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welcome to #suburbansenshi2

[00:14] <Nelius Raoul> !yai for laughs
[00:14] Wisdom from the Book of Yai:
[15:43] <Yaijinden> I peed my pants when I was in kindergarten.
[00:14] * Sean Collins [Infirmary] looks to the EMH. "Can we flush these from his system?"
[00:14] * Nelius Raoul claims this log in the name of the Netherworld!
[00:15] <Emergency Medical Hologram> [Infirmary] of course...*attaches an item to Obsidian's arm*
[00:17] * Emergency Medical Hologram [Infirmary] initiates a flush of the drugs out of obsidian's systems...
[00:17] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..thank you, Sean
[00:17] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Its no problem, your Ladyship.
[00:17] * Mel 5 finishes the bottle and rubs Sam's back
[00:19] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] But seriously...why do you need to feel better? You are not possessed by the flower, you have the love of your Lady, your children are going to be born, you have what everyman would desire in life.
[00:20] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] You have all this...and yet you are taking pills to FEEL better?
[00:21] <@The Proprietor> I hope the wedding goes well.
[00:22] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] ......
[00:22] * David O`Cain stretches a bit
[00:22] <Mel 5> yes i hope so too
[00:22] <Mel 5> everyone here had been invited
[00:23] <David O`Cain> Neat. When will it be?
[00:23] * Sean Collins [Infirmary] rubs his temples... "I don't understand, your Lordship."
[00:24] <Masked Figure> ...
[00:25] <Mel 5> this fall
[00:26] <@Texas_Samurai> Ah'll be there! Ah love weddin's~
[00:27] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] why, obsidian...
[00:27] <Mel 5> we hope to see anyone there who can make it
[00:29] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Why not?
[00:29] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I'm not hurting anyone...
[00:32] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] You're hurting people. you're hurting yourself...which in turn is hurting your family, your people...
[00:32] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] it's hurting you!
[00:33] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Would you prefer me trying to kill myself?
[00:34] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] NO
[00:34] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] ...how would that make anything....
[00:35] * @Texas_Samurai gits a nice cozy blanket fer th' baby
[00:35] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Then don't complan.
[00:35] * Mel 5 wraps little Sam up in the blanket
[00:36] * Sean Collins [Infirmary] slaps Obsidian with the back of his hand. "STOP doing this!"
[00:37] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Do you not see what you are doing to your wife?! How could you say such things?!
[00:37] * King Obsidian [Infirmary] grabs Sean's hand.
[00:37] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] Obsidian.....
[00:37] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...why didn't you tell me
[00:39] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] The King has a right to bear his burden on his own. That's what makes him a king.
[00:40] *** Simon Kerrick has joined #suburbansenshi2
[00:40] <@spiritflame> konbanwa simon kerrick
[00:40] * Simon Kerrick has moved back to the lobby
[00:40] * Simon Kerrick enters.
[00:40] <@The Proprietor> Hallo, Simon~
[00:41] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] A King should know better than to abuse his own health and body. A King should consider what happens to him will also affect his people.
[00:41] * Simon Kerrick looks at The Proprietor.
[00:41] *** The Proprietor is



More information about him is Here.
His image Song is: "Ichirin no Hana - Aizen Sosuke and Momo Hinamori (Bleach Concept Cover) " by High and Mighty Color.
[00:41] <Simon Kerrick> !
[00:41] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] nods to sean
[00:41] <Simon Kerrick> Aren't you dead?
[00:41] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] also obsidian...
[00:41] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] takes obsidian's hand....
[00:41] <@The Proprietor> Pot. Kettle.
[00:41] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] I am part of you now
[00:42] <@The Proprietor> No, pretty much alive.
[00:42] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..your pains are my pains....
[00:42] * Allison Blitz is back
[00:42] <Allison Blitz> Okay, so
[00:42] <@The Proprietor> got any more of those ivory tusks?
[00:42] <@Texas_Samurai> ...Ivory tusks...?
[00:42] <Simon Kerrick> Don't call me a hypocrite. *I* died on purpose.
[00:42] <Simon Kerrick> Eh, let me check if I do.
[00:42] <@The Proprietor> I didn't die at all :P
[00:43] <Simon Kerrick> Why do you ask, anyway?
[00:43] *** Simon Kerrick is carrying:
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1. Book about Christmas
2. Gold and Onyx Clockwork Rod
3. Empty
4. Undead Control Usurpation Stone
5. $4,650,000 in Rhino Horns
6. Powerful Sedatives
7. Empty
8. empty
9. Newspaper from 3/23/2015
10. 1600 years of science courtesy of Rai
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Assets: G¥0 .
[00:43] <Allison Blitz> Not lately, anyways.
[00:43] <@Texas_Samurai> Why're you buyin' ivory tusks?
[00:43] <@The Proprietor> Because I used up the last lot you sold me.
[00:43] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] ......
[00:43] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmm, I seem to have a few left.
[00:43] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] your fears are my fears....we are one in heart, obsidian..
[00:43] <Simon Kerrick> Also, I never sold you any.
[00:44] <@The Proprietor> Oh! Oh you haven't made the connection yet.
[00:44] <@The Proprietor> ♦ Quality Goods. Cheap Price.
[00:44] * @The Proprietor waits.
[00:45] * Simon Kerrick raises one eyebrow.
[00:45] <Simon Kerrick> Well.
[00:45] * Simon Kerrick thinks.
[00:45] <@The Proprietor> Yes that was me in that cloak.
[00:45] <Simon Kerrick> Then I thank you.
[00:46] <@The Proprietor> Hmm?
[00:46] <Simon Kerrick> I'm curious about something, though.... the lottery tickets.
[00:46] <Simon Kerrick> Were there some kind of instructions written in them, like I suspected?
[00:46] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I....
[00:46] * Mel 5 slowly gets up
[00:46] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I don't know if that's enough.
[00:46] <@The Proprietor> Nothing other than standard New York lotto instructions.
[00:46] <Mel 5> i suppose i should get out of the way
[00:46] * Simon Kerrick seems disbelieving.
[00:46] <Simon Kerrick> Well.
[00:46] * Simon Kerrick looks at Mel 5.
[00:46] *** Mel 5 is your average everyday Mel 5

[00:47] <@Texas_Samurai> Aww Miss Mel, goin' so soon?
[00:47] <@The Proprietor> Ir
[00:47] <Simon Kerrick> Wow, you have returned.
