The Old Man of Peinforte Manor

An old man who is squatting in a byzantine corner of Peinforte Manor called "The Room," he seems to know a great deal and is simply sitting and waiting there to die. Paisley Pythia Peinforte discovered him there half a decade ago when she heard knocking coming from a door deep in the manor. Since then, she has rarely visited him, usually summoned by his knocking, when he would tell her about imminent threats to the safety of The Hotel which she would then take care of without involving the others.

They have a strange, almost familiar rapport, and she seems to know much about him, trying to convince him to leave her home and rejoin the universe. Instead, he refuses to budge, and she has taken to confiding in him more as her own disenchantment with the direction of her life has set in. Thanks to his advise she was able to save The Hotel from a time bomb, but she lied about how she had found out about the bomb, claiming she had seen in it a vision.

She knows that to act on too much of the Old Man's information would be to change the flow of time enough that the rest of it becomes moot, thus she relies upon him very infrequently.

The Old Man would constantly shoo her away, citing his advanced age, to which Paisley would retort they were both old souls. He once offered to just give her all of his knowledge, but she refused.

To try and show him that there is still worth in continuing to fight despite the odds, she voluntarily, telepathically experience her deepest, saddest memory, a secret pain she has not shared with anyone else. This has allowed them to bond a bit, despite their disagreements.

The Old man eventually allowed her to telepathically experience the "book" of his life, which Paisley reciprocated. In that way, the two of them shared a closer, deeper bond than they had with anyone else in their lives-- even though Paisley was still holding something back.

After dismissing Wodehouse from her service so he could live his own life, Paisley decided to press the Old Man into service to try and make her a meal when she set her kitchen on fire. Unfortunately, he proved as incompetent at cooking as she, and they ended up setting the entire manor on fire.

The Old Man eventually revealed he had a large stash of canned foods from Y2K and decided to share.

Paisley began serving the Old Man tea every day, enjoying her conversations with him. She began mixing in strange substances into the Tea, which have left the Old Man feeling more refreshed and looking gradually younger as time goes on, even though he himself has not noticed it, being so self-absorbed in his ultimate end.

She even began training him in the Karnian method of telepathy, and they have taken to communicating with it.

Responding to a request from the Sisterhood, Paisley declared the Old Man "her companion" and dragged her off to apprehend the criminal Skagra, who was lost in Time and Space after a run-in with The Doctor.

The Story of The Old Man of Peinforte Manor

[13:08] *** Peinforte Manor [13:09] &LTWinston W. Wodehouse&GT Ahem. [13:09] &LT@&GT ? [13:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What is it, Wodehouse? [13:09] &LTWinston W. Wodehouse&GT A knock at "The Door", Lady Peinforte. [13:10] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns darkly [13:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT The door... when was the last time... [13:10] &LTWinston W. Wodehouse&GT It must be about half a decade, now. [13:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. [13:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Right. [13:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Thanks, Wodehouse. [13:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Put the kettle on, will you? [13:10] * Winston W. Wodehouse nods [13:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte makes her way through the manor, through some disused hallways and into a winding series of secret passages. [13:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte finds herself before a large mahognay door. [13:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte apuses for a moment, listneing to a faint humming noise coming from behind the door. [13:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Heh. Strange to know what that is, now. [13:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte knocks on the door three times. [13:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte waits [13:13] * eventually, the door wings open, revealing an ornately furnished Tea Room. An extremely old man sits in a chair, legs crossed, hand shaking as he raises a cup of tea to his lips. [13:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT The things I leave laying about in this house~ [13:14] * Old Man laughs somewhat feebly and coughs [13:14] &LTOld Man&GT I thought you'd forgotten about me. [13:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Never you. [13:15] * Old Man manages a smile [13:15] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT How long are you going to squat here? It's been over five years, you know. [13:16] &LTOld Man&GT The life of a fly, Paisely. The life of a fly~ [13:16] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns [13:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I never came to visit because the last time you made it [13:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT quite clear you wanted to be left alone. [13:17] &LTOld Man&GT I apologize for that, but it's not good to talk to you at length, you know. [13:17] &LTOld Man&GT You know why. [13:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I know. [13:17] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sits across from the old man, crossing her legs. [13:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Still... [13:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's still a big cosmos out there. [13:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You shouldn't shack up in my house. [13:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT People will talk~ ♡ [13:18] * Old Man coughs for a full minute, either choking or laughing, it's not clear which. [13:20] *** pause~ [13:32] &LTOld Man&GT Let them. Young people have such little to say anyway. [13:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi! [13:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Don't go throwing your numbers around, you old goat. [13:33] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs and sips her tea [13:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT We're both old souls around here. [13:33] &LTOld Man&GT But you before your time, Paisley. So before your time. [13:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Shed no tears for me. [13:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm a reprobate grouch tired of the world. [13:34] &LTOld Man&GT Not half as tired as I am, you know. [13:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes but you don't have to be. You're wallowing, as you are wont to do. [13:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Things change. You bought into that deal all those years ago. [13:35] &LTOld Man&GT There's knowing it and living it [13:35] &LTOld Man&GT And I am so tired of living it. [13:36] * Old Man 's hand shakes horribly and the tea judders in his cup, about to spill. [13:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi, Oi... [13:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes over to him and holds his hand to keep it steady. She gets telepathic flashes [13:37] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte smiles a bit and pulls away. "Idiot." [13:37] &LTOld Man&GT Grouch. [13:37] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes back to her chair. [13:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So why have you knocked this time. [13:40] &LTOld Man&GT Danger on the Horizon, if I recall rightly. [13:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're NOT supposed to tell me. [13:42] &LTOld Man&GT Like I care anymore. [13:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You ought to. They'll lkill you. [13:42] &LTOld Man&GT A mercy, at this point. [13:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'd slap you in the face but it would probably knock your teeth out. [14:10] &LTOld Man&GT I'm tired ot trying. Everyone leaves... one way or the other. [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Don't tell me about that either. [14:11] &LTOld Man&GT Oh, you already know. [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes but not the details. [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And I'd prefer to keep it that way. [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'd like to keep looking people in the eye, you know? [14:12] * Old Man shakes his hand as he trues to deposit a sugar cube in his tea [14:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T DILUTE IT! [14:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Blaphemer. [14:13] &LTOld Man&GT You Sisters of the Flame always were keen to put heretics to the flame~ [14:13] &LTOld Man&GT But yes. Danger is coming. [14:14] &LTOld Man&GT Ridiculous at first, then serious later. [14:14] &LTOld Man&GT Stakes as high as they've ever been, etc. etc. [14:15] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So why are you telling me. [14:15] &LTOld Man&GT Because I care, you aggravating bag of sulk! [14:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT then help by joining the world again and fight in the trenches away from that place and everything it brings you. [14:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I care too, idiot. [14:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And not just about myself like some people think. [14:19] &LTOld Man&GT One word of warning. [14:19] &LTOld Man&GT The brash ones. The ones who think they can kill anything. [14:20] &LTOld Man&GT Don't let them run wild. [14:20] &LTOld Man&GT If you do, all is lost. [14:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT God lord might as well ask me to stop a tank with a glare. [14:20] &LTOld Man&GT If anyone can, you can. [14:20] * Old Man coughs a little [14:21] &LTOld Man&GT No, now get out of here, you're bothering me. [14:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm bothering you? [14:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You cranky old gobs[BLEEP]te. [14:21] * Old Man laughs [14:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Things can change, old man, but only if you let them. [14:22] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte leaves the room [14:22] * Old Man waves his hand and the door closes behind her [19:08] *** PEINFORTE MANOR [19:09] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes back into the secret room. [19:09] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old Man. [19:09] *** Old Man is A wizened, frail old man that looks like Gandalf aged another 90 years. His every move is shaky, and his vocie cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [19:09] &LTOld Man&GT Coming here without being summoned, young lady? [19:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oh shut it. Lately I've been feeling anything but young. [19:10] &LTOld Man&GT Did you at least bring some tea? [19:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, of course. I'm not a barbarian, you know. [19:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte brings in some Oolong tea. [19:11] &LTOld Man&GT Oh, oh, someone used to make that, you know. Back in the old days. [19:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. [19:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've raided her stash. [19:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs and sits in a chair in the Old Man's study. [19:12] &LTOld Man&GT What do you want from me now? More secrets? [19:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Hardly. [19:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You and I both know, as professionals in our respective occupations, that the more 'secrets' you give me and I act on, the less valuable they become. [19:16] &LTOld Man&GT Quite. Ripples in a pond, and all that. [19:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Which is why I've only ever consulted you those two times. [19:17] &LTOld Man&GT Heh. The Rains and the Asters... [19:17] &LTOld Man&GT And that Kerrick Fellow. [19:17] &LTOld Man&GT I told you it would work itself out, didn't I? [19:17] &LTOld Man&GT Eh? Eh? [19:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes yes. [19:18] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte runs a hand through her hair and takes off her glasses [19:19] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT How do you stand it, just sitting there, wasting away. [19:19] &LTOld Man&GT I had my day. Lots of days. [19:19] &LTOld Man&GT Somewould say more than my fair share. [19:19] &LTOld Man&GT I've lived so long. [19:19] &LTOld Man&GT Seen too much. [19:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So why, instead of going on top of a mountain and meditating yourself to death, have you taken residence in a twisted corridor of my Manor. [19:21] &LTOld Man&GT You know me. I can't just give up the ghost. [19:22] &LTOld Man&GT I thought I'd hide away somewhere where no one would ever find me. [19:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No. [19:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT That's rubbish. [19:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You are like the introverted geek who takes lunch in the corner of a crowded high school cafeteria. Alone, in the corner, but hoping someone will notice. [19:23] &LTOld Man&GT You're speaking of yourself. [19:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm speaking of BOTH of us. [19:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT That's why you came. [19:24] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because you KNEW that