Grab some of the living metal that was left behind. Ya never know when something like that will come in handy.
Also look for anything useful that the sewer thing might have left behind. Make sure to cast the no-smell on it first, though.
Drag everything back to Vince's. Might as well hit Nanami with the amazing-smell spell for her meeting with Dave.
for the purposes of the fifth spell I should carry little plastic bags containing things with different smells. Grab some rotten food from Vince's fridge, a flower from somewhere outside, and some blood from... you know, pretty much everywhere.
You collect a plastic bag's worth of the twisting, shivering animated metal, bits of living matter trying to remember whether they were meant to be pipes or arteries, car windows or skin follicles.
Sadly, by the time you're done with the organic scrap, the leavings of the sewer beast have sunk back into the ground, or been picked up by scavengers. You just miss a triumphant group of pigeons carrying some kind of ray gun away.
You make Nanami smell amazing, which is useful, as a bit of eau de canal was still clinging to her, before gathering little bags of different substances. Then Vince calls you into the sitting room.
If Don's screams get too loud and annoying during the procedure, go in there and hit him hard enough on the head to knock him out. Then go meet up with Vince while grousing about insane and incompetent teammates.
Don barely screams at all, so he must be pretty tough or unconscious from pain. You wait half an hour in the living room with Vince, complaining about how nobody else turns up on time.
"Sorry, but I can't do anything about the pain. If you are still willing to continue, it's going to hurt. Try to not scream very loudly."
Yeah, continue with the surgery as a free action. Keep the largest one intact like Don said and hand it to him as a weapon.
Do I have enough time to go to a shop that sells janitorial supplies to buy a steel mop?Do that. Then make it a level 3 broom with my 3 clots (One to make it a broom, 2 to upgrade it). Then affix my dragon knife in the end with glue, tape, bandages and thread. Return of the mop-spear!
Also, recover my caduceus from Nanami.
Let's do the spike removal. Make sure that Zamenis keeps the longest spike intact. Wand plans- I will sharpen the tip and carry it on me for the time being.
Also, should I have >5 puissance? I have a point in Puissant Fettle now.
As for my actual action, if I have time to go shopping, drop the Maserati that I stole off at the Bazaar. Time to go selling for goods/cash.
If I can't do that but do have time, go to the bazaar.
Sawing off the especially protuding spikes is easy enough, although Don passes out a minute in. By the end, Zamenis has a collection of the largest spikes to hand him.
Zamenis recreates his broom-spear, with a tough metal cleaning implement and very strong glue affixed to his life-draining dragon tooth. A fearsome weapon indeed. He then turns up to the meeting in Vince's sitting room.
Don meanwhile sells the Maserati at the magical market, only getting £1700 for it. The buyer, a kindly yeti matron, explains that stolen goods are more trouble than they're worth often, while human vehicles aren't particularly desirable to occult beings.
Money is really easy to get for witches. What with the misting over of magical events in the minds of mortals, their arcane abilities, and all. Just sayin'.
Not sure what Don wants at the market. Need some kind of specifics, unless it's just general browsing.
"Truthfully, what I need is some free time, Vince. You think I could get a month without Amdukias on my back at some later date?"
Tell Dave I'll head right over for another one. On the way there, sell the assault rifle back to the gunfarmers, and see if I can get a silenced pistol and some cash left over.
The next post is to cover most of the fight by the waterfront. As usual, do some changes to make it look better, such as having Ben and Nanami sneak past the first few mind-controlled guards, only to get spotted by the weird crystal rock thing, who then has its people shoot at us. We fight back, the crystal thing MCs Ben over some time, because he's the biggest target, and is more vulnerable than the others due to his odd magic. While this was going on, Bella swoops in, as she was waiting for our signal, and fights it out with the overhead birds the rock had MCed. Eventually, ben wounds a couple guys, gets MCed, Nanami uses illusions and knocks the gun away, which Bella picks up and finishes off the giant rock in an explosion. This causes most of the MCed guys to panic, drop weapons, and flee.
After the battle, we got pretty lucky, getting away with only light wounds, Ben will give Nanami a good talk about how she needs to be able to defend herself, because it may not be just her at risk if she can't strike back, and how not everything we encounter can understand concepts like surrender or co-existance. In addition, if she wants to do something great, there's no reason to be afraid of becoming powerful. Also, the 'light' mentioned by the rock must be the power source, so we're on the right track.
Nanami is going to put on an illusion when going into Dave's, but it'll be in-between the usual stunning look and her natural look which is upgraded from that. Other things to do are to advertise among the fanbase looking for a bird expert or enthusiast who lives in the city and to review Dave's suggestions for the new characters. If one of them looks good, tell him to write it up and get ready for an introduction later.
As for powers and abilities, draw Nanami this time as beautiful to the limits of our skills to depict, including some additional hair length. Do tell Dave that I'll get another video together soon.
You exchange the rifle for a silenced pistol and £200 or so.
The new episode goes well with Dave, and starts gaining traction again online almost at once, but it isn't enough to gain any more power. He hints clumsily that another video or something like it might be a good idea, for getting more attention. Dave has added one or two of his own characters already, just to keep the blog alive.
You rework your image again, hair down to your legs and legs down to the floor. Dave gets kinda flustered while doing this bit, so you keep him on background sketches. Irritating to have such a weak-willed mortal as the seat of your demonic power.
