Veles Downtime

May 2010

• Week One (5/3/10 - 5/9/10): Creating Magic Items; Ritual Magic; Project: Devil's Deal: +2 net
• Week Two (5/10/10 - 5/16/10): Project: Devil's Deal (+4 net, 6 total); +2 XP for purchase of Allies Merit.
• Week Three (5/17/10 - 5/23/10): Project: Briar (+2 net)
• Week Four (5/24/10 - 5/30/10): Project: Vajra (8 succ, -3 due to counterintel: 5 net successes);
  • Team CS: Project: Shepherd (Media and Intel)
  • Team M: Project: Shepherd (Government, 2 Succ)
  • Team DR: Project: Vajra (+7 dice)

June 2010

• Week One (5/31/10 - 6/6/10): Project: Vajra (-9 due to counterintel/security: 3 net successes);
  • Team CS: Project: Shepherd (X)
  • Team M: Project: Shepherd (Government, 3 Succ)
  • Team DR: Project: Vajra (+4 dice)
• Week Two (6/7/10 - 6/13/10): Project: Vajra (-8 due to counterintel/security: 5 net successes);
  • Team CS: Project: Shepherd (X)
  • Team M: Project: Shepherd (Government, 3 Succ)
  • Team DR: Project: Vajra (+9 dice)
• Week Three (6/14/10 - 6/20/10): Counterintelligence for Cabal (4 successes)
  • Team CS: Project: Shepherd (X)
  • Team M: Project: Shepherd (Government, 1 Succ)

July to October 2010

• Our Cabal Sanctum: I'm going to construct a subterranean vault to act as our cabal's acknowledged Sanctum. It'll connect physically to the New Shanghai Tunnels as well as maintaining a regular connection to the Redoubt (both below). I'd like to include living quarters, a place where we can receive visitors, space for guests, the various locations that are useful to magi (including a Demesne, if we can swing it), and a "Grand Central Station" room that is seperated from the rest of the complex and acts as the "launch pad" for portals via Imbued Item that lead to other areas of the city. It would be the place where others would arrive via such magics as well.
• The New Shanghai Tunnels: I'd like to set up a network of tunnels that piggybacks the Shanghai Tunnels. Part of this means setting up a strong spirit court alliance with the Lurkers, the court of predatory and darkness spirits that dwells down there. It will also mean expanding the tunnels, a project that Veles will design and implement with Matter magics, and creating security and access to it through Imbued Items. Practically speaking, we'll even have to set up some "quick passage" portions to allow folks in far-off parts of Portland to get to it quickly. The goal of this place is simple: it's a place to pull a retreat into, to get around the main part of the city quickly and in such a way that is difficult to follow or track. All mages acknowledged to the Consilium will be given access.
• The Redoubt: I think we need a secure citadel of some kind for cabals or individual magi in need to retreat to, should it become needful. I'd like this to be in Shadow, and so we'll depend heavily on Sarah (and other Spirit magi with the interest/ability to help create it) for the construction of this place. We'll want to fortify it heavily with good, solid magics (heavy on the Warding/Banning), defend it with spirits for that purpose, and provide the Sentinels, Adamant Sage, Counselors, Hierarch and the Banner Wardens or Doorwardens for each cabal with an Imbued Item that will get them to the "outer gates" of the Redoubt, as a last-ditch escape. We ought to provide a similar means of getting to the Redoubt from the New Shanghai Tunnels, but the use of that element not necessarily made public. The Redoubt will also include a two-way passage to the Court of Portlandia's spirit court.
• One thing Veles would like to do is arrange to set up new Sancta for everyone, particularly since a lot of our original set-ups were compromised by the Seers. If desired, he's also happy to help folks make arrangements for whatever setups they prefer for their cabals as well.
• He's also going to lend help getting Mneme in a position of control over the law firm she is interested in. His aid generally best shows up in the form of finances, the acquisition of secrets about people and the like.
• He will be working on his new cabal's goals of aiding in the establishment of cabal- and Sanctum-level security for the Consilium magi, and pushing through the efforts to establish new systems for the creation of false identities.
• Will the Hidden Thorn (Portland Guardians caucus) be rejoining the Limeri Agkeros (Mt. Angel caucus), or more firmly establishing its own identity?
• Joining forces with Theodorus and the other Tamers of Stones on A Grand Project, using Theodorus' designs and his own influence in construction companies and the like. It's the sort of thing where he'll ensure to keep his distance, working through multiple layers and people he's never worked through before. His focus will also be through perfectly mundane methods undetectable by magic - bribery and influence peddling, rather than outright sorcery.

