[Day: Monday, Oct. 23rd. Time: 10:30 p.m.] [Having heard of a lead on how to get your curse removed, you've come to the village of Bawdsey to find Kelsie Porter, a witch leaving on its outskirts. Supposedly she can summon the souls of the dead into dolls, and since Rufus Giovanni, the curse-removal guy, has been dead for 14 years, well...] [There's just one problem, though. Kelsie is a doll herself! An unfinished one without eyes and, until recently, ears. Her spirit is there, though, and apparently needs your help.] [Herman and Khalil are speechless in the face of a talking doll. Oh well.] [Session Start!] * Ten kneels on the stool next to Kelsie's blind doll and talks to her. "Like, I'm gonna install your eyes as soon as somebody finds them, kay?" * Ashley is kind of standing. Over, you know. There. ( I thought we found eyes ) ["Okay. I think I'm out of the materials I use to make eyes, though."] ( Nope, no eyes ) * Alys is still hunting for eyes and looking smirky. She's also humming something that sounds vaguely like, "I was right and he was wrong, la la la..." Oh, like do they have to made out of something special and magical or can we make them out of anything? And it totaly sucks that Lukas's bike isn't here or I'd so give you a pair of mine. No eyes? Oh well. My search was in vain! But I'll live. ["There's some finished dolls in my living room. You can get a pair from them. Hurry, though!"] ( The doll kinda looks like a female Togo plushie, now that you think about it... ) (... I'd rather not.) * Ten looks to see who's paying attention. "Alys! We've gotta do a trasplant! Fetch the doner!" In the meantime, could you tell us how this happened? * Alys salutes and heads back upstairs to look for a room with dolls. ["It's that woman! A couple days ago a man came asking me summon the soul of his dead girlfriend. I did, but she didn't wanna leave! She stole my body and stuck me in here!"] Like, do you know what their names were? Or a description? Even a vague one would help. For instance, did they have arms? ["William and Mary, and, um, yes? They were pretty normal, I think."] Uh, can we get family names? To kinda narrow it down a bit? There's lotsa people named William an Mary. It's gonna be hard if we have to check all of em. William the third and Mary the second, perhaps? Or was it William Wallace and Mary, Queen of Scots? ["They're still here! They've been living in my house and making fun of me!"] She's dead, which gives us a lot of leeway. Uh... ooops? * Ten looks at Togo and Ashley. "You might wanna go get Alys back." Shit. Ashley, stay here with Ten. I'm going to go check on Alys. ["And what's worse, if I don't get my body back soon, my soul's going to reject it!"] * Togo heads upstairs. Excellent. I will make a perfect paperweight. ["And if I don't send Mary back soon, she'll turn violent!"] That's all bad. [The doll looks like it would gesture wildly if it could move. "Ohh, this is bad. You've got to help me!"] We're so working on it right now! 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 12. Any moment now, we will successfully worsen the situation. * Ashley walks over to the doll and peruses it. We're awesome like that! But we still win, so it's all good! [The doll doesn't react to Ashley's perusal.] ["Uhhh..."] Yeah? ["Are you sure you can do it? I'm scared."] Uhhuh! Togo an Alys an Khalil are real good at fighting an stuff an Ashley and Herman know lots 'bout magic an stuff an I'm just awesome! Reasonably sure. We have to win one eventually - that's just the law of averages talking. [The doll is uneasily silent at that.] (You didn't hire Ashley for his pep talks.) [After several moments, the doll says quietly, "Please don't hurt my body."] Kaay! I told 'em. * Ashley blinks, then pulls his earpiece out of his pocket. "I should really remember this bloody thing more often. They're awesome and let me call you whenever! * Ashley slips it i. ["I hope they hurry. Who knows what that woman is doing with my body?"] Dunno, if they find it I'll tell ya. Something licentious, if I have any luck at all. ["Ew! No! Nonono! You have to hurry!"] * Ashley smiles, then meanders off to inspect doll parts. We've go two people looking for them right now an it'd be all bad if we left you here by yourself right? 