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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7305113" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 36, Part One - The Man in the Stove-pipe Hat</strong></p><p></p><p>Although the initial plan was to return to Flint, Uriel was concerned by Rumdoom’s absence. Who would save him from death during memory events without Rumdoom’s ability to counter it? Leon wondered if Uriel would actually die if his current form was ‘tougher’ than his prior incarnation (which, in the case of, say, the Hierophant, or Cardinal Tadeas, it clearly wasn’t). If the ‘killing blow’ was administered and Uriel ‘played dead’ would that cause the event to be fulfilled? Uriel wasn’t confident of his ability to lie still if he was being attacked, but Leon had already experimented with reshaping these events through his Dreaming powers, and thought he might be able to provide a convincing enough illusion.</p><p></p><p>It was decided that the best way to try this out was revisiting some of Uriel’s weaker incarnations – the two poor souls who were murdered by the Ob to prevent him becoming Malthusius once again. This had the added advantage of throwing pursuit off their scent: it would take a few days to cover all that ground, and they wouldn’t be expected back in Flint when they returned.</p><p></p><p>(As they prepared to leave Leon apologised to Kasvarina for underestimating her prowess in combat when he stepped in the path of a sniper’s bullet. She laughed the matter off and said it was very sweet of him.)</p><p></p><p>If Leon concentrated very hard, he found he could overcome the strange waves that were skewing long-range teleports. It was an exhausting thing to do, but his aim was true and the group arrived on the isthmus of Shale on the road where Leon left his friends when they first came in search of Malthusius. </p><p></p><p>(Although Korrigan had stepped down from leadership of the unit back then – to spend time with his new-born son, and focus on his political career – the group were still following his orders to ‘find the blue guy’. Uru had planted Malthusius’ arm (severed in combat with Lya Jierre) in his garden and some days after his death it started twitching. They realised it was using the same sign language Malthusius had learned from Ottavia Sacerdote, and what it was communicating – first performing the role of the right hand, then the left, which needed to be pieced together like a code – were map co-ordinates that led to a village in Shale. (Leon left the group just as they approached the village as he was seeking a route into the Dreaming after most such crossings were closed in protest at Aodhan’s banishment of the colossus into the fey realm. Leon found his crossing, and had a strange encounter with a mysterious crone; but that is one digression too far.))</p><p></p><p>The inhabitants of this nameless backwater were not pleased to see outsiders again. Leon and Korrigan smoothed things over, but their patience wore thin when they saw the unfolding memory event: The villagers held a trial of the poor, bemused deva just days before the unit arrived. This trial was held at the behest of earlier visitors – a man in a stove-pipe hat and a strange, multi-coloured sprite or fairy – who told them this deva was responsible for the devastation in Flint, which even they had heard about. This stranger paid them in gold to conduct the trial. The deva was found guilty and sentenced to death by drowning, but the river was running low at this time of year, so he was drowned in a bucket. (Kasvarina helped with a ritual that enabled him to breathe and no illusion was necessary; but as there was nothing much to learn from this incarnation it wasn’t clear if he needed to die or not.) </p><p></p><p>Uriel played along and was very nice about the whole thing afterwards. The villagers were nonetheless shame-faced and fearful. Last time “the little black one” had placed a fey curse on all their homes before he departed. No one saw the point in trying to re-educate these people any further. They simply left, slightly depressed by the thought that it was people like this who they were fighting for.</p><p></p><p>From there they rode on phantom steeds to the central grasslands of Flint. This took two days of hard riding, even after Kasvarina cast a better version of the ritual than Leon’s and they wound up on flying steeds. While they camped, Gupta took the opportunity to roam and hunt in tiger form (with the group’s permission). She asked Uriel to provide a protective circle just in case, but Uriel said he had learned another trick from the Hierophant and could speak magical words that would soothe any savage beast. “And if that doesn’t work, I can always shoot you,” said Matunaaga. (He was joking, wasn’t he? They have a very dry sense of humour, the gith.)</p><p></p><p>When they arrived at the ranch where Uriel’s next incarnation was murdered they found that it had been rebuilt and was now inhabited by close relatives of the family who had been killed alongside him. Three years ago, the whole place had been razed by fire before the unit arrived, and the family and ‘Uriel’ slaughtered as they fled. Their relatives were persuaded to allow the memory event to take place (in pursuit of the culprits, of course) but they did not want to witness the slaughter and so departed, to return once it was done.</p><p></p><p>The event played out in two parts: First the man in the stove-pipe hat arrived in daylight and demanded that the family hand the deva over. The head of the household rudely rebuffed him and told him to return with a warrant, if his claims of legality were true. Later, against a dark background, they saw the ranch ablaze. As the householders stumbled coughing from within, they were shot down one by one, as was ‘Uriel’. This was painful and injurious, but after the event ended, Korrigan and Gupta were able to help him heal up and the event was not fatal.