Session Start: Sat Aug 01 19:15:08 2009
Session Ident: #castlevania
* Logging for #castlevania started
* Nyyx is sitting crosslegged by Olivia as she glances over at Adam
again. "You know how you were saying there's something about the kid?
I've been wondering about that deep voiced trance that he seems to go
into sometimes. Do you have any idea what that is?"
* Olivia 's face slips into a slight frown. After a moment she
answers, "I have... a suspicion or two, but that is mainly it." She
half-smiles a moment at something, but doesn't say anything more.
* Nyyx raises an eyebrow. "Anything dangerous?"
* Olivia shrugs slightly, then replies with a faint smile, "If it
weren't, he wouldn't be very useful." She then looks aside and adds,
"Nothing more dangerous than anyone else in our trade. Mainly unknown
motives."
* Nyyx smiles slightly. "You have a point. You want to ask him about
it?"
* Olivia looks over towards him, mms, then replies, "No, but a
conversation would not be amiss."
* Nyyx shrugs. "I don't see any harm in being friendly." She smiles.
* Olivia half-smiles and replies, as she slowly stands, "Very well."
* Nyyx unfolds her legs, stands, and stretches as she walks over
toward Adam. "Mind if we join you?"
* Adam looks up from his music. "Eh?"
<Adam> You feeling okay?
* Nyyx nods. "Fine. You?"
* Nyyx takes a seat somewhere nearby.
* Adam blinks.
<Adam> Why wouldn't I be fine?
* Olivia pads after her and runs her fingers back through her hair a
moment, then sits down. She half-smiles as she replies, "Why wouldn't
she?"
<Adam> I think you're both crazy.  Or possessed or something, seeing
as how you usually don't come and ask me if you can sit down.
* Nyyx shrugs and smiles. "I just thought it'd be polite to ask. We
really haven't spent a lot of time getting acquainted after meeting,
after all."
* Adam shrugs. "What's up?"
<Adam> You're not gonna get all wierd, are you?
* Nyyx shakes her head. "Weird how?"
* Olivia sits down too, and leans back on her hands, letting Nyyx
lead for a moment.
<Adam> Like saying I'm too young to be an adventurer and crap like
that.
* Nyyx laughs. "No, nothing like that. We're just curious about you.
I've certainly no problem with your age, though I can't say I've seen
many your age who could've survived what happened earlier."
* Adam shrugs. "I'm just lucky."
<Nyyx> Mm. I wouldn't say all you're capable of is attributable to
luck alone.
* Olivia half-smiles. "Definitely my kinda luck, though."
* Nyyx throws a smile Olivia's way. "Probably mine, too."
<Adam> Yeah, well, better lucky than good.
<Nyyx> Why's that?
<Adam> Doesn't matter how good you are, dumb luck can always beat
you.
* Nyyx smiles at that. "True, but luck's a bit more fickle than
skill, don't you think?"
* Adam shrugs.
<Adam> I get by.
<Adam> ...with a little help from my friends.
* Olivia mms, then asks, "Is luck how your deck fell into your hands,
too?"
<Adam> Yup.
* Nyyx nods thoughtfully. "About these friends - does one of them
happen to talk through you once in a while?"
<Adam> ...huh?
* Nyyx shrugs. "Just curious."
<Adam> I dunno what you mean.
* Olivia glances to Nyyx, then looks back to Adam, half-smiling.
"Sounds like she's asking if you're posessed yourself."
<Nyyx> Well, you seem to have a lot of arcane facts at your finger
tips, but you tend to recite them in a deep voice unlike your usual.
* Nyyx nods. "I don't mean to make fun if that's just what you do."
<Adam> Arcane facts?  I don't know much about magic.
<Adam> I got a few little tricks I've picked up here and there.
Illusions and healing, mainly.
<Nyyx> Ah. Not arcane as in magic. I meant arcane as in not widely
known.
<Adam> Oh.  Like what?
* Nyyx taps her cheek thoughtfully. "I can't remember exactly what
you said, but you knew a whole lot about Peraclypse earlier."
<Adam> Really?  Cool.
<Nyyx> Do you still have that knowledge now, or do you, ah, channel
it from somewhere?
* Adam shrugs.