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 1. ["I... dunno... They haven't done anything to me yet, but it's been several days. Mary might be going crazy by now..."] Well, Togo's all big an strong an he's gotta coat of holding, but I guess it doesn't have doll eyes, but he'll be fine! * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger ["I hope they get the right kind..."] (*looks up* William and Mary were the names of ND's and my TSoaC2 characters. Father and daughter, the daughter being a ghost. That's kind of trippy.) Like, you need to tell us this stuff. What kind do they need? An from where an stuff? ( They're also the names of dead kings and queens, which is where I got them :P ) ["Well, just about any would do, as long as they fit. The dolls in my parlor should have them."] (William the 3rd and Mary the 2nd, most notably. They founded William and Mary College) ~That's all very nice, but the doll started kind of screaming when I tried, so I'm just looking for the creepy people, okay?~ (You know... If you don't have your radio built into your head like Ten does you're probably going to need to say that out loud. ^^;) Oops, Alys says that the doll she tried to get eyes from started to scream. That's not cool. ["It did? It shouldn't have. None of those dolls have any souls in them. Are you sure it wasn't her imagination?"] Overactive as it tends to be, Alys' imagination generally stays in her head. (Right, sorry. Didn't sleep much, so I'm kind of out of it today.) ~Definately didn't imagine it. I heard it too.~ (Definitely.) (You always spell that wrong. ;P) Togo heard it too! ( I do, don't I? Go figure. ) * Awaymancer has left #BESM ["I don't think so. Maybe it just sounded like one."] ["The eyes can make funny noises when they rub against the frame."] Tell me. Do you enjoy having arms? Ahh, kay. That's good 'cause if she's been sticking people in dolls that'd suck for them. I mean I remember whole hours where I couldn't move or do anything. ["What kind of question is that?"] An honest one? You seem rather concerned about your own condition. I thought I would ask. * Ashley grins. ~Ashley, are you okay? Ten, is he still there?~ 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 2. ~I'm here. More or less.~ ~ Ashley is fine. I think he is making some sort of strange joke though. ~ ~Okay. 'Cause there's a Kirby plushie in here and I was really worried!~ ~ Ashley isn't Kirby! He's not nearly round or pink enough! ~ 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7. ["You're not going to cut off my arms, are you?"] He so isn't. Probably. ["Probably?!"] Probably not, I mean. It really all depends on if you continue to whine. You can't cut her arms off because she can't see! ["I'm not whining! Am I? I guess I am. Sorry. But I'm scared."] ["I don't want to cease to exist."] We're gonna get you eyes an then your body and it'll be all good! * Ashley pokes through a box of doll lips and is silent. ["Thank you."] No problem! 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 10. ( Nope! ) ( Missed by 1 ) ~ Ask her if there's some sorta magic lock or something on her door.~ Liiiike, do you have magic doorlocks? ~On the upstairs door.~ ["Yes! On my magical chamber, I put up a barrier. See, sometimes when I summon souls, other supernatural things are attracted to the power. So I set up that barrier so that nothing can get in."] ~ She says it's on her magic chamber so things can't get in! ~ ["I guess they must have found out how to put it up."] ~Shit. Any way to get in? Because we checked every other room.~ The've looked everywhere else. So, like, how do we take it back down? ~Would a spirit ward break it? It seems to hate everything else made of magic.