I left the pregame banter in, so I could have proof later that Sarpedon was early for once. I know,
he'll probably kill off my character next time he runs a game for making fun of his lateness, but I couldn't resist...
(1220) Sarpedon (enter): 19:06
(1220) Sarpedon: HA HA HA! Psych! I'm
(1220) Sarpedon: E
(1220) Sarpedon: A
(1220) Sarpedon: R
(1220) Sarpedon: L
(1220) Sarpedon: Y
(1220) Sarpedon: !
(1215) Imhotep: Holy cow, man, you beat Demiurge in!
(1220) Sarpedon: Now, how's that for different?
(1220) Sarpedon: When do we start anyway?
(1215) Imhotep: Technically at 8:30, but I'm sometimes early. GM habit, I guess.
Attempting to assign the role of PLAYER to (1220) Sarpedon...
(1220) Sarpedon: Hmm, going to take the dog for a quick walk. Brb.
(1215) Imhotep: Okie dokie.
** (1220) Sarpedon squanders his early-ness. **
** (1215) Imhotep ponders a universe where Rob is early, and decides that it's too radical, and this must be some delusion. **
(1223) Demiurge (enter): 19:11
(1223) Demiurge: Wow. I seem to be late.
(1223) Demiurge: What up yo!
(1215) Imhotep: Heya!
(1215) Imhotep: Can you believe it, Rob is early!
(1215) Imhotep: He's walking the dog presently, though.
(1223) Demiurge: Ah, okay.
(1223) Demiurge: It's been a busier week than normal. I haven't really thought of much for this game. :(
(1215) Imhotep: So, now's the time to hurl insults, where he can only come back later!
(1223) Demiurge: I shall have to wing it as usual. ;(
(1223) Demiurge: Oh, if you are curious, the new World of Darkness book is being given away for free on drivethrurpg.
(1215) Imhotep: Ah, that's the one that requires the new Adobe thing with DRM in it.
(1223) Demiurge: No, they gave that up. Unpopular demand. :)
(1223) Demiurge: They use watermarks now. :)
(1215) Imhotep: What? Sensible heads prevailed? I must be asleep... First Rob's early, now this!
(1215) Imhotep: If they'd only repost the 2nd ed of Fading Suns that way, then I'd grab it.
(1223) Demiurge: They switched a while back. Thought everyone knew. :)
(1215) Imhotep: News to me, but then my gaming news is pretty much just my mailing lists at present.
(1215) Imhotep: The funny thing is that they describe the PDF as 'Hardcover.'
(1215) Imhotep: Must be something to do with being stored on a 'Hard drive.'
(1223) Demiurge: hehe
(1223) Demiurge: I think it's just a direct copy. :)
(1215) Imhotep: Yeah, copying the blurb, good job. Glad to see that not everyone takes their occupation seriously.
(1223) Demiurge: hehe
(1215) Imhotep: They have a lot of stuff available for free.
(1220) Sarpedon: I'm BACK.
(1215) Imhotep: Holy crap, they have Witchcraft for free? I gotta grab it...
(1224) Demiurge (enter): 19:26
(1224) Demiurge: I back.
(1224) Demiurge: Booting '(1223) Demiurge' from room...
(1223) Demiurge (exit): 19:26
(1215) Imhotep: Ack, not getting booted again?
(1224) Demiurge: Apparently.
Server Administrator-> Kicking '(1220) Sarpedon' from server... Removing dead client
(1220) Sarpedon (exit): 19:26
(1215) Imhotep: Doh!
(1224) Demiurge: What happened?
(1224) Demiurge: I didn't do that.
(1215) Imhotep: Yikes.
(1225) Sarpedon (enter): 19:27
(1215) Imhotep: This is going to be one of those nights, I can tell.
(1225) Sarpedon: ? Don't know what happened.
(1224) Demiurge: I was saying that I didn't do much planning, so I will have to wing it as usual. :)
(1225) Sarpedon: My browser wiped out, then OpenRPG disconnected me.
(1225) Sarpedon: Go figure.
(1215) Imhotep: There was just an update to Gentoo's version of Python, maybe a lot of people are trying it out and causing inconsistencies.
(1225) Sarpedon: Okies.
