Thalia Logs

•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
7:44 PM ((I'm assuming she's still in Utah?))
7:44 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((Yeah, probably.))
7:56 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Mind if I name your brothers?))
7:56 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((I did already on the app?))
7:57 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((You did? I'll go review it then))
7:58 PM ((You only named the older- I think))
7:58 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((No, let me check.))
7:59 PM ((No, you're right. I didn't name the younger one.))
8:00 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Would you like to name him?))
8:00 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((Nah, go for it.))
8:01 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Did you give a writeup for his powers?))
8:01 PM ((I only got the older brother's))
8:01 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((Very brief. Musical master.))
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8:02 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking Her heart was racing. Her fingers drummed nervously against the table as her brothers sat beside her. Dakota, the oldest, reached over and squeezed her hand, giving her a reassuring smile. He used his power to nervously fidget with various mechanical parts in front of him, getting halfway through with building what looked to be a pistol before scrapping it
8:02 PM abruptly. The parts clattered to the floor, unresponsive.
8:02 PM Arc, the younger, remained silent, staring at the grey-tiled floor of Scytha's room. He drummed his fingers on the bed next to him, tapping out a melody. Thinking that his siblings wouldn't notice him, he surreptitiously raised his eyes to the door before quickly glancing back down at the floor. ||
8:08 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> Scytha looks at her brother and gives him a smile. Soon, the angels would be coming for her, she knew this. They were shy, and they would only come when her siblings left the room. Her big day to head north was coming soon, to bring a light to the faithless, and she was ready. The angels were more nerve-wracking because she was CHOSEN. "Are you all packed for the trip, Dakota?"||
8:09 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
8:09 PM ((Which brother?))
8:09 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((Arc, she's doing to miss him.))
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8:16 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking Arc smiles wistfully back at her. "I'll miss you too, Scytha. Good luck on spreading the word." There's a cruel finality to his words as he wraps his arms around her. He pulls away as he gets off the bed. Opening the door, he stands in the doorframe and is about to leave before he turns back, facing Dakota. "And I'll miss you too, Dakota." And with that, he
8:16 PM was gone.
8:16 PM "I'll be back for you, Arc. I promise." Dakota said as his little brother left. "I'll be back." He said this time, quieter.||
8:18 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> Scytha pats Dakota on the back. "It's alright. It's only two years." She looks around her room for a moment. She was all packed, and ready to go. All she needed was to get her brother from the room, then the angels would come for her. "You should go to bed early. Going to be a long day tomorrow."||
8:18 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Do they know about the Cauldron dealio?))
8:19 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ((Nope!))
8:23 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking "I will. Good night, Scytha." Dakota said, letting go of her hand. "Have some rest. It's been a long couple of weeks." And with that, he was gone.
8:23 PM The room was uncomfortably silent after his departure. She could feel her heart race in her chest even faster than before, and the butterflies in her stomach were practically in a frenzy by now.||
8:25 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> She closes the door as Dakota leaves, then she just smiles at herself. This was the night they promised to come for her. Just as she always did, she knelt by her bed and began to pray. Then the angels would come for her.||
8:30 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking Not a second after she dropped down to her knees, she heard the clickety-clack of dress shoes on the tiled floor behind her. It was a sound that she was familiar with. Goldrush, the leader for this branch of Fallen, always wore those fancy shoes around. She often wondered how he could constantly wear those uncomfortable things around without complaint.>>
8:33 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ||
8:33 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
8:39 PM "Hello, Scytha." The voice had the slightest trace of a German accent.
8:39 PM Turning around, she prepared to be awed by the sight of an angel of the Endbringers- only to come face to face with two men dressed in formal attire.
8:39 PM "We have come here to give you these powers bestowed to you by the gods." The other man spoke with a slight Minnesotan accent. "You have been chosen as a worthy bearer."||
8:43 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> She could barely contain her excitement, but she manages. One needed to be respectful. When she gets up, she gives them a bow. Of course they would need to take human forms. Did her brothers get similar visions? Or is this more... focused? "I am ready." Is all she says.||
8:43 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
8:45 PM "Then come with us." The Angel with the german accent said, snapping his fingers. A tear in reality opened a few feet behind him, and he stepped in. The Angel in the Minnesotan accent quickly followed behind him.>>
8:45 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> ...
8:48 PM Scytha gives a wide grin. This only proved their divinity to her. She steps inside with the angels and walks in. Is this heaven that she's in now? She takes a look around to wherever they took her. ||
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8:48 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
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8:59 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking A sterile, white hallway greets Scytha on the other side of the rend. The Angel with the German accent gestures for her to follow him.
