Island City PBP actual gameplay

[khyron1144]

The recruitment thread is here:
http://thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?53966.0

So far we've got one fairly definite yes.

[spoiler=Robert Morgan]Name- Robert Morgan
Player- Jerod Rinkus
Chronicle- Island City
Nature- Judge
Demeanor- Fanatic
Agency- NSA Domestic Intelligence Bureau, Burying Men
Rank- 3
Codename- Agent Clear
Concept- Super Agent

Str 3 Dex 3 Sta 3
Cha 2 Man 2 App 2
Per 3 Int 2 Wit 2

Alertness 2, Athletics 1, Brawl 1, Dodge 1, Intimidation 2
Drive 1, Firearms 2, Melee 2, Repair 1, Security 2, Stealth 2, Survival 1
Computer 1, Covert Culture 1, Investigation 2, Linguistics 1, Occult 2

Allies 3, Influence 2, Resources 3, Equipment 2, Rank 3 Digger's Rank 2

Merits- Agency Insider 3 (PT), Top Secret Access 2 (PT), Iron Will 4 (HH), Clear Sighted 3 (HH), License to Kill 2 (PT) Poison Blood, Fist of God

Willpower- 10

Gear & Possessions- SigSauer P226 9mm automatic (diff 7, dam 4, rng 20, rate 4, clip 15, jacket), NSA badge, cell phone, 35mm camera, hand cuffs, police radio, iMac desktop, NSA restricted files (rank 2)[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Stone]
Name- William Stone
Player- Daniel Clark
Chronicle- Island City
Nature- Architect
Demeanor- Caregiver
Convention- Void Engineers/Orphan
Methodology- Neutralization Specialist Corps
Eidolon Essence- Dynamic
Concept- Psionics Researcher

Str 2 Dex 3 Sta 4 (Tough as Nails)
Cha 2 Man 4 App 3
Per 4 Int 5 (Creative) Wits 3

Alertness 2, Awareness 3, Brawl 1, Dodge 1, Subterfuge 1
Crafts 1, Firearms 3, First Aid 1, Hypertech 4 (Nanotech), Meditation 2, Melee 1, Microgravity Operations 1, Pilot 3, Stealth 2, Technology 3,
Academics 1, Computer 3, Cosmology 2,, Enigmas 1, Investigation 2, Law 1, Linguistics 3, Lore (Kindred) 1, Lore (Awakened) 1, Lore (Technocracy) 2, Lore (Void Engineer) 1, Medicine 4, Occult 3, Psionics 2, RD Data 1, Science 3, Subdimensions 3,Technocratic Procedure 1, Temporal Mechanics 1, Xenobiology 1

Contacts 3, Cloaking(Arcane) 2, Destiny 1, Device 3, Genius (Avatar) 4, Influence 2, Library 1, Patron 1, Requisitions (very good standing, diff 6) 5, Resources 3,

Enlightenment (Arete) (Countermagic) 5

Resonance- Creative (Dynamic)-1 Structured (Static)-1

Spheres- Correspondence 1, Forces 3, Mind 3, Dimensional Science 3, Life 3, Prime 3, Spirit 1, Matter 1, Entropy 1, Time 1

Primary Apparaum- Forces & Mind- Psionic Powers, Life- Medical Procedures, Correspondence- GPS and Satellites, Dimensional Science- electromagnetic waves, Prime- electricity, Entropy- Statistics, Time- Chronograph, Spirit- bastardized hermetic rites, Matter- chemistry

Rotes Known- Gutter View(correspondence), Percieve Forces, Mind Empowerment, Empathic Projection, Social Conditioning, Kinetic Push, Telekinesis, Kinetic Barrier, View Subdimension, Quantum Interface Shield, Breach Gauntlet, See Spirit, Prayer of Healing Revealation, Tough Skin, Better Body, Heal other, Heal Self, Non Descript, Adjust Minor Mental Abnormalities, Detect Mental Abnormalities, Divert Primal Force, Tap Node, Analyze Substance, Targeting Computation, Detect Temporal Abnormalities,

Merits- Concentration, Dual Traditions (Orphan), Jack of All Trades, Unaging, Master of Red Tape, Licence to: Operate Military Vehicles, Practice Medicine, Carry Concealed Weapon (North America), Inner Knight: Inner Knight (5 point merit)
For a scene you can draw on 5 extra willpower points or manifest skills you were never taught as if you had Dream 5 but without entering a trance. The reason? You have dreams of a past life, a heroic crusader whose wisdom you can call upon for help and guidance, you draw power from you dreams.
NOTE: This merit reduces Permanent Banality by 2, making you more susceptible to Fae magic when you call upon you Dream Self for help.