(1215) Imhotep: I've learned to hate Python.
(1224) Demiurge: Hey, Rob, can you do me a favor? :)
(1225) Sarpedon: Surely.
(1224) Demiurge: Sometime, could you send me a Cliff's Notes version of Sarpedon's period of time, and the stuff in the Iliad? I'd like to bring some of your history into the story, but I need to know who your friends and enemies are. :)
(1225) Sarpedon: Np.
(1225) Sarpedon: I'll put something together soon.
(1224) Demiurge: Cool. :)
(1215) Imhotep: I can post it on the website, if you want.
(1225) Sarpedon: Very cool.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Opening Notepad as we speak...)
(1215) Imhotep: (Yikes!)
(1224) Demiurge: Want to see something disturbing? There is a map in the game book Children of the Sun of an island. People find the map a bit disturbing. :)
(1225) Sarpedon: (What? I like Notepad. It's great for coding.)
(1225) Sarpedon: Surely. Show us. We're not wusses. :)
(1215) Imhotep: You've got Children of the Sun??? Neato!
(1224) Demiurge: No. I just found the pic on a forum.
(1215) Imhotep: Oh, well, I can see what they're upset about, but it doesn't bother me.
Server Administrator-> Ping Results: 9.9 ms (parsed message, round trip)
(1215) Imhotep: (downloading some free PDFs, don't mind my lag...)
(1224) Demiurge: People said it looks like a vagina, and everyone thought, "Oh, it probably just sort of resembles one." No, it looks like someone copied a picture out of a medical textbook, and added forests and cities. :)
(1215) Imhotep: Heh, gotta get your inspiration somewhere!
(1224) Demiurge: hehe.
(1225) Sarpedon: Dude, that's just funny. Somebody either had a very good sense of humor or a very bad sense of artistic eroticism.
(1225) Sarpedon: "I am so HORNY I'll draw a hot, hot ISLAND."
(1225) Sarpedon: (Okay, that joke bombed.)
(1224) Demiurge: Nah, I got it. :)
(1215) Imhotep: You wouldn't want to say you were from there...
(1224) Demiurge: Wouldn't that be a perfect map for that mythical amazon island that Wonder Woman is supposedly from?
(1225) Sarpedon: Lol.
(1215) Imhotep: All it needs is an invisible airport, and an erotic costume shop.
(1224) Demiurge: Oh, Rob, the WoD core book is available for free on drivethrurpg.com
(1224) Demiurge: And the demos.
(1224) Demiurge: My hard drive is clogged with gamer crap. :)
(1225) Sarpedon: Are we going to play WoD?
(1224) Demiurge: No, just if you are curious.
(1225) Sarpedon: If not, I'm not really excited about that system. Too goth.
(1225) Sarpedon: Thanks for offering, htoughht.
(1225) Sarpedon: *though.
(1224) Demiurge: Nah, the new one is less gothy, and more classic horror. :)
(1215) Imhotep: Ok, done downloading all those freebies.
(1224) Demiurge: So what were you guys planning to do? Any plans for your olympics?
(1215) Imhotep: Well, the feats of archery, some team combat with staves, that sort of thing. We'll be watching for those that use their heads, and that naturally gravitate to a leadership position.
(1215) Imhotep: Plus, how much the others seem to respect them.
(1224) Demiurge: (Some team sports, then? For leadership tests?)
(1225) Sarpedon: Yes, the other tests were more cerebral.
(1224) Demiurge: (One of the men is trying to form baseball teams.)
(1225) Sarpedon: Justice--a hypothetical situation where the "applicant" has to decide how to administer justice in a difficult situation. Think of Solomon's "cut the baby in half" trick to find out the kid's real mother.
(1215) Imhotep: We could always ask some of them what they think a fair punishment for Goering might have been.
(1225) Sarpedon: Wisdom--a hypothetical disaster is presented, namely the river rises and floods the banks, destroying everything, including the grailstones. "Applicants" are judged by their reactions to and solutions regarding the event.
(1225) Sarpedon: (That's a good one, Imhotep.)
(1215) Imhotep: We don't want to pick someone too sadistic, but not too lenient either.
