[Wed Jun 16 12:14:13 2021] Thermite >> I've seen you wear a tie.
[Wed Jun 16 12:14:31 2021] Firbolg >> Shock and horror. Not a tie.
[Wed Jun 16 12:14:34 2021] Char >> Recluse, fight me.
[Wed Jun 16 12:14:48 2021] Char >> Deck me in the face and call me a stupid fucker.
[Wed Jun 16 12:15:08 2021] Firbolg >> Ooooooooft
[Wed Jun 16 12:15:34 2021] Char >> Ooh I've never fought a mage
[Wed Jun 16 12:16:50 2021] Charon >> Char, don't. Just the other day I saw Recluse use magic that I've only ever seen once before, when it ripped my car in half.
[Wed Jun 16 12:17:07 2021] Firbolg >> Often does with Char. She's got some repression issues. And that's coming from the Catholic
[Wed Jun 16 12:17:20 2021] Thermite >> Eh, sounds like an excuse to me.
[Wed Jun 16 12:17:38 2021] Thermite >> The tie, not getting tossed around by our archmage
[Wed Jun 16 12:18:43 2021] Char >> She's not gonna rip me in half
[Wed Jun 16 12:18:43 2021] Firbolg >> I'm sure the accent helps Charon
[Wed Jun 16 12:18:58 2021] Charon >> Y'all keep saying that
[Wed Jun 16 12:19:37 2021] Charon >> But in the four months I've been in Seattle, I've been hit on a grand total of... Three times? Four maybe?
[Wed Jun 16 12:20:20 2021] Nine >> Smart man.
[Wed Jun 16 12:20:23 2021] Charon >> You know what Char, go on, do it
[Wed Jun 16 12:20:32 2021] Charon >> See if I care.
[Wed Jun 16 12:21:03 2021] Char >> I mean, if you kill me that's pretty poor form
[Wed Jun 16 12:23:16 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Recluse:|| Where are you from though, back in Ireland I mean? I never copped the accent.||>
[Wed Jun 16 12:23:21 2021] Firbolg >> What's that GT?
[Wed Jun 16 12:27:20 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Recluse: ||Huh I'm only from Louth myself, look at that.||>
[Wed Jun 16 12:33:51 2021] Nine >> Char *is* our resident expert on poor form
[Wed Jun 16 12:34:39 2021] Firbolg >> Oooohhh, shots fired.
[Wed Jun 16 12:35:02 2021] Charon >> Are they really though?
[Wed Jun 16 12:35:45 2021] Nine >> Nah, not yet. Casual "bants"
[Wed Jun 16 12:44:13 2021] Charon >> Pay Merc to explain it to you maybe. Merc knows how to translate big words into small words.
[Wed Jun 16 12:45:03 2021] Thermite >> Nah, yeah, I might. Like, I've been writing my spells in a text file, and they've worked. I don't need to pay for squid jizz and scribble on dead trees
[Wed Jun 16 12:45:41 2021] Charon >> I mean, that's basically the same thing Merc
[Wed Jun 16 12:46:13 2021] Charon >> Exactly what I was about to say
[Wed Jun 16 12:46:40 2021] Charon >> Hehehe
[Wed Jun 16 12:47:03 2021] Charon >> See, now *you're* doing it.
[Wed Jun 16 12:47:23 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, nah, miss me on mind magic.
[Wed Jun 16 12:47:37 2021] Charon >> It's a joke, Thermite
[Wed Jun 16 12:47:56 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, cheers, Merc.
[Wed Jun 16 12:48:07 2021] Charon >> Merc happens to know mind magic, and also has a habit of saying exactly what I'm thinking five seconds before I say it.
[Wed Jun 16 12:48:19 2021] Thermite >> Its just cause you're easy to read, mate.
[Wed Jun 16 12:48:32 2021] Thermite >> Joking.
[Wed Jun 16 12:48:39 2021] Charon >> Then what am I thinking about now then? 😄
[Wed Jun 16 12:49:09 2021] Thermite >> Let me think. Beer and your cars?
[Wed Jun 16 12:49:23 2021] Nine >> [wheeze.ani]
[Wed Jun 16 12:49:24 2021] Charon >> <PM Merc: ||I see you ain't got a 100% hit rate.||>
[Wed Jun 16 12:49:46 2021] Charon >> Merc gets a full point, you only get half a point Tezza
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:07 2021] Thermite >> Look, I said you're easy to read, j didn't say I'm literate
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:17 2021] Firbolg >> Tezza makes him sound like the brand of some wee girls first drink
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:20 2021] Thermite >> I'm happy with half a point.
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:26 2021] Charon >> You also lose that half point because Merc got there before you did
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:33 2021] Thermite >> Fack
[Wed Jun 16 12:50:58 2021] Thermite >> Eh, I'm Tezza, he's Caz, you're Fizza, or Firo
[Wed Jun 16 12:51:25 2021] Firbolg >> I mean, I'm not going to lie, I do laugh a little when some people shorten it to Fir
[Wed Jun 16 12:51:25 2021] Thermite >> See the point above about general literacy
[Wed Jun 16 12:51:27 2021] Charon >> Fizza sounds better than Fiz
[Wed Jun 16 12:51:39 2021] Charon >> Gonna go with Fizza now
[Wed Jun 16 12:51:58 2021] Nine >> Big 'Bolg or gtfo
[Wed Jun 16 12:52:07 2021] Firbolg >> Hahaha
[Wed Jun 16 12:52:17 2021] Thermite >> Bolgo sounds right to me
[Wed Jun 16 12:52:20 2021] Firbolg >> And that just means Big Bag
[Wed Jun 16 12:53:08 2021] Thermite >> Correct my maths, but if Fir is man, and Bolg is bag, then Firbolg's bawbag?
[Wed Jun 16 12:53:21 2021] Firbolg >> Before you ask Thermite. The Fir Bolg, or the Men of the Bags were the mythical first inhabitants of Ireland.
[Wed Jun 16 12:53:42 2021] Thermite >> Fuck
[Wed Jun 16 12:53:48 2021] Thermite >> You reckon they were real?
[Wed Jun 16 12:53:56 2021] Firbolg >> Well, actually, in fairness that's not entirely true
[Wed Jun 16 12:54:00 2021] Thermite >> Like the elves and the dragons?
[Wed Jun 16 12:54:11 2021] Firbolg >> There's a couple of interpretations, some say they were the fourth.
[Wed Jun 16 12:54:28 2021] Firbolg >> Some say they were greeks, honestly it's a bit of a jumbled mess.
[Wed Jun 16 12:56:27 2021] Firbolg >> I'm no seanchaí, I just know the current use of the term firbolg and a few stories.
[Wed Jun 16 12:56:51 2021] Nine >> Considering your profession, Fiz, being a bag man isn't *wrong*
[Wed Jun 16 12:57:02 2021] Firbolg >> True enough!
[Wed Jun 16 12:58:18 2021] Char >> It's not poor form! Sheesh, you people act like playfighting is the end of the world.
[Wed Jun 16 12:58:24 2021] Char >> ... sparring, whatever
[Wed Jun 16 12:58:39 2021] Charon >> Maybe if you were fighting Napster
[Wed Jun 16 12:58:43 2021] Charon >> Or Purple even
[Wed Jun 16 12:59:12 2021] Thermite >> Like, I'm not the cunt to talk about using the right words, but even Id give the difference between fight and spar
[Wed Jun 16 12:59:45 2021] Char >> Why would I randomly want to fuck up someone on the hub
[Wed Jun 16 13:00:15 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thermite: ||Today, in Ireland, the word firbolg is typically used by Danaan elves to refer to humans. It's not a compliment.||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:01:01 2021] Nine >> Sparring ia fun, Char, I don't disagree at all, 99% just giving you shit.
[Wed Jun 16 13:01:08 2021] Char >> Fight me
[Wed Jun 16 13:01:15 2021] Nine >> To kill them and take their name?
[Wed Jun 16 13:01:24 2021] Firbolg >> Ooooohhh
[Wed Jun 16 13:01:28 2021] Char >> Okay you've got me there
[Wed Jun 16 13:02:06 2021] Charon >> Why would you randomly challenge Recluse to a fight?
[Wed Jun 16 13:02:17 2021] Thermite >> <PM Firbolg: ||Gotcha. Danaan are the Tir ones, yeah? Might not show, but I didn't really get a good geopolitics schooling.||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:02:22 2021] Char >> Good practice?
[Wed Jun 16 13:02:43 2021] Nine >> Bad practice, Char.
[Wed Jun 16 13:03:02 2021] Char >> All practice is good practice
[Wed Jun 16 13:03:05 2021] Charon >> That's like standing in traffic to practice getting hit by cars.
[Wed Jun 16 13:03:36 2021] Char >> Also good practice
[Wed Jun 16 13:03:41 2021] Charon >> You're not gonna learn anything, you'll just get fucked up.
[Wed Jun 16 13:04:03 2021] Charon >> You know what, I'm going to just stop now
[Wed Jun 16 13:04:17 2021] Charon >> Go fight her, get killed, see if I give a fuck.
[Wed Jun 16 13:04:21 2021] Charon >> Someone change the topic.
[Wed Jun 16 13:05:29 2021] Thermite >> To be fair, Caz, if I wanted to learn how to fight with katanas, I'd ask some of the Japanese razors to give me some tips, cause they know it best.
[Wed Jun 16 13:05:50 2021] Thermite >> If someone wants to learn how to defend against magic, they'd probably want to ask the best cunt around, who sure as fuck ain't me
[Wed Jun 16 13:06:00 2021] Thermite >> But, again, the difference between a fight and a spar
[Wed Jun 16 13:06:34 2021] Firbolg >> Dumb question but can you even 'hold back' as a mage when it comes to combat magic?
[Wed Jun 16 13:07:13 2021] Thermite >> <PM Firbolg: ||Unironic monarchy, then? Wankers. We just have plates with Queen Caroline down here, and only cause she's well fit.||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:08:07 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, it's pretty easy to hold back. I can kick you in the Astral taint to have you reeeling on the ground, or try and wring your aura like a soy processor.
[Wed Jun 16 13:10:21 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h>! login
[Wed Jun 16 13:10:24 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thermite: ||Technically it's a 'Theocractic Republic' but theocratic oligarchy is more accurate.||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:10:27 2021] Firbolg >> Hey Hex
[Wed Jun 16 13:10:40 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> Good Evening Seattle!
[Wed Jun 16 13:10:49 2021] Firbolg >> How're you keeping?
[Wed Jun 16 13:11:16 2021] Flatline >> ||6 am in seattle hexi, drink your coffee||
[Wed Jun 16 13:11:25 2021] Charon >> Hexi! 👋
[Wed Jun 16 13:11:28 2021] Thermite >> <PM Firbolg: ||Wait, theocratic? Who's their god?||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:12:03 2021] Nine >> Welcome in, Hexi
[Wed Jun 16 13:12:13 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Wait... It's morning
[Wed Jun 16 13:12:24 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Where did my night go!
[Wed Jun 16 13:12:47 2021] Charon >> I assume you slept
[Wed Jun 16 13:13:48 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That might actually be the reason
[Wed Jun 16 13:14:15 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> What Flat said that is
[Wed Jun 16 13:14:20 2021] Char >> Hexi more like Lexi
[Wed Jun 16 13:14:29 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ruffels!
[Wed Jun 16 13:14:44 2021] Char >> Hello!
[Wed Jun 16 13:15:15 2021] Flatline >> Practicing against magic is kind of strange task
[Wed Jun 16 13:15:45 2021] Char >> See
[Wed Jun 16 13:15:50 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh it's not really something you can practice against super well
[Wed Jun 16 13:15:52 2021] Char >> It's important
[Wed Jun 16 13:15:54 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thermite: ||Technically, the Path of the Wheel, in theory we have freedom of religion, but it's not for nothing that SINlessness is high among Catholics and other faiths. They don't usually send in security teams to deal with problems, far easier to starve people or deny them medical care to make them 'see the light'. No better than Trevelyan letting us starve during the famine to 'teach us a lesson'. I'm going to stop now because I'll set off, meet me for a beer some time I'll give you a full run down.||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:16:10 2021] Char >> How you gonna know what you're up against unless people throw it at you
[Wed Jun 16 13:16:13 2021] Flatline >> Like, you're not going to be more resistant to turning to goo because you've had it cast on you a bunch
[Wed Jun 16 13:16:25 2021] Char >> But you'll know what to do
[Wed Jun 16 13:16:47 2021] Char >> You won't panic, you won't freeze
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:17 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I mean seeing spells before you have to deal with them might be good, but you don't want them cast on you
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:26 2021] Charon >> ^^^
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:36 2021] Thermite >> <PM Firbolg: ||Elves are weird, man. But sure - Living is for learning, mate. Looking for any excuse to get out of Renton, so buzz me whenever, I'll get the first round||>
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:40 2021] Flatline >> Generally the idea is the same, break line of sight, don't give them time to cast anything, know their spell list as best you can to prepare for them
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:45 2021] Charon >> More mind magery
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:47 2021] Flatline >> Have a mage on had that can counterspell
[Wed Jun 16 13:17:55 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> 👆
[Wed Jun 16 13:18:14 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But also for example, since I do quite a bit of illusions
[Wed Jun 16 13:18:24 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Knowing how to spot them or look for them
[Wed Jun 16 13:18:35 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, that one is important, but speaking from experience, its a lot like wearing armour - not going to get all of it.
