's death with jasra in order to gain the jasby throne. i will be polite and not mention the possibility, should the issue arise. should i figure out what spells i want current? should i list skills? recurring dream: Bad feeling, gotta warn Daddy. Daddy, look! I'm not making any sound, Daddy can't hear me. Being pushed. Evil. Father falling in slow motion, I can't catch him. I try to reach out and can't move! Falling into blackness, DADDY! Noooooooo!!!! disbelief, loss, pain, loss. better to be feared? better to be loved by "real" family, ie mommy and daddy. better not to be feared by entire rest of family, they will try to get rid of me, and they're much to powerful a group. but i can't imagine being loved/loving them. For other minobee's, other chaos-ites, would rather be feared. devil's advocate: obvious stuff, daughter of the worst evil from chaos and amber both. what's *her* scheme for universal domination? and she thinks they were the *good* guys! bad habit, moody? secret smile? not quite listening. (oh, whatever. i'm sorry, i wasn't really paying attention) not sure yet. age ten: quiet happy child, daydreamy. loner. murder random guy: attack against myself or my friends/loved ones. month long struggle: if end of dearest goal, yes, take help. if not, ie, dearest goal is not yet finished, don't take help because then would owe relative a favor, or may be giving away info. esp. NOT if giving away info. doesn't matter if battle involves greatest attribute. if life/death matter, yes take help, because need to stay alive to finish dearest goal. perfect mate: powerful, cunning, shrewd, million and 1 tricks; but also utterly trustworthy. linked by some common danger/fated linked deaths/other irrevocable danger. mutual respect and admiration. dark hair, eyes. caine. shoshana really needs a warm loving man who's willing to take her the way she is. patient and kind enough to pull her out of her secrecy. generous enough to keep her in spite of her burning desire to eradicate her uncle and a demoness. wisdom to teach her a better life. open hearted to show her how her parents could be wrong but still ok to love them, and how to forgive them. she wants a partner to make her more like caine/other amber relatives. actually, what she despises about them is also what she is actively trying to become. somehow, she doesn't really believe this and thinks after revenge, she can become a normal happy person. she really needs some heavy duty counselling and loving. from her time in shadow, she learned that there are happy, well adjusted people in the world. she thinks it would be good to be like that. but that forgiveness thing is right out. she even tries to be like them. sacred item: scorpion tears --------- and if you've read this far... can i change my looks? i may want violet eyes and black hair. eh. maybe i just shapeshift their color. maybe i shapeshift them from black and violet to blonde and grey. - m  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 8-Mar to: mer@MIT.EDU #[mer@MIT.EDU: hydra: the hunt begins] Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08100; Wed, 8 Mar 95 17:48:59 EST Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03680; Wed, 8 Mar 95 17:48:57 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA00292; Wed, 8 Mar 95 17:48:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 17:48:56 -0500 Message-Id: <9503082248.AA00292@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra: the hunt begins] *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 17:48:56 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra: the hunt begins] Answers to your questions: Jasby knows you exist. Both Minobee and Jasby (and you yourself) have been very quiet about you, so generally, people will remember that Morganna had a child, but likely know little else, probably not even a name. After the war, people tended to want to put a lot of unpleasant issues behind them, and were happy to let you be forgotten. Your cousin Aaron was given the title to Jasby, because he was deemed more stable than Uriel, and because you were only a child at the time, too young to really rule, but maybe old enough to understand and make trouble. Your impression is the Minobee pressed hard for the current outcome, but probably was fairly insistent that you not be "disposed of" (and no one would be willing to come get you out of the Ways of Minobee). Chaos floats above the Void, the lower reaches of which are called the Abyss. The Abyss is a huge chasm with no end, and it is generally believed that anything which fall in never comes back out. Chaos funerals consign the bodies to the Abyss. The outer edge of Chaos is often known as the Rim, and those Lords whose holdings lie along the edge of the Abyss are sometimes known as Rim Lords. Minobee, Sawall and Bairman are all Rim Lords... Since Minobee has holdings along the Abyss, it's certainly possible that you saw your father fall into the Abyss, so let's say yes... The Black Zone it the region of shadows around Chaos the fall most within the influence of Chaos. (Comparable to the Golden Circle in Amber; a shadow here would be a "Shadow of the Realm") Demons are probably the earliest inhabitants of Chaos, some are almost bits of primal chaos themselves. They are basically a step below Lords of Chaos though. (A demon could not traverse the Logrus, for instance.) They come in all sorts of shize and shapes, but tend to be horned & fanged & armored.. If you have a form that you've practiced, you can maintain it pretty easy in most places. The easiest three are human form, "demon" or "chaos" form, & avatar form, which is usually some sort of primal/elemental form. With lots of pratice, you can modify you human form. Imitating someone else runs the risk of losing your personality to theirs.. Yes, tell me what spells you want current, and go ahead and send me a list of skills for approval. What are scorpion tears? Violet eyes & black hair? That's what my amber character has! ;) If you've practiced, you can hold violet eyes and black hair pretty indefinately. You "true" form would still be the blond hair/grey eyes... How's that? --Kate  1, forwarded,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06933; Fri, 17 Mar 95 02:20:27 EST Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06842; Fri, 17 Mar 95 02:20:19 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09863; Fri, 17 Mar 95 02:20:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 02:20:19 -0500 Message-Id: <9503170720.AA09863@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 02:20:19 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra um, i'm not clear on what skills and spells i wanted. something like presence-type skills. a bit of rogue-skills, fam w/ small arms probably, maybe others. and for spells, at least: punt, attack, defense. maybe a few more, probably not scads of them. special effects: either something based on deep purple roses and black fire, or mists and weather effects, or silk and steel and other grey weblike things :) should a diary be first person, written like a normal diary ("dear diary"), or a log of the character's feelings/etc from the objective viewpoint of me, or somewhere in between, or what? scorpion tears are the ring and necklace that i wear. i haven't got a good story to go with them yet, at first they were going to be just something she wears because she likes them. one of them may end up being the danger sense toy. the idea i had was from a ring that a king wore in a story. it was a tiny snake that would bite him to tell him certain things. they look like teardrops. if you look closely, you see a tiny frosted scorpion inside. they're probably diamonds for durability. i'm thinking of dracula when mina was listening to her prince's story and cried, and he brushed her face and turned the tears to jewels. anyhow. maybe i cried them for my parents. or for my shadow friend. is that possible? is that too goofy? i'll keep thinking of my time in shadow. that would be the time that i practiced the alternate form. partly as a disguise and partly because in my mind i look pale and colorless. so that guy that befriended me in shadow knew me with the black and violet. can i pick a chaos form? or an avatar form? do you want the skill/spell list real soon? - meilin  1, forwarded,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09399; Mon, 20 Mar 95 00:31:28 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24316; Mon, 20 Mar 95 00:31:25 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06193; Mon, 20 Mar 95 00:31:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 00:31:25 -0500 Message-Id: <9503200531.AA06193@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra] *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 00:31:25 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra] Skills: OKay, why don't you do this: Tell me how much time you've spent doing things that would give you skills. For instance, "I went to medical school", "I spent three years working with a car theft ring in a high tech shadow", etc. Stats are sort of important, but mostly for defaults. "ego" & "pre" translate loosely to psyche, "int" & "dex" to warfare. Spells: for a punt you likely want a teleport -- will that be the with clothes or without clothes variety? (see the rules) For defense, um I'm not clear what you want to defend against -- again you should probably reference the sorcery rules (I don't have mine accessible at the moment). Ditto for attacks. I assume for the moment you want these spells all with the one lynch pin "insert a bit of logrus energy do make this do the right thing" (ie that ones lynch pin automatically adjusts things like "magic of shadow" "Target" etc for you. Isn't Logrus great? :) You can make spells that require no lynch pins (and are therefore faster to cast), but you usually have to know what you're going after ahead of time to make it effective beacuse you basically have to hard code all the variables... Diary: It should be written from your character's point of view. If your character would say "dear diary" then do that, if your character calls her diary "Diane" do that, etc.. It can just be a log, but reactions, opinions, & speculations are cooler. :) Scorpion tears: They sound fairly cool. You could have cried them for your parents, or your shadow friend. What was his name? I'd be interested in seeing a diary entry from your encounters with your, now dead, shadow friend. Shapeshift: Here's what I think I'm doing with shapeshift: You have your human form, which your born with, which has no special abilities. You adopt, typically in adolescence a demon form, which is typically about 1 pt armored & 1 point extra hard, and is favored for formal or even sort of formal occasions in chaos. (Pick what this looks like, it can have thing like extra limbs, feathers, scales, etc...) You can also adopt a "combat" demon form, which is -2 ranks in psyche, +2 strength, & +1 warfare and has 4pts of "qualities" from the artifact/creature list. (You also choose what this look like & how the points go. :) Avatar forms come with advanced shapeshift. You can have a couple of other "practiced forms" that you can get to fairly easily, if you've pracitced them for several years (like your black hair, violet eyed one.) btw, did you know my character in Mikee's run (Mikele) is blacked haired & violet eyed? Of course, you're probably one of those nasty sneaky lords of chaos making my life difficult some maybe I shouldn't be talking to you ;) Try to get me skills, spells, & form description in the near future -- I'm trying to get everyone *really* running... Then we'll do your dinner with the Duke of Jasby -- Aaron. :) --Kate  1,, Summary-line: 27-Mar mer@MIT.EDU #hydra, long Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04478; Mon, 27 Mar 95 05:04:49 EST Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18413; Mon, 27 Mar 95 05:04:47 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA22521; Mon, 27 Mar 95 05:04:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 05:04:47 -0500 Message-Id: <9503271004.AA22521@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, long *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 05:04:47 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, long i got a bit carried away here's a bit of story for the skills. i worked for the mafia in a space-faring shadow. i found them through some friends in the university i attended. i went on theiving runs with them, until one day someone tripped an alarm. i convinced the security people that we were part of a big-brother type government investigation team. they let us go. the team leader let his superiors know, and soon i was working as a front-man for their money laundering businesses. oh so proper. btw, in the university i enrolled with the high-tech equivalent of basket weaving as my intended major. i switched to law (being the kind of devious training i need) when i got a better grip on that particular shadow's ways. perhaps the initial major was "medival fashions" :-) anyway, i spent two years runing around with the "field operations" guys. i picked up a basic familiarity w/ small arms, sec. sys, lockpicking, stealth, concentration on shadowing, streetwise. in my four years as front man, i learned interrogation, bribery, concentration on conversation and persuation, minor on bureaucratics. i graduated intentionally not at the top of my class, as i didn't want to draw too much attention to myself. but i learned it nonetheless :-) i never cheated the mafia. when i was 22, i met keith (dead shadow friend) while looking for a job. i was starting to wonder if i wanted to settle in this shadow or not. he wasn't in the mafia. i stuck around in the shadow for another year to get to know him better. then i decided to try investigating shadows nearer amber. i still wasn't sure i wanted to settle in this shadow, and i wasn't sure i was getting the best training for my goals. that's when i saw the shadow? caine and the seeds of attraction set in. eit :-) i still liked keith in a cautious way, so i went back briefly to say hi. that's when he had the minor cold. next time i went back, he was dead. cried the scorpion tears for keith. i was kind of weirded out by the scorpions inside, kind of repulsed by myself, but i kept them anyway. spells: teleport with clothes. "bodily defense". what's the disadvantage of making the defense against magic, pattern/logrus, and trump all combined? is the individual defense lessened? if it's defense against magic, can i still cast spells myself? attack: stone binding i was thinking of a defense spell that's a delayed magical drain. cast it with a magical barrier. so, if in trouble, cast barrier. if still in trouble, cast drain, teleport out, drain starts and cleans up annoying magic, and cleans away barrier for a tidy battle site. you told me some time ago that mikele has black hair and violet eyes too :-) i didn't know that when i thought of it. i had been thinking that blonde is kind of bland especially next to a whole red-headed paternal family tree, and then i saw a bush with these striking violet berries. anyhow, i'm not a sneaky lord of chaos, i'm just sneaky :-) demon form: white scaled, long hair and mane of silver grey, prehensile tail ending with a tuft, pearl hooves, too-long fingers with translucent iridescent claws, pointy ears. combat demon: basically the same idea except, gun-metal body, longer black hair/mane, long razor hands, razor barbed tail, elbow and knee spikes. 2 pts resistant to firearms, 2 pts double damage. furred legs on both diary entry in separate mail because of previous lossage. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16397; Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:38:00 EST Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00981; Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:37:59 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09088; Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:37:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:37:55 -0500 Message-Id: <9503281637.AA09088@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra spells *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 11:37:55 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra spells First, a quick question: What object/creature has this quality: 2 ??? -- Sensitivity to danger Spells: Bodily defense: you can only defend against something you've reasonable encounter (so for th moment, couldn't actually defend against pattern, never having encountered it personally.) This spell is a little stronger if you only defend against a single thing, but since it's already poewred by the Logrus, that's not going to be nearly as big a deal as it would otherwise. If you use the "logrus invocation" micro-spell, there is no need to specify name/description of target, magic of shadow, or name of current shadow. Adds 1/2 an hour to casting time + five minutes for any of the following pins: trigger (optional), duration (optional), dispel word (optional). This spell is also a faster way of calling up the Logrus. The things in [] are pins you can set (ie things you can leave as variables to be filled in when you cast the spell). You can also specify these when you rack the spell, making it faster to cast, but less flexible. I've addded "Logrus invocation" to your rack, because it's fairly useful in and of itself. You can kill it if you like. Here's the list: * Self-Teleport, with clothes & possesions + logrus inv. (1hr) [destination (5)] * Bodily-defense vs. Logrus, Trump, Magic + logr. inv. (1.5hr) [duration, dispel word (10)] * Stone-binding + logr. inv. (2hr) [duration, dispel word (15)] * Defensive shield (speficy shape & dimensions) + logr. inv. (1.5hr) [duration, dispel word (10)] * Self-Teleport + Drain (delayed 1 min) + logr. inv. (2hr) [destination (5), area of drain, duration, dispel word (10)] * Logrus Invocation (.5hr) [trigger, duration, dispel word (5)] Let me know what you finally decide on the spells. --Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08847; Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:15:21 EST Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27537; Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:15:18 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA28390; Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:15:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:15:17 -0500 Message-Id: <9503291615.AA28390@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 11:15:17 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra danger sense in the scorpion tears ring. i had a silly idea for danger sense in a cellular phone :-) - m  1, forwarded,, hydra, Summary-line: 31-Mar mer@MIT.EDU #spells Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15539; Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:58:53 EST Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21300; Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:58:50 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA03162; Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:58:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:58:50 -0500 Message-Id: <9503310858.AA03162@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: spells *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 03:58:50 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: spells the spells you listed sound good. it sounds like you want a list of all spells i ever tried or worked on. if so, i'd like to add the cardiac arrest, and a hurricane simillar to lightning bolt. the plain teleport is hardcoded to go to the shadow where i mourned keith. to a nice outside wooded grove with moss. default of one hour bodily defense is fine, no dispell word defensive shield in the form of a two person igloo the teleport +drain has the destination and dispel word lynchpins stone binding has the dispel lynchpin what is the "trigger" lynchpin for logrus invocation? why would it need dispel or duration? can i not just tell it to go away the way regular logrus does when i bring it into my mind? i was thinking that invisibility would be useful to use for hiding things. would this scenario work: you've got a jar of marbles and want to hide some pearls, turn them invisible, mix them up with the marbles. sort of like the purloined letter, but better. hey i thought of something else cool, how about a teleport away that is linked to a creation of a duplicate of myself-wounded/dead? can i use magic to fly/hover? am i supposed to have all these racked all the time? can i have some racked some time and maybe next week, or some days later spend some time to change them around? do i need material components? to prepare these? do i make loud noises or magical smokes when preparing the spells? actually, i was wondering if, when i was keith, was i able to "meditate" in the mornings in a spare room all alone, or did i have to find some out of the way place to do this. do you want another diary entry for some other time other than keith-the-dead-shadow-friend? hurm. i keep making long mail. i keep asking questions, but i'm also quite willing to ignore lots of this and just start running. i can just take the defaults on lots of questions, and you just let me know what the default values are :-) - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21421; Wed, 5 Apr 95 00:49:25 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26623; Wed, 5 Apr 95 00:49:23 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23047; Wed, 5 Apr 95 00:49:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 00:49:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9504050449.AA23047@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: spells] *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 00:49:22 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: spells] No, I want a list of spells you currently have racked. Though a list of spells you know or have worked would be good too. Having thought about sorcery some more, I think you can cast any spell you've been taught, which will mostly be the standard list, plus a few others. You can research other spells to try and figure out how to cast them, but it takes quite a while -- order months. >defensive shield in the form of a two person igloo Nothing so complex as that, a sphere is probably the limit. Really it's supposed to be just a flat square or circle. >what is the "trigger" lynchpin for logrus invocation? why would it >need dispel or duration? can i not just tell it to go away the way >regular logrus does when i bring it into my mind? A "trigger" is what triggers the spell to go off. It can be on a word, and event, etc. You could cast logrus invocation with the trigger of snapping your finger. Then the next time you snapped you fingers, you'd immediately have the logrus up. (Very fast. :) The other lynchpins are, admittedly, less useful in general, so you probably don't want to bother with then. >i was thinking that invisibility would be useful to use for hiding >things. would this scenario work: you've got a jar of marbles and >want to hide some pearls, turn them invisible, mix them up with the >marbles. sort of like the purloined letter, but better. Well this would sort of work, they'd still take up space, they'd just be totally transparent... >hey i thought of something else cool, how about a teleport away that >is linked to a creation of a duplicate of myself-wounded/dead? >can i use magic to fly/hover? Theoretically. You'd need to either research them, or get some one to teach them to you. >am i supposed to have all these racked all the time? can i have some >racked some time and maybe next week, or some days later spend some >time to change them around? You can have about a dozen (maybe as high as 15) racked at a given time, though they'll need regular maintainence, lest they decay. (At least a little attention every day.) That could have particularly, um, spectacular results with the inclusion of Logrus in your spells. Racking takes as long as casting (hence the time in the list. :), and you can "rack" them in the logrus. >wondering if, when i was keith, was i able to "meditate" in the >mornings in a spare room all alone Yeah this is just fine. >do you want another diary entry for some other time other than >keith-the-dead-shadow-friend? I dunno, you could write something about your first encounter with Caine. ;)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17573; Wed, 5 Apr 95 23:42:25 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15853; Wed, 5 Apr 95 23:42:21 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23878; Wed, 5 Apr 95 23:42:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 23:42:15 -0400 Message-Id: <9504060342.AA23878@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 23:42:15 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Okay, so where were we? Oh yes, dinner with the Duke fo Jasby, your cousin Aaron. He's fair and fair haired with icy blue eyes. He's fairly small, for a man -- maybe 5'7'' -- looks to be in his late 20s (which says next to nothing about a Lord of Chaos, really.) It's a private dinner, just the two of you. After some initial pleasantries are past. ``So, Shoshana, how are you? Are you still living in the Ways of Minobee?'' Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03396; Sat, 8 Apr 95 01:42:27 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07397; Sat, 8 Apr 95 01:42:22 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA22711; Sat, 8 Apr 95 01:42:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 01:42:21 -0400 Message-Id: <9504080542.AA22711@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 01:42:21 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "I am well, thank you. I have not spent much time in Minobee recently. How are you? I trust all is well with the family affairs?" -m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03976; Sat, 8 Apr 95 02:02:33 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07744; Sat, 8 Apr 95 02:02:31 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA12189; Sat, 8 Apr 95 02:02:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 02:02:30 -0400 Message-Id: <9504080602.AA12189@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 8 Apr 95 02:02:30 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron ``Not much time in Minobee? Have you been exploring shadow then? What brings you back to Chaos? And Jasbyways? ``I myself am well enough, and family affairs are... recovering.''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20299; Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:34:08 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10878; Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:34:05 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA08033; Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:34:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:34:04 -0400 Message-Id: <9504102334.AA08033@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 19:34:04 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra ''It is chance that brings me back to Chaos at this particular time. I _have_ been exploring shadow, and growing up, as it were.'' ''Affairs are recovering? How so?''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23491; Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:09:11 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13247; Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:09:05 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16740; Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:09:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:09:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9504110009.AA16740@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 20:09:05 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron ``Just chance? I myself am not a great believer in chance.'' ``Time passes. People forget. And affairs recover. So it goes.''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15435; Thu, 13 Apr 95 02:29:46 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08335; Thu, 13 Apr 95 02:29:44 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05588; Thu, 13 Apr 95 02:29:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 02:29:43 -0400 Message-Id: <9504130629.AA05588@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 02:29:43 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron ''Chance is easily blamed for the workings of fate. And fate's strings are also often pulled by other hands. Perhaps fate blew me back to chaos.'' ''In shadow, I found myself questioning things I never did before. It is part of growing up, I suppose.'' ''And, Aaron, what have these years brought to you? Has chance or fate been a friend?'' - m ps: btw kate, i like think rebecca's a better name for her too. and this mail is late because our connection at home has been flakey. oh, and i got a cool demon form picture, but i guess i shouldn't put it on my web page, huh? >;-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09189; Fri, 14 Apr 95 12:44:27 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21932; Fri, 14 Apr 95 12:44:23 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA22099; Fri, 14 Apr 95 12:44:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 95 12:44:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9504141644.AA22099@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: aaron *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 14 Apr 95 12:44:22 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: aaron He regards you warily, and then replies. ``As I said, I am not a great believer in Chance and while I can not in truth claim the years have treated me well, nor can I say they have been entirely unkind. Perhaps it is too soon to say.''