Once again, it's time for the gaming post. I figured I better do it before everything that happened runs together and I forget something important. Unfortunately, Calvin! does not appear in this blog, as Matt couldn't make it on Sunday. Not too much action this time but we did manage to set up one hell of a fight for the next Mage session. So, with that being said, let's start.
The game started with everyone at the observatory. Nate was studying, as usual, and managed to come up with some more information about the type of entropy the Nephandi used. At Chloe's request, he was also able to find an old article by a mage who theorized that Prime could be used to counter the Nephandi's entropy. Chloe was able to get ahold of her mother and pass that information along. Nothing much else happened and the three of them (Romulus, Chloe, and Nate) called it a night. They planned to try and break through the time block at Calvin's! house the next morning and needed their sleep.
The next morning, Chloe set up a meeting with Brooklyn, president of Titan Industries and a werewolf. The meeting was necessary for two reasons: 1) They needed Brand to go along with them to Calvin's! and 2) They wanted to offer an alliance with the werewolves to gain their help against the coming bad things. Brooklyn seemed interested in the idea of an alliance but turned it into a "This is what we have to offer; what do you have to offer" business proposition. She wanted to know if we spoke for our Chantry and set up a meeting for later that night to discuss the details of the possible alliance. We did manage to get Brand to go with us, which was a plus.
Getting to Calvin's! house, Chloe was able to break through the time block and to see just what happened. Casey was sitting there, when she suddenly looked around and seemed to melt from view. Right after she did that, the door opened and in walked our favorite Nephandi, Shade. We REALLY have to kill him. He was followed by a group of people that looked...sickish? Anyway, not healthy. Still watching through the time spell, Chloe was able to tell Romulus, Nate, and Brand how the group of people with Shade turned into werewolves and stalked Casey through the house. By her description, Brand was able to confirm they were Black Spiral Dancers, very bad werewolves. After a struggle, one managed to knock her unconscious. There was one other person at the house but he stayed in the doorway. He was a 30ish looking male (obviously, by the pronoun he), perfectly groomed, with blond hair, blue eyes, and wearing an immaculate black suit. He told the wolves and Shade to take Casey back to the Hive and to inform Crom about it. He then told Shade to do his time magic thing and walked out. The wolf holding Casey put her into the car and started to rape her. They needed her alive, everything else they wanted to do to her was fair game. Mage is NOT a nice world and bad things happen...a lot. Chloe didn't go into specifics but she did get the point across to the boys about what was happening. Needing to know where they were taking Casey, Chloe came up with an idea. She would keep the time spell going and Brand would follow them in real time by using what she "saw". Nate and Romulus were in charge of turning lights the right colors, so they could stop and go just as the cars they were following did. It actually worked great; I was so proud of us! After a bit, they got to the place were they took Casey. It made Sadies look like an amusement park. The Hive was on a very powerful node (a place of power) and it was not a good place. The amount of pain and rage coming off that place was so strong, it was tainting the entire neighborhood. There was no way they could have gone in there. It would have been suicide. Brand didn't hesitate; he took off and drove around for a few hours, making sure we weren't being followed. He even ditched the car and we ended up walking to Romulus' apartment. He had to go to work.
Brand, Chloe, and Nate had to wait for a ride back to Titan Industries. Once we got back there, we told Brooklyn what had happened to Casey and where they took her. She told us that the place we went to was the headquarters of a company called Pentex. They have been around since the 1800's and got their start in the oil drilling business. Nowadays, anything that was destroying the environment; oil spills, deforestation, toxic waste dumps, they would have a part in it. She also made it clear that she wouldn't send in any of her people to rescue Casey; she basically had written her off. This did not sit well with Nate, Chloe, and especially Brand. After a bit of not too comfortable conversation, Nate and Chloe left. As they headed down the hall, they heard quite the ruckus coming from Brooklyn's office.
After leaving Brooklyn and Brand, the two of them stopped by a club (called Rapture) owned by some Fey they knew. Chloe was interested in talking to them about a possible alliance. Frankly, she would have welcomed any help from just about anybody at that moment. So, they showed up and were greeted by Geneva (a satyr) and her twin brother Genaro (a redcap). They headed up to the office for a chat, where Chloe and Nate told them about what is going on and asked for their help in the fight. Chloe and Nate didn't have much success with that. However, Nate was able to get them a concerned a bit when he mentioned that there could be no more dreamers from all this. Also, Chloe showed them the pictures of Shade and Petite and asked if they knew them. Turned out, they did. In fact, they were patrons of Rapture and had left a few times with customers. Nate pointedly asked if they (Geneva and Genaro) had ever seen those customers again. Geneva answered, a bit uncomfortably, no. Chloe was a bit more direct. She asked if, the next time they saw either of them, they would kill them. She got the same answer...no. However, she was able to get them banned from the club.