[Wed Jun 16 13:18:59 2021] Char >> getting shot can kill you, even by accident
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:11 2021] Char >> can a mage even kill you by accident?
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:26 2021] Flatline >> Yes
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:32 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yes
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:38 2021] Thermite >> It's hard-ish, though
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:47 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yes
[Wed Jun 16 13:19:55 2021] Flatline >> Depends on the person
[Wed Jun 16 13:20:09 2021] Flatline >> Lots of folks can die from just falling over the wrong way
[Wed Jun 16 13:20:47 2021] Char >> depends on the person getting zapped? or the zapper?
[Wed Jun 16 13:21:04 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Like I don't actually have any ways to kill you
[Wed Jun 16 13:21:10 2021] Firbolg >> Honestly Flats right. People underestimate how fragile they are at times.
[Wed Jun 16 13:21:11 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> *but*
[Wed Jun 16 13:21:23 2021] Char >> Perfect!
[Wed Jun 16 13:21:27 2021] Char >> Hexi, fuck my shit up
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:01 2021] Char >> anyway, on an unrelated topic
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:07 2021] Char >> can you believe some people think i'm a masochist??
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:08 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> If I send up in a fight I'll send you flying into things, and it might physically hurt you if I'm not careful
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:20 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> You are Ruffels
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:21 2021] Flatline >> Yep, simple little fear illusion can cause someone to run somewhere they shouldn't
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:32 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That is also a way yes Flat
[Wed Jun 16 13:22:36 2021] Firbolg >> See, Hex doesn't lie.
[Wed Jun 16 13:23:20 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I also summon spirit friends, and though I ask them not to kill you, they might still cause permanent harm
[Wed Jun 16 13:23:49 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, so pick me, I'm right careful.
[Wed Jun 16 13:24:15 2021] Thermite >> I just put your aura through the pressure washer.
[Wed Jun 16 13:24:34 2021] Flatline >> Saw a spirit engulf someone once
[Wed Jun 16 13:24:39 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh that's true Merc
[Wed Jun 16 13:24:46 2021] Flatline >> He was burnt to a damn crisp but he was alive
[Wed Jun 16 13:25:03 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh I don't have fire spirits able to answer my call
[Wed Jun 16 13:25:05 2021] Firbolg >> Jesus is that a gunshot outside?
[Wed Jun 16 13:25:19 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I've been trying to get into contact with them though
[Wed Jun 16 13:25:54 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Usually you will find me with a spirit from the plane of air or water
[Wed Jun 16 13:25:58 2021] Thermite >> I've been swallowed by a water spirit twice, first time it was like I was being in a whirlpool. Managed to send her back to wherever she came from, but I was spewing water for the next day
[Wed Jun 16 13:26:15 2021] Thermite >> Fuck, hope Bolgos okay
[Wed Jun 16 13:26:36 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> 👆
[Wed Jun 16 13:27:26 2021] Thermite >> Cool and normal.
[Wed Jun 16 13:27:34 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But you might notice, both of those won't kill you by engulfing unless it's continued after you have gone unconscious
[Wed Jun 16 13:27:56 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It will hurt through
[Wed Jun 16 13:28:16 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Drowning while standing or being unable to breathe
[Wed Jun 16 13:28:44 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, do not recommend
[Wed Jun 16 13:28:50 2021] Thermite >> Happened to me twice in one week.
[Wed Jun 16 13:29:32 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yes it is Merc
[Wed Jun 16 13:34:05 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I know cause I asked one of my friends to do it to me *once*
[Wed Jun 16 13:34:49 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I wanted to make sure that it was really not going to kill someone right away
[Wed Jun 16 13:35:12 2021] Thermite >> That's good on ya
[Wed Jun 16 13:39:42 2021] Thermite >> That's a fair way to work, yeah.
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:00 2021] Charon >> Ah bugger
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:06 2021] Charon >> Gotta go
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:17 2021] Charon >> No-one die while I'm gone.
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:27 2021] Charon >> //!logout
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:46 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I really try to make sure I don't kill people
[Wed Jun 16 13:40:56 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And I go out of my way to do so
[Wed Jun 16 13:41:11 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And I'm pretty open about that
[Wed Jun 16 13:41:28 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And tell the people I work with about it
[Wed Jun 16 13:41:39 2021] Thermite >> Later mate, here's hoping Intermediate Phantasmagorical Theurgy doesn't kill me
[Wed Jun 16 13:42:28 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>I have found the most horrific audiobook, but it's so cool
[Wed Jun 16 13:42:46 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Hello Guilty!
[Wed Jun 16 13:42:54 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>Hi
[Wed Jun 16 13:42:58 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But yahh I just don't kill
[Wed Jun 16 13:43:17 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And I try not to kill by accident
[Wed Jun 16 13:44:43 2021] Thermite >> Nah, yeah, I got ya, Hexi. We slabbed some cunts recently, but that's cause they were cunts.
[Wed Jun 16 13:44:51 2021] Thermite >> Whatcha listening to, GT
[Wed Jun 16 13:45:19 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I know people on here so that, and I don't try to stop that
[Wed Jun 16 13:45:28 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imNtSPM3-r4
[Wed Jun 16 13:45:33 2021] Charon >> ((GT just wants to talk about his book, and y'all are talking about killing. 😆 ))
[Wed Jun 16 13:45:42 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I just don't kill and some people have problems with that
[Wed Jun 16 13:46:06 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>Killing is not my trade, simple as
[Wed Jun 16 13:47:54 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>I love those things
[Wed Jun 16 13:48:27 2021] Thermite >> I could see you as a flesh square
[Wed Jun 16 13:48:42 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I like fiction
[Wed Jun 16 13:51:05 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>Speculative Zoology is fun. Especially the old stuff since they didn't account for...Well, magic...
[Wed Jun 16 13:52:00 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Magic makes things funny
[Wed Jun 16 13:52:16 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, drop bears used to be a joke, the old folks used to say
[Wed Jun 16 13:52:45 2021] Thermite >> It's got a sense of humour, thata for sure
[Wed Jun 16 13:53:13 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Same with Jackalopes
[Wed Jun 16 13:53:26 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Actually I don't know if that's he same
[Wed Jun 16 13:53:29 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> The*
[Wed Jun 16 13:53:44 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> They probably are around now
[Wed Jun 16 13:53:54 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Cause nature is scary
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:01 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And magic is scary
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:16 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>Holy fuck
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:24 2021] Thermite >> I mean, there's two types of jackalopea
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:30 2021] Thermite >> Theres the wolpertinger
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:50 2021] Thermite >> And a rabbit or a hare with a horned growth cause of some fungal shit
[Wed Jun 16 13:54:58 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, GT, give it a kiss
[Wed Jun 16 13:55:50 2021] Charon >> Nasty fuckers
[Wed Jun 16 13:55:58 2021] Thermite >> It might only turn you into a weredingo
[Wed Jun 16 13:56:14 2021] Charon >> I'd rather hit a wombat with my car than one of those
[Wed Jun 16 13:56:24 2021] Charon >> And least the wombat will only break my car
[Wed Jun 16 13:56:41 2021] Nine >> Paracritters are the worst. At least the angry ones that want my bones are.
[Wed Jun 16 13:56:49 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, I've only heard about them, I never had to go that deep into the wilds.
[Wed Jun 16 13:56:56 2021] Charon >> ((I forgot Charon was logged out))
[Wed Jun 16 13:57:18 2021] Thermite >> ((your Australian sense was tingling, was it))
[Wed Jun 16 13:57:41 2021] Thermite >> I mean, most of the time, you can just go around them, or scare them
[Wed Jun 16 13:58:07 2021] Flatline >> Said it before and will say it again, get dire wolf piss
[Wed Jun 16 13:58:11 2021] Thermite >> And there's precious few more dangerous than a troll on kamikaze swinging a machinegun at you
[Wed Jun 16 13:58:44 2021] Nine >> Same, Merc. Bad fucking time to be frank.
[Wed Jun 16 13:58:51 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I haven't dealt with paracritters before
[Wed Jun 16 13:59:21 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>How?
[Wed Jun 16 13:59:26 2021] Thermite >> That's a right hellbeast, that one
[Wed Jun 16 13:59:52 2021] Thermite >> Didn't know there are any around Seattle
[Wed Jun 16 14:00:01 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Well never on a job
[Wed Jun 16 14:00:49 2021] Thermite >> Worst I had to fight was a piasma down in Cali
[Wed Jun 16 14:00:53 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Had a job with a cerberus-corgi once, they are really cute
[Wed Jun 16 14:01:53 2021] Thermite >> Oh, I've seen the Cerberus purse doggies
[Wed Jun 16 14:02:06 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Wanna see a picture?
[Wed Jun 16 14:02:10 2021] Thermite >> Fuck yeah
[Wed Jun 16 14:02:25 2021] Thermite >> Righteous.
[Wed Jun 16 14:02:31 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> *Adorable*
[Wed Jun 16 14:04:43 2021] Thermite >> We had a case in Cali, some betahead was trying to breed hellhound Pomeranians.
[Wed Jun 16 14:05:16 2021] Thermite >> Didn't really work out, but there was this little hellhound puppy that sneezed sparks
[Wed Jun 16 14:05:19 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That sounds like a strange mix of adorable and nightmare fuel
[Wed Jun 16 14:05:28 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Okay that sounds cute
[Wed Jun 16 14:06:10 2021] Guilt-Trip >> >>Now I want a pet
[Wed Jun 16 14:06:36 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Pets are nice, but in out profession it's a lot of responsibility
[Wed Jun 16 14:08:07 2021] Thermite >> I mean, hellhounds are right clever bastards if you luck out
[Wed Jun 16 14:08:18 2021] Thermite >> But you need to get a flame resistant kennel
[Wed Jun 16 14:09:31 2021] Thermite >> A few of them are awakened Shepherds and dobermans, aren't they?
[Wed Jun 16 14:10:01 2021] Thermite >> Haven't really looked where they come from, to be honest.
[Wed Jun 16 14:12:26 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Some animals can't survive in the free anymore sadly
[Wed Jun 16 14:12:36 2021] Thermite >> And some survive too well
[Wed Jun 16 14:12:42 2021] Thermite >> Nah, I getcha
[Wed Jun 16 14:12:52 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But they shouldent be chained up
[Wed Jun 16 14:13:23 2021] Thermite >> Wait... Adversary... I know that one.
[Wed Jun 16 14:16:15 2021] Thermite >> Nah, what matters most is the mage, mate.
[Wed Jun 16 14:16:49 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> My mentor is quite well known
[Wed Jun 16 14:16:55 2021] Thermite >> I met this slick gambler type from Hong Kong, slickest guy I've seen, and he was a Rat follower
[Wed Jun 16 14:17:31 2021] Thermite >> What I reckon, most people call my guy Lion, but he's Ol Ned to me
[Wed Jun 16 14:18:19 2021] Thermite >> And according to Good Omens, the devil ain't that bad
[Wed Jun 16 14:18:33 2021] Nine >> Merc swayed my previously biased opinion on followers on the Adversary. I let one bad apple spoil my view, and was incorrect
[Wed Jun 16 14:18:42 2021] Thermite >> Don't know what personal spin ya got on it.
[Wed Jun 16 14:19:36 2021] Thermite >> Wait, who's yours, Hexi?
[Wed Jun 16 14:23:27 2021] Thermite >> Nah, I can get that. You need someone in charge sometimes, but I'm not the one doing it anymore
[Wed Jun 16 14:23:36 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Well my mentor have resently told me I should be more open about him
[Wed Jun 16 14:23:57 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But I won't say on the Haven openly
[Wed Jun 16 14:26:19 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> <pm Thermite: ||I've worked with you, you don't seem like a person to abuse this information. My mentor is the creator, innovator and caretaker, it's  Fire-bringer||>
[Wed Jun 16 14:31:24 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I've been in a guiding role a lot
[Wed Jun 16 14:31:40 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Just giving helpful advice and direction
[Wed Jun 16 14:31:42 2021] Nine >> Leadership isn't always authority. It can be, but a focused, well-intentioned leader is there only to support, direct, and inspire.
[Wed Jun 16 14:34:32 2021] Thermite >> <PM Hexi: ||After that spirit slip up, you mean! Righteous, Firebringer sounds like someone who's pretty hard to work for someone who's a bad apple. Not too many benevolent arsonists. Pleasure working with you, past and future. Ol' Ned believes that you oughta stick with your team, through thick and thin, and leave nobody behind, everything else be damned.||>
[Wed Jun 16 14:36:10 2021] Thermite >> Nah, yeah, it's what I meant.
