Redd Vengeance: We's havin' a chat tonite? :B
Redd Vengeance: Or did I miss the ones the time before?xD
TaradSoftwing: We haven't had one the last night or two.
TaradSoftwing: Okay.... I have new information for us.
TaradSoftwing: It isn't BIG big, and has no guarentees, but it's something to plan for.
Electronik Kage: Also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasvati Echo is potentially Not Amused
TaradSoftwing: So I had permission from the Ivyly person to try out Arc's puzzle cube. It kept a large being trapped for several centuries, so perhaps it could be used on Samyaza?
Electronik Kage: I think she'd be able to... well... decay her way out. Look what she did to that door.
TaradSoftwing: It's a metallic rubick's cube, basically. Each side, whe solved, hoolds the numbers 1-9.... but when solved, a portal opens to who knows where. it is NOT a typical prison.
khiarhu: No, it's a good shot - I see no reason to NOT try it
Darth Ithums: Samyaza uses VOID. It's super effective!
Electronik Kage: Expecially since ic the chars don't know that would happen
Electronik Kage: It's worth a try rly.
JasamiJasa: EVen if it just stalls for time, it allows other options to pop up.
khiarhu: It will, at the very least, let them know what happens when something touches the magic shield she's got around her
TaradSoftwing: I thought of it because it is not a PLACE that the prison is... it's sort of a between.
TaradSoftwing: Problem being, I have to get Arc to THINK of using it.
Electronik Kage: There might be a potiential link with Echo, too. Look up Sarasvati and veena.
TaradSoftwing: Right now, he is just repulsed and afraid of her... but he doesn't necessarily think of her as an archenemy to be stopped at any cost yet.
flamingbunny1234: In the meantime, isn't Kishara kind of bleeding out?
khiarhu: Kish needs help
khiarhu: yes
Electronik Kage: Someone needs to get to Kish.
Electronik Kage: Echo would go straight to her, but she might be more useful in the main room in case s**t hits the fan.
TaradSoftwing: Baaack to getting Arc to figure out she needs to be stopped and held at the VERY least...
TaradSoftwing: I'll need help with that.
khiarhu: Well, that and we need to get someone over to save Gaia's bleeding arse
flamingbunny1234: Stopped? She's not moving or doing anything at the moment, she's just...talking.
flamingbunny1234: and being generally creepy. :B
TaradSoftwing: Even so, if we want to use the cube, we need to get Arc to think of it so I can send him to go get it.
TaradSoftwing: It's upstairs in his guest room.
khiarhu: And while I would LOVE to do that...Fragment is not the uh..mothering type.
khiarhu: He's more likely to take a nibble while Kish is out >_< Yu notwithstanding. Actually, he might go past Sam because of Harmodius....Yu = dragon and dragon = HOMG HARMY.
Medea302: has anyone seen inside the throne room IC yet?
TaradSoftwing: Arc has the wrong angle and can't.
Electronik Kage: Echo would go STRAIGHT to KIsh. But as I said, if her powers can still stun and s**t hits the fan, she might be useful.
TaradSoftwing: Though he might edge aroudn the side of the room, he isn't likely to without good reason, cause that's where Sam is going.
Electronik Kage: Echo has the wrong angle too.
Redd Vengeance: That's inconvenient xD
flamingbunny1234: I don't know. Can it BE seen past Samyaza's body? Cuz Ellis is standing kind of across from the throne room, but if no one can see what's going on behind Samyaza, it really wouldn't make much of a difference.
khiarhu: Hmm...with Samyaza having moved....Fragment's sharp sight means he should be able to, even from where he is, all off to the side
Medea302: because once people see the mess in there they can put two and two together and come up with Sam= threat
khiarhu: Kishara's body is half hidden by the Chrysalis, IIRC
khiarhu: but Samyaza said to go to it, so...someone should be like "oh hay, right"
khiarhu: besides, Gianfar is distracting her
Medea302: ah, so someone needs to get in there lol
flamingbunny1234: I will gladly volunteer ellis to run away from the big scary thing in favor of running towards the other big scary thing. <3
khiarhu: HEHEHE, that might not be a bad idea Inle -- after all, the throne room would put him farther away, and since she's moving out towards the 'exit', it would work better for him to run in
TaradSoftwing: Even if the cube DOES contain Sam, she'll have to be gotten back out anyway, for the sake of Kishara's arm, heh.
TaradSoftwing: It MIGHT be possible we won't get Arc to think of the cube until Sam is gone... given she's meaning to leave and not make our home HERS.
