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vagueGM

Jun 15, 2024 6:43 am
Jun 15, 2024 6:43 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
You rolled a 10 (with help), so he is happy to help you out now, but you owe him. This is a thing he wants, but there is no urgency, we was just showing off while we bought some time to see what Rhiannon was doing (and when).

He also doesn't want 'photos', he wants to be able to (be the first to) accurately model this part of the city, photos are just one thing that might help him do that. You are welcome to come up with other options.

oopsylon

Jun 15, 2024 6:46 am
Jun 15, 2024 6:46 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Okay, great!

gnomius

Jun 17, 2024 3:10 pm
Jun 17, 2024 3:10 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Hi there,

This is to warn that I'll be travelling from tomorrow until Friday, and I'm not sure I'll have availability to post (most proably not), so please feel free to put Jacob in NPC mode these days if needed.

Thanks!
Last edited June 17, 2024 3:10 pm

YsoldeInactive for 2 months

Jun 17, 2024 9:32 pm
Jun 17, 2024 9:32 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
vagueGM says:
Ysolde says:
(in RP) ... does a little bit of scoping out the scene for herself. Maybe something here will resonate with her senses.
OOC:
let it out: track someone or something through the city with limited information or trail
Perfect use of this power.

What does this look like? How do you do this? How are you 'actively letting out the darkness within, giving it control to get what you want'? What does it feel like?

Are you doing this now, while there are still commuters in the station and trains running? Your effect will be limited by having people around (the fiction of the situation affects the outcomes).

On a 10+ on Let It Out you get to choose whether you ignore the Corruption this Move brings with it or avoid the inherent cost, limitation, or instability. I don't see how this would be 'unstable', so your description of how you do this will affect if it 'costs' you or is of 'limited effect' (above and beyond the already limited effect from working in a crowd of civilians). Taking Corruption would offset this Move-inherent downside.

Waiting till after the station is empty (we can assume you guys will make a plan to be there after-hours?) would make this more effective as you will have a freer reign to work, but doing it now, as you stated in your post, would mean you could use the results to guide the slog of scrubbing through camera footage for who-knows-what 'clues'.

It is up to you. Maybe you missed that the station was still open [ref], or we can delay the camera access till after it closes —though that means that Stefano has to stay late and will want compensation.
Sorry missed this post and wondered where Rhiannon was supposed to come in. I’ll chalk it up to the fact that my Oxygen saturation was below 90% most of last week.

vagueGM

Jun 18, 2024 4:13 am
Jun 18, 2024 4:13 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Ysolde says:
... my Oxygen saturation was below 90% most of last week.
Those are not good sats!
You describe the station being dark in your post. We can leave this action till after we have looked at the security footage and the station is closed if you want.

If we do it that way, were you there when they looked at the model and the footage?
Do you want to contribute that conversation? Else we can move on with the assumption that you know what was learned there.

If you did it before, then maybe it is 'dark to your senses'?
Ysolde says:
(OOC in RP) ... Ignore complications but not the corruption
Mark Corruption on your sheet.

What you describe sounds very 'magical' or 'supernatural', so that veers a bit away from your being Mortalis. This is OK, maybe we are seeing the first signs of change within you, signs that you are not completely 'human' anymore? Interesting that this comes with Corruption (you know what Nietzsche says about staring into the void:).

Bear in mind that you are Mortalis and not 'supernatural' when you describe such things, too much supernatural description may lead to forced changes to your playbook (always within your control as the player, of course, you decide how supernatural vs human you describe your character and the system adjusts for that).

vagueGM

Jun 18, 2024 5:53 am
Jun 18, 2024 5:53 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Stalker05 says:
(OOC in RP)... OOC: Can Mark identify if the demons arrived by teleporting or using any other magical means?
You don't see them appear nor see how they get there, the footage cuts out and when it comes back they are just there. [ref]

You can't tell over a camera what happened. Maybe you can develop some way to reach through video and do or sense magic, but you don't currently know of a way to do that.

YsoldeInactive for 2 months

Jun 18, 2024 2:36 pm
Jun 18, 2024 2:36 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Yeah, I got some good stuff for my lungs and now I'm breathing well again.

Having been in the London Underground and the New York Subway even with the lights on down in the track area and tunnels can still be pretty dark. I was thinking she was in the dark corners and dank areas away from the light sort of hiding in the shadows around the tracks trying to find her prey. In any case lets go with she knows what happened in the conversations and it was "dark" because she was avoiding lights and cameras.

Also, yes I know she's mortalis but I do like the idea that corruption and pulling on that power brings her further from human and closer to something else. So I marked corruption...
Last edited June 18, 2024 2:37 pm

oopsylon

Jun 19, 2024 3:10 am
Jun 19, 2024 3:10 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
@Ysolde Is this ("She drops from seemingly nowhere into the group of allies. She swipes a few black feathers from her shoulder a remnant of her time in thrall to her power.") Rhiannon dropping into the middle of the scene with Stefano and the cctv? Just wanted to clarify so Benji can be appropriately startled by Rhiannon suddenly appearing from the shadows hahah :)

vagueGM

Jun 19, 2024 3:35 am
Jun 19, 2024 3:35 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Ysolde says:
... lets go with she knows what happened in the conversations ...
OK. So let's set this exploration after that meeting and have Rhiannon be present while everyone was looking at the camera feeds. That way she has some guidance as to where to look.
Ysolde says:
... hiding in the shadows around the tracks ...
If you are exploring the tracks themselves, then maybe we wait for the others to finish their scene and we all do down there? That way we get to see that exploration and everyone gets to be involved. If the others think they would avoid going onto the tracks and let Rhiannon do that on her own that is fine too, but maybe we want to play out that scene rather than hide the whole exploration and discovery behind a roll?

