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[Egan_BW]

((I will point out that it is impossible to singe Sand's hair, as she is bald.))

[piecewise]

((I will point out that it is impossible time singe Sand's hair, as she is bald.))

Technically he didn't say WHAT hair.
*EYEBROWS INTENSIFY*

[OceanSoul]

((I will point out that it is impossible time singe Sand's hair, as she is bald.))

Technically he didn't say WHAT hair.
*EYEBROWS INTENSIFY*

*ARMPITS INTENSIFY TOO*

[NJW2000]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what a ride!
Sit up from the puddle, check to make sure all my limbs and organs are in place and more or less intact, and then shout at the godling.

Hey! You here to kill us or are you my new summon? Or maybe some third thing? Either way, you wanna be friends? I got this coupon for a free large pizza at Mike's house of Unbearably Large Sausage. We could have a slice and then maybe light it on fire and sacrifice the waitress.

If the new guy attacks me, summon both my summons and pulp his ungrateful face. If he offers eldrich power, make like the lead in a bad porno and ask if there's anything I can do to pay for it.

The... man? smiles indulgently as you chatter on, then replies in a surprisingly normal voice. I mean, you can hear just at the periphery of your mind someone screaming the words a fraction of a second before he says them, but the main voice is really quite lovely.

"Of course, we will not forget she who brought us into her world, gave us her flesh to learn from and mingled our bloods. We can grant power beyond belief, beyond the demons and petty gods of witches."


You make a coy offer of help.


"Why yes. That one," and he points to Micky crouched behind a tree, an orb of brilliant light shining beside the terrified boxer, "He destroyed many who were loyal to us, threatening our immanence. End him, if our cause is yours."

You feel a massive surge of ritual power run through you.

Try to stay out of sight.

You squirm behind a tree, nearly invisible in the shadows. Then a blinding ball of light flickers into existence right beside you. The hairs stand up on the back of your spine as you feel a god staring at you.

Whelp, we either succeeded or failed, and either way its about time we headed back... So I'd better Start Crawling Away!

Laboriously, you move away from what was probably the thing you were meant to keep out of the world. Almost definitely a good life choice. Or rather, not-dying choice.

Vince looks pretty surprised when he opens up the van.

"So you won - ohforgodssake what is that in the sky? How did they summon it so fast? It shouldn't have been possible for them, they're bleeding Hipsters, not witches or sorcerors or anything! Get in the van, get in the van, we're going, we're going, is anyone still alive out there?"

Did that beast just escape? It's one thing for me to lose my Runic sight, another to spend a majority of the mission fighting a monster, but having the monster flee with all its magical materials and Puissant clot, leaving me with absolutely nothing to show for it. Follow after the beast. Once I'm sure it's dead (when I get a Puissant clot, probably), harvest it's blood into what was once the molasses container. Pull out a fang or two, also. If it's not dead, and it will die very wood from bleeding, etc., wait. If it's not dead, then it deserves another serving of murderous molasses.

You find the beast repeatedly slamming its head against the church wall, either thinking it's an enemy or just trying to end its own pitiful existence. Despite sustaining multiple heavy injuries and losing both eyes, the creature is still alive. You begin to suspect that hot sugar is a poor way of murdering people, unless they die of shock.

You go for a repeated volley of projectiles delivered nearly point blank, aiming at its throat, mouth and nose.

4,5,6,6,3,5

You manage to hit it directly between the jaws twice, and once on the nose, and a couple of times aroud the throat and mouth, before all your puissance is gone. It takes about thirty seconds to die, probably drowning on burning syrup or its own blood or something, and you get a puissance clot. Sweet! And then another, as you look towards the centre of the park and accidentally catch a glimpse of a god swirling in the skies above a man.

Welp, sounds like my allies won the battle by getting bombed.  Time to start the looting; break into some house, stab the occupants to death before they wake up and start screaming, then steal whatever looks valuable or useful.

You begin random burgulary.

Prac:5
Ag:1+1
Banal/Melee:5+2

You silently jimmy a window open, trip over and smash an ornamental vase on your way in, and briefly stab the person who comes downstairs to investigate. Seems like he was the only occupant.

Prac (find): 4

You manage to find three hundred pounds in cash, a gold ring, about six combat-workable knives, and a hockey stick if you want one.
Then the sirens start going off. The police again.





It's pretty clear that the thing you were sent to stop coming into the world has arrived. A mass of swirling lights in the sky above the burning man in the park, something in your animal hindbrains tells you it's unmistakeably a god.

