Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 6:45:23 AM)
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Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 6:45:50 AM)
((Lina was told where to go by Amos..but has never been here. What is this place? lol))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 6:46:38 AM)
**Lina would get home from a day at the precint, tired after a long but constructive day, to find she had a few mesaages left on her home phone**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 6:52:07 AM)
*toeing out of her shoes, the witch wanders over to push the blinking red button and listen as she wanders the house, changing clothes*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 6:52:14 AM)
**One of which would be the Knight Agency, inviting Police officer Lina Devereaux to 381, west Devonshire street where Martinique Rousseau would be showing some of her latest pieces to a private audience**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 6:53:31 AM)
**The adress is a upmarket part of the CDB, where it juuuust begins to bleed into the art district**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 6:56:31 AM)
*blinks at that, and returns in a tee as she buttons her jeans to push replay and hear it again.* Private audience..Pieces? *another owlish blink before she tries to figure out what on earth she's supposed to wear to that*
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:00:02 AM)
So much for the yardwork.. *and back upstairs to change into a kerchief skirt and blouse with deep green vest, bringing down a strappy pair of heels and grabbing the keys for her truck* Wonder if they'll let me park the monster anywhere near the place.. *she chuckles and calls Amos to mind to let him know she's answering his boss' summons*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:01:25 AM)
**Frustrating that there is little else to go on other than the time, if you hussle, you might make it**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:02:55 AM)
*drives her truck to the location with all the skill of one who knows that everyone else is more concerned for their vehicle's well-being than she is, and takes whatever parking she can find near the address before half-jogging up to the door*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:03:07 AM)
**The small gallery is an elegantly appointed building that sits between a fashionable shoe store and a contemporary clothes boutique. While there are no titles above the large plate window, the small display shocks you to a stop. It is a canvas on an easle, a lifelike painting showing a curvy young woman with long dark hair, looking suprised as she stands on the street. The woman is clearly you. **
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:05:18 AM)
((Is the figure clothed?? LOL))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:05:47 AM)
((as Lina is, unless she has turned up naked))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:06:24 AM)
((if you could freeze the street, it could be a photgraph))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:06:26 AM)
((NO!! lol)) *she blinks and pauses at that, cheeks coloring slightly as she recognizes herself, in her current outfit, and glances around before ducking into the gallery*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:11:32 AM)
**The gallery door leads into a warmly lit room, with apricot walls and plush soft carpets. The walls are home to a series of black and white photgraphs, clearly a themed showing. On first glance, they seem to be a black and white reflection of New Orleans; day and night shots of many locations though some are more blurred than others. As you step into the gallery, curiously empty of people or sound (other htan the air conditioning), you note that there is a second level at the far side of the room and few steps lead up and behind the wall on both ends**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:15:02 AM)
**Still, noone comes to greet you, but the door chimes as it finally hushes closed behind you**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:16:43 AM)
*as she is clearly expected, she heads up to the second level..eyeing the photographs on her way, to see if they show images as real as the painting*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:17:27 AM)
**The photographs all seem to have been taken slightly of angle and all contain some element of activity. Groups of people in parks, malls, the street, in some they are running and looking scared, in others they point as if at some event that cannot be seen. They all give the rather uncomfortable sensation that there is something missing from each shot; the people portrayed reacting to the unseen or unheard.**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:19:29 AM)
*the investigator will want to come and see those again on her way out, but for now, she wouldn't be wise to keep the Lady Harrier waiting. Choosing a staircase and climbing to reach the door*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:21:41 AM)
**As she approached, the door was pushed aside and the Lady Harrier appeared. As lovelly as ever, the dark hair waved over the light summer dress she wore, the single white hightlight matching her pale perfect skin. She smiled and extended both hands in greeting, kissing on cheek then the other** Miss Devereax, Thankyou for coming on such short notice
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:23:26 AM)
*she returns the cozy greeting in kind, smiling to the woman she sees as Amos' ally* Of course Lady, I only hope I can be of assistance. Am I in time?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:24:01 AM)
**Almost playfully she pulls away** Such a question in light of what i'm goin g to show you
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:24:42 AM)
*she tilts her head at that* Well now ya got me curious for sure. *she chuckles*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:26:37 AM)
**she takes a few steps backward toward the door** Time. *she sighs and holds herself with eyes closed** If I could hold time still for just a few beats, it would be the boy I held last night... such skin, such arms **she opens her eyes and bites her lip** such youth! Come through, let me show you what we've found
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:27:13 AM)
**She slips back through the door**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:28:47 AM)
*she can't hep the smile at the woman's indomitable lust for life, following the Harrier as bid* See, I had to give up on the young ones..never seem to know what to do with themselves..