TaradSoftwing: After all, we've been assuming she's wanting to get out.
TaradSoftwing: What if she isn't?
Electronik Kage: Anyway, if no one else goes to Kish Echo will. My turn isn't for a bit tho.
khiarhu: We have been assuming she will leave because she seems very inclined to do so, now that her "job" is done
TaradSoftwing: She seems inclined to come where everyone else is yes...
khiarhu: I believe it was said in one of the rps that she wants the End....it's coming now, accomplished. Of course, that means that should "we" (icly) try to fix that...she might come after
khiarhu: Heck, she might settle into the Pantheon to babysit the Harmy!pod
flamingbunny1234: How are we going to get Kishara's arm out of her stomach?
TaradSoftwing: Sy, that's what I was thinking... we really dno't know WHAT she's doing.
khiarhu: Yet another good question >_<
khiarhu: and I'm going to assume she wants to bring more Grigori out
TaradSoftwing: Mmm. Having lost her own arm, do you suppose the arm of one of the people connected to Ashlands would be a replacement so she can open the gate?
TaradSoftwing: How did they use her arm before???
Electronik Kage: Sliced it open, went through.
khiarhu: It was made fairly plain that she was stealing Kishara's arm for the VERY PURPOSE of making a gate >_>;;
khiarhu: so that is why she has it
TaradSoftwing: They went in... THROUGH her arm???
Electronik Kage: Yup.
flamingbunny1234: Through some part of her body
TaradSoftwing: How did the two get back that went there originally?
flamingbunny1234: The same way?
Electronik Kage: The ashlands are contained within Kish and Lucius.
khiarhu: They tore into the "flesh of gaia" and came spewing out
TaradSoftwing: Within?
khiarhu: Yes
Electronik Kage: ....s**t, do you think that means she might go for Lucius next ?
flamingbunny1234: Meaning if you cut them open and crawl inside, you can get in and out of the ashlands.
TaradSoftwing: And yes... perhaps we need to ensure Lucius is safe?
Electronik Kage: Ultimately I think we need to close that wound. Maybe he'll recover then
TaradSoftwing: Hmm. What prevented the grigori from simply coming OUT of the two?
Electronik Kage: But how ?
Electronik Kage: ....Good question
TaradSoftwing: I think that'd be key to preventing the arm from becoming a gate.
flamingbunny1234: There weren't any holes cut into either of them before?
SkieBorne: Isn't Harmodius /inside/ the chrysallis?
khiarhu: he is
khiarhu: and IS the chrysalis
khiarhu: O_o made from his body to wrap around the nothingness, the void that is himself now - I think
Electronik Kage: I doubt Ea and Illumin would know how to FIX it. Morso that HOLY S- IT HURTS.
Electronik Kage: Gianfar might. Aristogeon might, but he's in sereval isty bitsy pieces.
Electronik Kage: And we have no idea how to shove all those pieces together again.
Medea302: need to get them first
Electronik Kage: ....Am still curious about this whole Sarasvati thing.
Electronik Kage: I have no idea if Echo should recognize it or not.
flamingbunny1234: maybe it's just a different kind of name?
flamingbunny1234: Like the kind she took from Harmodius?
flamingbunny1234: Isn't one of Gaia's abilities healing tissue?
flamingbunny1234: Would she be able to reattach her own arm?
TaradSoftwing: Yes, body regneration... is a diestic thing, I'd think? Ability to self-heal physical wounds?
khiarhu: I"m thinking she could do it herself, if she wasn't totally tapped out and had the arm
TaradSoftwing: Ivy?
flamingbunny1234: :O If Gaia was awake, would she be able to call her arm out of Samyaza's stomach?
flamingbunny1234: yeah, like summon her own tissue back to her
Electronik Kage: I doubt it but
khiarhu: so we need someone to bravely go to Kish
khiarhu: to save her from bleeding out
khiarhu: goddess or not, she's been wounded badly
khiarhu: and someone to poke at the pod
Electronik Kage: And she's still somewhat mortal
flamingbunny1234: I volunteered for that like
flamingbunny1234: an hour ago
flamingbunny1234: Where is Fragment? Ellis could use him as a meat shield to avoid detection by creepy mcbonebag.
khiarhu: I have this horrible itching feeling that Gianfar has a better idea of what's happeneing, why, and how to stop it than anyone else
khiarhu: Fragment has slipped closer to the doors, that's where
khiarhu: Because of how he recognised her, and because of the s**t he was saying in the Gianfar/Destruction rp
Medea302: Yeah, words need to be had with Gianfar
flamingbunny1234: hey wow, that makes sense
JasamiJasa: Is Jaster in a position to see them?
khiarhu: actually, most of it is like HER going "oh hay, I know you~ how's it goin?"
khiarhu: check that bloody map, that I can't find
Hyveris: someone wanted me?