[Wed Jun 16 14:36:39 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> ||Fire-bringer is not an arsonist... XD||
[Wed Jun 16 14:37:35 2021] Thermite >> ||I am well aware, but Thermite's spirit knowledge is literally 1 rank. He knows traditions a bit better, if that's any consolation!||
[Wed Jun 16 14:38:10 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> ||roll for it then! Fire-bringer is like one of the most well know mentors||
[Wed Jun 16 14:40:25 2021] Thermite >> <PM Hexi: ||Sorry, mate. Was thinking of the Sun. That's even better, then!||>
[Wed Jun 16 14:43:32 2021] Thermite >> <PM Hexi: ||Metaphors are rarely my strong suite! But, yeah, it's about helping people, mate, and that's what matters.||>
[Wed Jun 16 14:48:03 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> There are always need for people to lend a helping hand
[Wed Jun 16 14:48:37 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It might surprise you but I've helped people repair electronics before
[Wed Jun 16 14:49:01 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Sometimes all you need is a few words of encouragement
[Wed Jun 16 14:49:59 2021] Thermite >> I can't really help with that, but I can do some basic maintenance work on buildings
[Wed Jun 16 14:50:27 2021] Thermite >> Which is also a thing I nicked a guide on
[Wed Jun 16 14:50:42 2021] Thermite >> Fuck, why do the shadowrunner trids never show the reading part
[Wed Jun 16 14:51:30 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I have no clue how to repair a car, I usually fry them by accident
[Wed Jun 16 14:52:04 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But sometimes just being able to tell a person they are good enough to do the thing makes them able to do the thing they need to do
[Wed Jun 16 14:52:21 2021] Thermite >> Like, Karl Kombatmage didn't say, oh, ja, Herr Brackhaus, I can provide magical assistance, but I need to flick through my grimoire first.
[Wed Jun 16 15:11:38 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Sorry had to step away there
[Wed Jun 16 15:13:42 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh they don't show that stuffs in the trids
[Wed Jun 16 15:13:51 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> The practice and leaning
[Wed Jun 16 15:13:57 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Unless it's in a montage
[Wed Jun 16 15:14:09 2021] flybypie >> N>!connect
[Wed Jun 16 15:14:15 2021] flybypie >> Did I hear montage?
[Wed Jun 16 15:14:17 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Heya Napster!
[Wed Jun 16 15:14:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Magical training montage
[Wed Jun 16 15:15:04 2021] flybypie >> Oh those are cool. Especially when the main character has a cute mentor helping them learn.
[Wed Jun 16 15:15:29 2021] Thermite >> Yeah!
[Wed Jun 16 15:15:36 2021] Thermite >> Napster, favourite wizard trid
[Wed Jun 16 15:15:39 2021] Thermite >> ?
[Wed Jun 16 15:16:23 2021] flybypie >> Karl Kombatmage, duh!
[Wed Jun 16 15:16:45 2021] Thermite >> Fuck yeah
[Wed Jun 16 15:17:12 2021] Thermite >> What's your thoughts on KKM Reloaded?
[Wed Jun 16 15:17:43 2021] flybypie >> Nothing beats the original, but it was still good.
[Wed Jun 16 15:18:11 2021] Thermite >> I liked it better, actually
[Wed Jun 16 15:19:03 2021] Thermite >> Taught me a good part of what I know
[Wed Jun 16 15:19:18 2021] Flatline >> really?
[Wed Jun 16 15:19:26 2021] Thermite >> They really did their research on magic for the reloaded, yeah
[Wed Jun 16 15:20:08 2021] Thermite >> That stuff with the exploding lightning ball, I ended up practicing that in the carpark for like ten minutes, boom
[Wed Jun 16 15:20:25 2021] Thermite >> I even do the little finger gun thing
[Wed Jun 16 15:20:49 2021] Flatline >> The mage with the tmp and the katana and the terrible stuntwork
[Wed Jun 16 15:21:18 2021] Thermite >> And the flat German accent, yeah
[Wed Jun 16 15:21:29 2021] flybypie >> you take that back, flat! karl is amazing!
[Wed Jun 16 15:21:35 2021] Thermite >> "I vill send you to ze spirits."
[Wed Jun 16 15:21:39 2021] Flatline >> I will die on this hill
[Wed Jun 16 15:22:04 2021] Thermite >> So what do you watch then, Flat?
[Wed Jun 16 15:22:35 2021] Thermite >> I reckon we got a, as Horizon call it, Market Analysis Hitgroup, between me and Napster
[Wed Jun 16 15:23:41 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I liked the new James Bond trid
[Wed Jun 16 15:23:47 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That one was good
[Wed Jun 16 15:24:48 2021] Flatline >> Real depressing but you could tell they really wanted to tell that story
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:20 2021] flybypie >> Huh, I don't recall that one. What was it called and which strain of CFD was it?
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:23 2021] Thermite >> That London fellow, with the curly hair... Can't remember the name
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:33 2021] Charon >> //!login
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:42 2021] Charon >> Back again
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:57 2021] Flatline >> Believe it was "Fade"
[Wed Jun 16 15:25:59 2021] Starling >> Hey.
[Wed Jun 16 15:26:15 2021] Starling >> ...oh, I missed the Karl talk?
[Wed Jun 16 15:26:30 2021] Charon >> Karl?
[Wed Jun 16 15:26:36 2021] Charon >> Who's Karl?
[Wed Jun 16 15:26:44 2021] Charon >> Who?
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:11 2021] Starling >> I met one of the crew back when they were filming an episode in the part of the Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex where I lived.
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:28 2021] Charon >> Oh, it's the name of a trid?
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:30 2021] Flatline >> One of the biggest ones out there
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:36 2021] Charon >> That only a have slipped me by
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:43 2021] Starling >> ...and by met, I mean he snuck off to get laid where I worked.
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:57 2021] Charon >> pk;edit That one must have slipped me by
[Wed Jun 16 15:27:59 2021] Thermite >> Come on, mate, he's like, the second best trid wizard in the world
[Wed Jun 16 15:28:15 2021] flybypie >> Second? Whos the first? Suki?
[Wed Jun 16 15:28:20 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Caz I can't believe you know about century old flatvids and not Karl
[Wed Jun 16 15:28:38 2021] Charon >> I dunno
[Wed Jun 16 15:28:43 2021] Starling >> But I did learn that the guy who played Karl back in the really early 70s was a *huge* asshole from that, though.
[Wed Jun 16 15:28:49 2021] Charon >> Are they really that big?
[Wed Jun 16 15:29:01 2021] flybypie >> I mean, Sukie Redflower is cool, but she's just a NAN ripoff of Karl.
[Wed Jun 16 15:29:37 2021] Thermite >> Fuuuck, Starling, I'm jealous
[Wed Jun 16 15:29:49 2021] Thermite >> Nah, first one is Granny Sweetspell
[Wed Jun 16 15:29:56 2021] Starling >> It was just one of the technical crew, Thermite.
[Wed Jun 16 15:29:56 2021] Thermite >> One and only
[Wed Jun 16 15:30:16 2021] Charon >> I guess I'll see if I can find it, might flick it on when I get that Zen chaperone.
[Wed Jun 16 15:30:25 2021] Thermite >> Eh, that's still pretty cool
[Wed Jun 16 15:31:01 2021] flybypie >> You mean this?
[Wed Jun 16 15:31:38 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, she's like the magical gran I never had.
[Wed Jun 16 15:31:59 2021] flybypie >> I'm sorry, but that's just not my genre.
[Wed Jun 16 15:32:42 2021] Thermite >> I mean, it looks like it's for kids, but you gotta look at it from a magical point of view
[Wed Jun 16 15:33:44 2021] Charon >> Suppose it's like showing any other kids show to someone that just never learnt the subject.
[Wed Jun 16 15:34:00 2021] Thermite >> She's just so nicely explaining things, and tells you you're not going to explode, how to be careful with the astral, and to be responsible with your powers
[Wed Jun 16 15:34:08 2021] Charon >> ... Maybe someone should show Char "Sesame Street"?
[Wed Jun 16 15:34:22 2021] Charon >> Might help with that emotional intelligence problem.
[Wed Jun 16 15:35:17 2021] flybypie >> Yeah, but I *like* my explosions. I don't need to be told that magic is safe and comforting. I like my magic *dangerous*.
[Wed Jun 16 15:35:49 2021] Thermite >> I used to just turn her on the trid and turn her up whenever the astral was getting too loud, and it was like it was quieting the place down
[Wed Jun 16 15:36:34 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, Merc has a good point there. Merc, how did you deal with, you know, awakening?
[Wed Jun 16 15:37:28 2021] Thermite >> I just learned they made a beginner's grimoire after the reboot, first paper book I own
[Wed Jun 16 15:37:38 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh killing yourself with magic is a real thing
[Wed Jun 16 15:37:49 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That's really lucky Merc!
[Wed Jun 16 15:38:03 2021] flybypie >> Wait, mages kill themselves with magic?
[Wed Jun 16 15:38:11 2021] Flatline >> Yep
[Wed Jun 16 15:38:42 2021] Flatline >> Napster imagine if you decided you were going to run 60 miles in a day
[Wed Jun 16 15:39:02 2021] Flatline >> Or try and life 900lbs over your head
[Wed Jun 16 15:39:37 2021] Starling >> I've seen a mage knock themselves out trying to summon a spirit before.
[Wed Jun 16 15:39:46 2021] Charon >> I've seen the nosebleed
[Wed Jun 16 15:39:52 2021] Starling >> Not kill, but still.
[Wed Jun 16 15:39:55 2021] Thermite >> It's like you're a pair of jeans, and you're trying to get your astral ass through the jeans. If you're too fat, the jeans rip
[Wed Jun 16 15:40:00 2021] flybypie >> Couldn't you just stick to smaller spells and spirits?
[Wed Jun 16 15:40:02 2021] Starling >> It's pretty draining, from what I know.
[Wed Jun 16 15:40:17 2021] Starling >> Smaller spells and spirits still add up, Napster.
[Wed Jun 16 15:40:21 2021] Charon >> It was especially bad because the mage was using it for something trivial.
[Wed Jun 16 15:40:26 2021] Charon >> Naming no names here.
[Wed Jun 16 15:41:08 2021] flybypie >> Wow. Didn't realize that mages were risky so much.
[Wed Jun 16 15:41:49 2021] Nine >> Everything has a cost. 
||Fuck you, CGL||
[Wed Jun 16 15:42:28 2021] Thermite >> <PM Charon: ||Wait, wasn't me, was it? I burned through like a month's rent to get that wall down?||>
[Wed Jun 16 15:43:01 2021] Charon >> <PM Thermite: ||Nah, that wasn't trivial||>
[Wed Jun 16 15:43:25 2021] flybypie >> Well I'm now less jealous of mages.
[Wed Jun 16 15:44:25 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> ||Hexi has been hit with 0 drain for casting 4 spells in a row quickly. But have also been almost knocked out by summoning a F3 spirit||
[Wed Jun 16 15:44:54 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It's paratice practice practice
[Wed Jun 16 15:45:31 2021] Charon >> I'd rather practice a stunbolt than using an assault rifle.
[Wed Jun 16 15:45:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It gets really difficult as well when you are learning new spells
[Wed Jun 16 15:45:43 2021] Thermite >> Hey there!
[Wed Jun 16 15:45:57 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, I reckon longest day of the year is coming
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:00 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Not knowing how much power to put behind them yet
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:07 2021] Thermite >> Real important for magical folk
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:26 2021] flybypie >> Oh, is someone hosting one of those solstice/equinox parties like we usually have?
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:33 2021] Thermite >> Ol' Ned told me to free it up, cause he's got some guidance for me
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:44 2021] flybypie >> Oh, so we *are*!
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:45 2021] Thunderclap >> Good, solstice party, good
[Wed Jun 16 15:46:57 2021] flybypie >> Hey TC, bring the Hurlg!
[Wed Jun 16 15:47:13 2021] Thermite >> Fuck yeah. Where do you get deepweed if we're getting some normal folk around?
[Wed Jun 16 15:47:43 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I think some people said they wanted to do deepweed or shade
[Wed Jun 16 15:47:49 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But not all
[Wed Jun 16 15:47:55 2021] Thunderclap >> Ahh. It's a campsite in... Ghost, I don't remember, but it's a nice spot
[Wed Jun 16 15:48:11 2021] flybypie >> the last one was at a beach.
[Wed Jun 16 15:48:15 2021] Thunderclap >> I know at least the winter and fall celebrations were held there
[Wed Jun 16 15:48:39 2021] Charon >> I initially expressed interest, but upon further thought, I decided I'd rather do it in private with one or both of the mages I trust enough for that
[Wed Jun 16 15:48:45 2021] Thunderclap >> The UCAS is not a great place for awakened Thermite
[Wed Jun 16 15:49:22 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, you don't wanna start Seeing with people you don't know
[Wed Jun 16 15:49:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yep!
[Wed Jun 16 15:49:43 2021] Thunderclap >> I'll go look up the place
[Wed Jun 16 15:49:58 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That would be lovely TC!
[Wed Jun 16 15:50:07 2021] Thermite >> Nah, I get ya, Thunderclap. Still, it's been okay so far.
[Wed Jun 16 15:50:36 2021] Firbolg >> Glad you're settling comfortably Thermite
[Wed Jun 16 15:50:56 2021] Thermite >> I do have a fireproof jacket.
[Wed Jun 16 15:51:13 2021] Thunderclap >> It's a bit different in the shadows, of course
[Wed Jun 16 15:51:22 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thunderclap: ||Hey, weird question, is that shapeshifting offer still on the table? I can't stop thinking about the fact that you could turn me into a rat and I need to know.||>
[Wed Jun 16 15:51:28 2021] Thunderclap >> But there's still a deep distrust of magic in the general populace
[Wed Jun 16 15:51:41 2021] Thunderclap >> Old wounds heal slow
[Wed Jun 16 15:52:02 2021] Firbolg >> That's fair I think.
[Wed Jun 16 15:52:09 2021] Charon >> I'm calling some volcanoes does tend to do that.
[Wed Jun 16 15:52:20 2021] Charon >> Natural side effect I think.
[Wed Jun 16 15:52:40 2021] Thunderclap >> There are good reasons for it, yes
[Wed Jun 16 15:52:44 2021] Charon >> pk;edit Uncapping some volcanoes does tend to do that.
[Wed Jun 16 15:53:07 2021] Thermite >> Nah, I scan ya. It's not like upstuck cunts in Sydney don't have their own words for it
[Wed Jun 16 15:53:09 2021] flybypie >> Yeah, being on the losing side of the Ghost Dance lol
[Wed Jun 16 15:53:37 2021] Thunderclap >> Oh, you're another aussie, Thermite?
[Wed Jun 16 15:53:40 2021] Thermite >> Mate, I saw this massive mural of the GGD in a museum recently.
[Wed Jun 16 15:53:52 2021] Thermite >> Fuck me if that wasn't fucking impressive
[Wed Jun 16 15:55:17 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, pleased to meet ya. Caz knows more, though, I'm just a ratty bastard
[Wed Jun 16 15:55:24 2021] Charon >> Nah, he's from Sydney
[Wed Jun 16 15:55:28 2021] flybypie >> Though despite being suspicious of magic, the UCAS does have top notch magic schools, such as MITT. Or *did* anyway. Has that place opened up again since the Boston lockdown?
[Wed Jun 16 15:56:06 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, nothing like that wanker, otherwise.
[Wed Jun 16 15:57:28 2021] Charon >> Look, I gotta make a joke about Sydney seceding at some point, alright?
[Wed Jun 16 15:57:45 2021] Charon >> Regardless of the fact y'all had good reasons for it.
[Wed Jun 16 15:58:06 2021] Thermite >> Nobody asked me, mate :D Never even been outside the place.
[Wed Jun 16 15:58:16 2021] Charon >> Fucking garbo pollies
[Wed Jun 16 15:58:52 2021] Charon >> Cunts ran off to Canberra when the people needed them, the bastards
[Wed Jun 16 15:58:57 2021] Thermite >> Though I'd have liked to see some actual Indigenous Wiz drek, like the sleep magic and shit
[Wed Jun 16 15:59:17 2021] Charon >> You talking about the Dreamtime there mate?
[Wed Jun 16 15:59:29 2021] Firbolg >> Dreamtime?
[Wed Jun 16 15:59:34 2021] Charon >> Cause I'm no expert, but I'm not entirely sure it works that way
[Wed Jun 16 15:59:49 2021] Charon >> Ghost, I'm not qualified to explain the Dreamtime.
[Wed Jun 16 16:00:03 2021] Charon >> I'm really not qualified for it
[Wed Jun 16 16:00:13 2021] Charon >> Aboriginal cultural belief
[Wed Jun 16 16:00:26 2021] Firbolg >> Oh, fair does.
[Wed Jun 16 16:00:33 2021] Charon >> And I don't even know how much of it is tied up in magic since the Awakening.
[Wed Jun 16 16:00:49 2021] Charon >> Of course I know about it Thermitr
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:02 2021] Firbolg >> I mean, with the world we live in, probably a lot aye?
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:07 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, all I know about it is that it's where magic comes into the world, like pouring out of the sky.
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:13 2021] Charon >> Used to chat with Outback Kooris once in a blue moon
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:24 2021] Thunderclap >> <PM Firbolg: ||That's... interesting. But yes, if you really want to, I can turn you into an animal of some form or other for a little while.||>
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:28 2021] Thermite >> And stuff that wasn't there is, and isn't
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:28 2021] Charon >> Not enough though
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:38 2021] Charon >> And not about things I'd like to talk about.
[Wed Jun 16 16:01:50 2021] Charon >> Always in a professional capacity
[Wed Jun 16 16:02:10 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thunderclap: ||I just need to know. I've had so many questions running through my head since.||>
[Wed Jun 16 16:02:50 2021] Charon >> ((Luritja)) ||I guarantee you no-one on the hub speaks Luritja, so I'm not even going to write what Charon is actually writing.||
[Wed Jun 16 16:03:25 2021] Charon >> ||Especially since I sure as shit don't speak it irl||
[Wed Jun 16 16:03:53 2021] Charon >> Questions like that
[Wed Jun 16 16:03:56 2021] Thermite >> See, would be nice if the place wasn't surrounded in fucking walls, so we could learn from eachother. Or have to run to a new continent to not have a permanent headache from the drek mana
[Wed Jun 16 16:04:14 2021] Thunderclap >> <PM Firbolg: ||Sure. That much I can understand. When do you want to experience it?||>
[Wed Jun 16 16:04:47 2021] Thermite >> I mean, I know more about what's in California than in the Outback.
[Wed Jun 16 16:05:19 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Thunderclap: ||I've got to deal with some patients but any day after today works. Fit it to your schedule mo chara.||>
[Wed Jun 16 16:09:51 2021] Charon >> Ah, shame. I'll add you to the list if you want Tezza
[Wed Jun 16 16:10:21 2021] Thermite >> The list?
[Wed Jun 16 16:11:33 2021] Charon >> Got a small, unwritten list of people I'm planning on dragging out beyond the black stump
[Wed Jun 16 16:11:50 2021] Charon >> Gotta get the resources first
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:06 2021] flybypie >> Black Stump?
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:21 2021] Thermite >> Too fucking right, I've had the itch to go bush ever since Ol' Ned got in my head.
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:29 2021] Firbolg >> I must see it
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:31 2021] Firbolg >> I must know
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:36 2021] Charon >> Currently working on a vick for it, then I'll need a reliable method of getting it, myself, and the passengers back and forth between Oz and Seattle
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:38 2021] Flatline >> Australian saying, means outside of civilization
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:46 2021] Thunderclap >> Oh hey Flat!
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:53 2021] Flatline >> if i recall correctly anyway
[Wed Jun 16 16:12:55 2021] Charon >> Means the Outback.
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:03 2021] flybypie >> oh, you mean a boat? i got one!
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:20 2021] Charon >> Yeah, Pourple told me you had a boat
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:24 2021] Firbolg >> Nap speaking of. We need your boat for a runner BOOZE CRUISE
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:27 2021] Charon >> ((Purple*))
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:37 2021] Charon >> ((On my phone so fuck the editing))
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:40 2021] flybypie >> Booze cruise sounds nice
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:50 2021] Flatline >> Going off an old aetherpedia definition, not a common saying around here though
[Wed Jun 16 16:13:57 2021] Flatline >> And hey TC
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:04 2021] Flatline >> How's fishing been?
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:06 2021] Charon >> That said, from what he told me, yours wouldn't be bug enough
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:14 2021] Charon >> ((Big*))
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:16 2021] Thunderclap >> I haven't done a whole lot, but it is kind of soothing
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:31 2021] flybypie >> ((lol i thought bug was some aussie slang for a moment))
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:38 2021] Thunderclap >> You should swing by the boat some time, grab a drink
[Wed Jun 16 16:14:58 2021] flybypie >> TC, boat race!
[Wed Jun 16 23:05:54 2021] Charon >> Mazza
[Wed Jun 16 23:11:23 2021] Mad Dog >> Imma stop you both right there before this turns into a comedy sketch. Mari, Charon calls me Maz instead of Mad because it's a wierd Australian thing where it sounds better to him
[Wed Jun 16 23:12:35 2021] Charon >> More like *feels* better, but not for less yes
[Wed Jun 16 23:14:05 2021] Charon >> pk;edit More like feels better, but more for less yes
[Wed Jun 16 23:14:22 2021] Charon >> pk;edit More like feels better, but more or less yes
[Wed Jun 16 23:22:47 2021] Charon >> What's there to get, or not to get?
[Wed Jun 16 23:23:58 2021] Jag (3N1GM4/Nanuk) >> I would assume she does not understand why a d would become a z.
[Wed Jun 16 23:25:01 2021] Charon >> It's to do with the say it sounds when t you say it out loud, and the... for lack of a better word, the mouth-feel of the word
[Wed Jun 16 23:25:52 2021] Charon >> It's why, say, McHughs gets called Maccas
[Wed Jun 16 23:26:28 2021] Charon >> A liquor store gets called a bottle-o
[Wed Jun 16 23:27:02 2021] Charon >> That's not an electrician, that's a sparky
[Wed Jun 16 23:27:16 2021] Charon >> That's not a carpenter, they're a chippy
[Wed Jun 16 23:27:49 2021] Charon >> Who's making fun of people?
[Wed Jun 16 23:28:18 2021] Mad Dog >> It's not a pickup truck, it's a U T E
[Wed Jun 16 23:28:23 2021] Charon >> And testing Thor shots in Australia would be a monumentally bad idea
[Wed Jun 16 23:28:45 2021] Charon >> The land is reacting badly enough to what metahumanity has *already* done to it.
[Wed Jun 16 23:28:57 2021] Firbolg >> Wait a second. You call a carpenter a chippy?
[Wed Jun 16 23:29:02 2021] Charon >> Yeah
[Wed Jun 16 23:29:04 2021] Firbolg >> So what do you call a chippers?
[Wed Jun 16 23:29:17 2021] Charon >> A chippers?
[Wed Jun 16 23:30:13 2021] Jag (3N1GM4/Nanuk) >> I still do not like that way of saying that.
[Wed Jun 16 23:31:27 2021] Mad Dog >> You still both call fries *chips* so you're still both wrong, Fir
[Wed Jun 16 23:32:01 2021] Firbolg >> I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.
[Wed Jun 16 23:32:03 2021] Charon >> That's just the fish and chip shop
[Wed Jun 16 23:32:22 2021] Charon >> Some places might call themselves a chippery
[Wed Jun 16 23:32:39 2021] Firbolg >> Do you push the people from said places one by one into the ocean?
[Wed Jun 16 23:32:46 2021] Charon >> What's wrong with it Enny?
[Wed Jun 16 23:33:07 2021] Mad Dog >> You don't like the phrase "mouth sound" Enigma, come up with a better way to put it
[Wed Jun 16 23:33:11 2021] Mad Dog >> Be the change you want to see
[Wed Jun 16 23:33:51 2021] Mad Dog >> pk;edit You don't like the phrase "mouth-feel" Enigma, come up with a better way to put it
[Wed Jun 16 23:34:37 2021] Charon >> Depends on the size of the asteroid and where it hit I guess. Do you mean social upheaval?
[Wed Jun 16 23:34:48 2021] Firbolg >> And a follow up question of what, if anything, of value would be lost?
[Wed Jun 16 23:35:23 2021] Charon >> Or are you talking magical? Because you'd have to ask a Koradji about that I think.
[Wed Jun 16 23:36:05 2021] Charon >> Yeah, nah, I couldn't tell you to be truthful.
[Wed Jun 16 23:36:19 2021] Charon >> Like I said, you'd have to consult a Koradji
[Wed Jun 16 23:36:46 2021] Jag (3N1GM4/Nanuk) >> You could just say it has a pleasant intonation.
[Wed Jun 16 23:37:52 2021] Charon >> Nah, that doesn't have the right mouth feel. Sounds too posh too.
[Wed Jun 16 23:38:13 2021] Firbolg >> Ah, you know what, that ones a bit far.
[Wed Jun 16 23:38:16 2021] Firbolg >> My bad.
[Wed Jun 16 23:38:36 2021] Charon >> Even the Kooris?
[Wed Jun 16 23:38:48 2021] Stake >> ;;!login
[Wed Jun 16 23:38:52 2021] Stake >> Howdy
[Wed Jun 16 23:39:14 2021] Charon >> The people who have been living there for nigh on 80 thousand years?