here, at the end of it all, you'd meet someone who bloody understood. [19:24] * Old Man remains silent, and shakily drinks some tea [19:25] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte would normally smirk at having scored a point, but instead just rubs the bridge of her nose and looks down [19:25] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's so f[BLEEP]king tiresome, is it not? [19:25] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Having to try and keep up? [19:25] &LTOld Man&GT Mmm. [19:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT There they are, all "genki" and cheerful and full of Joy d'vivre. [19:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And for a time, their infectiousness gets to you. [19:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT For a while, you can be on their level. [19:27] &LTOld Man&GT But it never lasts. [19:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No, it never does. [19:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Withdraw, Recharge. Recover, and then go out again. [19:27] &LTOld Man&GT Happiness in bursts. [19:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But still, you ridiculous man. [19:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You came here to be alone with a loner? [19:28] &LTOld Man&GT Obviously. [19:29] &LTOld Man&GT It's nice to have company one-in-a-while. [19:29] &LTOld Man&GT But it's very easy to stay out of your way, and vice-versa. [19:29] &LTOld Man&GT Except for now when you've just barged in. [19:30] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well it is my house. [19:30] &LTOld Man&GT Out there is your house. [19:30] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You are squatting on approximately 4 square feet of my house. [19:31] &LTOld Man&GT Well I could always leave. [19:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, you could. [19:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Go right ahead, then. [19:32] * Old Man harrumphs. [19:32] &LTOld Man&GT I'll go when it suits me, and not a moment before. [19:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Except it doesn't suit you. [19:33] * Old Man slides down in the chair a bit. [19:34] &LTOld Man&GT You're so young yet. You shouldn't be spending time with me. Get out there. Do something. [19:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Do what? [19:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I got out there and adventure once in a while. [19:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You can't do dthat every day. [19:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And then half the time the place is a bloody daycare. [19:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT not just kits but youma now too. [19:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You can't go three feet without an infant underfoot. [19:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And no one gets why it aggravates me. [19:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They don't understand that I literally cannot keep up that level of excitement. [19:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte draws her knees up and wraps her arms around them [19:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I am so tired. [19:37] &LTOld Man&GT Not as tired as me :P [19:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Don't you f[BLEEP]king make this a competition. [19:37] &LTOld Man&GT Well if you're going to be rude I shall just go elsewhere. [19:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'd love for you to move. [19:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You need to move. [19:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you used to move. [19:38] &LTOld Man&GT I was a fool. [19:38] &LTOld Man&GT I gave up so much, spent so much time. [19:38] &LTOld Man&GT For nothing. Mayflies. [19:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You don't mean that. [19:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I know you don't. [19:39] * Old Man grips the arm of his chair slightly [19:39] &LTOld Man&GT It's all dust [19:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Hardly. [19:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It lives on, and on, and on. [19:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT In the chain that links one generation to the next. [19:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ad infinitum. [19:40] &LTOld Man&GT Yes well. [19:41] &LTOld Man&GT When the cathedral is built, what of the foreman? [19:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your legacy is still out there. [19:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I could name names. [19:42] &LTOld Man&GT Legacy?! [19:42] &LTOld Man&GT A LEGACY is a train that's moved on without its conductor! [19:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Only because the Conductor is a fussy old GIT who won't get his ARSE in gear! [19:43] &LTOld Man&GT To what? To be left behind again!? [19:43] &LTOld Man&GT How many, Paisley Pythia Peinforte? [19:43] &LTOld Man&GT Hoe many do I have to watch... [19:43] &LTOld Man&GT to watch... [19:44] * Old Man chokes up a bit [19:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT All right all right, enough. [19:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Point made. [19:44] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns [19:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's not something I particulatly like to think about either. [19:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT but you know.. not everyone would be gone.. I mean you could always find-- [19:45] &LTOld Man&GT No. [19:46] &LTOld Man&GT Better to just fade away. It's time. [19:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Fade away? [19:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your idea of Fading away is quatting in my house, giving me cryptic oracular hints and just enough foreknowledge to keep the others safe. [19:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They have no idea the things I've put down and kept away from their doorstep. [19:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Obviously you're not done. [19:49] &LTOld Man&GT It's like a closed circle... [19:49] &LTOld Man&GT I always return here. Even though it hurts. [19:49] &LTOld Man&GT I wish I could go. [19:50] &LTOld Man&GT But it has become my life. What's left of it. [19:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're an idiot. [19:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've always said it. [19:51] &LTOld Man&GT Idiocy is the privelige of old age. [19:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte straightens out and puts on her glasses [19:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well I did always want a pet. [19:52] &LTOld Man&GT You have a cat. [19:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Merdemus doesn't count. [19:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He's a grumpy old French Mage who hasn't figured out the Transmutative discipline to get himself humanoid again. [19:54] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You came here becuse you wanted my attention. Well, you have it. [19:54] &LTOld Man&GT Not attention. [19:54] &LTOld Man&GT Just... empathy, perhaps? [19:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm as Empathetic as a Chair to the face. [19:55] &LTOld Man&GT Hardly true. [19:55] &LTOld Man&GT You're the one who stuck your neck out for Jedda Rain. [19:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT That was just doing what was right. [19:56] &LTOld Man&GT Because you saw the truth of her. [19:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What and you want me to see the truth of you, is that it? [19:57] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'll tell you the truth of you. [19:57] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're someone who was alone. And tired. And then you found Earth. [19:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And then you found excitement, and something fresh, and new, and unanticipated. And you rushed in, unlike your peers. And you immersed yourself. [19:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And you were happy. But always torn. [19:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because you never truly felt like you belonged, not really. [19:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT The people you associated with-- oh, they belonged. [19:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They were the Big Names™. [19:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you were the hanger-on, or so you felt. [19:59] * Old Man doesn't reply [19:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT but you kept on with it. Then a shock came, and you had to choose. End it, or continue on. So you tried again. [20:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And were met with Betrayal. [20:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But, being a stubborn old goat, you lingered on, and eventually gave it another go. [20:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Living! Adventuring! [20:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Until one day, of course.... [20:01] &LTOld Man&GT Oh don't stop now, you're on such a roll. [20:01] * Old Man says that bitterly. [20:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT F[BLEEP]k you. [20:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't need to be a rocket scientist to know what happened. [20:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's the only thing that would have caused you to just stop. [20:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Tempus Edax Rerum. [20:02] &LTOld Man&GT An Irony, don't you think. The bitterest. [20:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Not even a Time Lord can stop time. [20:03] &LTOld Man&GT I'm out of tea. [20:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Why don't you get up and serve yourself. [20:04] &LTOld Man&GT I don't think I've stood up in over a century. [20:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...then how do you go to the toilet. [20:04] &LTOld Man&GT ... you would ask something like that. [20:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's a valid enough question! [20:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Someone just doesn't just roll; up and say "Oh I haven't stood up in a century" and not expect questions! [20:05] &LTOld Man&GT Supreme metabolic control. [20:06] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Bulls[BLEEP]t you're probably just constipated from behing an anal retentive git. [20:06] &LTOld Man&GT Excuse me? You're more *cough* stuck up than I am! [20:07] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I said anal retentive. That does not mean "stuck up". [20:07] &LTOld Man&GT It'll mean what ever I want it to, young woman! [20:07] * Old Man shakes a finger at her and his arm shakes violently. [20:07] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT All right, Humpty Dumpty. [20:08] &LTOld Man&GT Humpty Dumpty... [20:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, you know, he makes words mean whatever he wants, from Lewis Carroll? [20:08] &LTOld Man&GT "All the kigs horses and all the king's men..." [20:08] * Old Man looks over his frail self [20:09] &LTOld Man&GT Nothing can ever put this all back together again. [20:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You are the greatest wallower I have ever known. [20:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I mean I thought I was bad. [20:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Being tired, and all. [20:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But you-- [20:09] &LTOld Man&GT --Oh what would YOU know! [20:10] &LTOld Man&GT You've barely even LIVED! [20:10] &LTOld Man&GT you and your magazines, and your Tumblr, and your family given to you by a machine! [20:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ........... [20:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT OI. I will Punch you in the bloody mouth. [20:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I LOVE my family. [20:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Don't EVER GO THERE. [20:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks LIVID [20:11] &LTOld Man&GT My POINT is that you've not suffered the things I have! [20:12] &LTOld Man&GT You got a child, readymade, grown up! [20:12] &LTOld Man&GT No husband to worry about! [20:12] &LTOld Man&GT No husband to lose! [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT .... [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT so you've lost. [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And you keep losing. [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well sir, that's LIFE. [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And if you think I haven't lost? [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I may not have lost a lover, but I have lost firends. [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Friends who were dear to me. [20:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And there were people I could not save. [20:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No matter how much I tried. [20:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Jedda Rain is lying in the lobby, f[BLEEP]king DEAD. [20:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So don't you go cpmparing scars with ME. [20:15] &LTOld Man&GT It's not the same! [20:15] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Close enough for horseshoes! [20:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You came here because you knew that out of EVERYONE else, I would get it. [20:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT That... I was just as broken as you. [20:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Albeit