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This message was last updated by the GM at 00:57, Fri 24 Mar 2017.

Hello, folks. Token American Acanthus here. Nameless, but not always so.

Welcome Clasm!  I'm our resident necromancer and proud member of the bibliophile club.  Hope you're ready for all the recruitment pitches the orders are going to throw your way...

Hello everyone.

Street savvy shaman here.  Looks like everyone is going with their Shadow Names (or at least part of them, in Nexus' case) for their handles?

Hey Nexus, welcome to the party!  I think using our Shadow Names as our player tags is probably easiest to keep track of.  Makes the use of real names more unusual seeming whenever it comes up and helps divorce the two identities a bit in my mind.

It's technically Weaver-of-the-Nexus, but I simplified.

I suspect that the specifics behind the aforementioned "not always so" might slow those down, depending on local attitudes toward refugees from the ranks of the Seers.

Yeah, Clasm has all sorts of reasons to prefer her Shadow Name.

@Clasm
Heh, yeah I can see where that might throw a wrench in things.  I'm sure someone will still want you though, for questioning if nothing else.

Out of curiosity, which meaning of Clasm are you going for?  I know of it as a suffix in Greek words that deal with destruction or breaking things, but I've never seen it used as a stand alone word.

What prefix goes to the suffix depends on what agenda she's pursuing, since her Plan A for most problems is to be an asshole to the problem until it does something stupid. Iconoclasm, Phagoclasm, Pentaclasm... she's currently on Scopoclasm, but expect that to change to either Axioclasm or something relating to the main plot during play.

It's why she just goes by Clasm; it avoids the tedium of reintroduction.

Ah, haha that's pretty damn cool.  I'll be curious to see how it turns out in play.

Who all is taking the actual Shadow Name merit?

While mechanically tempting, it's not on my to-buy list.

Doesn't really mix well thematically with Occultation, unfortunately. Might pick it up via Sanctity of Merits if she gets too high profile for some reason.

I think I'm done.

I'll be filling in the personal description and such.

Does anyone need any help with anything?

And so there were six! We've got our cast, welcome everybody!

Still have character stuff to hammer out but we should get our teeth into actually playing within the week.

Hello! Hi, everyone. I'll be the final jerk for this thing. Good to meet.

It seems we'll be a very international group; Selene is an Australian moon goddess/Mastigos. She's about identity, madness, and tempting emotional intensity. I tweaked her concept a little bit through the RTJ, and I'd love to have people to bounce some ideas for characterization around with.

In particular, I'd originally imagined Selene as an Arrow, but I'm not sure how much that fits anymore. I'm debating shifting her into the Free Council, but that's unsolid yet.

Don't forget me! I didn't expect everyone to start posting so soon!

Silver Ladder Obrimos here - though I plan on taking a Spirit-focused legacy, so it looks like we'll be pretty adept at handling the Shadow between us.

I'm also taking the Shadow Name merit! Two dots now, and will probably up to three later. Selene, I'd be happy to talk ideas with you, especially since it looks like we're both taking on Goddess Shadow Names.

Hello everyone! Golly it was a wild ride getting approved for me, each time I submitted something, one of you posted here and described your character concept that was eerily similar to what I had just written!

I'm still cannibalizing the last concept (streetwise thyrsus runewalker) into this fine fellow, but the gist is that he's a Runewalker and something of an occult addict. He's also a Guardian, albiet one who still needs to undergo his veils (since he's only been Awake for a couple months). I plan on focusing on my ruling arcana (Mind/Space) and not really branching outside them, since I sort of want a "pure" warlock experience right now, there's a Legacy that would probably be perfect for Serpent but I'm not really interested in pursuing one right now (but that might change in the future, who knows). If I can afford to, I plan on taking the Shadow Name merit.

Sorry about that, but this group has a large amount of Fate, Death and Spirit magic to go between you all. Needed to try and make it a little balanced.

*looks at the Shadow Name Merit properly*

Oh, hey, it's like Occultation and High Speech wrapped into one, at least as far as it'd matter to Clasm. I'm going to have to revisit my Merit selection.

