Founding Fetishes
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weaselbitch requested that I write this one up properly, so
After the destruction of Ceoris, (Eric) the half-a-cabal was stuck on Doissetep, resting up and waiting for rescue. It was therefore unfortunate that none of the people they had left behind had enough Spirit to open them all up a gateway. Skank had sent a salamander after Emily and Michelle, but Michelle can only walk herself (and that only due to Garou giftage rather than actual magic) and Emily can only do Correspondence to that degree. So Michelle turns up while the group is napping, wakes Skank and informs him that Emily said something about "digging up some Thig named Violet". Now, it's been awhile, but Violet Scheherazade, Skank's former mentor, still rather sticks in the mind, and since Molly destroyed Violet body, soul and avatar, 'digging her up' was going to be a) well nigh impossible and b) rather pointless. However, this was not the Violet that Emily was referring to. The Violet that turned up was the kinky-booted, fetishistic dodgy hoodoo-slinging 21st century Dogwitch, Violet Grimm. They had to ball-gag Lucius before he'd shut up enough to let her explain that she was there to help. Lacking as she did a couple of pints of chicken blood and a toaster (her apparently normal method for crossing dimensions) she settled for sex magics, having her incredibly disturbing way with Lucius -- would have been Skank but he said no, partly because Michelle was standing behind him and growling. So they eventually got home.
Peter and Professor Smith were not really getting the gist of the situation particularly well, mostly because it was Skank and Lucius tryign to explain it, but then the spider-woman got mentioned and Michelle clicked at that, saying she had wondered why he stank of Ananasi. Skank got very confused: "Pineapple?!?" She got angry and went out to kill things, partly because no one seemed to want to listen to her explanations, and things waited until after the others had got some sleep and such. Eventually, they ball-gagged Professor Smith with Violet's leftover gag and Michelle got to explain about that particular Changing Breed and Grandmother Spider, Ananasa. Unfortunately, after the explanations were delivered, they discovered that they couldn't get the ball gag off Prof Smith. After attempting to cut it off him (too tight to get purchase without damaging the professor) and finding it warded against magic, they called up Violet to see if she could remove the sex aid from their cabalmate. Seemed that it was keyed, again, to sex magic: both the person wearing it and the person who'd stuck the wearer into it had to get off with each other before the clasps would show again. Cue gender swapping, sex-toy using all night desperate shagathon between steampunk professor and the Euthanatos of Ambiguous Sexuality and Gender.
no i don't know where i come up with these things...
Anyway, that done, they managed to get back onto their own problems for two minutes. A trip to Boston was somehow planned between a playful and half-starved Grinch 'playing' with Prof Smith's mecha (and destroying his version of Dead Reckoning), Michelle giving Grinch compys to play with (Procompsognathus, incidentally) and bringing home a giant tree sloth for Skank, the brief and unfulfilled plan to hook the matter-to-Tass-fission-powered Singing Hatstand to the mecha as a power source and misadventures in skinning giant hamsters, but was sort of partially scuppered by Lucius' intense desire to have a new year's party (well, he'd missed his birthday by reason of Nephandic Ceoris, so wanted to have some kind of a party. So while Michelle and Skank were spending New Year's with her family and the other residents of the house had a drink and went to bed, Prof Smith and Lucius spent the entire night drinking by reason of "Life magic fixes all hangovers and tiredness!" However, it does not fix all drunkenness or anything, because Prof Smith decided, in his drunken singing frenzy, that he was going to make the mecha break-dance. Unfortunately,guido_was_taken himself reminded me that he should probably make a Drive roll to make sure that Prof Smith was sober enough to turn the damn mecha on. guido_was_taken botched his roll. Prof Smith blew up the Green Bean and Cauliflower Inn with everyone in it. Because it was only a single botch, no one had to make a "did we die?" roll, but Furubashi-san was not particularly pleased. His home, after all, had just been destroyed. And so the group, lacking a home to go to or anything better to do, trucked off to Boston.
Boston got them stranded in snow; given Restart has put paid to the majority of the ploughs, businesses and therefore commuters, and generally the number of people on the streets, the snow is not being tramped down and has covered the whole place in five-foot-plus-deep snow. Lucius' Mercedes got buried in the snow after the Correspondence Convoy. Lucius tried to Mind-ping for help, botched and tuned his head to Radio Werewolf (hence the quote, "I've got werewolves in my head and it hurts"). Eventually, after further botching with the Forces magics, they managed to melt themselves a clearing in the snow and, after being provided with heavy winter clothing and snowshoes, yomped off towards an old town hallish municipal building, where House Thig appears to be hanging out.
