HF 018 Creed and Death

[7/1/16, 7:13:58 PM] Jamaros: Ok, so, you are in the void with Death and Taeral.

[7/1/16, 7:14:42 PM] Jamaros: Death's form seems to have grown to massive size (think No-Face from Spirited Away in his giant form), and she is looming over you.

[7/1/16, 7:14:59 PM] Creed: "Hello Death."

[7/1/16, 7:15:19 PM] Jamaros: Death's face remains stoic.

[7/1/16, 7:15:33 PM] Creed: "Are you prepared to have that nonlethal game I promised?"

[7/1/16, 7:16:56 PM] Jamaros: Death: "That depends."

[7/1/16, 7:17:09 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You have stakes, I presume."

[7/1/16, 7:20:08 PM] Jamaros: Death sits in a large chair that only seems to just appear.

[7/1/16, 7:20:38 PM] Creed: "Well I never said it would have to be a game of bets."

[7/1/16, 7:21:25 PM] Jamaros: Death tilts her head at you.  "You have crossed into the void between life and the hereafter...for a simple game of chess?"

[7/1/16, 7:22:43 PM] Creed: "Is that wrong of me?"

[7/1/16, 7:23:08 PM] Jamaros: Death does that thing again where her face doesn't really move...but you swear you see a small smile.

[7/1/16, 7:23:15 PM] Jamaros: Death: "No.  Just surprising."

[7/1/16, 7:24:32 PM] Jamaros: Death is now suddenly at your height and a table, chair and board with pieces appear before you.

[7/1/16, 7:31:53 PM] Creed: (( computer died))

[7/1/16, 7:32:03 PM] Jamaros: ((Oh, sorry))

[7/1/16, 7:32:16 PM] Creed: Creed will pull back one of the seats and sit herself down, resting Taeral next to it.

[7/1/16, 7:32:46 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You may make the first move, if you wish."

[7/1/16, 7:33:10 PM] Creed: "I'd find it a bit more ironic if Death took the first move."

[7/1/16, 7:35:14 PM] Jamaros: The pieces shift now, so white is on her side.  Her cloak also shifts to a bone white color and her normal visage is replaced with a color-inverted version of our more typical Grim Reaper, with black bones and a white cloak.

[7/1/16, 7:36:15 PM] Jamaros: Death reaches forward and moves a pawn forward.

[7/1/16, 7:36:16 PM] Creed: "Nice colors."

[7/1/16, 7:36:38 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Thank you.  I have not used this look in quite some time."

[7/1/16, 7:40:04 PM] Creed: "What was the last occasion?"

[7/1/16, 7:40:43 PM] Jamaros: Death: "I believe it was during a plague a few millenia ago."

[7/1/16, 7:41:05 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Back when your family was still considered new blood."

[7/1/16, 7:42:21 PM] Jamaros: Death: "It is your turn, by the way."

[7/1/16, 7:47:10 PM] Creed: (( I actually know like nothing about chess ))

[7/1/16, 7:47:22 PM] Jamaros: Roll an INT check, to see how you do.

[7/1/16, 7:47:56 PM] Jamaros: Just straight intelligence.

[7/1/16, 7:48:04 PM] Creed: one sec

[7/1/16, 7:48:08 PM] Jamaros: Ok.

[7/1/16, 7:53:33 PM] Creed: 19

[7/1/16, 7:53:40 PM] Jamaros: You make an opening move that feels very impressive.

[7/1/16, 7:53:49 PM] Jamaros: Death leans back in her chair and ponders a moment.

[7/1/16, 8:01:27 PM] Jamaros: I'll carry that INT score for a couple of moves.  You go further into the game and seem to be doing well for yourself.

[7/1/16, 8:01:33 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Do you play often?"

[7/1/16, 8:05:12 PM] Jamaros: ((Computer shit itself, again?))

[7/1/16, 8:07:49 PM] Creed: (( All good! ))

[7/1/16, 8:07:57 PM] Creed: "Not very, haven't had the chance lately."

[7/1/16, 8:08:21 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Well, you're quite good."

