DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Idigam
HTML https://idigam.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: RP Threads
*****************************************************
#Post#: 350--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 17, 2024, 8:04 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right
max=45%]
HTML https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/13a67189-261a-4ce4-9be6-74465e4baf28.jpg[/float]
[center]Faye
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qE_d0mnwo4xKtFpTpK4NCFybftGB8uag-Qv83Gpc_vc/edit?tab=t.0
If you feel so filthy
So dirty, so fucked up
If you feel so walked on
So painful, so pissed off
You're not the only one
Refusing to go down
You're not the only one, so get up[/center]
Status (Boston) 3
---------------------------------------------------------
--- Quote ---
> Wits + Subterfuge to detect the lie!
> 10, 9, 6, 5, 1 = 3 successes, she buys it
--- End Quote ---
Naturally he can tell if I’m lying. Even I can’t tell if the
damn demon is lying. And he knows that there’s stuff out there.
Might as well fess, up, right?
~No. Ganax is a secret,~ the demon snarls in the back of my
mind. ~Faye cannot trust the Doctor, the Doctor will hunt Faye
down. Faye saw how connected the Doctor is. Faye WILL lie.~
--- Quote ---
> Ganax’s P+F:
> 10, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8, 7, 2, 2, 1 = 8 successes
>
> Faye’s Resolve + Composure:
> 8, 5, 5, 5, 4, 1 = 1 success
--- End Quote ---
Fine. You want to play, Ganax? I’ll play.
“When I went to space with three of my friends, we encountered
some kind of radiation. By the time we got back, my friend Ben
was made of stone, Johnny could light himself on fire, and Reed
could stretch like he was made of rubber. I got the shit end of
the stick, the power to survive car crashes.”
~...~
Heh heh. Asshole. Fuck around and find out.
Before the doc can react, I hold up a hand.
“...okay, Look. I’d tell you. I really would, because I really
don’t want to deal with Dad pretending he gives a shit that his
daughter woke up in a wrecked Ferrari for any reason other than
it’s a wrecked Ferrari.”
I sigh.
“But I literally cannot do so. I am unable. It is not within my
physical power to make those words come out of my mouth. Not for
fear of consequence, but for literal lack of physical agency.”
#Post#: 352--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: falconianp
Date: December 17, 2024, 8:24 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right max=45%]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/CMlQ6mV.png[/float]
[center]Doctor Monthelm
HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOgd-76BeZJm1FzmG_PzDLGw3B7QGfYwJsNRNf54xVk/edit?usp=sharing[/center]
[center]There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.[/center]
Status (Medical) 3 || Medium
---------------------------------------------------------
The look she gets with that initial lie is perhaps the dryest
one a human face can express with just a few twitches of their
muscles.
But he doesn't seem mad, once she explains it. In fact, he nods,
seeming to understand at least a new range of possibilities to
be working off of.
--- Quote ---
> Abjurism: Res + Composure + WP + salt + 2 for using a
Virtue-based ritual
> Falco Request: [11d10 t8] Roll: [10, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 8, 7, 4,
4, 1] Result: 7 (8 with 10's)
--- End Quote ---
"Ah, I understand completely. Forgive me for this, then," he
tells her.
For what? Well, the good doctor reaches into his coat with one
hand and beneath the top of his shirt with the other. A quick
look around to be sure they're not going to be disturbed.
And then, before she knows what's happening, he's thrown
pocket-salt into her face. Grasping the amulet hidden under his
shirt, he, with force, demands:
"By the authority of What Sleeps, as the herald of His power,
you will release your hold on her!"
To anyone mundane, that just seems like him shouting. But to
Faye? It's like an ephemeral wave just crashed over her,
internally knocking her entirely askew, and the Demon within her
has gone silent. Possibly after a loud exclamation of
displeasure.
He studies her for a moment, gauging her. "How about now?" he
asks, tone like he had just tapped her knee to check her
reflexes.
#Post#: 353--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 17, 2024, 8:31 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right
max=45%]
HTML https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/13a67189-261a-4ce4-9be6-74465e4baf28.jpg[/float]
[center]Faye
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qE_d0mnwo4xKtFpTpK4NCFybftGB8uag-Qv83Gpc_vc/edit?tab=t.0
If you feel so filthy
So dirty, so fucked up
If you feel so walked on
So painful, so pissed off
You're not the only one
Refusing to go down
You're not the only one, so get up[/center]
Status (Boston) 3
---------------------------------------------------------
“Forgive you for wh-SHIT!” I whip around, gripping my face with
both of my hands.
Dude just threw salt in my fucking face!
I’m about to knock his throat into next tuesday when he bellows
that command -- and I feel his power crash through me, and I
nearly fall backwards off the chair-bed-thing I’m sitting on.
I can feel the demon’s absence.
