Here's the log for the second part of the chat. The first part was done on somewhere else that I couldn't log. You should ask Tal if you want that part...
[17:01] <sssssz> Hey
[17:02] <Icebird> Ok, I'm back.
[17:02] <Talaananthes> hey guys
[17:02] <Talaananthes> channel password is chosen now
[17:02] <sssssz> Well, I could do the logging if you want.
[17:02] <Xaden> wow, nuts
[17:03] <fhgwdads05> i've left that room
[17:03] <fhgwdads05> just stay here
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[17:03] <Icebird> Sorry, the app flakes out on me sometimes.
[17:03] <fhgwdads05> so, ice, would you like to elaborate for like 2 minutes?
[17:03] <fhgwdads05> >.>
[17:03] <Talaananthes> i started us that room for a reason, id like to be able to continue using it
[17:03] <Talaananthes> the other guys are now banned
[17:03] <Talaananthes> the channel password is "chosen"
[17:03] <Icebird> Sorry, what was the link again?
[17:03] <sssssz> Heh
[17:04] <Icebird> I left, and don't have it anymore.
[17:04] <Talaananthes> [url]http://www.geocities.com/talaananthes/exaltedchat.html[/url]
[17:04] <fhgwdads05> aint workin
[17:04] <fhgwdads05> just stay here
[17:05] <fhgwdads05> i don't have much time left here
[17:05] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:05] <Talaananthes> so be it
[17:05] <@itches> Just for the record, if you guys wanted logs from this channel, let me know and I can dig them up
[17:05] <Icebird> It's not working.
[17:06] <Icebird> It asks if I want to create a channel and won't let me do anything.
[17:06] <sssssz> Hm, I can't join either.
[17:06] <fhgwdads05> staying here
[17:06] <fhgwdads05> so
[17:06] <fhgwdads05> ice
[17:06] <fhgwdads05> elaborate
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[17:06] <fhgwdads05> quick
[17:06] <fhgwdads05> ?
[17:06] <sssssz> Yeah... IRC sounds like a better option right now, for me at least. >_>
[17:06] <Icebird> Arg, whenever I click in the main area, it stops responding.
[17:07] <Icebird> Ok, so when she arrived at the town where fhg is,
[17:07] <Icebird> she's by now in charge of the troupe in all but name.
[17:08] <fhgwdads05> what does the troupe do?
[17:08] <Icebird> fhg has inherited (not usre how) a failing criminal guild.
[17:08] <Icebird> It's entertainers.
[17:08] <fhgwdads05> but elaborate
[17:08] <fhgwdads05> i'll tell my side shortly
[17:08] <Icebird> A wandering circus. She's a fortune teller and storyteller,
[17:08] <Talaananthes> we dont need massive elaboration right now, just outlines
[17:09] <fhgwdads05> yes, of course
[17:09] <Icebird> Yeah, I'm ready to go on, but fhg keeps telling me to wait. ;)
[17:09] <Icebird> I'll finish the combined part, then you can go back and tell your backstory.
[17:10] <Icebird> His criminal guild threatened the troupe for protection money, but she didn't cave in.
[17:10] <Icebird> they came to an agreement where she would spy on her clients, and the guild would genuinly protect them.
[17:10] <fhgwdads05> well, not guild
[17:11] <fhgwdads05> but that will be explained
[17:11] <Icebird> over the course of months, they started working more closely together, and the circus decided to stay there.
[17:12] <Icebird> Eventually, the two groups became indistinguishable except in name. My char's the information side of things, and his runs the actual illegal activities.
[17:13] <Icebird> My char only goes along with it because it is in fact weakening the guild's strength in the area, and genuinly helping people.
[17:13] <fhgwdads05> wiat what?
[17:13] <fhgwdads05> you have certainly changed things on me...
[17:13] <Icebird> Sure it's strong arming them, but better protection by her honerable partner than the guild which's destroying creation slowly.
[17:13] <Icebird> Yup, I did. ;)
[17:13] <fhgwdads05> oh the guild
[17:14] <fhgwdads05> not as in my character's family
[17:14] <Icebird> Sorry, forgot to capitalize it. Right.