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22490; Sun, 16 Apr 95 01:07:43 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08206; Sun, 16 Apr 95 01:07:41 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA12888; Sun, 16 Apr 95 01:07:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 01:07:41 -0400 Message-Id: <9504160507.AA12888@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 01:07:41 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron I look serious. ``My mother used to say ...'' and then I pause and look sad ``... she used to say, `Time will tell.' '' can i use my psyche to get a hint of why he looks wary? (a la fiona) - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21646; Sun, 16 Apr 95 20:11:25 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29324; Sun, 16 Apr 95 20:11:23 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA11774; Sun, 16 Apr 95 20:11:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 20:11:23 -0400 Message-Id: <9504170011.AA11774@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Aaron *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 20:11:23 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Aaron ``Yes. I expect that time _will_ tell.'' [Actually, you picked up the wariness with psyche. ;) But to expand, he's probably wondering what *your* plans are.]  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13903; Tue, 25 Apr 95 13:29:46 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22517; Tue, 25 Apr 95 13:29:42 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14491; Tue, 25 Apr 95 13:29:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 13:29:39 -0400 Message-Id: <9504251729.AA14491@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 13:29:39 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron ''Did you know my mother?'' ---------------------------------- kate, sunspark is going to use my account to access his Daria directory, so could you make his dir readable to mer also? then we'll just not read each others' directories. but you should still send his mail to sunspark@leland (or your favorite stanford address). and when he logs in he won't inc my mail, so he won't see any mail subject headers. btw, do people in chaos die of natural causes, illness, stuff like that? could i tell what were the minobee's were tense about when i showed up there? - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20512; Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:44:30 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19765; Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:44:28 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14512; Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:44:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:44:27 -0400 Message-Id: <9504252144.AA14512@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 17:44:27 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; aaron ``By reputation only, I am afraid.'' You couldn't tell what the Minobees were tense over, but you could go back and ask if you want to know. [The servants were tense and had that sort of walking-on-eggsshells sort of mantality that people get when the don't want to risk setting off someone who's already very angry at something else. You'd guess that means that the Duke is very angry about something...] If you aren't going to ask Aaron anything else, we can assume the rest of dinner finishes without incident. [You might want to start moving things along at a slightly faster pace. As you're going to start getting behind the others soon, if you don't.] I've already made sunspark's directory readable (and writeable) by mer, so that shouldn't be a problem. (You're not the only shared account :) People in Chaos *can* die of natural causes, but more often tend to die of hazard, poison, duels, or suicide. (and sometimes shapeshifting gone awry...) Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21066; Mon, 1 May 95 13:31:27 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18278; Mon, 1 May 95 13:31:23 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05302; Mon, 1 May 95 13:31:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 13:31:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9505011731.AA05302@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, aaron *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 1 May 95 13:31:22 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, aaron no further questions - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12648; Mon, 1 May 95 16:07:06 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05330; Mon, 1 May 95 16:07:02 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19036; Mon, 1 May 95 16:07:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 May 95 16:07:00 -0400 Message-Id: <9505012007.AA19036@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 1 May 95 16:07:00 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Okay, then dinner ends. What are you doing now?  1,, Summary-line: 3-May mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07124; Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:50 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12815; Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:47 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16107; Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:46 -0400 Message-Id: <9505030657.AA16107@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:46 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I start a friendly conversation with the steward (or other convenient servant) and ask him what's interesting in Jasbyways. I try to figure out if he's friendly towards me/my mother, or who here would've know my mother.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18819; Sun, 7 May 95 11:54:53 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10861; Sun, 7 May 95 11:54:51 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05998; Sun, 7 May 95 11:54:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 May 95 11:54:51 -0400 Message-Id: <9505071554.AA05998@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: mer@MIT.EDU's message of Wed, 3 May 95 02:57:46 -0400 <9505030657.AA16107@alfredo.MIT.EDU> Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 7 May 95 11:54:51 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra The steward, who's name is Hugge, chats with you for a little while, though his concerns seem to be fairly mundane. You get the impression that the House is mostly trying to maintain a low profile and not get involved in any politcal scheming for the moment -- probably in the hopes that the memory of Jasby's most recent foray will eventually fade. To, that end, there are very few things of note going on in the Ways. The steward seems to have know of you mother if not exactly known her. Most everyone who had any kind of important position during Uriel's reign either failed to survive the seceond coup or was sent off into obscurity, so there are unlikely to be any terribly important servants who knew your mother and were friendly to her. [more later]  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18342; Tue, 9 May 95 09:52:17 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20799; Tue, 9 May 95 09:52:15 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14160; Tue, 9 May 95 09:52:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 95 09:52:13 -0400 Message-Id: <9505091352.AA14160@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; chatting with the Hugge *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 9 May 95 09:52:13 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; chatting with the Hugge Hugge will add that he thinks there are a couple of your cousins who might remember your mother, living in the Black zone, and will give you their names and whereabouts he thinks they are. The other thing you might try would be House Harnack, which is your grandmother's House. So, next move?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14124; Tue, 9 May 95 13:31:22 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10368; Tue, 9 May 95 13:31:18 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21513; Tue, 9 May 95 13:31:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:31:06 -0400 Message-Id: <9505091731.AA21513@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:31:06 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I will try the black zone but first make a detour to MinobeWays to see what was the big problem. At Minobee, I'll ask servants about the problem (but without a lot of friendly chatter, as none of them were very friendly with me) and then see if Kamil's around. I mean to detour there less than a day. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14425; Tue, 9 May 95 13:33:29 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10625; Tue, 9 May 95 13:33:21 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21612; Tue, 9 May 95 13:33:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:33:19 -0400 Message-Id: <9505091733.AA21612@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:33:19 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra oh, and i thank hugges :-) - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14793; Tue, 9 May 95 13:36:09 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10851; Tue, 9 May 95 13:36:07 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16384; Tue, 9 May 95 13:36:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:36:06 -0400 Message-Id: <9505091736.AA16384@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: detour *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 9 May 95 13:36:06 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: detour You drop by Minobeeways and quickly uncover the source of the problem: Kamil has been kidnapped. The Duke is apparently furious (and all the servants are treading carefully because of it, lest they inadvertantly become caught in his wrath). Storm is vowing vengeance on House Ardas and their lackeys in House Chanicutt, whom he has assumed must be to blame.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04266; Wed, 10 May 95 05:08:10 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10118; Wed, 10 May 95 05:08:07 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06895; Wed, 10 May 95 05:08:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 95 05:08:07 -0400 Message-Id: <9505100908.AA06895@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 10 May 95 05:08:07 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra how do they know kidnapped and not dead? was there a ransom note? poor kid. i was thinking i'd get her a pair of earings too. how long ago was this, do the other houses know? i'm tempted to go look for her even though i'm on a mission. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06385; Wed, 10 May 95 12:41:07 EDT Received: from M66-080-5.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04615; Wed, 10 May 95 12:41:01 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m66-080-5.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA08821; Wed, 10 May 95 12:40:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 95 12:40:59 -0400 Message-Id: <9505101640.AA08821@m66-080-5.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 10 May 95 12:40:59 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra They assume kidnapped rather than killed, because the bodies of a couple of servants were found, but hers was not. There are also rumours a great shadow chase after the kidnapper(s). (Suuposedly that's where Storm has gone off to.) There was no ransom note, but it hasn't been terribly long, maybe a day here. (Though with differences in time-flows it could be more or less in other places.) You get the impression they've been trying to keep this quiet, but that word has started to get out anyway. It isn't clear whether or not they are going to take this matter to the King. On one hand, if they do that, and it turns out to be that Ardas *is* to blame, it would be a major politcal victory for the House. On the other hand, a private vengeance might be more satisfying, especially if they've hurt her...  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28480; Thu, 11 May 95 03:40:55 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01056; Thu, 11 May 95 03:40:51 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25002; Thu, 11 May 95 03:40:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 May 95 03:40:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9505110740.AA25002@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 11 May 95 03:40:47 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra my plan is to go help, if it's convenient. she's a nice kid, and i wouldn't mind practicing killing if it helps her out :-) i ask which way they went, and then follow. if they don't know, i go to ardas and find where the ardas servants go out to have a good time. "ardas...are strong supporters of Staffan Helgram prohibits against more arcane magics" -> you mean ardas supports the prohibitions again arcane magics? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19938; Thu, 11 May 95 10:43:24 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15100; Thu, 11 May 95 10:43:21 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05399; Thu, 11 May 95 10:43:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 May 95 10:43:21 -0400 Message-Id: <9505111443.AA05399@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 11 May 95 10:43:21 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra The servants don't know which way the great shadow chase went. What form are you taking in Ardas lands (I assume you're not actually walking into Ardasways and trying to get information...) And yes, Ardas supports Staffan's prohibitions against the sort of wacky arcane magics that the Barimens, for instance, are quite fond of. (Another source of tension between Bariman & Ardas.) Ardas isn't very magically... adventurous.  1, filed, answered,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06123; Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:40 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25027; Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:36 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA18382; Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:35 -0400 Message-Id: <9505121734.AA18382@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:35 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra if i have another practiced form then i use that. simple, unremarkable, with dark red-brown hair, darkish skin and brown eyes. otherwise i go into ardas (yes, not ardasways) with the mikele-colored form. i look for taverns convenient to ardasways that aren't too fancy. i try to avoid nobility and any ardas family types. dress conservatively, like a minor house's. what is a shadow chase? can i detect a trail through shadow? how much time has passed since dinner with aaron? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06827; Fri, 12 May 95 13:40:17 EDT Received: from M66-080-21.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25574; Fri, 12 May 95 13:40:16 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m66-080-21.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16037; Fri, 12 May 95 13:40:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 95 13:40:15 -0400 Message-Id: <9505121740.AA16037@m66-080-21.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: mer@MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 12 May 95 13:34:35 -0400 <9505121734.AA18382@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 12 May 95 13:40:15 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra A shadow chase is just a chase through shadow, probably using some sort of shadow seeking "bloodhounds" (demons). If they were able to get the "scent" of the kidnapper (or Kamil) this is feasible, provided they start soon enough. You can follow a shadow trail if it's still fresh. Let's say you use the Mikele-colored form. You go to a tavern equivalent frequented by Ardas servants, dressed as befits minor nobility, though not wearing any particular house colors. What are you intending to do here? (What are your immediate goals and how do you intend to accomplish them?)  1,, Summary-line: 13-May mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22652; Sat, 13 May 95 16:52:37 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21820; Sat, 13 May 95 16:52:34 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24883; Sat, 13 May 95 16:52:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 May 95 16:52:30 -0400 Message-Id: <9505132052.AA24883@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 13 May 95 16:52:30 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra i want to listen to their gossip and get a feel for what their mood is. i order myself some appropriate wine. i'm also trying to get enough information to start a conversation with one of them. for instance, if i can get the name of a female member of the house, i'm going to ask politely after her health, saying a friend of mine wishes her well, aluding to a romance. and i'll buy them a good drink. (i'm assuming money isn't a problem) i'm trying to figure out if their masters have done anything different lately, such as go on a big shadow journey, bring a young visitor home, gotten in big arguments, new prisoner in dungeons, etc. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29800; Sun, 14 May 95 14:30:56 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21469; Sun, 14 May 95 14:30:53 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14935; Sun, 14 May 95 14:30:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 May 95 14:30:52 -0400 Message-Id: <9505141830.AA14935@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 14 May 95 14:30:52 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Money isn't a problem. You listen to their gossip. There isn't a lot, they're all a little nervous and tense. You gather that one of the Duchesses nephew's is still in a coma from a recent assassination attempt, and this has cast a bit of a pall over the house. And the duchess and her brother have been disagreeing a lot over something. No one has anything good to say about House Minobee. You don't hear too many female names mentioned. Well, there's the Duchess herself, Tore. Other than that the only name you here mentioned is Elizabeth. Apparently, she spends very little time in Chaos, but was back recently -- just after Tomas was poisoned -- and, according to the servants, was not taking it very well and has gone back to wherever she spends most of her time.  1,, Summary-line: 16-May mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23866; Tue, 16 May 95 03:12:04 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21021; Tue, 16 May 95 03:11:59 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24687; Tue, 16 May 95 03:11:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 03:11:59 -0400 Message-Id: <9505160711.AA24687@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 95 03:11:59 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra i forget, do i have a trump of storm? i want to try following the shadow chase, since it's something i don't think i've done before. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11438; Tue, 16 May 95 10:21:16 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03017; Tue, 16 May 95 10:21:10 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16765; Tue, 16 May 95 10:21:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 10:21:10 -0400 Message-Id: <9505161421.AA16765@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: trumps *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 95 10:21:10 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: trumps You probably have trumps of Jasbyways, Minobeeways, Brand, Morganna, Tybalt, Asha, Storm, Rebecca, Berris, and Sidana. (Though a number of these are not very useful, the subject of the trump being dead. The trump of your father is his own work. Other than that, the Minobee trumps are by the Minobee trump artist. Similarly for the Jasby ones.) Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08931; Tue, 16 May 95 14:13:32 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25665; Tue, 16 May 95 14:13:12 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA18832; Tue, 16 May 95 14:13:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 14:13:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9505161813.AA18832@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 95 14:13:09 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra yes, so i go back near minobeeways and try following the shadow chase on the theory that maybe storm & co were too busy to particularly hide their tracks. i want to spend a couple of hours on this. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13266; Tue, 16 May 95 19:31:24 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24617; Tue, 16 May 95 19:31:22 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05193; Tue, 16 May 95 19:31:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 19:31:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9505162331.AA05193@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: shadow trail *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 16 May 95 19:31:22 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: shadow trail After several hours of searching, you fail to find any sign of a a major chase through shadow.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14084; Wed, 17 May 95 06:56:57 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16064; Wed, 17 May 95 06:56:54 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04725; Wed, 17 May 95 06:56:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 06:56:54 -0400 Message-Id: <9505171056.AA04725@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 17 May 95 06:56:54 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra i initiate a trump call to storm. normally i'm not likely to randomly call him up, but it's Kamil... i change to my normal blonde-grey form. i will ask politely if he'd like my help. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15814; Wed, 17 May 95 13:03:39 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09975; Wed, 17 May 95 13:03:37 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10551; Wed, 17 May 95 13:03:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 13:03:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9505171703.AA10551@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Storm *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 17 May 95 13:03:36 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Storm Storm is on horseback, a black horse. He has a handful of Minobee retainers and a cousin or two with him. They are following four or five "bloodhound" demons. He thanks you for your offer, but says he thinks his party has all the obvious things covered. At any rate, every additional person added at this point is only likely to slow down the pursuit.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05238; Thu, 18 May 95 13:40:56 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00372; Thu, 18 May 95 13:40:37 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14913; Thu, 18 May 95 13:40:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 May 95 13:40:35 -0400 Message-Id: <9505181740.AA14913@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 18 May 95 13:40:35 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra If Storm doesn't seem immensely preoccupied, I tell him that this might be retaliation for Tomas. In any case, I wish Storm good luck, and sign off. And then, I switch back to (unless i'm getting tired?) mikele-colors and resume my own hunt. I go to the Black zone and look up the cousins on the list Hugges gave me. (are you going to tell me when my spells need care, or do i need to keep track of that?) - meilin  1,, Summary-line: 23-May mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20810; Tue, 23 May 95 02:57:11 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18849; Tue, 23 May 95 02:57:10 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10683; Tue, 23 May 95 02:57:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 95 02:57:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9505230657.AA10683@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 23 May 95 02:57:09 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra waiting for reply to actions: mention tomas ardas to storm, lookup cousins in black zone - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26623; Tue, 23 May 95 23:44:22 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27163; Tue, 23 May 95 23:44:21 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25465; Tue, 23 May 95 23:44:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 95 23:44:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9505240344.AA25465@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: sorry *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 23 May 95 23:44:20 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: sorry I haven't forgotten you. I've just spen the weekend entertaining Frank and reading the latest Guy Gavriel Kay book. :) I'll recover from my lameness soon.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02223; Fri, 26 May 95 01:03:51 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13861; Fri, 26 May 95 01:03:50 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16265; Fri, 26 May 95 01:03:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 May 95 01:03:49 -0400 Message-Id: <9505260503.AA16265@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 26 May 95 01:03:49 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra You suggest to Storm that this might be a retaliation for Tomas. He gives you a withering look, and says ``Thank you,'' in a tone that suggests that he already knew that. Then he breaks the connection. You switch to your other form, and head towards the Black zone. The first cousin you track down won't even see you. The second one appears to no longer be there. The third, a woman named Kimberly, agrees to see you (apparently) as you are shown into a room ina smallish castle. (How do you introduce yourself, btw?)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15889; Sat, 27 May 95 20:26:51 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26923; Sat, 27 May 95 20:26:49 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA18465; Sat, 27 May 95 20:26:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 95 20:26:48 -0400 Message-Id: <9505280026.AA18465@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 27 May 95 20:26:48 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I introduce myself to the servants/house as a friend of the family. To Kimberly I say the same, that I was a friend of house Jasby who has been out of touch for some time. I want to start out friendly, and see how she reacts to me. I intend to have a friendly chat with her, ask her about how she and others of Jasby have fared. With that as a lead in, I'll bring the conversation around to Morganna. I'm trying to figure out if she has any ill will towards Morganna/Uriel. I'm specifically trying to not lie, but neither say who I really am. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20678; Sat, 27 May 95 23:48:16 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00218; Sat, 27 May 95 23:48:15 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19455; Sat, 27 May 95 23:48:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 95 23:48:14 -0400 Message-Id: <9505280348.AA19455@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Kimberly *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 27 May 95 23:48:14 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Kimberly Kimberly is cool from the start. She doesn't press you to find out who you are. She seems to have patently no interest in you at all. She seems very bitter towards Helgram. When you ask she and the others of Jasby have fared, she says, "I'm sure I have no idea about anyone else, and you can see for yourself how I've fared." When you turn the conversation over towards Morganna, she exhales sharply. "Well, I suppose I fared better than Morganna, but then I wonder if the whole thing wasn't her idea from from the start." And she looks at you closely, "But why do you disturb an old woman with tales of past failures?