As for Arcana, Clasm currently stands at Fate 3 / Space 2 / Time 1, although I wouldn't object to swapping out Space for something that fills a niche, if need be. It doesn't surprise me that Fate's popular, though, due to Conditional Duration.

I'm reviewing sheets today and tomorrow, as well as looking through any legacies that were given to me. You'll hear from me if there are issues.

Mind 3, Space 2, and either Life or Prime 1 for me. I don't really mind people doubling up on Arcana.

Selene, if you want to bounce ideas off me so that our warlocks don't feel too samey, I'm game for it.

I'm currently planning to go Death 3, Fate 2, and Matter 1 with an eye on becoming a Stone Scribe when I get a couple points of XP and find a willing mentor.

It seems like we're going to have a lot of Shadow Name users, which makes me wonder if it might not be worthwhile to look into trying to theme our cabal a bit somewhere down the line.  We have two goddesses, an embodiment of disorder/destruction, a scaled symbol of temptation/danger, and a Gravemarker/memorial/monument.  Sounds like the beginnings of a myth to me.

Spirit 3, Space 2, Life 1 here.

Would be 100% on board with a cabal down the line.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:41, Tue 11 Apr 2017.

Might want to see how the Cabal plays and interacts before giving it a theme, I think, but definitely something to consider.

Also, snakes and serpents have a broader range of symbolism than danger and temptation. Deception, guardians, power, treachery, the list goes on.

*tosses Clasm an apple*

Serpents have a complex mythology associated with them. I figured it was a distinct profile that still left me a lot of room to apply in play.

Mmm basic symbols are wonderfully diverse at times, though you may need to narrow it down to a particular association if you want to benefit from Shadow Name.

So membership in the Guardians of the Veil isn't widely known in general? Are PC Guardians assumed to be Nameless if they aren't open about their membership?

Pretend to be Nameless? Who would do something like that?
In all seriousness, it'd probably be easier to infiltrate another Order, or simply not be on the radar.

Where'd you get that idea from? Guardians are public about being Guardians, nobody wants to be thought of as an Apostate and it's difficult to pretend to be a member of another Order.

The "London Orders and Concilium" thread only has two handfuls of guardians that are publicly Guardians, and only two are named. Just trying to figure out if NPCs are gonna get weird if Someone introduces me without specifying that I'm part of an Order.

Guardians are open about being Guardians if asked or if needed, they just don't want to be 'in the phone book' so to speak. Sly and Phi are only publicly known because they're Emissaries.
Someone won't have issues and neither will the PC Guardians.
I've sent some of you story PM's and I'll get the rest out tomorrow. Workday was longer than I'd have liked it to be.

Do you want us to reply to the story PMs, or is it for mood setting?

@Serpent: Ah, I get you.

I think what Speaker means by that is that since London is a big city, not all Pentacle mages actually know each other, or even know of each other. So most of the city's Guardians don't seek to be publicly known outside their order and cabal.

Where is everyone getting their Legacy ideas from?  I can only spot one in the book.

Edit:  Ah, I got it.  Sadly there is almost nothing for Spirit.

@Serpent.  We seem to have just a bit of crossover, we should probably talk.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:04, Tue 11 Apr 2017.

I don't think Clasm would find it healthy to be part of any Legacy tied to her backstory.

Looks nervously at giant collection of 1e Legacy books.

There are a lot of them out there, they just need converting into 2e. So you're either going to have to talk to the ST about converting one, or come up with a homebrewed one on your own using the mechanics in the 2e core.

It's not something you can really skip out on - it's sort of an expectation, both mechanically and in-setting, that you either join an existing Legacy at Gnosis 2 or develop your own unique one at Gnosis 3.

Here's a list of 1e Legacies and what books they are found in:http://wodcodex.com/wiki/Legacies_(1st_Edition). If anyone is interested in one and doesn't have the book I can probably link you to a pdf.

EDIT: RPOL hates every link I try to post, apparently. You'll have to copy/paste it or add the extra ")" to the end because it won't recognize it as part of a link... and I can't even get the hyperlink BBcode to work...
This message was last edited by the player at 14:13, Tue 11 Apr 2017.

If anyone has a particular legacy they would like updated to 2E feel free to PM me about it.  I've helped our ST with a few updates already and am glad to make sure everyone has one that will fit their character.

