Rude Awakening at the Third Hour
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thessalianI know, wrong game, but the name was appropriate, all things considered.
The next morning went on pretty much as usual. Jeremiah and Kuo-Li had left at the crack of dawn to set up Jeremiah's new surgery (neither Simson or Mike could make it). Lucius has taken to sparring with Michelle (who kicks his arse on a regular basis, but he figures it'll help him improve), Chloe was doing her naked Tai Chi in the garden, and E had joined Skank in his normal Prime-raising howl-a-thon. Difference being that, at some point in the proceedings, two things happened. The first was Skank vanishing in a flash of light, and the other was Molly, who'd made a circular ward around herself and was burning incense and muttering an extended ritual over a laptop computer. When Skank came back, Molly was about done her ritual; turned out that she'd awakened the spirit of the laptop, which now has extensive access to Technocracy files. Skank's a little pissed because she beat him to it, but he got over it when he found out just how useful the new machine is.
Things being back to generally normal, Lucius decided to try to do something stupid. He's recently heard that his mentor has gone off to try to take down Cerebrus Constantine on his own. This has prompted him to do something equally stupid in going after him ... on his own. Of course, no one would let him do that, and anyway, Marcus knows Lucius well enough to have wiped the co-ordinates at some stage in the game. The only person who still had them was Dawn, who refused to give them up until Lucius agreed to let the others go with him ... and to bring Susanna. Surprisingly, when she asked, Molly was also given leave to go along ... but then again, they said something about not wanting to leave her around with minimal protection from Regulators and social workers from hell. Michelle stuck around at Bokugo to keep an eye on the place, and on Dawn. Susanna, when approached by Lucius, was looking suspicious and slightly disturbed -- apparently she'd been having very lucid dreams that suggested to Lucius a past life in which she worked closely with Kuo-Li and Lucius. She didn't really want to hear that, but kept coming out with very Euthanatos-sounding ideas when she wasn't carefully watching herself. In the end, she decided to go along with Lucius because she "owed him at least one". They tried to arm her but she can't use a gun or a knife, so Skank eventually gave her the Wand of Anvils.
I thought I'd give them a helping hand -- they always play havoc on their clothes when they go out, so I suggested that they pick up the clothing they had made from them in town. They did so, found it all to their liking ... and then Lucius suggested that they go back and drop the stuff off at home, lest it get foomed. Their decision and I couldn't fault it. What I did take exception to was Lucius insisting that they stop the fucking bus for about twenty minutes while trying to talk them all out of joining him on his little so-called suicide jaunt. It was, needless to say, quite late when they finally arrived in Cardiff. They stopped at the outskirts, trying to decide on a battle plan. Which is where they smelled the fresh blood ... and Chloe saw the lump that might have been a body. Lucius and E went to investigate, but before they could do much else, they were attacked by a demonhound (or 'warg', as the others call them). Roll initiative! It was only E and Lucius in the line of fire, and the warg was mostly intent on Lucius, so it didn't go on for very long. What wound up happening was that it grabbed Lucius, did little damage, then he and E both got blinded by Skank's pointing the battle bus spotlight on them, Chloe tightening the focus on the light so that it slightly singed anyone in its path, the warg finally managing one lethal when it tightened its jaws to drag Lucius out of the beam, and Lucius finally igniting the light sabre while said light sabre was pressed against the warg's flank. When they got that mess sorted out, Lucius went to heal his one lethal (with about ten minutes of meditation) and the others went to investigate the body.
And so they found the headless corpse of Marcus Brixley-Monteith, mentor to Lucius Marwood. Chloe and E went on one of their stoner scrying rituals (which took longer with the softer sorts of drugs) to determine what had happened to him while Lucius removed personal effects from the body and packed it into the trunk of the battle bus for burial at Bokugo. (Ooh. Alliteration.) As it turned out, Marcus' headless corpse had been dumped out there recently by a couple of mooks. Susanna, meanwhile, pickpocketed Lucius (got his foci) and went off to scout the town so they weren't walking -- or driving -- in blind. She came in with breakfast and a slightly sick look on her face, telling how there was a head on a spike over the gates some bright spark built around Cardiff. The head was pretty obviously going to be Marcus' and it had the Enochian for "Deathmonger" carved into the forehead. This peeved Lucius just a liiiiiiiittle bit more, and Skank and the others were content to ram the goddamn gates until sensible Susanna just picked the locks with a bit of Entropy. So they were in, headed for the University (which is where Lucius' co-ordinates were pointing, and the current city hall since the real one had blown up three years after Restart when they tried to put the power back on). It took a bit more Entropy to get themselves the hell onto University grounds, but they managed it fairly well. On one of those "You Are Here" maps of the campus, they figured out that Constantine was either in the library (entirely black) or in the science wing. They were parked in front of the library, so they went there first.
