(The adventure is cancelled due to scheduling concerns. Igfig explains what would have happened if we'd kept going.)
[11/7/2015 8:49:58 PM] Igfig: okay so what would have happened
[11/7/2015 8:50:17 PM] Peter: Wait, music stuffs.
[11/7/2015 8:50:21 PM] Peter: first, battle at the bathhouse.
[11/7/2015 8:50:28 PM] Peter: Then you'd meet up with the dad.
[11/7/2015 8:50:38 PM] Peter: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRHUBMC14D8EDD6CBE&jb=1&lg=1&thresh=60&bp=28,65,24
[11/7/2015 8:50:47 PM] Igfig: the bathhouse would be stuffed full of people from the rest of the town, taking refuge there, all hungry and scared
[11/7/2015 8:52:24 PM] Igfig: if you talked to them they'd talk about how the Vice-Governor, Hui's dad, has been working tirelessly to try and keep them fed and housed as the water levels rose, even sending out soliders to confiscate food from the surrounding villages
[11/7/2015 8:52:56 PM] Igfig: because they needed the food more desperately than the villagers did
[11/7/2015 8:54:05 PM] Igfig: now having heard both sides of the story, I'd have called on Aki to flashback about why he wanted to reunite the two halves of the Water Tribe and/or how he thought he'd have a chance at succeeding at it
[11/7/2015 8:57:23 PM] Igfig: So anyway, trying to actually go see the dad would one way or another trigger a fight
[11/7/2015 8:57:50 PM] Peter: See music I linked earlier.
[11/7/2015 8:58:09 PM] Igfig: some soldiers, some chi blockers, and a bunc of regular folk who are very loyal to the vice-governor
[11/7/2015 8:58:10 PM] Peter: I suppose I could just do youtube versions of the songs though since we're doing this in skype.
[11/7/2015 8:58:22 PM] dilEMma: oh jeez
[11/7/2015 8:58:26 PM] dilEMma: chi blockers would have been rough
[11/7/2015 8:58:34 PM] Igfig: yup!
[11/7/2015 8:58:46 PM] Igfig: anyway, you eventually ge tto your dad, and then
[11/7/2015 8:58:48 PM] Igfig: so funny thing
[11/7/2015 8:59:03 PM] Igfig: I had originally had a plan, but then I decided I didn't like it as much as I thought
[11/7/2015 8:59:04 PM] dilEMma: im gunna hate you for this wont i
[11/7/2015 8:59:08 PM] dilEMma: tell me both plans
[11/7/2015 8:59:33 PM] Igfig: well, I'd just watched Samurai Champloo, so I had been going to lift that plot directly
[11/7/2015 8:59:45 PM] dilEMma: ok well thats silly cause you know i intend to watch that
[11/7/2015 8:59:48 PM] Igfig: oh
[11/7/2015 8:59:50 PM] dilEMma: also in taht case dont tell me what that plan was
[11/7/2015 8:59:56 PM] dilEMma: since spoilers
[11/7/2015 9:00:08 PM] Igfig: well it was actually pretty obvious in the show
[11/7/2015 9:00:15 PM] Igfig: I don't think I'd be spoiling much
[11/7/2015 9:00:17 PM] dilEMma: well
[11/7/2015 9:00:21 PM] dilEMma: mmmmmm
[11/7/2015 9:00:23 PM] dilEMma: no dont tell me
[11/7/2015 9:00:25 PM] Igfig: ok
[11/7/2015 9:00:26 PM] dilEMma: what was the updated plan
[11/7/2015 9:00:57 PM] Igfig: I'll just say it was for a well-meaning, if mistaken reason
[11/7/2015 9:02:44 PM] Igfig: but then I decided it would be more interesting if he'd actually knowingly done wrong, and was pained by it, but stood by what he'd done, being a fundamentally not-evil person who had done something terrible, and was currently doing a lot of good here
[11/7/2015 9:03:46 PM] Igfig: unfortunately I couldn't think of an actual reason why he would have abandoned you like that, because I still didn't know enough about him, so instead I figured I'd ad-lib it when the time came
[11/7/2015 9:04:11 PM] Igfig: improv it out as I got a better sense of how it'd been for you when it happened
[11/7/2015 9:04:18 PM] dilEMma: i personally think that after everything was dismantled e just couldnt bare to look hui in the face
[11/7/2015 9:04:45 PM] Igfig: I still dont' actually understand what's suposed to have happened back then
[11/7/2015 9:04:53 PM] dilEMma: really??
