Rubberneck
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Law steps in after Harper, and follows him down the hallway.
"Well we can look for him when we are done here._
"Well we can look for him when we are done here._
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Nazareth Awakened - Chapter 02: Wives of Solomon
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TillForPie
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The group enters the house, Law closing the door behind them. The hall is only about thirty feet long, and completely unfurnished, with calming creme-colored walls. The door at its end does not open on its own as Harper expected, so he opens it himself.
Meanwhile Law hears the front door open behind him and he looks over his shoulder.
Harper sees Law ahead of him, facing away but looking back over his shoulder at him, and ahead of him Chance, and ahead of her his own back, looking on at an endless repetition of the same scene.
Law sees Harper coming through the door behind him, and behind Harper is Chance, and behind her is himself, looking over his shoulder at an endless repetition of the same scene.
The two doors have become the same door, the two doorways have become the same doorway. Each end of the straight hallway connects impossibly to the other, and all three mages are greeted to the panic-inducing sight of an endless series of themselves, expanding for hundreds and hundreds of yards in both directions.
[sblock=Remaining calm and rational]Law's Roll: Resolve 2 + Composure 3 = Success with 1 success
Chance's Roll: Resolve 3 + Composure 3 = Success with 1 success
Harper's Roll: Resolve 2 + Composure 4 = Success with 3 successes
Thankfully all three mages pass their rolls. The situation is still potentially terrifying but they retain control.[/sblock]The impossibility of the situation, the lack of options, the sudden claustrophobia, the inescapable nature of the room, it all falls on the mages like a wave.
Meanwhile Law hears the front door open behind him and he looks over his shoulder.
Harper sees Law ahead of him, facing away but looking back over his shoulder at him, and ahead of him Chance, and ahead of her his own back, looking on at an endless repetition of the same scene.
Law sees Harper coming through the door behind him, and behind Harper is Chance, and behind her is himself, looking over his shoulder at an endless repetition of the same scene.
The two doors have become the same door, the two doorways have become the same doorway. Each end of the straight hallway connects impossibly to the other, and all three mages are greeted to the panic-inducing sight of an endless series of themselves, expanding for hundreds and hundreds of yards in both directions.
[sblock=Remaining calm and rational]Law's Roll: Resolve 2 + Composure 3 = Success with 1 success
Chance's Roll: Resolve 3 + Composure 3 = Success with 1 success
Harper's Roll: Resolve 2 + Composure 4 = Success with 3 successes
Thankfully all three mages pass their rolls. The situation is still potentially terrifying but they retain control.[/sblock]The impossibility of the situation, the lack of options, the sudden claustrophobia, the inescapable nature of the room, it all falls on the mages like a wave.
GlassEye
Adventurer
Harper, Thyrsus mage
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Harper takes a couple of shallow, near-panicked breaths before he is able to calm himself down. "Ah, maybe we should have gone to the back door." Instead of continuing to struggle against whatever magical trap he has inadvertently led them into Harper sits down on the floor, leans up against the wall and closes his eyes to shut out the disorientation.
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Rubberneck
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Law also slightly panicked but also intrigued.
"Now that is unsettling."
He will cast 2 spells. The first is Grim Sight, the second is Find the Hidden Door.
"Now that is unsettling."
He will cast 2 spells. The first is Grim Sight, the second is Find the Hidden Door.
Rubberneck
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(OOC :: I would actually prefer to use the Matter Arcanum Mage Sight, just can't think of the name off the top of my head.)
GlassEye
Adventurer
Harper, Thyrsus mage
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[sblock=OOC]Matter mage sight spell is Dark Matter.[/sblock]
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Harper's pride doesn't allow him to stay down for long. He opens his eyes and pushes himself to his feet. He turns around and moves down the hall back towards the front door to the house. He allows himself one test and opens the door and steps through hoping he'll end up outside or in the next room and out of the hallway. If he ends up in the hallway again Harper will cast his Second Sight spell and begin studying the resonance of the spell that has them trapped in the hall.
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[sblock=OOC]Matter mage sight spell is Dark Matter.[/sblock]
With Law checking magic, and Harper seeing if backtracking is the way, Chance decides two things. First, there must be a seldom-traveled path through here, and second...they might need a little luck to find it.