“It’s a fucking Demon from the pits of Hell,” I blurt out like
it’s not going to last more than a few seconds. “He makes me do
things, I’m never alone, and he won’t let me fucking die!”
#Post#: 355--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: falconianp
Date: December 17, 2024, 8:43 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right max=45%]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/CMlQ6mV.png[/float]
[center]Doctor Monthelm
HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOgd-76BeZJm1FzmG_PzDLGw3B7QGfYwJsNRNf54xVk/edit?usp=sharing[/center]
[center]There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.[/center]
Status (Medical) 3 || Medium
---------------------------------------------------------
--- Quote ---
> What's a demon? (Int/Occult 9again)
> Falco Request: [7d10 t8] Roll: [10, 9, 9, 9, 5, 3, 1] Result:
4 (8 with 9again)
--- End Quote ---
As someone dealing with summoning, binding, and pacts, he's of
course spent some time learning about the Infernal and its
devils. Granted, 'demon' could mean any number of things to
someone uninitiated, but in this case, the way the abjurism
worked, and the fact that he didn't hear anything when it did
(as he can hear both ghosts and spirits chatting away, as a
Medium), it narrows things down.
"I see," like she'd just told him she's been dealing with the
sniffles. "Do you know its name? Do you know its Bane? What
sorts of things does it tend to make you do? Did you summon it
yourself, or did you come across it some other way? Can I give
you a referral to a psychiatrist for thoughts of self-harm?"
He's still a doctor.
#Post#: 356--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 17, 2024, 8:51 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right
max=45%]
HTML https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/13a67189-261a-4ce4-9be6-74465e4baf28.jpg[/float]
[center]Faye
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qE_d0mnwo4xKtFpTpK4NCFybftGB8uag-Qv83Gpc_vc/edit?tab=t.0
If you feel so filthy
So dirty, so fucked up
If you feel so walked on
So painful, so pissed off
You're not the only one
Refusing to go down
You're not the only one, so get up[/center]
Status (Boston) 3
---------------------------------------------------------
“It’s name is Ganax. What’s a bane? How long is this going to
last? So far he hasn’t made me do anything too horrible, mostly
little things like lying and staying out of trouble.”
I answer at a mile a minute.
“Christ no, I didn’t summon it myself. Literally woke up in the
middle of the night and found it in my head a little over two
years ago, happy fucking joy. Hell of a sweet sixteenth.”
I look at him like he just asked me to murder someone.
“I don’t need a fucking [i]shrink,[i] I need more salt in the
face.”
#Post#: 357--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: falconianp
Date: December 17, 2024, 9:03 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right max=45%]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/CMlQ6mV.png[/float]
[center]Doctor Monthelm
HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOgd-76BeZJm1FzmG_PzDLGw3B7QGfYwJsNRNf54xVk/edit?usp=sharing[/center]
[center]There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.[/center]
Status (Medical) 3 || Medium
---------------------------------------------------------
He puts a hand up. "That will last for somewhere approaching an
hour, take a breath," he tells her, noticing she's still
speaking at a mile a minute.
Not as long as she likely wants, but longer than the 30 seconds
she seems to be assuming.
"Anyway, a bane is the weakness of a spirit, ghost, demon, or
similar entities like that. Something that can harm it even
without magic. A lot of ghosts get hurt directly by salt, for
instance," likely a hint as to why he keeps it. "They also tend
to have a Ban, which either prevents them from doing something,
forces them to do something, or provides a less direct weakness.
Many demons have to back away from a cross, for instance."
Probably good to know these basics, at least.
"Anyway, we'll put a pin on the shrink. I'm asking these
questions because it sounds like you need leverage. If Ganax is
its actual name and it has the power to both possess you and
force action out of you, that name has power and we can likely
find its weaknesses. Many demons can't stay here unless there's
at least some form of book or documentation about it. A bible of
sorts to declare its divinity, for lack of a better word," he
explains.
If she'd summoned it, she'd likely already have at least a
starting point there, but he's sure there are resources out
there.
"That would give you leverage. Force it to work with you instead
of butting heads. The other option is to try and exorcise it,
but that's difficult with potent beings and honestly it was
lucky that I was able to suppress it as well as I did to begin
with," he admits. Clearly he's no catholic priest, if he's
offering alternatives to ejecting demons.
#Post#: 359--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 17, 2024, 10:50 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right
max=45%]
HTML https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/13a67189-261a-4ce4-9be6-74465e4baf28.jpg[/float]
[center]Faye
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qE_d0mnwo4xKtFpTpK4NCFybftGB8uag-Qv83Gpc_vc/edit?tab=t.0
If you feel so filthy
So dirty, so fucked up
If you feel so walked on
So painful, so pissed off
You're not the only one
Refusing to go down
You're not the only one, so get up[/center]
Status (Boston) 3
---------------------------------------------------------
An hour. I have… an hour. Fuck, that’s more than I
thought I had, and way goddamn less than I want.
