Prelude Session

From Arispemage

Storyteller (10:27:12 PM): It's not a dark and stormy night in Corpus, but there's a general feeling like it should be.
Storyteller (10:27:37 PM): Each one of you has an invitation and a small map to a meeting place for your assignment.
Paige (10:27:58 PM): (Arispe, mind if I throw a few rolls for active spells?)
Storyteller (10:28:10 PM): (Certainly.)
OnlineHost (10:28:51 PM): Alexis rolled 5 10-sided dice: 5 8 6 8 5
Paige (10:29:04 PM): (Spending a turn on the walk muttering in atlantean to myself, then casting Augment the Mind at a -6 penalty to extend the duration to 24 hours)
Alexis (10:29:09 PM): (ok, that one admittedly probably won't matter)
OnlineHost (10:29:09 PM): Paige rolled 5 10-sided dice: 7 6 10 10 1
OnlineHost (10:29:19 PM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 5 6
Paige (10:29:26 PM): (+2 int for 24 hours)
OnlineHost (10:29:35 PM): Paige rolled 3 10-sided dice: 10 9 7
OnlineHost (10:29:43 PM): Paige rolled 1 10-sided die: 1
Paige (10:29:53 PM): (Unseen Aegis improvised)
Alexis (10:30:08 PM): (Mine was Misperception Improvised)
OnlineHost (10:30:38 PM): Paige rolled 3 10-sided dice: 1 8 4
Paige (10:30:56 PM): (Dark Matter Improvised, 1 over spell tolerance, -1 at all spellcasting actions further taken)
Paige (10:31:24 PM): (I'm done)
Storyteller (10:31:44 PM): (OK)
Kentarou (10:32:10 PM): (My Turn! First Casting Supreme Honing, then placing the Life Shield on myself.))
OnlineHost (10:32:24 PM): Kentarou rolled 11 10-sided dice: 3 7 1 9 7 10 5 8 8 6 8
Paige (10:32:28 PM): (Sparda, this is with the 0 XP Mages)
Paige (10:32:35 PM): (You can't get Supreme Honing with no XP)
Kentarou (10:32:39 PM): ((Oh... Never mind. *Seppuku*))
Kentarou (10:32:50 PM): ((Just Life, then, and normal honing for Stamina.))
Brian (10:32:52 PM): ((MY TURN!))
Brian (10:32:58 PM): ((Brian is...walking to the place with his hawk.))
Brian (10:33:09 PM): ((That's...that's his pre-play.))
Storyteller (10:33:14 PM): The map leads you to an out of the way little bed and breakfast type inn, just on the outskirts of the city.
OnlineHost (10:33:31 PM): Kentarou rolled 5 10-sided dice: 5 10 3 5 5
Paige (10:33:38 PM): (Oh, I do have one more)
OnlineHost (10:33:47 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 6
OnlineHost (10:33:50 PM): Paige rolled 6 10-sided dice: 9 3 10 8 7 10
OnlineHost (10:33:57 PM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 2 8
Kentarou (10:33:59 PM): ((Stamina increased by 1))
Paige (10:34:25 PM): (Incogneto Presence up, now 2 over spell tolerance, -2 penalty on further spellcasting actions)
OnlineHost (10:34:38 PM): Kentarou rolled 9 10-sided dice: 7 3 4 10 9 10 2 6 10
OnlineHost (10:34:51 PM): Kentarou rolled 3 10-sided dice: 1 3 10
OnlineHost (10:35:00 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 5
Kentarou (10:35:14 PM): ((5 point Life Shield on myself. Defense is now 5. =3))
Brian (10:35:20 PM): Brian Steffanoskovich walked slowly toward the inn, as the map requested. His large walking stick clunk against the ground, the petrified coal wood and gold standing out slightly.
Alexis (10:35:31 PM): Alexis, that is to say, Lione almost skips along listening to her headphones, which she has tucked under her floppy blue hat. Her long hair trails behind her, the hat keeping it mostly under control.
She skids to a stop...
Alexis (10:36:00 PM): her messenger bag almost sliding off her shoulder as she realizes she's at the place
Paige (10:36:22 PM): (Sparda, Life Shield doesn't work that way)
Kentarou (10:36:34 PM): Kentarou Takeru nods his head and drums his fingers to the beat of the music blaring on his car stereo as he drives to the little bed and breakfast indicated on the map.
Paige (10:36:40 PM): (It's just like I told DS, the Mage Armors aren't based on suxx, it's armor equal to your dots in the Arcana)
Kentarou (10:37:00 PM): ((Yeah. I know. 3 Life dots + 2 Defense.))
Kentarou (10:37:12 PM): ((Total of 5.))
Paige (10:37:12 PM): (Ah, my error, gomen ne)
Kentarou (10:37:27 PM): ((5 against dispelling attempts, is all. <3))
Alexis (10:37:32 PM): (nice armor you have there...what are you wearing?)
Storyteller (10:38:40 PM): A man shuffles up to the pair of you. "You have an invite?"
Alexis (10:39:16 PM): The teenage girl glances at the other walking mage, arching an eyebrow at the obviousness of the staff, and then nods to the other man, glancing him over as she digs in her bag for the invitation.
Kentarou (10:39:51 PM): Ken checked his hair, short and carefully spiked, and his clean white teeth, before stepping out of his car. He brushed off his black jeans
Kentarou (10:39:52 PM): and straightened his red ribbed shirt before shrugging on a black jacket, making sure he had his invitation in the pocket.
Paige (10:40:16 PM): Paige Grimoire made her way to the bed&breakfast, her head down, eyes along the ground. He rlips ceaselessly moved in anendless repetition of facts that would fill msot peoples' brains
after a few moments with her.
Paige (10:40:22 PM): She wore a white blouse with a grey coat and a black skirt. She also carried a messenger bag packed with books of every sort. She'd just moved here, adn had barely gotten to know anyone
yet,
Paige (10:40:22 PM): and she already had some strange invitation in the mail. Fortunately, everyone shoudl think she's just a normal girl, not some weirdo library with legs...
Brian (10:40:31 PM): Brian walked up past the others standing in the doorway, his heavy fur coat keeping him warm.