8:59 PM "As you may know, we are agents of the Endbringers." The Angel in the Minnesotan accent said. The Angel clasped his hands behind his back as he began to walk down the hallway. "But we have begun to become worried lately. We are not sure if your sect is devout enough. We do know, however, that you are a /very/ persistent young woman who has the potential to
8:59 PM rise to the top."
8:59 PM The angel stops and glares down at Scytha. "So we ask you this, young lady. Will you place us higher than your family. Your friends? Will you tell us of everything that they do, right or wrong?"||
9:04 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> Scytha nods emphatically. It was like the old Inquisition, if the Inquisition actually SPOKE to the angels. That was something else entirely. "I know where my loyalties lie, angels. I will prove it when the time comes." She's giddy, skipping through heaven as she can barely contain herself.||
9:15 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
9:20 PM "Then come with us." The angels turn and open a set of double doors that lead into a chamber. The chamber, much like the rest of the building, was a sterile white. The angel with the German accent gestures for Scytha to sit in an eggshell chair in the center of the room, while the other retreats from the chamber.||
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9:24 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> Scytha ceases her skipping and confidently walks to the chair in the middle of the room. She takes a deep breath and enjoys the angelic air. She will wait patiently, trying to get as much a rare glimpse of heaven as she can. It's so pure and clean. So different from the compound that she lived at.||
9:26 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
9:28 PM The angel returns once more, holding a single vial no thicker than her index finger, no longer than a pen. It holds a silvery liquid. The gift of the angels. Power was finally so close.
9:28 PM "This is what we agreed to, correct? This is the Ambrosia that we promised you." The angel leans down and places it in Scytha's hand. "Drink this quickly. Or else you will fail this final test we have for you."||
9:33 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> This was it. She looks at the vial for a brief second. Scytha did not want to offend the angels, but she wanted to savor this moment. Another deep breath. All the prayer, all the tears, it all came to this moment. And in that, she couldn't help but start crying a little. "Th-thank you. This means so much to me." She gives that a moment before she wipes her tears away and steadying herself. Then, she downs the vial in a single
9:34 PM swallow.||
9:34 PM Clawford → Claway
9:44 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
9:50 PM The chalky mixture slides down her throat with relative ease. It wasn't all that bad until the pain began to start. A slow burning sensation began to spread from her throat to the rest of her body. ||
9:51 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> She had no idea what getting powers felt like, so she does her best to not scream as the pain comes. The burning pain from her throat. Air would probably only make it worse. ||
9:54 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ...
9:56 PM ⇐ Druza and Soren quit
10:05 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking On a dying planet, the last plant grew. Even as the earth began to crack and shake as the final breaths of the dying titan began to level mountain ranges, the plant dug its stony roots into the glassy earth of the planet. Even when the ash began to fall in sheets from the sky, it still grew. Even when the shining cities fell into ruin, their former luster
10:05 PM replaced by a thick coat of grime, it grew. Finally, as the land began to fall into the sea, it bloomed. A tiny fruit no larger than her fingernail sprouted from the flower. The last fruit that this planet would see.
10:05 PM ((Roll mutation chance))
10:06 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> $roll 1d100
10:06 PM A<[ATM]> Thalia|Scytha [71]  = 71
10:07 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Roll 2d3))
10:07 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> $roll 2d3
10:07 PM A<[ATM]> Thalia|Scytha [2] [3]  = 5
10:16 PM T<Thalia|Scytha> $luck
10:16 PM A<[ATM]> Thalia|Scytha [4/4, 3/4] [Power Perk 4]: Shard magnet.  Possess a kind of draw for shards.  Social +1 for first meeting with any cape, with any cape that would be 'neutral' in disposition being 'slightly favorable' instead.
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10:16 PM <[ATM]> Longer-term benefit is that capes are drawn to the character and are more content in character's vicinity, possibly with their flaws to powers being reduced in intensity by a step, or some other tangential benefit.
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10:16 PM A<[ATM]> In practice, recruitment is easier (+1 to rolls to recruit) and retention is far easier; if a powered NPC would leave the group or organization, then there is a 75% chance they don't.  Powered PCs who place themselves under or alongside the cape have flaws exacerbating after parting ways and after the cape's demise.
10:16 PM [Life Perk 39]: Good instincts.  The character excels when it comes to making plans and
10:16 PM taking precautions.  They get three 'chits' they can call in with the GM.  They can call in a chit outside of combat to get a general idea from the GM about the likely success of a plan, during combat to get a sense of whether there's a factor they haven't accounted for, or call in two chits at once to get an abstract 'feeling' about why a plan might not work.
10:16 PM They get one chit back every three encounters, whether they succeed or fail.
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10:26 PM L<•Lurks|GM> JustLurking ((Pause))