PRP Railing against the dark

[Kray]

That gave Kray something to chew over, metaphorically speaking. Trying to kill your own court should be something condemnable, but as as someone who had to constantly supress ... impulses ... things were not as clear cut to him. I would think terribly of myself if I did that so why not judge this unknown guy. Sarah didn't see him as a psycho. But she doesn't see me as a monster either. Circe did see him as psycho. But doesn't know the why. Its enough to make this Ogres head hurt. 'Uh. Sounds like a messy situation.'

What is easier to have an opinion on. 'Ah. the General guy sounds like an pompous twat.' A good leader needed none of that to work. He had known two very great leaders back when. If I just wanted to follow orders and fight I wouldn't have escaped back.

He looks around. 'Yeah. Easily. Been heading east I think.' Unless they had curved off track in the dark which could have been possible but if felt like the same direction they had started in. The ache in his arms told him they had been at this for awhile. 'But. Yes, good a work out as its been. Something a little more electric might be in order for regular use.' The summer queen seemed good with it, but if needed he would offer his help.

'Hm. About time.' Kray unpacks himself from the cart into the larger room. He stretches and cracks what must be every vertebrae in his back. 'Uh. That was not comfortable.' The patting the top of his head. 'And look nothing off the top.' Well if it accommodates me it'll accommodate anyone.

Before Circe indulges her whims of destruction Kray will slide the handle of his hammer throw his grip and grab it by the head. So he can offer the handle worn smooth to Circe. 'Hm. You might have more fun with this.*' Got to better then a hunk of wood that's for sure.

He himself will look around.

perception failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-12 07:18:17	Kray rolls 3 to Perception (10 Again)	4, 1, 2	failure

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12








Reinforced Clothing (Long coat)
Bowie Knife 2L
Sledgehammer 2B (9-Again)
Borrowed Walkie Talkie
Borrowed tactical flashlight

* Pages 21 and 39 of the armoury for how to use and stats if needed. -- brief version strength 3 min, to use two handed without -1 penalty, strength 4+ to use one handed without penalty.

[Vincent Black]

Vincent listened in as the discussion of the rogue Summers continued. He had heard about these fellas a bit when he discussed with the two queens when he had joined the Solstice Court, but had not really got much detail until now. "By the sounds of these guys, I am surprised they would give up the crown when Autumn came. They totally sound like folks I would not have gotten along with."

Vincent was about to offer his rope when he realized that Circe and Kray decided to bash the door in.

failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-13 09:33:18	Vincent Black rolls 7 to Perception Roll (Wits2 + Composure3 + Beasts Keen Senses2) (10 Again)	6, 5, 1, 1, 1, 6, 4	failure

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Beast’s Keen Senses: +2 dice bonus to all Wits rolls relating to perception for the next full scene.
In addition, he gains the chosen animal’s most notable sensory ability

Equipment

Vest:
Tactical Flashlight
Flares
6 Magazines of Beretta Ammo
Holster with Beretta M92 (Damage 2L)
Compass


Backpack:
20ft of Climbing Rope
Bottle with Water
MRE's (Meals Ready-to-Eat)
Road Flares
Glow sticks
Reflective Tape
Mylar Blanket

[Seraphina]

Huh, they’ve been down here longer than she would have guessed. But she just shrugs, how ever far it was, it was going to be one hell of a trek back.

Seeing that they had slowed to a reasonable pace was reassuring. At least now, if there was a crash or something, it wouldn’t be as bad.

The story of Fawkes supposedly trying to kill another Summer wasn’t one she hadn’t heard. She had heard it. She was just on the fence about it, but choose to keep that part to herself. Not seeing a reason why Circe would lie about it, but also having problems seeing Fawkes as one that would murder another Lost.

Spotting the door, and the Summer Queens choice of violence, Sera just looks at the door, “I might be able to restore it to all its glory with a Contract if we wanted to try and save it.” An option. She’d go with whatever everyone else wanted to do. But she did have the Contracts.

Looked like Kray was down for some violence as well. She made her offer, because that was all she had to offer for such a thing. She could make it brand new, or watch. Breaking things down wasn’t on her list of tasks she had the power to do.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-13 12:56:18	Seraphina rolls 6 to Perception (Wits+Comp)-1 Clarity (10 Again)	6, 9, 5, 9, 1, 8	3 successes

Equipment

Bottled water(2), trail mix, notebook and pencil, research, first aid kit, two flashlights, two headlamps, handheld GPS, pair of sturdy gloves, dagger on hip, compass, maps from the historical society as well as hand drawn maps, cell phone on vibrate and chalk

[Circe]

Narration:
The Lost find nothing unless they are the queens.


Seraphina can find that behind the very old and worn out machine to move the door is a wooden toolbox. The tools inside are quite old, having been worn out. Some Contracts could restore some of them like the pliers, hammer, and a hacksaw. The large adjustable pipe wrench however is sitting under a broken glass bottle. Whatever was in the bottle has done a lot of damage, the mechanism for adjusting it is rusted solid. The wrench can serve as an improvised club.


