Start of #lunar-iog2 buffer: Fri Aug 18 19:07:21 2006 * Niri changes topic to '-= Chapter 22.1: Breakfast of Doom | Location: New Raculi | Pools: 3287 §, 6 MXP =- http://storen.rpgcafe.net/IoG/ (let me know about problem with files)' ==LUDE BEGIN== >> The sun is still fairly low on the eastern horizon when Niri stumbles in the front door, kicking it closed behind her as she struggles with a basket of groceries and staggers into the kitchen. * Vytor walks out the kitchen, drying his hands with a hand towel, having just finished the last of the dirty dishes from last night Morning Niri. Need a hand? «ooc: For the record SINCE NONE OF YOU ARE IN THE OOC CHAN :| Saki's not around at present - early wake up - but may appear in a bit. » Oh! Thanks! I just replenished some supplies. I thought I'd make waffles. * Niri hands the basket to Vytor and starts putting stuff on the counter * Vytor goes to put things in their proper place Do you have a waffle iron perchance? Thanks for getting some more grub. My larder's rather decimated from the last few days Yeah, Saki went a little overboard. *Chuckles* Yes, left of the sink, second drawer from the top. * Niri goes over to the drawer and rummages, pulling out the waffle iron. She also finds a mixing bowl and starts measuring cups of flour. So what made you decide to go domestic this morning? I dunno, Saki always takes over the kitchen and I felt like giving it a try. I'm pretty good at baked goods and breakfast, at least. Plus I woke up early and felt restless. You sleep okay? Yep. The couch is very comfortable to sleep on. Hence why I took it. ;) Heh! *mixes in some vegetable oil* If you want to get that iron hot, I can take it to the woodstove to get it started. Its iron, so it'll take a while to get hot. Could you? That'd be awesome. Thanks! * Niri hums to herself while adding milk to the batter and stirring * Vytor grabs said iron, and sets it up on the stove, stoking it up a little afterwards * Vytor tiptoes back to the kitchen, taps Niri on the shoulder, and points to Angharad (still sleeping in front of the stove), and puts his fingers to his lips Not too loud, eh? >> After the batter is done, Niri starts assembling toppings that she bought out on the counter for people to use once the waffles are done. While waiting for the iron to heat, she starts whipping cream. Oh! Whoops. Sorry. *Lowers the hum to an almost inaudible level, but can't seem to stop entirely* Most folks are still asleep, but I think Saki left some time ago. Wonder where she went? Somewhere quiet I'd wager. Can't meditate in a house full of people all that well, I'd wager Oh yeah, meditation. Forgot about that. * Niri tries to beat the whipped cream quietly. ^_^ What do you think of all this? What is "this," specifically? You mean the whole thing yesterday with the Prophetess and Ryllan going nuts? No, more of what we touched on yesterday. If we go through with this, and the Prophetess decides to attack someone else, we'll have no warning, and we may not even be there ...Oh, that. Well... *sighs* It doesn't feel as if we're really doing any good by being there. Besides, the Prophetess seems to have this uncanny need to be where we are...all that junk about us being witnesses or whatever. She's messing with us. * Vytor nods and listens So I'm really not sure. But I mean, we gave it our all yesterday, and we still lost. So would it really do any good for us to be around next time she attacks? Seems to me it'd be better to try to get messages to the remaining Truth Seekers advising them to band together. You'll get no argument from me on that one * Niri nods, setting out the whip cream on the counter with a spoon and getting busy washing and preparing some strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. How's the iron? Will it be a while yet? And about all the hints she gave us? * Vytor goes to check on it, stepping carefully over Agnharad to do so To be honest, I'm pretty confused about the hints. I keep forgetting what she said and getting what I do remember all muddled. * Vytor returns, "Give the iron another minute. It'll be ready soon." * Niri sets out some bananas, not wanting to peel and slice them till the last minute lest they become brown. She starts chopping some pecans. Well, Saki has a list of notes that she wants us to follow up on. So we'll just have to tackle them one-by-one Guess that's our best bet. * Niri finishes with the fruit, now having