more lighthearted: Tiger & Bunny fandom eyeroll
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 09:44 amDear melodramatic "Well I just guess I'm not going to follow the meme to Dreamwidth because it's SO HARD to find my old prompts and fills. *FLOUNCE* GOODBYE" posters on the t-and-b-anon community:
Prove to me that you ever had a fill.
What page is it on on the LJ meme?
Guess what: it's on the exact same page on the DW meme. Yes, really. Yes, you have your fill bookmarked which means you could easily find it again in this way.
How much sympathy do I have for you? Exactly none.
I understand that some people don't want to move to Dreamwidth, and I have no problem with that. But don't try to make out like it's harder to find things on Dreamwidth than it was on livejournal, because it was hard on livejournal, too.
The thing that really makes me roll my eyes, though, is the attempted veiled threat of "hmph! I'm not going to finish my fills!"
Fine, take your ball and go home. The rest of us'll play tag.
SOON TO BE EDITED IN: D&D SUMMARY
NOW PLAYING: D&D SUMMARY
I must open this summary by saying man, Esra, you are just not so great at the planning thing!
So we arrived in the Grand Cathedral, where we had to bully our way in past unimpressed and surly church officials (Esra, feeling pretty badly out of it after traveling for eight hours following our ruckus in Nys; Iris, feeling pretty confused as to why the church is so stubborn about going to bed so early-- it was barely sunset; Sabine and Denar, annoyed that Esra kept talking them out of just killing their way in; Llewain, facepalming and wondering why he's with these crazy people, I'm sure). Eventually we found Bishop Barlowe and warned him about Bishop Dinta.
An aside:
Every single person the party had encountered while we were on the search and asked about the rod had apparently heard of it, and described it exactly as Dinta had, then claimed it did exactly what Dinta said it did. Despite this, Barlowe is the first person to summarize the description of the item, and then tell us "that's the Rod of Cancellation". Nobody thought this, or the previous instances, was strange except for Esra, who can't really fairly judge the religion-and-politics-his-country-recently-trounced-in-a-war without looking like an asshole. Generally he abstains from saying much, beyond muttering about it, but this whole thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
Just once, I wish I could get to play a wizard without having to deal with conspiracy theory plots. There is not a genre I hate more.
End aside, back to summary: So we warn Barlowe about Dinta, and he claims to have found a secret lab in the basement where Dinta was performing cultist rituals to communicate with the evil demon, Orcus (cue like eight hundred jokes about whether that's the god of the orcs, because we are Very Mature in this party, haha), then asks us to go down into the basement and take care of something there. Esra, who was in a bad mood about not going to an inn for the night and catching some sleep, Denar, who was in a bad mood because Barlowe kept insulting us in a misanthropic hates-everyone kind of way, and Sabine, who is just cantankerous, were all pretty leery of doing anything for Barlowe OR the church.
At one point, this happened:
Iris: Well, it would really behoove us to find a new Seeker--
Barlowe: Speaker.
Iris: Speak a new Seeker of Sulafta--
Barlowe: (to Llewain, the only one he liked) Why do you permit the strumpet to speak?!
Esra: (hotly) Because that "strumpet" is the only one of us with any affection in the least for your asinine, backwards church!
Denar: Honestly, calling her a strumpet...
Sabine: She's OUR 'ho
Iris: I guess I'm not a very good public seeker
(Danny: WHAT, hahaha!)
(Dustin: *smirk and nod*)
Anyway: it came down to this. Barlowe wanted us to oust some kind of demon (or wanted us to go into the basement and get killed by it), claimed through lack of evidence and unwillingness to come forth that 'one of the bishops represents both genders as is Sulafta's will', implying 'himself' to be the hermaphrodite in question. Personally, I doubt it, since at this point Sabine's plan of making Llewain the Speaker of Sulafta appeals to me more than letting any existing official have the job-- in fact, I'm not against letting Denar kill them all, because that would be easier than having to determine if they were all working together to try to kill us or not.
After much debate, and irritated discussion about whether we could trust Barlowe or not, we acceded to the request and went down into the basement, where we discovered a demon and two treasure chests-- one all fancy-shmancy encrusted in jewels and one all rank and emitting grossness. Sabine, Llewain, Denar and Iris engaged the demon, while Esra ran up to try to open the rank chest, figuring it might contain the demon's heart. (I'm just going to say right here: I hear "ornately decorated treasure chest in room with demon", the first thing I think is 'shit, we're going to need to catch the deer, then the rabbit inside, then the bird, then smash the diamond at its feet!' because Russian myths are best myths, okay.)