(At around this point, Lucius was now Lucy. He'd wound up as Serena for some kind of botch and tried to use Life to fix a Paradox effect. He wound up as a 40-year-old version of Serena.)
Upon entering the library, they met the librarian -- a young blond they insisted on calling "Kurt" because of his apparent resemblance to Cobain. They got the impression that the library ate librarians, and Molly scared him by asking for things like books on auto repair and then, I shit you not, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Susanna tried to use Mind to calm him down, but eventually Chloe distracted him by seducing him. (We decided on Dex+Athletics for shagging. She rolled six. He rolled five. He shagged her bandy and she shagged him unconscious. There was apparently screaming.) Meanwhile, Molly'd wandered off and found a basement library full of books that were almost literally oozing evil. She'd also been nicking the books and when they found her, she was deeply engrossed in something about snake gods. For his part, Lucius had found that book he and Susanna had been dreaming about in ritual -- "The Six Rings of the Ganzir" or something like that (can't be arsed to look it up). There was no English, but Lucius picked it up in Japanese, Susanna got it in German and Molly, bless her little cotton socks, had already nicked the Enochian copy. In short, this is where Constantine had been storing the books he'd purloined from his and other Traditions all this time. Molly, still going through the bookshelves like a kid in a candy store, pulled one book, which was apparently a trigger for one of those revolving bookcases. She got pulled through, so Lucius used Entropy to pull the same book ... without telling anybody, so he went too. Eventually, Skank got E to use Entropy to find the right book and stand right next to him when he pulled it, so they both went in. They found themselves trapped in a mid-sized room with no visible exits containing Lucius and Molly's foci but no Lucius or Molly. Susanna, who'd found her way there from the upper level by this point, managed to find the right book and stick the revolving shelf halfway, and they had decent light to see by. There was a small amount of blood (somebody had a head wound) and eventually they spotted the door out. It led into a long corridor containing a 'bread-crumb trail' of Lucius and Molly's clothing and some rooms, one of which contained a warg-in-progress. Skank fried it -- probably a mercy. The other one contained ... well, nothing, really. But written on the walls in far-too-tidy Enochian (think Bart Simpson's blackboard writings, or "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" by a real anal retentive) was the phrase, "Through strife comes power" -- the House Tytalus motto.
Then they heard Molly yelling around then; "I didn't come out of the demon school to write any stupid lines! No! Bog off!" Then scream, thump. They dashed off (Susanna collecting the rest of the scattered clothes along the way) and went to rescue Molly while Susanna went after 'Lucy'. Molly'd been whopped relatively hard by some kind of ward on the room (though no one asked the right questions to find that out) and in the course of investigations, Toos botched again. Serena in mind, body and soul this time, which freaked Susanna out somewhat and amused the others. Skank decided to try out Spirit 3 by stepping sideways into a room and got himself shrunk to the size of a Ken doll and Umbrally backhanded into a genie bottle. Molly, when she woke up and found out what had happened, did her own 'step to the right', but went back on the physical straight away and Forces-pinned the responsible party to a wall. The others took the stairs like sensible people and eventually found out that the poor man didn't know much -- he was just some harried demonic paper-pusher who spontaneously combusted whenever unauthorised people read his papers. So Molly sent out her salamander and it let Skank out of his bottle before telling the others where he was. Skank, once out of the bottle, found some interesting bits of paper on the desk and gathered them up before seeing that his group was approaching, went to bang on the window ... and forgot conservation of mass. He knocked the pane right out of the window and was only saved from certain splat by the combined efforts of a few good Forces mages. There was still the problem of being Ken-sized, though, and Serena was more interested in poking at mini-Skank than helping him, and then said she wouldn't help him until he apologised for swearing at her. Unfortunately, it didn't work very well and he wound up just a little shorter than Molly ... and naked, since Life growing doesn't affect dead matter like clothes. So they took Serena to give her Molly's spare set of gear and give Skank Lucius' clothes, and that's when Gestapo campus security showed up again. There was some really amusing byplay in which there wound up being some very confused Gestapo people, and Susanna quietly made the problem go away by using some Mind fuzzing and leading them away from the source of the problem. Eventually, Spirit magic solved the problem -- they called Leyse, that nice protective spirit that considers Skank a sort of champion of hers, and she grew him to normal size and gave Serena the same basic physical abilities that Lucius has (saved me from having to think how to reduce her Dex, Melee, Dodge, Brawl and Strength). So they decided to storm the science wing.
