HF 024.5 Main Hall

[8/31/16, 8:43:28 PM] Josh: At this point, the park is open.  You guys are at HQ, it is now right around sundown, just say what you wanna do and/or where you wanna go.

[8/31/16, 8:44:00 PM] Rune: Rune will hunt down Belza, and optionally Tiprus.

[8/31/16, 8:50:07 PM] Quill: Quill will sit at the table in the common area and go through some of his books.

[8/31/16, 8:50:30 PM] Josh: You still have the lump of coal on you?

[8/31/16, 8:50:46 PM] Quill: Yes, he's keeping that pretty close at hand.

[8/31/16, 8:53:22 PM] Hank: Hank is also sitting in the common area.

[8/31/16, 8:53:50 PM] Josh: Ok, Quill is shuffling through books.  He has come across the fey book he got from Belkar.

[8/31/16, 8:57:08 PM] Josh: As he pulls up the book...there is a shuffling in Quill's pocket.

[8/31/16, 8:57:43 PM] Quill: Quill looks down and pulls out his magic lump.

[8/31/16, 8:58:13 PM] Josh: The lump begins to move instictually towards the book.

[8/31/16, 8:58:31 PM] Quill: This message has been removed.

[8/31/16, 8:58:36 PM] Quill: Whooops

[8/31/16, 8:58:47 PM] Josh: ...that was weird.

[8/31/16, 8:58:59 PM] Quill: ((Sorry, dragged a contact over because of a twitcy touchpad))

[8/31/16, 8:59:28 PM] Quill: Quill eyes the lump, and the book, looking through the book carefully.

[8/31/16, 9:00:32 PM] Josh: Do you hold the lump to the book, or just in your hand?

[8/31/16, 9:00:50 PM] Quill: Oh, yeah, holding the lump with one hand.

[8/31/16, 9:03:09 PM] Josh: The lump keeps trying to force out of your hand and onto the book.  Particular pages do not seem to alter this.

[8/31/16, 9:05:08 PM] Hank: Whats going on Quill?  Is everything ok with your lump of poking things?

[8/31/16, 9:05:26 PM] Quill: I don't know.  Apparently not.

[8/31/16, 9:05:36 PM] Quill: Quill just puts the book down and sets the lump on it!

[8/31/16, 9:06:07 PM] Quill: I think the Marquis really wanted it.

[8/31/16, 9:06:44 PM] Josh: The lump glows a dull blue and a face shoots out of it.  It looks like this, but frosty blue:

[8/31/16, 9:06:57 PM] Hank: Seems like it, I really don't even want to think about him right now though.

[8/31/16, 9:07:05 PM] Josh: A voice comes from it.  "Hello.  Give me a name, and I may tell you a story."

[8/31/16, 9:07:16 PM] Quill: ...what.

[8/31/16, 9:07:41 PM] Josh: Face: "I am sorry.  There is no "What" in my files."

[8/31/16, 9:07:59 PM] Hank: ...

[8/31/16, 9:08:01 PM] Quill: This is what I had in me?

[8/31/16, 9:08:07 PM] Quill: Um.  Who are you?  What are you?

[8/31/16, 9:09:22 PM] Josh: Voice: "Information: I am The Oracle.  Keeper of information for all royal members of the court."

[8/31/16, 9:09:29 PM] Quill: Hmmm.

[8/31/16, 9:09:39 PM] Quill: The Marquis de Carabas.

[8/31/16, 9:12:19 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Apology: I cannot recite all information, as many names fit to that title.  You may select from the follow.  Puck, Loki, Nancy, Reynard.."

[8/31/16, 9:13:24 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Kai-Hotus, Kraven, Simian, Bugs, Pippin"

[8/31/16, 9:13:47 PM] Josh: The voice continues to list names.  It seems to go on endlessly.

[8/31/16, 9:14:22 PM] Quill: Aurilandur.

[8/31/16, 9:15:39 PM] Josh: The eyes on the Oracle blink.  "You have chosen...Queen Aurilander.  I possess two hundred and eighty-seven tales attached to this name.  Which would you like to hear?"

[8/31/16, 9:17:11 PM] Quill: Quill thinks.  "The last one.

[8/31/16, 9:18:05 PM] Josh: The eyes blink again.  "Story: The Dawn of the Summer-Winter War"

[8/31/16, 9:18:18 PM] Quill: CAn you tell me when this was written?

[8/31/16, 9:20:46 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: This story was first recorded by the scribes of the Autumn Court in 5,387 AOT.  The events take place between the rule of spring to the rule of winter of that year."

[8/31/16, 9:21:42 PM] Hank: What is the most recent story you have?

[8/31/16, 9:22:20 PM] Quill: ((Do we know how that year matches up with our own?))

[8/31/16, 9:22:39 PM] Josh: ((You do not.  You guess this to be a fey time marking.))

[8/31/16, 9:23:01 PM] Quill: ((What season is it in the real world here?))

[8/31/16, 9:23:18 PM] Josh: The eyes blink again.  "Story: The Fall of Filmore the Flatulent.  Is this story closer to your liking?"

[8/31/16, 9:23:26 PM] Josh: ((Summer.  About August.))

[8/31/16, 9:24:50 PM] Hank: Hank pulls out his fathers journal to see if there is any reaction.

[8/31/16, 9:25:21 PM] Quill: How recent is this story?  Relative to the current moment.

[8/31/16, 9:25:22 PM] Josh: Oracle's face goes from a blue color to a swirl of blue and yellow and eventually a light green.