set out whip cream, maple syrup, chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, powdered sugar, berries, bananas, and pecans. There. Hopefully there's no possible waffle topping I've forgotten. I think you've got the basics there ;) Should we start waking people up, do you think? Or let them sleep? I could wait to cook the waffles till they get up, but I don't know when that'll be... * Niri checks the clock, noting it's around 9 am Let's let them sleep, they had a long couple of days Okay. You have a nice place, by the way! How long have you lived here? THis was a great place to grow up Really? *smiles* What do you like about it? Come to think of it, what were you like as a kid? Typical kid. Spent a lot of time with the neighborhood kids, fighting with my sister, driving my parents bonkers, building stuff with mom and dad. Going with them on their many trips. It was a great way to grow up. This house was big enough for us to do almost anything. Lots of space for the grown-up, and still scads of running-around room for the kids. Not to mention the war room. * Vytor gets a little nostalgic at that last item. ...War room? O_o * Vytor chuckles, "When friends and neighbors would come over, they'd throw all the kids into one room for us to do whatever. We were usually hollering and screaming and making such a racket, it was called 'the war room' by the adults ." >> One of the doors begin to swing open, followed up by someone yawning. Mikel makes his way out, closing the door behind him as he rubs some of the sleep out of his eyes. He walks down the hallway to where the others are, letting out another yawn as he speaks. "Mooooo*yawn*oorning." Morning Mikel. Not too loud, Angharad's still asleep. * Niri giggles. "That's awesome. I forget, how old is your sister?" Seeing Mikel, she waves. "Morning! Oh, I'll start the waffles. I bet the iron's hot." She leaps up. She's 19, just a year younger than I am. I'd love to meet her. We might, if things swing that way. But I'd rather she stay out of this whole mess. * Niri pours waffle batter onto the iron very carefully, then closes it. I don't blame you. Maybe after this is all over. Knock on wood. * Mikel blinks once, face brightening at the mention of food. Or it might be just him continuing to wake up. "Waffles? Today's definitetly off to a good start then." * Niri grins. "Yep! Pick your topping." She gestures to the dazzling array on the counter. Oh, I can make bacon and eggs too if you want. Niri was kind enough to run to the store. Otherwise we'd be having breakfast of dried beans and dried fruit and water. ...Which is a pretty dreadful prospect. Bacon and eggs might help folks wake. Aromas and all that. Or I suppose there's always leftovers from Saki's cooking tirade, but waffles are more fun. * Mikel looks at the array in awe for a couple of moments. "...I think I'm in love. Bacon and eggs too?" Well, if you want them. People are always making fun of me and my sweet tooth, so I thought I'd better have the option of something else. * Vytor chuckles "Nothing wrong with a sweet tooth. Trune was still sawing logs when I woke up, so." Just don't get Saki thinking you're trying to horn in on her turf. She might take exception. Hmph. I never pretended to be as good a cook as Saki. Like I said, I just do breakfast and sweets. *Eyes the waffle iron, waiting for it to stop steaming* Well, then, we'll always have a decent variety of things to eat along the way. * Niri levers the iron open with a fork and pries the golden brown waffle off, transferring it onto a plate. "First one's up." She then pours more batter into the iron. It'll be a bit before bacon and eggs, I want to get the first few waffles cooked first. My house, so I'll take first waffle. ;) * Vytor does so That's fair! Oh hey, does anyone know how Tanan is feeling? I'm not entirely clear on what happened in the ice fields, but it seemed kind of freaky... * Vytor snags a small jar of honey as he returns to the table Well, we don't know for certain. He doesn't seem to want to talk about it much. * Mikel swipes himself a chair to plop down on, grinning at Vytor. "I'm not gonna fight you for it, so." He glances over at Niri, frowning for a moment. "Yeah. I'm going to bug him to see if the Doctor can help once she's ready to see people again." * Vytor snags a few strawberry and banana slices, then drizzles honey over them and the waffles. Honors to the chef. *digs in* * Vytor seems