They came across a receptionist and ... well, they were evil. Chloe tried to Mind-rote the receptionist, botched and managed to Mind-fuzz herself into following the receptionist's orders to leave. Serena, cheeky mare, tried to walk in past her, got grabbed by the ear ... and hit the woman in the stomach with the "nasty snake head cane thing". The receptionist took the cane off Serena and, when justifying this by stating quite accurately that she was disarming the child, Skank claimed the walking stick taller than the little girl was "a token to remind her of her grandfather, you heartless bint". He was also trying to fry the electronics on her desk to make sure she couldn't call security, but didn't quite manage it until it was too late. So they ran for the stairs ... except, as you can imagine, Molly. There was smell of frankincense, cat piss and a few other herbs and some muttering, and then the lobby was swarmed with cats. Apparently, there are advantages to being able to summon and make bargains with handmaidens of Bast. It really amused them to see a half-dozen Gestapo campus police and the receptionist being chased out of the building by felis domesticae. E, for her part, had got around it by simply climbing the building, got to the fourth-floor room that Skank had been held in and managed to kick in the window but overbalanced and was found clinging onto a drainpipe for dear life.
They went to the top floor room where the brunt of the nasty seemed to be (via side-stepping for Molly and Skank). When Skank arrived, he saw Umbral Molly talking to Umbral Constantine, who was vaguely connected to the body of a ninety-year-old man with a lot of sword holes in him. Apparently, Marcus had cut a few holes in this man and then performed what I believe is known as Curse of the Mayfly before he got himself killed. Lucius wanted to deal the killing blow, but when Molly heard that Constantine was the root cause of the death of her parents, the Swansea school thing that had almost killed her best friend and her entire town going to hell in a handbasket, she was livid. That, I believe, was Skank's reasoning for letting Molly deal the death blow. Constantine's final words among the living were "Enjoy the Ravager". Then Skank looked into the Umbral, saw Constantine's spirit hovering around muttering, "Killed by an eight-year-old" and ... well, fried his spirit. I don't think we'll be seeing Constantine again.
We will be seeing his handiwork for a long time to come, however. They left (through the sea of cats, after finding a very confused Susanna) and managed to get home in the small hours. After doing some research, they found out that Constantine had the means to unbind Markadu the Ravager -- best way to put it is Skank's term; "Scorpion-zilla". It hunts cowards and lays eggs that hatch immortal scorpions in the intestines of its victims. A long time ago, six heroic magi bound the Ravager. Three haven't been reborn yet, but three have. One was reborn as Lucius. Another was reborn as Kuo-Li. The last -- Susanna. So now they're having some difficulty because with Mind 3, you can set up some very impressive mental blocks. It took Lucius haranguing her, E yelling at her and Skank manhandling her to even get her to the point where she would humour the lunatics. She has gone quite Euthanatos, though -- or does if she lets herself relax. It's disturbing her mightily. At least she's not as bad as Jeremiah.
They don't have time to baby her, though. The Ravager is loose, and looking for cowards. Dawn (who's up and around, dressed and planning to try to have a normal life, which isn't scaring anyone for some reason) put it best when she said, "What's a bully?" -- a coward trying to hide. That thing's on its way to Llandeilo, and they have to convince Susanna and do a lot of meditation so they can remember the ritual. Not to mention getting three mages with Spirit to fill the other places.
Oh, and finally, they received their invitations to the Convivium. Skank is a little concerned that Violet sent one to Molly and to Dawn. They're going to have to give a talk on what's going on in South Wales, have some input into the discussions on the Regulators, the Technocracy and the Vampire Masquerade, and sit a discussion on the correct way to deal with newly Awakened mages under the age of fifteen. And then there's Violet Scheherazade's grand finale. This is going to be fun. Well, if they survive the Ravager...
In other news, my dad e-mailed me. It's sad when all I can say about that is that he doesn't use capitalisation or punctuation. Makes you wonder where I get it from.
