#Absynthia

[eremington]

@astrid-lundquist

After his encounter with Divya at Absynthia a few weeks ago, Elijah had a suspicion that something was up with the younger witch, but he didn't want to confront her - gently or otherwise - until he knew for sure. It had brought him to Astrid's office in Absynthia. She had to know what was happening in her club, or at the very least she would have seen Divya more. The sound of voices inside made him pause, and he waited for a moment of quiet before knocking. "Astrid? I wanted to talk with you."

[eremington]

Elijah rolled his eyes, used to Divya's jabs by now about how he was old and stuffy. He hadn't told her too much about his past encounters with Matthew and Izak. "I suppose it does make sense given the connection you all have to the spirits." Though Absynthia tended to lean towards the more unsavory side of dealing with spirits and the deals they could make. "As long as this fun doesn't involve your soul or someone stealing your body. There are a lot of people who would love to get a coven leader under their thumb."

"Don't tell me you've come here to be the fun police, Elijah. Did you not see the sign out front that clearly stated no party poopers," she pouted lightly, chuckling a bit at her own words. She considered her next carefully, not wanting to raise any suspicion from her mentor. "Where's the fun in that?" she added, before realizing he probably wouldn't stop until he got an answer. "A few of my witches had been spending a lot of their time at this club. I came to keep an eye on them and see what all the fuss was about, and maybe have a little fun of my own in the process," She let her shoulder rise and fall in a shrug, before her glass of wine met her lips again.

[caia-sjofrid]

meeting again | astrid & caia

for: @astrid-lundquist location: absynthia

Caia was still trying to figure out how they felt about being back in Vievecor City. For one, there were those elvish ruins that she so desperately wanted to visit, on the other there was that annoying Council to deal with, but on another flip side there were people here that they had not seen in many years and it was always good to catch up.

The last message Caia had sent to Astrid had been a few years ago and it had been written on a small piece of paper, attached to the leg of a pigeon and sent to the demon. It did not contain much apart from telling Astrid that they believed she would enjoy the town of Tofo, after which Caia had ventured on to their next destination and disappeared off the radar.

She decided to surprise her demon friend that evening and turned up at her club in Hedon. Clubs were not Caia's particular brand of entertainment, but there were many things they would willingly subject themself to for a good friend and Astrid was one of them.

When pushing their way through the crowd became too tedious, Caia pulled one of the servers close and asked them to send a message to Astrid Lundquist, telling her that there was an elf looking for her. Now all Caia had to do was wait.

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[astarab1aze]

Societal Attitudes Towards Grimoires

Of all the most common magical tools, it's only the grimoire that everyone has but not everyone makes use of beyond note-taking as opposed to a source of magical power or what directs and informs their magic. For a time, nightfolk faced what they believed to be a terrible calamity - that magic as a whole would leave them. They had good reason, as many reported feeling consistently depressed, lethargic, weak, and 'as if all their life had been sapped from them' and many were temporarily unable to use magic at all, but there was no conclusion. For about a year, nightfolk were merely human. The phenomena itself is shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and blood, and no two stories are the same.

The truth is rather simple, though there are obviously none alive who know it: In 1851, a 5th year student of Belegerande's School for the Arcane, Athena Jay-Scarbuncle of House Bell, had made a fatal mistake during private study in Necromancy, by which she was attempting to 'heal a wounded bird through connection and spiritual energy'. She combined ritualistic Necromancy, herbalism, and Summoning in conjunction with basic practices taught in her Taming class to keep the Avulisk calm enough for her to even try. The Necromantic Rejuvination spell requires ingredients such as Deathbloom petals, whole frankenleeches, gangrove lilies, primordia root, and a teaspoon of absynthia to be crushed into a poultice with special attention to thoroughly mixing them together. The aroma of the ingredients together creates a sleepy, comfortable, soothing atmosphere, but when pushed upon with hazardous forms of magic, a chain reaction is caused and the effects are often disastrous - such as what happened with Athena.

The effects of the spell and herbalist mixture ballooned and amplified before she could ever hope to realize it, but the bird in her hands began to heal and soon it was as if it had never known illness nor pain. At the same time, the spell bled into many parts of the school, then to Belle's Hollow, the rest of Belle Valley, and to the rest of nightfolk society. The opposite of what she wanted to happen - using life energy to heal the wounded Avulisk - came to be, instead robbing countless others of their energies and pumping it into the dead or hurt, incidentally inciting an undead crisis. It also temporarily cut off all nightfolk from their magic.

