(PRP) Rogue Transmission

[Yumyumcrow]

Out past McLellan the hold of the city grew weaker. The lots grew larger and more spaced out - pockets of urbanity interspersed with vacant land and fields, given over to grass and dust. Here new developments of crisp white houses with perfectly sloping roofs rubbed shoulders with older, rambling properties that harkened to a time when the land was still rural. The neighbourhood might sit outside the city limits proper but its still very much in the River City's orbit. And that means the eyes of the Consilium are needed, even here.

Eyes that see...

There is a wrecked car sitting in a vacant lot. Chassis buckled, the crippled thing has been divested of wheels. It hasn't been burnt out though, even though it has become a locus for some local kids and more than a few transient destitute. A big can of petrol stands nearby, forgotten and neglected.

Graffiti has started to appear in out of the way places. Mostly in the hard-to-reach places that won't be seen; its only recently that David Cochrane discovered the garish handiwork of the idle young on his wall. It nearly ruined the new paintwork! Fortunately, he had enough paint to fix up the mess and it made a pleasant afternoon with his son. What the hell does

Rum Ane Rum Ane Haw Haw

mean anyway. The two men shrug as they work; its a good way to work out the sudden chills that shoot down their spines. Hey, its winter ain't it?

Direct Digital Technologies has been making a roaring trade recently, handy given its a small family firm. They're quite happy to do the work, and are content to rebuild people's ariels and digital antennae even though they can't seem to find out what the problem is. Interference, they argue - new developments and upgrades at McLellan Airport, obviously. Nothing to be done but forge through it, recalibrate settings and so forth. They don't live locally so they can't quite grasp the extent of the issue. So they keep going back. Again. And again. And again.

Harry Smith has been building a new ariel. Good old guy. Retired now. In deep with the local citizen band radio enthusiasts. You can see his new rig towering over his house. Damn ugly thing is going to be an eyesore. Heh! Maybe he's pushed it a bit far this time - his poker playing clique of buddies won't keep the authorities off his back for sure!

Over to you Sirith Namkha Level Windmill @Emrys Xander Faye Orianna
A pile of strange coincidences! I'll let you work out how you wish to approach this yourselves. Please enjoy

[Emrys]

Emrys went for a stroll around the area. It wasn't a run like he had mentioned to Striker and Damascus, but it was an effort to get outside some more. Gotta start somewhere right?

The Syndic went for his stroll around the suburbs when he caught a peculiar sight. He approached the house with graffiti writing and watched the father and son work from the sidewalk. The fuck kinda message was that? Only one way to find out.

The Enchanter focused his attention on the strange message painted on the side of the house. Eyes peeled back the layers of reality to expose the information Emrys was looking for, hoping Scrutiny would yield something useful.

   Potency 2 Time Sight, 27 suxx scrutiny to scrutinize the message

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[07] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		10, 2, 10, 9, 8, 5, 8, 6, 9, 9		7 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[06] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		7, 10, 1, 9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 5		4 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[05] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		3, 6, 4, 10, 10, 6, 6, 8, 2, 2		3 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[04] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		2, 1, 9, 3, 1, 2, 6, 9		2 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[03] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		2, 9, 4, 1, 7, 1, 9, 4		2 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[02] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		8, 6, 4, 2, 8, 10, 5, 9, 7		4 successes
2015-02-07 15:25:02		[01] Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		2, 5, 7, 5, 5, 2, 6, 8		1 success
2015-02-07 15:24:44		Emrys rolls 8 to Strutiny (Nature, Identity, Quality) (Int5+Occ3) (10 Again)		1, 8, 9, 5, 5, 10, 8, 2, 5		4 successes
2015-02-07 15:21:15		Emrys rolls 6 to Imp Temporal Eddies (Time+Gno+HS-2 Advance Prolong) (10 Again)		1, 8, 9, 7, 1, 5		2 successes

[Aurora]

She couldn’t help but be excited about being back in Sacramento. And had been filled with practice and training, her show just about ready. Which added a little spring to her step as she walked. No real place or goal in mind, just enjoying the weather and the good mood she was in. Before leaving the warehouse, she made sure to cast for Vision, one never knew these days. She had on jeans and a white shirt, her blonde hair was tied in a braid off to the side.

Her iPod was in as she sipped her Monster when she noticed two guys staring at something. But made her pause, seemed they were as Awakened as she was.

Interesting, she muses as she makes her way over.

Blue eyes drift to the graffiti, head cocking off to the side as she looks it over. Made no sense to her, so she turns to the two with a smile,

“Interesting writing, not sure what it means though.” She says with a shrug, taking her sunglasses off.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2015-02-07 18:31:16		Faye rolls 5 to Temporal Eddies(Gno+Time) (10 Again)		4, 8, 6, 2, 4		1 success

[Sirith]

  Cast at home, Third Eye (Pot 2), Misperception (Pot 1), Mental Shield (Pot 6), -3 Mana for 24 Duration on each one

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2015-02-09 05:56:33		Namkha rolls 6 to Mental Shield (Gno+Mind+HS-1) (10 Again)		5, 9, 9, 3, 5, 10, 10, 10, 8		6 successes
2015-02-09 05:56:13		Namkha rolls 7 to Mental Shield (Gno+Mind+HS) (10 Again)		6, 2, 7, 5, 7, 1, 3		failure
2015-02-09 05:52:06		Namkha rolls 7 to Misperception (Gno + Mind + HS) (10 Again)		8, 6, 7, 3, 2, 1, 6		1 success
2015-02-09 05:51:45		Namkha rolls 7 to Mind's Eye (Gno+Mind+HS) (10 Again)		4, 6, 3, 10, 7, 9, 1, 6		2 successes

Namkha was photographing interesting graffiti for quite some time now. She had a nice little map on which she noted the patterns of where the specific kinds of graffiti showed up, and the map was being filled fast.

