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  1. Mar 2nd, 2024 08:31 AM #1
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    Chambers's Avatar
    Presence:
    (contemplative)
    Resources
    Good time management
    high Speech
    Chambers

    Nimbus: Ghostly echo -- the sounds of the forgotten dead can be heard.(Voices, knocking, scraping so on)

    When vulgar the whispers and scraping Amplify to screams, nails on chalk board and slamming doors

    Status: Mysterium: 2
    Spells and Magic

    Active spells: (0/6+0/1)

    Spell Tolerance: (0/3+0/1)

    Personal Spells:

    Vulgar spells cast in ():

    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    HP: 0/0/0/8
    Willpower: 6 - 3/3
    Mana: 5/12
    Inventory

    Bike,Street (Armoury p.138) (Cost .)

    Smoking, Pipe

    Blue robes with slate grey accents and Trim.
    Combat Stats

    WP:
    Speed: 9
    Initiative: 5
    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    Health:
    Mana:

    Paradox base: 2
    2
    PRE

    The winter months were passing and thus less people were dying, still cold enough to keep people in doors but not so much to bring about the end of life. People still died yes, his craft still in demand but less so. Which gave him the time to focus on a new project. He had prepared easy to eat or readymade food to last a week, he doesn’t plan on going that long he would miss lectures, fall behind on orders but in case the creative urge grips him and won’t let go it’s good to be prepared, to save time for what he had in mind this would be a long haul.
    The materials had arrived his work space was set up and he had put a few days aside for this knowing it would be a monumental project. It certainly had more moving parts then anything he had attempted so far.
    He had the research he had completed laid out the dimensions of each piece written out and circled. The library had been a pleasantly surprising success in helping with that.
    The question remained how hard would he try, how far was he willing to go. He used magic for the final name tablets and for tricker gravestones but did this merit such efforts? Given that he had stood his sanctum, in the area suffused by the Hallow he had been nurturing recently the answer was a forgone conclusion. Magic was the expression for his soul, something he could barely contain at times, to undertake a great task and not use it would be a lie in its own way.
    He took the whalebone pipe from his pocket and placed it between his teeth unlit, the stem attuned to him, an aid in changeling Stygian truth safely through the abyss. The Atlanteans had if even half of what was said if it was true used magic to create the greatest civilisation to ever exist, over the next few days he an inheritor of that will, would use it create something notably more mundane but still, giving shape to the formless. Giving purpose to that without to try his hand in hew yet still familiar ways and see where that led his understanding off the craft.
    Safe in his workshop surrounded by the walls of his sanctum, fuelled by the hollow that had already begun to reflect his stygian resonance he begins.
    Breakdown: (Also in roll declarations)
    Task: 18 L shaped stone chimes.
    Breakdown: Size 2: +0
    materiel: stone +5
    Suxx needed: 5 (per chime)
    Difficulty: masterwork -5
    Time per roll: 22 and ½ minutes (Good time management Merit)


    Day 1: 8am start
    Until I smoke my pipe the threads of fate shall favour me.
    An easy conditional duration for +3 so the spell lasts for 1 day
    Firstly flicking thre radio on loud, he then begins to chant in high speech
    Paradox failure

    Superlative Luck 1 success

    His Nimbus blossoms forth the chilling screams of the restless dead a stygian choir of shades to accompany the passage of magic and will manifest into the fallen world. It feels as good as it always does to bare forth the truth of his soul, the certainty the moment the peace in the screams. The abyss’s interference non-existent so far, yet the spell barely takes holds. A sign I shouldn’t be doing this?
    He perseveres.
    9 successes
    time elapsed 2 hours 15 minutes
    7 successes
    time elapsed 4 hours 30 minutes
    13 success, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 6 hours 45 minutes
    8 successes
    time elapsed 9 hours
    12 successes, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 11 hours 15 minutes
    8 Successes
    time elapsed 13 hours 30 minutes
    9 successes
    time elapsed 15 hours 45 minutes
    With time taken to eat, show sleep and so on this as far as he can take it today. Both curious and perplexed the spell he dismissed from his pattern he had not needed it in the end. Looking over 7 out of 18 chimes before him some better the other yes, their sound crystal clear but each a masterful piece in its own right and able to create more than pleasing notes.
    He rests.


