NMYF: House of serpents

[ReubanBrightwood]

Preparations made the uber picks Aurora up a few blocks from the circle and drops her off nearby the the Sepeanterium a moderately sized warehouse out in the northeast of Sacramento boasting signs and sales for reptiles and their maintience. The car park is reasonably sized and half empty, a slow trickle of customers come and go from the store clearer few enough that a store of that size can't be particular bust at the moment.

It is a better candidate then most that her would be assassin got his venom or the creature from which it comes here, would he be present? Well that was the risk. What certainty was inside was enough venom to drop a portion of the city's population. All be it in animal form.

In the carpark A blonde woman with heavy goth makeup make up, accessories and a black band t-shirt is putting a carboard box containing some form reptile into the boot of her mini cooper along with a glass tank and heating lamp having clearly just brought herself a new pet.

Orianna Aurora

[Aurora]

Stepping out of the car, thanking her driver, she positions herself a reasonable distance from the store. Taking her cell out, she sends a quick text, seeing if someone was free for some backup.

Once the text was sent, she kept her phone out, glancing at it, like she was waiting for a call or something. Because in a way, she was. But in another way, it was an excuse not to go into the business. Who walks around a store on the phone? It was rude.

Until she gets a reply…or doesn’t, she would be content holding her phone and looking around.
Outside.

Where there wasn’t poison just waiting to be shot at her. Again.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-10-28 15:10:08	Aurora rolls 6 to Checking out area(Wits+Comp) (10 Again)	6, 1, 10, 2, 9, 3, 5	2 successes

Stats

Health:
Mana:
WP:
Armor 5
Defense 3

Vulgar 0
Active Spells: 3/3
Personal Spells: 3/8

[5] Pulse of the Living World (Mage Sight)
[5] Organic Resilience (Armor 5)

[2] Suppress Aura (2)

[Asclepius]

Asclepius attempted to arrive in a more discreet fashion, as his fellow Thyrsus Councilor requested. This meant that his music was off for once, his clothes he kept plain and simple, black T-shirt and jeans with his usual shoes. This was to not give any identifiers with his clothing choice, he was not fully sure what Aurora meant by 'Little fanfare' but he hoped he has sufficiently done so.

He stepped out of his car once parked and made his way over to her, his combat Knife attached to his belt but did not bring his bag. He was not fully sure of what the occasion was.

He spotted Aurora standing and waiting, assuming she was waiting for him, and went to greet her subtly. “Hey, how you doing, you okay?”

Gear

Smartphone (in pocket)
Cash (in pocket)
Car keys (in pocket)
Kevlar vest thin (Worn under shirt)
Combat knife (dedicated tool attached at belt)
Wedding ring (worn)

Stats

Health: 7
Mana: 7
Defense: 2
Speed: 9
Initiative: 5
Willpower: 3/3 (usable)
Armor: 1 /2 Kevlar vest thin (1 /2)
Spell tolerance: 0/2
Active spells: 0/4
Paradox spells cast: 0

[ReubanBrightwood]

Aurora is on the look out senses sharp and awareness high. After what had happened eelier that day who wouldn't be she can say confidently no one is looking at her funny, no one seems to be stalking her or more importantly aiming a gun dart or otherwise at her. She is beautiful and famous so of course she is noticed but its more excited whispers, a little gushing a the odd double look followed by a hushed whisper to a friend. None of the sleepers outside or around the store seem to have or be acting with ill intent. Of course that doesn't mean any car that drives past won't try a drive by shooting.

One such car carries her fellow mage as a casual Asclepius makes his way into the parking lot, gets himself sorted and leaves his vehicle to approach her.

[Aurora]

There was a sense of comfort when she saw Asclepius approach, he was familiar, and he could help.

And as far as she knew, didn’t want to shot her up with fucking deadly snake venom. So bonus.

Deep breath taken, “Hey, thanks for coming! I’ve been better.” Reaching into her bag, she takes out the notebook and realizes her notes might not makes sense. So she writes down a couple quick things as she talks, “Had a run at a local park earlier, never had a run like that before. So I headed to the office to collect my thoughts and do some investigating. That lead me here, and I realized I probably shouldn’t be doing this alone.” Cause, yah. Handing over the notebook, it would say shot with dart gun, have the dart, dart contains deadly snake venom. Also, have video if you want to see it.

“Saw this place online as one that carried the type of snake I learned about, so figured it might be worth looking into. Snakes are not really my thing, but, I’m not sure where else to look you know?” maybe he had a better idea?

Stats

Health:
Mana:
WP:
Armor 5
Defense 3

Vulgar 0
Active Spells: 3/3
Personal Spells: 3/8

[5] Pulse of the Living World (Mage Sight)
[5] Organic Resilience (Armor 5)

[2] Suppress Aura (2)