[Wed Jun 16 23:39:22 2021] Charon >> G'day Liz
[Wed Jun 16 23:40:11 2021] Firbolg >> How's Liz?
[Wed Jun 16 23:40:16 2021] Stake >> Alive
[Wed Jun 16 23:40:22 2021] Stake >> Good enough.
[Wed Jun 16 23:42:34 2021] Charon >> One of the few times in my life I felt unequivocally fine with taking a life was an ecoterrorist that blew up a water reservoir.
[Wed Jun 16 23:43:42 2021] Stake >> You a pacifist?
[Wed Jun 16 23:46:00 2021] Mad Dog >> Yeah toxics are a good one to have in the crosshairs
[Wed Jun 16 23:46:09 2021] Stake >> I know ecoterrorists. I’ve done work for and with ecoterrorists!
[Wed Jun 16 23:46:17 2021] Firbolg >> I mean, the idea of exterminating humanity and later metahumanity has been around for a long time ideologically speaking.
[Wed Jun 16 23:46:18 2021] Stake >> Toxic Avenger types are something else entirely.
[Wed Jun 16 23:47:31 2021] Firbolg >> If memory serves the term eco-terrorism was first used in........pffft, I wanna say the 1960's? But I could be wrong on that.
[Wed Jun 16 23:47:40 2021] Mad Dog >> Some of my best friends are ecoterrorists
[Wed Jun 16 23:47:54 2021] Mad Dog >> They're not all obvious bad takes
[Wed Jun 16 23:48:11 2021] Stake >> You were sayin you’ve only been okay with killin a few times, Charon
[Wed Jun 16 23:48:32 2021] Stake >> I didn’t have you down for the squishy type
[Wed Jun 16 23:48:53 2021] Charon >> The squishy type?
[Wed Jun 16 23:49:04 2021] Stake >> You know, like a teddy bear
[Wed Jun 16 23:49:07 2021] Charon >> I'm not a pacifist.
[Wed Jun 16 23:49:17 2021] Firbolg >> I.........are you suggesting not wanting to kill people is soft?
[Wed Jun 16 23:49:29 2021] Stake >> ...
[Wed Jun 16 23:49:58 2021] Mad Dog >> There's a difference between "not wanting to kill people" and "wanting to not kill people"
[Wed Jun 16 23:50:23 2021] Charon >> Dunno if it's a lead balloon
[Wed Jun 16 23:50:24 2021] Stake >> Killing ain’t fun but it needs doin’ sometimes
[Wed Jun 16 23:50:37 2021] Charon >> I agree, Liz
[Wed Jun 16 23:51:11 2021] Firbolg >> I mean, I'm fairly certain everyone here has killed someone? Doesn't mean we're off rushing to do it.
[Wed Jun 16 23:51:41 2021] Charon >> I just try and set some guidelines for myself is all. Keeps me from going too far, in my opinion.
[Wed Jun 16 23:51:55 2021] Charon >> This.
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:02 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> Hello Seattle!
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:09 2021] Mad Dog >> Sup Hex
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:17 2021] Stake >> Oh, hey Hexi
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:44 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Heya Liz, Caz, Mari and everyone else!
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:45 2021] Jag (3N1GM4/Nanuk) >> Greetings Hexi.
[Wed Jun 16 23:52:58 2021] Stake >> There’s an old saying that I use as a guideline for killin
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:06 2021] Jag (3N1GM4/Nanuk) >> How is your day going?
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:28 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Well that's nice to know Liz
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:32 2021] Flatline >> See I don't necessarily subscribe to that
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:36 2021] Stake >> Unless you’re a mind mage.
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:44 2021] Stake >> That part ain’t in the saying but it’s also true
[Wed Jun 16 23:53:51 2021] Flatline >> A fine addendum
[Wed Jun 16 23:54:06 2021] Stake >> Because I ain’t gonna let a mind mage look at me.
[Wed Jun 16 23:54:29 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> See I just don't kill
[Wed Jun 16 23:54:45 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> But I think we had this conversation earlier today or like yesterday
[Wed Jun 16 23:54:50 2021] Firbolg >> Emphasis on At Least
[Wed Jun 16 23:54:52 2021] Charon >> At least two upfront ones.
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:10 2021] Stake >> Not a question I’ve had to ponder, honestly
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:22 2021] Charon >> I'd start pondering
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:24 2021] Flatline >> See I follow the golden rule with fightin
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:29 2021] Flatline >> Do one to others
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:31 2021] Stake >> If I get an itchy feeling around a mind mage and decide to kill em just to be sure
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:31 2021] Mad Dog >> That's the sort of attitude that assumes that the person who's a better fighter is the one who should win simply because they're the better fighter
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:36 2021] Flatline >> Before they can do one to you
[Wed Jun 16 23:55:41 2021] Stake >> I ain’t gonna lose sleep over it
[Wed Jun 16 23:56:15 2021] Stake >> Does have a bit of the “If she floats she’s a witch” vibe doesn’t it?
[Wed Jun 16 23:56:24 2021] Charon >> Yes
[Wed Jun 16 23:56:31 2021] Charon >> Also yes
[Wed Jun 16 23:56:35 2021] Stake >> Like, if I can kill her she ain’t mind-maging me
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:04 2021] Charon >> Except when it comes to face planting. 😆
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:08 2021] Stake >> I am suddenly suspicious of that statement
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:17 2021] Charon >> Not Manipulation
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:30 2021] Charon >> And you said mind magic is Manipulation.
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:39 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yep manipulation magics
[Wed Jun 16 23:58:57 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> My mentor favors that style of magics
[Wed Jun 16 23:59:06 2021] Flatline >> No kidding
[Wed Jun 16 23:59:59 2021] Stake >> My mentor favors Detection magic
[Thu Jun 17 00:00:13 2021] Stake >> Hopefully that’ll keep me safe from you mindfuckers
[Thu Jun 17 00:00:25 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I was told by my fixer I was starting to get a reputation as well, really nice to not to have to tell the J that I don't kill on every single job
[Thu Jun 17 00:00:58 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> 👆
[Thu Jun 17 00:01:44 2021] Stake >> Nah
[Thu Jun 17 00:01:53 2021] Flatline >> Face work takes practice, set up
[Thu Jun 17 00:01:53 2021] Mad Dog >> Possibly more, since it's harder for a mind mage to buy their own con
[Thu Jun 17 00:01:53 2021] Charon >> <PM Maz: ||I wonder how long it will be before I snap at Liz for threatening my mates?||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:01:57 2021] Stake >> Doing it by magic is a lot more terrifying
[Thu Jun 17 00:02:22 2021] Flatline >> Mind magic can take a look of you know what you're doing
[Thu Jun 17 00:03:04 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> ☝️
[Thu Jun 17 00:03:23 2021] Mad Dog >> <PM Caz: ||You do what you need to do, but I feel like Hexi and Merc can handle themselves||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:03:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> As someone who will admit I've been cought on the job using mind magics
[Thu Jun 17 00:03:47 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It can be spotted even though I'm subtle
[Thu Jun 17 00:03:57 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Same with illusions
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:02 2021] Flatline >> Worked a job once, guy walked into a room, freaked out and shot himself
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:11 2021] Charon >> <PM Maz: ||You're right, but it still feels like drek not to say anything.||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:14 2021] Flatline >> Nobody could figure out why
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:25 2021] Flatline >> Anybody got any guesses?
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:26 2021] Stake >> So here’s the thing and I wanna be clear about this
[Thu Jun 17 00:04:50 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> He was seeing things?
[Thu Jun 17 00:05:04 2021] Stake >> There’s plenty of tactics in the world that are useful from a strategic standpoint that are never, ever moral
[Thu Jun 17 00:05:14 2021] Stake >> And I don’t know why y’all have such a blind spot about this one.
[Thu Jun 17 00:05:18 2021] Mad Dog >> <PM Caz: ||Yeah, welcome to my life.||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:05:37 2021] Flatline >> Mage got in his head, showed him a perfect illusion of him fumbling his gun as he took it out shooting his kid
[Thu Jun 17 00:05:54 2021] Flatline >> Apparently they had the kid give a little speech as they died
[Thu Jun 17 00:06:13 2021] Firbolg >> Christ.
[Thu Jun 17 00:06:13 2021] Flatline >> Kid wasn't there, they were on the other side of the globe
[Thu Jun 17 00:06:23 2021] Charon >> <PM Maz: ||Why do you think I messaged you about this specifically? I know you can relate.||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:06:26 2021] Stake >> If I came in here talking about making snuff BTLs of people’s kids and using those as a means of manipulation
[Thu Jun 17 00:06:54 2021] Firbolg >> Hell even Recluse and I were giving out earlier.
[Thu Jun 17 00:07:12 2021] Stake >> Ghouls are people, killing is often necessary, *mind magic is rape as a tool of combat*
[Thu Jun 17 00:07:15 2021] Mad Dog >> <PM Caz: ||Yeah. Lemme know if you wanna grab some dranks or something. Maybe after Magic School or whatever||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:07:59 2021] Stake >> Anyone who can sling a spell has the ability to do it
[Thu Jun 17 00:08:14 2021] Firbolg >> Ohhh come off that Liz
[Thu Jun 17 00:08:16 2021] Flatline >> I'm alive today because a mind mage pulled my ass out of the fire once or twice
[Thu Jun 17 00:08:34 2021] Charon >> ^^^
[Thu Jun 17 00:08:43 2021] Flatline >> But I won't hesitate to call it what it is
[Thu Jun 17 00:08:57 2021] Stake >> Sure, and I’m alive because an Az-Am war criminal bailed me out in a firefight once
[Thu Jun 17 00:09:13 2021] Stake >> Don’t mean I wouldn’t shoot him in the head if he had survived
[Thu Jun 17 00:09:21 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I have a rule, I don't *ever* use mind magics on my team or other runners
[Thu Jun 17 00:09:34 2021] Stake >> What, Vampire rights now Recluse?
[Thu Jun 17 00:09:51 2021] Charon >> Give it up Hexi. I don't think Liz can be reasoned with here.
[Thu Jun 17 00:10:25 2021] Stake >> *That is not what I am saying*
[Thu Jun 17 00:10:41 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I'm trying to, I'm just making sure it's know, cause people has a tendency to forget
[Thu Jun 17 00:10:44 2021] Charon >> Hey Firbolg, been to any good bars recently?
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:11 2021] Stake >> Hexi, you ever use mind magic on anyone on a job I’m on with you—God forbid that happens—I will put you down and sleep better for it. There I fuckin said it.
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:13 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Just like people have a tendency to think I'm a pacifist just because I never kill
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:32 2021] Firbolg >> Liz, stop being a cunt.
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:35 2021] Firbolg >> There.
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:38 2021] Charon >> Appear a threat?
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:46 2021] Charon >> That fucking *was* a threat
[Thu Jun 17 00:11:55 2021] Stake >> You ever hear of the broken stair problem?
[Thu Jun 17 00:12:01 2021] Stake >> If not, look it up.
[Thu Jun 17 00:12:11 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> You have said it before Liz, and I'm fine with it. Just tell your Fixer to put me on the "not working with" list
[Thu Jun 17 00:12:14 2021] Stake >> ;;!logout Don’t need this kind of stress
[Thu Jun 17 00:12:56 2021] Firbolg >> Ahh, I probably shouldn't have said that. It's been a stressful day.
[Thu Jun 17 00:13:08 2021] Charon >> Nah, fuck them
[Thu Jun 17 00:15:42 2021] Firbolg >> <PM Charon: ||To answer your question, no, I got a bad call earlier, spent a while trying to save a lad while he tries to scoop his own intestines back in after he got a lovely new cavity from a shotgun. In the end just loaded him up and let him drift off without pain.||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:15:44 2021] Charon >> This whole discussion is a fucking mess.
[Thu Jun 17 00:16:02 2021] Mad Dog >> Oh hi Sori
[Thu Jun 17 00:17:04 2021] Firbolg >> Deep breaths and all, folks get charged I suppose.
[Thu Jun 17 00:17:18 2021] Charon >> <PM Firbolg: ||Fucking hell. Unlucky fella.||>
[Thu Jun 17 00:17:38 2021] Charon >> Someone change the damned topic already
[Thu Jun 17 00:18:06 2021] Firbolg >> What were we talking about earlier? Removing all australians?
[Thu Jun 17 00:18:28 2021] Mad Dog >> Excellent play, Firbolg, very tactful
[Thu Jun 17 00:20:24 2021] Charon >> Mirrored or rotated Sori?
[Thu Jun 17 00:20:36 2021] Firbolg >> Dants.
[Thu Jun 17 00:20:59 2021] Mad Dog >> Pants, guys, cmon
[Thu Jun 17 00:21:13 2021] Charon >> No shit, Sherlock
[Thu Jun 17 00:22:05 2021] Mad Dog >> Alright, I needa get my offroad tires put on before that kicks off
[Thu Jun 17 00:22:16 2021] Mad Dog >> MD>!disconnect Later
[Thu Jun 17 00:22:36 2021] Firbolg >> I might swing in tonight, if the offer still stands Recluse.
