23:20:35 <@Kojiro> Who posted that Chimera Hunt GMod thing earlier? 23:20:38 <@Kojiro> That looks awesome. 23:21:21 <%Shonikado> That was Jer 23:21:31 <%Shonikado> unrelately back as a side note 23:21:33 <%Shonikado> and yes it was 23:21:42 <@Kojiro> Wonder if we could get a game ofthat going. 23:21:44 <@Kojiro> *of that 23:21:47 <%Shonikado> not sure what it's for (looked like a console) but 23:21:55 <@Kojiro> Also wonder if my laptop's built-in mic actually works. 23:22:00 <@Kojiro> Shonikado: It's part og Garry's Mod. 23:22:03 <@Kojiro> *of 23:22:05 <%Shonikado> ah 23:22:06 <@Kojiro> GMod. 23:22:10 <%Shonikado> I lack Garry's Mod :X 23:23:41 <@Kojiro> Hm. Only ten dollars. 23:24:50 <%Shonikado> I lack the funds :D 23:27:11 <@Kojiro> So do I, actually. 23:31:03 <@Kojiro> Hm. 23:33:22 < Riley> Well. 23:33:29 < Riley> I should go to sleep. 23:33:32 < Riley> Night. 23:33:39 <@Kojiro> Goodnight. 23:33:47 <%Shonikado> VICTORY 23:33:48 <%Shonikado> I READ 23:33:50 <%Shonikado> ALL OF THE NEDROID COMICS 23:33:55 <%Shonikado> in one sitting 23:34:42 <@Kojiro> I did the same today, only with the Sexy Losers comic. 23:34:47 < Riley> That's amazing. 23:34:52 *** Riley ~Rileymobi@shacops-7A4E8749.hsd1.md.comcast.net has quit [Q:- ChatZilla 0.9.85 [Firefox 3.5.5/20091102152451]] 23:36:17 * Shonikado In a world where imagination is far more important than it should be, save files rot into near-nothingness 23:36:58 * Kojiro loads his save file before it implodes or whatever. 23:38:11 * Kojiro Or did it already get corrupted, Shonikado? 23:38:20 * Shonikado Neeope. 23:38:23 * Shonikado Your save file loads just fine 23:38:35 * Shonikado And here we are, where we left off- 23:38:40 * Shonikado -I forgot. 23:38:52 * Shonikado I believe we were just entering Plaza Main? 23:39:11 * Shonikado Yes? No? There is plenty of questioning surrounding the position of your last save 23:39:18 * Shonikado I believe your save was infected with doubt. 23:39:21 * Kojiro Yeah. 23:39:39 * Kojiro We were entering the plaza after getting something-or-other with the Queen. 23:39:59 * Shonikado Kojiro finds himself in the familiar setting of Plaza Main, after having gotten some odd sort of keyblade from the basement of Queen Sara's castle 23:40:21 * Shonikado Entering near the fountain, Kojiro can see the inventor and malivari still completely confounded and KP still sleeping peacefully 23:40:29 * Shonikado The zombie door is still chained down. 23:40:45 * Shonikado There is a feeling of deja-vu, like you already went through this bit before. It does not trouble you much. 23:41:20 * Kojiro opens a portal back to Sara's main castle place, rather than her basement, using the portal gun. 23:41:34 * Shonikado A portal to the main castle is opened up. 23:41:46 * Kojiro brings PONY and Sara (who was not in said PONY due to the retrieval) through said portal. 23:42:13 * Shonikado The castle interior (which is not the basement) is entered as you go through the portal 23:42:30 * Shonikado It looks like how you remember it from your first visit; everything's been repaired fully, it seems 23:42:44 * Shonikado It's a good thing /you/ remember it, as I do not. 23:44:47 * Shonikado Time passes on as the narrator is unsure of what you are doing. He blames the real world for your absence as it tends to do these things 23:46:37 * Shonikado The narrator sits in a corner and entertains himself with a stick and a crumpled ball of paper. Where the narrator is located is entirely unknown but he is doing these things for certain 23:46:57 *** Shonikado ~Shonikado@shacops-F6D7444D.lightspeed.davlca.sbcglobal.net has joined #the-crossing-daggers 23:46:57 *** Topic for #the-crossing-daggers: The Crossing Daggers | http://www.takamin.com/oekakichat/user/oekakichat3.php?userid=368733 | PALIO WHY DID YOU HIRE STRIPPERS 8D 23:46:57 *** Topic set by Jennifer_ [Mon Nov 23 13:46:15 2009] 23:46:57 *** Channel #the-crossing-daggers created Mon Jun 22 06:46:07 2009 23:46:58 *** Irssi: Join to #the-crossing-daggers was synced in 1 secs 23:47:07 * Shonikado The cause of Kojiro's silence is determined. 23:47:14 * Shonikado The narrator promptly curses his internets. 23:47:18 * Kojiro Indeed. Last thing you saw? 23:47:22 *** mode/#the-crossing-daggers [+h Shonikado] by ChanServ 23:47:36 * Shonikado PONY and Sara were brought through a portal graciously provided by Kojiro's portal gun. 23:47:58 * Kojiro asks Sara if, since the castle is now fixed, they can use it as their base for all the not-in-the-party party members, as it is probably more convenient (and comfortable) than said PONY. 23:48:23 * Shonikado Queen Sara says that this is entirely possible and not much trouble at all. 23:48:48 * Shonikado She does not state that she fancies the idea of her castle being the hub of adventure, though that is another reason for acceptance. 23:48:56 * Kojiro teleports the entire group, minus Hitomi whose exact position Kojiro does not know, out of the PONY, then. 23:49:07 * Shonikado The entire group, which consists of- 23:49:33 * Shonikado -Pony 1 and 2, the real Sara, the real Rock, Stitchkado, Dynamite, Belle, and William- 23:49:41 * Kojiro Yep. 23:49:44 * Shonikado -are teleported into Queen Sara's castle. 