The events in week 6 of the Mage: the Ascension chronicle: Duplicity (#DPLCTY), between 09/08/2019 to 09/14/2019.
Tobias Washington
Mage Storyteller:
[@TobiasNgoma1] It’s a good day for Tobias. Class is done and for once you’re caught up on grades. It’s a rare day to be sure. How does Tobias spend a rare afternoon?
Tobias Washington:
[Tobias smiles at the unexpected afternoon off] “Guess I’d better try to keep body and soul together” he says to himself and heads to one of his favorite cafes near the University.
Mage Storyteller:
You head over to Roast Duck, a coffee shop on the edge of campus. The sign features a mosaic style duck with a beret sipping a cup of coffee. The crowd is young; there seems to be an acoustic folk singer doing a background concert.
Tobias Washington:
[Tobias takes his coffee and sandwich to a corner table, shaking his head at the thought that he had ever been as young as the other patrons. He takes a seat and opens the book he’s currently reading, letting the sounds of life pass over and through him.]
Alesky
Mage Storyteller:
[@zenantiomer] Aleksy has been cooped up in his room for a week and half working on a major project, completely consumed by his studies. What is it that you’re working on?
Alesky:
I am scouring the existing literature and planning a new series of experiments on neurotransmitters. I can’t believe no one has tried looking systematically at the effects of neurotransmitter chirality.
I am practically salivating at the prospect of genuinely novel knowledge.
Paul Chambers (Continuing scene from Week 5)
Mage Storyteller:
Your tracks covered and some kind of lead in hand, you head off to bed. [I say we call the scene there. 2 exp points. Next scene starts with however Paul wants to move forward I think.]
Jonas Carter (Continuing scene from Week 5)
Mage Storyteller:
You see a group of bird watchers, binoculars around their necks, scrounging on the ground looking at feathers. You also see a group of four to one side, looking concerned. But your mind snaps back to those feathers. [Make a willpower roll].
Jonas Carter:
7d10 Rolled: 9, 1, 2, 9, 3, 10 and 6. Better roll again.
Clay Hellstrom, Sitri Lovelace & Jonas Carter (Continuing scene from Week 5)
Mage Storyteller:
Des responds, concerned. “No way that thing is natural Clay. Any chance you can get those people out of there? I wouldn’t want anything to do with those feathers.”
Clay Hellstrom:
[Exhales, low and slow] “I’ll see what I can do. What do I do with them, just leave them? Aren’t they kind of like obsession fuelled landmines just lying around?”
Mage Storyteller:
“If you can keep people away from them, maybe I can get away from here after lunch. Figure out what you can and I’ll be along as soon as possible.”
[Sitri roll Wits + Awareness + Prime dif 9]
Sitri Lovelace:
7d10 Rolled: 10, 2, 7, 6, 5, 3 and 7.
Clay Hellstrom:
“Thanks, Des.” [Puts phone away, pause a second turns to Sitri.] “Hey man, I’m Clay. Wanna help me do something about all this?”
Sitri Lovelace:
“Sitri, what did you have in mind?”
Mage Storyteller:
Right as you say that Sitri you glance over and you see, for the first time, real power. It’s all over the ground by the feathers. [How does it manifest?] You only can hold if for an instant before your mind bends under the pressure of knowing.
Sitri Lovelace:
[It looks like pure liquid color was splashed on the ground. But there was something in the color. My mind bent before I could see anymore.]
Mage Storyteller:
You know only one thing as your senses return. That thing is not of this world.
Mage Storyteller:
Clay right after Sitri is finished speaking you see his eyes go wide, he stumbles back and sits down hard.
Clay Hellstrom:
“One of two things, we… hey? Hey man! You okay?” [move toward him]
Sitri Lovelace:
“I..I’m ffine.”[ shaking my head I lean back and try to pull a smile together] “Sorry.. that hit me harder than I expected”
Mage Storyteller:
[We’re now in visual range of @JonasCarterOoH. Let’s pause for his response and then all four of us will close out the scene.]
Mage Storyteller:
[@JonasCarterOoH moving everything to this thread.] Jonas, you reel back from a sudden compulsion to join the group scrounging for feathers but your will pushes back equally and you resist. Sitri, Clay, you see this newcomer walking up. Jonas, describe yourself.
Jonas Carter:
[Jonas is just under 6ft, heavy set, in his mid 30s dressed in a dark suit with short brown hair and thick glasses, just looking at him he is forgettable and hard to remember (arcane 2).]
Mage Storyteller:
[How do you respond to the situation in front of you?]
Jonas Carter:
I step back, shocked at the mental compulsion and pull out an intricately carved wand of Ebony and move it around like a Harry Potter nerd, though like I know what I’m doing. [Using Mind to shield myself from whatever the hell that was]
Mage Storyteller:
[Gonna call this coincidental since the actual magick is hidden. Fairly straightforward, roll Arete difficulty 5]
Jonas Carter:
[I’ll also spend a point of willpower]
3d10 Rolled: 7, 5 and 1. Uh-oh
[2 successes with the willpower]
Mage Storyteller:
You’re able to successfully isolate and suppress the effect pulling at your mind — which suddenly reveals to you a deeper, more insidious effect underlying the mental one. Something picking at your very soul. It’s not strong with the mind effect nullified though.
.@LovelaceSitri & @HellstromMta you see this new arrival and his strange wand ritual, seemingly with no effect. It’s been a bizarre few minutes no doubt. How do you respond?
Sitri Lovelace:
“Ok today has just gone from weird to super weird. I mean you saw that right? Magic wand and shit?”[ I start laughing a little in shock. I turn and look at @HellstromMta and then to kai] “im not crazy right?”
Jonas Carter:
My face goes from shocked to scared but determined as I carefully make my way closer to the source of the assault on my mind.
Clay Hellstrom:
“Hey, Allison, Des will be headed over in a bitto look at this. Could you meet him at the entrance?”