content to eat and not talk for the moment * Niri , after a few moments, serves up the next waffle and places it in front of Mikel, then starts cracking eggs and slicing bacon. * Trune stumbles out of his assigned room, nearly smacking into the wall. He's dressed but his entire look is a bit rumpled. His hair is also askew and his eyes are half closed as he makes a rather incoherant noise of being half-asleep. I had a dream about the whole icefield thing last night, which was kinda weird since I wasn't even there. Well, to be honest the whole thing was downright freaky. * Niri giggles. "Morning, Sunshine." Gmrnin. * Niri takes a break from preparing bacon and eggs to pour more batter in the waffle iron for Trune. * Vytor swallows a considerable mouthful, "What kind of dream?" * Vytor motions for Trune to sit at the table * Trune plops down at the table, resting his head on the counter. It's obvious he's REALLY half in the bag. * Mikel grins at Niri as a waffle is served, grabbing a few slices of banana. "Thanks, Niri. Mornin', Trune." He then adds some sugar, some chocolate chips, maple syrup, then topped off with a bit of chocolate syrup. "The icefield?" With that he begins to attack his waffle in earnest. «ooc: er, just resting his head, even :p » Mornin'. What smells good? *Looks up* Oh. Oh! Sweet. What's the occsasion for fluffy goodness? Niri's throwing down the gauntlet for the title of "Kitchen Mistress" * Mikel looks up from his waffle. "Can we charge admission?" I knew someone would try to best Saki in the kitchen. I bet it'll be vicious and sexy, like mud wrestling. * Vytor snrk, and returns to his waffle, knowing better than to continue ;) * Niri raises an eyebrow at Trune. "No, I just felt like being nice! Here, eat." Dumps a waffle on a plate and plops it down in front of Trune. * Niri returns to the bacon and eggs after pouring some batter for a waffle for herself. The smell of eggs being scrambled and bacon being sizzled soon fills the air. Mm, thanks. Ooh, bananas! Excellent. Well, yeah, weird dream about the icefields. See, first of all, they weren't icy. It was bright and sunny and everything was green. Plus there was an ocean. I dunno why. Weird. * Trune goes to fixing up his waffle, putting some bananas and syrup on top, with just a bit of whipped cream. And Tanan was showing me what you guys saw there. We were flying on this weird hoverbike thing. Your dream sounds better than mine. Hover...bike? * Mikel tilts his head, blinking. "Those don't count as icefields then... hoverbike thing?" And he showed me how the ancients had cut off a mountain top and carved it to make a gigantic bridge from this island to the mainland, and it was all green and stuff and absolutely humongous. And on the island there were factories and plants and stuff, surrounded by vegetation. We went down to look, and Tanan was explaining how there were roads and runways that had all kinds of vehicles on them that were in such perfect condition, just as they'd been before the war destroyed everything. And I looked down and some of them were moving. There was this thing that looked vaguely like the Destiny, only smaller and plainer, and white, and it was driving around the roads out of one of the plant garages. And then I saw people. * Vytor goes to get something to drink, still listening And I yelled to Tanan to take us up, but the hover thing started to putter and make weird noises, and we started sinking, getting closer. And I could see the people down below. They were looking up at us, and they started running towards us as we fell... * Mikel mulls over that for a couple moments as he spears himself another piece of his waffle. "Towards?" ..? Towards? That's odd. And Tanan hadn't slept all night and he was really tired, so he was practically going unconscious and that didn't help since he was driving, and we sorta half landed, half crashed. And then the people got there and they were human but not. And they grabbed at Tanan and pulled him off the hover thing, and he yelled for me to run, but there was this humanish thing standing in front of me, holding out his hand as if he wanted me to shake it, but it was...awful. Awful? * Mikel blinks a couple of times, wincing. "Sounds like a good dream gone bad." His fingernails were all misshapen and red, and instead of a pinky finger, he had this...stalk, with about a hundred fingers coming off of it, little tiny ones, writhing and stuff. And on