"inflict wounds on who?" Fox asked with raised eyebrows

Sun Snake shook his head, both to clarifying the wounds comment for Sabre Fox, and to the offer of the food.


Sun Snake will eat the meal if Rain Feather insists. Currently he's on 20/24EP, so not sure if that's the worst out of everyone or not.

Cna Sabre Fox use the Seeing Stone?

Just to declare my intentions, Fox actually does want to use the Seeing Stone, if its possible, Ill make a post asking as such

That'll dependon what you mean with "using". Remember, to use the Seeing Stones appropriately, mastery of either the Lorecircle of Spirit or Lorecircle of Light, as well as knowledge of the "Spirit Walking" Divination improvement (or some equivalent power like Banedon and Rimoha have), is required, so in that sense, the number of people actually capable of "using" a Seeing Stone in the whole world is really quite low.

On the other hand, calling on somebody holding the core Seeing Stone - which, you remember, Blue Snake explained is the one at the Monastery under his custody, and the only one that can connect with all the others rather than having a simple two-way link - that is something anybody can do, since that's not sending messages through the Seeing Stone, but rather setting up a beacon that will make it so the holder of the connected Seeing Stone can call you.
Also, your team's Seeing Stone is currently in Rain Feather's backpack, so it's up to her whether she wants to share it with anybody, or not.

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Well as Sun Snake has already a plan in mind, I can carry on Sabre Fox. So if you have nefarious reasons for going for the stone, you character will be gettng a perfect opportunity. Maybe...


Sun Snake looked around to the group, biasing to Sun Fox as if asking her permission for his idea. "We need to contact the monastery at least one more time to fully inform them of what we know and our plans. Rain Feather could not raise Master Blue Snake before."

Sun Snake puased for a moment, considering the steps to be repeated. "There are more Seeing Stone, apparently, than may be guessed." Sun Snake looked to Rain Feather for confirmation, perhaps also confirming she was not hoping he would keep this information to himself. "Black Beaver has made others. And I have always worried about and warned of the danger of the Seeing Stone - that it might have more power than we know, might be able to communcate with more people that stated."

Sun Snake laid out his plan. "There may be others - Valador, or Shining Peacock - with a stone themselves. And the ability to overhear out conversations. I think we need to ensure we are alone, that our reports are kept confidential. Especially given the warnings and information we now need to impart."

Sun Snake then once more looked to Rain Feather. "Apparently Dusk Rat may have another stone. We can communicate with the other group, perhaps, if we can bend our mental wills and we have luck on our side. Warn them of what we know. Discover what they do in case we are in danger we do not know of."

Sun Snake looked to the group again. "I would propose that Sabre Fox attempts to link to Master Blue Snake. While he does, Dawning Blade can guard us in case there is anything around that is sneaking up on us - as unlikely as that sounds. That will leave the rest of us to find a way to create a mental screen around Sabre Fox. Perhaps one of the three of us, with are differing psychic defenses - can detect an intrusion no matter the nature, no matter its disguise. Or perhaps with your combined knowledge of magics Rain Feather and Sun Fox, you may detect magical links top other stones while a primary connection is being made. And for myself, perhaps I can attempt to detect any intruding mind if we detect them. Or Rain Feather, you can send them an emotive persuasion to sever the link."

Sun Snake looked to Sun Fox again. "That way, we can hopefully send a secure message back. And then, with perhaps I can help Rain Feather connect to Dusk Rat if we know it is safe to do so, and we would not put that group in danger."

Sun Snake looked to the whole group, but his eyes fell to Sun Fox in the end.

Well, what can I say? It seems it's plot revelation season right now, what with Sun Snake's suddenly sharing everything he knows and what's going on in the Darklands thread... this is turning very interesting. :)

Sun Fox turned in surprise to Sun Snake, then shrugged and answered:

"Well, I really never was all that good in the mind disciplines; Blue Snake alwyas said I should ask to someone competent about them if I ever needed to, although the Grand Master said I would get the gist of them eventually. Either way, Sun Snake, if you think this can be done, I've no problem helping."

It was pretty evident that Sun Fox felt at ease in letting it up to Sun Snake to make the final decision.

"Well, I can confirm a few things:  Black Beaver made three more stones than he told Blue Snake that he did.  Dusk Rat has one, Red Dawn has one, and Peacock has the other.  Dusk isn't very skilled with the mental disciplines as far as I know, but Dawn is nothing short of a sadist and the Monastery's top interrogator... and Peacock is, well... Peacock.  I believe that I can handle one or the other- I may be able to block Dawn longer than I could Peacock, but I can't hold them off forever. It may take everything I have, but if we can get a message to the others, that may be worth it."

She rummages around in the pack and extracts the Stone, offering it to Sun Snake.

"So, are we ready to do this?"

"And Banedon has one, and perhaps Rimoah too...and therefore Haxadrom and Valador could have possessed copies, and given them to others. We may need to expect anyone to be around." Sun Snake then gestured to Sun Fox. "And Sun Fox and I have similar yet diufferent mentasl defenses. I hope any in the order may not expect us all to be acting in concert, and we have different defenses to you. We may be able to extend the time of detection by using tricks not expected. And perhaps I can use my gifts to trace back the mental pathways. I can provoke a reaction with a scan you may not be able to, and so buy you more time as a distraction."

sun Snake takes the stone, offering it to Sabre Fox. he also gestures back to his sword for Rain Feather, though indicating for her to also keep a hold of it, perhaps to detect how he uses it herself.


