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  1. #31
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    Aaron's voice is usually quite flat and emotionless, almost rusty, but he tries to make up for this with his facial expressions.

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    The cracking of the building around him brings a somewhat maniacal grin to Aaron's face. A power is definitely presenting itself. Then the flames come and his instinct is to run, for just a second, until he realizes that he feels no actual fear.

    This is no normal fire. This is Fire.

    Yes... yes yes yes.

    Some sort of communication is established, while he watches his instrument and the laptop closely. This is a sentient being. Oh the wonders they could discover! His hands move as haunting electronic sounds are added to the already energy laden atmosphere.

    Then actual words can be distinguished. Well Fuck. The Fire is warning Tess and Little John for their presence. How to interpret the other riddles? Should the two not finish their business here? And who is the lover? More importantly, who is coming?!

    Aaron moves his hand to produce a bass sound that reflects a clear "no" on his theremin, amid all the music there. 'We seek to steal nothing. We merely wish to share in your power.'

    'Let us aid you in creating the child!'
    Aaron is aware of the increasing intensity of the orchestra behind him, yet all he can do is continue to go with this occult flow. Dissonant music is an art in itself. It is simply harder to master. Through these positive thoughts, he attempts to make words on the theremin. Then he uses the laptop, while also speaking, hopefully reaching the Fire somehow. 'Lend us your power through one of my crystals!' It is the demanding voice of a Lord. If only he could Dominate this entity.

    But he has hope for something else. If this is alchemy, all elements could be merged. Especially in this mystical forge. He needs to find a way to store some of the energy here, whatever purpose that may serve.


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    Lina looked to Aaron, then back to Tess, knowing she was hearing something beyond her ken. What was happening to her? "We're here to help," she said soothingly, but how could she possibly know how to soothe the very essence of Fire? She was in the presence of a being few vampires would ever know.

    But there was something in the warning. Run, they are coming?

    Moretti's lips pressed flat even as her Beast kicked and pounded at the Coil that bound it.

    "Little John? Everything okay?"

    She looked back out the window, bringing up her binoculars to try to get eyes on the front. Had this being sensed something all her training could not?

      obvs fail to soothe the Fire
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-08-19 19:32:20 Lina Moretti rolls 3 to Manipulation + Empathy - 4 to calm the Fire (10 Again) 4, 4, 2 failure

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    The Dead seek to steal the hermits cave... The cave is the womb... The child is not yet born.

    The Unclean and Lost One perform the symphony that must not be finished under the mountain with three peaks...

    The Lover waits alone...

    Run! They are coming!


    The message comes again, this time louder and more insistent. The rolling thunder and the discordant orchestra almost become unbearable. The walls are shaking down, sending cracks and gobbets of plaster tumbling. The shattered electrical innards of the room spark and flare and spit ever more dangerously.

    Lina finds Little John at the door, wonder on his disfigured face - for he too is revealed as more than a colossus of a man in the flashing haze. His is all mismatched limbs. He is slab of muscle stapled, laced, riveted, or fused upon slab of muscle. His head and neck are supported by an ugly, poorly made, metal collar that fizzes and spurts in time with the raging conflagration.

    "Qashmalim?" Little John is barely cognisant of Lina's plea, such is his awe.

    Ophidian Child, mother of three!

    The Unclean's hope lies here!

    The Mob Seed knows but does not know!

    Hurry! They are coming!


    And then the fiery maelstrom collapsed into a figure hovering over and through the now-glowing tripod. An androgynous, indeed, sexless figure that was wreathed in a robe of flailing particulates. It loomed, rather than moved, toward Tess, reaching for her in supplication.

    Then it realised that it was Aaron who was controlling the ritual.

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    Lina's eyes widened in wonder as the Fire thundered its prophecies at them, as she gazed upon Shelley's Monster before her, as her world expanded. Of course, it shouldn't have surprised her that there were things other What rough beast? What magic was this, so far beyond her knowledge of the world? Did Aaron know? She looked back at him, at the others, losing their mind. Her comprehension was incomplete, but she was seeing something miraculous...

