Darts, Beer, and Deep Fried Cheese

[Jhet]

Nous rents out a room at a joint that serves microbrews and promises to have a dart board. It's a dark and dingy room, with hightop tables surrounded by barstools. It smells faintly of beer and fried food, which is good considering they're both on the menu. She sent out a few invitations for this little soirée, and while she's not hosting it in the greenhouse, she's at least picking up the tab for the night.

She wears something that will hopefully not intimidate anyone. Normal clothes like. She knows how it can be when you walk with a title. Annoying to get to know people apparently. Titles are chains to strap you into a certain mold. A certain idea of who you're supposed to be. It blows.

It's also why she's drinking a beer, and has a plate of fried cheese curds in front of her while she waits. Because expectations need to be shattered. She just hopes that people show up in response to her invitation.

[Zodiac]

Zodiac had never been the type to be late, and so her arrival is swift as she makes her way into the preset establishment in search of her Ordermate. Unlike Nous, Zodiac's attire spoke of business - and the Herald herself saw no reason to be anything else. Upon seeing Nous, she chuckled lightly to herself. "I suppose this makes you good cop?" she inquired lightly before making her way over to offer a hand to the Acanthus pleasantly.

"Councillor, it's a pleasure to see you again. It's been some time... thank you for this lovely invitation." A beer, however? A beer might help take away some of the business-like edge of the woman.

[Truce]

Truce is surprised to have received an invitation from the Acanthus Councilor. It certainly isn't something he wishes to refuse, so he arrives promptly at the promised hour. He is pleased to see that a back room has been made available to their private party, allowing for more lax uses in terminology that would otherwise be taboo in public. Still, he decides to try and avoid blatant uses of their special language unless necessary.

Wearing a simple black suit and grey tie, Truce settles for something more on the business side to be safe. As he often does before meeting with Awakened, he has cast his Mage Sight rotes in his car before entering the structure. Truce is equally pleased to see Damascus among the unfamiliar women. At least he has had the chance to speak with her at the Consilium gathering.

"Good evening, ladies," Truce says in greeting. "I'm Truce, a pleasure to meet you. Damascus, good to see you again." The Necromancer offers a handshake to any who wish to accept it before standing expectantly to be offered to sit.

  Mage Sight

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2015-01-06 09:30:46		Truce rolls 7 to cast Third Eye rote before entering the microbrewery [WIT+Emp+Mind] (10 Again)		2, 7, 5, 1, 1, 1, 5		failure
2015-01-06 09:30:23		Truce rolls 7 to cast Grim Sight rote before entering the microbrewery [WIT+Occ+Death] (10 Again)		1, 5, 7, 10, 9, 2, 2, 1		2 successes

[Gyges]

Gyges got the invitation, which he dutifully inspected and then burnt. He had spent the last gathering talking a lot about sympathy, so he wasn't sure if this was some kind of test or something less confrontational. That's why he spent some time outside the bar, just watching it and the people heading in. He smoked while he waited for a bit and after only a little bit of waiting, he was rewarded with two people arriving that he recognized.

He called down a handful of spells as he crossed the street and entered the bar and quickly after, the private room. Dressed in his nondescript suit, he greets the hostess. "Councilor Nous, I was surprised when I received the invitation."

He nods to Truce. "Truce, right?"

  Buffs

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2015-01-06 00:41:26		Gyges rolls 5 to Mental Shield (10 Again)		10, 7, 10, 1, 6, 1, 7		2 successes
2015-01-06 00:39:36		Gyges rolls 6 to Untouchable (10 Again)		8, 4, 8, 7, 8, 10, 3		4 successes
2015-01-06 00:39:16		Gyges rolls 6 to Spatial Awareness (10 Again)		8, 3, 2, 7, 2, 9		2 successes

[Zodiac]

Taking the opportunity to pause and glance at the newcomers, Zodiac offered a small but business-like smile to the gathering.

"Damascus," she greeted, "Truce... and...?" she left a moment as she looked to Gygas, awaiting the offering of a name. "I am Herald Zodiac," ah, but she should attempt to be a little more relaxed, shouldn't she? "Just Zoey will suffice, however," Zodiac added after a moment. "Please, come have a seat. Make yourselves comfortable."

Though her presence seemed insignificant, Zodiac's eyes were sharp, a thing she hadn't quite gotten control of yet. Still, some might pass off the intensity as simply being the colour, and she was okay with that as well. For now, she was studying each, their connections to one another and to the room around them, their mannerisms, their little ticks... all the little things that made them who they were at that particular moment.

She knew why they were there... did they?

[Jhet]

She steps out to give the staff instructions about not being disturbed for a while, figuring if anyone really really needed a drink immediately, they could just grab one at the bar in the main portion of the restaurant. A pair of dart boards are lit up on the wall in the back of the room with matching chalkboards beside to keep score.

Formalities makes it heavy. She wants light and frivolous, and open. She doesn't want to scare anyone off. It's a gamble inviting Zoey, but it's one she's willing to take. Getting to know people is part of Zoey's business. It'll be fine. It's not long before everyone's arrived and starting to interact.

"Hi, you can all call me Elle, tonight. Thanks for coming."

She doesn't shake hands with mages she doesn't know, but does at least return the gesture with a wave. She then points to the bar stools near Zoey.

"First, I wanted to say thank you for coming, and welcome to Sacramento. Secondly, yes, I'm on the council, so if you need something that your representative can't help you with, feel free to come with me. But mostly, I wanted to make sure that you were all settling in well enough in the city. So how are you settling? Finding work, getting set up?"

[Gyges]

"Gyges," he says, introducing himself. He had thought the Councilor was going to do that for everyone, but no matter. "But if we're going to be informal, please call me Benjamin. Good to meet you all."

He takes a seat where he can keep an eye on the door and then listens attentively as Nous' questions are asked. He didn't mind small talk, but he wondered how much of what was going to be said was true. "I'm doing well. Retail continues to be a spiritually fulfilling career path for myself and the city has a large enough population that I've been able to evade notice of any of our traditional antagonists, at least as far as I can tell." He could tell, because he wasn't dead and he was careful.

[Truce]

Truce returns the nod. "Gyges is it? Yes, good to see you again," he says politely. Truce hasn't met the man directly before, having only seen him in the Mastigos Councilor's company.

"Zoey, a pleasure. Elle. Thank you," he says before taking the offered seat. So, this is the other Herald. She seems nice.

Once Elle has welcomed them and Gyges had said his reply, Truce says, "Well, I have been told that as an Apostate, our representative, I believe Jammer is his name, hasn't been in attendance at the Consilium. Herald Crowley had mentioned he might be found at The Rage, a dance club. I haven't found a chance to visit that venue yet, but otherwise yes, I'm getting settled into the city. Councilor Mace has found a task for me to assist her with for the time being."