So that Hiatus lasted longer than I thought it would, but my work schedule has cleared up to a reasonable enough degree to start running again.

Apologies for no communication on the extension, work was rather tight in terms of dead lines, still have one or two things going on, but I'm not being buried alive anymore so I should have time to run again, hopefully more consistently than the lead up to the hiatus as well.

You can Find the general rules here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BuiIszmy9Mud6FGPLJYv3v1G3mFdUJnrndEKVLULEPw/edit?usp=sharing
Special Rules will be explained as they become relevant

Here is the character sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODkZgPMO5swNDpzPQDmGySuPqDOhJ6HlnQWTCgaOjdw/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the Last Thread: https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5114302/
And here is the Archive: https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Beneath+The+Pale+Moon


Now as a recap to last vote
>Research the D'Hoc Family
>Research Necromancers Notes (3/6) [Impediment]
had won

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Opting to take some time to understand the position that the magus might be in, as well as their family history you get in contact with some individuals across the Channel to see if you can't get access to some of the records of the D'Hoc family of Magi.

As it would turn out it wasn't terribly difficult to find out information on them, considering the current head of the family is the same rogue magus that is the cause of all this trouble, the Clocktower is rather forthcoming with any information they have on them. Especially in getting rid of them as they're more of a hinderance to the status quo than anything right now.

The D'Hoc are a family of somewhat respectable age dating back to the late medieval period, primarily focused on spiritual evocation its various applications, they were able to adapt fairly well into mundane society as time progressed as a family of mediums. At least that's what they sold themselves as. It's not so much that they speak with the dead as they reconstruct the information that was that individual from the Akashic records to the best of their abilities and then interrogate it. Useful for information gathering, but not much else as these spirits have an extremely short life span only lasting minutes at most.

There may be some merit to the claim that those relics did belong to that family at some point as they can be tangentially connected to the 100 years war and the campaigns of Jean d'Arc. Regardless it would seem that the parents had signed away the relics to the church in their will.

Seems they had died a violent death of sorts, not unusual for magi, but a bit strange none the less given their particular brand of magic was rather inoffensive. Details are sparse but it seems to have been a dispute with another magi family over some resource rights for mystical agents.

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