Story of the Tabletop Chronicle
From SCMage
This is the full story so far. Information in here is assumed to be known by all player characters whose players were at the game. Additional things may have happened that only certain characters know about.
Game 1 - The Artifact Appears
OOC Date: May 24, 2008
IC Date: May 24-27, 2008
Mages in the area were called to a gathering at the closed-down Temple Club in Old Town. Codex was tasked to gather people and retrieve an artifact that was set to appear in a house in west Lansing. Codex gathered the characters present, including Gifter, Tsuyoshi, Gall, and Ajax. After some reconnaissance and information-gathering, the party set out Monday night to distract the household, sneak into the basement, and bag the item. Unfortunately, plans changed quickly as they discovered another person with active Force magic cast upon them entering the house. They cautiously followed, armed to the teeth (and water bottle). Following the intruder up the stairs, they confronted him as he chased the lady of the house. Gall battered him with his crowbar, and a single shot was fired as Ajax finished the fight, ending with a frightened woman in the hands of Tsuyoshi and a limp body on the ground. Gifter and others cased the house, finding the father and son both mortally wounded, while Codex quietly went back to the basement, searching for the artifact. In the end, the Sentinel, Exodus, was called by Gifter, and he summoned Walker, the Thyrsus on the council, to heal the injured people in the house. The night ended with Exodus taking away the intruder in his SUV and the group going their separate ways.
Experience Awarded
Gifter, Tsuyoshi, Gall, Ajax, Codex: 15
Game 2 - An evening visit
This game was ill-fated, with two people cancelling at the behest of a storm and other things.
OOC Date: June 6, 2008
IC Date: May 27ish, 2008
Codex met with Albertus Magnus to discuss the ring.
Experience Awarded
Codex: 2
Game 3 - Farewell the Major
OOC Date: June 21, 2008
IC Date: May 28-June 9, 2008
Encountered the Major and his minion at a mansion in south Lansing. It was his minion whom the party had encountered and captured in the house, while purloining the ring. After a long deliberation and consulting with councilors, the group decided to disenchant the ring, with Tealeaf and Chelebi doing the actual ritual. They gave the disenchanted ring back to Major after he pledged to leave town, giving the oath Fate-bound. He left town. Quite begrudgingly. Thus began the party's history of pissing off lots of people.
Experience Awarded
Gifter, Gall, Codex: 13
Artemis: 18
Game 4 - Enter the Mansion
OOC Date: June 29, 2008
IC Date: June 11-14
Gifter and Gall meet at Fleetwood and head to the mansion to investigate, as well as for Gifter to vet Gall for entrance into the cabal (unbeknownst to Gall). They find zombies in the wine cellar, as well as a Hallow. They fight them, but Gall had a boring crowbar and Gifter was weaponless, so their efforts were slow. Ajax was called in, and assisted with his rifle, which put an end to the existence of the zombies. However, the gunshots alerted a police officer whom they then finessed into believing there were no gunshots. In the aftermath of zombies, people explored the house more fully, and found an important piece of evidence, a receipt linking the zombies and the Major to Medula. The PCs speak of forming a Cabal, who they want to include and what they want it to be.
Experience Awarded
Gifter, Gall, Codex, Ajax: 8
Game 5 - Minor Acquisitions
OOC Date: July 6, 2008
IC Date: June 16-20
On the 16th, Gifter negotiates the price of the mansion down to $400,000, with the help of some luck. The next day, Codex takes Artemis to a bookstore in Detroit to have her steal a book for him, which she later finds out to be a test to join the cabal. On the 20th, Ajax, Codex, and Gifter go to the house to plan things and where people will sleep.
Experience Awarded
Artemis, Codex, Ajax, Gifter: 7
Game 6 - Live and Learn
OOC Date: July 12, 2008
IC Date: July 1-4, 2008
By now, the mansion has been purchased. Albertus tells Codex of a group of sleepers who will try to summon a demon on the 4th of July. This wouldn't be an issue, except that they seem to have acquired an actual book of magic that was recently taken from the Mysterium library. After some online reconnaissance and scrying, Codex uses Apportation to replace the book with a fake that was altered by Gifter using Matter magic. They notice that on the inside front cover of the magic book it is handwritten, "Hope you have a Majorly good time", evidently a message saying that the Major was behind the sleepers getting it.
