Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 16, 2011 11:57:31 PM)
He winced and jerked his hand backwards, shaking his hand at his side. He gave the spirit a sidelong glance, assuming it had laughed at him, before turning back to the 'door'. "I am Ashishishe Heyoka, Speaker of the Dream, and I request entrance. I was sent here by the Cheif Librarian." He paused for a moment, in some idle hope that someone would hear his call and grant him entry.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 16, 2011 11:58:56 PM)
An apologetic whicker as it nosed against him, snuffling at his folded wings curiously.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 16, 2011 11:59:23 PM)
As for his request, there was no answer... if he were to get inside.. apparently he would have to do so on his own.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 16, 2011 11:59:58 PM)
The wings shifted in response to it's nudging and he turned to look at the spirit once again. "Pegasus, do you know how I'm supposed to enter this place?" He looked back to the door, inspecting every inch of it for some clue as to how he was supposed to earn entry.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:03:46 AM)
It shook it's head, giving a snort, and started to nose around the ground.. seeming to wander off. The vicious winds still buffeting them and the face of the spire.. Occasionally causing cracks in the surface to appear as it cooled more quickly in relation to the rest. The columns stood silent, rising high above his heads where the shifting glass began. There were more cracks further down.. but.. the ledge was windswept.. Only the jagged edges of malformed glass and stone that made up the spire could he see around him.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:05:37 AM)
Narrowing his eyes for a moment, an idea occured to him. He withdrew his knife frmo his hip and pressed it's tip against the glass. He was testing to see if it was truly liquid and easily walked through, if one could somehow survive the extreme temperatures.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:06:23 AM)
The tip bit into the glass, the surface seeming to crack and shift around it..

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:09:15 AM)
He nodded to himself before tucking the blade back into it's sheath. He then began to sing his song of transformation. The words struck chords of the pattern, altering his spirit and letting his body adjust to keep up. As he sang a thick carapace began to grow from his skin, across his wings. As the last of the words left his lips, he clenched his jaw and walked forward straight through the molten glass. (+8 temporary health levels during the turn he passes through the doorway. If it does more damage than that...ouch...let me know. lol )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:10:27 AM)
(would that be your last 3 rolls?)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:10:37 AM)
( yep )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:19:08 AM)
The first touch would sear, and begin to boil the skin, carapace, anything it touched as he pushed himself through what was essentially a sheet of thick slow moving molten goo.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:20:01 AM)
Behind him was a shirll cry, and the ringing of hooves as the spirit danced behind him flaring it's flickering red wings as it reared.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:30:25 AM)
As he began to push through, his lips began moving. He fed his song into the carapace, trying to strengthen it as he pressed through the molten glass. Once he was free of the archway he flexed within the hardened shell, withdrawing the threads that held the effect together. The carapace would suddenly fill with thousands of tiny cracks, then fall to the floor around his feet on the other side. He quickly whipped out his knife, scraping some of the gunk from his shoulder that had escaped through the earliest cracks in his second skin. He seethed in pain, feeling rightly cooked, as he leaned over and began to look about the cavern in which he found himself.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:31:27 AM)
Behind him through the slowly dissapearing hole he'd made was the pegasus, snorting, bucking... The hole actually whistling for a moment as it closed.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:34:49 AM)
Before him was darkness, a wide smooth tunnel into the spire.. The inside was hollow. Were he to go another fifty feet forwards he would find nothing below him but a depthless seeming well. Another muffled scream behind him as there came a crunch as the almost molten glass cracked crazily from the other side. A dent coming inwards.

