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[Exalted] Solar Circle of the West - whole slew of updates 3/8/09
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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819259" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 6/27/05 Session - "The Arrival"</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 6/27/05 Session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"The Arrival"</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Gareth arrived on the island to find a picnic basket on the beach. Opening it up, he found a sandwich and note addressed to him with a map on it. Following the map led him to a crypt. He didn’t notice much inside the crypt except a sarcophagus containing a suit of armor and a three-foot sword. Somehow, he knew he had made them.</p><p></p><p>A-dom arrived on the island and found a chest on the beach. Inside the chest was a suit of armor and a note that said, "Dig". Buried beneath the sand was a big club with a golden spike in it.</p><p></p><p>Jahar arrived on the island in shock. He stumbled onto the shore and found a pair of golden bracers in the sand. His vision clouded and he saw these bracers, on his arms, but his arms were much larger. He knew this was him, but not anymore. He put the bracers on as he felt it should be... and then they sized themselves to his arms and he could no longer take them off. This was the last straw, and he stumbled into the jungle, burning, and sat down in shock.</p><p></p><p>When Tiger arrived on the island, he talked to a man. He was told he needed to collect the circle, but to wait a few hours for them all to arrive.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck arrived on the island and found a shiny chakram in a tree. She also proceeded to inspect a veil that she had swiped from the Wizard’s room.</p><p></p><p>Empty Bucket arrived in an underwater cave while fishing for some food. He met an old man who acted like he knew him and told him he was late. While the old man tried to tell him a few things about being a Dragon-Blood and lead him somewhere, Bucket proceeded to get distracted a lot. He found ROB (Ridiculously Overpowered Bucket) and wandered off to find the kitchen. Eventually the old man managed to send Bucket off to find the Circle.</p><p></p><p>Having waited around a while, Tiger went off in search of the rest of the Circle. He first found A-dom, who was expectantly suspicious, but went along with it. They next found Luck and there was much with the accusations from A-dom. They found Jahar sulking under a tree going on about being a demon. He didn't even see them approach. After a bit of talking, they seemed to partially convince Jahar he wasn’t a demon. About this time, Gareth exited the crypt and made his way towards the noise of several people talking. The group talked about what had happened and what they were all doing there and what they should do now. Gareth had strange remembrances of making several of the items scattered throughout the group. Empty Bucket arrived and several of the Circle looked ready to kill him before he could alert more Dragon Bloods. Somehow, Gareth and Jahar remembered Bucket as the Circle’s loyal servant. This bought Bucket enough time to save his ass, though he vehemently denied the loyal servant part. Repeatedly. Gareth found a button and proceeded to poke it many times throughout the rest of the session. Hotheaded dragon-bloods are so fun.</p><p></p><p>After much discussion and conversing with the bucket (not to be confused with Empty Bucket), the group headed off in search of the Obelisk. This was mostly at the bucket's urging. By this point, Jahar was relatively engaged, although the bucket talking to him had been a little much. Jahar, realizing if he was going to make any sense of this he'd have to find this obelisk, intuitively read the obelisk's direction from the geomantic layout of the trees. This proved to be the start of a great many odd readings Jahar continued to see in things. Eventually, at Jahar's direction, they came to the obelisk. It was at the center of the island, so some skepticism at Jahar's geomantic readings was probably in order. Gareth and Jahar remembered feeling a great sense of accomplishment about it. Jahar proceeded to touch the Obelisk and converse telepathically with it, talking shop about sorcery and the Immaculate Order, as well as that odd concept (to an obelisk) such as time. The obelisk, Opec, was too busy to talk to anyone else. In the mean time, Empty Bucket touched the Obelisk and got knocked fifty feet back and impaled by a branch. He was quickly found regenerating (thanks to his muddy boots.) Jahar was absorbed in Opec at the time and never even noticed. Eventually they finished and a more sedate Jahar, once distracted from staring at a leaf, told the group a ship was coming and they should head for the shore.</p><p></p><p>A boat beached on the island looking to refill their water supplies. Empty Bucket quickly exerted his Dragon Blooded might and got them to transport himself and ‘his servants’ off the island. There was much clamor within the group about the uppity Dragon-Blood.</p><p></p><p>Since it was odd for a ship to be sailing during Calibration and the crew seemed tense, Gareth and Luck tried to get some information. Gareth got nothing out of the crew but Luck made the captain into her boy toy and got out of him that they were transporting slaves to Atlantis for House Cynis and weren’t even getting paid. It was pretty much a ‘you do this or else’ kind of thing. The Circle got worried when Luck went down to see the slaves and got that look in her eye. They got even more worried when she brought Gareth in on trying to help the slaves. Jahar was very against doing anything that would call attention to the Circle and was very adamant about it. Gareth got the slaves the only food that was on board (a loaf of bread) while Luck got them a barrel of water (5ft slip of a girl carrying a huge barrel equals not subtle). Luckily for the Circle, Gareth and Luck were unable to come up with a plan to get the slaves away without drawing attention. Furthermore, the ship docked before Gareth and Luck could convince each other not to care that the rest of the Circle wanted discretion. In the meantime, Bucket stole everything that wasn't tied down, and then stole the ties.