his middle and ring fingers, at the base of the knuckle, were two tiny eyes on stalks. And I tried to scramble away. And he looked confused that I didn't want to shake his hand. As if his hand were some wonderful thing. But it was horrifying. Anyway, a bunch of others came over and grabbed me, and they all had the same kinds of hands, and then I woke up. * Vytor sits down again, a mug of water in hand * Niri shrugs, serving up the bacon and eggs and putting them on a plate in the middle of the table for everyone to help themselves. She then sees to getting her own waffle out of the iron and topping it with butter and syrup. That's a pretty disturbing dream. Do you always have vivid dreams like that? Er...yes? I mean, I don't often remember my dreams, but when I do they're pretty wacked out and detailed like that, yeah. Not always that freaky, though. * Mikel frowns, swiping himself a piece of bacon. "Do they always turn /out/ like that?" Hmm Yeah, okay, your dream beats out mine, hands down. No, sometimes I end up going swimming in a vat of syrup with Headmaster Johnathan as the lifeguard. What was your dream, Trune? Uh.. "..." * Trune looks a little sheepish, "I drempt that Vytor and I opened an office supply store in New Meribia." And okay, I made that last one up. But it's not far off from the kind of dreams I DO have! "...vat of syrup? Master Hylan as a lifeguard?" "...oh." * Mikel shakes his head as he munches on bacon. * Vytor snrks * Niri giggles. "Ooh. Did you sell paperclips? I bet it was exciting." * Saki (~arpee@192.168.0.1) has joined #lunar-iog2 * ChanServ sets mode: +o Saki Real exciting, but kind of scary. I'm SURE I was wearing a pocket protector. And Saki came in and wanted to buy glue, but she wanted only a certain type of glue, and we didn't have it. So then she went mental and started tearing the store down. * Niri stares at Trune for a moment, then starts laughing. * Vytor raises an eyebrow * Saki almost stumbles over the doorjamb as she enters the house; a blank look behind her and a momentary scowl follow quickly. As she enters the kitchen she looks just a little zoned; not tired, but not quite in touch with reality or up to speed either. Food gets blinked at blankly. Morning Saki. Have a seat "...tearing the sto- speak of the devil. Mornin', Saki." Heh, mornin' Saki, we were just talking about you. * Niri waves to Saki. "Er, good morning. Want a waffle?" * Niri spears another bite and munches. * Saki blink-blinks, apparently taking a while to come up with the answer. "... mm. Once I've sat down a bit." Actions follow words. Niri was just tell us about a strange dream she had regarding Bluetooth Valley * Niri waves her fork. "But anyway...I brought up my dream mostly because aside from being just plain weird, I'm kind of wondering if it means anything. I have this nagging feeling that it might. It's kind of scary." I know it didn't look anything at all like Bluetooth Valley, but you know how in dreams sometimes you're certain that something is so, even if it isn't really in real life? * Mikel hums as he grabs some eggs as well. "If it does, you'll find out soon enough. Best not to dwell. You've got enough to think about." Well, considering who your parents are, I wouldn't put it past you to have visions of a sort. Well, yeah...but what if it's something I NEED to know? *Shrugs* It's making me really anxious to put in a call to my parents. ...And that would be why. I'm starting to wonder just how much Mom and Dad have been keeping from me all these years. Something else to check on, I suppose. Maybe you oughta get in touch with your mom while you're here, unless you wanna wait till we get back to the Academy. Well, I think I'd better have an extensive talk with them when we get back, but it might be a good idea to put in a call now, maybe get some answers. * Mikel waves a bacon laden fork around. "Get in touch to make sure they aren't going anywhere, then have the huge talk?" * Vytor nods, sipping his drink Could be. Or get in touch to demand they explain a few more urgent things. :P "True. Mm, these are good." Yeah, these are good waffles, Princess. I take back anything I said on you not being able to cook. We are starting to get to the point where "not being told for you own good" is starting to become a thin excuse * Saki lurks, silent but for the occasional tapping of her fingers on the breakfast table. She's clearly thinking. Or moping. * Vytor goes