[17:55] Me: ...and a random observation, more on the story itself than on the comic. But boy does Carter have a bit of a Nyar obsession. Every bad thing that happens: "OMG Nyarlathotep!"
[17:56] V: CARTER! IT WAS THE UNNAMABLE!
[17:56] V: No, it was Nyarlathotep!
[17:57] V: "That's your answer to everything. The toilet's backed up? It was Nyarlathotep!"
[17:59] Me: "But it was! Really! He's out to get me, I'm sure of it!"
[17:59] V: "Oh, don't be ridiculous. He's not out to get YOU, he's out to get EVERYBODY."
[18:00] Me: "But ESPECIALLY me."
[18:00] V: "He so is not. He doesn't even LIKE you."
[18:01] Me: *looks hurt*
[18:02] V: "He told me he likes Heather."
[18:03] Me: "...Heather?"
[18:05] V: "He's gonna destroy her utterly and make her as nothing. You're....sorry, Carter, but you're outta luck.
[18:06] Me: "...man. Just when you think you know an Outer God..."
[18:07] V: "I'm sorry you had to find out like this." *manful shoulder-pat*
[18:13] Me: *depressed sigh. And then...* "...so. You think Shub-Niggurath might be up for anything this weekend? New moon and all..."
[18:14] V: "Hey, go for it, man. Never know until you try." *supportive smile*
***
[20:50] V: Nyar: "Shun, then, the outer hells; and stick to the things of your youth." Sound advice.
[20:51] Me: Norman: *looks at his very well-worn Lovecraft anthologies* "...well. That did me absolutely no good."
[20:51] V: Nyar: *pained* Yes, well, I was talking to CARTER.
[20:52] V: Nyar: I find his spindly sticklike legs incredibly alluring.
[20:52] Me: Carter: "Hmph. I'll bet you told Heather exactly the same thing. Ass."
[20:52] V: Nyar: WHAT? How do YOU know about that?
[20:55] Me: Carter: "What, you think word doesn't get around the dream-world? I heard it from Pickman, who heard it from Kuranes..."
[20:55] V: I'm gonna have to do something chaotic to Pickman.
[20:55] Me: Carter: "Hey! He's already turning into a ghoul. Isn't that bad enough?"
[20:56] V: Nyar: *grumblemuttergrumble* Bastard.
[20:59] Me: Carter: "Oh, look who's talking, errand-boy."
[20:59] Me: Norman: *has probably, at some point during all of this, obtained popcorn.*
[20:59] V: Nyar: "Hey, that's low."
[20:59] V: Dez: *joins him, taking notes*
[21:02] Me: Carter: "Heather. Of all the -- Alhazred I could understand. Same with Ozawa. Even him." *gesture to Norman* "But Heather?"
[21:03] V: Nyar: "Look, Carter, I know you're angry, but don't you badmouth Heather, or there will be repercussions of a most maggoty sort. She *understands* me, okay? She *gets* me. Plus she does that thing, with her hair."
[21:07] Me: Carter: "She 'understands' you? How could anyone understand you? You're beyond human comprehension!"
[21:07] V: Nyar: "You see? You don't even *try*."
[21:07] Me: Norman: *leans over to murmur to Dez* "...always interesting, isn't it, to see what Lovecraft left out..."
[21:08] V: Dez: *snags popcorn* "I'm waiting for him to cry and make his eyeliner run."
[21:09] V: Nyar: "Dagon was *right* about you."
[21:10] Me: Carter: "Oh, no. Don't you even bring up Dagon. Don't you even."
[21:10] V: Nyar: "What? Have you been messing about with *him*? Carter, you are such a slut."
[21:12] Me: Carter: "Well, if that isn't the Faceless One calling the kettle black."
[21:13] V: Nyar: "No, seriously. Have you been making time with the ancient philistine fish-god, Carter? I totally can't believe you."
[21:20] Me: Carter: "I have not, for your information. I have cousins in Innsouth, and they invited me for a visit. You know how much there is to do in that damn town, Nyarly. And yes, there was a bit of talk, and he tried to invite me out for dinner, but I declined.* And that was all -- which is more than you can say."
*(Because there are just some beings you don't accept an invite to a 'seafood dinner' from.)