</p><p></p><p>When the boat arrived at the docks, a large whirlpool was noticed and the ship was directed away from it. It seemed the slaves were to be a sacrifice to the angry Water Spirit. The dock dragon-bloods took the slaves over to the dock to get ready to do their ritual. Jahar questioned why they didn't have any local slaves available for slaughter, but was so distracted by Jade's Luck he completely forgot to inquire about it. Gareth completely failed his Compassion roll (which was good, because he had no clue what to do) while Luck made hers and had to help the poor slaves. Donning her veil, she pretended to be a Dragon-blood and stopped the sacrifice. Speaking out to the Spirit of the Bay, she poured on her Social charms and got it to manifest in a form besides the whirlpool. She found out the Spirit was angry about all the garbage in the bay and promised to do something about it. She managed to say some rather choice words to screw up the dragon-bloods’ argument and even tick them off a little with some comments about sacrificing dragon-bloods instead (effectively offering herself up as a sacrifice). She convinced the spirit to give them till an hour before the end of Calibration to clean up the mess then sent the guards away for a while.</p><p></p><p>Below, Bucket found lots of shipwrecks and various other garbage on the bay floor. He proceeded to try to loot everything in sight. By allowing the Circle to share in his anima power, they proceeded to move the chunks of ships off to the drop off and chuck them over. While the rest of the group took small chunks and pieces, A-dom was able to carry whole ships, reducing the clean up to under three hours.</p><p></p><p>With the spirit appeased, the guards led the slaves off towards one of the House Cynis compounds. Before they could get far, Gareth and Bucket negotiated the sale of a tailor. That was one slave, at least, that would have a better life (in theory).</p><p></p><p>The group headed off to Jade’s and a brief conversation occurred about what to do now. Bucket was told he wasn’t allowed to wear his muddy boots inside. The Circle then went their separate ways. Luck and Bucket stayed at Jade’s. Gareth took the slave back to his townhouse and got it clothed, fed, and showed it around the shop. Tiger and A-dom followed Jahar back to his townhouse where he got A-dom on retainer as another bodyguard. Jahar remembered being an old man sneaking into his own room. Inquiring with Tellus, he found out an old Anathema snuck into the compound some fifty to sixty years ago, stole an artifact, and killed himself with it in Jahar's bedroom. This really, really upset Jahar - especially after he continued to have flashbacks throughout the house. He resolved to find more about this. Unfortunately, the artifact in question was thrown into a volcano, according to Tellus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819259, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 6/27/05 Session - "The Arrival"[/b] [i]Synopsis of 6/27/05 Session[/i] [size=5][b]"The Arrival"[/b][/size] Gareth arrived on the island to find a picnic basket on the beach. Opening it up, he found a sandwich and note addressed to him with a map on it. Following the map led him to a crypt. He didn’t notice much inside the crypt except a sarcophagus containing a suit of armor and a three-foot sword. Somehow, he knew he had made them. A-dom arrived on the island and found a chest on the beach. Inside the chest was a suit of armor and a note that said, "Dig". Buried beneath the sand was a big club with a golden spike in it. Jahar arrived on the island in shock. He stumbled onto the shore and found a pair of golden bracers in the sand. His vision clouded and he saw these bracers, on his arms, but his arms were much larger. He knew this was him, but not anymore. He put the bracers on as he felt it should be... and then they sized themselves to his arms and he could no longer take them off. This was the last straw, and he stumbled into the jungle, burning, and sat down in shock. When Tiger arrived on the island, he talked to a man. He was told he needed to collect the circle, but to wait a few hours for them all to arrive. Jade’s Luck arrived on the island and found a shiny chakram in a tree. She also proceeded to inspect a veil that she had swiped from the Wizard’s room. Empty Bucket arrived in an underwater cave while fishing for some food. He met an old man who acted like he knew him and told him he was late. While the old man tried to tell him a few things about being a Dragon-Blood and lead him somewhere, Bucket proceeded to get distracted a lot. He found ROB (Ridiculously Overpowered Bucket) and wandered off to find the kitchen. Eventually the old man managed to send Bucket off to find the Circle. Having waited around a while, Tiger went off in search of the rest of the Circle. He first found A-dom, who was expectantly suspicious, but went along with it. They next found Luck and there was much with the accusations from A-dom. They found Jahar sulking under a tree going on about being a demon. He didn't even see them approach. After a bit of talking, they seemed to partially convince Jahar he wasn’t a demon. About this time, Gareth exited the crypt and made his way towards the noise of several people talking. The group talked about what had happened and what they were all doing there and what they should do now. Gareth had strange remembrances of making several of the items scattered throughout the group. Empty Bucket arrived and several of the Circle looked ready to kill him before he could alert more Dragon Bloods. Somehow, Gareth and Jahar