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  1. #1
    Lacuna's Avatar
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    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Directly from Murder Basement


    "Fuck. You." she grunts out.

    The mana feeds her working, the grey glyphs connect and the floor beneath her is replaced by her motel room. She falls through the floor and cuts herself off from this blessed lie of space as soon as her body, still chained to the floor smacks into the disgusting carpet.

    Chained to the chair, face planted on the carpet. Necklace cutting off her air way....she tries to call out for help....weakly, struggling through tar she casts both her Mind out and begs "Help.....me...."



      2 suxx Voice from Afar to Hamia
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-06-06 15:44:25 Lacuna rolls 3 to Voice from Afar to Hamia (Gnosis 3 + Mind 2 -2) (10 Again) 2, 10, 8, 1 2 successes
    0WP, -1Mana
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

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  3. #2
    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    A finger traces an old, brass pole which skewers the floor and disrupts an otherwise homey section of the firehouse. Hamia's eyes catch her reflection - warped by the curvature of the metal. A sudden, hollow feeling not-quite-fills her gut. Like the aftermath of a punch. She feels nauseous. Hamia stumbles, hand reaching uselessly for the pole to slow her fall. But it's done. She barely registers hitting the ground. Unbidden thoughts spin and bounce around her head. Everything she'd buried as deep as she could comes to the surface at once. The hurt, shock and shame resurfacing all at once.

    She can't breathe.

    She pulls her knees to her chest and sobs. Her hair falls haplessly over her face, completely shielding her from the rest of the world. Even though there's no one here to see her. A voice rings out in her head. Her own voice. Her words when everything had come crashing down around her.

    ...no.

    Her words... Lacuna's voice. Instinctively, her head swivels towards the body-less sound. Then reason sets in. Lacuna's Awakened. She's reaching out from elsewhere. The Enchantress, try as she might, can't answer back. Her steady, sturdy ally is calling out to her for help. And she can't do anything about it. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and think! Phone. Right. Hamia props herself up with one arm and digs out her phone. She pulls up Lacuna's number and sends the call.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  5. #3
    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    The phone rings and rings, eventually as all calls do if they are not answered, a familiar voice sounds, voicing a prerecorded message.


    "Can't answer the phone. Leave a me a message."


    Beep!
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

  6. #4
    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Shit! "Hey..." Fuck! "I heard you. I... I'm gonna find you. Just hold on!" Her mind races through all the possibilities. Lacuna is hurt. Captured? Trapped under a rock?

    Doesn't matter. She'd figure this out. She isn't about to let anything happen to her only anchor in Sacramento.

    The phone clatters to the floor. She doesn't care. It didn't fall very far, anyways. Using the pole for leverage, Hamia hauls herself back onto her feet. She has to think... her fists aren't going to solve this one. If she could just peer through time to the last place Lacuna ---

    Which is where? Damnit!

    Maybe a subtle twisting of fate could help her to... guess? Still no good. No matter what option she considers, the possibility of success crumbles in the details. Her hands clutch the sides of her head and she lets out a shriek of frustration. This feeling of powerlessness... all over again. But it isn't Hamia who's in trouble this time. It's Lacuna.

    She glances back at her fallen phone. Picks it up. If Lacuna's cell isn't working...

    The Enchantress works her will in an incongruous effort: to focus on doing something random. She... tries not to think about it. Her fingers punch a series of keys and she sends the call out.

      2 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-06-08 19:12:43 Hamia rolls 6 to Gno + Fate + WP for Dialing the Lucky Number (10 Again, WillPower) 4, 1, 2, 8, 8, 5 2 successes

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  8. #5
    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    (Voice from Afar)Mana 0 Spent
    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Lacuna wheezes, the iron around her neck pressing-digging into her wind pipe, she struggles more and more for air. Face pressed against the moulding carpet, she breathes in spores, and the fumes from the gasoline still coating her naked body.

    Dozing lightly the mastigos slips in and out of consciousness. With a sharp jerk that leads to nothing but pain as the chains chafe, and press and keep her in place. Her eyes dart around the room. The crappy motel phone was ringing.

    That was...it was....could it be?

    The phone keeps ringing, one of her neighbours bangs on the walls. Yelling for her to answer the damn thing, and Lacuna dose. The only was she knows how.


    'Motel.....come.....help....'


      3 successes
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-06-08 19:16:30 Lacuna rolls 3 to Voice from Afar to Hamia (Gnosis 3 + Mind 2 -2) (10 Again) 8, 8, 8 3 successes
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

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    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    The outgoing call rings. And rings. And. Rings. Which means her willworking had worked. But wait as she might for an answer, she is rewarded only with the continued ringing in her ear.

    10 rings. 12 rings.

    If what she 'hears' next had truly been sound she might have missed it. Lacuna's voice - again in her mind. Calling Hamia to 'the motel'. Hamia can think of only one place to look: the very motel where they formed their cabal. The Arrow snatches a tan messenger bag from the back of a chair and makes a beeline for the street. It doesn't take her long to locate a taxi.

    I'm coming. I know you can't hear me, but I'm coming.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  12. #7
    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    The phone ringing dies, and Lacuna tries to fight off the small fleck of hope that had ignited with it's baying from snuffing out.

    She coughs, regretting it immediately, but cannot stop. The chain on her daughter's necklace chokes her, and she fights for more air.