Either way, whether you have company or are alone, you can then use your 'powers' to track down signs of the demons' passing.
If you are exploring the station itself there will not be much you can find. Its been a whole, busy day of people parading through area, so most signs will be pretty washed out. We can try to find something for you to find, but this Ability needs something to work with, it is 'limited information or trail' not 'no information'. I doubt there is much more you can glean that is not apparent from the security cameras (though it is amusing how the 'Mortal Human' goes out and gets freaky while the Wizard, Demon, and Vampire look at the mundane computer:).

YsoldeInactive for 2 months

Jun 20, 2024 12:09 am
Jun 20, 2024 12:09 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Sounds good the on the tracks stuff can be after

vagueGM

Jun 20, 2024 6:44 am
Jun 20, 2024 6:44 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Do we want any more information from Stefano?

What are we doing next?

vagueGM

Jun 20, 2024 9:07 am
Jun 20, 2024 9:07 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
oopsylon says:
(OOC in RP) ... Not sure if the abandoned parts of the station actually connect to the tracks in any way irl ...
This is your home. I assume you know your way around and know how to get places without being seen but the ubiquitous cameras.

There are cameras on the tracks, of course. But they probably are not watched all the time, right?

YsoldeInactive for 2 months

Jun 21, 2024 11:10 pm
Jun 21, 2024 11:10 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Sorry double post. You might think Rhiannon is joking about the foxes but apparently they actually do take the buses and trains in London

vagueGM

Jun 22, 2024 8:27 am
Jun 22, 2024 8:27 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Ysolde says:
... You might think Rhiannon is joking about the foxes but apparently they actually do take the buses and trains in London
They have adapted really well to city living.

Don't tell Stefano about them using the trains, though, he will have a cadenza about ticketing! :)

gnomius

Jun 22, 2024 11:06 pm
Jun 22, 2024 11:06 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Hey guys, quick post to let you know I'm back from my travels. I'll try to catch up as soon as possible.

vagueGM

Jun 23, 2024 6:39 am
Jun 23, 2024 6:39 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
gnomius says:
Hey guys, quick post to let you know I'm back from my travels. I'll try to catch up as soon as possible.
Excellent. There shouldn't be much to catch up on. If you want to do anything more with Stefano before the group leaves him, just carry on with that scene.

vagueGM

Jun 23, 2024 12:25 pm
Jun 23, 2024 12:25 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
gnomius says:
(OOC in RP) ... now I'm not sure why we got into the tunnels. Are we going to investigate the train where the demons appeared?
I assume so. This is where the hell hound was spotted, and also appears to be where the demon squad 'appeared' in the train. The squad was not on the train at Green Park and were on the train at Piccadilly Circus —one stop later— so something happened between those two stations, so the tunnel where it happened seems like a good place to start looking?

Mark was lamenting the fact that you can't pinpoint the exact place [ref], but maybe Jacob was paying attention (while you were away) and noticed something that could help locate the spot? Or Rhiannon's tracking [ref] can point you in the right direction?

oopsylon

Jun 23, 2024 10:46 pm
Jun 23, 2024 10:46 pm
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
gnomius says:
(OOC in RP) ... now I'm not sure why we got into the tunnels. Are we going to investigate the train where the demons appeared?
vagueGM says:
I assume so. This is where the hell hound was spotted, and also appears to be where the demon squad 'appeared' in the train. The squad was not on the train at Green Park and were on the train at Piccadilly Circus —one stop later— so something happened between those two stations, so the tunnel where it happened seems like a good place to start looking?
Yep! Sorry, I think I moved the scene on a little prematurely, but the intent is to investigate the tunnel between Piccadilly Circus and Green Park where the demons suddenly appeared/the Dog has been spotted and give Rhiannon an opportunity to do her tracking

vagueGM

Jun 24, 2024 10:13 am
Jun 24, 2024 10:13 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
I don't think anyone else was doing much more with Stafano, anyway. But, if anyone does want to say they did something before we went down to the tracks you can still show us that as part of the previous scene.

vagueGM

Jun 25, 2024 6:45 am
Jun 25, 2024 6:45 am
It's raining in London... again (OOC)
Stalker05 says:
(in RP) ... avoid his face being seen by the driver of the incoming train.
OK, it does not sound like we are taking extreme efforts to avoid being noticed. This may cut down on the time you can spend down here or result in other consequences.

Mark, do you want to roll to Keep Your Cool to see if you happened upon a hiding place sufficient to avoid notice by the driver?
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