    -- then, the words it was saying clicked.

    Hurry. They are coming.

    "Listen to it. We've got to go. I gotta check the tunnels, now, they're either our way out or --"

    Lina Moretti was gone in a blur of feet, whipping downstairs toward the basement. She empowered her sense of hearing and touch, and down by the tunnel, she listened. Would these tunnels be their bane? Or would they be their road to safety?

    -1V for Celerity. Activating Heightened Senses to try to pick up if there's a threat down in the tunnels coming up.

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    Aaron's voice is usually quite flat and emotionless, almost rusty, but he tries to make up for this with his facial expressions.

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    What is the mountain with three peaks? Could it be the chapter house? Is it some distant location that this place has some mystical connection with? Is it referring to their summoning triangle?

    I have only questions...

    Aaron notices Little John when he speaks, his eyes become even bigger with wonder. Qashmalim? Sounds like a name from a dead language. Then suddenly the words change. The Lord is completely absorbed by his attempts to comprehend what is going on. When the flames converge and spawn some sort of being, it goes above and beyond all his expectations. What are they summoning here?

    If only Maerten could see this.

    However, all wonder turns to worry as the creature turns towards him. Surely this is a powerful being. He - being the dead person here - has no wish to fight this living miracle.

    Then Lina speaks, and it takes him a few more seconds to realize what she is saying. She just checked the outside, but... of course. The tunnels underneath the house. He had forgotten about them. She disappears in a blur and first he stresses about the summoning ritual being interrupted if she would leave. But he realizes it is probably complete. And then he realizes what hunters with bombs could do to them from below.

    'Qashmalim, go aid your creator.' Aaron opens his arms and points one towards Tess, indicating her as being the initiator of the ritual. 'I simply seek to understand what you are.'


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    Aaron's voice is usually quite flat and emotionless, almost rusty, but he tries to make up for this with his facial expressions.

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    2018-08-21 16:59:52 Aaron van Valen rolls 6 to Qashmalim? (Int+Occ-3) (10 Again) 9, 7, 9, 10, 3, 2, 3 3 successes


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    Lina is a blur.

    Little John rumbles a startled grunt, his heavy feet twisting as he turns ponderously around.

    Down in the basement, by the busted wall and the dangerously unstable hole, Lina hears splashing and pattering; the calls of things that were never human. Some of those splashes sound very heavy...

    In the room with the raging fire that does not consume, and the frightful winds that should not be bellowing in such a confined space, Aaron stares into the face of the... Thing... Entity... Qashmal. The Entity stares back with total, unabashed fascination - at the Lord and not Tess.

    Aaron's Beast lashes out from within its cage, a desire to Frenzy bubbling and then subsiding deep in the Lord's gut.

    Not the one!

    Hurry! Run!


    Face contorting in rage, the Entity exploded once more into a gout of flame. The seething conflagration exploded upward in a sucking whirlwind. Flames roared as the entire firestorm was sucked into the feeling, where it vanished.

    The house made a horrible cracking noise as if its very integrity had been compromised. The light flashed into a dazzling brilliance and the cables snapped and popped, burning out as an EMP pulse shook the building. Outside, something fizzed loudly in the night.

    And everywhere was plunged into darkness.

    Down in the basement, whatever was coming from the sewers felt the changes too. And began warbling. And croaking. And rumbling. And cackling in a cracked, high pitched voice "Thats all folks! Thats all folks! Thats all folks!"

    Aaron has a -2 penalty to resist Frenzy now that his Beast is really, really, put out of joint. This penalty will last for the next month.

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    And there it was.

