This log comes to us via Liand of Gurge Rider Daily. Pending repair of Pitri's emkay, the final Gurge Rider chat has been rescheduled to 3 Lovers 12 at Dark or Friday January 30th at 8pm EST.
(7:31:17 PM) #UnderTheSpindle: The topic for #UnderTheSpindle is: Part Three of Gurge Rider Chat coming up! Next, Pitri and Mikasa!
(7:32:03 PM) FreyaPax: You made it! Bad crowd outside?
(7:33:26 PM) Darin [~dfinner@4F7E291B.D606BB30.4419D07D.IP] entered the room.
(7:33:50 PM) ***Liand bows as he slips in with his entourage, looking a little harried. "Hello Freya, it is good to see you again."
(7:34:01 PM) ***FreyaPax smiles
(7:34:10 PM) ***Darin looks around "Pitri still isn't here?" Finds a place to sit.
(7:34:22 PM) FreyaPax: Liand can I get you or your ... friends anything to drink to help soothe your nerves after all that?
(7:35:01 PM) ***Liand glances at the others. "Wine for everyone, please. Thank you."
(7:35:07 PM) ***Liand nods at Darin. "My sentiments exactly."
(7:35:29 PM) Kosmik [~kosmik@NewNet-5FEA7623.pools.spcsdns.net] entered the room.
(7:35:33 PM) FreyaPax: I think everyone has had a hard time getting inside with that group out there.
(7:35:47 PM) FreyaPax: I wanted to put out vats of some sort of sleep it off but got out-voted. Heh
(7:36:00 PM) ***FreyaPax waves at Mik and wanders into the kitchen for wine
(7:37:04 PM) Liand: This is definitely the busiest it has been so far for our series.
(7:37:13 PM) ***FreyaPax returns with a tray full of glasses and starts passing them out
(7:37:18 PM) Darin: With good reason, I think.
(7:37:22 PM) Pretty-face [~pitri@NewNet-5FEA7623.pools.spcsdns.net] entered the room.
(7:37:24 PM) ***Darin grins
(7:37:28 PM) ***Darin beams
(7:38:05 PM) ***Kosmik enters and heads directly to the snack table
(7:38:06 PM) ***FreyaPax smiles and offers Pitri a glass of golden wine as she passes by
(7:38:36 PM) ***Pretty-face takes the wine and gives Freya a big kiss in return
(7:39:02 PM) ***FreyaPax grins widely, gives Pitri a hip bump and heads back to the kitchen
(7:41:37 PM) JikHM [~jik@4F7E291B.D606BB30.4419D07D.IP] entered the room.
(7:42:16 PM) ***JikHM waves as she enters, coming up behind Mikasa to kiss the back of his neck.
(7:42:33 PM) JikHM: Hey there. How is everyone?
(7:42:44 PM) Pretty-face left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(7:43:07 PM) ***FreyaPax hearing Jik's voice sticks her head out of the kitchen door and waves a glass questioningly
(7:43:08 PM) glindafk is now known as glinda
(7:43:25 PM) ***JikHM grins at Freya. "Hey there, beautiful."
(7:43:59 PM) Liand: Liand frowns as his emkay beeps. "I think we're having some minor m2i glitches tonight too, on top of everything else."
(7:44:09 PM) Pretty-face [~pitri@NewNet-5FEA7623.pools.spcsdns.net] entered the room.
(7:44:17 PM) Kosmik left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(7:44:18 PM) ***FreyaPax giggles and passes Jik wine as well
(7:44:34 PM) Liand: "Hello Jik. Nice of you to join us." He drinks. "I hope you didn't get too harassed on the way in."
(7:44:36 PM) ***MadGastro looks around
(7:44:42 PM) ***Darin tries not to be too obviously staring at Pitri.
(7:44:42 PM) MadGastro: Oh, no, the chat!
(7:44:49 PM) FreyaPax: Oh Gust and Gurge, I think I'm going to need something myself
(7:44:52 PM) JikHM: It was no trouble at all.
(7:44:54 PM) ***FreyaPax huffs a little and goes to make tea
(7:45:15 PM) MadGastro: Drat, I had forgotten, I was just about to go out...
(7:45:33 PM) ***Darin grins at MadGastro "Timing and all that."
(7:45:34 PM) glinda: MG: oops
(7:46:30 PM) ***Liand and his entourage descend on Pitri as a group. "Welcome! Welcome Pitri. How are you? Do you need anything?"
(7:46:40 PM) ***JikHM walks around fingering the yarn.
(7:46:51 PM) JikHM: You have such lovely things here.
(7:46:55 PM) glinda: ooooh, that's right, there's *yarn* there
(7:47:12 PM) ***JikHM nods to glinda. "And plenty of it."
(7:47:17 PM) ***FreyaPax laughs, snags Jik by the arm and pulls her aside to show her something a bit special
(7:47:23 PM) Pretty-face left the room (quit: Ping timeout).
(7:47:58 PM) ***Liand frowns as Pitri's emkay crashes.
(7:48:23 PM) Darin: I'm composing an email to CLabs in my head as I sit here.