There's a small list of updated Legacies from my NPC's on the Wiki. I'll be adding any updated Legacies you guys give me/ we work out there as well.

@NexusDoesn't have to be a long reply, but something along the lines of going and looking at what was intended for Nexus would be cool so I can give you the needed info for the first scene.

Cool.  Still getting a feel for this character.

I love the rules for Spirits in this edition, so it's really satisfying to actually get to play with it a little.

Soooooooooooooooooooo... What's going on?

I've about finished up everything with my character, but I'm going to be out of town without internet this weekend, just as an fyi.

Looking forward to getting started!

I'm also going to be out for Easter holiday celebrations. I'm planning on starting the group play on Monday.
Sorry for the delays.

Apologies for the wait everyone, scene 1 has started finally!
Hope everyone's Easter was good!

Unless you're mind reading Nexus I'm not sure what you're responding to.  Brown italics are the thought format.

Ooh, my mistake!  Editing.

People hadn't been following what I'm biased to as standard formatting yet so I thought you weren't either.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:18, Wed 19 Apr 2017.

I have a question about Spirits.  If there was one residing inside of a object, like a smart phone, would you be able to see it if you possessed Spirit Eyes?

Speaking of, Nexus has Spirit Eyes, so if you've got a Familiar with you out in the open I'd love to hear a physical description.  I can do the same for you as well.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:46, Wed 19 Apr 2017.

Have now posted the post format etiquette in the rules section

Nexus, I believe you would, but only with Active Mage Sight up - Spirit Eyes only lets you actively see spirits with Active Mage Sight. Passive Sight just gives you a feeling when a spirit is nearby, you'd have to turn on Active sight to actually see it.

That being said, Bast does have her familiar Mau riding on her shoulder; if she was to turn on her sight, it'd look something like this - http://virtualegypt.weebly.com...077581/994259659.jpg except as an actual cat with gold markings and collar.

Awesome, thanks for the info.

Spark-Of-The-Invisible-Wave looks like a disturbingly large (think medium dog sized), ten legged spider made of crackling electricity that flits about.  It's usually tethered to Nexus' Samsung phone.

I'm sorry, I've started calling your terrifying electricity spider 'Sparky' in my head for short.
This will not end up in the game, I just have a terrible tendency to shorten impressive names.

I'm holding off on pushing forward until this evening (so about eight hours after this post) in the hopes that Serpent comes back on and makes an entrance. If he doesn't then he can catch up later.

Ooh, people have cool pets.  I think the idea of a giant spider being in your cell-phone has a touch of nightmare fuel to it (makes me think Azlu and their lovely habits), but still a very neat visual.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any active magical effects on that might ping people's peripheral senses?  I guess the bell would, but I'm just curious if anybody else is making Stele's skin crawl just by walking in.

I was trying to decide on that one.

Nexus has taken to bribing a spirit of boredom into following her around on a number of occasions, veiling her from mortal sight by extending its Influence over her.  It essentially acts an a Somebody Else's Problem chip from Hitchhiker's Guide, makes people lose any interest in her on sight.

I don't think she would have done so for this scene though.

In previous editions of the game it paid to have your Mage Armor up each and every game.  I don't know if that is the case in this version.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:21, Thu 20 Apr 2017.

That's a neat way to get social invisibility.  Sort of an application of the 1 dot 'strengthen/weaken' effect on your own personal aura of interest?

Generally I think 2E tried to move away from having mage armor up all the time since you can't actually have Mage armor active for more than a scene per activation now.  You could easily cast some other form of defensive spell to replace it, but I tend to fall into the 'if they can't sense I'm a mage I'm better off' camp.  Don't want to tip off any Seers you pass on the street.

Looking at the rules, looks like Nexus would have a faint Space 2 effect up.

Unless that's socially taboo right now.

Yea, with Mage Armor not being a spell and able to be activated reflexively without a roll, there's no need for the old 1e "cast it every morning with a day-long duration" ritual anymore, since you can just activate it for the scene the moment you sense trouble.

It is still detectable through Mage Sight, though, and I'd imagine in a situation like this it'd be seen as weird to have Armor up. Though any other spells I'm sure are fair game, it's not weird for a Mage to have a spell or two hanging on their person. Though what Stele said is definitely true as well.