The next morning went on pretty much as usual. Jeremiah and Kuo-Li had left at the crack of dawn to set up Jeremiah's new surgery (neither Simson or Mike could make it). Lucius has taken to sparring with Michelle (who kicks his arse on a regular basis, but he figures it'll help him improve), Chloe was doing her naked Tai Chi in the garden, and E had joined Skank in his normal Prime-raising howl-a-thon. Difference being that, at some point in the proceedings, two things happened. The first was Skank vanishing in a flash of light, and the other was Molly, who'd made a circular ward around herself and was burning incense and muttering an extended ritual over a laptop computer. When Skank came back, Molly was about done her ritual; turned out that she'd awakened the spirit of the laptop, which now has extensive access to Technocracy files. Skank's a little pissed because she beat him to it, but he got over it when he found out just how useful the new machine is.
Things being back to generally normal, Lucius decided to try to do something stupid. He's recently heard that his mentor has gone off to try to take down Cerebrus Constantine on his own. This has prompted him to do something equally stupid in going after him ... on his own. Of course, no one would let him do that, and anyway, Marcus knows Lucius well enough to have wiped the co-ordinates at some stage in the game. The only person who still had them was Dawn, who refused to give them up until Lucius agreed to let the others go with him ... and to bring Susanna. Surprisingly, when she asked, Molly was also given leave to go along ... but then again, they said something about not wanting to leave her around with minimal protection from Regulators and social workers from hell. Michelle stuck around at Bokugo to keep an eye on the place, and on Dawn. Susanna, when approached by Lucius, was looking suspicious and slightly disturbed -- apparently she'd been having very lucid dreams that suggested to Lucius a past life in which she worked closely with Kuo-Li and Lucius. She didn't really want to hear that, but kept coming out with very Euthanatos-sounding ideas when she wasn't carefully watching herself. In the end, she decided to go along with Lucius because she "owed him at least one". They tried to arm her but she can't use a gun or a knife, so Skank eventually gave her the Wand of Anvils.
I thought I'd give them a helping hand -- they always play havoc on their clothes when they go out, so I suggested that they pick up the clothing they had made from them in town. They did so, found it all to their liking ... and then Lucius suggested that they go back and drop the stuff off at home, lest it get foomed. Their decision and I couldn't fault it. What I did take exception to was Lucius insisting that they stop the fucking bus for about twenty minutes while trying to talk them all out of joining him on his little so-called suicide jaunt. It was, needless to say, quite late when they finally arrived in Cardiff. They stopped at the outskirts, trying to decide on a battle plan. Which is where they smelled the fresh blood ... and Chloe saw the lump that might have been a body. Lucius and E went to investigate, but before they could do much else, they were attacked by a demonhound (or 'warg', as the others call them). Roll initiative! It was only E and Lucius in the line of fire, and the warg was mostly intent on Lucius, so it didn't go on for very long. What wound up happening was that it grabbed Lucius, did little damage, then he and E both got blinded by Skank's pointing the battle bus spotlight on them, Chloe tightening the focus on the light so that it slightly singed anyone in its path, the warg finally managing one lethal when it tightened its jaws to drag Lucius out of the beam, and Lucius finally igniting the light sabre while said light sabre was pressed against the warg's flank. When they got that mess sorted out, Lucius went to heal his one lethal (with about ten minutes of meditation) and the others went to investigate the body.
And so they found the headless corpse of Marcus Brixley-Monteith, mentor to Lucius Marwood. Chloe and E went on one of their stoner scrying rituals (which took longer with the softer sorts of drugs) to determine what had happened to him while Lucius removed personal effects from the body and packed it into the trunk of the battle bus for burial at Bokugo. (Ooh. Alliteration.) As it turned out, Marcus' headless corpse had been dumped out there recently by a couple of mooks. Susanna, meanwhile, pickpocketed Lucius (got his foci) and went off to scout the town so they weren't walking -- or driving -- in blind. She came in with breakfast and a slightly sick look on her face, telling how there was a head on a spike over the gates some bright spark built around Cardiff. The head was pretty obviously going to be Marcus' and it had the Enochian for "Deathmonger" carved into the forehead. This peeved Lucius just a liiiiiiiittle bit more, and Skank and the others were content to ram the goddamn gates until sensible Susanna just picked the locks with a bit of Entropy. So they were in, headed for the University (which is where Lucius' co-ordinates were pointing, and the current city hall since the real one had blown up three years after Restart when they tried to put the power back on). It took a bit more Entropy to get themselves the hell onto University grounds, but they managed it fairly well. On one of those "You Are Here" maps of the campus, they figured out that Constantine was either in the library (entirely black) or in the science wing. They were parked in front of the library, so they went there first.
