Got a partial transcript for the second chat. Got all mixed up at the end sorry. Perhaps someone can help sort it.
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<Habeas2>: Woops!
<xtrahmxwohld>: oversleep?
<Habeas2>: Running errands
<megatrons2nd>: you missed me
<megatrons2nd>: I still made it
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<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: Allo, Herb. Allo, Blakist scum.
<Habeas2>: Just
to let everyone know: To make up for my oversight, tonight's chat will
run for two hours! I apologize for this inconvenience.
<TheMaster>: Hey, what's up. Can you belive I got a busy signal on the super-HPG here?
<Cavalier>: Announcing that on the CBT board? Might draw in some of the people who left earlier.
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: @Herb: Hex Pack: Cities and Roads is great. Can't wait for the next one.
<xtrahmxwohld>: what is the next Hex Pack? Has that been decided?
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: @TheMaster: Serves you right.
<Habeas2>: There. Announcement posted in all of the usual spots...
<Habeas2>: Ok, NOW in the usual spots
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: @xtrahmxwohld: I thought it was Hills and Trees or something like that...
<Habeas2>: So,
let's just presume I already gave all of the usual usual spliel about
being nice, being courteous, reminding you that I can kick/ban you from
the channel, and all of that business
<Habeas2>: This is a special live in-characetr chat featuring the Word of Blake Master and myself.
<Habeas2>: Ask your questions; neither of us are afraid.
<TheMaster>: Speak for yourself. The weight of history itself bears down upon me.
<Cavalier>: Biggest regret about the Jihad? For both of you.
<megatrons2nd>: What goodies does the WoB have for my precious LAM's?
<Habeas2>: Once
again, I apologize for the dela, but I was running errands for my
father, who is currently in the hospital, and I lost track of time.
<megatrons2nd>: family first Herb
<xtrahmxwohld>: how's your Dad doing?
<Habeas2>: Xtrahmxwohld - The next planned Hex Pack is Mountains and Canyons
<Sarcasmo>: What has TheMaster been up during the Jihad?
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: I was close...
<Orin>: Congrats on TRO: Prototypes. Do you start planning the next TRO straight away, or do you get a few months off?
<TheMaster>: Cavalier
- I regret nothing about the Jihad--save maybe for the fact that I
failed to properly determine which Transfers were supposed to bring
about the new age until much later.
<Orin>: (off from TROs, not from work
<Habeas2>: Cavalier - I mainly regret not being allowed to kill Victor Steiner-Davion in the opening volleys.
<TheMaster>: Megatrons2nd
- Sadly, what LAM technologies we were returning to production were
destroyed by Stone and his coalition when they seized Terra--and by the
Regulans when they demonstrated less than optimal restraint during their
Gibson counterattack.
<Habeas2>: Xtramxwohld
- My father is presently bedridden, and facing the prospect of surgery
in the very near future to restore blood flow in his legs.
<Orin>: TheMaster: Do you know Stone's original identity?
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - What have I been up to? Who do you think has been directing the whole thing?
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Wait; that's too presumptuous of me. Of course, I haven't directed the WHOLE thing; I had plenty of help.
<megatrons2nd>: Dang I was hoping to defect and become a LAM pilot for the order.
<MajorTom>: Master:
its understood that your army was initially aimed at the Clanners
before Steiner, Davion, and Laio ruined it for all of us. Any other
plans up your sleeve to rid the Sphere of them?
<Sarcasmo>: TheMaster: I thought that was left to your minions while you followed "other" pursuits..
<Charlie_Tango>: To TheMaster: In your words, what were the different Transfers (First Transfer, Second Transfer, etc.)?
<Habeas2>: Orin - I've already outlined and identified the designs going into the next TRO. I will need to start making the designs soon.
<TheMaster>: Orin - Stone's original identity is irrelevant to me.
<megatrons2nd>: Herb is there any plans for fan submissions aside those from Battlecorp
<TheMaster>: Megatrons2nd - Well, if Cameron hadn't gone and squandered the finished products in his lazy defense of Terra, you might have.
<Orin>: Herb: Do you use any special tools when doing designs, or straight up pen and paper development?
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: TheMaster:
Is it true that the failure of the second Star League was actually a
WoB manipulation in order to give you all an excuse to run rampant over
the armies in the Inner Sphere?
