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  1. #1
    Yumyumcrow's Avatar
    Campanella
    Campanella

    Campanella
    Ingrid

    2
    PRE

    There were some parts of the inner city where the darkness could still close in deep; where the night was still a harbinger of threat; where light and sound was smothered and, indeed, all sense of connection to a wider humanity lost. North of downtown Sacramento was one of these places: past the residential districts and hard by the river. It was true that the whole area was being redeveloped, but that re-energisation was piecemeal; for each new track of roads and gleaming, fresh, buildings there were still abandoned pockets left to abandoned decay or else partially demolished wastelands waiting for the workmen to move in.

    This spot was one of those places: all crumbling waterfront and abandoned warehouses. To the north, across the river was an expanse of parkland. West and east lay pockets of light and new construction. South... South was waste ground, ruins, tepid building works and signs proclaiming yet another commercial complex. Years overdue, of course. Guarding this desolation was a single light overlooking the river and old access ramps. Some enterprising individual had made the space into a crude parking lot - but that was by day; by night it was all unpleasant shadows and far from anywhere people would want to go.

    Or it should have been.

    There are two vehicles there now. And a trio of figures huddling under the light.

    Thought I'd throw out an extra little scene / short plot out there for people to chew on until the venue gets a proper ST. Please enjoy.

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  3. #2
    Sand's Avatar
    Presence
    Striking Looks
    (Curvy)
    Sand

    Nimbus:
    Tiny sparkling particulates like dust motes are shed to reveal what is below. With vulgar magic, the shedding is more of a scouring and the motes obscure in the frenzy.
    Stats

    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 0
    Defense 2

    Vulgar 0
    Active Spells: 1/5
    Personal Spells: 1/2

    [3] Supernal Vision (Rit)

    +1
    SL
    3
    PRE

    'Actions speak louder than word' - Abraham Lincoln

    Patrol duty. Not exactly what discussed w/ Campanella & Aurora @ last NB meeting.

    But a start. Better than nothing.

    Not quite in shadows w/ walking. But not advertising wanderings either. Attire: Suitably dark to aid lurking? stealth? but not so much 2/ look funny @ the bar on the way home.

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  5. #3
    Kaze's Avatar
    Striking Looks
    (An Extremely Fit and Healthy Glow)
    Presence
    (Disconcertingly easy to talk to and open up)
    Toxin Resistance
    (+2 vs drugs, alcohol and toxins)
    New Identity(Steven Chojun Trueheart)
    Kaze

    Nimbus. The sound of rushing wind and flashes of lightning surround Kaze, and his clothes and hair move as if he is in a windstorm.
    Monthly Rits

    Monthly Rits Spell Cloaks Spells do not show unless scrutinized
    Transform Aura pot 1 (Aura is as a Sleeper)
    Organic Resilience (Life Mage Armor 2e) pot 3 ( Armor 2; Defense 2 + Higher of Dex or Wits)
    Body Mastery pot 1 (x2 rate healing Bash, Letha, Agravated; +1 success on all extended and instant rolls to resist diseases, poisons or drugs; +100 years lifespan)

    Scene specific spells: in mini-sheet 4
    Scene Specific

    (Portrait) Portrait of an Angel
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 5
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [1]Transform Aura[M]
    [2] Supernal Vision[D]
    [2] Organic Resilience[M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    (Bad House) The Return
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 9 (Dex 6 from Honing the Form)
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [4] Honing the Form
    [3] Organic Resilience Aurora's Life 5
    [2] Body Control [M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    +2
    SL
    3
    PRE

    Kaze takes a few tries to make the sound around him softer, and himself Personally Invisible, and then moves in close to try to overhear what is being said and see what is being done among the trio under the light.

      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:40:14 Kaze rolls 4 to Improvised casting Control Sound (Gnosis 1, Arcana 3) (10 Again) 3, 7, 6, 9 1 success

      failure
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:44:06 Kaze rolls 1 to Chance roll Dox check for 1st try at improvised Personal Invisibility w tool (10 Again, Chance) 8 failure
      failure
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:41:32 Kaze rolls 4 to Improvised casting Personal Invisibility (Gnosis 1, Arcana 3) using magic tool (10 Again) 7, 7, 1, 4 failure

      failure
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:45:57 Kaze rolls 1 to Paradox check for 2nd try casting Personal Invisibility (Gnosis 1, Arcana 3) using magic tool (10 Again) 7 failure
      2 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:46:28 Kaze rolls 4 to 2nd try casting Personal Invisibility (Gnosis 1, Arcana 3) using magic tool (10 Again) 7, 8, 2, 9 2 successes