So she takes a moment to close her eyes and tune out the impossible corridor with it's eye twisting vista, and concentrates on the invisible patterns of what might be called 'fate' all around them. It was an emergent thing; a pattern or order that sprang out of million billion tiny almost-random movements. Causes...and effects. Tampering with itwas unpredictable. You never knew quite what you'd get, even on the best of days.
But you'd get something. Even if it wasn't clear quite what, until much later.
She then opened her eyes and looked first up...then down. Ceiling panels perhaps? Or a square cut in the carpet over a way down?
(OOC - Attempting to cast Reading the Outmost Eddies; Fate 1...then starting to look for another way through)
So she takes a moment to close her eyes and tune out the impossible corridor with it's eye twisting vista, and concentrates on the invisible patterns of what might be called 'fate' all around them. It was an emergent thing; a pattern or order that sprang out of million billion tiny almost-random movements. Causes...and effects. Tampering with itwas unpredictable. You never knew quite what you'd get, even on the best of days.
But you'd get something. Even if it wasn't clear quite what, until much later.
She then opened her eyes and looked first up...then down. Ceiling panels perhaps? Or a square cut in the carpet over a way down?
(OOC - Attempting to cast Reading the Outmost Eddies; Fate 1...then starting to look for another way through)
TillForPie
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Harper backtracks through the hall to the door nearest Law (within his segment, at least - Law is very near on the opposite side of Harper's closest doorway - but then again, they're the same doorway) - as do all the hundreds of other Harpers that stretch on to the limit of sight. He steps through the doorway. He feels no magic, no anything - he's simply standing in another segment of the hallway from his perspective, moving in a single step from fifteen feet behind Chance to fifteen feet ahead of Chance. The feeling is nauseating as every fiber of Harper's being tries to reject the impossibility of it.
Everyone can feel the tingle of magic as Law, Chance, and Harper cast their spells (this actually might have something of a grounding effect on them - they can see an endless number of Laws and Chances and Harpers in both directions but only feel four spells go off).
Law and Harper can see the spell hanging over the room thanks to their mage sight.
Harper scrutinizes it: This is, as he probably could have guessed on his own, very advanced space magic. Penrose has taught that spells bear the fingerprint of their casters and Harper thinks he can see what Penrose meant - he's pretty sure if he were to scrutinize the mage who cast this spell he'd be able to link the two together. The spell is very potent and would be difficult and time-consuming to dispel. Further, it's a spell that would last weeks at least. This is high-level magic, much greater than anything he or the others of the group could muster, though he's never had the opportunity to scrutinize Penrose's magic so he can't make a comparison there.
[sblock=Chance's search]Roll: Wits 3 + Investigate 3 - well-hidden 2 = Success with 1 success
Chance finds the hidden passage[/sblock]Law and Chance both converge on the same spot at once - Chance because she's spotted something strange on the floor (perhaps only thanks to her lucky magic), Law because his Find The Hidden Hoard spell has led him there. As Chance had suspected, there is a sign of something odd here: The outline of a square in the carpet. All the hundreds of Laws and Chances bend as one to peel back the carpet, revealing hundreds of trap doors that the pairs all open together.
The trio eagerly pushes its way down the wide staircase revealed beneath the floor. At the bottom of the stairs they find themselves in a living room - to the left of them is the front door of the house, still open from them coming through it, with the front yard and Law's Tahoe outside.
To the right, deeper in the living room, is an older gentleman in an armchair. He's in a knitted shirt and khakis, with a thick grey beard and frizzy hair. He's reminiscent of the actor Harold Ramis and looks like a decidedly liberal version of Penrose. Unmoving eyes stare back at the group through thick glasses. He's not dead - his chest rises and falls with each breath, but he seems comatose, not visibly reacting to the arrival of his three guests. This must be Magellan.
There's nothing unusual about the rest of the living room besides the slight smell of marijuana. Photographs taken over decades dot the walls and shelves of this room, including a large one near a hallway entrance that shows Magellan with what is unmistakably a younger Penrose - the two men are smiling for the camera with four others: There's a pair of what are clearly twin sisters in matching miniskirts and jackets, a third man with slicked-back hair that seems like the manifestation of business casual, and a beautiful red-haired woman, younger than the others and in bell-bottoms and a halter top.