[8/31/16, 9:26:28 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Filmore's tale would be...roughly...20 cycles, three court changes and 30 lunar turns prior to this moment."

[8/31/16, 9:26:52 PM] Quill: So not recent by mortal standards.

[8/31/16, 9:27:04 PM] Quill: I was hoping there was some kind of message in there.

[8/31/16, 9:27:24 PM] Hank: Why did you change color?

[8/31/16, 9:27:43 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Checking for messages.  Please hold."

[8/31/16, 9:28:04 PM] Quill: I think it read your book, Hank.

[8/31/16, 9:28:39 PM] Josh: Oracles eyes blink.  "Messages retrieved.  This stone contains..."ONE" new message.  Shall I play it?"

[8/31/16, 9:28:47 PM] Quill: Yes.

[8/31/16, 9:29:54 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink and another voice comes through, this one is Lyv's.  "What, where am--?"

[8/31/16, 9:30:55 PM] Josh: Another voice.  Aurilandur's.  "Captain.  It is good to see--"  An explosion is heard in the background.  The Queen speaks again.  "No time.  I have activated plan Q.  I need your chalk.  Hurry we must--"

[8/31/16, 9:31:00 PM] Josh: The line cuts out.

[8/31/16, 9:31:31 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Would you like to save this message, delete it, or mail it to a friend?"

[8/31/16, 9:31:42 PM] Quill: ...delete it.

[8/31/16, 9:32:03 PM] Josh: The eyes blink.  "Message deleted.  You have no saved messages."

[8/31/16, 9:33:31 PM] Quill: I think this is what the Marquis was after.  I don't think this was inside me.... I think that Auril sent it to me.

[8/31/16, 9:34:07 PM] Hank: To send a partial message?

[8/31/16, 9:34:23 PM] Quill: No, to keep it safe from him.

[8/31/16, 9:35:02 PM] Quill: Quill looks at the face.  "What is your purpose again?"

[8/31/16, 9:39:45 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Information: I am to hold records and information for all members of the Seelie Court's royals.  King Oberon, Lord of the Wild and All That Dwell In It.  Queen Titania, of the sky and all bodies who reside within her.  And to their children, Aurilandur, Queen of the Ice and Darkness, Damh, King of the Summer and the Light, Verenestra, Bringer of the Spring and new life, and Karabas, the joker king of the autumn and of change."

[8/31/16, 9:41:10 PM] Josh: Oracle: "I am to teach of our history, explain our policies, and provide knowledge one needs when ruling."

[8/31/16, 9:42:00 PM] Hank: If you are supposed to hold records and information why do you only offer us tales from a long time ago?

[8/31/16, 9:43:11 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: I do not have access to all my systems.  I appear to be damaged."

[8/31/16, 9:44:23 PM] Hank: How many of you exist?

[8/31/16, 9:45:19 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Only me."

[8/31/16, 9:46:38 PM] Quill: How is that you react to the presence of books?

[8/31/16, 9:48:02 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: You were reading from a storybook, I thought you sought information there."

[8/31/16, 9:48:12 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information I could assist with."

[8/31/16, 9:49:29 PM] Hank: But then you changed color when I took out the journal.

[8/31/16, 9:50:29 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: I am tasked to respond with all four children.  You bear a mark of Queen Aurilandur and you possess an item from King Damh."

[8/31/16, 9:51:36 PM] Josh: Oracle: "I have altered myself to fit both courts."

[8/31/16, 9:52:58 PM] Hank: Hank brings out the symbol of Titania.

[8/31/16, 9:53:27 PM] Josh: The green turns a darker shade, taking on a more forest-y color.

[8/31/16, 9:54:06 PM] Hank: Do you know how you are broken or how you could be fixed?

[8/31/16, 9:55:55 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: Several of my systems and databases are not present and some of my functionality is lost, as is most of my form.  I am uncertain how repairs may be made."

[8/31/16, 9:57:32 PM] Hank: So you are probably right Quill this is probably what the Marquis wanted the question is what now?

[8/31/16, 9:58:15 PM] Hank: Potentially the captain or William knows exactly what just happened.

[8/31/16, 9:58:36 PM] Quill: We keep it from him.  It could be that the queen herself made it incomplete, just in case he did get his hands on it.

[8/31/16, 9:59:00 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Searching for files related to Captain William."

[8/31/16, 9:59:34 PM] Quill: Turn off or shut down or whatever you do.

[8/31/16, 10:00:02 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Affirmitive."

[8/31/16, 10:00:06 PM] Josh: The face vanishes.

[8/31/16, 10:00:48 PM] Josh: Gerald: "You don't want to hear about the flatulent Filmore?"

[8/31/16, 10:00:56 PM] Josh: He pops up behind you, stealthily.

[8/31/16, 10:02:04 PM] Quill: Not terribly, no.

[8/31/16, 10:02:25 PM] Hank: Agh!... How long have you been there?

[8/31/16, 10:02:29 PM] Quill: Good.  That means, at least, that Lyv is with Auril.

[8/31/16, 10:03:04 PM] Hank: Or at least she was when she first got there.

[8/31/16, 10:03:50 PM] Quill: Well, yes, but let me have this.

[8/31/16, 10:04:14 PM] Josh: Gerald: "Um...I don't mean to step beyond my bounds...but should we ask it what Plan Q is?"

[8/31/16, 10:04:27 PM] Josh: Gerald: "Assuming it knows."

[8/31/16, 10:05:48 PM] Hank: It could be worth a shot.  But Quill can decide it is his lump ... Somehow.

