finished session log

[20:05] <Odin> In a room devoted to the twin vices of lust and pain, several spirits of lust and pain (Of the decidedly non-consensual sort) materialize, angry at the interlopers for interrupting their feast. The crowd is panicked and running, victims of Stonejaw's Mass Confusion spell. Some of the spirits were also afflicted by the spell and they hover uselessly.
[20:08] * Cazador ducks behind something solid-looking. "Bruja! What do I use against spirits?"
[20:08] <Odin> In total, Cazador, and Stonejaw (With Rigger assistance from Quadcore) face TWO (2) Wraiths, both Force 4 (Amplified to Force 6 by the Background Count.) TWO (2) Succubus spirits, (Ditto on the power level) and ONE (1) Force 5 (So Force 7 ATM) Nightmare. ONE EACH of the Wraith's and Succubi are currently hovering uselessly due to MASS CONFUSION.
[20:09] <Stonejaw> "
[20:09] <Stonejaw> "Energy weapons! Anything with an elemental charge to it!"
[20:09] <Odin> An innumerable mass of weaker spirits float dizzily about, while other, even weaker entities, watch from the edges, unwilling to threaten their precarious position among the physical realm.
[20:10] <Stonejaw> [Quad! Can you send out a drone to try and find the source of the background and shut it down? Look for an object of mystical or religious significance!]
[20:10] <Cazador> "Stick-n-shock it is!" She trades out her mags.
[20:12] <Quadcore> [I will set my flyspy on it; you are getting a stormcloud and two lynxes on the way to help.]
[20:24] <Stonejaw> "I come bearing the words of the Dark Goddess! And she says one thing, BEGONE!"
[20:30] <Odin> The Nightmare fixes it's unearthly gaze upon the first available target: Stonejaw! The nightmarish creature of long, spindly limbs swoops low, seeking to draw the stocky dwarf into it's voluminous cloak.
[20:34] * Stonejaw dives out of the way of the spirit's claws. "Agh!"
[20:37] <Odin> A spirit that looks like a swirling mass of razor blades, shiny metal claws, and rusted nails seeks to rake itself against Cazador!
[20:37] * Cazador kicks a chair between the two of them from the ground.
[20:42] <Odin> The spirits smashes the chair to splinters, but it gives Caz a crucial moment!
[20:44] <Odin> Meanwhile, an unearthly figure that looks for all the world like a moving seductive leather statue (Your mind is trying to analogize what you're seeing, and there's ample material around you right now.) tries to reach out and touch Spindly with a single finger. The blistering heat from that single touch gives truth to the phrase hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
[20:49] * Cazador fires a pair of shots, one after the other, into the wraith's face.
[20:50] <Odin> It dematerializes with a roar of pain, taser slugs effectively delivering high quality electricity straight into it's core.
[20:57] <Allie> Meanwhile, upstairs...the door is open, and the disgusting, probably-possessed boss has his attention otherwise occupied. Seeing her chance, Allie creeps along the floor on all fours, making not a single sound, until she gets close to the desk, sneaking a hand up to grab the bauble...
[21:07] <Stonejaw> "I. Said. BEGONE!" He said, slamming his staff into the ground. Sparks of mana warp the air around him as his eyes take on a vicious green light. A sphere of green light forms in the epicenter of the spirit's astral space, expanding into a wrathful miniature sun.
[21:09] <Odin> Two of the spirits are immolated in the burning light, and the Slenderman-esque Nightmare has numerous holes in the fabric of it's very being from the sheer magical violence unleashed upon it
[21:09] <Stonejaw> He keeps himself steady with the staff and tries not to look winded, a grin on his lips.
[21:10] <Stonejaw> "You should ask yourself a very important question, demon."
[21:10] <Stonejaw> "Are you ready to have a bad time?"
[21:22] * Quadcore remains where she is... but two things of note enter the room with all the combat; one's a tiny dragonfly-like drone... and the other's a miniblimp. The first sparks with electricity at a spirit; the other aims a sporting rifle... and fires an extra explosive round.