There was a brief moment in which the group was split; Lucius and Peter were having a discussion of some sort and the others got tired of their waffle and left them to it. Peter followed the drips and melted snow off people's boots but Lucius had tried Entropy and, despite casting the rote successfully, wanted to go in completely the wrong direction. They wound up in a room full of maps marking off various points on the globe with question marks and one x-marks-the-spot in the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic. Peter, meanwhile, found some notes and such written in Enochian (and isn't it the bane of Skank's life that the Euthie, the Orphan and the teenage girl can speak and read Enochian better than he can?) talking about three archmages working for weeks on a very strong Prime ward. In any case, they didn't want to steal anything lest they upset their possible hosts straight off and rushed off after the rest of the gang.
They went into main reception, Lucille glamoured so that her presence would not be made generally known yet (an ace in the hole, if you like). They were told by an officious receptionist that there were no appointments available with anyone until mid-February, insisted that they could not go through armed, and had both Lucius and Furubashi-san thrown out the window they'd come in through (Lucius drew about two inches of katana and I think Furubashi-san was just being annoying). The others left of their own accord, escorted by security guards who warded the window shut behind them. Unfortunately, there were those papers to consider, and Lucille was apparently still inside. This did not deter our heroes, though -- it never does. Furubashi-san has a Wonder, a broom that he can Prime-charge to act as any Prime-charged weapon would, even though I think his Prime ability is minimal to nonexistant. So he charged that, cut a hole in the wall and let Lucius go in to retrieve those papers. The suspicion, of course, was that someone had warded off a box, stuck Molly in it and sunk it to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Unfortunately, while Lucius was ninja, he was not quite smart enough to consider trying to cloak his Avatar upon entry. When he climbed into the hole in the wall, it sealed up behind him and he was greeted by the brute squad, and managed to jolt their nervous systems with Life and Entropy so that they passed out. Unfortunately, he then encountered Rodney, holding a knife to the throat of an unconscious Lucille, who he was also using as a human shield. Not wanting Lucille to be hurt, Lucius left the building and swore a lot. So they had to think up another plan of entry. Unfortunately, there was sniper fire involved but they did manage to encounter Danielle, local Fetish fangirl who winds up in the darnest places and is, among other things, good with the glamour-slinging. They escaped under the guise of an Abominable Snowman; apparently, they have become rather common in Boston and no one knows why. They went to Danielle's apartment, had dinner and made a plan to go into the general meeting Rodney, standing head of House Thig, had organised for that evening. They would go glamoured as Rodney and his cronies, as that was a guaranteed in (Rodney et al generally went in the back doors so no one could see them come in for the purposes of making a grand entrance, but Rodney had papers he wanted to give to the receptionist and Danielle had got a hold of those). They then intended to hide in the shadows, drop the glamour and wait for their moment to strike at Rodney et al. Unfortunately, everyone managed ninja-like stealth except for Lucius, who got cornered by someone who knew the man whose face he was wearing. This still could have worked out for the best if it hadn't been for a botched Mind roll to glean some surface information about the person he was supposed to be from the man's mind which broadcast his identity and the position of the rest of the group directly into this man's head. So they were made, surrounded by enemies and didn't have a chance in hell, so they surrendered. Had their weapons and various personal items removed and stuck in cells. Fed badly for two meals, and visited once by Rodney, who informed them that Lucille was slated for Gilgul (by reason of being massassa) that afternoon, and that the entire rest of the cabal were next, Skank last. Fortunately, that whole thing was pre-empted by a digging sound outside Skank's window and, a moment later, a very pissed off Black Fury mage-garou who for some reason does not want her fiance to get Gilgul'd before the wedding.
