Late in the deliberations the phone rings, Mac answers it and waves at Luccio. She answers and then frowns, speaks, pauses, then listens for a moment and scowls.
"Hold a moment." She says into the phone before turning to face all of you and the hand full of other patrons. "I'm afraid I must ask all of you to leave for a little while, this is a private call and may take a while, and I may be meeting with someone here who would not wish to be known... go get some air, as they say, 'take a hike'."
A little taken a back, you rise and leave. The two wardens follow you out and trail you for a while to make sure no one stays nearby. When you return an hour later Luccio looks angry.
"Simply put, I have bad news. The first piece of bad news is that I and these wardens must leave at once. The second piece of bad news is that someone has just recently activated a fairly powerful and vicious ritual and our divinations indicate each of you has been named as part of it, as a player in the ritual, as have six items, one of which is now in my possession. I..."
"... Wait! What do mean named? Named for what?" One of you says.
"Simply put, someone has dusted off an old and nasty black magic ritual. It permits you to name a set number of players along with specifying certain items in proximity, usually items of significance, to serve as the channels for the ritual. You have a limited period of time to find all those items and perform the cancellation of the ritual or you will all die. However, whoever controls the ritual will have access to a serious amount of power when the ritual hits its peak. Anyone can cast it, if they are a player, even just one person, but if multiple people are there the majority will control it, and everyone involved will briefly be aware of every other player's mind. So if you haven't rooted out the conspirators by then, you'd likely know who they were, and they'd know you knew so if they had control they'd use the power of the ritual to kill you as you should do to them."
She sighs, "The only piece of goods news is that Warden Dresden will be returning before much longer, and he has a special talent for finding things. He has been told what is going on and is certain he will arrive before the deadline with enough time to track down any items you haven't found, or that get lost or stolen, the designated items can't be removed from the gameboard or destroyed and he'd likely be able to locate them and retrieve them in short order, but he can't use them or be part of the ritual as he is not a designated player. This is good, because the ritual is designed to unleash some very bad stuff if it is not canceled, likely hundreds if not thousands will die. That's the nature of the ritual, you see if a group of people want to use the spell they either have to be willing to die or designate other people as players who might not feel overjoyed at perishing and unleashing a vicious maelstrom in the process."
"This is very bad." Someone mutters.
She nods, "And it gets worse, you see, we think this may be the work of someone named Nicodemus Archleone, or one of his ilk, the Order of the Blackened Denarius, a vicious group of very powerful and very evil people. If not them, then possibly some necromancers, our divinations on the matter were inconclusive. Why they would designate any of you, as opposed to some random people they kidnapped off the streets, I have no idea. I have to go now, I've written down what I could while I waited for your return, hopefully it will help, good luck."
"Hold a moment." She says into the phone before turning to face all of you and the hand full of other patrons. "I'm afraid I must ask all of you to leave for a little while, this is a private call and may take a while, and I may be meeting with someone here who would not wish to be known... go get some air, as they say, 'take a hike'."
A little taken a back, you rise and leave. The two wardens follow you out and trail you for a while to make sure no one stays nearby. When you return an hour later Luccio looks angry.
"Simply put, I have bad news. The first piece of bad news is that I and these wardens must leave at once. The second piece of bad news is that someone has just recently activated a fairly powerful and vicious ritual and our divinations indicate each of you has been named as part of it, as a player in the ritual, as have six items, one of which is now in my possession. I..."
"... Wait! What do mean named? Named for what?" One of you says.
"Simply put, someone has dusted off an old and nasty black magic ritual. It permits you to name a set number of players along with specifying certain items in proximity, usually items of significance, to serve as the channels for the ritual. You have a limited period of time to find all those items and perform the cancellation of the ritual or you will all die. However, whoever controls the ritual will have access to a serious amount of power when the ritual hits its peak. Anyone can cast it, if they are a player, even just one person, but if multiple people are there the majority will control it, and everyone involved will briefly be aware of every other player's mind. So if you haven't rooted out the conspirators by then, you'd likely know who they were, and they'd know you knew so if they had control they'd use the power of the ritual to kill you as you should do to them."
She sighs, "The only piece of goods news is that Warden Dresden will be returning before much longer, and he has a special talent for finding things. He has been told what is going on and is certain he will arrive before the deadline with enough time to track down any items you haven't found, or that get lost or stolen, the designated items can't be removed from the gameboard or destroyed and he'd likely be able to locate them and retrieve them in short order, but he can't use them or be part of the ritual as he is not a designated player. This is good, because the ritual is designed to unleash some very bad stuff if it is not canceled, likely hundreds if not thousands will die. That's the nature of the ritual, you see if a group of people want to use the spell they either have to be willing to die or designate other people as players who might not feel overjoyed at perishing and unleashing a vicious maelstrom in the process."
"This is very bad." Someone mutters.
She nods, "And it gets worse, you see, we think this may be the work of someone named Nicodemus Archleone, or one of his ilk, the Order of the Blackened Denarius, a vicious group of very powerful and very evil people. If not them, then possibly some necromancers, our divinations on the matter were inconclusive. Why they would designate any of you, as opposed to some random people they kidnapped off the streets, I have no idea. I have to go now, I've written down what I could while I waited for your return, hopefully it will help, good luck."
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
Game 23: The Dresden Files Day 3 - Grave Peril
- 28/08/2011 07:48:46 PM
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Well, well. I had an interesting night.