      7 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 17:55:52 Kaze rolls 6 to Perception Roll (Wits 3 + Composure 3) (10 Again) 10, 2, 10, 6, 10, 3, 8, 10, 10, 8, 1 7 successes
    Spells: Monthly Rits Transform Aura (aura appears to be a sleeper) Spell Cloaks (See mini-sheet)

  6. #4
    A
    Alastor

    Sensory range wasn't forever - a couple hundred yards at best - but a Disciple of Space knew that distance was a lie. That range was plenty close enough. Alastor stood in a dark alley, shrouded by shadows, just peeking out enough to see the parking lot.

    Focus took a moment out in the November chill, but after a second try, an invisible window formed for the Mastigos to observe, subtly hidden from view by Mana's protection - after all, he didn't know what this was.

    He would see what needed to be seen. He would hear what he had to hear. Quietly.

    Then, they'd go from there.

    Scry active on the scene to give Alastor a clear view. -1 Mana for Spell Cloak so as to avoid it being noticeable by Unseen Senses. If anyone has Mage Sight up, they can roll Wits + Occult - 5 to break through the Cloak.


    5 sux to scry, spell cloaked
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-12 20:26:09 Alastor rolls 6 to Scry Retry (Gno + Space - 1) (10 Again) 10, 9, 5, 4, 7, 10, 9, 8 5 successes
    2018-11-12 20:25:58 Alastor rolls 7 to Scry (Gnosis + Space) (10 Again) 2, 3, 7, 7, 7, 3, 1 failure
           

  7. #5
    Yumyumcrow's Avatar
    Campanella
    Campanella

    Campanella
    Ingrid

    2
    PRE

    Three figures huddled under a light in a shady car park in a forgotten part of town? Too many possibilities. Worth a look if only to satisfy that there is nothing worth bothering with... right?
    Sand deltadream is jogging from shadow to shadow. Its easy in this part of town and with the right gear she is almost beneath notice. The dispassionately curious Obrimos moves past on light feet.

    And she see's Glyph's hanging over the two men (yes, men. One tall; one short. For the trio is two men and a woman in a leather jacket). With her Supernal Vision active she can make out the bland Glyphs - smoothed and pale and precise as all Rote casting's are. Both men are Shielded and have Sight but what spells they use she cannot tell unless she stops and starts actively looking. Their Awakened aura's glimmer with pulses of light - as one would expect.

    The woman's aura is a bright blaze of colour, so vibrant it almost hurts Sand's eyes in the gloom.

      
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-13 02:23:05 Man 1 to be... Aware! rolls 1 to Wits + Occult - Cloaked Spell (10 Again, Chance) 10, 3 1 success
    2018-11-13 02:21:50 Man 1 to be aware... rolls 5 to Wits + Investigation (10 Again) 3, 7, 10, 9, 6, 4 2 successes
    Kaze comes from an opposite direction. By some fluke of gut feeling, the Arrow senses something is up about this clandestine meeting in the abandoned parking lot. Initially its the posturing of the trio, as if they were enacting a scene from a noir story; then it is the obvious distaste (well, to the young Mighty) they all have for one another; then it is how the tall man in the fedora seems to clocking his site lines quite regularly.

    Weaving protective spells about him, Kaze investigates. Light is wrapped around him like a cloak; his sound is dispersed away from his gentle footfalls. Kaze approaches - a movement that again is either timed to perfection or happens at just the right moment for him to witness the woman slip a hand from her pocket and hand a USB stick over to the little man whom is hunched theatrically into his coat. In turn, he rummages through his coat and withdraws a little leather bag.

    But he prevaricates.

    "Now you aren't selling us short, are you? We asked for some very specific information..." His voice is too highly pitched to come across as anything more than a whine.

    The woman snorts, unimpressed and contemptuous. "You think I'd cross your kind."

    "Then you know the value of this information. And you know who else would want this. And could be listening!"

    The taller man with the fedora, smirks and looks away - a good thing, as it happens, as Alastor's scrying window pops, unseen, right next to the group.

    "I know your masters. I know what they're like. You pay better." Again the contempt, now urgent with a hint of impatience. She holds out her hand.

    Kaze is drawing level now...
    Alastor is coming from the same direction as Kaze, but whereas the Mighty wraps light around him, the Warlock simply ducks into a side alley and opens up a small scrying portal, inverting the weave of his spell to occlude it. Thus shrouded, his scrying window opens right on top of the trio.

