[PHOENIX COLOR] Flashback: many years ago, a younger Locke dressed in princely garb stands before an ornately-dressed dead woman. Lord Farouk - in the body of his father - squeezes his shoulder and tells Locke that none of this would have happened if he hadn't tried to hull her. In the present, Phoenix is grabbing Raven and sobbing.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris gets the word from Yvenne about Locke's ship and tells the Sodalis they need to get planetside. Their shuttle breaks away from the cathedral ship as it comes under fire from the insectile Vaylen ships.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne stands and knocks her chair over as the cathedral ships crash around them, raising mushroom clouds from their fusion engines. She grabs Dove from Myers. She turns to Kestrel and says "we're going to get safety." Thalia gets up to escort them. "Anyone who wants to get to the bunker come with me." As a bunch of family and retainers crowd into the elevators, Yvenne lets the doors close on Myers.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Lord Farouk seizes the video screens in the Glass Palace to send a message to Kestrel. He urges Avarine to choose peace rather than being ground down.
[MARIS INTERSTITIAL] Maris lets Kestrel know that Locke's ship is at the Glass Palace, and that the Vaylen can turn children into them. Kestrel begins to round up the Palace guard.
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix and Quinn bring Raven to Torrent's hideout. Torrent explores Raven's damaged mind - "what do you want me to do about this?" Phoenix begs him, "I know I can't hide what I am, but if I go there now, I'll be torn apart!" Torrent says he'll see what he can do.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Maris lands and she and Kestrel go to find Locke's ship evacuated. They find the operating theater, and Maris fusors some Naiven.
[YVENNE BUILDER(1)] Yvenne is on the phone with the Raven brotherhood leadership. She cannot find Phoenix, and so contacts Maris to try to find her. Then she calls Kestrel, who is on her way to the Leviathan. Dove says hi to Mommy Kestrel.
[MARIS BUILDER (1)] Maris finds Phoenix with Locke. She reveals that she is Vaylen and asks for amnesty. "If you think that you will survive a second longer than it takes for that child to be born, you are very mistaken." They take Raven and Phoenix to the Eugenics lab.
[ALIX INTERSTITIAL] Crow brings Alix to speak with Kestrel, and reveals that Phoenix is Vaylen and Raven has been damaged and hulled. He asks Kestrel to get them back from Maris. Kestrel refuses. "Maris is still family when it counts." "I want Phoneix' body kept alive until my child can be cut out of her, and then she'll be put to rest... I am Forged Lord and she is an enemy combatant." Crow: "You have loved her these last few years! There is still something to love there!" Kestrel refuses to argue, and ends the conversation.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne is preparing to leave the bunker, and Myers tries to take Dove. Yvenne says that he will have to come with her if he wants to stay with Dove, so he comes.
[MARIS BUILDER (2-3)] Maris attempts to restrain Phoenix, but injures the fetus. She tries to deliver the baby, but fails, and it dies while Phoenix bleeds out. When the worm emerges, she stabs it into the floor.
[YVENNE BUILDER] Yvenne arrives at the laboratory to find the carnage - a Sodalis convinces her not to bring Dove in, between dry heaves. She sees the bloody tableau, and Maris tells her (clearly lying) that Phoenix was trying to hurt the child. She heads out to tell Myers the same thing, though she knows that Maris was lying. Myers is less perceptive.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel addresses the planet, to let them know she will be going into council with the Cotar Fomas and the royals. "But for now, hug your children close and hope for better days."
[TORRENT COLOR] Torrent meets with Lord Farouk and promises to help the Vaylen if they will help him destroy the nobility. Farouk gestures to some islands. "They're all yours."
MANEUVER ROLL: FLAK vs. FLAK. The humans and Vaylen bash against each other to no particular effect, as their forces continue to circle and look for an opening.
MANEUV
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Session 11: 7/2/2013
BURNING AVARINE: INVASION
PRELUDE: Yvenne is the consummate businesswoman, having set herself up in posh offices in the Tamar compound. She bounces Dove on one hip as she arranges for massive arms shipments in the name of the Nevay Corporation.
Vaylen don't get a prelude because Avarine women are bad-ass motherfuckers who won the last Phase.
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix meets with Quinn in Locke's old stateroom. "Since when are you giving the orders?" "I'm not. He is." Lord Farouk arrives. Phoenix is undone. She makes excuses, and is thrown against the wall. "We're coming."
[MARIS COLOR] Maris and her Sodalis find a New Horizon laboratory under a destroyed temple. When her Sodalis says that she can bring down the ceiling with explosives, Maris fixes her with a gaze and her nose begins bleeding, then she silently walks away.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel quietly slips into Myers' room while Yvenne is sleeping and has rough, dominant sex with him. Then she slips into Yvenne's bed and cuddles her.
[MARIS BUILDING (1)] Maris meets Yvenne in the back room of a bar owned by the Raven Brotherhood. Yvenne shows her images of Dove, and the wearied Maris smiles. They talk about the future of Avarine - Maris tries to convince Yvenne to betray Kestrel for Kestrel's safety (and Phoenix' demise). That doesn't move her, but when Maris shows her the images from the Order of Inner Perfection eugenics lab, she is intrigued... "Even as Cotar Fomas, even posessing this information would land me in the hands of the Inquisition. I should have destroyed it, but I thought of your problem with Myers..."
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne is playing hide and seek with Dove, when Myers walks in. When Myers tries to engage them all in play, she has work to do, suddenly.
[CROW COLOR] Crow and Raven are looking at a beautiful stained glass image of an island bird. Raven is down on himself for not living up to Crow's standard, but Crow reassures him that it is beautiful, and important to show the people of Avarine what is good about it.
[ALIX INTERSTITIAL] Alix discusses the prospect of bringing a child - per genetically impossible - into Avarine's war. Maris reassures him that she is scared as well, but needs to believe that the river of fire is leading her to have a child with him, and that if she is killed first, that he will be able to raise it.
[ALIX BUILDING] Alix and Frost are scrutinizing Yvenne's public record of nobility. They find reason to be suspicious, but Yvenne is alerted that they were searching for her.
[YVENNE/KESTREL BUILDING] Yvenne is looking for very specific equipment for... a "drill" for her "operations." Kestrel helps her research a good replacement. Yvenne sends Kestrel and Dove away to find books while she makes preparations for the lab. When she finds them again, Dove and Kestrel are fast asleep, and she is saddened as she realizes her work has gotten in the way of being with her daughter.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Crow convinces Kestrel that she needs to force the Mundus off-world. Kestrel is not concerned about opposing Maris any more. Kestrel suggests that she will talk to Maris at least one more time.
[MARIS BUILDING (2)] Maris takes a squad of Sodalis to the Inquisition ship to arrest Sister Priya. The Sodalis try to arrest her for blasphemy, but she cows them and tells them they will go after Priya. "Be not afraid, Sister Barnes. I am the torch of Ahmilahk. All will be well." She kisses the Sodalis on the forehead, and they fall in behind her.
[KESTERL BUILDING] The Mundus are assaulting a House Tamar ally, when the Leviathan swoops in and begins sweeping the ground with artillery. But the Mundus troops manage to dig in and resist the assault long enough to survive, and then raze the compound, killing all military-age women.
[PHOENIX BUILDING] Phoenix leads a playful and blindfolded Raven to Locke's ship and has him lay down on the operating table, then restrains him. Phoenix is crying. "I love you the most! If I don't do this, they're going to kill you." Quinn is there. They fuck up the hull, Phoenix having lost some of her skill in the change of bodies. A part of the surgical equipment is jammed in Raven's skull. Hours later, they stabilize him, but he is in a coma. Phoenix is sobbing in the corner.
MANEUVER ROLL: Assess vs. Flak, both succeed. In her work to re-establish the Inner Perfection laboratories, Yvenne finds a number of irregularities in the Tamar finances, and realizes that funds are being diverted to store and re-hab a ship whose identification she does not recognize. She tells Maris, who sends back a message: LEAVE. TAKE DOVE. COME TO THE SODALITY FORTRESS. YOU ARE IN DANGER.
Unsettled but not quite ready to kidnap her own child, she goes out for family dinner with the Tamars. "Look mommy! Birds!" Dove says, as strange ships emerge into the sky and one of the great Mundus cathedral ships crashes to the planet's surface in flames.
+Rachel E.S. Walton +Rachael Storey , +Sara Williamson.
PRELUDE: Yvenne is the consummate businesswoman, having set herself up in posh offices in the Tamar compound. She bounces Dove on one hip as she arranges for massive arms shipments in the name of the Nevay Corporation.
Vaylen don't get a prelude because Avarine women are bad-ass motherfuckers who won the last Phase.
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix meets with Quinn in Locke's old stateroom. "Since when are you giving the orders?" "I'm not. He is." Lord Farouk arrives. Phoenix is undone. She makes excuses, and is thrown against the wall. "We're coming."
[MARIS COLOR] Maris and her Sodalis find a New Horizon laboratory under a destroyed temple. When her Sodalis says that she can bring down the ceiling with explosives, Maris fixes her with a gaze and her nose begins bleeding, then she silently walks away.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel quietly slips into Myers' room while Yvenne is sleeping and has rough, dominant sex with him. Then she slips into Yvenne's bed and cuddles her.
[MARIS BUILDING (1)] Maris meets Yvenne in the back room of a bar owned by the Raven Brotherhood. Yvenne shows her images of Dove, and the wearied Maris smiles. They talk about the future of Avarine - Maris tries to convince Yvenne to betray Kestrel for Kestrel's safety (and Phoenix' demise). That doesn't move her, but when Maris shows her the images from the Order of Inner Perfection eugenics lab, she is intrigued... "Even as Cotar Fomas, even posessing this information would land me in the hands of the Inquisition. I should have destroyed it, but I thought of your problem with Myers..."