- 28/08/2011 09:25:18 PM
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ok
- 28/08/2011 09:35:02 PM
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Indeed it was.
- 28/08/2011 10:00:28 PM
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tbf
- 28/08/2011 10:24:10 PM
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Re: tbf
- 28/08/2011 10:40:29 PM
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Re: tbf
- 28/08/2011 11:50:38 PM
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*NM*
1. Awesome. 2. If we even get a hint there's a third group, I'm voting to lynch you
- 28/08/2011 11:15:33 PM
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Lara Raith
- 28/08/2011 11:33:14 PM
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Re: Lara Raith
- 29/08/2011 01:31:50 PM
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He must have misinterpreted something when he was reading his Dawn Message
- 29/08/2011 03:53:10 PM
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Re: 1. Awesome. 2. If we even get a hint there's a third group, I'm voting to lynch you
- 29/08/2011 01:41:27 PM
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what's going to happen to the game with the outages going on? *NM*
- 30/08/2011 06:29:54 PM
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right, my explanation
- 30/08/2011 10:17:00 PM
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Hey, that's right! Why aren't we hypocopping!? We should do that. *NM*
- 31/08/2011 01:22:13 AM
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Okay.
- 31/08/2011 03:03:41 AM
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Basically, it gives the cop camoflauge so he can tell us his claims
- 31/08/2011 03:34:41 AM
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Right.
- 31/08/2011 01:36:42 PM
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Randomly innocent or guilty, too.
- 31/08/2011 02:58:10 PM
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For this game
- 31/08/2011 03:42:40 PM
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That is pretty much the case, and let me make a few notes on that
- 31/08/2011 06:37:58 PM
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So, has anything else happened last night?
- 31/08/2011 04:50:26 PM
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Okay
- 02/09/2011 12:16:31 AM
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She's lying.
- 02/09/2011 12:33:49 AM
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Re: She's lying.
- 02/09/2011 02:47:04 AM
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I think he means he was targetted Night 1... right?
- 02/09/2011 03:54:32 AM
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Interlude
- 02/09/2011 09:04:38 AM
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Contest
- 02/09/2011 09:04:43 AM
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So, I'm confused. If the scum get more objects, do they win?
- 02/09/2011 02:11:24 PM
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Vote Record
- 02/09/2011 09:12:31 AM
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ooc: guess what guys!
- 02/09/2011 06:41:06 PM
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- 03/09/2011 02:24:15 AM
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- 03/09/2011 02:24:15 AM
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Re: Game 23: The Dresden Files Day 3 - Grave Peril
- 04/09/2011 03:26:50 AM
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Yeah, I investigated Cameron Massey.
- 04/09/2011 03:57:24 AM
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Re: Yeah, I investigated Cameron Massey.
- 04/09/2011 04:22:34 AM
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I got an item, but not one of the ritual items.
- 04/09/2011 06:19:11 AM
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I figured I'd head back to Decker
- 04/09/2011 03:48:02 PM
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I talked to Decker as well
- 05/09/2011 12:29:49 AM
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Cool cool- I imagine one of us will get the Hand tonight, then. *NM*
- 05/09/2011 04:24:55 AM
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Lynch Pending - Duel available
- 05/09/2011 08:02:43 PM
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i'll challenge DK to a duel *NM*
- 05/09/2011 08:17:39 PM
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Awesome. What are attributes do you pick? *NM*
- 05/09/2011 09:26:21 PM
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skill
- 05/09/2011 09:39:58 PM
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Re: skill
- 05/09/2011 10:32:17 PM
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Re: skill
- 05/09/2011 10:32:53 PM
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You do actually have to give her a second option
- 05/09/2011 11:04:10 PM
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ok skill and flesh then *NM*
- 05/09/2011 11:14:36 PM
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As much as I want to pick Skill for that ray-diant series of puns
- 06/09/2011 01:52:30 AM
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Twilight
- 07/09/2011 02:38:37 AM
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That was the coolest shark attack I've ever seen
- 07/09/2011 03:46:38 AM
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Damn thing cuts off halfway through. Instead there's just some still frame.
- 07/09/2011 07:37:11 AM
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darn it, i shoulda never duel wielded, it ended badly for michael palin too
- 07/09/2011 03:11:47 PM
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Some general bookkeeping...
- 07/09/2011 06:03:30 AM
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Yeah, I'm willing to mod if Rana doesn't. *NM*
- 07/09/2011 07:38:22 AM
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And if they are both incapacitated by some kind of plague, I'm willing to step up to the plate *NM*
- 07/09/2011 01:26:06 PM
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I will want to mod in the future...
- 07/09/2011 04:55:16 PM
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Don't worry.
- 07/09/2011 04:57:43 PM
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Re: Don't worry.
- 07/09/2011 06:26:31 PM
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its not all that hard
- 07/09/2011 06:39:35 PM
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Your games were pretty good.
- 07/09/2011 07:08:33 PM
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Re: Your games were pretty good.
- 07/09/2011 07:14:08 PM
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you could mod if we had a mafia gathering!! 
*NM*
- 07/09/2011 09:32:09 PM
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*NM*
- 07/09/2011 09:32:09 PM
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This needs to happen. *NM*
- 08/09/2011 01:21:16 PM
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That sounds fun.
- 07/09/2011 09:35:21 PM
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