10-21-2013, 01:45 PM
Shoshannah sets everything up and she starts to extend her perceptions outward. Unfortunately she has no obvious path to the cabin itself; she perhaps knows its approximate location, but little more than that. It would make it exceedingly difficult to scry on; this is the limit of detecting spaces. The stronger the connection you have, the less Herculean a feat it is.
But then she comes upon a possibility. It's not entirely certain, but she has encountered Joshua Keller before, and she had a close interaction with the effect of the film. While scrying on one or the other may not yield the proper results (as Trent Harrison had noted, the film itself is frustratingly good at defying attempts to be located), she can cross-thatch the two of them to create enough to scan in closely.
And so she does. Her senses extends outward, the water within the copper bowl acting as a portal through which she can examine the sense from afar. And in truth, it is more difficult that she expects but soon enough the waters coalesce and a shimmering image appears--
It is a woman. That's what the Dreamspeaker sees first. The woman is attractive in a stern, almost aristocratic way. She has the high cheekbones and stark features that suggest good breeding; she appears to be somewhere in her mid-thirties, dressed in a fur-lined leather jacket, her long black hair pulled back into a ponytail. She is standing outside a...well, it had been called a cabin, but it's more luxurious than the word "cabin" would suggest. In fact, let's call it what it is: it's a mansion. She's standing on the terrace overlooking the grounds, tallking on a phone. She's speaking Italian, and Shoshanna can pick up traces here and there from her other languages she knows that are somewhat similar. She's more able to pick out proper names and words that she's sure aren't Italian than note words that give her the gist: things like "Hermetic," "Keller," "Montanari," "Vienna chantry" and "Thakinyan."
The woman doesn't seem to notice Shoshanna's scrying. As the Dreamspeaker starts to survey around the place, she gets a sense of just how big it is--and make no mistake, it is huge. Brightly lit, multiple floors, a terrace, indoor swimming room...Shoshannah probably couldn't begin to imagine how much a place like this costs, but it's certainly not anything that fits any category beyond really God-damned expensive.
She is not, unfortunately, able to get a solid survey of the place itself though. For as she's sweeping over she gets a look at Joshua Keller. She's seen the man. She knows what he looks like. And she sees him as he's walking into on of the central rooms of the house. He's dressed in a simple pair of slacks, a black turtleneck. And as she views him on high, she gets a moment of panic as his attention shoots directly to look in hers.
And he smiles. It's a smile that is distinctly...oily. There's something distinctly lacking in humanity in that gaze, and he holds her vision there as she feels, horrifically, his consciousness extend out. It seems...vast, somehow. Like a sea of feelers testing out, sniffing, trying to find her.
The good news is this: as near as she can tell, he doesn't figure out her location. There is some small relief in that, the look of frustration in his eyes. But he has a lock on her, even if he doesn't know where, and she feels her mind pried unceremoniously open before she can turn away.
Pure darkness invades, and her world goes black.
When Shoshanna comes to again, it's dark and she's cold, shivering and wet. She doesn't know how long she's been lying here. When she gets back to the Chantry, if she goes there, she finds out it's been three days. Unfortunately with Lena and Sid both out of commission and away from the Chantry and other people coming and going more sporadically, her lack of presence has been missed. She has a slight cold (but it could be worse, there's no Hydra cells!) from being out in that field for so long. And she's unable to shake this pressing feeling that she's not alone.
[[For the duration of this storyline, Shoshanna now has the Nightmares flaw. The nightmares come in various forms: being trapped in the film and being the murder victim is part of it each night, after which she descends into her own personal Hell. A place of emotional torment designed just for her by some unknown creature who she never sees but can feel watching her throughout the nightmares and delighting in her suffering.
Since the meeting finished on Monday, Shoshanna wakes up on Thursday.]]
But then she comes upon a possibility. It's not entirely certain, but she has encountered Joshua Keller before, and she had a close interaction with the effect of the film. While scrying on one or the other may not yield the proper results (as Trent Harrison had noted, the film itself is frustratingly good at defying attempts to be located), she can cross-thatch the two of them to create enough to scan in closely.
And so she does. Her senses extends outward, the water within the copper bowl acting as a portal through which she can examine the sense from afar. And in truth, it is more difficult that she expects but soon enough the waters coalesce and a shimmering image appears--
It is a woman. That's what the Dreamspeaker sees first. The woman is attractive in a stern, almost aristocratic way. She has the high cheekbones and stark features that suggest good breeding; she appears to be somewhere in her mid-thirties, dressed in a fur-lined leather jacket, her long black hair pulled back into a ponytail. She is standing outside a...well, it had been called a cabin, but it's more luxurious than the word "cabin" would suggest. In fact, let's call it what it is: it's a mansion. She's standing on the terrace overlooking the grounds, tallking on a phone. She's speaking Italian, and Shoshanna can pick up traces here and there from her other languages she knows that are somewhat similar. She's more able to pick out proper names and words that she's sure aren't Italian than note words that give her the gist: things like "Hermetic," "Keller," "Montanari," "Vienna chantry" and "Thakinyan."
The woman doesn't seem to notice Shoshanna's scrying. As the Dreamspeaker starts to survey around the place, she gets a sense of just how big it is--and make no mistake, it is huge. Brightly lit, multiple floors, a terrace, indoor swimming room...Shoshannah probably couldn't begin to imagine how much a place like this costs, but it's certainly not anything that fits any category beyond really God-damned expensive.
She is not, unfortunately, able to get a solid survey of the place itself though. For as she's sweeping over she gets a look at Joshua Keller. She's seen the man. She knows what he looks like. And she sees him as he's walking into on of the central rooms of the house. He's dressed in a simple pair of slacks, a black turtleneck. And as she views him on high, she gets a moment of panic as his attention shoots directly to look in hers.
And he smiles. It's a smile that is distinctly...oily. There's something distinctly lacking in humanity in that gaze, and he holds her vision there as she feels, horrifically, his consciousness extend out. It seems...vast, somehow. Like a sea of feelers testing out, sniffing, trying to find her.
The good news is this: as near as she can tell, he doesn't figure out her location. There is some small relief in that, the look of frustration in his eyes. But he has a lock on her, even if he doesn't know where, and she feels her mind pried unceremoniously open before she can turn away.
Pure darkness invades, and her world goes black.
When Shoshanna comes to again, it's dark and she's cold, shivering and wet. She doesn't know how long she's been lying here. When she gets back to the Chantry, if she goes there, she finds out it's been three days. Unfortunately with Lena and Sid both out of commission and away from the Chantry and other people coming and going more sporadically, her lack of presence has been missed. She has a slight cold (but it could be worse, there's no Hydra cells!) from being out in that field for so long. And she's unable to shake this pressing feeling that she's not alone.
[[For the duration of this storyline, Shoshanna now has the Nightmares flaw. The nightmares come in various forms: being trapped in the film and being the murder victim is part of it each night, after which she descends into her own personal Hell. A place of emotional torment designed just for her by some unknown creature who she never sees but can feel watching her throughout the nightmares and delighting in her suffering.
Since the meeting finished on Monday, Shoshanna wakes up on Thursday.]]
"The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."