Under all this, Seraphina will also locate some familiar greenish mush. If she searches said mush, she will locate 4 Peace Silver Dollars, aged into poor condition but undamaged. A collector's item for certain.


Circe will spot a hand crank near the tracks they stopped on. One section is rusted through, but it isn't the connection rod. This would let you manually open the door IF the machinery was restored with a lot of work to repair it. But the handle will break with the heavy rusting. Or a proper wrench could be used as a handle. If only they had the correct TOOL for the job.
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Circe:
"Yes," she nods in agreement when Kray insults the wannabe general. Circe was too chaotic for such a rigid style. Then shrugs at Vincent's concerns, "They weren't here long enough ta switch off. I became default queen, again." Circe looks around the area for more than scarp, and finds a handle for something. She bends over and picks up the hand crank. "Huh." The rust is going to make it give out for sure if somebody tried it.


"Electric scooter engines and car batteries," was her solution to the engine idea. She'd just have to figure out how to get the locomotion going. Probably make it like an old steam engine, shouldn't be hard to see hwo they moved. Just Hedgespin the wheels or something. And her arms were hurting, that was true. "Crazy idea, make it a loco motive."


Kray gets her attention. Circe eyes the hammer, her wood, then back to the hammer. She tosses the wood, "Well, there goes my wood," she says with a gleeful laugh. She will take the hammer from him with glee, "Gratzi," she thanks him, "This'll be way better." If she got tired from swinging, she'd give it back. How tough could the door be? Circe puts down the crank and hefts the hammer, feeling its weight. Simple Summer solutions.


And then her gleeful smile of violence freezes as someone has to voice the uncommon sense. Not common sense, that was for mundies who lacked contracts. With a sigh, she offers the hammer back to Kray, "Plan B is yer fun plan Kray. Security doors is better than no security, right?" She doesn't sound thrilled about it. Circe was a simple person with a complex brain. She knew it was the better option, but way less fun.


Circe turns to Seraphina with a wave of both hands to the door, "Give it a go? Is it Dawn's Beauty? Glamour of Repair? I have those too now that ya mention it. Latter could maybe work on the machinery." She kneels back down to get the crank again, ripping the connection side from the rust. Then adjusts her multitool into a wrench and handle that is angled for, well being a crank, "Maybe a ta dah? Screw it, Sera ya have a Plan A."


Because well hey, why not? Granted the latter was a temporary fix, but still a fix. Circe walks up to the machinery, touching it to let the Glamour do its thing.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-13 23:06:19	Circe rolls 7 to Crats + Wyrd (10 Again)	7, 2, 4, 5, 1, 10, 9, 3	2 successes

Stats & Equipment

Armor: 1/2 bulletproof
Def: 3
Speed: 12
Equipment: Colt 45 [7+1] with suppressor and 2 mags regular, 2 riot, and 20 spare regualr rounds and 10 riot rounds. 3 Dream-a-Drupes flasks, lockpicks, hedgespun multitool, Ninja suit armored. Ninja suit hoodie. 9mm SMG [30] hollowpoint with suppressor and 2 mags. lighter, mini-back pack with 3 water bottles. 12' spool of twine. Knife. Small [+0] first aid kit. Hard hat with lamp. cheap plastic flashlight. 10 glow sticks, 4 walkie talkies, knife.

[Kray]

Kray will nod in ascent with Vincent. 'Hm. Yeah by the sounds of it me neither.' There's a difference between not liking and not empathising. He didn't like the sound of either but his judgement was definitely muted by not knowing them.

Kray has a soft spot for trains and the idea of having a secret underground one is very appealing. 'Ha. If you need a hand hauling stuff down to get it going, heavy lifting is a speciality of mine.' This was something he was rather eager to help with.

Taking his hammer back with a shrug, he had just been facilitating a way forward how it happened was no matter to him really. 'Uh. Looks like its all yours Sarah.' Toothy grin to the summer queen. 'We always got this as a backup.' Its not like the hammer was going anywhere.

But with his own poking and prodding turning up nothing and the door covered it left him with not much to do so ... Well best way to learn right. And if there isn't one here might be a good place to put one. He knows its not he strong suit and he doesn't know this hedge well so as he expends the glamour to widen his awareness he focuses really hard on listening to what the clause whispered to him.

Pathfidner 1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-14 04:32:07	Kray rolls 6 to Pathfinder (int2,wyrd2, -1 not familiar) + wp (10 Again, WillPower)	3, 9, 1, 4, 6, 1	1 success

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12








Reinforced Clothing (Long coat)
Bowie Knife 2L
Sledgehammer 2B (9-Again)
Borrowed walkie Talkie
Borrowed Tactical flashlight

[Seraphina]

The Nix will point out the box of tools, “If you wanted some antique tools, I can restore some of them for you.” Not spoken to anyone in particular. “Ew!” says the Nix as she digs through the green mush, because of course she does, and holds up the Silver Dollars, “Found some Silver Dollars!” the grossness of what she dug through forgotten, might be worth cleaning up.

Scoffing, “I would prefer you said the rightful Queen, because, well, you are.” Speaking matter of factly.

Wait, they were going to let her take a try at it?! Call her surprised, because she knew Circe’s love of destruction.

