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| [[Forgotten Suns: Log - Watch Valley|previous chapter]]
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| | === Into the Machine === |
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| ==Thirteen Lives Bridge==
| | * [[Righteous Judgment]] |
| | * [[Rave Against the Machine]] |
| | * [[The Outside Calls]] |
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| | === The Eye Opens === |
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| | ''Outside Watch Valley''|| align="right" |''23 Mar 2005''
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| By daybreak, the circle reaches the mountains. As they climb the winding road, they see a cloud of dust on the valley road, obviously a large number of horsemen moving swiftly toward [[Watch Valley]]. [[Guen]] investigates to discover a large group of 35 dragon-blooded, with about 40 mortal soldiers.
| | * [[Approaching the Glass City]] |
| | * [[Streets of Glass]] into the city, more glass beasts, remnants of Mnemon's crew |
| | * [[Interrogation of Mnemon Marbado]] |
| | * [[Rats in a Glass Maze]] |
| | * [[Interview with a Glass Sorcerer]] |
| | * [[Looking Into the Eye]] |
| | ** Needs some handouts about the various locations, tailored to each character, as reminders. |
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| As the mass descended on the town, they slammed into the shield generated by the new solar manse. While doing no damage, it stopped the terrestrials, but not their mortal soldiers. After eavesdropping enough to hear the head of the column say "there is the new spire, just like he said", Guen returned to the circle, where they vacillated between two theories about why the [[Wyld Hunt]] might be there. They reasoned that either the commotion caused by the [[eristrufa]] impersonating a solar led them to the [[Lap]] and the eristrufa somehow gave them a trail to follow or that someone from the town of Watch Valley witnessed the rebirth of the solar manse and made their way to the Lap to inform authorities.
| | === Stray Scenes === |
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| Either way, the circle elected to continue, though [[Gutts]] pined for his "Welcome to Guttstopia" sign and portraits. Eventually, they hit upon the idea of concealing their trail, which [[Regret]] can do quite well.
| | * Tamuz? |
| | * White Queen |
| | * Husk |
| | * Sundial |
| | * Mnemon's crew |
| | * Cult of Illuminated |
| | * Infernals |
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| | ''Southern mountain range''|| align="right" |''23 Mar 2005''
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| After an uneventful night, the circle put more distance between themselves and the Wyld Hunt, reaching [[Thirteen Lives Bridge]] just after dusk. Waiting for them, were a cadre of deathnights:
| | * Civil war |
| | * Bull of the North |
| | * Thorns |
| | * Mask of Winters |
| | * White Queen |
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| *[[Vision Consorting with the Dead]]: an abyssal sorceress with a history with Regret and the circle
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| *[[Callous Disregard]]: a dusk-caste with big sword
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| *[[Unfortunate Interdiction]]: a feral midnight-caste martial artist.
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| *[[Vexes at a Distance]]: a stealthy day-caste bowman.
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| *[[Periwinkle]]: a cheery, cruel, moonshadow-caste trickster.
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| *[[Gumela, the Jeweled Autitor]]: a second-circle demon summoned by Vision.
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| *A score of zombies
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| After a few insults are exchanged, Vision states that if Regret be handed over to her, the rest of the circle will be unharmed. Regret suggests they take the deal. Unswayed, everyone else attacks, with [[Stag]] opening the conflict by turning all of the zombies to dust. Most of the circle stayed in their wagon, charging the horses across the bridge with the thought to sweep any in their way off.
| | * Ascending Water |
| | ** The Roseblack ordered to take Thorns, as a maneuver to get her killed. |
| | * Resplendent Water |
| | ** The Roseblack secretly meets separately with both the Bull of the North and the Mask of Winters, engineering a war between them in which each side thinks they can claim her forces as allies. She also meets with Lookshy to convince them they are better off under a Shogunate than solar or deathlord rule. |
| | ** The White Queen makes her move in Harborhead. |
| | ** Yugash sends out new scouting patrols, now innoculated against the Great Contaigion. |
| | * Descending Water |
| | ** The Locust Crusade launches a full assault on Gem |
| | * Ascending Earth |
| | * Resplendent Earth |
| | * Descending Earth |
| | * Ascending Wood |
| | * Resplendent Wood |
| | * Descending Wood |
| | * Ascending Fire |
| | * Resplendent Fire |
| | * Descending Fire |
| | * Calibration |
| | ** 1st: Funeral for the Scarlet Empress. Wedding in Hell. |
| | ** 2nd: Darkbrood on the Blessed Isle interfere with civil war. |
| | ** 5th: Circle activates manses. |
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| A rousing fight follows, with Gutts being seriously hurt early by an armor-ignoring arrow from the concealed Vexes. [[Cruxis]], about to be thrown off the bridge by Periwinkle, grabs her and jumps off. Figuring Periwinkle would grab hold of part of the bridge to save herself, Cruxis planned on grabbing her, but a shot from Regret's spear knocked her unconscious in mid air, leaving Cruixis to use her as a springboard to leap to a handhold. As she fell, she regained consciousness, possible through the efforts of Gumela. An instant before hitting the rocks, her body transformed to blood, splattering messily all over the rocks.
