Re: [2.2] - (Everyone) - Butcher's Blues
Mnemosyne suppressed a shudder at the hint of Paradox tainting the doorway. Once she had seen enough she steps back, pulling her awareness back toward the real world (switching back to regular Active Mage Sight) and pulling her coat closer around her shoulders as if to fight off a chill.
"...Okay, so the Hierarch might be using us as bait. That's good to know." She shook her head, then turned to the rest. "Something is very wrong inside that apartment. I can't be sure without looking, but it looks like our missing Councilor might have botched a summoning. Badly."
Animus... She thought to the Goetia hovering formlessly over her shoulder. Will you behave yourself if I manifest you?
I'm insulted, Master. When have I ever caused you problems?
Don't make me answer that question...
Mnemosyne held out her pen and begins to chant softly in High Speech, tracing a pattern in the air with its tip. To anyone looking in her direction with their Sight, her shadow, dimly cast by the hallway's lighting, seemed to shift to cast against the light, instead of with it, and they'd feel a slight, momentary surge in emotion, as if whatever they were feeling suddenly became amplified...
OOC: Time for some more complicated spellcasting...
Casting Goetic Summons (Mind 3, pg 162). While I don't need the primary effect of the spell (as Animus is right here next to her) I'm casting it for the secondary Spirit 2 effect, which grants the Goetia the Manifested condition for the Duration of the spell.
Spell Factors - Instant Cast (1 Reach) Advanced Duration: 1 Scene (1 Reach)
Yantras - Mantra (+2) and Dedicated Magical Tool (+1)
Rolling for Paradox first - going to Contain if I get a success:
11:19, Today: Mnemosyne failed (no successes) using 1d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s ((1)).
And that's a dramatic failure on a chance die (since my Paradox pool was reduced by my Tool) which means I regain 1 point of WP!
Rolling to Cast Goetic Summons (3 Mind + 1 Gnosis + 3 Yantra):
11:21, Today: Mnemosyne rolled 4 successes using 7d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 9,8,9,10(+4),3,3,4. Casting Goetic Summons.
So close to that Exceptional Success! Oh well. That's a success to give Animus the Manifested condition for the remainder of the Scene.
Ephemera began to flow from the tip of her pen, first tracing the smoky outline of a figure, then rapidly filling in a solid form, until on the floor in front of her sat what appeared to be a large German Shepherd, its head reaching up past her waist height, all jet-black save for its eyes, which were deep red - and, in fact, glowing slightly. As Mnemosyne finished her incantation it looked up at the group with as haughty and aloof of an expression as its canine face could manage.
"Um... this is Animus," Mnemosyne said, gesturing toward the 'dog'. "My familiar. Something is wrong with Twilight inside the apartment, so I wanted to make sure he could follow us."
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