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#Post#: 286--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 12:04 am
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[center]Eve Solomon
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It's just a problem that I'm faced with am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by?
Complications that are first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind[/center]
Animal Magnetism | Faerie Affinity | App5(Captivating) | Legend:
Red Riding Hood
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I don’t know how long I sit there, sobbing. But it’s a while.
I’m left staring at this locket with more questions than
answers. I knew I was liable to get hurt when I started to dig
around where I’ve been told not to -- everyone’s parents are
just people, and I never got to realize that about my mom -- but
this?
I exhale, getting control of myself, and place the locket on the
table. Focus, Eve. This is a new lead. You can work with this.
Set the pain aside for a moment and just barrel on through.
Ignore it. Tuck it under the rug for now, sweep it up later.
Or, you know. Never. Whichever comes first.
I can do things with this locket that the investigators before
me never could. I can find out where this necklace was the night
my mother vanished. I can read it’s memories, see what there is
to see.
…
I can just outright use this as a sympathetic link to find her!
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 2:58 am
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It's just a problem that I'm faced with am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by?
Complications that are first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind[/center]
Animal Magnetism | Faerie Affinity | App5(Captivating) | Legend:
Red Riding Hood
[hr]
I sweep the table clear of all the papers, the box, everything,
in one motion of my arm. The idea doesn’t just hit me, it
crashes through me and I’m already on my way to doing it. I lay
the locket down on the table, alone by itself -- free of clutter
and surrounding detritus.
I pull out a piece of chalk and draw a circle around it. I break
the circle at each of the four cardinals, and between those
breaks I pull tarot cards, laying them down and paying close
attention to their meanings in relation to the directions they
connect.
With this insight, I concentrate and pray to Gaia. I hope this
ends well…
[quote]Correspondence 2: Locate Mom
Taking her time, several hours go by here.
Difficulty 3 + 2 (Correspondence 2) = diff 5
+1 diff for hidden or distant target = diff 6
-2 diff for taking her time on each roll = diff 4
Roll 1: 3, 6, 6 = 2 successes
Roll 2: 8, 3, 4 = 2 successes, 4 total
Roll 3: 10, 5, 2 = 2 successes, 6 total[/quote]
I’m concerned about wards, so I take a lot of time building this
spell up. After all, daddy didn’t just ask some mortal
investigator to dig up info on Mom. He has supernatural
resources, too, and they wouldn’t have just forgotten to use
basic magical tracking, would they?
I take so long working this magic I build up a sweat. And with
every passing moment, my anticipation builds with it. And then,
all at once, I unleash the magic and let it fly, seeking out Mom
and --
-- nothing.
The spell just returns nothing.
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 3:26 am
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[center]Eve Solomon
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It's just a problem that I'm faced with am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by?
Complications that are first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind[/center]
Animal Magnetism | Faerie Affinity | App5(Captivating) | Legend:
Red Riding Hood
[hr]
I stand there, staring at the locket.
“No,” I say, my hands shaking even though I’m white-knuckling
the edge of the table. “She’s not dead.” I shake my head. I
refuse to accept that.
[quote]Int 3 + Esoterica 4: Does she know of any alternative
meanings this could have?
7, 2, 8, 2, 6, 7, 5 = 4 successes[/quote]
She’s just… lost in the Dreaming. Or on the other side of the
Gauntlet. She’s not dead. She isn’t!
Breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale.
I let go of the table. I start to pace back and forth. I need
options, people. Where there’s a Will there’s a Way, and let me
tell you my Will is something special.
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 2:15 pm
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It's just a problem that I'm faced with am I
Not the only one who hates to stand by?
Complications that are first in this line
With all these pictures running through my mind[/center]
Animal Magnetism | Faerie Affinity | App5(Captivating) | Legend:
Red Riding Hood
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The possibility of Mom being dead hangs over me like the shadow
of a falling piano, and until I prove that piano doesn’t exist,
I can’t rest. I’ve been in here for hours. I’m already drenched
in sweat. But I don’t care. I haven’t touched on nearly all of
my options, yet.
According to my notes, Mom was last seen twelve years go at 8:37
PM on Christmas Eve. I can look at that time and find out what
was up with the locket at that point.
Right. I can check both the memories in the Locket, and peer
through time. Breathe, Eve. It’s not even remotely over yet.
To go scrying through space and time I’m going to need a bowl of
water for a reflective surface. That means sneaking into the
kitchen and back without being caught by members of the Family.
I can manage that, right?
[quote]Wits 3 + Stealth 3 + Arcane 2, Diff 6
10, 4, 10, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8 = six successes, exceptional![/quote]
In a jiffy I’m back in the library with the bowl. Everyone’s
already in bed, I think, because I didn’t even pass a staff
member on the way back and forth.
