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mycroftxxx
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 		The end?
Earlier today, Altusveritas.com changed to a black backroung with black text indicating a countdown set for 11 pm CST October 30, 2006. the countdown was generating a new index.html file every minute.

The doctor showed up in #lookingforav at 6:57PM CST, very scared. Shamash was apparently on the scene, but not interacting with him in any meaningful way. He was unsure of what was going on, but was being left alone. Everyone in #lookingforav tried to put their heads together to come up with a way to delay/prevent the ritual that seemed to be looming. Eventually, a second ritual chant was developed and delievered to Angry Banana, who created a video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5wCIjSt98, from a script based on the abjuration that was effective against sarah in IM. The plan had been that doc would start the video on Shamash's laptop when Sarah or the others came for him - and the people in chat would run the video at the same time - using it as a "focus" to direct the banishing against Sarah.

When it was discovered that Youtube only records unique visitors as views of a page, and that we couldn't use the view counter to tell when to start our videoes, a new plan was hatched. Maradydd managed to code up a timed website that would redirect people to the video at very close to the same time. We could use it to keep track of when to start the video, and better yet, it would start the video on the laptop wihtout the Doctor's intervention at a known time.

Unfortunately, the doc was pulled away before the code was complete and it's unknown whether or not he ever managed to direct a browser at the site or not. After being called away, Jocehn remained logged into chat, but non-responsive. He appeared briefly in IM to AngryBanana at around 11:45, and appeared to be clumsy or drugged, asking for help (hopefully AngBa can post her logs of events when she gets some sleep). He didn't really respond to messages during that time, though the link was sent to him atleast once.

It is unknown whether the "ritual" was enough to prevent the transformation from Jochen to Amuktor. At midnight, everyone ran the video or mimed doing so, and noone stepped out from behind the curtain to tell us that we were all dead. However, the altusveritas site is still running a countdown and no word has come in from either IG or OOG channels. It's unknown whether the game is still active or has ended.
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Forgery
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 		Thank you for the summary Mycroft. I guess we can only wait now until we here something from anybody. Maybe Shamash can update us if he's still ok :S

/me waits patiently

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 		Well, I happened to get an IM from Doc this morning. I didn't have time to post the entire chat, but it looks like he was able to get away safely. Shamash gave the Dr. something to make him sleep, and then took his place in the ceremony. When he awoke, there was a message for him to escape.

I believe Shamash made the ultimate sacrifice and may no longer be with us. Sad Doc said he looked like he had been beaten to death.

This was it. Doc is save and AV is no more. I believe that there will be a post-game chat, and hopefully we will get details.

Last night was fun though Smile Thanks again for all of your hard work myc!
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Arkaham
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 		Shamsh is dead? Crying or Very sad He was such a nice guy...

And good looking too Wink

But the mage is dead, Sarah is probably getting kicked out of the club for messing things up, AV lost their choice to bring hell and as long as he has two drops of wits the doc will be safe. And I think that's El fin, Ny Takma the end.

I hope to see you all on the chat tonight so we can get all the details from the PM and I can give you the few I have.
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 		[quote="Arkaham"]Shamsh is dead? Crying or Very sad He was such a nice guy...

And good looking too Wink

I thought he was very "Antonio Banderas" in the video for Sarah.
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AngBa
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Arkaham wrote:
Shamsh is dead? Crying or Very sad He was such a nice guy...

And good looking too Wink

But the mage is dead, Sarah is probably getting kicked out of the club for messing things up, AV lost their choice to bring hell and as long as he has two drops of wits the doc will be safe. And I think that's El fin, Ny Takma the end.

I hope to see you all on the chat tonight so we can get all the details from the PM and I can give you the few I have.


Gee Ark, we missed you last night - there was all kinds of drama... Too bad you couldn't be there...

Oh, and I'll be trick-or-treating until later, so the chat better not be until 8ish CST... I stayed up until well past midnight, Doc can wait until 8 for me tonight Wink
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 		Shamash might not be dead... How the hell would Ark know whether hes dead or not,,,lol... Shamash blinked just before the Dr ran...I guess we shall see...

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 		That's it... Game Over =( http://www.altusveritas.com/

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 		I guess that would make it game over. ...Well I guess we talk to the PM John Little tonight

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 		Am I missing the time for this anywhere?

Oh, and Happy Halloween everyone Twisted Evil
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Arkaham
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Wabonan wrote:
Shamash might not be dead... How the hell would Ark know whether hes dead or not,,,lol... Shamash blinked just before the Dr ran...I guess we shall see...


So you noticed. Smile . But if Shamash is not dead, then he would be Amuktor... (cue creepy music).

Then again, maybe it was just a glitch on the video production.

I'm not sure about the time for tonight's chat, with all the different time zones I get lost. But I'll be there all night, I'll stay home and give out candy on my black robes.
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AngBa
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Arkaham wrote:


I'm not sure about the time for tonight's chat, with all the different time zones I get lost. But I'll be there all night, I'll stay home and give out candy on my black robes.


Make sure you save me a piece!!!
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 		[handshakes and high fives] was a great time, first one ive followed to completion.

thx mr little, im not a noob anymore!

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brandoblues wrote:
[handshakes and high fives] was a great time, first one ive followed to completion.

thx mr little, im not a noob anymore!


Ditto from me - though I lurked through most of it.

Congratulations are most definitely in order as I gather it's a rather rare event if a grassroots game gets through to completion.

Worshippy Rock On Worshippy

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 		awesome. how about everyone meets at coco's crepes and coffee at 8? Very Happy
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