DRAFT Run log for 020820

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Major Events:


Characters represented by players at this run: Cailin, Ilk, Jean, Neville and Osric.

Hamster Corwin

Hamster Corwin has recovered to the point where he wishes to investigate the place were he was captured to find out why and how they did so. He tells Jean, and asks for transportation.

Jean asks Ilk for a gate spell. Ilk points out that the shadow is blocked against magic, Logrus, and local Pattern. They got in last time using variable Pattern.

Jean asks ecto-Ilk and ecto-Suhuy for a variable Pattern lift. Ecto-Suhuy suggests that Hamster Corwin come by to help out there, and then they can take him directly to the place of the cat people.


Dragon Rituals in House Xartys

Ilk is investigating House Xartys. He surrounds the house, and notices a number of Logrus defenses present, none of which would really slow him down. They're generic, and geared towards slowing or stopping someone of standard Logrus usage. The alarms are offensively geared, and weren't present when Ilk checked out all of the alarms across Chaos.

There are signs of something Serpentish or dragonish inside. Ilk heads in.

There is the corpse of a dragon in the center of the House, being tapped for connections and power. It's middleish-aged, fairly powerful, one of the ones that has been seen around Chaos. The ritual is currently ongoing, and is being conducted in the room with the corpse by household members, including the head of House Xartys.

They're tapping Serpent power, but clearly don't know what they're doing -- they're wasting lots of it, and don't recognize it for what it is.

Ilk decides to ask Amaranth for magical assistance, and asks Jean for help in contacting Amaranth. They discuss a plan. The soul of the dragon is to be exchanged with the (mind-wiped?) least of the ritual casters, so the dragon can take his revenge.

Ilk's head-dragon fails to be helpful -- it is just horrified at the entire concept, and is busy trying to keep what is left of the dragon from scaling. The dragon's body is already dead.

They begin. Amaranth brings up a television set floating in mid-air displaying the ritual in progress. Amaranth casts. Ilk shorts between the dragon's body and the least of the casters at the appropriate time. The expected surge of power fails to happen. There is now a jar on Amaranth's desk with a brain floating in it.

There is confusion in the ritual. The one that was mind-wiped claims confusion and sits down. Where he sat down there are remains of a very large shell.

The dragon on Thelbane has relaxed, climbed back onto the top of Thelbane, and curled up. Jean is no longer trapped under the claw.

The mind-wiped one is poking around in the shards of the egg, looking peaked.

Amaranth is laughing to herself. There is some small movement in and amongst the egg shards, and then the individual moves away from the egg and seems much happier.

Ilk watches the area. He checks out the egg, and determines that it was manufactured -- there was never a dragon in it.


In House Cara's Party

Yuri notices a communications through the House ring. Through the ring he hears, "There are two people here who need to speak to you, sir." Yuri heads over. Faythe approaches him and bows as supplicant requesting something of a house that she is visiting.

They were told that they had to participate in a "wet chemise" competition before the whistle-wetting could begin. Ilk considers smacking the guy who told them that, but decides that he can't punish creativity. He replies that under the circumstances, the competition could be delayed until after the wetting. Ilk brings in a nice berry cordial for Faythe; Titania has gone off to tap the rough stuff.

Ilk informs the joker that he'll have to explain the contest and convince them himself. Half-way through the guy's explanation of a wet chemise contest, Titania leans over to him and whispers in his ear. The guy stops cold, with a panicked look on his face.

Titania puts her hand on Faythe's shoulder and offers to show her. After being shown, Faythe goes over to him and says, "I'm betrothed to the head of House Hendrake. Norton. You can take it up with him after we're married." and kisses him on the forehead. She turns back to Titania, and says, "We have an appointment, don't we?"

Yuri acquires a satchel filled with alcoholic drinks, and offers to bring refreshment on their mission. Titania looks Yuri up and down, does so again, then yet again, and agrees, with a grin. "Yuri, you said your name was?" Yuri inwardly slaps himself upside the head.

Along the way, Zack's Sidhe warriors seem to be gathering around Chaos to escort them. Ilk brings them along too.


Faythe Enters Darkover and Assumes Control

The Dragons Carry Caine into the Sea of Chance

The mob guarding Darkover notices a bunch of Sidhe warriors, Titania, Faythe, and their Sherpa.

Titania stops, looks Osric up and down, exchanges greetings with him, and says, "You seem to have become elevated... it's good to finally see your colors showing through."

Titania states that her companion is planning on passing through to see if this place will accept her, and requests permission of the King of this place to step through to hers, as well as company on the other side.

Osric agrees to have his assistant check out that machine once this is done.

Yuri, Jean, Osric, Cailin, Titania, and Faythe are going to enter. Ilk, Andron, and Jenoir stay behind.

Faythe enters first. She and the undead paramecia look at each other, she expends a bit of her life, and they are alive again. The group crosses Dimover into Darkover. Faythe performs the shifting. The veils of time part and she walks serenely and calmly forward. As the veils part, the group sees that at the heart of the monument, chained to the last blue glowing stone, is Caine.

As soon as the veils of time parted, the dirge stopped.

As soon as the veils part and Caine is revealed, dragons from all across reality start flapping towards Darkover. Osric and Cailin discuss Caine's predicament.

Yuri looks for Mikail or his workings. Mikail's signature is very faint on the edge of Darkover, as if he tried to get in and failed. Yuri remains on the watch for Mikail.

The first dragon arrives, stops in front of Osric, nods in his direction, and says, "I believe that we have an issue with one of your..." Osric and the dragon discuss the situation. Osric demands that Caine survive the conversation alive and intact. After going back and forth with Osric and Caine, the dragon flies over and lands in front of Faythe.

Ilk and Jean in the bonsai-tree discuss balance, powers, and powering up Darkover.

The dragon tells Faythe that they need to remove an individual from her lands for judgment, and seek her (permission? agreement?)

Faythe looks Caine up and down, then goes up to the dragon, kisses it on the nose, and says, "Only if you come back for tea later."

The dragon is put aback for a moment, then replies, "Yes, ma'am."

The dragon leaps into the air again and goes for Caine.

Caine pulls something out of his arsenal and throws it at the dragon. Yuri recognizes it as something nasty with Logrus curdled around it. He determines that the dragon is actually threatened, and that the attack is Logrus magic and therefore not to be permitted. He creates voders next to Osric and Cailin, and says, respectively, "shield that" and "drain that." Cailin drains the magic from the bolt, so only the Logrus impacts Osric's shield in front of the dragon. The remnants of the bolt splatters.

The dragon finishes his power dive, grabs Caine, and flies off the other end of the promontory into the Sea of Chance. The next dragon lands in front of the assembled group, looks Osric up and down, and says, "We will be in touch. Soon, I believe the word is."

Faythe looks at Jean with big, sad eyes. "My tower is gone. Where I grew up."

Jean offers to get her a new one. Ilk and Jean discuss acquiring a new tower.

--EORun--


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