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The Suhuy who trained Ilk summons Suhuy to Suhuy's Ways. There's a shadow next to him, who has a Logrus signature in his leg. Suhuy tells Ilk that the shadow apparently has a child of Pharaban in his leg -- the insane one. This shadow is tasked with restoration of that mind, and Suhuy thinks that finding the body would help with that restoration. Suhuy wants Ilk to give him a hand with that search.
Jean fishes Silver Lyra from the Dancers Guild to Ygg. She talks with Ygg for a while, then asks Jean for a lift to Chaos -- she needs to interrupt Snarsht and Rainbow. Jean fishes her to near the Beastmasters' Guild.
She enters the Guild and fools around for a while with a doorman, then enters. She and Jean pass into the Guild.
Silver Lyra says, "Yes. It's true." Rainbow and Snarsht both have this horrified look on their faces.
The Beastmaster says, "Well, not telling the Serpent is high on my list."
The Dancer says, "Perhaps one of us should assume his shape, and make sure that things are maintained until later.
The Beastmaster states that he will make the form Real, if they can find a volunteer.
Jean whales in a the most competant devotee Verra has -- a Dragonlord.
Rainbow has shifted into Verra and lays a hand on the Dragonlord. Rainbow pushes the Dragonlord into the form of the Unicorn. The kitty-cat strops against the legs of the ex-Dragonlord briefly, and now the Unicorn is standing in the Beastmasters' Guild. The Unicorn is told to be aloof. Jean whales the new Unicorn to Amber. Jean gives a quick tour of Amber.
Cailin's head is beginning to hurt, as if a pressure was trying to get in or get out. Cailin wakes the bear mage, who is grumpy. The bear mage goes off and returns with someone, who screams. The bear mage shoos the new arrival out of the House into the doorway and continues the explanation.
The psionicist staggers, falls over, then stands up again and says that Cailin is just fine, and that Cailin should come outside the house. Cailin and the bear mage discreetly discuss the matter, then the bear mage touches Cailin and fries the psionicist.
Cailin acquires a Jean who warns Ilk. Ilk and Jean discuss the situation, and Ilk pokes the Serpent's Apprentice.
Cailin talks to Titania again.
Serpent's Apprentice can't spot anything obvious here. Cailin yetis, and can't see anything either. Ecto-Ilk shows up and manifests. Cailin tries to explain the problem, but can't talk. Ilk changes the shadow to make Yeti the primary language. Cailin explains.
Ecto-Ilk looks at House Cara. He can see a great amount of power pressing on the outside of the House, and gradually the Pattern reconfigures around the power allowing it to percolate through.
Ilk gives Cailin the explanation of how to raise the Pattern in his head, by what he remembers of Malachai's explanation to Cassandra. Cailin starts trying, and finds it much easier than walking it for real. No Veils.
Ecto-Ilk starts working on reconfiguring House Cara to let the power percolate around and back outside the House, and creates a Life-like propogation mechanism to track the pressure back to the source.
Cailin has mentally passed the second veil and is on the home stretch.
Cailin finishes walking the Pattern in his head.
Ecto-Ilk and Serpent's Apprentice track down the walker, throwing etch-a-sketches in front of him. The trail goes orthogonally to reality. Ilk speculates that it goes to Cataan, and goes off to ask Gauss for a bridge. Ilk creates gramaphones to detect his signature, and Gauss tries to pass them through. The third one makes it, and the walker is jumping around a lot -- many sources?
Ilk complains to Jean. Jean speculates making many hard-links to Toram-suckers, and sending them through. Serpent's Apprentice goes off to ask the Serpent.
Kieron is sitting in a corner, crying. He's being punished for having wrecked the Serpent's bedroom. The Serpent doesn't think that the plan would work.
Jean has a new plan -- have the walkers tow in bibliomantic tokens.
Jean finds a member of ex-House Barimen and asks him to relay a message to House Moonlight. He claimks that House Moonlight is the cause of all of his woes, and challenges Jean to a duel.
"As challenged party, I choose inertia."
Jean smears the guy.
The fifth member of ex-House Barimen agrees. Jean uses Cailin's history to convince the archivist to come out and talk.
Ilk takes the shadow off to Pharaban's place. No Pharaban, no movement.
Start iterating through places where Logrus cannot penetrate. The first place is the cat-shadow. He comes back out with a bloodied spear. The third place is a prison-environment. There is a slight echo there; Ilk grabs two batteries and two blades and heads in.
Ilk sets off a few Logrus alarms, then cracks open a battery, setting off all of the alarms. The corridors start to crumble and cracks form in the ceilings. Guardsmen come down the corridor and explode on contact with Logrus.
Another person approaches and waves a white handkerchief. The shadow explains that we're here for a big green tentacular thing called Cthulhu. A tour happens. They have a large room with a number of Logrus users pent within, drawing from a power source local to this shadow.
The shadow notices a pull from the gem in the direction of "the lockdown". Ilk can't perceive anything in that direction. The guide goes off to check on the lockdown, but can't open it -- the guard in charge of that region is missing. Ilk gets a description and starts pulling in people. He reaches the right one; it's a corpse. Oops. The locals send out an emergency response team and investigate the site, as shown to them by Ilk. The corpse had its head out ...
[Cthulhu found, released.]
The Serpent's Apprentice embodies. The shadow climbs in, and the dragon goes for a swim. The shadow finds this a much more pleasant journey than the way in. Ilk plays elevator music en-route.
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