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07-28-2005 02:14:20 Over the com link:
Xochiquetzal: Heya, hero. Not feeling so good?
Krazy Joe: I'm sorry, babe. What was that?
Xochiquetzal: Sounds like the answer, my hero. You seem pretty preoccupied....
Krazy Joe: Nah. Was kinda distracted, babe. Been workin’ on this case and tryin’ to figure out Rikti motives.
07-28-2005 02:26:04 Entering Bayside Docks.
Xochiquetzal: Are the Rikti life cycles similar enough to humans that a commonality of motives can even be assumed?
Krazy Joe: I honestly don't know, Sho.
Entering Mera Heights. Joe is standing amidst the highwire apparatus above Peregrine Island. Xochiquetzal hugs Joe gently from behind. Joe starts and falls from the rigging, catching and swinging himself back up.
Krazy Joe: Scared me, babe!
Krazy Joe laughs.
Xochiquetzal: Most abject apologies, my hero. I did not think to startle you.
Krazy Joe gives Xochi a hug and kiss.
Xochiquetzal: Your -- disappearance -- frightened me for a moment.
Krazy Joe chuckles. Xochiquetzal touches his face softly.
Xochiquetzal: I do care about you.
Krazy Joe: And I you.

07-28-2005 02:30:45 A new team task has been chosen.
Krazy Joe: Shall we, babe?
07-28-2005 02:31:09 Entering Portal Court.
Krazy Joe has given you Keen Insight. You have given Good Luck to Krazy Joe.

07-28-2005 02:33:00 Entering WARNING: You are about to exit this zone.
The team visits Portal Corp to travel to a dimension destroyed by the Praetorians. Joe places his two vulnerable low-security companions on a ledge high above the area he is assigned to explore.
07-28-2005 02:34:02 You have invited Tiny Doc to be your sidekick.
07-28-2005 02:34:04 Tiny Doc accepts the offer to be a sidekick!

Tiny Doc started his experience in the new dimension with a dive into the bay, off a ruined levee.
Xochiquetzal: Tiny Doc, you seem like to the warriors of my people: able to swim in full armor.
Tiny Doc: It's not easy, and I could touch bottom......
Xochiquetzal: Once upon a time, warriors of this world would make an offering to Xtoh, she of the Jade Skirt, so that they would not drown while swimming.
Tiny Doc: I was unaware of that.
Xochiquetzal: In that time, Xtoh was wife to my brother Kukulkan. Goddess of waters and God of learning... or so humans believed.
Tiny Doc: It couldn't have been that long ago then,.... you don't look that old to me, and if it was your brother’s wife,..... yeah, couldn't be that long ago.
Xochiquetzal: My people live a very long time.
Tiny Doc: Um... ok.
Xochiquetzal: I, however, am very young in this Sun; my brother's chief political rival saw to that.
Tiny Doc tilts his head, confused.
Tiny Doc: How could a rival cause you to be young?
Xochiquetzal: I am sorry. It is not always easy for humans to understand. My people live thru cycles of times. A spiral, if you will. Where various things repeat themselves. What was before, will be again -- only variations on a theme. We, too, live, forgo life, and live again.
Tiny Doc: So basically you're like Buddhists, born again and all that?
Xochiquetzal: Perhaps the Buddhists got the idea from those castaways brought by the Inca into the Mayan hegemony. I could not say.
Tiny Doc scratches his head.
Xochiquetzal: I missed so much of the age of conquest by my people in this dimension.
Tiny Doc: Your people ruled us?
Xochiquetzal: A part of this world, yes. But not as rulers -- as gods.
Tiny Doc doesn't know what to say.
Xochiquetzal: We are the source of your native American legends. My people were the gods of the Olmeca, the Maya, the Azteca.
Tiny Doc: Oh. You mean like the spirits of nature and that kind of thing?
Xochiquetzal: In a sense, yes. Various of us could control various aspects of your natural environment.
Tiny Doc: And they stopped being gods why?
Xochiquetzal: Because my brother came to see that our people were abusing yours. As a teacher and mentor, he saw much potential in your people.
Tiny Doc: Well isn't that the way most "Master/ruler/ gods" are?
Xochiquetzal: You were not playthings to offer your lives up on bloody altars, nor were you children never to come into your own. So he taught, at least. It caused rather a large political division, as you might imagine.
Tiny Doc: And your brother put a stop to everything?
Xochiquetzal: My brother persuaded the rest -- particularly after it was discovered what Hurakan had done with me -- to leave and let humans prove themselves.
Tiny Doc can't resist asking his next question.
Tiny Doc: What did this Hurakan do to you?
Xochiquetzal: Hurakan -- the Obsidian Mirror -- prevented my immediate rebirth, kidnapping me and hiding me away while his creation masqueraded in my likeness as a wanton.
Tiny Doc: So I'm not understanding how he prevented you from being reborn... did he steal your body or something?
Xochiquetzal: When our time comes, It is our duty to jump into the End of the World and be reborn. Hurakan used his mirror -- I do not know how, that is not my field of expertise -- to capture me in that instance. I was neither body nor spirit.
Tiny Doc: Ok that's just confusing as hell, jumping off the end of the world. So your world is flat like people ages ago believed this one was?
Xochiquetzal: This is the Fifth Sun; the world has been created 5 times and has ended 4 times.
Tiny Doc: Your world or Ours?
Xochiquetzal: Ours. But theory has it that yours is linked to ours. The end comes in different ways: once by water, once by fire, etc.... Like I said, all cycles are variations on a theme. The end is not always the same. And we do not always return with the same names and the same powers. But because my return was so delayed, I do not have full memories yet of my previous -- what you might call incarnations.