(1225) Sarpedon: Courage--a hypothetical defeat is presented, namely 1/2 of the population captured, the other routed, and all the grails are lost to the enemy. What next?
(1225) Sarpedon: Tactics--Plot a military solution to the Courage problem above.
(1224) Demiurge: (Ah, I shall place a picture called "Courage" up on the screen for this.)
(1215) Imhotep: (Courage the Cowardly Dog?)
(1215) Imhotep: (No, that's not Courage, that's a picture of "Cat with big nads.")
(1225) Sarpedon: (How about those scenarios?)
(1215) Imhotep: (Sound very good to me, I think we'll be able to pick a good candidate from them.)
(1224) Demiurge: One night during the planning stage, Imhotep wakes to see the black cloaked figure by his bed.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Cool.)
(1215) Imhotep: "You have returned."
(1224) Demiurge: It is during the storms as always. ...
(1224) Mysterious Stranger: "I cannot stay. I only come to tell you two things...."
(1225) Sarpedon: (Interesting.)
** (1215) Imhotep listens dutifully. **
(1224) Mysterious Stranger: "One. Do not speak of important things near the grailstones. You can be seen and heard through them, by this world's masters..."
(1224) Mysterious Stranger: "Two. The earth was not destroyed as you have heard. It's a fiction. Anyone who claims to have died after 2015 is lying."
(1224) Mysterious Stranger: "It is a fiction they use to recognize each other."
(1215) Imhotep: "I understand."
(1224) Mysterious Stranger: He moves away silently and is gone.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Very interesting.)
** (1215) Imhotep ponders this new information from the dark pharoah. **
** (1215) Imhotep drifts back to sleep. **
(1224) Demiurge: (You sleep soundly, and wake up the next day.)
(1215) Imhotep: In the morning, I explain this new information to Sarpedon in private.
(1225) Sarpedon: "We have met a few people who claim to have died after this time. Are they spies?"
(1225) Sarpedon: "How do we deal with them without betraying our knowledge of this deception? Can we trust this man in rags? There are no easy answers, my friend."
(1224) Demiurge: (Actually, you met surprisingly few after 2015. Bill has remarked upon this.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Are they different in any way that we have noticed?)
(1215) Imhotep: "This is true, but I can think of no reason for the night pharoah to lie."
(1224) Demiurge: (Not really. But there have been very few of them.)
(1224) Demiurge: (They seem to be from various parts of the world, so it's hard to say.)
(1225) Sarpedon: "I think that we are living pieces in a huge game that these petty gods who rule this world enjoy at our expense."
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps this should be taken into account when we journey upriver."
(1215) Imhotep: "Osiris and Anubis do not play foolish games with the dead. If they are restored to their rightful places, this foolishness will end."
(1225) Sarpedon: "Agreed. No discussions of our plans at meal times. That is simple. We declare that meals are blessed events and that great plans take second place to enjoyment."
(1224) Demiurge: (Bill claims to have died in 2041. Martin says he died in 1983.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (So we know Bill is suspect.)
(1215) Imhotep: "That announcement may warn our spies."
(1215) Imhotep: "We must simply be elsewhere when we discuss our journey, and we must use the utmost care in who we discuss it with."
(1224) Demiurge: (Anyway, the grails are apparently safe to talk around. Just the grailstones themselves are used to spy.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Actually, that makes sense in a way.)
** (1215) Imhotep ponders the gods that can pervert the magic of the underworld to their own ends. **
(1224) Demiurge: (You remember something Kazz said. He noticed Bill didn't have marks on his head. When he pointed it out, Bill looked uneasy. Bill went away for a couple of days. When he saw him again, he had the marks.)
** (1225) Sarpedon ponders. He does not like being spied upon, either in person or through witchcraft. "Agreed. We cannot let them suspect our true goal." **
(1225) Sarpedon: (We double-ponder.)
(1215) Imhotep: (Heh!)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Kazz did? I completely missed that.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Didn't Bill say that the Earth got smacked by an asteroid in 2041?)
(1215) Imhotep: (That makes a bit more sense now...)
(1225) Sarpedon: "Bill is from that time, or so he claims. In Lycea, spies were encouraged to tell. We do not have that luxury. Should he die, they will know that we suspect."