for different reasons. [20:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But that still, reasons aside I would understand. [20:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I was raised by the Sisterhood. [20:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I look at things differently. [20:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT In a way that the others can't. [20:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And because I'm human, I get things your people can't. [20:18] &LTOld Man&GT It would appear you see right through me. [20:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I always could. [20:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I always can. [20:19] &LTOld Man&GT Maybe I just wanted to talk to someone who can do that. [20:19] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs [20:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't want you to bloody die in my house. [20:20] &LTOld Man&GT I'll be sure to go outside. [20:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT the "in my house" bit isn't really the KEY PART OF THE SENTENCE, you s[BLEEP]t. [20:21] &LTOld Man&GT You're so rude :P Have you always been that rude? [20:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Only to my friends. [20:21] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs. [20:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Start over. [20:21] &LTOld Man&GT It's far to late for that. [20:22] &LTOld Man&GT But, in the end, this is what I can do. [20:22] &LTOld Man&GT I can share what I know. [20:27] * Old Man taps his forehead and points to hers [20:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oh no. No, no no no. [20:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you're not putting your bloody katra in my head. [20:28] &LTOld Man&GT You're the only one I would trust with it if that were it :P [20:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [20:29] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No. F[BLEEP]k off. Get out of this funk. [20:29] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT This is pitiful. [20:29] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte turns and abruptly walks out [20:30] &LTOld Man&GT When it gets really bad, you;ll be back. [20:30] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [20:30] * Old Man is away  [22:22] *** PEINFORTE MANOR [22:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Augh. [22:23] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte stands in front of her manor [22:23] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks over the ancient structure. [22:24] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sits on the frot stairs and looks up at the sky [22:25] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Stupid bloody... stupid things. [22:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Graaaargh. [22:26] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks over at the secondary house [22:27] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks over at the Mausoleum [22:27] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks back up at the sky [22:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT This is no good. [22:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I need a vacay. [22:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Or I'm literally going to punch someone's face off at this rate. [22:30] *** Lydia D. Darkletter [darktale@blachaus.org] has joined #suburbansenshi3 [22:30] <@Chateaux Concierge> Evening, Lydia D. Darkletter [22:30] &lt@Chateaux Concierge&gt Welcome to Suburban Senshi: Put it on your chest and say Guyver!! [22:30] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT ♫ [22:30] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte turns and sees Lydia and nearly jumps out of her skin [22:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT CHRIST! [22:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I didn't even sense you arrive. [22:31] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT There's no reason you should have~ [22:31] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Though if you could, it would be most interesting~ [22:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I can't sense you at all. [22:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What brings you to my door? [22:32] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT As a little girl, you loved to read. [22:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Books were all I had. It wasn't so much [22:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT "love" as "the only thing I could do". [22:33] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Be that as it may, you finished every book in the Library, and in your Father's study. [22:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. [22:33] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT So why, now, do you not turn the page? [22:34] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Of your own story. [22:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [22:34] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte doesn't answer [22:34] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Say what you think. [22:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because turnng a page means the book ends sooner. it means commiting to a new direction. It means change. [22:35] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Can you stay in a holding pattern forever [22:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. [22:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've done my bit, haven't I? [22:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I avenged my family. [22:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I fought the Old Ones, the Guardians. [22:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I Traveled the universe. I honed my skills. I ended the Rain-Aster conflict. [22:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I got that daughter o mine married off. [22:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT The Peinforte line can continue. [22:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It no longer requires my participation. [22:37] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT So what will you do, having "done your bit?" [22:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Retire? [22:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't need to work. [22:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm set for life. [22:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And even if I outlive my fortune thanks to the changes that are happening to me because of the Elixir... [22:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm a clever girl. [22:38] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Who is stuck. [22:38] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT The Unturned Page. [22:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi, maybe I don't have to turn a page. [22:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Maybe I don't need to advance. [22:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Everyone has such a hard-on for "Character Development" [22:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What if I just want to be my snarky trope-like self until the end of... well, me? [22:40] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Hard words for a writer :P [22:40] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Besides, who says you would lose what you are? [22:40] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT You might grow. [22:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because I look around. [22:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT "Life" is what happens to other people. [22:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT People who somehow get a break, or a chance. [22:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't want to fall into the long con of wanting the bog standard "life" [22:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Get married. Have kids. Settle down. [22:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I want something else. [22:42] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT What? [22:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I can't even articulate it. [22:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And that's frustrating. [22:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I just feel I'm meant to do something else. [22:43] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Are you tired of your life here? [22:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No. [22:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Not at all. [22:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Even if I want to punch some people in the face. [22:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I just feel like.. [22:44] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte leans on a tree [22:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Like I'm spinning my wheels. [22:44] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Because you refuse to turn the page. [22:45] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Your inertia is your own doing. [22:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Heh. [22:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT The Sisterhood say that with time I could become a Visionary. [22:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Do you know wha that--- of course you do. [22:47] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT ♫ [22:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Visionaries can see . [22:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And sometimes I think I can see past that page. [22:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And it... [22:47] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT It terrifies you. [22:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ....yeah. [22:49] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT You are a Peinforte. [22:49] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT What does that mean to you? [22:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT a) I'm probably cursed. [22:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT b) We do as we like. [22:50] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Indeed. [22:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [22:50] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT Aren't you tired of business as usual? [22:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Mmm. [22:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm going to go brew some tea. [22:51] &LTLydia D. Darkletter&GT ♫ [22:51] * Lydia D. Darkletter vanishes [22:52] * Lydia D. Darkletter goes to the kitchen, and makes some tea. [22:52] * Lydia D. Darkletter leaves it for Paisley [22:52] * Lydia D. Darkletter is away  [22:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte finds the tea, it is aromatic and perfectly brewed. [22:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte tilts her head to the side [22:54] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes into a side room and comes back with a golden chalice [22:54] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte narrows her eyes, remembering the things she was taught [22:55] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte carefully drops a few scant drops of liquid from the chalice into the tea, and then carefully mixes it. [22:55] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte nods to herself in satisfaction. Yes, this will do quite well. [22:55] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte heads off to serve some tea. [09:57] *** PEINFORTE MANOR, "THE ROOM" [09:57] &LTOld Man&GT Did you do something to this tea, it's sweeter than usual. [09:57] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old Man. [09:57] *** Old Man is A wizened, frail old man that looks like Gandalf aged another 10 years. His every move is slightly shaky, and his voice cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [09:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Eh, a spoonful of sugar, and all that. [09:58] &LTOld Man&GT Eh? [09:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT MAry Poppins. Never mind. [09:58] &LTOld Man&GT Did I know a Mary Poppins? I'm sure I did. [09:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Possibly. We've all met some rather extraordinary people over time. [09:59] &LTOld Man&GT Yes. [09:59] * Old Man sips his tea, tiredly. [09:59] &LTOld Man&GT A shame about all that. [10:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...Yes. [10:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte leans back in her chair, an old high0backed, fabric upholstered monstrosity from god knows when [10:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I didn't understand until last night. [10:00] &LTOld Man&GT Oh? [10:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well I mean, I did. [10:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But not till I sat there and stared at the stars and thought on it. [10:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT My life, to a certain extent-- and yours, to a large degree-- has been one of departures. [10:01] &LTOld Man&GT Yes. [10:02] &LTOld Man&GT Either we're leaving someone behind, or they're leaving us. [10:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Sometimes by choice, sometimes not. [10:02] &LTOld Man&GT We lose so many along the way... [10:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Do you know, I'm not even thirty. [10:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But I feel thrice that. [10:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I feel like I've seen so many say goodbye, even in the short time I've been going round there. [10:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's