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eveglass... In which arguments ensue, a meeting is held, and Stacey Keyes nearly dies.
It is the afternoon of the 4th day since Orpheus fell, three hours after Chet's shootout in the park. Stacey and Trish are playing video games, Lakuna is sleeping in her room, Chet is working in his. Benoit is still a dog, and Charles is looking over his notes.
Charles, finally, ready, gathers the group together and wakes Lakuna up from yet another nightmare-filled slumber. The group meets downstairs, with only Benoit, Trish, and Dave absent. Charles explains that he thinks Lakuna's problem is that she has been metaphorically impregnated by the spectre we met at the docks. According to his books, the solution is an exorcism, performed by nine different men of nine different faiths, in a particular order. This exorcism might kill Lakuna, but Charles is adamant that if we do nothing, Lakuna will die as well.
Argument ensues, in typical fashion. Chet and Lakuna are not convinced that Charles has diagnosed the problem correctly. Lakuna thinks the priority should be getting Chet the next ingredient he needs for his cocktail, cyanide, and that she is a second priority. Chet things that Lakuna is overreacting. Charles is offended that no one will believe him [please note, this is the result of an 11 success roll last game].
The conversation shifts to where we might be able to find cyanide on short notice. A number of vague possibilities are mentioned, but we have nothing concrete to go on. We have no phonebook and no access to the internet. Chet begins to ask Ripley whether he can hook us up to the internet, only to discover that Chet is apparently on the nightly news for having reportedly killed a man in the shootout this afternoon. This distresses us all greatly, and Chet tells Ripley to work on getting us access to the internet.
Charles leaves the room and Stacey, Lakuna, and Chet continue their conversation (all of which was overheard by an eavesdropping Trish, incidentally). Lakuna uses her power of Forebode to try to discover where we might get cyanide. [Maery double-botches. Ian, please fill in the blank!]
While she does so, Chet and Stacey discuss what is wrong with Chet. Chet claims that the problem isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Once he runs out of his serum (which will last another few days, tops), he will be unable to project and will go into withdrawl. The only last major ingredient needed is the cyanide.
Charles has meanwhile, unbeknownst to the rest of us, gone off to find a phone book. While outside, he meets a cop who is more than a little off-kilter. He's looking for a man named Jack Kildaire, a dead serial killer from 17 years ago who did in a prison fire. Apparently there have been more murders using his M.O. in recent days. He wants to arrange a meeting with us to discuss information, and offers us access to supplies and hiim using his influence to get the police (who know we're in this district, though not exactly where) to back off a bit. [If I'm missing anything, please fill in the blank!]
Meanwhile, Lakuna wakes up from her Forebode-induced trance and says that she saw nothing of importance. She and Chet get into an argument, and Stacey leaves to Stacey check on Trish. Trish is in her room reading War and Peace, somewhat ironically. Stacey goes down to the workout room.
Chet and Lakuna have an argument upstairs, in which Lakuna acts extremely mood-swingy, at one point yelling and at another point calling Chet pet names. Chet accuses her of lying about what she said she saw in her forebode vision, she accuses him of sleeping with the Queen. With emotions running high, Lakuna finally storms off and Chet goes to his room to look over Charles' notes.
Lakuna comes downstairs, where Spike has been watching Stacey work out, and begins madly screaming and pumelling the punching bag. After her rage has turned into heaving sobs, Stacey tries to calm her down and notices the mood swings as well, though draws less notice to it than Chet. Lakuna says she hates Chet and worries that she'll die a virgin loving the wrong man. Stacey tells her not to be silly. At one point in the conversation, Spike reverts to Benoit, and leaves. He finds Trish, who tells hiim what's been going on, and they play video games.
Lakuna leaves and Stacey goes back upstairs to find Benoit. He's playing video games with Trish and has mostly been informed as to what's going on. It's also clear that Charles has left again, much to Stacey's annoyance.
Lakuna goes upstairs and stands outside Chet's door, trying to decide whether to go in. Benoit meets her and they talk about various things. Before actually entering Chet's room, the front door slams to signal the return of Charles.
Charles enters with a phone book and the news of his conversation with the cop. MUCH argument ensues. Dave informs us of the background: Kildaire was apparently an serial killer, along with 12 other life-sentence prisoners, who Orpheus used as one of their first Black Ops teams under the supervision of Dr. Finias. They thought that holding the bodies hostage would induce the prisoners to cooperate, not taking into account that they had already given up on life and theire bodies. The prisoners set fire to their own prison, burning their bodies, and becoming utterly nasty PLEs (but not spectres). Kildaire has since continued as a serial killer, possessing bodies and raping and killing women. The others are, presumably, at large as well.