| | === Orichalcum Manse === |
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| Needing to call upon peripheral essence, Stag dropped his identity, causing the entire group to forget his actions from that point on. Stag put the essence to good use, killing Callous Disregard. Through the melee, Gumela cursed most of the group one at a time, usually decreasing their Dexterity. Guen also got nailed with a charm that cut his healing rate to one-tenth normal.
| | * '''Location''': [[Rathess]] |
| | * '''Interference''': Manse flow is doesn't work because the [[Dragon Kings]] have degenerated. Some contact with an ancient King needed. |
| | * Need for cunaria, solar hearthstone, celestial lion talon, quintessence flask |
| | * [[Ophidian Kata Rings]] |
| | * The Goblin King. Abyssal consort(s). Griffin as Akuma. |
| | * Finding Soul Mirror |
| | * Waking the Dragon Kings |
| | * Redemption of Regret, [[Three Gated Cage]] |
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| | === Moonsilver Manse === |
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| | ''Thirteen Lives Bridge''|| align="right" |''30 Mar 2005''
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| As the melee continued, Guen took to the air to try to find Vexes, who was dealing some serious damage with his bow. Though he took a while to find and reach, he directed his fire mostly as Guen. Once the circle made its way to the other end of the bridge, Gumela spewed out threads, killing the half of the horses pulling the wagon and injuring the rest. Vision had cast a frost barrier that prevented visibility and ranged weapons from reaching her and Gumela. After knocking out Unfortunate Interdiction (and killing him while unconscious), about half the circle penetrated the barrier and dispatched Gumela. Vision, however, had escaped through a rift she had cut to the underworld. Vexes managed to elude Guen long enough to join her, with the circle reaching the rift just in time to see it close.
| | * '''Location''': Somewhat near the [[City of the Shining Reefs]], in an underwater quicksilver lake. |
| | * '''Interference''': Manse flow is doesn't work because [[Whose Whispers Chain]] has been messing with it somehow. He has a guess as to what it is, but his minions do not. |
| | * Hints about Ebon Dragon |
| | * Chimeral lunar akuma? |
| | * Infernals up to something |
| | * This should be related in some manner to the Scarlet Empress plotline, including information about the coming of the [[Ebon Dragon]]. |
| | * Need to untangle the manse from some sort of machinations of those who follow [[Whose Whispers Chain]] in some way. |
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| After the fight, the circle noticed that the splash of blood and gore on the rocks that had been Periwinkle was gone, and the deathnight nowhere to be found. The dead horses were tossed after her into the chasm. All of the blood on the bridge concerned the circle, fearing they might be tracked somehow. While not all of the circle completely understood the logic of this, Guen tracked down a deer and, as a cat, savaged it on the bridge. The resulting mess and carcass seemed to satisfy people, and they moved up the road, finding the horses used by the deathnights. After tossing the saddles, bits and bridles into the ravine and harnessing the horses to their wagon, the circle moved deeper into the mountains.
| | === Starmetal Manse === |
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| ==Hunters & Prey==
| | * '''Location''': A mountain top outside [[Yane]]. |
| | * '''Interference''': Asteroid/ship was converted into a prison for a Third Circle demon. |
| | * Need to summon calibration gate |
| | * Asteroid base |
| | * Prison to third circle demon? |
| | * Maybe asteroid starts plummeting towards city? |
| | * When the gate opens, maybe some immaterial 2nd circles enter to try to free their "parent"? |
| | * Need a scene where the circle must fight the demon and keep the asteroid from crashing at the same time. |
| | * The top of the mountain holds a portal to the Starmetal Manse, not the manse itself. A ritual space exists on top of the mountain, and if the Calibration Gate is summoned there, the gate will open into the manse instead of into [[Yu-Shan]]. The manse itself is an asteroid observation base floating far above Creation. |
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| | === Soulsteel Manse === |
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| | ''Southern mountains''|| align="right" |''?? Apr 2005''
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| Led only by Regret's notion of where the mine was, the next week of winding through the mountains passed uneventfully, though most of the circle still suffered under the effects of Gumela's curses the majority of the time. The magic waned around the time they hit an elevated, airid plane, cooking in the sun.
