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So, when last we left our intrepid adventurers two weeks prior, they'd determined that the Loyola library was as good a place as any to start. They wanted to talk to the librarian (who was inconveniently not at his post at midnight during the summer, go figure) but weren't content to wait until the next day. It was therefore arranged that they should find a way in on their own. Why wasn't entirely communicated, but they agreed on the general plan regardless. After finishing talking to Molly, Adia and Zeke traveled over to meet Dylan, Morris, and Danny at the library. Uno'd already slipped through the Ways to get there, beating everyone else to the scene.
Once there, the group found themselves momentarily nonplussed as to how to gain entry to the facility, not being accustomed to breaking and entering on a large scale (or else too long out of college themselves). Morris, however, took the bull by the horns and called campus security, explaining that Professor Shelby needed access to the building, and could someone come down and let him in, please. The guard's response (Do you know what time it is?) did not indicate that he bought this tale, but then Morris put Dylan on the line, who confirmed his story. It being a slow night, they sent a car down to help the professor out.
Once security was on its way, Adia, Zeke, and Uno decided to slip around the back side of the library and make themselves scarce, since they weren't really part of the cover story. They decided to try to find another way in, just in case. While they were back there, Uno spotted a light moving through the third floor of the new, all glass, section of the building. He and the other two decided to pursue entry with new vigor, and moved around until they found the oldest part of the library. Rather than glass or sheer, inconveniently tall brick towers, here the walls were that vaguely academic gothic style, meaning with all sorts of handholds and windows and whatnot. Aidia used her climbing skills to get up to the first window that opened, on the second floor, and get inside from there. While Uno and Zeke waited impatiently, she tried talking to a ghost and examining stairwells before letting in her friends. Once they get into the stairwell, they hear scuffling sounds from above, followed by a scream from the other end of the building.
To jump back, Morris and Dylan and Danny talk Charlie, the security guard, into letting them in. His partner stays outside while they go in so the professor can get his books. That said, Zeke texts Morris to let him know about the light they see up above. Morris takes charge of the situation, convinces Charlie to go back to the car and let him handle it, and the three of them proceed upstairs. Once there, they see a dark figure at the end of the hall. It spots them and tries to run, but Danny throws up a wall of force in its path. Morris and Dylan investigate, with Danny lagging behind due to her bum leg. Morris pulls a gun and she screams (catching up to the previous timeline) and they find out it's a young woman with a flashlight. She tells them she was there on a bet. They don't believe her, so then she admits she's there to prove she's cool enough so she can get into this rave. She claims 23, but Dylan pegs her for 19 at best. They decide to let her go before security gets back, and she high-tails it off for the far end of the library, where the others are.
Zeke and Adia join the others, while Uno stays behind to investigate the scuffling sounds. As it turns out, the old part of the library is 3 stories high. There's a 4th landing in this stairwell, though, with a locked door at the top. Uno goes up but can't get the door unlocked. In the meantime, the security guards come back, this time Charlie and his partner. Morris takes charge of them and they go off to check the building together, getting them safely out of the way. Dylan takes this opportunity to do a divination again with the Damned Book, and ends up figuring out that this is the right place, although he's still slightly off -- maybe the old part of the library is closest. The girl is related to the situation somehow, but not integral to it. They all set off to find the right place, then.
In the searching, they find their way back to that stairwell. Zeke popped the lock on the 4th floor door, and they found themselves in an old, mostly abandoned room littered with vending machine wrappers, soda and alcohol bottles, and used condoms. The room had another door, thogh, this one fastened with a hasp and padlock. Uno cleaved it with his sword and they went through, discovering that it led out into a sort of flat clear space on the roof, with a big air conditioning unit and a sort of short railing around the edges. They found some candles that had burned out, but not a lot of other stuff -- some smudges on the asphalt like graffiti that had been drawn on and mostly erased, but that's it. Danny decided to whip out the Sight and have a look around, and what she saw was a lot of energy currents swirling and eddying, but that on the decking there seemed to be faint lines of power accruing along the drawn, scuffed out lines. The determined that this was a summoning circle, and that someone was trying to summon something a bit at a time -- not full practitioners, evidently, and possibly not even serious magic users at all. They argued for a while what to do, as one of the circles was still intact and there was nothing in it. They decided to leave it for now, go do some research and find the girl and see what they can learn about what's really going on.