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:29:21 AM)
But they sure are pretty ain't they.. Mmm.. *an impish light in her dark eyes*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:31:17 AM)
Oh they grow tiresome after a time... talk of romance and roses and all the things they think we want to hear **The same apricot walls, the same carpet lead down a corridor that Martinique almost dances down, two fingers trailing the smooth painted wall to your right** But for passion, give me a strong silent type with eyes of ebon black *she grins. While you pass two doors to the left, she heads toward the end where stairs appear to wind up and to the left**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:33:17 AM)
We wont have it here for much longer, The Lord Tyrant has demanded that it be taken elsewhere. However, I thought it would be interesting to have your eyes for a while...
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:34:59 AM)
Agreed.. *without really thinking about who might fit the Lady's description, watching where they go in case she's expected to find her own way out later. She glances back to Martinique at the last* I do hope you don't mean that literally. But I am at your disposal, of course, my patron made that clear.
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:36:35 AM)
**She laughs** Not of of us have the indelicate touch of the Inquisitor Lina. No, Amos has spoken highly of you and I wanted someone I felt he trusted **She leads you up and around, and into a large, near empty room. Skylights high overhead have been shuttered and wall uplights make for a well it area. **
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:39:25 AM)
**This space was easliy large enough to hold a grand showing, given the right dividers and such. There are square pillars and stand alone 'walls' stacked at the far end of what must be as large as the entire lower level of the building. But here, in the centre of the room is the large stone 'mirror' that was taken from the raid. Like an overly ornate bird bath, it was aged, though in fine condition. Etched in runes and showing both angels and devils of at least six periods of art history**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:40:19 AM)
I'm not familiar with the Inquisitor, Lady.. Though I once knew another who went by that title. *looking about curiously and noting the mirror she'd led Sabaraz to she smiles lightly* Ah yes.. the crone's treasure.
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:41:42 AM)
**Martinique stops before approaching it, nodding to your comments and stands beside you so that you both face the object** Indeed. We have had it carbon dated it and believe that despite it being added to significantly, the interior stone itself is almost 3000 years old.
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:41:54 AM)
My patron was concerned for my safety with it stored near me. I was not clear on why..would you tell me that much?
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:43:41 AM)
3000 years.. *ina hushed breath* What miracles an horror it must have seen in that time. *her curiousity piqued, she'd help if she could, even without Amos' instruction to offer Martinique her aid*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:45:16 AM)
Well, at first we weren't sure what to make of it. The bottom of the bowl is silvered somehow, though it's no silver nor mercury or anything else. And its diamind tough, unlike the stone which is actually rather brittle. We looked it over, tested it againts our own abilities to 'see' it for power. We poured water into it and still nothing until i was foolish enough to allow one of my aids to look over it... the poor girl
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:45:49 AM)
It's meant for mortals to use, is it? Is she alright?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:46:55 AM)
**She looks to you** Exactly.. it will not reveal anthing to the fallen... it denies us. The photographs downstairs were all taken by her. She looked into it and said that she was seeing all these visions, and rushed to get a camera as we saw nothing
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:47:55 AM)
but when the film ran dry, so she still remained.. click clickl click... she's in our lady of Mercy at the moment, heavily sedated
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:49:12 AM)
*her brow knits lightly at that* What do you wish me to do, Lady Harrier?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:50:24 AM)
Lina, her mind just wasn't strong enough. She had no training, no mental discipline in the use of our power, unlike you **she looks to you withy some gravity**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:51:37 AM)
*she nods lightly, having guessed that was the intent* I understand. What knowledge do you seek of it..if'n I can hold solid through this ride?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:51:43 AM)
We did try again, with a local artist... she painted the canvas in the window shortly before...
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:52:07 AM)
Before..? *with concern for these unknown girls*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:52:39 AM)
Before she threw herself through the studio window
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:53:25 AM)
*she closes her eyes for a moment at that* I'm so sorry..
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:56:00 AM)
So am I.... I loved her very much. **she looks to you** I won't make you do this Lina, but I am asking you. What we know of the Earthbound is that he is a creature of vast power. In times gone by that he has been released, he has done terrible things and swept the fallen aside that stood against him. We have no idea what can stop him now. The Lord Tyrant has had almost all our resources bent on unearthing information about him and all we have discovered are his strengths
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:57:31 AM)
He can intill disease, control minds, even the actions of the fallen. He breathes fire and dust. He canb shift between this world and the next. He can grow to monterous size and still remain unseen to mortal eyes. He is a true titan.
