Post by Krakenbox on Oct 24, 2021 18:27:18 GMT -8
Cailleagh hands Mordecai the tray of faces as he hands them one by one through the mirror—his own reflection of the Mask taking them and examining the offering with a practiced eye. It paused on the one with a bullet hole, sticking its thumb through the hole and frowning; Mordecai rolling his own eyes and sounding like he was attempting to placate the entity in Hebrew as he gestured and hunched his shoulders. Cailleagh's Masked reflection motioned in the background, moving on her own accord as she started doing something on The Other Side with the corpses and skinned visages. Eerily there was no blood pooling on the reflected side, and their backs were facing the Changelings and on the periphery of the reflection.
Fawkes watched with morbid interest and the opportunity to assess a ritual he hadn't seen yet, asking tiredly if the Court needed him to take care of the victims. The Ogre replied that that would be a Tomorrow Problem, waiting by the mirror until his reflection returned with the skin now replaced as silvery death masks. They shook hands, the weight of the Wyrd indicating that words were being sealed on both ends before Mordecai pulled the new Tokens back through. In a blink, everything in the mirror seemed to be reflecting again as normal, dousing the clean metal floor in red. Lancelot frowned, still unsure why the Duchy had been pulled from hunting Fetches if Golden Boy and Fawkes were unnecessary additions other than some apparent need to haze him personally. Sure, Buck wasn't exactly a staunch traditionalist, but he felt like they had well moved past the initial scandal of last year's Mabon.
Mordecai spread the metallic masks across the clean table where the guns had initially been placed, including the one that had a twisted knot in the forehead.
"This will essentially recreate the effects of the Skinmask Contract. The drawback is that your reflection will look like this individual even after you've taken it off, until we give it back, and in the meantime your reflection will be doing whatever it wants to do...seeing as you aren't needing it. If you don't have a good relationship with yourself, well, it can't do anything to really mess with you unless you're mirror travelling. If someone close to you complains of a weird haunting or seeing you in the bathroom mirror, use your imagination." He shrugged, not looking to make the rest nervous with unknowns.
"Nott, I want you to attempt to use your Kith abilities to time a meeting for the next gathering. If fate isn't going to give us that, I'd like you to try and trace for a meeting with the leader that was described in the visions. At this hour, he's probably home. Sorsa, you can use Spring blessings and do what you can to get him alone for Cailleagh to to her job.
Once he's dead, I'm going to have you steal his face and call a gathering, and Nott I'd like you to investigate what you can so we can track who attends and who's still a loose end.
If any of you have Glimpse of a Distant Mirror, you will now be able to look through mirrors that have reflected your new face."
He cracks his knuckles, trying to give relief to the explosive energy that the Spirit was channeling. "All right, choices! Three of you will don the mask to infiltrate that gathering and clean house. The data we collect can add to who might be connected and the sudden mass disappearance will encourage them to go to ground or abandon. They don't have a full understanding on what we're capable of, and we can monitor for as long as required for the Mourners to make a call.
Lucas I'm going to ask you to call in a hobgoblin that knows technology. I'm going to forward this stuff to Talos and the guy's fast, but having it process recovered equipment and phones collected from the sweep will cut down time and keep it quiet.
Afterwards, those masks are going to get us into their homes to conduct similar investigation: who knows, who they've been talking to, and whether their families are safe. If any of you know Dreamsteps, I'd rather you abstain from taking a mask, so we can daisy chain in their sleep. Hidden Reality and Hostile Takeover can get us in and out quietly."
As the Ogre went over the plan, the influence of the Spirit of the Hunt was clear. Hunger and giddiness, caused the Lost to shuffle feet and catch creeping smiles of anticipation, bulldozing normal faculties without concentrated effort to catch the intrusive instincts that possessed them. They had their marks and their souls burned with the desire to catch and kill.
"We're looking for a head each to offer the Rite. Other Silent Arrows are getting tagged in tonight with our intel. We're not looking for anyone to lose their minds."