Storyteller (10:41:28 PM): "If you have an invitation, it should have your room number on it. Go there, it's already paid for."
Kentarou (10:41:40 PM): He walked on up to the inn, looking and feeling hesitant as he looked around at other folks showing up. They were probably mages too... Kentarou... Kenji was his shadow name, barely knew what
it meant to be one, still.
Brian (10:42:11 PM): Brian let out a grunt, walking past the mages and into the bed and breakfast, heading for the room that was numbered on his invite.
Paige (10:42:14 PM): (As a note, people are at +7 difficulty to notice me Arispe&Company)
Alexis (10:42:25 PM): Lione follows the Obrimos in, twitching the headphones off around her neck so she can hear.
Kentarou (10:42:46 PM): Kenji showed his invitation to the man, checked the spells he had cast earlier to make sure they hadn't gone anywhere, an odd sort of sensation, and walks inside.
Storyteller (10:43:48 PM): It's a two story inn. All the invitations are for adjacent rooms on the first floor.
Storyteller (10:44:00 PM): Just down the hall, he says.
Paige (10:44:03 PM): As she walked up, she brielfy turned her invitation outwards, showing it clutched in her two hands as she walked in
Kentarou (10:44:17 PM): ((...I always forget, Armor in WoD subtracts from your opponents damage dice or successes?))
Paige (10:44:25 PM): (Dice)
Kentarou (10:44:31 PM): ((Okay. Thanks))
Paige (10:44:53 PM): (Which leads to one of the funny things)
Paige (10:45:07 PM): (If you have enough armor, yoru foe is more likely to shoot himself in the foot, or have his gun jam)
Kentarou (10:45:18 PM): ((Hehehehe.))
Alexis (10:45:37 PM): (Makes sense, for some Arcana XD)
Paige (10:46:03 PM): (No, I mean if I'm wearing super-heavy plate mail, people are more likely to have their guns jam or shoot themselve sin the foot)
Kentarou (10:46:30 PM): Ken meant to talk to someone before going to his room, but it seemed like everyone was retreating already... He decided to check his room before getting social.
Paige (10:46:31 PM): She walked to one of the rooms and sat down on a chair she dragged into a corner
Storyteller (10:46:36 PM): When you enter your rooms, you get brought to a large, spartan room. There's a few chairs, a mage, and a bottle of tequila and some glasses in the room. It's barren otherwise.
Kentarou (10:46:56 PM): ((By mage, do you mean bed?))
Brian (10:46:59 PM): A small weight on Brian's shoulder let the mage know that he was not alone. "Hush, Equan. I know you don't like public places."
Brian (10:47:29 PM): He sat down on the bed, letting the hawk familiar hop off his shoulder and shuffle over to the tequila.
Storyteller (10:47:31 PM): (Not unless you try to sleep on the mage sitting in the chair)
Kentarou (10:48:11 PM): (Hehehe.)
Storyteller (10:48:14 PM): "Please excuse me if I don't get up and greet you. I've had a recent case of blindness and ruined leg syndrome." the mage says, staring at the wall.
Alexis (10:48:50 PM): (wait, are we all suddenly in the same room, ala Space?)
Storyteller (10:49:03 PM): (Yes)
Paige (10:49:03 PM): As she sat, she momentarily deviated form listing off the names of hoofed mammals in alphabetical order to repreat what he'd said quietly to herself, before resuming wiht the Gazelle
Storyteller (10:50:08 PM): "I'll assume that you're the ones that have been sent to help with our little Bogey Man problem, yes?" the haggard mage says.
Alexis (10:50:12 PM): "That's quite alright, Mr...ahh..." Lione trails off, sitting down in one of the chairs quietly and shrugging off the messenger bag.
Kentarou (10:50:16 PM): "...Didn't we all come in seperate rooms?" The question felt dumb as soon as he asked it...
Brian (10:50:43 PM): "Four doors, one room. Simple."
Storyteller (10:50:55 PM): "And a bit of magic to redirect them all here."
Storyteller (10:51:04 PM): "I'm Mr. Arroyo."
Kentarou (10:51:27 PM): "Yeah, I suppose... It's nice to meet you, Mr. Arroyo..."
Storyteller (10:51:29 PM): "If you decide to claim the bounties on the beast, I'm the one you'll want to talk to."
Paige (10:51:50 PM): She briefly rose her voice, dispelling the normalcy when she spoke up. "The rooms are of rhte same purpose and hte same group..boundaries and distance collapsing to meet the purpose of a
single perrogative..."
Brian (10:51:56 PM): "There's no beast I can't hunt down."
Paige (10:52:08 PM): (Think River from Firefly if you're familiar with it, also, Incogneto presence dhas been dispelled)
Storyteller (10:52:34 PM): "Well, Mr. Soyze will pay you hansomely if you can prove it's destruction. As will Mr. Morales."
Kentarou (10:52:38 PM): Kenji wasn't there for the bounty, just for the opportunity to stop the thing. "I just want to help... Where did... never mind. Hi there."
Kentarou (10:52:56 PM): Ken waved to Paige, who appeared out of thin air.
Paige (10:53:11 PM): (It's more like you just realised that I'm worht noticing)
Alexis (10:53:18 PM): Lione, meanwhile, is quietly scanning the other's clothing and other arcrutaments for indications of their nature and origins, while listening politely to the elder mage.
Paige (10:53:22 PM): (Incogneto presence makes me overlookable and borring-seeming)
Kentarou (10:53:55 PM): ((Exactly, so you weren't there before, heh.))
Paige (10:53:59 PM): (Ok n.n)
Storyteller (10:54:29 PM): "Have you been told anything of the creature, or will I have to enlighten you all?" He smooths his pants and long sleeve shirt.
Brian (10:55:04 PM): "It's been eating...things." Brian wasn't big on words.
Storyteller (10:55:17 PM): "Heh. Understatment."
Kentarou (10:55:20 PM): "Yeah, that's all I know. It's eating things, us specifically."
Alexis (10:55:33 PM): "Anything you can contribute would be helpful, I expect. A...detailed description wasn't really provided."
