Hermes Xanatos
Gifted Mortal
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Post by Hermes Xanatos on Nov 2, 2019 16:43:42 GMT -6
He had precious few moments left he felt the fugue returning. He knew who he once was and what he had been importuned into being yet he truly didn’t know exactly what he was currently. He did know what had been unleashed. He knew what was coming. He even knew to dread it, to stop it if he could. He however couldn’t remember exactly what it was or exactly why. It was as if the words to the meaning of it had become lost on his tongue.
Part of his mind knew it was part of the massive ritualized Magic’s wreaked on him, partially his birthed curse and partially the four years as weapon. How much of each he couldn’t be sure. But in the end it was his job to drink and know things. As such while there was no drop of anything more alcoholic than the watered magic laced wine they fed him he downed a bottle of it summoned himself and used the stolen phone.
He was sure he’d never dialed the number before but was also sure that this was the number to dial.
Waiting less than a tic of a second from the French by way of Greek accent to speak he said quickly, “The last time we were together you put me in a cab. Your kingdom is at risk. The unspoken, the conqueror, his children are not dead they’ve been turned they are coming for him for you for Gates.”
Hearing the emanations metaphysically that presaged his captors returning he ended the call. Patting himself on the back for having weaves warnings into their auras. Though still not sure why. He began laughing as he opened another bottle one handed lay slipping the phone back out of sight weaving a concealment about it.
Even as he congratulated himself he knew he was forgetting something.
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Post by Jonathan F Whitmore III on Nov 13, 2019 3:10:03 GMT -6
Jon was thinking hard on his next moves Los Angelos had distracted him to the point the order was threatening to send a handler It was a sorry state but the beautiful weather and energies in the place had made him wish for all the world to stay. So he sat on every tip and took time on leads. Walking down the ramp in front of the small coffee shop he had found to frequent he almost blacked out and grabbed for the rail. sure wasn't far a fall but it as harder for him to get up from a fall these days his biology meant that he had lived beyond what he was meant to as a little person most of the time.
Making it to a bench and leaning for a moment, it occurred to him what had knocked him low the person he was meant to find had broken through some manner of barrier and now he knew almost to the block where the magic he saught was located. Problem was what he felt directly around it. Maybe it was time to call in some help a much as he hated the thought.Then it was time to check out of the extended stay he had gotten and head to seattle.
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Post by Aeolas on Nov 16, 2019 21:30:18 GMT -6
Aeolas looked at his phone suprised at the ring tone and then answered only to be shocked to silence. Listening to the cryptic message with a sinking stomach. He was not a man prone to panic or easily frightened but the name tossed at him did give him pause. His children? Before he could ask anything the line died and he cursed a blue streak in both french and greek. Then reaching out to Alexandras by way of an alert button that would reach her wherever in the hotel she might be.
While he waited for the other to arrive he dialed Gates, there was no point in sitting on this it was serious and they needed to shore up defenses or work together as odd as that would be. Foot tapping impatiently, why were they always testing him? First the council then sabin, then Rockford now this. What power did they think he possessed to have him so frequently a target? He was attempting to think when the phone was finally answered " We and I do me you and I both have a problem coming our way"
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Post by * on Nov 18, 2019 21:45:02 GMT -6
Aeolas looked at his phone surprised at the ring tone and then answered only to be shocked to silence. Listening to the cryptic message with a sinking stomach. He was not a man prone to panic or easily frightened but the name tossed at him did give him pause. His children? Before he could ask anything the line died and he cursed a blue streak in both French and Greek. Then reaching out to Alexandras by way of an alert button that would reach her wherever in the hotel she might be. While he waited for the other to arrive he dialed Gates, there was no point in sitting on this it was serious and they needed to shore up defenses or work together as odd as that would be. Foot tapping impatiently, why were they always testing him? First the council then Sabin, then Rockford now this. What power did they think he possessed to have him so frequently a target? He was attempting to think when the phone was finally answered " We and I do me you and I both have a problem coming our way" Gates stopped his meeting as Collete entered light a foot as a cat and silent as a shadow. She was so good at being nearly invisible that she had on several instances shocked a few of the kiss members by seeming to simply materialize. While her older outward appearance seemed adverse to how young of a vampire she was. Even with her lack of age she had lived a full human life before her embrace. As such she was always level-headed and discerning. He nodded and she slipped forward sliding his phone into his outstretched hand. He answered right away as she’d mouthed Chicago. “Good eve…” His greeting dying away as the seriousness of Aeolas flew over the line. Not worry so much as tired resignation. “Trouble like the eventuality of taxes is a near constant especially for one such as you who has achieved so much in such an apparently short period of time. What seems to be the source of this trouble that has looked towards us?” |
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Post by Aeolas on Nov 19, 2019 19:28:20 GMT -6
He smirked and despite him self realized the other had given him a chance to pull himself more firmly together and slide back into the warm demeanor he was used to presenting. " I as of less than five moments ago received a call from a man we both are very deeply familiar with and have possibly thought dead. the wandering wizard X sounding not himself said that the conquer is not dead and that his children have turned and are coming for you and I both as well as him. Why me Ive no clue other than I'm now lead of what was once his."