[7/1/16, 8:09:33 PM] Jamaros: Death: "I get challenged quite a bit these days, but usually for very high stakes, you'd imagine."

[7/1/16, 8:10:44 PM] Jamaros: Death: "So...not to sound disappointed, but is this all you really wanted?"

[7/1/16, 8:11:28 PM] Creed: "Not entirely, I wanted to know more about these eggs and why you have one."

[7/1/16, 8:11:48 PM] Jamaros: Death: "I had a feeling."

[7/1/16, 8:12:05 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Why?"

[7/1/16, 8:12:20 PM] Creed: "Why do I ask, or..?"

[7/1/16, 8:12:35 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Let's start there."

[7/1/16, 8:13:59 PM] Creed: "Because I find it interesting that the one responsible of so many souls and, presumably, a lot of power needs.. well power itself."

[7/1/16, 8:14:59 PM] Jamaros: Death: "That is strange, indeed."

[7/1/16, 8:16:08 PM] Creed: "No answers huh?"

[7/1/16, 8:16:27 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Haven't decided yet."

[7/1/16, 8:17:18 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You haven't talked about yours, really."

[7/1/16, 8:17:45 PM] Creed: "I don't know enough about it to."

[7/1/16, 8:18:07 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You wish to know it's workings?"

[7/1/16, 8:22:55 PM] Creed: "I do."

[7/1/16, 8:23:06 PM] Jamaros: Death: "..."

[7/1/16, 8:23:15 PM] Jamaros: Death makes a move, but doesn't say any more.

[7/1/16, 8:26:16 PM] Creed: "I'm not asking you for how to do it. I just wanted to know why you had one."

[7/1/16, 8:33:47 PM] Jamaros: Make a persuasion check.

[7/1/16, 8:37:33 PM] Jamaros: ((...you still here?))

[7/1/16, 8:43:15 PM] Creed: (( sorry! ))

[7/1/16, 8:43:18 PM] Creed: (( i was called away ))

[7/1/16, 8:43:21 PM] Jamaros: ((S'ok))

[7/1/16, 8:43:27 PM] Jamaros: ((Sorry I was unresponsive))

[7/1/16, 8:43:48 PM] Jamaros: ((Well...good to see you haven't changed :P))

[7/1/16, 8:44:22 PM] Jamaros: Death: "I have no plans to use it.  So, you need not worry how I have it."

[7/1/16, 8:44:23 PM] Creed: (( of course ))

[7/1/16, 8:44:48 PM] Creed: "Well, if you have no plans to use it, I have a use for it."

[7/1/16, 8:44:58 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Do you?"

[7/1/16, 8:45:23 PM] Creed: "There are some dwarves in town that are constructing a trans-dimensional portal of sorts."

[7/1/16, 8:45:48 PM] Creed: "Funnily enough, they made it after seeing a ritual that required 6 eggs of sorts."

[7/1/16, 8:46:01 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Funny."

[7/1/16, 8:47:03 PM] Jamaros: Death: "And they need the powers to make it work."

[7/1/16, 8:47:14 PM] Creed: "Yeah, so it seems."

[7/1/16, 8:48:13 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Someone performed a similar ritual once before."

[7/1/16, 8:48:36 PM] Creed: "Well, considering it was written down in a book, I'm not too surprised."

[7/1/16, 8:49:08 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You wish to aid these dwarves."

[7/1/16, 8:49:17 PM] Creed: "I wish for them to aid me, to be more accurate."

[7/1/16, 8:51:18 PM] Jamaros: Death: "...congratulations.  You win in three moves."

[7/1/16, 8:51:33 PM] Jamaros: Death: "That has not happened in a very long time."

[7/1/16, 8:52:21 PM] Creed: "Oh? That's interesting."

[7/1/16, 8:52:26 PM] Creed: "Anyone beat you before?"

[7/1/16, 8:52:32 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Once."

[7/1/16, 8:52:42 PM] Jamaros: Death's form shifts back to her original shape.

[7/1/16, 8:52:47 PM] Jamaros: Death: "In a way."