Yet, this was new.

And what with this many people, just standing there and gawking? Back in the downtown it would be normal, but in suburbs? That's weird. And the guy that almost pierces with his eyes the graffiti almost along with the wall? Absolutely not suspicious. Nevertheless, the photo needs to be taken. That's what she came here for, after hearing the rumors.

Check the proper position for the best shot, but far enough to not disturb the men working on the roof (and far enough from those other people). For a few minutes, she busies herself with making sure her Olympus has the proper white balance, focus, shutter speed, aperture and zoom settings.

Smile! (Well, graffiti doesn't smile, of course, but its rich red should smile in the photo pretty enough.)

[Yumyumcrow]

Emrys

Emrys stops and stares. Stares! He doesn't have much of a choice if he wants to unpack the oddity that he sees. Minutes stretch into half an hour of deep scrutiny. The Enchanter's focus grows and the world seems to fade away till all that is left is the Patterns left behind - hidden streams, channels and shoals in the ever flowing river of Time. The dense and heavy resonance does not yield up its secrets easy: Emrys has to mentally prize open the opaque concrete and building materials to catch a glimpse of what lies beneath.

The wall, like most of the house - indeed, the property itself and most of the surrounding area - positively glows with a resonance of Family buoyed a deep skein of Conservatism. Its a placid, deep mirror whose serene depths are disturbed by a slow and irregular bubbling of Nihilism.

Staring further is like diving into the depths of the sea: a warm sea where reefs rise from the depths. These reefs are dark and sharp and radiate a black nihilism that slowly pollutes the clarity of the surrounding waters. Rising reefs, accreting from broken shards of emptyness - they haven't begun to alter the surrounding spiritual landscape, but they will soon at the current of... growth... surely. Already, channels of time are being repulsed by the peculiar shapes the reefs create as the fabric of the Lie is subtly distorted and stretched to make way for the jagged intrusion; an intrusion that carries with its own vibration, one that marks it as surely as a thumb print.

The graffiti is a symptom, not a cause.

Level

The Tamer of Stone has his Sight's active but without actual scrutiny he can't say what, if anything, is wrong. However, the more time he spends in the area, driving around around and generally observing, the stronger his gut tells him something just doesn't feel right. Open as he is to the Supernal, it is as though his awareness is awake to the barest hint of something... off. Its... maddening.

Namkha and Faye

The pair sense nothing outwardly wrong, lacking the benefit of deep scrutiny or a combination of Sights allied with an Attainment. Nothing bar one mage obviously scrutinising something being joined by another...

David Cochrane and his son were working quite unaware of Emrys. However, that was changing as more people seemed to arrive on their quiet street. Old David straightened, kneading his back, while his son cracked open another can of paint.

[Emrys]

With the examination complete, Emrys simply quirks an eyebrow at the others as they asked. Did they not know how to scrutinize something themselves?

"Nothing unexpected." The Enchanter said with a casual shrug to Level. "White picket fence with a smidgen of asshole just under chipped paint."

Eyes flick over to the third person with the camera, and a wave beckons Namkha over to the group around him. "I'm Emrys, Democrat and Thorny path enthusiast, and I only know one of you. I think that means introductions are in order?"

Normally he'd be less concerned about the matter, but he'd also normally be downtown with Sentinels and the other Libertines nearby. They didn't look like bad people, but the good bad people never did.

[Aurora]

This many Awakened made her think she was missing something. Eye look back to the graffiti, then to the small gathering.

“Hey Emrys.” She says, before turning and addressing the unknown Awakened.

“I’m Madison, and I also prefer the Thorny Path.” She says to those she didn’t know with a friendly smile. Another sip of her drink was taken before she tucked the iPod away in a pocket.

Looking back to Emrys, “Though nothing unexpected, it certainly has drawn the attention of us.” She replies as she nods her head as Level made his suggestion, “Sounds like a good idea Level.”

[Sirith]

Namkha checks the quality of photo on the screen (note - geo location - height - position) while listening to the introduction. So the vibration of Senses was caused by these people. Hopefully by nothing else. She decides to join the others, since at least two of them are of Pentacle. The other one, she needs to be watched.

"Namkha. I like metal too, but I prefer Iron Maiden." Camera in her left hand, she reaches out her right for a handshake. "Is any of you local? I don't know any good places around yet. Changing location is a good idea, though."

Maybe the others has a better idea about what's happening. Namkha tried to map out the strange graffiti, but there's a limit to what one person can do.