things known

Current roster of magi at Manus Cyaneus (as of the founding, 426).

7th Desire (cont’d), 426:

6th – 7th Desire, 426 (cont’d): A surly, low-grade riot; the Battle of the Gates; “Her! It was her!”; Jerry’s Rightful Authority; shrinking refugees; “I’ll be a lightning rod”; questioning the Pickler; surrounded by alphabet dancers; all about Millers; hostages in the Scarecrow King; back from Here; the only way to stop the Judge; dragging Calvus; the Axis isn’t interested; melting in; the Pool and the Here; “Who is the ruler of the Three Moons?”; new symbols with old; “Can’t? Or won’t?”; Murry and the Judge; Palpebra’s down; Lætitia’s down; REPENT; the destruction of the Miller-glove; Perdix’ casting; the Judge’s dying request; Ishta’s down; Sonata’s down; Perdix’ down; Ilba dives after; the death of the Judge; Twilight.

6th – 7th Desire, 426: Baptising Murry; a silent inferno; off to Here; Sonata in Tikba’atta; orders for Perdix; a weather-something; question by question, mage by mage; “A species of truth”; into the Here; briefing the priests; death of a Weaver; Lætitia’s impressive performance.

5th – 6th Desire, 426: Off to silence a Judge; “We’re a little colicky”; the mystery of the disappearing town; part of what she owes them for the flood; “Dear Ishta, stack with plenty of space, love Perdix”; Aurelius; decoding the Judge; violet eyes; nudity as a magical technique; Trios of yore; burying the Judge; the Finger’s Great-Aunt’s fruit-service; Ndapé and Lætitia; the Judge resurgent; Ishta and Lætitia.

5th Desire, 426: Nipi and Nil; Nil and Gi; Palpebra and Nil and a Judge; either final, or soft-pedalled; the Finger’s funk; Nil’s methods; “We only had to cut off the one”; peace enough to pickle; the completion of the reading; Palpebra takes flight; a bird for Perdix; another Council; what happened at Naapiisachi; the Green Moon intendent.

a thread where we can start to discuss some ways to help organize ongoing plotlines and make sure everybody is integrated into them.

I write to inquire about the potential presence of our devoted friends within the walls of this our covenant.

4th – 5th Desire, 426: Sonata’s unmentionables drawer; pet rocks; the Red Moon intendent; eavesdropping; grain, to be ground into flour; grain, in smaller piles; arcane connections, some ethical considerations thereof; well, the Eleanoréans; the flower button; only a Cow for the full set; a Green divination; burning the Great Hall; usually you ask; Nil, in a snit; Aponta and the axe; a letter to Perdix; some business with a box.

1st – 4th Desire, 426: Competing reports; buckets of cold water; on the porch of Luknabbi’s yellow house; how to deal with Crow priests; Nil, in Gi’s bed; refugees; telling various people about the refugees; preparing for the refugees; Judges don’t sneak; an enormous metal hen; a place for the defense of the people of the Valley; “The wastrel Gieron”; orphans in the whorehouse; “What’s so funny?”

A stentorious update; “Yes, there were witnesses”; three to five years early; delaying tactics; Crow-vis; where the eggs will go; where the eggs will really go; Lalli and Cameron; Ishta’s starlight; decorating advice; not since college; fixing Nil’s spectacles.

Four Crow-eggs, then three; rallying the Birthday Party; fetching Perdix; preparing a brine-bath; securing the tower; stopping Nil; Palpebra, with fruit-baskets; freaking the bugs; bathing the magi; the webbing of Waakimbala’s house; “We need to know what we’re eating”; exorcising Crow; the sobriety of Perdix; the destruction of Naapiisachi; “It smells like a Pickler’s barn”; off to Okla Lokchok; initiating Nil; water and earth, Nil and Gi; the progress of the war.

The remains of the dairy; bringing down the Crow; breaking the Seige of Ofimitti; the Decapitation of Aafalakto’; recovering Ishkin; Perdix and Murry; the farce in Tully’s tower; how to dispose of a Crow-corpse.

Thinking about the little war with the Judges, I think it might be interesting to ignore the actual war between the mages and the Judges (unkillable killers with no moral qualms to genocidal war and script immunity battling it out with a mix of common mortal fodder and unkillable rabble rousers with no moral qualms about leading the fodder into battle again and again doesn't seem that interesting to play more than one session of). Instead, I'd like to focus on some of the low power characters. I can see two ways to go with it: 1 would be to pick up some soldiers in the war and get them bloodied without script immunity, and perhaps with qualms about slaughter (unlike the Savacions, most of the soldiers have probably never killed a human being). The other possibility would be to focus on the home front in the village. The priests have a lot to deal with (particularly if the covenant takes in refugees, who I plan to dump on the covenant shortly), and the issues that the judges raise are probably more interesting to deal with from the vantage point of the locals than from the vantage point of the mages.

Charles brought up a great point concerning our characters and having a war coming to town. That is of script immunity. Who has it? How far does it go for that person?

Seems like the sort of thing we should discuss before things escalate too much further.

Or the way I see it at any rate, most points are open to discussion.

There were actually two events:
1 - The interference of Sol Media Nox
2 - The opening and misalignment of the axis mundi focused on the pool.

Down and down; widdershins and sunwise; Gi, insensate; Cameron and Nashoba and Ndapé; Sonata and Ishta and Calvus; the maps all crash; “I’m beginning to feel concerned that I don’t feel concerned”; wine and cheese in the parlor; Gi’s gifts; measuring the Moon-pool; “Something holier was happening”; less stiff than Calvus.

Late in the afternoon; what Somnex hears; what’s up with Gi; færie-stuff; up some invisible steps, through an invisible door; the bottom of the cliff; the Battle of Naapiisachi; the Battle of Ofimitti; the Miller-glove; Lhimpat’s dungeon.

The Priest-King’s colors; “Maybe we should leave sooner”; Lhimpat’s visions aren’t visions; how Sofia does it; Fire! Monsters! Big monsters! Fear!; seven-leaguing it Twilish; Lhimpat and Perdix; cutting back on vinegar-bombs; run, and clean up later; Judges at the dairy; seizing a horn; the Knowledge pageant (short version); “Dead, or in a cell?”; Perdix and their cousin; tactics against Judges; Nil, mapping; a dozen pieces of horn in six villages; the reliability of prophecy.

Perdix, frequenter of brothels; Ishta quits; punching Gieron; dosing the eggs; snooping about the kitchen; questioning Itti; Ishta’s story; the apology owed to Nipi; Nipi, in Gi’s debt; some unexpected uses for perdo corpus in gastrointestinal illnesses.