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne is playing hide and seek with Dove, when Myers walks in. When Myers tries to engage them all in play, she has work to do, suddenly.
[CROW COLOR] Crow and Raven are looking at a beautiful stained glass image of an island bird. Raven is down on himself for not living up to Crow's standard, but Crow reassures him that it is beautiful, and important to show the people of Avarine what is good about it.
[ALIX INTERSTITIAL] Alix discusses the prospect of bringing a child - per genetically impossible - into Avarine's war. Maris reassures him that she is scared as well, but needs to believe that the river of fire is leading her to have a child with him, and that if she is killed first, that he will be able to raise it.
[ALIX BUILDING] Alix and Frost are scrutinizing Yvenne's public record of nobility. They find reason to be suspicious, but Yvenne is alerted that they were searching for her.
[YVENNE/KESTREL BUILDING] Yvenne is looking for very specific equipment for... a "drill" for her "operations." Kestrel helps her research a good replacement. Yvenne sends Kestrel and Dove away to find books while she makes preparations for the lab. When she finds them again, Dove and Kestrel are fast asleep, and she is saddened as she realizes her work has gotten in the way of being with her daughter.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Crow convinces Kestrel that she needs to force the Mundus off-world. Kestrel is not concerned about opposing Maris any more. Kestrel suggests that she will talk to Maris at least one more time.
[MARIS BUILDING (2)] Maris takes a squad of Sodalis to the Inquisition ship to arrest Sister Priya. The Sodalis try to arrest her for blasphemy, but she cows them and tells them they will go after Priya. "Be not afraid, Sister Barnes. I am the torch of Ahmilahk. All will be well." She kisses the Sodalis on the forehead, and they fall in behind her.
[KESTERL BUILDING] The Mundus are assaulting a House Tamar ally, when the Leviathan swoops in and begins sweeping the ground with artillery. But the Mundus troops manage to dig in and resist the assault long enough to survive, and then raze the compound, killing all military-age women.
[PHOENIX BUILDING] Phoenix leads a playful and blindfolded Raven to Locke's ship and has him lay down on the operating table, then restrains him. Phoenix is crying. "I love you the most! If I don't do this, they're going to kill you." Quinn is there. They fuck up the hull, Phoenix having lost some of her skill in the change of bodies. A part of the surgical equipment is jammed in Raven's skull. Hours later, they stabilize him, but he is in a coma. Phoenix is sobbing in the corner.
MANEUVER ROLL: Assess vs. Flak, both succeed. In her work to re-establish the Inner Perfection laboratories, Yvenne finds a number of irregularities in the Tamar finances, and realizes that funds are being diverted to store and re-hab a ship whose identification she does not recognize. She tells Maris, who sends back a message: LEAVE. TAKE DOVE. COME TO THE SODALITY FORTRESS. YOU ARE IN DANGER.
Unsettled but not quite ready to kidnap her own child, she goes out for family dinner with the Tamars. "Look mommy! Birds!" Dove says, as strange ships emerge into the sky and one of the great Mundus cathedral ships crashes to the planet's surface in flames.
+Rachel E.S. Walton +Rachael Storey , +Sara Williamson.
Session 10: 3/26/13
[BURNING AVARINE]
[CROW COLOR] Crow is resting on Lycelle's lap, and she strokes his beard. He says he's growing it in now that he's not Forged Lord, but he admits that it's really that his manservant has gone missing again.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne is unpacking into her new office in the Painted Palace. Thalia checks in on her, and Yvenne says she needs to take another trip back to her old office.
[PHOENIX COLOR] Phoenix is recuperating. She and Raven are walking arm-in-arm in the garden. She tells him that she's ready to have a child.
[MARIS BUILDING (1)] Maris and Delphia manage to find the Inquisitor, Sister Priya. Maris begins to lay out her case against Lt. Quinn, and when Priya is dismissive, Maris and Delphia simultaneously realize she is Vaylen. They kill the connection.
[KESTREL BUILDING (1)] Kestrel catches a ship smuggling weapons and attacks it. It manages to evade capture, damaging the Leviathan's distortion drives. Lady Aruna is not pleased.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne blows up at Kestrel about the failure (Kestrel is blaming her crew). Yvenne yells at her to be subtle next time. They decide to spin this as Kestrel valiantly trying to interrupt a weapons supply to the slaves. They decide that Kestrel will make a speech asking the nobility to unite against the uprising. Kestrel sighs at the prospect of planning another gala.
[TORRENT COLOR] Torrent is dreaming of floating in the open water. He sees Maris on a cliff, looking down at him. Chains rise out of the water and pull him down, drowning as Maris watches. He wakes up, gasping and sweating.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris tells her Iron elite that the leadership of the Mundus is compromised by the Worm. They say they will stand with her.
[KESTREL BUILDING (2)] Meyers jumps into the middle of the marital bed, prompting a discussion on the subject of sleeping arrangements. Kestrel explains that there are two rooms and she will "visit" Meyers. He leaves, grudgingly, and pecks Yvenne awkwardly on the cheek. Then Thalia comes in, and says that she's not going to sleep down the hall since then she can't bodyguard. Thalia announces that she'll sleep in Meyers' room if she can't stay in Wren's room. Thalia says that she can sleep on a mat on the floor if the princess sister is too good for her. Kestrel promises to have another room built. Kestrel has a divider put in Wren's room, and Thalia starts smoking.
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix invites Kestrel for brunch. Phoenix suggests that they get started on an heir to House Tamar. Kestrel tells her to see the doctors. Phoenix gives a run-down on the mechanics. Making babies is so romantic!
[MARIS BUILDING (2)] Maris assaults Locke's ship. Quinn's forces try to take off, but Delphia blows the door and Maris and loyal Sodalis storm on. A sympathetic Sodalis points them to Locke's stateroom, where they find his life support capsule, which they take. As other Sodalis rush to the Cotar Fomas' presumptive defense, Maris briefly and sadly cradles Locke's lifeless body in her arms. She then smashes his skull on the ground and holds up the remnants of the Vaylen webbing for all to see.
[KESTREL BUILDING (3)] Kestrel gives an impassioned speech, inspiring the nobles to stand together against the slave uprising.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Torrent and Phoenix meet at Moon Under the Sea. Torrent says that the slaves are losing a lot of people in the fight against the Mundus. He asks for her help in crafting anti-Mundus propaganda.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel is in the doctor's office, on the exam table, waiting for them to extract her eggs. Kestrel smiles affectionately at a text message from Meyers.
[MARIS BUILDING (3)] Maris stalks among the rioters, looking for Alix. She tears down an anti-Mundus poster as she searches. She finds Alix and tells him that she realizes that the Wheel demands reconciliation between the slaves and the nobles, and that House Tamar is standing in the way. She says she wants to bring them down, and make the Mundus a force to bring an end to the conflict on Avarine.
[YVENNE BUILDING] Yvenne addresses the Raven Brotherhood and tells them that she will always stand with them and protect them, but it's too risky for her to remain their leader; Thalia and Zabad will be taking over. They carry out a heist against gun smugglers, and equip Yvenne's Mercator with a nail launcher, prepared to run the Mundus blockade.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human FLAK vs. Vaylen INUNDATE: HUMANS END THE MOTHERFUCKING PHASE. The Raven Brotherhood finds routes through the Mundus arms embargo as slaves rise up again to throw their bodies against the gates!
PHASE EPILOGUE: Three and a half years pass. In that time, Avarine is plunged into civil war. The Sodality aligns itself with the the slaves as the Council of Dregutai remains indecisive and the seat of Archcotare goes unfilled. Kestrel rallies the nobles around her, galvanized now by the threat from the slave uprising. Phoenix bears her a child, a beautiful baby girl. The war grinds on. And meanwhile, crossing the vast interstellar gulfs, a Vaylen fleet inexorably advances, to shame Locke for his failures and ravish this weakened world...
Thanks +Rachel E.S. Walton , +Rachael Storey , and +Sara Williamson!
[CROW COLOR] Crow is resting on Lycelle's lap, and she strokes his beard. He says he's growing it in now that he's not Forged Lord, but he admits that it's really that his manservant has gone missing again.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne is unpacking into her new office in the Painted Palace. Thalia checks in on her, and Yvenne says she needs to take another trip back to her old office.
[PHOENIX COLOR] Phoenix is recuperating. She and Raven are walking arm-in-arm in the garden. She tells him that she's ready to have a child.
[MARIS BUILDING (1)] Maris and Delphia manage to find the Inquisitor, Sister Priya. Maris begins to lay out her case against Lt. Quinn, and when Priya is dismissive, Maris and Delphia simultaneously realize she is Vaylen. They kill the connection.
[KESTREL BUILDING (1)] Kestrel catches a ship smuggling weapons and attacks it. It manages to evade capture, damaging the Leviathan's distortion drives. Lady Aruna is not pleased.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne blows up at Kestrel about the failure (Kestrel is blaming her crew). Yvenne yells at her to be subtle next time. They decide to spin this as Kestrel valiantly trying to interrupt a weapons supply to the slaves. They decide that Kestrel will make a speech asking the nobility to unite against the uprising. Kestrel sighs at the prospect of planning another gala.
[TORRENT COLOR] Torrent is dreaming of floating in the open water. He sees Maris on a cliff, looking down at him. Chains rise out of the water and pull him down, drowning as Maris watches. He wakes up, gasping and sweating.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris tells her Iron elite that the leadership of the Mundus is compromised by the Worm. They say they will stand with her.