remembered Bucket as the Circle’s loyal servant. This bought Bucket enough time to save his ass, though he vehemently denied the loyal servant part. Repeatedly. Gareth found a button and proceeded to poke it many times throughout the rest of the session. Hotheaded dragon-bloods are so fun. After much discussion and conversing with the bucket (not to be confused with Empty Bucket), the group headed off in search of the Obelisk. This was mostly at the bucket's urging. By this point, Jahar was relatively engaged, although the bucket talking to him had been a little much. Jahar, realizing if he was going to make any sense of this he'd have to find this obelisk, intuitively read the obelisk's direction from the geomantic layout of the trees. This proved to be the start of a great many odd readings Jahar continued to see in things. Eventually, at Jahar's direction, they came to the obelisk. It was at the center of the island, so some skepticism at Jahar's geomantic readings was probably in order. Gareth and Jahar remembered feeling a great sense of accomplishment about it. Jahar proceeded to touch the Obelisk and converse telepathically with it, talking shop about sorcery and the Immaculate Order, as well as that odd concept (to an obelisk) such as time. The obelisk, Opec, was too busy to talk to anyone else. In the mean time, Empty Bucket touched the Obelisk and got knocked fifty feet back and impaled by a branch. He was quickly found regenerating (thanks to his muddy boots.) Jahar was absorbed in Opec at the time and never even noticed. Eventually they finished and a more sedate Jahar, once distracted from staring at a leaf, told the group a ship was coming and they should head for the shore. A boat beached on the island looking to refill their water supplies. Empty Bucket quickly exerted his Dragon Blooded might and got them to transport himself and ‘his servants’ off the island. There was much clamor within the group about the uppity Dragon-Blood. Since it was odd for a ship to be sailing during Calibration and the crew seemed tense, Gareth and Luck tried to get some information. Gareth got nothing out of the crew but Luck made the captain into her boy toy and got out of him that they were transporting slaves to Atlantis for House Cynis and weren’t even getting paid. It was pretty much a ‘you do this or else’ kind of thing. The Circle got worried when Luck went down to see the slaves and got that look in her eye. They got even more worried when she brought Gareth in on trying to help the slaves. Jahar was very against doing anything that would call attention to the Circle and was very adamant about it. Gareth got the slaves the only food that was on board (a loaf of bread) while Luck got them a barrel of water (5ft slip of a girl carrying a huge barrel equals not subtle). Luckily for the Circle, Gareth and Luck were unable to come up with a plan to get the slaves away without drawing attention. Furthermore, the ship docked before Gareth and Luck could convince each other not to care that the rest of the Circle wanted discretion. In the meantime, Bucket stole everything that wasn't tied down, and then stole the ties. When the boat arrived at the docks, a large whirlpool was noticed and the ship was directed away from it. It seemed the slaves were to be a sacrifice to the angry Water Spirit. The dock dragon-bloods took the slaves over to the dock to get ready to do their ritual. Jahar questioned why they didn't have any local slaves available for slaughter, but was so distracted by Jade's Luck he completely forgot to inquire about it. Gareth completely failed his Compassion roll (which was good, because he had no clue what to do) while Luck made hers and had to help the poor slaves. Donning her veil, she pretended to be a Dragon-blood and stopped the sacrifice. Speaking out to the Spirit of the Bay, she poured on her Social charms and got it to manifest in a form besides the whirlpool. She found out the Spirit was angry about all the garbage in the bay and promised to do something about it. She managed to say some rather choice words to screw up the dragon-bloods’ argument and even tick them off a little with some comments about sacrificing dragon-bloods instead (effectively offering herself up as a sacrifice). She convinced the spirit to give them till an hour before the end of Calibration to clean up the mess then sent the guards away for a while. Below, Bucket found lots of shipwrecks and various other garbage on the bay floor. He proceeded to try to loot everything in sight. By allowing the Circle to share in his anima power, they proceeded to move the chunks of ships off to the drop off and chuck them over. While the rest of the group took small chunks and pieces, A-dom was able to carry whole ships, reducing the clean up to under three hours. With the spirit appeased, the guards led the slaves off towards one of the House Cynis compounds. Before they could get far, Gareth and Bucket negotiated the sale of a tailor. That was one slave, at least, that would have a better life (in theory). The group headed off to Jade’s and a brief conversation occurred about what to do now. Bucket was told he wasn’t allowed to wear his muddy boots inside. The Circle then went their separate ways. Luck and Bucket stayed at Jade’s. Gareth took the slave back to his townhouse and got it clothed, fed, and showed it around the shop. Tiger and A-dom followed Jahar back to his townhouse where he got A-dom on retainer as another bodyguard. Jahar remembered being an old man sneaking into his own room. Inquiring with Tellus, he found out an old Anathema snuck into the compound some fifty to sixty years ago, stole an artifact, and killed himself with it in Jahar's bedroom. This really, really upset Jahar - especially after he continued to have flashbacks throughout the house. He resolved to find more about this. Unfortunately, the artifact in question was thrown into a volcano, according to Tellus. [/QUOTE]
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