Paige (10:55:36 PM): "So the wills who work in shadow have ot find the thing that roams in the dark and nips at the heels...and they will be paid? Paind in what? Payment cna be in many way,s we could be paid in
Paige (10:55:37 PM): gold, paid in cash, payed in kind for harming it with a knife at our throat, payed in knowledge, payed in trade..." She rambles on more and more quietly
Storyteller (10:56:08 PM): "It's killed many of us, but more spirts than anything else. Mr. Morales will likely teach you, and Mr. Soze will probably pay in money."
Storyteller (10:56:59 PM): "And it's a hulking, massive brute of a man, stained with blood, and smelling of death itself. You shall never forget it's presence if you meet it and live."
Alexis (10:57:32 PM): Lione blinks, then murmurs, "Lovely."
Storyteller (10:57:48 PM): "We don't know what exactly drives it. The first victim was an elder vampire; he was found mixed in a jar of sea water.
Paige (10:57:50 PM): She tilted her head and watched the man with a vacant expression on her face
Kentarou (10:58:43 PM): Kenji gives the very strange girl a sideways glance. "...Vampires? Not surprised, I guess." He crosses his arms, wondering what other kinds of creatures he'll hear about before the day is through.
Storyteller (10:58:53 PM): "The accepted kill count has been 11 mages, one archmaster, 4 or so werewolves, a vampire, 40 spirits, 10 posessed humans, and recently one abyssal creature."
Kentarou (10:59:11 PM): "So no regular humans at all?"
Storyteller (10:59:21 PM): "None that we can prove."
Kentarou (10:59:32 PM): He nods.
Paige (10:59:34 PM): "thing thing that hunts in dark could hunt of rhte shadow, what if it's diet could be altered?"
Storyteller (11:00:01 PM): "The only recent regular deaths have happened near the coast or at sea, so we don't know if that counts as the sea water that it normally leaves."
Paige (11:00:13 PM): "If the thing hunted for abyssal manifestations as it hungers for spirits, the blight blossoms beautifully into a blessing and a boon..."
Storyteller (11:00:59 PM): "I belive that on the occasion when it killed the manifestations, it was after me. It only killed them becuase they were more dangerous than I."
Kentarou (11:01:41 PM): Kenji's eyes widened. "So... it did THIS to you? We've got to take it down."
Paige (11:01:55 PM): She muttered further, just loud enough to hear. "And the bloom betrays, becoming a belated blight bearing blindness..."
Storyteller (11:02:56 PM): "Heh. It Pyramid Headed the two manifestations. Well, that's what it sounded like."
Storyteller (11:04:20 PM): "I was already blinded when it started fighitng the manefestations."
Brian (11:05:12 PM): Brian was quiet, but he nodded at this. "It hungers. If it didn't eat, it would not survive. As such..."
Brian (11:05:24 PM): Equan spoke up for him. [IT CAN BE KILLED]
Storyteller (11:05:48 PM): "We know it can be killed. Keeping it that way, ah that is the crux of the problem."
Brian (11:06:14 PM): "There are things worse than death. Many of them would love having it be a new guest."
Alexis (11:06:31 PM): "I presume it reformed much like a spirit does?"
Kentarou (11:06:40 PM): "It comes back? Err, has come back, before?"
Paige (11:06:43 PM): "The problem proliferates upon itself, preventing the passing and continuing to provoke us?"
Kentarou (11:07:04 PM): "Yeah, what the alliteration said."
Storyteller (11:07:05 PM): "We don't know. When it was killed, not an hour passed but it was seen again and had killed part of a werewolf pack."
Paige (11:07:15 PM): (Lol -high five for spards-)
Kentarou (11:07:24 PM): "Umm.. did it run into the Shadow or something?"
Kentarou (11:07:28 PM): (High five. <3)
Paige (11:07:50 PM): "Many manifestations of the same enemy?"
Storyteller (11:07:56 PM): "The reports we have are conflicting."
Storyteller (11:09:31 PM): "And we don't know if there is more than one of the thing. It's never showed up as more than one, or even in more than one place in short periods of time."
Brian (11:09:54 PM): "...why sea water?"
Storyteller (11:10:15 PM): " I wish I knew."
Paige (11:10:53 PM): "Perhaps the first laid many eggs of smaller children, or bore a sackload of unborn cousidns which await offshore and hatch at sporadic intervals to surface on land and feed?"
Storyteller (11:10:57 PM): "It has no other links to water."
Storyteller (11:11:31 PM): "No, it's normal sea water. Just like the water about a mile off shore."
Kentarou (11:12:34 PM): "Hmm... Were there any other survivors of it's attacks?"
Storyteller (11:13:05 PM): "Many. Most of them observers or otherwise not attacking the beast."
Alexis (11:13:11 PM): "It would be much easier to determine what manner of creature this thing is if we had the oppurtunity to examine the location of a recent attack..."
Alexis (11:13:45 PM): The teenager leaves unsaid that doing that would most likely be dangerous.
Storyteller (11:13:50 PM): "If you wish, examine this room. The only things that have changed are the bottle and glasses."
Brian (11:14:15 PM): Brian looked about. "Who had died?"
Storyteller (11:14:22 PM): "The manifestations."
Alexis (11:14:57 PM): Lione murmurs under her breath, casting a spell to expand her perceptions. (casting the Mind mage sight variant.)
Storyteller (11:15:14 PM): *OK*
OnlineHost (11:15:24 PM): Alexis rolled 5 10-sided dice: 4 1 9 10 7
OnlineHost (11:15:33 PM): Alexis rolled 1 10-sided die: 10
OnlineHost (11:15:42 PM): Alexis rolled 1 10-sided die: 1
Kentarou (11:15:52 PM): ((Casting Second Sight and Spirit's Tongue, to examine the Shadow of this place.))
OnlineHost (11:16:08 PM): Kentarou rolled 7 10-sided dice: 10 7 5 3 5 5 2
Paige (11:16:15 PM): "Did it destroy your leg?"
OnlineHost (11:16:21 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Storyteller (11:16:26 PM): "Yes. And one eye."
