October 27, 2018 10:27PMJessica: Lucas is secial and Justin doesn't know anything
October 27, 2018 10:29PMGM (GM): BOX
October 27, 2018 10:29PMEve K.: box!
October 27, 2018 10:29PMJessica: box!
October 27, 2018 10:30PMDante: rolling 5d10>8!
= 0 Successes
o no
I tried to box but I failed
October 27, 2018 10:31PMGM (GM): fking justin holding us up
October 27, 2018 10:31PMEve K.: :O
October 27, 2018 10:31PMJustin: box
The Almighty Box: Mage The Awakening: Gates to Atlantis - Episode 33
October 27, 2018 10:32PMGM (GM): Eve K.: "If he doesn't believe us, we could have him fire Jessica, and then we can scan her mind for anything missing that a surface test may have overlooked, and then she would be perfectly clear to go home."
Justin: Justin leans back and nods and downs the rest of his drink.
Jessica: "I'll be waiting."
Kurtis Kerner pats down his jeans hoping to hide the coffee stain
Kurtis Kerner slides off the desk
October 27, 2018 10:34PMGM (GM): Are we done talking to Jessica? Going to see the boss? Or is there more we want to do in the room?
October 27, 2018 10:34PMJessica: (I think everyone was about to go see boss)
October 27, 2018 10:35PMJustin: Justin gestures with his hand and wills the coffee stain out of Kurt's pants and onto the floor. rolling 6d10>8!
= 2 Successes
October 27, 2018 10:35PMJessica: (lol his pants pee coffee)
Eve K. tilts her head, expression thoughtful. After a moment she blinks a few times her eyes bleeding to white. (attempted death sight)
October 27, 2018 10:36PMJustin: ((Rote: Shape Liquid))
October 27, 2018 10:36PMEve K.: rolling 7d10>8!
= 5 Successes
Kurtis Kerner nods at Justin with a downward smile of appreciation.
October 27, 2018 10:36PMGM (GM): Oooooooh
Eve, what are you looking for?
October 27, 2018 10:37PMJessica: Jessica tenses. Eve's actions are something she's only seen in horror films. It's creepy.
October 27, 2018 10:37PMEve K.: (sight spells don't effect other people, just me, is the logic, I'm looking for ghosts, particularly attached to Jessica, but also any that might be in this room)
Dante Dante looks about the room, his gaze landing on Kurtis. He perks up briefly as if remembering something and, hand gesturing subtly, his stare hardens. ((recasting Mental Shield on Kurtis))
October 27, 2018 10:39PM (To Eve K.): A lot of people died in this room. There are traces of dozens of ghosts, but.... these ghosts were eaten, destroyed by the structure and absorbed into mana for the building. Now, Jessica herself, carries a sympathetic connection to two ghosts, though these ghosts are not here, the lines connecting her to them are faint, and lead outside the room
October 27, 2018 10:39PMDante: rolling 11d10>8!
= 4 Successes
October 27, 2018 10:39PMGM (GM): Eve has received her information in private
October 27, 2018 10:40PMEve K.: ...
Sees the spell coming at him from Dante, and that in turns reminds him to recast his telekinetic shields, this time he does it on Eve, Dante, and Justin
Kurtis Kerner Sees the spell coming at him from Dante, and that in turns reminds him to recast his telekinetic shields, this time he does it on Eve, Dante, and Justin
October 27, 2018 10:40PMKurtis Kerner: Shield on Eve:
rolling 9d10>8!
= 2 Successes
Shield on Dante:
rolling 9d10>8!
= 2 Successes
Shield on Justin:
rolling 9d10>8!
= 0 Successes
October 27, 2018 10:42PMKurtis Kerner: Eve and Dante get +5 to their armor
Eve K. frowns, looking around the room, her gaze looks like that of a blind person with her eyes white as they are, her frown deepens after surveying the room, she then focuses on Jessica, eyebrows raising in surprise
Kurtis Kerner Trying to protect Justin, Kurt drops the gravity lines due to some backlash and loses control of the ability, unable to lift it again. This damn building...
October 27, 2018 10:44PMJessica: "Um...is there a problem?"
October 27, 2018 10:44PMJustin: Justin shrugs and waves Kurt off, activating his own spell ((Unseen Aegis 11 dice.))
rolling 11d10>8!
= 4 Successes
"No, just preparing in case things go bad."
Eve K. shakes her head slowly
October 27, 2018 10:45PMKurtis Kerner: (justin +3 armor)
October 27, 2018 10:45PMEve K.: "No... but... tell me, did anyone else you knew die at that terrorist attack?"
"knew well I should say"
Dante looks to Eve, then to Jessica. He takes a few steps toward the chair nearest him.
October 27, 2018 10:47PMJessica: Jessica whitens and she swallows. "I um, I hope not." She has sort of a small voice compared to before. "I had a couple friends there. Why?"
"Do you know something?
October 27, 2018 10:49PMEve K.: "I'm not certain. We would have to visit the site of the attack for me to be sure. I was expecting to see one thing, and find that I'm seeing more than expected."
Eve's eyes remain white as she moves towards Kurtis in the direction of the door, still studying Jessica October 27, 2018 10:50PMJessica: Jessica's heartrate rises. "What do you mean more? What do you see?'
October 27, 2018 10:51PMEve K.: "Not to sound cliche but, I see dead people, or rather connections to them."
October 27, 2018 10:53PMJessica: Jessica kind of fish-mouths for a second, trying to come up with the right questions to ask. "Like, anyone at all? Can it be my grandma or are you sure my friends probably died? Is it only recent people?"
October 27, 2018 10:54PM (To Eve K.): Her grandma is not around, she's moved on to afterlife. The connections you see are fresh, two young females.
Eve K. chuckles shaking her head
October 27, 2018 10:55PMEve K.: "This is not your grandmother no, she passed on peacefully."
Eve K. seems to squint at Jessica, then nods slightly
October 27, 2018 10:56PMEve K.: "No these are recent deaths. Young people, died before their time. Female if I'm not mistaken. Ring any bells?"
October 27, 2018 10:57PMJustin: Justin closes his eyes and shakes his head as Eve callously reveals that Jessica's friends are dead. October 27, 2018 10:57PMJessica: Jessica stops breathing for a moment, and then inhales hard like her lungs are trying to make up for it, and then sort of stops looking at anyone in particular.
Dante crosses his arms and leans on the arm of the chair, looking down to the floor for a moment before taking in Jessica's reaction. ((recasting Third Eye))
Kurtis Kerner drinks what's left of the spilled coffee before it gets totally cold
October 27, 2018 10:59PMDante: rolling 9d10>8!
= 3 Successes
October 27, 2018 11:00PM (To Dante): there is a mind distortion trace somewhere on Jessica, something abnormal around her
October 27, 2018 11:03PMEve K.: "On the bright side I don't see any connection to (Hans?), which means his ghost doesn't consider you associated with his death."
October 27, 2018 11:03PMJessica: Jessica crosses her arms. Her eyes are stinging and probably a bit red, but she resolves not to start crying in front of these people. "Can--" Her throat is constricted, so although her mouth formed the word there wasn't enough breath over the vocal cords to force the word out the first time. She tries again. "Can you guys go talk to your boss now?"
October 27, 2018 11:04PMJustin: Justin nods and walks towards the door, his hand on the handle as he attempts to push it open. Eve K. for her part doesn't seem the least bit effected by seeing these things or the effect it seems to have on Jessica to hear it about it. It isn't so much an expression of callousness but more the sense that she understands that hiding a death from someone doesn't make it any easier since they will find out eventually anyway.
October 27, 2018 11:06PMGM (GM): The door does some very precariously interesting buzzing, beeping, scanning, and then opens.
Eve K. moves towards the door her eyes still milky white, she steps around Jessica but pauses a moment to run her hand through the air as if tracing a string, (tracing the line of the sympathetic connection to the two dead people)
October 27, 2018 11:09PMJustin: Justin looks at the door and squints, pulling on the arcana of matter to decipher just what exactly it is doing in there. ((Craftman's eye rote, cast impromptu*
))
rolling 6d10>8!
= 1 Success
Dante pushes himself from the chair and unfolds his arms, giving a sort of half-hearted shrug with his hands splayed out. "Welcome to the world beyond the lie." Dante follows Justin out the door with a deliberate pace, his hands finding their way into his pockets.
October 27, 2018 11:13PMJessica: (unless Eve lingers or gets especially into her personal space Jessica is just going to bear while she waits for them to assemble outside)
October 27, 2018 11:13PM (To Justin): The specific mechanisms in here from the magic standpoint are a bit over your head arcanely, but scientific background yields conclusions that this door's mechanisms internally read something, probably biometrics, maybe more, and are connected to mechanisms in the walls themselves. The material this door is made of should be chemically impossible, there are elements here that do not naturally bind, alloys that shouldn't interact how they do, but the metals put together reinforce the door beyond being bulletproof
October 27, 2018 11:14PMJustin: To Dante: "Huh, this door is odd."