like wating for a sink to drain. [10:04] &LTOld Man&GT Now you understand how I feel. [10:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I was thinking on it, you know? [10:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's like being a parent (or so I would imagine) [10:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Nurturing and fostering for years, and then just watching them go out into the world and vanish. [10:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Rinse and repeat. [10:05] &LTOld Man&GT You're happy for them, of course... [10:06] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Of course. [10:06] &LTOld Man&GT But what of the ones left behind? [10:06] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Christ how can I be having Empty Nest Syndrome? [10:23] &LTOld Man&GT What do you mean? [10:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Empty Nest Syndrome means-- [10:33] &LTOld Man&GT --I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS [10:34] &LTOld Man&GT But what do you mean you have it. you live in an empty house with a cat and a butler. [10:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes well. [10:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Wodehouse is a young man again, thanks to my meddling. [10:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He's already spent decades in my service. [10:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He gave the best years of his life to me. [10:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And, I was able to give them back. [10:40] &LTOld Man&GT You're going to ask him to leave? [10:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, I'm going to ask him to go have a life. [10:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT If he wants to or not it's his choice, but... [10:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He doesn't need to serve me any longer. He might want to go work for Kaelyn and the next generation. [10:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Entirely up to him. [10:41] &LTOld Man&GT I say, you're not shoving him away, are you? [10:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It is rather irritating having him be YOUNG and HOT. [10:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He's the only father I've ever known. [10:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't need to develop a goddamned complex. [10:42] &LTOld Man&GT These modern relationships... [10:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you shut up, you've no room to talk. [10:43] &LTOld Man&GT I don't recall ever having an Oedipus complex [10:43] &LTOld Man&GT :P [10:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I don't have an Electra complex :P [10:45] &LTOld Man&GT Yet. [10:45] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte throws a pillow at the Old Ba[BLEEP]rd [10:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT F[BLEEP]k off :P [10:45] * Old Man laughs [11:43] &LTOld Man&GT So you're going to make yourself even more isolated. [11:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's not like I have very many conversations with Wodehouse as it is. [11:45] &LTOld Man&GT So that's why you're bothering me more lately :P [11:45] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte flinches a bit [11:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well if it's a bother. [11:45] &LTOld Man&GT Only because you keep asking me to leave. [11:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I haven't done that today. [11:46] &LTOld Man&GT Yet. [11:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I won't. [11:53] &LTOld Man&GT Oh? [12:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I need a sympathetic ear right now. [17:01] *** PEINFORTE MANOR cotd [17:02] &LTOld Man&GT ...without so much as a by-your-leave! [17:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs [17:07] * Old Man sips some tea [17:11] &LTOld Man&GT for not harassing me to leave, I'll do you a kindness. [17:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oh? [17:12] &LTOld Man&GT Yes. [17:12] &LTOld Man&GT In that HOTEL of yours... [17:13] * Old Man presses a finger to the side of his head and thinks [17:13] &LTOld Man&GT Where.... where... [17:15] &LTOld Man&GT Oh yes. The floor underneath the Jeeda Rain memorial. [17:15] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...What about it? [17:17] &LTOld Man&GT There you'll find a bomb. Set to detonate on April the 19th. [17:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ....... [17:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT How would a BOMB get past Chateaux? [17:18] &LTOld Man&GT How indeed. But every fortress has its weaknesses, if you know where to look. [17:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Why the 19th? [17:22] &LTOld Man&GT Her Birthday, of course. [17:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And why? Why would someone do that? [17:22] &LTOld Man&GT Misdirection. [17:23] &LTOld Man&GT It's known that the new head of Enclave has a fixation on that monument. [17:23] &LTOld Man&GT If it were blown up and made to look like a deliberate affront... [17:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Bloody hell. [17:24] &LTOld Man&GT Now there is a problem. [17:24] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you mean aside from a Time Bonb? [17:24] &LTOld Man&GT Well two problems. [17:25] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Eh. [17:26] &LTOld Man&GT 1 - it's literally a "time" bomb. Not only will it detonate explosively, but it will rupture the local continuum to an accelerated factor of twenty thousand years in a second. [17:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...So anything in the radius would be instantly aged 20,000 years? [17:26] &LTOld Man&GT I do like it when someone can keep up with me~ [17:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT hmph. More like you keep up with me. [17:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What's the other problem. [17:27] &LTOld Man&GT Defusing it will be incredibly dangerous. [17:29] &LTOld Man&GT One wrong move and it will go off and basically age half the HOTEL to death. [17:30] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No pressure! [17:30] &LTOld Man&GT Oh none at all. [17:31] &LTOld Man&GT But look at it this way, you have until April 19th to figure out what to do about it. [17:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...And who set this thing? [17:32] &LTOld Man&GT A madman who sits in the shadows, slowly drawing his plans against you. [17:32] &LTOld Man&GT As all the old powers leave, the few that remain are ill-equipped. [17:33] &LTOld Man&GT Too hot-headed, too full of themselves and their inevitability. [17:33] &LTOld Man&GT Perfect Toy soldiers in a dangerous, deadly game. [17:33] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs [17:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'll give it a recce. [17:34] &LTOld Man&GT Listen! [17:34] * Old Man shakily raises a hand [17:34] &LTOld Man&GT You must _not tell Chateaux what you're after. [17:34] &LTOld Man&GT If she scans it, as they say, it's game over. [17:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well how do I stop her scanning her own interior? [17:35] &LTOld Man&GT I can't solve all your problems, girl. [17:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I am a woman, thank you. [17:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Fine, I'll figure something out. [17:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte heads out. "Finish your tea." [17:36] &LTOld Man&GT Yes, yes. I like this new blend. [17:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [17:36] * Old Man is away: drinking this refreshing brew [23:26] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old Man. [23:26] *** Old Man is A wizened, frail old man that looks like Gandalf the Grey. His every move is slightly shaky, and his voice cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. More information about him is Here. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [23:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, as usual you were dead on. [23:27] &LTOld Man&GT Took care of it, did you? [23:27] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Not me. The others. [23:27] &LTOld Man&GT Heh. Not quite as useless, then? [23:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They're never useless. you know that. [23:28] &LTOld Man&GT Well when they can set aside their constant bickering. [23:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. [23:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So can you tell me who set that bomb? [23:28] &LTOld Man&GT Heh. [23:28] &LTOld Man&GT All in good time. [23:29] &LTOld Man&GT Now that his little surprise won't go off, I'm sure he'll become interested in you lot. [23:29] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So around April then, eh? [23:29] &LTOld Man&GT Indeed. Things are already shifting. I can feel it. [23:29] &LTOld Man&GT My memories are getting hazier. [23:30] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi, you're not trying to line things up so... cetain "things" neevr happen, are you? [23:30] &LTOld Man&GT ...I had thought about it. [23:30] &LTOld Man&GT But... I wouldn't use you like that. [23:31] &LTOld Man&GT And besides... some things can only be delayed. [23:31] &LTOld Man&GT Time always has her revenge, in the end. [23:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [23:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Why do you have to be so... fatalistic? [23:31] &LTOld Man&GT Why do you? [23:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because I'm a bitter snark-filled hate machine. That's not you. [23:32] &LTOld Man&GT you? A Hate machine? Hah! [23:32] &LTOld Man&GT You love them more than anything! [23:32] &LTOld Man&GT Though you'd never say it to their faces. [23:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I... have an image to maintain :P [23:32] &LTOld Man&GT You mean a distance to keep. [23:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Pot meet Sir Kettle of Gallifrey. [23:33] &LTOld Man&GT I have very good reason. [23:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... That you do. [23:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I can't trivalise that at all. [23:34] &LTOld Man&GT Be prepared. [23:34] * Old Man waves his hand with a bit more energy. [23:34] * Old Man seems surprised by that. [23:34] &LTOld Man&GT The aches aren't do bad tonight. [23:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Tea is good for you. [23:35] &LTOld Man&GT Hah. Never was much one for tea until I came here. [23:35] &LTOld Man&GT But yes, beware. Come April... he will surely react. [23:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Can you tell me anything about him? [23:36] &LTOld Man&GT nothing that would be of use. not now. [23:36] &LTOld Man&GT To find him as opposed ot the opposite is to find destruction. [23:37] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte nods [23:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, thanks for the hot tip. [23:38] &LTOld Man&GT None must know. You understand this. [23:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, yes. Trust me. [23:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I told them it was a vision. [23:39] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte puts her hand on his. "You can trust me." She puts some telepathic weight behind it. [23:39] * Old Man smiles a bit. "I know. thank you." [23:39] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte lets go of his hand and leaves The Room [23:40] * Old Man watches her go and then looks away into the middle distance. [23:40] * Old Man is away  [23:40] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes back to one of her secret studies and mixes up some more strange liquids in a golden chalice and parcels out drops of the resulting conceoction into specially marked tea bags. [23:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Ohila, you were a good teacher. Now let's see if I can surpass you... [23:42] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [23:28] *** PEINFORTE MANOR, "THE ROOM" [23:29] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Hah, well of course the Axons would say that. Have you seen their hair. [23:29] &LTOld Man&GT Indeed, Indeed. [23:30] * Old Man laughs and pours himself another cup of tea, hand barely shaking. [23:30] * Old Man leans back in his worn chair. [23:30] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old Man. [23:30] *** Old Man is A wizened, frail old man that looks like a slightly younger Gandalf the Grey. He moves a bit shakily sometimes, and his voice cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. More information about him is Here. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [23:31] &LTOld Man&GT You know, I've been feeling a bit better these last few days. I think these talks must be doing me some good. [23:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, it's generally better to not sit around with only yourself to talk to. Believe me, I know. [23:32] &LTOld Man&GT I know you do. [23:33] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks around the room, which is basically a sitting-room stacked with shelves and books [23:33] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns, remembering her own childhood. [23:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Have you read them all? [23:33] &LTOld Man&GT Multiple times. [23:33] &LTOld Man&GT To the point where I'm sick of them. [23:34] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte notes a few books that are scorched. [23:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your diaries. Burnt? [23:35] &LTOld Man&GT ...I was trying to forget. [23:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But you didn't finish the job. [23:35] &LTOld Man&GT I... snatched them from the fire. [23:35] &LTOld Man&GT I just... [23:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte nods [23:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I know. [23:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's a part of you whether you like it or not. [23:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Erasing the records won't erase the mark on your soul. [23:37] &LTOld Man&GT ...you could help me forget. [23:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...E-eh? [23:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What do you mean? [23:37] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte fidgts a bit [23:37] &LTOld Man&GT ....You're a Sister of the Flame. [23:37] &LTOld Man&GT You could burn the memories out of my mind. [23:38] &LTOld Man&GT ...What did you think I meant? [23:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oh that. Nothing. And NO. [23:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I would never be party to that. [23:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT If your life was in danger, maybe. [23:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But to remove those memories is wrong. [23:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They make you who you are. [23:39] &LTOld Man&GT But what if they're killing me? [23:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They aren't. [23:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're made of sterneer stuff. [23:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Far stronger than that. [23:40] &LTOld Man&GT Even a mountain can be eroded by the waves. [23:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ....Bulls[BLEEP]t. [23:40] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte stands [23:41] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte walks up to the old man and grabs him by the collar, lifting him out of the chair with one arm, eyes flashing. Her ire causes the karnian tattoos on her shoulder to flare, visible even beneath her clothes [23:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You and I have both, in our times, looked into the abyss. [23:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And we have made it blink [23:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They're abolsutely no f[BLEEP]king way that gets eroded. [23:42] &LTOld Man&GT I'm so old now. [23:42] &LTOld Man&GT So tired. [23:43] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte unceremoniously drops him in the chair. [23:43] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT This is pathetic. [23:43] &LTOld Man&GT Oh, are we starting this old argument again? Get out. [23:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You keep telling me to leave and one day I will and I won't come back when you knock. [23:44] * Old Man 's jaw tenses but he doesn't say anything [23:45] &LTOld Man&GT Stop trying to make me into something I haven't been for centuries. And even then it was a fraud. [23:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Fraud? What makes you say that? [23:45] &LTOld Man&GT If it was real, why... [23:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because life isn't a fairytale. [23:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because s[BLEEP]t happens. [23:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And no matter how hard we try, things break. [23:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT but that doesn't mean we stop trying. [23:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It doesn't mean we stop fighting. [23:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT We do not go quietly into that good night. [23:47] &LTOld Man&GT Heh. You're quite strong-willed, you know. [23:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I rather have to be. [23:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT When you have beings from higher planes hunting you for their amusement, you have to have the will to stand up and say no. [23:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT To fight them and their accursed heirarchies. [23:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT To keep going when the trickster gods try to make you their vassal, when they hurt the ones you care about so you have to go begging them for the cure. When you have to fight back the trap and defy. [23:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT When you have to watch people fall into their snares despite even your best words. [23:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And you STILL have to bloody carry on. [23:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT you Time Lords think you have the monopoly on terrible foes. You f[BLEEP]king don't. [23:50] &LTOld Man&GT I know. [23:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I keep them away from here! From the HOTEL. From my friends. [23:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And they can never know. [23:51] &LTOld Man&GT Because knowledge is a door. [23:51] &LTOld Man&GT Isn't that what the Sisterhood says? [23:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Indeed. [23:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And if they knew, that simple act of acknowledgement... [23:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's their f[BLEEP]king food. [23:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And then they come like vultures. [23:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Appearing as gods, asking for worship and devotion, and punishing to start their "protection racket". [23:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Worship us or horrors will come. [23:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And anger, fear, or even devotion, they eat it all. [23:53] &LTOld Man&GT The only way to beat those kinds of conceptual entities is to ignore them. [23:54] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Easier said than done. [23:54] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I can barely hold back my rage. [23:54] &LTOld Man&GT What did they do to you? [23:54] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Not to me. [23:54] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns deeply [23:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've never told anyone this. [23:55] &LTOld Man&GT Hmm? [23:55] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns even deeper. She can't even bring herself to put the words into sounds. [23:56] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte instead walks over to the man and fently places her fingers across each side of his temples, fingers splayed. [23:56] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte makes telepathic contact, and then, tells a story. A atory about her only friend, and his fate. [23:57] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's brow creases in anger, wordless fury in her eyes, but also tears forming [23:57] * Old Man relives the sotry, and unbidden, tears form in his eyes as well. He can feel every emotion, every frustration, and the impotent rage Paisley felt at that time. [23:59] * Old Man chokes a sob. [23:59] * Old Man doesn't say anything. He doesn't have to. Paisley gets the reaction over the telepathic link. [00:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte pulls back slightly, spent. [00:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ....now you see. [00:00] * Old Man nods [00:00] * an awkward, leaden silence descends. [00:01] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte nods and makes her way out, a bit shaken. No new tea will be prepared this evening. [00:01] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [00:02] * Old Man regards her as she goes and a fist tightens in anger, to the point where it's almost white-knuckled. [00:52] *** PEINFORTE MANOR, "The Room [00:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte just sits in her seat, sullen, not really talking or communicating with the Old Man [00:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is concentrating intently on a book, which has been set on a marble-topped end table. [00:54] &LTOld Man&GT Is there a reason you have to do that here? [00:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Because if this goes tits up I don't have to worry about burning my house down. [00:56] &LTOld Man&GT How considerate :P [00:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Shut up will you... this is... difficult... [00:57] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's brow furros in concentration. [00:57] &LTOld Man&GT If it helps, you might want to consider what you showed-- [00:57] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte involuntarily snarls, and raw mental rage ballooons forth along her line of thought. The book EXPLODES into flame [00:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT NEVER SPEAK OF THAT! [00:58] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte glares at him, not even registering her pyrokinetic success. [00:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT THAT WAS INTENSELY PRIVATE, AND NOT FODDER FOR DISCUSSION. [00:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT UNDERSTAND?! [00:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT /em is shaking [00:58] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte shakes in anger [00:59] &LTOld Man&GT ...Well I guess we know strong emotion is needed... [01:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at him,, uncomprehending. Did he hjust say what he said out of gross cluelessness or was he manipulating her? [01:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT A[BLEEP]LE! [01:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte SLAPS HIM hard and walks out, leaving the fire burning brightly [01:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [01:00] &LTOld Man&GT Oh dear &GT;&LT; [01:01] * Old Man gets a pitcher of water and douses the flames. [09:13] *** Peinforte Manor, "The Room" [09:13] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte walks in and regards the Old Man coldly. [09:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I just wanted to let you know this will be the last time we speak. [09:14] &LTOld Man&GT Whatever you're thinking, I didn't mean to-- [09:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Bulls[BLEEP]t [09:14] &LTOld Man&GT Paisley. [09:15] * Old Man gets out of his chair with less effort than he expected it would take, to the point where he almost staggers foroward towards her and reaches out for balance, lightly touching her bare arm. [09:16] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte ;s icy glare intensifies. [09:16] &LTOld Man&GT I wasn't trying to make light of your secret. [09:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'd never told anyone that. Much less shown anyone th-- [09:17] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte becomes aware of a polite mental request. The Old Man is offering to share his own mind. [09:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [09:18] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns, but accepts. The one benefit of being a telepath is being able to know, with absolute certainty when someone you're in deep contact with is lying and what their intentions-- [09:20] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte has access to everything. [09:21] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte just stops in shock. There's no barriers, no secrets, and no forced onrush of information designed to overwhelm or confuse. Just a quiet, serene study with one book in it. The book of his entire lives. [09:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You... this is... [09:22] * Old Man doesn't respond, doesn't try to convince or explain. It's self-evident. Books are there to be read. [09:23] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte dithers. She had shared at most a few pages of her story. [09:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Is this really all right? [09:23] &LTOld Man&GT You already know the answer. [09:24] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte remembers what Lydia had told her. At the time she'd just thought it was a metaphor used by her species but... [09:25] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte takes a tentative breath (which is ridiculous on the mental plane) and turns the page. [09:26] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte reads, slowly at first, and then faster, as between two telepaths deeply enmeshed there is no concept of time, and hence of speed. [09:26] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sees everything, from his earliest sense-memories. Every adventures, every argument, every high, ever low. Every fear, every sorrow. Every gain, every loss. [09:27] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte reads faster, and faster, just taking it all in at high speed, her highly-trained mind able to process and sift it all almost as efficiently as a Time Lord's [09:28] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte feels tears forming at the corner of her eyes; it wasn't s competition of course, but here was a sorrow that easily matched hers, albeit in different ways. She'd known in intellectually, but now she was knowing it holistically. [09:30] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte almost staggers back slightly, taking the onrush of data in at a blinding pace now, almost overloaded but not wanting to stop, or slow it down. It wasn't a greed for knowledge or gossip, just... she wanted to read to the end. [09:31] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sweats slightly, and realizes, in a horrific moment that she is in a Time Lord mind and thus in theory she could see past the even his present, and coupled with her power as a sister--but effectively a Priestess of the Flame, she could broach that