Douglas Sharper Visits The Great Tree Hood
(08/01 22:23:01) Douglas Sharper: Rils , how are you?
(08/01 22:23:03) Annacat: Yes, it’s private
(08/01 22:23:05) Rils: Doug! good to see you!
(08/01 22:23:09) Douglas Sharper: The same.
(08/01 22:23:10) janaba: cool :-)
(08/01 22:23:11) Rils: I’m great.
(08/01 22:23:12) Moiety Jean: Doug, I’m glad you’re safe
(08/01 22:23:18) Rils: Been a long time, glad yer still alive
(08/01 22:23:19) Douglas Sharper: Me too.
(08/01 22:23:27) Moiety Jean: Ok, the hood is private.. what’s the deal?
(08/01 22:23:28) Yellowdog: Hello again Sir!
(08/01 22:23:39) Moiety Jean: We’re going to get a mob. Can we move to Delin ?
(08/01 22:23:42) Rils: so, whats with the good vs. bad bahro thing?
(08/01 22:23:56) Moiety Jean: Sorry for the trouble, but this is going to get bad fast
(08/01 22:24:06) Cycreim: Snug as a bug now.
(08/01 22:24:17) Cycreim: I think this is all we’re getting.
(08/01 22:24:29) Annacat: Cool
(08/01 22:24:29) Rils: ok,
(08/01 22:24:37) Moiety Jean: Can we move it to Delin?
(08/01 22:24:45) Douglas Sharper: What did you Great Tree people need?
(08/01 22:24:49) Douglas Sharper: Want?
(08/01 22:25:01) Rils: so here’s the thing…
(08/01 22:25:11) Douglas Sharper: Yes, Rils.
(08/01 22:25:13) Yellowdog: Sharper I wanted to thank you for all your hard work!
(08/01 22:25:18) Moiety Jean: Brian’s going to be sorry he missed this. We were hoping to set up a meeting with you later today.
(08/01 22:25:21) janaba: yes, right
(08/01 22:25:25) Rils: We realize that not everyone is a fan of what has transpired on Noloben and since you’ve returned.
(08/01 22:25:36) Douglas Sharper: Not everyone is a fan of anything.
(08/01 22:25:40) janaba: just want to see you safe and telling you, we’re behind you :-)
(08/01 22:25:42) Douglas Sharper: In case you haven’t noticed.
(08/01 22:25:45) Cycreim: You can say that again.
(08/01 22:25:45) Douglas Sharper: Thank you.
(08/01 22:25:47) Rils: but we understand that sometimes things need to happen, and we want to support you in the future path you take.
(08/01 22:25:48) Douglas Sharper: I appreciate that Rils. I figured I could count on you.
(08/01 22:25:52) Moiety Jean: You went to Noloben and that is what we wanted… to find out about the Bahro.
(08/01 22:25:55) Rils: I know the Great Tree has worked closely with you in the past, and we want to continue to do so.
(08/01 22:25:57) Douglas Sharper: And your friends.
(08/01 22:26:14) Cycreim: Hrm.
(08/01 22:26:16) Rils: Large crowds are tough to get information across to – but we *do* need information!
(08/01 22:26:17) Douglas Sharper: I appreciate that but I’m no longer interested in overturning the DRC.
(08/01 22:26:23) Douglas Sharper: Those were the old days.
(08/01 22:26:28) Cycreim: Neither are we.
(08/01 22:26:30) Moiety Jean: We’re not either, Doug
(08/01 22:26:30) Rils: right.
(08/01 22:26:33) Annacat: Well, The Great Tree has moved on too
(08/01 22:26:34) Douglas Sharper: Good.
(08/01 22:26:40) Douglas Sharper: Very well.
(08/01 22:26:47) Moiety Jean: The Bahro are the concern now.
(08/01 22:26:49) Cycreim: Things change, as you know.
(08/01 22:26:49) Rils: we need the drc now, we recognize that.
(08/01 22:27:09) Rils: the situation is different now. You know things that can help us all.
(08/01 22:27:27) Douglas Sharper: okay….
(08/01 22:27:31) Douglas Sharper: What do you want to know?
(08/01 22:27:32) Annacat: And we are prepared to help you too, should you need it
(08/01 22:27:39) Douglas Sharper: The time will come.
(08/01 22:27:42) Moiety Jean: If you want support, if you have something you need others to do, we’re here.
(08/01 22:27:51) Douglas Sharper: Thank you.
(08/01 22:27:57) Moiety Jean: Please don’t forget.