October 27, 2018 11:14PMEve K.: (trying to see if Eve gets anything else about the deaths if she touches the sympathetic connection, but Eve doesn't linger, just traces the lines as they lead away from Jessica)
October 27, 2018 11:14PMJustin: "Some sort of biometric scanner, probably connects to a database of some sort. The material is extremely unnatural but sturdy as can be."
Kurtis Kerner sets the coffee cup on the table, and walks after Dante, scanning the place with forces sight. His prime sight not being lifted due to his refusal to make the non-aggression pact.
October 27, 2018 11:15PMDante: To Justin: "Hm, is that so? This whole place is giving me bad vibes."
Dante inspects the door with mind sight October 27, 2018 11:15PMJustin: "Same."
October 27, 2018 11:16PMJessica: (oh god. does AI count as a mind as far as magic is concerned?)
October 27, 2018 11:16PMKurtis Kerner: "Oh. Let me look. They have a hole in forces shielding. If you can point me at the mechanism, I'll read what data it's sending."
October 27, 2018 11:16PMDante: ((a mind created by magic is a mind. I dont think AI counts))
October 27, 2018 11:16PMJustin: "Sure, right there ish."
Justin gestures to Kurt. Or rather, gestures Kurt at the door in a specific place.
Eve K. once out of ear shot whispers to mainly Dante and Kurtis, but Justin might hear as well "This place eats ghosts. Converts them to mana to power the spells"
October 27, 2018 11:17PMKurtis Kerner: Kurt follows Justin's gesture exactly and squints, a small yellow flash to his irises for but a brief moment, and the familiar world of acid trip flowing data reconstructs itself in his vision rolling 8d10>8!
= 2 Successes
October 27, 2018 11:17PMJustin: To Eve: "That's horrifying."
October 27, 2018 11:18PMEve K.: (did Justin get any of the mana sugar cubes? I can't remember)
October 27, 2018 11:18PM (From Jessica): [testing]
October 27, 2018 11:18PMJustin: (He ate alot of them but he doesn't have any more.)
October 27, 2018 11:18PMDante: Hushed, to Eve: "That, yes. It is that."
Dante suppresses a shudder, then looks about the hallway with a more cautious eye ((passed a few to Justin during the healing scene, think he ate 'em))
October 27, 2018 11:19PMJustin: ((ate them -all-))
Eve K. smirks wryly "Depends on what they did before they were ghosts I would say"
October 27, 2018 11:19PMDante: ((you're gonna get manabetes))
October 27, 2018 11:19PMJustin: ((grow a mana-mustache))
((star in a made-for-tv star wars movie about wizardry))
October 27, 2018 11:20PMDante: ((why grow a man a moustache when I can grow my own?))
October 27, 2018 11:20PMKurtis Kerner: "Oh that's wonderful Eve.... and check this out.... you put a hand on the handle, aaaand this here scanner... is sending your biometric, and your aura signature. That is your... whatcha call it.... bimbus? nimbus? I see all of you who touched the handle, has your imprints. It's going.... up that conduit in the wall right there, and connects.... directly to the gravity trap. Yeah, I think if Jessica passes here without matching the code, it may trigger it."
October 27, 2018 11:20PMJustin: "Oh wow.."
October 27, 2018 11:21PMEve K.: "Clever:
*"
October 27, 2018 11:21PMKurtis Kerner: "Buuuut.... it doesn't end at the gravity trap, goes up.... it's probably going to the boss's office or some control room upstairs. It's travelling out of my range."
October 27, 2018 11:21PM (From Jessica): [As soon as everyone is out of the room Jessica goes in the bathroom and slams the door. She looks in the mirror trying to see what Eve saw. Everyone else seemed to be able to Look at things in a special way. seeing nothing, she sits on the toilet and starts to cry. His ghost didn't consider her associated with his death...that meant Heike and Aiping did.]
October 27, 2018 11:22PMDante: "Seems risky if it just delivers a person to the office like that."
October 27, 2018 11:22PMEve K.: "Well, lets hope our news gets us on their good side, because it sounds like it would be pretty bad luck to be on their badside"
October 27, 2018 11:22PMGM (GM): Dante, the door has a definite, strong mind alteration spell, and it's connected to what you saw around Jessica
That weird distortion - it's related to the door.
October 27, 2018 11:24PM (To Jessica): Your face tattoo begins to burn, and you see it flash in the mirror. Two fairies materialize in the air, the Harbinger, and the Bitterblossom
Dante eyes the door once again, his eyebrows curling downward. "The sooner we report the better, I think. If I was in her shoes I would be getting desperate to leave."
Eve K. begins to proceed towards the elevators if the guys are done studying the door
October 27, 2018 11:27PMGM (GM): In the hallways, two businessmen in gray suits attach themselves to you as escorts and go with you to the elevator, smiling curtly.
October 27, 2018 11:27PM (From Jessica): [Just in the mirror or in person as well?]
October 27, 2018 11:28PMBusinessman: "Did you find everything productive? All went well?"
October 27, 2018 11:28PMEve K.: (what do the businessmen look like with death sight up?)
October 27, 2018 11:28PM (To Jessica): On the surface of the mirror, like your tattoo is a movie projector.
October 27, 2018 11:29PMGM (GM): (they don't resonate, Eve)
Eve K. smiles politely "As well as can be expected"
October 27, 2018 11:29PMEve K.: (neat)
Dante stops before the elevator and looks to the two businessmen. "No one died, which is nice."
October 27, 2018 11:30PMGM (GM): What else do Businessmen not resonate with? Life sight.
October 27, 2018 11:31PM (From Jessica): [Jessica's mouth drops open slightly. She pokes at the mirror with her finger.]
October 27, 2018 11:31PMJustin: Justin just frowns at the humonculus's October 27, 2018 11:31PMBusinessman: "That's fantastic news, sir. The art of good business is being a good middle man and preserving your resources, however scarce, however abundant. Our guest was not hostile then?"
October 27, 2018 11:31PMEve K.: (humonculi?)
October 27, 2018 11:31PMJustin: (humoncallous)
October 27, 2018 11:31PMDante: "She was scared, but not hostile."
Dante crosses his arms and shifts his weight to one side. "Out of curiosity, what would become of someone who attempted to leave this area and whose status was deemed .. unauthorized?"
October 27, 2018 11:33PM (To Jessica): Poke poke, it goes through like it would normally. The fairies flutter their wings and wiggle around, dancing animatedly, they don't appear to have much more intelligence than the ones you encountered in your weird dream journey, but if you look closer to the Bitterblossom, her face looks a little oriental.
October 27, 2018 11:33PMDante: ((humungalous))
October 27, 2018 11:34PM (To Jessica): The Bitterflossom has a darker aura, almost black-blue, while the Harbinger is a cheerful forest green with hints of blue running through her sparkles
October 27, 2018 11:34PM (From Jessica): ["Aiping?" That would make the green one... "Heike?"]
Businessman answers Dante, while the other suit calls the elevator
October 27, 2018 11:35PMBusinessman: "On this floor, or on another?"
October 27, 2018 11:36PMDante: "This floor, since we're here."
October 27, 2018 11:36PMGM (GM): Elevator arrives, and one businessman walks in , the other gestures you all to get in.
October 27, 2018 11:37PMDante: "This whole building is quite a marvel to the various senses."
October 27, 2018 11:37PMBusinessman: "Instant decompression. Why do you ask? Our guest is not thinking of leaving unauthorized, is she?"
Eve K. enters the elevator, looking around the space casually
October 27, 2018 11:37PMBusinessman: "It is a marvel overall. A product of hard work of generations of talents."
October 27, 2018 11:38PMDante: "I have no reason to believe the 'guest' will attempt to leave."
Dante follows suit onto the elevator, hesitating a moment when he remembers all the spatial threads from earlier. October 27, 2018 11:38PMEve K.: "She's anxious to leave, but I wouldn't think she would do so until allowed."
Kurtis Kerner goes in once Dante and Eve go in.
October 27, 2018 11:39PMGM (GM): Dante, same feeling, this elevator is not spacially on this floor. You might as well be in another point on the planet.
October 27, 2018 11:39PMEve K.: (hopefully near a beach ;) )
October 27, 2018 11:40PMDante: ((I am nicknaming the two businessmen "Thing 1 and Thing 2))
October 27, 2018 11:40PMEve K.: (( XD ))
October 27, 2018 11:40PMBusinessman: "That's very wise. Mister Cubic is a reasonable host and businessman. Safety and security of our customers, guests, and associates is always a prime directive for all employees and contract staff."
October 27, 2018 11:40PMJustin: Justin enters the elevator, keeping quiet. Dante nods at the Businessman's words and offers a cordial smile, then falls into silence.
October 27, 2018 11:43PMGM (GM): Elevator music. Elevator stops on 44th floor.