They were going to go tear-arseing up to Salem to rescue Lucille (because Rodney likes the cheese factor of Gilguling someone in Salem, Mass), but found that their cars had been impounded and Romulus and Emily injured and very nearly frozen to death. They fixed up their companions and decided to try to bribe the police to get their cars out of the impound. So Skank went and retrieved a bunch of diamonds from the hidey-hole Molly'd shoved them in (she did a Chris-style Time-skip and shunted her library and the cabal stash of lucre into Umbral pockets just before the blowing-up of Bokugo) and sent Lucius to buy their cars back. Unfortunately, Lucius had been skinning a severed arm for the past fifteen minutes (they took his foci. He wanted hand bones. There were many leftovers when Michelle was through) and so was all over blood and had neglected to wash his hands or change his clothes before entering the police station with a pouch of diamond chips. Understandably, they threw him in a cell.
After some time passed and Lucius didn't come out of the police station, Skank went in after him. Eventually, he convinced the police officer that 'Zeke' (Lucius' new pseudonym) was a) his brother-in-law, b) "not all there", c) fond of fondling roadkill and d) dodging his meds. Michelle, meanwhile, played the "Behold the Power of Cute" card and let the policeman look down her top, and the end result was not only did they get their cars back and 'Zeke' sprung, but they got the diamond chips back too. And so, with that stupidity out of the way, they drove like hell towards Salem.
A final few factoids, though: first, when they get to Rodney, Lucille seems to have left a trigger word for some sort of Mind effect (though I think you can assume that it will work only if a Mind mage uses it and means to use it as a trigger). Second, the Prof Smith / Lucius pornofest involved "Violet's violet wand"; when used in sex play, the effects are dormant for a couple of days and then seriously overclock the libido. Lucius only got one shot so will be affected for a couple of hours. However, Lucius jabbed Prof Smith with the thing repeatedly and indiscriminately, so he will be a complete hornbeast for days. Starting, as they realised at the end of the session, Any Minute Now. While they're on their way to a rescue mission. However, the good Professor does have Willpower at 8...
In other news, hate Ham-Fisted Editor. He's still insisting I find the paper that, according to my records, does not exist, and expects me to still have an email address for someone whose paper we published over a year ago when we clear out our email folders once a year.
Grr.
weaselbitch requested that I write this one up properly, so After the destruction of Ceoris, (Eric) the half-a-cabal was stuck on Doissetep, resting up and waiting for rescue. It was therefore unfortunate that none of the people they had left behind had enough Spirit to open them all up a gateway. Skank had sent a salamander after Emily and Michelle, but Michelle can only walk herself (and that only due to Garou giftage rather than actual magic) and Emily can only do Correspondence to that degree. So Michelle turns up while the group is napping, wakes Skank and informs him that Emily said something about "digging up some Thig named Violet". Now, it's been awhile, but Violet Scheherazade, Skank's former mentor, still rather sticks in the mind, and since Molly destroyed Violet body, soul and avatar, 'digging her up' was going to be a) well nigh impossible and b) rather pointless. However, this was not the Violet that Emily was referring to. The Violet that turned up was the kinky-booted, fetishistic dodgy hoodoo-slinging 21st century Dogwitch, Violet Grimm. They had to ball-gag Lucius before he'd shut up enough to let her explain that she was there to help. Lacking as she did a couple of pints of chicken blood and a toaster (her apparently normal method for crossing dimensions) she settled for sex magics, having her incredibly disturbing way with Lucius -- would have been Skank but he said no, partly because Michelle was standing behind him and growling. So they eventually got home.
Peter and Professor Smith were not really getting the gist of the situation particularly well, mostly because it was Skank and Lucius tryign to explain it, but then the spider-woman got mentioned and Michelle clicked at that, saying she had wondered why he stank of Ananasi. Skank got very confused: "Pineapple?!?" She got angry and went out to kill things, partly because no one seemed to want to listen to her explanations, and things waited until after the others had got some sleep and such. Eventually, they ball-gagged Professor Smith with Violet's leftover gag and Michelle got to explain about that particular Changing Breed and Grandmother Spider, Ananasa. Unfortunately, after the explanations were delivered, they discovered that they couldn't get the ball gag off Prof Smith. After attempting to cut it off him (too tight to get purchase without damaging the professor) and finding it warded against magic, they called up Violet to see if she could remove the sex aid from their cabalmate. Seemed that it was keyed, again, to sex magic: both the person wearing it and the person who'd stuck the wearer into it had to get off with each other before the clasps would show again. Cue gender swapping, sex-toy using all night desperate shagathon between steampunk professor and the Euthanatos of Ambiguous Sexuality and Gender.
no i don't know where i come up with these things...