[21:22] V: Nyar: "Don't call me that. I hate it when you call me that. I hate everything. --And for your information everybody knows that Dagon is so totally shacked up with Mr Tentacles himself. *sulks*"
[21:26] Me: Carter: "Nyarly Nyarly Nyarly. I remember there used to be a time you'd let me call you anything."
[21:27] V: Nyar: "Stop it. You're just being cruel." *turns his back*
[21:29] Me: Carter: *half-hearted glare* "Well, maybe if you'd treat me with a little respect every once in a while..."
[21:30] V: Nyar: *sniffle* "You think it's easy, being the Crawling Chaos? You think it's easy, putting in these damn ankh-contacts and doing the eyeliner even when no one's going to show up and need the fear of the sightless vortex of the unimaginable put into them?"
[21:35] Me: Carter: "No, I don't. I never said I did. But since you like putting words in my mouth so much..."
[21:36] V: Nyar: "...Dammit, Carter."
[21:42] Me: Carter: *more moderate voice* "What? You push and you push, and you shouldn't be surprised when one of us 'lesser beings' pushes back."
[21:43] V: Nyar: "It's what I *do*, I'm the Crawling Chaos, I'm *supposed* to be like that."
[21:45] Me: Carter: "Then stop being so pissy when you get a taste of your own medicine."
[21:46] V: Nyar: "I'm *sorry*, all right? What do you want from me, blood?"
[21:50] Me: Carter: "That. That's what I wanted to hear. Was it so hard?"
[21:51] V: Nyar: "Yes! I'm not good at this! I drive people insane, Carter, I don't *apologize* to them." *turns around and looks at him with enormous black ankh-eyes*
[21:51] V: Dez: *steals more popcorn*
[21:53] V: (Days of Our Lovecraft: a running soap opera)
[21:55] Me: (Nahh, I imagine something very quasi Saved By The Bell.'')
[21:55] V: (AHAHA even better)
[21:56] Me: (Carter has to equal Zack.)
[21:56] V: (yes!)
[21:57] V: (and poor Heather, i think she's gonna get thrown over if Carter takes Nyar back.)
[21:57] Me: (Serves her right, the hussy.)
[21:58] V: (Totally. She was just Nyar's tool to make Carter pay attention to him again.)
[21:59] V: (Nyar: *whiny manipulative bitch*)
[21:59] Me: Carter: "Well. We'll have to practice then, won't we?" *smile*
[22:00] V: Nyar: *blinkblink big black eyes* "Oh, Carter."
[22:01] Me: (Carter: *nice guy, shacked up with a whiny, manipulative bitch. Who is also an unimaginable horror from beyond the yaddayadda.*)
[22:01] V: (*dies. Of joy.*)
[22:01] Me: Norman: *hides his ;_; face behind a handful of popcorn*
[22:01] V: Dez: *puts an arm around him*
[22:03] Me: Carter: *opens arms?*
[22:04] Me: Norman: *grumpy-face. But makes up for it with Dez-snuggles*
[22:04] V: Nyar: *clings* "Carter, I'm horrible. I'm sorry."
[22:04] V: Dez: *hugs, back-rub*
[22:10] Me: Carter: *patpat* "Shh, shh. It's alright. We'll figure something out, if you really want to keep on with her."
[22:12] V: Nyar: "No. No, no, I was...I was just being...I wanted to make you jealous. I'm sorry." *cling* "She doesn't know the first *thing* about any of this and...and...and I want you."
[22:13] Me: (Lovecraft: *mach 5 in his grave*)
[22:14] V: (clever people have worked this out and are using him to turn a generator which is currently powering half Boston)
[22:14] Me: (Whoo.)
[22:15] V: (Hey, it started with Derleth and went on from there. Lovecraft-power!)
[22:19] Me: Carter: "You -- oh, Nyar."
[22:19] Me: Norman: *crushed*
[22:19] V: Dez: *sighs and offers scotch*
[22:19] V: Dez: *reminds him of Hermes*
[22:20] V: Nyar: *sniffle, cling* "I missed you."
[22:21] Me: Norman: *grants her a point for that, but still. :( *
[22:21] Me: Carter: *patpat* "So've I. The dream-world hasn't been the same without you."