Meanwhile, Gall is tasked by Tealeaf to escort the Herald from Grand Rapids from the Consilium border to a hotel room. The Herald is incredibly proper and well-dressed, leading Gall to question Tealeaf's motives in assigning him to this task.
Artemis, Codex, Gall, and Gifter follow the sleepers to the woods near Lake Lansing, using Artemis' falcon familiar to track them. They used magic to make Gall look demonic, and had him Portal in to the summoning circle made by the sleepers. They all got really scared, the sleeper Stacy Smith fainted, and Codex used Mind to put the others to sleep. They liquored up all the sleepers and put alcohol around them and changed their memories just a little bit, to make it seem like they got drunk, fell asleep and dreamt the whole thing. When Gifter used Mage Sight to examine the nature of all the sleepers, he discovered that Stacy was in the middle of an Awakening.
XP Awarded
Artemis, Codex, Gall, Gifter: 10
Game 7 - Meet Medula
OOC Date: July 20, 2008
IC Date: July 5-12
Gifter sends a message to Stacy on MySpace. They meet, he teaches her introduction to magery. He introduces her to Genesis, who will take over training. Went to investigate taxidermist who made "3 heads". He turned out to be a Mysterium mage named Medula who hasn't gone to meetings in a very long time. He offered to give information for cash.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gall, Gifter: 9
Game 8 - Much ado about Medula
OOC Date: August 24, 2008
IC Date: July 16-23
July 16: Gifter has laid down a paper for people to write down things regarding the cabal. Artemis told Gifter that she doesn't want to be in the cabal.
July 18: Codex meets Artemis for lunch to discuss this. Things don't change.
July 19: They gather at 1 PM at the mansion to discuss how to deal with Medula. They talk to Leviticus and Albertus about, and they convene a Consilium trial.
July 21: The Mysterium convenes to eject Medula from the order, and reaffirm all the oaths of the members. One member leaves the order over this.
July 22: Gall meets Tealeaf to discuss his friend CB, and Medula.
July 23: Consilium trial. Medula is sentenced to permanent banishment from the Lansing area.
XP: Artemis, Codex, Gall, Gifter: 10
Game 9 - Hearth and Natural Products
OOC Date: September 14, 2008
IC Date: July 25 - August 30
July 25: Decided on cabal name Hearthfire, based on being non-threatening yet defensive.
Aug 6: Hearthfire is recognized by the Consilium.
Aug 16-17: Gifter learns Geomancy from a Mysterium mage in Ohio, he owes him a small favor.
Aug 22: Codex's apartment is broken into by a drunk neighbor.
Aug 23: DNP surveys mansion property.
Aug 25: Codex and Gifter go to the DNP to ask about the surveyors, find out that they were at the wrong place. DNP surveys for eta radiation.
Aug 27: Gifter meets with Mickey Vallans at X-Cel
Aug 29: They meet Mickey's cabalmate ph34rd1 at Gone Wired. They ask him about technomages. He doesn't know much, but will research for them.
Aug 30: Codex leaves town for adventuring.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gall, Gifter: 7
Game 10 - Killings and Snipings Oh My
OOC: October 5, 2008
IC: August 31 - September 24
Aug 31: Church murder. Tree murder few days before.
Sept 6-7: has supplies delivered to mansion to build wall.
Sept 11: another body found.
Sept 23: Gifter finds Wrath resonance just off the property.
Sept 24: Gifter, Gall, and Ajax get shot at from the woods. They pursue the shooter, who outdrives them into the city.
XP: Ajax: 5
Gall, Gifter: 6
Game 11 - Hunting the Hunter
OOC: October 26, 2008
IC: Sept 25-27
Sept 25: Gall investigates correspondence links, finds the car.
