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  1. #1
    Saber Sloth's Avatar

    0 Scenes

    The Circle of Creation is a large imposing building of gothic architecture. It is an almost perfect replica of Westminster, but no one ever notices. Sleeper eyes slide over the building and only Awakened eyes can pierce the subtle occultation


    Moments, weeks, months ago, the Wise Sacramento were three, the forth leaving for undisclosed order business. Now their numbers have blossomed. Overnight in most cases, with outliers trickling in days or weeks later.

    Allowing Nighogg's Bane to breathe a little easier, as they are not alone to stand against the tide, but what evil could await them when it seems that Fate itself has written the arrival of so many Awakened at once....?

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    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Having not stepped into the Circle since her arrival Lacuna's steps were purposeful, echoing up through the vaulted ceilings and empty halls, as she explores the sanctuary.

    Her eyes are drawn to the mark and scars upon the stone. Bullet holes, and magical fire. Hunching over, she crouches down to to feel the gouges. The years of history the Seers hadn't erased.

    Hearing no one, and feeling uncomfortable at coming to such a place with workings glowing upon her person, or even casting as she crouched, Lacuna assumed she was alone.

    Had she made time to visit, only come on a day where no one had done the same?
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

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  5. #3
    Aurora's Avatar
    Aurora
    Spells
    Striking Looks
    (Riveting)
    Presence
    (Confident)
    Fame
    (Entertainment)
    Madison Cross
    (Sleeper ID)
    Gnosis
    Aurora
    Aurora

    Dedicated Magical Tool

    Multicolored copper bracelet with intricate loops winding around her right wrist.
    Nimbus

    The sweet, fragrant smells of roses mixed with lilacs emanate from her as she casts magic. The scent intensifies, bordering on intoxicating, when Life magic is cast. When Aurora casts Vulgar magic, the scent takes a nasty turn, to the putrid, nauseating odor of a rotting corpse. The stronger the magic, the more those around want to retch at the smell.
    Monthly Spells

    Monthly spells done on character sheet.


    Pulse of the Living World[POT 6]
    Organic Resilience[POT 6]
    (PrP Treasure Hunt)

    Active Spells: 1/6
    [Detect Substance]Bone
    Personal Spells: 2/3
    Vulgar:
    Mana:6/8
    WP:3

    2
    FAME
    +1
    SL
    4
    PRE

    She had been at a job interview and decided to swing by the Circle on her way home. So she was a little dressy, but not too dressy in a flowing black dress with white stars on it. Over her shoulder was a messenger bag from which metal could be heard clanging around and a hula hoop. Which wasn't a normal hula hoop, there were six prongs that stuck out.

    Sometimes you have to show case your skills. She’d nailed the job of course.

    Maybe someone would be there.

    Maybe no one would.

    But she was still going to check, especially with how many new people had shown up last month. Never know if another new face was waiting for someone to talk to.

    Walking in, she was pleasantly surprised to see Lacuna, who appeared to be studying something.

    Smiling as she got closer, “Hi,” greeted the Shaman, “How’s it going?”

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  7. #4
    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    No longer a frightened looking girl among strangers, Hamia's entrance to the Circle is confident. Or maybe just purposeful. Heeled short boots clack against stone and tile, ushering the brunette into the newest place she could call a command. Which is what their gathering is.... to her. The building might look like an old gothic cathedral, but it's where the planning happens.

    Lacuna... doesn't look like she's planning anything, though. Studying something, maybe? The Enchantress would just as soon ask, but the full-lipped blonde (the one who had the coffee) beats her to the punch. Her hands readjust the messenger bag she usually carries as her eyes settle on the one Aurora is carrying. Plus a hula hoop. Weird. Rather than interject something of her own, Hamia simply walks up beside the other two and waits to make eye contact. She gives Aurora a nod and raises a brow at the other half of her cabal.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  9. #5
    V
    Vauban

    It was his third visit to the improbable recreation that was the Circle of Creation and Vauban still did not feel comfortable with this city yet. While nothing had really happened yet, he still found himself waiting for the other shoe to drop. Give him some assurance he was not just paranoid. It had not happened yet so he just marched for the front doors in his jeans, jacket and a navy blue laptop bag he hauled with him.