    "Just hand it over, idiot... Shit!" Fedora blinks and looks around sharply. First, back the way Kaze had come. Then, mercifully, passing over where the Cloaked Obrimos stood and over to the direction in which Sand is lurking. He spots movement in the far shadows and curses.

    "Fuck!" Fedora's exclamation's get worse! Somehow, by some fluke of his own, the mage see's through Alastor's cloaked weave.

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  9. #6
    Kaze's Avatar
    Striking Looks
    (An Extremely Fit and Healthy Glow)
    Presence
    (Disconcertingly easy to talk to and open up)
    Toxin Resistance
    (+2 vs drugs, alcohol and toxins)
    New Identity(Steven Chojun Trueheart)
    Kaze

    Nimbus. The sound of rushing wind and flashes of lightning surround Kaze, and his clothes and hair move as if he is in a windstorm.
    Monthly Rits

    Monthly Rits Spell Cloaks Spells do not show unless scrutinized
    Transform Aura pot 1 (Aura is as a Sleeper)
    Organic Resilience (Life Mage Armor 2e) pot 3 ( Armor 2; Defense 2 + Higher of Dex or Wits)
    Body Mastery pot 1 (x2 rate healing Bash, Letha, Agravated; +1 success on all extended and instant rolls to resist diseases, poisons or drugs; +100 years lifespan)

    Scene specific spells: in mini-sheet 4
    Scene Specific

    (Portrait) Portrait of an Angel
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 5
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [1]Transform Aura[M]
    [2] Supernal Vision[D]
    [2] Organic Resilience[M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    (Bad House) The Return
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 9 (Dex 6 from Honing the Form)
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [4] Honing the Form
    [3] Organic Resilience Aurora's Life 5
    [2] Body Control [M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    (Katana strike)Willpower 1 Spent
    +2
    SL
    3
    PRE

    Kaze doesn't know whom or what the tall guy is alarmed about, but notes and marks the little guy, the one person who doesn't seem to be in it for the money. The one representing a group that the others wouldn't dare cross, the one with...'masters'...who don't pay well. He is now the one with the information, so he's the one guy who can't get away, no matter what.

    Kaze acts with the speed of thought, his Iaido strike form causing the katana sheathed under his jacket to suddenly, just appear in a cut at the little guy! "Hopefully the other two will think I'm representing an organization their afraid of and just grab the money and run..." Kaze thinks,"If you're going to be a ninja, BE a ninja!"


    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-13 18:48:45 Kaze rolls 1 die for initiative 5
           




    Initiative bonus 9 (Wits 3 + Dex 3 + Iaido Tsuki Kage maneuver Weaponry 3)
    Hoping for surprise/ambush on the little guy.




    5 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-13 19:01:47 Kaze rolls 12 to Katana strike on "the little guy" (Str 3 + Weaponry 3 + Katana 3) (10 Again, WillPower) 2, 10, 1, 4, 7, 8, 1, 7, 3, 8, 9, 2, 8 5 successes
           



    Spells: Monthly Rits Transform Aura (aura appears to be a sleeper) Spell Cloaks (See mini-sheet)

  10. #7
    A
    Alastor

    Alastor sighed as Kaze appeared, sword in hand --

      Initiative 16
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-14 11:06:12 Alastor rolls 1 die for initiative 9

  11. #8
    Kaze's Avatar
    Striking Looks
    (An Extremely Fit and Healthy Glow)
    Presence
    (Disconcertingly easy to talk to and open up)
    Toxin Resistance
    (+2 vs drugs, alcohol and toxins)
    New Identity(Steven Chojun Trueheart)
    Kaze

    Nimbus. The sound of rushing wind and flashes of lightning surround Kaze, and his clothes and hair move as if he is in a windstorm.
    Monthly Rits

    Monthly Rits Spell Cloaks Spells do not show unless scrutinized
    Transform Aura pot 1 (Aura is as a Sleeper)
    Organic Resilience (Life Mage Armor 2e) pot 3 ( Armor 2; Defense 2 + Higher of Dex or Wits)
    Body Mastery pot 1 (x2 rate healing Bash, Letha, Agravated; +1 success on all extended and instant rolls to resist diseases, poisons or drugs; +100 years lifespan)