<TheMaster>: MajorTom
- At this time, the role I was destined to play in the dawning of the
next age of enlightenment is passing; it will be for others to deal with
the lingering threat of the Clans, before they bring darkness to all.
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo
- Once the righteous war began, the time for my other projects fell to
others instead. Would that I could have cloned myself to ensure all went
as it should, but alas, I am but one of many pawns to history.
<Orin>: TheMaster: Where do you see the Inner Sphere in 100 years time?
<TheMaster>: Charlie_Tango
- An excellent question, but I have learned not to broadcast my
thoughts until the proper time. This is not yet that time. My sincere
apologies.
<Sarcasmo>: TheMaster: did you forsee someone like stone uniting the Sphere against you?
<Habeas2>: Megatrons2nd - Fan submissions? Directly into sourcebooks? No, not at this time
<Orin>: What year is this chat occurring?
<Habeas2>: Orin - Most of it is straight pen and papaer, leaving BV computations to others
<Terminax>: The Master: Did Alfirk or any other of the deep periphery play roles in the Jihad?
<Orin>: (the IC part)
<TheMaster>: Azakael - Not even remotely.
<megatrons2nd>: I thought some battlecorp submissions got used from a contest, was I mistaken?
<Charlie_Tango>: To
Herb: Right now, TRO3067 is the big gap in the availability of TROs
and Records Sheets, and also in the MUL. Do TPTB have plans to resolve
this gap in the near term or is that a much more future project.?
<TheMaster>: Orin
- I would hope that the Inner Sphere 100 years hence will be enjoying
the hard-won fruits of all of its suffering, a new Age of Enlightenment,
greater than even the original Star League brought to us. I can only
hope our efforts were enough to stem the darkness that was to come
otherwise.
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Yes. Yes, I most certainly did.
<Habeas2>: Orin - If I had to fix a year, judging by the Master's discussion, I'd say... 3080-ish.
<megatrons2nd>: is stone really a WoB plant?
<Habeas2>: Megatrons2nd - Erm, which submissions? WHich contest?
<Habeas2>: Charlie_Tango - Yes.
<Sarcasmo>: TheMaster: So Stone is a WoB plant used to direct the Sphere and was your true goal (and success!) of The Master!
<Habeas2>: Megatrons2nd - No.
<TheMaster>: Megatrons2nd - I think he was asking me there, Beas!
<Habeas2>: Master - Ooops. Sorry.
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Read my text: Stone is NOT one of mine!
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: Yeah, stone prefers waffles for breakfast, not toast.
<Orin>: TheMaster: Of course you're so cunning that you'd have to say that Stone wasn't one of yours even if he was
<megatrons2nd>: just prior to 3085 and some of the designs turned in were remarkably similar to the old is the new new section
<Sarcasmo>: TheMaster is wise
<TheMaster>: (Seriously! Next, they'll be saying we're harboring sentient aliens in the North American desert or something!)
<MajorTom>: The truth is out there!
<megatrons2nd>: No we were transfered to Indiana
<TheMaster>: Orin - Now you're not making any sense at all...
<Sarcasmo>: Space Chickens?
<TheMaster>: Habeas2 - Are they always like this?
<Habeas2>: TheMaster - Yyyyeah. Sometimes.
<Charlie_Tango>: TheMaster:
When recruiting those who became your Manei Domeni, your Had, what did
you promise them to get them to give up their humanity and become more
machine than man, twisted and evil?
<Habeas2>: Did I catch up on everyone's questions here?
<JoeChummer>: Hello, all
<Sarcasmo>: Habeas2 What plans do you have for "modifying" the dark age setting
<TheMaster>: Charlie_Tango
- "Evil" is such a subjective term. I recall there were times when the
Capellans were "evil", when the Periphery was "evil", when eating red
meat on Fridays was "evil"... Keep your delusions of "good" and "evil".
The Domini were promised nothing more or less than what they received...
<Habeas2>: Habeas2 - Aside from using the standard BattleTech rules in said setting? Nothing more than is absolutely necessary.
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: Capellans are still evil...
<TheMaster>: Habeas2 - I was still talking here!
<Habeas2>: TheMaster - Okay, okay! Keep your circuits cool!
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: ... but their c-bills are good.
