Shi Shi Shi, Except mostly not Shi - Cage of the Demiurge - Session Four

"Okay. Seriously, Hilde, we have to talk about this," Taba said as the door closed behind them.

"What? What's the matter, we got back," Hilde said while avoiding eye contact.

"Don't you even try to lie to me," Taba snapped, black eyes glittering. "You almost died."

"The gorilla wasn't the problem," Taba said. "Well, it was, but not the real one. It was the idiot thing with the grenade. I mean you basically just froze there and stared at it until it blew up in your face."

"Okay, I don't really have an answer to that," Hilde admitted. "I may have been a bit surprised at finding it."

Melony Orleans - Chosen Scion of Sehkmet - The Lion's Thief

Scions of the Second Refinement

Background: 

Melony was born to a Canadian family of great wealth and descent from kings on both sides of the channel, at least so they claim. She was raised in privilege and while they may not have intended it, she learned about how to bend rules and subvert laws for her own benefit from watching her family. She took an interest in the ancient world and took to archaeology. With her ethical blind spot, she was able to work her way into a number of different sites around the world and acquire items wondrous items on behalf of the museum she worked for, one that had a lot of donations from her family.

Description:  Melony is brunette woman with the sort of beauty than can only be bought out of a life time of high end medical care and red carpet worthy wardrobes. She knows how to dress practically but if she's not on a job at the moment then why bother? She often seems only moments away from a smug and condescending smile, but recently more often seems to be fighting to contain expressions of lingering fear and frustration.

Divine Patron: Sehkmet

The Candlestick Disturbance - Set 4: Hellfire - City of Mist

Set 3: She's Not There

Patricia's Wellness Journal

What the fuck were these two doing in this place? My head is pounding like a damn sledgehammer-appropriate gong. It’s hot. It’s so hot. You’d almost think someone was doing real magic in this place with how bad I feel.

Nah, that lady was a doctor or something. There had to be some chemical. I’ve just got a bit of a high right now. The voice in my head, the heat, the pounding. That’s all just got to be some hallucinations or side effects from some chemical shit they were putting together.

That must be why they wanted my cargo. Maybe they thought it would be easier to steal a few gemstones and get funding that way than to just steal some cash, con an investor. They sure couldn’t hook a user on this crap. I feel horrible. Unless that’s supposed to be the thing.

“Hurry up! I want to be gone before either the cops or the security company get here.”

Mel Tadros - Born Scion of Sobek - The Slow Temper

Scions of the Second Refinement

Background: Mel's worked out at the alligator farm for years, since they were a child. Sometime back, a monster had appeared outside of town though few people know about it because it was defeated so very quickly. Mel's mother, Layla Tadros, tells how her husband had been killed by it, a monster thing like a panther formed of the mud of the bog. She had gone out to kill it armed with fire to dry it out and explosives to blow it apart, and firearms for if things got desperate. She gave a good fight but would likely have been the second victim if a protective but brutal man hadn't appeared to tear the monster apart. Over the next few months, he appeared with some regularity and eventually Mel was conceived and born.

Madhu Kuiper - Scion of Durga - The Skillful Secretary

Scions of the Second Refinement

Background: 

Drawn from a set of stock photos

Madhu Kuiper's parents died in an attack by Asura when she was a child. Afterwards, she was taken in by a mystery cult. The outward face of the cult was a temp agency called Office Solutions that specialized in place women into office jobs such as receptionists, file clerks, accountants, and other less than glorious positions. Through these women, many of them trained in espionage, the cult was able to quietly take control of these companies These companies then funded training women for hunting those monsters and cultists that were within the reach of well-funded and trained mortals to tackle.

Sitre Monroe - Scion of Wesir - The Lady of Dreams

Scions of the Second Refinement

Background:

The producer of a horror movie was getting desperate to make sure his movie turned out quite impressive and had begun to bastardize several rituals of Netjer sorcery. Among other things, he was having troubles finding someone for the part of the mummy. Fortunately for him, but unfortunately for her, he encounter Sitre Monroe. She had never really been into religion so when he started talking about prayers or blessings to make her make-up that much more real, she didn't really question it. She needed the money and the job, to be honest, and wasn't being as safe as she should have been.

Wibbly-Wobbly and Drunky-Wunky - Yakki Koto Kiku - Session 2

Session 1: That didn't go according to plan.

It looked like a busy day for the cops.

They put me in a cell with sorority girls.

Drunk sorority girls.

There were drunk footballers on the other side.

For a moment, I thought about starting a bit of a catfight and slipping out while the cops were dealing with it.

So, it was like this.

