For Memory, For Luck
17th of March 2007 A.D.
Gregor, that was the first word that came to Chairty's mind when Molly finished speaking, oh not that madman himself, Molly couldn't have been more different from him, but the thing he looked for.
'I can grant wishes'.
Gregor would have sold his soul for something like that, knowledge, insight, magic, for him it would have been the same thing, power over others. Just speak the words and the world bends. She tried to remember Uriel's words about what Molly had inherited, a thing from another time, a thing from an older world, not the kind that turned around suns, but a different cosmos. An Angel of the Lord had looked at Molly and apologized. Charity was starting to understand why.
This wasn't just power people would kill for or even power they would die for, this was power they would kneel for, bestriding that invisible line between magic and miracle, it had limits maybe, but not the limits of human influence, of understanding and whatever gift of birth marked a wizard from one who was not.
"Mom... I am sure it is safe, it just
feels creepy when you accept because it allows me to make a claim of the person in question for a year and a day or else they go... well on holiday to Sanctuary," Molly was still trying to reassure her with a smile. "I could make it so whoever breaks the rules gets sent into a prison cell, or a safe entrance chamber. Regina already has something worked out, we are getting more and more used to taking in people from Earth and it's not like they would have to stay there long."
Michael had been looking down at the counter and thinking about something, maybe praying from the way his eyes sometimes went up from there. Finally he seems to have an idea.
"Confirmation."
"Er...what?" Molly seemed surprised, but Charity understood.
"Daniel, Michael and Alicia have passed though their confirmation, that's a much more serious 'claim' as you put it, they should understand the gravity of this, but not Hope Amanda or Hank."
"What about you two?" Molly asked looking between them hopefully.
"I am content that I will find what I need when I need it," Michael said simply. "Of what I simply want I have it all already."
Charity wished she had that confidence, being honest with herself that Faith. If one of her children was ever taken again... well she didn't know what she would need did she. That was an answer of a sort and not just her not having the courage to say yay or nay.
"Maybe later."
Of all the reactions she had expected when Alicia came home form softball practice it wasn't to carefully set the water bottle on the kitchen table and say. "I wish I had eidetic memory."
The light in the room turned green, a sort of shimmering uncertainty where you couldn't be sure what was real and what wasn't. Definitely a good idea to lower the blinds, Charity thought a little numbly.
"Done/Cool," the two sisters said as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Alicia Carpenter gains Eidetic Memory:
A character with an eidetic memory remembers the general sense of everything that she experiences, and she has greater ease in total recall. Under normal conditions, your character easily remembers everything that happens to her. In stressful situations (like memorizing a book during a firefight,) you may need to make a Perception + Alertness roll (difficulty 6) to memorize or recall the pertinent information.
For his part Daniel thinks about it for maybe ten, fifteen minutes than he walks over to his sister and whispers something in her ear and the light flares again.
"He wished for luck..." Molly explained smoothly.
But before she could finish what would doubtless be a very reasonable explanation Charity finished: "When he's in danger." Maybe she couldn't read Molly as well as he once had, but Daniel hadn't come across a way to hide the way his ears reddened when he did something he knew was reckless. Even though this
wasn't. Charity didn't for a moment think her eldest son would be less likely to walk into danger if he thought it was the right thing to do without that luck. Better that he have it than not.
Daniel Carpenter gains Nine Lives: When a roll occurs that would result in the character's death, the roll is made again. If the next roll succeeds, then your character lives - and one of your nine lives is used up. If that subsequent roll fails, then another re-roll is made, until either a successful roll occurs or your nine lives are used up. The storyteller should keep careful count of how many lives the character has remaining.
Mathew is the last one, setting down his school bag with a thump opening and closing his mouth more than once before asking finally, slowly, a mixture of dread and interest in his voice asked.
"Can I ask for magic stuff?"
Charity froze, she hadn't thought of that.
How had she not thought of that? her own mind screamed at her to say no, but she hadn't said so before and for all her children might think her too strict she wasn't an arbitrary parent, changing the rules when it suited her from one moment to another, but she wished... she wishes Molly would say no just the same.
What does Molly say?
[] Yes to magic wishes
[] No to magic wishes
[] Write in
OOC: Daniel is the kind of person who goes on to study magical martial arts for to try to keep up with his Exalted girlfriend, Mathew is a thirteen year old kid who was just given a genie wish and it fired up his imagination. Your call on if you want to let him take some kind of supernatural merit. His parents aren't going to speak up, but you do not even need a roll to see how Chairty feels about this. 
