"There is good, and there is evil. Right, and wrong. Heroes and villains. And if we are blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each where light streams through. We wait in silence for these times, when sense can be made. When meaningless existence comes into focus, and our purpose presents itself. And if we have the ( Read more... )

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~March 28th~

The news made every major station.

Thousands of people are feared to be at the risk of dying and are leaving the area around the  Dzungarian Gate after entire reservoirs went dry overnight. Major world governments have begun to send aid and help with emergency water supplies whilst the people are evacuated in what  commentators are ( Read more... )

~March 20th~

Logos had been acting strange today.  She'd catch him occasionally glancing at her with some unspoken look of anxiety off and on during the entire session.  He had also been uncharacteristically quiet.

"I didn't know someone could be released from the Pax Arcanum," she said, setting down the book in her lap.

"It has never before ( Read more... )

~March 20th~ Logos had been acting strange today.  She'd catch him occasionally glancing at her with some unspoken look of anxiety off and on during the entire session.  He had also been uncharacteristically quiet ( Read more... )

Collaborating the different energies of different people in any given ritual but that of a truly synergistic cabal always took some effort.  This would be including nearly three dozen people of different power, different Orders, and different understandings of magic.  It was the mystical equivilent of cat herding ( Read more... )

"So let me get this straight," Zohar said, smirking at Helios. "Even after they asked us to do a bigass ritual in the most APPARENT TRAP EVER, we're not kicking them out ( Read more... )

The man and woman standing behind him wore dark business suits.  Oculus, on the other hand, was dressed as if he was still living in a bygone century, sporting an outfit marked by his billowy belted velvet shirt akin to Rennaisance styles trimmed with intricate filigree.  Like his companions, his expression was neutral, offering no insight into his ( Read more... )

~March 15th~She'd gone into Toronto a few days early.  As long as she stated it was for "Order business," no one would ever question it.   It was the truth, anyways.  She'd spent the majority of the time acting as Dario's theonom for the Mysteriorum Focus.  It wasn't protocol for a Hierophant Superior to oversee it, but with Vlad's situation of ( Read more... )

~March 14th~

"Oh goddamnit- WHY?"  She stared at Iblis.

"Because we need you, Zohar."   The Mastigos smiled pleasantly at her.  Iblis was almost always smiling.

She sighed. "FINE."

*****The Citadel of Pandemonium stood in sharp contrast with the gentle slopes of the shores of Oroboros.  Jagged iron edges opened up before them; the Citadel ( Read more... )