[22:22] V: Nyar: "R-really? You haven't been messing about with...with anyone? No, forget I asked. I'm sorry."
[22:22] V: Dez: *understands, hugs, leaves alone*
[22:25] Me: Carter: "Not with anyone. I mean, God. Dagon? Do I really come off as having that low of standards?"
[22:26] V: Nyar: *buries face in Carter's shoulder*"No. No. But Kuranes was all....looking pleased with himself and I wondered....I....we weren't talking, really, and..."
[22:30] Me: Carter: *more patpatting, careful about the crown* "Kuranes can be a prick sometimes. You know that. Just because he's stuck in the dream-lands, and I'm not..."
[22:33] V: Nyar: *nods* "I didn't *do* anything with her, Carter. I just...Pickman was there and being stupid and I just blurted it out."
[22:35] Me: Carter: *understanding nod*
[22:36] V: Nyar: *straightens up, eyeliner smudged*
[22:46] Me: Carter: *chuckles a little, tried to de-smudge it. Not very successfully.* "C'mon, now. Look at you. How are you supposed to make the poor fools gibber with your makeup all smeared?"
[22:49] V: Nyar: *blushes, almost invisible under the dark skin* "Damn....Well, maybe I can be a silhouette with glowing eyes. That one works pretty well. --Come home? You can call me whatever you want."
[22:49] V: Dez: *nods, satisfied* It *is* Max Factor, then. Stuff's not waterproof.
[22:54] Me: Carter: *grins* "It does, that. Even Nyarly-woo-woo?"
[22:54] Me: Norman: "Learn something new every day, it seems..."
[22:55] V: Nyar: *blushes deeper*".............yes."
[22:55] V: Dez: Mm. You'd think he'd have learned by now.
[22:57] Me: Norman: "Well, you know wht they say about old slavering hundred-eyed hounds and new tricks..."
[22:57] V: Dez: "Sheesh." *pours scotch*
[22:57] Me: Carter: "...what are we waiting for, then?"
[22:59] V: Nyar: "Nothing." *pulls him close and takes them both off to his unspeakable palace of intrinsic darkness, decorated in an ankh-and-hieroglyph motif*
[22:59] Me: Norman: *scotch!*
[17:56] V: CARTER! IT WAS THE UNNAMABLE!
[17:56] V: No, it was Nyarlathotep!
[17:57] V: "That's your answer to everything. The toilet's backed up? It was Nyarlathotep!"
[17:59] Me: "But it was! Really! He's out to get me, I'm sure of it!"
[17:59] V: "Oh, don't be ridiculous. He's not out to get YOU, he's out to get EVERYBODY."
[18:00] Me: "But ESPECIALLY me."
[18:00] V: "He so is not. He doesn't even LIKE you."
[18:01] Me: *looks hurt*
[18:02] V: "He told me he likes Heather."
[18:03] Me: "...Heather?"
[18:05] V: "He's gonna destroy her utterly and make her as nothing. You're....sorry, Carter, but you're outta luck.
[18:06] Me: "...man. Just when you think you know an Outer God..."
[18:07] V: "I'm sorry you had to find out like this." *manful shoulder-pat*
[18:13] Me: *depressed sigh. And then...* "...so. You think Shub-Niggurath might be up for anything this weekend? New moon and all..."
[18:14] V: "Hey, go for it, man. Never know until you try." *supportive smile*
***
[20:50] V: Nyar: "Shun, then, the outer hells; and stick to the things of your youth." Sound advice.
[20:51] Me: Norman: *looks at his very well-worn Lovecraft anthologies* "...well. That did me absolutely no good."
[20:51] V: Nyar: *pained* Yes, well, I was talking to CARTER.
[20:52] V: Nyar: I find his spindly sticklike legs incredibly alluring.
[20:52] Me: Carter: "Hmph. I'll bet you told Heather exactly the same thing. Ass."
[20:52] V: Nyar: WHAT? How do YOU know about that?
[20:55] Me: Carter: "What, you think word doesn't get around the dream-world? I heard it from Pickman, who heard it from Kuranes..."
[20:55] V: I'm gonna have to do something chaotic to Pickman.
[20:55] Me: Carter: "Hey! He's already turning into a ghoul. Isn't that bad enough?"
