Breakfast of Champions

[Swami M]

Alex is oddly encouraged by the fact that everyone here is new. Maybe there is something special about Sacramento if so many people have decided to make it their new home. He listens for a while as the discussion turns to missing pets. He remembers seeing a couple of faded "Lost Cat" posters near Edna's, but small tragedies like that were unfortunately all too common. Going a few weeks without seeing the occasional hastily photocopied appeal to find Fluffy or Spot stapled to a telephone pole would be the real oddity. He certainly didn't recall anything that suggested a pattern or an unusual number of missing animals... but from the news it sounded like there was a real problem. Alex is not surprised that pet snatching would be a pressing topic in this crowd. The thought of any living creature being stolen from its home...

"I wonder if animals can be Taken too?" He regrets the question as soon as it slips out. "It's just something I've wondered before. Whatever's going on here probably has a simpler explanation. Like some assholes taking animals to be bait for a dogfighting ring or something..."

Alex stares down into his coffee cup for a few moments. At least he really hopes there's a simpler explanation. Probably so. Once someone's gotten a look at the squirming things living under the skin of the world it's hard not to see dark forces behind every shadow...

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  2 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-02-29 16:13:03		Alex Rivers rolls 6 to Remember the posters? (Int + Comp) (10 Again)		10, 6, 3, 10, 5, 3, 6, 6		2 successes

[Mhairi Ankaa]

Mhairi brings her head from where her hand prop it up to glare at Alex. She didn't' even want to think about poor helpless animals being Taken. Or being used as bait for dog fights. That's just wrong. Sad and wrong. Mhairi let's go of her glare, it shouldn't surprise her that a Summer would think of that. Instead she folds her arms on top of the table so she could lean better.

Hank did have a point, the elemental thinks, it is strange that the five of them, all new arrivals would gather here at once, when it seemed like the pink wearing, high haired waitress was a quest giver. Luck, Fate, Chance, the Wyrd really was a funny thing sometimes.

With thoughts of the Wyrds mysterious workings Mhairi casts her fell-flame gaze about the dinner.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-03-01 23:55:11		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 5 to Perception (Wits 3 + Composure 2) (10 Again)		8, 5, 6, 5, 6		1 success

'Was that women been watching us?' Mhairi asks herself, nudging Eveylnn and Hank, she's known them longer, and weird as it sounds trusts them a bit. "Hey-ah, did-ah-you guys see...her lookin' this way?" the elemental asks.

[Evelynn East]

Evelynn's wide eyes went all the wider at the thought of animals being Taken. How horrific! She could never wish that fate on anyone, not even her worst enemy, but the thought of it happening to helpless, innocent creatures like that seemed especially egregious. Also, weren't they supposed to... you know, not talk about that stuff in front of normal people?

Evelynn was paying too much attention to Alex, trying to decide whether or not she should say something about not saying something when Mhairi nudged her and indicated towards the woman. "Uuh, um, I wasn't paying attention," she admitted softly, a blush flaring up on her cheeks. She glanced in the direction of the woman, frowning. She wasn't a Changeling like them, was she? A little bolt of panic shot through her. What if the woman was a loyalist? Someone sent by one of their old Keepers to bring them back? Part of her mind insisted that was unlikely, but was it? Was it really unlikely enough to warrant not being at all concerned. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up and her shoulders hunched forward a little. Still, best not to say anything too strange with the waitress still about.

[Swami M]

Alex has also noticed the odd woman watching them from the rear of the diner. He normally would not have been sitting with his back to the front door, but as a late arrival at the table he'd had no choice.

Not wanting to draw attention, instead of pointing he slides the knife away from his plate and turns it so that the tip is aimed at the stranger. "She's in that direction. The one who looks like she could be homeless. Or a hippie. Or both. And it definitely looks like she's scoping us out. I wonder if there's some kind of "locals only" vibe here, and with us all being new in town..."

It could be that, or it could be someone in the know wondering what all these Changelings are doing together. But something something Occam's Razor something...

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  4 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-03-03 20:41:32		Alex Rivers rolls 5 to Spot the strange woman? Wits + Comp (10 Again)		3, 8, 10, 1, 10, 8, 4		4 successes

[Mhairi Ankaa]

"Beccs?" Mhairi asks, mostly herself, but also the table at large after the pink wearing, high haired waitress leaves, "Hmm..." the elemental taps a drippy finger to her chin. "At-ah least my-uh coffee will be here soon." she murmurs, watching the waitress taking their orders away to be filled.

"So!" Mhairi chirps, then pitches her voice lower, "Any-um-one else feel like-ah the um-Wyrd" feeling a bit safe with saying Wyrd because it sounds like word. "is-ah at work here? Uh getting all of us here, erm, now?"