Bast has no active spells up at the moment, she just has her Familiar with her, which would only ping your senses if you have Spirit 2.

Selene currently has no spells running but is very likely to spam Know Nature in the very near future.

Any spirits that came through would have pinged the doorbell. It rings for every 'thing' that enters or leaves.
It's fine to come in with spells already active (sort of generally expected for anyone with a Familiar) but actively casting inside of Hayfich is discouraged.

Cool.

Faint Space and Spirit effects active on Nexus then.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:17, Thu 20 Apr 2017.

So, in order to shake the tree a bit...

A sort of mixed game I'm in is recruiting to fill out the ranks. It's sort of mixed because there's one coterie, one cabal, etc. in a city where the local supernatural groups have... vanished. The ST is short on Mages in particular, so if anyone's willing to brave an Adult game to get some more Mage on...

link to another game

Well now I'm going to have to guess who you are in Cleveland.

And Detroit.

Haze?

Nailed it.

Edit: I forgot to record each die, but the success was second to the left if that matters. Does Clasm know anything remarkable about Calaban?

19:31, Today: Clasm rolled 1 success using 4d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s.  Int + Politics + Specialty.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:32, Thu 27 Apr 2017.

Now the question is, do you know who I am?

The avatar says Eve, but the timing of the mixed game getting plugged in Detroit makes me suspect Rac.

Well done.

Eve's been stretched pretty thin as of late, so I doubt they are poking around in this game.

Oh hi Rac, it's Jeanne ;3

I'm starting to get the feeling that the CofD community here has a lot of crossover lol.

A lot of eager players and only so much ST's can do

~laughs~

Hello Jeanne.

You saw that alarm has been blown down at the warehouse?

---

There are so few games that make it past the opening scenes, I tend to bump into a lot of the same people when I bounce from game to game.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:52, Thu 27 Apr 2017.

I did! It's been a busy week, going to try and post tonight... Stupid door getting in the way of Jeanne getting her stab on.

Hopefully we get past the first scene... I've got three acts worth of story planned out.

In reply to The Speaker (msg # 72):

I really hope so too, this has been great so far.

Question for the Speaker.

If Nexus sent a text from her phone to Belinda's, could Sparky use its Influence to travel along with that text and enter Belinda's phone?  If the Gauntlet was too strong it wouldn't be able to Manifest, obviously, but it wouldn't be a bad way to get a spy inside the building.

*raises finger, lowers*

Would this spy be planted well ahead of our arrival, or shortly prior?

Probably shortly before, unless I know for sure Spark-of-the-Invisible-Wave can get back to its friendly Nexus just as easily.

@Nexus
Technically I don't think that's a thing spirits can do. I'm going to double check the rules, but for now I'm going to say no.

What kind of spirit is it by the way? Information? Signal?

Information and Electricity.

If changing that Electricity to Signals or even WiFi will make it easier, I'm down.  If it's not a possibility at all, that's cool too.

Heads up all, I'm going on a business trip for a week. Should be regularly posting Monday onwards, but tomorrow and Sunday are unknowns.

Wait, Stele's an American?

Yep, pulled from a dead Mage game that was meant to happen in the States.

Upon reflection, a lot my NPC's are from dead Mage games and are also American... should probably change that.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:31, Fri 28 Apr 2017.

Ah, alright. I was all set up to have Clasm wondering if that was a weird British thing, but with that in mind it's a Stele thing... that the others might mistake for an American thing, come to think of it.

Question: Would you all like a chance to travel and talk, or would you like me to set the scene as if you're a few minutes away from the address given?

Depends on whether or not we go with Operation American Neighborliness At London. Clasm would want to check with the members of the group that are actually British first. I, as a player, have been waiting on such individuals to post.

I was still wondering if there was any way I could let my Familiar jump from phone to phone with influence.

Other than that I'm good just dropping by the house.

To confirm, you can't have Sparky travel to another phone by texting it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:51, Sun 30 Apr 2017.

I'm fine with cutting to arriving at the address, unless other people want to do anything in particular on the way.