Flaws- Primal Marks (strange look/glow to eyes)

Willpower 8

Device: Styx Armor- + 4 dice soak, can use stamina to soak lethal and aggravated damage.

Gear- Glock 17c (diff 6, damage 4, range 22, rate 4, clip 17+1, conceal pocket)
Steyr Aug, Scope and Laser Sight (diff 7, damage 7, range 200, rate 3/ full auto, clip 30, conceal trenchcoat)
PDA, Cellphone with Bluetooth, 69 Prime Charged 9mm rounds, 25km Communicator Radio, Military ID (CPT), Psionic Foci (multifaced crystal rodk, Moebius strip), Protocol Manual, Rowan Ring, Paladin Sedan, Paramedic Bag, Laptop Computer with Trinary Upgrades and Cellular Internet, $131,395 in various bank accounts.

Military Rank, Captain, US Airforce.

Social Conditioning Level- 4
Security Access - 9
[/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler= Beginning of Prelude For Robert Morgan]You have just returned to Fort George Mead after a difficult field assignment when your boss calls you into his office.

"You did excellent work there Agent Morgan.  We had no idea The Girl Scouts was so full of subversives.  We have a new assignment for you."

He picks up a file folder off his desk and hands it to you.  Inside are some documents, mostly transcripts of intercepted phone calls.  The words, The Diggers, seem to crop up frequently.  There are also some photographs of people, fairly plain looking, many of them in trench coats, and some of them have a lapel pin that looks like a shovel.

"We've known of them for years.  We don't know too much about who or what they are.  They seem to be a legal, above-ground secret society along the lines of The Masons, but there's some things that strike us as odd.  For example, the NSA is big.  Thousands of people, at least, work for us.  As far as we can find out, none of them are Diggers.

"That rather defies the odds.  In an organization this big, there ought to be at least one.  Somewhere in the NSA, there's a member of The Temple of Set, that we know about, for God's sake, and they're far smaller and more secretive than The Diggers.

"There's also the fact that The Diggers mostly pop up on our radar when we're already working a weird shit case.  Cults, blood-drinking, people acting like ravening beasts, mass hallucinations, allegations of demonic possession.  You know, weird shit.  Sometimes a subject of an investigation disappears after The Diggers get tangled up in the case.

"I want you to visit their Georgetown Chapterhouse and attempt to infiltrate this organization."
[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=Prelude for Morgan][ic=Morgan]I'd be only too happy to serve my country, sir.[/ic]

[spoiler=I think about it...]I know there are secrets buried deep. Deeper than I've ever been. In my line of work you encounter some real oddballs. There was this guy I was watching for a former superior of mine. He was one of those blood drinking types. Not a cultist, though. He just hung around nightclubs and picked off waitresses. The staff didn't even seem to mind, either. You can believe they had a high turnover rate there. I'd have taken him out, but the higher-ups nixed that operation. Something about informants...[/spoiler]

[ic=Morgan]Can I start right away?[/ic][/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=continuation of Prelude]You can indeed.

The address given for the Digger Chapterhouse turns out to be in a nice residential neighborhood in Georgetown.  Not quite, the high rent district, but close.

The building itself looks to be a house, fairly large and well-maintained on the exterior, but not what anyone would call a mansion.  There's a sign in the front yard that simply, reads Diggers.[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=Arrival at the chapter house.]I step up to the door, calmly. I've been in this sort of situation before. No big deal. Good thing I brought all civilian clothes this assignment. I must remember to rent a room, locally, before the end of the day. I knock.[/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=the door opens]The door is opened by a man in immaculately-tailored suit.  His hair is gray, but all there.  You'd guess his age to be about fiftyish.

"Hello.  Welcome to The Diggers.  I am Archivist Lucien."  He says this all in an even tone with a slight trace of an English accent.

"To me, you look like a spook, who is trying to not look like a spook.  Since you did not flash a badge or other agency identification immediately when I opened the door, you are probably from an organization more clandestine than the FBI."  This is as devoid of emotional inflection as his introduction.

"Please don't deny it, or confirm it, for that matter.  Please do come in and have a cup of tea."  He steps back from the door and gestures for you to follow him in.[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=just before tea time][ic=Morgan]I'd love a cup of tea.[/ic]

I step into the house. Lucien's dress is a bit immaculate for my tastes. It's a bit immaculate for most people's tastes, actually. Why dress so formally for a club chapter house? I've never known an archivist to dress up for work. Is this a standard among Digger fashion, or is he the exception that proves the rule? I am very interested to know how this man takes his tea...[/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=tea time]You are led down a short entrance hallway to what was probably the living room of the house before its conversion to its current use.  There are a number of comfortable armchairs and a couple of sofas.  The upholstery is all a rich, dark brown leather.  On one wall is a fireplace, not currently lit.