Once there, the group found themselves momentarily nonplussed as to how to gain entry to the facility, not being accustomed to breaking and entering on a large scale (or else too long out of college themselves). Morris, however, took the bull by the horns and called campus security, explaining that Professor Shelby needed access to the building, and could someone come down and let him in, please. The guard's response (Do you know what time it is?) did not indicate that he bought this tale, but then Morris put Dylan on the line, who confirmed his story. It being a slow night, they sent a car down to help the professor out.
Once security was on its way, Adia, Zeke, and Uno decided to slip around the back side of the library and make themselves scarce, since they weren't really part of the cover story. They decided to try to find another way in, just in case. While they were back there, Uno spotted a light moving through the third floor of the new, all glass, section of the building. He and the other two decided to pursue entry with new vigor, and moved around until they found the oldest part of the library. Rather than glass or sheer, inconveniently tall brick towers, here the walls were that vaguely academic gothic style, meaning with all sorts of handholds and windows and whatnot. Aidia used her climbing skills to get up to the first window that opened, on the second floor, and get inside from there. While Uno and Zeke waited impatiently, she tried talking to a ghost and examining stairwells before letting in her friends. Once they get into the stairwell, they hear scuffling sounds from above, followed by a scream from the other end of the building.
To jump back, Morris and Dylan and Danny talk Charlie, the security guard, into letting them in. His partner stays outside while they go in so the professor can get his books. That said, Zeke texts Morris to let him know about the light they see up above. Morris takes charge of the situation, convinces Charlie to go back to the car and let him handle it, and the three of them proceed upstairs. Once there, they see a dark figure at the end of the hall. It spots them and tries to run, but Danny throws up a wall of force in its path. Morris and Dylan investigate, with Danny lagging behind due to her bum leg. Morris pulls a gun and she screams (catching up to the previous timeline) and they find out it's a young woman with a flashlight. She tells them she was there on a bet. They don't believe her, so then she admits she's there to prove she's cool enough so she can get into this rave. She claims 23, but Dylan pegs her for 19 at best. They decide to let her go before security gets back, and she high-tails it off for the far end of the library, where the others are.
Zeke and Adia join the others, while Uno stays behind to investigate the scuffling sounds. As it turns out, the old part of the library is 3 stories high. There's a 4th landing in this stairwell, though, with a locked door at the top. Uno goes up but can't get the door unlocked. In the meantime, the security guards come back, this time Charlie and his partner. Morris takes charge of them and they go off to check the building together, getting them safely out of the way. Dylan takes this opportunity to do a divination again with the Damned Book, and ends up figuring out that this is the right place, although he's still slightly off -- maybe the old part of the library is closest. The girl is related to the situation somehow, but not integral to it. They all set off to find the right place, then.
In the searching, they find their way back to that stairwell. Zeke popped the lock on the 4th floor door, and they found themselves in an old, mostly abandoned room littered with vending machine wrappers, soda and alcohol bottles, and used condoms. The room had another door, thogh, this one fastened with a hasp and padlock. Uno cleaved it with his sword and they went through, discovering that it led out into a sort of flat clear space on the roof, with a big air conditioning unit and a sort of short railing around the edges. They found some candles that had burned out, but not a lot of other stuff -- some smudges on the asphalt like graffiti that had been drawn on and mostly erased, but that's it. Danny decided to whip out the Sight and have a look around, and what she saw was a lot of energy currents swirling and eddying, but that on the decking there seemed to be faint lines of power accruing along the drawn, scuffed out lines. The determined that this was a summoning circle, and that someone was trying to summon something a bit at a time -- not full practitioners, evidently, and possibly not even serious magic users at all. They argued for a while what to do, as one of the circles was still intact and there was nothing in it. They decided to leave it for now, go do some research and find the girl and see what they can learn about what's really going on.