unseen future-- [09:31] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte caught one flash of it before she hastily applied the breaks and gently disentangled from his mind, panting slightly. [09:32] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte doesn't say anything, and just regards the Old Man for a hard moment. [09:32] * Old Man goes to remove his hand from her arm [09:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT stop. [09:33] &LTOld Man&GT ...? [09:34] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte then presents to the Old Man her "book". Of course being her it's more like a doodled-upon Moleskin stuffed with bookmarks and written on in colored pen, with utterly unneccesary glitter everywhere, yet formatted with exquisite calligraphy. [09:34] &LTOld Man&GT You don't have to... [09:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I want to. [09:35] * Old Man hesitates, but after a moment opens the book and turns the page, lightly treading, but reading through with her encouragement [09:36] * Old Man sees, to his surprise that despite the gulf in physical years between them, her life has been no less complex or convoluted than his own. A potpurri of happiness and tragedy in equal measure. The shadow of the Wolf and the golden eye of the Pythia always on her shoulders. [09:38] * Old Man reaches the end, also sweating from exhaustion. This sort of thing takes a toll at his age. [09:38] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte and the Old Man regard each other for what seems an infinite moment in each other's mind. [09:39] &LTOld Man&GT I see you're still holding one thing back. [09:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Now, a girl's got to have some surprises~ [09:40] * Old Man chuckles mentally. They regard each other still, knowing each other more thoroughly and completely than anyone not a telepath could hope to know. [09:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So what now? [09:41] * Old Man hestiates for a second, but thinks it will be all right [09:41] &LTOld Man&GT Tea? [09:42] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte grins [09:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes. Tea. :) [09:42] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte steps back a bit, a bit weak at the knees [09:42] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Blimey that takes it out of you. [09:42] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away: Whipping up a special batch of tea. [14:08] *** Peinforte Manor [14:08] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks down stupidly at a pan with egg bits in [14:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT (Why is it charred like that) [14:09] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte tries to move the eg around by sliding the pan. Nope. [14:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT (It's fused onto there) [14:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT v_v [14:09] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at the table where her attempts at toasting bread have left a burnt, blackened mess [14:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT WODEHOUSE! [14:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...oh right, he's gone. [14:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT (Other than tea, I don't think I've ever really prepated a meal for myself..) [14:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Bugger all [14:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks helplessly at all the food in the pantry [14:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at some recipies [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT "... a cup?" What kind of cup? Coffee cup? Tea cup? [14:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What the hell is a pinch? [14:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT These aren't stnadardised measures! [14:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte slumps down in a chair and looks at the bomb-blasted kitchen [14:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...This is how it ends for me, isn't it. [14:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Not by the hand of enric or some Elder god... [14:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...but by trying to cook breakfast. [14:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT F[BLEEP]k. [14:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I could always go mooch off the HOTEL for food... [14:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT F[BLEEP]k that. Peinfortes aren't scavengers. [14:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Think think think... [14:14] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte frowns, deep in intense concentration. [14:14] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte has it. [14:15] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte dashes over to the ROOM [14:15] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte knocks on the door furiously [14:15] * Old Man wakes up with a start [14:16] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old man. [14:16] *** Old man is A wizened, frail old man that looks like a young Sir Ian MacKellen the Grey. He moves a bit shakily sometimes, and his voice cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. More information about him is Here. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [14:16] &LTOld Man&GT What.. what do you want! [14:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're old. [14:16] &LTOld Man&GT And water is wet. Get out! [14:17] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT That means you must have cooked for yourself at some point, yes? [14:17] * Old Man looks at her quizzically [14:17] &LTOld Man&GT I can make ramen and grilled cheese sandwiches in a pinch. [14:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Excellent. You'll do. [14:18] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte dashes over to him and grabs his arm. [14:18] &LTOld Man&GT W-what? Unhand me this instant! [14:18] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte HAULS him out of the room. "It's time you paid rent. Let me find an apron your size." [14:19] &LTOld Man&GT What? Apron What? WHAAAAT? [14:19] * Old Man us hauled out of the room for the first time in centuries. [14:19] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away: You're going to make me breakfast. [14:19] * Old Man is away: I WHAT?! [19:00] *** Peinforte Manor, outside [19:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte watches fire trucks douse part of the manor [19:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU COULD MAKE GRILLED CHEESE [19:01] &LTOld Man&GT THAT WAS A THOUSAND YEARS AGO [19:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT YOU SETT HE BLOODY MANOR ON FIRE [19:01] &LTOld Man&GT LOOK I SAID I WAS SORRY [19:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT BLOODY HELL WHAT DO WE DO FOR FOOD NOW [19:02] &LTOld Man&GT I DON'T KNOOOW [19:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ..Wait how have you eaten all this time if you can't cook. [19:03] &LTOld Man&GT I have a plentiful supply of canned goods from Y2K [19:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT .... [19:03] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte does some math [19:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But in your timeline Y2k was-- [19:04] &LTOld Man&GT I SAID IT WAS PLENTIFUL, ALL RIGHT [19:04] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs [19:04] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away: fine we're eating in your room tonigbt. I assume it's fireproof. [19:04] * Old Man is away: Well I'll have to find the tin opener. [10:31] *** Peinforte Manor [10:32] &LTOld Man&GT This will most certainly come off sounding wrong, but I've felt more refreshed since you've come to see me regularly. [10:32] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at Old Man. [10:32] *** Old Man is A wizened old man that looks like a young Sir Ian MacKellen. He moves slowly but surely, and his voice cracks, but has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. More information about him is Here. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [10:33] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, I have that effect on people, I've been told. [10:33] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte offers him another cup of tea. [10:33] * Old Man accepts [10:33] &LTOld Man&GT You can't cook, but by god this is some magnificent tea. [10:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Peinfortes have always been better at preparing concoctions of the liquid variety. [10:34] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs and leans back in her chair. [10:34] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Didn't it feel good to be dragged out of here for once? [10:35] &LTOld Man&GT Not particularly. [10:35] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Why are you so bound and determined to make these walls your final sight? [10:36] &LTOld Man&GT I have no place out there. You know why. [10:36] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte sighs. [10:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I do. [10:36] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I wish I could argue the point, but I can't. [10:37] &LTOld Man&GT You've come here almost every day lately. Have I become some sort of project? [10:37] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks hurt by the insinuation. [10:37] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You know why I come here. [10:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've shown you everything in my mind. Please don't joke like that. [10:38] &LTOld Man&GT Not everything. [10:38] &LTOld Man&GT You're holding back one secret. [10:38] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT A woman must allow herself to retain some mystery. [10:39] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte smirks. [10:39] &LTOld Man&GT It's lamost like you're trying to keep me interested~ :P [10:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [10:40] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte seems flustered by that [10:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Don't be an idiot. You'll find out soon enough, you doddering old goat. [10:41] &LTOld Man&GT So rude, perhaps I've struck a nerve~ [10:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well I notive you haven't been asking me to leave, either! [10:42] * Old Man is now on the back foot [10:43] &LTOld Man&GT I--I...! Well it does get boring here. [10:43] &LTOld Man&GT It doesn't hurt to hear a friendly voice once in a while. [10:44] &LTOld Man&GT It's not a bad way to finally wind things down. [10:44] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte winces, hearing that. [10:44] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You idiot. [10:44] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes over to his chair and sits on one of the arms, and takes his hand. [10:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT None of that talk. I hate defeatism. [10:45] &LTOld Man&GT It's not defeatism. My time has come. [10:45] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte chuckles for some unknown reason. [10:45] &LTOld Man&GT What's so funny about that. [10:46] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte squeezes his hand slightly and politely asks for a telepathic contact. [10:46] * Old Man allows it [10:46] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ You've cheated death so many, many times. [10:47] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ and had it cheated for me. But, as with all things, eventually one must pay the piper. [10:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ You really must be going senile. I never thought I'd see it. [10:48] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Eh? What do you mean? [10:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Never mind that. I do so like our telepathic conversations. So much more expedient and direct, and honest. [10:49] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Well, it is nice. I'm a bit rusty, obviously. [10:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Well you Time Lords always are. That's what you get for kicking the Sisterhood of Gallifrey ages ago. [10:50] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ I might look it, but even I'm not THAT old as to have had anything to do with that. [10:50] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ and is that you talking, or granny Pythia :P [10:50] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's mind seems to become a dark, dangerous cloud for a moment, as if the Old Man is treading somewhere dangerous [10:51] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte herself is a little shocked by her own reasion [10:51] * ^reaction [10:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ What the hell was that? [10:51] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ *You* tell me? [10:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte tries to cover her confusion, but in this kind of deep mental enterlacement it's not possible [10:52] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You're scared. [10:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ F[BLEEP]k off. Yes. [10:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ My middle name was something I chose when I joined the sisterhood... but I don't remember doing it. [10:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ The Reverend Mother, it was said, just accepted the choice even though it was audacious, especially coming from a human. [10:54] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Well, the Peinfortes ARE rumoured to have remnants of the Pythia's power. [10:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Well, not