(08/01 22:28:13) janaba: right :-)
(08/01 22:28:13) Douglas Sharper: The only support is this: there are those who don’t understand the monsters that are out there.
(08/01 22:28:18) Rils: The problem is, we don’t know exactly what is going on, so we don’t know how to act.
(08/01 22:28:24) Douglas Sharper: The Bahro are not the peaceful creatures that you are seeing.
(08/01 22:28:24) Yellowdog: It would be great to have the spyroom, even tho it is nolonger possisioed to spy…
(08/01 22:28:27) Rils: help us to understand them.
(08/01 22:28:28) Moiety Jean: If you can tell us anything now, so that we can be better prepared to deal with the Bahro, we’re listening.
(08/01 22:28:30) Douglas Sharper: And you have to trust me.
(08/01 22:28:31) Cycreim: Yes.
(08/01 22:28:33) Douglas Sharper: I have seen them all.
(08/01 22:28:38) Thend: ALL Bahro?
(08/01 22:28:41) Douglas Sharper: there are good Bahro – of course.
(08/01 22:28:44) Moiety Jean: You have the experience. We do trust you.
(08/01 22:28:46) Thend nods his head
(08/01 22:28:51) Rils: we do trust you. but can you be a little more… forthcoming? ;)
(08/01 22:28:57) Douglas Sharper: And those are the ones you are seeing. But even those, you are seeing what they want you to see.
(08/01 22:29:06) Annacat: Have you gottenany insight into their conflict?
(08/01 22:29:10) Cycreim: Like the Bahro on the imager.
(08/01 22:29:10) Douglas Sharper: They are watching. Learning. Even as I did, I would assume.
(08/01 22:29:15) janaba: yes we’ll trust you
(08/01 22:29:20) Moiety Jean: brb
(08/01 22:29:25) Rils: what do the bahro want with us?
(08/01 22:29:32) Douglas Sharper: Trying to understand what our role is. I’m sure I played a part in that, if I’m to be honest.
(08/01 22:29:48) Cycreim nods his head
(08/01 22:29:49) Rils: our role isn’t necessarily to supplant them though…
(08/01 22:29:51) Douglas Sharper: I went there first and involved myself. Although, only after the death of Wheely.
(08/01 22:30:00) Moiety Jean: And Doug, Brian would also like you to know, he still considers you a friend, even though a lot has changed.
(08/01 22:30:01) Douglas Sharper: Our role is to help where we can.
(08/01 22:30:04) Yellowdog: Have you encounterd any other than yesterday?
(08/01 22:30:10) Thend: Help?
(08/01 22:30:14) Rils: how can we help?
(08/01 22:30:15) Douglas Sharper: This is a war. If the evil Bahro win, we will all die. It’s as simple as that.
(08/01 22:30:27) Annacat: Why do they want us to die?
(08/01 22:30:29) Rils: what is the reason for the war?
(08/01 22:30:29) Thend: Why are they fighting?
(08/01 22:30:37) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know.
(08/01 22:30:42) Douglas Sharper: There are obviously two sides.
(08/01 22:30:52) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know what lies at the root of their battles.
(08/01 22:31:03) Douglas Sharper: But there is something deep.
(08/01 22:31:07) Thend nods his head
(08/01 22:31:10) Rils: so how do we know ‘good” and “bad”?
(08/01 22:31:10) Douglas Sharper: And worth dying for.
(08/01 22:31:21) Nadnerb: he knows that some saved him..
(08/01 22:31:40) Douglas Sharper: The evil are aggresive. Quick. Cunning. You can see it in their eyes.
(08/01 22:31:47) Rils: but they’ve tried to kill you… how can you be so sure they are worth dying for?
(08/01 22:31:48) Douglas Sharper: There is a darkness to them that the good ones do not carry.
(08/01 22:31:52) Moiety Jean: back
(08/01 22:31:55) Rils: hmm….
(08/01 22:31:56) Douglas Sharper: There are no markings.
(08/01 22:32:03) Cycreim: Will the bad ones try to trick us into thinking they’re good?
(08/01 22:32:03) Douglas Sharper: There are no distinct actions.
(08/01 22:32:04) Moiety Jean: Can they fly, doug?
(08/01 22:32:11) Rils: but by the time you can see the blues of their eyes, it’s too late, eh?
(08/01 22:32:13) Cycreim: Or are they too far gone?
(08/01 22:32:15) janaba: wb MJ :-)
(08/01 22:32:16) Douglas Sharper: I know it’s hard to understand but if you see the evil ones, you will know.
