Just go to the logs. The suffering will be much more brief this way. Note, the older logs will often contain OOC chatter before and after the IC portions for nostalgic purposes (some of these OOC portions are sizable).
Douglas Altman, Drinks-The-Mirage, Homid Ahroun of the Stargazers:
Roger Cohen, Howls-When-Dreaming (Dreamer), Metis Galliard of the Glass Walkers: