TSW 24: Robin and Mother.

	IcePickLobotomy	Time: August 5th, 11:57pm. Location: Pilot Housing.
	IcePickLobotomy	[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwNlmpy_a2E ]
	IcePickLobotomy	Sabrina opens her eyes. Pale shafts of silvery light filter in through the window. The barest sliver of the moon hangs above ocean, amidst the twinkling stars.
	RobinE	Sabrina gets up and makes her way to the kitchen.
	IcePickLobotomy	A few pots and pans lay soaking in the sink, along with this nights dishes.
	RobinE	Sabrina hunts for a knife suitable to fight with.
	IcePickLobotomy	A familiar kitchen knife, the weight isn't as good as a real knife, but it will serve.
	RobinE	"close enough" she whispers to herself. After taking the knife she heads out of the apartment.
	RobinE	Sabrina sneaks through town, being careful not to be noticed or confronted at all. She heads for the debris and tunnels that she had explored with the group.
	IcePickLobotomy	The surface level streets are quiet. The street lights illuminate a few people making their way down the sidewalks, some stumbling drunkenly. They're well dressed, tourists mostly you think.
	IcePickLobotomy	And down below the streets, retracing your pathway. Down in the under levels things come to life. Crowds of night-walkers move around, neon lights flicker and wave as music booms in and out of the clubs and bars. You duck into a side alley, near where you entered the maintenance tunnel. You could enter it here and try to make you way through the tunnels, or move to the entrance you entered...
	IcePickLobotomy	...in that time.
	RobinE	Sabrina decides to go for the original entrance, she has no way of knowing if the maintenance tunnel leads to her destination.
	IcePickLobotomy	You make you way to the entrance, only to find that it's chained and sealed off behind a gated fence with a lock hanging off the door. There are no guards and you can see a broken security camera dangling by a wire above it.
	RobinE	Sabrina gathers up some items to climb on and reaches for the camera. she attempts to cut the wire with her knife.
	IcePickLobotomy	You scramble up a loose collection of boxes and scrap. Its precarious but you manage to cut the wire. The already broken camera comes loose and hits the ground with a plastic clatter.
	RobinE	Content that she cant be watched, Sabrina moves to the lock to try and pick it open.
	RobinE	After a few minutes of lock picking, Sabrina gets the lock off of the gate. She throws the lock away and moves into the closed off area, closing the gate behind her.
	IcePickLobotomy	Inside there are flood lights along the walls, wires running the length of the passage way. Tools and machinery lay around the area, but the site is empty for now. The lights are off as well, leaving only the feeble glow of the emergency lights the hang at irregular intervals. The air is cold and damp, smelling of motor oil and blood.
	RobinE	Sabrina looks around for a small lantern or flashlight to take with her.
	IcePickLobotomy	You find one laying atop a portable generator, next to several sets of tools.
	RobinE	Sabrina takes the light and glances over the tools.
	IcePickLobotomy	hammers, wrenches, drills, and a few power tools you don't recognize.
	RobinE	"hmph" she mumbles as she moves on down the tunnels, looking out for any other tunnel goers.
	IcePickLobotomy	You can hear the gentle hiss-crackle of static in the air. It's a long walk before you get to the main gate. It's cordoned off by another set of chain link fences, though not locked. Biohazard symbols shine back as your light wavers over them. For a breif moment you feel a warm damp breeze linger in from further down.
	RobinE	Sabrina takes a minute to listen before continuing through the gates.
	IcePickLobotomy	The air grows thicker and damp, you do not come to the long stone stairwell, but instead to a thick bulk-head door.
	RobinE	Sabrina goes up to the bulk-head door and looks around before trying to open it.
	IcePickLobotomy	And from beyond the door. . . She calls to you. Static hisses and licks at your ears, carrying with it a faint melody
	RobinE	"mother's song," she mutters under her breath. "I'm coming," she makes her way towards the song origin.