Yakki Koto Kiku - Scion 2nd Edition

This is the index page for the ongoing adventures of my scion character Lily Watson. A young woman unaware that she's a scion of Inari or that the weird fox-person that she accidentally freed and is now bound to is another incarnation of said God.

She makes questionable choices.

Zak, the incarnate in question is interested in making her into a proper scion and hero of the kami.

Character Sheet

Fake Names:

• Mary Cummings
• Caused a disturbance at the Powerhouse
• Escaped a police station
• Had an encounter with some sorority girls.

People I've Met:

• Sophia, probably the protective sorority girl
• Cut up sorority girl who was crying a lot.
• Red-headed snitch sorority girl
• Mousy sorority girl with a crush on Sophia
• Scept-or, a guy with a plastic scepter that has a taser taped to it. AKA Taser-face.
• Pistol guy, guy who had a pistol that worked with Scept-or.
• Sniper, guy with magic to see from weird angles and who does a lot of math.
• Axeguy, has a huge axe that turns into a spear or fist-daggers.
• Blunder Twins, the team that was supposed to destroy the piano.
• Fredicks, guy who hired us for this job.
• Citrine, Secretary lady, think she's a bit magic herself. Works for Fredricks.

People I know:

• Wilma, led the tomb raider crew I was part of until recently.
• Michael, former member of the same team who snatched my first solo find out from under me.

Names 

• Emma, cut up the sorority girl's face and will be "getting hers"

The Questionable Adventures of Lily Watson

• That didn't go according to plan
• Wibbly-Wobbly and Drunky-Wunky 
• Opposing Teams...Plural 
• Holy Pregnant Pause

Leigh's Perspective

• A Day at the Museum 
• How Not to Steal a Piano 
• It was NEVER just a heist!

That didn't go according to plan - Yakki Koto Kiku - Session 1

"I swear, I have no idea why everybody is freaking out. I was just looking for my earring and in the lost and found and everybody freaked out."

My attempt at playing this off as a misunderstanding is a bit undone by the fact that three security guards are currently struggling to hold me down. To my credit, I don't usually have to worry about security guards and cops. I've had to avoid competitors to the team of aggressive archaeologists I was part of and I've had to dodge animals, and traps. And occasionally there are weird things like zombies.

Or, you know, ancient fox people that'll bind you to service in exchange for getting you out of a collapsing tomb.

Acacia Liuzhi - Shen Scion of Yamaraja - The Beautiful Death

Scions of the Second Refinement

Background: It is unclear just in what way Acacia is Yamaraja's scion. It is known that Acacia's mother was a mortal by the name Mircea Ruskin who was an investigator into ghosts and the underworld. Some think she offered her child up to Yamaraja as a bargaining chip, others suggest that she is the busy god's actual daughter. Neither Acacia or Yamaraja care enough about the matter to tell people what the truth of the matter is and Acacia might not even know herself.

Regardless of Acacia's origin, it is apparent that Mircea did not value whatever she got out of the relationship as she vanished when Acacia was still young. Of course, Yamaraja was still too busy to deal with the issues of raising a child and there was an unwillingness to see her consigned to the system for orphans and thus Acacia was raised in the Thousand Willows Academy, a place built around the idea of raising scions and denizens in safety while preparing them for the world at large.

Acacia excelled in interpersonal skills and studying the religions and cultures of other pantheons, but she fell into the rather stereotypical niche of the nerd who is rubbish at athletics. Fortunately, she had no lack for friends that she could call upon to help her do those things that required a bit more brute force.

Skylar Thomas - Scion of Ares - The Inevitable Conflict

Scions of the Second Refinement

Would like a better pic for her...oh well.

Background: For as long as she could remember, Skylar had watched violence simmering just beneath her father's eyes. Her mother had never been afraid of him, but she'd watched as he constantly struggled to keep it turned away from his family. He'd been a cop for a while before his temper lost him his shield, punching the wrong man in a suit. Afterwards he constantly seemed to struggle with some sort of work that clearly seemed to involve danger and fighting because he always seemed to come back battered and bruised to one extent or another.

When people came to their house, her father killed most of them, but not before he and Skylar's mother were mortally wounded themselves. The last of the grim and serious men was seriously wounded himself and reaching for Skylar when she dodged aside to grab up the knives her father had been using to fight. And suddenly she knew exactly how to strike, it was so clear in her mind. Unfortunately, her body was still that of a teenager and the most she was able to achieve was stunning the killer long enough for her to escape.

The nightmares started when she first settled down and paid for a night at a hotel where she called an old friend of her father's from the police. Coarse whispers and the invasion of alien bouts of rage and bloodlust. The nightmares woke her up in time to hear the first sounds of killers breaking into her hotel room. The knives' instincts once again drew her out of the room, and she started her life on the road.