Okay, y'all have ten hours to figure out what you're doing, then I'm teleporting you

Show of hands perhaps for who's on-board with the tea and crumpets plan?  I can provide aura masking for the group if we decide to go in covertly.

Tea is always a good idea.  I'm in.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:28, Mon 01 May 2017.

Bast is always good for a cuppa.

I'm voting against, because Clasm thinks it's weird and doesn't trust a fellow American to know British social rules. If we do wind up doing it, she'll have objected between scenes. Particularly since the destination would otherwise only be a few minutes away.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:06, Mon 01 May 2017.

Selene is enthusiastically in favor of every plan.

Unless I'm missing something, Hayfich is an hour away from Devonshire. You'll all have plenty of time to have discussed the pros and cons of pretending to be a friendly bunch stopping by with tea.
Regardless, I have a bit of reading to do and then I'll post the description and we can get this ball rolling.

I misread this.

Aaah, gotcha

EDIT: I intentionally didn't say how you all got there. If you want to specify how feel free. I assume you all took the Tube but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:09, Tue 02 May 2017.

Just a head's up, but I chose not to increase the potency of the veil Stele cast.  If you don't want to be affected your natural Withstand will easily cancel it out.

Clasm'll shrug it off, then.

But she's still going in?  Does she have her own way to conceal her nature as a mage if something tries to scan her?

No, but she does have the Hasty Vice.

Even better!

Nexus always takes the tube, she's Cultor to a cult of tube dwelling and tube worshiping Sleepers, after all.



Hmmmm.... Stealth beats paranoia, Nexus will keep it.

Do we have an Obrimos in the group? Prime Sight would be best to see if something's fishy in Denmark, but Clasm needs to expend Mana in order to whip that out.

Bast.

I've reached out to them and they logged in today. If we hear nothing by Saturday I would ask you continue forward and for now I can tell you what Bast would see with Prime sight so Clasm isn't losing Mana.

Alright folks, I'm flying home today! Though possibly going to have to take a canoe back to my house, apparently there's been a lot of rain....
Bast has agreed that she will have Mage Sight on. Fingers crossed she can post this weekend but please feel free to go knock on the door in the meantime.

Good travels Speaker.

Someone knock on that damn door!

Thanks Nexus!
Please poke me if I've forgotten any Sights, but I think I've covered everyone.

Did you guys know that Exceptional Luck is one of exactly two spells that has the option to be cast reflexively?

Edit: Also, I made a filler roll after my in-game rolls so that the game's roller would remember to record each die. Imagine my chagrin to learn that it forgets I wanted that the moment I navigate away.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:50, Sat 06 May 2017.

Set the die roller to record each die.

Would resolving the Charmed Condition grant a Beat or an Arcane Beat?

Rule of thumb for me is Arcane Beat if it's because of a spell

Hey everyone, I'm still here! Sorry for not posting for a bit there, I should be less swamped this week ; ;

Hey folks, decision time again. Do you want a moment to talk outside the house, outside the Home or do you just want to be put into the next scene being shown into Belinda's room.

Let me know, I don't want to drag this out.

I'd say they'd probably want to confer a moment outside and possibly check the home she's staying in for spells/supernatural interference as well, but if there would be nothing to find I'm fine with just assuming that they did that off-camera and cutting to her room.

To be perfectly honest, if they're just checking in to be sure, I'd even say we'd probably want to just send in 1-2 people rather than having a whole huge group descending on her at once. Maybe split up into like 2 people going in and the rest checking the area just in case?

Can confirm, there's nothing worth finding in the house.

Let me know what you all decide and I'll put the room in or not

I'm interested in going to see Belinda if only to satisfy myself that I've fulfilled Oz's request in full.

Clasm would be more interested in checking in on Belinda herself.

Nexus' vote is visiting Belinda promptly.

I hope you don't all mind that I've been rather quiet.  I've been reading every post, but there isn't anything Nexus would jump in on given the circumstances.  She's happy to let others do the talking.

Selene would be happy to verify with the memory she plucked from Kev's mind outside. She's not particularly interested in hunting down an old woman in a retirement home, though she's unlikely to do anything but go with the flow.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:07, Tue 09 May 2017.

Go for it.

We can decide what to do afterwards, especially if something is fishy.