[20:56] V: Nyar: *grumblemuttergrumble* Bastard.
[20:59] Me: Carter: "Oh, look who's talking, errand-boy."
[20:59] Me: Norman: *has probably, at some point during all of this, obtained popcorn.*
[20:59] V: Nyar: "Hey, that's low."
[20:59] V: Dez: *joins him, taking notes*
[21:02] Me: Carter: "Heather. Of all the -- Alhazred I could understand. Same with Ozawa. Even him." *gesture to Norman* "But Heather?"
[21:03] V: Nyar: "Look, Carter, I know you're angry, but don't you badmouth Heather, or there will be repercussions of a most maggoty sort. She *understands* me, okay? She *gets* me. Plus she does that thing, with her hair."
[21:07] Me: Carter: "She 'understands' you? How could anyone understand you? You're beyond human comprehension!"
[21:07] V: Nyar: "You see? You don't even *try*."
[21:07] Me: Norman: *leans over to murmur to Dez* "...always interesting, isn't it, to see what Lovecraft left out..."
[21:08] V: Dez: *snags popcorn* "I'm waiting for him to cry and make his eyeliner run."
[21:09] V: Nyar: "Dagon was *right* about you."
[21:10] Me: Carter: "Oh, no. Don't you even bring up Dagon. Don't you even."
[21:10] V: Nyar: "What? Have you been messing about with *him*? Carter, you are such a slut."
[21:12] Me: Carter: "Well, if that isn't the Faceless One calling the kettle black."
[21:13] V: Nyar: "No, seriously. Have you been making time with the ancient philistine fish-god, Carter? I totally can't believe you."
[21:20] Me: Carter: "I have not, for your information. I have cousins in Innsouth, and they invited me for a visit. You know how much there is to do in that damn town, Nyarly. And yes, there was a bit of talk, and he tried to invite me out for dinner, but I declined.* And that was all -- which is more than you can say."
*(Because there are just some beings you don't accept an invite to a 'seafood dinner' from.)
[21:22] V: Nyar: "Don't call me that. I hate it when you call me that. I hate everything. --And for your information everybody knows that Dagon is so totally shacked up with Mr Tentacles himself. *sulks*"
[21:26] Me: Carter: "Nyarly Nyarly Nyarly. I remember there used to be a time you'd let me call you anything."
[21:27] V: Nyar: "Stop it. You're just being cruel." *turns his back*
[21:29] Me: Carter: *half-hearted glare* "Well, maybe if you'd treat me with a little respect every once in a while..."
[21:30] V: Nyar: *sniffle* "You think it's easy, being the Crawling Chaos? You think it's easy, putting in these damn ankh-contacts and doing the eyeliner even when no one's going to show up and need the fear of the sightless vortex of the unimaginable put into them?"
[21:35] Me: Carter: "No, I don't. I never said I did. But since you like putting words in my mouth so much..."
[21:36] V: Nyar: "...Dammit, Carter."
[21:42] Me: Carter: *more moderate voice* "What? You push and you push, and you shouldn't be surprised when one of us 'lesser beings' pushes back."
[21:43] V: Nyar: "It's what I *do*, I'm the Crawling Chaos, I'm *supposed* to be like that."
[21:45] Me: Carter: "Then stop being so pissy when you get a taste of your own medicine."
[21:46] V: Nyar: "I'm *sorry*, all right? What do you want from me, blood?"
[21:50] Me: Carter: "That. That's what I wanted to hear. Was it so hard?"
[21:51] V: Nyar: "Yes! I'm not good at this! I drive people insane, Carter, I don't *apologize* to them." *turns around and looks at him with enormous black ankh-eyes*
[21:51] V: Dez: *steals more popcorn*
[21:53] V: (Days of Our Lovecraft: a running soap opera)
[21:55] Me: (Nahh, I imagine something very quasi Saved By The Bell.'')
[21:55] V: (AHAHA even better)
[21:56] Me: (Carter has to equal Zack.)
[21:56] V: (yes!)
[21:57] V: (and poor Heather, i think she's gonna get thrown over if Carter takes Nyar back.)
[21:57] Me: (Serves her right, the hussy.)