[21:27] <Quadcore> The latter is rather... explosive; a spirit's head pops like so much mana. [One.]
[21:32] * Cazador runs, looking like she's about to puke.
[21:33] * Stonejaw stares it down.
[21:33] <Odin> The Nightmare, watching it's.... comrades? Co-predators? Rivals? Explode into so many puffballs of ectoplasmic mana draws itself up, radiating every single last bit of Hate and Fear it's accumulated over a lifetime of soaking up negative impulses in one burst of sheer concentrated NOPE.
[21:35] <Quadcore> Speakers on the Flyspy unfold. 'You do not scare me, beast. Right now, I am a deus in machina; you have no hope against me.'
[21:35] * Stonejaw lets the fear wash over him and pass him by. When the fear is gone, only he will remain.
[21:40] <Allie> Upstairs...having successfully nicked The Bauble from the desk, Allie spies both a window out--that is barred--and a one-way window with a view of the stage below...and she gets a terrible, desperate idea. She climbs up on the desk...flexes her legs a couple of times...
[21:41] <Allie> ...then jumps, taking another bounding leap off the possessed man's head, reorienting herself for the window on her arc down with one fist outstretched, as much of her magic shoved into that fist as she can manage.
[22:09] <Odin> And the glass shatters through, breaking into dangerous glistening shards and impacting the stage- and the Nightmare- below! The falling rain of sharp objects finishes off the shadow spirit, as a deep bellow of rage shakes the entire building.
[22:11] <Odin> A man wearing a rumpled tracksuit jumps through the new hole in the ceiling, not bothering to tumble the fall. He impacts hard and rises from a crouch, eyes burning with the fires of the deepest Hellpits. "YOU DARE!?" he screams, and the building shakes again.
[22:12] * Allie lands on both feet and one hand in a crouch, small cuts on her skin from the glass. She almost doesn't even see the others, scrabbling back to her feet in an almost comical attempt to skeedaddle.
[22:12] <Odin> The deeply tainted astral space of the building WARPED around the bauble Allie stole, all the sickening taint seems like it's been rolled back up in the object, leaving a shockingly sterile manafield behind it.
[22:18] <Stonejaw> "Hey!" Stonejaw lets a ball of green fire manifest in his hand, hurling it with force into the center mass of the posessed. "I'm calling curtains on your little song-and-dance."
[22:22] <Odin> He bats it aside with one hand, causing a mirror to crack from your expended mana. He doesn't even look at Stonejaw, so focused he is on Allie
[22:34] * Chloe_Ceto bursts out of the shadows, driving her foot towards the face of the spirit. Colourless flames lick around her foot...
[22:36] <Odin> So focused is the spirit that it ignores the dimunitive elf... until her heel impacts, and the spirit visibly recoils. "Such a fierce will! Oh how I long to break it!" He reaches out to grab the Elf and throw...
[22:38] * Chloe_Ceto ducks backwards, moving with suprising grace.
[22:41] <Odin> The first backflip avoids a reaching hand, but the posessed man reaches out, grabs, twist, and THROWs the elf at the fleeing catgirl.
[22:43] <Allie> One ear twists hard at the sound, and her enhanced reflexes have Allie spinning out of the way on a single hand, legs splitsed as Chloe sails just barely over top them. Unfortunately the maid costume isn't really designed for that sort of activity...
[22:45] * Chloe_Ceto hits a nearby wall with a sickening thud. She's still consious but prone by the wall.
[22:46] <Stonejaw> [Chloe! You okay!?]
[22:47] <Quadcore> 'Chloe! YOU JUST HURT MY SISTER.' The echoing voice of Quadcore,out of drone speakers, gets louder... as a pair of treaded combat drones, miniature tanks really, roll into the room with sickening purpose.
[22:47] <Quadcore> ((*Fomor))
[22:48] <Quadcore> One of them, the turret swivels towards the foe... and the long barreled machine gun there lets loose a thin, accurate stream of hell.
[22:53] <Odin> The man shifts and moves, in between the individual bullets. Even wounded as it is by Chloe's blindside attack, he's still incredibly dangerous
[22:54] <Allie> [DID ANYONE GET THOSE COPS' CONTACT INFO?!] comes a panicked comlink message to the team.
[22:55] <Stonejaw> [Calling them now, holy shit[
[22:56] * Cazador moves fast back into the room, her lanky legs crossing the ground quickly as one mag falls and a mag with orange-tipped bullets goes into her right hand pred IV.
[22:57] <Cazador> "Vete al infierno conmigo."
[23:02] * Cazador fires two blasts of EX-EX at the thing. One tears and scorches at the bruja, but the other impacts on the far wall and scorches some tacky wallpaper.
[23:07] * Allie skids to a stop after Chloe goes by overhead and Cazador runs past her; her tail flashes out to help her balance (in vain), and she scrabbles on all fours...well, threes, for now...to turn around and make a run against the tracksuit man. Once in range she feints with a spin-kick that bounces off him...
[23:08] <Allie> ...and spins her the other way in a nasty roundhouse.
[23:13] <Odin> In between the gaping hole from the Ex-ex, Chloe's glorious Attack of Will, and pinned down by the dronefire, the roundhouse hits, the magical fabric holding him together... splits. He starts falling to pieces, first most of his internal organs from the ex ex, and then the neck splinters and turns. The fiery red light dims, then fades out forever.
[23:14] <Odin> *Internal organs slide out through the hole in him
[23:14] <Allie> "OH MY GOD THAT WAS THE SCARIEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE can we run now?"
[23:14] * Allie is quivering.
[23:15] <Stonejaw> "Not just yet."
[23:15] <Stonejaw> "The spirit may still be around."
[23:15] <Cazador> "I've had about enough of this place too, chica, but we got a job to finish." She's being excessively machismo now.
[23:15] <Quadcore> [Check the Astral. putting my drones in patrol mode... I'll be along shortly, alright?]
[23:15] <Cazador> Don't tell her, but she's most likely compensating.
[23:16] * Chloe_Ceto winces, rubbing her stomach. [I think he broke a rib...]
[23:16] <Allie> "We FINISHED the job, they just wanted us to see if there was illegal stuff and THIS IS PRETTY BAD." She looks down at the Bauble cradled to her chest in both arms.
[23:16] <Odin> The recent flareup of spellslinging makes local astral space dizzying to even look at. Seems like most of the spirits are gone, including the slavering horde of low-level shadow spirits that were watching the fight.
[23:16] <Odin> Those that are left are dwindling away, and will probably burn with the coming of dawn.
[23:17] <Cazador> "Well, we inherited a little more than that, now didn't we." She does seem to be talking to Allie with a tad more respect though.
[23:17] <Stonejaw> "i'm going to check his office, see if there's any magical items that could be a danger to anyone."
[23:17] <Allie> "THIS IS ONE!"
[23:18] * Quadcore sets her drones into patrol mode... and gets out of VR with a stretch.
[23:18] <Cazador> [Don't they have a fuckin division for spooky bruja shit? Can't remember if it's our employers or whoever we're supposed to say is employing us though.]
[23:18] <Odin> Most of the crowd has beat feet away, but there's still a few wounded who got caught up in the frenzy of violence. Sirens will probably be coming very shortly...
[23:18] <Cazador> "Hope those are our sirens."
[23:19] * Allie has to visibly pull herself together; the hair on her tail had been standing straight out but it smooths down, back to its normal fluffiness.
[23:19] <Odin> Quadcore, when you open your eyes, the first thing you notice is that you feel... sticky. Then your eyes start burning.
[23:19] <Stonejaw> "I'd rather not chance it, Let's hurry up here."
