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Post by saki on Jan 14, 2014 12:35:04 GMT -8
((Waiting to add to Jule and Sol's posts after they make them, but Saki would let everyone know that Bryn had a dream. A building with some lights on, like in Saki's dream. Only in Bryn's there were two flags hanging on each side of the door..red with black crosses. Looked like german war flags. The black crosses were outlined in white, with a circle in the middle.. a black sun in the circle.))
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Post by anokatos on Jan 14, 2014 13:43:18 GMT -8
((What Solomon got from his ritual. WALL OF TEXT, INCOMING: *Sol reaches out for the environment, trying to tap into its memory, seeing what it saw, hearing what it heard, feeling what it felt. The sewer tunnels become veins in a living organism as the spell starts to gradually kick in and rushes Sol's senses with information. The tunnels become your eyes, your ears, your skin. A spectral imagine begins to form before your inner eye, revealing maintenance crews, hobos .... and the occasional couple seeking some private time. These parts have seen much. Information overflow.* *You concentrate. Focusing on Vik's image as you remember him, trying to force the very bricks to show you what you want to see. The spectral image flickers, fast forwards. You feel like months are replayed before you in mere seconds. Finally the process slows down again and you see a robed figure - tall and bulky, up to the point that it even seems grotesque, wander down the stairs at the entrance and heading to the exact spot you are standin on at the moment. As the memory image passes you, a cold shiver runs down your spine and the image flickers again, only to reveal a second person entering just behind the robed figure as the image clears again. The second person wears a familiar face, walking on crutches with obvious difficulty on the wet brick stones of the sewer floor.* *The robed figure, wearing a hood pulled deep down into its face turns and addresses its follower. "We may speak here. No ears we don't want." He says with a wink of his right hand. Garvik nods and hobbles closer, settling against the brick wall, only countering a short. "Speak, then." *The hooded figure bears no markings on its robe. It is a distinctive wash of brown, almost looking like rags. If not for the bulky stature of the person, he could simply be discarded as one of the ordinary homeless people stalking around the dark alleys and tunnels of Darkside, seeking shelter and refuge from weather, cold and authority alike.* The robed figure removes his hood, revealing what seems to be an elaborate combat helmet, engulfing the entire face of the person. The front plate hosts a single camera lense, entirely stripping the head of human features, save for its general shape. "I am sorry it had to come to this." The figure rasps in a distorted voice. Vik, leaning on the brick wall shakes his head before replying. "You don't know what you have coming for you by doing this. Me biting the dust'll motive people more than words could ever do." An almost robotic, distorted cackle emits from the robed figure as it reaches inside the robe. Ah, the figure seems like a human, just taller and bulkier. As if wearing some kind of heavy armour under the robe. The voice, although being distorted and almost robotic is far from synthetic. It sounds a bit like a soldier talking through a radio. The robed figure finally pulls out his hand again, holding a large pistol which is slowly aimed at Garvik's head. "I don't enjoy this. But you of all people should know that an order is..." Vik interupts the distorted voice from behind the combat helmet. "...is an order. Go ahead. Seal the fate of those you work for." The figure remains silent, only a faint nod of the helmet can be perceived while its finger squeezes the trigger more tightly. Vik takes a deep breath, muttering something barely audible, presumably in Norwegian from the faint sound of it. The robed figure pulls the trigger. A flash, a bang. It blinds you, but as your vision clears again you are able to perceive the robed figure walking away, deeper into the sewers while Vik's body is sliding down the wall he had rested against seconds earlier. The back of his head is mangled, blown off from the inside, bits and pieces of brains and blood scattering the entire wall as well as the ground next to it. Some even made their way all up to the ceiling. The sewers are silent again. No conversation, no voices, no powder igniting and no bullets breaking the sound barrier. An almost eerie silence has settled again, only disturbed by the sound of dripping blood from the gaping hole that once was the back of Vik's head. Very slowly a faint golden glow emits from the body as a shapeless form rises from it. It just hovers there as you get the strange impression of deep anxiety and expectance.....but nothing happens. The glow just hovers ... and hovers. What seems to minutes feels like hours, days maybe, until it gradually starts to dissolve into nothingness. As Sol snaps out of whatever he has been seeing priorly .... a hand shimmering in a faint gold appears for Jule to see as well now. It slowly starts to dissolve, like the other shimmer did before. ======================== Solomon also had a vision: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1LFl-QeC4&feature=youtu.be======================== The combined efforts of Jule, Sallah and Solomon were able to capture and replicate a bit of the golden aura/glow that rose from Vik after he was shot. Sol will try and use that to perform a ritual to (hopefully) use that energy signature to locate it wherever it may be.