Anyway, that done, they managed to get back onto their own problems for two minutes. A trip to Boston was somehow planned between a playful and half-starved Grinch 'playing' with Prof Smith's mecha (and destroying his version of Dead Reckoning), Michelle giving Grinch compys to play with (Procompsognathus, incidentally) and bringing home a giant tree sloth for Skank, the brief and unfulfilled plan to hook the matter-to-Tass-fission-powered Singing Hatstand to the mecha as a power source and misadventures in skinning giant hamsters, but was sort of partially scuppered by Lucius' intense desire to have a new year's party (well, he'd missed his birthday by reason of Nephandic Ceoris, so wanted to have some kind of a party. So while Michelle and Skank were spending New Year's with her family and the other residents of the house had a drink and went to bed, Prof Smith and Lucius spent the entire night drinking by reason of "Life magic fixes all hangovers and tiredness!" However, it does not fix all drunkenness or anything, because Prof Smith decided, in his drunken singing frenzy, that he was going to make the mecha break-dance. Unfortunately,
guido_was_taken himself reminded me that he should probably make a Drive roll to make sure that Prof Smith was sober enough to turn the damn mecha on. guido_was_taken botched his roll. Prof Smith blew up the Green Bean and Cauliflower Inn with everyone in it. Because it was only a single botch, no one had to make a "did we die?" roll, but Furubashi-san was not particularly pleased. His home, after all, had just been destroyed. And so the group, lacking a home to go to or anything better to do, trucked off to Boston.Boston got them stranded in snow; given Restart has put paid to the majority of the ploughs, businesses and therefore commuters, and generally the number of people on the streets, the snow is not being tramped down and has covered the whole place in five-foot-plus-deep snow. Lucius' Mercedes got buried in the snow after the Correspondence Convoy. Lucius tried to Mind-ping for help, botched and tuned his head to Radio Werewolf (hence the quote, "I've got werewolves in my head and it hurts"). Eventually, after further botching with the Forces magics, they managed to melt themselves a clearing in the snow and, after being provided with heavy winter clothing and snowshoes, yomped off towards an old town hallish municipal building, where House Thig appears to be hanging out.
There was a brief moment in which the group was split; Lucius and Peter were having a discussion of some sort and the others got tired of their waffle and left them to it. Peter followed the drips and melted snow off people's boots but Lucius had tried Entropy and, despite casting the rote successfully, wanted to go in completely the wrong direction. They wound up in a room full of maps marking off various points on the globe with question marks and one x-marks-the-spot in the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic. Peter, meanwhile, found some notes and such written in Enochian (and isn't it the bane of Skank's life that the Euthie, the Orphan and the teenage girl can speak and read Enochian better than he can?) talking about three archmages working for weeks on a very strong Prime ward. In any case, they didn't want to steal anything lest they upset their possible hosts straight off and rushed off after the rest of the gang.
They went into main reception, Lucille glamoured so that her presence would not be made generally known yet (an ace in the hole, if you like). They were told by an officious receptionist that there were no appointments available with anyone until mid-February, insisted that they could not go through armed, and had both Lucius and Furubashi-san thrown out the window they'd come in through (Lucius drew about two inches of katana and I think Furubashi-san was just being annoying). The others left of their own accord, escorted by security guards who warded the window shut behind them. Unfortunately, there were those papers to consider, and Lucille was apparently still inside. This did not deter our heroes, though -- it never does. Furubashi-san has a Wonder, a broom that he can Prime-charge to act as any Prime-charged weapon would, even though I think his Prime ability is minimal to nonexistant. So he charged that, cut a hole in the wall and let Lucius go in to retrieve those papers. The suspicion, of course, was that someone had warded off a box, stuck Molly in it and sunk it to the bottom of the Atlantic.