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00993; Wed, 31 May 95 13:28:08 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18175; Wed, 31 May 95 13:28:04 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23996; Wed, 31 May 95 13:28:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 95 13:28:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9505311728.AA23996@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 31 May 95 13:28:03 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra "I have no fondness for that period of time either. Morganna was kind to me more than once. Although I too fared better than she, I regret not knowing more about her end." Shoshana is trying to find out what Morganna's last days were like, and what is known or speculated about the circumstances of her death. Then, if and when Kimberly seems bored of this topic, I'll lead the conversation back to Helgram and let her vent her bitterness as much as she likes. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15199; Wed, 31 May 95 15:57:30 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29001; Wed, 31 May 95 15:57:28 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21714; Wed, 31 May 95 15:57:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 95 15:57:25 -0400 Message-Id: <9505311957.AA21714@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 31 May 95 15:57:25 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra ``As I understand it, it all happened rather suddenly. They moved against us very fast. Perhaps there were signs. Uriel was becoming too paranoid, beginning to lose his grip, listening too closely to Harnack. They came for him one day in force, I think he was too stunned even to resist. They'd planned it very carefully, but Morganna was very cautious, unpredictable. She wasn't in Thelbane that day. ``They didn't take too long to figure that out, and sent a party for her. But I guess Staffan's people weren't the only ones planning trouble. Jasra, or her people, got to Morganna first. She was dead when Staffan's agents found her. Or so I was told. We had a choice of exile or imprsonment, and not much time to decide. ``Edward's not much of King, I'd imagine. But Staffan had a great many allies, and it's probably quite unwise of you to bring up such matters. People will eventually forget, but that will take time. If I were you, I'd continue to lie low and avoid poking about visiting any more exiled members of the old regime. Allies are a good thing, but you are better off creating your own and those with any power in the house won't take the risk. [her tone become more sarcastic] ``And now if you excuse me, I have pressing matters to attend to. Exile is like that.'' She rises and leaves the room. The bulter arrives to show you out. Now what?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28172; Sat, 3 Jun 95 03:59:03 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16145; Sat, 3 Jun 95 03:59:01 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14627; Sat, 3 Jun 95 03:59:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 03:59:00 -0400 Message-Id: <9506030759.AA14627@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 03:59:00 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra oh. sorry, i mis-filed your reply... I wish Kimberly well and take my leave of her and her castle. since meilin now realizes it's not inconceivable to look for people with logrus, it belatedly occurs to shoshana too :-) for the most part, she uses the mikele-colored form. she thinks it's prettier, and anyhow she doesn't want to get in the habit of being straight forward. I'm going to look for Kamil my own way. I find myself a nice quiet place (a shadow near chaos if that's possible) and bring up the Logrus. Before I get really started, I send the Logrus tendrils in search of the pair of earings I wanted to give Kamil. Something feminine, a small bit of dangling stuff, gold to match her hair/eyes, not too outrageous for a girl of 10. Do I think it would help to start near where she disappeared? I reach out and search with Logrus/Magic for Kamil. If the Logrus finds someone, I'll use Logrus Sight to get some more information about her before pulling her to me. I'd hate to pull in some demon masquerading as Kamil. She was the only one out of that house who liked me, but still I'm not going to die for her. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15887; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:27:27 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27660; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:27:26 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04159; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:27:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:27:24 -0400 Message-Id: <9506032127.AA04159@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:27:24 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Okay, still in the Mikele-colored form, you go find a nice quiet shadow near Chaos. You call up the Logrus and find some nice earrings for Kamil, with unusual green stones to match her eyes. (She is green-eyed, brown haired, btw, not standard Minobee colors, but then neither were/are Sidana, Berris, & Rebecca.) Since starting where she disappeared is unlikely to mater particularly with a Logrus searcg, you stay where you are. You look for a long time -- you're not really clear on how long --when you think you're at least getting close. You might be able to pull yourself through to the shadow where she is. (Unfortunately, you can't use Logrus sight through a Logrus tendril.) You're nearly there, when there's a tremendous flash/explosion, as something or someone rips into the shadow you're in. You have a vague sense of sorcery and something else and then you lose your hold on the Logrus as the shock wave hits you and you are stunned. You see tall handsome, black haired, dark eyed man with vaguely Arabic features come through the rip with a murderous look on his face. He takes one look at you and then gestures at you and everything goes black. [con't]  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16698; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:44:10 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27971; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:44:09 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04510; Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:44:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:44:08 -0400 Message-Id: <9506032144.AA04510@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: more hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 3 Jun 95 17:44:08 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: more hydra You regain consciousness and find yourself seated again a tree, with your hands and feet tied securely but not so tightly as to be painful. You're tired and hungry (you must have been at that longer than you realized.) It's night here (this doesn't seem like the same shadow your were in before) and there is a campfire blazing. The man you saw before is sitting beside the fire, a short distance from you. He is dressed in reds and golds, and sheathed saber hangs from his sword belt. (You could be mistaken, but he seems to have cleaned up somewhat from when you first saw him. Certainly, he no longer looks so angry.) He regards you carefully. He is holding your trumps in one hand. ``You are from the Courts of Chaos. What is your name?''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26464; Sun, 4 Jun 95 00:49:50 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05145; Sun, 4 Jun 95 00:49:48 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA29464; Sun, 4 Jun 95 00:49:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 00:49:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9506040449.AA29464@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 00:49:47 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra (that was cool, kate :-) Am I still wearing my scorpion tears? Did I revert to my true form? I look coolly back at him. ``This is hardly a proper way to meet. What do you intend to do with me?'' - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27492; Sun, 4 Jun 95 01:56:42 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05960; Sun, 4 Jun 95 01:56:41 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA13480; Sun, 4 Jun 95 01:56:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 01:56:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9506040556.AA13480@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 01:56:40 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra He cocks an eyebrow and nods. "Hardly proper. Well, things do change, I suppose." He stands and steps to the left of the fire, then continues. "If you really must know, I plan to do very little with you. I shall begin by restating my initial question. After it has been resolved, I shall inquire with you as to the names of the persons depicted on these trumps of yours. I was thinking that if you have considerable difficulty remembering the names, I might throw them into the fire, one by one, in an attempt to be helpful." He pauses, shuffling the trumps as if looking for one in particular. As if distracted, he goes on. "After that, I was expecting I might question you on recent political developments, and then watch from a distance while you extricate yourself from your bonds. That, I think, will bring my present machination to a close." He looks up from the trumps and moves back behind the fire, and then turns the bottom of the deck toward you, illuminated by the fire. It's the trump that looks a lot like you in the form that you shifted to when you were knocked out. "Now," he says, "if we may continue. Whose image is this?" (That's you, btw.)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28038; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:23:24 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06359; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:23:18 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA00610; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:23:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:23:17 -0400 Message-Id: <9506040623.AA00610@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:23:17 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra ``Yvonne, House Minobee.'' And I nod slightly, like a bow/curtsy. As he shuffles through for the next one, ``Why are you interesting in political developements?'' And I look closer at him, trying to figure out if I've seen him before. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28074; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:25:43 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06387; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:25:42 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14075; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:25:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:25:42 -0400 Message-Id: <9506040625.AA14075@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:25:42 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra You don't think you've ever seen him before...  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28377; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:40:39 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06512; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:40:37 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14256; Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:40:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:40:37 -0400 Message-Id: <9506040640.AA14256@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 02:40:37 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra He looks genuinely surprised--almost hurt. "Why?" He considers for a moment, and then answers. "A silly question. One might as well ask a baby why it cries for its mother's milk. Such evasions do not suffice to turn me aside from my purpose. The answer runs in your blood, as it does in mine." He takes the first trump and places it on the other end of the deck, exposing another, and turns it toward you, with the slightest hint of a smile. (This one's Morganna, btw.)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12472; Sun, 4 Jun 95 16:42:42 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17206; Sun, 4 Jun 95 16:42:40 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24040; Sun, 4 Jun 95 16:42:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 16:42:38 -0400 Message-Id: <9506042042.AA24040@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 16:42:38 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I'm looking for his reaction when I say Yvonne. I'm trying to figure out if he knows the truth. ``Morganna, House Jasby'' He's playing a game of his own devising and he has me at a disadvantage. (Exactly as I would enter a game, if I were choosing.) Fine. I can play games too. I slip into corporate-shark mode and smile a bit back at him. I approve of his method, if not his position relative to mine. ``You play this game as befits your heritage, however I must confess I do not recognize you. Where is your trump?'' - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15075; Sun, 4 Jun 95 18:06:37 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19229; Sun, 4 Jun 95 18:06:36 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25705; Sun, 4 Jun 95 18:06:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 18:06:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9506042206.AA25705@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 18:06:36 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra He didn't visibly react to mention of either Yvonne or Morganna.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21554; Sun, 4 Jun 95 22:02:57 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23666; Sun, 4 Jun 95 22:02:56 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06284; Sun, 4 Jun 95 22:02:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 22:02:54 -0400 Message-Id: <9506050202.AA06284@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 4 Jun 95 22:02:54 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra His smile flickers, and then remains in place. "Not here, certainly," he says, cutting yet another card to the top of the deck. "And I daresay that if I knew precisely whom would be best to ask if you wanted to see my image on one of these, I would have little motivation to ask you these questions, which you no doubt find quite tiresome. I can assure you, however, that there exist numerous ways in which to pass time that are even less productive and far more aggravating." His eyes hold yours for a moment, as if measuring you, as he turns the next trump toward you. (This one's Tybalt.)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01362; Mon, 5 Jun 95 04:57:27 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00731; Mon, 5 Jun 95 04:57:24 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14477; Mon, 5 Jun 95 04:57:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 04:57:24 -0400 Message-Id: <9506050857.AA14477@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 04:57:24 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra When he says ''aggravating'', I shrug. ``Tybalt, House Minobee'' And then I smile, ``You do not see me at my best, so please excuse me if my attention seems to wander. On the contrary, I am facinated with all of this.'' Kate, I really am facinated with this fellow, but if you like, I'm willing to abstract the naming the trumps bit. I'll tell him rest of the trumps names truthfully, but with no embellishment. Am I tied to the tree? I'm considering teleporting out if he gets too dangerous. ie, I'd rather be alive and minus a trump deck than vice versa. If you do want to abstract however, I'd still like to play out some of the political questioning he promised. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17034; Mon, 5 Jun 95 11:12:04 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12290; Mon, 5 Jun 95 11:12:02 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA27016; Mon, 5 Jun 95 11:12:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 11:12:01 -0400 Message-Id: <9506051512.AA27016@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 11:12:01 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra No, you aren't tied to the tree. (Even if you were, you could teleport without clothes if you have one of those hung. Of course, you'd leave the scorpion tears behind...) Why don't we mostly abstract the rest of the trumps? I'll just list them all here, and you can tell me exactly what you name them: Asha Helgram Minobee Storm Rebecca Harold Berris Sidana Brand  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28469; Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:09:03 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21045; Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:08:57 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20864; Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:08:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:08:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9506051708.AA20864@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:08:56 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Asha, House Minobee, formerly Helgram Storm, House Minobee Rebecca, House Minobee Harold, House Minobee Berris, House Minobee Sidana, House Minobee Brand (kate, i just noticed 5/12 of my trumps are of dead people :-) - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09618; Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:04:58 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29774; Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:04:52 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23202; Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:04:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:04:51 -0400 Message-Id: <9506051904.AA23202@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 5 Jun 95 15:04:51 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra "Yes," he replies airily, "the 'Wandering Attention' stratagem. An old favorite. Much more entertaining than the 'Pout and Pray' method, or the time-tested 'What Can It Hurt To Spill a Hint Or Two To Harmless Little Me' gambit. Personally I find the latter more than a bit tactless. 'Wandering Attention' at least commands some respect." He pauses to shuffle a new card to the top of the deck. "It does not stand up to reason any better than most others, of course, but one must admit that the 'wandering' motif has a certain sentimental appeal to most of us." He exposes the next trump. He holds up a trump, a red haired man, dressed in green. "Brand" you say. He holds up another one, of a red haired man, with flashing blue eyes. "Storm, House Minobee." Now a red haired young man. "Harold, House Minobee." A brown haired, blue-eyed young man. "Berris, House Minobee." A pretty brown haired, green-eyed woman. "Asha, House Minobee, formerly Helgram." A beautiful woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes. "Rebecca, House Minobee." An attractive, young woman with dark brown hair and dark unreadable eyes. "Sidana, House Minobee." (We were abstracting, to speed things up a bit. :) Continue with the political discussion now. :)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17168; Tue, 6 Jun 95 00:18:24 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27387; Tue, 6 Jun 95 00:18:21 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10199; Tue, 6 Jun 95 00:18:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 00:18:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9506060418.AA10199@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 00:18:22 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra He shuffles the deck some, not asking about any of the other trumps, and then walks slowly around the fire and places them on the ground at your feet. He returns to his former position. "Pleasant looking family, yours. A pity your acquaintances aren't a bit more various. Tell me, who rules the Courts these days?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23080; Tue, 6 Jun 95 04:11:42 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01461; Tue, 6 Jun 95 04:11:38 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA18621; Tue, 6 Jun 95 04:11:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 04:11:38 -0400 Message-Id: <9506060811.AA18621@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 04:11:38 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra (my sister's in town for a week, so i won't be logged in 2x/day...) ``Edward, of Helgram'' ``You are a playing piece brought back to the board... What is your name?'' I study his features. I memorize the way he walks. How carefully does he approach me to deposit the trumps? I've got a stone-binding spell racked, with a dispel word lynchpin. What do I need to cast this? How much time? ie, Is he too aware for me to get it off? I assume I don't need to touch the subject of the spell. Is this correct? Does he turn his back to me to walk back to his place? If he does, I'll shift my position slightly and see if he notices. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03557; Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:42:08 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08079; Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:41:59 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA17136; Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:41:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:41:59 -0400 Message-Id: <9506061341.AA17136@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 09:41:59 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra re: Stone binding spell: you can speak, so you ought to be able to cast it. He doesn't have a sword out threatening to lop off your head, so you can probably get said spell off. And, no, you don't need to touch him. He has a certain air of unconcern about him as he approaches you, but that could be deceptive. You've Tybalt behave in a similar way, and you *know* he's quite formidable...  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12177; Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:43:59 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00706; Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:43:57 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19829; Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:43:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:43:57 -0400 Message-Id: <9506070443.AA19829@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 00:43:57 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra "I once knew an old man named Dworkin who liked to play chess against an animated set of chainmail and discussed the creation of worlds with a flock of striped geese. I expect he would have called me Sovereign's Lancer, and sent me off to play with yon enemy's pawns." He yawns and looks up at the stars. "What of his family project, Amber? What year is it there?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19500; Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:05:49 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05115; Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:05:46 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA22619; Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:05:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:05:46 -0400 Message-Id: <9506071005.AA22619@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 06:05:46 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Kate, I'm assuming I really don't know. If I do, I'll change this. "I don't know. Last I knew, there was a war and Amber won." (how's that for a quick summary, kate? :-) I say it seriously, because it was then that my life changed. I intend to be as alert as my tired/hungry state allows. No fake carelessness. I examine my bonds. Plain rope? Any magic that I can tell? Can I tell if he used Pattern to get to this shadow? I look him in the eye, "Am I then one of 'yon enemy's pawns?' Who did send you here?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10579; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:08:56 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20892; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:08:54 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA13181; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:08:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:08:53 -0400 Message-Id: <9506071608.AA13181@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:08:53 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Nope, you don't know what year it is in Amber. (You've never been there, yes?) Yup plain rope, as far as you can tell. (Are you calling up the Logrus to look at it with Logrus sight?) You have no way of telling if he used Pattern to get to this shadow.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14274; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:50:04 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23806; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:50:02 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19826; Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:50:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:50:00 -0400 Message-Id: <9506071650.AA19826@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 12:50:00 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra right, never been to amber. no logrus yet.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05525; Thu, 8 Jun 95 01:00:14 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00712; Thu, 8 Jun 95 01:00:12 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24883; Thu, 8 Jun 95 01:00:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 01:00:12 -0400 Message-Id: <9506080500.AA24883@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 01:00:12 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra "A war?", he asks. "Really? With someone besides each other? How very odd. You must tell me all about it." His amusement flickers momentarily. "As for whose pawn you are, surely you can answer that better than I." He stands up and sighs. "I do not expect that you can tell me what I wish to know--though based on my present experience with you, I should no doubt have found it most exhilarating to obtain what I wished if you had it." He smiles. "I trust," he adds, "that you shall have no difficulty freeing yourself once left alone for a moment?"  1,, Summary-line: 8-Jun mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00963; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:22:42 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10515; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:22:39 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20041; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:22:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:22:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9506082022.AA20041@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:22:34 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra (Kate, I'm assuming with either Logrus or magic I can release myself.) She nods, a slight smile. Is he waiting for a story about the war? He's handsome, isn't he? But then they all are >;-) - m  1,, Summary-line: 8-Jun mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03123; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:46:33 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12025; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:46:27 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25934; Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:46:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:46:25 -0400 Message-Id: <9506082046.AA25934@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:46:25 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra ``Before we part, might I enquire as to what you were doing there? You were not what I expected, and while this has all been very interesting, I would prefer not to cross your path again in quite the same manner.''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16338; Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:57:58 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22244; Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:57:56 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA15240; Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:57:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:57:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9506082357.AA15240@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:57:56 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra You should have no trouble freeing yourself. He could be waiting for a story about the war.