[Thu Jun 17 00:38:45 2021] Firbolg >> I can head over, does anyone need a lift?
[Thu Jun 17 00:38:54 2021] Firbolg >> Hey Switch
[Thu Jun 17 00:39:51 2021] Switch >> Question for the host, looking to settle something.
Has anyone here *ever* had a weapon jam on the job?
[Thu Jun 17 00:40:04 2021] Switch >> Like, in a firefight.
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:07 2021] Switch >> Hexi, can you describe the jam?
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:24 2021] Switch >> And how you were using the weapon?
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:36 2021] Switch >> Also, do you still have the weapon?
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:41 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> No I don't
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:48 2021] Switch >> Frag.
[Thu Jun 17 00:41:54 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> It started shooting sparks
[Thu Jun 17 00:42:02 2021] Switch >> You may have been able to make a lot of money.
[Thu Jun 17 00:42:14 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Snf I dropped it to the ground
[Thu Jun 17 00:42:30 2021] Switch >> Where?
[Thu Jun 17 00:42:52 2021] Switch >> I don't need a .loc, but a description would be helpful.
[Thu Jun 17 00:43:06 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Switch almost all weapons, especially guns misfunktions when I use them
[Thu Jun 17 00:43:21 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ehhh it was a few years ago
[Thu Jun 17 00:43:48 2021] Switch >> Years ago?
[Thu Jun 17 00:43:58 2021] Switch >> So not while working here?
[Thu Jun 17 00:44:21 2021] Switch >> It's for a bet.
[Thu Jun 17 00:46:52 2021] Switch >> If anyone has had an honest weapon jam that required manual clearing but left the weapon otherwise unharmed, I'd like to speak with you.
[Thu Jun 17 00:47:11 2021] Charon >> Specifically while working through this Datahaven?
[Thu Jun 17 00:47:34 2021] Switch >> On a contract.
[Thu Jun 17 00:48:23 2021] Charon >> What if it's a weapon you still use, and have used on the job, but the jam happened prior to getting on this Datahaven?
[Thu Jun 17 00:48:57 2021] Switch >> Failure to feed, failure to eject, stovepipe, any form of easily fixable jam on a modern weapon that happened while working on the host.
[Thu Jun 17 00:49:01 2021] Firbolg >> If the invites open I'm interested.
[Thu Jun 17 00:49:37 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Hand me a gun and tell me to shoot it, and it will most likely break
[Thu Jun 17 00:49:52 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And maybe also hurt me..
[Thu Jun 17 00:50:09 2021] Switch >> I had a theory that there has not been a single weapon jam on a contract here for a minimum of two years.
[Thu Jun 17 00:50:28 2021] Firbolg >> Anyone need transport who's going?
[Thu Jun 17 00:50:59 2021] Charon >> Got my own wheels.
[Thu Jun 17 00:51:08 2021] Charon >> Sadly I can't help you out there Switch
[Thu Jun 17 00:52:06 2021] Switch >> I ask because I compared vintage weapons to modern, electronically operated ones, and it turns out that the jam rate is next to zero.
[Thu Jun 17 00:52:31 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Older ones are easier for me to use
[Thu Jun 17 00:52:41 2021] Switch >> Interesting.
[Thu Jun 17 00:52:47 2021] Switch >> How?
[Thu Jun 17 00:52:59 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ohh electronics hate me
[Thu Jun 17 00:53:17 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> The more sophisticated the more they hate me
[Thu Jun 17 00:57:13 2021] Charon >> I'll make my way along soon
[Thu Jun 17 01:03:46 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ehhh idk
[Thu Jun 17 01:03:58 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I was told by a techno that my code is wrong
[Thu Jun 17 01:04:22 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Like that it sounds wrong and flows in all the wrong directions
[Thu Jun 17 01:04:37 2021] Charon >> Seems I've been delayed a little
[Thu Jun 17 01:06:55 2021] Switch >> Your code? The frag are they talking about?
[Thu Jun 17 01:08:46 2021] Charon >> Techno stuff
[Thu Jun 17 01:09:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Techno stuff
[Thu Jun 17 01:09:47 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I sorts get what they mean
[Thu Jun 17 01:10:01 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I assume it's like how I see auras
[Thu Jun 17 01:21:16 2021] Switch >> Auras. Code auras. Frag it, not even the craziest thing I've heard.
[Thu Jun 17 01:24:46 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yahh magic can be wired
[Thu Jun 17 01:36:47 2021] Spook >> M>!connect
[Thu Jun 17 01:37:04 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> Muse!
[Thu Jun 17 01:37:14 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ive heard of you!
[Thu Jun 17 01:37:37 2021] Spook >> oh oops i forgot it notifies everyone when you log on
[Thu Jun 17 01:38:19 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yep right it dose!
[Thu Jun 17 01:38:53 2021] Spook >> youve heard of me? good things i hope
[Thu Jun 17 01:39:17 2021] Spook >> <PM Hexi: no drek? they got a new commcode?>
[Thu Jun 17 01:40:11 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> well pretty much just your name
[Thu Jun 17 01:40:28 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> So good things I would say!
[Thu Jun 17 01:40:33 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Im Hexi!
[Thu Jun 17 01:40:39 2021] Charon >> Hey, I know that name, I think
[Thu Jun 17 01:40:56 2021] Charon >> Pretty sure I've heard Merc mention you
[Thu Jun 17 01:41:54 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> <pm Muse: Yes, probably. If you stick online for another few hours they usually come online then, or I can pass along a comm code to them>
[Thu Jun 17 01:42:16 2021] Spook >> thanks same to you!
[Thu Jun 17 01:43:17 2021] Spook >> <PM Hexi: not sure how long ill be around so sure give them this `id.cc`>
[Thu Jun 17 01:44:16 2021] Spook >> well hi yeah
[Thu Jun 17 01:44:32 2021] Switch >> Hey, Muse.
[Thu Jun 17 01:45:09 2021] Switch >> Switch>Hey, Muse.
[Thu Jun 17 01:45:39 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> <pm Muse: I'll pass it along, Welcome back!>
[Thu Jun 17 01:47:10 2021] Switch >> Been a while.
[Thu Jun 17 01:47:21 2021] Spook >> <PM Hexi: thanks!>
[Thu Jun 17 01:47:50 2021] Spook >> so to speak
[Thu Jun 17 01:48:37 2021] Switch >> Been back in the shadows for a second myself. Looking for contracts.
[Thu Jun 17 01:48:59 2021] Muse >> having trouble finding legitimate work?
[Thu Jun 17 01:49:57 2021] Switch >> No, but legitimate work has it's limitations.
[Thu Jun 17 01:50:13 2021] Muse >> that it does
[Thu Jun 17 01:50:25 2021] Switch >> pk;edit No, but legitimate work has its limitations.
[Thu Jun 17 01:51:10 2021] Muse >> i heard there was a rush of business recently, is that over?
[Thu Jun 17 01:52:43 2021] Charon >> <PM Muse: ||You might be interested to know that Mercurial is still waiting on finishing a song with you.||>

Yeah, heard all sorts of drek from SE Asia
[Thu Jun 17 01:53:12 2021] Charon >> Grapevine says the big hitters earned some serious nuyen.
[Thu Jun 17 01:56:09 2021] Muse >> good for them. gotta have some big scores once in a while to keep the shadows competitive
[Thu Jun 17 01:58:33 2021] Muse >> <PM Recluse: if you're free, i'd love to get coffee or something while i'm in town>
[Thu Jun 17 01:59:21 2021] Muse >> did you happen to pick up any of those? don't have to be specific, i know how opsec goes and all that
[Thu Jun 17 02:00:22 2021] Charon >> Nothing too major. I'd say I had one *real* big job relating to all that drek, but I didn't even have to leave Seattle for that one.
[Thu Jun 17 02:01:06 2021] Muse >> <PM Recluse: oh? Professor Recluse, now? you decided having one or two fanatically loyal and particularly talented apprentices at a time wasn't enough?>
[Thu Jun 17 02:01:41 2021] Muse >> thats often the case ive found. seattle is the nexus of all that kind of stuff
[Thu Jun 17 02:02:55 2021] Muse >> that just sounds like a triathlon Marionette
[Thu Jun 17 02:03:17 2021] Muse >> you got it Mari
[Thu Jun 17 02:03:39 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> Hey Mari am I allowed to send Muse the list of days and names?
[Thu Jun 17 02:04:26 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Just so the others don't get bothered when she accidentally calls Marionette Mari or M Mari or something
[Thu Jun 17 02:04:48 2021] Charon >> Y'all want me to post the list?
[Thu Jun 17 02:05:01 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ohh Caz got it!
[Thu Jun 17 02:05:24 2021] Charon >> 
[Thu Jun 17 02:05:37 2021] Charon >> Look, Mari
[Thu Jun 17 02:05:42 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I remember it pretty much!
[Thu Jun 17 02:05:59 2021] Charon >> I wake up in the afternoons and go to sleep in the mornings on a typical day
[Thu Jun 17 02:06:29 2021] Charon >> My brain don't always work so well when it comes to differentiating one day from another.
[Thu Jun 17 02:06:47 2021] Charon >> So I use the list.
[Thu Jun 17 02:07:00 2021] Muse >> is it actually that important
[Thu Jun 17 02:07:20 2021] Charon >> Eh
[Thu Jun 17 02:08:02 2021] Muse >> fascinating
[Thu Jun 17 02:08:18 2021] Muse >> Mari how does it feel to have people talk about you like youre not right there
[Thu Jun 17 02:08:31 2021] Charon >> Good point, sorry Mari
[Thu Jun 17 02:08:42 2021] Charon >> On both counts
[Thu Jun 17 02:09:14 2021] Muse >> yeah Charon i think youre fine haha
[Thu Jun 17 02:09:56 2021] Muse >> its only impolite if it bothers them and it doesnt seem to
[Thu Jun 17 02:10:57 2021] Muse >> youre fine sweetheart, ill try to remember just let me know if i mess up
[Thu Jun 17 02:12:13 2021] Charon >> Hope so. I try not to be a cunt, generally.
[Thu Jun 17 02:12:45 2021] Muse >> what if i crawled up your hoop for using that word
[Thu Jun 17 02:13:26 2021] Charon >> I can make a guess, but I like to be sure, which word?
[Thu Jun 17 02:14:14 2021] Muse >> suppose its the one you think it is
[Thu Jun 17 02:15:13 2021] Charon >> Suppose I'd make a note to try and remember not to use it around you. I know some Seps get sensitive about that one.
[Thu Jun 17 02:15:53 2021] Muse >> aha, an ozzy. im rusty, should have gleaned that sooner
[Thu Jun 17 02:16:27 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> yep! There is quite a few from Oz around!
[Thu Jun 17 02:16:35 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> 😊
[Thu Jun 17 02:16:45 2021] Muse >> are you one of them too, Hexi?
[Thu Jun 17 02:17:08 2021] Muse >> i dont actually care btw Charon so dont worry
[Thu Jun 17 02:17:14 2021] Charon >> Fair enough
[Thu Jun 17 02:17:33 2021] Charon >> I try to make it obvious when I first meet people on here. I know I can't hide it, so I just own it
[Thu Jun 17 02:17:42 2021] Charon >> <--- Hence this icon
[Thu Jun 17 02:20:29 2021] Muse >> and here i thought you just popped up out of nowhere!
[Thu Jun 17 02:23:09 2021] Muse >> damn, i have done so much work down there and i didnt even make the connection. do people give you a hard time about it? we had one operator for a while that was barely comprehensible but that doesnt seem to be your affliction
[Thu Jun 17 02:24:24 2021] Charon >> Nah, noone seems to give a fuck. The only people I cop drek from would be... I guess Mad Dog, Firbolg and Char
[Thu Jun 17 02:24:36 2021] Charon >> But with Maz and Fizza it's just bants
[Thu Jun 17 02:24:44 2021] Charon >> And with Char it's *mostly* bants.
[Thu Jun 17 02:25:08 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> And Ruffels is just not so good at social queues
[Thu Jun 17 02:25:25 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Learning though!
[Thu Jun 17 02:25:48 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> She's such a sweetheart 😊
[Thu Jun 17 02:27:27 2021] Charon >> It does seem her recent break from the haven has made her a bit more... Hmm, I don't know the words for it.
[Thu Jun 17 02:27:52 2021] Charon >> Hey Muse, what sort of work have you done down under?
[Thu Jun 17 02:28:02 2021] Charon >> Gone beyond the black stump?
[Thu Jun 17 02:35:12 2021] Muse >> mostly city stuff, my skillset doesnt exactly lend itself to the boonies aside from spotting manastorms
[Thu Jun 17 02:35:32 2021] Charon >> That's a skill in and of itself
[Thu Jun 17 02:35:44 2021] Charon >> I'd pay good money to never be inside a manastorm ever again.
[Thu Jun 17 02:36:01 2021] Charon >> Say what, Mari?