So, Sabre contacts Blue Sname or tries, while the other three of us stretch out senses for signs of anything around? Trying ot share a Psi-screen defense, and also combine Divination.Pathsmanship in the mix for Sun Snake to feel anything around mentally trying to eavesdrop?

Try to use the sword as a conduit too. Sabre Fox can hold on to it too, and Sun Snake use that connection to scan Sabre Fox and feel for anything trying ot touch Sabres mind?

I see you're really starting to get into the mixing up Magnakai Disciplines for your own good, aren't you? That's good, eventually you're going to really need it. :D

For now, you can use Psy-Screen mixed with Divination to detect any attempt of others to intercept the conversation, and if somebody does tries to intercept, I'll tell you and you'll have a chance to roll for a mixed Pathsmanship + Divination attempt to track the source back. You can use your sword to autosucceed on the Divination as usual, though each combination is a different use of Prudence's power... unless, of course, you're paying the 2 WP to use it as a Weaposnmastery effect instead, as you know.

I'll allow a second person to hold Prudence at the same time as you, but that'll only help them if they're using a Divination-based power, and you know nobody else on this team has Divination.

So, Divination is free of charge for Prudence's effect, but Psy-Screen is a 3 WP cost, so you'll have to pay me that.

Anybody has any use of their powers they want to add before we let Sabre make his call?

Taking the Seeing Stone, Fox nodded to the plan

"It might not be much, but ill put up my own Mindshield as well. Every little helps after all"

Fox will use his own Mindshield for added help

She holds out the sword as Snake instructed.

"Let's just hope we can get through..."  she says softly.

OOC:  Rain will add her Psi-Screen and Psi-Surge.  I would imagine Psi-Surge might be enough to force enough power into a Seeing Stone to either stun or disable the user who's listening in.  It might be worth it to let Snake hold his sword and let Rain pull out Breakwater.
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Remember that, if you want to do this, one of your hands will need to be on the Seeing Stone - meaning you only have a free one to held a weapon in. You need to either pick Breakwater, in which case, as always, you have not to pay anything for your usage of Psy-Screen and Psy-Surge, or held onto Prudence, hoping you'll get to use its power during the attempt, while paying me 5 Wp for the combined use of Psy-Screen and Psy-Blast to broadcars the screen over another, single individual, plus the WP cost of whatever ability you'll want to use should the opportunity to use Psy-Blast to attack a possible interloper present itself.

So, what is your choice?

OOC:  I'll pull Breakwater, then.  I don't have a whole lot of WP remaining, and I need to conserve.

Ok, then, let's do this.

Sun Fox nodded to the others preparation, and all four the Magnakai put one hand on the Seeing Stone while Sabre Fox closed his eyes, and then, following Sun Snake's instructions, thought about Blue Snake, so that the older Magnakai could perceive the feeling and answer them.

However, as all four of them waited, no answer was forthcoming from the Seeing Stone; it seemed as if they could not reach Blue Snake. In fact, all four of them, sharing in the connection, felt a strange feeling of emptyness as nobody answered their call, almost as if it had been lost at some point rather than reaching its intended target. Yet, none of them could feel any tampering or interference with their mental barriers; the call had not been stopped, nor had anyone been hiding in wait to overhear it.

It just gave them the sensation that their request had fell on deaf ears.

Each of you can make a reaction post to this, then we'll close this thread and move to the next.

"...this is bad.  This is very, very bad.  Do you think something might have happened to Blue Snake- or the Seeing Stone he has?"

Her eyes flicked to one, then another.  The implications of this, that something had happened back at the Monastery... rose other questions.  Had something happened there?

It was very tempting to attempt to raise Dusk Rat on the stone, to scream that they needed to get back to the Monastery and check on the situation there, because something was very, very wrong.

"Ill have to go with Rain on this, I mean im no psychic, but it would be unlike Blue Snake to miss a call like that....... unless something was seriously going down"

If Sun Snake had any thoughts on the issue of his own master, he kept his own council.  However his expression was one of deep worry, and he seemed lost.

"I felt nothing. No eavesdroppers nor interference, as well as Master Blue Snake." As if reading Rain Feather's mind, Sun Snake looked to his fellow Kai. "Try reaching out to Dusk to Dusk Rat." Sun Snake pushed forwards the stone again.


Sorry, rushing out the door, can you summarise what that attempt cost us in WP? I presume I didn't lose a sword charge since we didn't get a chance to use anything. SO was it just the 3WP for Psi-screen?

"Yeah, I'll see if I can contact her.  Hopefully she'll be able to at least let us know that they're okay..."

She focused on the stone again and called to mind the young animal-affiliated Kai.  Hopefully they were all right... and in a place to talk to them.

Sun Snake gripped the sword, and focused with Rain Feather. He tried to share his mind as he had done once with the memories of the Agarashi. This time, his memories were of Dusk Rat's mind the time he had scanned her, fearing her a Helghast after the Vordak fight.

Sword use for auto-succeed if its needed, if I can use Divination to get boost Rain's efforts.

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No need to spend further WP for this - I will count the ones you spent for the attempt to reach Blue Snake (second failed in the same day, actually, if we consider Rain Feather's one) to be valid for this one as well.

You get the sensation that Dusk Rat received your call - but, of course, she hasn't the power to call back, and you haven't the power to send her any message, either.

Anything else you want to try?

Nothing else from me. So that's 3WP psi-screen and 1 use of Patience?

Yes, that's right. So, has anybody anything else to add, or can I close the thread?

I would think we can close this thread and move on.

Don't think Fox was involved in that one so nothing from me!

Ok, then this thread is closed - I'll open up a new one tomorrow morning.