	IcePickLobotomy	Each turn of the locking mechanism is accompanied by a low grinding sound as the rusted metal moans in protest. Your muscles strain before it finally clicks, unlocked and awaiting you to open it
	RobinE	Sabrina opens the door, trying to be cautious of anything on the other side.
	IcePickLobotomy	[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xugM3x88NK4&index=13&list=PL-Yui9mwYMtma3WGCfpz93aeRRSZ9ydtK ] The other side is a wide square passageway, made of a worn and weathered greyish-blue stone. Vines cover much of it as well, blue and red flowers, looking like lilies, appear sporadically. You can hear a song, someone humming, echoing from further down the hallway. The sweet heady scent of blood...
	IcePickLobotomy	...and flowers lingers in the air, and just below it, the scent of . . . rebirth and decay, like a forest in the fall.
	RobinE	Sabrina steps in cautiously, "hello?" she brandishes the knife, just in case.
	IcePickLobotomy	The humming stops. A voice, a womans, young sounding with a clear meldious quality to it, echoes down the hallway. "Please, come. I've been expecting you."
	RobinE	Sabrina continues on, looking around at the flowers as she does.
	IcePickLobotomy	They're pretty, vivid reds and whites, a few purple ones as well, with sharp angular petals in sets of 7. You hear the humming start back up.
	RobinE	Sabrina starts to hum the tune too.
	RobinE	She heads down the hall, hoping to find whoever is talking to her soon.
	IcePickLobotomy	You make your way down the hallway. It opens up into a large chamber. Like before it too is covered in vines and flowers, the air thick with pollen and a sweet fragrance. Pillars tower up into the darkness. There is a pool of clear water in the center of the room, and past it a massive statue of a woman in a 7 eyed mask. The source of the voice is kneeling next to the pool/ She's wearing a...
	IcePickLobotomy	...sheer white gown that extends to her ankles and leaves her arms bare. Her hair is red and extends down to her waist, water gently drips down it. She's humming with her back turned to you.
	RobinE	"I need to know more," she says as she goes towards the girl.
	IcePickLobotomy	She stops and stands, turning to face you. Her skin is pale, alabaster in a shade that doesn't seem unhealthy. And her eyes. . . blood red eyes meet your own. "So have claimed many."
	RobinE	Sabrina is taken aback slightly at the strange appearance. she steels her nerves and continues to talk, "It comes with such a strong reward."
	IcePickLobotomy	"So would call it a curse."
	IcePickLobotomy	She. . . looks like Arina. There's a family resemblance there.
	RobinE	"You look familiar," she shakes her head of the thought, "living forever sounds nice, it's not about what others think of it."
	IcePickLobotomy	"And is that what you wish? To live forever?"
	RobinE	"Do I have a choice? I thought that is all you were offering."
	IcePickLobotomy	"There is a choice, but such gifts are for those who are worthy." She steps closer, now withing arms reach "Her blood lingers in your veins, but it could sing. If you are worthy."
	RobinE	"This offer is too good to pass up. What do I have to do?"
	IcePickLobotomy	She raises a eyebrow "Answer my questions honestly. Why do you fear death?"
	RobinE	"Its fear that comes from respect. Some girls family dies, creating me. I don't want her death to control mine. Lack of control."
	IcePickLobotomy	"If given the chance would you take her place? Come out from the shadowed recess of her broken mind and become the dominant force in her life?"
	RobinE	"Yes, I can perform better than she ever will."
	IcePickLobotomy	"And what if you could be whole? Three become one."
	RobinE	"You mean, It would be /my/ life?" Sabrina looks at her hands and flexes the fingers slowly in thought.
	IcePickLobotomy	"It would be yours and hers. There would be no separation, from there there would be one. What would you say to that?"
	RobinE	"Those two are weaknesses. Can't I just have control?"
	IcePickLobotomy	"Peace, I am only asking questions."
	IcePickLobotomy	"But I think I know the answer to that. Next question, how far would you go for immortality?"
	RobinE	"As far as I need to go."
	IcePickLobotomy	"There are conditions to this. This is not a gift, it is a blessing for Mother's greatest servants."
	RobinE	"I earn the blessing, yeah. I came back to learn how."
	IcePickLobotomy	"In better times you would, but things are not as they should be. Whereas before you would be trained and prepared for your ascension, no others remain to do so. You will be starting anew."
	RobinE	"Wait, starting what exactly?"
	RobinE	"I'm not backing down, I'm just confused."
	IcePickLobotomy	She smiles "We have long communed with Mother. For as long as humanity has existed, so to did we. But there came a war, when Mother's blood was stolen and her wrath smote the earth. We were hunted and killed, scattered and broken. Where once I would has asked you to aid and lend succor to your fellows, that is no longer your path."
	RobinE	"Mothers blood? The Red Death?"
	IcePickLobotomy	She nods.
	IcePickLobotomy	"They sought her blessings, and found only her curse."
	RobinE	"They took advantage of 'Mother' and died for it?"
	IcePickLobotomy	"So they did. But the others came for us all the same. You would be tasked to bring them to justice. Others will rebuild our numbers when they no longer fear the night."
	RobinE	"So, I'm headhunting?"
	IcePickLobotomy	"Yes. In addition to your vows."
	RobinE	"Sounds do-able."
	IcePickLobotomy	"So you would swear to follow Mother's will? To obey the directives of our leaders? To never know the touch of a man? To aid and succor those who come to you for aide?"
	RobinE	"I will... but what if the other two don't agree with the vows?"
	IcePickLobotomy	"You will not be held accountable for their actions. Honor the vows in spirit not in letter."
	RobinE	"Then I accept."
	IcePickLobotomy	"The knife. A instrument of creation that you brought for violence. I would see it turned to its true purpose." She holds her hand out.
	RobinE	Sabrina's mouth curls into an almost cruel smile, "oh," she hands over the knife.
	IcePickLobotomy	She gestures to the pool. "Cleanse yourself, then we shall begin."
	RobinE	"Alright," she sounds slightly hesitant. she shakes off the bad vibes, "lets do it," she walks into the pool.
	IcePickLobotomy	"Kneel in the waters Sabrina."
	RobinE	She follows the direction of the lady.
	IcePickLobotomy	You hear the sound of cloth against skin before she steps behind you. "First we cleanse the body, for it houses the spirit and mind." You feel water dribble over your head and down your body. "Your spirit has already been cleansed by the Mother. And your mind will be healed in time." She walks around you, holding a small stone cup in one hand, the knife in the other.
	RobinE	"Might I ask for mother's name... or yours."
	IcePickLobotomy	She shakes her head and presses a finger to your lips before filling the cup half-way with water before dragging the knife across her palm, spilling the blood into the cup. "Speak these words and then drink. And so I partake in the rivers of life and death, for it is blood that unites both, and woman which carries it with her as a sign everlasting of the cycle." She offers you the cup.
	RobinE	"And so I partake in the rivers of life and death, for it is blood that unites both, and woman which carries it with her as a sign everlasting of the cycle," Sabrina drinks from the cup.
	IcePickLobotomy	The water taste of blood, but there's something else there too. Something sweet and wholesome. It reminds you of home, of your mother before the plague took her. Of home. You sway, limbs feeling heavy and leaded, a thin red film starting to move over your view.
	IcePickLobotomy	"Close your eyes." The priestess gently wraps her arms around you, soft and warm."Rest, you have much ahead of you, but this night will be one of rest."
	RobinE	Sabrina slightly panics, but does as she is told.
	IcePickLobotomy	And as your eyes close, you hear the song, in full clarity. A choir of voices, humming a wordless melody that speaks to creation, motherhood, life. . . You cannot help but be swept away in the sound as it carries you away, flittering glimpses of other lives. . .
	IcePickLobotomy	RobinE: You wake up in your room. The taste of blood lingers in your mouth.