That Which Is Generally Referred To As Shenanigans

[archaicSchooner]

Right, so.

It's my first time Sburbing, I'm about two weeks in, it's... about as awesome as I expected. (Dad worked for the Company. Brought me in for take-your-kids-to-work day a few years ago. Tried out something that I swear was a holodeck. Got a slash on my arm for the trouble. Scar's still there.)

Anyway. The people we have here:

archaicSchooner is me, Alex. I'm a Sage of Time. No idea what I'm doing. Decided to point an antenna towards the Furthest Ring the other day, picked up a bunch of signals, most of which are FAQs in various stages of decay. Found this, distributed the instructions for a tunnel to my friends here. They might show up, they might not, it's their decision ultimately.

epicWoodworking is Sara, who is a, uh, something of Mist. (Not sure what it is. Think it starts with a G. Guide? Guard?) She enjoys playing with very dangerous power tools. She's pretty good with a chainsaw, but her specibus is a carpenter's square. I don't get how some people set their specibus to something that isn't extremely deadly. At least she can do alchemy with it.

sargassoInfinite is Will, the Page of Space. Shy, softspoken, apparently Sburb wants him to stop doing that. Think he had a panic attack the other day when doing a quest that involved public speaking. If any of you guys have something for that, let me know.

tarragonThreaded is Iris, who is also a "something starting with G" of Fate. Overthinks things a lot. She'd probably make a good Jeopardy player if our planet still existed and wasn't a giant desert wasteland by now. (She's got that knack for knowing irrelevant details.)

I'll drop by every few days with more details.

[ventricularPipefitter]

Always, always, good to hear from first-timers. You guys are lucky, you really don't know how much.

How dd you find the community, out of curiosity?

Still alive? Work out the Guide/Guard concerns?

[epicWoodworking]

Hi. Before you ask, it turns out I'm a Guide.

Look, things were fine for the past few weeks. Then Iris went and started her Underworld thing, and got Corrupted by the Angels for her trouble.

I think Alex was taking to you guys on the chat, and then he went over to try to snap Iris out of her... whatever it was. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but Will says that the camera whited out for several minutes and then Iris and Alex were sitting there... "partaking of the flesh", which I will tell you is completely literal in this case: they were cutting slivers out of themselves and eating them.

...Yeah.

So I went over to your chat thing, some of you were helpful, I alchemized a large amount of specialized equipment and then went to knock the both of them out. This was easily accomplished by throwing a Weighted Returning Square at each of their heads. They were then promptly strapped to spineboards alchemized with Prospitian clothing, which is apparently Corruption-resistant?

Then I was told I was supposed to separate them, so I had Will put me over to Alex's planet with Alex in tow. This worked fine.

The next thing I tried was suggested to me by the chat: [Turn Back the Clock] as accessed by fogging as Alex. This worked... some. Then I ran out of pluck and Alex, still corrupted, was struggling against the spineboard, not knocked out, and in danger of breaking out.

So I captchalogued him and ran for the Quest Bed, where I fatally wounded him and then quickly and quietly left.

Then I went after Iris. Given my experience with the previous, I decided it would be easier to go with the slightly older-fashioned method:

1) Play anti-Angel-corruption music at her
2) Remain in the area to provide hugs.

She started screaming after a while.

When she started to slack off, then I moved in to hold her until she went limp. After that I cleaned and bandaged the wounds.

So I'm waiting for her to wake up, I guess.

That or for Alex to get back on so I can ask him if the tiering worked the way I expected it to.

[lunarlungfish]

Iris will probably come out okay. I got infected with some nasty angel corruption, and a combination of music, lots of moirail hugs, and some alchemized stuff sent to my moirail (I'm not sure what it was, you'll have to ask someone else... I was kinda indisposed at the time) got me out of it. I puked up some nasty soulgunk and slept for hours and hours, but I'm... I'm better now.