Law and Harper can see a spell hanging over the front door - the same spell that they saw in the hallway - and they can see spells stacked on Magellan. Nothing else in the living room is magical.
Everyone can feel the tingle of magic as Law, Chance, and Harper cast their spells (this actually might have something of a grounding effect on them - they can see an endless number of Laws and Chances and Harpers in both directions but only feel four spells go off).
Law and Harper can see the spell hanging over the room thanks to their mage sight.
Harper scrutinizes it: This is, as he probably could have guessed on his own, very advanced space magic. Penrose has taught that spells bear the fingerprint of their casters and Harper thinks he can see what Penrose meant - he's pretty sure if he were to scrutinize the mage who cast this spell he'd be able to link the two together. The spell is very potent and would be difficult and time-consuming to dispel. Further, it's a spell that would last weeks at least. This is high-level magic, much greater than anything he or the others of the group could muster, though he's never had the opportunity to scrutinize Penrose's magic so he can't make a comparison there.
[sblock=Chance's search]Roll: Wits 3 + Investigate 3 - well-hidden 2 = Success with 1 success
Chance finds the hidden passage[/sblock]Law and Chance both converge on the same spot at once - Chance because she's spotted something strange on the floor (perhaps only thanks to her lucky magic), Law because his Find The Hidden Hoard spell has led him there. As Chance had suspected, there is a sign of something odd here: The outline of a square in the carpet. All the hundreds of Laws and Chances bend as one to peel back the carpet, revealing hundreds of trap doors that the pairs all open together.
The trio eagerly pushes its way down the wide staircase revealed beneath the floor. At the bottom of the stairs they find themselves in a living room - to the left of them is the front door of the house, still open from them coming through it, with the front yard and Law's Tahoe outside.
To the right, deeper in the living room, is an older gentleman in an armchair. He's in a knitted shirt and khakis, with a thick grey beard and frizzy hair. He's reminiscent of the actor Harold Ramis and looks like a decidedly liberal version of Penrose. Unmoving eyes stare back at the group through thick glasses. He's not dead - his chest rises and falls with each breath, but he seems comatose, not visibly reacting to the arrival of his three guests. This must be Magellan.
There's nothing unusual about the rest of the living room besides the slight smell of marijuana. Photographs taken over decades dot the walls and shelves of this room, including a large one near a hallway entrance that shows Magellan with what is unmistakably a younger Penrose - the two men are smiling for the camera with four others: There's a pair of what are clearly twin sisters in matching miniskirts and jackets, a third man with slicked-back hair that seems like the manifestation of business casual, and a beautiful red-haired woman, younger than the others and in bell-bottoms and a halter top.
Law and Harper can see a spell hanging over the front door - the same spell that they saw in the hallway - and they can see spells stacked on Magellan. Nothing else in the living room is magical.
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Chance walked over to where 'Magellan' sat and peered at him for a moment.
"We're here," she said to him. Though his eyes didn't register them, she sincerely doubted he'd let strangers into the room with him while truly dead to the world. Another test maybe? "Well, jes' let us know when yer ready to talk to us. We'll keep outta trouble 'til then."
She went over to the photographs and stifled a laugh at seeing Young Penrose.
But even through the mirth, she also inspected the three women minutely...seeing if any of them had resemblances to the mysterious mage named Earnhart.
"We're here," she said to him. Though his eyes didn't register them, she sincerely doubted he'd let strangers into the room with him while truly dead to the world. Another test maybe? "Well, jes' let us know when yer ready to talk to us. We'll keep outta trouble 'til then."
She went over to the photographs and stifled a laugh at seeing Young Penrose.
But even through the mirth, she also inspected the three women minutely...seeing if any of them had resemblances to the mysterious mage named Earnhart.
Rubberneck
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Law addresses Magellan,
"I'm Law, this is Chance and Harper, I apologize for being late, one of our... Compatriots never showed up. Penrose sent us."
He motions to Chance and Harper as he says their names so he knew who was who.
"That's a pretty trippy entrance you have there."
Law will remain standing until invited to have a seat, if that even happens.
"I'm Law, this is Chance and Harper, I apologize for being late, one of our... Compatriots never showed up. Penrose sent us."
He motions to Chance and Harper as he says their names so he knew who was who.
"That's a pretty trippy entrance you have there."
Law will remain standing until invited to have a seat, if that even happens.
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