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Ophis
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Your flood of energy seems to meet some sort of magical defence around the spirits. Your annoyance at this distracts you as the energy of the spell passes through you and you feel suddenly tired.

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emo samurai
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Ophis
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Another crashing sound comes from the stair well, followed by the sound of running feet. The Dryad's attempts to entangle Cheerleader appear to be working and she doesn't appear to be doing a good job of resisting. The Spirit of Flames reaches towards you and unleashes another gout of flame.

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Shen manages to channel the fire away from his body, reaches out in the astral and severs the link between summoner and spirit.
Ophis
The heat from the flames stings as it passes over the burns from the last gout. You concentrate on severing the bonds holding the dryad to this world. You feel two of them severed and then it's cut.

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emo samurai
He finds the ragged end of what used to be the summoner's link to the plan spirit and grabs on with all his might.
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Ophis
You reach breathing your own links on to the ties you severed and the plant spirt becomes your own.
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emo samurai
Shen keeps all the mana firmly within his aura and projects an image of protection to the plant spirit.

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Ophis
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The running from the stairs continues, Cheerleader seemingly oblivious to it slips out of the grip of the Plant spirit that seems to have no interest in her now, and blows a kiss to the fire spirit which promptly dissipates under a hail of mana.

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emo samurai
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Shen senses three benign presences in his vicinity. He mentally nudges two of them towards the gunfire, and projects and image of healing into the mind of the third.
Ophis
Cheerleader nods towards the bathroom door, she raises a singlefinger and moths the word hostile. A breif look of concentration passes over her face that suggests to you that she's calling her own spirits.

The running outside reaches the door, Cheerleader doesn't seem to have noticed it.
You call your spirits, you feel them bow to you and agree to your requests.

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The running feet reach the door. Cheerleader pulls an odd looking pistol with a bulbous clip infront of the trigger and what looks like a grenade from within her jacket.

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emo samurai
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Shen senses a feeling of anger so hot it would burn all the world if only it were told where to start. To the outside world, his eyes glaze over; to him, he suddenly finds himself able to see the hidden meanings behind things, the life and lack thereof.
Ophis
Cheerleader chucks the grenade into the bath room, as she does an air elemental appears and calls the bath room door shut with a slam. A thunk as if a grenade had it it responds from the door moments later.

The running feet burst into the room. Three nasty looking bullet wound stream blood down Wildchild's chest. "The Fuckers had Ex-Ex loaded."

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emo samurai
Streaming concentrated life force into Wildchild's wounds, Shen asks him, "Are there any more?
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Ophis
"Not anymore," he growls, the bath room door is hurled open noxious smoke pours out followed by a lightly armoured masked man. He is promptly covered in white foam from Cheerleaders odd looking gun. He collapses into a polystyrene heapon the floor.

"And thanks to the Alter Boy special we got ourselves a live one," she says grinning impishly for a second it quickly fades, "okay we need to move pronto, I'll call a ride in for Shen and Hannah, we can take Wing by another, route."

She pauses for a few seconds, you glance at Wildchild's wounds even with the power you put in your surprised that seems fully healed.

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The phone calls seem to go on for a bit, Cheerleader gradually looking more stressed. She swears as she tries one last call. Moments into the call her face breaks into a grin.

As the call ends she looks at Wildchild, "Oh good all better, how many on the stairs?"

"Two, ork and troll, both filling the hallway with broken necks," he shrugs maybe you should check his aura again, "they annoyed me."

"Yeah you always break your toys when your annoyed."

"Do we have transport?"

"Yeah and back up. Autumn and Brandon are in town and just round the corner, looks like we got the big guns."
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Ophis
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Shen feels a bit more tired, the same effect as staying up 3 hours past your bedtime.

"Are we going to another safe house?"
Ophis
"That's the plan," says Cheerleader, "You okay? Healing Wildchild's a bitch he can take so damn much before his tiny brain realise he should pass out. Me and him will take one route taking Wing with us, a fiend called Autumn will pick up you and Hannah, she should be here in five."

Wildchild glances down at the foam covered mage, "One of yous wanna mind probe this dick?"
emo samurai
"I can do it." Shen reaches down and places his hand on the man's forehead. Shen forcibly creates a link between himself and the stoolie.
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Ophis
You see images of a man, powerfully built tanned skin and thick curly black har and a full beard shapped into a solid wedge. He is clearly annoyed and offers "you" a sizable amount of nuyen. This would seem to be the previous master of the girls.
emo samurai
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emo samurai
Shen turns to the others. "He doesn't know anything; all I got was that he was hired by Kratos to do this. Maybe someone else can try, although I think I got his subconscious, dreams and all. His name is Paris, though."
Ophis
"Yeah, the gas in the grenade I lobbed does play with the brain some," says Cheerleader, "I figure that would be about what we'd get. Okay Autumn should be here in five, I'll go and get Wing and Hannah ready to move. Wild, overwatch please make sure our wheels are ready, Shen sort you self out and get ready to move."
emo samurai
Shen walks over to the kitchen and pours himself a BIG cup of tea; he needs caffeine in his system, and he needs it now.
Ophis
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emo samurai
"I'll go scout for enemies."

