021214beausamicolonelfool

 gearworkTender: Considering that he follows you everywhere...a table has been set or likely alchemized...ColonelSprite hovers above his chair, glittering in the LoAaF sunset.  ColonelSprite: "So how long have you known this Beau person soldier?" he inquires as you busy yourself with the preparations.  Sami: "Well, we've known each other for a long time. Like we were already close friends before we ended up in this game..." "...hang on, let me check my Friendship Clock for her..."  ColonelSprite: "And you never introduced me before this! That's vital recon." ColonelSprite sparkles turn a rather disapproving shade of blue  Sami: "Well she lived far away. It's hard to introduce you in person..."  gearworkTender: Beau, you can arrive at any time  Sami: (( So since we started In Medias Res to a certain extent, has Sami already explained that Beau's her girlfriend, or is the Colonel just wanting information about Beau in general? ))                ColonelSprite: (Beau is the other guest) (So of course he's curious                Sami: (( Ah, all right ))          Beau D. walks in, she is wearing her "Biz Cas Fri Semiformal Wear                 Beau: "Ah, hello"          FoolQueen Sprite is wearing his formal...oh who am I kidding, he's a ghostclown  Sami: "Beau, I think you've seen him before, but this is my dad, the Colonel." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Knock knock!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Ordance Fire" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Colonel, this is Beau. You've probably seen her around. She's our current leader, a chess master, and of recent..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "You're supposed to say who's there" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami breaths in, as if steeling herself. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"Oh....the Fool is here too. I guess that's okay." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "I ceased the initiative and destroyed your bad joke before you even got to the battle field." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">*seized <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: ((Foolsprite and Colonel Sprite get in a fight over knock knock jokes and dinner is ruined)) <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami smiles a little, used to the Colonel's no-nonsense attitude toward bad jokes. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Hey Bow Bow, I hate this guy already lets go." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "I told you not to call me that, and we shall not, we were invited to dinner, it would be rude to leave now" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"Well, *I* was invited to dinner" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "My little girl worked very VERY hard on this dinner." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami smiles weakly at Beau. She's sort of got butterflies in her stomach about this. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"Yeah! I did. Because it's kind of an important occasion!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"I kind of wish you could still eat so it wouldn't seem so silly to make you sit at a dinner with us..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"...but I mean I don't know how to do this right and I'm probably messing it up anyway..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "I can pretend to eat for you." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite huffs. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "If you worked on this dinner as hard as the colonel describes, I imagine it will be swell" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "You don't have to do that, Colonel. Just do whatever makes you comfortable." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"I just didn't know what the proper way would be to introduce you to....my girlfriend." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">Sami edges closer to Beau and holds her hand. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Well you did it just fine" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "It's not like I don't have a mouth or anything." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Alright let's get this show on the road. I have some very important jokes I left in the oven." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami blinks, having expected more of a reaction. "Oh....okay. Yeah, let's get started." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite is eyeing Beau suspiciously, he's a bit quiet now. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "This won't do at all." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami moves toward the table and starts passing out plates. She hadn't really planned for FoolQueen Sprite to be here, but makes sure to set a plate for him/her too. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"What's wrong, Colonel? Did I burn the meat? I haven't really cooked much before..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "She's so scrawny and frail." he flexes, his pectoral muscles twitching luridly. "You deserve someone with strength and sweetness! Someone to share the sweat of your burgeoning youth with!" <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite summons himself some popcorn. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Well, I have been trying to get stronger already, so you needn't worry" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Yeah, Beau's got lots of strength AND lots of sweetness! She nursed me through this whole ordeal when I broke my leg, for example!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "With those noodlely arms! With those half assed thighs! " <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "They're cute!" <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite gets in Beau's face, flexing his massive bicep right against her cheek agressively. "Do you really think you have what it takes to take care of my daughter missy!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Well SIR,when she had a broken leg, I was the one who nursed her, when she got cursed, I was the one who made sure she didn't hurt herself with the cursed items, so I think I am capable of taking care of Sami when she needs it" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami fumes a little. "Plus, Beau's probably one of the cleverest people alive. She can think her way out of problems that I would probably just blunder my way into!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "My little sami is already very brave and very clever." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "She's an expert at Chess, you know! So, like....she gets tactics. I thought you'd bond over that or something." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Oh a chess expert?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "I consider myself good at the game, I wouldn't call it being an expert" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Don't sell yourself short, Beau! You beat me every time!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"...I guess that doesn't prove much though." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "I remember back in the day...are you familier with Chess Boxing?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "I believe I've heard of it, never did much research on the topic" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Ah it's a true gentleman's sport...alternating 3 minute rounds of boxing with 4 minute rounds of chess." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"A knock out or a checkmate wins." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "That sounds like the weirdest game ever." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite weeps sad, manly tears. "But...but I was the Marine Corp Champion Chess Boxer." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Oh....I'm sorry, Colonel. I didn't mean to say it wasn't IMPRESSIVE..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"...I just don't get why you would combine those two things!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Because a strength of mind and a strength of body are both required to endure. If you are strong but not smart, your opponent need only survive 3 minutes of boxing to defeat you soundly in chess in the first round. I don't think I need to explain what happens if you are to noodlely armed or thin skulled to take a punch." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"So....SO very gentlemanly." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "It SOUNDS like it!" Sami says, in her "supportive daughter" voice. "But big muscles aren't the only way to be strong, you know!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"Beau's our leader on this world for example. And even though we just lost a battle with a clever and dangerous enemy that probably outclasses us in strength, she's already got LOTS of great ideas for how to fight them." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"Tell him, Beau!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Huh? Well it was mostly just common sense. I mean their covered in armor, so heat or electricity is a given" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"And since before, our strategy was hit it until it died..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"Coming up with new ideas wasn't too hard, I'm sure you or Null or Nate could do it just as well" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Not bad." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "See? She's humble, too!" <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite looks at Sami. "Are you certain about this girl?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "What do you mean?