Apologies for the silence, one of those TGIF weeks. I'll have a post out starting the next scene in the next 12 hours.

I will be leaving town later this week, and likely not available to post very much. So the timing here works out well.

You guys want to jump in here, or shall I keep going?

I figured I'd step in, because Clasm. Mana's down on the IC post because I'd initially thought to do Mage Sight with Prime up, but decided against it by the time I finished writing.

@Selene, safe travels! Keep me posted on when you'll be back? Is this a long trip? Hopefully exciting!

@Clasm, noted :)

Should I say Bast came in as well? Or would that be too many people. She could check everything out with Prime sight, though.

@Bast I wrote everyone but Selene in, it's up to you :)

@Nexus As a heads up, Belinda is blind and didn't know that you put your hand out so she didn't shake it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:16, Mon 15 May 2017.

Oops!

Edited.

...Does anyone other than Selene have access to Mind magic? Or Life?

I might be able to treat her with a homebrew Boon-granted Condition, assuming the ST's feeling permissive, but making that a permanent solution would require one more Reach than is Paradox safe (unless we can get three hours with her without Sleepers showing up,) a point of Mana, and a permanent point of Willpower. As you might imagine, I'm open to alternatives.

Life 1.

I'll see if I can diagnose, but I won't be able to treat.

Given that Oz seemed to be against using magic on or even around Belinda, I (or at least Bast) would be hesitant to try and work any on her... If Oz is that worried about any spells "hanging" on or around her attracting unwanted attention, it's probably for good reason.

Wait, so she doesn't have Alzheimer's? Or is it not considered a Personal Tilt?

Mechanically she has the equivalent of, it's just caused by her gift. The point is that you can't fix it, just give her something to get her blood sugar back up and decide if you want to try for another fortune telling or not.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be dodgy about it, I totally missed that you were thinking of trying to fix it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:16, Thu 18 May 2017.

Oof.  Miss-read just how aware of her gift she was.  Thought it was more of a subconscious thing.

My apologies in advance, but Clasm is going to give you an earful for that. Fate magic is a specialty of hers.

Also, Speaker: Can Clasm make a boon-boosted memory roll to get the prophecy written down during the trip back to Oz's place?

It might be easier to just cast postcognition on yourself to look back along your own timeline and review it before you need to write it down.

Ah, but Exceptional Luck is Clasm's Praxis. Praxes? The spell that gets an exceptional success on only three successes, and thereby provides an opportunity to net Mana. Additionally, it can grant Conditions that can be resolved for Arcane Beats if the casting was an exceptional success. An Arcane Beat and a bit of Mana is a potent incentive to shift from "certain" to "failure is highly improbable."

Ah, I suppose the allure of double-dipping for extra xp without cost is too strong.

@Clasm Go for it.

Sorry for being so quiet, working this weekend and not getting Victoria Day off sucks.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:33, Sun 21 May 2017.

Casting roll:

Exceptional Luck, Reaching for Instant Casting and Advanced Duration
Gnosis 1 + Fate 3 + Mudra Yantra 3

15:36, Today: Clasm rolled 2 successes using 7d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 3,4,10(+4),8,7,3,3.  Gnosis + Fate + Mudra.

Alas, I fell short of an Exceptional Success, and am thus denied the goodies that had tempted me. Still, the memory roll can be made with +2 dice and the Informed Condition.

15:38, Today: Clasm rolled 4 successes using 7d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 8,4,1,8,8,9,2.  Int + Composure + Boon.

Resolving the Informed Condition makes that an exceptional success to write the prophecy down from memory.

I have returned from my travels, with only a minor illness caused by jetlag hooray.

Welcome back!

Unless we're past the one-minute mark, Clasm still has Mage Sight active, with Prime. Anything remarkable in the hospital on the way out? The nurse in particular is of interest to Clasm, since she's the one with the most access to Belinda.

The prophecy and muddling after would be more than a minute, but I'll tell you for free that the nurse is totally mundane.

Will set up a new thread today for giving out beats and experience.

Could everyone please make sure that they've completely filled out their character sheets? Particularly goals and obsessions :)

@Selene Are you going to return to Hayfich after speaking to Kevin?
I'd like to transport everyone there to keep things flowing.