The group is unsure of what to do. Only the incentive of getting cyanide makes them interested in this cop at all. The argument finally peters out, with Benoit deciding that Charles will phone the cop back and say we want cyanide as a token of goodwill, that we'll call back in 5 or so hours to arrange a meeting. Strangely, Charles listens and goes off (projected), and no one else is really paying attention, since Chet and Lakuna are arguing again.
After a little more argument thrown in for good measure, Lakuna and Benoit go off for "naps" in their respective rooms. Benoit steps into Lakuna's dreams [Ian, please fill in the blanks] and is thoroughly freaked out. Chet tries (unsuccessfully) to follow Charles. He circles the house a few times, projected, and then returns to his body.
While Benoit's original plan had been to have Charles come back for the intervening five hours, he decides to stay outside because people are mad at him. The rest of us become increasingly frustrated at him, but there is little we can do at this point to find him without further fracturing the group and exposing other people to danger.
Trish sits by Charles' bed, giving his body a makeup job (on his face, tribal celtic tattoos on his arms and legs, and a hanged man tarot card on his arm). The makeup job is strangely reminiscent of Madame Zoe, though only Lakuna realizes this. Trish also seems to know what Charles is doing, just by touching his lifeless body. Stacy doesn't know what this means, and Dave had ensured that Orpheus never touched Trish.
Stacey finally decides to go back downstairs and work out some more. After yet another argument between Lakuna and Chet, Lakuna again comes downstairs and pummels the puniching bag. Stacey begins teaching Lakuna how to actually fight properly, until Lakuna again breaks down. She confesses that she used to be a masochist, and until about 7 years ago was cutting herself. She is worried that she just doesn't want to be healed. Stacey tries to console her but doesn't do a good job of it. Finally Lakuna storms off to get some food, a bath (at Stacey's bewildered protests) and some sleep.
Charles eventually returns, notices and likes the tattoo job (which freaks out Lakuna), and tells us that we're going to call back in 30 minutes to arrange the meeting, which we will have at the (unbeknownst to the rest of us) original safehouse. With little time for argument (in which Benoit noticably keeps Stacey between him and Lakuna at all times), we prepare to leave. Trish asks when we'll teach her to project, so that she's not always stuck with bodyguard duty. Stacey answers "we'll talk about it later" with the practice of someone who has long known this question was coming. Charles winks at her behind Stacey's back.
We all go off, projected.
On the way to the safehouse, Stacey shares vitality with Charles (both of whom are not optimistic about the outcome), and some sort of interaction goes on between Chet, Lakuna, and Benoit. Lakuna is finally back to her normal self, and the group continues on. [someone fill in the blank, please!]
We reach the safehouse, where Chet possesses a crack addict and the rest of us enter projected. He converses with the cop, who shows him newspaper clippings of the "new" murders. He also has cyanide. The cop is afraid he's going crazy, and Chet tries to persuade him he's not. After a while, Lakuna manifests, scaring the shit out of the cop and convincing him that he is, in fact, crazy.
As the sound of sirens approach the safehouse, Chet asks Stacey to carry back the cyanide and papers. She walks in, grabs the envelope with the papers and the cyanide baggie, and takes them both into another room. With the idea that she doesn't want to be seen, she attempts to project holding the two items. This, it turns out, is a Very Bad Idea, as the envelope falls to the floor and the cyanide melds with her gauze. Abruptly she stops projecting and goes into cyanide poisoning, screaming for help from Lakuna.
Lakuna rushes over, and Benoit transform into a new person, an arrogant doctor calling himself Dr. Sullivan. Between him, the cop, and Chet, they manage to give Stacey a neutralizer the cop had brought along. Chet picks up Stacey and begins running back, but Dr. Sullivan possesses the cop and takes over. He runs with her back to Casa Ripley, where he gathers Trish, Dave, and Lakuna and pumps her stomach. Charles and Chet do not return.
The session ends with Stacey is out cold, weak but stable. Dr. Sullivan and Lakuna speak, and he tells Lakuna where she can find some cyanide, suggesting that she do so quickly. She says that she would rather wait until the others return, so that they are not worried about her. Stacey asks why Dr. Sullivan appeared. He says, "you realize all of us in our host are here because of certain people. I'm here because I care about Chet, and he cares about you." Immediately afterwards, he turns into Spike. (Unbeknownst to Lakuna or Dr. Sullivan, Chet had asked Charles to perform the ritual to change Benoit into another form, and Charles complied).
Thus ends the session, in the wee hours of the morning on the fifth day after Orpheus falls.
And now it's about an hour and a half since I woke up, and I have done no productive shcoolwork today. Ah well. I hope you have enjoyed this latest installment of the Orpheus madness.