Doors open, and you see the same luxury office space and seating area where you saw Mr. Cubic last
Many more Things walk about their business here, and the lady secretary is typing away at something.
Dante looks about at the various individuals going about their work.
October 27, 2018 11:44PMMarcella: "Oh hi! Welcome back! Ah, a moment, I'll inform Mr. Cubic."
October 27, 2018 11:44PMDante: ((anything that stands out mentally between Marcella and the Things?))
October 27, 2018 11:45PMGM (GM): She has a mind. They... have... something... that works like one.
On this floor, she appears the only person.
Kurtis Kerner scans this area with his eyes
Dante smiles warmly at Marcella, then looks about once more. "Thank you, that would be lovely." He then looks for a seat to relax in.
Kurtis Kerner uses his old forgotten sound control, to whisper specifically into the ears of Justin, Dante, and Eve, muting all other output direction.
October 27, 2018 11:47PMKurtis Kerner: rolling 8d10>8!
= 2 Successes
"On this floor, there are gravity traps in the walls and the ceiling, a fire trap, and everything is conductive, including the air, but electricity is filtered, it's under tension."
"But that's not all.... there are forces, yes, these are... definitely, definitely forces.... but they're the likes I've never seen. I mean, I'm no particle physicist, but..."
Eve K. smiles at Marcella, then glances at Kurtis, eyebrows raises to indicate she's thinking about what he just said
October 27, 2018 11:51PMGM (GM): This time there is a little wait.
Dante inclines his head at Kurtis' words and stands up casually, deciding suddenly that maybe standing is good.
October 27, 2018 11:51PMGM (GM): Marcella is in Cubic's office for a few minutes.
October 27, 2018 11:52PMKurtis Kerner: "Oh, Justin... that signal... from the door handle.... yeah, that.... definitely passes through here."
Eve K. sits down in the chair Dante just got out of, tapping her fingers on the chair arm while she waits. Idly scanning the room for any more ghosts
October 27, 2018 11:53PMJustin: Justin starts to speak, but then realizes that his words will probably be audible to everyone. October 27, 2018 11:54PMGM (GM): There are lots of traces of ghosts here.... loose bits of unformed or rather disassembled essence.... it lost its potency, ephemeral integrity having been converted and sucked out. Kinda like when Kurt made Simon and Martin into sugar cubes, but this process is waaaaaay cleaner.
October 27, 2018 11:54PMKurtis Kerner: looks at Justin and gets the idea. He motions, hold on. rolling 8d10>8!
= 3 Successes
"Go ahead. I'm routing it. Don't even have to move lips, just the throat and tongue. Subvocalise."
October 27, 2018 11:56PMJustin: "Oh, that is cool. Okay, so I'll bet the data goes through Cubic's office, a master list of who he wants to kill or let live. If you can somehow make me see the forces I might be able to inform something. I was the president of my school's physics club."
October 27, 2018 11:56PMKurtis Kerner: Justin's words will sound like phone quality audio into Kurt's, Dante's, and Eve's left ears "And if it kills you due to tempering? You use magic that way, you act against Cubic. And if you die, how will we get healed when the next helicopter explodes?"
Dante thinks suddenly about helicopter blades and shudders.
October 27, 2018 11:58PMJustin: "Why would it kill me to look at it? You're looking at it, I just want to figure out what it does."
Eve K. raises an eyebrow expression somewhat surprised to hear Justin had some academic prowess considering his difficulties with picking up on the supernatural, but she doesn't comment
October 28, 2018 12:00AMKurtis Kerner: "Okay. Just be careful. Hmmm... how can I give you my sight? Hold on, let me look it up in the Book."
October 28, 2018 12:00AMJustin: "Second level of life and matter allow you to grant sights. My guess is that forces is the same."
Kurtis Kerner takes the book out and flips through the pages...
October 28, 2018 12:02AMKurtis Kerner: "Hm."
"Can I... put a hand on your eyes?"
Dante turns to Kurtis and Justin at the unusual question.
October 28, 2018 12:03AMJustin: "Yyyess..."
October 28, 2018 12:04AMKurtis Kerner: "Sorry, I mean... I've done this once a different way, I projected what I see for all to see. But this won't do here, it will give us away. This needs to be like, directly to your eyes, and I have to project a rote... the what's it... imago... Bestow... something or other.... hold on"
puts two fingers on Justin's eyelids, which probably looks insane
October 28, 2018 12:04AMJustin: waits October 28, 2018 12:06AMKurtis Kerner: "Bestow Eyes of the Matrix" - his eyes light up for a moment, and a brief surge of shock fly through his hand to Justin's eyelids.
Eve K. begins tracing the pattern of the chair material
October 28, 2018 12:06AMJustin: "Ow!"
October 28, 2018 12:06AMKurtis Kerner: rolling 8d10>8!
= 1 Success
October 28, 2018 12:07AMEve K.: ((congratulations now you are blind))
October 28, 2018 12:07AMJustin: ((
heals himself))
October 28, 2018 12:07AMDante: ((less exciting than shapeshifting into hundreds of eyes))
October 28, 2018 12:07AMEve K.: ((indeed))
October 28, 2018 12:08AMJessica: (fucking lol)
October 28, 2018 12:08AMJustin: ((When you're right, you're right.))
October 28, 2018 12:09AMGM (GM): Justin, after the jolt, you open your eyes to... the trippiest acid trip... no i mean, mormonic vision ever. You probably see the true face of god. Because the spell gives you the way Kurtis sees, you inherit his idea of it. Lines everywhere, orderly, associated, color coded and thickness coded, like wires of different material. You can differentiate heat and sound as most mallible, electricity as slightly tougher, friction and gravity as very hard and stiff. *
October 28, 2018 12:09AMJustin: "Oh.."
October 28, 2018 12:14AMGM (GM): Things are constantly in motion, this is a different world than the one you explore. Things here move trillion times faster, they're elusive, ungrabb-able by your abilities, unmanipulatable, but they are there. There are lines connecting everything, like countless taught yarn strings, furniture vectors to the floor, rotation vectors of the ceiling fans, the light bulbs pulse with electricity you tangibly see shift and travel back and forth.... and yes, as Kurtis said, there are forces here that are artificial. There is for example, a clearly defined physical force that compresses a power of a nuclear explosion to a single point in.... well this is impossible without a space component.... it's tied to.... Cubic's life being interrupted inside the building.... There is information passing through, continuous signals. There are many guests like Jessica in the rooms below, there are continuous fingerprints being accessed and authorized, admission and denial requests being passed automatically.
There is encrypted data travelling on the physical layer of Marcella's computer. There is a force of 50 000 ton of pressure connected to that data, should the encryption header be breached.
There's a lot. You'd have to focus on something specific.
October 28, 2018 12:16AMJustin: "Wow.. what. Um what was I supposed to be figuring out? What the weird fake forces are?"
October 28, 2018 12:17AMKurtis Kerner: "Oh, yeah. What's that - in the corners of the room." - he points to the corner next to the CEO's office's adjacent wall.
October 28, 2018 12:17AMJustin: Justin closes and reopens his eyes, focousing on the corner October 28, 2018 12:18AMGM (GM): That specific force looks like a spiral that wraps around itself, way heavier than Kurtis can manipulate, it's heavier than gravity, and approaches closer to the submolecular strength spectrum than another comparable force would. Its vectors are alternating inward to the center of the spiral and simultaneously outward.
The spiral itself is "sticking" to the walls that make up the corner.
October 28, 2018 12:20AMJustin: ((What would I roll to figure it out and verbalize it? Int + Science?))
October 28, 2018 12:20AMGM (GM): ((yeah, that would be it exactly, you're gonna need 3 successes))
October 28, 2018 12:21AMJustin: rolling 8d10>8!
= 2 Successes
October 28, 2018 12:21AMGM (GM): Well, you could say that it's making the corner of the building move at the speed of light into its own destination.
October 28, 2018 12:22AMJustin: "Uhmmm"
October 28, 2018 12:22AMKurtis Kerner: "Yeah. How do you like that little bitch..."
October 28, 2018 12:22AMJessica: (Justin doesn't get it)
October 28, 2018 12:22AMJustin: "It's some sort of distortion that is causing the corner of the building move at the speed of light into it's own destination."
October 28, 2018 12:22AMKurtis Kerner: (Its ok, Kurtis doesnt get it either)
October 28, 2018 12:22AMJustin: "If that makes any sense."
"I don't fully understand it."
October 28, 2018 12:23AMKurtis Kerner: "You and I both, buddy."
October 28, 2018 12:23AMGM (GM): Doors open, Marcella comes out, going to make tea.
Eve K. looks towards the corner they are starting at
October 28, 2018 12:23AMJustin: "Well thanks anyways. Where is this Cubic guy anyways?"
October 28, 2018 12:23AMMarcella: "Please. Mister Cubic is ready to see you. I'll have tea served in a moment."