(08/01 22:32:22) Douglas Sharper: You will tell the difference.
(08/01 22:32:39) Cycreim: We’ll keep an eye out.
(08/01 22:32:40) Rils: but it’s only good ones in the city at this point?
(08/01 22:32:43) Thend: Do you know if we have seen any evil ones yet? Like in Watchers yesterday?
(08/01 22:32:44) Douglas Sharper: Correct.
(08/01 22:32:47) Douglas Sharper: Yes, they fly.
(08/01 22:32:57) Rils: why haven’t the bad ones attacked, do you know?
(08/01 22:32:59) Annacat: I’ve seen pictures of them in Relto. Should we be concerned over that?
(08/01 22:33:01) Douglas Sharper: And do all kinds of things that you have not seen. You are witnessing a taste of their power.
(08/01 22:33:09) Moiety Jean: I wonder why they need to fly if they’ve always had the ability to link at will… that doesn’t make sense
(08/01 22:33:16) Douglas Sharper: I’ve heard there are some of you who think they are afraid of you. Ha!
(08/01 22:33:18) Yellowdog: And, the Bahro linked the decesed to the pub yesterday?
(08/01 22:33:21) Douglas Sharper: Nothing could be further from the truth.
(08/01 22:33:32) Moiety Jean: I’m assuming nothing about the Bahro at this point.
(08/01 22:33:39) Rils: so they are studying us now… our strengths, our weaknesses, our ability to learn and react…
(08/01 22:33:43) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know why the good Bahro brought the body. Perhaps they were making a statment to me.
(08/01 22:33:45) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know.
(08/01 22:33:54) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know.
(08/01 22:33:54) Rils: was it a good or bad you killed?
(08/01 22:33:56) Moiety Jean: You’re supplying us with the only info I’m accepting as fact.
(08/01 22:33:59) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know.
(08/01 22:34:09) Rils: sigh.
(08/01 22:34:16) Akiva: forgive me if I’m a little skeptical, but we have only your word for all this. Is there no other way to corroborate this information about the factions and the war?
(08/01 22:34:20) dcos: The important thing though is that you got back alright.
(08/01 22:34:26) Cycreim: Well despite not knowing, you’ve given us a lot to work with here…
(08/01 22:34:31) Thend: Douglas, thank you for being so frank about all this
(08/01 22:34:31) Douglas Sharper: Be skeptical.
(08/01 22:34:32) Annacat: So now… we wait?
(08/01 22:34:49) Rils: do we try to work with the good bahro in the meantime?
(08/01 22:34:50) Cycreim: Well, we watch, Anna.
(08/01 22:34:53) Moiety Jean: How long will you stay and fight?
(08/01 22:34:59) Yellowdog: And your return trip, will you be leaving soon? How long do you plan on staying?
(08/01 22:35:08) Douglas Sharper: As long as I can.
(08/01 22:35:10) Moiety Jean: Till the death? ::cringe::
(08/01 22:35:21) Douglas Sharper: If it comes to that. I owe them.
(08/01 22:35:25) Akiva: May I ask what you hope to accomplish?
(08/01 22:35:36) Douglas Sharper: What any soldier hopes to accomplish.
(08/01 22:35:37) Moiety Jean: We want to be able to see you again.. we need you to tell us what to do to help.
(08/01 22:35:39) Douglas Sharper: Victory.
(08/01 22:35:41) Rils: Does the supposed “tablet” play into any of this?
(08/01 22:35:44) Akiva: Victory, then?
(08/01 22:35:55) Douglas Sharper: Doing his or her part for that cause.
(08/01 22:36:04) Cycreim: Right
(08/01 22:36:04) Rils: there are rumors of a tablet that controls them…
(08/01 22:36:15) Douglas Sharper: A tablet?
(08/01 22:36:16) dcos: Is there nothing we can do to help you mister.sharper?
(08/01 22:36:28) Cycreim: That was a while ago, Rils…
(08/01 22:36:32) Yellowdog: Can you leave us the spyroom, in case you dont come back?
(08/01 22:36:36) Rils: rumors…
(08/01 22:36:46) Douglas Sharper: I know of nothing that controls them.
(08/01 22:36:50) Rils: nothing more.
(08/01 22:36:50) Thend: Is their enslavement acurrate in the form Yeesha inferred?
(08/01 22:36:54) Rils: fair enough.
(08/01 22:36:56) Whilyam: Sharper. Why are you going back?
