With me this time was Rabbit.
[09:36] <Rabbit> Okay
[09:36] <Rabbit> So, Crawl
[09:37] <Rabbit> A very existential sort of name
[09:37] <Xan> Indeed.
[09:37] <Rabbit> Is it a metaphor for people? Do we just crawl around on our elbows and knees
[09:37] <Rabbit> Searching for loot to make us more successful at life
[09:37] <Rabbit> Until at last we meet our match and die, and it's all for nothing
[09:37] <Xan> Good question.
[09:38] <Xan> I think it's more of a description of what this game will reduce you to.
[09:38] <Rabbit> Sounds like an acquired taste
[09:39] <Xan> Not exactly. It's fun, it just likes killing you. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
[09:39] <Rabbit> So I take it there's some sort of big bad evil guy at the end of Crawl
[09:39] <Rabbit> You know, like Morgoth on his throne in Angband?
[09:40] <Xan> No.
[09:40] <Xan> Just a fancy artifact.
[09:40] <Rabbit> and the point of the game, ostensibly, is to find this fancy artifact?
[09:40] <Xan> Guarded by Dragons, Half-Dragons, Fetuses, and Clowns.
[09:40] <Xan> Yes.
[09:41] <Rabbit> Are they dragon fetuses?
[09:41] <Rabbit> and dragon clowns?
[09:41] <Xan> No.
[09:41] <Xan>
[09:41] <Xan> Looks innocent, doesn't it.
[09:41] <Rabbit> Uh Xan, I don't think we're in Shrinemaiden anymore...
[09:42] <Xan> I need the tags for when I post this.
[09:42] <Rabbit> It was more a general wizard of oz joke
[09:42] <Xan> Ah.
[09:42] <Rabbit> But that works too
[09:42] <Xan> Yeh.
[09:42] <Rabbit> So it seems that you can't see ye place.
[09:43] <Xan> Sight radius, yah know?
[09:43] <Xan> Gotta explore.
[09:43] <Rabbit> and when a place is out of sight, does it become hidden again?
[09:43] <Xan> Well, it still shows up on the map.
[09:43] <Xan> You just can't tell if monsters have wandered in.
[09:44] <Rabbit> On the positive side, you don't have to keep your own map.
[09:44] <Xan> Yup.
[09:44] <Xan>
[09:44] <Xan> WHAT IS THIS?
[09:44] <Xan> A KOBOLD AND A RAT?
[09:44] <Xan> I'M GOING TO DIE!
[09:45] <Rabbit> Well, isn't that your job?
[09:45] <Rabbit> You are the dog of the Scarlet Devil
[09:45] <Xan> ;_;
[09:45] <Rabbit> That's where the expression "die like dogs" came from right?
[09:45] <Rabbit> As an aside, dog is pretty tasty.
[09:46] <Xan> ;____;
[09:46] <Rabbit> So why InuSakuya?
[09:47] <Xan> Because I'm playing as a spriggan assassin and normal Sakuya is too large.
[09:47] <Rabbit> So she was an assassin, and thus had to be Sakuya
[09:47] <Rabbit> But a spriggan is too short.
[09:47] <Xan> Indeed.
[09:48] <Xan> And Inusakuya is small.
[09:48] <Xan> And SO MOE I WILL DIE!
[09:48] <Rabbit> Couldn't this spriggan assassin be one of the Prismrivers? You know, a musical assassin.
[09:48] <Xan> I guess.
[09:48] <Xan> But I haet the Prismrivers.
[09:48] <Xan> L-l-l-LEVEL UP!
[09:49] <Rabbit> Haet is such a strong word.
[09:49] <Rabbit> (But I really, really, really don't like you)
[09:49] <Rabbit> Oh god, I can't believe I just did that.
[09:49] <Xan> ;_;
[09:49] <Xan> Is that a song reference?
[09:49] <Rabbit> Yeah.
[09:50] <Rabbit> Don't know why I know it. I just do somehow.
[09:50] <Xan> Okay.
[09:50] <Xan> I know the feeling.
[09:50] <Rabbit> Getting back on track for a moment, what exactly are you trying to do at this point in the game?
[09:51] <Xan> Survive?
[09:52] <Rabbit> That's more of a goal for the game in general.
[09:53] <Xan> Yeah.
[09:53] <Rabbit> I hear you guys talking about various areas of the game and how you should have some kind of strategy or approach.
[09:53] <Xan> Yeah, well, right now, I'm getting to the point where all that stuff applies
[09:54] <Xan> At this point, my strategy is:Poke stuff until it dies. If it doesn't die, run away.
[09:54] <Rabbit> Oh I see. Now that I look at the last screenshot, you're only Level 1
[09:54] <Xan> Yeah.
[09:54] <Xan> I have leveled up since then.
[09:55] <Xan> I wonder how many laws I have broken so far?
[09:55] <Rabbit> Wouldn't it be easier if you could find some way to broadcast your screen?
[09:55] <Xan> Does killing kobolds count as murder?
[09:55] <Rabbit> Rather than uploading screenshots to photobucket?
[09:56] <Rabbit> Well...not "murder" as such.
[09:56] <Rabbit> Murder is causing the death of a human being, according to the Fatal Offences Act
[09:56] <Rabbit> Also known as the Homicide Act. I can't law today.
[09:56] <Xan> Okay.
[09:57] <Rabbit> I'm sure there's some separate offence for causing the death of sub-human species'
[09:58] <Xan> Yeah.
[09:59] <Xan> Anyhow, it's all self defence, I assure you.
