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Dresden Files, sessions 9 & 10
Mar. 4th, 2011 10:20 pmSo, between weather and school and one thing and another, we've had something like two sessions now that I've totally forgot to blog about. I am determined to rectify this, however, before it becomes three. As it happens, these sessions were pretty closely connected anyway, so it doesn't hurt anything to describe them together.
Okay. So, everyone meets back up after the boys get back from Faerie and decide what to do next. Mary is safely ensconced at the church, at least for the night. People generally decide to go home and get some rest -- Oscar takes off back to his place, Adia goes home with Dylan as no one is willing to let her spend the night at home alone with all this Mickey stuff going on, Zeke decides to post up in the church so he can watch over Mary, Danny gets word from Edinburgh that they want a report, so she goes off to do that (her player was missing for the first session of these two), and Uno rounds up his fae and changeling friends to do a quick spring cleaning on his mom's house (or rather his house when he chooses to stay there) before she comes calling.
Dylan gives Adia the couch and takes off for the bedroom. He asks Josh to let him know if anything happens, and puts a bottle on the doorknob to make sure no one gets in without his knowing about it. Josh takes a bit to sort of give Adia shit about getting in trouble and give her some brotherly dirt on Dylan, and it's all very touching. Then everyone heads off to bed. It's a bit later when Adia wakes up, as someone is sitting next to her on the couch, and it's not Dylan.
Upon looking up, Adia realizes that there's a visitor, and the bottle isn't broken. It's Lucas, who has somehow spirited himself inside Dylan's threshold. He's got a circle around the couch and has essentially pressurized it, so they can't be heard. He starts seducing Adia -- not sexually though, at least not beyond touches (and maybe a kiss, I can't remember now). He asks for her help, explaining that Mary is lost to him and that he needs her, that he can tell she's exactly what he needs. He offers her power and preference over his"kids," and that she could be his consort. It's unfortunate that Adia's as attracted to him as she is, because she can't bring herself to pull away, just as she can't bring herself to accept either.
About this time, Dylan is taken over by a deep chill, but doesn't wake. He then hears breaking glass and wakes up, saying a quiet thank you to Josh, and grabs up his pen as he runs into the living room. There he sees Adia on the couch, snuggled up to Lucas. He sees the circle and stands on the other side of it, twirling his pen in his fingers. He calls to Adia to step across the circle to him. She's slow to answer, because Lucas has been winning social challenges against her and she does have that whole Demon Monkey On Her Back thing going on. She manages to win free of Lucas, though, and steps outside the circle. Lucas accepts with surprisingly good grace considering the circumstances and lets her go. He makes one last offer, but she turns him down. Dylan tells him it's time to leave and Lucas does so, with the parting shot that he should perhaps date more, or otherwise invest in his threshold wards a bit more.
Dylan considers taking a shot at him, but with Adia there and on his own he decides against it. Lucas leaves the apartment, shrugging in good spirits. Not long after that, a thumping starts and heads down the hall toward the apartment. Dylan shuts the door in a hurry and starts planning.
At the same time, Oscar is awoken by a thumping at this back door. Zeke wakes up to something outside the church, seemingly banging hard enough on the doors to make them shake. Uno has someone at his front door, banging or stomping or pounding on the door.And that's where we break.
We resumed with everyone having their own private demon to fight. They were uniformly tall, pushing 8 feet, with short muscular legs, really broad shoulders, squashed faces with huge mouths, really unfortunate and stinky fur all over them, and long, muscular arms that end in claws. Someone asked if they looked like Gossamer from Looney Tunes, and the answer was yes, sort of, but stinkier and scarier. I hadn't really meant that to go that way, but why not? :)
So Oscar came into his kitchen, with the creature pounding on his back door. He was just in his skivvies with a knife when he snuck into his living room and checked his surveillance equipment, showing him what was at his door. As he's checking it out on the video, the door starts giving way. The demon lunges into the house, clearing furniture out of the way with swipes of its claws. Oscar grabs the gun and his keys, not bothering with pants, and runs over to his car, jumps in, and peels out, leaving his monster to rampage through his house as he heads for the church.
