Ghosthasslers One Shot

Setup and Premise
Amber Wren, Lilyth Clarke, and Morde Davies meet up in Gray Springs to perform a séance to contact the spirit of Amber's mother, who's soul is contained in a box Amber has.

Plot Summary
Atm, this is a work in progress, and mostly a braindump. Information will get organized later. Details and order of events may be missing or fuzzy.

Meeting up:

 * Lilyth is waiting at home for Amber and Morde to arrive when Damien shows up. He brings up the engagement and asks Lilyth if she's told her mother yet, which she hasn't.
 * Lilyth calls Morty -- who is wearing a sequined dress with 6722 sequins-- and sends him to check up on Amber.
 * not before hurting his feelings by forgetting how many sequins are on his crocs
 * Morty checks in with Amber -- who does remember how many sequins are on his crocs (99 red on one, 96 red on the other, and three black sequins from Amber's stage costume) -- and gets an update on her location. She's about 10 minutes out.
 * Morde travels through the Faewilds to The Glade. It's apparent there's new construction, in the form of new buildings and structures being grown into place. Nonspecific signs of a change in regime.
 * He portals out into a large field, and calls Lilyth, who offers to pick him up.
 * While she's out Amber arrives at the trailer park, and is greeted by Imogen who explains that Lilyth isn't there, and seems surprised to see Amber.
 * She's even more surprised to hear about the engagement.
 * Meanwhile Lilyth picks up Morde. Who calls it to Lilyth's attention that maybe she should have told Lilyth's mom about the engagement before Amber's arrival.
 * Lilyth explains that she was planning on telling Imogen together... Which Amber herself doesn't know.
 * It clicks. Lilyth panics and hurries home.
 * [lots of stuff including awkward and reconciliation.]

Ritual Setup

 * They set up the ritual by the swingset
 * Morde and Morty formally meet.
 * Morty initially unimpressed with how similar Morde's name sounds to his until it's confirmed that their full names aren't the same.
 * Damien and Morde formally meet.
 * Flirting happens. Lilyth complains loudly whenever it's in front of her.
 * Amber and Damien have a brief conversation about the new deal that she's striking with him to get out of her current record deal
 * mainly to the effect of talking about it later.
 * There's discussion about what the goal of the ritual is. Amber again puts forth the idea of bringing her mother back. Morde emphasizes it needing to be her choice
 * At some point during this, Morde hints at interest in Damien, but, you know, with him being the brother of a friend... he wants to make sure it's not awkward
 * Especially given Lilyth's complaining when they flirt
 * Lilyth shrugs it off. She doesn't really care, she just doesn't want to know any details

The ritual happens which is below.

Post Ritual Cleanup

 * Lilyth and Amber get caught up in the emotionality of the moment and after some intense kissing head over to the van
 * sex happens
 * Morde cleans up the ritual site and talks with Damien, among other things explaining what he was doing here in the first place
 * this includes his concern about the creature that had been unleashed during Gray Springs Season 1
 * Damien offers to show him key sites related to all that, and other stuff
 * Morde uses a guitar string to turn the newly created soul crystal into a wire wrapped pendant
 * After making sure it was an opportune time, knocks on the van and gives Amber the pendant.
 * Damien and Morde go off to do the the abovementioned sightseeing (or "site-seeing")
 * Sex happens
 * Later Damien returns with the contract and it's discussed with the group.
 * of note he can deal with the current contract holders however he deems fit.

The ritual itself, because it deserves its own section.
The ritual is successful though at first Renee can't really see much. She can hear Amber though and they talk. It is incredibly sweet, and sad. She'd been watching over Amber as best she could, when she suddenly was unable to. This is theorized to be when she was in Lost Place of the Abyss. She's reassured that the place is dealt with.

She knows who Lilyth is, and that Amber's grown into her own power. Makes reference to the fact that, contrary to what Amber had believed, her father's attempt to destroy Renee's witching supplies had been at her request. Amber tells her about the engagement and that she snatched the ring.

At some point, Morde uses some spirit resonance to help bolster the spell, at which point Renee becomes more visible, and can see more.

When they are about to say goodbye and the magic is taking a lot out of Amber, Lilyth infuses the spell with her own magic -- which makes Renee solid enough that they can actually hug, though she is warmer to the touch than is normal. However, she can't stay too long, as the magic also causes the magic inscriptions on the ground to slowly burn away from the inside. Lilyth realizes that this is something she can do, and with practice will be able to strengthen Amber's spells without also burning them away.

Amber discusses the possibility of bringing Renee back to life, but Renee isn't comfortable with the idea, partially because it would take so much power as to be dangerous to Amber. Also because she's been dead for a while and the world has moved on without her -- as it should. Basically she doesn't feel right undoing that.

Instead, they find a way for her to stay with Amber and help her develop the power she has, and to watch over her. Amber agrees, and Lilyth realizes that this dynamic that Renee is talking about isn't dissimilar from her old bargain with Damien. It doesn't seem malicious in any way -- besides Lilyth is fairly chill over infernal deals to begin with. She trusts Renee.

As the last of the inscriptions burn away, the sphere that held Renee's soul shrinks down and transforms into a small crystal, one which could be easily turned into a pendant.

Plot Discoveries Advancements and Mechanical Consequences

 * Glitch explained the mechanical consequence of the gift Lilyth gave Amber in the birthday thread. Which is that Amber can effectively make tokens for Lilyth at will.
 * Lilyth now knows she has the ability to infuse spells and rituals with her infernal magic. Though she needs to be careful with it.
 * The use of Magic drained Amber's mother to the point of illness and death, and that's why Amber's father hates witchcraft. Not plain ignorance.
 * Amber can now call on her mother for help. Mechanically, Amber has Soul Debt.
 * The Stag and Damien have strings on each other. We foresee no problems.
 * Amber is now technically signed with Damien. There may be deaths at the old record label.

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