Kurtis Kerner stands up and looks at the others.... and goes first.
Eve K. stands smoothly following after Kurtis
October 28, 2018 12:24AMJustin: Justin follows Kurt in. October 28, 2018 12:24AMKurtis Kerner: Kurtis is scared Kurtis feels intellectually overwhelmed and aware of that fact. Regrets lack of schooling. Doesn't like feeling this feeling. Tries to hide in blissful ignorance
October 28, 2018 12:26AMGM (GM): ((did we lose Danatello Pastaman))
October 28, 2018 12:26AMJustin: Justin is uncomfortable. He feels like he's surrounded by evil in this place and is eager to get his people out. October 28, 2018 12:27AMGM (GM): okay, we all go in
October 28, 2018 12:28AMEve K.: (( XD wall of photos))
October 28, 2018 12:29AMLeopold Cubic: motions for us all to sit October 28, 2018 12:29AMJustin: Justin plops down in a chair. October 28, 2018 12:29AMLeopold Cubic: "Marcella will bring tea. Care for vodka? Schnapps?"
Eve K. turns off death sight as she enters the room, mainly because she doesn't really want to know how much death follows this man
October 28, 2018 12:30AMGM (GM): Good call
October 28, 2018 12:30AMEve K.: "Tea would be lovely"
October 28, 2018 12:30AMJustin: "No thanks."
October 28, 2018 12:31AMKurtis Kerner: "Fine, let's take another shot of vodka."
October 28, 2018 12:31AMJessica: (vodka and cocaine)
October 28, 2018 12:31AMLeopold Cubic: nods, asks while pouring October 28, 2018 12:31AMJustin: Justin gestures to Cubic "You should really think about laying off the alcohol anyways."
October 28, 2018 12:31AMKurtis Kerner: Kurt examines gravity of the vodka leaving the bottle, just to keep himself sane October 28, 2018 12:32AMLeopold Cubic: "Oh, you don't have to tell me, son. It's terrible for you, and I completely agree. Never drink when you grow older. Just stay away from this filth."
pours Kurtis and himself one
October 28, 2018 12:33AMJustin: Justin sighs and shakes his head. October 28, 2018 12:33AMJessica: (good old grandpa leo)
October 28, 2018 12:33AMLeopold Cubic: "Old habits. What did you fellows find out?"
Eve K. in the interest of time Eve explains everything Jessica told them regarding Hans. She does not mention any details about Jessica's awakening. But does conclude with the fact that Han's "ghost" is not connected to Jessica
October 28, 2018 12:39AMGM (GM): Dante, to your sight, every single mind thread connection in this building leads and converges at Cubic's head. It's not even a web that there are so many, it's a solid block of tightly packed mind traffic data, but breaching and examining any of those communication channels would breach your agreement.
October 28, 2018 12:39AMKurtis Kerner: "She seems just a scared young girl, and thinks she works for you."
October 28, 2018 12:41AMLeopold Cubic: "I see. Well, can't say I'm too surprised. It's to be expected. And I'm sure she is not happy to have not been able to leave. It's for her own safety and mine."
"Well.... well well well... where the devil takes you...." having shot with Kurt once during the story time, he refills himself and Kurt.
October 28, 2018 12:43AMEve K.: "She seems intent on going home."
October 28, 2018 12:47AMLeopold Cubic: "Alright. The girl can go. But it leaves me with nothing. I still don't know who killed my man. You've earned what I promised. A transportation directly to the location of the Gem of Kings, within 100 yards, precision drop. You've earned that. And in that I'll keep my word. But Mrs. Branch's base of operation is a fully manned fortress with respectable security measures, state of the art. Transporting there will do you as good as peeking your head out in the middle of a pond full of duck hunters. I'm proposing to raise the stakes. I want to ask you another favor, and in return I will provide you with an exclusive offer."
October 28, 2018 12:48AMJessica: (ooooh)
Eve K. leans froward intently listening, ready to weight this favor
October 28, 2018 12:50AMLeopold Cubic: "First, of course, the offer. I will provide you with Simon's Loquimorscope. Calibrated as you wish. I can make it look like it still reads as Simon and transmits in his voice. Or I can wipe it. In addition, I'll deactivate theirs. No longer will they be able to have communication, detection, and transportation abilities that my company provides. They have breached their contract. And I'm willing to tolerate it for a while. But since your group is in direct conflict with theirs, I'm willing to push it as a bargaining chip, for the job I want done."
October 28, 2018 12:50AMEve K.: (picturing Businessmen Thing 2 freeing Jessica as we speak)
"Sounds good so far. What's the favor?"
October 28, 2018 12:56AMLeopold Cubic: "The favor is two fold. First, the matter of Hans. He was not just an empath. He was my old family friend. Take Jessica, and have her show you where everything happened. Investigate. Find the identity of his killer.
Secondly, once you come back, I'd like you to trade me your quintessence. The fuel, the juice. "Mana" as you call it. Empty your tanks, what's left. You people can generate it naturally, while my company cannot."
October 28, 2018 12:58AMJustin: ....
Eve K. 's eyes narrow at the latter part of the request
Eve K. in a calm voice "Out of curiosity, by what means do you expect this quintessence to be passed on to the company?"
Dante looks to Leopold with apparent suspicion, then to Eve. He stands awkwardly, listening as the conversation unfolds.
October 28, 2018 1:02AMLeopold Cubic: "All you have to do is consent. The process takes place automatically."
Eve K. blinks, tilts her head to one side, glances at Dante as he stands, looks back to Mr. Cubic "And just what are the steps of this process?"
October 28, 2018 1:03AMJustin: subvocally "This is garbage. The guy isn't even offering us any fire power in exchange. The liquiormiscope isn't going to help us at all when it comes to actually taking down branch."
subvocally "His building eats ghosts! How does he even get so many ghosts here to eat?"
October 28, 2018 1:05AMLeopold Cubic: "You read a contract outloud, the building drains your source."
October 28, 2018 1:06AMDante: "And say we return without reserves left to tap?"
October 28, 2018 1:06AMKurtis Kerner: subvocally "Mmhm. Guess you don't get to run a company without brutally crushing a few eggs."
October 28, 2018 1:06AMJustin: subvocally "I hate this place. I really don't want to come back, this guy is a monster."
October 28, 2018 1:06AMLeopold Cubic: "Well, if you're out, you're out. What can you do... Not like we measure it."
October 28, 2018 1:07AMKurtis Kerner: subvocally "All comparative. Would you pick him over Simon?"
October 28, 2018 1:08AMJustin: subvocally "He might be more evil than Simon, I don't know. Simon impacted me personally and he paid for it."
Dante notes the groups' subvocal speech, but continues on with the conversation. "You can utilize, but not measure Mana?"
October 28, 2018 1:09AMKurtis Kerner: subvocally "It's hard to boil in a soup of supernatural when you're just a human. He swims with monsters, he's just making a business."
October 28, 2018 1:09AMJustin: subvocally "Just because it's business doesn't mean it's right."
October 28, 2018 1:09AMLeopold Cubic: "Essentially. The structure utilizes it."
October 28, 2018 1:10AMKurtis Kerner: subvocally "Let's talk about it later. Keep it cool."
October 28, 2018 1:10AMEve K.: subvocally I suspect most of the ghosts here are from individuals who didn't keep up their sides of their contracts, essentially using magic on this place or its staff when they agreed not to.
October 28, 2018 1:11AMJustin: nods to Eve and answers Kurtis "Okay, I just want to be out of here. Please make a better deal so we can at least get something out of it more than that silver thing."
October 28, 2018 1:13AMEve K.: "Before we agree, I would like to know more about the capabilities of the Loquimorscope. All it's possible specifications as it were.
October 28, 2018 1:13AMLeopold Cubic: chuckles Dante nods at Eve's words, his own lips changing what they were about to say. "The full scope of the object still eludes us, I think."
October 28, 2018 1:15AMLeopold Cubic: "Well, don't you want to jump the horse before it learns to run. There are levels, depends on how many favors deep you want to go. If were to work for CDTC, you'd of course be issued a fully activated device, and other devices too. As part of the user agreement I offer in return for Hans' killer, are the following functions... hold on, let me see...."
Leopold Cubic pulls out some stacks of papers from his desk, licks his finger, puts on big thick glasses, flips, flips, flips, murmuring grandfatherly*
October 28, 2018 1:17AMJessica: (GRANDPA LEO)
October 28, 2018 1:17AMLeopold Cubic: "Let's see... Loquimorscope number 19. Well, most of this is technical jargon, you might understand it, I don't. Ahem."
"Num num num.... mmrmrmrmr.... aha."
October 28, 2018 1:17AMJessica: (his glasses are my favorite fucking thing)
October 28, 2018 1:17AMLeopold Cubic: "Establishes and severs sympathetic connections with users of paired Loquimorscopes."
