Partial summary!
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 08:12 amOh man you guys! First of course we were full of excitement and nonsense because we were out of town and had missed the guys since there was no D&D last week. We also received likely accurate accusations of forgetting to tell Christian and Jason about the fact that we were going to be out of town for a week, since neither of them had remembered. Last tuesday, I got a text something like this:
Christian: Your concubine is not responding! Is there D&D tonight?
Dev: No, fool, we're in Florida!
Christian: Why? there's nothing in Florida
Dev: Disneyworld, haha!
Christian: Pffft, who cares about Disneyworld?
In any case! We'd last left off, as you may know, trying to figure out how to interact with the dream realm, but planning to make our decision about whether we should investigate the ritual murders happening in Nys, the mysterious tiny girl Lily, or just pack up and head off to Hurdu straightaway. We decided we'd wait until morning and went to sleep, apparently, which means that we then entered a shared dream.
The background to this is, Christian challenged Danny to base a session around "sk8terboi", because we already did Hotel California and Piano Man in recent memory, so Danny did. Thus, in the dream, time jumped around, showing us at the inn, then the boat, then Libra for some festival of young love where Hektos, Iris's goofy gawkish bagboy, tried to give her a lily to show his affection for her. In the cutscene she wanted desperately to accept the token but felt our disapproving stares (apparently) and rejected it. Time leapt forward again, and apparently everyone except Llewain and Iris had been killed by the dragon of Hurdu; Llewain had left her after fathering her daughter, which Iris had, in fit of pique, evidently chosen to name Sabine. (This was a source of amusement for Christian for...well, the rest of the night, to be quite honest, haha!)
Now we were all Iris's "friends" in her post retirement-- Bret was Erika, her freckled but kind of boyish 20-year old friend; Jason was Chloe, Erika's 16-year old younger sister; I was Delia, her 26-year old somewhat-matronly friend still in the church; and Christian was Kassandra, the way hotter than Iris chick who constantly teased Iris for being pudgy, frumpy, and otherwise less full of sex appeal than she was. Iris was herself, but the dream didn't seem to belong to her, as we were all focused on the fact that Hektos was in town and performing soon, apparently. Iris had not purchased a ticket, but I had two so I gave her one of mine.
"Delia": I have two! You can have one of mine?
Iris: Oh, thank you. But why did you purchase two tickets? Surely you meant this for someone else?
"Delia": Oh, um, yes! I had bought it for my brother, who just tragically passed away, tragically, from a horrible, horrible illness!
"Kassandra": When was this?
"Delia": Oh, just yesterday! Perhaps you'd better take both of my tickets, actually, so that I may mourn and weep for his loss!
Iris: ...huh?
"Delia": I bought two because I knew you'd forget, moron, let's go to the concert.
BUT first there was a montage of us cattily giving Iris a makeover and getting her a sexy dress for the concert (not, of course, that 'Kassandra' didn't try to sabotage it here and there for laughs). 'Kassandra' did Iris's make-up, and she and 'Delia' helped pick out the dress (a pale green affair that only sort of clashed with her red hair). It's worth noting that Jason was having none of being Chloe, so immediately played Denar realizing that he was in a dream and trying to figure out why he was trapped in the body of a little girl. Bret played Llewain as completely aware of being in a dream, but not particularly bothered by it.
I think Sabine was also aware the whole time, but just likes messing with Iris. I played Esra as realizing when we were on our way to the concert and he noticed he had breasts, since Chloe broke off from the party for a while and it gave Denar and Esra something to grumble about while we were walking to the concert. When separated from the party, however, Llewain and Denar found a studious girl messing with a magic scroll that she let Llewain have, and when Llewain passed it to Esra they discovered it was a scroll of the Sleep spell. Puzzled, they carried it in to the concert performance venue, just as special effects fireballs signaled the start of the show. Denar had also discovered, by asking around, that there was a woman in Hektos's band who the dream identified as a mage. Wondering if this might be Maligos disguised as a woman as his dream-self, they decided they would need to keep an eye on the so-called lute player.
As it turned out, Hektos had aged in the interim, becoming an extremely attractive, well-muscled young man after growing up doing such physically intensive work. Both Esra and Iris were distracted by this fact, though Esra eventually recovered enough to read the sleep spell at Llewain and Denar's encouraging. We didn't know what would happen, exactly, but it seemed wiser than letting the lute-player get the better of us-- so Esra cast the sleep spell upon her. It put her and the rest of the back-up band to sleep, and then water flooded the stage, splashing down over us.
We 'woke up' to find Xenocrates standing over us and Sylvia holding an empty bucket. They professed relief, and Xenocrates explained that he'd been able only to cast the ESP spell upon two of us, instead of all five of us. Llewain related our experiences in direct quotes of the sk8erboi lyrics, which Esra interrupted saying 'could it be any more obvious?', and pointed out that Xenocrates had specifically told us that he only had one more casting of the ESP spell; he postulated that we were not, in fact, awake yet.
Xenocrates began sweating, and Esra (because I got all excited about Total Recall references) pointed at him, saying "He's a fake! Kill him!" Denar lunged to do so and we awoke again, this time to just Sylvia, who explained that Xenocrates had gone to get an ingredient to enhance his single ESP spell in the hopes of casting it upon all five of us at once.
