(Something Borrowed) Thick As Thieves

[Star]

Per Xander 's request, new thead to converg/synch

She'd been right. Of course. Warlock, yo. Distance. Neat trick.

That U turn? More like a seventeen-point turn. He'd made lots of friends. Lovely commuters shouting encouragement and helpful hand signals. Vans didn't have very tight turning radius'. Learn something new every day. It's also not easy to drive when you're holding a gat. Why? Because you never know.

Eventually, he got back to 4W. He even managed to back the van up. Because unloading.

Gonna assume Avis and Star unload it while the others do their Investigation rolls to re-synch Time!

A hand wiped away a bead of sweat when they were done piling things back up in the common area. He didn't know what went where, but there sure were a lot of weapons. And kevlar. And a bong.

He was living with a survivalist cult, wasn't he?

His other hand held up his toothbrush for inspection. Yep. Time for a new one. He'd found it on the floorboard. Gross, yo. Who does that? Ziplocs. They're totally A Thing. Also? Mad disappointed. It would have been nice if Felix had been taken. Then, oops, the van door got left open. No, seriously, he would never do that.

"Who takes a toothbrush!"

He held it up like King Arthur's sword. Answers. He demanded them.

[Avis]

"A Mastigos," Avis replied. She was sitting in a chair, staring at a bonsai that she'd placed on the table, right next to where her hands busied themselves folding paper.

"I mean, it's pretty obvious after what happened in the van. Except, the van if fucking weird too. It's like they wanted to get caught. Wanted to, ya know, throw down the gauntlet." Which was almost more troubling than the fact that their Sanctum had been broken into. Almost. It would be if it weren't for the fact that it meant whoever had done this wanted to be found. Wanted them to try and stab them in the fucking face. Those motherfuckers.

Just thinking about it made her hands clench, crumpling the paper until the tendons in her hands crackled.

[Xander]

Just a notation as the groups converge. Once Asp and the crew start going through objects they notice that many of the valuable ones like the movie projectors and the enhanced Tonfa are accounted for.

Everything is present except for the brushes and Avis's stake.

[Zodiac]

Zoey reached to pet Felix's head for a moment, before giving Asp a reassuring smile. "Felix seems to be fine," she stated, before looking up at the return of their cabalmates.

"Space mages?" she inquired of Avis, without much extra thought. Sympathy. It wasn't hard to make sense of things. "Anyone hurt? Any trace?" After a moment...

"... is Absinthe okay?" Her priorities. The cat was fine. Now where the hell was her hookah?

[Star]

Oh, well THANK GOODNESS the felonious furball was fine. What about his toothbrush?'

"Oh. It's, uh, over there," he gestured at the pile with his toothbrush like it was a wand.

Ta-da! Stolen stuff: Appear! Absinthe was carefully set to the side; after all, he was a fan of it as well.

"But, like, we were all in the middle of the street, and there were people, and traffic. Like, everywhere. So we brought the van back," he continued. A free hand pointed at his eyes and shook his head. Nope, hadn't Looked yet. "But we can check it? No bigs."

His eyes drifted over to Avis, and a cheek puffed out, and he ping-ponged the pocket of air from one side to the other of his mouth. Huh. Gauntlet? Were they the Big Kid on the block that some new faces wanted to get a lick in on? Or... fight. Words like 'lick', with three chicks? Not cool, man.

"Oh. But. The van was empty. So, like, did the driver teleport? Or was the van driving itself? Either way, pretty high dollar spell-jinks, right? I'm down for doing a Serious Peek at any resonance. But, after that?"

He glanced at Avis and Zoey. Because Mastigos.

[Avis]

"After that we know one of them's gotta be a space mage. Which, is why we might want to throw a quick ward up around ourselves now?" Avis suggested, looking to Zoey.

"Maybe you two can look at the van while we take care of that?" she continued, nodding to the Obrimoi. "I mean, even if they breach it, which they probably will, we'll know, and that's something. Or, ya know, we could try and see if they have wards."

Cause connections went two ways, yo. Enemies had their stuff? Awesome. That meant they had a bunch of fucking homing devices chilling out in their hands.

[Star]

What?!

"Dang. Uh. Really?"

Drinking bong water? Sure, who hasn't. But it wasn't something you just stared at and went 'Get Me Some'. Right? At least... not... sober. Gross, yo. He glanced at the the two Mastigos and nodded.

"Handle that Ward like June Cleaver!" Thumbs. Up.

If this was Serious Business, he needed Serious Sight. It wasn't quite Gregorian Enigma, but he let the Powrful Words flow, then reeled off...

...the crappiest spell ever.

That's not embarrassing, at all. The up side? All his girls had seen him flub one before. His head fell into his hand and he shook it. "Uh. I don't, like, do much Chanting." Yeah. That was it. He Released, and reformed the Imago. The. Vision.

Apparently, The Crappiest Spell Ever was doing encores.

"Nobody's watching this, are they?" A hand made a throwing away gesture, and he followed Asp. Whatever.

He Let It Go, Let It Go, Potency Never Bothered Him Anyway!

  Dollar Store Reading Glasses

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-10-10 16:35:17		Star rolls 8 to Supernal Goggles! A capella! (10 Again)		1, 9, 7, 5, 1, 4, 4, 5		1 success
2014-10-10 16:25:53		Star rolls 10 to Supernal Goggles to the tune of Enigma (+2 HS) (10 Again)		9, 5, 1, 3, 1, 7, 2, 6, 6, 3		1 success