OnlineHost (11:16:31 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 8
Kentarou (11:16:43 PM): ((2 on my Spirit Tongue spell.))
OnlineHost (11:16:49 PM): Kentarou rolled 5 10-sided dice: 10 5 7 8 6
Alexis (11:16:55 PM): The young mage stands up, turning quietly and taking in the patterns in the resonance of the place, seeing and tasting the emotions within.
OnlineHost (11:16:56 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 3
Paige (11:17:06 PM): (Could I use forensic gaze to examine what caused a ptach of tissue to die?)
Kentarou (11:17:07 PM): ((2 on my Second Sight spell.))
Kentarou (11:17:15 PM): ((Now at my sustained spell limit.))
Kentarou (11:17:59 PM): Kenji crosses his arms and stares through the fabric of the world, seeing more than mortals were allowed to see, the secret world of spirits. If there were any nearby, he'd see them, and speak to
them.
Storyteller (11:18:12 PM): DS, you can feel the terror of the elder mage. Sparda the gauntlet is normal for a weak hallow.
Storyteller (11:18:18 PM): Nacht, go ahead.
Alexis (11:18:29 PM): (ok, resonance perception...rolling Int+Occ)
Paige (11:18:35 PM): (Actually, I've got somthign different first)
OnlineHost (11:18:39 PM): Alexis rolled 6 10-sided dice: 8 5 2 3 10 4
Storyteller (11:18:42 PM): There's not much there spiritually.
OnlineHost (11:18:50 PM): Alexis rolled 1 10-sided die: 8
Paige (11:18:58 PM): She spent a few seconds, muttering quickly, the strange way she had a habbit of doing. (Spending a turnh chanting in atlantean)
OnlineHost (11:19:20 PM): Paige rolled 3 10-sided dice: 10 7 5
OnlineHost (11:19:26 PM): Paige rolled 1 10-sided die: 2
Paige (11:20:05 PM): (Soul Marks, does he have any derrangements, made a Soul Stone, or have anythign else freaky going on with his soul?)
Storyteller (11:20:10 PM): DS, it's really odd, the resonance of the place has been warped to hell. You could try and guess what Arcana were used.
Alexis (11:20:28 PM): (gonna work on that)
Storyteller (11:20:49 PM): Nacht, he has some minor spiritual damage that seems to coincide with the missing eye and crushed leg.
Storyteller (11:21:18 PM): DS, as best a guess as you can manage is some death and space magic.
Alexis (11:21:25 PM): "Twisted and torn like nothing I've seen before..."
Paige (11:21:33 PM): "The thing that nips at the heels gnashes its teeth and rips at the ego, slating it's thirst on the soul that ebbs and flows form the wound..."
Alexis (11:21:54 PM): "Did anyone involved in the fight here employ the arcanums of Death or Space?"
Alexis (11:22:19 PM): (would I be able to get more information if I switched to space perception?)
Storyteller (11:22:35 PM): "I used Space to banish it, but not Death." (Possibly)
Paige (11:22:55 PM): "It was the Death"
Paige (11:23:36 PM): "Death Magic touches the soul and hurts it. You said it had the scent of death on it, and only somthign with the touch of stygia could've done this to your soul"
Alexis (11:23:38 PM): "The resonance of this place has been deeply influenced by Death...perhaps using that form of perception would tell us more..."
Paige (11:24:13 PM): (Dropping Dark Matter, raising Grim Sight)
OnlineHost (11:24:20 PM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 3 3
Paige (11:24:25 PM): (But it fails)
Storyteller (11:24:28 PM): (WB)
Paige (11:24:56 PM): She stared dreamily outwards, gathering her strength for another try at things internally
Brian (11:25:18 PM): (there we go)
Paige (11:25:37 PM): (Second attempt the following turn Arispe?)
Storyteller (11:25:42 PM): (Sure)
OnlineHost (11:25:48 PM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 6 10
OnlineHost (11:25:53 PM): Paige rolled 1 10-sided die: 9
Storyteller (11:26:06 PM): (Nacht, roll Gnosis+stealth)
Paige (11:26:08 PM): (There we go, Grim Sight up, inspecting the room with Death Sight, now 1 over spell tolerance again)
Kentarou (11:26:19 PM): "This place is really strangely dead on the spirit side of things... I'm going to look into the other side."
OnlineHost (11:26:33 PM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 7 7
Kentarou (11:26:34 PM): ((Dropping Second Sight, raising up Pierce the Veil.))
Storyteller (11:26:46 PM): (Sparda, do that too, but add two dice)
Storyteller (11:26:55 PM): (If you suceed at the rote).
Brian (11:27:08 PM): (I'm gonna use a rote now. Gonna use Sense Life)
OnlineHost (11:27:10 PM): Kentarou rolled 5 10-sided dice: 4 1 7 7 10
OnlineHost (11:27:17 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 2
Kentarou (11:27:30 PM): ((1 success. Roll Gnosis + Stealth, you say?))
Storyteller (11:27:41 PM): Nacht, you sense overwhelming death and chaos in the wake of the being's path.
Paige (11:27:53 PM): (What being?)
Storyteller (11:27:56 PM): Sparda, Gnosis+Stealth+2dice.
OnlineHost (11:28:06 PM): Kentarou rolled 3 10-sided dice: 6 7 2
Kentarou (11:28:09 PM): (0)
Storyteller (11:28:21 PM): (The Bogey Man. It literally leaves a trail of death and chaos when it's here.)
Paige (11:28:37 PM): (K, not here right now as far as I know?)
Storyteller (11:28:43 PM): (Nope.)
Brian (11:28:48 PM): (...forgot the roll for Sense Life)
Paige (11:28:54 PM): "IT walks in trails of void and entropy...we could follow it..."
Kentarou (11:28:56 PM): ((Is there anything on the other side of the Gauntlet in the area?))
Storyteller (11:29:56 PM): Bits of dissolving spirits. What looks like a gaping hole in creation. Some broken wards. Not much else.
Storyteller (11:30:28 PM): (Raiden, roll?)
Storyteller (11:30:59 PM): (INt+Med+Life)
Storyteller (11:31:21 PM): The hole is in the middle of the far wall, by the way.
