Showtime. Toshi should be arriving any minute, Rachel knows to send him right up to my office.

Aiden is here already. Looking about as excited as someone about to jump in a pool of sharks. She doesnt understand her visions, or my obsession with them...

I sit across the room at my desk preparing. And by preparing i mean getting out of my mind... I dont meditate, i dont pray.

My rote is three 2.5 inch rails of cocaine. My prayers were 3 little yellow pills to get my heartrate through the roof.

When your spinning everything is clear.

The first rail of coke breaks the mirror, sends my brain scattering in my skull.

The second brings it all back together. Like a snap of clarity where all is clear as crystal and time isnt slipping away. Like a smashed mirror suddenly coalescing back into one perfect piece.

The third rail lets me step right through. Time is muteable, my mind is infinite... I watch Aiden take nervous sips from her drink and i press the button on the intercom to Alice's office...

'Alice darling can you bring that box in here now please?..'

  Having arrived and looking forward to another chance to see Aiden, I head straight away to Gand's office. I knock upon the door, but seeing it slightly open, I assume he is expecting me. The sight of him bent over a mirror is a bit disconcerting, but my attention is quickly diverted to the divine girl sitting next to him. "My lady," and with a turn of my head and a nod "Gand".

Alice exits her office, directly into Gand's office. She notes how much larger his is compared to her, but now is not the time. Nor is it really something to argue about. Truth be told, large rooms make her nervous. Gand likes them, she thinks because it makes him seem more...grand. She smirks at her own musing, she kills herself. She walks across the room, the requested box cradled in her hands. She sets it on the desk before him. She nods and smile to Toshi, then her eyes fall on Aiden. She smiles and walks over to her, "leave it to Gand to find a truely stunning one."
She brushes an eyelash from the girl's cheek before moving to a chair near the desk. She sits back, crossing her legs.

Gand sits up straight and sniffs hard a few times. He has a nose like a vacuum cleaner, the mirror is nearly spotless...

'Thanks for coming Toshi.' Gands voice is a little hoarse, his attention drawn to the box Alice brought in for him. Its a simple thing with dark wood and brass hinges. A strange flower is carved into the top that Gand runs his finger over as he looks at his guests.

'This can get weird.. so uh, just dont leave the room, no matter what happens. Ok?'  

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I peer nervously around at all members in the room, tending to stay close to Gand, though I barely feel I can trust this man. It seems every time I am around him, or maybe perhaps, it's his office, I leave feeling weakened, and like there are voices in my head. I peer into my whiskey on the rocks, half empty already. I run fingers through long locks of scarlet, emerald eyes dancing about the room, like a child with ADHD. I cross my legs, and peer at the young asian man and the dark lady. Who are all these people? All I wanted to do was dance, get the money I need, and make my way in the world. God, if Bo only knew he'd kill me. Makes me glad some days that we never got together, cus who knows what he'd do at that point. I pull the button down shirt I'd found in Gand's office around me, not appreciating being gawked at while I'm not doing my job.

"What is this? What are we doing? Gand?"

"I'm not going anywhere," she says, pulling a nail file from her purse she goes right to grooming her perfectly painted nails. She looks to Aiden and then to Gand.

2008-06-23 11:32:14 Radiation rolls 3 dice to Gand create link (Diff 5) 5,1,1 (failure)
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Gand opens the box and removes a few things from it and places them on the table. A air of black cloths, like blindfolds, and a small bottle no bigger than 3 ounces with a dark green liquid swirling with black veins inside it.

'Aiden I need you to trust me again. I need to share your visions, its very important.'

He watches her as he uncorks the little bottle and unfolds the cloths...

I watch Gand as he pulls materials from the box. I shutter, a flashback of memory, but I can't seem to put my finger on it, as the vision is gone as quickly as it came. I peer around the room again at the other occupants. I'm starting to feel more terrified by the moment. Who the fuck are these people?

"I don't know what kinda place this is..."

I pause, stifling a laugh.

"I'm starting to feel like I really am in wonderland now. Drink this you must..."

I start talking to myself, obviously nervous about the entire matter about to occur. I twist the cloth of the shirt over and over in my hands. The room is already starting to feel heavier by the moment. The air starting to chill, my breath apparent in the air now.

"I'll only do this again, if you offer me some sort of explanation as to why am I doing this again? It was just a silly dream I mean, it wasn't anything..."  