23:50:21 * Shonikado Those who are not sleeping head off to find things to do. Those who are, being real Rock and real Sara, simply sleep. 23:50:24 * Kojiro asks them about the idea of a new base. 23:50:39 * Shonikado Dynamite and Stitchkado reply, saying that it is a very nice base. 23:50:51 * Shonikado Belle says it is probably a better place for studying and experiments than inside a PONY. 23:51:11 * Shonikado William says he really doesn't mind. He's supposed to deliver things, anyway. 23:51:20 * Kojiro asks William if he could visit Hitomi and see if she wishes to get out as well, as she's been in there quite a while. 23:51:33 * Shonikado William accepts this request. 23:51:51 * Shonikado Delivering (verbal messages in this case) is what he does best 23:52:22 * Shonikado And so William heads back into PONY to deliver said message 23:52:25 * Kojiro He'll also be delivering Hitomi and Zeph to us if they wish to leave. 23:52:31 * Shonikado That too. 23:52:46 * Kojiro meanwhile questions Sara about the keyblade thing she retrieved. Does she have any idea of where it'll lead to? 23:53:31 * Shonikado Queen Sara admits she is not sure, though she figures if /her/ keyblade opened up a portal to her castle, /that/ keyblade would open up to some sort of place relating to the heartless. 23:53:46 * Shonikado It is, after all, a heartless keyblade of sorts. 23:53:50 * Kojiro We'll need a good party for that then. 23:53:55 * Shonikado It definitely /looks/ the part. 23:54:19 * Shonikado 23:54:27 * Kojiro decides to work on planning this. While this planning is going on, let's check back on Hitomi and see if she's found anything new; last I remember she hadn't seen anything in a while. 23:55:16 * Shonikado Hitomi has, in her travels, discovered nothing of importance. With the exception of an abnormal amount of green goo lining the walls of what I believe to be PONY's digestive track 23:55:37 * Kojiro Any signs of what could be causing this? That stuff should not be there. 23:56:07 * Shonikado There are no signs. However, since it seems to have been increasing more and more along her travels, it's probably safe to assume she's heading towards whatever IS causing it 23:56:33 * Shonikado As a side note, I have forgotten if Hitomi received a pith helmet or not. 23:56:40 * Kojiro Alright, then. And yes, she did. 23:56:48 * Shonikado Alright then. 23:56:49 * Kojiro She's still heading forward too. 23:56:56 * Shonikado It is definitely fitting for her explorations. 23:57:32 * Shonikado As she heads forward, she still finds nothing other than the goo; but once again it is safe to assume she will find something soon. 23:58:01 * Kojiro Back to the outside then. The party limit here was... Hm, four or five? I forgot. 23:58:20 * Shonikado The limit is five, yes. 23:58:25 * Shonikado Kojiro and PONY included 23:59:26 * Kojiro decides to keep the PONY on the team, despite the fact that now, having the teleporter, he's the only mandatory member, also taking Sara and the other two ponies. Day changed to 24 Nov 2009 00:00:03 * Shonikado The party now consists of Kojiro, PONY, Queen Sara, and the two other ponies. A well-balanced team. 00:00:45 * Kojiro leaves the castle base, closing the portal behind him, and heads to the zombie door. 00:01:04 * Shonikado The zombie door is headed to; it offers greetings as you approach. 00:01:11 * Shonikado Then it screams something about brains. 00:01:16 * Shonikado It really needs to get that zombie bit fixed. 00:01:45 * Kojiro directs Sara to use the keyblade on the door. 00:02:16 * Shonikado Queen Sara acknowledges this, walking up to the zombie door and inserting the strange keyblade 00:02:46 * Shonikado Due to the keyhole still being its eye, and sticking things in one's eye generally hurting, the door screams; but this has happened every other time you've tried to enter it anyway. This is natural. 00:03:13 * Shonikado The door opens itself... Revealing nothing but black. 00:03:22 * Shonikado This only lasts for a second or two, however, as a scene fades into view... 00:03:55 * Shonikado ...a long, grey bridge extends from the door, leading out into the darkness; as THAT fades in, you can see it leads to a large, dull purple cliff of sorts 00:04:27 * Shonikado On that cliff is an oddly shaped castle, with several spiked towers extending from its base; this castle is illuminated by two moons simply floating above it, to the side 00:04:41 * Shonikado If you think about it in a funny sort of way, it looks sort of like a face. 00:06:09 * Kojiro heads through the door, 00:06:12 <@Kojiro> [*.] 00:06:26 * Shonikado Kojiro heads through the door and ends up on the bridge, which despite not really being attached to much seems to be quite stable 00:06:28 *** T_S_the_Cat ~tsthecat@shacops-69EF574A.dhcp.mtpk.ca.charter.com has quit [Q:- ChatZilla 0.9.85 [Firefox 3.0.15/2009101601]] 00:06:41 * Shonikado The zombie door stays open, letting you see Plaza Main behind you 00:07:13 * Kojiro continues across the bridge with his party. 