~ They've got spirit wards if that'd work! ["Without my body, I can't take it down like normally, but there's a spell in one of my spell books I can use to dispel it! ... but I need eyes to read the book."] * Pocky-kun has joined #BESM Kay, I'll tell 'em. ["Ask them to bring the eyes and my book. It's the purple one with the upside down pentagram on the front. It's in the parlor."] [Herman could probably dispel it if he could use magic. Oh well!] ~ She has a spell to open it, but she needs a pair of eyes and the purple book with the upside down pentagram on in from the parlor. ~ (He actually could. Stupid no-magic.) [He's not paying attention anyhow. He and Khalil are playing house or something.] ( They're obviously having HAWT PSEUDO-CHIBI-YAOI-FURRY(FEATHERY?) LUVLUV! ) (Khalil's getting that torrid gay love affair out of the way.) * Slathe has quit IRC (Quit: ) [Alys returns! She's got the book and a bundle of dolls.] * Ten waves from the stool. "Hey Alys! Wow, didja bring all the dolls?" May I tell you that this creeps me out some? It really does. Just so you know. ( Good, then I'm doing my job :D ) Dunno, I just grabbed what I saw. Here you go. * Alys hands over dolls, book, and scissors. Okay, you try it, and tell me if it sounds like the doll is screaming. * Ten can't carry all that so the book and most the dolls wind up on the floor or a workbench. She does poke the one eyed doll. "Like, are you alive or not?" ["It shouldn't be."] * Ten props it up and takes the scissors in both hands. "These are so not my size, like is there a thread pick in here?" ["Near the sewing machine."] * Ten looks at the people who can reach! "Couldja get it for me? Please?" Sure, what's a thread pick look like? Kinda like a screwdriver but with hook for a blade! * Alys looks for something like that and brings it back to Ten. [Alys finds it] * Ten puts the scissors down and takes it! Then she does open face surgery on the doll. "LIke, if there's somebody in here? We'll get you another another set of eyes kay?" [Sure enough, when Ten takes out the noise, it makes a high-pitched keening sound.] I told you so! You heard it, didn't you? Waah! There is something in there! I'll fix you next! I'm so sorrry! ["They always do that."] * Ten looks at the first doll. "That's so not cool. How come you can't make 'em so they don't?" ["I dunno! I try different things, but..."] Kay. I'm gonna put her eyes on you now. * Ten has thread, and two eye and two blind dolls! Let's see if she can put the eyes into the right one! (And boosting because I forgot to buy skills last week!) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-3) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 7. (Made by one!) [Ten succeeds! She even gets the right eyes in the right sockets.] ["There, I can see! ... Hey, you're a doll!"] ["But you're moving. How can you move?"] * Ten grins at her. "Yep! Toldja I was awesome! That's 'cause I'mma robot!" * Ten stands up and takes off her hat to make a sweeping bow. "Ten! Atchar service!" ["Oh. But I thought... Nevermind, we have to get my body back! Where's my book?"] * Ten points to where Alys put it. "Right there!" * Alys picks it up off the bench and opens it in front of Kelsie. "There you are." ["I can't turn my head."] Er, which page? ["Oh, thanks. Open up to... Umm.... Shoot, what page was it?"] * Alys turns around so she can see better and looks at the contents. * Ten looks at th book. "Gotta index?" [The book is written in Olde English. Gimme mind rolls, -2!] 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ten (2d8-2) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 6. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Alys (2d8-2) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 7. (So made) (Made.) [You can read it! It's hard, but you can! Woo! It has a table of contents. The Dispel Magic spell is on page 66.] It's on page sixtysix! * Alys flips to page 66! ["I see.... Ok, here goes."] [Kelsie recites the spell! I'm not gonna make up the words or anything. "There, that should work."] ~Togo, can you open it now?~ ~Get up here and back me up.~ ~Be there in a sec.~ Like, I guess it's time to go! Ten, you wanna come with me or stay with Kelsie, or should I grab Kelsie too? * Ashley looks up from where he is building a tower of ears. "Am I coming or staying?" Like, take her with! If they come in the front while we're up there it'd be all bad if she's here alone so we alll go an stuff! [Herman and Khalil conveniently offer to remain with Kelsie! Woo!] [They probably just don't wanna stop playing house.] (Well that's that solved!) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 5. * Ashley tags along, for sake of not splitting chan, if nothing else. (We're already split!) * Alys picks up Ten and starts going back to the second floor door. * Ten goes. "Bye Kelsie!" ["Good luck!] [You head to the first floor. Above you, you hear a scuffle.] * Alys starts walking faster. I don't want to shoot you, but if we don't get Kelsie's soul back in her body soon, she'll die. And you'll go to the deepest, darkest prison I can find for the rest of your life. [You get to the foyer, where you see: on the second floor landing, Togo is pointing a shotgun at an angry looking man wielding a baseball bat. The man is pretty lean, brown haired, and wears glasses.] ( Switch those! ) ["You get out of here and leave us alone!" he shouts. "I don't care who you are! I've got Mary back, now, and nobody's going to take her from me!"] C'mon... William, right? You really want it like this? You're willing to kill that poor girl to get your girlfriend back? ["Kill?" A woman appears behind William. She's blonde, average height, with brown eyes, and dressed in slacks and a shirt. "Are you saying the dear girl is going to die?"] [William looks hesitant. He's shaking, but he's got a firm grip on that bat.] * Togo looks at the woman, and lowers his gun a bit. "Die. If her soul stays out of her body too long, it disappates. She's gone forever. And you... well, I'm not clear on it, but once that happens, it's supposed to have some pretty nasty effects on you, too." [Mary (presumably), looks over William's shoulder at Togo. "Is that so? What if she's lying, just to get her body back?"] She seemed pretty panicked, and I believe her. But let's suppose for a moment she's wrong. You're essentially trapping her soul in that doll for all eternity. You're stealing her body. Is that right? You gotta believe in souls by now. So you gotta believe in an afterlife. *tilts his head* What kind of an afterlife do you think that's going to earn you? ["Instead of going back to that cold, dark place... She's perfectly willing to send me back there. 'You can only stay for a short time,' she said." She shudders.] [William takes a firmer stance. "Mary wasn't supposed to die! She was young! We were happy together!"] ... I can't argue that. It's unfair. But what did Kelsie do to deserve this? She was just trying to help you. * Ten is so just another dolly, admitadly a much prettier one, but just a dolly. ["What did *I* do to deserve it?"] * Alys continues watching quietly, gun in hand. Nothing. But you know that doesn't make it right. ["This coming from a man asking me to die."] ["If you're so concerned for her, why don't you offer up your own body?"] * Togo tilts his head down so the two can see what's behind (or not behind) his glasses. "Trust me. Nobody wants this body." [Mary's eyes light up. "Yes, do that. Offer me your body, and I'll give Kelsie back hers. Well... not yours. I don't want to be a man." She looks and shudders. "Especially not a man with no eyes." She scans the crowd below, and focuses on Alys. "Yes, how about her?"] Same problem. You'd still be taking someone else's life. Like hell, lady. I haven't died yet, and I'm not leaving my body. ["You're trying to take mine. What's the difference?"] * Togo looks at William. "You know this isn't right, William. You love her, I know, but this... this isn't the way." You already died. You only get one chance, unless you believe in reincarnation, at which point I guess you get a lot of chances, but that's really besides the point. ["Shut up!" He screams. He starts crying, too. "Mary was everything to me. Everything! You don't know how hard it's been for me since she died!"] [Mary scowls. "A man with a gun took away my chance."] And I bet Kelsie is everything to someone, too. She's got parents. Maybe siblings. * Togo pauses. "Hell, maybe she's got a boyfriend who loves her like you love Mary." ["Please. She's got nothing. She lives alone in this creepy old house with her cat and her dolls."] [Willian sniffs. "She d-doesn't even have a computer."] [Mary continues: "Nobody even likes Kelsie, anyhow. Nobody will miss her. But I've got two parents and a little brother."] ~ Wow! That's... like the second person I've ever met without one! ~ [She touches William's shoulder. "Not to mention a wonderful boyfriend."] Doesn't change anything. You're still taking her life. That's wrong no matter how you try to justify it. * Alys