[KESTREL BUILDING (2)] Meyers jumps into the middle of the marital bed, prompting a discussion on the subject of sleeping arrangements. Kestrel explains that there are two rooms and she will "visit" Meyers. He leaves, grudgingly, and pecks Yvenne awkwardly on the cheek. Then Thalia comes in, and says that she's not going to sleep down the hall since then she can't bodyguard. Thalia announces that she'll sleep in Meyers' room if she can't stay in Wren's room. Thalia says that she can sleep on a mat on the floor if the princess sister is too good for her. Kestrel promises to have another room built. Kestrel has a divider put in Wren's room, and Thalia starts smoking.
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix invites Kestrel for brunch. Phoenix suggests that they get started on an heir to House Tamar. Kestrel tells her to see the doctors. Phoenix gives a run-down on the mechanics. Making babies is so romantic!
[MARIS BUILDING (2)] Maris assaults Locke's ship. Quinn's forces try to take off, but Delphia blows the door and Maris and loyal Sodalis storm on. A sympathetic Sodalis points them to Locke's stateroom, where they find his life support capsule, which they take. As other Sodalis rush to the Cotar Fomas' presumptive defense, Maris briefly and sadly cradles Locke's lifeless body in her arms. She then smashes his skull on the ground and holds up the remnants of the Vaylen webbing for all to see.
[KESTREL BUILDING (3)] Kestrel gives an impassioned speech, inspiring the nobles to stand together against the slave uprising.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Torrent and Phoenix meet at Moon Under the Sea. Torrent says that the slaves are losing a lot of people in the fight against the Mundus. He asks for her help in crafting anti-Mundus propaganda.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel is in the doctor's office, on the exam table, waiting for them to extract her eggs. Kestrel smiles affectionately at a text message from Meyers.
[MARIS BUILDING (3)] Maris stalks among the rioters, looking for Alix. She tears down an anti-Mundus poster as she searches. She finds Alix and tells him that she realizes that the Wheel demands reconciliation between the slaves and the nobles, and that House Tamar is standing in the way. She says she wants to bring them down, and make the Mundus a force to bring an end to the conflict on Avarine.
[YVENNE BUILDING] Yvenne addresses the Raven Brotherhood and tells them that she will always stand with them and protect them, but it's too risky for her to remain their leader; Thalia and Zabad will be taking over. They carry out a heist against gun smugglers, and equip Yvenne's Mercator with a nail launcher, prepared to run the Mundus blockade.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human FLAK vs. Vaylen INUNDATE: HUMANS END THE MOTHERFUCKING PHASE. The Raven Brotherhood finds routes through the Mundus arms embargo as slaves rise up again to throw their bodies against the gates!
PHASE EPILOGUE: Three and a half years pass. In that time, Avarine is plunged into civil war. The Sodality aligns itself with the the slaves as the Council of Dregutai remains indecisive and the seat of Archcotare goes unfilled. Kestrel rallies the nobles around her, galvanized now by the threat from the slave uprising. Phoenix bears her a child, a beautiful baby girl. The war grinds on. And meanwhile, crossing the vast interstellar gulfs, a Vaylen fleet inexorably advances, to shame Locke for his failures and ravish this weakened world...
Thanks +Rachel E.S. Walton , +Rachael Storey , and +Sara Williamson!
Session 9: 3/12/13
[BURNING AVARINE: IT DOES NOT END]
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel is called to Phoenix' bedside. She brings Yvenne. Raven is there. Raven tells them that the doctors had to take Phoenix' eye, and collapses into Kestrel's arms (Yvenne joins the hugs). Phoenix wants assurances that she will be the surrogate, but Kestrel walks away as she yells after her, plaintively.
[CROW COLOR] Crow is making an intricate glass sculpture of a butterfly from glass. He sees a slight imperfection, and smashes it, with the others.
[MARIS INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel and Yvenne confront Maris at the Sodalis base. She says she struck Kestrel because of the dispute over surrogacy, and that Kestrel should simply tell her father that his sin did not condemn her and that Phoenix should know her place on the wheel, and that Kestrel should act decisively, like Forged Lord. Kestrel does, banishing Maris from the family.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel meets with Crow, and they discuss Maris. Crow is somewhat sympathetic to Maris, actually.
[MARIS BUILDER (1-2)] Maris confronts Quinn on Isla Sedus and demands to know where Locke is. Quinn tells her to stand down, but Maris drags her with her into the car, and realizes she is Vaylen. She promises to make her hurt before she says where Locke is.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Frost invites Zabad to a feast on the beach with Torrent. They discuss how Zabad is increasingly at loose ends now that Yvenne is neglecting the Brotherhood for her relationship with Kestrel. Torrent invites Zabad to join the revolution. Zabad says he's in.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne and Zabad chat about Zabad's chat. Yvenne reassures him that, whatever happens, she will not forget her roots, and side with the nobles against the slaves.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris slams the door on Quinn in a cell, leaving her in darkness.
[TORRENT COLOR] Slaves learn a way into the Battalion's holding cells and release many of their fellows, including Quinn in the confusion. She flees into the crowds.
[PHOENIX COLOR] Phoneix removes her facial bandages and looks in the mirror, the worm bulging behind his ruined eyes.
[YVENNE COLOR] The wedding! Maris is not invited but watches in impotent rage from behind Kestrel's eyes. They walk through a magnificient glass walkway to a New Horizon church. Myers, Kestrel, and Yvenne are all beautiful, but Kestrel is the resplendent centerpiece, sparkling in glass. Yvenne is in a non-sparkly white sheath dress. They exchange vows, and Yvenne's perfect purple rings. Phoenix is there with her decorative glass eyepatch. They all leave for a fabulous off-world honeymoon.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Myers and Kestrel chat on board the Leviathan, heading off-world. He reveals that he has crushed on her since he was a boy. Kestrel disabuses him of the notion that they'll be sleeping together (let alone all three of them) any time soon, as Yvenne goes pale. But Kestrel says that they will certainly spend some time "getting to know each other." After a few more drinks, though, Yvenne suggests that, in fact they DO all have sex together, and drags them into a stateroom. It's awkward.
[TORRENT CONFLICT] Alix invites a bereaved and tired Maris for a picnic on the beach. They discuss the fate of the world, and how their respective faiths brought them out of their darkest moments. Maris is about to try to compromise with Alix when he breaks open her mind, assaulting her with images of his childhood. She leaves with new sympathy for the slaves, but horrified and disappointed that Alix would do such a thing to her. She also caught a glimpse of Locke's lifeless body in a tank in Alix' mind, and knows the Worm is no longer in him, but not where it has gone.
[KESTREL COLOR] The coronation. Kestrel accepts the Forged Lord's crown in the Glass Palace. Maris arrives at the head of Sodalis-Sisters in Iron, as does a separate delegation from the Church. They stare each other down. Yvenne introduces herself graciously to all. Kestrel makes a stirring speech to the nobles, that is met with acclaim.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human Take Action vs. Vaylen [hesitate]. The humans do not close the deal! The Vaylen hang on by a thread and gather their strength, as the people celebrate Kestrel's coronation in the streets.
Thanks, +Rachel E.S. Walton , +Sara Williamson , +Rachael Storey Burke!
[PHOENIX INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel is called to Phoenix' bedside. She brings Yvenne. Raven is there. Raven tells them that the doctors had to take Phoenix' eye, and collapses into Kestrel's arms (Yvenne joins the hugs). Phoenix wants assurances that she will be the surrogate, but Kestrel walks away as she yells after her, plaintively.
[CROW COLOR] Crow is making an intricate glass sculpture of a butterfly from glass. He sees a slight imperfection, and smashes it, with the others.
[MARIS INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel and Yvenne confront Maris at the Sodalis base. She says she struck Kestrel because of the dispute over surrogacy, and that Kestrel should simply tell her father that his sin did not condemn her and that Phoenix should know her place on the wheel, and that Kestrel should act decisively, like Forged Lord. Kestrel does, banishing Maris from the family.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel meets with Crow, and they discuss Maris. Crow is somewhat sympathetic to Maris, actually.
[MARIS BUILDER (1-2)] Maris confronts Quinn on Isla Sedus and demands to know where Locke is. Quinn tells her to stand down, but Maris drags her with her into the car, and realizes she is Vaylen. She promises to make her hurt before she says where Locke is.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Frost invites Zabad to a feast on the beach with Torrent. They discuss how Zabad is increasingly at loose ends now that Yvenne is neglecting the Brotherhood for her relationship with Kestrel. Torrent invites Zabad to join the revolution. Zabad says he's in.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne and Zabad chat about Zabad's chat. Yvenne reassures him that, whatever happens, she will not forget her roots, and side with the nobles against the slaves.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris slams the door on Quinn in a cell, leaving her in darkness.
[TORRENT COLOR] Slaves learn a way into the Battalion's holding cells and release many of their fellows, including Quinn in the confusion. She flees into the crowds.
[PHOENIX COLOR] Phoneix removes her facial bandages and looks in the mirror, the worm bulging behind his ruined eyes.
[YVENNE COLOR] The wedding! Maris is not invited but watches in impotent rage from behind Kestrel's eyes. They walk through a magnificient glass walkway to a New Horizon church. Myers, Kestrel, and Yvenne are all beautiful, but Kestrel is the resplendent centerpiece, sparkling in glass. Yvenne is in a non-sparkly white sheath dress. They exchange vows, and Yvenne's perfect purple rings. Phoenix is there with her decorative glass eyepatch. They all leave for a fabulous off-world honeymoon.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Myers and Kestrel chat on board the Leviathan, heading off-world. He reveals that he has crushed on her since he was a boy. Kestrel disabuses him of the notion that they'll be sleeping together (let alone all three of them) any time soon, as Yvenne goes pale. But Kestrel says that they will certainly spend some time "getting to know each other." After a few more drinks, though, Yvenne suggests that, in fact they DO all have sex together, and drags them into a stateroom. It's awkward.