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Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:35:37 AM)
He glanced back curiously, wondering if the spirit was laughing at him, or just upset he found a way inside that did not include the creature. Still, there were more pressing matters to attend to. He moved forward, curiously examining the tunnel until he heard the crash behind him. He turned, looking back to the archway curiously.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:37:38 AM)
A vague shape, the glow of wings that beat.. higher up another crack came, And a chunk of the glass cooled on one side, liquid on the other flew into the tunnel, whizzing past him and into the pit. Another whinny! That spirit was determined to follow him for some reason, It continued to beat at the yeilding surface with hooves that gleamed like embers now.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:41:17 AM)
With it's determination, he would not leave the entity behind. He waited calmly as it attempted to gain entry, even turning to the wall to busy himself. He reached forward and rested his hands on it's surface, whispering softly as he called the resonance of the spiritual matter to meld with his own. He then began to replace his damaged pattern, converting the spiritual residue into the energy of life itself and infusing his body. (3 successes towards healing his damage so far while he waits, using the pattern of the local spirit matter to fuel the effect. No matter sphere btw, but according to Infinite tapestry the spirit sphere acts as the matter sphere in the umbral planes when dealing with ephemoral matter)

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:43:30 AM)
(i'm not going to allow you just to pull it out of your surroundings without the proper amount of prime. Matter/Spirit is not a substitute. Even in the umbra.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:44:48 AM)
( It's just like say...turning flesh into concrete using Life and matter. Instead of making concrete alone, using matter and quintessence or matter and prime. He's changing spiritual matter, which is targeted with the spirit sphere, into life energy, with the life sphere. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:45:08 AM)
(Energy is Prime, not a pattern sphere.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:45:51 AM)
( I'm not creating something from nothing, which is what quintessence and prime sphere is needed for. I'm converting one thing into another. It's two completely different types of magic )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:47:28 AM)
( Healing agg requires quintessence typicaly, because you have to actually recreate the life pattern frmo nothing. But if something else is used to convert into that pattern, you use the target sphere instead of prime. In this instance Spirit + Life, instead of Life + Prime or Life + Quin )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:47:59 AM)
(The rule is you must spend quintessence for each level. You only have prime 1, if you didn't bring the quint with you, you don't have it, and can't pull it out of a pattern.)

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:49:28 AM)
(technically it's prime 3 to sacrifice a pattern for it. pg 184. Lambs to the slaughter.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:50:06 AM)
( With access to 2 levels of node, and never needing to spend quin, he should have it easily enough. I'm just trying to explain he doesn't need to. To move the scene along, I'll put the 1 point of Quintessence in to heal the agg damage. I'm down 3 now. But I would request you look further into it. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:50:25 AM)
(there's 2 levels of agg.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:51:32 AM)
( He's not trying to fill himself with quintessence, by converting a pattern into raw energy...which requires Prime 3. He's converting one pattern into another, which -never- requires prime on it's own. Something as simple as straw into gold with matter 2 proves that. And that's okay, 4 quin down then. Assuming he had half a pool with his node access, he stil has 6. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:53:40 AM)
(6? how do you figure that? Your max pool is 4.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:55:38 AM)
( Core book. You can store up to your avatar in personal quintessence, this can't be stolen by any means. However your quintessence is tracked on the quintessence/paradox scale frmo 1-20. Unless there's a hosue rule I'm unaware of. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:55:56 AM)
(Your avatar is 3. Prime allows you to hold one more.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:56:08 AM)
( That a hosue rule here? )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:56:17 AM)
(no it's not a house rule.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:56:27 AM)
( It's not what the core book says about Quintessence. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:56:42 AM)
(yes. It is. Your avatar rating. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:56:52 AM)
(Your avatar rating on your sheet is 3.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:57:16 AM)
( I'm looking at it right now. The only thing regarding your avatar rating, is that quintessence stored in it can't be tampered with by outside sources, cuz it's protected with your pattern. Excess quintessence after that point is free game. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 12:57:27 AM)
(That's not true.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:57:39 AM)
( I'm looking at it right now. )

Lntrn OOC (Aug 17, 2011 12:57:52 AM)
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Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:58:20 AM)
( It's page 99 in the text only PDF. You -start- with quintessence equal to your avatar rating, but -nowhere- does it say that's a limiting factor to your maximum amount. )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:58:52 AM)
( It even talks about works of magic pulling on 10+ points at a time. How do you think that's possible? )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:59:14 AM)
Any power beyond the mage's personal power (Avatar rating) must come by drawing from another source, using Prime magic