to grab some eggs and bacon, having had his fill of waffles. * Mikel eyes Saki as he finishes off his waffle. "What's up?" She does not eat weak man-food. ;) She should, though. It is comfort food on a grand scale of fluffiness. No argument there "Maybe she's never seen so much sugary goodness to place on the food of fluff?" * Saki nods without breaking her vague sense of faraway, deadpanning. "Saki smash puny waffle." She blinks out of it, shaking her head. "... just trying to keep everything in order in my mind. Besides, I'm no sweet tooth." * Vytor sits back down with a platefull of eggs and bacon. If you want, I can grab a bottle of cod liver oil and you can spoon that over the waffles. That'll kill any lingering sweetness. * Mikel shivers. Maybe we'll put jalepeno on it. Or fish oil. "I'll take jalepeno over oil." There's bacon and eggs if you don't fancy waffles, Saki. * Vytor waves a forkful of bacon at Saki to prove the point * Saki makes a face at Vytor, and plucks a berry from the pile, absently munching on it for a while before BACON IN THE NOSE. Blink-blink. "... ah. Not bad at all." She goes a-rummaging for food. * Niri giggles at Saki. "And so the mighty Saki was tamed." We should make a documentary on that. Bacon makes everything better. My sister proved it mathematically. "Bacon plus everything equals better?" Oh? How? If A + B + C = Pork, then E + F + G = Bacon? * Mikel munches on another strip of said wonderful breakfast food. Good show Mikel, you must have read her paper on the subject already. * Saki frowns as she sits back at the table, starting to dig in. "I'm not above other people's food. ... and I think I wore myself out yesterday." So why such an early morning? Routine? "It might have been in the Academy's library." * Saki waves a rasher around; it wobbles precariously. "nnn. Never sleep much; needed to walk a little." * Vytor grabs his notepad, scribbles "Everything+Bacon=Better. Q.E.D.", and shows it to Trune, "Something like this." Snrk. Profound. "She better have won an award for that." * Vytor looks critically at Saki, "Just how much sleep do you get, usually?" Ah, your sister is smart. I go for a more simplistic approach. "Bacon good! Me like Bacon! Me eat! Observe!" * Trune stuffs a piece of bacon in his mouth and chews dramatically. Yes, but that's harder to prove mathematically. * Mikel waves a piece of bacon at Trune. "Too simplistic." * Saki looks blankly back, shrugging lopsidedly. "... not much. A few hours, sometimes more. Better at home." Bah, why think about it? Eat and enjoy. * Trune snatches the piece of bacon from Mikel and takes a bite. * Vytor raises an eyebrow at Saki, but lets it go. "...damn you!" * Mikel forks himself a piece of bacon from Trune's plate. Uh oh, I think there's going to be a battle. ...Hey! "An eye for an eye, a bacon piece for a bacon piece." Grrr. I'll get you back when you least expect it. «ooc: Ack! Dinner for me :( » * Vytor grabs Trune and Mikel's wrists and hisses, "Quiet, some are still asleep." *inclines his head at Angharad. Er...sorry. * Trune goes back to eating and is silent for a while. * Mikel blinks, nodding once as he echos Trune's apology before going back to his food. * Vytor releases their wrists, and goes to clean his dishes. * Saki actually smirks, showing her teeth. "It's nice to be safe." * Vytor returns to the table, "What makes you say that?" "Because no one is stupid enough to try to steal food from her plate." Perhaps the fact that Ryllan is nowhere nearby? * Saki deadpans but lightly, absolutely casually cutting up her bacon. "Not when you know 20 ways to kill a man with chopsticks." "...erm." * Mikel edges his seat a bit away from Saki. * Vytor chuckles, and sips at his water again * Saki looks about as satisfied as she ever gets, nodding appreciatively at her plate. Everyone be nice and thank Niri for her hard work this morning. And then I will tell you what I REALLY put in the waffles! .... * Mikel coughs, shaking his head. "Aaanyways. Once you've finsihed with the message, Niri, you want to go with Trune and me to see about getting our hands on something to drive around for a bit? We can try dragging Tanan along too to supervise." He grins, holding up another piece of bacon. "More sugar? And thanks." Kidding. Ooh, driving! Yes! Okay, I'll go into town and send that message home, and then we can go out for a turn around the block. I'll be working on the Destiny with Angie once she's