[Crimsondude]

Someone also seemed intent on preventing Damon starting a new bloodline (Accidentally? Carelessly? Notoriously?).

Damon is an example of why so few Adult Dragons have ever become Great Dragons.

[psycho835]

They get into high-speed bike racing while drunk/drugged out of their minds and wearing squishy human forms?

[Crimsondude]

Yep

[psycho835]

Talk about crazy college days...

[Crimsondude]

The drunk Fireball trick has claimed legions.


(I wonder if anyone's even old enough to get that reference)

[psycho835]

Sorry, you're gonna have to elaborate.

[Crimsondude]

Sorry, you're gonna have to elaborate.

An errant fireball was the macguffin that led to the whole plot of Revenge of the Nerds.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8FbxMUmUs8

[Circuitbreaker]

I always had the feeling, that Juan Atzcapotzalco could have been a member of that family. I would fit nicely with a corrupted Great Dragon and the discussion in the 2.0 Aztlan Sourcebook. That the name Azcapotzalco means 'ant hill' in Nahuatl is interesting in the sense of bug spirits, but with horrors crawling all over the place, they don't fit in.

[psycho835]

From Ancient Files' section on Aztlan:

:::::[LADY OF THE COURT] How odd.  Why would they do that when it would be so simple just to create a simulacrum or surrogate of some kind?

:::::[THE LAUGHING MAN] Personal experience again?

:::::[JUNGLE CAT] Atzcapotzalco has always been something of an enigma, even when he was still a public figure.  We've received clear reports that he is magically capable and quite proficient; yet when I was in Aztlan on business ten years ago (in my "guise") I actually managed to get close to him for a short time.  I felt a palpable sense of power about him, and yet no effluence of an easily discernible aura.  I thought perhaps it was a double, but all other evidence indicated otherwise.

:::::[WORDSMYTH] I've met him as well, a little less than eight years ago (after Mr. "Rat Dancer" says he "cacked off").  We...had words about certain Aztechnology practices and efforts with regard o the Tir.  He was not amused.  I was not amused.  He is a man of great power, mystic power.  I would have taken him for one of us, but to all cursory examinations he appears simply human.  Inexplicable.

:::::[THE LAUGHING MAN] Never dealt with the man, or whatever.

:::::[LADY OF THE COURT] Could he have some artifact or object?

:::::[WORDSMYTH] Possible, especially considering the area.  Cat, you said that Amazonia has a Locus.  COuld Aztechnology have one as well?

:::::[JUNGLE CAT] Then why the blood rites?

:::::[WORDSMYTH] True.

:::::[THE LAUGHING MAN] Theirs could be corrupt.

:::::[LADY OF THE COURT] A curse on that thought!

:::::[THE BIG 'D'] YOU HAVE GONE OFF THE TRACK HERE.  We shall return to this.

This began in response to voiced rumors that Juan Atzcapotzalco had died nine years previously (in 2048).  Lady of the Court questioned why they would retain Juan in particular, rather than create some sort of substitute that looks just like him.  I don't know what the "personal experience" comment Laughing Man uses means.

Jungle Cat's "guise" might be his metahuman form if he is a shape-changer.

Jungle Cat and Ehran's statements point out some oddities.  For one, Juan appears to be magically capable and in the same range of proficiency as an Immortal Elf...but he appears human.  The fact that he radiates power to those sensitive to it but lacks a discernible aura is very peculiar: if he doesn't have an aura, then he must be masking.  But if he's masking, he shouldn't be broadcasting power.  One possibility may be that if cybermancy was keeping Juan alive: he would create mobile background counts as he moved but retain his masking abilities as a magician.  Or it might be something else, such as an ancient magical artifact of some sort like Lady of the Court suggests..

A Locus, or mel'thelem, is an ancient and powerful magical device of unknown origin, purpose and power; although it appears to be located at a nexus of mana lines and able to empower mighty rituals when activated.  It is unclear why Aztlan would be more likely to have a Locus than any other region, unless they are artifacts of particular inhabitants; such as Great Feathered Serpents.   For the record, Aztlan does excavate a Locus in 2057, shortly before Dunkelzahn's death.

Apparently, with a Locus the blood magics that Aztechnology makes use of would not be necessary; Laughing Man says that it may indeed be necessary if the Locus is corrupt.  I am not sure how this could be accomplished or what its effects would be (save t o corrupt magicians that come into contact with it), but as the device contains veins of orichalcum, which may be tainted by Horrors, then it is possible.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Did Harlequin hint that Lady of the court (Brane Deigh) is a substitute for Alachia?

Awesome Harlequin is awesome

[psycho835]

Well, I seem to remember that she is (was?) mentored by Alachia, so it seems possible.

And Harlequin isn't just awesome, he is crazy awesome!

Also, looking through the prism of trying (and failing) to get the students to pay attention to the class during my recent teaching practice, I find Dunkie's attempts to do the same with a bunch of several millenia old uber-powerful IE's EVEN MORE hilarious than the first time I read that.

[Crimsondude]

And yet a simple bomb did him in.

[MijRai]

And yet a simple bomb did him in.

That's if the bomb was all that simple. 

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Call it a 'self-sacrifice'.  After all, we know what happened; the only real question (for the players) is how it was done - if that's even a question.

[Crimsondude]

I meant Juan Azcapotzalco.