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:59:19 AM)
( That's a direct copy/paste )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 12:59:50 AM)
( And with prime 1, he's able to fill up at a node. Which he has access to )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:00:17 AM)
( assuming he wouldn't walk around with more than half, to leave room for paradox, cuz when it collides with quintessence on the wheel bad things happen, that would set him at 10. He's spent 4. Hence 6. )

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:02:34 AM)
( Though honestly, to move the scene along, I'm willing to agree to disagree. You're the ST here and it's your call. We can set him at 0 remaining quintessence and just move along. It's all good. I know you arn't tryin to cheat me, you just have a different translation than I do. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:04:28 AM)
(Tass, usually, to answer your question. But. For now. *moves on.*

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:06:02 AM)
( Only thing it alters about his effect, is he doesn't need the pattern of the wall if he's creating the life pattern from scratch with quintessence. Rather than changing one pattern to another like he planned. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:07:28 AM)
Eventually.. to make this quick.. It makes a hole big enough for it to dive through, hooves skidding on the floor of the tunnel as it stopped, shook.. and snorted at him. Looking him over.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:08:35 AM)
He arched a brow curiously at the steed and stepped forward. "You're awfully determined to come with me. Would you like to take me some place? Perhaps further up into the spire?"

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:10:20 AM)
It whickered.. and stepped forwards to but it's head against you, flicking bits of molten glass to the sides from it's wings.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:11:39 AM)
He ducked a little to avoid the molten glass as it was slung through the air. He then nodded, moving around the noble creature and hopping up onto it's back. He grew up on a reservation, riding bare back was nothing new to him, and he had always dreamt of riding one of these rare and exceptional creatures.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:15:58 AM)
It snorted, danced in place.. but.. it had a task to perform. It waited until he was just settled, turning it's head to watch him with glowing eyes and then cantering forwards to leap out into space. Red wings crackling around them as it took flight, and headed upwards. There was no wind in here.. not initially.. and for a moment it struggled to rise... before it whinnied.. and then a wind whipped up out of nowhere carrying it upwards on the currents. The inside of the tunnel became a blur as the moved, the bright ceiling at the top slowly drawing closer. Around them passed scattered discarded bits of greek pottery, weapons, and armor flickering by too quickly to get a good look at.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:17:29 AM)
He burried his fists into the spirits mane to hold on, tightening his legs around it and leaning forward. His wings hugged close to his body so not to disturb the pegasus in it's flight. He would try to keep an eye on his surroundings, to feel out with his awakened senses, but mostly he just tried not to fall off.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:22:49 AM)
They passed the first ring, and for the first time he saw.. people.. greek women lounging, talking, playing.. singing.. all sorts of things. But the pegasus kept going.. up towards the second ring. It thundered to a halt in a flurry of red shining wings upon a marble dias... steps leading down into what looked like a courtyard.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:24:47 AM)
He sat tall atop the steed as it trotted out into the courtyard, his deep brown eyes ever watchful of his surroundings. He had no idea what to expect this high up into the spires and so he waited with baited breath. He was not yet ready to descend from his mount, finding some security on it's strong back.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:27:38 AM)
It whickered, tossing it's head, and shifting it's hooves.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:27:51 AM)
( What's in the courtyard? )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:29:09 AM)
The courtyard led into what looked like an old greek amphitheatre. The seats empty.. You are sitting on the stage, actually. To the right there was an archway in shadow. The steed did not leave the stage.. simply shifting where it stood. Waiting.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:30:19 AM)
Swinging his leg off the back of the pegasus, Crow dismounted and looked around. He slowly walked a circuit around the stage before pausing before the archway. He reached out to touch it's edges as he peered through it's center.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:33:30 AM)
A shape to the side of it moved.. an old woman.. some hag in tattered robes chuckled softly at him. "You are... a long way from your home, dreamer."