[8/31/16, 10:06:05 PM] Quill: Quill picks it up again.  "Turn back on, magic lump."

[8/31/16, 10:06:57 PM] Josh: Oracle appears again.  "Tell me a name."

[8/31/16, 10:09:24 PM] Quill: Plan Q.  What information do you have about it?

[8/31/16, 10:12:41 PM] Josh: Oracle's eyes blink.  "Information: Plan Q is a plan considered for events that may result in the destruction of the royal family or the loss of the feywild.  It is only to be enacted under such times or times of equivalent threat.  When Plan Q is enacted, the royals are to escape via secret passages beneath their stronghold.  They are to take with them personnel essential to the mission and cast off to a previously chosen destination, unknown to even the royal family itself."

[8/31/16, 10:15:29 PM] Hank: So they are most likely safe, but we probably have no chance of finding them.

[8/31/16, 10:15:51 PM] Quill: Quill nods.  "What's to be done with you in this circumstance?"

[8/31/16, 10:16:25 PM] Josh: Oracle: "I do not understand.  Please clarify."

[8/31/16, 10:16:47 PM] Quill: What happens to the Oracle when Plan Q is enacted?

[8/31/16, 10:18:32 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Error: I cannot answer for this question.  No protocol exists for this unit.  Analysis: I would assume whatever the possessing royal wishes."

[8/31/16, 10:19:05 PM] Quill: All right.  THank you.  You can shut down again.

[8/31/16, 10:19:20 PM] Josh: Oracle does so.

[8/31/16, 10:20:22 PM] Josh: Gerald: "...would anyone like some tea?  I was just about to make some."

[8/31/16, 10:22:03 PM] Hank: If we wanted more information about the fey courts or plan Q I could see what my father knows?

[8/31/16, 10:22:27 PM] Quill: I don't know if we do.

[8/31/16, 10:22:37 PM] Quill: Yes, please, Gerald.

[8/31/16, 10:23:07 PM] Josh: Gerald goes off to make tea.

[8/31/16, 10:23:11 PM] Quill: It's nothing we can really... help with, you know?  And the less we know, in general, the better.

[8/31/16, 10:23:26 PM] Quill: Which is not usually my policy, mind you.

[8/31/16, 10:24:27 PM] Hank: except everyone except for Damh potentially knows we have the oracle.

[8/31/16, 10:25:23 PM] Quill: Do they, though?

[8/31/16, 10:25:50 PM] Quill: Why didn't the Marquis flay me to take it?

[8/31/16, 10:26:52 PM] Hank: Who knows how his mind works.

[8/31/16, 10:27:26 PM] Josh: Gerald returns with some tea.

[8/31/16, 10:28:19 PM] Hank: Thank you Gerald

[8/31/16, 10:29:03 PM] Josh: Gerald takes a cup for himself.  "Not an issue.  Kind of my job around here."

[8/31/16, 10:30:59 PM] Hank: How could the Oracle touch things in the inbetween place?

[8/31/16, 10:31:13 PM] Quill: It's from that world.

[8/31/16, 10:31:35 PM] Quill: But stuck to me, somehow.

[8/31/16, 10:31:36 PM] Hank: but we weren't in that world.

[8/31/16, 10:32:28 PM] Hank: And we are from this world but werent able to interact with it.

[8/31/16, 10:33:00 PM] Hank: But then again I know nothing of travel between worlds and all that.

[8/31/16, 10:33:05 PM] Rune: Rune walks into the kitchen.

[8/31/16, 10:34:14 PM] Josh: Gerald: "...um...again...don't want to step outside my bounds...but you have a magic rock with a seemingly massive supply of knowledge."

[8/31/16, 10:35:04 PM] Rune: I'd like tea.

[8/31/16, 10:35:09 PM] Quill: Hank is free to ask away.  I just don't find it terribly relevant at the moment.

[8/31/16, 10:35:21 PM] Rune: If you don't mind. ... wait, what magic rock?

[8/31/16, 10:35:32 PM] Josh: Gerald: "Oh, Miss Rune.  Pleasure to see you."  He pours you some tea.

[8/31/16, 10:35:59 PM] Hank: Oracle turn on or whatever it is you do

[8/31/16, 10:36:20 PM] Quill: The magic lump I spat up.

[8/31/16, 10:36:26 PM] Anna: Anna enters the prison, carrying a basket of herbs. She is currently a large dog.

[8/31/16, 10:36:32 PM] Josh: A floating blue head appears above the magic lump.  "Tell me a name."

[8/31/16, 10:36:39 PM] Quill: It's some kind of device.

[8/31/16, 10:37:15 PM] Anna: Anna lets out a surprised bark, dropping the basket.

[8/31/16, 10:37:15 PM] Hank: Why are you able to interact with things when stuck between worlds?

[8/31/16, 10:37:17 PM] Quill: I think that Auril sent it to me to keep it out of the Marquis' grasp.

[8/31/16, 10:37:20 PM] Rune: Oh.

[8/31/16, 10:37:23 PM] Rune: Belza is pregnant.

[8/31/16, 10:37:23 PM] Quill: I hope that's Anna.

[8/31/16, 10:37:32 PM] Anna: Anna walks up, curious

[8/31/16, 10:37:35 PM] Quill: ...Oh.  I thought it was something like that.

[8/31/16, 10:37:48 PM] Rune: Otherwise we have a new pet. Anna? Is that you?

[8/31/16, 10:38:24 PM] Anna: Anna nods her head.

[8/31/16, 10:38:46 PM] Quill: .... do we know who the father is?