[23:19] <Quadcore> "... Oh god what?" She blinks, looking at herself...
[23:20] <Quadcore> And coughing. And opening the door. Sh eneeds water and a mirror.
[23:21] <Odin> Through the liquid fire in your retinas, you're dimly aware of other shapes in the (Handicapped accesible) stall with you. Forcing your way to a sink, you get some water on your hands and wash, pulling away long white strands from your face...
[23:22] <Odin> In the mirror you see one of the Succubi spirits behind you. It gently kisses the back of your head with lips that feel like branding irons, before vanishing with a giggle.
[23:23] <Quadcore> "... Well, I'm going to be sick," she mutters. "Damned spirits." She starts scrubing in the sink as much as she can. [There's been a minor incident. I'll be along shortly.]
[23:24] * Cazador starts picking through side rooms.
[23:24] <Odin> More scrubbing ensues before you can fully open your eyes and look at the rest of you. Where you appear to have been the star actress in a very particular form of Japanese pornography. There's pained groaning from the stall.
[23:24] <Chloe_Ceto> [To: Quadcore - Are you alright?]
[23:25] <Odin> Cazador: Side rooms are in the VIP section, upstairs. They don't appear to have been used in quite some time, judging by the dust.
[23:25] * Stonejaw goes to check the Warlock's office.
[23:26] <Odin> Jones unsticks himself from the ceiling and drops down. "Wow. Holy shit. Hooooooooolllllllllyyyyyyyyy shit. That's it, if you do this one more time, I'm fucking signing up for FREE. This is GOLD!"
[23:26] * Cazador turns around and points a gun at him. "Oy, you make sure that fucking bruja magic making me run shit don't end up in the last cut. I got a fucking rep to think about over here."
[23:26] * Quadcore stares at Jones for a moment. [To: Fomor - I'm fine.] "Jones. This does NOT make it to the silver screen. I am deadly serious."
[23:27] <Odin> The office features an ergonomic chair that went out of style a decade ago, a plain spartan desk, a potted plant, and what look like fresh blood droplets in the dark carpeting.
[23:27] * Allie clutches the Bauble protectively to herself and edges toward the exit. "So...do we, like, run now? Do we wait for the cops to show up? I don't...this thing's weirding me out and I just wanna go home..."
[23:27] <Quadcore> "I do not want to have a career as an AV actress. Just... just no. Fomor would kill me and I'm not into... things."
[23:27] <Odin> Jones instinctively hits the deck and rolls behind the nearest piece of cover. "You were totally sheperding civilians out, right Caz?"
[23:28] <Odin> "And Quadcore, what if it's blood? Carrie, 2072 version, know what I mean?"
[23:28] <Cazador> "Fuckin...that, yeah, probably."
[23:28] * Stonejaw checks the desks as well, looking for scrolls, formulae, fetishes, anything that might be awakened and dangerous
[23:28] <Quadcore> "... Fffffiiine but make sure it looks as realistic as possible." She grumps.
[23:28] <Stonejaw> Or awakened and valuable.
[23:29] <Odin> Stonejaw, it looks like the place has been cleaned out. Everything you'd normally expect to be in a club management office is just... missing. Like the inhabitants moved in after the last group left, and simply didn't bring anything along with him.
[23:31] <Allie> "You guys," she says weakly, near to Cazador and Chloe. "He...he was talking to another mage in there. And a girl was...she was giving him head and he was torturing her while he did it like his finger would just cut her skin up like it was a knife and the mage said something about a Lodge and...and..."
[23:31] * Allie sounds dangerously near to tears.
[23:31] <Stonejaw> [I found an Astral Trail.]
[23:31] * Quadcore finishes cleaning up and heads up to the group, grumbling.
[23:31] <Stonejaw> [Someone was projecting, recently too.]
[23:31] <Cazador> "Lodge? Like the thing the Knights of Columbus are in?"
[23:32] * Chloe_Ceto frowns and looks between Allie and Quadcore. She gives Allie a quick hug.
