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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 1:04:40 GMT -5
Evan "I find that hard to believe, a universe like that would give excelsiors unlimited power...but. I'd be better two be a second class citizen then not a citizen at all I suppose...."
Jack "We come now, No one in there right mind would obduct crashing heavens members if they didn't have a strong power base...."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 1:07:48 GMT -5
"Since all things will be reincarnated in a new form even those who survive the transformation, that is impossible."
"Or the ability to hide from the ensuing wrath, or sheer desperation, or..."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 1:26:12 GMT -5
Evan will assume a comfortable possition and goto his "Happy place" he will chant a meditation montra to attempt to block out her voice.
Jack "All very valid..." Jack will look around with a bored smug look on his face "So...."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 1:29:52 GMT -5
"Oh, you want THAT bad to go back to your comfort zone? And here I thought you'd milk me for information!" Evan hears a bang and feels a searing pain in his right leg.
"So, if you want to join this party, you'll need sign an mystic contract."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 1:34:15 GMT -5
Evan will attempt to ignore her voice and concentrate on his meditation and the pain...
Jack "Well I certainly can't sign a thing embedded and impaled to this wall now can I?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 1:36:25 GMT -5
Evan amazingly does so. So he gets shot again. He begins to feel... strange. "Your biology won't protect you from us. So, let me ask: You don't like me very much because of what I do to other people, yet the person Jess idolized would do far worse."
OOG: Jack was removed, remember?
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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 1:47:58 GMT -5
Evan will continue to ignore her and concentrate on the new source of pain, He will do massive multiplucation tables in his head, methodically. "One million times One million 10,000,000,000,000...One million times One million and one is 10,000,001,000,000...."
OOC: You said Jack still had a(single) knife left in him...
Jack "May I read it before I sign it?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 1:49:37 GMT -5
He begins tripping up on the arithmetic. Now a soothing needle is shot into him.
OOG: He did. He's not pinned to the wall, though.
"Yes."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 1:54:27 GMT -5
Evan will open his eyes, locate the needle, and remove it, attempt a purge toxins psi spell, he will not look at her but fixate on nothing at all, letting himself fall back into his meditative state and mentally smiling to himself "Aww, someone is throwing a tantrum over not being the center of attention, how quant..." (assuming I take a bard class which i will) He'll begin composing lyrics in his mind and put music to them "Beating in my head...betrayal....The beatings in my head...insecurities....its not your fault....the streams of trust have run dry...Don't be affraid...to let it go..let it go,....it'll be ok..the times of.rebirthing are upon us....our world, our life, such sacrifice, This misery...so meaningless it only serves to produce strife..." Evan will begin rocking back and forth while sitting cross legged.
Jack will read the contract.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 14:40:04 GMT -5
OOG: Who's he talking to? The girl? If so:
"I don't care if you pay attention to me. I care if you sit there for awhile and try to get out." The purging miraculously works, covering him in a foul ooze. Then he is shot in the head. Two more of the darts come into his sinuses and one into his neck. "How nice, you're singing emo!"
The contract is written in layers of complexities, as it has to be. The contract entitles him to the power of this group, guaranteed training by Itek, seeing Jess, and a number of other benefits. However, if he ever betrays the group, it is likely that he will die or be stripped of power.
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Post by Ainsophaur on Feb 28, 2006 23:15:44 GMT -5
Evan will remove the darts. Purge the toxins again stand and continue singing, and attempt to cast the corrupt geometry on the barrier, more then a few times.
Jack smirks "This wording betray....its foulable...If i choose to walk away, in a manner that does not damage or hinder the group, it can be misconstood as betrayal. When indeed it is not. Unless you are asking me to sign up to be a fanatical zealot."
OOC: I have alot of questions about the contact. when she says he'll be in charge of his group...and the brtrayal clauss...what if he gets his whole group to betray her?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2006 23:21:02 GMT -5
This time, the purging fails and in fact harms Evan. "Fool me once...", she says. He begins singing, but the singing comes out slurred, and he begins to admit rather... embarassing things.
"Read further. If we choose to discharge you, you are discharged. But in actual fact if you sign up it will be for the rest of your existence in this form, success or failure, and I can think of no scenarios where you would leave and not harm us. You put a million GP on red: can you not risk for justice?"
OOG: The group is defined very clearly with objectives and membership lists that prevent such an occurance. If the group were to change its objectives, she would be the only remaining member, and would likely inherit all of your powers and most of your souls. Further, since you couldn't convince them all simultaneously, you would have to trip the betrayal clause precisely so that a majority was if your mind, which would be nigh-impossible even if the premise was successful. And she is stronger than anyone in the group by a substantial margin, you can tell. Not to mention that a lot of the group are probably effectively enthralled servants or artificial constructions.