[8/31/16, 10:39:30 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: I am constructed from pure Tertaonypelum, a mineral from which all worlds are built.  As such, my form transcends usual interdimensional boundaries."

[8/31/16, 10:40:08 PM] Quill: Well, there you go.

[8/31/16, 10:40:59 PM] Hank: And in what situation would an individual throw you up?

[8/31/16, 10:41:08 PM] Anna: Anna is a humanoid again.

[8/31/16, 10:41:23 PM] Rune: We don't.

[8/31/16, 10:41:35 PM] Anna: Is this day going to be weird, too?

[8/31/16, 10:41:48 PM] Rune: And it wasn't consensual. And we don't even know the species or even if it's really Belza's.

[8/31/16, 10:41:58 PM] Josh: ((It's the same day, it's already weird.))

[8/31/16, 10:42:06 PM] Quill: This is still just fallout of the previous day's weird.

[8/31/16, 10:42:08 PM] Josh: ((lol))

[8/31/16, 10:42:18 PM] Hank: This day has been weird already.

[8/31/16, 10:42:39 PM] Anna: Oh, right. Residual weird.

[8/31/16, 10:42:46 PM] Anna: Blegh.

[8/31/16, 10:44:05 PM] Rune: Weird isn't bad.

[8/31/16, 10:44:06 PM] Rune: Anyway, I'm not resigning.

[8/31/16, 10:44:16 PM] Quill: Oh.  Good.

[8/31/16, 10:44:53 PM] Hank: That's good, wait what do you mean we don't even know if the baby is Belza's?

[8/31/16, 10:45:22 PM] Rune: It was put into her.

[8/31/16, 10:45:37 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...what?"

[8/31/16, 10:45:54 PM] Rune: Some sort of experiment.

[8/31/16, 10:46:12 PM] Josh: Taeral: "...that's...I don't...I..."

[8/31/16, 10:46:34 PM] Rune: Anyway, I'm not sure if it was done in the usual way or if it was magical.

[8/31/16, 10:47:58 PM] Hank: ((Where has max been for all this talking?))

[8/31/16, 10:48:55 PM] Josh: ((He fell asleep in a room you gave him.  Upstairs I assume.))

[8/31/16, 10:49:11 PM] Josh: ((He had a long day.))

[8/31/16, 10:50:28 PM] Anna: Either way, I hope it does not do her harm.

[8/31/16, 10:51:05 PM] Rune: I don't know if she's going to keep it. She's going to decide.

[8/31/16, 10:51:18 PM] Quill: Quill nods.

[8/31/16, 10:52:05 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I am thoroughly disgusted by this.  I say, next chance we get, we go to Hell and kill whoever did this to her!"

[8/31/16, 10:52:06 PM] Quill: Anyway.  Lyv is apparently with the queen  They retreated somewhere.

[8/31/16, 10:52:16 PM] Quill: I'm with Taeral.

[8/31/16, 10:52:34 PM] Hank: As am I

[8/31/16, 10:52:40 PM] Quill: I mean, there's a 99% chance we'll end up in Hell the next time we go to the market anyway.

[8/31/16, 10:53:39 PM] Rune: Well... they're already dead.

[8/31/16, 10:53:44 PM] Rune: Belza killed them.

[8/31/16, 10:53:59 PM] Rune: The one who was directly involved, anyway.

[8/31/16, 10:55:44 PM] Josh: Taeral: "Oh...good."

[8/31/16, 10:55:56 PM] Rune: I'm not sure who the one in charge was though. I didn't want to... pry.

[8/31/16, 10:56:06 PM] Rune: I said we'd help with the baby.

[8/31/16, 10:56:14 PM] Rune: If she wants to let it... happen.

[8/31/16, 10:56:29 PM] Rune: ... boys do that where she's from, you know.

[8/31/16, 10:57:24 PM] Rune: I know I shouldn't've spoken for you like that, and we can get a nanny... a boy nanny, there have to be some around? ... if that's what happens but I thought it would be reassuring if it was men she knew.

[8/31/16, 10:57:42 PM] Quill: That's fine.

[8/31/16, 10:57:56 PM] Quill: It's not that different than where I'm from, when you get right down to it.

[8/31/16, 10:58:05 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Seeking information on "Nannies"/"

[8/31/16, 10:59:13 PM] Josh: Oracle: "None found, loading information on name "Nancy" or "Aunt Nancy"."

[8/31/16, 10:59:30 PM] Hank: Oracle shut down

[8/31/16, 11:00:29 PM] Rune: ... probably your women relatives don't hatch out of eggs and telepathically communicate with each other about warfare, though.

[8/31/16, 11:00:50 PM] Rune: It's like an answer-box.

[8/31/16, 11:00:52 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Action: Closing search and shutting down."

[8/31/16, 11:01:09 PM] Anna: Anna seems a little unsettled by the oracle.

[8/31/16, 11:01:13 PM] Quill: What's an answer box?

[8/31/16, 11:01:19 PM] Anna: Is it... sentient?

[8/31/16, 11:01:24 PM] Quill: This is more of an answer lump.

[8/31/16, 11:01:30 PM] Quill: No, doesn't seem to be.

[8/31/16, 11:01:37 PM] Rune: I wonder what else it knows the answers to.

[8/31/16, 11:01:48 PM] Quill: It's like an illusion that allows you to interact with the information inside it.

[8/31/16, 11:01:57 PM] Josh: For a brief moment before the image disappears entirely, Oracle's face transitions to what looks like The Marquis, but a female version, his white wig done in a feminine hairstyle and his shadow-y face made up garishly.  Then, everything shuts down.