(1215) Imhotep: "Then we must use him to our best advantage, and let him know what we wish the errant gods to know."
** (1225) Sarpedon resists the urge to do something kingly yet despotic. Dealing with "enemies of the state" is not unfamiliar to him. **
(1224) Demiurge: (hehe. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, eh?)
(1225) Sarpedon: "Agreed. We are simply on a grand adventure, sailing along this strange river, seeking our fortunes in a new world. That is our story. The poets of my time would approve. We would have our names remembered in verse for many generations."
(1215) Imhotep: "If it becomes important, we may be able to extract information from him. But I think we should wait until there is a great need."
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps you could find some of these poets to sing our praises."
** (1215) Imhotep laughs at his own joke. **
(1225) Sarpedon: "We live in a dangerous world. We must make certain he does nothing to harm us or thwart our quest. If necessary, I can make him disappear."
(1215) Imhotep: "Let us hope we do not have to force our hand in the matter."
(1225) Sarpedon: "You laugh, my friend, but I would dearly love to hear the poets of my time. Martin has told me of Virgil, a Greek (spit), but one who spoke of me. Or rather, my death at Ilium."
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps we will encounter this Virgil."
** (1215) Imhotep wonders what later generations thought of him. **
(1224) Demiurge: (Well, it's been another six months, so you get another XP in History. You can make a History skill roll to see if you have heard.)
(1224) Demiurge: (You can add +2, since it's something you may have asked about.)
(1215) Imhotep: History 13: [3d6] -> [5,2,6] = (13)
(1225) Sarpedon: (So that's 3d6+2Hist+2bonus?)
(1215) Imhotep: (Yep...)
(1224) Demiurge: Well, no, you add 2 xp toward the History skill, as if you were buying it normally. I believe it's IQ/Hard.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Man, I forgot the rules. What's my base? Not 10, I'd imagine.)
(1224) Demiurge: The base is your IQ score.
(1215) Imhotep: (Well, I've got 10 now...)
(1224) Demiurge: Well, that's because 1 character point gets you IQ-2.
(1224) Demiurge: Another one will boost it to IQ-1.
(1224) Demiurge: After that the costs get a bit higher, so progression is slower. :)
(1215) Imhotep: (So I roll against 11?)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Okay, so my base is IQ11.)
(1224) Demiurge: I am posting the m4d sk1llz chart.
(1225) Sarpedon: (THank you!)
(1224) Demiurge: History is IQ/Hard, so 1 point would give you IQ-2, 2 pts would give you IQ-1, 4 pts would give you IQ.
(1224) Demiurge: And so on.
(1224) Demiurge: So, if Imhotep wanted History at 18, he would spend 32 pts, total. A lot of points, but he would almost never fail. ;)
(1224) Demiurge: Wait. That was 28 pts. My bad.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Okay, I think I have this down.)
(1224) Demiurge: (I was looking at the Very Hard column. heh.)
(1225) Sarpedon: [3d6] -> [5,3,3] = (11) vs. History base 11.
(1224) Demiurge: (So, Spear is a DX/Average skill.)
(1224) Demiurge: Yep.
(1224) Demiurge: Well, you both made it, so you have both picked up a good sense of what history knows about you.
** (1215) Imhotep is rather surprised to learn that he was revered as an incarnation of Ptah. This may slightly increase his arrogance. **
(1224) Demiurge: hehe
** (1225) Sarpedon is rather surprised to find that he's mostly a footnote--an "extra" as Martin put it--in the battle of Troy. As a son of Zeus, this situation depresses him terribly. He vows to overcome this slight by making a name for himself in the underworld. **
(1215) Imhotep: (Okay, that graphic is hurtfully funny!)
(1224) Demiurge: (On the other hand, Sarpedon, most people on the Riverworld have not been heard of at all.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Agreed on that graphic. I see myself listed once or twice in there, but only once or twice. Whew!)
(1225) Sarpedon: ;)
** (1224) Bill approaches muttering one of his weird chants. "Laughter joy and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex! Look at me!' He sees you and asks, "So have you thought what you are going to name the ships?" **
(1215) Imhotep: "We have not decided on names as yet."
