Nick "Nicodemus" Dalton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nick_garou) wrote2013-01-19 08:00 pm
nick_garou) wrote2013-01-19 08:00 pm
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Reading. Talking with Nieve. This looks like a job for a kinfolk.
I've been laying kind of low this week. Spending entire days in my Sanctum and reading books from Peter Kenward's library. There's a very definite predisposition towards the Order of Hermes mentalities, and a lot of it is over my head or nonsensical (at least to me), but if you read slowly, critically, and closely, there's some interesting takeaway nuggets. I'm looking forward to when the moon gets fuller: I've got some things to try out.
Friday I decided to get out a bit. Went to the Harbor Park node to meditate and recharge. Ran into Nieve. She noticed I was helping to patrol the park and commented how it was a shame that I couldn't keep an eye on the spirit world. (Cough cough!) I bounced a couple ideas off her--some intentionally naive/ludicrous ("how about making a fetish the kin could share amongst one another and allows them to see into the umbra?") and some not ("would it be feasible to barter with a resident spirit to--if it spotted something out of the ordinary in the glade--cross over to the park and then seek out a kinfolk with some kind of visible 'mark of the beast' symbol that tagged them as an ally of the garou who could call the garou for backup?") These paved the way for more questions about how the park's spirits behaved, acted, and communicated with Nieve. The takeaway from the talk was that it sounds like if I went into the umbra, the spirits probably would not be able to recognize me as a mage. However, if I went into the park as "something other than garou," the spirits would probably inform Nieve. Additionally, the spirits probably wouldn't attack me unless I did something untowardly or started some shit. I already know from my jaunts into the spirit world out in Walker territory and near my cabin that the wyld spirits seem, at best, curious about me. I've not had any hostility yet, even while doing vulgar displays of magic. And that one fire elemental even opted to start hanging around after I started working a lot with fire.
I wonder if I could use Forces and Spirit magic to pass myself off as a garou or a spirit? Rather than work on being invisible to spirits, I could simply look like an uninteresting one. I think I'd have to do some studying to pull it off for anything beyond a cursory look. The little pattern spiders might be an interesting place to start. They're ubiquitous and largely ignored by all. I'd rather be ignored than noticed.
Yesterday I posted a "help wanted" flyer at both Edgewood and the Tenement. I'm definitely looking for a kinfolk to help out there, as I need more time to focus on my studies. So far I've gotten an e-mail from Sewall, who is not a kinfolk. I'm not sure how that'd work. At least he's a ragabash, so he'd probably be good as a PI eventually, and that'd take some weight off both Val and myself.
Also? Caved and bought an iPhone 5 as a replacement for the Android I threw out the window the other week.
Friday I decided to get out a bit. Went to the Harbor Park node to meditate and recharge. Ran into Nieve. She noticed I was helping to patrol the park and commented how it was a shame that I couldn't keep an eye on the spirit world. (Cough cough!) I bounced a couple ideas off her--some intentionally naive/ludicrous ("how about making a fetish the kin could share amongst one another and allows them to see into the umbra?") and some not ("would it be feasible to barter with a resident spirit to--if it spotted something out of the ordinary in the glade--cross over to the park and then seek out a kinfolk with some kind of visible 'mark of the beast' symbol that tagged them as an ally of the garou who could call the garou for backup?") These paved the way for more questions about how the park's spirits behaved, acted, and communicated with Nieve. The takeaway from the talk was that it sounds like if I went into the umbra, the spirits probably would not be able to recognize me as a mage. However, if I went into the park as "something other than garou," the spirits would probably inform Nieve. Additionally, the spirits probably wouldn't attack me unless I did something untowardly or started some shit. I already know from my jaunts into the spirit world out in Walker territory and near my cabin that the wyld spirits seem, at best, curious about me. I've not had any hostility yet, even while doing vulgar displays of magic. And that one fire elemental even opted to start hanging around after I started working a lot with fire.
I wonder if I could use Forces and Spirit magic to pass myself off as a garou or a spirit? Rather than work on being invisible to spirits, I could simply look like an uninteresting one. I think I'd have to do some studying to pull it off for anything beyond a cursory look. The little pattern spiders might be an interesting place to start. They're ubiquitous and largely ignored by all. I'd rather be ignored than noticed.
Yesterday I posted a "help wanted" flyer at both Edgewood and the Tenement. I'm definitely looking for a kinfolk to help out there, as I need more time to focus on my studies. So far I've gotten an e-mail from Sewall, who is not a kinfolk. I'm not sure how that'd work. At least he's a ragabash, so he'd probably be good as a PI eventually, and that'd take some weight off both Val and myself.
Also? Caved and bought an iPhone 5 as a replacement for the Android I threw out the window the other week.