| | * '''Location''': [[Gethemane]], location of where soulsteel first originated. |
| | * '''Interference''': Vodak is drawing on the manse's energy? |
| | * Vision Consorting with the Dead |
| | * Mountain Folk |
| | * Infernals? |
| | * Connect the circle with the Mountain Folk, in order to make the Jade Manse a bit more approachable. |
| | * Gethamane |
| | * Minions of Vodak, possibly Vodak himself, abyssals (either on the same quest, or looking for ways to exploit Vodak). |
| | * Long before the solars originally hollowed the mountain, the place that would be Gethamane held the greatest city of the Nameless Ones. When Autochthon unmade them, some of the fallout spilled into the pit vacated by the city. After constructing the Soulsteel Manse in the pit, Autochthon made mountains to fill in the hole. These mountains never quite matched the surrounding stone, so numerous faults evolved, and these unwittingly made an ideal starting point for the solars who founded Gethamane. |
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| | ''Southern mountains''|| align="right" |''?? Apr 2005''
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| Toward the end of the day, the circle came upon a destroyed campsite littered with dozens of corpses. Feeding on them were ''abacasteri'', metallic lions with molten gold for blood. After dispatching a few and driving the rest away, the circle discovered that the camp was the remains of a dragon-blooded hunting party.
| | * '''Location''': Deep under the [[Imperial Mountain]] |
| | * '''Interference''': The Empresses infernalism? |
| | * Just getting there will be the main threat, but potentially some "corrupted" essence flows. Possibly related to Ebon Dragon. |
| | * Infernals paving the way for Ebon Dragon |
| | * Stag's akuma foe. |
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| While some of the dead were terrestrials, most were slaves. According to a diary kept by one of the hunters, they were searching for furnace rhinos, anxious to gain the mineral wealth that comes if you manage to bring one down. Based on the tracks at the site, it appeared that a single one of these beasts slaughtered everyone in the camp.
| | === Finale === |
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| Guen followed the tracks until the light failed.
| | * Ebon Dragon & Empress |
| | * Autochthon wakes |
| | * Breaking the world? |
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| | ''Southern mountains''|| align="right" |''?? Apr 2005''
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| At dawn, after the rest of the group had healed a bit more and [[Varden]] fixed the hunting party's wagon, Guen resumed the search, quickly locating a unique moonsilver furnace rhino referred to by the hunters as [[Mutoxis]]. Not content to let the beast be (and wanting its moonsilver horn), the circle engaged the beast and, after a serious pummeling, brought it down.
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| After loading it onto he wagon appropriated from the hunters (built for that exact purpose), the circle moved from the high, arid plain to even higher mountains. As Regret led the circle into a narrow path leading up a twin peaked mountain, Guen noticed that the path had all the markings of a lunar's territory.
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| Guen called out, as appropriate for entering another lunar's land, and a deep, hawk-like cry answered. Fairly soon, two hawkmen appeared, armed with spears. After some brief questions, they asked the circle to follow them, leading them up the mountain.
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| At the top of the more northerly of the twin peaks, a small village welcomed the circle, lead by a huge hawkman with moonsilver feathers. [[Kardak]] is large even for a deadly beastman. Standing nine meters in human form (twelve as the hawkman), he accepted the gift of the rhino's moonsilver horn in exchange for his hospitality. Though initially refusing to allow Regret to stay, Kardak consented after Regret presented him with a finger wearing a moonsilver ring. Regret claimed he cut the finger from a dragon-blooded man. Kardak clearly recognized the ring, but spoke no more of it.
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| [Kill rhino. Discovered lunar camp. Scouts sent to Watch Valley]
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| ==Empire Mine==
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| | ''Lunar camp''|| align="right" |''9?? Jun 2005''
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| [Fight with lunar. Discover mine.]
| | '''Specifics''': |
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| | ''Orichalcum''|| align="right" |''23 Jun 2005''
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| [Reconnoiter mine. Guen inside manse, tries to attune. Also find cold place where his bat sonar worked strangely (sometimes walls were there, sometimes not). Two monks in a [[Cloudwalking Ingot]].]
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| | ''Orichalcum Mine''|| align="right" |''1 Jul 2005''
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| * [[Cathak Cacek Omnus]]
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| * [[Cathak Maves]]
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| * [[Cynis Belar Yana]]
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| * [[Cynis Falen Myrsal]]
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| * [[Last Envy]]
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| * [[Ledaal Catala Witar]]
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| * [[Nellens Kesa]]
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| * [[Ragara Soras Hanan]]
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| * [[V'neef Lopel]]
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| * [[V'neef Netar]]
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| * Three [[erymanthoi]]
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| | ''Orichalcum Mine''|| align="right" |''7 Jul 2005''
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| | ''Orichalcum Mine''|| align="right" |''2 Aug 2005''
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| [Finish fight w/ dragon-blodded]
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