[8/31/16, 11:02:15 PM] Hank: But it is damaged according to itself

[8/31/16, 11:02:24 PM] Quill: ...everyone else saw that, right?

[8/31/16, 11:02:35 PM] Anna: I know I did.

[8/31/16, 11:02:55 PM] Hank: If you are describing my new nightmare then yes.

[8/31/16, 11:03:45 PM] Hank: I vote we don't trust the lump

[8/31/16, 11:04:31 PM] Josh: ((Anna's never actually seen The Marquis, so, to her, it was just a bizarre creepy image))

[8/31/16, 11:05:09 PM] Anna: What even was that? some sort of odd ash-person?

[8/31/16, 11:05:12 PM] Anna: Ashling?

[8/31/16, 11:05:19 PM] Rune: Well, if you can change shape you don't have to be the same gender all the time.

[8/31/16, 11:05:56 PM] Quill: It looked like the Marquis, but a female version.

[8/31/16, 11:06:04 PM] Hank: Yes fair enough but I have had enough of the Marquis in any form at this point.

[8/31/16, 11:06:12 PM] Hank: Call started

[8/31/16, 11:06:13 PM] Anna: The Marquis is an ashling?

[8/31/16, 11:06:13 PM] Hank: Call ended

[8/31/16, 11:06:46 PM] Rune: He's an archfey.

[8/31/16, 11:07:04 PM] Anna: Well, yes.

[8/31/16, 11:08:19 PM] Anna: I know what he is, I'm just saying what he looks like.

[8/31/16, 11:08:37 PM] Quill: Yeah.

[8/31/16, 11:10:25 PM] Rune: Oh. Well, that is what he looks like. Usually more like a boy, I suppose.

[8/31/16, 11:10:25 PM] Hank: That still raises the question is he somehow connected to the lump?

[8/31/16, 11:10:42 PM] Quill: Anyway.  I spit this up.  I think it's something that the Queen sent to me through the link I had with her.

[8/31/16, 11:11:00 PM] Quill: ((Could we tell if it was the Marquis, or a being who looked the same?))

[8/31/16, 11:11:32 PM] Josh: ((It looked almost identical to the Marquis, like The Marquis dressed as a really weird woman))

[8/31/16, 11:13:10 PM] Rune: .... you spit it up?

[8/31/16, 11:13:10 PM] Rune: Ugh.

[8/31/16, 11:13:10 PM] Rune: And you're just holding onto it? Can't you put it in a handkerchief or a box or something?

[8/31/16, 11:13:24 PM] Quill: Quill shrugs.  "I was thinking about burying it somewhere."

[8/31/16, 11:13:57 PM] Rune: ... you have a thing that answers questions and you want to bury it?

[8/31/16, 11:14:32 PM] Hank: It did just potentially show an image of the Marquis

[8/31/16, 11:15:38 PM] Rune: I can do that with a minor illusion too, and I'm not his friend.

[8/31/16, 11:16:15 PM] Quill: Quill shrugs.  "The question is why does he want it, and why did it display it?  Maybe it was his originally."

[8/31/16, 11:16:45 PM] Hank: It did have a lot of names for him.

[8/31/16, 11:17:04 PM] Rune: I can think of a lot of names for him too.

[8/31/16, 11:17:05 PM] Rune: Most of them aren't very nice.

[8/31/16, 11:17:42 PM] Quill: ...fine.  Let's see if it can answer this one.

[8/31/16, 11:17:59 PM] Quill: Oracle.  What is the image you use to talk to us?

[8/31/16, 11:18:15 PM] Josh: Oracle boots up.

[8/31/16, 11:19:03 PM] Rune: ... or you could just ask it where its power comes from and who its owner was...

[8/31/16, 11:19:12 PM] Josh: Oracle (back in her original mask form): "Information: The image you see presently is a part of my form, designed to make interaction easier and more comfortable."

[8/31/16, 11:19:41 PM] Rune: Where does your power come from?

[8/31/16, 11:20:26 PM] Hank: What do you mean by part of your form?

[8/31/16, 11:20:37 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: My power is drawn from the feywild, and the raw magicks that form it."

[8/31/16, 11:21:10 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: My form is one of multiple systems currently malfunctioning and in need of repair."

[8/31/16, 11:21:31 PM] Rune: Do you have ties, literal or metaphorical, to any archfey, such as the being called the Marquis.

[8/31/16, 11:22:27 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Affirmative.  I am connected to the transcended archfey of Titania and Oberon and their three living children, Aurilandur, Damh and Verenestra."

[8/31/16, 11:22:52 PM] Rune: How are you connected to them?

[8/31/16, 11:23:01 PM] Rune: And are you connected to the one called the Marquis?

[8/31/16, 11:23:34 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Clarification: I was formed by Queen Titania and given power by King Oberon, as a gift to their children."

[8/31/16, 11:24:15 PM] Quill: Who is your current owner?

[8/31/16, 11:24:24 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: I am not made by or to be used by the being with the title Marquis De Karabas."

[8/31/16, 11:24:41 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: The children of Titania and Oberon."

[8/31/16, 11:24:42 PM] Rune: Good. He's an asshole.

[8/31/16, 11:24:55 PM] Rune: What is your purpose?

[8/31/16, 11:25:49 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: I am designed to provide a history of our world and politics to the children of Oberon and Titania, so they may rule from a basis of knowledge."

[8/31/16, 11:26:32 PM] Quill: How did you come to be in my possession?