There was one more interesting bit of conversation, which pertained to Chloe and a previous adventure. In the prelude to the main story, Calvin!, Chloe, and Romulus had been charged with stealing a Fey artifact back from the Technocracy. They actually managed to break into Technocracy headquarters and get it and not get killed. Well, they then managed to lose it, thanks to the Ash Leopard (don't ask). The mirror was to have been given to Countess Fiona, the head of the Summer Court. Turns out, the Ash Leopard was working for Count Sam, head of the Winter Court. So, we were summoned to the Fey Court and had to explain what happened. We weren't able to prove anything but the Ash Leopard was banished. What happened next was not Chloe's fault. It was Nate's. Okay, it was a little bit her fault but it was mainly Nate's. When they were presented, Nate basically drew all the attention to Chloe and made her stand out. Chloe didn't help matters. When the Count looked her over, she caught his eye, smiled, and gave him quite the challenging look. Nothing happened that night and she didn't think much more about it. And before you ask, yes, Calvin! managed to sleep with the Countess. Now, back to the present.
Before leaving, Chloe gave Geneva her phone number and she said, "If anything changes, I'll call the ice princess." Or, something like that. Chloe, with her flaw of curiosity, asked her what she meant by that. According to Geneva, the Count was interested in Chloe. I think her exact statement was, "Word is the Count has a hard on for you and has people looking for you." Chloe just smiled at that and replied, "Next time you see the Count, give him a message from me. Tell him the ice princess says catch me if you can." Geneva really didn't want to but Chloe really hopes she does. By nature and demeanor, Chloe is a risk taker/thrill seeker who has complete faith in her ability to survive anything. Of course she was interested and flattered and would really like to meet the Count one on one.
Deciding that it was time for something to eat, Nate and Chloe went to the coffee shop where Romulus works. While there, Chloe called Jack and asked him what his thoughts were about the coming meeting. She wanted to get some guidelines about what to offer, if approval would be forthcoming from the other chantry members, and when to walk away. Jack told her to use her best judgement; that allies would be nice but to tell them to fuck off if the terms were too one-sided. Then, it was off to the meeting.
When we got there, we were ushered into a conference room, where Brooklyn and all her staff were waiting, She seemed a bit surprised that it was just the three of us. One thing we all noticed was that Brand was sporting a very fresh wound on his face. So, the meeting began. Nate and Brooklyn verbally sparred a bit. I really wish I could remember what Nate said. I do remember it being hugely insulting. Before things got too out of hand, Chloe spoke up and said that getting Casey was a part of the alliance and was NOT negotiable. There was some more sparring between Nate, Romulus, and Brooklyn about what we could offer them and what we could do. Getting fed up, Chloe decided to just show what we could do. Slamming her hands onto the table, she used Entropy to turn it to dust. Romulus then used Matter to reform it. That got every ones attention. Unfortunately, that didn't help with the terms. Brooklyn did not give on the issue of Casey. Finally having had enough, Brand spoke up and told her that we were right and she was being a fool. She then asked him if he wanted another lesson like the one she had given him earlier (that explained the wound). He didn't back down and Brooklyn kicked him out of the pack. Her loss was our gain. Having Brand as a part of our group will help quite a bit.
Finally getting back to the observatory, Nate did some more research on the name Crom and found a bit of information. At least we hoped that it was the same guy. Apparently a man by the name of Lazarus Crom had worked for a time at Global Dynamics- the Technocracy headquarters. There wasn't any mention of what happened to him but Nate found some articles dealing with debunking his theories. The plot thickens!
While Nate was researching Crom and Romulus was talking to Skip, Chloe went out for a bit. She had a fairly important errand to run. Brand went with her, which made her a bit nervous. After getting his promise to be good, Chloe went to see Christian. She knew he had the information they really needed. By using Romulus' name, they were able to get in to see Christian. Chloe got straight to the point. She wanted to know what he wanted from her in trade for his information. His price, a picture of Romulus. She agreed to that after he assured her he wasn't going to do some weird vampire spell thing with it. Before Brand and Chloe left, she showed him the pictures of Shade and Petite and asked him if he knew them. Touching the pictures, he answered no to the one of Shade. However, when he touched the picture of Petite, he said he knew her but not by that face. He recognized the soul. The meeting ended with Chloe telling him she would get the picture of Romulus to him soon.
Thus ends the session. We really couldn't do much more until Matt (Calvin!) was with us. It's going to be one hell of a fight.
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