October 28, 2018 1:18AMEve K.: (they are how he understands. We should get some for Justin)
October 28, 2018 1:18AMLeopold Cubic: "Masks, strengthens, nullifies, and severs signatures of remote distance rotes and improvised imago used by the willworkers in physical contact with the device, when using it as a Path tool.."
"Makes sense? Reading on... num num num"
"Provides scanning capabilities on direct parallel spacial vertices and lines formed thereby with regard to collective arcanum of the users present within the 10 yard radius from the device used. Any "awakened" activity passing between the formed lines established between paired devices will be recorded on the scanning sides."
"Allows untraceable signature-free inter-device communication. Shielded from radio, microwave, electronic, digital, quantum, and mechanical interference. Mind-Space-Force shielding up to potency 8."
October 28, 2018 1:22AMJustin: 0.0
Justin's eyebrows dart up at potency 8.
October 28, 2018 1:23AMLeopold Cubic: "Allows immediate transportation of 250 pounds of living matter per 24 hours from one device to another paired device, immediately providing an inherent clean up of the sympathetic spacial-temporal trace and erasure of travel signature up to detection potency 8.
"Allows detection of natural minds, auras, and resonance, with detection potency 6 within 10 yards from the device."
"Built in mundane features: sound, scent, visual recorder and playback, with retention policy of 30 days"
October 28, 2018 1:26AMEve K.: (in a dorothy boyd (jerry Maguire lady) voice "You had me at shielding up to potency 8, you had me at shielding up to potency 8))
October 28, 2018 1:26AMLeopold Cubic: takes off his glasses "Technical documentation. I prefer to leave it to my research department. That's floor 12, if you want more detail."
October 28, 2018 1:27AMJustin: "Can I get a user manual?"
October 28, 2018 1:28AMLeopold Cubic: "Of course. I will have it printed upon your return."
October 28, 2018 1:28AMEve K.: (and with the user manual in his grasp. Finally... Finally... Justin understood)
October 28, 2018 1:29AMGM (GM): (and then understood even less)
October 28, 2018 1:29AMJustin: (
laughs)
October 28, 2018 1:31AMEve K.: subvocalizing sounds like a deal to me. Any objections?
October 28, 2018 1:32AMKurtis Kerner: subvocalized to Justin "I don't know if this guy slings firepower for sale, but that is some impressive power in terms of information. This means Branch and her cronies have this kind of power on us. No wonder they were always on our tail. But if he turns them off. Maybe Loquimorscopes are what powers their forts. Or those special cores that run them."
October 28, 2018 1:32AMJustin: subvocalizing "See if he can give us the locations of Forester, Night Owl, and Red Prince along with Diana maybe?"
Dante looks to the rest of the group before turning his attention back to Leopold. "I accept this deal."
October 28, 2018 1:33AMJustin: subvocalizing to Kurt "Yeah, that is alot more than I thought it would be."
October 28, 2018 1:33AMDante: "But I do not speak for everyone."
October 28, 2018 1:33AMLeopold Cubic: "Your word is enough to represent you, Mister Dante. And to be clear, I am very, very sorry for what happened to you."
Dante stiffens at the last few words, then paces about the room. "Like the last time we spoke, this is something I'd be interested in discussing in the future. But I try not to think about it too much otherwise."
October 28, 2018 1:37AMEve K.: "I am also inclined to accept, but, I would like the location of branch and her associates before you deactivate their Loquimorscopes, wouldn't want to transport into a trap with all of them at one location after all.
October 28, 2018 1:38AMLeopold Cubic: "That is a deal. Anything else?"
October 28, 2018 1:38AMKurtis Kerner: "Firepower? Any chance of you putting your weight in to actually stop the Gem business."
October 28, 2018 1:39AMJustin: "You do seem to have plenty of these grey-suited oompa-loompas."
October 28, 2018 1:39AMKurtis Kerner: raises the vodka shot and shoots it October 28, 2018 1:40AMLeopold Cubic: "Plenty only as long as various people donate their quintessence."
Eve K. blinks and sets her jaw, perhaps trying to keep from chuckling at the term "grey-suited oompa-loompas"
October 28, 2018 1:41AMLeopold Cubic: then he just breaks into merry Santa Claus laughter "These fine business associates are our valued assistants. These are not what you would want backing you up in a superpower fight! Are you kidding?"
"Have you seen Oompa-Loompas try to fight?"
"No, you'd want someone real backing you up. Executive level. But our executives are hard at work dispatched to other projects. Tell you what, if it's firepower you want, I can give you a man. A good man. He will be cleaning up the culprit who killed Hans, once you find him for me. I can give you this man to assist you against Mrs. Branch. Jorg is strong, he will manage."
October 28, 2018 1:44AMJessica: (JORG)
October 28, 2018 1:44AMJustin: "That seems fair."
October 28, 2018 1:44AMEve K.: ((second picture from the bottom left. That's his "have you seen Oompa-loopas try to fight" face))
October 28, 2018 1:45AMLeopold Cubic: "But for firepower, that will be another price."
"One you or your employer may not want to accept. If you want Jorg, that means I will be sending another family friend into mortal danger. It will cost you a third favor."
October 28, 2018 1:47AMJustin: subvocally "I don't know if a third favor is worth it. I'd like to curtail our involvement with this guy as much as we can."
October 28, 2018 1:47AMKurtis Kerner: nods to Justin "What do you want for Jorg?"
October 28, 2018 1:48AMLeopold Cubic: "Heh. Well. For Jorg I'll want the Gem of Kings."
"You will be provided with a flawless forgery to turn in to the Americans. As far as I know, you represent the American counter-faction, whose sole aim is to destroy the Gem, not put it to use. For destroying, the forgery will do. It will make the right bang and the right flash."
October 28, 2018 1:50AMEve K.: subvocalizing "I don't care how amazing Jorg is, he's not worth that"
October 28, 2018 1:51AMJustin: subvocalizing "Agreed."
October 28, 2018 1:51AMKurtis Kerner: "Leopold, where are we? Are we even in Germany?"
October 28, 2018 1:51AMLeopold Cubic: "How should I know? You are in Germany, last I checked."
October 28, 2018 1:52AMKurtis Kerner: "Oh ho ho! Okay. So, rephrasing. Where are you? Where do you reside? Let's say the Gem is with you. Where does the bountiful fruit of the next blood starts to grow from?"
October 28, 2018 1:54AMLeopold Cubic: "My heart lays with Europe, Mister Kerner. I am Europe. Its transmission lines, its supply chains. My soul bleeds for the well being of European mankind."
refills vodkas
"To Europe."
October 28, 2018 1:54AMEve K.: "I believe we will see how we do at filling two favors before we add a third to our list."
October 28, 2018 1:54AMKurtis Kerner: raises it "To bleeding hearts."
"I don't accept, by the way. I'm a mercenary, not a bitch. Can't be bought once hired. And I was hired."
October 28, 2018 1:56AMLeopold Cubic: "That's fair, Miss Kline."
"I figured you wouldn't. But if I could only count how many times I had to be the bitch. Life's just hard that way."
October 28, 2018 1:57AMKurtis Kerner: "Amen to that."
October 28, 2018 1:57AMLeopold Cubic: "If we agree on the first two favors, you are free to begin. Once you make it back to Jessica, she will be free to leave."
October 28, 2018 1:58AMJustin: "Sounds good."
October 28, 2018 1:59AMEve K.: "Then we had best get to it, trail is already fading."
Stands up and nods to Mr. Cubic before moving towards the door Eve K. never got her tea :(
October 28, 2018 2:00AMLeopold Cubic: "Be careful with her. She is only a girl, but I was warned many times to stay away from newly formed supernaturals. They are very unstable and spike something fierce."
October 28, 2018 2:00AMGM (GM): Oh sorry sorry! Yes Marcella brought tea when we began! October 28, 2018 2:00AMEve K.: "That they do indeed"
((the tea is a lie))
October 28, 2018 2:00AMGM (GM): ((nuuuu!!))
October 28, 2018 2:01AMMarcella: brought non-lie tea!
did nothing wrong!
October 28, 2018 2:02AMGM (GM): Okay, everybody heading down to Jessica?
October 28, 2018 2:02AMJustin: Yes.
October 28, 2018 2:02AMJessica: yes
October 28, 2018 2:02AMDante: Yes
October 28, 2018 2:02AMJustin: Yes.
October 28, 2018 2:02AMGM (GM): Yes!
October 28, 2018 2:02AMLucas (Brick) Turner: Yes
October 28, 2018 2:03AMGM (GM): Shut up!
Elevator, corridors, hallways, you are at Jessica's door.
The forces around her door change at your arrival. Justin and Kurtis can see certain signals shifting, granting her access to leave.
October 28, 2018 2:04AMKurtis Kerner: knocks on the door "Jessica! Good neeeews!"
