01<@Ardweden> [Day: Thursday, September 23. Time: 11:59 p.m.] 01<@Ardweden> [It's a very chilly evening, and Tyler's in a rush to get to the Lunatic Fringe as there's a full moon tonight. Somehow he lost track of time, and it's getting dangerously close to midnight. The Square is as it always is, and as he ncan see his "friends" gathered around the door in the distance.] 01<@Ardweden> [Session Start.] 06* Tyler frowns and runs towards the group gathered at the door. He's on the clock and he knows it. 01<@Ardweden> [Tyler runs! Ahead, someone - looks like Hank - opens the door. It's pretty clear nobody's noticed him, and now they're entering the store.] 06* Tyler frowns. "Hey!" He tries to pick up speed. 01<@Ardweden> [They don't notice. Javy's the last one in, and Tyler manages to get to the door just a few seconds after it closes.] 06* Tyler frowns and goes to open it again, ready to chew them out. 01<@Ardweden> [The inside is smokey and dimly lit. He can already smell the incense.] Hey guys, what's up with not holding the door for me? 06* Tyler is glaring around as he enters, looking for a fight. 01<@Ardweden> [The door closes behind Tyler.] 01<@Ardweden> [And he hears a cackle from ahead. "Ah. Tyler Smith. I was wondering if you would come." The store has shifted since he was last here; while still filled with old trinkets and the occult, a considerable amount of space has been cleared in the middle of the room. Medea's there, looking just as Tyler remembers, smiling a smile filled with crooked and missing teeth.] 01<@Ardweden> [She's seated at a bare wooden table with a candle flickering slightly off its center. There's one seat opposite her, and no sign of the others.] Where are the others? They left me behind. 01<@Ardweden> ["Did they?" Medea raises an eyebrow. "You seem to have arrived none the worse for wear."] 01<@Ardweden> ["The others are fine."] 06* Tyler looks around again. "Oookay why aren't they here?" 01<@Ardweden> ["I wished to speak with you alone. Sit, child." She gestures to the seat across from her.] 06* Tyler shrugs and moves to sit, looking Medea in the eye. "What you want?" He was already on the defense. 01<@Ardweden> ["I believe that the more accurate question," she says, pulling a deck of cards from under the table, "is what do *you* want?"] What do you mean? 01<@Ardweden> ["I am offering you some answers." Medea smiles. "Free of charge. Shuffle these." And she hands the cards over.] 01<@Ardweden> ["You are going to flip a card, and it will show you a lesson - one you are trying to teach yourself. After that, I will allow three questions, each of which I will attempt to answer to the best of my ability through this medium."] 06* Tyler takes the cards and starts to shuffle them, he was watching Medea though. Uncertainity showing through his eyes now. "Any three questions? I know you're like a supernatural spooky fortune teller thing, so I can ask anything I want? So just how inanely vague will the answers be?" 01<@Ardweden> [Medea simply continues to smile and folds her hands.] 06* Tyler shrugs. "Fine." He flipped over a card in front of Medea, slamming it onto the table. 01<@Ardweden> [Medea raises an eyebrow. "If you don't appreciate my offer, you're welcome to leave."] 01<@Ardweden> [The card Tyler flips is blank.] 06* Tyler frowns down at the card. "Aren't you supposed to remove those?" 01<@Ardweden> [Medea just holds her hand out, palm up. "My cards," she says.] 06* Tyler puts the cards in her palm. "Sure." 01<@Ardweden> [Medea also picks up the blank card. "Learn some respect," she says, sliding it back into the deck. "I will not be so forgiving next time." She holds the deck out to him. "Shuffle again."] 06* Tyler blinks looking actually confused, but does reshuffle. 06* Tyler will set the deck down. 01<@Ardweden> [Medea cuts the deck, then takes a moment before flipping the top card. It's labeled The Devil, with a very... Imp-like creature featured front and center. She looks at the card, then at Tyler, and says, "The Demonic Trickster."] 06* Tyler shrugs. "I think that was pretty clear with the dreams." 01<@Ardweden> [Medea shakes her head, then continues, "Your mirror is trying to warn you. You must not to ignore the negative aspects of your personality - of your life. To do so allows them to flourish, and they control you rather than the other way around."] 06* Tyler sighs. "Heard it before." 01<@Ardweden> ["Then perhaps you should take heed, before things get any worse. Because they have, haven't they?"] Don't know what you mean. I'm saving the world. 01<@Ardweden> [Medea laughs, which comes across as more of a cackle. "Yes, and doing so with the utmost calm and self-assurance! Who am I to argue with someone to clearly knows more than I?"] 06* Tyler gives Medea a look. "Things haven't gotten worse." 01<@Ardweden> ["Of course they haven't, child." She waves to the door. "You are free to go."] You didn't answer three questions or teach a lesson. 01<@Ardweden> ["You have no willingness to listen or learn. Someone who is convinced he has all of the answers needs none. So go, Tyler." Medea leans forward, looking him in the eye. "Save the world."] 06* Tyler looks her right back. He takes a deep breath and seems to think about his words. "No. That wasn't the deal." 01<@Ardweden> ["I offered the deal. I can rescind it. And I do not appreciate your wasting my time."] I don't know what you mean. Nothing is getting worse. 01<@Ardweden> ["As you say, child."] Look, I'm trying to take this seriously. If I wasn't I'd have left now and called you a fake. So, I don't know what you mean and I want to know what you're talking about. 01<@Ardweden> [Medea looks at Tyler for a moment, considering, before she says, "Ask."] 06* Tyler frowns, it takes a few seconds before he shrugs. "What do you mean?" 01<@Ardweden> [Medea snorts. "Ask a question. And before you ask about *that*, no, it doesn't count."] No, I want to know what you mean. The mysterious guide is offering advice. I want it in plain english. 01<@Ardweden> [Medea frowns. "You insist on trying my patience."] 06* Tyler looks at her very confused now. "Look, wasn't trying to." He sighed and shook his head. "How can I keep Josh from going bezerk on Tifftiff?" [The rest of the log is missing.]