    Day 2: 8 am start
    The point material becomes art, when form and shape become something, a new name attribute to what is essentially the same thing a question that inspired artistic pursuit and a more abstract application of the Moros fascination with change. The thought plays on him today. Still able to feel the awareness, the attention from his indiscretion yesterday he chooses into to use magic unless he finds he has great need today.
    13 successes, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 2 hours 15 minutes
    12 success, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 4 hours 30 minutes
    15 successes, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 6 hours 45 minutes
    7 successes
    time elapsed 9 hours
    7 successes
    time elapsed 11 hours 15 minutes
    11 successes, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 13 hours 30 minutes
    6 successes
    time elapsed
    As the second day draws to a close, he is torn wanting to continue but knowing he is flagging and needs a night’s rest. More the not the chimes today peel with music so very sweet and in the worst of cases still delightful to the ear. With time to eat shower and rest he prepares foe what seems like it might be the final push.


    Day three:
    Between the feeble spell and the skill of his hands it would seem the forces that be want him to push on using mundane forces for the moment and so while the final chimes are made that is what he does.
    10 success, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 2 hours 15 minutes
    13 successes, E-Suxx
    time elapsed 4 hours 30 minutes
    8 successes
    time elapsed 6 hours 45 minutes
    9 successes
    time elapsed 9 hours


    The 18 chimes where finished now however the really tricky part. He rests his hands a moment sore and red from the hammer, the chisel the sanding (he wore gloves for that bit)
    The stands and cross beams. The mount for the chimes themselves, larger more intricate. For this he would employ magic again. There was no way he would allow all of the effort he had put in to go to waste.
    Radio on, pipe out he uses the same conditional duration (him smoking) to extended the spell chants in high speech and the screams of shades rolls out to the walls of his sanctum blending with the electric music in case anyone happened to be close enough to hear. His hallow still able to contribute ambident assistance to help dull the cost of the spell on his own resources.


    paradox failure
    the Abyss undoubtedly taking notice he was aware of the contagion the build up of risk but for now safe.
    Superlative Luck 4 successes
    This time Stygia answered his screaming soul and clarity, the absolute nature of what he could do became clear.


    Break down:
    Task: x2 Stand and cross beam
    Size: 5
    Material: Stone 5
    Target number 10 suxx
    Difficulty: master craft -5


    Day 3 continued:
    As he levied the spell liberally it did little to buoy his efforts this task was great and challenging, he darned not risk further paradox with awareness being drawn from the embodied nothing the more he pushed. So he scales back to easier tricks but resolves his effort. His Hallow now no longer able to support his efforts he draws entirely on his own store of mana.
    exceptional luck 3 successes

    13 successes
    Time elapsed on day 3 11 hours 20 minutes (added 5 min for castings)
    (I clicked the wrong auto fill for the roll my bad but, the dice pool is the same it’s just the target number is higher which he hit, and the roll only had 9 again not 8 again so I have subtracted the successes gained from any rerolls of 8’s, luckily none so it hasn’t effected things).


    With four charges of superlative luck and 2 of exaptational luck he still has some juice in that last spell spell. not completely spent he had the time but did he have the skill, the resources left to do that again. The only way to find out lay in the work.


    2 successes


    His efforts seem to be struggling as he burns more mana into helping guide his hand

    exaptational luck 2 successes


    7 successes


    This time fate teases him the work is almost finished. So, he calls upon what re nearly his final reserves to see it done.

    exceptional luck 1 success
    the spell takes guide his hand stops careless mistakes as he fatigues.

    3 successes



    And the work is done, acceptably finished there is more he can do and shall but magic has helped him cross the finish line.
    The relief the lifting of pressure and the burden set down must have freed his mind and hand to think clearly again because in that final stretch he finds perhaps his greatest inspiration, his hands dance with hammer and chisel over stone bringing to full fruition the work he pictured in his mind.
    9 successes
    time elapsed about 14 hours into day three
    2nd stand rolls in once place.
    21 successes, E suxx



    Each of the stands resembles a Rottweiler crafted in intricate detail sitting at attention, differences in the sanding create shades to show coloured patched of fur and open mouths give detail to teeth, and tongue. The crossbeams each contain a variety od different butterflies no species is repeated the marking on each outlined via use of sanding techniques, small details such as eyes and antennae are also shown, position of the wings suggest most are in flight, all of this is highly precise and very detailed.


