The Tomb of Khentykawes

Raw Dump

So now _you_ get to take your lover's attacks.

This I'm used to. (requesting scorpions)

I would prefer the two of you to have your fights out of the public eye.

Consequence: I Hate My Friends

Aspect: Vase of Ashes

Aspect: Flying Ghul Mummies!

How quickly can you collapse the temple?

Not as quickly as she can.

Mummies remain mummified even when they are immobilized.

But they were only my illusion, Victor! It was obvious.

Noxious substances in one's pocket

Oh that did happen! Well, now we're even. So, what are we going to do about those mummies.

Why would you want to hyp Victor?

When he becomes a power hungry meglamanical

how could you tell thedifferntce

he becomes slightly less annoying

he stops sayin should and starts saying shall

Sounds wet

Alice, can we put some kind of lock on victor's mind?

How about we put a lock on the door instead?

So I'm protecting him body and mind

I feel so manly

What, hiding under Alice's skirts?

Hey, they are very strong skirts.

Yes, they are.

So Victor has too many bas right now? I've lost track of how many bas he has. You're not making a very good sheep.

Aspect: Alice's Eyes Are Closed

Aspect: Giant Mf'g Snake In My Mf'g Temple

I'm ure that if you rubbed martain against my scales you cd build up a lovely static charge

we'll call that plan b

I'm never goingto get the stain out of these gloves

Just put it down

Statueof liberty

Do you think Khentykawes might be angry with us?

If you want to be Absolutely Safe, just kill Victor

And burn my heart

And burn his heart

Mind I don't endorse this plan

While Victor has the most atrocious history possible, I'm afraid we're just going to take him as he is.

And anyway myfather isn't atrocious in the slightest and that's all my history -- unless you count all of faerie.

I wonder if that could be your other parent -- did we ever find out who that was.

NO.

All right then.

Why not? All right I admit having a bunch of power hungry maniacs coming after me for my heart because they think it will resurrect a dead dark queen who will reward would be mildly inconvenient, but other than that I dont see the problem

Really victor, we scheduled Thursdays for that sort of thing. I Really don't want to take another day out of my schedule for that.

All right. First ordr of business: I need to get a new coat

I don't think you'll find one in the middle of the desert

Besides we have to fly to new york

SO we do

I can't believe that I'm suggesting the sensible course of action

Catch prhases a la DERPG

Can new martians disguise themselves as humans or faeries

We've never seen a new martian

One is probably a member of the ker club

We're seen what they claim they look like

If there's another one of these buried under ny... we need to good to ny

You mean before manhattan is excavatd

it sounds dirty

you live in london

it's completely different -- its filled with English

Oh for an american, lincoln is quite deboinnaire

No, he is a rather interesting specifimen even for an american

To be fair she said nothing about the babenga. they do not live in ny, taht I know of

Let's start with the Lip

Hey! The lip is very refined

I like the lip!

And his associates --

Some of them are very refined.

Is this the 1st time you've been outside of eng and france?

We went to ireland

So you did. Is this the first time you've been more than 500 miles outside of eng?

Bathing sounds terribly wet

no, I oil myself. It's not the same thing at all

If you pick up oil it's wet

No, it's oily

Two pieces of metal in oil rub against each other smoothly. 2 pces in water don't. Trust me on this. And metal covered in oil doesn't rust.

We are disccusing oil

And watter and slipperyness

So. We were going to fly an island!

To NY!

Story Games Dump

In Kerberos Fate, our heroes fought numerous ghul mummies trying to sacrifice Victor to bring back the Egyptian queen Khentykhawes. Sophronia, the 9 inch tall clockwork faerie, used her illusions to deal real damage to everyone in the same zone. Naturally, this included Victor, who had to take the Consequence: I Hate My Friends! (He has one fewer Consequence than everyone else because the player refused to get rid of a Consequence reflecting his love for his fiance.)

Later on, the shape-shifting Reginald moved in on the Ghul Mummies as Sophronia continued to attack with scarab beetles, lightning, asps, whatever.

Victor: So now _you_ get to take your lover's attacks.

Reginald: This I'm used to.

Indeed, he requested she try scorpions, finding them rather, ah, stimulating. This caused a raised eyebrow from Lady Alice.

Alice (while telekinetically maintaining protective force fields or hurling ghul mummies around): I would prefer the two of you to have your fights out of the public eye.

Afterwards, Victor had some words for Sophronia about hitting him with her asps.

Sophronia: But they were only my illusion, Victor! It was obvious.

"It's Obvious!" is one of Victor's Aspects. We noted that if one got Fate Points for working the names of one's Aspects into dialogue, even without invoking or compelling them, the PCs would be swimming in Fate Points.

Mind, Victor tended to keep "noxious substances" in his pockets, like, oh, cold iron, even when inviting Sophronia to travel in another of his pockets.

Sophronia: Oh that _did_ happen! Well, now we're even. So, what are we going to do about those mummies?