[00:47] <Simon Kerrick> I suppose you are inseperable, however, and I should not be surprised.
[00:47] <@The Proprietor> It's a New York Convenience store.
[00:47] <Masked Figure> ....
[00:47] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmm. I was very very suspicious of you.
[00:47] <@The Proprietor> Hence New York lotto tickets.
[00:47] <Simon Kerrick> When you said that valor was price enough, and yet claimed to want cash.
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> Ah
[00:48] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] then..find a way that's not so..destructive
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> But they are two different things.
[00:48] <Simon Kerrick> Next time you go undercover, don't break the lines you draw.
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> I sell goods and I give goods.
[00:48] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Your Lordship...I swear, you go through more mood swings than a Time Lady on menopause...
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> I am running a store.
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> Two entirely diffferent streams of commerce.
[00:48] <Simon Kerrick> You still want ivory? Really?
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> Yes.
[00:48] <@The Proprietor> It made excellent bait the last time.
[00:49] <@Texas_Samurai> Bait...?
[00:49] <Simon Kerrick> Bait?
[00:49] * Simon Kerrick grins.
[00:49] <Simon Kerrick> Tell me more.
[00:49] <@The Proprietor> For poachers.
[00:49] <David O`Cain> Eh?
[00:49] <@The Proprietor> Installed it on some animatronic Elephants, you see.
[00:49] <Mel 5> i seem to be in the middle of something
[00:49] <Simon Kerrick> What's animatronic mean?
[00:49] <@The Proprietor> They came for the elephants.
[00:49] <@The Proprietor> Robots.
[00:49] <@The Proprietor> Fakes.
[00:49] <Simon Kerrick> "They did?"
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> The Poachers.
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> You speak of poachers.
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> Of course.
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> Yes.
[00:50] * Simon Kerrick grins. "Of COURSE."
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> You, sir, are a good man! Yes. You should stop those poachers.
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> Yes.
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> They stopped.
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> Tell you what, do you intend to use this next one for the same gambit?
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> Quite permanently.
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> I'll sell you one at a DISCOUNT if the answer is yes.
[00:50] <@Texas_Samurai> ...
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> Excellent. Excellent.
[00:50] <Simon Kerrick> I'm pleased to hear it.
[00:50] <@The Proprietor> Indeed.
[00:51] <Simon Kerrick> Would you like to continue our arrangement, then?
[00:51] <@The Proprietor> Yes, it drives your competition out of the market, I'd wager.
[00:51] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I miss...
[00:51] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you miss?
[00:51] <Simon Kerrick> Don't have a clue what you mean, old friend.
[00:51] <@The Proprietor> I would, indeed.
[00:51] * Simon Kerrick pulls out another Rhino Horn.
[00:51] <@Texas_Samurai> X you set up those poachers t'git... killed?
[00:51] * Mel 5 gathers sam...and offers gems the blanket back, "This is yours"
[00:52] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I miss my old life. I know that's crazy.
[00:52] <Simon Kerrick> Actually, Gemini brings up a good question. What DID you do to the Poachers?
[00:52] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Again with that?
[00:52] <@The Proprietor> I simply set the stage. They didn't have to attack what they perceived to be defenseless animals.
[00:52] <@The Proprietor> Oh I simply made sure people who were none-too-friendly on poachers were standing by.
[00:52] <@The Proprietor> With high powered rifles.
[00:52] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] I understand, obsidian
[00:53] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] .....that's why we need to make our new life as exciting..
[00:53] <@The Proprietor> I figure a few dozen more instances of this and the poachers who are left will think better of their chosen profession.
[00:53] <@Texas_Samurai> ..................
[00:53] <Masked Figure> A poacher killed by the proper athorities is a life not missed
[00:53] <Simon Kerrick> Splendid.
[00:53] * Allison Blitz sighs. "Boring."
[00:53] <Simon Kerrick> Actually, Lazard, what you just said is bulls[BLEEP]t.
[00:53] <@Texas_Samurai> That's cold...
[00:53] <Allison Blitz> I thought this place was supposed to be fun.
[00:53] <Simon Kerrick> But nonetheless, for the good of the world, I shall of course continue to provide you with ivory.
[00:54] <@The Proprietor> No colder than what they were doing to the animals.
[00:54] * Simon Kerrick rolls his eyes at this.
[00:54] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Your Lordship...we've been through this. Time and time again...you will never be happy unless you can let go of the past and move on.
[00:54] <Allison Blitz> This is worse than the old Law and Order. The one with all the white people.
[00:54] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] Obsidian....what would make you happy
[00:54] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] ......
[00:54] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmm, let me see.
[00:54] <Simon Kerrick> Yes. Yes, you can have this one.
[00:54] <spiritflame> Simon Kerrick rolls 2d6 [ 4, 3 ]
[00:54] <Simon Kerrick> As you can see, it is of average quality.
[00:55] <Simon Kerrick> I want 200,000 for it.
[00:55] * Allison Blitz is now known as The_First
[00:55] <@The Proprietor> It'll do.
[00:55] <The_First> I guess I could shake things up a bit.
[00:55] * @The Proprietor pays the man.
[00:55] <Simon Kerrick> Indeed.
[00:55] *** Simon Kerrick is carrying:
--------------------------------------------
1. Book about Christmas
2. Gold and Onyx Clockwork Rod
3. Empty
4. Undead Control Usurpation Stone
5. $4,650,000 in Rhino Horns
6. Powerful Sedatives
7. Empty
8. empty
9. Newspaper from 3/23/2015
10. 1600 years of science courtesy of Rai
--------------------------------------------
Assets: G¥0 .
[00:55] <@Texas_Samurai> ....
[00:55] * ?? looks at The_First.
[00:55] *** The_First is the end all, be all. It is the thing that the darkness fears. It is the first evil, and it will help you get dead. It currently takes the form of Allison Blitz.
hir image Song is: .
[00:55] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I want....
[00:55] <@Texas_Samurai> What happened to you out there...
[00:56] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you want?
[00:56] <@The Proprietor> What happened is I decided to stop letting bad things happen and wring my hands about it.
[00:56] <Masked Figure> ....
[00:56] * Masked Figure snorts and ignores the first.
[00:56] <Simon Kerrick> inventory put $4,450,000 in Rhino Horns|5
[00:57] <@The Proprietor> What good is all my knowledge and skill if I just sit on my hands
[00:57] *** Simon Kerrick has placed $4,450,000 in Rhino Horns in Inventory Slot: 5
[00:57] * Simon Kerrick looks at The_First.
