(Words on the Street) The Siren Song

Apr 23rd, 2014 10:07 AM

10:18 pm. The green-blue light of the clock on the dashboard of Miach's ( Bigpaw ) Highlander 'helpfully' informed. The colon's rhythmic flashing counted seconds, one after another. Kiko has safely left the scene which left Miach, by himself, with a hole burning in his pocket. GLO called to the Acanthus, tempted him with solace and relief. A siren, whispering sweetly that he could take one, right now, and feel right as rain.

Right now. That was a thought.

Be it the two-dollar pitcher nights at the local college watering hole, or the promise of an amazing late-night meal, or just because of the stroll; Faith ( Sirith ) found herself nearby. Down the street was a bar, laughter tumbling out of it as the college party was in full swing. It was the very same bar Bishop, Kiko, and Miach all just left.

The bar's neon-lights punctuated the gloom of the evening, fog just starting to roll in from the rivers. Around the corner was a whole manner of night-life and even a greasy-spoon to attempt to drive away the drunken stupors of the more lively. Cars lined the street and a lonely cab drove by.

Bigpaw you may roll [Res + Composure – 3]. On a success, Miach manages to suppress his urges. kimura Samaritan both of you may post here and state how you are proceeding In Character.

**Miach** · Apr 23rd, 2014 04:35 PM

1 success

Sometimes, GLO felt like a key to another world, a tool to reach the Supernal Realms again. Tonight, this longing was mixed with a feeling of disgust, as it reminded the Acanthus of his captivity too. Resisting, if barely, the urge to try one -- it's just another kind of test of the product, after all -- the Acanthus gripped his wheel, and tried to re-establish control over himself through a steady breathing pattern.

After long minutes, it had worked for now, and he felt like himself again.

**Sirith** · Apr 23rd, 2014 06:49 PM

Faith, even being her normal -to tell the truth, quite nerdy - self, tried to mix into the local neighbourhood she lived with; not enough to get really attached or exchange favors now and then but enough to get friendly and get news of the parties from her neighbours stairs up. So when she heard of the party just when she got sick of correcting others' mistakes in the latest project, she didn't think much. She dressed up elegantly, but still comfortably enough - tunic and tight-ish jeans - so she could dance all night, threw basic security spells on her, took her gag and went out. She hid her pendant under the tunic just to be sure; not like she wanted to show off Freemasons sympathies. The night seemed ideal to get a lil' bit relaxed, without stupid idiots asking weird questions.

And by the looks of the bar, it looked like the party was crazy enough to relax, too.

Damn, she needed that.

Supernal Vision Potency 4, Transform Aura Potency 2, cast at home

Apr 23rd, 2014 07:11 PM

Laughter, loud music, and the hum of conversation drifted up the street. All of it, unaware or uncaring about Miach's success; one that meant the world. It meant that Miach was still in control of his destiny, at least for the moment. The car was suddenly stifling.

Faith passed right by Miach's parked Toyota Highlander. She drifted down the sidewalk towards the party, when, suddenly it wasn't a party anymore.

Miach notices her first, a young woman with strawberry-blonde hair running out of the bar.

Someone drops their beer, the shattering of glass acting as the period to the party.

The young woman screams. It was a piercing, blood curdling thing that echo'd up and down the street.

Her eyes were wide with terror and she was pulling at her hair while stumbling onto the street. Suddenly she points at something only she could see.

It smelled wrong. The rusty coppery tang in the back of both Miach's and Faith's mouth suggested Magic was at work.

As a testament to today's world, the iPhones that were brought out by the buzzed or drunken college kids were to record the young girl. None of them were thinking, at that moment, to call the authorities for help. They only thought about their YouTube cred, the next Viral Video, or getting on shows like Tosh.0.

Bigpaw [Wits + Composure] on Success that taste is very familiar. He has ignored it up to this point because of the feeling GLO gives, but it's always been there. It's one thing to be on it, it's another to see someone else on it.

**Miach** · Apr 24th, 2014 04:12 PM

failure

The girl's behaviour was baffling. Seeing her from the outside, he wondered whether it was because she was a Sleeper whereas his Awakened senses granted him an edge in the consumption of GLO. Perhaps only he could use it to its full potential. His senses already screamed at him that Magic was at work, though, and the Enchanter didn't think that he could let it pass.

Safe in his belief that noone would notice him in his car with the girl screaming beside, the mystagogue called on the power of Sight, hoping to get a grasp on the girl's situation.