It is the afternoon of the 4th day since Orpheus fell, three hours after Chet's shootout in the park. Stacey and Trish are playing video games, Lakuna is sleeping in her room, Chet is working in his. Benoit is still a dog, and Charles is looking over his notes.
Charles, finally, ready, gathers the group together and wakes Lakuna up from yet another nightmare-filled slumber. The group meets downstairs, with only Benoit, Trish, and Dave absent. Charles explains that he thinks Lakuna's problem is that she has been metaphorically impregnated by the spectre we met at the docks. According to his books, the solution is an exorcism, performed by nine different men of nine different faiths, in a particular order. This exorcism might kill Lakuna, but Charles is adamant that if we do nothing, Lakuna will die as well.
Argument ensues, in typical fashion. Chet and Lakuna are not convinced that Charles has diagnosed the problem correctly. Lakuna thinks the priority should be getting Chet the next ingredient he needs for his cocktail, cyanide, and that she is a second priority. Chet things that Lakuna is overreacting. Charles is offended that no one will believe him [please note, this is the result of an 11 success roll last game].
The conversation shifts to where we might be able to find cyanide on short notice. A number of vague possibilities are mentioned, but we have nothing concrete to go on. We have no phonebook and no access to the internet. Chet begins to ask Ripley whether he can hook us up to the internet, only to discover that Chet is apparently on the nightly news for having reportedly killed a man in the shootout this afternoon. This distresses us all greatly, and Chet tells Ripley to work on getting us access to the internet.
Charles leaves the room and Stacey, Lakuna, and Chet continue their conversation (all of which was overheard by an eavesdropping Trish, incidentally). Lakuna uses her power of Forebode to try to discover where we might get cyanide. [Maery double-botches. Ian, please fill in the blank!]
While she does so, Chet and Stacey discuss what is wrong with Chet. Chet claims that the problem isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Once he runs out of his serum (which will last another few days, tops), he will be unable to project and will go into withdrawl. The only last major ingredient needed is the cyanide.
Charles has meanwhile, unbeknownst to the rest of us, gone off to find a phone book. While outside, he meets a cop who is more than a little off-kilter. He's looking for a man named Jack Kildaire, a dead serial killer from 17 years ago who did in a prison fire. Apparently there have been more murders using his M.O. in recent days. He wants to arrange a meeting with us to discuss information, and offers us access to supplies and hiim using his influence to get the police (who know we're in this district, though not exactly where) to back off a bit. [If I'm missing anything, please fill in the blank!]
Meanwhile, Lakuna wakes up from her Forebode-induced trance and says that she saw nothing of importance. She and Chet get into an argument, and Stacey leaves to Stacey check on Trish. Trish is in her room reading War and Peace, somewhat ironically. Stacey goes down to the workout room.
Chet and Lakuna have an argument upstairs, in which Lakuna acts extremely mood-swingy, at one point yelling and at another point calling Chet pet names. Chet accuses her of lying about what she said she saw in her forebode vision, she accuses him of sleeping with the Queen. With emotions running high, Lakuna finally storms off and Chet goes to his room to look over Charles' notes.
Lakuna comes downstairs, where Spike has been watching Stacey work out, and begins madly screaming and pumelling the punching bag. After her rage has turned into heaving sobs, Stacey tries to calm her down and notices the mood swings as well, though draws less notice to it than Chet. Lakuna says she hates Chet and worries that she'll die a virgin loving the wrong man. Stacey tells her not to be silly. At one point in the conversation, Spike reverts to Benoit, and leaves. He finds Trish, who tells hiim what's been going on, and they play video games.
Lakuna leaves and Stacey goes back upstairs to find Benoit. He's playing video games with Trish and has mostly been informed as to what's going on. It's also clear that Charles has left again, much to Stacey's annoyance.
Lakuna goes upstairs and stands outside Chet's door, trying to decide whether to go in. Benoit meets her and they talk about various things. Before actually entering Chet's room, the front door slams to signal the return of Charles.
Charles enters with a phone book and the news of his conversation with the cop. MUCH argument ensues. Dave informs us of the background: Kildaire was apparently an serial killer, along with 12 other life-sentence prisoners, who Orpheus used as one of their first Black Ops teams under the supervision of Dr. Finias. They thought that holding the bodies hostage would induce the prisoners to cooperate, not taking into account that they had already given up on life and theire bodies. The prisoners set fire to their own prison, burning their bodies, and becoming utterly nasty PLEs (but not spectres). Kildaire has since continued as a serial killer, possessing bodies and raping and killing women. The others are, presumably, at large as well.