[11/7/2015 9:04:58 PM] dilEMma: i dont think its that coomplex really
[11/7/2015 9:05:02 PM] dilEMma: what dont you understand
[11/7/2015 9:05:03 PM] Igfig: between you and him
[11/7/2015 9:05:06 PM] Igfig: it might not be
[11/7/2015 9:05:16 PM] Igfig: I just don't know if I got a full explanation at any point
[11/7/2015 9:05:28 PM] dilEMma: im positive you did
[11/7/2015 9:05:36 PM] dilEMma: maybe you just forgot
[11/7/2015 9:05:39 PM] Igfig: maybe
[11/7/2015 9:05:42 PM] dilEMma: basically
[11/7/2015 9:06:07 PM] Igfig: he abandoned you, your mother, and your teacher to one of Kuvira's work camps, right?
[11/7/2015 9:06:14 PM] dilEMma: yeah
[11/7/2015 9:06:26 PM] dilEMma: because we were in danger as long as he worked for kuvira
[11/7/2015 9:06:30 PM] dilEMma: iiiiii
[11/7/2015 9:06:37 PM] dilEMma: am going to say he didnt know how bad they were
[11/7/2015 9:06:44 PM] dilEMma: maybe suspected it though
[11/7/2015 9:06:57 PM] dilEMma: but still believed it was safer or like we would recieve better treatment by proxy
[11/7/2015 9:07:10 PM] Igfig: well that was sort of my first thought, yes
[11/7/2015 9:07:16 PM] dilEMma: yar then
[11/7/2015 9:07:21 PM] dilEMma: anything else or should i say what hui would have done
[11/7/2015 9:08:01 PM] Igfig: so as for what he actually did... I guess it could have been out of cowardice somehow? but then he'd have regretted it more maybe, rather than knowingly done wrong
[11/7/2015 9:08:13 PM] dilEMma: ok
[11/7/2015 9:08:28 PM] Igfig: and I wanted the knowing to be part of it
[11/7/2015 9:08:35 PM] dilEMma: hui wouldnt have been able to forgive him obvy but i dont think he'd want to kill him anymore
[11/7/2015 9:08:41 PM] dilEMma: well
[11/7/2015 9:09:01 PM] dilEMma: if the knowing was part of it i do think hui would have raised a point of him still doing wrong by stealing from other villagers who are in just as much jeopardy
[11/7/2015 9:09:17 PM] dilEMma: either way hui would have fought him
[11/7/2015 9:09:22 PM] dilEMma: but he wouldnt kill him
[11/7/2015 9:09:29 PM] dilEMma: he'd prove he's better by just defeating
[11/7/2015 9:09:33 PM] Igfig: well yeah, it sort of all came down to a "I'm the man who makes the hard choices that have to be made" kind of complex
[11/7/2015 9:09:39 PM] dilEMma: ya
[11/7/2015 9:09:41 PM] dilEMma: then he'd fight him
[11/7/2015 9:09:48 PM] Igfig: oh, well
[11/7/2015 9:09:51 PM] dilEMma: but then not kill him just make the point that he's won and better
[11/7/2015 9:09:55 PM] Igfig: your dad wouldn't have been really a fighter
[11/7/2015 9:10:02 PM] dilEMma: thats fine
[11/7/2015 9:10:07 PM] Igfig: if you punched him he'd just fall over
[11/7/2015 9:10:10 PM] dilEMma: oh THAT bad
[11/7/2015 9:10:13 PM] dilEMma: hmm
[11/7/2015 9:10:25 PM] Igfig: he was not a fighter or bender or anything like that
[11/7/2015 9:10:28 PM] dilEMma: then he'd beat him up a little
[11/7/2015 9:10:33 PM] dilEMma: realllly degrade him
[11/7/2015 9:10:53 PM] dilEMma: then lock him up in stone and and maybe shame him even more by giving no further thought to him and turning his back or something
[11/7/2015 9:11:12 PM] Igfig: I imagine there would have been a nice clash of wills, because your dad would not be willing to admit he was wrong
[11/7/2015 9:11:18 PM] dilEMma: right
[11/7/2015 9:11:18 PM] Peter: Oooh, or maybe like one of those just, pinned him to the ground punching him but the punches slowly grow weaker as the puncher just gets sadder and sadder at the lack of resistance.