5 successes

**Samaritan** · Apr 25th, 2014 08:16 AM

Interlude

Bishop gave a soft sigh and collapsed on a couch in the small kitchen area at the Guardian Compound of the Circle of Creation. He had been at it for fifteen hours straight and even though he had started well rested, the 24 hours of fasting on only water had imposed a considerable strain on his physique. He rolled over and took a look at the things he had placed on the floor, when he had started. The small, polished obsidian square rested on a small wooden table, all sides perfectly aligned with the four cardinal directions of the compass. Right in the centre, a small pile of blue powder had been placed between two arcane symbols of the practices of Matter and Knowing.

Bishop gave a large yawn and felt a sudden eeriness at the sound of his own voice. He had conducted the ritual in utter silence and the room itself was well isolated, so that he had complete privacy. In the last hours, the stuff on the obsidian plate had begun to...speak to him. Not with a voice but rather with a thready pulse of subsonic vibrations. Bishop had stopped to ponder on the way magic communicated to him long ago. He speculated that since his brain did lack fundamental understanding of natural sciences, the Supernal Realm of Stygia had found another means of communicating properties of matter to him. And since Bishop was quite well versed in music, most informations gleaned about materials came as acoustic equivalents.
<Most of the time at any rate.> he thought.

The degree of success of this little exercise in supernatural forensics had yet to be determined and Bishop had a vague plan of how to proceed. He hoped that he was now able to detect the drug on persons by means of supernal sight. The signature of the powder had been visible to him quite well during the last stages of his ritual. The next stage of getting back at the people, that were poisoning the populace of Sacramento with it, would involve some means of interrogation, something that Bishop regarded as a necessary evil and something that he would not do alone under any circumstances. He would require assistance at best and backup at least. Therefore, he decided to wait until his associates Kiko and Miach would report their findings with the stuff known as GLO.

Bishop gave another sigh, before rising from the couch, splashing his face with water from the sink and starting to clean up everything. He was a Guardian of the Veil after all and it was never good to leave any traces, no matter how secure the building one occupied at the moment was.

**Sirith** · Apr 25th, 2014 02:18 PM

...There goes my party.

Young Théarch isn't too sad about it, since it looks like everyone at the party is a stupid jerk, but having her party time cancelled like that isn't fun either. Still, there are more important things to do. Like getting those idiots away so she can do more important things.

Using the fact that the idiots are too busy getting their five seconds of Youtube (In)Fame, Faith takes out her silver pendant and lifts it up to catch some light onto it, and taps onto it to get a sounds out of it... And the Mysteries respond with a resonance. As the solid beam of light shines on the readhead and starts to burn with flames that seem to be made of pure light too, and beacons the area around her to the eyes that have the ability of True Sight, the mortal ones can see the police lights going from behind the corner and the mortal ears can hear that the sound of police signal gets closer and louder.

The magic done, Faith proceeds to ~~catch~~ help the Strawberry Woman before she runs away... "Girl, come with me, we gotta get away, lemme help you, stand up..." She tries to present her actions as a genuine willingness to help and get the woman to stand up.

Create Light Pot 2 and Create Sound pot 1, no Paradox

Apr 25th, 2014 06:06 PM

Outside, at the Bar

It is revealing and what is revealed, is frightening. Maybe it was because Miach was so intimate with the stuff, or perhaps, it was just his mastery over truly seeing the world; but it was so easy to see it on the strawberry-blonde. The young woman was a sleeper, that much was apparent by how banal her resonance was; untouched by the golden strands of the Awakened.

However, there was an active working of magic on her.

The Quality of it, was false.

At first blush, it only seemed like someone has thrust Prime's unveiling practices upon her pattern. It didn't take a Factotum to know that, that, was a violation of wisdom in and of itself. But, as Miach scrutinizes the spell upon her, it revealed itself like a lingering, hateful serpent.

Black.

A coppery tang at the back of his throat.

A vague scent of sulfur.

It was wrong and a complete inversion of the beauty Miach knows of Prime's Unveiling practices. Miach sees it for what it truly is.

Nearby, Faith's magic sings to the highest of heavens. The world responds and the drunken idiots of the bar try and tumble themselves back inside; unwilling to be caught by the police and have to be questioned. It seems none of them want to be involved.

The Strawberry-Blonde is hysterical. “NO!” The young woman screams, mascara running down her face and her eyes wild with abject terror. As she looks at Faith, the young woman tries to escape, “Get Away! It's real! It's all real! Oh God!” It sounded like a terrible realization. The truth of her predicament was lost against sobs and hoarse screams. The woman whispered, “Demons are real.”

Miach please roll [Resolve + Composure] to not feel sick at the resonance of the active spell on the young girl.