[09:59] <Xan> Except the ones I stap in their sleep.
[10:00] <Rabbit> I'm pretty sure they were dreaming of killing you anyway.
[10:00] <Xan> Yeah.
[10:00] <Xan> Or perhaps we're just getting paranoid.
[10:01] <Rabbit> What else would Kobolds dream of?
[10:01] <Rabbit> Draconic sheep?
[10:01] <Rabbit> Yeah, I went there.
[10:01] <Xan> Well, it's possible.
[10:01] <Xan> There are Half-Dragon SHAMBLING MOUNDS.
[10:02] <Rabbit> Oh god don't remind me.
[10:02] <Xan> Could someone explain how that's even POSSIBLE?
[10:02] <Rabbit> They were Fairy Dragons.
[10:03] <Rabbit> Alternate theory: Dragon polymorphs into elf.
[10:04] <Xan> >_>
[10:04] <Rabbit> After living in elven society for so long, he begins to pick up the attitudes and mannerisms of elves.
[10:04] <Rabbit> Including tree-hugging.
[10:04] <Xan> That's tree-hugging, not tree-****ing
[10:04] <Rabbit> Except that because it's a Fairy Dragon it has no sense of perspective or proportion and takes it to the point where it becomes a sport.
[10:04] <Xan> Besides, it was a green dragon.
[10:04] <Rabbit> EXTREME tree-hugging.
[10:05] <Xan> Yes, a GREEN dragon.
[10:05] <Rabbit> Fairy dragon makes more sense.
[10:05] <Rabbit> Or did you just encounter a green dragon?
[10:06] <Xan> No.
[10:06] <Xan> I won't be seeing THOSE any time soon.
[10:06] <Rabbit> Good thing, I guess.
[10:07] <Rabbit> Okay, so for the sake of continuing this theory, a green dragon.
[10:07] <Rabbit> Among the most cunning and brutal of dragonkind
[10:07] <Rabbit> Trust a green dragon to invent the potentially lethal sport of EXTREME tree-hugging
[10:07] <Xan> Fair enough.
[10:08] <Rabbit> So a series of challenges and many dead elves brought the sport to its natural conclusion - the competitors would have to try and hug a Shambling Mound.
[10:09] <Xan> I see.
[10:09] <Xan> Interesting theory.
[10:09] <Rabbit> However, the resemblance of the anatomy of this plant-like creature to anything humanoid is questionable at best.
[10:09] <Rabbit> So in the end it was purely by accident.
[10:09] <Xan> Yeah.
[10:09] <Rabbit> The rest is, as they say, history.
[10:09] <Rabbit> Or did you think I was going to be writing some kind of slash fic involving tree rape?
[10:10] <Rabbit> Is that all I am to you Xan?
[10:10] <Rabbit> An outlet for your darker fetishes?
[10:10] <Xan> No.
[10:10] <Xan> Your the one who brought it up.
[10:10] <Xan> UncertainKitten does all the fetish stuff.
[10:11] <Rabbit> As I recall you were the one who brought up Half-Dragon Shambling Mounds.
[10:12] <Xan> True, but I wasn't thinking about that >_>
[10:12] <Rabbit> You wanted to know how it was possible.
[10:12] <Rabbit> I obliged.
[10:13] <Xan> As I recall, the actual reason was that said green dragon was obsessed with creating an empire consisting of itself and its spawn, and was thus obsessively creating half dragon creatures...
[10:13] <Rabbit> Oh did they actually come up with a reason?
[10:14] <Xan> Yes.
[10:14] <Rabbit> I kinda figured it was one of those oversights in the Draconomicon that no one ever bothered to patch up.
[10:14] <Xan> Nah.
[10:14] <Xan> The Draconomicon was fairly well fleshed out.
[10:15] <Rabbit> I'll take your word for it. I haven't read it.
[10:15] <Xan> I haven't read the 4E one yet, mind you.
[10:16] <Rabbit> Speaking of 4Ed, I really like the Avenger class in PHB2
[10:16] <Rabbit> particularly the assassin paragon path that they have
[10:16] <Xan> Well, we've got room for another person in our game, I think...
[10:17] <Rabbit> Is this Stuffman's game or Pesco's?
[10:17] <Xan> Stuffman's.
[10:17] <Xan> Pesco's is vaporware.
[10:17] <Rabbit> I see.
[10:17] <Rabbit> But then their role is striker and I get the feeling you guys have a lot of strikers as it is.
[10:17] <Rabbit> Just taking a wild guess.
[10:18] <Xan> Nah.
[10:18] <Xan> Not really.
[10:18] <Xan> We're starting a new campaign because the last one died.
[10:18] <Xan> Soooo.
[10:18] <Xan> Yeah, we could use you.
[10:20] <Rabbit> Sounds cool.
[10:20] <Rabbit> So you guys are playing Sunday?
[10:21] <Xan> yes.
[10:21] <Rabbit> What time?
[10:21] <Xan> Uh...
[10:21] <Xan> Ask stuffman, he knows timezones better than I do.
[10:22] <Xan> BACK TO CRAWL!
[10:22] <Rabbit> Yes, anyway.
[10:22] <Rabbit> Tree rape is not okay kids.
[10:23] <Rabbit> So concerning Crawl, has your situation improved at all?
[10:23] <Rabbit> Or are you still having to run away from anything and everything?
[10:24] <Xan> FFF, I died.
[10:24] <Xan> Fire applied directly to the forehead is bad, kids.
[10:26] <Rabbit> So death is permanent in this game.
[10:26] <Xan> Yeah.