Word will go out, like a beacon to the cities awakened.

Its Gands calling, a message that finds you when you sleep. A dream that has you chasing a white rabbit and ending up in a library, a frightening sense of urgency and a swirl of symbols like a code.

All must be represented, all must gather.

And this will be the place.

 Upon waking, I can't seem to shake this wierd dream, I can't remember watching Alice in Wonderland anytime recently and I read Lewis Carroll years ago. Well the idea about the library is a good idea, probably my mind reminding me of the work I have to do. So after a half pot of coffee I get showered and dressed. Always tricky, this part of the morning ritual. Hmm, who should I be today? I decide on just Nakazawi, I might have to use a library card. I put on a pair of loose jeans, and a nicer shirt. Grab my wallet with the extra long chain and lace up my docs, they last forever. I grab my helmet, slip out the door, and lock up. I reach up and jam a small piece of wood in the door, most people would never notice it.

 I head out the back door, unlock my downstairs storage, and pull out my bike. Lock things back up, jump on and head downtown. That library seems a bit older and might have some of the stuff I am looking for.

 I step into the library, same musty book smell I remember.I head over to the kinesiology section, I pick up a few books and head over to a small reading chair in the back.

A young looking man dressed in a well tailored polo and jeans enters the library, he is athletic and broad shouldered.  Over one shoulder he carries a backpack.  Showing the librarian his card she smiles and welcomes him back.

Glancing around the library Vincent takes note of the people in his surroundings, looking for new or familiar faces.

Watching the Weaving as he always does Vincent settles down in a reading area near a back hallway that contains the restrooms, janatorial closets, and large book storage rooms.  

Pulling out a old book with some strange markings on the front and a type that no one but Vincent seems to be able to read, he settles down in a large plush armchair and watches the room....in more ways than one.

I never was really one for libraries. Normally I would stand out like a nuclear bomb at a popsicle stand here...

My name is Blue and im only here because Gand is the last person to send out a message and include any kind of urgency or panic.

I dressed down for this event. I ditched the usual fur coats and thrift store explosion that is my wardrobe in favor of a simpler pair of black and white camo pants and a leatehr jacket over a blank tank top.

Im also carrying a pair of twin automatic pistols in shoulder holsters, but noone really needs to see those...

Libraries.. Fuck me. I quickly check to maek sure all my spikes are intact atop my head before i wander inside.

I dont suppose they have Hustler in the periodicals...

At around noon a very neat and groomed man enters the library asking where there is some sort of public bulletin board. The librarian directs him and he wanders over, pulls out a neatly printed sheet of white paper and affixes it to the board. He then turns and leaves, thanking the librarian while exiting. Upon it there are a handful of older arcane symbols. The most prominent being the symbol of the Order of Hermes (from the 12th century) as well as numerous others (other houses at the time). The entire message seems to be written in Latin.

   
      Vivat Domus Hermes (Long live the order of Hermes)


   For long have we stood by your side, apart, cast out. We wish a peace in which to have open dialogue. We risk, yet still follow the code. Danger is bequeathed upon the ford which our city doth lie. Great is the danger great enough to silence Massasa. I will acquiesce to your requirements.  I know not of the fate of houses. If you dwell here heed my call in the year of  9,134,987,431. Peace shall be entailed.

       I seek you out as a fellow brother.

Vincent is not oblivious to the sharp dressed gentleman that just decided to post a letter on the message board.  There was something odd about it, but investigating that will have to wait.

If you didn't see the man with the spikes and camo's then you must be blind. Damned it all if he doesn't stand out.  Vincent watches him as he enters the library, and keeps an eye on the asian gentleman that seems to have arrived here on the same "terms."

(Vincent will be scanning the room for awakened periodically, both in the mundane form and the not-so mundane forms.  Reveal the Enlightened, Prime:1 Spirit:1)  

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(ooc) I will be revealed, seemingly unaware, though he does seem to stare at the fellow that entered with the spiked hair. You don't believe it has anything to do with magick. He sets aside his current book and begins to leaf through a Mexican cooking guide.  

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The Etherites will arrive en masse.

Pelayo looks much better than he did last he was seen. He is dressed in very ordinary jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. He is wearing big aviator sunglasses and his skin looks very pale rather than metallic or grey.

Draconis and their apprentice Rahshid are with him, Rahshid perhaps disguised a bit, since they are all rather paranoid about technocratic attacks.. and rightly so.

