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    Rhodes's Avatar
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    (Charming)
    Distinctive Voice
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    Rigid Mask
    Mantle - Chilling breeze, summoning tiny leaves
    Rhodes
    Mein

    Mein: Rhodes has pale whitish skin, elfin ears and deep, overly large emerald eyes. Thin black veins broach the surface of his skin like the roots of a tree emerging from the ground. Dark, broad leaves sprout from his wrists, ankles and temples, spreading around the back of his head. Deep red flowers bloom at the temples and wrists.
    Mantle

    Mantle: A breath of icy wind, the kind that penetrates and sends a chill down the spine. Ash leaves in red, yellow and gold spin into existance around him, caught on the breeze. As the wind blows, unnerving whispers can be heard, always coming from a direction just out of one's field of vision.

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    Flowering

    The study of the bottle was going to be long and arduous. As Circe left to conduct her, ah, illicit dealings and Sera went to talk with the Spring Court, the Lord of the Autumn Court pulled books from the shelves in the Hollow and set to work.

    The conversation had been tense. Sera was clearly bristling. But there was a bigger focus needed. He had a job to do.

    Pouring himself another cup of camomile tea, he set to work.

      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-12-28 13:44:52 Rhodes rolls 9 to A Smith's Wisdom: Int+Occ+Mantle (10 Again) 1, 6, 3, 4, 7, 9, 6, 4, 1 1 success

    Rhodes sighs heavily. The work to uncover the bottle's secrets was much harder than he thought. Progress had been frustratingly slow. The return of Seraphina, following the earlier discussion, had done nothing for the level of tension in the air.

    Still, he had to concentrate.

    Around him, black wispy tendrils reached out from his left had probed the bottle on the table. Several books lay open around him, open on pages describing spells of revealing and alchemy. His eyes swirled an inky black from their usual green.

    Patience. Patience, my little flower.

    The Flowering winced, and pushed his tormentor's voice from his ears.

      4 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-12-28 13:45:07 Rhodes rolls 9 to A Smith's Wisdom: Int+Occ+Mantle (10 Again) 8, 10, 7, 9, 3, 9, 3, 1, 7, 7 4 successes

    The remains of some takeout stands on the end of the table.

    The second stint into the evening was far more revealing - the liquid swirled in the bottle, and eventually beads of light began rippling along the tendrils still probing. The Dread Lord's Mantle ebbs and flows as the knowledge begins to reveal itself. He looks over to Seraphina, working on some of her classwork to give her a tired if wary smile, and pours a dram of whiskey into his coffee.

    "It's going well."
    He steps back, walking up and down along the table edge, staring at the bottle.

      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-12-28 13:45:22 Rhodes rolls 9 to A Smith's Wisdom: Int+Occ+Mantle (10 Again) 7, 1, 5, 4, 9, 5, 2, 1, 1 1 success

    "Shit." The Flowering slams a fist angrily down on the table, and leans his forehead on the other clenched fist.

    As evening had drawn into night, Sera had kept coffee coming to his side. In spite of how this evening had started, she was still there. The simmering tension remained, her presence both frustrating and distracting - yet he could not bring himself to turn her away.

    Several cups left half-drunk, forgotten as the occultist pursued frustrating dead ends and agonizingly slow. The slowly growing covering of autumn leaves in the feet surrounding the Dread Lord as the black pits of his eyes swirled angrily. Progress was halting at best, and had been feeling non-existant as the night wore on.

    The other hand takes the bottle of whiskey and pours it neat into a glass. It was going to be a long night.

      6 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-12-28 13:45:48 Rhodes rolls 9 to A Smith's Wisdom: Int+Occ+Mantle (10 Again) 10, 9, 3, 10, 6, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1, 8 6 successes

    Dark abyssal eyes surrounded by dark rings of tiredness watch as the Fairest turns the bottle slowly over in long, pale fingers. Strands of magical energy in red, brown, yellow and gold glow around the Dread Lord's wrists and fingers, impaling the bottle at several points, yet leaving the glass undamaged.

    The whiskey in the bottle has been heavily drained, but some still remains. There are coffee cups, biscuits and crackers and cheese left to the sides.

    Gently the bottle is let go from the fingers, being held aloft by the strands of magic alone. His hands hover inches from the glass, strands moving from his fingertips.

    Suddenly, the bottle shakes and the liquid glows with a pale yellowish light, which stretches up along the strands of Autumn magic and touches the Dread Lord's fingertips. His mantle flares, sending the surrounding leaves scattering into the air on twisting zephyrs. Gentle the bottle is plucked from the air, and set down on the table.

    Slowly Rhodes looks up at Seraphina, his black eyes begining to drain into his irises, returning to his former bright green. Slowly, he begins to smirk tiredly. "I know what it does."

    Seraphina Saber Sloth

    I made the 10 successes required - it takes 16 hours (urrrgh)!
    Flowering Fairest, Mantle: An ever-changing, spine-chilling icy wind, creating spinning autumn leaves and haunting whispers.

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    Rhodes's Avatar
    Presence
    (Charming)
    Distinctive Voice
    ((Gravitas))
    Rigid Mask
    Mantle - Chilling breeze, summoning tiny leaves
    Rhodes
    Mein

    Mein: Rhodes has pale whitish skin, elfin ears and deep, overly large emerald eyes. Thin black veins broach the surface of his skin like the roots of a tree emerging from the ground. Dark, broad leaves sprout from his wrists, ankles and temples, spreading around the back of his head. Deep red flowers bloom at the temples and wrists.
    Mantle

    Mantle: A breath of icy wind, the kind that penetrates and sends a chill down the spine. Ash leaves in red, yellow and gold spin into existance around him, caught on the breeze. As the wind blows, unnerving whispers can be heard, always coming from a direction just out of one's field of vision.

    (A Smith's Wisdom)Glamour 3 Spent
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    PRE

    Flowering

    Glamour spend for the Contract.
    Flowering Fairest, Mantle: An ever-changing, spine-chilling icy wind, creating spinning autumn leaves and haunting whispers.

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    Inside the bottle Rhodes knows that the substance was probably used as a lotion by those who had ran foul of the Motel's plot.

    Sixteen arduous hours pass. Books, tea, and coffee aplenty. Working the Occulist to the bone, the mysteries of this innocent seeming bottle spill out, as the Clause finally, finally, catches.

    Unsurprisingly it is a potion. Hedge grown and brewed.

    What his magic tells him as this position glows in the dim around him, is, this potion is made of Jarmyn Fruit. A goblin fruit known to cause those who partake a an easier time with tedious tasks, like researching this obnoxious potion, but it also causes forceful and deep sleep.

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    Rhodes's Avatar
    Presence
    (Charming)
    Distinctive Voice
    ((Gravitas))
    Rigid Mask
    Mantle - Chilling breeze, summoning tiny leaves
    Rhodes
    Mein

    Mein: Rhodes has pale whitish skin, elfin ears and deep, overly large emerald eyes. Thin black veins broach the surface of his skin like the roots of a tree emerging from the ground. Dark, broad leaves sprout from his wrists, ankles and temples, spreading around the back of his head. Deep red flowers bloom at the temples and wrists.
    Mantle

    Mantle: A breath of icy wind, the kind that penetrates and sends a chill down the spine. Ash leaves in red, yellow and gold spin into existance around him, caught on the breeze. As the wind blows, unnerving whispers can be heard, always coming from a direction just out of one's field of vision.

    +1
    DV
    3
    PRE

    Flowering

    Closing the Glimpse.
    Flowering Fairest, Mantle: An ever-changing, spine-chilling icy wind, creating spinning autumn leaves and haunting whispers.

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