[8/31/16, 11:27:58 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: My last interaction was with Queen Titania, who cast me along transdimensional lines to escape the ongoing battle.  On the other end was a small intestine belonging to Winter Subject Quillyn Rae."

[8/31/16, 11:28:31 PM] Rune: ...

[8/31/16, 11:28:43 PM] Quill: Yes.  It was just as awful as it sounds.

[8/31/16, 11:28:47 PM] Rune: ... are you sure it wasn't the large intestine?

[8/31/16, 11:29:11 PM] Rune: ... or... ugh, you had to get it all the way through the small intestine and out the stomach and... that is awful.

[8/31/16, 11:29:29 PM] Anna: If it were the large intestine, the stone likely would've come out somewhere else.

[8/31/16, 11:29:32 PM] Rune: ... Quill, if you don't wash that thing I'm going to make you throw it away. It's not hygienic.

[8/31/16, 11:29:36 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Clarification: It is possible.  I have no proper records on the event and my scanners are not in their best condition."

[8/31/16, 11:30:06 PM] Quill: I cleaned it!

[8/31/16, 11:30:18 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Confirmation: He did."

[8/31/16, 11:31:27 PM] Hank: Are you always aware of what is going on around you even when inactive?

[8/31/16, 11:31:38 PM] Rune: Thank goodness.

[8/31/16, 11:32:18 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Yes, my systems are designed to maintain a minimal awareness of my environment, so I may prevent damage or potentially warn of incoming threats."

[8/31/16, 11:32:46 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Adendum: Not all of these systems are fully functional, due to recent damage."

[8/31/16, 11:33:02 PM] Rune: How do we fix you?

[8/31/16, 11:33:26 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information unknown.  Full systems check needed."

[8/31/16, 11:33:45 PM] Rune: can you perform a full systems check?

[8/31/16, 11:34:11 PM] Rune: ... Quill, why did a goddess stuff a thing into your intestine?

[8/31/16, 11:34:17 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Negative.  To do so would require my full console."

[8/31/16, 11:34:30 PM] Rune: Where is your full console?

[8/31/16, 11:34:53 PM] Rune: ...

[8/31/16, 11:34:59 PM] Rune: Rune peers at Quill's midsection.

[8/31/16, 11:35:03 PM] Rune: ... is there anything else in there?

[8/31/16, 11:35:07 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Castle Horizon in the center of the feywild."

[8/31/16, 11:35:30 PM] Quill: I think she did it to hide it from the Marquis.

[8/31/16, 11:35:41 PM] Rune: Who is the current owner or inhabitant of Castle Horizon?

[8/31/16, 11:35:59 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information unknown."

[8/31/16, 11:36:31 PM] Quill: Oracle, can you speculate why the Marquis would be interested in acquiring you?

[8/31/16, 11:39:12 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: My full systems include the locations of several key figures within the feywild, the location of multiple items of power across several planes of existence, schematics for nearly all buildings of important in the four courts, and the histories of every major figure and the magicks they wielded to have ever lived in the feywild.  All information that one could potentially good to acquire power, insight and influence."

[8/31/16, 11:39:43 PM] Rune: Items of power such as a set of six multicolored eggs?

[8/31/16, 11:40:34 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: I am aware of two sets of this sort.  The Powers of the Universe and The Eggs of the Spring Hare."

[8/31/16, 11:41:26 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Warning: The Spring Hare eggs should not be persued unless absolutely necessary.  That rabbit's dynamite."

[8/31/16, 11:41:45 PM] Rune: I think it's the Powers we're looking for. Well, that Creed is.

[8/31/16, 11:42:06 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Loading information of The Powers of the Univ--"

[8/31/16, 11:42:11 PM] Josh: There's a beeping sound.

[8/31/16, 11:42:31 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Apology: Information lost.  Log damaged."

[8/31/16, 11:42:51 PM] Rune: Well, she can't say I didn't try for her.

[8/31/16, 11:43:04 PM] Quill: Oracle, what could cause you to display a different image then the one you are currently showing us?

[8/31/16, 11:43:05 PM] Rune: How does one change one's aura's color?

[8/31/16, 11:43:55 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Explanation: My display may change to reflect subjects or events I am giving information on or running a search on."

[8/31/16, 11:44:09 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Adendum: The visual can be of use."

[8/31/16, 11:44:21 PM] Rune: Rune still doesn't like the idea of having a yellow aura!

[8/31/16, 11:44:43 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Aura may be changed several ways.  Traumatic life experiences.  Death and reincarnation.  Self mutilation."

[8/31/16, 11:46:33 PM] Hank: Well those all sound lovely, do you know of any non harmful ways to change an aura?

[8/31/16, 11:46:52 PM] Rune: ... that's all?

[8/31/16, 11:47:13 PM] Rune: ... can't I just... I don't know, buy a wand?

[8/31/16, 11:47:26 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Additional: Divine intervention.  Self-examination.  Very old magicks."

[8/31/16, 11:48:04 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Declaration: Self-alteration on a spiritual level is not designed to be simple."

[8/31/16, 11:49:19 PM] Rune: I suppose not. I just don't like yellow very much.

[8/31/16, 11:49:52 PM] Rune: ... I don't like the idea that the Winter Lady might've only been interested in you for your gut.

[8/31/16, 11:51:04 PM] Josh: Taeral: "I'm not sure we'll ever fully understand what she wanted with Quill.  If it was simply an easy escape, though, she probably wouldn't have worked so hard to make him stay at her castle."

[8/31/16, 11:52:14 PM] Rune: Oh, do we know when it got put in there?