Rah'shid wanders about the library very poorly disguised, waiting for his new 'friends' to signal him when to follow them.  He takes a look at some books, but he sees the guy he attacked the other night, with the unsigltly bruise left from the bat. He also takes note of some other oddball people he doesn't remember seeing before in town, the short Japanese guy, the man with spiked hair...in the back of his mind he wonders if they are here for the 'conclave' too.

Vincent closes his book calmly and stands up, easliy seen by the Etherites he walks into the back hallway of the library. Grabbing the doorknob of that one closet filled brooms, mops, and to the awakened a stone torch lit stairwell leading down...Pulling the door (obviously a janitors closet) closed Vincent closes his eyes and opens it once again.  What faces the band of Etherites now is a well crafted stone stairwell.

"You guys go ahead, I have to collect the others and will be down shortly."

Watching Pelayo and Draconis start down the stairwell, and waiting for the shock to wear off of Rashid before he follows suit, Vincent closes the door and walks back to the main room.  Walking over to Blue Vincent grabs a book on a shelf next to the one he is parusing.

"We have much to discuss, please meet me in the back hallway if you would."

Blue will easily be able to sense this is an awakened individual speaking to him as Vincent calmly walks towards Nakazawai.

"I believe that rabbit is in the back hallway"

Vincent smirks at his half assed wittiness as he peers down at a recipe for rabbit stew.

"We have alot to talk about, please come with me"

Walking back to the rear hallway Vincent opens that door and allows Blue to decend and calmly waits for Nakazawai.

 Having acquired all the information the cookbook had on piquin peppers and their score on the scoville scale. I tuck that tidbit away in my memory, definitely need to acquire some of those little beauties. I stand and wander over to the Chinese mythology section, and spot a man who looks like he knows his way around this place."Excuse me sir, do you know where I can find the reference section?" asked to Vincent."I am looking up myths of the Kue-Jin and if you could direct me it would be very helpful."

"Hmm, I don't know about Kue-Jin, though I believe they are awfully similar to Vampires.  I'm actually having a meeting today, with some gentlemen that may know a great deal about the Kue-Jin, would you like to join us?".

"Like yourself? Sure I would be open to anyone that might be able to help, my name is Nakazawi, I teach at a dojo over on Jefferson," offering his hand.

"and my name is Vincent, pleasure to meet you Nakazawi."

Vincent offers his hand in return.

"There will likely be others that show up later, but we'll have to get them shortly.  Right now we need to get somewhere safe in case the Teks start poking around..oh i'll explain about them shortly"

Taking Nakazawi to the back hallway, Vincent closes the door filled with brooms, and opens it again into that all to familiar torch lit staircase.  Ushering the somewhat awestruck Nakazawi down he leads him through the oaken door into the main hall where the others are.

Walking down one hall and into an empty room Vincent grabs a case of bottled water.

Setting it in the main room...

"Make yourselves comfortable, I'm expecting a few more to arrive then we can get started, I'll ask that none of You go wandering as i've yet to figure out how big, or complicated this place is."

Descrïption:

The main room is fairly barren, there are some odds and ends, packages of sheets and an empty bag that a comforter once resided in.  It's a good bet that one of these rooms functions as a home away from home for Vincent.

In the middle of the room is a large circular table,  It is very heavy, and very old.  Around it sits any number of oddly comfortable high back wooden chairs, and in it's center resides a pure white elemental flame encased in a crystalline globe.  Off to one side you see an open door through which resides what looks like a Hermetics library.

Everything is lit by torch, candle, fireplace, or other means.  There is a laptop on the table whose charger is connected to an extension cord running off into one of the long dark hallways.

 Confused, he stares about those assembled looking for any asians. When he sees none he takes a seat and looks over at the man with that also seems out of his element with a poor disguise,"How are you, my name is Nakazawi, so how did you start killing demons?"

Rah'shid is a bit baffled by Nakazawi Toshi's question.  "Demons? What do you mean killing demons?" He asks him in a fairly confused manner. "My name is Rah'shid, you know, the door guy."  He extends his hand to Nakazawi Toshi to shake his hand and maybe exchange business cards.

Blue will comment to Nakazawi in beetween lighting a cigarette.

'By pulling a trigger.'

He really doesnt know what the guys talking about either, but He will sit near him and Rahshid.

Blue's answer to Toshi's question ((Barry is right, that is so much easier to type and remember) made Rah'shid feel a bit uneasy about the question.  He asks Toshi again, though a bit more nervously, "What 'demons'?"

"Why Kue-Jin and Inabikarijin that is why I am here, you all have determined they exist, that is what Vincent said?" looking bewildered."The Kami draw me to them and I dispatch them, I fulfill their circle of being... I feel I might have been duped" looking about questioningly.