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17769; Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:29:31 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23302; Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:29:29 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25255; Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:29:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:29:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9506090029.AA25255@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:29:29 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra oh ok. well punt the previous message (till later :-) i'm at work so i'll figure something out later - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27688; Fri, 9 Jun 95 00:30:32 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00343; Fri, 9 Jun 95 00:30:29 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA27825; Fri, 9 Jun 95 00:30:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 00:30:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9506090430.AA27825@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: his final reply *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 00:30:29 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: his final reply "What was I doing?", he chuckles. "Biding my time for another's amusement. And I can assure you, my dear, that should you ever encounter me newly hatched from an age of imprisonment again, you will have learned by then how to keep yourself safe from the simple moves I used against you." He smiles and walks off into the shadows.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04978; Fri, 9 Jun 95 05:24:02 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04454; Fri, 9 Jun 95 05:24:00 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA26734; Fri, 9 Jun 95 05:24:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 05:24:00 -0400 Message-Id: <9506090924.AA26734@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 05:24:00 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Damn! Damn damn damn! I am NOT his dear, nor anyone else's. After he walks away, I free myself. I look around briefly to see if there's anything interesting left behind, or if others are hiding in the woodwork. I try following him, on the assumption he's going to be better at it than me, but I might learn something. He'd better be right about not falling to his tricks again. I'm rather displeased with myself, although I don't see yet what I could have done different. Who was he? Amberite? He's pretty good. Or am I just too incompetant? Damn! I probably need rest and food now, eh Kate? Next I want to go try for Kamil again, but not if I'm so tired I'll botch it. (or drag up another personification of Trouble :-) Can I get there faster since I found that shadow once? Do I need to rest before switching shadows? - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22437; Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:41:12 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16475; Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:41:09 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA07197; Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:41:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:41:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9506091541.AA07197@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:41:09 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Yeah, you probably want rest before going to find Kamil. You're not so tired as to be unable to switch shadows though. Oh, and yes, you can probably find it faster, now that you've found it once.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11907; Fri, 9 Jun 95 15:23:00 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29830; Fri, 9 Jun 95 15:22:57 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19858; Fri, 9 Jun 95 15:22:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 15:22:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9506091922.AA19858@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 15:22:56 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra So after freeing myself I want to follow the Sovereign's Lancer's shadow trail a bit. Then I find myself a shadow to rest in. A technical one, similar to Keith's. Then I do the same deal, reach out for her with the Logrus, and am much more careful this time :-) - m (using the Mikele-colored form)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26419; Sat, 10 Jun 95 17:49:38 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02381; Sat, 10 Jun 95 17:49:36 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16394; Sat, 10 Jun 95 17:49:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 17:49:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9506102149.AA16394@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 10 Jun 95 17:49:36 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra You try to follow the Sovereign's Lancer's shadow, but don't get very far. You find a shadow, and rest. When you wake up you search out for Kamil, and think you've got ahold on her, or something near her. You can't pull through to you though...  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27456; Tue, 13 Jun 95 00:58:07 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02012; Tue, 13 Jun 95 00:58:05 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA08251; Tue, 13 Jun 95 00:58:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 00:58:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9506130458.AA08251@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 00:58:05 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra You can't spy through a Logrus tendril, sadly. (You don't know how many times Mikele has wished she could... ;) You pull yourself throuhg to somewhere nearby, and find yourself standing what looks like a modern day back yard of someone fairly wealthy. There is a pool here. There is a woman, looking to be in perhaps her early 30s, wearing a tailored suit (think Talia Winters from B5) and clearly an Ardas, though you don't know her name, standing up near the house. She looks exasperated and vaguely annoyed. (Ardas #1) There is another, younger woman, probably also an Ardas standing next to the pool. She's wearing a swimsuit and has an arm around Kamil, who is also in a swimsuit. She looks very annoyed. (Ardas #2) Not far fomr her is Sidana, wearing her typical ivory and black. Sidana actually isn't showing any emotions at the moment, which may well mean she's getting quite angry. As you appear, you hear the older Ardas saying, "...job fell to me. I'm your cousin (2nd, I think) Elizabeth. Normally it shouldn't be -- what the..." She suts off suddenly and turns to look at you. Sidana, Kamil, and the other woman also all turn to look at you. The basic layout is something like this: | +-------HOUSE------------------------ ardas#1 ___________ | sidana ardas#2 | pool kamil | | | | you |  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26958; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:09:20 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17481; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:09:19 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24198; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:09:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:09:18 -0400 Message-Id: <9506121509.AA24198@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, mossflower *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:09:18 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, mossflower BTW, are you going to go after Kamil now in hydra? Due to coordination things, it'd be nice if I could know fairly soon. Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27610; Mon, 12 Jun 95 16:16:53 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10564; Mon, 12 Jun 95 16:16:41 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA22474; Mon, 12 Jun 95 16:16:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 16:16:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9506122016.AA22474@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: mossflower, hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 16:16:40 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: mossflower, hydra i intend on going after kamil. if i can't pull it through, can i look at it? failing that, can i pull myself to something nearby? i don't want to show up in the middle of a combat or in the center of a pentacle. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22192; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:45:11 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19697; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:45:06 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14717; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:44:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:44:59 -0400 Message-Id: <9506131544.AA14717@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; addendum *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:44:59 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra; addendum The woman was not speaking in Thari, but rather something similar to the language spoken in Keith's shadow.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08203; Tue, 13 Jun 95 14:35:18 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01295; Tue, 13 Jun 95 14:35:15 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA17529; Tue, 13 Jun 95 14:35:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 14:35:13 -0400 Message-Id: <9506131835.AA17529@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: correction and update *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 14:35:13 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: correction and update The woman in next to Kamil moves to put Kamil behind her and looks at you. Sidana and Kamil and Elizabeth have also turned their attention towards you. There are good odds that neither Sidana or Kamil recognizes you in this form. The situation seems tense, but not quite yet a fight. Kamil is the only one who doesn't seem at least a little bit tense -- she just seems puzzled. So it's probably your turn to say or do something. path | v **************| |******trees************************* elizabeth ardas +----------------------+ | Pool | sidana ardas#2(kamil) | | X | O | X | | | you | -------------------------------------- X = lawn chair O = small table  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13123; Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:26:13 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04980; Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:26:03 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA13059; Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:26:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:26:02 -0400 Message-Id: <9506131926.AA13059@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:26:02 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra In a friendly manner, "Good afternoon. Pardon the intrusion. Young lady, would you like to go home now?" Insert the correct time of day. The last is said directed towards Kamil. Do I still have the Logrus in my mind? What can I do with Logrus? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07867; Tue, 13 Jun 95 21:04:34 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24848; Tue, 13 Jun 95 21:04:33 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA29598; Tue, 13 Jun 95 21:04:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 21:04:32 -0400 Message-Id: <9506140104.AA29598@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 21:04:32 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Sidana squints slightly at you and says, "Who are you? Your voice sounds familiar..." Kamil looks very confused, looks at Sidana, looks at the womand in front of her, and then says to you "I'm not done swimming, and I don't think I know you." Don't reply to this conversation yet, though you can specify some actions. Yes you still have the Logrus up. With it you can, summon logrus sight, use it to put yourself in mind to mind contact with someone else (battle of pscyhes), grab someone with it (contest of warfare to hit, contest of your psy vs. their str in squeezing afterwards), hit someone with the full force of the Logrus (your psyche vs their end, they fall unconscious if you win :), summon a Logrus defense, summon a Logrus wall (like a force wall), etc...  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13641; Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:27:23 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00419; Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:27:20 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04885; Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:27:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:27:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9506140327.AA04885@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 23:27:20 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra The Ardas woman next to Kamil replies in accented Thari, "I don't suppose anyone else would like to join the fun?" Then primarily directed at you, "As for Kamil, I'm certainly *NOT* sending her off with anyone that neither she nor I recognizes." Turning slightly back to address everyone, "As for when Kamil wants to leave, you will have to ask her. If she wants to finish swimming she is welcome too. Thats *her* choice." Then turning back to address you primarily, "Would you like to introduce yourself to us? I'll assume you already know who I am, since you are in my home." Elizabeth Ardas is now looking fairly bewildered as she attempts to keep up with all this. Looking at the other Ardas she manages to say, in a disbelieving tone of voice, "You know Thari...?" Sidana raises an eyebrow slightly, but says nothing. She is primarily looking at you, but is definately keeping an eye on the others as well. Feel free to respond now.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24752; Wed, 14 Jun 95 13:49:10 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00651; Wed, 14 Jun 95 13:48:58 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21759; Wed, 14 Jun 95 13:48:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 13:48:56 -0400 Message-Id: <9506141748.AA21759@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 13:48:56 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Is it obvious to summon logrus sight? If it's not very noticeable then I do that. I look at everyone, "I am merely someone who was concerned for Kamil's welfare." I smile at Kamil, "As it seems you are happy here, I won't interrupt your swim any longer." "When you are finished, you can try on this present I have for you from someone you *do* know." I will take out the earrings, making no sudden moves. I look at everyone but pay more attention to Sidana.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27224; Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:16:49 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02591; Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:16:46 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA28868; Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:16:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:16:37 -0400 Message-Id: <9506141816.AA28868@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: logrus sight *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:16:37 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: logrus sight It's not obvious to someone with out some special sight, and it's no more obvious to someone with special sight than having the Logrus called to mind is... You summon Logrus sight, and see that both Sidana and Elizabeth also have the Logrus called to mind.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09530; Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:20:43 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11044; Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:20:31 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25876; Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:20:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:20:30 -0400 Message-Id: <9506142020.AA25876@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 16:20:30 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra are there any reasons not to have logrus sight up any time i have the logrus in my mind? is it like an ultra slot in a multipower? does it cost end? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17960; Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:07 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16551; Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:02 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19901; Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:00 -0400 Message-Id: <9506142149.AA19901@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: logrus sight *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 17:49:00 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: logrus sight Yeah, it's like an ultra slot in a multipower in that you can't do anything else with logrus while you're doing that. And it gets tiring if you do it all the time. Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02684; Wed, 14 Jun 95 21:37:07 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00214; Wed, 14 Jun 95 21:37:06 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA28918; Wed, 14 Jun 95 21:37:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 21:37:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9506150137.AA28918@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 21:37:05 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra The younger Ardas says to you, in her accented Thari, "Perhaps you would introduce yourself and tell us who the gift is from before you get it out. I suspect we are all a bit nervous here." She turns towards Elizabeth and says, "Kamil came with a `Teach yourself Thari` tape." Elizabeth rolls her eyes at the last comment, but doesn't seem to know what to say to that. Sidana stops squinting at you, looks at you and says, "You've changed, at least on the surface. Have you been well?" You are now standing there, with the earrings in one hand.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01869; Thu, 15 Jun 95 16:42:00 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11723; Thu, 15 Jun 95 16:41:53 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA01683; Thu, 15 Jun 95 16:41:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 16:41:52 -0400 Message-Id: <9506152041.AA01683@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 16:41:52 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra (Kate, I assume I've been speaking the local languange, and not Thari. Is this what you think? How do languages work?) Carefully, so as not to startle anyone, I step up and place the earrings on the small lawn-table. "The gift is from Shoshana. You may call me Michelle." (Kate, "Valerie" is the name Keith knew me by.) What's Kamil's reaction to all of this? How about the others? I nod and smile wryly at Sidana. To all, "I have other business to attend to, so if no one objects, I will be leaving now." Kate, if I left now, using the Logrus, how obvious of a shadow path do I leave? What does it look like when someone enters/leaves using the Logrus? Like a teleport? Like StarTrek's transporter? Tentacles? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14268; Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:30:20 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20400; Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:30:18 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24168; Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:30:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:30:17 -0400 Message-Id: <9506152330.AA24168@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 19:30:17 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Actually, everyone has been speaking in Thari. (Kamil, at least, isn't likely to know the local language.) Reactions: Kamil is watching everything with interest, but seems a little confused. Elizabeth just looks like someone having a really bad day. Sidana isn't revealing anything on her face. The other Ardas looks slightly annoyed and intruded upon. Logrus doesn't leave a shadow path -- that's a Pattern thing. Did you see _Time_Cop_? The effect of coming/going with the Logrus is sort of like the travelling through time special effect in that movie.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15973; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:03:07 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21578; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:03:06 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10866; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:03:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:03:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9506160003.AA10866@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:03:05 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU You puts the earrings on the lawn table. You nod and smile wryly at Sidana. Sidana smiles and shrugs slightly. To all, "I have other business to attend to, so if no one objects, I will be leaving now." "NO!" You here from the direction Elizabeth is standing. "No one is leaving until *I* say so. If you check, you'll see that the barriers are all up again and will stay that way until I take them down. " `Michelle,` or whoever you really are, before you leave, I need to know what, if anything, you intend to tell people, particularly the Minobees. The same goes for you Sidana."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17297; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:34:01 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22520; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:33:59 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA11375; Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:33:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:33:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9506160033.AA11375@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 20:33:58 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra sigh :-) silly people. Kate, what are these barriers? Do I see them? What do they prevent me from doing? If I attack Elizabeth, would they go down? Or would I have to convince her to drop them? Are they Logrus barriers? Can I knock them down myself? Finally, could I use the sorcery teleport to leave? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27598; Fri, 16 Jun 95 00:47:49 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17452; Fri, 16 Jun 95 00:47:48 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA18492; Fri, 16 Jun 95 00:47:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 00:47:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9506160447.AA18492@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 00:47:47 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Probably the type of barriers she's talking about prevent people from leaving and/or entering by certain (or perhaps any) means. They are unlikely to go down if you attack her or knocked her out, though they might start to fall slowly... (It is an interesting question, btw, as to why they were not up to prevent you from entering.) You might eventually be able to batter through them -- Logrus is probably better than sorcery for that -- but it could take a while. Shadow barriers can be to any of Logrus, Pattern, Trump, Magic/sorcery, Psyche and can be either one or two way barriers. The easiest way to find out if something is barred is to try and see if it doesn't work. Kate  1, filed,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29223; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:27:53 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25332; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:27:46 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16124; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:27:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:27:46 -0400 Message-Id: <9506180027.AA16124@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:27:46 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra For a moment, no one says anything. Then Sidana looks back at Elizabeth. "So they are. Careless of you to let them come down in the first place. [pause] My previous statement stands. What -- if anything -- I say, will depend on the explanation, which I have _still_ not heard."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29269; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:30:18 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25368; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:30:17 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16135; Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:30:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:30:16 -0400 Message-Id: <9506180030.AA16135@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 20:30:16 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Before Sidana spoke, the younger Ardas said something under her breath. After Sidana spoke, Kamil tugged at the younger Ardas and said what sounded like, "Galiena, maybe I should go now..."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28761; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:03:59 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08382; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:03:53 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA13396; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:03:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:03:54 -0400 Message-Id: <9506191603.AA13396@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:03:54 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Do you answer Elizabeth's question?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15268; Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:00:22 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20291; Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:00:18 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA08673; Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:00:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:00:19 -0400 Message-Id: <9506191900.AA08673@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:00:19 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra no, i don't answer her question. i'm interested in her reply to sidana. and i've got some time. unless there's a long silence where everyone looks at me waiting for an answer. in which case i'd say, "I too, am interested in the explanation." re: " might start to fall slowly" how long is slowly? hours? months? decades? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21840; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:06:06 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25087; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:06:02 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20458; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:06:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:06:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9506192006.AA20458@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: barriers falling "slowly" *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:06:03 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: barriers falling "slowly" That probably means months, or (more likely) years.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09358; Mon, 19 Jun 95 07:29:18 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23882; Mon, 19 Jun 95 07:29:16 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06126; Mon, 19 Jun 95 07:29:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 07:29:14 -0400 Message-Id: <9506191129.AA06126@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 07:29:14 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I sit down in the lawn chair closest to me, and watch.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10820; Mon, 19 Jun 95 20:31:05 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09129; Mon, 19 Jun 95 20:31:03 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06962; Mon, 19 Jun 95 20:31:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 20:31:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9506200031.AA06962@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Cc: endeavor@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 20:31:03 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Cc: endeavor@MIT.EDU You sit down in the lawn chair nearest you. The woman in the swimsuit says: "I thought I started to explain.. Oh, you don't speak English do you?" "Well since no-one seems to be going anywhere, anyway, would you all like to come inside and sit down to discuss this. I for one am getting pretty cold standing here in my swimsuit." "Kamil, you can swim longer if you like, or come inside and join us." Sidana replies, "I think I would prefer to remain here." She produces a robe with the Logrus and tosses it to the younger Ardas saying, "So you don't catch cold." Elizabeth rolls her eyes and says to you, "You still haven't answered my question, Michelle." You reply, "I too would like an explanation." At this point you hear Kamil say, "Okay, Galiena, I'll be right back." Then she runs off towards the path, dodging Elizabeth as she tries to put out an arm to stop her. Elizabeth looks at the other Ardas and says, "Where is she going?