(7:48:34 PM) Darin: It isn't a terribly friendly one.
(7:49:08 PM) glinda: I suspect they're doing the best they can
(7:49:10 PM) ***FreyaPax returns Jik to the group with a brilliantly colored scarf around her neck
(7:49:20 PM) glinda: I'm amazed that this inter-world communication works at all
(7:49:27 PM) JikHM: Ohhh. this is lovely!
(7:49:42 PM) ***Darin nods to glinda "You have a point."
(7:49:51 PM) Liand: It is rather extraordinary isn't it, glinda? I suppose the arrival of fuges is a bit commonplace to us, but this direct communication is still new.
(7:49:56 PM) FreyaPax: it suits you well juts as I hoped it would
(7:50:01 PM) ***FreyaPax winks
(7:50:14 PM) glinda: I can't even imagine how they make it work
(7:50:36 PM) ***JikHM smiles. "Thank you so much. I love it."
(7:51:02 PM) ***JikHM wraps and re-wraps the scarf around her neck, just to play with it.
(7:51:28 PM) ***FreyaPax kisses Jik's cheek and goes to restock the snack table
(7:51:31 PM) Liand: It suits you, Harbormaster.
(7:51:43 PM) ***JikHM grins at Liand
(7:52:12 PM) Darin: I wish I was watching back when Jik was a rider. Those would have been so much fun to see.
(7:52:23 PM) Darin: Vid is never the same.
(7:52:48 PM) ***Liand calls over the Vikra who travels with him, who begins tinkering with Pitri's emkay, trying to make it work again.
(7:52:57 PM) JikHM: Feh. Get a board. Watching isn't doing.
(7:53:47 PM) ***JikHM continues delightedly fondling her new scarf.
(7:54:45 PM) Liand: At least the availability of video helps our nagara understand what it is that Riders do.
(7:55:00 PM) ***JikHM nods "True"
(7:56:04 PM) JikHM: I used to wear a scarf when riding.
(7:57:11 PM) JikHM: Then one day, I think it was 38th run, I hit fluke tossoff with hard panion suck. I went to wrench to a swap and the scarf caught the wind, and then the boom. Almost broke my neck.
(7:57:15 PM) ***JikHM laughs
(7:57:21 PM) JikHM: After that I went scarfless.
(7:57:48 PM) Liand: Trailing clothing is rather bold.
(7:57:50 PM) FreyaPax: and that is why I don't watch the Riders very much, as much as I like Riders.
(7:58:13 PM) ***JikHM cocks an eyebrow "Because we don't wear scarfs?"
(7:58:14 PM) ***JikHM winks
(7:58:26 PM) ***FreyaPax snorts
(7:59:03 PM) JikHM: But I'm not a rider any more. Now I'm a....um...what's the Tellurian term?
(7:59:29 PM) JikHM: Oh, right. Bureaucrat.
(7:59:32 PM) FreyaPax: Smarter?
(7:59:32 PM) ***FreyaPax laughs
(7:59:35 PM) glinda: *splutter*
(7:59:39 PM) ***MadGastro winces.
(7:59:42 PM) Liand: What's that?
(7:59:44 PM) MadGastro: My sympathies, Jik!
(7:59:53 PM) Liand: Someone who wears a scarf?
(7:59:55 PM) glinda: bureaucrat can have negative connotations...
(7:59:58 PM) ***JikHM grins. "Thanks. Sympathy is appreciated."
(8:00:02 PM) ***JikHM laughs at Liand
(8:00:25 PM) glinda: in the sense of "management against worker"
(8:00:32 PM) JikHM: I don't really know for sure, but I get the impression it's someone who sits in a chair all day while other people have the fun.
(8:00:40 PM) glinda: now that would make sense
(8:01:09 PM) glinda: also thought of as someone who creates "red tape" - artificial obstacles to be gotten through before anything can actually get done
(8:01:37 PM) JikHM: Ohhh. We don't have that term, but we certainly have the concept.
(8:02:05 PM) glinda: It's probably a universal, wherever there are thinking beings *wry*
(8:02:13 PM) JikHM: Sad but true.
(8:02:31 PM) MadGastro: Buraeucrats are the people who do all the paperwork and organizing stuff. Sometimes even paperwork and organizing that doesn't actually need doing, because work expands to fill the person-hours available.
(8:03:14 PM) glinda: and also creates job security, if there's a certain amount of that work that theoretically has to be done, the person involved can keep their job
(8:03:15 PM) JikHM: That sounds like a big part of my job.
(8:03:33 PM) Liand: I know what you mean, MadGastronomer. I think I went a whole 40 hours over my civic this month.
(8:03:36 PM) glinda: thus the negative connotations here, especially when describing government stuff
(8:03:53 PM) JikHM: Liand, I think that's different. I think that's because you wanted to.
(8:04:20 PM) JikHM: But on the positive side, I can wear a scarf.