[00:57] *** The_First is the end all, be all. It is the thing that the darkness fears. It is the first evil, and it will help you get dead. It currently takes the form of Allison Blitz.
hir image Song is: .
[00:57] <@The Proprietor> Mind you, I'm not hunting those people down.
[00:57] <@The Proprietor> I let them do it to themselves.
[00:58] <Simon Kerrick> It's a pity. I sure wish I could speak to them before they were murdered in your trap, but I'm willing to accept the way the world is.
[00:58] <@Texas_Samurai> ...that is th' only reason Ah'm still stanin' here listenin' t' this.
[00:58] <The_First> Simon, sir, how's your work been going?
[00:58] * Mel 5 leaves the blanket on the sofa then
[00:58] * Simon Kerrick takes a slooooooooooooooooooow step back.
[00:58] *** Mel 5 has left #suburbansenshi2 (my apologies)
[00:58] <Simon Kerrick> I did not notice you there. Were you just speaking to me?
[00:58] <The_First> Your the one here that I like.
[00:58] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] What do you want?
[00:59] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I don't know what I want...
[00:59] * Simon Kerrick raises his eyebrow. "I don't hear that often."
[00:59] <Simon Kerrick> You.... you don't have a message for me, do you?
[00:59] * Simon Kerrick clenches his fists a couple of times.
[00:59] <Simon Kerrick> You don't, ah, have a message to hand me, do you?
[00:59] * Simon Kerrick tenses up.
[01:00] * The_First giggles.
[01:00] <The_First> Nooooo, no.
[01:00] <The_First> You know it doesn't work like that, silly.
[01:00] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Maybe I should have died then...
[01:00] <Simon Kerrick> ...It doesn't?
[01:01] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] obsidian....don't....say that
[01:01] <The_First> If I really had a "big, bad" message for you, I'd have a legion with me.
[01:01] * @Texas_Samurai dusts off th' bar
[01:01] <Simon Kerrick> ...Fair enough. So did they send you, or not?
[01:02] * The_First raises her hands in a slight shrug, looking around.
[01:02] * Lydia D. Darkletter gets some dust in her nose
[01:02] <The_First> I'd send myself, if anything, sir.
[01:02] * Simon Kerrick crosses his hands and looks at her in the eye, rocking back and forth on his feet.
[01:02] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Acereraghh!
[01:02] <The_First> But, let's be honest. I'm bored.
[01:02] * Lydia D. Darkletter SNEEZES
[01:02] <@Texas_Samurai> Gesundheit!
[01:02] <Simon Kerrick> Well, then.... if you... if you have no message, then "business" is going splendidly."
[01:03] <The_First> The Black Witch is meddling with time for some reason.
[01:03] <The_First> Do you know why she would want to do that?
[01:03] <Simon Kerrick> .....I have a pretty good idea who you are speaking of.
[01:03] <Simon Kerrick> Yes.
[01:03] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Thank you.
[01:03] <Simon Kerrick> I think I do.
[01:03] <Simon Kerrick> There is another world.
[01:04] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] kisses obsidian
[01:04] <Simon Kerrick> She ah.... blames people and wants to prevent a thing that happened there?
[01:04] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Your Lordship...do you still love your wife?
[01:04] <The_First> Oh, that's obvious.
[01:04] <Simon Kerrick> For more information, for more secrets, you must pay me.
[01:04] * Masked Figure snorts
[01:04] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I hated you when I met you, Matsumi because you stood up to me and that hatred became obsession and then I don't know why but it became...
[01:04] <Masked Figure> Such an orginal concept I'm sure
[01:04] <The_First> You've been to the dimension without shrimp, right?
[01:04] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Love.
[01:04] <Simon Kerrick> I have not.
[01:04] <The_First> Oh, what about the dimension with nothing but shrimp?
[01:05] <Masked Figure> Yes it's horrible. There's no popcorn shrimp at resturants. That one however was great for fish frys
[01:05] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I'm as screwed up as Demand...
[01:05] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you are not...
[01:05] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you're my husband.....
[01:05] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] and you re better then Demand
[01:06] * Simon Kerrick turns to The Proprietor.
[01:06] * Simon Kerrick looks like he's trying to weight a difficult decision.
[01:06] * Lydia D. Darkletter sneezes again. Acererack!!
[01:06] <@Texas_Samurai> Darlin
[01:06] <@Texas_Samurai> Move away while Ah dust.
[01:06] <Simon Kerrick> .......
[01:06] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Getting everything I wanted is...
[01:06] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Yes, I porbably should.
[01:06] <Simon Kerrick> She's fine, Gemini. She's fine.
[01:07] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Prince Demande was obscessed with what he could not have. Queen Neo-Serenity would never have loved him. Your Lady...she does love you.
[01:07] * Lydia D. Darkletter blows her nose
[01:07] <Lydia D. Darkletter> No, I do think I inhaled some dust.
[01:07] * Lydia D. Darkletter makes her way away from the dusting.
[01:07] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Yes, So why?
[01:08] <The_First> Simon, could you do me a favor?
[01:08] < King Obsidian > - WHY CAN'T I BE HAPPY!? -
[01:08] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...because...
[01:08] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...you're afraid
[01:08] <Simon Kerrick> I don't do favors, as a rule. What is yours, and why should I do it?
[01:09] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..I think...
[01:09] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] I think you're afraid...of failing...
[01:09] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I don't know what to believe in anymore.
[01:09] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] of not being a good enough ruler...
[01:09] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...well
[01:09] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] belive in me then....
[01:10] <The_First> Well, first, I can make sure that your immortality isn't threatened by anything silly like an uppity Sailor Senshi or a magic ring-weilding Kamen Rider.
[01:10] <The_First> Because, trust me, I kinda wanted to see how that would go down.
[01:10] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmm, it would not.
[01:11] <Simon Kerrick> I would simply flee them.
[01:11] <Simon Kerrick> Far better than spilling blood and sullying the pardon I have won.
[01:11] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] moves obsidian's hand to her stomach
[01:11] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..and belive in our children...
[01:12] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] .....I want to, oh how I want to...
[01:12] <The_First> Either way, my favor is simple.
[01:12] <Simon Kerrick> Okay, what might it be?
[01:12] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] From what I understand...your future generation already has great power. Have faith in your future, your Lordship.
[01:13] <The_First> Just stop Ozu Reiko, the Black Witch.
[01:13] <The_First> Do whatever you can.