whispers, "Ten, if I ever get a creepy murdering boyfriend, you totally have to convince me to dump him, okay?" ["And you're still trying to take mine, which is some how more right. Maybe I did die, once. But I'm not dead now."] ... actually, yes, you are. ~ Sure thing! ~ [She eyes Togo. "Shall I slit my throat, and we'll find out?"] * Ashley has been standing there, listening, mouth pursed. He's clearly keeping quiet for a reason. That body is alive. You're not. You're a soul. A ghost. *scowls* A body-snatcher. A fucking terrible thing happened to you, but you can't use that to justify doing ANOTHER terrible thing to Kelsie. * Alys starts losing her temper. "You're going to kill the body, out of what, -spite-? Did you go around murdering people for the hell of it when you were alive, too?" [She glares at Togo. "You stand there pointing a shotgun and my boyfriend and asking me to die."] * Togo stares at William. "Listen to me, William. Does that sound like your Mary? Would the Mary you remember be willing to let an innocent girl die?" [William gives Togo a menacing look. "Mary is the kindest girl in the world! She would NEVER..." he hesitates, then says, "She shouldn't have died."] She shouldn't have. But she did. Is killing Kelsie how you want to remember her? ["We're not killing her! We just..."] [Mary stares at him. "William...?"] Just stealing her life. Her body. It's just fucking wrong. [He lowers the bat slightly. "It... It's not fair. It's just not fair."] [Mary grabs his shoulders and shakes them. "William, listen to them! They're telling me to die so Kelsie Porter can have her body back. Kelsie Porter! Nobody cares about her at all! Why should I have to die for her?!"] ~ But, like, we care about her! ~ * Togo looks at William. "It's just fucking wrong, man. You know it." [He lowers the bat, "Not fair," he mutters.] [Mary shakes him harder. "William! They're going to kill me!"] ~ But she's already dead isn't she? I mean she had to be for her to wind up in the doll right? ~ You're already dead, Mary. ["I shouldn't be!"] * Togo puts his gun away. "You shouldn't be. But you are. Death is death." ["So let Kelsie be the one to die, then."] (Tell that to the MC2 crew. ;P) ... that sound like your Mary, William? (Rei sorta got her own body back!) Put the bat down. Don't make this harder than it has to be. ( Hey, that's a great solution. Find another Rei. ) [She glares at Togo. "Stop trying to influence him!" But her eyes go wide as William drops the bat.] ( * Togo pulls a Rei clone out of his coat. "Will this do?" ) (Togo, what are you doing with a Rei clone in your coat?) [He turns slowly, tears streaming down his face. "Mary..."] [Mary stares, wide eyed. "William, how could you?! How could you turn on me like this?!"] * Togo reaches into his coat, and pulls out a pair of handcuffs. "I really am sorry, William. But this is how it's gotta be." [Mary stares. "I can't believe this."] [William just faces Mary and cries.] ["I'm sorry, Mary. I'm so sorry."] [Mary looks down. "William, I never thought you of all people would let me down."] [Mary makes no move to resist, though.] * Togo handcuffs Mary's hands behind her back, and leads her downstairs. [Togo goes downstairs! And the rest of you?] [Somehow you all get downstairs again.] ( Problem solved! ) [Kelsie yells excitedly, "You got me back!"] * Ten is downstairs! Do what you need to do, Kelsie. * Alys is downstairs holding Ten! And a gun, but she keeps trying to forget about that. [Mary frowns. "Yeah, kill me. Go on."] [Kelsie starts to say. "I'm sor-" but Mary cuts her off: "Shut up! Just do it. I'm sick of this world anyhow."] [Kelsie chants a spell, and there's a flash of light. Then Mary blinks a few times and looks herself over. "Hey! I'm me again!"] [She grabs Togo in a big hug! "Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"] * Togo hesitates for a moment before hugging Kelsie back. "You're welcome. Feeling okay?" [She nods. "I think so."] ["I'm glad I didn't turn into nothingness."] * Alys grins. "And hopefully, that's the end of that! Except for, you know, the part where the creepy boyfriend is still upstairs." ~ Like is she in the doll now? ~ ... I'll go get him home. I need some air anyway. ( I'm gonna end here. ) [Session End!]