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20545; Tue, 20 Jun 95 00:20:39 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16179; Tue, 20 Jun 95 00:20:36 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09886; Tue, 20 Jun 95 00:20:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 00:20:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9506200420.AA09886@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 00:20:34 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Galiena puts on the robe and gives Sidana a quizzical look. To Elizabeth she says, "She went to collect her things. I assume she will be leaving here soon." Then she heads over to the lawn chairs, motioning for the others to sit down and saying, "I would be happy to explain things if you would accept my hospitality and have a seat." Then she sits down. Elizabeth is clearly not especially happy about this, but comes nearer to where you and Galiena are, but not actually sitting. Sidana steps a little closer and says, "You seem short of chairs and I would rather stand. The explanation?" --- For refernce, the situation now: Elizabeth | | Galiena | [table] | (pool) Michelle | | Sidana |  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03491; Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:25:55 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17128; Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:25:49 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA01851; Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:25:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:25:45 -0400 Message-Id: <9506201825.AA01851@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 14:25:45 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra If Galiena looks cold, I'll use the Logrus to find her a warm (non alchoholic) drink. I look expectantly at Elizabeth.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11597; Wed, 21 Jun 95 02:03:49 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15909; Wed, 21 Jun 95 02:03:48 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA07950; Wed, 21 Jun 95 02:03:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 02:03:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9506210603.AA07950@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [Hydra] *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 02:03:47 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [Hydra] You hand Galiena a cup of hot tea. Galiena says to Elizabeth: "So I am going to explain what happened to Sidana, do you have a problem with this?" Elizabeth shakes her head. More explanation to come...  1, forwarded,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00232; Thu, 22 Jun 95 01:50:20 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13126; Thu, 22 Jun 95 01:50:19 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20055; Thu, 22 Jun 95 01:50:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 01:50:15 -0400 Message-Id: <9506220550.AA20055@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 01:50:15 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Galiena speaks: "So here is what happened from my perspective. Kamil was brought to me, by someone named Andre. I had noticed him following me earlier in the day, but didn't know who he was or why he was following me. That night at about 2am someone was pounding on my door. When I investigated I saw the person who had been following me holding a little girl, standing in the rain." "If it had just been him, I likely wouldn't have let him in. But I felt bad for the child and I was also curious, so I let them in. He explain to me that he was running from some people, he thought would harm the girl. He asked if I would watch her while he led the people following them astray." "I failed to get any meaningful information from him as to how he came by the girl. I was clear he was not related to her however. He strongly implied that he or someone would come for her soon." "He told me that he was my father's brother, but I failed to get any other useful information form him about my father. He mentioned something about other relatives of mine." "Since he seemed to believe that people were following him, I let him go after only a short questioning. I agree to take care of Kamil. I couldn't see leaving her in the rain." "I don't know how she came to be with Andre. And she has been here with me ever since" Sidana looks at Elizabeth. "Andre is your cousin, is he not?" Elizabeth rolls her eyes and replies, "I can only assume, though I can assure you, he was not acting for Ardas in this. No house can control all the actions of *all* it's members, as you should know." After a brief pause she continues, "You are certainly welcome to take Kamil home with you, but I need to know what you intend to say." Turning towards you, "That goes for you as well, Michelle." At about this point, Kamil comes skipping down the path from the direction of the house with a small travelling bag in one hand.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11855; Thu, 22 Jun 95 15:21:05 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17396; Thu, 22 Jun 95 15:20:59 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA11517; Thu, 22 Jun 95 15:20:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 15:20:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9506221920.AA11517@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 15:20:58 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I let Sidana reply first, if it looks like she wants to. To Elizabeth, "I have no intention of telling anyone, but neither will I lie about these events if asked." I smile a bit. "If the four of you forget I was here, then no one is likely to ask." - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06921; Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:48:40 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06360; Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:48:39 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA03380; Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:48:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:48:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9506230148.AA03380@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:48:36 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Galiena motions for Kamil to come over to her and she does. Sidana does not look inclined to speak, so you do. Elizabeth considers your statements for a moment and then nods and looks at Sidana. ``Since Kamil appears not to have been harmed and even to have enjoyed herself,'' says Sidana, ``perhaps it would be easiest to simply return her quietly to Minobeeways and let everyone wonder. That assumes Kamil agress not to tell anyone either.''  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17581; Mon, 26 Jun 95 00:34:42 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12308; Mon, 26 Jun 95 00:34:41 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA27307; Mon, 26 Jun 95 00:34:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 00:34:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9506260434.AA27307@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 00:34:40 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Galiena turns to Kamil and says, "Did you understand that? Do you think you can keep quiet about being here? Otherwise I might get in trouble, since your family didn't know you were here." Kamil considers this for a moment, looks to Sidana -- who nods to her -- and then says. "I think I understand. Okay, I won't tell anyone. [brief pause] I guess I should go now. [another pause, as though she's not quite sure what to do here, and another look at Sidana] Thank you, Galiena." And then she walks over to Sidana, stopping for a moment to pick up the earrings and smile and nod at Michelle. Sidana raises an eyebrow at Elizabeth, who says "I suppose that will have to do. Just a moment. [pauses for a moment] The barriers are down, you can go now, if eveyone is satisfied...?" Kamil is now standing in front of Sidana, who looks her over with an appraising eye. After a moment, she reaches out and takes what you presume must be a pendant. "Kamil," she says, "where did you get this?" Kamil looks down briefly and then says brightly, "Mommy gave it to me." Sidana gives a slight shrug, and then it fall. She looks back up at Galiena and Elizabeth and says, "We will leave now. Goodbye." You see the distortion effect that accompanies Logrus and they are gone.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08287; Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:35:46 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17668; Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:35:44 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16763; Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:35:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:35:43 -0400 Message-Id: <9506270435.AA16763@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: one more thing *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:35:43 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: one more thing Galiena gives Kamil a hug before she walks over to Sidana. Do you intend to say anything, or are you just leaving?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18152; Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:32:03 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15877; Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:32:00 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23043; Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:31:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:31:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9506271831.AA23043@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:31:58 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I just leave, as soon as I see Sidana and Kamil go.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13039; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:29:07 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04408; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:29:05 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20629; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:29:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:29:04 -0400 Message-Id: <9506272329.AA20629@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, addendum *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:29:04 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra, addendum I forgot, it's impolite, and out of character for me to leave w/o saying goodbye. After Sidana and Kamil are gone, to Elizabeth and Galiena, "Goodbye." :-) - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14388; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:58:17 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05352; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:58:15 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21465; Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:58:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:58:14 -0400 Message-Id: <9506272358.AA21465@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 19:58:14 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Okay. So where do you go?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01541; Wed, 28 Jun 95 18:59:22 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03632; Wed, 28 Jun 95 18:59:19 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA29994; Wed, 28 Jun 95 18:59:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 18:59:18 -0400 Message-Id: <9506282259.AA29994@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 18:59:18 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra i go to a nice safe shadow and upkeep my spells while my player writes lot of diary entries :-) - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11271; Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:20:19 EDT Received: from BOLOGNESE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09851; Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:20:18 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by bolognese.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA29019; Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:20:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:20:16 -0400 Message-Id: <9506290220.AA29019@bolognese.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:20:16 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra Okay. You return to a shadow you know is safe and are familiar with and rest and perform upkeep on your spells. Let me know when your ready to move on.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09359; Thu, 27 Jul 95 14:40:43 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16282; Thu, 27 Jul 95 14:40:41 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19279; Thu, 27 Jul 95 14:40:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 14:40:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9507271840.AA19279@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra lameness *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 14:40:40 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra lameness hurm. i do want to play. i was going to not do anything until i had caught up with diary entries but that's just keeping me from doing anything at all. um. so here's what i wanted to do next, and you can let it happen or not, seeing as how i'm way behind with diary stuff. I go to the Black Zone. I explore the area a little, looking for places where people gather, noticing the frequency of demons. What kinds of place is it? Poor? Sparse? Or just plain evil? I try to blend in and be unobtrusive. (The other thing I was going to do (non-plot intensive since I was trying to be on hold while trying to write diary entries) was have Shoshana go to a shadow and practice killing things with her chaos form... :) - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA25057; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:29:59 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26910; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:29:58 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04323; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:29:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:29:57 -0400 Message-Id: <9507272129.AA04323@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra lameness *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:29:57 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra lameness You're not actually who that message was aimed at. There are a couple of players who have been averaging about one message a month for the past 3 months... I would like to see your diary at some point -- it's the only real feedback I get. (Not seeing people or hearing discussion of plots, etc. makes it hard to tell, for instance, if people are getting clues or not... Feel free to tell me your theories about what's going on at any time. I'm always glad to hear those too. ;) Re: the Black Zone: This is a pretty big area, encompassing a lot of shadows is there a particular area you want to get a feel for, or do you just want to take a random sampling. Kate  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26905; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:53:38 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28016; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:53:35 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05148; Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:53:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:53:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9507272153.AA05148@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra black zone *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 17:53:34 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra black zone I want to go shadows with demons :-) If that's not possible, then random sampling is fine. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04954; Tue, 1 Aug 95 22:09:06 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26268; Tue, 1 Aug 95 22:09:04 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA06032; Tue, 1 Aug 95 22:09:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 22:09:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9508020209.AA06032@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: things to do in the interim *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 22:09:03 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: things to do in the interim Okay, you go to a shadow to practice killing things. What sort of things? Animals? People? Demons? And where do you go? A nearby shadow? A randomly selected shadow? Someplace you've been before? Re: The Black Zone Okay, you reach out with the Logrus to a shadow in the Black Zone with demons. It's a fairly hostile shadow, the temperature varying rapidly between hot and cold every few minutes, chaotically. There is a lot of sharp rock, scattered with litte pools filled with some vaguely slimey liquid. Actually that's probably just water with lots of stuff growing in it. The sky is a very orange red and is split by periodic lightning. Do you want to stay in this shadow, or move on to another one? Kate PS How's the diary coming?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18159; Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:45:43 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14045; Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:45:41 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA23911; Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:45:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:45:41 -0400 Message-Id: <9508022245.AA23911@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra interim *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 18:45:41 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra interim I kill people in an unsavory shadow that I've been to before. I find people who are, in my arbitrary scale of values, "evil". So I don't kill little old ladies crossing the street. I'd kill a gang member who had just killed a civilian, a slimey business executive who'd just screwed someone over, etc. I'm not being terribly picky. I think I'd work up from killing non-combat types towards bodyguards/soldiers. I walk around in the hot/cold shadow a little, just to see if anyone else is around. If not, I pick a new random shadow. diary isn't going. sigh. i'll try agian tonight after work. - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11081; Tue, 8 Aug 95 20:12:05 EDT Received: from VONGOLE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07513; Tue, 8 Aug 95 20:12:03 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by vongole.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05158; Tue, 8 Aug 95 20:12:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 20:12:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9508090012.AA05158@vongole.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: interim *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 20:12:03 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: interim You go to an unsavory shadow, and start killing people. The first few are fairly easy. As you start to move into the combat types, things get noticeably harder. While fighting a gang member, you take a nasty slash from a serated blade to your upper right arm. You're probably winning, but the blood loss will slow you down some. (It's not closing up as fast as you think it should, perhaps it's all the abuse you've been putting yourself through.) You could switch to fighting form and probably end this fast, but it will leave you fairly exhausted. --- You don't run into any people in the hot/cold shadow. Casting about with psyche reveals that there is *something* here that's alive.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10829; Wed, 9 Aug 95 15:01:56 EDT Received: from AL-FORNO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14617; Wed, 9 Aug 95 15:01:52 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-forno.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA01652; Wed, 9 Aug 95 15:01:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 95 15:01:52 -0400 Message-Id: <9508091901.AA01652@al-forno.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 9 Aug 95 15:01:52 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials so, the serrated knife gets through the armor? since i'm probably winning, i will stay in this form. i'm not thrilled with shapeshifting since i'm not in top form. i will take a defensive stance and wait for an opening to finish him off. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06606; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:44:49 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10870; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:44:47 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA26453; Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:44:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:44:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9508110244.AA26453@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra - combat trials] *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 22:44:47 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: [mer@MIT.EDU: hydra - combat trials] >so, the serrated knife gets through the armor? Yes. You'd guess it's some really nasty, really sharp high tech material. You've definately heard rumors that they exist and are really unpleasant. You take a defesive stance and he comes at you all out, dealing you another slash, this time to your hip. The attack leaves him wide open however and you snap his neck. You're badly hurt and bleeding. What now?  1,, Summary-line: 11-Aug mer@MIT.EDU #hydra - combat trials Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15433; Fri, 11 Aug 95 03:29:12 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15851; Fri, 11 Aug 95 03:29:09 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA26635; Fri, 11 Aug 95 03:29:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 03:29:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9508110729.AA26635@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 03:29:09 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials re: special high tech knife: sigh. That's exactly why I'm doing this kind of exercise. I use his knife to cut out his heart and I take the knife with me. If I'm not too tired, I call the Logrus to mind with sorcery and pull myself to a quiet friendly shadow. I use the Logrus to find myself some quick fix medical help to stop the bleeding. If I know of some high tech widget that would be best. Failing that, I get myself some superglue and bandages and carefully glue the wounds shut. (Kate, did you know that's what superglue was developed for? :-) I try not to bleed all over the place. I clean the place of my blood then leave. Can I find a fast time shadow where I can heal and rest? I'm somewhat embarrassed, I must admit. Therefore I don't take painkillers - teach myself a lesson. - me! :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10626; Wed, 16 Aug 95 00:07:43 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01151; Wed, 16 Aug 95 00:07:41 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA11978; Wed, 16 Aug 95 00:07:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 00:07:39 -0400 Message-Id: <9508160407.AA11978@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: combat results *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 00:07:39 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: combat results Do you clean the rooms of blood before you get yourself medical attention? Do you have superglue on you, or would you be getting that in shadow? (Really -- that's what it was invented for? It's seems like it would be terrible for that... at least, it never holds together anything I want it to hold together -- I admit I never tried skin.) You could probably pull yourself to a nice quiet shadow. What do you do with the heart?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15932; Wed, 16 Aug 95 02:48:44 EDT Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03642; Wed, 16 Aug 95 02:48:42 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10708; Wed, 16 Aug 95 02:48:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 02:48:41 -0400 Message-Id: <9508160648.AA10708@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 02:48:41 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra - combat trials I clean the room *after* I close my wounds. I don't normally carry superglue, although I might when I go after Jasra. :-) So I get it in shadow. Yes, that's what it was invented for. (Although there might have been other uses.) Superglue is weird stuff, it's catalyzed by water, so living tissue glues real well. Don't get it in your eyes :-) I dump the heart in a lava pit in a shadow that has that kind of thing. Unless there's a more convenient Logrus/Sorcery way to char it? - me! :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16844; Wed, 16 Aug 95 12:57:59 EDT Received: from M66-080-6.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22203; Wed, 16 Aug 95 12:57:58 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m66-080-6.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA15248; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 12:57:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 12:57:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9508161657.AA15248@m66-080-6.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: combat trials Content-Length: 385 *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 12:57:58 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: combat trials You pull yourself somewhere and tend to your wounds. Your shapeshift helps -- they'd probably be much worse if you weren't a shapeshifter. Then you go throw the heart in a lava pit. You don't have too much trouble there. Do you return directly to the room (via either Logrus or teleport) ro do you go elsewhere in the shadow and walk/drive back? [PS When do you head back east?]  1, forwarded,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24358; Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:08:36 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26934; Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:08:34 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA03686; Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:08:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:08:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9508161808.AA03686@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: combat trials *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:08:29 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: combat trials I was confused about your yesterday's mail. I'll try to be clear now :-) After killing the shadow dweller, Cut out his heart, take the knife and heart with me. Goto a room in another shadow. Get superglue, bandages via Logrus Glue then bandage wounds (just so I'm not dripping) Put heart in a box so it doesn't drip Clean room because it's unprofessional to leave a mess (ie, I don't leave this shadow before cleaning up) Char the heart then its box Goto a fast time shadow to heal, at least until the cuts close. General plan for now, investigate Black Zone for whereabouts of Jasra. Sometime soon, trump-phone Sidana or drop by MinobeeWays to make sure all's well. I leave for the east coast monday night. But I will be unavailable friday through sunday. - me! :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26066; Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:23:04 EDT Received: from M66-080-6.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28062; Wed, 16 Aug 95 14:23:02 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m66-080-6.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA15331; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:23:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:23:02 -0400 Message-Id: <9508161823.AA15331@m66-080-6.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: (ah, got it :) Content-Length: 466 *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:23:02 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: (ah, got it :) Ah, so you clean the second shadow. Got it. Okay, you take a few days to heal up to the point where you're no longer in danger of the wounds reopening. Do you want to trump call Sidana first or hunt around the black zone first? (Did you ever decide to do anything in that hot-cold shadow where you could sense psychically but not see some presences?) I leave for DC Friday afternoon, so there'll be no hydra mail from me from then until the 30th... Kate  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17219; Wed, 16 Aug 95 17:52:24 EDT Received: from capsinc.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21080; Wed, 16 Aug 95 17:52:17 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.capsinc.com [206.14.28.25]) by capsinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA14766; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:47:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:47:18 -0700 X-Sender: lacerate@206.14.28.