</p><p></p><p>They thought about his relentless assassin and realised that he was one of a group who Malthusius had once witnessed in a vision pieced together from the burned-out theatre where Andre von Recklinghausen was captured: the man in the stove-pipe hat and the colourful sprite had been there (along with Norm/Sylyx and a rakshasa). These two also matched the description of the individuals who had come to take Isobel Travers away from the Cloudwood, bearing tokens from Andre and promising to take her to Elfaivar…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7305113, member: 79141"] [b]Session 36, Part One - The Man in the Stove-pipe Hat[/b] Although the initial plan was to return to Flint, Uriel was concerned by Rumdoom’s absence. Who would save him from death during memory events without Rumdoom’s ability to counter it? Leon wondered if Uriel would actually die if his current form was ‘tougher’ than his prior incarnation (which, in the case of, say, the Hierophant, or Cardinal Tadeas, it clearly wasn’t). If the ‘killing blow’ was administered and Uriel ‘played dead’ would that cause the event to be fulfilled? Uriel wasn’t confident of his ability to lie still if he was being attacked, but Leon had already experimented with reshaping these events through his Dreaming powers, and thought he might be able to provide a convincing enough illusion. It was decided that the best way to try this out was revisiting some of Uriel’s weaker incarnations – the two poor souls who were murdered by the Ob to prevent him becoming Malthusius once again. This had the added advantage of throwing pursuit off their scent: it would take a few days to cover all that ground, and they wouldn’t be expected back in Flint when they returned. (As they prepared to leave Leon apologised to Kasvarina for underestimating her prowess in combat when he stepped in the path of a sniper’s bullet. She laughed the matter off and said it was very sweet of him.) If Leon concentrated very hard, he found he could overcome the strange waves that were skewing long-range teleports. It was an exhausting thing to do, but his aim was true and the group arrived on the isthmus of Shale on the road where Leon left his friends when they first came in search of Malthusius. (Although Korrigan had stepped down from leadership of the unit back then – to spend time with his new-born son, and focus on his political career – the group were still following his orders to ‘find the blue guy’. Uru had planted Malthusius’ arm (severed in combat with Lya Jierre) in his garden and some days after his death it started twitching. They realised it was using the same sign language Malthusius had learned from Ottavia Sacerdote, and what it was communicating – first performing the role of the right hand, then the left, which needed to be pieced together like a code – were map co-ordinates that led to a village in Shale. (Leon left the group just as they approached the village as he was seeking a route into the Dreaming after most such crossings were closed in protest at Aodhan’s banishment of the colossus into the fey realm. Leon found his crossing, and had a strange encounter with a mysterious crone; but that is one digression too far.)) The inhabitants of this nameless backwater were not pleased to see outsiders again. Leon and Korrigan smoothed things over, but their patience wore thin when they saw the unfolding memory event: The villagers held a trial of the poor, bemused deva just days before the unit arrived. This trial was held at the behest of earlier visitors – a man in a stove-pipe hat and a strange, multi-coloured sprite or fairy – who told them this deva was responsible for the devastation in Flint, which even they had heard about. This stranger paid them in gold to conduct the trial. The deva was found guilty and sentenced to death by drowning, but the river was running low at this time of year, so he was drowned in a bucket. (Kasvarina helped with a ritual that enabled him to breathe and no illusion was necessary; but as there was nothing much to learn from this incarnation it wasn’t clear if he needed to die or not.) Uriel played along and was very nice about the whole thing afterwards. The villagers were nonetheless shame-faced and fearful. Last time “the little black one” had placed a fey curse on all their homes before he departed. No one saw the point in trying to re-educate these people any further. They simply left, slightly depressed by the thought that it was people like this who they were fighting for. From there they rode on phantom steeds to the central grasslands of Flint. This took two days of hard riding, even after Kasvarina cast a better version of the ritual than Leon’s and they wound up on flying steeds. While they camped, Gupta took the opportunity to roam and hunt in tiger form (with the group’s permission). She asked Uriel to provide a protective circle just in case, but Uriel said he had learned another trick from the Hierophant and could speak magical words that would soothe any savage beast. “And if that doesn’t work, I can always shoot you,” said Matunaaga. (He was joking, wasn’t he? They have a very dry sense of humour, the gith.) When they arrived at the ranch where Uriel’s next incarnation was murdered they found that it had been rebuilt and was now inhabited by close relatives of the family who had been killed alongside him. Three years ago, the whole place had been razed by fire before the unit arrived, and the family and ‘Uriel’ slaughtered as they fled. Their relatives were persuaded to allow the memory event to take place (in pursuit of the culprits, of course) but they did not want to witness the slaughter and so departed, to return once it was done. The event played out in two parts: First the man in the stove-pipe hat arrived in daylight and demanded that the family hand the deva over. The head of the household rudely rebuffed him and told him to return with a warrant, if his claims of legality were true. Later, against a dark background, they saw the ranch ablaze. As the householders stumbled coughing from within, they were shot down one by one, as was ‘Uriel’. This was painful and injurious, but after the event ended, Korrigan and Gupta were able to help him heal up and the event was not fatal. They thought about his relentless assassin and realised that he was one of a group who Malthusius had once witnessed in a vision pieced together from the burned-out theatre where Andre von Recklinghausen was captured: the man in the stove-pipe hat and the colourful sprite had been there (along with Norm/Sylyx and a rakshasa). These two also matched the description of the individuals who had come to take Isobel Travers away from the Cloudwood, bearing tokens from Andre and promising to take her to Elfaivar… [/QUOTE]
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