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 I step forward, "My name is Nakazawi Toshi, I am an acquaintance of Mr. Gand and he is in some sort of danger. I am here to listen and possibly hear something that might assist in determining whomever is trying to kill him. We believe that there is a possibility that there is a way to avert whomever it is, but we have nothing to start our investigation upon. We are hoping to see or hear something we have overlooked or are unaware of. I apologize for the inconvenience. Is it possible to control these dreams or trances? Perhaps to focus upon numbers or places, something that might seem mundane."

I can already feel my head spinning. I'm soo confused. I always feel like the world around me is spinning though, and I am only here to observe. I peer at Gand, and then to the others.

"Am I supposed to wear a blindfold or something? This is kinda getting more then weird..."

I start nervously gripping the shirt I'm wearing in my hands. I twist and untwist the shirt, not prepared for whats to come, or what I'll be able to actually remember. I need to stop telling people about my dreams, and perhaps become a home body.

2008-06-28 06:09:26 Radiation rolls 3 dice to Gand create link (Diff 5) 9,9,3 (2 successes)
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'Just over one eye my dear.' Gand tells Aiden.

Which is probably stranger than just wearing it to begin with...

The little bottle of green will not be drank, when Gand uncorks it it begins to evaporate almost instantly. It smells like licorice and will only heighten anything Aiden is feeling.

Toshi may recognize it as Tass. the odd distillery in the basement of this Node creates the odd liquid with the potent magic trapped inside...

Gand slips off the couch and motions for Aiden to lay down...

Stranger and stranger... when he speaks she hears his voice inside her head. The link hes creating gaining telepathic potency... It is both alarming and calming, unusual but he seems to eat away some of the neausea and disorientation that accompany her visions...

'Just cover your left and eye and lay back. This will be over before you know it.'

I'm starting to tremble, but I try to talk myself down. My head is swimming, I swear. The room starting to spin slightly, the temp coming down. I do as I'm told, I was fine after last time, I should be find this time, right?

As I close my left eye and place my head down on the couch, I feel my body clench. I'm starting to feel like I'm loosing control. As I blink my eye, I can hear them. The voices begin to fill my head, all fighting to be heard, and Gand sounds so distant. Another body clench, more noticeable. My right eye begins to cloud over, becoming an orb of white. Sorry Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore.

They have taken my body again, and I am alone in my own darkness. They will answer any and all questions. I am just a vessel. Why can't I live a normal life? Every time I speak, it's a different voice.

"Gand, what do you want this time?"

"He's worried about his future..."

"You mean his demise..."

Gand lays one of the blindfolds over Aidens left eye as the voices start. He puts a blindfold over his right eye and moves to be over the arm of the couch. From this position he can look down at her from above, and most importantly lower his head his her right eye matches up with his left...

On cue with the air chilling and the strange voices sprouting from Aiden the lights in the office brown out and dim. Gand settles his hands on either side of Aidens head and lowers to meet exposed eyes with her.

'My demise. I need to know more.. I need to know everything...'

The link is set, Gand is inside her head as much as his own. every vision and voice he will see like a carbon copy. This should be far less pleassant and much more intense than last time he tried it...

She sits up in her chair, Demise!?

As our eyes connect, and the consciousness collects into one web,  intertwining them. Boom, like a gun blast, the scene plays out in his mind, as if he were watching it, a movie of sorts. But it all feels so real. Talk about trippy, out of body experience. The scene begins with a woman, we  can feel her pain, her loss, though no real words are expressed. She is quite beautiful, pale,  with lovely brown hair. Her porcelain skin seeming to glow in the moonlight. Worry haunts her face, seeming more of a motherly nature. Another approaches her, whispering into her ear. "He's gone, if he did take him. Who know's what they'll do with him, or how much of his tricks we'll have to deal with to get him back..."

The scene goes to a city setting, much different from this. The woman is standing on a rooftop, watching cars go by. And she sees the car. And of course, at this point, Gand will recognize one of his own vehicles. She's been tracking him for quite some time now. The magic he weaves something she's had difficulty unraveling. She watches him approaching the entrance of the club, a woman, rather scantly dressed on each side, another following along behind. She descends the roof, making her way along the shadows of the alleys, approaching ever so close. She takes position close to the back door, watching activity. Scoping out the area for guards of any sort. Too risky, she shakes her head. "I need time. I need to watch..." The words echo in their minds, and I mouth her words in my trance status.