that you might know, but "Pythia" is a title. [10:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ There were five-hundred and Eight Pythias over time before Rassilon's Intuitive Revolution. [10:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ THEY were the rulers of Gallifrey. [10:56] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ So there was never a 509th? [10:57] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ No. Rassilon declared himself the successor of the 508th and kicked the Sisterhood off world, and they went to Karn. [10:57] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ We have a rich telepathic histoery that goes all the way back to that time. [10:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ No one knows EXACTLY what became of the last Pythia. She did die, but rumor has it before she died she laid a curse and cast her mind and power across Space and Time looking for a way to continue her legacy her way. [11:01] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Interesting. [11:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Yes. The problem is hat by all accounts by the end of her life she'd lost the ability to see through time and space and became bitter and desperate, and took the eye of a Sphinx to give herself sight. Not the Egyptian kind. The more evolved ones. [11:03] * Old Man listens, fascinated, the telepathic rapport deepening [11:03] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ I wish I had as fascinating tales to tell you about Gallifrey, but... [11:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Of course you don't. Your people try to make their own history as boring and placid as possible. [11:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ And for good reason... &LT;_&LT; [11:04] &LTOld Man&GT Eh? [11:06] * Old Man is so startled he breaks the mental contact [11:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte refuses to answer out loud. [11:07] * Old Man settles back into rapport, which feels almost like a warm, comfortable blanket around his mind at this point [11:07] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ What do you mean? [11:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Just myths and legends I'm privvy to. I don't know the whole story, but there was a time when your people were WAY more dangerous on an individual level then they are now. Back when you all still had the comparible mental mastery of a Sister of the Flame and your technological advancements. [11:09] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte has a stray through and tries to suppress it, but in a communication this deep, it's as plain as day [11:10] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You're wondering what it would be like to help a Time Lord break their limits? [11:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ &LT;_&LT; [11:10] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You'd just end up with another Salyavin. [11:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Salyavin was... a poor echo of what I've heard about. [11:11] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ A poor ECHO? He could embed his mind into anyone, and impose his will without restraint! [11:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ As I said. A poor echo. [11:12] * Old Man 's mind and Paisley's mind regard each other for a moment [11:13] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ I don't want to be your guineau pig. [11:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT flash I didn't ask-- [11:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ I didn't ask-- [11:14] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Our minds are almost united at this point, you didn't have to. [11:15] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is flustered by this but then shoots back "Well you're curious about it too!" [11:15] * Old Man tries to deny it but can't deny it [11:16] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ What if the rassilon imprimatur actually acts as a limiter... [11:17] * Pailey and the Old Man get lost in a telepathic conversation that goes for hours, where it looks like she's just sitting on the arm of his chair, holding his hand and occasionally laughing or frowwning depending on what is being discussed. [23:21] *** Peinforte Manor [23:21] * Old Man hands Paisley a box [23:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What's this? [23:21] &LTOld Man&GT Happy Valentine's day. [23:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [23:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I've never-- [23:22] &LTOld Man&GT I know. [23:22] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte opens the box. [23:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT .... [23:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT How long have you had these sitting about? [23:22] * Old Man thinks [23:22] &LTOld Man&GT One, two... centuries? [23:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...Yeah they're not edible. [23:23] &LTOld Man&GT Sorry. [23:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Eh, it was a sweet gesture. [23:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well it would have been sweet if they weren't centuries past their dell-by date. [23:23] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ^sell [23:23] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte gives the old man a light punch in the arm. "Thanks." [23:24] &LTOld Man&GT Thank you, for not letting me just waste away in here. [23:24] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte nods. [23:24] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Of course. [23:24] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm not in the mood to clean up a dead body. [23:24] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte winks. [23:24] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away  [23:25] &LTOld Man&GT Hah! [13:47] * Old Man concentrates on Paisley's mind, trying to push through her mental barriers [13:47] *** Peinforte Manor [13:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Weak as water. [13:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT _Weak as water_. [13:48] &LTOld Man&GT This isn't easy for me, you know. [13:50] &LTOld Man&GT Why are you punishing and old man so. [13:50] * Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at old man. [13:50] *** old man is An ostensibly old man that looks like a young Sir Ian MacKellen. He is sprightly. he has the gravelly undertones of John Hurt. More information about him is Here. His image Song is: . He is Level 1. [13:50] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks around and notes to hserself there are no mirrors anywhere in his drawing room. [13:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Because you need something to keep that mind of yours active. [13:51] &LTOld Man&GT Yes well, knocking about in your mind is quite troublesome :P [13:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Only because you're weak. [13:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Get good. [13:52] * Old Man growls and pushes harder [13:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte efforllessly bats his mind aside [13:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Seriously your people really have let their natrural gifts atrophy. [13:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's shameful. [13:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte PUNCHES right into his mind [13:53] &LTOld Man&GT GAH! [13:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT THERE! Got-- [13:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ........... [13:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte QUICKLY RETREATS [13:53] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is flushesd [13:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT [13:54] &LTOld Man&GT QUIET [13:54] &LTOld Man&GT YOU SHOULDN'T GO RAIDING AROUND PEOPLE'S MINDS WITHOUT PERMISSION [13:54] * Old Man is also flushed [13:55] * There is an awkward, leaden silence that seems to drag on for quite some time. [13:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well... that was a thing. [13:55] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT &GT;_&GT; [13:55] &LTOld Man&GT &LT;_&LT; [13:56] * awkward silence continues [13:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT So erm... [13:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Anyway. [13:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Tea? [13:56] &LTOld Man&GT Yes, yes, [14:52] *** Peinforte Manor (cotd) [14:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte pours the Old Man some tea [14:53] * Old Man sips it [14:55] * Old Man coughs, still a bit embarrassed. [14:55] &LTOld Man&GT It was just a stray neural impulse &LT;_&LT; [14:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm not upset &LT;_&LT; [14:56] &LTOld Man&GT Good &GT;_&GT; [14:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT quite &LT;_&LT; [14:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT But uhh, with matters of Psychic training... [14:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You really do have to gird yourself better. [14:57] &LTOld Man&GT I was not expecting the Peinforte inquisition! [14:57] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT And I wasn't expecting.-- that. Anyway. [14:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT In matters of Psychic contact you have to prepared at all times. You never know when a stray thought could be picked up. [14:58] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...Like that one. [14:58] &LTOld Man&GT &LT;_&LT; [14:58] &LTOld Man&GT Look, I appreciate all this but you really don't have to keep me occupied. [14:58] &LTOld Man&GT My time is almost over. I'm on my last life after god knows how many extensions and chats. [14:59] &LTOld Man&GT ^cheats. [14:59] &LTOld Man&GT I've seen the world pass. [14:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're obviously not that world weary if you can still generate thoughts like that one. [14:59] &LTOld Man&GT WELL YOU LET IT GO [14:59] &LTOld Man&GT ^WILL [15:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Rather hard to do considering what it was :P [15:00] &LTOld Man&GT ...Oh, are you interested? [15:00] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ............N-no! Shut up! [15:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte psychically BACKHANDS him [15:01] * Old Man phyiscally REELs from it [15:01] &LTOld Man&GT ....Oh god you ARe [15:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I-- STOP INVENTING THINGS [15:01] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW [15:02] &LTOld Man&GT When you hit me there, your thoughts leaked :P [15:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT LIES [15:02] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte pitches the pot of tea at him [15:02] * Old Man instinctively blocks with his forearm [15:03] * Old Man is slightly burnt by the tea [15:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ..I'm sorry! [15:03] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte gets up to try and help [15:03] * Old Man doesn't seem to register the pain [15:03] * Old Man is looking at his forearm where the tea landed [15:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm dreadfully sorry, let me heal that up [15:04] * Old Man is ignoring her and just looking hard at his hand [15:04] &LTOld Man&GT ...the skin. [15:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, I'll take care of it, I didn't think-- [15:04] &LTOld Man&GT Where are the liver spots? [15:05] * Old Man is now scrutinizing his arm like he's never seen it before. [15:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Ah. [15:05] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte goes quiet. [15:05] &LTOld Man&GT ... I know I'm getting old and senile but... [15:06] &LTOld Man&GT It seems to me my arm is... different, somehow. [15:06] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Probbaly just your overactive imagination. [15:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte aims those words precisely to discomfit him [15:07] * Old Man blushes and fidgets, forgetting all about his arm for the moment [15:07] &LTOld Man&GT You'll never let that go, will you. [15:08] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte mumbles something about collecting. [15:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Never you mind. [15:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I want you to practise. [15:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Regardless of how close you think you are to death. [15:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's never too late to learn new things. And nor should you stop. [15:10] * Old Man sighs and tries to build a mental wall [15:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'll go make you another batch of tea. [15:10] &LTOld Man&GT just don't throw it at me this time. :P [15:11] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte shakes her head, trying to rid herself of a pernicious, yet intriguing visual in her head. [15:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Yes, yes. [15:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is away: You really are an aggravating old git, aren't you. [15:13] * Old Man is away: Troublesome youngster :P [20:56] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ™ [21:05] &LTD.Kakaku&GT ™ 06: take down [05:45] *** Peinforte Manor [05:45] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte knocks on the door to The Room [05:46] &LTOld Man&GT Come in. [05:46] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte comes in, dressed in slightly oversized Pyjamas [05:46] &LTOld Man&GT Why are you dressed like that? [05:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's 5:45 in the morning. [05:47] &LTOld Man&GT Is it? I can't