(08/01 22:37:04) Thend: 10,000 years, etc, by the D’ni?
(08/01 22:37:10) Douglas Sharper: I’m sure Yeesha wouldn’t lie.
(08/01 22:37:25) Thend: Interesting
(08/01 22:37:28) Cycreim: Anyway, we’ve got your back on the home front, Sharper. If anything happens here that could help you there…
(08/01 22:37:36) Douglas Sharper: Thank you.
(08/01 22:37:43) Rils: have you continued your journey with Yeesha since the first restoration?
(08/01 22:37:46) Whilyam: Sharper?
(08/01 22:37:55) janaba: yeah :-)
(08/01 22:37:58) Cycreim: Whilyam, shhhh.
(08/01 22:38:09) Douglas Sharper: Not sure what you mean Rils.
(08/01 22:38:20) Whilyam: No. Sharper, don’t you understand what’s happened?
(08/01 22:38:32) Rils: Phil spoke of further journeys, further lessons to learn…
(08/01 22:38:42) Cycreim shakes his head
(08/01 22:38:48) Moiety Jean: Will you be in contact with anyone back here while you’re in Noloben?
(08/01 22:39:02) dcos: Whilyan I’m sure Douglas understands a great deal more than you do.
(08/01 22:39:10) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know of further journeys. I’m also learning though.
(08/01 22:39:13) Douglas Sharper: No.
(08/01 22:39:18) Rils: ok
(08/01 22:39:22) Thend: Douglas, do you have any specific strategy in the War?
(08/01 22:39:39) Rils: how should we react to the bahro visiting the cavern, besides “staying away from them”?
(08/01 22:40:26) Douglas Sharper: Carry on as normal. Visit other Ages. Let them see you in your normal states – not flockign to them like some kind of caged animal.
(08/01 22:40:45) janaba: good
(08/01 22:40:45) Akiva: I need to learn D’ni for friend real fast here
(08/01 22:40:49) Douglas Sharper: They are not here to be your pets.
(08/01 22:41:03) Rils: and hopefully not our masters, either…
(08/01 22:41:04) Douglas Sharper: To pose for photos.
(08/01 22:41:06) Moiety Jean: What if they seem interested in communicating? Should we try?
(08/01 22:41:10) Cycreim: We’re the animals in THEIR zoo, not the other way around, I guess.
(08/01 22:41:19) Douglas Sharper: Agreed Rils.
(08/01 22:41:28) Moiety Jean: Do you think it will do any good?
(08/01 22:41:29) Douglas Sharper: I don’t think the ones here have any intention of being our masters. The others….
(08/01 22:41:34) Rils: I think that’s what some are afraid of.
(08/01 22:42:16) Yellowdog: I know someone asked in the pub, but I dident see… Were there any D’ni in Nobelen?
(08/01 22:42:16) Cycreim: Well, we’re in good hands so far.
(08/01 22:42:22) Moiety Jean: (can you still hear me, Doug?)
(08/01 22:42:49) Rils: (popular guy I guess… lol playing with his ki)
(08/01 22:42:55) Whilyam: When the Sharper love-fest is over, may I ask a question?
(08/01 22:42:58) janaba: :-)
(08/01 22:42:59) Douglas Sharper: Sorry, had to read a note.
(08/01 22:43:04) Douglas Sharper: I do need to get going.
(08/01 22:43:07) Rils: no worries.
(08/01 22:43:13) Yellowdog: see above ^
(08/01 22:43:16) Cycreim: Thanks a lot for the chat.
(08/01 22:43:17) Douglas Sharper: Not sure there ever was a love fest so ask away Wil.
(08/01 22:43:25) Rils: mostly we just wanted to express our support, and ask what we can do to help.
(08/01 22:43:29) Rils: stay in touch with us.
(08/01 22:43:34) Douglas Sharper: Will do.
(08/01 22:43:38) Thend: Douglas, thanks again, best of luck
(08/01 22:43:39) Yellowdog thanks you very much!
(08/01 22:43:43) Moiety Jean: It’s not a love-fest… just an opportunity to speak to Douglas without a giant crowd slinging mud.
(08/01 22:43:47) Douglas Sharper: What?
(08/01 22:43:47) Whilyam: Don’t you think the ‘good’ Bahro’s actions suggest they don’t want others to help?
(08/01 22:43:54) janaba: thaks Doug :-)
(08/01 22:44:02) Douglas Sharper: No I don’t. If I did, I wouldn’t be going there to help.
