Mage: The Awakening PbP - Nemesis

[Festy_Dog]

When Cleo asks the others abouting missing time it looks as though Harlequin realises something and chuckles.

"That's a good point. They might have the same problem as us, although that means we'd lose the best possible source of information on our behaviour during the lost time," Hal laments.

 

[Aenion]

"If you mean that I don't know how I got here, I guess yes I'm missing time," Morrigan replies, "The last thing I remember is that we agreed to examine the Eyes of Salt, next I was standing in front of the mirror as if I'd just gotten out of bed..." With my gun to my temple, she adds in thought, "I haven't seen Gawain yet and I don't think we will find him. Somehow I suspect he has something to do with what happened to us. He left us a little something," she shows the others the silver bell, "I imagine this is what you sensed."

 

[Shayuri]

Thessaly's eyes widen at Cleo's question, and then again on seeing the bell.

She quickly nods.

"It was just like that for me, only instead of the bathroom, I...'woke up' at the counter, the register. Just like any other work day."

Then she curses. "I'd better get down there until he leaves...keep me informed okay?"

 

[Tokiwong]

Thessaly's eyes widen at Cleo's question, and then again on seeing the bell.

She quickly nods.

"It was just like that for me, only instead of the bathroom, I...'woke up' at the counter, the register. Just like any other work day."

Then she curses. "I'd better get down there until he leaves...keep me informed okay?"

Thessaly gets downstairs, the customer purchases a few books and goes on his way, but still the idea of missing so much time, perhaps gnaws at her. That and that everything seems so ordinary, so boring, but the circumstances are anything but.

Upsairs

Cleo looks at the silver bell, “What is it?”

 

[Festy_Dog]

"I do believe it's a bell," Hal replies, declaring the obvious.

He does however give some thought to the matter, seeing if anything comes to him off the top of his head.

Occult - 5 dice

 

[Aenion]

"That's what I figured so far as well," Morrigan replies dryly to Hal's statement, "I was copying the runes that are marked in it when I heard a crow cawing," she shows them her notes as she continues, "When I looked up I saw Winnie's reflection in the window. That's the second time I saw her reflection around the store, I have a feeling she's trying to warn us about something."

 

[Tokiwong]

"I do believe it's a bell," Hal replies, declaring the obvious.

He does however give some thought to the matter, seeing if anything comes to him off the top of his head.

Occult - 5 dice

Harlequin gets 1 success on the roll, and can detect one aspect of the artifact’s resonance

“Thanks smart-ass,” Cleo chides, “I could not have figured that out, but I mean why does it give off such a feeling. I mean I feel like that one little bell is the center of the universe, it gives me a sense of chill and wonder like… like nothing I have ever felt before.”

Harlequin continues to use his mage sight to pierce the veil that seems to enshroud this artifact. It is powerful, a buzzing in his mind tells him this much. It seems to have no connection to anything, and yet be connected to everything at once, like tendrils that start from nowhere and go everywhere.

He knows one thing though, something this powerful, will attract interest.

 

[Festy_Dog]

Harlequin bites his lip and contemplates his findings.

"It's... confusing. It feels like it's connected to nothing and yet everything, as though in a sense it could actually be the center of the universe," Harlequin addresses Cymbeline's hunch on the bell.

"Cymbeline and I could feel this thing from downstairs. Who knows how far away other mages could detect this from? Others will come. We need to either find a secure place to keep it or get it into the hands of someone who can be trusted but is also powerful enough to protect it."

 

[Tokiwong]

"Cymbeline and I could feel this thing from downstairs. Who knows how far away other mages could detect this from? Others will come. We need to either find a secure place to keep it or get it into the hands of someone who can be trusted but is also powerful enough to protect it."

Cymbeline looks at the artifact, “Like put it in a safe? I mean I know I am new at this; but do mages try and take this stuff from each other? I am not sure who you would want to trust with it, and why did Gawain leave it with us then?”

Morrigan’s cell phone starts to ring, its Starbuck.

 

[Festy_Dog]

"A safe isn't going to be incredibly effective unless it also carries enchantments," Hal explains, "Although as far as mages taking things from each other... Well, when you gain the ability to break the laws of reality it can often be a case of 'who cares about those societal laws that lesser humans impose on one another?'. So simply taking can be seen as a path to getting what you want, and what most mages want is more power, so they sense this and maybe they'll be tempted."