TaradSoftwing: If we stop the bleeding to Kishara, can she later reattatch her own arm?
Hyveris: yes
flamingbunny1234: hoolay!
Hyveris: you'd have to know where the arm went and get it
TaradSoftwing: We are planning ahead as well as trying to plan for the present.
flamingbunny1234: If we wake Kishara up, would she be able to tell us? I know she was passed out when Samyaza ate it (she was, right?) but would she be able to feel it or whatever?
Hyveris: no, she wouldn't know right off where her arm was
Hyveris: she could say as much later when she could focus
Hyveris: but dm call she's in too much mental/physical/emotional distress to be able to muster that
TaradSoftwing: So. We need to get things moving so that we can start doing things, but as it stands in the rp NOW... she's only talking, and blithely referring to the pain that resides within the throne room.
TaradSoftwing: We need to start tailoring our posts to try and get things moving the directions we want them to go... if at all possible.
TaradSoftwing: Someone edging into th throne room, some focusing on what is said between Sam and Gianfar, and someone preparing to try and test her abilities.
khiarhu: PS. - Sarasvati. = female knowledge
Apathetic Terror: Sarasvati was an indian goddess of knowledge, wasn't she? ^.^
Redd Vengeance: It's like. The sacred Indian beads and a guitar-like holy instrument
Redd Vengeance: I dunno. She also made the reff to Egyptian Thoth
Electronik Kage: Thoth is the god of scribes or something
Redd Vengeance: Yeah, and knowledge
Electronik Kage: Which could link back to knowledge.
cloudykumo: Also medicine, I believe
Redd Vengeance: And she called him 'Literati' so, yeah *nod*
Redd Vengeance: Keeper of it, whatever
khiarhu: mala = rosary, veena = instrument
Hyveris: you'll find most gods in real life mythology have multiple aspects and multiple areas of influence
TaradSoftwing: Why would Samyaza have "lent her two arms" to hold beads and an insturment?
TaradSoftwing: Lent her arms to his implies, to me, servitude or partnership.
Ammarva: did you guys do a search on her name... just out of curiousity...
khiarhu: I think not. she's the queen of the grigori - likely was WAY BACK THEN too - so it's more likely that she met him when Harmodius had sent Aristo whatever and Mang and the lot to um....talk to the Grigori?
TaradSoftwing: Share, Merci?
Redd Vengeance: "I would have." She said
Ammarva: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samyaza
Redd Vengeance: Maybe she wished for wisdom when she was younger?
flamingbunny1234: Maybe it just means she respects him enough to help him out?
TaradSoftwing: The names simply suit what they did, it seems.
TaradSoftwing: The name 'Shemyazaz' means 'infamous rebellion', the combination of 'shem' [meaning 'name' or 'fame' {whether positive or negative}] + 'azaz' [which means 'rebellion' or 'arrogance' as a negative particle].
TaradSoftwing: Interesting reference to 'name'.
TaradSoftwing: Michael Knibb lists him as “the (or my) name has seen” or “he sees the name”. The interesting thing about the second interpretation is there is a tale about Semjâzâ knowing the explicit name of God and making a deal with a human Istahar to tell her the name.
TaradSoftwing: Sounds familiar?
Electronik Kage: Indeed.
Take Her Anyway: Er, this might seem dumb, but can't 'arms' also refer to weapons? Or is that only in the case of firearms and thus a moot point? /slow
TaradSoftwing: That's an interesting point.
khiarhu: the Sarasvati is said to have 4 arms
khiarhu: she was very likely referring to that
khiarhu: as he obviously only has two with which to hold things
TaradSoftwing: I wanna know what she was BEFORE she was queen of the grigori.
Saribythi: Well the Grigori sound like godlike beings that disagreed with the gods
Saribythi: so a bit like the gods and the titans
Electronik Kage: ....You know, this makes sence...
Saribythi: Anyways it looks a lot like gods and titans to me, if anyone is familiar with the greeks.
Electronik Kage: If the Grigori are void creatures
Electronik Kage: And then..... worlds where created, so they lost control on it.
Electronik Kage: And they want to return things to void so everything can be theirs again ?
khiarhu: No no, I think you're onto something there Zero
khiarhu: that makes utter sense
khiarhu: or as much sense as anything else XD
khiarhu: plus, now we have motive >3
TaradSoftwing: But it doesn't answer why they cannot connect with the void which dwells beneath the ashlandsd.