[23:32] <Cazador> "Fucked up shit though. Glad we put his ass down. She need an ambulance or some shit?"
[23:32] <Allie> She's still shivering slightly, even inside Chloe's hug. "I dunno...she wasn't happy, something spirits that he sent her weren't up to snuff..."
[23:33] <Odin> It is at this point that you hear the sirens.
[23:33] <Allie> "I dunno, she was bleeding pretty bad when she left the room right before I took this..."
[23:33] <Stonejaw> "We should go."
[23:33] <Cazador> "Goddamn, there more of these fuckin bruja things around? Never fuckin ends does it."
[23:33] <Stonejaw> "Like, now."
[23:33] <Quadcore> "Is everyone okay?" The girl asks quietly, biting her lip a bit. "... Should we get out before the cops arrive, or should we stay here since we're on their dime?"
[23:33] <Stonejaw> "We don't chance it."
[23:33] * Chloe_Ceto nods and lets go of Allie "We should go."
[23:33] <Cazador> "Dunno which cops it is. Can you get an eye out there and see if it's the ones that hired us?"
[23:33] <Stonejaw> "Let's blitz."
[23:33] <Cazador> "Or we just book it, I'm more used to that option."
[23:33] <Allie> "We should...we should probably just go back to the two we met."
[23:34] * Quadcore waves a hand, sending her flyspy to take a... spy.
[23:34] <Chloe_Ceto> She gives Quadcore a quick hug and kisses her on the forehead. She lets go and pulls a face. "Yeah...uh...yeah, go."
[23:34] <Allie> She sniffles mightily and pulls herself back to her full height...all sixty four inches of it, in her tattered maid costume...and attempts a decisive nod. "Front door and then we run to the van, right?"
[23:35] <Stonejaw> "Backdoor."
[23:35] <Cazador> Whichever fuckin way, let's just move."
[23:35] <Chloe_Ceto> "Yes. Backdoor. If they try to stop us I'll get them out of the way without violence."
[23:35] <Stonejaw> "Right."
[23:35] * Allie meekly follows the gunslinger.
[23:35] * Stonejaw departs through the back
[23:36] <Stonejaw> "I kinda wanna see what it is they show for this episode."
[23:36] * Quadcore grimaces and nods. "right. Sorry. Let's get going, the van's warm and waiting."
[23:36] * Quadcore has this general look of... disgust on her face.
[23:37] <Odin> It's when you're in the chilly air outside Allie, that you realize exactly HOW torn up the maid outfit is from the falling shards of glass. The breeze is... everywhere, and it is not comforting, nor warm.
[23:37] * Chloe_Ceto tosses Allie her coat. "Give that back later please? It's armoured."
[23:38] * Cazador hasn't holstered her pistols yet.
[23:38] <Allie> She shivers much more heavily...belatedly realizing that the clothes she wore are back inside...but it's far, far too late to risk running back for it. She almost doesn't catch Chloe's coat in time, though her ears alert her to the sound of its arrival. "Thanks..."
[23:38] * Chloe_Ceto leads on towards the van, wincing every few steps
[23:39] * Quadcore gets into the driver's seat and settles in, letting the cables from her far to many datajacks slither out and get into the van's access points.
[23:39] * Stonejaw climbs into the side door and takes a seat, buckling himself in.
[23:39] <Odin> You're off and away moments before Lone Star Paranormal Division arrives. Considering they deploy out of a special Magesight lined Citymaster with SnS drone support, you're pretty sure they're not a crew you want to tangle with. One quick call later, and the pair of cops you met before agree to meet in the parking structure across the street from the station "Because this sounds like a shitstorm and the station has too many ears."
[23:39] <Odin> You're in the van rumbling away.....
[23:40] <Stonejaw> "So....who wants burgers?"
[23:40] <Cazador> "Get me three. And some tacos."
[23:40] <Allie> "I...don't think I want to eat yet."