[21:58] V: (Totally. She was just Nyar's tool to make Carter pay attention to him again.)
[21:59] V: (Nyar: *whiny manipulative bitch*)
[21:59] Me: Carter: "Well. We'll have to practice then, won't we?" *smile*
[22:00] V: Nyar: *blinkblink big black eyes* "Oh, Carter."
[22:01] Me: (Carter: *nice guy, shacked up with a whiny, manipulative bitch. Who is also an unimaginable horror from beyond the yaddayadda.*)
[22:01] V: (*dies. Of joy.*)
[22:01] Me: Norman: *hides his ;_; face behind a handful of popcorn*
[22:01] V: Dez: *puts an arm around him*
[22:03] Me: Carter: *opens arms?*
[22:04] Me: Norman: *grumpy-face. But makes up for it with Dez-snuggles*
[22:04] V: Nyar: *clings* "Carter, I'm horrible. I'm sorry."
[22:04] V: Dez: *hugs, back-rub*
[22:10] Me: Carter: *patpat* "Shh, shh. It's alright. We'll figure something out, if you really want to keep on with her."
[22:12] V: Nyar: "No. No, no, I was...I was just being...I wanted to make you jealous. I'm sorry." *cling* "She doesn't know the first *thing* about any of this and...and...and I want you."
[22:13] Me: (Lovecraft: *mach 5 in his grave*)
[22:14] V: (clever people have worked this out and are using him to turn a generator which is currently powering half Boston)
[22:14] Me: (Whoo.)
[22:15] V: (Hey, it started with Derleth and went on from there. Lovecraft-power!)
[22:19] Me: Carter: "You -- oh, Nyar."
[22:19] Me: Norman: *crushed*
[22:19] V: Dez: *sighs and offers scotch*
[22:19] V: Dez: *reminds him of Hermes*
[22:20] V: Nyar: *sniffle, cling* "I missed you."
[22:21] Me: Norman: *grants her a point for that, but still. :( *
[22:21] Me: Carter: *patpat* "So've I. The dream-world hasn't been the same without you."
[22:22] V: Nyar: "R-really? You haven't been messing about with...with anyone? No, forget I asked. I'm sorry."
[22:22] V: Dez: *understands, hugs, leaves alone*
[22:25] Me: Carter: "Not with anyone. I mean, God. Dagon? Do I really come off as having that low of standards?"
[22:26] V: Nyar: *buries face in Carter's shoulder*"No. No. But Kuranes was all....looking pleased with himself and I wondered....I....we weren't talking, really, and..."
[22:30] Me: Carter: *more patpatting, careful about the crown* "Kuranes can be a prick sometimes. You know that. Just because he's stuck in the dream-lands, and I'm not..."
[22:33] V: Nyar: *nods* "I didn't *do* anything with her, Carter. I just...Pickman was there and being stupid and I just blurted it out."
[22:35] Me: Carter: *understanding nod*
[22:36] V: Nyar: *straightens up, eyeliner smudged*
[22:46] Me: Carter: *chuckles a little, tried to de-smudge it. Not very successfully.* "C'mon, now. Look at you. How are you supposed to make the poor fools gibber with your makeup all smeared?"
[22:49] V: Nyar: *blushes, almost invisible under the dark skin* "Damn....Well, maybe I can be a silhouette with glowing eyes. That one works pretty well. --Come home? You can call me whatever you want."
[22:49] V: Dez: *nods, satisfied* It *is* Max Factor, then. Stuff's not waterproof.
[22:54] Me: Carter: *grins* "It does, that. Even Nyarly-woo-woo?"
[22:54] Me: Norman: "Learn something new every day, it seems..."
[22:55] V: Nyar: *blushes deeper*".............yes."
[22:55] V: Dez: Mm. You'd think he'd have learned by now.
[22:57] Me: Norman: "Well, you know wht they say about old slavering hundred-eyed hounds and new tricks..."
[22:57] V: Dez: "Sheesh." *pours scotch*
[22:57] Me: Carter: "...what are we waiting for, then?"
[22:59] V: Nyar: "Nothing." *pulls him close and takes them both off to his unspeakable palace of intrinsic darkness, decorated in an ankh-and-hieroglyph motif*
[22:59] Me: Norman: *scotch!*
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