[TORRENT CONFLICT] Alix invites a bereaved and tired Maris for a picnic on the beach. They discuss the fate of the world, and how their respective faiths brought them out of their darkest moments. Maris is about to try to compromise with Alix when he breaks open her mind, assaulting her with images of his childhood. She leaves with new sympathy for the slaves, but horrified and disappointed that Alix would do such a thing to her. She also caught a glimpse of Locke's lifeless body in a tank in Alix' mind, and knows the Worm is no longer in him, but not where it has gone.
[KESTREL COLOR] The coronation. Kestrel accepts the Forged Lord's crown in the Glass Palace. Maris arrives at the head of Sodalis-Sisters in Iron, as does a separate delegation from the Church. They stare each other down. Yvenne introduces herself graciously to all. Kestrel makes a stirring speech to the nobles, that is met with acclaim.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human Take Action vs. Vaylen [hesitate]. The humans do not close the deal! The Vaylen hang on by a thread and gather their strength, as the people celebrate Kestrel's coronation in the streets.
Thanks, +Rachel E.S. Walton , +Sara Williamson , +Rachael Storey Burke!
Session 8: 2/26/13
BURNING AVARINE
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne goes shopping for purple rings for her and Kestrel.
[TORRENT COLOR] Alix pins a beautiful veil on Phoenix, to "keep her safe."
[MARIS COLOR] Maris tries to get in to see Locke, but is rebuffed.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Crow has dinner with everyone except Maris and lays out the complexity of noble approval of the marriage.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne meets with Maris about concealing the Brotherhood's activities under a Mundus contract. Maris offers to introduce her to the Quartermaster.
[KESTREL BUILDING (1)] Yvenne and Kestrel meet with Myers. Kestrel sends a very nice apologetic letter to Myers and they meet at a super-posh restaurant on Isla Tienne. They express their apologies for embarassing him at the party and propose that he join them in a triad marriage to provide an heir. They tell him it would be possible for him to have his own male lover on the side... only to discover that, contrary to the rumors, he is not actually gay. They assure him that they are not ruling out love between him and Kestrel (but, seriously, Yvenne is gay). Kestrel points out that there's at least as much chance they'll fall in love as that he'll fall in love with whichever other noble daughter he might be pressured into marrying. He ultimately agrees. They get drunk.
[PHOENIX BUILDING] Phoenix gets her BS tech.
[MARIS BUILDING] Maris confronts Phoneix about the surrogacy issue. In a fit of rage, she punches Phoenix with a mailed fist, crushing her skull and leaving her barely alive. In horror, she desperately tries to dress her wounds.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel is horrified.
[PHOENIX BUILDING (2-3)] Phoneix is rushed to Locke's surgery.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne, Crow, Kestrel, and Myers decide what to do about Maris.
[YVENNE BUILDER] Yvenne forges some documents to bolster her claim to nobility. With Maris' help (in a flashback), she publishes a treatment of her romance with Kestrel that speaks to the love at the heart of the Mystes sect, convincing the Inquisition to turn a blind eye to Kestrel's impending polyamorous relationship.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Torrent meets with Maris, neither of them having slept, to ask if she sees any future for them now that they have found each other again. She kisses him, and we end on that.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human Conserve v. Valyen INUNDATE. Vaylen win, blunted by the Conserve. The slaves rise up in a final push against the nobles, who are distracted with wedding bullshit. The Sodalis are nearly overwhelmed and begin using lethal force against them, inflaming the uprising even more. But as the slaves throw their bodies onto the breach, the Glass Palace still stands...
NOTE: This is the moment Maris has been waiting for. She is a monster with Anvil training and a Power 6. Her punch inflicted an H9 wound, permanently maiming Phoenix. As a player, I'm torn between being horrified by what is really an awful thing to do to someone (that Maris doesn't know is a Vaylen yet) and being elated by seeing a carefully crafted PC's power on display.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne goes shopping for purple rings for her and Kestrel.
[TORRENT COLOR] Alix pins a beautiful veil on Phoenix, to "keep her safe."
[MARIS COLOR] Maris tries to get in to see Locke, but is rebuffed.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Crow has dinner with everyone except Maris and lays out the complexity of noble approval of the marriage.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne meets with Maris about concealing the Brotherhood's activities under a Mundus contract. Maris offers to introduce her to the Quartermaster.
[KESTREL BUILDING (1)] Yvenne and Kestrel meet with Myers. Kestrel sends a very nice apologetic letter to Myers and they meet at a super-posh restaurant on Isla Tienne. They express their apologies for embarassing him at the party and propose that he join them in a triad marriage to provide an heir. They tell him it would be possible for him to have his own male lover on the side... only to discover that, contrary to the rumors, he is not actually gay. They assure him that they are not ruling out love between him and Kestrel (but, seriously, Yvenne is gay). Kestrel points out that there's at least as much chance they'll fall in love as that he'll fall in love with whichever other noble daughter he might be pressured into marrying. He ultimately agrees. They get drunk.
[PHOENIX BUILDING] Phoenix gets her BS tech.
[MARIS BUILDING] Maris confronts Phoneix about the surrogacy issue. In a fit of rage, she punches Phoenix with a mailed fist, crushing her skull and leaving her barely alive. In horror, she desperately tries to dress her wounds.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel is horrified.
[PHOENIX BUILDING (2-3)] Phoneix is rushed to Locke's surgery.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Yvenne, Crow, Kestrel, and Myers decide what to do about Maris.
[YVENNE BUILDER] Yvenne forges some documents to bolster her claim to nobility. With Maris' help (in a flashback), she publishes a treatment of her romance with Kestrel that speaks to the love at the heart of the Mystes sect, convincing the Inquisition to turn a blind eye to Kestrel's impending polyamorous relationship.
[TORRENT INTERSTITIAL] Torrent meets with Maris, neither of them having slept, to ask if she sees any future for them now that they have found each other again. She kisses him, and we end on that.
MANEUVER ROLL: Human Conserve v. Valyen INUNDATE. Vaylen win, blunted by the Conserve. The slaves rise up in a final push against the nobles, who are distracted with wedding bullshit. The Sodalis are nearly overwhelmed and begin using lethal force against them, inflaming the uprising even more. But as the slaves throw their bodies onto the breach, the Glass Palace still stands...
NOTE: This is the moment Maris has been waiting for. She is a monster with Anvil training and a Power 6. Her punch inflicted an H9 wound, permanently maiming Phoenix. As a player, I'm torn between being horrified by what is really an awful thing to do to someone (that Maris doesn't know is a Vaylen yet) and being elated by seeing a carefully crafted PC's power on display.
Session 7: 2/12/13
BURNING AVARINE
[MARIS BUILDER (1-2)] Maris meets with her long-suffering quartermaster and lets her know that they will be receiving guns. Lots of guns. Lydia sighs. Then Maris goes out and gets said guns from some sketchy Kerrn. She lifts a Shevan Guild heavy laser appreciatively from its inertial gel.
[KESTREL BUILDER] Kestrel talks to Crow about setting up a party where she can meet a suitable suitor. She has dinner with a likely (gay) son of House Aruna.
[YVENNE CONFLICT] Yvenne throws a big party. She manages to convince Crow that she should now count as a suitable suitor to Kestrel... Crow accepts as long as there will also be a man in multiple marriage.
[LOCKE BUILDER] Lt. Quinn is angry at Locke for his "save the world" thing. She straps him down and zaps him with a cattle prod until the Naiven leaves him, and burrows through a Foramen Magnum hull into Phoenix Tamar.
[MARIS BUILDER (3)] Flashback: Maris is in bed with Locke and realizes the depth to which she has unsettled his mind.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel sends a personalized invitation to Myers.
[MARIS INTERSTITIAL] Maris has a throughly miscommunicated heart-to-heart with Kestrel and Yvenne. She tries to convince Kestrel that the best way she can lead is by following her nature and heart and letting her place with Yvenne be her place. She tells Kestrel that she will pledge her sword and bear her child, but cannot go to a party where she will select a replacement for Yvenne. (She knows nothing of Yvenne's conversation with Crow.)
[CROW COLOR] Crow cuts the ribbon on a palace expansion and tells the media that he supports Kestrel's party.
[KESTREL BUILDER (3)] Kestrel has her party. It's a big thing! Kestrel wears a gown of exotic iridescent feathers. Maris is in her cell, trying to focus on her devotions but distracted by the sensory information coming to her from Kestrel and Delphia. Kestrel tries to convince a confused - and somewhat scared - Myers that he is the one that she should take for the alliance. Then Yvenne arrives in a gown of white petals, totally tearing Kestrel away. Yvenne announces that Crow has finally approved her as a suitor (she doesn't mention the poly thing) and dips Kestrel for a deep kiss that stuns the crowd.
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN TAKE ACTION vs. VAYLEN CONSERVE. Humans win! Kestrel is engaged, and +Rachel E.S. Walton complains about our thuggish strategy.
NEXT TIME: BEHEADINGS.
[MARIS BUILDER (1-2)] Maris meets with her long-suffering quartermaster and lets her know that they will be receiving guns. Lots of guns. Lydia sighs. Then Maris goes out and gets said guns from some sketchy Kerrn. She lifts a Shevan Guild heavy laser appreciatively from its inertial gel.
[KESTREL BUILDER] Kestrel talks to Crow about setting up a party where she can meet a suitable suitor. She has dinner with a likely (gay) son of House Aruna.