Why, follow them to the hidden temple, where Reginald turned into a Giant Snake. We agreed that the temporary aspect he had simply had to be Giant Motherfucking Snake In My Motherfucking Temple!

Reginald pondered whether he could now hypnotize Victor, being a giant snake.

Me: Why would you want to hypnotize Victor?

Reginald: When he becomes a power hungry meglomaniacal --

Me: How could you tell the difference?

Alice: He becomes slightly less annoying.

Reginald: He stops saying "should" and starts saying "shall"!

Sophronia: Alice, can we put some kind of lock on Victor's mind?

Victor: How about we put a lock on the door instead?

Reginald blocked the very wide door and the corridor leading up to it against the approaching ghul mummies, he spotted Sophronia's cat, Martin, and got an idea:

Reginald: I'm sure that if you rubbed Martin against my scales you could build up a lovely static charge!

Sophronia: We'll call that Plan B.

Eventually, they dealt with the problem, although there were some unfortunate consequences.

Alice: I'm never going to get the stain out of these gloves.

Victor: All right. First order of business: I need to get a new coat!

Reginald: I don't think you'll find one in the middle of the desert.

Later...

Victor: All right, I admit having a bunch of power hungry maniacs coming after me for my heart because they think it will resurrect a dead dark queen who will reward them would be mildly inconvenient, but other than that I don't see the problem.

Reginald: Really Victor, we scheduled Thursdays for that sort of thing. I really don't want to take another day out of my schedule for that.

And that left a discussion about bathing.

Sophronia (who is made of brass): Bathing sounds terribly wet.

Victor was confused, as, after all, Sophronia did bathe, sort of.

Sophronia: No, I oil myself. It's not the same thing at all.

Victor: If you pick up oil, it's wet.

Alice: No, it's oily.

Sophronia: Two pieces of metal in oil rub against each other smoothly. Two pieces of metal in water don't. Trust me on this. And metal covered in oil doesn't rust.

Victor: We are disccusing oil.

Alice: And water and slipperyness.

Sophronia (deciding it's high time to change the subject): So. We were going to fly an island! To New York!

Write Up Attempt

In Kerberos Fate, our heroes fought numerous ghul mummies trying to sacrifice Victor to bring back the Egyptian queen Khentykhawes. Sophronia, the 9 inch tall clockwork faerie, used her illusions to deal real damage to everyone in the same zone. Naturally, this included Victor, who had to take the Consequence: I Hate My Friends! (He has one fewer Consequence than everyone else because the player refused to get rid of a Consequence reflecting his love for his fiance.)

Later on, the shape-shifting Reginald moved in on the Ghul Mummies as Sophronia continued to attack with scarab beetles, lightning, asps, whatever.

Victor: So now _you_ get to take your lover's attacks.

Reginald: This I'm used to.

Indeed, he requested she try scorpions, finding them rather, ah, stimulating. This caused a raised eyebrow from Lady Alice.

Alice (while telekinetically maintaining protective force fields or hurling ghul mummies around): I would prefer the two of you to have your fights out of the public eye.

Aspects from the fight:

• Vase of Ashes
• Flying Ghul Mummies!

Sadly, the British Martian cultist was both dead and more or less doomed, as his soul had been used for the spell that imprisoned Victor, and when that spell was destroyed, so was the fellow's soul.

Afterwards, Victor had some words for Sophronia about hitting him with her asps.

Sophronia: But they were only my illusion, Victor! It was obvious.

"It's Obvious!" is one of Victor's Aspects. We noted that if one got Fate Points for working the names of one's Aspects into dialogue, even without invoking or compelling them, the PCs would be swimming in Fate Points.

Mind, Victor tended to keep "noxious substances" in his pockets, like, oh, cold iron, even when inviting Sophronia to travel in another of his pockets.

Sophronia: Oh that _did_ happen! Well, now we're even. So, what are we going to do about those mummies?

Why, follow them to the hidden temple, which Alice and Reginald could now raise from the sands, it now being the plot-appropriate time.

Victor: How quickly can you collapse the temple?

Reginald (indicating Alice): Not as quickly as she can.

There were many, many currently immobile mummies inside the temple.

GM: Mummies remain mummified even when they are immobilized.

Also, setting the mummies on fire would be Bad, as that would consume the oxygen most folks needed to breathe.

Reginald turned into a Giant Snake. We agreed that the temporary aspect he had simply had to be Giant Motherfucking Snake In My Motherfucking Temple!

Reginald pondered whether he could now hypnotize Victor, being a giant snake.

Me: Why would you want to hypnotize Victor?

Reginald: When he becomes a power hungry megalomaniacal --

Me: How could you tell the difference?

Alice: He becomes slightly less annoying.

Reginald: He stops saying "should" and starts saying "shall"!

Sophronia: Alice, can we put some kind of lock on Victor's mind?

Victor: How about we put a lock on the door instead?