October 28, 2018 2:05AMJessica: There is a sound of another door opening and closing and then Jessica tries the door to the suite. She looks somewhat calmer than when you left, and dry-eyed.
"I can leave?"
October 28, 2018 2:06AMGM (GM): The door opens fine
October 28, 2018 2:06AMKurtis Kerner: leans on the wall in the hallway "Yup, you can leave.... well.... it's kind of a... "
October 28, 2018 2:07AMJessica: "Kind of a what?"
October 28, 2018 2:07AMDante: "...conscription."
October 28, 2018 2:07AMKurtis Kerner: points at Dante with a thumb Dante comes into view, looking a bit weary. He offers a curt hand wave.
October 28, 2018 2:08AMDante: ((as opposed to a Kurt hand wave, which involves fire))
October 28, 2018 2:08AMEve K.: ((XD))
October 28, 2018 2:09AMKurtis Kerner: ((11/10 pun))
October 28, 2018 2:09AMJessica: Jessica looks from one to the other, beginning to look angry. "What exactly does that mean?"
October 28, 2018 2:09AMEve K.: "We are going to need you to take us to where you last saw Hans."
October 28, 2018 2:10AMJessica: "And then I fucking go home."
October 28, 2018 2:12AMDante: "If by the end of this task, that's what you want. As far as any of us know, you're otherwise unbound."
October 28, 2018 2:13AMKurtis Kerner: "Yup. Then you fucking go home."
Eve K. nods to Dante's words
October 28, 2018 2:14AMJessica: "Cool. You guys need to pay for the train then. I'm out of cash."
She seems frustrated beyond belief
October 28, 2018 2:15AMKurtis Kerner: "Huh?"
October 28, 2018 2:15AMJustin: "Usually Dante just drives."
October 28, 2018 2:15AMEve K.: "I think we will just let Dante drive us yes."
October 28, 2018 2:16AMKurtis Kerner: "Yeah, we rented a van. In Rome..."
October 28, 2018 2:16AMDante: "I am not very experienced with driving trains, but I can learn."
"Oh, the van. Well I guess so."
Eve K. blinks, looks at Dante, and then chuckles
October 28, 2018 2:16AMKurtis Kerner: "I'm actually kinda digging the train ride thing. Would be nice to sleep."
October 28, 2018 2:19AMDante: "Van, train, either is fine. Sleep is in short supply lately. Regardless of our choice, let's take our leave of this place."
October 28, 2018 2:19AMJustin: Justin nods and heads to the elevator. October 28, 2018 2:19AMEve K.: "Agreed"
October 28, 2018 2:19AMKurtis Kerner: "Pack your shit, Jess."
October 28, 2018 2:20AMJessica: "No shit to pack."
October 28, 2018 2:20AMKurtis Kerner: "Take all those free clothes from the closet. Travelling with us tends to get you covered in blood."
October 28, 2018 2:20AMJessica: Blink October 28, 2018 2:20AMJustin: "Which isn't all bad. If we get enough blood, we can make shirts out of it."
Gestures to Dante's shirt.
October 28, 2018 2:20AMJessica: BLINK Dante tugs at the collar of his shirt. "Like this one."
October 28, 2018 2:21AMKurtis Kerner: "Plus, it's pretty much free healing, if you're a vampire."
October 28, 2018 2:21AMDante: "Probably."
October 28, 2018 2:21AMJessica: "Are vampires real?"
October 28, 2018 2:21AMJustin: "Haha! Vampires, you're killing me Kurt."
Eve K. starts to chuckle, then clears her throat
October 28, 2018 2:21AMKurtis Kerner: "Oh yeah. They real."
October 28, 2018 2:21AMJustin: "Of course no.."
Justin looks at Kurt.
October 28, 2018 2:21AMEve K.: "Yup, they are"
October 28, 2018 2:21AMKurtis Kerner: "Dude! They totally real!"
October 28, 2018 2:21AMJustin: ...
Justin looks between the two.
October 28, 2018 2:21AMKurtis Kerner: "They are who got us tracking the Gem to begin with. Vampires is how we got the job."
October 28, 2018 2:22AMJustin: "Shut the fuck up Kurt."
October 28, 2018 2:22AMJessica: Jessica looks like she's re-evaluating her whole life. "S-sure. I'll pack."
October 28, 2018 2:22AMEve K.: "No its really true"
October 28, 2018 2:22AMJessica: (going to do that thing where you fold a hoodie into a pseudobackpack and pack some rolled shirts and pants into it)
October 28, 2018 2:22AMDante: "Kid can turn blood into wearable fabric and mend wounds with his thoughts, but refuses to believe in vampires."
October 28, 2018 2:22AMJessica: (she'll look weird on the train but fuck it)
(also grabbing a letter opener)
October 28, 2018 2:23AMGM (GM): (full kitchenette of knives, Jess. Wanna take knives, forks, spoon, plate, iron?)
(you have a hotel room worth of shit. say now)
(feel not sorry later)
October 28, 2018 2:23AMJustin: "I hate it when you all gang up on me with this crap. You're not going to trick me into believing Dracula is roaming around draining fair maidens or whatever."
October 28, 2018 2:23AMDante: "I have no firsthand experience, but I doubt its all that romantic."
Kurtis Kerner laughs so hard
October 28, 2018 2:24AMKurtis Kerner: "I can't....aahhahahaha, I can't."
October 28, 2018 2:24AMJessica: (no because I feel like Mr. Cubic is the kind of guy not to say anything but totes use it against you somehow later. people rarely care about office supplies. if he wanted to report her to the police for stealing a knife at any point in the future though...)
October 28, 2018 2:24AMEve K.: "suit yourself, dont come crying to me when some nosferatu is sucking you dry"
October 28, 2018 2:24AMJustin: "I'll just make a rooster crow and be good."
October 28, 2018 2:25AMKurtis Kerner: "Oh! Oh! Oooouhhhahahahahahaaa!"
"Eve, friendly wager."
"Between your death and my fire, let's not let any vampire come near Justin, so he never sees one."
"But Oh wait. We got Dante. Justin never SEES one. Get it?"
October 28, 2018 2:26AMJustin: "My valorous protectors, keeping me safe from vampires and boogie men."
October 28, 2018 2:26AMEve K.: "hmm what does the winner get?"
October 28, 2018 2:26AMKurtis Kerner: "The thing they want most. Provided by Dante."
"Get it?"
October 28, 2018 2:27AMEve K.: "that hardly seems fair to dante"
October 28, 2018 2:27AMDante: "I am not keen on playing fetch in this particular wager."
October 28, 2018 2:27AMKurtis Kerner: "You've always wanted this.... paperclip, didn't you? Yes you did."
October 28, 2018 2:28AMGM (GM): Alright, Jessica packs a letter opener, and clothes, and off we go.
laptop bag but clothes where the laptop goes
October 28, 2018 2:29AMGM (GM): Elevator, corridor, lobby. Nice gray suits smile at you and accompany you to floor 0
October 28, 2018 2:29AMBusinessman: "Thank you for staying with us, Jessica! And thank you for visiting, everyone!"
Dante looks to Kurtis, mumbling something about how he'll be wanting office supplies real soon.
October 28, 2018 2:30AMJessica: Jessica glares at the men in grey.
I hope I never fucking come back here again October 28, 2018 2:30AMKurtis Kerner: smiles at DC good naturedly "You know, you could ride trains for free."
October 28, 2018 2:31AMBusinessman: "Never say never, young miss! I'm sorry your stay was prolonged and not restful. It was for your safety."
October 28, 2018 2:31AMJessica: (that was a thought. were they responding to a thought?)
October 28, 2018 2:31AMBusinessman: (oh, sorry, nope)
(scratch from record)
October 28, 2018 2:31AMJessica: (just checking)
Dante shrugs at Kurtis' comment. "I guess I could. Seems kind of a cheap use of power, though."
October 28, 2018 2:32AMEve K.: (grey-suited oompa loompas know all))
October 28, 2018 2:32AMGM (GM): (he could have said that to the glare, minus Never say never. He would apologize for inconvenience of stay)
October 28, 2018 2:33AMKurtis Kerner: "That's what I like about you, DC. Moderation. My good friend in New Haven, Kassidy, said "if a mage can't do something mundane without powers, chances are they can't do it with powers either."
October 28, 2018 2:34AMEve K.: ((True story))
October 28, 2018 2:34AMJustin: "You're from New Haven too?"
October 28, 2018 2:34AMDante: "Reasonable advice."
October 28, 2018 2:35AM (To Dante): Restore your willpower to full. Temperance is your virtue, and you've exercised it in this entire set of episodes
October 28, 2018 2:35AMEve K.: "So did we decide on a train or the van?"
October 28, 2018 2:36AMKurtis Kerner: "Let's take the van to the train station."
October 28, 2018 2:36AMJessica: pffft
October 28, 2018 2:36AMJustin: "Train sounds nice."
October 28, 2018 2:36AM (From Dante): ((hell yea))
October 28, 2018 2:37AMDante: "It's no bed, but some sleep would be welcome."
Dante makes for the van and does a cursory scan around the immediate vicinity.
October 28, 2018 2:38AMGM (GM): In the lobby, we come out, and it's Leipzig outside. Passing through the doors, those with space arcanum, feel odd. Dante knows what he feels, that distant leap into a "screen". Jess just feels hair on the back of her neck stand.
October 28, 2018 2:38AMJessica: As soon as they are in the lobby Jessica's steps become faster and more purposeful towards the outside doors. Once outside she sighs with relief and looks up at the sky.
October 28, 2018 2:39AMGM (GM): Our van is a Crysler Tourist 15 seater. It has not been spacially or mind-ly fucked with. Immediate vicinity is clear of anything bad.
It's a beautiful morning.
Sun's not up yet, but dawn is soon.
October 28, 2018 2:40AMJessica: Jessica gives the benches outside the side-eye, thinking of the homeless people that must get eaten at night.
October 28, 2018 2:40AMGM (GM): Oh yeah. Dante, those benches have a mind aura around them. They put those who sit on them into a relaxed and sleepy state of mind.
October 28, 2018 2:41AMDante: ((welp, time to nope the fuck out of here))
October 28, 2018 2:41AMGM (GM): Once we leave the building, Kurt's Prime shackles lift.
Into the van!
October 28, 2018 2:42AMJustin: Justin hops into the van. Dante unlocks the van, hops in the driver's seat and turns over the ignition.
Eve K. climbs into the van
October 28, 2018 2:42AMGM (GM): Jessica, in the van there are 3 assault rifles (different kind than you had in your ambulance mishap, those were steyrs, these are m16)
Dante looks to Jessica. "Don't worry, its totally safe in here. Ignore the firearms." As he says the last word, he reaches behind him to retrieve his revolver.
October 28, 2018 2:43AMGM (GM): A few books, a few sets of military clothes, remains of some fast food boxes, a huge sword.
October 28, 2018 2:43AMEve K.: (a Robin)
October 28, 2018 2:43AMGM (GM): (see Kurt's sword in handouts)
October 28, 2018 2:43AMJessica: Jessica checks and adjusts her impromptu "bag" to make sure it isn't getting loose anywhere, and tries to pick a seat by one of the doors. She stiffens slightly when Dante grabs his gun, and she sort of stares at the rifles while everyone gets settled.
October 28, 2018 2:43AMGM (GM): And there is a sleeping young woman in the backseat
October 28, 2018 2:44AMJessica: "Why do you use guns? Can't you just blow people up?"
Dante holsters his gun, looking to Jessica only for a moment before turning his eyes to the windshield.
Kurtis Kerner hops into shotgun beside Dante
October 28, 2018 2:45AMDante: "Options are important. If we enter an area where magic is dead, that's a problem."
October 28, 2018 2:45AMJessica: "What kills magic?"
October 28, 2018 2:45AMDante: "Stronger magic."
"Normal people."
Eve K. nods at Dante's comment
Kurtis Kerner reaches under his seat and pulls two desert eagle 50 cals into chest holsters under his jacket, pulling a book out of the jacket.
October 28, 2018 2:45AMJessica: "Normal people??"
October 28, 2018 2:46AMEve K.: "Reality is a fragile thing, if enough people disbeleive what we try to do with magic. Our magic doesn't work"
October 28, 2018 2:46AMDante: "Think like you're at a magic show, but the thing that happens is so unbelievable that you assume its scripted or just can't enjoy it for what it is. The illusion fails."
October 28, 2018 2:47AMJessica: "Are we just illusionists?"
October 28, 2018 2:47AMEve K.: "No. Sometimes you can force it. But it takes its toll if you do."
October 28, 2018 2:47AMKurtis Kerner: "Yeah, it's called a paradox. You gotta be very careful where and how you use magic. Safest is on stage. Next safest, where nobody watches. Completely safe - only in special sanctums, where rules don't apply. Anywhere else - reality beats you up for it. It's a long long story. But yeah, back in Cubic's place I could just pull fire out of my hand. Out here, I gotta mask fireballs as gunshots."
October 28, 2018 2:47AMDante: "Mm, right."
October 28, 2018 2:47AMJustin: "I've never been unable to cast, but I have been hurt by it."
October 28, 2018 2:48AMDante: "We are not illusionists. Maybe a bad example if that is the takeaway."
October 28, 2018 2:48AMJessica: "I just...I'm learning I guess. Trying not to make assumptions."
October 28, 2018 2:49AMEve K.: "I think, it
* is better to explain it like a rubber band. Reality is a rubber band around your wrist. It can stretch, but if you stretch it too far it will snap and leave a welt on you wrist where it falls back into its proper place"
Dante drums his fingers idly on the steering wheel while the others talk, then begins to drive. "Let's find the train station."
October 28, 2018 2:51AMKurtis Kerner: "Not all powers do that though. Invisible stuff, less powerful stuff. Stuff that you can mask. Like firing a gun and increasing bullet impact. Never failed with that one, cause not many people can tell how guns should work. Throwing a grenade, and making a magical explosion. People assume it was the grenade."
"Seeing stuff, protecting stuff - not too bad."
October 28, 2018 2:53AMJessica: "Where do you learn how to do this stuff? Are there like, wizard schools?" She reddened slightly, feeling dumb about the question that reminded her of Harry Potter. But hey, she had to ask.
October 28, 2018 2:53AMJustin: "I apprenticed to a more experienced mage."
"I don't know about the rest of these guys."
October 28, 2018 2:54AMDante: "I've been traveling with these people since my awakening. Its been an on-the-job learning experience for me. But as far as I know, there are groups out there. All kinds.
"
Kurtis Kerner pulls up train station on the map for Dante. Van rolls along.
October 28, 2018 2:55AMEve K.: "I've studied with a couple of different masters. There are some organized groups who train new mages, but they tend to teach them their own world view."
October 28, 2018 2:55AMDante: "Thanks, Kurt. You are permanent shotgun seat."
October 28, 2018 2:56AMKurtis Kerner: "We've learned from these books. Gates to Atlantis. Been sharing them. There's a bit of a project back in New Haven. A girl writing a thesis on magic. If her work gets published, magic will become easier to cast."
nods to Dante
"By we, I mean some of us."
October 28, 2018 2:56AMJessica: "Easier to cast because more people will know about it? Fewer unbelievers?"
October 28, 2018 2:56AMKurtis Kerner: "I need to read mine more. The better you know real science, the better you are at magic. Ask Justin, he's real smart."
"Yeah something like that."
October 28, 2018 2:57AMJessica: "So are those magic shops with like the candles and crystals and stuff legit?"
October 28, 2018 2:57AMDante: "As long as you understand a subject, the magic associated with it becomes all the easier."
October 28, 2018 2:58AMKurtis Kerner: "Honestly, most of my powers are really hard to do. They are what is considered Vulgar. Where as stuff Dante and Eve do are what is called Covert. I think you too. Your magic fits better with reality, you do more covert things."
October 28, 2018 2:58AMJustin: "Not all magic gets easier with science. Matter magic is all about chemical reactions and molecular bonds, which I know pretty well. I don't know very much about medicine or animals though, so my life magic isn't as potent."
October 28, 2018 2:59AMKurtis Kerner: "It's plenty fucking potent."
October 28, 2018 2:59AMJessica: "What about Time magic? That's all science fiction."
October 28, 2018 2:59AMKurtis Kerner: "Justin here - he can heal. Like, really heal. Like, lethal wounds, kind of heal. Powerful stuff."
October 28, 2018 2:59AMJustin: Justin smiles a little at that and gives a thumbs up. Dante flexes his right arm in view. "This almost fell off once."
October 28, 2018 3:00AMJessica: Jessica looks at the people up front and back at Justin.
Wow October 28, 2018 3:01AMKurtis Kerner: "Yeah, Justin brought us back from the near grave. Now as for Time magic I don't know. Freaks me out. We knew one time mage, but he got lost in time.... vanished. He could stop and rewind time, like that Mladen guy you mentioned."
October 28, 2018 3:01AMEve K.: "Most magic shops aren't real. Some mages use candles and what not to make it easier to do magic, again because enough people believe in that magic shot kind of stuff. But you could just as easily use a box of crayons to draw runes as a chickens blood to get the same effect:
October 28, 2018 3:01AMJessica: "Pfffft."
October 28, 2018 3:01AMKurtis Kerner: "Tristin would warn us of things before they happened. He'd suddenly develop bullet wounds and told us about bad ideas, and we had no idea why. It's like he lived in multiple time lines."
Kurtis Kerner checks his guns, makes sure mags are full.
October 28, 2018 3:02AMDante: "We've been acting on bad ideas ever since."
Dante smirks into the rear view mirror
October 28, 2018 3:02AMJessica: Jessica nods, taking it all in. "How do you get back to your Tower? Have any of you guys seen more than one?"
Kurtis Kerner holsters the pistols back.
Dante shakes his head, then makes a series of turns on various side streets. "Only seen it the one time."
October 28, 2018 3:04AMKurtis Kerner: "I have."
October 28, 2018 3:04AMJustin: "I never really thought about going back, to tell you the truth. The place I went was sick with something. I had to heal what I could but the sickness went deeper."
October 28, 2018 3:05AMEve K.: "No one I've ever met has been able to get back to their tower."
October 28, 2018 3:05AMKurtis Kerner: "That's actually really interesting. Justin is a healer, and he was a healer in his experience."
October 28, 2018 3:06AMEve K.: "As far as I've heard, it's a one time trip."
October 28, 2018 3:07AMKurtis Kerner: "The experience for me was very hazy... but I did see the other four towers. Not in detail, in the foggy distance, below. I think the realm I belong to, Aether, is like, heaven? The one above the others?"
October 28, 2018 3:08AMJessica: "Heaven's real? Which place is hell? "
October 28, 2018 3:08AMKurtis Kerner: "And it seems to match this other side of my powers, which I'm still learning how to do, called Prime. Everyone can learn it, but it's easier for me. I only know a few tricks with it, but it seems to encompass all magic types. I can counter any other power, as long as I see it cast, and can manipulate mana."
October 28, 2018 3:09AMJessica: "Sounds like Blue."
October 28, 2018 3:09AMEve K.: "It's not exactly the "Christian" heaven or hell
October 28, 2018 3:09AMKurtis Kerner: "Yeah, that's what I thought it was. I went looking for St. Peter."
"As for going back.... these books, Gates to Atlantis, mention some legendary people who repeated their second ascension. But I don't really understand how."
October 28, 2018 3:10AMJessica: "Can you go to Atlantis? Is it like, hidden or something? Full of wizards?"
October 28, 2018 3:11AMEve K.: "If there is something close to hell its probably Stygia... or perhaps Pandemonium,
October 28, 2018 3:11AMKurtis Kerner: "These worlds were connected to our, "real" world, they call our real world the fallen world. And there used to be a direct physical path, back in the days of Atlantis. And then it got broken.
"Yeah, I don't know. We'd need to sit down with some mentors and our books. Like if we do a good job on our thing we're doing, we'll probably be tutored and trusted enough to learn more. That's my hope."
we make it to the train station
October 28, 2018 3:13AMJessica: "When did everything break? Plato's day?" Wouldn't surprise her. She knew one piece of Greek mythology that was real.
next train for Berlin is in 20 minutes, the ride is 4 hours
October 28, 2018 3:14AMEve K.: "That would be the least they could do."
Eve adds to Kurtis' comment October 28, 2018 3:14AMKurtis Kerner: "History. Not my forte."
October 28, 2018 3:15AMEve K.: "That's very hard to pin down, what with the world literally breaking and all. "
October 28, 2018 3:15AMJustin: "You would need to know mage history, which I have no clue about."
Justin speaks as he gets out of the car and walks towards the station. Kurtis Kerner suddenly laughs at how crazy they must seem to Jessica
October 28, 2018 3:16AMKurtis Kerner: "You know we're really just making it all up, right?"
October 28, 2018 3:17AMJessica: Jessica's face, which was thoughtful before, falls a little, but she hides it quickly, and turns to look out the window. "Oh."
October 28, 2018 3:17AMKurtis Kerner: "No. I wish we were. Heh."
Eve K. shakes hear head as she gets out of the van
October 28, 2018 3:18AMEve K.: "You're just confusing her with your jokes"
October 28, 2018 3:18AMKurtis Kerner: upon the van stopping, Kurtis unbuckles, climbs into the back, and touches the sword, parts of the sword start flickering as light bends around it and changes the imagery October 28, 2018 3:18AMJustin: Justin stops by a trashcan and reaches his hands inside, gathering up a bunch of discarded fast-food wrappers, receipts, newspapers, and assorted paper junk inside the can. He pours his will into it and imagines the shape of a bunch of euros. October 28, 2018 3:19AMKurtis Kerner: rolling 8d10>8!
= 1 Success
October 28, 2018 3:20AMGM (GM): rolling 1d10<8!
= 1 Success
oh
no thats a fail
i just did wrong sign
October 28, 2018 3:20AMJustin: ((tansmute earth, improvised))
October 28, 2018 3:20AMGM (GM): rolling 1d10>8!
= 1 Success
October 28, 2018 3:20AMJustin: rolling 6d10>8!
= 3 Successes
October 28, 2018 3:21AMJessica: Jessica exits the van, avoiding the guns. She watches closely while Kurtis does...whatever it is with the sword.
October 28, 2018 3:21AMGM (GM): rolling 1d10>8!
= 0 Successes
no paradox for both Kurt or Justin
October 28, 2018 3:21AMEve K.: (Kurt does NOTHING)
October 28, 2018 3:21AMJessica: (LOL)
October 28, 2018 3:22AMGM (GM): (no no, my 1 rolls were for paradox)
((all is good)
October 28, 2018 3:22AMEve K.: (Paradox does NOTHING)
October 28, 2018 3:22AMJustin: Justin catches up with the group, brandishing handfulls of cash looking paper from his trash-can escipades. October 28, 2018 3:22AMKurtis Kerner: Kurt's sword now looks like a giant rolled up painting, and he hangs the sling on his shoulder. October 28, 2018 3:22AMGM (GM): Justin attempts to transmute the worthless papers into money, but his grasp is on the immediate molecular bonds of the material. You manage to make the wrappers and the random garbage be made of the same paper as the money paper, but the fine details, the distribution of ink, the imprinted watermarks - you find that a different process is required. Not transmuting simple elements, but more in line with how you shape water. Except you can't seem to shape money paper or dry ink, so nothing happens on the surface of the papers. The result is humorous. Crumpled up garbage pieces smell like money paper, and feel like money paper, but all in all they look like a waste of good quality money paper. They look like a well done prank.
October 28, 2018 3:23AMJustin: "Didn't quite do what I expected. Guess we have to pay after all."
October 28, 2018 3:24AMJessica: Jessica frowns and no longer feels very impressive with her bag trick.
October 28, 2018 3:24AMGM (GM): Eve and Dante have euro at their disposal.
Enough to afford us all train tickets.
So we buy tickets via mundane means.
October 28, 2018 3:26AMJessica: "So does it always have to look like something? Why not make it invisible?"
October 28, 2018 3:27AMKurtis Kerner: "People will bump into it."
October 28, 2018 3:27AMJustin: "Looks weird when you get an invisible something hooked on the entrance of a door yeah."
"That one."
October 28, 2018 3:27AMJessica: "Right. Makes sense."
October 28, 2018 3:27AMKurtis Kerner: "Plus, I like to turn my eyes off... err... my force senses.. off, to rest. And then I won't see it either."
October 28, 2018 3:28AMJessica: "How do you turn on your magic senses?"
October 28, 2018 3:29AMKurtis Kerner: "If we were to turn you invisible, for example, I'd still be able to see your weight, body heat, breath, vibrations of your walk, stuff like that. While Justin could sense your life presence, and Dante could sense your mind."
"Oh... how do you turn on.... hm..."
"Ummm... let's do that on the train."
October 28, 2018 3:30AMEve K.: ((dozed off XD)
October 28, 2018 3:30AMKurtis Kerner: ((let's stop for the night))
October 28, 2018 3:30AMJessica: (sounds good)
We buy tickets and board the train!
October 28, 2018 3:30AMEve K.: (yay!))
October 28, 2018 3:30AMGM (GM): everyone 3 xp
October 28, 2018 3:31AMJessica: so close
to gnosis 2
October 28, 2018 3:32AMJustin: ((I'd like to buy Transmute Earth for 6 xp.))
October 28, 2018 3:32AMGM (GM): going to sleep. purchases into here.
sold
mark it off
October 28, 2018 3:33AMEve K.: night all
October 28, 2018 3:34AMJessica: zzzzz
October 28, 2018 3:35AMJustin: Goodnight!
rolling 11d10>8!
= 3 Successes
4:30PMLucas (Brick) Turner: "My name brik I am on trane."
metalhead screeching
4:33PMJessica: I wish I could upload pics
4:39PMJustin: rolling dF
= 0
4:40PMJessica: rolling 5d10>8!
= 1 Success
rolling 9d10>8!
= 2 Successes
rolling 3d10>8!
= 2 Successes
6:48PMGM (GM): you can upload by dragging stuff i think
6:52PMJessica: nah, it just changes the tab to the pic. doesn't place it on the board
7:10PMJustin: I think only the GM can drop pics.
7:21PMJessica: I hope Marcella shows up again
7:22PMJustin: Or her feet, I guess.
9:39AMJessica: Cubic hiring women based on their shoe size makes me chuckle every fucking time
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