Unfortunately, while Lucius was ninja, he was not quite smart enough to consider trying to cloak his Avatar upon entry. When he climbed into the hole in the wall, it sealed up behind him and he was greeted by the brute squad, and managed to jolt their nervous systems with Life and Entropy so that they passed out. Unfortunately, he then encountered Rodney, holding a knife to the throat of an unconscious Lucille, who he was also using as a human shield. Not wanting Lucille to be hurt, Lucius left the building and swore a lot. So they had to think up another plan of entry. Unfortunately, there was sniper fire involved but they did manage to encounter Danielle, local Fetish fangirl who winds up in the darnest places and is, among other things, good with the glamour-slinging. They escaped under the guise of an Abominable Snowman; apparently, they have become rather common in Boston and no one knows why. They went to Danielle's apartment, had dinner and made a plan to go into the general meeting Rodney, standing head of House Thig, had organised for that evening. They would go glamoured as Rodney and his cronies, as that was a guaranteed in (Rodney et al generally went in the back doors so no one could see them come in for the purposes of making a grand entrance, but Rodney had papers he wanted to give to the receptionist and Danielle had got a hold of those). They then intended to hide in the shadows, drop the glamour and wait for their moment to strike at Rodney et al. Unfortunately, everyone managed ninja-like stealth except for Lucius, who got cornered by someone who knew the man whose face he was wearing. This still could have worked out for the best if it hadn't been for a botched Mind roll to glean some surface information about the person he was supposed to be from the man's mind which broadcast his identity and the position of the rest of the group directly into this man's head. So they were made, surrounded by enemies and didn't have a chance in hell, so they surrendered. Had their weapons and various personal items removed and stuck in cells. Fed badly for two meals, and visited once by Rodney, who informed them that Lucille was slated for Gilgul (by reason of being massassa) that afternoon, and that the entire rest of the cabal were next, Skank last. Fortunately, that whole thing was pre-empted by a digging sound outside Skank's window and, a moment later, a very pissed off Black Fury mage-garou who for some reason does not want her fiance to get Gilgul'd before the wedding.
They were going to go tear-arseing up to Salem to rescue Lucille (because Rodney likes the cheese factor of Gilguling someone in Salem, Mass), but found that their cars had been impounded and Romulus and Emily injured and very nearly frozen to death. They fixed up their companions and decided to try to bribe the police to get their cars out of the impound. So Skank went and retrieved a bunch of diamonds from the hidey-hole Molly'd shoved them in (she did a Chris-style Time-skip and shunted her library and the cabal stash of lucre into Umbral pockets just before the blowing-up of Bokugo) and sent Lucius to buy their cars back. Unfortunately, Lucius had been skinning a severed arm for the past fifteen minutes (they took his foci. He wanted hand bones. There were many leftovers when Michelle was through) and so was all over blood and had neglected to wash his hands or change his clothes before entering the police station with a pouch of diamond chips. Understandably, they threw him in a cell.
After some time passed and Lucius didn't come out of the police station, Skank went in after him. Eventually, he convinced the police officer that 'Zeke' (Lucius' new pseudonym) was a) his brother-in-law, b) "not all there", c) fond of fondling roadkill and d) dodging his meds. Michelle, meanwhile, played the "Behold the Power of Cute" card and let the policeman look down her top, and the end result was not only did they get their cars back and 'Zeke' sprung, but they got the diamond chips back too. And so, with that stupidity out of the way, they drove like hell towards Salem.
A final few factoids, though: first, when they get to Rodney, Lucille seems to have left a trigger word for some sort of Mind effect (though I think you can assume that it will work only if a Mind mage uses it and means to use it as a trigger). Second, the Prof Smith / Lucius pornofest involved "Violet's violet wand"; when used in sex play, the effects are dormant for a couple of days and then seriously overclock the libido. Lucius only got one shot so will be affected for a couple of hours. However, Lucius jabbed Prof Smith with the thing repeatedly and indiscriminately, so he will be a complete hornbeast for days. Starting, as they realised at the end of the session, Any Minute Now. While they're on their way to a rescue mission. However, the good Professor does have Willpower at 8...
In other news, hate Ham-Fisted Editor. He's still insisting I find the paper that, according to my records, does not exist, and expects me to still have an email address for someone whose paper we published over a year ago when we clear out our email folders once a year.
Grr.
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Date: 2006-03-13 02:53 pm (UTC)...the brief and unfulfilled plan to hook the matter-to-Tass-fission-powered Singing Hatstand to the mecha as a power source and misadventures in skinning giant hamsters...
..."I've got werewolves in my head and it hurts"...
Unfortunately, Lucius had been skinning a severed arm for the past fifteen minutes...
...Starting, as they realised at the end of the session, Any Minute Now. While they're on their way to a rescue mission....
I love your head bones, sweet bird.
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Date: 2006-03-13 03:44 pm (UTC)Well, except for (Eric) the half-a-cabal. That was me. Heh.