Zeke is torn between going out to the demon and staying inside the church, where, so long as he's there, the threshold is high enough that pretty much nothing is getting through (9+). Then he hears screams from outside, though, and realizes he has to go out there. He sneaks out a side entrance and makes his way to the front, pistol in hand, to find the demon attacking a young couple. He calls over and distracts it, pulling the demon away from the injured pair. He fires on the creature, wounding it, and then gets into a battle with it, trading shots and blows.
Uno goes out the back and walks through his side yard to the front, where he confronts the monster (his threshold held too). The demon turns and swings on him, and he swings his sword at the creature. The pair take to exchanging blows, Uno flipping out of the way and then striking back. He ended up slicing the demon largely in half.
The demon beats down Dylan's door and sees Adia there on the couch, looking scared. What it doesn't see is Dylan hiding to the side of the door. It also doesn't see the circle mostly completed around the sofa. It charges at Adia, who leaps out of the way and clear of the circle before it gets there. Dylan follows behind and completes the circle, and then charges it with its will and engages in Mental combat with it to keep it in the circle. From there, he calls Danny, and asks her to come help him figure out what to do with a trapped demon. Danny shows up and manages to control the demon, asking who sent it. It answers with one word, "Azael," and falls silent.
Oscar gets to the church in time to see a badly hurt and limping Zeke fighting off a bleeding demon on his own. From his car, Oscar grabs his gun and fires at the creature. He hits, but doesn't do enough damage to put it down. Another exchange and Zeke's down, except that he calls for Sauriel as he goes unconscious. In response, Zeke glows, getting up from the ground. He shoots again, wounding the creature one more time, but it's the bullet from Oscar's gun that blows its head off this time. The creature falls and dissapates into goo. Zeke gets up and runs into the church to check on Mary and Father Reynolds, but by the time he gets inside, the effect has ended. He collapses as soon as he sees they're safe, falling unconscious. Oscar runs in and asks the father to call 911, which they do.
And that's where we pick up next week!
Okay. So, everyone meets back up after the boys get back from Faerie and decide what to do next. Mary is safely ensconced at the church, at least for the night. People generally decide to go home and get some rest -- Oscar takes off back to his place, Adia goes home with Dylan as no one is willing to let her spend the night at home alone with all this Mickey stuff going on, Zeke decides to post up in the church so he can watch over Mary, Danny gets word from Edinburgh that they want a report, so she goes off to do that (her player was missing for the first session of these two), and Uno rounds up his fae and changeling friends to do a quick spring cleaning on his mom's house (or rather his house when he chooses to stay there) before she comes calling.
Dylan gives Adia the couch and takes off for the bedroom. He asks Josh to let him know if anything happens, and puts a bottle on the doorknob to make sure no one gets in without his knowing about it. Josh takes a bit to sort of give Adia shit about getting in trouble and give her some brotherly dirt on Dylan, and it's all very touching. Then everyone heads off to bed. It's a bit later when Adia wakes up, as someone is sitting next to her on the couch, and it's not Dylan.
Upon looking up, Adia realizes that there's a visitor, and the bottle isn't broken. It's Lucas, who has somehow spirited himself inside Dylan's threshold. He's got a circle around the couch and has essentially pressurized it, so they can't be heard. He starts seducing Adia -- not sexually though, at least not beyond touches (and maybe a kiss, I can't remember now). He asks for her help, explaining that Mary is lost to him and that he needs her, that he can tell she's exactly what he needs. He offers her power and preference over his"kids," and that she could be his consort. It's unfortunate that Adia's as attracted to him as she is, because she can't bring herself to pull away, just as she can't bring herself to accept either.
