[19:22] <GM|Gaia> *** LOG START ***
[19:22] <GM|Gaia> *The party has emerged at what they (hope) is the bottom of the dungeon - although they might not be sure.
[19:23] <GM|Gaia> *The latest surprise has been who was down there - a Qu, who introduced him/her/itself as 'Gaia'.
[19:23] * GM|Gaia picks its tounge a little off the floor. "Greetings"
[19:26] <GM|Gaia> "you are - must be?  the one who...?  I am here."
[19:26] * Raoul blinks. And again. "Yes. You are. How?"
[19:26] <Yuki`> "...what?"
[19:28] * GM|Gaia takes a deep breath - only for the entire cavern to breath with hir. "this tounge... not good. must use it."
[19:29] * Yuki` looks at the others. "...anyone else understand that?"
[19:29] * Aislinn looks more than a little weirded out by this..creature.
[19:31] * Raoul shrugs. "I do not understand anything about this mountain. Least of all... Him? Her?"
[19:31] * GM|Gaia looks very patient. And then reaches down, scoops up a piece of rock, and begins to chew on it
[19:32] * Raoul cocks his head. "...Are you eating a rock?"
[19:33] <Uileam> "... right, and I thought what I saw was weird."
[19:33] * GM|Gaia picks up another, and offers it to the party. "share?"
[19:33] <Yuki`> "I, uh, can't eat rocks."
[19:34] * Raoul ...takes the rock. "Uh. Would it be impolite to save this for later? I am not, uh, hungry right at this moment."
[19:34] <Aislinn> "Bad for my stomach."
[19:34] <Uileam> "I have indigestion."
[19:34] <Raoul> ((It's diplomacy! Never refuse food. Pretty much ever. Though the physical impossibility of eating this is a bit of a problem...))
[19:35] * GM|Gaia does not appear offended by the polite rejections. "have you been asked your questions of me yet."
[19:36] * Yuki` , looking confused, shakes her head.
[19:36] <Aislinn> "We're, uh, curious about this place and looking for someone who may or may not be lost."
[19:38] <GM|Gaia> "this place is this place - and how can one be lost, yet not?  I have never been lost."
[19:39] * Raoul puts the rock in his pack. "We have a friend who may have ben brought here against her will. A Human woman? Often gets herself and others into large amounts of danger?"
[19:39] * GM|Gaia gestures behind hir. "my child rests"
[19:39] <Aislinn> "Well, you live here and seem more...your child?"  She tries to look behind the qu.
[19:39] <GM|Gaia> *You can see that the mud covered figure in the middle of the pool hasn't moved since you got here
[19:40] <GM|Gaia> ((Awareness!))
[19:40] <Yuki`> "Can she wake up?"
[19:40] <Yuki`> ((All of us?))
[19:40] <Raoul> !roll 1d100
[19:40] <Highwind>  Raoul - 1d100: 51 ( Total: 51 )
[19:40] <GM|Gaia> ((All))
[19:40] <Yuki`> !roll 1d100
[19:40] <Highwind>  Yuki` - 1d100: 41 ( Total: 41 )
[19:40] <Yuki`> ((Pass by 9))
[19:40] <Raoul> ((Awareness of 66))
[19:40] <Raoul> ((So pass by 15 barring mods))
[19:41] <Aislinn> !roll 1d100
[19:41] <Highwind>  Aislinn - 1d100: 64 ( Total: 64 )
[19:41] <GM|Gaia> *Yep, that figure is definately humanoid - and slightly shorter than average for a human.
[19:41] <Aislinn> (( Over by 8. ))
[19:42] <Uileam> !roll 1d100
[19:42] <Highwind>  Uileam - 1d100: 24 ( Total: 24 )
[19:42] <Uileam> (Pass by bunches.  Of oats.)
[19:42] * GM|Gaia looks to Yuki. "alike you, injured and not - my child rests to be of both - so that she may live"
[19:42] * Uileam looks thoroughly confused, not making heads or tails of this creature.
[19:43] <Yuki`> "I... what?"
[19:43] * GM|Gaia takes another cavern-moving breath. "those who are of that which I have tasted, and equally not. my child and others present and not"
[19:44] <Yuki`> "You mean... Thera and Earth?"
[19:44] * Raoul scratches his head. "...And you taste..." He comes to this realization slow, but doesn't say anything.
[19:45] <GM|Gaia> "transient names for eternals"
[19:46] * GM|Gaia moves forward at a sedate pace, closer to the party. "I am here becuase I promised. my child asks me to tell you I am first."
[19:47] <Raoul> ((BRB, getting power cord from sis))
[19:47] <GM|Gaia> "or rather, a first.  I have yet been asked to talk of my own firsts by my child when she wakes."
[19:47] <Yuki`> "Your own... firsts..."
[19:47] <Aislinn> "Right, well, we're supposed to take her home..."
[19:48] <Yuki`> "Firsts... that sounds familiar..."
[19:49] * Yuki` thinks... "First, uh... first Geomancer thing?"