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:35:45 AM)
"Indeed", he answered casually enough before he looked over, focusing his large brown eyes on the woman. He offered her a friendly enough smile, though his features were haggard from his trials over the course of the journey. He was tired. So tired. He would have been thankful for the hurt of the glass door at this point, at least it would have filled the hollow left by the numbness of his muscles. His wings ruffled out once, then folded neatly at his back. "I assure you the journey has felt longer still. Is this the epiphamies?"

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:39:35 AM)
Her one good eye studying him.. "This is everywhere, and nowhere... " She smiled, one lone tooth revealed against her wizened gums as she did, a soft cackle. She straightened, and waved one clawlike hand for him to follow. "You seek the library, dreamer.. I know this. ...what do you seek?"

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:41:48 AM)
Moving down the walkway at a slow shamble.. trusting he would follow.. or not.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:43:06 AM)
He nodded, falling in step behind her. The red mists still spiraled around him, but they were drawn in close, making an odd animate collar around his neck. He would trust her for now and simply hope.... He was too tired to do otherwise. "Understanding.... The dreamshell stands resolute against me, the gauntlet refuses to breech for others under my call. If I'm to continue to develop my understanding of this world I am to represent, these are questions I must find answers to. They are lost in the world I live in...so I came all the way here..."

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:44:14 AM)
"Ah... " She says... passing columns slowly. 50 feet down the way was a set of doors.. but they were not there yet.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:44:50 AM)
"Have you encountered anything in your journies... dreamer?"

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:46:31 AM)
He nodded as he fell into step beside her, thankful for the casual pace they took on their stroll. He clasped his hands behind his back, his wings wrapping around him to settle like a black feathered cloak, rich and glossy, the color of the sky on a moonless night. "I have encountered a great deal......", he admitted without pause.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:47:52 AM)
"And have you learned anything?" She continued her pace, not at all in a hurry to get to those doors.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:49:34 AM)
"I have....", he admitted once again. He bowed his head in thought as they walked. "Though I still feel my goal is just beyond my grasp."

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:52:49 AM)
She waved a hand.. "Goals.. plans... the best designs of men... all come and go in time." They were halfway to their goal.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:54:43 AM)
He shook his head and tilted his head back, looking upwards towards the sky. "Then what would you suppose I should do, spirit? It is difficult to amble without direction with hope reality will place my needs before me. Without focus I feel like I stagnate...becoming lifeless...still...never moving forward."

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 1:56:36 AM)
"You answer your own question, dreamer... Find a focus, find a purpose. Is there truly no cause you find worthy of your direct attentions?"

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 1:58:53 AM)
"Recently I have been seeking to better myself, so that I might better serve the dream. It is why I came here. It is why, I believe, Black Eyes released me from his care. But to what ends I've yet to fathom."

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 2:04:29 AM)
She simply chuckles. Pausing at the door. "You must find your own direction. I cannot give one to you. All I can offer you, is knowledge. ....but if power is all that you seek. I cannot help you." The door creaked open.. Inside those doors was a massive libary, glowing a warm gold as if from candlelight.. though you saw no candles or flame. There was a woman at the desk. Healthy, in the prime of her life. She was writing on a scroll.

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 2:06:43 AM)
He shook his head slightly, "Not power. Understanding. I think I am simply looking for my failures, to learn why I have failed, so that I can determine a better path than I have walked before." He looked out into the library in awe. The Bibliotheca was truly massive, but the inner glow of this place set it aside from that storm weathered place of learning.

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 2:07:58 AM)
(and.... I'd say you made it.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 2:08:28 AM)
( Awesome. Thanks for the RP. ^_^ It really was alot of fun. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 2:09:03 AM)
(my back is killing me, see you later.)

Ashishishe Heyoka (Aug 17, 2011 2:09:11 AM)
( Okay, hope you feel better. )

Darkness and Light 2.0 (Aug 17, 2011 2:09:52 AM)
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