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« Reply #1005 on: July 16, 2012, 07:49:07 pm »

Well phooey. I was hoping I could exchange the mini-session for some extra time for spell comp.

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« Reply #1006 on: July 16, 2012, 08:04:12 pm »

I'll put up the server now, but I am warning people now, I will be afk playing a steam game in another window the whole time. We will see if that works or not.
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« Reply #1007 on: July 16, 2012, 08:38:03 pm »

I will need some Pog help, and Sapphire is supposed to be there. Not sure if we can do this without your full attention Haika.
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« Reply #1008 on: July 17, 2012, 02:27:45 am »

Ariel:

The early hours of the morning are spent practicing to control your transformation into an incorporeal state. To your mild shock this task isn’t particularly difficult, and you reach the point where you are fairly sure you won't have any ghostly accidents in a matter of hours. Furthermore you feel as if you can start to use your new powers in combat. (Your natural crit fail range has returned to normal. New Spell: Incorporeal Defence) 1d80+4 = 78 + 4 = 82

Shortly after your practice concludes you are paid a visit by Kathryn, who hands over the 10 souls as promised and creates a water snake which you and Shelly lead to the basement for experimentation. (+10 Lvl 1 Chaotic Good Souls)

With great speed and gusto you set about placing two of the souls into the snake. As usual the spell goes off without a hitch, but the souls have no obvious effect on the appearance, intelligence, or demeanor of the creature. Shelly suggests that you close your eyes, and see if the souls allow it to survive without an audience. You agree and do so, but when you open them again you find to your dismay that the snake has melted into a small puddle of water. You collect as much of the puddle as you can, intent on returning the mess to Kathryn when you next get the chance. (-2 Lvl 1 Chaotic Good Souls, +3 Gallons of Soul Enriched Water) 1d80+5 = 30 + 5 = 35

You then pack up and make the trek to the Yellow Lich’s tomb in Tartarus. The Lich notes your condition as soon as you arrive and is quite flattered by your explanation as to how you became undead. When it comes time to study the little bird nestles in your cleavage, so that he may feel your Ki as you practice.

He then attempts to teach you his signature spell, Soul Lightning, a brutal attack that converts a condensed soul into pure electric energy. You have a bit of success with the flimsy practice souls provided by the Lich, but eventually hit a wall and find further progress to be imposible. The Lich however encouraged to give it your all, so you begin to focus deeply. Suddenly every condensed soul in your possession burns at once and you unleash a truly devastating pulse of electrical energy! The Lich himself is protected by his contact with your body, but his mausoleum is wrecked and every other being inside except the burly Naga Thrall is reduced to ash. (-All Condensed Souls in your Inventory. -Frankie. You're Familiar has been struck down! Starting tomorrow you suffer a -5 penalty to all manipulation, which increases by -10 each day thereafter.) 1d80+12 = 1 + 12 = 13

The Yellow Lich is pissed at first, but you can tell he is completely enamored with you as his anger dies quickly. He invites you to return for more lessons or dates whenever you wish, as rebuilding his mausoleum will be a difficult task, and he could use a few breaks. You return without a familiar, condensed souls, nor the ability to cast Soul Lightning.

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Kathryn:

You set off early and jetski down to the Styx Crossing. You endure the flirting from the currently male clerk and purchase a bunch of weak souls and an artifact blueprint. (-70 ID. +10 Chaotic Good Souls. +1 Blueprint for Earrings of Fusion [1 green gemstone from an earth elemental realm, 1 blue gemstone from an earth elemental realm, 10 elven knucklebones, 1 bottle of 1970’s napa valley wine, 1 bar of dwarf smelted iron or steel, 1 Power Level 6 or higher soul])

The next place you visit is Palorur’s vineyard/potion shop. You track the Archmage down and hand over the briefcase of supplies, which he gladly accepts. In return he gives you a potion of permanence, which removes a being's ability to resist a magical condition effecting it, and removes any time limit from that condition. (-Briefcase, +Potion of Permanence)

Palorur sadly admits that he has been too busy with Archmage business in these desperate times to make a large stock of cheap potions and run a shop. Out of the blue he offers to give you a potion for each apprentice or employee you refer to him.