Kentarou (11:31:49 PM): "Ugh... that's not good... All the spirits in the area are just dead, falling apart. Some broken wards... and a hole... it's in the middle of the far wall over there. I've never seen anything like it..."
OnlineHost (11:31:50 PM): Brian rolled 7 10-sided dice: 2 7 7 9 5 4 7
Brian (11:31:57 PM): (4 suxx)
Paige (11:32:05 PM): (1)
Paige (11:32:11 PM): (8 and up in nWoD)
Brian (11:32:39 PM): ((Dammit, WoD))
Storyteller (11:32:49 PM): (Roll Gnosis+Stealth)
OnlineHost (11:33:09 PM): Brian rolled 3 10-sided dice: 7 7 2
Brian (11:33:18 PM): ((FUCK YOU AND YOUR 8s WOD))
Kentarou (11:33:48 PM): Kenji turns to the old mage. "Sir, did you cast any wards in here during the fight? Or open any portals? Specifically, ones in the Shadow?"
Storyteller (11:33:56 PM): Well, you can tell that there's something horribly wrong about the man's wounds.
Storyteller (11:34:20 PM): "No, all the wards are old, and I just teleported the thing into the bay."
Brian (11:34:42 PM): Brian turned to look at the wounds in the mage's body. "...sir. Who did you have look after your wounds?"
Alexis (11:34:48 PM): "Lovely. Did it leave a sign? Perhaps 'come into my parlor'" The teenager mutters to no one in perticular. "How did it get here?"
Storyteller (11:35:46 PM): "Sadly, I've had most of the people I trust look at them. None have been of much help. And it seemed to just appear after breaking all the wards at once."
Brian (11:36:12 PM): "There's something...wrong with them."
Kentarou (11:36:16 PM): "Well... I think it left it's door open."
Brian (11:36:48 PM): "I can't put my finger on it...but there's something wrong with it." Brian kneeled down, his walking stick laid down on the ground beside him.
Brian (11:36:57 PM): His eyes stared intently at the wounds.
Storyteller (11:37:09 PM): "OH! If it helps any, it constantly makes some strange noise. Something like Zbhr."
Storyteller (11:37:48 PM): "Did it now?"
Kentarou (11:38:12 PM): "Yeah, there is a gaping hole in the Shadow, set up right against the far wall..."
Storyteller (11:38:30 PM): "Heh. Strange."
Kentarou (11:38:53 PM): "...I woner if we could follow it? Maybe it leads to it's hidey hole?
Paige (11:39:43 PM): "The trail, it leavesone in it's wake..."
Storyteller (11:40:15 PM): "Hrm. Let me see if I can get a look at it." As he tries casting the rote, everyone can feel somthing going wrong part way through. Then the man's eye pops rather loudly. He goes down yelling and
clutching his eye.
Brian (11:40:46 PM): "...y'know, when I tell you that there's something wrong with your wounds, let's listen to the big man in the fur robes next time."
Storyteller (11:41:10 PM): "Didn't happen last time. AHRGH."
Paige (11:41:14 PM): She sighed and shook her head a little bit. "The soul is the base of magic, and yours is torn asunder"
Kentarou (11:41:48 PM): "Ah!" Kenji leans down to help the man, cringing at his eye... "SHIT. Hold on sir!" Kenji puts his hands on either side of the man's face, channeling healing power into him, chanting in Atlantean to
oil the works of the spell.
Kentarou (11:42:29 PM): ((Casting Healing Heart with an Atlantean boost... It's a vulgar spell if I'm healing Agg damage.))
Storyteller (11:42:43 PM): (Vulgar)
Storyteller (11:43:01 PM): (And if you suceed, roll Gnosis+Stealth+2)
Kentarou (11:43:56 PM): Kenji's atleantean was very rhythmic, with a Japanese inflection to it. A ring of glowing kanji filled the air, which even Kenji himself couldn't read, as greenish healing energy sank into the old
mage's flesh.
OnlineHost (11:44:14 PM): Kentarou rolled 9 10-sided dice: 9 7 10 7 1 8 6 7 2
OnlineHost (11:44:22 PM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 9
Kentarou (11:44:32 PM): ((Heh, 4 levels of healing.))
Storyteller (11:45:15 PM): The eye reassembles in a sickly looking mix of aqueous humors and blood. It's back, but not useable.
Storyteller (11:45:40 PM): The leg is partially healed, but still twised and useless.
Alexis (11:45:57 PM): The teenager has been pointedly examining the far wall while the man's injuries were repaired.
Storyteller (11:46:16 PM): (Sparda, now roll Gnosis+Stealth+2)
Kentarou (11:46:22 PM): "Um, that's the best I can do right now."
OnlineHost (11:46:29 PM): Kentarou rolled 3 10-sided dice: 4 9 2
Kentarou (11:46:32 PM): (1)
Storyteller (11:47:09 PM): Sparda, you feel like a group of Morris dancers are performing over your grave.
Storyteller (11:47:23 PM): DS, the wall, on the material side is fine.
Kentarou (11:47:47 PM): Ken wrapped his arms around himself and SHIVERED. "...That was fucking wierd..."
Storyteller (11:48:00 PM): The resonance is fucked up beyond recognition.
Kentarou (11:48:26 PM): "Just felt like someone was dancing on my grave... and not dancing very well, either..."
Paige (11:48:41 PM): "And...why are we supposed to deal with this abomination?"
Brian (11:48:54 PM): "Because it's eating our kind."
Paige (11:49:06 PM): "We seem ill-chosen to deal with it..."
Brian (11:49:06 PM): "And if it keeps up, it'll go after the Sleepers, which I will not allow."
Storyteller (11:49:12 PM): "I've been asking myself Mr. BlueAgave that too."
Kentarou (11:49:24 PM): "It's the right thing to do. I'll risk my life to stop if, if it's this FUCKED UP."
Storyteller (11:49:40 PM): "But, the official explanation is probably something about a new perspective or some such shit."
Storyteller (11:49:49 PM): "Er. Excuse my language."
