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Jean has recently learned that by shifting his demon's eyes, and changing the colors of the shield-balls appropriately, he can see through the shields. He only does this for about one out of every one hundred thousand demons, and looks around.
Only the boat load from the Warriors' Guild has come up with a way across the top of the sea of multi-colored balls. The Jeans in Amber are piled up at the base of Kolvir, and Jean can see the skid-marks that they left down the hill. The flying saucer is still accelerating. The Jeans on House Cara try to figure out how to listen in on what is happening on the rooftop.
Jean tries to roll the balls up Kolvir, and realizes that he is suspended in the center of the spheres. He starts working on thinning the shields on one of the Jeans. Jean reaches out to poke at the shield, and notices that the sphere expands to remain a constant distance from the farthest part of him.
Jean tries to work on developing flight. He shifts one of him in Amber into a flying saucer-shape, and the shield shrinks to remain the same distance from his body. Jean starts flying around, but cannot build up much speed with the shields surrounding the the saucer. There are some guys with torches heading towards the base of Kolvir. Jean starts shifting more of the demons in Amber into flying saucers, and they start zooming around looking for interesting things.
Jean notices a little red blinking light on the dashboard of the first saucer. It appears that he is low on power. Jean tries to transfer power from the saucer in Chaos to the saucer in Amber. Jean brings the saucer down for a landing to conserve power while he thinks. There is a large cow looking at its reflection in the shield, and several sheep are wandering away from the landing site.
Another demon is spit out of its shield. It arcs upwards, then hits the terrain and splats. There are now three demon-less mattresses in the residue of the body.
Jean has one of his new saucers build up velocity in a circle inside the shield, then shoot out through the shield. The shield follows him. Jean lands to think about it. Some people with torches wander over to him, throw a net over the sphere, and start dragging it off.
All of the Jeans sit down to think. Ilk notices the demon-level drop, and warns Jean that more demons might be arriving. Jean stands up, and notices that there are no new Jean-less demons around.
[SEGFAULT: Chaos is Full]
Jean starts thinking about putting holes in the shields. He gets a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach, and stops.
The peasants have dragged the Jean sphere into a barn, and are banging ineffectually on the sphere with sledgehammers.
Jean has one of the other demons shift into a Jolly Jean Giant. He's hollow, but he now has a very big shield in a sphere centered on the giant. Jean shifts into slinkies in Amber, and starts slinkying around.
One of the demons not in the top level just got popped out of his shell and splatted on a shield above it, along with the mattress. Jean starts asking Ilk about the problem. Ilk asks Jean to point out the one that just got splatted. The demons near the one that just got splatted stand up. Ilk searches for the hill. When he finds it, he investigates the smaller shield in the midst of the larger shields. It appears identical to the others magically and via Logrus.
It's night in Amber - not much is happening there. When the slinkies reach Arden, they are blown upwards by the land mines. The ones that reach the sea float, but Jean loses a great degree of control over their movement.
The low-power light starts blinking on another of the flying saucers. Jean grounds all of the flying saucers in Amber.
The peasants are now using wedges and hand-tools to try to break into the sphere, and still failing.
There is a creaking sound around House Cara. Ilk investigates, but cannot determine the source. Jean looks around, but cannot see anything unusual. He does have some blind spots, however. Ilk looks at the blind spots, and observes that Chaos itself appears to be trying to re-open ways.
Another demon pops out of its shields. It is now standing on top of its shield, next to Helgram. Jean looks over at Helgram. They've taken up a defensive stance - that's nothing new. That Jean turns into a flying saucer and starts zooming around. He waves at the other saucer. When he nears House Cara, Atalanta starts directing the flying horse to follow the saucer. Jean starts corkscrewing around the horse. On one of his loops, Atalanta jumps onto the saucer and digs her claws in.
Jean lands on House Cara. Atalanta disengages, and starts swatting the saucer around. The saucer tries to take off, but cannot maintain orientation. Jean shifts into a Jolly Jean Giant. Atalanta swats halfheartedly at his ankle, then leaps onto the flying horse again.
Jean and Ilk chat about the status of the houses around Chaos.
Cassandra is starting to wake up. Cassandra checks on her cats, and finds a pretty good facsimile of what Zack knows that she wears over a chair. [A Jedi's interpretation of Sith regimentals]
Cassandra changes, and leaves her room to find something to eat. She finds herself in Celeste's room. Celeste is snoring. Cassandra backs up, then heads quietly through Celeste's room.