Learning how to live in complete depression, weakness, and mundanity proved a difficult task, but many came to abandon their grimoires in favor of looking for others ways to direct magic, each and all picking up wands, staves, knives, and more just to see-- Nightfolk were and still are very split on this issue, the accessibility and effectiveness of grimoires alone. Attitudes changed and when the dreaded Year of Undead Mundanity ended, nightfolk were restored, but many began to use other things in conjunction with their grimoires and found that this greatly improved viability and manageability of their magic. Some were able to completely stop using grimoires and switched to the tools that helped them best or used their hands only. Nightfolk have, to a degree, trivialized grimoires and most generally refer to them in ways they'd refer to a common notebook. A lot of people no longer see them as inherently magical. Still, there are many more who consider it good practice to keep them; Sadly, summoners, diviners, necromancers, bloodweavers, alchemists, and herbalists are usually the only ones who use them.

Anyway, that's how Athena Jay-Scarbuncle accidentally gave everyone Magical Depression and extra extra accidentally changed mainstream societal views on grimoires as magical tools and raised the dead.

[artuswestwood]

Artus’s hacked files

Emails. Several dozen emails between him and other council members and well as other elves in their clan. These details several things, such as concerns, security measures, event planning, and so on.  Event posters.  Digital event posters are saved on his phone for various supernatural events he’s sponsored, such as in the theatre, or gone to, such as at Absynthia, Vicium or Level Four. There are also photos he has taken at the event of others and himself participating.  Contacts. Saved in his contacts are the names of sexual partners he has had, and included in the notes are their species, their kinks and the things Artus enjoys doing with them, though the notes themselves are short and straightforward. One of these contacts include Izak, those his particular contact does not indicate species, though mentions “control” and “blood” in the note.  Texts from Adaire. Though most texts are short and sweet or innocent and family related, there are several messages of them discussing potential elven partners for him, with Adaire mentioning his son starting a family a few times, and that elves can only have children with other elves once. 

[esmeraldabheriya]

HACKED MATERIAL: ESMERALDA BHERIYA

PACK RELATED: Esme has a collection of videos and photos of young werewolf pups playing together, some of shifted wolves as well, especially her children. There is also some pack information stored in her phone.

DIRTY DEALS: Esme has a history of making deals and purchasing magical items from a few different demons, vampires and dark witches. She has recorded the voice conversations she’s had during these deals for protection for herself. 

ESME RELATED: There are some slightly risqué photos of herself, some of a certain naked lone wolf as well. There are also some videos of her at Absynthia with a vampire with their fangs exposed. 

[kitsunexkang]

Kang’s Videos

Being a dancer in the Rubicund and from his phase of going to every club in Vievecor City, Kang has many videos of the inside of supernatural-owned clubs such as the Rubicund, Level Four, The Mind’s Eye, Vicium and Absynthia. 

In these videos, supernaturals can clearly be seen partying the nights away, especially the ones in Level Four and Vicium. They do not bother hiding what they are in these videos, so vampires can be seen feeding on humans in Level Four and demons, werewolves and anyone else visiting the Vicium can also be incriminated.

Kang has mostly forgotten that these videos exist on his camera roll because they go many months back.

[eduardofaukes]

HACKED INFORMATION:

PERSONAL DEVICES:

- Risqué~ photo’s of Esme (sent to him by Esme). Nothing much of interest from Eduardo’s own phone apart from this, mainly photo’s of him and friends on nights out and away with his colleagues in the Navy. Some family photo’s of himself and his mother and sister. Scenic photos of their family farm. Some shots of the ocean, different beaches and skylines etc. There are also some brief videos of him and friends in various supernatural clubs e.g Absynthia where supernaturals may be visible in the background.

LEAKS FROM OTHERS:

- A video of Eduardo has been released by someone recording a fight he took part in at the Punch Cage. At the time of the video, Eduardo had visited the Punch Cage a few times on separate occasions, but this was the only time it was filmed. The video contains shaky footage from someone recording in the audience. It is of Eduardo fighting other opponents, before a wolf named Bodhi is called into the ring. The video continues to show the pair of them fighting, both with fangs, claws and fur exposed due to partial werewolf transformation. The video contains a lot of violence and blood, as well as of course the undeniably inhuman features of both the fighters. People can be heard cheering and placing bets on the fighters.

- Less interestingly, some nude photo’s of him that have been leaked from Esme’s phone.

- Text messages of Eduardo speaking to other supernatural friends, mainly vampires and witches, referencing the use of spells, feeding, fledglings, etc. Most of these text messages are jokes that could be easily passed off as just that, jokes.

[ursanazyalensky]

The fallen deity had no intention of corrupting the young woman. He would not lie about the world, the gaps between the light and dark. For the fallen, it was harder than the other demon's. He couldn't quite give into those demonic desires, still holding onto a lingering feeling of guilt. Ursa could live with his own shortcomings but he was still guilty for what Astrid had become.

His lips twisted into a slight smile, unsure how to accept an apology for what had been done. It was not her fault and he would not allow her to shoulder that blame. "It is okay. Just as I must have been created for a reason, I must have fallen for one too." Some day it may become clear or he might just be there to watch it all crumble.