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Post by sersi on Jan 14, 2014 15:21:31 GMT -8
this was posted to twitter today from Vik's account
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...after the (A%SF) its a few ...glyphs? my computer doesnt recognize and cant copy. some computer person wanna look it up?
Also if Solomon can some how get the presumably norwegian to shay, she can attempt to figure out what was said.
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Post by @Jewel on Jan 14, 2014 16:29:55 GMT -8
Jule's Spirit Walk -- Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, King James Bible Behind the Ealdwic Park stage, Jule enters a deep meditative state while Vi watches over her so that she doesn't get first distracted or interrupted and if the experiment is successful to watch over her body. After some minutes, her body slumps over as Jule's spirit leaves her body and starts to float towards the crime scene. As her astral projection nears the others who stand in the tunnel, she senses the magickal essense of Ealdwic that makes the hub so special. Very similar to being in anima form, she cannot see them but can sense their presences in the grey spiritual world around her. Jule is standing in the tunnel where the deed was done. On the other, darker, hidden existance of this world. Everything is bathed in a faint tint of grey while the echos of countless wailing spirits can be heard in the distance - the skeletons in London's closet. The tunnel itself, however, seems remarkably at peace. The water is silently running below your feet deeper into the sewers. The tunnel further down is, as the entrance, peaceful. Yet at one spot there is a faint glow seemingly imprinted in the grey-ish brick wall. It seems to strangely resemble human form, save for the part where the head should be located, which does not have the distinct round shape of a human skull, but rather that of a cone pointing the wider end upwards. Her vision flickers as the faint glow dissolves and she sees .... The robed figure removes his hood, revealing what seems to be an elaborate combat helmet, engulfing the entire face of the person. The front plate hosts a single camera lens, entirely stripping the head of human features, save for its general shape. "I am sorry it had to come to this." The figure rasps in a distorted voice. Vik, leaning on the brick wall shakes his head before replying, "You don't know what you have coming for you by doing this. Me biting the dust'll motive people more than words could ever do." An almost robotic, distorted cackle emits from the robed figure as it reaches inside the robe. The robed figure finally pulls out his hand again, holding a large pistol which is slowly aimed at Garvik's head. "I don't enjoy this. But you of all people should know that an order is..." Vik interupts the distorted voice from behind the combat helmet. "...is an order. Go ahead. Seal the fate of those you work for." The figure remains silent, only a faint nod of the helmet can be perceived while its finger squeezes the trigger more tightly. Jule screams, "NOO!" in reaction to what she's witnessing but no one can hear her except perhaps a faint whisper from her lips while she still laid still unconscious. She knew she was reliving things in the past yet it felt very much to her that it was happening all over again at that instant. Vik takes a deep breath, muttering something barely audible, presumably in Norwegian from the faint sound of it. The robed figure pulls the trigger. A flash, a bang. It blinds her, but as her vision clears again she's able to perceive the robed figure walking away, deeper into the sewers while Vik's body is sliding down the wall he had rested against seconds earlier. The back of his head is mangled, blown off from the inside, bits and pieces of brains and blood scattering the entire wall as well as the ground next to it. Some even made their way all up to the ceiling. The sewers are silent again. No conversation, no voices, no powder igniting and no bullets breaking the sound barrier. An almost eerie silence has settled again, only disturbed by the sound of dripping blood from the gaping hole that once was the back of Vik's head. Very slowly a faint golden glow emits from the body as a shapeless form rises from it. It just hovers there as she gets the strange impression of deep anxiety and expectance.....but nothing happens. The glow just hovers ... and hovers. What seems to minutes feels like hours, days maybe, until it gradually starts to dissolve into nothingness. As Sol snaps out of whatever