Mage - Eric

[Any chance they have midnight masses? ]

[Actually, given this game and the probable nature of the church/order, I'd rather not go to midnight rituals there...]

Eric suggests that they get some rest and meet in St Johns Wood tomorrow morning.

[I have a few emails I'd like to send...

First I'd like to scan the notes and email them to my contacts in the Mysterium, specifically asking them to focus on the Order of the Rebirth.

Secondly I'll email my former lecturers at the university, I'll spin some bullshit about hearing about a patient stung by a Mobius hornet and ask for advice on treatment.

I appreciate it won't be immediate, but it's worth a try.]

[OK. Will get that to you over the weekend. End for tonight?]

[Cool. I guess all is left is for Eric to go home and sleep on the sofa...

Actually, he'll stop on the way for some petrol station flowers ]

[roll Manipulation + relationship diff 11]

[All dice count as 1s regardless of actually number rolled.]

[yep. You're on the sofa]

You contact your lecturers about the wasp. They respond that the wasp was unknown to science until a short while ago. They are particularly concerned about the venom which can cause memory loss, incredible pain and eventually death. No anti-venom has yet been developed.

Your mage contacts respond that the Order first appeared a few centuries ago but vanished. Their beliefs are mostly unknown but seem to be centred around the arrival of the Christ child and the birth of Heaven on Earth. On a seperate note, they ask if you have contacted any attempts to see the future in the past 24 hours.

[I'll thank the Mysterium folks and say that while I haven't attempted yet, I will do so if that would be of benefit to them].

[At the moment, they are more concerned and are collecting data. They tell you that they cant see or determine anything about event further than 5 days hence. Everything after next week is blank]

[Oh dear. That doesn't sound terribly good.

I'll try and casually ask if they know anything about androgynous babies that set people who look at them on fire.]

[That line of questioning results in a dead end. However, they respond that they are treating this as a matter of utmost importance until they work out what is happening]

[The no future thing or the baby thing?

I'm guessing the no future thing, but just checking]

[Both but the future thing is scaring them - even if they wont admit it]

[Cool, just as a matter of routine, I'll file a report about the weirdness of last night. Something to be filed away or whatever they do with things.]

[I might use the rest of the time to clean the house and order some flowers for the wife.]

[OK. What sort of books would you have in your occult library?]

[In-character or out-of-character? ;-)

He's probably got stuff on medieval alchemy, Kabbalistic theology/magic, maybe some general reference-y stuff. I'm thinking his books also include a fair few medical text books and physics textbooks.]

[Anything on world myths? If so, roll Intelligence + Occult, dif 9 for each hour you are prepared to spend researching]

[Maybe some basic stuff, nothing too heavy though. Probably more lay-person stuff than academic historian.]

[I'll try 2 hours...

3, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10

and

2, 3, 3, 4, 9, 10

Three successes in total]

[you find two references to the Order of the Rebirth. The first dates from 1919 and details breifly that it was a monasitic order dedicated to preserving the realm of God - whatever that means. The Order appears to be more secreative than the Kights Templar.

The 2nd bit of info is also brief but gives some information about how the Order was investigated for heresy during the 14th century. The entry only mentions that they disagreed with the story of Genesis]

[Genesis is pretty sketchy...]

[I'll give Jennifer a call to see when she is free to meet at the church]

[More that they considered it to be utterly wrong]

[She's already there, waiting for you]

[Interesting...]

[I'll hot-foot it to St John Wood then!]

Your arrive at the church around 11am. It is open and there are one or two people inside. The church is on Abbey Road and in a nice, leafy part of London.

The weather is a little overcast. The courtyard is small but you can walk around. No one will stop you. You meet Jennifer in the courtyard

The church: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=church+of+our+lady+abbey+road&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=942vUZykH-Wc0AXj44GABw&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg

Eric cautiously enters the courtyard of the church and strolls over to Jennifer, trying to look nonchalant. Not looking in her direction, but pretending to inspect some flowers, he coughs discretely to alert her to his presence.