But I’ll take it.
“So I need to find its bible,” I muse. “And
it’s going to want to stop me.”
Hrm.
“Okay so while I think about that, how about you tell me
where you learned all this stuff? You some kind of demonologist?
Who is What Sleeps?”
“Only fair. I showed you mine.”
#Post#: 360--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: falconianp
Date: December 17, 2024, 11:10 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right max=45%]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/CMlQ6mV.png[/float]
[center]Doctor Monthelm
HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOgd-76BeZJm1FzmG_PzDLGw3B7QGfYwJsNRNf54xVk/edit?usp=sharing[/center]
[center]There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.[/center]
Status (Medical) 3 || Medium
---------------------------------------------------------
Of course she wants his side of all of this. Where to start, and
how long is this 'exam' going to reasonably last before someone
needs him for something his clout isn't enough to get him out
of? Let's start simple.
"When I was still in school, my mother almost died. I made a
bargain with something in the depths of the Underworld to
prevent that," he tells her. "That's an... oversimplification of
the ordeal, but what started as me trying to look into
experimental medicine eventually devolved into spirit summons
and magic with a little help," he adds on.
"What Sleeps is that entity. I have a connection to it, and a
bargain with it. A Pact, if you want to be official about it,"
he continues, "Because of that, I've also done a fair bit of
research into other things like demons, spirits, and creatures
from the universal unconscious. It's a rich tapestry."
--- Quote ---
> Occult about Possessed specifically
> Falco Request: [7d10 t8] Roll: [10, 9, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1] Result:
2 (4 with 9again)
--- End Quote ---
Thinking for a moment, he continues, "I've never met someone
possessed by a demon before you. But I've read stories of those
who have been who managed to trick their 'guests' by pretending
to be boring. Researching while you're eating and acting like
you're just staring off into space. They don't have infinite
attention spans."
"Alternatively, we can make a trade. You owe me a favor, I do
some research for you, and then you'll only need to be boring
for as long as it takes me to pass on the information," he
offers.
"And I'm not a fae or demon or anything like that myself. This
isn't some official pact, so don't think you'll lose your soul
if you don't do the first favor I ask of you or anything like
that," he then adds on, all things considered. Nobody wants to
use one bargain to escape another. "I'm sure we can figure out
something reasonable, though."
#Post#: 361--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 17, 2024, 11:25 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right
max=45%]
HTML https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/13a67189-261a-4ce4-9be6-74465e4baf28.jpg[/float]
[center]Faye
HTML https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qE_d0mnwo4xKtFpTpK4NCFybftGB8uag-Qv83Gpc_vc/edit?tab=t.0
If you feel so filthy
So dirty, so fucked up
If you feel so walked on
So painful, so pissed off
You're not the only one
Refusing to go down
You're not the only one, so get up[/center]
Status (Boston) 3
---------------------------------------------------------
I listen to his story and nod along. At least he got something
out of his pact.
“Probably safer for me to owe you and have you do the research,”
I grunt. “You don’t have It working against you. If I piss this
thing off, it might decide to do worse than make me lie. I know
it can set shit on fire,” I say, glancing down at my hands.
I may or may not have seen that happen once or twice.
“Not that I want to owe you a favor. But what the hell, right?
In for a penny, I guess.”
What’s the worst he could ask for? He’s a fucking doctor. Man’s
response to encountering a demon-possessed girl was therapy. I
mean he’s also pacted with something called What Sleeps, but
we’re not going to fucking worry about that for now.
#Post#: 362--------------------------------------------------
Re: That Damn Minivan Is Back
DIR By: falconianp
Date: December 17, 2024, 11:33 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[float=right max=45%]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/CMlQ6mV.png[/float]
[center]Doctor Monthelm
HTML https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOgd-76BeZJm1FzmG_PzDLGw3B7QGfYwJsNRNf54xVk/edit?usp=sharing[/center]
[center]There is no odor so bad as that which arises from
goodness tainted.[/center]
Status (Medical) 3 || Medium
---------------------------------------------------------
"Well, with that being said, if he can set things on fire, we
probably want to get you out of here before he wakes up," he
says with a slight frown, "I have work to do anyway. To note,
you were never here. A Jane Doe came in from the car crash. That
said I can't help you if your car was in your name, the police
might follow up that way."
As he explains this he takes a card out of his coat along with a
pen, writing his personal cell phone under the work number.
"Text me whatever number you want me to send you the information
on, ideally before he comes to. When I have it, I'll text 'Do
you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior.' Then what
follows you don't want to see until you're sure it's not
looking," he goes back to the matter at hand, handing the card
to her.
"Go out the exit around the corner. Employees only. But nobody
is actually paying that much attention." There's the matter of
her ride, without a car, but he's not a taxi service.
*****************************************************
Page 2 of 3
DIR Previous Page
DIR Next Page