[8/31/16, 11:52:33 PM] Rune: ... is there anything else in there? Other than, er... digestive things?

[8/31/16, 11:52:52 PM] Quill: Good question.  When were you sent to my small intestine?  Relative to local time.

[8/31/16, 11:53:09 PM] Hank: I assume right after Lyv disappeared that is when the pain and passing out started.

[8/31/16, 11:53:33 PM] Quill: Me too.  But it's good to check.

[8/31/16, 11:53:48 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Roughly four or five hours prior to now."

[8/31/16, 11:53:55 PM] Rune: Oh! I'd thought it was years ago. But I suppose that would have led to... symptoms of some kind.

[8/31/16, 11:54:08 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Additonal: During the fall of Winter's Keep."

[8/31/16, 11:54:40 PM] Quill: What information do you have on the fall of Winter's Keep?

[8/31/16, 11:55:08 PM] Rune: Oh. ... and that means Titania is still active. I told him so.

[8/31/16, 11:55:12 PM] Rune: Rune feels very smug.

[8/31/16, 11:55:39 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: I was kept in a box for most of it and no records have been written of the event yet.  I am aware that the Keep fell and Aurilandur used Plan Q to escape."

[8/31/16, 11:56:22 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Additional: my scanners register Sir Merrshaulk of the Spring Court was present."

[8/31/16, 11:56:34 PM] Rune: ... Does Q stand for Quillyn?

[8/31/16, 11:57:00 PM] Hank: No it is an emergency evacuation plan.

[8/31/16, 11:57:08 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Negative.  Plan Q was devised millenia prior to Quillyn Rae's conception."

[8/31/16, 11:57:30 PM] Quill: .....what information do you have on me in there.

[8/31/16, 11:57:58 PM] Josh: Oracle: "Loading all information on Subject Quillyn Rae."

[8/31/16, 11:58:06 PM] Rune: ... you might not want to know all of it if it's about your conception.

[8/31/16, 11:58:17 PM] Hank: Wait, Quill wasn't merrshaulk in that illusion that the Marquis showed us when we were stuck in between.

[8/31/16, 11:58:35 PM] Quill: It might know more about my conception than I do.  My aunts won't ever tell me the full story.

[8/31/16, 11:58:49 PM] Josh: Oracle's mask face transitions to Quill's face, smiling brightly.

[8/31/16, 11:59:08 PM] Rune: Do you want to know about your parents having sex? Most people don't.

[8/31/16, 11:59:15 PM] Rune: Rune laughs suddenly.

[8/31/16, 11:59:25 PM] Quill: I would like to know anything about them.

[8/31/16, 11:59:51 PM] Quill: Something funny about my face?

[9/1/16, 12:00:17 AM] Rune: I just had a thought, all of a sudden. You realize this means the answers were in you all along. Well, since earlier today anyway.

[9/1/16, 12:00:35 AM] Quill: Oh gods, you're right.

[9/1/16, 12:02:40 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Quillyn Rae: Conceived in E'ahona in the Underdark on the continent of Enora by Gulral and Inala Rae and born there after the requisite two year gestation."

[9/1/16, 12:03:12 AM] Josh: The image changes again to show baby Quill, playing.

[9/1/16, 12:03:46 AM] Rune: ... oh you're adorable.

[9/1/16, 12:03:56 AM] Rune: Look at your little toesie-woesies!

[9/1/16, 12:04:09 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Raised in Nilmhone by aunts Kivaara and Tsirix.  Stung by bees at age two."

[9/1/16, 12:04:16 AM] Quill: Of course I was.

[9/1/16, 12:04:31 AM] Quill: Okay, so they have a full dossier on me.  That's enough, Oracle.

[9/1/16, 12:04:42 AM] Josh: Oracle reverts to her own mask face.

[9/1/16, 12:04:47 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Affirmitive."

[9/1/16, 12:05:06 AM] Quill: Why did you show an image of the marquis, or someone that looks like him, prior to your previous shutdown?

[9/1/16, 12:05:19 AM] Rune: They're so tiny.

[9/1/16, 12:06:06 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Clarification: I was running a search on one of his former identities, 'Aunt Nancy', as I thought I had misheard a request prior to that.  The search was still running when I shut down."

[9/1/16, 12:06:29 AM] Quill: Oh.  Okay, that makes sense.

[9/1/16, 12:06:49 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Query: Shall I bring my dossier of identity Aunt Nancy again?"

[9/1/16, 12:07:40 AM] Hank: No, you mentioned sir Merrshaulk. What is his status in the spring court?

[9/1/16, 12:08:08 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Checking records of subject Merrshaulk."

[9/1/16, 12:08:41 AM] Josh: Oracle's face transitions to the reptilian face you saw earlier today, blood red, yellow eyes, slits for a nose.

[9/1/16, 12:09:59 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Subject: Merrshaulk.  Last logs show him as knight of the Spring court under Queen Verenestra.  No recent updates since Verenestra was lost and the court stagnated."

[9/1/16, 12:10:30 AM] Rune: ... oh, Hank. You... should ask about your father.

[9/1/16, 12:12:29 AM] Hank: Oracle any information on Detek Agosto when in service to the summer court?

[9/1/16, 12:12:54 AM] Rune: How did Verenestra get lost?

[9/1/16, 12:13:09 AM] Josh: The image changes again, now showing a human boy, long brown hair in his face, dressed in torn and ragged clothing of a much older age.