[19:49] <GM|Gaia> "before you came, I was of a place - always hungry.  so I ate.  of the woods and grasses, of the birds and all animals - alive and not.  I ate all I could, and yet was still hungry.  so I will leave, and eat as the world turned beneath me"
[19:50] <GM|Gaia> "I am Gaia, child not of mine."
[19:50] <Aislinn> "Child not of you?"
[19:50] <Aislinn> "You mean, not this cave?"
[19:50] * Yuki` looks confused again.
[19:50] <Yuki`> "I wish I knew."
[19:51] <Raoul> ((back))
[19:51] * GM|Gaia continnues unabated. "I traveled and ate and ate and the world moved. I soon ate all the things of the world - yet still hungered. so I tried to eat the world - and the world ate me instead"
[19:53] <GM|Gaia> "understand?"
[19:53] <Aislinn> "Sort of."
[19:54] <Aislinn> "You became a part of the world rather than it becoming part of you."
[19:55] * GM|Gaia seems pleased - if you can call raising one's tongue to touch the forhead of Aislinn 'pleased'. Gaia then turns and begins to shuffle back to where hir started.
[19:55] <Aislinn> "And I am not a child of yours, am I?  I am not of this world, right?"
[19:56] <GM|Gaia> "how could you doubt yourself?"
[19:56] <Aislinn> "Probably because there was this whole portal thing and a giant cat lady..."
[19:58] * GM|Gaia seems to chuckle - you're not quite sure given the acoustics. "child, child and not, and not again and again."
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[20:00] <Yuki`> ((And so the world cracks in half.  "NEVER!"))
[20:00] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Yuki`
[20:00] <GM|Gaia> ((heh))
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[20:01] * GM|Gaia reaches hir intitial spot, then turns around. "you haven't asked the questions yet. they are needed."
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[20:02] <ElementalKnight> ((Wow okay. My colloquy died on me.))
[20:02] * ElementalKnight is now known as Raoul
[20:02] <Aislinn> "Well, I'm not the one to usually ask questions.  I'm hired muscle."
[20:02] <Yuki`> "I don't think I know the right questions."
[20:04] <GM|Gaia> "you asked them correctly"
[20:06] <Aislinn> "Right..."  She rubs her forehead.  Riddles hurt.
[20:06] * Uileam looks to Yuki.  She's the one with the way for words.
[20:06] * Yuki` looks back. She's just as clueless here.
[20:06] * GM|Gaia sighs, and you can feel the cavern seem to get a little closer in. "you are known to me and me to you. but all around you isnt"
[20:07] <Raoul> "...If you speak of worlds, then... Are you speaking of this mountain, this complex?"
[20:08] <GM|Gaia> "it is EARTH."  That last word isn't loud, but very forcefull, like something primal was spoken.
[20:08] <Aislinn> "...we've gone to Earth?"
[20:08] <Aislinn> "But we never left."
[20:08] <GM|Gaia> ((Awareness, if you pass by 30 or more to succeed))
[20:09] <Yuki`> !roll 1d100
[20:09] <Highwind>  Yuki` - 1d100: 36 ( Total: 36 )
[20:09] <GM|Gaia> "wrong eternal, right word"
[20:09] <Yuki`> ((Nope, only pass by 14.))
[20:09] <Raoul> !roll 1d100
[20:09] <Highwind>  Raoul - 1d100: 36 ( Total: 36 )
[20:09] <Aislinn> !roll 1d100
[20:09] <Highwind>  Aislinn - 1d100: 64 ( Total: 64 )
[20:09] <Aislinn> (( Fail'd. ))
[20:09] <Raoul> ((Pass by EXACTLY 30.))
[20:10] <Uileam> !roll 1d100
[20:10] <Highwind>  Uileam - 1d100: 50 ( Total: 50 )
[20:10] <Uileam> (Pass by 40+.)
[20:11] * Uileam stares.  Then stares some more.  o.O (The hell.)
[20:11] * Raoul squints. Something isn't right... Not bad, but very strange.
[20:12] * Aislinn rubs the back of her head. "I'm confused. Is there a point where I'm going to get to stab shit, or should I just go sit down and wait for everyone to do their jobs?"
[20:13] <GM|Gaia> "we will battle when speaking is done.  it was required"
[20:13] * GM|Gaia doesn't seem pleased nor dissapointed by that.
[20:13] <Uileam> (brb)
[20:13] <Aislinn> "...I never said that.  Look, talk peace."
[20:13] <Aislinn> "Make love, not war."
[20:14] <GM|Gaia> "you will do that too, but not yet."
[20:14] <Yuki`> "..."
[20:14] <Aislinn> "..."
[20:15] <Aislinn> "Unless Christian Bale is hiding behind curtain number one..."
[20:15] <GM|Gaia> "it appears that I must answer the question for you to ask it."
[20:15] <Aislinn> (( Well people who passed the Awareness test, care to share with the rest of the class? ))
[20:16] <Raoul> "He speaks, but his lips say something else. And not as his words hint at deeper meaning - I mean he speaks one way, and sounds another. It is confusing."