(08/01 22:44:09) Whilyam: Obviously
(08/01 22:44:14) Cycreim: Told!
(08/01 22:44:15) Whilyam: But what else could it suggest?
(08/01 22:44:15) Douglas Sharper: Then why did you ask?
(08/01 22:44:18) Rils: Doug, have you communicated with the good bahro?
(08/01 22:44:28) Douglas Sharper: In part…
(08/01 22:44:40) Rils: what have they shared?
(08/01 22:44:46) Douglas Sharper: They are intelligent – no doubts about that.
(08/01 22:44:52) Cycreim nods his head
(08/01 22:44:57) Yellowdog: Sorry to ask again but any D’ni alive in Nobelen?
(08/01 22:45:00) dcos: How did you manage to communicate? Verbally or otherwise
(08/01 22:45:05) Douglas Sharper: Not that I saw Yellowdog.
(08/01 22:45:16) Yellowdog: :)
(08/01 22:45:20) Douglas Sharper: Body language. Basic stuff. Primal. I don’t speak their language and they don’t speak mine.
(08/01 22:45:31) Whilyam: So why do you think the good one blocked you?
(08/01 22:45:33) Cycreim: Yellowdog, I think Marie said a while back that the survivor on Noloben was gone.
(08/01 22:45:34) Moiety Jean: I wonder if they understand any d’ni…
(08/01 22:45:35) Rils: we’ve experienced some of that here.
(08/01 22:45:43) Rils: copying body language.
(08/01 22:45:46) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know if a good one did block me.
(08/01 22:45:56) Whilyam: Why was its body broght
(08/01 22:46:01) Douglas Sharper: I don’t know.
(08/01 22:46:04) Whilyam: Why was no one hurt, Douglas?
(08/01 22:46:07) Cycreim: If they don’t speak our language, then I wonder who inscribed those rocks in Minkata.
(08/01 22:46:14) Douglas Sharper: No one hurt where?
(08/01 22:46:14) Rils: yeesha, perhaps?
(08/01 22:46:15) Thend: Doglas, there’s English language on the Minkata stone, who wrote that and why? Good or Bad Bahro?
(08/01 22:46:16) Moiety Jean: Good point, Cyc
(08/01 22:46:22) Whilyam: …
(08/01 22:46:26) Whilyam: The pub, remember?
(08/01 22:46:36) Douglas Sharper: There are good oens here – as I’ve already said. No bad ones.
(08/01 22:46:47) Whilyam: They brought the body, you know that.
(08/01 22:46:50) Rils: it’s just a matter of time, I suppose
(08/01 22:46:51) Cycreim: Not saying it was the Bahro, but… hmm. Anyway, sorry. Speculation.
(08/01 22:46:53) Moiety Jean: If bad ones show up, do we have a prayer?
(08/01 22:46:58) dcos: Any gestures that we can use Douglas? I mean … just in case,
(08/01 22:46:58) Douglas Sharper: No.
(08/01 22:47:05) Whilyam: No what?
(08/01 22:47:05) Yellowdog: And I thank you Doug for trying to keep it that way!
(08/01 22:47:09) Douglas Sharper: Unless the good ones protect us.
(08/01 22:47:10) Rils: well, at least he’s honest!
(08/01 22:47:13) Akiva: bowing worked a few minutes ago
(08/01 22:47:14) Douglas Sharper: Which they often do.
(08/01 22:47:22) Douglas Sharper: That is our only hope.
(08/01 22:47:34) Whilyam: So why do you think the one you shot wasn’t good?
(08/01 22:47:42) Douglas Sharper: We had all better hope that they win this war.
(08/01 22:47:43) Moiety Jean: I wonder if our attempts at communicating will persuade the good bahro to try to protect us from the bad.
(08/01 22:47:52) Douglas Sharper: I need to go.
(08/01 22:47:53) Whilyam: If it was ‘evil’ why didn’t it attack you, not block its buddy
(08/01 22:47:54) Rils: How can we help them win the war?
(08/01 22:47:56) Douglas Sharper: Good day to you all.
(08/01 22:48:01) Whilyam: –bathrooms down the hall
(08/01 22:48:03) Cycreim: Alright, thanks Doug. Good luck.
(08/01 22:48:03) Douglas Sharper (I’m on the surface, be back in a minute):
(08/01 22:48:04) Nadnerb salutes
(08/01 22:48:05) Akiva: Thanks for the information, Mr Sharper
(08/01 22:48:07) Moiety Jean: Thanks for coming, Doug. Stay safe. Eyes in the back of your head.