[YVENNE CONFLICT] Yvenne throws a big party. She manages to convince Crow that she should now count as a suitable suitor to Kestrel... Crow accepts as long as there will also be a man in multiple marriage.
[LOCKE BUILDER] Lt. Quinn is angry at Locke for his "save the world" thing. She straps him down and zaps him with a cattle prod until the Naiven leaves him, and burrows through a Foramen Magnum hull into Phoenix Tamar.
[MARIS BUILDER (3)] Flashback: Maris is in bed with Locke and realizes the depth to which she has unsettled his mind.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel sends a personalized invitation to Myers.
[MARIS INTERSTITIAL] Maris has a throughly miscommunicated heart-to-heart with Kestrel and Yvenne. She tries to convince Kestrel that the best way she can lead is by following her nature and heart and letting her place with Yvenne be her place. She tells Kestrel that she will pledge her sword and bear her child, but cannot go to a party where she will select a replacement for Yvenne. (She knows nothing of Yvenne's conversation with Crow.)
[CROW COLOR] Crow cuts the ribbon on a palace expansion and tells the media that he supports Kestrel's party.
[KESTREL BUILDER (3)] Kestrel has her party. It's a big thing! Kestrel wears a gown of exotic iridescent feathers. Maris is in her cell, trying to focus on her devotions but distracted by the sensory information coming to her from Kestrel and Delphia. Kestrel tries to convince a confused - and somewhat scared - Myers that he is the one that she should take for the alliance. Then Yvenne arrives in a gown of white petals, totally tearing Kestrel away. Yvenne announces that Crow has finally approved her as a suitor (she doesn't mention the poly thing) and dips Kestrel for a deep kiss that stuns the crowd.
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN TAKE ACTION vs. VAYLEN CONSERVE. Humans win! Kestrel is engaged, and +Rachel E.S. Walton complains about our thuggish strategy.
NEXT TIME: BEHEADINGS.
Session 6: 1/30/13
BURNING AVARINE - ON DRUGS! ]
[LOCKE INTERSTITIAL]: Locke calls his allies Torrent and Crow to a meeting and reveals that he is a Vaylen. He tries to convince them that Vaylen conquest is inevitable, but if they cooperate he can smooth it over and make it less painful. Crow is angry, but is mollified by the promise that his daughters will be safe (and a liberal application of Torrent's Psychology). Torrent's lieutenant sees an opportunity for everyone on Avarine to "evolve" to be equal to the Psychologists.
[MARIS MOTHERFUCKING PSYCHIC DUEL]: Maris meets with Locke on a high point on Isla Tienne where they used to walk. She struggles with his argument that unity under the Vaylen is the true River of Fire, and tries to convince him that the Wheel must turn in place, unchanging things' basic natures. They are at an impasse, so they have a MOTHERFUCKING PSYCHIC DUEL. Maris tears into Locke's unprepared mind, but is buffeted by the sheer force of his will and the happy memories of them together that he summons as weapons. Ultimately, she shreds the flesh of his anima and tears out the Worm within, rewriting his Belief to "I am the Voice of Amilahk. I will convince my Vaylen sisters that they must leave Avarine to continue turning as it is, on the axis of the Wheel." (or something to that effect, +Rachel E.S. Walton, we were a bit loosey-goosey on the exact wording, though I like mine). He then collapses into Maris' embrace.
[YVENNE BUILDING]: Yvenne analyzes shipping patterns and identifies one of Locke's gun-runners. She bribes her way into access to a shipment and starts tearing out "parts that look important."
[KESTREL BUILDING]: Kestrel researches how things have gone for humans on other worlds facing the Vaylen. SPOILER: NOT WELL. She convinces Lady Aruna to upgrade the Leviathan, her ancient Hammer patrol craft, and make it ready for war.
[CROW BUILDING]: Crow meets with Lady Amara, one of the other pro-Kestrel nobles, and leaves her with Torrent to be mind-fucked. But Torrent fails, and she leaves in horror to be a pain in the ass later.
[MARIS COLOR]: Maris looks at baby anatomy books over tea. SPOILER: SHE IS A MULE.
MANEUVER ROLL: TAKE ACTION VS. TAKE MOTHERFUCKING ACTION.
Even though the Humans are down 2D from last round's Pin, they make 7 successes. The Vaylen make 6. Forces are massing. Invasion is nigh. Pro-Kestrel nobles begin recanting their views on the mediaverts. Sodalis are conveniently absent from the estates of anti-Ketrel nobles, exposing them to the full force of the riots Torrent stirred up.
NEXT: TENDER RECONCILIATION. MARIS TELLS EVERYONE HER INTERSPECIES RELATIONSHIP IS TOTES COOL NOW. LASERS.
[LOCKE INTERSTITIAL]: Locke calls his allies Torrent and Crow to a meeting and reveals that he is a Vaylen. He tries to convince them that Vaylen conquest is inevitable, but if they cooperate he can smooth it over and make it less painful. Crow is angry, but is mollified by the promise that his daughters will be safe (and a liberal application of Torrent's Psychology). Torrent's lieutenant sees an opportunity for everyone on Avarine to "evolve" to be equal to the Psychologists.
[MARIS MOTHERFUCKING PSYCHIC DUEL]: Maris meets with Locke on a high point on Isla Tienne where they used to walk. She struggles with his argument that unity under the Vaylen is the true River of Fire, and tries to convince him that the Wheel must turn in place, unchanging things' basic natures. They are at an impasse, so they have a MOTHERFUCKING PSYCHIC DUEL. Maris tears into Locke's unprepared mind, but is buffeted by the sheer force of his will and the happy memories of them together that he summons as weapons. Ultimately, she shreds the flesh of his anima and tears out the Worm within, rewriting his Belief to "I am the Voice of Amilahk. I will convince my Vaylen sisters that they must leave Avarine to continue turning as it is, on the axis of the Wheel." (or something to that effect, +Rachel E.S. Walton, we were a bit loosey-goosey on the exact wording, though I like mine). He then collapses into Maris' embrace.
[YVENNE BUILDING]: Yvenne analyzes shipping patterns and identifies one of Locke's gun-runners. She bribes her way into access to a shipment and starts tearing out "parts that look important."
[KESTREL BUILDING]: Kestrel researches how things have gone for humans on other worlds facing the Vaylen. SPOILER: NOT WELL. She convinces Lady Aruna to upgrade the Leviathan, her ancient Hammer patrol craft, and make it ready for war.
[CROW BUILDING]: Crow meets with Lady Amara, one of the other pro-Kestrel nobles, and leaves her with Torrent to be mind-fucked. But Torrent fails, and she leaves in horror to be a pain in the ass later.
[MARIS COLOR]: Maris looks at baby anatomy books over tea. SPOILER: SHE IS A MULE.
MANEUVER ROLL: TAKE ACTION VS. TAKE MOTHERFUCKING ACTION.
Even though the Humans are down 2D from last round's Pin, they make 7 successes. The Vaylen make 6. Forces are massing. Invasion is nigh. Pro-Kestrel nobles begin recanting their views on the mediaverts. Sodalis are conveniently absent from the estates of anti-Ketrel nobles, exposing them to the full force of the riots Torrent stirred up.
NEXT: TENDER RECONCILIATION. MARIS TELLS EVERYONE HER INTERSPECIES RELATIONSHIP IS TOTES COOL NOW. LASERS.
Session 5: 1/16/13
BURNING AVARINE! Shit got real. I tried taking notes last night as we
played until I got too sucked into being angry at Kestrel (+Sara Williamson ) and got distracted.
[LOCKE COLOR] In the aftermath of their confrontation, Locke tells his Vaylen lieutenant not to go after Maris, much to Lt. Quinn's anger and dismay.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris is back in her small cell at the batallion compound, sitting on the edge of her cot and removing her leg brace. She looks at a photograph of Locke on her bookshelf and sadly turns it on its face. She then pulls a leather-bound journal from beneath her bed and searches through it until she finds an old broadsheet for one of Alix' speeches when she was young. She kisses his image.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel looks longingly at a picture of Yvenne, while Wren tells her that their relationship was doomed from the start.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne, in her chambers, looks at a picture of happy times with Kestrel. Then she digs in a box for an image of the Burning Wheel. She stares at it for a while, and then angrily smashes it against a wall.
[CROW CONFLICT] Crow and Phoenix board Kestrel's ship. Crow confronts Kestrel about the relationship with Yvenne. He insists that she marry a man, and a noble - and that he feel that she has built enough of a relationship with the people to rule. Maris, riding along in her brain, urges her to think of her relationship first, to no avail - Kestrel is more concerned about her position. They argue. Eventually, Kestrel agrees that she will begin to seek an "acceptable" suitor, and Crow that he will gradually support her more as she pursues a better relationship with the people.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel confronts Yvenne about going to Crow about their relationship. Kestrel tells Yvenne that, at best, she can be her mistress, and Yvenne caves to Kestrel's insistence that she loves her, but has to put House Tamar first.
[LOCKE INTERSTITIAL] Locke convinces Maris to meet him at Moon Under the Sea. When she asks him when he killed her lover and took over his body, he reveals that he has inhabited this body since it was a child. This does not horrify her less. He tries to evade her questions, but ultimately will not assure her that he is not part of a plan to devour everyone on Avarine. The best he offers is that he plans to take the planet peacefully and if he doesn't, it will be taken by much more destructive force, but you know what, fuck that guy.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] On the way out of Moon Under the Sea, Thalia convinces Maris to talk with a very drunk Yvenne. Yvenne wants to apologize for rejecting Maris' psychic evidence of Locke's nature before, and support her against him. Maris tries to explain that that's not important - the threat is to human love and connection, and Maris thinks Yvenne should focus on fixing her relationship with Kestrel. I had this whole great monlogue on this but somewhere between the G+ connection and Yvenne being drunk, it got misinterpreted. Boo! Maris sends Yvenne home in her armored vehicle with Delphia, and climbs the crag to the Glass Palace to confront Crow and Kestrel.
