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  1. #11
    Briar Rose's Avatar
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    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

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    "Acamoth." she tries for flat but it fails. "As in Acamoth. Acamoth?" Eyes flying to Star, then back at the leviathan.

    "Did you know...did you think...did you hear...?" Fear and excitement, twin, frying as her words tumble out, she staring as Star is staring but her gaze keeps flitting, the great beast, the portals, the crumbling plane.

    "We're going to have to chase after it aren't we?" she asks again, tone a stark difference, from what it had been before.


      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-30 11:06:11 Briar Rose rolls 3 to Acamoth!? (Int 2 + Occutl 1) (10 Again) 8, 7, 4 1 success
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

  2. #12
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    (Jack Hoyle)
    Nimbus

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

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    Note: She's a question asker.

    "I don't know,"
    he answered quietly as thoughts locked away that house of cards and slid out. "Like, for real. I have no clue. I'm not, like. Uh. Super up on my book knowledge. Flying blind."

    He's a doer. And what he really wants to do? All those portals. They're doors, real magic doors, leading who knows where. But they really should, shouldn't they? Something's been bugging him, something he's kept on the low-low, but maybe it's time to go-go. If he was an angel, wasn't that the epitome of a demon?

    And what's with all the statues, yo? In Sacramento? What's that about.

    "Um, yeah. You sure? You good?"
    Heck, is he? Feels like a good way to start a bad story was 'So I was chasing an Acamoth and...' "Yeah. Okay. Not too close."

    Blue-green eyes fixed on the swirling mists and imagined himself half-way between here and the monstrosity, seeing if thought alone would move him.
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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  4. #13
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    Briar Rose only knows of the Acamoth through rumour and conjecture: monstrous demons linked to the Abyss; an insidious danger to the Awakened. She has no frame of reference for the leviathan entity moving sedately through the mists. It could be an Acamoth. It could be something else...

    Star quick and nimble mind is pulling in information from everywhere. The Escher-like structure they are standing on appears to be falling through space, yet is getting no nearer to a destination. There is no impression of wind pushing against their bodies yet the mists broil and seethe around them.

    Will and Word combine as the Mighty stretches forth his mind and imagines himself in a new setting...

    Star may make a Resolve + Gnosis roll to make shift across the space. He only needs one success in this part of the Temenos as there is nothing actively holding him back. How Star reaches his new position in the Astral Sea... I leave up to you West

    Its Astral Space!

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    Briar Rose's Avatar
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    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

    Right. Rightrightrightright.

    Can someone excitedly tap their feet in Astral, cause this chick is~ have a nervous leg bounce in Astral Space, because yeah. Doing that.

    "Flying blind." she repeats a cheap echo. "Sure. Kay. Right."

    Right. Rightright - etcetera

    "So, we're gonna have to follow it. Figure out what it is, if it is y'know. And stop it." she didn't add a because, because, well. She assumed the chinchilla badass would know why because. "No sweat. No problem."

    Right. Etcetera.

    She's excited and scared. Scarecited. All nervous twitchy and zingy and there is hella danger and oh wow. She wants to chase right after it.

    The Thyrsus flings herself off of the Escher-y structure, aiming to plummet. Aiming to fly.

    Wings of sweet-briar, and feathers made blood by brambles, bloom from nothing but her own Will, holding her aloft.

    They flap, once, twice, and she soars!



      1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-03-31 18:03:57 Briar Rose rolls 5 to Astral Swiiiiim (Resolve 3 + Gnosis 2) (10 Again) 3, 3, 5, 4, 8 1 success
    Making an assumption here, hope it isn't a Sloth flub!
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

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  8. #15
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    The Mirage: Star appears translucent with overlapping and slightly offset images of himself in different identities/disguises.
    Supernal

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    There are a few places he can't hide.

    The Squared Circle. Here. Remember the first time We made it? Oh, the litany of profanity. And he'd laughed. The thought brought a smile to his lips and his aquaster was angelic as he moved, seeping golden light and leaving the impression of downy feathers and soft flapping. Then he was there; halfway between the edifice and the leviathan, spreading arms and legs like a skydiver and sparing a glance to look for the Circle.