He waited for a moment " Why you? I have no clue but can posit a guess having met you as I know the rumors of your claims to share a line with myself tho I know all of belles made childer of a certain age. Which makes one wonder which line then.. well no not wonder I can guess after this call which. This is not meant as threat Gates I care not and keep your secrets but if it has brought ruin to our door"
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Post by * on Nov 19, 2019 22:03:07 GMT -6
He smirked and despite him self realized the other had given him a chance to pull himself more firmly together and slide back into the warm demeanor he was used to presenting. " I as of less than five moments ago received a call from a man we both are very deeply familiar with and have possibly thought dead. the wandering wizard X sounding not himself said that the conquer is not dead and that his children have turned and are coming for you and I both as well as him. Why me Ive no clue other than I'm now lead of what was once his." He waited for a moment " Why you? I have no clue but can posit a guess having met you as I know the rumors of your claims to share a line with myself tho I know all of belles made childer of a certain age. Which makes one wonder which line then... well no not wonder I can guess after this call which. This is not meant as threat Gates I care not and keep your secrets but if it has brought ruin to our door" Gates watched the inside of his eyelids as Aeolas spoke. There was a small bit of payment due between them. He could if needing to be uncouth demand it due especially in light of weight hanging in his words and potential the young vampire would not live the year out. Opening his eyes, he stood nodding to Collete to escort the brewmasters of the quarter and vampires of the pleasure trade out of the room. As she turned closing the door, he mouthed Chidera. “My apologies for the pause Aeolas.” He intoned exhaling a slow easy breath that further added to the pause of conversation. Part of his end around to mitigate Eliachem and protect Nadine meant that fear and anger while not filling were appetizers for him. Aeolas even miles away held a small mix of the two in his voice. Which however also meant that his own emotions in that vein ebbed closer to the surface. It was a heady mix. Especially as he knew That the old monster that was Andrius had not in fact crossed into the land of the beyond. He was not starved crazy enough to be weak enough to be easily killed. And his human Esme was very much still alive. Despite her issues she was able to move in and out of various places around the world staying ahead of those in her shadow. Using her connections with eth Arcadians to disappear for months at a time on one expedition or another and her ties to the Kova network to hide her gains and self at times. He’d been tracking her as a mental exercise for when he decided to test whether he was ready to end the monster himself as he knew that only he would be able to do so. “Aeolas your intelligence is not a thing I would ever underestimate…” He said moving out onto the balcony. “However… as I am sure you are aware the merest hint that any childer of that one were yet roaming would be enough to unite the remaining power structure of the European Council. A war would shortly follow.“ Clearing his throat he went on. “If however the two of us were actually to set their sights elsewhere I am sure we would not need be the harbingers of renewed aggressions between the two Council’s and our own independent cities.” He knew that his line was nearly impenetrable and proof against electronic interlopers however There was no such thing as perfect or infallible. He was beating around the bush even more than normal as he was quite unsure that the information was true. Could there have been more of the old Monsters kith floating in the world and unfelt by him. If so that meant so many potentialities of his very long unlife had been unneeded. If he’d known he could have amassed… stopping that thought as it formed and fought with his all. “Aeolas perhaps we should continue this conversation in person…with some due speed.” |
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Post by Aeolas on Nov 20, 2019 21:28:30 GMT -6
Jaw clenching at points, because while insinuating he would never question the intelligence he did just that but they had bigger fish so he just let it go and then " You str correct i would n ot wish to have the combined ire of both councils pointed at me so I will not again mention it over the line. I can come to you or you to me which would you prefer?"
