(Truth from Dreams) Up in Smoke

[roadnottaken]

Forest. Splashes of color, the feel and scent of fresh earth. At first it brings a grin to the Shaman's face.

His first attempts at movement bring a different impression. Brambles litter the ground, hungrily pecking at any exposed flesh within reach. He picks his way cautiously to the nearest tree, although not without taking scratches. Stability. A massive root system, supporting a trunk jutting out from the ground. Overhead, branches support an array of succulent fruit, promising secrets long-forgotten while hanging mockingly out of reach.

That's when the second shock reaches him. A scent of fear on the wind. Animal calls filtering through the air, carrying agitation and urgency. A shift of the wind brings the smell of acrid smoke, and when the Thyrsus turns in the direction of the commotion, he is struck by the red glow of flame, leaping and spreading, consuming anything in its wake. Vines wither and die, quickly reduced to ashes. Trees stand firm, but fight a losing battle. Unlucky animals bleat in pain and desperation, before choking fumes silence their panicked cries.

A strangled cry of anguish and loss. It might have been a howl, if his throat were built for such. Everything that was here, threatened. How much would be lost, in a matter of minutes? What could he do to halt a hunter far more deadly than even the swiftest wolf?

[Leo Lockheart]

Leo crossed the threshold to his father's room, only to be completely thrown off by his actual destination. Thorns at his feet and the smell of.... was something burning? 'What the shit?!'

A quick glance around and he can finally see his Talon. "Dude! Are we running or what?" The tree and it's fruit don't even register in the moment of wild blaze and dying life. Now he understood why his judge didn't pass a sentence.

[Ariadne]

"Oww...the hell?" Alex looks down at the brambles that hungerly dig into her legs and feet. Then the smell...of burning? And the sounds.

She looks around wildly. "The Hell." Finally noticing Leo and Animus she looks around for a quick path to either of them.

"Soooo that's bad right?!"

[Animus]

So much destruction, so much chaos ...

Eyes flick longingly to the taunting fruit before being drawn in by the flame people.

At Leo's question, he throws his head side-to-side. "It's burning ... they're destroying everything. Can't we do something to stop it?" A note of pleading, of helplessness. And a distinct growl underlying the words, emphasized by the almost feral cast to his posture.

[Ariadne]

"Uhh there has to be a way. Everything here is part of you...Right?"
Alex looks from Animus to the fire. All part of his mind...soul? Shit how does all this work.

  1 suxx to can Mind do anything in the Astral

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-07-11 22:32:41		Ariadne rolls 6 to Astral? Int3+Occ3=6 (10 Again)		6, 7, 2, 7, 7, 8		1 success

[Leo Lockheart]

Fire.

It was a symbol for the Obrimos for a reason. It was a light in the dark, a driving force of innovation, warmth for the cold, and scary as fucking shit running towards him. Leo's eyes widen as the three forms begin to descend upon him. "Um, guys, Forces ain't my thing!" He digs his feet into the ground and takes his stance to fight the fire. Physically fight the fire. The hot fucking fire that was about to burn his sorry ass for not picking up any Forces when he should.

  Failure for navigation, 2 suxx Occult to know how Organic Resilience and Life healing work in Astral

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-07-13 00:41:49		Leo rolls 5 to Astral and Life/healing? (Int+Occ) (10 Again)		4, 8, 7, 9, 3		2 successes
2014-07-13 00:40:22		Leo rolls 6 to Navigation (Wits+Comp) (10 Again)		2, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4		failure

[Ariadne]

Ideas blur through Alex's mind. Emotions, Thoughts. Thing she can manipulate, control. But that fire is really damn close... Mind over all can wait, for now leaving sounds good.

  3 suxx to navigate

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-07-14 22:19:19		Araidne rolls 6 to Up in Smoke - Navi wits3+comp3=6 (10 Again)		6, 6, 10, 8, 5, 9, 1		3 successes

[roadnottaken]

Eyes dart furtively between the three figures and the encroaching wall of fire. Tears stream down his face. Too large, too deadly. If the choking smoke weren't enough of an indication, the constant sense of lives vanishing from one instant to the next left no doubt. Even if they could drive off the figures ...

Maybe it was his lot, to run from himself.

Tapping his friends on the shoulder to get their attention, the Thyrsus turns and bolts, smiling bitterly as thorns tear at clothes and skin. Didn't he deserve the pain, for taking the easy way out?

  5 suxx to RUN!; 4 suxx to navigate; init 20

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-07-15 23:59:09		Animus +16 rolls 1 to do something insignificant (10 Again)		4		failure
2014-07-15 23:58:37		Animus rolls 11 to Wits + Comp + 3 (10 Again)		9, 2, 9, 6, 9, 2, 5, 2, 7, 8, 7		4 successes
2014-07-15 23:58:14		Animus rolls 14 to Sta + Ath + sp (10 Again)		3, 8, 7, 1, 1, 8, 8, 6, 4, 7, 7, 5, 10, 4, 8		5 successes