Fawkes watched with morbid interest and the opportunity to assess a ritual he hadn't seen yet, asking tiredly if the Court needed him to take care of the victims. The Ogre replied that that would be a Tomorrow Problem, waiting by the mirror until his reflection returned with the skin now replaced as silvery death masks. They shook hands, the weight of the Wyrd indicating that words were being sealed on both ends before Mordecai pulled the new Tokens back through. In a blink, everything in the mirror seemed to be reflecting again as normal, dousing the clean metal floor in red. Lancelot frowned, still unsure why the Duchy had been pulled from hunting Fetches if Golden Boy and Fawkes were unnecessary additions other than some apparent need to haze him personally. Sure, Buck wasn't exactly a staunch traditionalist, but he felt like they had well moved past the initial scandal of last year's Mabon.
Mordecai spread the metallic masks across the clean table where the guns had initially been placed, including the one that had a twisted knot in the forehead.
"This will essentially recreate the effects of the Skinmask Contract. The drawback is that your reflection will look like this individual even after you've taken it off, until we give it back, and in the meantime your reflection will be doing whatever it wants to do...seeing as you aren't needing it. If you don't have a good relationship with yourself, well, it can't do anything to really mess with you unless you're mirror travelling. If someone close to you complains of a weird haunting or seeing you in the bathroom mirror, use your imagination." He shrugged, not looking to make the rest nervous with unknowns.
"Nott, I want you to attempt to use your Kith abilities to time a meeting for the next gathering. If fate isn't going to give us that, I'd like you to try and trace for a meeting with the leader that was described in the visions. At this hour, he's probably home. Sorsa, you can use Spring blessings and do what you can to get him alone for Cailleagh to to her job.
Once he's dead, I'm going to have you steal his face and call a gathering, and Nott I'd like you to investigate what you can so we can track who attends and who's still a loose end.
If any of you have Glimpse of a Distant Mirror, you will now be able to look through mirrors that have reflected your new face."
He cracks his knuckles, trying to give relief to the explosive energy that the Spirit was channeling. "All right, choices! Three of you will don the mask to infiltrate that gathering and clean house. The data we collect can add to who might be connected and the sudden mass disappearance will encourage them to go to ground or abandon. They don't have a full understanding on what we're capable of, and we can monitor for as long as required for the Mourners to make a call.
Lucas I'm going to ask you to call in a hobgoblin that knows technology. I'm going to forward this stuff to Talos and the guy's fast, but having it process recovered equipment and phones collected from the sweep will cut down time and keep it quiet.
Afterwards, those masks are going to get us into their homes to conduct similar investigation: who knows, who they've been talking to, and whether their families are safe. If any of you know Dreamsteps, I'd rather you abstain from taking a mask, so we can daisy chain in their sleep. Hidden Reality and Hostile Takeover can get us in and out quietly."
As the Ogre went over the plan, the influence of the Spirit of the Hunt was clear. Hunger and giddiness, caused the Lost to shuffle feet and catch creeping smiles of anticipation, bulldozing normal faculties without concentrated effort to catch the intrusive instincts that possessed them. They had their marks and their souls burned with the desire to catch and kill.
"We're looking for a head each to offer the Rite. Other Silent Arrows are getting tagged in tonight with our intel. We're not looking for anyone to lose their minds."
Blaze has the highest pool for concealing her motives and is combat capable.
Nott, Lucas and Riley are all tied for their pools in manipulative lying for maintaining a charade.
Nott, Lucas and Riley are all capable of turning invisible, while Riley and Lucas will not show up on camera. It is assumed Fawkes and the Hob will have practical skills for purging evidence, alongside Lucas and Nott's Investigation pools for Assist rolls. NPCs will fill holes and niches with their appropriate skillsets.
Lucas can opt whether he tells Mordecai he has Dream Steps, in which the mask will be passed to an NPC. I will follow this post with a general narration and players will write their character's role and experience.
Nott, Lucas and Riley are all tied for their pools in manipulative lying for maintaining a charade.
Nott, Lucas and Riley are all capable of turning invisible, while Riley and Lucas will not show up on camera. It is assumed Fawkes and the Hob will have practical skills for purging evidence, alongside Lucas and Nott's Investigation pools for Assist rolls. NPCs will fill holes and niches with their appropriate skillsets.
Lucas can opt whether he tells Mordecai he has Dream Steps, in which the mask will be passed to an NPC. I will follow this post with a general narration and players will write their character's role and experience.