Spoiler: sheets (click to show/hide)

Lucian Faust

DEAD

Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic Sight - 1

Agility - 2
Melee - 1

Inventory: £35
[Ugly Brass Lamp Body Staff][Rubix Cube Pendant]
Runes: Detachment: written all over you by this point, a disenchanting childhood has got you used to misfortunes. Increased function while severely wounded.
Righteousness: a rune that signed subtly with the fingers helps convince people that you're working for the forces of good. Does not work on evil or amoral entities.
Puissant clots: 0

Puissance:4/6

Name: Sand

Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 3
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 0

Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 3
Practicality - 0

Inventory: £20, pepsi can full of road guts
[Glass Skull Chalice]
{Broken/Transcended Chalice}

Puissant clots: 2

Puissance:5/5

Goe T. Thelle

Now slightly bestial in appearance

Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic sight - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Banal combat - 0 +1 due to beasthood

Aim - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Melee - 0  +1 due to beasthood
Agility - 1 +1 due to beasthood
Practicality - 1 -1 due to beasthood

Inventory: £30, empty jar, clockface minus one hand.
[Dog Collar Pendant] (unuseable for 1 hour) [Molasses Clockhand Wand]
Runes:
Isolation: you never had many friends or allies, so are used to poor odds.  +1 to rolls when outnumbered and alone.
Stoicism: a rune that calms those dealing with shock, tragedy or injury.
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance: 2/6

Jimmy "Car bombs" Castanza
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 3
Banal combat - 0

Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 0 -2 (Multiple fractures to leg bones)
Practicality - 3

Inventory: £35, very rusty saw, length of pipe stuck to block of concrete,
[Lightbulb Antenna Wand]
Runes:
Detonation: volatile stuff explodes or catches fire more when you're around it. You can't help it, it must be genetic. Written rune used to detonate volatile substances.
Dead Man Running: you escaped the wrath of a mafia boss. Higher chance of surviving things that should really be deadly.
Mafioso: a mafia hitman, you preferred not to let your targets know they were hunted until after they were spread over an area of three hundred metres. Bonus to carefully planned unexpected attacks.
Alchemical (definitely idiot) savant: you saw an alchemist's shop when wandering around London, and deluded yourself that you understood something of how it worked. Because of the nature of magic, this belief is now partially true. Use this rune to make substances a bit more useful or volatile when used in alchemy.
Trader: a rune that when signed signifies to people that you'd be a good guy to buy from and sell things to.
Reticence: a rune whispered to you by birds perched on phone lines, you can get information without giving away much about yourself.
Bethel: a rune that enhances and aids summoning performed where it is written.

Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:4/5

Ben Breeze

Stats:
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 3

Aim - 1
Melee - 1
Agility - 1
Practicality - 0

Inventory: £325, knife, taser, handcuffs, police baton, stab vest, torch, incapacitant spray, and a first aid kit. Also a bag of athames, a gold ring.
[Possession Gem]
Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:5/5

Micky Roberts

Horribly burnt, chest and arm bones shattered.
 
Puissant fettle -
Ritual potency -
Runic sight - 1
Banal combat - 2

Aim -
Melee - 2 -3 from injury
Agility - 1
Practicality -

Inventory: £40
[Boxing Glove Pendant][Sports Drink and Centaur Urine Chalice]
Runes:
Evasive blocker: you sometimes won fights without your opponent scoring a single point, moving your fists in a complex pattern not entirely conforming to Euclidean gemoetry. Makes it harder for opponents to hit you in melee.
Substantial: a rune that lends weight and mass to the thing it is written on.

Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:3/5

Sir Lootington

DEAD

Puissant Fettle- 1
Ritual Potency- 1
Runic Sight- 1

Melee- 1
Agility- 1
Practicality- 1

Inventory: £50
[Ivory Cane Staff] ("The Staff of Power")
Runes:
What-ho Jeeves: a walking trope, you recieve a bonus to doing anything stereotypically british.
Crater: when written, this rune causes a small, briefly delayed explosion.

Puissant clots: 1

Puissance:6/6

[OceanSoul]

Harvest blood from the beast into the empty jar, and try to harvest some physical matter from the beast, preferably a fang, some fur, and maybe another bone or 2 if it's not too hard. If I'm having trouble harvesting, give the beast a magical spin and see what centrifugal force pushes out(probably molasses)Put the fur in my right pocket, if possible. Then, pull out a little bit of MY fir, and put it in my left pocket.

Turns out that using a demon's blood to summon a demon summons the exact same demon. Who knew?

[S34N1C]

Punch it.

[piecewise]

Hmm, this feels like a trap. But my daddy issues and huge desire for power renders my better judgement null! Sorry guy who I barely know!

Fire both summons at Mr. Mouse over there. And anyone who attacks me; kill them too.

[TheBiggerFish]

((Wow, piecewise deserves a place amongst Derm and Xantalos in the Pantheon of Chaos.))

