Gloria Mundi update
The characters got some sleep. Ogma dreamed of confinment - being stuck back in the mirror's strange room, and then in a situation similar to his Awakening. In the morning, the characters found that Niamh had left a note and gone out for the day. They went to the museum again to scrutinize the mirror a bit, but a security guard had been posted near it and a sign added admonishing guests not to touch it. During this period of scrutiny, though, Morrigan sensed a conconcious within the mirror. They guessed that someone else might be trapped or that it might be the ghost they'd seen before. Morrigan summoned the ghost, but didn't get any real info out of him. Ogma used Interconnections and discoverd an Intimate connection between himself and the mirror. This, needless to say, creeped him out a bit. The mages wound up leaving the museum without much information. Tyrrhenus called a contact at the Consilium for information on Chambers (who wasn't working on a Saturday), but didn't get an answer right then.
That night, Morrigan and Ogma traveled down into the temple (see Gloria Mundi part 7, Descent) and did some digging. They found some speculative work on the nature of the Abyss, including a theory that the Abyss contains reflections of the five Watchtowers and that one could theoretically Awaken to one of these "Abyssal Towers", though what effect that would have on a mage's magic the author didn't say. They also discovered references to a mage being trapped in a room without a door until he went mad.
Meanwhile, Tyrrhenus and Jack snuck into the museum (rather, stayed there after it closed) and made their way into the gallery to let Tyrrhenus use Analyze Enchanted Object on the mirror some more. He discovered that the mirror was actually sentient on some level, and at point decided that discretion was better part of valor (the idea that the mirror was sizing him up as he was analyzing it creeped him, and rightly so) and so they skedaddled. Ogma and Morrigan rolled in late that night (having studied all night in the temple). Ogma used the Sleep of the Just spell to avoid any more weird dreams. 10/16
The next morning, Niamh was home and reported dreaming seeing herself as a man and putting a pistol in "his" mouth and pulling the trigger. Ogma, cleverly, checked the local news and found that the security guard that had been trapped in the mirror had shot himself during the night. The characters discussed possibilities, and finally asked Morrigan point-blank about the little boy ghost. Turns out that when Morrigan was younger and stupid, she'd gotten into a spat with her landlord and wound up animating a corpse and commanding it to drive the landlord's car into the side of the apartment building. This rather monumental act of hubris cost Morrigan her mentor (Simon, remember?) but also cost a little boy his life. After some rather harsh words, the characters ventured out to Salem to look at the apartment and Jack used Postcognition to observe the death. That little boy died staring into the mirror, which at the time was owned, apparently, by the boy's family (the boy's name was Paul Battleton, BTW). Jack also discovered that at the time of the death, the mirror was enchanted, but dormant. Something activated it between then and now.
Some rather vicious snipes between Morrigan and Niamh, but Tyrrhenus managed to calm things down. He then got a call from the Consilium. The Nemean didn't know Chambers, but suggested that a cabal called the Dead Wrens might. So, at the end of the session, Ogma, Morrigan and Jack were going to find the Battleton family and try and figure how the mirror got from their possession to the museum, while Niamh and Tyrrhenus were going to the Dead Wrens' sanctum/bar to learn what, if anything, they know about Chambers.
That night, Morrigan and Ogma traveled down into the temple (see Gloria Mundi part 7, Descent) and did some digging. They found some speculative work on the nature of the Abyss, including a theory that the Abyss contains reflections of the five Watchtowers and that one could theoretically Awaken to one of these "Abyssal Towers", though what effect that would have on a mage's magic the author didn't say. They also discovered references to a mage being trapped in a room without a door until he went mad.
Meanwhile, Tyrrhenus and Jack snuck into the museum (rather, stayed there after it closed) and made their way into the gallery to let Tyrrhenus use Analyze Enchanted Object on the mirror some more. He discovered that the mirror was actually sentient on some level, and at point decided that discretion was better part of valor (the idea that the mirror was sizing him up as he was analyzing it creeped him, and rightly so) and so they skedaddled. Ogma and Morrigan rolled in late that night (having studied all night in the temple). Ogma used the Sleep of the Just spell to avoid any more weird dreams. 10/16
The next morning, Niamh was home and reported dreaming seeing herself as a man and putting a pistol in "his" mouth and pulling the trigger. Ogma, cleverly, checked the local news and found that the security guard that had been trapped in the mirror had shot himself during the night. The characters discussed possibilities, and finally asked Morrigan point-blank about the little boy ghost. Turns out that when Morrigan was younger and stupid, she'd gotten into a spat with her landlord and wound up animating a corpse and commanding it to drive the landlord's car into the side of the apartment building. This rather monumental act of hubris cost Morrigan her mentor (Simon, remember?) but also cost a little boy his life. After some rather harsh words, the characters ventured out to Salem to look at the apartment and Jack used Postcognition to observe the death. That little boy died staring into the mirror, which at the time was owned, apparently, by the boy's family (the boy's name was Paul Battleton, BTW). Jack also discovered that at the time of the death, the mirror was enchanted, but dormant. Something activated it between then and now.
Some rather vicious snipes between Morrigan and Niamh, but Tyrrhenus managed to calm things down. He then got a call from the Consilium. The Nemean didn't know Chambers, but suggested that a cabal called the Dead Wrens might. So, at the end of the session, Ogma, Morrigan and Jack were going to find the Battleton family and try and figure how the mirror got from their possession to the museum, while Niamh and Tyrrhenus were going to the Dead Wrens' sanctum/bar to learn what, if anything, they know about Chambers.