<Adam> I don't remember saying anything.
<Nyyx> Hmm. Interesting.
* Olivia is silent a moment, then half-smiles and says, "I'd wonder
if that bothers you... but I suppose it doesn't, any more than
relying on luck, huh?"
* Adam shrugs. "I pretty much just do whatever pops into my head. It
works."
* Olivia chuckles. "Works until it doesn't." She mms, then adds,
"Like anything."
* Nyyx smiles and nods. "So what else do these cards of yours do?"
<Adam> Mostly, summon stuff.
<Adam> They do all kinds of random stuff, though.  Balls of fire and
ice, creating equipment, moving stuff.
<Adam> Every time I think I've learned everything it can do, a new
card pops up
* Olivia half-smiles. "So what if you hadn't pulled up a card that's
effect was two words long, when you did that Time Stop?"
* Adam blinks.
<Adam> What do you mean?
* Olivia points at the deck and says, "You said the card would have
two words before you flipped it up."
<Adam> Yeah.
<Adam> that's because it was going to be two words.
<Nyyx> How did you know?
<Adam> The cards told me.
* Nyyx runs a hand through her hair. "They talk to you?"
<Adam> Not really.
* Nyyx doesn't seem to understand, but she shrugs it off and smiles.
"Do you mind if we see them, the cards?"
* Adam shrugs and pulls the deck out of its holster.
* Adam shuffles up and plops the whole thing down on the table.
<Nyyx> Is it all right if I pick it up to look at them? I'd really
rather not accidentally set off fireballs or stop time or anything
like that.
<Adam> I don't think you can.
<Adam> Go ahead.
* Nyyx nods and gingerly picks up the deck. She spreads out the cards
between her hands as if they're playing cards, and she blinks,
slowly.
<Nyyx> They're still all blank.
<Adam> Sure.
* Nyyx puts the cards back on the table. "But they're not blank to
you?"
<Adam> Nope!
<Adam> You drew a pretty good hand.
* Nyyx looks somewhat mystified. "What did you see on them?"
<Adam> Lightning Bolt, Change of Heart, Elusive Phelddagrif, Berserk
Phelddagif, and Winged Kuriboh.
<Nyyx> I'm...not sure I know what those are, but I'll take your word
for it that it was a good hand.
* Nyyx smiles again. "How did you come by the cards, anyway? Other
than by luck?"
<Adam> Some guy was using them to run a scam in a bar.  I beat him at
his own game, and the deck was mine.
<Nyyx> Oh, a card game?
<Adam> Yep.
<Nyyx> With those? Sounds dangerous.
* Adam waves a hand and says a couple words and the card faces appear
on the cards, depicting the cards he'd listed before. Apparently, a
"kuriboh" is a small ball of hair with eyes, while a phelddagrif
appears to be a large, purple hippo with wings.
* Olivia mms as she listens. "A strange path for such a powerful
thing to wander..." and then trails off as pictures appear. "...
ahm."
* Nyyx sees the pictures and finds herself chuckling. "They're kind
of...cute."
* Olivia glances to Nyyx, then corrects, "Fanciful."
<Nyyx> Or, yes, fanciful.
<Adam> They're pretty good, too.  WEll, the Phelddagrifs are.  The
Kuriboh mostly just takes a hit for you.
* Olivia mms, then asks, with a faint smile, "How many can you look
at at one time and have them work?"
<Adam> Just one.
* Olivia nods slightly, then asks, "You said you just do what comes
to mind... so what came into your mind to seal yourself in with the
Peracylpse shard?"
<Adam> Huh?
<Adam> I didn't seal myself in.  How would I get out?
<Adam> I just wanted to slow it down long enough so you guys could
get away.
* Olivia just peers at him oddly. His reality is not her reality.
* Nyyx looks thoughtful, but she only says, "Well, if that was your
plan, I suppose it worked pretty well."
<Adam> Wheel of Fortune usually works out pretty well.
<Nyyx> That depends on luck, too?
<Adam> Yeah. 
<Nyyx> I don't know how you do it, but I guess luck isn't so fickle
when it comes to you.
<Adam> Heh.  That's pretty much true.
Session Close: Sat Aug 01 22:53:38 2009