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 7:57:59 AM)
*as she opens them she reveals that she is rather reasonably concerned at this point, but the idea that she might turn away from the task never even occurred to her. Sabaraz asked her to aid Martinique, so she would throw herself into hell if that was what was required of her. She lifts a brow at the suggestion that it was a request, smiling softly* You need his weakness, then. *she nods lightly* How does the mirror work, pourin water into the basin?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 7:59:58 AM)
**She smiles and takes a breath.** Such strength you mortals still possess, and so few see it. Yes, your pour water to the basin and look within... however, it will seek to 'steer' your thoughts somehow, thats all we know.
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:01:16 AM)
**Sure enough, a large glass caraffe sits on the Mirrors edge**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:02:30 AM)
I'd like some chalk and a candle, if you don't mind. White, for preference. And Lady, I know his name, and I know you require his weakness, I will do what I may.
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:04:51 AM)
**She nods and moves off back down stairs**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:06:02 AM)
**She returns shortlly with chalk and candle, and a folding chair which she sets out for herself**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:08:32 AM)
Thank you Lady, I apologize for asking you to bring them, but I didn't realize I would need them when I arrived. *she gives Martinique a warm smile, then places the white candle near the massive mirror, and starts drawing her circle. She uses the simplest circle to keep interfering energies out and to keep whatever she finds within, locked within with her. Mostly though..she needs the ritual to help her steady her nerves.*
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:09:44 AM)
*It's one thing to recognize she might die in Sabaraz' service, another to proceed regardless, and still more to know it might well be -this- moment that such a price should come due*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:10:23 AM)
**The Lady Harrier mrely nods and watches silently**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:13:56 AM)
*the circle completed to her liking, she rises and pockets the chalk, drawing a lighter to light the candle beside her. And lifting the pitcher in one hand, she holds her left over the candle's flame. High enough she won't be burned..but close enough that she can feel the heat. Concentrating on Ninhursag's Weakness, she pours the water in, watching closely*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:16:14 AM)
((okay, lets begin - Make a wp roll to initiate the contact, diff 9 minus your faith))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:17:44 AM)
((diff 6 then, kk 2sux))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:20:35 AM)
**As the bowl begins to fill, you look inside. The entirety of the bowl has been coated and polished to a high sheen, the curvature reflecting of many surfaces and giving back strange distorted images. The water magnifies and further refracts them. YOU notice that the bowl must curve up and over a little as there are small wells of images that reflect back over and over into themselves**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:22:04 AM)
** You look about the images, waiting for soemthing to happen, some feeling, some emotional connection and yet in fact, all you feel is peaceful, the water still lapping lightly from being poured**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:23:59 AM)
**Thrre are so many reflections, some clearer than others... you see.. something, a glimmer of something odd thats not in the room, the skylight above appears open not closed**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:24:55 AM)
*setting the pitcher aside without looking away from the water, she places her right hand on the edge of the bowl and whispers, perhaps foolishly* Please.. I need to know Ninhursag's weakness. *trusting her circle to keep the Earthbound from hearing her speak his name, and focusing on the difference in the bowl's image*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:27:13 AM)
**You speak his name and the water ripples... images do begin to fracture in the water, a house, reeds or corn all around**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:29:09 AM)
*the investigator's mind noting every detail and memorizing it..as that might well be the way she finds her answer* His -weakness-.. *remembering the age of the thing, she tries it in Latin* ~L~ "Ninhursag's weakness."