Unfortunately, the rank chest contained dead apprentices, to Esra's horror, and then when he tried the other chest because why the heck not, his hand stuck to it.
The others finished off the demon, while Esra struggled to free himself from the Mimic unsuccessfully, complaining that it was gross. Llewain attacked the beast, but Esra's flailing got him in the way and earned him a couple of daggers in the back, which put him unquestionably on the ground, unconscious and pale as death.
Sabine started hitting the thing with various swords, Denar shot it, and between Llewain, Sabine and Denar's concerted efforts to defeat the sticky gooey monster, it finally collapsed into a puddle, allowing Iris to pull Esra away from it and force a potion of magical healing down his throat. Within the creature lay a small bag coated with runes, in which were hidden a scroll, a ring, a dagger, a sword, and a wand; the party's initial curiosity, which had been Dinta's notes and research-- presumably concealed in a cipher, according to Barlowe-- was collected before they trudged back upstairs, Esra trying to ignore Sabine bullying him (unsuccessfully) while Llewain had to be the Dad.
(multiple conversations last night went something like this, which was hilarious:
Sabine: Aww, poor baby Esra, want me to carry you?
Esra: *stubbornly keeps walking* I don't need your help!
Sabine: Want me to give you horsey rides up on my shoulders? I bet you do~
Esra: Llewaaaain, Sabine is picking on me again.
Llewain: Now Esra, Sabine will never stop bullying you until you stand up for yourself.
Esra: She'll just keep bullying me even if I do!
Llewain: Stop picking on Esra, Sabine.
Sabine: Hahaha-- no!)
Barlowe waited too long to open the door, so Sabine broke it open, smacking him in the nose on our way out. Esra was relieved when Barlowe offered to assist him with some healing magic, (since Iris was still out from before), but aside from collecting more of Dinta's notes from Barlowe (and getting growled at again for letting Dinta go earlier), he had nothing more for us. We headed out of the Cathedral and checked in at Inn Sulafta's Name, where Esra was then bedridden for a while. Denar had collected the abandoned skin of the demon and played with it a while, even considering making it into armor, before he ended up burning it to ensure that the demon could not re-enter the skin. He met a smith who claimed to be able to work any material, and made a plan with Sabine to go back to Nys for the FLAILSNAIL shell.
They discussed this while a cute serving girl in the inn offered to get Esra soup and bread since he was recovering from some injuries, to which he was not averse at all. The soup ended up having a golden ticket at the bottom of the bowl, which turned out to have an enchantment upon it that revealed it was from The Puzzler (the wizard Esra attacked with the Rod of Cancellation before) and invited anyone holding such tickets to come try to prove their worth as the Puzzler's potential apprentice. Esra was annoyed, but kept the ticket-- mostly in the interest of taking the Puzzler down. Anyway, Sabine decided she and Denar would go because Esra is boring, and Esra waved them on, saying they'd have plenty of time to get the shell before he was done recovering and, more importantly, identifying the items they'd found. Llewain and Iris decided to chill in the other inn room after Sabine and Denar left, which meant that the serving girl (who'd been offering to collect hot towels for Esra) came back to play Nurse with him. There will probably be fanart. I can't help myself!
Sabine and Denar returned to Nys to find that imposters-- Kelisandra and Korad, specifically-- had tried to make the claim that they had killed the gold dragon of Hurdu and THEY were the Hurdu Trading Company, pretending to own the ship and kicking the crew off of it so they could do what they wanted with it. While it's possible they're involved, the only person Sabine and Denar found on the ship was our old buddy Maligos, who was rooting through Esra's mage-lab for "something" and claimed he'd not been able to find anything before sneaking off. It's hard to say whether Maligos orchestrated the whole thing or not, since he has interest in the realm of dreams and further, he could have posed as the Hurdu Trading Company himself. In any case, Sabine stayed aboard the ship to establish their rightful claim to it while the Port Authority checked (and drank one of the guards under the table while she waited) while Denar went to find and retrieve the crew, informing them of the deception.
More next week!
One last edit to add:
During the fight:
Llewain: Oops. *wince* sorry, Esra.
Esra: This thing is gross and sticky get it off!
Sabine: What have we learned, Esra? Do not kiss pretty girls, do not talk to strange men who smell nice, and don't touch sticky treasure chests!
Esra: Shut up!
[Another dagger]
Esra: L-Llewain, if I've done something to offend you, I apologize! Please don't throw more knives at me!