Reginald blocked the very wide door and the corridor leading up to it against the now animate and approaching ghul mummies, he spotted Sophronia's cat, Martin, and got an idea:

Reginald: I'm sure that if you rubbed Martin against my scales you could build up a lovely static charge!

Sophronia: We'll call that Plan B.

Alice used her powers to protect Victor, mechanically putting a block up.

Alice: So, I'm protecting him body and mind.

Victor: I feel so manly.

Reginald: What, hiding under Alice's skirts?

Victor: Hey, they are very strong skirts.

Alice: Yes, they are.

Sophronia: So Victor has too many bas right now? I've lost track of how many bas he has. You're not making a very good sheep.

Aspect: Alice's Eyes Are Closed

Aspect: Giant Mf'g Snake In My Mf'g Temple

The mural in the temple showed Victor-as-Khentykawes's consort, and indeed, the whole of their history for that lifetime. It then showed various scenes from Victor's current life in London, up until the group's arrival at the temple. But, there was a patch of blank wall.

Our Heroes figured out that Khentykawes's priest was the one animating the various ghul mummies, and that he was doing so from the past. But, his mummy was in a sarcophagus in the very room they were in right now. Alice made the lid fly off the sarcophagus, and they destroyed the priest's ka or ba or both -- I forget the details. The mummies fell over. The blank patch of the wall now showed the group thwarting Khentykawes. But, she's trapped in the past, in her own time. I'm sure she can't possibly be a threat, right?

Our Heroes took stock and looked at their current problems and priorities.

Alice: I'm never going to get the stain out of these gloves.

Victor: All right. First order of business: I need to get a new coat!

Reginald: I don't think you'll find one in the middle of the desert.

Sophronia: Besides we have to fly to New York.

Victor: So we do.

Sophronia: I can't believe that I'm suggesting the sensible course of action.

Later...

Sophronia: Do you think Khentykawes might be angry with us?

GM: If you want to be Absolutely Safe, just kill Victor.

Victor: And burn my heart.

GM: And burn his heart.

Victor: Mind, I don't endorse this plan.

Sophronia: While Victor has the most atrocious history possible, I'm afraid we're just going to take him as he is.

This led to a brief discussion of Sophronia's history.

Sophronia: And anyway, my father isn't atrocious in the slightest, and that's all my history -- unless you count all of faerie.

Victor: I wonder if that could be your other parent -- did we ever find out who that was?

Sophronia (faerie rage threatening to bubble over): NO.

Victor: All right then.

Victor took stock of the new status quo.

Victor: Why not? I admit having a bunch of power hungry maniacs coming after me for my heart because they think it will resurrect a dead dark queen who will reward them would be mildly inconvenient, but other than that I don't see the problem.

Reginald: Really Victor, we scheduled Thursdays for that sort of thing. I really don't want to take another day out of my schedule for that.

Folks started to speculate:

Victor: Can New Martians disguise themselves as humans or faeries?

Someone: We've never seen a New Martian.

Someone: One is probably a member of the Kerberos Club.

Someone: We're seen what they claim they look like.

Someone: If there's another one of these buried under New York... We need to go to New York. (I don't know if "another one of these" means a crystal or a flying island. I think the latter.)

Someone: You mean before Manhattan is excavated.

Alice: It sounds dirty.

Reginald: You live in London.

Alice: It's completely different -- It's filled with English.

This also led to a discussion of Lincoln.

Alice: Oh, for an American, Lincoln is quite debonnaire.

Victor: No, he is a rather interesting specimen, even for an American.

Reginald was still somewhat annoyed at Alice's provincialism.

Sophronia: To be fair, she said nothing about the Babenga. They do not live in New York, that I know of.

Reginald: Let's start with the Lip.

Sophronia: Hey! The Lip is very refined.

Either Victor or Alice: I like the Lip!

Reginald: And his associates --

Sophronia: Some of them are very refined.

Reginald: Is this the first time you've been outside of England and France?

Alice: We went to Ireland.

Reginald: So you did. Is this the first time you've been more than 500 miles outside of England?

And that left a discussion about bathing.

Sophronia (who is made of brass): Bathing sounds terribly wet.

Victor was confused, as, after all, Sophronia did bathe, sort of.

Sophronia: No, I oil myself. It's not the same thing at all.

Victor: If you pick up oil, it's wet.

Alice: No, it's oily.

Sophronia: Two pieces of metal in oil rub against each other smoothly. Two pieces of metal in water don't. Trust me on this. And metal covered in oil doesn't rust.

Victor: We are disccusing oil.

Alice: And water and slipperyness.

Sophronia (deciding it's high time to change the subject): So. We were going to fly an island! To New York!

We also noted that we're using Aspects unofficially like catch phrases in the Dying Earth RPG. But, it's a lot easier to use Aspects in a sentence, and I can't really give a fate point every time someone does so. So, it's more a running joke / character note.