(1225) Sarpedon: (True, but Sarpedon's supposedly half-immortal. Taking that into consideration and comparing it to Hercules, Achilles--glad he died painfully, Castor & Pollux, and the other bastard children of the gods, his fate SUCKS.
(1225) Sarpedon: "Do they need names? They're just floating deathtraps."
(1224) Demiurge: (You are on that chart, Rob? You write erotic Star Trek furry fanfic, with a furry you as the main character?)
(1224) Bill: "Well, I think it would be bad for morale for people to say things like they are on Ship One, or Ship Two."
(1215) Imhotep: "That is true. Perhaps we should ask the rest of the population what they would like the names to be."
(1224) Demiurge: (What will the first events be in the Olympics?)
(1225) Sarpedon: "Martin said something like Tai Tan Ick. He found it amusing."
** (1224) Bill smirks, "Cute" **
(1225) Sarpedon: (Sarpedon votes for physical tests first. They'll weed out the incompetent fastest.)
(1215) Imhotep: "After the contests, we will see about names."
(1215) Imhotep: "Have you a suggestion for a name, Bill?"
(1225) Sarpedon: (I'm on the chart at the top, as a gamer, and as a "with subtitles" anime viewer.)
(1224) Bill: "No, just thinking about it. How's the great Olympics thing coming?"
(1225) Sarpedon: "Quite well. Do you intend to vie for the throne?" Sarpedon arches his brow and smiles wryly.
(1215) Imhotep: (Let's see, I'm an RP Gamer, Heinlein fan, Amateur Writer, and I remember when Anime was called Japanimation...)
(1224) Bill: "Nah, I'm not the leader type. People don't seem to pick up on how cool I am. "
(1225) Sarpedon: "There is more to being a leader than this 'cool' notion. One must have wisdom, courage, a sense of justice, and a grasp of tactics. All of this tempered by mercy. It is a heavy burden."
** (1215) Imhotep wonders what 'cool' means, and what it might feel like to be 'cool.' **
(1224) Demiurge: (Well, you have been travelling with Bill for about a year, and have an understanding of most of his slang.)
(1225) Sarpedon: Martin tried to explain it to Sarpedon after getting laid by Loghu. It didn't translate very well, and using himself as a model didn't help matters.
(1225) Sarpedon: "Tell us of your life, Bill. Imhotep and I are remembered (coughs), to one degree or another. What of you?"
(1224) Bill: Nothing much. Worked a lot of low-level jobs. Died with everyone else. If I want to make a name for myself, it'll have to be here.
** (1225) Sarpedon nods. "More reasons to vie for the crown!" **
(1215) Imhotep: "Yes, that is true."
** (1225) Sarpedon continues the "hail fellow, well met" routine with Bill. **
(1225) Sarpedon: (Do we know what Bill does in his spare time?)
(1224) Demiurge: He seems pretty normal. He tries to get things going with girls, and usually fails. He hangs around and jokes with his friends. Nothing odd.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Are his friends similar to him? Are they also from the last known death time?)
(1224) Demiurge: No. Like I said, there are very few people from his time that you have met.
(1225) Sarpedon: (Noted.)
** (1225) Sarpedon shakes off his suspicions and rouses himself. "It is time for the games. Are you ready, Imhotep?" **
(1215) Imhotep: "I am ready to begin."
(1224) Demiurge: (Darn it. I don't have any contestants in mind. :P hehe)
** (1215) Imhotep follows Sarpedon to the gaming area. **
(1225) Sarpedon: (Then let's pause the game for a minute. I don't want to Option X the GM.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (GM, would you like us to do something else while you prepare? We could grill Bill.) >:)
(1215) Imhotep: (Grill Bill, Volume 2!)
(1224) Demiurge: (hehe.)
(1224) Demiurge: (I don't know. I may have some ideas next time. But I don't want the focus to be on other people too much. So I will come up with a few of the best possibilities)
(1215) Imhotep: (Should we wait until next time, then?)
(1224) Demiurge: (Yeah, I guess so. I was bad and lazy this week.(
(1224) Demiurge: (But if you want to talk about other stuff, like boat plans or Bill, that would be cool.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (You're not alone!)
(1225) Sarpedon: (It's kinda early. I wouldn't mind just RPing for another half hour.) :)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Or BSing. Your choice.)