Shen lies down on the couch, closes his eyes, and jumps out of his body, searching for possible enemies and trackers. He does this in a 15 block radius, looking for signs of hostility in people's auras. He also looks for drones.
Ophis
Shen's rapid scouting reveals nothing living in the area, but he does notice a couple or three drones that could well be loitering over the building he's in.

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You come too to see Wing and another girl standing in the room, you presume this blonde must be Hannah. Wildchild is wearing a rucksack and has a intimdating pistol holstered under one arm, and what looks like a small, pistol gripped grenade launcher under the other. Cheerleader has changed into biker leathers and is armed with a pair of the big pistols. She grins at you, "Are we clear in the astral? I presume that's where you were." She offers you a hand up as Wildchild heads towards the doorway pulling Wing with him.
emo samurai
"All clear; I assume the drones above this building are yours?"
Ophis
"How many, we have two up."

As you head down the stairs You hear the sound of an engine and the sharp sound of a car decelerating.
emo samurai
"Two or 3."
Ophis
You reach the bottom of the stairs and exit the house. Cheerleader signals you to wait and says, "Fuck it. At least we know that we'll be tailed." She waves at a sleek sports car parked in the road and hops on to a waiting Yamaha Rapier as Wing gets on behind her. Wildchild is already on the backof a BMW Blitzen and revs his engine hard before shooting off at pace. Cheerleader says, "See you there," and speeds off after him.

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Metatron
The driver's side door opens and out steps a female elf. She is just over 6' with an athletic build. As far as you can tell she is somewhere over mid twenties. She is wearing a pair of what once were black, worn and comfy looking jeans, a skinny tee and a pair of buisness looking New Rocks. Her hair is mid-back and raven black, apart from a pair of red streaks either side of her parting that don't look dyed.

"Stay in the car hun, we won't be long" She says as she looks into the back of the car.

"Hi, you must be Shen and Hannah, I'm Autumn. Hop in"
emo samurai
Shen nods and steps inside.

"Where are we going? What security measures does the new safehouse have? Hopefully it has bulletproof windows." The last sentence is half-joking, half-dead serious.

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Ophis
You climb into the front passenger seat, as you climb in you notice that one side is occupied by an elven boy, with dark hair and bright green eyes. He looks at you and smiles, "Hello my name is Brandon," he says rather purposefully as if weighing every word before he says it, "why do your ancestors hate you?"

As you pause, Hannah climbs into the other rear passenger seat.
Metatron
"We are going to be driving for about an hour until we reach our destination. Security-wise, it has me and Wildchild. Bulletproof windows? You must be joking!"
emo samurai
"WildChild alone has proven... sufficient. He killed 2 runners by himself, so I suppose we'll be safe with you two. Anything to brief us on?"
Metatron
"If we do get into a fire fight, I will be going in first. So just keep an eye on Brandon for me. Hopefully it won't come to that, as I should be able to shake any tails we may pick up."

She starts up the engine, and pulls away.


Ophis
Brandon is quiet as the two of you talk. He watches Hannah with the detached fascination of a young child who doesn't quite understand the world. "Shen," he says in his ever so deliberate manner, "your clothes make me go cross eyed. Look I can cross my eyes and touch my tongue with my nose."
emo samurai
"Fascinating. Can you do this?"

Shen holds his hand up and creates a small carnival in his palm, down to the smallest detail. It seems that you could ride 100 ft. tall roller coasters if only you could shrink down small enough.

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Ophis
Brandon stares wide eyed at the rollercoster, "Wow. I can't do that."
emo samurai
"What else do you want to see?"
Ophis
"I want to see Throne, but I can't get there until I'm am Inipitated." He seems pleased with himself for remembering a big word. "You never said why ancestor spirits hates you."
emo samurai
"Initiated. The word is Initiated. Say it with me. Initiated.

And how did you know ancestor spirits hate me? Not even most mages know that."
Ophis
He joins along with you and then to your question says "It's obvious right in your aura."

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emo samurai
"It is... I never knew one could read that.

"The reason is that I betrayed a somewhat sacred duty to my people in China. I was a nobleman and a wise man to the people, and for personal reasons, I left after several decades of service. I did not think I could do much more for my village, and apparently, the spirits think differently. I will, however, not return soon, if ever. Now what else would you like to see?"

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