00:07:19 * Shonikado Meanwhile, Queen Sara says she really don't know what this place is supposed to be, though she has a strange feeling that the heartless are, in fact, involved 00:07:47 * Shonikado She seems to be able to tell with these things. She /did/ predict the day they were going to topple over her castle, after all 00:08:07 * Shonikado The bridge, meanwhile, is being crossed. This is a normal activity for bridges and therefore it does not object 00:08:15 * Shonikado Also, being a bridge, it can't object. It's inanimate. 00:09:09 * Kojiro looks around while crossing. Anything of interest? 00:09:19 * Shonikado I suppose I can't exactly say "nothing". 00:09:26 * Shonikado But everything /is/ black. 00:09:28 * Shonikado Entirely black. 00:09:42 * Shonikado With the exception of the cliff, the bridge, the moons, and the castle... Just /black/ 00:09:47 * Shonikado Which seems strangely familiar. 00:10:39 * Shonikado Kojiro reaches the front gate of the castle; a device to the side looks like it could be turned to pull the gate up 00:11:02 * Kojiro examines the device. 00:11:39 * Shonikado The device is examined; it seems like one of those devices which, again, you can turn to pull the gate open; it resembles similar devices you see for pulling up drawbridges 00:12:11 * Shonikado The narrator silently curses himself for not knowing the names of these things. 00:12:36 * Kojiro opens the gate, I suppose. 00:13:01 * Shonikado Kojiro works on opening the gate; due to the nature of these unnamed devices, however, this does take a good minute or so to accomplish fully 00:13:35 * Shonikado Although the gate /is/ supposed to be tall. You could quit maybe ten to fifteen seconds in with enough height to simply slip through 00:14:07 * Kojiro Is there any way to make it stay in place, or will it come crashing down if they try to slip through without getting it all the way up? 00:14:37 * Shonikado There does not seem to be any way you can make it stay in place. 00:14:53 * Shonikado Of course, you don't know if it /won't/ stay in place; all you know so far is how to open it 00:15:08 *** Rock ~rockx2@shacops-DD70874.mia.bellsouth.net has quit [Q:- Rock] 00:15:17 * Shonikado Rock continues to slumber in Queen Sara's castle. 00:15:37 * Kojiro tries pausing his attempts to open the gate to see if it crashes down when not being lifted. 00:15:50 * Shonikado The gate does not come crashing down, but rather, stays in place 00:16:51 * Kojiro heads through with his party then. 00:17:51 * Shonikado Kojiro enters the castle; though there are plenty of torches sporting purple flames aligning the walls, the walls and ceiling are heavily shadowed. The floor, however, is lit quite nicely, showing off whatever dark, dull purple rock this castle is made of 00:18:19 * Shonikado The hallway you're in stretches on, curving a bit, leading down to what looks like a single door 00:18:59 * Kojiro Anything special about said door? 00:19:31 * Shonikado It looks a bit ornate, with little black metal designs covering it, but other than that it is a normal wooden door 00:19:50 * Shonikado Meanwhile, the narrator wonders if he has some sort of obsession with hallways, as they tend to appear often in his works. 00:20:22 * Kojiro opens said door. 00:21:03 * Shonikado After a lengthy walk Kojiro did in fact go through, the door is opened, revealing a rather large dome-like room, albeit far taller than wide 00:21:34 * Shonikado Several heartless stand scattered about in this room, around a sort of pool in the center, filled with a rather odd purpleish-black liquid 00:21:42 * Shonikado On the other side of the pool is a throne chair. 00:21:50 * Shonikado And in that chair is, who would have thought, Ecco 00:21:54 * Shonikado That /dick/ 00:22:08 * Shonikado Queen Sara is thinking those exact words but being a queen she will not say them. She is too proper for that. 00:22:26 * Kojiro Well darn. Here I was hoping he was gone forever. 00:22:47 * Shonikado It seems that your hopes were in vain. Ecco, meanwhile, has begun to speak 00:23:05 * Shonikado He says he's thankful that you finally came down here. Apparently he's been waiting for you? 00:23:38 * Shonikado He stops naturally at this point as he assumes you will question him. Villains tend to do this and Ecco is definitely playing up the part of villain here 00:24:05 * Kojiro decides to humor Ecco and ask him how he escaped from the place he was sent. 00:24:19 * Shonikado Ecco laughs at this point. 00:24:26 * Shonikado He then goes on to say that he never escaped. 00:25:09 * Shonikado Apparently he simply began building with the assistance of his Heartless followers, eventually creating what Kojiro is now in 00:25:11 * Kojiro So, that's where we are now, then? 00:25:19 * Shonikado He says yes to that. 00:25:35 * Shonikado Even in the Void, he says, imagination is not powerless. 00:25:49 * Shonikado Whether or not that's the official name of this place is unknown but it definitely fits 00:26:00 * Shonikado In fact I am quite sure I named it Null. 00:26:45 * Shonikado Regardless of if Ecco got the name right or not, what he's said has been said and that is that. 00:27:42 * Shonikado Oop it is Null. Ecco you bastard you're filling Kojiro's head with wrong names 00:27:53 * Kojiro asks Ecco what his goal here is. 00:28:15 * Shonikado Ecco laughs. Again. It's not even the good kind of laugh, it's that annoying dickish laugh. Which is fitting 00:28:26 * Shonikado He says his goal is to figure out how to create a portal to... 00:28:29 * Shonikado ... What did he just say? 00:28:32 * Shonikado i cubed? 