[Thu Jun 17 02:36:10 2021] Muse >> same
[Thu Jun 17 02:36:50 2021] Muse >> its a fun word isnt it Mari
[Thu Jun 17 02:37:44 2021] Muse >> but yeah usually not worth paying a runners contract just for that when you can hire an actual mage
[Thu Jun 17 02:38:48 2021] Charon >> That brings me to a more typical hub question
[Thu Jun 17 02:39:35 2021] Muse >> you could say that, yeah! i like dancing too!
[Thu Jun 17 02:39:49 2021] Charon >> I didn't used to.
[Thu Jun 17 02:39:58 2021] Charon >> I have been shown the error of my ways.
[Thu Jun 17 02:40:56 2021] Muse >> a lot of the time people that hire us want things to look a certain way, and it turns out the kinds of people who live on this side of the fence arent always the best at knowing how people inside the system are going to see it
[Thu Jun 17 02:42:12 2021] Muse >> but if you want to put my deets in a folder in your commlink you can classify me as a face
[Thu Jun 17 02:42:39 2021] Switch >> A coordinator.
[Thu Jun 17 02:43:09 2021] Muse >> i do love to run a good con once in a while
[Thu Jun 17 02:43:33 2021] Muse >> but usually it's more just a matter of making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time looking in the right direction
[Thu Jun 17 02:45:06 2021] Switch >> You make the team look better. Frag if I haven't seen the benefit of it.
[Thu Jun 17 02:45:52 2021] Muse >> as for you, let's see.. not awakened, no nerd vibes, so that makes you most likely the standard operator type? Shoot a gun, talk your way past a check point, maybe have a nice car?
[Thu Jun 17 02:46:24 2021] Charon >> What makes you think I'm not awakened?
[Thu Jun 17 02:46:38 2021] Charon >> After all, I don't even have a datajack 😛
[Thu Jun 17 02:47:00 2021] Charon >> Very good point
[Thu Jun 17 02:47:05 2021] Switch >> Could be an adept.
[Thu Jun 17 02:47:11 2021] Charon >> ^^^
[Thu Jun 17 02:47:39 2021] Charon >> Never by an awakened though, obviously.
[Thu Jun 17 02:47:39 2021] Switch >> Humble, too.
[Thu Jun 17 02:48:32 2021] Charon >> I'm adept in many senses. And bugger off Switch, I'm allowed to get a big head once in a while.
[Thu Jun 17 02:49:07 2021] Muse >> they asked me first, Sori!
[Thu Jun 17 02:49:35 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> ohh ohh guess me!
[Thu Jun 17 02:50:29 2021] Flatline >> Buy me dinner first
[Thu Jun 17 02:50:31 2021] Charon >> "Nerd" 😄
[Thu Jun 17 02:50:48 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Me? Nahh I fry tech!
[Thu Jun 17 02:50:59 2021] Flatline >> Hey Recluse's thing start yet?
[Thu Jun 17 02:51:10 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> a> yes it has started
[Thu Jun 17 02:51:32 2021] Flatline >> Poison is at the dinner tradionally kiddo
[Thu Jun 17 02:51:38 2021] Muse >> so i was close, Charon
[Thu Jun 17 02:51:57 2021] Charon >> Yeah, Recluse's lesson has started
[Thu Jun 17 02:52:02 2021] Muse >> why no datajack if you dont mind me asking? are you totally ware free?
[Thu Jun 17 02:52:03 2021] Charon >> We getting some learning
[Thu Jun 17 02:52:32 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> I'm a mage for reference Muse 😊
[Thu Jun 17 02:52:35 2021] Flatline >> Alright I'll put my face on and head over
[Thu Jun 17 02:52:53 2021] Charon >> I don't use chrome, but I've got enough bioware to make up for it.
[Thu Jun 17 02:53:00 2021] Muse >> what kind, Hexi? have you had your Potential evaluated by the Powers That Be?
[Thu Jun 17 02:53:16 2021] Charon >> Eats less of the soul and all that.
[Thu Jun 17 02:53:25 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Wanna try to guess? 😋
[Thu Jun 17 02:53:27 2021] Muse >> oh i see, i guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep up
[Thu Jun 17 02:54:03 2021] Flatline >> Shocking
[Thu Jun 17 02:54:50 2021] Muse >> i dont know if i have enough hints for that, Hexi. i figure probably at least a spellcaster but beyond that i'd have to take a closer look
[Thu Jun 17 02:55:09 2021] Charon >> ~~And outrunning the a whole cities PD, because I think opsec is probably properly expired on that one~~
[Thu Jun 17 02:56:26 2021] Muse >> Sori i would like to take the opportunity to tease you about having the personality of a government help line operator but i already know youre a decker
[Thu Jun 17 02:56:56 2021] Flatline >> Spot on though
[Thu Jun 17 02:57:30 2021] Muse >> oh, you advertise that? back when i was more active people used to get shot for saying things like that
[Thu Jun 17 02:57:46 2021] Muse >> even if they were bluffing
[Thu Jun 17 02:58:05 2021] Muse >> (especially if they were bluffing, probably, since it's very easy to make you put the gun down if they're not)
[Thu Jun 17 02:58:18 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I prefer to be open about it
[Thu Jun 17 02:58:26 2021] Flatline >> New trend, Merc was was always pretty open about it
[Thu Jun 17 02:58:41 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> So people know what they should expect
[Thu Jun 17 02:58:53 2021] Switch >> Merc was also willing to be shot over this.
[Thu Jun 17 02:59:28 2021] Mad Dog >> MD>!connect
[Thu Jun 17 02:59:37 2021] Muse >> Merc is pretty upfront about everything yeah which plays to their favour
[Thu Jun 17 03:00:07 2021] Flatline >> Orange juice? Is that another cat or
[Thu Jun 17 03:00:08 2021] Muse >> then the challenge becomes not outrunning them but keeping control of the vehicle, so im still impressed
[Thu Jun 17 03:00:42 2021] Flatline >> Better cat name than gun name
[Thu Jun 17 03:01:16 2021] Switch >> Prem.
[Thu Jun 17 03:01:24 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ohh i should add Muse. I won't and will not use mind magics on my team or on other runners
[Thu Jun 17 03:01:33 2021] Switch >> Preem.
[Thu Jun 17 03:01:36 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I also only use "soft" magics
[Thu Jun 17 03:01:55 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I can *suggest* something, implant a thought in your head
[Thu Jun 17 03:02:01 2021] Switch >> Respect to him, then.
[Thu Jun 17 03:02:24 2021] Switch >> So he's dead.
[Thu Jun 17 03:02:51 2021] Switch >> Right.
[Thu Jun 17 03:03:30 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> And I can erase someone memories. Permanently, but only the last few minutes
[Thu Jun 17 03:04:14 2021] Switch >> I acquired a Warhammer in a similar vein. No OpSec to break there.
[Thu Jun 17 03:04:30 2021] Muse >> well i didnt graduate but yeah i took a few courses
[Thu Jun 17 03:05:25 2021] Muse >> i didnt, who would have thought that you could make something so wonderful *boring*
[Thu Jun 17 03:06:17 2021] Flatline >> Is nice to see the reverse of that problem, boring things made beautiful
[Thu Jun 17 03:06:19 2021] Muse >> that sounds super useful, maybe if i end up working in Seattle we'll have the opportunity to combine our forces
[Thu Jun 17 03:06:22 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Mske things seems like they are there but are not
[Thu Jun 17 03:06:41 2021] Charon >> I can do that sometimes.
[Thu Jun 17 03:06:58 2021] Switch >> You ever want that, take a hike in a Foundation.
[Thu Jun 17 03:07:15 2021] Switch >> Boring job like Host Management.
[Thu Jun 17 03:07:23 2021] Flatline >> Knew someone awhile ago that talked about plant biology and made it sound like poetry
[Thu Jun 17 03:07:33 2021] Charon >> I envy deckers and their foundations
[Thu Jun 17 03:08:04 2021] Charon >> And it seems like *an experience*.
[Thu Jun 17 03:08:27 2021] Switch >> They tell you that first dive is more likely to kill you than your first Kami OD?
[Thu Jun 17 03:08:57 2021] Switch >> If they didn't, they want you dead or don't know themselves.
[Thu Jun 17 03:09:31 2021] Charon >> I'm fortunate enough to have never OD'ed on Kami
[Thu Jun 17 03:09:49 2021] Charon >> Yet
[Thu Jun 17 03:10:25 2021] Switch >> Foundation operatives have my respect. Different breed.
[Thu Jun 17 03:10:39 2021] Switch >> One day, maybe, I'll get to that level.
[Thu Jun 17 03:11:35 2021] Switch >> Yeah. Changes the way you see it.
[Thu Jun 17 03:12:59 2021] Switch >> For the uninitiated, it's like ending up on a metaplane of a random theme, and if you stand out or frag with the code, you have the entire world trying to kill you.
[Thu Jun 17 03:13:33 2021] Switch >> Weapons jam, doors lock, and the denizens all headhunt you.
[Thu Jun 17 03:13:49 2021] Charon >> And which pirates?
[Thu Jun 17 03:13:59 2021] Muse >> and here i thought only the initiated knew what a metaplane is like
[Thu Jun 17 03:14:14 2021] Charon >> Movie themed, great.
[Thu Jun 17 03:14:37 2021] Charon >> 80s?
[Thu Jun 17 03:14:44 2021] Charon >> Helicopters and jungles
[Thu Jun 17 03:14:46 2021] Switch >> No Muse. I've been on the planes before.
[Thu Jun 17 03:14:56 2021] Muse >> no drek? whats it like
[Thu Jun 17 03:15:09 2021] Mad Dog >> I imagine you've had a long talk with Napster about places like that, Sori xD
[Thu Jun 17 03:15:36 2021] Charon >> You sure it was the 80s?
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:19 2021] Mad Dog >> pk;edit Prooooobably something to warn him about
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:46 2021] Flatline >> He is still alive
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:52 2021] Flatline >> Wonder of wonders
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:54 2021] Switch >> Surprised.
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:56 2021] Flatline >> Doing pretty good too
[Thu Jun 17 03:16:59 2021] Muse >> young tho
[Thu Jun 17 03:17:21 2021] Charon >> Did you hear any music coming from any radios?
[Thu Jun 17 03:17:34 2021] Charon >> I do
[Thu Jun 17 03:18:03 2021] Muse >> you started here over 100 years ago? damn, you look good for your age
[Thu Jun 17 03:18:08 2021] Switch >> The one song I know from the fifth world.
[Thu Jun 17 03:18:25 2021] Switch >> Didn't know you were an elf, Sori.
[Thu Jun 17 03:19:00 2021] Switch >> Dreams of history.
[Thu Jun 17 03:19:21 2021] Switch >> Oh, yeah, misconception there.
[Thu Jun 17 03:19:31 2021] Switch >> The theme is entirely random.
[Thu Jun 17 03:19:51 2021] Switch >> Nothing at all to do with the purpose of the host.
[Thu Jun 17 03:20:17 2021] Charon >> Hmm
[Thu Jun 17 03:20:21 2021] Charon >> Disappointing
[Thu Jun 17 03:20:56 2021] Charon >> Here I thought I'd found a legitimate reason to want to see a foundation.
[Thu Jun 17 03:21:13 2021] Flatline >> So I heard time can feel different in a foundation and I always wondered about those that seem to have a...plot I guess?
[Thu Jun 17 03:21:53 2021] Flatline >> Ah, makes sense
[Thu Jun 17 03:22:26 2021] Switch >> Sounds like a datatrail.
[Thu Jun 17 03:23:40 2021] Muse >> ok youre right it sounds awful i dont want it anymore
[Thu Jun 17 03:23:57 2021] Switch >> Host Manager is a hard job.
[Thu Jun 17 03:26:19 2021] Charon >> I have never claimed that Deckers and Technos have an easy time of it.
[Thu Jun 17 03:26:27 2021] Muse >> but its fine, we work with what weve got, and if an alert goes out because a camera had a different firewall than you expected on, we got ways of dealing with that, its not the end of the world
[Thu Jun 17 03:26:45 2021] Flatline >> All of us cheat
[Thu Jun 17 03:27:00 2021] Switch >> Ever tell you had a techno tell me they had cheat codes?
[Thu Jun 17 03:27:23 2021] Flatline >> Basic tenants of runner lifr
[Thu Jun 17 03:27:26 2021] Switch >> pk;edit Ever tell you I had a techno tell me they had cheat codes?
[Thu Jun 17 03:27:50 2021] Switch >> Techno face combos?
[Thu Jun 17 03:28:05 2021] Flatline >> Who was it that just had a big competition to proclaim themselves as the best decker on the hub?
[Thu Jun 17 03:28:52 2021] Charon >> But my standard for "the ego of a face" is Purple
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:00 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I know a techno they are nice 😊
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:14 2021] Switch >> Agreed, Sori.
