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  1. #31
    Star's Avatar
    Status
    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (News Media)
    New Identity
    (Jack Hoyle)
    Nimbus

    The Mirage: Star appears translucent with overlapping and slightly offset images of himself in different identities/disguises.
    Supernal

    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE



    Is he here to bear witness to these deaths?

    This is what it's about, yo. This is why you keep your gun in a safe and the liquor cabinet locked. It's Shodan who should see this. This is your magical humanity. This is what happens when the locks are broken and gates thrown wide.

    This is what happens when it's not just words in a vacuum playing at debate.

    More power flows and forms another glyph. It's the wall behind him, copied onto a sheet of aether that he wraps himself with. Suck it, Harry Potter. Rules are being broken. What did Smiley's People say? Communication. Winter and B-Ro are out in the cold; clueless, maybe even imagining a poor little chinchilla lying in a pool of blood. But there isn't time for that. Sorry, guys.

    He sends the phantasm, Yakko, it's name is totally Yakko now, crashing back into the party on a mission to grab those birds as he pulls his phone out to record the scene -- ready to freeze into stillness the moment it looks like he might have unwanted attention.

    Star has created a 2-D image of the wall behind him and overlaid it on himself as camouflage; accepting that it's not going to be perfect, but hoping it's good enough in the lighting conditions. Or that they'd distracted by exploding organs.
      5 successes to Ephemeral Image
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-31 01:32:38 Star rolls 14 to Prime 2 - Ephemeral Image (10 Again) 8, 10, 4, 6, 3, 6, 2, 6, 3, 5, 10, 6, 3, 1, 9, 8 5 successes
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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  3. #32
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    Ingrid

    2
    PRE

    Winter casts Read Matrices and his vision is swamped by data as the physical forces of universe are unveiled. It is a sight of beauty and wonder, perhaps only rivalled by Supernal Vision itself. He can tell, for instance, that all the universal forces are acting as they should.

    And that the Resonance of the next storey swirls around a centre point. The area of that Resonance is a quiet storm of potential energy and quite distinct from the surrounding space. That Resonance is fluctuating as it prepares to change.

    In the process, he looses track of Briar Rose . Winter is all too human, after all.

    The Thrysus sneaks away, slipping from shadow to shadow and she ascends the stairs, back pressed tightly against the wall.

    Briar Rose hears an aqueous squelch and a semi solid slap as she rises up to the first storey where Star had gone. Something wet; and slimy; and stuck.

    Star is working.

    If there was anyone to see it, it might appear that the room shrank as the Illusionist threw up his wall. Alas, there was no one to witness the feeling of subtle pressure as the illusion of space shifted.

    Yakko the Phantasm lurched forward once more, quaking hands reaching for the icon. The phantasm blundered forward into the lit space and took hold of the object. As it did, Yakko turned to star at the shuddering robed figure. The figure turned and looked at Yakko - a slow, pained turn...

    Star could almost imagine the look that passed between the two. The terrified look stapled to Yakko's face. The stoic or pain warped face of the robed figure. Yakko, quivering, pulling the icon from the wall...

    With a final, massive, spasm the robed figure came undone.

    Something humanoid, but not human, burst free of the robed figures back. A large, elongated head, featureless - reminiscent of a saw or sliver - emerged first. A spindly body with large nimble hands forced its way upward as the robed figure sloughed away in a rush of mush.

    Yakko simply totters backward and ungainly feet, clutching the icon tightly. Knuckles, taut and white, glimmer in the curious gloom.

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  5. #33
    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 area smells of marine water, figures that the Abyss would be somehow involved, it always is. And even though he can't pinpoint the exact location, the budding maelstrom across the building is telling enough.

    The girl? Gone. He has to wonder when did she leave his sight. Careless, he curses.

    He quickly makes his way toward the storm. But where others go up, he goes down, he's always been a boots on the ground sort of guy anyway. Soon the matrix shall disperse, pushed away by a rainbow of Aetheric light, ready to unveil this mystery.
    Is it the work of the two birdies? If so, what's cooking?

      failure
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-31 07:55:03 Winter rolls 6 to Eyes of the Abyss (Abyss Resonance 1) (10 Again) 5, 3, 1, 5, 1, 4 failure
      4 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-31 08:10:55 Winter rolls 5 to Scrutiny (Identification Identity, Composition) (10 Again) 9, 9, 4, 9, 9 4 successes



    Spells: Supernal Vision Imp [pot 2], Unseen Shield Imp [pot 2], Incognito Presence [pot 4]
    Equipment:
    Wedding band, moleskine notebook + pencils, magic tool, brass knuckles, Kevlar vest (thin 1/2), Muscle Car (2017 Mustang Shelby gt350r), wallet, Iphone, flashlight



    He can detect vulgars in a 30 meters radius. He failed the roll, so he can't pinpoint the exact direction, but that doesn't really matter given the Maelstrom and all. Does it?
    Dismissed Matrix Sight


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  7. #34
    Briar Rose's Avatar
    Presance
    (Volatile)
    Status (Street)
    (Graffiti Artist)
    Allies
    (Street, Criminal)
    Briar Rose


    Apostate Shaman, and known graffiti artist. Normally seen wearing a worn leather jacket, with the kanji for 'Nana korobi, ya oki' written down the arm.