[17:14] <fhgwdads05> you mean the guild as in the creation-spanning guild
[17:14] <fhgwdads05> hehe
[17:15] <Icebird> I think that's it from me for now.
[17:15] <fhgwdads05> so
[17:16] <Talaananthes> the Guild
[17:16] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:16] <Talaananthes> sounds good
[17:16] <Talaananthes> fhg?
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> my character was born to a whore who, because of being too high on maiden tea, forgot to take some Maiden Tea
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> too high on Opium
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> >.<
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> or whichever drug
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> some drug
[17:16] <sssssz> She was so sterile she impregnated herself.
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> lawlz
[17:16] <fhgwdads05> ANYWAYS
[17:17] <fhgwdads05> so, my character's father happened to be the aging head of a criminal family
[17:17] <fhgwdads05> (btw, I'm thinking all of this was happening in Chiaroscuro or Gem)
[17:20] <fhgwdads05> so, later the whore pawns her child off to the same family for some more drug money
[17:20] <fhgwdads05> baby
[17:20] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:21] <fhgwdads05> the few toughs, unsure of what to do, bring my character to the head of the family, her father, unsure of what to do
[17:22] <fhgwdads05> her father realizes that she's his child, and decides to raise her
[17:22] <fhgwdads05> or wait
[17:22] <fhgwdads05> bah
[17:22] <fhgwdads05> this part is a little flakey still
[17:23] <Talaananthes> feel free to gloss over it a bit
[17:23] <fhgwdads05> okay
[17:23] <fhgwdads05> so she doesn't take to well to the role expected of most females
[17:23] <fhgwdads05> she's more interested in her father's business
[17:24] <fhgwdads05> years later, both of her older half-brothers have died off in the major conflicts that have brought a great deal of ruin to the family's fortune
[17:24] <fhgwdads05> her father dies of old age, and she inherits the family
[17:25] <fhgwdads05> rather than her father's officers
[17:25] <fhgwdads05> which obviously bothers them
[17:25] <fhgwdads05> however, she proves to be far more than skilled in running the family
[17:25] <fhgwdads05> and a lot of growth happens
[17:26] <fhgwdads05> yada yada
[17:26] <fhgwdads05> okay
[17:26] <fhgwdads05> we get to the part where icebird's character comes into play
[17:26] <fhgwdads05> sorry, i had a lot more to this before
[17:27] <fhgwdads05> i'll probably replace some of the earlier bits with more interesting stuff
[17:27] <Icebird> Well, thr outline is probably good for now.
[17:27] <fhgwdads05> finals week has my head all over the place
[17:28] <Xaden> we understand, this is just a brief overview
[17:28] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:28] <Talaananthes> cool
[17:28] <Talaananthes> sz?
12[17:28] <sz> Hm, ok.
12[17:28] <sz> So...
12[17:28] * sz resists the urge to borrow the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme lyrics.
12[17:29] <sz> So, she was born and raised on Chiaroscuro's streets. Maybe she was abandoned, maybe her parents died, maybe they sold her. She doesn't know, but since she never remembered them in the first place, it didn't bother her too much.
12[17:30] <sz> There were a lot of kids like her there, anyways.
12[17:31] <sz> At first, she got herself fed with begging or rummaging through trash heaps, but when the older kids taught her how to pickpocket, she found finding things to eat a much easier task than before.
12[17:33] <sz> ...and then the same kids taught how to steal profitable goods and how to beat the living hell out of other kids. It all felt natural to her, so she learned them and mastered them well.
[17:34] <Talaananthes> hurry a bit, guys, ive got to go at 5:45
[17:34] <fhgwdads05> yea, i'm leaving now
[17:34] <fhgwdads05> i'll leave the chat window open
12[17:34] <sz> After a while, she (maybe I should name her Iri or Arang, for random reference) found herself teaching the very same things to younger kids, all the while herself doing seedier activities that are done on Chiaroscuro's streets.
12[17:34] <sz> Oh. Ok. :|
[17:34] <fhgwdads05> sorry
[17:34] <Talaananthes> before we go
12[17:34] <sz> Well, later.