Alexis (11:50:31 PM): "When those that are suited are spent, those that are available must serve as best they able. Additionally...well, the less people to share limited resources..." Lione blinks, frowning.
Paige (11:51:16 PM): "The information just isn't sufficient"
Paige (11:51:29 PM): "The spirits, the Manifestations, the Vampire, and the Mage have so little to do with each other"
Brian (11:51:31 PM): "Then we'll go find some."
Storyteller (11:51:32 PM): "Finally, a third person agrees with me."
Paige (11:51:44 PM): "The seawater has little connection to tie itself together"
Storyteller (11:51:49 PM): "Don't forget the werewolves.
Paige (11:51:52 PM): "This thing tears at the soul in addition to the body"
Paige (11:52:08 PM): "The werewolves have an innate connection to the spirits, I don't forget."
Brian (11:52:10 PM): "It is STILL a beast. It can be hunted. Sea water has a connection. Otherwise it wouldn't BE there."
Brian (11:52:33 PM): "It most likely comes from the sea, or somewhere close by."
Kentarou (11:52:47 PM): Kenji shrugs. "So we collect what else we can and go for it. Instinct can fill in where knowledge doesn't, right? That's how fighting works, that's how dancing works."
Storyteller (11:52:50 PM): "Well, if we assume that the two recent Sleeper murders are not it's work, then the connection is that everything is supernatural."
Paige (11:53:00 PM): "Logically, shouldn't local vampires be handling this?"
Alexis (11:53:06 PM): "Could it be a manifestation of a mage's inner rage, or something of that nature, wrought into spirit form?"
Paige (11:53:44 PM): "As Mages, we rely on our souls to preserve us. Damage to the soul tears away the root of a Mage's power. This thing partitions off your soul as easily as your flesh."
Storyteller (11:53:46 PM): "They tried. It cost them an elder in what was the quickest kill of all of them."
Storyteller (11:55:02 PM): Everyone can hear and feel a low buzzing in the air.
Alexis (11:55:09 PM): "Its entirely possible that the combination of powers posessed by this thing renders the abilites it uses to kill especially effective aga...what is that?"
Kentarou (11:55:27 PM): Kenji takes a lower stance, looking around. "Wha?"
Brian (11:55:51 PM): Brian stood up from where he was kneeling, his large frame picking up his walking staff. "I don't know...but I don't think it wants to be an enemy, if you catch my drift." The mad russian's hand
was already beginning a crackle.
Kentarou (11:56:23 PM): Kenji looks around into the Shadow, for anything on that side approaching.
Storyteller (11:56:47 PM): Everyone can see a small hole opening up in the east wall.
Storyteller (11:57:02 PM): The buzzing is louder now.
Brian (11:57:03 PM): "Another teleportation."
OnlineHost (11:57:17 PM): Paige rolled 15 6-sided dice: 2 4 2 6 5 5 5 2 5 3 4 2 3 3 6
Alexis (11:57:17 PM): "I wonder if it could hear us talking about it?"
Kentarou (11:57:22 PM): "Shit... I think it might be IT."
Paige (11:57:24 PM): (gah, wrong roll)
OnlineHost (11:57:31 PM): Paige rolled 6 10-sided dice: 6 8 3 9 8 2
Brian (11:57:32 PM): "Why the buzzing?"
Paige (11:57:39 PM): (Incogneto presence)
Storyteller (11:57:52 PM): The hole is larger. You can see an angry eye with black pupils staring out.
Storyteller (11:58:09 PM): MRGMRRRMRMR!
Storyteller (11:58:34 PM): A closed water bottle falls out of the hole.
Kentarou (11:58:40 PM): ((Dropping the Mage Sight Spells))
Brian (11:58:47 PM): Brian's staff came up high and held in front of him, Equan taking up a flight pattern around his head. "...water?"
Kentarou (11:58:55 PM): "...In a BOTTLE?"
Storyteller (11:59:54 PM): The hole's getting bigger, you can half of the thing now. It looks like a man in a black coat and shirt.
Alexis (12:00:03 AM): Alexis backs away from it, chanting under her breath, her silver key out and spinning in her hand on its chain as her fingers twitch, tugging the strands that form her perception of fate.
(Exceptional luck)
OnlineHost (12:00:12 AM): Alexis rolled 8 10-sided dice: 6 4 2 9 2 2 2 3
Storyteller (12:00:16 AM): It's face is hideous and angry. It roars at you all.
Kentarou (12:00:21 AM): ((Casting Transform Self to give myself tiger claws...))
Alexis (12:00:27 AM): (well fuck you too Plentimon)
Storyteller (12:00:30 AM): FD MH!
Paige (12:00:33 AM): (Dropping Mage Sight)
Kentarou (12:00:39 AM): ((Spending one Mana to mitigate Paradox, this is fucking Vulgar.))
OnlineHost (12:01:00 AM): Kentarou rolled 5 10-sided dice: 5 8 5 5 5
Kentarou (12:01:06 AM): (HAH! 1.)
Alexis (12:01:10 AM): "I believe it just said "feed me". Joy"
Storyteller (12:01:18 AM): The thing crawls part way out of the hole, but something's keeping it from getting all the way out.
Storyteller (12:01:39 AM): You may now make attacks.
Kentarou (12:01:59 AM): Kenji steps in front of the others, weaving his arms in a martial arts kata and swaying to a primal beat as his hands morph to include daggerlike tiger's claws extending from his hands.
Brian (12:02:06 AM): Brian pointed the sharpened point of his staff at the man. "Awfully civilized looking for a roaring man..." [BRIAN! WE MUST ATTACK] "Fine, Equan. We shall."
Storyteller (12:02:11 AM): Mr. Arroyo is casting a banishing rote.
Kentarou (12:02:40 AM): ((Initiative?))
Alexis (12:02:59 AM): ((that would probably be appropriate, I would think...))
Storyteller (12:03:08 AM): (Indeed.)
OnlineHost (12:03:10 AM): Paige rolled 2 10-sided dice: 7 6
OnlineHost (12:03:16 AM): Paige rolled 1 10-sided die: 8
OnlineHost (12:03:31 AM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 10
Kentarou (12:03:41 AM): ((Heeheehee, initiative is 17.))