[01:14] <The_First> I don't care if you kill her or not.
[01:14] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] It's just so hard though when you raised to believe in nothing but death and darkness and the meaningless behind it all...
[01:14] <The_First> But that would be super awesome if you did kill her.
[01:14] * Simon Kerrick listens to this.
[01:14] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] I know.....but we can..at least try?
[01:15] <Simon Kerrick> I am uncertain if that is within my power.
[01:15] <Simon Kerrick> I'm not in the hero-killing business. Not anymore... but there is ONE reason I might... I might consider your offer.
[01:16] <Simon Kerrick> Though I fail to see how your protecting me from a Kamen Rider and Sailor Senshi would keep everybody ELSE from killing me if I were to splatter the girl's guts across the floor.
[01:16] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] If it is as meaningless as you say...why do you cling to it? Why can't you hold on to what truly has meaning in your life?
[01:17] <Simon Kerrick> I can't help but conclude that I'd be better off not getting involved in the war with this Black Witch.
[01:17] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I don't know....
[01:17] *** @Texas_Samurai [shiny@lonestar.com] has left #suburbansenshi2 (X we need t' talk)
[01:17] <Simon Kerrick> There would have to be a vastly greater prixe.
[01:17] * Simon Kerrick looks at Lydia D. Darkletter.
[01:17] *** Lydia D. Darkletter is



More information about her is Here.
Her image Song is: "Utopia Finale" by Cristobal Tapia de Veer.
[01:17] <@The Proprietor> Mm.
[01:17] <The_First> It's more than those two.
[01:17] <Simon Kerrick> ....
[01:17] <The_First> But if you're not interested...
[01:18] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I'm coward who hides behind it, I suppose.
[01:18] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Let it go, Obsidian.
[01:18] <Simon Kerrick> Not really, it seems the pay is not worth the risk.
[01:18] <@The Proprietor> I knew she'd have objections.
[01:18] <Simon Kerrick> Killing heroes for the point of it is a business I do not relish.
[01:19] <Simon Kerrick> You. Proprietor.
[01:19] <Simon Kerrick> You are going to use these to kill poachers, yes?
[01:19] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] As I said, you cannot move forward unless you can let go of the past. Look forward to the future. Embrace change, and the new.
[01:19] <@The Proprietor> Mmyeas?
[01:19] <Simon Kerrick> I'll sell you the rest.
[01:19] <@The Proprietor> I am going to use them to bait poachers.
[01:19] <@The Proprietor> What happens to them after that is their business.
[01:19] <Simon Kerrick> 5 Million for the whole batch? Strike a blow against illegal hunters! Worth the money to you?
[01:20] <@The Proprietor> How big is the batch
[01:20] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] we can create a new nemesis...
[01:20] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] You can't keep falling down and laying on the ground. You need to get back up when you fall.
[01:20] <Simon Kerrick> Well, see for yourself.
[01:20] <Masked Figure> Techinally you're an illegal hunter too I'd imaigne.
[01:20] * Simon Kerrick starts piling Rhino Horns in the middle of the field he set up before, making sure to stand in it.
[01:21] <Masked Figure> Be warey lest you target a beast you supplied the parts to
[01:21] * @The Proprietor has a stone-faced expression as he sees the quantity.
[01:21] <@The Proprietor> So be it.
[01:21] * Simon Kerrick has between 20 and 24 in the pile.
[01:22] * @The Proprietor pulls a briefcase out of his jacket.
[01:22] <Simon Kerrick> No. Stand HERE next to me and do it.
[01:23] <@The Proprietor> What matter if I'm here or there. I get the point.
[01:23] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] sean is right...
[01:23] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I know I'll just fall again..
[01:23] <@The Proprietor> Literally.
[01:23] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] Then get back up.
[01:23] <Simon Kerrick> It matters. Stand within the work I did. Hurry please, I need to finish up with that being over there too, you know.
[01:23] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] We all fall.
[01:24] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] But we don't give up.
[01:24] * @The Proprietor goes there
[01:24] * @The Proprietor stands near him
[01:24] <Simon Kerrick> She wants to hire me, after all.
[01:24] <Simon Kerrick> Good. Horns for cash. Right here.
[01:24] * Simon Kerrick pushes the pile toward The Proprietor.
[01:24] * @The Proprietor pushes over the breifcase
[01:25] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I feel I will keep coming back to this point again and again....
[01:25] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] And you will all grow as tried of it as I...
[01:26] *** Simon Kerrick has placed $5,000,000 in cash in Inventory Slot: 5
[01:26] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] I will never leave you, obsidian
[01:26] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ever
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> Surely we would not be pulling a stinker move with this money, right?
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> No.
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> Forget I said it.
[01:26] <@The Proprietor> No.
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> Without confidence in one's partners, business is foolish.
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> Like I said, forget it.
[01:26] <Simon Kerrick> Good luck with your traps.
[01:26] <@The Proprietor> Cash on the Barrelhead.
[01:26] <@The Proprietor> Thanks.
[01:27] * Simon Kerrick thinks to himself.
[01:27] * King Obsidian [Infirmary] embraces Matsumi.
[01:27] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] hugs obsidian tightly
[01:27] * Simon Kerrick considers The_First again.
[01:27] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] if you really hurt just....talk to me
[01:27] * @The Proprietor takes out another case, witha small portable transmat inside, and uses it to collect the horns into a Transcendentually dimensionl pocket in the case
[01:27] <Simon Kerrick> For the record... nah, nevermind.
[01:28] <Simon Kerrick> So. How was being dead?
[01:28] <@The Proprietor> I never died.
[01:28] <@The Proprietor> I avoided it.
[01:28] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I'm sorry I'm not the man you thought I was....
[01:28] <@The Proprietor> The man they saw dead was not me.
[01:28] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] obsidian...
[01:28] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you were always the man I thought you were....
[01:28] <@The Proprietor> A close analogue but not quite.
[01:28] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...the man I love
[01:29] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] You can overcome, Obsidian. All you have to do is be strong. Have faith in your love. Be able to pick yourself up, and walk forward. Never looking back on the past.
[01:29] * @The Proprietor finishes the collection and closes the case, placing it back in his jacket.
[01:29] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Why do you love me?
[01:29] <Simon Kerrick> I'll have more horns for you, but it will take time. Do let me know how the plan of yours goes, yes?
[01:29] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] You know I am unworthy.
[01:30] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] That I took you from...
