(2409) Sanctuary

[Salem]

Salem smiles and nods to Chambers when the Necromancer approaches him. "Good to see you too, Chambers. I'm doing okay. Sorry that I missed the cookout this past month. I had some work obligations that ended up happening at the same time. I hope it was a good time though. I'll make it up to everyone next time," he says, looking away from the noticeboard for a moment. "You might know.." he starts off, looking around him at the halls of the building around them. "Two things, really: Would it be alright if I took a look at the wards this place has? I just want to check to make sure everything is on the up and up... Also, do you know if there is a communal scriptorium here? My last consilium had a small one open to all active members. If not..." he trails off thoughtfully.

Salem sees the wave from the new face and he smiles and returns the gesture. "Hello, I'm Salem. A man who brings me chocolate is always welcome," he says with a grin, moving to look the eclairs and then the pastries Chambers provided. He snags an eclair, for now.

When the other Shaman enters, Salem gives a wave back to her, "Hey, Aurora."

Winter is given a smile and a wave as well.

[Chambers]

Mages begin to filter through, a testament to the increase in population and use the circle was seeing.

The returned Guru gets a warm smile and a chuckle. "And I thought all of this was in fun, but if you want to by all means please, I think Philip has started baking his own stuff as well recently, a little competition is healthy." Not that he really had the time to commit to improving his skills but if it pushed others then he would happily be the bench mark. "Anyway how have you been Guru?" The mage seemed easy to get along.

The next to enter a mage he is always glad to see, confident as ever, she gets the warm smile and a returned wave jostling his robes. "Aurora always good to see you, keeping well?" Feeling a little like the welcome wagon at the moment but manners cost nothing.

A nod to Winter as he responds. "Good to here, busy good or busy bad?" Or just busy, but striking up a a conversation with the Obrimos always too ka little effort to find the hook to get him going.

Salem having joined him at the board. "Don't worry about it, it was just a bit of fun a chance to socialise a little, not an official meeting." A nod in ascent that the warlock was okay, a little disjointed with the look of concern, not entirely convinced but willing to take him at his word. "There is nothing to make up, if something else gets planned you are very welcome." The main thing was that the younger mage was well enough.

At the question he chuckles a little. "We did agree not to mess with the circles defences because well frankly they are beyond our ability to understand, or even see through the cloak potency." Gestures around. "This place should setting our unseen senses off like nothing we have ever felt before, yet nothing, not the slightest sensation." But wards that can hold against any and every spell. "Given our distinct lack of understanding we don't want to mess with something and break in a way we can't repair." It was something of a difficult situation. "You can't even see them with your sight up." That's how powerful the cloak was, it rendered them blind to anything they could scrutinise.

Ah now that. "No not yet, however." He taps the agenda pinned to the board for October. "Circle amenities is something I have had on the agenda as item, at the moment I am more just making space and clearing out unused areas so that once we have an idea how we want to use it we are ready to go." He to had ideas for making more use of the circle. "The only thing I have done is start the communal library to hold the notes from official meetings." Because those needed to go somewhere or what was the point in record keeping.

[Guru]

A smile and a wave offered to Aurora as she entered, he made sure to finish chewing before he'd continue."You are killing it but is it worth it in the heat?" Pausing and giving himself a chance to listen, "Anything noteworthy or interesting?" He followed up on Chamber's Inquiry to Winter as well and gave a smile in way of return to the Necromancer, "Think I've re-adjusted, for the most part. Starting out with a cookout is a nice way to ease back in though. So long as it's a friendly competition, everyone benefits from it in this case." He couldn't help but laugh before the comment on the Scriptorium caught his ear and he started snacking again.


"On the up-and-up?" He looked over at Salem and raised a brow, "Not real specific now for such a delicate inquiry." He offered with a small smile and a shrug, it wasn't his call to make but trust cut both ways. Chambers' response ending the matter in his mind though, he knew it was well beyond his current understanding either way. There were certainly other things that they could all benefit from as well as far as Amenities went. "Sounds like it'll be a good piece for official business next month. It is next month right?" He'd been away for sometime so he hadn't been certain that was accurate. Didn't mean they couldn't brainstorm now, right? The fingers on his free hand fidgeting freely as he thought about how bad an idea having a Scriptorium be public access was. Unless it was tiered access maybe?

[Aurora]

The wave was returned to Winter with a smile.

And then it came. Again.

The Wards.