He hadn't been to the big easy since his trip with Sabin and that was so long ago it felt tho no more than a sneeze in the time of ones such as them. Finally spotting Alex come in he motioned politely to a seat and pointed to his other open ear for her to listen and pay attention.
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Post by * on Nov 22, 2019 22:53:14 GMT -6
Jaw clenching at points, because while insinuating he would never question the intelligence he did just that but they had bigger fish so he just let it go and then " You str correct i would n ot wish to have the combined ire of both councils pointed at me so I will not again mention it over the line. I can come to you or you to me which would you prefer?" He hadn't been to the big easy since his trip with Sabin and that was so long ago it felt tho no more than a sneeze in the time of ones such as them. Finally spotting Alex come in he motioned politely to a seat and pointed to his other open ear for her to listen and pay attention. Gates looked out on the Rue. The many artisans both mortal and not plying their trades. He thought on his resources spread and which would be most useful to the idea if them both meeting in one place at one time. His own illusions and hopes that he was still he only childer of Aeolas left unliving. Not only because that would mean he had serious considerations to make. Namely as a singular being, he was proof against most attempts on his unlife due the predilections of his blood. It would mean in preparations the very real need to increase the number of persons who would have insight into how to end one of his line. “I would love to enjoy your hospitality. It has been many years since I have visited your city.” Clearing his throat as the obvious play on Aeolas part would be if unable to strike a bargain to assassinate Gates or weaken him so as to have a goat to stake out for his would be enemies. As it would be if he were to host. To assuage any concerns of his intentions he would place himself in the noose and plan on Aeolas better impulses and his yearning to be free of all the millennia old machinations. ”If you will have me I will be there in two days with my retinue. Collete will forward the details to you shortly and we can discuss things better left unsaid.” |
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Post by Aeolas on Nov 23, 2019 18:55:26 GMT -6
That had caught him a bit off guard and another Master would be fuming and refusing to give in to this move for whatever it was but Aeolas was one with a foot in the new as well as the old so while he planned and plotted this was not the time and he would rely on his second to be the one to plan for contingency." I will make the suite ready for you and your chosen, I wish the visit was in better stead but it is what it is ee you in two evenings"
Clicking off the phone and then looking at Alexandras with a deep sigh " well looks like we will have visitors of both the welcome and unwelcome sort" Filling her in on all that had happened in the past twenty or more moments.
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Post by Alexandras Haiht on Nov 24, 2019 11:18:32 GMT -6
Stillness. It was a tell that many vampires used as an affect of displeasure or as a way to unnerve. It came easier with age but in truth it was a sloughing away of the unneeded affectations of life to process information. And In this moment Alexandras was as still as a long silent grave. Her ears bent toward the voice on the other end of Aeolas line. Gates in all her years of knowing him was never so...alive in any semblance. And yet here he was his voice holding the weight of breathing resounding across the distance with an heir of if she were pressed she would say anxiousness.
As the call ended and Aeolas brought her up to speed she spared a second dissecting what she knew versus what she was informed. Her mind seeking out patterns of behavior and ploys used previously.
She did not like the idea that Gates had managed a centuries long plot againtst the world at large and liked even less that there were more of his partiucular line free of all responsibility and control. He was Wiley and strong enough to stave off multiple attempts from the European Council. It had become a running joke almost akin to the rankings of goose on the west coast when it came to fire and earthquakes. ‘Oh dat jes de EC come to visit. Be ova soon nuff’
This was something else entirely considering both Aeolas the second oldest vampire she’d known and by far the kindest up in arms.
“If I may I don’t believe he has any untoward plans. I sense a worry in him I have never known him to have. Perhaps we should alert your agents on the street to be more wary than usual and keep us abreast of any changes. Most vampires don’t pay any attention to the mortals about them.”
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