    Nimbus

    Small shapes akin to petals, cascade, shiny ruby in the air, before ending on the ground in a ruddy pool of their own making.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP Half Pool: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2 | 3 w/ 2E Life Armour
    Occult 1

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: 2 / 5 | Spell Tolorancy 3

    Personal Spells: Monthly Rits: 2E LifeShield Pot 3, Life Sight Pot 3

    2
    PRE

    Spells, Equipment
    Sense Life (Human)
    Pulse of the Living World (Rit)
    2E Life Mage Armor (Rit)
    Leather Jacket/Reinforced Clothing 1/0, Smartphone, bowie knife. Magical Tool. Backpack with assorted spray paint, streetboke(outside)


    Blind as a bat, she'd slipped passed Winter (she thinks), and heading up, and up and up and squish.slaaaap. She's standing in something, on something. Something organic, she gins in the dark, maybe wishful thinking, she thinks a lot of random matter she finds and steps into is organic, mind nearly always, twirling away about found material and potential sculptress.

    She crouches low, using hand and eye to find out what it was.

    It could be Star.
    Pffft. No. It couldn't be.
    It could



      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-31 17:04:55 Briar Rose rolls 5 to Perception (Wits 2 + Comp 3) (10 Again) 5, 7, 5, 10, 4, 1 1 success
    Thinking if I do the fancy bbcode for my spells, I'll remember to include my spells! mwhahaha
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

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  9. #35
    Star's Avatar
    Status
    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (News Media)
    New Identity
    (Jack Hoyle)
    Nimbus

    The Mirage: Star appears translucent with overlapping and slightly offset images of himself in different identities/disguises.
    Supernal

    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE

    Dang, Yakko. Talk about friends in low places.

    The angel lets the marionette continue it's task. Perfect bait, really, for the horror that's been birthed. It's the antithesis of his own creation -- from life rather than death. There's a chilly rush as adrenaline floods his body. Yeah, okay. A little bit scared, but that's just common sense, right? A hand slips back to feel for the side pocket of his backpack and he pulls out a deck of cards to open and flip, upending several into his other hand.

    They're heavy and solid: sheets of metal with razor edges.

    Pick a card. Any card.
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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  11. #36
    Yumyumcrow's Avatar
    Campanella
    Campanella

    Campanella
    Ingrid

    2
    PRE

    Winter cannot sense the presence of Paradox. Or even the potential for it. But something is off - the brine scent is telling enough. And there are puffs of noxious vapours - and streaks of dark energies - swirling in the vortex as it begins to fray and fluctuate wildly.

    With his Supernal Vision cleared of the physical Forces of the Lie, the Guardian can focus more easily on that swirling maelstrom. It is a Demesne. A weak one - so weak that someone on the floor above has just disrupted it.

    Briar Rose discovers that the mind is a funny thing. When she tentatively reaches down the ground she finds only dust and debris. Her eyes do fall on the broken - and partially headless - form of the dead cultist laying where he fell. Blood and brackish fluid is pulsing steadily from the burst cranium; and a Thing is trying to haul itself out into reality.

    Star moves. Gently. Quietly. Preparing.

    The creature staggers on rickety legs as it steps out of the ruined cultists form.

    Yakko is still moving away on uncoordinated feet, carrying away the icon.

    The creature's shard-like head snaps around and it hisses, bearing rows of sharp, needle like teeth.

    Yakko looks suitable afraid. But then, that is the Phantasm's singular expression.

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  13. #37
    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

    He looks to the left, then to the right. Assessing the world like a novel Archimedes; give him a lever and a fulcrum and he'll move the world.
    A wiry mesh of ripped steel cables and fibers makes up the innards of the building. Like a ruined circulatory system, they follow through the three axes, a tangle of spiderwebs carrying a bounty of energy. A wrong turn, a ruptured artery, and the energy is wasted. But nothing is ever destroyed.
    He coughs. From his pocket comes a graphite stick, a pencil. Although tales of his prowess with a pencil are grossly overestimated, the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
    He weighs the one in his palm, especially this one.

