Session Notes Archives

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.

Speaking to shadows; correspondence; peering at an Ulveggi corpse; snails or ponies; moving the Sun; “Tishkilla is really pretty”; waking the Touccian; the journeyman project; zombie attack; “We don’t find your question useful”; dosing the staff; half a loaf; a new Sebasticook; “What do we do if it’s Tully?”

In which the months of Union, Wisdom, and Despair, 425, are summarily despatched.

Discussing the ultimatum; trading for Yem; paperwork and monies; the Finger and the Pickler; meeting the Mayor; fewer monsters, more politics; jail-break; dragooning the Triplets; scoping the kitchen; “What was I thinking?”; pumping Nil; flirting with Ndapé; what to do with the children; comparing notes.

A smelly ordination; bits of the pool; a pig and a bucket; sleeping well; the little finger’s hand; Calvus and the Wolf priest; a meeting in the rain; the aftermath of that meeting; dreaming inside-out; negotiations.

More punishment for Mitahaffi; what the rains have done; moving a mountain; “He’s the glue”; those elements necessary for seigecraft; Abakoshi’s gift; “Yip-yip?”; the floor, the rolling pin; “Who was that boy?”; Gieron, past the guards; what to do about the rain; Cameron casts his spell; dodging raindrops; Lætitia’s water; all wrong, but better; smashing the lights; turning off the dolls; Cameron erases his tracks; Marzipan’s fists; the rain stops, the wind picks up; Gi and Tansie, Perdix and Circumcessor; less glass in the hall; “Sky-clad?”; Abakoshi’s gift; Cameron’s day; what to discuss at council; sabotage.

Proposed improvements; the guy in the corner with the stick; sleeping arrangements; getting Ishta up to speed; ash and grease and orange muffins; promoting Ibaa; Ishta gives a lecture; “Not intentionally”; getting Nil up to speed; Mens and bugs; the mess in the trunk; Nil collapses; Sonata’s proxy; good news for father.

A knock; “Do I look like an idiot?”; bearding Perdix; Ishkin’s conjugation; the next fifteen years; “Nothing is private”; cats and copper, soup and swords; the return of Perdix; Mina and Mitahaffi; a punch for Perdix; “We can’t be married”; dropping Hans, dropping Palpebra; “Keep bringing gifts”; low, measured tones; contrition, but not a public apology; incomprehensible notes; bellowing at the castle; “This is gonna bleed us.”

Impeccable reputations; what became of the other Monkey-mask; an invisible, unmemorable Procopian; the prisoner, of sorts; “Dibs!”; Ilba, not Ilbakinki; “Did you have your own language?”; frickin’ politics; Monkey-ties; “Perdix does like to cloister people”; impeccable devotion; the Manu Tenéreans.

Messages to Annalum; Viscus vim; where Nishoba can go; consensus (what is it good for?); Utchka, Receptrix, and Nil; a past shared with Calvus’ lineage; communication in crisis; Cameron, Ishkin, and Perdix’ apprentice; some appropriate boundaries are requested; a much larger Andrew; some prepared remarks; “in the woods”; what Buster’s been up to; the smart one; in need of a bird cage; an accord with the Kitten-Monkey.

Catching a Perdix; three and not two; importing twins; exporting metal; plans for Jerry’s wife; muttering and scribbling; flying machines; oeconomium; the ramifications of arriving early; “Sweetie! Sweetie!”; optics; “How Plenilunial of me, I know”; sweeping her stoop; another round of interviews.

Jerry needs a secretary; managing the salmon; retrieving Tully’s sun; “The shouty fat drunk”; ill omens; bathing magi; swapping out the knives.

Shame, Mercy, and part of Communion; a Wolf and six cubs; biting Monkeys; the laziest peasant around.

“Did you know there’s a Procopian here?”; a demonstration of the drill; Buster falls; doing, and doing to; which shoulder is which; Perdix’ tone, and Perdix’ debt; oh, three or four; the woman who was the wrong woman; the hand, the eye, and the foot; “Did you know there’s a Procopian here?”; “I guess so”; Cameron, bearing gifts; calling a council meeting; “The dragging through the streets is an important part”; negotiating brutality; be it resolved.

Morning calisthenics; “I got a stale roll with me”; the return of Nakni; the first challenge; the second challenge; the red stag; the four candidates; not quite a bear; definitely a wolf; the lesson of the tortoise; the lesson of the hare; the death of Nakni; the new Wolf Priest; Waakimbala finds the bugs; the Wolf Priest finds Nakni; what to do for a yeast infection; “Any new monsters today?”; checking the blind corner; a talkative cannibal; Mens does not wish to be disturbed; more than five; a valuable lesson learned; “I ate my neighbor and now I have bugs in my head.”

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.

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.

Going to see the trees; Yem!; Calvus’ theory; the largest boar they’ve ever seen; “You are poison!”; a taste; the sound of rattling bones; milk and blood and water; levitation and fire; branches and corpses; blood puddles; what happened to the path; particular tastes in breakfast foods; killing the tree; “Where is his head?”; the giant holly bush; a cord of dead dry wood; vines, glass, dust; the little Andrew; gathering the priests; when and how to walk the walls; making a village; someone will die.

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.

Characters are listed; an attempt at a covenant manifest; some discussion of the local political situation.