he has been seeing priorly .... a hand shimmering in a faint gold appears for Jule to see as well now. It slowly starts to dissolve, like the other shimmer did before. Jule recognizes what Sol and Sallah are trying to achieve and moves closer to the couple. By concentrating on their energies, her aura colour starts to shift from a light bubblegum pink closer to a deeper, brighter neon pink. She focuses on the realisation of a spiritual athame, a ceremonial dagger has appeared in her hand and begins to speak in a foreign tongue, mapping out in front of her a pentagram, resuming in English, rhyming off the forces of nature with each point she hits on the star starting with Fire, then Air, Water, Earth and ending with "Spirit" at the top and makes one last final swipe down to finish the symbol. She then encloses the star by drawing a circle around it to focus on the golden form before her to bring it into clearer view of what she's seeing. The golden hand keeps dissolving until it is nearly gone, but instead of vanishing, a soft trail of golden sparkles head for where Sol is standing at the moment. The sparkles start to violently swirl around the onyx amulet, as if to resist being bound. But to no avail, the combined willpower of Sol and Sallah, aided by Jule's presence and her efforts to see clearly what they want to achieve, the golden glow is finally sucked into the Onyx stone, giving off a faint shimmer from inside. She's still standing in the grey-ish spirit representation of the Ealdwic sewers, but apart from sensing each other the place is void. Jule is not sure what had transpired except she is filled with a sense a hope that Vik's soul is not lost as she floats back towards the park where her body remains protected by her friend, Vi. She awakens out of her deep meditative state to find Shay and Vi around her, looking at her. As she shakes her limbs out to work out the stiffness, she relays to them that she had seen the whole thing happen and that there's still a way to save Vik. Shay replies that once Jule is ready, that she, Vi and Jule should rejoin the others in the tunnel so that Jule can tell everyone what she had witnessed.
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Post by variable on Jan 14, 2014 16:36:08 GMT -8
Will spent most of last night - until Saki decided it was time to distract him - doing what he could to break into Gleipnir's servers. He found that their central database was not accessible via the internet, so he was unable to break into it. He was, however, able to find a few things via their account servers: Usual business and contract chatter over their channels. Except one peculiar bit - an order relayed from the internal server Kimchi has no access to, on the day after Vik's death. It simply states "Resume full scale global operations" Furthermore, there is some kind of brochure about Project Einherjar, advertising the benefits of the "future soldier" programme to selected customers. i.imgur.com/3gYQBRV.pngAfter that, Will began to check a few of his deep web circles, which gleaned this information: In the deep web it could be known that GDS has been purchasing combat drugs for quite some time. Furthermore, there are rumours about GDS employment in Egypt to combat the Athenist threat. A few villages have been entirely burned to the ground with no survivors left.
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Post by saki on Jan 14, 2014 17:50:33 GMT -8
Saki had a phone conversation with Jules Burnett today. She was following up on some leads she got from Chesire, and just comparing notes a bit. She doesn't know if this is relevant, but discovered that Elika gave Vik and Jules a small bottle of very potent "divine" water. If they consumed it gives the body a powerboost and potentially heals you or gives you "super strength." He doesn't know if Vik actually drank his, though. More salient was a discussion about the killer Jule and Sol saw shoot Vik. When Saki told him about the image, Jules that Vik himself always wore an armor with big lens in front of the face. It malfunctioned at times when they were out on missions together and caused Vik to sometimes not be able to see anything unless he took it off. They were talking about a connection to the Gleipnir armor which you "needed to be dead to use." Jules was thinking that Garvik might have tried to bypass the "being dead" through the use of a blood ritual which might have gone wrong - which would have caused the coughing when he was always running around with his gasmask, as if he might have been "falling apart" behind the mask.