      2 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-02 07:02:27 Winter rolls 8 to Situational Awareness (Wits + Comp + Combat awareness) (10 Again) 2, 8, 7, 6, 1, 10, 1, 3, 7 2 successes
      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-02 07:26:43 Winter rolls 5 to Kinetic Blow (10 Again) 1, 7, 9, 3, 5 1 success

    Spells: Supernal Vision Imp [pot 2], Unseen Shield Imp [pot 2], Incognito Presence [pot 4], Kinetic Blow [pot 1]
    Equipment:
    Wedding band, moleskine notebook + pencils, magic tool, brass knuckles, Kevlar vest (thin 1/2), Muscle Car (2017 Mustang Shelby gt350r), wallet, Iphone, flashlight


  14. #38
    Briar Rose's Avatar
    Presance
    (Volatile)
    Status (Street)
    (Graffiti Artist)
    Allies
    (Street, Criminal)
    Briar Rose


    Apostate Shaman, and known graffiti artist. Normally seen wearing a worn leather jacket, with the kanji for 'Nana korobi, ya oki' written down the arm.

    Nimbus

    Small shapes akin to petals, cascade, shiny ruby in the air, before ending on the ground in a ruddy pool of their own making.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP Half Pool: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2 | 3 w/ 2E Life Armour
    Occult 1

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: 2 / 5 | Spell Tolorancy 3

    Personal Spells: Monthly Rits: 2E LifeShield Pot 3, Life Sight Pot 3

    (Honing the Form)Mana 1 Spent
    2
    PRE

    Spells, Equipment
    Honing the Form (Eagle Talons)
    Pulse of the Living World (Rit)
    2E Life Mage Armor (Rit)
    Leather Jacket/Reinforced Clothing 1/0, Smartphone, bowie knife. Magical Tool. Backpack with assorted spray paint, streetboke(outside)
    1 Resistant Bashing


    Oh. Well. Okay.

    First thing first. Yay. It's not Star. But, well. Second thing first. She drops her weave on her scan, and instead calls down the Wilds again. Something was leaking out of the blood and flesh of this cultist and she would not go quietly into the dark. Instead she snarls through the Abyss's call, hissing as she feels it slick at her insides, and she shucks off the tender flesh of ineffective human fingers.

    Whatever this was she was betting she'd need her talons.





      Dox 1 suxx, taken as backlash
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-02 22:38:37 Briar Rose rolls 1 to Paradox (1 in scene) (10 Again) 8 1 success
      1 suxx for Eagle Talons!
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-02 22:44:52 Briar Rose rolls 7 to Honing the Form - Eagle Talons (Life 3 + Gnosis2 + ExAff 3 -1 Dox) (10 Again) 9, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4 1 success
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

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  16. #39
    Briar Rose's Avatar
    Presance
    (Volatile)
    Status (Street)
    (Graffiti Artist)
    Allies
    (Street, Criminal)
    Briar Rose


    Apostate Shaman, and known graffiti artist. Normally seen wearing a worn leather jacket, with the kanji for 'Nana korobi, ya oki' written down the arm.

    Nimbus

    Small shapes akin to petals, cascade, shiny ruby in the air, before ending on the ground in a ruddy pool of their own making.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP Half Pool: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2 | 3 w/ 2E Life Armour
    Occult 1

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: 2 / 5 | Spell Tolorancy 3

    Personal Spells: Monthly Rits: 2E LifeShield Pot 3, Life Sight Pot 3

    2
    PRE

    I can't believe my brain did this much of a fart. I was even looking at the right spell when i was typing. Gah.
    Transform Self.Transform Self.Transform Self.Transform Self.
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

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  18. #40
    Star's Avatar
    Status
    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (News Media)
    New Identity
    (Jack Hoyle)
    Nimbus

    The Mirage: Star appears translucent with overlapping and slightly offset images of himself in different identities/disguises.
    Supernal

    1
    OCC
    2
    PRE

    It's okay, Yakko. You're safe back in the Wheel now. Keep comin' on, though.

    Maybe it'd be smart to keep amping up, but there's still a big question mark about Wakko. Aether eyes look for strands to pick apart and examine, but kept nerves tense if the situation changed.

    Yakko (Marionette) is being sent to the exit.
    Star is going to Scrutinize Wakko (critter), but will drop the Scrutiny immediately if Wakko looks like he's going to breach the wall Illusion or chase Yakko through the exit. A handful of rolls in case neither happens is included.
      Bombing mad Scrut pools
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-03 16:55:10 [05] Star rolls 4 to Scrutinize Wakko (10 Again) 9, 4, 5, 8 2 successes
    2020-04-03 16:55:10 [04] Star rolls 4 to Scrutinize Wakko (10 Again) 7, 3, 9, 1 1 success
    2020-04-03 16:55:10 [03] Star rolls 4 to Scrutinize Wakko (10 Again) 8, 9, 2, 2 2 successes
    2020-04-03 16:55:10 [02] Star rolls 4 to Scrutinize Wakko (10 Again) 7, 9, 3, 9 2 successes
    2020-04-03 16:55:10 [01] Star rolls 4 to Scrutinize Wakko (10 Again) 7, 2, 7, 5 failure
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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