You return home and hand hand the souls over to Ariel and create a water snake for her to experiment with. You tell Shelly to babysit the manipulator and the snake before grabbing some books and heading to the Airport. You buy a cell phone from one of those fancy vending machines in the terminal. (-43 USD Taxi Fare, -178 USD, +1 Cellphone)

On the flight you read some of Jagen’s Journal. Because you are on a public plane you decide to skip the included spells and focus on Jagen himself. In 69 Jagen was in his early 30’s and was already one of the three chairmen of the Bureau of Fantastic Beings, alongside his two much older best friends Johnny ‘Howl’ Newman and Kestrel Harrison. Howl had just become the leader of LA’s biggest werebeing pack, Kestrel was being considered for the title of Archmage, and Jagen himself had cracked Magia Magizines list of Earth’s 500 most potent mages 11 years straight.

In 1971 however things fell apart rather quickly. Jagen’s twin sister Ursula was killed, and Kestrel refused to give him any information on the murder other than that a ‘drunk werebeing did it’. Jagen quickly stopped talking to Howl, suspecting that Kestrel was protecting the guilty party at the weremonitor’s request. Several months later the purge of the mystics caught up to LA. Kestrel’s wife Kathryn, and his daughters Thrush and Robyn, were all brutaly tortured to give up Kestrel’s location and eventually killed. Jagen himself helped his friend escape the realm. In exchange Kestrel told him the truth: It was Howl himself who killed Ursula while on a drinking binge gone wrong.

Unable to prove Kestrel’s story Jagen got back at Howl by trumping up an embezzlement case against him and forcing the weremonitor to resign his position on the Bureau. Jagen then filled Kestrel and Howl’s seats with like minded bigots and began putting into place the legislation to sorely oppress the Werebeings of Southern California. In 1974 the bureau was renamed The Board of Subhuman Affairs; by that point subhuman was indeed the best way to describe the rights enjoyed by the Werebeings of LA.

Eventualy you land in New York and check into your hotel near the airport. (-88 USD for the Hotel Room)

Adrian:

With the Gunship still undergoing repairs you hit the internet and find a PDF file detailing the cockpit and control system of the gunship. You spend hours running pages of the document through google Translate (For some reason it is in Arabic...) and reading key bits. To your surprise this exercise does in fact increase your understanding of the Gunship. (Progress Towards Mundane Skill Gunship Pilot: ⅕) 1d80+2 = 63 + 2 = 65

You then turn your attention to the power core you had pulled from the cloning ray and give it a good looking over. From what you can determine the core is designed to output large amounts of magical and mundane energy for large devices. You magic detector states that it seems to run on enchantments and manipulation. You figure that it could be useful if you wish to build some sort of large magical applience or device. (Take +3 for designing and/or building with the core) 1d80 = 42

Henry:

You purchase a vial of flurry and wolf it down to contact your patron. It is a good thing you did, it takes several attempts at mouse wrangling to get in touch with her. (-1 Mouse)

« 1d80+4 = 11 + 4 = 15 »
« 1d80+4 = 73 + 4 = 77 »
« 1d80+4 = 19 + 4 = 23 »


Terraphidite listens to your plea and agrees to contact Kwal, whom she had a hand in creating. She figures that she can help get the mess sorted out, and remove the blind loyalty. She makes you promise to help Kathryn accept her fate as a member of the circle should she react poorly to the removal of the brainwashing.

She then gives you a new mission. It would seem that her rival within the circle, the Ruby Golem Mevola, also has a follower in LA by the name of Luke Prowler. Mevola has little reguard for mundanes, and will likely order luke to start attacking mundane churches soon. Luke should be killed or otherwise dealt with, preferably before he makes a big scene out of killing mortals.

Satisfied with meeting you none the less want to protect Kathryn, so you book a ticket to New York at the last minute and hoof it to the airport. You come in on the red eye and book a cheap hotel in the big apple. It is at this point you determine that you have no clue exactly where Kathryn is going to be to deliver the package, or when she will be there... (-1798 USD. Last minute travel expenses.)
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« Reply #1009 on: July 17, 2012, 02:32:22 am »

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12 Hours: Search LA for the listed books and study them:
Advanced Magical Engineering by Cpt Goldberg,
Contacting Cyber Valley by Uplink 00021,
Mage's Guide to the Internet Volume 4: The Internet as a Realm by Steve Jobs
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« Reply #1010 on: July 17, 2012, 02:50:56 am »

Action: 2 Hours-Renting a Car, Seeing the sights, visiting old friends. Give Henry a Call, why don't I?