Running Counterintelligence

• Veles Personal: 0
• Lamplighters: 4

Projects Order

• Project: Devil's Deal: 5
  • Objective: Seize control over Faust Security Systems. (Veles)
• Project: Briar: 15
  • Objective: To investigate the Guardians of the Hidden Thorn, to ascertain the existence of any plants, double-agents or other active threats or traitors. (Veles)

Project: Shepherd "Ping" List

• Government: Mayor Sam Adams; Commissioners: Dan Saltzman, Amanda Fritz, Nick Fish; Several IRS Auditors; Several City and County Clerks

• Project: Shepherd: Government 9, Media/Intelligence 0, Religious 8, Police/Military 0, Finances 0, Technology 0
  • Objective: Investigate Sleeper institutions looking for Seers influence, in this order: government (Hegemonic), media and intelligence (Panopticon), churches (Paternoster), police and military (Praetorian), finance (Mammon), technology (Pantechnicon). Investigation should be performed by those with access to Querelous Minds (Fate ••, Prime •), likely by having someone cast that spell on the investigators.
    • Government (Mathers)
    • Media/Intelligence (Saturday, Compline)
    • Religious (Mathers)
    • Police/Military (Mathers)
    • Finances (Saturday, Compline)
    • Technology (Saturday, Compline)
• Project: Vajra: 13 (Veles, Reed, Dominic)
  • Objective: To investigate King and Adamant Security, answering the following questions:
    • How do they communicate? When not in person, what is their primary method of communication? (Reed, Dominic)
    • Who are the Sleepers and Sleepwalkers that interact with their business on a regular basis? Are they protected? (Veles)
    • What resources do they have access to, individually and as a cabal? (Reed, Dominic)
    • Investigate the backgrounds of individual cabal members. (Veles)
    • Find someone in the cabal who is turnable as a double agent. Ascertain dirty secrets and blackmail. (Veles)
  • Results
    • You do have a decent analysis on their communication. They mostly talk in person, having a meetin at least once every couple of days. Cellphone calls are encrypted and short. Their talks are mostly scheduling. With the occasional conversation about an urgent situation when it crops up. You have also noted that cabal members occasionally call King and say that they need to talk. They then hang up, and go silent. It looks like telepathic communication.
    • For the most part they work out of their warehouse/office near Milwaukie. This is the Cabal's sanctum and where they handle their business with other Mages.
    • Their Main business is Diamond Protective Services. A very large security firm in Portland. It handles both security system installation/monitoring and on site security guards. It also has a small private investigation branch. DPS maintains a small group of Sleepwalkers (3 total) who act as Executive Protection / Merecnary response. All of them are ex Military and vary well trained. When Adamant Security gets ready for a nasty situation they get called in to their warehouse.
    • King is listed as a Board Member of Diamond Protective Services. A sleepwalker is the CEO. King spends a lot of his in person time meeting up with individuals in both local government and business. He also has had lunch with several individuals working in both the FBI and DEA.
    • Verne owns a gun store / machine shop. She does custom work. Verne has a lot of police officers coming through her shop and using her private range.
    • Howard works as a bodyguard, and typically contracts out through DPS.
    • Octavia. Doesn't seem to have any direct business interests. And it is very hard to figure out where she spends her time online.
• Project: Watchman: People of the Book 0, River Wardens 0, Lamplighters 0, Reclamation House 0, Diamond Rose 0
  • Objective: Investigate the members of cabals who have Guardians among them. No Guardian will investigate his own cabal. These will be investigated in two-man teams:
    • People of the Book (Dominic, Compline)
    • River Wardens (Veles, Compline)
    • Lamplighters (Mathers, Reed)
    • Reclamation House (Veles, Compline)
    • Diamond Rose (Saturday, Reed)
• Project: Alighieri: 0 (Veles)
  • Objective: Investigate the background and connections of Dante, of the People of the Book. (Veles)
• Project: Anarchy: Emerald Dream 0, Seattle Liberation Front 0, Puget Sound Research Institute 0
  • Objective: Investigate the cabals from Seattle who have settled in Portland, as it would be too easy for a Seer to have replaced or simply joined up with the refugees. (Other Guardians)
    • Emerald Dream (X)
    • Seattle Liberation Front (X)
    • Puget Sound Research Institute (X)
• Project: Diaspora: 0
  • Objective: Seek potential Guardian recruits among the Free Councilors who survived Seattle, giving them a chance to be part of the Order that comes up against the Seers most often. (Veles)
• Project: John Wayne: 0 (Other Guardians)
  • Objective: Investigate those magi who are in Portland without membership in a cabal. (Other Guardians)
• Project: Scepter: Hierarch 0, Councilors 0, Sentinels 0, Heralds 0, Seekers of the Sublime Truth 0, Radio Free Portland 0, Olympians 0, Vox Populi 0
  • Objective: Investigate the following. (Veles, plus Trusted)
    • Hierarch (X)
    • Councilors (X)
    • Sentinels (X)
    • Heralds (X)
    • Seekers of the Sublime Truth (X)
    • Radio Free Portland (X)
    • Olympians (X)
    • Vox Populi (X)