07-23-2015, 03:02 PM
Steel had hidden away for a while, only really venturing out into the local area around where she’d holed herself up. Her warding still stood, but was starting to show the signs of wear and fraying that most effects do with time. It would still do the job, if anyone did happen to try to find her, but it’s something that would need a little maintenance soon.
Something that would need repairing is the effect she’s originally fought for on the way into the city. Something to appear even less noticeable to people – to avoid Sleepers noticing something strange around her, and to try to avoid any Awakened picking up on her too easily.
Because that had worked out so well in the park. She sits curled up on an old couch – something she’d bought from a thrift store and dragged back here. It was worn, threadbare in places, but still serviceable. With a little time, and maybe a little Work, it could be restored. But it’s nothing that needs doing any time soon. For now, it’s something to sleep on and somewhere to relax.
Steel thinks back to the park, playing with a lighter in her hands. A cigarette hangs out of the corner of her mouth, barely noticed but occasionally dragged from. The little wheel on the cheap, disposable thing is flicked and a flame flares into life. It goes out, and there’s another flick. And another. And another. It’s almost hypnotic to watch.
It’s time to start reaching out again, though. She can’t stay here for the rest of her life. There must be others out there she can get in contact with somehow. But how to know if they can be trusted or not? So, so many people who can’t be trusted. So many who would just use up and cast aside others in their own little power plays and schemes and games. So the lighter gets slipped back in to a pocket, the cigarette dropped into a near-empty bottle of beer – now filling up with dog ends – and she fights.
She sits there, staring at the palms of her hands. Looking into the eyes there that look back at her. Sits there, pushing her will against the world and making it – damned well forcing it – to do what she wants. As the effect comes together, she closes her palms and closes the eyes. Once again, she fades a little more as her resonance dies away.
Next up, the tin of paint that she’d used to pull the shadows around the building is reopened, the old brush banged down on the floor to loosen up the dried and stuck bristles. She stands and fights and reworks the paint on the walls, renewing the ward over the place.
And then? And then another cigarette is unearthed and a bottle of beer opened. That’ll do, for now.
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Effects now up:
Resonance mask. 8 successes: 3 to duration (month), 3 to subtlety, 2 to effect.
Ward over home. 8 successes: 3 to duration (month), 5 to effect.
Rolls:
Steel @ 2:31PM
[First up, re-Warding her hideyhole. Ward, Corr 2. TN5, -1 for resonance, -1 for time]
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (3, 7) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:31PM
[Extending]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (9, 9) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Exntending]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (9, 9) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Last extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (1, 8) ( success x 2 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Caps out at 8 successes, so that's home hidden for another month]
Steel @ 2:33PM
[Effect the second: Resonance masking. Mind 2, coincidental. TN5, -1 for resonance and -1 for time again]
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (1, 7) ( success x 1 )
Steel @ 2:33PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (10, 10) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:34PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (4, 5) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:34PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (2, 4) ( success x 2 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:34PM
[8 successes again. Le Woot]
ix @ 2:35PM
Witnessed!
Something that would need repairing is the effect she’s originally fought for on the way into the city. Something to appear even less noticeable to people – to avoid Sleepers noticing something strange around her, and to try to avoid any Awakened picking up on her too easily.
Because that had worked out so well in the park. She sits curled up on an old couch – something she’d bought from a thrift store and dragged back here. It was worn, threadbare in places, but still serviceable. With a little time, and maybe a little Work, it could be restored. But it’s nothing that needs doing any time soon. For now, it’s something to sleep on and somewhere to relax.
Steel thinks back to the park, playing with a lighter in her hands. A cigarette hangs out of the corner of her mouth, barely noticed but occasionally dragged from. The little wheel on the cheap, disposable thing is flicked and a flame flares into life. It goes out, and there’s another flick. And another. And another. It’s almost hypnotic to watch.
It’s time to start reaching out again, though. She can’t stay here for the rest of her life. There must be others out there she can get in contact with somehow. But how to know if they can be trusted or not? So, so many people who can’t be trusted. So many who would just use up and cast aside others in their own little power plays and schemes and games. So the lighter gets slipped back in to a pocket, the cigarette dropped into a near-empty bottle of beer – now filling up with dog ends – and she fights.
She sits there, staring at the palms of her hands. Looking into the eyes there that look back at her. Sits there, pushing her will against the world and making it – damned well forcing it – to do what she wants. As the effect comes together, she closes her palms and closes the eyes. Once again, she fades a little more as her resonance dies away.
Next up, the tin of paint that she’d used to pull the shadows around the building is reopened, the old brush banged down on the floor to loosen up the dried and stuck bristles. She stands and fights and reworks the paint on the walls, renewing the ward over the place.
And then? And then another cigarette is unearthed and a bottle of beer opened. That’ll do, for now.
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Effects now up:
Resonance mask. 8 successes: 3 to duration (month), 3 to subtlety, 2 to effect.
Ward over home. 8 successes: 3 to duration (month), 5 to effect.
Rolls:
Steel @ 2:31PM
[First up, re-Warding her hideyhole. Ward, Corr 2. TN5, -1 for resonance, -1 for time]
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (3, 7) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:31PM
[Extending]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (9, 9) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Exntending]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (9, 9) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Last extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (1, 8) ( success x 2 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:32PM
[Caps out at 8 successes, so that's home hidden for another month]
Steel @ 2:33PM
[Effect the second: Resonance masking. Mind 2, coincidental. TN5, -1 for resonance and -1 for time again]
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (1, 7) ( success x 1 )
Steel @ 2:33PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (10, 10) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:34PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (4, 5) ( success x 2 )
Steel @ 2:34PM
[Extend]
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (2, 4) ( success x 2 ) [WP]
Steel @ 2:34PM
[8 successes again. Le Woot]
ix @ 2:35PM
Witnessed!