With Kray giving her the nod of approval, she walks up to the door and translucent hands run along the wood and metal. Sapphires close as wills her Wyrd into her hands and then into the door.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-15 22:16:12	Seraphina rolls 8 to Restoration of Dawn Beauty(Wyrd+Crafts) (10 Again)	7, 8, 1, 3, 2, 4, 10, 2, 6	2 successes

Equipment

Bottled water(2), trail mix, notebook and pencil, research, first aid kit, two flashlights, two headlamps, handheld GPS, pair of sturdy gloves, dagger on hip, compass, maps from the historical society as well as hand drawn maps, cell phone on vibrate and chalk

[Vincent Black]

Vincent scoffed at Circe mention of default queen "Circe you are a great queen, and the rightful queen like Sera said. It is not that difficult to see that you rule fairly and I would prefer you than some authoritarian wannabe." And honestly he would back her up if she had any contention for the throne.

As far as he was concerned Seraphina and Circe were the best royalty they had. He had yet to see what Anatole would bring to further Autumn courts but he felt that at least Anatole was willing to work with the others.

Vincent is startled out of his thought by the exclamation of Seraphina finding Silver Dollars "Now that is cool, curious if they could be worth much?"

Beast’s Keen Senses: +2 dice bonus to all Wits rolls relating to perception for the next full scene.
In addition, he gains the chosen animal’s most notable sensory ability

Equipment

Vest:
Tactical Flashlight
Flares
6 Magazines of Beretta Ammo
Holster with Beretta M92 (Damage 2L)
Compass

Backpack:
20ft of Climbing Rope
Bottle with Water
MRE's (Meals Ready-to-Eat)
Road Flares
Glow sticks
Reflective Tape
Mylar Blanket

[Circe]

Narration:
Glamour flows through the tunnels, within the Lost and some into metal artifacts. The results are adequate. Circe's contract has gotten the machine to function, though it will take both parts and extensive work to restore the machinery properly. Studying the mechanism for the door could help create other secret doors in the future.


Kray learns that this underground area's parallel in the Hedge is full of rocks. Rocks, rocks, rocks! Everywhere you can look, rocks! Totally full of rocks.


Seraphina work to restore the door isn't absolute. The metallic side facing the Lost is in better condition now. It looks new, sturdier, and still has a few holes. The connection joints look brand new, but are still rust damaged. Seraphina can deduce that the mechanism was sabotaged to jam shut at the joints rather than worn by time. The Contract must have seen the metallic side of the door and the disguised side as two different objects.


A Strength + Athletics roll is needed to ratchet the door quick enough to not have the rusted be a problem.
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Circe:
"Thank you Vincent," she cheerfully replies to his words. "Salesmanship and diplomacy, I find it better ta have comrades than a minions," she brags in pride. Before smirking, "Saves on the banana purchases."


"Given how the water drone went," Circe quips to Kray as she tries to ratchet the door open, "I'll take ya up on that. Gotta figure out how ta propel." Circe had no idea how trains moved. Something made the wheels spin like a car was her only guess. Internet should help with that. "Backup would've been more fun," the Larcenist pouts.


"Oh ho ho ho," she laughs as the Spring Siren has learned from the past, "Quite the skill, finding money in muck. Ya Springs keep doing that down here," she still found it funny. Like how it worked in videogames.


And there was the Glamour's affect!


The door, wasn't quite fixed. But it was looking better. The machine looked like it would function, but the joints were still very much rust. Well, "Here goes something," she declares and starts ratcheting the rank shaft as fast as she can.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-02-16 20:20:18	Circe rolls 5 to Cranking (10 Again)	6, 4, 7, 8, 3	1 success

Stats & Equipment

Armor: 1/2 bulletproof
Def: 3
Speed: 12
Equipment: Colt 45 [7+1] with suppressor and 2 mags regular, 2 riot, and 20 spare regualr rounds and 10 riot rounds. 3 Dream-a-Drupes flasks, lockpicks, hedgespun multitool, Ninja suit armored. Ninja suit hoodie. 9mm SMG [30] hollowpoint with suppressor and 2 mags. lighter, mini-back pack with 3 water bottles. 12' spool of twine. Knife. Small [+0] first aid kit. Hard hat with lamp. cheap plastic flashlight. 10 glow sticks, 4 walkie talkies, knife.

[Kray]

Kray while liking the other lost well enough so far has very little opinions on the queens when it came to holding the crowns he lacks the experience of them in that field, he just likes them as people. 'Uh. if no one else is taking the tools.' He raises hand 'I will.' Never hurts to have tools.

He nods. 'Yeah. do, get in touch when you need me.' then squints. 'Uh. Backup? if you need help in a fight?' Taking her literally. Can't imagine what else that would mean. 'Then yeah also reach out.' I know what I'm good for at the moment. That will change.

OH, oh I got something. 'Point of note, the hedge ... is full of rocks.' He articulates his discovery with pride. 'Didn't get anything else though.' But that doesn't mean we can't work on that.

[Circe]

ooc: 2 days left on the calendar, and we are nearing an endpoint in the tunnels. Vincent and Seraphina please post soon.