00:28:48 * Shonikado I think that is what he said. It sounds like what he said. 00:29:20 * Kojiro And why would he want to go there? 00:29:51 * Shonikado Ecco says it is because i^3 is apparently the opposite of the realm of imagination. Simple math should probably explain why 00:30:13 * Shonikado A realm full of nightmares, and secrets... A realm not normally accessible by OoCians 00:30:19 * Shonikado In fact, supposed to be impossible. Does not stop him apparently 00:30:38 * Shonikado He mentions something along the lines of creating the ultimate list of blackmail. 00:30:40 * Shonikado ... 00:31:02 * Shonikado Have I said Ecco is a dick yet? 00:31:04 * Shonikado I think I have 00:31:46 * Kojiro Anything else he wants to tell us about? 00:32:20 * Shonikado He says that's pretty much it. The rituals that got him to this stage in the summoning of a portal to i^3 is stuff he'd rather keep to himself in case he feels like auctioning off the knowledge later 00:32:35 * Shonikado He /does/ say that at the moment his portal still requires one thing that, thankfully, you've apparently provided 00:32:43 * Shonikado An OoCian. 00:32:55 * Shonikado ... That would probably be you. 00:33:22 * Kojiro Ah. 00:33:50 * Shonikado A few seconds pass before Ecco realizes that was his cue to get his heartless to attack you and force you into the pit of whatever-liquid 00:33:59 * Shonikado A few curses are mumbled before he calls out for them to attack. 00:34:13 * Kojiro orders his squad to prepare for battle. 00:34:39 * Shonikado Your squad is prepared, though it'll take me a minute to remember who you had 00:34:47 * Shonikado Kojiro, PONY, the two ponies, and Queen Sara? 00:34:48 * Shonikado I believe so. 00:35:11 * Shonikado All members are ready as dozens of heartless leap in to tackle you 00:35:57 * Shonikado Queen Sara naturally is fending off heartless with her normal keyblade, which essentially vaporizes them; the two ponies are doing their best to fend off their attacks 00:36:01 <%Shonikado> [*attackers] 00:36:15 * Shonikado PONY and Kojiro, on the other hand, fall under your control and therefore I cannot call their actions 00:36:19 * Kojiro PONY should be kicking/stomping various Heartless. 00:36:33 * Kojiro meanwhile is shooting the Heartless with a regular pistol. 00:36:55 * Shonikado Fun fact: PONY manages to kick one of the heartless into the pit of liquid. It screams out before simply melting into it 00:37:04 * Shonikado Nothing happens aside from that, but I just thought you'd want to know. 00:37:11 * Shonikado Apparently it is /not/ a nice pit 00:38:04 * Shonikado Due to the weak nature of the heartless attacking, and the fact that large groups of fighters never go well in role playing scenarios anyway, the attacks are easily fended off 00:38:25 * Shonikado Ecco, meanwhile, has disappeared. Where to is unknown, as everyone's been focusing too hard on getting rid of the heartless 00:38:30 * Kojiro Is Ecco still here? 00:38:34 * Kojiro Ah. 00:38:46 * Kojiro begins searching for Ecco, keeping his distance from the pit. 00:39:39 * Shonikado A tiny pebble lands near the edge of the pit, rolling in. It makes a nice little ripple before disappearing 00:40:10 * Shonikado ... Followed by a few more pebbles falling. They seem to be coming from the ceiling- 00:40:25 * Shonikado -and something FAR LARGER drops from the ceiling wow what is that 00:41:00 * Kojiro I don't know. You have to tell me that. 00:41:20 * Shonikado An odd mechanical-looking contraption with six legs made out of what looks like heartless-type material covered in armor lands around the edge of the pit; as in, the body which the legs are attached to is above the pit with the legs around the rim 00:41:31 * Shonikado Ecco can be seen in the body, apparently piloting this thing 00:41:40 * Shonikado It is kind of silly looking and at the same time intimidating 00:41:46 * Shonikado Probably due to size. 00:42:22 * Shonikado One of the legs lifts up, aiming at the party; it splits open and begins shooting a stream of purple flames at the group 00:42:46 * Shonikado The ponies and Princess Sara take this time to get the hell out of the way. Kojiro and PONY's actions, once again, I have no jurisdiction over 00:43:01 * Kojiro Both of them run to the side as well. 00:43:39 * Kojiro instructs his team to split up, so that a single party member is near a single leg. That should have five people to the six legs. 00:43:49 * Shonikado The leg shuts and resumes its position around the pool as two other legs open up; they begin sucking in the heartless who were knocked unconscious, rather than vaporized or knocked into the pit 00:44:08 * Shonikado Queen Sara and the ponies acknowledge the order, the three splitting up 00:44:54 * Shonikado Meanwhile, the body of Ecco's contraption seems to radiate with a black energy as it aims a leg at Kojiro, putting the other two back on their place 00:45:07 * Kojiro and PONY both attack nearby legs at the same time, trying to knock their grips on the edges of the pit off. 00:45:30 * Kojiro Hopefully the other party members do this as well, the ponies kicking and Sara doing whatever. 