[TORRENT BUILDER] Torrent distributes propaganda showing Kestrel with her arm around Yvenne at the party, implying that if even nobles are fucking commoners, THERE ARE NO RULES.
[MARIS CONFLICT] Maris makes tea for Crow, since she's rousted him from bed. They discuss Kestrel - Maris tries to make Crow understand that her adherence to the Mundus is not some matter of partisanship, but that she thinks Crow's very New Horizon-y focus on making things as he wants them to be, rather than taking them as they are, is wrong to do to Kestrel - as it was wrong to do to her as a child. No one appreciates Maris' pain. They argue. Maris, reeling from her confrontation with Locke, ultimately agrees to at least help Crow keep Kestrel safe, by defecting from the Sodality (though not, in her mind, from the Mundus faith, given who the Cotar Fomas is), and putting as many of her battalion as will remain loyal at the disposal of House Tamar, so long as he agrees that he will also take what steps he can to preserve her safety.
[YVENNE BUILDER] Yvenne, in a stroke of money, forges herself some papers showing she's a member of an obscure noble bloodline, and buys her way into one of the Houses.
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN TAKE ACTION VS. VAYLEN PIN! METAL!
The humans lacerate the Vaylen, knocking them down 8 (Maris rolled, and has been banking Artha). The Vaylen nail a shoulda-been-impossible Ob 7 roll to Pin, putting the humans at a -2D disadvantage for next time.
Sodalis loyal to Maris deploy themselves in defense of pro-Kestrel nobles. This confirms the propaganda that the nobles have cast aside the traditions of Avarine in many eyes, and so now House Tamar is pinned down dealing with street protests.
NEXT: Seriously, fuck that guy. Lasers.
[LOCKE COLOR] In the aftermath of their confrontation, Locke tells his Vaylen lieutenant not to go after Maris, much to Lt. Quinn's anger and dismay.
[MARIS COLOR] Maris is back in her small cell at the batallion compound, sitting on the edge of her cot and removing her leg brace. She looks at a photograph of Locke on her bookshelf and sadly turns it on its face. She then pulls a leather-bound journal from beneath her bed and searches through it until she finds an old broadsheet for one of Alix' speeches when she was young. She kisses his image.
[KESTREL COLOR] Kestrel looks longingly at a picture of Yvenne, while Wren tells her that their relationship was doomed from the start.
[YVENNE COLOR] Yvenne, in her chambers, looks at a picture of happy times with Kestrel. Then she digs in a box for an image of the Burning Wheel. She stares at it for a while, and then angrily smashes it against a wall.
[CROW CONFLICT] Crow and Phoenix board Kestrel's ship. Crow confronts Kestrel about the relationship with Yvenne. He insists that she marry a man, and a noble - and that he feel that she has built enough of a relationship with the people to rule. Maris, riding along in her brain, urges her to think of her relationship first, to no avail - Kestrel is more concerned about her position. They argue. Eventually, Kestrel agrees that she will begin to seek an "acceptable" suitor, and Crow that he will gradually support her more as she pursues a better relationship with the people.
[KESTREL INTERSTITIAL] Kestrel confronts Yvenne about going to Crow about their relationship. Kestrel tells Yvenne that, at best, she can be her mistress, and Yvenne caves to Kestrel's insistence that she loves her, but has to put House Tamar first.
[LOCKE INTERSTITIAL] Locke convinces Maris to meet him at Moon Under the Sea. When she asks him when he killed her lover and took over his body, he reveals that he has inhabited this body since it was a child. This does not horrify her less. He tries to evade her questions, but ultimately will not assure her that he is not part of a plan to devour everyone on Avarine. The best he offers is that he plans to take the planet peacefully and if he doesn't, it will be taken by much more destructive force, but you know what, fuck that guy.
[YVENNE INTERSTITIAL] On the way out of Moon Under the Sea, Thalia convinces Maris to talk with a very drunk Yvenne. Yvenne wants to apologize for rejecting Maris' psychic evidence of Locke's nature before, and support her against him. Maris tries to explain that that's not important - the threat is to human love and connection, and Maris thinks Yvenne should focus on fixing her relationship with Kestrel. I had this whole great monlogue on this but somewhere between the G+ connection and Yvenne being drunk, it got misinterpreted. Boo! Maris sends Yvenne home in her armored vehicle with Delphia, and climbs the crag to the Glass Palace to confront Crow and Kestrel.
[TORRENT BUILDER] Torrent distributes propaganda showing Kestrel with her arm around Yvenne at the party, implying that if even nobles are fucking commoners, THERE ARE NO RULES.
[MARIS CONFLICT] Maris makes tea for Crow, since she's rousted him from bed. They discuss Kestrel - Maris tries to make Crow understand that her adherence to the Mundus is not some matter of partisanship, but that she thinks Crow's very New Horizon-y focus on making things as he wants them to be, rather than taking them as they are, is wrong to do to Kestrel - as it was wrong to do to her as a child. No one appreciates Maris' pain. They argue. Maris, reeling from her confrontation with Locke, ultimately agrees to at least help Crow keep Kestrel safe, by defecting from the Sodality (though not, in her mind, from the Mundus faith, given who the Cotar Fomas is), and putting as many of her battalion as will remain loyal at the disposal of House Tamar, so long as he agrees that he will also take what steps he can to preserve her safety.
[YVENNE BUILDER] Yvenne, in a stroke of money, forges herself some papers showing she's a member of an obscure noble bloodline, and buys her way into one of the Houses.
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN TAKE ACTION VS. VAYLEN PIN! METAL!
The humans lacerate the Vaylen, knocking them down 8 (Maris rolled, and has been banking Artha). The Vaylen nail a shoulda-been-impossible Ob 7 roll to Pin, putting the humans at a -2D disadvantage for next time.
Sodalis loyal to Maris deploy themselves in defense of pro-Kestrel nobles. This confirms the propaganda that the nobles have cast aside the traditions of Avarine in many eyes, and so now House Tamar is pinned down dealing with street protests.
NEXT: Seriously, fuck that guy. Lasers.
Session 4: 12/19/12
BURNING AVARINE!
I was pretty tired when we ended, so please help me remember stuff, dudettes.
YVENNE COLOR: Yvenne meets with some of her crew upon her return planetside, who warn her that the Inquisition is in town.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL? I think maybe he talked with Locke about the Inquisition?]
MARIS BUILDING(1): Maris confronts Locke about his coverup of the Archcotare's infestation. Locke tries to convince her it was probably a lone scout, and they have bigger things to worry about, which is clearly bullshit, so Maris uses her Psychology to discover that he has a worm in his own head. In horror, she bolts, grabbing Laila as a temporary hostage to drag with her until she gets safely off his ship.
TORRENT INTERSTITIAL: Torrent, Locke, and Crow plot and scheme about how they will get the Inquisition off their backs.
MARIS COLOR: Maris is in the battalion latrines, vomiting repeatedly while Delphia holds her hair back.
YVENNE CONFLICT: Crow confronts Yvenne about her support for Kestrel at the party. He is concerned about why she is backing Kestrel against him. Yvenne explains: "I just... I love her. It's not political." Crow is not quite comfortable with his daughter's relationship, but it changes his view of Yvenne's choices, and he agrees to give her some cover against the nobles by giving her an official position within his court.
MARIS BUILDING(2): Maris goes to Yvenne's spaceport looking for Kestrel, having spent a long night awake in horror at her discovery. She shares a torrent of images of her making love to Locke and then seeing the worm in his brain with Yvenne. But Yvenne casts her out, decrying Psychologists as liars and magicians. "This... stupidity... will doom us all!"
LOCKE BUILDING: Locke finds a Vaylen sleeper in the Inquisition and convinces it that it will need to be publicly exposed and destroyed for the good of the Clan. "The time has come for you to do your duty. It's not what you thought it was going to be."
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN GO TO GROUND VS. VAYLEN GAMBIT
O NOES! Vaylen 8! Humans don't get to test!
The Raven Brotherhood prepare to evade an Inquisition crackdown that never comes. The Vaylen sleeper is publicly destroyed under the authority of the Cotar Fomas, while Torrent distributes propaganda posters and videos showing the worst offences of the Inquisition against New Horizon temples. The Inquisition are driven back to their ships among the Mundus fleet.
NEXT TIME: Maris is linked to both Yvenne and Kestrel right now. +Rachel E.S. Walton has confirmed that it is possible for her to close her psychic "eyes" if they have sex.
I was pretty tired when we ended, so please help me remember stuff, dudettes.
YVENNE COLOR: Yvenne meets with some of her crew upon her return planetside, who warn her that the Inquisition is in town.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL? I think maybe he talked with Locke about the Inquisition?]
MARIS BUILDING(1): Maris confronts Locke about his coverup of the Archcotare's infestation. Locke tries to convince her it was probably a lone scout, and they have bigger things to worry about, which is clearly bullshit, so Maris uses her Psychology to discover that he has a worm in his own head. In horror, she bolts, grabbing Laila as a temporary hostage to drag with her until she gets safely off his ship.
TORRENT INTERSTITIAL: Torrent, Locke, and Crow plot and scheme about how they will get the Inquisition off their backs.
MARIS COLOR: Maris is in the battalion latrines, vomiting repeatedly while Delphia holds her hair back.