[9/1/16, 12:15:25 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Subject: Detek Agosto.  Found wandering the summer court in year 386 BTO.  Loyal knight and servant of King Damh for several centuries before fleeing to the mortal plane.  Several duties included assisting in the Summer-Winter war, interrogating prisoners, protecting the king, and preventing two separate assassination attempts.  Bound to King Damh through a pact after he was offered food."

[9/1/16, 12:16:03 AM] Josh: ((I saw the message Rune, Oracle will get to that in a moment, just wrapping this up here))

[9/1/16, 12:17:00 AM] Josh: Oracle's image shifts back to the mask face.

[9/1/16, 12:17:36 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Repeating Query: (In Rune's voice) 'How did Verenestra get lost.  (Oracle voice) Answer: Information Unknown."

[9/1/16, 12:18:41 AM] Hank: When did Verenestra get lost?

[9/1/16, 12:20:46 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Last known sighting.  5387 AOT."

[9/1/16, 12:21:31 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Dawn of the Summer-Winter War.  Battle of The Eternal Dead Tree."

[9/1/16, 12:21:45 AM] Rune: ... do you know how to raise a dragon? Or babies?

[9/1/16, 12:22:26 AM] Quill: See, now I'll bet everyone is glad I spit thing this up.

[9/1/16, 12:22:56 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Clarification: I know of both things but am not designed to advise in animal or child care."

[9/1/16, 12:23:10 AM] Quill: Hmmm.  Oracle, how were you damaged?

[9/1/16, 12:23:36 AM] Hank: What are the meanings of BTO and AOT?

[9/1/16, 12:24:31 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: Unknown.  Speculation: My transdimensional travel was rushed and imperfect.  Systems possible torn, lost, or scattered across planes."

[9/1/16, 12:24:44 AM] Quill: ....not in my gut, I hope.

[9/1/16, 12:25:10 AM] Rune: ... well I'm glad you got it out of you but mostly because I'm pretty sure your body isn't meant to have foreign objects of that kind inside.

[9/1/16, 12:25:29 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Information: BTO meaning Before Titania and Oberon.  ATO meaning After Titania and Oberon.  A marker for dates before or after their ascension to godhood."

[9/1/16, 12:29:29 AM] Hank: So my father is really old.  I need some fresh air.

[9/1/16, 12:30:31 AM] Hank: Hank walks out of the room.

[9/1/16, 12:31:01 AM] Rune: ... poor Hank. ... and all his dad wanted was food. It seems awfully unfair.

[9/1/16, 12:31:32 AM] Josh: Taeral: "That appears to be how fey work.  Even the quote un-quote "nice" ones."

[9/1/16, 12:31:41 AM] Quill: Mmm.

[9/1/16, 12:31:59 AM] Quill: Do you know anything about my parents, Oracle?  Or just me.

[9/1/16, 12:35:16 AM] Josh: Oracle's face changes to two different drow people, a man and a woman.

[9/1/16, 12:36:33 AM] Rune: Oh, they're quite good-looking too. I suppose that makes sense.

[9/1/16, 12:36:40 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Subject: Gulral and Inara Rae.  Citizens of the Underdark, worshippers of Lloth.  Inara has twin sisters, Kivaara and Tsirix."

[9/1/16, 12:38:00 AM] Josh: Oracle says nothing else.

[9/1/16, 12:38:20 AM] Quill: Is that all the information you have on them?

[9/1/16, 12:38:36 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Affirmative."

[9/1/16, 12:39:06 AM] Quill: Quill frowns, briefly.  "Okay, thanks."

[9/1/16, 12:39:16 AM] Josh: Oracle nods.

[9/1/16, 12:39:24 AM] Quill: Quill looks at Rune.  "Any other questions?"

[9/1/16, 12:39:35 AM] Quill: Oh, wait.  What languages do you speak?

[9/1/16, 12:40:08 AM] Rune: I don't have any other ones right now.

[9/1/16, 12:40:39 AM] Anna: ...are you sentient?

[9/1/16, 12:40:46 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Analysis: my known languages are common, sylvan, elven, and undercommon."

[9/1/16, 12:41:39 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Negative.  I possess no artificial intelligence.  All my responses are preset either by Queen Titania or one of her children who've added to my database."

[9/1/16, 12:41:52 AM] Anna: Ah.

[9/1/16, 12:41:55 AM] Josh: Oracle: "Query: Please clarify.  Other whats?"

[9/1/16, 12:42:43 AM] Quill: Questions.

[9/1/16, 12:42:59 AM] Josh: Oracle nods.

[9/1/16, 12:43:10 AM] Rune: Rune does too.

[9/1/16, 12:43:12 AM] Rune: Rune yawns.

[9/1/16, 12:43:51 AM] Rune: ... I suppose I ought to go to bed. Quill, can Taeral and I stay with you until we find Lyv again?

[9/1/16, 12:44:49 AM] Quill: Quill looks at Rune strangely for a moment before he understands..  "Oh!  In my room.  Of course."

[9/1/16, 12:45:26 AM] Rune: Well yes. You don't have a bodyguard anymore. I'm not all... rarrgh, eat ice shards evildoers like Lyv.

[9/1/16, 12:45:48 AM] Rune: ... we should ask it some questions about Lyv tomorrow. I'm too tired right now. Maybe we can work out where she is so we can start planning the rescue.

[9/1/16, 12:47:00 AM] Quill: Lyv is with the Queen.  There was a message..  Or part of one.  She ended up with the Queen, the Queen said they were starting Plan Q, and then it cut out.

[9/1/16, 12:47:31 AM] Quill: Hopefully that means she's still with her, wherever they are.