Hella_Tellah
Explorer
"Uhh, yeah, see you guys later," said Gabriel. Jeremiah just shrugged.
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[sblock=Making an assumption here]For brevity's sake, I'm going to assume you guys want to look around the house, so I'm going to go ahead and describe things in a general, anyone-looking-casaully-would-notice-this way.[/sblock]
Inside, the house smelled faintly of mold, charcoal and incense, coupled with the stuffy, settled smell of a place left abandoned for many weeks. Couches with cat-scratches in the sides dating back to the 1970s slouched against the walls, and a stained mattress lay in the center of the room, surrounded by melted-down candles. The wind shook the windows, covered over with black garbage-bag plastic, with a muffled rattle. A scratched wooden table teetered on uneven legs in the dining room, surrounded by dusty, mismatched folding chairs.
The mold smell, they soon learned, came from the kitchen, where unwashed dishes sat in cloudy, stagnant water. A tan and green pile of something that once was food grew out of a paper plate next to it. The cupboards contained just three things: a ceramic bowl, a promotional coffee cup from Cambridge Realty ("The Name You Know and Trust") and enough packages of Cup o' Noodles to feed an army of grad students for a month. The drawers were empty but for a phone book and a ritual athame, superficially similar to the one Levanna carried. The avacado-colored refrigerator was empty, and surprisingly clean.
A hallway connected the kitchen, living room, and master bedroom, with a bathroom along the way. The bathroom flickered under a yellow fluorescent light that magnified its sparse utilitarianism. It consisted of a bathtub with a steel showerhead and no curtain, a toilet without a seat or lid, and a sink beneath an open medicine cabinet. The mirror had been removed. Further down the hall, the master bedroom was completely empty of any furnishings whatsoever, although it did boast an ample closet.
A stairway from the living room led up to the second floor, where two more empty bedrooms lay waiting. One had a Disney Princesses poster and scratch marks on the wall, while the other had a window giving access to the roof. Another, larger bathroom between those rooms had a bright pink shower curtain, but no mirror.
The cellar doors out back were nothing more than plywood with rusty metal handles, chained up and locked with a simple padlock opened by one of the keys on the Snoopy keychain Arathnos had given them. The basement was all concrete, ductwork and wooden beams, without walls dividing it into smaller rooms. The young mages felt the hair on their arms stand up as they moved about the center of the room, where a single 100 watt lightbulb shone through five crystals, which created dazzling prismatic effects on the walls with the breeze generated by people walking about.
[sblock=OOC]You're now in the basement. Discuss and explore at will, and if you want to make changes to the Sanctum, we'll have that happen "off camera" over the course of a few weeks. No need to have you roll Dexterity + Crafts every time you want to swing a hammer
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