tell. [05:47] &LTOld Man&GT I gave up measuring time a long... well, time ago. [05:48] &LTOld Man&GT Why are you here so early? [05:48] * Old Man looks concerned [05:48] &LTOld Man&GT Is something the matter? [05:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I can't sleep. [05:49] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte settles in one of his chairs [05:49] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte finds a small throw blanket and pulls it over herself [05:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I figured I'd come here and be put to sleep by your incessant monologues. [05:49] &LTOld Man&GT :/ [05:50] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte chuckles [05:51] &LTOld Man&GT That's rich, considering I only really speak when spoken to. :P [05:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well I'm speaking to you. [05:51] &LTOld Man&GT A fact which continually mystifies me, if I'm honest. [05:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Why? [05:52] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT We've got a lot in common. More than I'd realised. [05:52] * Old Man nods slightly. [05:53] &LTOld Man&GT I was rather surprised by that, myself. Despite knowing you for so long, I never really knew that much about you. [05:53] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Likewise. [05:54] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT We both have two faces, don't we? The bit we let everyone else see, and then the rest. [05:57] &LTOld Man&GT True. Well, you have a leg up in that sense. You've seen my mind. [05:58] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte shifts a bit. "Yes, well, there were a lot of things there I didn't expect to see." [05:58] &LTOld Man&GT Yes, well, who says I expected some of that to be there? It's all your fault :P [05:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Well, pardon me for existing. [05:59] * Old Man 's expression goes a bit serious [05:59] &LTOld Man&GT Existence is a gift. [05:59] &LTOld Man&GT Treasure it. [05:59] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi, I was just being sarky. [06:00] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at the old man with a pained expression. "And you should heed your own advice, ba[BLEEP]rd." [06:00] &LTOld Man&GT I've always beeen better at giving it than following it. [06:02] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Indeed. [06:03] &LTOld Man&GT Well, I'm at the end of my rope, so a little hypocrisy can be forgiven. [06:03] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Stop trying to bludgeon me with the fact of your advanced age. [06:04] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Age is all a state of mind, especially to your people. [06:04] &LTOld Man&GT I'm out of lives, and out of chances. [06:04] &LTOld Man&GT But it's all right. [06:04] &LTOld Man&GT I've had a long, and storied life. [06:04] &LTOld Man&GT I had my run, and did my bit. [06:05] &LTOld Man&GT It's fine. [06:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT .... [06:05] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Is it, really? [06:05] &LTOld Man&GT I made my peace long ago. [06:09] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks at him for a long, hard moment [06:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT It's really not all right, you know. [06:09] &LTOld Man&GT it is, I assure you. [06:09] &LTOld Man&GT I've had a long time to prepare. [06:10] &LTOld Man&GT Everyone I've ever cared about is long gone, now. [06:10] &LTOld Man&GT Or off on their own miraculous advent-- [06:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT --everyone? [06:11] * Old Man looks puzzled [06:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Nothing, never mind. [06:16] &LTOld Man&GT Eh? [06:16] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I said never mind. [06:17] &LTOld Man&GT You'll have to forgive me, I'm a bit slow. [06:17] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte considers her words caefully. [06:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT To plagiarise a wiser person than I... [06:18] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're so cavalier about the end of your days. [06:19] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your life, Old man... [06:19] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. [06:19] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your own death is something that happens to *everyone else*. [06:19] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Your life is not your own. [06:20] &LTOld Man&GT ...My day is done. No one would miss me. [06:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT .... [06:20] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You insufferable gobs[BLEEP]te. [06:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Do you REALLY think that to be true? [06:21] &LTOld Man&GT Well [06:21] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte looks LIVID [06:21] &LTOld Man&GT What? Why are you getting so angry? [06:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ............. [06:21] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You... you oaf. [06:22] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I haven't got the word for you. [06:22] &LTOld Man&GT Why are you insulting me all of a sudden? [06:25] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm here. In my pyjamas. Sitting in your chair, trying to cure insomnia by talking to you. [06:26] &LTOld Man&GT Well I am the only other person here, other than your cat? [06:26] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [06:27] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte grabs an oriental-style pillow off the side of the chair and hurl it at him. Being a soft pillow, it just sort of bounces off the side of his head patheitcally [06:27] &LTOld Man&GT .... [06:28] &LTOld Man&GT Oh! You should go to the HOTEL later today. [06:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Wh? [06:28] &LTOld Man&GT Well it's the 19th of February 2017 there, yes? [06:28] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I thought you weren't keeping track of time :P [06:29] &LTOld Man&GT Today's the hday the house across the way becomes genocidal and explodes. Something amusing will come of that. [06:29] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ..... [06:29] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's mouth opens and closes for a second. [06:30] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I have no response to that, other than "_goddamnit, Tokyo_". [06:30] * Old Man laughs [06:30] &LTOld Man&GT It;s nothing serious, but you might be amused by it. [06:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm sorry, you said the house went genocidal. [06:31] &LTOld Man&GT As if that hasn't happened before. [06:31] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT True. [06:31] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte eyes the old man warily [06:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're fairly on point for someone who's just ready to let it all go. [06:32] &LTOld Man&GT Sometimes I remember things of importance. [06:32] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Sometimes. [06:39] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte still looks angry [06:39] &LTOld Man&GT I still don't understand. [06:39] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT What have I been training you for. If you don't understand, seek understanding. [06:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT f[BLEEP]kin' hell. [06:40] * Old Man ponders this for a moment, then goes over to sit by Paisley [06:40] * Old Man reaches out a hand. [06:40] * Old Man wants to touch her forehead [06:40] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No. [06:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Do it properly. Not like a weaksauce Time Lord. [06:41] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Like a proper initiate. [06:41] * Old Man pulls his hand back and closes his eyes, summoning up a telepathic link [06:42] * Old Man reaches out to her mind [06:43] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte gives him his answer. [06:43] &LTOld Man&GT ............. [06:45] * Old Man doesn't respond for what seems to be a long moment [06:45] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You're an idiot, Paise. [06:45] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ I know. [06:46] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ But then... so am I. :) [06:46] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte smiles a bit [06:46] * Old Man gently goes to stop the telepathic link [06:46] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte stops him [06:47] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Sometimes it's just easier to communicate this way. Especially for people like us. [06:47] * Old Man mentally nods [06:48] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Careful, remember what happened last time. :P [06:48] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ I don't... mind. [06:48] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ ... [06:49] * Old Man seesm to be shocked and reassessing something, and then quickly recovers [06:49] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ was that a pun? XD [06:49] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Smooth recovery~ [06:49] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte closes her eyes and leans on head on the old idiot's shoulder [06:49] * ^her head [06:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Maybe I can get to sleep this way, your obirng mind will put me under :P [06:50] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ boring. Christ, there are even thought-typo demons, aren't there? [06:51] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You're just tired. Sleep now. I'll keep you company in your head. [06:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Careful, my dreams are quite strange. [06:51] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ You've never seen mine. [06:51] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ♦ Well maybe now I will~ [06:51] &LTOld Man&GT ♦ Maybe you shall~ [06:52] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte slowly drops off to sleep [06:53] * Old Man stays awake, mentally putting a warm blanket around her mind and just lets his consciousness drift to wherever it wants to go, zoning out. [23:05] *** Peinforte Manor [23:05] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte is sitting alone in her study, eyes closed, a book in her lap [23:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's brow furrows as she recieves a telepathic message from Karn. [23:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte acknowledges it. [23:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte 's eyes open [23:06] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte heads to The Room [23:07] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte approaches the door, and it opens on its own [23:07] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ...So that's how it is, eh? [23:07] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte pats the door [23:07] * Old Man is sleeping in his chair [23:07] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Oi. Wake up. [23:07] * Old Man opens one eye [23:07] &LTOld Man&GT What do you want now? [23:08] &LTOld Man&GT It's not tea-time, is it? [23:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT no. [23:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're coming with me. [23:08] &LTOld Man&GT I told you, i'm not leaving this place. Stop-- [23:08] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Skagra. [23:08] &LTOld Man&GT ...what. [23:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT After centuries of searching, The Sisterhood has narrowed down a possible location for his vessel. [23:09] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT They want him alive. [23:09] &LTOld Man&GT Why? [23:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT He kidnapped and tortured one of the sisters. [23:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT We want to repay the favour. [23:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Slowly. [23:10] &LTOld Man&GT And what have *I* got to do with this? [23:10] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I need a Time Lord. [23:11] &LTOld Man&GT Go find Intern, or Aclatex, or something. [23:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Aclatex? [23:11] &LTOld Man&GT Oh. Right. Hasn't happened yet. Forget that. [23:11] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT No. I need you. [23:11] &LTOld Man&GT Well you know where to f-- [23:12] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte GRABS his arm. [23:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT YOU. NOW. [23:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT THIS YOU. [23:12] &LTOld Man&GT Look my days of traveling are done. [23:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Rubbish. [23:12] &LTOld Man&GT I'm not taking on any more companions! [23:12] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT ... [23:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Get real~ [23:13] &LTOld Man&GT Eh? [23:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT I'm not going to be your companion. [23:13] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT You're going to be mine. [23:13] &LTOld Man&GT ...... [23:14] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte GRINS and pulls out a Chalice. [23:14] &LT@Paisley Pythia Peinforte&GT Prpeare, for the ride the back of time~ [23:14] &LTOld Man&GT NO, WAIT! [23:15] * @Paisley Pythia Peinforte THROWS down the chalice and a TIME STORM ERUPTS in the Old Man's sitting room, and the duo vanishes. See Paisley Peinforte Adventures: Southern Gothic