[11/7/2015 9:11:35 PM] Peter: Least physically, those scenes are fun.
[11/7/2015 9:11:42 PM] Igfig: "beat me if it makes you feel better, but I rest secure in my knowledge that this was the only way"
[11/7/2015 9:11:55 PM] dilEMma: ok if he said that line hui would kill him
[11/7/2015 9:12:01 PM] Igfig: haha really
[11/7/2015 9:12:03 PM] dilEMma: yeah
[11/7/2015 9:12:11 PM] Igfig: that would have been a great scene
[11/7/2015 9:12:13 PM] dilEMma: if he cant degrade him or make him feel like he was wrong
[11/7/2015 9:12:15 PM] dilEMma: like
[11/7/2015 9:12:20 PM] dilEMma: imagine hui does the beat up stuff
[11/7/2015 9:12:24 PM] dilEMma: then turns away to leave
[11/7/2015 9:12:26 PM] dilEMma: his dad says that
[11/7/2015 9:12:33 PM] dilEMma: so hui turns around just rock inbetween the eyes
[11/7/2015 9:12:41 PM] Igfig: nice
[11/7/2015 9:12:45 PM] dilEMma: or metal
[11/7/2015 9:12:47 PM] dilEMma: i think he'd do metal
[11/7/2015 9:13:19 PM] Igfig: okay so that would have thrown a bit of a spanner int he next bit, since I was hoping you'd be able to not kill him long enough for him to drop some important exposition on you
[11/7/2015 9:13:29 PM] dilEMma: womp womp
[11/7/2015 9:13:31 PM] dilEMma: you underestimate hui
[11/7/2015 9:13:46 PM] Igfig: so maybe you'd end up talking to his secretary or something, who doesn't like him
[11/7/2015 9:13:53 PM] dilEMma: sure
[11/7/2015 9:14:04 PM] Peter: Which would be more thematically appropriate?  The sharp cold of metal or the I'm having a hard time thinking of similar words for rock but it's more blunt, and less refined.
[11/7/2015 9:14:10 PM] dilEMma: well
[11/7/2015 9:14:14 PM] dilEMma: i was thinking it as more like
[11/7/2015 9:14:17 PM] Peter: And then cue this music for the exposition:
[11/7/2015 9:14:20 PM] Peter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5vPSSP6QAU&feature=youtu.be&t=3m8s
[11/7/2015 9:14:27 PM] dilEMma: "you took me away from my life as a metal bender now ill end your with what i had left"
[11/7/2015 9:14:44 PM] dilEMma: ooh
[11/7/2015 9:14:45 PM] dilEMma: jade empire
[11/7/2015 9:14:45 PM] dilEMma: good choice
[11/7/2015 9:14:57 PM] Igfig: So the exposition would be
[11/7/2015 9:15:06 PM] Peter: Most of the music has been Jade Empire, that bathhouse fight is the first and for a while only non-Jade Empire song, yar.
[11/7/2015 9:15:07 PM] Igfig: the area was undergoing a drought
[11/7/2015 9:16:16 PM] Igfig: your dad got in touch with some benders he'd heard of who had the ability to actually change the weather with their bending
[11/7/2015 9:16:36 PM] Igfig: they made it rain, and then storm, and just never stop
[11/7/2015 9:16:42 PM] Igfig: because they were huge assholes
[11/7/2015 9:16:46 PM] dilEMma: what jerks
[11/7/2015 9:16:56 PM] dilEMma: was there a reason they were able to do it
[11/7/2015 9:16:58 PM] Igfig: two sisters, an airbender and a waterbender
[11/7/2015 9:17:08 PM] Igfig: there was, yeah
[11/7/2015 9:17:56 PM] Igfig: do you remember the person you saw walking on the storm right after your crash? That was one of them
[11/7/2015 9:18:05 PM] Igfig: I'd have dropped a some more hints over time as to how they were able to do it
[11/7/2015 9:18:14 PM] dilEMma: i dont remember that person at all in the slightest
[11/7/2015 9:18:27 PM] Igfig: well, it was just one line
[11/7/2015 9:18:33 PM] dilEMma: i was preoccupied with my flooded hut
[11/7/2015 9:18:43 PM] Igfig: the answer is spirits, of course
[11/7/2015 9:18:46 PM] dilEMma: ofc
[11/7/2015 9:19:01 PM] Igfig: they're spirit-bound, like Amma
[11/7/2015 9:19:07 PM] dilEMma: oh shit
[11/7/2015 9:19:20 PM] Igfig: actually the old woman mentioned them briefly, but didn't know the connection
[11/7/2015 9:19:27 PM] Igfig: the thing about them though
[11/7/2015 9:19:29 PM] dilEMma: i also dont remember that
[11/7/2015 9:19:37 PM] Igfig: another throwaway line
[11/7/2015 9:19:48 PM] dilEMma: sounds like they were a bit too throwaway
[11/7/2015 9:20:10 PM] Peter: You also tend to miss those kinds of lines though.