[01:30] <Simon Kerrick> Huh, it appears the woman in pink is gone.
[01:30] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] because you are strong willed....
[01:30] <@The Proprietor> She moved away while Gemini was dusting.
[01:30] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you care about your people...
[01:30] <@The Proprietor> Probably to another area of the lobby.
[01:30] <Simon Kerrick> I'm not in the mood to look.
[01:31] <The_First> ?
[01:31] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] you fight for what you belive in
[01:31] <Simon Kerrick> I really must thank you, Xadium. Your trade with me was vitally important.
[01:31] <Simon Kerrick> Ah, there you are.
[01:31] <@The Proprietor> Likewise.
[01:31] <Simon Kerrick> I'd appreciate it if you would give me time to consider your offer about stopping a Time Witch.
[01:31] <@The Proprietor> I should go check on Gemini.
[01:31] <@The Proprietor> Goodnight, Simon.
[01:31] <Simon Kerrick> I try REALLY hard not to make enemies of Time Travellers.
[01:31] * Simon Kerrick nods goodnight to the new old friend.
[01:32] <Simon Kerrick> Eh, at least the ones I respect.
[01:32] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] and even with all your flaws.....you want to do the right thing for others
[01:32] *** @The Proprietor [1462737@biggrocery.com] has left #suburbansenshi2 (What is a legend? The tales that will be told about what you all do everyday.)
[01:32] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..that's why I love you
[01:32] <The_First> Take your time.
[01:33] <The_First> I'm always around.
[01:33] <Simon Kerrick> I understand.
[01:33] *** The_First [first@evil] has left #suburbansenshi2
[01:33] <Simon Kerrick> .....Mmmm.
[01:33] * Simon Kerrick watches her go, concerned.
[01:33] *** David O`Cain [JRPMoonSoldier@MKArmyRanger.mil] has quit IRC (I've been around long enough tonight. Time to go home.)
[01:33] <Simon Kerrick> ...................
[01:34] * Lydia D. Darkletter looks to Simon
[01:34] * Lydia D. Darkletter sips her tea, wiping her nose a bit
[01:34] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] that's why I pledge my life and heart to you
[01:34] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I see....
[01:35] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I still think...
[01:35] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Your plate fills, Young Lich.
[01:35] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Oh, but I...
[01:35] <Simon Kerrick> Why do you pester me so?
[01:35] <Sean Collins> [Infirmary] I think Obsidian needs to stay here for the night.
[01:35] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Do I? I was merely making conversation.
[01:36] <Simon Kerrick> Do I make a nuisance of myself around you? I suppose that is possible, but it is not intentional. I try to only do that intentionally.
[01:36] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..sean......leave us please.....
[01:36] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I want to go home...
[01:36] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] helps her husband up....
[01:36] <Lydia D. Darkletter> You are finally approaching the cusp-- very well. If I troublr you, then I shall go.
[01:36] * Lydia D. Darkletter bows
[01:36] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ..obsidian...do me a favor...
[01:36] <Simon Kerrick> Those who offer cryptic things are only so helpful.
[01:37] <Simon Kerrick> I do try not to be condescending with the knowledge that I possess.
[01:37] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] yes..?
[01:37] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Those who do not hear the voices in the dark would do well to listen more carefully.
[01:37] <Lydia D. Darkletter> The voice is getting louder.
[01:37] <Lydia D. Darkletter> ♫
[01:37] <Simon Kerrick> I don't hear such things after dying.
[01:37] <Simon Kerrick> I also don't see the dark.
[01:38] <Lydia D. Darkletter> There is a voice you hear, Simon Kerrick.
[01:38] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] tonight..will you....
[01:38] <Simon Kerrick> ................
[01:38] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] ...
[01:38] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Deny as you might.
[01:38] <Lady Matsumi> ♡ take me? ♡
[01:38] <Simon Kerrick> The voice is my own. Leave me at once.
[01:38] * Sean Collins has moved back to the lobby
[01:38] <Lydia D. Darkletter> Is it? Farewell.
[01:38] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] .....
[01:38] *** Lydia D. Darkletter [darktale@blachaus.org] has left #suburbansenshi2 (Farewell.)
[01:39] <Simon Kerrick> Hmph.
[01:39] <Simon Kerrick> No time for distractions, anyway.
[01:39] * Simon Kerrick ponders.
[01:39] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Yes....
[01:39] < King Obsidian > ♡ YES! ♡
[01:40] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] grins, blushing
[01:40] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] I wonder...
[01:41] * Simon Kerrick sits and considers.
[01:41] <Simon Kerrick> Alright. So no more of that.
[01:41] * Simon Kerrick thinks quietly.
[01:41] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] It's a dirty thing....
[01:42] * King Obsidian [Infirmary] looks ashamed for thinking it.
[01:43] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] hm?
[01:43] * Sean Collins has moved to: [ 1708 ]
[01:43] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] It's just I always wanted to try having....
[01:44] <Lady Matsumi> [Infirmary] let's..talk about it at home, alright ^^
[01:44] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Sure...
[01:45] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] Think you for being with me.
[01:45] < King Obsidian > [Infirmary] ^thank you
[01:46] * Lady Matsumi [Infirmary] leads obsidian through a portal home
[01:46] *** Lady Matsumi has left #suburbansenshi2 (my pleasure :))
[01:47] *** King Obsidian has left #suburbansenshi2 (I love you so...)
[01:48] * Simon Kerrick calmly conetemplates his next move.
[01:52] <Yaijinden> Is it.
[01:52] <Yaijinden> A sexy move.
[01:52] * Sean Collins [1708] has a glass of wine before going to bed...
[01:53] <Simon Kerrick> Ah, hello Yaijinden.
[01:53] *** Sean Collins has left #suburbansenshi2 (That man...needs to get it together...)
[01:54] <Yaijinden> What is up, naga.
[01:54] <Yaijinden> Their hands. They are distracting.
[01:54] <Yaijinden> Now there is maybe just you and me here?
[01:55] <Yaijinden> And occasionally that happens.
[01:55] <Simon Kerrick> Surely that would not matter.... would it?
[01:56] <Yaijinden> To me? Probably not.
[01:56] <Yaijinden> This thing you talk with has a life back home where the spouses have finally lapsed into sleep.
[01:56] <Yaijinden> For now.
[01:57] <Yaijinden> Before one of them wakes up and drapes a leg over me, nibbling on my ear.
[01:57] <Simon Kerrick> Ah, you are speaking of yourself.
