Clean up crew: Hunters house

[ReubanBrightwood]

Damage caused by brute force and weapons is well very hard to hide, by its nature it is not discreet or covert, Skye does her best but well yeah it is still clear and obvious these things have been moved and further damaged and yes such activities do facilitate the dropping of hair, sweat, bodily oils and all the all rest if someone was determined enough to look ... that problem however is one the arrow is very able to deal with as with a working of her will, she wipes all biological trace from the little shed.

[Skye]

Ok not her best work, far from it even, in truth the best she could likely hope for in this situation would probably be that the one who looked in on it just didn´t know or remembered how badly damaged these things were. But hey as long as that was at least after they had left this place to a safe distance so did it really not matter, and with some luck the shed would not even be something looked at first thing in the morning making it all the harder to do something about their presence and work here. Which had hopefully caused some impact at least, not that she had a clue if she actually caused any actual damage at all or just made it look worse for wear.

Again looking down, really not liking just how long Witch was taking down there, at this point half expecting either for something seriously bad to have happened or there just being a lot of work to do down there. Considering the sights she had seen left on the spiritual plane so was that tunnel definitely not one that had survived, at least not with a clear entrance so someone had deliberately planned this, so an enemy below or just a danger far from unlikely, but it was also personal, and surely Witch was not so ill equipped she would fall without a sound, no from what she had seen that was the one none arrow she had the least concerns about amongst them all, and also the only one she had actually both worked with and split up from during a field op.

Looking towards the door, and back to where she had entered, well she could give her just a little longer. Placing herself close to the door, she would at least have a brief window before either Witch or someone else was about to come up, or someone try to enter through the door to make sure she would not be caught by surprise.

Eyes closing, mind calming, knowing she really needed practice with this as she again forces her sight open, forcing herself to see the world humans could not once more.

Spirit tongue, 1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-04-24 13:52:50	Skye rolls 4 to Spirit tongue (Spirit+gnosis+ex-3/tol) (10 Again)	8, 1, 3, 7	1 success

Gear

cellphone on vibrate/sound off, cash, light black gloves covering her hands and fingers, knivesx2 (+1) (in belt at her back), Bowie Knife (belt at her back) (+2), kevlar vest thin under shirt, zippo lighter, athletic running shoes, dark none descript clothes, wooden coin necklace (dedicated tool, around her neck under shirts). Leather pouch 2x small (strapped to right arm and right leg), Leather pouch large strapped to her belt, waterflask filled.

Spells

Combo Organic Resilience and pulse of the living world (pot 3/3, armor 4, cloaked)
Combo Body Mastery +2, and Transform Self 4 (pot 2/4, cloaked)
Honing the form dex +4 (pot 6, cloaked)
Sense Life humans, canines, muridae, 3 – 4 yards

Stats

Health:
Mana:
Defense: 2 (7 when dodging)
Speed: 14/18
Initiative: 7/11
Willpower:
Armor: 5/6 - bulletproof (Life: 4, Kevlar vest thin 1/2)
Spell tolerance: 7/3
Spell control: 5/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

Notes

Brown wavy hair

[Witch]

Witch scowled, the bitter taste of failure sharp in the darkness. It seemed that the remains around her were still remains and not yet things.

Glancing back toward the where she had left Skye she hoped her fellow mage wasn't getting worried yet. Her lengthy failure meant there was sill work to do.

Well. She might not be able to affect directly the dried blood and such but this wasn't her first time in this tunnel. And maybe what had worked before would work again.

But first a quick bit of mundane prep. Digging into her backpack for her collection kit, she retrieved a set of gloves and some of her bags. And her magical tool of course. She would need it for this.

Swallowing back the bitterness she spoke quickly, focusing again.

The evidence couldn't be touched - but the rock it rested against was another matter entirely.

Speaking again in the High Speech, she felt the Paradox. Gritting her teeth she pulled it into herself. After her earlier failure there was no f'ing way she was going to let a Paradox happen.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-04-24 17:39:02	Witch rolls 1 to Paradox (10 Again)	9	1 success

Witch absorbs the paradox as bashing damage

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-04-24 17:47:06	Witch rolls 8 to Transmute Earth (Arcana+Gnosis+HS) (10 Again)	2, 4, 10, 4, 9, 3, 1, 2, 7	2 successes

Even as the pain settled into her, she grinned as the spell resolved. The surface of the walls and ground behind the bloodstains and evidence shifted, becoming light enough for her to easily scoop into her bags once she pulled the gloves on.

And along with it ... the evidence.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-04-04 07:39:24	Witch rolls 9 to Forensic Invisibility (Arcana+Gnosis+2(HS)-2(Increase targets)) (10 Again, WillPower)	2, 1, 2, 2, 5, 1, 4, 9, 9	2 successes

Transmute Earth

Supplies

Supplies: Backpack w/collection kit, water, cash. Cell phone. Magical tool

Stats

Health:
Mana:
WP:
Armor 0
Defense 3

Vulgar 0
Active Spells: 3
Personal Spells: 1

[ReubanBrightwood]

Witch Transmute earth is a discipline proficiency spell (which under site house rules for dox affects the dice pool) and given witch has not cast any other vulgar stuff in this plot and is using her dedicated tool her paradox dice calculation would leave dox at a chance dice, so Witch doesn't need to absorb that point of backlash as dox could only succeed if it rolled a 10.