00:45:47 * Kojiro PONY is also kicking while Kojiro took out his grenade launcher. 00:45:47 * Shonikado The open leg, rather that spitting out purple fire like before, launches fully rejuvenated heartless at Kojiro while they attack its other legs 00:46:02 * Shonikado You can probably assume the number of heartless it fires out is equal to the number it sucked in. 00:46:29 * Shonikado Meanwhile, progress on the legs is slow; despite their efforts of hitting the legs, the ponies and Queen Sara don't seem to be pushing them much 00:47:04 * Shonikado Queen Sara uses her normal keyblade, as a side note. The Heart Keyblade is probably its name because it is /covered/ in them. It is almost sickening how many there are 00:47:52 * Kojiro instructs those three to work together on a single leg, then. If the three can knock a leg loose while the other two both knock one off while one or maybe two legs are attacking, then the spider-bot-thing will be supported by only two (or one) leg and thus be very off-balance. 00:48:18 * Kojiro starts shooting all the Heartless around him while they hopefully follow his orders. 00:48:39 * Shonikado The Queen and the ponies team up again and begin working on a single leg, which does seem to be making some actual progess 00:49:14 * Shonikado Kojiro manages to shoot some heartless, who fall over with bullets in their hypothetical-brains; however, due to the mass number of them all focusing on Kojiro at once, a few tackles his legs 00:49:23 <%Shonikado> [*tackle] 00:49:42 * Kojiro pulls out his submachine gun and sprays the Heartless near him with bullets. 00:49:56 * Shonikado They do not last very long as they are quite weak. 00:50:24 * Shonikado The machine brings one of its legs up, sucking in the heartless Kojiro just worked on defeating 00:50:32 * Kojiro fires a grenade at one leg while PONY delivers a tremendous kick to another. 00:50:53 * Kojiro Hopefully that means three legs are now not gripping the edge. Four if the others got their leg off as well. 00:51:29 * Shonikado The grenade hits, knocking one leg in; PONY's kick hits in another, while Queen Sara and the ponies do in fact finish off their leg 00:51:55 * Kojiro Alright, the robot is standing on two legs, which, considering its size, should put it off-balance. 00:51:58 * Shonikado All three suddenly sink into the pit, melting off; with one leg in the air, Ecco's contraption begins losing balance...! 00:52:07 * Kojiro fires a grenade at the body to knock it down faster. 00:52:25 * Shonikado The contraption slips and falls into the pool! 00:52:30 * Shonikado ...Or at least, the legs do. 00:52:42 * Shonikado At the last second, the body launches off, disconnecting from the legs 00:53:07 * Shonikado It flies over to a wall, latching onto it. It continues to glow with dark energy of sorts from having absorbed the heartless 00:53:39 * Shonikado Ecco looks like two things right now from inside the body of the machine. One of them is pissed. The other is a /dick/ because he /always looks like that/ 00:54:44 * Shonikado The machine begins sliding along the wall of the arena, not really doing anything yet. 00:54:50 * Shonikado Aside from sliding. But offensive-wise? Nothing 00:55:15 * Kojiro fires grenades at the wall ahead of the machine, hopefully damaging them enough to knock it off course when it reaches them. 00:56:12 * Shonikado It runs directly into the grenade; however, rather than being damaged, the dark energy surrounding it lessens and several heartless fall off. Perhaps they blocked the blast? 00:56:28 * Shonikado The heartless that fell off sit there, dazed for a moment. 00:56:43 * Kojiro fires his submachine gun at the machine then, directing Sara (the only other ranged-attacker here) to also attack it. 00:57:42 * Shonikado The heartless that finish being dazed jump into the walls, delving back to the machine and restoring its aura, which is being decreased at pretty much the same rate as it is recovering 00:57:58 * Shonikado Also, Queen Sara asks Kojiro how she's supposed to attack it if it's on the wall. 00:58:17 * Kojiro fires at the fallen Heartless while Sara- Doesn't she have magic?- attacks the machine itself. 00:58:47 * Shonikado Queen Sara does not, apparently, have any magic attacks! Why this is the case is unknown but apparently she doesn't. 00:59:28 * Shonikado Kojiro fires at the fallen heartless, which causes him to /not/ be shooting at the machine; which, from inside, Ecco calls out something along the lines of Aha! Found it 00:59:43 * Shonikado Following this supposed line is the machine launching a purple fireball at Kojiro. 00:59:44 * Kojiro then directs the entire rest of the party to murder the Heartless that fall off while he shoots at the machine. 01:00:02 * Kojiro leaps to the side. Oh dear that is not good. 01:00:09 * Kojiro Wait, strike that. 01:00:26 * Shonikado That has been striked? What /will/ you do? 01:00:30 * Kojiro opens a portal in front of him, opening its other side aimed at the machine. 01:00:33 <%Shonikado> [*striked.] 01:00:37 * Kojiro Redirect the attack. 01:00:55 * Shonikado The attack is redirected, but right as Ecco launches a /second/ fireball; it hits the first! 