    Tuning out her ears, Moretti realized what needed to be done. With grim determination, she used her hands and eyes to inspect the unstable hole as silently as she could. Down in the darkness, the private eye was comfortable with her trained senses and heightened eyesight. There was timing required, a key moment... could she destabiize the tunnel with a supernaturally enhanced body blow onto whatever the hell this was? It was as much about feel as eyesight, searching for the crack or the hollow...

    The right hit. The right timing. Then... it was time to run.

    Quiet. Use the darkness to your advantage...

      1 sux before any bonuses darkness may provide stealth, 1 sux to investigate the instability to find the best place to deliberately knock the tunnel down (trained observer, heightened senses eyesight and touch)
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-08-22 08:07:57 Lina Moretti rolls 5 to Dex + Stealth (10 Again) 7, 1, 1, 9, 3 1 success
    2018-08-22 08:04:59 Lina Moretti rolls 6 to Wits + Investigation to find the place to hit to collapse this tunnel (10 Again) 4, 1, 10, 5, 4, 7, 3 1 success

  10. #39
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    Aaron's voice is usually quite flat and emotionless, almost rusty, but he tries to make up for this with his facial expressions.

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    The Dragon Lord is shaken to his core, yet he keeps his arms open for an unyielding welcoming embrace. The ritualist inside him persists while his Beast lashes out and is almost out of control. His mind is a raging storm of thoughts and emotions... Flee from this place and all its mysterious horrors. Attack the Angel to establish his dominance. No, Blood, the ritual requires blood for its completion. Tess would have to be murdered. It would be so easy. Crash her skull on the tripod. Have Qashmalim use the Alchemist's very essence to complete its task.

    No...'No!' he shouts before heavily gritting his teeth. The living flame explodes once more and Aaron feels he's losing control. He cannot let that happen. He shouts with the Lord's Words: 'Stay.'

    A fruitless effort. It has already disappeared. And it took all the light with it.

    'Fuck, what now. Something is coming. Little John, you need to go downstairs and help.'
    Having commanded that, the Lord opens his vision to see in the darkness that now surrounds him. He quickly dashes forward to grab his leather bag and gather some of his belonging. He needs the crystals. He hastily plugs out the theremin. The power bank might be lost, but that's OK. It's probably broken anyway.

    Then he turns around, time to go down...

    Activate Heightened Sight


      "Stay" just for fluff
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-08-22 18:33:04 Aaron van Valen rolls 8 to Command (Int + Int + Dom) (10 Again) 5, 9, 6, 6, 8, 1, 9, 6 3 successes


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    A sigh. A cry. A sob. A praise. All escape from Tess's lips as she is staring up at the darkened ceiling.

    The room is very, very dark. A darkness compounded by the intrusion of the deep night from outside the building - even the ambient light is all but extinguished as the surrounding area is plunged into darkness.

    Not that Aaron is stopped - Kindred vision when enhanced is ideally suited for the night time darkness. Tess would appear to have strong vision of her own as she manoeuvres around the room.

    "We communed! We did it, Little John! We did it. I told you we could!"

    "We should leave. The Fire told us where to go. Your pilgrimage does not continue here. And we were warned." Little John replied tersely. "I am damaged," he announced, indicating the vicious wounds on his body. "I'm also drained from the fight. If more are coming I will not be able to protect you."

    The giant did not implore. He did not cajole. He simply offered a statement of fact.

    Lina moves quietly toward the tunnel, her feet padding soundlessly on the floor. Light hands, dextrous fingers, skim across the wounded wall and the tunnel beyond. Most of the tunnel is compacted dirt, supported in key places by rock and stone. A few knocks in a couple of key places should see the tunnel roof collapsing under its own weight. With a bit of luck, the tunnel would be rendered impassable.

    Moving back into the basement now. The hole in the wall is large; the damage to the wall severe. If Lina was willing to risk greater damage to the building's structure, she could bring down the hole upon itself. One would need to see to the wounded building soon after, but the tunnel would be effectively sealed.

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