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Are you certain she is the one you want to be with?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Well I mean....I'm not ready to get married or anything just yet. We're both still so young..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"...but she's definitely the best girlfriend ever." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite looks at Beau with reluctant fatherly acceptance. "Crack of dawn every other day soldier. Alchemize yourself some boxing gloves. If you're dating my daughter I'm putting you through basic. You hear me!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "...Yes, sir" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami winces and turns to Beau with a contrite look on her face. "Sorry," she whispers. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "There is nothing to be sorry for, if anything, I'll be able to learn a new type of chess" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Good...and get some protein in your diet girl. I know Sami thinks your noodle arms are cute but you ain't cut out to be a heston if you can't do a proper push up." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite slides whatever meat dish was prepared Beau's way <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">Beau D. cuts a bite of meat and eats it               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Delicious" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Thanks." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">"As long as we're on the subject of 'training' and getting stronger, Colonel, is there anything I should be doing to be a better Witch of Breath?" <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite looks at Sami. "Of course! You have barely begun to tap your potential." he sighs. "Being the witch of breath means learning to turn the "wind" in your favor. But you are thinking to litterally little girl if you think you're nothing but a glorified wind tunnel. Breath is not merely air." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "You need to discover the true meaning of breath. You must learn to whisper to the wind and draw upon your own breath." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami quirks her head. "What do you mean? Whisper what to the wind? Draw upon my own breath for what?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "The wind will tell you. The aspect of Life is about bodies. The Aspect off Breath is about "Life"" he says cryptically. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Well that seems silly. But I guess you would know with your Sprite-y knowledge. I guess you don't want to be more specific?" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "I wish I could be but I agree with this game missy. You need to grow into a proper woman and proper woman don't take short cuts." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">Beau D. turns to foolsprite "I suppose I should ask you the same question, if we're on the subject, how does one become a better Heir of Light?         <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite looks at Beau. "That goes double for you soldier!"                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami groans a little but knows better to argue with the Colonel about this sort of thing.                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Hmmm light...eat a lot of lightbulbs. Nyeh heh heh he he."               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: (( *than to ))          <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite picks his nose. "You need to lighten up."                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Is that a real suggestion, or are you just....fooling around?"          <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite elbows beau conspiratorially. "Get a load of this naive broad. Good thing she puts out at the drop of a hat, eh..eh..."         <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite 's eyes glow red                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Excuse Me?!?!"                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Hey! That's not funny!"               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "Have you tasted the most noble flower of my little sami's youth so casually!" he growls, veins bulging                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Colonel, he's absolutely off base on that one!"                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "No I have not sir"                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"The jester is just trying to stir up trouble, ignore him"          <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite brings up his SPRITETOP COMPUTER and starts browsing. "But that's not what your fanfiction says..." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Yes, fanFICTION" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"As in fiction" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"That Null wrote" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami's eyes furrow a little and she puts her hands on her hips. "NOT that it would be any of your business if she had." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite slides his chair away from the dinner table. "Excuse me a minute ladies." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami facepalms. <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite walks about 100 feet away from dinner and punches a tree, it explodes into spliters, leaving behind a perfectly FIST CARVED statue of a grieving Colonel sprite. <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">Beau D. puts her had on Sami's shoulder "I am so so sorry" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: (( A technique that's been passed down the Heston family for generations? ))               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Oh come on it's not that bad." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: (( One day Sami will be able to do this, not today, but one day"               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">*))                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: (( Once she maxes out her mangrit. ))                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "You guys ought to be honest with the old guy. Why are you so ashamed."               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"Goodness knows musclemoron can take it."                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Telling lies is one thing I would rather avoid right now"                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Cause Beau I got sprite powers and I know how you really feel."          <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">FoolQueen Sprite wiggles his fingers in beau's face making spooky "wooooo" noises                <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "I wonder if Kate could tell me how she unprototyped her sprite" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Hey hey let's not fly off the handle. I'm like P much the perfect companion for your heroic journey." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"Cause your heroic journey is to ACCEPT THE TRUE NATURE OF LIGHT!" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "Not if you get her killed by her girlfriend's father." Sami says with a deadpan expression. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Say, if you have sprite powers, perhaps you could tell me where the butler is?" <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite returns to the dinner table, his inner demons silenced for the time being. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "He's been here all the time Bow Bow. He's just so fast you can't even see him." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Hm, so he's just been drinking more coffee than usual, " <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> FoolQueen Sprite: "Oh yeah you can say that." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite points at his eyes with two fingers, then directs said fingers at Beau and FoolQuueen <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: " I'll have to decaffeinate him" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;">"Though I'm taking what you say with a grain of salt" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #00E800;"> gearworkTender: (About to wrap up this little mini session) <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> ColonelSprite: "I'm sorry for flying off the handle. Of course I believe my little girl more then a freakish clown ghost." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">"But I have my eye on you." he says pointedly at Beau. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: "It's okay Colonel. Just trust me to know when the time is right and who the right person is." <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: "Trust me, I understand, I'd punch a tree into a statue too" <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Sami kisses her father on the cheek. "Thank you for still worrying about me, though." <div class="message emote" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 100px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt;">ColonelSprite smiles and sits back down for dinner. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #00E800;"> gearworkTender: Calling it there...               <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> Sami: Okay. Thanks for the session. <div class="message general" style="padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 50px; font-size: 12pt; color: #aaaaaa;"> Beau: Thaaaaaaaaank ya