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    Wolven Pryde's Avatar

    Dillon Connery
    Ixidor
    Onward Christian Soldier
    DILLON CONNERY

    Potency •••••
    Protean • (Down in Elysium)
    Presence ••• (Disarming)
    Striking •• (Boyish Good Looks)
    Sacramento ••••
    Lancea Sanctum •
    Gangrel ••••
    IXIDOR
    Adrian Isaacs

    Gnosis ••
    Presence •••• (Center of Attention)
    Striking •• (Eccentric)
    Fame ••• (Guitar Hero)
    Silver Ladder ••
    Sacramento ••

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    With each of the Kindred involved involved taking an hour with the puzzle box, half a night slowly whittles away. It is clear that the box is frustratingly intricate, allowing for a multitude of false starts, and steps which must be doubled back on each other before proceeding along a true course. Several times, one must figure out where in their current area of work to stop and continue elsewhere. Only a few elements to the design permit the entire structure to twist or spin like a Rubik's Cube. There are a number of steps, doors, slides, and hinges that are either required to operate or will hinder this progress.

    All in all, it's a maddening four hours. That seems to yield very little in the terms of success. A normal person might think more than once that a pry bar could be the next obvious tool of choice. However, there is no guarantee that whatever prize lies within is sturdy enough to withstand a forced extraction.

    Once again, it's Teo and Martha who excel here. They both hit the same wall. The box is no longer shaped like a box at all; but like some strange three-dimensional steel snowflake. Still concealing something within a thick center block core.

    But it is Martha, who makes it to the same finish line fifteen minutes early and takes a little extra time to examine their new paper weight.

    Nearly unnoticeable among the device's many, many crevices between separate plates of metal, there are two wider slots. Holes, really. Perhaps an inch and a half apart from each other, and practically identical.

    OOC


    Approximation of the box when fully closed. Perhaps the dimensions are different, and more rectangular than a perfect cube, but this I think represents an acceptable potential for the box's complexity


    Ignore its hat.

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    Aileen McFarlane

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    Even though she had always prided herself on her mental capabilities, Aοleen had been frustratingly unable to pierce noteworthy from the box. It was only the Grand Wyrm - who else ? - who had seemed able to make significant headway toward solving the puzzle. Aοleen refrained from chirping in excitment and praising her superior, and instead admitted that she still had much work to do. She must always have that thought close to her heart. Regardless, her interest was even more piqued now than before, and she looked intently at the box, wondering what the others would think of it. As for her, she admittedly felt at a loss.

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    Martha Villiers

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    Martha, by now her blazer and hat set aside, the sleeves of her blouse rolled up, her pigtails well and truly ruffled by the fidgeting brought on by frustration and contemplation, assembles the snow-flake plates and tries to manipulate them into some meaningful pattern.

    "Hmm..." she begins as she tries to make sense of the meaning and purpose of the two holes and tries to imagine their utility in three dimensions, "...Perhaps it is some strange navigational instrument? Like a sextant or an astrolabe?" she asks generally. Hoping to prompt some inspiration in her comrades.

    Health: 8 Willpower: 7 Vitae: Safari - -1 Striking Looks +2
    Very English accent. Flaw: Limps badly - most of her left leg is missing. Eidetic Memory, Combat Aware'. Danger Sense. Trained Observer

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    Inside Teo was quite amused at seeing Martha in a state of being worked up. In his time in the city he had not seen the Herald anything less than immaculate. At the mention of navigational instrumentation, the monk pondered for a moment. Then deciding it couldn't hurt, he walked Walked down the table and retrieved a printed copy of the map they had scanned with Redfill's machine earlier. In hand he walked back and placed it behind the device, giving Martha some perceptive as to whether it it had any relation to the map.

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    David sat with his elbows on his knees, leaning forward towards Martha. The Mortician's keen interest showed through as he watched the Grand Wyrm's manipulations of the box. Like her, David's sleeves were rolled to his elbow. Though, for those who know him, that's par for the course.

    It was an interesting puzzle that had greater implications. While David took his turn with the box, his silence was deafening. But time is a wily creature, even for those who believe they have all of it and for David, time went all too swiftly.

    After he passed the box on, David was caught up on the greater puzzle at hand. A greater game of traitors, past Princes, fairy tales, and murder. The whole story was a heady thing to take in, so while he watched Martha manipulate the box, David thought about how it all fit together.

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    Aileen McFarlane

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    While it was "well-known" that their kind left no handprints, Aοleen idly wondered whether a dental print couldn't be just as unique... and used to fill two holes, nearly a inch and a half across. But it sounded so... absurd, that the shy Mekhet didn't voice her idea. It was much more likely those holes were just another safety, and that a key of some sort was needed.

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    Martha Villiers

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    Offering David a smile Martha gently handed David the metal 'snowflake' she'd being trying to manipulate into some thing sensible.

    She was, it seemed, happy to allow others a chance to join in and had no intention of hogging the instrument all evening.
    Health: 8 Willpower: 7 Vitae: Safari - -1 Striking Looks +2
    Very English accent. Flaw: Limps badly - most of her left leg is missing. Eidetic Memory, Combat Aware'. Danger Sense. Trained Observer

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    Gingerly taking the metal 'snowflake,' David regarded it like one would a particularly good Chess opponent. With delicate deliberateness, he examined the piece as well as the two holes that presented themselves on close inspection. Using a pen, he slid it within the holes; checking the depth and shape hidden in darkness.

    In fact, David tried to be as objective in his examination of the piece as possible. The methodology he used was very similar to taking an autopsy of a person, though the differences were obvious. This new metal 'snowflake' could be a key in and of itself, or it could be a tantalizing clue to the second stage of the puzzle.

    David furrowed his brow in thought.

    The Mortician thought that it did look a bit like an Orrery but perhaps that wasn't the conclusion and merely a clue. Glancing towards Aileen and Teodor, David silently asked if either of them would like a second closer look.

      Int+Invest+GeoNex 6 Successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2014-02-03 13:22:14 David Regan rolls 9 to Intelligence + Investigation + GeoNex (10 Again) 10, 2, 9, 9, 9, 8, 9, 5, 5, 7 6 successes

  9. #9
    Wolven Pryde's Avatar

    Dillon Connery
    Ixidor
    Onward Christian Soldier
    DILLON CONNERY

    Potency •••••
    Protean • (Down in Elysium)
    Presence ••• (Disarming)
    Striking •• (Boyish Good Looks)
    Sacramento ••••
    Lancea Sanctum •
    Gangrel ••••
    IXIDOR
    Adrian Isaacs

    Gnosis ••
    Presence •••• (Center of Attention)
    Striking •• (Eccentric)
    Fame ••• (Guitar Hero)
    Silver Ladder ••
    Sacramento ••

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    David can tell that a pen is almost too big for the holes. At least, a cheap ballpoint pen would be. However, something with a narrower tapering point, something a little less blunt, can explore both orifices to their depth. Which isn't very deep at all. Half an inch at most, by estimation, but likely shorter. Deeper than a quarter inch, however.

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    Aileen McFarlane

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    While she didn't dare attempt the thing that came to her mind, Aοleen at last mustered enough courage to voice her idea. She spoke in a hushed tone, and kept to her seat, sinking in it as deep as possible as she talked. "Those holes... what if... fangs ?" she said meekly, belittling her idea in preemptive caution.

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