(1215) Imhotep: (Ok, we'll do some peripheral stuff.)
(1224) Demiurge: (Yeah, I'm not ready to sign off yet.)
(1215) Imhotep: "As far as names, Sarpedon, I think the first should be Re's Light."
(1215) Imhotep: "What would you name the second?"
(1215) Imhotep: (Hmm... quiet...)
** (1225) Sarpedon thinks. **
(1225) Sarpedon: "Ilium's Revenge."
(1215) Imhotep: "Very well, that shall be its name."
** (1225) Sarpedon looks askance. "It's all that came to mind. It is better than Tie Tan Ick." **
(1215) Imhotep: "Something foreign, I should think."
(1225) Sarpedon: "Junko was mentioning that she has not seen many of her kind in this world. That is odd."
(1224) Demiurge: (No, she didn't say that, I think. What do you mean?)
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps there are only a few. There are only a few like Kazz."
(1225) Sarpedon: "Martin thought that name was amusing. He told me it was a famous boat that sank. I did not laugh."
(1225) Sarpedon: (I'm leading Bill, GM.)
(1224) Demiurge: (The demographics are odd. There may be communities that are mostly neanderthals.)
(1224) Demiurge: (Ah.)
(1225) Sarpedon: "What have you heard of this, Bill. You are from the end of time. Did her race die out?"
(1224) Bill: "Really? She must not have travelled much. I've seen plenty of asian types. And the Japanese were still going pretty strong."
(1215) Imhotep: "If I may ask an odd question, what punishment would you have suggested for Goering, Bill?"
(1224) Bill: "She's pretty. It's a shame you got her. I was going to see if she was interested. But the leader types always get first dibs. It's the way of the world, eh?"
** (1224) Bill considers. "I probably wouldn't have done the castration thing. My society had a thing against cruel and unusual punishment. But the banishment was a good idea. I just wish someone had considered that he could paddle to shore with the grail. There's not much current on the lake." **
(1215) Imhotep: "Either way, he could become a threat again. If he were to starve to death, he would reappear elsewhere."
(1225) Sarpedon: "The alternative was to let him starve. Is that less cruel than castration?"
** (1224) Bill shrugs. "I don't know. I probably would have taken the practical route. Quick death. He'd wake up somewhere else, and maybe they wouldn't be as nice as us. But we wouldn't have to deal with him." **
** (1225) Sarpedon nods. Bill is definitely more of a politician than a leader. **
(1225) Sarpedon: "What an unusual place, the underworld. My beliefs of the Eleysian Fields were not like this."
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps that is something to consider in the future. Let us hope that nothing so severe should arise again."
(1224) Bill: "I don't think anyone got what they expected. The reincarnationists got close, but no cigar."
(1215) Imhotep: "Apart from certain respects, this is indeed the Underworld I expected. Nearly."
(1215) Imhotep: "My bribes to the priests were not enough, it seems, as none of my belongings followed me."
(1224) Bill: "Kazz and the other primitive types think this place is paradise. They won't be eaten by wild animals, and can always get food. Nothing to do but eat, sleep shit and fuck."
(1224) Bill: "In fact, the only thing fucking up this paradise is the human beings."
(1215) Imhotep: "And how is that?"
(1215) Imhotep: "Is not the purpose of the underworld to unite the dead spirits with the gods?"
(1225) Sarpedon: "Or their companions in life?"
** (1215) Imhotep thinks of his family, his wives and many children. **
(1224) Bill: "Instead of relaxing, and enjoying the afterlife, people are making weapons, and trying to enslave each other."
(1215) Imhotep: "That is foolish, yes."
(1225) Sarpedon: "But inevitable. Those who bully wish to control. Control requires oppression. Opression can only be opposed by force. It is an endless cycle. I can understand the Neaderthals, but this place lacks deer, lions, or even wild boars. I miss the hunt."
(1215) Imhotep: "Perhaps a hunt would slake their thirst for violence."
** (1224) Bill , like usual, goes off on a tangent. "Do you think Alice is interested in me at all? I don't. Too bad." **
(1225) Sarpedon: "It is true. The higher parts of man are absent here. No music, no painting, no philosophy. Only existence."
