IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[Crossbow]

"Where is Main-Land??"

[Necrogigas]

"It's the land that isn't the island we're leaving."

[Crossbow]

"Huh."

Funny thing about spirits, they don't obey the laws of physics.

When LBD goes vertical and then inverts, the contents of Bullet Storm's stomach are forfeit. Fortunately, the centrifugal force carries the vomit away from him. As the darkness fades away with LBD's attention, the runner is treated to a wonder he may never want again.

"Cool." says LBD as they see, below.a wispy layer of clouds, the city of Lagos, what is lit any way.

"Okay, point to where you want to go."

[Necrogigas]

Con spit out the remaining bile in his mouth, and pointed shakily at the lights, "Head towards the lights for now." He checked his commlink to see if he'd successfully reached the team.

[pbangarth]

Torley jumps on O'Connor's missive. Torley here. Good to know you live. We're in the hotel room, waiting for you to materialize. We have the goods and are ready to move on. L'il Homey is especially worried about you.

[farothel]

'I have so many questions,' Sammy texts back to O'Connor, 'but if you need magical support, let me know and I'll see what I can do.'

[Necrogigas]

"My new spirit buddy is flying us over the water towards the mainland. Starlet, could you sent a spirit to guide us back to the hotel?"

[pbangarth]

Torley smiles. "Well, the man seems still himself, coming up with ideas for us to do. Good."

[farothel]

"Sure, I'm on it," Sammy said. She went into a light trance, calling upon the element of air for assistance. She managed to get a spirit of air and went on the astral to discuss things. She gave the spirit O'Connor's aura signature.
"Please find the man who's wearing this signature," she said, "he's traveling with another spirit from the island towards the mainland, currently traveling over water. Track him and bring him here. Show him my face so he knows you're coming from me."
With the spirit on its way, she would inform O'Connor about it and the recognition signal.

[ Spoiler ]

summon spirit: 8d6t5 4
spirit resist: 3d6t5 1
3 services

drain resist:
drain: 8d6t5 4
no drain

[Crossbow]

Operation: Bring The Gun Bunny Home goes off without a hitch, LBD follows the spirit with Starlet's face to the hotel and O'Conner directs him to the roof, then returns to the team's suite with the two spirits in tow. Lil Homie attacks him with a hug when he arrives, and the mage and the face are waiting for him with the current instructions from Ms Johnson, Wait.

[pbangarth]

Torley is glad to see O'Connor back, and in one piece. He consults quietly with Starlet. "I've never seen anything like that spirit O'Connor has adopted. Do you know what that thing is?"

[farothel]

After she had dismissed her own spirit, she had a good look at O'Connor's spirit to see if she could see something strange.
"I know there are free spirits who have more or less freedom compared to what I call up," she said to Torley, "but I haven't had contact with any. I'm going to ask a lot of question to O'Connor, although I'm not sure how much he knows, and hopefully the spirit as well."

She looks at their gun bunny and the spirit.
"Where and more important, how did you pick up a spirit," she asked.

[Necrogigas]

Con returned the hug to Lil' Homie, and made sure the kid was in good condition. He shrugged at Starlet's question, "Met the spirit during my assault on the compound. The compound staff have being calling him Little Black Demon in their native tongue. I've been alternating between calling him LBD and Little Buddy. Anyway, we got to talking, and I ended up helping him complete the task his summoner gave him. He then knocked me out and took us from inside a barricaded kitchen to inside a secret basement behind a hidden door. It has been a day." He showed Starlet the pics he took on VI, hoping it might give the mage some form of insight into the matter.

[farothel]

"A summoned spirit," Sammy said, even more surprised. As the spirit was still in the room, she turned her attention to it.
"Hey, I'm Sammy," she said, "can I ask who you are and why you decided to help O'Connor?"

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor texted the group chat, <Help is a rather generous description. > He also re-sent the pics he took of the shut-in summoner's secret lair, complete with said summoner's corpse. He felt that was being overlooked.

He gave Starlet space to work, pulling Lil' Homie back with him. He sat the boy down, "Today has been rather interesting. Give me the run down from your position. Start from the beginning, its good practice to disect your engagements. I'm missing eight plus hours and don't know how things shook out on everyone else's end."

[Crossbow]

Lil Homie begins to debrief, he wasn't able to see much of how the mission went down, but he does give a detailed commentary on the exchange between the opposing groups outside.

"They call me 'obere ekwensu oji', don't know why. I help the white guy because he offered to help me first, we have been hanging out ever since." said the little imp. At that particular moment, Jane walked into the room, her attention on a datapad she was carrying.

"OH WOW!" cried the demon and went over to her, looking almost reverant. "You must be the mage Con wanted me to meet! You are REALLY powerful!" Jane looks up at the spirit shocked, then takes in everyone else in the room. "Aw, frag...." she comments.

[Necrogigas]

*Maybe you are helpful Little Buddy. That's good info, provided she doesn't kill us.* He shifted his sitting position to better draw his weapons and cover Lil' Homie if need be. He stared right at Jane, ready for however this played out.

[farothel]

"No, that's...," Sammy started, before looking at Jane with her second sight, wondering what the spirit noticed that she didn't. Silent also didn't really show an aura, so maybe Jane had a similar thing going on.

[Crossbow]

When Starlet uses her astral sight Jane doesn't seem like anything other than the mundane, healthy and athletic person she has always seemed. Then, she shrugs, and says "Oh, well..." and the view changes. As her shoulders come down it is like a gown falling off and you get a look at her true astral presence. She is POWERFUL, there is no question in Starlet's mind that Jane could wipe the floor with the team when they were at full strength, with a flick of her wrist. Then, in an instant, the mask is back and she is plain Jane again.

"You have questions, I understand. I am not going to assume you know me, but I am a mage, my handle is Frosty. I ALWAYS keep the magic in my back pocket, for my own protection, when I am working." She gave LBD another look, "Drek O'Conner, you pick up more strays than Animal Control. No offense to the strays in question."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor shrugged unrepentantly, and replied, deadpan, "I guess I'm just a people person." He relaxed his stance since it seemed Jane's secret was not worth killing them over.

[Necrogigas]

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[Crossbow]

"I'm sure." Jane takes a closer look at the spirit, "Starlet, have you gotten a chance to look at this little guy? There is something...off...about him. Something besides enjoying O'Conner's company." she deadpans back.

[farothel]

Sammy has a closer look at the spirit, although her mind is also trying to figure out if she had heard the name Frosty before.

assensing: 6d6t5 1

[Crossbow]

Even as distracted as she is, Starlet can clearly see the damage in the little spirit's powerful aura, like he is manifestly broken.

She had barely glanced at O'Conner's pictures, but something about them nagged at her perception.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor gave a small smile at Jane's return salvo. He was pretty sure that the answers the, now, two mages were trying to gleam from the tiny imp could be found in the pics he took. He pulled Torley into a huddle with him and Lil' Homie. Between his own experience with the spirit, Lil' Homie's cultural knowledge, and Torley's wits, he was curious if they could figure out the puzzle from a practical perspective ahead of the mages' esoteric one. He pulled up the pics he took, starting with one that included the desiccated corpse, "I'm guessing what makes Little Buddy weird is the fact that his summoner died before the task was complete. Either of you got any insight on the matter?" He figured they had a fair shot at winning if the women fell down the rabbit hole of questioning the little guy. He was looking forward to watching them experience the spirit's pronounced cluelessness, and possible ADHD.