[01:58] <Simon Kerrick> How is your family, anyway?
[01:58] <Simon Kerrick> Still raising the children away from..... this?
[01:59] <Yaijinden> As far as that goes? Fairly well.
[02:00] <Yaijinden> Both my right and my left hand continue to make themselves their own person in their small ways.
[02:00] * Simon Kerrick sits before Yaijinden.
[02:00] <Yaijinden> Celeste is looking to pop any day now and is both enthused and entirely ready to be done being pregnant.
[02:00] <Simon Kerrick> Population boom if I have ever seen it.
[02:01] <Yaijinden> It comes in waves!
[02:01] <Simon Kerrick> Have you ever entertrained the idea that if they keep breeding like this, and none of them get killed on their crusades, they will have an entire tribe or colony full of descendents?
[02:01] <Simon Kerrick> Sheesh, if they all share the same attitude, you and I should squeeze every morsel of joy out of the present.
[02:01] <Yaijinden> That is a thing that could happen and would be hilarious in its own way!
[02:02] * Simon Kerrick laughs. "Perhaps that is why the time travellers prefer it NOW?"
[02:02] <Yaijinden> Herpadee derps. Looking too far forward crosses my third eye nowadays.
[02:02] <Yaijinden> Then again, with the future relatively unwritten, now is a good time for things to push forward.
[02:04] <Yaijinden> The sense of destiny nowadays is actually less than it had been when I first shambled into the house and started making a nuisance of myself.
[02:04] <Simon Kerrick> Pffft, Destny.
[02:04] <Simon Kerrick> I suppose it is one of those things that no two people here can agree on.
[02:05] <Simon Kerrick> Which, upon reflection, makes us a more like the rest of the world in that way than most others.
[02:05] <Simon Kerrick> Also, I thought I did see another ominous force approaching recently. They seem to desire Miki
[02:06] <Yaijinden> Situation normal for the Kaze kin?
[02:06] <Yaijinden> There ends up being a specific definition for Fate and Destiny that I use that doesn't seem to be that common in parlance about here.
[02:07] <Simon Kerrick> What might that be?
[02:07] <Yaijinden> A person's destiny is the situation their circumstances point them towards.
[02:07] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmm.
[02:07] <Yaijinden> A person's fate is what their cirucmstances have endured.
[02:07] <Simon Kerrick> A man told me something once.
[02:08] <Simon Kerrick> He said he believed nothing of fate. He believed in no other worlds. He believed in no gods.
[02:08] <Simon Kerrick> Now mind you this was years ago.
[02:08] <Simon Kerrick> He said that there are many worlds, but only ONE real one, and the real world is different for every person.
[02:09] <Simon Kerrick> What characterizes the "real world" is the fact that it is the world you have the most invested in.
[02:09] <Simon Kerrick> ....Whether others characterize that world as real to you or not, the world you have the most effort and belief invested in is your current reality.
[02:10] <Simon Kerrick> Many people, he said, have a "real world" that is not our own, so strong is their dedication, or addiction, or belief, or love.
[02:10] * Simon Kerrick glances at Yaijinden.
[02:11] <Yaijinden> I find no fault with that when it comes to the specifics of the argument.
[02:11] <Yaijinden> Everything is maya, as the Buddhists say.
[02:11] <Simon Kerrick> I figured you wouldn't. So I take it your superpower is to make people wax nonsensical with vignettes from their obsured past?
[02:11] <Simon Kerrick> What's Maya? Didn't they live on another continent?
[02:11] <Yaijinden> You're thinking Mayans.
[02:12] <Yaijinden> Maya is a Buddhist-Hindu construction.
[02:12] <Simon Kerrick> Never heard of it.
[02:13] <Yaijinden> Maya, to ocndense three thousand years of thought on it, is the bumble-tumble of events that present themselves as eternal, real, factial, and unchanging... and, despite the factuality of the things that happen within it, is collectively a distraction from the truth of the cosmos.
[02:14] <Yaijinden> The truth of the matter is that Maya doesn't exist outside of our perceptions of it.
[02:15] <Simon Kerrick> I don't understand. You will have to forgive me, I am trying hard to grasp it... I was never a particularly philosophical man.
[02:15] <Yaijinden> Our perceptions are only as good as the cognitive mechanisms we use to receive and interpret the world around us.
[02:15] <Simon Kerrick> Now that, I agree with.
[02:16] <Yaijinden> By... perceiving a matter at all, we impose particular expectations and demands on what that matter is supposed to mean.
[02:16] <Yaijinden> A red rubber ball is probably going to be bouncy.
[02:16] <Simon Kerrick> A ship with many sails will be fast?
[02:17] <Yaijinden> A thing that we find valuable will be valuable to everybody.
[02:17] <Yaijinden> You get the picture.
[02:18] <Simon Kerrick> I think I do?
[02:19] <Yaijinden> The difference between the adept and the master is that the adept's reaction of "A ship with many sails will be fast" is different from the master's evaluation of "A ship with many sails in the same circumstances as other ships with sails is likely to be fast but let's see about that."
[02:20] <Yaijinden> It's connected to the notion of 'beginner's mind', where you don't have pre-existing conceits about a particular stimulus because you don't draw conclusions about a thing based on your initial impressions.
[02:20] <Yaijinden> Seeing the thing for what it is, versus what you think it is likely to be.
[02:21] * Simon Kerrick thinks, stroking his chin. "Hmmmmm."
[02:21] <Simon Kerrick> But can anyone see it as such?
[02:21] <Simon Kerrick> Any being at all?
[02:22] * Simon Kerrick seems on the verge of asking something else, but seems to fervently decide against it.
[02:23] <Yaijinden> A buddha could, perhaps.
[02:23] <Yaijinden> Or someone sufficiently awakened.
[02:23] <Yaijinden> But such things are tremendously uncommon!
[02:23] <Yaijinden> Even I can only claim great comprehension rather than awakened-ness.
[02:23] <Simon Kerrick> What is a buddha?
[02:24] <Simon Kerrick> Such terms ar unknown to me.
[02:24] <Yaijinden> A buddha is one who is awakened to the truth of the cosmos.
[02:25] <Simon Kerrick> hmmmmm
[02:25] <Yaijinden> Who sees with clarity.
[02:26] <Simon Kerrick> !!!
[02:26] <Simon Kerrick> Wait... wait...
[02:27] <Simon Kerrick> You mean a being of profound insight?
[02:27] <Yaijinden> Beyond the sagiest of sages!