Another jump in scene arrives at the woman staring at a portrait of a young boy. The woman's words begin to haunt thought again. "My son... I will find you, and if you are gone, I will avenge you. This Gand will give me answers..." She peers out a window of an apartment building, overlooking Gand's club. 'They're closer then we think...' The thought rings clear.

Another shift in scene, the Vampire's are counseling on what to do about the woman's situation. They decide to start picking off suspects. If they can just pick up his scent, feel him near, they can find him, like literal blood hounds, smell him out. The plan of action, eliminate the pawns, and then move for the king of the morons, in their minds. Eat them alive, and take up more territory. We are the children of the night, and we will not be made a fool of. Threaten our kind, and deal with the consequences. All thoughts ring clear from the audience. There is some sort of support at this point. Warfare.

The scenes move faster, people getting picked off left and right, on both sides. The war begins to surface to the mortals, and the turmoil begins to take over. The vampires start to wear down on the Mage folk, haunting their every move, watching, listening... The woman becomes crazed with the idea, as the killings occur, and the name Gand is repeated, that this Gand must have her son. The final scene begins, she has worn his defenses, and caught him off guard outside of the club somewhere, the scene is dark, dead  of night, but not quite close enough for that witching hour. Both of the guards Gand had are finished, torn apart like rag dolls in a rage. Oh the dramatics with rain, both the woman and Gand already ruined by battle and rain. Defenses are lowering as life force drains. She stands prepared for a battle she may not be able to win. It's a battle of wit, and cunning, and both stab at each other with attack after attack. Gand begins to wear, the loss of blood and the extreme use of strong magic draining him. She has the upper hand, screaming into the sky about her son, angered by the joking or rather condescending nature of retort from Gand, no real answers. In the extreme frustration of it all, she grabs him by the throat and begins to tear at him with her hands, tearing him apart in rage.

And all of it begins to rush in, the scenes playing again, but faster, and more pieces to fit the puzzle adding themselves everytime, if only if wasn't spinning so fast I could see. I start to feel heavy and very cold, as I'm sure Gand is starting to feel. Bodies start to feel the drain, as the voices pipe in, all talking at once, as if in a confusion. Always fighting over who is head, who is in control, etc... Whispers, screams, chatter, all just erupting, intense, and loud, piercing almost to the ears.
'Come now Gand, too much snooping makes fate a whole lot worse... You will be the means to your end'

Voices speak out, clear in mists of the chaos of voices.

'Oh don't tell him that. Let's watch him fail and deal with his consequence. All is bound to happen.'

'Oh now he's gone and changed fate. But can you really expect the unexpected? You are not meant to know this future...'

And then a pressure builts behind the eyes as the storm rumbles down, or maybe just the eye. The office chills further, and they ((being anyone in the room))  can feel a breeze beginning. The whispers fill the room as the trance starts to break. They're trying to escape her, and they're tearing her and Gand apart to do it. They're feeding off Gand's newly introduced energy, pulling him into them.  

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She shivers, the hair on her arms and the back of her neck stand on end. Anxiety rushes within her, making hard for her to sit still. She wishes she knew exacly what was going on....not knowing is driving her crazy.

2008-07-02 11:09:47 radiation rolls 3 dice to gand share link (Diff 7, used willpower) 3,4,5 (1 success)
Diff lowered by 1 via the green bottle (tass). I assume noone has higher than 7 willpower.
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Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately; Gand is rebroadcasting every vision that burns into head in a weakened form to both Alice and Toshi... They might not get the full effect but what they do see, hear and feel should be unnerving enough...

My mouth begins open, lips parted, and a horrible noise beginning, before the voices start to fill the room as they've filled my and Gand's head. The pressure in the room changes dramatically. Everything feels at least 3 times as heavy. Alice and Toshi begin to feel their own energies begins sapped, probably by whatever is trying to escape from me. In my own head, everything is black, cold, heavy, and her energy levels dropping.

She grabs her ears, shoveing her head between her knees before curling up into the fetal position on the couch. She wanted to scream, she couldn't. She felt her body grow weaker by the second. She pinches her eyes shut, wanting to drown it all out. Tears start streaming down her cheeks.

 Toshi is momentarily stunned, he has never felt something like this before. He draws his hand into forms trying to slow or halt the flow of energy. (Forces 2, Prime1, Correspondence 2)2008-07-04 09:58:34 Nakazawi Toshi rolls 3 dice to Arete 4,8,3 (1 success) (I am not certain if the Node gives me anything extra or there are any other modifiers)