B.P.R.D. Issue #1 "City of Night"

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Andy stretches, lounging about lazily until Paul's statement peaks his interest. "Wow...a real magical book? I'll help Paul look around!" he says just a second after the magic-user turned invisible and left. "I'll be careful though, so don't worry about me." he finishes before heading off, not really waiting for the others reactions.

Maybe whatever's in those tomes will tell me just what that barrier was..besides, something useful might be in there

When he gets closer to the camp however, he becomes a bit more cautious, creeping up to the desired tent slowly. If/When he makes it inside, he whispers, "Hey Paul-I have a bit of experience with this sort of stuff, I'll help you look around if you don't mind." Picking up a book not yet opened, Andy browses through.

(OOC-Move Silently roll of 8+5=13, Search roll of 14+2=16)

 

[Radiant]

Lia

The camp may be old and unused but you can learn so much about your prey be studying its lair. She trots into it and takes a look around. She will also leave her human companions some time to investigate the tomes. During that she paces around the camp, trying to memorize as many smells as possible so she can later identify the peopel who used this place if she meets them.
ut this no place to linger ansd she will wait for an hour at the most before she follows the tracks into the dessert.

 

[Karl Green]

While Michael, Dr. Clay and Bulusu stay need the landrover, Paul turns invisible and heads for the camp followed closely by Andy. The others are milling about, watching for danger. The silver wolf also pads into the camp are starts sniffing around.

No one seems to be in camp, and entering the ‘mystical’ tent, Paul and Andy see that it is indeed filled with a number of mystical and alchemic items, fetishes, tomes, tokens and crystals. Special paints, chalk and woods from around the world; acids, dyes, chemical mixtures and powders are everywhere, in boxes, filing cabinets, piles on tables and a desk. The tomes that are hear are mostly in Latin or Ancient Greek, but there are a large number of personal notes, diagrams, etc in personal looking books that are in mostly German. Searching through them, Paul and Andy get the idea some basic understanding of them being ‘unbinding’ or ‘opening’ rituals. Paul also notices a couple of these symbols that look very similar to the ‘Seal of Solomon’ that he had found in the libraries of Timbuktu.

Andy and Paul can make Knowledge (Occult) AND (Ritual) check and let me know the result

The Silver wolf spends some time wondering around, smelling the two-leg’s lair. She picks up the scent of something else but can’t quit make out what it is… it is strange and like nothing she has ever smelled before. She also smells a number of two-leg’s machines and the liquid that runs them. There is a greasy and sot smell of these machines, that is also no more then a week old that leads into off into the desert… the smell is mixed in with that of rotting two-leg flesh. It is old, corrupted and poisoned in a way that seems vaguely familiar…

the Silver wolf may make a Scent roll to try and identify the smell, she may also make another Listen test about the sounds coming from deeper in the desert

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kongming kneels, looking over the items in the camp and making an examination of them. A wrinkle in time? Or something else? he thinks to himself as he notes the dated documents. He places his finger thoughtfully on his chin and sits silently for a moment.

He stands up and walks over to where Andy is examining the book.

What the heck; I'm trying an ESP scan to see if, now that I'm here, I can still pick up anything from the outside world. 14+5 = 19.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

(OOC-Gadget's Comprehend roll of 5+6=11, I'm not sure if I can retry that roll, it says I can retry whenever I'm exposed to it again so I'll let you be the judge of what it means. Knowledge (Occult) roll of 12+8=20, Knowledge (Ritual) roll of 9+12=21.)

 

[Karl Green]

Kongming...
What the heck; I'm trying an ESP scan to see if, now that I'm here, I can still pick up anything from the outside world. 14+5 = 19.

Kongming closes his eyes and concentrates for a moment, finds the edge of the ‘phenomenon’ is still there and he can look ‘outside’. He gets a bit of a headache doing so, it seems like something is trying to block his senses. There are some kinds of wards or something out there. They are weak right now and could be weakening ever more as you focus for a moment…

Then he is draw back towards his body, and past it! He senses are why up high in the air, maybe a 100 feet or more, looking down at the camp and just beyond… and he sees something out there, in the direction they are heading. It looks like some kind of pattern or design, but on a grand scale. It is pretty dark out here so he can’t really figure out what it is right now…

 

[Karl Green]

(OOC-Gadget's Comprehend roll of 5+6=11, I'm not sure if I can retry that roll, it says I can retry whenever I'm exposed to it again so I'll let you be the judge of what it means. Knowledge (Occult) roll of 12+8=20, Knowledge (Ritual) roll of 9+12=21.)

[occ]German is a fairly easy language so a 10 would make it… using a Hero Point to avoid Fatigue?[/occ]

Andy starts reading through the various journals and notebooks, mystical writings of on Wihhelm Sterne. They seem to span some 70 years. It would take at least a couple of days to get through them all, but a quick read over, they are about the legendary ‘City of Brass’ which he believed to be an Aryan Stronghold of ancient times. Somehow the city was curse (he seems to feel by 'Jewish' Sorcerers who were jealous of the Aryan’s power) and that a spell of unimagined power was cast onto the city… an illusion and confusion like spell that would not allow anyone to enter this land, and if they ever found their way here, they would forgot be trapped here. His notes also suggest that he wishes to enter the city and awake the Queen of Brass. She is supposed to be a powerful sorcerers herself and has been asleep for ages, awaiting her savior (Sterne of course). She will grant him great mystical knowledge and power. The rituals that you see he is writing about are about breaking the spell that protects the city and to get past the last obstacle, a ‘wall of brass’ that surrounds the city and cannot be bypassed in anyway.

This will take about an hour to discover… (there are a number of books so if Paul and/or Kongming wish to read they can make rolls also)

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Andy continues to read on about the ritual, oblivious to the presence of the others.

(OOC-I was under the impression that a gadget's powers stayed allocated for the adventure until changed, but if that's not the case, Andy will use a HP to ignore fatigue, leaving him with 2 left remaining.)

 

[Karl Green]

(OOC-I was under the impression that a gadget's powers stayed allocated for the adventure until changed, but if that's not the case, Andy will use a HP to ignore fatigue, leaving him with 2 left remaining.)

[occ]OH yea you are correct... forgot what I said, no fatigue (for some reason thought you had done something else with your power)[/occ]

 

[Velmont]

Paul take some book and start to read too, and seems absorbed by what he has found.

OOC:
Know(Ritual): 17 + 9 = 26
Know(Occult): 19 + 7 = 26