He leads you over to one of the armchairs.  It is positioned at comfortable conversation distance from another with a small, round end-table between them.  There is a silvery tea service on the end table.  There's a small pot of tea, a sugar bowl, a small pitcher of milk, a sliced lemon, and two cups with saucers.

"I hope Lapsang Oochong suits you."  He takes his tea with lemon, no sugar, no milk.

"Let me tell you a little bit about me.  I'm told it puts people at their ease to do so.  I dress like this every day.  I own eight identical suits.  The eighth is what I wear on the day I take the other seven to the dry-cleaners.

"Diggers Central in London is quite glad to allow me to expense my dry-cleaning in exchange for the services I provide.  Some of them say I am a psychic of a type previously unknown to them.  The explanation that I and some other cool-headed rationalists prefer is that I am a sort of genius at pattern recognition.  It's not that I don't believe in psychic phenomena.  I have seen enough to convince me completely.  It's simply not always necessary to invoke such terminology.

"Whatever the case, I get hunches.  They pay off with alarming frequency.  Today, I had an impression that I should be ready for a second person for tea time.

"What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen in your work as a spook, or whatever it is you do that requires you to try to look so normal when visiting a secret society of occultists?"[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=the weirdest thing][ic=Morgan]Well, I was keeping surveillance on a fellow who preferred the company of corpses at one point. He was also fond of human blood. Although, by brief encounter with a shark-human hybrid on Oahu was a bit disconcerting.[/ic]
I rather like this man. I do however, suspect that there is more to this club than he's let on thus far.[/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=a bit more about The Diggers]"Oh my, a probable vampire and a human-shark hybrid.  You have seen a lot in your time.

"You work for an agency of some sort, one concerned with protecting the security of your home nation, no doubt.  Well, we are a sort of agency too.  Concerned with the security of the whole human race regardless of national boundaries.

"You have already touched the edges of the unseen world around you.  Let me be blunt: vampires exist; werewolves and an assortment of other shapechangers are quite real; ghosts are real, but rarely a threat, except for a few poltergiests, possessors, and walls-bleeding-types; some of those who claim to be wizards, witches, shamans, or modern day Druids have the power to back it up; and the fae folk are still with us although they have had to adapt to the times.

"Our mission is twofold:  gather information on the supernatural world, and when and where necessary eliminate supernatural threats.

"Would you like a tour fo our chapterhouse?"[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=Tour]What secrets could he be hiding? What mysteries could I become involved in? What fun times ahead!
[ic=Morgan]Of course I would. Lead on![/ic][/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=The Tour]"The room we are in is the common room.  This is where most informal discussions take place.  It is most frequently used while we are interviewing potential recruits."

Lucien stands up and beckons for you to follow him:  "If you would follow me."

He leads you out of the common room and into a hallway:  "On your left is one of our three water-closets.  We try to make sure they are clean and well-appointed.  On your right is The Library."

You follow him into a nice room only a little smaller than the common room.  Three walls have built in book-cases floor to ceiling.  There are three comfortable chairs and one computer desk with a recent model high-end computer on it.  

You notice a distinct lack of the large, leather-bound, ancient tomes that you would expect in the library of a secret society of occultists.  Instead, most of the books are fairly recent and the sort of thing available in most good bookstores.  There's a set of Man, Myth, and Magic,  the Weiser reprints of Crowley's work, several different editions of Grimm's Fair Tales and The Arabian Nights, a decent portion of Joseph Campbell's work, and even some comic books, like Neil Gaiman's Sand Man.

Lucien turns to you and says, "Our library is not all I would wish.  We are a relatively young Chapter-House, though, and all the really exciting old materials are stored in London, Budapest, or Island City.  We do have access to complete scans of their copies of The Necronomicon, De Vermis Mysteriis, and The Book of Nod fragments over our secure internet connection.  Still, there is something exciting about being in the same room as the book."

He seems much more passionate and alive while delivering that monologue than he has for most of the rest of your encounter with him.

He leads you upstairs and shows you the barracks pointing out the empty rooms available because he is the only permanent resident at the moment.  He points out a door upstairs that he won't take you past because Agent Delta has set it up as an Enochian ritual chamber and does not like it disturbed.

