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Post by Rule Hound on Aug 2, 2016 14:45:42 GMT
Homoculus
Work on researching the bracelet of power.
Personal Downtime 1
Research Bracelet
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Post by Rule Hound on Sept 7, 2016 15:59:25 GMT
Okay, so you guys said three actions, plus one for retainer (or homunculus), plus we get one more because we are hosting the gathering. So that's five in total. I'll make them short and sweet.
# 1;
Create ritual space in the caves. This is something you guys said we could add as a thing in our Haven category.
Her: R, R, S, P, P (Loss, Tie, Win, bonus tie/nothing)
Us: P, R, P, P, P
Expanding your haven and spending time to seek out some of the rarest local minerals and gems from your lands you bring them together. Using your Elemental thaumaturgy you begin shaping and carving virtual enchantments into the walls of a cavern set aside for this purpose. Calling up Elementals from the fabric of the local lands you press them into service helping you.
In the end you manage to carve out set runes and create a casting chamber.
Cost haven lvl 3 = 3xp (If you are looking to get it for free it will take more downtimes)
Casting Chamber: +1 for casting rituals equal to the level of your haven up to the level of your occult rating. Components go twice as far.
# 2;
Attempt to level up my bracelet.
Her: S, P, R, P, S (Loss, Tie, Win, bonus: loss)
Us: R, P, S, S, P
Bracelet levels up to lvl 2
Level 1
+2 Mental wildcard bonus to tests when casting Thaumaturgy
Level 2
1 Free retest to any Thaumaturgy test. Used in place of a Willpower for retest without expenditure. 1/scene (or 30 minutes IC game time)
# 3;
Travel to Laibach, confer and study gems with Raqa. Still trying to build a means of identifying infernalists with them. Take Tyr with me if he is available.
Her: P, S, S, R, R (Tie, Loss, win, Bonus Tie/nothing)
Us: P, R, P, R, S
You travel to Laibach meeting Rafael and Raqa to study the gems and hopefully piece together the special candle and it's recipe. From all the information you have gathered you arrange for a supply of rare and mystical ingredients fitting the descriptions and several more oddities just in case.
You meet with Raqa in his lab in Laibach.
The three of you piece together the recipes and work on deciphering the remaining instructions into a common language. Then begin attempting to assemble a candle.
It takes several tries and several nasty explosions but the three of you manage to finally put together and assemble another candle. It is agreed that the properties should be tested. Raqa rings a bell and a slave is delivered to the room. They will be used to to test the healing capacities, he tells them that if they want to live they will have to light the candle.
The Slave just looks at you three blankly until Raqa's hand whips out from his sleeve and slashes a obsidian dagger across their belly. Imperiously waving you and Morrigan out of the vicinity to take up your positions for observation he throws a taper infront of the slave, who is holding their guts in with one hand, and takes his own place to watch the spirit lands.
You see Rafael sink into a puddle of shadow and you turn back to watch the slaves flesh to see if it heals.
The slave leaving a blood streak across the floor carefully crawls to the fireplace and lights their taper and then sets it to the wick of the Candle. Where it sits in the borrowed Lantern. The candle lights and a glow infuses the room. You can feel the mystical energies flooding the room. Watching carefully you see the edges of the slaves flesh start to knit. The guts are drawn back in and a nice scar forms over the wound.
You see the slave wobble on her knees and pass-out, knocking the lantern carelessly over.
Running over to the lantern you pick up and examines the candle. After looking very carefully you turn to Rafael and Raqa. The wick is completely gone.
Turning back you nudge the slave over so you can see the wound better. It is indeed healed with a nice scar, not with the skill that Raetus could hav mended flesh but still closed up. The slave is alive though seemingly drained from the experience.
The experiment is a success. You get back to work and manage to make another 3 candles total. Before moving on to study the gems.
Morrigan brings out her two gems and goes into a little detail of what she has managed to learn so far. That they are a power focus, something like a stored ritual. When powered, apparently by blood, the ritual can be activated.
The three of you compare notes and agree that though they seem to be a ritual of some sort it is neither Thaumaturgy or Necromancy. Combined insight agrees that they are a key of some sort. The way the others disappeared when they inserted them in their arms they are almost definitely tied to some for of speedy transport. Though probably only to specific destinations. Rafael makes mention that it is possible to travel the shadowlands and cover long distances in a short period of time and that perhaps these allow someone not trained to do something similar.
Morrigan, brings a strange creature/thing with her that appears as if it might be the head of a small human with an attached pigs snout on a bulbous body that seems to be an empty sack and scuttling "finger/legs". At one point between the three of you, using his shadow arms so as not to touch it with direct flesh Rafael drives a gem into this creatures skull between the eyes. Morrigan pulls out another set of gems mounted on a tiara and explains it is a focus gems she has prepared not the infernal ones. All three of you are in agreement think that if you can channel any seeking and seeing disciplines and rituals you may have into the gems that this "thing" can use them in conjunction to track traces of the gem or its creator.
After many failures and several explosions of backfired Thaum and Necromancyin the mortal, spiritual and shadows you manage to get the gems to seemingly hold a charge (or you think so).
At this point the three of you feed this "ghoul thing" Raetus created some blood and it's sack fills up. The bad news is as it focuses an the blood can be seen coursing through the forehead veins of this creature it reaches the infernal gem and the creature, tiara and all is just gone.
Unfortunately unless one of you put one under your skin and maybe try to create another tiara, that is all you really get.
# 4;
Study scroll/book purchased from Deamos with boons via Raphael.
Her: S, R, S, R, P (Tie, Tie, Loss, Tie, Loss)
Us: S, R, R, R, S
Looking into it.
#5;
Study and copy books purchased from Socrates. He found these in Constantinople.
Her: R, P, S, R, P (Tie, Win, Bonus tie)
Us: R, R, S, S, S
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