[7/1/16, 8:53:03 PM] Creed: "In a way?"

[7/1/16, 8:53:29 PM] Jamaros: Death: "She won.  Whether she beat me, is a much larger question."

[7/1/16, 8:53:50 PM] Jamaros: Death: "The stone is not for you."

[7/1/16, 8:53:59 PM] Creed: "I know it's not for me."

[7/1/16, 8:55:34 PM] Creed: "It's similar in aura to William and another child in the city."

[7/1/16, 8:56:04 PM] Jamaros: Death: "It is similar to many people."

[7/1/16, 8:59:50 PM] Jamaros: Death: "But that doesn't make it for them."

[7/1/16, 9:00:05 PM] Creed: "Then why is it for you?"

[7/1/16, 9:00:16 PM] Jamaros: Death: "It was tasked to me."

[7/1/16, 9:00:32 PM] Creed: "Under that kind of understanding, why would a god be assigned to holding power?"

[7/1/16, 9:00:40 PM] Creed: "In the literal sense."

[7/1/16, 9:00:47 PM] Creed: "Not as they are, I mean."

[7/1/16, 9:02:23 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Why are treasures lost?  Why do whole countries vanish into ruin?  Where does that other sock go when you are doing the wash?"

[7/1/16, 9:03:03 PM] Creed: "Because goblins steal treasure, because humans are reckless, and isn't there a fae that does that?"

[7/1/16, 9:05:51 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Maybe...and maybe it is me."

[7/1/16, 9:06:02 PM] Creed: "You steal socks?"

[7/1/16, 9:06:15 PM] Jamaros: Death opens up her cloak and throws a sock at you.

[7/1/16, 9:06:31 PM] Creed: Creed will attempt to bat the sock away.

[7/1/16, 9:06:38 PM] Jamaros: You do.

[7/1/16, 9:06:56 PM] Creed: "Everyone owns socks, throwing one doesn't convince me that you steal them."

[7/1/16, 9:07:43 PM] Jamaros: Death: "You are missing the point here.  You wanted to know why I have the stone.  Because no one else is responsible enough to own it, yet."

[7/1/16, 9:08:21 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Our game is now complete."

[7/1/16, 9:08:35 PM] Creed: (( who wins ))

[7/1/16, 9:08:43 PM] Creed: (( do i need to roll? ))

[7/1/16, 9:08:54 PM] Jamaros: ((You win))

[7/1/16, 9:09:03 PM] Creed: (( Yes!! ))

[7/1/16, 9:09:04 PM] Jamaros: ((You rolled a 19, she rolled a 17))

[7/1/16, 9:09:16 PM] Jamaros: ((She said, you beat her in 3 moves))

[7/1/16, 9:09:58 PM] Jamaros: ((But...she's not giving you the stone now.))

[7/1/16, 9:10:48 PM] Creed: (( that's fine ))

[7/1/16, 9:11:18 PM] Jamaros: She walks away from you and into the void, do you wanna try any last ditch stuff before she leaves?

[7/1/16, 9:11:45 PM] Creed: "Ah, Death."

[7/1/16, 9:12:09 PM] Creed: "Before you walk off to literally nowhere, I have another question or two."

[7/1/16, 9:12:21 PM] Jamaros: Death pauses.

[7/1/16, 9:13:06 PM] Creed: "Why did you leave the door open?"

[7/1/16, 9:13:46 PM] Jamaros: Death: "...I am busy...And I did not have time for it...and it gets lonely here."

[7/1/16, 9:13:58 PM] Jamaros: Death: "Next time you use it...it may even still be there."

[7/1/16, 9:15:02 PM] Creed: "I hope so, maybe we can play another game.. Taeral, do you have no questions for Death?"

[7/1/16, 9:15:48 PM] Jamaros: Taeral: "Um...I...The last person who played you...what happened to her?"

[7/1/16, 9:17:26 PM] Jamaros: Death: "...She escaped."

[7/1/16, 9:17:35 PM] Jamaros: Death wanders into the shadows and vanish.

[7/1/16, 9:17:43 PM] Jamaros: You find yourself in the basement.