He leads you back downstairs and even to the basement, where part is a finished rec room with pool tables, ping pong tables, and an entertainment center with video games and movies on DVD and VHS.  The other part is behind a door that he won't take you past because Agent Buer has set it up as a Goetic ritual chamber and does not like it disturbed.

"Well, what do you think of our little club?"[/spoiler]

[thejerod]

[spoiler=Tour Continued][ic=Morgan]I rather like this organization. Perhaps I could be of some assistance in your cause?[/ic][/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

[spoiler=the Invitation]"Would you like to join us?" asks Lucien.  "I can provide plausible ninety-seven percent true disinformation to take back to your bosses at your intelligence agency.  You can claim to have infiltrated us successfully."[/spoiler]

[St0nE]

[spoiler=William Stone]Name- William Stone
Player- Daniel Clark
Chronicle- Island City
Nature- Architect
Demeanor- Caregiver
Convention- Void Engineers/Orphan
Methodology- Neutralization Specialist Corps
Eidolon Essence- Dynamic
Concept- Psionics Researcher

Str 2 Dex 3 Sta 4 (Tough as Nails)
Cha 2 Man 4 App 3
Per 4 Int 5 (Creative) Wits 3

Alertness 2, Awareness 3, Brawl  1, Dodge 1, Subterfuge 1
Crafts 1, Firearms 3, First Aid 1, Hypertech 4 (Nanotech), Meditation 2, Melee 1, Microgravity Operations  1, Pilot 3, Stealth 2, Technology 3,
Academics 1, Computer 3, Cosmology 2,, Enigmas 1, Investigation 2, Law 1, Linguistics 3, Lore (Kindred) 1, Lore (Awakened) 1, Lore (Technocracy) 2, Lore (Void Engineer) 1, Medicine 4, Occult 3, Psionics 2, RD Data 1, Science 3, Subdimensions 3,Technocratic Procedure 1, Temporal Mechanics 1, Xenobiology 1

Contacts 3, Cloaking(Arcane) 2, Destiny 1, Device 3, Genius (Avatar) 4, Influence 2, Library 1, Patron 1, Requisitions (very good standing, diff 6) 5, Resources 3,

Enlightenment (Arete) (Countermagic) 5

Resonance- Creative (Dynamic)-1 Structured (Static)-1

Spheres- Correspondence 1, Forces 3, Mind 3, Dimensional Science 3, Life 3, Prime 3, Spirit 1, Matter 1, Entropy 1, Time 1

Primary Apparaum-  Forces & Mind- Psionic Powers, Life- Medical Procedures, Correspondence- GPS and Satellites, Dimensional Science- electromagnetic waves, Prime- electricity, Entropy- Statistics, Time- Chronograph, Spirit- bastardized hermetic rites,  Matter- chemistry

Rotes Known- Gutter View(correspondence), Percieve Forces, Mind Empowerment, Empathic Projection, Social Conditioning, Kinetic Push, Telekinesis, Kinetic Barrier, View Subdimension, Quantum Interface Shield, Breach Gauntlet, See Spirit, Prayer of Healing Revealation, Tough Skin, Better Body, Heal other, Heal Self, Non Descript, Adjust Minor Mental Abnormalities, Detect Mental Abnormalities, Divert Primal Force, Tap Node, Analyze Substance, Targeting Computation, Detect Temporal Abnormalities,

Merits- Concentration, Dual Traditions (Orphan), Jack of All Trades, Unaging, Master of Red Tape, Licence to: Operate Military Vehicles, Practice Medicine, Carry Concealed Weapon (North America), Inner Knight

Flaws- Primal Marks (strange look/glow to eyes)

Willpower 8

Device: Styx Armor- + 4 dice soak, can use stamina to soak lethal and aggravated damage.

Gear- Glock 17c (diff 6, damage 4, range 22, rate 4, clip 17+1, conceal pocket)
Steyr Aug, Scope and Laser Sight (diff 7, damage 7, range 200, rate 3/ full auto, clip 30, conceal trenchcoat)
PDA, Cellphone with Bluetooth, 69 Prime Charged 9mm rounds, 25km Communicator Radio, Military ID (CPT), Psionic Foci (multifaced crystal rodk, Moebius strip), Protocol Manual, Rowan Ring, Paladin Sedan, Paramedic Bag, Laptop Computer with Trinary Upgrades and Cellular Internet,  $481,395 in various bank accounts.

Military Rank, Captain, US Airforce.

Social Conditioning Level- 4
Security Access - 9

[/spoiler]   [spoiler=Introduction][ic=William Stone]awaits his orders from control[/ic][/spoiler]