About this time, Dylan is taken over by a deep chill, but doesn't wake. He then hears breaking glass and wakes up, saying a quiet thank you to Josh, and grabs up his pen as he runs into the living room. There he sees Adia on the couch, snuggled up to Lucas. He sees the circle and stands on the other side of it, twirling his pen in his fingers. He calls to Adia to step across the circle to him. She's slow to answer, because Lucas has been winning social challenges against her and she does have that whole Demon Monkey On Her Back thing going on. She manages to win free of Lucas, though, and steps outside the circle. Lucas accepts with surprisingly good grace considering the circumstances and lets her go. He makes one last offer, but she turns him down. Dylan tells him it's time to leave and Lucas does so, with the parting shot that he should perhaps date more, or otherwise invest in his threshold wards a bit more.
Dylan considers taking a shot at him, but with Adia there and on his own he decides against it. Lucas leaves the apartment, shrugging in good spirits. Not long after that, a thumping starts and heads down the hall toward the apartment. Dylan shuts the door in a hurry and starts planning.
At the same time, Oscar is awoken by a thumping at this back door. Zeke wakes up to something outside the church, seemingly banging hard enough on the doors to make them shake. Uno has someone at his front door, banging or stomping or pounding on the door.And that's where we break.
We resumed with everyone having their own private demon to fight. They were uniformly tall, pushing 8 feet, with short muscular legs, really broad shoulders, squashed faces with huge mouths, really unfortunate and stinky fur all over them, and long, muscular arms that end in claws. Someone asked if they looked like Gossamer from Looney Tunes, and the answer was yes, sort of, but stinkier and scarier. I hadn't really meant that to go that way, but why not? :)
So Oscar came into his kitchen, with the creature pounding on his back door. He was just in his skivvies with a knife when he snuck into his living room and checked his surveillance equipment, showing him what was at his door. As he's checking it out on the video, the door starts giving way. The demon lunges into the house, clearing furniture out of the way with swipes of its claws. Oscar grabs the gun and his keys, not bothering with pants, and runs over to his car, jumps in, and peels out, leaving his monster to rampage through his house as he heads for the church.
Zeke is torn between going out to the demon and staying inside the church, where, so long as he's there, the threshold is high enough that pretty much nothing is getting through (9+). Then he hears screams from outside, though, and realizes he has to go out there. He sneaks out a side entrance and makes his way to the front, pistol in hand, to find the demon attacking a young couple. He calls over and distracts it, pulling the demon away from the injured pair. He fires on the creature, wounding it, and then gets into a battle with it, trading shots and blows.
Uno goes out the back and walks through his side yard to the front, where he confronts the monster (his threshold held too). The demon turns and swings on him, and he swings his sword at the creature. The pair take to exchanging blows, Uno flipping out of the way and then striking back. He ended up slicing the demon largely in half.
The demon beats down Dylan's door and sees Adia there on the couch, looking scared. What it doesn't see is Dylan hiding to the side of the door. It also doesn't see the circle mostly completed around the sofa. It charges at Adia, who leaps out of the way and clear of the circle before it gets there. Dylan follows behind and completes the circle, and then charges it with its will and engages in Mental combat with it to keep it in the circle. From there, he calls Danny, and asks her to come help him figure out what to do with a trapped demon. Danny shows up and manages to control the demon, asking who sent it. It answers with one word, "Azael," and falls silent.
Oscar gets to the church in time to see a badly hurt and limping Zeke fighting off a bleeding demon on his own. From his car, Oscar grabs his gun and fires at the creature. He hits, but doesn't do enough damage to put it down. Another exchange and Zeke's down, except that he calls for Sauriel as he goes unconscious. In response, Zeke glows, getting up from the ground. He shoots again, wounding the creature one more time, but it's the bullet from Oscar's gun that blows its head off this time. The creature falls and dissapates into goo. Zeke gets up and runs into the church to check on Mary and Father Reynolds, but by the time he gets inside, the effect has ended. He collapses as soon as he sees they're safe, falling unconscious. Oscar runs in and asks the father to call 911, which they do.
And that's where we pick up next week!
