The signs

His morning meditations remained undisturbed.  The shells of the dead he had summoned had been reshaped into the Father's Seal as was his custom...his offering...his oblation.

The trance began, sifting through the haze of the fallen world to pull the kernels of truth hidden there by the great Exarchs.

The visions came and went until his vision focused on a small chess piece...

Ever since the voice had been killed, he was forced to deal with other Seers directly...something he intended to remedy shortly.

"Apocrisarius, I am honored.  What do you want?"

"You have found another cabal of idealists I see."

"The remnants of the Dead Presidents.  They'll soon be following the others."

"We both know that's a lie.  The signs are clear.  They are a threat.  Deal with it and I will see to it the next Profane Urim is passed to you."

"Your signs may be clear, but they are not the ones I see.  I will do as the Father directs...and not as some self-important yankee says through a mirror."

...7 years bad luck was a worthy price to pay to put his rival in his place...

New Kid in Town 08/08/16

Terragon happens to run into a friend after they recently awakened at a building which the Throne has recently purchased.  There seems to be a minor Hallow in the building.  The Ark discovers that Gabriel and Loncoln are the only Masters to survive the war, and Terragon puts her friend Phoenix in contact with Gabriel to show her the ropes of being an Obrimos.

Open Stories 03/25/15

1) "...like Dresden"  - The vampires have asked to hire the Wizards to help them discover who is trying to sabotage the opening of Vendetta

2) "Crystal Thingie" - The Cabal must determine what the Crystal truly is and why it's so important.  They must experiment on it, research using resources available, and possibly request the help of other mages, possibly even those outside the Concillium.

3) "Cartographer" - The Cabal assists a Geomancer named "Magellan" in mapping downtown Tampa.  He leaves it up to them the order in which they visit, but many of them are dangerous, including:

• College of Tampa
• Curtis Hixon Park
• The Castle
• Central Avenue (site of Summer 1967 riots)
• Davis Island Yacht Club
• Circulo Cubano de Tampa (Smokers Sanctum) 
• Old Lutz Elementary School
• S. H. Kress and Co. Building
• Tampa Theatre
• Ybor Factory Building

4) "Manacles of Silence" - The Cabal must decode the grimoire and determine why it was in Count Tanzler's collection.

5) "Payment Due" - The Cabal (specifically Cerberus) still owe EWF for his little 'intrusion'.

6) "The Omens" - Are the omens prophetic signs or a cabal of Seers?

7) "Pennies from Heaven" - Roc's lawsuit against Pasco County could be very lucrative (since they have a $1.3B annual budget), especially if the Cabal enlisted the help of their friendly neighborhood vampire lawyer...

World of Darkness 3/01/15

TAMPA - A recent crime statistics report made public shows a significant decrease in drug-related arrests year over year.  Per Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor, "The programs we began a few years ago and continued pressure we put on the importers and wholesalers of illegal substances is finally bearing fruit." .  A year over year decrease of 5% "...may not seem like much," says Chief Castor, "but those arrests are no longer street level dealers but instead individuals at the higher levels of local drug cartels."  In related news, the increasing scarcity of black market drugs is pushing many former addicts to seek substance abuse support from Tampa charities and government agencies.  Chief Castor comments, "We are doing all that we can to enforce the law, but we also need our citizens to help those in need and shrink the demand for these substances as well."