(2405) Sanctuary

[Chambers]

Circle of creation

The Circle of Creation is the gathering hub for all Pentacle mages in the Sacramento Concilium, with chapter houses for all five Orders inside.

Located east of Sacramento and far outside the prying eyes of the inner city, the Circle of Creation awaits the mages of Sacramento. Despite being a replica of the Westminster Abbey, the sleepers who come by never seem to notice it. The wards built into the structure have made sure of this. To all but the Pentacle the Circle is essentially invisible, ensuring the safety of those who enter and engage with one another. Whether it had always been here for the Awakened was hard to say now, but it was the site that the Awakened gather to mingle and discuss official matters.



It is a time for simply for mingling among the Awakened. The common area is large and open, but over the course of the month it's inevitable that people may bump into each other. The official concerns of the Consilium are put on hold as a more lighthearted experience is shared among this community of the Wise. Ultimately, this is the opportunity to let the proverbial hair down. How much so is up to them.

This is the opening post for Sanctuary. Please read this for information on Sanctuary, Consilium, and the difference the two. Come here to be recognized!



Also a reminder, Sanctuary threads are not official Consilium threads. Those under an incarceration sentence may not attend a Sanctuary thread.



Sancturary is not a single event, or formal Consilium. It's a compression of time to represent the comings, goings, and intersections of Awakened throughout the month at the Cirlce.

[Chambers]

After the successes of last months meeting the Moros was feeling confident and even hope for that things were turning a corner. he places a pot of rice crispy cakes on a surface for anyone to help themselves to if they happened to be around and moves over to the notice board and begins doing the adding, removing and maintience he had promised to do.

rice crispy cakes -5 difficulty, 2/2 suxx

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2024-05-01 01:13:29	[04] Chambers rolls 3 to Cook Berry tarts (Int3,craft3,galley2 difficulty-5) (size2, durability 0. Target=2) (10 Again)	10, 7, 1, 3	1 success
2024-05-01 01:13:29	[03] Chambers rolls 3 to Cook Berry tarts (Int3,craft3,galley2 difficulty-5) (size2, durability 0. Target=2) (10 Again)	7, 1, 1	failure
2024-05-01 01:13:29	[02] Chambers rolls 3 to Cook Berry tarts (Int3,craft3,galley2 difficulty-5) (size2, durability 0. Target=2) (10 Again)	4, 8, 1	1 success
2024-05-01 01:13:29	[01] Chambers rolls 3 to Cook Berry tarts (Int3,craft3,galley2 difficulty-5) (size2, durability 0. Target=2) (10 Again)	7, 3, 6	failure

[Corn]

Corn arrives dressed in his usual somber colors, having a nice cup of warm coffee in hand and the perpetually tired look that parents of infants have. He spots Chambers and smiles.
"Chambers! Greetings. How are you? "

[Philip Crosen]

Philip arrived in casual clothes, gray-green running shoes, jeans, red t-shirt, gray jacket, backpack. This time he brought his chocolate chip cookies, and a couple of 1-liter water bottles, as well as paper towels and plastic cups for anyone interested. Smelling Chambers` delicious food, though not quite certain what exactly it was yet, he went up to his two fellow Moros and greeted them with a smile.
"Hi guys! Nice to see you."
he said, acknowledging both of them with nods respectively in turn, as he spoke.
"I brought chocolate chip cookies again, since people seem to like `em. And a couple 1-liter water bottles, and plastic cups. What`s that I smell? Delicious. Chambers, what`s cookin` doc?"
he asked Chambers jokingly, imitating Buggs Bunny while obnoxiously and playfully chewing on a cookie, as opposed to Buggs` signature carrot. He`d have to make do with whatever he had on hand, after all, to get his little jest across.
They`d come far during the conference the previous month, but some things were left unadressed, which still somewhat irked him. So he was eager to see Winter, hear why he left. That was, if he wasn`t silent as a rock, which Philip half-expected. And get his input on the issues presented, even in this informal capacity. That was, if and when he showed up and also if he`d oblige them, both of which also being questions that loomed in the air for Philip.

[Chambers]

Standing he brushes off his hands, not because there were dirty or dusty more just as motion acknowledging job complete. He turns from the board as others join him in the circle. ''Corn. Good to see you. I've been well thank you, and yourself?'' Returning the greeting with polite interest.