Tiny Doc: How do you know it's your time? Do you have like a biological clock or something that tells you?
Xochiquetzal: Our clocks are extremely precise. The stars tell us.
Tiny Doc: You know I think Mal would love to talk to you..... He's a whiz kid it seems and might be better at understanding you. ‘Cause honestly, Ms Xochiquetzal, I'm confused as hell.
Xochiquetzal: I don't need to be understood. It is I who want to understand the heroes of this world. I believe that the heroes of this world epitomize my brother's belief that your race will eventually be reckoned as equal to mine.
Tiny Doc: Oh, so you're studying us, then?
Xochiquetzal: Oh, yes. That is my purpose here. If Kukulkan's theory can be proved correct, then Hurakan will lose much influence in our – parliament or council, I think is a good word -- and your world will be safe from his plans.
Tiny Doc: So you're not a hero, just a archaeologist of sorts?
Xochiquetzal: Anthropologist. Sociologist. I am but a student.
I see. And what are his plans, or do you not know them?
Xochiquetzal: Oh, he has lobbied for -- I think your term of time is 200 years, to return and rule over this world and its resources. Perhaps it has been 500 eons. Our views of time are so different that I am still uncertain of the terminology.
Tiny Doc: Well, I'm quite sure if he tried it now it would be a all out war. The people now wouldn't stand for it,.. Already too many wars fought over people trying to rule other people.
Xochiquetzal: Ah, but Hurakan is strengthened by humans warring against humans. That has always been a factor in his plans.
Tiny Doc: But that isn't my point: it would be a war against them, not a war of people against people, but Humans against him.
Xochiquetzal: Perhaps. But Hurakan -- the Azteca used a term for him that translates as "Fate" -- is a great manipulator. That is why I look to those you call super heroes.
Tiny Doc: I see, given enough time, I'm sure that he would fail, I can't see him able to trick the whole human race for long.
Xochiquetzal: If I can show that you are equal in power, wisdom, and honour to those of Technoctitlan, then the Council will prevent him themselves.
Xochiquetzal: I would not have war between
your people and mine; it is best, do you not agree, that we each "police" our own? Tiny Doc: Yes, I do agree

Tiny Doc: So basically the fate of rather or not someone tries to enslave the human race is lying on your shoulders?
Xochiquetzal: I am trying to make it lie on my shoulders. But, as I have not found a way to return home, it may well be a moot point.
Tiny Doc: I'm sure you'll be able to, and as for you not being a hero, I find that you are, trying to prevent that fate from happening is rather heroic to me.
Xochiquetzal: Hurakan would laugh at that.
Tiny Doc: Why is that?
Xochiquetzal: My delayed rebirth meant that I have but a small -- what your mythologists would term a "portfolio." I am the least of my clan in this Sun. Humans called me 'goddess of flowers'.
Tiny Doc: Just cause you're the youngest means nothing here, I don't know about there. Well, flowers are very beautiful things... I would take that as a good title since it meant that you were what made something so beautiful, I guess.
Xochiquetzal: You are, I deem, a gentle man. My brother would, I think, like you.
Tiny Doc: Um,... thanks I guess

