2019.04.04: Balance is Needed
| 2019.03.19: Balance is Needed | |
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| At Jasmine's suggestion, three women (Jasmine, Teagan and Lilian Handover) tried to channel energy into the fountain. It didn't end well. | |
| IC Date | April 04, 2019 |
| IC Time | Late Afternoon |
| Players | Marshall,Jasmine, Cody, Teagan, Lilian Handover, River, |
| Location | House of Keys |
| Spheres | Mage |
Key House - Library
Teagan gives River a courtesy laugh at her joke, but her attention is immediately shifted towards the loud rumbling sound coming from elsewhere. "Uh, what was that..?" Her question is directed at nobody in particular, but her gaze swiftly moves over to Jasmine and Cody as they come up the stairs. "What was that?!" She repeats, directed at the two.
Cody frowns a bit " I should head off and recharge before I do much more. " he says softly .
Lilian tilts her head to just listen of all things while she looks for the lighting sources for this place. She is older then the building.
Huffing and puffing with the last bits of hoarfrost on her skin melting off, Jasmine finally appears. "Cody did a naughty downstairs and activated a Quaesitori gaol." Look at all the big girl words she's using! Nosewrinkling a bit, she takes in a long and deep breath. "I imagine, he awakened a guardian of this place? Probably a dragon. Something sneezed on me when I was trying ot unweave the barrier in the lobby afterall." Please let it be a dragon.
River closes her eyes and moves her hands like she is plucking at threads and altering the flow of air as she focuses.
"Hello?! A DRAGON?! Like, a real-ass dragon? Big lizard thing? Breathes fire? Likes gold?! That kind of dragon?!" Teagan is clearly freaking out and starts pacing back and forth, running her hand through her hair. "What do we do?!"
Lilian hmms and looks to the others, "Sound like from all about, more likely something else then a dragon. Like ohh griffin's, or a wolf hound" as she looks for some to get this room lit. "I may just meditate and hope not to get eaten on the history of this place, might need that." as she moves to sit on the floor.
"Well, it could be another mythical bygone as a guardian? I mean, I'm just hoping that it's a dragon personally, cause I've always wanted to be khaleesi." Jasmine replies with a soft chuckle under her breath before she nosewrinkles and starts to head out of the library back towards the fountain. "Cody and I had a thing. Teagan, come with me? Let's all touch one of the keys with Cody and see what happens? This place has been seriously short circuited of quintessence and it's flow are all sorts of fucked up."
And that's when the group arrives. "So I think Cody is out of magic juice, so any of you a fully awakened mage? Teagan and I will pour some of our quintessence into the node to see if we can you know jump start it? Magickal jump start. We just need a third." And with that, she takes her place near the dragon fountain. There's still the lion and unicorn available.
Lilian sighs, and nods, "Sure I can dump." with a bit of a look about, "And remember we still need to glean more on this place." then to them, "How much and River any traps?"
Reluctantly, Teagan steps up to the carving of a unicorn. She looks doubtful, but there' sa little bit of hope in her. "As long as we don't have to fight a dragon..." She sighs and clutches the pendant which hangs around her neck.
Key House - Atrium
Lilian sighs, and nods, "Sure I can dump." with a bit of a look about, "And remember we still need to glean more on this place." then to them, "How much and River any traps?"
Reluctantly, Teagan steps up to the carving of a unicorn. She looks doubtful, but there' sa little bit of hope in her. "As long as we don't have to fight a dragon..." She sighs and clutches the pendant which hangs around her neck.
"The power of three. The WB would be proud." Yes, she knows she's Phoebe in this sisterhood. Taking her place, she waits for the others. "Don't touch the keys and animal on your own. We do it together. So on three? One... two... three." And making sure she's in sync with the other magas, she touches the key...
Lilian moves to the one no one else is at and nods. "Got it." with a wry smile and look to the others.
River follows everyone in as she looks around.
As each of th three women reach out to touch the silvery keys around the necks of the statues, their body locks in a pose of rigid tension as their quintessence is drained. A nimbus of silvery-white light engulfs their bodies as they're lifted a few inches off the air and then...they're thrown, violently, backwards into the room.
And much like many scenes on Charmed, as she's lifted off, her arms flail as she's thrown back. Jasmine is definitely a bit out of it as she lands and ughs, nosewrinkling for a few moments before she leans over and throws up, her body just not liking what happened. "How are your avatar's essences aligned? Mine is dynamic..." Yes, she's taking a census.
