Emelie
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Post by Emelie on Oct 14, 2009 0:04:35 GMT 1
Looking over at Hands of Mercy Em smiled. “Feel free, what ever you are comfortable in, for if you are comfortable then it will promote the harmony and balance needed for a summoning like this.”
Seeing that they were all in place, Em held out her hand to Katrine for the sword. “It will need to come into the circle with me.” Once the sword was handed over, she looked to make sure all were at their places. Seeing that they were she picked up her medicine bag, and finished the last part of the circle, closing it. Then very slowly she begane to pace to the center, walking clockwise and in a descending spiral fashion, til she was in the center. Once there she sat down cross-legged and set the sword down as well as the items she had received from Jessika. Taking her medicine bag, she opened it and took out a small ceramic bowl, a bundle of dried sage, a fan made of turkey feathers, a piece of polished jasper and a lighter.
The herbs where lit, and she held them til they began to smoke, once they were producing a sufficient amount, she passed first the shiney things jess had given her, then the jasper, and finally the sword. Purifying them in the burning sage’s smoke. Once that was done she took the feather fan, the bowl and stood up. Using the fan she waved the smoke into the circle, making sure that each of the four cadinal directions. Once done, she bent over to set both items down and then take the shiney bits which she tossed about the circle, keeping them well within it, but in no set pattern. Then kneeling, she placed the Jasper in front of her as she faced hands of mercy’s direction. The sword resting across her knees as she sent her mind and spirit out calling Raven.
(will spend one willpower for one gauranted sucess)
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Post by Shehrazad on Oct 14, 2009 10:58:06 GMT 1
It took very little time for the Raven Gaffling to appear. It looked very much like a regular raven, and there were enough of those around for all of them to have seen one, at least once. It landed in the circle, and started hopping over to the shiny things. It seemed more interested in the offerings than in talking to summoners for now.
But still, Emelie had succeeded in her first summoning rite. That itself was something to be proud of.
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Jessika
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Blood in the Rubble
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Post by Jessika on Oct 14, 2009 12:31:36 GMT 1
Jess grins as the Raven appears, and grins even wider as it hops over to the offerings she'd gathered. It's all she can do to keep from calling out to speak to it for now, and she looks to Emelie, not certain whether the ritual of the Rite was finished - when she'd get the chance to speak.
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Emelie
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Post by Emelie on Oct 15, 2009 2:48:34 GMT 1
Em turned and looked at the gaffling and smiled, inclining her head she spoke softly "Thank you for coming. We are in need of Raven's wisdom."
She looked over at Jona and Jess, and than back at the gaffling. "These two have questions that need answered in order to do our duty to Gaia and protect her works." That said she waited to see if the gaffling would acknowledge them and if the other two could speak to it of not.
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Post by Shehrazad on Oct 15, 2009 10:00:02 GMT 1
(You didn't specify so I'm going to assume you're using Spirit Speech. Those without Spirit Speech will not understand the following 'conversation'.)
The gaffling continued to hop over and examine the shiny things while Emelie spoke. Even after she finished speaking, it took its time. Finally, when it did say something, it replied in a language only Jess and Emelie could understand. "Yes. Raven has much wisdom,"it said simply.
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Jessika
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Post by Jessika on Oct 15, 2009 17:58:24 GMT 1
Jess pipes up next, not really able to hold down her enthusiasm much longer. "Hi." She greets the spirit in it's own tongue. "I'm Jess, one of Rat's kids. And Merlin's. This is Jona." she gestures to her alpha. "We're trying to find out about the big Bane that's holed up by the wall. Apparently there's some weapon that will help to fight it in Berlin, and we had some dreams suggested you might know something that'd help us find it."
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Post by Shehrazad on Oct 15, 2009 18:29:09 GMT 1
"Hello Jess," the raven gaffling hopped towards the southern part of the circle where Jess was standing, but got distracted halfway there by one of the sparkly earrings. It picked them up with its beak, and then looked at Jess again.
"Weapons?" it asked. "Big things that smash other things?"
(This is going to be a conversation between Jess, Emelie and the Gaffling, so there's no need to wait for the others to post.)
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Emelie
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Post by Emelie on Oct 16, 2009 14:11:21 GMT 1
"Yes, a weapon. This one." and she flashed the sword ever so slightly to draw the gafflings attention to it. "We need to know about this weapon." She hoped it was simple enough for the bird to understand, and that the sword would fixated it too much. But then she was sure she could dissuade the bird if it did, after all she was sure it wouldn't want a big bad Bane after it.
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Post by Shehrazad on Oct 16, 2009 14:24:43 GMT 1
The gaffling caught sight of the sword and stared at it for a while. "It is very shiny," it said. "Hrafnsmerki has seen many battles. Hrafnsmerki knows about these things." Then it continued to gather up the shiny things that Emelie had scattered around the circle.
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Emelie
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Post by Emelie on Oct 16, 2009 14:39:53 GMT 1
Giving the Gaffling a smile Em nodded slightly. Hrafnsmerki? She tilted her head slightly as she looked at the gaffling than over at Jess. Then to not leave the rest out she translated for those in the circle. "The Gafflins says Hrafnsmerki has seen many battles and would know. Does this word or name sound familiar to anyone?"
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Jessika
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Post by Jessika on Oct 16, 2009 15:57:51 GMT 1
Jess looks a little concerned at Emelie's response. Weapons can be more than just things to break things. Information can be a weapon, Gifts can be weapons. But the Raven's later response makes her think that perhaps she might have been onto something. "Hrafnsmerki... is that the name of the shiney sword-thing?"
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Jona
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Feuer Frei!
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Post by Jona on Oct 16, 2009 16:12:41 GMT 1
Jona thought about this for a while and then shrugged.
"Research time," he said. "We have some knowledgeable Garou around we can ask. Commands-the-Tides-rhya seemed to know his stuff, if it's a spirit, he might know of it. If it's not, this whole place is a library, we can look it up. It sounds like an old word, just finding its meaning might help, an old legend, even a children's story, can sometimes hold the answer. If it's not there, we call our Totem and ask him. Merlin's pretty wise as well. There are enough of us to split up and do all three at once."
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Post by Hands of Mercy on Oct 16, 2009 17:10:00 GMT 1
"It's not a spirit, it's a fetish." Hands of Mercy offers in High Gaian. "A Fenrir fetish, a banner bound with a spirit of a Raven. Supposedly it was cursed that it would bring victory to the one it was carried for, but death to the one who carried it. Finding it, however, I can't help on. It's so far lost that I wasn't sure it even existed."
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Zachary
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Post by Zachary on Oct 16, 2009 17:22:07 GMT 1
Zachary had been listening carefully. He could not understand spirit tongue, but did his best at watching the tones of the two theurges around it used.
The ahroun nodded at Hands. " Frozen Waters is a sept of both Fenrir and Shadow Lords, Commands the Tides-rhya is my elder, I will ask him about this fetish" Zachary said, trying his best to be atleast somewhat useful.
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Post by Shehrazad on Oct 16, 2009 17:55:31 GMT 1
Katrine looked a little puzzled at the tangents, and wondered if she wasn't just missing something obvious.
"Uhm, Emelie," she said. "Why don't you just ask the gaffling where we can find the Hrafnsmerki."
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