Yes, I was waiting for the scene change to re-enter, it seemed the smoothest option.

@Clasm apologies, I totally failed to mention that your mage sight would have caught another precognition flair from Belinda when she spoke the last words.
They're not part of the main prophecy though.

We'll just say Clasm made a note of it on the note. Exceptional success on the memory roll, after all.

Yep!

So as not to slow down the story, y'all have 24 hours to get the address for where the Seers are hiding.

Tomorrow I'll ask Nexus to roll and Int + Streetwise check, as you would be the one to know where this is.

Just barely.

10:54, Today: Nexus rolled 1 success using 6d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 1,7,5,5,5,10(+4).  Intelligence + Streetwise.

I could be totally off base with that Greenwich thing, it's just a Google powered guess.

Google fuelled guesses are good, I'm a big fan.

Nexus knows there's an 'Elephant and Castle' tube station.

There are a few minutes before Stele is called back, if anyone would like to interject with anything else or start prepping to go to the station.

Would feeding the Prophecy to my Information Spirit do anything?

Do you mean to try and get more information out of the prophecy? It could have figured out the Elephant and Castle bit since it has access to wifi through your phone if it spent a point of Essence to strengthen it's own knowledge...

Or do you mean as like as offering of essence/resonance kind of way?

Would Clasm have had a chance to learn the hangouts of the local Mages? Because the Lamb & Flag isn't that far off the route between Hayfich's address and the elephant statue, and the Stone Philosophers seem like the sort that'd be happy to provide reinforcements.

Yup, it's common knowledge so Clasm would know. I'll make sure to have some stats ready for them.

Hey folks, I still exist, just having a busy week at work. I'll be posting tomorrow.

No worries!

A though occurs. Does Clasm know if any of the local Seers have obtained Prelacy?

02:28, Today: Clasm rolled 2 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 1,8,9,6.  Int + Politics + Specialty.

Hello all!

I am on vacation, and therefore hundreds if not thousands of miles away from my books.  Would anyone be so kind as to give me a quick rundown of what sort of dice pool I'd need to roll to summon a Rank 3 Spirit of Electricity and give it the instructions "hey, hang out with me until sunrise?"
This message was last edited by the player at 13:43, Fri 09 June 2017.

Congrats on the time off!  I looked into the summoning and have two potential options for you:

A)  You can cast Summon Spirit to entice the nearest spirit of Resonance: Electricity to come to you.  Specifiying the target's Rank is not an option unless you personally know a rank three Electricity spirit that you can target individually, but just in case I built for that power level. You can use an advanced command to say "remain by my side until dawn" though this will require you to create the Open condition for them if you want them to manifest. Breakdown: +2 Reach for complex command, +1 reach Advanced Duration, +1 Reach for Casting Time, -6 Factors for Potency.  Ends with a Potency 4 spell that technically lasts for up to a week/month (don't know your spirit level).

B) Same idea but instead you summon the spirit and command it with a second spell.  This saves on having to Reach so high.  The command spell allows you to give orders such as 'stay with me' at no additional cost so it is much easier to manage Reach-wise.  For this one I have assumed you have a Spirit of 3, if not you will need more potency on the Command.  Breakdown:  Summon Spirit (1 Reach Casting Time, -6 Factor for Potency 4), Command Spirit (1 Reach for Casting Time, 1 Reach for Advanced Duration, 1 Reach for Sensory Range, -2 Factor for Duration, -2 Factor for Potency)

I will point out though that both of these require you to bind the spirit in question and are thus Wisdom sins.  Atop that they do not prevent the spirit in question from acting of it's own volition while with you.

Hey all, I'm sorry for not posting this week, had a huge work thing come through combined with preparing for a two-week vacation I'm leaving for tomorrow.

I should be able to find time to post next week, though; I'll be at the beach and only working some remotely during the day so I'll try to stay sober long enough to get a few in ;) Assume Bast is following along with everyone for now, as she doesn't have a huge amount to add just yet.

Is it me, or did all the nWoD games on here suddenly pause?

Hey guys, sorry I've been silent. Gearing up for a business trip but I'll be back next Friday and posting regularly again.

Works for me, I've been traveling.

Hope everything is okay on your end ST.