Paige (12:03:47 AM): (I've got 16)
OnlineHost (12:04:19 AM): Storyteller rolled 6 10-sided dice: 1 10 4 1 4 1
OnlineHost (12:04:33 AM): Alexis rolled 1 10-sided die: 10
OnlineHost (12:04:39 AM): Brian rolled 5 10-sided dice: 7 6 8 3 2
Brian (12:04:43 AM): ((1))
Alexis (12:04:48 AM): ((16)
Alexis (12:05:04 AM): (its roll 1 and add Dex+Wits, IIRC)
OnlineHost (12:05:15 AM): Storyteller rolled 1 10-sided die: 4
Kentarou (12:05:17 AM): ((Wits + Composure))
Storyteller (12:05:28 AM): (Yes, the other roll was for a lot of things.)
Alexis (12:05:56 AM): (hah, we're both wrong. Its Dex+Composure. I just looked it up)
Alexis (12:06:11 AM): (wits+composure is preception and ambush detection)
Kentarou (12:06:23 AM): ((Ahhh, okay.))
Alexis (12:06:29 AM): (so Roll+dex+composure)
Storyteller (12:06:33 AM): (8 for Mr. Arroyo and 20 for unknown thing 1)
Alexis (12:06:39 AM): (Well fuck us)
OnlineHost (12:06:42 AM): Brian rolled 1 10-sided die: 10
Brian (12:06:46 AM): ((14))
Kentarou (12:06:52 AM): ((Oh... that's what I used for my Initiative calculation anyway. XD))
Kentarou (12:07:03 AM): ((No reroll for me.))
Alexis (12:07:17 AM): (it doesn't matter for me, since all of my relevant ones are 3s anyway)
Storyteller (12:07:49 AM): Something crawls out of the hole and spears the Bogey Man. It seems to have little appreciable affect.
Storyteller (12:08:20 AM): Sparda?
Kentarou (12:09:49 AM): Ken darts forward with a low punch, stabbing forward with his brand new claws, karate-style.
Kentarou (12:10:14 AM): ((8- its defense)
Storyteller (12:10:29 AM): It's currently Def 0.
OnlineHost (12:10:42 AM): Kentarou rolled 8 10-sided dice: 8 2 10 1 4 10 1 5
OnlineHost (12:10:47 AM): Kentarou rolled 2 10-sided dice: 6 8
Kentarou (12:10:52 AM): (4L Damage.)
Storyteller (12:12:07 AM): Your claws rip into it, drawing blood, but it doesn't seem to notice your attack.
Storyteller (12:12:46 AM): Nacht?
Alexis (12:12:53 AM): (and me)
Storyteller (12:12:59 AM): And You.
Paige (12:13:06 AM): (Chanting in Atlantean in the background, all un-noticable)
Storyteller (12:14:40 AM): DS?
Alexis (12:15:06 AM): Alexis, meanwhile, is focusing all of her will and negative emotions into a single burning point...and then with a vicious grin and a flick of her key and awakend will, she flings it at the
beast.(Need to know its resolve)
Alexis (12:15:17 AM): (also, spending WP)
Storyteller (12:15:42 AM): It's got a resolve of 7.
Alexis (12:15:51 AM): (joy. I have 1 die)
OnlineHost (12:16:00 AM): Alexis rolled 1 10-sided die: 4
Alexis (12:16:39 AM): She gasps in suprise as her spell simply bounces off the fortress of the things demonic will.
Storyteller (12:16:47 AM): For all the good your attack did, you might have just thown the key at ti.
Storyteller (12:17:23 AM): Raiden, as you act, the portal starts shifting away from the material and several of those things appear.
Storyteller (12:18:04 AM): They spear the bogey man, for little effect.
Storyteller (12:18:05 AM): What do you do?
Paige (12:18:26 AM): (Guys, I have to go)
Brian (12:18:38 AM): ((Brian is gonna do what he does best before trying his own spear))
Paige (12:18:52 AM): (I'll see you all another time, apply this roll to Raiden's spear on itiative 16 next round)
OnlineHost (12:18:57 AM): Paige rolled 8 10-sided dice: 7 2 8 10 7 3 4 2
OnlineHost (12:19:04 AM): Paige rolled 1 10-sided die: 3
Paige (12:19:19 AM): (It has 9 again for its next 2 rolls after init. 16 next turn)
Brian (12:24:28 AM): ((Gonna attack with the spear end of my staff.))
Brian (12:24:35 AM): ((What was the bonus that Nacht gave to my attack?))
Storyteller (12:25:10 AM): Next turn you get nine again.
Brian (12:25:59 AM): Brian's staff of petrified wood, gold, and rustic steel twirled in his fingers, his leather boots leaping from the ground to spear into the chest of the...thing in the portal.
OnlineHost (12:26:02 AM): Brian rolled 7 10-sided dice: 7 3 10 6 2 3 5
Brian (12:26:07 AM): ((2))
Storyteller (12:26:50 AM): Bashing or lethal?
Brian (12:27:13 AM): ((Lethal. It's a spear)) Storyteller (12:27:44 AM): The beast roars defiance at your petty blows.
Storyteller (12:28:13 AM): Arroyo continues his banishing spell.
Storyteller (12:28:55 AM): And just as some more creatures are about to crawl out of the protal, it fades wholly from the material, leaving only you, Arroyo, and the Bogey Man.
Storyteller (12:29:05 AM): Next round.
Storyteller (12:30:20 AM): Sparda?
Kentarou (12:31:57 AM): Unwilling to relent, Kenji lashes forward again with a growl deep in his throat.
Kentarou (12:32:00 AM): ((Defense?))
Storyteller (12:32:06 AM): Still 0.
OnlineHost (12:32:53 AM): Kentarou rolled 8 10-sided dice: 2 1 2 8 1 1 1 10
OnlineHost (12:33:02 AM): Kentarou rolled 1 10-sided die: 8
Kentarou (12:33:08 AM): ((3 L))
Kentarou (12:33:18 AM): "HAH! Die, monster!"