And as Philip came along hot on his heels. He's feeling boisterous today it seems. He offers a warm smile to both. ''Well I was fresh out of rabbit unfortunely.'' Playing along because who doesn't know loony toons. ''But I've gone for rice crispy cakes, using more of a rocky road style mix. Some have vanilla mixed in, others have mint. I'm curious to see which is more popular.'' He nods over. ''Please help yourselves they should still warm and just a little melty.'' He smooths any outdated notes carefully placing them in folder that goes on the bookcase by the board. Not to be removed from the circle some of these have pertinent information on them.

[Witch]

She figured it was a good sign that the church was still standing.

Granted, she hadn't been gone that long but one never knew.

The downside was that it was still a church. Yeah yeah. Not really but whatever.

Shoving open the door, and then wandering through the building, she made her way toward where people usually gathered. The sound of voices confirmed that that too had not changed. And even better they were familiar. Even the one that ... wasn't?

An eyebrow of surprise raised as she spotted next to the more familiar figures of Chambers and Philip, Corn.

Seems she wasn't the only one making (having made?) a return.

"Hey, how are things going?"

What? It wasn't like she had ghosted for years.

[Corn]

" @Chambers , so far, so good. I am pleased to see you cookin'. " he said trying (and not exactly succeeding) in continuing Philip 's joke. "How are you, Philip?"
Then a familiar face walked in. It took him a moment to connect the face with the name and then his smile became bigger. "Witch! Hello! Long time, no see! I am back for at least some months. Well, kinda back. I am living in Sacramento most of the month, but we do make trips to my in-laws.
Anyway, I heard some good things about you, including that you are the one that thought a formalized acknowledgement procedure. We have been following through with that and we put the stamp of the official gathering on it. How have you been? " He didn't really expect Witch to open up and tell him but he still thought to ask.

"Considering we have three moros, shouldn't we arrange an informally formal path meeting?" He offered.

[Philip Crosen]

"Well, it is duck season and not wabbit season after all. So your rice crispies will have to do."
he said with a smirk, continuing the joke and answering Chambers, while grabbing one of the vanilla variety once he was done with his cookie. And then in came Witch after a couple months` absence. He was unsure if this brief absence, in which so much had happened, now technically qualified her as a returner as well, requiring re-acknowledgement. Though in Philip`s eyes that wasn`t the case. But he also knew the decision didn`t fall to him, and ultimately fell to her Path-mates. So he gave Corn and Chambers a brief look after greeting her with a warm smile as well. He was curious which way that would go as well as finding out what she`d been up to.
"Oh, hi. Nice to see you again Witch. Actually quite a lot`s changed while you were gone. So what have you been up to these past months?"
What the Moros did amongst themselves was none of Philip`s business, though he was a bit envious as to the huge power bloc they represented in the Consilium`s affairs. Great. Now, there are three of them. he thought, chuckling internally at his Star-Wars parody as there were now three Moros present that he knew of, like Corn pointed out.

[Chambers]

Hearing the door shove open Chambers of course had looked round and was pleasantly surprised by who he sees. And also a little surprised that it was a pleasant surprise and not just the regular variety. She does owe me a book list after all. And he offers a warm smile. But listens politely as Corn gets in before him with his information dump. The smile persisting. ''It's good to see you Witch, has everything been okay?'' It's possible she was just busy, but still better to ask and address it if anything has arisen. ''As you can see things are moving forward around here.'' How much things can change in so short a time.

Then casting a quizzical glance to Corn. Informally formal? what is that even supposed to mean? ''Perhaps best to wait on that.'' Witch might just be passing through after all. Speaking of he turns his attention back to Witch. ''You have missed an official meeting so its worth asking are you sticking around or just popping by? Because if the former then under the new process it'll be Corn to handle the acknowledgment.'' First of the path to make contact and all.

Shifting his position to make sure Philip is included in the conversation and its not just the three Necromancers catching up. ''Have to do will they?'' An eye brow rises but is off set by the humorous smirk. ''Is that you volunteering to cook sometime soon?'' Because if you want better you'll have to do better then store brought my friend.

[Aurora]

Was she going to not stop by the Circle? Yeah. The whole politic discussion left a bad taste in her mouth. Even after all these years, and leaving the Ladder, she would never escape the politics.

But she enjoyed talking with Chambers and liked his level head. It made talking with him easy.

So the Shaman walks in ready for summer in a pair of leather shorts. Her favorite pair because they showed off her long legs. Plus, she had a meeting later to do an interview about her career. So might as well look good.

Now she wasn’t expecting to see any new faces, but she sure as hell was expecting to see one she recognized!

A wide smile, “Witch! Great to see you!” sure, the two had never really gotten to know each other, but Aurora liked her. Level head and wasn’t bashful.

Finally, “Hey Chambers, Philip, Corn.”