Having forcibly relocated every Coven member to the briefing room, a.k.a. his sitting room, Vince sets out your next task.
"While witch Covens generally work for themselves, by themselves, they do act as guards, mercenaries, assassins and other hirelings if the price is high enough to interest them. That's assuming anyone has a task strange, secret or life-threatening to hire large groups dangerous, barely-qualified idiots one step away from mortals."
Vince presses on almost before you can assume he was referring to everyone but you.
"Our client wants a very valuable item delivered to a buyer, one that has to be transported manually, across some difficult territory. I know what you're thinking, but no, you can't steal it, two powerful organisations would try to reclaim it, as would people far less scrupulous than you if you tried to hold onto it for more than a day. And that's saying nothing of what the item itself could do to you."
Vince sighs.
"Now we've established that you're not going to try and steal it, we'll tell you where to pick up the object in question. You'll want to stake a route out in advance, and talk to both sides about where you collect and drop off the thing. This would normally call for organisation, teamwork, and good judgement, but to be honest nobody else would touch the fucking thing, so you lot are carrying it. That being the case, please at least try and pretend you are capable of the things I just said."
Vince gives you the address of the buyer, a building in central London, and waves you away, opening a packet of crisps. Dealing with what the televison is calling a major biochemical attack, and what was absolutely your fault, seems to have tired him out substantially.Name: Nanami Adachi. (Nanami)
Unnatural beauty granted by demonic contract and the adoration of mortals. Slight charisma/popularity boost.
Power from mortal media.
Can create illusions.
Conscripted into twenty-nineth legion of Amdukias.
Puissance: 2 +1 not from Amdukias
Ritual: 0
Runic Sight: 1
Banal Combat: 0
Aim: 1
Melee: 0
Agility: 1
Praticality: 3
Inventory: £225
Backpack, expensive camera + memory cards
Quality sketching paper, art pens+pencils, charcoal, etc.
Sketches of self as main character, Amdukias, the non-mortal world, etc.
[Tier Two Glass Rod Crystal Wand] - Enhanced slightly through media
Large, fist-sized mind-controlling spacerock fragments.
Painting supplies, a glass cutter, battery powdered soldering iron, eighty feet of red cloth, white rag and thread
Diving gear: masks, suits and some scuba tanks. (dumped)
Knife
Gunfarmer's Silenced MK-23 Pistol 12/12
Runes
Pestilence: all living things will someday die. This rune accelerates the processes of death with the energies of life - a draining and a consumption at once.
Puissance: 11/13
Puissant Clots: 2
Ben Breeze
Stats:
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 6
Aim - 1
Melee - 1
Agility - 3
Practicality - 0
Inventory: 2xtaser, handcuffs, police baton, stab vest, torch, incapacitant spray, and a first aid kit. All in sports bag.
4 Athames, 2.5 legs War Bacon (Vince's Fridge), a worn face-concealing hooded coat, bin bags.
Concealed: knife in one boot, knife on a leg, and one on his torso.
Two generous Roast Beef and Horseradish Sandwiches
Two bin bags of assorted pills from pharmacy (Vince's fridge).
£20
Set of keys and passcard
Gunfarmer P90 (50/50) (in bag)
FN Minimi light machine gun, 200-round belt, (59/200) round belt
Puissant clots: 7
Puissance:5/5
Name: Zamenis Paean
Puissant fettle: 3
Agility: 3
Aim: 3
LICH: feeds on the bleeding hearts of his enemies.
Undead. Necromancy bonus.
Heavily Charred, not that it matters to you. But you look like you've spent the night on a live barbecue grill.
Respined and very slightly shorter.
Inventory: £1, Certificate from Belial (valid for one sample of occult substance)
Large Knife, knife.
Surgical tools: scalpel, a saw, and tweezers.
A length of shimmering, crystalline rope,
{Unknown Potion}
Dragon Tooth Phylactery on [Tier Three Steel Mop Broom]
[Human Leg Wand]
[Ulna and Hand Wand]
Lightning Longsword
Human spine caduceus
Puissant Clots: 3
Puissance: 14/14
Name: Don Joe
Back covered in bone casing, small spikes
Ritual Strength - 2
Runic Sight - 1
Puissance - 1
Aim - 2
Agility - 1
Practicality - 1
Inventory: £1830
Murdered guy's wallet
Card of Mortal-mind cleanup guy
[Chain Coin Pendant] - Used
[Giraffe Wine Chalice]
Simple Knife
Five bone spikes
Runes
Market Savvy: You know what things are worth, and who will pay for or try to get them. From your time spent as a banker, a passive rune.
Acid: a rune that eats into whatever it touches.
Nebula: a rune that glows brilliantly, written in brilliant points of light. Can be written on the sky itself to send messages through the stars.
Puissance: 6/6
Puissant Clots: 3
[spoiler=it's the cycle of life]
Name: Jane Zisigin
[Heeded by Deep Ones]
Puissant fettle: 2
Runic Sight: 1
Aim: 3
Inventory: [Tier Two Deodorant Stick Wand]
£50
Bag of living scrap metal
Samples of: Human blood, Roses, Rotten Food
Runes
Megafauna: the first magical creature Jane really saw was a demonic rhinoceros trampling the broken bodies of her parents. This rune gives a passive awareness of nearby massive beasts, and will attract them when written.
Waif: boost to stealth when alone.
Clots:0
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