Which is also good because every suxx on dox even when absorbed penalizes the spell casting by an equal amount so there would not have been a penalty this time, but please try to remember in the future.

Skye works her will and extends her sense past the mundane of the fallen to observe the grey washed out world that is twilight, for her the spiritual elements standing out with greater clarity. The shed is more developed then the house had been it had existed longer, had more invested into it, the trap door in particular has a sense of being solid and tangible most of the essence in the room seems to be pooling around it, while the walls and roof seem rather more fragile, feeble but present still. None the machinery holds spiritual significance either however a few very select parts seem to show up as indistinct grey mist, a sign that they had left behind ghostly echos of themselves that the shaman couldn't quite get a detailed view of.

Down below, Witch's Nimbus flares the tunnel grows hot as a pyre and darkens with clouds of ash carrying the scent of burning people, in this momentary display of power Witch casts her spell a creative use of transmute earth to turn the stones and earth into something much easier to work with, to remove from the scene. Her will is strong, the imago steady, choosing to restrict her targets to those specific areas that are needed and leave the rest as is, a good inclusion to keep the roof from caving in on her head. And it works the brown glyph blazes into reality affecting just those areas she designated.

[Skye]

Letting her eyes flutter around the room, reading the various oddities within, she needed to grow more accustomed to this, despite the disparity between her levels of mastery between the two arcana she resonated with and how much she had denied herself this side of her so was it still a part of her. Her connection to it stronger, biting down upon her lower lip as her eyes wander across the shed. Moving herself over towards the trap door to just watch it, letting her eyes walk over it to read in the essence of it before looking over towards the grey mist with a confounded look.

Moving over towards it, trying to look over the things, one hand raised to breach for potential impact should she by accident make something begin to fall as the other gloved hand stretches out to touch them uncertain if she would need to try and give these things some extra attention to destroy or not. The unfamiliarity with actually embracing this side of her one thing but in combination with lifeless machines no.

Shifting her eyes upward, up into the skies, and back towards the trap door, opening it up to look down and see what was down there, was Witch being quiet from something having happened down there that this could speak of why or was there just a lot of work to do down there?

Gear

cellphone on vibrate/sound off, cash, light black gloves covering her hands and fingers, knivesx2 (+1) (in belt at her back), Bowie Knife (belt at her back) (+2), kevlar vest thin under shirt, zippo lighter, athletic running shoes, dark none descript clothes, wooden coin necklace (dedicated tool, around her neck under shirts). Leather pouch 2x small (strapped to right arm and right leg), Leather pouch large strapped to her belt, waterflask filled.

Spells

Combo Organic Resilience and pulse of the living world (pot 3/3, armor 4, cloaked)
Combo Body Mastery +2, and Transform Self 4 (pot 2/4, cloaked)
Honing the form dex +4 (pot 6, cloaked)
Sense Life humans, canines, muridae, 3 – 4 yards
Spirit tongue

Stats

Health:
Mana:
Defense: 2 (7 when dodging)
Speed: 14/18
Initiative: 7/11
Willpower:
Armor: 5/6 - bulletproof (Life: 4, Kevlar vest thin 1/2)
Spell tolerance: 7/3
Spell control: 5/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

Notes

Brown wavy hair

[Witch]

Satisfaction at the success wared with frustration at her first failure. A tangle of feels that she would ignore for now. And maybe forever. Shoving her gathered evidence into her backpack, she took a final glance around the tunnel.

And although it hadn't worked before for what she wanted ...

Speaking again in high speech she pushed her will into the world around her.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-05-06 07:37:30	Witch rolls 8 to Forensic Invisibility (Arcana+Gnosis+HS) (10 Again)	8, 6, 7, 4, 6, 8, 6, 1	2 successes

Forensic Invisibility

She was going to need to start using this more often. Like. A lot more often.

Making her way back to the entrance and Skye, "How's it... woah ... that's one way to handle it." She took in the destruction, seeking out any potential pieces that hadn't been destroyed past data recoverability.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-05-06 07:41:37	Witch rolls 6 to Perception (Wits+Comp) (10 Again)	10, 1, 2, 6, 2, 5, 9	2 successes

Supplies

Supplies: Backpack w/collection kit, water, cash. Cell phone. Magical tool

Stats

Health:
Mana:
WP:
Armor 0
Defense 3

Vulgar 0
Active Spells: 2
Personal Spells: 2

[ReubanBrightwood]

With Spirit tongue Skye can see and hear but not touch her groping only leads to brushing into that which is physical, much o which is not seen by her and that which is , is not always where it should be precisely.

But in short order Witch comes up from the trapdoor at last, her new spell in her pattern making sure no hair, oils, fingerprints or like will be left behind by the Moros. She has her evidence secured.

The piles of destruction looks quite thorough, specialized knowledge in computing would be needed at this point to know if what was broken was sufficiently to totally an completely remainder them useless but Skye has made a dam good job adding to the damage.

Okay both we are 60 days over time, so one last post each and then this plot closes.

[ReubanBrightwood]

With the evidence collected, and the tech more destroyed the nit was the mages find time has slipped past them and the grey of dawn is creeping over the horizon, time to go. Anything else will have to wait for another dark and quiet night.

Good scene all, Thank you for it, hope you had fun!