    His workspace is a shambles covered in chips and chucks of stone not useable for any of his causally work, his hands ache and tremble the tools hang still on the walls but he has done it. Magic was needed the quality ranges from masterwork to exceptional masterwork but no piece of this would be considered anything less then the highest end of his field. The 18 piece Bian Quing is finished


    The outcome:
    18 L shaped stone chimes:
    9 successes

    7 successes

    13 success, E-Suxx

    8 successes

    12 successes, E-Suxx

    8 Successes

    9 successes

    13 successes, E-Suxx

    12 success, E-Suxx

    15 successes, E-Suxx

    7 successes

    7 successes

    11 successes, E-Suxx

    6 successes

    10 success, E-Suxx

    13 successes, E-Suxx

    8 successes

    9 successes



    x2 stands and crossbeams:
    13 successes

    21 successes, E suxx



    Resources expended: (I’ll add via icons in bookkeeping posts as well)
    3 will power points
    2 superlative lucks = 2 mana +2 from ambient hallow
    3 exceptional lucks = 6 mana
    Health
    Mana
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  3. Mar 2nd, 2024 08:32 AM #2
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    Chambers's Avatar
    Presence:
    (contemplative)
    Resources
    Good time management
    high Speech
    Chambers

    Nimbus: Ghostly echo -- the sounds of the forgotten dead can be heard.(Voices, knocking, scraping so on)

    When vulgar the whispers and scraping Amplify to screams, nails on chalk board and slamming doors

    Status: Mysterium: 2
    Spells and Magic

    Active spells: (0/6+0/1)

    Spell Tolerance: (0/3+0/1)

    Personal Spells:

    Vulgar spells cast in ():

    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    HP: 0/0/0/8
    Willpower: 6 - 3/3
    Mana: 5/12
    Inventory

    Bike,Street (Armoury p.138) (Cost .)

    Smoking, Pipe

    Blue robes with slate grey accents and Trim.
    Combat Stats

    WP:
    Speed: 9
    Initiative: 5
    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    Health:
    Mana:

    Paradox base: 2
    (Crafting and fate spells)Mana 3 Willpower Spent
    2
    PRE

    Bookkeeping the first post
    Health
    Mana
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  4. Mar 2nd, 2024 08:33 AM #3
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    Chambers's Avatar
    Presence:
    (contemplative)
    Resources
    Good time management
    high Speech
    Chambers

    Nimbus: Ghostly echo -- the sounds of the forgotten dead can be heard.(Voices, knocking, scraping so on)

    When vulgar the whispers and scraping Amplify to screams, nails on chalk board and slamming doors

    Status: Mysterium: 2
    Spells and Magic

    Active spells: (0/6+0/1)

    Spell Tolerance: (0/3+0/1)

    Personal Spells:

    Vulgar spells cast in ():

    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    HP: 0/0/0/8
    Willpower: 6 - 3/3
    Mana: 5/12
    Inventory

    Bike,Street (Armoury p.138) (Cost .)

    Smoking, Pipe

    Blue robes with slate grey accents and Trim.
    Combat Stats

    WP:
    Speed: 9
    Initiative: 5
    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    Health:
    Mana:

    Paradox base: 2
    (Crafting and fate spells)Mana 3 Willpower Spent
    2
    PRE

    Bookkeeping the 2nd post
    Health
    Mana
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  5. Mar 2nd, 2024 08:33 AM #4
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    Chambers's Avatar
    Presence:
    (contemplative)
    Resources
    Good time management
    high Speech
    Chambers

    Nimbus: Ghostly echo -- the sounds of the forgotten dead can be heard.(Voices, knocking, scraping so on)

    When vulgar the whispers and scraping Amplify to screams, nails on chalk board and slamming doors

    Status: Mysterium: 2
    Spells and Magic

    Active spells: (0/6+0/1)

    Spell Tolerance: (0/3+0/1)

    Personal Spells:

    Vulgar spells cast in ():

    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    HP: 0/0/0/8
    Willpower: 6 - 3/3
    Mana: 5/12
    Inventory

    Bike,Street (Armoury p.138) (Cost .)

    Smoking, Pipe

    Blue robes with slate grey accents and Trim.
    Combat Stats

    WP:
    Speed: 9
    Initiative: 5
    Defence: 2
    Armour: 0
    Health:
    Mana:

    Paradox base: 2
    (Crafting and fate spells)Mana 2 Willpower Spent
    2
    PRE

    And bookkeeping the third and final post
    Health
    Mana
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