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: what next Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:47:18 -0700 X-Sender: lacerate@206.14.28.1 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: what next Cc: mer@MIT.EDU re, hot-cold shadow: I look for them and try to identify them without letting on that I'm here or who I am. re, hunting vs. calling: I call Sidana first. btw, do I need to do something to fix my armor? - me! :-) Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17980; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:00:30 EDT Received: from M16-034-17.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11145; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:00:28 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m16-034-17.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA06318; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:00:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:00:28 -0400 Message-Id: <9508162200.AA06318@m16-034-17.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: calling Sidana Content-Length: 168 *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:00:28 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: calling Sidana What form are you in for the call, btw? After a moment or two Sidana answers. She's in a large open room, with a number of windows and very little color. "Hello."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18036; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:01:05 EDT Received: from M16-034-17.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11173; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:01:03 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by m16-034-17.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA06322; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:01:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:01:04 -0400 Message-Id: <9508162201.AA06322@m16-034-17.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Armor Content-Length: 88 *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:01:04 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Armor Yeah, you should probably go get that fixed, Presumably in the shadow you got it in.  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 16-Aug lacerate@capsinc.com #hydra: check w/ sidana Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28531; Wed, 16 Aug 95 21:03:30 EDT Received: from capsinc.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08326; Wed, 16 Aug 95 21:03:18 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.capsinc.com [206.14.28.25]) by capsinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA15312; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:58:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:58:35 -0700 X-Sender: lacerate@206.14.28.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: check w/ sidana Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:58:35 -0700 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: check w/ sidana Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I call using the Mikele colored form, from the room of a hotel. (Not the one where I fixed myself.) ``Hello. Is everything well with you and your sister?'' Btw, what does it look like to others when someone makes/takes a trump call? - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22813; Thu, 17 Aug 95 22:06:58 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12689; Thu, 17 Aug 95 22:06:56 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA07060; Thu, 17 Aug 95 22:06:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 22:06:55 -0400 Message-Id: <9508180206.AA07060@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 22:06:55 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump Over trump you see the other person as the appear now in whatever location they are in now (rather than as painted on the card). Sidana is in some sort of light and airy sitting room with lots of windows, that you can't quite make out what's beyond (some sort of sheer curtains block your view) except to tell that it's probably daylight. "Kamil arrived safely home, but not before Tore Ardas was assassinated. As far as I know, she's still safe. "I see you've adopted a new look. Are you intending to keep it, or is it only temporary?"  1,, Summary-line: 31-Aug lacerate@capsinc.com #Hydra: Sidana by trump Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18866; Thu, 31 Aug 95 18:59:13 EDT Received: from capsinc.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24759; Thu, 31 Aug 95 18:59:00 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.capsinc.com [206.14.28.25]) by capsinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA13487; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:52:23 -0700 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:52:23 -0700 X-Sender: lacerate@206.14.28.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:52:23 -0700 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump Cc: mer@MIT.EDU In response to the "She's still safe," I nod, "Good." Then I shrug, "Perhaps. Perhaps not. Does it matter?" "Do you know anything else of the assassination?" - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23061; Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:07:28 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21325; Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:07:21 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05961; Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:07:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:07:25 -0400 Message-Id: <9509010007.AA05961@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:07:25 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump >Then I shrug, "Perhaps. Perhaps not. Does it matter?" She shrugs. "Not to me." >"Do you know anything else of the assassination?" "Very little. From what I gather, it happened very recently, and word is only just beginning to filter out. There is now a very real possibility that the conflict between Ardas and Minobee will become more pronounced and open."  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 4-Sep mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: sidana by trump Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01323; Mon, 4 Sep 95 17:16:31 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26145; Mon, 4 Sep 95 17:16:19 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA17500; Mon, 4 Sep 95 17:16:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 17:16:27 -0400 Message-Id: <9509042116.AA17500@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: sidana by trump *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 17:16:27 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: sidana by trump ''Thank you for telling me that. Do you think this will endanger Kamil or yourself?'' - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16830; Mon, 4 Sep 95 22:22:44 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08765; Mon, 4 Sep 95 22:22:33 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10214; Mon, 4 Sep 95 22:22:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 22:22:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9509050222.AA10214@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 4 Sep 95 22:22:34 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump "Not specifically, but it seems wise to assume the danger to many would increase in such a conflict, myself and Kamil included. Perhaps yourself as well."  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 8-Sep lacerate@capsinc.com #hydra: sidana via trump Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24090; Fri, 8 Sep 95 14:14:29 EDT Received: from capsinc.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09839; Fri, 8 Sep 95 14:14:05 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.capsinc.com [206.14.28.25]) by capsinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA10649; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:08:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:08:58 -0700 X-Sender: lacerate@206.14.28.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: sidana via trump Cc: mer@MIT.EDU, lacerate@capsinc.com *** EOOH *** Sep 1995 11:08:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:08:58 -0700 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@capsinc.com (Meilin) Subject: hydra: sidana via trump Cc: mer@MIT.EDU, lacerate@capsinc.com "That would be unfortunate. It seems however, that neither of us has much interest in the particulars of the conflict." "Earlier, I didn't have a chance to ask," I smile, "but how have you been?" - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04926; Fri, 15 Sep 95 10:50:06 EDT Received: from PUTTANESCA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03238; Fri, 15 Sep 95 10:49:43 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by puttanesca.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA03282; Fri, 15 Sep 95 10:49:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 95 10:49:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9509151449.AA03282@puttanesca.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump. *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 15 Sep 95 10:49:58 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: Sidana by trump. She gives a slight smile and small shrug. "Well enough. Until recently, things have been fairly quiet."  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 16-Sep mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26000; Sat, 16 Sep 95 16:07:17 EDT Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21752; Sat, 16 Sep 95 16:06:58 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA28122; Sat, 16 Sep 95 16:07:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 16:07:14 -0400 Message-Id: <9509162007.AA28122@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 16:07:14 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra i'm likely to finish w/ sidana and get on w/ my agenda. however, it occurs to meilin that it might be more convenient for kate if shoshana followed up on this interesting information. should i let trouble find me? or should i seek it out? (not that killing demons isn't trouble enough... ;-) - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18646; Sun, 17 Sep 95 00:20:09 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07548; Sun, 17 Sep 95 00:19:52 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id AAA04032; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:20:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:20:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199509170420.AAA04032@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:20:08 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra No, you're welcome to keep up with your agenda. With the amount of bad stuff you have, trouble will find you if you give it enough time.  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 18-Sep lacerate@capsinc.com #hydra Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28353; Tue, 19 Sep 95 01:20:11 EDT Received: from capsinc.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18614; Tue, 19 Sep 95 01:19:45 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.capsinc.com [206.14.28.25]) by capsinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA00851; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:10:36 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:10:36 -0700 From: Serrated Slashes X-Sender: lacerate@capsinc.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:10:36 -0700 From: Serrated Slashes To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I smile, "Indeed." "Hopefully the next time we meet, it will be in more pleasant circumstances." "Goodbye." I wait for her to say goodbye if she wants then break the contact. ---------------------------- I go to the correct shadow to fix my armor. I want to know more about demons. What they do, where they live, their politics, or lack thereof. Is there anything like a library with references of such? I'm looking for the equivalent of, in the real world, the "Guide to Russian Life", "A Tourist's Guide to Russia", and "Learn To Speak Russian". - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04713; Sat, 23 Sep 95 13:19:42 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21155; Sat, 23 Sep 95 13:19:18 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id NAA03156; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:19:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:19:39 -0400 Message-Id: <199509231719.NAA03156@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:19:39 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra Sidana says goodbye and your conversation ends. Afterwards, you manage to find a shadow to get your armour repaired in. Re: Demons. Well, assuming you look in shadow, you find all sorts of books on Demons. A lot are from various shadows and say things like "demons are the devil's minions" and similarly uselesss things like that. There are books on summoning demons and other sorts of black magic, which also vary widely from shadow to shadow. The closer you get to Chaos, the harder it is to find a "public library" with reference books you can easily look through. People start asking more questions about what exactly you want to know, and why. Understand, that in Chaos, knowledge is power and in a way, money, so people don't let it go freely. You do get a sense that "demon" is a large category in the same way that "reptile" or "bird" are, perhaps broader, and that demons are widely varied. They come from many, many shadows near to Chaos, and have a wide variety of cultures and languages, as people do...  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 28-Sep mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: network lossage Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29123; Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:40:42 EDT Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29011; Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:39:41 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19830; Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:40:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:40:05 -0400 Message-Id: <9509281940.AA19830@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: network lossage *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:40:05 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: network lossage i've been having problems reading mail, logging in for more than a few minutes, etc. here's a next move, but i may not be able to read/reply for a few days. i go back to the hot/cold shadow with "other minds" and explore a bit. i'm just trying to identify them, and will try not to show myself or at least try to blend in. if everyone is in chaos form, i change too. the plan for a while is to explore the black zone, looking for demons. - merrrrr! :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15040; Tue, 3 Oct 95 22:55:02 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08864; Tue, 3 Oct 95 22:54:31 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id WAA16960; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:55:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:55:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199510040255.WAA16960@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: looking for demons *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:55:01 -0400 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: looking for demons The hot/cold shadow would be hard to "blend into" unlesss you were a rock formation, which would make it hard to explore it. You're definately detecting other minds, though you haven't seen any sign of them, just looking. (Are you going to do anything special, or just look with your eyes.) Is it just you, or do the rock formations seem to shift around when you aren't looking at them?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12514; Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:27:01 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16931; Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:26:22 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id MAA12648; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:26:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:26:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199510161626.MAA12648@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: web page points *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:26:57 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: web page points Take 5 for everything you're doing web-wise.  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 7-Oct mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: hot/cold/rocks Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07186; Sat, 7 Oct 95 15:55:28 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10065; Sat, 7 Oct 95 15:54:51 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA24563; Sat, 7 Oct 95 15:55:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Oct 95 15:55:19 -0400 Message-Id: <9510071955.AA24563@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: hot/cold/rocks *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 7 Oct 95 15:55:19 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: hot/cold/rocks i'm going to try several experiments to see how aware these other minds are. and how likely they are to react. i call up the logrus. i use logrus sight to look around. i try thinking very strong thoughts, each time with a pause of blandness: sweetness and kindness (insofar as i'm able :-) destruction of this area death of many many beings pain i think these thoughts at whichever rock formations that have seemed to move. i try walking, noticing what the layout of the place is, then suddenly turning (hopefully w/o mental warnning either) to see if the rocks have changed. do the locations of the minds move? if nothing amazing happens, i pick another black zone shadow at random and go to it. - mer :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26218; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:05:39 EDT Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21304; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:04:51 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA25577; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:05:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:05:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9510270605.AA25577@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: fun with rocks *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:05:34 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: fun with rocks i'm happy to abstract away all that experimentation for now, if you're busy, and want to move things along. - me :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26389; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:11:00 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21459; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:10:16 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id CAA04090; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 02:11:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 02:11:00 -0400 Message-Id: <199510270611.CAA04090@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Cc: endeavor@MIT.EDU, mer@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <9510071955.AA24563@marinara.MIT.EDU> (mer@MIT.EDU) Subject: Re: hydra: hot/cold/rocks *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 02:11:00 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Cc: endeavor@MIT.EDU, mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: hydra: hot/cold/rocks >i use logrus sight to look around. Nothing. >sweetness and kindness (insofar as i'm able :-) Nothing. >destruction of this area A number of the rocks are upright vaguely bipedal forms, and several of them are charging at you.  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 24-Oct to: mer@MIT.EDU #Hydra: conversation with Sidana; addendum Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15453; Tue, 24 Oct 95 15:40:19 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29822; Tue, 24 Oct 95 15:39:35 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id PAA25267; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:40:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:40:10 -0400 Message-Id: <199510241940.PAA25267@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: conversation with Sidana; addendum *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:40:10 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: conversation with Sidana; addendum Sidana will mention that the funeral for Tore is in a day or two, and that her brother, Laurant, will probably be officially installed as Duke about a week later, if you like parties.  1, answered,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27301; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:33:31 EDT Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22029; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:32:45 EDT From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA00988; Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:33:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:33:28 -0400 Message-Id: <9510270633.AA00988@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: fun with rocks *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 02:33:28 -0400 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: fun with rocks I think really loudly, "Not *me*. Someone *else* is planning your destruction. I'm helping by warning you." I prepare to pull myself out of this shadow :-) - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04663; Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:31:40 EDT Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11994; Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:30:57 EDT From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id NAA04854; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:31:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:31:39 -0400 Message-Id: <199510271731.NAA04854@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: hydra: fun with rocks *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 13:31:39 -0400 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: hydra: fun with rocks A number of them stop their charging, growl and curl back up into rocks. A couple continue to charge in your direction.  1,, Summary-line: 27-Oct lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: fun with rocks Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17670; Fri, 27 Oct 95 15:30:41 EDT Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18231; Fri, 27 Oct 95 15:30:37 EDT Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA06976; Fri , 27 Oct 1995 12:31:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:31:15 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: fun with rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:31:15 -0700 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: fun with rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU >A number of them stop their charging, growl and curl back up into rocks. >A couple continue to charge in your direction. Too bad I don't know what Jasra looks like or I could picture her as their enemy. I think in their direction "*Jasra* is the destroyer". - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07303; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:14:01 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02099; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:13:16 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id AAA26027; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:14:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:14:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199510310514.AAA26027@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: attack of the killer rocks *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:14:01 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: attack of the killer rocks About half stop at that, make a noise reminiscent of a grumpy exhalation of air (except that it looks like smoke), and promptly curl back up. Another two or three are attempting to engage you in hand to hand combat.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08667; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:37:06 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13118; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:37:05 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA18412; Mon , 30 Oct 1995 21:38:22 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:38:22 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: grumpy rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:38:22 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: grumpy rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU whether or not i'm able, i'd feel a little silly destroying them now that i've convinced a bunch of them to be on my side :-) can i make a spell to let me read thoughts? i'd sure like to know if the rocks recognized jasra's name. i think at the last few, "Save it for Jasra", and i use the logrus to pull myself to another shadow near the black zone.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09428; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:49:18 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03983; Tue, 31 Oct 95 00:48:33 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id AAA26117; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:49:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:49:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199510310549.AAA26117@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: grumpy rocks *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:49:17 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: grumpy rocks Spell to read thoughts: well you could mind touch them and attempt to pull the information from their minds... You pull yourself out of that shadow, but not before you take a couple blows. Most will leave bruises, but the closest of the creatures strikes you hard to your lower leg, perhaps breaking it or at least fracturing it. You arrive in great pain at what you quickly recognize as the Fire Gate: A tremendous arch that seems to be made of frozen fire. It lies on the very edge of Chaos, but still has a clear view of the needle of Thelbane and the Cathedral of the Serpent. You can make out banners on the latter which seem to indicate that a funeral is either in progress or going to start very soon.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11923; Tue, 31 Oct 95 01:37:18 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19493; Tue, 31 Oct 95 01:37:11 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA18558; Mon , 30 Oct 1995 22:38:29 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:38:29 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: post rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** , 30 Oct 1995 22:38:29 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:38:29 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: post rocks Cc: mer@MIT.EDU so will i need to get my armor repaired again? hm. except for being in great pain, i might go to the funeral. *sigh* i'll have to stop this kind of silliness. things i want to do: go fix my leg possibly fix my armor again put on some appropriate funeral type clothing show up in time for the funeral can i do all that? what's appropriate funeral attire? at some point, i may go back and hit the rock demon (the one that hit me) with my psyche. hm. were the rock lumps recognizeable at all after they become rocklike again? could i pull that particular rock demon through to me with the logrus? - me! Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12274; Tue, 31 Oct 95 01:48:19 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07754; Tue, 31 Oct 95 01:47:35 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id BAA26248; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 01:48:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 01:48:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199510310648.BAA26248@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: post rocks *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 01:48:20 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: post rocks You don't need your armor repaired. That was more sheer strength damage, rather than a pucture through your armor. You can probably shapeshift your leg enough to walk on it. you'll just be in a lot of pain. You probably don't have time to go anywhere and change unless you can trump there or it's in Chaos. Proper funeral attire is grey or dark red, and nothing too low cut, revealing or avant garde. As far as the rock goes, yes, you could pull him to you with the Logrus. The rocks weren't too recognizable after they became rocklike.