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• Starting with Lya, she just cut through what was Maeve, she felt no resistance
  • Where it connected, she sees the ash, bandage and everything else part and recoil from each other, by the time she is done swinging through it, it has ripped into trailing disintegrating bandages, they never hit the ground
  • She finds her footing and searches for the harbormaster to return the blade to, every move she makes is mechanical and slow
  • The harbormaster carefully places her hands in the pommel and Lya backs away and sits down slowly, eyes wide, very still, the horrors are processing, she starts crying, she is still purple
  • Arycis and Syliza will be fine, they seem no worse for wear as a pair though they are definitely injured, Henum is treating them at the moment
• We wake up early and go to the building, we completed the structure yesterday
• Back to after the bathhouse incident
  • Aster comes in first, we notice that her throne is much more throne like
  • “Dorian fell unconscious…” “what.” “multiple times…..” “WHAT.”
  • Meph is being sassy with Aella because she ‘dismissed’ her and Dorian
  • Meph sits down on a cushion in front of the throne with her back to Aella and starts scribbling
  • Aella wants more privacy and tells Aster to follow as she walks to Aster's room
    • Once they are in Aster's room, Aella closes the door and Aella asks if they are ok, physically, they are shaken up but ok physically
    • Aella asks what happened with the water, they didn’t know the splashing would make that happen
    • Aella didn’t know what was happening, she thought they were dying and she didn’t want that to happen a second time, she asks them to be more cautious when dealing with magic
    • Aella hugs her and says its going to be ok, Aster hugs back and Aella can tell from the hug that something has really shaken them
    • Aella notices they are shaking and asks if they are ok in general
    • “It's the second time that a careless mistake of mine has affected them specifically”-Aster 
    • Aella takes a moment, goes out of the hug so they can face them, Aster is fidgeting with their hands and looking with their freckles, Aella thinks for a bit “mistakes often lead to danger and tend to have consequences but that danger only becomes more pressing if you let yourself wallow, the consequences become real if you site by your mistake…. Don’t let that stop you from continuing to push forward because that is the only way to move forward.”-Aella
    • Aster leans into them again, Aella goes back to the hug
    • After a pause, Aster asks how Aella has been and if she is alright, she says she is ok, adjusting to this land, the people here are difficult and not like home
    • Aster asks again if they are sure they are ok, they mention they have been reading so much and not sleeping much
    • Aella mentions for the first time in forever they finally found the names for the voices, the gods that have spoken to her, the wind and storm, she says she needs to understand it better and forge the connection properly, she pulls out her book and asks for help, she is trying to build something as an homage to them, something that represents them properly, she is almost done with finishing the book but she isn’t sure what to do next, she thinks she has to talk with them
    • Aster says they would love to help
    • Aster is trying to gently coax out what else is bothering Aella
      • This is the only thing Aella knows how to put to words, there is something but she doesn’t really know, maybe in continuing whatever the work is she’ll be able to figure it out
      • Aella apologizes that she can’t explain what ails her, Aster tells her that there is no need to push everyone away
      • Aella is confused, she says she is leading them
    • Aster says that she is acting more bossy than usual and it might be having the opposite effect they are trying for
    • Aella hears what they said and say they think they need to speak to Rhyme and Reason
      • Aka, she fully ignored and didn’t respond
      • Aster looks a little hurt
  • Side thing, Aella spends the night with Aster, they know something is wrong but that can be resolved later, for now they are together and they are content
• Day pass, early morning, we have the day off but we are still in our rooms
• Downtime resolutions
  • Does Lya have a job?!?!
    • She goes to the Library, she is asked to do an interview, generally asked who she is, work experience, can she manage this kind of stuff. She presents herself well, the interview goes relatively well, enough to get an opportunity to prove her skills in a more hands on way
    • She must sort the books the party has taken out
    • Mephs: constructs and potions effecting them, 629: other branches of engineering: robots and artificial intelligence stuff
    • Aella: making a magic item: 133.4, all things magic
    • Aster: 999 a currently unused dedicated to extraterrestrial worlds
    • She successfully has a job for two days
      • She keeps the job but the rapport with her coworkers is strained bc she is a different color
    • Gains 16 bronze pieces
  • Rhyme Time!!
    • Wants to see if they have completed the theoretical components of his research
    • He knows how to make this spell, they are stolen to one on one, they were given a task
    • Rhyme and Reason have wandered out to the camp where they will talk with people there, after seeing the carnage in the vicinity, that peaks their interest, they ask the shooketh people still at the camp and inquired about the goings on that left such a permanent scar on the steppe
      • They go out to the scene of the event, Rhyme takes out his focus, a little crystal orb, they are setting out some materials they have been tinkering with and pacing an area they want to investigate further with a new spell
      • As they do so spectral lines go throughout 
      • The light shifts and reverse to a film negative and rewind the events, they see the figures of Arycis and Syliza standing out beneath the stars
      • The two chat about how far they've come, they notice Maeve join the scene, she shows no sign of hearing and doesn’t move
      • We see the figure of Maeve lift, a lit tinderbox before her but her face is cast in shadow, there are barely perceptible motes around her
      • Maeve drops the tinderbox and flames snake towards the too, they stop and Maeve’s eyes gloss over, her mind in a different place, her face reflects the reaction of torment
      • Maeve eyes suddenly open and the flames rush towards Arycis
      • Lya enters the frame, the things we have seen before
      • The spectral image freezes in place with the illip fully rendered in this place, the spell has run its course now
      • Reason walks into the spell and wonders what happened
      • The light in the air returns to normal hues and the image of the specter floating is what is left
      • Rhyme doesn’t recognize what it is, neither does Reason, they wonder if it is possession
      • Rhyme mentions he couldn’t help but thinking there was some sort of presence around her
      • Rhyme was not prepared for this sort of emmenation
      • Perhaps this merry band is more trouble than we first believed”-Rhyme
      • “I find their aptitude for chaos rather large”-Reason
      • Reason says they should grab samples, and what they witnessed, they believe they will figure it out
  • Aster time!
    • Book about planes and cosmology
    • They end up with a heavily annotated transcript of the saying of Madagast the earth breaker in regards of the shape of the world and the planes beyond
      • By some histories, he was directly related to the start of the Last Great War, he was allied with the third power of that war
    • They are able to parse this
    • Sanity, 16 on the die
    • They have quite a bit of info on the planes, this model can be described pretty imperfectly by a standard geometric solid, a three dimensional shape
      • Three components of a solid, faces, edges and vertices
    • Pyramid: faces defined of the known locations of the shards of the crux so the main elemental planes (earth, air, fire, water), the edges are the border elementals, we know dust(earth and air), vertices are the reflective planes
  • Aella time!!
    • Book!! She got a perfectly fine book, it's a bit more monk inner potential
    • Another art task
    • She knows how to make this and enchant it and she will have to ask the gods themselves to help her
  • Meph Time!!
    • Book, its fine, a standard biology
    • Chatting with Lya after building was finished
      • Meph was awkward as usual, Lya was confused why it was awkward
      • Lya 
    • Find three examples of kludges in the human anatomy
    • Meph knows how to perform the surgery, its less of an injection, she needs an oil
      • Basically change the base
      • Can be applied topically or in Meph’s case 
    • New scar under her left arm