We now resume our usual mayhem and chaos.
When Calvin! and Romulus arrived at the address given to them, they were met by an absolutely gorgeous Japanese girl. Calvin! was instantly smitten, especially after he viewed her school girl outfit. She introduced herself as Miko and motioned the two of them to follow her (frankly, in that outfit, Calvin! would have followed her anywhere). Making themselves stealthy with a couple of Forces spells, they moved into the shadows with Miko and her rat. The rat scurried ahead and then stopped. Astonishingly, it seemed to give Miko combat signals with it's paw. Glancing around the corner, the three of them saw two humanoid shapes. One was fairly big; the other seemed to be moving weirdly under it's trench coat. Using Spirit, Romulus saw they were Femori (we had fought one of those in an earlier session- nasty things!). Combat ensued. Romulus used a particularly evil friction spell on the bigger one. Calvin! followed that with a bolt of electricity from the power lines above. Miko was behind the two Femori, striking out with her sword. The three of them managed to kill the bigger of the two. The Femori left melted into a mass of mice and rats.
Meanwhile, Nate was getting to view the fight courtesy of Rebecca and her computer. Due to his ability to use Correspondence, he prepared a spell to help out. He planned to cause the flesh eating bacteria on the Femori's bodies to grow and infect them.
Back in the combat zone, Romulu, Calvin!, and Miko moved further in and came across Tommy, Jack, and another Wererat (that's what Miko was) fighting more Femori. More battle ensued and our group was victorious. Jack was busy torching the bodies as Miko greeted Tommy with a "hi daddy!", causing Calvin! to lose interest in her pretty quickly. She wasn't actually his daughter, just one of his whores. Calvin! also learned, to his relief, that Helvin was alive.
Since the fight there was done, except for the clean-up, Rebecca called up the monster/Marauder fight taking place in the Umbra. Nothing appeared, so it seemed the fight was over. She told Nate she thought the fight had been a diversion of some sort but wasn't sure.
It was now just about 3, so Chloe and Brand headed back to Rapture and Genaro and their date with a tattoo artist. They got to the tattoo parlor without incident. Brand declined to go in. When Chloe and Genaro entered, they were greeted by another Redcap. He was in worse shape then Genaro, which is saying something. He introduced himself as Romero and asked Genaro if he had brought Chloe in to be eaten. Ignoring both implications (food and sexwise) of that statement, Chloe described the tattoo she wanted- covering most of her back, a sunburst as the background with an ouroboros overlaying it. Romero was definitely old school, no tattoo gun for him. It was done with the traditional sticks. Chloe took her shirt off and settled in for a very long evening. She used the time to talk to Genaro about coming with them when they rescued Casey. Somehow, she managed to get him to agree.
The fight being over, Romulus and Calvin! went back to the observatory. After arriving, Calvin! rushed to confront Helvin, who promptly burst into tears. Helvin had been drinking steadily, so he wasn't too composed. The two of them settled down to talk and to share Helvin's whiskey. Romulus decided that this would be a good time to kill off some paradox. He had a bit to burn and the result was the friction around him became nullified. Everything he touched or that touched him just slid right off. He couldn't walk anywhere or grab anything and no one could help him since they couldn't hold him. Eventually, he ended up in a corner of a room. Calvin! also burned off some paradox but his was minor; his hair just stood on end. Paradox generally hits a mage with whatever sphere they used the most.
By the time Romulus ended up in the corner, Calvin! and Helvin were wasted. Somehow, Calvin! got on the topic of Chloe and he decided it would be a swell idea to give her a call. So he drunk dialed her. He reached her just as Romero started tattooing. She wanted to have a bit of fun with him so she put her phone on speaker (so Genaro and Romero could hear) and told him that she was between two men right then. Going on, she said that what was happening hurt at first but then it turned kind of nice and tingly. She kind of liked how it felt. Drunk Calvin! told her that if she wanted to feel good he would do it better then the two men. She should come to the observatory right away and he would be there waiting to show her. About that time Genaro pulled out his phone and started to record Calvin!. At one point, he leaned over to talk into phone, telling Calvin! not to worry, that he and Romero were taking good care of Chloe. That sent Calvin! into his "I can do you better then they can" spiel again. After going through the same conversation a few times, Chloe told him goodnight and hung up the phone. The tattoo took until mid morning to complete. Chloe managed to stand the pain until the very end, which kind of impressed Genaro. She was ecstatic about the end result. It looked gorgeous. Saying goodbye to the Redcaps, she went out to Brand, who was still waiting, and they headed home.
Getting back to the Observatory, they found Calvin! passed out in the backseat of his convertible. He had also puked in the front seat. Chloe woke him up and surprised him with the recording of his phone call the night before. Calvin! shorted out her phone. They headed into the house, only to hear Calvin!'s voice coming from the TV. Genaro had leaked the phone conversation to the entertainment press. Calvin! was not pleased. Neither was Calvin!'s agent.
Now, a meeting for the group had been set up for that evening. Just before it started, Tommy, leading Mel, walked in. He was bruised up a bit but otherwise was fine. Mel, on the other hand, was not fine. She seemed a bit (okay- a lot) more spacey then normal. Since the meeting was taking place in the Horizon Realm, they all headed there. Everyone, except Olivia, attended. Jack, looking very serious, sad, and resigned, greeted them. He started off the meeting by saying that Olivia wouldn't be there. She was gone but safe. That got Chloe's attention. She bluntly asked him just where Olivia was. When he told her he wouldn't tell her, she became enraged. Not caring about keeping a secret anymore, she practically yelled at him to tell her where her mother was. Again he refused and she told him to fuck off and left the meeting. Calvin! followed her outside the Realm, where she promptly burst into tears and buried herself into Calvin!'s arms. After a bit, she got herself under control and went back. Jack was telling everyone that the Entropy in the city was reaching a critical point and that reality had cracked. Brand then spoke up and asked about Casey. Getting her back was the reason for him being there after all. We all agreed that we would go in the next night. Jack ended the meeting by asking if there were any questions. Once again, Chloe demanded to know where her mother was (she has the flaw curiosity which can very easily lead to stubbornness). Jack told her they would talk about it in private, after the meeting.
Thus ended the game. Next week is board game night and the week after is Dresden. Can't wait for both!
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