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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TillForPie" data-source="post: 6314825" data-attributes="member: 6762758">You didn't specify, but I'm going to go ahead and have Agnasci scrutinize some of the stuff in his environment. All mages, once they have some form of mage sight up, can attempt to read the resonances of the world around them with extended Intelligence + Occult rolls. Everything has a resonance: You, me, a coffee cup, a car, a street, a building, an entire town - everything has got a certain vibration that can be seen and potentially interpreted with mage sight.When using mage sight to scrutinize something, be sure to specify what it is you're scrutinizing, what it is you're looking for, and how much time you're willing to spend doing it. You can attempt to detect the identity of someone and thus see that person's unique "fingerprint" (in this way you can potentially see through disguises and transformations, assuming you've scrutinized them before), the nature of a person (though so far your characters will only be familiar with two natures - sleeper and awakened), or the qualities of a person, place, or thing (this is what it will be assumed you're doing if you ever scrutinize something without specifying what you're looking for). It's even possible to scrutinize active spells to learn more about them. Whenever you scrutinize another mage they have a chance to notice your doing so - Penrose has stressed that this is something some mages take offense to.Agnasci has a while to wait so he has plenty of time to scrutinize things.AgnasciIt takes about fifteen minutes for Agnasci to reach Ninja Comics. It's a tiny store about a third of the way between Nazareth Secondhand Books and Tuxedo Springs, near the road that leads north to the highway. As he anticipated, it's not open yet. According to the white card hanging in the door the place is open from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM on Sundays. On Fridays it's open 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM. Rest of the week it's 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM. So Agnasci has a bit of a wait ahead of him.He jogs across the street to the south side where he leans against the wall of a chiropractor's office. He pulls a cord in his mind and shutters his eyes with mage sight. It's as if he's viewing the world through a pair of colored lenses. The first and most obvious thing he notices is the pulsing vein of light that seems to run along the skin of the earth from east to west here, parallel and just north of Main Street. It vanishes beneath buildings only to reappear running through parking lots and across streets. By the looks of it it must go straight to the bookstore. Is there more than one ley line running under the old man's sanctum?Agnasci directs the Third Eye away from the ley for now. There's no sign of any mental mischief the likes of which he detected back at the trailer, and no active magic that he can see. With nothing to do but wait he focuses on the comic shop in the way Penrose had taught, scrutinizing its resonance. It's like peeling back the layers of an onion. It just takes time and concentration...The place has a bitter hum of excitement and desperation. Not too surprising. Agnasci can imagine the gaggle of card-slinging gamers and comic book readers that must pack this place every night. He turns his focus on the occasional passing car. Most of them he can't get a bead on in time - he starts to focus, keeps reading, and... they're out of sight before he can unveil their resonances. But a few of them he manages to read. This one has a resonance of frustration and anxious anticipation. That one has a resonance of optimism and... love?This is how he passes the time.</blockquote>

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