Lilian tucks when she is thrown, old habits, then moves to sit in the court yard with a tilt of her head. "We need to one check the flow of things better. Find out how those are used, and what the resonance on them are, also come research before more poking might be advised there is a library here, and we can check the fire place to see how it works." then to Jasmine, "Questing."
Hitting the ground with a loud thud, Teagan rolls a few feet before stopping. She groans loudly as she makes sure all of her parts are still attached. "Great job, Teagan..." she mutters to herself. Deciding she'd probably hurt less by not getting up she answers Jasmine from the ground. "No clue. Never seen it." She responds in a strained tone, coughing a little at the end.
And there's more vomit as she nosewrinkles. "Then we don't do this again with you, Teagan. If we don't know how your essenc eis laigned, it'll be difficult." It's then that she recognizes Lilian. "Professor HANDOVER?!?!" Yep, it's one of her teachers in her mortal. Throwing up once more, she ughs. "Balance is defined by the following the cycle. The Wyrm, Weaver, The Wyld." a beat. "Or in other words, the essences known as Primordial, Static, and Dynamic. We find two other mages and try again."
And..in the aftermath of all of this exploration and power-whomping, a young and eager Hermetic apprentice walks in and steps through the glass door of the Atrium. "What...what did you find?" Marshall asks, a field bag slung over his shoulder. The lad is wearing jeans, tennis shoes and a hoody as though he were going on a hike rather than going into the headquarters of a secret society on campus.
Lilian sighs, "We need to research more and use the sights of our abilities to figure more things out, and those statues need a manual for use." then softer, "So want to know when this place was last used, thinking it is, well they left the whole of us, Middle eastern order some in house Misc. Al a b word. Why does being an immortal and mage not give me perfect recollection. I need to think."
"Disappointment." Teagan groans in response to Marshall. "And excruciating pain." Recalling something, she goes to check on that coin she stuffed in her pocket earlier. "You wouldn't happen to have brought some Ibuprofen, would you?" She tilts her head backwards, looking at Marshall upside-down.
The apprentice Hermetic reaches into his field bag and wouldn't ya know it - he has a bottle of OTC pain killers and offers it and a bottle of water to Teagan, "Uh...here," he offers and walks over to Jasmine to offer her a bottle as well. He gives River and Lilian a polite, if curious look, and then offers them water as though he were trying not to ignore them.
"What happened?"
There's a puddle of her former lunch next to her. Still woozy and disoriented, Jasmine eases on up and whines. "We're going to experiment more. The search for the light of truth and all." Cause Quaesitor for life. Glancing towards Lilian, she nods. "The Ahl-i-Batin showed their influence, and I still have a hunch that there's nine rooms here. This node is a correspondence point, or at least it lets you scry, past, future and present and it's quintessence resonates in that fashion." She's trying to give pertinent points. "Oh and there's a triangular mage jail. Please do not touch it. It will drain you of your energy as it responded to Quaesitor catchphrases, meaning they probably made it. But we know Bonisagus and Quaesitor had significant impact around here."
It's then that she pulls out a sheet of paper from the open book in the library she saw the previous night. "I still don't know what this scribble or color in thing is trying to shade in though. Anyone have thoughts?"
It's the number 31, an alchemical symbol and then a date in roman numerals. (int+occult vs 6 for the whole thing)'
Lilian chuckles and takes the water, not the pills, "I am good pain is transitory, thank you." then she looks at the note, "I still say bring in some simple lanterns, light the fire place and use what little is in that library. Also do some readings, but we need to research this place, and well..." moving with a sigh to get out her glasses to look closer at the note.
Marshall digs into his bag to pull out a handful of glow sticks like you might find at the camping or party store. Yellow ones, Green, blue, all colors and he's got probably a dozen or so. "I was thinking of that, actually. Fires can be blown out but these should be at least good for something." Eager beaver that he is, he was obviously trying to impress -someone- with his planning and preparation but apparently missed the call to arms.
River watches as well the mage stuff is not in her power set. She does seem to give the situtation some thought.
Sitting up wtih yet another groan, Teagan is surprised at Marshall's preparedness. "Oh! Thank you, you are a lifesaver." She gives him a smile and downs a pill together with a large sip of water. Rubbing the back of her neck, she looks around the Atrium as Jasmine rambles on. "Well, no dragon yet at least." She sighs and takes another sip of water, still remaining seated on the ground. "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this coin, would you?" She tosses a small hand struck coin over to Jasmine.
Now that she's looking at the sheet of paper in another light, she squints as she looks at the party lights and then makes grabby hands. Should he toss one her way, she puts it behind the sheet of paper. "Woah."
