(DiD) Deals in Darkness

[Yumyumcrow]

A cat, eyes big and wild, flees into the night...

Behind her, Alastor executes a devastating attack. Fedora, partially spun by the earlier blow, has a chance to stare in wide eyed horror at his Doom. Then stomach is shredded and ribs broken. He doesn't so much as fall as implode into a messy pile.

... While Winter completes his Telekinesis.

Two cars go lumbering through the air...

Coat can only yell in horror as his own vehicle lurches through the air after him. He is a mage, an Awakened scion of a Watch Tower but at the end he gives all that up in a panicked display of human weakness. He tries to duck out of the way as the battered vehicle rolls over him.

He fails.

The vehicle drops, crushing him under its weight. His shield is strong, but his flesh is weak. Battered into unconsciousness his spells fail and the heavy hunk of metal finishes its work with a double thump and thud.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-01-16 02:52:06		Coat to Get Out of the Way! rolls 1 to Dexterity + Athletics - 3 penalties (10 Again, Chance)		9		failure

The mystery woman's vehicle crashes into the ground next, having a further distance to travel. The vehicle clattered, crashes, and rolls gently over the twisted remains of Fedora. Spreading the deceased Thyrsus over a wider are and helpfully coming to a stop in front of Coat's mashed mangled vehicle.

Silence falls.

I know I played Coat early. I was trying to finish off the fight and Sand deltadream had positioned herself out of the main battle. So.

What do you do now?

I'll leave the scene open a little bit longer

[Sand]

#1 Desire? Follow the cat-shifter.
Reason? Same as cat-shifter's. Fleeing.

Sudden wave of nausea is suppressed w/ several deep breaths.

Slowly/carefully stepping out of shadows toward tableau of ruin.

Words should be said... none r/ found. Only silent horror gazing.

Sorry- yeah ... I should have clarified that she was fully disengaging from the combat. All is good.

  4 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-01-16 07:31:29		Sand rolls 6 to Resolve + Composure (10 Again)		10, 10, 8, 7, 6, 7, 3, 10, 2		4 successes

[Langdon]

Rising from his not so hidden location Langdon looks over the mess and grimaces. Maybe before the apartment building this would have cause horror but right now its just a mess. Determined steps begin to move the Mystagogue closer to the wrecked cars and bodies.

Eyes focus on the Obrimos though the crazy guy with the sword is also watched. "You ok Sand ? What just happened?" Langdon's ritual blade hangs in his hand. Those cars will need to disappear soon.

[Kaze]

"Oh my God!" Kaze exclaims as the cars crash down onto their targets!

He rushes up to the cars, medical kit out, incongruously, apparently trying to save the lives of the people he was attacking with a sword moments ago.

It's immediately apparent that fedora and coat are beyond any help.

He turns away, obviously shaken.

"Yes, Sir." he says tonelessly at the First Talon's promise of a future rebuke, and listens to the mission. Clean up.

Lacking the Matter or Death arcanes most useful to clean up, and deciding against offering to Call Lightening as a plausible natural cause, Kaze casts Tune In to scan the radio for police reaction to this...event.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-01-16 15:58:56		Kaze rolls 4 to Improvised casting Tune In (Force 3 + Gnosis 1; ruling arcana no manna cost) (10 Again)		10, 2, 2, 3, 4		1 success

[Yumyumcrow]

Kaze casts his spell and for a moment his senses are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of noise: the chatter across multiple bandwidths; the hum of electrics and networks of various kinds pulsing out of the human hive.

It takes him precious moments to cut through the clutter...

And yes, there is a lone patrolman calling in - suspicious noises in an area of building work late at night? Yes, he is going to check it out. By the sound of it this patrolman is old, grizzled, not too worried; probably a stickler for following up on his hunches.

[Winter]

As the Guardian pocketed the USB stick he secretly hoped the harvest would be worth the sacrifice.
He looked over the carnage with a straight face, guts and viscera lay sprawled upon the canvas of asphalt masterfully painted in brushstrokes of sprayed blood. His eyes would commit the grisly scene to his memory, another sight to haunt him forever.

The fight could have been avoided entirely. Yet for as fast as the thing escalated, it had to be ended just as abruptly. Justified violence, that's at least the lie the Obrimos was telling himself.
The imago formed across the air, dancing at the beat of an arcane music, knowledge of anatomy flooded his mind. Maybe there was still hope for one of their foes, from victim to prisoner, that's an upgrade.

  6 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-01-17 09:27:22		Winter rolls 6 to Perception (10 Again)		1, 2, 10, 1, 4, 7, 8		2 successes

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-01-17 07:08:32		Winter rolls 9 to Gain Skill Medicine - rote (Wits + Science + Mind + HS) (10 Again)		5, 10, 3, 3, 3, 7, 3, 6, 4, 7		1 success

Inventory: lighter, cigarettes, magic tool (rosary), wedding band, Kevlar Vest (thin), brass knuckles.
Defense: 3
Armor: 4 (Shield + vest)/5(Ballistic)
Health: 8
WP: 4
Mana: 0/5
Speed: 10
Spell Tolerance (force shield 2e[pot2, cloaked], supernal vision[pot1, cloaked], Zeal[pot2]), Gain skill (Medicine) [pot 1]: 4/3
Spell Control: 4/5 Shield self, Vision, Zeal (1 use left), Shield on Sand (Forces 3, pot1), Gain Skill (Medicine)
Vulgars Casted: 2

[Sand]

Eyes still on the tableau, nod starts w/ "Yeah..." & then stops. It was a lie.

"I don't think so," admitted softly.

Kaze's voice = loud, jarring. A blink, a frown @ show. Also nauseating but in a different way.

"I don't know but I fraking hope one of you does..." eyes, harder now, look between Kaze & Winter. Alastor? Likely should be included too.

Spotting the USB transfer. "Would you like me to try to read it - see if it was worth this?" Hand waves toward the scene, eyes do not. Focus on the anger, not the cause.

[Langdon]

Sword man isn't used to violence? After trying to cut some people up? Guy. Langdon can only nod with a frown as Sand says she's not ok. Though what should the Mystagogue have expected?

" Alastor , Winter , want me to remove the cars as best I can?" Finally people who are used to this shit. "Also, what the fuck just happened?" Unlike Sand, Langdon's words do not carry anger but instead exasperation.