(At around this point, Lucius was now Lucy. He'd wound up as Serena for some kind of botch and tried to use Life to fix a Paradox effect. He wound up as a 40-year-old version of Serena.)
Upon entering the library, they met the librarian -- a young blond they insisted on calling "Kurt" because of his apparent resemblance to Cobain. They got the impression that the library ate librarians, and Molly scared him by asking for things like books on auto repair and then, I shit you not, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Susanna tried to use Mind to calm him down, but eventually Chloe distracted him by seducing him. (We decided on Dex+Athletics for shagging. She rolled six. He rolled five. He shagged her bandy and she shagged him unconscious. There was apparently screaming.) Meanwhile, Molly'd wandered off and found a basement library full of books that were almost literally oozing evil. She'd also been nicking the books and when they found her, she was deeply engrossed in something about snake gods. For his part, Lucius had found that book he and Susanna had been dreaming about in ritual -- "The Six Rings of the Ganzir" or something like that (can't be arsed to look it up). There was no English, but Lucius picked it up in Japanese, Susanna got it in German and Molly, bless her little cotton socks, had already nicked the Enochian copy. In short, this is where Constantine had been storing the books he'd purloined from his and other Traditions all this time. Molly, still going through the bookshelves like a kid in a candy store, pulled one book, which was apparently a trigger for one of those revolving bookcases. She got pulled through, so Lucius used Entropy to pull the same book ... without telling anybody, so he went too. Eventually, Skank got E to use Entropy to find the right book and stand right next to him when he pulled it, so they both went in. They found themselves trapped in a mid-sized room with no visible exits containing Lucius and Molly's foci but no Lucius or Molly. Susanna, who'd found her way there from the upper level by this point, managed to find the right book and stick the revolving shelf halfway, and they had decent light to see by. There was a small amount of blood (somebody had a head wound) and eventually they spotted the door out. It led into a long corridor containing a 'bread-crumb trail' of Lucius and Molly's clothing and some rooms, one of which contained a warg-in-progress. Skank fried it -- probably a mercy. The other one contained ... well, nothing, really. But written on the walls in far-too-tidy Enochian (think Bart Simpson's blackboard writings, or "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" by a real anal retentive) was the phrase, "Through strife comes power" -- the House Tytalus motto.
Then they heard Molly yelling around then; "I didn't come out of the demon school to write any stupid lines! No! Bog off!" Then scream, thump. They dashed off (Susanna collecting the rest of the scattered clothes along the way) and went to rescue Molly while Susanna went after 'Lucy'. Molly'd been whopped relatively hard by some kind of ward on the room (though no one asked the right questions to find that out) and in the course of investigations, Toos botched again. Serena in mind, body and soul this time, which freaked Susanna out somewhat and amused the others. Skank decided to try out Spirit 3 by stepping sideways into a room and got himself shrunk to the size of a Ken doll and Umbrally backhanded into a genie bottle. Molly, when she woke up and found out what had happened, did her own 'step to the right', but went back on the physical straight away and Forces-pinned the responsible party to a wall. The others took the stairs like sensible people and eventually found out that the poor man didn't know much -- he was just some harried demonic paper-pusher who spontaneously combusted whenever unauthorised people read his papers. So Molly sent out her salamander and it let Skank out of his bottle before telling the others where he was. Skank, once out of the bottle, found some interesting bits of paper on the desk and gathered them up before seeing that his group was approaching, went to bang on the window ... and forgot conservation of mass. He knocked the pane right out of the window and was only saved from certain splat by the combined efforts of a few good Forces mages. There was still the problem of being Ken-sized, though, and Serena was more interested in poking at mini-Skank than helping him, and then said she wouldn't help him until he apologised for swearing at her. Unfortunately, it didn't work very well and he wound up just a little shorter than Molly ... and naked, since Life growing doesn't affect dead matter like clothes. So they took Serena to give her Molly's spare set of gear and give Skank Lucius' clothes, and that's when Gestapo campus security showed up again. There was some really amusing byplay in which there wound up being some very confused Gestapo people, and Susanna quietly made the problem go away by using some Mind fuzzing and leading them away from the source of the problem. Eventually, Spirit magic solved the problem -- they called Leyse, that nice protective spirit that considers Skank a sort of champion of hers, and she grew him to normal size and gave Serena the same basic physical abilities that Lucius has (saved me from having to think how to reduce her Dex, Melee, Dodge, Brawl and Strength). So they decided to storm the science wing.