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 1, 2006 0:10:45 GMT -5
Evan will cast Charisma-Up 3 on himself, and make complete eye contact with her(The seductress whore) and attempt a forbidden vampiric enthrall "I need to relieve myself. Surely you wouldn't humiliate me by making me soil myself, or soil my cage now would you."
Jack will think for a long moment "I'm not so sure I like the grounds of this contract. I'm not a servant now, I can walk away at anytime. With this...I'll be a servant from the day I'm reincarnated. Over and over again."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 1, 2006 0:19:35 GMT -5
The spell succeeds, but uses some of his vital resources. The four creatures shake their head, and the girl says, "I won't look."
"Servant to who? You will have as much say as the rest of us. Another highly unwarranted extrapolation. We simply cannot have anyone leaving: we will be discovered. All for one and one for all."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 1, 2006 0:39:04 GMT -5
Evan will continue staring her in the eyes "Please...I don't want to be your prisoner anymore then you like taking them. I beg you, at the least don't force me to live in my own filth."
Jack "You just said I will be forced to be part of your group for the rest of my existance if we win. That takes away from my selfish freedom of staying neutral. I personally don't like that. The choice of being discharged is appealing of course, but I highly doubt the requirements will come at no small cost. So I must decline."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 1, 2006 0:42:41 GMT -5
"Listen, Evan, you don't make filth. You're of the first universe." She's right.
"Yes, but for you to equate that with servitude trivializes true slavery and is simply a joke. And bear in mind in your calculations that if you say no we will capture you and you will gain no benefits. And the requirements are simply that you can secure your own safety and ability to keep our secrets, which you will have to do anyways if you want to avoid likely death. The only way you can secure justice for everything you are obligated to and all the things you love is to fight with us."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 1, 2006 0:51:09 GMT -5
Evan frowns and sighs deeply. Then cast a Raptured Dawn, laced with an Entropic Signture if at all possible, i can't think of a flare bigger then that. "I just want out of this cage Nirvana. I want to find her. What will get me out of here?"
Jack sighs "I'll leave this to the business end of all my deals. How much more are you going to pay me to work for you then for Crashing Heavens?"
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 1, 2006 0:52:50 GMT -5
Is Evan lying? In any respect: "Then we have a contract to sign." "You want to know commodities? Fair enough. You might be more of an Excelsior than I thought. I am the only one in this universe who can bring you true power and can teach you your abilities. I am the strongest remaining Excelsior." EDIT: Evan fails. The energy he spent with Cha-Up 3 is biting him. She says the same thing, and you're missing the point there.
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 1, 2006 1:39:40 GMT -5
Evan will stare at her and mentalicly scan his body for the drug compounds stored in his body, and attempt to reactive them via cell purging the substances back into my blood stream.
Jack looks into her eyes as if searching for a hint of falseness in her speech "You agree to bring me to of equal power to your own before the revolution is complete, guess the new system will work as a democracy and voting, I want my vote to count as three. With that I will sign your contract right now, as long as your write those adjustments into it."
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 1, 2006 1:48:08 GMT -5
Evan successfully does so, though he is finding that his body no longer has cells, or organs, or...
"The new system isn't a political one. The whole metaphysical structure of the universe will alter. Democracy will be meaningless, governance will be meaningless, economies will be meaningless. And disproportionate representation doesn't strike me as exactly fair, but we must make compromises. You will get your three votes. And I hope you and Jess will eclipse me before this is over. But notice that not all votes are majority votes: Some are consensus, some are super-majority, some plurality." The contract changes. "You will be taking a disproportionate share of the labor, of course. But I expect that anyways."
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Post by Ainsophaur on Mar 1, 2006 1:54:56 GMT -5
Evan will stare at her some more then whisper her name "Nirvana...I...." He'll fall to the floor limp...he'll try to direct this trip best he possibly can to find knowledge of escape, to find tyrant, to find a way to get help.
Jack looks at the contract and says "What is to be my first task?" He continues to just look at it.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 1, 2006 1:58:01 GMT -5
She looks in and says, "What is happening?!" One of the creatures walks into the cage with seemingly no difficulty while she fires the darts repeatedly. The creature runs its hand over him. "Hallucinating. An antidote may be difficult to find." It punches into his "kidney" and begins to move some things around. "Done." That gives Evan roughly a minute equivalent in trippy land.
"I can't tell you any more information until you're in. Especially because you've negotiated for so much."
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