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calamitousClotho (GM): Sure are a lot of non-players in here please remember all knowledge you gain watching is OOC knowledge. Vyllen: Oh I thought we could watch calamitousClotho (GM): metagaming will get you kicked This log may include MAJOR SPOILERS Sami: Gasp! Vyllen: :o calamitousClotho (GM): You have been duly warned Vyllen: I'll wait for the log to get posted then. If it does. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): ((MC, if I get any PDFs that reference this knowledge, I will get in my car drive to your place, and kill you myself)) <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Hahaha. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">got it LOL <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;"> <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): So Sami, Ryspor (Prime?) drops you back in the forest, near the banks of the river. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Okay. The first thing Sami would like to do is to use will to STEEL HER NERVES against what she's about to do. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+4 ( 0 + + 0 )+4 = 6 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Consider your nerves steeled <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami takes out the bandage she used last night and puts it on. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): The forest takes on a blurry, shadowed hue. You see dozens of players, ghostly memories, running through the trees. The river has an unearthly blue glow. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami comes to the edge, and says "Cocytus?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Roll Notice <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+1 ( + 0 + + )+1 = 4 <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Wow! <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You see your reflection in the water ripple, and turn into the creature you saw depicted in the book. He leans down, as if the surface of the water is a pane of glass, and you're the one trapped beneath it. "An unexpected development." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">He said this, or you're just remarking? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">he did. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Hello. I'm Sami. You're the Lord of Breath, Cocytus, right?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "I was once known by that name." He traces your outline in the water, causing the surface to ripple. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Originally I came here because the birds here think you're going to eat them if they try to fly. But after the things I've learned from talking to Erzedbet....now I'm just sort of wondering what happened to make you turn into a river, and if you need a shoulder to cry on." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He smiles, and reaches further, a mottle blue and black hand reaching out of the water. "Do you want to talk to me, Sami?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Sure. If you'd like to." "Do I have to go underwater? Am I going to be able to breathe? I mean, I can probably do something to be able to breathe as the Witch of Breath, if not. I just want to know if I need to first." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Don't you trust me, Sami?" He tilts his head, and the fins ripple as he does. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "I want to. But I've trusted a lot of people in the past and gotten myself and my friends in trouble in the past..." she thinks about it for a moment, then sighs. "...okay. I'll trust you. I just hope I'm not fucking up again like I usually do." Sami takes his hand and lets him lead her down. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He smiles, and pulls you into the water. You find yourself standing on a pane of glass, surrounded by infinite blackness. The sky of LoGaT, and the banks, look like a painting beneath you. "Hello, Sami." He seems to be appraising you. Head on, you realize he's slightly taller than Be!Au, and he carries himself much as Balish did, when Balish was sane. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Hi Cocytus." She looks up at him, trying to give a warm and welcoming smile. It's not as warm as it was when she first started playing, but she tries to put her best foot forward nonetheless. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He stands unnaturally still for a few moments, then nods. "You do not look happy, Sami. Maybe it is you who requires a confidante?" He waves a hand, and a sand bar rises out of the mirror, conveniently shaped for seating. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">SITTING)   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami shakes her head. "I've had a rough day, but I'm okay. It sounds like you've been through a lot worse than me. And I don't want to complain about my problems to someone who's been through a lot worse--I've already done that with Libby, and I don't want to make that mistake again."   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Sami, roll will.  <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami:  rolling 4dF+4 ( 0 0 + 0 )+4 = 5 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay. Cocytus takes a seat. "The things I went through are a distant memory. Now I spend my days in silence, watching the stars... Waiting for you." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "For me specifically?" She looks a little shy. "Or did you just mean waiting for the next player?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): ((pausing for Ydubz rollz)  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">sorry for interrupting AA. T_T    <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): whatcha rollin ydubz, your lore thing?   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">No worries. While YW makes her rolls, I'll take a potty break. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: no, this is for Meouet to create Ryspor's "feel no pain" ingestible. without it killing him She'd technically have had time to research it, but her lore is not high. or her crafts. i built her like a derp back then. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: either way i'd like to use my stunt "Troll Cleopatra would be Jealous" for a +2 since it is technically a poison. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): i'll give you a shadow bonus <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: just not a deadly one. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): that's fine roll your lore then crafts <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: rolling 4df+1 ( - + 0 + )+1 = 2 lore craft with bonus: <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"> rolling 4df+3 ( 0 - + + )+3 = 4 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay you manage it   not the best in the universe if he ingests it ALL THE TIME it will kill him but spread apart uses should be okay <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: i SUPPOSE i have to tell him ok thanks :3  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): you don't have to  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: well that would put her in libby's bad side. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): would it? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: and she'd not want that WOULD IT   well, libbys been busy so i cant know <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): is it Meowmeow's fault if Ryspor isn't STRONG enough? didn't he bring this on himself? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: oh my   meow's deceive is high. but we can self-stat in chats cant* jossik got kicked for that <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): no jossik left of his own accord <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: oh well then <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): he just got yelled at   you guys can roll off or something later <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: ok   we'll figure it out somehow <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): yeah <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Acenia: GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SESSION TONIGHT I AM OUT TY  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Tata AA U BACK? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Yeah. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "I've been waiting for a player who could see me. I love news of the outside world." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Oh. Okay. Well sure, I'd love to fill you in. What sort of news were you looking for?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He pats the sand beside him. "Anything. Tell me about yourself." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: She sits down in the sand. "Okay. Well before the game started I was a mostly just a weird art kid. Moved around a lot because my dad was military, so I only really had online friends. When the game started, I thought it was going to be fun to actually be able to hang out with my friends." Her look turns sour. "Then Jack started killing us off like a day or two after we entered." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He nods somberly. "He killed my mother-wife, as well." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "That's your 'muse' that Erzedbet mentioned?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Ahh, yes. The Muse of Light." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Yeah. He killed my girlfriend. She was a Light player too, actually! An heir." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Cocytus puts an arm around you in commiseration. "I am sorry for your loss, Sami, Witch of Breath." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Thanks. I'm....I'm doing better. I started dating a ghost of one of her alternate selves. It's....really weird. I'm starting to move on. But I still feel a little guilty about the fact that I'm moving on." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "I'm sure you wont feel guilty much longer, Sami. You seem like a lovely girl, so chin up, hmm?" He catches you under the chin with his knuckle, lifting your face toward his. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: She tries to manage a smile. "What about you? I heard you were dating Libby for a while after your session ended, but I don't know what happened between that and now." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "A lot of things. She opened my eyes to the truth of the game. And in the end, she set me free." Sami, roll notice. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+1 ( + - 0 + )+1 = 2 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): you feel a little cold, but nothing to write home about. Like a chill breeze or something. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Truth of the game? Set you free? What do you mean?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "She allowed me to truly embrace my aspect, and become better at it. I became free of the constraints of my body, and now here I am." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "So....you're not really the river, per se, are you?" "I kind of thought that might be the case when I entered it and saw you here. The river's more like a doorway to a....I don't know, a desmesne or something. Is that right?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Not quite... maybe if I show you another way?" He tilts his head. "If you are willing?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Okay." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He opens his arms for a hug. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami isn't sure they're close enough for a hug yet, and thinks this is a little weird, but she figures he's probably just aching for human--or whatever--contact, so she hugs him, slightly awkwardly. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He clutches you tightly, almost to the point of crushing your ribs. He's much stronger than he appears. Cocytus leans down and whispers in your ear. "I am become Breath. Destroyer of Girls." Roll Athletics <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+2 ( 0 0 - 0 )+2 = 1 <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): rolling 4df+6 ( - + - 0 )+6 = 5 So, Cocytus goes first. He's going to attempt to turn the hug into a grapple. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+6 ( - 0 - 0 )+6 = 4 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I forget with grappling--is this is against my Athletics? Or physique? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Athletics if you want to wriggle out of his grasp, Physique to be strong enough to push him away. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+2 ( - 0 0 + )+2 = 2 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He manages to grapple you. Your turn, Sami. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "What are you doing?!" Sami struggles to get free. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Dammit, I dropped my Col. Fucking Heston aspect or I could use it to invoke my Krav Maga training~! =P <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Can I roll strife to attempt to throw him off me? Or does it have to be Physique to break free? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): physique to break free, athletics to wriggle out. Basically, you have to get control of the grapple before you can throw him off. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+2 (Athletics) ( + + + - )+2 = 4 <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Ooh, not bad. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): contested athletics, then <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+6 ( 0 0 0 0 )+6 = 6 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Damn. Athletics against him is a BAD IDEA. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): His turn, He will invoke Breath. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+12 ( 0 0 0 - )+12 = 11 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Jesus fuck. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You can counter with a breath roll, or physique, or anything else you can come up with, to avoid drowning as you're IN A FUCKING RIVER. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: (( Would shooting the two of us out of the river count as a defense against drowning? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You're still wrapped in the arms of a literal river, he's still surrounding you. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Okay, so I couldn't spend six colors and launch both of us into the air then. Hmm. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I guess Breath is my only choice then, and there's no way I'm going to beat that. First I'd like to use my free invoke of PSYCHED UP  <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;">  rolling 4dF+5 ( + + + 0 )+5 = 8 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): ok  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Can I take the rest as stress or consequences? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">sure! <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">All right, then I'll take 3 stress <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay! Your turn <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Why?! I thought we were becoming friends?!" <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I suppose she can't activate 50 Shades while grappled, right? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): She can. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Then I'd like to do that. ___ G BIV <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Pick your 3 colors ok  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">R/O/Y are the colors I'm using. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Activating 50 Shades takes my whole turn, right? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): ((yes. sorry, GeTe was asking me something <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">No worries. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Cocytus strokes your hair gently as tentacles sprout from his body, constricting around you to maintain the grapple. "We are becoming friends, Sami. That's why I'm going to make the same deal with you the others made with her." Breath again. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+12 ( + + 0 - )+12 = 13 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "This doesn't feel like a deal as much as it feels like murder!" <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> rolling 4dF+3 (Breath) ( - - - + )+3 = 1 Jesus. Are physical extreme consequences reverted with 50 shades? I know mental consequences aren't.  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): yes, physical is. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Okay. Sami takes an Extreme Consequence of LUNGS FILLING WITH WATER and a Moderate Consequence of BROKEN RIB from the grapple. Extreme is overwriting "We're only going to survive this if we work as a team," for now. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay Your turn <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Taking the Mental Consequence to revert via 50 shades doesn't take a turn, right? I can do that after my turn is over? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Yep! <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Okay. Could I use Action Lines to try to break his grapple? Or do I still need to de-grapple before I can do anything? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You can try <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: All right. I am spending G/B/Y to put three stacks of Action Lines on myself, then attempting to break his grip on me with Action Lines. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> rolling 4dF+3 ( + - - 0 )+3 = 2 Can I reroll that by invoking? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You already used Y. Do you mean I  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sorry, yeah, I meant I.   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You can. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+3 ( 0 - - 0 )+3 = 1 <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Shit. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You cannot escape his grapple. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: ( I was invoking Student of the (Eldritch) Arts by the way, in case it matters. ))  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">that's fine. By the way, despite drowning, you can still speak.    <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Haha.     <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Did he respond to my thing about deals vs. murders <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">i didn't see it. .  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "This doesn't feel like a deal as much as it feels like murder!" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">oh there we go&gt; <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "What's your deal, Cocytus?!" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Is that your turn? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Well before it ends I'll take SPLITTING MIGRAINE as a minor mental to revert to how I was before. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay. That's 1 hehe Cocytus continues to clutch you, stroking your cheek with one of his tentacles in an intimate manner. "I'm offering you your freedom, Sami. Don't you want that?" Breath again. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+12 ( - 0 0 0 )+12 = 11 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Not if it means dying! I've got to keep living! Since Beau can't!" <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> rolling 4dF+3 (Breath) ( 0 0 0 + )+3 = 4 One physical stress, plus a Severe of Four Broken Ribs. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Think of your Mother-Wife! How much it would have hurt her if she knew her sacrifice couldn't keep you alive! Don't make me fail Beau like that!" "I've already failed her too many times..." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "But Sami... I am keeping you alive. That's what I'm offering. Your survival." <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">are you taking an action, or just talking? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "By drowning me?!" This time Sami's going to use Breath to call up her intuition. To understand why this his happening and how she can get out of it, creating an advantage of FLASH OF INSIGHT. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> rolling 4dF+3 ( 0 - + - )+3 = 2 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Sami, you realize he is well and truly crazy. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Great. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He attempts breath again. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+12 ( 0 + 0 + )+12 = 14 <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+3 ( - + 0 0 )+3 = 3 Severe + Moderate: Broken Rib and Lungs Filling Up again. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "So that's your offer? Kill me and set me free? The fact that you're not giving me a choice doesn't make it seem like a bargain as much as it's just your intentions here!" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): He chuckles and shakes his head. "I can kill you easily. Or I can set you free. Not both. Of course, one is preferable to me than the other." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "What do you mean 'set me free?' It looks an awful lot like killing me so far!" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Death is only the beginning." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami starts to cry. "I don't want to die. Not yet. Not until I've helped save my friends." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">are you gonna take an action? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "...you're saying I'll still be alive if you 'set me free?' I'll still be able to help my friends?" Sami tries to summon up an air bubble to help her hang on against the next attack. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"> rolling 4dF+3 ( - 0 0 0 )+3 = 2 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay, you can add 2 to your next roll <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Then takes MINOR HALLUCINATIONS as a mental consequence to revert. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Okay. "Of course you'll be able to help your friends. So long as you're mine." Cocytus attempts to rip the air from your lungs, again. <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #50a385;"> rolling 4df+12 ( - - + - )+12 = 10 <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+5 ( - + + + )+5 = 7 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): nice <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Just taking the stress. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): okay <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "...fine. I accept." Sami cries a little as she makes the agreement. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">You sure? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I mean it's that or get killed, from the looks of things, right? <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I have no chance of fighting him off. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">There are always other options, but I just want you to do what your character would do. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Hmm. I don't know. She might be getting pissed off enough to grimdark right now, but she's also scared it's going to just make him more powerful, or that they'll take it out on her friends. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">But she might be desperate enough to Grimdark. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">your call. Your arc has been following libby's pretty hard, hence this event. The fundamental question is if you'll take the same path she did. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">just do what sami would do. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">i promise no matter what you pick, she'll still be playable <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Hahaha. <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Hang on, let me take a bathroom break while I decide. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">ok <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: <span class="ooc" style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">No, you know what? She may not have the Aspect anymore, but she's still the daughter of Colonel Fucking Heston. Burning all four remaining colors. ___ _ ___  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): What are you burning them on   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Action Lines. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): To....  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Launch both of us out of the damned river. She's also spending a Fate Point to invoke Student of the (Eldritch) Arts. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): roll, my dear <div class="message rollresult" style="padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; color: #6495ed;"><div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: rolling 4dF+5 ( 0 + + 0 )+5 = 7 <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You manage to launch both of you into the night sky, The horrorterrors above appearing as players, laughing in delight as you go grimdark Since You become an NPC when that happens. ;)   we'll just skip to when you wake up.   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Hahaha oh my.   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): is that okay?   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Yeah.   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You awaken on a stone bed, in the middle of a dried riverbed. Your charactersheet is laying next to you, a piece of shenanicite in your +5 slot, which reads "Breath". You're wearing a pair of comfortable blue pajamas, but your wrist hurts, beneath the fabric.   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami rubs her head, and tries to piece together what happened while she was out. I'm assuming the pajamas look like Maenam's, only a different color? Wait....is the dried riverbed where Cocytus used to be? <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): Yes, and yes. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Oh no....they must have killed him!" Sami feels a little bad for him, but only a little--he WAS trying to kill her."  <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): you hear Cocytus voice, as if he's speaking behind you. "Not quite."   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami turns around in startled amazement.    "But the river...?"    Sami's brain begins processing. "You didn't eat the birds, did you?!"   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "No, I got what I wanted."   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "What you....wanted?"   <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "The deal is struck." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami winces. Of course. "...I take it whoever was in my body signed the contract for me? Or hell, was it you who took me over?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "I think it was Ishtar, but I'm not sure." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "...can I at least have a copy of this contract I signed? So I know what I've gotten myself into?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "It has been inscribed into your flesh." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: Sami narrows her eyes, then checks herself over, starting with the hurting wrist. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): You have a series of scars, in a language you don't understand, running up the inside of your forearm After a few moments it resolves into something you can read. It explains that the bearer of these marks is a servant of the horrorterrors, and bears their protection. <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "A 'servant?' And what does that entail?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "What do you think? I tell you to do something, you do it." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "This was the 'freedom' you were offering me? The freedom to be at your beck and call?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "It's better than the alternative." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "I just wanted to help you deal with the pain you were going through. And you used that to enslave me." She sighs. Not much she can do about it now. "What about the birds? Are they free to fly now, at least?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "What do you mean? They've always been able to fly. And I didn't enslave you. You're free to act, the same way Libby is." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "As long as I don't go against your wishes." Her voice is sulky. "The birds thought if they flew, Cocytus would awaken and devour them for their pride. I suspected they were mostly wrong about it, but I thought there must be SOME kernel of truth for the legend to get started." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Hah!" He laughs. "That was just to warn you off, so I couldn't find you." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Ah. So someone was trying to protect me and I took it as an invitation to seek you out." She sighs. "I'm not even sure why you would WANT a servant like me. Everything I do is the wrong thing." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "You're what was on the table." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Anyway, you've already got Libby. I can't imagine anything's going to take her out that wouldn't take me out first." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "it's never a good idea to put all your eggs in one cave." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "Fair enough." She sighs. "Well if I'm your servant now, does that at least mean you can finally tell me what you guys are up to? What your goals have been this whole time?" <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Not yet. We'll see though." "Let's go get something to eat. I don't remember what food feels like in the mouth anymore." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">Sami: "So I don't even know if I'm working on the side of the good guys or the bad guys." "Okay, yeah. We may as well." <div class="by" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px;">calamitousClotho (GM): "Heheheh"
 * aa begins making a PDF and signing it "-MC" for use as blackmail later...*