Llewain: Just-- hold still--
[And another]
Esra: *collapse*
Llewain: Er, oops.
Sabine: Pfft, what a pushover.
Prove to me that you ever had a fill.
What page is it on on the LJ meme?
Guess what: it's on the exact same page on the DW meme. Yes, really. Yes, you have your fill bookmarked which means you could easily find it again in this way.
How much sympathy do I have for you? Exactly none.
I understand that some people don't want to move to Dreamwidth, and I have no problem with that. But don't try to make out like it's harder to find things on Dreamwidth than it was on livejournal, because it was hard on livejournal, too.
The thing that really makes me roll my eyes, though, is the attempted veiled threat of "hmph! I'm not going to finish my fills!"
Fine, take your ball and go home. The rest of us'll play tag.
SOON TO BE EDITED IN: D&D SUMMARY
NOW PLAYING: D&D SUMMARY
I must open this summary by saying man, Esra, you are just not so great at the planning thing!
So we arrived in the Grand Cathedral, where we had to bully our way in past unimpressed and surly church officials (Esra, feeling pretty badly out of it after traveling for eight hours following our ruckus in Nys; Iris, feeling pretty confused as to why the church is so stubborn about going to bed so early-- it was barely sunset; Sabine and Denar, annoyed that Esra kept talking them out of just killing their way in; Llewain, facepalming and wondering why he's with these crazy people, I'm sure). Eventually we found Bishop Barlowe and warned him about Bishop Dinta.
An aside:
Every single person the party had encountered while we were on the search and asked about the rod had apparently heard of it, and described it exactly as Dinta had, then claimed it did exactly what Dinta said it did. Despite this, Barlowe is the first person to summarize the description of the item, and then tell us "that's the Rod of Cancellation". Nobody thought this, or the previous instances, was strange except for Esra, who can't really fairly judge the religion-and-politics-his-country-recently-trounced-in-a-war without looking like an asshole. Generally he abstains from saying much, beyond muttering about it, but this whole thing is getting a bit ridiculous.
Just once, I wish I could get to play a wizard without having to deal with conspiracy theory plots. There is not a genre I hate more.
End aside, back to summary: So we warn Barlowe about Dinta, and he claims to have found a secret lab in the basement where Dinta was performing cultist rituals to communicate with the evil demon, Orcus (cue like eight hundred jokes about whether that's the god of the orcs, because we are Very Mature in this party, haha), then asks us to go down into the basement and take care of something there. Esra, who was in a bad mood about not going to an inn for the night and catching some sleep, Denar, who was in a bad mood because Barlowe kept insulting us in a misanthropic hates-everyone kind of way, and Sabine, who is just cantankerous, were all pretty leery of doing anything for Barlowe OR the church.
At one point, this happened:
Iris: Well, it would really behoove us to find a new Seeker--
Barlowe: Speaker.
Iris: Speak a new Seeker of Sulafta--
Barlowe: (to Llewain, the only one he liked) Why do you permit the strumpet to speak?!
Esra: (hotly) Because that "strumpet" is the only one of us with any affection in the least for your asinine, backwards church!
Denar: Honestly, calling her a strumpet...
Sabine: She's OUR 'ho
Iris: I guess I'm not a very good public seeker
(Danny: WHAT, hahaha!)
(Dustin: *smirk and nod*)
Anyway: it came down to this. Barlowe wanted us to oust some kind of demon (or wanted us to go into the basement and get killed by it), claimed through lack of evidence and unwillingness to come forth that 'one of the bishops represents both genders as is Sulafta's will', implying 'himself' to be the hermaphrodite in question. Personally, I doubt it, since at this point Sabine's plan of making Llewain the Speaker of Sulafta appeals to me more than letting any existing official have the job-- in fact, I'm not against letting Denar kill them all, because that would be easier than having to determine if they were all working together to try to kill us or not.
After much debate, and irritated discussion about whether we could trust Barlowe or not, we acceded to the request and went down into the basement, where we discovered a demon and two treasure chests-- one all fancy-shmancy encrusted in jewels and one all rank and emitting grossness. Sabine, Llewain, Denar and Iris engaged the demon, while Esra ran up to try to open the rank chest, figuring it might contain the demon's heart. (I'm just going to say right here: I hear "ornately decorated treasure chest in room with demon", the first thing I think is 'shit, we're going to need to catch the deer, then the rabbit inside, then the bird, then smash the diamond at its feet!' because Russian myths are best myths, okay.)