They came across a receptionist and ... well, they were evil. Chloe tried to Mind-rote the receptionist, botched and managed to Mind-fuzz herself into following the receptionist's orders to leave. Serena, cheeky mare, tried to walk in past her, got grabbed by the ear ... and hit the woman in the stomach with the "nasty snake head cane thing". The receptionist took the cane off Serena and, when justifying this by stating quite accurately that she was disarming the child, Skank claimed the walking stick taller than the little girl was "a token to remind her of her grandfather, you heartless bint". He was also trying to fry the electronics on her desk to make sure she couldn't call security, but didn't quite manage it until it was too late. So they ran for the stairs ... except, as you can imagine, Molly. There was smell of frankincense, cat piss and a few other herbs and some muttering, and then the lobby was swarmed with cats. Apparently, there are advantages to being able to summon and make bargains with handmaidens of Bast. It really amused them to see a half-dozen Gestapo campus police and the receptionist being chased out of the building by felis domesticae. E, for her part, had got around it by simply climbing the building, got to the fourth-floor room that Skank had been held in and managed to kick in the window but overbalanced and was found clinging onto a drainpipe for dear life.
They went to the top floor room where the brunt of the nasty seemed to be (via side-stepping for Molly and Skank). When Skank arrived, he saw Umbral Molly talking to Umbral Constantine, who was vaguely connected to the body of a ninety-year-old man with a lot of sword holes in him. Apparently, Marcus had cut a few holes in this man and then performed what I believe is known as Curse of the Mayfly before he got himself killed. Lucius wanted to deal the killing blow, but when Molly heard that Constantine was the root cause of the death of her parents, the Swansea school thing that had almost killed her best friend and her entire town going to hell in a handbasket, she was livid. That, I believe, was Skank's reasoning for letting Molly deal the death blow. Constantine's final words among the living were "Enjoy the Ravager". Then Skank looked into the Umbral, saw Constantine's spirit hovering around muttering, "Killed by an eight-year-old" and ... well, fried his spirit. I don't think we'll be seeing Constantine again.
We will be seeing his handiwork for a long time to come, however. They left (through the sea of cats, after finding a very confused Susanna) and managed to get home in the small hours. After doing some research, they found out that Constantine had the means to unbind Markadu the Ravager -- best way to put it is Skank's term; "Scorpion-zilla". It hunts cowards and lays eggs that hatch immortal scorpions in the intestines of its victims. A long time ago, six heroic magi bound the Ravager. Three haven't been reborn yet, but three have. One was reborn as Lucius. Another was reborn as Kuo-Li. The last -- Susanna. So now they're having some difficulty because with Mind 3, you can set up some very impressive mental blocks. It took Lucius haranguing her, E yelling at her and Skank manhandling her to even get her to the point where she would humour the lunatics. She has gone quite Euthanatos, though -- or does if she lets herself relax. It's disturbing her mightily. At least she's not as bad as Jeremiah.
They don't have time to baby her, though. The Ravager is loose, and looking for cowards. Dawn (who's up and around, dressed and planning to try to have a normal life, which isn't scaring anyone for some reason) put it best when she said, "What's a bully?" -- a coward trying to hide. That thing's on its way to Llandeilo, and they have to convince Susanna and do a lot of meditation so they can remember the ritual. Not to mention getting three mages with Spirit to fill the other places.
Oh, and finally, they received their invitations to the Convivium. Skank is a little concerned that Violet sent one to Molly and to Dawn. They're going to have to give a talk on what's going on in South Wales, have some input into the discussions on the Regulators, the Technocracy and the Vampire Masquerade, and sit a discussion on the correct way to deal with newly Awakened mages under the age of fifteen. And then there's Violet Scheherazade's grand finale. This is going to be fun. Well, if they survive the Ravager...
In other news, my dad e-mailed me. It's sad when all I can say about that is that he doesn't use capitalisation or punctuation. Makes you wonder where I get it from.