Xochiquetzal: Kukulkan -- Feathered Serpent -- would be amused and disconcerted by the legends humans built around him after our people left this dimension.
Tiny Doc: Oh? Do tell...
Xochiquetzal: Ah, yes. The tales of my people are not as well known as those told of those the Greeks and Norse called gods.
Tiny Doc: Yeah, the Aztecs and Mayans sort of died out long ago, and didn't leave much of a trace other then ruins.
The green-skinned woman shakes her head in disagreement, but speaks on the earlier topic.
Xochiquetzal: The worst legends says that Hurakan got Kukulkan drunk and then led him to his sister's - my! - bed. In the morning Kukulkan was so ashamed that he renounced his position and left this world. He was the "white god" that Moctezuma II took Cortez for.
Tiny Doc: I see..... Did that in fact happen? Or did he take your brother to your replacement’s bed in truth?
Xochiquetzal: How astute of you.
Tiny Doc: um.... * tilts his head again* thanks I guess.
Xochiquetzal: Yes, Smoking Mirror's creation -- the Obsidian Butterfly -- did try to make my brother welcome in my place.
Tiny Doc: Ah that's what I figured.... But did he not know it wasn't you really?
Xochiquetzal: The Feathered Serpent was not god of Wisdom for nothing. I suspect this legend is one of those propagated by Hurakan simply to cause my brother embarrassment. I note that the politicians of your world sometimes do similar things. "Exposing soiled undergarments"?
Tiny Doc: I think the term is “Airing dirty laundry.”
Xochiquetzal: Oh. Oh yes. Thank you.
Tiny Doc runs his hand across the back of his neck.
Tiny Doc: Um sure.

Tiny Doc: Honestly, when I first saw you, I thought you might be a mutant or something...... had no idea you were from another world.
Xochiquetzal: I believe the term is “dimension" -- but, I am not a physicist.
Krazy Joe: **Green-skinned babe.**
Xochiquetzal: Yes, my hero?
Krazy Joe: **Just saying what you are.**
Tiny Doc: Well, she is that, Joe,.... but I'm not that um..... blunt.
Xochiquetzal: My people have many more colours to our skin than you do, that is truth. We also cannot bear the number of layers of garments suffocating our skin that humans seem able to bear. : And yet this world is always very cold.
Tiny Doc: Well, if it's cold that means you should wear more layers, I would think. Or at least something that doesn't um.... expose so.... much skin.
Xochiquetzal: I cannot. I would suffocate. So I stay near Joe. Whenever possible. The skin must be exposed. Else we cannot breathe. Even this garment -- if you look closely -- is made of a very open weave. Our skin must be exposed.
Tiny Doc: Um, I'll take your word for it,.....

Tiny Doc: So you don't breath like us humans, with lungs and mouth and noses?
Xochiquetzal: We have those organs as well -- but they are not as important for breathing as the skin.
Tiny Doc: Int’resting....
Xochiquetzal: The lungs and nose are necessary for processing "itz."
Tiny Doc: Eh?
Xochiquetzal: Itz. I -- it is hard to translate. Itz is -- vital fluid, essence, that without which we are not.
Tiny Doc: Well humans breath oxygen,..... oh, like humans and blood and water?
Xochiquetzal: Humans thought it meant blood -- and so they made bloody sacrifices to my ancestors...
Xochiquetzal: But it is in truth a quality of the mind. I am particularly adept at siphoning it from humans.
Tiny Doc: Once again,... I'll take your word for it.
Xochiquetzal: I use what the Paragon Paranormal Registry lists as one of my super powers: the siphoning effect.
Tiny Doc: So,... we are a food source?
Xochiquetzal: No. No, not in the way you are thinking.
Xochiquetzal: More like -- food for the soul?
Tiny Doc nods.
Tiny Doc: I understand, I just can't voice the right words I'm thinking.

07-28-2005 04:07:08 Krazy Joe has defeated Stunner Chief.
Joe returns to the pair on the ledge.
Krazy Joe: Yummy!
Xochiquetzal: Have you found aught to eat, Joe? Is that what you mean?
Krazy Joe: Talkin’ about your outfit, babe.
Xochiquetzal: This is my professional outfit back in my homeland, Joe.
Krazy Joe: Ahhh.
Xochiquetzal: My "lab clothes," as Medika would say -- except that she thinks that my people wear too little. She does not like at all what we wear when we are simply comfortable.
Krazy Joe: Well, it is a bit warmer there, right?
Xochiquetzal: My homeland is like unto this planet's tropics. It is nearly all "tropical rain forest" -- I believe.
Krazy Joe: So, it's natural that you wear less clothing. Big deal.
Xochiquetzal: That was my thinking. But Medika likes best my "super suit" -- so I wear it most often to please her.
Tiny Doc: And that it's also if they wear too much they can't breath, that's int’resting isn't it, Joe?
Krazy Joe: Oh, she breaths heavy enough.
Xochiquetzal: Joe knows I like it warm, Tiny Doc. He provides for my comfort in many ways.
Krazy Joe grins.
Tiny Doc: Um.... Oh..Ok I like information as much as the next person, Joe, but maybe that was to much for me
Krazy Joe laughs.
Xochiquetzal: Forgive me. I am still not completely compartmentalized on what humans find appropriate and what they do not.
Krazy Joe: And I'm a bad influence.
Krazy Joe chuckles.
Tiny Doc: Well to each their own,....
Xochiquetzal: You have never told me that my behaviour makes you uncomfortable, my hero.
Krazy Joe: It doesn't, babe. But, then again, I ain't normal.
Xochiquetzal: You make me too fond of you, my hero. It is good for your people that those of you with superior powers have risen above the "normal", Joe.
Krazy Joe chuckles.
Tiny Doc: I think he meant he's not even normal for those with superior powers.
Xochiquetzal: ‘Tis to be hoped that all of you represent a next stage in humanities uplifting.