[11/7/2015 9:20:15 PM] Igfig: well my usual method is to start with subtle hints and slowly work my way up to bigger ones
[11/7/2015 9:20:31 PM] Peter: I'd say I saw them, but I wasn't playing an actual character so my experience was different from the start.
[11/7/2015 9:21:06 PM] Igfig: the thing about these two is that they're two really messed up people
[11/7/2015 9:21:23 PM] Igfig: to the point that their spiritual holes just couldn't be filled effectively by a spirit
[11/7/2015 9:21:55 PM] Igfig: each time a spirit tries to fill a hole, they just end up making new holes
[11/7/2015 9:22:06 PM] Igfig: so they attracted, like, dozens of spirits each
[11/7/2015 9:22:54 PM] Igfig: which they then put to work extending their bending over huge distances, letting them bend entire storms
[11/7/2015 9:24:52 PM] Igfig: so the final session would be you all learning these things about them, developing a strategy to get close to them, and then a huge fight in which you have to, among other things, figure out a way to tear the spirits out of their spiritual holes
[11/7/2015 9:25:45 PM] Igfig: also hopefully Amma would work out the nature of his own hole
[11/7/2015 9:26:02 PM] Peter: Going after them music:
[11/7/2015 9:26:02 PM] Vinyl M: yeah, i never did figure that out. i was hoping to come up with it on the fly
[11/7/2015 9:26:02 PM] Igfig: and Yogan would come to some conclusion about her relationship with Hui
[11/7/2015 9:26:06 PM] Peter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwLxvdG_2bo
[11/7/2015 9:26:09 PM] dilEMma: oh right
[11/7/2015 9:26:17 PM] dilEMma: doyou know if yogan and hui were related
[11/7/2015 9:26:20 PM] Igfig: and I didn't really know what to do for Aki
[11/7/2015 9:26:25 PM] Peter: And actual battle music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAek38VxRt4
[11/7/2015 9:26:49 PM] Igfig: I don't know about the relationship, that's really something that you two would have had to work out
[11/7/2015 9:27:01 PM] Igfig: a lot would have hinged on how Yogan interacted with your dad
[11/7/2015 9:27:08 PM] dilEMma: ya alright
[11/7/2015 9:27:12 PM] Igfig: and reacted to his death I guess
[11/7/2015 9:27:19 PM] dilEMma: tho i feel like thats something you should have had at least somewhat readt
[11/7/2015 9:27:21 PM] Peter: Or if she stopped it.
[11/7/2015 9:27:25 PM] dilEMma: in case we utterly failed you
[11/7/2015 9:28:00 PM] Peter: I feel kinda like if your characters didn't figure that out on your own then that'd just be how it goes for that one, yar.
[11/7/2015 9:28:09 PM] dilEMma: maybe
[11/7/2015 9:28:16 PM] Igfig: well, there's always the possibility of "We'll never know for sure, but damn it I'd prefer to have a family than not so Hui I'm going to be your aunt whether or not we're actually related"
[11/7/2015 9:28:16 PM] dilEMma: i think the way it would have gone is "no:
[11/7/2015 9:28:22 PM] dilEMma: yeah
[11/7/2015 9:28:25 PM] dilEMma: thats what i was going to say
[11/7/2015 9:28:27 PM] dilEMma: not related
[11/7/2015 9:28:35 PM] dilEMma: but becomes platonic life partners in a way
[11/7/2015 9:28:39 PM] dilEMma: traveling and just being earth bendy
[11/7/2015 9:28:53 PM] dilEMma: hui was either going to do that or go back to republic city to finish and become a cop
[11/7/2015 9:29:01 PM] Igfig: right