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:30:22 AM)
**and then... its grows clear, one image, a room, dark, old wallpapered walls, peeling and scarred as if scarpped and scratched by dogs or worse. Red wallpaper it was once, now soiled by filth and excement. An old chandelier sings over a single chair with a borad shouldred man tied to it, his back is to you, he's been beaten** So...Sabaraz, you though to lead your band to us and win?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:31:58 AM)
oh how we shall enjoy stripping the flesh from your lovers bones... oh, whats that? You don't care for your London anymore? well thats just as well, as we're about to feed her entrails to her
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:33:01 AM)
**A suited man walks into the frame, though his head can not be seen from the mirrors angle** So fortunate that her screams wont tire you and you will need your strength
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:33:54 AM)
((perception and awareness , diff 6
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:34:32 AM)
((if you have no awareness, it is perception only, hence the first danger))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:34:44 AM)
((4sux and yes, she has Awareness))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:36:30 AM)
*the first flash of fear slowly consumed by the little witch's fury as she grips the rim of the bowl in her right hand and stares into the image*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:37:45 AM)
**You feel a violent tug as the core of your being and across the mirror flashes the sad eyes of your aunt Tia** It hurts Lina honey, it hurts
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:39:06 AM)
*her eyes flash wide* Nana Tia! What's hurting you?! *softly whispered in reverence for the dead*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:39:19 AM)
**The smell of the kitchen fills the air, warm home cooked cajun style you haven't smelled in too many years...and then with it, the scent of cold, of damp, of death**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:41:05 AM)
((Make your wp again, but this time, you must spend a temp faith jusy to make the roll))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:41:58 AM)
((Whee, *marks it off and rolls*))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:42:29 AM)
((Another 2 sux))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:43:31 AM)
*and because Lina was raised to believe the dead know things she doesn't* How do I use it Nana? How do I find the answer I need?
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:44:20 AM)
**The mirror shifts and you see the plantation house, burning. Asride the house, seemingly bursting from the ruins is a massive, tentacled horror. Its many arms thrash about, its screams rip the air**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:44:52 AM)
**Many falllen lash at it with what appears to be... ropes?**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:47:53 AM)
**You bear down on the mirror, your mind hardening to the task and again, the images shifts, Aunt Dominique bent over a phone** Of course we're selling the resturant, that little bict all but killed my sister with her constant games and cruel tricks.. So many times I had her in tears on the phone, begging me to take her...
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:49:38 AM)
So that's where you are hiding.. *focusing on the ropes trying to see exactly what they are* How will they kill you? *blinking as the picture shifted* Nana Tia.. Help me see.. *the quiet prayer* I need to know how to kill the thing hidden away there.
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:50:49 AM)
((spend again, roll again,))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:51:29 AM)
((3 sux!))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:52:18 AM)
Tia Danielle..Please, show me how to destroy the monster that hunts us.. *in a fervent whisper*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:54:01 AM)
**wiping back involantary tears, you stare into the mirror and this time, YOu see a deep dark room, like a cavern, and in that cavern is a cage suspended from the ceiling, chains from everry direction hold that cage in place and withing the cage, an old fashioned lantern**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:54:29 AM)
**not ropes, chains, chains crafted to incarcerate the demon**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:55:23 AM)
**Another shiftm, but this time, an eye, a yellow mouldering eye, with a film of greasy pus running over it** AND WHO NAMES ME
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:56:23 AM)
((roll again, though this time, you must achieve at least 2 sux))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:56:44 AM)
((Op I had a post..should I do so and then roll?))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:56:51 AM)
((yes))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:56:54 AM)
*Lina's clutching at the rim of the bowl, her brow knit as she's fighting it to push the vision where she needs it to be, her hand lowering toward the candle on the other side when it suddenly shifts to see the lantern Ninhursag hides in* There..you are.. *startled by the shift, Lina releases the rim of the mirror to slam her hand into the image on pure instinct!*
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 8:57:46 AM)
((2 sux!! Somebody up there likes me!))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:58:01 AM)
**The eye begins to form though as the water is distubed, the image and contact is broken**
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 8:59:04 AM)
**refocussing your sight from the mirror, you note that the water is in fact now red and Martinique has you by the shoulders** Lina.. Lina...
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:00:10 AM)
**You see a distorted reflection of yourself, blood running freely from your nose and ears and you take a stumbling step backward... and pass out**
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 9:00:23 AM)
*panting hard, she tries to nod to the Harrier, holding the pictures tightly in her mind as she blacks out!*
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:01:53 AM)
((and that's the mirror scene. thanks sooo much for being sooo patient. I nhave to run for 30 to put may to bed, but thanks.... You I assume will recount a little to the harrier when you come around and she would have you driven to Amos or wherever, as you wished))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:02:21 AM)
((Is that cool?))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 9:02:27 AM)
((She'll tell the Lady where the lantern is, and that the thing is HUGE..lol Yes!))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:02:44 AM)
((awesome, and well played))
Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 9:02:51 AM)
((Thank you for the scene, I'll put together what she's telling Martinique when ya get back!))
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:02:58 AM)
kk
Legion (Jun 29, 2011 9:04:06 AM)
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Lina Devereaux (Jun 29, 2011 9:06:25 AM)
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