[20:16] <GM|Gaia> "this place is primal earth - raised not lowered - from which all other lands are sourced"
[20:17] <Aislinn> "So earth split in two?  Separated by whatever dimensions?"
[20:18] <GM|Gaia> "I speak with the tounge of the world, given when I was eaten.  you hear with the common tongue you share"
[20:18] <GM|Gaia> "no"
[20:20] <GM|Gaia> "light and dark, water and lightning, life and death, fire and ice, wind and EARTH"
[20:20] * Aislinn finds a nice rock to sit on. "Well, I'm out of ideas."
[20:21] <Yuki`> "Like... packed together?  A crystal?"
[20:21] <GM|Gaia> "you have tasted what I speak of, child-not child.  another flavour"
[20:22] * Raoul sits down. This could take a while, and magic is not his strong suit.
[20:22] * Yuki` shakes her head. "I'm still not really sure I got it, but okay."
[20:22] * GM|Gaia shakes hir head slowly. "I thought you would ask the questions"
[20:23] <Yuki`> "Well, you can't be one of the Crystals, if that's what you want me to ask - they aren't intelligent."
[20:25] <GM|Gaia> "I am not.  I am...?  curator?  creator?  caretaker"
[20:25] <Yuki`> "...so, you're supposed to take care of the Crystals?"
[20:25] * Aislinn is lost and so sits back to clean her fingernails.
[20:26] * GM|Gaia gestures all around hir, at the cavern and beyond. "EARTH"
[20:26] * Raoul perks up at that. "You are the caretaker of a crystal. Just Earth?"
[20:27] <Aislinn> "She created the earth crystal.  ...he."
[20:27] <GM|Gaia> "yes.  yes."
[20:29] <Uileam> "Are we here for this crystal?"
[20:29] <GM|Gaia> "you will leave with it - or not.  you hadn't decided yet"
[20:29] <Aislinn> "Well, we came for Aede..."
[20:30] <Aislinn> "And if we got this crystal, are we willing to hand it over to who is waiting for us back outside?"
[20:30] <Yuki`> "I'm not, personally."
[20:30] <Aislinn> "I'm sure Rostov would be interested, but I don't think he needs to know."
[20:32] <Raoul> "Can we hide it?"
[20:32] <Raoul> "I am no mage, but can one who knows magic sense it?"
[20:32] <Aislinn> "We don't even know how big it is."
[20:33] * GM|Gaia gestures all around. "EARTH surrounds us"
[20:34] * Yuki` looks around. "I think... this whole chamber might be the Earth crystal."
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[20:34] <ElementalKnight> ((And it begins.))
[20:34] <GM|Gaia> "more and all, just a part"
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[20:36] <GM|Gaia> "you will leave here with my child and EARTH, but haven't yet.  Could not yet."
[20:37] <Aislinn> "Well, *how* do we leave with both?"
[20:37] <GM|Gaia> "you will take them"
[20:38] <Uileam> "I think this is where the fight part comes in."
[20:38] <Aislinn> "Oh, you mean, something I can actually do?"
[20:39] <Uileam> "I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like.  I'm no expert in negotiations."
[20:40] <Raoul> "Well, the finer points of magical theory are beyond me, but the application of violence is well within my grasp. If he - she - insists."
[20:40] * GM|Gaia looks behind him at the figure. "take or not take. battle or not. you will leave here with them."
[20:42] <GM|Gaia> "but I will ask a question."
[20:43] <GM|Gaia> "who are you?"
[20:44] <GM|Gaia> "i haven't tasted you, so i don't know you"
[20:44] <Uileam> "... oh Lord."
[20:45] <Yuki`> "Oh.  So now is the time where we just fight, so you can know us or some other crazy thing?"
[20:46] <Uileam> (brb again)
[20:46] * GM|Gaia shrugs - and a pair of rather large golem like creatures detach themselves from the roof, surrounding the party between the three of them. "you always were hasty. when you are ready"
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[20:47] * Yuki` sighs and takes out her holy knife.
[20:47] * Aislinn stands up and draws both her knives.
[20:48] * Nikolai has a knife but he is poor at using it
[20:49] <GM|Gaia> ((Lotta knives in the party, I just realized))
[20:49] <Aislinn> ((HP: 290/290, MP: 106/190, SoS: 72))
[20:49] * Raoul draws his sword. "I never believed I would battle the very earth. I wonder when we will take on the very heavens..."
[20:49] <Yuki`> ((HP: 206/206, SoS: 51))
[20:50] <Yuki`> "Hopefully after we're all dead."
[20:50] <GM|Gaia> "be careful not to injure my child."  You don't know if he's talking to you or the elementals surrounding you.
[20:50] <GM|Gaia> ((carp.  I wasn't prepared for battle this week - I didn't finish the monsters.))
[20:50] <GM|Gaia> *** LOG END ***
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Jon Berry