Jasmine blinks for a few moments. "So this is the number 31, an alchemical symbol, and this date. All together, it means SAVED, RECORDED, and STORED 1927." a beat. "Could this place be lost or frozen in time from this date? Any significance on campus to that date?"
And when the coin is tossed her way, she catches it and starts looking at it.
Lilian looks to them, "That can be researched" again this moves to digging about and researching some, "though you could see what year this place was built, just a thought. Also is the coin check the resonance of it, could be many things, most often Coins are to commemorate, use for Entropy like a focus, or even a well fetter for the dead." then to Jasmine, "Well?"
Then something WAY the fuck out in left field happens. The Sorcerer awakens for a moment and then cast true magic as her avatar awakens for a split second. She then unleashes her power as quint channels to the nearby mages.
Is she doing graduate work right now. Looking at the coin, Jasmine squints and flips it for a bit before the sudden surge of quintessence wells up in her. Yeah, she's definitely got a high from the node and it's resonance for knowledge and knowing shit and other things like that. It's a bit of a headrush. "It looks Greco-Roman, but I'm not a walking encyclopedia." a beat. "At least not yet." There's a smarmy grin as she tosses it to the good professor. "If you wanna magick it you can. I'm still trying to figure out the significance of the info."
River finishes channeling power and then drops to her knees as it takes ALLOT out of her as she shakes. "Wow that was intresting!"
Lilian has felt this before from River and nods to River as she does that, and well "Thank you River." then for no reason, "Gallium, and hmm date, time, and divination, done allot of that over the years." as she snags the coin and looks it over with care.
Marshall snaps his head over to River as she does - whatever it was that she did and takes a few steps back from the woman, reaching for his bag to draw something in case things turn bad. His eyes swish around to the three woman to see what's happening to them. "Are you ok?" he asks them and then looks back to River questioningly.
"1927? No clue. A bit before my time." Teagan laughs, but stops midway through as the surge of quintessence washes over her. Apparently oblivious to River's involvment, she shakes her head lightly, messing her hair up even more than before. "You're not?" she responds to Jasmine playfully, finally getting back on her feet. She looks to Marshall, a little confused. "I'm mostly fine, but my back's a different story. Thanks again for the painkillers, by the way."
Now that she's a bit more recovered, Jasmine snerks as she looks towards Teagan. "Cheeky." A silly grin curls onto her lips as she looks to Lillian and ooohs. "Yay! There has to be a significance to the date though." And she dusts herself off as she eases on up, feeling a bit sore, mainly on her ass, back and rib cage from being ossed around and falling a bunch. "Um, should we look at the other room and see if there's more clues there or we done enough for one evening?" she asks seeing how the others feel.
"1927?" Marshall asks, "That's the year Lord Canarvan discovered King Tut's Tomb. Why?" He looks over to Jasmine and then around to the others - perhaps being a bit concerned. And they say chivalry is not dead. "Point me in a direction," he says with a modest degree of enthusiam and bravery.
Lilian is looking over the coin, "angel Imariel, or well just odd." with a shake of her head as she drops the coin, then does something stranger. She opens the water and instead of drinks uses it to wash the coin and cast something.
River just groans as she says "Im gona sit here for a few and get my energy back. I don't know how you people do that and not pass out."
"Unless anyone else has any bright ideas, I say we go check out some more of this place. Again, I'll probably be fine as long as there aren't any dragons..." She rubs her wrist, trying to work some pain out of it. Giving the other people in the room a quick assessment she adds: "That is, if you guys are feeling up for it..."
"I'm down with checking the last room, then we can gather all the notes and see if we can puzzle everything together. We're getting more of a big picture, but we need to see all the pieces still." Jasmine offers before she looks back towards the others, peering curiously at the professor, wondering what's being cast. "Shall we go ahead and the others can catch up?"
Marshall offers to stay with River while she recouperates or to head in with the others. "It's up to you..." He looks to Jasmine for instruction and waits by the glass door leading into the Chapter room.
Lilian is studying the coin like she has all the time in the world, odd how she seems sometimes like time sometimes is not a matter to her, she has done this a couple times in class, just stopped and stilled. "Might be a focus, not sure need to research the angel symbol on it of that Imariel." then a looks to "Oh moving...just studying it."
"We can definitely put it on the back burner then? Though do take your time." With that, Jasmine beams and fistpumps in the air deciding to might as well Leroy Jenkins the rest of the chantry with the current group.
Stifling a cough, Teagan responds with a sly smile. "Sounds good to me! Lead on, my liege." She performs an exaggerated bow, heavy with flourish and gestures Jasmine towards the door. She also gives River a look, hoping that her magic sight powers won't end anytime soon.