The Circle of Creation: Guardians

It was a long-ritual and one that not a lot gets done. There wasn't enough of the stuff to really discern much of anything out of it. Let alone anything of particular note within the powdered depths. It would take someone looking for something specific, as well more of it, to find whatever it was Bishop was looking for.

Frustration ruled even as the water ran over the Guardian's face.

Detect Substance: Requires someone looking for something specific, gold fillings in a wire for instance. Even so, with the amount Bishop has, he has a -3 penalty which is not enough to get any amount of information.

**Miach** · Apr 26th, 2014 04:51 PM

1 success

Whatever Miach had been expecting, it hadn't been something so foul as to make him reel back from sickness. As often in his life, what he'd expected and what he'd gotten had been two vastly different things. Steeling himself, the tall Acanthus allowed his medical reflexes to kick back, and he left the car to run toward the woman and... another Awakened ! He didn't know the redhead and that could only mean one thing, he would have to be thrice as cautious. In the meantime, the screams didn't abate, and he rushed to their side.

"She's been made to See things... Can you remove it ?" he said forcefully, straight to the point when looking at Faith . He knew his ability with Prime to be merely nascent, and doubted it would be effective now. And he feared to try it against the Serpent, too.

Apr 26th, 2014 05:59 PM

Interludes

Kiko arrived at The Catalyst, where currently she was staying dealing with Animus, as she moved silently towards the room afforded her she'd gotten herself comfortable as she stared at the Pills resting on a paper towel on her crossed legs and made a face.

"What were you thinking Kiko? You're not a scientist, not like Orpheus. You're just.. you.." she frowned and took a deep breath closing her eyes as she slowed her breathing to the calm place she searched for.. hunted for.

And then she began to sing..

Lyrics her soul longed to sing for others but knew she couldn't.. not till things were different.

As the songs of her soul reached the Heavens she felt her Will become pure and true. The humble prayers withing the meaning of her song pulsed inside her soul bringing a sense of wonder she never grew tired of.

Opening her eyes, and soul, to gaze upon the objects in front of her she began to scrutinize them as she cast glances towards any Spirits that may find them of interest.

I'm still kinda unsure if I need to roll anything more, or more often, so please let me know if there is anything else I should do or that I'm forgetting to

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-04-23 16:29:49		Miach rolls 2 to Res 2 + Comp 3 - ST Penalty 3 (10 Again)		1, 8		1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2014-04-23 18:27:02	Faith rolls 4 to Transform Aura (Gno+Prime) (10 Again)	5, 10, 3, 8, 4	2 successes
2014-04-23 18:24:29	Faith rolls 7 to Supernal Vision Rote Wits+Occ+Prime (10 Again)	9, 3, 9, 6, 1, 9, 9	4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2014-04-24 16:10:12	Miach rolls 1 to Complete dice pool... (10 Again)	3	failure
2014-04-24 15:56:44	Miach rolls 5 to Wits 2 + Comp 3 (10 Again)	3, 2, 1, 7, 7	failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-04-24 16:11:09		Miach rolls 7 to Wits 3 + Occ 2 + Rote Spec. 1 + Prime 1 for Supernal Vision (10 Again)		9, 6, 10, 9, 10, 3, 9, 1, 3		5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2014-04-24 04:27:44	Bishop rolls 7 to continue Detect Substance Ritual (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2 + Willpower) (10 Again, WillPower)	8, 6, 5, 8, 2, 8, 2	3 successes
2014-04-24 04:26:55	Bishop rolls 5 to resist Fatigue (Stamina 2 + Composure 3) (10 Again)	2, 7, 1, 8, 5	1 success
2014-04-24 04:26:06	[04] Bishop rolls 4 to cast Detect Substance Ritual (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2) (10 Again)	1, 8, 1, 1	1 success
2014-04-24 04:26:06	[03] Bishop rolls 4 to cast Detect Substance Ritual (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2) (10 Again)	2, 1, 3, 2	failure
2014-04-24 04:26:06	[02] Bishop rolls 4 to cast Detect Substance Ritual (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2) (10 Again)	2, 9, 6, 7	1 success
2014-04-24 04:26:06	[01] Bishop rolls 4 to cast Detect Substance Ritual (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2) (10 Again)	5, 3, 10, 3, 6	1 success
2014-04-24 04:24:47	Bishop rolls 5 to cast Dark Matter (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2 + HS - 1 repeat) (10 Again)	8, 6, 7, 7, 2	1 success
2014-04-24 04:24:14	Bishop rolls 6 to cast Dark Matter (Gnosis 2 + Matter 2 + HS) (10 Again)	1, 3, 4, 3, 6, 7	failure

(Words on the Street) The Siren Song

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