I will continue later but whew! Lots happened!
Christian: Your concubine is not responding! Is there D&D tonight?
Dev: No, fool, we're in Florida!
Christian: Why? there's nothing in Florida
Dev: Disneyworld, haha!
Christian: Pffft, who cares about Disneyworld?
In any case! We'd last left off, as you may know, trying to figure out how to interact with the dream realm, but planning to make our decision about whether we should investigate the ritual murders happening in Nys, the mysterious tiny girl Lily, or just pack up and head off to Hurdu straightaway. We decided we'd wait until morning and went to sleep, apparently, which means that we then entered a shared dream.
The background to this is, Christian challenged Danny to base a session around "sk8terboi", because we already did Hotel California and Piano Man in recent memory, so Danny did. Thus, in the dream, time jumped around, showing us at the inn, then the boat, then Libra for some festival of young love where Hektos, Iris's goofy gawkish bagboy, tried to give her a lily to show his affection for her. In the cutscene she wanted desperately to accept the token but felt our disapproving stares (apparently) and rejected it. Time leapt forward again, and apparently everyone except Llewain and Iris had been killed by the dragon of Hurdu; Llewain had left her after fathering her daughter, which Iris had, in fit of pique, evidently chosen to name Sabine. (This was a source of amusement for Christian for...well, the rest of the night, to be quite honest, haha!)
Now we were all Iris's "friends" in her post retirement-- Bret was Erika, her freckled but kind of boyish 20-year old friend; Jason was Chloe, Erika's 16-year old younger sister; I was Delia, her 26-year old somewhat-matronly friend still in the church; and Christian was Kassandra, the way hotter than Iris chick who constantly teased Iris for being pudgy, frumpy, and otherwise less full of sex appeal than she was. Iris was herself, but the dream didn't seem to belong to her, as we were all focused on the fact that Hektos was in town and performing soon, apparently. Iris had not purchased a ticket, but I had two so I gave her one of mine.
"Delia": I have two! You can have one of mine?
Iris: Oh, thank you. But why did you purchase two tickets? Surely you meant this for someone else?
"Delia": Oh, um, yes! I had bought it for my brother, who just tragically passed away, tragically, from a horrible, horrible illness!
"Kassandra": When was this?
"Delia": Oh, just yesterday! Perhaps you'd better take both of my tickets, actually, so that I may mourn and weep for his loss!
Iris: ...huh?
"Delia": I bought two because I knew you'd forget, moron, let's go to the concert.
BUT first there was a montage of us cattily giving Iris a makeover and getting her a sexy dress for the concert (not, of course, that 'Kassandra' didn't try to sabotage it here and there for laughs). 'Kassandra' did Iris's make-up, and she and 'Delia' helped pick out the dress (a pale green affair that only sort of clashed with her red hair). It's worth noting that Jason was having none of being Chloe, so immediately played Denar realizing that he was in a dream and trying to figure out why he was trapped in the body of a little girl. Bret played Llewain as completely aware of being in a dream, but not particularly bothered by it.
I think Sabine was also aware the whole time, but just likes messing with Iris. I played Esra as realizing when we were on our way to the concert and he noticed he had breasts, since Chloe broke off from the party for a while and it gave Denar and Esra something to grumble about while we were walking to the concert. When separated from the party, however, Llewain and Denar found a studious girl messing with a magic scroll that she let Llewain have, and when Llewain passed it to Esra they discovered it was a scroll of the Sleep spell. Puzzled, they carried it in to the concert performance venue, just as special effects fireballs signaled the start of the show. Denar had also discovered, by asking around, that there was a woman in Hektos's band who the dream identified as a mage. Wondering if this might be Maligos disguised as a woman as his dream-self, they decided they would need to keep an eye on the so-called lute player.
As it turned out, Hektos had aged in the interim, becoming an extremely attractive, well-muscled young man after growing up doing such physically intensive work. Both Esra and Iris were distracted by this fact, though Esra eventually recovered enough to read the sleep spell at Llewain and Denar's encouraging. We didn't know what would happen, exactly, but it seemed wiser than letting the lute-player get the better of us-- so Esra cast the sleep spell upon her. It put her and the rest of the back-up band to sleep, and then water flooded the stage, splashing down over us.
We 'woke up' to find Xenocrates standing over us and Sylvia holding an empty bucket. They professed relief, and Xenocrates explained that he'd been able only to cast the ESP spell upon two of us, instead of all five of us. Llewain related our experiences in direct quotes of the sk8erboi lyrics, which Esra interrupted saying 'could it be any more obvious?', and pointed out that Xenocrates had specifically told us that he only had one more casting of the ESP spell; he postulated that we were not, in fact, awake yet.
Xenocrates began sweating, and Esra (because I got all excited about Total Recall references) pointed at him, saying "He's a fake! Kill him!" Denar lunged to do so and we awoke again, this time to just Sylvia, who explained that Xenocrates had gone to get an ingredient to enhance his single ESP spell in the hopes of casting it upon all five of us at once.
I will continue later but whew! Lots happened!
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