Celeste notices something impinging on the edge of her wards. Celeste wakes up, sits up, and looks around. Cassandra stops. "Celeste, good morning. Sorry to wake you." They chat briefly, then Celeste goes back to sleep. Cassandra passes into the next room. Martin wakes up, stands, draws Werewindle, then says, "Oh, it's you." They chat. Cassandra teases the naked Martin, asking him to put "one of them" away.
Celeste wakes up again and watches the conversation from her doorway. Martin complains that his clothing was on him when he last remembered, and asks for a cup of that brown stuff. Celeste conjures him some coffee. He drinks it, shakes a bit, then cuts one of the bed sheets into a makeshift loincloth and dresses.
Celeste and Cassandra continue to tease Martin. Cassandra leaves the room to fetch a sheet of her own. As she leaves, Martin sprints out of the room. Celeste puts a block up over the door. Martin bounces, cuts through the block with Werewindle, and keeps going.
"I'll have to explain to him how Martin
ran out on me."
"I wonder whose room is next to yours?"
Random's voice comes from the next
room. "Mine. Why?"
Cassandra and Celeste wander into Random's room.
Random has his kit open, and is brewing a morning pick-me-up in it.
Random declines to join the ladies in their quest to discover why Martin ran out on Cassandra, but invites them to join him in breakfast.
Celeste suggests to Cassandra that she have one of the cats keep an eye on him. Cassandra contacts Atalanta, and asks her to keep an eye on Martin for her.
A very dapper gentleman arrives, herding a cart behind him. The cart unfolds into a table, then sits down on the ground. The gentleman bows to Cassandra from a lowly servant to an apprentice, bows to Random as from a lowly servant to an Ambassador to Chaos, then bows to Celeste. Cassandra nods appropriately to the servant, Random bows, and Celeste picks something in the middle.
There is a wide variety of foods. The breakfast wines and juices are a bit strong. Breakfast happens. Random tries to convince them to go for the foods that are still moving. Celeste conjures and drinks some coffee. The juice is a real pick-me-up. The breakfast conversation is mostly about breakfasts.
Zack wanders by, and says that he was going to corral them into breakfast, but they appear to be almost finished. He wanders out, then returns, apparently having fed, and exchanges pleasantries with them. They look for a window, and try to figure out what is causing the creaking.
"He's not everywhere again, is he?"
"Ilk?"
They wave at something passing by and ask it where Ilkandacian is. It wanders over towards them and gurgles in their direction.
Celeste: "Zack? Can you understand what that thing is
saying?"
Zack: "It's like a second language to
me."
Celeste: "Then what did it say?"
Zack: "It's not my second language."
They continue to try communication. Random kicks it a few times. The thing now has several dents in it, and it has stopped moving.
They give up on finding help and have Zack direct them towards the roof.
They wonder about the creaking.
Ilk lifts a shielded Jean into the air and pushes on it from all directions. Ilk blinks out of existence.
Ilk is currently tendriled out, sitting under a stone opening that looks exactly like what was described as the entrance-way to the Logrus that made them all follow orders.
The giant turns into a flying saucer and starts heading towards grand tour. Smoke starts billowing out, and it tailspins into the opening between House Cara and the wall. It manages to pull up, ricochets off the wall, goes through a window into the House and back out the far side, bounces off the far wall, and ends up three feet away from where it started. It turns back into a demon. Another demon turns into a flying saucer, and heads towards grand tour.
The saucer heads through the ways to the grey zone kingdoms where Grand Tour headed. Grand tour is currently being wined and dined by a local king. The saucer lands near Ilk and complains. Ilk searches for Ilk, and can't find any. Ilk questions Jean about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
The ex-warriors on the roof of House Cara turn to Cassandra and say, "Does he do that
often?"
Ilk looks at the place where three Jeans disappeared. There is creaking in that
area. Ilk suggests to the Jeans that he send mobile, shield-less Jeans around to listen for creaking, and then
form archways over the creaking area. Jean
implements said plan, looking for and pyramiding over blind spots.
Chaos gets a lot deeper. Ilk asks Jean to have the Jeans that aren't pyramiding to get
smaller. The Jeans shrink, Chaos gets a lot
shallower, and the pyramiding becomes easier.
Ilk prepares to break off from Grand Tour and
take a nap at House Cara.
House conditions:
--EORun--
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