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Post by sersi on Jan 15, 2014 0:33:42 GMT -8
After tonight's meeting, Shay has two pieces of information to follow up on.
1) A captured GDS agent mentioned a refitted tanker North along the coast they were using as a base during the attack.
2) After his sudden death, she took his helmet and Vi brought it to the Ægir labs. Shay is hoping, since GDS could apparently see and hear them through the helmet, the signal might be able to be traced back, and would like one of the resident hackers (Anna, Will (when he gets better), Kimchi) to try to get a trace on the signal.
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Post by Ammie on Jan 15, 2014 15:27:23 GMT -8
((Not sure if this info got passed around or not, basically Vik went to see Wanda on orders after he had some issues sleeping/weird nightmares shortly after the filth stuff in Agartha kicked off, she gave him a full check up but found nothing and when the symptoms didn't persist the matter was dropped. Later he was referred to her again after he went all bald and had black veins/started to wear a gas mask all the time, Wanda was able to ascertain that something was leeching off his anima/soul and she got him to admit that he had made a deal with something to further his knowledge of blood magic. Initial when he started to show signs of mutation dieing and letting the bees put him back together again fixed the problem however at this point even they were unable to reverse the problem. Wanda started giving Vik transfusions of Anima in an effort to slow things and asked Vik to remain at the clinic under observation which he ultimately refused to do. He did however turn over the book he used to contact the entity and after taking some precautions Wanda used it herself and learned the creatures name... I did write it down buuuuut that note must be on my laptop which I've lent to a friend :/, ether way Wanda was unwilling to risk bargaining with the creature and clearly out of her league broke off contact and turned the matter over to the arcane department)) ((Arcane Arts & Sciences took over the investigation on this angle, and was able to determine a few things:))
(Quoted from conversation with Vik) It's not a demon. The research will in fact reveal that the creature is an evil spirit known as a voritrax, more related to fae in both form and function than to any demon from hell. The mode in which it conducts business is, according to folklore records that might or might not have found their way into the library, to seek out or assist those who want to gain power, mostly in connection with blood magic. It's talents and powers remain somewhat mysterious, however, all records show that typically the bargains struck with it involve some kind of payoff in either blood or life force, which is drained by the creature through magical means. It is not known to yet have visited "our world", but rather works with trickery and deceit to place a means of communication (the book) into the hands of those who seek to attain the powers it can offer. An account of one scholar who used the book describes a strange dream-like vision where he met the creature in its realm after reading that book. That scholar has included a drawing of the creature from what he could remember after waking up next to the book. It, or creatures with a similar power and modus operandi, turn up in Celtic, roman and Norse occult records. i.imgur.com/sl6Br8g.jpg
((The next step was to build a summon/bind/ward for the voritrax, which Amaryllis did in her own sanctum - she has a standing policy against any summoning being conducted in the general area of AA&S, largely to contain knowledge of the Arcane Nexus. Also, Ammie's sanctum has hard protections and contengencies carved into the stone as backup. Ammie uses a 7-layer ward, and at least 3 points of binding, so the spirit knew that it wasn't worth it to try to fight its way out or harm her. The inside of the circle was hospitable, so that fair business can be conducted without any discomfort to the spirit. She layered the wards it in the languages of those three cultures so that it ties to the realms of belief that the creature draws the most power from, and she'll used the book itself as both a grounding charm and an invocation item, since her research determined that it was not a book, but a conduit to the creature's realm. She did not actively read the book. She triple-checked her spell grammar, and summond the spirit. The invocation was a call to do business.))
