Combat boots make loud clanging thuds with every step. Echoing throughout the sewers that Maxwell navigates. Uneasy thoughts hang like diesel clouds. More burdensome and cloying than the fetid stench of raw city muck that clung to the rusted tunnels he stalks.
"Damnation, why'd he have to show up now? If I didn't sell my lodge and most of my reagents I would have stood a better chance of warding him off. The way he phased through the building along with the sheer number of spirits under his command. I was a slight threat to him at best. Maybe more than a slight threat actually. If he was confident in his ability to subdue me he would have merely done so. He didn't because if he tried and failed that would leave him open to a counterattack. One that could potentially kill him. Good. That means he's vulnerable and insecure. What concerns me the most is the way Amy acted the moment he was there. Was that all an act to prevent Grail from hurting her, or was that him being a sick fuck and twisting her against herself? I'll know for sure once he's dead. Just need a plan of some sort."Eventually he finds himself climbing out of the sewers through a half-open manhole that led to downtown Seattle. Without further need he switches off the air filter of his mask. Situating himself to his surroundings. The riots coupled with the undead onslaught have done much to mar the city. Even the supposed nicer districts are littered with it's aftermath. Made worse by Humanis trying to segregate each district and killing off all non-humans trespassers found within their walls. Pretty soon, the rest of Seattle will be as the Barrens. Lone Star definitely has it's work cut out for them.
Maxwell's errant daydreaming is reeled in by the constant buzzing of his comm. Eagerly he checks it out to see if Joe had gotten back to him with a new place to live. Unexpectedly it was Kynos, the chromed keeb. With an offer to strike a crippling blow against Grail and all of his brood. Madly, Maxwell looks up directions and sends a speech-to-text message back to Kynos.
@Kynos -
<<I'm on my way. Warn security to not fire or there'll be hell to pay. See you soon.>>One new trick he had learned since his transition to the paradigms of Chaos Magic was that of levitation. That spell in tangent with the aid of one of his spirit's would prove to be incredibly fantastic. Now was a good time to test this. Calling forth his arcane power, Maxwell tries to levitate himself several hundred meters into the air.
Force 5 Levitate: 11d6t5 4
Drain Resistance: 11d6t5 1
Sovereign takes 2 more Stun. Totaling for a Stun Track of 6.The spell worked successfully but not without causing him another wracking painful cough. After several minutes he found himself high above Seattle in the nighttime sky. To his spirit he called and instructed his first service.
"Appear next to me, Morgoth. I want you to instill your powers of haste on me and to sustain it, until I say otherwise. Together let us make our grand entrance to the Gates."