Sept 27: Codex returns from adventuring and is filled in on things. Ajax goes to meet a new Mage. Gall, Codex, and Gifter go to investigate the car (Black Toyota Corolla), but it ends up as a dead end. Later that evening, Gall finds the person who has the gun, and they all head to chase. They find the person to be a banisher, who has gone to Aisa's place. They eventually knock her out (Codex gets shot) and get rid of her car. The banisher is brought back to the mansion for later interrogation.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gall, Gifter: 6
Aisa: 11
Game 12 - Ending the Hunt
OOC:November 2, 2008
IC: Sept 27-30
Sept 27, Continued: The banisher - now known to be Jane Dougherty - is interrogated by Codex. Much information is found out, including that she is after them because someone killed her brother. Gifter nearly kills her, but they instead convene an emergency meeting of the Consilium. Aisa gets to meet them all and be uncomfortable. The Council deems Jane guilty and sentences her to die. Gifter performs the killing ritual.
Sept 30: Another wrath killing is discovered. The regular Tuesday night meeting of the Consilium.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gall, Gifter, Aisa: 6
Game 13 - Who sent her?
OOC: November 9, 2008
IC: Sept 31 - Oct 13
Sept 31: Codex investigates the sympathetic connections to Jane. He finds a link to Taco Bell, which he then partakes in.
Oct 1: Gifter goes to a meeting discussing the wrath killings. Codex investigates a key to a hotel room. Codex and Ajax bring back all of Jane's old things and dispose of the bloody clothes.
Oct 4: Builders start working on the wall.
Oct 5: Gifter makes a nice pie. Codex finds out where the letter of Jane's leads to, a residential house.
Oct 10: Gifter and Codex go to DNP to talk to the secretary, Ericka Smith. A bit of mind diving leads Codex to discover that the letters are coming from a DNP administrator, Mike Green.
Oct 12: Codex puts magnets on cars of people named Mike Green.
Oct 13: Codex scrys a lot, finds nothing interesting. Codex, Ajax, and Gifter invade the DNP office building. Codex steals a lot of information from the scene, Gifter repairs the damage. And then, as they are leaving, they encounter..... (to be continued)
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gifter: 5
Game 14 - Diversified, neutralized
OOC: November 16, 2008
IC: Oct 13-20
Oct 13: They encounter Ben Hastings, wearing a labcoat coming up from the basement area. He checks them out with some prime-y sparklies, and Ajax, Codex, Gifter run off rather than spend too much time talking with him. They get back at around 9 and Codex haxxors until late. He finds out how the DNP had "requisitioned" Jane Dougherty to capture a live sample and had failed them.
Oct 17: Gifter meets with Mickey of the Sandmen.
Oct 19: Ajax, Codex, and Gifter go to Mike Green's house. Gifter gets him to talk... at a separate time.
Oct 20: Gifter meets alone with Mike Green at a public location and they talk a lot. Codex and Ajax listen in on the network. They agree that DNP will not attempt to capture a mage again, and that Green will stay in his current post to try to keep his word.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gifter: 6
Game 15 - BF Egypt
OOC: December 14, 2008
IC: Oct 23 - Nov 5
Oct 23: Codex gets a call from Albertus about investigating some ruins in SW Egypt. He is also asked to have Aisa along for the ride.
Nov 1: Everyone is gathered together, and Codex, Gaul, Ajax, and Aisa travel to Egypt via plane (for Ajax) and portal (for the rest). They meet the good Professor Leonine and his assistants Sterda, a short but sturdy individual, and Lola, an attractive yet somewhat ditsy individual.
Nov 2-4: The crew explores the ancient ruins, learning about the nature of its past through time magic and simple analysis.
Nov 5: They finally make a breakthrough, opening a portal to a different realm. Codex, Gall, Ajax, and Aisa enter the portal, passing through traps and fighting magical defenses in order to discover the treasures within. Unfortunately they are surprised by a necromancer with zombies, a wild man with guns, and, amazingly, Lola. Fighting together with multiple tactics, the crew takes them out, unfortunately killing Lola in the process such that they cannot interrogate her, although they do manage to interrogate one of her companions. When they leave, they find that Sterda and Leonine were killed by Lola and the others.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gifter, Aisa: 5
Game 16 - Funeral, ghost, and deaths
OOC: January 11, 2009
IC: Nov 6-11, 2008
Nov 6: After Leonine's funeral, the crew returns with all the artifacts they found. They inform Gifter of what went on, and Gifter tells them that nothing has gone on since they were gone. Gifter gets a call informing him that a new mage is in town. He returns with this mage so that he can speak to a ghost who has a warning for him.