I don’t put the locket in the water, because I don’t want it to
suffer water damage. So I just… wear it, for now, I think is the
best course of action. I draw several Tarot cards and place them
in a circle around the bowl, reaching through time to the last
time my mother was seen by anyone, using the locket as the
centerpiece of my vision.
[quote]Time 2 + Corr 2: Gazing into the past using the Locket as
a link.
Three successes needed. Difficulty 3 base for coincidental + 2
for highest sphere + 1 for hidden target = 6
Spending one Quint per roll = -1 difficulty (5 total)
Taking time per roll = -1 difficulty (4 total)
Arete 3: 10, 1, 7 = one success (1 total)
Arete 3: 2, 10, 7 = two successes (3 total)[/quote]
The spell works and I see a vision shimmer into the surface of
the water.
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 2:49 pm
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[center]Miriam Solomon
NPC | Pooka[/center]
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“I’m telling you, this is a bad idea,” Mirriam says. “None of
this works the way you think it does.”
She takes the bag of fast food from the McDonald’s drive-through
window and hands it to the Garou.
“We fae don’t come from the Dreaming like that... It’s not just
a faerie umbra, and you can’t bring us back to the souce like
we’re the One Ring going to Mount Doom.”
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 3:24 pm
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[center]Clock is ticking while I'm killing time
Spinning all around nothing else they can do to turn it back
David Solomon: Forges-the-Future
Breaking partnership in this crime
Ripping up the past, condescending smile
Garou | NPC[/center]
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“Just because I don’t know much about the fae doesn’t mean I
don’t know better than to trust a Pooka’s word,”
Forges-the-Future grunts. He looks exhausted. “And it doesn’t
matter if I’m right about everything. I’m right about something.
And that’s all I need.”
He holds the bag of fastfood and sniffs it, grimacing.
“Wyrmfood,” he says. “You disgust me. Now drive, I ain’t got all
day.”
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 3:37 pm
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[center]The way that you walk
It’s just the way that you talk
Like it ain’t no thang
Miriam Solomon
And every single day is just a fling
And then the morning comes
NPC | Pooka[/center]
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Mirriam pulls the black ‘67 impala out of the McDonald’s
drive-through and onto the highway. She fidgets with her locket
a little bit.
“You’re prepared to abandon your family just to get rid of me?”
she asks, her tone of voice more like someone counseling his
plan of action than someone who disbelieves it.
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 3:42 pm
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[center]Clock is ticking while I'm killing time
Spinning all around nothing else they can do to turn it back
David Solomon: Forges-the-Future
Breaking partnership in this crime
Ripping up the past, condescending smile
NPC| Garou[/center]
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“That a threat?” Forges-the-future laughs. “I’ll be fine. It’s
you who’s getting thrown into Mount Doom. You who tainted my
niece and nephew with your fae-blood. You who stole my brother
from me, and you who’s going to pay the ultimate price. Not just
killing you -- killing you permanently.”
He adjusts his grip on the pistol he has leveled at her across
his lap, where nobody outside the car can see it.
“Take a left up here.”
“That’ll take us offroad--”
“Just do it.”
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 3:54 pm
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[center]The way that you walk
It’s just the way that you talk
Like it ain’t no thang
Miriam Solomon
And every single day is just a fling
And then the morning comes
NPC | Pooka[/center]
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“I’m just saying the Dreaming isn’t going to take kindly to you
treating it as a substitute for cold iron,” Miriam shrugs. “But
hey. Not like I’m gonna logic you out of this, you didn’t logic
yourself into it in the first place.”
She pulls off-road and, at David’s direction, and eventually
comes to a stop.
“...Why aren’t you just knifing me with cold iron, anyways?” she
asks.
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Re: The Case File (Solo)
By: Evil Squeegee Date: December 8, 2024, 4:02 pm
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[center]Clock is ticking while I'm killing time
Spinning all around nothing else they can do to turn it back
David Solomon: Forges-the-Future
Breaking partnership in this crime
Ripping up the past, condescending smile
Garou | NPC[/center]
[hr]
“Because it’s just a myth,” David says, smugly. “A deception to
trick people who want to kill Faeries into doing something that
doesn’t work. Get out of the car.”
The two climb out of the car, and David keeps the gun trained on
Mirriam.
They’re standing in front of the ruins of an old shack, out in
the middle of the desert. There’s no roof. The walls are only
about a foot high, broken and rotten and sun-stained. The front
door is strangely still intact, standing taller than the subs
the walls left behind when whatever destroyed this place
destroyed it.
“Justitia Poetica,” he says as if announcing something, and then
angrily kicks the door in. It collapses inward, but it opens to
somewhere other than it should.
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