01:01:01 * Shonikado ... And the two fuse, momentum nullified... 01:01:12 * Shonikado It falls to the floor, rolling into the pit 01:01:42 * Shonikado Meanwhile, PONY, Queen Sara, and the ponies are working on destroying the heartless that fall off. Sara has the easiest time with this as her keyblade makes the heartless vaporize 01:01:46 * Kojiro fires at the machien some more while his party kills the Heartless that fall off of it. 01:02:08 * Shonikado The party's fight is somewhat interrupted by an explosion that occurs as the fireball sinks into the pit 01:02:27 * Shonikado Several miniscule purple fireballs launch into the sky and rain down randomly upon the battlefield below 01:02:45 * Shonikado Ecco is going to get his fair share of hits, yes, but that's not going to help with avoiding the attack on your part 01:03:29 * Kojiro opens a portal above himself and his party to catch the fireballs, once again directing them into Ecco and his machine. 01:03:53 * Shonikado Ecco is too busy being hit by the first few fireballs to notice the huge redirected assault 01:04:22 * Shonikado Apparently you've gotten rid of enough of his shield as the machine EXPLODES, sending the last few heartless protecting him flying through the air, along with shattered pieces of the machine's body and Ecco himself 01:04:50 * Kojiro shoots (bullets) at Ecco. 01:05:36 * Shonikado Ecco, being dazed from the explosion, is riddled with bullets; yellow blots of blood squirt out as he's hit 01:06:03 * Shonikado Meanwhile, the two ponies have been busy chucking the unconscious heartless into the pit in the middle of the arena. It gets rid of them for good, after all. 01:06:29 * Kojiro opens a portal above the pit. 01:06:54 * Kojiro fires the other end of the portal (the blue to the pit's orange) below Ecco, who may or may not still be dazed. 01:07:13 * Shonikado Ecco coughs up a good bit of blood; he is not dazed but he is almost dead 01:07:37 * Shonikado He falls through the portal. He attempts to say something to Kojiro, possibly some clever last words, maybe a curse, but he falls into the pit before that happens 01:08:08 * Shonikado All you get from Ecco is a scream of pain before he melts into nothing. 01:08:13 * Shonikado And then there is silence 01:08:31 * Kojiro Time to loot the castle. 01:08:38 * Kojiro Also exp. 01:09:08 * Shonikado As Kojiro thinks about obtaining EXP, the party obtains the EXP they should have gained throughout the entire game but didn't 01:09:20 * Kojiro Much leveling up then. 01:09:29 * Shonikado Several possible level ups occur. None of them seem to be important, unfortunately 01:10:04 * Kojiro Back to exploring the castle. 01:10:05 * Shonikado There is no loot to collect in this room, but there are several doors along the edge of this room; five to be precise. One of them is the one you came through, which is slightly ajar 01:10:24 * Kojiro Hey, what happened to Hitomi while this was going on? She find the source of the gunk yet? 01:11:00 * Shonikado Hitomi did, in fact, find the source of the green goop. Shall Kojiro explore the castle whilst we deal with Hitomi's adventures, or should we simply switch off for now? 01:11:17 * Kojiro Let's check Hitomi's stuff out first. 01:12:07 * Shonikado Hitomi has made a rather troubling discovery; a cancerous lump seems to be clogging up a good portion of the digestive tunnel she's in. It is disgusting and green and just /oozing/ 01:12:24 * Shonikado You can only be thankful that it apparently lacks a face. 01:12:56 * Kojiro Is it its own entity or is it growing out of the PONY? Hopefully the former because the PONY's magic would presumably make it immune to this sort of thing. 01:13:19 * Shonikado It's impossible to tell; it's clogging the tunnel up 01:13:37 * Kojiro Does William arrive yet? 01:13:55 * Shonikado William makes a comment about how gross this lump is. 01:14:03 * Shonikado He then remember he has a message to deliver 01:14:11 * Shonikado Who knows how long he's been here 01:14:32 * Kojiro Hitomi says that, since she's found a problem to solve, she'll stay a little longer. However, she needs his help. 01:14:49 * Shonikado William inquires what Hitomi needs his help for. Delivering something? 01:14:51 * Kojiro He needs to go back to PONY's stomach area and get a /lot/ of bombs. 01:14:58 * Kojiro And then bring them back. 01:15:14 * Shonikado He salutes Hitomi, stating he will bring her the bombs, then heads off 01:15:30 * Shonikado He will pass the pigeon society on the way back. Good 'ol pigeon society 01:16:40 * Kojiro Should we timecard to his return? 01:16:56 * Shonikado It's not a very long timecard, but a timecard nonetheless 01:17:20 * Shonikado He is carrying two bombs, one under each wing. He says he's sorry it took so long but all of these bombs were slowing him down 01:17:46 * Kojiro Hitomi has William and her allies set a pile of the bombs (I'm assuming that some are in the pouch) in front of the lump thing. 01:17:46 * Shonikado He puts the bombs down, opening up his pouch and taking out a /plethora/ of other bombs. 01:17:56 * Kojiro Not all of them yet, though. 