    He did his beast to follow what few voices he heard to where people have gathered. "Huh. Hey." He said as soon as he was in earshot. So far no one new. Though it took him a moment to recall meeting Lacuna the first time here. The libertine did notice the odd hula hoop. "Can't say I've seen one like that before."

  10. #6
    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Just as her knees started to protest the position, one by one, more mages arrived. The runt of a giantess stands, ignoring the way her knees popped as she did so.

    "Aurora," she greets, turning to face her, "I'm good. Yourself?" she asks, then frowns, "What's with the hula-hoop?"

    "Hamia," she smiles, "Had your coffee yet?" there's a teasing sparkle to her steely blue eyes.

    a third set of steps and a face she vaguely recalled, "Vauban...?" she tested, it seemed right, "How have you been?"
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

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  12. #7
    Aurora's Avatar
    Aurora
    Spells
    Striking Looks
    (Riveting)
    Presence
    (Confident)
    Fame
    (Entertainment)
    Madison Cross
    (Sleeper ID)
    Gnosis
    Aurora
    Aurora

    Dedicated Magical Tool

    Multicolored copper bracelet with intricate loops winding around her right wrist.
    Nimbus

    The sweet, fragrant smells of roses mixed with lilacs emanate from her as she casts magic. The scent intensifies, bordering on intoxicating, when Life magic is cast. When Aurora casts Vulgar magic, the scent takes a nasty turn, to the putrid, nauseating odor of a rotting corpse. The stronger the magic, the more those around want to retch at the smell.
    Monthly Spells

    Monthly spells done on character sheet.


    Pulse of the Living World[POT 6]
    Organic Resilience[POT 6]
    (PrP Treasure Hunt)

    Active Spells: 1/6
    [Detect Substance]Bone
    Personal Spells: 2/3
    Vulgar:
    Mana:6/8
    WP:3

    2
    FAME
    +1
    SL
    4
    PRE

    As another awakened joined them, the Shaman gives her a friendly smile.

    “Hey, how are you?”
    She greets, finding a spot to put her own bag and hula hoop down. And she kinda wished she didn’t have to carry them around today, but she walked instead of driving, so yeah.

    Then Vauban appeared, her got a smile too,

    “Hi. How’s it going?” And then the hula hoop, “Oh, uh, yeah. It looks like that so I can light it on fire, not your typical hoop.” It was true.

    Then to Lacuna, “Not too bad, wishing I drove instead of walked today, but meh.” Cause then she could have left the hoop in the car. “I had a job interview and its part of my show and they wanted to see it.”

    After the mention of coffee, blue eyes widen, “Sorry I didn’t bring any coffee today.” She said sounding apologetic, “Wasn’t sure if anyone would be here today, otherwise I would have brought some.”

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  14. #8
    Winter's Avatar
    Winter
    Presence
    (Stoic)
    Education
    (West Point Grad)
    Occultation
    Winter

    Nimbus

    Dark shadows scatter in ordered symmetrical patterns traversed by a crackling pallid silver light that wraps Winter in a pleasantly numbing and icy coldness.
    When vulgar magic is cast, the frequency of the oscillation of the dark fluid surges until the shadows arrange themselves in a solid black halo around Winter's head, the white light darkens into a fiery black sunlight and his eyes are set ablaze with vivid incandescence.
    Stats

    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor: 1(General)/2(Ballistic)
    Defense: 3

    Active Spells: 1/6
    Personal Spells: 1/3
    Incognito Presence (Mind 2) Rote, Scene, Pot[1]

    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE

    The stony front of the Cathedral was met by the equally granitic scowl on his unshaven face. Sacramento wasn't Boston; the weather of River city could wind one down with ease, and the coat slung over his shoulder or the casually loosened knot of his tie were unceremonious evidence of that.
    This time he had taken a different route, by parking the car a few blocks away he hoped to achieve a level of circumspection sufficient to misdirect any tailgater.