Nov 11: Consilium Meeting. Gall goes through an Adamantine Arrow rite while the rest of the cabal watches. Tea Leaf knocks Gall out and punches a hand into his chest, and the onlookers react with knocking Tea Leaf out as well. Gall and Tea Leaf are killed in the process, and everyone discovers that the reason for his traitorous acts is the magical ring that they thought had been dispelled long ago. He had kept it and it had corrupted him.
R.I.P. Gall
XP: Lone Wolf: 10
Ajax, Codex, Gifter, Aisa, Gall: 5
Game 17 - A child is born
OOC: January 25, 2009
IC: Nov 17 - Dec 15, 2008
Nov 17: The service for Gall is held. The rest of the cabal says some words about him and his passing.
Nov 18: Concillium Meeting. Exodus becomes the head of the Obrimos, while Ajax takes his spot as Sentinel.
Nov 25: Aisa calls Ajax.
Nov 28: Aisa stops at the Cabal home. She makes small talk with Ajax and Codex. Gifter comes back and they talk about Aisa's news about severe injuries at the school that she works at.
End of Nov Through Early December: Gifter and Aisa discover some strange things around the school, with magic becoming vulgar. Codex investigates it and learns about the "nativity" - children who have been born immaculately due to abyssal sources. They have tattered souls, which Gifter then tries to find.
Dec 13: Concillium Meeting. Codex presents his findings about the children. They discuss methods of "fixing" the children with the tattered souls. No good solution is found.
Dec 14: Gifter, Codex, and Albertus meet and discuss the soul jar. Albertus discovers that the soul is of an Awakened human, and would not be fit to put in a child.
Dec 15: Choir concert night! Codex, Ajax, and Gifter go to the choir concert. They find the student with the tattered soul and make a plan!
XP: Ajax, Codex, Aisa, Gifter: 5
Game 18 - Child and a book
OOC: February 8, 2009
IC: Dec 16-19
Dec 16: Aisa falls down the stairs, goes to the hospital, and is no longer available to help with the plan. Codex and Gifter come up with an alternate plan involving stealing the void-child out of its bedroom in the middle of the night.
Dec 17: Codex and Lone Wolf meet at Beaners. Codex receives a book that he must figure out the owner of.
Dec 18: Codex and Ajax meet and recon at the house of the voidchild. Codex leaves a marker in the child's bedroom such that he can teleport back. Gifter and Lone Wolf talk and discuss trapping the soul of a dying person to implant in the child. Lone Wolf takes the soul jar and steals the soul of a dying person at the hospital. Gifter takes the soul jar and returns with it. Codex talks with Albertus about the soul-switching plans.
Dec 19: 1 AM. Codex, Ajax, Gifter, Lone Wolf, and Albertus meet at an empty car factory. Codex and Ajax portal to the child's bedroom, keep him sleeping, and drag the boy back to the factory with them. Albertus then switches the soul with the one in the soul box, and Codex and Ajax return the boy. Later that day, at 5:30, Codex scrys on the book he was given. He sees a bedroom without windows with a person sleeping in it, seemingly in a basement room. He finds the spot where the person is. At 7:30 he meets up with Lone Wolf and gives the address over. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they can use the soulstones they have to bind them into a Demesne.
XP: Ajax, Codex, Gifter, Lone Wolf: 5
Game 19 - Curfew, desmesne, wrath
OOC: March 1, 2009
IC: Dec 20-26, 2008
Dec 20-22ish: Lone Wolf and ph3r3d1 investigate the house that the book led them to.
Dec 23: Two more murders discovered. Two people in the same room in a church. Citywide curfew announced after 8pm. Tuesday night's Concilium meeting. Gifter gives out gifts to just about everyone there. Mickey Valens announces a $100,000 reward for whoever solves the murders and has the curfew lifted.
Dec 24: Codex gathers information on the similarities between the murders, as well as the timeframe for the deaths. Gifter and Aisa go to investigate the latest murders. They discover that the murderer is a woman punishing them for their sins.