(8:04:21 PM) glinda: also can be rather... thankless work, if you're doing stuff that needs to be done, but is behind the scenes so most people aren't aware of it
(8:04:21 PM) MadGastro: Yeah, wanting to is not really what we're talking about here
(8:04:30 PM) glinda: they only notice when it's *not* done; then they complain
(8:04:44 PM) ***JikHM nods to glinda with great feeling.
(8:05:16 PM) Liand: What would you do if you found someone else to take your place, Jik?
(8:05:51 PM) JikHM: Listen to lot of music, smoke a lot of hemp, drink a lot of beer, make a lot of love, and do some of the easy, fun rides.
(8:06:06 PM) ***Liand raises his glass to that and drinks.
(8:06:21 PM) ***JikHM raises hers and drains it.
(8:06:45 PM) ***JikHM frowns I might even get Mik to teach me to dive.
(8:07:50 PM) Liand: I'd have thought you had more sense of self-preservation than that, even for a former Rider.
(8:08:12 PM) ***JikHM grins "Mik says some of the dives are safe and easy."
(8:10:20 PM) glinda: is this diving with or without equipment such as underwater breathing apparatus?
(8:10:58 PM) JikHM: From the way Mik talks about it, I think it's without. I think he just holds his breath a long time.
(8:11:08 PM) JikHM: I do know that Mik can hold his breath a long time.
(8:11:14 PM) ***JikHM smiles beatifically
(8:13:19 PM) ***Liand frowns as the Vikra mutters to him quietly, gesturing to a frustrated looking Pitri and a broken looking emkay.
(8:13:51 PM) Liand: Oh dear.
(8:13:59 PM) ***JikHM gives Liand a worried look.
(8:14:42 PM) Liand: I'm afraid that we can't get Pitri's emkay to work. It looks like it needs repairs. I know a good place we can take it...
(8:14:43 PM) ***FreyaPax refills everyone's wine before settling down into a chair with her basket of yarn
(8:14:48 PM) Liand: but I am afraid we have to postpone until tomorrow.
(8:14:53 PM) Darin: Thanks!
(8:15:03 PM) Darin: Drench it.
(8:15:06 PM) FreyaPax: awwwwww Pitri
(8:15:10 PM) ***JikHM sighs
(8:15:14 PM) JikHM: All right.
(8:15:15 PM) glinda: oh no.
(8:15:21 PM) glinda: *sympathy*
(8:15:38 PM) JikHM: Hey, no complaints from me. I have a lovely new scarf.
(8:15:45 PM) glinda: I may wander off and look through my yarn stash to decide what my next project will be...
(8:15:47 PM) ***FreyaPax laughs
(8:16:06 PM) glinda: I'm thinking multi-yarn scarf in shades of teal, 'cause I know I've got a fair amount of that
(8:16:11 PM) Darin: And I had a chance to see Pitri close up again.
(8:16:13 PM) Liand: My apologies. CLabs released some new libraries to deal with that recent security issue and it is making some emkays unstable.
(8:16:14 PM) FreyaPax: Sounds beautiful Glinda
(8:16:24 PM) ***JikHM nods
(8:16:32 PM) glinda: Freya: I gave away a large carton of yarn over the weekend, and barely made a dent in what's hiding around my apartment
(8:16:37 PM) glinda: Freya: thank you!
(8:16:38 PM) ***FreyaPax laughs
(8:16:42 PM) ***Liand nods to the Vikra who leaves with Pitri and Mikasa.
(8:16:49 PM) FreyaPax: I totally understand. Why do you think I actually opened a shop!
(8:16:55 PM) glinda: *peals of laughter*
(8:17:06 PM) glinda: yarn, beads, books...
(8:17:17 PM) JikHM: I guess I'll go back and push some simulated ships around the simulated harbor.
(8:17:22 PM) ***JikHM stands up.
(8:17:26 PM) FreyaPax: hopefully, now that I'm able to get fiber transferred to Andrea there on Tellus, I'll be able to open another market
(8:17:31 PM) ***FreyaPax hugs Jik tightly
(8:17:40 PM) ***JikHM gives FreyaPax a hug
(8:17:45 PM) FreyaPax: always nice to see you. Hope you can come back by tomorrow
(8:17:45 PM) ***JikHM waves
(8:17:46 PM) glinda: I've seen the pictures of that; those colors are beautiful
(8:17:49 PM) JikHM: I'll try.
(8:17:52 PM) MadGastro: Well, at least I don't have to miss the chat.
(8:17:53 PM) ***JikHM walks out the door.
(8:17:55 PM) JikHM left the room (quit: Quit: Leaving).
(8:17:56 PM) glinda: 'night everyone
(8:17:59 PM) glinda is now known as glindafk
(8:18:01 PM) Liand: Goodnight, glinda.
(8:18:03 PM) MadGastro: I'll see you tomorrow, folks
(8:18:05 PM) ***glindafk wanders off
(8:18:07 PM) FreyaPax: night MG!
(8:18:23 PM) ***Darin stands up
(8:18:35 PM) Darin: So long, everyone. See you tomorrow!
(8:18:55 PM) Darin left the room.
(8:19:19 PM) ***Liand waves over the rest of his entourage. The two young women he arrived with detach themselves from the snack table and the group departs.