[crazyabe]

"Oh, THAT? thats a Sands Fault. I think a she fell in love with what ever the fucka it is."

[syvarris]

Quickly look out a window (from a distance) to estimate how many cops there are.  If there's a good chance of there being more than three, exit via the opposite side of the house.  If three or less, then crouch as close to the top of the stairs as is possible while still being in sight of the door.  Throw a knife into the first person through, and immediately retreat upstairs before any retaliation can be sent back.

[NJW2000]

Harvest blood from the beast into the empty jar, and try to harvest some physical matter from the beast, preferably a fang, some fur, and maybe another bone or 2 if it's not too hard. If I'm having trouble harvesting, give the beast a magical spin and see what centrifugal force pushes out(probably molasses)Put the fur in my right pocket, if possible. Then, pull out a little bit of MY fir, and put it in my left pocket.

Hmm... when it comes to cutting the creature up, you don't actually have a knife or anything... you do have claws though.

With much rending, tearing and splattering, you get one fang, some fur, two bones. You also get some of your own fur.

You can hear Vince screaming at you to get back sharpish.

Turns out that using a demon's blood to summon a demon summons the exact same demon. Who knew?

Not necessarily. In this case, Sand wasn't powerful enough to escape her part in the ritual, so her actions just created an even more convenient portal for the god she was meant to be stopping. But demonic blood could produce a very similar demon.

Hmm, this feels like a trap. But my daddy issues and huge desire for power renders my better judgement null! Sorry guy who I barely know!
Fire both summons at Mr. Mouse over there. And anyone who attacks me; kill them too.

Punch it.

Both summons? You only have one, the other one is the permenantly-summoned god you're serving.

5+2 vs 3+1

Micky tries to roll under the demons and towards Sand as she sends masses of crystalline snakes towards him, but is caught full in the chest by a spear of writhing and transparent serpents. Lifted agonisingly into the air, his body is consumed and nullified by the lance of living magic, until nothing remains but a vague outline against the stars.

"Well done."

The incandescent man being ridden by a god takes Sand's hand.

"Come, we must choose where the seat of our power in this delicious mortal plane will be. And we must find underlings to serve us beneath you."

"Oh, THAT? thats a Sands Fault. I think a she fell in love with what ever the fucka it is."

Vince screams out the van window that he's leaving in twenty seconds.

Quickly look out a window (from a distance) to estimate how many cops there are.  If there's a good chance of there being more than three, exit via the opposite side of the house.  If three or less, then crouch as close to the top of the stairs as is possible while still being in sight of the door.  Throw a knife into the first person through, and immediately retreat upstairs before any retaliation can be sent back.

There's several squad cars, so more than three. Perhaps they're coming to investigate the explosions or something. But two pull up outside the house you're in.

Ag: 5+1

You silently escape the house by the garden, and move away from the scene of the crime via alleys and deserted underpasses.

You're still in midnight suburbs. There aren't even any magical creatures visible.



So, Piecewise, I'm afraid there's a slight problem here. Sand has succeeded in summoning and pledging yourself to an active and horrific god, meaning she has a large source of power and murder. But to be honest, you're likely to become a little irrelevant to the plot right now, as nobody in the London Coven is strong enough to fight a god.

Sand doesn't necessarily have to end here. You could, for example, send occasional PMs about the choices of Sand and her fiance as you Bonnie-and-Clyde your way across the magical world, perhaps even impacting on the Coven from time to time. Or that could happen in a separate thread or something, involving other players even, if anyone wanted to be in it.

The problem is that if your adventures were to continue in this thread, you'd be on an entirely different storyline to the Coven. The two couldn't even cross anytime soon, thanks to the power difference between the players and a god. So which would you prefer: separate thread/occasional PMs/end of Sand/anything else?


Anyway, waitlisters might want to start thinking about what weapons they'll use, as you'll probably all be players in a turn or two.

Spoiler: sheets (click to show/hide)

Lucian Faust

DEAD

Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic Sight - 1

Agility - 2
Melee - 1

Inventory: £35
[Ugly Brass Lamp Body Staff][Rubix Cube Pendant]
Runes: Detachment: written all over you by this point, a disenchanting childhood has got you used to misfortunes. Increased function while severely wounded.
Righteousness: a rune that signed subtly with the fingers helps convince people that you're working for the forces of good. Does not work on evil or amoral entities.
Puissant clots: 0

Puissance:4/6

Name: Sand

Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 3
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 0

Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 3
Practicality - 0

Inventory: £20
[Glass Skull Chalice]
{Broken/Transcended Chalice}

Puissant clots: 2

Puissance:5/5

Goe T. Thelle

Now slightly bestial in appearance

Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic sight - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Banal combat - 0 +1 due to beasthood