Dec 25: Gifter finishes constructing the domain in the Mansion from the soulstones that were acquired. The basement floor level is now a domain, with Codex's area more Mastigos-aligned, and the hallow area is more Obrimos-aligned. They discover that the woman is named Beth Page and where she lives, and that she killed a priest (in self-defense) five years ago.
Dec 26: Early that morning, Gifter and Codex investigate Beth Page's house. They don't find anything incriminating, but Codex leaves a marker in the basement in case he needs to come back. Lone Wolf investigates the Michigan Historical Museum.
XP: Codex, Gifter, Aisa, Lone Wolf: 5
Game 20 - End of the Ghost-Killer
OOC: March 7, 2009
IC: Dec 27, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009
Dec 27: Gifter and Codex go to the coffee shop where Beth works. Codex dives in her mind and finds that she has no memory of the time when the murders are being committed. He follows this up with a trip to where her boyfriend Frank works, and finds that he has no knowledge of the murders either.
Dec 28: Codex and Ajax head to Starbucks to make sure Beth is still there. She is, so they head back to the house to create a portal to Beth's basement. Ajax makes them invisible, while Codex attaches a marker to Beth's bedroom's light fixture. She breaks up with her boyfriend, then cries and asks an invisible entity (god?) for forgiveness. Lone Wolf stakes out the Museum during this time.
Dec 30: Tuesday morning mass. Codex goes to investigate the priest. He doesn't know anything about her killings, but is concerned because she is a bit neurotic. Dead end indeed.
Dec 31: Codex calls Lone Wolf and sets up dinner for the next day.
Jan 1: Lone Wolf comes over for dinner and they discuss what has been going on. Codex scrys on Beth's place, and sees what they find out to be as two vampires, searching her room. They look around but take nothing. Codex, Gifter, and Lone Wolf teleport in breifly, but find no ghosts nor magical effects. Sensing movement outside the room, they teleport back. Codex investigates the murder of the priest 5 years ago, while Lone Wolf and Gifter go to the coffee shop where Beth works. Lone Wolf chats with a ghost who is found hanging around Beth. Lone Wolf chats with Albertus about how one can get rid of a ghost.
Jan 3: They come up with a plan to remove the ghost from the woman.
Jan 4: 2 AM: They abduct Beth and Gifter banishes the ghost. They return Beth to her place unharmed.
XP: Codex, Gifter, Ajax, Lone Wolf: 6
Game 21 - Armistice
OOC: March 21, 2009
IC: Jan 9-12
Jan 9: Lone Wolf spies on the vampires in the museum and overhears that someone will be following him. The vampire Prince corners Lone Wolf, smashes his car, and clumsily mindwipes him. Lone Wolf is confused for a while, then gets fixed by Leviticus. Lone Wolf meets with Victoria, a representative of the vampires, in Theio's, at 4:30am Jan 11-12. After a meeting with the Consilium and those meetings, Lone Wolf and Victoria, and by proxy the mages and vampires of Lansing, agree to stay away from each other, and set up a "red phone" link between the heads of the sides, and a liaison in the form of Victoria and Lone Wolf.
XP: Ajax: 6
Gifter, Lone Wolf: 7
Game 22 - Twisting Gated Maze
OOC: April 19, 2009
IC: Jan 27 - Feb 1
Jan 27, Consilium meeting Jan 31-Feb 1 - Group investigates spatial disturbances in gated community north of Lansing (King Arthur MHP, map N5). They discover that it being affected by a space- and time-warping twisting maze. Gifter researches the effect and learns that to banish the maze one must walk the pathways in the original, unperturbed way. They do this the next day, encountering some abyssal creatures they destroyed by mundane means.
XP: Ajax, Gifter, Lone Wolf: 6
Aisa: 5
Game 23 - Church of the Unholy Spirit - Part 1
OOC: May 24, 2009
IC: Feb 7-8
Feb 7: Gifter was mall-walking and noticed that everybody was being... normal, not influenced by any spirits. Discovering no spirits in the area, he calls in Aisa. She verifies it and finds that the spirits are fleeing from southern Okemos, a church there. They investigate, finding that a Church was burned down by a Banisher 70 years ago and rebuilding it caused the reawakening of an abyssal spirit that is corrupting other spirits. They tracked down the descendents of the Banisher and found his secret diary.