    Scene specific spells: in mini-sheet 4
    Scene Specific

    (Portrait) Portrait of an Angel
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 5
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [1]Transform Aura[M]
    [2] Supernal Vision[D]
    [2] Organic Resilience[M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    (Bad House) The Return
    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 3 ( +1 vs Bashing: Kung Fu 1)
    Defense 9 (Dex 6 from Honing the Form)
    Vulgar -1
    Active Spells: 3/5
    Personal Spells: 3
    Spell Tolerance: 3/3 Spell Rolls
    [4] Honing the Form
    [3] Organic Resilience Aurora's Life 5
    [2] Body Control [M]
    Key: Potency | Effect declaration if needed | Turns remaining ("M" = Monthly Ritual)

    +2
    SL
    3
    PRE

    Equipment:
    *Reinforced Clothing (Leather Jacket)
    *Cell Phone on silent
    *First Aid Kit (Advanced, +2 dice added to Dexterity+Medicine rolls for Healing Wounds)
    *Katana
    *Knife (small, legal size, carried unconcealed in a hip holster, weighted and shaped for throwing)
    Spells: Monthly Rits Transform Aura (aura appears to be a sleeper) Spell Cloaks (See mini-sheet)

  12. #9
    Sand's Avatar
    Presence
    Striking Looks
    (Curvy)
    Sand

    Nimbus:
    Tiny sparkling particulates like dust motes are shed to reveal what is below. With vulgar magic, the shedding is more of a scouring and the motes obscure in the frenzy.
    Stats

    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor 0
    Defense 2

    Vulgar 0
    Active Spells: 1/5
    Personal Spells: 1/2

    [3] Supernal Vision (Rit)

    +1
    SL
    3
    PRE

    -acceleration

    Glyphs. Glyphs = Awakened.

    Forms though ... forms =/= match known Awakened.

    A frown. Acceleration & velocity = 0 in a shadow.

    A breath, focus, concentra... never mind!

    Plan B ... never mind!... Party size? 45+

    Plan C. Surely it existed...



      Initiative 10
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-14 16:55:33 Sand rolls 1 die for initiative 4

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    Winter's Avatar
    Winter
    Presence
    (Stoic)
    Education
    (West Point Grad)
    Occultation
    Winter

    Nimbus

    Dark shadows scatter in ordered symmetrical patterns traversed by a crackling pallid silver light that wraps Winter in a pleasantly numbing and icy coldness.
    When vulgar magic is cast, the frequency of the oscillation of the dark fluid surges until the shadows arrange themselves in a solid black halo around Winter's head, the white light darkens into a fiery black sunlight and his eyes are set ablaze with vivid incandescence.
    Stats

    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor: 1(General)/2(Ballistic)
    Defense: 3

    Active Spells: 1/6
    Personal Spells: 1/3
    Incognito Presence (Mind 2) Rote, Scene, Pot[1]

    (Spell Veils)Mana 3 Spent
    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE

    He had been privy to the reality of unsavory deals being regularly closed under the shadows of the cranes of the northern district. He just wasn't informed about the exact and potentially magical nature of such transactions.
    The Spook was surprised, not only for the sizeable chunk of the Sacramento Consilium that had found itself visiting that remote strip - as unlikely as the circumstance were - but by the reaction of the conspirators, seemingly alert to the nature of their interlopers. Besides, the bulky and careless Arrow was anything but nondescript, appearing like that from nothingness.
    "Fuck me", he gritted his teeth, deciding to take a few magical precautions but to not partake in the fight.
    Channelling the Supernal to his eyes, he chanted the words of power of Long lost Atlantis, surrounding himself with an armor made of kinetic energy and altering his aura to appear like that of a calm Sleeper.



      2 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-14 17:25:21 Winter rolls 7 to Unseen Shield imp (Gno + Forces + HS) (10 Again) 5, 3, 7, 6, 10, 3, 8, 2 2 successes
      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-14 17:26:42 Winter rolls 6 to Transform Aura conj Mind imp (Gno + Prime + HS) (10 Again) 10, 1, 4, 3, 6, 2, 7 1 success
      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-11-14 17:39:36 Winter rolls 6 to Supernal Vision (10 Again) 8, 5, 6, 6, 7, 2 1 success





    Inventory: lighter, cigarettes, magic tool (rosary), wedding band, Kevlar Vest (thin), brass knuckles.
    Defense: 3
    Armor: 4 (Shield + vest)/5(Ballistic)
    Health: 8
    WP: 5
    Mana: 2/5
    Spell Tolerance (shield, vision, aura): 3/3


    OOC


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