Rubberneck
First Post
Law heads back upstairs and looks outside to make sure no one is around, then proceeds to his truck with Chance in tow.
Nazareth Awakened - Chapter 02: Wives of Solomon
TillForPie
First Post
Assuming the group is done at the house: Where to?
Rubberneck
First Post
Once the group is inside the vehicle Law heads for where they met Earnshaw.
TillForPie
First Post
The time reads 11:00 PM on the dot when the Tahoe pulls into the parking lot outside the Gold Dragon buffet. The rain has slowed to a drizzle.
There are about a dozen other cars in the lot outside the nearby Super Value Mart, which is open 24/7, and all the spaces outside Cheney's across the street are full. Five people are sheltered beneath the canopy of the bar's entrance, drinking beers and talking.
There are about a dozen other cars in the lot outside the nearby Super Value Mart, which is open 24/7, and all the spaces outside Cheney's across the street are full. Five people are sheltered beneath the canopy of the bar's entrance, drinking beers and talking.
GlassEye
Adventurer
Harper, Thyrsus mage
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Harper, back in the backseat again having surrendered the front to Chance, sits a moment and watches the drizzle form lines of water on the side window. After a moment he opens the door and slides out but pokes his head back in to encourage the others along. "Come on, let's get this thing done," he drawls.
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Rubberneck
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Law steps out of the SUV, turning the collar of his leather coat up against the drizzle. He motions for Chance to follow. He stops outside the buffet joint about where he was standing when he and Harper were confronted.
"It was about 10:30 this morning when she appeared. Find out what you can."
He offers with a smile.
"It was about 10:30 this morning when she appeared. Find out what you can."
He offers with a smile.
Agnasci stands outside with the others. Chance and Law are paying attention to each other and their task at hand, and Harper seems to have a strange mixture of boredom and anxiety. Agnasci feels isolated from the rest of them, like a machine part that doesn't quite fit, but hasn't been replaced yet because nobody has noticed it doesn't belong. Maybe he even prefers it that way. This is the first time he has ever worked with a group of equals. Plenty of times people have thought they were partners with Agnasci (like big Rich, for example) but in reality Agnasci only feels comfortable when he is in control of the situation - when he's an observer, or a manipulator. These people would not be manipulated so easily, and it makes Agnasci feel awkward and feeble.
Everyone knows only Chance really has the power to get the information they were looking for, here. But just maybe there was something none of them have thought to look for. Agnasci casts Spacial Awareness and checks the area for any obvious signs of spacial tampering. If Agnasci finds any evidence of magical manipulation, he'll examine the area more closely while casting Third Eye.
Everyone knows only Chance really has the power to get the information they were looking for, here. But just maybe there was something none of them have thought to look for. Agnasci casts Spacial Awareness and checks the area for any obvious signs of spacial tampering. If Agnasci finds any evidence of magical manipulation, he'll examine the area more closely while casting Third Eye.
TillForPie
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A lot of times with magic, you'll find that your detection spells don't detect much of anything. Look for evidence of this, or that? There's none. Try to scrutinize a resonance? It's vague or confusing. Attempt to alter the environment? It resists change.
Infuriatingly it's when you're not expecting to find anything that you stumble upon everything.
Agnasci's spell seems to do very little at first, but there's a creeping sense of something being... off, that slowly overwhelms the mage. Penrose has told Agnasci that distance is an illusion: The hundred yards between him and the Gold Dragon are no more real than the hundred yards between two points in a video game. That's something the mind has difficulty accepting, but Agnasci's magic doesn't lie. The illusion of reality, of space itself, has slipped here. Agnasci immediately brings up Third Eye, but there's no magic to be examined, no traces of psychic powers. All there is are the ripples of a spell cast at some point earlier and Agnasci hones in on them, walking briskly away from the group toward a bench near the buffet.
It's very difficult for Agnasci to get his mind around, but there's a spot behind the bench that has, at some point in time, even if for only an instant, existed here and somewhere else. And not just one other place, but multiple other places. The fading resonances of other locations are all stacked on top of each other in this one spot behind the bench. The truth doesn't come to Agnasci immediately: Ever since awakening he's focused more on magic of the mind than anything else, but a mastery of space is his right as a Mastigos.
There have been multiple teleportations to the exact same spot behind the bench, all from different origin locations, over some amount of time that Agnasci can't guess at.
The other three mages look on in silence at Agnasci staring intently at the ground by the bench. The same bench where Harper found the doll. Where Harper and Law met Earnshaw.
Infuriatingly it's when you're not expecting to find anything that you stumble upon everything.
Agnasci's spell seems to do very little at first, but there's a creeping sense of something being... off, that slowly overwhelms the mage. Penrose has told Agnasci that distance is an illusion: The hundred yards between him and the Gold Dragon are no more real than the hundred yards between two points in a video game. That's something the mind has difficulty accepting, but Agnasci's magic doesn't lie. The illusion of reality, of space itself, has slipped here. Agnasci immediately brings up Third Eye, but there's no magic to be examined, no traces of psychic powers. All there is are the ripples of a spell cast at some point earlier and Agnasci hones in on them, walking briskly away from the group toward a bench near the buffet.
It's very difficult for Agnasci to get his mind around, but there's a spot behind the bench that has, at some point in time, even if for only an instant, existed here and somewhere else. And not just one other place, but multiple other places. The fading resonances of other locations are all stacked on top of each other in this one spot behind the bench. The truth doesn't come to Agnasci immediately: Ever since awakening he's focused more on magic of the mind than anything else, but a mastery of space is his right as a Mastigos.
There have been multiple teleportations to the exact same spot behind the bench, all from different origin locations, over some amount of time that Agnasci can't guess at.
The other three mages look on in silence at Agnasci staring intently at the ground by the bench. The same bench where Harper found the doll. Where Harper and Law met Earnshaw.
Rubberneck
First Post
Law follows Agnasci over towards the bench,
"Whats got your attention bud? Find something?"
"Whats got your attention bud? Find something?"
As Agnasci does his thing, Chance stares fixedly at the spot Law indicated and checks her watch...more out of habit than out of a need for a machine to tell her what time it was. Ten thirty, huh? Alrighty then.
She invokes her spell, and it's like falling while standing up. A vertigo that has nothing to do with the body, as her mind unhooks from the Moment it's in, and spins the tape backwards to see what happened here as of about 10:25 and moving forward from there.
She invokes her spell, and it's like falling while standing up. A vertigo that has nothing to do with the body, as her mind unhooks from the Moment it's in, and spins the tape backwards to see what happened here as of about 10:25 and moving forward from there.
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