9160/Sanctum Zootorum, the Revolving Door of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Sanctum Zootorum, the Revolving Door of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Date of Scene:	11 September 2019
Location:	Tribeca - Manhattan
Synopsis:	Strange is encountered by Hogarth who sets things in motion
Cast of Characters:	Hogarth Hart, Doctor Strange
Tinyplot:	Asgard's Requiem

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Hogarth Hart has posed:
     The mystical energies of the world are out of whack, and the latest addition to the Sanctum's assigned staff stopped before he got to his assignment. There was a rift at the Sanctum and a feeling of immense magical energy inside. It wasn't right.

  After searching about for a week, Hogarth finally connected enough threads to find Sanctum Zootorum, The now office of former Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Steven Strange. The Master-to-be opens the door, and steps in. He was dressed in non sorcerer attire: a blue tee shirt and a red and black jacket, attached to his back was a wooden rod about two feet in length, and worn brown leather boots under his rolled up jean legs. "Hello?" He asks as he enters.

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "Dactah Straaange." The Bostonian woman screams as the rather normal looking man walks into the clinic without a visible animal. The secretary was informed to contact the Doctor whenever anyone showed up without a pet, and so she's doing so in her own brunt way.

    A few moments pass in silence as the woman stares at Hogarth, and she would fit the sterotype perfectly if only she had gum in her mouth. The back door opens and Strange is standing in the doorway holding the door wide and inviting Hogarth to the back quickly. "Come come." Strange doesn't know who it is, but he knows it's a mystic, and he doesn't talk magic in the front. "You are, Hogarth, correct?" Stephen's eidetic memory showing some talent briefly as he ushers the wizard into his office. "It has been some time since we last met, and I sense you have something you wish to discuss."

Hogarth Hart has posed:
     Hogarth enters the back before responding to the Doctor. "Yes, I am. I was supposed to start serving under you at the Sanctum...but circumstances have made that impossible. It took me a while to seek you out...but not an impossible task."

  "I already know what happened. I don't agree with it. Not that it matters any." Hogarth removes the sling on his back and rests it against the wall. "Have you felt it? The ley lines, all out of sorts?"

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "I have felt it yes. I may not be the sorcerer supreme, but I am still a mage Hogarth." Stephen says and sighs as he steps around to sit at the chair behind his desk. "I have had several people come by and berate me for things beyond my control. Things in which I have no say because I lack the strength to do anything about." Stephen reasons further as he weakly squeezes at a six sided stress 'ball'.

Hogarth Hart has posed:
     Hogarth steps up and sits at the other side of the desk. "Then let me. I'm not the Sorcerer Supreme, but I am a mage of the Order, and that's a far cry from any 'magician' reading a book or such." His voice is even and fair, almost like a zen practitioner. "Unless you want to gain your title back. I'm not being led by a trickster, I'd rather lay down my staff for good." And considering once he saw the truth of magic, he dropped out of college and devoted his life to the study of the mystic. "In short: you still have my allegiance. If you want it."

Doctor Strange has posed:
    "I-" Stephen slowly turns his head towards Hogarth and drops his stress ball onto his desk. "Allegiance. Allies." Stephen whispers as something starts to dawn on him how much of a fool he has been. How Loki played him like a fiddle. He doesn't have to care what the Vishanti demanded or ordered. He's Stephen Strange. He reaches to the coat rack to grab his white lab coat and throws it on and storms out the door.

    ...

    Stephen then opens the door to his office and pokes his head back in to speak to Hogarth quickly. "I need your allegiance. We have work to do." And then his head disappears back out of the door.

Hogarth Hart has posed:
     Almost immediately after Strange responds from outside the door, Hogarth smiles with that chip in his front tooth and stands, grabbing the Staff of Final Judgement and slinging it behind him. "Where are we going?"

Doctor Strange has posed:
    Stephen is no where to be found. There's a hint of a portal fading from existence just at Hogarth's feet as he steps out of the door, but the Doctor is gone. On a mission for himself. That is until Hogarth gets a text from Stephen reading, "I have several people to speak with, I need you to gather who you can. Details to follow."