[02:27] <Simon Kerrick> Of incredible vision and inspiration?
[02:27] <Simon Kerrick> Hmmmmm.
[02:27] <Yaijinden> I accept the label of sage, but even I'm not a Buddha.
[02:27] <Simon Kerrick> Perhaps I could be such a being one day.
[02:27] <Yaijinden> It's a thing worth working towards.
[02:28] <Yaijinden> Also one of the most painful of things.
[02:28] <Simon Kerrick> My thanks for not immediately remarking on my dismal chances and numerous handicaps.
[02:28] <Simon Kerrick> Many here would do so.
[02:28] <Simon Kerrick> But then, I dislike and disregard such people, and would care little.
[02:28] <Yaijinden> Pfft, if I was concerned with that kind of thing I was just about or as worse off as you when things happened.
[02:28] <Simon Kerrick> Sorry, my spite clings to me. You were saying?
[02:29] <Simon Kerrick> How long has it been?
[02:29] * Yaijinden pauses, does the math
[02:29] <Yaijinden> About fifteen years since I had my heart first ripped out of my chest
[02:29] <Yaijinden> period dot.
[02:30] <Simon Kerrick> My goodness. That recently?
[02:30] <Simon Kerrick> I'm astounded.
[02:31] <Yaijinden> I am quote-unquote lucky.
[02:32] <Yaijinden> The right position, the right people, the right time, the right impetus.
[02:32] <Simon Kerrick> But FIFTEEN years?
[02:33] <Simon Kerrick> You told me about the other Khadi, and how storied, and waxed, and entrenched, and powerful they seemed!
[02:33] <Simon Kerrick> I assumed you spoke of ancient times! When your world was as mine!
[02:34] <Yaijinden> The best and worst part was that they were all ancient history by the time I arrived on the scene.
[02:35] <Yaijinden> The few of that time I ever interacted with survived the purges of Mohammed by removing themselves from the flow of time as we understand it.
[02:36] <Yaijinden> And, in removing themselves from history, became ahistorical.
[02:38] <Yaijinden> For all I know, those surviving ancient ones are still tempting the possible trickle of candidates that stray within their reach.
[02:39] <Yaijinden> For all I know, Hitomi who you never met learned at their feet before she transferred her allegience to the End of All Things.
[02:39] <Simon Kerrick> Can I ask you a question. It is a strange one.
[02:39] <Yaijinden> I love strange questions!
[02:39] <Yaijinden> Strange questions teach me my own limitations.
[02:40] <Simon Kerrick> Also, "HItomi-Who-You-Never-Met" would be one of the most menacing, mystifying names out there. I thought you meant that for a second. Anyway.
[02:40] <Simon Kerrick> Do you know about the emptiness between worlds?
[02:40] * Simon Kerrick points upward.
[02:40] * Simon Kerrick crudely mimes a rocket ship with one hand. "Vacuum, space, void, they call it."
[02:40] <Yaijinden> I know of the emptiness and how it is filled, yes.
[02:40] <Simon Kerrick> Have you ever experienced it?
[02:41] <Yaijinden> Handful of times. Not pleasant if I decide to endure it with flesh alone.
[02:42] <Simon Kerrick> Huh. I will not pry on that last part, but I was going to ask if it could harm you.
[02:43] <Yaijinden> This body, right here?
[02:43] * Yaijinden gestures himself, up and down
[02:43] * Simon Kerrick follows.
[02:44] <Yaijinden> This flesh is of itself not equipped to deal with the rigors of the void.
[02:44] <Yaijinden> Suffers. Explodes. Freezes.
[02:44] * Simon Kerrick nods.
[02:44] * Simon Kerrick listens almost wistfully.
[02:44] <Simon Kerrick> I can't feel a thing.
[02:44] * Yaijinden nods somberly
[02:45] <Yaijinden> If I don't call on power, it's really pretty terrible, which is the second of many reasons I don't travel solo in the great space between stars without preparation.
[02:46] <Simon Kerrick> Why would you want to go there at all?
[02:46] <Simon Kerrick> It's.... nothing.
[02:46] <Simon Kerrick> Raihosha, at least, seemed to suggest this when he spoke to me.
[02:46] <Simon Kerrick> Well, CLOSE to nothing, he said, but didn't elaborate.
[02:48] <Yaijinden> It's nothing by its nature, yes, but sometimes there are things in the nothing. Like the mountain I decided to investigate for the wrapped paper.
[02:49] <Yaijinden> The fact that there's generally nothing there is the first reason I don't travel solo in aforementioned space between stars.
[02:49] <Simon Kerrick> So you do not travel there via flesh?
[02:49] <Simon Kerrick> ..............
[02:49] <Simon Kerrick> Ethereal or Astral?
[02:50] <Yaijinden> Either? Both? But usually neither, particularly of late. I travel through Elsewhere when I need to be in a particular place.
[02:51] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmmm.
[02:51] <Simon Kerrick> I wonder about things, recently. I suppose I can scratch one little concern off the list, however.
[02:51] <Simon Kerrick> The Proprietor was Xadium all along.
[02:52] <Yaijinden> Hooray!(?)
[02:53] <Yaijinden> What is the Proprietor anyway.
[02:54] <Yaijinden> Was.
[02:54] <Yaijinden> Whatahoo.
[02:54] * Simon Kerrick points to the Big Grocery
[02:54] <Yaijinden> Oh hey that's new.
[02:54] <Simon Kerrick> Yeah, it sells pretty much everything.
[02:55] <Simon Kerrick> Speaking of which, you wouldn't ever be the type to do things for money, would you? In fact, I don't think I've seen you ask for worldly compensation a single time.
[02:57] <Yaijinden> Money usually doesn't get me what I want, but I find that participating in the family raising thing requires commercial goods I find I don't want to theft alone.
[02:57] <Yaijinden> Or finagle.
[02:58] <Yaijinden> Part of it is my hilarious post-sitcom stardom income I've managed to Internet leverage into a living salary with occasional con appearances, signings, and side projects.
[02:59] <Simon Kerrick> I suppose.
[02:59] <Simon Kerrick> It took me a LONG time to consider doing anything but live here with all the incredible amentities.
[02:59] <Yaijinden> I know, right?
[03:00] <Yaijinden> But the expenses of maintaining a hobbit hole with electrical power and Internet access and all the amenities outside of the Hotel eventually meant "Welp time to actually spend moneys."
[03:02] <Simon Kerrick> What's a hobbit hole?