Storyteller (12:33:52 AM): More blood gushes, this time from it's neck, but it's wholly ignorant of your attacks.
Kentarou (12:35:00 AM): "I don't think it's body is the problem, shit..."
Storyteller (12:35:10 AM): DS?
Alexis (12:36:13 AM): Alexis backs away slowly, watching it with her mage sight, "Its mind is incredibly resistant." She braces herself to dive away from it, if nessecary.
Storyteller (12:36:58 AM): DS, roll Gnosis+Occult+Time.
Alexis (12:37:58 AM): (don't have time <.&lt
Storyteller (12:37:59 AM): Then Raiden.
Storyteller (12:38:02 AM): Ah.
Alexis (12:38:16 AM): (Mind Space Fate)
Alexis (12:38:29 AM): (roll Gnosis + occult anyway?)
Storyteller (12:38:29 AM): Then just Gnosis+Occult.
Storyteller (12:38:32 AM): Yes.
OnlineHost (12:38:38 AM): Alexis rolled 6 10-sided dice: 6 5 6 2 3 2
Storyteller (12:39:19 AM): You almost see somthing attached to the thing, but no, it's gone now.
Brian (12:41:57 AM): Brian's hands tightened on his walking staff, feeling it lightened and sharpened due to the aid of his companion mage.
OnlineHost (12:42:02 AM): Brian rolled 7 10-sided dice: 1 7 3 3 3 2 9
OnlineHost (12:42:09 AM): Brian rolled 1 10-sided die: 5
Brian (12:42:20 AM): ((1...fuck you too, Plentimon))
Storyteller (12:42:33 AM): The blow glances off the beast.
Storyteller (12:42:54 AM): Now, roll Gnosis+Occult-1
OnlineHost (12:43:06 AM): Brian rolled 3 10-sided dice: 10 7 7
Brian (12:43:12 AM): ((1))
Storyteller (12:43:25 AM): Reroll that ten.
OnlineHost (12:43:34 AM): Brian rolled 1 10-sided die: 10
OnlineHost (12:43:40 AM): Brian rolled 1 10-sided die: 2
Brian (12:43:50 AM): ((2))
Storyteller (12:44:41 AM): You can see nine coffins attached to the thing, one of which has the symbol for Prime, and another the symbol of Fate on it.
Brian (12:45:20 AM): Brian's eyes were filled with the site. Nine coffins. Nine arcanes. "...strange."
Storyteller (12:46:06 AM): Arroyo's spell fails against the beast.
OnlineHost (12:46:28 AM): Storyteller rolled 9 10-sided dice: 7 1 1 7 3 1 6 10 3
OnlineHost (12:46:36 AM): Storyteller rolled 1 10-sided die: 3
Storyteller (12:47:03 AM): The thing gives out a powerful roar that seems to bind Arroyo in place.
Storyteller (12:47:08 AM): Sparda?
Kentarou (12:51:58 AM): Ken leaps over to Arroyo, who was currently incapacitated, picking him up so they could find a place to regroup. There had to be some way to harm it, normal attacks weren't working at all.
"Any ideas!?"
Brian (12:54:13 AM): "There are coffins attached to it. Each marked with a different school of Arcanum."
Alexis (12:54:57 AM): "That suggests something...what though?"
Kentarou (12:54:59 AM): ((I thought only two of them had symbols on them?))
Storyteller (12:55:15 AM): (He only saw two of them)
Kentarou (12:55:21 AM): (Ah, okay.)
Brian (12:55:21 AM): ((I only got 2 suxx))
Storyteller (12:55:39 AM): He knows what two of them are, but not the other 7.
Alexis (12:58:13 AM): Alezis stares at it, wondering why Brian can see something she can't. Her mind races.."nine coffins...nine arcana...nine coffins..."
Storyteller (12:58:35 AM): (10 arcana)
Brian (12:58:48 AM): ((One is missing.))
Alexis (12:59:18 AM): (Whoops, slipped into oMage mode)
Alexis (12:59:25 AM): "Which one is missing? "
Storyteller (12:59:31 AM): (It's alright.)
Brian (1:01:29 AM): "I don't know. I saw Prime and Fate."
Kentarou (1:03:56 AM): "Puzzle it out fast or we're running!"
Brian (1:05:06 AM): "If we could figure out which one is missing..."
Alexis (1:05:37 AM): "It might tell us SOMETHING. I have no idea what." (Oh, to be a sphinx already...)
Alexis (1:05:50 AM): (Can I get some sort of roll to spare my poor brain?)
Storyteller (1:06:26 AM): (Int)
Alexis (1:06:40 AM): (Just int?)
OnlineHost (1:06:53 AM): Alexis rolled 3 10-sided dice: 3 1 1
Alexis (1:07:00 AM): (I am a blathering idiot)
Storyteller (1:07:32 AM): You know that you can't figure it out when the thing is rushing at you, murder in it's eyes!
Alexis (1:08:12 AM): "I need time to think! And more information!" Alexis whimpers as she scampers in the direction of an exit
Storyteller (1:08:30 AM): Defence, Sparda?
Kentarou (1:09:52 AM): ((5))
OnlineHost (1:10:22 AM): Storyteller rolled 7 10-sided dice: 8 5 2 10 3 3 7
OnlineHost (1:10:31 AM): Storyteller rolled 1 10-sided die: 2
Storyteller (1:11:06 AM): It pushes DS aside, and that gives you just enought time to keep it from killng Mr. Arroyo.
Storyteller (1:12:28 AM): Still, he has some hand prints on his neck now.
Kentarou (1:12:58 AM): Kenji grabs the old man and starts running, following Alexis out. "Run! We can think up something later!"
Brian (1:14:00 AM): Brian takes his walking stick, waiting for the familiar weight of Equan to land on his shoulder before following them out of the room.
Storyteller (1:14:20 AM): The beast roars, but doesn't follow you out of the room.
Alexis (1:14:53 AM): Alexis squeeks in fear for a moment as her bag gets caught on the door, but then it falls free and she goes tumbling through.
Storyteller (1:16:31 AM): Outside, everything seems oddly quiet.