Aim - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Melee - 0  +1 due to beasthood
Agility - 1 +1 due to beasthood
Practicality - 1 -1 due to beasthood

Inventory: £30, empty jar, clockface minus one hand.
From the beast: one fang, some fur, two bones. Also some of your own fur after being transformed into a beast.
[Dog Collar Pendant] (unuseable for 1 hour) [Molasses Clockhand Wand]
Runes:
Isolation: you never had many friends or allies, so are used to poor odds.  +1 to rolls when outnumbered and alone.
Stoicism: a rune that calms those dealing with shock, tragedy or injury.
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance: 4/6

Jimmy "Car bombs" Castanza
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 3
Banal combat - 0

Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 0 -2 (Multiple fractures to leg bones)
Practicality - 3

Inventory: £35, very rusty saw, length of pipe stuck to block of concrete,
[Lightbulb Antenna Wand]
Runes:
Detonation: volatile stuff explodes or catches fire more when you're around it. You can't help it, it must be genetic. Written rune used to detonate volatile substances.
Dead Man Running: you escaped the wrath of a mafia boss. Higher chance of surviving things that should really be deadly.
Mafioso: a mafia hitman, you preferred not to let your targets know they were hunted until after they were spread over an area of three hundred metres. Bonus to carefully planned unexpected attacks.
Alchemical (definitely idiot) savant: you saw an alchemist's shop when wandering around London, and deluded yourself that you understood something of how it worked. Because of the nature of magic, this belief is now partially true. Use this rune to make substances a bit more useful or volatile when used in alchemy.
Trader: a rune that when signed signifies to people that you'd be a good guy to buy from and sell things to.
Reticence: a rune whispered to you by birds perched on phone lines, you can get information without giving away much about yourself.
Bethel: a rune that enhances and aids summoning performed where it is written.

Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:4/5

Ben Breeze

Stats:
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 3

Aim - 1
Melee - 1
Agility - 1
Practicality - 0

Inventory: £325, knife, taser, handcuffs, police baton, stab vest, torch, incapacitant spray, and a first aid kit. Also a bag of athames, a gold ring.
[Possession Gem]
Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:5/5

Micky Roberts

Horribly burnt, chest and arm bones shattered.

In fact, horribly DEAD
 
Puissant fettle -
Ritual potency -
Runic sight - 1
Banal combat - 2

Aim -
Melee - 2 -3 from injury
Agility - 1
Practicality -

Inventory: £40
[Boxing Glove Pendant][Sports Drink and Centaur Urine Chalice]
Runes:
Evasive blocker: you sometimes won fights without your opponent scoring a single point, moving your fists in a complex pattern not entirely conforming to Euclidean gemoetry. Makes it harder for opponents to hit you in melee.
Substantial: a rune that lends weight and mass to the thing it is written on.

Puissant clots: 3

Puissance:3/5

Sir Lootington

DEAD

Puissant Fettle- 1
Ritual Potency- 1
Runic Sight- 1

Melee- 1
Agility- 1
Practicality- 1

Inventory: £50
[Ivory Cane Staff] ("The Staff of Power")
Runes:
What-ho Jeeves: a walking trope, you recieve a bonus to doing anything stereotypically british.
Crater: when written, this rune causes a small, briefly delayed explosion.

Puissant clots: 1

Puissance:6/6

[Egan_BW]

In a turn or two?

Begin existing now!

[TheBiggerFish]

Oooo I want in.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Bob Howard

Backstory: Prior to discovering magic, Bob was a computer programmer.  Bob is still a computer programmer, but his code now has things like import Shub-Niggurath; in it.

Physical Description: Your average nerd.  Has good eyesight, surprisingly, but otherwise prone to xkcd t-shirts, pastiness, and generally being the kind of guy you expect to always have at least 1d20.

Stats:

Magical Stats:

Puissant fettle - 1

Ritual potency - 1

Runic sight - 1

Banal combat - 0


And physicals:

Aim - 0

Melee - 0

Agility - 0

Practicality - 3

[Egan_BW]

Oooo I want in.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Your name here.

Backstory: You've only just become aware of the existence of witchcraft and other arcane things, through being recruited by the Coven. You've only recently entered this world inside the world, but are now permenantly part of it. You've already bidden goodbye to your ordinary existence, and any family, friends or colleagues will soon forget you ever existed, due to magic that does not require further exposition right now. But feel free to tell us all about your previous life!

Physical Description: May be important later too: a Chinese teenage girl is probably going to have a harder time than some disguising herself as a rabbi than some.

Stats: See below For statsheet. Six points allowed in total, with three for arcane stats and three for physicals.

Nice blank sheet.

[TheBiggerFish]

It's called an edit button.