[17:34] <fhgwdads05> recital to see
[17:35] <Talaananthes> how specifically does it need to be chiaroscuro? someone suggested kirighast, and that actually seems to work pretty well also
[17:35] <Talaananthes> plus, it'd put us a bit more off the beaten path
12[17:35] <sz> Hum, I never read too much about Kirighast, so I wouldn't know. But as long as there are docks, it works, I guess.
[17:36] <Talaananthes> yeah, its harborhead's capital and port city
[17:36] <Icebird> I was actually just looking at that place on the map. Sounds good to me. I like off the beaten path.
[17:36] <Talaananthes> southeast
[17:36] <Talaananthes> realm protectorate
[17:36] <Xaden> Fine with me
[17:36] <Talaananthes> culture very much like east africa in many ways
[17:37] <Talaananthes> anyway, quick finish-up sz?
12[17:37] <sz> So... well. After 20 years of petty street gang things, Iri decided that she's tired of all this. In her life she heard of things such as family and labor, so she left the streets to try those things out.
12[17:37] <sz> Oh, alright.
[17:38] <Talaananthes> also, im going to shy away from sidereal involvement, but . . . does any in principle object to anything else?
12[17:38] <sz> And... despite what she expected she did ok with those things. Found a man that she liked, and her life trained her well for dock labor works. They had a child, and though she doesn't know how to parent but she's doing her best.
[17:39] <Xaden> oooh, a kid
[17:39] <Xaden> interesting
12[17:39] <sz> Recently she had this feeling that there was a figure in green and gold following her around, who simply -disappears- when she notices him and looks at him. She wonders if it's something from her older life, but she can't tell.
[17:39] <Xaden> I have no inherint objections to anything
[17:39] <Talaananthes> aka, you dont want to deal with lunars, you dont want to deal with the deathlords (big shadowland in the north of harborhead, undescribed deathlord), dont want to deal with the realm (thats tough, pretty much), dont want to deal with the fae?
12[17:39] <sz> And... I guess I can leave the rest to the actual writeup.
[17:39] <Icebird> Tal; Nothing I can think of that I object to.
[17:40] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:40] <Talaananthes> cool
[17:40] <Talaananthes> then in that case, i think were done for now
[17:40] <Xaden> cool beans!
[17:40] <Talaananthes> everyone write up character histories and post them asap
[17:40] <Talaananthes> stats-wise character sheets too
12[17:40] <sz> Heh, ok.
[17:40] <Icebird> Cool. Will do, probably sometime tonight.
[17:40] <Talaananthes> see the recent post i put up in that forum
[17:40] <Talaananthes> :-)
[17:40] <Talaananthes> later all
[17:40] <Xaden> saw it
12[17:40] <sz> Later!
[17:40] <Xaden> later!
[17:41] <Xaden> I should go too now
12[17:41] <sz> Hm, alright.
[17:41] <Talaananthes> sz, do you have a strong attachment to chiaroscuro?
[17:41] <Icebird> fhg (when you get back), let's each write up our meeting/interaction since then from our own point of view. Minor discrepancies we can ignore, and major ones work out.
12[17:42] <sz> Nah, not too much.
12[17:42] <sz> The reason I thought Chiaroscuro was because I thought her story was kinda similar to Demetheus'. :P
[17:43] <Talaananthes> ok
[17:43] <Icebird> My character will simply be more exotic the further away from the south we get. ;)
[17:43] <Talaananthes> to be quite clear, kirighast will probably require a fair bit of either hiding or subtlety, because there is a strong realm presence there, and one of their most important jade mines is also in harborhead
[17:43] <Talaananthes> but its doable
[17:44] <Xaden> it'll just make things interesting
[17:44] <Talaananthes> and, most of the people there already worship the unconq sun, and his southern war and cattle god best buddy akhat
[17:45] <Talaananthes> er, ahlat
12[17:45] <sz> Heh
[17:45] <Talaananthes> ok, though, im off
[17:45] <Talaananthes> see y'all later