XP: Aisa: 5
Gifter: 4
Game 24 - Church of the Unholy Part 2; Attacked!
OOC: May 31, 2009 IC: Feb 9 - Mar 3
Feb 9: Aisa, Gifter, and Walker talk to a railroad spirit at the train station. This spirit fought against the corrupter spirit 70 years ago and told them that the spirit's weakness is that it will be bound if a Sleeper willingly fuses with it. Gifter convinces the grandson of the arsonist to do this. The Consilium meets and a posse of mages is assembled to distract/fight the spirit in Shadow and Twilight to allow the Sleeper to enter the church. Lone Wolf enlists the help of a nearby ghost as well. They succeed. In other news, the "serial killer" confessed and was arrested, according to the media. This is definitely not the actual killer.
March 3: There is an attack on the sanctum of Chelebi and Walker. Walker is killed. They investigate and find that it was 2 vampires and one normal who attacked, using an "Eta Suppressor Mk II" to suppress spellcasting in the area. Aisa memorizes their faces and the license plate of the car they were in. The next day, Gifter meets with Mike Green, the DNP security chief, and he agrees to find out who stole their device, and Gifter agrees to return it, at least pieces of it.
XP: Aisa, Ajax, Lone Wolf: 9
Gifter: 10
Game 25 - Planning the counter, the Ring concludes...
OOC: June 7, 2009 IC: March 4
Consilium meeting discussing how to deal with the vampire attack. Decided to use diplomatic option to demand the deaths of the three involved, if it doesn't happen, then kill them ourselves. The newest mage in town steals the ring and portals out of the room. The group kills him, but loses the ring as it is shunted forward in time by some Turkish Seer sleepwalkers. Two of those sleepwalkers were killed, one was still alive and taken prisoner.
A new wartime Councilor is elected: Gifter! He is surprised.
XP: Ajax 7, Codex 7, Gifter 8, Lone Wolf 8
Game 26 - Hunting
OOC: June 21, 2009 IC: March 8-13
They track one of the two men who broke into DNP and stole the magic-suppressing device to his home, in a trailer park in west Lansing. Codex goes there just in time to watch the man get blown up in a car bomb and get suspected by the police for it. Since Codex had healed his wounds, Gifter kindly put the wounds back into him, almost killing him. After Codex is released from the hospital and questioned by the police, they attempt to find the other man. They track him to a house, disguised as Mormons where they find John Guthrie, the man who was holding the pistol in the attack on Walker. John turns out to be a vampire, since he was seen sucking blood and having fangs. They also were followed several times in a car.
Aisa tracks the bomber using Time magic. At one point, she needed to get past the police line and into the trailer to continue tracking, and she does so through methods beknownst only to her.
Gifter gets a tip that there is something supernatural brewing at the church where they fettered the liberator spirit.
XP: Aisa 5, Codex 4, Gifter 5
Game 27 - Revelations and Shenanigans
OOC: July 25, 2009 IC: ???
They attempt to investigate this business at the church, at the suggestion of Leviticus. After Codex puts the guard to sleep and he collapses, the police show up, unusually quickly. Gifter and Codex attempt to get out of the situation. Lone Wolf arrives on the scene and promptly dies (faking death). This resolves the situation, as an ambulance arrives and takes Lone Wolf to the hospital. When Lone Wolf wakes up, he creates a portal to Twilight and exits, leaving Gifter to cover up for his disappearance with hysterics. Everyone gets a sound talking-to, Codex reluctantly agrees to guide Lone Wolf, and Lone Wolf reluctantly agrees to be guided. They still need to make certain that the Lex Magicka wasn't broken by erasing any security tapes at the hospital.
At some point before this, Codex and Gifter get into the house of John Guthrie, where Codex mindprobes the second bomber and makes a surprising discovery as to who is behind the leak of the magic-suppressing device.
XP: Codex 4, Gifter 4+1, Lone Wolf 5
Game 28 -
OOC: August 2, 2009 IC: Sunday-Thursday
They set up a meeting with the vampires to decide the ...
XP: Aisa, Ajax, Codex, Gifter, Lone Wolf