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24040; Tue, 31 Oct 95 13:33:25 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26484; Tue, 31 Oct 95 13:33:24 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20222; Tue , 31 Oct 1995 10:34:34 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:34:34 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: post rocks Cc: lacerate@headgames.com, mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:34:34 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: post rocks Cc: lacerate@headgames.com, mer@MIT.EDU Ok, I shapeshift my leg enough to walk on it. I think I'm in the Mikele colored form, am I too tired to shift back to normal? How do people travel in Chaos? Logrus? walk? horse? I don't think I want to walk around a lot on this leg. And I'd like to use the Logrus to find me some pain killers. Is that possible while in Chaos? If so, I also use the Logrus to also find me something appropriate in dark red. Otherwise, I probably have something funeral like at Minobeeways. Also, a random question. I was looking at the shapeshift stuff in the rules book and it said it's hard to poison a shapeshifter. Are all Chaosites shapeshifters? Does that imply someone used a special poison on Tomas? If the rock-humanoid goes back to being a rock, will I have a hard time getting the right one with the Logrus? - mer Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24180; Wed, 1 Nov 95 00:58:13 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22525; Wed, 1 Nov 95 00:57:28 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id AAA28432; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:58:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:58:13 -0500 Message-Id: <199511010558.AAA28432@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: questions and the funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:58:13 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: questions and the funeral >I think I'm in the Mikele colored form, am I too tired to shift back to >normal? No, it's your natural form, so its a lot easier to revert to that than to go to something else... >How do people travel in Chaos? Logrus? walk? horse? All of the above. Plus, riding demons, summoning other floating/flying things... >And I'd like to use the Logrus to find me some pain killers. Is that >possible while in Chaos? Yup, that's not too hard. >If so, I also use the Logrus to also find me something appropriate in dark >red. Ok. >Are all Chaosites shapeshifters? Does that imply someone used a >special poison on Tomas? All lords of Chaos are shapeshifters, and in fact, most denizens of Chaos are as well. Since that's the rule, there are a fair number of poisons that are specifically designed to affect shapeshifters. They are uncommon, but not unheard of. >If the rock-humanoid goes back to being a rock, will I have a hard time >getting the right one with the Logrus? No more so than normal. --- So you get yourself some pain killers, and appropriate clothes and then you get yourself to the funeral somehow. (What's your preferred method of travel?) Why don't we pause you there until we get eveyone else who might go caught up to there? (Though do feel free to kep asking questions... :)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26765; Mon, 6 Nov 95 13:21:07 EST Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27311; Mon, 6 Nov 95 13:20:18 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by primavera.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20394; Mon, 6 Nov 95 13:21:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 13:21:07 -0500 Message-Id: <9511061821.AA20394@primavera.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 13:21:07 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral cool. i can answer mail fast for a week or so :-) i'd start a fight maybe if jasra were there... *maybe* probably not. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13053; Tue, 7 Nov 95 23:54:01 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03537; Tue, 7 Nov 95 23:53:11 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id XAA29757; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:54:02 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:54:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199511080454.XAA29757@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 23:54:02 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral So you arrive a little late (just as it's starting really). Do you want to slip in with the Minobees (Storm, Morgan, & Sidana) with Aaron Jasby or something else entirely?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29706; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:41:40 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06015; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:40:49 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05444; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:41:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:41:40 -0500 Message-Id: <9511081841.AA05444@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:41:40 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral Have I been to public functions/events before with the Minobees? I'm trying to figure if by slipping in with them I give away information. Although it's also adding information :) I assume as I was growing up not many people knew I was with the Minobees, is that correct? - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01572; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:55:52 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08629; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:55:01 EST From: postmaster@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05760; Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:55:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:55:50 -0500 Message-Id: <9511081855.AA05760@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral *** EOOH *** From: postmaster@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 13:55:50 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral I slip in, but not next to the Minobees or Aaron. I arrrived on something floating. (Since horse riding requires use of the legs.) - m  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10972; Wed, 8 Nov 95 15:18:56 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02984; Wed, 8 Nov 95 15:18:44 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA20733; Wed , 8 Nov 1995 13:15:35 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 13:15:35 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 13:15:35 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I'm wearing a simple yet elegant dark red dress, floor length. Necklace is tucked inside the high collar, earings are single deep red crystals. - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14835; Wed, 8 Nov 95 15:49:15 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28778; Wed, 8 Nov 95 15:48:23 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id PAA02682; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:49:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:49:12 -0500 Message-Id: <199511082049.PAA02682@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra web page *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:49:12 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra web page Just read your most recent diary entry. The link to "firelight_games" isn't working for some reason. Another cool thing you could do is put "previous" and "next" links on each individual diary entry...  1, filed,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11624; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:13:31 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02240; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:12:28 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id UAA04098; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:19 -0500 Message-Id: <199511090113.UAA04098@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: the funeral (1) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:19 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: the funeral (1) The funeral for the late Duchess Tore Ardas is held in the Cathedral of the Serpent that Manifests the Logrus. (For those who really wanted to know the full name. ;) The ceremony is presided over by the high Priest of the Church of the Serpent, Demid Bariman, who (unlike most of the mourners) is in his formal demon form. Notables at the funeral include: From Ardas (the bereaved relatives): Laurant, Tore's brother and heir, as well as two younger brothers (Morten and Simon), their wives and a younger sister (Liane) and a half dozen nephews and cousins. Pretty much everybody of nore from this house, as well as what are presumably a fair number of servants and retainers. From Helgram: King Edward, Prince Francis, and his wife Keelin and his two daughters, also Suhuy Helgram, Ceinwen Rossby Helgram (who comes in demon form) and another woman, also in demon form, who appears to be fairly old From Chanicutt: Duchess Rana Chanicutt and her four children: Wystan (and his wife, Alowi Hlurle Chanicutt), Iskendar, Hunagor, and Deregon From Sawall: Duke Merlin Sawall, his step brother, and a couple cousins From Hendrake: Lord Miklos Hendrake (and Keelin Hendrake Helgram) From Bariman: Lord Arogin and Lady Minoghede, also in demon form From Minobee: Lord Storm Minobee, his wife Morgan and his cousin Sidana From Hlurle: Duchess Xanthe, her son Octavious, and a handful of (mostly female) nieces/cousins From Nyborg: Lady Sian Nyborg, in demon form From Jasby: Duke Aaron Jasby Most of the minor houses at least send a a representative. There are a number from Christoffel, Doyme and Beranek and Varley, Baezir and Labbe have sent more than might be typically excpected. Arriving a few minutes late is a fragile looking blond girl wearing a simple yet elegant dark red dress, floor length with a high neck. Her earrings are single deep red crystals. Her entrance causes a slight stir, but she quickly slips into a seat by herself. [That's the situation so far. I trust you can all identify yourselves... if you stand out. Let me know if you want to do anything other than sit and listen to the ceremony. Keep in mind that playing with powers during a funeral is considered quite rude.]  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11675; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:13:53 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02302; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:13:04 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id UAA04100; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199511090113.UAA04100@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (1) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 20:13:56 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (1) Galiena and Elizabeth are sitting with the Ardases.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14615; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:55:22 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02206; Wed, 8 Nov 95 20:55:21 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA21751; Wed , 8 Nov 1995 18:52:16 -0800 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:52:16 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral 1 Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:52:16 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral 1 Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I don't do anything wacky or violent. I just sit there and look and listen. Is the Keelin who's Prince Francis' wife the same as Keelin Hendrake Helgram? It seems so, but who's she sitting with?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27198; Wed, 8 Nov 95 23:57:03 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18167; Wed, 8 Nov 95 23:56:13 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id XAA04821; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:57:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:57:04 -0500 Message-Id: <199511090457.XAA04821@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (1) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:57:04 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (1) Yup Keelin Hendrake Helgram is the wife of the Crown Prince (Francis), she's sitting with her husband, that's why the name was in parans. Sorry for the confusion. Kate  1,, hydra, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16026; Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:37:18 EST Received: from CACCIATORE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01142; Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:36:27 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by cacciatore.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09744; Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:37:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:37:18 -0500 Message-Id: <9511100637.AA09744@cacciatore.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (1) *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:37:18 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (1) Is the guy I've been calling the Sovereign's Lancer there? Perhaps with the Ardases? :-) I think I already said I'm not doing anything. - m  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29600; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:02:36 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13370; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:01:45 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id KAA11185; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:02:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:02:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199511101502.KAA11185@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: soveriegn's lancer *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:02:37 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: soveriegn's lancer No sign of him.  1, filed,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11932; Sat, 11 Nov 95 13:37:05 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27152; Sat, 11 Nov 95 13:34:51 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id NAA16120; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 13:35:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 13:35:39 -0500 Message-Id: <199511111835.NAA16120@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (2) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 13:35:39 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (2) There service begins. There are all the typical funeral elements. Laurant Ardas (Tore's brother and heir) gives the eulogy, in which he does not mince words about his opinions of those responsible for her death (which he refers to as "this cowardly act"), though he does stop a hair short of publically promising to destroy them. He makes vague statements about carrying on her work and thanks all those who have come to show their support of Tore and House Ardas. After the service part ends, the formal procession to consig the body to the Abyss begins. The casket is borne by Tore's borthers, Laurant, Morten, Simon, and Simon's son Heskel. The rest of the Ardas follow behind, followed by the King's party, the other great houses, the minor houses, and various others. If you aren't going to follow along in the procession let me know. Same if you're going to try and slip into someplace other than where you;d be expected to go.  1,, Summary-line: 11-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: funeral (2) Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19380; Sat, 11 Nov 95 16:22:31 EST Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05294; Sat, 11 Nov 95 16:21:38 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA20001; Sat, 11 Nov 95 16:22:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 95 16:22:32 -0500 Message-Id: <9511112122.AA20001@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (2) *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sat, 11 Nov 95 16:22:32 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (2) Since I'm not with either of the Great Houses that I might ostensibly walk with, would it be appropriate to tag along with the "various others"? I'm not going to slip anywhere strange. Except I'll avoid standing too near the edge of the Abyss :-) Is anyone paying undue attention to me? - meilin  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08673; Sun, 12 Nov 95 01:46:07 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24660; Sun, 12 Nov 95 01:45:16 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id BAA18709; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:46:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:46:10 -0500 Message-Id: <199511120646.BAA18709@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (2) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 01:46:10 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (2) Yeah, you could tag along with the "various others." You don't anyone paying much attention to you at all.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27424; Mon, 13 Nov 95 21:05:04 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24426; Mon, 13 Nov 95 21:03:37 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id VAA26133; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:04:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:04:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199511140204.VAA26133@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (3) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 21:04:14 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (3) The procession proceeds without incident to the Abyss, where the body (of Tore and no one else) is consigned to the Abyss. None of th guests makes any trouble. Nor does any sort of ambush occur. After the body goes into the Abyss, the Procession continues to the Ways of Ardas. The Barimans do not continue with the pocession that far, but pretty much everybody else does (well, of the important people -- the servant and miscellaneous denizens of Chaos do not, by and large, go to the Ways of Ardas). Once there, people first one by one express their condolences to the Ardases and then -- those that do not leave pretty much immediately after that -- begin to break into small groups. The King goes first, followed by his family, followed by the Chanicutts, the Hlurles, the Minonbees, the Nyborgs, Miklos Hendrake, Aaron Jasby, the Sawalls, and a host of minor nobles. Let me know if you'er going to stick with your families or doge the receiving line entirely or if you're going to do anything dramatic, watch anyone, attempt to speak to anyone once they've come out of the receiving line, etc... It'll be hard to speak with anyone until they and you have both gone through the receiving line if you're going to.  1,, Summary-line: 14-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: funeral (3) Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19990; Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:34:29 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27700; Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:33:32 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA07967; Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:34:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:34:20 -0500 Message-Id: <9511141734.AA07967@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (3) *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:34:20 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (3) I watch the Minobees and Aaron Jasby. Did Harnack send anyone? I go through the line w/o doing anything dramatic. I say something appropriate to the bereaved and then stay around a bit. - m  1,, Summary-line: 14-Nov to: mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: funeral (3) Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20301; Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:36:59 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28157; Tue, 14 Nov 95 12:36:00 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id MAA28375; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:36:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:36:54 -0500 Message-Id: <199511141736.MAA28375@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (3) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:36:54 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (3) Where in the line do you fall?  1,, Summary-line: 14-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: funeral (3) Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05033; Tue, 14 Nov 95 14:37:02 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06717; Tue, 14 Nov 95 14:36:59 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA08145; Tue , 14 Nov 1995 12:35:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:35:35 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral (3) Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:35:35 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral (3) Cc: mer@MIT.EDU oops, sorry. i fall in line not with the minobees or aaron jasby but with the minor nobles if possible. Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06903; Wed, 15 Nov 95 17:44:37 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00806; Wed, 15 Nov 95 17:43:42 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id RAA03864; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:44:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:44:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199511152244.RAA03864@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (3) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:44:37 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral (3) Okay, you can fall into the line with the minor nobles. Storm and Morgan remain pretty aloof, all though they do pay some regards to any heads of Houses other than Chanicutt who are present. Sidana gets drawn aside by the King shortly after leaving the receiving line and you don't see her. Aaron Jasby spends a great deal of time talking to Prince Frank.  1,, Summary-line: 15-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: spending points Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02832; Wed, 15 Nov 95 17:07:01 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15677; Wed, 15 Nov 95 17:06:49 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA12138; Wed , 15 Nov 1995 14:58:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:58:07 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: spending points Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:58:07 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: spending points Cc: mer@MIT.EDU do we need to do anything special to spend points the points you gave for web things? should we wait until the first round of experience? i want to make the scorpion tears self-healing. can i just add points to them? do i need to spend a point for the ring and a separate point for all the others? - m Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27061; Sun, 19 Nov 95 02:54:58 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04209; Sun, 19 Nov 95 02:54:05 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id CAA17032; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 02:55:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 02:55:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199511190755.CAA17032@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: points *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 02:55:02 -0500 To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: points You can spend those now. You can just add points to the scorpion tears. You should probably apply the named and number multiplier to the scorpion tears...  1,, Summary-line: 16-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: funeral (4) Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26686; Thu, 16 Nov 95 03:54:20 EST Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06710; Thu, 16 Nov 95 03:53:26 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA10677; Thu, 16 Nov 95 03:54:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 03:54:21 -0500 Message-Id: <9511160854.AA10677@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (4) *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 03:54:21 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (4) I'll wander a bit looking for a small group of minor nobles or people from the lesser Houses to stand near. I'm looking for a group that's either theorizing on Laurant's eulogy (the likelyhood of retribution) or reminiscing about the past. Failing that, I look for people of my age to mingle with. I don't say much unless spoken to but just listen and I'll try to avoid introducing myself. :-) And I keep an eye out for anyone who looks like they're trying to talk to me specifically. If after ten minutes or so, I don't find a group talking politics, I leave. - meilin  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27198; Sun, 19 Nov 95 19:00:46 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25005; Sun, 19 Nov 95 18:59:51 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id TAA19018; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:00:49 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:00:49 -0500 Message-Id: <199511200000.TAA19018@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: funeral (4) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 19:00:49 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: funeral (4) You don't find anybody willing to talk politcs in front of a stranger. But there are a number of people your age here: One of the Chanicutts is talking with a group of Hlurle girls (one of whom may be his wife) and a young man from Sawall. There's another Chanicutt talking with a couple of Ardases. Miklos Hendrake (who might be your age -- it's hard to tell) is talking with Keelin. Octavius Hlurle is talking with Sian Nyborg and Hunagor Chanicutt. A dark haired man with blue eyes bumps into you as you're standing there looking for someone to mingle with. "Oh. Excuse me. I don't believe we've met. My name is Merlin."  1,, Summary-line: 20-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: funeral (4) Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21192; Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:25:43 EST Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06282; Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:24:46 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04825; Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:25:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:25:44 -0500 Message-Id: <9511200825.AA04825@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (4) *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 03:25:44 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral (4) "Pleased to meet you. How do you do?" I size him up. Can I tell if he intentionally bumped into me? btw, is this Merlin Helgram Sawall?  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22084; Mon, 20 Nov 95 22:03:51 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05921; Mon, 20 Nov 95 22:02:56 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id WAA23587; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:03:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:03:53 -0500 Message-Id: <199511210303.WAA23587@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra -- funeral -- Merlin *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 22:03:53 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra -- funeral -- Merlin You don't thin he intentionally bumped you. He's seems like a pleasant enough fellow. (You assume he's Merlin Sawall -- he's the only black haired Sawall, so he kind of sticks out.) He smiles at you. "I like to think I'm doing well. I've managed to elude Miklos Hendrake for quite some time now, and may yet escape this event without having to speak with him -- not that I don't find his company enjoyable, I'm just dodging Hendrakes tonight. "But I don't need to bore you with that. How are you... I didn't catch your name."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA25740; Mon, 20 Nov 95 22:58:13 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29227; Mon, 20 Nov 95 22:57:15 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA15676; Mon , 20 Nov 1995 20:53:16 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:53:16 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra -- funeral, merlin Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:53:16 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra -- funeral, merlin Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "Shoshana." I nod at him. "I've been worse..." I shrug. (btw, how bad is it to be walking around? I mean, is standing and walking now going to make healing take longer? Oh yeah, I had taken only half a dose of painkillers, just out of stubborness. However if I stay much longer I'll give in and the rest.) Then I smile. "However, do go on. I would love to hear why you're dodging Hendrakes. If nothing else, the tale will brighten this otherwise drear occasion." Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea - Swinburn  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05379; Tue, 21 Nov 95 22:23:39 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA21691; Tue, 21 Nov 95 22:22:44 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/4.7) id WAA28178; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:23:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:23:42 -0500 Message-Id: <199511220323.WAA28178@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: funeral; Merlin *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:23:42 -0500 To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: funeral; Merlin He laughs. "Basically they keeping asking me questions I don't know the answers too. And they're very persistant." He smiles. "It's a great pity dancing is inappropriate at a funeral... perhaps at Laurant's installation? I imagine that will be quite a party." Re: the leg. Well, it hurts a great deal. And you probably aren't do much healing while you walk around on it, but it's not going to get any worse just standing on it.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22269; Wed, 22 Nov 95 04:53:29 EST Received: from AL-BURRO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26640; Wed, 22 Nov 95 04:52:31 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by al-burro.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16749; Wed, 22 Nov 95 04:53:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 95 04:53:31 -0500 Message-Id: <9511220953.AA16749@al-burro.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 95 04:53:31 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin I pause. "Dancing?" and look puzzled briefly. "Indeed. You seem to be familiar with parties." Then I smile at him. "Well perhaps I should attend. It could hardly be less exciting than this... Perhaps by then someone else will have answered their questions." Do I see Miklos or the other Hendrakes nearby?  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10920; Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:12:39 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01375; Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:11:41 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id LAA03881; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:12:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:12:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511221612.LAA03881@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: funeral, Merlin *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:12:40 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: funeral, Merlin "Familiar? I suppose. In a way, I'm obligated to attend all sorts of these official cermonies. But I do appreciate a good party and sadly, a funeral doesn't really count." You do indeed see Miklos -- he's heading this way.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14961; Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:51:05 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16944; Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:50:06 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA19233; Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:51:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:51:03 -0500 Message-Id: <9511221651.AA19233@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 95 11:51:03 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin "Hardly. However, Miklos is coming..." I pretend not to be noticing Miklos's arrival.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17980; Wed, 22 Nov 95 12:19:18 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09796; Wed, 22 Nov 95 12:18:19 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id MAA04070; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 12:19:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 12:19:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511221719.MAA04070@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, Merlin *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 12:19:12 -0500 (EST) To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral, Merlin "He *is* persistant. Could I impose upon you to distract him for me? He's actually a remarkably entertaining fellow to talk with whn he isn't trying to pry niformation out of you."  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23964; Wed, 22 Nov 95 13:15:38 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04443; Wed, 22 Nov 95 13:14:30 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA21860; Wed , 22 Nov 1995 11:09:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:09:04 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:09:04 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral, merlin Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "I enjoy being entertained. I will see what I can do."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00715; Wed, 22 Nov 95 14:14:22 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23316; Wed, 22 Nov 95 14:13:24 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id OAA04438; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:14:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:14:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511221914.OAA04438@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Merlin, funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:14:24 -0500 (EST) To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Merlin, funeral "I appreciate this. I suppose I should go find someone on the other side of the room whom I urgently need to talk to now. See you later." He smiles and walks off.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14984; Wed, 22 Nov 95 16:25:22 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09163; Wed, 22 Nov 95 16:24:18 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA22530; Wed , 22 Nov 1995 14:21:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:21:20 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Merlin, funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:21:20 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Merlin, funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I go to intercept Miklos and engage him in conversation. "Oh hello." I smile at him. "I have been looking forward to meeting you. A pity it is at such a sad event. My name is Shoshana. How do you do?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16835; Wed, 22 Nov 95 16:44:12 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11123; Wed, 22 Nov 95 16:43:16 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id QAA05639; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:43:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:43:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511222143.QAA05639@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Cc: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: Hydra: Miklos, funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:43:39 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Cc: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: Hydra: Miklos, funeral He looks slightly surprised, but it changes quickly to amusement. "My name is Miklos. It's very nice to meet you Shoshana. I'm pleased to say that I am quite well. "So you've been looking forward to meeting me? How strange. Who's been talking about me, and what have they been saying to elicit such a response? I really must find them and encourage them to keep it up." He smiles. He has a very nice smile.  1,, Summary-line: 22-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: Miklos, funeral Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23621; Wed, 22 Nov 95 18:28:34 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20091; Wed, 22 Nov 95 18:24:58 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA23028; Wed , 22 Nov 1995 16:22:11 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:22:11 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos, funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:22:11 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos, funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "It should not be so surprising. It seems there are a number of people who think highly of you. Surely you know that. One of them led me to believe you would be quite charming and I have not been dissappointed. Perhaps I will let you guess who your well wisher is." I smile back :-)  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06081; Fri, 24 Nov 95 23:34:46 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16618; Fri, 24 Nov 95 23:33:48 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id XAA29946; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 23:34:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 23:34:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511250434.XAA29946@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos, funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 23:34:49 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos, funeral He makes an expression of (slightly) mock surprise. "A _number_ of people who think quite highly of me? This is news. You must take me to meet them sometime." He pretends to think. "So I'm to guess who my well wisher is, am I? Would I spoil everything if I were to postulate that Merlin had sent you to distract me while he makes his escape? I can think of very few other reasons that would cause Merlin to abandon someone so pretty so fast -- particularly given that no slaps were exchanged." He smiles micheivously.  1,, Summary-line: 20-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra: points Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22839; Mon, 20 Nov 95 04:29:31 EST Received: from CARBONARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08634; Mon, 20 Nov 95 04:28:34 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by carbonara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA05274; Mon, 20 Nov 95 04:29:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 04:29:31 -0500 Message-Id: <9511200929.AA05274@carbonara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: points *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 20 Nov 95 04:29:31 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: points how's this: 2 "named and numbered" healing for the scorpion tears, except only the ring has danger sense 1 armor's shapeshift up'ed to "named & numbered": clothing 2 shapeshift "named & numbered" for the ring: jewelry (alternatively, for the ring, i'd make it have and alternate form: "creature that can climb into solid objects" plus "able to speak". then just command it to sit inside whatever earrings/jewelry i happen to be wearing at the time.)  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA24157; Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:58:45 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07514; Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:57:45 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id MAA18484; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:58:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:58:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511271758.MAA18484@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra points... *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:58:48 -0500 (EST) To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra points... named and numbered on the scorpion tears is fine, ditto for making only ring have danger sense points in the armor are alos fine and, yeah you can give the ring n&n shsh... that's much better than the "creature that can climb into solid objects"  1,, Summary-line: 26-Nov mer@MIT.EDU #hydra Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26445; Sun, 26 Nov 95 18:05:47 EST Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15507; Sun, 26 Nov 95 18:04:43 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA21093; Sun, 26 Nov 95 18:05:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 18:05:46 -0500 Message-Id: <9511262305.AA21093@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 26 Nov 95 18:05:46 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra I smile mischievously back at him. "No, you would only be spoiling things perhaps for Merlin. On the other hand, I am quite curious what all of this is about. And as for your well-wishers, you are much more likely to know who they are than I. _You_ must introduce them to me. I merely postulate their numbers on the basis of your charm."  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA25233; Mon, 27 Nov 95 13:08:14 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24249; Mon, 27 Nov 95 13:07:15 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id NAA18524; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:08:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:08:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511271808.NAA18524@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: miklos *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 13:08:17 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: miklos "I assure you, we are all wondering what this is about. As to the mysterious legions of well wishers, perhaps I should simply be pleased that you find me charming enough that they ought to exist. "So tell, Shoshana, what brings you to this sad event? Were you aquainted with Tore Ardas? You don't seem to fall into the category of those here as official representatives of their houses.."  1,, Summary-line: 27-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: miklos Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27055; Mon, 27 Nov 95 17:30:53 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15115; Mon, 27 Nov 95 17:29:50 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA05533; Mon , 27 Nov 1995 15:28:01 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:28:01 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:28:01 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU I stop smiling and regard him more seriously. "Since I was in the area it seemed appropriate to pay my respects. Besides... this (I look around, indicating the funeral itself, then back at him) suits my mood." "Did you know her?"  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23201; Wed, 29 Nov 95 00:48:04 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09077; Wed, 29 Nov 95 00:47:03 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id AAA26360; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:48:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:48:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511290548.AAA26360@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:48:07 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos "No, not really. I'm afraid I fall into the other category of mourners."  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA25847; Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:41:24 EST Received: from MARINARA.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04853; Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:40:15 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by marinara.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA01816; Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:41:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:41:11 -0500 Message-Id: <9511291641.AA01816@marinara.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Miklos *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 29 Nov 95 11:41:11 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: Miklos "Yet you are still here. What category of mourners would you place Bariman in?"  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21570; Wed, 29 Nov 95 15:17:51 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27743; Wed, 29 Nov 95 15:16:42 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id PAA27364; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:17:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:17:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511292017.PAA27364@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos (Barimans) *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:17:41 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos (Barimans) "Ah yes, them. They would be the category of mourners who would stopped just a hair short of having delivered the ultimate insult of failing to attend at all."  1,, Summary-line: 29-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: miklos (bariman) Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16762; Wed, 29 Nov 95 18:41:55 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15632; Wed, 29 Nov 95 18:40:47 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA14230; Wed , 29 Nov 1995 16:38:26 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:38:26 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: miklos (bariman) Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:38:26 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: miklos (bariman) Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "Interesting. And what would you think of a House who sent an unusually large number of its members? Or a lone person arriving a few minutes late?"  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28407; Thu, 30 Nov 95 17:34:51 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02898; Thu, 30 Nov 95 17:33:48 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id RAA00960; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:34:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:34:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511302234.RAA00960@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:34:52 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Miklos "That would depend on the house. In Hlurle's case, it is probably simply an attempt to get them all out of the house for a while, but I'd wager the large attendance by Helgram is indeed likely to intended to convey a message. As for a lone person arriving late, well, again that would depend on her house, which is not known to me."  1,, Summary-line: 29-Nov lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: funeral Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17064; Wed, 29 Nov 95 18:45:36 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11843; Wed, 29 Nov 95 18:44:32 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA14245; Wed , 29 Nov 1995 16:42:07 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:42:07 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:42:07 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral Cc: mer@MIT.EDU What're the other guests doing? Can I see where Merlin has gotten to? How much time has passed? I don't want to be one of the last ones milling about chatting.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28631; Thu, 30 Nov 95 17:36:43 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06145; Thu, 30 Nov 95 17:35:43 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id RAA00964; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:36:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:36:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199511302236.RAA00964@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:36:47 -0500 (EST) To: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: Hydra: funeral The other guests are by and large still standing around talking in groups. Most people are still there. Merlin has gotten out of sight.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10670; Thu, 30 Nov 95 19:57:13 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25017; Thu, 30 Nov 95 19:56:05 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA18681; Thu , 30 Nov 1995 17:53:50 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:53:50 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:53:50 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "It seems that one's house is more important than punctuality. In spite of that, this lone person is not eager to seek affiliation with that which she is unfamiliar." "And although I have enjoyed meeting you, you must be busy and I have taken more than my share of your time."  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19622; Thu, 30 Nov 95 22:04:06 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12341; Thu, 30 Nov 95 22:03:04 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id WAA02151; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:04:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:04:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512010304.WAA02151@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: Miklos *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:04:05 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: Miklos "One's house and personality are important to accurately deducing what messages one does or does not mean to send by one's actions. Things have to be taken in context. "I have enjoyed meeting you as well, perhaps I shall see you again at Laurant's installation, if you mood has brightened." He smiles.  1,, Summary-line: 1-Dec lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: Miklos Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09338; Fri, 1 Dec 95 17:04:32 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02726; Fri, 1 Dec 95 17:03:24 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA22051; Fri , 1 Dec 1995 15:00:48 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:00:48 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:00:48 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: Miklos Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "Perhaps." I give him a grateful look then walk away. (ouch ouch ouch :-) I look around. Where's Aaron Jasby? I'm avoiding Aaron. Has Sidana shown up again? What are Elizabeth and Galiena doing? What's the Hlurle crowd up to? - m  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11594; Tue, 5 Dec 95 13:06:21 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15162; Tue, 5 Dec 95 13:05:16 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id NAA28043; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512051806.NAA28043@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: back to the funeral proper *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: hydra: back to the funeral proper Aaron is on the far side of the room. You don't see Elizabeth. Galiena is now talking to Sidana. The Hlurle crowd have split up some, but there are still several young girls together. One of them is talking incessantly, another looks very bewildered by all this.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA22660; Tue, 5 Dec 95 14:40:22 EST Received: from ALFREDO.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09443; Tue, 5 Dec 95 14:39:13 EST From: mer@MIT.EDU Received: by alfredo.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA04745; Tue, 5 Dec 95 14:40:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 95 14:40:16 -0500 Message-Id: <9512051940.AA04745@alfredo.MIT.EDU> To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral proper *** EOOH *** From: mer@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 5 Dec 95 14:40:16 -0500 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Subject: hydra: funeral proper I wander over near the Hlurle girls. I want to hear if the talkative one is saying anything interesting.  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07302; Tue, 5 Dec 95 22:06:33 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03032; Tue, 5 Dec 95 22:05:30 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id WAA01175; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:06:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:06:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512060306.WAA01175@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Hlurle girls *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:06:37 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: Hlurle girls The talkative one is going on about all sort of things, focusing a great deal on what people are wearing. When you get close, she pounces on you. She introduces herself as Irene and the other girl as her cousin Kyasi. She then immediately starts to inquire as to your opinion on the King's attire, whether the Duke of Sawall is terribly handsome or not, and what your opinion is of the way Morgan Minobee is wearing her hair.  1,, Summary-line: 6-Dec lacerate@headgames.com #hydra: funeral, hlurle Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19232; Wed, 6 Dec 95 15:17:49 EST Received: from [206.14.28.1] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26370; Wed, 6 Dec 95 15:16:06 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA08333; Wed , 6 Dec 1995 13:14:26 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:14:26 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral, hlurle Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:14:26 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: funeral, hlurle Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "Shoshana," I nod at Irene, "Pleased to meet you," and smile in sympathy at Kyasi who is clearly trapped by her talkative relative :-) Then gravely (with no hint of sarcasm :-), "You must excuse me however, I am no expert in these matters." I leave them and make my way to the exit.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07867; Wed, 6 Dec 95 17:47:40 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11686; Wed, 6 Dec 95 17:46:34 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id RAA07014; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 17:47:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 17:47:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512062247.RAA07014@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: trying to leave *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 17:47:43 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: trying to leave As you turn around, you find yourself facing a man and a woman about your age, who appear to have walked up while Irene was talking. The woman is a pretty blond and the man is dark and dark haired and possibly a Chanicutt. You don't quite knock them over.  1,, hydra, Summary-line: 6-Dec lacerate@headgames.com #Hydra: trying to leave Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16927; Wed, 6 Dec 95 19:00:30 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20240; Wed, 6 Dec 95 18:59:23 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA09214; Wed , 6 Dec 1995 16:59:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:59:03 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: Hydra: trying to leave Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:59:03 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: Hydra: trying to leave Cc: mer@MIT.EDU "Excuse me." I politely try to extricate myself. Did I actually bump them, or make them stumble? And I move carefully to avoid falling over myself. ("Sleight of build, it seems a strong wind might blow her away." It'd be even worse to fall over for no discernable reason. I'd never live it down. :-)  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12589; Mon, 11 Dec 95 12:06:58 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25435; Mon, 11 Dec 95 12:07:02 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id MAA03231; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:07:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:07:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512111707.MAA03231@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: trying to leave *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:07:02 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: trying to leave The man says "Oops. Excuse us." and steps aside to let you pass. The woman says, "Pardon me." You don't make anyone trip or stumble, no. Do you coninue to leave?  1,, Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01726; Mon, 11 Dec 95 14:36:39 EST Received: from warp.headgames.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16683; Mon, 11 Dec 95 14:36:10 EST Received: from [206.14.28.25] (lacemac.headgames.com [206.14.28.25]) by headgames.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA25669; Mon , 11 Dec 1995 12:34:40 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:34:40 -0800 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: trying to leave Cc: mer@MIT.EDU *** EOOH *** Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 12:34:40 -0800 To: endeavor@MIT.EDU From: lacerate@headgames.com Subject: hydra: trying to leave Cc: mer@MIT.EDU Yes, I continue to make my way towards the exit.  1,, Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17598; Tue, 12 Dec 95 18:43:06 EST Received: from TECHNOMAGE.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22042; Tue, 12 Dec 95 18:43:09 EST From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Received: by technomage.MIT.EDU (8.7.2/4.7) id SAA10424; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:43:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:43:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199512122343.SAA10424@technomage.MIT.EDU> To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: escape from the funeral *** EOOH *** From: endeavor@MIT.EDU Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:43:12 -0500 (EST) To: Shoshana Jasby Subject: Hydra: escape from the funeral You make it out without incident. Where to now?