The demon realised how old it made him sound but there was no hiding what he was. "I believe they enjoy Absynthia. Personally it's a little too loud and there's one too many human's with a priest kink," he answered. Astrid enjoyed his presence there but the attention it bought him always made the demon uncomfortable. From the look in the young deity's eyes, she was curious about his protege. "She's quite tall with dark brown hair and eyes. She looks like an angel from far away," he described, giving her a little hint.

"I don't know." She didn't. Would it help? It wasn't going to change what the deities had done, was it? How could they have been so wrong? Yes, yes, butterfly effect and all that but he hadn't even meant to bring the girl back to life so she might stay that way. Was this how they planned to restore the balance between light and dark? By turning everyone and everything against them? Was it not enough that deities who broke the rules not only lost their powers but turned into the very opposite of what they had once been?

Elena's temper settled somewhat as the priest continued his tale, leaving behind a feeling of rot and decay at her core. "I'm sorry," she told him, the 'on behalf of all of us' unsaid, though very much implied. She didn't have that kind of authority but someone needed to say it.

It was the mention of a club that managed to lure her more animated nature out from where it had disappeared to. "The club that the kids like?" Elena parroted with a curious lilt to her tone. Surely to him, she was a kid. So what was this club that was supposedly all the rave these days? She'd have to swing by some time to meet the girl who had unwillingly helped to pave the way to his fall. Perhaps apologize to her as well.

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[eremington]

The Search

location: Absynthia with: @lillian--reed

plot beats:

Elijah and Lillian get to Absynthia and are able to sneak into the building since it appears to be empty. Lillian has tried to use her divination abilities to see what will happen, but the presence of an elder demon is blocking them.

They know where the basement is under the first floor, so Elijah uses telekinesis to cave in the floor on top of the demons and dark witches, giving them a few extra seconds with the confusion.

With Lillian’s connection to her demon and Elijah’s connection to the coven, they are able to hold out long enough to see that the machine isn’t there and decide to run.

Elijah is hit by one of the depowering weapons and the shock causes him to stumble before he can reach Lillian and teleport them away.

Seeing Elijah get hit, Lillian tries to help him. She reaches him but the two are quickly killed.

A few hours later, Elijah wakes up as a spirit. He doesn’t see any sign of Lillian’s spirit, so he makes his way to a safehouse in Hedon and someone goes back to retrieve their bodies. Once they return with his and Lillian’s bodies Elijah has an emotional breakdown.

[seregonodassey]

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[deasidarchived]

@exitstageentropy​ // starter.

lala had a knack of encountering strange people - her best friend, keith, was the first of many who bequeathed the fascination of those out of the ordinary. though, she shouldn’t say this as she was an avid doll collector of antiquated mannequins and other seedy shop collected knickknacks. if one were to enter her room, they’d think they would have entered a witch’s cove and feel like a curse was creeping down their backs. 

but that wasn’t what she intended at all when decorating her space. lala was just drawn to the otherworldly at times and at the sight of this strange occult store, her feet just took her there. Oculi Omnium. her father and mother would be baffled and dismayed with her desire to enter the bizarre store, but she’d never tell them. and so, she entered, eyeing the merchandise but her attention was captivated by a woman shorter than her but with a flamboyant style, so to say. 

tilting her head, lala, with her honest breath, spoke aloud, “ah, you’re very beautiful, miss.”

[girlsofcomics]

Absynthia van Mort

-Real name: Absynthia van Mort

-A.k.a.: Cindy von Mort

-Publisher: Marvel

-Type: Human (alchemist)

-Afilliations: -

-Powers: Life control, death control, intellect, magic, necromancy, alchemy.

[eduardofaukes]

Eduardo wasn’t about to pass up the chance to stop his friend from losing his soul and so he got up, “Thanks… I think.” He said again, tapping the table they’d been sat at before he sped off towards his friend, who didn’t seem at all happy to have Eduardo dragging him by the arm away from the girl he’d been hoping to hook up with.

END.

eduardofaukes​:

Eduardo just laughed quietly, “Well, it is what it is.” He flashed her another boyish grin and shrugged. “I don’t know any deity’s, but I suppose they’ll just have to judge me when I get to it.” He agreed. Eduardo had never been sure what he believed when it came to the afterlife. “You think I have boyish charm?” He asked with a slight lift to his eyebrow.

“Yeah.” Eduardo confirmed, “Should I be saving him from having his soul recycled right now?”

“ They will judge you regardless, it’s what deities do. We demons are the fun, they are the boredom. ” Layla would know, she used to be one, a long time ago. “I wouldn’t start a career in acting, relying solely on your boyish charm, but yes, you have something.  Perhaps it´s the wolf part.”

She chuckled, watching how Eduardo´s friend was about to be lured into the seediest part of Absynthia. “ Run little wolf. You might catch him in time.”