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    Alastor

    One thing most people didn't know about the First Talon was that he absolutely loved the occult. Mysteries? They spoke to him. A guy with an eye for a pattern and a solid investigative background that you'd expect in a wizard who specialized in working through the Lie of Space itself, the Mastigos believed that to overcome the Enemy, you had to understand the Enemy. One couldn't just brute force one's way through everything. It was a weakness to be locked into one pattern of behavior, to fail to be able to die every day and be who you needed to be for any situation. To overcome it, you needed knowledge.

    And so it was that Eddie Payne, the Unchained, found himself hitting the fuck out of the books to try to figure out what on Earth the deal was with these Architects of the Future that they were dealing with. He'd known enough to recognize the Spider on the fly, but that was just a snap judgment. Now, he needed to do some research to get the skinny on their history, their motivations, their abilities, anything he could remember from years of training, experience and investigation.

    Reading glasses on instead of aviators, he set to work, hard at thought even as his mind worked on two pieces of the puzzle at once to try and pull together clues on what their role in all of this might be based on what he knew of their Legacy. After all, there was a shady mystery afoot...

    Alastor has Occult 4 level knowledge, and an extended roll of 14 successes to research them.


      14 sux extended, one mind two thoughts active but just for flavor really unless you think it matters
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-06-07 01:02:22 Alastor rolls 5 to One Mind, Two Thoughts (for flavor, HS -2 for time!) (10 Again) 8, 8, 1, 8, 6 3 successes
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [06] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 1, 1, 5, 1, 4, 9 1 success
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [05] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 10, 4, 2, 8, 7, 2, 9 3 successes
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [04] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 10, 5, 1, 7, 1, 3, 8 2 successes
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [03] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 3, 4, 4, 9, 9, 3 2 successes
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [02] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 8, 4, 10, 7, 3, 8, 1 3 successes
    2019-06-07 00:57:34 [01] Alastor rolls 6 to The Architects of the Future? (Int + Occult, extended) (10 Again) 9, 3, 2, 9, 3, 8 3 successes
    Vincent

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    The Arrow's search has been fruitful although more inconclusive than he would have liked. From the scant clues he's been able to assemble from his odd and dusty tomes emerges a rather troubling picture. A few mentions, here and there of this group known as the Architects - or Spiders, as they are referred occasionally - that appears to have been a thorn in the side of the Diamond Orders for centuries. Millennia even, if one is to consider the Legacy's forerunners.

    From a three centuries old report of an Italian Adamant Sage who led a war party against an alleged Architect chantry, the Mastigos learns that the Spiders are a hierarchical group of tightly knit operatives, fighters and spies who allegedly augment their skills with the power of foresight. Only the Sage survived the expedition, and his body wore horrible wounds as a testament of the encounter.
    From the "trip archives" of Anthony Smith Apostate, the Arrow learns of a mysterious spider shaped monument deep in the Temenos that is supposedly the key of a host of even deeper astral realms where the upper echelons of a so called "Architect Network" reside in close communion with the supernal and from where they could affect the collective minds of entire cities. Temenotic realms that with the right artifact, one could even visit physically.
    Anthony Smith is not to be trusted however. Not only his knowledge is untested, and by the man's own admission, it was reported to him by a third party source he had met while crossing the astral during an LSD fueled trip. The Mastigos knows that while this feat might be possible - in abstract - for a master of space, the dangers involved make it unlikely, a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted.

    From the diary of Marsenne Ficine, former first Talon of Paris, he learns of a group called les araignées de l'avenir, an organization of power brokers and tacticians that had sunk its talons into the Parisien establishment at the time of the reign of Napoleon III. The group could not only tap into seemingly unlimited resources, but could count on a network so deeply entrenched, that it took a cabal of Guardians a decade to chart and map the full extent of its influence on the city's establishment. The group would foil the Diamond's plan with such expediency, that it sowed distrust among the Diamond Orders and only by chance it was discovered that large-scale divinations were at play. Eventually the Diamond Orders thwarted this Seers cell's plan to infiltrate the Emperor's inner council.

    If the sources refer to the same group, then the Arrow is looking at the real movers and the shakers of the iron pyramid. But their greatest advantages would not come from their fighting ability or their money, rather their ruthlessness, their cunning, their ability to foresee the future with spotless accuracy and plan years ahead so that the Exarchs' will comes into fruition.
    A group of trained warriors, power brokers and strategists armed with deep pockets, influential ties and the ability to foretell events, and possibly deep astral headquarters. That this kind of people are spinning, or worse, might have already woven their webs around the artifacts the council of Sacramento is currently in the process of investigating is really bad news.
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