“Why wouldn’t they be on the up and up?” she asks. What was the obsession with the Wards.
A forced smile, because, she was tired of the Wards being questioned, “Hi.”

Then to Chambers, “Keeping ok, just busy with my studies and all that. How about you?”

Eyebrow raises to Guru, “You mean the pants? Always worth it.” Would they be a pain to get off later? Probably, but they looked good and that made it worth it.

[Winter]

He shrugged, he didn't understand much about the circle defense, but he wasn't against exploring the topic further as long as it didn't endanger the structure. "I doubt there's much we can do about them at our current level, but if you want to take a look, just for knowledge's sake, I'm sure nobody will object. Just don't tamper with things we don't understand"

[Witch]

There was a murmur of voices as Witch arrived, but not quite the volume that meant a large gathering. Entering the common area, she noted those and more importantly, the atmosphere of the room.

"Uh-oh ... something important going on?" she said, glancing around.

It wasn't a formal meeting (as evidenced by her jean shorts and oversized shirt) but that didn't mean big stuff wasn't ever discussed outside that one time.

[Eidolon]

Eidolon walks in wearing a button up short sleeve shirt, khaki colored trench coat, black jeans and black boots. He notices that other mages are already gathered, but he is nursing a bit of a hangover from the night before. "Hello all, how is everyone doing this fine day."

[Chambers]

Mages continue to filter in, quieter it would seem then the month before but as is the nature of happenstance meetings. Moving away from the board to make room for any who wish to see the notices and updates. Before responding to the Sharman. "Always good to hear." Few mages seemed to have any real trouble moving in or moving back but never hurt to ask. "I think the cookout was a decent success if I do say so myself." People had been talking, socialising, okay he could have been quicker with the food prep but that was a lesson if they did it again. "I think we are agreed on that front, a little compeition can be motivating." Listening as the conversation takes a turn he was hoping to have a little more tactfully, and so diverts. "Yes while I appreciate it is not the most important of things, we have the space, and there should be benefits to being a member of the Consilium. I have heard some talk adding books, decorations, workshops. So it seems like a good conversation to have when we can. Personally I want to put a proper kitchen in so if at need we can live here and feed ourselves properly." And one with no need for electricity if I can mange it. "Anything you ever thought we could need?" Floating ideas was no bad thing it gave people time to think the mover.

To Aurora he smiles. "Good, good. And yes likewise studies are the main thing I am focusing on at the moment." With exam in magical law to pass how could they not.

Winter, dodges or ignores the question so the Necromancer does not push. If he can even see the wards he is doing better then most of us I would have to guess. Knowing his own sight was far from as powerful as it could be but no joke either.

Witch gets the warm smile of greeting. "Hey there." The question seemed odd, unless he had mis read the temperature of the room. "Important in what sense?" Better to make sure he understood in case he had missed something, his fellow Necromancer might seem young but she had a good head on her shoulders as she demonstrated a few times.

Looking past her to offer the smile to the next to arrive. "Eidolon, good to see you, well thanks, yourself?" Not a mage he knew to much about but he was sticking around and had offered to help with the charter so one the Necromancer was pleased enough to see.

[Guru]

Aurora's response got a broad smile from the Shaman. Winter's answer had shocked him but it could also be a note of how confident the Guardian was. Witch was a face he hadn't recognized so she got a bright smile and a wave though as if to answer her question Chambers continued the point. What could they need, and what could they add? "If you want to go the route of self-sufficiency there's other additions you could make. You could do a garden and chickens to add to that. What we do is often dangerous so maybe a clinic of some sort or at least a storehouse for supplies. Maybe an armory." What he had said anything and if we were throwing out wish lists. Another look around the room as he silently finished the rest of his snack.

[Aurora]

A glance to Winter, seemed he had more faith in people then she did. “When you get some free time, I’d like to sit down and talk with you,” she says to Winter, “you mentioned wanting to look into something.” Not mentioning what it was or anything else.

Small wave to Witch, “Hey Witch, hope all is well. And uh, not that I know of.”

Looking to the voice, “Hey, not too bad, yourself?” seemed the gathering was growing, always a good time. Usually.

Nodding to Chambers, “I think it was as well! We should make it an annual thing. Hell, I’m even willing to grill in the winter if anyone else is!” she offers with a smile. The talk on adding…housing like touches…gets nothing from her. It seemed a lit much, so she just keeps quiet on it. Let people do what would make them happy.

Guru throws his suggestions for improvements and she was just content to just let them have at it. She wasn’t taking care of chickens, that was below her pay grade.