((Below is the (cleaned-up) exchange between the two, for accuracy. Ammie was able to sneak a couple of key points of information from the spirit for free! Exploiting pride, FTW! 1 - Garvik is alive, somewhere. 2 - What happened has something directly to do with their arrangement, as it says "everything is working out just as anticipated". Also, when Ammie asked for details, the spirit jumps immediately to taking about an exchange. 3 - The spirit has something to do with his continued containment, because it mentions "allowing the body to re-form".))
((Ammie also checked in with her brother to see if there was any insights he could give, even on the slim chance. This is what she found, quoted from Vik:)) Apart from dabbling in the domain of blood, he's also a spirit of greed (which wasn't stated in the folklore sources). He likes to stretch the boundaries of his bargains, not really breaking them, but not playing fair either. He'd also drop that this greed is his weak point and can be exploited.((From this we know that the spirit may be compelled to take an alternate payment, if it's good enough, so we should think about that.))
Transcript of the summoning:
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Post by sersi on Jan 15, 2014 15:48:33 GMT -8
Sadly the tanker has been lost.
After trying to work with the helmet, Anna had a brief exchange with an "operator 13", and was able to trace the signal back to Braunschweig, Germany - the location of GDR's HQ.
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Post by sersi on Jan 15, 2014 22:41:58 GMT -8
After a meeting with Wolfgang Seibert, Shay has reached a deal, having Vik's body released to Ægir in exchange for the promise that he would be updated with all information on the case as it becomes available.
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Post by Carl on Jan 15, 2014 23:45:33 GMT -8
Carl has been looking through Garvik's home and office, but no sign of the passcode for the locked steel door in his office or even a hint to what it is. His next step will be to ask Anna to look through his computer files for any hint of the numbercode. If that fails...well, Jule's reminded him that her team knows a thing or two about breaking into heavy, locked steel doors from past experience....
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Post by saki on Jan 16, 2014 13:12:29 GMT -8
*HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL--NOT TO BE SHARED OUTSIDE THIS CIRCLE*
Saki, Shay, Vi, and Will met last night with Bryn. She'd received a text under the guise of it being from Vik, but it turned out that it was from someone within Gleipnir. Bryn met with the head of the Einherjar project and learned that within the organization itself there is a huge rift, with Ragnarok receiving much of the financing and support, causing the Einherjar group to suffer and receive unnecessary casualties. The contact confirmed that Vik was killed by someone from Ragnarok, which the contact had voted against doing. It sounded like we if there was an offensive against Ragnarok, we'd have Einherjar's support and access to GDS's database.
She also told us they'd tried to hack Thule, but as a result, the computer they were using blew up like it was a bomb.
Bryn was very clear that this information was for a very limited number of ears, given that our meeting was compromised the other night, so we agreed to keep it solely amongst ourselves.
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Post by @Jewel on Jan 16, 2014 17:32:51 GMT -8
Jule's work so far on reunification of Vik's soul with his body was her sole focus since she had learned the news last Sunday. As she remembers vaguely when this ritual was performed before. It was done by her High Priestess in her former coven back in L.A. some years ago, almost precisely seven, except she wasn't assisting or participing. She was witnessing it from the other side because the soul with which they were trying to unite its appropriate body was her very own. She anticipated her silver cord to be reconnected to feel whole and complete once more as her body was just entering its second trimester with her first child. She felt robbed of the opportunity to feel life grow within her and the only way to rebind herself to her own flesh was the same ritual she was preparing for now for Vik.
Jule types another observation into her Book of Shadows: Weirdly enough though, Edward Cayce believed that the Eastern world is wrong about its chakras. His belief that the 6th and 7th chakras should be switched because the uppermost chakra is located where the Third Eye is, known as the Crown chakra, as once the Kundalini makes its journey upward through one’s body to a higher place of enlightenment, it would “see” more. The area on top of the head known traditionally as the 7th chakra would make it the sixth instead is where the vibration & touch would be applied.