[23:41] <Allie> She's still wearing Chloe's coat...and still curled around the Bauble.
[23:41] <Odin> Jones: "Man, that was hard to follow. I hate trying to films spirits.... I only have so many eyes. Really ruins some of the angles. Although I can't help but wonder if this is heavier shit than you want to get into."
[23:41] <Stonejaw> "Okay so where to start, with the secret society trying to orchestrate this or the illegal nightmare-orgy?"
[23:42] <Chloe_Ceto> "...I'm not really hungry."
[23:42] <Cazador> "Secret society?"
[23:42] <Odin> "I had an eye following you, Allie, and I caught what went down in that office. Now, NORMALLY I'd honor my contract and give everything over, but let's just say that you can't do what I do and not hear somethings. You all want me to just delete some of that footage right now?"
[23:44] <Stonejaw> "Hold onto it, keep it hidden."
[23:44] <Allie> She swallows heavily. "...Yeah. I mean...there's not really...I can't think of how you could possibly edit that to make them sound...like cartoon villains, you know? I mean...I'm gonna give this to those cops"--she pats the Bauble--"but I hope they don't know I took it for these last few minutes..."
[23:44] <Quadcore> "I definitely do not want to eat. And... yes. Keep it, but... dont' turn it over. Just in case."
[23:45] * Chloe_Ceto looks to Quadcore. [To: Quadcore - You are not alright. What happened?]
[23:45] <Odin> He snickers. "To the cops, oh sure. And would you like to give them a vial of your blood while you're at it too?"
[23:46] <Chloe_Ceto> "I could set up a ward around somewhere to store it."
[23:46] <Allie> "No," she pouts, ears flattening. "But...I don't wanna keep it, and I can't think of what else to do with it, I don't even know what it does, and they're s'posed to be the ones who deal with this stuff."
[23:46] <Odin> "You want my advice, drop it in a manacase in the ocean. Past the continental shelf, preferably."
[23:46] <Quadcore> [To: Chloe - I'm okay. I'll be okay. It's fine.] "I say... we keep it, but hide it. Crash and I can do research on it."
[23:47] <Stonejaw> "Don't put yourself in undue danger."
[23:48] <Allie> "...I like his idea better. No offense, you guys. I just...you didn't see the inside of that office. If this thing helped with that...it's a risk you shouldn't take."
[23:48] <Chloe_Ceto> [To: Quadcore - You smell of salt. Were you hiding in the kitch...oh god, carving people up...] Chloe gags loudly as she dry retches
[23:48] <Odin> Jones shrugs. "Suit yourself. What's the over-under on your producer actually creaming his pants when he sees the footage I DO give him?"
[23:49] <Quadcore> "Being quite honest, me living freely is a risk I shouldn't take. If you're afraid, I'll take it. I have some people that can help, I think." [to: Chloe - ... yes. The kitchen. Yes. It was horrible.] "No bet."
[23:49] <Allie> She kind of half-giggles at Jones. "Didn't he with our last footage? I think it's kind of a sucker bet, isn't it?"
[23:51] <Stonejaw> "Just...eh...put a tarp down around his desk."
[23:51] <Odin> Jones curiously regards Chloe dry retching. "You uh, alright there? Seriously, if implied cannibalism does THIS to you, don't.... don't ever look up a naga feeding frenzy." Jones has a thousand yard stare in his eyes.
[23:52] <Allie> "...You know you just made her and 4core and Crash all look that up, right?"
[23:52] <Quadcore> "Not yet."
[23:52] <Cazador> "Wasn't quite cannibalism, but I've seen the aftermath of gang wars in San B. Some real violent shit."
[23:52] <Cazador> "Any food places around here? I actually am pretty hungry."
[23:52] <Quadcore> "I don't think I'll be eating for awhile."
[23:52] <Stonejaw> "I know a good curry place."
[23:53] <Cazador> "Let's fuckin do it then."
[23:54] <Stonejaw> "Amen to that."