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21 October 2007 session notes--

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:00:07 -0400

7th Desire (cont’d), 426:

14 October 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:11:45 -0400

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.

7 October 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:01:05 -0400

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.

23 September 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:56:17 -0400

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.

16 September 2007 session notes--

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:35:02 -0400

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.

9 September 2007 session notes--

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:39:19 -0400

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.

29 July 2007 session notes--

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:38:48 -0400

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?”

15 July 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:38:56 -0400

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.

8 July 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:31:50 -0400

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.

17 June 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:19:33 -0400

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.

3 June 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:14:13 -0400

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.

20 May 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:07:17 -0400

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.

6 May 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:51:29 -0400

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.

15 April 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:40:37 -0400

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.

1 April 2007 session notes--

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:33:59 -0400

Nipi’s power-play; driving a wedge; thrashing Love and Reason; any eventuality; birds so pure and white; the Committee for Less than Utter Disaster; the soldier and the weaver.