01:17:57 * Shonikado Yes there were definitely ones in his pouch wow he got more than enough 01:18:16 * Kojiro A pile about a quarter of the size of the front of the thing, whatever it is. 01:18:26 * Shonikado Whatever it is, it is disgusting 01:18:55 * Kojiro Hitomi then hides in the pouch and tells William to head back a ways, to a safe distance, which is probably round a bend or two in the intestine, with her allies following. 01:19:25 * Shonikado William mentions that he is a prinny and is used to exploding, but does as Hitomi says regardless 01:19:41 * Shonikado With Hitomi in his pouch exploding would probably be uncomfortable for her anyway 01:19:44 * Kojiro Hitomi is not used to exploding, and neither are her allies, so they must get back., 01:20:13 * Shonikado The group gets back, away from the explosives. 01:20:16 * Kojiro When they reach the safe distance Hitomi hits the detonator for one of the bombs in the pile, setting off a chain reaction among the piled bombs. 01:20:38 * Shonikado There is an explosion. Being far away, you do not see the result, but you can definitely hear it 01:21:04 * Kojiro Let's go check it out. 01:21:52 * Shonikado The result is checked out. And the result is a very charred intestine, a mass amount of green goop, and a cleared pathway! Also what looks like a dead pigeon that had something sticking out of its head that exploded 01:22:37 * Kojiro Hm, the pigeon was hopefully not Zephry, who was brought along as an ally. Also PONY's intestine starts healing almost immediately. 01:23:05 * Shonikado The pigeon is a normal pigeon, definitely not Zephry. This is confirmed when Zephry pipes up, saying that this is rather disturbing 01:23:14 * Kojiro Hitomi asks William if he wants to help her in her exploration or head back out; either option works. 01:23:54 * Shonikado William says that he should probably assist Hitomi. Sure, delivering messages is what he does but Hitomi might need the help 01:24:12 * Shonikado Zephry wonders out loud what could have given a pigeon a cancerous lump this big. 01:24:25 * Kojiro Hitomi stays inside his pouch then, pointing down the path. Onward! 01:24:52 * Shonikado The group continues onward; the group being Hitomi, Zephry, William, the tame ringworm and the semi-tame ringworm 01:25:02 * Shonikado Hitomi has hit her limit of party members. 01:25:46 * Kojiro Back outside the PONY, the castle was being explored. What has been discovered? 01:26:25 * Shonikado As it turns out, the four doors lead to different parts of the castle; surprise, surprise 01:26:32 * Shonikado One door lead to some sort of tower 01:26:46 * Shonikado It was filled with machinery bits and armor; apparently where the contraption Ecco fought in was built 01:27:12 * Shonikado There were also some sketches for a frightening looking artificial heartless, though it seems to have either been scrapped or just not completed in time 01:28:10 * Shonikado Another door lead to another tower; in there, things were far more chemistry-oriented. Several complex diagrams and symbols were scattered along the walls, as well as a few vials that seemed to be filled with the same liquid in the pool in the main room 01:28:22 * Kojiro Hm. 01:28:41 * Shonikado The third door you went into lead to a treasure room. Apparently imagining up treasure was something Ecco felt the need to do 01:29:18 * Shonikado It was all quite nice treasure, even if it was pretty much just gold and jewels. Nothing really /special/ 01:29:25 * Kojiro PONY consumes the loot; while it is not the base anymore, it can still serve as a (temporary) inventory. 01:29:45 * Shonikado Having caught up with the group in the treasure room, we find PONY consuming the loot 01:29:52 * Shonikado And now the treasure room is empty. 01:30:22 * Kojiro Alright. Where did the fourth door go? 01:30:38 * Shonikado The group exits the treasure room and heads for the fourth door; unfortunately, they find it to be locked. 01:31:11 * Kojiro Did PONY happen to consume a key? It has a sort of mental inventory of everything it has eaten. 01:31:33 * Shonikado PONY finds no key in its inventory. In fact, the door doesn't seem to be locked with a key system 01:31:38 * Shonikado It simply won't open. 01:31:47 * Kojiro PONY kicks the door. 01:32:13 * Shonikado PONY manages to kick open a hole in the door. 01:32:33 * Kojiro How large of a hole? 01:32:36 * Shonikado The pieces of the door that were kicked in fall into a black void, while the spot they were moments before flickers 01:32:57 * Shonikado You see a beach, a city of sorts, and something else flash by before it goes blank 01:33:14 * Shonikado It is now a normal hole apparently leading into a black void that you could climb through if you were a human. 01:33:33 * Shonikado The broken pieces of the door are gone, apparently due to a lack of floor behind this door 01:33:44 * Kojiro Hm, this was probably the intended to be the portal to i^3. 01:33:50 * Kojiro Let's leave this alone for now. 01:34:19 * Shonikado The door, despite being broken, is left alone for now 01:34:26 * Kojiro Alright, that everything? 01:34:35 * Shonikado Those were the four doors you found. 01:34:52 * Shonikado You're in the throne room, with the throne door and the pit and the fifth door leading back out the castle 01:34:59 <%Shonikado> [*throne chair] 01:35:24 * Kojiro Hm, is the throne particularly fancy or anything? 