YVENNE CONFLICT: Crow confronts Yvenne about her support for Kestrel at the party. He is concerned about why she is backing Kestrel against him. Yvenne explains: "I just... I love her. It's not political." Crow is not quite comfortable with his daughter's relationship, but it changes his view of Yvenne's choices, and he agrees to give her some cover against the nobles by giving her an official position within his court.
MARIS BUILDING(2): Maris goes to Yvenne's spaceport looking for Kestrel, having spent a long night awake in horror at her discovery. She shares a torrent of images of her making love to Locke and then seeing the worm in his brain with Yvenne. But Yvenne casts her out, decrying Psychologists as liars and magicians. "This... stupidity... will doom us all!"
LOCKE BUILDING: Locke finds a Vaylen sleeper in the Inquisition and convinces it that it will need to be publicly exposed and destroyed for the good of the Clan. "The time has come for you to do your duty. It's not what you thought it was going to be."
MANEUVER ROLL: HUMAN GO TO GROUND VS. VAYLEN GAMBIT
O NOES! Vaylen 8! Humans don't get to test!
The Raven Brotherhood prepare to evade an Inquisition crackdown that never comes. The Vaylen sleeper is publicly destroyed under the authority of the Cotar Fomas, while Torrent distributes propaganda posters and videos showing the worst offences of the Inquisition against New Horizon temples. The Inquisition are driven back to their ships among the Mundus fleet.
NEXT TIME: Maris is linked to both Yvenne and Kestrel right now. +Rachel E.S. Walton has confirmed that it is possible for her to close her psychic "eyes" if they have sex.
Session 3: 12/5/12
Burning Avarine! (as best I can remember - fill me in +Rachel E.S. Walton and +Sara Williamson, and weep at what you have missed, +Rachael Storey Burke)
CROW COLOR: Crow returns, wroth, to the bedchamber he shares with Lycelle. He smashes his crown against the wall. But Lycelle shows him an old video of Kestrel as a child, stomping about in his shoes, and reminds him that she still has big shoes to fill if she is to be Forged Lord.
MARIS INTERSTITIAL: Maris approaches Crow to apologize for her earlier rudeness, but when she (mistakenly) interprets his mood as anger that Kestrel will supplant him as ruler, is disgusted by what she sees as his selfishness. She throws the copy of the Revelations of Aisha that she planned to give him to the floor and they both storm off.
KESTREL INTERSTITIAL: Kestrel meets with Maris at the bombed-out former summer palace of the Tamars. They speak forthrightly about their differences on religion, and come to at least a mutual respect for each other - and an agreement to seek to put Kestrel on the throne, regardless. Maris gets what she believes is an assurance from Kestrel that she, not Phoenix, will be Kestrel's surrogate - but confides her fear that she may be infertile.
TORRENT INTERSTITIAL: Alix confronts Maris at the party, who collapses in his arms. He expresses his anger that, in all those years, she had not yet sought him out, and she tells of her near death on Isla Norte and later conversion. He tells Maris that he is working to make things better for his people - the slaves, and Maris tells him that they need to learn their place on the Wheel. He then sneers at her that she was not born to misery, which she takes umbrage at. They then both need a drink.
KESTREL COLOR: Kestrel remembers when Kaduka found out that Maris (Swift) was not her child - she could not have been responsible for such a damaged, deformed child - and how Kestrel protected Swift from her mother's anger.
TORRENT COLOR: Torrent meets with his slave followers, and tells them that it is the time to strike, while the nobles are divided.
KESTREL BUILDING: Kestrel searches the House Tamar Archives for speeches given by nobles that can be twisted to make them look like dangerous rebels (so long as they are nobles who sided with Crow rather than Maris). She goes to Maris' printing press, and they argue about how far to push the blasphemy angle, with Kestrel ultimately convincing Maris that they should focus on an approach that downplays the New Horizon and focuses on the potential for unrest. Kestrel designs the propaganda with some advice from Maris and Wren, and it has some impact... but an archivist remembers Kestrel's inquiry as the posters go up, and alerts Lady Astrid and Lady Jenna, both of whom are slandered by it. They trace it back to Kestrel, and mount counter-propaganda declaring her to be a danger to Avarine.
LOCKE COLOR: Locke convinces the Archcotare to help him fake medical records to throw Maris off the scent.
LOCKE INTERSTITIAL: Locke interrupts a supposedly romantic dinner with Maris to try to throw her off the scent with the doctored records. She realizes that he is trying to cover things up. She does agree to arrange a meeting with Kestrel.
MARIS BUILDING: Maris meets with the Inquisition (hey, Rachel, since we made this a builder, do I get to retroactively drop the +1Ob and name my Inquisitor friend?). After much shouting and brow-beating, Rachel accepts a dangerous social-bloody-versus gamble, and Maris is able to convince the Inquisition that she is not crazy, that the Archcotare really has been infiltrated by the Worm. The Archcotare is imprisoned by the Inquisition, tortured, and revealed.
MANEUVER ROLL: Vaylen Assess vs. Human Take Action (6)! Both succeed!
VAYLEN SEQUEL: Torrent meets with Crow and shows him psychohistorical analysis revealing that the split among the nobles favors an uprising. Good for Avarine he says, though Crow is fucked.
HUMAN SEQUEL: The Inquisition opens aggressive investigations against New Horizon nobles who favored Crow at the party, disrupting their power. Inquisitors storm Lady Astrid's New Horizon temple while she is at prayer, accompanied by Maris in Iron, bearing aloft the split head of the (former) Archcotare, with the remnants of the worm hanging obscenely out. They leave Lady Astrid alone for now, but haul off the other worshippers and officiants for questioning.
CROW COLOR: Crow returns, wroth, to the bedchamber he shares with Lycelle. He smashes his crown against the wall. But Lycelle shows him an old video of Kestrel as a child, stomping about in his shoes, and reminds him that she still has big shoes to fill if she is to be Forged Lord.
MARIS INTERSTITIAL: Maris approaches Crow to apologize for her earlier rudeness, but when she (mistakenly) interprets his mood as anger that Kestrel will supplant him as ruler, is disgusted by what she sees as his selfishness. She throws the copy of the Revelations of Aisha that she planned to give him to the floor and they both storm off.
KESTREL INTERSTITIAL: Kestrel meets with Maris at the bombed-out former summer palace of the Tamars. They speak forthrightly about their differences on religion, and come to at least a mutual respect for each other - and an agreement to seek to put Kestrel on the throne, regardless. Maris gets what she believes is an assurance from Kestrel that she, not Phoenix, will be Kestrel's surrogate - but confides her fear that she may be infertile.
TORRENT INTERSTITIAL: Alix confronts Maris at the party, who collapses in his arms. He expresses his anger that, in all those years, she had not yet sought him out, and she tells of her near death on Isla Norte and later conversion. He tells Maris that he is working to make things better for his people - the slaves, and Maris tells him that they need to learn their place on the Wheel. He then sneers at her that she was not born to misery, which she takes umbrage at. They then both need a drink.
KESTREL COLOR: Kestrel remembers when Kaduka found out that Maris (Swift) was not her child - she could not have been responsible for such a damaged, deformed child - and how Kestrel protected Swift from her mother's anger.
TORRENT COLOR: Torrent meets with his slave followers, and tells them that it is the time to strike, while the nobles are divided.
KESTREL BUILDING: Kestrel searches the House Tamar Archives for speeches given by nobles that can be twisted to make them look like dangerous rebels (so long as they are nobles who sided with Crow rather than Maris). She goes to Maris' printing press, and they argue about how far to push the blasphemy angle, with Kestrel ultimately convincing Maris that they should focus on an approach that downplays the New Horizon and focuses on the potential for unrest. Kestrel designs the propaganda with some advice from Maris and Wren, and it has some impact... but an archivist remembers Kestrel's inquiry as the posters go up, and alerts Lady Astrid and Lady Jenna, both of whom are slandered by it. They trace it back to Kestrel, and mount counter-propaganda declaring her to be a danger to Avarine.
LOCKE COLOR: Locke convinces the Archcotare to help him fake medical records to throw Maris off the scent.
LOCKE INTERSTITIAL: Locke interrupts a supposedly romantic dinner with Maris to try to throw her off the scent with the doctored records. She realizes that he is trying to cover things up. She does agree to arrange a meeting with Kestrel.
MARIS BUILDING: Maris meets with the Inquisition (hey, Rachel, since we made this a builder, do I get to retroactively drop the +1Ob and name my Inquisitor friend?). After much shouting and brow-beating, Rachel accepts a dangerous social-bloody-versus gamble, and Maris is able to convince the Inquisition that she is not crazy, that the Archcotare really has been infiltrated by the Worm. The Archcotare is imprisoned by the Inquisition, tortured, and revealed.
MANEUVER ROLL: Vaylen Assess vs. Human Take Action (6)! Both succeed!
VAYLEN SEQUEL: Torrent meets with Crow and shows him psychohistorical analysis revealing that the split among the nobles favors an uprising. Good for Avarine he says, though Crow is fucked.
HUMAN SEQUEL: The Inquisition opens aggressive investigations against New Horizon nobles who favored Crow at the party, disrupting their power. Inquisitors storm Lady Astrid's New Horizon temple while she is at prayer, accompanied by Maris in Iron, bearing aloft the split head of the (former) Archcotare, with the remnants of the worm hanging obscenely out. They leave Lady Astrid alone for now, but haul off the other worshippers and officiants for questioning.
Session 2: 11/21/12
[BURNING AVARINE]: Crow's Awesome 60th Birthday Party!
CROW COLOR: Crow sends out invites to his birthday bash, including a special one to Maris saying that he hopes she'll come despite the bad blood between them.