    Her steely pain fulled blues track the cardboard box under the bed. Tears cling to her lashes and she prays that Hamia had heard her call. That the Acanthus would come.
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

  13. #8
    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    The taxi driver... isn't driving fast enough. There could be hours, minutes or even seconds. Fuck! Don't let it be seconds. Desperately, as she stares out at the open road, she wills Fate to intercede on her behalf.

    failure
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-06-09 19:40:44 Hamia rolls 3 to Gno + Fate for Fortunate Timing (10 Again) 3, 4, 1 failure
           





    So why does the driver hit so many red lights?? Hamia begins to chew her nail, roughly cutting through a nice shade of maroon and leaving small flecks on her teeth. Three times, at a light, she considers ditching the cab and running the rest of the way.

    Finally, the block with Lacuna's motel creeps up on the horizon. Hamia reaches into her messenger bag, feels around for some cash. She doesn't even count it. "Thanks..." She stuffs some bills into the driver's hand and practically throws herself out the passenger door. She slams the door shut again and takes off running. It doesn't take long for sweat to begin trickling down her forehead. A drop stings her eye and she clenches it shut, running up stairs with one eye closed. Her elbow whacks painfully against the handrail as she rounds the corner. Can her luck get any worse?

    Hamia almost runs full force into the door. Lacuna's room. But, of course, the door is locked. She bangs on the door a few times and shouts loudly. "I'm here! Hang on!" This... isn't good. Wildly, Hamia invokes Fate again - something has to be here. Anything.

    1 success
    Date Action Roll Result
    2018-06-09 20:22:16 Hamia rolls 3 to Gno + Fate for Shifting the Odds (10 Again) 10, 7, 7, 6 1 success
           





    Although she doesn't know it yet, her efforts yield results this time. Two doors down, a woman with a laundry cart leaves another room. A key drops from her cart. Hamia stares for a moment, realizing what the key would be. Housekeeping. The woman never turns back to pick up the key, and as soon as the woman rounds the corner with her cart, Hamia dashes for the key. The key hits home, and Hamia staggers into the room. There, on the floor, lies Lacuna. Naked and bound. The chemical smell of gasoline permeates the air. Lacuna is gasping. Hamia runs to her side and digs her fingers under an offending necklace, making a gap for the giantess to breathe.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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  15. #9
    Lacuna's Avatar
    Presence
    (Taciturn)
    Striking Looks
    (Statuesque)
    Lorna Holmes
    (Around Sleepers)
    Barely there English Accent
    Allies
    (Unions)
    Lacuna


    Any mage with the sense for it will note that Lacuna has a Destiny

    Nimbus

    At first, there is a soft rattling of chains tickles your ears, which increase in volume as the sound of something heavy scraping the floor echos out. The scraping grows louder, and now heavy measured footsteps a company the ominous cacophony...which you realize seems to come from everywhere, no matter the distance.
    Stats

    Health:
    Backlash:
    Mana: |
    WP: |
    Armor 1/0
    Defense 2
    Occult 2

    Vulgar
    Active Spells: / 6
    Personal Spells:

    (Paper Chace) 2eSpace Sight 2suxx,2eMindSight 2suxx,2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, Read matrices 2suxx, portal 8suxx |1vulgar 1 mana, 1 resistant bashing contagion in effect

    (Grubs) 2eSpaceArmor1suxx DEF 5, 2eSpaceSight1suxx,2eMindSight2suxx, Portal 4suxx, Vulgars 1, | 4 Mana
    contagion in effect

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    Slipping in and out of consciousnesses, seconds and minutes are moments and forevers.

    Distandtly she hears the thud of the door swinging open, the doornob hitting the wall behind it. Heavy are her eyes as she tried to open them again. Steps are thuds and mistaken for the blood pounding in her ears.

    The hand is a shock, a relief, a surprise.

    Her eyes are still heavy but she manages the strength to wretch them open.

    "H-hi..." she gasps out, tears flicking down from her lashes to her cheeks, "S'got...my...m-message." she wasn't even sure it had worked...
    Health: | Mana: | Willpower:

  16. #10
    Hamia's Avatar

    Hamia
    Striking Looks
    (Appealing)
    Presence
    (Guarded)
    Hamia

    Nimbus:
    Vulgar magic causes Hamia's form to skip and stutter, as if each movement of each limb was recorded at a different time - then spliced back together.

    +1
    SL
    2
    PRE

    She nods, stunned by the condition the tall blonde is in. Gasoline, dried blood, no clothes. Bound with metal and zip ties. Grief causes a knot in her throat and she struggles to swallow. The adrenaline surge and the need to do evaporate in the wake of emotions. "What the hell happened? No... no. Let me get you out of this first."

    Thank goodness for messenger bags. She reaches in and half a second later produces her combat knife in a protective sheath. "Trust me." she asks, looking Lacuna in the eyes before taking to task. Hamia unsheathes the knife and sets to the first zip tie. She lays the blade flat on Lacuna's arm, then tugs upward at an angle to slice through the plastic. It takes a a little wiggling, but she gets through relatively easily. And doesn't puncture Lacuna's skin. One after another, she frees her friend of the plastic restraints. That business handled, she bends back the thicker restraints. All the while watching Lacuna - and wishing she'd paid better attention to all that first aid training she data dumped.

    When Lacuna is finally free, Hamia tugs the cover off the bed and hands it to her friend, allowing Lacuna some dignity. The urgency of the moment overruled the awkwardness of seeing a woman she'd flirted with (and been turned down by) naked, but with everything settled, Hamia finds herself averting her eyes.

    "You need anything? Water? Coffee?" The friendly, affectionate tone in her voice comes back as she tries to diffuse the situation. She waits until Lacuna rights herself before returning her gaze to her friend.

    Time Armor 2E effects (when active): +3 Defense (works against firearms)/+0 Armor

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