    He stuck a finger between the white collar of his shirt and the flesh of his neck, gently tugging at the fabric. He could hear the lingering screams of the drill instructor calling him a slouch, his mouth barely curved into an upward grin; in enjoyment of the hazy boundaries between disciplined misdirection and the leisure of civilian life. Soon, the unlit cigarette stuck between his lips would disappear in the cache of the front pocket of his blue jeans.
    Unraveling his spells, he entered the Cathedral. A woven cross and a downward nod of reverence to the One above later, he made strides towards the seat of the local Consilium and his fellow Awakened.

    "Greetings", soft-spoken, addressing nobody in particular, all the while his trained gaze moved from the known, Hamia and Aurora, to the unknown, a tough looking valkyrie of a woman. One of us. The obvious conclusion.


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    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    "I've had a coffee." she answers, smiling slyly. No one had asked Lacuna what she'd been doing... and she doesn't look embarrassed about it. Hamia decides not to ask. It would just be awkward at this point. Aurora follows up with a way out and Hamia seizes it. "That's ok. Not like it's your job or anything. Maybe next time I'll bring some?"

    "Flaming hula-hoop, huh? Sounds fun. What's uh... what kind of job interview involves acrobatics and pyrotechnics?" she asks, as innocently as she can manage. She and the blonde had very different backgrounds in Sleepertown. Clearly.

    The Enchantress takes a moment to take in the two males. She can't really escape them. She'll be working with them. Best to get them figured out now.

    Winter, for one: sort of stiff. Stoic. Not unfriendly, but reserved. And not in the same way Hamia is - he doesn't seem nervous. The outfit is too crisp for him to be a wallflower, too. She's seen guys like him. In the service. Stiff and proper. For reasons... it makes her uncomfortable.

    Vauban, on the other hand, seems more approachable. Ironically, Vauban could be Winter's paler, squinty brother. Or cousin, at least. But the similarity ends there. The Moros just... feels like he's got baggage. A kindred spirit of a different sort.

    But precious moments have been wasted, with Hamia's gaze shifting and darting to artfully avoid looking like she'd been staring. She would need to say something now to avoid seeming awkward. "Missing a few faces, aren't we?" She asks no one - but her eyes land on Lacuna. The 'Hounds' might do with another member. nd Hamia, for one, feels like she should look at the full menu before ordering.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  18. #10
    Winter's Avatar
    Winter
    Presence
    (Stoic)
    Education
    (West Point Grad)
    Occultation
    Winter

    Nimbus

    Dark shadows scatter in ordered symmetrical patterns traversed by a crackling pallid silver light that wraps Winter in a pleasantly numbing and icy coldness.
    When vulgar magic is cast, the frequency of the oscillation of the dark fluid surges until the shadows arrange themselves in a solid black halo around Winter's head, the white light darkens into a fiery black sunlight and his eyes are set ablaze with vivid incandescence.
    Stats

    Health:
    Mana:
    WP:
    Armor: 1(General)/2(Ballistic)
    Defense: 3

    Active Spells: 1/6
    Personal Spells: 1/3
    Incognito Presence (Mind 2) Rote, Scene, Pot[1]

    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE

    An eyebrow shot up in acknowledgement of Aurora's exotic accessory. He looked around, scanning his fellow willworkers for anything unusual, a sisyphean task itself given their condition, before addressing Hamia directly. His jacket now neatly folded over his left elbow.

    "Indeed", his surgical gaze went over the blonde woman that towered over the rest, "I believe we haven't had the pleasure of a proper introduction", and shifting a bit too forward as to get an eyeful of what she was investigating; in a calm voice, he added, "the name is Winter".


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