Unfortunately, the rank chest contained dead apprentices, to Esra's horror, and then when he tried the other chest because why the heck not, his hand stuck to it.
The others finished off the demon, while Esra struggled to free himself from the Mimic unsuccessfully, complaining that it was gross. Llewain attacked the beast, but Esra's flailing got him in the way and earned him a couple of daggers in the back, which put him unquestionably on the ground, unconscious and pale as death.
Sabine started hitting the thing with various swords, Denar shot it, and between Llewain, Sabine and Denar's concerted efforts to defeat the sticky gooey monster, it finally collapsed into a puddle, allowing Iris to pull Esra away from it and force a potion of magical healing down his throat. Within the creature lay a small bag coated with runes, in which were hidden a scroll, a ring, a dagger, a sword, and a wand; the party's initial curiosity, which had been Dinta's notes and research-- presumably concealed in a cipher, according to Barlowe-- was collected before they trudged back upstairs, Esra trying to ignore Sabine bullying him (unsuccessfully) while Llewain had to be the Dad.
(multiple conversations last night went something like this, which was hilarious:
Sabine: Aww, poor baby Esra, want me to carry you?
Esra: *stubbornly keeps walking* I don't need your help!
Sabine: Want me to give you horsey rides up on my shoulders? I bet you do~
Esra: Llewaaaain, Sabine is picking on me again.
Llewain: Now Esra, Sabine will never stop bullying you until you stand up for yourself.
Esra: She'll just keep bullying me even if I do!
Llewain: Stop picking on Esra, Sabine.
Sabine: Hahaha-- no!)
Barlowe waited too long to open the door, so Sabine broke it open, smacking him in the nose on our way out. Esra was relieved when Barlowe offered to assist him with some healing magic, (since Iris was still out from before), but aside from collecting more of Dinta's notes from Barlowe (and getting growled at again for letting Dinta go earlier), he had nothing more for us. We headed out of the Cathedral and checked in at Inn Sulafta's Name, where Esra was then bedridden for a while. Denar had collected the abandoned skin of the demon and played with it a while, even considering making it into armor, before he ended up burning it to ensure that the demon could not re-enter the skin. He met a smith who claimed to be able to work any material, and made a plan with Sabine to go back to Nys for the FLAILSNAIL shell.
They discussed this while a cute serving girl in the inn offered to get Esra soup and bread since he was recovering from some injuries, to which he was not averse at all. The soup ended up having a golden ticket at the bottom of the bowl, which turned out to have an enchantment upon it that revealed it was from The Puzzler (the wizard Esra attacked with the Rod of Cancellation before) and invited anyone holding such tickets to come try to prove their worth as the Puzzler's potential apprentice. Esra was annoyed, but kept the ticket-- mostly in the interest of taking the Puzzler down. Anyway, Sabine decided she and Denar would go because Esra is boring, and Esra waved them on, saying they'd have plenty of time to get the shell before he was done recovering and, more importantly, identifying the items they'd found. Llewain and Iris decided to chill in the other inn room after Sabine and Denar left, which meant that the serving girl (who'd been offering to collect hot towels for Esra) came back to play Nurse with him. There will probably be fanart. I can't help myself!
Sabine and Denar returned to Nys to find that imposters-- Kelisandra and Korad, specifically-- had tried to make the claim that they had killed the gold dragon of Hurdu and THEY were the Hurdu Trading Company, pretending to own the ship and kicking the crew off of it so they could do what they wanted with it. While it's possible they're involved, the only person Sabine and Denar found on the ship was our old buddy Maligos, who was rooting through Esra's mage-lab for "something" and claimed he'd not been able to find anything before sneaking off. It's hard to say whether Maligos orchestrated the whole thing or not, since he has interest in the realm of dreams and further, he could have posed as the Hurdu Trading Company himself. In any case, Sabine stayed aboard the ship to establish their rightful claim to it while the Port Authority checked (and drank one of the guards under the table while she waited) while Denar went to find and retrieve the crew, informing them of the deception.
More next week!
One last edit to add:
During the fight:
Llewain: Oops. *wince* sorry, Esra.
Esra: This thing is gross and sticky get it off!
Sabine: What have we learned, Esra? Do not kiss pretty girls, do not talk to strange men who smell nice, and don't touch sticky treasure chests!
Esra: Shut up!
[Another dagger]
Esra: L-Llewain, if I've done something to offend you, I apologize! Please don't throw more knives at me!
Llewain: Just-- hold still--
[And another]
Esra: *collapse*
Llewain: Er, oops.
Sabine: Pfft, what a pushover.
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