01:35:58 * Shonikado It looks like a chair carved out of black marble, very intricate with little designs and whatnot. A fancy purple cushion is where one would sit 01:36:09 * Shonikado It looks like a very comfortable cushion. 01:36:48 * Kojiro PONY eats the entire throne. More loot. Might add it to a future base we get if we ever get our own instead of freeloading off of others. 01:37:03 * Shonikado PONY finds a trap door beneath the throne. 01:37:17 * Kojiro opens the trap door. 01:38:01 * Shonikado Beneath the trap door is a black void as well, similar to the locked door 01:38:08 * Shonikado However, unlike the other one, it does not flicker 01:38:29 * Kojiro closes the trap door. 01:38:35 * Shonikado The trap door is shut. 01:38:50 * Kojiro decides that it's time to leave. Back to the plaza. 01:39:26 * Shonikado Kojiro exits through the door he originally came from, then down the twisted hallway, eventually back outside in the Null 01:39:34 * Shonikado Which is also known a the Void according to Ecco 01:39:55 * Shonikado Kojiro makes his way across the bridge to re-enter Plaza Main; the zombie door is still open 01:40:11 * Kojiro , after his entire party is through, tells the zombie door to close itself. 01:40:30 * Shonikado The door shuts, and Queen Sara's Heartless Keyblade falls out 01:40:49 * Shonikado The door says it is happy to be of service. 01:41:00 * Kojiro thanks the door for its assistance. 01:41:17 * Kojiro and the group head back to the base; before we save for the night, let's get a status update on Hitomi's team as well. 01:42:19 * Shonikado Hitomi's team has continued down the expansive tunnels of PONY's digestive system and have come to a large circular-type area of sorts; the same kind they encountered when they "fought" that odd blob 01:43:01 * Shonikado This room is filled with green goop and cancerous blobs that do not seem to be attached to PONY, as well as an odd man sitting in the corner, sleeping 01:43:09 * Shonikado He looks like a certain captain of cancer. 01:43:34 * Kojiro Hitomi directs William, who she is being carried in the pouch of, over to the man. 01:43:46 * Shonikado William waddles over with his peg legs to the sleeping man 01:43:58 * Shonikado The man continues to sleep. 01:44:11 * Kojiro She gets out of the pouch, then has her group stuff him int othe pouch. 01:44:15 <@Kojiro> [*into the] 01:44:33 * Shonikado The man is stuffed into the pouch; he does not notice. He is a heavy sleeper. 01:45:15 * Kojiro tells William to deliver him to the other heroes, as well as to give them a status update. 01:45:45 * Kojiro She also climbs onto William's back, asking him to deliver her and her allies to the pigeon village for rest; they don't want to rest in the cancer-place, after all. 01:46:04 * Shonikado William acknowledges this before speeding off 01:46:08 * Kojiro That's not safe. Also it's gross. 01:46:15 * Kojiro Alright, I think that's good for tonight. 01:46:32 * Shonikado Kojiro finds that he is suddenly standing in the white void again. 01:46:49 * Shonikado The familiar oversized tombstone of saving stands before him with green and red buttons. 01:47:05 * Shonikado The tombstone just as "'sup" written on itself. It doesn't need much more than that. 01:47:13 * Kojiro saves his game. 01:47:51 * Shonikado The game is saved. 01:47:52 <%Shonikado> vwoop 01:48:03 <@Kojiro> That was interesting. 01:48:16 <%Shonikado> I tried to not think about what would happen that much 01:48:29 <%Shonikado> Because I had already forced you onto rails just getting there 01:48:30 <%Shonikado> I felt bad 01:48:30 <%Shonikado> :X 01:48:58 <%Shonikado> Also I am not sure if you know this or not but 01:49:00 <@Kojiro> The group is going to need to hire Meido or someone to clean out PONY. Poor PONY, its digestive system is filled with disgusting stuff and it doesn't even digest things; /other people/ are putting those things in it. 01:49:11 <%Shonikado> Hitomi's adventures are definitely more difficult than Kojiro's to plan for 01:49:20 <@Kojiro> Heh. Why is that? 01:49:26 <%Shonikado> I just don't know what to do 01:49:30 <%Shonikado> she's going down a tunnel 01:49:36 <%Shonikado> in a pony's digestive system 01:49:44 <%Shonikado> There's not really much I can think of 01:49:53 <%Shonikado> I might have to actually plan things for her 01:50:02 <@Kojiro> That's fine. 01:50:10 <%Shonikado> She's not really going to do much differently. Kojiro has some freedoms with what he does 01:50:14 <%Shonikado> but she does not 01:50:18 <%Shonikado> so I shall think of *something* maybe 01:50:27 <%Shonikado> anywaaay 01:50:37 <@Kojiro> You tired? 01:50:44 <%Shonikado> Nope 01:50:52 <@Kojiro> I am. 01:50:52 <%Shonikado> I've been staying up 'till 3 for the past few days 01:50:56 <%Shonikado> Well, good night then 01:51:02 <%Shonikado> It was good actually doing an OoCia :D 01:51:04 <@Kojiro> I had to wake up early today. Yesterday. 01:51:09 <@Kojiro> Indeed. 01:51:12 <@Kojiro> Anyway, goodnight. 01:51:22 *** Kojiro ~Kojiro@shacops-46E47CFB.hsd1.ca.comcast.net has quit [Q:- ChatZilla 0.9.85 [Firefox 3.5.5/20091102152451]]