Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:09:19 PM)
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Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:09:23 PM)
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Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:09:28 PM)
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Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:11:09 PM)
*pulled over to let Craig in, then drove the rest of the way to the address proper.*

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:12:13 PM)
(i'll let you reference why this location is important Saffron) There out at the location, a lone old-peoples car, short, squat and red. That someone so "dangerous" or powerful resorts to driving something so ... unbecoming is almost out of sorts with the feelings that the mages arriving have about the man and the situation. A strange mix of the mundane and normal - with the extreme ends of something that most certainly is not.

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:13:05 PM)
*Snorted* A Buick? Wow. i'd have him pegged for a Mercedes. *he got out, looked around very carefully...*

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:16:11 PM)
*Saffron spoke as the drove* This is where I recovered the Van driven by the man that was hired to destroy the Katrina museum, likely hired by the Technocrats. It was inside the van that I found a cache of insects, dormant. I still have the van in a storage unit in the 9th Ward. *got out with Craig, walked with her cane toward the man, looking to see him, and watch him, carefully. She also watched around them for signs this was a bad idea.*

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:16:57 PM)
The location is next to the water, edges of the town and near where the military engineers have now finished off their cyclone protection wall. Almost right at its very end infact. The door opens as they near, an exceedingly elderly man evident in the drivers seat.

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:17:51 PM)
*Craig walked with saffron* Interesting. That museum is some kind of key or nexus. Way too much attention being paid to it.

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:19:05 PM)
The museum may have been a ploy to awaken the city *she spoke quietly, fairly certain they were overheard anyway. Still walking carefully paying full attention.*

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:21:00 PM)
Or something else... spirits awaken in old places and things...

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:23:24 PM)
*approached the car, looking right at the man.* Pa? I presume? And that you know who I am?

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:23:57 PM)
Moving to drag his legs out of the front seat, Pa simply sits there, waiting for them. His left hand starts to shake and he squeezes his own knee trying to reduce its effect. "Miss Dorsey, Mr Killian. In the boot of my car is a sack. I'm sure you'll be familiar with its contents."

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:25:24 PM)
*He glanced back and moved around to the trunk, pulled it up... * (How big we talking here?)

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:25:28 PM)
*moved toward the trunk, listening.*

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:25:47 PM)
(*nicker* Boot. Definately a Kiwi. :-D )

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:27:09 PM)
A large sack, about the size of a regular cement mix bag. Tied together with twine. Craig and Saffron can feel what it is even before they will open it. They feel their own abilities, anything that had active nulling. Even Saffron's arcane starts to disappear. The whole sack?

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:27:26 PM)
(*had been*)

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:27:55 PM)
*Craig blinked* These dormant or remains? *He waved Saffron off* I got this. Let me get it away from him...*

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:29:01 PM)
*Saffron had about as much chance of lifting a sack of gold/silver as she had of jumping over the levee.*

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:30:30 PM)
*Cement bag sized? Holy fuck, thats a LOT of weight in gold and silver.... about... well over 200 pounds! Craig fought, got it up, and rested it on one knee before carefully heaving it over his shoulder and heading back toward his car with it...* Be right back....

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:30:58 PM)
"I thought it might be appropriate for you to see that you are not the only one to find ... metal filaments. Curious samplings that they are." Not moving to get out but the clarity of what such an amount might do to even him maybe making them realising just how much Pa had not intended to harm them. He likely could never have - not like that.

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:32:45 PM)
Would you answer some questions for us, please? As we seem to have some of the same problems?

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:34:21 PM)
"As much as I can. You know ... I attempted to talk to Mr Killian several weeks ago. I understand his hesitance to talk to me though." His jaw trembling before she'll notice him holding it, trying to take some control over his own body, for now stilling.

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:36:15 PM)
You said that you did not say Ma was not involved in the abduction of Caleb Zanelli. Was she? And if so, for what reason?

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:38:03 PM)
"I said that Ma was not involved in -our- meeting. Finding a sack of that horrendous metal .... leads me to believe that she very well may be exactly whos involved. I think you're completely misinterpretting my calling you."

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:39:07 PM)
*Craig came walking back looking a bit tired* Damn that much of that shit is *heavy*... you okay? *he glanced at Pa...*

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:41:07 PM)
Pa just smiles faintly, glancing over the far younger Akashic. "Perhaps you should think more about the manner in which I got the sack into the car. You're quite right it is rather heavy. As for okay? Is the question intended to be rhetorical?"

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:41:09 PM)
No sir. I was simply stating that on the phone that, when I misunderstood you, you corrected me to say you did not say she was not involved in the abduction. *Saffron used her key fob to unlock the back of her element if Craig wanted to put the materials there, nodding to craig and continuing* We were in the process of trying to figure out who took him and why. So I wished to clarify what you knew of it. *seemed satisfied with what she learned.*

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:41:26 PM)
I was about to ask that very question.

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:42:18 PM)
*Craig shook his head* Physically was all I meant if you're all right...

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:44:28 PM)
"Sir, you are asking a man who has long forgotten just how old he in truth is. The mind does strange things after too long with preservation of life - I should have let go long ago I think. What is right these days?"

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:49:10 PM)
*he thought for a long moment... then finally asked* If you found these but you think ma is involved... what in gods name do you think is going on?

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:50:40 PM)
"Well, I know she has been upset with the state of New Orleans since Katrina. You know that she is willing to do anything to achieve her desires. What lengths will someone go to to restore a city to its past glories?"

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:51:39 PM)
Olivia suspects someone has been sacrificing Avatars to rejuvinate the ley system, the city and its spirits. Is that how far you think she might go?

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:51:43 PM)
*He leaned his head back, closed his eyes, and spoke softly* ohhhh, how the hell do I always manage to go from snake bit to powder burned...

Craig Killian (Feb 18, 2011 11:54:02 PM)
So, if she's behind, or in collusion with whoever is behind the current ass hattery... then what's with the bugs?

Saffron Dorsey (Feb 18, 2011 11:55:58 PM)
*she looked at the sack* And I am still curious how you got that sack into the car.

Tohunga (Feb 18, 2011 11:56:19 PM)
"Whats with the bugs? They're technocratic tools designed purely to combat any emergence of magic within the city. Particularly spirit activities, that more than anything seems to most attract their attention. And yes, yes ... from the hazey memories of our past ... would you believe I don't even know my origional name these days .... I would think that shes thoroughly able and willing to do so."