Now, telling the entire Eastern religious community that it’s wrong is crazy so it’s best to take Edward’s theory with a grain of salt. However, who says that the traditional 6th chakra couldn’t be used as a spot to rekindle or reconnect someone’s “silver cord” to his body, especially if the 7th chakra isn’t physically accessible anymore.
Jule opens another post and inserts another link and pastes another picture she found from her collection. Of course, she could have just taken a flight from LaGuardia to LAX and contacted her former Matriarch for her notes and materials to perform the ceremony but they had lost touch in the last few years, mostly because Jule was so busy with teaching, raising two small children, putting some voluntary military service to look for her estranged husband and finally working as a consult for the Friends of Blue network, that it seemed inappropriate to now come back and ask for help. Besides, developments in Vik's case were unfolding quickly and soon the body would be delivered while Solomon and Sallah performed the ritual to locate Vik's soul that had been captured by the voritrax.
Each spiritual energy center corresponds to one of the seven notes on a musical scale: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. Each spiritual center also corresponds to a color on the light spectrum of which there are seven: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (or white). The positive and negative “vibes” a person is outwardly exposed to in life can influence the inward functioning of the endocrine glands and their corresponding spiritual center. The dominant vibration - positive or negative - within a person’s body reflects which spiritual center is dominant within a person’s life. It is the dominant vibration of a person’s life - body and spirit - which determines the level of the corresponding afterlife realm they have attained. Certain yoga meditation techniques (such as chanting mantras) have been used in the East to raise the quality of the spiritual energy vibration to help heal the mind, body and spirit.
In light of Eastern religion and Edward Cayce’s findings, if one wants to rekindle or reconnect the silver cord, one has to do it through touch and vibration as each chakra has its own note. So, if one wants to use the 3rd Eye Chakra to use touch and vibration to rekindle or more precisely reconnect the person’s soul to his / her body, applying sandalwood oil to the forehead while chanting Ohm continually in the key of A, it just might work. The room should be filled with sunlight or more specifically, a light source that emits radiation whose wavelengths range from 290-315 nm to activate the pineal gland.
The pineal gland is responsible for producing melatonin but also as well regulates from visual sensory stimulation the body’s circadian rhythm.
As Jule pushes herself away from her laptop in the basement and trudges wearily up the two sets of stairs up to her bedroom suite to join Carl, she stops for a moment as an epiphany hits her, "Gosh, I hope that the bullet didn't remove at least that part of the brain or else I'm going to have use another part of his body!"
"You weren't thinking of using Sacral Chakra instead? It would be more your style to use chakras that you are more adept at manipulating." Beside her in the darkness, a smoky presence forms beside her and floats behind, following Jule into the bedroom as it projects its thoughts into her mind.
"No, Pinky, not this time. Mary would have more luck with him than I would. What has you wandering the rooms tonight?" She replies telepathically back to her dark servant.
"I was to remind you of doing something before you were to go to sleep tonight. The matter of Saki's pin?"
"Oh, yeah, that. It's on the dresser if you would deliver it to her tomorrow. I think she would appreciate it having it back in time for Lilith's show."
"Yes, ma'am."
Jule giggles soflty, "You know Pinky, you're starting to sound more like Seven every day?"
"It's Sven, ma'am," Pinky recreates Sven's voice in Jule's head.
Jule releases a soft groan, "The last thing I need is two Swedes. Off with you!" The cloud disperses into nothingness with the pin along with it.
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Post by sersi on Jan 16, 2014 19:34:49 GMT -8
Once Anna is done with the helmet from the downed pilot, Shay will bring it to Sol, in hopes he can use what ever bio matter is still left in there for purposes Shay doesn't have the stomach to inquire further about.
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Post by saki on Jan 18, 2014 8:36:19 GMT -8
((Time for another meeting? Invite only this time? Also, as a side note, I'll be out of game next Tues-Friday. If I can get Skype to work on my phone, I'll be able to do some RP there and will hopefully still be able to contribute to the forum. I just can't stay away from you lovely people. XD
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