Krazy Joe: So, what say I finish up my investigation, then come home and let you study more sensuality?
Tiny Doc wishes he could cover his ears and hum.
Xochiquetzal: Joe, I would very much like that. It has gotten quite chill, waiting on that ledge.
Krazy Joe: Alright. Light a fire, take a warm bath and I'll be home in a couple hours.
Xochiquetzal: Agreed.
Xochiquetzal kisses Joe lightly. Tiny Doc turns away. Krazy Joe gives Xochi a teasing kiss.

Xochiquetzal: Tiny Doc?
Tiny Doc: Yes?
Xochiquetzal: I am sure Medika would make you welcome if you wish to come back to her penthouse with us...?
Tiny Doc: Um....are you sure,... wouldn't it be better if you called before I just show up?
Krazy Joe: He's got a point, babe.
Xochiquetzal: Hm. I have learned not to call. I do not like to hear Medika scream.
Tiny Doc: Um that tells me that I wouldn't need to show up
Krazy Joe pulls out phone and flips it open, he dials Medika's number, receiving an answer of "Freaks' Pleasure Zone!"
Krazy Joe: Ah, hell. Wrong dimension. Though...it's kinda surprising that I get service here.
Xochiquetzal: This is not my dimension, Joe. We have not yet found a portal destination to Technoctitlan.
Tiny Doc: Well let’s return to ours then?
Krazy Joe: Agreed, TD.
Xochiquetzal: Indeed. And I assure you, Tiny Doc, that Medika is most hospitable. As long as I do not ask you to move in, I think.
07-28-2005 04:25:24 Entering WARNING: You are about to exit this zone.

Krazy Joe flips out phone and dials Medika's number.
Tiny Doc laughs slightly.
07-28-2005 04:27:03 [Team]Tiny Doc: Yeah I think my moving in might upset her a bit... not sure though.
Xochiquetzal: Medika: **Hello?**
Krazy Joe: Hey, Med. It's Joe. Xochi kinda invited Tiny back over to the penthouse, but I wanted to clear it with you first.
Medika: **Is he hungry? Are you all hungry? Please say yes!**
Krazy Joe: Oh, hell. Did Nin cook again?
Medika: **Athena made another lamb-filo-couscous concoction -- and she used an entire side of meat!!**
Krazy Joe: Ooo! Sounds good! Yeah. Save me some leftovers. I wanna try finishing up an investigation before coming home.
07-28-2005 04:30:41 [Team]Medika: **OK. Tell Tiny he's most welcome -- as long as he's not a vegan. **
Krazy Joe: Yo, TD?
Tiny Doc: Yes, Joe?
Krazy Joe: You one of those wussy vegetarians?
Tiny Doc: Um... No
Krazy Joe: Yeah, Med, he's not.
Medika: **Thank heavens!**
Krazy Joe: Heh.
Tiny Doc: Why, Joe?
Krazy Joe: **So, yeah, Sho and TD will be showing up shortly. Like I said, I'm gonna try finishing up my current investigation.**
Krazy Joe: Cuz there's a lot of meat waiting, TD!
Tiny Doc: Ah,... ok then....
Medika: **See you soon. And take care of yourself, Joseph.**
Krazy Joe: Alright, Med, I'm sending them on. I'll see ya in a couple hours.

Xochiquetzal: Good. Have you met Nin and Hail, Tiny Doc? They live with Med. Also Horn? He has an apartment next to Joe's.
Krazy Joe: Yeah. Like mine is ever used?
Krazy Joe grins.
Tiny Doc: I have met Miss Hail...
Krazy Joe grabs Xochi from behind and gives her a long kiss on the neck. Xochiquetzal arches back in pleasure. Tiny Doc turns away again.
Krazy Joe: Fire. Warm bath. See ya in a couple hours, babe.
Xochiquetzal: Perhaps Med will invite Bubba and the xabalanque. It will be nice to see them too....
Krazy Joe: I'll see if I can get ahold of him.
Xochiquetzal: I will expect you in a couple of hours, my hero.
Krazy Joe gives Xochi a tender kiss on the lips.
Xochiquetzal: Be well.
Krazy Joe: Always.
Tiny Doc: Lead the way, Ms Xochiquetzal
07-28-2005 04:37:49