<megatrons2nd>: How dothe triped super heavy Mechs walk? Balance looks precarious at best so any real speed looks almost impossible
<TheMaster>: Charlie_Tango
- To answer your question, the Domini were given the means best suited
to them to keep back the darkness that history was guiding mankind
toward, the means to guide mankind to a new Age of Enlightenment.
<Sarcasmo>: how prevalent is the former Clan Wolverine in the WoB?
<Habeas2>: Megatrrons2nd - We've yet to publish those game rules, but one thing is very likely: "speed" is not the Colossals' strong suit.
<JoeChummer>: Herb: Was Nicholas Kerensky prescient?
<ColonelSpecter>: TheMaster was your plan at first for your Domini really to free the Inner Sphere from the evil of the clans?
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Not one bit. Kurita LIED to you!
<Habeas2>: JoeChummer - Prescient?
<Sarcasmo>: Then how do you explain Wolverine WarShips in your TO&E?
<JoeChummer>: I
was looking through TW, and the section on pg 35 from Nicky K's
"papers" mentions OmniMechs and Elementals, neither of which had been
invented before his death.
<TheMaster>: ColonelSpector - Yes
<megatrons2nd>: Do the WoB ever use Protomechs? The Implants used be the Domini could theoretically be used to pilot a Protomech or similar
<Sarcasmo>: JoeChummer-if your read the whole bit in TechManual Phelan discusses the Clans editing his work
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Prove that we HAVE Wolverine WarShips in our fleet!
<JoeChummer>: So
the whole "Each MechWarrior shall form a Point. In the absence of an
OmniMech..." bit is just Nicholas being deconstructed by bad Clan
editors?
<ColonelSpecter>: Then
why not tell the Inner Sphere that would be your gift to them if they
didn't disband the Star League instead of trying to kill them all?
<Habeas2>: JoeChummer - Let me look that up.
<Habeas2>: JoeChummer - Or, um, what Sarcasmo said there
<TheMaster>: Megatrons2nd - We looked into it...
<Sarcasmo>: So if there is no WoB-Wolverine connection, who populates the hidden worlds?
<Cavalier>: So,
anything to say to critics in the former FWL who allege cybernetics
destroy humanity, and point to yourself and your ancestor Gerald as
proof?
<TheMaster>: ColonelSpecter
- Consider for a moment, the following "factions" that were part of the
Second Star league: Clan Wolf in Exile, Clan Nova Cat, Wolf's Dragoons.
Notice something there?
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo
- Who are you going to put your faith in? A Kuritan scion known for
hedonism in a realm of austerity and brutal social controls, or the
guardians of communications, who revealed many secrets to you even the
secularized ComStar conveniently left off the books?
<Charlie_Tango>: TheMaster:
At times during the Jihad, it seemed as if the Word of Blake forecaes
and the Manei Domeni forces were uncoordimnated, or even working at
cross purposes. This even erupted into open warfare at times near the
end. Was this just mere internal dissention or a power struggle over
the leadership between St Jamais and Apollyon?
<JoeChummer>: TheMaster: Is it true that if you recruit enough members into the Word of Blake that you will receive a free toaster?
<TheMaster>: Cavalier - In the ancient words of a popular folk singer in the early 21st century: "Haters gonna hate".
<Sarcasmo>: TheMaster, I'm asking, if Uncle Chandy lied, who is on the Hidden Worlds? or are you saying that there are NO hidden worlds?
<ColonelSpecter>: Yes,
but look at who else was there that voted to disband, House Steiner who
lost lots of valuable worlds to the evil that are the clans, and if I
remember correctly one vote would have made the difference
<Azakael_XO_1stInfinityCorps>: The Master: How does the WoB justify shattering the Ares conventions and murdering civilians?
<Orin>: TheMaster: What do you do during your down time? Write soulful poetry? Do you have a cat? Is there a special person in your life?
<TheMaster>: Charlie_Tango
- Short answer: A certain someone misunderstood the very simple orders
I'd sent him and started acting as though he knew better than a true
student of history, who spent DECADES analyzing human progress and how
best to achieve Enlightenment.
<TheMaster>: JoeChummer - That one's not even clever enough to dignify with an angry retort.
<TheMaster>: Sarcasmo - Why, whatever hidden worlds might you be referring to?
