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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 18th, 2026 10:14 AM

Previous adventure and sound preparation prevail. Aurora's flashlight cuts a beam through the darkness providing some much needed illumination to the cramped sweaty space. She can see the cables and the pipes and there it was the odds and distorted architecture coming up ahead, points where the walls and roof don't quite line up.

Construction of various ages added to over time to create a real warren down here in the sub basement. From her previous trip she knows some of these walls hide, conceal and cut off access to something older, something wreathed in crossed destinies, something she had not been able to get to before.

**Aurora** · Mar 18th, 2026 09:25 PM

The flashlight was great. But them actually having power down here would be even better.

Seemed not much had changed, as she comes upon the shotty construction. Stopping, she looks up at the walls and how distorted they were, how they just, did. Not. Add. Up.

Frowning, she keeps looking, debating various ways she could attempt access without trying to find a sledge hammer. Which was awfully tempting. But she wanted to know what was behind the hastily, and poorly constructed walls. At least try and make them look like they belonged there.

Now the real question…was whatever was hiding behind the wall worth trying to get to?

One way to find out, reach back out to one of the many Arcana at her fingertips, she reaches out and touches the wall, looking to open a window. A window to allow her to peer behind this poorly constructed wall and see what it was hiding.

4 successes

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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 19th, 2026 09:12 AM

Now much as before Auroras spells turns the brick transparent and behind the wall she sees once again, another wall. Older, differently constructed, hidden and concealed. These newer walls built to hide and obstruct it, a wall cavity left between the two so no point of access or ingress is available. The secret place, older and sealed is still present buried under the Bismark. With the ways the newer constructions are made this place would never be found accidental, no one would wonder in, no one would see or guess to tis existence. It is only Aurora magic that allows her to see past the efforts to bury it.

**Aurora** · Mar 19th, 2026 09:40 PM

Sighing, “Are you kidding me?” she says under her breath, shaking her head. This wasn’t ideal, because she wasn’t sure she could get past the wall without some sort of tool.

So this created a problem, and not one she came prepared to deal with. Still, she takes notes in her notebook about what the window showed her, well, didn’t show her. It was worth making note of.

But she might have a way to gain insider information. Which was the main reason she was here anyways. Talk to the Spirits, maybe, if she was lucky, gain some favor, and she could find out what was behind the temu fort knox of walls.

Time to see who was willing to talk, calling upon her wheel house of Spirit, it was time to open her eyes, ears and voice to whomever was down here.

“Hello? Anyone down here who would be willing to speak with me?” she was of course, respectful in tone. Always start respectful, it made things easier.

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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 20th, 2026 11:51 AM

Then as now the construction, clearly intentional, clearly done to hide whatever lies beyond presents the same confounding problem. How to access it without bringing down the obfuscating wall? What would the consequence be? In the dark, sweaty labyrinth of the sub basement a mystery has been locked away and it is not going to be given up easily.

Aurora forgoes the physical for the muted grey of twilight, unfortunately whoever set about hiding whatever lies behind this wall did a good job as the wall extends into the invisible realm keeping both physical and spiritual from accessing the hidden vault. Although that still presents opportunities.

For no Aurora calls out into the dark and sweltering tunnels, she knows spirts roam, she knows a verge is near where the gauntlet ceases to separate this realm form the shadow. Only this time there is no promise of time, no promise of safety. Not that it had worked out last time, but the possibility of mortal discovery still exists. A good thing then the language of spirits in indecipherable to all but the most studied of mortals.

Seconds tick bast, almost in time with the beads of sweat that form in the close cramped dark, more seconds. Maybe nothing is coming? But after what seems like to long a time the sound of clinking chains can be heard. Flickering in and out of its invisible state a spirt she meet previous, a torso or floating chains, the one that had lost the path manifests at the inter section of corners not to far away.

"You ... Again ... you called us ... off the path."

**Aurora** · Mar 21st, 2026 01:29 PM

Well damn, they really didn’t want anyone getting to whatever laid behind that.

Would it keep her out? That remained to be seen how determined she was going be.

Should a Sleeper happen by, a story would need to be worked out, but she would deal with that if the situation presented itself. For now, she had a mission, Spirits to speak with, pieces to put together, a puzzle to solve.

Leather jackets suck for cramped and hot basements. But taking it off posed the problem of her forgetting it, and leaving a part of herself behind and she wasn’t about to do that.

The sound gave her pause, and she was surprised to see a spirit she had seen before.

“Yes, it is me again, I am sorry to disturb you, do you still walk the same path?” her tone still one of respect. She remembered this wasn’t the most dangerous of the spirits down here, but she would still be respectful. She felt respect still went a long way with all spirits, well, until it didn’t. But best try and start good. “I had some questions.”

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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 21st, 2026 06:31 PM

The spirt does not seem all to eager to approach closer, hovering around its intersection further on. The chains of its humanoid? torso clink as it bobs in place. "We walk the path, that is what we do." It seems rather Monotone, stating things as facts without passion or concern. "You had questions. You were told to leave." Indeed the duke of its court had made that plain last time around. "We must return to the path." The shaman is seems will have to be more insistent, or forceful ,or persuasive or something to get this spirit to yield and truly converse or better yet aid her.

**Aurora** · Mar 23rd, 2026 02:03 PM

Always with walking the path.

“What can I say, I’m a curious one, wanting to learn more.” Curious and sometimes not good at listening. “I did leave, and I came back.” But hey, she was remembered, so that was something. Right? Now if it was good or not, remained to be seen. “Now I don’t want to keep you from walking the path, but do you think you could spare a few moments to answer a couple questions for me? I would be most grateful.”

2 successes

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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 23rd, 2026 02:15 PM

The spirit hovers clinking, plain as day in sight. But If she recalls right not many people come down here. The security guards of years passed hadn't liked it much at all! Down here in the cramped, dark heat with the snaking cable, sweating pipes, labyrinthine tunnels and that creepy sinister sense of something other.

And of those very few people how many must have met with Silent metal vortex and further still walked away. The Shaman left quite the impression.

3 successes

It continues to hover blinking in and out of sight a few times times. "I ... must find the path ..." Spirts are what they are, the embodiment of their nature, a fixed purpose or role and the court of the warrens seemed tied to this idea of the path. The spirit turns slowly and clinks away, not fast not rushing, rather searching as something that seems to have gotten lost.

**Aurora** · Mar 24th, 2026 12:53 PM

Frowning, “Guess that’s a no then.” With a sigh.

She had a feeling about the path, but wasn’t going to voice it. Even if she did, she doesn’t think this spirit was the one who would know.

Maybe the only way to get answers, or see if her theory had any merit was to follow this spirit as far as she could. “Maybe I can help you find the path.” Taking a step towards where the spirit was moving. “I can be good at finding things.”

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Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-18 21:21:53	Aurora rolls 7 to Steel Windows(Arcana+Gnosis) (10 Again)	10, 4, 9, 4, 4, 8, 10, 1, 1	4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-19 21:18:59	Aurora rolls 10 to Spirit Tongue(Gnosis+Arcana) (10 Again)	4, 10, 8, 1, 6, 5, 8, 6, 5, 10, 8, 3	5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-23 13:58:41	Aurora rolls 7 to Persuasive (Pres4+Persu3) (10 Again)	2, 9, 2, 9, 2, 7, 3	2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-23 14:10:22	Spirit rolls 6 to resist coercion (10 Again)	9, 1, 9, 8, 2, 6	3 successes

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