Kathryn had left NYC when she barely knew about magic-there were lots of people here she knew back then, who she realized were likely practioners now. It would be nice to get in touch with her old friends-tell them about her work in the New Order-and maybe see the sights she thought she had gotten sick of one upon a bye.

Action: 4 Hours-Delivering the Yellow Box to Andre and returning (Hopefully)

It was her job anyway...Andre's Manor wasn't far out from the city-and she knew how to get past his magic fields, too. She just had to hope she could come out again.

Action: 6 Hours-Travel to Airport (Rent-a-Car), and Plane ride to Back Home!
Reading material: Meister Jagen's Personal Journal and Spell Log: 2006-2009 (Has information on the beasts within the portals and how to control them)

Shit. Planes ALWAYS crashed on the way home. When you thought you were safe.
Kathryn white knuckle read the next part of the journal the whole trip back.


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The Kathryn Lynch Files

Stuck inbetween the 'The Other Dragon" case file and one after, a slip of a note flutters out and falls to the floor. You can't help but read what's written upon it...

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The King rules the Realm, his passion aflame

The Queen rules the King, to tend his hearts fire

But the Realm never sleeps, and neither do we

Gates and walls, Wind and Words, Time and Tide, Duty, Honor, Death...our fate to abide, ever and ever, amen

...Yet.



When the moon hides, and shuts her pale grey eye

We find each other, in the murk of night

And cavort and gyrate, amongst the pilfered wealth of nations

In a single moments clarity, sharp as the foemans blade...

Time ceases to tick, tides do not roll

The wind no longer sings, words fall short of apotheosis

The gates buckle, the walls fall

For My Breath of Fire, Your Tempest Touch

Bring forth a storm to shake the Hells

And make the Heavens sing


My gate will always open for Kathryn Lynch...all she has to do is say my true name three times-and the leagues that part us will be no more.

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Goddamn Stalker-Dragon, sent me this last Christmas. How'd he get my address?
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« Reply #1011 on: July 17, 2012, 03:23:11 am »

Somewhat Complicated Turn:
1 hour: Go get Otto and my Soul Insertion Kit from the manor. Frankie needs a new body. If possible, Buy a Vial of Flurry.
1 hour: Use the Gremlin Coin. If heads (result is based 100% on luck) attempt to use Condensed Soul Conversation to get ahold of Frankie. If tails (all successes/failures become crits), pray to every god I know about for divine assistance in locating Frankie. 1d80+0 if heads, 1d80+4+1 for Faith and Having a Number of Holy Symbols if tails.
10 hours: Get Frankie into Otto's Body. Quaff the Vial of Flurry if I can get one. Use Condense Soul to get Frankie's soul into a usable form, then Simple Soul Insertion to put Frankie into Otto. If I'm successful with using Condensed Soul Conversation, and Frankie tells me to do something else, do that instead. 1d80+4+5-5+???+??? for Connection, Time, hopefully not No Familiar, Frankie Hopefully Knowing How to Possess A Crocodile and maybe, if I'm lucky, the Assistance of the Yellow Lich respectively.

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« Reply #1012 on: July 17, 2012, 03:31:31 am »

2 hours: Meet up with Kath

4 hours: Delivering the Yellow Box with Kath

6 hours: Travel home.

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« Reply #1013 on: July 17, 2012, 03:33:12 am »

Did server go boom, or is that just on my end?
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« Reply #1014 on: July 17, 2012, 03:34:51 am »

Well, we're still on. Any luck with the last posted IP address?
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« Reply #1015 on: July 17, 2012, 03:39:37 am »

Giving that a try right now.
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« Reply #1016 on: July 17, 2012, 03:41:52 am »

I keep getting a connection reset or timeout error either way I try it. Imma try rebooting my PC.
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« Reply #1017 on: July 17, 2012, 03:43:17 am »

I'm getting the same, Imma try sleeping.
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« Reply #1018 on: July 17, 2012, 03:46:34 am »

Well, I have a log saved if anyone wants it to read later.
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« Reply #1019 on: July 17, 2012, 03:49:28 am »

And I get my disc issues sorted out an the server dies. Yay.
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