MARIS BUILDING (1): Maris tries to convince Locke that the Archcotare has been hulled (hey, Locke did it!). He knows she's lying about having seen the scar and brushes her off. Maris misinterprets this as being Indifferent (to the Vaylen threat) and walks out of his comfy captain's quarters.
YVENNE COLOR: Last time, Crow invited slaves. So Yvenne talks to Thalia to make sure that her Bois (male prostitutes) come, all wearing loincloths. Only loincloths. Glass bead loincloths.
MARIS COLOR: A scantily-clad Maris raises Delphia's blood pressure and then gives her a handgun and a dress for the party.
MARIS BUILDING (2+3): Maris tries and fails to intimidate Yvenne into helping her outfit the batallion with heavy weapons so that she won't reveal her relationship with Kestrel (wait... how does Maris know?). Yvenne agrees to help for her own reasons, revealing that she wants the relationship to be public, and would like Maris' help in buying a peerage. Maris' awesome chain-sword becomes lethally real.
CROW INTERSTITIAL: At the first evening reception, Crow approaches Maris. She first sneers at him as a blasphemer, then apologizes, but neither really knows what to say to the other.
KESTREL COLOR: On the main day of the party, Kestrel announces her arrival with a blast of downdraft from her Hammer cruiser.
YVENNE BUILDING: When Yvenne arrives, she does so in a stunning glass dress. Kestrel pointedly introduces her as her "friend." But there is much buzz about this stunning merchant and her connection to Kestrel.
KESTREL CONFLICT: Kestrel makes a toast to Crow, and oh by the way announces that she will be taking her rightful place as Forged Lord. Crow tries to impress on the crowd that more is needed in a Forged Lord than military acumen, but Kestrel seems to be winning the nobles over with her confidence and poise. But then, in a stunning upset, Crow pointedly reminds everyone that it was Kaduka's warlike ways that brought Avarine to its current state, and the nobles are split. Several Hammer Lords rap their service rings in support of Kestrel, including the elderly Lord whose ship she captains. Other nobles quietly shun her, turning to back up Crow.
MANEUVER ROLL: Flak (50/50) vs. Take Action. Take Action gets 6 successes to 1 defense on Flak! Niiiiiiiice. The Flak offense gets nothing!
NEXT TIME: We won't be so lucky.
CROW COLOR: Crow sends out invites to his birthday bash, including a special one to Maris saying that he hopes she'll come despite the bad blood between them.
MARIS BUILDING (1): Maris tries to convince Locke that the Archcotare has been hulled (hey, Locke did it!). He knows she's lying about having seen the scar and brushes her off. Maris misinterprets this as being Indifferent (to the Vaylen threat) and walks out of his comfy captain's quarters.
YVENNE COLOR: Last time, Crow invited slaves. So Yvenne talks to Thalia to make sure that her Bois (male prostitutes) come, all wearing loincloths. Only loincloths. Glass bead loincloths.
MARIS COLOR: A scantily-clad Maris raises Delphia's blood pressure and then gives her a handgun and a dress for the party.
MARIS BUILDING (2+3): Maris tries and fails to intimidate Yvenne into helping her outfit the batallion with heavy weapons so that she won't reveal her relationship with Kestrel (wait... how does Maris know?). Yvenne agrees to help for her own reasons, revealing that she wants the relationship to be public, and would like Maris' help in buying a peerage. Maris' awesome chain-sword becomes lethally real.
CROW INTERSTITIAL: At the first evening reception, Crow approaches Maris. She first sneers at him as a blasphemer, then apologizes, but neither really knows what to say to the other.
KESTREL COLOR: On the main day of the party, Kestrel announces her arrival with a blast of downdraft from her Hammer cruiser.
YVENNE BUILDING: When Yvenne arrives, she does so in a stunning glass dress. Kestrel pointedly introduces her as her "friend." But there is much buzz about this stunning merchant and her connection to Kestrel.
KESTREL CONFLICT: Kestrel makes a toast to Crow, and oh by the way announces that she will be taking her rightful place as Forged Lord. Crow tries to impress on the crowd that more is needed in a Forged Lord than military acumen, but Kestrel seems to be winning the nobles over with her confidence and poise. But then, in a stunning upset, Crow pointedly reminds everyone that it was Kaduka's warlike ways that brought Avarine to its current state, and the nobles are split. Several Hammer Lords rap their service rings in support of Kestrel, including the elderly Lord whose ship she captains. Other nobles quietly shun her, turning to back up Crow.
MANEUVER ROLL: Flak (50/50) vs. Take Action. Take Action gets 6 successes to 1 defense on Flak! Niiiiiiiice. The Flak offense gets nothing!
NEXT TIME: We won't be so lucky.
Session 1: 11/7/12
BURNING AVARINE!
[Here's what I remember; please help me fill in, guys, and I'll update!]
PREQUEL (CROW): Crow worked to rebuild the Glass Palace into a symbol of how humanity can change, ascend, and evolve.
PREQUEL (KESTREL): Kestrel's rebuilt Hammer forces embarrass the Church Hammer by rescuing a Mercator in distress. The planetary media eats it up!
INTERSTITIAL (KESTREL): Kestrel leaves Wren behind for a steamy rendez-vous with Yvenne. Yvenne undresses her from her Anvil in a private spaceport.
BUILDER(1) (MARIS): Maris and Delphia scope out Crow meeting with some Sodalis down near the Glass Palace. Suspicious!
COLOR (Locke): Locke hulls the Archcotare.
INTERSTITIAL (MARIS): Maris summons Kestrel to the Spires and tells her about her suspicions of Crow. They meet in front of THE BURNING WHEEL, which replaced the rising sun symbol of the New Horizon, which lays broken before its majesty. A slave is impaled on the Wheel as they talk.
COLOR (YVENNE): Yvenne meets with a Mystes Cotar to inform her that sales of the art they've been getting from Crow's workshop and the New Horizon aren't going that well. The Cotar futilely threatens to break the deal the Mundus has with Yvenne if sales don't pick up.
INTERSTITIAL (CROW): Crow meets with Yvenne to get her to bankroll his lavish 60th. There will be slaves! As... guests?
BUILDER(2) (MARIS): Maris warns Lydia, the quartermaster, that conflict with Crow may be looming, and asks her to try to get heavier weapons, for real war, not crowd suppression. She then manages to get a tech to come look at the bombed-out and elements-damaged psychohistory computers in the Spires, but he doesn't think he can fix them easily. Also, he works for Torrent.
BUILDER (YVENNE): Yvenne deals with some very annoyed counterfeiters, and gets her workshop back online.
BUILDER (KESTREL): Laying in bed, Kestrel begins reading a book about ancient heresies, and is worried to read about some that were actually Vaylen plots. Some suspiciously close to ideas Crow has been spouting recently...
INTERSTITIAL (TORRENT): Torrent reveals to Crow that the plan to sway the slaves and other rabble is beginning to work.
MANEUVER: ASSESS VS. ASSESS! KNOWLEDGE FIGHT! The humans win! Kestrel continues her research, and is dismayed by the parallels she finds. Primed with this, Maris scans the Archcotare the next time she comes to review the battalion, and is horrified to see the Vaylen curled within... she rushes to warn Kestrel!
NEXT TIME: LASERS!
[Here's what I remember; please help me fill in, guys, and I'll update!]
PREQUEL (CROW): Crow worked to rebuild the Glass Palace into a symbol of how humanity can change, ascend, and evolve.
PREQUEL (KESTREL): Kestrel's rebuilt Hammer forces embarrass the Church Hammer by rescuing a Mercator in distress. The planetary media eats it up!
INTERSTITIAL (KESTREL): Kestrel leaves Wren behind for a steamy rendez-vous with Yvenne. Yvenne undresses her from her Anvil in a private spaceport.
BUILDER(1) (MARIS): Maris and Delphia scope out Crow meeting with some Sodalis down near the Glass Palace. Suspicious!
COLOR (Locke): Locke hulls the Archcotare.
INTERSTITIAL (MARIS): Maris summons Kestrel to the Spires and tells her about her suspicions of Crow. They meet in front of THE BURNING WHEEL, which replaced the rising sun symbol of the New Horizon, which lays broken before its majesty. A slave is impaled on the Wheel as they talk.
COLOR (YVENNE): Yvenne meets with a Mystes Cotar to inform her that sales of the art they've been getting from Crow's workshop and the New Horizon aren't going that well. The Cotar futilely threatens to break the deal the Mundus has with Yvenne if sales don't pick up.
INTERSTITIAL (CROW): Crow meets with Yvenne to get her to bankroll his lavish 60th. There will be slaves! As... guests?
BUILDER(2) (MARIS): Maris warns Lydia, the quartermaster, that conflict with Crow may be looming, and asks her to try to get heavier weapons, for real war, not crowd suppression. She then manages to get a tech to come look at the bombed-out and elements-damaged psychohistory computers in the Spires, but he doesn't think he can fix them easily. Also, he works for Torrent.
BUILDER (YVENNE): Yvenne deals with some very annoyed counterfeiters, and gets her workshop back online.
BUILDER (KESTREL): Laying in bed, Kestrel begins reading a book about ancient heresies, and is worried to read about some that were actually Vaylen plots. Some suspiciously close to ideas Crow has been spouting recently...
INTERSTITIAL (TORRENT): Torrent reveals to Crow that the plan to sway the slaves and other rabble is beginning to work.
MANEUVER: ASSESS VS. ASSESS! KNOWLEDGE FIGHT! The humans win! Kestrel continues her research, and is dismayed by the parallels she finds. Primed with this, Maris scans the Archcotare the next time she comes to review the battalion, and is horrified to see the Vaylen curled within... she rushes to warn Kestrel!
NEXT TIME: LASERS!
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