Saribythi: Perhaps the gods cut them off from that when they won the war.
TaradSoftwing: nor why they were not sent back to the void, nor why they WERE sent to a world that lives within two dieties.
flamingbunny1234: Where's the post order list? XD
TaradSoftwing: Mrr. Clearly I shall have to add that to my info thread.
TaradSoftwing: Hang on, I'll do that. Mkay?
TaradSoftwing: I have Ivy's posting tally AND the current map up on the FIRST POST of my info thread.
TaradSoftwing: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?page=1&t=12968609#156361514
Saribythi: I sent Ivy a message asking about getting the bits of Astrogien from the space ship.
Saribythi: and I haven't gotten a message back
Saribythi: so I sort of feel like I can't do it, as it is someone elses quest
Saribythi: and without an ok I'm not going after quest pieces
Hyveris: I'm going to cross post this:
Hyveris: TaradSoftwing (11:39:46 PM): Ivy? How are the weeks going to affect things, considering that our rp of a few short hours could take a week or two of real time?
Hyveris: The answer is:
Hyveris: Post faster
Hyveris: The 13 week deadline is intended to be a hard deadline
Hyveris: It is technically, for purposes of implementation, earth time
Hyveris: But the deadline will so far remain hard. AS for actual implementation, time is somewhat mutabl, its a game of gods.
Hyveris: New rps started should follow the schedule
Electronik Kage: So we're allowed to backdate solos ? Because I wanna to post something coinciding with the start of sloth
Electronik Kage: But.... Given that I don't even know if Echo's gonna come out of this in one piece...
Hyveris: I honestly don't care if you backdate, just don't use it for powergaming, follow the schedule, and keep abrest of the metaplot timeline as best you can
TaradSoftwing: Also Ivy, for when I return... which gods who have evolved since that Grigori rp started are NOT YET actaully evolved in the storyline?
Hyveris: I honestly don't have teh time or energy to be able to police that myself.
Hyveris: I only know that for certain eamnonn hasn't
Hyveris: because the very first post of the rp is samyaza watching him and illumin leave
Hyveris: and they were both youth
TaradSoftwing: As long as I'm not breaking rules by having Arc morphed.
Hyveris: You have to research that yourself
Hyveris: you tell me
TaradSoftwing: I've done my best.... only thing that worries me is my touching timelines with Tian Yue.
Medea302: heh that RP started right after we got them I think ... or before
Hyveris: I've tried having manager helpers in the past, but most peopel are too busy to keep up with it full time, so I have to rely on all of your honesty and enjoyment to the game to do your own community policing of timelines
Hyveris: with over 20 players/characters, I cannot read and timeline everything as it happens anymore and keep my day job while also doing the art
Darth Ithums: is there anyway to disseminate that info about them IC'ly? Cause the one? person it was mentioned is kind of not in play anymore >.>
Doktor Lyubov: None of his servants would know about them, Ithums?
Darth Ithums: same problem, the player is mia
flamingbunny1234: Didn't Xiao say Gianfar knew stuff?
Darth Ithums: oh you mean jin?
Doktor Lyubov: Yeah, Jin's servants.
Darth Ithums: not the two he has currently, I don't think.
Saribythi: So finding another work around ect. Might be needed.
flamingbunny1234: Is the fact that so many of the dragon kings are inactive going to be any kind of hindrance?
Saribythi: Well before there was various times that it was noted that they should gather
Saribythi: perhaps those that are left should gather and could do something
khiarhu: Samyaza is most pleased that the dragons are not together and those that are here...are less than uh..useful
Medea302: *nods* -everything- says dragon kings together are needed
flamingbunny1234: yeah, at this point should we worry about post order?
Hyveris: as long as everyone posts, I don't care what order it is in
TaradSoftwing: Does anyone mind if Betha dives after Ellis to look after Kishara?
TaradSoftwing: She's spoken up that she wants to go help. Arc isn't going to be happy.
Meepfeather: Mm, no problems here.
khiarhu: I think any that wish to slink past the Fragment to aid Gaia should do so
TaradSoftwing: Arc will be too worried about Samyaza to move away.
khiarhu: The beast will serve as a shield if needed - per his dragon's command.
khiarhu: would definitely have them listen to Ellis, as Neva seems to know what the hell she's doing at themoment XD
TaradSoftwing: Meep, were you going to possibly potentially keep our map updated? ::begging eyes::
Meepfeather: If people continue to let me know where they are? XD