Mage: Broken by Moonlight, Game 13 Jan 2018

PCs

• Kim - Raven
  
• Andy - Gretchen
  
• Maer - Kat
  
• Jim – Sebastian
  
• Terri - Clare
  
• Cindy – Dawn
  

NPCs

(in order of appearance)

• Josh Bosch – The Driver / Mechanic
• Winston Jones – A willow tree. English major studying mythology at NCSU
• Julia Goldstein – The other willow tree. Accounting student
• Royce Upshaw – Head of the Euthanotos
• Vincenzo Guerra – Head of the Verbana
• Gnomely – Winston’s new Avatar. Appears to be a more or less standard variety garden gnome
• Henry Villiers – Some random guy with super powers
• Colt – a semi-imaginary 40 Oz. bottle of Malt liquor. Henry’s new Avatar.
• A bunch of folks - at American Tobacco Campus, including a number of cops
• Moonglow Starshine – A Lisa Frank-style unicorn and Alice’s Avatar
• Alice Kovacs – A girl who likes unicorns and very recently became a magician.
• Professor Jennifer Kovacs – Alice’s Mom. Likely lost in Astral space and/or dead.
• Senior Special Agent Wen – Technocracy agent who appears near the end of the episode.
• The Nephandi – Who doesn’t actually appear in the session though his taunting, maniacal laughter can be heard on the wind . . .

At the Start of the Session

Raven, Gretchen, Kat, Sebastian and Josh are at Crybaby lane. They have two students who’ve turned into willow trees and a pile of non-working phones and a broken car. They’ve called Vincenzo Guerra at the Chantry (using Julia’s phone) for support.

Clare is visiting her extended family and catching up on old times. Which past life is currently in control is anyone’s guess. When the call comes to collect Clare, one of her relatives walks her out to the curb and keeps watch to ensure that she doesn’t walk off.

Dawn has been studying the Cult of Nyx in the Hermetics private library (shhh. Don’t tell them). She’s gathered some rather interesting tidbits that will doubtless become extremely important in a little bit.

Royce and Vincenzo gather up Clare and Dawn and make their way to Raleigh. Upon arrival Royce sets up a “Not my problem” zone around the open field while Vincenzo does some further investigation. It is quickly determined that Winston (the boy) has an awakened avatar even though there’s he should not.

Clare is seriously weirded out that one of the trees is crying.

This leads to a quick, but heated debate. Royce is of the opinion that the pair can’t he helped at this point and the best thing to do was put them back on the wheel (i.e. kill them). Vincenzo won’t hear of this and the Scoobs mostly agree.

It is also determined that if the spell is to be undone it must be undone quickly. The longer the pair remain in the form of trees, the harder it will be for them to adjust to being human again.

Clare decides to talk to the avatar. It appears to be a garden gnome. Gnomely thinks that Winston has turned himself into quite an excellent tree and done a fine job of it. Clare also finds out that Gnomely had been attached to other mages but had been unattached for some time prior to becoming attached to Winston.

Sebastian builds a circle. Chants and spells happen, with Vincenzo taking the lead. Royce concentrates on ensuring no one outside the field.

They first unwind the spell on the boy (Winston). It takes some time but the spell is successful and the only real issue is knocking Winston unconscious so he can be carted away.

They then try the same thing on the girl (Julia Goldstein), but with only partial success. She fails to regain consciousness (and potentially sentience). Both are put into Josh’s (now fixed) car and ride back to the chantry with everyone except Royce and Raven, who step behind a tree (no, no that way)

Back at the Chantry for a bit, but are soon called away to the American Tobacco campus where some random guy (Henry Villiers) at the Institute for Advanced Hindsight had apparently developed superpowers. Also Claire has wandered off and Sebastian goes off to find her.

Josh gets the team there quickly and Henry isn’t hiding. He’s slightly drunk and has just met a talking bottle of Malt liquor that told him he had super powers.

Henry is also really, really strong and wants to show off by juggling the ornamental boulders, with limited success.

Things start on something of the wrong foot when Raven uses the ornamental light strings to electrocute Henry. This has limited effect, other than to convince Henry that the new group is less than friendly. Gretchen tries to talk him out of it, with limited success. Then, Dawn shoots Henry.

Cops start to show up shortly thereafter.

Kat uses her Jedi mind powers to pacify Henry and most escape to the Chantry. Gretchen? contacts the chantry to get their faces erased from any local cameras. Sebastian is stuck at the Cuban burrito place and lies to the cops about what happened.

Gretchen tries to interview Henry. They some additional information but Henry keeps trying to use his powers, despite warnings. His attempts to crush a paper towel into a diamond fails spectacularly.

Minutes later there are reports of a unicorn being sighted in Chapel Hill north of Rosemary Street.

Kat jokes that if they are going unicorn hunting, they need to bring Josh. Raven get a little tear in her eye and congratulates Kat on her first steps into the Snark Side. Sebastian is still at the ATC and has to take a cab.

The team arrives at Rosemary and Hillsborough to find a Lisa Frank-style Unicorn (See attached). It is obviously not natural or even standard-issue mythological. When the unicorn sees the party, it starts trying to beckon them up the road. They follow.

They get to a suburban section of town and the unicorn disappears through the wall into a house. Suspecting a trap, the group checks of the house using magic. Sebastian arrives.

They entire the house they find an unconscious 5year old, a cell phone with 9-1-1 entered, but call not started, an open interdimensional portal and a very concerned looking unicorn.

The girl is moved from the house and the portal is closed off. Sebastian turns all of the house wiring to Cordite in preparation for destroying the house, but after extensive debate this plan is not implemented.

Sebastian does a reconnoiter of the block to see who might need to be mind-wiped, but only finds one person, a middle aged Asian woman in a business suit. He finds himself magically blocked from approaching her. The group returns to the Chantry with the girl.

Early the next day there is a news article about the house apparently being used as an NEA funded Flash Art project. The house and yard have been entirely encased in Lucite.


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