[03:03] <Yaijinden> A cozy house built into a hill.
[03:05] <Simon Kerrick> Oh, okay.
[03:05] * Simon Kerrick seems somewhat distracted.
[03:08] <Yaijinden> That's a funny part now that I think about it.
[03:08] <Yaijinden> We could, theoretically, all get here.
[03:09] <Yaijinden> One child I'm not too worried about with physical danger and the other is well trained to locate the Iron Toddler suit when she gets uncomfortable.
[03:09] <Yaijinden> Which will be terrible and/or funny when we decide to let her loose into social situations.
[03:09] <Simon Kerrick> I took great honor in naming one of your children.
[03:10] <Simon Kerrick> It would have worried some people, though, that you did not see fit to do so.
[03:10] <Yaijinden> She was Faye the Elder until such point as she wasn't.
[03:11] <Yaijinden> As someone with the occasional talent for Naming, I can recognize when it is done.
[03:11] <Simon Kerrick> Mmmmm.
[03:12] <Simon Kerrick> She really did leave it behind, then, or she would not have chosen a new name.
[03:12] <Simon Kerrick> What about the Grimoire who she carried? Does such things trouble you?
[03:12] <Yaijinden> It's why she has my name, such as it is, rather than her mother's.
[03:12] <Yaijinden> Rue? No. Rue is...
[03:13] <Yaijinden> From what little I saw of Rue, she's kin of heart to Bixia.
[03:13] <Yaijinden> I'm more worried about Bixia interfering with my family than I am with Rue.
[03:14] <Simon Kerrick> ....I know what she would say if she did.
[03:14] <Simon Kerrick> But perhaps I overstate. Why do you fear Bixia?
[03:15] <Yaijinden> It's less that I fear her and more that I acknowledge she hates what I represent.
[03:15] <Yaijinden> What the me-I-am-now represents, anyhow.
[03:15] * Simon Kerrick does not press the issue.
[03:15] <Simon Kerrick> I have.... I want....
[03:15] * Simon Kerrick wincess.
[03:16] <Simon Kerrick> What do you mean?
[03:16] <Yaijinden> ? .-.
[03:16] <Yaijinden> Well.
[03:16] <Yaijinden> The Otherthings that once squatted over the galaxy were very much uncivil things.
[03:16] <Yaijinden> It surprises me not at all that the gods and the mortals that fought with them strove to destroy or seal them away.
[03:17] <Yaijinden> My very existence represents a threat to the order brought into existence by the powers that be.
[03:18] <Simon Kerrick> And is... and is... And is this why you suspect your children shall outlive you, a deathless thing?
[03:18] <Yaijinden> It is a reason the scenario you speak of may come into existence.
[03:19] <Yaijinden> I have every reason to believe that so long as I play fair, it won't come down to that.
[03:19] <Yaijinden> And I believe that so long as I have connections to this world, this way of life, I will continue to play "fair."
[03:20] <Yaijinden> The family is the greatest of these connections, but the Hotel is also such a place, such a gathering of people.
[03:21] <Simon Kerrick> I understand completely.
[03:21] <Simon Kerrick> You do what you do so you will not have nothing to lose.
[03:21] <Simon Kerrick> ....or at least... more to.
[03:22] <Yaijinden> It is...
[03:22] <Yaijinden> It is the difference between power of this universe and the eldritch.
[03:23] <Simon Kerrick> The universe itself? Really?
[03:24] <Yaijinden> Magic, qi, spiritual power, astral, hyperscience, spiral power, whatever its nature, these things are -of- this universe. Were written into its very being.
[03:24] <Yaijinden> A spell calls upon forces intrinsic to the cosmos.
[03:25] <Yaijinden> Infusion of spirit power into a Koubu operates by principles part of a greater scheme than modern Western science is able to perceive and integrate.
[03:25] <Yaijinden> Even spiral power was written into the laws of the universe and operates by principles merely unknown to most minds within it.
[03:26] <Yaijinden> The eldritch, however...
[03:26] <Yaijinden> When eldritch power is commanded, the universe tears itself apart, screaming in unbearable agony, to comply with the demands placed upon it.
[03:27] <Yaijinden> Bixia is just one of many beings sensitive to those screams of agony.
[03:28] <Simon Kerrick> It is antithesis? It harvests the universe in order to power itself?
[03:28] <Simon Kerrick> This reality? This plane? Has such power?
[03:28] * Simon Kerrick considers this. "I suppose I can buy that."
[03:28] <Simon Kerrick> If it were distrubuted into that instead of uniform fronts.
[03:29] <Yaijinden> There is unfathomable power within the cosmos for those with the ability to command it. Few can bear such strength without being transformed into the very mechanisms they seek to command.
[03:30] <Simon Kerrick> I agree with you.
[03:30] <Simon Kerrick> Beyond a certain scope, this is undoutable fact.
[03:30] <Yaijinden> Mimas met with such an end, even as she became something beyond her own ability to fathom.
[03:31] <Simon Kerrick> Such is not an end.
[03:31] <Simon Kerrick> I get into trouble here because I do not oppose ends that many would.
[03:31] <Yaijinden> It is an end, inasmuch as it is also a new beginning.
[03:33] <Simon Kerrick> I was actually about to ask you that.
[03:33] <Simon Kerrick> So by that logic, if you become what you command, if one were to try---along the highest eschelons--to command the plane itself...
[03:36] <Yaijinden> Any number of possibilities.
[03:36] <Yaijinden> Yes, eminently possible to become part of the plane itself.
[03:36] <Yaijinden> Whether you would retain any semblance of selfhood as part of that plane is another question entirely, of course.
[03:37] * Simon Kerrick nods.
[03:45] <Yaijinden> And that's the kind of trick the universe inadvertently pulls.
[03:45] <Yaijinden> That strange, strange line between strength and power.
[03:50] <Simon Kerrick> ...and between its results and original intent.
[03:55] <Yaijinden> The nature of any action taken.
[03:55] <Yaijinden> One of the primary reasons I attempt to act in wu-wei as frequently as possible.
[04:07] <Simon Kerrick> mmmm
[04:07] <Simon Kerrick> I should probably go.
[04:07] <Simon Kerrick> Farewell, Yaijinen
[04:07] *** Simon Kerrick has quit IRC (Life is a calculated risk. So is Death.)
[04:07] <Yaijinden> Hee hee.
[04:14] * Yaijinden is away: And if I do say so myself, I have been surprisingly effective at it.