up. We have some repairs to de before that thing's hitting the road agian. * Mikel coughs, glances at his plate again. Do no drivin it until the work's done. << glancing* >> * Saki nods, hunched over her plate. "My offer stands; I'll help with the lifting, but I don't know much beyond that." I'm sure we'll need help lifting that thing. Jack had it up on some hefty hydraulics when he was building it. Speaking of which, where is Angie anyway? She's going to miss out on breakfast at this rate. * Mikel grins at Niri. "You get to drive first for making breakfast today." Do I want to know what you two are up to? "Nothing that can potentially doom the world." "I think." Woohoo! * Vytor rolls his eyes, and decides to concentrate on his mug * Mikel chuckles, finishing off his remaining food and letting out a content sigh. * Saki sits back contentedly, having finished her food; she gets down to the serious business of just sitting there on idle listening to things go by. Would anyone like something to drink? I've got water or tea, and if you're into it this early, various forms of alcohol. "Mm... tea would be great, actually." * Mikel gathers up his dishes to bring over to the sink. * Vytor goes to make some tea for Mikel Anyone else? * Saki waves a hand to signify 'no', and grimaces at the kitchen; "I assume there's a lot left over from last night for me to get going on." I'll pass, thanks! I think I'm going to go shower. Actually, I tackled most of it for you already, Saki. There's a few things left you can do if you see fit. * Niri heads off to shower * Niri is now known as AmyAway Eh, I think I'll pass too. I also gotta take a shower. Or a bath. Or a faucet, or anything that's not occupied by Niri because that's not whacky hijinks we need this morning. Upstairs bathroom then. Sweet. Thanks a lot. * Trune heads upstairs to take a shower. Preferably alone. ;) * Saki nods and rolls up her sleeves, getting to work without a word of protest. * Vytor returns with Mikel's tea Bottoms up. * Mikel snickers as Niri and Trune make their exit, taking a seat. "Thanks, Vytor." My pleasure. * Saki looks back over her shoulder at Mikel as she washes up the last of the crockery. "You've heard bits and pieces. Anything missing you need filling in?" * Vytor goes to make himself a cup of tea as well * Mikel mulls for a couple of moments as he sips his tea. "You're dealing with an unbelievably powerful person who is going around taking out all of the Truth Seekers so that she can do something like revive Zophar or something along those lines. You're connected to her, and she apparently has extra people that she can put into others like what happened to Ryllan." He frowns. "...throw in the Elementalors as well and it just gets har * Huw is now known as Huwafk << gets hard to follow. What's with them, anyways?" for log purposes >> They were some kind of experimental living weapon, from the Devistation Wars, I think. * Saki tilts her head, smirking to herself. "... We did tell you it was a complicated story." She nods as Vytor tells the tale. "And they're up on the moon together with ... Dr. Webbly." They're an odd bunch, but overall they seem like a decent lot. * Mikel frowns, setting his cup down. "...Living weapons? That's a rather disturbing thought." * Vytor shrugs, "I guess that's what they did back then." * Vytor leans back in his chair as he downs the last of his tea, then casts a glance back towards the bedrooms. * Saki makes a face. "I try not to think of it too much. ... Or them as a whole, if I'm honest." Well, if Angie's going to sleep in, I'd best get cracking on the Destiny. People are going to want to get on the road again eventually. * Vytor stands and takes his mug to the sink. Saki? I'll call on you went I'm done unloading the cargo. I'll need your help tipping it on its side. * Mikel nods as he takes another sip of his tea. "Fair 'nough... still, to create people who are only supposed to be weapons seems a bit disturbing." * Saki nods back at Vytor, and keeps working on the pile. Seeya later Mikel. Stay out of trouble, OK? * Mikel grins as he waves a hand. "No worries here." Oh, and if Angie wakes, up, let her know where I've gone. She'll be along evetually if she knows. * Vytor waves to the two as he heads for the door. "Seeya later." * Saki dunks a plate on the rack; she's speedy, if nothing else. "Mm. I'll probably be along with her." End of #lunar-iog2 buffer Fri Aug 18 19:07:21 2006