The group is unsure of what to do. Only the incentive of getting cyanide makes them interested in this cop at all. The argument finally peters out, with Benoit deciding that Charles will phone the cop back and say we want cyanide as a token of goodwill, that we'll call back in 5 or so hours to arrange a meeting. Strangely, Charles listens and goes off (projected), and no one else is really paying attention, since Chet and Lakuna are arguing again.
After a little more argument thrown in for good measure, Lakuna and Benoit go off for "naps" in their respective rooms. Benoit steps into Lakuna's dreams [Ian, please fill in the blanks] and is thoroughly freaked out. Chet tries (unsuccessfully) to follow Charles. He circles the house a few times, projected, and then returns to his body.
While Benoit's original plan had been to have Charles come back for the intervening five hours, he decides to stay outside because people are mad at him. The rest of us become increasingly frustrated at him, but there is little we can do at this point to find him without further fracturing the group and exposing other people to danger.
Trish sits by Charles' bed, giving his body a makeup job (on his face, tribal celtic tattoos on his arms and legs, and a hanged man tarot card on his arm). The makeup job is strangely reminiscent of Madame Zoe, though only Lakuna realizes this. Trish also seems to know what Charles is doing, just by touching his lifeless body. Stacy doesn't know what this means, and Dave had ensured that Orpheus never touched Trish.
Stacey finally decides to go back downstairs and work out some more. After yet another argument between Lakuna and Chet, Lakuna again comes downstairs and pummels the puniching bag. Stacey begins teaching Lakuna how to actually fight properly, until Lakuna again breaks down. She confesses that she used to be a masochist, and until about 7 years ago was cutting herself. She is worried that she just doesn't want to be healed. Stacey tries to console her but doesn't do a good job of it. Finally Lakuna storms off to get some food, a bath (at Stacey's bewildered protests) and some sleep.
Charles eventually returns, notices and likes the tattoo job (which freaks out Lakuna), and tells us that we're going to call back in 30 minutes to arrange the meeting, which we will have at the (unbeknownst to the rest of us) original safehouse. With little time for argument (in which Benoit noticably keeps Stacey between him and Lakuna at all times), we prepare to leave. Trish asks when we'll teach her to project, so that she's not always stuck with bodyguard duty. Stacey answers "we'll talk about it later" with the practice of someone who has long known this question was coming. Charles winks at her behind Stacey's back.
We all go off, projected.
On the way to the safehouse, Stacey shares vitality with Charles (both of whom are not optimistic about the outcome), and some sort of interaction goes on between Chet, Lakuna, and Benoit. Lakuna is finally back to her normal self, and the group continues on. [someone fill in the blank, please!]
We reach the safehouse, where Chet possesses a crack addict and the rest of us enter projected. He converses with the cop, who shows him newspaper clippings of the "new" murders. He also has cyanide. The cop is afraid he's going crazy, and Chet tries to persuade him he's not. After a while, Lakuna manifests, scaring the shit out of the cop and convincing him that he is, in fact, crazy.
As the sound of sirens approach the safehouse, Chet asks Stacey to carry back the cyanide and papers. She walks in, grabs the envelope with the papers and the cyanide baggie, and takes them both into another room. With the idea that she doesn't want to be seen, she attempts to project holding the two items. This, it turns out, is a Very Bad Idea, as the envelope falls to the floor and the cyanide melds with her gauze. Abruptly she stops projecting and goes into cyanide poisoning, screaming for help from Lakuna.
Lakuna rushes over, and Benoit transform into a new person, an arrogant doctor calling himself Dr. Sullivan. Between him, the cop, and Chet, they manage to give Stacey a neutralizer the cop had brought along. Chet picks up Stacey and begins running back, but Dr. Sullivan possesses the cop and takes over. He runs with her back to Casa Ripley, where he gathers Trish, Dave, and Lakuna and pumps her stomach. Charles and Chet do not return.
The session ends with Stacey is out cold, weak but stable. Dr. Sullivan and Lakuna speak, and he tells Lakuna where she can find some cyanide, suggesting that she do so quickly. She says that she would rather wait until the others return, so that they are not worried about her. Stacey asks why Dr. Sullivan appeared. He says, "you realize all of us in our host are here because of certain people. I'm here because I care about Chet, and he cares about you." Immediately afterwards, he turns into Spike. (Unbeknownst to Lakuna or Dr. Sullivan, Chet had asked Charles to perform the ritual to change Benoit into another form, and Charles complied).
Thus ends the session, in the wee hours of the morning on the fifth day after Orpheus falls.
And now it's about an hour and a half since I woke up, and I have done no productive shcoolwork today. Ah well. I hope you have enjoyed this latest installment of the Orpheus madness.