(1225) Sarpedon: "I do not think Alice is interested in much, Bill. Her time on Earth strikes me as being very ... confining."
(1224) Bill: "A hunt? Maybe you should try and take down a dragonfish or something. Anyway, I think Alice likes Imhotep, but she wouldn't ever act on it."
(1215) Imhotep: "I do not think that Alice is interested in anyone."
(1225) Sarpedon: (Lol. Snap.)
(1224) Bill: "She says Imhotep is the quiet, scholarly type. In her time, he would probably have been a quiet teacher, or someone safe."
** (1215) Imhotep scoffs at the idea of being a quiet teacher. It's not everyone who is chief advisor to a Pharoah. **
(1224) Bill: "Well, by my time, the world has been pretty much explored. All the mountains have been climbed, and all the oceans have been sailed."
(1215) Imhotep: "That must have been a sad world indeed. Nothing left to accomplish."
(1225) Sarpedon: "All the challenges met. How dull."
(1215) Imhotep: (Snap again!)
(1225) Sarpedon: "From what I have heard--if it can be believed--no meddling gods, either."
(1224) Bill: "Well, we still had science and stuff. We explored in a different way. And we were starting to explore other places. Like the bottom of the ocean, and places like Mars and the moon."
(1225) Sarpedon: (Two snaps up!)
(1224) Bill: (What are the snaps for? I can't always tell.)
** (1225) Sarpedon also scoffs. He can fathom ships that fly, but ships that sail to the moon? Hah! **
(1224) Bill: "Well, we did have machines that flew through the air. I know. I've ridden in them."
(1225) Sarpedon: (It's like jinx. When two people say something that is either the same or very similar, you say Snap! Two snaps up is a joke from Living Color.)
(1224) Bill: (Ah.)
** (1215) Imhotep ponders what such a machine must be like. **
(1225) Sarpedon: (There were two flaming gay black dudes on In Living Color who did parodies of movie reviews. Whenever they had to vote "two thumbs up" or whatever, they'd do snaps. "Three snaps in a Z!")
(1224) Bill: (Yep, Blaine and Antoine.)
** (1225) Sarpedon believes that these machines must be like very, very, very complex ships. Seeing that ships bring Greek invaders, he's not exactly excited by "technology." **
(1225) Sarpedon: (Blaine and Antoine! Lol. Besides Fire Marshal Bill and the Homeboy Shopping Network, they were the only reason to watch that show.)
(1215) Imhotep: "If vessels may carry the dead to the underworld, then why should not a magic ship sail to the moon?"
(1215) Imhotep: (Egyptian mythology again...)
(1224) Bill: "Anyway, there was nothing on the moon. Just dead rock. Not even any air. They had to wear special suits to breathe."
(1215) Imhotep: "That is very strange news."
(1225) Sarpedon: "That I can imagine. Armor of Phaestus would protect great heroes from harm."
(1215) Imhotep: "What armor?"
(1225) Sarpedon: *Hephaestus.
(1224) Bill: "Yeah, once you go up about 10 miles or so, the air runs out."
(1225) Sarpedon: "The armor they wore to protect them on the moon."
(1215) Imhotep: "Very strange."
(1224) Bill: "Why? The water on the oceans doesn't go all the way up. Why should the air on the ground?"
(1215) Imhotep: "Wearing armor to walk in a place the gods made, that is strange."
(1225) Sarpedon: "This place must be terrible for you, Bill. There are no machines. There are no cities. Even we, born so long before you, find this place primitive."
(1224) Bill: "I remember I drove though the mountains once. The air was noticably thinner."
(1224) Bill: "It was a shock at first. I miss a lot of the culture. I would love a DVD player and a copy of The Blues Brothers movie." (He has mentioned movies before, so you get the gist.)
** (1215) Imhotep still doesn't get movies. **
(1215) Imhotep: (I hate to beg off, but I'm getting sleepy...)
(1225) Sarpedon: Neither does Sarpedon.
(1224) Demiurge: (You know they are similar to plays. And in your travels, you have seen people put plays together and perform them.)
(1225) Sarpedon: (Good point, GM.)
(1224) Demiurge: Anyway, I guess it's a good time to head out.