5789/Title Goes Here after coffee

Title Goes Here after coffee
Date of Scene:	30 March 2021
Location:	Hell's Kitchen, NY
Synopsis:	The Cheschire Cat finds Lady Death and more than he bargained for.
Cast of Characters:	Hope Svelgate, Terry O'Neil

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Hope Svelgate has posed:
    The rumors started back in 2013, an urban legend really. It went something like sometimes, particularly around the area of Hell's Kitchen, if you got in trouble, really really bad trouble, the kind with magic and demons, sometimes a white witch would appear to help. The stories continued up through 2018 but after Loki's invasion seemed to die off. Maybe whoever or whatever it was has long since come and gone and yet of late traces of magic, both necromantic and chaotic have been turning up around the area again...

    The night of the full moon, the witch's esbat, a time of significance for many of the magically inclined. This night finds Hope, the leather clad statuesque woman who for one ostensibly trying to blend in ...still has a fair amount of difficulty doing that, out on the street outside of an old dilapidated church looking up at that full moon.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
There is a thing with cats and full moons- but the fact that he is out and about tonight is purely coincidental. The real reason that he is out here is because he's been doing some research on some special topics. The strange and mysterious oftentimes is dismissed by many, but Terry has seen enough and /been/ enough to know that There Is More Between Heaven And Earth...

So it purely coincidence that Terry O'Neil is walking in the shadows near that dilapidated church, following the lead of old stories and rumors.

Hope Svelgate has posed:
    The tall blonde Scandinavian woman pulls her eyes away from the full moon and looks up and down the street as if checking to make sure she is alone. Raising one hand for a moment it looks like she is about to summon the power of greyskull or something similar when something tugs at the edges of her senses and she spins around to look directly at the figure in the shadows, "Who is there?" One can never be too careful with shadowy figures on New York streets after all.

Terry O'Neil has posed:
Terry stops dead on his tracks. Usually when someone calls out to you wanting to know who is there tends to never be a good sign. Especially when there's skulking in the shadows under the full moon.

Reflexively, his hand goes to turn his bracelet over and reveal his mirror... and then he realizes that you can't really see a reflection of your eyes when you're in shadow.

Crap.

"It's just me. Who's there?"

He frowns. that was a crappy answer. He's been hanging out with Gar too much.

Hope Svelgate has posed:
    The valkyrie looking woman scowls, "There isn't time for this" She says in annoyance, perhaps more to herself than to Terry. Hope turns away again and whips out a hand once more. This time something /does/ happen though. A sword appears in her grasp, a full on medieval longsword that seems to almost crackle with Chaos Magic.

She does not summon the power of greyskull with it, what she does do is seemingly slash the fabric of reality itself, a glowing gaping rent in space/time and step through it before it begins to reseal behind her.

    Loose ends will simply have to be tied up later. That is, unless one is quick enough and foolhardy enough to try to follow before the rent vanishes completely...

Terry O'Neil has posed:
Quick AND Foolhardy? That might as well be on Terry's business card. The teen hesitates for a moment, but it's not too long because the pull of Chaos magic overturns his caution and pretty much everything else. He sprints as soon as the woman is out of sight, and as soon as the slash in reality shows signs of collapsing.

What? He can make his own! Piece of cake, right?

Right?

It briefly dawns on him that he might not be abl to come back... if this goes to another dimension.