      6 successes to Astral movement
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-01 15:08:37 Star rolls 10 to Astral movement (Resolve + Gnosis) (10 Again) 8, 4, 8, 2, 4, 10, 7, 10, 3, 10, 9, 3, 4 6 successes
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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    Star doesn't jump. He doesn't fly either. Both movements are much too crude for the Angel.

    He is in his element.

    And he soars! He flows. He dances on air! Trailing feathers and golden light as he simply is in one place and then another.

    Compared to the Guardian, the Apostate Briar Rose simply drops like a stone!

    There is no rush of air; no clawing of rugged aerial fingers tearing at them.

    They float down, the mists billowing and shifting around them. Silence.

    The leviathan rolls on below them, slowly growing larger as they fall... closer? Beyond the great creature the dream-like landscape of Sacramento appears to get no nearer.

    The Angel spies the Circle, flashing brightly in between the interstirces of the Astral, as if it is both there and... not. But when he see's it, the old cathedral seems to shine like a beacon. Yet even he can't actually make out how he could reach it from his position. The Circle is an ephemeral dream of sanctity and safety.

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    Briar Rose's Avatar
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    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

    She feels like a bumbling fledgling as she spies Star, effervescent in gold, awash in poise. Downy feathers, as white as (she bets) they're soft. She laughs at herself. Loud and delighted. Even with, well. Her eyes spot the leviathan moving through the mist.

    Serves her right for trying to out fly and angel. But she still wants to. She wants to soar and reach and meet this monstrous thing, stalking the Temenos. She wants to know it, learn of it, watch the shape and how it moves, gliding, swimming. Floating.

    She thinks of what she can make when she wakes. She thinks of how she might be devoured if she is just weak meat.

    But she has teeth and claws and Truth.

    "So," she says, she asks, instead of letting her sweet-briar wings, carry her further.
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

  13. #18
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    The Mirage: Star appears translucent with overlapping and slightly offset images of himself in different identities/disguises.
    Supernal

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    Poor impulse control? Agreed. That's totally a thing. Death wish? Not so much.

    A few moments are stolen to play carefully consider What Next™. That's an Acamoth, yo. Even if it isn't? It sure screams 'don't mess with'. But maybe he's giving in to an illusion. The illusion of size, the illusion of assumption. You don't know what you don't know. Plus it super sucks that the Circle isn't a refuge here. It's not a hop, skip, and thought away with sturdy walls to shelter in, which brings up a terrible epiphany:

    How are they getting out?

    Clearly the best way to address that is the distraction of the original question. Fingers point at his eyes, then at the leviathan in the universal gesture for look.

    Oddly? For once his hands are bare, and there's a quicksilver flash from one of his fingers at the base.

    Star is looking for any sign of resonance or indication of Abyssal origin/taint. It's not quite a Scrutiny but more of a looking for an overt indication.
    Nimbus in MiniSheet 2. Cloaked spells, no overt magical res. Scrut for deets.
    '...Watch With Glittering Eyes...'
    - Roald Dahl

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    They hang: falling yet not falling; the great leviathan rolling away bellow them - its call low and booming once more.

    Star focusses on the great beast - no overt taint or Abyssal resonance does he see. The leviathan looks like a great black whale or shark (it is hard to say exactly) - a nightmare of ancient mariners given form floating in the Astral Sea adjacent to Sacramento.

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  17. #20
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    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

    Catching the universal motion for look at this mo fo, she does. First with something mundane,
    if mundane was even possible in the freaking Astral
    , before she decides to Sink deeper and get her stare on. Full blown impolite scrutiny.

    But first,

    Eye spy with my little eye something out of Innsmouth.



      2 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2020-04-04 16:11:13 Briar Rose rolls 5 to Perception (Wits 2 + Comp 3) (10 Again) 3, 6, 8, 9, 3 2 successes
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower (half pool):
    Monthly Rits: 2E Life Armour/Life Sight (Duration 4/Sight Pot 1, Shield Pot 6)

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