2022-01-24

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INCIDENT REPORT

Gimme Back My Bullets...

• Aradia exits the Théâtre de Douleur following the hasty assembly of the Anarch Council. She steps across the street to use the payphone, calling Yuki at the Barnard College chantry. She plans to introduce Josi and Emily to the computer club there, but wanted prior authorization — which is granted.

• Before heading back into the theatre, Aradia notices a pale green sedan pull away from its parking spot just up the block. It has a New York license plate, beginning with the sequence 2HL-.

• Josi calls Emily, using the mobile telephone she acquired from Rasmodius. Emily is stoked to go to the Barnard College computer club, and agrees to meet the coterie on campus. Before hanging up, she tells Josi that she loves her.

• Josi and Justine head into Manhattan in the "morgue mobile" while chatting about Hebrew iconography and the significant of numbers. Justine muses that perhaps they should look into the numerological significance of the number 98, even beyond gematria.

• Lina and Erik accompany Aradia in her hotrod. Erik is mouthing along to "Gimme Back My Bullets" when Aradia makes it weird by comments about his bare chest. Erik steps out at a donut shop in Brooklyn, transforms into an owl, and flies away in Aradia's rearview mirror.

Weird Science...

• Emily is awaiting the group at Barnard College. She, Josi, and Lina meet up with Yuki at the computer club. Emily and Yuki seem to get on famously, chatting excitedly about however-many-baud-modems and whatnot. Yuki seems to be especially keen on waxing philosophy, claiming that the universe is nothing but one big operating system — an operating system that can be hacked and altered, so long as you understand the code. She lights up talking about the "God-Machine" and the coming singularity. She's just concerned that the Order of Reason might beat her to it.

• Josi and Lina are trying to follow along, but neither have much of a grasp on this level of technobabble. In fact, Josi is so far removed from her comfort zone that she lashes out — grabbing something from the shelve and smashing it upon the floor. Emily is beyond embarrassed, and Josi excuses herself, leaving the room with Lina in tow — but not before slipping Algernon into Emily's pocket. Yuki seems unmoved however, and merely comments that those with "dead Avatars" can't help it. She goes on to state that she now has an excuse to build her "foci" anew.

• In the hall, Josi asks Lina about her criminal leanings, and invites her to help plan the heist of Prince Cortés' painting for the Aranta Shadur. Lina's confident that there hasn't been a safe made that she can't crack, or a train too fast for her to board.

Come to the Sabbath...

• Aradia and Justine head into the Sigma Delta Tau (ΣΔΤ) sorority house. On their way, the two chat about their occult leanings and experiences. Aradia mentions that High Regent Sturbridge had previously tutored under Aleister Crowley himself. Justine is surprised, because she too had a passing mentorship with Crowley, albeit at the end of his life.

• Entering the great hall, Aradia and Justine are greeted by a ritual scene. Encircled, arms locked, are perhaps fifteen women. They all chant in unison, their lips moving with an unfamiliar language. Within the circle of bodies, scrawled upon the floor, is a red sigil. It's part pentagram, but so much more. The intricacies belie smaller glyphs and sigils embedded into the design, each near a candle or piece of gore — a blood heart, a pair of eyeballs, etc. One symbol stands out however... the Leviathan! The very same design that was inscribed upon Josi's arm. Though the trappings around it here seem to hint at a different purpose. Perhaps a spell of binding?
• Standing at the edge of the ceremony is Aisling herself, reading from a heavy tome, leading the chant. She makes eye contact with Aradia, and motions for her to join. Aradia steps into the circle.

• Justine stays back, watching the ceremony from the edges of the room. Using her supernatural senses, she can see the the raw magic pulsing through the lines and shapes of the sigil. More so, it seems to bee drawing this power from the encircled bodies.

• As the figures beside Aradia break arms to make room, Justine senses a howling wind in the aether. The candlelit room grows somehow darker in through her cunning sight, filled with tenebrous intent. In the spaces between worlds, a single bell rings out. Then, without warning, Aradia's arms have closed the circle back. The supernal gust halts, as the invocation continues. It eventually reaches a crescendo with a flick of Aisling's athame, spilling her own vitae to feed the spell.

Welcome, Princes of Hell...

• Moving away from the ceremony of the great hall, Aisling leads Aradia and Lina to her private study / office. Aisling seems perturbed, and lets Aradia know in no unclear terms that her presence is expected through this ritual — until Halley's Comet has passed by the planet. She reiterates that those who benefit from membership are expected to give back equally to the chantry.

• Justine is excused to Aisling's small foyer / private library while her and Aradia speak in private.

THE CONCLAVE

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