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!