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:29 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ohh I physically type half the time
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:31 2021] Mad Dog >> Yeah Diz is chill. Who else around here's a techno tho?
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:55 2021] Charon >> I used to use regular old trodes, but once I got to Seattle I started getting invites to fancy event, so I invested in a trode patch.
[Thu Jun 17 03:29:58 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> Diz is awesome!
[Thu Jun 17 03:30:57 2021] Charon >> I know *one* with an ego
[Thu Jun 17 03:31:09 2021] Charon >> But I personally think their ego is driven by a lack of self-esteem
[Thu Jun 17 03:31:33 2021] Switch >> There was the Nomad.
[Thu Jun 17 03:32:05 2021] Mad Dog >> Well the flavor around the Hub has been changing in more ways than one. I'll take "most of the technos are chill" over "they all suck" anyday
[Thu Jun 17 03:32:20 2021] Flatline >> Airwave was solid
[Thu Jun 17 03:32:22 2021] Charon >> Nah, sticks just fine
[Thu Jun 17 03:32:45 2021] Switch >> Her rep wasn't.
[Thu Jun 17 03:33:00 2021] Muse >> oh wiz
[Thu Jun 17 03:33:11 2021] Switch >> At least, she disappeared at a real inconvenient time for her.
[Thu Jun 17 03:33:33 2021] Charon >> I've considered a datajack, but I just ain't ready for chrome I think.
[Thu Jun 17 03:33:50 2021] Muse >> the less you can get away with, the better, if you ask me
[Thu Jun 17 03:34:20 2021] Muse >> i see the dark spots in peoples auras and i pick up on the subtle changes in their personality and it just skeeves me out
[Thu Jun 17 03:34:27 2021] Switch >> Titanium is more reliable than flesh.
[Thu Jun 17 03:34:49 2021] Switch >> I haven't had my chrome blown off.
[Thu Jun 17 03:35:07 2021] Switch >> Frag that guy.
[Thu Jun 17 03:35:33 2021] Flatline >> Would still love to see how titanium holds up over 60 years or so
[Thu Jun 17 03:35:49 2021] Switch >> It doesn't rot.
[Thu Jun 17 03:36:44 2021] Charon >> Like I said, I've considered it
[Thu Jun 17 03:37:47 2021] Flatline >> Cripple might be a stretch
[Thu Jun 17 03:38:09 2021] Switch >> Not as far as you think.
[Thu Jun 17 03:38:45 2021] Charon >> Some of us have reasons, Sori
[Thu Jun 17 03:39:19 2021] Starling >> Hey.
[Thu Jun 17 03:39:24 2021] Switch >> Some would rather be near crippled than take a chrome improvement.
[Thu Jun 17 03:39:28 2021] Starling >> Oh, good to see you're still alive, Muse.
[Thu Jun 17 03:39:38 2021] Muse >> oh hey thanks you too
[Thu Jun 17 03:40:08 2021] Charon >> Organic limb replacements exist, and I can afford them on shadow pay.
[Thu Jun 17 03:40:15 2021] Charon >> Hey Star
[Thu Jun 17 03:41:13 2021] Muse >> its pretty obvious when you can see it, right?
[Thu Jun 17 03:41:41 2021] Charon >> I want to get more ware, but I want to get it to keep up with the chromed up people.
[Thu Jun 17 03:42:36 2021] Muse >> yeah...
[Thu Jun 17 03:42:56 2021] Muse >> thanks, you too, flat
[Thu Jun 17 03:43:13 2021] Charon >> Bioware does indeed eat you
[Thu Jun 17 03:43:19 2021] Charon >> But it ain't as bad as chrome
[Thu Jun 17 03:43:26 2021] Flatline >> ||come on phone ||
[Thu Jun 17 03:43:33 2021] Charon >> And a doctor said my system is better built for bio anyway.
[Thu Jun 17 03:43:39 2021] Muse >> ive heard before the ware boom people got by on practice and training, Charon - i know its unpopular these days but its what the very best do
[Thu Jun 17 03:44:09 2021] Muse >> they always say that, cause bioware sells for more and is easier to install
[Thu Jun 17 03:44:31 2021] Azalea >> az>!connect
[Thu Jun 17 03:44:33 2021] Charon >> And also, my brain doesn't get the willies so much at the idea of getting extra muscle rather than replacing it all with metal.
[Thu Jun 17 03:44:52 2021] Muse >> hello flowerpot
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:00 2021] Flatline >> I knew a guy that tried that
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:13 2021] Azalea >> Hello, Muse. I don't think we've talked yet; a pleasure to meet you.
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:15 2021] Flatline >> Tried using animal muscles, thought it would work better
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:19 2021] Flatline >> It did not
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:46 2021] Flatline >> Well they were cloned gorilla muscles and not chicken cutlets
[Thu Jun 17 03:46:52 2021] Flatline >> But you get the idea
[Thu Jun 17 03:47:18 2021] Charon >> I guess to each their own, Nu-Sense
[Thu Jun 17 03:47:40 2021] Charon >> I find bioware is better for my sense of self-identity, or something like that
[Thu Jun 17 03:47:46 2021] Azalea >> That's an exceedingly stupid idea, Flatline. What brought them to that conclusion?
[Thu Jun 17 03:47:55 2021] Charon >> Merc was throwing words like that around the other day.
[Thu Jun 17 03:48:04 2021] Flatline >> They were exceedingly stupid
[Thu Jun 17 03:48:07 2021] Flatline >> And high
[Thu Jun 17 03:48:23 2021] Azalea >> That would suffice.
[Thu Jun 17 03:48:47 2021] Flatline >> Oh but they were very excited by the idea
[Thu Jun 17 03:49:32 2021] Azalea >> Ignoring the gorilla muscle implants, bioware is certainly the superior choice in most situations, if one can afford the higher price.
[Thu Jun 17 03:49:42 2021] Flatline >> <PM Muse: by the by, did you know Recluse claims to never have done any drugs beyond oneiro?>
[Thu Jun 17 03:50:27 2021] Muse >> <PM Flatline: is that so? why do you bring it up?>
[Thu Jun 17 03:51:14 2021] Mad Dog >> Yeah, muscle replacements are rough sometimes. By now though my body's spent so long adjusting to em I feel like I'd have a harder time readjusting if I got meat put back in
[Thu Jun 17 03:51:16 2021] Starling >> They're worth it. Mine itched for *years* until I got them replaced recently, though.
[Thu Jun 17 03:51:17 2021] Flatline >> <PM Muse: I may have recommended she try ayahuasca with you if you showed back up>
[Thu Jun 17 03:51:50 2021] Muse >> <PM Flatline: oh. well im not a proper shaman so idk if it will be the full experience but>
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:02 2021] Flatline >> Yep
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:03 2021] Azalea >> Call it what you will. It's a real tradeoff. We have a word for cyberware-induced insanity for a reason.
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:05 2021] Starling >> It doesn't reduce what makes me a person.
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:13 2021] Starling >> That's a bunch of bullshit.
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:21 2021] Starling >> The reducing bit.
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:30 2021] Starling >> Cyberpsychosis is a thing, that I agree with.
[Thu Jun 17 03:53:36 2021] Muse >> with training and practice you additionally get the benefit that you know exactly what youre getting into, theres no corporate tracers or genetic signatures or killswitches or anything like that
[Thu Jun 17 03:54:03 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> I don't see cyber as a problem, best way I can discribe it is that it stains the bond between your soul and your body
[Thu Jun 17 03:54:24 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Yes
[Thu Jun 17 03:54:52 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I've met people full of ware that burn as brightly as someone without any
[Thu Jun 17 03:54:56 2021] Charon >> Look, I don't buy into ware making you a worse person, but I've personally seen it turn a good man into a rabid dog.
[Thu Jun 17 03:55:11 2021] Charon >> So excuse me if I'm a bit tetchy about taking on too much.
[Thu Jun 17 03:55:24 2021] Charon >> He was a good man
[Thu Jun 17 03:55:36 2021] Charon >> I did
[Thu Jun 17 03:56:41 2021] Muse >> <PM Flatline: so you foist the responsibility onto the one awakened person in your life who is least able to deal directly with another magical threat... i jest, i do appreciate the heads up>
[Thu Jun 17 03:57:26 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Probably drop it Nu-Sense
[Thu Jun 17 03:58:55 2021] Azalea >> Welcome to the conversation, Thermite.
[Thu Jun 17 03:59:06 2021] Flatline >> <PM Muse: I know other magical people thank you very much. Though very few of them as capable with both magic and drugs>
[Thu Jun 17 03:59:09 2021] Thermite >> Hey Azza, what's cracking?
[Thu Jun 17 03:59:29 2021] Muse >> hey hi!!
[Thu Jun 17 03:59:39 2021] Flatline >> <PM Muse: Really is good to see you>
[Thu Jun 17 03:59:50 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> <pm Mercurial: I was gonna send you their comm code if they left before you got on>
[Thu Jun 17 04:00:25 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, we're Australiafying people's names now.
[Thu Jun 17 04:00:34 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> h> <pm Mercurial: I was gonna send you their comm code if they had left before you got on>
[Thu Jun 17 04:00:36 2021] Thermite >> Unless you don't like it, in which case I wont.
[Thu Jun 17 04:01:08 2021] Azalea >> It's not the worst I've heard. If you wish.
[Thu Jun 17 04:01:38 2021] Muse >> <PM Mercurial: glad to see you're still kickin too, tho by the looks of that login message youre not all that happy about it>
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:06 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Ohh!
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:14 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> That's awesome Therm!
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:20 2021] Charon >> Currently we're sitting in Puyallup while Recluse teaches us about magic again.
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:24 2021] Azalea >> To shorten a long conversation, Nu-Sense is living up to her name.
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:48 2021] Charon >> I have learnt the words "numenoss perception" today.
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:55 2021] Charon >> I might not be spelling that correctly
[Thu Jun 17 04:02:57 2021] Starling >> Have fun learning about magic.
[Thu Jun 17 04:03:01 2021] Muse >> <PM Flatline: well normally i wouldnt let you deflect with flattery but im not too sore about this one>
[Thu Jun 17 04:03:02 2021] Flatline >> Close enough
[Thu Jun 17 04:03:09 2021] Thermite >> Yeah, don't really compliment until you see the results.
[Thu Jun 17 04:03:21 2021] Muse >> 'numinous' if you care
[Thu Jun 17 04:03:55 2021] Thermite >> Also, spelling of the word variety is for nerds
[Thu Jun 17 04:04:11 2021] Charon >> Who exactly was saying that?
[Thu Jun 17 04:04:22 2021] Muse >> <PM Mercurial: oh phew, that's hugely reassuring. well in that case, we should hang out while im in town. catch up and all that>
[Thu Jun 17 04:04:51 2021] Azalea >> I never said it's a guaranteed affliction, either.
[Thu Jun 17 04:04:54 2021] Starling >> You'll generally see some sort of shimmering.
[Thu Jun 17 04:05:30 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> a> As someone with a lot of cyber, I know there is a limit where people can just snap
[Thu Jun 17 04:05:48 2021] Thermite >> What's an azalea?
[Thu Jun 17 04:06:02 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I've seen it and wish to avoid it
[Thu Jun 17 04:06:04 2021] Muse >> very pretty though
[Thu Jun 17 04:07:36 2021] Muse >> <PM Mercurial: ah... i know that feeling too well... i almost thought you were one of them for a bit. i missed you too.>
[Thu Jun 17 04:07:50 2021] Azalea >> az>!disconnect I'll be back later.
[Thu Jun 17 04:08:06 2021] Muse >> <PM Flatline: depends on my mood but your odds are better with a larger vocabulary>
[Thu Jun 17 04:08:18 2021] Charon >> They hurt less.
[Thu Jun 17 04:08:35 2021] Charon >> Also, stretching helps
[Thu Jun 17 04:08:39 2021] Muse >> it depends how fast you ramp it up too.
[Thu Jun 17 04:09:11 2021] Charon >> As Akane led into, there's like a half dozen people that will help you with providing stretching routines.
[Thu Jun 17 04:09:29 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> Go slow, you only destroy your muscles by going to quickly
[Thu Jun 17 04:09:52 2021] Charon >> I got one I learnt playing footy as a kid. It's a good one for those without cyberlimbs
[Thu Jun 17 04:10:53 2021] Charon >> That is not how that works
[Thu Jun 17 04:10:57 2021] Charon >> Where's Maz?
[Thu Jun 17 04:11:22 2021] Charon >> Muscle replacements don't mean no more exercising.
[Thu Jun 17 04:11:30 2021] Laura (Akane/Hexi) >> I'm not an expert on bio however
[Thu Jun 17 04:12:12 2021] Muse >> i will rarely pass up the opportunity to soapbox about the perils of ware
[Thu Jun 17 04:12:44 2021] Flatline >> It's an important one in our line of work
[Thu Jun 17 04:13:34 2021] Flatline >> Folks can replace one thing after another in pursuit of getting stronger and faster and smarter without giving thought to the long term effects